1 00:00:09,900 --> 00:00:16,200 Ephesians chapter 5. We're in verse 15, we're going 2 00:00:16,400 --> 00:00:20,000 verse 15 through, 19, 15 through 20 this morning. 3 00:00:25,400 --> 00:00:29,600 Look carefully. Then how you walk not as unwise, 4 00:00:29,600 --> 00:00:33,800 but as wise making the best use of the time because the days are 5 00:00:33,800 --> 00:00:36,700 evil, therefore, do not be foolish. 6 00:00:37,000 --> 00:00:40,200 But understand what the will of the Lord is and do not get drunk 7 00:00:40,200 --> 00:00:42,300 with wine for that is debauchery. 8 00:00:42,500 --> 00:00:45,600 But be filled with the spirit addressing one, another in 9 00:00:45,600 --> 00:00:50,600 Psalms, and hymns, and spiritual songs singing, and making Melody 10 00:00:50,700 --> 00:00:52,500 to the Lord with your heart giving. 11 00:00:52,500 --> 00:00:56,000 Thanks always and forever. For everything to God the 12 00:00:56,000 --> 00:00:58,900 father, in the name of our Lord. Jesus Christ. 13 00:01:00,500 --> 00:01:04,099 Let's pray Heavenly Father we thank you for your word, we 14 00:01:04,099 --> 00:01:06,300 trust and expect that you're going to nourish us that you're 15 00:01:06,300 --> 00:01:08,900 going to feed us that you're going to train us that you will 16 00:01:08,900 --> 00:01:14,000 equip us. and got in particular today, as we look at the command 17 00:01:14,100 --> 00:01:18,400 and the promise About the baptism in the Holy Spirit. 18 00:01:19,500 --> 00:01:23,800 Now, we ask that you would fill us again for us today, Phyllis 19 00:01:23,800 --> 00:01:27,000 overflowing, so that there's no room for anything else. 20 00:01:27,600 --> 00:01:29,300 We thank you for it in Jesus name. 21 00:01:29,700 --> 00:01:34,200 Amen. So your Bible may break up the 22 00:01:34,800 --> 00:01:37,800 letter here in Ephesians with different headings, for example. 23 00:01:37,800 --> 00:01:39,900 At the beginning of chapter 5, mine has a little heading. 24 00:01:39,900 --> 00:01:42,900 It says walk in love. And then down at verse 22 of 25 00:01:42,900 --> 00:01:45,400 chapter 5, it says wives and husbands. 26 00:01:45,600 --> 00:01:49,900 So depending on how how the translators of your particular 27 00:01:49,900 --> 00:01:54,300 version did that verse 21 may fall in the section that we're 28 00:01:54,300 --> 00:01:56,600 covering this morning. It may fall in the next section. 29 00:01:56,700 --> 00:01:59,000 Either way, it's okay, but I'm just going to do verses 15 30 00:01:59,000 --> 00:02:03,400 through 20 today and then Next week we'll start in verse 21, 31 00:02:04,100 --> 00:02:07,000 but verse 15 is where we're going to pick things up. 32 00:02:07,100 --> 00:02:10,400 Of course, we're still in the very practicals of Ephesians. 33 00:02:10,400 --> 00:02:12,800 We started off with the big. Now we're zooming in on the 34 00:02:12,800 --> 00:02:16,300 specific and we're really getting into other portions of 35 00:02:16,600 --> 00:02:18,900 how. So we were told, you were made 36 00:02:18,900 --> 00:02:20,300 new. We were told take off the old 37 00:02:20,300 --> 00:02:22,800 man, we were told put on the new man, but now we're getting more 38 00:02:22,800 --> 00:02:24,900 and more power so that we can actually do. 39 00:02:24,900 --> 00:02:27,700 So, if you felt a little bit discouraged before, if you felt 40 00:02:27,700 --> 00:02:29,700 a little bit like, man, the pressure was on me. 41 00:02:29,900 --> 00:02:32,000 Well, good news. You don't have the Our to do 42 00:02:32,000 --> 00:02:34,400 anything on your own and you were never expected to. 43 00:02:34,500 --> 00:02:36,000 And the Holy Spirit, will fill you. 44 00:02:36,300 --> 00:02:38,700 So, that's where we're going to get to in a few verses, but 45 00:02:38,700 --> 00:02:40,100 let's take it one person at a time. 46 00:02:40,300 --> 00:02:43,600 So, starting in verse 15, the command is, he says, look 47 00:02:43,600 --> 00:02:46,300 carefully. Then how you walk? 48 00:02:46,300 --> 00:02:49,000 Or we could say how you live. He doesn't mean necessarily 49 00:02:49,000 --> 00:02:50,900 about walking. He's talking about your Walk of 50 00:02:50,900 --> 00:02:53,500 Life or the way you live look carefully. 51 00:02:53,500 --> 00:02:59,600 Then how you walk not as unwise but as wise, what's he talking 52 00:02:59,600 --> 00:03:02,800 about here? See, paying attention to what 53 00:03:02,800 --> 00:03:04,600 you're doing and why you're doing it. 54 00:03:05,100 --> 00:03:09,200 The norm, the default setting for most people is to drift. 55 00:03:09,400 --> 00:03:11,600 This is the default setting for most lives. 56 00:03:11,600 --> 00:03:14,500 There, a ship at sea, but the sales are not up. 57 00:03:14,500 --> 00:03:17,100 The rudder is not set. There's no navigation that's 58 00:03:17,100 --> 00:03:18,700 happened. We're just at Sea and we said, 59 00:03:18,700 --> 00:03:22,100 well, I'm a ship and unfortunately, a lot of 60 00:03:22,100 --> 00:03:23,300 Christians live this way as well. 61 00:03:23,300 --> 00:03:26,200 Well, I'm a ship. The Lord made me a ship, and I'm 62 00:03:26,200 --> 00:03:27,400 out at Sea. That's where I belong. 63 00:03:27,400 --> 00:03:31,400 Well, so far, so good and yet, there's also a mission and yet, 64 00:03:31,600 --> 00:03:34,500 Also a purpose and it takes deliberate thought and it takes 65 00:03:34,500 --> 00:03:37,200 deliberate effort. And it takes intentionality to 66 00:03:37,200 --> 00:03:39,500 actually, make sure we're pursuing something worth 67 00:03:39,500 --> 00:03:41,900 pursuing. This can happen in any area of 68 00:03:41,900 --> 00:03:43,600 life. This can happen for just a 69 00:03:43,608 --> 00:03:45,900 normal person, right? What are you supposed to do in 70 00:03:45,900 --> 00:03:48,300 life? Well, you're supposed to grow 71 00:03:48,300 --> 00:03:49,200 up. Okay? 72 00:03:49,200 --> 00:03:53,800 And to what end to what purpose? Well, get married. 73 00:03:53,800 --> 00:03:56,800 Okay, to what end to have kids. Okay? 74 00:03:57,000 --> 00:04:00,100 To what end? So you can love them, okay? 75 00:04:00,100 --> 00:04:02,300 And then what and then you You work. 76 00:04:02,300 --> 00:04:04,600 And then what will you retire? Why? 77 00:04:05,400 --> 00:04:08,800 So you can relax and then what will you die? 78 00:04:09,100 --> 00:04:11,600 And then what you go to heaven, to what end? 79 00:04:11,600 --> 00:04:12,800 What was the purpose of anything? 80 00:04:12,800 --> 00:04:14,800 Have we given thought to our Direction? 81 00:04:14,800 --> 00:04:16,300 Have we given thought to our motive, have? 82 00:04:16,300 --> 00:04:18,500 We given thought to the deliberate things that were 83 00:04:18,500 --> 00:04:22,500 supposed to be doing look carefully, actually, pay 84 00:04:22,500 --> 00:04:25,600 attention to how you live in conduct your life, not as 85 00:04:25,600 --> 00:04:30,200 unwise, but as wise skilled and expert is the idea that he's 86 00:04:30,200 --> 00:04:32,800 talking about here when he's talking about Not unwise, but 87 00:04:32,800 --> 00:04:35,700 wise, what kind of what kind of deliberate effort are? 88 00:04:35,700 --> 00:04:37,600 You putting into the way you're living your life right now? 89 00:04:38,900 --> 00:04:43,700 as a Christian, of course, Also, just as a person, I mean, 90 00:04:43,700 --> 00:04:46,000 there's all kinds of things that would bless us and benefit us 91 00:04:46,000 --> 00:04:48,900 when we put some deliberate effort into leading ourselves, 92 00:04:49,000 --> 00:04:51,600 some discipline into the way that we live our lives, to make 93 00:04:51,600 --> 00:04:53,000 sure. Do I have a purpose? 94 00:04:53,000 --> 00:04:54,600 Do I have a reason? Do I have a motive? 95 00:04:54,600 --> 00:04:57,500 You know, it's funny in the business that I own the coaching 96 00:04:57,500 --> 00:05:02,100 practice that I have these guys, they they make a significant 97 00:05:02,100 --> 00:05:05,300 financial investment to work inside of the business that I 98 00:05:05,300 --> 00:05:07,200 have. And the very first thing that we 99 00:05:07,200 --> 00:05:09,600 do, the very first thing. They like, all right, I'm ready 100 00:05:09,600 --> 00:05:11,000 to get into this thing, you know. 101 00:05:11,100 --> 00:05:13,400 I'm ready to lead my family with strength and love, it's going to 102 00:05:13,408 --> 00:05:15,100 be amazing, it's going to be incredible, it's going to be 103 00:05:15,100 --> 00:05:17,200 powerful. The very first thing, we do 104 00:05:17,400 --> 00:05:20,600 these grown men who are accomplished in all kinds of 105 00:05:20,600 --> 00:05:23,300 areas of life is I set their bedtime with them? 106 00:05:24,700 --> 00:05:25,800 That's the very first thing we do. 107 00:05:25,800 --> 00:05:29,100 I'm not joking, that's the first thing and it almost all of them 108 00:05:29,100 --> 00:05:30,700 need it almost all of them. I'm like, hey. 109 00:05:30,800 --> 00:05:33,400 So what's your bedtime like? Well, you know, sometimes this 110 00:05:33,600 --> 00:05:36,700 sometimes that and I'm as guilty as anybody else sometimes this, 111 00:05:36,700 --> 00:05:38,200 sometimes that what's your wake time? 112 00:05:38,200 --> 00:05:40,500 I'll sometimes this sometimes that well, who determines these 113 00:05:40,500 --> 00:05:42,000 things? The moon. 114 00:05:42,200 --> 00:05:45,200 Your kids, like how do we know when we're supposed to go to 115 00:05:45,200 --> 00:05:46,700 bed? Like how many episodes were 116 00:05:46,700 --> 00:05:50,200 going to binge? It's a simple thing but it's 117 00:05:50,200 --> 00:05:53,200 always the simple things that mean the most it's always it's 118 00:05:53,200 --> 00:05:55,400 always those things that Make the biggest difference. 119 00:05:55,400 --> 00:05:59,600 Now got some guys, their work schedules are absolutely insane. 120 00:05:59,600 --> 00:06:02,100 You've got to have like a calculus degree to figure out 121 00:06:02,100 --> 00:06:03,100 when they're going to be working. 122 00:06:03,100 --> 00:06:05,300 So some are some, it's easier than others. 123 00:06:05,700 --> 00:06:08,700 But putting effort into something, deliberate, putting 124 00:06:08,700 --> 00:06:11,900 effort, into something specific and saying there will be good 125 00:06:11,900 --> 00:06:14,000 fruit from this pay attention to how you walk. 126 00:06:14,100 --> 00:06:16,300 Pay attention to how you live, pay attention to how you conduct 127 00:06:16,300 --> 00:06:19,100 your life. Now, in this context, of course, 128 00:06:19,200 --> 00:06:22,200 the holy spirit's directing us. He's talking about the Holiness 129 00:06:22,400 --> 00:06:25,200 to the degree that we walk in Holiness as to walking and 130 00:06:25,300 --> 00:06:27,400 worldliness. He's just been teaching and 131 00:06:27,400 --> 00:06:29,000 instructing, take off that old man. 132 00:06:29,200 --> 00:06:32,000 Put on the new man. Pay attention to how you walk. 133 00:06:32,600 --> 00:06:34,900 He could also be saying, pay attention to how you dress. 134 00:06:35,200 --> 00:06:38,500 Pay attention to what you put on that new man, that new life. 135 00:06:38,900 --> 00:06:41,600 Are you pursuing that? Are you deliberate with that? 136 00:06:41,700 --> 00:06:44,300 Because it's those things that you think that, don't mean a lot 137 00:06:44,300 --> 00:06:47,500 that mean a whole lot. My clients experience the same 138 00:06:47,500 --> 00:06:50,000 thing. I tell guys be consistent with 139 00:06:50,000 --> 00:06:52,000 your bedtime and your wake time and I don't care what their 140 00:06:52,000 --> 00:06:54,000 bedtime awake time is. I just tell them that they have 141 00:06:54,000 --> 00:06:56,600 to pick it. But be consistent with it 142 00:06:56,600 --> 00:06:59,700 brother, give it 21 days and you're going to start to feel 143 00:06:59,700 --> 00:07:01,800 like a different person. Your body is actually going to 144 00:07:01,800 --> 00:07:04,200 start to actually reward you because you've given it 145 00:07:04,200 --> 00:07:06,800 consistency. Even if it's not enough sleep, 146 00:07:06,800 --> 00:07:09,100 your body will still function better because your body goes. 147 00:07:09,400 --> 00:07:10,700 Thank you. You jerk. 148 00:07:10,700 --> 00:07:14,200 I finally know what we're doing because you kept me guessing all 149 00:07:14,200 --> 00:07:17,200 the time but now I got something to work with and you lease your 150 00:07:17,200 --> 00:07:19,000 reprogramming me and they start to go. 151 00:07:19,000 --> 00:07:21,500 Whoa, like I feel better. I feel differently? 152 00:07:21,500 --> 00:07:23,200 Yeah. We're just starting to stack up. 153 00:07:23,208 --> 00:07:25,000 There's a lot more good fruit. To come. 154 00:07:25,200 --> 00:07:27,500 But we start with the basics know I wanted the advanced 155 00:07:27,500 --> 00:07:28,900 stuff. Now you haven't gotten out of 156 00:07:28,900 --> 00:07:31,200 kindergarten yet, once you get out of kindergarten will go to 157 00:07:31,200 --> 00:07:33,400 first grade when we finished, first grade will go to second 158 00:07:33,400 --> 00:07:35,300 grade. Yes, eventually we can 159 00:07:35,300 --> 00:07:38,400 experience all the good fruit will graduate will go all the 160 00:07:38,408 --> 00:07:41,300 places that we should, but it starts with paying attention to 161 00:07:41,300 --> 00:07:43,700 the simple things. The Christian Life is the same 162 00:07:43,700 --> 00:07:45,800 way, pay attention to the simple things. 163 00:07:46,000 --> 00:07:48,800 One of the simple, but profound and important things is after 164 00:07:48,800 --> 00:07:52,100 you become born again, every believer should be baptized with 165 00:07:52,100 --> 00:07:55,000 the Holy Spirit. Every Christian should be Filled 166 00:07:55,000 --> 00:07:57,000 with the spirit of God, this is God's will. 167 00:07:57,100 --> 00:07:59,600 This is God's intention. This is God's plan. 168 00:07:59,900 --> 00:08:02,500 So this is something to pursue. This is something to care for. 169 00:08:02,900 --> 00:08:05,200 But I'm going to keep talking about this idea of wisdom here. 170 00:08:05,300 --> 00:08:09,300 This idea of skillfulness this idea of being expert, not 171 00:08:09,300 --> 00:08:13,400 necessarily an expert, but pursuing expertise in your walk 172 00:08:13,400 --> 00:08:15,000 with the lord. Well, I'm just going to be one 173 00:08:15,000 --> 00:08:19,400 of those normal Christians. There's, there's not such thing 174 00:08:19,400 --> 00:08:21,900 as a normal Christian. There's just people who love the 175 00:08:21,900 --> 00:08:24,300 Lord their God with all their heart soul, mind and strength. 176 00:08:24,600 --> 00:08:27,800 Now, yes, there is carnal Christianity and this is what 177 00:08:27,800 --> 00:08:29,400 the Lord is telling us to flee from. 178 00:08:29,900 --> 00:08:31,800 I'm born again. I'm going to heaven when I die. 179 00:08:32,000 --> 00:08:35,200 Well, that was never the plan. That was just, that was the 180 00:08:35,200 --> 00:08:37,100 infancy. But we want to grow out of this 181 00:08:37,100 --> 00:08:39,299 carnality. We want to grow into maturity, 182 00:08:40,400 --> 00:08:42,700 I'm going to have you turn to First Kings. 183 00:08:44,700 --> 00:08:47,300 Old Testament, you're going to flip to the left in your Bible. 184 00:08:48,800 --> 00:08:52,200 So, as you flip back there, you might see first Samuel, second 185 00:08:52,200 --> 00:08:53,800 Samuel. If you see that, you're almost 186 00:08:53,800 --> 00:08:56,200 there, keep turning to the right at that point. 187 00:08:56,700 --> 00:08:59,500 If you see Chronicles, you came too far to the right, go back to 188 00:08:59,500 --> 00:09:03,600 the left. First Kings chapter 10 is where 189 00:09:03,600 --> 00:09:20,300 we're going? First Kings chapter 10, going to 190 00:09:20,300 --> 00:09:21,900 read to you verses one through nine. 191 00:09:22,900 --> 00:09:25,500 So, King Solomon, he is the son of David. 192 00:09:25,500 --> 00:09:27,900 So, David, and Bathsheba had Solomon. 193 00:09:28,000 --> 00:09:33,300 Solomon becomes King. Solomon has sought The Lord At 194 00:09:33,300 --> 00:09:34,800 the beginning of Solomon's, Reign. 195 00:09:35,300 --> 00:09:37,600 The Lord said, ask me anything you want. 196 00:09:37,600 --> 00:09:40,200 And Solomon said, give me wisdom. 197 00:09:41,100 --> 00:09:43,900 Give me wisdom to rule your people and the Lord said because 198 00:09:43,900 --> 00:09:46,700 you didn't ask for money because you didn't ask me for the death 199 00:09:46,700 --> 00:09:49,700 of your enemies because you asked me for wisdom, I'm going 200 00:09:49,700 --> 00:09:52,400 to give you wisdom and I'm going to give you money and I'm going 201 00:09:52,400 --> 00:09:54,600 to give you the death of your enemies and I'm give you Victory 202 00:09:54,600 --> 00:09:57,200 and I'm going to give you peace but Solomon was filled with the 203 00:09:57,208 --> 00:09:59,100 wisdom of God. There was an Excellence about 204 00:09:59,100 --> 00:10:02,500 the way he led the kingdom. There was a the Holy Spirit 205 00:10:02,500 --> 00:10:05,700 Direction on his life. So now when the Queen of Sheba 206 00:10:05,700 --> 00:10:09,200 heard of the fame of Solomon concerning, the name of the 207 00:10:09,200 --> 00:10:12,100 Lord, she came to test With hard questions. 208 00:10:12,500 --> 00:10:14,600 So this is a ruler in her own, right. 209 00:10:14,700 --> 00:10:17,600 So if she's a ruler, she's got hard questions that are 210 00:10:17,600 --> 00:10:21,300 genuinely hard questions. May be regarding rulership, may 211 00:10:21,300 --> 00:10:24,500 be regarding a kingdom, may be regarding particular other 212 00:10:24,500 --> 00:10:25,700 things. We don't know all the details. 213 00:10:25,700 --> 00:10:29,700 But she came to Jerusalem with a very great group. 214 00:10:30,000 --> 00:10:34,500 I don't know what that word, is Retin-A retinue. 215 00:10:34,600 --> 00:10:38,600 She came with a huge Caravan with camels bearing spices, and 216 00:10:38,600 --> 00:10:40,600 very much gold and precious stones. 217 00:10:40,800 --> 00:10:43,800 And when she came to Solomon, she told him all that was on her 218 00:10:43,800 --> 00:10:52,000 mind. I was about to make a joke, but 219 00:10:52,000 --> 00:10:56,600 I decided not to and Solomon answered all of her questions. 220 00:10:56,800 --> 00:10:59,500 There was nothing hidden from the King that he could not 221 00:10:59,500 --> 00:11:02,000 explain to her. And when the Queen of Sheba had 222 00:11:02,000 --> 00:11:05,600 seen all the wisdom of Solomon, the house that he had built the 223 00:11:05,600 --> 00:11:08,800 food of his table, the seating of his officials, and the 224 00:11:08,808 --> 00:11:12,300 attendance of his servants, their clothing, his cupbearers, 225 00:11:12,500 --> 00:11:14,700 and his burnt offerings, that he offered at the house of the 226 00:11:14,700 --> 00:11:17,000 Lord. There was no Breath in her. 227 00:11:17,900 --> 00:11:21,600 And she said to the king, the report was true that I heard in 228 00:11:21,600 --> 00:11:25,300 my own land of your words and of your wisdom but I did not 229 00:11:25,300 --> 00:11:29,200 believe the reports until I came and my own eyes had seen it. 230 00:11:29,200 --> 00:11:33,700 And behold the half was not told to me your wisdom and prosperity 231 00:11:33,700 --> 00:11:37,900 surpassed the report that I heard happy are your men. 232 00:11:37,900 --> 00:11:42,400 Happy are your servants who continually stand before you and 233 00:11:42,400 --> 00:11:46,100 hear your wisdom blessed. Be the Lord, your God who is 234 00:11:46,100 --> 00:11:49,500 delighted in you and set you? You on the throne of Israel 235 00:11:49,600 --> 00:11:51,800 because the Lord loved Israel forever. 236 00:11:51,900 --> 00:11:55,800 He has made you King that you may execute Justice and 237 00:11:55,800 --> 00:11:57,600 righteousness. Praise God. 238 00:11:57,700 --> 00:12:01,700 When we walk with the Lord, we when we walk full of his spirit 239 00:12:01,700 --> 00:12:04,900 and full of his wisdom, people take notice there's a way to 240 00:12:04,900 --> 00:12:08,700 live a life of excellence in pursuit of the Lord, not to put 241 00:12:08,700 --> 00:12:11,300 on a show. The motive is the glory of God. 242 00:12:11,300 --> 00:12:13,600 The motive is not look at my Excellence. 243 00:12:13,800 --> 00:12:16,700 The motive is I want to live in accordance with Kingdom ways and 244 00:12:16,700 --> 00:12:19,100 Kingdom principles. Well, Kingdom ways, and Kingdom 245 00:12:19,100 --> 00:12:21,200 principles are excellent, Kingdom ways. 246 00:12:21,200 --> 00:12:23,700 And Kingdom principles don't allow you to binge Into the 247 00:12:23,700 --> 00:12:25,700 Night. A television show Kingdom ways 248 00:12:25,700 --> 00:12:29,100 and Kingdom principles, do change the way that you wake up 249 00:12:29,100 --> 00:12:32,300 in the morning Kingdom ways and Kingdom principles interact 250 00:12:32,300 --> 00:12:33,700 change. All of your interactions with 251 00:12:33,700 --> 00:12:36,700 with all people, so you're not pursuing Excellence for the sake 252 00:12:36,700 --> 00:12:39,100 of Excellence. It's really pursuing the Lord 253 00:12:39,400 --> 00:12:41,200 and pursuing. The Lord brings a deliberate 254 00:12:41,200 --> 00:12:43,000 effort. It brings a sensitivity to the 255 00:12:43,008 --> 00:12:46,300 Holy Spirit where he would say do it like this and not like 256 00:12:46,300 --> 00:12:49,000 that. Do it like it this way, is 257 00:12:49,000 --> 00:12:53,000 better than that way you go. Well, that's brilliant. 258 00:12:53,100 --> 00:12:55,500 Why didn't I think of that hope? Because you're not me in the, 259 00:12:55,500 --> 00:12:57,300 but the Holy Spirit knows all things. 260 00:12:57,400 --> 00:13:00,700 He'll lead us and guide us into all truth Thea lot. 261 00:13:00,700 --> 00:13:04,800 Rich theological truth and simple ways for how to organize 262 00:13:04,800 --> 00:13:07,700 your garage better. The holy spirit is your helper. 263 00:13:07,700 --> 00:13:10,700 In all things. He will guide you in everything 264 00:13:10,800 --> 00:13:13,200 and every single thing you do, does he care about that? 265 00:13:13,300 --> 00:13:18,000 He cares about you. He cares about you and it, 266 00:13:18,000 --> 00:13:21,800 pleases him to give us a garden. It pleases us, it pleases him to 267 00:13:21,800 --> 00:13:24,900 give us jurisdiction it. Pleases him to give us an 268 00:13:24,900 --> 00:13:27,700 opportunity to attend something to till it in to keep it. 269 00:13:28,000 --> 00:13:31,900 So, as he's plant, as he's given us, a garden to work in 1:58, 270 00:13:32,800 --> 00:13:34,800 keep to fill the Earth and subdue it. 271 00:13:35,300 --> 00:13:37,900 If if anyone would turn to him and seek his wisdom and his 272 00:13:37,900 --> 00:13:40,300 counsel, he's eager to answer that question. 273 00:13:40,800 --> 00:13:43,100 Do I need to go seek the Lord for four hours? 274 00:13:43,100 --> 00:13:44,800 To ask him, how to organize the garage? 275 00:13:46,200 --> 00:13:50,500 Probably not, but I would say as you're organizing the garage, 276 00:13:50,500 --> 00:13:53,700 you can say, Lord, I'm stumped. What should I do about this, or 277 00:13:53,700 --> 00:13:55,900 what should I do about that? I'm seeking you. 278 00:13:55,900 --> 00:13:57,500 Lord, we should I plant strawberries. 279 00:13:57,500 --> 00:14:00,800 Here, should I plant this there? How, what might be the right way 280 00:14:00,800 --> 00:14:02,600 to do it? The Lord will direct you and 281 00:14:02,600 --> 00:14:07,200 guide you because he fills you with wisdom, he fills you with 282 00:14:07,200 --> 00:14:08,700 Clarity. He fills you with truth, he 283 00:14:08,700 --> 00:14:11,800 fills you with Excellence, he'll tell you what tree stand to use. 284 00:14:12,100 --> 00:14:15,700 He'll show you what which job to turn down hill Show you which 285 00:14:15,700 --> 00:14:18,800 phone call to make. He'll guide us in all these ways 286 00:14:18,900 --> 00:14:21,000 to the point where people take notice. 287 00:14:21,400 --> 00:14:23,500 And they don't, she doesn't glorify Solomon. 288 00:14:23,900 --> 00:14:28,600 She says your God is done this. Your got this is obviously not 289 00:14:28,600 --> 00:14:32,100 some dude who's read a bunch of books and figured a bunch of 290 00:14:32,100 --> 00:14:35,300 stuff out. Clearly, this is the love that 291 00:14:35,300 --> 00:14:39,100 God has for you and for his people a wise life leads people 292 00:14:39,100 --> 00:14:41,600 to glorify God because they see his kingdom. 293 00:14:42,500 --> 00:14:46,700 So and we continue in verse 16, we were to be managers of our 294 00:14:46,700 --> 00:14:51,200 time why we live in evil days. So it's all more important that 295 00:14:51,200 --> 00:14:54,400 we shine God's light and just like Solomon, we can't get this 296 00:14:54,400 --> 00:14:56,600 wisdom on her own. We need the Holy Spirit to fill 297 00:14:56,600 --> 00:15:00,200 us and to guide us verse 17, he continues. 298 00:15:00,200 --> 00:15:02,900 Sorry, we're back in Ephesians now, let me go there. 299 00:15:04,400 --> 00:15:09,900 Ephesians 5:17. Therefore, do not be foolish, 300 00:15:10,000 --> 00:15:13,800 but understand what the will of the Lord is this is a command. 301 00:15:14,400 --> 00:15:17,500 Hey, don't be foolish. Okay, understand the will of the 302 00:15:17,500 --> 00:15:21,000 Lord will before earlier. Few verses earlier, we were told 303 00:15:21,400 --> 00:15:24,800 discern the will of the Lord verse 10, try and discern, 304 00:15:24,800 --> 00:15:27,800 what's pleasing to the Lord. Try and discern, what's pleasing 305 00:15:27,800 --> 00:15:28,900 to the Lord. Now, we're told now we're 306 00:15:28,900 --> 00:15:30,500 commanded. Hey, no, no. 307 00:15:30,500 --> 00:15:34,900 The will of God. Really, hey know, the will of 308 00:15:34,900 --> 00:15:36,000 God. All right. 309 00:15:36,800 --> 00:15:39,400 Hop to it? No, the will of God, what a 310 00:15:39,408 --> 00:15:41,700 crazy command. If we couldn't actually walk it 311 00:15:41,700 --> 00:15:44,600 out, what a ridiculous thing to tell us what to do. 312 00:15:44,600 --> 00:15:48,700 Don't be foolish, understand the will of the Lord and how might 313 00:15:48,700 --> 00:15:50,600 one do that? Well, he continues in the 314 00:15:50,600 --> 00:15:53,000 following verses, he tells us, how can, you know, the will of 315 00:15:53,000 --> 00:15:54,700 the lord, we can do the will of the Lord. 316 00:15:54,700 --> 00:15:58,000 First of all, through his word through his scripture and then 317 00:15:58,000 --> 00:16:00,000 from there, we can know. The will of the Lord by being 318 00:16:00,000 --> 00:16:02,800 filled with the Holy Spirit, don't be foolish. 319 00:16:02,900 --> 00:16:04,200 Stan. What the will of the Lord is 320 00:16:04,600 --> 00:16:08,800 this implies, this obviously means this necessitates that you 321 00:16:08,800 --> 00:16:13,000 can know the will, the lord. Well, his ways are not our ways. 322 00:16:13,500 --> 00:16:18,400 That's a true statement, that's in the scripture and yet the 323 00:16:18,400 --> 00:16:22,400 follow-up that all of scripture reveals is he wants us to know 324 00:16:22,400 --> 00:16:25,300 his ways. His ways are not our ways. 325 00:16:25,300 --> 00:16:29,100 His wonders to perform. That is so true, but that's not 326 00:16:29,100 --> 00:16:31,700 the full picture. That's not the full story. 327 00:16:31,700 --> 00:16:35,800 Yes that is a verse But that is not, that is not, that doesn't 328 00:16:35,800 --> 00:16:38,600 mean what you think, it means, what's that, what's the quote 329 00:16:38,600 --> 00:16:40,300 from the movie? The word you keep using that 330 00:16:40,300 --> 00:16:41,400 word? I don't think it means you 331 00:16:41,400 --> 00:16:42,900 think. It mean there's a lot of verses 332 00:16:42,900 --> 00:16:44,500 in the Bible. I could say that about that. 333 00:16:44,500 --> 00:16:46,500 You keep using that verse. I don't think it means what you 334 00:16:46,508 --> 00:16:51,100 think of me. What was it? 335 00:16:51,400 --> 00:16:52,700 Yeah, Princess Bride. Thank you. 336 00:16:53,500 --> 00:16:56,600 We have the boys saying that we got to show. 337 00:16:56,600 --> 00:16:59,200 The boys. Hudson hasn't seen it. 338 00:17:00,200 --> 00:17:01,800 And then that first, I don't think it means you think. 339 00:17:01,800 --> 00:17:06,200 It mean so, yes, his ways are not our ways, but he wants our 340 00:17:06,200 --> 00:17:09,000 ways to be his ways, he wants his children. 341 00:17:09,000 --> 00:17:13,099 We were just commanded be imitators of God as beloved 342 00:17:13,099 --> 00:17:14,900 children. Well, how am I supposed to know? 343 00:17:15,099 --> 00:17:17,599 He keeps himself separate and hidden in darkness from me at 344 00:17:17,608 --> 00:17:19,700 all times. That's not true. 345 00:17:19,900 --> 00:17:23,000 He reveals himself to those who seek him to those who hunger and 346 00:17:23,000 --> 00:17:25,500 thirst. He gives the full cup of drink. 347 00:17:27,300 --> 00:17:28,500 Understand what the will of the Lord. 348 00:17:28,500 --> 00:17:30,200 Is this is why he gave us the scriptures. 349 00:17:30,400 --> 00:17:32,100 And is why the Holy Spirit came to fill us. 350 00:17:32,100 --> 00:17:36,900 The holy spirit is our helper. Jesus said, in John 16:13, when 351 00:17:36,900 --> 00:17:40,600 the spirit of truth comes, he will guide you into all the 352 00:17:40,600 --> 00:17:43,700 truth for he will not speak on his own authority, but whatever. 353 00:17:43,700 --> 00:17:46,900 He hears he will speak and he will declare to you the things 354 00:17:46,900 --> 00:17:50,200 that are to come. The holy spirit will lead, us 355 00:17:50,200 --> 00:17:52,700 will teach us, he will instruct Us in all truth. 356 00:17:53,000 --> 00:17:56,600 Jesus was talking about the Holy Spirit and John there as though 357 00:17:56,600 --> 00:18:00,400 he had. Come yet. he said when he comes 358 00:18:00,900 --> 00:18:04,400 and then, of course, Jesus goes to heaven, Jesus ascends into 359 00:18:04,400 --> 00:18:08,700 heaven, He sends the Holy Spirit, Jesus, ascended, and 360 00:18:08,700 --> 00:18:13,100 then the Holy Spirit descended. And when he did, he fills his 361 00:18:13,100 --> 00:18:16,600 church with light, he fills us with Clarity, so we can know how 362 00:18:16,600 --> 00:18:19,500 to walk with the Lord, and how to understand how to perceive 363 00:18:19,500 --> 00:18:21,900 his will, that's his Goodwill, that's his pleasure to do. 364 00:18:21,900 --> 00:18:26,700 So, he keeps going here, Verse 18 and do not get drunk with 365 00:18:26,700 --> 00:18:31,000 wine for that is debauchery. But be filled with the spirit, 366 00:18:31,700 --> 00:18:34,000 don't get drunk with wine for that's debauchery that were 367 00:18:34,000 --> 00:18:35,700 debaucheries. The same idea that was used for 368 00:18:35,700 --> 00:18:38,300 the prodigal son. So remember the Prodigal Son, 369 00:18:38,400 --> 00:18:39,900 the wasteful that word is wasteful. 370 00:18:39,900 --> 00:18:45,100 That way that it's Sinful living wild, living everything that we 371 00:18:45,100 --> 00:18:47,500 could imagine with that. Wild living has looked pretty 372 00:18:47,500 --> 00:18:50,100 similar for a long time. Now, for thousands of years like 373 00:18:50,100 --> 00:18:52,600 wild living has kind of always meant the same thing, we get the 374 00:18:52,600 --> 00:18:54,600 idea. I'm out of control and I want to 375 00:18:54,600 --> 00:18:58,000 get out of my mind and I will use whatever I can do to get me 376 00:18:58,000 --> 00:19:00,000 there. So whether it's don't get drunk 377 00:19:00,000 --> 00:19:05,100 with wine or whiskey or THC, or pills or beer take your 378 00:19:05,100 --> 00:19:08,400 intoxicant, but the point is stop losing your mind. 379 00:19:08,600 --> 00:19:11,000 Stop giving up your mind. Stop giving up your control. 380 00:19:11,000 --> 00:19:15,100 Stop you Building and submitting to something else because why? 381 00:19:15,200 --> 00:19:17,800 Well, alcohol gets us to do things that we wouldn't normally 382 00:19:17,800 --> 00:19:20,900 do or other stimulants or intoxicants they can get. 383 00:19:20,900 --> 00:19:23,100 They get us to places. They get us to feelings. 384 00:19:23,300 --> 00:19:25,600 They get us to Sensations that were pursuing. 385 00:19:26,000 --> 00:19:28,500 It's a piece that were pursuing or it's a boldness that were 386 00:19:28,500 --> 00:19:31,000 pursuing. I'm too scared to do this thing 387 00:19:31,000 --> 00:19:33,500 but I can get the as it's called, the liquid courage. 388 00:19:33,500 --> 00:19:36,700 Or interestingly enough, alcohol is called spirits as well 389 00:19:36,800 --> 00:19:41,400 spirits, that we don't want to be filled with so we feel free. 390 00:19:41,500 --> 00:19:44,200 Yeah, but in these instances were actually still slaves to 391 00:19:44,200 --> 00:19:47,300 sin, we feel bold but it's a false boldness. 392 00:19:47,300 --> 00:19:51,400 We feel peaceful or joyful or relaxed but it's literally a 393 00:19:51,400 --> 00:19:55,000 cheap chemistry trick taking place inside of our brains. 394 00:19:55,900 --> 00:19:58,900 It's insignificant and it's temporary and it's fleeting, 395 00:19:59,100 --> 00:20:01,300 we're pursuing something. We're seeking a pleasure. 396 00:20:01,700 --> 00:20:05,700 The Lord doesn't condemn you for seeking a pleasure but it's 397 00:20:05,700 --> 00:20:07,700 wrong because he's like you're not seeking the greatest 398 00:20:07,700 --> 00:20:10,000 pleasure. This, it took all this bottom 399 00:20:10,000 --> 00:20:11,400 shelf would be an understatement. 400 00:20:11,500 --> 00:20:14,700 Payment, you know, we talked before about sexual intimacy and 401 00:20:14,708 --> 00:20:18,700 the goodness of marriage and how it's Unholy and sinful outside 402 00:20:18,700 --> 00:20:21,000 of the context of marriage. And we talked about, it's the 403 00:20:21,008 --> 00:20:23,800 gas station, burrito compared to the Feast of the table of the 404 00:20:23,800 --> 00:20:25,500 Lord. When the same way, when we're 405 00:20:25,500 --> 00:20:28,900 talking about being filled with any other kind of intoxicants 406 00:20:30,100 --> 00:20:32,700 sure, Frozen gas station, burrito, compared to the rich 407 00:20:32,700 --> 00:20:33,900 table. Being filled with the Holy 408 00:20:33,900 --> 00:20:36,200 Spirit. We're we're saying I'm seeking 409 00:20:36,200 --> 00:20:37,600 something. I'm seeking a power. 410 00:20:37,600 --> 00:20:38,500 Oh! Oh! 411 00:20:38,500 --> 00:20:41,100 You'll get power. You'll get power. 412 00:20:41,400 --> 00:20:44,100 There is a real power Jesus promised that there's a real 413 00:20:44,100 --> 00:20:46,600 power, but we're settling for something too small. 414 00:20:47,000 --> 00:20:48,500 Instead, what am I supposed to do? 415 00:20:48,500 --> 00:20:51,100 What a strange comparison. Don't be drunk. 416 00:20:51,900 --> 00:20:55,300 Okay, don't be drunk instead like a swap, like a 417 00:20:55,300 --> 00:20:57,400 substitution. Hey, you know what you all do? 418 00:20:57,400 --> 00:20:58,800 Instead of being drunk with wine? 419 00:20:59,100 --> 00:21:02,400 What well, how would you even compare the two of these things? 420 00:21:02,600 --> 00:21:05,200 Well, I tell you what y'all do is you ought to be filled. 421 00:21:05,200 --> 00:21:06,900 You ought to be controlled by the Holy Spirit. 422 00:21:07,600 --> 00:21:09,900 Huh. Interesting that he would make 423 00:21:09,900 --> 00:21:12,500 that correlation interesting that he would connect some dots 424 00:21:12,500 --> 00:21:14,200 there, why? Well because when I'm filled 425 00:21:14,200 --> 00:21:17,300 with alcohol, alcohol, controls me, John Michaels, not in 426 00:21:17,300 --> 00:21:19,200 control anymore. I do things that I wouldn't have 427 00:21:19,200 --> 00:21:21,800 done. I've done things actually, when 428 00:21:21,800 --> 00:21:23,800 I've been filled with alcohol that I wouldn't have done. 429 00:21:24,000 --> 00:21:28,000 I've done things when when my system had was full of THC that 430 00:21:28,000 --> 00:21:31,500 I wouldn't have done. But those were things that were 431 00:21:31,700 --> 00:21:34,700 that were substitutions, those were things that were cheat, 432 00:21:34,700 --> 00:21:37,200 those were things that were sinful, those were things were 433 00:21:37,400 --> 00:21:41,200 a, i yielded control in a way that I was totally out of my 434 00:21:41,200 --> 00:21:42,700 mind. The difference, though, when 435 00:21:42,700 --> 00:21:45,400 we're filled by the Holy Spirit, you'll still do things that you 436 00:21:45,400 --> 00:21:48,900 wouldn't have normally done. But it's from a place of actual 437 00:21:48,900 --> 00:21:52,200 submission, to the Lord, rather than a total lack of control. 438 00:21:52,400 --> 00:21:54,300 It's true willful. And deliberate submission to 439 00:21:54,300 --> 00:21:58,400 say, Lord, Use Me For Your Glory, use me and your kingdom, 440 00:21:58,600 --> 00:21:59,900 man. I'm scared to say that I'm 441 00:21:59,900 --> 00:22:02,900 scared to do that, but the Holy Spirit fills me with power, and 442 00:22:02,900 --> 00:22:05,900 my desire and my will, and my intellect, or still crystal 443 00:22:05,900 --> 00:22:09,100 clear the holy spirit's not possessing me as a robot. 444 00:22:10,000 --> 00:22:11,800 Whereas alcohol, would make me think. 445 00:22:12,000 --> 00:22:14,200 I bet I could knock out all three of those dudes. 446 00:22:15,800 --> 00:22:16,800 It's not true. John Michael. 447 00:22:16,900 --> 00:22:20,100 Well, it's not true and John Michaels, like, oh, I could 448 00:22:20,100 --> 00:22:22,100 though, I feel like I could. Yeah. 449 00:22:22,100 --> 00:22:25,100 You think that? But that's where you'd be wrong. 450 00:22:25,100 --> 00:22:28,800 You're being lied to but the holy spirit will rise up on it. 451 00:22:28,800 --> 00:22:31,300 The inside of you and it's a different, it's a different 452 00:22:31,300 --> 00:22:33,700 yielding, it's a different control because I'm not out of 453 00:22:33,700 --> 00:22:36,200 control. I'm not possessed in the sense 454 00:22:36,200 --> 00:22:39,600 that a person who is demon possessed is also out of control 455 00:22:39,600 --> 00:22:42,600 or a person who's full of wine or Spirits or whatever other 456 00:22:42,600 --> 00:22:45,300 intoxicant. But it's a deliberate desire to 457 00:22:45,300 --> 00:22:48,600 say, I want what the Lord Nothing would intimidate me, 458 00:22:48,600 --> 00:22:49,900 man. Do I feel like the Holy Spirit 459 00:22:49,900 --> 00:22:52,600 just wants me to go up to that person and say, God loves you. 460 00:22:53,100 --> 00:22:56,200 I feel like he wants me to say that, but I don't feel like I'm 461 00:22:56,200 --> 00:22:58,600 able to in the holy spirit's Wells, up within you and says, 462 00:22:58,600 --> 00:23:02,900 you can because I am your power. I am your source and now I can 463 00:23:02,900 --> 00:23:05,800 actually pursue something in righteousness and Holiness and 464 00:23:05,800 --> 00:23:08,600 next thing, you know the holy spirit's using you say hey good 465 00:23:08,600 --> 00:23:10,400 morning. I just want you to know God 466 00:23:10,400 --> 00:23:12,300 loves you and they go they can thank you. 467 00:23:12,300 --> 00:23:15,300 That means a lot to me or next thing you know, they're crying. 468 00:23:15,300 --> 00:23:17,000 Or you're next thing they know or you don't know nothing. 469 00:23:17,000 --> 00:23:20,900 And then Just go do whatever and you go on with your life and on 470 00:23:20,900 --> 00:23:22,900 the other side of Heaven, the Lord shows you that they were on 471 00:23:22,900 --> 00:23:26,300 their way to commit suicide, but you showed them a kindness and a 472 00:23:26,300 --> 00:23:27,800 goodness. And they didn't give you any 473 00:23:27,800 --> 00:23:30,400 fruit response from it, but it made a difference. 474 00:23:31,700 --> 00:23:34,300 It's not my job to know. All the details is my job to 475 00:23:34,300 --> 00:23:36,300 obey the Lord, but I need power to do. 476 00:23:36,300 --> 00:23:41,900 So I need power to pursue the will of the Lord for my life and 477 00:23:41,900 --> 00:23:44,000 the boldness in the power that comes from God. 478 00:23:44,000 --> 00:23:46,700 It's real, that's the difference alcohol. 479 00:23:46,800 --> 00:23:49,600 And in other intoxicants, they bring the false in the 480 00:23:49,600 --> 00:23:52,700 temporary, but when the Holy Spirit fills you, the peace is 481 00:23:52,700 --> 00:23:57,000 real and you get to remember it the next morning and there's not 482 00:23:57,000 --> 00:24:01,000 punishment from a headache and the dehydration that comes along 483 00:24:01,000 --> 00:24:05,200 with it. Or the or the jail sentence, the 484 00:24:05,200 --> 00:24:08,600 joy is real, the boldness. And the power is real, God 485 00:24:08,600 --> 00:24:12,100 himself fills you. And you actually have the real 486 00:24:12,100 --> 00:24:14,300 piece that you've been seeking in a counterfeit. 487 00:24:14,600 --> 00:24:20,100 You've had the counterfeit but he is the true drink. go to Acts 488 00:24:20,100 --> 00:24:27,200 chapter 1, So, you're turning to the left in your Bible, still in 489 00:24:27,200 --> 00:24:30,500 the New Testament. Matthew Mark, Luke John acts 490 00:24:30,500 --> 00:24:38,600 Acts chapter 1. Verses 6 through 8. 491 00:24:39,300 --> 00:24:41,600 So this is before Jesus has ascended. 492 00:24:42,600 --> 00:24:46,100 Moments before Jesus. Ascends, and when they had come 493 00:24:46,100 --> 00:24:51,800 together, they the disciples asked him Lord at this time, 494 00:24:51,800 --> 00:24:53,700 will you restore the kingdom to Israel? 495 00:24:53,800 --> 00:24:56,800 Because the disciples had still been holding on to this idea 496 00:24:56,800 --> 00:25:00,100 that the Messiah was going to overthrow the Romans. 497 00:25:00,300 --> 00:25:03,100 They were still holding on to it after everything. 498 00:25:03,100 --> 00:25:06,400 Even after the resurrection, even after he spent 40 days with 499 00:25:06,400 --> 00:25:09,700 them after he's been raised from the dead and some 40 days later 500 00:25:09,700 --> 00:25:12,300 though. I hey Hey, we hadn't brought it 501 00:25:12,308 --> 00:25:16,900 up in a while, but surely now like, no, we're going to start 502 00:25:16,900 --> 00:25:19,500 killing Romans, right? Is this the moment where you're 503 00:25:19,500 --> 00:25:22,500 going to restore the kingdom and to Israel where they want, they 504 00:25:22,500 --> 00:25:29,000 want Power, they want Power. Jesus said, it's not for you to 505 00:25:29,000 --> 00:25:31,700 know the times and the seasons that the father has fixed by his 506 00:25:31,700 --> 00:25:36,300 own authority. But you will receive power. 507 00:25:36,700 --> 00:25:39,900 When the Holy Spirit has come upon you and you will be my 508 00:25:39,900 --> 00:25:43,100 Witnesses in Jerusalem and in Judea and in Samaria. 509 00:25:43,200 --> 00:25:45,700 And to all the all of the earth, it's interesting. 510 00:25:45,700 --> 00:25:48,800 Jesus knows what they're after. They want the power, they're 511 00:25:48,800 --> 00:25:52,300 like we want Power. We've been subdued by the Romans 512 00:25:52,800 --> 00:25:54,300 Jesus, all this stuff you've done. 513 00:25:54,300 --> 00:25:57,200 It's been like it's been like this subversive Kingdom. 514 00:25:57,200 --> 00:25:59,500 Like we're going to overthrow things and like this slow motion 515 00:25:59,500 --> 00:26:01,500 kind of way but now's the time right? 516 00:26:01,500 --> 00:26:04,300 He goes I know what y'all are after you want Power. 517 00:26:04,400 --> 00:26:06,100 Power right? Like yeah, yeah. 518 00:26:06,100 --> 00:26:08,600 Jesus seems like you will receive power. 519 00:26:09,200 --> 00:26:11,800 Don't worry, when the Holy Spirit comes upon you and then, 520 00:26:11,800 --> 00:26:12,900 who knows? What they would have been 521 00:26:12,900 --> 00:26:15,300 thinking, because they still keep, don't, they still don't 522 00:26:15,300 --> 00:26:17,400 get it. So, who knows what they were 523 00:26:17,400 --> 00:26:19,900 thinking like, okay, okay, I see you. 524 00:26:19,900 --> 00:26:22,300 Jesus, the power. When the Holy Spirit comes, 525 00:26:22,300 --> 00:26:26,000 that's when we're gonna, and when the Holy Spirit came well, 526 00:26:26,000 --> 00:26:27,700 well, they were filled with the nature of the character, the 527 00:26:27,700 --> 00:26:34,000 wisdom, and the will of God, they finally went power power. 528 00:26:34,500 --> 00:26:37,500 In the name of, Jesus Christ, rise up and walk, in the name of 529 00:26:37,500 --> 00:26:40,600 Jesus Christ, shoulders be healed in the name of Jesus 530 00:26:40,600 --> 00:26:43,000 Christ. Shut up demon, and come out 531 00:26:43,300 --> 00:26:47,000 power, 0 power, and they didn't care anymore about the Romans. 532 00:26:47,400 --> 00:26:50,100 And they said, let's take over the world with the real power. 533 00:26:50,500 --> 00:26:53,900 They wanted their gas station burrito, I want to conquer the 534 00:26:53,900 --> 00:26:59,300 Romans and and the Lord said that is a form of power. 535 00:26:59,300 --> 00:27:02,700 It truly is, but it's just we've got bigger. 536 00:27:02,800 --> 00:27:04,700 We've got, we've got bigger fish to fry. 537 00:27:05,100 --> 00:27:08,400 Then then who is the ruling class over over this 538 00:27:08,400 --> 00:27:12,000 geographical area at the moment. There is a significance to it 539 00:27:12,100 --> 00:27:15,600 and the King himself will step foot in Jerusalem again, and 540 00:27:15,600 --> 00:27:18,700 Rule, so we don't belittle that, but the timing wasn't right. 541 00:27:18,700 --> 00:27:20,800 He said, he said, it's not for you to know the will and the 542 00:27:20,808 --> 00:27:23,100 time of the seasons. So we're not belittling 543 00:27:23,100 --> 00:27:25,400 geography because the Lord makes much of it. 544 00:27:26,200 --> 00:27:28,100 But there's a time and a season and that wasn't it. 545 00:27:28,400 --> 00:27:30,400 You will receive power. You want power. 546 00:27:30,500 --> 00:27:34,900 I do and the Lord said you don't have to be ashamed of it but get 547 00:27:34,900 --> 00:27:37,700 the right power, the power of the holy spirit that will guide 548 00:27:37,700 --> 00:27:43,400 you that will minimize the ego of man which is Anita's and will 549 00:27:43,400 --> 00:27:47,100 maximize the glory of God. You want Power, you can have 550 00:27:47,100 --> 00:27:51,800 power, be filled with the holy spirit so this physical 551 00:27:52,000 --> 00:27:56,100 intoxication, produces the counterfeit to the genuine The 552 00:27:56,100 --> 00:27:58,500 Holy Spirit except when your filt always fear, you don't say 553 00:27:58,500 --> 00:28:00,500 anything you regret. When you're filled with the Holy 554 00:28:00,500 --> 00:28:03,300 Spirit intoxication makes us fools. 555 00:28:03,400 --> 00:28:06,900 But the holy spirit makes us look like Jesus and fills us 556 00:28:06,900 --> 00:28:10,600 with all the wisdom of God so we can walk in truth that we can 557 00:28:10,600 --> 00:28:13,900 walk and power that we can walk free free from SIM. 558 00:28:15,900 --> 00:28:18,300 So, when do I get the filling of the Holy Spirit? 559 00:28:18,300 --> 00:28:22,300 Well, when we are born again, we are born of the spirit. 560 00:28:22,400 --> 00:28:26,500 So the idea is think about it. Like, when you got saved, maybe 561 00:28:26,500 --> 00:28:29,400 you got. It's like getting soaking wet, 562 00:28:29,400 --> 00:28:32,100 but being filled with the Holy Spirit, you're totally submerged 563 00:28:32,100 --> 00:28:34,600 in the water of God. There's all kinds of analogies 564 00:28:34,600 --> 00:28:36,800 that people have used and preachers have tried to explain 565 00:28:36,800 --> 00:28:39,100 it. Some have said, when you get 566 00:28:39,100 --> 00:28:43,000 saved the Holy Spirit becomes a resident inside of you, but when 567 00:28:43,000 --> 00:28:45,300 you get filled with the Holy Spirit, he becomes president. 568 00:28:45,400 --> 00:28:48,400 Resident. You take, you, take whatever 569 00:28:48,400 --> 00:28:51,800 clever idea you'd like, but there's a difference between the 570 00:28:51,800 --> 00:28:55,000 initial bet, the initial salvation experience, where 571 00:28:55,000 --> 00:28:57,300 you're born of the spirit of God, and the separate and 572 00:28:57,300 --> 00:28:59,100 secondary filling of the Holy Spirit. 573 00:28:59,100 --> 00:29:01,000 I'm not going to walk you through the different instances 574 00:29:01,000 --> 00:29:03,100 instances that we see in the book of Acts. 575 00:29:03,300 --> 00:29:06,900 And it's actually funny in my preparation for these sermons 576 00:29:06,900 --> 00:29:08,500 each week. I'll probably listen to maybe 577 00:29:08,500 --> 00:29:11,400 three sermons or so on the same passage by other preachers. 578 00:29:11,800 --> 00:29:13,600 And there have been certain preachers that I've been 579 00:29:13,600 --> 00:29:15,300 listening to as I've gone through this. 580 00:29:15,500 --> 00:29:18,100 Aries week, after week after week, and I've watched them 581 00:29:18,100 --> 00:29:21,000 Faithfully explained, the scriptures Faithfully. 582 00:29:21,000 --> 00:29:23,400 Just take. What does the word of God, say 583 00:29:23,700 --> 00:29:26,500 and unpack, the word of God. And then we came to this verse 584 00:29:26,500 --> 00:29:29,600 on being filled with the Holy Spirit and the gymnastics begin 585 00:29:29,800 --> 00:29:33,200 and they don't get any better as chapter 5 goes on as I'll talk 586 00:29:33,200 --> 00:29:35,800 to you more about next week and in the coming weeks because we 587 00:29:35,800 --> 00:29:39,200 talked about men and women and husbands and wives and the s 588 00:29:39,200 --> 00:29:41,200 word. So we'll get into all that. 589 00:29:41,500 --> 00:29:43,900 But it's been interesting. Watching these men Faithfully, 590 00:29:43,900 --> 00:29:47,500 take the word of God, God the Bible says, and then they came 591 00:29:47,500 --> 00:29:51,600 to these verse about the baptism in the Holy Spirit, like And 592 00:29:51,600 --> 00:29:54,200 some would say there's not a separate in a secondary in 593 00:29:54,200 --> 00:29:56,600 filling of the Holy Spirit, they said, you got everything in 594 00:29:56,600 --> 00:29:58,300 Salvation and that's it. And that's the end. 595 00:29:58,800 --> 00:30:01,600 I would have to agree with them. If I saw that in the scripture, 596 00:30:02,100 --> 00:30:03,400 I would joyfully agree with them. 597 00:30:03,700 --> 00:30:06,400 Except that, that's not what the word of God reveals or teaches. 598 00:30:06,600 --> 00:30:10,400 So it's the idea of being filled continually. 599 00:30:10,500 --> 00:30:13,700 Yes, we saw earlier in Ephesians, in Ephesians chapter 600 00:30:13,700 --> 00:30:16,000 1 and Ephesians chapter 4. You were sealed. 601 00:30:16,000 --> 00:30:18,700 You receive the Holy Spirit. Have you received the Holy 602 00:30:18,700 --> 00:30:20,000 Spirit? Yes, I've received the Holy 603 00:30:20,000 --> 00:30:22,200 Spirit. And yet, I haven't been filled 604 00:30:22,300 --> 00:30:25,800 by the Holy Spirit until I asked and saw it, the baptism of the 605 00:30:25,800 --> 00:30:28,600 Holy Spirit, we see that again in the book of Acts, where Paul 606 00:30:28,600 --> 00:30:30,900 comes across some Believers. He says, have you guys received 607 00:30:30,900 --> 00:30:34,100 the Holy Spirit and they said, we didn't know there was a Holy 608 00:30:34,100 --> 00:30:37,100 Spirit. What man? 609 00:30:37,100 --> 00:30:39,200 What kind of theology was going on around here? 610 00:30:39,300 --> 00:30:41,700 So they're like yeah we love the Lord, we love the Lord, Jesus 611 00:30:41,700 --> 00:30:43,000 Christ. Have you been filled with the 612 00:30:43,000 --> 00:30:44,700 Holy Spirit one? Who's the Holy Spirit? 613 00:30:44,700 --> 00:30:49,900 Like oh guys, So then they were filled with the Holy Spirit and 614 00:30:49,900 --> 00:30:52,200 of course, the power of God Came Upon them as well. 615 00:30:52,300 --> 00:30:55,000 So the idea to be filled to live filled. 616 00:30:55,100 --> 00:30:57,600 It's not the idea of getting filled one time, but it's the 617 00:30:57,600 --> 00:30:58,900 idea of staying filled all the time. 618 00:30:58,900 --> 00:31:01,600 This is the command. Some some have said it this way. 619 00:31:01,600 --> 00:31:02,700 Why do we have to keep being filled? 620 00:31:02,700 --> 00:31:06,600 Well, because we leaked because we need we pour out. 621 00:31:06,600 --> 00:31:08,900 That's the point. I'm filled so that I can pour 622 00:31:08,900 --> 00:31:10,900 out. Oh, I feel empty, I feel drain. 623 00:31:10,900 --> 00:31:14,700 Well, good, you're reminded of your need for somebody else, 624 00:31:15,000 --> 00:31:17,800 you're not the end, all, be all. I've tried to minister from 625 00:31:17,800 --> 00:31:21,000 that, from that perspective, before I've tried to think. 626 00:31:21,000 --> 00:31:24,200 Like, man, I love God, and that's enough. 627 00:31:24,200 --> 00:31:27,600 No, it's not. I need fresh Manna From Heaven. 628 00:31:27,800 --> 00:31:30,600 If I don't have fresh Manna From Heaven, you will know it. 629 00:31:31,100 --> 00:31:33,300 You will recognize it. You'll be like, man, Pastor 630 00:31:33,300 --> 00:31:37,500 jams, preaching is like dry toast every single week 631 00:31:37,500 --> 00:31:40,900 overcooked by about an hour and you'll start to just recognize 632 00:31:40,900 --> 00:31:41,900 that more and more and more. What? 633 00:31:41,900 --> 00:31:44,500 There's no overflow, why? Because I'm not filled with the 634 00:31:44,508 --> 00:31:47,100 Holy Spirit. There it'll show up in other 635 00:31:47,100 --> 00:31:49,900 areas of my life as well. Depending on the degree that I'm 636 00:31:49,900 --> 00:31:54,100 get down to empty, be being filled be continually filled. 637 00:31:54,200 --> 00:31:56,400 I want the spirit of God filling me. 638 00:31:56,400 --> 00:32:00,000 I need the spirit of God feeling me because the infilling of the 639 00:32:00,000 --> 00:32:04,900 Holy Spirit brings power to me. But it brings glory to God, it 640 00:32:04,900 --> 00:32:07,700 helps me to truly and totally surrender. 641 00:32:08,900 --> 00:32:13,200 When I was in high school junior year of high school, I got 642 00:32:13,200 --> 00:32:16,700 filled with the holy spirit. So I was, I grew up in a 643 00:32:16,708 --> 00:32:19,400 household where praying in tongues was as normal as 644 00:32:19,400 --> 00:32:22,300 anything, my Saturday mornings where I remember coming down the 645 00:32:22,300 --> 00:32:26,200 hallway and dad would be praying, or worshiping the Lord, 646 00:32:26,200 --> 00:32:28,300 or reading his Bible, praying in tongues. 647 00:32:28,400 --> 00:32:31,400 So, all that was just, I knew it was in the word of God. 648 00:32:31,400 --> 00:32:33,900 And I saw that in my household but I had never experienced the 649 00:32:33,908 --> 00:32:36,700 baptism the Holy Spirit personally, well, in high 650 00:32:36,700 --> 00:32:38,600 school. I remember our youth. 651 00:32:38,700 --> 00:32:41,100 Pastor telling us, it was Pastor Chris at the time. 652 00:32:41,100 --> 00:32:43,700 Pastor Chris Morgan at Cornerstone, I remember him 653 00:32:43,700 --> 00:32:46,900 saying, if you will be filled with the Holy Spirit he will 654 00:32:46,900 --> 00:32:49,400 help you to kill the Deeds of the Flesh. 655 00:32:49,900 --> 00:32:53,900 And I remember thinking I need that, I need that, I wanted 656 00:32:53,900 --> 00:32:55,200 that. Why would you want that? 657 00:32:55,200 --> 00:32:58,900 Because I was born again, I really was but I was carnal. 658 00:32:59,300 --> 00:33:02,500 I was born again but I was carnal but I love the Lord, I 659 00:33:02,508 --> 00:33:04,900 wanted the Lord and yet I was carnal Christian. 660 00:33:05,100 --> 00:33:08,500 I wanted my gas station burrito, I wanted to go party and get 661 00:33:08,500 --> 00:33:09,900 drunk. With friends and I would 662 00:33:09,900 --> 00:33:13,800 continually do so. And yet I would also have this 663 00:33:13,900 --> 00:33:16,200 urge in this love and roll towards the Lord. 664 00:33:16,300 --> 00:33:18,500 So Pastor, Chris was preaching on the baptism, the Holy Spirit 665 00:33:18,500 --> 00:33:20,700 sent, if you will be filled with the Holy Spirit, he will help 666 00:33:20,700 --> 00:33:23,100 you kill the Deeds of the flesh. Not thought, sign me up for 667 00:33:23,100 --> 00:33:26,000 that, because that's the issue I'm running into here. 668 00:33:26,100 --> 00:33:30,900 I love you, God, but I'm an idiot and I don't feel any 669 00:33:30,900 --> 00:33:32,800 power. I don't feel any, I can't get 670 00:33:32,800 --> 00:33:36,400 free for my idiotic behaviors. What did I need? 671 00:33:36,400 --> 00:33:39,800 I need a power power. Our well aren't you a new 672 00:33:39,800 --> 00:33:42,100 creation? I definitely was. 673 00:33:42,700 --> 00:33:46,400 That's why I desired the Lord. So after I got filled with the 674 00:33:46,408 --> 00:33:48,300 Holy. See I remember he called me up 675 00:33:48,300 --> 00:33:51,600 there and and he just he just began to pray over me. 676 00:33:51,600 --> 00:33:54,600 I raise my hands to the Lord and instantly the power of God hit 677 00:33:54,600 --> 00:33:57,700 me. And I was blown away by the by 678 00:33:57,700 --> 00:34:01,800 what the goodness of God, there's no other word for it. 679 00:34:01,800 --> 00:34:03,400 People want to know like technically what was it? 680 00:34:03,400 --> 00:34:06,800 Like it was just a blessing and the kindness of the father 681 00:34:07,300 --> 00:34:09,600 though it was the Holy Spirit. I mean how do you describe the 682 00:34:09,600 --> 00:34:12,199 presence of God? I had been drunk, I had been 683 00:34:12,199 --> 00:34:14,400 high. This was not those things. 684 00:34:14,900 --> 00:34:18,199 This was power from on high and the presence of the Lord filled 685 00:34:18,199 --> 00:34:20,000 me on. Just what do you do with that? 686 00:34:20,000 --> 00:34:22,000 Sometimes you see people just fall into the floor. 687 00:34:22,000 --> 00:34:24,900 Why? Because the weight and the glory 688 00:34:24,900 --> 00:34:26,500 is just, it's the goodness of God. 689 00:34:26,500 --> 00:34:27,600 It's not the Lord's. Bullying. 690 00:34:27,600 --> 00:34:29,300 People and knocking people around. 691 00:34:29,300 --> 00:34:32,300 Maybe you've seen preachers on YouTube, like, kicking folks and 692 00:34:32,300 --> 00:34:36,500 knocking folks around. You better obey the Holy Spirit, 693 00:34:36,500 --> 00:34:38,500 but if the Holy Spirit, don't tell you to kick, somebody 694 00:34:38,500 --> 00:34:41,600 better not be kicking people. I can tell you that but the 695 00:34:41,600 --> 00:34:43,400 point is the goodness. And the blessing of the Lord, 696 00:34:43,400 --> 00:34:45,500 like, you don't need to push anybody. 697 00:34:45,800 --> 00:34:49,500 If the power of God's on them, you don't need to hit anybody 698 00:34:49,600 --> 00:34:52,100 and get him to fall down. You ever seen that, like, 699 00:34:52,100 --> 00:34:54,900 sometimes in Pentecostal circles as kind of like a thing, you 700 00:34:54,900 --> 00:34:56,699 give like the preacher a courtesy drop. 701 00:34:56,699 --> 00:34:58,900 You know, he's like, laying hands on, everybody's like 87. 702 00:34:58,900 --> 00:35:00,700 People just fell on the ground and now they come to you and 703 00:35:00,700 --> 00:35:10,700 your life. It's all right. 704 00:35:11,000 --> 00:35:13,900 I don't want to be the only dude up here, standing people going 705 00:35:13,900 --> 00:35:17,000 to think, like, I'm like, that's all kinds of secrets in my life. 706 00:35:17,000 --> 00:35:18,800 Why but what's wrong with that guy? 707 00:35:19,400 --> 00:35:22,100 I just go down, like, make sure the ushers are there because you 708 00:35:22,100 --> 00:35:24,700 like it. See how it's going to be bad if 709 00:35:24,700 --> 00:35:27,300 you go out and it's not actually the power of the Holy Spirit, 710 00:35:29,100 --> 00:35:32,300 but but we need to be filled, and filled, and filled, and 711 00:35:32,300 --> 00:35:34,700 filled, and filled, you can be filled in your prayer closet. 712 00:35:34,900 --> 00:35:36,600 That you can be filled during praise and worship. 713 00:35:36,600 --> 00:35:39,600 You can be filled, you be filled in the lobby of the YMCA. 714 00:35:39,600 --> 00:35:44,000 You can be filled, right here right now, how y as a Believer, 715 00:35:44,100 --> 00:35:46,400 if you have submitted and bent the knee to the Lord Jesus 716 00:35:46,400 --> 00:35:48,200 Christ. And then you ask the Lord to 717 00:35:48,208 --> 00:35:51,600 fill you with the Holy Spirit. Ask him and true sincerity. 718 00:35:51,700 --> 00:35:56,200 True sincerity. True sincerity that he will fill 719 00:35:56,200 --> 00:35:59,500 you with this power that comes from on high being filled with 720 00:35:59,500 --> 00:36:04,700 the Holy Spirit is the thing that changed my life. 721 00:36:04,800 --> 00:36:08,200 Life and my life's trajectory out of carnal Christianity. 722 00:36:09,200 --> 00:36:11,400 That was it, that was what made all the difference. 723 00:36:11,500 --> 00:36:16,000 I didn't even get serious in the scriptures right away. 724 00:36:17,200 --> 00:36:21,000 But I knew that I could continue to pray in tongues and pray in 725 00:36:21,000 --> 00:36:23,600 the spirit and I knew that the Lord was building me up. 726 00:36:23,700 --> 00:36:25,100 I knew that he was building me up. 727 00:36:25,100 --> 00:36:31,200 I would be on my way to a party. Praying in, tongues knowing 728 00:36:31,200 --> 00:36:34,900 exactly what I was about to do. Going God, help me, keep helping 729 00:36:34,900 --> 00:36:37,200 me, and just praying, and praying, and praying, know, 730 00:36:37,200 --> 00:36:40,200 like, I'm building up, this, the spirit, man hasn't gotten bigger 731 00:36:40,200 --> 00:36:42,900 than the carnal man yet, but I know he's going to and I want 732 00:36:42,900 --> 00:36:46,500 him to and I'm sorry for tonight and I know this is the stupidest 733 00:36:46,500 --> 00:36:48,700 prayer I've ever prayed, and this is ridiculous. 734 00:36:48,900 --> 00:36:50,100 Well, what other things were going on? 735 00:36:50,100 --> 00:36:52,000 Well, I was I didn't have Fellowship. 736 00:36:52,200 --> 00:36:54,500 That's the other thing. I didn't confess my sin. 737 00:36:55,000 --> 00:36:57,300 If I had confess my sin that would have brought other Freedom 738 00:36:57,300 --> 00:36:58,600 confess your sins to one another. 739 00:36:59,000 --> 00:37:00,700 And one another that you may be healed. 740 00:37:00,900 --> 00:37:04,300 I was I wanted to say isolated, I wanted to stay secret, I'll go 741 00:37:04,300 --> 00:37:06,200 get drunk. I'll do what I'm gonna do and 742 00:37:06,200 --> 00:37:08,400 I'll slowly mature out of this on my own. 743 00:37:08,500 --> 00:37:09,700 Why? So I don't have to confess my 744 00:37:09,700 --> 00:37:13,100 sin, well, but that's what also kept me stuck that. 745 00:37:13,100 --> 00:37:15,700 All that also kept me in my immaturity, I won't confess my 746 00:37:15,700 --> 00:37:17,900 son because I'm too prideful to confess my sin. 747 00:37:19,000 --> 00:37:21,000 So the Lord will get me out of here. 748 00:37:21,000 --> 00:37:23,500 Praise God. The Lord got me out of there but 749 00:37:23,500 --> 00:37:25,000 it wasn't wise. It wasn't biblical. 750 00:37:25,000 --> 00:37:27,700 It wasn't the holistic approach that he takes bring Fellowship 751 00:37:27,700 --> 00:37:31,100 around you so you're not just you versus the flesh. 752 00:37:31,400 --> 00:37:33,700 I need Brothers, I need the family of God. 753 00:37:33,700 --> 00:37:36,300 Supporting me, encouraging me pointing now going. 754 00:37:36,300 --> 00:37:41,300 Hey, I got you, I got you pursue the Lord, be filled with the 755 00:37:41,300 --> 00:37:42,800 Holy Spirit. There is something better. 756 00:37:42,800 --> 00:37:46,800 There is someone better. So being filled with the Holy 757 00:37:46,800 --> 00:37:49,800 Spirit is the only way to know and discern. 758 00:37:49,800 --> 00:37:51,900 What the will of God is when the scripture hasn't already made 759 00:37:51,900 --> 00:37:55,300 something plain to us, how else can I know how is, can I know 760 00:37:55,300 --> 00:37:57,400 what to do? The holy spirit will lead you 761 00:37:57,500 --> 00:38:00,900 and he will guide you first Corinthians 2:11 tells us no one 762 00:38:00,900 --> 00:38:04,100 comprehends the thoughts of God except for the spirit of God. 763 00:38:06,000 --> 00:38:09,200 And yet he will reveal them to us so we don't know them apart 764 00:38:09,200 --> 00:38:12,200 from him, revealing them. Now what does a person do after 765 00:38:12,200 --> 00:38:15,300 they've been filled with the Holy Spirit back to Ephesians 5 766 00:38:15,600 --> 00:38:19,400 verses 19 and 20 and we'll close with this and then we're going 767 00:38:19,400 --> 00:38:22,900 to pray and seek the Lord and has to be filled verse 19. 768 00:38:22,900 --> 00:38:24,600 What does a person do when they're filled with the Holy 769 00:38:24,600 --> 00:38:27,600 Spirit, addressing one, another in Psalms, and hymns, and 770 00:38:27,600 --> 00:38:31,300 spiritual songs singing and making Melody to the Lord with 771 00:38:31,300 --> 00:38:34,800 your heart giving? Thanks always and for everything 772 00:38:34,800 --> 00:38:37,600 to God The father, in the name of our Lord, Jesus Christ. 773 00:38:38,500 --> 00:38:41,200 So, what is the life, look? What is the spirit filled, life? 774 00:38:41,200 --> 00:38:42,900 Look like, there's a picture of it. 775 00:38:43,500 --> 00:38:46,000 There's an extreme gratitude. There's a joy. 776 00:38:46,000 --> 00:38:48,500 There's a bliss, and the Spirit-filled person not 777 00:38:48,500 --> 00:38:50,500 everything always go on their way. 778 00:38:51,200 --> 00:38:54,600 But if there's real power, his Power Beats our circumstances, 779 00:38:55,100 --> 00:38:59,500 his power is better than what I'm facing, he really is enough, 780 00:38:59,900 --> 00:39:03,500 and when I got into that place of enjoying his fullness, this 781 00:39:03,500 --> 00:39:07,200 fruit continues to come, this route continues to leave me and 782 00:39:07,200 --> 00:39:09,300 throughout the Book of Acts. See that this is the norm. 783 00:39:09,300 --> 00:39:12,600 When somebody's filled with the Holy Spirit they speak, there 784 00:39:12,600 --> 00:39:14,800 are filled with the Holy Spirit and began to prophesy. 785 00:39:15,000 --> 00:39:17,000 They're filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in 786 00:39:17,000 --> 00:39:18,400 other tongues. They're filled with the Holy 787 00:39:18,400 --> 00:39:20,200 Spirit, they began to Worship the Lord. 788 00:39:20,300 --> 00:39:24,000 The the infilling of the Holy Spirit brings this brings this 789 00:39:24,000 --> 00:39:27,100 bubbling up being filled with alcohol, made John Michael a 790 00:39:27,100 --> 00:39:30,200 loudmouth, more on being filled with the holy spirit makes your 791 00:39:30,200 --> 00:39:33,700 Michael allowed now still, but a loudmouth for the glory of God 792 00:39:33,900 --> 00:39:35,700 and not a moron. But someone who's speaking, the 793 00:39:35,708 --> 00:39:39,000 truth of God because my purpose is, are the Love of God and the 794 00:39:39,008 --> 00:39:43,100 love of people. So Worship in Psalms and hymns, 795 00:39:43,100 --> 00:39:45,200 and spiritual songs singing and making Melody. 796 00:39:46,000 --> 00:39:47,600 This is how, you know, if somebody's been filled with the 797 00:39:47,600 --> 00:39:50,300 Lord, there's a song on your heart, spirit filled Believers, 798 00:39:50,300 --> 00:39:51,900 you had songs in your heart, right? 799 00:39:51,900 --> 00:39:53,600 You're just going through your life, you're going through the 800 00:39:53,600 --> 00:39:55,000 day and there's just stuff bubbling up. 801 00:39:55,000 --> 00:39:58,400 It just a song or let it out. Let it out, don't keep it 802 00:39:58,400 --> 00:40:00,000 private. It's not just for you. 803 00:40:00,000 --> 00:40:01,500 It is for you, but it's not just for you. 804 00:40:01,500 --> 00:40:03,500 It's for the Lord. And as, for those around you, 805 00:40:03,500 --> 00:40:05,100 you're always singing. You always humming. 806 00:40:05,200 --> 00:40:07,400 You're always whistling. You always got something to go 807 00:40:07,400 --> 00:40:10,300 by. When you're full you spill, when 808 00:40:10,300 --> 00:40:13,800 you're full, there's a mess to be made but it's a glorious mess 809 00:40:14,100 --> 00:40:16,800 and it brings glory to God giving thanks always and for 810 00:40:16,800 --> 00:40:20,100 everything to God the father in the name of our Lord. 811 00:40:20,100 --> 00:40:22,400 Jesus Christ being full of gratitude. 812 00:40:23,000 --> 00:40:26,200 So this is the opposite of the person who make him find the cow 813 00:40:26,200 --> 00:40:31,600 patty and every pasture that's if that's you you also need and 814 00:40:31,600 --> 00:40:34,400 want to be filled with the Holy Spirit to see the goodness of 815 00:40:34,400 --> 00:40:36,400 God because it is all around you. 816 00:40:37,000 --> 00:40:39,400 It is not that the Lord has been withholding from you. 817 00:40:39,400 --> 00:40:41,300 It is that your perspective is skewed. 818 00:40:41,800 --> 00:40:44,600 You haven't seen the full picture yet, Christians should 819 00:40:44,600 --> 00:40:47,100 be filled with God's spirit. Christian should be filled with 820 00:40:47,100 --> 00:40:49,800 God's presence, and the fruit is good and glorious. 821 00:40:49,800 --> 00:40:52,100 This is part of the will of God for every believer. 822 00:40:52,100 --> 00:40:54,000 This was New Testament Christianity. 823 00:40:54,100 --> 00:40:55,900 This is first century Christianity. 824 00:40:56,100 --> 00:40:58,100 This is, this is not a new thing. 825 00:40:58,900 --> 00:41:01,600 It's did not start in Azusa Street, Revival. 826 00:41:01,600 --> 00:41:05,100 'S, this started on the day of Pentecost, contrary to what you 827 00:41:05,100 --> 00:41:08,000 may be, have been told or what you may have believed. 828 00:41:08,400 --> 00:41:12,200 The holy spirit is here for you. If you have submitted your life 829 00:41:12,200 --> 00:41:15,700 to the Lord, Jesus Christ for you to be filled continually and 830 00:41:15,700 --> 00:41:17,800 this is something that we desperately need. 831 00:41:17,800 --> 00:41:20,700 This is why I said earlier Lord, don't let us just be Pentecostal 832 00:41:20,700 --> 00:41:23,300 on paper that way. If somebody asked, what's your 833 00:41:23,300 --> 00:41:25,400 theology? Well, my theology is that the 834 00:41:25,408 --> 00:41:27,400 Holy Spirit has been poured out, and the gifts are still for 835 00:41:27,400 --> 00:41:28,700 today. Great. 836 00:41:29,300 --> 00:41:32,100 Do you operate in them? Do you see any power? 837 00:41:32,300 --> 00:41:35,800 Do you recognize his presence? Are we experiencing that fruit? 838 00:41:35,800 --> 00:41:39,800 No, but I sure believe it right. We won his power to be present 839 00:41:39,800 --> 00:41:42,000 in our lives. I don't just want. 840 00:41:42,000 --> 00:41:44,500 Correct theology. I don't want to just get an A+ 841 00:41:44,700 --> 00:41:47,700 on my Sunday school test, I want to actually walk it out with 842 00:41:47,700 --> 00:41:50,700 fruit and with power, so that's what we're going to do right 843 00:41:50,700 --> 00:41:52,300 now. We're just going to lay hands on 844 00:41:52,300 --> 00:41:54,900 one another, and we're going to pray and ask the Lord to fill us 845 00:41:54,900 --> 00:41:57,600 fresh with the power and the presence of the holy spirit. 846 00:41:57,900 --> 00:41:59,400 So, let's stand to our feet together. 847 00:42:00,600 --> 00:42:03,900 I'm going to turn on some music so that the Lord would Minister 848 00:42:03,900 --> 00:42:07,700 to US during this moment We'll have some privacy. 849 00:42:06,500 --> 00:42:07,700 We'll have some privacy.