If you would like to take out your bible and turn to the gospel of Luke, Luke chapter 24. We're gonna start reading in verse 25 here in just a second. Luke chapter 24 and verse 25. As we continue our class on the Holy Spirit, we are three classes in and I have enjoyed this immensely. I am looking forward to continuing to think about and consider the Holy Spirit to answer some of your questions.

We've answered some already. We have more to answer, but continue to lay some groundwork to answering those other questions this evening and next week. And then two weeks from now, we're really gonna have to start getting into the nitty gritty of some of these things. But what I really want us to do is have this good framework, good foundation upon which we can build our conclusions. So let's begin as we customarily do with the word of prayer, if you'll bow with me please.

Dear God, our father in heaven, thank you so much for this day of life that you've given us. Thank you for the blessings that you just shower upon us and we're grateful for those things. But we're also mindful of those who are going through the valley of the shadow of death and going through difficulties and though there are still blessings to be found, sometimes they're a little harder to see and so I pray for all of us Father that we would be blessed in our giving, blessed in our receiving, that we would be there for one another, that we would uphold one another, do what we can to support one another as we all seek to love you and follow after the example of your son. I pray that we would follow the direction of the Holy Spirit, that we would understand correctly what he communicated, through the apostles, that we might have the spirit in us, that we might walk according to the spirit and follow after the spirit and I pray father as we continue to study those concepts that we would make right application to our lives so that we might be more who you've called us to be in all of these ways.

And it's in Jesus' name we pray, amen. Okay. So we did take a week off, we had a singing and so just by way of quick reminder, kind of the... Let's try this again. Okay.

So kind of the thing that I've been going off of and some of you said that you found this helpful. Others of you have not said that, so I'll just assume it was very helpful to you as well. I've been going based on these kind of three boxes that I've got a box with what I know. I can drive a stake in the ground, I know this to be true. What I think I know, I'm pretty confident about this.

I've studied it, I think I know it, but maybe you know, don't have that same level of confidence. Maybe there's some good arguments to be made on the other conclusion besides the one I've drawn, or maybe it's not quite as important and so I'm willing to kinda let it go, in some ways even though I think I know what the right answer is. And then there are a lot of things that I don't know, some of those things I'm studying, hopefully I'm moving things, a box over as I can, but I also acknowledge as we all should, there's gonna be a bunch of things in this box that I just I can't take out of there because God has not fully revealed those things to us. And so as we think about that, here's what I want us to review from our last three classes, just some of those things in that first box what we know so far. Here's where we're drawn, where we're driving a stake into the ground, if we know this then everything else that we interpret should come in light of what we know.

So we know the spirit is deity. We know the spirit is person. I think some people got hung up on that word person a little bit because we think about a person, we think about a human being. I'm really saying the spirit is his own entity. He's his own being, not just a manifestation of the father or the father's will in some way.

So the Holy Spirit is person and the Holy Spirit is distinct from both God the father and God the son, and yet God is one. Unity of mind and thought and purpose. We use some examples like this idea of a husband and wife being one flesh with one another, the church being made up of many members and yet we're all one body, and then also this idea that they share the Godhead, right? The divine nature and so they're one in that sense and however we end up coming down on this, we have to affirm what the bible says that God is one, the spirit, the father and the son are one. Here's the next thing I would say, the New Testament uses spirit in several ways.

I don't think that's controversial. We identified 11 different ways that that New Testament word is used. Next week, we're gonna talk about the Old Testament word of Ruach or Ruach, and the different ways that it's used in very similar ways in the Old Testament, but we see this new this New Testament word is used in several different ways, and what we have to do is rely on the context in which it's used. Sometimes that's easy. Holy Spirit.

Talking about the Holy Spirit. Other times, that's much more difficult to determine and then harmony with other passages, we're gonna do a little bit of that kind of work tonight to say, okay, other passages give us some insight into what's being talked about here to determine which sense that word spirit is being used. And if we do that, we're gonna be well on our way to better understanding but mixing up these usages can cause us to draw incorrect conclusions and make incorrect applications. So we go from knowledge to conclusions that we draw from that and then applications we make to everyday life. If we're starting with wrong knowledge as to which spirit is being used, that's gonna lead us down the wrong path.

So that's not just a an intellectual exercise which make memes of the teacher. That is something that is actually really important if we're gonna understand correctly, what is God communicating to us? And who is the spirit and what is his work. We have to make sure that it is the spirit being talked about. Now, this is what I want us to think about tonight and I have what we know so far in the context of that last thing.

The New Testament uses spirit in several ways, we've got to be careful with context and harmony to determine how it's being used, and mixing up those usages will cause us to draw incorrect conclusions and make incorrect applications. I wanna suggest something that I think I know tonight and then this is gonna be the basis of our study tonight. And it is very similar in terms of application to what we talked about with the different uses of the word spirit. There is very clearly a difference in what was promised and received by the apostles, and what was promised and received by other christians. Now, don't misunderstand me in that, I think the apostles received everything that other christians received but other Christians did not receive everything that the apostles received.

And we must use context and harmony to determine who is receiving what promises as it relates to the holy spirit. So give me a thumbs up, not that you agree necessarily, but that you're following what I'm saying with that. Okay. And to me, I think this is very clear but that's what we're gonna try and establish tonight. And I think the application really the same, mixing up these promises in order, in other words, promises specifically to the apostles to all Christians can cause us to draw incorrect conclusions and make incorrect applications about the working of the Holy Spirit in our lives and in our hearts today.

So, our thing that we're studying tonight, the thing that I think where we need to draw a stake in the ground is, we need to understand what we're talking about as it relates to the spirit and the apostles. Now, we're gonna be in Acts chapter one here in just a second and have an activity with that. But where I'd like to start before we get into Acts chapter one, is in Luke chapter 24. Now, why is this important? Why is this idea important?

Well, again, we're gonna make wrong applications if we aren't starting in the right place, but think about some of those questions, some of those big questions that you've submitted, some of the topics that we said we're gonna study over the course of this quarter. Baptism of the Holy Spirit. The miraculous works of the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit working in every Christian and the Holy Spirit dwelling in every Christian. All of those topics are impacted by our understanding of this one and differentiating between the apostles and what they received and were promised, and what all christians receive and were promised.

Makes sense? Alright. Let's start there in Luke chapter 24. Luke chapter 24 and verse 25. This is after Jesus is raised and he appears to two disciples, unnamed disciples on the road to Emmaus, about seven miles journey from Jerusalem.

They're talking, Jesus appears to them but they don't know it's Jesus. He says, hey, what are you all talking about? They're like, have you been living under a rock? You know, are you the only one who hasn't heard about all of these things that have that have happened? Jesus of Nazareth.

And we thought he was gonna be the Messiah and yet he was crucified, but now there are some from our number who've come saying he's raised from the dead, all these sorts of things. And in verse 25, he said to them, oh foolish ones, and slow of heart to believe in all that the prophets have spoken. Ought not the Christ to have suffered these things and to enter into his glory? Why are you surprised by this? This is what the prophets said were gonna happen.

And beginning at Moses and all the prophets, he expounded to them and all the scriptures the things concerning himself. Now I've said before, if I could be present for any sermon, any bible study that had ever taken place in the history of the world, I think it would be this one. As Jesus himself explains the old testament and how the old testament pointed to him. So verse 28, when they drew near to a village where they were going, he indicated he would have gone further but they constrained him saying, abide with us for it is toward evening and the day is far spent and he went in to stay with them. Now it came to pass as he sat at the table with them, that he took bread, blessed and broke it and gave it to them and their eyes were opened and they knew him.

Jesus. Poof. And he vanished from their sight. And they said to one another, did not our heart burn within us when he talked to us on the road and while he opened the scriptures to us? Their hearts burned within them because of what Jesus was communicating to them from the scriptures.

And if we drop down a little further, later on in Luke chapter 24 and verse 44, this applies more directly to the apostles. Then he said to them, these are the words which I spoke to you all, spoke to you while I was still with you that all things must be fulfilled which were written in the law of Moses and the prophets and the Psalms concerning me. And he opened their understanding that they might comprehend the scriptures. How did he open their understanding? Doesn't say.

We don't know with absolute certainty. Certainly Jesus could have worked miraculously to open their understanding but how did he open the understanding of the two men on the road to Emmaus? He taught them from the scriptures the things concerning himself. And he said to them, thus it is written and thus it was necessary for the Christ to suffer and to rise from the dead the third day, and that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his name to all nations beginning at Jerusalem and you are witnesses of these things. Behold, I send the promise of my father upon you, but tarry in the city of Jerusalem until you are endued with power from on high.

So Luke is bringing to a close volume one of the story of Jesus. And in this first volume, he ends with Jesus opening their understanding that they might comprehend the scriptures and promising that the Holy Spirit, the promise of my father, the Holy Spirit was gonna come upon them in Jerusalem. Now, how cool would it be? How cool would it be if in this study, our study of the Holy Spirit, if Jesus himself could give the interpretation of all of these passages? I mean that would be incredible, wouldn't it?

And what I wanna suggest this evening is in some ways, he has done that. That the that the scriptures are able to interpret themselves when we put them in the context of other scriptures teaching about the same thing. And I think Luke does exactly that as he begins the book of Acts. Now, weeks and weeks ago, I want you to turn to Acts chapter one now. We're about to have our activity.

Weeks and weeks ago, I was talking to Stephanie and trying to say, I was working through all of my study and trying to say, how am I gonna present this? How am I gonna teach this? And I said, what I'm tempted to do is just start in Acts chapter one and two and go backwards and forwards from Acts chapter one and two because that's kind of the zenith of the coming of the Holy Spirit and the Holy Spirit comes there and it was promised he was gonna come and he was working in some ways to bring about that coming and then everything after that is looking back to his coming and what happened there. So we're not gonna design the whole class that way, but we do wanna kind of do that this evening. Okay.

So let's look there beginning in Acts chapter one. I think what we find here is Jesus interpreting many of the things that have already taken place in Luke and John, their gospels, and some of the things that are going to take place in the book of Acts. And what book of the New Testament deals with the Holy Spirit far more than any other in our New Testament? I know I hadn't asked a question really yet, so you're not used to it. What book?

The book of Acts. Far and away deals with the Holy Spirit and the working of the Holy Spirit than any other book in our New Testament. So, let's look there in Acts chapter one and if you wanna take out your handout, you can look and read along there. That's New King James, that's what I'm reading from. You wanna read along in your own translation, that's fine.

And then we're gonna have some questions that we answer from this reading. So read with me, Acts chapter one beginning in verse one. The former account I made, oh Theophilus, of all that Jesus began both to do and to teach. We call that former account what? The gospel of Luke.

Until the day in which he was taken up, after he through the Holy Spirit had given commandments to the apostles, who did he give commandments to? The apostles whom he had chosen, to whom he also presented himself alive, To whom did he present himself alive? The apostles. Obviously there were others too, but Luke's making a point here. After his suffering by many infallible proofs being seen by them during forty days and speaking of the things pertaining to the kingdom of God.

And being assembled together with them, he commanded them not to depart from Jerusalem but to wait for the promise of the father which he said, you have heard from me. For John truly baptized with water, but you shall be baptized with the holy spirit not many days from now. Now, we'll address baptism of the holy spirit specifically, but this is a good precursor to that discussion. He says, you're gonna be baptized with the Holy Spirit not many days from now. Therefore, when they had come together, they asked him saying, Lord, will you at this time restore the kingdom to Israel?

Now, let's not get tripped up by this question that they ask. Some people really dog on the apostles for asking this question saying, oh, they still have a really physical mindset. I think probably what they're doing is Jesus had spent all of this time telling them about how Moses and the prophets and the Psalms spoke concerning him, I think probably their understanding correctly in terms of what the kingdom was and how the Jews were gonna be involved in that, and restoring not a physical kingdom but the spiritual kingdom that was coming. That's my judgment, let's not get tripped up on it. Verse seven, and he said to them, it is not for you to know the times or seasons which the father has put in his own authority.

But, here's what you do need to know, you shall receive power when the holy spirit has come upon you and you shall be witnesses to me in Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria and to the end of the earth. So if you have your hand out there, I'm gonna give you a couple of minutes to answer these questions. Who was to receive this promise? Where were they to receive it? When were they to receive it?

Why were they to receive it? What were they to do when they received the baptism of the Holy Spirit? I don't have a how up there, sorry. Okay. If you and your partner or neighbor have both finished up, you can kind of share and check your answers so everybody's really confident.

I'll start. Okay. So Harold asked me a question. A little tongue in cheek, maybe. He said, is it fair to say that the holy spirit has revealed these question...

These answers to these questions to us? Absolutely, that's fair to say. I think the holy spirit certainly has revealed these things to us because he was the one who inspired Luke to write them down. Luke wrote them down. Now we're reading them.

So let's see if we can answer these questions. Who specifically was to receive this promise? The apostles. Now, how do we know that? Okay.

Blah blah blah. The context. Okay. What in the context tells us it's the apostles? Well, we've got pronouns, right?

You. What is the antecedent, I think, is the right word for for that those pronouns? Well, in verse two, the spirit... Through the holy spirit had given commandments to the apostles whom he had chosen and being assembled together with them, verse four, and commanding them not to depart from Jerusalem, he said to them, what you have heard from me and of course we know that they did hear that from him as we see back there in the Gospel of John. Now, we keep reading, think we find the same thing.

Keep reading in verse nine. Now when he had spoken these things while they watched, he was taken up and a cloud received him out of their sight. And while they looked steadfastly toward heaven as he went up, behold two men stood before them in white apparel and also said, men of Galilee, who was referred to as men of Galilee? The apostles. Why do you stand gazing up into heaven?

This thing Jesus who was taken up from you into heaven will also come in like manner as you saw him go into heaven. Then they, we assume the apostles, but now we're gonna know, returned to Jerusalem from the mount called Olivet, which is near Jerusalem, a Sabbath day journey and when they had entered, they went into the upper room where they were staying, who is the they? The apostles, Peter, James, John, and Andrew, Philip, and Thomas, Bartholomew, and Matthew, James the son of Alphaeus, and Simon the Zealot and Judas the son of James. These all, these apostles continued with one accord in prayer and supplication and now they're with the women and Mary the mother of Jesus and with his brothers. What Luke is trying to make very clear to us, starting in verse two, going down all the way through verse 13, is showing us these are the apostles and the apostles are the ones to whom this promise of baptism in the Holy Spirit and the things that come with it were made.

Okay. Where were they to receive this promise? In Jerusalem. When were they to receive it? Yeah.

Not many days from now is what he says. We look forward to Acts chapter two as the day of Pentecost. That's probably ten days later. There's a little bit of discussion about exactly the timeline here but it seems as though we know there's fifty days, from an offering that's made at the Sabbath after the Passover until the day of Pentecost. Jesus appeared for forty days from his resurrection that would put us ten days out from the day of Pentecost in all likelihood.

Again, there's a little debate against this, about this calendar, but it's ten days or less into the future, that these things are gonna take place. So not many days hence, not many days from now. Why were they gonna receive it? What was the purpose is this gonna serve? What what purpose is this gonna serve?

What are they gonna be doing? Yeah. So the Holy Spirit's gonna be assisting the apostles as they preach the word. The specific phrase he uses of what they're gonna be is what? They're gonna be what?

Witnesses. Right? So witnesses are preaching. They're testifying of the things that they have seen and that they heard. Anybody in here ever been a witness?

Okay. We've got a few witnesses. What are you asked to do when, I assume that you were not an expert witness but maybe you were. Were you an expert witness or just a witness? Okay.

So what are you asked to do when you're called to the stand? Okay. Did you see something? What did you see? Tell us what you saw.

Right? And is that fair? Incident or something happened. Yeah. You saw something that happened, you saw that incident, now you're being called forth to testify about what you saw.

Now I don't know about you know, sometimes in my relationships with people, maybe with Stephanie, maybe with others, you know, there's a little bit of debate about exactly what happened, you know. What exactly was was the testimony that we're given about the way things went down. Wouldn't it be nice in those instances if you had a helpful source to remind you of all the things that you saw and heard? If you're a witness and you forget something, wouldn't it be nice to have somebody reliable who could remind you of those things? Yeah.

Stephanie says she didn't forget. Well, can't be true of all of us. Well, what purpose did the holy spirit serve in that way? Well, he was promised to remind them, bring to their remembrance all the things that they saw and that they heard. And Jesus did that.

He did that through the Holy Spirit, remind them of the things that they saw and heard. So what were they to receive when they received this baptism of the Holy Spirit? Power. Yeah. They're gonna receive power to be witnesses and to receive power from on high.

These are the promises and this is what Luke's interpretation is of all those promises that we read about in the end of the gospels and what's about to happen in Acts chapter two. So we look backwards, we look forward, this is what Luke says is going down. Oh, let's first look backward and then we'll look forward from this interpretation. We're gonna deal again with baptism of the Holy Spirit in a subsequent class, but for now let's focus on the Holy Spirit and the Apostles. Let's look backward first.

Go to chapter 13. John chapter 13. Let's start there in verse one. John chapter 13 and verse one. Now before the feast of the Passover, when Jesus knew that his hour had come, he should depart from this world, the father having...

Depart this world to the father, having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end. Who were his own that he loved to the end? Well, the apostles. Now how do we know that? Well, Luke chapter 22 and verse 14 and describing the same scene in that upper room specifically says that the apostles were the ones who were with him.

That's Luke chapter 22 and verse 14. So the apostles are there with him. He washes their feet and so on and so forth. I want us to read a few, verses that I think are interesting to help us to see that that's who it is that's here on this occasion. Read verse twenty five and twenty six of chapter 14 with me.

John fourteen twenty five and twenty six. So 13 through 17, all the same scene, the same occasion. Okay? So chapter 14 and verse 25, these things I have spoken to you while being present with you. Who is that?

The apostles. But the helper, who is that? The Holy Spirit, very next word, whom the father will send in my name, he will teach you, who? Apostles all things and bring to your remembrance all the things that I said to you. He goes on to say, peace I leave you and so on and so forth.

Let's go to chapter 15 and verse 26. Chapter 15 and verse 26. But when the helper comes, who is the helper? Holy Spirit, whom I shall send to you from the father, the spirit of truth who proceeds from the father, he will testify of me. Now what were they supposed to be in Jerusalem and Judea and Samaria and all the earth?

Witnesses. And what do witnesses do? Testify. The Holy Spirit's here to help you testify and you also will bear witness because you have been with me from the beginning. Who is that?

The apostles. Alright. Drop down to chapter 16. Start there in verse five. But now I go away, Jesus says, to him who sent me and none of you asked me where are you going?

But because I have said these things to you, sorrow has filled your heart. Nevertheless, I tell you the truth, it is to your advantage that I go away for if I do not go away, the helper will not come to you. Who's the helper? Holy Spirit. Who's you?

The apostles. But if I depart, I will send him to you and when he has come, he will convict the world of sin and of righteousness and of judgment, of sin because they do not believe in me. Of righteousness because I go to my father and you see me no more. Of judgment because the ruler of this world is judged. I still have many things to say to you but you cannot bear them now.

Well, when was he gonna give them those things? Well, some of those things he was gonna give to them, after his resurrection, right? So he's opening their understanding. The rest of those things he didn't give to them on Pentecost when the Holy Spirit comes. Okay?

However, when he, the spirit of truth has come, he will guide you into all truth. For he will not speak of his own authority but whatever he hears, he will speak and he will tell you things to come. He will glorify me for he will take of what is mine and declare it to you. All things that the father has are mine, therefore I said that he will take of mine and declare it to you. And then go to chapter 17 starting in verse 12.

Chapter 17 starting in verse 12. This is Jesus' prayer, and he's praying for those disciples who are gathered there with him and we see who those disciples are starting in verse 12. While I was with them in the world, I kept them in your name. Those whom you gave me, I have kept and none of them is lost except the son of perdition that the scripture might be fulfilled. Did Jesus lose any disciples over the course of his ministry?

Any disciples? Followers. Did he lose any followers over the course of his ministry? Can you think of any examples of that? Sorry.

Lots of people had good answers. I didn't hear any of them. Okay. He raised him from the dead. That's a physical loss.

Right? Did he lose any of them spiritually? Were they... They followed him no more, the text says. Yeah.

Yeah. There's lots. After the feeding of the 5,000, a bunch of them left. He gives this sermon of the bread of life and they're like, this is a hard saying, who can accept it? Many of them walked with him no more.

He lost lots of disciples. So when he says, I've not lost any except the son of perdition, who's that? Judas Iscariot and he was lost spiritually, but were any of the other apostles lost? Well, maybe it seems as though they've gone away from him but ultimately they all come back to him and serve him faithfully. Right?

So, these ones I'm talking about, that's what I'm saying about them. But now, I come to you verse 13, and these things I speak in the world that they may have my joy fulfilled in themselves. I've given them your word and the world has hated them because they are not of the world just as I am not of the world. I do not pray that you should take them out of the world but that you should keep them from the evil one. Sanctify them by truth, your word is truth.

But I want you to drop down to verse 20. I do not pray for these alone but also for those who will believe in me through their word because they're witnesses and they're gonna bear witness, they're gonna testify of me. All of this is talking about the apostles. Now, thinking about this just one step deeper, who was specifically mentioned in this text? You go through John 13 through 17.

What people disciples are specifically mentioned? Judas Iscariot is specifically mentioned. Simon Peter is specifically mentioned. One of his disciples whom Jesus loved whom we assume to be John is mentioned. Thomas is mentioned.

Philip is mentioned. And Judas not Iscariot is mentioned. What do all of those men have in common? They're all apostles. Okay, Reagan.

Great. Good bible study. What in the world does that matter to our study of the holy spirit? Well, it impacts our understanding of what the Holy Spirit does and the promises of God in these passages. I want you to turn to John chapter 14 and verse 12.

John chapter 14 and verse 12. Man, I listened to a podcast y'all and it was a preacher, an institutional brother. He's going through these these scriptures and he barely even mentions the apostles. He certainly didn't give any possibility that these promises were limited to the apostles. And I listened to that and I think to myself, man, you're gonna draw all sorts of conclusions that are wild if you don't make clear what it is that's being taught here.

For example, John chapter 14 verse 12, most assuredly I say to you, I'm gonna ask one more time, who's the you? The apostles. He who believes in me, the works that I do, he will do also and greater works than these he will do because I go to my father And whatever you ask in my name, that I will do that the father may be glorified in the son. If you ask anything in my name, I will do it. Now if that's applying to all Christians, that has some ramifications, doesn't it?

If you love me, keep my commandments and I will pray to the father that he may give you another helper. Who's the helper? Holy Spirit. That he may abide with you forever. The spirit of truth whom the world cannot receive because it neither sees him nor knows him but you know him for he dwells with you and will be in you.

I will not leave you orphans, I will come to you. Let's go back to what we said. There is a huge difference if this promise is to all Christians or if this promise is specifically to the apostles. Now we grow forward from Acts chapter one. Who is gonna receive the promise?

The apostles. Where? Jerusalem. When? Not many days.

Why? To be witnesses and they're gonna receive power from on high. I want you to go to Acts chapter two. Acts chapter two. Let's start in Acts chapter one, the last verse.

Another has to take the office of Judas Iscariot. Verse 26, and they cast their lots and the lot fell to Matthias and he was numbered with the 11 apostles. So now there are 12 apostles again. And when the day of Pentecost had fully come, ten or less days later, 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 the whole house where they were sitting. Then there appeared to them divided tongues as of fire and one sat on each one of them and they were filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak with other tongues as the spirit gave them utterance.

And there's devout men in Jerusalem and you go through every point on the compass, Luke does. And we see in verse six, and when the sound occurred, the multitude came together and they were confused because everyone heard them speak in his own language. And in verse seven, they were all amazed and marveled saying to one another, look, are not all these who speak what? Galileans. Men of Galilee.

Right? And how is it that we hear each one in our own language in which we were born? They're speaking languages that they have not learned. They have this power to do this. Verse 11, we hear them speaking in our own tongues the wonderful works of God.

So they were all amazed and perplexed saying to one another, whatever could this mean? Others mock and say they're full of new wine. But Peter standing up with the eleven eleven what? Apostles. Apostles raised his voice and said to them, men of Judea and all who dwell in Jerusalem, let this be known to you and heed my words.

This is what was promised to the apostles in Jerusalem ten or less days later and what did they do with it? Peter's a witness and he goes through the old testament and prophecies in the old testament and he goes through eyewitness accounts of what they have seen and heard to convince them that this Jesus whom they've crucified is both Lord and Christ. And when they heard this, they were cut to the heart. They were convicted. And what was the Holy Spirit promised to do?

Convict the world of sin and of righteousness and of judgment. Exactly what happens right here in Acts chapter two with this power that they received from on high. So, Peter preaches a sermon and uses words from the scriptures just like Jesus did at the end of Luke as he's given this power from the Holy Spirit to speak in tongues he has not learned and as we'll see to work miracles and so forth to even greater degree than what they had done earlier. And ultimately, people responded by repenting and being baptized. And then, as we'll study, that power was passed on to others.

But where did that power come from? Came from Christ and the father as they sent the holy spirit to the apostles. And then the apostles were able to pass it on from there. We get that clear in our mind, man, we're ready to answer some of the really big questions that we have about how the holy spirit works. So next week, we'll look at the Holy Spirit in the Old Testament, then the week after, we'll get down to all the nitty gritty about this.

Thank you for your good attention tonight.