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Now enjoy this message. So we've started on a journey.
These last few Wednesdays about the ministry of the Holy Spirit
and we are going to go where no man's gone before.
We're just gonna keep going until there's it, you know, it's
exhausted of what the Holy Spirit actually, you know, wants
to reveal to us. Because you know what?
It actually is inexhaustible. Every, every.
Year, we could say we should be learning more and more of who
the person of the Holy Spirit is, because it's inexhaustible.
Everything about His word is inexhaustible.
Whatever it is, we are to go from what?
Faith to faith. That means we are to constantly
be building upon the foundation of what's been laid.
So every year, just as Pastor has said, and we've heard him
say this before, every year when you're reading the Bible Reading
Plan, there ought to be another layer that's being peeled off to
reveal to you to sure up your foundation.
Right. But not only sure, up your
foundation. Continue to reveal to you more
and more of who God is, of who Jesus is, of who the Holy Spirit
is. Amen.
Hallelujah. Glory to God.
Well, you know pastor is in Kissimmee right now.
Minute. Well, he's ministering tomorrow
night at. The Global Leadership Conference
with apostle Ashley Estrada. You know, he's done that for
years now. And I tell you what, this year
is amazing. He has people from literally all
over the world. They have so many people that
are there from Guyana, Nigeria, I mean, you name it Switzerland,
I mean you just name it, they have it there.
And I was just blown away at the increase in Ashley Estrada's
ministry, just in what God has put in his heart to do to bring.
You know people from all over the world to one place to
continue to develop them in leadership for ministry.
And I tell you what, it is just been a powerful time and I've
just believe God is doing great things, great things.
Amen. The people were so hungry and
Pastor ministered yesterday. And just some phenomenal things
that God is doing and saying. And so we just believe it's
going to be a great a great harvest from it.
Amen. For what he's doing all over the
world. Amen.
You know the greatest thing we can do is is so the word into
somebody's life. It's the greatest thing we can
do because when heaven and our passes away.
There's one thing that's going to remain.
It's his word. So the greatest seed that we
have, we've been given. And you know what?
We can sow it. And that seed could remain.
Amen. Sow it into someone's life.
The word of God. Because I'm going to tell you
what, not everybody has the word that you have, and I can
guarantee it. Guarantee, guarantee.
Lots of people don't have the word that you have, Amen.
So you know what that means. There's more responsibility for
the one that's been given. Much Amen.
More responsibility for what you know compared to others who
don't know. And what are you going to do
with it? Come on.
Are we going to be a good steward with what we've been
entrusted with? Amen.
Every single one of us. Every single one of us that sit
in this house. Have a response.
It got quiet. I thought the mic went off,
Might drop. Every single one of us have a
responsibility, what with what we've been given and entrusted
with, with such a great word that we receive.
And you know, something interesting that I just have
been meditating on and I've been talking about and and really is
just been being confirmed by other things as well, but.
You know, pastor has, I believe really full blown moved into the
Apostolic gift. And, you know, it's it's
increasing and increasing. And so you're sitting up
underneath an apostle and that Apostolic gifting.
That has the app to now, Pastor. OK, so there's going to be
shifting. That happens.
And what's so awesome is you get to grow with it if you stay with
it. If you stay with it.
Amen. But we've been talking about
this. And anyway, obviously when he
went to Kissimmee, nobody knows what we've talked about.
And have been you know discussing amongst ourself and
apostle Estrada got up and looked at him and had a word and
said that Apostolic gift is getting ready to even increase
even more in him and and so God is just doing a lot of things
and we've got to be prepared. For.
What he's doing Amen through this body, through this
congregation because there's a lots of things happening.
We just sat down and met this morning because I was in Orlando
this morning and met with a young couple from Brazil and
this is Rhonda and Tim Rogers, daughter and Soninlaw.
And they're, you know, graduated Rayma and took off and went to
Brazil and now have 10 churches that they've started in Brazil
in 10 years, young couple, two children and have an infant.
And they called and asked if they could meet with Pastor and
I today. And so we said sure, and we had
breakfast with them and they said we want you to be.
Our. Mentor.
We want you to be our mentor. We never even met them, but you
know. I just believe God's putting
those divine connections together because of the gifting
that is coming to the forefront, and they're going to actually be
with us August the 20th. So you'll get to meet them.
But we're excited. You know, we don't know what all
God is doing, but we do know he's doing something.
He is moving, he's advancing and he needs every one of us
participating. And loving Him with all of our
heart, with all of our strength, with all of our might, so that
we can all bring a supply to accomplish what it is He needs
accomplished in these days. Amen.
Because there's still lots of work to be done.
Hallelujah. And the great thing about it is
you get to participate. Amen.
You get to participate with what God wants to do.
But the thing about it is, is, is that we are going to have to
stir ourself up to be participants years ago.
This is just talking, y'all, I'm just talking with you.
Is that all right? Years ago I've been teaching on
the Holy Spirit. We'll get over there because
it's all relevant. This is how you're led by the
Spirit of God when you've yielded your life, right?
To him. He'll lead you.
He'll guide you. He'll connect you with who
you're supposed to be connected with.
He'll do what he needs to do in you, come on to get what it is
that he wants to get through you.
If you continue to keep yourself in a place that you love him
with all your heart, all your strength, all your might, and
you're saying, Lord, whatever you need me to do.
But years ago I remember. Marty Blackwell welder, Reverend
Marty Blackwalder years ago came to our church and he began to
talk about a a prophecy that Brother Hagan had spoke of.
And he said the day and the hours coming when there's going
to be a lot of things taking place, you know, in the earth
and in the church, and you can sit back and be a spectator.
Of what God is doing through everyone else.
Or you can be a participator and what he wants to do in this
hour, you can participate with what he wants to do.
You can be a participant. And I'm going to tell you what
we all need to be participating and what he is doing in the
Earth today. Amen.
We need to be saying, Lord, whatever you need me to do, I'm
going to do it and participate with what he wants to do.
Amen. Through our lives.
Because we are not here just to be here living the American
dream. We are not.
We are here on Kingdom business. Every single one of us that God
has chosen to call into His Kingdom, we all have a
responsibility. It's not just up to us.
We all have a responsibility to do our part in the Kingdom, to
do our part in the Kingdom. And we're all going to be held
accountable for our part. All of us will be held
accountable for our part. For what we participated with,
with the Holy Spirit, because we're going to talk about that
tonight, or for what we did not participate with, We're all
going to be held accountable and responsible, you know, And and
the American church has gotten to a complacent, lethargic,
selfish, self-centered. Place that we're seeing people
just back off, back off and pressing in into what God wants
to do in the earth today. Taking a break, You know,
wanting to, you know, watch Church Online and sit in their
pajamas. What kind of supply is that
individual bringing to the Kingdom of God?
That's what I want to know. Because you can send your money
and pay your alms thinking God's going to bless it just because
you sewed into that television program, right?
That that stuff is not blessed. He does not bless that mess.
We are all to bring a supply. Every individual, every joint
supply, every part of the body, everyone has a supply to bring
to the Kingdom of God in some way, in some way.
And you know, I'm saying this because, you know, we have a
private school. And you can't attend our private
school without a pastoral recommendation, right?
That you are attending a church on a regular basis?
Well, we have people saying, oh, I attended church.
I watch it on YouTube every guess what I said denied.
That does not count. As church because there is no
supply being brought. You have a supply.
A supply of faith. Come on.
A supply of a gift that God wants to use.
A gift. A gifting that he wants to use
to help build up the body of Christ.
And you ain't doing nothing with anything.
Sitting on the television watching a service and saying,
oh, you attend every Sunday through YouTube, Listen, this is
the reality of where the church is today.
Well, we attend, we watch YouTube.
And no, I don't care if you listen to every YouTube video
Pastor Earl has. You ain't a part of this church
if you're not attending and bringing a supply.
Amen. Because there's other people
that need what you have. Amen.
This is reality of where people are at, and it got worse through
COVID. And then people that think that
they can just attend service then do their duty by just
showing up. Oh, you you, you know, you just
need to be thankful I showed up and have no other supply to the
body, right? Just hearing the word and
receiving it, but not participating in anything.
We call those couch potatoes and you know, leechers just want to
Leech on all the supply and the resource, but don't want to
participate by giving back. Just think of everybody.
Everybody. Every single person was doing
what they were supposed to be doing.
Bringing a supply, doing what God's asking them to do for the
local body. Because I'm going to tell you
what, and I think this is where I'm going to be preaching Sunday
night at camp, meeting God's coming back for a glorious
church. He's coming back for a glorious
church. And it's not looking too
glorious, if you ask me. He's coming back for a glorious
church. Come on, a church full of his
glory, a church full of his power.
A church full of every, it says. For he is equipping the Saints
for the work of service, for the building up and the maturing.
The maturing of the body. The church needs to grow up.
It needs to grow up. It needs to mature until we all
attain to the fullness that feels, All in all the fullness
that feels. That means all of us maturing,
growing up, taking our place in the Kingdom of God, taking our
place in the church that he's building and expecting to be
mature and grow up and take responsibility, right?
What do you say when somebody doesn't take responsibility?
They're what immature. They're immature.
They don't take any responsibility for life or
whatever, right? They're just immature.
They need to what? We say this all the time.
And yet he said the same thing about the church, that the
church needs to mature and grow up.
Because when he comes back, this thing is going to be flowing the
way that he said it's going to flow.
And there's going to be those that are flowing with him and
growing with him and doing what he says we're supposed to be
doing. And then there's going to be
those that aren't. And it's going to be obvious in
these last days. It's going to be obvious in
these last days. So we need the church to be your
priority because that's what he's building and that's what
he's coming back for. I want to be doing and in the
place that he's going to be when he returns, right.
He's coming back for the church. So I want to be participating
with everything that the church has to offer.
Amen. To build it up.
What are you doing? That's what the question is.
What are you doing to build up the church?
What are you doing to bring your supply so that we all walk in
the fullness together of the glory of God?
What are you doing to build it up?
Or are you a person that's going to tear it down?
Lots of people tear down the church because of church, right?
I don't want to participate with that.
I want to participate with building the church up in all
occasions, on all occasions, no matter what's going on, I'm
going to build the church up because that's what he's coming
back for. And I don't want to participate
with anything that could could hurt his church because people
that cry church hurt are actually hurting the church.
Amen. Hallelujah.
So he's coming back for a glorious church.
Amen. And I can't wait to see it all
in its fullness because it's going to be a beautiful sight.
Y'all all good. OK.
It's so quiet in here. It ought to be quiet because we
ought to think about what we're thinking about, you know?
We need to think about what we're thinking about.
Because let me tell you, I know the Holy Spirit is always
talking, always talking, always evaluating on the inside.
Always. Always.
Unless we've given him a deaf ear or hardened our heart,
right. He's always talking.
Always talking about what's going on.
And we know what's going on. We know.
Amen. Anyway, let's talk about the
Holy Spirit tonight. We we stopped last week and we
talked about how important it was that Jesus we saw as our
example actually could not accomplish anything that he
needed to do except for the Holy Spirit.
And we went through multiple, multiple scriptures proving that
Jesus, everything about Jesus was by the Holy Spirit.
And then everything that he did in the earth was what through
the Holy Spirit. He didn't go out and do
miracles, signs, and all those things until the what the Holy
Spirit came upon him. And so, in recognizing that
Jesus needed the Holy Spirit to walk as a man in the earth,
realizing that we're going to need the Holy Spirit in our
lives, understanding who this Holy Spirit is as the third
person of the Godhead. Because so many times, you know,
we know who the Father is, we know who Jesus is, but we don't
know who the Holy Spirit is, right?
And we know that it's important to make sure that we are
participating in the fullness of the Trinity.
Amen. The fullness of the Trinity.
Now we said this last week that nothing about Christ can be
revealed without the Holy Spirit, right?
And we started out of First Corinthians chapter 2, verses 10
through 16. It says this for to us God
revealed them through the Spirit.
For the Spirit searches all things, even the depths of God.
So all things are revealed by the Spirit.
For whom among men knows the thoughts of man, except the
Spirit of the man which is in him, Even so the thoughts of God
no one knows except the Spirit of God.
Now we have received not the Spirit of this world, but the
Spirit who is from God, so that we may know the things freely
given to us by God. Which things we also speak, not
in words taught by human wisdom, but in those taught by the
Spirit, combining spiritual thoughts with spiritual words.
But a natural man does not accept the things of the Spirit
of God, for they are foolishness to him and he cannot understand
them because they are what spiritually appraised.
That's why you hear people that are lost say, well, that book
makes no sense to me, and it makes no sense because the
Spirit hasn't revealed it to him.
They're not born again. They don't have the Spirit of
God on the inside of them, for at that time for the Spirit to
be revealed to them. Amen.
And so all things are spiritually appraised.
But he who is spiritual appraises all things.
Yet he himself is appraised by no one.
For who has known the mind of the Lord that he will instruct
him? But we have what?
The mind of Christ? Say I have the mind of Christ.
Say it again. I had the mind of Christ.
You better have that confession.
Amen. Because that's the only thing
that's going to keep you sane in this world gone crazy is that I
have the mind of Christ. Amen.
I don't have to think like the world thinks in insanity and
confusion in all these things that the world has going on,
right? But I have the mind of Christ.
I have the wisdom of God. I have the Spirit of God that
reveals to me all things, all things.
And I like to say this all things, not just spiritual
things. Not just spiritual things.
The Holy Spirit can reveal to you right?
Things going on in your marriage that needs to be dealt with.
The Holy Spirit can reveal to you things that are going on
with your kids as you're raising them.
And I tell you, I had the Holy Ghost talk to me a lot while I
was raising my kids. Amen.
And should have listened even more to the Holy Ghost.
Instead of trusting what my kids said, I'll just leave it there
cuz the Holy Ghost to let you know what's going on time and
time again. And if you don't yield to it and
believe. Oh, well, they gave you an
excuse. But something on the inside
don't set right. And the Holy Ghost said
something else, right. But little Johnny or whoever.
Oh, no, no, no, ma'am. I would never do that.
Oh, no, no, I would never. All right.
All I say then is your sin will surely find you out.
Amen. So the Holy Ghost won't just
let, won't just reveal things to you about spiritual things.
The Holy Ghost is living on the inside of you to help you every
day in all things that pertain to life and godliness.
All things. Whatever it is, He can reveal it
to you. Amen.
And you don't have to be ignorant.
You don't. You can know what's going on.
You can know what's up with this situation.
And so many times we override those promptings that something
just don't set right. Well, I tell you what, I learned
to yield after multiple times. No, I don't care what you say.
I know. Just like Jesus said.
No, you did laugh. I know.
Because I know the Holy Ghost, and that's how intimate we
should be with the Holy Spirit. That we know.
We know on the inside what really is going on.
Amen. Because he revealed it to us and
then we need to yield to it. But Hallelujah.
So I want to talk about, because we talked about the fact that
Jesus needed the Holy Spirit to be able to fulfill his purpose
and operate and do his assignment in the earth.
I want to look at the fact that the Holy Spirit or the Word of
God is God. Breathe.
God, breathe. So the Word itself is God.
Breathe by that means divine breath of God.
So when you begin to read the Word, because the Holy Spirit,
what went and came upon men to pin the word, that's why now the
Holy Spirit can be or the Word can come alive, can come alive.
And we know Jesus is the word, right?
So look at Second Timothy 316 through 17.
I told you we're going to cover everything that can be covered.
So this is not your typical teaching on the Holy Spirit and
His gifts and all these things, though we're going to cover
those, but I'm going from beginning to end.
So the Second Timothy 3/16/17 says this.
All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and that
inspiration of God literally means God breathed right.
So he breathed on his men to pin the word.
And it is profitable for doctrine, reproof for
correction, instruction, and righteousness.
All of these four things should be being brought to the table in
whatever church you're attending.
The pastor should be teaching doctrine, bringing reproof and
correction and instruction and righteousness.
All of these things are needed in the church, are needed in the
body. We need every bit of it to be
able to function and grow as an individual, as a believer in
Christ. If we don't have one or the
other, we will be out of balance.
And there's a lot of out of balance believers that have not
submitted themselves to a local pastor or church, and therefore
they're not getting all of these things properly.
They're feeding on maybe someone that's talking to them just
about the love of God, and that's all they want to hear is
how much God loves them. Come on, How much God loves
them? How much God's loves them?
How much God loves them? How much God's grace has
forgiven them. So what happens is and then if
you go and try to hear someone else that's going to talk to you
about living righteously or want to bring any type of correction
to the body of Christ because we've gotten off balance, then
what do they do? They don't want to hear that, oh
this church it for me. All they do is teach on this or
teach on that and you know, blah blah blah, you know.
And the thing about it is, is that's why you got to be in a
church and be committed to a church.
Because you have to stay committed to the word for the
journey. And you can be able to then
minister to people right on a continual basis, a full
nutritional diet of the word. And not just fluff, right?
Not just this or not just that, but you get a full meal.
You get the, what Paul says, the full counsel of God.
And that's the type of body that you want to be connected to.
So that you're getting a full meal.
Everything that you need. You're getting your fruits, your
vegetables, right? You're getting your meat and
you're getting your milk. Come on, You're getting all of
it. Because it's important that we
recognize that all scripture is profitable for doctrine,
reproof, correction, instruction, and righteousness.
That the man of God may be complete, thoroughly equipped
for every good work you see that, So you're going to be
thoroughly complete, right? If you allow those things to
happen in your life, the Word will correct you.
Course correction will happen when you get up underneath the
Word, because it is alive. It's alive.
It's God. Breathe and look at second Peter
119 through 21. We're talking about this because
you have to recognize that again, the Word and the Spirit
will always be in unity. The Word and the Spirit will
always be in unity and will always be speaking the same
thing. Why is this important?
Because a lot of people that aren't in the word or not
solidified in a body in a church where the pastors bringing a
full meal, they can get off in La La land with the Spirit
because they don't have a firm foundation in the word.
And they can start listening, just as pastors been talking
about through pride. But they can start listening to
spirits, demons, doctrines of demons and and deception and
lives, deceiving spirits. That's what a deceiving spirit
is telling you a lie, deceiving you, twisting it.
And if you're not founded in the Word, and you've not allowed the
whole, the Word of God to speak to you and to yield to it,
you've not yielded to it, then guess what?
You will get off listening to the wrong thing.
So you need both of them working properly in your life.
So Second Peter 119 through 21 says this.
So we have the prophetic word made more sure.
This word is a prophetic word made more sure than anything
else. Anything else?
This word is more sure than Dr. Phil, Oprah.
Come on, this is a prophetic word, and it's more sure than
anything else. And everything in it will bring
life. Everything in it will come on,
will come to pass. That's why he says it's a
prophetic word that will come to fast.
And why do you need to know this?
Because in the last days there's going to be what false prophets.
False prophets bringing a prophetic word.
That's pathetic. And it's going to get you off if
you don't know, if you don't know what the word of God is
saying. Amen.
Because they're gonna be in agreement.
So it's very important that we recognize that A more sure word
to which you do well to pay attention as to a lamp shining
in a dark place until the day dawn's and the morning star
rises in your hearts. But know this first of all that
no prophecy of scripture is a matter of 1 owns per
interpretation. For no prophecy was ever made by
an act of human will. But when men moved on by the
Holy Spirit spoke from God, Amen.
So it was by the Holy Spirit speaking through man to pin and
write the word of God. And he says it's the prophetic
word that's more sure than anything else.
You can bet your you can live your life upon it that this word
shall come to pass for those who will believe and everything in
it will come to pass. That he said would come to pass.
It's a more sure word. Hallelujah.
So it's very important that we recognize that the word of God
was God breathed and inspired by the Holy Spirit.
Amen. Now, the next point I want to
make about this is that Paul, and we're going to get into this
Paul completely. We know Paul wrote over half of
the New Testament. And in Paul's ministry, while he
was here, he completely relied on the Holy Spirit.
He completely relied on the Holy Spirit.
You just read the whole book of Ephesians his whole life, right?
Everything he talks about in the book of Ephesians, he's talking
about the inner working of the Holy Spirit that's living on the
inside of us. He's talking about the power of
God that's on the inside of us so that the believers that the
Ephesus church would know what's going on on the inside.
Right. But let's look at a couple of
things about what Paul said concerning the Holy Spirit in
First Corinthians chapter 2 verses 4 through 5 says this and
my message and my preaching. This is Paul.
We're not in persuasive words of wisdom, but in demonstrations.
What of the Spirit and of power? So that your faith would not
rest on the wisdom of men, but on the power of God.
So he's letting us know. Listen, I didn't just come to
you with words. Come on.
But no. I came with you with the
demonstrations of the Spirit of God and the power of God and
everything that I was doing. It was through the Holy Spirit
operating in my life to accomplish what Paul needed to
accomplish. For the church.
Amen. For the church, so that the
church could be built up. Hallelujah, First Corinthians.
Let me read that in the Amplified it says in My language
and my message, were not set forth in persuasive, enticing,
and plausible words of wisdom. But they were in demonstration
of the Holy Spirit and power approved by the Spirit and the
power of God, operating on me, and stirring in the minds of the
hearers the most holy emotions, and thus persuading them.
Amen. So here again we see that it was
the Holy Spirit operating and the power of God operating in
and on His life to accomplish what His purpose was for the
Lord. First, Thessalonians 15 says
this, for our gospel did not come to you, and Word only
didn't come just in the Word, but also in the power and the
Holy Spirit, and with full conviction.
Just as you know what kind of men we proved to be among you
for your sake. Amen.
So he came and demonstrated and participated and was in
partnership with the Holy Spirit to do what He needed to do in
the earth for the Lord. And this is what we need to be
doing as believers. When we, you know, start talking
about the indwelling of the Holy Spirit is that we need to
recognize that this is a partnership.
It's a partnership. Remember also in Corinthians,
Paul says that we are Co laborers with Christ.
We are in partnership with Him. Well, we have to know the Holy
Spirit if we're going to be doing what it is that we're
supposed to be partnered up with him to do.
We're going to have to know who the Holy Spirit is, how the Holy
Spirit works, how He speaks, how He flows, all of those things.
We have to know if we are going to do what the Lord needs us to
do in the earth. Amen.
So we've got to get in partnership with the Holy Spirit
look. At for Philippians 2 Philippians
chapter 2 and verse one. It says this.
Therefore, if there is any encouragement in Christ, if
there is any consolation of love, and if there is any
fellowship of the Spirit, if any affection and compassion, When
you look up that word, fellowship of the Spirit in the
Greek, it literally means communication.
Write this down. If you're taking notes, you
should be taking notes. I take notes everywhere I go.
Communication, communion. That's what this word means.
Fellowship of the Spirit. Communication.
Communion, Intimacy, intimacy. And we'll get to that later on.
Intimacy with the Holy Spirit and responsibility, That's what
that word means in the Greek when you look it up.
Fellowship, communication, communion, intimacy and
responsibility. And This is why I said we are
responsible for what the Holy Spirit has said to us.
We're responsible for it, right? We're responsible for it.
And it also means over in 2nd Corinthians 1314, go there, 2nd
Corinthians 1314. It says The grace of the Lord
Jesus Christ and the love of God and the fellowship of the Holy
Spirit be with you all. And that word there in this one
also adds partnership and participation, partnership and
participation. So we are to communicate
commune, become intimately acquainted with the Holy Spirit.
I'm going to say that again, become intimately acquainted
with the Holy Spirit. Remember the scripture where he
says, Lord, Lord, didn't we da, da, da da in your name?
And he said, depart from me, for I didn't know you.
You know what that word means. I wasn't intimately acquainted
with you. That's good.
I wasn't intimately acquainted with you.
This is serious business. Serious business to know that we
know the Holy Spirit working on the inside of us, and to be
intimate with the Holy Spirit because we can read.
We we already talked about weeks ago what we could do.
We can reject him, we can lie to Him.
But guess who knows? The Holy Ghost knows when you
reject, when you deny, and when you lie.
Reject, deny and lie. These are three things we don't
want to do with the Holy Spirit. OK, so here we see in this
scripture in 2nd Corinthians 1314 and breaking.
I just want to break these three points down real quick here that
we see that Paul. Of course these are Paul writing
letters to the churches, right? Paul is writing letter to the
Corinthian church and he greets them with this.
But in this greeting there is meaning.
In this greeting there is meeting for the church and the
meaning behind this scripture. Here we can see three things and
all three things are vital for the development of our life as a
believer. All three things are vital for
our lives as a believer to develop properly because if one
is overemphasized, we won't grow properly and will be unbalanced.
Like I said earlier, will be unbalanced and just a minute I'm
going to get to the three points will be unbalanced.
So this letter again was to the church and the teaching that he
was giving here was to mature the body.
We know Corinthians, That church was full of a mess.
There was all kinds of things going on in the Corinthian
church. Many times Paul had to write to
bring correction right about the Holy Spirit and some other
things. You know, you know, somebody
sleeping with somebody's, you know, daughter or wife or
something, you know. And so there was all kinds of
things going on in the Corinthian church.
So Paul's writing these letters to help grow them up and mature
them because that's what we're supposed to do, to build the
body up and to mature them. So the first thing that we
recognize here is the grace of the Lord, the grace of the Lord.
And we know that this is where it all begins, by the grace,
through what faith we've been saved.
So it all begins with grace. It begins with grace.
But it also grace is there to what continue to empower us to
be able to grow and mature. But it all begins with the
grace. And then it goes on to say and
the love of God, the love of God should be the foundation of
everything we do as a believer. The love of God should be the
foundation, the motivation. Y'all in my Kingdom Institute
class knows this. It should be the foundation and
the motivation of everything that we're doing.
Because we love the Lord, right? And we fear him.
Therefore, if we love Him like we sing these beautiful songs of
how much we love Him, then what are we doing to make sure that
we're loving Him by keeping His word and allowing the Holy
Spirit to mature us and grow us in areas where we're not
operating in the love of God. But not only that, what we see
is that there are people, believers, that love to talk
about the grace. Again, love to talk about the
love of God, but they have nothing to do with this
communion with the Holy Spirit. They don't want the we know
there's churches that don't want anything to do with the Holy
Spirit and all they do talk about is the grace and the love.
Jesus loves you. And when you die, you get to go
to heaven because he loves you, forgave you of your sin.
But he again, I told you all this.
He didn't just die for our sin. He died to get the glory back in
us, to get his presence back in us, to get the Spirit of God
back in man that departed from man when Adam fell.
So we need all three aspects of this to be able to function in
our lives as a believer, to be able to grow and develop
properly. If we don't have all three
working together, and and and our our, we are not
participating with the Holy Spirit and communing, partnering
with the Holy Spirit. Meaning when I hire the Holy
Spirit, say something, I'm supposed to yield to it.
If we don't do it, we will be dysfunctional.
We won't develop properly as a believer.
We have so many dysfunctional people in the earth already
because of sin nature. But you know what's even sadder
is that when you see dysfunctional believers, that
God never intended for them to look that way, but because they
choose not to participate with the power of God, with the
presence of God, with the Holy Spirit working in their life,
they are dysfunctional believers, dysfunctional
believers. And he wanted us to be fully
developed, fully mature, fully growing.
Come on in who we are in Christ. He didn't want anything about us
dysfunctional. He came to actually take care of
that dysfunction, and it was by the Holy Spirit working on the
inside of us and by the Word of God renewing our mind and
washing us. But we cannot yield to that side
and still be dysfunctional. Believers, Come on.
So that part is our responsibility.
Begin again. He already did everything by
recreating us in Christ and putting a new spirit within us.
So our spirit man is alive unto God.
But our mind, our will, our emotions, our our desires that
come from this flesh, all of these things still have to be
transformed and developed. And that happens by us.
Partnering with the Holy Spirit and letting the Holy Spirit be
intimate with us. So much so that he knows every
detail of your heart, everything you're thinking, come on.
Everything about you. Every single thing about you.
The Holy Spirit knows everything.
You can't hide anything from the Holy Spirit.
Can't. You can't hide anything because
he's in you. If you're born again, so you
can't hide. You can deny, you can reject,
you can lie. But the Holy Spirit knows again,
everything. Every thought, every behavior,
every insecurity, everything. And he's so wants to be intimate
with us so that he can reroute and pluck out and deal with all
kinds of thought processes and baggage and all kinds of things
that we had going on in our life.
But if we don't open ourselves up to it, you have the Holy
Spirit living in you that can do nothing for you, and you'll
still remain A dysfunctional believer.
Because we must take responsibility and yield to the
Holy Spirit through partnership. And guess what?
When we do that, we will have supernatural power when we just
acknowledge. Yeah, I see that.
I see what you're saying to me. I'm going to acknowledge it.
I'm going to yield to it, and then I'm going to let the Holy
Spirit deal with it. And whatever I need to do, I'm
going to adjust. I'm going to shift.
I'm going to change because I'm going to partner with the Holy
Spirit. And then when I partner with
him, the power will be there so that we can start walking in a
supernatural life and walking in the fullness of the power of God
that he has and partnership with the Holy Spirit consistently.
You can't just do it one time and think you're all good.
No, this is a journey for life of partnership.
You're committed to this thing. Come on, you're in covenant.
And so I'm going to take the responsibility that anytime I
hear something that the Holy Spirit knows about me or shows
me or reveals to me that needs to be tweaked and change, guess
what? I'm going to yield to it every
single time. And when I become consistent in
that, then character can begin to be built.
Come on, all of these things can begin to be built in your life,
but without the consistency Popping in here and there.
And you know, whenever you feel like it, come on.
Without the consistency, nothing will change.
You have to be consistent at consistent, consistent at being
yielded to the Holy Spirit all the time, all the time, right.
You know, I had to repent. I told you all that.
When you know, actually I've gotten 2 calls now in the last
week to be able to speak at other places and and so the
first call I got was they wanted me to come to a women's.
Meeting in Albania and I was like, I don't want to go, I
don't want to go. We're already going to India and
they want me to come that the tail end of going to India.
And I mean going to India is it's a journey.
I mean you, you know, it's just different And it smells like
nothing you will ever smell in your ever life.
And so anyway, so I'm thinking, I mean, I'm already going to
India and now they want me to come to Albania to do this
women's meeting. And I said I, you know, I don't
want to go. And then I had to repent,
because you know what the Holy Ghost told me?
You told me that you would go where I wanted you to go.
You would say what I wanted you to say.
Come on. That you would do what I wanted
you to do. And he corrected me.
I mean, Lord, I'm already going to India.
Can I just be home? That was correction, OK?
You told me. You told me.
He'll remind you of those things, right?
Isn't that what he says, what he said, what God said?
But he'll remind you the things you said, that you said to him.
And then the very next, that same week, I got another call to
go do a women's retreat in what was that Boise ID?
Well, I couldn't go to that because I already have a
vacation plan because we're going on our cruise for our
anniversary. So it was those same dates.
But you know, you know what I did ask, Lord, do I need, I
didn't even ask my husband, do we need to cancel this cruise?
Because I'll do what he needs me to do, but I didn't get a
release for that. Thank the Lord.
Thank the Lord so the Holy Ghost knows you better than anything
else. And.
That's his job. To talk to you, to correct you,
to remind you right of these things.
Are you? Are you all in?
Don't you remember when you told me right, you'd go where I tell
you to go? You'd do what I tell you to do.
You'd say what I tell you to say.
And you know I regret even saying that.
You know, Come on in, the natural.
I don't want to say some of the things I have to say by the Holy
Ghost, right, but you want to yield because it's for the best,
it's for the betterment, it's for the growth of the body, it's
for the growth of the maturing of the Saints.
And things need to be said because I'm going to tell you
what, in these last days, we've got to be keen to hearing what
the Spirit is saying. So consistency is important to
continue to develop that godly character in your life.
And without the daily fellowship, we will not live a
victorious life. We won't live a victorious life.
So we can be saved. Come on.
We can even be filled, but we can still live defeated.
As a believer, if we are not daily in fellowship with the
Holy Spirit, we will be defeated without acknowledging the Holy
Spirit working in our lives, we will always think there has to
be something more and we will never be fully satisfied.
We'll never be in rest and we'll never be in peace.
And I know so many believers that are still never in rest and
never in peace. And it's simply because they're
not being intimate daily with the Holy Spirit.
Because if you are being intimate daily with the Holy
Spirit, there will be faith, there will be rest, and there
will be peace in every situation, In every situation,
every situation. Amen.
And we can live a victorious life that way.
Amen. Hallelujah.
So why is this important? If we don't have all three
aspects of the Holy Spirit working in our life by love, by
grace, and by communing and fellowshipping with the Holy
Spirit? Listen, we're not gonna rise up
and be and walk out what God needs us to be in the earth.
That's just the bottom line, because we won't know how to
partner and work with the Holy Spirit and work with him, and
we'll be working things out on our own.
We'll be working it out on our own and we'll be trying to make
everything happen ourselves. And we want it to be easy,
right? We want it to be easy.
Well, guess what? If you will just partner with
the working of the Holy Spirit in your life every day, it can
be easy. It can be easy.
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