did you receive? slides, 2/16/14
TRANSCRIPT
And it happened that while Apollos was at Corinth, Paul passed through the inland country and came to Ephesus. There he found some disciples. And he said to them, “Did you receive the Holy Spirit when you believed?” And they said, “No, we have not even heard that there is a Holy Spirit.” And he said, “Into what then were you bapFzed?” They said, “Into John's bapFsm.”
And Paul said, “John bapFzed with the bapFsm of repentance, telling the people to believe in the one who was to come aJer him, that is, Jesus.” On hearing this, they were bapFzed in the name of the Lord Jesus. And when Paul had laid his hands on them, the Holy Spirit came on them, and they began speaking in tongues and prophesying. There were about twelve men in all.
Acts 19:1-‐7 (ESV)
Paul’s Ques*on:
“Did you receive the Holy Spirit when you believed?”
Which is it?
“…when you believed” or “…since you believed”
God’s Word:
Our authority for – • What we BELIEVE
• How we should LIVE
“Did you receive the Holy Spirit when you believed?”
“But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.”
Acts 1:8 (ESV)
Jesus said to them again, “Peace be with you. As the Father has sent me, even so I am sending you.” And when he had said this, he breathed on them and said to them, “Receive the Holy Spirit. If you forgive the sins of any, they are forgiven them; if you withhold forgiveness from any, it is withheld.”
John 20:21-‐23 (ESV)
And while staying with them he ordered them not to depart from Jerusalem, but to wait for the promise of the Father, which, he said, “you heard from me; for John bapFzed with water, but you will be bapFzed with the Holy Spirit not many days from now.”
Acts 1:4-‐5 (ESV)
THREE Bap*sms
1. Holy Spirit bapFzes us into the Body of Christ (salvaFon)
2. Church bapFzes us in water (sacrament of water bapFsm)
3. Jesus bapFzes believers in Holy Spirit (power for witnessing)
HAVE YOU RECEIVED?
• Have you trusted Jesus for salvaFon? • Have you obeyed the commands of Scripture and been bapFzed in water?
• Have you been bapFzed in the Holy spirit and received POWER ?