If you would take your Bibles then and let's read a passage open up to the gospel of Luke and 24 Luke chapter 24 Read a passage and we'll pray for these other requests and Want to thank you those who've been praying about our house selling It looks like we will close on Tuesday Yeah, hallelujah, that's how I feel like man be glad when that whole process is done shoo-ee But thank you for praying Luke chapter 24 and I Let's let me begin at Let me see here 37 let's start there It says but they were terrified and are frightened and suppose that they had seen the Spirit this is the Jesus appearing to his disciples and They were all shut in in the upper room kind of not sure what's next gonna happen with them and Boom, there's Jesus. And so they're a bit taken aback by that. And he said unto them, why are ye troubled? And why do thoughts arise in your hearts? Behold my hands and my feet, that it is I myself. Handle me and see. For a spirit hath not flesh and bones as ye see me have. When he had thus spoken, he showed them his hands and his feet. And while they yet believed not for joy, and wondered, he said unto them, Have ye here any meat? And they gave him a piece of broiled fish, and of an honeycomb. And he took it and did eat before them. And he said unto them, these are the words which I spake unto you while I was yet with you, that all things must be fulfilled, which were written in the law of Moses and in the prophets and in the Psalms concerning me. Then opened he their understanding that they might understand the scriptures. And he said unto them, thus it is written, And thus it behooved 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 among all nations beginning at Jerusalem. And ye are witnesses of these things. And behold, I send the promise of my Father upon you, but tarry ye in the city of Jerusalem until ye be endued with power from on high. Let's pray. Father, we thank you for the privilege that we can gather together tonight so freely and share our burdens and our praises. and we thank you for working in our midst and providing for so many things, Father, that we sometimes, it's not as if we're trying to take advantage or be dismissive of you and your providence in our life, but sometimes we just don't see how you're working, and we just go along with our life, and yet you're so gracious to us. We thank you for that. and ask that you might continue to work in our lives for your glory. Father, we do lift before you Carolyn. We thank you that she's improving and should be able to go home tomorrow. And so we lift her before you and ask that you would just keep your hand upon her and just raise her up that she might go home. Just thank you for Kirk and Savannah being able to get away for a few days and come home safely. And Father, we do pray for Jennifer with the travel to the Philippines. And now she's there with Christian. I pray you just bless At that time give them safety and bless their travels as they come back We do pray for Paul and just for his health and the tumor that he's been dealing with for so long and and they're just not sure exactly how the procedure is gonna go whether a stint or What they're going to do. I just pray you would and Watch over that. We know the concern as far as what the VA is going to do. So Lord, we just put that in your hands. You might work out those details. Father, please, we pray for Val's brother Bill and for his condition. Just put your hand upon him. Work in those details for your glory, both in his life as well as in the family. Just guide and direct, please. We continue to lift up Wayne and his needs and pray that you might put your hand upon him, give Barb the strength that she needs. Father, would you guide and direct in that? Father, no doubt there are other needs amongst us, and you know what those are, and so we ask that you might work on our behalf for your glory and for our good. Would you help us please? Blessed now as we come to your word, in Jesus' name, amen. We are in this study about the Holy Spirit and last time we just were looking at the filling of the spirit and kind of what that meant and especially by way of introduction when it talks about John the Baptist. Because that seems like a bit of a kind of a confusing potentially event that John the Baptist it says would be filled with the Holy Ghost from his mother's womb. That just seems like unusual. And we spent some time talking about that and how the Lord, you know, he knows what's happening. Amen. He knows the future the things that we Asked folks to pray about and we should do that. That's only right for us to do But the Lord knows the resolution of it, doesn't he? He knows what's coming and a few times and we'd looked at that in his word he he tells about future things and what he's going to do and how it's going to work out and That's kind of I think what's being talked about there. We talked about the indwelling of the Holy Spirit. That's for all redeemed we began to talk about the filling of the spirit and that's for the willing and then we Sort of lightly touched on the enabling of the spirit for the selected and we're gonna work on those those The next two there. All right. So here we are in Matthew 24 so now we're at the end of Christ's earthly ministry and he's about to ascend and pretty shortly and it's going to be about 40 days from now so a little over a month from this event this is going to take place there's some debate because Luke's timing doesn't necessarily match with everything when we compare the Gospels But it would seem that the events we read here in Luke 24, especially where he says, So, think about that, but then go flip, if you would please, over to the Gospel of John, in chapter 20. Gospel of John in chapter 20 and this is the this is the resurrection account and Christ appeared that I mean we just were reading the resurrection account there are terrified and afraid and Jesus is there and In fact that event that we're just we were just reading that's the the two disciples who come back they were walking on the road and Jesus meets them on the road to Emmaus and then then he's gone and it says they ran back they ran all the way back to Jerusalem they had to share the word what happened so that's the day of the resurrection all right then here we are in John 20 now this is the resurrection look at verse 19 then the same day at evening being the first day of the week when the doors were shut first day of the week what day is that Sunday, okay when the doors were shut where the disciples were assembled for fear of the Jews Came Jesus and stood in the midst and said 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 that's kind of what we read in Luke, you know Look at my hands. Look at my feet Then said Jesus to them again peace be unto you as my father has sent me even so send I you and that's also kind of what Jesus says thus it's written that you know He's gonna suffer and so forth and repentance richness of sin should be preached in his name among all the place your witnesses So that's the the Great Commission in Luke. Okay here. This is the Great Commission in in John Okay as the father 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 you remit, they are remitted unto them, and whosoever sins you retain, they are Retained now Thomas isn't there and we read that in the next verse. He's not with him and He's kind of doubtful, but it says in verse 26 and after eight days again Okay. So now what day is it? It was Sunday it's eight days again, it's what eight days eight days Sunday's day one Okay, so Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday. That's day seven. Sunday again. One week later. Okay. You got to count the day of the appearance. That's added in the count. That's kind of how they did that. Okay. So it's Sunday again. But Thomas, one of the 12, he's not there. And so then he gets his own special sort of confirmation. Again, it's about putting your finger in your hand and all of that kind of stuff. Peace be unto you. That's the same thing he said that's recorded earlier in verse 19. Now I'm highlighting that. Look at verse 29. Jesus saith unto him, Thomas, because thou hast seen me, thou hast, what's the next word? believed is Thomas a believer yes because in verse 28 is and Thomas answered and said unto him my Lord and my God because Jesus had said be not faithless but believing so he makes a confession and then Jesus says he's a believer that's important because we're talking about the Holy Spirit okay and in Luke Jesus says behold I send the promise of my father Terry until you're in dude with power from on high at the same event Luke does not record these words John records these words and It says, he breathed on them and saith unto them, receive ye the Holy Ghost. We have to kind of compare these and think about this. Was Thomas a believer? Okay, were the other disciples believers? Okay. What is the promise of the Father? Jesus says at this event that's coming wait until you get the promise of the Father what what is the what is it Jesus told them the Father was sending the Holy Spirit so hmm You see you're straining at a gnat But if we don't understand the Holy Spirit and how this works We can go off into some strange ideas Okay, I Have heard many times. I've been told by different preachers. You know keep the cookies on the bottom shelf and that's true we we want God's truth to be understood understandable by all correct regardless of maybe where they are in their journey of the Lord okay but this is Wednesday so this is Bible study time okay so I'm intentionally kind of kind of getting in the weeds here As I was saying in Sunday school, where do people get their theology today? They get it from popular movies. They get it from all kinds of places. 42 million idiots on YouTube. You can get all kinds of weird stuff. But that's not where we're supposed to get our theology. We're supposed to get our theology from the word. True? Right. Steady to show thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth. That's a lot of intentional effort we have to put forth. There are some that will say when Jesus breathed on them, that's when they were given the Holy Spirit. Well then what was Pentecost? You see what I'm getting at? So that's why I'm asking you, what was the promise? The promise was the Holy Spirit. And we know, because we've looked at that verse several times in Romans 8, if ye have not the Spirit of God, ye are none of his so if you're if you don't have the Spirit of God you're not the Lord's does that mean before this they were not believers does that mean so how do we how do we can how do we correlate that with Pentecost when it says so clearly Jesus says in Acts 1 4 and being assembled together with him this is the day of ascension okay and being assembled together with them commanded them that they should not depart from Jerusalem but wait for the promise of the Father Now that's what it says in Luke as well, doesn't it? And so let's get a timeline. Okay, so in Luke and that chunk we read in John, that's resurrection Sunday. A week later, we have the event with Thomas. And we're not told about that in Luke. So it would appear that in Luke is the first appearance when, you know, so that would almost imply that, oh, then Thomas didn't get the Holy Spirit, right? Because he's eight days later. 40 days later, because verse three, Acts 1 verse three, to whom also he showed himself alive after his passion by many infallible proofs being seen of them 40 days Okay, and I just was kind of made a little I was doing a little thing here on my paper Okay, so it starts at Sunday. The first Saturday is day 7 then The next Sunday, that's 8. That's the thing with Thomas then the next Saturday's the 14th The next Saturday's the 21st the next Saturday's the 28th number of days The next Saturday would be 35 days. The next Saturday would be 42 days. So the ascension took place on Thursday. Right? That'd be Thursday. So it's 40 days. That's the day he's gonna go up. and on that day on the 40th day they're still waiting and they're commanded to wait they still have to wait even after it says he breathed on them and said receive you the Holy Ghost so obviously he wasn't talking he's not talking about their salvation is he and what we know was going to happen on the day of Pentecost didn't happen on that day That's still in the future yet. They're still waiting He tells them Wait for the promise of the father which saith he ye have heard of me for John truly baptized with water But ye shall be baptized with the Holy Ghost not many days hence now that helps us understand why we're getting in the weeds because we have all these terms and Okay, we have the baptism of the Holy Spirit. We have the filling of the Holy Spirit, you know, etc, etc. And if we... It's not just as simple as defining a word. It's understanding the context and the intention of what's meant when the word is used. Okay, that's important. So then Jesus ascends verse 6 when they therefore were come together They asked him saying, you know, are you gonna restore the kingdom? He says it's not now we have verse 8. That's the wonderful verse, but ye shall receive power After that the Holy Ghost has come upon you. That's future, isn't it? Well, obviously then the Holy Ghost has not yet come upon them Right, I mean we just you know And ye shall be witnesses. That's a great verse. Maybe we have that memorized. And while he gets done, this is when he'd spoken these things, while they beheld, they're looking at him, what happens? He's taken up, right? He's taken up. Well, we have the thing with Matthias that kind of wraps out chapter one of the book of Acts. And then we get to chapter two. It says, and when the day of Pentecost was fully come, That is 50 days. 50. Assuming my timing is right, which I'm not dogmatic, but just simple, using my simple brain, if Jesus went up on day 40, because that's what it says here, that's a Thursday, Okay, that Saturday is gonna be day 52 42 after the resurrection. The next Saturday is day 49 which means Pentecost came on Sunday, that'd be the 50th day So Acts chapter 2 is Sunday Okay, it's Sunday so there's been there's been 10 days of They've been kind of holed up in the upper room and having a prayer meeting and figuring out who's gonna take Judas's place. They've been taking care of business, so to speak, okay? But then Pentecost comes. 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 a fire and it sat upon each of them and they were all filled with the Holy Ghost Were they believers before that? Yes. Now, if no scriptures of private interpretation, which means we use scripture to interpret scripture, in one place in scripture there may be a topic, a doctrine, a principle discussed that something later in scripture is going to shed more light on that. each verse is not exhaustive of all truth that it may be touching on otherwise your Bible would be too big for you to have in your house okay we wouldn't we wouldn't be going around saying oh the favorite verses John 3 16 because John 3 16 would be the Britannica and psych you know in encyclopedia it'd be like multiple volumes because that touches on all kinds of stuff Obviously then the filling of the Holy Spirit is not salvation It's something else Perhaps we could say something additional something supplemental something It's it's a You get what I'm getting at It expands it out. It's expanding. There's more than just, I'm going to heaven. There's more than that. The other thing that's clear is... The baptism, back in chapter 1 in verse 5, for John, these are the words of Jesus, for John truly baptized with water, but ye shall be baptized with the Holy Ghost not many days hence. He just said in verse 4, wait for the promise of the Father, didn't he? So the promise is the Holy Ghost, correct? Let's compare that with what it says in Luke. Again, verse 49, behold I send the promise of my father. That's quite interesting here when he says I send. It's in the present tense, which means I am sending. It's like saying the process has started. Okay. I'm sending him. But tarry until you're endued with power. All right, back to Acts chapter one. What is the power? Verse eight, what's the power? The Holy Spirit. So we recognize that if I'm waiting for the promise, earlier Jesus said, tarry for the power, I'm waiting for the endowment of power by the Holy Spirit. That's what I'm waiting for. I'm stressing that, which may seem like I'm straining a bit, because we need to recognize the baptism of the Holy Spirit is not the speaking in tongues. The baptism is the presence of the Holy Spirit. That's the baptism. That's the baptism. Now let's stop and just think about that for a moment. What is baptism? Without us freighting all kinds of theological preconceived notions about that, what is baptism? Let's go back to Luke but go earlier in Luke, go to Luke chapter three. Well, actually, we could go to Luke three, starts in verse 21, but go to Matthew. I think that will, that clarifies that I gave you the wrong gospel, I'm sorry. Matthew chapter 3 and I think we looked at this in our Monday night class in Matthew chapter 3 and verse 13 then cometh Jesus from Galilee to Jordan unto John to be baptized of him hmm okay but John forbade him saying I have need to be baptized of thee, and comest thou to me?" Because John's baptism was a baptism of repentance. He was calling them back to the Lord. He was calling them, you know, to make straight the way. The kingdom of heaven is at hand, et cetera. Okay, so it was a baptism of repentance that they were turning from the fact that they had strayed as his covenant people from Jehovah and he was calling them back so they'd be ready for the Messiah. And so John's like, oh, this is backwards. You don't need to identify with me. It's kind of the other way around. But Jesus says in verse 15, Jesus answering said unto him, suffer it to be so now for thus it behooved us to fulfill all righteousness. So John defers to Jesus and he baptizes him. And then Jesus comes out of the water and there's the heavens are open. The spirit of God comes down like a dove and they hear the voice of the father. This is my beloved son in whom I am well pleased. All right. So now in my Bible it's just on the other side. OK. Chapter two. And. verse verse 15 this is of course when Jesus is a baby so this is like 30 years earlier and we know the story they flee to Egypt to escape Herod okay and then when Herod kicks the bucket then the angel has them come back right okay look at verse 15 it says and was there until the death of Herod that it might be fulfilled which was spoken of the Lord by the Prophet saying out of Egypt have I called my son hmm obviously that's a reference to Christ isn't it yeah sure it is and it's fulfilling the words of the Prophet okay now if you can get there quick enough let's go to Hosea Isaiah Joel Amos Obadiah Hosea Chapter 11 Okay, this this is this is what Matthew's writing Okay when he says that it's fulfilled which was spoken of the Lord by the prophet. Okay, if Jesus is the fulfillment, the prophet was writing about Jesus. But in Hosea 11, the passage he's referencing, verse 1, when Israel was a child, then I loved him and called my son out of Egypt. Okay, so in Hosea 11, verse 1, Who is the son of reference to in that passage? Israel, the nation Israel. Except in Matthew, it's Jesus. Now that helps us understand why Jesus got baptized. He didn't get baptized because he was repenting. He had nothing to repent of. Right? Tempted at all points like as us, yet without sin. He was sinless. There's no need for repentance on the part of the Lord Jesus. Unless... His baptism was a way of identifying with those that he had come to redeem. Because that's what baptism is. Baptism is a means of identifying. For all you veterans in here, it's your uniform. When I joined the Army Reserves, they didn't let me wear my Navy uniform. Nope, you got to wear an army uniform. Even though I didn't lose any stripes by shifting branches. And then after Desert Storm when I came back and I said, I got to get away from these guys. These guys are crazy. And a billet opened up in the Naval Reserve. Guess what? I couldn't wear the army uniform. I had to change uniforms. Because now my identity is different, OK? So that's important for us to recognize. Baptism essentially shows identity. At the end of chapter two of Acts, remember all these people get saved, right? Peter preaches and this is a phenomenal thing. Look at verse 41. Then they that gladly received his word were baptized. And the same day there were added unto them about 3,000 souls." Hmm, isn't that interesting? I mean, here we go, we see salvation, baptism, church membership. It's like a package program. It's intended to be a package. You get saved, you want to identify with your Savior, but by identifying with your Savior, you identify with a body of people who also identify with your Savior. It goes together. So, recognizing that in essence, baptism is identification. That's why they have to wait for the Holy Spirit to come upon them. They need the identification. They already belonged. When I joined the Navy in high school, okay, went through aphes and all of that rigmarole, and raised my right hand and took the oath, you know, I do solemnly swear to protect the Constitution of the United States, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, okay. So help me God, I belonged to Uncle Sam, but I got no uniform, because I was still in high school. That was coming later on. when on June the 12th, on my dad's birthday, we went down to Detroit to the A.V. station, got on a train at some horrible, wicked time of night, and arrived at boot camp on the 13th, Friday, the 13th. That's kind of ominous. If you believe in that kind of stuff, okay. But, that's where we got a uniform. Hair got buzzed, turned Mississippi's in, got my uniform, ID card, blah blah blah. Now I have the identity. Baptism is identity. That's what it is. That's important. The baptism of the Holy Spirit is not the gift of tongues now obviously in Acts 2 something happens doesn't it okay it says and they were all filled with the Holy Ghost and began to speak with other tongues as the Spirit gave them others we're not dismissing that but we're recognizing that the baptism of the Holy Spirit will not always produce the evidence of tongues one is identity The other is basically validation or the certificate. Okay. How many people here have graduated from high school? Okay. I'll bet your high school diploma doesn't look like my high school diploma. All right. Does that mean yours is not valid? No. Thank you, Sandy. It means mine's not valid. She probably got a better education than I did. In fact, I'm sure she did, because in history class, I don't remember them even talking about World War II once. Ever. In government class, I just read the funnies in the Detroit Free Press. That's all I did for government class. I found the shortest article I could, because the teacher said, all right, here's the right free press. He handed them all out. And he said, no, you got to read an article and write a summary of an article by the end of class. And then he went back to the sports page. He was the football coach, so that's the only thing he was concerned about. He never lectured, never said boo other than that. So I'd find the shortest article possible. read it in about two minutes, write my paragraph, and then I'd go to the funny pages. I'd spend the rest of the hour reading the funny pages. That was the year Carter was, Carter and Reagan were, you know, that was that year. They crashed the helicopters, all the business. There's a lot of very important current affairs stuff going on, but I didn't hear boo about any of that stuff. So I'm sure Sandy got a much better education than I did. However, my point is tongues is a gift of the spirit. Tongues is not the presence of the spirit. Okay. We can go to 1 Corinthians and Paul writes, do all speak with tongues? And the answer is no. No. Another place in that same chapter, he says, that the spirit giveth severally as he willeth. It's up to him. At this point, there was a necessity of that particular gift to be evidenced because, as Paul writes, 1st Corinthians 1 if I have if I wrote this down correctly 122 the Jews require a sign and God had talked about that this would be a sign in fact in I Wrote it down. So there it is John 14 16 No, that's not where I would I Probably didn't write it down You knew where it talked about signs shall follow them The point was, or the point is, the speaking in tongues was a sign for the Jews. Every time speaking in tongues shows up in the book of Acts, Jews are present, and it's an evidence to them, it's a sign to them, they're not the only ones God's concerned about. Okay? Now that doesn't invalidate the gift of tongues, it just helps us recognize that that's not the baptism. the baptism may I go beyond and say it's not just the presence of the spirit but it's the enabling of the spirit we could look at the word filled and and its derivatives in Luke 1 when it talks about Elizabeth it said that her time the time was accomplished meaning the babies do, okay, the babies do. In his reference to the disciples, it talks about the net that Peter casts out is filled with fish, meaning it can't hold any more fish. It reached its limit, okay. So the whole concept of filling is the reaching of the limit, of the intended limit. And what God intended for the Comforter to come, not that he wasn't there beforehand, the Comforter is God. He's omniscient, omnipresent, all the rest of those big old words. He's got all the same attributes as the Father and the Son. So it's not like he was waiting up in heaven, okay, I'm waiting for the green light. He was still here. but it wasn't time for him to do that function. So when we get to the day of Pentecost, now is the time for the enabling for certain functions. Not that he wasn't able to do that before, but the timing wasn't right. They had not reached the date of the appointment. Okay, like a couple weeks ago, Don, you came to coffee and you went to the therapy or whatever, and they said, no, you don't have an appointment today. It wasn't the right day. It doesn't mean that there wasn't an appointment. It's just that wasn't the time for that appointment. And so it is with the day of Pentecost. You know, the gifts of the Holy Spirit a functional ability that he's going to enable you to do that functional ability is temporary and transitory if the spirit gives you the enablement the spirit can take away the enablement or shift the enablement because it's his gifts and We don't get to run around saying, look at this, I've earned my tongue certificate. And so now I can go around and speak, you know, Hashemah, Hashemah, Hashemah, Hashemah and I. That's a pretty good interpretation or pretty good imitation, I should say. No, I can't run around and say, look at this, I've got my pastoral certificate. So now I get to do this all the time. No, if the Lord wishes me to do that, he will enable me to do that, as well as any other gift that he wishes to give, okay? So what is it Jesus says, okay, the Jews needed a sign. Jesus says in John 13, 35, by this shall all men know that ye are my disciples. if ye have love one toward another. Love is not a gift of the Holy Spirit. Love is the fruit of the Holy Spirit. There's a difference. As I said, the gifts are transitory. It's potentially temporary. If you disqualify yourself, he might just put you on the shelf and remove his enablement. Or he may shift you to a different function. But if the gifts of the Spirit are functional abilities, the fruit of the Spirit is living testimony of the identity that you belong to Him. That is not transitory. It's transcendent. It's not limited. It should always be there. Love, joy, peace, long-suffering, gentleness. And now my brain just shut down. And such like. Okay, the list is not exhaustive. But those should always be there. Because they are the validation. They are the bottom foundation of what you are. You know, I can, when I was in the service, I could take my uniform off. But that didn't mean I wasn't what I was. I just didn't look like it anymore. I was still, still belong. And Marines are always like that. Once a Marine, always a Marine, right? That's what they say. But it's something within you. It changes you. And that helps us when we come to this topic of the baptism and the filling, et cetera. So all of that endowment, or I should say that the indwelling, that's conversion. Beyond conversion then, it's simply the Spirit's commission of how he wants you to function for his glory. Now, granted, the book of Acts is a transition, we're in a key pivotal time in the history of humanity, from the time of the Jews and the law and the prophets and all of that kind of stuff. And all of that's kind of shifting, isn't it? It's all shifting. But at the end of that, we know the spirit is within us. And that he will enable us. And that there ought to be some identity verification as it shows up in the fruit. Those should be there. The initial baptism and filling, this is important, okay? Because I think this applies to us as well because it may close here Paul says Ephesians 5 18 where we're familiar this be not drunk with wine wherein is excess but be filled With the Holy Spirit that is a present passive imperative Okay, so what does that mean? Well, it's Bible study. Okay It's present tense Meaning if that's in the now It's passive meaning. It's something that's done to you and But it's an imperative. It's a command. You're commanded to allow the Lord to fill you. So, in Acts 2, they're not told to be filled. The Holy Ghost comes and fills. It's also in the passive sense because it's something being done to them. They didn't do it to themselves, but neither are they commanded to be filled. They are commanded to wait. So when I put all that together, I'm ending tonight with this truth that I think is important for us, and that is the initial baptism and filling was at the Father's direction, and it was dependent upon Him. He had the timing, right? And when the day of Pentecost was fully come, boom, there it is, the time is, now is the time, okay? So it depended upon His timing and His action. However, the continued filling has to do with the saint's desire and the saint's dependency upon the Father. We're as filled with the Spirit as we choose to be. That's why we're commanded to be filled with the Spirit. We're not told, we're not told, now we're not told go and wait for it, we're told to let it happen. We're commanded to let it happen. And so if that's a command, it's up to me to obey. It's up to each of us to obey. We might try to do all kinds of things. We may have certain gifts the spirit of God's given to us gift of teaching gift of giving gift of administering you know whatever I mean we want to do good things but in order for it to be effective you need him to enable you you need to be responsive to him So it's not enough to do the right thing for the right reason. We have to do it in the power of the Holy Spirit. That's why it says don't be, the contrast is to be drunk with wine means you're, if you get pulled over and you're drunk, you get a DUI. What does that mean, DUI? You get a Dewey? What's a Dewey? Driving under the influence. What Paul's contrasting is don't be under the influence of that, be under the influence of the spirit. Let the spirit have the influence in your life. That's up to me if I let him or not. That's pretty important. If I want the Lord to use me in the way that he wishes. And that's vitally important for us. Number one, that we don't get confused with what would be wrong doctrine about the Holy Spirit or tongues or whatever. But also that even within our own circles, we wouldn't get the wrong idea that somehow we're gonna reproduce a Pentecost. It's up to the Lord what he's gonna do. It's up to me whether I'm gonna let Him do it through me. Okay, that's important. Father, would you help us? We've really just kind of scratched the surface of really a very important doctrinal truth, help us. As we read our Bibles and go through our daily activities, we'd recognize these things, we'd see how these things work, we'd see the relationship in other passages of Scripture, and would you help us? Would you use us for your glory? Bless now, please, in Jesus' name. Amen.