1 00:00:04,160 --> 00:00:07,640 Amen, Amen. Good to see you today in the 2 00:00:07,640 --> 00:00:10,280 House of the Lord on this Sunday morning. 3 00:00:10,520 --> 00:00:15,280 And I again echo my wife today. Good to see everybody that is 4 00:00:15,280 --> 00:00:19,360 with us, Amen, this morning, Amber, it's good to see you 5 00:00:19,360 --> 00:00:21,040 again. Amen. 6 00:00:21,440 --> 00:00:23,560 And she told me mom is watching online. 7 00:00:23,560 --> 00:00:26,560 So Tamara, we, we love you, Amen. 8 00:00:26,560 --> 00:00:29,160 And we're glad that you're with us online today. 9 00:00:29,480 --> 00:00:31,920 So many different ones. Rex, it's good to see you back. 10 00:00:33,200 --> 00:00:36,440 He was here Wednesday night and he had his hands out this big 11 00:00:36,440 --> 00:00:39,360 and he was, it was story time. He was telling us, I don't know 12 00:00:39,360 --> 00:00:41,600 if he's talking about the size of a fish that he caught or 13 00:00:41,600 --> 00:00:44,080 what, but you could tell it was story time. 14 00:00:44,360 --> 00:00:47,320 And so Rex, it's good to see you, Amen, this morning. 15 00:00:47,320 --> 00:00:51,880 And it's good to have Brittany and Justin, Winter and Josh 16 00:00:51,880 --> 00:00:54,920 rather, and Winter and Searcy and JT today. 17 00:00:55,320 --> 00:01:00,000 Now, Brittany, years ago at our second church, her mom and dad 18 00:01:00,000 --> 00:01:05,000 and Brian and Roberta Lambert came to church. 19 00:01:05,000 --> 00:01:08,840 And as just small as some of the age of her kids that she has 20 00:01:08,840 --> 00:01:12,880 now, small kids came and sat in our Sunday school classes and 21 00:01:12,880 --> 00:01:14,320 heard the word of the Lord taught. 22 00:01:14,840 --> 00:01:16,360 Amen. She'd been in contact with my 23 00:01:16,360 --> 00:01:18,160 wife. We can decide to come. 24 00:01:18,160 --> 00:01:21,040 And we're so thankful for their family being here today in the 25 00:01:21,040 --> 00:01:25,120 House of the Lord. Love and appreciate them and 26 00:01:25,120 --> 00:01:27,240 we're always glad. Larry, it's good to see you. 27 00:01:27,520 --> 00:01:31,080 Last time I saw you, you got baptized in Jesus name here. 28 00:01:31,760 --> 00:01:32,920 Amen. That's right. 29 00:01:33,320 --> 00:01:36,920 And Shelby, the career girl, I, I give her a hard time. 30 00:01:36,920 --> 00:01:38,760 She's the college career girl now. 31 00:01:39,240 --> 00:01:41,520 She grew up in our Sunday school classes. 32 00:01:42,040 --> 00:01:44,040 Amen. And we're glad to have Alexis as 33 00:01:44,040 --> 00:01:47,280 well, Amen. Her mother Angie Craig Amen 34 00:01:47,280 --> 00:01:50,360 watches online as a shut in faithfully Amen. 35 00:01:50,360 --> 00:01:53,600 And we're glad to have all of them today and Jeanette and 36 00:01:53,600 --> 00:01:56,760 Tatum and others. And I'm excited to learn your 37 00:01:56,760 --> 00:02:01,160 name and get to know you Amen this morning and house the Lord. 38 00:02:01,480 --> 00:02:07,440 So glad to have each one of you. And yes, Sister Cox's relatives, 39 00:02:07,600 --> 00:02:09,680 of course, Sister Jerry, we're glad to have you today. 40 00:02:10,080 --> 00:02:12,800 And Sister Cox has a couple of her grandkids today. 41 00:02:12,800 --> 00:02:15,120 She does that time to time. And that's what the world 42 00:02:15,120 --> 00:02:17,640 greatest grandmother does. She brings her grandchildren 43 00:02:17,640 --> 00:02:20,160 every once in a while. And so I have a hard time 44 00:02:20,160 --> 00:02:22,480 catching up with her. If you'll stand with me this 45 00:02:22,480 --> 00:02:27,720 morning, I'm continuing in Acts chapter #2 today, Acts chapter 46 00:02:27,720 --> 00:02:31,240 #2 and going to read verses 37 and 38. 47 00:02:31,240 --> 00:02:35,520 We've been talking about some things that we we must do, some 48 00:02:35,520 --> 00:02:38,800 things that we must do. And we have talked about 49 00:02:38,800 --> 00:02:41,160 repentance. We talked about being baptized 50 00:02:41,160 --> 00:02:42,240 this morning. We're going to talk about 51 00:02:42,240 --> 00:02:44,480 receiving, receiving the Holy Ghost. 52 00:02:44,800 --> 00:02:46,800 And if that's foreign to you today, that's OK. 53 00:02:46,800 --> 00:02:50,440 That's the reason why we're here to talk about that and discuss 54 00:02:50,440 --> 00:02:53,960 that Amen today. But I want you to know there is 55 00:02:54,280 --> 00:02:56,720 the power of the Holy Ghost. It will absolutely change your 56 00:02:56,720 --> 00:02:59,280 life. The Bible describes it as it's 57 00:02:59,280 --> 00:03:02,120 Christ in you. It's Christ in you. 58 00:03:02,840 --> 00:03:06,040 And I know sometimes coming to church service like this, you, 59 00:03:06,280 --> 00:03:09,920 you might feel something in here and that's the Spirit of the 60 00:03:09,920 --> 00:03:12,840 Lord. That's what you feel moving on 61 00:03:12,840 --> 00:03:15,040 you. But the Bible tells us a New 62 00:03:15,040 --> 00:03:17,240 Testament that happened all throughout the Old Testament, 63 00:03:17,240 --> 00:03:18,840 Spirit of the Lord moving on people. 64 00:03:19,240 --> 00:03:22,000 But there was a new covenant in a new day in the New Testament 65 00:03:22,000 --> 00:03:24,280 that it wouldn't just move on them, it would move in them, 66 00:03:24,880 --> 00:03:26,560 Amen. And that's the power of the Holy 67 00:03:26,560 --> 00:03:28,160 Ghost. Acts chapter #2 try to be 68 00:03:28,160 --> 00:03:30,840 mindful of your time today. I just got back from a 69 00:03:30,840 --> 00:03:33,680 conference in Maryville, TN, a men's conference. 70 00:03:33,680 --> 00:03:37,560 So it was a 36 hour boom. Drove down Friday, came back 71 00:03:37,560 --> 00:03:42,840 yesterday, so I'm ready. I'm sleep deprived, but I'm 72 00:03:42,840 --> 00:03:43,960 ready. Amen. 73 00:03:43,960 --> 00:03:47,480 Acts 2 verse 37. Now when they heard this, they 74 00:03:47,480 --> 00:03:50,720 were pricked in their heart and said into Peter and to the rest 75 00:03:50,720 --> 00:03:54,320 of the apostles, men and brethren, what shall we do? 76 00:03:54,320 --> 00:03:57,280 This is the question. They've heard a sermon, they've 77 00:03:57,440 --> 00:04:00,360 felt, they have felt conviction or they felt bad that they 78 00:04:00,360 --> 00:04:03,720 crucified Jesus Christ. Want to know what shall we do 79 00:04:03,720 --> 00:04:07,000 concerning all this? Then Peter said to them, Repent 80 00:04:07,440 --> 00:04:11,080 and be baptized, everyone of you in the name of Jesus Christ or 81 00:04:11,080 --> 00:04:17,000 the remission or the removal of sins, and ye shall to promise ye 82 00:04:17,000 --> 00:04:19,959 shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost. 83 00:04:20,160 --> 00:04:22,160 So that's what I want to talk about for a little bit this 84 00:04:22,160 --> 00:04:24,560 morning. Things you must do, receive, 85 00:04:24,920 --> 00:04:26,800 receive the Holy Ghost. Here's the thing this morning, 86 00:04:27,040 --> 00:04:30,560 it's not for a certain classification of people. 87 00:04:31,120 --> 00:04:33,440 You don't have to have a certain parentage or heritage in order 88 00:04:33,440 --> 00:04:37,920 to have a certain age, certain ethnicity or race, doesn't 89 00:04:37,920 --> 00:04:41,160 matter. It's for whosoever will. 90 00:04:41,760 --> 00:04:42,760 Amen. I'm going to pray today. 91 00:04:42,760 --> 00:04:44,480 Thank you, Lord Jesus, for your spirit. 92 00:04:44,480 --> 00:04:46,840 We have already felt thus far in the service today. 93 00:04:47,200 --> 00:04:48,680 Pray God that you would anoint us. 94 00:04:48,680 --> 00:04:50,520 God, touch our hearts and our minds. 95 00:04:50,840 --> 00:04:53,520 Help us, O Lord, today open the minds of the people that sat in 96 00:04:53,520 --> 00:04:55,800 here this morning. God, perhaps they'll see and 97 00:04:55,800 --> 00:04:58,280 hear something. Maybe God they've not heard or 98 00:04:58,280 --> 00:05:00,480 seen before. God, you're able to touch us all 99 00:05:00,480 --> 00:05:02,960 and we'll believe you. For the lovely name of Jesus 100 00:05:02,960 --> 00:05:04,720 Christ that I pray. Amen. 101 00:05:04,720 --> 00:05:08,440 The church say Amen, Amen. You may be seated this morning 102 00:05:08,440 --> 00:05:13,240 in Jesus name when we talk about the Holy Ghost, and I don't want 103 00:05:13,240 --> 00:05:17,160 that to be spooky to you saying ghost, but it is in the word of 104 00:05:17,160 --> 00:05:19,360 the Lord. The other things that it is 105 00:05:19,360 --> 00:05:23,720 spoken as or called may also hear called the Holy Spirit, 106 00:05:24,080 --> 00:05:27,400 exact same thing, no difference. As a matter of fact, the 107 00:05:27,400 --> 00:05:30,880 language that the New Testament scripture was was translated 108 00:05:30,880 --> 00:05:34,360 from when you see spirit and when you see ghost, it's from 109 00:05:34,360 --> 00:05:37,240 the exact same word. There is no difference but the 110 00:05:37,240 --> 00:05:40,040 Spirit, the birth of the Spirit. It's called several different 111 00:05:40,040 --> 00:05:42,880 things in the scripture. Sometimes it's referred to as 112 00:05:42,880 --> 00:05:46,800 the birth of the Spirit. It's spoken of as receiving the 113 00:05:46,800 --> 00:05:50,120 Spirit or the baptism of the Spirit. 114 00:05:50,440 --> 00:05:53,160 Whenever you see this in our Bibles, it's all in one the 115 00:05:53,160 --> 00:05:55,760 same. It's referencing the exact same 116 00:05:55,880 --> 00:05:57,520 thing. As a matter of fact, in our 117 00:05:57,520 --> 00:06:00,880 Bibles, as we read this, we understand that receiving the 118 00:06:00,880 --> 00:06:04,640 Holy Ghost or receiving the, the, the Holy Spirit is like, 119 00:06:04,840 --> 00:06:08,400 not something, something extra. It's all a part of the package, 120 00:06:08,400 --> 00:06:10,640 so to speak. It's not a third blessing or a 121 00:06:10,640 --> 00:06:13,960 second blessing. It's not separate from our 122 00:06:13,960 --> 00:06:16,800 conversion or us being saved by God. 123 00:06:16,800 --> 00:06:21,160 It's all a crucial part of being born again according to the word 124 00:06:21,160 --> 00:06:23,040 of the Lord. As a matter of fact, scripture 125 00:06:23,040 --> 00:06:26,240 tells us, and we'll look at several scriptures today, OK? 126 00:06:26,240 --> 00:06:29,520 And we'll try to provide those on the screen so that you don't 127 00:06:29,520 --> 00:06:32,320 get paper cuts from your Bible as you turn pages if you try to 128 00:06:32,320 --> 00:06:34,360 keep up with the Scriptures today. 129 00:06:34,520 --> 00:06:37,560 But the Bible tells us in the New Testament that the only way 130 00:06:37,560 --> 00:06:41,960 into the body, which the Bible all many times calls his church, 131 00:06:42,000 --> 00:06:48,240 the only way into Christ Jesus, is by baptism of both water 132 00:06:48,240 --> 00:06:51,560 being baptized with water and by spirit. 133 00:06:51,840 --> 00:06:55,360 The Bible says in First Corinthians 12 and verse #13 134 00:06:55,360 --> 00:06:57,640 these are the words of the apostle Paul. 135 00:06:57,880 --> 00:07:04,320 For by 1 Spirit are we all baptized in TO1 body and I just 136 00:07:04,320 --> 00:07:07,240 want to say today Paul was speaking to the church at 137 00:07:07,240 --> 00:07:08,800 Corinth. So he's speaking to a bunch of 138 00:07:08,800 --> 00:07:12,000 people that had received this salvation or the save 139 00:07:12,000 --> 00:07:14,880 experience. He said we all were baptized 140 00:07:14,880 --> 00:07:17,320 into one body. He said whether we be Jew or 141 00:07:17,320 --> 00:07:18,440 Greek. So it didn't matter. 142 00:07:18,440 --> 00:07:21,480 It didn't matter who they were whether they were bond or free 143 00:07:21,680 --> 00:07:25,680 have been all made to drink into one spirit. 144 00:07:26,000 --> 00:07:29,760 And so the Scripture plainly details to us this morning that 145 00:07:29,760 --> 00:07:33,800 the baptism or the Spirit baptism, the theme of this 146 00:07:33,800 --> 00:07:37,720 chapter is taking place because it's going to talk about works 147 00:07:37,720 --> 00:07:39,840 of the Spirit and gifts of the Spirit. 148 00:07:40,120 --> 00:07:42,880 But in order to have those things, you had to have the 149 00:07:42,920 --> 00:07:45,080 Spirit. And so that's the reason why it 150 00:07:45,080 --> 00:07:49,320 talks about them being baptized by 1 Spirit into the church or 151 00:07:49,320 --> 00:07:53,080 the body of Christ. If I were to deny myself being 152 00:07:53,080 --> 00:07:58,160 baptized by the Spirit, then in essence I deny my placement in 153 00:07:58,160 --> 00:08:01,720 the body of Christ. Scripture tells us in the 154 00:08:01,720 --> 00:08:05,520 letters that Paul wrote, some people called them epistles, 155 00:08:05,840 --> 00:08:07,560 Amen. But he wrote them to several 156 00:08:07,560 --> 00:08:12,080 churches and he said over and over again that Christ had one 157 00:08:12,120 --> 00:08:16,000 body and that there was one church and that there was one 158 00:08:16,000 --> 00:08:18,400 bride and that there was one people. 159 00:08:18,560 --> 00:08:22,080 And however he desired to label this Amen. 160 00:08:22,080 --> 00:08:25,800 They anybody finds their placement in these things as 161 00:08:25,800 --> 00:08:29,720 he's labeled them by 1 Spirit that we received from the Lord. 162 00:08:29,960 --> 00:08:32,000 And here's the amazing thing what we've been talking about 163 00:08:32,000 --> 00:08:34,320 the past few weeks of repentance and baptism. 164 00:08:34,600 --> 00:08:38,559 Repentance and baptism alone does not achieve that for 165 00:08:38,559 --> 00:08:41,159 someone. They you must repent, yes, and 166 00:08:41,159 --> 00:08:44,159 you must be baptized. But there is this third element 167 00:08:44,440 --> 00:08:47,280 of you shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost. 168 00:08:47,480 --> 00:08:51,760 We go to John chapter #3 and we can trust the disciples and the 169 00:08:51,760 --> 00:08:54,920 apostles because they are the ones that first hand receive 170 00:08:54,920 --> 00:08:58,160 this information from the Lord. But it's also good sometimes to 171 00:08:58,160 --> 00:09:00,640 hear what the Lord has to say about it himself. 172 00:09:00,920 --> 00:09:05,800 And so Jesus said in John 3 and verse 3, Jesus said and answered 173 00:09:05,800 --> 00:09:09,840 unto him, and to him he's talking about is a man called 174 00:09:09,840 --> 00:09:14,600 Nicodemus who was a religious leader and ruler of his day. 175 00:09:15,000 --> 00:09:19,560 Jesus answered and said to him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, 176 00:09:19,760 --> 00:09:25,920 except a man be born again, he cannot see the Kingdom of God. 177 00:09:26,240 --> 00:09:29,080 I would dare to say this morning for anyone in this world and 178 00:09:29,080 --> 00:09:31,600 even us that are sitting here today, if I asked you, do you 179 00:09:31,600 --> 00:09:34,240 want to see the Kingdom of God? Do you want to enter into the 180 00:09:34,240 --> 00:09:36,960 Kingdom of God? You would say absolutely I want 181 00:09:36,960 --> 00:09:38,960 to go, I want to see the Kingdom of God. 182 00:09:39,280 --> 00:09:44,360 Jesus said except a man be born again, he cannot see the Kingdom 183 00:09:44,360 --> 00:09:47,040 of God. And so Nicodemus responds back 184 00:09:47,040 --> 00:09:48,880 to him in the next verse, verse 4. 185 00:09:49,160 --> 00:09:52,760 Nicodemus saith unto him, how can a man be born when he is 186 00:09:52,920 --> 00:09:55,760 old? Can he enter the second time 187 00:09:55,760 --> 00:09:58,040 into his mother's womb and be born? 188 00:09:58,040 --> 00:10:02,800 Nicodemus has this idea of a very literal physical birth, of 189 00:10:02,800 --> 00:10:07,040 being born again, but Jesus wasn't talking about a literal 190 00:10:07,040 --> 00:10:10,080 birth. He was talk about being born, as 191 00:10:10,080 --> 00:10:13,320 I've already said, of the Spirit, born of the Spirit, 192 00:10:13,640 --> 00:10:15,240 Jesus. He breaks it down a little 193 00:10:15,240 --> 00:10:18,800 further in verse 5. Jesus answered, verily, verily, 194 00:10:18,800 --> 00:10:24,760 I say unto thee, except a man be born of water and of the Spirit. 195 00:10:24,920 --> 00:10:28,600 What Jesus is doing is taking what he said in verse three, 196 00:10:28,760 --> 00:10:32,280 born again, and he's breaking it down just a little bit more. 197 00:10:32,520 --> 00:10:36,520 He's in what born again means is to be born of water and born of 198 00:10:36,520 --> 00:10:39,080 the spirit. He said he cannot enter into the 199 00:10:39,080 --> 00:10:43,800 Kingdom of God. And so based upon the Bible 200 00:10:44,040 --> 00:10:46,760 based upon the Bible and and that this may be different than 201 00:10:46,760 --> 00:10:49,000 what other people's ask based upon the Bible. 202 00:10:49,000 --> 00:10:51,760 I don't ask have you accepted Christ in your heart. 203 00:10:52,000 --> 00:10:55,760 I ask you have you been born again because I believe that's 204 00:10:55,760 --> 00:10:58,480 the words that Jesus is getting that here in Nicodemus. 205 00:10:58,640 --> 00:11:02,680 Have you been born again? Meaning born of water. 206 00:11:03,160 --> 00:11:04,280 Amen. Go on in. 207 00:11:04,640 --> 00:11:06,880 They call it a watery grave. And that you say, well, that's 208 00:11:06,880 --> 00:11:10,280 kind of a weird expression. Yeah, but you're taking your old 209 00:11:10,280 --> 00:11:13,560 man, your old life. We're born into this world in 210 00:11:13,560 --> 00:11:16,640 sin as sinners. We're taking that old life and 211 00:11:16,640 --> 00:11:21,560 we're burying it underwater, so to speak, to arise in a newness 212 00:11:21,560 --> 00:11:23,320 of life. But we're born again then of 213 00:11:23,320 --> 00:11:26,240 that water and of that spirit. Whenever I say born of the 214 00:11:26,240 --> 00:11:31,400 Spirit, you receive the Spirit of God, the Spirit of Christ, 215 00:11:31,440 --> 00:11:37,000 Same thing in your life. It's Christ in you and you know 216 00:11:37,000 --> 00:11:39,720 you have done that and we'll get to it before we're done today 217 00:11:39,960 --> 00:11:43,680 because there is a initial sign or evidence that that has taken 218 00:11:43,680 --> 00:11:46,680 place in your life that we read of in the book of Acts at the 219 00:11:46,680 --> 00:11:48,600 birth of the the New Testament church. 220 00:11:48,920 --> 00:11:51,720 And the Bible says they all begin to speak with other 221 00:11:51,720 --> 00:11:55,320 tongues as the Spirit, that Spirit of God they just 222 00:11:55,320 --> 00:11:59,720 received, gave them the ability or the utterance to do so. 223 00:11:59,920 --> 00:12:03,760 Now remember in all these verses of Scripture, Jesus telling 224 00:12:03,760 --> 00:12:08,600 Nicodemus to be born of water or of spirit or buried in water if 225 00:12:08,600 --> 00:12:13,240 you will, repentance is still implied here because how many 226 00:12:13,240 --> 00:12:16,960 know, even in a very literal fashion today, it's not legal 227 00:12:16,960 --> 00:12:22,560 for us to bury living bodies. That be a little odd, Amen. 228 00:12:22,600 --> 00:12:26,080 But likewise in the spirit, we don't, we don't bury anybody, 229 00:12:26,280 --> 00:12:30,200 even a watery grave of of baptism without repentance. 230 00:12:30,200 --> 00:12:35,080 And that repentance, that repentance just mirrors Jesus 231 00:12:35,080 --> 00:12:39,440 death on the cross. And so we're, we die in essence. 232 00:12:39,440 --> 00:12:42,480 And then we are, we are buried in baptism. 233 00:12:42,800 --> 00:12:45,920 And so the Bible talks about baptism all throughout the New 234 00:12:45,920 --> 00:12:48,520 Testament Scripture in particularly, it talks about 235 00:12:48,520 --> 00:12:50,600 that we're baptized and it used different, different 236 00:12:50,600 --> 00:12:53,040 prepositions. We're baptized with the Holy 237 00:12:53,040 --> 00:12:55,160 Ghost, we're baptized by the Holy Ghost. 238 00:12:55,160 --> 00:12:58,480 We're baptized in the Holy Ghost, we're baptized of the 239 00:12:58,480 --> 00:13:00,560 Holy Ghost. And it used different terms. 240 00:13:00,560 --> 00:13:05,160 Sometimes it says we're baptized with it or that we we we receive 241 00:13:05,160 --> 00:13:08,920 the Holy Ghost or the Holy Ghost fell upon them, or the Holy 242 00:13:08,920 --> 00:13:11,360 Ghost came upon them. Amen. 243 00:13:11,360 --> 00:13:14,040 All of this is one of the same. It's all describing that 244 00:13:14,040 --> 00:13:18,840 experience of receiving God's Spirit inside of our life. 245 00:13:19,120 --> 00:13:23,840 Peter called the same experience of the gift of the Holy Ghost 246 00:13:23,840 --> 00:13:25,040 and the baptism of the Holy Ghost. 247 00:13:25,200 --> 00:13:26,880 He called it exactly the same thing. 248 00:13:26,880 --> 00:13:30,080 Look at it in Acts Chapter 11 and verse 15. 249 00:13:30,080 --> 00:13:33,800 This is Peter speaking. And as I began to speak, Peter's 250 00:13:33,800 --> 00:13:38,200 recalling something he said, the Holy Holy Ghost fell on them. 251 00:13:38,200 --> 00:13:39,640 So see, there's that phraseology. 252 00:13:39,640 --> 00:13:42,480 The Holy Ghost fell on somebody. Don't worry, they didn't get 253 00:13:42,480 --> 00:13:45,120 hurt. The Holy Ghost fell on them as 254 00:13:45,160 --> 00:13:48,680 on us at the beginning. He's referring back to the book 255 00:13:48,680 --> 00:13:51,960 of Acts chapter #2 he said it fell on them just like it fell 256 00:13:51,960 --> 00:13:53,880 on us. It says in verse 16. 257 00:13:53,880 --> 00:13:57,720 Then remembered I, the word of the Lord, how that he said, 258 00:13:57,720 --> 00:14:00,560 John, this is Speaking of John the Baptist. 259 00:14:00,880 --> 00:14:05,080 Indeed, baptized with water, he said, but John said, listen 260 00:14:05,080 --> 00:14:09,280 guys, I'm baptized just with water, but he shall be baptized 261 00:14:09,480 --> 00:14:12,240 with the Holy Ghost. Verse 11. 262 00:14:12,240 --> 00:14:15,920 For as much then as God gave them, Peter says just as much as 263 00:14:15,920 --> 00:14:19,560 God gave them the light gift. What he's talking about, he's 264 00:14:19,560 --> 00:14:21,880 talking about the Holy Ghost, but look how he's talked about 265 00:14:21,880 --> 00:14:24,200 it. The Holy Ghost has fell on them. 266 00:14:24,200 --> 00:14:26,680 He speaks of being baptized with the Holy Ghost. 267 00:14:26,680 --> 00:14:29,440 Now he calls it a gift and it is. 268 00:14:29,440 --> 00:14:31,160 That's the wonderful thing about the Holy Ghost. 269 00:14:31,360 --> 00:14:35,120 It is a gift ready for whosoever will. 270 00:14:35,320 --> 00:14:39,200 He said He received the light gift, as did He unto us who 271 00:14:39,200 --> 00:14:41,560 believed on the Lord Jesus Christ. 272 00:14:41,640 --> 00:14:44,640 What was I? He said that I could withstand 273 00:14:44,880 --> 00:14:47,200 God because of resected people at that day. 274 00:14:47,440 --> 00:14:49,960 They didn't quite understand yet that the Holy Ghost was for 275 00:14:49,960 --> 00:14:52,600 everybody. And so He was telling them, hey, 276 00:14:52,800 --> 00:14:56,280 it fell on these people just like it fell upon us being Jews. 277 00:14:56,480 --> 00:14:58,840 You know what he was saying? It doesn't matter who you are, 278 00:14:59,440 --> 00:15:01,280 that the Holy Ghost is for us all. 279 00:15:01,920 --> 00:15:04,320 And so the Bible speaks and these are in your Bibles and 280 00:15:04,320 --> 00:15:07,160 I'll just give you references, but the Bible talks about that 281 00:15:07,160 --> 00:15:09,040 God. God is holy. 282 00:15:09,320 --> 00:15:12,560 We read of that in first Peter 116 and also from the Old 283 00:15:12,560 --> 00:15:17,520 Testament, Leviticus 19 and two. It also says that God is Spirit. 284 00:15:17,960 --> 00:15:22,560 We read of that in John 424 and Ephesians 4 tells us that there 285 00:15:22,560 --> 00:15:25,800 is one Spirit. So we put all this together, 286 00:15:25,800 --> 00:15:31,720 then we understand that God is 1 Holy Spirit, God is 1 Holy 287 00:15:31,720 --> 00:15:34,360 Spirit, Amen. Sometimes it's called the Spirit 288 00:15:34,360 --> 00:15:36,680 of God, like I've already referenced this morning. 289 00:15:36,960 --> 00:15:41,280 But when you receive the Holy Ghost, you receive that Spirit 290 00:15:41,560 --> 00:15:45,120 of God in you. Here's the amazing thing. 291 00:15:45,480 --> 00:15:48,080 In the Old Testament, they had a Tabernacle, they had a temple, 292 00:15:48,080 --> 00:15:50,840 or they had a church. God's spirit filled those 293 00:15:50,840 --> 00:15:54,400 buildings. But the Bible tells us that now 294 00:15:54,400 --> 00:15:57,920 we are the temple. The Bible says in First 295 00:15:57,920 --> 00:16:02,400 Corinthians 317, he said if any man defiled the temple of God, 296 00:16:02,480 --> 00:16:05,200 and what it's referencing is our bodies, we'll look at it here in 297 00:16:05,200 --> 00:16:07,520 a moment. Him shall God destroy, for the 298 00:16:07,520 --> 00:16:10,080 temple of God is holy. Which temple? 299 00:16:10,080 --> 00:16:12,240 Look ye are. He's speaking to him. 300 00:16:12,440 --> 00:16:15,640 If you skip down to 1st Corinthians 6 and verse 19, the 301 00:16:15,640 --> 00:16:21,720 writer writes what know ye not that your body is the temple of 302 00:16:21,720 --> 00:16:26,120 the Holy Ghost, which is in you, which he have right? 303 00:16:26,120 --> 00:16:28,760 It comes from God which he have of God. 304 00:16:28,960 --> 00:16:31,800 He are not your own. So just like in the Old 305 00:16:31,800 --> 00:16:36,280 Testament, God spirit moved in a Tabernacle or moved in a temple 306 00:16:36,280 --> 00:16:40,480 like Solomon in the New Testament, His temple is our 307 00:16:40,480 --> 00:16:43,160 bodies, His temple in our bodies. 308 00:16:43,360 --> 00:16:46,080 And just much as he wanted to feel his spirit and all those 309 00:16:46,080 --> 00:16:49,800 literal buildings, he wants to have his spirit in us, the 310 00:16:49,840 --> 00:16:54,640 temple of the Holy Ghost. And so Peter lets us know that 311 00:16:54,640 --> 00:16:59,440 this promise or this Holy Ghost again is for everyone. 312 00:16:59,640 --> 00:17:05,119 He told us there in Acts 2 and verse 38 that it's for you, it's 313 00:17:05,119 --> 00:17:08,640 for your children, it's for all those that are far off. 314 00:17:08,839 --> 00:17:13,800 He goes to the extent to say as many as our the Lord our God 315 00:17:14,000 --> 00:17:16,920 shall call. And So what that means for us 316 00:17:16,920 --> 00:17:21,079 living in this century is this. The Holy Ghost just wasn't for 317 00:17:21,079 --> 00:17:26,319 the people of the 1st century. The Holy Ghost is for our 318 00:17:26,319 --> 00:17:28,440 century. The Holy Ghost just wasn't for 319 00:17:28,640 --> 00:17:32,520 the Jews, although God treasured them as a special people to him 320 00:17:32,520 --> 00:17:35,440 in the Old Testament. But the Bible says he said it's 321 00:17:35,480 --> 00:17:38,840 even for those that are far off. And that's that's kind of a 322 00:17:38,840 --> 00:17:41,600 special language that's just not talking about someone 50 miles 323 00:17:41,600 --> 00:17:43,840 away. But in the book of Ephesians, 324 00:17:44,200 --> 00:17:47,160 the apostle Paul's all the time talking about those that were 325 00:17:47,160 --> 00:17:50,240 afar off and he's talking about Gentiles. 326 00:17:50,400 --> 00:17:52,640 And that was just people who weren't Jews. 327 00:17:53,000 --> 00:17:56,840 So what the writer in in second, the second book of Acts is 328 00:17:56,840 --> 00:18:01,040 telling us that this promise is was even for the Gentiles, those 329 00:18:01,040 --> 00:18:04,840 that were far off Amen. And as many as the Lord our God 330 00:18:04,840 --> 00:18:06,400 should call. Here's the amazing thing. 331 00:18:06,400 --> 00:18:08,960 All throughout Scripture, we'll look at it, but in John 7, 332 00:18:08,960 --> 00:18:13,440 Revelation 22, we have Jesus calling people he that thirst, 333 00:18:13,440 --> 00:18:15,880 he that wants come, come, drink thirst. 334 00:18:16,000 --> 00:18:18,400 He's making a call to whomsoever will. 335 00:18:18,560 --> 00:18:21,120 Hey man, he doesn't just call certain people, but whosoever 336 00:18:21,120 --> 00:18:23,960 will. And so the call's been made and 337 00:18:23,960 --> 00:18:26,480 that call, because we read our Bibles, we look at the 338 00:18:26,480 --> 00:18:30,080 Scripture, it applies to us, that call reaches us in our 339 00:18:30,080 --> 00:18:33,800 generation, Amen. It's not His will for any of us 340 00:18:33,800 --> 00:18:36,800 to perish. So this extends to all of us. 341 00:18:36,800 --> 00:18:40,600 Look at it. John 7, a lot of Bible today, we 342 00:18:40,600 --> 00:18:42,560 are a Bible believing church around here. 343 00:18:42,720 --> 00:18:47,800 John 7 and verse 37, in the last day, the great day of the feast, 344 00:18:47,800 --> 00:18:50,480 Jesus stood and cried, saying here it is. 345 00:18:50,480 --> 00:18:55,080 If any man thirst, let him come unto me and drink. 346 00:18:55,440 --> 00:18:57,760 Amen. Again, this Jesus is not 347 00:18:57,760 --> 00:18:59,680 speaking in a literal fashion here. 348 00:18:59,800 --> 00:19:01,640 He's talking about satisfying this. 349 00:19:01,640 --> 00:19:07,560 You ever had a a hunger, a thirst of your soul, a hunger, a 350 00:19:07,560 --> 00:19:10,200 thirst in your soul? Like you live your life, you do 351 00:19:10,200 --> 00:19:12,600 your job, you have your children, you do all these 352 00:19:12,600 --> 00:19:18,560 things, but it's like there's something missing, something not 353 00:19:18,560 --> 00:19:22,320 yet satisfied, right? You do, you live the American 354 00:19:22,320 --> 00:19:26,000 dream, but there's some longing that's there. 355 00:19:28,520 --> 00:19:32,600 That's the thirst of the soul, that's the thirst of the soul 356 00:19:32,760 --> 00:19:35,320 and that's what Jesus is appealing to here. 357 00:19:35,440 --> 00:19:37,960 If any man thirst, let him come into me and drink. 358 00:19:38,120 --> 00:19:42,440 Verse 38 he that believeth on me as the scripture have said out 359 00:19:42,440 --> 00:19:44,840 of his belly shift flow rivers of living water. 360 00:19:44,840 --> 00:19:47,280 He he's going to put something in you that's going to just flow 361 00:19:47,280 --> 00:19:49,240 out of you. It's going to impact every area 362 00:19:49,480 --> 00:19:53,120 and the aspect of your life. Verse 39 it says, But this spake 363 00:19:53,120 --> 00:19:57,080 he of the Spirit, which they that believe on him should 364 00:19:57,080 --> 00:20:01,600 receive, for the Holy Ghost was not yet given because. 365 00:20:01,680 --> 00:20:04,320 That Jesus was not yet glorified. 366 00:20:04,680 --> 00:20:07,440 This, the all of this that's being said in John 7. 367 00:20:07,640 --> 00:20:12,280 This is before Calvary, before Jesus went to the cross, before 368 00:20:12,280 --> 00:20:15,520 he died, before he was buried, before he was resurrected, 369 00:20:15,760 --> 00:20:18,480 before all of that. He says, So I'm talking to you 370 00:20:18,480 --> 00:20:20,240 about something coming in the future. 371 00:20:20,560 --> 00:20:23,080 I'm talking to you about the Holy Ghost, He says. 372 00:20:23,080 --> 00:20:26,040 But the Holy Ghost is not going to come as it did on the day of 373 00:20:26,040 --> 00:20:30,760 Pentecost in Acts 2, until I've died, until I've been buried, 374 00:20:31,120 --> 00:20:34,800 until I've raised again and I've ascended up into glory, until 375 00:20:34,800 --> 00:20:37,280 I've been glorified. But it's going to happen, He 376 00:20:37,280 --> 00:20:41,960 said in Revelation 22 and verse 17, the Spirit and the Bride 377 00:20:41,960 --> 00:20:46,720 say, come and let him that heareth say, come, He says, and 378 00:20:46,720 --> 00:20:49,480 let him that is a thirst. Here it is referring to this 379 00:20:49,480 --> 00:20:53,400 thing come and whosoever will whosoever is a big I always say 380 00:20:53,400 --> 00:20:56,120 these things whosoever is some of the biggest words in the 381 00:20:56,120 --> 00:21:00,840 English language because it encompasses everybody whosoever 382 00:21:00,840 --> 00:21:05,440 will let him come and take of the water of life freely and so 383 00:21:05,440 --> 00:21:09,560 the Holy Ghost, it wasn't given to Jesus was glorified a meaning 384 00:21:09,640 --> 00:21:13,800 his death, burial, resurrection and his ascension up into 385 00:21:13,800 --> 00:21:16,200 heaven. Note the scripture a lot of 386 00:21:16,200 --> 00:21:18,760 scripture. I know Hebrews 9 verse 15. 387 00:21:19,080 --> 00:21:21,600 There used to be old preacher that used to say you read a lot 388 00:21:21,600 --> 00:21:23,200 of scripture. They can't leave say they didn't 389 00:21:23,200 --> 00:21:28,560 hear no Bible today. Hebrews 9 verse 15 and for this 390 00:21:28,560 --> 00:21:33,400 'cause he is the mediator, the he being referred to is Jesus 391 00:21:33,400 --> 00:21:36,120 Christ. He is the mediator of the New 392 00:21:36,120 --> 00:21:40,480 Testament or the another word for Testament is covenant, 393 00:21:40,680 --> 00:21:45,600 covenant or agreement. The New Testament that by means 394 00:21:45,600 --> 00:21:50,520 of death for the redemption of the transgressions that we were 395 00:21:50,520 --> 00:21:56,000 under the first Testament or what we would call the old 396 00:21:56,000 --> 00:22:00,520 covenant or the old agreement, they which are called might 397 00:22:00,520 --> 00:22:06,040 receive, look, the promise of eternal inheritance. 398 00:22:06,440 --> 00:22:08,160 That's a reference to the Holy Ghost. 399 00:22:08,480 --> 00:22:10,760 That's a reference to the Spirit of God, verse 16. 400 00:22:10,760 --> 00:22:13,640 But look at this for where, and you can look at this in just 401 00:22:13,640 --> 00:22:17,080 real, real application of life, right, concerning testaments and 402 00:22:17,080 --> 00:22:19,840 wills. For where a testament is there 403 00:22:19,840 --> 00:22:22,600 also there must also of a necessity be the death of the 404 00:22:22,600 --> 00:22:25,440 testator. But that means if someone has a 405 00:22:25,440 --> 00:22:28,000 will drawn out and they have all of the things prescribed in 406 00:22:28,000 --> 00:22:31,640 their what they what's going to be done, what's going to happen? 407 00:22:31,960 --> 00:22:36,200 None of that will take place except upon the death of them. 408 00:22:37,200 --> 00:22:40,880 When they die, then this goes to this and these monies go here. 409 00:22:40,880 --> 00:22:43,920 And my wife and I has been powers of attorney and 410 00:22:43,920 --> 00:22:46,680 guardianship over people that had it States and such and were 411 00:22:46,680 --> 00:22:49,680 executors of their state. And upon their death, everything 412 00:22:49,680 --> 00:22:53,960 that was written in paper form with ink on paper went in action 413 00:22:53,960 --> 00:22:57,640 at the moment of their death. It's there just sitting ready. 414 00:22:58,000 --> 00:23:00,160 And so where there's a testament where there's a covenant where 415 00:23:00,160 --> 00:23:04,080 there's agreement, then in order for there to be the benefit of 416 00:23:04,080 --> 00:23:09,280 the agreement than the one who made it right has to die. 417 00:23:09,640 --> 00:23:16,080 Verse 17 says for a testament is of force after men are dead 418 00:23:16,640 --> 00:23:21,480 right, my will goes in action bait upon my death. 419 00:23:21,480 --> 00:23:24,760 Otherwise the Scripture says verse 17, it is no strength 420 00:23:24,760 --> 00:23:27,760 while we all the while the testator liveth. 421 00:23:27,960 --> 00:23:31,360 So one of the Bible says about this new covenant or this New 422 00:23:31,360 --> 00:23:37,160 Testament, it had no effect until Jesus Christ, the testator 423 00:23:37,560 --> 00:23:41,200 until he died. He told them that the promise, 424 00:23:41,280 --> 00:23:44,800 it's coming. I talk about this rivers of 425 00:23:44,800 --> 00:23:47,040 living water and I speak about the Holy Ghost. 426 00:23:47,240 --> 00:23:50,600 It's coming, He said, but the testator is going to have to 427 00:23:50,600 --> 00:23:53,160 die. The promise even of the eternal 428 00:23:53,160 --> 00:23:56,800 inheritance that I read to you, it's waiting, but it's going to 429 00:23:56,800 --> 00:24:01,600 take the death of the testator in order to open all of this up. 430 00:24:01,840 --> 00:24:05,240 That's the reason why, folks, that the Holy Ghost was not 431 00:24:05,240 --> 00:24:09,600 given until Jesus was glorified. Part of that glorification was 432 00:24:09,800 --> 00:24:14,000 the death of the Lord Jesus Christ, His burial and his 433 00:24:14,120 --> 00:24:15,880 resurrection. Amen. 434 00:24:16,040 --> 00:24:19,560 That's the reason why even when we read in the book of Acts that 435 00:24:19,560 --> 00:24:23,720 there's a an apostle by the name of Philip and he's talking to 436 00:24:24,160 --> 00:24:27,040 Ethiopian eunuch and the eunuch is reading the book of Isaiah 437 00:24:27,280 --> 00:24:30,960 and he's reading some prophecy about the death of the Lord 438 00:24:31,000 --> 00:24:34,240 Jesus Christ. And he began to explain to him 439 00:24:34,560 --> 00:24:38,400 about Jesus and about what would come, what would happen. 440 00:24:38,720 --> 00:24:40,160 Amen. That was spoken of from years 441 00:24:40,160 --> 00:24:43,600 ago, that what would happen or what did happen to Christ was 442 00:24:43,600 --> 00:24:46,880 being fulfilled and that He could have the experience of 443 00:24:46,880 --> 00:24:51,120 God's Spirit inside of him. Let's note just a few verses of 444 00:24:51,120 --> 00:24:54,400 Scripture this morning in John 14 and verse 16. 445 00:24:54,400 --> 00:24:58,240 Again, this is Jesus speaking. He says, and I will pray the 446 00:24:58,240 --> 00:25:02,320 Father, and He shall give you another comforter that He may 447 00:25:02,320 --> 00:25:09,320 abide with you forever. Jesus as a man, we love the 448 00:25:09,320 --> 00:25:11,480 story of Christ. We love Christmastime, 449 00:25:11,480 --> 00:25:14,840 Bethlehem's Manger and the birth, and we love Easter. 450 00:25:14,840 --> 00:25:18,880 We love celebrating the crucifix and all of the days in between. 451 00:25:19,120 --> 00:25:23,760 But Jesus as a man upon earth, he just had a prescribed number 452 00:25:23,760 --> 00:25:29,480 of years here upon the earth, a 33 and a third years here upon 453 00:25:29,840 --> 00:25:37,680 the earth. He had a birth date and a death 454 00:25:37,680 --> 00:25:48,640 date as a man upon the earth. But his spirit has no beginning 455 00:25:48,640 --> 00:25:55,120 of days, has no ending of days. It's eternal. 456 00:25:56,120 --> 00:25:59,560 And that's hard being humans to grasp a hold of because I live 457 00:25:59,560 --> 00:26:03,720 in a life in time. But he's, he's beyond all that. 458 00:26:04,040 --> 00:26:06,680 He sees past, present and future, all from the now. 459 00:26:07,760 --> 00:26:11,880 But he has an eternal spirit and God's spirit that's eternal. 460 00:26:12,360 --> 00:26:14,440 And I, I want to make this distinction. 461 00:26:14,640 --> 00:26:16,640 It's your spirit that was eternal. 462 00:26:17,200 --> 00:26:21,480 It wasn't a eternal son. There's no eternal flesh. 463 00:26:22,360 --> 00:26:26,240 It was eternal spirit. But that eternal spirit, he 464 00:26:26,240 --> 00:26:30,680 says, I want to give you. I want to give you that spirit. 465 00:26:31,120 --> 00:26:33,360 All right. The Bible says in John 14, verse 466 00:26:33,360 --> 00:26:37,520 26, but the comforter explained to us what this comforter ID is, 467 00:26:37,720 --> 00:26:40,040 The comforter which is the Holy Ghost. 468 00:26:41,200 --> 00:26:42,760 That's what that comforter is. He's talking about. 469 00:26:42,760 --> 00:26:45,600 It's the Holy Ghost, the Holy Spirit, all these different 470 00:26:45,600 --> 00:26:49,240 labels that the Bible gives it, whom the Father will send in my 471 00:26:49,240 --> 00:26:51,680 name. He shall teach you all things 472 00:26:52,080 --> 00:26:54,200 and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I've 473 00:26:54,200 --> 00:26:57,840 said unto you. John 15, verse 26 again, 474 00:26:57,840 --> 00:26:59,880 Comforter language. But when the comforter. 475 00:26:59,880 --> 00:27:02,000 So when I read that now, Brother Reese, I know that means the 476 00:27:02,000 --> 00:27:04,400 Holy Ghost. But the Holy Ghost has come 477 00:27:04,400 --> 00:27:07,200 where the comforters come, when it's come whom I will send unto 478 00:27:07,200 --> 00:27:09,480 you from the Father. Look, it's just given another 479 00:27:09,480 --> 00:27:11,200 label. Even the spirit of truth. 480 00:27:11,400 --> 00:27:14,480 It's all the same thing which proceedeth from the Father. 481 00:27:14,640 --> 00:27:17,640 He shall testify. Now that's an important word. 482 00:27:18,320 --> 00:27:22,200 It says the Holy Ghost shall testify, which literally means 483 00:27:22,200 --> 00:27:27,000 shall give evidence. She'll give evidence of me. 484 00:27:27,280 --> 00:27:30,280 Why is that important? Because on the day of Pentecost, 485 00:27:30,280 --> 00:27:33,720 when they received the Holy Ghost, they began to speak in 486 00:27:33,720 --> 00:27:37,160 other tongues. It testified it. 487 00:27:38,280 --> 00:27:42,160 It gave evidence of the Spirit that those people had just 488 00:27:42,160 --> 00:27:47,520 received in John 16 and verse 7. The Bible says, nevertheless I 489 00:27:47,520 --> 00:27:50,360 tell you the truth, it is expedient for you. 490 00:27:50,360 --> 00:27:54,120 Jesus says that I go away right because death, burial, 491 00:27:54,120 --> 00:27:58,040 resurrection, and his ascension then Amen gave way to the Spirit 492 00:27:58,040 --> 00:28:00,200 coming. He said, for if I go not away, 493 00:28:00,200 --> 00:28:03,200 the comforter, the Holy Ghost will not coming to you. 494 00:28:03,240 --> 00:28:08,240 He says, but if I go away, if I ascend, it will come unto you 495 00:28:09,560 --> 00:28:11,000 folks. And I know we have and and, and 496 00:28:11,000 --> 00:28:14,040 just kind of hit on this quickly and I feel like I'm going slow 497 00:28:14,040 --> 00:28:15,320 and you probably think I'm going fast. 498 00:28:15,320 --> 00:28:17,440 So I'll just, I'll find a good medium somewhere. 499 00:28:18,120 --> 00:28:21,480 But we read in scripture versus a scripture like in the 1st 500 00:28:21,480 --> 00:28:24,840 chapter of Luke. We read different episodes that 501 00:28:24,840 --> 00:28:28,200 that like from the womb it speaks of like John the Baptist, 502 00:28:28,360 --> 00:28:30,480 the Bible says that he was filled with the Holy Ghost. 503 00:28:30,480 --> 00:28:33,200 So I want to give some explanation that Elizabeth upon 504 00:28:33,200 --> 00:28:37,760 the salutation of Mary, that the Bible says that that babe left 505 00:28:37,800 --> 00:28:40,760 in her womb and that Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Ghost, 506 00:28:41,120 --> 00:28:45,440 and that Zacharias that whenever he named his son that Zacharias 507 00:28:45,440 --> 00:28:47,600 was filled with the Holy Ghost, Amen. 508 00:28:47,760 --> 00:28:51,880 But the word filled here and all these verses note Christ has not 509 00:28:51,880 --> 00:28:54,400 been, hasn't died. Has it been buried or has it 510 00:28:54,400 --> 00:28:59,200 resurrected in Luke chapter #1 for that matter, he's waiting to 511 00:28:59,200 --> 00:29:02,920 be born and the womb are married by then. 512 00:29:02,920 --> 00:29:07,080 And when it says that they were filled with the Holy Ghost, 513 00:29:07,640 --> 00:29:11,200 Amen. It can't be the same sins that 514 00:29:11,200 --> 00:29:16,240 Peter says from Acts 2 forward about being filled, because John 515 00:29:16,240 --> 00:29:20,640 told us in John 7 this spake he concerning the Spirit, but the 516 00:29:20,640 --> 00:29:24,200 Holy Ghost was not given because Jesus had not yet been 517 00:29:24,200 --> 00:29:27,520 glorified. But whenever you talk about 518 00:29:27,520 --> 00:29:30,120 being filled, it's as I spoke earlier, even started the day 519 00:29:30,120 --> 00:29:32,240 before I got started. You know when I started, before 520 00:29:32,240 --> 00:29:35,920 I started, that in the Old Testament, the Spirit moved upon 521 00:29:35,920 --> 00:29:39,400 people, filled in the essence of this. 522 00:29:39,760 --> 00:29:46,040 It influenced it influenced the word filled in these notions of 523 00:29:46,040 --> 00:29:49,120 Luke chapter #1 them being filled with the Spirit that that 524 00:29:49,120 --> 00:29:51,920 John the Baptist was filled from the filled with the Spirit seems 525 00:29:51,920 --> 00:29:55,040 like from birth that there was an influence of the Spirit upon 526 00:29:55,040 --> 00:29:58,520 his life from the very beginning of the start of his life or 527 00:29:58,560 --> 00:30:03,640 being filled overwhelmed by the presence of the Spirit or 528 00:30:03,680 --> 00:30:07,080 empowered for for Zacharias note, the Bible says that he was 529 00:30:07,080 --> 00:30:09,080 filled with the Spirit and then prophesied. 530 00:30:09,320 --> 00:30:13,520 He he he was empowered for prophecy in this moment by the 531 00:30:13,520 --> 00:30:14,720 Spirit. Amen. 532 00:30:14,720 --> 00:30:18,200 But what we really see is that after the glorification, after 533 00:30:18,200 --> 00:30:21,400 the death, the burial, the resurrection, the ascension of 534 00:30:21,400 --> 00:30:24,680 the Lord Jesus Christ, whenever it states that they were filled 535 00:30:24,680 --> 00:30:27,920 with the Spirit, we're talking about more than influence. 536 00:30:27,920 --> 00:30:30,960 We're talking about more than just a overwhelming presence. 537 00:30:31,080 --> 00:30:33,240 We're talking more about just empowerment. 538 00:30:33,400 --> 00:30:36,680 Yes, all of those things. Whenever you receive the gift of 539 00:30:36,680 --> 00:30:39,840 the Holy Ghost, Christ in you, in your heart, in your life, 540 00:30:40,080 --> 00:30:43,040 evidenced by speaking in other tongues, yes, you'll be 541 00:30:43,040 --> 00:30:45,240 empowered. Yes, you'll be influenced, and 542 00:30:45,240 --> 00:30:47,360 yes, you'll be overwhelmed by His presence. 543 00:30:47,360 --> 00:30:52,080 But more than that, there is a moving in a residency of God's 544 00:30:52,080 --> 00:30:58,720 Spirit inside up to you. The Bible says in John 1417, 545 00:30:58,720 --> 00:31:02,240 even the spirit of truth, which we know in the book of John, 546 00:31:02,240 --> 00:31:05,240 it's already told us that's the Holy Ghost, even the spirit of 547 00:31:05,240 --> 00:31:07,840 truth, whom the world cannot receive because it seeth him not 548 00:31:08,080 --> 00:31:11,840 neither knoweth him, but you know him, for he do well with 549 00:31:12,000 --> 00:31:12,880 you. What? 550 00:31:13,240 --> 00:31:16,000 Yes, because it's the Spirit of Christ. 551 00:31:16,400 --> 00:31:20,240 And so Christ as a man in this earthly ministry, the Spirit was 552 00:31:20,240 --> 00:31:24,880 with them by being associated with Jesus Christ. 553 00:31:25,520 --> 00:31:29,560 But he says it was with you, it dwelleth with you in John 17, 554 00:31:29,640 --> 00:31:34,880 John 1417, He says and shall be, He's speaking, He's he's raising 555 00:31:34,880 --> 00:31:38,160 their expectation. He wants them to know what to 556 00:31:38,160 --> 00:31:40,480 expect. You've walked with the Spirit of 557 00:31:40,480 --> 00:31:44,000 Christ as you've ate bread from the feeding of the multitudes 558 00:31:44,120 --> 00:31:46,720 whenever he was around you, and He healed your sick daughter 559 00:31:46,880 --> 00:31:49,120 whenever He was there, teaching among the trees. 560 00:31:49,280 --> 00:31:51,800 The Spirit of Christ has been with you. 561 00:31:52,080 --> 00:31:55,680 But when he ascends, He send them back His Spirit back won't 562 00:31:55,680 --> 00:32:05,400 just be alongside you, it will be in you, Amen. 563 00:32:05,600 --> 00:32:08,600 So what that means, ladies and gentlemen, this I'm just not 564 00:32:08,600 --> 00:32:10,760 being as the New Testament believers were. 565 00:32:10,920 --> 00:32:14,080 Their exposure to the spirit of Christ sometimes is well, I'm 566 00:32:14,080 --> 00:32:16,240 with the Lord, I'm following the Lord, I'm with the Lord. 567 00:32:16,360 --> 00:32:17,960 But what it means for modern day. 568 00:32:18,120 --> 00:32:21,360 You can be in the church, you can be a job, you can be getting 569 00:32:21,360 --> 00:32:23,920 your groceries, you can be down the street, you can be in your 570 00:32:23,920 --> 00:32:26,240 house, Amen. You don't have to find where a 571 00:32:26,240 --> 00:32:28,280 physical body of the Lord Jesus is. 572 00:32:28,400 --> 00:32:30,560 His Spirit is inside your temple. 573 00:32:30,800 --> 00:32:35,320 Everywhere you go you have access. 574 00:32:40,000 --> 00:32:42,240 I might get excited before it's all over folks. 575 00:32:43,440 --> 00:32:45,480 And the Bible says it was to abide forever. 576 00:32:48,080 --> 00:32:51,120 For that matter, ladies and gentlemen, Mary the mother of 577 00:32:51,200 --> 00:32:55,880 Jesus, who bore the flesh of Jesus Christ in her womb, She 578 00:32:55,880 --> 00:32:59,560 was in the upper room waiting for this promise of the Father 579 00:32:59,960 --> 00:33:03,840 on the Day of Pentecost. And if it was necessary for Mary 580 00:33:03,840 --> 00:33:07,800 the mother of Jesus to be there, it's necessary for all of us to 581 00:33:07,800 --> 00:33:09,440 be there. Why was she there? 582 00:33:09,440 --> 00:33:13,040 Because she didn't have that experience as of yet. 583 00:33:13,800 --> 00:33:17,200 She gave birth to the boy, but it was going to turn around. 584 00:33:17,200 --> 00:33:19,400 His fear was going to give birth to her. 585 00:33:19,520 --> 00:33:29,110 She needed the power that she would have to watch her son 586 00:33:29,110 --> 00:33:33,470 dying and being buried in an empty tomb. 587 00:33:33,470 --> 00:33:36,510 And there's a lot of things that were spoken her day. 588 00:33:36,510 --> 00:33:37,790 She didn't quite understand that. 589 00:33:37,790 --> 00:33:40,550 The Bible even tells us that Mary pondered all her these 590 00:33:40,550 --> 00:33:42,310 things in her heart. What's she doing? 591 00:33:42,390 --> 00:33:44,150 She's holding them there. We're just going to see what 592 00:33:44,150 --> 00:33:54,080 happens that she was compelled enough, convicted enough, had 593 00:33:54,080 --> 00:33:57,840 enough expectancy and belief that Terry and Jerusalem wasn't 594 00:33:57,840 --> 00:33:59,080 just going to be for the disciples. 595 00:33:59,080 --> 00:34:02,960 She was going to tarry as well for the promise of the Father. 596 00:34:03,480 --> 00:34:06,880 Luke 24 and verse 49, Jesus speaking and said and behold, I 597 00:34:06,880 --> 00:34:08,920 see him. We've looked at this, but I 598 00:34:08,960 --> 00:34:12,080 don't want to look at it again. The promise of my Father upon 599 00:34:12,080 --> 00:34:14,280 you. But tarry ye in the city of 600 00:34:14,280 --> 00:34:16,840 Jerusalem, till you be endued with power from on high. 601 00:34:17,199 --> 00:34:21,040 Acts 1 and verse #4 And being assembled together with them, 602 00:34:21,440 --> 00:34:23,880 commended them that they should not depart from Jerusalem. 603 00:34:24,080 --> 00:34:26,320 So that's what Jesus said in Luke 24. 604 00:34:26,320 --> 00:34:28,719 Go to Jerusalem for the promise of the Father. 605 00:34:28,719 --> 00:34:31,719 Tarry there in Acts 1 is the fulfillment of them being 606 00:34:31,719 --> 00:34:33,159 assembled. Amen. 607 00:34:33,159 --> 00:34:36,239 And they're not departing tarry and waiting for the promise of 608 00:34:36,239 --> 00:34:39,520 the Father, which saith he, you've heard of me in Acts 2. 609 00:34:39,520 --> 00:34:42,600 Then in verse 33, the Bible says, therefore, being by the 610 00:34:42,600 --> 00:34:46,159 right hand of God exalted, having received, having received 611 00:34:46,159 --> 00:34:51,360 of the Father the promise of the Holy Ghost, He has shed forth 612 00:34:51,360 --> 00:34:55,560 this, this what this Holy Ghost which he now and I touched on 613 00:34:55,560 --> 00:34:58,400 this a few weeks ago, it seems like, but let me again, which he 614 00:34:58,400 --> 00:35:02,760 now see and hear this Holy Ghost which he now see and hear. 615 00:35:09,280 --> 00:35:13,480 So that's telling me that this Holy Ghost is not just something 616 00:35:13,480 --> 00:35:15,920 or some occurrence that takes place that I just purely just 617 00:35:15,920 --> 00:35:17,280 have faith. I guess it happened right? 618 00:35:17,320 --> 00:35:26,080 Come on, That's right, right. The pose they did see and hear 619 00:35:26,960 --> 00:35:29,760 the new living translation says it like this, as he had 620 00:35:29,760 --> 00:35:33,320 promised, gave him the Holy Ghost to pour out upon us, just 621 00:35:33,320 --> 00:35:36,360 as you see in here today. God's words translate 622 00:35:36,360 --> 00:35:39,240 translation of the Bible says it like this and that's poured out 623 00:35:39,240 --> 00:35:41,520 the Holy Spirit as the Father had promised. 624 00:35:41,640 --> 00:35:48,840 And this is what you're seeing and hearing in the Gospel of 625 00:35:48,840 --> 00:35:51,440 John. Jesus was talking about the 626 00:35:51,440 --> 00:35:53,520 comforter, the spirit of truth, the Holy Ghost. 627 00:35:53,520 --> 00:35:56,440 Again, all of those labels are the same, the Holy Ghost. 628 00:35:57,080 --> 00:36:01,760 And in that context, Jesus said, I will not leave you 629 00:36:01,760 --> 00:36:09,200 comfortless, I will come to you. He had walked among them as a 630 00:36:09,400 --> 00:36:12,680 man, but he's about ready to live in them as a spirit. 631 00:36:19,840 --> 00:36:22,960 Yeah, I've been there in bodily form, but he's returning to them 632 00:36:22,960 --> 00:36:26,520 on the day of Pentecost, purely in spirit form. 633 00:36:27,080 --> 00:36:29,680 I've been with you, but I shall be in you. 634 00:36:31,120 --> 00:36:35,240 Here's the marvel this morning. God's promise of the Holy Ghost, 635 00:36:35,240 --> 00:36:41,760 His spirit, is to all who ask, all who believe, all who obey. 636 00:36:42,040 --> 00:36:43,800 And those are not separate categories. 637 00:36:43,880 --> 00:36:47,360 They're all smashed together if you ask, believe and obey. 638 00:36:49,560 --> 00:36:53,560 The Bible says in Luke 11, verse 13, how much more shall your 639 00:36:53,560 --> 00:36:57,840 heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit or Holy Ghost to them 640 00:36:57,840 --> 00:37:01,200 that ask him? He's describing something he 641 00:37:01,200 --> 00:37:04,560 said as earthly fathers. If if your children ask for 642 00:37:04,920 --> 00:37:06,640 bread, would you give them a stone? 643 00:37:08,040 --> 00:37:10,600 And of course, the rhetorical answer to the question to that 644 00:37:10,600 --> 00:37:16,560 rhetorical question would be no. If if they asked for a fish, I 645 00:37:16,560 --> 00:37:18,680 believe it is, he said, would you give them, would you give 646 00:37:18,680 --> 00:37:22,640 them a score, a scorpion or a serpent? 647 00:37:23,040 --> 00:37:25,280 If they asked the vague would you In other words, if they 648 00:37:25,280 --> 00:37:27,000 asked for something, would you give them something differently 649 00:37:27,000 --> 00:37:30,080 than what they asked? And the the foreboding question 650 00:37:30,080 --> 00:37:33,920 then, or the answer is no, no, no, he said, well, if your 651 00:37:33,920 --> 00:37:37,480 father's right, which you're just part of flesh and blood and 652 00:37:37,920 --> 00:37:42,280 prone to failure, if they would do good and not do evil, how 653 00:37:42,280 --> 00:37:47,600 much more would your heavenly father give gifts to them that 654 00:37:47,600 --> 00:37:49,520 ask of him? And that's where he said, how 655 00:37:49,520 --> 00:37:52,280 much more shall your heavenly Father give you the Holy Spirit 656 00:37:52,520 --> 00:37:55,720 to them that ask? So God's promise of his Spirit 657 00:37:55,720 --> 00:37:58,960 is to all them that ask, but it's also to all them that 658 00:37:58,960 --> 00:38:01,920 believe. In John 739 the Bible again 659 00:38:01,920 --> 00:38:05,840 says, but this spake he of the spirit which they that believe, 660 00:38:05,840 --> 00:38:09,600 everybody say, believe, believe on him should receive. 661 00:38:09,840 --> 00:38:12,200 So the Holy Ghost are for those that are asked, it's for those 662 00:38:12,200 --> 00:38:14,400 that believe. And then the Bible says in Acts 663 00:38:14,400 --> 00:38:20,120 532, it says, so it also the Holy Ghost whom God hath given, 664 00:38:20,120 --> 00:38:23,960 what he's given, the Holy Ghost to them that obey him. 665 00:38:24,720 --> 00:38:27,840 And so this morning the Holy Ghost, if you ask if you 666 00:38:27,840 --> 00:38:34,120 believe, if you obey, the Holy Ghost is for you, Amen. 667 00:38:34,120 --> 00:38:36,320 And that's what he was admonishing, Amen. 668 00:38:36,320 --> 00:38:41,520 Nicodemus, where we started in John chapter number Amen. 3 as a 669 00:38:41,520 --> 00:38:43,960 matter of fact, also in the book of Corinthians, the Bible says 670 00:38:43,960 --> 00:38:50,200 that we are begotten by the gospel, the word begotten. 671 00:38:50,200 --> 00:38:53,520 We see it a lot, a lot in the Bible, especially those genial, 672 00:38:53,520 --> 00:38:56,240 you know, so and so begotten, begotten, begotten, begotten, 673 00:38:57,200 --> 00:38:59,160 begotten, just a fancy word of born. 674 00:39:00,080 --> 00:39:03,840 So what Paul tells us is that we're born by the gospel. 675 00:39:04,600 --> 00:39:07,200 And if you want the definition of the gospel, you go then to 676 00:39:07,200 --> 00:39:10,800 1st Corinthians 15 because it starts breaking it down and I've 677 00:39:10,800 --> 00:39:13,000 already broke it down. But the Gospel in essence is the 678 00:39:13,000 --> 00:39:16,880 death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus Christ, when you obey 679 00:39:16,880 --> 00:39:25,520 that death through repentance, being buried through being 680 00:39:25,560 --> 00:39:32,160 buried with Him, and baptism as Romans 6 says, newness of life, 681 00:39:32,480 --> 00:39:35,440 Amen, being filled with the Holy Ghost and speaking in other 682 00:39:35,440 --> 00:39:39,040 tongues as the Spirit is the utterance Amen is a mirroring of 683 00:39:39,040 --> 00:39:42,440 that pattern of the Gospel. Romans chapter #8 and verse 9. 684 00:39:42,840 --> 00:39:46,160 But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit. 685 00:39:46,240 --> 00:40:00,760 If so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you, not with in with 686 00:40:00,760 --> 00:40:03,760 you, in you. Now if any man have not the 687 00:40:03,760 --> 00:40:05,480 Spirit of Christ, he is none of his. 688 00:40:05,480 --> 00:40:08,720 And I know, and that's and that's difficult. 689 00:40:09,800 --> 00:40:11,920 The thing is, it's not something lofty. 690 00:40:13,040 --> 00:40:15,920 It's not something that can't happen for anyone. 691 00:40:17,480 --> 00:40:21,040 But I need the Spirit of God in me. 692 00:40:23,120 --> 00:40:25,080 Amen. I want to be accounted as His. 693 00:40:25,080 --> 00:40:28,520 I need His Spirit in me. How do we know? 694 00:40:29,120 --> 00:40:33,800 How do we know that we have the Spirit of God or the Spirit of 695 00:40:33,800 --> 00:40:35,440 Christ, however you desire to say it? 696 00:40:35,720 --> 00:40:38,840 In first John chapter 3 and verse 23, the Bible says, and 697 00:40:38,840 --> 00:40:41,920 this is His commandment, that we should believe on the name of 698 00:40:41,920 --> 00:40:45,080 His Son Jesus Christ and love one another as He gave us 699 00:40:45,080 --> 00:40:46,840 commandment. Look at verse 24. 700 00:40:47,200 --> 00:40:49,840 And he that keepeth His commandments dwelleth in him, 701 00:40:49,840 --> 00:40:52,960 and He in Him. Here it is the last phrase it's 702 00:40:52,960 --> 00:40:59,080 telling us, and hereby we know that He's Speaking of God. 703 00:40:59,360 --> 00:41:05,600 God's Spirit dwelleth, beleth in us by the Spirit which He hath 704 00:41:05,600 --> 00:41:10,960 given us. I know He dwells in me because 705 00:41:10,960 --> 00:41:17,160 of the Spirit that He has given me, but how do I know in the 706 00:41:17,160 --> 00:41:21,560 instant that He's given me His Spirit, right? 707 00:41:21,920 --> 00:41:24,240 Like this is just like a funnel of questions right here. 708 00:41:24,240 --> 00:41:26,880 If it's by the Spirit that he has given me, but then how do I 709 00:41:26,880 --> 00:41:31,000 know that I've been given His spirit, this power of the Holy 710 00:41:31,000 --> 00:41:34,040 Ghost, right? Because there must be something 711 00:41:34,040 --> 00:41:35,960 better than just good deeds, right? 712 00:41:39,280 --> 00:41:42,520 Good moral deeds, because because we know from Acts 19 713 00:41:42,520 --> 00:41:45,400 that character in the Bible called Cornelius, the Bible 714 00:41:45,400 --> 00:41:49,920 called him a devout man. It says that he feared God. 715 00:41:51,600 --> 00:41:53,680 Bible says he even offered prayers. 716 00:41:55,400 --> 00:41:57,400 So he done all this. So if we were just going to 717 00:41:57,400 --> 00:42:01,000 equate, well, having the spirit is those things, then so be it. 718 00:42:01,000 --> 00:42:07,200 But but the Bible describes that this devout praying man that 719 00:42:07,200 --> 00:42:10,680 feared God evidently needed something more. 720 00:42:10,680 --> 00:42:13,040 There was something more to it than just that. 721 00:42:14,640 --> 00:42:18,760 And the Bible tells us in Acts 19 that he received the Holy 722 00:42:18,760 --> 00:42:21,880 Ghost. He was already a praying man 723 00:42:21,880 --> 00:42:23,600 before he was a spirit filled man. 724 00:42:24,440 --> 00:42:27,360 He was already devout in many ways before he had the Holy 725 00:42:27,360 --> 00:42:29,760 Ghost. He already feared God before he 726 00:42:29,760 --> 00:42:34,880 had the Holy Ghost. So none of those things, none of 727 00:42:34,880 --> 00:42:38,040 those things was just sufficient in themselves. 728 00:42:38,680 --> 00:42:42,480 He still needed, as Peter said, you need the gift of the Holy 729 00:42:42,480 --> 00:42:44,760 Ghost. And so he received the gift of 730 00:42:44,760 --> 00:42:48,720 the Holy Ghost in Acts chapter 19, just like all those Jews did 731 00:42:48,720 --> 00:42:51,680 on the day of Pentecost. In Acts chapter #2 in Acts 732 00:42:51,680 --> 00:42:54,720 chapter #2 and verse 4, the Bible says those that were in 733 00:42:54,720 --> 00:42:57,720 the upper room that have been Tarian, the Bible says they were 734 00:42:57,720 --> 00:43:01,080 all filled with the Holy Ghost and began to speak. 735 00:43:01,080 --> 00:43:03,760 It's given us the, the definition of the feeling. 736 00:43:03,760 --> 00:43:07,200 It's more than now than just empowerment or influence or 737 00:43:07,200 --> 00:43:08,680 being overwhelmed by His presence. 738 00:43:08,880 --> 00:43:12,680 They began to speak with other tongues as the Spirit. 739 00:43:12,680 --> 00:43:17,640 They just gave them the utterance and this is what we 740 00:43:17,640 --> 00:43:21,200 see through the book of Acts or the actions of the apostles. 741 00:43:21,440 --> 00:43:26,600 In Acts chapter #10 the Bible tells us that the Jews knew the 742 00:43:26,600 --> 00:43:31,840 Gentiles had received the Holy Ghost because in Acts 1046 the 743 00:43:31,840 --> 00:43:37,520 Bible says for they heard them speak with tongues and magnify 744 00:43:37,520 --> 00:43:40,920 God. The disciples of John that were 745 00:43:40,920 --> 00:43:44,640 from Ephesus in Acts 19, the Bible Bible says they were 746 00:43:44,640 --> 00:43:47,360 rebaptised. They had only received the 747 00:43:47,360 --> 00:43:51,520 baptism of John the Baptist, but the Bible says that they were 748 00:43:51,520 --> 00:43:56,840 baptized in Jesus name in Acts 19 and verse 6 and they spake 749 00:43:56,880 --> 00:44:00,680 with tongues. The Bible tells us that Saul in 750 00:44:00,680 --> 00:44:06,280 his conversion in Acts 9, he was also filled with the Holy Ghost 751 00:44:06,400 --> 00:44:08,720 and it seems kind of silent. Well, we don't really hear 752 00:44:08,720 --> 00:44:10,600 anything about him speaking in tongues. 753 00:44:10,600 --> 00:44:14,760 And we read in Acts 8 the Samaritans, Paul or Philip 754 00:44:14,760 --> 00:44:18,000 rather came down and and some came down and laid hands on them 755 00:44:18,000 --> 00:44:19,720 that they would receive the Holy Ghost. 756 00:44:19,720 --> 00:44:23,160 But again, it seems to be silenced about them speaking in 757 00:44:23,160 --> 00:44:25,880 tongues. But it's even later by Paul's 758 00:44:25,880 --> 00:44:29,200 own omission, he testifies in the book of Corinthians and he 759 00:44:29,200 --> 00:44:31,880 says I speak in tongues more than ye all. 760 00:44:32,040 --> 00:44:35,920 So we understand that he had an experience and I've already said 761 00:44:35,920 --> 00:44:38,080 it in this teaching and in the past few weeks. 762 00:44:38,080 --> 00:44:42,640 But allow me to reiterate that in the book of Acts chapter #8 763 00:44:42,760 --> 00:44:45,200 when it says that there we see the Holy Ghost that we hear, 764 00:44:45,200 --> 00:44:48,280 there's this kind of a silence on whether or not they spoke in 765 00:44:48,280 --> 00:44:51,560 tongues again, at that occurrence, there was Simon the 766 00:44:51,560 --> 00:44:55,400 sorcerer that believed him. It baptized. 767 00:44:56,360 --> 00:44:58,960 And the Bible says, though whenever he seen them lay hands 768 00:44:58,960 --> 00:45:02,280 on the Samaritans and they received the Holy Ghost, he 769 00:45:02,280 --> 00:45:06,800 said, here's some money. I'd like to buy the power that 770 00:45:06,800 --> 00:45:09,920 whoever I lay hands on, that the same occurrence could happen 771 00:45:10,200 --> 00:45:11,280 again. Folks, do you understand? 772 00:45:11,360 --> 00:45:14,880 OK, They laid hands on someone. Received the Holy Ghost. 773 00:45:15,920 --> 00:45:18,440 What was it that tipped Simon the sorcerer off? 774 00:45:18,440 --> 00:45:22,480 Yeah, come on. I mean, just laying the hands on 775 00:45:22,480 --> 00:45:24,080 someone. What tipped him off? 776 00:45:24,600 --> 00:45:27,560 That made him the desire to have the same power that he could lay 777 00:45:27,560 --> 00:45:29,280 hands on someone? What tipped him off? 778 00:45:30,560 --> 00:45:37,040 That he just. I mean, hereby we know that the 779 00:45:37,040 --> 00:45:40,800 Spirit dwells on us. It's going to testify. 780 00:45:42,920 --> 00:45:44,400 The word is it's going to give evidence. 781 00:45:44,720 --> 00:45:48,400 It's going to testify. Oh, I feel the Holy Ghost right 782 00:45:48,400 --> 00:45:51,960 now, John. Jesus told John. 783 00:45:51,960 --> 00:45:53,880 He said the wind bloweth in John three. 784 00:45:54,200 --> 00:45:57,720 He said the wind bloweth where it listeth or where it desires. 785 00:45:58,360 --> 00:46:03,520 You cannot see it, but thou hearest the sound thereof. 786 00:46:04,800 --> 00:46:06,560 Anybody experienced the wind before? 787 00:46:07,360 --> 00:46:08,760 It's been blowing out there today. 788 00:46:09,000 --> 00:46:10,520 It's invisible. How did you know? 789 00:46:10,520 --> 00:46:13,440 Well, it was blowing leaves around and bushes and, and if 790 00:46:13,440 --> 00:46:15,560 you listen real close, if it hits the edge of something, just 791 00:46:17,480 --> 00:46:21,120 there's a sound. I can't see it with my eye, but 792 00:46:21,120 --> 00:46:24,920 I can hear the evidence of it. There's a sound, she's just told 793 00:46:24,920 --> 00:46:29,520 Nicodemus, he said the wind blow it where it desires, and thou 794 00:46:29,520 --> 00:46:32,240 hears the sound there. But he finishes up with this. 795 00:46:32,440 --> 00:46:37,360 He says so is everyone. No exception. 796 00:46:37,360 --> 00:46:42,400 So is everyone that is baptized or that is filled with the 797 00:46:42,400 --> 00:46:46,560 baptism of the Holy Ghost. There will be an evidence, there 798 00:46:46,560 --> 00:46:50,160 will be a sound, there will be something that someone can 799 00:46:50,160 --> 00:46:53,080 witness. There will be a testimony that 800 00:46:53,080 --> 00:46:55,480 you have received the gift of God. 801 00:47:00,440 --> 00:47:03,640 Folks, I'm not telling you this because I'm a theologian and 802 00:47:03,640 --> 00:47:05,840 I've just read the Bible. I'm going off what the Bible 803 00:47:05,840 --> 00:47:08,040 says. I'm telling you this because 804 00:47:08,040 --> 00:47:11,120 it's happened in this church and conferences and camp meetings 805 00:47:11,120 --> 00:47:14,480 and other places I've went and I've preached and in foreign 806 00:47:14,480 --> 00:47:16,440 lands. They are still speaking in 807 00:47:16,440 --> 00:47:20,000 unknown tongues where the Spirit of God comes inside of them. 808 00:47:20,200 --> 00:47:22,400 This is not some history lesson today. 809 00:47:22,640 --> 00:47:28,320 This is that which was spoken by the Prophet Joe in the last 810 00:47:28,320 --> 00:47:30,200 days. I'll pour out my spirit on the 811 00:47:30,480 --> 00:47:41,170 flesh. You're kind of excited, guy, 812 00:47:41,170 --> 00:47:47,090 aren't you? Roman said That that same spirit 813 00:47:47,730 --> 00:47:49,690 dwell in you that raise Christ from the dead. 814 00:47:49,970 --> 00:47:55,090 I'll quicken your mortal body. And that's just not for Rapture 815 00:47:55,090 --> 00:47:57,050 Day. That's for any day of the week 816 00:47:57,050 --> 00:47:59,170 after having received the gift of the Holy Ghost. 817 00:47:59,490 --> 00:48:06,120 A quicken can happen in your life. 818 00:48:09,080 --> 00:48:11,000 Stand with me today. I don't want to wear you out. 819 00:48:11,560 --> 00:48:19,830 Maybe you're wearing me out. Let me finish with this. 820 00:48:20,910 --> 00:48:22,110 Fast forward and skip some things. 821 00:48:25,510 --> 00:48:28,590 Romans 8 verse 16. Let them alone. 822 00:48:29,430 --> 00:48:36,480 The Spirit, if I say Holy Ghost, Holy Ghost in itself beareth 823 00:48:36,480 --> 00:48:39,480 witness. Let me define this word for you 824 00:48:39,480 --> 00:48:43,600 here in the New Testament. It testifies jointly. 825 00:48:44,520 --> 00:48:47,600 It corroborates by concurrent evidence. 826 00:48:47,920 --> 00:48:51,720 That's a lot of words in it, but it testifies and it gives 827 00:48:51,720 --> 00:48:55,440 evidence. The Spirit itself does with our 828 00:48:55,440 --> 00:48:59,840 spirit little as our human spirit that we are the children 829 00:48:59,840 --> 00:49:03,120 of God. Sister Sheila. 830 00:49:03,840 --> 00:49:09,040 I know he abides in me and that I'm a child of God and I've been 831 00:49:09,120 --> 00:49:11,840 adopted. If you want to speak it in 832 00:49:11,840 --> 00:49:15,840 terminology like that by his spirit into the body of Christ. 833 00:49:15,840 --> 00:49:23,440 I know his spirit dwells in me because that spirit testifies 834 00:49:25,240 --> 00:49:27,640 with my here's the here's the awesome part. 835 00:49:27,960 --> 00:49:32,760 It testifies, It corroborates, It collaborates with my human 836 00:49:32,760 --> 00:49:39,840 spirit. How he uses my mouth, my tongue, 837 00:49:40,560 --> 00:49:45,720 my vocal cords, the mechanic structure of my brain and it has 838 00:49:45,720 --> 00:49:48,000 me speaking the language I've never been taught. 839 00:49:51,120 --> 00:49:54,400 His spirit testify and collaborates with my human 840 00:49:54,400 --> 00:49:57,120 spirit. Amen which is a product of the 841 00:49:57,120 --> 00:50:01,080 spirit that I received and I speak in tongues as the spirit 842 00:50:01,320 --> 00:50:05,720 gives the utterance and so I know in Scripture Ephesians says 843 00:50:05,720 --> 00:50:10,800 that the Holy Ghost it is the earnest or it is a sampling of 844 00:50:10,800 --> 00:50:16,000 my inheritance Amen of the Holy Ghost Amen someday I am going to 845 00:50:16,000 --> 00:50:19,960 have All in all concerning my inheritance in heaven someday. 846 00:50:20,160 --> 00:50:23,240 But right now, the Holy Ghost that I receive, it's just a 847 00:50:23,240 --> 00:50:25,720 little bit of heaven here on earth. 848 00:50:26,000 --> 00:50:29,680 It is unspeakable. It is indescribable. 849 00:50:29,840 --> 00:50:34,560 It is joy unspeakable and full of glory. 850 00:50:34,920 --> 00:50:41,320 It is the power to witness that God has saved me from my sins. 851 00:50:41,640 --> 00:50:44,920 He's given His power to overcome sin. 852 00:50:46,520 --> 00:50:49,920 The Holy Ghost will help you mortify and define that. 853 00:50:50,120 --> 00:50:54,440 It'll help you kill the deeds of your flesh. 854 00:50:55,560 --> 00:50:57,840 It puts resurrection power in you. 855 00:51:04,760 --> 00:51:08,440 Because it's the same spirit. Not a different spirit, not a 856 00:51:08,560 --> 00:51:12,440 knock off spirit. It's not Spirit version 2.3, the 857 00:51:12,440 --> 00:51:14,920 same spirit. It's the same spirit that we 858 00:51:14,920 --> 00:51:17,520 read in the book of Genesis in the very beginning. 859 00:51:20,000 --> 00:51:30,240 In the beginning was God, and the Spirit of God moved upon the 860 00:51:30,240 --> 00:51:33,280 face of the waters, the face of the deep. 861 00:51:34,280 --> 00:51:40,120 The God that moved upon in Genesis 1 is the God that wants 862 00:51:40,120 --> 00:51:46,400 to move in today. What did that spirit have their 863 00:51:46,400 --> 00:51:51,480 creative power to grab a hold of nothing and create something. 864 00:51:51,920 --> 00:51:59,360 So you come here today, pastor, you don't know my life and you 865 00:51:59,360 --> 00:52:02,200 don't know what I've lived. And some in the inkling back of 866 00:52:02,200 --> 00:52:04,400 they're not mine, are maybe trying to put up all the 867 00:52:04,400 --> 00:52:07,880 defenses of how they're unworthy and I'm nothing. 868 00:52:08,920 --> 00:52:12,800 Can I tell you nothing's what? The Spirit first moved on. 869 00:52:15,680 --> 00:52:25,760 So welcome home, welcome home. Come with your faults, come with 870 00:52:25,760 --> 00:52:29,320 your failures, come with your inadequacies, come with your 871 00:52:29,320 --> 00:52:31,800 brokenness, come with your notions. 872 00:52:32,080 --> 00:52:36,640 Surrender to God because He wants to move in today. 873 00:52:40,840 --> 00:52:45,280 Did I not tell you it doesn't matter your age, doesn't matter 874 00:52:45,280 --> 00:52:50,320 your race, doesn't matter, your background, whosoever. 875 00:52:50,520 --> 00:52:52,760 Will someone say that with me today? 876 00:52:53,440 --> 00:53:01,160 Whosoever will come? How do I respond to this? 877 00:53:02,000 --> 00:53:06,240 Because I know right now I feel the Spirit of the Lord, and I 878 00:53:06,240 --> 00:53:08,400 know if I'm feeling it, the people out here feeling it, 879 00:53:08,400 --> 00:53:10,680 maybe some of you are feeling it for the first time. 880 00:53:13,080 --> 00:53:16,640 That Spirit you feel on you and around you wants to live inside 881 00:53:16,640 --> 00:53:22,640 of you every day of your life. And it can happen there in your 882 00:53:22,640 --> 00:53:24,880 Pew and your seed, or it can happen up here. 883 00:53:25,280 --> 00:53:29,440 But if as they begin to sing, you lift up those hands and 884 00:53:29,440 --> 00:53:33,280 you're just honest with God about who you are, what your 885 00:53:33,280 --> 00:53:38,360 life is, and what you desire, and you start, you start asking 886 00:53:38,360 --> 00:53:41,040 for forgiveness and you confess your sins. 887 00:53:41,040 --> 00:53:43,840 And I'm not talking about just naming them all, but you're just 888 00:53:43,840 --> 00:53:46,240 honest with God for a change in your life. 889 00:53:46,800 --> 00:53:49,400 He can touch you this morning. He can touch you. 890 00:53:49,400 --> 00:53:51,560 He you can leave with a new purpose. 891 00:53:51,960 --> 00:53:55,040 Hey, man, maybe today it's maybe today just reaching a step of 892 00:53:55,040 --> 00:53:57,000 repentance is is what you're hoping. 893 00:53:57,000 --> 00:54:00,480 Maybe, maybe there'll be tears of of contrition and tears of 894 00:54:00,480 --> 00:54:03,440 sorrow and tears of wanting to make things right come down your 895 00:54:03,440 --> 00:54:05,480 face today. That's that's, that's totally 896 00:54:05,480 --> 00:54:07,440 fine. But I want you to know in and 897 00:54:07,440 --> 00:54:10,600 with all of that, God's also able to fill you with his spirit 898 00:54:10,600 --> 00:54:13,280 that I've been talking to you today and know this, if you 899 00:54:13,280 --> 00:54:16,960 receive the Spirit of God, he will testify. 900 00:54:17,240 --> 00:54:22,880 He will testify through you. You'll speak with other tongues. 901 00:54:23,280 --> 00:54:24,800 Listen to me. Clearly you don't. 902 00:54:24,840 --> 00:54:27,200 I know that. That just seems so peculiar, 903 00:54:27,560 --> 00:54:29,720 right. Language I was never taught. 904 00:54:29,720 --> 00:54:30,560 I've read McGee. I'm. 905 00:54:30,800 --> 00:54:32,600 I'm not a Polygon. I'm not bilingual. 906 00:54:32,600 --> 00:54:33,640 I'm not trilingual. I'm. 907 00:54:33,920 --> 00:54:37,600 I'm barely unilingual. No matter. 908 00:54:38,680 --> 00:54:40,800 Never been taught that. Listen. 909 00:54:41,280 --> 00:54:48,240 Here's what I know. The years of experience that 910 00:54:48,240 --> 00:54:53,720 before we articulate things with our mouth, they pass through our 911 00:54:53,720 --> 00:54:59,000 mind. I've talked so many that 912 00:54:59,000 --> 00:55:01,040 received the Holy Ghost. Sometimes it was just at a place 913 00:55:01,040 --> 00:55:03,760 like just didn't quite know, but they were hearing things in 914 00:55:03,760 --> 00:55:07,520 their mind. It's like that just don't even. 915 00:55:07,840 --> 00:55:11,560 That's not English. I don't know what that is, but 916 00:55:11,560 --> 00:55:14,120 that's not English. And I didn't have no bad pizza 917 00:55:14,120 --> 00:55:19,280 last night. Is that the spirit of the Lord 918 00:55:19,280 --> 00:55:20,800 is working with your human spirit. 919 00:55:22,320 --> 00:55:24,800 And you'll start hearing articulation in your mind. 920 00:55:24,800 --> 00:55:28,080 And it may sound like another language to you, but I guarantee 921 00:55:28,080 --> 00:55:32,840 you that if you let what's being articulated in your mind, if 922 00:55:32,840 --> 00:55:35,240 you'll form it with your mouth and let it come out your mouth, 923 00:55:35,800 --> 00:55:37,920 it's the spirit trying to testify. 924 00:55:39,040 --> 00:55:40,400 You don't have to be afraid. You don't have to. 925 00:55:40,440 --> 00:55:43,160 Is this going to be correct? Is this going to No, it's right. 926 00:55:43,840 --> 00:55:48,440 It's his spirit working with the human members of your body to 927 00:55:48,440 --> 00:55:51,280 give a testimony. I'm here. 928 00:55:52,520 --> 00:55:58,880 I filled the temple. Hey, man, can we close our eyes 929 00:55:58,880 --> 00:56:00,800 all across this place? They're going to begin to play 930 00:56:01,080 --> 00:56:02,440 this altar. If you want to come to the 931 00:56:02,440 --> 00:56:05,040 front, you can come. My wife and I will pray with you 932 00:56:05,040 --> 00:56:07,120 other first from the church will help pray with you. 933 00:56:07,480 --> 00:56:10,040 Amen the from your seat. If you're just wanting to raise 934 00:56:10,040 --> 00:56:13,120 a hand saying I'm a I'm a little I'm a little bashful or I don't 935 00:56:13,120 --> 00:56:15,920 know quite right, that's fine. Just raise a hem wherever you're 936 00:56:15,920 --> 00:56:20,240 at, Amen. close your eyes just totally just knockout, Amen. 937 00:56:20,240 --> 00:56:22,080 The environment, whoever else is around. 938 00:56:22,080 --> 00:56:24,600 This is just about you and your Savior. 939 00:56:24,600 --> 00:56:27,200 Just it's just about you and your God. 940 00:56:27,600 --> 00:56:30,560 He loves you, He wants you and he wants to feel you. 941 00:56:30,560 --> 00:56:32,400 He wants to place his Spirit in you. 942 00:56:32,640 --> 00:56:35,440 Just as he told the disciples, I'm going to go away, but I'm 943 00:56:35,440 --> 00:56:37,440 going to come to you. He's coming, He's coming. 944 00:56:37,440 --> 00:56:41,120 Spirit form, Spirit form. He wants not just be with us, He 945 00:56:41,120 --> 00:56:43,560 wants to be in US right now. Amen. 946 00:56:43,560 --> 00:56:46,440 Right now, just obedience to God's Word right now, that 947 00:56:46,440 --> 00:56:49,000 spirit that you felt in this place this morning through 948 00:56:49,000 --> 00:56:51,920 songs, through the word, just right now, you just raise those 949 00:56:51,920 --> 00:56:56,080 hands, which is a is a notable universal act of surrender. 950 00:56:56,080 --> 00:56:58,360 You just raise those hands here. Here I am, God. 951 00:56:58,560 --> 00:57:00,200 What if you want to do with my life? 952 00:57:00,400 --> 00:57:02,560 I know what life has been up to this moment. 953 00:57:02,720 --> 00:57:05,520 I've tried to be in control of my own life, but I don't want to 954 00:57:05,520 --> 00:57:08,240 be in control anymore. I surrender to you. 955 00:57:08,240 --> 00:57:10,680 I give myself to you. Here I am, God. 956 00:57:10,680 --> 00:57:11,920 Here I am. Here I am. 957 00:57:11,960 --> 00:57:16,440 Oh, let's just feel me. Ask. 958 00:57:16,440 --> 00:57:17,760 Believe. Obey.