An Essential Guide to Baptism in the Holy Spirit: Foundations on the Holy Spirit
Ebook
Overview
This book is part of the Foundation Series by Pastor Ron Phillips. The series will contain books describing the basic foundational truths for the Spirit-filled believer. An Essential Guide to Baptism in the Holy Spirit describes the author’s own experience of being baptized by the Holy Spirit. It will demonstrate how the power of the Holy Spirit in our lives today can help us to preach the good news, drive out devils, heal the sick, and see God’s kingdom on the earth grow.
Table of Contents
1. My Own Story
Initial Difficulties
Revival at Last
2. An Old Testament Promise
3. Entering the Spiritual World
What Is the Spirit World?
Entering the Spiritual World
4. The Seal of God
Is There One Baptism?
A Fresh Start
Sealed by the Spirit
The Baptism or Seal Opens Heaven
5. The Baptism of the Holy Spirit in the New Testament
Look at Jesus
The Apostles and the Holy Spirit
Baptism With the Spirit Described
What the Baptism With the Holy Spirit Is Not
6. The Baptism of the Holy Spirit as Your Inheritance
You Are an Heir!
Your Covenant Inheritance
The Seven Gifts of God’s Wisdom
Five Promises of Your Inheritance
Activating Your Inheritance
Some Cautions About Your Inheritance
7. God’s Endowment for Ministry
Testimony of History
Your Promise for Today
8. Physical Manifestations of the Baptism of the Holy Spirit
Shaking or Trembling
Joy and Singing
Drunkenness or Euphoria
Crying and Weeping
Dancing and Bodily Movements
Falling Out in the Spirit
Falling Out in the New Testament
Notes From History
Purposes for Manifestations
How Can We Be Sure These Things Are Real?
What Is Divine Order?
Proper Responses to Manifestations
9. Seven Dangerous Sins Against the Holy Spirit
A Fire Put Out
How Does One Quench the Spirit?
How to Rekindle the Flame
10. Traditionalism vs. Real Biblical Truth
Resisting the Miraculous
Avoiding the Outsider
Discrediting the Obvious
Denying the Truth
Waving “Bye” to Jesus
11. The Hope for the Church
Truth vs. Experience
Were There Only Three Periods of Miracles?
Miracles in the Old Testament
Did Miracles Cease With the Apostles?
The Bible Annihilates Cessationism
A Call to the Church
The Church of the Future
The Hope of This Generation
Reclaiming What Is Yours
Conclusion: The Baptism of the Holy Spirit at the End of the Age
For Further Reading
Endnotes
Product Details
- Title : An Essential Guide to Baptism in the Holy Spirit
- Author: Phillips, Ron
- Publisher: Charisma House
- Publication Date: 2011
- ISBN: 9781616384210
In 1979 Ron Phillips was called as pastor of Central Baptist Church located in the Chattanooga, Tennessee, area, where he serves today. Under his ministry, this Southern Baptist church has experienced the birth and growth of many ministries and completed several building projects, but more importantly, the church has exploded into new realms of renewal and spiritual awakening. Having earned a bachelor’s degree from Samford University, as well as a master of divinity and a doctorate of ministry from New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary, his successes were many. But in 1989, he felt in his spirit that the joy in serving had left him. He was burned out in ministry and ready to resign when he had an encounter with the Holy Spirit that changed his life forever. With Pastor Phillips' new anointing came a deeper passion to reach across America and eventually around the world with the powerful message of Christ and the power of the Holy Spirit.