Luke chapter 3 verse 21 to 22. It says this Now when all the
people were baptized, Jesus was also baptized.
And while he was praying, heaven was opened and the Holy Spirit
descended upon him in bodily formed like a dove, and a voice
came out of heaven saying, you are my beloved son, in whom I'm
well pleased. Now I heard a minister say this,
and so I'm going to say it here. Let me borrow your glasses,
Eric, because what I'm about to do is one of those situations
where we're just trying to make things more clear.
The reason why we have glasses is because, you know, there may
be a line of sight and then you put these on.
It's not that you cannot see, it's just that you want to be
able to see clearer. That's the whole point behind
it, right? So you understand when we begin
to thank you, when we begin to say certain things that have
been said through the years or things that we pick up, you
know, just in life, and we have real good intentions of why we
say them. No one is saying that.
You're not saying it from the right intention.
However, sometimes we can be saying something with the right
intention, but it's actually has a, it's actually not as correct
as it can be. So, you know, if you look at
this particular passage of Scripture and it's a little side
note because I feel like the Lord wants me to go here.
He said, this is my beloved son and you.
I am well pleased. Now, that is the highest
compliment that the Father can give to his children.
That's the highest compliment he can give to his children.
We tend to make this statement when our children, you know, or,
or, or someone we're around is doing something good.
We're like, man, we sure are proud of you, right?
We make that statement. However, when it comes to the
word, pride is not a positive thing.
OK, now I understand that you're not saying that your children
aren't. You're literally conveying how
much you are excited about what they are doing.
I am proud of you, OK? Unfortunately, what it can do,
and we don't even recognize it, what it can do is it can cause
our children or who you say to develop a bit of
self-sufficiency because the whole point behind pride is that
I am good. I can do it.
I can do it independent of. So when Jesus God, when Jesus,
when the Father says is this is my beloved son in whom I'm well
pleased, what he's pointing him to is I'm pleased with your
obedience to my word. So the highest company in the
natural we could actually give our children when they do well
is like, I'm well pleased. And that's really what you are.
You're pleased that they are obeying what you've asked them
to do. Because when pleasing shows up,
then what happens is is you're acknowledging that they were
obedient to what you asked. I mean, I'm just trying to be a
little more clear because we don't want to give the devil an
occasion where whether it's employee, you know, employer
employees you have or, or relationships you have, you
know, you know, whatever the case may be, or with your own
children that they think they're good and of themselves.
Because that road itself, that can give the enemy an occasion.
Now, not everybody goes down that road.
You say, well, my parents told me I was, they were proud of me
my whole life. I understand that me, my parents
let me do all kinds of stuff that, you know, in light of the
word. I'm like, man, I what what were
we doing in light of the word? Some things I'm like, this can
open doors. I it didn't open the door or if
it did, I just chose not to walk through it because of some other
stuff. But at the end of the day, why
would I even do this? OK, so I want to encourage you
as a parent that when your children are obeying and doing
say man, I sure am pleased with you because I it because that's
what our heavenly Father did. I think it had helped take your
family relationship to a whole nother level because now you're
acknowledging to your child the reason I'm pleased because
what's it say in Hebrews Chapter 11 verse 6 without faith?
It's impossible to please God. Now faith comes by hearing and
hearing from the word of God. So obeying his word, being a
doer of his word is why you're walking in faith.
And when you're walking in faith, So Jesus is being
baptized because he acknowledged to John, John's like, I'm not
even worthy to untie your sandals.
You should be baptizing me. He said, permitted unto this,
permitted at this time so that all righteousness can be
fulfilled. In essence, my father has
written that this would occur and I'm going to obey him.
And when he did that, obviously he's baptized by John.
The windows opened up. The Holy Spirit comes upon Jesus
without measure and said, This is my beloved Son in whom I am
well, well pleased. OK, then we jump over into Luke
chapter 4 verse one. It says Jesus full of the Holy
Spirit, say full of the Holy Spirit.
Full of the Holy Spirit returned from the Jordan and was led
around by the Spirit into the wilderness.
Jesus was what? Full of the Holy Spirit.
Jump down to verse 14 of the same chapter, Luke 14414 it
says, and Jesus returned to Galilee in the power of the
Spirit, in the what power of the So he was full of the Spirit.
Now he's returning in the power of the Spirit and the news about
Him spread through all the surrounding districts.
OK, then if you jump down a couple more verses real quick,
it says in in verse 18 and 19, Jesus now in the temple pulls
out the scrolls and he says the Spirit of the Lord is upon me
because why is the Spirit of the Lord upon him?
Because he anointed me. He anointed me to preach the
gospel to the poor to send. He has sent me to proclaim
release to the captors, recovery of sight to the blind, to set
free those who are pressed to proclaim the favorable year of
the Lord. OK, now he stops there because
if you go to Isaiah, there's another one and the, the, the
day of the vengeance of the Lord, which is a a day of wrath
that's coming. But when Jesus came, that was
not that time, right? So here Jesus between Luke
chapter 3 to Luke chapter 4, we see the account of when the Holy
Spirit came upon Jesus. And this is really important
because again, we need to fully understand why we have the Holy
Spirit. We have learned here at Anchor
Faith Church that there is a lot of truth concerning Scripture,
but that falls between Genesis chapter 3 and Revelations
chapter 20. And that is considered the fall
of man. OK.
And when you're in between those two, then things that you see,
things that you read, although they're true, they still are a
little hidden because they do not have original intent and
conclusion, meaning. Revelations 21 and 22.
What happens after it's all over with?
When sins dealt with and everybody's stolen to the lake
of fire, that's disobeyed. And then here we are, new heaven
and new new earth. Because in between 3:00 and
Revelations 20, it's about man who's not right with God, who
needs someone to save them, which is Jesus, that when they
died they would go to heaven because that's where Jesus is
currently at. So the whole gospel between
Genesis 3 and Revelation 22 is about being born again,
receiving the power of God, so that when we separate from this
life, we will be with him who's currently residing in heaven.
And many of us, we're taught, will be in heaven forever.
But when you read the back of the book, there's a new heaven
and new earth, and the new Jerusalem's coming down out of
heaven to the earth. And this becomes problematic for
doctrine when we think we're going to be up there somewhere
when there's a earth here that's going to be redeemed.
Amen. And, you know, we have to ask
the question if we are being redeemed or bought with a price
and we're born again, a born, a new born from above, literally
what are we born to? If we have come out of one place
and gone into a place, then what does that afford us now?
Jesus understands this process because if you read Jesus and
the anointing coming upon him, nowhere do we see Jesus
highlighting the anointing with how it made him feel, nor did he
talk about how many times it put him on the ground.
I'm OK, we're just discussing. Will the anointing put you on
the ground? Yes.
Jesus was so anointed coming out of the garden when He spoke.
Knock people down. No problem with these things.
But again, sometimes what we do, if we do not know why we have
the anointing or why the Holy Spirit's coming upon us, we'll
associate it with a service, right?
And we associate the anointing with actions, certain actions.
Again, question, why do we run when the anointing comes on you?
Why do we run? Hallelujah.
I mean, you understand where where am I going?
Well, what scripture are you using?
Well, we understand that Elijah, the anointing came on him
concerning rain and he girded up his loins and he took off.
Well, you understand, we're definitely not being anointed
for rain to come and then running.
And I'm not saying you can't run no problem.
I'm just saying is it because we see people in these Genesis 3 to
Revelations 20 specifically and see how they are being affected
when the Holy Spirit comes upon them that we are try.
We think that's the reason. Now I'm not saying you can't
have some things again. David obviously have the
anointing come on him and he danced before the Lord.
Please dance. Oh, please dance.
There's plenty of scripture talking about dancing.
No problem with dancing, OK? No problem with raising your
hand. No problem with clapping.
No problem that if you get so much on you that you just like I
got to go, fine, take off. I understand that.
But again, those are not why we have the anointing.
They're just some effects that sometimes can happen when it
comes on us again. But it's not what we're looking
for, you understand? I don't want the anointing to
run. I don't want the anointing to
have goosebumps. I I don't want the anointing to
fall down on my face before the Lord and then stay there for a
time that then once it lifts, I'm the same person, No change.
I don't want an anointing to come on me to dance, but then
the next day when bad news comes, we're not dancing.
Amen. You know, I wish I was back in
that service. Well, why is there the anointing
in the 1st place? OK, because the day of Pentecost
is really significant. And again, we highlight it based
upon a language, but it was something bigger than that.
Because at the end of the day, yes, can we pray in an unknown
tongue, which is just the language of the Kingdom?
Absolutely. But you understand, the Lord
didn't say, hey, I want you to hang out, wait for the Holy
Spirit to be poured out so that you can speak in an unknown
tongue. You notice he never told them
that. What he said to them is that you
would receive what? Receive what?
Receive what power. You know what He didn't say?
He said you'll receive when. When he comes, you're going to
fall on the ground. When he comes, you're going to
flop around. When he comes, you're going to
run out the building. When he comes, you're going to
laugh so hysterically that you will not be able to contain
yourself. Now all those things can happen,
but what did he say would happen?
You'll receive power. Now that's important.
Are you hearing me? So let me say this concerning
Jesus in Luke chapter 4 verse 18, he said this.
The Spirit of the Lord is upon me because He has anointed me.
OK, Luke 4, let's look at this progression real quick before I
go over to Acts chapter 10. Jesus says, now permit it so
that all righteousness can be fulfilled.
He's baptized in the door and he comes up.
The Holy Spirit comes upon Jesus descends upon him, and the
Father said this of my beloved son in whom I'm well pleased.
Then the next verse, he's full of the Holy Spirit.
Luke 41 He's full of the Holy Spirit after he's tempted of the
devil. So he was full of the Holy
Spirit before he encountered the Prince of the power of the air.
God didn't. OK, I'll just give you the
punchline because it's going to be easier if I do it from here.
In Luke chapter 3, the Holy Spirit comes upon Jesus, of
which he acknowledges in the 18th verse of Luke 4 that he's
been anointed. When the Holy Spirit came upon
him, it was the King's anointing that came on him.
He received a King's power. This is significant because he's
full of the Holy Spirit or the anointing that says he's king.
That God who is king on the throne, the Father who is the
King of all creation, says this is my son.
Well, if he's king and this is a son, then guess what?
The son is the son's a king. This is my Son in whom I'm well
pleased. So in essence, the Father says I
will not send my Son to battle the God of this world or the one
who's ruling the world until he himself is in his rulership
position. Jesus is without sin.
He's never sinned up to this point.
He's had no sin. So as far as righteousness is
concerned, Jesus is righteous, but he does not be LED.
He is not led by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of
the devil until he shows up with the authority of the king.
So he received power, he received the Holy Ghost, he had
the fullness of the spirit, and in that full of the spirit, he
was able to overcome all the temptations of the devil for
those 40 days. And then verse 14 says he left.
He came to the next location in the power of the spirit.
What did he do? I show this God of this world,
or the ruler of this world, the the one who rules the domain of
darkness, that there's a new king in the earth because he
could not defeat me. Kings go to battle.
So the king went to battle with the ruler of this world and he
defeated him before he openly stripped him of his power.
I mean, it's just the beginning of a long line of defeats for
the God of this world, a long line of defeats.
But Jesus did not go because he had goosebumps.
Jesus did not go because he fell out in the Spirit.
He, Jesus did not go because he was laughing hysterically.
Jesus went because he was anointed as king with power.
Now, I'm not going to say that Jesus did not.
The Bible just doesn't tell us that during some of the
temptation, he may have just started laughing.
He could have. For the joy of the Lord is your
strength. And he was tempted 40 days.
I mean, it was in intense temptation and persecution from
the Prince of the power of the air.
I mean, I'm going to tell you right now, I don't believe
there's anyone in this room that the devil has showed up at your
house. I don't believe any of you have
ever had an encounter with the devil, Satan himself.
Now you'd probably have some encounters with some of his
spirits, but most likely he's never really showed up.
But he showed up with Jesus, right?
This is the one that rules that realm.
This is the one that was able to pull the domain or the authority
power from Adam. And now he has it because the
Luke account, which is why I went to the Luke 1.
If you read that temptation is where he says all this domain or
power or authority I'll give to you if you because it's been
handed over to me. If you just bow down and worship
me and Jesus like not going to happen.
It's written. It is written.
That's how you respond.
It is written. It is written now.
I'm not going to say that he didn't say give me some more.
I'm not going to say he didn't get excited.
Jump around. I'm not.
Scripture just doesn't indicate it.
Why? Because those effects are not
what's important. What's important is he knew he
had power and authority. That's what's important.
So again, if I run in a service or if I dance in a service, or
if I shout in a service, or if I laugh uncontrollably in a
service so that I'm then the next day I'm stronger because
of, because again, it's the authority.
It's not those particular things in and of itself.
And again, I would have strength because first I would have to
believe that the joy of the Lord actually is my strength.
Because you can laugh and not believe it's your strength and
then just be more exhausted after you've been laughing.
Have you ever laughed? Did your stomach hurt so bad?
You're like, man, I feel like I'm wore out.
Well, where's the strength at? There's faith that still has to
be applied here. So Jesus had power.
Power here in the Greek means this.
It is one who has power to rule. It's the potentiality to exert
force in performing some function power.
So the first thing though, is the power to rule.
So Jesus received an anointing from his Father and says you
have the power to rule. Hallelujah.
Come on, do you have the power of the rule?
That's way more important than anything else that happens with
the Holy Ghost in Acts chapter 10 verse 38 says you know of
Jesus of Nazareth, how God anointed him with the Holy
Spirit and with there's that word that is one who has power
to rule and how he went about doing good and healing all who
are oppressed of the devil for God was with him.
Now the theological Dictionary of the New Testament says it
this way says these works that Jesus did went around doing good
differ from similar acts of power in contemporary world in
three ways. Number one, they have no
connection with magic. This is not magic, this is not
sorcery. That's witchcraft.
So this has the anointing has nothing to do with that.
This has to do with rulership #2 they are done by the Word, which
is the word of the omnipotent God, whose king Kingdom here
enters history and overthrows the rule of hostile forces.
So #1 it's not magic #2 it is from a word, and it's from the
word of the King. Because now the Kingdom of our
God has reentered the earth. That's why Jesus said now the
Kingdom of God is at hand. Our Father who's in heaven,
hallowed be your name, your Kingdom come, your will be done.
That's his rule, that's his reign.
He wants that. So the anointing, the reason we
want the anointing is so that it continues to strengthen the
rulership God has given us in Christ.
All right. The third thing is, is the
presupposed faith both in him who does the work and in those
whose behalf they are done. So a personal relationship is
demanded. So again, Jesus had a
relationship with the Father who anointed him, and by faith he
carried out the word of his Father.
Both he and God. God believed his own word.
Jesus believed him at his word, and because of that, the word of
the King came to pass. Why?
Because it demonstrated the authority of the Kingdom.
So the anointing when it's in our lives should be a should be
demonstrating the authority of the Kingdom first and foremost.
But again, when we're in between Genesis 3 and Revelations 20,
then we're really just trying to, if we don't watch out, you
know, we, we don't seem to think that there's much the effect on
the earth isn't the same because our goal is to be out of here.
So then we just like these tangible touches from God,
thinking the anointing is a tangible touch from God in our
lives that make us feel better and helps us cope with what's
going on down here. Now the anointing is not here to
help you cope or to let you remind you that there is a God
in heaven who cares for you. It is to remind you, you rule
and reign. Now the good news is it does
feel awesome and it's exciting to be in those types of services
where the anointing comes upon you in a greater measure.
And again, when people are in one mind 1 accord, it flows even
easier. I'm not saying that it can't
flow with conflict because we know the anointing can flow with
conflict. Jesus obviously was in a
particular room that a guy's ripped the ceiling off and put
their paralyzed friend down. And it says he's seeing their
faith. He ends up speaking to him.
And there were people in the corner that were not there to
support Jesus's ministry, but they were the religious to to,
to always be listening and trying to make his words seem
wrong in the ears of those they were talking to.
OK. And so then Jesus by word of
knowledge ends up calling them out and said, why do you say to
yourself? So to let you know that not only
can I forgive sins and heal because they're both easy for
me. He told the man to get up and
walk. The man got up and walk and
walked out. So even though there was
conflict in the room, power, the authority he had with his word
over the paralyzation of the man's body overruled the
paralyzed man's body, called him to be whole again, where he
could get up in his own strength and walk out with a mat.
Now that's pretty powerful because when someone's
paralyzed, you know, I don't remember the terms.
That app, you know, where the muscles get really small.
Yes, that's the one. And so obviously the Lord was
able to quicken those muscles. He didn't say, OK, you're healed
now and we're going to help you get up.
Now let's do a few squats real quick to do some air squats.
All right, get down a little lower.
Let's keep working it out. Here we go.
Come on, we're doing it. You're getting it.
Starting to get strength. But no, I mean, he jumped up.
Grab the mat. I mean, this happened at the
gate. Beautiful with Peter.
Why 'cause Peter was anointed on the day of Pentecost.
And when he goes by in the next chapter, he didn't say, man, you
should have been in the upper room.
It was an amazing service. Oh, my gosh.
I mean, we were like drunk. It was crazy.
I mean, I had explained the whole thing.
I mean, you should have been there.
Didn't say that to the man at the gate.
Beautiful. Oh, he didn't testify about the
feeling of the anointing upon him.
I mean, it's like I had tongues of fire.
It was crazy. No, what he did, he said silver
and gold, I have none. But what I do have, what do I
have? I have the same anointing that
was on King. Jesus is now on me, and he has
just authorized me, 'cause I was there when they ripped the roof
off man. And Jesus spoke to that
paralyzed guy and he got up and here I am going to do the same
thing because I'm a king of the King and I'm going to speak in
the name of Jesus. Get up walking.
He was so confident that he grabbed his hand and snatched
him up. That's the anointing.
Well, it's more exciting than you're saying, but that's fine.
It's the anointing because he recognized it wasn't about this
service. It was about power, authority,
rulership, kingship. Listen same principle that
happened with Jesus. He did with his disciples.
Jesus is born of the Virgin Mary.
He is a man in he's God in the flesh, yet never sin.
So when he was one, no sin 2 no sin 5 no sin 10 no sin 13 no sin
16 no sin 25 no sin, 30 years old, no sin.
He is without sin. His nature is free from sin.
This is powerful. His thinking is pure.
Yet the Father says, I don't even want you to go to the king
of this world until I announce your kingship and anoint you.
And here's what Jesus does. And John he breathes on his
disciples receive the Holy Spirit.
Now they've been made righteous. They're in the likeness, they're
born again. Their nature now is like Christ.
They are new creatures in Christ.
But he said, wait, don't you go witness in one bit yet?
Because I need your kingship to show up because he said the
worst that I do even greater works.
Are you going to do and when? What was the context of that?
If I go, he comes and it's to your advantage that he comes and
I go. Why?
Because if I'm here, I am the king.
But when I go, then I can release that same anointing.
And 1st John tells us that we have the same anointing.
So the day of Pentecost is so important because it was God's
announcement to a defeated foe that's been whipped and stripped
of his power that I just left a whole lot of kings on the earth
that represent my Kingdom. And they are going to make a
mess of your domain. They're going to make a mess
because the same power I had, they now have glory to God.
Amen. So we're not sensing and feeling
and have an anointing just to get us through until we go
somewhere. No, we received an anointing
that has feelings and does certain things to us at times
and causes us to respond in certain ways.
But it's all about this authority, this dominion, this
power that God has given us. Can I get an Amen?
So with that being said, turn over to John 14 again, Jesus
said, truly, truly. I say to you, he who believes in
me, the works that I do, greater works will He do, right.
The worse that I do He will do also in greater works than these
He will do because I go to the Father.
John 14 jumps down to verse 16 and seven.
He said, I'll ask the Father and he'll give you another comforter
that he may be with you forever. That is the spirit of truth whom
the world cannot receive because it does not see him or know him,
but you know him because he abides in you and will be in you
right here. It is now in John chapter 20
verse 21 and 22. And Jesus said to them, peace be
with you as the Father as as the Father has sent me, I also send
you. And when he had said this, he
breathed on them and said, receive the Holy Spirit.
So the Father sent me in righteousness, impurity, my
spirit man was alive to him. The Holy Spirit came in him in
me. Now at this junk, you know this
juncture is when they actually received the Spirit within.
Up to this point the Holy Spirit had only been coming upon
prophet, priests and kings in the old covenant.
But now this is the death, burial and resurrection of
Jesus. This is after he has been raised
from the dead. He has put his blood on the
mercy seat. The new covenant is in play and
he said receive the Holy Spirit, they receive the Spirit within
that bears witness with their spirit, their children of God.
Then he said, now you wait until the promise of the Father.
You know what John was talking about, that he baptized the
water, but I'm going to be baptizing with the Holy Spirit
and fire. He's coming and I want you to
wait till he comes. And on the day of Pentecost,
Whoo, come on. On the day of the day of
Pentecost was God's announcement to the world.
Here are the kings of the earth. My gosh, are you hearing what
I'm saying? In Genesis chapter 2 verse
seven, Look at this. Jesus breathed on them in John
20. Why does He do this?
Because this is what the Father did to Adam in Genesis 27.
Then the Lord got four man out of the dust of the ground and
what breathed into His nostrils the breath of life, and He
became a living being. So you understand then the fall
of man cause man to lose access to the Holy Spirit.
So in essence, human beings were made in the image and likeness
of the King, with his own personal presence within them.
Isn't that amazing? In every person's search for
power and meaning in life is this.
They are actually seeking the return of the King's spirit.
That's all. Every person in their search for
power and meaning, what they're actually looking for is the
return of the King's spirit. That's what they're looking for.
A human being without the King's spirit is dysfunctional because
he's never complete. His very purpose requires the
presence of the Holy Spirit. Are you hearing me?
Come on. Are you hearing me?
Now listen, we have some tools that train in this area.
First of all, cool of the day deals with prayer, how to talk
to your Father. I mean, you understand we write
material for no other purpose than to help disciple the body.
And you understand the books that we write are for Anchor
Faith first. If anyone else picks it up,
great, but they're for us first. Then as you've read them and
they change your life, then you can get them for other people
because some contents that's within this book isn't being
taught everywhere when it comes to prayer.
Amen. And these are tools because you
understand sometimes it's difficult to get in a
conversation with people about the Bible.
You know, not a whole lot of people want to talk the word.
So sometimes it's easier to get there by saying, you know what,
I picked up a book for you. Oh, OK, yeah, Amen.
Now you pray over that book first, Lord, speak to him
through the book because I can tell you right now it's not the
Bible, but it has a lot of Bible in it, right?
Then we have another tool called lead follower on how to be led
by the Spirit. Again, once the anointing, the
minute Jesus comes out of the Jordan River and the Holy Spirit
came upon him without measure, the Spirit started talking.
Jesus, I want you to go to the wilderness.
And he had to learn how to be a lead follower.
We call Jesus the greatest leader, but the reality is in
the earth as the Son of man, he was the greatest lead follower
because he was just following the voice of his Father by the
Spirit. I don't do anything on my own
initiative, he said, but only what my father says.
So when I'm doing this, you know, they're like, wow, look at
this guy lead. I'm following.
And the centurion knew that the centurion when he came to Jesus
about his servant that was sick, he said, what did he say to me?
He said, Jesus, I am on a man under authority.
I am a man also under authority and in authority he said I like
you, am a man under and in. When I tell my servant to go, he
goes. When I tell him to come, he
comes. I'll tell him to do this, He
does it. Jesus said I've not seen such
great faith. No, not in all of Israel.
But the first thing is centurion recognized about Jesus authority
is the one he was under before the one he was in.
Because if you can't be under, and let me just say it this way,
we're all under, Even those outside the Kingdom of God are
under the authority of the devil.
Now, we all have wills, don't get me wrong.
But the demonic realm is seductive, manipulative, and
deceiving. And many of them are like I'm
doing. But you're really deceived and
you don't realize that you're being told stuff and you're
really functioning that way, but you think you're the boss when
you're not. I know I'm not the boss, and I
just yielded. God, what do you want me to do?
How do you want me to respond? What do you want me to say?
How do you want me to act? I'm following you and the Holy
Ghost in me will tell me. Hallelujah, Amen.
So again, these are just resources for you, the things
that we experienced on Sunday and we'll experience these more
and more. I mean, we've done it through
the years anyway. You know, you have these ebbs
and flows of, you know, teaching and the moves of the Spirit.
I mean, they're there. But in the last days, it's just
going to be continuing increase. I mean, even already tonight I
had unction to pray for somebody for healing and I just had
unction and I know they'll be healed as a result of that
because the Lord said to do so, right.
And as we're listening and we're yielding and moving and doing
these particular things because it's his church that he's
building. But the reason why Pentecost
comes is so that we can receive. Is that not what he said in Acts
chapter one verse 3. He said in those and these whom
he presented alive after his suffering by many convincing
proofs appeared to them over a period of 40 days.
And Speaking of things concerning the Kingdom of God,
gathering them together, He commanded them not to leave
Jerusalem, but to wait for what the Father had promised, which
he said, You heard from me for John baptized with water, but
you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit not many days from
now. Hallelujah.
Now they didn't know what day it was, but they didn't know that
it wasn't many days. Are you hearing what I'm saying?
Now we ultimately know that Jesus appeared to about 500
people. I cannot tell you He personally
invited all 500, but I can tell you that he definitely had a
conversation about that. 120 were committed to prayer.
It could have been larger than that right out the gate.
We do know 120 submitted to the process of waiting for
something, in essence obeying him.
He says that. He says he's coming, we're
waiting, we're praying. And again, this is very powerful
because the very first church is birthed out of a prayer meeting.
This is why prayer, corporate prayer time is so attacked.
And the enemy will do everything to convince you not to engage.
And just for the fact that we see this happen in every nation.
Makes me want to assume that 500 could have attended the prayer
meeting, but only 120 made it. That means more did not come.
Wow, isn't that amazing? Say I'll be one of the 120.
Come on, just be one of the 120. Amen.
So here's another thought. The most important promise God
ever made to human beings was the promise that the Holy Spirit
would return to live within them because He is the key to life.
When Adam ate the fruit, the Spirit departed from him.
This is what we've been waiting on, that reconnection with not
only God, but our purpose and destiny.
Without the Holy Spirit we are incomplete because God always
intended us to be connected to Him, to be of Him, because we
were created in His image that His Spirit could freely flow
with us. So it's the most important
promise that He made is that He's coming back.
Aren't you glad He came back? It is.
It was the presence of the Holy Spirit within human beings that
gave them the authority and ability to have dominion over
their environment. This is why you want the
anointing. This is why I would say, have
you received the baptism of the Spirit?
It's the power you're after. Tongues is an evidence.
It's not the reason, it's the power tongues, just the
evidence. And it's important because you
need to pray in the Spirit. In essence, you're praying in
the language of the Kingdom, which is full authority of God's
will to impact your environment. What's the Bible say?
When you don't know how you ought to pray?
What do you do? You pray in the Spirit, and
praying in the Spirit prays out the perfect will of God.
So God empowered you through an anointing, a King's anointing.
That then gives you access to a language that the enemy has no
idea what you're saying, and it releases God's perfect will.
You said, but I don't understand it, but God does.
Because when you're in a situation and you don't know how
you ought to overcome this thing God does, and you can pray in
the Spirit and release that will you being the king in the earth,
you're releasing the very words from the throne room in the
earth that heaven, earth and under the earth must obey in the
name of Jesus, Hallelujah. And in these last days, you want
to be praying in the spirit. You want to be releasing that
when those times you're like, ma'am, I don't even know what to
do here. Well, you know what my heavenly
Father does? Boom.
And you just start letting it go.
And what you're doing is you're you're making decrees and
declares from the throne room of heaven that will cause things to
begin to move. If you understand all creation
bows to the word of the king. Hallelujah bows.
So you understand creation is even bowing.
Things are bowing to the Spirit of God and the authority and
power. So he says, listen, you the the
this dominion that we get that the Holy Spirit gave us back,
gave us dominion to rule over our environment.
They were to exercise that's us humans.
We are to exercise dominion over the earth under the direction of
the Spirit of God. The reason why we could speak to
storms is because we have been given authority on the earth,
and when the King, his Spirit, authorizes that, then the storm
has to listen again. All of Jesus's miracles were in
the authority. Adam lost every one of them.
Let us make man in our image according to our likeness, and
let him have rule over the right birds of the air, the fish of
the sea. This is why fish are multiplying
all the time with Jesus. Because he had authority over
it. Adam had authority over that.
Jesus can speak and fish listen even when they're dead.
Why? Because all matter.
You understand what I'm saying? All that is and exists hears the
voice of Jesus. So it doesn't matter that the
fish are out of the sea and they are technically not alive.
Jesus can speak to the substance of the fish, and the cells come
alive and begin to multiply this meat on the fish, so that every
time he divides and gives to his disciples, it just keeps
multiplying. That's because he's anointed.
That's because he's been given the power to rule and he's given
that to us. Wow.
So the restoration of the King's spirit to humanity is central to
the restoration of his Kingdom on the earth.
Again, because Genesis 3 to Revelations 20 ministering, we
look at the Holy Spirit and, and a lot of areas only look at the
Holy Spirit as the one who tells us we're children of God and
they only receive the spirit within.
I'm born again. That's all that matters is what
they, you know, tend to think. And so I just know where I'm
going to go when I'm when I die now, because the Spirit of God
speaks to my spirit. I can hear from God.
That's all that matters. Well, that's that's phase one
because it was never about you just hearing from God.
It's about you living like God. Now you're not God, you're a
human being. That is your species.
Can I say it that way? I mean, there are angels.
Angels are not God. They are created species.
We are created species called humans, but they're in the image
of God. Hallelujah.
So I am no way saying you are God or even a God.
What I'm saying is you are a human that is in the likeness of
God and can do the same things God can do Hallelujah.
Amen. Now that is good news.
Now is it good news to not go to the lake of fire forever?
But is it also good news to be healed?
Now isn't it also good news to be able to prosper now for your
purpose? Isn't it also good news now to
not ever be depressed, but have the joy of the Lord, which is
your strength? Isn't it also good news to be
given authority over the devil and your flesh?
So the good news just keeps coming.
I mean, the Lord, if he could go into churches, he would be
saying stuff like this. But wait, there's more, right?
Because there's always more with God as a human, He has empowered
me with His spirit so that my spirit with His spirit can do
the works of God. Wow, isn't that amazing?
I said, isn't that amazing? Praise the Lord.
So Jesus said or or Jesus says in Acts 1/8, he said, but you
shall receive. What are you going to receive?
So again, when we are expecting the anointing or we're asking
for the anointing, we're not asking to fall under the power,
although we could. We're not asking that we're
going to laugh, although we could.
We're not asking that we run or have goosebumps.
What we're asking is what Jesus said.
Listen, I want you to receive power.
Now, again, because we live in between Genesis 3 and Revelation
20, when we focus on the day of Pentecost, we'll focus on the
effect of the anointing and not the purpose of the anointing.
We'll focus on the effect of the anointing and not the purpose of
the anointing. That they were so drunk he had
to explain it. And they say, you know, you want
to get into a service where everybody's looking like they're
drunk. Well, if if you're so under the
influence of the spirit that you're stammering with your lips
and you can't hardly stand up under the anointing, because
that is true stuff. I mean, when the glory of God
came into the temple in the old covenant, the priest couldn't
even stand. There's no issue.
But those are effects of the anointing.
That's not the purpose of the anointing.
The purpose of the anointing is that you receive power.
You understand more people sometimes get discouraged with
Charismatics is because they they they demonstrate effects of
the anointing but aren't walking in the purpose of the anointing.
Yeah. So the Day of Pentecost, its
purpose was to give you King's authority, King's power, King's
rulership, and again, your mortal body.
Especially since we don't have a glorified suit, this mortal body
is going to to have enough. It will be affected by the
anointing or power of God when it comes upon us.
It definitely will. But again, that's not why I want
the anointing. I want the anointing so that
when I'm walking out day in and day out, then I'm functioning in
that authority and power. When when one of the defeated
principalities and powers comes against the church, I'll be able
to stay on the seat and speak and respond like a king.
But if you chase the effects of the anointing and the feeling of
the anointing, then your words are going to be based upon how
you feel and you miss the anointing all together.
You actually have an anointing to have authority to control
your flesh, control your mind, control your mouth, speak only
what he says. But because you go after the
effects of the anointing and not the purpose of the anointing,
then your words are going to be filled with effect.
This is why we see Charismatics, or what we would call
Pentecostals, we would call people full of the Holy Ghost,
yet act just as carnal as the world.
They can pray in tongues like crazy on a Sunday and curse on a
Monday. It's craziest thing.
Come on, y'all know what I'm talking about?
Y'all been around a couple? Yeah.
I mean, everybody's growing. I get it.
But again, what is it? We unfortunately, sometimes
we're taught, you know, we're trying to get this sense of
heaven. And the anointing gives us this
kind of feeling of a realm that's not here.
And we begin to chase the feeling instead of understanding
the purpose. Because I don't care who runs,
laughs, shouts, rolls on the floor.
It doesn't. But I don't care if you're so
drunk we got to drag you out of here because you're so full of
the Holy Ghost. No problem.
It's just when I hear you talk, I should hear the words of the
King. It is written.
Your emotions, your behavior should be in alignment with it
is written. Now that's a person that's like,
that's the anointing. They understand the anointing
for their lives and Jesus said, but you will receive what Acts
18 power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you.
Please understand I am in no way diminishing the effects of the
anointing. That's just not the purpose
because effects of the anointing can change.
You know, the anointing can get you quiet.
I was talking to a minister not too long ago.
You know, when I say not too long ago, it's been a little bit
OK, you understand, mine not too long ago can be 2-3 years
people. But anyway, I was talking and
they were like, you know, again, just they were dealing with the
challenge of, of, of people acting like the Holy Ghost was
moving when these effects were in operation.
And they kept they keep pushing. You can push a service to those
effects and so was talking about, I remember the day when
the anointing would come in and everybody just get quiet, can
hear a pin drop. Babies can be in the service and
never cry when that anointing comes in like that.
See, we want to be wiser. We want to be a mature church.
We want to recognize when the anointing's here and then not
think one effect is more of God than the other.
I mean, in fact, this particular minister said they've received
more direction during the quiet times than they ever did during
the laughing, running or shouting times, although they've
done that because if we don't watch out, we brother Hayden
used to say this. If you do not train the people
how to move with the spirit, you'll lose it in a generation.
You can train people about the move of the spirit only in one
way and still lose a generation because they'll think that's the
only way. They'll think that's the only
way. So if you're going to talk about
the effects of the anointing, then talk about all of them.
Don't talk about the one that made you feel the best.
And here's the thing, A lot of times when we're dealing with
stuff and God brings the anointing on our lives and we
feel, I mean, how many have felt his tangible presence even on
Sunday, right? I mean, and then even today, how
many feel his tangible presence? Yeah.
I mean, you can just like, but it's not about feeling Him.
It's about knowing Him, right? It's about knowing him.
But we can feel him. We can respond with our emotions
when it's directed by our Spirit, no problem.
However, it's not the feeling we're after, and Jesus is trying
to emphasize that here. But you will receive power when
the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you shall be my
witnesses both in Jerusalem and Judea, Samaria, and even to the
run as parts of the earth. We'll close with this one here.
Acts 2, one through 4. Pentecost was Sunday, Amen.
Which again, is just 50 days after Passover.
That's what that means. Pentecost by itself is not
about, I don't want to say Pentecost was something prior to
the outpouring of the Spirit because it was a type and shadow
of something to come, which was the outpouring of the Spirit.
You understand what I'm saying? OK, so this was 50 days after
Passover. Pentecost had come.
So the fulfillment of this particular feast, which is
called the Feast of Weeks as well, is going to be fulfilled
through Jesus. And the Holy Spirit said they
were all together in one place. And suddenly there came from
heaven a noise like a violent rushing wind, and it filled the
whole house where they were sitting.
And there appeared to them tongues as a fire distributing
themselves, and they rested on each one of them.
And they were all. How many were all filled?
That means he doesn't feel some and none all.
In this context, we feel all. Now, I'm not talking about the
gifts of tongue. That's something different.
This is about receiving power. All of us can receive power.
The Holy Spirit has gifts. OK, you understand?
We'll debate this. People will debate this.
Well, now, if you're Speaking of tongues, that's a gift, you
know, because the gifts of tongues, well, you know, there's
the gifts of healings. Yeah.
The Bible says every believer can lay hands on the sick and
they shall recover, and the gifts are not required.
But there are some healings that require gifts.
So again, if you can have healings without gifts, then you
can have tongues without the gift of tongues.
So they're two separate things. Are you hearing what I'm saying?
So again, this is the endowment of power.
We focus on tongues when we need to focus on power, because if
you come for the power, you'll, you'll speak in an unknown
tongue. That's, I mean, it's just going
to happen because it comes with the power.
So they were all filled with the spirit, began to speak with
other tongues as the spirit was giving them others.
And you understand that there is, they are unknown tongues,
but they're not limited to unknown tongues because Paul
literally talks about it being an unknown tongue where your
mind's not fruitful, period. However, you can speak another
language. I have personally spoken in some
Asian tongue. Once I was in prayer and I was
praying and I started praying in some Asian and I knew in my
spirit, this is a language. I knew it.
Now, no one's in the house but me, so I don't know what I'm
saying, but I knew in my spirit, if I was in that country, they
would understand me. And then I perceived in my
spirit that someone within that nation needed something, that
God used that language through me to decree what was necessary
to break. And I'll never know what that
is, probably this side. I may not never know what this
is, this side of heaven, this side of the Bema seat or the
reward seat of Christ, because I believe at that moment, because
I united that whatever occurred and whatever was released,
because once I got a release, I quit speaking in it, then
whatever that was, I believe the Lord will let me know on that
day. But at this point I don't know
what it is. So again, you couldn't say,
well, that kind of sound, you know, you may be speaking in a
language known to someone somewhere, period.
Now, I'll even give you this one.
Pastor David EMI, who went on to be with the Lord, was my pastor.
At Word of Life, before I came and planted this church, I had
him come to Anchor Bay Church and minister and he ministered
on the Holy Spirit and we were over at 312 in a backroom
because we were doing some remodeling.
We got stuck in 3000 square feet instead of having the whole 10
and so we he was back there ministering.
Well, a lady was there with a friend who only understood
Spanish, and so while he was ministering in English, she was
leaning over and translating what he was saying.
About halfway through, the lady who was receiving the
translation said, you don't have to talk to me anymore.
He's speaking in Spanish. I hear him perfectly.
But he was not speaking in Spanish.
He was speaking in English. But when it hit her ears, it
changed. Now I cannot explain that, but
that was her testimony. You don't have to translate.
I can hear him perfectly speaking in my language.
And she listened to him the rest of the time.
Now they're sound waves, you understand, You can interrupt
sound waves. They're out.
But the Lord can tweak that. OK.
But again, we've been emphasizing language when the
emphasis is power. So the day of Pentecost was the
great coronation of the kings. It was a ceremony that the earth
is about to be full of kings of in Christ's that and he
demonstrated this with 120 in one day 120 people were were
anointed as kings that then Peter says do you want to
receive your kingship too. He said this is that which was
prophesied by the prophet Joel. He goes on and ministers and
they're like what must we do because he said this promise is
for you. You can have this power too.
And 3000, who came that day not thinking they would be kings,
but became kings that day. And then it started a King's
revival. That ain't.
People are just getting in the Kingdom, being born from above,
being anointed, and then they're all operating and functioning
like little Christ. And it became such a wild thing
that in Antioch, people would recognize them as Christians.
Why? Because they function like
Christ. So if you're a Christian, then
you're just saying you're a little king of the king, and if
you are, then you need to function in his authority.
Hallelujah. So first take authority over
your own life, your own mind, your own emotions, your own
desires. Yield and submit them to the
King of glory. And then as you do that, God
will release your authority even more out into the earth.
Hallelujah.