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So I want to start talking and as I said before, the rest of
the summer. We're going to talk about the
ministry of the Holy Spirit, the ministry of the Holy Spirit, and
we are going to go from A-Z, Everything that, everything
about the Holy Spirit, we are going to cover through the rest
of the summer. OK.
Everything. I mean, from A-Z, from the
beginning to the end of the Holy Spirit's work in our lives, OK.
And so we're just going to start this series and we're going to
see where it goes. And I just believe that there is
going to be great understanding. For a lot of people, because
there's still such a misunderstanding about the
ministry of the Holy Spirit, you know, there's so many
misconceptions about the Holy Spirit.
This is a spirit filled church. And so we have people that are
new, that have never heard from A-Z, the working of the Holy
Spirit. A lot of times people think that
the Holy Spirit's only about the power, right?
Or demonstrations of miracles and.
Or the Holy Spirit's only about, you know, your prayer language.
OK, but we're gonna see that the Holy Spirit has multifaceted
just like everything in the word of God.
And we're gonna see that there is a working of the Spirit of
God through a believer's life and the Holy Spirit that's at
work today in the earth. OK, and so we need to know about
the Holy Spirit and how he functions in a believer's life
and through a believer's life, so that we can take advantage of
the Holy Spirit operating in our life because so many people
still do not tap into. What is available to us as
believers? OK, so there's a lot we're going
to talk about. And you know, the thing about it
is, is I would encourage you to be here through all of these
Wednesday nights coming up if you do have to miss, go online
and catch up because it is going to build upon each session that
we have together on Wednesday nights.
And I believe we're just going to go on a journey with the Holy
Spirit to bring revelation to our lives, because nothing
actually will happen through the word of God outside the Spirit
of God revealing it to us. These things are spiritually
appraised. And so it's the Spirit that's
going to reveal who he is to us and show us through the
Scripture so that we can have a more understanding of the Holy
Spirit's work. All right, So what do I talk
about? The ministry of the Holy Spirit?
Because a lot of people that don't know about the Holy Spirit
think that the Holy Spirit's a dove.
OK, we've heard that. Some people think that the Holy
Spirit isn't it? K We've heard that.
What about our prayer language? Some people think that the
baptism of the Holy Spirit speaking as tongues is just
fanaticism or gibberish, Right? People say this.
But we're gonna see that there is a working and a ministry of
the Holy Spirit that's at work and is the only thing at work
today in the earth confirming the Word.
It's the Word and the Spirit working together.
K. Because reading the word by
itself, if you just read this book and just read it like a
book out of a library, it's gonna mean absolutely nothing to
you. That's why you need the Holy
Spirit to bring illumination and revelation of the word.
Into your life. And This is why we pray the
Ephesians prayers, that the eyes of our understanding would be
enlightened. What's that mean?
That the light would come on revelation.
Illumination by the Spirit of God would come on so that we can
fully grasp and understand the Holy Spirit.
And the word of God when we're sitting down reading it.
That's why when you sit down to read the Bible, you should be
saying thank you, Holy Spirit, that you're going to bring
illumination to me today. Some people are sitting there
thinking it's dry, boring, Da da da da da.
But if you'll start off reading with that heart, I thank you for
the Holy Spirit that's going to bring illumination and
revelation and understanding of the word every time you sit
down. Then guess what?
You're inviting the Holy Spirit now to be your teacher.
OK, and so we're going to see a lot of this about the Holy
Spirit. But I really want to start.
With the ministry of the Holy Spirit from the beginning and
then hopefully be able to get into the person of the Holy
Spirit tonight And what we see through Scripture concerning and
confirming, because as I said a lot of people have not even
seen, do you know we still have some people that believe that
you know they don't believe in the Godhead.
They don't believe in the Trinity.
They believe in the Father and the Son, but they do not believe
in the Holy Spirit, that all they need is the Father and the
Son. OK, so there's still people that
believe that today, but we're going to see that and prove
through scripture that God is a triune God.
And if we need God the Father and we need Jesus Christ, then
we need the Holy Spirit as well. In our lives, because you can't
separate them. They're all in one, OK?
Father, Son and Holy Spirit. They are three in one.
And we need all three of them at work in our lives as a believer,
OK? And we're going to see this from
the beginning, so let's go to Genesis.
This is the first mention of the Trinity or the Triune God from
the very beginning in Genesis chapter one, right?
We're going to read. In the beginning, God created
the heavens and the earth. The earth was formless and void,
and darkness was over the surface of the deep.
And the Spirit of God was what? Moving over the surface?
Of the waters. So here we see God and the
Spirit. It says, And then God said, let
there be light. And there was God saw that the
light was good. And God separated the light from
darkness, and called the light day.
And the darkness he called night.
And there was evening, and there was morning, and there was day.
So in the beginning there was God, right?
And then we see the Spirit was hovering.
So it's very important that you see that the spirit was
hovering, waiting for a command. So the spirit is not going to do
anything outside of the command of God.
So the spirits waiting on The Voice of God to then be able to
go into action and create what God told.
Him or the Holy Spirit to create.
So the Holy Spirit is the one that will begin to create and
demonstrate what it is that God has said.
OK, so from the beginning we see that and then we know in Genesis
chapter one drop down to 26 and 28 it says and then God said let
us make man in our image. Again, he is using the verbiage
that he's more than one. It says in our image, OK, so
here he's referencing to the Triune God, OK in our image
according to our likeness and let them rule over the fish of
the sea, the birds of the sky, the cattle over all the things
that are creepy upon the earth. Then God created his own.
God created man in his own image, and in the image of God
he created him what? Male and female he created them.
So why am I referencing this? Because one, he says in our
image and then two he created man in that same very image.
OK, I don't have the scripture on here.
Because we're going to get into this a little bit more, but we
as the humanity that God created is a three-part being as well.
Just like God is a triune God, spirit, soul, and God the
Father, Jesus Christ the Son, and what the Holy Spirit.
We are three triune being right. We have a body, we are spirit.
And we have a soul, which is our mind, our will and our emotions.
So he created us in that same image and in his likeness.
And we see that here in Genesis. OK, So what God created was in
his image. And what I also want to say is,
is that God is Spirit. John says this, that John it.
That God is spirit. I'm sorry, my scriptures are
literally not on my notes, my reference points, just the word,
the way it printed out, it didn't print my scripture
references. So hopefully they have it up
here. Yeah.
John 424, I believe that is. Yeah.
OK. It's not on my notes.
So y'all make sure you look at the slides.
I don't know why it printed out like that, so.
It says in John God is spirit and those who worship him must
worship him in what spirit and truth?
So we were created in his image. We were created as a spirit
being and if we're going to worship him we have to worship
him in spirit with our spirit. This is how man and God connect
spirit to what spirit. Spirit to spirit, we connect
with him. We were created to be spirit
beings. So the Spirit of the living God.
Right from the very beginning. We know that Adam and Eve walked
with God in the cool of the day in the garden.
We know that his presence, His spirit as a spirit being, would
show up in the garden, right? We know this, All of us know
this. We've been taught this.
So here he is in the garden, being able to be in the presence
of God, worshipping God, spirit to spirit.
God would come down and meet with him in the cool of the day,
spend time with him in his presence, right.
Nothing was hindering that, Nothing was hindering that.
Until we know Adam ate the fruit and the serpent what deceived
Eve, Adam ate the fruit and then what happened?
We call that the Fall. So at that point we know that
the presence of God could no longer be with Adam because Adam
sinned and disobeyed God. So what happened?
The spirit departed or his glory?
Departed because that's how Adam was clothed in all of God's
glory. That's why they could be naked,
because their clothing was glory.
And so the Spirit had to depart from man because of sin entering
in. Well then we know that.
Here is Adam and Eve in the garden.
The Spirit now is departed. So what does this mean?
They can no longer commune with the Father.
They cannot connect with him the way that they were able to when
the Holy Spirit in his presence was there, ministering to Adam
and Eve and the cool of the day. Communing with Adam and Eve and
the cool of the day. Right.
So his presence could no longer be there.
So what happened? A disconnect, A disconnect
happen. So Satan's strategy will always
be to try to come in between you and God and bring dysfunction or
a communication. But to cut off communication,
that's the number one strategy of the devil.
Is to cut off communication between you and God from the
very beginning. We can see it. #1 strategy is to
cut off communication. We know this is the number one
strategy even in war. We've said this before.
The number one strategy of a war plan is to cut off communication
of the other side, right? If they can cut off
communication, then what happens?
Confusion, disorder, all kinds of things can happen when
communication is cut off. And so we see that this is what
happened with Adam and Eve. Between him and God.
When the Holy Spirit departed, communication was severed, and
therefore confusion, disorder, chaos.
Dysfunction was able to come in and then we see the result of
this with the fall of man. Everything now is about self
governance. Adam and Eve tried to what self
govern take care of themself by putting leaves and figs on them
to try to cover their sin. So man from that point on is
always trying to cover them on self, or be a God unto them self
and try to hide from God. OK.
And so the Holy Spirit is so important in our life that.
We need the Holy Spirit as the communicator to our life.
Say I need the Holy Spirit. Say we need the Holy Spirit.
Say it again. We need the Holy Spirit.
I'm going to look around to see that everybody's mouth is saying
that. Say I need the Holy Spirit.
Thank you. We need the Holy Spirit at work
in our life so that our communication with the Father
can flow properly. Because if we do not have the
working of the Holy Spirit in our life, communication is
always going to be hindered. And so it's so important that we
recognize the role of the ministry of the Holy Spirit at
work in our life. So communication was broken.
Relationship was broken at that point.
Connection was broken at that point with God and his man.
I like to say this, that this is where the spirit of rebellion
came in and an independent spirit.
Come on, come on. I can do it myself.
I can take care of myself. Right.
This is where AT Evil came into play.
And so when we don't have and don't.
This is going to be important. Because when we don't yield and
and and heed the Holy Spirit's work in our life, some things
are going to come into play in our life, even though we are
believers, because we're not yielding to what the Holy Ghost
is trying to say to us. This is going to be important
later on when we start talking about the working of the Holy
Spirit to bring sanctification and purity in our life.
OK, so every evil, everything that could be a part of fallen
man came in the minute Adam disobeyed God and the Spirit
departed. We would like to call this Adam
began to self govern. We as beings were never to be
self governed. We were always to be governed by
the Holy Spirit. Always.
That's how God created us to be. So once we begin as fallen man,
began to become self governed, we started doing things ourself
and what we wanted to do and how we wanted to do it and according
to the way that we wanted to do it, that was a result of the sin
nature. And all the Bible says have
fallen right short of all, have sinned and fallen short of the
glory of God. See that glory?
We were in the midst of His presence.
We were in all of our glory, so to speak, in that what they say
when a baby's born, they're in all their glory.
When they come out of the womb, they're in all their glory,
right? And so here the glories
departed, the spirit of God's departed.
We've all sinned and fallen short of this glory, so it
wasn't just Jesus trying to die on the cross so that we can be
forgiven, so that one day we can go to heaven.
It was also about restoring back to man the glory and the spirit
of God, being able to now dwell back in man in an earthen
vessel, the spirit of God now. Wanting to dwell back in man, it
was always about the Spirit of God.
Wanting to come back and dwell in man this earth and vessel He
came and he dwell in the what? The temple He came and he would
dwell in the Tabernacle. It was all about him trying to
come back in and dwell in the man that he created.
As well as forgiveness of sin. But without forgiveness of sin,
then the Holy Spirit, the glory, can't dwell on the inside.
The glory can't be a part of your life and nothing's changed
just because we have the blood. Amen.
Sin will always separate you from God.
Always. You may still be born again, but
sin is separating you from God and communion with him.
OK, so it's very important that we recognize.
That that is where that disconnect happened.
And now the Holy Spirit had to depart.
Repellion. Independent spirit came in.
Self governance came in. Our spirit was never meant to be
broken off from the spirit of the living.
God was never meant to be broken off.
And This is why we have broken hearts.
This is why we have the broken hearted, because our spirit was
never meant to be broken off from God.
We were created for him, OK? We were created for him.
Hallelujah. And so it's the spirit.
That we need functioning properly in our lives when we
begin to see that we are children of God.
OK, now why I want to talk about the consequence of the
rebellion. I want to talk about the
consequence, real quick, of rebellion, disobedience to God,
the fall of man. And the reason why I want to do
this is because there's going to be a lot discussing in further
teachings concerning the results of our flesh.
OK, but we want to talk about the consequences of the
rebellion and independence and self governance because again,
this has led to chaos in people's lives.
This is why people today that are not born again, that are
still in sin, that are still disconnected from God, are
chaotic. They're dysfunctional.
They're having identity crisis because they never were able to
identify with the spirit of God and with what God created them
to be. OK, And so we have people that
are living and death and destruction every, it seems.
Have you heard the statement with those that are not born
again? They're still lost and under the
sway of this world. They they say every time I turn
around something else bad is happening.
It seems like, you know, something's always knocking at
my door. Yes, because.
Sin will only lead to death and destruction.
That's the only thing it can lead to Death, destruction,
dysfunction, chaos. That's the position that man was
put in. Where we see at when God came
into the garden and spoke to Adam and said Adam, where are
you? And you've heard pastor say it
literally means what position are you in now, Adam?
You're in a position of death. You're out of control.
You have no longer dominion over your life.
We were never supposed to be out of control, people.
We were to have dominion. We were to be able to rule over
our own circumstances. But when death, chaos,
dysfunction, rebellion, independence, self governance,
all of this comes in, we get out of control.
We're out of control, like wild beast, insane.
We see it. We're seeing the insanity happen
all around us because they have nothing governing their lives
any longer, even morality. We know that we're living in a
day and in an hour where we're calling what evil, Good and good
evil. So people are out of control and
living in the destruction because of the sin nature,
because they are out of the position of dominion and
rulership that man was really supposed to have.
And one last thing, since pastors been ministering on
this, we can call this and the scripture calls it the pride of
life. The pride of life.
And this is where man is. There is no one good outside of
God. The scripture says every man
without God is evil. They are not good according to
Scripture. They are evil.
That's not being mean. That's being scriptural.
And we've started watering down all kinds of things.
Hanging out with evil people because, Oh well, they're good
but good. But bad morals corrupt good
character. So how can it be OK to hang out
with evil people according to scripture on a continual basis?
You see, we gotta say it like it is according to scripture.
Because This is why the Church is in a mess.
It's in a mess. People's lives are in a mess
because they are not heeding the spirit of the living God that's
on the inside of them. If we would have heeded the
Spirit of God, and we say this constantly, if you just would
listen and obey the Spirit of God on the inside and the word
of God, you won't find yourself in the midst of some of the
situations that believers are finding themselves in.
The bottom line is We're not yielding to the Holy Ghost,
period. We're not yielding to the Holy
Ghost, and we. In this church need to know all
about the Holy Spirit so that we can yield to the Holy Spirit and
obey the Holy Spirit. Because we don't want to be part
of those that pastor talked about being deceived by
doctrines of demons, right? And being deceived in this pride
that we're better than what we really are.
So the pride of life, I want to just read that first John do not
love the world, nor the things in this world.
If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in
him. For all that are in the world is
in the world is what the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes
and the pride of life is not from the Father, but from this
world. This is what happened when Adam
and Eve fell. And rebelled against God's word.
They what began to take care of their own flesh by trying to
cover their sin By what? Grabbing things of this world.
You know, people are still trying to grab things in this
world to try to. Medicate their sin, Try to cover
their sin. They're grabbing marijuana
leaves. Come on to try to cover it and
sedate it. They're dry.
They're grabbing alcohol, hops to try to cover and sedate,
right? So what?
They're trying to cover up all these things themselves with the
lust of the eyes. What can I see in this world
that I can, you know? Grab to become with the eyes and
the boastful pride of life, in whose case is the God of this
world, has blinded the minds of the unbelieving so that they may
not see the light of the gospel again.
The light has to come on through the illumination of the Holy
Ghost, so people in the world are blinded.
They're in what? Darkness and this world system.
And so they need the Holy Ghost to illuminate or the light to
come on or what? One scripture says the blinders
where he has blinded the eyes. We need the blinders to come
off, and that's up to us to pray for people so that they can have
their eyes enlightened to the word of God.
So that they can see the light of the glorious gospel.
And this is only going to happen by the Holy Ghost or the Holy
Spirit. Some people oh they have ghost
up in their church. No, there's only one the Holy
Ghost, OK? Or the Holy Spirit is the IT
says the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ who is in
the image of God. Hallelujah.
My notes are all messed up. They did not print off right.
This is blowing me away. I have Ephesians up here for
some reason. Do we have this on the screen?
Ephesians. Ephesians.
You have Ephesians. OK.
Huh. So this is probably for later.
Yeah, we'll use that later. That's not for right now.
This is so weird. Literally have no context on my
scriptures. This is why you just need to go
old school. Let's just go on back to the
Bible, OK, now? So here we see in John that they
began to live by the flesh, the lust of the eyes, the pride of
life, because they were separated from God and Romans.
Do we have that? Romans chapter 8, Romans chapter
8. What did they begin to do?
They began to live by the dictates of the flesh.
Romans chapter eight. I would encourage y'all to read.
I love the book of Romans, but Romans chapter 8 is one of my
favorite chapters. I would encourage you.
This is your homework, Mr. Mackey.
We're gonna read Romans. He always asked me.
You didn't give us homework, so y'all got homework.
Blame Pat. Mr. Mackey.
OK, read Romans chapter 8, which talks about living by.
The dictates of the flesh. So this is what happened instead
of living by the spirit. Because Romans chapter 8 also
talks about living by the Spirit so that you won't live by the
dictates of the flesh. But according to Romans chapter
8, for if we live according to the flesh you must die, but if
by the Spirit you are putting to death the deeds of the body you
will live. So when the fall of the man
happened, sin entered the world, the less of the flesh, all these
things now we became controlled, so to so to speak, according to
the dictates of the flesh. What your flesh was telling you
to do, you just did, because you had no control.
OK, to its passions or dictates, one translation says in the
amplified. So you just started living by
the flesh. You started living by what you
could see, what you could feel. If it felt good.
Let's do it. Yolo.
You only live. Live.
Come on, you're only young. Whatever that statement is, I
messed it all up. Yo.
I tried at least. Y'all laughed.
So you only live once. I was gonna say one life.
Yeah, but anyway, you only live once, right?
So however it makes you feel whatever love is, love.
Whatever. Come on.
You're living according to the dictates of the flesh, like a
fallen man. But he lets us know.
That's because we aren't living by the spirit.
And we need the Holy Spirit in our life.
Say we need the Holy Spirit. We need the Holy Spirit
dictating to our life. We need the Holy Spirit working,
ministering to our life. OK, so we're going to get into
the dictates of the flesh later on.
But I wanted to bring up the consequences of the rebellion
and independent spirit of what happened when Adam.
Fail. So let me read a couple of other
scriptures concerning the Triume God.
I haven't forgotten that. So in the beginning we saw God,
we saw the Holy Spirit. We saw that He said we were
created in His image and in our likeness.
So that means there's more than one side of God.
OK, now go to Matthew, which I don't even know what the
reference is. Matthew OK, here we go.
Go therefore, and make what disciples of all the nations,
baptizing them in the name of the Father, the Son, and the
Holy Spirit. Here we see all three referenced
as the triune God. All right, go to Colossians.
Colossians. It says for in Him all the
fullness of Deity which is talking about the Trinity.
When you look that up in Scripture, all of the fullness
of the Deity or the Godhead in bodily form.
So this is Father, Son and Holy Spirit.
Let's go to John. John should be next.
It says here I will ask the Father.
So here it is. Jesus is talking, right?
And he's gonna ask the Father. So we have Jesus the Father, and
he will give you another helper that he may be with you forever.
That is what the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot
receive because it does not see him or know Him.
Look at that reference there. It does not see him or know Him.
So what does that mean? It doesn't he that they can't
see him because the light hadn't come on.
But anyway, here's reference of the Trinity or the triume God
the Father, the Son is speaking and the Spirit of truth whom the
world cannot receive because it does not see or know him.
But you know him because what he abides with you and will be in
you. Thank you.
Wow. This is awesome.
That's the craziest thing I've ever seen.
A computer print my outline without the scripture
references. Can we just say that's the
devil? No.
Hallelujah. So now let me find where I was.
Okay. We are past the Ephesians.
Okay. So now we're at John.
Oh my goodness. This is why I don't even preach
with these things. OK, so go to John.
I just need to just get up here and preach.
I don't even know what's happening.
All right. So we see in those three
scriptures as well. The reference is to the triune
God. Now, I wanted you to recognize
this back in John 1416 and 717. It says, I will ask the father.
And he will give you another helper, that he may be with you
forever. That is the Spirit of truth,
whom the world cannot receive, because it does not see him.
This is a reference to him and he which means it's a person,
not a dove and not a it. I put it down like I T And then
I thought. Robotic.
A what? Is this A I that's coming out?
He's not a robot. K he's not a it.
He's not A dove here is referencing him to a person.
You call a person a he and a him, right?
And so recognizing that he is referred to as a person.
So the Holy Spirit is the what we call the third person of the
Godhead or the Triune God. If you've heard that statement
before, he's the third person. OK?
Why is this all so important? Because if he wasn't a person,
you wouldn't be able to relate to him.
It wouldn't be on a personal level, right?
You're not going to be able to relate to something that's not
on a personal level. So here we're seeing that the
Holy Spirit now is a person, and you can begin to relate to this
to the Holy Spirit as a person in your life.
Just like God is a part of your life, Jesus is the one that
saved you. And also we love him.
But the Holy Spirit now is a personal right person that lives
on the inside of you to be able to speak to you and talk to you
and commune with you. And the way you connect to the
Father is through the Holy Spirit, the person of the Holy
Spirit. Alright, now let's look at a
couple of attributes of the Holy Spirit.
Because if the Holy Spirit wasn't it, or if it was a bird,
a bird would not be able to talk to you, even though I know we
have parakeets. OK, so a bird is not going to
talk to you. So here we see the Holy Spirit's
attributes. Or we can also see the humanity
side of his personality. OK, look at John 1426.
In reference to the Holy Spirit it says, But the Helper, the
Holy Spirit now can a dove help you?
Can it it help you? No, the person.
A person can help you. The Helper It says The Holy
Spirit whom the Father will send in my name, He in reference to a
person again He will What teach you?
So here he can teach you. The Holy Spirit is a teacher, a
person, right? This is an attribute of his
personality. He's going to be a helper to
you, and he's going to be able to teach you.
Jesus actually is not teaching you.
Now. I understand that when you read
the word, it's Jesus. What?
Jesus was the word. So it's the Word.
Jesus is wrapped up in flesh and became the Word of God.
So Jesus is the Word, but it's the Holy Spirit that's bringing
the illumination of who Jesus even is.
Because there's many people that just love reading the Gospels of
Jesus and they want to see the. You know the personality and the
ways Jesus operated, but they don't want anything to do with
the Spirit of God. And guess what?
They're going to miss what Jesus did because the Spirit is only
there to confirm the Word and the working of the Word in our
life. OK, It's very important that you
recognize this, so he's going to teach you all things.
And bring to your remembrance all things that I have said to
you. So here again, recognizing even
Jesus said that he's gonna the Holy Spirit is gonna teach you
all things and he is gonna bring you to your remembrance.
What? What I said in my word, you see
that? That's why we say you can't
know. The Person of the Holy Spirit
outside of the Word. And if you don't have the word
in you to confirm what the Holy Spirit is teaching you or saying
to you, then you'll get off by listening to the wrong Spirit.
So we must have the word Jesus and His Word put in our heart so
that the Holy Spirit then can begin to illuminate to you what
the word is saying and what the word is meaning and confirming
the word that you're hearing. So this is the working of the
third person of the Holy Spirit as a teacher.
And as a person. Now look at John again.
You can go back down to verse 26 of that same verse or no.
I want to read that one out of the Amplified.
It says this it says. But when the Comforter, the
counselor, and this is where he breaks up all the I like to call
all the facets of the working of the Holy Spirit as well.
This is many facets, just like there's many facets of grace.
There's many sides and workings and facets of the Holy Spirit at
work in our life. You see that?
So he's a Comforter. He's a counselor, a Helper, an
intercessor and Advocate, a Strengthener, a standby.
The Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name.
I like reading this out of the Amplified because it says I was.
He will send in my name. And then it says in my place to
represent me and to act on my behalf, one translation says in
reference, one just like me. So the Holy Spirit, Jesus is
saying I'm getting ready to send you the Holy Spirit that's going
to represent me or be one just like me.
So that's why they're going to say the same thing.
They're going to say the same thing always.
They're going to be in unity, just like the Father, Son in the
Holy Spirit are all three in one.
They are unified the same with the Holy Spirit and the word,
which is Jesus. They're going to say the same
thing and be in unity, OK? And he's going to act and
represent on Jesus's behalf, but then look what he says.
He says, and he will teach you all things again, showing that
he is a teacher. The greatest teacher is the Holy
Spirit in our lives. OK, that's not to neglect the
fivefold ministry and the working of the teachers and the
prophets and the apostles and the evangelists and the pastors,
that when we get up here and begin to teach the Word.
You've got to because how will they know unless we someone what
is sent, someone preaches the gospel, all five ministries are
to be in operation and you should be able to receive from
them so that what the Holy Spirit can confirm in you what
the word is saying through those gifts.
But if you don't have. The word in you, You don't have
a pastor. This is why it says you'll be
like sheep without a shepherd, and you'll be tossed to and fro,
and you'll be listening to every wind and to every wave and every
doctrine that's out there. You won't know how to rightly
hear the voice of the Spirit if you don't have these people in
your life to help lead you, guide you, guard you, teach you
properly what the Scripture is saying.
So the first thing we see about the Holy Spirit's attributes in
as a human personality is he's a teacher.
He's going to be 1, just like Jesus, and then he is the Spirit
of truth, The Spirit of truth. This is why you don't have to
buy the lies of the enemy. Because if you have the Holy
Spirit on the inside of you, and you have His Word on the inside
of you, you don't have to listen to the lies of the devil.
You don't have to be ignorant of the Devil's devices any longer
because you have been in tune with the Holy Spirit who has
been communicating to you the Spirit of Truth.
John 1526. It says when the Helper comes.
Again, he used him as the helper whom I will send to you from the
Father. That is the Spirit of truth.
All of this is also talking about the Triune God, because
he's saying in reference to the Father that this is Jesus
talking, and then you have the Holy Spirit there.
He is what the Spirit of truth who proceeds from the Father.
He will testify about me. Meaning he's only gonna speak
what Jesus has said. He's only gonna speak what the
Word has said, which is the Spirit of truth now.
And John 16. John 16 Remember, I'm just
laying a foundation and we're just going from Genesis to
Revelations on the ministry of the Holy Spirit.
OK, John 16, seven and 11, it says, but I tell you the truth,
it is to your advantage. So this is Jesus speaking and
he's speaking truth, just like the Holy Spirit is the Spirit of
truth. And he's letting you know that
it is more advantageous for you. That He goes to the Father, Say
we need the Holy Spirit. We need the Holy Spirit.
Say it again. We need the Holy Spirit.
It is to say this. It is to my advantage.
It's to my advantage. We need the Holy Spirit at work
in our life and we need to know how the Holy Spirit is moving
and working and His ministry. So it says it's to your
advantage that I go away. For if I don't go away, the
helper will not come to you. But if I go, I will send him to
you. And he when he comes, he will
what? This is very important.
And I'm gonna elaborate on this scripture here.
It says here it says that. And he when he comes say this is
the Holy Spirit. When he comes, he's going to
what he is going to convict the world.
Convict, say convict. It's all right to use the word
convict in the church today. Oh, I don't go to a church.
They always talking about conviction and.
You know they talk about sin and nobody wants to be convicted.
You better be thankful that you get convicted by the Holy Ghost
because you will burn in hell. You need conviction in your
life. I'm so thankful that he
convicted me of my sinful life and brought me out of the domain
of darkness and brought me into the marvelous light.
That's what he'll do. He don't just always tell you
how awesome you are and how pretty you are and how wonderful
you are. He will tell you to protect you
from the gates of hell. You're on the wrong Rd.
You need to be convicted by the Holy Ghost and get out of your
pride. Hallelujah.
I'm telling you, people don't want to be convicted today.
So he says he will convict. This is part of the Holy
Spirit's job that when the word is preached.
And there is somebody that has not accepted Jesus Christ.
The first thing the Holy Spirit's going to do is convict
the world of its sin in hopes to draw you by the Spirit.
So guess what, If the Holy Spirit, and we're going to get
to this, is the one that draws men to himself.
Because outside of the drawing of the Holy Spirit, we don't
have a chance. So if the Holy Spirit is drawing
himself, then guess what he's doing?
As he's drawing a lost person, he's convicting that person of
sin. Convicting that person.
Conviction is not bad. It is a good thing.
Thank God for conviction. It's not a bad thing.
It's a good thing that will save your life.
It'll save your life. Hallelujah.
And that's what he says the Holy Spirit is going to do when he
comes. He's going to convict the world
concerning sin. And what righteousness, What is
righteousness? Right standing with the supreme
authority, the governing authority.
There's that word governance. Again, right standing,
righteousness. Religion has made it something
that it's not. It is.
He's going to convict the world of sin and of righteousness.
You know what that means, right? Living, Kingdom, living.
You don't live like that in the Kingdom.
You don't live in your homosexuality in the Kingdom.
That is not right living. That's not righteousness.
You see what I'm saying? You don't live in your adultery
or immorality, right? That's.
Conviction of sin, righteousness, and what else?
And judgment. Oh, they just always preaching.
You know that you're gonna die and burning it.
Listen, there is a judgment that will come.
And thank God for the conviction of the Holy Spirit to let us
know that if we're not right, one day we will stand before the
judge that has the right to cast us into the lake of fire, right?
So it says, that's what the Holy Spirit will convict the world
concerning sin, righteousness, right living, and judgment
concerning sin. So there is a judgment
concerning sin in people's lives that if they don't repent and
get it under the blood, then guess what?
They will stand before God one day.
And this is all the working of the Holy Spirit that nobody
likes to talk about. They want to talk about the Holy
Spirit and the power and the miracles and the chill box,
right? And all these things.
And the running and the shouting Come on, let's talk about the
Holy Ghost and conviction and righteousness and judgment that
is to come for those who stay in their stiff neck pride and don't
want to come into the Kingdom of God with the Holy Spirit's
drawing and compelling them and convicting them that today is
the day of salvation. Right.
Hallelujah. We need, we need some good fire
and brimstone preaching, I guess again today in the church, you
know, when Billy Graham died, I was listening to a lot of his
preaching, and I tell you what he called sin for what it was.
He talked about the day of judgment that is to come and on
and on and all these people would flaunt to the altar.
And when he died, I said to my husband, who's going to be?
Some evangelists that are going to rise up today and begin to
see some people coming to the Kingdom because they're not
afraid. Talk about Billy Graham is one
of the greatest evangelists in the world, but you know the
majority of his preaching was about sin and repentance and
judgment and people needed to get right with God.
Hallelujah. And this is the ministry of the
Holy Spirit. Without the Holy Spirit
convicting us, we would have all gone to hell, right?
Yeah, right. Conviction, Hallelujah.
And he says, because I go to the Father.
And you no longer see me. And concerning judgment, because
the ruler of this world has been judged.
Who's the ruler of this world? Satan.
The ruler of this world, this world system, everything we see
lost people being ruled and governed by Satan.
Hallelujah. And guess what?
He's already judged and he knows his day is drawing near.
And why do you think there's just been an unleashing amount
of things happening in the world today?
Now look at John, 16 John 1613 and 15.
It says this, but when he the spirit of truth comes, he will
guide you into all truth. He will not speak on his own
initiative, but whatever he hears, he will speak and he will
to close to you what is to come. Hallelujah, Thank God.
So he's the teacher. He's the spirit of truth.
He's going to then begin to tell us about things that are to
come. That's why we don't have to be
ignorant of the devil's devices. We don't have to be ignorant
about what's going on in the world.
We don't have to be ignorant about, you know, the next day,
or tomorrow or the next month. Because the Holy Ghost can
disclose things to come to your life.
Nothing has to take you by surprise or take you off guard.
Really. I'm not surprised by anything
today. Anything.
I mean, it just keeps getting funner and funner about all the
things that I'm just not surprised about any longer.
Yes, Hallelujah. Now let's close this thing out.
Romans 1417. It says this for the Kingdom of
God is not eating and drinking. But what righteousness, peace
and joy in the Holy Spirit. So the Holy Spirit is saying
here. This is what I wanted to show
you as a person of the Holy Spirit.
The person of the Holy Spirit has joy, has peace.
A dove can't have joy, nor can it have peace, right?
So here we see again the personality or the attributes of
the Holy Spirit. And when the Holy Spirit is
operating in your life, guess what?
A believer has a right to peace, joy in the Holy Ghost.
Amen. We shouldn't have to be sad.
Amen. Come on.
We shouldn't have to be terrified or scared or in fear,
because the Holy Spirit brings peace and joy to our lives.
Amen. Peace and joy now.
And we can see this with the Spirit here in Galatians 522 and
later on. We're going to get into all of
these. But it says the fruit of the
Spirit is what? Read of y'all.
All know Galatians. Come on, guess what can happen
in your life if you are literally yielded to the Holy
Spirit? All of these things can be a
part of your life if you're yielded.
And I can tell when you're not yielded if these things aren't
flowing and the fruit isn't just overflowing in your life.
Right. That's just according to
scripture. According to Scripture, these
ought to be fruits in our life, because this is what the person
of the Holy Spirit brings to our life, all of the fruits of the
Spirit. And we're going to talk about
this later on, Lovejoy. Peace, patience, kindness,
goodness, and faithfulness. You should not be a mean person.
When the Holy Spirit is living on the inside of you, mean
spirited, hateful, as a believer that has the Holy Spirit living
on the inside of you, you should be kind, right?
We should be patient. We should have peace in the
midst of whatever it is that we're going on.
Whatever's going on in our life, we ought to have joy and we
ought to be just exuding love for people.
When I go through things where people are on my last nerve and
I'm having to deal with people and their problems, I just want
to. I just want to gush in love like
I want to gusher, you know? Of love.
Because I say I I've got to love people.
Because if you don't, you would want to be one of the mean
people and not be kind, right? But that is the fruit of the
spirit. So what do you do?
You tap into that love and say, I'm just going to go show and
demonstrate love to somebody, somebody.
Because right now there doesn't seem to be one nice person on
the face of the planet. So I'm gonna just go love
somebody. Come on.
This is what you do. Because the Holy Spirit brings
these fruits to our life. Now look at the Holy Spirit's
job here in First Peter. Chapter one and verse two.
According to the foreknowledge of God the Father by the
sanctifying work of the Spirit to obey Jesus Christ and be
sprinkled with His blood, May grace and peace be yours.
In the full list measure the sanctifying work of the Holy
Spirit. So one of the attributes of the
Holy Spirit is to bring sanctification to our life.
He is the. The Sanctifier.
He is the You have heard me say it.
He is the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit is holy because
we are to be holy, just as He is holy.
So the job of the Holy Spirit's work and the ministry, one of
the sides of the ministry of the person of the Holy Spirit living
in the inside of us, is to bring that sanctification in our life,
to bring us into a place of continual holiness.
We've been made right, right with God the minute we get born
again. But now it's the Holy Spirit's
job to continue to work in a believer, sanctifying and
processing them through all kinds of behaviors and thought
processes and all kinds of things that we came out of.
From what we said was the Fall, dysfunction, chaos, all of the
things that were brought about because of the Fall, that even
though our spirit man is alive unto God and we're born again,
we have to allow the Holy Spirit to bring sanctification.
To our lives through the purity of the washing of the watering
of the word and the Holy Spirit of saying, OK, see that in the
word right there? Yeah.
I think you need a little bit more of that and a little more
of this and a little more of that, Right.
That's the Holy Spirit's job to bring sanctification.
So he is a sanctifier. Now.
There's only a couple of other scriptures.
OK, the Holy Spirit as the person right can be grieved.
We can see this. So a dove would not be able to
be grieved and it would not be able to be grieved, right?
No, but the Holy Spirit can be grieved, and it grieves the Holy
Spirit when we do not yield to him.
Don't think you're just getting by with it.
It is grieving to the person of the Holy Spirit that's at work
in your life. When you choose to stay in sin,
when you choose to disobey what the word says and what the Holy
Spirit is trying to do in your life, when you disobey it,
you're grieving him. Say I can grieve the Holy
Spirit. See, people don't want to feel
any type of shame or any type of well, let me tell you.
When you grieve the Holy Spirit, it does not please him, and you
ought to feel shameful, which is part of conviction, OK?
Ephesians 430 says Do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, by whom
you were sealed for the day of redemption, he says.
Do not do it. And we know the other scripture
that we know. It says that He who knows what
to do and doesn't do it. It is what?
Say it again, say it louder. I want y'all to love that word.
Say it again. So if we know he's saying don't
grieve the Holy Spirit, but yet we'll do it constantly when the
Holy Spirit's trying to convict us about something in our life.
It's sin. So whatever you're doing is sin.
But then you're also say, double trouble.
Yeah, you're in trouble. It's OK to say I'm in trouble.
People don't like these words anymore.
Oh, and you know what else? I was just minding my own
Business Today. Just trying to mind my own
Business Today. Praying in the Holy Ghost before
this message, doing my two mile walk in my preserve, minding my
whole old little business and all of a certain the Lord, the
Holy Spirit just started talking to me about this new term.
Church hurt. I am so sick of this word.
And I was talking to the Holy Ghost about it.
And I said, Lord, I'm so sick of this word.
Church hurt, church hurt. We're just church hurt.
And you know, Pastor said the church has never hurt you.
The church that he's building, Jesus Christ has never hurt you.
People can hurt you. But really, you know what?
He said? It ain't even hurt.
It's offense. We have called offenses Church
hurt. You're offended, you're bitter.
You're critical and you're calling it a Pretty Little label
like church hurt. The church hurt me, know you're
offended, and you know there's an answer to offense.
If the church has hurt you, if you are offended at somebody,
you are to go to them in private.
And talk to them about it and continue to be church hurt.
No. To get it right and forgive and
get it under the blood and move on and love and move on and
unity and get your butt back in church.
That's what the Holy Ghost told me.
Blame him, but it's scriptural. We have labeled it.
Offenses church hurt so you can stay in your offense and stay
bitter and stay critical and stay your broken self and a
victim because it's a victim mentality.
But somebody that much is mature could grow up and recognize, you
know, there's just something there.
And I'm just going to go talk to that person about it and get it
under the blood so we can go on in unity and love and brother
and love so that the world will truly know where to his
disciples because we have love for the brother and glory to
God. Hallelujah.
So why don't you tell the next person you hear say church hurt.
Tell him know what you are is just really offended and you
know you can get you can get rid of that offense and how you can
do it is just go to that person and talk to them.
Wow, that would be a miracle, wouldn't it?
Now y'all know I'm right. Raise your hand if you know I'm
right. Because it's the Holy Ghost.
That's right, Hallelujah. So the Holy Ghost can be
grieved. So let's not grieve the Holy
Ghost. The Holy Ghost can be jealous,
James 4-5 says. Or do you think that the
Scripture speaks to no purpose? He jealously desires the Spirit
which he has made to dwell in us.
He can be jealous. He can also be blasphemed.
The Person of the Holy Spirit can be blasphemed and we don't
ever want to get in that place. Matthew 1231 through 32
Therefore it's summertime. So we can stay till 9:30, right?
Matthew 12/31/32 it says. Therefore I say to you, any sin
now recognize. Blasphemy has to do with sin.
Any sin and blasphemy shall be forgiven people.
But blasphemy against the what Spirit shall not be forgiven
against the Spirit? Whoever speaks a word against
the Son of Man, it shall be forgiven him.
But whoever speaks against the Holy Spirit, it shall not be
forgiven him, either in this age or the one to come.
And we don't want to be a part of any of that, that we would
ever blaspheme the working of the Holy Spirit, the ministry of
the Holy Spirit in our lives, grieving the Holy Spirit in our
lives, any of that, because it all leads to blasphemy.
When you begin to start grieving that conviction and grieving the
Holy Spirit, you start moving into pride.
Pride moves you over into deception, and deception can
easily move you over into blasphemy.
Right now, there's some things about blasphemy that can also be
taught on, but I'm not here to teach on that now.
The Holy Spirit can be denied, and this is where we're going to
end tonight. The Holy Spirit can be denied,
and we see it in churches all around the world in Second
Timothy and talking about the last days, all of these things
that we have been ministering on is a result of literally as
pastors and knowing hundreds of pastors and knowing of hundreds
of ministries around the world. Of what is happening to
congregation members today, the apostasy, the pride, the
doctrines of demons, and the deceptions of men right and now.
It's all a result of what we're seeing in Second Timothy chapter
3. In verses 2 through 5 it says
for men will be lovers of self. They love themselves so much
they are becoming whatever they want to be.
Lovers of money, Boastful, arrogant, rivallers.
Disobedient to parents. Ungrateful.
I'm telling you, that is the start of it all.
Ungrateful. Being ungrateful for even the
blood or for what Jesus has done for you.
You're not even thankful for the life he's given you.
Wow. Or the godly husband that you
have, or the godly wife that you have that you're so prideful and
arrogant and boastful that you would go somewhere else or do
something else. You're ungrateful, unholy,
unloving, irreconcilable, malicious gossips without
selfcontrol, brutal haters of good, treacherous, reckless,
conceited lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God
holding. These are believers he's talking
about here. This is not the world.
This is not sinners. This is not the lost.
These are believers. Look what he says, holding to a
form of godliness. But what, although they have
denied its power, that is the Holy Ghost, the power Dudamus,
working power. They deny the Holy Spirit from
actually, the translation says, transforming their life.
They deny the power of transformation.
They refuse to allow the Word to transform them.
They refuse to allow the Word, the Holy Ghost to take care of
their flesh and to crucify their flesh and to be convicted at all
Of these things are a result of you denying the working of the
Holy Spirit in the power of God that can actually transform your
life into what He's called you to be.
Pure, holy. So we don't want to be a person
that holds on, yeah, to a form of godliness when we know we're
denying the working of the Holy Spirit in our life, the power of
God to deal with whatever it is that's going on in our life.
The same thing that's going on year after year after year after
year after year you are refusing.
The Holy Spirit, the power of God to actually transform and
work in that situation, to get rid of it once and for all.
We gotta ask ourselves This is why we say, is my life look the
same as it did year after year after year, or has Because let
me tell you, the working of the Holy Spirit has already tried to
convict you. Has already through his word and
even probably the preacher of this house, say something that
the Holy Ghost is trying to get you to overcome and get out of
your life, and you deny the Holy Ghost to really get in there and
work it out once and for all, letting the master.
Do whatever he wants to the clay, squishing it down to a
flat pancake and building it back up again to a vessel that
he wants to create. But pride keeps us form of
godliness, religion. No, we got it.
We got it. We're good.
No, this really didn't happen. No, I really didn't happen.
Yes, you did. Denial of reality.
And the Holy Ghost is on the inside at all times.
Trying to get you, trying to get you to yield, trying to get you
to just respond. Just do it.
Just go in that direction and the holy goes to be right there
as your helper to get you on the other side.
Hallelujah. But you got to let him in.
Hallelujah. Really in.
Really, really in. So we don't want to be a part of
these people that deny the power of God to work the Holy Spirit,
working and ministering in our lives.
We don't want to be a part of it.
Amen. Hallelujah.
I want to say this. And then we're closing the
beginning of the year in morning prayer.
The Holy Ghost reminded me about this last week, that at the
beginning of the year in morning prayer, you know, y'all really
should be in morning prayer at 9:30.
During church, instead of out here sipping your coffee because
half your problems that are going on in your life is because
you're out in that lobby seat, but coffee instead of in here
and letting the Holy Ghost talk to you.
So the Holy Ghost said through prayer, as we were all praying
corporately, that this year through auction of the Holy
Ghost, that this year was going to be a pivotal year in people's
lives. That this was a prophetic year.
Do some of y'all remember, I think I even said it in church,
that this was going to be a pivotal year.
This was going to be a prophetic year for your life or a pathetic
seriously, And that this year was going to set a the
trajectory, use that word, trajectory.
Of your future, and it will be according to you, will be shot
and launched forth into a place of fullness.
Of the spirit and walking and wholeness, and what God has
actually done for you and wants to do for you, and be able to
overcome some things in your life.
Or it's going to take you in the direction into the flesh, and
you are going to be off course. And I want to heed and warn
those again in this House. I'm seeing it happen, and it
doesn't have to happen to you if you'll just yield to the power
of God and the Holy Ghost on the inside of you and choose to say,
I'm going to deal with this once and for all, I refuse to go
around this mountain again in my life.
Refuse it. But I'm telling you, this is
going to be the year that will determine some life changes in
people's lives and it's either going to go one way or the
other. It's not going to be any other.
There won't be a coasting any longer.
There won't be a You know the Holy Ghost is OK any longer.
No, he's saying the time is now. It's your time.
It is up, and it is the trajectory of your future, one
way or the other. Amen.
And I'm going to tell you, you already know who you are.
And the Holy Ghost has been dealing with you for years about
this same thing, and you refuse and you stay in pride.
And I'm going to tell you, if you continue in it, it will not
take you down a great Rd. It will not because you know too
much. There's some of you that know
too much. And it won't be nice.
It can never be nice when you grieve and disobey the Holy
Ghost and His working in your life.
It will never end up. Well, it won't.
So let's heed what the Holy Ghost said in prayer to this
whole church body. Even though you weren't here,
you're responsible for it because it came through this
house by auction of the Holy Ghost to help save convict some
people from going down a wrong Rd.
Amen. Hallelujah.
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