Except that is not what Scripture says - "Then the Spirit said unto Philip, Go near, and join thyself to this chariot. And Philip ran thither to him, and heard him read the prophet Esaias, and said, Understandest thou what thou readest? And he said, How can I, except some man should guide me? And he desired Philip that he would come up and sit with him. Acts 8:29-31
“And the Spirit said to him...” By chance was that the Holy Spirit? Thus my point.
Here is the NIV translation.
Acts 8:29-31New International Version (NIV)
29 The Spirit told Philip, “Go to that chariot and stay near it.”
30 Then Philip ran up to the chariot and heard the man reading Isaiah the prophet. “Do you understand what you are reading?” Philip asked.
31 “How can I,” he said, “unless someone explains it to me?” So he invited Philip to come up and sit with him.
32 This is the passage of Scripture the eunuch was reading:
“He was led like a sheep to the slaughter,
and as a lamb before its shearer is silent,
so he did not open his mouth.
33 In his humiliation he was deprived of justice.
Who can speak of his descendants?
For his life was taken from the earth.”[b]
34 The eunuch asked Philip, “Tell me, please, who is the prophet talking about, himself or someone else?” 35 Then Philip began with that very passage of Scripture and told him the good news about Jesus.
36 As they traveled along the road, they came to some water and the eunuch said, “Look, here is water. What can stand in the way of my being baptized?” [37] [c] 38 And he gave orders to stop the chariot. Then both Philip and the eunuch went down into the water and Philip baptized him. 39 When they came up out of the water, the Spirit of the Lord suddenly took Philip away, and the eunuch did not see him again, but went on his way rejoicing.
The eunuch in the Chariot who was reading Isiah did not know of Jesus and was not connected to the Holy Spirit, Philip was, as the Bible clearly states. “the Spirit of the Lord suddenly took Philip away,” is an indication that Philip baptized the eunuch with water, but as Philip was also filled with the Holy Spirit, by Philip introducing the eunuch to Jesus the Holy Spirit moved into the Eunuch. Philip merely lit the fire that continued burning after he left.
Clearly, the eunuch did not have the New Testament scriptures. Philip did not even have them available to him except for possibly a few scrolls. It was his words that were the Holy Spirit speaking through him that brought the eunuch to be “One with Jesus.” Use the Bible as your foundation or road map to find and fill yourself with the Holy Spirit. Then let the Holy Spirit do the work.
I found that after being filled with the Holy Spirit I could not get enough of Bible reading. It was like the sweetest candy to me, and it spoke to me in ways I had never experienced before.
If you always just focus on the road map in your travels, you will never see the road upon which you are driving, and will have difficulty reaching and experiencing your desired destination.
Blessings