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Barney and Dolly
Dated June 4, 1870 the letter began: "Dear, Dear Mother, Forgive me for what I am about to do, as I am mad and cannot help it. I think I am the most miserable creature on earth, I loved this woman better than life; but she has proven false to me and must die..."
Written by 27-year old Barney J. Cosgrove, who had been in Elko less than three weeks, the note referred to Dolly, a saloon girl whose real name was Annie McManus. Fearing that she had two-timed him, he had kept her locked in his room for the past ten days.
Completing the letter to his mother, he jotted down a few instructions concerning disposition of his belongings after his planned suicide. He headed downtown with $40 jingling in his pocket. The money had been sent by his mother to buy a train ticket for Barney to travel home to San Francisco.
He gambled and drank all day Saturday until Lady Luck deserted him to favor the other players. Late in the evening he shoved his hand into a pocket and found only lint. Morose and ugly, he tried to snatch a few coins from the dice table. One of the gamblers slapped him across his face. A town constable saw the incident and took Barney by the arm, intending to escort him home before he got into serious trouble.
Half way to his lodgings, he thanked the officer and said he could find his way without difficulty. Agreeing with Barney, the lawman continued up the street to check locks at a couple of businesses.
A few minutes later, on his way back downtown, he passed Cosgrove's place and was startled by screams coming from the house. Finding the door locked, he shoved his shoulder against it and crashed into a dark room. He scratched a match against the door frame and saw Barney bending over Dolly, who was in bed. It looked like he was pounding her with his fist.
Grabbing Cosgrove from behind the constable was stabbed in his arm. The fist held a knife he had not seen in the brief flare of the match. Receiving a second wound, this time in his side, he decided it was time to run for help.
Lawmen arrived a few minutes later and found Dolly crumpled in a heap on the ground outside the house. Barney had lit out for the sagebrush.
Elko County Sheriff Ben Fitch brought a dog that nosed around for a couple of seconds. Finding Barney's trail, he took off after him. It didn't take long for the animal to find Cosgrove's hiding place. Fitch unleashed the dog and it attacked.
Barney slashed with his knife trying to fend off the canine and cut the dog badly on the neck and a shoulder. Fitch pulled his revolver and fired three times. Shot once in his left side, Cosgrove gave up.
Dolly was taken to the hospital where the doctor found 65 knife wounds. Cosgrove had done a thorough job. Dolly's time had come but she clung desperately to life until late Monday afternoon.
Before passing on, she gasped, "Barney stabbed me but I do not know for what."
Although her reputation was a shady one, many townspeople, angered over the senseless killing, attended her funeral. The editor of the Elko Independent said it was "the foulest butchery that has been chronicled in the State."
Barney was convicted of second-degree murder, a stroke of good luck for him. He could have been hanged on gallows behind the courthouse if convicted of first-degree murder. Judge George Keeney, when passing sentence, stated he was flabbergasted at the verdict for such a dastardly crime. He added that he was sorry Cosgrove had not committed suicide after the killing as he had planned. He sentenced Barney to life in the Nevada State Prison in Carson City.
His mother somehow was able to get his release after only seven years. Rumor has it that she set him up in business with a cigar store in San Francisco. And everyone lived happily ever after...except Dolly.
Howard Hickson
January 8, 2000


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The latest way to take agricultural land out of conventional farming is to sell it to investors looking to do "impact investing. Although there are many types of agricultural investing that are impact investing, a big share seems to be by investors interested in saving the plant with organic production.
"Impact investing is very much the idea that we can use capital and capital market businesses to drive solutions to social and environmental problems, "said Chris Larson, with New Island Capital, talking to members of the American Society of Farm Managers and Rural Appraisers during the society's annual meeting. Institutional investors are starting to think more deeply about how their investment decisions are impacting the world beyond the financial returns they seek to generate with those investments.
Without much tracking, Larson estimated the current global impact investing at between $100 billion and $150 billion. The company for which Larson works is one that specializes in impact investing.
He downplayed talking about investors advancing organic production. But organic farming is a righteous cause to some people who have money but no exact idea about what they want to finance and how it fits into feeding the world's population. People with money can sometimes be easily influenced to invest in what sounds good.
My firsthand experience with millionaires, who have more money than sense, is those who have thrown millions of dollars into the meditation movement preached by the late Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. They believe the world can be saved by X number of meditators simultaneously meditating about the same solution to a world problem everything from changing the weather to ending a war. The Maharishi movement came to my hometown when it purchased the bankrupt Parsons College in the early 1970s, and the meditators remain in Fairfield, Iowa, operating the Maharishi University of Management.
Larson made reference to switching land from conventional agriculture to "more sustainable production methods. This indicates the farming methods being used by the huge majority of U.S. farmers are not considered sustainable by impact investors. But there is much more to impact investing than changing crop production to organic production.
"A lot of the thesis around impact investing is that we can place capital into businesses that are doing good things, and that [we] can keep going on into the future and eventually scale larger. Renewable fuel is a great example of that. Microcredit and microfinance in the developing world is a prime example where there is income that is reinvested and success besets continued success, Larson said.
He also specifically mentioned impact investing being used for farm worker employee benefits, providing land for young landowners, helping with international markets for low-income producers, conservation land improvements and land conservancy trusts.
He explained convergent and divergent investment strategy as it pertains to impact investing. Convergent strategy is reinforcing financial return or increasing the yield of assets. Divergent strategy is accepting a trade off of social gain for a reduced financial return.
There also is negative investment strategy where investors have said they won't invest in something they don't believe is appropriate; examples have been nuclear power or South African businesses during the 1980s because of racial segregation. The negative investment philosophy can hold true against agricultural production entities using biotechnology and genetically modified crops, too.
In referring to all impact investment, Larson said he thinks "there are a lot of untapped opportunities to execute these strategies.
As I began, I believe with so many people in charge of big cash who don't understand conventional farming and biotechnology, the more financing of organic and non-conventional agriculture is going to occur.

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This dataset contains listing of 2.4m companies incorporated with the Companies House, sponsored by the Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy, United Kingdom. Each entity is registered with the following information: company number, company name, address (street, post town, county, post code), category, SIC (Standard Industrial Classification) code, etc.
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|135b Queens Road, Watford, Hertfordshire, WD17 2QL, United Kingdom
|151 Upper Wickham Lane, Welling, Kent, DA16 3AL, United Kingdom
|362 Derby Street, Bolton, BL3 6LS, United Kingdom
|81 George Street, Lozells, Birmingham, West Midlands, B19 1NS, United Kingdom
|33 Tubbs Road, London, NW10 4RA, England
|Unit 2 Invicta Park, Sandpit Road, Dartford, DA1 5BU, England
|79 Washbrook Road, Rushden, Northamptonshire, NN10 6UR, United Kingdom
|Lismore House, 32 Miller Road, Ayr, KA7 2BN, United Kingdom
|George K Bowery 4 Parkwood Court, Nottingham, Nottingham, Notts, NG6 9FB, United Kingdom
|The Old Bakery High Street, Elham, Canterbury, CT4 6TB, England
|79 Wesley Avenue, Swallownest, Sheffield, S26 4UU, England
|Bridge House, 9-13, Holbrook Lane, Coventry, CV6 4AD, United Kingdom
|38 Bishopsford Road, Morden, SM4 6AX, England
|136 Town Street, Stanningley, Pudsey, LS28 6ER, England
|11 Marburg Street, Northampton, NN3 5GB, United Kingdom
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|17 Victoria Road, London, W3 6EJ, England
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|Neal's Corner Suite 20, 2 Bath Road, Hounslow, TW3 3HJ, United Kingdom
|96 High Street, Watchfield, Swindon, Wiltshire, SN6 8SW, England
|1, Garbutt Close, Stamford Bridge, York, YO41 1SG, England
|Abk Food Store, 138 Grahams Road, Falkirk, FK2 7BZ, Scotland
|9 Fenwick Avenue, South Shields, Tyne and Wear, NE34 9AJ
|Unit 2 Regents Place, 11 Hastings Street, Luton, Bedfordshire, LU1 5BE, United Kingdom
|98 Illett Way, Horsham, West Sussex, RH12 0BL, United Kingdom
|Shangri-la Farm Ind Est, Todds Green, Stevenage, Herts, SG1 2JE, England
|3 Archers Park, Branbridges Road, East Peckham, Tonbridge, Kent, TN12 5HP, United Kingdom
|2 Longsdale Crescent, Oban, Argyll, PA34 5JP, Scotland
|84 Evesham Road, Middlesbrough, TS3 0AT, United Kingdom
|23 Duston Wildes, Northampton, NN5 6ND, England
|33 Victory Road, Derby, DE24 8EJ, England
|Unit 19, Trench Lock 3, Telford, Shropshire, TF1 5ST, England
|5c Grand Parade, Green Lanes, London, N4 1JX, England
|19 Maple Court, Grove Park, Maidenhead, Berkshire, SL6 3LW, United Kingdom
|21 Church Crescent, London, N10 3NA, England
|19 North St, Ashford, Ashford, TN24 8LF, England
|11 Birkdale Court, Buckland Road, Maidstone, ME16 0UH, United Kingdom
|62 Bellrock View, Glasgow, G33 3HX, United Kingdom
|61 Manor Road, Rushden, NN10 9EX, England
|15 Beverley Street, Blackburn, BB2 4PW, England
|8 Lord Cameron House, Kidderpore Avenue, London, NW3 7SU, England
|18 Western Street, Brighton, BN1 2PG, United Kingdom
|Flat 1, 189 Abbeydale Road, Sheffield, S7 1FG, England
|89 Caldon House, Waxlow Way, Northolt, UB5 6FN, England
|Barons Court, Unit 1 Graceways, Whitehills Business Park, Blackpool, FY4 5GP, England
|54 Huntley Avenue, Northfleet, Gravesend, Kent, DA11 9HS, England
|31 Leyburn Close, Coventry, CV6 6GT, England
|134 Seaton Crescent, Aspley, Nottingham, NG8 5PX, United Kingdom
|136 Sycamore Road, Smethwick, B66 4NS, United Kingdom
|58 Coral Court, 15 Telford Road, London, N11 2RA, United Kingdom
|5 Gledhow Lane, Oakwood, Leeds, Yorkshire, LS8 1SD, England
|Aloha Restaurant 20b, South Cliff Road, Bridlington, YO15 3AS, England
|Unit 9 Old Park Farm, Ford End, Chelmsford, CM3 1LN, England
|45 Roding Road, London, E5 0DN, United Kingdom
|Unit 78 Woodward Road, Knowsley Industrial Park, Liverpool, L33 7UY, United Kingdom
|14 Ash Close, Barlborough, Chesterfield, S43 4XL, United Kingdom
|13 Harehills Ave, Blakelaw, Newcastle Upon Tyne, England, NE5 3HE, United Kingdom
|133 Mollison Road, Stoke-on-trent, Staffordshire, ST3 7AJ, United Kingdom
|67 More Pool Avenue, Harborne, Birmingham, B17 9DS, England
|56 Empire Road, Perivale, UB6 7EQ, England
|2c Woodstock Studios, 36 Woodstock Grove, London, W12 8LE, United Kingdom
|Meadow Bank, Leeds Road, Otley, West Yorkshire, LS21 1DL, United Kingdom
|79a Tottenham Court Road, London, W1T 4TD, United Kingdom
|Regency House, 48 Birmingham Road, Bromsgrove, Worcestershire, B61 0DD, England
|6 Shelton Meadow, Loughgiel, Ballymena, BT44 9JX, Northern Ireland
|19 Occupation Lane, Dewsbury, WF13 4BJ, United Kingdom
|236 Old London Road, Hastings, TN34 5NS, United Kingdom
|Baunton Mill House Baunton Lane, Baunton, Cirencester, Gloucestershire, GL7 7BB, United Kingdom
|39 The Swallows, Welwyn Garden City, AL7 1BX, England
|1 Ilford Road, Stockton-on-tees, TS19 8EA, United Kingdom
|1 Cook Drive, Spalding, PE11 2FP, United Kingdom
|17 Coopers Mill Avenue, Dundonald, Belfast, BT16 1WR, United Kingdom
|331 Brentwood Road, Romford, Essex, RM2 5TH, England
|Po Box, 6419, Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire, LU7 6ER, United Kingdom
|32a Victoria Avenue, Surbiton, Surrey, KT6 5DW, England
|24 Goodmayes Avenue, Ilford, Essex, IG3 8TW, England
|1 Berkswell Close, Sutton Coldfield, West Midlands, B74 4PB, United Kingdom
|22 Brentwood Avenue, Crosby, Liverpool, L23 2UZ, England
|390 London Road, Benham Hill, Thatcham, Berkshire, RG18 3AA, United Kingdom
|116 John Newton Court, Bexleyheath, DA16 2AG, United Kingdom
|Unit D1 Access 12, Station Road, Theale, Reading, Berkshire, RG7 4PN, United Kingdom
|54 Tempest Road, Leeds, West Yorkshire, LS11 7AW, United Kingdom
|14 Ashfield Avenue, Shipley, BD18 3AL, England
|1 Derby Road, Eastwood, Nottingham, NG16 3PA, England
|16 Lower Edge Avenue, Oldham, OL1 2XN, England
|Hussein Azzam, Flat,355 King Street, London, W6 NH, United Kingdom
|54 Peerless Drive, Harefield, Uxbridge, UB9 6JG, England
|311 Capworth Street, London, E10 7BA, United Kingdom
|151 Waterside Road, Hamilton, Leicester, LE5 1TL, England
|35 Duke Street, Henley On Thames, RG9 1UR, England
|25 Bridgend Crescent, Glasgow, G69 0JG, Scotland
|369 Kingston Road, New Malden, Kingston Upon Thames, KT3 3RY, United Kingdom
|59 Vincent Road, Luton, LU4 9AN, United Kingdom
|1 Broadbridge Lane, Smallfield, RH6 9RE, England
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You could take the complicated route: remove the chain and soak it overnight; disassemble and clean each roller with a cotton swab; and then do something involving pipe cleaners and a solvent. Luckily, there's another way. Buy a chain cleaner such as Park Tool's Cyclone Chain Scrubber (£27.99, www.madison.co.uk) and fill it with Finish Line Citrus Degreaser (£12.49 for 495ml, www.madison.co.uk). Attach the device to your chain, turn the crank 15 revolutions, and let the brushes scrub away grime (shown). Remove the chain cleaner and wipe the chain with a rag. No chain cleaner? Spray Finish Line Speed Degreaser (£10.99 for 500ml, www.madison.co.uk) onto the chain, focusing on small sections at a time (it evaporates quickly), and wipe clean with a dry rag. Apply lube when you've finished.
Adjust your brakes
If your brake lever reaches the handlebar before it stops your bike, either your pads are worn or your cables are stretched. Worn pads should be replaced - but that's another story and you want to ride now, and there is something you can do to get by. Turn the barrel adjuster on the brake caliper (where the cable enters the brake) clockwise one click at a time, testing your brakes after each adjustment. If you reach the last click, and still haven't solved the problem, loosen the pinch bolt (where the cable goes into the caliper) and pull a small amount of cable through (shown). Tighten the pinch bolt and repeat the process until you achieve the right amount of tension.
Smooth out shifting
What good is a clean chain if it jumps around and skips gears? Loose cable tension is the likely culprit. With your bike in a repair stand, shift to the smallest cog. Turn the barrel adjuster on the rear derailleur one-half turn clockwise (shown). Then, as you rotate your pedals, shift gear once. If the chain doesn't jump to the next cog, make another half turn. If the chain starts to jump two cogs for every one shift, you went too far. Back it down a half turn. Don't turn the barrel adjuster more than halfway at a time; you may end up with too much tension, which will make your shifting just as bad, or worse, than when you started.


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As mentioned a few days back, our Film Festival Strategy brainstorm continues...
A very necessary expense in your publicity campaign are postcards and posters. These can be expensive but fortunately there are a number of on-line printers that are relatively inexpensive (eg 4000-5000 postcards for $100). One hidden cost when it comes to printing is shipping so I do recommend using a printer near you - so before you buy - make sure you include shipping in your cost estimate. I actually send an assistant or intern to pick up my printing from "Next Day Flyers" since the shipping almost costs as much as the printing. Sometimes your local printer will even match an on-line printers prices - or come close enough to make it worth your while. But they won't cut their prices unless you have a comparison price.
Regarding Postcards - they are cheap enough online that you could print them for each festival or theatrical screening even if you only print 500 at a time. The old way of doing this was to order a ton and then use stickers for your specific screening time. Unless you have some slave labor around - buying new postcards for $50 is going to be cheaper than paying someone to print and apply stickers to each post card - you have better things to do with your time.
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1. Most on-line printers will not print one sheet size posters.
2. Printing standard film size posters - 27"x41" - is very expensive (for film festivals you only need one or two which will cost about $50 each - but for a theatrical release you will need more than that). The reason that these posters are so expensive to print is that they are too large for standard offset printing (the cheapest kind of bulk printing). However nearly all theaters (all the ones that I dealt with) will accept posters that are 24.5"x37.5" which is the largest size that you can have printed offset. This will save you thousands. (Although the best price I found was $1200 for 2000 posters - a pretty good price).
3. You can get a lot of mileage from 11x17 posters. Most storefronts won't put up a standard or near standard one sheet when you are promoting in a town. But they will put up a 11x17 poster. And these are much cheaper. You can get a 1000 for around $300. They are also good for wildposting/wheatpasting as they fit on most electrical boxes. (18x24s are also a good size for this) But be careful with wildposting - you can be fined thousands of dollars for illegal posting if there is anything on the poster that will track back to you or the theater!)
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Take your Bibles and turn please with me to the second chapter of Acts. In our continuing study of Acts we come now to Chapter 2 which records for us the birth of the church. The beginning of Chapter 2 records also the occasion of the baptism of the Spirit and the filling of the Spirit that occurred at the birth of the church. Now let me say to begin with that all kinds of groups with all kinds of views have approached Acts Chapter 2 to prove all kinds of points. As is so often the case in a crucial passage in Scripture it has been exposed to some truth and some error in terms of its interpretation. And what I share with you this morning is what I believe in my heart to be that which comes from this passage and I have to believe in my heart, though I am well aware of my own imperfections. And in case you're not sure from my viewpoint, ask my wife.
I have to believe what comes from this has been entrusted to my care by the Holy Spirit, because if God answers prayer that would be the prayer that I had repeatedly prayed for three or so weeks in leading up to sharing this with you this morning. It is not my attempt at this point to minimize other Christians who feel that the baptism of the Holy Spirit is something quite different than what I will tell I believe it is this morning. It is not my attempt to divide the body of Christ. It is only my attempt as I see it in my own study to clearly distinguish to you what this passage says. Now we will not be able to complete the passage and therefore some of the argument that I would like to advance and some of the points that I would like to make will not be made until next Lord's day.
But what I am giving you this morning is from my heart to yours as I believe the Spirit of God has opened this passage to me. And I trust that you will take it in the sense and in the sense of love in which it is given and yet in the sense of lovingly giving you what I believe with conviction. And I don't apologize for that.
Coming then to Acts Chapter 2, we come to the birth of the church. In thefirst chapterof Acts, as we began our study we saw the preparation for the birth of the church and in Chapter 2 we see it born. In Chapter 1, the disciples were waiting for the coming of the Holy Spirit. In Chapter 2, He comes. In Chapter 1, they were anticipating the church being born. In Chapter 2, it is born. In Chapter 1, the disciples were equipped. In Chapter 2, they are empowered. In Chapter 1, the believers are held back. In Chapter 2, they are sent forth. So Chapter 2 then is a very important passage. In Chapter 2, Acts 1-8 is fulfilled. "But ye shall receive power after the Holy Spirit has come upon you and ye shall be witnesses unto me." This promise of Jesus comes to pass in the beginning of Chapter 2. The church is born and moves out in testimony in Chapter 2.
Now this is a tremendous transitional passage. This is the greatest change that has occurred in all of the Scriptures. "For is the end of the old age and the birth of the new age." The great crux of God's redemptive history is right here. The death and resurrection of Jesus Christ issues itself in the sending of the Spirit and the birth of the new age, the age of the Spirit. In the old age, the Spirit was with you. In the new age He is where? In you. In the old age, men served God out of fear of consequences under law. In the new age, men served God out of love for Jesus Christ energized by the indwelling of the Holy Spirit. It's a new economy altogether.
This is the birth of the new age and the character of the new age is the church. That body of believers indwelt by the Holy Spirit all in an invisible union with Jesus Christ and with each other. And that is the mystery that unfolds beginning in Acts 2. Now Acts 2 then is the birth of the church is the next step in God's redemptive history. Now God has endeavored to reveal Himself to men in a redemptive fashion. In the Old Testament He revealed Himself in terms of the law and the sacrifices, etc. Then came Jesus Christ who died, who was buried, who rose again bodily and physically. Then the next act, Jesus ascended to heaven. The next act sent the Holy Spirit in response to that this great redemptive history is continued in the birth of the church, here in Acts Chapter 2 crisis chapter. We could not say enough about it. We only beggar the occasion by words at all.
We cannot bespeak the truth of what really happened in this great transition. Words just don't allow. Only God, Himself, can define the fantastic change that took place. Now the definition of such change just for your point of reference is in John 7:37. Don't look it up. Listen as I read it. "In the last days, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried out saying if any man thirst, let him come unto Me and drink." Verse 38, "He that believeth on Me as the Scripture has said out of his heart shall flow rivers of living water." 39, "But this spoke He of the Spirit whom they that believe on Him should receive. For the Holy Spirit was not yet given because Jesus was not yet glorified."
In God's redemptive history, the Spirit age couldn't happen until Jesus ascended and was glorified in heaven. So in the great flow of history, Jesus must return to the Father before the Spirit can be sent. And that's exactly where we find ourselves in Chapter 2. The closing of Chapter 1 is the ascension of Jesus Christ, the beginning of Chapter 2 is the coming of the Holy Spirit. Jesus accomplished His work and went to the Father and the Father in response to the perfect work of Christ sent the Holy Spirit to dwell within the believers.
This is a new dispensation. A whole new age, a new thing is born and you and I are a part of it by faith in Jesus Christ. This is called the church, church from Ecclesia, called out ones. This is something never seen in the Old Testament. It's a mystery Paul calls it. Something hidden throughout the Old Testament, they never saw the church. This is a bride of Christ, the New Testament says. These are branches for the vine Jesus Christ, says John. This is a flock for Jesus, the good shepherd. This is a mystery kingdom ruled by the Son of God. This is a household, a family of sons by adoption. This is a building says Paul, a spiritual temple with Jesus Christ as the foundation. But most uniquely this is a body.
And the most unique metaphor in defining the church is the church is a body. Body too, as a human body is fitly joined together so that everything functions in harmony, so the church is brought together in union with Jesus Christ and with each other by the Holy Spirit so that we're all part of each other. We are a body. We are body two. Body one, Jesus Christ incarnate on earth. Body two, Jesus Christ incarnate in His church. Not one body, but a multiplicity of bodies in whom Jesus lives.
And so we are the body of Christ blended together a spiritual incarnation of Christ in men. We are a fellowship knit together with Christ as the head, totally dependent on each other, one new man. This is the identity of the church. All barriers are abolished. There is no longer Jew nor Greeks, says Paul. There's no longer male nor female, Galatians 3. No longer bond nor free, for we are all one in Christ.
And everyone of us in the church is indwelt by Jesus Christ. Now when we're talking about the church, we're talking about the real church, those who know Christ. We're not talking about the building. We're not talking about those who say they're in the church. We're talking about the true church, those who know Christ by personal faith. We all possess the Holy Spirit. He lives in us. That's the character of the age you see. And the people who would tell us today that there are some Christians who don't have the Holy Spirit do not understand the dispensation of the church at all. They don't understand what the character of the church is. It is a body of believers all indwelt by the Spirit. That's what the church is. It can't be anything less than that.
That's why Romans 8:9 Paul said, "If any man have not the Spirit of Christ in him he is none of His." Because that's what the church is, you see. So every believer possesses the Spirit for instruction, for power, for comfort, for security, for guarantee of our inheritance. The Spirit is in every believer. Now, our Lord promised that this would happen and it happens here in Acts 2. The church is born and from then on every believer at the point of faith in Christ receives the Holy Spirit. And I'll show you why we believe that to be true.
Now the Bible calls this the baptism of the Holy Spirit. Jesus, Himself, gave it that title, Acts 1:5. "For John truly baptized with water, but ye shall be baptized with the Holy Spirit not many days from now." And we know what He was talking about when He qualified it by saying not many days from now. He was talking about what would happen at Pentecost, which was 10 days later. Jesus said, "You will be baptized with the Holy Spirit." Now He used a very clear word, a very definitive word, baptizo. And we'll talk about what that exactly means. But keep in mind that Jesus titled this what it is. And it's what happens here in Chapter 2.
They were baptized with the Holy Spirit. So Jesus had promised that the character of the church would be such that those who were in the church would be indwelt by the Spirit. He shall be in you and that they would be...this was called baptized in the Spirit. And we'll take this apart in a moment. Now, as we look at the text, we see three things and we'll barely get halfway through or so the first one, because it's the key. We see the evidence of the Spirit's coming. We see the effect of the Spirit's coming, and we see the explanation of the Spirit's coming in verses 1-13.
Now the evidence of the Spirit's coming is in verses 1-4. Now keep in mind this is the introduction of a new age. This is the birth of the church, the fulfillment of the promise of Jesus that you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit. Also the fulfillment of the promise of Jesus that the Spirit will be in you. Both occurring simultaneously at salvation from here on, but obviously couldn't occur at salvation here because these people were already believers and it was the birth of the church in a unique historical sense.
To say that you get the Holy Spirit later, after salvation because the apostles did is to misunderstand the redemptive history of God. The Spirit came here because this was the time for the Spirit to come. And there had to be a beginning. It is not to say that this is the example of every Christian who then gets the Spirit X number of years after his salvation. Not at all.
All right, let's look first of all at the evidence of the Spirit's coming and we'll take this all down so that you'll understand it, we trust. This morning though, when after the message I went out making clear distinctions, someone met me immediately and said you forgot to say this. I said wait that's the whole point of my message. So I felt bad, but I hope I get the point across better this time.
Verse 1, "And when the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all with one accord in one place." Ten days later and they're still with one accord, beautiful. The historical designation is extremely important here, and it's important for many reasons. Note that it does not say when the disciples had prayed or when the disciples had tarried or when the disciples had fulfilled some spiritual requirements or when the disciples had the paid the price of Pentecost then this occasion occurred. It doesn't say that at all. It says it happened when the day of Pentecost was fully come.
Luke points then only, watch it, to the history and the divine timing of God. That's the only thing Luke points to. This happens when God wants it to happen, not in response to anybody's spiritual activity no matter how spiritual it may be. Now, I want you to look at the concept of Pentecost because this is a basis for which all the interpretation hinges. The word Pentecost, a Greek word, signifies fiftieth or fiftieth in order or fiftieth part of a thing.
This is an important feast. It's calledTu B'Shevat in Exodus, which is the feast of harvest. It's calledShavu'ot, which may be the most famous name which means the feast of weeks; or it's called Yom HaBikurim, which means the day of the first fruits. But all three titles using Exodus and Numbers mean the same thing. And it refers to this Pentecost feast. Now the feast of Pentecost celebrates or commemorates the first fruits of the wheat harvest.
It also commemorates the giving of the mosaic law because they also believe that after the Exodus it was about 50 days til the coming of the law. And the Passover, you remember was celebrated at the time of the exodus because that's when the angel passed over right before the exodus. And so they measured some 50 days to the giving of the law and they used Pentecost then to celebrate not only the first fruits of wheat, but they used Pentecost to celebrate also, and they still do even to this day, in fact, today is exactly 50 days after the 14th of Nisan this is exactly Pentecost Sunday.
But nevertheless, it's divine timing perhaps, right to the day, this is it, 50 days after Passover or after Easter I should say. But after the exile, it became traditional to celebrate the law giving as well as the feast of first fruits of the wheat harvest. So it came to be very significant and the Jews still celebrate this even today. Now, keep this in mind, the Spirit's coming on the day of Pentecost then is a matter of divine chronology. Now I want you to keep in mind something that I've taught you before and I now remind you because you learn line upon line, line upon line, precept upon precept, precept upon precept, here a little, there a little, right?
All right, now what I want to remind you of is there are two types of prophecy. One is verbally predictive, one is typically predictive. There are verbal prophecies, word prophecies. There are picture prophecies. A word prophecy is a virgin shall conceive and bring forth a son. That's a word prophecy. A typical prophecy is the Passover Lamb, which typically predicts a final Passover Lamb, Jesus Christ, in a picture sense. Do you see? Another typical prophecy would be, for example, the blood on the door posts in the middle. A picture of the blood of Christ which satisfies the requirements of God and stays the hand of the angel of death.
So there are both verbal direct prophecies and picture prophecies that we call types in the Bible. And may I hasten to add my friends, those prophecies which are typical, which are types, and picture prophesies are no less strategic than the verbal ones and they better come true with just the same accuracy or the Bible really has problems. When God predicts something whether He predicts in verbal statement or by perfect picture, it better come true. And so when we come to the day of Pentecost, this is a fantastic fulfillment of a predictive type. And it must happen on the day of Pentecost or it blows the whole thing in terms of what God prophesied through pictures.
So we say then this, and I'll explain it in a minute, the Spirit's coming was not in response to prayer. The Spirit's coming was not in response to tarrying. The Spirit's coming was not in response to meeting any conditions, it was God's sovereign timetable at work. It was the right day in the plan of redemptive history. And that day is revealed to us clearly in Leviticus Chapter 23 so that we know exactly when it was going to happen. Now without turning to that, but make a note of it, write it down and you can study it on your own. The key features of the feast revealed in Leviticus 23 are clearly laid out for us there. But we add to that that they are all in a sense predictive in their pictures.
Now three major feasts there are direct pictures of the work of Jesus Christ. The first feast of Leviticus 23 was God telling them to keep the Passover. Now you remember the Passover? They were in Egypt in bondage, the Lord was going to at the end of the plagues, kill all the first born and so He said if you want to escape the killing of the first born, you kill the Passover Lamb, take the blood, put it on the door posts in the middle, side and the middle, and the angel will Passover. And so the Israelites knew that God had passed by them and saved them because of the blood. And that was a perfect picture of Jesus Christ, whose blood shed for us and God sees us in view of the blood of Christ who passes by.
And so the Passover feast pictured the death of Jesus Christ. On what day did Jesus die? On what feast day? Passover, right on the day. You see, that prophecy not only was a picture of Jesus Christ, it was an accurate indication of what it was that was going to happen on one Passover that He would actually die on a Passover as a Passover Lamb. On the 14th of Nisan, which is in the spring which is equivalent to some time in our April or late March, comes Passover. And it was on such a Passover that Jesus died as the perfect Passover Lamb. You see God's timetable was right on.
And then there was another feast and the other feast is called the feast of the first fruits. And this was interesting, catch this one. This feast was on the next day after the Sabbath, after the Passover. Now the next...the Sabbath is on what day? Saturday. What would the next day be? Sunday. So that the feast of first fruits then would be on the Sunday right after Passover. Now the first fruits was interesting, because the first fruits was a barley first fruits. And I'll tell you what I mean.
I'll give you a second handed farmer's eye view of first fruits, because I don't know anything about it. But anyway, the farmer looks at his field, all right. He wants to determine if he's got a good crop. Now, he wants to know so he does what is commonly done by farmers, he examines the first fruits. He goes to sections, not the whole field, but a section there and there, he gets a section from every area of the field and pulls some of it out and he brings it all together and looks at it and if it all looks good, he says the whole crop is guaranteed to be good by the first fruits.
And so this feast was for them to go gather the pieces of barley, which evidently matured soon and get the barley and examine it and therefore praise God for what God was going to do when he brought the full harvest. It was a good lesson for trust. But they were gathered the first fruits of barley and that would be the guarantee of a good crop. Now my friends, that is a very, very accurate picture of the resurrection of Jesus Christ. Jesus even said Himself, "except a corn of wheat fallen to the ground and die, it abideth alone, but if it goes into the ground and dies, it comes forth and it really not only gives life to itself, but to others." It produces seed, produces fruit.
Jesus is the perfect fulfillment of the first fruits. In fact, listen to this, 1 Corinthians 15:10, Paul said, "Christ the first fruits of them that slept." You say what does that picture symbolize? It symbolizes that because Christ's resurrection was valid and good so shall ours. Did you get that? Jesus said, "Because I live," what, "ye shall live also." And the first fruits was a picture of the resurrection of Christ that guarantees that our resurrection will occur. You see it? And do you know, Jesus not only was crucified on the Passover, He rose on the first fruits, perfectly fulfilling the prophecy.
Then friends, 50 days later, Leviticus 23:15 and 16, 50 days later exactly, there was another feast called the feast of harvest. This is the Pentecost and it's celebrated the wheat harvest. And it was again a first fruits. The wheat crop was not yet fully done and what was done was this, they would go and they would gather the first fruits of wheat. They'd bring it together. Only this time, they did something unique with it. They didn't just bring it as a sheaf. You know what a sheaf is? Loose grain just tied together. They took it and they baked it in to two loaves. Very specifically, they were baked into loaves.
You say well, what does this predict? Well, it's very interesting, but I believe it predicts just exactly what happened on Pentecost. It has to, because that's what it...when it occurred. Jesus Christ died on the Passover, He rose on the first fruits, and Pentecost completed the pattern by making possible the enjoyment of these events. Now let me show you what I mean. Pentecost is another first fruits of the wheat harvest. Now some day our Lord is going to harvest believers, right, in the great coming of Christ. And He's going to separate the wheat from the tares, right? Now what your guarantee that you're going to be in that harvest? All right, His resurrection is one of the guarantees. Let me give you another one. 1 Corinthians...2 Corinthians Chapter 5 and Ephesians Chapter 1 says this, "You have the earnest of the," what, "Spirit." You know what the word earnest is? Arabon, engagement ring, pledge, guarantee or first fruits.
The Spirit of God within you is the guarantee of your full final inheritance, right? God has given you His Spirit now. Would He withhold anything from you in the future? No. The Spirit then is the earnest of our inheritance. We have the first fruits of our resurrection. In Christ's resurrection we have the first fruits of our inheritance in the Spirit dwelling in us. What happened on the day of Pentecost? The Spirit came and dwelled in them, right? Perfectly fulfilling the type of the first fruits feast.
So you see, this was exactly in God's timetable. Then mark this one. They not only gathered the sheaf, but they made it into a loaf. What do you think that symbolizes? The church is not a loosely, gathered together group bound together by string. The church has been blended into one common body, right? A loaf. You see the feast of harvest is a perfect picture of the coming of the Spirit as a guarantee of our full inheritance and the loaf is the picture of us being blended together. It's another wonderful picture because the first fruits of barley, the other feast that I mentioned that signified the resurrection. That was one that could have no leaven because it pictures Christ and leaven means sin and Christ had no sin.
But the church pictured in the feast of harvest has leaven, because in the church there is sin. Would you buy that? Perfect picture. Never misses one thing. Exactly accurate. So beloved when the Bible says when the day of Pentecost was fully come it happened, that's exactly why it happened. It didn't happen because they did something. It happened because it was God's divine sovereign timetable had run it's course and this was the moment that it happened.
So in God's perfect design since the early ages, the church was designed to be born at Pentecost to fulfill typical prediction. The Spirit was to come as the first fruits as the guarantee of our full inheritance as Christ was the first fruits and guarantee of our resurrection. So the day was set by God. It was His sovereign timetable. And so when our Pentecostal brothers and sisters in Christ say in their creed which states this recorded every month in the Pentecostal Evangel and I quote. "We believe that the baptism of the Holy Spirit according to Acts 2 is given to believers who ask for it." They have totally missed the point.
They have violated the prophetic word of God when they assume that or at least they have eliminated one of the most glorious fulfillments of prophecy that you'll ever find in Scripture. Jesus died at the right moment. He rose at the right moment. The Spirit came at the right moment. All on God's timetable, not in response to any activity of men. And thus, the church was born as a first fruits fulfillment. Just as Jesus had risen as a first fruits fulfillment and died as a Passover fulfillment.
All right, so we know then why it happened on the day of Pentecost. It was no accident and it was in no way related to what they did. It was the promise of the Father purely apart from them. Now it says also in verse 1, "And when the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all with one accord in one place." Now we could talk about where this one place was. The best we can do is look at verse 2 which says it was a house. Some commentators have felt that it was the house of the Lord, the temple. I don't feel that's correct, because Luke when he wants to talk about the temple uses the word temple in 2:46, he says, "they were with one accord in the temple." If he said one accord in the temple there, he could easily have said, one accord in the temple here.
But he says house. I believe that they were likely in this house, maybe this same one where they had the Passover the night before Jesus died. Maybe in the same one where He appeared at His resurrection. The same one they went to when they returned from the ascension, but they were in the house I believe. And I believe contrary to what some say that all 120 at least were there, not just the 12. Some have said that only the 12 at this point received the baptism of the Spirit. I think that would have left 108 people seriously wondering what was going on and it would have not been complete in accord with the baptism of the Holy Spirit in the sense of the birth of the church as it would have left some out.
All right, notice they were all in one place. They were together. And then it happens, verse 2. "And suddenly there came a sound from heaven like a rushing mighty wind." Notice it wasn't a wind, it was just a sound like a wind. But notice the word suddenly isn't that good? Suddenly the church was born. Suddenly the church was born with no forewarning really and I'm sure they didn't really expect what happened to happen even when it happened. They were just kind of in limbo waiting and suddenly it happened. It's a wonderful thing about the church. It suddenly happened and my Bible says Jesus said, "Behold I come," what, "quickly." Just as suddenly it's going to unhappen.
The church is in and out suddenly. Began with an instantaneous, unexpected, miraculous moment. It's going to end with an instantaneous, unexpected, miraculous moment, all on God's sovereign timetable. And God has as much right to determine the beginning of the church as He does to determine the end of it. And to say that either comes in the response of anybody's prayers really isn't understanding the sovereignty of God. Now, you'll notice that this whole thing happens in a fantastic way, but there's a very interesting note. It says "And suddenly there came a sound from heaven." If anything is fantastic or supernatural we want to know the source, don't we? This is from heaven.
That takes it out of the hands of man or Satan. This is God acting. Now notice that it was a sound from heaven, that it was like a rushing mighty wind. Now the wind in Scripture is often an emblem of the Holy Spirit is it not? John 3:8, "The wind blows where it lists, you don't know where it goes, you can hear the sound of it, so is the Spirit, so is everyone that is born of the Spirit." The Spirit of God moves about as a wind in Scripture. And it's the same word, Spirit is pneuma and that's the same word for breath or wind. But here there's a different word. "There came a sound from heaven like the rushing mighty wind." And the word translated wind is not the ordinary pneuma, but it's an interesting word used only one other place in the New Testament. I think it's Act 17:25, and it's the word pnoes, p-n-o-e-s if you're writing it down. And it means a blast of breath. It's not just a gentle breathing. It's a blowing just as if somebody was blasting breath.
Now remember this is not a real wind. There's no physical wind any more than there's physical fires we'll see in verse 3. But it's just the sound of it. This must have been fantastic phenomena. Can you imagine? No motion in the air and yet the sound is if a hurricane is raging out of heaven, and no movement at all. Just the noise of a hurricane without the wind. It suddenly happens. A great sound out of heaven as if the very blast of God's breath had reached the earth. And my friends, that's exactly what happened. Who is the breath of God? The Holy Spirit. And God just blew His breath on the earth. The blast of breath came from God and at that point the Spirit of God came to the earth.
Notice verse 2, "and it filled," where, "all the house where they were sitting." I believe everybody heard it. I think that's what gathered the crowd. We'll get to that next week in verse 6, but I believe it only filled the house where they were sitting. This beloved, mark it down, was the baptism of the Holy Spirit. Did you get that? It's very important. This is the baptism of the Holy Spirit. The sound was heard all over and it began to gather the crowd. The crowd, but the presence of the breath of God filled only the house where they were sitting.
They were completely enveloped, immersed, and baptized by the breath of God who is none other than the Holy Spirit. Since that was the coming of the Holy Spirit, the breath of God, they were then truly at that moment baptized by the Holy Spirit. And I believe right there in verse 2, you have the fulfillment of Chapter 1, verse 5, the baptism of the Spirit takes place in verse 2. What you have in verse 4 is subsequent and it is different. It is called the filling of the Spirit. Now let me add something and I want to talk about this for a moment because it's important. This baptism that occurs in verse 2 is not experiential. The baptism of the Holy Spirit is often defined today as an experience. You get baptized and then certain things happen. In the Bible the baptism of the Holy Spirit is non-experiential. That is it occurs on a divine level without any reaction. It's a sovereign act.
For example, you were justified when you received Christ. Did you all of a sudden feel oh there goes justification? No, that's non-experiential. You were adopted into the family of God as a son. Did you feel oh, there I went. I now am a son. No, that's non-experiential. You were so baptized into the body of Christ which you neither experienced. It happened in a non-experiential sense. Now what experience comes, comes in the filling of the Spirit, which we'll see later. But it is a non-experiential thing. It came from heaven. They were just sitting there and it happened and so far there's no response.
The Spirit of God moved in among them and what did He say, what is the baptism of the Spirit? And now we must turn to the apostle Paul who was God's man to define this term. Jesus said it will happen at Pentecost. It did. You say, well, I thought it was the same as filling. It can't be. Jesus knows what He's saying. Jesus says in Acts 1:5, "You will be baptized with the Spirit." And that must come first. Paul defines the baptism as one thing and the filling is something else, so we must be distinct about them.
So what occurs first in verse 2 is the baptism of the Holy Spirit. Let me show you what it is from Paul's own words written by the Holy Spirit. 1 Corinthians Chapter 12, and here is the definition of what happens at the baptism of the Spirit. "For as the body is one and hath many members, and all the members of that one body being many are one body, so is Christ." All right, now that's just giving us a little view of the body of Christ. Well, watch this. Here's the definition of the baptism of the Spirit. "For by one Spirit," that's the same Holy Spirit, "were we all baptized into one body." Now that's what the baptism of the Spirit does. It takes a person at salvation and places him in the body, whether Jew, Greek, bond, or free. We've all been made a drink into one Spirit.
The baptism of the Holy Spirit is an act by God's Holy Spirit whereby He takes a believer and places him in the body of Christ. It is non-experiential. You don't shout, you don't feel joy, you don't feel good as a result of the baptism of the Spirit, that is a divine act on God's part whereby placing the Spirit of God in your life you are then placed into Christ, non-experiential. Now let me show you some more about this because this is very important. Galatians 3:27 defines it further. If we're not clear, we can go to this verse and we read this. "For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ have," what, shouted, had joy, run around, spoken in other languages, preached the word with boldness, done wonders and miracles, no. "As many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ." The baptism of the Spirit then places you into union with Christ in His body.
Now, this is a mystery. The body of Christ is the collective unity of all saints of which Christ is the head. When you believed in Jesus Christ, you were placed into that unity, that body. You became one with Christ and one with every other believer, right? If you're in the body of Christ, you're one with Him. 1 Corinthians 6:17, "He that is that joined to the Lord is one," what, "one Spirit." When you became saved, Paul says, "nevertheless I live yet," not I, but what, "Christ lives in me." My life is not my own anymore, it's Christ's. I am in Him. I'm one with Him. I'm joined to Him.
So when you believed in Jesus Christ at the very moment of your salvation, He placed you into the body in union with Christ and every other believer. Are we one with each other in Christ? Sure. How did we get there? That's what the baptism of the Spirit is. Now in case you want to look at another passage, look at Romans 6. And keep in mind that there's no water around. These passages aren't talking about water baptism at all. This is theology at this point apart from the symbol of it, which is in the water baptism.
Romans 6, "What shall we say? Shall we continue in sin that grace may abound?" The argument here was if grace is activated when we sin, let's sin a whole lot so grace can really go to town. "God forbid, how shall that have died to sin live any longer in it?" Now watch this. "Know ye not that as many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into His death." And then verse 4, implies into His resurrection as well. What is the baptism there? It's not baptized into water. It's baptized into Christ. Baptized simply means immerse you. Sticks you into it. Places you inside the body of Christ in union with Him and with every other believer. That's all it means. Don't make a fetish out of the term.
Galatians 3:27, "If you've been baptized into Christ, you have put on Christ." You have been clothed with Christ. You've become one with Christ. So the baptism of the Spirit friends, keep it clear, is the placing of a believer into the body of Christ at salvation. Now Colossians 2:9 and I take it a step further. "For in Him dwelleth all the fullness of the Godhead bodily and ye are complete in Him who's the head of all principality and power." Don't ever think you lack anything you don't.
"In who also ye are circumcised with the circumcision made without hands," in other words, the Jews were always saying that they were circumcised and that got them in. But theirs was only physical, ours is spiritual. "In putting off the body of the sins of the flesh through the circumcision of Christ...by the circumcision of Christ." Verse 12, here it is, "Buried with Him in baptism in which also you are risen with Him." The Spirit takes a believer, baptizes him into the body, which is putting him in union with Christ.
When you're saved, you come into union with Christ. You're buried with Him in His death; you rise with Him in His resurrection; by a divine miracle you're united with Jesus Christ. One other one that is very strategic. 1 Peter 3:21, then I'll summarize. "The like figure unto which even baptism doth also now save us." Oh no. Baptism saves us? That's what it says. You say, do you believe it? I believe it. Then it says this. "But not the putting away of the filth of the flesh. Not water baptism." What kind of baptism? Spirit baptism. Therefore, Spirit baptism is tied intrinsically to what experience? Salvation.
When does it occur then? At salvation. The baptism of the Spirit occurs at salvation. It is the placing of the believer into the body. It is another salvation term like justification which is God declaring us righteous. Like adoption, which is God making us sons. It's the same kind of thing. It's a so soteriological term. That means it's a term for salvation. That's one for me, but it fits salvation. That's the point. The baptism of the Spirit then has nothing to do with the experience of the believer.
Initially, it is simply the Spirit placing him into the body. The filling of the Spirit then is the experiential thing. And that's what resulted in all of the speaking and languages and all of the wonderful things that happened through the book of Acts, and that's what results in the wonderful things that are still happening in the energy of the Holy Spirit right now. But please, don't confuse the baptism of the Spirit or you destroy the whole point that Paul is making about our unity in Christ. For if somebody doesn't have the baptism of the Spirit, they're not in the body. And if they're not in the body, they don't have the Spirit. And if they don't have the Spirit, they're not even saved.
You've fouled up the whole theology if you make the baptism of the Spirit an experiential thing that happens all the time. You can't. It's the placing of the believer into the body at the point of salvation. That's what it is. Now I want you to know that so that you'll be able to understand your identity in Christ. You're one with Him. You're one with every other Christian, that's what occurred in verse 2. When it says there came a sound from heaven like a rushing mighty wind we know that to be the breath of God, the Holy Spirit, filled the house where they were sitting. And if He filled that house, He filled them who were in it.
And I believe at that point the baptism of the Spirit took place. Kind of an interesting play on words, if you take the idea that it filled all the house and carry it to Ephesians 2:22. There's a new house there where all the believers are called the house or the habitation of the Spirit. So He filled the physical house in Acts 2:2, but in the same moment, He filled the spiritual house and all believers became His new house.
Now, let me add another thought here, because I want you to understand this. The baptism of the Spirit is also extremely important understood this way because if it isn't, then Jesus' prayer in John 17 goes unanswered, then you've got some real problems. You see, Jesus prayed this four times, verse 11, 21, 22, 23. He said, "Father, I pray that they be," what, "one." One, one, one. Now my friends, this happened right here. This is the answer to Jesus' prayer. When the Spirit of God came, He made us one positionally. Now we aren't always one practically are we? There's divisions and strife among us when we're carnal, but positionally are we one blended together? Are we that common loaf? Sure we are. We're not just a loosely gathered sheaf tied together with string. We are one in Christ. Inner dependent, mutually dependent on life from each other and the ministry of our gifts and fellowship. And so we must assume the baptism of the Spirit to be that baptizing all believers into oneness or the prayer of Jesus Christ goes unanswered.
Now, notice another phenomenon that happened in verse 3 accompanying the first. And this is all proof that the Spirit came. Verse 3, "And there appeared unto them," that is to those believers who had been baptized, immersed at that moment into the body of Christ by the Spirit, "appeared unto them, cloven or parted tongues as of fire." They weren't fire, they were as like fire. "And it sat upon each of them." Now here's another interesting phenomenon. These parted tongues that appeared over everyone of them was testimony that with no exception, each of them had received the Holy Spirit.
I'm going to add another theological point and if your theological file can still handle this, listen. At the baptism of the Holy Spirit, Paul says, you are baptized into one body but, you are all individually made to drink of one Spirit. So that the baptism that takes place at salvation when you're placed into the body, doesn't just put you into the body. It puts the Spirit into you. Now don't try to unscrew the unscrutible. Just leave it at that. In other words, you are not only placed into the body of salvation, but the Spirit came to dwell in you. True? And that's what he's showing right here. That he wanted them all to know that there was nobody left out of the baptism of the Holy Spirit. Every single believer received the Spirit of God on that occasion. And that is a permanent thing. Jesus said, "He shall abide with you," how long, "forever." And that's the baptism of the Holy Spirit.
When you go into the body, are you in there for a while? You're in there forever. You're in there forever. And when the Spirit comes to dwell in you, is He in there for a while, He's in there forever. So you see the baptism has occurred. The parted tongues indicating that on each one of them without any exception. Now some folks have misconstrued Matthew 3:11 to relate to this, because they take the tongues here, the tongues of fire and the baptizing to be a direct indication of Matthew 3:11. Let me show you what I think is the correct interpretation.
Matthew 3:11, "I indeed baptize you with water under repentance." John the Baptist says. "But He who cometh after me is mightier than I who shoes I'm not worthy to bear. He shall baptize you with the Holy Spirit and with fire." People say yeah, and that's what happened at Pentecost, the Holy Spirit and fire. No, it's not. The Holy Spirit happened at Pentecost. The fire had nothing to do with those tongues that look like fire. You say why? Because the fire is defined in verse 12. "Who's fan is in his hand and he will thoroughly purge his floor and gather his wheat into the grainery, but he will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire." That's the fire of eternal judgment friends.
That's saying either you're baptized with the Holy Spirit or in the end with eternal judgment. That's what that's saying. That's not referring to the tongues of fire here. So we'll set that aside. But these apparent looking...evidently, they look like tongues and they look like fire. And you can use your own imagination to determine what was going on, but they were separated unto each individual. Parted, not each tongue parted, but the total was parted into little pieces, each on a top of an individual. This was the visible manifestation of the descent of the Spirit. You see, they had to know that something really happened. They didn't have the senses spiritually to comprehend it apart from seeing it and experiencing it and so they did. God gave them that.
It's kind of like...you remember at the baptism of Jesus Christ the Holy Spirit descended to equip Christ for His ministry and it says that He descended on Christ in the form of what? Of a dove. And so here you have again, a visible manifestation of the Holy Spirit. This time an apparent tongues shaped like a tongue and also looking like a flame, which is an obvious comparison. And so they are on each one. And that indicates that every believer at this point received the Holy Spirit. You say what about carnal Christians? Do they have the Holy Spirit? Of course, that's Paul's whole argument in 1 Corinthians. He says to them, "What don't you know your body's a temple of the Holy Spirit?" What are you doing acting like that.
He doesn't say you have now lost the Holy Spirit. He says, you have him. That's why you shouldn't act like that. And just the fact that you have the Holy Spirit Paul says depends on the fact that you were bought with a price. So what are we learning? All right, we're learning this. We're learning that we have been baptized at the moment of salvation. That this occurs here in this instant historically in verse 2 and 3. In addition to that, we come to verse 4. Now watch it, and we're just going to introduce this and then we're going to close.
Verse 4, "And," there's a conjunction adding an additional thing. "And, they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak with other languages as the Spirit gave them utterance." Now watch this. They have been placed in union with Jesus Christ already. They had been made one. The Spirit had entered into them forever, but here he goes a step further and fills them for a reaction. And whenever you see the filling of the Spirit, friends, it's always tied with something that happens after that. They were filled with the Spirit and immediately they began to speak in other languages in the power of the Holy Spirit. Don't confuse that with baptism.
This passage teaches two distinct things. The Holy Spirit came on Pentecost, first of all, to baptize believers into the body. Secondly, to fill those believers for powerful testimony. And you will find no where in Scripture any time that you're ever told to be baptized with the Spirit. It never says to believers go get baptized with the Spirit. Seek the baptism, that happens at the moment of salvation. It's non-experiential. Now, let me add this. I believe both occur at salvation at the same time. The filling of the Spirit is something that happens repeatedly through your life. You'll be filled. It's a momentary thing for special ministries as you yield to the Spirit. And I'll explain more about that, but the filling of the Spirit can happen many, many times and should happen constantly in your life.
The baptism happens once. You're placed into the body in union with Christ the Spirit comes to dwell within you. That takes care of that. From then on, it's a question of filling of the Spirit. The difference is just as simple as the words of the apostle Paul who doesn't say get baptized with the Spirit. Ephesians 5:18, he says, "Be," what, "filled with the Spirit." And it's a very interesting term in the Greek, because it means, be being kept filled. Now if you're going to be being kept filled, that's assuming that at one time you were filled. Buy that? It has to be, because that's the meaning of the tense. Which means that at the point of salvation, you were not only baptized into the body, but were filled with the Spirit of God. Do you remember when you were first saved, the joy that you experienced? The blessing, the love that kind of oozed out of you and the tremendous desire you had to share Christ with somebody else except you were kind of ignorant and didn't really know what to say.
Why doesn't John call it first love? That feeling...and I don't there's...I think the filling of the Spirit scripturally is...happens when you yield everything to the Spirit and He just fills everything. And we...I suggest to you that you get the tape on the filling of the Spirit. If you don't understand this concept. I don't have time to go into. That's an hour and a half itself. I'll spare you. But the filling of the Spirit is that thing that happens daily, moment by moment as you yield and He fills you. If there's sin in your life, He can't fill it, right? Because the law of expulsion says two things can't occupy the same space at the same time. The filling of the Spirit is simply yielding, yielding, yielding.
That happens again and again. Paul says, "Be being kept filled." Keep on yielding and when you do that, there will be immediate results because that's an experiential thing. You'll speak to yourselves in songs, hymns, spiritual songs, you'll sing, make melody in your heart. You'll love your wife. Wives you'll obey your husbands in the Lord. Children you'll obey your parents. Fathers you won't provoke your kids. Masters you'll treat your servants right. Servants you'll work for a days wages.
That has immediate results. And repeatedly occurs in a Christian's life. You can be filled many times. You'll be baptized once at the point of salvation. That's connected with salvation. So the filling of the Spirit then always has an immediate response. In filling things happen. Let me show you. Look at Acts 4:8. This is really exciting watch this. Acts 4:8, now Peter was already filled with the Spirit on the day of Pentecost once. He was baptized in verse 2 and 3. He was filled in verse 4, it's a distinct thing. Then Peter in verse 8, Chapter 4, "filled with the Holy Spirit." You say Peter's gotten filled again. That's right. It happens repeatedly. And what did he do? Said unto them, "Ye rulers of the people and elders of Israel," and away he goes preaching again.
Anytime the filling comes, there's a response that's immediate. It may be joy, it may be love, it maybe the right relationship to people in the body, your wife, your husband, your mother, your dad, whoever. It may be the proclamation of the gospel. Whatever the Spirit designs to do when He fills you will be done. Have you got that one? Now look at verse 31. "And when they had prayed, the place was shaken where they were assembled together and they were filled with the Holy Spirit and," what, went home. No, they did what? "Spoke to the world with boldness." Anytime you get filled with the Spirit it's immediate reaction.
This is an experiential thing in terms of ministry. Chapter 6, verse 5, "And the saying pleased the whole multitude and they chose Stephen a man full of faith and full of the Holy Ghost." There's Spirit filled Stephen. Now what kind of guy is Spirit filled Stephen going to be? He's just going to be the kind of guy that's liable to go out there and get himself killed for preaching the gospel. That's exactly what he did. Verse 8, "And Stephen full of faith and power." You notice that first he was full of the Holy Spirit and faith, now he's full of power and faith, which means that the Holy Spirit and power are synonymous.
When you get filled with the Holy Spirit, you've got power. And he fired out the gospel as a result. Chapter 7, verse 55 nothing's changed. "But he being full of the Holy Spirit." There he is again. So Stephen when he was full of the Holy Spirit preached such a powerful message that unbelievers stoned him to death. He became the first martyr. Chapter 9, verse 17, "And Ananias went his way and entered into the house and putting his hands on him said brother Saul the Lord even Jesus that appeared unto thee in the way as thou camest hath sent me that thou mightest receive thy sight and be filled with the Holy Spirit." Now look at verse 20. "And in three weeks in he preached Christ and," what, "immediately response to the filling of the Spirit."
Look at verse...Chapter 11, verse 22. This is a good one. 11:22, "Then tidings of these things came unto the ears of the church which was in Jerusalem and they sent forth Barnabas that he should go as far as Antioch who when he came and had seen the grace of God was glad and exhorted them all. That with purpose of heart, they should cling to the Lord." Why did he do it? "For he was a righteous man and full of the Holy Spirit." That's why he went up there and preached like that.
Chapter 13 gives you one more, verse 9, "And then Saul who is called Paul filled with the Holy Spirit set his eyes on Him and said," and he took off after this guy Elymas who was a sorcerer. And then verse 52, I love this. "And the disciples were filled with joy and with the Holy Spirit." See it happens over and over and over again. And what did they do? 14, "It came to pass and Iconium, they went both together into the synagogue of the Jews and so did," what, "spoke."
Well, I've taken you halfway through the book of Acts. Now do you understand what happens when the filling of the Spirit occurs? That's not a non-experiential thing. That's not the same as putting you into the body. That's what fires you up to do the job that God wants you to do and be the person He wants you to be. The filling of the Holy Spirit, beloved, is so easy to understand. All it is that at any point in your life when you yield the control of your life to the power of the Holy Spirit, you're filled with the Spirit.
If you want more definition, as I said, get that tape and that'll help you. Baptism then is positional, filling is practical. Baptism grants the power, filling turns it on. No where in the New Testament is a Christian told to be baptized. I want to remind you that he's already in the body. That he's already possessing the Holy Spirit and he ought to act like it. And filled simply means total control, total yieldedness to the resident power of the Spirit. That means no sin unconfessed. No self will. It's yielding to the Holy Spirit.
And so we go back to Acts 2 and what do we see? "When the day of Pentecost was fully come they were in one accord in one place." That's the sovereignty of God on the right day. Fulfilled prophecy. God's sovereignly going to bring birth to His church. "And suddenly there came a sound from heaven like a rushing mighty wind that filled the house where they were sitting." At that moment they were baptized into the body. They become one. They are the fulfillment of the prayer of Jesus in John 17. They were blended together in oneness. And to make sure they knew that nobody was missed, "there appeared unto them cloven tongues of fire and sat upon each of them that they might know that they were not only blended into one body," but they all possessed the same Spirit.
The Spirit descending on everyone. And then having been baptized into the body and being possessed by the Spirit of God, they were then filled with the Spirit of God because they were so yielded. They were so of one accord waiting what would God would do and in this great moment so yielded the Spirit filled them and then they began to do something. And what they began to do we'll see next time.
Let's pray. Father, we thank You this morning for what we've learned in this hour and in our preparation. I thank You for what I've learned. Father, we know that it's so important to You that we declare the whole counsel of God. That it's so important to You that we indeed teach the word of God with accuracy. And Father, we would desire above all that we might teach it as You have written it word by word understanding what You're saying. Father, I want to thank You right now that I have not missed the baptism of the Spirit. But that I have been placed by the Spirit in the body. I know that because I have a love that is supernatural for others in Christ. And I know I'm one with Jesus Christ, for I know His life is in me. Father, I have no doubts at all in my mind that I have the baptism of the Holy Spirit, nor do I about any other Christian. For that Father, occurs as a sovereign act that You perform in placing us into Christ and into each other.
But,O Father, I know that from time to time my life is not filled with the Spirit as sin comes in and I fail to yield control. God so many times I do those things that do not please You. And I know I grieve the Spirit and I quench the Spirit. Father, I would ask above all things that You would point my sin out to me faithfully. Send the Spirit of Conviction to show me at all times what is not right, that I may make it right that the Spirit of God may fill me to the full that I may in power and boldness speak as I should speak and be as I should be.
Father, my prayer for these gathered here today, Father is that first of all that they might know the baptism of the Spirit. That is that no one would leave this place who is not a Christian, who hasn't been placed into the body. And secondly, that we who know You would experience the filling of the Spirit that with power may they speak the word with boldness. That we may know the great joy that they knew. That we may do those things that Paul says singing and praising You and loving each other and serving each other and being the kind of people You want us to be. And we know that we have been filled. We were at salvation. It occurred at the same time simultaneously, we know that. For at that moment we were more yielded than perhaps any other moment. But,O Father, may we be being kept filled. May it be the desire and prayer of our hearts to yield moment by moment one moment at a time to the power of the Holy Spirit. And Lord, as we close our service this morning, may Your Spirit do His perfect work. We pray in Jesus' name. Amen.
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"This award is a testimony to the tireless work of instruction, advocacy, and fundraising that our faculty and the Women's Center have done on behalf of people living with HIV/AIDS, both at home and in other countries. It is wonderful to have this recognition from AIDS Interfaith Ministries of Kentuckiana, which proves how long-standing and wide-ranging our efforts have been," said Dean Sue Garrett.
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Recipients' specific contributions
In recent history, Louisville Seminary has hosted ecumenical worship services in conjunction with World AIDS Day, and has been home to a display of the internationally-acclaimed Names Project HIV/AIDS Quilt. The Seminary has also adopted a non-discrimination policy that includes those living with HIV.
For 10 years, the Women's Center has participated in the Louisville AIDS Walk, raising nearly $10,000 for direct client services in Kentuckiana. The Women's Center also works to promote dignity and respect for those living with HIV by hosting annual educational workshops.
The Seminary's Marriage and Family Therapy Program has been recognized and awarded for its work on human sexuality, which includes instruction in HIV prevention and care, specifically Dr. Cook's "Human Sexuality" course. Further, Dr. Bos' "Heart of the Stranger" and professor Plantinga Pauw's "Theology of the Global South" courses have challenged students to empathize with those living with HIV and the stigma the disease can bring.


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Allergy Form - Teen Camp
Please read through the menu carefully. If a meal does not have enough options to accommodate your child's allergies, you may provide supplemental food. We will store the food either in our pantry, refrigerator or freezer. Please list all of the food you are providing next to each meal. Provided food must require no cooking besides a few minutes in a microwave. When you arrive at camp, you will take the food you are providing down to the kitchen and give it to our Food Service Manager who will take care of your child for the week. There will also be a salad bar they will have access to and they may keep snacks in their cabin. Our kitchen is peanut/treenut free dining facility.