You Shall Receive Power — Shane Idleman

The Promise of Spiritual Power

The message this morning is you shall receive power. You shall receive power and I'm gonna pick off pick up where we left off in the book of Acts. But this is kind of I would say part two of the Holy Spirit.

We talked about the Holy Spirit last week and if you weren't here I would encourage you go online and listen to that message. Are you filled with the Holy Spirit? It's the most important question a Christian can ask.

So this is part two because I didn't I wasn't able to finish everything in that sermon. The title is you shall receive power and I'm not talking about worldly power. You know what that is, correct? We're seeing that in the presidential debates and in politics many times.

It's control. It's prestige. It's influence. So when I'm talking about you shall receive power. It's not that kind of power you actually might not receive prestige and you may lose influence and you may lose control.

Because you're guided by the Holy Spirit and that's what spiritual power is. Spiritual power is holy the Holy Spirit. Controlling you the Holy Spirit exalts Christ the Holy Spirit influences us towards godliness and humility.

Actually, it's the work of the Holy Spirit in your life. That it determines how well you live your life for Christ. It's not our work. We submit to his work, but it's actually the Holy Spirit's work. And if you want to know more about the Holy Spirit again, I want to reference last week go online and listen to that I've talked about who the Holy Spirit is and a little bit more in detail.

Ministry Success Comes From the Holy Spirit

But I think it's important before we start reading Acts to understand that the church was born 2 ,000 years ago. We're going to read about when the church was born and and that spiritual power anything that God does in this church in your life the hospital home ministries that we have or people are coming to know Lord the Baptisms that that are spontaneous here and people are coming to know the Lord is through the work of the Holy Spirit and As we celebrate the last service last night.

I begin to think of a few things and I'll just share them with you. I think it hopefully will resonate with some of you anything that I've ever done. Successfully in ministry has been through the Holy Spirit's power.

Looking back on my life, whether it's books or speaking or the church anything. I look back and say God. It's all you because that there's no way Shane Eidelman could have put that together. Same way in your life you submit to the Spirit's power and to his his guidance in your life.

I want to go back right before the church started. I told a few dozen people what we were doing. Completely from scratch and many people said you can't do that. You don't start a church that way. You know, you have to have something in your home and then it grows and then you oh, you know.

You can't just say you're starting a church and hope people show up. It doesn't work that way and I said well I just I think God's wanting us to plan a church and we're gonna go for it and the doors begin to open.

It was amazing what God put together in the final weeks before we actually launched the church. Also, a lot of people said you can't start a church on a Saturday. It won't succeed on a Saturday night.

No church has ever done that before on a Saturday night. You just it's not Shane. You can't you know, maybe later, but you need to find a place that's available Sunday. And I would get discouraged my wife's room is I'd go home and say why don't We have a free building on a Saturday night in the open door the worship the sound everything.

So is that not an open door? I don't know I mean God's if he's in it, he's in it and I remember some of you know, Chris Johnson at Grace Chapel. I talked to him right before we started the church and laid out what I'm doing and he it was.

I'll never forget his words. He said something like You're gonna have to go talk to somebody else because I have I've never done what you're about to do. I don't know how you just start without a core group without on a Saturday.

Well, you're gonna have to ask somebody because Grace Chapel is a hundred years old so it's it's been around a while and he kind of walked into that and What I decided to do is seek godly counsel, of course.

But many people couldn't offer that counsel because they it's God was doing something different something unique. And it was basically from scratch again. So he gets all the glory all the credit. The another thing that came out is it's non-denominational meaning we didn't want to identify with any certain group.

We just wanted to be a Bible believing Non-denominational church that believes in the whole counsel of God's Word. Well, the big problem with that is there's no support. So you basically walk into a bank and you open a savings account with $100 and you trust that God is going to bring in.

The support and the first night it was more than we ever expected and got that's why we don't pass out an offering. We don't make it a big deal. God has just been financially blessing the church since day one and again all these things you just don't do.

I remember I won't point out the church, even though I'd like to tell you what Street it's on. But the people still I'm not recently but it was pretty occurring that I would hear that. Well, that's not a real church because he never went to seminary and I would hear that off like really that's a real.

Yeah, but Morgan never went to Bible College. You didn't go to seminary. You you know, that's not a real church a real churches is somebody who's went to seminary. They've got their PhD on their card or their masters on their card.

And they've done a lot of studying and that's how you start a church. Forgetting the fact that I've studied just about as much as any PhD I know because I wanted to do it. God's Spirit was propelling me in that direction.

I wanted to do that. So you have to have theology. I think it's a big misconception people think well. You didn't go to theology. You don't know anything like where's Matthew? Is that I'm. Is that book in the Bible?

I don't know. What's it's like that's there's a big misconception now granted you have to be. Willing to study and theology is very important. But I believe the Bible also talks about when they heard the disciples.

They knew that they had been with Jesus even though they are untrained and unlearned men. They had been with Christ because they knew Jesus they knew his word and they knew who he was. So I just want to share a few of those things with you.

I jotted down other things like I didn't even know what iTunes was and I remember telling him. No, we're not gonna videotape it. That's stupid. We know and who does that? You know, I mean I'm just a CDs fine because no we got to try it's the way things are going and then now that.

Every this the media audio video reaches tens of thousands of people throughout the United States in the world. We get emails from Denmark and Australia and New Zealand and all these different places.

And I usually send the mic or the office or different people to help answer all these emails coming in. Marriage problems in North Dakota and Kansas and Florida and so God's good. So for all that to just happen from a Saturday night, baby.

It's God's spirit God's power and I'm not a perfect vessel. I am a flawed vessel and you need to understand that we are all flawed pastors. Don't come up here and do everything perfectly. God I had I went kicking and screaming and God's if you ever have a child and you come on you're coming either either way.

You're coming right you're coming whether you can play dead and you drag your feet on the dirt. You're coming either way or you can say here daddy. Come up. Let me just take you around. That's the easier way to go.

That's how you want to go. Daddy, just take me whatever you want to do and it was difficult. It was challenging. Iron sharpens iron. There's a lot of things that God had to you know. It's very humiliate and not humbling but humbling to not have your own facility and you have to you know.

Pretty much any request they want. I remember the first year they needed their church for Christmas Eve and it fall on a Saturday. What am I supposed to cancel the service? I mean, how do you you know and just just that God using all that and different things that happened.

I said all that to say that to say this you shall receive power. Many times God's gonna call you to do something you can't do on your own. So you can't look back say look what I did. Look what I accomplished it just things in ministry or in your own life or with you praying for certain things God is wants to get all the glory and all the power and all the credit goes to him.

That's where we have to have our focus. You can clap for that one. Please do. So let's let's let's begin in Acts 1 the former account I made O Theophilus of all that Jesus began both to do and to teach.

Until the day in which he was taken up after he through the Holy Spirit had given commands to the Apostles whom he had Chosen to whom he also Presented himself alive after his suffering by many infallible proofs being seen by them during 40 days and speaking of the things pertaining to the kingdom of God after Jesus's resurrection, he hung around for 40 days and And appeared to I think over 500 people that's why he says there's infallible proofs that Jesus is the risen Savior.

But you have to understand acts is actually a continuation of the book of Luke. So Luke is writing he's saying based on what I've already told you the former account Theophilus and Theophilus. If you look at the word, it's Theos and Phileo Lover of God is what that word means and some have even said well, it was written to the church lovers of God.

This is the book that I'm writing to the lovers of God to the church, but me looking at the immediate context I tend to believe this is an individual that he's writing to. And many infallible proofs. We've talked about that so many times here on the infallible proofs for the Resurrection that Jesus is who he said he was the biggest wit the biggest witness out.

There is a transformed life. To go from darkness to light to go from hell to heaven to go from wrong to right to go from not Liking God to now I can't get enough of God that in and of itself is a miracle.

There are that the infallible proofs and then we talked about last week the whole message was on he through the Holy Spirit if Jesus needed the Holy Spirit and He wouldn't start his ministry until he was filled with the Holy Spirit.

Who do we think we are to neglect this aspect of God's the triune nature of God? We need the Holy Spirit's power. We need his presence. I'm not scared to to to ask for the filling of the Spirit. Well Shane aren't we already filled?

Well, we are given the Holy Spirit as you've I've said before at conversion. That's baptized into the body of Christ. You are baptized into the body of Christ. You receive the Holy Spirit, but then the question comes or becomes but does the Holy Spirit have all of you?

See you you we have the Holy Spirit, but many times he doesn't have all of us. There's a process there sometimes of being filled with the Spirit and removing things from our lives. Here's often what happens.

I'm gonna probably take some rabbit trails. So I apologize this morning early first time instead of asked for permission, right? It's better to apologize Because God takes this Holy Spirit topic I mean I could camp out here for a month and do a whole series and I try to like okay don't talk about that the the the power of the Holy Spirit many times a person once they're converted and They've surrendered their life to God.

They're filled in Mildly with the Holy Spirit. They are just on fire for God, but sometimes often a person Becomes becomes a Christian. They love the Lord and but there's Besetting sins that they don't get rid of and there's there's just they're not laying down some things.

They're holding on maybe to bitterness and unforgiveness and and they're gonna hang on to this addiction. And so they're not filled with the Spirit even though they're a believer. So you can see they're quenching and grieving the Holy Spirit.

That's what the Bible talks about Don't quench and don't grieve the Holy Spirit. So that's why you can have two people believers. One on fire for God and God is doing so many things through them. It's not the person.

It's because they've surrendered their life to the work of the Spirit the other person which Paul calls Carnal, you are carnal in your nature. Your carnal nature is leading you. You're loving the things of the world.

You're not giving up. You're not letting this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus. You're holding on to arrogance. So they're not filled with the Spirit. So they go through life like this pretty miserable.

Like well, I'm a Christian. I know God saved me, but I'll try to make church once a month you know, I guess I'll try to read this and I'd rather watch Howard Stern and listen to air one and I'd rather what's.

Why what's wrong with me? It's because you're filled with the things of the world and That's that's the difference. That's the distinction between somebody filled with the Spirit and somebody who's not and then verse 4 The Holy Spirit is promised in this next in these next few verses and being assembled together with them Jesus He commanded them not to depart from Jerusalem, but to wait for the promise of the Father.

Which he said you have heard from me for John truly baptized you with water. But you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit. Not many days from now. Now that could be another sermon those two verses. I'd love to preach old sermon on that but suffice it to say this the disciples.

He didn't say go out and start witnessing go out and start, you know getting involved in ministry do he said don't do anything. Disciples don't don't even touch a scroll to roll open and start putting together commentary.

Don't do anything. Wait until you receive power. Wait until you receive the Holy Spirit's power now here's the difference the Holy Spirit throughout the Old Testament was given in portion by God and David being filled the Spirit and Saul being filled the Spirit prophesied in a Elisha the Spirit came upon Elisha and the Spirit came upon Nehemiah the Spirit came upon but then could withdraw but as believers the promise that Jesus is talking about is when The Now that the church is born.

Jesus leaves the Holy Spirit comes now instead of the Holy Spirit being Portioned now and then according to God's sovereignty and good pleasure. Whatever he wants to do now. The Holy Spirit is given to every believer much different much different.

You are actually given the same Spirit of God that that rose Jesus from the dead. Where Elisha did all of his miracles where David was victorious? You think he beat Goliath in this in the power of the flesh or the power of the Spirit the God Spirit.

But now God now we as believers. We and I truly believe this and more than more than I believe that the Sun's gonna come up tomorrow because I trust God's Word Over what he created that you have that power that unction that fire of the Holy Spirit's given to every single believer.

That's a promise. But if you are continually quenching that fire, you will not feel the heat. So you have to stand by the fire to fill the flame. Many people have the fire burning in the den. But they're down the hall in the in the living room and they're climbing up to the attic and they wonder why they don't feel the fire of God's presence.

It's burning but you're not close enough to fill that flame. So that's what's happening here. Jesus saying don't go do anything because you're gonna do in the power of the flesh wait for the promise of the Father.

Wait for that Holy Spirit to impact you and empower you now this gets a little controversial. I believe it was J. Vernon McGee. Maybe even John MacArthur in their study Bibles talking about that the bit and mmm.

Let me get let me be careful here too because I love both those men but I it's almost as if they're saying that these the disciples actually weren't believers and Tell the promise like when Jesus said Receive the Holy Spirit.

He did that chapters before this so they received the Holy Spirit. But this is something different where they're receiving now this unction this this the preposition the Greek preposition is epi Epi to come upon a person that's different from the preposition en where the Holy Spirit is in a person.

So I believe that once the Holy Disciples when Jesus said receive the Holy Spirit. Before this event that they were believers you would consider them Christians when he says receive the Holy Spirit. And I take that literally so this now is a separate event.

Where there they have the Holy Spirit, but this is now the Holy Spirit coming upon them. So how does that work today? Well a little distinction and difference here? I'm getting ahead of myself. But while I'm on the topic, let me just stay here for a minute.

When the Bible explains the work of the Holy Spirit. What do you know what a preposition is from school a preposition helps to explain what the noun is doing a person place or thing. The preposition will be is used to qualify or to show what it's doing.

So the Holy Spirit. There's a word paraclete Paracletus, it's the Holy Spirit comes alongside. But he also comes alongside and he convicts the world of judgment righteousness and then judgment is to come.

So Holy Spirit comes alongside as an advocate as a comforter. But then the Bible talks about the Holy Spirit residing in you en. Which means what I just said the Holy Spirit is residing in you as a believer.

And then there's an interesting word Jesus said you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit comes upon. You EPI, that's the epi word. This is an overflowing Power of the Holy Spirit that that permeates all areas of life.

So a person here's a good example happened in Lancaster. You many of you know, I might as well close this. It was bothering me during worship. Isn't that weird? But the oh now the other sides open. But this is a difference you can put water in that baptismal right an inch or two.

There's water in that baptism. There's a couple inches of water. But turn the water on and let it flow and let it just come out the sides and over the top and in onto this carpet. That's the overflowing Epi power unction upon of the Holy Spirit.

So you see the difference many are filled with two inches. But they're not overflowing. What do you do you have to surrender to the water faucet you have to surrender to the work of God's Spirit. That to the degree you surrender is to the degree you'll be filled.

More surrender more feeling less surrender less fill with the Spirit. So that's why these words shouldn't be confusing but Pentecostal charismatic Circles people often say brother. You just need to be baptized with the Holy Spirit you just need to be baptized with the Holy Spirit and What they're what they're saying is a person needs that filling like Jesus being filled the Spirit Paul being filled the Spirit Peter being filled the Spirit that they need this filling to take place.

So I believe we are. I don't use a term necessarily baptized in the Holy Spirit because it happens at conversion. But there are subsequent feelings of the Holy Spirit not feelings like you feel something but feelings F-i-l-l-i-n-g-s.

So a person can be filled with the Spirit. So that's why you'll hear those terms kind of used loosely sometimes. What do they mean brother? You need to be you need to you need to have that baptism of the Holy Spirit.

What they're saying is they lack the fire. They lack the unction. They're not filled with the Spirit. So that was just a quick test or quick nugget on terminology. So verse 6 therefore when they had come together They asked him saying Lord will you at this time restore the kingdom to Israel?

And he said to them it's not for you to know times or seasons which the father has put in his own authority. But you shall receive power. When the Holy Spirit has come upon you Jesus get off of all this other stuff.

Don't worry about all these other things. I thought of even today how perfect that is. Stop worrying about politics and all the things in the nation all these things but worry focus on. Seek ye first the kingdom of God and all these things will be added unto you and you'll receive power to be witnesses.

It's it's what he was telling them there. They thought that Jesus was coming in order for them the nation of Israel to overcome Rome. You can read like Daniel chapter 7 and different things that they knew the book of Daniel.

They knew things that at some point the Messiah would come they would he would rule and reign that his people would conquer Rome is what they thought you said. No. No, that's not the plan. That's not the plan.

You will receive power. You'll receive fire you receive the baptism of the Spirit not many days from now. And then Jesus ascends to heaven verse 9 now when he had spoken these things while they watched He was taken up and a cloud received him out of their sight and while they looked steadfastly Towards heaven as he went up behold two men stood by him in white apparel who said men of Galilee.

Why do you stand gazing up into heaven this same Jesus who was taken up from you into heaven? Will so come in like manner as you saw him go in to heaven and that's a promise even for today Jesus will return that's that's as sure as again the Sun coming up that he will return in In his time and now I'm just going to paraphrase the next few verses.

This is the upper room meeting. The disciples basically went into an upper room in Jerusalem. And they continued with one accord in prayer and supplication. So think about this the Holy Spirit is about ready to visit them in a powerful way.

They're not they don't have they don't have Netflix on and Voodoo and all these Facebook and all these things they are just focused on God. It's a good lesson for us today. They are just on one accord.

They are of one accord. You know what that means? I don't know if this would this work. Josh Gabe might get mad, but you don't want to hear me play that right? Because I have a no clue. You'd be like, oh goodness or Rosie.

Can I try the piano? What is that Shane stop and go back to the pulpit get off of that. But see that's what the church looks like when you're not united in Harmony with you're not in harmony with your outside what the Holy Spirit wants to do when we're not in unity.

That's how it sounds to God like screeching music. Just it's not in key be in harmony with each other be of one accord. And making it sounds Thank You look at this now. You threw me off track. That's okay the coming of the Holy Spirit, so here's the here's the the disciples return to Jerusalem.

They go to an upper room and they are with one accord. They're not arguing. They're not bickering. They're not like complaining about anything they are one accord in prayer and Supplication. Why doesn't it just say prayer?

Well in my opinion if you look up what supplication is it's a begging of God. So it's showing you what kind of prayer it was if you've been in a real prayer meeting. You know exactly what I'm talking about.

This is supplication. You are pleading with God. God rent the heavens bring your revival bring your saving grace. God save my son save your daughter. You're pulling down heaven. You're making supplication.

You're renting Basically your heart you're pouring it out to God. That's what he's talking about your prayer and supplication so I Wanted to think about that for a minute for the Holy Spirit in order for the Holy Spirit to fall on these people and Change them dramatically.

Look what was occurring? Unity and prayer brokenness supplication coming before the Lord. He only falls on a prepared vessel. The fire of God falls on a sacrifice not an empty altar. Therefore brethren present your bodies as living sacrifices, holy Holy unto God, which is your reasonable service.

He falls on a sacrifice. So here's the coming of the Holy Spirit acts to look at your Bibles acts to. This is when the church was born. Did you know the church had a birthday? The church had a birthday on.

Well, we don't know the exact year so I'm not going to go there, but let's just say it was shortly after Jesus was Resurrected acts to when the day of Pentecost had fully come. This is a day which God had planned beforehand in the Old Testament.

That they were all with one accord in that place. I guess he really wants to get that point across doesn't he? Why would he say they're with one accord twice if it wasn't important for the church to have unity and Suddenly there came a sound from heaven as of a rushing mighty wind and it filled the whole house where they were sitting and There appeared to them divided tongues as a fire and one set upon each of them and they were all Filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak with other tongues as the Spirit gave them utterance.

Boy that's a controversial topic, isn't it? I've lost people out of this church over this topic. Just just the fact that I believe that the Holy Spirit is the same yesterday today and forever more. I believe that the Holy Spirit still acts in those giftings of of what is laid out 1st Corinthians 12 13 14.

I believe in that. I believe that the Holy Spirit does still operate that with his oh, I'm out of here after that. Well good. You've never seen any weirdness ever in six years. So but you're gonna leave because somebody embraces that what Paul spoke about and what happened here was not a bad thing.

It's a good thing. How can Paul and these believers speak in tongues and now it's of the devil. Now it's wrong because if experience lines up with Scripture you need to you need to be be. Not concerned in this area if it lines up with Scripture now I do want to talk about this topic for a minute since I'm on it.

Speaking in Tongues and Spiritual Gifts

The disciples were filled with the Spirit. It completely tongues of fire. We don't know exactly what there was but it was evident that God visited this place. They were filled and as a byproduct of being filled with the Spirit this unknown language.

Unknown to the person was given to these people. So when they begin to speak in this language people from all over would say this they're they're glorifying God. They're speaking the good things of God.

But even though you don't understand it, the Holy Spirit is speaking the good things of God in a different language. It would be like if I were to say Padre Nuestro de casa in cielo santificado. Siete hombre vengan los trenos, hagase tu voluntad, hacian la tetera, comen cielo, pano esto de cada dia.

Oh, no, that's not tongues. That's Spanish. That's our Father who art in heaven. Hallowed be thy name thy kingdom come. Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven in Spanish. See just because you didn't understand it didn't mean it didn't have power.

See and that's how the Holy Spirit would work. There's but Paul talks about a couple things if you turn to 1st Corinthians not tonight today this morning I'm gonna say tonight probably for a while. Take it used to it.

1st Corinthians read chapter 14 and I can't go through don't go. Well Paul didn't mean that for today. Can I just rip this whole chapter out? I mean, it doesn't doesn't make a lot of sense. He says desire.

Spiritual gifts those who speak in a tongue speak to God not of men. It's edifying yourself. Don't disrupt the service. I just summed it up for you. That's the purpose tongue if a person is given this gift of the Holy Spirit, it's not for men.

It's for God. So somehow the Holy Spirit is working and through this person and if the Holy Spirit's praying for you. That's a good thing. That's nothing to be afraid of but you watch Christian television.

You say I don't have anything to do with that but the Bible says Paul says do not allow it to be A large multitude like this without somebody interpreting or if the environment is conducive. So obviously we don't allow that because Paul says somebody's gonna walk in and think you're out of your mind.

It's not in order. It's not in harmony with it doesn't work, especially for a mixed multitude. They would encourage it in groups where people knew each other and where there's somebody who can interpret what they're saying without that.

It's pointless. But Paul said now Paul said this so if you think it's weird was Paul weird. He said I speak in tongues more than all of you. I Speak into and I wish that you would do that, but I'm not speaking to men.

I'm speaking to God. So that's why people sometimes say it's a private prayer language or it's a real language the bottom line is people understood what they were saying and if People have been given this gift.

I don't want to say no, it's not valid today. Mainly what they'll use to say it's not valid today is when that which is perfect comes that which is in part will be done Away with but Paul is talking about when Christ comes again.

We won't need this these gifts of the Holy Spirit also in chapter 14 Paul says therefore tongues is given as a judgment and stammering tongues that they will judge God's people. But that mean that shows us that tongues is a sign for unbelievers.

It doesn't necessarily mean that it's not a not available today. You talk to people on the mission field. They'll see a lot of the miracles a lot of the the the gifts of the Spirit because they're open but cautious.

That's what I like to do. I'm conservative in this area. I'm open God whatever you want to do, but I'm also cautious because he gives us discernment. He just turned on what I just said some weird things going on and you know, that's not necessarily of God's Spirit.

Also, though you have to remember something Paul is writing to the church in Corinth. These people were abusing the gifts were they not that's the whole point of the letter. Paul is abusing they are abusing the gifts so that might happen today and Living children need rules dead children don't.

So when God's children are living and vibrant and fill it the Holy Spirit D Martin Lloyd Jack D Martin Lloyd-jones actually said that I think it was in his book preachers and preaching the living children need rules dead children don't.

So if first Corinthians 12 13 14 doesn't apply to you. You might want to just ask God for some direction in this area because Paul said desire. Desire these spiritual gifts desire them desire above everything prophecy prophecy.

Oh, no Shane. That just means for that's exactly what I'm doing. You're you're you're for not forth telling predicting a future necessarily, but you're foretelling what God's Word says. That's why God says when they hear you prophesying speaking God's Word.

They will fall down on their face before God and worship him and repent because of his truth piercing their heart tongues. Doesn't do that. Tongues doesn't do that. That's not the point of it. And again, I don't want to I could talk about that for a while.

But there are wonderful resources on that if you're interested. I just can't looking at the Bible looking all these things say that these they call it the I believe it's the Revatory gifts meaning the revelation gift gift of prophecy gift of knowledge healing and tongues.

We're done away with when that we got the canonization of Scripture now that we have the Bible. We don't need these other gifts is. Is the thought behind that? Now I think. One reason is because they've seen the gifts abused and misused and people just acting bizarre.

But I also believe that when people haven't experienced these things. They tend to fear those things and I think why I'm spiritual and I'm more spiritual than they are and just because you don't Experience it though.

You tend to doubt that God is really doing that today. So I would just tell you to take it to the Lord say Lord you show me I desire whatever you have for me. I want I want the best gifts God. I want to prophesy.

I want to be able to speak your word and truth. When the day of Pentecost had fully come there with one accord We read all that already and we were filled there filled the Holy Spirit began to speak in other tongues as a spirit gave them utterance and it's only weird because We haven't experienced it.

If you think of it's like, you know, that's weird. I mean some people have you know who you are, but we think well, that's weird. How does that work? Well It's it's the Holy Spirit operating through a believer.

It's to me It's no weirder than Shane Eidelman up here right now. If you looked at me 20 years ago, I would have I would have done anything I could to not speak in public. I Would have not never chose this in a million years ever.

But that's what God does that that's bizarre to me that he would take me and do this. And he can take you and do the same type of thing not necessary pastoring. Maybe some of you but any type of ministry God will use you in so many different ways.

The hospital homes are a great example of this. So let's talk for stop for three minutes. Let's watch the time on three baptisms. Have you received this baptism first Corinthians 12 13 for by one spirit?

We were all baptized into the body whether Jew or Greek whether slave or free have all been made to drink of one Spirit so this is the the holy the baptism of the Holy Spirit. Have you received this baptism?