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You're there in John chapter 7 and go down to verse 37 is really where I'm at here. What I'm going to preach on this morning is the indwelling of the Holy Ghost, the indwelling of the Holy Ghost. I'm really just going to explain a lot of things about the Holy Ghost when it comes to the indwelling versus the baptism of the Holy Ghost or being filled with the Holy Ghost. There's a lot of confusion on this, especially when reading through the book of Acts where someone lays hands on somebody and they receive the Holy Ghost or the Holy Ghost fell on somebody and all these different things. There's confusion on that and people always try to use that to try to say, well, you're saved when you lay hands on somebody or you're saved when this happens or whatever, right? But I want to talk about the indwelling versus the baptism of the Holy Ghost or the Spirit of God coming upon you or being filled with the Spirit. The reason that this is kind of a prerequisite sermon, okay, and why I say that is because starting tonight or this evening, I'm going to be going through the book of 1 John. And the book of 1 John is actually a very difficult book in certain pieces, okay? And there's definitely passages in there that we use all the time that are very clear, very easy to understand. But then there's other pieces in there where people get confused and they don't understand exactly what it's saying. And I believe if you understand this indwelling of the Holy Ghost and the fact that the Holy Ghost lives inside us, the Holy Ghost never goes anywhere, the Holy Ghost is always there. If you understand that, when we get into 1 John, I think you're going to understand what's being said, what's being talked about. And also, it's really going to hammer in the Trinity, okay? Because the 1 John goes through the Father, Son, and the Holy Ghost very, very detailed as far as the relationship, what's going on between them, all this other stuff. But this sermon, I think you need to understand before we go into that, okay? And so, in John chapter 7 there, notice in verse 37, it says, In the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried, saying, If any man thirst, let him come unto me and drink. He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water. But this spake he of the Spirit, which they that believe on him should receive, for the Holy Ghost was not yet given, because that Jesus was not yet glorified. Now that's a lot of good information there. What it's saying here is that what he's talking about with the Spirit being in your belly or being inside of you has not been given yet at this point. Now what I'm going to show you is that the Holy Ghost was in the Old Testament, the Spirit was in the Old Testament, the Spirit was doing certain things in the Old Testament with people and all this other stuff. But there's a difference between, this is the big emphasis of what's great about the New Testament, is the indwelling of the Holy Ghost. This is the big thing that if you were going to say, Well, what's so great about the New Testament? Because people were saved by faith all the way from the beginning of time to the end of time. So it's not like salvation has changed. That's where people get off on their dispensational garbage. But the big difference between the Old Testament and New Testament is the fact that we have the Holy Ghost living inside of us and the Holy Ghost is teaching us all things. And that's something that we're going to get into. First I wanted to show you, this is kind of just a little thing that you may wonder, Where does it say, Out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water? When you're reading the Bible, a lot of times you're like, Well, where's that said at? Now this is one where it's not quoted exactly like that in the Old Testament. I have a couple places that I believe it's actually talking about. Go to Isaiah chapter 44. And this really doesn't, this isn't pertinent to understanding the sermons this morning, but just kind of a little nugget if you want to know, Okay, where's that said? Now you could say, because in John chapter 4, he talks about how I'll give you living water and you'll never thirst and talking about the well and all that stuff. And you could say, Well, Jesus is the word, he's scripture. So I mean, you could say that, that he, you know, he's referring back to John chapter 4 with the woman at the well. And I'm not completely against that. But I think more so it's going back to the Old Testament and what the prophet said. But in Isaiah 44 in verse 3, notice what it says, For I will pour water upon him that is thirsty, and floods upon the dry ground. I will pour my spirit upon thy seed and my blessing upon thine offspring, and they shall spring up as among the grass as willows by the watercourses. Now you may say, Well, that's not exactly I Yeah, I understand. Okay, that's what I'm saying. It's not exactly what that's saying. But it is talking about pouring out a spirit and it being referred to as water springing up. And that's what it says out of his belly shall flow rivers of water. And in John 4, kind of the springing up on the everlasting life, go to this one, I think actually may even fit it more Isaiah 58, Isaiah 58 and verse 11, Isaiah 58 and verse 11. And this is all just if you want to write down a reference to kind of look at what Jesus was referring to here, Isaiah 58 and verse 11, notice what it says, And the Lord shall guide thee continually and satisfy thy soul and drought and make fat thy bones and thou shall be like a watered garden and like a spring of water whose waters fail not. You know, Jesus said that if you drink the water I give unto you, you shall never thirst and spring up the waters unto everlasting life. And so you can see how this stuff fits. And you say, Well, okay, well, go to Jeremiah chapter two. Okay, here's the thing, we're talking about the spirit being in your in your soul, the spirit being inside of you, well, you know, flowing rivers of living water, Jeremiah two and verse 13 says this, Jeremiah two and verse 13 says, For my people have committed two evils they have forsaken me the fountain of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns broken cisterns that can or can hold no water. So God is called the fountain of living waters. So is it a big thing when he's talking about the spirit of God living inside of you that it's your if you have the spirit inside you, it would be flowing over rivers of living water. And so anyway, that one's free. Anyway, I just wanted to show you those different verses to kind of show you okay, hey, you know, this does go back to the Old Testament. And you know, that's why the New Testament is so great, because it really just puts a lot of clarification when you're reading that you see the spirit in there, you see the waters mentioned, you see the soul mentioned and all this stuff. But it's not super clear when you're looking back there where Jesus comes in and says, Listen, the scripture said out of your belly shall flow rivers of living water. And he said he spake this of the Spirit. The key to see with this verse in chapter seven here is that the Holy Ghost was not given until Jesus was glorified, meaning that when he rose from the dead, and so the indwelling of the Holy Ghost didn't happen until after he rose from the dead. Go to John chapter 14, John chapter 14, and he talks about this again. But he's also showing you that the Holy Ghost was with you and the Holy Ghost was with people in the Old Testament. But the big difference between the Old Testament or even before the Old Testament with the order of Melchizedek is that he's going to be in you. So and more so that he's going to be dwelling in you and you're going to be the temple of the Holy Ghost. In John 14 verse 16, it says, And I will pray the Father and he shall give you another comforter that he may abide with you forever. Now notice that, he's going to abide with you forever. Even the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him, but ye know him, for he dwelleth with you and shall be in you. Notice when he's talking here in John chapter seven, he's saying he hasn't been given yet. So he's with you right now, but he's going to be in you. And it's going to be something that's going to happen when Jesus resurrects from the dead. Go to John chapter 20, so if you want to know three passages that really hone in on the indwelling of the Holy Ghost, it's John 7, John 14, and John 20. And so these passages really are just really showing you what that's talking about. When you go into Acts, you're more so dealing with the baptism of the Holy Ghost, you're more so dealing with the Holy Ghost coming upon you or being filled with the Spirit. And so this, John is really hitting on the fact that now in the New Testament when Jesus is glorified, the Holy Ghost is going to be in you. The Holy Ghost is going to be in your belly, and obviously it's talking about being inside of you. He's going to be abiding there forever. John chapter 20, and start there in verse 17 because that really just shows us, remember it says in chapter 7 that the Spirit wasn't given because Jesus was not yet glorified. Verse 17, this is where Mary turned herself unto Jesus, and notice what Jesus says in verse 17. Jesus saith unto her, Touch me not, for I am not yet ascended to my Father. But go to my brethren, and say unto them, I ascend unto my Father and your Father and to my God and your God. Mary Magdalene came and told the disciples that she had seen the Lord and that he had spoken these things unto her. And so right before what we're going to see here, where they're going to receive the Holy Ghost, Jesus had risen from the dead but he hadn't gone up to the Father yet. He hadn't ascended up to the Father, and why? Because he had to sprinkle the blood on the mercy seat, and remember the high priest could not be touched. And so that's a big deal with what we're talking about there. He hadn't finished what he had to do, he had to go up and put his blood on the mercy seat to apply to every single person that would believe on him. In verse 19, notice what it says, Then the same day at evening. So when Jesus rose from the dead, it was literally the same day that he gave them the Holy Ghost. I want you to see that, that it was literally the day that he rose from the dead, they're receiving the Holy Ghost. And so in verse 19, Then the same day at evening, being the first day of the week, when the doors were shut, where the disciples were assembled for fear of the Jews, came Jesus, and stood in the midst, and saith unto them, Peace be unto you. And when he had so said, he showed unto them his hands and his side, then were the disciples glad when they saw the Lord. Then said Jesus to them again, Peace be unto you, as my Father hath sent me, even so send I you. And when he had said this, he breathed on them, and saith unto them, Receive ye the Holy Ghost, whosoever sins ye remit, they are remitted unto them, and whosoever sins ye retain, they are retained. Notice this is before the baptism, this is before Pentecost. This is the first day that he rose from the dead. This is the third day, you know, he rose from the dead, and he gave, they received the Holy Ghost. We line up with John chapter 7, where it says that he spake this of the Spirit, and it says that which they that believe on him should receive. So notice what's the requirement to receive this, the Holy Ghost indwelling you? Belief. Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved. And he that, how about this verse? He that believeth on the Son of God hath the witness in himself. The Spirit is the witness of God. And we're going to get into that when we get into 1 John, I don't want to steal all my thunder with 1 John, because we're going to get into that as far as what's the Spirit's job here, and what we're dealing with there. So these three passages, if you want to know, okay, what's the indwelling of the Holy Ghost, those three passages are the ones that are really dealing with that. And 1 John, I think, gets into that too. And what you'll see with 1 John when we get in there tonight is that John is your guide. If you want to understand 1 John, the Gospel of John. That should be a no-brainer, because they're both the same person that wrote it, but it's still the Holy Ghost. It's God that wrote all that and authored all that. And so we see here that there's this indwelling. It happened the day that Jesus rose from the dead and he was glorified. He went up to the Father. He put his blood on the mercy seat, and for the sake of time I'm not going to Hebrews to show you all that, where he went into the holy place not made with hands, and not with the blood of others, but with his own blood. But we see that it happened the day that he rose from the dead. Not at Pentecost. Pentecost was 50 days later. That's what Pentecost means. And so 50 days later is when the baptism of the Holy Ghost happens. So do you see the separation there between the indwelling and the baptism of the Holy Ghost? And so go to 1 Corinthians chapter 3, and I just want to show you the Bible is very clear that our bodies are the temple of the Holy Ghost in the New Testament. Now if I went through every little detail about this I'd be here, I'd have to do this in a series, but when the veil went, when Jesus died on the cross, you know what the veil represented? It represented the Holy Ghost. It represented the fact that you could not go in to the holiest of all. But when that veil went, that means that we could go into the holiest of all. We have assurance and we can come boldly onto the throne of grace. And when that veil was rent, that's picturing the fact that, hey, the Holy Ghost is going to be given. And so obviously that veil was rent when Jesus died on the cross, and when he rose again and glorified, that's when the Spirit was given unto us. That's the comforter that he kept talking about. The fact that, hey, don't be basically saying don't sorrow from when I go because if I don't go then the comforter won't come. And so we look back to, I wish I was there on Jesus' day, Jesus is saying, hey, listen, I go to the Father and you should be rejoicing that I go to the Father because that means the comforter is going to come, the Holy Ghost is going to come. And so you think about the golden days back then, we're in the golden days when it comes to God's blessings and the Holy Ghost, the comforter that we have. The prophets before us didn't have the indwelling of the Holy Ghost like we have. And so 1 Corinthians chapter 3 and verse 16, notice what it says. 1 Corinthians chapter 3 verse 16, it says, know ye not that ye are the temple of God and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you? If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy for the temple of God is holy which temple ye are. Now this is a very important case and this is something that we shouldn't take lightly. But in the New Testament, when you believe on Jesus Christ, your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost. And so it's showing us, hey, he dwells here, he's in you, he's living inside of you right now as a believer. Go to 1 Corinthians chapter 6, 1 Corinthians chapter 6 and it's going to say it again. 1 Corinthians chapter 6, 1 Corinthians chapter 6 and verse 19, what, know ye not that your body is the temple, the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God and ye are not your own? For ye are bought with a price, therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit which are God's. And what we're going to see when we get into 1 John and just explaining certain things, and we talked about this with Romans and Romans about the old man, new man, right? How we have the new man is your spirit, your soul, right, and that's the one that's a child of God. Your old man is not a child of God. But the Holy Ghost is living inside of your body and he never goes away. And so that's something important to realize. And so go to 2 Corinthians chapter 6, another place where it says this, that ye are the temple of the living God. So in the Old Testament we had the temple of God, you know, the temple and the tabernacle and all that stuff and that represented where God's presence was at. And it doesn't change anything about salvation, it's just the fact that that's a physical realm to represent the spiritual and in the New Testament we don't have a temple. Now you could say, well, the church of God is the house of God, right? And that's the gathering of believers. But every single believer is the temple of the Holy Ghost. So that's what the Bible is teaching here. See the power that God has given unto us? He's made us kings and priests. Does that give you a little more weight onto it when you're the temple of the Holy Ghost and you're a priest of God? A royal priesthood at that. And so the New Testament is way better and that's why it calls it the better covenant, the better testament, which was established by better promises. And so I'm glad I'm in the New Testament. Not because I can eat bacon, I mean that's obviously up there on the charts, but above that is the Holy Ghost and, you know, that I'm a king and priest unto my Lord and all these different things. And we're going to get into the benefits of it, but in 2 Corinthians chapter 6 and verse 16, notice what it says, and it says, In what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? For ye are the temple of the living God. As God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them, and I will be their God, and they shall be my people. Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing, and I will receive you, and will be a father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty. And so three passages talking about the fact that we're the temple of the Holy Ghost. Now this is a New Testament thing and that's why Jesus said that the Spirit was not given until he was glorified. Now the New Testament started the moment he died, right, at the death of the testator. That's when the Old Testament stopped, the New Testament started, but he said, hey, you're not going to receive that Spirit until I'm glorified. And so that's when the Holy Ghost was received as far as the indwelling, because they believed obviously before he rose from the dead. The Bible is very clear that his disciples believed on him, but it has nothing to do with salvation, you know, as far as the Old Testament and New Testament. It just has to do with the administration of the New Testament. And so go to Isaiah chapter 59, and I just want to talk about the New Testament, and we covered this. I did the whole sermons on Old Testament versus New Testament, but I just want you to see this, that this is the big deal. This is the big deal dealing with the New Testament. And obviously Jesus coming and dying on the cross for our sins and being the propitiation for our sins is a big part of the New Testament, but here's the thing, he's the lamb slain from the foundation of the world. He was before ordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifesting these last times for you, meaning that he had already, it was as if he had already done it. He called those things with be not as though they were. And so he'd already did it in God's mind, and in his God's mind, he had already died for the sins of the whole world, but that's when he actually did it. And the New Testament is the everlasting covenant that goes on forever. Remember we talked about the order of Melchizedek, where Melchizedek was actually God, right? He was actually Jesus Christ before Moses, and he was fully God, and he appeared as a man. Then you had the Old Testament where you had the high priest that is fully man, not God at all. Then you had the New Testament where Jesus is God and man 100%. And so that picture and basically New Testament is the completion of all that. And so Isaiah 59, this is where the Zionists will never go to this, because when they go to Romans chapter 11, they're always quoting this saying, this is when Jesus is going to come, and there's going to be a third covenant with the Jews, and that's when he's going to save them all from their sins. Now this happened in the New Testament. This is talking about the New Testament. And so Isaiah 59 verse 20, it says, and the Redeemer shall come to Zion, and unto them that turn from transgression, and Jacob saith the Lord, ask for me, this is my covenant with them, saith the Lord, my spirit that is upon me, and my words which I have put in thy mouth shall not depart out of thy mouth, nor out of the mouth of thy seed, nor out of the mouth of thy seed seed, saith the Lord, from henceforth and forever. So the key with this, there's music coming from somewhere, the key is, is that, my dad can't hear, so it wasn't bad. The key that you see here is that the spirit, the spirit has got to be upon thy mouth and thy seed, and it's talking about the word of God as well, and thy seed seed from henceforth forever. That's the big thing that it's talking about with this covenant, right? But then you get into the Jeremiah chapter 31 where the new covenant is mentioned. So if you want to see where new covenant or the New Testament is mentioned or prophesied to come, it's in Jeremiah 31. So go to Jeremiah 31 and verse 31. Jeremiah 31 and verse 31, and so in the New Testament we see that he's going to pour out his spirit, and his spirit is going to be upon us and upon our seed from that generation henceforth forever is what it's talking about there. Jeremiah 31 and verse 31, it says, Behold the days come, said the Lord, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah, not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt, which my covenant they break, although I was an husband unto them, said the Lord. But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, said the Lord. I will put my law in their inward parts and write it in their hearts, and it will be their God, and they shall be my people, and they shall teach no more every man his neighbor and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord, for they shall all know me from the least of them unto the greatest of them, said the Lord, for I will forgive their iniquity and I will remember their sin no more. And so the big thing that you see here is that he's going to put his law into their inward parts and into their heart, but the big thing you see there is that it says that they shall teach no more every man his neighbor, saying, Know the Lord. Now knowing the Lord, and again, that's why this is a prerequisite to go into 1 John, because that's something that's brought up a lot. Hereby we do know that we know him if we keep his commandments. There's certain things in there, we're talking about knowing God. And so we're going to get into that, but this isn't talking about preaching the gospel. It's not saying you don't go around and preach the gospel and tell people to get saved. This is talking about the fact that you don't need anybody to teach you in the New Testament because the Holy Ghost will teach you. And so go to Hebrews chapter 8. Hebrews chapter 8 and Hebrews chapter 10 are quoting this passage in Jeremiah 31, and it gives us a little more clarity. Hebrews chapter 8 is really just quoting Jeremiah 31. When you go to Hebrews chapter 10, it's giving us a little more information as far as why that is. Why is it the fact that we're not going to teach every man his neighbor? What does that mean when it says that? So Hebrews chapter 8 verse 7, and I'm not going to read it all just because it's pretty much a quotation from Jeremiah 31, but Hebrews chapter 8 verse 7, notice what it says. It says, for if that first covenant had been faultless, then should no place have been sought for the second. For finding fault with them, he said, behold, the days come, said the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah. Notice that's why he made a new covenant. It's not because he broke his covenant, it's because they broke it, and he says, I'm making a new covenant. And so we see that the Old Testament was done away with. And notice in verse 11 is where we really see with the same thing that was said in Jeremiah 31. It says, and they shall not teach every man his neighbor and every man his brother, saying, no, the Lord for all shall know me from the least to the greatest. So that's a big point about the New Testament is this passage here. And we know we're talking about the New Testament. We're not talking about the millennium. We're not talking about the new heaven, new earth, because that would make sense, right? If you're in the new heaven, new earth, everybody's saved, we're all with God, where you'd say, we don't need to teach anybody the Lord because everybody should already know we see him as he is, right? But Hebrews chapter 10, go to Hebrews chapter 10. Here's the big key. Here's what I believe that's talking about. Hebrews chapter 10 and verse 15, notice what it says, wherefore the Holy Ghost also is a witness to us for that after he had said before, this is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, said the Lord, I will put my laws into their hearts and in their minds will I write them and their sins and iniquities will I remember no more. What covenant is he talking about? The new covenant. We just read that in Jeremiah 31, that's the same thing that said in Hebrews chapter 8. But notice what it says, the Holy Ghost is a witness to us. That's what that's talking about. And you say, well, prove to me that's what that's talking about. So we'll go to 1 John chapter 2, 1 John chapter 2. The Holy Ghost will teach us all things that we need to know. And for sake of time, I'm not going to go into why the anointing is the Holy Ghost, but it says we have an unction from the Holy One and you know all things. And that says that right before this. And 1 John chapter 2 and verse 26, it says, these things have I written unto you concerning them that seduce you. So he just got done talking about antichrists and all this stuff and he's saying, but the anointing which you have received of him abideth in you and you need not that any man teach you but as the same anointing teacheth you of all things and is truth and is no lie and even as it hath taught you, ye shall abide in him. Make sense? When it says that you shall not teach your neighbor saying no, Lord, for all shall know me. It's not saying that you don't need to try to know the Lord, it doesn't mean that you don't need to work on knowing the Lord yourself, it means the fact that you need not that any man teach you. That's what that's talking about. The Holy Ghost will teach you unto all things. Go to John chapter 14, we were just there. But that's the big thing about the Holy Ghost in the New Testament is that the Holy Ghost will teach you the Bible. The natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God. But we can compare spiritual things with spiritual things, we can understand the Bible. Why? Because we have the Holy Ghost inside of us. God who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets but hath in these last days spoken unto us by his son and not only that but now that we have the Holy Ghost inside of us we can understand all things. We don't need a prophet to interpret it for us, we don't need someone to explain it to us and have that revelation from God, we have the word of God, we have the mind of Christ and all we have to have is the Holy Ghost inside of us to teach us all things. Now obviously it says that his word was manifested through preaching. And so obviously I'm for preaching, I'm for hearing people preach and talk about the Bible and stuff like that but ultimately every single person that's sitting here in the auditorium today has to go back, look at the Bible and you and the Holy Ghost have to determine whether those things are so. Because it should not just be okay I'm going to take it for fact, I'm not even going to look into it. You know, the Holy Ghost should be convincing you of that. The Holy Ghost should say yes that's right or no that's not right because of this, this and this. And so that's the great thing about the New Testament and the one great, you know, if there's one big thing about the New Testament that I love about it is the Holy Ghost. The Holy Ghost is indwelling us, the Holy Ghost is teaching us all things and I can personally know everything about the Bible without anybody's help. Isn't that fantastic? Isn't that a good thing to know that you don't need anybody's help to know the Bible? And that doesn't mean that you shouldn't come to church and learn things because some people have taken hours and hours and hours to learn something and you can just get spoon fed so to speak, right? But still that doesn't mean, even if someone spoon feeds you something and says hey let me explain to you all this, that doesn't mean that you still need to go and study it yourself and just make sure that's right. And you're saying, even if I spoon, I could spoon feed you everything I know right now but you're still probably not going to grasp it all because it took me hours, days, years to learn a lot of stuff, right? And so you think I learned that all over night or in one preaching sermon, you know, like that's something that's going to take time. It's something that the Holy Ghost is going to have to, you know, work on you with. And so John chapter 14, this lines up perfectly. So if you're saying well is it anointing the Holy Ghost, well it says He's going to teach us all things and we need not that any man teach us. Notice John chapter 14 verse 26, but the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, He shall teach you all things and bring all things to your remembrance whatsoever I have said unto you. See how this all lines up, Isaiah 59 is talking about the Spirit is going to be upon you and His Word is going to be in your mouth from this generation, from henceforth forever. How about when we talk about the New Covenant, the fact is He's going to put His law into our hearts. Sound familiar? And then we're not going to need to say everybody knows the Lord because all shall know Him from the least of the greatest. Not everybody in the earth, everybody that's saved. And why is that? Because you need not that any man teach you but as anointing which you received to Him abideth in you and, you know, He'll teach you all things. That's what that's talking about. But isn't that a great thing to know about the Holy Ghost? And what's the requirement to get that belief on the Lord Jesus Christ? That's what it said in John chapter 7, to those that believe. That's who the Spirit's given. Out of His belly shall flow rivers of living water, this spakey of the Spirit unto those that believe. But it wasn't given yet at that point with them. Now obviously Jesus has already died and rose again from the dead so that's already accomplished, therefore the Spirit is given to us. Now that being in mind, now you go to Acts chapter 1 when we're dealing with the baptism of the Holy Ghost. So that shows you that this cannot be talking about the same thing. The indwelling of the Holy Ghost or the Holy Ghost being in you is different than the baptism of the Holy Ghost. And what we'll see from here is the baptism of the Holy Ghost is being filled with the Spirit or the Spirit coming upon you. Now I believe this baptism of the Holy Ghost is a special event. Why is it special? Because in the Old Testament when the Spirit of God, I'm going to get into passages where people were filled with the Spirit and the Spirit of God came upon them. So you can't say, well that's only New Testament, then how do you answer all these people that had the Spirit of God coming upon them? The special thing about that, think about that. They had the Spirit of God coming upon them when the Holy Ghost wasn't indwelling them. In the baptism of the Holy Ghost, the Spirit of God is coming upon them as the Holy Ghost is indwelling them. See how it adds a little more meat to it, adds a little more special event, is that the Holy Ghost is living inside them and then they're going to be baptized with the Holy Ghost. And obviously the baptism means immersion, you're being immersed in the Holy Ghost. And so Acts chapter 1, verse 1 there, and I know this is kind of deep, these sermons are going to be doctrinal sermons, but we need doctrinal sermons. We need to sharpen our swords, we need to know the truths about the Bible. And when someone comes up to you and when you're out soul-winding and say, well over here it says that when they laid their hands on somebody, they received the Holy Ghost, how do you answer that? Because there's a difference between being indwelled with the Holy Ghost and the Holy Ghost coming upon you. That's an easy answer, but do you see how there's a big difference between that? You're not always filled with the Spirit, but you're always indwelled with the Spirit. So that's the big key in Acts chapter 1, verse 1, that's what it says. The former treatise have I made, O Theophilus, of all that Jesus began both to do and teach until the day in which he was taken up, after that he through the Holy Ghost had given commandments unto the apostles whom he had chosen, to whom also he showed himself alive after his passion by many infallible proofs, being seen of them forty days, and speaking of things pertaining to the kingdom of God, and being assembled together with them, commanded them that they should not depart from Jerusalem, but wait for the promise of the Father, which saith he, Ye have heard of me. Now notice, he was with them forty days after they had received the Holy Ghost. And so notice the gap there. So it's not the same thing. And so what is he talking about, this promise of the Father? The Comforter, and the Comforter was given to them and indwelling them, but what was the promise? And John the Baptist said this, right? He said that I baptize you with water, but he that cometh after me, will baptize you with the Holy Ghost. That's what this promise, that's what he's going to say right here. And so there is a difference between that. And verse 5, it says, For John truly baptized with water, but ye shall be baptized with the Holy Ghost not many days hence. And I'm sorry, I might have even spoke there. The Comforter coming and being in you is something that was different than the baptism of the Holy Ghost, okay? And so that happened when Jesus rose from the dead. But this is talking about what John was saying, that he's going to baptize you with the Holy Ghost. Remember Jesus said, can you be baptized with the baptism that I'm baptized with and drink of the cup that I drink of? They said we are able. They said you shall be baptized with the baptism that I'm baptized with. What baptism? The Holy Ghost. And remember when Jesus was on the earth, when he was baptized with water, the Spirit of God came down upon him and abode upon him. And obviously Jesus did it before we did, okay? And he's the Son of God, so that's what that's talking about. Now it says that not many days hence because it's going to happen here soon. And we know Pentecost, we talked about the Feast of the Lord, basically it's 50 days later, you know, this is happening from his resurrection. Verse 6, and it says, And when they therefore were come together, they asked of him, saying, Lord, wilt thou at this time restore again the kingdom to Israel? And he said unto them, It is not for you to know the times or the seasons which the Father hath put in his own power, but ye shall receive power after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you. Now if you don't mind underlining in your Bible, you can underline where it says you shall be baptized with the Holy Ghost in verse 5, and notice what it says, talking about the same event, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you. And it says ye shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem and in all Judea and in Samaria and unto the uttermost part of the earth. So see, the baptism of the Holy Ghost is likened unto the Holy Ghost coming upon you. That's something that you'll see later on in Acts. Notice in Acts chapter 2 when this actually happens. So this is talking about this is what's going to happen. Acts chapter 2 is where it actually happens. Notice what it says, Acts chapter 2 verse 1. This is the day of Pentecost. Acts 2 verse 1 it says, 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. And there appeared unto them cloven tongues like as of fire, and it sat upon each of them, and they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and began to speak with other tongues, and as the Spirit gave them utterance. Notice those three things that are said there. You're baptized with the Holy Ghost, the Holy Ghost is coming upon you, and you're filled with the Holy Ghost. Those three things are used synonymously. So now when you see, okay, when it says that you're filled with the Spirit, what's that talking about? Is that talking about the indwelling? No, that's talking about a different type of event with the Holy Ghost. Or when the Spirit comes upon somebody. Because what we're going to see is that in the Old Testament there were people that were filled with the Spirit, and there were people that the Spirit of God came upon. So like we were talking about, when you're dealing with doctrine you can't contradict Scripture. So you can't say being filled with the Spirit or the Spirit of God come upon you is only a New Testament thing, because it would contradict other Scriptures. So by that, that's what you have to see is that the fact is this is something that happened in the Old Testament as well, but I believe there is more power to it in the New Testament because they didn't have the Holy Ghost living inside of them at that time. And it adds more to it, I believe, and that's why this is a special event. And obviously this is a special event because they were speaking with languages they didn't know themselves. And so when you deal with this day of Pentecost and people are always like, you know, we can speak in tongues and all this stuff, well first of all back then they were actually understanding what they were saying. So it's not this barking like a dog, foaming at the mouth, you know, being devil-possessed is what the tongues movement is today. But also what you have to understand is that this is something, these are signs and wonders that the apostles did that basically were kick-starting the New Testament, kick-starting, you know, what they were doing there. And so I don't believe that, I believe it could happen again. I'm not saying like this could ever happen again, okay? But what I'm saying is that when you think about the timeframe of like miracles that were done in the Old Testament, there's like hundreds, yay, thousands of years between some of these miracles that were done because people were risen from the dead, people were healed from leprosy, people were, you know, different things that were done that were done in the New Testament. In the New Testament it's just like, boom, all this stuff is being done by Jesus. And then after Jesus rose from the dead, it's kind of like if you think about Elijah did all this stuff and then Elisha had to prove his worth, you know, he needed to show, hey, the Spirit of Elijah is upon me and God is giving this special event with the baptism of the Holy Ghost to prove, hey, these guys are from me, right? Jesus isn't here anymore. He's up and he's sitting at the right hand of the Father and he has to have a way to show people, hey, my Spirit is on these, on these apostles, on these people that have followed me. And so he's validating if he can look at it that way. And so now it's already been validated. And so the fact is I don't believe that I'm going to go out and run to someone to speak Spanish and then the Spirit of God is going to come upon me and I'm going to start speaking Spanish, okay? I believe this is something that was going on at that specific time. And so that's what's special, I think, about the baptism of the Holy Ghost that was going on then. Because you don't really see that mentioned later on. You don't see about like, you know, be baptized with the Holy Ghost, it says be filled with the Spirit. And that's something that's happened from the very beginning to the end. And so you see those three things that are mentioned, but I want to show you in the Old Testament just some people that were either filled with the Spirit or the Spirit of God came upon them. And we're going to get into some really interesting stuff too with that. But go to Exodus chapter 31. And so I have these in order. Exodus chapter 31. And so I don't want to spend too much time, you know, going through all these. So if you can't keep up with them, if you need the references later, that's fine. This is talking about Bezalel. And this is where they were building the tabernacle. And that's what it says in Exodus chapter 31 and verse 1, it says, And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, See, I have called by name Bezalel, the son of Uri, the son of Her, of the tribe of Judah, and I have filled him with the Spirit of God in wisdom and in understanding and in knowledge and in all manner of workmanship. So Bezalel, the Bible says, was filled with the Spirit of God. Go to Judges chapter 3. Judges chapter 3. And actually Judges, it's just like, you know, the Spirit of God coming upon people left and right in the book of Judges. I'm not going to go through all of them. We're going to stop at David, okay? And I'm not going through every single mention of the Spirit of God coming upon somebody because we've been here for a while. But I just want to prove to you that this isn't the Old Testament. This is something that happened in the Old Testament. But Judges chapter 3 and verse 9, this is talking about Hothniel, and it says, And when the children of Israel cried unto the Lord, the Lord raised up a deliverer to the children of Israel, who delivered them, even Hothniel, the son of Kinesh, Caleb's younger brother. And the Spirit of the Lord came upon him, and he judged Israel, and went out to war, and the Lord delivered Cushan Rishanthaim, king of Mesopotamia, into his hand, and his hand prevailed against Cushan Rishanthaim. Say that five times fast. So Hothniel, the Spirit of God, came upon him. Go to Judges chapter 6. This is a very familiar character, Gideon. Judges chapter 6. So I don't want you to go out, you know, because if you get a real loose or simplified version as far as the Holy Ghost and all this stuff, what you're going to go out and say, well, that's all New Testament. Well, then someone's going to pull something like this out at you, and then you're going to be like, what in the world? How do I answer that? And so when you understand the difference between the indwelling and the Spirit coming upon somebody or being filled with the Spirit, it's easy, because that's happened from the beginning to the end. It's just the fact that the indwelling is what's different about the New Testament. In Judges chapter 6 verse 34, it says, but the Spirit of the Lord came upon Gideon, and he blew a trumpet, and Abiezer was gathered after him. In Judges chapter 11 verse 29, Judges chapter 11 verse 29, Judges chapter 11 verse 29, we're dealing with Jephthah. We talked about him when we were in a straight twix too, but it says, then the Spirit of the Lord came upon Jephthah, and he passed over Gilead and Manasseh, and passed over Amizbe of Gilead, and from Amizbe of Gilead he passed over unto the children of Ammon. So the Spirit of the Lord came upon Jephthah. So what did we see? In Judges so far, Othniel, Gideon, Jephthah, and actually Samson is the next one, go to Judges chapter 14, Samson and Saul, which we're not going to go to all these places, but Samson and Saul are two men that the Spirit of the Lord has mentioned coming upon them more than anybody else, as far as mentioning it. I'm not saying that that's true in history or something like that, but just from Bible mentioning is Samuel and Saul, or Samson and Saul, I'm sorry. And so I'm not going to show you all of them, but Judges 14 verse 5, it says, then went Samuel, I'm sorry, man, I keep calling him Samuel, Samson, then went Samson down and his father and his mother to Timnath and came to the vineyards of Timnath and behold a young lion roared against him and the Spirit of the Lord came mightily upon him and he rent him as he would have rent a kid and he had nothing in his hand, but he told not his father or his mother what he had done. So Samson ripped a lion in half through the Spirit of the Lord. And obviously we know all the stories, you know, with a jawbone of an ass, heaps upon heaps, you know, the Spirit of the Lord came upon him and he slew a thousand men. And so Saul, go to 1 Samuel chapter 10, 1 Samuel chapter 10, and what I want you to see, actually what we're going to see with Saul and David is something interesting dealing with the Holy Spirit. And by the way, the Holy Ghost is only mentioned in the New Testament, that phrase, the Holy Ghost, but it's the same thing as the Holy Spirit. Ghost and Spirit are the same word, they're just synonyms, okay? It's interesting that the New Testament is the only place that it ever uses ghost, you know, but it's the same thing. So when we're dealing with the Holy Spirit, Holy Ghost, we're talking about the same person of the Godhead. And so, but 1 Samuel chapter 10 verse 6, it says, And the Spirit of the Lord will come upon thee, and thou shalt prophesy with them, and shalt be turned into another man, and let it be when these signs are come unto thee, that thou do as occasion serve thee, for God is with thee. This is talking about Saul, and for sake of time I'm not going through the whole passage to find out where Saul is mentioned. But this is where Samuel is prophesying to him, saying, hey, you're going to prophesy with them. It says, Is Saul among the prophets? Because the Spirit of God came upon him. Now look at David in 1 Samuel chapter 16. So 1 Samuel chapter 16, this is where Samuel is going to anoint David to be king, and what I want you to see with this is something interesting dealing with Saul and David and how the Holy Ghost works, or how the Holy Spirit was working back then. And 1 Samuel chapter 16 and verse 13, it says, Then Samuel took the horn of oil and anointed him in the midst of his brethren, and the Spirit of the Lord came upon David from that day forward. So Samuel rose up and went to Ramah. Now what's interesting about this, so we see the Spirit of the Lord came upon Saul, the Spirit of the Lord came upon David, but right before, or right after it talks about it coming upon David, notice what it says in verse 14. But the Spirit of the Lord departed from Saul, and an evil spirit from the Lord troubled him. So the Spirit of the Lord, notice that he wasn't living inside of Saul, he wasn't dwelling in Saul. Now I believe Saul was saved, I'm not saying that he was unsaved, but you know that makes a little more sense when you read Psalm 51. Go to Psalm 51, dealing with David, because notice Saul had the Spirit of the Lord coming upon him, he was prophesying with them, but then the Spirit of the Lord departed from Saul. Why? Because he sinned and because he departed from the Lord. Psalm 51, if you know that Psalm is dealing with the fact that David had sinned, he had committed adultery and had Uriah killed. Psalm 51, we're not going to read the whole Psalm for sake of time obviously, but a very familiar passage. Notice in Psalm 51, starting there in verse 9, so Psalm 51 verse 9 it says, hide thy face from my sins, and blot out all mine iniquities. Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me. Take me not away from thy presence, and take not thy holy spirit from me. Why did he say that? Because it departed from Saul. Notice restore unto me the joy of thy salvation, and uphold me with thy free spirit. Then will I teach transgressors thy ways, and sinners shall be converted unto thee. There's a lot of information in this, but basically the joy of thy salvation, he doesn't say restore unto me my salvation. He didn't lose his salvation. But by taking the spirit of God away from him, or taking the holy spirit away from him, notice that he, because he's saying if you don't take it away from me, then I will teach transgressors thy way, and sinners shall be converted unto thee. Notice the key with the spirit of God coming upon you is the fact that you're going to teach transgressors their way. You know, you think about preaching, being filled with the spirit. Having a man of God that's filled with the spirit and preaching the word of God. But you also think about going out soul winning and being filled with the spirit, that the Lord would give you utterance, that you may open your mouth boldly to make known the mystery of the gospel. And that's why he's saying don't let your holy spirit depart from me. Not saying he would lose his salvation, but it's talking about that power of the spirit of God. You know, that's what we're talking about when we're talking about the being filled with the spirit. And I was just thinking about this, I didn't have it written down, adding things to sermons already long as it is. But in Micah, Micah 3, maybe it's 7, no it's 3, right? What verse is it that says that I'm full of power by the spirit? Verse 8. There we go. Thank you. I thought it was verse 7 and I was like looking above that. Verse 8 it says, but truly I am full of power by the spirit of the Lord and of judgment and of might to declare unto Jacob his transgression and to Israel his sin. And the link to that was Psalm 51. And so what does it mean to be filled with the spirit? You have power. You have the power of God upon you. Enough that Samson ripped a line in half. So obviously it can be a physical strength, but it can also be a spiritual strength as far as having boldness. Boldness to preach the word of God. Boldness to tell people their sins. And so we see that in the Old Testament. Now what's interesting about this now is that there's a reprobate that the spirit of God came upon. Go back to Numbers chapter 24. So when I was studying this, I was honestly, I was digging hard. I told Holly, I wrote this sermon and I was like, I don't have a headache, but my mind needs to stop thinking for a minute. Because I wanted to make sure that I wasn't preaching something that would contradict and I want to make sure I'm uncovering every stone when we're talking about this. When we're talking about the spirit of God coming upon somebody or being filled with the spirit. So this is interesting because actually, I'm going to show you two places in the New Testament there's a case like this. It doesn't say the spirit of God came upon them, but there's a case in the New Testament where something just like this happened like it did with Balaam. Now Balaam we know is a false prophet. We know he's a cloud without water because he's both in 2 Peter chapter 2 and in Jude talking about false prophets who crept in unawares. So there's no doubt that Balaam is a false prophet. But notice in Numbers chapter 24 in verse 2, it says in Balaam, lift up his eyes and saw Israel abiding in his tents according to their tribes and the spirit of God came upon him. And he took up his parable and said, Balaam the son of Beor hath said and the man whose eyes are open hath said, he hath said, which heard the words of God, which saw the vision of the Almighty falling into a trance, but having his eyes open, how goodly are thy tents O Jacob and thy tabernacles O Israel. And it goes on with this vision, but it's all a blessing and it's all something that God wants him to say. Now what's interesting about that, go to Deuteronomy 23 because Deuteronomy 23 gives us a little light as far as when you're reading through numbers you're like, is this guy like a saved guy that just, you know, just wants money? You know what I mean? Like he's just greedy, a filthy lucre kind of thing. But when the Bible talks about Balaam later on, it's very clear he was a soothsayer, he was a false prophet, and God, what we'll see here in Deuteronomy, it explains that a little bit. So Deuteronomy 23, starting there in verse 3, Deuteronomy 23 in verse 3 says, an Amorite or a Moabite shall not enter into the congregation of the Lord, even to their tenth generation shall they not enter into the congregation of the Lord forever, because they met you not with bread and with water in the way when you came forth out of Egypt, and because they hired against thee Balaam the son of Beor, of Pethor, of Mesopotamia, to curse thee. Nevertheless, the Lord thy God would not hearken unto Balaam, but the Lord thy God turned the curse into a blessing unto thee, because the Lord thy God loved thee. Every time Balaam was going up there to curse Israel, he wanted to curse Israel. God wouldn't let him, and God literally made him say what he wanted him to say. The Spirit of the Lord came upon him, it doesn't mean that he was saved, but the Spirit of the Lord came upon him and God turned his curse into a blessing every single time. And that's what it's talking about when he saw the words of God, and that's why he said it, can I not speak what he says, basically saying I can't speak anything but what he says, he won't let me say anything else. That's what's going on with Balaam, is that God took that reprobate and wouldn't let him curse. He wouldn't let him speak a curse against Israel. And so that's interesting, so he wasn't speaking of himself, and there's another man in the New Testament, I don't know if you ever really realized this, but Caiaphas. Caiaphas, go to John chapter 11, Caiaphas is the high priest when Jesus was crucified. Caiaphas is clearly a reprobate, and he actually prophesied something. It doesn't say that the Spirit of God came upon him, but I'd say it's probably the similar thing with Balaam, but it gives us a little more information as far as that it wasn't him saying it, meaning that it wasn't coming from him, his heart, it was coming from God. Notice what it says in John chapter 11, verse 49. John chapter 11, verse 49, it says, And one of them, named Caiaphas, being the high priest that same year, said unto them, Ye know nothing at all, nor consider that it is expedient for us that one man should die for the people, and that the whole nation perish not, and this spake he not of himself. But being high priest that year, he prophesied that Jesus should die for that nation, and not for that nation only, but that also he should gather together in one, the children of God that were scattered abroad. So the same thing with Balaam, right? He didn't speak of himself because God, the Spirit of God came on him and made him say what he needed to say. Okay, so it's interesting, it's an interesting passage, but I just wanted to show you that. So if you're looking up, the Spirit of God come upon you people, you're going to be like, oh, Balaam, you know, what in the world is going on with that? And that's why I think some people think Balaam was saved, but when you go to the New Testament, it's very clear Balaam was a reprobate, he's a reprobate. He's a false teacher, and he's in both 2 Peter and Jude in the hall of reprobates, the hall of false teachers, I would call it. You have Korah, you have Balaam, and who's the other one that's in Jude? I haven't memorized, but I'm like losing my train of thought, Cain, Cain also. And we know Cain was the wicked one, Korah, he's the one that went alive down into hell, the earth opened up and all that. So that shows us that in the Old Testament, now, the New Testament, I want you to see that the New Testament also confirms that the Holy Ghost was working with them. So even though the Holy Ghost isn't mentioned by name, meaning like the Holy Ghost, the Spirit's mentioned and it's the same person. And just to prove that, go to Acts chapter 1, and I'm going to show you that the New Testament confirms that the Old Testament people and prophets had the Holy Ghost coming upon them. The Holy Ghost was working with them, and even that the Spirit of Christ was in them. Now, not dwelling in them, right? Because we saw Bezalel, it says that he was filled with the Spirit and all this other stuff. So Acts chapter 1 verse 16 says, Men and brethren, this scripture must needs have been fulfilled, which the Holy Ghost by the mouth of David spake before concerning Jesus, which was guide to them that took Jesus. So we see that David spake by, it says that the Holy Ghost spake by the mouth of David. And so we know that the Psalms and all this stuff were by the Holy Ghost, and he spoke by the mouth of David. Go to 1 Peter chapter 1, and this is always interesting to me, and especially in understanding the indwelling and all this stuff of the Holy Ghost, because you look at this, you're like, what is that talking about? But when you understand the fact that the Spirit of God would come upon people and they need to depart from people. He'd come upon people and he'd fill people with his Spirit, but it's different than what we have now. Notice what it says in 1 Peter chapter 1 verse 10, Of which salvation the prophets have inquired and searched diligently, who prophesied of the grace that should come unto you, searching what or what manner of time the Spirit of Christ which was in them did signify, when it testified beforehand the sufferings of Christ and the glory that should follow, unto whom it was revealed that not unto themselves but unto us they did minister the things which are now reported unto you by them that have preached the gospel unto you, with the Holy Ghost sent down from heaven, which things the angels desire to look into. So notice the difference between now and then. The Spirit of Christ was in them testifying of these things, but it's different than the Holy Ghost indwelling you. Go to 2 Peter chapter 1, and this is a very familiar passage, 2 Peter chapter 1. I just want to show you that the Holy Ghost was working with people in the Old Testament. It's not like the Holy Ghost just came to be in the New Testament, and we're not modalists. The Son of God didn't come to be at Bethlehem's major, and the Holy Ghost didn't come to be when Jesus was glorified. He was always there. The Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters in Genesis chapter 1, and so let us make man in our image. It's very clear from the very beginning that the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost of these three are one, and the Father and the Son, the Son was there from the very beginning. And so, 2 Peter chapter 1 and verse 19, it says, And we have also a more sure word of prophecy, whereunto ye do well that ye take heed as unto a light that shineth in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day star arise in your hearts, knowing this first, and no prophecy of the scriptures of any private interpretation. For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man, but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost. Notice in the old time, holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost. The Holy Ghost moved on every single person that ever wrote the Bible, and that was always there. But they didn't have the indwelling until now, the promise of the Father that you come. This isn't talking about a salvation issue, the indwelling of the Holy Ghost, because obviously everybody before the New Testament, if they died, they'd go to heaven and it was all by faith. But it's a different ministration on how it works. We have something that's way better now, and that's what Jesus, that's what Hebrews is talking about. It's better, it's better, it's better, it's better. Back then, you had to make all these sacrifices to get right with God. Now you come boldly unto the throne of grace. Now we confess our sins, and He is faithful and just to forgive us his sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness, and so that's what this is talking about. So the Holy Ghost, the one thing that I, you know, as far as a prerequisite to go in the first John, is that the Holy Ghost never leaves you. The Holy Ghost, you know, the Spirit of God would depart from Saul, the Spirit of God would depart from David, but now in the New Testament, the Holy Ghost never leaves you. He's always abiding in you. Jesus said He'll abide in you forever, right? That's what He kept saying about the Holy Ghost. So when we go in the first John, that's where you're going to see, you're going to see this abiding of Christ, and you're going to see this abiding of the Father and all this stuff, but the key is that the Spirit never leaves you. The Holy Ghost is always in you, and there's a difference between abiding in God and Him abiding in you and the Holy Ghost indwelling you, okay? And so, it's going to be deep, okay? Not all of it. There's passages in there that are not that deep. They're simple to understand, but there's going to be passages, and I'm going to have to say this up front, you're going to have to put your thinking caps on. You're going to have to think about some stuff, and you're going to have to think about this idea as far as the Holy Ghost is inside of you. The Holy Ghost is bearing you witness. The Spirit of God beareth witness with our spirit that we are the children of God, and we're going to get into all that information. It has nothing to do with whether you're saved or lost, okay, or whether you're a believer or not a believer, or you're going to go to heaven or hell. The whole book is not about that, okay? But go to John chapter 7 again, that same passage that we were looking at. I just want to just nail this down. How do you get indwelled with the Holy Ghost? Is it by laying on of hands? Is it by being baptized? Is it by speaking in some gibberish tongues? No. Is it by speaking in some other language that you don't, you know, like is that what it's talking about? Is it talking about the Spirit of God coming upon you? Is it talking about being filled with the Spirit? Because that's a commandment that's given to us is be not drunk with wine, but be filled with the Spirit. If that's a commandment that we're supposed to be doing, it doesn't make sense that that would only just be applying to all believers because there's a difference between being indwelled with the Holy Ghost and being filled with the Spirit. But in verse 39 of John chapter 7, notice just if you don't mind underlining in your Bible it says, but this spake he of the Spirit which they that believe on him should receive. That's the requirement. Remember we said again, he that believeth on the Son hath the witness in himself. That's present tense. The moment you believe, you have the witness in yourself. You didn't have to wait 50 days, okay? That's why the baptism of the Holy Ghost is different. Go to Ephesians chapter 1, Ephesians chapter 1. And so this is the last point, but this is the point that I want to get across is that the Spirit of God, when the Holy Ghost moves in, he's not going anywhere, okay? He's staying there and there's no leaving. And so he's abiding in us. And so, but this really just solidifies too the difference between, I mean the fact that there is a trinity, okay, and there is a difference between the Son and the Spirit as far as their jobs and what they do, okay? But Ephesians chapter 1 verse 13 it says, In whom ye also trusted, after that ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation. In whom also after that ye believed, ye were sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise, which is the earnest of our inheritance, until the redemption of the purchased possession unto the praise of his glory. You're talking about the body. So we're talking about the fact that our soul has the Holy Ghost and we're perfect, we're sealed. The soul will die, the soul and the Spirit is going to go into heaven and that's the earnest because the body is going to rise eventually. And so, but it's sealed unto the day of redemption, sealed. And in Ephesians chapter 4 and verse 30 talks about that again. But notice this, because the Holy Ghost never leaves your body, that's why you can grieve it. Think about it, if the Holy Ghost can't leave your body but you're still sinning, that's why you're grieving it because the Holy Ghost is there as you're sinning and he's in you and you're sinning. That's why it's a big deal in the New Testament that we need to keep clean our bodies, we need to flee fornication, we need to do all these things because it's a big deal because the Holy Ghost is there. And notice in Ephesians chapter 4 verse 30 it says, and grieve not the Holy Spirit of God whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption. Put a little more weight on that when the fact that you know that the Holy Ghost can't leave you, the Holy Ghost is inside of you, sealed unto you and when you sin you're grieving him because he's staying there as you're sinning. And so 2 John, go to 2 John, this doesn't flat out say the Holy Ghost but I believe that's what it's talking about. So you're going to 2 John, I'm going to read to you John 14 again and John 14 it says, even the Spirit of truth, or I'm sorry, I'm sorry, John 14 verse 16 it says, and I will pray the Father and he shall give you another comforter that he may abide with you forever. Even the Spirit of truth whom the world cannot receive because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him but ye know him for he dwelleth with you and shall be in you. Notice the fact that it's forever and he's called the Spirit of truth. That's something that keeps being brought up, the Spirit of truth, truth, truth. 2 John verse 1 there it says, the elder unto the elect the lady and her children whom I love in the truth and not I only but also all they that have known the truth for the truth's sake which dwelleth in us and shall be with us forever. I believe that's talking about the Spirit of truth that's dwelling in us and shall be with us forever. And so the last verse, Hebrews chapter 13, notice what it says in Hebrews chapter 13. And obviously I know this, when it comes to the fact that forever we're going to be with the Father, Son and the Holy Ghost and eventually we're going to be perfectly abiding with Him and all this stuff. But right now we have the flesh. Right now we have the body, we have the old man that's still here with us and the Holy Ghost is kind of like that he's sticking around and if you walk in the Spirit, Christ is going to abide with you. If you walk in the Spirit, the Father is going to abide in you. But if you're sinning, it says, He doesn't abide in those that sin. That's what we're going to get into in 1 John so I know it's going to get a little higher on the shelf. But Hebrews chapter 13 verse 5 it says, let your conversation be without covetousness and be content with such things as you have for He hath said I will never leave thee nor forsake thee. The Holy Ghost is never leaving you. When you believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, you have the witness, you have the Holy Ghost inside of you and He's never leaving you. Even when you die, the Holy Ghost is going with you. Because to be asked for the body to be present with the Lord and the Holy Ghost is remaining with you that whole time. So He'll never leave thee nor forsake thee and that's the big difference. When you think of the indwelling of the Holy Ghost versus the baptism of the Holy Ghost, those are two different things. Obviously you're dealing with the same person, right? It's still the same person. So the Holy Ghost is indwelling you, living inside of you. But when that baptism of the Holy Ghost happened, it was this big, it was this power. You're going to receive power from on high. You notice that with the Spirit of God coming upon them. They receive power. And so that's what that's talking about. So when you go through, and I didn't get through all the passages, for sake of time obviously because I don't have enough time to do that, but if you go through Acts now and you read all these passages where they came down and they put their hands on them and they received the Holy Ghost, what's that talking about? Well they already believed and were baptized in those places so it's talking about being filled with the Spirit. They would pray and the Holy Ghost would come upon them. They'd pray for boldness, right? The Holy Ghost would come upon them. Other places they would do other things. The prerequisite though for that to happen is you need to be a believer in the New Testament as far as you're indwelling with the Holy Ghost, now you're going to receive the power of the Holy Ghost. And so with the exception of those cases with Balaam and Caiaphas who God prophesied through, I believe in the New Testament we're not going to be really dealing with that. I don't think that Benny Hinn is going to start prophesying for God or these false teachers that are out there because I believe now with the fact that Jesus has been glorified, that's done away. And Caiaphas was back before that. When he said that, that was before Jesus died on the cross. That was still in the Old Testament. And so being filled with the Spirit, that's the bonus. If you want to think of it that way, being filled with the Spirit is kind of a bonus on top of you. You've already got the Holy Ghost indwelling you, but if you want to have the power of the Holy Ghost upon you, then you better be doing a lot of other things too. And that's what 1 John is really about. That's what 1 John is really talking about and there's different things that that book was written for and we're going to get into that in our study on the evening. So hopefully all that made sense, I know it's deep, but the indwelling of the Holy Ghost, that's a New Testament thing, that's something that applied. As soon as Jesus was glorified, he breathed on his disciples and they received the Holy Ghost and from that point on anybody that would believe on Christ immediately was the Holy Ghost indwelling. That they were sealed on this day of redemption with the Holy Ghost, the Spirit of promise, the Spirit of truth that will abide with you forever. And that's a great thing to know, is that he'll never leave you nor forsake thee and we need nothing any man teach us. So that's a lot of good stuff that happened when Jesus was glorified. That's why he said that you need to rejoice, because truly there's something to rejoice about. So that's not what the Word of Prayer is to your Heavenly Father, but we thank you for this morning and I pray that you'd be with us as we fellowship and also with the soul winning and Lord just pray that you'd give us your power, fill us with your Spirit as much as possible. Help us to live for you, to keep your commandments, to be close to you, to get sent out of our lives and so that you can work through us and Lord that we can see that great power working in our lives and Lord we love you and thank you for the promise of eternal life. We thank you for abiding in us and that you're living inside of us and Lord we just love you and pray in Jesus Christ's name, Amen.