1 00:00:00,240 --> 00:00:02,640 We're going to get into the word together, so open up your Bibles 2 00:00:02,640 --> 00:00:10,200 to Acts Chapter 3 and see what we can accomplish together here. 3 00:00:10,200 --> 00:00:15,960 We're going to start out, I really want to just bring an 4 00:00:15,960 --> 00:00:18,640 introduction to what we're going to be talking about and looking 5 00:00:18,640 --> 00:00:24,960 at today. Kind of what, where, why, why? 6 00:00:24,960 --> 00:00:29,280 I want to look at what we're going to look at today, and then 7 00:00:29,280 --> 00:00:34,880 we'll get into it. But, you know, as a pastor, as a 8 00:00:34,880 --> 00:00:39,920 missionary, as just a disciple of Jesus, somebody who wants the 9 00:00:39,920 --> 00:00:43,120 real deal, wants to try to stay close to Jesus, doesn't always 10 00:00:43,120 --> 00:00:44,160 do it so. Well. 11 00:00:45,560 --> 00:00:53,320 But just understands my desperate need for God, for the 12 00:00:53,320 --> 00:00:57,800 power of the Holy Spirit to be able to not only live for Jesus, 13 00:00:58,080 --> 00:01:03,920 overcome sin, be a halfway decent husband, father, pastor, 14 00:01:05,040 --> 00:01:07,280 neighbor, all those kinds of things. 15 00:01:08,680 --> 00:01:12,040 I realize, you know, I I don't have what it takes. 16 00:01:12,040 --> 00:01:14,120 I can't accomplish it. I can't do it. 17 00:01:14,120 --> 00:01:19,080 And so it has to be the power of God working in me and through 18 00:01:19,080 --> 00:01:21,560 me. And so even over this last year, 19 00:01:21,560 --> 00:01:25,440 I just found myself a lot kind of crying out to God and just. 20 00:01:25,440 --> 00:01:27,360 Being like I'm desperate. I need help. 21 00:01:27,360 --> 00:01:29,840 I need power, I need strength, I need wisdom. 22 00:01:30,320 --> 00:01:33,600 So whatever it is, if you come in here today and you're feeling 23 00:01:33,600 --> 00:01:35,640 kind of weak, you're feeling kind of down, you're feeling 24 00:01:35,640 --> 00:01:37,960 kind of. Dry, you're like, what's going 25 00:01:37,960 --> 00:01:39,800 on? Lord, where are you at? 26 00:01:40,640 --> 00:01:43,720 I need help, I need deliverance, I need wisdom, I need 27 00:01:44,440 --> 00:01:48,200 forgiveness, or I want to serve, I want to go on a mission trip 28 00:01:48,200 --> 00:01:51,680 or I want to know what my role is in the body of Christ. 29 00:01:51,720 --> 00:01:55,160 I I just want to be effective for your Kingdom. 30 00:01:55,520 --> 00:01:58,160 Then I hope you know this message to speak to you this 31 00:01:58,160 --> 00:02:00,120 morning. The title of it is in the 32 00:02:00,120 --> 00:02:03,360 demonstration or in the power in the demonstration for such a 33 00:02:03,360 --> 00:02:08,759 time as this, and it kind of comes out of this passage in 34 00:02:08,759 --> 00:02:13,000 Acts chapter 3, as well as Paul's heart and thoughts in 35 00:02:13,000 --> 00:02:17,200 First Corinthians chapter 2. I want to read that to you, just 36 00:02:17,200 --> 00:02:21,040 verse three and four there and make a comment on it before we 37 00:02:21,040 --> 00:02:27,400 get going into Acts chapter 3. But Paul, he, you know, was a 38 00:02:27,400 --> 00:02:30,680 religious guy, was a really smart, intelligent guy, very 39 00:02:30,680 --> 00:02:33,240 cultured guy, spoke multiple languages, had Roman 40 00:02:33,240 --> 00:02:37,520 citizenship, was at the top of the top of his game. 41 00:02:37,920 --> 00:02:43,120 Philippians Chapter 3 gives his audio autobiography, You know. 42 00:02:43,160 --> 00:02:45,800 Hebrew of Hebrews tribe. Of Benjamin, according to the. 43 00:02:45,800 --> 00:02:47,400 Law was. Blameless. 44 00:02:47,400 --> 00:02:51,160 But then he he says, when I encountered Jesus Christ, I 45 00:02:51,160 --> 00:02:54,960 counted all that as trash and garbage and useless. 46 00:02:55,040 --> 00:03:00,160 And even there Paul later on in life, he was in prison in Rome 47 00:03:00,160 --> 00:03:02,000 when he wrote that letter to the Philippians. 48 00:03:02,000 --> 00:03:04,560 And he tells him, I just want to know him. 49 00:03:05,000 --> 00:03:08,960 I want to know him in the power of his resurrection and even in 50 00:03:08,960 --> 00:03:15,080 the suffering of affliction. And the, the context there of 51 00:03:15,080 --> 00:03:17,040 the letter to the Corinthians is Paul. 52 00:03:17,240 --> 00:03:20,160 He's on a missionary journey. He goes through Athens, in 53 00:03:20,160 --> 00:03:22,880 Greece. He kind of tries to meet them on 54 00:03:22,880 --> 00:03:27,000 their level, minister to them. He he pulls out some poetry, he 55 00:03:27,000 --> 00:03:29,400 pulls out some. You know, showing them that he's 56 00:03:29,400 --> 00:03:31,920 a smart guy too, and he doesn't really have. 57 00:03:32,280 --> 00:03:35,120 A very good experience there. He walks away, there wasn't much 58 00:03:35,120 --> 00:03:37,680 fruit from it, and he goes to Corinth. 59 00:03:37,680 --> 00:03:40,080 From there. And so when he gets to Corinth, 60 00:03:40,120 --> 00:03:43,640 we read here in verse 3 and 4, this was kind of his heart 61 00:03:44,280 --> 00:03:49,600 condition and his mindset. And he says, I was with you in 62 00:03:49,600 --> 00:03:52,400 weakness, in fear, and in much trembling. 63 00:03:52,520 --> 00:03:55,760 My speech and my preaching. We're not with persuasive words 64 00:03:55,760 --> 00:04:00,040 of human wisdom, but in the power and the demonstration of 65 00:04:00,040 --> 00:04:02,040 the Holy Spirit and that. That verse has. 66 00:04:02,040 --> 00:04:05,560 Just kind of been ruminating, moving through, circulating 67 00:04:05,560 --> 00:04:08,440 within my own heart and mind for the last year or two. 68 00:04:08,880 --> 00:04:12,000 When I look at my own life, when I look at ministry, when I look 69 00:04:12,000 --> 00:04:15,040 at our church, I look at Christianity and I think, God, 70 00:04:15,040 --> 00:04:17,360 if you don't do something here, we're in big trouble. 71 00:04:18,160 --> 00:04:23,200 Because I realize it, human wisdom and human efforts and 72 00:04:23,200 --> 00:04:26,360 human strength and all these things, they don't get the job 73 00:04:26,360 --> 00:04:28,440 done. They don't penetrate hearts. 74 00:04:28,440 --> 00:04:33,840 It doesn't transform lives. And so all we can do is bow our 75 00:04:33,840 --> 00:04:37,960 hearts and knees and say, dear God, help us pour out your Holy 76 00:04:37,960 --> 00:04:40,760 Spirit, Phyllis. And so Paul, he comes to Corinth 77 00:04:41,000 --> 00:04:43,240 and he's like, I'm not doing that again. 78 00:04:43,240 --> 00:04:45,560 I made the mistake of kind of maybe getting in the flesh a 79 00:04:45,560 --> 00:04:48,520 little bit there trying to show him my stuff, get whoop out some 80 00:04:48,520 --> 00:04:51,920 apologetics or whatever. And when he gets to Corinth, he 81 00:04:51,920 --> 00:04:54,560 says, when I came to you, I determined to know nothing but 82 00:04:54,560 --> 00:04:59,120 Jesus Christ and him crucified and any, any. 83 00:04:59,320 --> 00:05:02,200 If you read that letter, he talks about how hey, the message 84 00:05:02,200 --> 00:05:04,120 of the. Cross is foolishness and people 85 00:05:04,120 --> 00:05:06,440 think we're fools, but those who are getting. 86 00:05:06,440 --> 00:05:07,640 Saved. They realize it's the. 87 00:05:07,640 --> 00:05:10,800 Wisdom of God. But here, he points out, I. 88 00:05:10,800 --> 00:05:13,440 Came to you not in. Word. 89 00:05:13,440 --> 00:05:17,280 Only, and not in speech only, but in the power, in the 90 00:05:17,280 --> 00:05:19,600 demonstration of the Holy Spirit. 91 00:05:19,600 --> 00:05:21,960 And so I want to ask you guys as we're moving through this this 92 00:05:21,960 --> 00:05:26,400 morning to just kind of reflect and and examine your own life 93 00:05:26,400 --> 00:05:28,520 this morning. And what would you say? 94 00:05:28,520 --> 00:05:33,360 Would you say that in your family, at your workplace, as a 95 00:05:33,360 --> 00:05:37,720 Christian, in the community? That you are walking in the 96 00:05:37,720 --> 00:05:39,120 power. In the demonstration of the. 97 00:05:39,120 --> 00:05:43,760 Holy Spirit. Or is it in Word only the the 98 00:05:43,760 --> 00:05:47,480 other verse here that is kind of just speaks to me about this is 99 00:05:47,480 --> 00:05:53,240 in Esther chapter 4 when Mordecai, Esther's uncle, the 100 00:05:53,240 --> 00:05:57,240 whole thing about the Jews being about to be slaughtered by this 101 00:05:57,240 --> 00:06:04,160 wicked guy Haman in the Persian Kingdom there Mordecai, the 102 00:06:04,160 --> 00:06:08,320 uncle of Esther. She was a orphan girl that had 103 00:06:08,320 --> 00:06:12,320 become the queen and Mordecai goes to her and basically says, 104 00:06:12,320 --> 00:06:16,680 Hey, don't, don't you think that this is not God's sovereign hand 105 00:06:16,680 --> 00:06:20,280 that has put you in this position and in this place for 106 00:06:20,280 --> 00:06:25,760 this time And and the the way these connect today for us as we 107 00:06:25,760 --> 00:06:30,960 look at Acts chapter 3 here is we're in some pretty interesting 108 00:06:31,240 --> 00:06:34,040 times. The devil has never changed. 109 00:06:34,040 --> 00:06:35,600 He loves to still. Kill and destroy. 110 00:06:35,600 --> 00:06:36,920 He's doing a pretty. Good job of that. 111 00:06:37,400 --> 00:06:41,920 And God has chosen to use. Us the foolish base. 112 00:06:41,920 --> 00:06:46,320 Things of the world to expand his Kingdom, to sow the seeds of 113 00:06:46,320 --> 00:06:49,440 love and the power of the gospel and bring people to salvation 114 00:06:49,440 --> 00:06:54,280 out of the throes of darkness and perversity and bondage. 115 00:06:54,960 --> 00:07:00,120 And, and I think we're, I think we're, it's just as valid. 116 00:07:00,600 --> 00:07:02,960 It's for such a time as this. You're living in Boise. 117 00:07:02,960 --> 00:07:06,240 Idaho, you're living in the year 2025, you're working at the job 118 00:07:06,240 --> 00:07:08,480 you're at, you're in the family you're in and all these. 119 00:07:08,480 --> 00:07:11,360 Kinds of things not. By random. 120 00:07:11,360 --> 00:07:14,400 Like it just kind of happened like that, but but it's God's 121 00:07:14,400 --> 00:07:17,680 sovereignty over your life, He. Purposed. 122 00:07:18,000 --> 00:07:20,600 That you would be born when you were and where you were, and 123 00:07:20,600 --> 00:07:23,480 that you would get saved when you did, and that you're now 124 00:07:23,800 --> 00:07:26,760 salt and light and these kinds of things where you are. 125 00:07:26,760 --> 00:07:30,040 But He wants to use you for His Kingdom, for his glory. 126 00:07:30,280 --> 00:07:35,640 But it requires the power and demonstration of the Holy Spirit 127 00:07:35,640 --> 00:07:38,240 and not just words. And so let's get into this and 128 00:07:38,240 --> 00:07:42,480 take a look at it as we kind of look at Jesus's command to his 129 00:07:42,480 --> 00:07:44,760 disciples to be. Filled with the Holy. 130 00:07:44,760 --> 00:07:46,800 Spirit baptized in the Holy Spirit. 131 00:07:47,000 --> 00:07:49,120 We're going to look at some examples in the Bible of the 132 00:07:49,120 --> 00:07:53,120 demonstration and power, and then we're going to examine our 133 00:07:53,120 --> 00:07:57,080 own selves and kind of ask ourselves, where are we at with 134 00:07:57,080 --> 00:08:00,560 this kind of dynamic enabling? To close it off, I'm going to 135 00:08:00,560 --> 00:08:01,600 try to give. You three ways. 136 00:08:02,160 --> 00:08:07,560 That might help you get to that, this dunamis, this dynamic power 137 00:08:07,720 --> 00:08:11,920 in God's life and God's Spirit. But here in Acts chapter 3 we 138 00:08:11,920 --> 00:08:17,680 read now Peter and John went up together to the temple at the 139 00:08:17,680 --> 00:08:19,400 hour of prayer, in the ninth hour. 140 00:08:19,720 --> 00:08:24,080 And a certain man, lame from his mother's womb was carried, whom 141 00:08:24,080 --> 00:08:27,040 they laid daily at the gate of the temple, which is called 142 00:08:27,040 --> 00:08:30,600 beautiful, to ask alms from those who entered the temple. 143 00:08:31,160 --> 00:08:34,360 This guy's begging for money. Seeing Peter and John about to 144 00:08:34,360 --> 00:08:38,760 go into the temple, ask for alms, and fixing his eyes on him 145 00:08:39,320 --> 00:08:43,480 with John, Peter said, look at us. 146 00:08:43,919 --> 00:08:46,720 So he gave them his attention, expecting to receive something 147 00:08:46,720 --> 00:08:50,120 from them. Then Peter said, Silver and gold 148 00:08:50,120 --> 00:08:52,280 I do not have, but what I have I give you. 149 00:08:53,360 --> 00:08:57,200 In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, rise up and walk. 150 00:08:57,360 --> 00:09:00,560 I want you to underline or highlight that what I have I 151 00:09:00,560 --> 00:09:04,240 give you. And he took him by the hand, 152 00:09:04,240 --> 00:09:07,080 lifted him up, and immediately his feet and ankle bones 153 00:09:07,080 --> 00:09:09,760 received strength. So he, leaping up, stood and 154 00:09:09,760 --> 00:09:13,040 walked and entered the temple with them, walking, leaping, 155 00:09:13,480 --> 00:09:16,720 praising God. And all the people saw him 156 00:09:16,720 --> 00:09:20,080 walking and praising God and they knew it was he who sat 157 00:09:20,080 --> 00:09:22,800 begging alms at the beautiful gate of the temple. 158 00:09:22,800 --> 00:09:27,320 And they were filled with wonder and amazement at what had 159 00:09:27,320 --> 00:09:32,080 happened to him. So a few things I want to point 160 00:09:32,080 --> 00:09:34,680 out to you here. We're not going to do super 161 00:09:34,680 --> 00:09:38,760 deep, deep dive an exposition of this text, but I do want you to 162 00:09:38,760 --> 00:09:41,120 see a few important ingredients here. 163 00:09:41,120 --> 00:09:46,040 Number one, Peter and John are just going on about their daily 164 00:09:46,040 --> 00:09:48,880 lives, right? They're just, it's like, oh, we 165 00:09:48,880 --> 00:09:50,320 got a prayer meeting. We're going to the prayer 166 00:09:50,320 --> 00:09:52,920 meeting. They're along the way they're 167 00:09:52,920 --> 00:09:55,360 they run into a guy, he's asking for money. 168 00:09:55,480 --> 00:10:00,120 They don't have any money, but what they do have is time. 169 00:10:01,000 --> 00:10:04,640 They're willing to take a moment out of like the but the prayer 170 00:10:04,640 --> 00:10:06,520 meeting is going to start. Sorry bro, we got to go. 171 00:10:07,040 --> 00:10:09,800 No, they, they, there's. This sensitivity to the holy. 172 00:10:09,800 --> 00:10:13,680 Spirit Peter is touched. He feels like God wants to do 173 00:10:13,680 --> 00:10:15,960 something. Here is a moment of stirred 174 00:10:15,960 --> 00:10:18,360 faith in his life. He says, hey man, look up here. 175 00:10:19,000 --> 00:10:20,520 Let me get your attention for a minute. 176 00:10:20,640 --> 00:10:21,800 This is serious business. I don't. 177 00:10:21,800 --> 00:10:23,560 Got any money? But I got something way more 178 00:10:23,560 --> 00:10:27,760 powerful, way more important than money and what I have. 179 00:10:28,800 --> 00:10:32,400 I want to give it to you. And what is it that Peter has 180 00:10:32,400 --> 00:10:35,600 here as he steps out in faith? He. 181 00:10:35,600 --> 00:10:36,800 He. Feels the Holy Spirit is. 182 00:10:36,800 --> 00:10:39,880 Leading him to. This He takes a risk. 183 00:10:39,880 --> 00:10:42,840 He steps out and he says hey. I think God wants to. 184 00:10:42,840 --> 00:10:45,680 Heal you today. I want you to believe. 185 00:10:45,680 --> 00:10:48,200 In him and trust him and stand up. 186 00:10:48,520 --> 00:10:50,680 And walk. And then this man responds in 187 00:10:50,680 --> 00:10:53,880 faith. He stirred in faith and says 188 00:10:53,880 --> 00:10:56,360 let's. Do this, takes his hand, gets 189 00:10:56,360 --> 00:10:58,240 up, and the next thing you know. A man who's. 190 00:10:58,240 --> 00:11:01,640 Never walked his entire life is walking and leaping and. 191 00:11:01,640 --> 00:11:03,600 Jumping and skipping and praising God. 192 00:11:03,600 --> 00:11:07,400 And then there's the impact not only on this man. 193 00:11:07,400 --> 00:11:09,960 So it's the power and the demonstration that has been. 194 00:11:10,440 --> 00:11:13,920 Exposed to Peter himself. He's walked with Jesus. 195 00:11:13,920 --> 00:11:15,840 He's seen it now. He's been baptized. 196 00:11:15,840 --> 00:11:17,800 And filled with the Holy Spirit, he believes it. 197 00:11:17,800 --> 00:11:18,400 He. He. 198 00:11:18,400 --> 00:11:21,800 Believes it's not just for trying to be a good person, but 199 00:11:21,800 --> 00:11:25,080 that God does great wonders and signs and miracles. 200 00:11:25,280 --> 00:11:27,520 He looks at this guy, he's like, I don't got any money but man. 201 00:11:27,520 --> 00:11:29,160 Let's see if God wants to do this. 202 00:11:29,280 --> 00:11:32,720 Get up and walk man. And the guy does it and goes for 203 00:11:32,720 --> 00:11:33,960 it. And and then. 204 00:11:34,040 --> 00:11:34,840 What? What else? 205 00:11:34,840 --> 00:11:38,760 Is the impact not only on this man's life, but then everybody 206 00:11:38,760 --> 00:11:43,600 there goes? Wow, wow, there is a God. 207 00:11:43,600 --> 00:11:47,560 In heaven and he's still working today. 208 00:11:47,600 --> 00:11:51,240 And so as we kind of keep moving through here. 209 00:11:51,320 --> 00:11:54,840 I want you to ask. Yourselves what? 210 00:11:54,840 --> 00:11:58,280 What is my Christian life like? You know what is our church? 211 00:11:58,280 --> 00:12:02,280 Like have I been baptized? In the Holy Spirit do I have 212 00:12:02,280 --> 00:12:04,200 this power? Can I say to people what I have 213 00:12:04,200 --> 00:12:04,760 I. Give to you. 214 00:12:05,800 --> 00:12:08,640 You know, Peter doesn't give him money, but what does he give him 215 00:12:08,640 --> 00:12:12,160 here? And gives him his own experience 216 00:12:12,160 --> 00:12:14,200 in God's power. He's like, hey man, God touched 217 00:12:14,200 --> 00:12:15,000 me. He could touch. 218 00:12:15,000 --> 00:12:18,480 You it's not just about, you know, delivering a poor 219 00:12:18,480 --> 00:12:20,920 fisherman from his own pride and sin. 220 00:12:20,920 --> 00:12:23,560 And self, but he also. Heals people physically. 221 00:12:24,200 --> 00:12:25,920 It gives them hope. It gives them faith. 222 00:12:26,040 --> 00:12:29,760 You notice, you know we. Without faith, it's impossible 223 00:12:29,760 --> 00:12:33,400 to please God, right? God works through faith. 224 00:12:33,680 --> 00:12:36,600 God's blessed by faith. There's a couple of times in the 225 00:12:36,600 --> 00:12:40,880 New Testament where. Jesus is shocked and stunned and 226 00:12:40,880 --> 00:12:45,800 blessed, and it's when people put faith in him in such a way 227 00:12:45,800 --> 00:12:49,240 that he goes, man, that is awesome faith. 228 00:12:50,160 --> 00:12:52,640 The centurion in Matthew chapter 8. 229 00:12:53,320 --> 00:12:56,200 The woman, The Cyrophoenician woman that was healed, that her 230 00:12:56,200 --> 00:13:00,400 daughter was healed. Both of those people, they blew 231 00:13:00,400 --> 00:13:04,240 Jesus's mind by their. Faith. 232 00:13:05,360 --> 00:13:08,840 Now there's another. On the contrary, there's another 233 00:13:09,240 --> 00:13:12,360 situation in the new. Testament where some people stun 234 00:13:12,560 --> 00:13:16,720 and shock and amaze Jesus. But it's not their faith in him, 235 00:13:16,840 --> 00:13:19,960 It's actually their. Unbelief, for example, when he 236 00:13:19,960 --> 00:13:22,080 goes to. Nazareth and he's all bummed out 237 00:13:22,160 --> 00:13:23,400 and he's in it in the Bible says. 238 00:13:23,400 --> 00:13:26,760 He could do no. Work there because of what? 239 00:13:27,920 --> 00:13:29,720 It says he was amazed. At their. 240 00:13:29,880 --> 00:13:32,840 Unbelief. So another question to ask you 241 00:13:32,840 --> 00:13:35,880 this morning. As you walk with Jesus, as we 242 00:13:35,880 --> 00:13:39,880 sing these songs, the songs of man, You blessed me, you loved 243 00:13:39,880 --> 00:13:41,720 me, you saved me, you delivered me. 244 00:13:41,720 --> 00:13:44,640 Now I just have a life to offer back to you. 245 00:13:44,640 --> 00:13:46,280 Romans chapter 12. You know that. 246 00:13:46,280 --> 00:13:48,440 We would present. Ourselves as a living sacrifice. 247 00:13:48,440 --> 00:13:51,040 When I got saved here in the valley I was just long haired 248 00:13:51,040 --> 00:13:54,200 hippie. Sex, drugs and rock'n'roll but 249 00:13:54,360 --> 00:13:57,240 at that point fairly miserable looking for truth and Jesus 250 00:13:57,240 --> 00:13:59,200 reveals himself to me, reveals his. 251 00:13:59,200 --> 00:14:01,480 Loving. Kindness to me, His grace. 252 00:14:01,480 --> 00:14:05,200 His forgiveness pours out. His Holy Spirit on me and. 253 00:14:05,200 --> 00:14:08,280 All I could say for. Weeks, if not months was. 254 00:14:08,720 --> 00:14:10,800 Why me? This is awesome, this is 255 00:14:10,800 --> 00:14:13,200 amazing. Then what can I do for you? 256 00:14:14,200 --> 00:14:19,200 And John says we we love him because he first loved us. 257 00:14:19,200 --> 00:14:23,200 And so we have to ask ourselves, is my response and my reaction 258 00:14:23,200 --> 00:14:25,920 to God's love in my life, His forgiveness towards me? 259 00:14:25,920 --> 00:14:28,920 Is it? What can I do for you and here? 260 00:14:29,520 --> 00:14:32,200 If you want to use me, I, I mean, I'm like a donkey, I'm 261 00:14:32,200 --> 00:14:33,960 like a rock. I'm foolish, I'm based. 262 00:14:34,160 --> 00:14:38,800 I can't put sentences together. But if you can use me to bring 263 00:14:38,800 --> 00:14:41,000 that. Same thing to someone else. 264 00:14:42,320 --> 00:14:45,760 Please do. And Jesus is like. 265 00:14:45,960 --> 00:14:50,280 Of course, that's the way I. Designed it but you know this 266 00:14:50,280 --> 00:14:53,520 whole silver and gold day I have none of but what I have I give 267 00:14:53,520 --> 00:14:54,520 to you. It's interesting. 268 00:14:54,520 --> 00:14:57,800 There was there's a purported story that there was a Catholic 269 00:14:57,800 --> 00:15:01,760 Pope named Pope Innocent the 2nd and he was counting all the 270 00:15:01,760 --> 00:15:03,360 money that had come into the coffers. 271 00:15:03,800 --> 00:15:06,880 And in walks Thomas Aquinas, who was a theologian and a 272 00:15:06,880 --> 00:15:11,320 philosopher kind of considered to be maybe a church father and. 273 00:15:12,880 --> 00:15:15,400 He Pope Innocent says to Aquinas, he says. 274 00:15:15,520 --> 00:15:18,520 Hey Thomas, no longer does the church. 275 00:15:18,520 --> 00:15:21,880 Have to say silver and gold have. 276 00:15:21,880 --> 00:15:26,920 We none and Thomas responds back to him quickly and. 277 00:15:26,920 --> 00:15:30,200 Says yes. But perhaps we are also in 278 00:15:30,200 --> 00:15:33,320 danger of not being able. To say rise up. 279 00:15:33,840 --> 00:15:37,760 Take your bed and walk. And So what I'm asking. 280 00:15:37,800 --> 00:15:41,240 You today is is. Are we living out a Christian 281 00:15:41,240 --> 00:15:44,360 life and a Christian experience that is not only just like? 282 00:15:44,360 --> 00:15:46,400 Yeah, the Bible says. It and yeah. 283 00:15:46,400 --> 00:15:48,280 We believe it, but yes, I believe it. 284 00:15:48,560 --> 00:15:50,760 And yes, I'm walking in. It and I want to. 285 00:15:50,760 --> 00:15:54,240 Walk in it and I want to extend. It also. 286 00:15:54,880 --> 00:15:57,880 To my whole life and other people around me. 287 00:15:57,880 --> 00:16:00,880 Or are we? Living kind of the Laodicean 288 00:16:02,160 --> 00:16:06,120 life, you know, the church in Revelation chapter 3, the last 289 00:16:06,120 --> 00:16:09,040 days church. Which we may very well be. 290 00:16:09,040 --> 00:16:14,240 Living in and Jesus rebukes them and he says you guys are saying 291 00:16:14,360 --> 00:16:17,960 silver and gold. I have a ton of and you're 292 00:16:17,960 --> 00:16:20,080 saying you. Don't need me. 293 00:16:20,360 --> 00:16:24,080 And he's rebuking them and he's telling them you need to repent 294 00:16:24,280 --> 00:16:27,160 you. Need to come and ask me of the 295 00:16:27,160 --> 00:16:30,520 gold. Refined in the fire. 296 00:16:30,840 --> 00:16:36,240 And so it's something to consider as we look at just the 297 00:16:36,240 --> 00:16:40,360 idea here that desperate times call for desperate measures. 298 00:16:41,080 --> 00:16:43,640 Pete, John. Paul, Peter. 299 00:16:44,880 --> 00:16:49,880 Paul said. In Second Timothy, chapter 3, 300 00:16:49,880 --> 00:16:51,320 he. Said that the last. 301 00:16:51,320 --> 00:16:55,560 Days would be. Marked by a lot of religiosity, 302 00:16:55,680 --> 00:16:59,080 that would be. Denying the very power. 303 00:17:02,360 --> 00:17:07,599 So we have to ask ourselves, are we, are we a part of that 304 00:17:08,440 --> 00:17:12,240 personally on an individual level and then in our family, in 305 00:17:12,240 --> 00:17:15,200 our church and so forth. You know, I think if we're in 306 00:17:15,200 --> 00:17:17,680 the last days and most people. Believe we are, it looked. 307 00:17:17,720 --> 00:17:20,200 Like man, I can't imagine. What it's going to be. 308 00:17:20,200 --> 00:17:26,160 Like the further it goes, but you know the darkness and and 309 00:17:26,160 --> 00:17:32,040 demonic dynamics call for. Pentecostal dynamic call for 310 00:17:32,040 --> 00:17:35,600 power. Real, real deal deliverance and 311 00:17:35,600 --> 00:17:39,880 and and intimacy and inner strength. 312 00:17:39,880 --> 00:17:42,440 The The strengthening of the inner man. 313 00:17:42,640 --> 00:17:45,440 And faith, you know, I was talking about the faith. 314 00:17:45,440 --> 00:17:47,480 Of Peter. But I mean, Jesus says hey. 315 00:17:47,760 --> 00:17:50,120 Just a mustard seed could do a lot. 316 00:17:50,560 --> 00:17:54,280 Just the littlest bit of faith could do a lot, you see. 317 00:17:54,280 --> 00:17:57,880 The the rebuke against unbelief in the Bible. 318 00:17:57,880 --> 00:18:02,160 You know, sometimes we we think about pornography, we think 319 00:18:02,160 --> 00:18:06,160 about sexual sin, and we. Highlight that a lot. 320 00:18:06,920 --> 00:18:11,960 And sometimes, if we're really brave, we get into like, obesity 321 00:18:11,960 --> 00:18:14,080 and unhealthy relationships with food. 322 00:18:14,080 --> 00:18:15,800 And these kinds of things. But we. 323 00:18:15,800 --> 00:18:19,160 Never talk about unbelief, but do you? 324 00:18:19,160 --> 00:18:22,920 Know that the Bible talks about unbelief a lot and that it 325 00:18:22,920 --> 00:18:27,200 emphasizes how. Wicked it is before God, and and 326 00:18:27,200 --> 00:18:28,880 that's the whole. Example of Israel in the. 327 00:18:28,880 --> 00:18:31,160 Wilderness, right? The wickedness of their 328 00:18:32,000 --> 00:18:37,960 unbelief. You know, it's akin to sorcery 329 00:18:39,320 --> 00:18:41,520 and witchcraft. It's a form of idolatry, right? 330 00:18:42,480 --> 00:18:46,640 But nonetheless, this idea of dynamic power is important. 331 00:18:46,640 --> 00:18:49,240 I want to kind of show you some things here in Acts, the book of 332 00:18:49,240 --> 00:18:52,160 Acts quickly. Just show you some examples. 333 00:18:52,440 --> 00:18:54,560 Jesus commanded his disciples to be filled. 334 00:18:54,560 --> 00:18:58,480 With the Holy Spirit. He told them in John 1415 and 16 335 00:18:58,480 --> 00:19:01,040 about the. Holy Spirit before his. 336 00:19:01,040 --> 00:19:03,920 Death, burial and resurrection. He told them that if time was 337 00:19:03,920 --> 00:19:06,880 coming when there would be a different relationship between 338 00:19:06,880 --> 00:19:08,280 him and them, he was going to go to. 339 00:19:08,280 --> 00:19:10,240 The Father. But he was going to send them 340 00:19:10,640 --> 00:19:12,400 the holy. Spirit, he said the Holy Spirit 341 00:19:12,400 --> 00:19:13,520 would be the teacher. He would. 342 00:19:13,520 --> 00:19:16,400 Lead them into all truth, and He would bring things to their 343 00:19:16,400 --> 00:19:20,200 remembrance, and so on and so. Forth, he says the Holy Spirit's 344 00:19:20,200 --> 00:19:22,440 with you, he's going to be in you, and he's also. 345 00:19:22,440 --> 00:19:26,280 Going to need to come upon you in John chapter 20. 346 00:19:26,280 --> 00:19:28,360 He breathes on them after. The resurrection. 347 00:19:28,360 --> 00:19:30,440 He tells them to receive the Holy Spirit. 348 00:19:30,720 --> 00:19:32,760 They have the Holy Spirit. Dwelling in them, they're 349 00:19:32,760 --> 00:19:34,480 they're born. Again, Christians. 350 00:19:34,480 --> 00:19:36,440 They're saved. They would go to heaven if they 351 00:19:36,440 --> 00:19:40,440 died, but in Acts chapter 1 if you want to flip there in Acts 352 00:19:40,440 --> 00:19:44,280 chapter 1 before Jesus ascends into heaven, he tells them these 353 00:19:44,280 --> 00:19:45,640 are some of. His last words. 354 00:19:45,880 --> 00:19:48,920 And his last instructions to his disciples. 355 00:19:48,920 --> 00:19:50,960 And he tells them in verse 5, John. 356 00:19:50,960 --> 00:19:53,240 Baptized with water. But you will be. 357 00:19:53,240 --> 00:19:55,840 Baptized with the Holy. Spirit not many days from now. 358 00:19:56,640 --> 00:20:01,280 Then in verse 8 he says when the Holy Spirit has come upon you. 359 00:20:02,320 --> 00:20:06,440 You will be witnesses to me in sorry. 360 00:20:06,600 --> 00:20:09,560 You will receive power in verse 8 when the Holy Spirit has come 361 00:20:09,560 --> 00:20:12,480 upon you, and you will be witnesses to me in Jerusalem, 362 00:20:12,480 --> 00:20:14,600 Judea, Samaria, and the ends of the earth. 363 00:20:16,000 --> 00:20:17,400 Not you will do better. St. 364 00:20:17,400 --> 00:20:18,520 Witnessing. But. 365 00:20:18,640 --> 00:20:20,840 You will have a power. And a dynamic in your. 366 00:20:20,840 --> 00:20:22,960 Life. And it will. 367 00:20:23,040 --> 00:20:26,480 Reveal to others that you are my disciple. 368 00:20:26,480 --> 00:20:27,840 It will be. Dynamic. 369 00:20:28,280 --> 00:20:31,560 And so ask yourself this morning, OK? 370 00:20:31,560 --> 00:20:33,280 Have I ever been baptized? In the Holy. 371 00:20:33,280 --> 00:20:36,240 Spirit, what's this difference between the end and the upon? 372 00:20:36,720 --> 00:20:40,320 Or just plain and simple. Do I feel like I'm walking? 373 00:20:40,320 --> 00:20:43,200 In and living in the. Power of God. 374 00:20:43,240 --> 00:20:48,280 Just a quick personal story. When I was a kid, I heard the 375 00:20:48,280 --> 00:20:50,400 gospel for the first time. I didn't grow up in a Christian 376 00:20:50,400 --> 00:20:51,840 home. Somebody dragged me into a 377 00:20:51,840 --> 00:20:53,040 church. I was kind. 378 00:20:53,040 --> 00:20:57,720 Of a street kid, this. This was like a a yuppie, like 379 00:20:57,880 --> 00:21:01,680 khaki pants, Argyle socks. Wearing kind of a church and I 380 00:21:01,680 --> 00:21:04,400 did not fit in and they took me into the Sunday school and I was 381 00:21:04,400 --> 00:21:06,200 like this is lame. Get Me Out of here. 382 00:21:06,600 --> 00:21:08,720 And so I asked the. Teacher if I could go to the 383 00:21:08,720 --> 00:21:11,160 bathroom, she said yes, and my plan was the. 384 00:21:11,160 --> 00:21:13,960 Run for the doors. As soon as I got out in the 385 00:21:13,960 --> 00:21:17,000 hallway, the adults were coming out of their Sunday school 386 00:21:17,000 --> 00:21:18,440 classes. Unbeknownst to me, they went 387 00:21:18,440 --> 00:21:21,240 from a Sunday school class into a sanctuary for big church. 388 00:21:21,240 --> 00:21:24,760 They called it I guess, and I got caught up in that. 389 00:21:24,760 --> 00:21:27,920 Flow and as. We get to the cross roads of the 390 00:21:27,920 --> 00:21:30,000 exit door and the sanctuary doors. 391 00:21:30,320 --> 00:21:33,640 Everybody went left and I thought I was probably gonna get 392 00:21:33,640 --> 00:21:34,600 caught, get in trouble, whatever. 393 00:21:34,600 --> 00:21:36,160 So I went with the adults. I. 394 00:21:36,160 --> 00:21:39,760 Ended up in the sanctuary getting in the back under the. 395 00:21:40,200 --> 00:21:43,640 Balcony hiding behind a pillar and I said I'm gonna take a nap 396 00:21:43,640 --> 00:21:45,600 when this thing is over. And I'm going I'm never. 397 00:21:45,600 --> 00:21:49,000 Coming back again, somebody knows to me the Holy Spirit had 398 00:21:49,000 --> 00:21:51,440 a different idea. The gospel gets preached. 399 00:21:51,880 --> 00:21:54,480 He's talking about how God wants to be your Father, how God wants 400 00:21:54,480 --> 00:21:55,480 to. You know I my. 401 00:21:55,480 --> 00:21:57,760 Parents have been divorced I. Didn't really have my father 402 00:21:57,760 --> 00:22:00,080 around anymore. Oh, God wants to be my father. 403 00:22:00,080 --> 00:22:02,040 That's interesting. God loves you. 404 00:22:02,040 --> 00:22:05,920 You're a Sinner, sin. Separated you from God, but God 405 00:22:05,920 --> 00:22:09,560 sent his Son Jesus Christ to pay the price for your sins and and 406 00:22:09,560 --> 00:22:12,040 reconcile you back to God. He wants to live with you 407 00:22:12,040 --> 00:22:15,040 forever and all this stuff. And I'm just weeping. 408 00:22:15,720 --> 00:22:19,320 Listening to the Gospel and. He does an alter call. 409 00:22:19,440 --> 00:22:22,240 I get out from my hiding spot and I walk down. 410 00:22:22,240 --> 00:22:24,760 The aisle and I come to the front and the dudes in the 411 00:22:24,760 --> 00:22:27,400 suits. And ties are like, what are you 412 00:22:27,400 --> 00:22:28,760 doing here? Where's your parents? 413 00:22:29,000 --> 00:22:31,320 And I'm like I just. Want to accept Jesus into my 414 00:22:31,320 --> 00:22:33,880 heart? And they prayed with me. 415 00:22:33,880 --> 00:22:35,040 I. Accepted Jesus. 416 00:22:35,640 --> 00:22:37,840 Sincere prayer of repentance and so forth I get. 417 00:22:37,840 --> 00:22:40,440 Baptized a few weeks later. Hardly ever go to church. 418 00:22:40,440 --> 00:22:43,360 Again, and for years. Throughout my life, every. 419 00:22:43,360 --> 00:22:45,520 Once in a while my. Sister who went to this? 420 00:22:45,520 --> 00:22:48,040 Church and actually believed and loved Jesus. 421 00:22:48,720 --> 00:22:51,280 She would convince me to go to some church camp because they 422 00:22:51,280 --> 00:22:53,280 were going skiing. Or to the beach or whatever. 423 00:22:53,280 --> 00:22:55,160 And I thought, yeah, hey, I'm never going to get to go to a 424 00:22:55,160 --> 00:22:56,200 place like that. I'll go. 425 00:22:56,520 --> 00:23:00,720 And every time I would go, the Holy Spirit would just speak and 426 00:23:00,720 --> 00:23:03,320 convict and touch, and I would weep and I would repent and I'd 427 00:23:03,320 --> 00:23:04,800 say, I want to live for you, Jesus. 428 00:23:05,160 --> 00:23:07,160 And then I would go away and I could never live for. 429 00:23:07,160 --> 00:23:09,000 Jesus, I'd fall. Flat on my face. 430 00:23:09,000 --> 00:23:13,240 And then when I was 24 years old and the and the the Lord came to 431 00:23:13,240 --> 00:23:16,160 rescue. Me out of the miry pit, I 432 00:23:16,160 --> 00:23:18,400 realized. The one thing that was missing 433 00:23:18,400 --> 00:23:19,720 in my life? That whole time. 434 00:23:20,080 --> 00:23:23,720 Was the baptism of the Holy Spirit the power of the Holy 435 00:23:23,720 --> 00:23:26,080 Spirit because you can try to live for God in your own 436 00:23:26,080 --> 00:23:28,800 strength and it will be frustrating and you could be a 437 00:23:28,800 --> 00:23:31,840 moral person you can try to do all the good that you want but 438 00:23:31,840 --> 00:23:34,480 if you don't have the. Power of God, the power of the 439 00:23:34,480 --> 00:23:37,320 Holy Spirit. You will not successfully and 440 00:23:37,320 --> 00:23:42,280 victoriously and joyfully be able to live for God. 441 00:23:42,280 --> 00:23:44,080 And that's what he's telling these apostles right here. 442 00:23:44,080 --> 00:23:45,400 He's like, hey. You need to go away. 443 00:23:45,400 --> 00:23:48,320 You need to pray, you need to get this, and when you get it 444 00:23:48,320 --> 00:23:51,880 then your life will be a testimony and so. 445 00:23:51,960 --> 00:23:54,000 When you see these guys throughout the book of Acts. 446 00:23:55,560 --> 00:23:57,360 You you see acts. Chapter 2. 447 00:23:57,360 --> 00:23:58,960 The Holy Spirit. 'S poured out on them, they're 448 00:23:58,960 --> 00:24:01,320 speaking in tongues. Peter starts preaching to 449 00:24:01,320 --> 00:24:03,720 people. Thousands of people are cut to 450 00:24:03,720 --> 00:24:05,320 the heart, they're convicted and they get saved. 451 00:24:05,640 --> 00:24:07,120 Do you? Think that was Peter. 452 00:24:09,120 --> 00:24:12,120 Peter, who you know, wasn't really good with words. 453 00:24:12,120 --> 00:24:14,480 He already denied Christ. This is a different Peter. 454 00:24:14,480 --> 00:24:15,640 Why? Because he's filled with the 455 00:24:15,640 --> 00:24:18,280 Holy Spirit. He gives a 5 minute message. 456 00:24:18,280 --> 00:24:20,200 He quotes the Old Testament, but the. 457 00:24:20,200 --> 00:24:22,360 Difference is. It's the Holy Spirit. 458 00:24:22,840 --> 00:24:24,640 Speaking, moving. And they're like. 459 00:24:24,640 --> 00:24:26,640 What do we got to do? We want to get saved. 460 00:24:26,640 --> 00:24:29,880 We want Jesus. And 3000 people get saved that 461 00:24:29,880 --> 00:24:31,280 day. Here Peter is like. 462 00:24:31,880 --> 00:24:35,640 I don't have any money, but I I think God wants to heal you man. 463 00:24:35,640 --> 00:24:37,840 Get up, get up and walk in the name of Jesus. 464 00:24:38,440 --> 00:24:41,920 And the dude responds and there's a miracle that takes 465 00:24:41,920 --> 00:24:46,280 place, an extraordinary miracle. You see it in the in chapter 6 466 00:24:46,440 --> 00:24:48,040 with Steven. He's just a. 467 00:24:48,040 --> 00:24:50,960 Regular guy, he just started going to the church. 468 00:24:50,960 --> 00:24:53,640 He's fairly new. He's got a good reputation, he's 469 00:24:53,640 --> 00:24:56,240 got faith, he's filled with the Holy Spirit and they're like. 470 00:24:56,240 --> 00:24:59,480 Hey, you'd be you'd make a good Deacon, can you? 471 00:24:59,560 --> 00:25:02,520 Help serve tables and he's like, yeah, sure, next thing you know. 472 00:25:02,520 --> 00:25:07,720 It says there in chapter 6 verse 38 and 10 it says he was full of 473 00:25:07,720 --> 00:25:12,800 faith and power and did great wonders and signs and the word 474 00:25:12,800 --> 00:25:16,800 there is dunamis which is the same word that Jesus uses in 475 00:25:16,800 --> 00:25:18,400 Acts chapter one verse 8 when he. 476 00:25:18,400 --> 00:25:23,320 Says the power. Will come upon you, the dunamis. 477 00:25:23,320 --> 00:25:27,280 Do you know what that word is? It's a word that means strength 478 00:25:27,280 --> 00:25:31,920 and might and miracles, but it's the word where we get our word. 479 00:25:32,200 --> 00:25:37,040 Dynamic or dynamite? Jesus says when the holy. 480 00:25:37,040 --> 00:25:41,600 Spirit comes upon you dynamite. It going to be explosive, 481 00:25:41,920 --> 00:25:43,880 powerful. Well, don't you think it's very 482 00:25:43,880 --> 00:25:45,560 explosive? When Peter's like saying hey 483 00:25:45,560 --> 00:25:48,040 get. Up and walk or when Steven is 484 00:25:48,040 --> 00:25:50,120 praying over. Women that he's. 485 00:25:50,240 --> 00:25:52,000 Ministering to He's serving food. 486 00:25:52,000 --> 00:25:54,360 Too, and they're like. Oh, you know, my arthritis is 487 00:25:54,360 --> 00:25:56,400 acting up and he's like, well, let me just pray for you. 488 00:25:56,640 --> 00:25:59,120 And then the next day he's like, my arthritis is gone. 489 00:26:00,000 --> 00:26:04,080 That's Dunamis, right? And it's not just for the power. 490 00:26:04,080 --> 00:26:05,360 It's not just for the. Healing. 491 00:26:05,560 --> 00:26:07,560 You know I don't. Want you to miss this today. 492 00:26:07,680 --> 00:26:10,840 It's also for the I can't die to myself. 493 00:26:10,840 --> 00:26:13,080 You know, the other night I got into a little discussion with my 494 00:26:13,080 --> 00:26:15,040 wife. You know, after, I think it was 495 00:26:15,040 --> 00:26:18,080 after I preached this message, I got home, we got into a little 496 00:26:18,080 --> 00:26:22,280 tiff and you know, I was sitting there for like 30 minutes just 497 00:26:22,280 --> 00:26:28,320 not wanting to talk to her. But the whole time, you know 498 00:26:28,320 --> 00:26:31,880 what I was thinking. God, I need your power. 499 00:26:32,920 --> 00:26:34,800 I need dunamis right now to humble. 500 00:26:34,800 --> 00:26:38,920 Myself and just talk to her and and and make up. 501 00:26:39,040 --> 00:26:41,760 Because I don't want to. We need dunamis. 502 00:26:42,360 --> 00:26:44,320 We need. God's Holy Spirit. 503 00:26:44,560 --> 00:26:47,400 So it's, it's the little things, it's the big things. 504 00:26:47,400 --> 00:26:50,080 It's the, it's the relational things. 505 00:26:50,080 --> 00:26:53,280 It's the here's this sick person. 506 00:26:53,280 --> 00:26:55,480 It's here's this. Need people say I need. 507 00:26:55,480 --> 00:26:56,720 Provision I need. A job. 508 00:26:56,720 --> 00:26:58,000 It's like, well, let me pray for you. 509 00:26:59,840 --> 00:27:02,240 God, fill me with your Holy Spirit, Give me faith for this 510 00:27:02,240 --> 00:27:04,400 moment. Help me to know what to say to 511 00:27:04,400 --> 00:27:07,360 this person, to bring words of comfort, encouragement to them. 512 00:27:07,520 --> 00:27:09,360 We need the. Power of the Holy Spirit. 513 00:27:10,400 --> 00:27:12,480 I could go on and on and on here through the book of Acts. 514 00:27:13,360 --> 00:27:17,080 Paul's a great example. He's casting out demons, is a 515 00:27:17,080 --> 00:27:20,600 woman there that is is pretending to be a Christian and 516 00:27:20,600 --> 00:27:22,200 she's not. And she's really. 517 00:27:22,200 --> 00:27:25,040 Annoying and everybody else. Is thinking, well, she's a 518 00:27:25,040 --> 00:27:27,120 little Pentecostal. But I mean, you know, she's 519 00:27:27,120 --> 00:27:30,080 saying the right words, you know, Jesus, Jesus, Hallelujah. 520 00:27:30,280 --> 00:27:33,200 And these guys are good guys. And then Paul, though he 521 00:27:33,200 --> 00:27:35,360 something in his heart, something in his spirit, the 522 00:27:35,360 --> 00:27:38,960 Holy Spirit is is checking him and saying, Paul, this is not of 523 00:27:38,960 --> 00:27:40,440 me. And Paul, finally. 524 00:27:40,440 --> 00:27:44,920 Shows up the third day. And cast demons out of her. 525 00:27:45,200 --> 00:27:47,760 This is dynamic, right? That's explosive. 526 00:27:47,760 --> 00:27:49,120 That's dynamite. It's like. 527 00:27:50,120 --> 00:27:54,240 It's not seen, it's not logical, but but the Holy Spirit is 528 00:27:54,240 --> 00:27:56,800 revealing this to Paul and by faith he. 529 00:27:56,800 --> 00:27:58,680 Acts on it. And you what are the? 530 00:27:58,680 --> 00:28:00,520 Consequences. The girl gets delivered. 531 00:28:00,520 --> 00:28:03,720 He ends up in jail. The jail there's God does a 532 00:28:03,720 --> 00:28:05,000 mighty miracle there. The. 533 00:28:05,000 --> 00:28:08,120 Shaking and then the. Next thing you know, he's saving 534 00:28:08,120 --> 00:28:09,640 the life of the Philippian jailer. 535 00:28:09,640 --> 00:28:11,600 The Philippian jailer gets saved. 536 00:28:11,600 --> 00:28:15,720 His whole family get saved. And it and and the ripple. 537 00:28:15,720 --> 00:28:20,080 Effect of all that just. Keeps going on and on and on. 538 00:28:21,120 --> 00:28:24,760 I was in Kenya, you know, a couple years ago and they were 539 00:28:24,760 --> 00:28:28,640 telling me about the drought, the desperation of the situation 540 00:28:28,640 --> 00:28:29,800 there. And you know. 541 00:28:30,040 --> 00:28:33,600 To be honest with you, I think the American church. 542 00:28:33,600 --> 00:28:35,520 Is probably more. In danger of this than. 543 00:28:35,520 --> 00:28:37,880 Anywhere else in the world, in Africa, they don't. 544 00:28:37,880 --> 00:28:39,280 Have the money. They don't have the. 545 00:28:39,280 --> 00:28:43,640 Doctors, they don't have all the the services and the things that 546 00:28:43,640 --> 00:28:48,320 we rely on so heavily. That robbed us of of. 547 00:28:48,320 --> 00:28:52,200 Realizing and understanding. That we have no choice but to go 548 00:28:52,200 --> 00:28:55,600 to God. But but they're they're talking 549 00:28:55,600 --> 00:28:59,720 about this drought and I get down to this place where it's 550 00:28:59,720 --> 00:29:03,200 most heavily affected and they're they're telling me about 551 00:29:03,200 --> 00:29:05,400 it down there. I go into the chiefs Hut the. 552 00:29:05,840 --> 00:29:08,280 The village elder. Guy and and. 553 00:29:08,800 --> 00:29:11,560 We have a little tea. And, you know, ceremonial kind 554 00:29:11,720 --> 00:29:14,240 of traditional things you go through because we're going to 555 00:29:14,240 --> 00:29:17,400 do ministry in that village for the day in the church there on 556 00:29:17,400 --> 00:29:20,480 that property. And he's, he's looking at me 557 00:29:20,480 --> 00:29:23,320 like I could do something. I don't have any money. 558 00:29:23,800 --> 00:29:26,080 Because they think white people always have a lot of money. 559 00:29:26,080 --> 00:29:28,040 And I'm like, I'm a different white guy, you know, like. 560 00:29:30,040 --> 00:29:31,640 But so I told him. I said hey. 561 00:29:31,920 --> 00:29:34,040 I don't have anything. I don't know anybody, but I do 562 00:29:34,040 --> 00:29:35,440 know one person. His name is Jesus. 563 00:29:35,440 --> 00:29:36,960 He's the same yesterday and forever. 564 00:29:36,960 --> 00:29:41,080 He's the same God that. Let this one guy lift up a stick 565 00:29:41,080 --> 00:29:43,120 and the ocean opened up and everybody. 566 00:29:43,120 --> 00:29:46,080 Walked on, drag round, same guy used the stick, hit a rock, 567 00:29:46,080 --> 00:29:49,000 water came out of a rock. There's prophets that followed 568 00:29:49,000 --> 00:29:52,160 the same God. They asked God to stop the rain 569 00:29:52,160 --> 00:29:54,040 and God stopped the rain. They asked God to send the rain. 570 00:29:54,040 --> 00:29:54,960 God sent the rain. They. 571 00:29:55,000 --> 00:29:57,440 You know. Man, just all the miracles that 572 00:29:57,440 --> 00:29:58,680 were happening in the Old Testament. 573 00:29:58,680 --> 00:30:00,520 I said I know that same God, We're friends. 574 00:30:00,520 --> 00:30:03,000 I talked to him. He says if we if we ask him, 575 00:30:03,000 --> 00:30:03,480 he'll. Do. 576 00:30:03,480 --> 00:30:05,080 Things. So let's just pray. 577 00:30:05,880 --> 00:30:07,800 We pray. Simple prayer, dear God, please. 578 00:30:07,800 --> 00:30:09,400 Send the rain in Jesus name. Amen. 579 00:30:09,400 --> 00:30:11,120 I go up into the church we're going to. 580 00:30:11,240 --> 00:30:13,040 Teach all day. We do that. 581 00:30:13,040 --> 00:30:14,800 We have lunch. We get done with the. 582 00:30:14,800 --> 00:30:16,480 Teaching We're giving away free Bibles. 583 00:30:17,200 --> 00:30:19,120 And before the conference had started. 584 00:30:19,120 --> 00:30:21,640 Though I told everybody sitting there like 200 people, 50 585 00:30:21,640 --> 00:30:23,480 pastors. And I said I heard. 586 00:30:23,480 --> 00:30:25,320 You got a big problem here. No water drought. 587 00:30:25,320 --> 00:30:27,200 That's a big problem. But we got a big God. 588 00:30:27,200 --> 00:30:29,720 He's a creator. Of heaven and earth so two or 589 00:30:29,720 --> 00:30:33,000 three agree upon anything to do it let's say 200 is a pretty. 590 00:30:33,000 --> 00:30:36,880 Good odds. So let's agree together. 591 00:30:36,880 --> 00:30:39,520 Let's ask God to send the rain and see what happens, right? 592 00:30:39,640 --> 00:30:43,760 No, no hocus pocus. No yelling or screaming or 593 00:30:43,760 --> 00:30:45,440 anything as. A dear God please send the rain 594 00:30:45,440 --> 00:30:48,840 today in Jesus name, Amen. Five hours later, we're done. 595 00:30:48,840 --> 00:30:51,720 We're passing out the Bibles. Everybody's excited. 596 00:30:51,720 --> 00:30:53,360 Fellowshipping. It's really loud. 597 00:30:53,360 --> 00:30:58,320 We're in an African church. So it's woods sticks and tin and 598 00:30:58,320 --> 00:31:00,520 really noisy and hot and all that. 599 00:31:00,640 --> 00:31:02,400 And the next thing I know, bum bum, bum, bum, bum. 600 00:31:02,400 --> 00:31:08,440 I look up and I'm like rain. And it starts pouring down rain. 601 00:31:10,440 --> 00:31:13,440 Yeah. But the reason I'm telling you 602 00:31:13,440 --> 00:31:15,320 this story is because. I'm an idiot. 603 00:31:15,600 --> 00:31:19,360 I, I, I no more believed that God was going to send that rain 604 00:31:19,360 --> 00:31:22,240 that day than anybody else, but I believed God could do it. 605 00:31:22,520 --> 00:31:24,720 And I believed well. Why not try? 606 00:31:24,960 --> 00:31:27,560 Let's ask and see. I mean, maybe he will. 607 00:31:27,560 --> 00:31:30,880 And then when he did, even I was blessed and blown away. 608 00:31:31,240 --> 00:31:33,000 But I was thinking about that that. 609 00:31:33,000 --> 00:31:35,560 Elder sitting in his. Hut who? 610 00:31:35,560 --> 00:31:38,400 I said, hey, there's a God. In heaven. 611 00:31:39,160 --> 00:31:40,760 And he answers the prayers of his peoples. 612 00:31:41,040 --> 00:31:42,640 And he says. We don't have cuz we don't ask. 613 00:31:42,640 --> 00:31:44,160 So let's just ask see what happens. 614 00:31:44,760 --> 00:31:46,880 And I'm thinking man, that guy must just be sitting in his 615 00:31:46,880 --> 00:31:50,040 house going wow we asked God and God sent the rape. 616 00:31:50,040 --> 00:31:53,400 Why didn't we think of that? And and I just think I'm just a 617 00:31:53,400 --> 00:31:55,840 normal. Guy, I have my weak moments, I 618 00:31:55,840 --> 00:31:58,360 have my failings. I I battle with my own 619 00:31:58,360 --> 00:32:02,120 carnality, my own sin. I The other night I got into a 620 00:32:02,120 --> 00:32:03,960 little bit with my mom. We're at the airport. 621 00:32:03,960 --> 00:32:07,080 It's like 3:00 in the morning. She's all worked up and amped 622 00:32:07,080 --> 00:32:08,440 up. And I'm like Mom, just. 623 00:32:08,440 --> 00:32:09,720 Calm down. And she's like, I can't. 624 00:32:09,720 --> 00:32:13,400 And I'm like, yes, you can, but the power of the Holy Spirit 625 00:32:15,600 --> 00:32:18,920 like you can't and. Later, she's like, Brent, don't 626 00:32:18,920 --> 00:32:23,640 treat old people like that. And I'm like and so I'm 627 00:32:23,640 --> 00:32:24,360 convicted. Right. 628 00:32:24,360 --> 00:32:28,880 I'm like, I suck like I I need the power of the Holy Spirit in 629 00:32:28,880 --> 00:32:31,400 that moment. Not. 630 00:32:31,400 --> 00:32:35,400 Just to see rain, not just to. See my friend Mike killed from 631 00:32:35,400 --> 00:32:37,640 pancreatic cancer that they said. 632 00:32:37,640 --> 00:32:39,320 You're dead, dude. Go say goodbye to your family 633 00:32:39,320 --> 00:32:41,440 and God totally healed him. Not a trace of cancer. 634 00:32:41,440 --> 00:32:43,800 In his body, my daughter. Olivia had a six inch. 635 00:32:43,800 --> 00:32:47,560 Centimeter in her ovarian area and they were like, oh, put her 636 00:32:47,560 --> 00:32:49,440 on the pill, do this that we said no thanks. 637 00:32:49,440 --> 00:32:52,480 We're going to seek alternative methods and we're going to pray 638 00:32:52,480 --> 00:32:54,640 and God can heal. Three months later we go to get. 639 00:32:54,640 --> 00:32:56,680 Her checked out. There's no sign of the cyst. 640 00:32:56,920 --> 00:32:58,960 It's gone. We said Hallelujah. 641 00:32:58,960 --> 00:33:00,800 They said, oh, it's, it's got to be there. 642 00:33:00,800 --> 00:33:03,120 It's not a good machine. Come back in two days. 643 00:33:03,120 --> 00:33:05,520 We're going to get the the better machine it's and we'll 644 00:33:05,520 --> 00:33:07,320 show you it's there. And we said. 645 00:33:07,320 --> 00:33:08,960 You're not going to find it because God healed her. 646 00:33:08,960 --> 00:33:11,040 We came back two days later. They did the thing and they're 647 00:33:11,040 --> 00:33:13,040 like. It's just hiding. 648 00:33:15,440 --> 00:33:19,440 And we're like, no. This is the power of the God of 649 00:33:19,440 --> 00:33:22,240 the resurrection, and he is healed her. 650 00:33:22,760 --> 00:33:25,720 And so it's like, yeah, great big moments. 651 00:33:25,720 --> 00:33:28,720 God does big things, but he also does small things. 652 00:33:28,720 --> 00:33:31,760 He heals marriages. He gives us wisdom to parent our 653 00:33:31,760 --> 00:33:33,880 children. He helps us to have courage to 654 00:33:33,880 --> 00:33:36,880 talk to that Co worker. There's a guy on the street. 655 00:33:36,880 --> 00:33:37,560 We stop. We. 656 00:33:37,560 --> 00:33:39,760 Go man, I don't have any money, but let me pray for you. 657 00:33:40,120 --> 00:33:41,920 And then the next thing you know, you see him in the trees. 658 00:33:41,920 --> 00:33:43,640 He's like. Dude, you prayed for me that one 659 00:33:43,640 --> 00:33:45,680 time and yeah, like, God totally worked. 660 00:33:45,680 --> 00:33:47,800 And now I've got a wife and a job and, you know, and we're 661 00:33:47,800 --> 00:33:50,800 like, wow, God. Is awesome. 662 00:33:50,800 --> 00:33:59,920 God is God, so where are you at today? 663 00:34:01,920 --> 00:34:04,280 Do you believe that God has that power for you today? 664 00:34:05,320 --> 00:34:08,320 It's not about Pastor Tucker. It's not about Brent the 665 00:34:08,320 --> 00:34:11,199 missionary. It's not about the apostles. 666 00:34:11,440 --> 00:34:13,560 It's the same yesterday, today and forever. 667 00:34:14,400 --> 00:34:18,880 It's a God who says. If you will believe, if you 668 00:34:18,880 --> 00:34:21,159 will. Ask I will. 669 00:34:21,159 --> 00:34:25,199 Give it to you in. Luke Chapter. 11 I think it is 670 00:34:25,880 --> 00:34:29,080 Jesus said these words. He said, if you be in heavenly 671 00:34:29,080 --> 00:34:31,120 fathers know how to give good gifts to your children. 672 00:34:32,040 --> 00:34:35,159 How much more will your heavenly Father not give the Holy Spirit 673 00:34:35,159 --> 00:34:39,080 to those who ask? And so as we stand up, as the 674 00:34:39,080 --> 00:34:42,280 worship team comes out, we're going to close in a song of 675 00:34:42,280 --> 00:34:44,320 worship. I think we're going to do 676 00:34:44,320 --> 00:34:46,679 communion, but I don't really know what's going on around 677 00:34:46,679 --> 00:34:53,199 here. But I want you to examine your 678 00:34:53,199 --> 00:34:57,080 heart, examine your life, and I, I'm, I. 679 00:34:57,160 --> 00:34:59,360 I would ask you to raise your hands, but I would venture to 680 00:34:59,360 --> 00:35:02,800 say if we were all honest, probably 98. 681 00:35:02,800 --> 00:35:05,400 Percent of us, including myself sitting in here. 682 00:35:05,400 --> 00:35:08,800 Today, right now would say. I need God's power. 683 00:35:09,840 --> 00:35:12,240 I need God's power in my life just to to. 684 00:35:12,400 --> 00:35:13,920 To deal with. Sin in my own life. 685 00:35:14,120 --> 00:35:17,640 To walk in the truth, to walk in the Word to to walk in the 686 00:35:17,640 --> 00:35:19,640 promises that are yesterday. Amen. 687 00:35:19,840 --> 00:35:24,720 To to stand in grace, to not buckle under the pressure, the 688 00:35:24,720 --> 00:35:29,000 condemnation of the enemy when I sin and when I fall, but to 689 00:35:29,000 --> 00:35:32,000 believe God. To To ask for healing in my 690 00:35:32,000 --> 00:35:35,680 marriage, To ask for healing in this person's life that I go 691 00:35:35,680 --> 00:35:41,360 visit every day at the hospital, or to ask for the gifts of the 692 00:35:41,360 --> 00:35:43,880 Holy Spirit. To ask what my role is in the 693 00:35:43,880 --> 00:35:44,880 body of. Christ. 694 00:35:45,040 --> 00:35:47,960 I feel like God's been stirring me to work in the children's. 695 00:35:47,960 --> 00:35:50,960 Ministry for months, but I just don't have the courage, I don't 696 00:35:50,960 --> 00:35:52,520 have the faith, I don't have the strength. 697 00:35:52,600 --> 00:35:55,840 Well, you could ask him today. Lord, I know you've been. 698 00:35:55,840 --> 00:35:57,600 Calling me to this. I know you've been calling me to 699 00:35:57,600 --> 00:35:59,080 that situation. You've been calling me to. 700 00:35:59,080 --> 00:36:00,720 Leave that. You've been calling me to let 701 00:36:00,720 --> 00:36:03,960 that go. I remember the day I was sitting 702 00:36:03,960 --> 00:36:05,800 in Cover Chapel, Boise, over in the old place. 703 00:36:06,040 --> 00:36:07,680 And I was an. Addict. 704 00:36:07,680 --> 00:36:09,320 I'd come out of addiction. I'd been filled with the Holy 705 00:36:09,320 --> 00:36:11,120 Spirit. I thought I was delivered like I 706 00:36:11,120 --> 00:36:14,960 thought I was like holy forever. And but I was still struggling 707 00:36:14,960 --> 00:36:16,880 with the dope, the. Marijuana, you know, it was like 708 00:36:17,040 --> 00:36:18,880 drug users. Understand what I'm saying? 709 00:36:18,880 --> 00:36:20,600 Because, you know, to a drug user. 710 00:36:20,600 --> 00:36:24,040 It's kind of like, it's just a little, you know, like I'm down 711 00:36:24,040 --> 00:36:27,600 from every day, all day to like. You know, maybe a few. 712 00:36:27,600 --> 00:36:29,240 Days a week and you know what I mean? 713 00:36:29,240 --> 00:36:30,440 We we do this stuff in our heads. 714 00:36:30,520 --> 00:36:32,200 Well, I walk. Into the church one Sunday 715 00:36:32,200 --> 00:36:35,400 morning is about 3-4 months into my Christian. 716 00:36:35,400 --> 00:36:38,240 Walk I'm just like loving Jesus like and he's with me, he's 717 00:36:38,240 --> 00:36:41,520 going to deliver me and nobody could ever take him from me and. 718 00:36:41,880 --> 00:36:43,280 And he I'm just growing in the word. 719 00:36:43,440 --> 00:36:47,200 And I get in there and the the message is on idolatry and. 720 00:36:47,480 --> 00:36:49,920 The the pastor says. You know if there's anything in 721 00:36:49,920 --> 00:36:52,680 your life that's dominating you. And so on and so. 722 00:36:52,920 --> 00:36:55,680 It's a, it's a God in your life and, and the Holy Spirit's like. 723 00:36:55,680 --> 00:36:58,560 Ding, Ding, Ding, Ding, Ding. Marijuana is a God in your life, 724 00:36:58,560 --> 00:37:01,840 and I'm like Lord. I don't want any other gods in 725 00:37:01,840 --> 00:37:04,200 my life. And I went home that day, 726 00:37:04,200 --> 00:37:06,560 flushed the rest down. Because, you know, anyway. 727 00:37:08,120 --> 00:37:18,760 Flushed it down and and said there's only one God so. 728 00:37:21,840 --> 00:37:24,240 He's carried me this far, he's carried me. 729 00:37:24,320 --> 00:37:34,160 This far and so grateful for the power of the life of Jesus. 730 00:37:35,120 --> 00:37:37,600 And he says, I'll take you as deep as you want to go. 731 00:37:39,040 --> 00:37:41,600 And our sin and our carnality, our unbelief can limit it. 732 00:37:42,360 --> 00:37:45,520 But if we'll just come and humble can confess and say, 733 00:37:45,520 --> 00:37:49,720 Lord, I lay it all down, I repent, fill me with your Holy 734 00:37:49,720 --> 00:37:51,880 Spirit. Use me no limits. 735 00:37:52,480 --> 00:37:55,000 I'll go where you go. I'll get out of the boat. 736 00:37:55,000 --> 00:37:58,560 This is the three things that you got to do to get the dunamis 737 00:37:58,560 --> 00:38:01,800 #1 humble yourself. Just confess your need to God. 738 00:38:02,320 --> 00:38:04,160 He resists the proud he gives grace to. 739 00:38:04,160 --> 00:38:06,840 The humble #2. Ask. 740 00:38:07,280 --> 00:38:10,880 And ask in faith, believing and receiving. 741 00:38:11,600 --> 00:38:13,120 You don't have because you don't ask. 742 00:38:13,640 --> 00:38:18,560 And then #3 do it. Exercise it. 743 00:38:19,160 --> 00:38:21,400 Take risks, take chances. Get out of the boat. 744 00:38:21,400 --> 00:38:23,520 Talk to that person. Pray for that person. 745 00:38:23,520 --> 00:38:25,400 Speak it out. Preach the gospel. 746 00:38:25,400 --> 00:38:27,480 Do whatever it is. He calls you to do and asks you 747 00:38:27,480 --> 00:38:29,040 to do. Sometimes you're going to go. 748 00:38:29,040 --> 00:38:30,120 Whoa. Man, he said. 749 00:38:30,120 --> 00:38:32,480 The rain. And sometimes you're going to. 750 00:38:32,480 --> 00:38:35,360 Go, Lord, Why? Did you not heal those kids? 751 00:38:35,360 --> 00:38:36,200 I. Just sat there. 752 00:38:36,200 --> 00:38:37,480 I prayed for them, I prayed in that. 753 00:38:37,480 --> 00:38:38,760 Then I prayed in front of their family. 754 00:38:39,000 --> 00:38:41,040 Nothing happened. Just. 755 00:38:41,040 --> 00:38:46,000 Totally powerless before this thing and then you go, but I 756 00:38:46,000 --> 00:38:48,000 trust you, I love you, your will be done. 757 00:38:48,360 --> 00:38:51,560 And you just keep praying for more kids and you keep asking 758 00:38:51,560 --> 00:38:54,160 and you keep and sometimes it doesn't and sometimes it 759 00:38:54,160 --> 00:38:56,200 doesn't. But either way, we need the 760 00:38:56,200 --> 00:38:56,920 power of God.