We're looking at the baptism of the Spirit
this evening.
And all of you must know that they're
half arrayed themselves, arguments and debates down through
the years around this mighty doctrine, the baptism
of the Spirit.
They won't debate or won't argue, we believe
that to come.
No, we just want to make the Bible
do the work, and if you watch the
Bible, let's see what the Bible says.
That's the idea of Bible readings.
But this word baptism is a word we
must look at, of course.
Because it's the same right through the New
Testament, no matter what baptism you're looking at,
it has a certain meaning.
Because it must have the same meaning the
whole way through, it's a word, isn't it?
Let me show you its innermost meaning, first
of all.
Come to John's Gospel, chapter 13, please.
The Gospel of John, chapter 13.
And our Lord Jesus Christ is in the
upper room with his disciples.
And you remember how he washed their feet
and left, in this particular example.
We'll begin at verse 21.
When Jesus had dusted, he was troubled in
spirit, and testified and said, Then
the disciples looked one on another, looking round
at each other, doubting of whom he spake.
Now there was leaning on Jesus' bosom one
of his disciples, which Jesus loved, it was
John himself.
This is the way he hides himself, by
taking these sort of lovely phrases, whom Jesus
loved.
Simon Peter therefore beckoned to him, that he
should ask who it should be of whom
he spake.
He then, lying on Jesus' breast, said unto
him, Lord, who is it?
Jesus answered, He it is to whom I
shall give a sop, when I have dipped
it.
And when he had dipped the sop, and
it's the word dipped that we're at.
Because this happens to be the word baptism,
it's an old Greek word.
Translated dipped here, and it's the word baptism
come from in the Greek.
And of course the word dipped is the
meaning of baptism.
And you would have bothered getting sprinkling out
of dipped, wouldn't you?
This is what Jesus was doing.
The common dish was in the middle of
the table.
And Jesus took a morsel, and when he
had dipped it, yes, it's the motion.
In fact, this word is the word burial.
When we talk about believer's baptism, we talk
about being buried with Christ by baptism.
And it's dipped, it's put under, it's the
very same idea that Lazarus is crying, the
man in the hell is crying to Abraham
and saying, send Lazarus that he may dip
the tip of his finger.
And when he dips the tip of his
finger, he's bringing it in the water, it's
immersion, it's baptism.
And there is no argument about it, it's
easy the whole way through.
So that dipped, they used to call the
Baptists and the Bedouins and the Pentecostals and
the Apostolics, they used to call them dippers.
Oh, well, it's perfectly right, that's exactly what
they are.
Yes.
Now, that's what we've got to get the
hold of.
We've got to get this quite clear now.
And we've got to carry this thing into
everywhere where we find this baptism.
No matter what baptism it is.
We've got to carry it into baptism of
the Spirit too, and we'll find we do.
Now, let's have a look at all the
different baptisms for a moment.
It will not take us too long.
Let's go to Matthew's Gospel, chapter 3.
Gospel by Matthew.
And we're at the third chapter.
In those days came John the Baptist, preaching
in the wilderness of Judea and saying, Repent
ye, for the kingdom of heaven is at
hand.
For this is he that was spoken of
by the prophet Esaias, saying, The voice of
one crying in the wilderness, Prepare ye the
way of the Lord, make his path straight.
And the same John had his raiment of
camel's hair, and a leatheren girdle about his
loins, and his meat was locusts and wild
honey.
Then went out to him Jerusalem, and all
Judea, and all the region round about Jordan,
and were baptized of him in Jordan, confessing
their sins.
Now, this is what is usually called the
baptism of John.
Sometimes it's called John's baptism.
Sometimes in the scriptures it's called the baptism
of repentance.
I just want you to get the phrases.
It's John's baptism.
It's the baptism of repentance.
I want you to get the hold of
this.
That John was the forerunner who came before
the Lord Jesus.
And you know the spirit of God was
upon him.
And in fact, he was filled with the
Holy Ghost from his mother's womb.
And that's quite something, isn't it?
And when this man went out to preach,
the country was shaking.
And he was getting the nation that had
got away from God.
The nation was far away from God.
And he was getting them to the place
of repentance.
That there would be a people ready when
the Lord would come.
And this dipping them in the Jordan was
just signifying this.
That they had been so long and so
far away from God that they deserved to
die.
And they needed to go down into death.
And this is what they were submitting themselves
to as they repented.
And it's just dipping them in the Jordan
and burying them and their confessing that this
is exactly what they need.
I don't think there's any problems with that.
I want you to notice this.
Way down at the end of the chapter.
Verse 13.
Then cometh Jesus from Galilee to Jordan unto
John to be baptized of him.
But John forbade him, saying, I have need
to be baptized of thee, and comest thou
to me?
And Jesus answering said unto him, Suffer it
to be so now.
For thus it behoveth us to fulfill all
righteousness when he suffered it.
Now I don't want you to think that
when Jesus was baptized by John that this
was the baptism of repentance.
That's why I'm making it a second issue.
Oh I believe that John buried him in
the river alright.
When we read of John in John's Gospel
chapter 3 it says he was baptizing down
at Salem in Jordan because there was much
water there.
There was plenty of water.
And the sprinkling of the mud you wouldn't
need plenty.
They had to bathe him.
Now what is this baptism that our Lord
Jesus is going through?
You see our Lord Jesus Christ who was
in the form of God and thought it
not robbery to be equal with God and
taken upon him the form of a servant.
And he had come to this planet of
ours as God's servant.
We were looking here on Sunday morning at
God saying behold my servant.
We were just looking at the servant of
Jehovah.
And as the servant of Jehovah he must
be the substitute for sinners.
He was the Lamb of God.
And he's submitting himself to this because he's
actually saying in this testimonial of baptism they
deserve to die but I will die for
them.
And I'll go in and I'll go on
there.
But that's Christ's baptism.
Don't get them mixed up.
That is not believer's baptism.
You can see the baptism of John it
was the baptism of repentance.
You can see the baptism of our Lord
Jesus.
Righteousness demanded that he take his place.
He had come to die for poor lost
sinners.
Therefore it was right.
Now if you've got the chapter there's so
much about baptism in this third chapter.
You see verse 6 said all Judea had
come out from the region round about Jordan
and were baptized of him in Jordan confessing
the sins.
But when he saw many of the Pharisees
and Sadducees come to his baptism he said
unto them O generation of vipers who have
warned you to flee from the wrath to
come bring forth therefore fruitsmeat for repentance.
You see there were some people turning up
at the baptismal service on the banks of
Jordan and they weren't right with God at
all.
And Pharisees and Sadducees were not right.
And right through all the days of the
ministry of Christ they were not right.
Our Lord had to say Whitehead sepulchers you're
putting on a show outside.
So he had to rebuke them.
And he said this to them Verse 9
Think not to say within yourselves we have
Abraham to our father for I say unto
you that God is able of these stones
to raise up children unto Abraham.
And now also the axe is laid unto
the root of the trees therefore every tree
which bringeth forth not good fruit is hewn
down and cast into the fire.
And just watch the fire there very carefully.
I indeed baptize you with water unto repentance
that's what we were talking about with John's
baptism unto repentance.
But he that cometh after me is mightier
than I whose shoes I am not worthy
to bear he shall baptize you with the
Holy Ghost as different baptism.
But mind you that's got the same meaning
cause the Holy Ghost is going to put
you into something dip you in it too
but we'll find out what that is in
a moment.
Yes but please don't be thinking this is
the same thing he shall baptize you with
the Holy Ghost and he's looking round at
those who have truly repented those who are
going to be the followers of Christ he
shall baptize you and watch this fall because
that's future.
And you know who the baptizer is this
time it is not John it is the
Lord Jesus and he shall and he shall
baptize those who would be followers of his.
But I think at the same moment he
swept his eyes round the crowd and here
are these Pharisees and Sadducees and he said
he shall baptize you with fire they put
you into the fire and don't you be
telling this word fire on and think it's
some sort of emotional experience you know cause
it happens to be the judgment here I
don't think we read right that's the trouble
cause you see we have looked at John's
baptism baptism of repentance and we have looked
at our Lord Jesus Christ being baptized and
we have looked now at what is going
to be and what we need to think
about tonight the baptism of the Spirit our
Lord baptizing true believers but then there would
come a day when our Lord Jesus will
baptize those who are not followers with fire
now if you think that there's any question
we'll read on we'll read verse 11 over
again and I indeed baptize you with water
unto repentance but he that cometh after me
is mightier than I whose shoes I am
not worthy to bear he shall baptize you
with the Holy Ghost and with fire and
one of the old manuscripts says and he
shall also baptize with fire now watch this
bit whose hand is in his hand and
he will fully purge the floor gather his
sweet into the garden and you know what
the wheat represents but he will burn up
the chaff with unquenchable fire I hope you
got that bit cause that's just the two
things cause he's going to put the wheat
into something dipping it in by the power
of the Spirit and we'll come to what
the dipping into means in a moment or
two oh but there will come a day
when there'll be a great white throne set
up and those who have rejected and despised
the Christ of God they will be cast
into way down into the lake, did you
get that bit of fire is there for
good too oh I don't think there's any
bother with this word let's have a look
at another one let's see let's have a
look at Luke's gospel chapter 12 Luke's gospel
chapter 12 our Lord Jesus Christ is speaking
here and he's saying this verse 49 Luke's
gospel chapter 12 verse 49 I am come
to send fire on the earth and what
will I if it be already kindled but
I have a baptism to be baptised with
now this is long after John had baptised
him at Jordan what's he talking about he's
talking about Calvary he's looking at the cross
and he's calling it his baptism I have
a baptism to be baptised with you see
he could see the cross and he could
see that when he became the Lamb of
God and all our iniquities on him were
laid and he became the substitutionary sacrifice he
knew that all the waves and billows of
God's wrath would go over his holy head
and he would be dipped way down deep
in the depths of Calvary sometimes when I'm
arguing with some of the boys who think
they're theologians and they talk to me about
sprinkling I just say look at this now
I have a baptism to be baptised with
would you like to say that Calvary was
a sprinkling because I would think you were
a fool Calvary was no sprinkling every wave
and billow of God's wrath and we cannot
just imagine all this against sin came over
him like a flood tide and he went
down into the depths where there was no
standing for goodness sake stop talking to me
about sprinkling would you it's poopish and they
practice it down round the corner there oh
if you're protestant at all let's get you
out of the lot oh this is dipping
and you can't have dipping for sprinkling it
won't work will it I think you can
see all these baptisms can't you you can
see the baptism of John he was on
to repentance and you can see the baptism
of our Lord Jesus and you can see
what we're going to go about tonight the
baptism of the spirit and we'll come into
the open with that in a moment and
you can see this baptism with fire too
and what's more unquenchable fire what is more
unquenchable literal fire oh they come to argue
with me about this you know some fellow
said literal is it oh yes that's what
I say says pull it I said I'll
take you back to Sodom and God God
burned Sodom until the very ashes as Abraham
looked over the plain he could see the
smoke from the ashes and when it talks
about Lot's wife and talks about Sodom at
the end of the New Testament it talks
about Sodom being burned with eternal fire oh
but it was very literal burned the houses
and all that and the ashes were there
and the smoke went up we don't want
to go into all those details too much
I'll go up so many avenues I'll never
get where I'm going to we shall look
at believers baptism for a moment we're at
Acts of the Apostles chapter 8 the Acts
of the Apostles and we'll be back at
this chapter before the night's over so you'll
remember about it but we've got to take
it little by little for all the young
people and help them as much as we
can and it is Acts 8 verse 5
to save time then Philip went down to
the city of Samaria and preached Christ unto
them now I know that that was a
big thing for him to do because you
know the Jews had no dealings with the
Samaritans and you know there were some of
these old saved Jews in Jerusalem and they
were brought up you know to be separate
from the Gentiles and the Samaritans and let's
get the hold of this tonight that that
separation was a divinely taught separation it was
you know it was God that said this
nation is not to be numbered among the
nations and when God set up the Passover
He said let no stranger eat of it
and there were so many things that they
were taught and they were divinely taught and
they were separated all the days but God
is going to change it now and if
you don't know anything about dispensations it's a
pity of you because there is a great
change coming here because Jews and Gentiles are
going to be dipped into one body just
in a minute yes God was going to
start a new thing it wasn't a thrill
anymore just for a moment or two He
was laying them aside He was going to
form a body which is called the church
and He was going to form it by
the baptism of the Spirit but we'll go
carefully we'll take it along easy here's Philip
going down to Samaria and some of the
old Jews would rear up you know just
like some of the tight old brethren I
wouldn't let you go nowhere I shall go
where God wants me to go that's been
my policy all my life and if I
think the Lord Jesus wants me to go
somewhere I shall not be asking you you
have nothing to do with me you are
not my Lord and there is no deacon
or elder or Baptist in this world is
my Lord I have only got one Lord
and thank God for that if I can
just manage to get right what He wants
then that's it it suits Him it will
have to suit everybody else and if they
want to argue it's ok here's Philip he
must have been made to this sort of
stuff in spite of all their talk he
went down to Samaria and preached Christ unto
them mind you God was with him because
it says down in verse 12 but when
they believed Philip preaching the things concerning the
kingdom of God and the name of Jesus
Christ they were baptized when?
when they believed?
they're not talking about babies they're talking about
believers when they believed they were baptized you
know all believers should be baptized you see
it's not joining the Baptists or anything I
hope you haven't got that idea it's doing
this it's when I'm dipped in under the
water buried immersion it is I'm testifying to
this whole world and all the demons that
care to look on that when Christ died
I died when He was buried I was
buried and when He rose again I rose
again that's believers baptism no bother about that
is it?
so I think you can see all this
can't you?
it's always putting in truth it's always putting
in it's always immersion it's always dipping is
the easiest word never anything else the whole
way through now let's have a look at
we're only starting now to it all right
let's go to the Acts of the Apostles
chapter 1 please the Acts of the Apostles
chapter 1 and our Lord Jesus is talking
to His own here and it says in
verse 3 to whom also He showed Himself
alive after His passion by many infallible proofs
being seen of them forty days and speaking
of the things pertaining to the kingdom of
God and being assembled together with them commanded
them that they should not depart from Jerusalem
stay in Jerusalem but wait for the promise
of the Father which said He ye have
heard of me for John fully baptized with
water but ye shall be baptized with the
Holy Ghost and He knew this not many
days hence and this is what we want
to look at because there's been so many
ideas worked into this and I don't know
why there's so many phrases used that's not
correct at all not even scriptural not to
be found in the Bible not at all
I don't want to go on with the
filling of the Spirit because there's going to
be a subject for next week and I
want to tell you that I don't know
any other truth about the Spirit of God
so precious and so necessary as this truth
about being constantly being filled with the Spirit
and I can't go into that tonight but
I want to show you this look at
Acts 2 you know this is not many
days hence and when the day of Pentecost
was fully come they were all with one
accord and I want you to get the
all in here because that's very important 120
names were mentioned in the other chapter and
they're all crowded into a big upper room
it must have been a big upper room
they're all there you know and there must
have been some big men among them and
some wee men and there must have been
some very outer followers of Christ and some
who were maybe not as outermost they were
all there they were all there with one
accord it says when the day of Pentecost
was fully come they were all with one
accord in one place and suddenly just like
the clap of your hand there came a
sound from heaven hours of a rushing mighty
wind and I want you to get the
hours off because it was not a rushing
mighty wind it was hours of a rushing
mighty wind this is the only way to
look and describe it it was a sound
and he's trying to think what to say
it was a sound hours of a rushing
mighty wind and the sound filled all the
house where they were sitting and please let
me underline for you just now that they
were sitting not rolling on the floor because
they tried to tell me that the only
way you can get the baptism of the
spirit is by rolling on the floor in
some places if you believe that as such
I can tell you they were sitting I
can tell you they were not even praying
they were just sitting I can tell you
they were waiting and I can tell you
they were waiting at Jerusalem and it's nearly
two thousand years ago and if you come
round to me a fellow said to me
I met him one morning I said where
are you coming from he said I was
waiting on the Holy Ghost coming where were
you waiting not in the school room he
said well I said you're about three thousand
miles too far away from the spot and
you're about two thousand years too late for
Lord's sake I'm afraid you can't do that
you don't have this every week you know
no we're going to see that look at
this and there appeared unto them cloven tongues
like ours of fire and this is where
we get this fire mixed up with all
the other times we get fire and this
wasn't fire it was like ours of it
wasn't fire at all it's the only way
you can describe it we're always praying for
fire I'll tell you when the fire comes
it'll be judgment we've been very careful about
it now this wasn't fire this was like
ours of fire and it sat upon each
of them this appearance sat upon each of
them and at the same psychological second they
were all filled for the Holy Ghost not
one or two of them you know not
the big fellow that prayed it through in
the corner not at all not the sanctimonious
fellow over in the other side no all
all every one of them I'm going to
shock you when I tell you this I'm
going to shock you when I tell you
there are three things in this book that
you should on the line and remember forever
more first one nowhere in this book is
it said of an individual that he was
baptized with the Holy Ghost nowhere never it
is always accompanied and what the Lord is
doing here this is what Pentecost was all
about we were looking at Pentecost the other
week and it's the two laws being weighed
because this was the moment in God's calendar
when he was going to put both Jew
and Gentile by the power of the Spirit
into one body he was going to sink
them into one body it was done at
Calvary it was done at Pentecost that was
the baptism of the Spirit oh yes but
you know at the same psychological second the
church began in full steam they were all
filled with the Holy Ghost and I shall
ask you a question next week did that
filling do forever more?
you will find out it didn't not a
bit of it but the baptism did forever
more because they were put into one body
I want you to get a hold of
this nowhere in the book is it said
that an individual that he was baptized and
nowhere in this book in the epistles anywhere
from here right through to the end of
the book is there an exhortation to be
baptized by the Spirit nowhere oh I hear
folks going round with young believers and saying
you know what you need now you need
to be baptized with the Spirit where is
it in this book?
I want to know I want to know
where in this book right from Romans 1
and 2 Corinthians Galatians Ephesians Philippians Colossians right
through to Revelation I want to know where
once there is an exhortation to be baptized
with the Spirit I want to know and
I'll tell you you don't know that sometimes
when truth is going people run you now
don't be afraid of God's word try and
learn it is true that no individual was
ever baptized it is true that nowhere in
this book is an exhortation it is true
thirdly that nowhere in this book does it
say that Jesus Christ was baptized over the
Spirit how could it be?
if he is the head of this body
how could he be baptized into his own
body?
so it was never said of him oh
it was said he was led of the
Spirit he was anointed of the Spirit he
was strengthened of the Spirit I know all
about that but nowhere nowhere is this type
talked nowhere I want to put you over
this very carefully let's go back to Matthew
chapter 3 Matthew chapter 3 and I want
you to notice this again I purposely passed
it because I think this is the way
I should teach it John is speaking here
in verse 11 I indeed baptize you with
water unto repentance but he that cometh after
me is mightier than I whose shoes I
am not worthy to bear he shall baptize
you with the Holy Ghost who is he
talking to?
an individual?
not on your life he is not he
is talking to all this great crowd that
has repented and is going to follow the
Messiah when he comes they were all true
followers were going to be baptized not a
person this is what the baptism of the
Spirit is about that up to Pentecost so
many good old Jews left all and followed
him so many dear women followed him flew
at every town and village where he went
so many Gentiles followed him the Greeks came
saying we would see Jesus and the moment
came when the Holy Ghost was going to
take these individual followers and he was going
to dip them into the body of Christ
which is the church of which Christ is
the head and this wonderful thing began on
earth at that moment and the moment you
were saved you were put into the church
and if you are not in the body
you are not saved look you can't find
it anywhere what's this?
let's go to 1st Corinthians and I think
this clinches it of course 1st Corinthians and
we are at chapter 12 1st Corinthians 12
and he is talking here about the gifts
of the Spirit but don't let's get taken
up too much with that just now let's
just try to get taken up with the
body this body was formed when Jews and
Gentiles were dipped into one body by the
Spirit verse 12 for of the body is
one 1st Corinthians 12 verse 12 for of
the body is one and hath many members
and all the members of that one body
being members are one body so also is
Christ the body is called Christ at times
how wonderful cause he is the head and
these are his members formed by one Spirit
are we all baptized into one body isn't
that quite clear I want to ask you
you see these Corinthians Paul is writing to
them he knows more about them than we
will ever know he had gone to Corinth
he had founded the assembly there he knew
every man and woman in it he knew
the people that had things to say about
them and terrible things but he is saying
this look look we have been all baptized
by one Spirit into one body we are
in the body they weren't all holy you
know try to tell me after the holy
verse well alright we will try this out
if we went to the 3rd chapter of
the Corinthians he says I could not speak
unto you as unto the Spirit you are
carnal you walk as men your strife and
division they fought the bit out I put
the word in the body I put the
word baptized by the Spirit unless you want
me to argue with you I think this
is rubbish we hear at times it is
a lot of rubbish that ever was in
the faith of this earth because it is
not in this book at all you see
we are all here for by one Spirit
are we all baptized into one body you
can see this quite clearly can't you have
a look at your notes there and if
we were looking at the baptism there are
some prophetic references and we have almost touched
those like our Lord Jesus saying ye shall
be baptized not many days hence that is
a prophetic reference he just knew that when
he would go back to heaven and be
glorified and beneath the head of the body
then he would send the Holy Ghost and
the Holy Ghost would take these individual followers
Jews and Gentiles and he would baptize them
into one body and that is a prophetic
reference and then of course there are some
historical records and we will come to that
in a moment we will put that by
for just a moment but there are some
doctrinal remarks in this book about the baptism
of the Spirit and the doctrinal remarks are
just these that the body was formed that
is the doctrinal remarks the body was formed
by the baptism of the Spirit and the
unification of members of the body were brought
into being and then the importation of gifts
and we will come to that in these
studies you see as we are saved we
are put into this body dipped into the
body and God has set us in the
body as it pleased him he gave some
apostles and some prophets and some this that
and the other and there is nobody in
the body but has a place and has
a function and God holds him responsible to
move there he doesn't want you to be
a paralyzed member and we will go into
all the gifts you see because I think
that sometimes people don't know something about the
gifts they talk about the gift of miracles
that was a wonderful gift in the early
stage and there is something about the gift
of miracles when we come to it the
fellow that had the gift of miracles could
never be beaten see I know a man
who told me he had the gift of
miracles and I said I heard about you
being around with a fellow who had cancer
he sort of didn't do too well, he
died he says it was his faith he
says his faith has got nothing to do
with miracles when the Lord rolls away the
stone Lazarus is in there and that body
is stinking now it's going into corruption where
would the faith be?
it's the miracle that works now cause there's
the gifts of healing will come to them
too you'll need faith then but you see
they don't know how to differentiate but I
want you to get these things you know
there is the prophetical references in this book
and the historical records the doctrine and remarks
I think I need to do with these
historical records this evening let's go back to
the Acts of the Apostles chapter 8 you
know they come to argue with me about
this and we'll see now this is Philip
again and he's going down to Samaria and
we must remember this verse 5 then Philip
went down to the city of Samaria and
preached Christ unto them and there was a
great crowd saved and they were baptized and
it says in verse 14 now when the
apostles which were at Jerusalem heard that Samaria
had received the word of God they sent
unto them Peter and John now I want
you to get this cause these are two
of the apostles two of the pillars of
the church at Jerusalem not too sure about
all this but they're coming down to see
about it who when they were come down
prayed for them that they might receive the
Holy Ghost I want you to get this
bit for as yet he was fallen upon
none of them only they were baptized in
the name of the Lord Jesus Philip went
down to Samaria and preached Christ to these
Samaritans and when these Samaritans really truly believed
they were baptized but the Holy Ghost had
not come and then it says verse 17
then laid their hands on them and they
received the Holy Ghost now this is the
sort of verse they come to argue with
me I want you to get the hold
of this I want you to get it
in truth cause I don't think you're allowed
to take this out of its context and
make something new out of it you know
I don't think you're allowed to do that
and I won't allow you to do it
we've got to go back to Samaria we've
got to see the courage of Philip to
preach Christ to these Samaritans Samaritans that the
Jews wouldn't touch but he feels he's got
to go out with the Gospel the Lord
told him to go and of course these
men trusted Christ and they were baptized but
the Holy Ghost had not come you see
if you could see the land in those
days you know they had a temple up
in Samaria and they had a temple down
in Jerusalem and when the woman of Samaria
was talking to our Lord Jesus she said
you say Jerusalem is the place to worship
and we say this mountain is the place
cause they had no dealings with one another
and they had two different temples and two
different religions and God was going to see
in his wisdom that this wouldn't go on
so for the moment he withheld the spirit
from the Samaritans they were true believers remember
he must get these Jews and these Samaritans
together to recognize one another now let's get
this I want you to get this this
is Peter and John and they're down in
Samaria now and it says in verse 17
then I want you to get the psychological
moment that that word then means there were
a lot of Samaritans here they were truly
saved the Holy Ghost had not come but
Peter is big enough to see this then
then laid they tell me who's laying their
hands on who's there they ah it was
Peter and John they were two apostles then
is a proper word here they is a
very proper word then laid they their hands
on them who?
on Samaritans now people who come round to
argue with me you know they talk to
me about an old bishop the way out
here somewhere I don't want to use names
but I can tell you this if you
want to poke me about it he was
drunk oftener than he was sober just push
me down I'll tell you and he comes
and lays his hands on we lads heads
and I can tell you it was empty
hands and it must have been an empty
head but let him do it you don't
tell me that that brings the Holy Ghost
you're trying to tell me something let me
tell you the we lad is not a
Samaritan let me tell you an old boozer
is not an apostle don't you dare to
do anything like that you're twisting the word
of God God made these two apostles who
were Jews boulders and touched these Samaritans because
he's not going to have two departments in
this church he's going to have one and
the moment they touched them it never needed
to be done again it was all over
and don't you be reading something into it
you just tell me that the person you're
talking about is a Samaritan and the man
who's laying his hands on is an apostle
and how do we talk with him no
it just doesn't work like that you know
God was saving the church from being he's
not going to allow it to be so
it never had to be done again I
want you to notice this if we go
to Acts 10 in Acts 10 is in
the house of Cornelius and you know this
was a big thing because you remember Peter
didn't want to go you remember Peter even
argued with the Lord Peter just didn't want
to go at all when the Lord was
trying to educate Peter for this Peter wouldn't
have it at all in fact Peter said
in verse 14 not so Lord you can't
say not so Lord it was Dr. Campbell
Morgan who said these three words can't go
together you either say not so and don't
call him Lord just tell him you're not
doing it or you say Lord and you
will never use not so you can't talk
to him like that Peter didn't want to
go you see it was going down to
the Gentiles and of course as he goes
down to the Gentiles he's going to be
in trouble with some of the old Jews
it's the very same situation as we have
today some of my dear brethren in the
brethren who love the Lord and would go
anywhere to preach the gospel some of the
old type boys you know they're on their
back at the very moment they come back
well Peter went down and he preached the
gospel and the Holy Ghost fell on this
house it says the Holy Ghost fell on
men which heard his word now let's go
to chapter 11 now watch how clear this
is and the apostles and brethren that were
in Judea heard that the Gentiles had also
received the word of God and the word
of God there is a phrase that can
be translated the message of God when they
had heard that these Gentiles had received the
gospel of God if you like and when
Peter was come up to Jerusalem they that
were of a circumcision contended with him and
you see how early this began in the
church here's a man God has sent them
and he went and preached Christ and the
Holy Ghost fell and the Gentiles were blessed
and saved and these old straight laced characters
back at the assembly in Jerusalem they're going
to contend and they haven't all died yet
you know just watch them and let the
men on you talk do what God wants
you to do and this is what they
said contended with him saying thou wentest into
men uncircumcised don't you see it you know
they were mad you were then the boys
that were not circumcised oh yes and did
steep with him you know that was terrible
so wonder they shook hands with him at
all but Peter rehearsed the matter from the
beginning and expounded it by order that's how
you expound anything by order unto them saying
I was in the city of Joppa praying
and in a trance I saw a vision
a certain vessel descend as it had been
a great sheet let down from heaven by
four corners and it came even to me
upon the which when I had fastened mine
eyes I considered and saw four footed beasts
of the earth and wild beasts and creeping
things and I heard a voice saying unto
me arise Peter slay and eat but I
said not so Lord he knew who he
was talking to but he wasn't going to
obey for nothing common or unclean hath at
any time entered into my mouth but the
voice answered me again from heaven what God
hath cleansed that call not thou come and
this was done three times and all were
drawn up again into heaven and behold immediately
there were three men already come into the
house where I was sent from Caesarea unto
me and the spirit God may go with
them nothing doubting moreover these six brethren and
accompanied me and we entered into the man's
house and he showed us how he had
seen an angel in his house which stood
and said unto him send men to Joppa
and call for Simon whose surname is Peter
who shall tell thee words whereby thou and
all thy house shall be saved so the
man was honest and so was Peter and
as I began to speak the Holy Ghost
fell on them as on us at the
beginning then remembered I the word of the
Lord how that he said John indeed baptized
with water but ye shall be baptized with
the Holy Ghost for as much then as
God gave them the like gift as he
did unto us who believed on the Lord
Jesus Christ and the moment they believed the
Holy Ghost fell on them and these are
not Samaritans and we don't need anybody to
lay their hands on and now God has
let the whole company see that Jews and
Gentiles and Samaritans are all in the one
body and that happens to be the baptism
of the Spirit and the tripe we make
out of it and the way God's word
is handled is a disgrace for those who
can read I'll tell you friend it's not
in this book when we come back next
week we'll get down to what we should
be talking about the filling of the Spirit
and you'll see the whole subject