Lesson 4: Spirit Baptism and Initial Evidence

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Lesson 4 Spirit Baptism and Initial Evidence

• In traditional Pentecostal circles, the term
  initial evidence is used concerning the
  personal experience of spiritual language
  (speaking in tongues).
• The problem lies in the theological
• application.

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• The initial evidence refers to the
• experience of the baptism with the Holy
• Spirit.
• In traditional Pentecostal theology the
• only acceptable evidence of Spirit
• baptism is tongues.

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• John 31-8
• How is a person born again (35-6)?
• If we are born of the Spirit, as in John 36,
  what dwells within us according to Romans 811?
• How do we know we are born again? (Romans 816)

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• 1 Corinthians 123-11
• What enables a person to declare, Jesus is
  Lord?
• What do gifts (v4), ministries (v5), and works
  (v6) all have in common?
• What are the nine gifts (manifestations v7)
  of the Spirit in VV8-10?

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Nine gifts or manifestationsof the Spirit

• Message of Wisdom
• Message of Knowledge
• Faith
• Gifts of Healing
• Working of Miracles
• Prophecy
• Discerning of spirits
• Different kinds of tongues
• Interpretation of tongues

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• How are these gifts distributed by the
• Holy Spirit?

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• What is the Baptism with the Holy Spirit?
• It may help to have an agreed upon
• definition of what the baptism with the
• Holy Spirit Entails.

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• John 129-34
• How many baptisms are talked about in this
• passage?
• What is the difference between water baptism
• and the baptism with the Holy Spirit in this
• passage?
• What are the different phrases used for Jesus in
• verses 22, 24, 29?

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• We know Luke, the physician, wrote both
• The gospel of Luke and Acts. What is the
• Instruction given in both Luke 2449 and
• Acts 14?

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• In His post-Resurrection teaching, Jesus
• makes three points

• The Holy Spirit is the person and power
• by which assistance and ability are given
• for saving, for sharing the life and power of
• Gods Kingdom with others.

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• 2. The Holy Spirits power must be received
• it is not an automatic experience. As surely as
• the Holy Spirit will fill and overflow
• (John 737-39) each who receive the Holy
• Spirit in childlike faith.

3. When the Holy Spirit fills you, you will know
it. Jesus said it and the disciples found it true
(Acts 15 21-4).
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• Spirit, pneuma
• breath, breeze, a current of air, wind,
• spirit.
• PNEUMA is that part of a person capable
• of responding to God.

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The Holy Spirit is the Third Person of
the Trinity who 1. Draws 5. Enables us 2.
Convicts 6. Understand 3. Enables 7. Pray 4.
Assures us 8. Share Christ
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• In Acts 1044-48 the first Gentiles came to
• faith in Christ and the Holy Spirit fell upon
• all who heard the Word (v44).
• The miracle manifestation of tongues is the
• only one that occurs more than one time as a
• result of Holy Spirit baptism.

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The Necessity of Unity

• Unfortunately, the doctrine of tongues has
• been used to divide the church. Those
• who speak with tongues have proof.
• Those who do not are made to feel
• incomplete in their Christian experience
• as a result. We must always remember
• Jesus prayer in John 17 that we are one.