T#006 Grade IV ~ LAYING ON OF HANDS

Grade IV

THE LAYING ON OF HANDS

• THE BAPTISM WITH The Holy Spirit by JESUS

• overwhelmed the 12 apostles

• and gave them miraculous powers! 

• In addition to the 12 apostles,

• some disciples were given miraculous powers

• by the laying on of APOSTOLIC hands.

• Please refer to >>Acts of the Holy Spirit Chapters 6:6, >>8:9-17, and >>Acts of the Holy Spirit Chapters 18 to 19:6, >>Romans 1:11 and >>2ndTimothy 1:6.

All the above scriptures
point to

the apostles themselves

laying their hands

• to impart diverse gifts (>>1st Corinthians 12:4-11)

• manifested in miracles and signs

ALL aimed at confirming
THE WORD of GOD

• to them then who received their verbal teachings

WHEN THE New COVENANT
was still in the process of
being written

(>>Mark 16:20)

• as well as to them of the subsequent ages.

• This includes us, who makes THE New COVENANT

• as the rule and guide of our accumulating faith

• wherein and from which we believe such miracles

• in keeping with >>John 3:2, >>Acts of the Holy Spirit Chapter 2:2-47, and >>John 20:30-31 among others.

In THE CHURCH
in Jerusalem then

• signs and wonders were done initially only

• by the 12 apostles

• (>>Acts of the Holy Spirit Chapters 2:43 and >>5:12)

• This was true until the apostles laid their hands

• on the seven who were given the role & task to settle=

• and thereafter avoid the problem on food distribution

• (>>Acts of the Holy Spirit Chapter 6:6) 

• Then, both Stephen and Philip performed miracles.

BOTH could not however
impart this power to others.

• After many of the Samaritans received THE WORD,

• believed IT and got themselves baptized

• and consequently indwelt by The Holy Spirit

• for their new life-living (>>Acts of the Holy Spirit Chapter 8:12-13)

• the apostles sent Peter and John

• all the way from Jerusalem to Samaria

• to lay their hands on at least some of the new believers

• (>>Acts of the Holy Spirit Chapter 8:4-18)

• to give them The Holy Spirit’s outward manifestations

• such as the power for their confidence

• to do their evangelizing/teaching work.

If Philip who was
already performing
miracles

• though not himself an apostle

• --- BUT by virtue of the laying on of apostolic hands on him 

• --- could have given them such power

• translated into those outward manifestations he was already having

why were Peter and John
had to be sent

all the way from Jerusalem

to lay their hands on them?

• What Simon actually wanted to buy

• was the power to get The Spirit INDWELL

• whoever he may lay his hands on!

• (>>Acts of the Holy Spirit Chapter 8:19).

Yes, The Holy
Spirit's
OUTWARD
MANIFESTATIONS
is given to mankind

in
three (3) varying
degrees or measure:

I. TO JESUS (ALONE)

---- without measure ----

(>>John 3:34)

II. TO the apostles AND
them they laid
their hands on (ONLY)

-- extraordinary measure --

(>>Acts of the Holy Spirit
Chapters >>2:43, >>5:12,
>>6:3-8, >>19:17-20)

III. TO EACH ONE
who believes in 
JESUS as THE CHRIST and
his LORD, repents, 
and get himself baptized

---- ordinary measure ----

(>>Acts of the Holy Spirit
Chapter 2:36-38)

• Yet, with this ordinary measure

we are not short of anything for

THE WORK of THE LORD

to be effective!

• We are now(!) equipped

• with THE WRITTEN WORD of GOD

• which The Holy Spirit found fit to equip us with

• (>>2nd Timothy 3:16-17) 

• unlike them in our predecessors' time!!!

Two specific cases of
laying on of hands

on record in
THE New COVENANT

deserve our
most careful

understanding
and adherence to:

>>Acts of the Holy Spirit Chapter 9:1-19

• Although Ananias was a mere disciple and not an apostle

IT WAS WITH CLEAR AND
UNMISTAKABLE
INSTRUCTION

• FROM THE HOLY SPIRIT HIMSELF as recorded in verse 12

• that he laid his hands on Saul who was to become Apostle Paul.

>>Acts of the Holy Spirit Chapter 13:1-3

• Although these disciples in Antioch were clearly not apostles

• they laid their hands on Barnabas & Saul.

BUT NOT WITHOUT
THE CLEAR AND

UNMISTAKABLE
INSTRUCTIONS

• FROM THE HOLY SPIRIT as recorded in verse 2.

Does every one laying
hands today(!)

have a direct commission
each time they do

---- from The Holy Spirit ----

TO lay his/her
hands on someone like

THE LORD said in
unmistakable terms

TO Ananias and the disciples
in Antioch on those specific
cases above?

• Let us all be more than aware, Paul said in >>1st Timothy 5:22:

 "Do not

BE HASTY in 

the

laying on of hands

and do not share in

THE SIN

of others.

Keep yourself pure.”

                                            

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