The Holy Spirit evidently had so completely taken over and so saturated and

drenched and immersed them that the Holy Spirit was imparting to them his own

vision of God, his own passion for God, his own praise of God so that what was

spilling over out of their mouths was a praise or an extoling or an exaltation of

the mighty works of God. According to the book of Acts, what actually happens

when we are baptized with the Spirit? John Piper opens Acts 1, 4 and 5 to provide

insight into that question in this episode of Light and Truth. This sermon was

originally preached at Bethlehem Baptist Church on September 23rd, 1990.

While staying with them, he charged them not to depart from Jerusalem, but to

wait for the promise of the Father, which he said, you heard from me for John

baptized with water, but before many days you shall be baptized with the Holy

Spirit. Now he's referring back about three years, isn't he, to the time when

John the Baptist led a kind of renewal movement among the Jewish people. John

the Baptist broke on the scene as a prophet from the wilderness and he began to

preach repent for the kingdom of heaven as at hand, be baptized for the

forgiveness of your sins, and many of the Jews realized they'd been living a

phony relationship with their God, they repented of their sins, they restored

their relationship with him, they signified it in baptism and a whole new renewal

movement started with John the Baptist, but John said, take note, there is one

coming after me, the Messiah who's greater than I, and he's going to baptize

you not with water like I do, but with the Holy Spirit. Let me read for you the

exact words Luke 3 verse 16, I baptize you with water, but he who is my

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