There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. (Rom 8:1)

1. Walking after the Spirit
A. No Condemnation
Definition of Condemnation: Expression of strong disapproval or Moral disapproval. Having neither hope nor future.
Opposite is to be approved, acceptance, loved by God (Matt 3:17, Jesus Baptism and 2 Tim 2:15, approved unto God)

B. Led by the Spirit
- Victorious life in the Spirit as sons of God (Rom 8:14, Gal 5:18)
- What do we inherit in the Kingdom of God? Righteousness, peace, joy in the Holy Spirit (Rom 14:17)
- Righteousness = Right thinking (repent, change of mind), Right Character and Right Doing


2. Baptizo!
A. Origin of the word
- History: Greek poet and physician Nicander in 200 BC wrote about it as a recipe for making pickles!
- Best pickles are firstly dipped in boiling water than baptized in vinegar. First is short and second step is produces a permanent change (and irreversible)
- The vegetable’s aroma is overwhelmed with the fragrance of vinegar

B. Meaning for us
- Union and identification with Christ
He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; (Mar 16:16a)
- Our life is overwhelmed with fragrance of Christ
I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: (Gal 2:20a)
- Do people ‘smell’ or sense Jesus in our lives or is it a stink to people
For we are unto God a sweet savour (fragrance) of Christ (2Co 2:15a)

C. Why are we to be baptized with the Holy Spirit?
And having met with them , He commanded them not to depart from Jerusalem, but to await the promise of the Father which you heard from Me.
For John truly baptized with water, but you shall be baptized in the Holy Spirit not many days from now. (Acts 1:4-5)

Simply because it’s Jesus commandment to receive His promise.
Secondly it is Jesus who baptizes us with the Holy Spirit, not from man.

D. What is it?
It is to receive a gift from God our Father in Heaven in faith. God gives because He loves!
If a son shall ask bread of any of you that is a father, will he give him a stone? or if he ask a fish, will he for a fish give him a serpent? Or if he shall ask an egg, will he offer him a scorpion? If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children: how much more shall your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask him? (Luke 11:11-13)

This verse is often mistaken about prayer, but it is about the giving of the Holy Spirit to His children. Why do you think God gives, when we say that once we believe in Jesus we already have the Holy Spirit? Is there something more that God really desires to give us?

E. Baptized with fire? Road to glory

I indeed baptize you with water to repentance. But He who comes after me is mightier than I, whose sandals I am not worthy to carry. He shall baptize you with the Holy Spirit and with fire (Matt 3:11)

Stages of a Christian life: Justification – Sanctification – Glorification
- Justification: declared innocent or guiltless; absolve; acquit
For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God; Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus: (Rom 3:23-24)
- Sanctification: Continuous process of being set free from sin
being sanctified by the Holy Ghost.
(Rom 15:16b)
- Glorification: To honor, praise, approved by God not man
Rom 5:3-5: Endurance-> Experience-> Hope - > Love of God

3. Speaking in Tongues
A. The Manifestation
- In worship, our Spirit reaching out to God who IS Spirit (John 4:23). Worship is an expression of our Spirit not expression of our Soul.

B. Purpose for speaking in tongues

But he who prophesies speaks to men for building up, and exhortation, and comfort.
The one speaking in a tongue builds himself up, but he prophesying builds up a church.
I wish all of you to speak in languages, but rather that you may prophesy; for greater is he prophesying than he speaking in tongues, unless he interpret so that the church may receive building up.(1 Cor 14:3-5)

- For self edification, an uplift for ourselves. Garnering inner confidence to stand up to circumstances.
- Paul encourages us to speak in tongues to be built up!
- Speaking in tongues is a gift not for boasting (holier than thou attitude) otherwise it nothing but worthless noise. Love surpasses the gift.

Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity (love), I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal. (1Co 13:1)

B. Why Tongues?
- It’s the most difficult organ for us to control, definitely the first thing we need the Holy Spirit to help us deal with

Behold, we put bits in the horses' mouths, so that they may obey us, and we turn about their whole body.
Behold also the ships being so great, and driven by fierce winds, yet they are turned about with a very small rudder, where the impulse of him steering desires.
Even so the tongue is a little member and boasts great things. Behold how little a fire kindles how large a forest!
And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity. So the tongue is set among our members, spotting all the body and inflaming the course of nature, and being inflamed by hell.
For every kind of animals, and of birds, and of reptiles, and of sea-animals, is tamed, and has been tamed by mankind.
But no one can tame the tongue, it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.
By this we bless God, even the Father. And by this we curse men, who have come into being according to the image of God.Out of the same mouth proceeds blessing and cursing. My brothers, these things ought not to be so. (James 3:3-10)

Conclusion
Jesus desires to give us this special gift of the Baptism in the Holy Spirit. He wants us to live a powerful and victorious life as His sons. The Holy Spirit in us means, we have the Lord continually within us to comfort and guide us (we are His Temple of His Holy Spirit, 1 Cor 6:19). When Jesus has our tongue, it's one of the first steps to Him being enthroned in our lives.