Today, family, we are concluding this series of sermons called Ghost It.

And I want to read a few verses of scripture found in the book of Acts chapter number

19, Acts 19 beginning at verse number one.

And I'm reading from the New International Version, and it reads like this, it says,

while Apollos was at Corinth, Paul took the road through the interior and arrived at Ephesus.

There he found some disciples and asked them, did you receive the Holy Spirit when you believed?

They answered, no, we've not even heard that there is a Holy Spirit. So Paul asked,

then what baptism did you receive? John's baptism, they replied. Paul said John's baptism was a

baptism of repentance. He told the people to believe in the one coming after him, that is, in Jesus.

On hearing this, they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus. And when Paul placed his hands on them, the Holy Spirit came on them. And they

spoke in tongues and prophesied. There were about 12 men in all. I want to stop the reading of

scripture there. And I want to use as a subject

for this particular sermon, a statement that came to my mind when I read verse number two, where the

writer says, did you receive the Holy Spirit when you believe? They answered, no. We have not even

heard that there's a Holy Spirit.

I want to talk from this subject, family. I had no idea. Clap your hands, everybody.

I had no idea. This passage in Acts 19 is a powerful picture of something that if you've been at change for any significant period of time, you've heard me rehearse and repeat this regularly.

It is something I've affectionately entitled the principle of exposure.

Somebody say exposure.

This principle simply suggests that God

will use exposure

to awaken in us an appetite

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