We have been talking about the Holy Spirit for months now. We have seen His person, that the Holy Spirit is God, that He is “another helper”, exactly like Jesus in every way; that His purpose is to glorify Jesus, to listen to Jesus’ voice, to remind us of Jesus’ words, to convict the world of sin, righteousness and judgment, to lead the church into all truth, to intercede for the will of God in our lives and to pray through us at all times. His plans very simply are to reveal Jesus as the only way to the Father, to cry out as the Spirit of adoption “Abba, Father” within those who are being saved and to be the source of all power, witness and love within the church as she becomes the spotless, wrinkleless and unblemished Bride of Christ. The baptism or infilling of the Holy Spirit simply puts within man what is already within God: a longing to glorify Jesus, to see men come to redemption through repentance and the church live in the unity of love. The Holy Spirit was not sent to us so that we would be gifted but so that we would be filled with the person of God, given power to live for the purpose of God and given a desire to live in fulfillment of the plans of God. God wills that none would perish but that all would come to repentance, He wills that those whom He foreknew and predestined would be conformed to the image of His Son, He loved the world so fully that He sent His only Son so that those who would believe in Him would not perish but would be saved. The desire of the Father is to redeem the lost, the prayer of Jesus is unity within those being redeemed and the work of the Holy Spirit is to glorify Jesus to and through the adopted children of the Father. The united desire of God is glory to Jesus, redemption for men and unity in the church, the Holy Spirit now lives within us to accomplish the Father’s desire, Jesus’ prayer and the Spirit’s purpose. This morning I want us to look at the first people ever filled with the Holy Spirit and see how the Spirit led them and used them to fulfill the purpose of the Godhead: to glorify Jesus, to redeem men and to unite the church. I want us to see that the first infilling of the Holy Spirit did not happen on the Day of Pentecost but instead happened to the family of John the Baptist and it happened for the same reason it happens to us: because of seeing Jesus and for the purpose of making Jesus seen.