Summary
Remember, back there, the scripture tells us, all of them were filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other languages as the Spirit gave them ability. Because who had been given the special ability to speak in known foreign languages that they hadn't studied in the 2nd chapter of Acts, who had been given that special ability, it was the Jews. There are those that are baptized in the Holy Spirit that then are in a second stage that can live the victorious Christian life that experience these blessings of the Holy Spirit. And the charismatic movement said, there's a renewal that the Holy Spirit wants to do in us, and usually they connected it with the speaking in tongues, not the biblical gift of speaking in tongues. There were those that supposedly now because of the empowerment of the Holy Spirit could live the victorious Christian life and those that could, you know those that were just continuing to struggle in their sin. Peter looks at what occurs that they have been brought to faith that God had gifted them with ability to speak languages that they had never studied before and Peter looks at the situation and says, how can we deny them the greater gift of baptism in water and the word if they have this lesser gift.
Video citations
- The Have and Have Nots Acts 10:44-48 — Let's open our Bible's, please, to the 10th chapter of the Book of Acts. We come to the conclusion of this great, great chapter. And we have been spending several weeks in this chapter. It is one of…