Everyone Sweats

Sweat. If it looks like sweat, if it feels like sweat, it it smells like sweat, it's probably sweat. Oh, you may call it by a different name (after all, girls don't perspire, they glisten), but in the end, it's still sweat. Most think it's gross when it happens, and no one's fond of rubbing up against someone else who's covered in it, but like the kids book, Everyone Poops, by Taro Gomi, everyone sweats.

This is actually a pretty cool feature God gave our magnificent bodies. Sweat is a means of helping to regulate our body temperature. When the sweat evaporates from our skin, it provides a cooling effect. That's why, when it's hot, or when your muscles heat up from being worked, more sweat is produced. Sweat is sort of the proof that your body is overheating and needing to cool down.

This week in youth we talked about the Baptism in the Holy Spirit with the initial physical evidence of speaking in tongues. Just like sweat is the proof that your body is beginning to overheat, tongues is the proof that you've been filled with the Spirit. There had to be some sign. Tongues is it. If at Baptism you suddenly started sweating, you might think you were filled with the Holy Spirit while you were playing a sport. If being filled meant you suddenly got hungry for pizza, you might think you were filled with the Holy Spirit whenever you walked into a Pizza Hut. The filling of the Holy Spirit had to be something supernatural so that you would have no doubt. Speaking in tongues is that supernatural occurrence.

Take a moment to read Acts 4:31-35 and answer these questions:

• What were the affects of the Holy Spirit filling these people?


• How have you personally been affected by the Holy Spirit?


• How do you think that people can tell that you're filled with the Holy Spirit?


• In what specific ways listed in these verses can you display the infilling of the Holy Spirit to others?