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So we started our journey of talking about the Holy Spirit.
So if you don't want it, then that's fine.
We'll just teach the word. All right?
Hallelujah. Glory to God, we got We've been
having some LOL in the congregation lately.
I don't even know what are y'all doing.
I don't know if you're here. I mean, I didn't think you were
here Sunday. I'm not thinking you're here
tonight. Amen.
Come on. We got to get our mind shifted
and our minds fixed. Amen.
On what We really need to be focused on Hallelujah and not be
distracted, evidently, with summer time.
Summertime, Summertime. I guess this heat wave is
getting to all y'all. Amen.
We gotta stir ourselves up. Amen.
And not, uh, coming here just wanting to sit.
Not even wanting to engage and just rest 'cause you had to work
all day, I guess. Come on, we gotta get better
than that. We gotta know how to come in
here expecting, knowing that we're gonna come get filled up.
Amen. That the word of God's gonna
strengthen our spirit, man. Come on.
We should. Be in the overflow at all times
in the overflow. Amen.
Ready to go, you. God says it.
How high? If he says jump, I'm saying how
high if he says come on, whatever he says, I'm there.
Amen. Whatever he says, I'm going to
jump in and I'm going to be the first one to jump in.
Because we we need to make ourselves put ourselves in the
position that he at all times is ready to do something in our
life. But we sit back and just wait.
Instead of just saying, Lord, I'm here, Whatever you want to
do, come on, Fill me up. Give me the word.
Strengthen me so that I can go out tomorrow and continue to be
filled up. Continue to conquer.
Continue to overcome. Come on.
You shouldn't have to run dry. You shouldn't have to be weak.
You shouldn't have to be weary. We shouldn't.
We have the glory of the Lord, the glory, the glory that.
Can bring a manifestation of anything we need in our lives.
Hallelujah. Glory to God.
And so we have to continue to be spirit conscious.
Because this natural world, in this natural realm, continues to
fight against what God says we really are.
We are supernatural beings filled with the glory of God,
filled with the Spirit of Almighty God.
Amen. So there is nothing.
Come on. There's nothing.
In this world that should override that consciousness of
what's on the inside of us and what we have.
Amen. What we have already.
Not what we're trying to get, what we already have.
The glory. His glory.
The full weight of who he is. The full measure.
Come on. And we have to prepare ourselves
to continue to be a vessel. Come on, that his glory can flow
through. But it's not going to flow
through if we don't expect it, if we don't anticipate it, if we
don't come. You know, encouraged and know
that these things are a part of our lives and that we don't have
to live naturally, that we can always walk supernaturally.
Hallelujah. We can always walk
supernaturally, even in the midst of whatever it is going on
in the world. Hallelujah.
So we've got to stir ourselves up and not be what Mark talks
about with the parable of the Sower that we are so-called up
in the things of this world. The riches, the seatfulness of
riches and the cares of life. That the word is being choked
out of your life. The word being choked out of
your life. So when we come in here, we
ought to be excited and and just ready to jump in.
Knowing that God has a word for us, God's going to build our
spirit man up. He's going to give us what we
need that the Holy Spirit's here.
He wants to rest upon us. Come on, He wants to fill us up
every time we come in here so that we can be full of who He is
and not full of the world or full of the circumstance or full
of what's going on around us. But we can be full of Him.
Amen. And not be so distracted that we
can't come in and engage Hallelujah, no matter what's
going on. You got to train yourself to be
engaged in every season, every day of your life.
You have to train yourself to be engaged with the Spirit.
Engaged with the spirit, being spirit conscious.
That's what we're talking about. I mean, that's not what we're
going to talk about, but that's what the Holy spirits want to
talk about, Evidently. Spirit conscious.
More conscious of the Spirit than anything else.
Amen. So that we don't get distracted
with things that's going on. Amen.
In our lives. That we're not conscious of the
spirit of God and what he's wanting to do.
Amen. All right.
Y'all had your little Mama talk. Amen.
I'll make you laugh tonight. Maybe.
Maybe.
Whatever the Holy Ghost wants, I'm yielded to him.
Amen. Because he knows what we need
and I trust Him. So we started our journey
talking about the ministry of the Holy Spirit.
It's so important that we talk about the ministry of the Holy
Spirit because so much that's going on right now in the earth,
well, everything that's going on in the earth right now is being.
Revealed to us by the Spirit, OK, And we have to talk about
the ministry of the Holy Spirit, because so many people still do
not understand who the Holy Spirit is.
We still have people that think the Holy Spirit is not.
For today. We still have people that think
the Holy Spirit is a dove. We still have people that say
it's it. We still have people that think
the only thing the Holy Spirit does is give you chill bumps and
power to run around and have fire and and lay hands and have
miracles when there's so much more to the whole, the person of
the Holy Spirit. And so last week we started our
journey all the way back in Genesis, and we saw that in the
beginning in Genesis chapter one, that there was God, right?
And he what began to speak it. Says that the.
Holy Spirit was what? Hovering over the earth just
like we talked about and saying about tonight.
He was resting over the earth, he was hovering over the earth.
And do you know what the holy this is important.
Because you know what? The Holy Spirit is not going to
do anything that the Word hasn't said for him to do.
So he was waiting for the Word to be spoken when God said let
there be light. That's when now the Holy Spirit
can go in and activate what the Word said.
And what God said, He went and He accomplished, He
demonstrated, He manifested. That's what the Holy Spirit will
do. He will demonstrate and manifest
what the Word has said in your life.
But you have to activate it. Just like God had to activate
the Word and say let there be, Then the Holy Spirit could go
into. Motion and create what it was
that God said that it would be. So outside of the Word the Holy
Spirit can't move. He could be hovering over this
house and without you engaging the Holy Spirit and activating
the Word for your life, the Holy Spirit can do nothing for you so
you can be in the atmosphere. Come on.
Every time you could be in the atmosphere of the presents and
the Holy Spirit's ready to go and and work on your behalf.
But because you sit there with no engagement, no activation,
without speaking the Word, yeah, Holy Spirit, you come rest on
me. You can't feel me unless you
activated the Holy Spirit is not going to do it.
Because the Holy Spirit is a gentleman and he won't force you
to do anything. He's not gonna grab your tongue
and flop it out of your. Mouth and make you speak in
tongues. I'd like to rip some tongues out
of some people's mouths. Aren't you glad I'm saved and
sanctified and filled with the Holy Ghost and walk in the love
of God? Hallelujah.
I'm glad I am 'cause I'd be in jail.
I guess there is no telling whoo, no telling.
Praise the Lord. Glory to God.
You, you all looking at me like you ain't the same way.
But thank you for the Holy Spirit.
Amen. The person of the Holy Spirit at
work in our life. And that goes for everything
that the Holy Spirit does in our life.
It's only going to activate anything in our life and unless
we yield to it. So we can have the Holy Spirit
living on the inside of us, but unless we acknowledge the Holy
Spirit and begin to release the Holy Spirit to operate on our
behalf, He won't do anything, won't do anything.
Amen. We have a responsibility.
But anyway, so last week we talked about that, that the Holy
Spirit. Is there to bring the
demonstration of the word of God.
And we've said this multiple times, you must understand that
God has already done everything He's going to do for mankind.
He upholds this world with his word.
It says everything he created is upheld with his word.
Who's his word? Jesus wrapped in flesh, right?
And dwelt among us. He was the Word in the beginning
was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
Amen. And so we know this too, that
Jesus has already fulfilled his assignment.
Everything that God needed Jesus to do to redeem mankind has
already been done. Jesus said It is finished.
And when he said it was finished, he said I had to go so
that someone else can come. And that was who?
The Holy Spirit. So now it is up to the Holy
Spirit in the. Earth to work through.
Man that is born again, and not just born again, but yielded to
him. Because many people are born
again, but they do not yield to the Holy Ghost on the inside of
them. Many people are born again, but
they do not yield to the Holy Ghost on the inside of them.
OK, and so it is the Holy Spirit now that is in the earth
working. To continue to accomplish what
God needs done through man. Amen.
That's born again and yielded to the spirit of God we saw last
week that also I want to remind you.
That we proved through scripture the Trinity.
Because some people don't believe in the Trinity, the
Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.
They have lots to talk about with the Father.
They have lots to say about Jesus, but they still
misunderstand the Holy Spirit and His working His ministry.
He is a He. We prove that in scripture.
Amen. Last week, multiple multiple
scriptures. That he is a person.
He is the third person of the Holy Spirit.
And we talked about last week that it was important that you
recognize that he is a person because he can now under he can
now. Minister, minister to us
personally. If we don't understand him as a
person then how could we ever relate to him?
Right, But because he is a person, we can now relate to him
personally, right? While we are in the earth, we
talked about the fact and and looked at some things concerning
the Holy Spirit and I'm just going to highlight them because
there was a couple that I didn't get to finish and I want to to
move in that arena. Tonight we talked about the fact
that it says that the Holy Spirit is a teacher.
Right. We talked about the fact that
the Holy Spirit says that he was going to be 1, just like Jesus.
So again, the Holy Spirit can do nothing outside of the Word.
They will always be in unity. Whatever Jesus said, whatever
the Word says right through scripture is going to be unified
with whatever you hear that the Holy Spirit is saying to you.
All right. They're going to always be in
unity. We looked at the fact that he is
the Spirit of truth. The Holy Spirit is the Spirit of
truth. Amen.
We looked at the fact that the Holy Spirit convicts he is a
convictor. A lot of people, as I said, only
want to see the power of the Holy Spirit.
I only want to see the miracles of the Holy Spirit, only want to
experience, you know, the power of God and the chill bumps, like
I said, but they disregard, especially in today's Western
society here in the United States of America, do not want
you to talk about the fact that the Holy Spirit's job is to
convict you of. Sin okay, and we never like to
talk about that. But he says when the spirit of
truth comes, what is he going to do?
He is going to convict the world of sin, judgment and
righteousness, right? That's what he's going to do.
We also see that the Holy Spirit can bring fruits to our life,
right? The fruit of the Spirit, right.
We also saw the fact that he is the one, that the Holy Spirit
can bring sanctification to your life.
He is holy. That is His job, part of the
Holy Spirit's job. We're going to look at this in
the weeks to come. Is the inner working of the Holy
Spirit. The inner working of the Holy
Spirit is to bring forth the fruits of the Spirit and
sanctification on the inside of your life.
And there will always be evidence of that, because the
Holy Spirit brings a demonstration.
So there will be fruit and evident of the Spirit, the
fruits of the Spirit in operation in your life.
All right. We talked about the fact that
the Holy Spirit can be grieved. Whenever you choose to disobey
what the Holy Spirit is telling you to do, you are grieving the
Spirit, one translation says Quenching the Spirit, quenching
the Spirit, The Spirit cannot be quenched unless it has been
revealed. So for it to be quenched, or for
it to be grieve, that means then that it has been revealed to you
and you're quenching the spirit. Illumination has come to you
through the word, or whatever the case may be, and you're
quenching it by not obeying it. You're grieving it by not
obeying what you're hearing on the inside to do.
So the Holy Spirit can be grieved.
This is this is a person. A person can be grieved.
A dove cannot, right? A dove cannot teach you
anything, right? A dove cannot convict you of
anything. So we're seeing that he has the
personality here of humanity. We talked about the fact that
the holy. Spirit is jealous.
OK, we said that the Holy Spirit could be blasphemed, right?
We also recognized in reading Second Timothy chapter 3, which
is where we really have launched from, is that the Holy Spirit
can be denied. The Holy Spirit can be denied
His working in your life. You can deny the power of God to
transform your mind. OK, you have a form of
godliness, but you deny the power to really transform your
life. And that's why we see so many
believers still defeated in their life.
Because they're not allowing the Holy Spirit to actually
transform their thinking, transform their life, OK, they
are what they are denying that power to work within their life.
There are other things that I did not get to, so I want to
continue and this is where we're going to start.
This is found in Hebrews chapter 10 and verse 29.
The Holy Spirit can be insulted. You can only insult a person,
right? The Holy Spirit can be insulted.
So in Hebrews Chapter 9, verse 29 out of the amplified, it says
how much worse, sterner or heavier?
Punishment. Do you suppose he will be judged
to deserve? Who has spurned and thus
trampled under foot the Son of God, And who has considered the
covenant, the blood by which he was consecrated, common, and
unhallowed, thus profaning it, and insulting and outraging the
Holy Spirit, who imparts grace, the unmerited favor and blessing
of God? So the Holy Spirit can be
insulted. That means you can know about
the power of God, know about the blood of God, but then insults
the person of the Holy Spirit. Insulted.
Why? By not actually consecrating
yourself to what it is he has placed within your life?
One translation actually starts talking about trampling on the
blood, trampling on the blood. In Hebrews, you can trample on
the blood. Nobody talks about that today.
You can trample on it, insult it.
Okay. Now here we see in Acts chapter
5. And this is New Testament one.
I just read you out of Hebrews but this is also New Testament.
Here says the Holy Spirit can be lied to.
In Acts 5 three out of the Amplified, Peter Said and
Anayas. Why has Satan filled your heart
that you should lie to an attempt to deceive the Holy
Spirit. You can lie to the Holy.
Spirit. And actually the way you do that
is you've become so deceived thinking that you could lie to
the Holy Spirit and the Holy Spirit not know your heart.
You've deceived your own heart. The Bible talks about you
deceive your own heart. To think that you can lie to the
Holy Spirit, know the Holy Spirit knows everything.
That's going on on the inside of you, every single thing.
There is nothing hidden if you are born again and the Holy
Spirit is living on the inside of you.
The Holy Spirit knows everything that's going on.
He knows everything. You're thinking, everything
you're doing, every bit of it. Nothing is hidden from him, he
says. And it's the Holy Spirit that
knows if you're lying to yourself.
Come on. So we have to recognize that
this is one thing that could lead into major deception and
pride, which is what pastors been talking about on Sundays,
is that you've lied so much to the Holy Spirit.
You are so deceived within your own heart.
That pride has entered in and you have a full open door to it,
thinking that you can get away with lying to the Holy Ghost.
Well, what happened to Annanis and Safira in the New Testament?
They drop dead. Why did they drop dead?
They lied to the Holy. Spirit.
Nobody wants to use that New Testament scripture anymore in
the Church. Come on.
So we must be careful about this.
All right and sensitive. To the holy.
Spirit living on the inside of us.
Now I want to look at a couple other scriptures concerning the
fact that. Here we see him in this person.
Well do you know we can see him? The fact that the Holy Spirit
has a mind, has a will and is able to speak, has a mind, has a
will and is able to speak. This is in Romans chapter 8.
Romans chapter 8 and verse 27 says this.
And he who searches the hearts, here we go.
The Holy Spirit searches the hearts.
That's why he knows if you're lying or not.
So the Holy Spirit searches the hearts and knows what the mind
of the Spirit is, what the mind of the Spirit is.
So the Spirit has the mind, the person.
The third person of the Godhead, the Holy Spirit has a mind K.
He has a will. First Corinthians chapter 12 and
verse 11. First Corinthians chapter 12 and
verse 11 says this but one and the same spirit works all
things, distributing to each one individual Lee just as he wills,
as he wills, Amen, so he has a will.
And he can distribute to whom he wants to according to his will.
He has emotions. The Holy Spirit has emotions.
Romans 15 and 30 says this. Now I urge you, brethren, by our
Lord Jesus Christ and by the love of the Spirit, to strive
together with me in your prayers to God.
For me this is. Yes, to strive the love of the
spirit. That's an emotion, right?
We know love is an emotion, right?
So it's the love of the spirit. You see that?
Now look at First Timothy chapter 4 and verse one.
The Holy Spirit can speak some things, can say some things.
It says but the spirit. Say the spirit explicitly says
the spirit says say the spirit. Speaks.
That in the latter time some will fall away from the faith,
paying attention to deceitful spirits and doctrines of demons.
So it the spirit said this will happen.
So guess what? It's going to happen.
But the Holy Spirit we see as a person can speak and say some
things. Well, he would have to speak and
say some things if he is going to teach us some things, right?
So we're talking about the Person of the Holy Spirit.
This is very important. Now look over in Hebrews chapter
3, verse 7. Here again it says therefore.
Just as the Holy Spirit says, another scripture for you today,
if you hear His voice, so the Holy Spirit as a person can
speak to us all, right, So there's ways He can speak.
He can speak through His word, but He can also speak to our
inner man. All right.
And we're going to get into that later on when we start talking
about the inner working of the Holy Spirit.
Okay. So again, we're laying the
foundation of the Holy Spirit as a person and how we can connect
with him as the third person of the Godhead.
Amen. And this is who is in operation
today in the Earth, OK, the Word has been left, and the Holy
Spirit's at work. Nothing that happens will happen
outside of the Spirit. Nothing that happens for God
will happen outside of the Spirit, and we're going to prove
that. Probably next Wednesday.
OK, Nothing can happen outside of the spirit, because even
though we've been left the word, we've got the word.
The spirit is the only one that can reveal the word to us, can
reveal the word to us. And it's the Spirit that gives
life to anything that we're going to accomplish.
Okay, it's the Spirit that is the revealer of truth.
And we're going to see a couple of scriptures concerning that in
a minute. So is the Holy.
Spirit for today, well, is the Father for today.
Is the sun for the day? So then the Holy Spirit would be
for today, right? Hallelujah.
Now, not only if the Father's relevant for the day and the Son
is relevant for us today, the Holy Spirit is relevant for us
today. And so much so that Jesus told
his disciples to wait for it. To wait for it, right?
So if Jesus didn't think it was important, why would he tell us
to wait for it? Tell his disciples to wait for
it? Or if Jesus didn't think it was
needed for today, why would he tell his disciples to wait for
it? And what he told his disciples
to wait for was a promise. He said.
I want you to wait for the promise of the Father.
It was a promise to us. So why would Jesus promise us
something but yet think that we shouldn't have to receive from
it, right? Because we sure want all of His
other promises. We want all of his other
promises. We want a promise of, you know,
be a blessed in the city and blessed in the field.
And we want the promise of healing and our bodies come on.
And we want the promise of everything that we put our hand
to is going to prosper. We want all these other
promises. Why would we not want the
promise that he said, which was to come right.
So Jesus thought it was important.
Right. And not only did he think it was
important, he said it's to your advantage.
So some people, even as believers, are still missing out
on an advantage for their life when they choose to reject the
Holy Spirit and the fullness of everything that the Holy Spirit
has to offer in a believer's life.
If they reject it, then guess what that means?
They are still at a disadvantage.
So why would we still want to be at a disadvantage when he said
that? It would be to my advantage.
You need it. It's necessary for your life in
the earth. Say I need the Holy Spirit.
Say I want the Holy Spirit. Hallelujah.
Glory to God. So we need the Holy Spirit.
It is to our advantage, not only that we see that Jesus asked the
Father. So the Father wanted to send the
Holy Spirit. He asked of the Father to send
the Holy Spirit, right? And the Father obviously gave
it. Amen.
Now everybody wants to focus on Jesus, and they don't ever want
to focus on the one person that's still in the earth that
makes things happen, which is the Holy Spirit.
Well, I have Jesus and I'm good to go, right?
Well again, he said there's an advantage for understanding who
the Holy Spirit is. And we always say this, that
Jesus is our example, correct? He's our example, so why would
we not want to follow his example?
And we can see all through the New Testament Jesus relied on
the Holy Spirit while he was a man in the earth.
Full of the Holy Spirit, without measure.
He only was able to accomplish His purpose and His assignment
through the Holy Spirit, working through His life.
And we're gonna see, I'm just gonna read to you everything
concerning Jesus and the Spirit of God.
I did not put these scriptures up on the screen.
I would challenge you to write them down as I read them.
OK, I'm not going to read them in their entirety, but I'm going
to give you the scriptures that I have in a minute.
So Jesus needed the help of the Holy Spirit to be able to
accomplish what the Father needed him to do.
Look here in John 1416 through 17.
He This is where he is asking the Father.
It says, I will ask the Father and he will give you another
helper. That he would be with you
forever. See that?
That he would be with you forever.
Because Jesus is not. With you forever only in his
word, right? So the person of the Holy Spirit
replaced the man or the person of Jesus that walked in the
earth. You see what I'm saying?
So he as a man had to go so that the Holy Spirit could come as
the person and live on the inside of what every single
person who would call on his name.
So now every single person can have the Holy Spirit a part of
their life if they've called on the name of the Lord.
So he says, I'm going to give you another helper that he may
be with you forever. That is the Spirit of truth.
Say I have truth on the inside. Now listen to this, It says whom
the world cannot receive. The world cannot receive because
it does not see him or know him. But you know him, because he
abides what with you and will be in you.
He will abide with you and will be in you.
That is the Spirit of truth. That is the Helper, That is the
Holy Spirit One, just like Jesus, John 16/5.
Through 15 I want to read this, it says.
But now I'm going to him who sent me.
This is Jesus. Who's who we going?
He's going to him Who sent him? The Father.
Again this talks of the Trinity and none of you asked me where
are you going? But because I have said these
things to you, sorrow has filled your heart.
But I tell you the truth, it is to your advantage.
Say it's to my advantage. That I go for.
If I do not go away, the helper say, the helper will not come to
you. You have the greatest advantage
when the Holy Spirit comes to live on the inside of you.
Because guess what? You always.
Have help always. There should never be a time
that you feel helpless. Because you have the helper on
the inside of you. You may feel it, but you don't
have to stay in that feeling. You could immediately say, well
wait a minute, I have a helper on the inside of me.
Glory to God, I have the helper. I don't have to feel helpless in
this situation. All I have to do is acknowledge
the Holy Spirit and ask for. Hallelujah.
So the helper will not come to you.
But if I go, I'll send him to you and he when he comes, what
will he do? We already talked about this.
He'll convict the world concerning sin, righteousness,
judgment, concerning sin, because they do not believe in
me, And concerning righteousness, because I go to
the Father, and you no longer see me.
And concerning judgment, because the ruler.
This world has been judged. I have many more things to say
to you, but you cannot bear them now.
But when he, the Spirit of truth, comes, he will what guide
you into all truth. For he will not speak on his own
initiative, but whatever he hears, he will speak, and he
will disclose to you what is to come.
Again, the Holy Spirit will speak to you.
The Holy Spirit will speak to you.
He'll disclose to you what is to come.
He will glorify me. So when the Holy Spirit speaks
to you, is it glorifying Jesus? Is it in line with His word?
Because if it is not, then it's not the Holy Spirit, and we'll
get into that later on. But His Spirit will always speak
the same thing. The word is speaking.
They will be unified. I have to say that continually,
because the Holy Spirit is not going to tell you to go marry.
So. And so's husband y'all think I'm
crazy. Heard of it.
Been there, done that, heard of many of it.
Right, The Holy Spirit is not. Well, I heard the Spirit say it
was a wrong spirit because it does not line up with scripture.
Amen at all. So but people get crazy like
that. OK, And if you're don't found it
in the word, the truth of the word, that's how you get off and
you get deceived. OK, so he's gonna guide you into
all truth. Not going to speak on his own
initiative, but whatever he hears, he will speak and he'll
disclose to you what is to come. He will glorify me, for he will
take of mine and will disclose it to you.
All things that the Father has our mind.
Therefore I said that he takes of mine and will disclose it to
you. Look at Acts chapter 2, Acts
chapter 2, verse 15 through 21. This is good teaching.
You know, you have to go from A-Z today to teach on the Holy
Spirit because they're still so. It's still so misunderstood, OK?
And not only that, people get off thinking it's the Holy
Spirit and they're listening to other spirits, which goes in
line with deceiving spirits and doctrines of demons, OK?
And so it's very important that we understand fully how the Holy
Spirit functions and operates. So Acts 215 through 21 says
this, for these men are not drunk as you suppose.
This is Jesus, all right? Me saying that Jesus wanted his
disciples to wait so that the Holy Spirit could be poured out,
right? Says for these men are not drunk
as you suppose, for it is only the third hour of the day.
But this is what was spoken through the prophet Joelle, and
shall be in the last days. God says that I will pour out my
spirit on all mankind, and your sons and daughters will
prophesy, young men will see visions, old men shall dream
dreams even on my bond. Slaves, both men and women.
Amen. Will prophesy and and preach and
do the things that God tells them to do.
I will in those days pour 4th of my spirit, and they will
prophesy and I will grant wanders in the sky above, and
signs and earth below, blood and fire and vapor of smoke.
The sun will be turned Into Darkness and the moon into blood
before the great and glorious day of the Lord shall come.
And it shall be that everyone right who calls on my name will
be saved, unless Jesus died and went.
To the Father. And sent the spirit.
No one could be saved, so now that he died.
He rose, and the Holy Spirit was poured out.
Man now can be saved. How are men getting saved?
By the Holy Spirit? We're going to see in a little
bit. Drawing them, OK, by the Holy
Spirit drawing them. Now let's look at the examples
of Jesus and how he walked and everything that we see through
the New Testament. Concerning things of that were
birthed by the Spirit for him to accomplish OK, Jesus needed the
Holy Spirit to be able to overcome the devil to walk in
dominion and authority over demons.
He needed the power and the Spirit of God to be able to.
Heal bodies. To heal every disease, to cast
out devils. He needed all of this to be a he
needed the Holy Spirit to be able to do all of this, to walk
in the earth as a man, just like a he is the representative of
what we were supposed to be right to have dominion over the
earth. To have authority over demons,
over sickness, over disease, to be able to overcome our flesh,
come on everything. And we see through scripture
that Jesus was able to accomplish this by the power of
the Holy Spirit working. Through him in the earth as
well. Look at Matthew.
Well, you don't have to go there.
I just want you to write these down, OK?
In Matthew 118 and 20, I'm not even gonna read it.
I'm just gonna say Jesus was conceived by the Holy Spirit.
Jesus was conceived by the Holy Spirit in the womb of Mary.
Come on. I'm saying that nothing happens
in the earth outside the demonstration of the Holy Spirit
or the manifestation of the Holy Spirit, because when the word
speaks. The Holy Spirit is the one that
brings it to pass. So Jesus It was conceived by the
Holy Spirit and that could be found in Matthew 118 and 20.
Jesus, while his conception was in Mary's womb.
What about this was confirmed by Elizabeth?
What happened when they came together and the Holy Spirit
began to leap? Come on, I got to get my page
flipped. It's sticking.
That was in Luke 141 through 45. Jesus, his dedication as a baby
in the temple was accompanied by the supernatural manifestation
of the Holy Spirit, as Eli the priest and Anna the prophet
prophesied over him. Luke 225 through 38.
Jesus's arrival to Israel was announced by John the Baptist,
who under the anointing of the Holy Spirit declared that Jesus
was the one who would baptize in the Holy Spirit and fire, and
that was found in Matthew 311 and Acts 11/16.
Jesus spoke of the baptism in the Holy Spirit and commanded
his disciples to stay in Jerusalem until he had recited
this right and that was found in Lute 2449 and Acts 1/4 through
five. Jesus was empowered by the Holy
Spirit at the Jordan River right.
When he was baptized by John the Baptist, that's when the Holy
Spirit what came upon him? When he was baptized.
And when he was brought up in the Holy Spirit, the Lord said,
this is my what son? And whom I'm well pleased.
So he was endued with power and Luke.
Or excuse me, that was Matthew chapter 3 and verse 16.
Jesus was given the fullness of the Spirit without measure.
That was in John 334, the fullness of the Spirit without
measure. So this is how Jesus functioned
in the earth as a man. Jesus was what led by the Holy
Spirit to the wilderness. So even Jesus had to be led by
the Spirit. He couldn't just go do whatever
he wanted to do. He was submitted to the Father.
He listened to the Holy Spirit lead him as he was in the earth,
doing all the exploits that he did.
It was all because he was being led by.
The Spirit. So he was born of the Spirit.
He was filled with the Spirit. Without measure.
And he was led by the Spirit, the three things that we, every
believer, should be bored of the Spirit, filled with the Spirit.
And now what led by the Spirit, Bored of the Spirit, filled.
With the Spirit and led by the Spirit.
Every believer should be just like Jesus, if we were in his
image, correct? Yeah.
Hallelujah. So he was led by the Spirit that
was Matthew 41, led by the Spirit in the wilderness, right?
And he was led, it also said, in the power of the Holy Spirit.
So he was led by the Spirit, but we know there is power that
comes with the Holy Spirit, so it says he was in the power of
the Spirit in Luke 4. 14 Amen Hallelujah.
And then Jesus stated publicly that his ministry was a result
of the power of the Holy Spirit in Luke 4. 18 For the Spirit of
the Lord is a pawn me, because he has what anointed me.
Hallelujah. Glory to God.
Jesus in Matthew 1231 and 32 warned about the danger of
blasphemy. The Holy Spirit.
Jesus is the one that said that OK Jesus taught about the work
and ministry of the Holy Spirit that was found in Matthew 1020
Mark 1311. Luke 1113, Luke 1212 and John
739, John 1415 and 16 chapters. All He always taught and talked
about the Holy Spirit. Jesus proclaimed that we must be
born of water and the Spirit. And that was in John 3/5 through
eight. OK, y'all awake.
Jesus offered himself upon the cross like a lamb without
spotter blemish through the power of the Holy Spirit.
Hebrews 914. Hebrews 914.
It's a great book. Hebrews is Jesus was rescued
from the dead. By the power of the Holy Spirit.
The power of the Holy Spirit rescued him.
What? And raised him from the dead.
And if the same power come on? That raised Christ from the dead
lives on the inside of you. See that the same power that
raised him from the dead. Lives on the inside of you.
How could we be helpless? Come on.
How could we not be overcomers? How could we be depressed?
How could we not enjoy life and life more abundantly?
How come we can't be satisfied with what the Holy Ghost has
done for us and given us? Come on.
Walking in joy, walking in freedom, walking in fruitfulness
in our life. By the power of the Holy Ghost,
anything dead in you should be alive.
If you would just yield, yield. Hallelujah that was found in
Romans 811. Jesus was exalted to the right
hand of God, poured out His Spirit upon the Church on the
day of Pentecost. Poured out His Spirit on the
what? The Church at the day of
Pentecost. And they went out, filled with
the Holy Ghost and the power of God and turned this world upside
down. And we are still fulfilling the
book of Acts, guys. Hallelujah.
We should be seeing, come on, miracle still today.
We should still be seeing the power of God in our lives,
working in every situation that's going on.
We should be seeing demonstrations of the Spirit of
God every day in our life. We should be walking
supernatural naturally. But we won't do these things if
we're not yielding and if we're not spirit conscious of what is
on the the power that is on the inside of us to be able to
overcome anything, any obstacle, anything.
You think I'm here because it was easy.
You think I'm here because I didn't have problems to have to
overcome, but we ought to be in a place of overcoming and not
staying in a place of brokenness.
He said he came to heal the broken hearted.
We are not to live in brokenness.
We are not to live in the things that have happened to us in our
life. We are supposed to be overcomers
in everything. We are supposed to be conquerors
over everything. We are supposed to be victors
and not victims of our life. Because we have the power of the
Holy Ghost living on the inside of us.
Amen. We gotta get rid of the old
mentality and the sin consciousness and start walking
in a spirit consciousness every day of our life because it's so
easy to stay in a natural realm. I'm not talking about being so.
Flaky. And you know all, you know, all
this stuff I'm saying we can be solid people walking around
supernaturally and everywhere we go, God is with us.
And there is a demonstration of the glory of God, the power of
God, the anointing of God in our lives.
Everywhere we go and everywhere we go, things change.
Things happen. Because we are constantly
activated, constantly engaged, constantly being led by the
Spirit of God, constantly being, listening to His voice, and no
other voice will I follow. I only listen to his voice and
his voice alone. Amen.
We can't be listening to everything else.
All this garbage always spew. And all these things always
being said, We need to listen to the voice of the Lord on every
occasion, all the time. Quit feeding your spirit on
junk. Feed your spirit on the word of
God, feed your spirit. Come on.
By praying in the Holy Ghost, being conscious, and meditating
on the word day and night. Have the Word turn it around in
your mind all the time, right? But we're so distracted with so.
Many other things that it's pulling us away from that spirit
consciousness, I'm telling you. OK, so Jesus.
Understood. And we see that everything he
did in the earth was through the empowerment of the Holy Spirit.
All right, the empowerment of the Holy Spirit.
Now let's move over to talking about the Spirit of God being
the revealer. Because we said that as he would
go, then the Holy Spirit would be poured out.
And then what? We saw that because he went to
the Father, all man now can be what saved.
So in First Corinthians chapter 2, nothing about Christ can be
revealed unless it's revealed by the Holy Spirit.
People can read this Bible all day long.
And you've heard people, I just read the Bible and not it just
doesn't mean anything. It's just a book.
It's just da, da, da, da da. But it's by the Holy Spirit that
it brings. What?
Revelation. Illumination.
It's by the Spirit. So even his word cannot be
revealed unless the spirit reveals it.
So we need the Holy Spirit to reveal the Word to us.
If you heard the statement, it just seems like the Light came
on. That's the Holy Spirit bringing
the illumination or bringing that a revelation of the Word so
that you then now can see that that's why he calls it the
Light. We can see the light.
The light bulb comes on because the Holy Spirit begins to reveal
it. OK, so First Corinthians chapter
210 through 16 says this, for to us, God revealed them through
the Spirit, For the Spirit searches all things, even the
depths of God. For who among men knows the
thoughts of a man except the spirit of the man which is him?
Even so, the thoughts of God? No one knows except the Spirit
of God. The thoughts of God No one knows
except the Spirit of God, OK? Now we have received not the
Spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God.
And I'm talking to, assuming that everyone in here is born of
the Spirit, is born again. You're not born again if you've
never made a confession with your mouth that Jesus Christ is
Lord, and so that's why you can continue to sit and hear.
And still it makes no sense. Because the Holy Spirit has got
to what? Reveal it to you.
It's got to, it's got to turn the light on, right?
That's why we pray that when people come in, that the eyes of
their understanding will be enlightened, so that the light
can come on, so that they can see the revelation of the word,
so that the Spirit can begin to what reveal to them and draw
them that they need the Lord. Because it says that what the
laws that the veil of darkness is over their eyes so that they
can't see the light. So we have to pray that the veil
of darkness be removed off of people's eyes so that they can
see the light of the gospel, so that the Spirit of God can begin
to illuminate and reveal to them that they need.
The Lord and that they need a savior.
Amen. So and verse.
I think it was 12 where we were. For now we have received not the
Spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, so that
we may know the things freely given to us by God.
So the only way we're going to know is by the Spirit.
Of the things that's given to us, which things also speak not
in words taught by human wisdom, but in those taught by the
Spirit. See that taught by the Spirit.
That's why you want to be in a church that allows the Spirit to
flow and to teach and to be welcome in this place, because
without the Spirit in this place.
The word would be dry, boring, come on, religious and wouldn't
do a thing for your life. And that's why we still see so
many people. That go to church, but there's
no the spirits not there to bring complete wisdom and
revelation and understanding of what's freely given to them.
You see that? Not in words taught by human
wisdom, but 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 what
foolishness to him, and he can't understand them because they are
spiritually appraised. These things are spiritually.
Appraised or discerned, but see people that don't know God, that
don't have God. They is foolishness to them and
you hear them say it all the time.
Why you go to that church, that's just foolishness.
You always at that church, you know you're crazy.
That don't even make no sense. There is no.
God, what are you even doing? It's foolishness to them.
Because they don't have the Spirit of God living on the
inside of them, and the Spirit hasn't revealed to them yet.
That's why we have to pray for them, so that then the veil can
be removed and they can see the light of the gospel.
You see that? Because if we don't, they won't
see. Amen.
So we've got to pray. It says.
But he who is spiritually 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?
Aren't you thankful? You ought to be thankful that
you have the mind of Christ. If you're born again, you better
be thankful, or you would be crazy like all these other
people, right? Not knowing if you're a girl or
a boy. Come on, Insanity.
You need to be thankful that you have the mind of Christ, that
you've been given his mind. That I have a quick, a sharp, a
bright, a smart mind. Come on.
And I speak over my mind that I'm going to have the mind of
Christ for the rest of my life. I'm not going to have dementia.
I'm not going to have. Come on.
No, my mind's going to be blessed.
I'm going to think straight. Amen.
So that we don't have to lose our mind like all these other
people are losing their mind because we have the mind of
Christ. But we've got to keep our mind
fixed. Come on, we got to keep it fixed
so that we don't start thinking like the world again.
Hallelujah. So let's look at John 644.
It says no one can come to me unless the Father who sent me
draws him. No one can go to God unless the
Spirit or the Father. What draws him Actually the
scripture. One scripture says no man goes
after God. No not one, no one goes after
God. So no one's searching for God,
no one's going after God. People that are lost with the
sin nature, they are not going after God, they are not
searching for God. You see that?
It's the Father that's choosing them.
I chose you. What are I doing?
I'm drawing you into the Kingdom of God.
I'm drawing you by the Spirit of God.
I'm drawing you by illuminating the word of God.
How will they know unless someone is sent?
Someone's got to tell somebody about the Lord.
So that then the Holy Spirit, because that's the word speaking
into them. You're planting the seed of the
word and it's then when you go and begin to what speak to them,
the Holy Spirit now can go into activation, penetrate their
heart with the word of God and. Begin can't begin now to deal
with people. Because you planted the seed of
the word and you what released the spirit of God to go into
activation so that now? It can draw them so that that
when they're laying in the bed all alone at night and the
bottles not there and the drugs aren't there and the girls
aren't there and the money is not there.
And then the Holy Ghost is there with the seed of that word,
speaking, drawing, come on, coming alive on the inside of
them and saying this, This is the bottomless pit.
This is what you need. You see that?
And I've said this in morning prayer time and time again.
Every seed that you've sown into people's lives, you don't give
up on that seed. You keep watering it.
You keep speaking over, you keep releasing the Spirit of God to
go into activation into their life every single time.
Amen. Because as long as they're on
the earth and as long as they're seeds sung, the Holy Spirit can
work, can work, and is always speaking because he has a mouth.
The Holy Spirit is always speaking, always.
Unless he's been grieved and quenched and then he'll go find
somebody else to speak to, Or unless your hearts become
hardened and you've rejected and rejected and rejected and
rejected and rejected. What?
The Spirit is trying to speak to you.
Amen. So he's always speaking and
always trying to draw people to himself.
OK, look at 12 John 1232. It says this and John 1232 and
this will close. And I, if I am lifted up from
the earth, will draw all people to myself.
I will draw all people to myself.
And this was Jesus saying, when I get lifted up now I'm going to
begin to be able to what? Draw all men and to myself?
And he draws them by the Spirit. Draws them by the Spirit because
it's the only the Holy Spirit is in operation today.
He draws them by the Spirit. Amen.
Hallelujah. Glory to God.
He draws them by the Spirit. Now, next week we're going to go
into talking about the inner working of the Holy Spirit.
Once we get born again, we're going to show you.
What it looks? Like and how you get born again
and what it looks like and then begin the journey on the inner
working of the Holy Spirit. The Spirit comes upon us, but he
also what lives within us. And so there's two different
workings and we're going to talk about that and we're going to
just continue on this journey. Amen.
I think it's very important. Because in these last days, we
need the Holy Spirit. We need the Spirit of truth.
There's so many lies going on today, so many things that are
trying to deceive people, Many people are falling away.
They're giving up on their faith, they're helpless, they're
hopeless. And this is the one thing that
they need to be able to overcome.
Amen. And so we need the Holy Spirit
in our lives because of the situations that we may be
encountering as the day draws near.
We need the Holy Spirit working in our life so that we'll know
what people need when we're out and about and know the words of
life to be able to speak to them the gifts of the Spirit to be in
operation. Amen.
When we're out and about. Whatever it is, we need the Holy
Spirit in this last day and the power of God, and we've got to
stir ourselves up with what's been given us.
This is a. Treasure that's been given us a
treasure, a promise from the Father.
Amen. And the power of God.
And we need to be more sensitive and more in tune with what the
Holy Spirit is saying instead of what everything else is saying,
and what everybody else is saying.
But what is the Spirit of God saying to me about?
This circumstance or that situation or what this person
may need or what's going on over here, Amen.
We want to be in tune with what the spirit of God is saying more
and more in this day that we're living.
Because I'm going to tell you, we're seeing the falling away of
people. We're seeing it.
We're seeing congregations. We're seeing churches that shut
down during COVID and aren't opening back up.
We're seeing, you know, people that aren't even attending
church any longer. These are people that are
falling away slowly but surely. Amen.
So we need to recognize these things about the Holy Spirit and
treasure. I'm telling you every day, every
morning, you need to get up and you need to commune with the
Holy Spirit. You need to read the word and
you need to say thank you, Holy Spirit, that you live on the
inside of me and stir yourself up, praying in the Holy Ghost on
the way to work, praying on the Holy Ghost, getting ready in the
whatever. Pray in the Spirit.
Do it. So that you can overcome and and
deal with what's getting ready to take place.
Amen, Holly. Thank you so much for listening
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