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1 68 "THIS MEANS EVERLASTING LIFE"
tation started with miraculous gifts of foreign
languages and prophesying . Gifts of healing and
other marvelous powers followed. We note that
the miraculous gifts of the spirit were bestowed
in the presence of the apostles of the Lamb or directly
through them by the laying on of their
hands . Philip the missionary went down to Samaria
and preached and won believers there .
Though baptized in water, they did not receive
the holy spirit and any of its gifts . So the apostles
sent down Peter and John . "These went down
and prayed for them to get holy spirit . For it had
not yet fallen upon any one of them, but they had
only been baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus .
Then they went to laying their hands upon them,
and they began to receive holy spirit . . . . through
the laying on of the hands of the apostles the
spirit was given."-Acts 8 :5-18, NW.
At Ephesus Paul came upon men who had been
baptized with John's baptism and had heard nothing
of the holy spirit. So he preached Jesus to
them. "On hearing this, they got baptized in the
name of the Lord Jesus . And when Paul laid his
hands upon them, the holy spirit came upon them,
and they began speaking with tongues and prophesying."
Acts 19 :1-6, NW Paul wrote Timothy
to "stir up like a fire the gift of God which is in
you through the laying of my hands upon you" .
By letter he advised the congregation at Rome :
"I am longing to see you, that I may impart some
spiritual gift to you in order for you to be made
firm ." 2 Timothy 1 :6 and Romans 1 :11, NW