A Spirit Led Evangelistic Life — Danny Bond

Philip the Evangelist and the Samaritan Mission

This message I have titled a spirit-led evangelistic life. It is really a close look at Philip who became Philip the evangelist as we know him. Last time when we are going through chapter 8 here in the book of Acts.

We went by and we studied about All that was going on in Samaria, and we saw the sham Conversion of Simon the sorcerer and along the way we saw that the Apostles in verse 14 who were at Jerusalem heard that Samaria had received the Word of God and so they sent Peter and John to them and If you look there verse 15 who?

Peter and John when they had come down Prayed for them that they might receive the Holy Spirit. Now these people have already believed on Christ and been baptized in water. So to even read that is odd then verse 16.

For as yet he had fallen upon none of them as they had only been baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus. Then they laid hands on them and they received the Holy Spirit. Now as We came to the end of the message last time.

I Raised those issues and said well, what about that? So we need to address them now. I Have to resist the temptation to take all of our time together to talk about this. But in some other message we will deal in full detail with the baptism of the Holy Spirit.

Versus do you get it all when you come to salvation and so on but why this why did this happen here? Well, let me begin by saying this and really if you get nothing else out of our study of the book of Acts.

Acts as a Transitional Book

Please get this and keep it. The book of Acts is a transitional book. It's transitional you have The Old Testament which takes up by the way most of your Bible you have then the New Testament which begins with Matthew Mark Luke and John that is the Gospels which are full treatment on the life of Jesus Christ then you have the death of Christ his resurrection and the book of Acts as recorded by Luke and From there you go on into Romans.

Which is the loftiest treatment on the grace of God in any extant literature and from there you have the epistles which are largely Polemic in nature. They are corrective. There's a problem in the church.

So a letter is written to correct the church problem and so on and the doctrine to build you up the doctrines in the epistles are mostly elaborations of teachings that Jesus gave. There are effectively commentaries on the Gospels and the words of Jesus now acts.

Sits right there between the Gospels and the epistles as a transitional book from Old Testament to New Testament. So that what you see going on in the book of Acts is unique to that transitional time from the Old Testament to the New Testament time so that Even if you look at the Apostles the followers of Jesus Christ.

They are to begin with Old Testament Saints. Then Christ calls them. He disciples them. He teaches them. He goes to the cross. He raises again. He tells them to go to Jerusalem to wait for the power to come from on high of the Holy Spirit and that comes on The day of Pentecost and the day of Pentecost the church is born.

So then the church at that point becomes the light of the world. Israel was called of God to be his chosen people for what chosen to be a unique people on the earth. Whom God would work with in a wonderful marvelous divine and unique way to what in to be the light of the world?

Israel mishandled their stewardship of being the light of the world. Ultimately Jesus came unto his own and his own Received him what not. So they were unfaithful in being the light of the world overall.

Overall, not all the time, but when it was all said and done overall. So that you have then the church born on the day of Pentecost. Which with the city of Jerusalem was still teeming with Millions of people a couple of million pilgrims who had come up Jewish pilgrims who had come up there to celebrate Passover stayed for Pentecost.

And so when the Holy Spirit was poured out on the believers as they were gathered together 120 of them in an upper room. The Spirit of God was poured out on them. They began to speak with other languages as the Spirit gave them Utterance and all those gathered around from different places heard them speak in their own languages the glorious things of the kingdom of God.

Peter then jumped up and began to preach the resurrected Christ. 3 ,000 came to know Jesus Christ 3 ,000 basically Jews. So all these people then are in transition from living under the Mosaic Law. Which was given as a schoolmaster or a tutor to bring us to Jesus Christ.

That's what Paul said in Galatians. So you're in transition. Do you understand it? So you're moving from Old Testament to New Testament when the church is born and the Spirit fills them and Christ has died risen from the dead gone back to heaven now you're in the New Testament age New Testament time and That transition takes a little while to happen it starts in Jerusalem goes to Judea spreads to Samaria.

By the way with Philip and then goes on to the uttermost parts of the earth by the way through Philip by preaching to the Ethiopian eunuch who went back to Africa and Became a missionary and the gospel goes to the uttermost parts of the earth acts as a book in transition.

Therefore there are things that happen in the book of Acts that you don't see happening anywhere else and unless you Understand the transitional nature of the book of Acts you're going to grab things that you see happening in the book of Acts.

Take scriptures right out of context run with them and use them to validate certain activities in your life. Which is wrong. Okay, so you with me so far so when we come to Acts chapter 8 and we see the Apostles come from Jerusalem to Samaria.

The Gospel Moves from Jerusalem to Samaria

It's part of that transitional time now to give you a little backdrop on this it's been about five years that had gone by since the resurrection of Christ and The giving of the Great Commission and the birthday of the church on the Day of Pentecost about five years Jesus said when he gave the Great Commission I want you to take the gospel first to Jerusalem then to Judea then to Samaria then the uttermost parts of the earth after about Five years, they're still lurking around Jerusalem.

Because of the persecution that broke out with the death of Stephen. And the ensuing persecution from Saul the church was scattered as a result. Philip Who was a co-laborer and a friend of Stephen's?

He went on up to Samaria easy for him to go to Samaria because he was a Hellenistic Jew he didn't have the prejudicial baggage that the Apostles had. Against the Samaritans the Samaritans were half-breed both in their Physical makeup they were a blend of Jewish people and Assyrians and all kinds of other people from around the area from the time of the captivity, but also in their worship.

So they feared the Lord and they worshiped other gods. It says in one place Okay, if you understand that that there was tremendous animosity between the Samaritans and the Jews at Jerusalem. Then you understand that something had to be done in this transition to make sure That when Philip led all of these people to the Lord in Samaria they didn't just form their own sect of Christianity or let's just say make the first denomination and say we are of Philip and Everybody down in Jerusalem says are up in Jerusalem because it's all up to Jerusalem.

You remember that Everybody in Jerusalem says we're of the Apostles up here. Thus you would have had a schism right from the very beginning that would have only perpetuated what had gone on for so many hundreds of years already a Horrible rift in the church.

So when you read in verse 16 for as yet he had not fallen upon Them the Holy Spirit. They'd only been baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus. But then when they laid hands on them the Apostles they received the Holy Spirit.

That happened for this very reason God did something unique so that the Apostles would come to Samaria follow this and John and Peter would be eyewitnesses that God really had saved all these Samaritans and That he really was working there.

So they had to drop their prejudice. They had to accept them as Christians in Christ. They had to start doing something new which was loving Samaritans and then they were to go back to Jerusalem and tell them what they saw and Everybody at Jerusalem had to do the same thing.

So for the sake of the Apostles, he did not put the Holy Spirit upon them then for the sake of the Samaritans. These men were in fact Apostles Peter and John so they had the apostolic authority and they were the head of the church as Jesus had made them that Before he went back to heaven.

So they come bringing apostolic authority. Don't forget. They are going to write Bible New Testament, so the Samaritans have to get over their prejudice. They have to receive the Apostles. They have to respect the Apostles.

They have to know they're from God what better way than to receive the infilling of God himself through them. So that when John pens his gospel, they will read it as from God when Peter writes his epistle and so on you understand it's for the benefit of both sides and it's for the benefit then of the church being the light of the world because now.

And all the people around that always saw the Samaritans and the Jews at odds are going to suddenly see them loving one another. And Jesus said by this shall all men Know that you are my disciples that I'm risen from the dead and I'm alive and I live in you how?

By your love one toward another. The Lord loves to follow through with the things that he says and that's the big picture of what's going on here so from that time. After you see the Old Testament Saints filled with the Spirit on the day of Pentecost Jews converted to Christ filled with the Spirit Gentiles.

As you see the Samaritans here once you get through all that Old Testament Saints Jews Gentile Samaritans. From there. It's a whole different thing. So you don't read of these things in the epistles moving on from here and as for The whole issue of the baptism of the Holy Spirit, let me just make a quick statement.

So I can answer a lot of the questions that would be immediately asked afterwards anyway. None of them into this I'm committed, right? What do I believe about the baptism of the Holy Spirit. Well in Corinthians when Paul was writing to the Corinthians he said if you want to use the terms properly He said for you all are baptized by the Spirit into the body of Christ.

On the day of Pentecost when they were filled as Luke is writing. He says they were filled and You might as well learn it now that the word translated baptized or baptism in the New Testament in English comes from the Greek word baptizo and It means to immerse so To what I believe about the baptism of the Holy Spirit.

You mean what do I believe about being immersed in the Holy Spirit? Do I believe that you become born again and you receive part of the Spirit and Then later you get a second touch and you receive another part of the Holy Spirit.

I have a really hard time dividing up the omnipresent Omnipotent all-powerful all-knowing God the Holy Spirit in all of his infinitude. I Have a really hard time dividing him up. He's God now. For those of you that came up in Christianity Believing that you're born again.

The Spirit comes to live inside of you and then you get the power of the Holy Spirit upon you later with a second touch the Holy Spirit. Okay. It's alright for those of you that Came up in Christ believing you come to Christ.

God comes life of God in the soul of a man. There's nothing beyond that. So that you receive everything when you're born again. All right as. For me in my house We shall serve the Lord. So what I mean by that is this in my mind.

Regeneration to be born again is the ultimate charismatic experience to go from being dead spiritually to being Detonated in your soul by the life of God to have him come and live within you is the ultimate charismatic experience when it really occurs.

From there know this whatever camp you're from God wants to fill you with the power of his Holy Spirit until your cup overflows. In fact, it's more like Rushing mighty river. Jesus said he that believes on me out of his belly will flow a trickle of living water.

No, he said rivers of living water. It's Niagara all over the place. So that what whatever you want to believe when you some for some people it's semantics. For other people it's not. So if you subscribe to the in with and upon idea The Holy Spirit was with the Apostles as they were with Jesus.

Then Jesus breathed on them and they received the Spirit. He came into them. He said receive the Spirit. So now he's in them and then he came upon them at Pentecost. If that's what you've been taught and that's what you believe.

Then just make sure you press on to being filled again and again and again and again and again. Rivers of living water if you believe now, I don't mean to classify you folks as that. But if you believe that you receive all of the Holy Spirit at salvation.

Then you make sure that you don't miss out on what the other folks have. Because they have open hearts and they want all they can get. Does that make sense to you? Let me just sum up by saying this you cannot go wrong either way.

And everybody's going to find out in heaven who was right. So you cannot go wrong either way if you as Jesus said come to the father and he said shall not the father. Give the Holy Spirit to them who ask him and If you ask him fill me Lord fill me Lord fill me.

He will fill you. So that is in a nutshell. What I believe about those things. I believe that God wants to fill you again and again and again and again and to stop short of that is to stop short of all that he has for you and Salvation begins by the Holy Spirit and anything that happens from there that is God through you happens by the Holy Spirit.

Now at some point in time, we'll do one whole message on this and You can ask me more questions. But thanks for those questions. They were good. So you understand what's going on here in this transitional time in the book of Acts now, let's move on into Acts Verses 25 and on down to the end.

Simon's False Faith and the Ethiopian Eunuch's Saving Faith

What we have here is in contrast is Simon. Simon was not saved. But he had the faith that did not save. We looked at that last time. In contrast to him is this great man this Ethiopian eunuch who has a faith that does save.

And the way it happens, it's all sovereign. Salvation is all of God all of grace and ultimately it is all sovereign. So you have here what I would call sovereign preparation before this Ethiopian eunuch is saved you have then a certainly a spiritual presentation from Philip and Then you have the saving response of the eunuch who believes so sovereign preparation.

Always before salvation occurs Holy Spirit of work spiritual presentation the Bible Christ and then comes that response which only you can give a Saving response trusting Christ. Let's look at the sovereign preparation here first in verse 25 and 26, so when they had testified that's Peter and John and preached the word of the Lord.

They returned to Jerusalem preaching the gospel look at this in many villages of the Samaritans. That's kind of a key issue because The next verse God's going to ask Philip to leave. And that will help you understand how he could leave in the middle of the greatest events of his life so They preached the gospel on the way back to Jerusalem they took their time and they preached all around and they preached all around in many villages of the Samaritans.

Verse 26 now an angel of the Lord spoke to Philip saying Arise and go toward the south along the road which goes down from Jerusalem to Gaza and Then you read this is desert. This is desert. So here is the sovereignty of God at work.

This man as we read in a minute here has traveled all the way from Ethiopia all the way up to Jerusalem. He has been led by God to do that something even beyond himself at the same time Philip was a Servant just loving the Lord and loving the brethren in the church and they needed help overseeing the ministry to Feed the widows and care for them he was chosen out of among the flock and he was faithful and what God gave him to do and serving tables and Then God began to continue to work in his life.

Persecution broke out. He's thrust into Samaria. He opens his mouth. He starts to preach revival breaks out and all of this is the Lord getting Philip ready for the Ethiopian eunuch. Do you know Ethiopian eunuch account is not less than the Samaritan revival.

It's leading to something bigger something bigger. So God is sovereignly at work in this man's life the eunuch and sovereignly at work in Philip's life. God is always sovereignly at work in the lives of those that he saves long before they become born again and He uses human instruments in the process, which is so glorious.

That's why we're the light of the world, that's why we have the gospel and we share it now. There is a prerequisite to being used in the sovereign work of God to lead someone else to the Lord and that involves The submissive will of the individual God wants to use.

Here's the submissive will of Philip. In Acts 8 27, it says so he arose and he went. That is so good to me. That is so rich. If I die suddenly and forget to tell you what to put on my gravestone I wouldn't mind if you simply put so he arose and went.

That is as good as it gets to follow God to follow God he arose and went. He arose and went, you know, why because he was Yielded to the Lord, but also because he was ready. Charles Spurgeon used to say be fit for your work in the kingdom and you will never be out of it.

God will keep you busy. Here he is so submitted to the Lord that when God asks him to get up and go to Gaza. And he does it to the angel. He doesn't struggle with the fact that the request is irrational.

Lord you you want me to go to the desert? I'm here in Samaria I am. I have never had a better time in my life as a Christian. I'm preaching people are being saved. This is incredible. You want me to go to the desert?

And you're so serious about you send an angel. By the way, if he didn't send an angel I'm not so sure he would have been able to tear himself away from what God was doing. But having had a visitation from an angel.

Well, that makes things a little easier. So he's not arguing with the irrationality of it as it seems but rather he obeys he arose and he went. You know something by his willing obedience He became the means by which God saved this man forever for eternity.

What a glorious thing. Do not underestimate the work of the Holy Spirit when he's strongly Churning in your heart strongly working and putting impressions on your heart that won't go away. But rather get stronger and stronger and stronger.

God is wanting to do something something wonderful something new. We're gonna see a lot of that in the book of Acts. So you have the sovereign work of this spirit you have the submissive will of Philip then you have the searching heart of this eunuch in verse 27 behold a man of Ethiopia.

I Read this carefully a eunuch of great authority under Candace the Queen of the Ethiopians who had charge of all her Treasury Had come to Jerusalem to worship. This man is truly Seeking after God. He has taken a long journey to Jerusalem.

How he came to Come in contact with Judaism. We don't know. But we do know that he took a long journey to go to Jerusalem to find his way to the Lord. Now when you read that he was The treasurer or the the keeper of the treasure of Candace the Queen of the Ethiopians know this.

Candace was not her name. Candace was not her name. Candace is a name you see the Ethiopians at that time believed that their kings were offsprings and incarnations of the Sun God. Therefore they were above everyday affairs of governments.

They didn't do anything. So they just sat around as kings. So the affairs of the government actually went to the one that had the real power in their society. Which was the Queen Mother? The Queen Mother then was known by the hereditary title of Candace like Pharaoh like Herod.

Herod in the Bible isn't the guy's name. It's the name of his position like Caesar. So Candace is the title. It's an official title in modern terms. Then he would have been the Secretary of the Treasury or the Minister of Finance in Ethiopia.

This guy is a very important man. What Joseph was to Pharaoh what? Daniel was to Nebuchadnezzar the Ethiopian eunuch is to Candace the Queen of the nation of Ethiopia. Which is just south of? Egypt. So here he is now obviously then he's got power.

He's got prestige. But he's got a vast emptiness in his soul. Enough to cause him to make this pilgrimage all the way up to Jerusalem. Now one thing that might just give you a little more insight into the man.

We read that he was a eunuch you find that word in the Bible a lot and Unless somebody explains to you what it means. You may never know what it means and it's one of those things you read over it eunuch.

Yeah, that's a Bible word and you move on. So here is a man he is a eunuch he is an Official in the court of the Queen of Ethiopia. So he's both a eunuch and he's a court official. It is very likely that He was made a eunuch surgically.

See eunuchs in the Bible are usually those that work with kings and officials like that. And they all in those days had harems so the only way to have a man you could trust with all your money and Trust around your harem was to surgically make them a eunuch.

I don't want to get any more graphic than that. So here is this man now. Potiphar in the Old Testament is Called the eunuch. So not everybody and he's married not everybody in the Bible. With that title is in the category of being surgically a eunuch.

But in this man's case, he most likely was very possible that Daniel was. Most people never thought about that. What it does is it it sheds a whole different kind of light on your intimacy with God your love for God and having Market having things happen to you that you'd rather not have happen to you that are big.

They're significant. And yet you can still love the Lord and not go through your life mad at God or hating God or whatever else. You understand what I'm saying? So here is this man very important man has a vast emptiness in his soul and he's hungering and thirsting for God.

There's something further to go with what I've just told you though. Being in that category going up to Jerusalem. He was in for a lot of heartache and a lot of effective rejection because in Deuteronomy 23 1 It said that says there that someone in the situation of life is this man Would not be able to go into the temple and worship God with everybody else.

He would be denied access to participate fully in the Jewish worship services. So he makes this long journey he gets there and they tell him sorry. You can't come in and join in the full worship service.

You're gonna have to stay outside. Hey, you can go down the street to the synagogue. Further you cannot become a full proselyte to Judaism as far as you can go with your condition is to become a God-fearer.

Which is what Cornelius was? We'll run into him later a God-fearer and you can go to the synagogue and hear the scriptures read but you cannot go into the Temple and worship and become a full proselyte Jew converted into Judaism.

You have to stay on the outer edge. So that is to say that what happened to him as he went to Jerusalem is disappointment. Further Jerusalem was filled with Christ killers. So this man goes all the way to Jerusalem to find the Lord.

God has revealed himself in Jesus Christ. He gets there. He finds Christ killers in the temple those still Living out their Judaism having rejected Christ who fulfilled all of that and put it all away.

Those in the temple then would be those continuing to follow after the scribes and the Pharisees and the Sadducees. Who didn't believe in life after death or anything? Supernatural what he found was a lot of death and a lot of disappointment and yet he manages to get a copy of the book Of Isaiah, which would have been a big scroll.

And he would have had to obtain that a great price. So he would have had to been very very hungry. Okay, didn't get the answer from all of you, but I believe the answer somehow is in in the Word of God.

So he understands to some extent that define God to know him personally it's going to involve the Word of God and it does. The Holy Spirit did that within him? So here he is this eunuch from Ethiopia.

What he has done and this is what happens in salvation. He has lived up to the light that he had In creation the Bible tells us God has put light in the creation. It testifies of the glory and the power of God in creation.

Romans chapter 1 if you will look at that light perceive that light and Respond to that light then God will look at your heart and he will give you more light. He will bring you all the way up to the light of God the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.

He would bring you all the way up to the light of Jesus Christ saving knowledge of Christ. This man lived in Africa. He goes all the way to Jerusalem doesn't find what he's looking for. He's in the middle of the desert on the road.

God sends a man out of a revival to go stand and wait on the on the desert road. He responded to the light that was given to him and God was able to bring the light of God in Jesus Christ to him and save his soul.

That says a lot doesn't it about. What about poor so-and-so out there? Da-da-da-da-da-da-da who's never heard the gospel. Well, our God is a great and awesome God Able to save and that is his great work.

Philip Meets the Searching Eunuch

So this searching heart. Now in verse 28 as he's going along. He's sitting in his chariot, which could have been one of those kinds of things where You know the person sits in a box. It's a glorified box with nice curtains and everything pillows and they peek out occasionally.

And you know, they're carrying on the shoulders of some servants. I Doubt if he was hauling down the road this dirt road in the desert because it was the old road. They didn't use it anymore. Gaza had been destroyed in 96 BC.

So this is the old road through the desert. I doubt if he's hauling. And a chariot, you know reading Isaiah. Oh. So he's probably being carried along on the shoulders of some servants or. Either that or it's more like a rolling cart something like that at any rate.

He's got this long Journey going very slow and he's able to read Now the Lord as he's sitting in his chariot. He's reading Isaiah the prophet and he's hungering to know God so Along comes Philip the Lord leads Philip to go there.

He tells him to go down to Gaza to the desert and stand there on the road. And so that's all the sovereign preparation of God and he's even reading in Isaiah the account that speaks of Jesus Christ. So that's all sovereign preparation.

We come then to the spiritual presentation of verse 29 To preach the gospel in a saving way. There must be two Non-negotiable ingredients, you know what they are. It must be Bible centered and Christ centered.

Bible centered and Christ centered and that's what we see here. He's reading the Bible Isaiah at least and Philip opens it up to him and then Philip preaches Christ him. So first of all, it must center on the Bible for someone to really come to a saving relationship with Christ.

Look at verse 29 now God sends an angel to Philip tells him to leave Samaria and go down here. He gets there. He's standing out on this dirt road in the desert. Okay, Lord. Not a lot of action here. All right, anytime you want to send somebody along that'd be great with me.

So he's standing there we don't know how long and a verse 29 this man begins to come along. He's reading and the Spirit said to Philip Go near and overtake this chariot. I Love the way this man obeys God.

What does verse 30 say. He ran may God help us all. To run to obey. When he speaks to our hearts. He ran to him and hearing him reading the prophet Isaiah. He was reading aloud. He ran to him. He said do you understand what you're reading?

I get the picture. This isn't one man Moving down this dirt road. He is the treasurer. He's the assistant of the Queen of Ethiopia. He has a long entourage right. So he bypasses the whole entourage. The Spirit says go and he runs right up to the chariot of the main person who's in charge and Obviously the Spirit is Got control of that and he runs right up to him and rather than being stopped by all of his servants He says hey.

Do you understand what you're reading? This is the strangest thing ever. Here's a guy standing. Here comes somebody, you know, and then he's coming by and he's waiting the Lord's going hold hold and he's.

And then the Lord says go. Do you understand what you're reading? Tell me God doesn't have a sense of humor and he says he doesn't say God. He says well, how can I unless somebody guides me? He says what?

Hey Philip, come on up and sit with he probably said hi. I'm Philip. Nice to meet you. But he says yes Philip to come up and sit with him verse 31 and the place in the scripture which he read was this he was led as a sheep to the slaughter and As a lamb before the shearer is silent.

So he opened not his mouth in his humiliation his justice was taken away and Who will declare his generation for his life is taken from the earth. You understand why God? Held him until the exact moment and told him to run told him to go and why he did run.

Not so because he would miss the chariot going by but because he would miss the passage. He would miss the passage. So right as he's reading the passage about Christ, he runs up. He says do you understand that?

He says no, not unless someone explains it to me. He begins to unfold it verse 35 says Philip opened his mouth and Beginning at this scripture beginning Beginning at this scripture preached Jesus Christ to him.

So the scripture is what God uses to convert a soul. It must center on the scripture when you're witnessing to people and it must center on Jesus Christ. So the scripture and he preached Jesus. May I say that?

Philip was able to do that because he was ready to do that if anything else. We see he met this man right where he was right in Isaiah right there and May God grant the same to us to be able able to meet people right where they are in life and To share Christ with them right where they are.

To take whatever their situation and turn it right toward Christ. Because he knew the Word of God so well. He was able to start there and then take him all the way through the scriptures. To Jesus Christ, I'm certain even to baptism, which is why he asked to be baptized.

It's because he was ready as we study the Word of God, it isn't just so we can do the right thing as Christians. We study the Word of God. To be ready to give an answer to every man as Peter said of the hope.

That's in us because we live in a world. There is no hope. The only hope is Christ. And so we study the Word of God because faith comes by hearing and hearing by the Word of God. And that's what he did.

He opened it up to him proper preparation by the Lord sovereign preparation. Spiritual presentation then you get this wonderful response. The last thing here. It's a response of faith and confession and issues and rejoicing verse 36 as they went down the road.

Faith, Baptism, and Rejoicing in Christ

They came to some water and the eunuch said see here is water what hinders me from being baptized. That's what leads me to believe that he'd taken him through the whole gospel and all the way up to baptism and so that's his profession of faith right there and They came to this pool of water stream of the desert whatever it was and he wanted to publicly testify of his saving faith.

So his confession comes in verse 37 38 Philip said if you believe with all your heart you may. He answered and said I believe Jesus Christ is the Son of God. He commanded the chariot to stand still and both Philip and the eunuch went down into the water and He baptized him.

After notice after he was saved. After he was saved he got baptized and notice they went down into the water. That's baptism by full immersion. We're going to have a study one of these days. Fairly soon on water baptism.