Salvation and the Baptism of the Holy Spirit

Summary

Join Salifou Ministries for a deep dive into the profound difference between receiving salvation and the baptism of the Holy Spirit. This session examines scripture to illustrate the separate yet connected journeys of embracing Jesus as Savior and being filled with the Holy Spirit's power. Through a relaxed and spirited dialogue, discover how speaking in tongues acts as evidence of the Spirit and the unique gifts it offers to believers. Incorporate these teachings into your daily walk with faith and be encouraged to dig deeper into your personal relationship with the Holy Spirit. Discover that living in the Spirit brings an invigorating power and wisdom to all who seek it with sincerity.

Highlights

• The joyful journey of experiencing the Holy Spirit's outpouring in one's life. 🙌
• Analyzing Acts to understand the early church's experience with the Holy Spirit. 📜
• Power of prayer and Holy Spirit in enriching one's life and in spiritual warfare. 🛡️
• Historical context showing the longevity and continuity of speaking in tongues. 🕰️
• Encouragement for believers to maintain a relationship with the Holy Spirit. ❤️

Key Takeaways

• Salvation and Spirit baptism are distinct yet transformational experiences. 🌊
• Speaking in tongues is a key evidence of being filled with the Holy Spirit. 🗣️
• Constantly pursuing the Holy Spirit leads to elevated spiritual growth. 📈
• Personal prayer and study are crucial for a deeper understanding of God's will. 📖
• The practice of speaking in tongues and the gifts of the Spirit survived well beyond the Apostolic age. ⏳

Overview

In an animated dialogue, the speakers from Salifou Ministries explore the nuances between salvation and the baptism of the Holy Spirit. With vivid illustrations from scripture, they explain how these two foundational elements of faith play out differently in the believer's life, emphasizing that being filled with the Holy Spirit brings added boldness and spiritual gifts.

The video thoroughly examines instances from the Acts of the Apostles, highlighting how early Christians experienced dramatic spiritual transformations through the Holy Spirit—speaking in tongues, newfound courage, and a deepened connection to God. These examples serve to remind modern believers of the rich spiritual heritage and the ongoing relevance of these practices.

Salifou Ministries encourages all believers to persistently seek a personal and powerful relationship with the Holy Spirit. Through earnest prayer and study, understanding deepens, leading to personal revelations and spiritual empowerment that transcends historical confines. This message leaves viewers with a sense of motivation to embrace these spiritual gifts in their own lives.

Chapters

• 00:00 - 00:00: Introduction and Greetings This chapter introduces the setting as a ministry moment, emphasizing warmth and welcoming as it engages the audience. There's a light-hearted exchange on the habit of raising hands, framed humorously in a religious context, referencing a Bible verse. The speaker expresses enthusiasm and describes their own habit of gesturing with hands, creating a relatable and friendly atmosphere.
• 00:30 - 03:00: Personal Anecdotes and Praises The speaker reflects on the previous week's message, emphasizing the admiration and pursuit her husband had for her, describing it as him winning a prize by finding a good wife. She also attributes their blessings to the influence of the Holy Spirit.
• 03:00 - 06:00: Discussion on Holy Spirit and Salvation The chapter delves into the understanding of the Holy Spirit, also known as the Holy Ghost, emphasizing that these are two terms for the same entity with differences only in translation. The discussion builds upon previous dialogues about the depth and complexity of the Holy Spirit's ministry and the significance of its outpouring. A key point of exploration is distinguishing between the experience of receiving salvation and the outpouring of the Holy Spirit.
• 06:00 - 12:00: Exploration of Biblical Examples The chapter starts by talking about the influence of the Spirit in one's life, emphasizing responsibility. The author uses Jesus as a primary example. The speaker is conscious of their tendency to digress into preaching but makes a clear attempt to focus on explanation. This reflects the importance they place on understanding and ensuring clarity on spiritual matters. The message ends by encouraging individuals to take personal responsibility to revisit and contemplate these teachings.
• 16:00 - 24:00: Paul's Conversion and Ananias' Role The chapter discusses Paul's conversion and the role of Ananias in this transformative event. It emphasizes the importance of engaging with scriptures directly and not living life based on assumptions. It also touches on the broader theme of truth in the life and ministry of Jesus, mentioning the moment of his baptism when the Spirit of God was present.
• 24:00 - 32:00: The Role of the Holy Spirit in a Believer's Life The chapter discusses the presence and role of the Holy Spirit in the believer's life, using the example of Jesus' baptism. After Jesus was baptized, the Holy Spirit descended upon him, and God's voice spoke from heaven. This event marked a new phase in Jesus' life, leading him into the wilderness for a period of testing and preparation. The narrative emphasizes the transformative power and guidance of the Holy Spirit in the life of believers, as illustrated by Jesus' own experiences.
• 32:00 - 33:00: Closing Remarks and Prayer for Salvation The chapter discusses the difference between the experience of salvation and being filled with the Holy Spirit. It emphasizes that being filled with the Holy Spirit is not a one-time occurrence but can happen multiple times and is a source of great joy.

Salvation and the Baptism of the Holy Spirit Transcription

• 00:00 - 00:30 welcome to ministry moment i am so glad you are back today can I ask you a question why you always raise hand like she she's praising Jesus yeah cuz I love Jesus yeah that's cuz I'm very you are fulfilling the scripture because the Bible said the lifting of her hands is like a even sacrifices so I just want to give you a hard time there i do i like to talk with my hands so I do the same thing you know bam you know yeah well if
• 00:30 - 01:00 you missed the last week's um message you have to go back and listen to it because you got to hear how much my husband loved me and had to chase me until he was able to win the prize it is a great honor he who finds a wife finds a good thing yes you know so do you know the reason why we we are so blessed and and I believe you are so blessed too is because of the Holy Spirit wow and uh you know bless I I like to say you know
• 01:00 - 01:30 uh blessed holy spirit or holy ghost i know the holy ghost and holy spirit are the same spirit the only difference is the the translation mhm so and uh I know last week we've been you know diving into we've been talking about you know the deafness of the you know the ministry of the holy spirit the outpouring of the holy spirit yeah what is the difference between receiving salvation and the outpouring of the Holy
• 01:30 - 02:00 Spirit upon your life remember let me give you another example jesus himself that you have received into your spirit okay now when I say the spirit when we talking about see I'm about to preach another message but it's not that's not what I'm going i want to explain i'm because sometimes we need to explain that's why I love to explain so you know what we are saying to you mhm now it is your responsibility to go back to the
• 02:00 - 02:30 scriptures and to look into the scriptures with your Bible open not not it is time for all of for all of you to stop living your life in assumptions you have to know the truth yeah and the truth will set you free you know the in the in the life of Jesus you know and in his ministry the Bible says when he was baptized okay and the spirit of God
• 02:30 - 03:00 spoke from heaven okay that was another experience uh you know a salvation and but you know the Holy Spirit came upon Jesus when when God at the same time God spoke when he was baptized after he he was baptized God spoke from heaven and the Bible say the spirit came on him and guess what happened to Jesus he was taken into wilderness all right to to uh confront
• 03:00 - 03:30 Satan because he has received power so the same thing happened to us when we there's a difference between our experience as salvation and another experience when we are filled with the Holy Spirit yes So you know uh what a joy no what a joy to be filled with the Holy Spirit how many time the scripture says be filled with the Holy Spirit it's not just one experience is many you know I
• 03:30 - 04:00 know I don't want to preach another message so wait a second you just said that yes you just said that it made me excited about this scripture in second Corin um second Corinthians um let's go to uh verse uh chapter 1 verse 22 2 Corinthians 1:22 all right and it says "And he has identified us as his
• 04:00 - 04:30 own by placing the Holy Spirit in our hearts as the first installment." First installment that guarantees everyone everything he has promised us so you you know you were just talking about that and so I wanted to mention that the Holy Spirit it says it's a first installment of what has been promised to us and you know this wasn't even in my notes to go into because I want to go through the difference I really focusing on salvation and the
• 04:30 - 05:00 baptism of the Holy Spirit but to your point of people being able to be filled be filled with the Holy Spirit when the apostles were praying in um the place was shaken it says they were filled with the Holy Ghost now we know they were already filled with the Holy Ghost because they you know you can see that in the Bible they were already filled with the Holy Ghost they were tongue talkers already and yet when they prayed and the place was shaken it says again they were filled with the Holy Ghost and so anyway that's a complete side note
• 05:00 - 05:30 and it's a whole another teaching like you said and we want to get into you know if you go back to the scripture in book of act there's a different or maybe in the kingdom of god you know I'm going to invite you know we we have another program coming up get I'm getting excited for this program and u uh we have a lot of programs so you know the you know the Bible says there's a there's a many there's different ranking you know or places in
• 05:30 - 06:00 the realm of the spirit all right so so God doesn't want see the more the more you pray in the spirit the more God take you higher that's why he's telling us you know be filled with the Holy Spirit there's a different levels okay in the spiritual realm so the more you have you spend more time with the Holy Spirit will he will take you higher you know what I'm saying for example Apostle Apostle John you know God says "Come up higher." It is by the
• 06:00 - 06:30 spirit of God that he saw the vision that he saw it is the spirit of God that revealed told him Yeah things of the future yeah so okay i don't want to I don't want to cut you off but No I'm excited for this we may be on this topic for another 25 i know i'm looking at my notes i'm like I we got to get through these all right cuz I want to get into this so I'm going to start with just the basics of the baptism of the Holy Spirit right at the beginning of books of the
• 06:30 - 07:00 book of Acts um Acts 1 verse 5 now I just I want to in case you're new to this share the background here so Jesus has already died on the cross he's rose from the dead he is talking to his disciples and he told them not to leave Jerusalem until he sends the gift he promised the Holy Spirit verse five so Acts 15 it said he says "John baptized with water but in just a few days you
• 07:00 - 07:30 will be baptized with the Holy Spirit." Now the reason I wanted to mention this and that it's important is the disciples were already saved they already knew Jesus was this the Messiah they knew he had died and he had been raised from the dead which we know is necessary for salvation right and he says "Okay you have that now wait for the baptism of the Holy Spirit which happens in Acts chapter 2 we're not going to go there right now because we will touch on that in just a minute um but I want to share
• 07:30 - 08:00 the second a second example of that because sometimes people will say "Oh that was just for the disciples not everyone else does it the baptism of the Holy Spirit?" We're going to go through lots of examples but I want to share one other one that I just thought was really good when it's talking about specifically about the baptism of the Holy Spirit and I just lost the scripture um so this but it is in it's what I know it's in
• 08:00 - 08:30 Acts chapter 10 because that's where it talks about Cornelius oh no but that's not the one I was going to i was going to um well anyways I'm going to tell you what it says and then I'll find the scripture and get it and give it to you but it's when Peter is he is sharing um what had happened right when he preached the gospel to Cornelius as he's
• 08:30 - 09:00 preaching the gospel this is in Acts chapter 10 the Holy Spirit filled falls and they're all filled with the Holy Spirit and begin speaking in tongues and so he's sharing this encounter with the leaders of the church and he said "When this happened I remembered that Jesus said that he would baptize people in the Holy Spirit." Right so he recognized this separate experience called the baptism of the Holy Spirit and so um the
• 09:00 - 09:30 Bible talks about that separate baptism of the Holy Spirit and we can see that separate experience throughout the book of Acts so I'm going to go through several different scriptures we're going to talk about some things some mistings and then also show you that different experience um that happens so Acts 2:4 I mentioned that's when the Holy Spirit comes on the dis um everyone in the upper room there's 120 people actually in the upper room it wasn't just um the
• 09:30 - 10:00 disciples and they all pray in the Holy Spirit and they when they be get filled with the Holy Spirit not only do they pray in tonesues and I think this is important is that they do pray in tonesues and that causes everyone to come around but Peter has a boldness now upon him that he didn't have before now keep in mind just a short while ago he was denying Jesus and running away scared now he felt bad about it right but he wasn't be he was not being bold
• 10:00 - 10:30 he wasn't facing death with boldness or right but once he received the Holy Spirit he receives that boldness and then he begins sharing this is what was prophesied by Joel this was going to happen now this is an important piece because sometimes people say oh this is this was just for the apostles in the early church because it was needed to get going well that's not true um Acts 2:38 tells us let's just flip there
• 10:30 - 11:00 really quick acts 2:38 it says uh Peter replied "Each of you must repent of your sins and turn to God and be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins then you will receive the Holy Spirit." Next verse uh verse 39 this promise is to you to your children and to those far
• 11:00 - 11:30 away all didn't say some talking about the Holy Spirit here all who have been called by the Lord our God now he is he's sharing this go back and read all of Acts chapter 2 he's sharing this in response to them hearing them speak in tongues and he's like "No they're not drunk as you think it's too early for them to be drunk this is the promise of the Bible and guess what this is for you and your children's children and everyone who is ever going to be called
• 11:30 - 12:00 by everyone who's been called by God everyone it's for everyone all right next so now we're going to jump on um to Acts chapter 8 and and we're going to start in verse 12 so let's go to 8:12 so this this um is a good example again of the difference between salvation and being filled with the Holy Ghost and it being two separate experiences so Acts 8 um and I'm going to start in verse 12 to
• 12:00 - 12:30 show you that they accepted the Jesus uh so but now the people believed Philip's message of good news concerning the kingdom of God and the name of Jesus Christ as a result many men and women were baptized now let me ask you a question does that scripture tell clearly tell us that they had received salvation and been baptized in the name of Jesus yes or no yes yes it does all right so they weren't filled with the Holy Spirit at the moment of salvation
• 12:30 - 13:00 let's go fast forward into uh the chapter let me get up to where it is all right so then um I'm going to start reading in verse 15 um so the apostles heard in verse 14 it tells us the apostles heard about them accepting the word so now Peter and John come and it says as soon as they arrived they prayed for these new believers to receive the Holy Spirit the
• 13:00 - 13:30 Holy Spirit had not yet come upon any of them for they had only been baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus pause again they had been saved they'd been baptized in the name of Jesus but they did not have the Holy Spirit yet the scripture clearly says that so now verse 17 says "Then Peter and John laid their hands upon these believers and they received the Holy Spirit." So now I'm going to pause and just recap that Philip goes he
• 13:30 - 14:00 preaches the gospel he gets people baptized in the name of Jesus the disciples are excited about what's going on so they send Peter and John down to help peter and John get there and they're like "Hey no one's been filled with the Holy Spirit yet so we're going to lay our hands on them and pray for them to be filled with the Holy Spirit." Clearly two separate experiences there is salvation remember last week we talked about how salvation is building a brand new house right the old man passed
• 14:00 - 14:30 away you become a new man it's building that new house and then when you're filled with the Holy Spirit it's when the Holy Spirit comes to live in that new house overflowing rivers of living water coming out of that new house that has been built so all right do you Did you Were you going to say something before I go to the next all right so so we touched on this briefly um but I am going to flip there acts chapter 10 um this is Cornelius and his house
• 14:30 - 15:00 now this I'm just wanted to point out one thing in in this Acts 10 verse 44 uh actually verse 45 all right so he's preaching the word that the spirit of God falls on them and they begin to speak in tongues the Holy Spirit fell on all who were listening verse 44 and then verse 45 it says "The Jewish believers who
• 15:00 - 15:30 came with Peter were amazed that the gift of the Holy Spirit had been poured out on the Gentiles too." Verse 46 "For they heard them speaking in other tongues and praising God." So how did they know that they had received the gift of the Holy Spirit what did it say how did they know because they heard them speak in tongues they knew that the evidence of them being filled with the Holy Spirit was that they spoke in
• 15:30 - 16:00 tongues right absolutely that's Go ahead amen no no we keep going i don't want to I don't want to interrupt you well let's I don't want to take over so you That's clearly what the Bible says there all right so now let's go to um Acts 19 in um verse 5 and then we're going to go actually wait hold that thought let's go to Acts 9 first because I want to talk about Paul
• 16:00 - 16:30 for a second before we talk about what Paul did let's go to Acts 9 and I'm just going to set this story up a little bit for you in case you're not familiar with it so Paul is persecuting the church you know we know he consented to Steven's death he was holding coats while they stoned him so he is now on a mission to imprison Christians and so he's on his way um to imprison some more Christians and Jesus appears to him and says "Why are you coming against me why are you
• 16:30 - 17:00 fighting against me?" Right and Paul's like "Who are you Lord?" And he says "I'm Jesus." Um and I I just love that because people he was coming against he was coming against Christians yeah and Jesus was like "If you're coming against them that's you're coming against me personally." Right amen so he Paul becomes blinded blinded and then God comes to Ananas and says "Ananas you need to go lay your hands." But do you know before you you we get into that
• 17:00 - 17:30 uhhuh something that I observe in that story you know that event that took place the Bible says let's go read that story okay and when when God spoke to him okay the Bible says a voice spoke to him in the Hebrew language okay and Apostle Paul saw you know he had his servant with him the Bible says they heard a a sound but
• 17:30 - 18:00 they don't understand the meaning the Holy Spirit is the master communicator you know what I'm saying no I was I was that's I get it i was excited when I when you know when they experienced they heard a voice this guy they know how to speak Hebrew Hebrew they heard the the voice and spoke in Hebrew but they heard a sound a sound because but they have no meaning they don't understand what was said to him
• 18:00 - 18:30 okay so so the reason why I'm I'm bringing this to to to your attention mhm are you hungry to know the voice of the Holy Spirit or is it do you have any question do you want to know the will of the father for your life the Holy Spirit is the master communicator he can talk to you in in French in Japanese okay he can speak to you in
• 18:30 - 19:00 Chinese or uh in Spanish you know and any language franc Yeah in French he he know how to speak French essentially when we go to heaven we're going to have our second language going to be French that's me talking so so so what I'm what I'm what I'm asking you don't be discouraged okay don't be very hard on yourself what is going to takes you is your your
• 19:00 - 19:30 seriousness to ask and go into prayer and ask him recognize that the Holy Spirit is with you you know we talking about salvation how do you know that you are saved how do you know who told you that you know that if you you die that you're going to go to uh heaven or how do you
• 19:30 - 20:00 know that you know all of that how do we know it is the Holy Spirit that reveal gives us that assurance yeah absolutely it's the Holy Spirit so I'm speaking to some of you if you have any question in your mind and you need an answer it is your is it going to take your seriousness how much do you want this and to get into that place into your prayer closet and require and ask
• 20:00 - 20:30 him to speak to you you know I have said this I can we can never overemphasize this and many people are not succeeding many people are not victorious even believers I'm not talking about people who don't know Jesus those who have accepted the cross is because they need direction and it is the Holy Spirit who gives us the direction so I'm going to
• 20:30 - 21:00 encourage you get into that prayer closet ask him a question and have a piece a piece of paper and pen next to you he's going to talk to you when he speaks just take a time write it down on that piece of paper don't don't don't say that you're going to remember everything you know when God spoke to Mo you know I give you so many example from the scriptures
• 21:00 - 21:30 moses he he wrote it down of his fingers okay so I'm going to I feel like I'm we need to encourage to to give this your attention don't be discouraged first someone someone right now you are comparing yourself with your friends or people around you stop it that's a message for you don't do that don't hurt yourself this life that we are your the journey that God gave to you know uh
• 21:30 - 22:00 your journey is not a competition just take your time just require required uh go be hungry to know the voice of the Holy Spirit he will guide you remember Jesus you know the mission Jesus assignment only took place three and a half years three whatever three and a half whatever sign language is this three and a half years and he fulfilled everything that was
• 22:00 - 22:30 written about his life your life is still in the hands of God in the you're in your book for yours I'm not sure how maybe yours is 25 years maybe is one years you know what I'm saying and and just what you need to do is to know what God is asking asking you to do is to listen to his voice and I'm going to I prophesy to you that every distraction around
• 22:30 - 23:00 you must be cut off yes in the name of Jesus I speak to your mind that I see the enemy has been using your past to affect you and to the point that you is you couldn't you couldn't see yourself stepping into God's best i break that curse off of your life and I launch you into that glorious path that God has
• 23:00 - 23:30 designed for you in the name of Jesus you will walk on gr yes in the name of Jesus there's a clear path before you in the name of Jesus and go forth and succeed and and and live that glorious life that God has given to you freely yeah and I speak that over you it's not only one i see many many of you and I believe the Holy Spirit of God is ministering to you receive and be his
• 23:30 - 24:00 best friend and everything's going to be all right yes yes wow blessed be God you know honey well we never finish this messages go ahead so let me let me wrap up this part of it all right so so anyway so then um Ananas goes verse uh in in Acts 9 verse 17 he says "Be filled with the
• 24:00 - 24:30 Holy Spirit." He lays his hands on him says "Be filled with the Holy Spirit." And we know Paul is filled with the Holy Spirit and speaks in tonesues 1 Corinthians 14:18 Paul says "I thank my God I speak in tonesues more than you all." again proof that everyone can speak in tongues because that would have been really mean of Paul to say if it wasn't something everyone could do and you know we didn't have he was expecting but he noticed that people were not doing it yeah well and and I think we
• 24:30 - 25:00 didn't have time to get into this time um the difference between every believer can have the gift of praying in tongues which is you praying to the father jude 20 says that you know that that's we're interceding see I'm get excited i'm get excited to start speaking go ahead start speak okay all right let's maybe for sake of time this is so beautiful you know one of the highest way to make the devil
• 25:00 - 25:30 mad is to pray in the spirit yeah and it builds up your faith to and the devil get confused yes he doesn't know what to do what to do about you and I love that because it is a direct communication even the Bible say your mind does not comprehend what you are telling the father it is a you know intimacy a fellowship between your
• 25:30 - 26:00 spirit the real you well and Romans tells us we don't know what to pray for but the Holy Spirit intercedes for us um and I know we're out of time oh wow for I thought we have five more we didn't get to this part though because there's a difference between every believer can pray in tones which is praying to the father that's different than the gift of tones with the gift of interpretations which is when God speaks a message through a person and someone else interprets it um we didn't so I can be
• 26:00 - 26:30 blessed you can be blessed yeah so I do want to recommend really quickly um if you want to learn more because I know we couldn't cover everything no no we going to No don't give everything out you got to keep it you know don't give them on a book to read we will continue this series we're going to continue the series so if you want to know more about what you know this Hey stay connected i wanted to say one more thing one more thing okay just because while we're talking about this cuz we'll kind of
• 26:30 - 27:00 shift gears next time to get into the next piece okay but I just wanted to say okay it the it people say it passed away with the apostles which is not true and you can see that from the early church and I won't go through all the names and all the things that spoke about um praying in tonesues but even um Alexander of Hippo who lived from 354 to 430 AD um talked about praying in tonesues you have people clear up through 500 AD where you can see them talking about um speaking in tonesues in
• 27:00 - 27:30 their church these are people talking about their church and the role of the Holy Spirit and speaking in tongues i just wanted to say that it is an early church history church fathers for hundreds of years you see them um mentioning it it did not pass away with the not only does the Bible not say that and we'll get to that um but the writing the the writing of um the early pastors you know for hundreds of years they even some of the some of denomination that we have in place it started by praying the holy ghost and
• 27:30 - 28:00 they have allowed the devil wash their brain well we will get to we'll get back to that subject and we will stay in this subject until Jesus return because you we can't live we can't even even live our life without the Holy Ghost that's right that's the bottom line so either you like Holy Spirit is with you if you don't know Jesus Holy Spirit is speaking to you is the one who's going to help you to recognize that the blood was shed
• 28:00 - 28:30 for you and Jesus was raised back to life for your salvation when you pray this prayer the Bible says you will spend your eternity with God in heaven and you're going to eat angels cake that's yes that's my own translation so it is a it is a great pleasure to come to you every week and we thank God for your life and I believe stay connected to be blessed if you would like to start a
• 28:30 - 29:00 personal relationship with Jesus pray this prayer with me and mean it with your heart thank you heavenly father for loving me thank you for sending Jesus to die on the cross for my sins i believe with my heart that God raised him from the dead for my justification and I confess that Jesus is Lord over my life i receive righteousness into my spirit