(LAST) Kickstart Package - 3 - The Holy Spirit

KICKSTART PACKAGE

THE HOLY SPIRIT
Lesson Three

Welcome to this third lesson
of the Kickstart Package.

Last lesson we looked at what it was
to be born again,

where we looked at repentance
and baptism in water.

This lesson we are going to look at
the Holy Spirit and speaking in tongues.

And we will start with Jesus.
We read here in John 7:37-39, Jesus is saying:

"If anyone thirsts,
let him come to me and drink.

Whoever believes in me,
as the Scripture has said,

"Out of his heart will flow
rivers of living water...

...Now this he said about the Spirit, whom
those who believed in him were to receive,

for as yet the Spirit had not been given,
because Jesus was not yet glorified."

Here we read in John 7 that Jesus was
teaching about the Holy Spirit,

and it's interesting that here he was saying
that the Holy Spirit had not yet been given

to anyone of them because
Jesus was not yet glorified.

The truth is that when Jesus walked here
on earth he could only speak about

the Holy Spirit, He could teach about
the Holy Spirit, He could explain

what the Holy Spirit was doing,
but He could not yet baptize

anyone with the Holy Spirit. Because
Jesus first needed to die on the cross,

He needed to be buried,
He needed to rise again,

and He needed to go to heaven before
He could send His Holy Spirit down here.

He is saying that also in John 16:7,
when He's saying this:

"But I tell you the truth,
it is better for you that I go away.

When I go away,
I will send the Helper to you.

If I do not go away,
the Helper will not come to you."

Here Jesus is talking about
the Holy Spirit again.

He used the word "the Helper",
but He says here that when He goes away

He will send the Holy Spirit.

It is interesting that Jesus starts
with these words: "I tell you the truth",

like Jesus was ever lying.
Were the other times when Jesus lied,

when He was saying something
that was not the truth?

No, everything Jesus said was the truth.

But what Jesus was going to say here
was so difficult for people to understand,

so He needed to start with these words:
"Hey guys! What I'm going to say to you

is the truth. I know it's difficult for you
to understand, but this is the truth.

It's better for you that I go away."

Why is it better for us
that Jesus go away?

If Jesus was still on earth today you could
talk with Him, but then you'll need

to jump on a plane, you'll need to go
to Israel.

You need to stand in line in front of
seven billion other people,

who also want to talk with Jesus.
And Jesus needs to sleep and go to the toilet.

So, if Jesus did not go away, then actually
you could not have a relationship with Him,

because there was too many
who wanted that.

But when He went away He sent His spirit
down here on earth.

The Holy Spirit, the spirit of Christ
is now here.

He is our helper. He is helper in our
weakness. He helps us in our prayers.

He gives us power to share the gospel.
He reminds us of every word Jesus had said.

And it is really much better for you and me
that Jesus went away,

because now, through the Holy Spirit,
we can have a fellowship with Christ.

And you don't need to go to Israel
to experience that.

You can get it right there where you are.

So Jesus was talking and teaching
about the Holy Spirit

and telling that it was the best for them
that He goes away

because when He goes away He could send
the Holy Spirit down here on earth.

Then Jesus died on the cross, He got buried
and He rose up again.

After He rose up again He came to His
disciples and He commanded them

not to depart from Jerusalem, but they
should wait for what has been promised.

They should wait there in Jerusalem
to receive the Holy Spirit.

And when the Holy Spirit came upon them
they will experience power

to be His witnesses all over the earth.

And then it happened. It went ten days
after Jesus went to heaven

He sent the Holy Spirit down here,
as promised.

And we read that in Acts 2:1-4:

"And when the day of Pentecost
was fully come,

they were all with one accord in one place.

And suddenly there came a sound
from heaven as of a rushing mighty wind...

...and it filled all the house
where they were sitting.

They saw what seemed to be tongues
of fire that separated

and came to rest on each of them...

...And they were all filled
with the Holy Spirit

and began to speak in other tongues,
as the Holy Spirit enabled them."

Wow! Here we see it all come together
what Jesus was talking about,

teaching about, what He has promised,
what the Father has promised -

that He, when Jesus went away,
will send His Holy Spirit down here.

And this is the first time here in Acts
we actually see it.

We see somebody get baptized,
or receive the Holy Spirit,

like you and me can do today.
Because this promise Jesus came with,

the promise of the Holy Spirit
is for you and me today.

God is the same today.
Jesus is the same today.

The Holy Spirit is also the same today.

And you and me can experience
this amazing life today.

We can receive the Holy Spirit
like they did in Book of Acts.

Peter stood up on Pentecost and said
these words we read about in the last lesson:

"Repent and be baptized everyone of you
in the name of Jesus Christ

for the forgiveness of your sins and you
shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit."

After Peter said these words he continued
with this:

"For the PROMISE is for you and your
children and for all who are far off,

for all whom the Lord our God will call."

What promise is Peter talking about here?

The promise of the Holy Spirit.
The promise Jesus came with.

When He said that is the best for you
that I go away

because then I will send the Spirit
down here.

The promise that was prophesied
even 600 years before Jesus Christ,

before Peter stood there on Pentecost.
600 years before it was prophesied

that this was going to happen.

We read that with Ezekiel.
He said that 600 years before.

"And I will give you a new heart,
and a new spirit will I put within you,

and I will take away the stony heart
out of your flesh,

and I will give you a heart of flesh."
(Ezekiel, 36:26)

So it was actually prophesied
600 years before Jesus said it.

It was prophesied 600 years before
Peter and the other experience it -

that one day God will do something new.

He will take out the stone heart
and give us a heart of flesh.

He will give us a new spirit.

But it was not only Ezekiel who
prophesied about that.

Joel, another prophet, was also coming with
a prophecy about this day that started there.

Because it was what Peter continued with
in Acts 2:16, when he said:

"but this is that which has been spoken
through the prophet Joel:

"And it shall be in the last days, says God,
I will pour out of my Spirit upon all flesh...

...and your sons and your daughters shall
prophesy, and your young men shall see

visions, and your old men shall
dream dreams." (Acts: 2:16-17)

So this promise of the Holy Spirit
is for you and me.

We can all experience this today.
This is not only for those.

Peter said that this promise is for you
and your children and all who are far off.

And that is including you and me.
I have experienced this.

I have experienced the Holy Spirit
Jesus was talking about.

I have experienced the Holy Spirit
Ezekiel was prophesying about 600 B.C.

I have experienced the same thing Peter and
the apostles experienced on Pentecost.

and spoke about - that new spirit
and that new heart.

And I want to say that this is for you.
Have you experienced it?

What we are going to do now?
We are going to go through the Book of Acts

and read about how people, through
the Book of Acts, experienced the Holy Spirit.

Because it was not only that one moment
on Pentecost, in the Book of Acts 2,

where it happened. It happened the whole
way through the Book of Acts

and this is continuing today.

One of the places we read about how
people were filled with the Holy Spirit

was in Book of Acts 8,
when Philip went to Samaria.

We can read that Philip came to Samaria
and he was preaching the gospel of kingdom,

he was healing the sick, casting out demons,
people repented, they got baptized in water

and the lot of things happened when
Philip came there to Samaria.

But, those people who there repented
and got baptized in water

have not yet received the Holy Spirit.
So the apostles heard about it

and they came down there
and when they came down there

they saw that they have not yet received
the Holy Spirit.

And we read here in Acts 8:15-16:
"When they (Peter and John) arrived,

they prayed for the new believers there
that they might receive the Holy Spirit,

because the Holy Spirit had not yet come
on any of them,

they had only been baptized in the name
of the Lord Jesus."

Here in Acts 8 we see different things.
We see that you don't automatically

receive the Holy Spirit,
when you start to believe in Jesus.

We see here in Book of Acts 8 that
there was people who have repented,

have got baptized in water, but they
have not yet received the Holy Spirit.

And like that we see many believers
today, all over the world,

who have faith in God, who have repented,
who got baptized in water,

but they have not yet received
the Holy Spirit.

So they need somebody to come,
like we read here, and lay hands on them,

and pray for them, so they also may
receive the Holy Spirit.

So the first thing we see here is that
people don't automatically receive

the Holy Spirit when they get
baptized.

We also see here that there is a sign
when people receive the Holy Spirit.

The apostles saw that they have not yet
received the Holy Spirit.

And when they laid hands on them
other people saw

that the Holy Spirit was now given
by the laying of hands of the apostles.

My question is: How could they see,
how could other people see

that they have not yet there received
the Holy Spirit.

How could other people see that they
there received the Holy Spirit

when they prayed for them?

It is not clear if we just read
Book of Acts 9.

But when we take other places
in the Book of Acts and see what happened

and put it all together,
we get a very clear picture of it.

In Book of Acts 10 we read that Peter
came into the house of Cornelius

and Peter was speaking in the house and then
suddenly they all received the Holy Spirit.

And how did Peter know that?
Because we read this in Acts 10:46:

"For they were hearing them speaking
with tongues and praising God."

So this was the sign Peter saw that showed
him that those people in front of him

have just received the Holy Spirit.
He heard them speak in tongues

and worshiping God.
Another place, Book of Acts 19,

Paul came to Ephesus and there he met
some believers, but they needed more,

so Paul preached about repentance
and baptism and they got baptized in water,

and then we read this:
(Acts 19:6)

"When Paul placed his hands on them,
the Holy Spirit came on them,

and they spoke in tongues and
prophesied."

So we have three places from the Bible.
In Book of Acts we have chapters 8, 10 and 19.

And out of these places we can see it
that when people in the early church

repented and got baptized,
they received the Holy Spirit.

And when they received the Holy Spirit
something happened.

They started to speak in tongues. Some
people start to speak in tongues and prophesy.

Other people start to speak in tongues
and worship God.

And this is the same today. Because this
promise is for us who are living today.

The last years I prayed for hundreds of people
who have received the Holy Spirit,

who have been baptized with the Holy Spirit,
as we also call it,

and started to speak in tongues.
And it's so amazing to experience that today.

Not only that I experienced it myself,
but also prayed for other people

and experienced that the same
is happening with them.

That the things we read about
in the Bible is not just a history book,

It's not just something that happened
2000 years ago, far away.

It's something that is happening today.

And the Holy Spirit is for you,
is for me.

Sometimes in the Bible we read that
they received the Holy Spirit right away,

it that second they came out of water
and somebody prayed for them.

Sometimes in the Bible we read that
people received the Holy Spirit first,

and then they got baptized in water
later, like we read in Book of Acts 10.

Or sometimes we read that people
repented and got baptized in water,

and then after some time somebody prayed for
them and they there received the Holy Spirit.

So sometimes it happened before
the baptism in water,

right away when people got baptized in water,
or after people got baptized in water.

But what is important for you is
that is for you.

It's for you.
It's for you and me today.

I want to talk a little about speaking
in tongues,

because there is a lot of misunderstanding
out there, when it comes to speaking in tongues.

One of the misunderstandings is that
people don't actually understand

that there are different kinds of tongues.

I will try shortly to go through them here.

To speak in tongues is actually
to speak language.

Tongues mean language.

I am actually speaking in tongues
right now,

because I am speaking a language
right now.

This is a physical language. When I was,
many years ago, born as a baby,

I got a language, like you and everyone
here have a language,

where we can speak something.
I learned to speak Danish

and I am learning now to speak
English, and I speak a little German.

So that is a physical language we get
when we get born by our mom, as a baby.

There is also a spiritual language
I believe that is for everyone

who are born by the Spirit.
That is what I call the personal tongues.

This is what Paul is talking about here
in 1 Corinthians 14:2. He says this:

"For him who speaks in a tongue
does not speak to men but to God,

for no one understands him,
what he speaks is mysteries."

In 1 Corinthians 14:4 Paul is saying this:

"The one who speaks in a tongue
builds up himself..."

Here Paul is talking about the personal
tongues,

tongues where you don't speak to men
around you, you speak to God.

You speak mysteries to God.
Nobody understands what you are saying,

but you are building up yourself.
This is the tongues that sound like this...

...for me...
(Torben is speaking in tongues)

When I speak in tongues...

like Paul is saying, I don't speak to you,
I don't speak to men,

because none of you understands
what I am saying...

But I speak to God.
I speak mysteries to God.

Paul is continuing saying this in
1 Corinthians 14:14:

"For if I pray in a tongue, my spirit prays,
but my mind is unfruitful."

He continues in 1 Corinthians 14:18:

"I thank God that I speak in tongues
more than all of you."

I believe that this tongues...

the personal prayer language,
the language Paul said:

I speak more in tongues than any of you,
the language where we pray between us and God

mysteries, is not our mind who is
fruitful in this, it's our spirit

and we build up ourselves. I believe that
this personal tongues are for everyone.

And we have seen thousands of people
get baptized with the Holy Spirit.

And I have some videos here where you
can see how it looks like

when people get baptized with the
Holy Spirit,

when people start to speak in tongues.

The Bible says if we repent,

turn away from our sins,

get baptized in water,

God will give the Holy Spirit.

And this is the promise of God...

that He will give the Holy Spirit
to everyone who asks Him.

So lets pray that God will give you
the Spirit.

Close your eyes. We will pray
together now. You just pray after me.

God...
I come to You...

I repent...
I take my sin and lay it over to You...

And I ask You...
come Jesus...

come with Your Holy Spirit...

(tongues)

Holy Spirit, thank You for Your life.
We thank You for Your freedom.

God, we thank You for what
You're doing. (tongues)

Yeah!

- How is it?
- Amazing!

Jesus is alive!
Jesus esta vivo!

This is what?
This is what we read in the Bible:

repent and get baptized.
He wants to give the Holy Spirit.

Freedom in the name of Jesus!
I love it!

The Holy Spirit is for everyone
(watch of YouTube)

So here are some examples of how it looks
like when people receive the Holy Spirit

and speak in tongues. This personal tongues,
as I sometimes call it,

I believe is for everyone, and it's where you
build up yourself.

But there is also other tongues.
Another tongues, to say like that,

is w here you build up the church, and
tongues where you reach out to the world.

The ones to build up the church
I experienced short time ago,

we were in Norway, having a meeting,
and on the meeting my wife was singing

and we were praying, and God just came
with His Holy Spirit.

And suddenly a man stood up and he came
with a loud, loud tongue. Like very loud.

Nobody with the physical ears understood
what he was saying,

but you just felt in your spirit:
this is another tongue.

This is not the personal tongue. This is
the tongue that is to edify the church.

That is for everyone. So he stood up and
came with a loud, loud tongue.

Another one, I think it was a woman, stood up
there and came with an interpretation.

He continued with the tongue,
she continued with the interpretation.

He continued with the tongue,
and she came again with the interpretation.

And that tongue, therefore, became
for the whole church -

to build up everyone of us. And we have
experienced that a lot of times.

And I've also experienced when
somebody came with that tongue,

where I was the one who got
the interpretation.

It was not like I understood with my
physical ears what he was saying,

but I felt in my spirit, words came to me
so when that person finished

with the tongue, I could continue
in our own language,

to come with the interpretation,
and it could build up the whole church.

And this is the tongue Paul is talking about
here in 1 Corinthians 14:27-28:

"If anyone speaks in a tongue,
two or at the most three should speak,

one at a time, and someone must
interpret...

...But if there be no interpreter,
let him keep silence in the church,

and let him speak to himself,
and to God."

So here we read about this tongue
I just explained,

where is to edify the body, is for us
when we come together as a church,

as believers, God is using this to speak
to everyone of us.

But here we need somebody to come with
the interpretation, for it to be for everyone.

But the last tongue you don't need
somebody to come with the interpretation.

The last tongue people understand
without somebody to interpret it.

And this is what we also saw
in Book of Acts 2.

Because in Acts 2, when they came together,
they spoke and we read this:

"the multitude came together and was
confounded because each of them

spoke in his own tongue."
(Acts 2:6)

So what we read here was that the apostles
spoke in tongues and people came,

and they were surprised, they were shocked,
because they, in that moment understood

what they were saying.
People from different languages understood

what those people there were saying.

And this is something we can also
experience today.

I experienced that a few years ago.
I was in Germany.

And there in Germany I was walking and
a guy came to me and started to talk to me.

He was a Satanist. He was dark all over
his body, 666 tattoos on his fingers

and Satanic symbols all over his body.
He came to me and I started to talk to him.

And suddenly I felt something,
I haven't experienced like that before.

I felt that I should speak to him in tongues.
And it was weird because I don't speak

to people in tongues
because people don't understand me.

When I speak in tongues...
it's between me and God.

I don't speak to people like that.

But this time I felt
I should speak to him in tongues.

So I put my hand on him, I looked at him,
and I started...

I started to speak to him in tongues
and I felt something changed.

My tongues changed. It was different
than when I normally speak in tongues.

I did not understand what I was saying.
For me it was still words

without any meaning, but I prayed to him.

When I done that he just stepped back and
looked at me with the biggest eyes.

He said: "How did you know?"
And I was like: "What?"

"How did you know?"

I said: "What", because I did not know
what he was talking about.

He said:
"Where did you learn our language?"

And then he continued telling me that
when he was a kid

him and his brother developed
a code language only they understood.

And right there, at that moment,
I have just been speaking to him about God

in their language. And when I left that place
that guy was standing with his arms lifted

and worshiping God.
It was so powerful.

In that moment the Holy Spirit came
over me and I got the other tongue

we read about in Book of Acts 2, where
people from other places, other languages,

suddenly understood what was happening.

And I believe this tongue is something that
has been lost in the church

and we need to experience more of that.

In the early church they knew that there
were different kinds of tongues.

It was so natural for them, that there was
a tongue, a personal prayer language,

there was a tongue for building up
the church,

and there was a tongue to reach out
to people.

I believe that this tongue, the personal
tongues, is for everyone of you.

When you get born in natural
you get a natural tongue.

This is speaking in language
the way I do now.

When you get born in the spirit
you get a spiritual tongue.

That is when you pray to God -
the personal tongue ...

Those two I believe is for everyone,
and when we have it it's up to us

to use it as much as we want. And we need
to use it again and again and again.

Then there are two other tongues:
one where you edify the church

and one where you reach out
to people.

That is not for us to just do wherever
we want.

I cannot stand up and speak to people
from other languages

and experience this every time like that.
This is something God is doing

in that moment, and when it happens -
it happens,

and then we need to let God do it again
next time.

It's not something we can just do
like we can with the personal language.

For you who have experienced it,
who know about it,

for you who are a little new, it can seem
a little complicated in the beginning,

but it's actually very, very simple
when you experience it.

But right now I want to focus on
the personal language, the personal tongue,

the tongue I believe is for everyone
who receive the Holy Spirit.

I love when people receive the Holy Spirit
and start to speak in tongues,

and as I've said: we have seen it a lot.
We see it all over the place.

We've seen thousands of people receive
the Holy Spirit and start to speak in tongues.

It's actually very, very simple, especially
when you don't have any religious background.

I've seen hundreds of people without
any religious background,

who come, who repent, and I lay hands
on them, the Holy Spirit comes,

I say: open your mouth and speak
and they just start...

and it just comes of them,
and it is so beautiful,

and it's for everyone and it's so simple.
But amazing at the same time.

But sometimes we meet people where
it's a little more difficult

because they have heard something
else in the church.

And all of that complicates,
all of that do that fear comes in.

or doubt comes in,
or wrong ideas come in.

I remember I was in Cape Town,
I met a man who really wanted the Holy Spirit,

but he has heard a lot of wrong things,
that it was not for everyone

and how it works.
I met him and we sat down and talked.

And when we were talking about
the Holy Spirit and speaking in tongues

suddenly he said: "I have it.
I understand it now. Lay your hands on me."

I was like: Okay. I put my hands on him.
And in that second I put my hands on him

he started to shout out in new tongues.
What did he get right there?

I think he got it. He said: I got it now.
I got a revelation. I know now how it works.

And I know that there were things
I believed in, that were wrong,

when it comes to tongues, and when that
wrong doctrines came away -

he received it right away.
Because we need to receive it in faith.

We need to just believe God's word
and then receive it.

How do people receive the Holy Spirit
and start to speak in tongues?

You can pray for it yourself. Jesus is
actually saying, when He's talking about:

ask and it shall be given to you,
knock and the door will be opened,

seek and you will find... that is
actually talking about the Holy Spirit,

because He goes on there, saying this:

"...If you, who are evil, know how to give
good gifts to your children,

how much more will the heavenly Father
give the Holy Spirit to those who ask Him!"

So if you want the Holy Spirit -
ask God for the Holy Spirit.

Seek, knock, pray and God will give
the Holy Spirit to you.

But very often we read that the way people
received the Holy Spirit is by other people

who have the Holy Spirit, who then come
to them and lay hands on them.

Like in Book of Acts 8 we read that the
apostles came and they laid hands on them

and they there received the Holy Spirit.

We read it with Paul in Book of Acts 19.
He came and laid hands on them

and they also there received the Holy Spirit.

So, how do you get the Holy Spirit?

You pray, you seek God and He will give
the Holy Spirit,

or you get somebody who have the Spirit,
to lay hands on you to receive the Holy Spirit.

I will become a little practical now.
When we talk about praying in tongues...

I've met people who don't speak in tongues,
they have the Holy Spirit inside of them

but they speak in tongues because they've
misunderstood what it is to speak in tongues.

They think that God will open their mouth
suddenly and it will speak by itself.

But God is not going to possess our mouth
and open our mouth.

We need to open our mouth ourselves
and start to speak.

When I speak in tongues I often start
like this: shila.

So I start: shila... da, da, kaskala...
(tongues) and it's just flowing out of me.

I'm not waiting for God to open my mouth.
I start.

And I often do that today when we baptize
people in water, and they come out of water,

and we lay hands on them, and pray
for the Holy Spirit to come over them.

And sometimes you feel or you can see
the Holy Spirit comes over people

and some people start to speak in tongues
right away.

Other people, we say: "Open your mouth,
just speak, let it out."

And when they start with the first words...
It's just flowing out of them

like living water, coming out of them.
No two persons are the same.

Some people experience like:
kaboom and it just boo...

Me myself when I experienced
the Holy Spirit many years ago.

I didn't feel a lot of things. They prayed
for me. I felt that the Spirit was there.

And they said: "Open your mouth
and speak." And I started.

I'm very simple.
I just started with a few words.

And then later it just took over
and a lot of other things happened.

How do we know that it actually is
from God and we know it is the Holy Spirit

and not just words we are saying?

One of the things where people really
can see if it's the Holy Spirit

or not the Holy Spirit is what Jesus is
saying here, we read before in John 7:37-38:

"If anyone thirsts, let him come to me
and drink. Whoever believes in me,

as the Scripture is saying, out of his
heart will flow rivers of living water."

The way I experienced it and many
experienced it, when we start to speak

we say the first words... shila...
but it's like we can continue,

it's like it's flowing from our heart,
out of us, like living water,

like Jesus is saying. So we can just
continue...

And I can continue for hours, if it is,
I can continue and continue

because it's not me who is concentrating
on every word I'm saying.

I'm speaking. And when I'm speaking
in tongues... I'm connecting to God,

I'm building up my spirit. For some of you
who are little older like me,

you may remember the old modem
which people used to connect to the internet,

many years ago. I remember we had like
a modem where we call to the internet

and the modem was calling: beep, beep...
It was a crazy sound.

But when that modem was connected
to the internet

we could get a lot of information down
on our computer.

The same way is when I speak in tongues...
I'm connecting to God

and I can experience God then
speaking to me.

I can experience things are coming down
on this computer.

I get things. God used that. And I want
to encourage you to speak in tongues.

Use it if you have it. If you don't have it
receive it and start to build up yourself.

Start to see how this is working.

So, what do we believe?

Let's go back to the beginning.

Jesus was here on earth.
He was teaching about the Holy Spirit.

He was saying that it was best for you
that I go away,

because if I don't go away
I cannot send my Helper.

I cannot send the Holy Spirit
down here on earth.

And He was teaching and telling a lot
about the Holy Spirit,

how He was there to help us,
to comfort us, to convict the world

of sin, righteousness, judgement.
He was here to remind us

of every word Jesus has been saying,
to teach us the truth.

And He was supposed to do all of that.

Then Jesus died on the cross.
He got buried and He rose up again.

After He rose up again,
before He ascended to heaven,

He came to His disciples and He said
to them: Stay in Jerusalem.

Stay here until you get what has
been promised,

until you receive the Holy Spirit.
Because I will go from here to heaven

and I will send my spirit down here.
And then Jesus ascended to heaven,

sitting beside God's right hand and
then He sent His Holy Spirit down here.

And He did that on Pentecost.
We read that in Acts 2.

The apostles were together, the Spirit
came and filled the whole house.

Tongues came on everyone of them,
they stood up and spoke in tongues.

And the Spirit was poured out
on the first disciples.

And we read later in the Book of Acts
that this continued,

in Book of Acts 8, with Philip in Samaria,
it continued in Book of Acts 10,

with Peter and the house of Cornelius,
in Book of Acts 19 with Paul in Ephesus.

And it's the same today.
When people receive the Spirit

they start to speak in tongues.
Some people start to speak in tongues

and prophesy. Some people start to speak
in tongues and worship God.

But something is coming out of them and
you see when people have received the Spirit.

And the Spirit is for everyone.
How do you receive the Holy Spirit?

By praying to God for Him to give Him to you

or by having other people who have the Spirit
lay hands on you and you will receive Him.

When you have the Spirit you need to
start to speak it out.

When you feel the Spirit or experience
the Spirit, say the first words.

Experience how it suddenly comes out
of you, flowing out of you

like rivers of living water.

And when you speak in tongues,
the personal tongue,

you are edifying yourself,
you are building up yourself,

you are connecting to God.

And this is for everyone.

I believe that if you have the Holy Spirit
you have tongues.

I do not say that those who do not
speak in tongues don't have the Spirit,

because there is truly people out there
who have received the Holy Spirit

and they have tongues.
They just don't know it yet

because of the wrong teaching
in the church.

So if you are sure that you have the Spirit
you have tongues inside of you.

You just need to open your mouth
and let it out.

This is what I want to share in this lesson.

Next time I will put it together,
when I'm going to share the gospel to you.

We have until now looked at repentance,
baptism in water, baptism with the Holy Spirit.

In the next lesson I'm going
to share the gospel, put it all together,

so you out there can repent,
so you out there can baptize in water

and receive the Holy Spirit.

Until next time.