Thank you for allowing us the privilege of being here. More than being here, Lord, thank you for the privilege of being your children, called by the name of Jesus. Lord, you've placed your hand upon us. You've called us out of darkness into your marvelous light. You've given us the power of your spirit to live. You've given us the joy that comes from him. And Jesus, you are the one that's due all the gratitude because you gave your life for us. You laid down everything so that we could enjoy the Father and enjoy you and enjoy the work of your Spirit in us. We're grateful this morning that as we come together, we come together in your name, Jesus, and we come with an expectation and a hope that you will speak to us, you'll minister to us through your word, that in whatever we do today, it will be glorifying and honoring to you, that our lives would be changed, there would be something different about us when we leave than from when we came in, that we'll be stronger, better, more able to serve you, that we'll be more encouraged because we've been together because we've been allowed the privilege to worship, and God, you've given us so many good songs to sing, and it fills our heart with joy, Lord, because we know the truth that's in those songs, Lord, the truths that are so deep that affect us, they affect our lives, they affect our destiny. God, your word when it's sung, especially God, is powerful. We thank you, Father, for this time. Now, would you move in whatever way you see fit, Lord, we will give you honor and glory for all that you do. In Jesus' name, amen. Two weeks ago, we did a thing on questions and answers. And as you remember, and one of the questions that was kind of held over until last week was about the Holy Spirit and the gifts of tongues and all of this. And so I tried to work through some of that last week. I may do a little bit of a recap on that and then move a little bit deeper in to where we were going. The question that I wanted to focus on today at the end, and I'm going to tell you where I'm going hopefully, is how do you know whether it's the Holy Spirit that you're praying in the Holy Spirit, if it's a tongue, that it's not just your flesh? Now, this wasn't put in the question, but beyond that I'll add to it because some people say this. How do you know it's not demonic? And so some people have even asked that question. So just in kind of a short recap, I said that there are some purposes for tongues because that was the main question. What about tongues? Is it for today? Isn't it for today? Personally, I believe, Pastor Bill believes, that the gifts are available for today. The gifts can be misused, like any other gift that's given, they can be misused. The flesh can be involved. We can mess anything up with the flesh, it seems like. But the main purposes, the five main purposes that I laid out, or four I gave, and then I gave a fifth one last week, is first, it's a sign for unbelievers. And I gave that out of 1 Corinthians 14.22 and also Acts 2.8. 14.22 in 1 Corinthians and Acts 2.8. And I said that it's to men and it's understood by men. And on the day of Pentecost, there were people from all the different nations that were gathered in Jerusalem. And when the Holy Spirit fell on the disciples in the upper room, when they came out, they were speaking in a tongue. Actually, the word tongue, glossa, glossa, it basically means language. That's all it means. Tongue, it means a language. Now, it can be an earthly language, a known language. It can be a heavenly language, an unknown language. That's where Paul says, though I speak with the tongue of men or angels, but I don't have love, I'm nothing. But on the day of Pentecost, they were assigned, the tongues were assigned, the language was assigned, and it was an actual human language. It was a language that the people that were gathered in Jerusalem actually spoke. They understood the language. It was their own dialect. So when the apostles and the people from the upper room were speaking, they were speaking in a known language, speaking to men, and it was in a language that was understood by those men. A second one is what we would normally say is a personal prayer language. Now, that in 1 Corinthians 14, 2, I don't have time to go back through all of these, but that is a language that is to God, and it's understood by God and not men. That's where Paul says, if I pray in the Spirit, I'm praying to God, my understanding, I don't understand what I'm praying. Actually, let's go there. Where's my, where's my, you don't have the scriptures up there today? You don't know how to do that part yet. Cancel those. Let's look at, let's just go, open your Bibles. This is a new thing, right? Open your Bible to 1 Corinthians 14.2. 1 Corinthians 14.2. And I want to be sure that I'm clear on this because I don't want people to have a misunderstanding about what I'm saying or what the Scripture says. 1 Corinthians 14.2. Notice it says, for he who speaks in a tongue, a language, that's what it's all it is, glossa, does not speak to men but to God. Now when we look at that and we read that, we know that that cannot be what took place on the day of Pentecost because it says specifically that they spoke to men, right? And the men understood. Here it says, For he who speaks in a tongue does not speak to men but to God, for no one understands him. However, in the spirit he speaks mysteries. So this is a tongue that even the individual does not understand what they're saying. They are, commonly this is called a prayer language. The person who is speaking or praying doesn't know what they're saying. It's kind of like this. We're made up of, I believe, we're triune beings. I believe the scripture proves that out. Paul says in 1 Thessalonians, he says, now may God keep your whole body, soul, and spirit blameless until the day of Christ Jesus. Body, soul, spirit. We're an outward part. That's what you see. And as I get older, you see more of me. But the body is what's outward. Everybody can see it. The soul is that part of us which you cannot see, but is many times manifest in personality, in the way that we appreciate things. For instance, in the soul is that realm where we like certain music, we like certain foods, we like certain kinds of homes, we like certain kinds of cars. It's that area of preference that's inside of us. It's who we are inside. We like certain forms of touch. So that's who you are. All of us are different in our soul, in our inner being, right? You've got to help me. My wife's not here to say amen today, so you've got to help me. I mean, that encourages a preacher once in a while, you know, not for vain glory, but just once in a while, I know you're listening, so. What? Rob. There should be more rules for excommunication. So the soul is that part of you that is you. It's not going to die. You're going to live on. Your body is going to die. We will have a resurrected body. But your soul is not going to die. That part of you that's you, it's going to go on. Now there's a third part, and that is the spirit. The spirit of a man, it actually says in 1 Corinthians, what man knows the things of a man save the spirit of the man which is in him? Even so, no one knows the things of God except the spirit of God. That's what it says in 1 Corinthians. So the spirit is that part of us that connects with God and worships God. In other words, we worship in our spirit, out of our spirit. That's why it says the natural man can't receive the things of the Spirit of God, because they're foolishness to him. Because the natural man, the lost man, the person who doesn't know Christ, the individual who has not had a relationship with Christ by being born again, that person, in their spirit, they have no fellowship with God, they have no communion with God, okay? That's the core of who we are. At the center of who we are, our spirits are dead, until we come to Christ. And then our spirits are made alive. Now we can worship God. We can hear from God. We can receive from God the things of the Spirit. Okay, so you're with me so far? Okay. So now, when a person is, I'm going to use the term baptized in or with the Holy Spirit. That's something Jesus does. The difference between baptism In terms of water baptism, men do that. In terms of spirit baptism, Jesus baptizes us in the spirit. That's what John talked about. John said that there's one coming after me who's greater than me, and I'm not even worthy to unloose his sandals. But he's going to baptize you in the Holy Spirit and in fire. So Jesus is the baptism in water baptism. A man is the baptizer. Men baptize other people with water, but Jesus baptizes in the Holy Spirit or with the Holy Spirit. He's the one doing the action. And so this prayer language that I was talking about is that which the Holy Spirit gives to an individual when they're baptized in the Holy Spirit by Christ, okay? that can be at salvation, it can be after salvation. It doesn't have to take place at the same time. That's why in the book of Acts, when Philip's preaching in Samaria and he's preaching the gospel to the Samaritans, they believe on Jesus. They receive Jesus. Actually, that's a bad word, receive Jesus. I want to correct something that we do a lot of times in the church. We talk about receiving Jesus. You need to receive Jesus, right? The only place receiving Jesus is used in the Scripture is prior to Christ's death, burial, and resurrection. You will not find that term used after that. That term is only used prior, and it's in reference to him coming to the Jewish people. Scripture says in John, he came to his own, and his own received him not. But to as many as received him, to them he gave the right to become children of God. Now what he's talking about there, what John's talking about, I know this is off topic, but stay with me, okay, it'll get back on topic. What John's talking about is Jesus came to the Jews, his people, and whoever received him, whoever opened the door to him, whoever said, Jesus, you're welcome, he would come in and he would fellowship with them. He would give to them life. After the resurrection, that term is never used again. After Jesus dies, And after the resurrection and after his ascension, the reason is you cannot personally receive Jesus now like they could then. Hear me out, don't shut me off because I know you've been taught this all your life, receive Jesus, receive Jesus. They never spoke and they never preached. I can see some of you looking at your phones, checking this out, see if it says so in the Bible. After the resurrection, They only preached this. Well, this is the main thing they preached. Repent and believe the gospel. Repent and believe the gospel. They never said receive Jesus. They said repent, turn from your sin, acknowledge your sin, turn from it, and believe on the Lord Jesus Christ. In other words, commit yourself to him. Now, if you want to use the term receive Jesus, like I've said I received Jesus in 1973. Well, I repented in 1973, and I gave my life to Christ. In other words, I surrendered my life to Christ in 1973. So theologically, that's not a good term to receive Jesus today. The real term is repent, turn from the life that you are living, or are living, turn from that and turn to Christ in faith and in confidence in Him, in what He's done, in His finished work on the cross and His finished work in resurrection and ascension. Okay? Is anybody mad at me yet? Okay. So, back to the spiritual language again, okay? Look at 1 Corinthians chapter 14 verses 14 and 15. We did look at this last week. 1 Corinthians chapter 14. How did I get over to two? Here Paul says, For if I pray in a tongue or in a language, here he's talking about an unknown language, and you'll see why I say that, my spirit prays. In other words, that part of me deep inside, my spirit prays. And now notice this, but my understanding is unfruitful. If it's unfruitful, that simply means my understanding doesn't know what I've just prayed. Now you say, why in the world would this thing called tongues be given? I mean, what's the purpose of it? Why? Here's why. Our minds, now God doesn't want us to operate without using our minds. He doesn't want a bunch of ignorant people. I mean, it's not like we kick back into neutral and our minds disengage in some way. But there is a sense that every one of us comes to, in our relationship with Christ, we come to Christ and we brought all kinds of baggage. Every one of us. I don't care how, if you were raised in the church, you were brought up from the time you were in the nursery all the way up to whatever age you are, and you've lived in a Christian family and all that stuff, you still got baggage. Every person has baggage. They have hurts, they have pains, they have aspirations, they have desires, they have frustrations. People come to Christ with all kinds of stuff. Now when we come to Christ, what happens is our minds have got those things in them, right? And when we pray, we tend to pray through what we know and what we understand to be. We pray things, the situation as we see it, as we know it, but all of those things that we pray come through the grid of our emotions, come through the grid of our past frustrations, failures, successes, whatever it might be. All that we pray come through our mind, if we're just praying with our mind, with our thoughts. And therefore, it's all colored by our thoughts. It's all influenced by our thoughts in such a way that we may be praying sweet words, great words, but they may be just coming out of our pain or our desires. Are you with me? So what happens is God gives us his spirit so that we can pray in a way that is a direct, I'll use it this way, don't take it wrongly, it's a direct line from our spirit to his spirit and it bypasses all the thoughts, the thoughts that really cloud prayer. Because if you think about it, we pray many times, we pray things that we want, that we think are the best, right? Don't we? We always say, if it's your will, God. We always tag that on somewhere along the line, you know, God, if it's your will. But the fact is, a lot of times we're praying out of either selfish desires. I mean, how many of you ever prayed? How many of you ever prayed that your child, teenager, I'll use teenager. How many of you have ever prayed that your teenager, would be in a horrific situation that could cost them their life. How many of you have ever prayed for that? God, I'm asking you for this. You wouldn't ask that. Your natural person won't ask that because all you want is what you think is the very best for your child. But how many of us know that some of the things that God takes us through are the very things that bring us to Christ. Sometimes people go through the worst situations, and through that situation, it's really a turning point in their life where they come to Jesus. And so what we do as parents sometimes, we will pray in a certain direction because this is what I think is best for my child, according to all that I know. But the problem is we don't know everything. According to everything we know that may be good, but we don't know the things of God. We don't know the deep things of God. You know, it's like deep calling to deep. We don't understand that. We don't know what's going on in the heart of God and what he intends for our child. But what happens is we're able to fellowship with God and worship God and we're able to pray for our child. We may not even know we're praying for our child. It's the Spirit who prays through our spirit. It's actually communion with God to where He is working out His perfect will even as we pray and we're fellowshipping with Him. And we don't know we just prayed that something's going to be maybe life-endangering to our child. See, God is so good that He's not going to let us pray the things that He knows would only be detrimental to our child. That's why I said before, some of us have come to faith in Christ in the worst circumstances, in the middle of the biggest crisis of our life. Would any of us have prayed for that crisis? Would we have wanted somebody to pray for us to have that kind of a crisis? We would have thought, you're my worst enemy if you're going to pray for me to have that kind of situation. Right? So really, praying in the Spirit is given by God so we can fellowship with Him, and at the same time, we can intercede and we can pray for situations and people that we don't have any idea what we're praying for, but the Spirit does. He who searches the mind of the Spirit, He knows. Okay, then I talked about, boy, I'm giving all this time to rehashing last week, but it's not, I don't think. ministry tongue, Acts 14.5. Now, notice what it says here. Acts 14.5. Yeah, 1 Corinthians, what'd I say? Man, I must be wanting to preach in Acts lately. 1 Corinthians, thank you, Harley, by the way. 1 Corinthians 14, verse, actually back up to verse 4. Because remember what we were talking about here from last week. Paul is talking about in Corinth the misuse of the gifts, especially the gift of tongues. And here he says in verse 4, he says, he who speaks in a tongue edifies himself. Now he's talking about a heavenly tongue, a heavenly language, but what it does is it edifies the individual, builds up the individual. How'd you get that up there? Okay, squeaking by, huh? Okay, but look at the latter part of that verse. But he who prophesies edifies the church. So if you're speaking in tongues, that's okay, you're edifying yourself. But in the corporate worship, that doesn't edify anybody. In the corporate worship, if you're just speaking in tongues, praying in tongues, that's not going to build anybody up. Okay? Unless there's an interpretation of it. But now Paul goes on and he says, I wish, but he who prophesies edifies the church. So you see the comparison. If you're speaking in a tongue, the only person that's being edified is you. Now, if you're being edified and everybody else is being left out, that's what we call selfish. Okay? That's selfish. If all I want is for me to be edified and I don't care about everybody else, then I'm doing something that will edify me and I'm saying to the rest of you, nanny nanny boo boo. I don't know if that's a good way to put it, but I'm basically saying I'm going to do what I want to do and I don't care if you're not edified, if you're not built up. It's just for me. And that's the thing Paul is fighting against. He's saying, look, that is selfish. It's self-centered. There's no love in that. It's all about you, and it's not about other people. It's just about you. And so then he says, but whoever prophesies, he who prophesies edifies the whole church. In other words, you're speaking something that can be understood, and it can be embraced, It can be for edification, it can be for encouragement, it can be for strengthening people. It's a word that maybe comes from God or just a word that you're speaking by the Spirit and it encourages one, two, three, or the whole body. And so Paul says, look, that's where you need to go. And then he says this. But so nobody misunderstands, Paul's not condemning tongues. He's not, he's condemning the wrong use of tongues. He's condemning the wrong use of it, the selfish use of tongues. And so he goes on in verse five, he says, I wish you all spoke with tongues. He said, I want you all to speak with tongues. That's fine, that's great. But he says, but even more that you prophesied. I want you all to speak in tongues. I'm not telling you don't speak in tongues. I'm telling you in the corporate body, in the gathering, and where there may be people who don't understand tongues, or there are people who are unsaved, they don't know the Lord, they'll think you all are idiot if you're speaking in a heavenly language, right? But what about if you're using a tongue that they would understand? That's a little bit different situation. Now, here he says this. He says, but even more that you prophesied. For he who prophesies is greater than he who speaks with a tongue. Unless, unless indeed he interprets that the church may receive edification. So he puts it into classification. Prophecy, words of encouragement, edification, and exhortation, those are better than someone who speaks in a tongue, prays in a tongue. It's better in the corporate worship. unless this person who speaks in a tongue is able to give an interpretation to what was spoken. Because if an interpretation comes, that also brings edification, exhortation, and comfort. You follow? So that's all Paul is saying. He's saying, look, in the corporal, now what do you do if you're in a small gathering of believers, and in that small gathering of believers, everyone has been baptized in the Holy Spirit, in other words, every one of them, praise in tongues. What about that kind of a gathering? I myself think it's perfectly okay if you're in a small gathering, and that's what it is. It's a gathering of believers that are like-minded. They all understand the gift. They're able to pray in the Spirit. It's not like a church where people are going to come in from the outside. It's not like you've got visitors coming in. It's not like you have unbelievers there. If they're all believers and they're all praying in the Spirit, They don't even know what they're praying, but they're edifying, they're honoring God, they're blessing each other. So, okay. Now you say, give me a scripture to prove that. I don't have a scripture to prove that. I don't think I need one, but. So now there is, though, the ministry of tongues, which is in 1 Corinthians 14, 5, where he's talking about, it is a tongue that's to men, but it must be interpreted. Okay. Then the last one I gave was tongues for intercession. That's Romans 8.26. And that's where it's to God and it's understood by God, but it's not understood by men. If you go to Romans 8.26, you'll see what I mean. Romans 8.26. Likewise, the Spirit also helps in our weaknesses, for we do not know what we should pray for as we ought, but the Spirit himself makes intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered. So there, in other words, they can't be uttered, they can't be words that are understood, they can't be spoken and understood. The Holy Spirit prays through us, and usually that is for intercession for other people, not for ourself. That's usually an intercession for other individuals, and usually we don't even know who they are or what it's about. I can remember times of waking up in the middle of the night, and I think I shared this with you, waking up in the middle of the night, and something was just stirring my spirit. I'd just begin to pray in the spirit, and I had no idea what I was praying about. But sometime later would find out that it was at that same time something was going on in somebody's life, and they were facing a very difficult situation, and I didn't know about it. I would have been sleeping still. But what happened was the Spirit woke me up. I prayed and interceded. You say, well, why would God do that? Why didn't He just... You have to ask God. All I know is what the Scripture says and how the Spirit works. And I know just about that much of how the Spirit works. Now, so the two-fold function of tongues came down to this. Personal edification, that's one purpose. The other is for public exhortation, for comfort. And they're different tongues. It's not the same tongue that's used all the time. They're different types of tongues. That's what the scripture teaches. Now, from there, the question led to, how do you know it's not just your own flesh? Well, here's the thing. Let's go to Luke chapter 11, okay? Luke chapter 11. Now in Luke 11, I'm trying to be sensitive to where we are here. Verse 1, now it came to pass, as he was praying in a certain place, when he ceased, one of his disciples said to him, Lord, teach us to pray as John also taught his disciples. So he said to them, when you pray, say, our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name, your kingdom come, your will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. and forgive us our sins as we also forgive everyone who is indebted against us. and do not lead us into temptation, but deliver us from evil." Now that's, commonly we call that the Lord's Prayer, but actually that's the Disciples' Prayer. The Lord's Prayer is in John chapter 17, where Jesus is praying in the garden. That's Jesus' Prayer. This is the Disciples' Prayer, what He taught the disciples to pray. And basically all this is is a format. You're not supposed to go around every day. Our Father who art in heaven, this is basically saying these are the areas that you pray in. He's teaching them, and that's okay to pray this. But what he's saying is, look, you pray, there's an area of worship, there's an area of asking God, there's an area of petition, there's an area of confession. So we should be doing that all the time. But now he continues on from that. Sometimes we stop with this. Remember, Jesus is teaching them how to pray. That's what they asked for. And he said to them, which of you shall have a friend and go to him at midnight and say to him, friend, lend me three loaves? For a friend of mine has come to me on his journey, and I have nothing to set before him. And he will answer from within and say, do not trouble me. The door is now shut, and my children are with me in bed, and I cannot rise to give to you. I say to you, though he will not rise and give to him because he is his friend, yet because of his persistence, he will rise and give him as many as he needs. Now, Jesus is still talking about prayer. He hadn't changed the subject. He's still talking about prayer. Then he goes on this. He says, so I say to you, ask and it will be given to you. Seek, and you will find. Knock, and it will be open to you. Now what's he talking about here? He's talking about a persistence. He's talking, and remember, here's the guy that won't open the door and give anything out, and he says, look, be persistent, be persistent, be persistent. So now he's talking about ask, seek, and knock. Just keep on doing this. Now keep following with me. Don't shut it off yet. For everyone, verse 10, for everyone who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it will be opened. If a son asks for bread from any father among you, will he give him a stone? Or if he asks for a fish, will he give him a serpent instead of a fish? Well, what's the logical answer to that? Help me out. No. If he asks for bread, he's not going to give him a stone. That's just the regular natural father. I mean, if he's a decent father. Or if he asks for an egg, will he offer him a scorpion? Again, no. If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, How much more will your Heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask Him? Now notice, remember we said we receive the Holy Spirit when we're born again. He comes and indwells us. There's a difference between an indwelling and a coming upon. If you look in the book of Acts, every time the Holy Spirit came upon them, or He filled them, one of the two. but it was a coming upon them. So what Jesus is saying, okay, you want to know how to pray? Here's how you pray. You pray this way. He goes through all of that, and then he says, look, how much more will your father, your heavenly father, give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him? You got it? They're asking for the Holy Spirit. Well, if the Holy Spirit's given when you're born again, why ask? That's what it's talking about, baptism in the Holy Spirit. Jesus is the baptizer. And when Jesus is talking about, if you want to learn how to pray, it's not just doing Our Father. If you want to learn how to pray, there's an essential key to real prayer. It is the Holy Spirit. So the question came, how do I know it's not my flesh? Well, the question I ask is, did you go to God with a humble heart? Did you go the best you knew how, and you asked God to baptize you with the Holy Spirit? And did you pray in a language that you didn't understand? If you went to God and you prayed and asked him for the fullness of his spirit, he's not going to give you something else. He's not going to let you do something in your flesh when you're asking for that. Now, you can act in your flesh. Don't get me wrong. But if I ask God for something that he said he will give me, It's an act of faith. It's simple faith. I simply trust Him. I ask Him, and I trust that He gives it to me. You say, well, I asked the Lord for that. Now, here's where we get down the rubber meets the road. I know in this room there are people who've asked the Lord to baptize them with the Holy Spirit. And they say, I've never spoken in tongues. The best way I know how to describe that is this. There is something that must take place on the human level as well as on the divine level. For instance, the best way I can picture to you is this. When Jesus was walking on the water and Peter was in the boat, and Peter said, Lord, if that's you, bid me come to you. So Jesus says, okay, come on. Peter could have sat in the boat all day long and said, well, Jesus, I just want to come to you. I want to walk on the water. Please? Peter had to get up, and Peter had to do something himself. He had to step out of the boat. He physically had to step out of the boat. As long as he was seated in the boat expecting God to just move upon him, He would never walk on that water. He had to step out, physical action. Many times people say, well, I've asked the Lord to baptize me in the Holy Spirit, and I've never prayed in tongues. Have you ever opened your mouth? Have you ever just began to worship God and open your mouth and just worship God and praise Him and sing to Him? And if something came out that you didn't understand, did you just stop it? Or did you let it continue? I know that sounds like a crude illustration, but the fact is sometimes we have to just step out of the boat. See, there's been a misunderstanding many times about tongues. It's like somehow the Holy Spirit comes upon you and you can't resist this. No, there's something far different than that. Our minds have been so wrapped up with intellectualism. defaming intellectualism. Being an intellect is good. I wish I had some. I mean, there's nothing wrong with having a mind that reasons and thinks things through and really wraps, you know, gets everything line upon line, precept upon precept. Nothing wrong with that. But God gives us something that you can't reason out. You cannot reason it out with your mind. That's the whole problem. Our mind has become so encapsulated with, it has to make sense to me. If it doesn't make sense to me, I won't. Tell me how this makes sense to you. A man 2,000 years ago, nailed to a cross. Perfect, innocent, nailed to a cross. Make sense of that. You say, well, as far as salvation, make sense of that still. Yeah, you can go through all the scriptures and everything, but the fact is, this is something that's so glorious, only the mind and the heart of God can conceive of it, that one man would die for the whole world because he's not just a man, he's God himself. But try to wrap your mind around that. Or better yet, Jesus says that you might be in the Father as I'm in the Father, and I in you. How is that possible? You can't reason that through with this. You can't make sense of me being in the Father, and Jesus being in me, and me in him, and Jesus in the Father. It's just simply talking about relationship, but you can't reason it through with your mind. But that doesn't deny the truth and the reality of it. Okay. I still didn't get around to where I was going to go. So it comes down to this. How does a person, how does a person, if they've never been baptized with the Holy Spirit, Jesus is the baptizer, how does that happen? First, you've got to thirst. If you don't thirst, you're not going to drink. The scripture says we've all been made to drink of one spirit. If you're not thirsty, you're not going to drink. If you're not hungry, you're not going to eat. Well, I don't know. Some people eat and they're not hungry. But you've got a thirst, and you've got to ask. You've got to specifically ask, Lord, I want to be baptized. I'm asking you to baptize me in your spirit. I'm hungry. I'm thirsty. This is what I long for. And then you simply receive by faith. It's the same way you got saved. You believed, and upon your belief, you were saved. Grace was given. Charis was given, which is also, charis means grace, gift. Pastor Bill, are you ready to do communion? So be thirsty. Amen.