Introduction: What is the baptism of the Holy Spirit? What results of it? Should we pray for it today? Is it the baptism that was commanded in the Great Commission? Is it the one baptism of Ephesians 4:4?
I. Holy Spirit Baptism was a promise, not a command.
A. There is no record where anyone was commanded to be baptized with the Holy Spirit.
1. If it is a command, then we need to know how to obey it.
2. Where in the Bible are the instructions given?
3. “The references to this baptism all show that it was a promise and not a command. It was something…which God promised to certain people and not something which God commanded them to do.” James D. Bales
4. Scriptures:
a. Matthew 3:11 – a promise, not a command.
b. Luke 24:49 – Jesus called it a promise of the Father.
c. Acts 1:2, 5, 8, 4-5.
5. “Although there was no direct promise to Cornelius and his household, yet they were baptized in the Holy Spirit. But they were not commanded to be baptized in the Holy Spirit, neither did they obey any such command…God of His own will, for His own purpose, baptized them in the Holy Spirit.”
B. The Great Commission baptism was commanded.
1. Matthew 28:19; Acts 2:38
2. And it is water baptism.
II. Holy Spirit Baptism was administered by Christ directly from Heaven without the use of a Human Administrator.
A. Holy Spirit baptism was not administered by man, but by Christ.
1. Matthew 3:11
2. In the text, no one assisted Christ. Acts 2:1-4,
17, 32-33.
3. Acts 10:44; 11:15-17; 15:7-9
B. The baptism of the great commission was administered by man.
1. Matthew 28:19
2. Acts 8:38
B. John 16:12-14
1. “Into all truth”
2. “The Spirit guided them into truths which Christ had not seen fit to reveal, or fully to reveal, during his personal ministry.”
3. “Truth was revealed and confirmed at the household of Cornelius, in connection with the baptism of the Spirit.” (Acts 10:34; 45; 11:1-18)
4. Compare 13:2 and Matthew 26:20.
C. John 16:13 – The Spirit showed them things to come.
D. The apostles were so empowered by the Spirit that they not only the power of inspiration, but also the power of working of a wide variety of miracles.
(Acts 8:14-18)
E. Miraculous manifestations on Pentecost accompanied the baptism of the Holy Spirit.
1. Acts 2:2 (Sound)
2. Acts 2:3 (“tongues like as fire”)
3. Acts 2:4 (speak with other tongues”)
a. Definitions: (2) the tongue, as an organ of speech…(3) (a) a language… (b) the supernatural gift of speaking in another language without its having been learnt.” - Vines
b. Acts 2:6-8, 11.
4. The household of Cornelius.
5. Not all who received the miraculous gifts could speak with tongues.
III. Who was baptized in the Holy Spirit on Pentecost.
A. The promise of the reception of the Spirit on
Pentecost was limited to the apostles.
1. Acts 1:2-8
2. “Since the promise…was limited to the apostles, the reception not many days hence was limited to the apostles.”
B. Those who received the baptism of the Holy Spirit were to receive power. Acts 1:5, 8
C. The apostles were the ones chosen as “special witnesses”. Acts 1:8, 22, 26; 2:32 (14, 37)
D. The “they” of Acts 2:1 are the apostles of 1:26.
E. Those who received the Spirit in this miraculous way were all Galileans and the apostles were Galileans. Acts 2:7, 4; 1:11
F. With whom did Peter stand up? Acts 2:14
G. Who did the audience, the mocking part, say was drunk? Acts 2:13, 14, 15.
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