You know I was talking to a friend of mine who is an evangelist and he was flying to a country in South America. He pulled out you know the magazines they have in the airlines, and he saw a headline “Millionaire’s Club.” So he started reading and the Holy Spirit said to him “I want you to become a member of the Millionaire’s Club. Not a million dollars I want you to become a true member of the Millionaire’s Club, a million souls for the Messiah.” When he said that to me I was thinking, and I have to tell you I have a pet peeve, a lot of Christian television and Christian radio shows are raising money. Yes they’re proclaiming the law of sowing and reaping, and that is a Biblical law and that is correct, but somehow there is like if you’ll give at this exact moment you’re going to get wealthy. There something psychological manipulation I guess I have to call for what it is, and maybe one or two people because they have the faith at that moment and it’s triggered their going to have a lot of money, but 99.9% aren’t going to get anything. I want you to become a part of the true Millionaire’s Club, a million souls. How are going to reach a million souls for the kingdom? I have found many years ago when I take Romans 1:16 literal and literally and throughout all of scripture Paul says “I am not ashamed of the gospel it’s the power of God unto salvation to everyone who believes to the Jew first.” I have practiced this in this ministry and every time I reach out to the Jew first, it opens up a gigantic door for evangelism to the Gentiles. More so, than if I went to the Gentile first, but I want you to be a member of our Millionaire’s Club, a million souls for Messiah. There’s only one thing you’re going to take to heaven with you, you know what that is? Your soul winner’s crown, “He who wins souls is wise.” That is why Jesus said in Acts 1:8 “You shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you and you shall be witnesses,” and every genuinely born-again believer of God has the Holy Spirit in them because they couldn’t come to know Jesus without the revelation of the Holy Spirit. But there’s something called the baptism of the Holy Spirit, and as I explained on yesterday’s broadcast you take the white cloth and you dip it in a big barrel of purple die and you pull the white cloth out, it’s totally saturated in the purple it doesn’t even look like the white cloth anymore. In the book of Hebrews the author said “God’s ministers would be flames of fire.” It’s literally a release of the Holy Spirit throughout every fiber of your being. Can’t you feel that? Can’t you sense that? Now here’s the thing I found out that most Christians aren’t aware of when you’re baptized in the Holy Spirit, that total immersion of the Holy Spirit, just like when you’re baptized in water you have to look at your Jewish roots to recognize water baptism isn’t sprinkling, and that’s not my issue. Water baptism is an entire immersion Holy Spirit is entire immersion. So there are 5 examples from Pentecost, and we’re celebrating Pentecost this week, or Shavuot. Five Biblical examples of people being baptized in the Holy Spirit, and of the 5, 4 of them spoke immediately in tongues and the fifth there is much evidence to believe they did something similar to that. So let’s study the Word of God together. Acts chapter 2 verse 1 “When the day of Pentecost had fully come” then verse 4 “and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak with other tongues.” Who began to speak with other tongues? They. Who did the speaking? They did the speaking, and they were all; how many were filled? All were filled. How many had just a little sprinkle of the Holy Spirit? None. How many were totally saturated totally filled? All, they were all filled with the Holy Spirit. It doesn’t say the word they, but it was implied. “They began to speak with other tongues as the Spirit gave them utterance.” Do you know what they could have all been saturated and filled with the Holy Spirit, but if they did not speak in other tongues it would of never happened. Do you know there’s a stalemate going on right now? There are people that are saying “I will speak in tongues if the Holy Spirit maybe will move my tongue and make sounds.” Well that’s like saying “I’ll speak in English if the Holy Spirit will move my tongue and make sounds.” No you speak in English from your brain and your Spirit gives you the sanctified words, and you speak from the Spirit by your spirit. If you don’t do the speaking no one else will, perhaps you’ve never been told that. So there’s 5 examples from Pentecost on, 5 Biblical examples we’re going to look at each one of them. Well we know at Pentecost Acts chapter 2 “that they all were filled with the Holy Spirit, and they all began to speak with other tongues as the Spirit gave them utterance.” That’s the first example. The second example is found in Acts chapter 8 verse 18 this is the one where it does not specifically mention tongues. It says “When Simon” he was the sorcerer, “saw that through the laying on of the Apostles hands the Holy Spirit was given.” Isn’t that interesting the first example no hands were laid, the second example hands were laid. That shows it can work either way. “So when Simon saw that through the laying on the Apostle’s hands the Holy Spirit was given,” and early believers knew the Holy Spirit came on someone. It was something instant, why? It says that “Simon saw that through the laying on of hands the Holy Spirit was given.” It’s not fruit, fruit takes a while to verify, but it was something instant. I believe Simon saw something because it says that. What he saw is someone that was a flame of fire that was just praising God for it was worth. Now the third example is Paul when Ananias prayed for him. By the way when Simon was prayed for it was through the hands of the Apostles. However, when Paul was prayed for it wasn’t an Apostle it was Ananias. He was just a disciple. Acts 9 verse 17 says “Ananias said ‘The Lord has sent me that you may be filled with the Holy Spirit.’” First Corinthians chapter 14 verse 18 says, this is Paul speaking, “I speak with tongues more than you all,” that’s the third example. The fourth example is Acts the 10th chapter the 44th verse “So when the first Gentile received the baptism in the Holy Spirit while Peter was still speaking these words the Holy Spirit fell upon all those who heard the word,” again no hands were laid on them. Then Acts 10 verse 46 “for they heard them speak with tongues and magnify God.” Then the fifth example was Paul at Ephesus in the 19th chapter the 1st verse “In finding some disciples he said ‘Did you receive the Holy Spirit when you believed?’” Verse 6 “When Paul laid hands on them the Holy Spirit came upon and they spoke with tongues and prophesied.” So 5 examples, only 5 from Pentecost on in the Bible, 4 spoke in tongues. The fifth, Simon, saw something and what he saw was, I believe, was speaking in tongues and someone being on fire with the Holy Spirit.
