Cracking the Code: The Holy Ghost and The Language of Love and Kindness

What if you could tap into a transformative power so profound that it not only holds the key to your salvation but also gifts you the strength to conquer sin? Welcome to a riveting exploration of the Holy Ghost in this episode of Walk with Me. We begin our spiritual voyage by demystifying one of the most fascinating events in the Bible - the manifestation of the Holy Ghost in the upper room. With all 120 believers, right from Mary, the mother of Jesus, to his disciples, receiving the Holy Ghost and speaking in tongues, we unwrap the mystery behind this divine event. The significant lesson here, though, is that everyone present was embraced by the Holy Ghost.

As we venture further, we illuminate the transformative role of the Holy Ghost within the Christian faith, busting common misconceptions and underscoring its life-altering power. This divine force not only offers spiritual immortality and promises resurrection of the spirit after death, but also underscores the crucial significance of repentance and baptism to receive its blessings. As we conclude our enlightening journey, we share our personal experiences with the Holy Ghost, illuminating the profound changes it can bring about in lives. But remember, the Holy Ghost’s teaching extends beyond spiritual transformation; it's a call to exhibit love and kindness to all, resonating the true teachings of the Bible. So join us, and let's walk this path of spiritual discovery together.

Transcript

Speaker 1: 0:22

Hello everybody and welcome to today's episode of Walk With Me. I am your host, jj, and so good to have you all here. We're taking our journey through the Bible with going at sort of a birds eye eagle-eyed view of the Bible and a lot of things to point out. But before we get into that, I just want to stop and thank every one of you who are listening and sharing and downloading this podcast. You guys could look and listen into so much stuff out there so much, so many people doing content, so much content but you've taken a few moments to listen to this podcast and I am absolutely grateful and humbled by it. Thank God for you. I thank God for the desire to learn more about him and that's why you're listening to the podcast. Nothing to do with JJ of this here guy with the Bible and the microphone, but I really do. Thank God for each and every one of you. Thank God for my sponsors two bars of lyricists helping me to put the music and and watching his journey to God is a wonderful thing and it's with the creations and got to make cups for me in the past and reference to the podcast. Thank you all so much. Thank you all so much for giving those folks a look at too, and we're just going to jump right into today's episode, because we have a lot to talk about today, and this is today's subject is One of the most I don't want to use the word controversial, but it's the most spoken about subject that you know most Christians will have these days, and some people will fight about it, some people argue about it and some people will debate about it and some people will just ignore it because it doesn't fit what they've been taught by. So you know, so long ago, by some major people. And it's actually going to be answering a question that I received a couple of weeks ago that I just did not get around to answering, and if anyone does have any questions or comments, feel free to email us at Walk With Me, bible Study at Gmail. Usually I get back to all your questions and your comments, even if I have to just say thank you for listening, because you know, we know how these things work. But thank you all so much for listening. If you do have any questions for the email me that to that address. We'll eventually get around to answering you. Or maybe God, like in this case, got to have a episode that will answer hopefully begin to answer that question.

Speaker 1: 3:10

So the quit, what we're going to talk about today, is the evidence of having the Holy Ghost. What is the Holy Ghost? How do you know you have it, where do you go to get it and what happens to you? Well, we'll start talking about you know what happens to you when you get it. Now, we were talking about Acts, chapter two, one through three, and this is where the Holy Ghost is and this is where the initial outpouring of the Holy Ghost, what this was in one place, in one place only, and that was the believers of the room and what happened to them. We'll read it, oh, by the way. By the way, we still have to mention our rule, because, you know, the Internet is what it is and podcasts are what they are. We have those scriptural context or scriptural reading or anything like that. I always have to say read a verse or two above, or verse or two below, but preferably the whole chapter, because why? Context is key. All right, so let's go ahead and get started.

Speaker 1: 4:16

X2, 1-3. Remember now, this is the first time this has ever been noted in the Bible that this has happened and when the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all with one accord, in one place, and suddenly there came a sound from heaven as of a rushing mighty wind and it filled all the house where they were sitting and there appeared unto them, open tongues, like as a fire, and it set upon each of them. All who speak in tongues they receive it, but do all who speak in tongues receive the Holy? Let's ask this question right here Now. That's actually a legitimate question. Do everyone who received the Holy is making of the tongue? So the following question is well, who spoke in tongues In the scripture 1-1,? Everyone in the upper room just read it. There appeared unto them, closed in tongues, like as a fire, and it set upon each of them. But X2 and 4 is where it answered this question, and they were all filled with the Holy Ghost and began to speak with other tongues as the Spirit gives them utter. So everyone in that upper room, all 120 people just rushing mighty wind happened and they all got the Holy.

Speaker 1: 5:33

Now you ask me why the wind happened. I don't know. You got to ask God that I don't know. And why did little um closed in tongues like fire set up, set upon each other heads? I don't know, ask God that. I don't know. I don't know. But I believe it was to show the fire because the fire came down to the offerings in the Old Testament. But I don't know, that that's just. That was JJ's opinion, but what I do know, that happened.

Speaker 1: 6:01

Everybody got the Holy Ghost and when everybody got the Holy Ghost, they all spoke in other tongues, as the Spirit gave the utter, but the mind gave the utter as the Spirit, and that word spirit is capitalized. So we're talking about the Holy Spirit. The Holy Ghost gave the other. They did not just come out and say some mumbled up, jumbled up words. Now, among these people who were in this upper room were people that people nowadays sort of iconize, if that's the word you know like Mary, mother, jesus, all the Jesus's half brother and all the disciples, all the same Jesus and the same Mark, and the same time, to the same this and the same fact. All these people were in the upper room waiting for the promise that Jesus had given them and they had all received his promise, everyone that was in the upper room. But this miracle didn't just stop there, because Samaritan's also received the Holy Ghost. Now, if you don't know we kind of touched on the Samaritan. They were the mixed descendants of Jews and Egyptians, they were called Samaritans and these Samaritans have the exact same experience and that's out with sign to tell everyone that they had got the Holy Ghost.

Speaker 1: 7:26

Now, and there was this guy by the name of Simon the Sorcerer who, who knew they had received this heavenly gift and tried to buy this power. He literally tried to market it and call it a power that he could not. This happened in Acts, chapter eight, verse nine through 13. But there was a certain man called Simon with before time, in the same city you source, which means he used some demonic art and be which the people of Samaria giving that out that he was some sort of great to him, to whom he gave he all day, all day. He, basically, to whom they all gave, he, from the least to the greatest, saying this man is the great power of God and to him they had regard because of a long time he had been already be which them with sorcery and he had already scan these people for so long that he was some sort of great evangelist, a preacher or something. So they were all kind of looking up to him.

Speaker 1: 8:35

But when they believed, philip preaching the things to certain in the kingdom of God, in the name of Jesus Christ, they were baptized, both men and women. Then Simon himself believed also, and when he was baptized he continued with Philip and wondered, beholding the signs and miracles which were done. So now we have the Holy Ghost falling on Cornelius and other Gentiles. We had Simon, and guess what they all had in common? They all spoke with other tongue.

Speaker 1: 9:07

Now, the weird thing about this was that this sign prevents these skeptical Jewish people that the Gentiles had received the Holy Ghost, because there was a sort of mindset going around that this promise was only for the Jews. The Gentiles had no pardon because it was the Jews who were God's people. They really know that Jesus didn't just die for the Jews, jesus died for everybody. He died for the sins of everyone. So, and that sign alone was enough for Peter to explain that the Gentiles had received the same experience. And this is now Acts, chapter 10. And, believe it or not, jesus, I mean Peter, had a real serious race issue. He had a real serious race issue, but he has still got the Holy Ghost.

Speaker 1: 9:58

I'll explain, I'll let the scripture explain it to you Acts, chapter 10, 44 to 48. Why Peter yet spoke these words. The Holy Ghost fell on all of them which heard the word, and they are the circumcision I eat. The Jews which believed were astonished. They were astonished, and many came with Peter because that one of the Gentiles also was brought out the gift of the Holy Ghost. Why? How did they know that? How did they know that the Gentiles had got the Holy Ghost? Verse 46 says it. Well, they heard with them speak with tongues and magnify.

Speaker 1: 10:32

God Then answered Peter can any man forbid water? That these should not be baptized. Which has received the Holy Ghost as well as we? And he commanded them to be baptized in the name of the Lord, and they then pray. They him to carry certain days, and Peter actually got in trouble for this. Peter got in trouble for this and he went to trial.

Speaker 1: 10:56

And so Peter began to recount this thing in Acts, chapter 11, 15 to 17. And as I began to speak, the Holy Ghost fell on them, as on us in the beginning we start with about the upper room. Then remember either word of the Lord. He said John, indeed, baptize the water and you shall be baptized with the Holy Ghost. And for so much then, as God gave them to give, like he did it to us who believe in Lord Jesus Christ. What was I that I could withstand God? This was a huge revelation to Peter, and so we can stop right here.

Speaker 1: 11:34

We can talk about this for a moment, because we're not just talking about the fact that Peter was perfect when he got the Holy Ghost. Peter was not perfect. Peter was. This was the exact same Peter who sat in the garden and cursed and denied Jesus. This was the exact same Peter who was all loose at the mouth whenever he felt like, but this was also the same Peter that had received the revelation that Jesus was God manifested flesh. So in this here is like a I want to say a gem to each and every one of us.

Speaker 1: 12:10

I'm not sure where we got off, where we got off the beaten path that said that we had to be perfect. When we get the Holy Ghost Now, do we have to repent of our sins? Yeah, we got to repent our sins. Yeah, we got to get baptized in Jesus name, but the important part is getting the Holy Ghost, and there is no direct order about this is happening because Peter said repent, be baptized and get the Holy Ghost One, two and three, yeah, with people who had already gotten the Holy Ghost and not been baptized.

Speaker 1: 12:41

But the whole thing had already happened was that they had repented, they had told God they were sorry for their sins and made a commitment to turn away from it. They had repented, they had given up that life and given up their previous life and they decided to believe in the Lord Jesus Christ and decided that God was manifested in the flesh for the revelation. And it was them who got the Holy Ghost. And it didn't matter what race or creed they were, because back in the Bible it was only two races. It was the only races they cared about. You either Jew. You were a Gentile. It doesn't matter if you were white Gentile or black Gentile or Latin Gentile or Asian Gentile or whatever. You either Jew or you were not a Jew.

Speaker 1: 13:29

But Peter was astonished, because the problem with him is that he thought that the promise was only unto them, because Jesus said the promise is unto you. And then Peter had finished the revelation to those that even are far off. Peter sort of forgot that part, but it didn't matter. He was still thinking that the far off people were Jews. But this revelation he saw people never Gentiles get the Holy Ghost, that the promise was to everyone, jew or Gentile, circumcised or not. And this was a problem, and this was a problem toward Peter to that fixed his theology in a way, even though Peter was the actual first person to give a first Christian message, peter still had to be worked on. This is kind of a message to all of them, because we expect preachers to be perfect, we expect church folk to be perfect. Church folk are living above sin and this is where Peter is at right now.

Speaker 1: 14:41

Now also, there were, there were other disciples, john's disciples, who had not met Jesus, were not following Jesus but were just following John. In other words, they had an incomplete experience. Now, in Acts 19, they actually ran into some of these guys and in the painting of the past and we're talking about Acts 19, 1-6, and it came to pass while the apostles lived at the Red Hall, having passed through the upper coast, came to emphasis and finding certain disciples. Now that turned certain disciples to mean anybody. But as we read later on, we'll find out that these are John's disciples. Listen closely. He said unto them have you received the Holy Ghost since you believe? So he automatically assumed that they believed that they were disciples.

Speaker 1: 15:29

And they said that we have not so much heard whether they're being the Holy Ghost. See, they didn't have TikTok back then and they didn't have podcasts and they didn't have Facebook. They had no idea what's going on no CNN, no MBC, msnbc and no podcast. So the word had not gotten to them that the Holy Ghost actually had called and people were getting the Holy Ghost. So Paul says he said unto them Until then, what were you baptized? And they said unto John's baptism, which means the baptism of repentance. So Paul, you know, reiterated that. Then said Paul, john barely baptized with the baptism of repentance, saying unto the people that they should believe on him, who should come after him, that is, on Christ Jesus. In other words, their salvation was incomplete, it was a working project. When they heard this, they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus, just like that Boom Boom they. Just because they knew the truth. When they heard it, and when Paul had laid his hands upon him, the Holy Ghost came on them. And what did they do? When the Holy Ghost came upon them? They spake with tongues and they prophesied.

Speaker 1: 16:43

Now, this is a big thing, with what we're talking about here in the fact that we sort of look at just the Holy Ghost as just maybe sort of outward sign deliver. In other words, we understand that getting the Holy Ghost will cause you to speak out of the tongue, because that's what it does, how we know biblically that you have the Holy Ghost. But there are other things that happen when you get the Holy Ghost, because the Holy Ghost is the power. Jesus said after that the power is a form of calling you should be disciples unto me and all these other place. But we think the power some of us just think the power is just the Holy Ghost is speaking in other tongues.

Speaker 1: 17:32

Some people think you could just get the Holy Ghost and there's no time. You just you know you walk in, you walk out the same way you came in. But there's a whole transformation that happens. This speaking in other tongues is just. It's basically you communicating with God. But this is not just you communicating with God and really trying to put in your layman's turn is kind of like the difference of you maybe sticking your hand in the light side. Yeah, you will have some singed parts of your body, but that's not all that happened. On the inside. You literally have a running through your body and your body and things will change.

Speaker 1: 18:21

So, basically, this power the Holy Ghost is, it delivers a sort of immortality. I'm not talking about you and I whenever God wants me to speak in tongues. No, our flesh will die, we will be buried in the grave. What we're looking for here is a spiritual immortality, and by spiritual immortality we're talking about what happens after we die. Now, this whole thing is, we're talking about a little piece of God. Basically, this will resurrect the spirit, and it's the same way the spirit was resurrected when Christ was crucified. He was resurrected to the dead again. Not saying that people with the Holy Ghost will somehow be buried and get up and walk around like zombie. Not saying that at all. That's that really clear y'all. But we're talking about the resurrection, like from the rapture and coming for the 1000 year millennial reign and living forever and be with the Lord in heaven. There's this sort of spiritual resurrection and this is not. This is not just a resurrection for them, this is a resurrection for now, because this spirit is going to give you power to overcome the things that you want to overcome, that you need to overcome in order to make it Now. We can go into those pictures Now.

Speaker 1: 19:55

It starts with Romans 8 of 8 and 11. We have to have this spirit of Christ to be resurrected in the last day. And it reads but there's the spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead. Well, in you, he that raised up Christ in the dead shall also be clicking your mortal body by his spirit that dwells in you. Romans 8 and 9 got to back up two verses, but you are not in the flesh but in the spirit. So, peter, the spirit of Christ, the spirit of God dwell in you. But if any man have not spirit of Christ, he is none of his. We're talking about people having the Holy Ghost. And just another aside, for you know people who's good and get the lesson a couple weeks ago.

Speaker 1: 20:40

We're here with talk. Are we talking about the spirit of God or talking about the spirit of Christ? See, the Trinitarian doctrine will also confuse you if you are reading that verse and you're trying to figure out what you're talking about. But if you're a Unitarian doctrine, I guess you'll just call it that. Then the spirit of God and the spirit of Christ are the same. Then you don't have to be confused.

Speaker 1: 21:03

We're talking about the one in the same spirit In 1 Corinthians 15 and 51. It shows, behold, I show you a mystery we shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed. Here's what we're talking about what happens when the Holy Ghost is in us, when we become baptized in the Holy Ghost. We're not all going to sleep, in other words, we're not all going to die, but we are all going to be changed in a moment in between. And another eye at the last time, for the trumpet shall sound and the dead shall be raised in corrupt. We're talking about people who have died having the Holy Ghost. They did die, but they will be raised in corrupt and we shall be changed. For this incorruptible must put on in corruption. In other words, the things that can decay about us will put on things, will put on a spirit of things that cannot be decay, that cannot decay, and this mortal must put on immortality, and not yet exactly so. This whole mortal body will become immortal when the trumpet sounds.

Speaker 1: 22:19

Now, a lot of people, a lot of people, a lot of people think that once we die, that's just it. We burn up and we die. We just no longer. We burn up or we just cease to exist, or or whatever what the Bible says and there's a lot of scriptures that talk about this your soul lives forever in some form. Either A you're going to live in heaven and be with Jesus and shouting, being glorious, and have you know wonderful time for all of eternity, or you will die for all of eternity. But this death is not a one time thing, it's like it's like that moment of death stretched out for all of eternity. It's a little bit difficult to sort of explain it the way God revealed it to me, that bright moment of pain that you feel at death for all of eternity. If you're lost, because you're going to be in torment and you'll be in fire and the smoke of your torment shall be ascending forever, forever, so that it's not like you're just going to go and burn up like a piece of paper and no longer exist. You will die. You and I will die, and I hate to sound it that way. You and I will die.

Speaker 1: 23:41

What happens after that is determined on how we, our souls, are now, and this is the whole purpose, what the reason why Jesus died on the cross is to save our souls from this eternal death, this eternal moment of death. If there's a contradiction of two terms, I know that's what that is. It is an eternal moment of death, and this is why we need the Holy Ghost. This is one of the real reasons why we need the Holy Ghost Now. There are things in this life that we can use the Holy Ghost for, for, as, like, overcoming sin and, you know, overcoming things that we're trying to get away from. We're going to talk more about that next week, about how this spirit right now, right now, is as you listen to this podcast you listen to next week's podcast and every podcast that spirit right now can give you a power that you don't have without it. All right, so we're going to talk more about that next week.

Speaker 1: 24:49

We're out of time, but the most important thing right now for this episode is that how do you know you got the Holy Ghost? Because at some point you spoke in tongues. You spoke in tongues and you spoke in tongues, not not something like you made it run like okay, my tie, come on my pie. I like that. No, no, no. It's almost like to try to explain it over the over, this podcast in a non-visual form.

Speaker 1: 25:18

It's a little difficult, but it was almost like I remember, when I first got the Holy Ghost, it first almost felt like I was gonna stutter and I was really trying not to stutter and God was praying and praying, and praying, and I was really trying not to stutter, really trying not to stutter. And then, you know, because I had people praying with me, I was like come on, you want to speak? Let it out, let it out, let it out. And I was really trying, really trying, really trying, and then all of a sudden it's just like something, just like a water pipe burst. Yeah, that's about how it felt. Like a water pipe burst in my spirit, not in my head, not somewhere that I could think of. It was just stuff coming and start coming out and it felt like oh my, it felt like such a relief. It felt like such a almost like, almost like, like, consider it like something. Um, all right, so let's just kind of figure it like you know, I don't know, let's try to say it like this it almost felt like that relief you feel after you get your neck cracked, but times an exponent of 40 million. It's like it's the only reason why I can really explain it about how I felt when I got the Holy Ghost and I spoke in tongues for like 12 minutes straight and I cried and I would never forget that day. And then the next day, the next day, it was like the sun was brighter, the birds chirping was prettier. Everything was so different when I got after I got the Holy Ghost and life was just wonderful.

Speaker 1: 27:16

And let me just say this as a sort of disclaimer the problems that I had before I got the Holy Ghost I still had after I got the Holy Ghost. You know I was involved in a lot of legal trouble and all that. None of that immediately just vanished into thin air. But God started delivering me from that stuff and that was a. It only happened because of the Holy Ghost, because I was watching people go to jail for the same stuff me for a long time and just a little bit. I was actually looking at almost 18 months of jail time for what I had done and just and I tell this story in person, but just watching God work, because I was basically I had prayed for like an hour before I went the day before like God, I don't want to go to jail and watching it work in the courthouse, watching the judge he was, he was full set on sending me to jail and it's almost like God whispered in his ear. Next thing I know he was like, yeah, this whole thing is remitted, go home and and don't do this again. Basically, go and send, no more. That's what I heard. And I walked out of there and wow, and I am sure that if I didn't have the Holy Ghost, I didn't touch God, If I was still living the same way I was living when I did the thing to get me in trouble. I don't, yeah, I'd have been in jail, but that's, that's a whole different broadcast.

Speaker 1: 28:56

We're going to talk more about that how the spirit gives you power. Next week we are coming up on the holiday season. I wish everyone a wonderful holiday, christmas, new Year's, annika, however, you're selling it, celebrating it. I'm going to try to keep doing the podcast right through because I just love doing it and I thank you guys for listening. See you guys on the next one. If you see anyone out there just somebody random tell them that God loves them, tell them that you love and just that, because that's what we're commanded to do Love your neighbor as yourself. All right, god bless you all. See you on the next one.