Good morning. Let's open this
morning's service with hymn number 36 in your hardback timbrel,
number 36, A Mighty Fortress is Our God. A mighty fortress is our God,
A bulwark never failing. Our helper He amid the flood
Of mortal ills prevailing. For still our ancient foe Doth
seek to work us woe His craft and power are great And armed
with cruel hate On earth is not his equal ? Did we in our own
strength confide ? Our striving would be losing ? Were not the
right man on our side ? The man of God's own choosing ? Dost
ask who that may be Christ Jesus it is He, Lord Sabbath is His
name, from age to age the same, and He must win the battle. ? And though this world with
devils filled ? ? Should threaten to undo us ? ? We will not fear
for God hath willed ? ? His truth to triumph through us ? ? The
prince of darkness grim ? We tremble not for Him, His rage
we can endure, For lo, His doom is sure. One little word shall
fell Him, That word above all earthly powers, no thanks to
them abideth. The Spirit and the gifts are
ours, through him who with us sideth. Let goods and kindred go. This muck toll life also. The body they may kill. God's truth abideth still. His kingdom is forever. Please be seated. Good morning. We open your Bibles
with me to the first chapter of Mark, Mark chapter one. I want us this morning to look
at God's word as it relates to the baptism of the Holy Spirit. A lot of confusion in religion.
about what it means to be baptized in the Holy Ghost. And pray the
Lord be pleased to teach us the truth about that subject. So
let's ask his blessings on our time together. Our merciful heavenly Father, We come before Thy throne of
grace, looking to Thy dear Son for all
our acceptance, for all our righteousness, for all the hope of our salvation.
Lord, we stand amazed that You would bring us once again to
this place and that You would promise to meet with us, that
You would be pleased to send Your Holy Spirit in power that
You would teach us into all truth and cause us, Lord, to rest our
souls on Thy dear Son. We pray that You would cause
Him to be lifted up in our midst, in our hearts, that our eyes
would be fixed on Him, that our hearts would be drawn in faith
to him, that he would be glorified and that your people would be
blessed. We ask it in Christ's name, Amen. Mark chapter 1, I'll begin reading
in verse 7, John preached saying, there cometh one mightier than
I after me In another place, John said,
I must decrease, he must increase. Every time John is mentioned
in the scripture, it's made clear in that passage that John is
not the Christ. He makes that very clear. And so here he says, There's
one that comes after me, the lachet of whose shoes I am not
worthy to stoop down and unloose. I indeed baptize you with water." The baptism of water is symbolic. The baptism of the Holy Ghost
is salvific. The baptism of water is a picture,
a type, the substance of salvation is
in the baptism of the Holy Spirit. John's making that clear. He
says, don't look to me. And I can add my voice to John
as one crying in the wilderness. Don't look to me and don't look
to your water baptism as the hope of your salvation. I'm not
the Christ. And that baptism doesn't save.
Now, if If the Lord's pleased to baptize you with the Holy
Spirit, you'll want to follow Him in obedience to testify of
that spiritual truth that has taken place in your heart by
grace, by giving testimony to the church that you've been immersed
in Christ. We use that word a lot, don't
we, in the English language. We'll say, well, you know, so-and-so's
just immersed in their work, or they're just immersed in that
relationship. completely, completely in it. And that's what the word baptism
is a reference to here. And John says, I baptize you
with water. Yes, that's a picture of the
death, burial, and resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ. Yes,
it is symbolic of the cleansing effect that the Spirit of God
has in taking away our sins. But Don't look to my baptism. Don't look to your baptism. Don't
look to me. Matter of fact, in Acts chapter 19, Paul and Silas
go to Ephesus and the scripture says they find 12 men in Ephesus
that were disciples of John. And they ask the men, have you
received the Holy Spirit? And they responded by saying,
we didn't even know there was a Holy Spirit. And they said,
and so Paul asked them, he said, well, what was your baptism all
about? And they said, well, we were baptized by John's baptism,
the baptism of repentance that John gave. And Paul clarifies
to these men, he says, well, you didn't understand what John
was preaching then. because when john baptized he
preached christ jesus he was he was preaching the gospel he
said there's one that comes after me uh... and he pointed men to
christ and when they heard that then they were baptized into
jesus christ you see they hadn't heard the gospel from john they
only heard it in part They didn't hear the fullness of it. Not
that John wasn't preaching it. Paul makes it clear. You didn't
understand what John was saying. So, John makes it clear here,
I indeed have baptized you with water, but he shall baptize you
with the Holy Ghost. Now, water baptism is easy to
It's easy to remember. It's easy to identify with. It's all something done physically. Most of us can remember when
we were baptized by water. We can remember the experience
and the circumstances. And yet this baptism of the Holy
Spirit, that's what I wanna be sure. I wanna be sure. What does the scripture say about
those who have been baptized by the Holy Ghost? Because a
man can't baptize you into the Holy Ghost. That can only be
done by God. And so John makes it clear. He
says, I baptize you with water. It's just a symbol. But he that
cometh after me, whose sandal latchets I'm not worthy to stoop
down and unlatch. Now that's a picture of the lowest
servant in the Jewish home. the foot washer, the lowest servant
would be at the door so that when you came in, he would take
off your shoes and wash your feet. And how oftentimes the
Lord identified himself with that and calls on us to be that kind
of servant, doesn't he? John says, I'm not worthy to
take off his shoes and wash his feet, but he's gonna baptize
you with water. I mean, with the Holy Ghost.
and it came to pass in those days that Jesus came from Nazareth
of Galilee and was baptized of John in Jordan and straightway
coming out of the water he saw the heavens opened and the spirit
like a dove descending upon him and there came a voice from heaven
saying thou art my beloved son in whom I am well pleased. So
now in this passage of scripture we have We have God the Holy
Spirit coming down in the form of a dove, God the Father speaking
audibly from heaven, this is my beloved Son in whom I'm well
pleased, and God the Son submitting Himself to baptism in order that
He might fulfill all righteousness. Now, it's the baptism of the
Lord Jesus Christ that saves. When we're baptized, we're identifying
with His baptism. So we saw Wednesday night from
Psalm 2 where the first part of that Psalm is God the Father
speaking about the Lord Jesus Christ. The middle part of that
Psalm is the Lord Jesus Christ speaking about Himself. And the
last part of that Psalm is God the Holy Spirit speaking about
the Lord Jesus Christ. And that's always the case. Everywhere
in the scripture where God speaks, He speaks of Christ. Whether
God the Father speaking, God the Son speaking, God the Holy
Spirit speaking, He's speaking about the Lord Jesus Christ.
Why? Because anything that you and I are ever going to know
about God, we're going to find out in the person of the Lord
Jesus Christ. That's what the disciple Thomas
said. Lord, we don't know where you're
going. In John chapter 14, we don't know where you're going
and we don't know the way. And what did the Lord say to
Thomas? He said, Thomas, I am the way. I am the life. I'm the truth. No man can come
to the Father but by me. You want to know God? And that's
when Philip spoke up and he said, show us the Father and it sufficeth
us. And what did the Lord say? Philip, have I been with you
so long that you don't know that if you've seen me, you've seen
the Father for I and the Father are one? Whatever we're going
to know about God, the Lord's going to teach it to us through
the person of the Lord Jesus Christ. And so here it is baptism, God
the Father speaking. There's my beloved son. You hear
him. You look to him. You rest your soul in him. God the Holy Spirit's coming
down as a picture of the anointing the Lord Jesus Christ has spoken
of as the one who is anointed with the oil of gladness above
his fellows. You see, you and I have the Spirit
of God in part, the Lord Jesus Christ as the Christ. the Messiah,
the anointed one came in the full power of the Spirit of God
to accomplish the purpose for which God the Father sent him.
What was that? You shall call his name Jesus
for he shall save his people. That's what he came to do. He
didn't come to make an offer of salvation. He didn't come
to try to win men over. He came in order to accomplish
the salvation of His people, and He did it in the full power
of the Spirit of God. And He pleased the Father in
accomplishing the task for which the Father sent Him. And He's
our successful Savior, seated at the right hand of God. That's
the reason God would not allow His Holy One to see corruption.
That's the reason He's called the firstborn among many brethren.
He was raised from the dead by the power of God. as reward for
what he had done for his faithfulness. And the only way that you and
I are going to be rewarded by God is to be found in Him. All
the blessings and promises of God are yea and amen in Christ. In Christ. What is this anointing or baptism,
I'm sorry, not anointing, but baptism of the Holy Spirit? Many have the symbols of Christianity. Many have learned the talk and
can even mimic the walk, but they don't have the substance.
They don't have Christ. or don't the the the heart is
deceitful it'll it'll cling on to something physical as if it
was spiritual and that's what john saying that I baptize you
with water but he comes after me he's gonna baptize you with
the holy ghost I wanna I wanna know that I've been baptized
in the Holy Ghost don't you there's a There's a lot of confusion
about this thing of baptism of the Holy Ghost. You'll hear people
say, well, you know, if you accept Jesus as your Lord and Savior,
then God will save you, conditioned on that decision, conditioned
on that choice that you made. And then after your salvation,
if you're really dedicated, And if you're really sincere and
really humble, then there's a second blessing available to the super
spiritual. And that's the baptism of the
Holy Spirit. And the evidence that you've
been baptized in the Holy Spirit is that you'll speak in tongues. You'll be able to just speak
gibberish, and you won't know what it means, and nobody else
will know what it means, but everybody will pretend that you've been
baptized in the Holy Spirit. And you'll have power to heal,
and you'll have power to prophesy, and these things will be evidence
of the fact that you've received the second blessing, because
you're real spiritual. Is that what the Bible teaches
about the baptism of the Holy Ghost? What they're calling super
spiritual is actually the most fleshly thing being done in the
name of Christianity. There's nothing spiritual about
it. It's all done in the flesh. It's all man looking for something
in the flesh to give him assurance of his salvation. How do I know if I've been baptized
by the Holy Ghost? Well, the first and clearest
way of knowing is that the Holy Ghost never draws attention to
Himself. He never draws attention to Himself.
And those people who talk about being baptized in the Holy Ghost,
you know, they do all sorts of foolish things in the name of
the Holy Ghost, don't they? trying to convince themselves
and others that they've been baptized. The Holy Spirit never
does that. Look with me to John chapter
16. Verse 13. How be it when He,
the Spirit of truth, is come He will guide you into all truth
for he shall not speak of himself. He's not gonna draw attention
to himself. He's not gonna draw attention
to you. He's not gonna draw attention to your gifts. If you know anything about the
Holy Spirit, you know the truth. You know Christ. And that's who
he speaks of, but whatsoever he shall hear that shall he speak
and he will show you things to come. It's the spirit of God. When
you're baptized in the spirit of God, it's the spirit of God
that gives you hope in things to come. Now when he said he's
going to show you things to come, he's not saying that he's going
to enable you to look into the spyglass of the future and see
some future event in this world. He's going to show you that all
of your hope is in your eternal security. It's in your glorification. He's going to set your affections
on things above. He's going to cause you to realize
that You know what? I'm a stranger in this world.
I'm a pilgrim. This world is not my home. The
Lord has gone and prepared a place for me and he's coming again
to receive me unto myself. He's going to put into your heart
a desire to see him for who he is in the fullness of his glory
and to be made like him, to be in his presence. and through
all the circumstances that He puts you through in this life,
that's going to be your hope. You're going to be looking for
things to come. Verse 14, this can't be any more
clear, can it? He shall glorify Me, for He shall
receive of Mine and shall show it unto you. How do I know if
I've been baptized in the Holy Spirit? The Lord, John said,
He that comes after me, He's not gonna baptize you with a
symbol. He's gonna baptize you with the Holy Ghost. And in Romans
chapter eight, it makes it, the Lord makes it very clear. If
you have not the Spirit of God, you're none of His. So here, the Lord speaking, He
said, He's not gonna, He's gonna glorify me. All things that the
Father hath are mine, therefore said I that he shall take of
mine and show it unto you. So, if I've been baptized in the
Holy Spirit, then God in his word keeps pointing me to the
Lord Jesus Christ. for all my righteousness and
all of my justification before God. And He keeps pointing me
to the Lord Jesus Christ with a longing desire to see Him and
to be made like Him. That's the evidence. You see,
it's not speaking in tongues. It's not healing somebody. It's
not, you know, it's not any of that foolishness that people
do in religion. It's a matter of the heart, isn't
it? The Spirit of God has, you see the circumcision is spoken
of, the circumcision of the heart is what was pictured in the circumcision
of the flesh of the Old Testament. And that's what he does, he circumcised
the heart. He causes us to not trust in
our flesh for the hope of our salvation. It is the Spirit that quickeneth. The flesh profiteth nothing. You see, without the Spirit of
God, you can know nothing about regeneration. You can't know
anything about the new life, the new birth. That's what the
Lord told Nicodemus in John chapter 3. Nicodemus, we just sang about
the kingdom of God, didn't we? And Nicodemus said, my kingdom
is not of this world. If my kingdom were of this world,
my disciples would fight. But I've come into this world
to bear witness of the truth. They that are of the truth, they
hear my voice and they follow after me. How are we gonna be
of the truth? The spirit of God's the one who
does the work of regeneration. And so the Lord told Nicodemus,
said, Nicodemus, you've got to be born again. You've got to
be born from above. You've got to have a new birth.
And Nicodemus, like all men of the flesh, the natural man cannot
receive the things of the spirit, for they are spiritually discerned. And so Nicodemus wasn't a spiritual
man. He was a very religious man,
but he wasn't spiritual. He was still hearing and interpreting
everything in a matter of fleshly things. And so that's why He
said, how can I go back into my mother's womb and be born
again? That's not possible. Well, the Lord said, that which
is of the flesh, Nicodemus is flesh. But that which is of the
Spirit, the Spirit's like the wind. He's like the wind. You can't control Him. You don't
have any authority over Him. All you can do is, Lord, cause
your spirit, cause your spirit to blow my way, cause your spirit
to regenerate me. Give me a new heart, a new heart. Take out my heart of stone, this
fleshly, lifeless, hard, cold heart of stone. That's what we're
born with. That's the heart that's wicked
and deceitful above all things. That's the heart that no man
can know. Lord, I need a new heart. I need a beating heart,
a heart of flesh, a heart that enables me to look to Christ
and rest all the hope of my salvation in His glorious person and in
His finished work. And I can't do that if you don't
give me your Spirit. Well, how do you get the Spirit
of God? Ask Him for it. That's what the Lord said. You being evil know how to give
good gifts unto your children. Which of you who has a son who
asks for a loaf of bread would hand him a serpent? You know, you're not going to
do that. And if you being evil know how
to give good gifts unto your children, how much more will
your Heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them who ask Him?
Lord, I've got to have your spirit. I'm not capable. I don't have
the capacity to discern spiritual things. And if you don't give
me your spirit, I'll not be saved. I'll not be born again. I've
got to be born of the Spirit. Turn to me to Romans chapter
8. Romans chapter 8. How do I know if I've been baptized
in the Holy Spirit. The baptism of the Holy Spirit
is the work of regeneration in the heart. You know, one of the ways that
I know that I'm baptized in the Holy Spirit, John, well, let's
go back to that passage in a moment. It's John chapter, the passage
we just looked at in John 16. We'll go back to that in just
a moment. But let's look at Romans 8 first. Romans 8 verse 1, there
is therefore now no condemnation, no condemnation. The accusations
of the law have been silenced. The law has been satisfied. There's
no accusation, there's no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus
who walk not after the flesh but after the spirit. Now, that
doesn't mean that you're walking a higher spiritual plane than
other Christians. You've got your head in the clouds
and you're, you know, you're experiencing. No, you're either
in the flesh or in the spirit. If you're in the flesh, then
you're still thinking about, you're thinking after the flesh. For the law of the spirit of
life in Christ Jesus have been, have made me free from the law
of sin and death. I'm free. My sin's been put away. There's no fear of death. The
Lord Jesus Christ has conquered the grave. Oh, death, where is
thy victory? Oh, grave, where is thy sting?
The sting of death is sin. and the strength of sin is the
law. Thanks be to God through Christ Jesus I'm free. The law's
been satisfied. Sin's been put away. Death's
been conquered. How do I know that? Because the
Spirit of God has convinced me of it. He's convinced me of it. I might know not much, but I
know that. In John chapter 16 when the Lord said when the Spirit
comes He will reprove the world of sin. Now that word reprove
doesn't mean make you feel sorry. It means it will convince you
of it. Convince you of it. You'll be absolutely convinced.
All right, let's continue reading here. For what the law could
not do and that it was weak through the flesh, you've not been able
to keep the law, have you? Not a problem with the law. The
law is holy, the law is just, the law is good. The moral mandates,
we want to follow after those things. But we know that in our
hearts, we've never been able to keep God's law. You see, man looks at the outward
appearance, God's looking at the heart. How do I know if I
have the Spirit of God? Because I understand this thing of salvation
is a heart issue. I can't look at my improved behavior. I can't look at my outward appearances
in order to get assurance of my salvation. It doesn't comfort me. There's no peace there. God sent in His own Son in the
likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, condemned sin in the
flesh, that the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled
in us who walk not after the flesh but after the spirit. I
know I have the spirit of God if I'm not looking to my behavior
as the source or as the proof of my righteousness. For they that are after the flesh
They that are walking by the flesh, they do mind the things
of the flesh. In other words, they're looking at outward appearances. They're looking at the things
they do and the things they don't do. I know I'm a Christian because
I used to do this and now I don't do it anymore. Well, I'm glad you don't do them
anymore. You shouldn't have done them before. Certainly there's
lots of things we ought not to be doing. But as soon as you
start looking to that as the hope of your salvation, if you're
an honest person, you've got no peace, you've got no hope. For they that are after the flesh,
they do mind the things of the flesh, but they that are after
the Spirit, the things of the Spirit. How do I know if I've
been baptized in the Spirit of God? Because the Spirit of God
has given me an understanding. He's given me an understanding
of my righteousness. He's given me understanding of
my position before God. He's given me hope in the Lord
Jesus Christ. For to be carnally minded, we've
got lots of carnal thoughts, don't we? But that's not what
he's talking about here. He's talking about judging spiritual
things with carnal measurements, fleshly measurements. To be carnally
minded is death, but to be spiritually minded is life and peace. I know
I have the Spirit of God because God has enabled me to make spiritual
judgments, not carnal judgments, about what it is to be saved
and who God saves and how God saves. Because the carnal mind is enmity
against God, for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed
can be. The carnal mind, the fleshly
mind, it's not possible for it to be subject to the law of God. For then, they that are in the
flesh, you hear Chris say, well, you know, I did that in the flesh.
Well, you probably did. But that's not what he's talking
about here. You're either in the flesh or you're in the Spirit.
You're either making judgments by outward appearances and by
physical things. You're either trusting in that
water baptism and in those physical evidences or God has baptized
you in the Spirit of God. What did John say? I baptize
you with water, but he that comes after me, he's going to baptize
you with the Holy Spirit. He's going to give you spiritual
eyes. They that are in the flesh cannot
please God. It cannot. For without faith
it is impossible to please God. They that cometh to him must
believe that he is. Where are you going to get that
faith? It's the gift of the Spirit of God. It's what God gives in
regeneration. He gives faith to trust Christ. But you're not in the flesh. You say, well, I seem so fleshly. Well, you are. But if you're
judging your salvation by that, then you're being carnally minded.
You see, the Spirit of God enables me to know that though there's
so much flesh in me, I've got the hope of salvation. I've got
hope. But you are not in the flesh
but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwelleth in
you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none
of his. And if Christ be in you, the
body is dead because of sin, but the Spirit is life because
of righteousness. Turn back with me to John chapter
16. If we're making judgments spiritual judgments based on
what we see and feel. You see, you can't do that. You
can't make spiritual judgments like that. It's the spirit of
God that makes you able to understand things as they really are. And
the Lord makes it clear here in John chapter 16, and when
he is come, in the previous verse he said, It is expedient for
you that I go away, for if I go not away, the Comforter will
not come." I'm going to send a Comforter. He's going to point you to Me.
He's going to lead you into all truth. He's going to give you
the grace to make spiritual judgments based on spiritual truth, things
that the natural man cannot see or hear or feel. These are going
to be These are going to be the work of the Spirit of God in
the heart. And when He has come, He will
reprove, convince the world of sin. Has the Spirit of God convinced
you that you're a sinner? Now, a sinner, in short, is a
person that can do nothing but sin. That's all you're capable of
doing. That's all the flesh can do. Paul said, in the mind I serve
God, but with the flesh. I serve sin. Now he wasn't saying
that I indulge the members of my body in the fleshly pleasures
of this world and I do all sorts. No, he's saying that my flesh
can't do anything but sin. It's not capable. My old man,
my old nature. There's no righteousness in it. There's no perfection in it.
There's no holiness in it. You can't do anything but sin.
I've shared this with you on many occasions, but in my opinion
it's the best definition of sin in all of Scripture. It's very
simple. All have sinned and fallen short
of the glory of God. Now what in your life falls short
of the glory of God? If you have the Holy Spirit,
If He reproved you of sin, then you know the answer to that question.
Everything. everything. How can I come to
that conclusion? Because God has revealed to me
the glory of the Lord Jesus Christ. When Isaiah saw the Lord high
and lifted up, he said, Woe is me, I'm undone. I'm a man of
unclean lips. I live among a people of unclean
lips. Everybody's a sinner. Nobody's like Him. Nobody's like
Him. that's what God requires for
my salvation then he's going to have to represent me before
God because there's nothing in my life that's like him. You
see, self-righteous religious people, while I'm getting closer
to Him, I'm doing my best. You know, there's some evidence
that I'm that I'm doing better than I used to do and I'm certainly
doing better than most folks. I'm above average. And they go
about comparing themselves to themselves and comparing themselves
to other men and speaking peace to their own hearts when there
is no peace. There's no hope. Oh, when the Spirit of God comes,
he will reprove the world of sin, of righteousness and of
judgment. of sin, it's right here in this
passage, of sin because they believe not on me. Whatever is
not a faith is sin. What is faith? It's trusting
the Lord Jesus Christ for all my righteousness. It's trusting
the sacrifice that the Lord Jesus Christ made on Calvary's cross
for all my justification before God. That's faith. Faith is trusting
Christ, resting the hope of my salvation completely in Him.
And whatever is not of faith is sin. And so the Lord has reproved me of
sin. He's convinced me that I'm a
sinner because I've got nothing outside of the Lord Jesus Christ
for the hope of my salvation. Of righteousness because I go
to my Father. I have a righteous advocate seated
at the right hand of majesty on high and he's my only righteousness
before God. And if he doesn't present himself
on my behalf, there's no reason why God should have anything
to do with me. How do I know I have the Spirit of God? I've
been baptized in the Spirit of God because I'm looking to Christ
for all my righteousness and of judgment because the prince
of this world has been judged. What God, what the Son of God
accomplished on Calvary's cross was to put away sin. To set His
people free. He came in order to leave captivity
captive. He came in order, you see I was
bound. I was bound by Satan. Unable to believe. And what the
Lord Jesus Christ accomplished on Calvary's cross? Well, he
unleashed the change, didn't he? Set the captive free and
the prisoner free. And all of my judgment before
God is in what the Lord Jesus Christ
did on Calvary's cross. Romans chapter 8. I just want
to belabor this for another moment if you'll bear with me. Romans
chapter 8. Will you turn back with me to
that passage that we were looking at just a moment ago? Look at verse 25. For if we hope
for that which we see not, then do we with patience wait for
it. He's going to show you things
to come. With patience I'm waiting in hope for the fullness of my
salvation. Why are you doing that? Because
that's the work of the Spirit of God in my heart. I don't find
any peace. I don't find any comfort. Not
for my soul in this world. Likewise, the Spirit itself,
the Spirit also, I'm sorry, Help with our infirmities. You got infirmities? You got
a lot of unbelief? You got a lot of flesh? A lot
of conflicts in this world? Sometimes you don't know how
to pray? And oftentimes when you pray, you pray amiss that
you might consume it upon your own lust, as James said. You
ask for things you ought not to ask for. Now here's your hope. The Spirit of God. He'd make
it the intercession for us. You see, God's not blessing you
based on the accuracy and faithfulness of your prayers. If you have
the Spirit of God, a lot of times you just, Lord, all you can do
is groan. It's all you can do. Lord, I don't know what to say.
I don't know how to articulate what I need. And all you can
do is go before the throne of grace and know that for Christ's
sake you have acceptance and you're groaning out to God. Well,
what does God say? The spirit also help with our
infirmities for we know not what we should pray as we ought, but
the spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot
be uttered. And he that searcheth the heart
knoweth what is the mind of the spirit because he maketh intercession
for the saints according to the will of God. There's your hope,
child of God. The Holy Spirit, He knows the
will of God for you. And in our infirmities, God says,
you have the Spirit of God. He's making intercession for
you. God's will is going to be fulfilled. You've got the Holy
Spirit interceding on your behalf. What more can we ask? Oh Lord,
give us your spirit. Baptize me. John said, I baptize
you with water. It's a symbol. But the one that
comes after me, he's gonna baptize you in the Holy Ghost. He'll
reprove you of sin, of righteousness and of judgment. He'll intercede
for you. He'll speak peace to your heart
and he'll point you to Christ. Point you to Christ. We'll take a real brief break,
OK? I'm sorry about the time.