And this week relieving the Pentecost experience.
And one of the things that we are looking or the topics that
we'll be looking or I'll be handling is the Holy Spirit in
the Old Testament. The Holy Spirit in the Old
Testament, mostly we think that the Holy Spirit did not feature
in the OT, but he featured prominently in many ways in the
OT and it was a foretaste of his work that he's going to do with
us. So today we are looking at the
Holy Spirit in the Old Testament and we want to consider this
topic along the emblems of the Holy Spirit.
The emblems are symbols or symbolic representations of the
Holy Spirit in the Bible. And the first one I want to
look, there are many, we want to look at the wind, the wind, the
wind. And we're going to look at 3
texts tonight and then we'll draw some links and some and
some correlations and then draw it down to our time.
So we are we taking the first one from Genesis chapter 8 verse
one, Genesis 8 verse one, Genesis 8 verse one.
I want to take off from the New Living Translation good and also
read from Genesis one verse 2 and then verse 9 to 10, Genesis
one verse 2 and verse 9 to 10, and then finally Exodus chapter
1421 to 22. Exodus 14, 21 to 22.
And let me add this as another verse.
Isaiah 5919, Isaiah 5919. So I go over it again.
Genesis 8 verse one Genesis 8 verse one Genesis 129 to 10,
Genesis one verse 2 and then verse 9 to 10, then Exodus 1421
to 22, then finally Isaiah 5919. So let's go to the first one.
But God remembered Noah and all the wild animals and livestock.
With him in the boots, He sent a wind to blow across the earth,
and the floodwaters began to recede.
Then go to Genesis one, verse 2. And then verse 9.
The earth was formless and empty, and darkness covered the
deep waters. Again, take note of the waters,
and the Spirit of God was hovering over the surface of the
waters. Verse 9.
Then God said, let the waters beneath the sky flew together
into one place so dry ground, emphasis on dry ground may
appear and it's and that is what happened.
God called the dry ground land and the water cease and God saw
that it was good. Then move on to Exodus.
Exodus chapter 14 verse 22 to 20, verse 21 and 22.
Then Moses raised his hand over the sea, and the Lord opened up
a path through the water with a strong E wind.
The wind blew all that night, turning the seabed into dry land
again. Take notice of the dry land, so
the people of Israel walk through the middle of the sea on
dry ground with walls of water on each side.
Finally, go to Isaiah 59 and verse 19, Isaiah 59 and verse
19. This one, I want to take you
from the New King James, if you can have that one for us, New
King James Version. So, so shall they fear the name
of the Lord from the West and His glory from the rising of the
sun. When the enemy comes in like a
flood, symbolic flood, the Spirit of the Lord will lift up
a standard against him. Amen.
So we are looking at the Holy Spirit in the Old Testament.
We are looking at just one emblem, which is the wind.
The wind. So Genesis 8 verse one, but God
remembered Noah. But God remembered Noah.
So the correlations or what we're going to draw is that we
see God remembering Noah, we see God remembering Israel, we see
God doing something special to bring out dry land, and we see
God through his Spirit trying to kick out or move away flood with
the symbolic of enemy. So let's now look at how this
train and how Noah's remember God, remembering him by his
Spirit brought the dry ground. Amen.
So God remembered them. God remembered Noah and God
remembered the nation Israel to if read Exodus chapter 224.
Exodus 224. God had their groanings and he
remembered His covenant promise to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
He looked down on the people of Israel and knew it was time to
act. So we see here that God we are
using human terms to describe how God moves in to act on our
behalf. May God remember you so that
when He remembers you, may He move swiftly on your behalf.
And may he now know that it is not time to act on your behalf.
So God in his creation, man. Man plays a very key role at the
center of God's creation. God cares so much about us that
he has put us in the center of his creation.
The next thing we see about the story of Noah is the wake of the
Spirit of God. So by this time Noah and all the
wild animals and livestock were with him in the boots on a flat.
The waters had covered the entire earth, even the the
highest, the the highest mountain was covered.
No peak of anything of our land was seen.
Everything of our land, every vegetation, everything land
submissed by the flood. So God remembered Noah and all
the animals. He remembered his creation.
And what did he do? He sent a wind.
And God should have allowed the sun just to rise.
God should have created the atmosphere to be hot so that the
flood waters will just evaporate.
But God sent a wind, and that wet wind there in Greek is rural
and is the same for spirits. So God did not just send any
spirit any wind. It was symbolic of His spirit at
work in creation. Hallelujah.
So it was what? Symbolic of His spirit at work
in creation. And that is where we draw that
power line with creation when God created the earth.
Let's go back to Genesis 1 and two.
So the earth was formless and empty, and darkness covered the
deep waters. So darkness covered what the
deep what? Again, there was what waters.
And when there was waters, what did God do?
And the Spirit of God was doing what?
Hovering over the surface of what?
The waters, it wasn't hovering over anywhere, but it was
hovering over the surface of the waters.
So it's the same thing. So God had a plan to bring forth
dry land where human beings can live.
So if God does not move away the flood, nothing else could grow.
If there was no land, there could have not been any
vegetation, there could have not been any wild animal, there
could have not been any land of vegetation.
Where would man have lived? So the Holy Spirit or the Spirit
of God as he was hovering over the waters, and God began to
separate things and creation. God began to say, Let there be
light, and the vast mind is what is more of our for interest for
what we are looking at. Let the waters beneath.
So all this while the Spirit of God was hovering, hovering,
hovering. Let the waters beneath the sky
float together into one place, so dry ground may appear.
Dry ground. So without the Holy Spirit
hovering over the waters, there will no be any dry ground.
And that is the same principle God used in Genesis 8 when you
wanted the whole flood to recede.
The Spirit of the Lord. Hallelujah, oh Hallelujah.
So the the the land or earth they are translated the same way
in Hebrew. The earth and the land I also
want translated the same way. So in Noah's case, God was
bringing forth some kind of a new creation.
Remember John 3 Jesus said that unless sin free ensue anyone
whom and why. Unless you are born of the water
and the Spirit, you saw anything that the Lord wanted to bring
forth, the waters were there, and the Spirit of the Lord will
hover and out of it comes a new creation.
And it is the same way that the new creation, a man is born
again. So the Holy Spirit, the wind
always is hovering and showing that something positive will
come out as he hovers over the waters.
Hallelujah, oh Hallelujah. So the waters in this case, in
no worse case, the flood. The flood was a threat to
anything on earth. So it was an enemy.
And Isaiah said that when the enemy comes in like a flood, who
will lift up the Spirit of the Lord, will lift up a standard
against So always the Holy Spirit.
And His work as a wind is phenomenal, is very powerful.
May the Almighty God, may His Spirit hover over us so that
anything that has been covered by floodwaters, as the Holy
Spirit hovers over us, may our dry ground be revealed.
Your dry ground is where you will live, the ground is where
you will stand. As I see human beings, where can
we? We cannot hang in the air, three
of us. Trees need to grow up from the
ground and birds will have to also patch on the trees on the
ground. So the dry ground is very keen,
is very, very, very important. And the same thing Fast forward,
is what happened when the Lord said that I'm going to give you
a promised land to the nation Israel.
So in the days of Noah, the reason why God allowed the
waters to cover the earth was that there was so much evil.
There was so much evil. And so God intentionally used
the waters to cover them, to bring forth a new land.
And God had to bless all the his things that he's created.
He needed to give them the dominion mandate to multiply and
be fruitful. He needed to enter into a
covenant with Noah again so that his descendants will flourish.
So God was by that bringing something new forth.
And then the Exodus, Exodus, Israel, they have come out of
oppression, oppression and they were heading towards a land
again land and they needed to pass through a barrier, which is
also what water, water and shave him again water.
So whilst they were there crying, God told Moses that tell
them that they should be still and the Lord is going to perform
something great. So genus Exodus 14, Exodus 14.
Let us go back to the verse 21. The Moses raised his hand over
the sea and the Lord opened up a path through the water with
again wind. This time around the wind has
been qualified strong E wind The wind blew all that night turning
the seabed into what Into what? So anything that prevents you
from moving the Holy Spirit is dead to ensure that whatever the
Lord has assured you. So in their case they needed to
get to a land that is, that is flew with milk and honey, but
there was a sea preventing them. And again, we see the holy
street at work, blowing, blowing, driving them as if that
was not enough. Or Sami will say, I'm going to
create dry land again, just as I did for Noah, just as I did at
creation. I'm going to create a new group
of people who are going to walk on dry land into the promised
land. And I'm going to kill Pharaoh, a
symbol of oppression in that same water that is the God we
serve. I pray that anything that is
preventing you, if there is any flood, if there is any water
preventing you from reaching your promised land, may the
Spirit of the Lord blow, may the Holy Ghost blow, may the Spirit
of the Lord blow. So the Holy Spirit effect here
is that whilst he's covering oppression, whilst he's killing
corruption on earth, he's bringing forth a new group and
new creation. So just as as human beings, when
we come to the Lord Jesus the Holy Spirit in us, in fact the
work of the Holy Spirit in our born again experience is
amazing. Jesus told Nicodemus let's go to
John 3 and then see how Jesus progressed the conversation.
Then he said that Jesus replied, I assure you no one can enter
the Kingdom of God without being born of what?
The water and the spirit. Next verse please.
Humans can produce only human life, but the Holy Spirit gives
birth to spiritual life. Next verse So don't be surprised
when I say you must be born again.
The wind blows wherever it wants, just as you can hear the
wind but cannot tell where it comes from or where it is going.
So you cannot explain how people are born of the spirits.
Let's have the best night and see how are these things
possible. Nicodemus, ask 10 please, Jesus
replied. You are a respected Jewish
teacher and yet you do understand these things.
I assure you. We tell you what we know and
have seen, yet you won't believe our testimony.
Let's see if so. But if you don't believe me when
I tell you about earthly things, how can you possibly believe if
I tell you about heavenly things?
So let's end there. Let's end there.
So what Jesus is saying is that he's not telling us the rule of
the Holy Spirit in our born again.
So just as God used creation to tell us about the rule of his
spirits, the flood, the Exodus, and now they're born again, God
wants to bring new group. Yami penny Papa from and the
same principle is at work, the water and the spirit, the water
and the spirit. So that when you are born of
these things, then God is saying that the newness of life can now
come forth. I pray that May God give birth
to something great in US. May the Holy Spirit, so wherever
the water is water be are the Holy Spirit hovering over it
will bring something powerful, will bring something superb.
And the water, mostly theologians will use it to
represent the Word of God. So if you soak yourself in the
Word of God and you allow the Holy Spirit to blow over you,
the Lord is betting something great and super in you.
And if the if the enemy also there uses the water as a
hindrance, the Holy Spirit will also blow and drive the waters
away. So whatever way, if the enemy
comes in like a flood, not like any waters, but like a flood,
the Holy Spirit blowing over it will cause it to recede so that
the newness in you will come forth.
So if the enemy brings sin like a flood, let the Holy Spirit in
you blow over it so that it will go away.
When a believer strokes himself in the washing with water of the
wed, because efficient sports say that, and God is preparing
the bride, the church with what? The washing of the wet.
So the water is not linking to the wet.
And if you soak yourself in the wet, then as the Holy Spirit
hovers around you, he is bathing something unique in you.
May the Holy Spirit birth great things in US.
Hallelujah. Oh, is somebody flowing?
So the Holy Spirit is prominent. The Holy Spirit is what
prominent very very, very, very important and in Acts 2.
Let me also try and bring this out to you.
Acts chapter 2 verse one when the day of Pentecost, let's have
it. Can we have?
When the day of Pentecost had fully come, they were all
together with 1 accord in one place, 1 accord in one place, 1
accord in one place. That word is very, very, very
important. The Israelites were also
together at the Red Sea, one place.
Noah and the sons and the wild animals, they were all together
in the booth, one place, and the Lord remember them.
So the God wants us together at one place so that with 1 accord
He can perform in us. So unity is important, unity of
the Spirit, unity of the Spirit is very, very important, so that
whatever the Lord will want to do with you, He can do it.
If you are here, shout a bigger Amen.
Oh you, you are not here, you are not here.
Let me hear you shout a bigger Amen.
Hallelujah. Let us try and then and make
sure Munuma muyabra Shanani another tea was As for the wind,
just one wind depend on maker once a moon and you will see
that God is doing many, many, many marvelous things for you,
Amen. Or if you are here, shout a
bigger Amen. There is another thing that the
Lord did with the wind. You want more?
Are you sure? OK, let us now look at the other
thing by the wind. Numbers 11, Numbers 11, verse
3132, Numbers 113132. Now a wind went no, give me the
NLT wind mania. Now the Lord sent a wind.
Take notice of the word a wind and you find the same thing in
the Genesis 81. The Lord remembered them and
sent them a wind. So the Lord sent a wind that
brought quill from the sea and let them fall all around the
camp 4 miles in every direction. There were quill flying about 3
feet above the ground. So the people went out and
caught quail. All that day and throughout the
night and all the next day. No one gathered less than 50
bushels of OK. So they spread the quail all
around the camp to dry a normal busu.
But the next that the other vest is a sad one.
Let's see. But while they were gouging
themselves on the meat, while it was still in their mouth, the
anger of the Lord blazed against the people and he struck them
with a severe plague. So he also, we see that the wind
from the Lord, the wind from the Lord, the Holy Spirit, there was
a demand, serious demand for meat.
They remembered Egypt. Moses, if we were to be in
Egypt, would have eaten fish with garlic, onions, leeks.
So they were remembering their past lives and they were
craving. So the people questioned, why,
God, why did you save us? God, why did you save us?
But all these things were caused by the foreigners who were with
them. This tell this trouble.
So I've always been saying that it took God one day to take
Israel out of Egypt. I've been saying it here and
I'll say it, but it took God 40 years to take Egypt out of
Israel. I like this quotes it took
someone has said that it took one day to take Israel Mama
saying call Pharaoh, say hey, go, go, go, go, go, go one day.
But it took God 40 years to uproot the mindset of Egypt, 40
years to uproot it from the mindset of the Israelites by
killing everybody. He had to kill some of them to
erase and to reset their thinking that now they are free.
So you see that it is tough. So whilst they were complaining
about mana, Moses, this mana, only this mana.
Meanwhile they were traveling to the promised land and God
intentionally did all these things so that he will let them
know that he can provide. So when there was a serious need
for meat, serious one Obiah Condo and meat, so Moses himself
cry. So because of meat, the whole
families were standing at their door crying.
And the power of slavery. I'm trying to write or prepare a
sermon on taste and hunger. These are some of the drives
what drives humans sexual drive hunger Dr. tastes these things
atifria on you. Your mind is disconnected.
So because of that the all of them were crying and Moses was
also infested Moses cry a be ever son.
They were crying Moses. So Moses was also very
aggravated, and Moses said to the Lord, why are you treating
me, your servants, so harshly? Have mercy on me.
What did I do to deserve the bedding of all this evil?
Did I give birth to them? Why did you tell me to carry
them in my arms like a mother carries a nursing baby?
How can I carry them to the land you swore to give their
ancestors? Where am I am I supposed to get
meat for all these people Minion I'm Wayne Look at how serious if
I was a serious need, where am I?
They keep winning to me crying, saying give us meat to eat my
anomaly Enamou men three. You think that and then there's
more issue Some years ago in the wilderness and now was
everything. I can't carry all these people
by myself. Is that how you tend to know
Kayaka? I said, just go ahead and kill
me. Look at him, Moses.
And he said, do me a favor and spare me this misery.
The next answer God gave him. Numbers 1116 Gather before me 70
men. Sir, I'm a human or complaining.
I mentioned. If you are not saying
leadership, be careful that your followers do not infest you with
their complaints. I'm going to bet me asau and you
become like them the moment you say that God will schedule a
retirement plan for you. Elijah said the same thing.
I'm not better than my forebears.
I'm not better. Kill me and God.
The next thing says that go and look for Elijah anoint Joe do
this do this do this. So when God gives you a position
a space, be careful of how you complain.
You complain here. If you give excuse, you also be
excused be phrased by in the work of God.
When we give excuses, God will also say, excuse me, you'll be
excused tranching and God will use others.
So let us be mindful when we get opportunities to serve.
So God puts the spirit upon the leadership.
So there was a leadership burden and then the devil for Rebecca
wants them. So let's move on.
So meet God, hear them and the answer access to the problem of
leadership is that I would take the Spirit upon you, not in the
Spirit the work of the Spirit. So we used to think that in the
old Moses resident the Spirit did not just come and leave
Moses was kind the Spirit of God.
So go say I would take some of the Spirit on you and put on 70
men and the meat too when it was time to serve them.
The answer was that the Spirit of the Lord and Wind Ruah from
God came and drove, and Opia and Namabrinipa Holy Ghost, or Bob
and Naman Eddie Branipa. So if Holy Ghost can drive
quick, he can drive everything for you.
I don't know what you need today.
I don't know your spiritual need, your physical need.
The answer is a wind from God is the answer.
And when the wind comes, the wind will just drive the meat or
drive it and I'm gonna Holy Ghost or drive the meat driver
of WABBU and Namano and Abro. So if whatever be your need.
So believers, we have gotten everything, but we feel to
assess the Holy Ghost tonight. We want to pray.
You see that whenever there is a
difficult issue in the scripture, whenever there is a
mess, whenever there is something so hard that humans
cannot do anything, the Holy Ghost comes in and when he steps
in, he solves it. So how can we carry this
wonderful gifts in US and still be moving about and things are
disordered. We need to let the Holy Ghost
work tonight. We want to pray shall be on our
feet. We want to be on our feet.
Begin blue in tongues.
Somebody begin blue in the language of the serene.
Begin to assess, begin to activate.
Begin to activate power of the Holy Ghost, the power of the
Spirit of God in you that went from God, Lord, in the name of
Jesus. Activate the power in you.
Oh. Baba,
Baba. E.
We are praying the Lord remembered Noah.
We are praying that, oh God, if there is any floodwaters
covering or hiding my land where I have to dwell in the flood,
covering my fruitfulness, oh Holy Ghost, blow, blow, Jesus,
blow away any work of the enemy Jesus blew away.
Any works of the flesh Jesus blew away, 'cause them to dry.
Jesus, cause them to dry. If my giftings are wet, Jesus,
cause them to dry. In the name of Jesus, lift up
your voice, the Holy Ghost. Blow over my land.
Blow over every flood. If there's a flood, land.
In the name of Jesus as you hover over the.
Any floodwaters covering our land, covering our food furnace,
preventing group, preventing fruitfulness.
Holy good. Blue.
Blue, blue, 'cause them to dry,
cause them to dry, cause any floodwaters to receive in the
name of Jesus. Bloom, bloom, bloom, bloom,
bloom, bloom. Anything preventing groups
successfulness, anything preventing our dry ground brings
to comfort blood blue. Let every floodwaters receive.
We are praying when the Red Sea was preventing them again the
Holy Ghost. The East strong E wind blew all
night and drove the waters back. We are praying as the Lord is
taking us to the land that He has promised.
Anything that wants to inhibit, that wants to prevent us,
anything that is standing in the way, Jesus, it is not by mind,
Jesus, it is not by power, but by my spirit, says the Lord.
Any difficult thing, Jesus, that is preventing you from seeing
your fruitfulness, Jesus, any difficult thing that is
inhibiting you, retarding your growth, preventing you from
moving forward. Tonight we are praying.
Jesus, oh Holy Ghost, Jesus, move in your power, move in your
strength. Drive them away.
Drive them backwards. Cause dry land to appear.
Lift up your voice.
I mean cry out. Cry out to the Lord.
Oh God, dear Holy Ghost in the Red Sea in front of us, in the
name of Jesus, in the name of Jesus, professional from moving
forward. In the name of Jesus, all ghost
by your power. Blow, blow tonight.
Let your power drive, drive them away, drive every Red Sea away,
drive and push them. Try and push them in the name of
Jesus. Holy Ghost, drive them with your
power. Drive them dry every sea, dry
everywhere, sea backward, by your power, by your power, by
your power, in the name of
Jesus. We are praying when the when the
people of Israel were en route to the promised land, they
needed meat over 600,000 people and most was civil accident.
Are you going to kill bulls? How are you going to provide
meat for over 600,000? Then the Lord said my arm is has
not lost its power. So it means that the Holy Ghost
is the powerful arm of God. And by that the wind and wind
from the lawn went and drove again from the sea Jesus.
So there is something about the Spirit and water.
There is something so special about the Spirit hovering over
water again, the spirit the wind brought quail from the sea and
dump them in the camp. We are praying.
If there is any demand in our life that is so overwhelming, we
don't know where to start from. We don't know how to go about
it. We don't know how to handle it.
The answer is the Holy Ghost. So today we are presenting them.
Oh Holy Ghost cause quill, drive good things our way.
Drive them. How can I meet my spouse?
Where can I get funding for this project?
You have been asking yourself where and how?
The Tonight the answer is the Holy Ghost.
So we are praying Holy Ghost. Drive them towards my camp.
Drive money towards my camp. Drive good things towards my
camp. Drive good things and bring them
my way. Lift your voice and begin to cry
out Holy Ghost, Holy Ghost, Holy Ghost, Holy Ghost, Holy Ghost,
just as you drove pills from the sea and dump them in the camp.
Lord, drive. Lord, drive.
Every problem, every knee, everything that is overwhelming
us. Holy Ghost, drive them around
the Gather them for us. Gather them for us.
Gather, give things for us. Gather good people and bring
them away. Gather resources for us.
Gather resources for ministries, Gather resources, Oh God, if
there is any need in the local churches, in English, in Loca,
in escape, do Lord. Drive them by the powerful wind,
Lord, drive them by the wind, Lord, drive them by your wind.
Gather them, Oh God, and bring them away.
Scatter them, Oh God, and bring them away.
Gather them, oh God, and bring them away, Oh God, gather them,
bring them away. Gather them and bring them away.
We are lifting up another prayer.
The Bible says that when the enemy comes in like a flower,
the spirit of the Lord will lift up a standard.
We are praying if the enemy. In fact, when flood is coming,
it is directionless. It comes from every direction,
every corner. It takes you and shifts you off
your feet. It covers things and deprives
you of life. So we are praying.
Oh God, if the enemy has entered my life, if the enemy has
entered my space like a fly, Holy Ghost, lift up a standard
against the enemy, lift up a standard against the enemy.
Lift up your voice and you know, cry out.
Cry out to the Lord. Pray, pray, pray, pray, pray.
Low Basa, Rickende, Mayanda SATA.
Yeah. If the enemy comes in, if the
enemy has entered any life like a flower, oh, go.
May you lift up a stand up. May you beat them back.
May you drive them back. May you drive the enemy back.
Drive any enemy that is coming like a flower.
Drive them back. Drive them back, Drive them
back. Holy Ghost.
Holy Ghost, write them back in the name of Jesus.
Yes Lord. Yes Lord.
Yes, Lord, shall we?
Shall we take our seeds? Shall we take our seed?
Blow over me the breath of God sweep over me, the Spirit of God
over me, transform me. Cost me a lot to do your home.
Cause me, Lord, cause me, Lord, to do your Father.
In the name of Jesus, we thank you.
We thank you that today you have reviewed unto us, You have
reminded us, and you have told us of your work in the Old
Testament by the emblem of the wind.
Lord, we thank you, we bless your name for what you have
accomplished, sweet Holy Spirit, in our time.
To you. Lord, if flood has covered our
beautiful, beautiful landlord, blow over the flood and cause
the flood to recede and cause the good things in us to shine
forth. Lord, any barrier, drive them
away. And if the enemy should come in
like a flood, Lord, drive them back for us.
Drive them back for us, and may their may their plans be
defeated. If anyone here is trusting you
to provide, Lord, provide just as you by your spirit.
You brought quail, you gathered quail and dump them.
You regulated how they should even fly.
You regulated that they shouldn't fly above 3, three
feet above the ground. That is how you regulate things
to provide for us. Oh holy sorry if anyone is
overwhelmed by the demands of work, by the demands ahead of
him or her. Lord, we turn unto you, dear
Holy Spirit. Dr. gather resources for us.
Gather resources and dump them in our camp, dump them within
arms reach so that we can gather them to bring glory to your
name. This time around.
May your resources provided not kill us, but may they bring life
unto us. We thank you, sit Holy Spirit,
we love you. We thank you that you are the
one that Jesus has committed our whole being unto you, because
you are the comforter, You are the counselor, You are
everything. So let's reign in US, blow over
us. If there is any flood that wants
to cover spiritual giftings. Lord, as we we tarry before you,
may you dry every flood that has covered spiritual giftings.
May you drive every flood away so that our giftings will be
exposed and be seen to the glory of your name.
We ask this through crisis, our Lord, Amen.