Thank you very much. I'm privileged to be here to
speak to us again. And before I start, I'd like to
play our worships from our church, which was recorded
during our convention. This is the worship we are used
to. None.
The. The.
Thank you. So you, you see, we really have
to manage when we come here and you are having your worship.
So you're welcome to our vibrant worship in Agus.
Amen. All right.
This morning I'd like to speak to us, and there are four
reasons to follow the Holy Spirit.
Amen. Let's pray.
Father, in the name of Jesus, I thank you for the opportunity to
share your word with your church.
I ask that you speak to our hearts and our minds as that you
feel out of your spirit and your presence be with us.
I established the dominion of Jesus and his presence here and
let your name be glorified. We cast out any demonic presence
in the name of Jesus. Let your spirit come upon us and
bring times of refreshing to us. In Jesus name I have prayed,
Amen. Yesterday our brother Segun took
us, took us out and then we're going around the town and it's
like this is Blackpool. So if you're going to live here,
then you need a guide to live in Blackpool, or a personal guide,
or you need a written manual that will show you how to live
in Blackpool. Amen.
And then my aim this morning is to tell us, brothers and
sisters, that when we got saved, we have joined a holy fellowship
in heaven and on earth. There's a fellowship among the
Father, the Son and the Spirit. They are together, they respect
one another, they work together with good understanding.
But when we go save, we have joined this fellowship of the
Father, the Son and the spirits, and we needed to know how they
live and how they wake. So Jesus came to introduce the
Father to us, introduce the Spirit to us, and through him we
have joined this holy fellowship.
And to know how they work, Jesus introduced them to us.
Jesus taught us a lot about himself and what it came to do.
But when he was leaving, he left us with the Holy Spirit to help
guide us to be part of this holy fellowship and know how to live
our life, this new life and lifestyle that came from heaven.
Amen. So I have finished my sermon.
So in in Hebrews chapter one verse one to four, we were told
that in the past God spoke to our forefathers, to the prophets
at many times and in various ways.
But in this last days he has spoken to us by his son
commentators who explained that to me, the language God used to
speak to us is his son. He spoke in a language that we
can understand. So he says God came to Blackpool
and he spoke English. So God came into the world and
he spoke Jesus, Amen, in a way that everybody can understand.
So Jesus was the language God spoke when he came to have.
So he revealed the Father to us. He is a way we can understand
who the Father is. If you met Jesus.
So he said the Son is the radiance of God's glory and the
exact representation of His being sustaining all things by
His powerful word. After he had provided purific,
He had provided purification for sins, He sat down at the right
hand of the majesty in heaven. And he also tells us in Matthew
chapter 6, verse 8 to 11, when He was teaching the disciples
how to pray that do not be like them, for your Father knows what
you need before you ask him. Pray therefore like this, our
Father who is in heaven. So Jesus introduced God to us as
our Father and also asked us to call him Father.
So Jerry Parker says this Father is the Christian name for God.
Our understanding of Christianity cannot be better
than our grasp of adoption. We have a father, but he said
his name is Father. Amen.
So Jesus was the one who introduced God the Father to us.
He's a language God used to speak to us, and through him we
join the holy fellowship of the Trinity when we give our life to
Christ. So it says to us in Ephesians
2126, As for you, you were dead in your transgressions and sins.
But because of his great love for us, God, who is rich in
mercy, made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in our
transgressions. It is by grace you have been
saved, and God raised us up with Christ and seated us with him in
the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus.
Amen. So where God the Father, God the
Son is, by giving our life to Christ, we were raised to join
them. So although we are here in this
body, we have joined this fellowship of the Father, the
Son and the Spirit. That must make us think again
about how we live our lives and who we are on this earth.
We are not just flesh and body, we are spirits and we are with
Jesus. When I was thinking about this
message, I asked myself, what if I'm doing something that the
Father, the Son, and the Spirit do not like?
How do they feel about it? Do I know them?
Do I know what they want to achieve on this F?
And I'm part of this fellowship now.
What am I doing to achieve what they want to achieve on F?
Maybe if you ask yourself that question, if you don't know, now
you know you are part of a fellowship called the Trinity,
the Father, Son and the Spirit. So Jesus, in order to help us to
be part of this fellowship, left us with the Holy Spirit when he
was leaving. So in John 14 verse 16 to 17,
the Amplified Bible said, I will ask the Father and He will give
you another helper, comforter, advocate, intersexor,
counsellor, strengthener. Somebody will stand by to be
with you forever, the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot
receive and take to His heart because it does not see Him or
know Him. But you know Him because He
remains with you continually and will be in you.
So if we want to know what the Father, the Son, and the Spirit
are doing, Jesus has left us with the Holy Spirit.
Let's follow him, He's in US, Let's listen to Him, let's work
with Him. Then we will be living like
them. We will be doing what they want
to do. We will be part of what they
want to achieve on this earth, and our lives will be blameless.
Amen. So we need to be filled with the
Spirit. That's what Jesus said we should
do. So in his final moments, Jesus
left his disciples with this powerful promise that he will
not leave them alone. The Holy Spirit is another
person sent from the Father like Jesus to be with us.
So the Holy Spirit is our strengthener in these days until
Jesus retains the evidences of the Holy Spirit in the Bible,
where we were told that the presence of God filled the
temple when the leaders prayed. So the Holy Spirit was in the
Old Testament, came to do stuff, but was not on everybody.
He specifically prove individuals with skills and
power like Moses, David, Samson, Gideon to do great things, and
they are great examples for us. But it was foretold by the
prophets like Isaiah and Joel that the time is coming when the
Spirit will be poured upon all flesh.
And these encounters in the Old Testament were temporary and
selective and symbolic of something greater to come.
But the good news is that the something greater has not
arrived, and it's with all of us which is the Holy Spirit.
So brothers and sisters, let me tell you 4 reasons we should
depend on the Holy Spirit. Some people may not like him,
but I have to convince you to like him, Amen, And to work with
him. The first reason is that we are
in the age of the Spirit. Jesus left us with the Holy
Spirit. You see Joel prophecy then?
Then after doing all these things, I will pour out my
Spirit upon all people. Your sons and daughters will
prophecy, your old men will dream dreams, and your young men
will see visions. In those days I will pour out my
Spirit even on servants, men and women alike.
So Jesus is gone. The Spirit is here to lead us
into this fellowship that we are part of now.
If you ignore the Holy Spirit today, you'll be missing out of
God's current method of leading and empowering His people.
So you cannot be a Christian and not be working with the Holy
Spirit and not be filled with the Holy Spirit.
You would have been doing your own thing, doing what the
fellowship of the Father and Son, the Spirit are not doing.
To do what they are doing. To be part of them, you must
follow the Holy Spirit. If you don't like him, please
like him, because because we are left with him to as the first
reason, you should follow the Spirit.
The second reason is that we have a new temple enabled by
this Spirit and Ezekiel. It says to us, So I will
consecrate the tents of meeting and the altar and will
consecrate Aaron as his sons to serve me as priests.
Then I would dwell among the Israelites and be their God.
They will know that I am the Lord their God who brought them
out of Egypt so that I might dwell among them, and I am the
Lord their God. So in the past God wanted them
to create a Tabernacle became a building where humanity meets
divinity. As some people who put it, you
want to meet God, you go into the temple and consult the
priests, and then you meet with God.
So the temple at the time was a place where people go to meet
with God. But then that changed Jesus.
Death changed that for us. He tore the veil which separated
the presence of God from men. So now God's presence with all
of us He says to us in John chapter 4 verse 23 to 24.
But the time is coming. Indeed, it is here now when true
worshippers who worship the Father in spirit and in truth,
the Father is looking for those who worship him that way.
For God is spirit, so that who worship him must worship in
spirit and in truth. When Jesus was talking to the
Samaritan woman said, oh, you say we worship God on this
mountain and we worship God on that mountain, but when the
Messiah comes, he will tell us the truth.
Jesus said, well, I'm the Messiah.
The truth is that you're no longer going to worship God on
this mountain or that mountain, but God is going to be in you.
And so we become the new temple of God.
So it says to us clearly in Corinthians, first Corinthians
316 to 17, don't you know that you yourself are God's temple
and that God's spirit goes in your myths?
If anyone destroyed God's temple, God will destroy that
person. For God's temple is sacred and
you together at that temple. So walking with the Holy Spirit
is engaging with God in our daily life.
So if you want to engage with God now, you don't have to go to
a special place or a special tent or a special auditorium.
You are a working temple of God. His spirit lives in you.
So when you learn to walk with the Holy Spirit, that is how you
are engaging with God. You're engaging with the Trinity
living inside of you, this jar of clay, Amen.
It's very difficult in our in our country to explain this to
many people where people think that God is in the temple.
And so if they pray and they are not praying in the temple or in
the auditorium, then God is not going to hear them.
It's not true. Now, are you with me?
Wherever you pray, God will hear you.
Even if you pray in the toilet, in the market, on the street,
wherever you pray, God will hear you because God lives inside of
you by His Spirit. So your body now carries this
Holy Spirit. Are you still here?
So we will pray here. God will hear us.
You can pray in your car, God will hear, You can pray in the
shopping mall. God will hear you.
Wherever you need to need God's attention, just stand and pray
and then He will listen to you and answer.
I see is the Holy Spirit that has made this possible.
So if you don't walk with the Spirit, if you are not baptising
the Spirit, then you will think you have to go somewhere to pray
for God to hear you. You have to go into a temple, go
and hold an altar and pray for God to hear you.
Please. You are the altar, you are the
temple, the Spirit lives inside of you.
So if you listen to the Holy Spirit, you are engaging with
God. And the third reason we follow
the Holy Spirit is we have a new life in the Spirit.
Many of us, we get saved and then we ask the question, how
can I live a righteous life without following the laws of
God or performing sacrifices in the temple?
Because God gave the Israelites laws in the past, many laws that
help them to know the nature of God and to discover what sin is
so they can live separate life from other nations.
So same thing happens to people today when they give their life
to Christ. Then they ask, so where should I
start from? How do I know what is right from
what is wrong? So that will be the 10
commandments. And we say no, God has a new
plan for you and that plan has nothing to do in following the
10 commandments or following all the Jewish laws.
What His plan is now is that you will be filled with His Spirit
and His Spirit will teach you how to live for Him.
So when people get born again, we pray for them to be filled by
Spirit and teach them how to walk with the Spirit.
And when they do that, they're able to overcome sin and bear
the fruit of the Spirit, which is God's character.
So the Spirit in US help us to bear the fruit of the Holy
Spirit, which is the character of God and the spirit that gives
us abilities to save one another and the world with the power of
God. Amen.
I mean, some people teach that, say our present worship leader
that I just show us in the picture of essential she was
part of a church and the pastor taught them that the gift of the
Holy Spirit, the baptism and the Spirit is like a reward that God
gives you after you have lived a very good life.
So it is not for people who have just given their life to Christ.
So in that church, holy, the senior pastor speaks in tongues,
not everybody else, because they have not lived good life to
merit the Holy Spirit. The best thing that happened to
that church is that the man listening to me preach on radio
and when he got to 72 years, he invited me, said I've been
listening to you preach on radio and I like what you say about
Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit.
I don't have anybody to take over three of my churches.
I want to hand them over to you. Amen.
Said you don't know what you have asked for because this is
an elephant. You have to turn around that's
just started salvation. Stop preaching on the Holy
Spirit. Start preaching a baptism in the
Spirit. Fortunately, he didn't say
anything. Although I was saying things
that He will not agree with. He allowed me to see everything.
So now all the three churches are ours.
We have turned them around by grace.
Amen. So he says to us in Ezekiel 36,
verse 26 to 27, and I will give you a new heart and I'll put a
new spirit in you. I'll take out your Stony,
stubborn heart and give you a tender, responsive heart.
And I'll put my spirit in you so that you will follow my decrees
and be careful to obey my regulations.
And in Galatians says to us, So I say, let the Holy Spirit guide
your lives. Then you won't be doing what
your sinful nature desires. So how do I live a righteous
life? Follow the Holy Spirit, be
filled with the Holy Spirit, learn how to work with the Holy
Spirit, learn how to listen to Him and let Him guide you in
your daily lives. So a new life in crisis,
impossible without the Holy Spirit following Him, is how we
grow, overcome sin, and live with purpose.
Amen. Are you still here?
OK now, so let me make the last point.
We have a new certainty of our salvation.
How can I be sure of my salvation and God's protection?
So after the debate still goes on, can I lose my salvation?
Can I not lose my salvation? How do I know I'm a Christian?
When I first got born again, that was my big problem.
And I think one time I had a dream and the devil said to me
in the dream, oh, everybody who is safe, they've already gone to
heaven. Those of you on earth, you are
not going to heaven, you're going to hell.
So I went to my apostle and I asked him, is Christianity still
real or is a past tense 10 And I saw it's still real.
I said somebody told me in a dream that those who are saved,
they've already gone to heaven. We, those who are here now,
we've wasted time, not so. And our certainty that we are
saved, we belong to God and will be protected by God comes from
the Holy Spirit who lives in US. So the Holy Spirit does not only
empower us and transforms us. He also reassures us that we are
the children of God. So he says to us in Ephesians
chapter 4 verse 30 best visions of the four So God has creature
wrong and do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God with whom you were
sealed for the day of redemption.
Romans 815 tells our God Spirit doesn't make us slaves who are
afraid of him. Instead we become his children
and call him our Father. God's Spirit make us sure that
we are his children, Amen. So from the inside of us he
assures us that we are God's children and he helps us to call
him Father, Amen. We need the Holy Spirit, we
cannot do without him. He is God's seal over us, is God
stamp on us that we belong to Him and when Jesus returns He
will come for us who are His elites?
So we are currently living in the age of the Holy Spirit and
not under the law. A time where God's Spirit is no
longer reserved for a few, but growth in every believer,
empowering, guiding, teaching and sealing us until the day of
redemption. This age began without pouring
of the Holy Spirit of pentacles and will continue until Jesus
returns in glory. And we leave you with this quote
from Terry. Virgo says the wonder of
Christianity is that it is not based on external rules that we
have to check up and obey. New appetites, ambitions and
desires are put inside of us. We are actually given a new
responsive heart to replace our old Stony one.
The Holy Spirit changes us from inside.
Without the Holy Spirit, you can't be sure of your salvation,
you wouldn't know what the Trinity is doing, and you don't
even know how to live your life to please God.
So I encourage you ask for the Holy Spirit if you have given
your life to Christ, learn to work with the Spirit and you
will please God. You will be part of this
fellowship world with the Trinity and you will achieve
what the Trinity is doing on FI mean.
Thank you very much. I like to pray with us.
If you've not been filled with the Holy Spirit, please just ask
Jesus Amen. So can I ask us to if you can
stand those who can stand, please.
And Ben, sorry Ben, I don't know if it's good to ask those who
still want to be filled with the Spirit if they can just raise up
their hands and those who are filled with the Spirit can just
go near them, lay hands on them and pray for them.
So, but we need continuous feeling of the Holy Spirit.
So you have filled the Holy Spirit.
You speak in tongues. But there are issues in life
that makes us, some people don't even know the last time they
spoke in tongues because you're thinking about your children,
thinking about life, thinking about this one.
But we need continuous feeling of God's love, God's hope, God's
trust. So if you think you need help,
please just raise up your hand and let somebody close to you
come and pray for you. Pray that the Holy Spirit will
come upon you and empower you with his gifts.
Amen. Can we just do that quickly and
then?