1 00:00:11,400 --> 00:00:15,880 I want to go to Leviticus chapter 23 and I'm going to read 2 00:00:15,880 --> 00:00:18,880 verses one through 2 and it says this. 3 00:00:18,880 --> 00:00:23,760 The Lord spoke to Moses saying, Speak to the children of Israel 4 00:00:23,760 --> 00:00:30,640 and say to them the feasts of the Lord, which you shall 5 00:00:30,640 --> 00:00:33,320 proclaim to be holy convocations. 6 00:00:33,320 --> 00:00:37,960 These are my feasts. Now the word feast, I'm going to 7 00:00:37,960 --> 00:00:42,200 give you a combination and a compilation of the English. 8 00:00:42,880 --> 00:00:45,640 Obviously the Old Testament was sitting in written in Hebrew and 9 00:00:45,640 --> 00:00:46,760 the New Testament written in Greek. 10 00:00:46,760 --> 00:00:49,440 I'm going to give you a combination of what this word 11 00:00:49,440 --> 00:00:55,960 feast means. It means to rejoice, It means to 12 00:00:55,960 --> 00:01:01,120 dance, it means to have joy and gladness. 13 00:01:03,600 --> 00:01:08,360 It means to move in a circle and March in a sacred procession. 14 00:01:09,360 --> 00:01:11,680 And I like this one. By implication, it means to be 15 00:01:11,680 --> 00:01:14,200 giddy. I want to say giddy up in the 16 00:01:14,200 --> 00:01:18,080 Holy Spirit, just bubbling up with joy. 17 00:01:19,720 --> 00:01:25,440 Glory to God, how can we be saved and redeemed, filled with 18 00:01:25,440 --> 00:01:34,360 the Holy Ghost and not be giddy even in times of trials, even in 19 00:01:34,360 --> 00:01:37,960 times of temptation, even in times of test? 20 00:01:38,320 --> 00:01:42,800 Are you giddy? My the word of God says in James 21 00:01:42,800 --> 00:01:46,600 chapter 1 count it all. Joy and feast means to have a 22 00:01:46,600 --> 00:01:49,200 joy and there should be continually joy. 23 00:01:49,200 --> 00:01:53,200 The Kingdom of God is righteousness, peace and joy in 24 00:01:53,200 --> 00:01:59,280 the Holy Spirit. Well, how do I do that? 25 00:01:59,280 --> 00:02:02,560 By faith your your feelings are not always going to feel like 26 00:02:04,200 --> 00:02:11,840 rejoicing. But Hebrews chapter 13 verse #15 27 00:02:12,520 --> 00:02:15,920 from the Amplified Classic says this through him. 28 00:02:15,920 --> 00:02:22,520 Therefore, let us constantly and at all times OfferUp to God a 29 00:02:22,520 --> 00:02:28,360 sacrifice of praise, which is the fruit of our lips, and 30 00:02:28,360 --> 00:02:32,520 thankfully acknowledge and confess and glorify His name. 31 00:02:32,760 --> 00:02:35,240 Did you notice it says a sacrifice of praise? 32 00:02:35,400 --> 00:02:37,880 Why say sacrifice? Because sometimes you don't feel 33 00:02:37,880 --> 00:02:42,040 like doing it. But by faith we have to learn as 34 00:02:42,040 --> 00:02:44,720 a body of Christ. If we want to see the goodness 35 00:02:44,720 --> 00:02:47,640 of God in the land of the living, we need to live by 36 00:02:47,640 --> 00:02:51,320 faith. And faith has a voice to it, and 37 00:02:51,320 --> 00:02:54,520 faith has an acknowledgement to it, and by faith we just need to 38 00:02:54,520 --> 00:02:57,800 praise the Lord. We need to be giddy, we need to 39 00:02:57,800 --> 00:03:01,720 have joy, we need to dance. King David, when the Tabernacle 40 00:03:01,720 --> 00:03:03,720 came, the presence of God was coming. 41 00:03:04,160 --> 00:03:08,680 His wife despised him because he danced out of his clothes. 42 00:03:08,960 --> 00:03:13,120 Now do that at home. But the point is dance before 43 00:03:13,120 --> 00:03:19,800 the Lord, right? And you know what, because his 44 00:03:19,800 --> 00:03:22,080 wife despised him, she became barren. 45 00:03:23,160 --> 00:03:28,280 And if you despise the goodness of the Lord, can there be 46 00:03:28,280 --> 00:03:35,400 barrenness in your life? Unproductive, no results. 47 00:03:36,480 --> 00:03:38,320 And God's just saying get over into joy. 48 00:03:39,080 --> 00:03:41,720 That's this quote from James one count it all joy. 49 00:03:41,720 --> 00:03:44,000 That means it's not the situation is saying it's not 50 00:03:44,000 --> 00:03:46,880 joyful. But anyways, I'm going to have a 51 00:03:46,880 --> 00:03:51,160 I'm going to have a feast in the middle of this and I'm going to 52 00:03:51,160 --> 00:03:55,320 praise him. First Thessalonians chapter 5, 53 00:03:57,200 --> 00:03:59,560 verse 18 from the Amplified Classic says this. 54 00:03:59,560 --> 00:04:04,000 Thank God in everything, no matter what the circumstances 55 00:04:04,000 --> 00:04:08,880 may be, be thankful and give thanks for this is the will of 56 00:04:08,880 --> 00:04:12,640 God for you who are in Christ Jesus, the revealer and the 57 00:04:12,640 --> 00:04:17,320 mediator of that will, no matter what the circumstance is. 58 00:04:17,880 --> 00:04:21,200 It could be the devil trying to stand on your back, but you 59 00:04:21,200 --> 00:04:22,920 still can thank God in the middle of it. 60 00:04:24,360 --> 00:04:28,160 Why 'cause God is greater, and I got the greater one on the 61 00:04:28,160 --> 00:04:31,400 inside. So we need to stir ourselves up. 62 00:04:31,960 --> 00:04:35,360 We need to stir ourselves up by way of remembrance. 63 00:04:35,360 --> 00:04:37,880 Like the apostle Peter said, stir yourself up. 64 00:04:39,000 --> 00:04:41,240 You know, it's great to be in church service, but what happens 65 00:04:41,240 --> 00:04:46,640 when you leave this building? What happens tomorrow when a 66 00:04:46,640 --> 00:04:51,160 circumstance may arise? Are you going to rejoice? 67 00:04:51,520 --> 00:04:52,840 Are you going to count it all joy? 68 00:04:53,320 --> 00:04:56,560 Are you going to feast on His goodness, declare His goodness 69 00:04:56,560 --> 00:05:00,440 and praise Him for who he is? I like there's a Psalm that says 70 00:05:00,440 --> 00:05:04,800 that the mountains melt like wax in the presence of the Lord, and 71 00:05:04,800 --> 00:05:07,640 it says He inhabits our praises. You have a mountain of a 72 00:05:07,640 --> 00:05:08,920 situation you need to get through. 73 00:05:08,920 --> 00:05:12,560 Praise Him through it. Thank Him through it. 74 00:05:13,360 --> 00:05:17,960 Leviticus is a power packed the 23rd chapter of the feasts of 75 00:05:17,960 --> 00:05:22,000 the Lord and I wanted to find feasts first because even an 76 00:05:22,000 --> 00:05:25,240 exodus, the very first feast and they have this on the screen. 77 00:05:25,240 --> 00:05:28,000 If you want to take a picture of this, there's seven feasts 78 00:05:28,000 --> 00:05:31,200 identified in the book of Leviticus the 23rd chapter. 79 00:05:32,200 --> 00:05:35,680 But even an exodus, when God told Moses to go to Pharaoh, he 80 00:05:35,680 --> 00:05:38,800 said and let my people go that they may have a feast unto me. 81 00:05:39,320 --> 00:05:40,640 So I want to be etched in your mind. 82 00:05:40,640 --> 00:05:44,000 We should have a feast in the Lord every day. 83 00:05:44,000 --> 00:05:47,840 Psalms 34, eight says taste and see that the Lord is good. 84 00:05:48,080 --> 00:05:50,480 We should be feasting on that every day. 85 00:05:51,760 --> 00:05:55,120 Now the seven feasts are identified in the 23rd chapter, 86 00:05:55,480 --> 00:06:00,200 and the first one is the Feast of Passover and you can see 87 00:06:00,200 --> 00:06:03,440 those scriptural references. The second one is the Feast of 88 00:06:03,440 --> 00:06:06,920 Unleavened Bread. The third one is the Feast of 89 00:06:06,920 --> 00:06:10,520 the First Fruits. The 4th feast identified in 90 00:06:10,520 --> 00:06:13,720 Leviticus 23 as the Feast of Weeks, which is the Feast of 91 00:06:13,720 --> 00:06:17,000 Pentecost. The 5th feast is the Feast of 92 00:06:17,000 --> 00:06:21,360 Trumpets, the 6th feast is the Feast of the Day of Atonement, 93 00:06:21,920 --> 00:06:25,080 and the last feast of the year is the Feast of the Day of 94 00:06:25,080 --> 00:06:31,320 Tabernacles. But today we celebrate the Feast 95 00:06:31,320 --> 00:06:37,840 of Pentecost. Hallelujah, the outpouring, an 96 00:06:37,840 --> 00:06:43,360 infilling of the Holy Spirit. Let me say it today we 97 00:06:43,560 --> 00:06:47,320 celebrate, and let me put this in your remarks, every day we 98 00:06:47,320 --> 00:06:56,120 should celebrate these feasts, the feast of Pentecost. 99 00:06:58,920 --> 00:07:04,280 So the Exodus of Israel took place under the Feast of 100 00:07:04,280 --> 00:07:05,720 Passover. When you read through the book 101 00:07:05,720 --> 00:07:10,080 of Exodus, you'll see that God brought the children of Israel 102 00:07:10,080 --> 00:07:15,480 out of Egypt through the Red Sea into the wilderness. 103 00:07:16,680 --> 00:07:19,160 And that commemorates the very first feast of the year, the 104 00:07:19,160 --> 00:07:23,160 Feast of Passover. And who's our Passover lamb? 105 00:07:24,160 --> 00:07:27,600 Who's our Passover lamb? Who's our Passover lamb? 106 00:07:28,200 --> 00:07:32,080 Remember that feast? They had to take the blood of a 107 00:07:32,080 --> 00:07:35,520 slaughtered animal and they had to apply it to the doorposts. 108 00:07:35,800 --> 00:07:40,520 That was just a type and shadow of what's taking place in this 109 00:07:40,520 --> 00:07:42,800 new covenant. This new dispensation is Jesus 110 00:07:42,800 --> 00:07:45,800 Christ once and for all, the perfect sacrifice. 111 00:07:45,800 --> 00:07:48,760 The lamb without spot, the lamb without blemish. 112 00:07:48,840 --> 00:07:51,920 He came to this earth. He walked it for 33 years. 113 00:07:52,040 --> 00:07:54,120 He was crucified, died, He was buried. 114 00:07:54,120 --> 00:08:00,840 But on the third day, death could not hold him, and he was 115 00:08:00,840 --> 00:08:03,400 raised from the dead. He appeared among his disciples 116 00:08:03,400 --> 00:08:07,320 for 40 days, and he has he was ascended and he's now seated at 117 00:08:07,320 --> 00:08:09,600 the right hand of the Father of the book of Hebrews says he ever 118 00:08:09,600 --> 00:08:12,760 lives to make intercession for us. 119 00:08:13,840 --> 00:08:17,600 It's a settled work. The same way that the blood of 120 00:08:17,600 --> 00:08:21,040 Jesus was a in the old, in the old covenant when the Israelites 121 00:08:21,040 --> 00:08:23,960 applied the blood of the blood to the doorpost, We apply the 122 00:08:23,960 --> 00:08:27,240 blood of Jesus to our lives. And then guess what? 123 00:08:27,240 --> 00:08:31,880 Death passes over? How do I know that I'm born 124 00:08:31,880 --> 00:08:33,520 again? Because I believe and I have 125 00:08:33,520 --> 00:08:37,000 received and I have confessed that Jesus Christ is Lord. 126 00:08:37,520 --> 00:08:41,080 And when you, when you make that profession of faith, Romans 127 00:08:41,080 --> 00:08:44,360 chapter 10 says, if you make Jesus Lord of your life and 128 00:08:44,360 --> 00:08:48,840 confess with your mouth, you have passed over from death into 129 00:08:49,080 --> 00:08:53,640 life. And this is the gospel, this is 130 00:08:53,640 --> 00:08:55,920 the good news that we're living out and we get to proclaim there 131 00:08:55,920 --> 00:08:59,400 is a lost and a dying and a hurting world out there that 132 00:08:59,400 --> 00:09:03,320 needs the gospel. They need to know about Jesus 133 00:09:03,320 --> 00:09:06,000 Christ. They need to receive Jesus so 134 00:09:06,000 --> 00:09:08,000 they can come out of death and into life. 135 00:09:10,000 --> 00:09:12,440 So the Exodus of Israel took place under the Feast of 136 00:09:12,440 --> 00:09:14,400 Passover. In the first month after 137 00:09:14,400 --> 00:09:18,920 crossing the Red Sea and being led by the pillar of cloud and 138 00:09:18,920 --> 00:09:22,720 the pillar of fire, the children of Israel were brought to the 139 00:09:22,720 --> 00:09:29,760 foot of Mount Sinai. And here at the Mount Sinai they 140 00:09:29,760 --> 00:09:32,000 experienced the Feast of Pentecost. 141 00:09:34,680 --> 00:09:38,520 At Sinai they received the 10 commandments from Moses. 142 00:09:41,280 --> 00:09:43,240 They were written and given to the nation. 143 00:09:45,040 --> 00:09:49,520 And there was the Tabernacle of the Lord, the Ariana priesthood, 144 00:09:50,080 --> 00:09:54,200 and the sacrificial sacrificial system was given to the children 145 00:09:54,200 --> 00:09:56,480 of Israel. It was here and then in it that 146 00:09:56,480 --> 00:10:01,560 this nation at the foot of Mount Sinai was established as a 147 00:10:01,560 --> 00:10:05,720 church in the wilderness. You can reference that in Acts 148 00:10:05,720 --> 00:10:10,880 Chapter 7 verse #38 It said, This is he that was in the 149 00:10:10,880 --> 00:10:14,680 Church of the wilderness, with the Angel which spoke to him in 150 00:10:14,680 --> 00:10:18,480 Mount Sinai, and with our fathers who received the lively 151 00:10:18,480 --> 00:10:24,360 oracles to give unto us. So they were established at 152 00:10:24,360 --> 00:10:26,920 Pentecost. And I commit to you church 153 00:10:26,920 --> 00:10:28,400 today. If you want to have established 154 00:10:28,400 --> 00:10:32,280 life, thank God for Passover, but you need to go from Passover 155 00:10:32,560 --> 00:10:36,000 to Pentecost. Let me say it again, thank God 156 00:10:36,000 --> 00:10:38,400 for Passover. That's the first step in 157 00:10:38,400 --> 00:10:40,720 redemption. But God has a subsequent 158 00:10:40,720 --> 00:10:42,880 experience. He said, I want you to go from 159 00:10:42,880 --> 00:10:46,200 Passover to Pentecost. It's there that the Church of 160 00:10:46,200 --> 00:10:49,640 the Lord Jesus Christ is really established 'cause that's where 161 00:10:49,640 --> 00:10:54,920 the power of God is poured out at Pentecost. 162 00:10:57,080 --> 00:11:02,640 Jeremiah 31, this prophet Jeremiah 3133 says this, but 163 00:11:02,640 --> 00:11:07,280 this is the covenant that I will make with the House of Israel 164 00:11:08,080 --> 00:11:13,640 after those days, says the Lord. I will put my law in their minds 165 00:11:13,640 --> 00:11:17,720 and write it on their hearts. I will be their God. 166 00:11:17,720 --> 00:11:21,920 They shall be my people. Jeremiah prophesied this and the 167 00:11:21,920 --> 00:11:24,680 old coven, but we're now, we're seeing the fulfillment of it 168 00:11:25,040 --> 00:11:26,680 today. He said, I'm going to write my 169 00:11:26,680 --> 00:11:30,080 law on your hearts. I'm going to be your God. 170 00:11:30,080 --> 00:11:33,160 You're going to be my people. Moses gave a written law at 171 00:11:33,160 --> 00:11:37,320 Mount Sinai, but I said I'm going to inscribe it by the 172 00:11:37,320 --> 00:11:40,800 power of the Holy Spirit in your heart. 173 00:11:41,360 --> 00:11:44,920 So from Passover to Pentecost, Hallelujah. 174 00:11:46,560 --> 00:11:50,360 The physical account of the 10 commandments you can find in 175 00:11:50,360 --> 00:11:55,440 Exodus chapter 34, verses 29 to 35. 176 00:11:55,440 --> 00:11:58,600 So if you're taking notes, I just went from what Jeremiah 177 00:11:58,600 --> 00:12:00,840 prophesied, which is taking place today. 178 00:12:01,200 --> 00:12:04,680 We can see what happened with Moses in Exodus chapter 34, 179 00:12:04,960 --> 00:12:09,680 verses 29 through 35. And these verses when Moses went 180 00:12:09,680 --> 00:12:14,480 up and got the law from God, spent time with the Father. 181 00:12:15,280 --> 00:12:19,720 It says when he came down from the mountain, his face was 182 00:12:19,720 --> 00:12:25,440 shining. Listen, he didn't have a frown 183 00:12:25,440 --> 00:12:29,560 on his face. He wasn't barely getting by. 184 00:12:30,400 --> 00:12:33,880 He had spent time, so much time in the Prince of God that it was 185 00:12:33,880 --> 00:12:40,200 exuding, permeating through him, so much so that the children are 186 00:12:40,200 --> 00:12:43,080 like, I can't, we can't even look at you put a veil on. 187 00:12:44,080 --> 00:12:47,440 Now He took it off when he went to to be with God, but he put it 188 00:12:47,440 --> 00:12:49,040 on when he was with the children of Israel. 189 00:12:50,640 --> 00:12:54,080 But I submit to you, we are the salt of the earth and the light 190 00:12:54,080 --> 00:12:55,760 of the world. We should not let ourselves be 191 00:12:55,760 --> 00:13:02,360 hidden. Are you with me, GPS, God's 192 00:13:02,360 --> 00:13:05,800 powerful servant. Let's go to 2nd Corinthians 193 00:13:05,800 --> 00:13:07,720 chapter 3. Now if you're doing your yearly 194 00:13:07,720 --> 00:13:12,760 Bible reading, you can mark at least half of this off because 195 00:13:12,760 --> 00:13:16,160 we're going to read the whole chapter when you get to 2nd 196 00:13:16,160 --> 00:13:19,920 Corinthians 3. So you Hallelujah, it's only 18 197 00:13:19,920 --> 00:13:23,800 verses, but we just went from Jeremiah to Exodus, the account 198 00:13:23,800 --> 00:13:27,520 where Moses face was shining so much, where he received the 10 199 00:13:27,520 --> 00:13:30,120 commandments that he had to put a veil on. 200 00:13:30,360 --> 00:13:32,560 But let's look at the new covenant reality in Second 201 00:13:32,720 --> 00:13:37,200 Corinthians chapter 3, starting in verse #1 it says, do we begin 202 00:13:37,200 --> 00:13:41,160 again to commend ourselves, or do we need some other epistles 203 00:13:41,160 --> 00:13:45,560 of commendation to your letters of commendation from you. 204 00:13:46,400 --> 00:13:52,080 You are our epistle, written in our hearts, known and read by 205 00:13:52,080 --> 00:13:54,560 all men. Clearly. 206 00:13:54,560 --> 00:13:58,320 You are an epistle of Christ, ministered by us, written not 207 00:13:58,320 --> 00:14:04,320 with ink, but by the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets 208 00:14:04,320 --> 00:14:07,120 of stone, but on the tablets of the flesh, that is, of the 209 00:14:07,120 --> 00:14:10,520 heart. And we have such trust through 210 00:14:10,520 --> 00:14:14,960 Christ toward God, not that we are sufficient of ourselves to 211 00:14:14,960 --> 00:14:18,760 think of anything as being from ourselves, but our sufficiency 212 00:14:18,760 --> 00:14:25,480 is from God, who also made us sufficient as ministers of this 213 00:14:25,480 --> 00:14:29,400 new covenant. Not of the letter, but of the 214 00:14:29,400 --> 00:14:31,160 Spirit. For the letter kills, but the 215 00:14:31,160 --> 00:14:36,080 Spirit gives life. But if the ministry of death, 216 00:14:36,080 --> 00:14:40,160 written and engraved on stones was glorious, so the children of 217 00:14:40,160 --> 00:14:43,840 Israel could not look steadily at the face of Moses, because of 218 00:14:43,840 --> 00:14:47,680 the glory of his countenance, which glory was passing away, 219 00:14:48,000 --> 00:14:51,960 how would the ministry of the Spirit not be more glorious? 220 00:14:53,880 --> 00:14:57,000 For even what was made glorious had no glory in this respect, 221 00:14:57,000 --> 00:14:59,200 because of the glory that excels. 222 00:14:59,840 --> 00:15:02,120 For what is passing away was glorious. 223 00:15:02,120 --> 00:15:05,520 What remains is much more glorious, therefore, since we 224 00:15:05,520 --> 00:15:09,480 have such hope with great boldness of speech, unlike 225 00:15:09,480 --> 00:15:12,360 Moses, who put a veil over his face. 226 00:15:12,360 --> 00:15:14,760 So the children of Israel could not look steadily at the end of 227 00:15:14,760 --> 00:15:17,840 what was passing away, but their minds were blinded. 228 00:15:17,840 --> 00:15:22,280 For until this day the same veil remains unlifted in the reading 229 00:15:22,280 --> 00:15:27,280 of the Old Testament, because the veils taken away in Christ. 230 00:15:31,480 --> 00:15:33,520 Hallelujah. But even to this day, when Moses 231 00:15:33,520 --> 00:15:35,320 is read, a veil lies on their heart. 232 00:15:35,800 --> 00:15:39,720 Nevertheless, when the when one turns to the Lord, the veil is 233 00:15:39,720 --> 00:15:42,800 taken away. When one turns towards the Lord, 234 00:15:43,000 --> 00:15:46,440 the veil is taken away. When one turns to the Lord, the 235 00:15:46,440 --> 00:15:49,400 veil is taken away. Now the Lord is the Spirit and 236 00:15:49,400 --> 00:15:52,320 where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty. 237 00:15:53,360 --> 00:15:56,880 But we all with unveiled face. We all with unveiled face, 238 00:15:56,880 --> 00:16:00,360 beholding as in a mirror the glory, the Lord are be being 239 00:16:00,360 --> 00:16:06,240 transformed into that same image from glory to glory, just as by 240 00:16:06,240 --> 00:16:09,480 the Spirit of the Lord. Let me read verse 18 again. 241 00:16:09,560 --> 00:16:14,280 But we all all means exclusive of everybody, inclusive 242 00:16:14,280 --> 00:16:16,000 everybody did exclusion of nobody. 243 00:16:16,320 --> 00:16:23,240 God wants all his children. God wants all of his children to 244 00:16:23,240 --> 00:16:25,880 have unveiled face and behold Him as in a mirror. 245 00:16:26,520 --> 00:16:31,520 You, you become what you behold. Church, you become what you 246 00:16:31,520 --> 00:16:35,800 behold. Are you looking into the perfect 247 00:16:35,800 --> 00:16:39,520 law of of liberty every day 'cause you become what you 248 00:16:39,520 --> 00:16:43,960 behold? As we look in this perfect law 249 00:16:43,960 --> 00:16:45,640 of literary, we're being transformed. 250 00:16:45,800 --> 00:16:48,080 How you going to be a change agent if you're not being 251 00:16:48,080 --> 00:16:52,240 changed? Because a change agent 252 00:16:52,240 --> 00:16:56,480 facilitates transformation. And say it starts with me. 253 00:16:57,520 --> 00:17:01,200 Say it it starts with me. Say I choose to be changed. 254 00:17:02,080 --> 00:17:06,480 I choose to behold the Lord. Say I choose to behold the Lord 255 00:17:07,480 --> 00:17:12,200 in all his glory. Hallelujah. 256 00:17:13,480 --> 00:17:16,560 So from Passover the salvation and deliverance of the nation of 257 00:17:16,560 --> 00:17:20,079 Pentecost where divine strength and empowerment was given was 50 258 00:17:20,079 --> 00:17:23,640 days. The Lord Jesus came to fulfill 259 00:17:23,640 --> 00:17:25,880 all the intricate details of the law. 260 00:17:26,280 --> 00:17:29,160 We can find this in Matthew chapter 5 verses 17 through 18. 261 00:17:29,160 --> 00:17:32,320 He said I came to fulfill the law, not to destroy. 262 00:17:32,320 --> 00:17:36,320 The book of Acts shows the fulfillment of this time period, 263 00:17:36,720 --> 00:17:42,680 for so from Passover, which is in April to 50 days later, we 264 00:17:42,680 --> 00:17:46,040 see the feast of Pentecost. Christ fulfilled this. 265 00:17:46,440 --> 00:17:49,080 After Christ's resurrection, at the close of his three days and 266 00:17:49,080 --> 00:17:52,240 three nights in the tomb, he was seen of his disciples for 40 267 00:17:52,240 --> 00:17:55,800 days, speaking to them of things pertaining to the Kingdom of 268 00:17:55,800 --> 00:17:58,120 God. At the close of this period of 269 00:17:58,120 --> 00:18:02,360 40 days, Jesus ascended back to the Father and the disciples 270 00:18:02,360 --> 00:18:05,120 chaired in Jerusalem in the Upper Room for 10 days. 271 00:18:05,880 --> 00:18:10,200 So at 50 days the feast of of Pentecost was enacted. 272 00:18:10,200 --> 00:18:14,200 In the book of Acts chapter 1 and Acts chapter 250 is a 273 00:18:14,200 --> 00:18:18,720 significant number in the Bible. The number 50 is used 274 00:18:18,720 --> 00:18:23,200 symbolically to represent liberty, freedom and 275 00:18:23,200 --> 00:18:26,440 deliverance. This is seen in the fact that 276 00:18:26,440 --> 00:18:29,560 every 50 years in Israel was called the year of Jubilee. 277 00:18:31,400 --> 00:18:35,400 It was the year of release. It was a year of liberty. 278 00:18:35,680 --> 00:18:40,400 It was a year of freedom. Slaves were set free, deaths 279 00:18:40,400 --> 00:18:43,960 were cancelled, families were reunited, and liberty was 280 00:18:43,960 --> 00:18:47,120 proclaimed throughout the land by the sound of the Jubilee 281 00:18:47,120 --> 00:18:53,520 trumpets. For the New Testament believers 282 00:18:53,520 --> 00:18:57,120 today, Pentecost means liberty and freedom from the old Old 283 00:18:57,760 --> 00:19:02,080 Covenant bondages of ceremonialism, of the law. 284 00:19:02,080 --> 00:19:04,960 It means freedom and the liberty wherewith Christ has set them 285 00:19:04,960 --> 00:19:07,760 free. It meant that they were at 286 00:19:07,760 --> 00:19:12,800 liberty to serve the Lord. Our Jubilee is we are at liberty 287 00:19:12,800 --> 00:19:16,400 to serve the Lord. Our jubilee is we're at liberty 288 00:19:16,400 --> 00:19:19,120 to serve the Lord. It's not a license to sin. 289 00:19:20,080 --> 00:19:26,400 It's a freedom to serve him. It's not a license to sin. 290 00:19:26,880 --> 00:19:33,240 If the churches lukewarm and sin tolerance, we lose the immoral 291 00:19:33,240 --> 00:19:41,120 authority to speak power. It's the power to serve. 292 00:19:42,920 --> 00:19:47,720 It's the power to serve and God has anointed us for service. 293 00:19:47,720 --> 00:19:51,560 In the old covenant there was only three offices that were 294 00:19:51,560 --> 00:19:54,480 anointed. The prophet, the priest and the 295 00:19:54,480 --> 00:19:58,400 king were anointed, set apart to do the assignment. 296 00:19:58,920 --> 00:20:01,560 But in the book of Joel, that prophet, and it's actually 297 00:20:01,560 --> 00:20:06,040 prophesied and spoken in Acts chapter 2 from the book of Joel, 298 00:20:06,160 --> 00:20:09,640 it says in the last days, I'm going to pour out my spirit upon 299 00:20:09,640 --> 00:20:13,240 all. Not just the prophet, not just 300 00:20:13,240 --> 00:20:16,840 the priest, not just the king, but every child of God, the 301 00:20:16,840 --> 00:20:20,720 Spirit of God is going to be poured out on them for service. 302 00:20:23,480 --> 00:20:27,440 So all of us that have received the Holy Ghost experienced 303 00:20:27,440 --> 00:20:31,560 Pentecost are available through for service to the Lord. 304 00:20:31,560 --> 00:20:36,520 I'm going to give you multiple scriptures right now because 305 00:20:36,520 --> 00:20:41,600 what I want to get across to you it it's not our self effort. 306 00:20:46,120 --> 00:20:50,640 The power of Pentecost as He has equipped me through the Holy 307 00:20:50,640 --> 00:20:53,440 Ghost to do what He's called me to do. 308 00:20:55,040 --> 00:20:57,880 I could be the man of God that He's called me to be because 309 00:20:57,880 --> 00:21:00,560 He's equipped me. I could be the husband he's 310 00:21:00,560 --> 00:21:02,640 called me to because He's equipped me. 311 00:21:02,720 --> 00:21:05,840 I could be the parent I need to be because He's equipped me. 312 00:21:05,920 --> 00:21:09,080 I could be the minister I need to be because He's equipped me. 313 00:21:09,240 --> 00:21:12,720 I could be the example and the witness in the community I need 314 00:21:12,720 --> 00:21:18,320 to be because He has equipped me through His grace. 315 00:21:18,320 --> 00:21:21,400 He's poured out the anointing of the Holy Spirit, and I have 316 00:21:21,400 --> 00:21:25,280 received this feast of Pentecost and I'm enjoying it every day. 317 00:21:26,360 --> 00:21:32,200 Hallelujah. In Acts chapter 10, verse 38, 318 00:21:32,560 --> 00:21:39,680 These are scriptures. Even Jesus himself, who is the 319 00:21:39,680 --> 00:21:48,240 Son of God but also the Son of man, needed the Holy Spirit for 320 00:21:48,240 --> 00:21:50,440 your homework assignment. If you go to Philippians chapter 321 00:21:50,440 --> 00:21:54,480 2 and you read verses about one through 11, this is your 322 00:21:54,480 --> 00:21:59,160 homework assignment because the Bible says for you to study, not 323 00:21:59,160 --> 00:22:04,160 just the fivefold ministry. Studying is not just reserved 324 00:22:04,160 --> 00:22:07,320 for the fivefold ministry. Every believer that has an 325 00:22:07,320 --> 00:22:14,200 affection and an adoration and a love and a hunger for Jesus 326 00:22:14,200 --> 00:22:17,600 Christ is going to be compelled and want to study the Word of 327 00:22:17,600 --> 00:22:22,280 God. I'm more in love with Jesus 328 00:22:22,280 --> 00:22:25,600 Christ today than I have been since 1997. 329 00:22:26,760 --> 00:22:31,000 I'm more hungry today for the things of God than I was when I 330 00:22:31,000 --> 00:22:33,040 first started my journey in 1997. 331 00:22:33,320 --> 00:22:37,760 This broke, disgusted and busted aimlessly wandering through 332 00:22:37,760 --> 00:22:43,040 life. Young man in 1997 found Jesus 333 00:22:43,040 --> 00:22:49,280 Christ and my life was transformed and I've never 334 00:22:49,600 --> 00:22:54,680 looked back. When I said Jesus your Lord, 335 00:22:56,960 --> 00:23:00,120 salvation impacted me. I just knew I need to be in 336 00:23:00,120 --> 00:23:06,080 church. Nobody begged me, prodded me, 337 00:23:06,440 --> 00:23:10,400 poked me, I was just God was faithful. 338 00:23:10,400 --> 00:23:13,480 In 1997 I was able to get connected at a good church at 339 00:23:13,480 --> 00:23:15,960 Raymond Christian Center. The only reason I left there is 340 00:23:15,960 --> 00:23:18,160 because God said you need to get further training. 341 00:23:18,840 --> 00:23:24,280 And so he my journey led me to Broken Arrow, OK to Bible school 342 00:23:24,600 --> 00:23:28,720 and I was connected there until God said, see the power of 343 00:23:28,720 --> 00:23:33,040 Pentecost will lead you. Thank God for salvation and 344 00:23:33,040 --> 00:23:39,080 deliverance at Passover, but you want to have a successful life, 345 00:23:39,080 --> 00:23:44,480 you need the power of Pentecost. Let me say this way, at the Red 346 00:23:44,480 --> 00:23:47,800 Sea you can experience deliverance and salvation. 347 00:23:47,800 --> 00:23:50,200 But God said there's some wilderness wondering. 348 00:23:50,200 --> 00:23:54,080 Christians that had come through the Red Sea experienced 349 00:23:54,080 --> 00:23:56,920 Passover, but they never went cross the Jordan. 350 00:24:00,280 --> 00:24:03,400 And the Jordan is symbolic of the baptism of the Holy Spirit. 351 00:24:04,040 --> 00:24:06,680 So you could be saved without being filled with the Holy 352 00:24:06,680 --> 00:24:10,080 Ghost. You can experience Passover, but 353 00:24:10,080 --> 00:24:11,320 you haven't experienced Pentecost. 354 00:24:11,320 --> 00:24:13,920 And God's saying today you need a feast on Pentecost. 355 00:24:14,000 --> 00:24:16,640 Some of you have been filled, but you have been exercising the 356 00:24:16,640 --> 00:24:19,800 gift. So you're, you need to stir that 357 00:24:19,800 --> 00:24:22,320 up on the inside of you. When you don't know how to pray, 358 00:24:22,320 --> 00:24:24,840 what should you do? Pray in the Spirit? 359 00:24:24,920 --> 00:24:27,360 I'll never forget one of my friends at Rhema said this. 360 00:24:27,360 --> 00:24:30,280 He said praying in the spirits is like, like laying down train 361 00:24:30,280 --> 00:24:34,880 tracks. Do you get what I'm saying? 362 00:24:35,240 --> 00:24:37,760 God knows the way that we should take. 363 00:24:38,440 --> 00:24:41,000 And when you pray in the Holy Ghost, you're laying down train 364 00:24:41,000 --> 00:24:44,360 tracks because we want His will done above all else in our life. 365 00:24:45,520 --> 00:24:48,520 You know, I couldn't find in the Bible any chapter verse that 366 00:24:48,520 --> 00:24:50,400 told me in 1997 to move to Broken Arrow. 367 00:24:50,400 --> 00:24:55,000 OK? But what I could find is I could 368 00:24:55,000 --> 00:24:58,440 be led by the Spirit and I had peace about going there and it 369 00:24:58,440 --> 00:25:02,320 was the right decision. Did you know I met apostle or 370 00:25:02,320 --> 00:25:04,920 Marcy there? Think about how instrumental and 371 00:25:04,920 --> 00:25:07,200 big that was. That relationship got started 372 00:25:07,480 --> 00:25:09,760 because of obedience to being led by the Spirit. 373 00:25:14,840 --> 00:25:18,400 Hallelujah. So even Jesus. 374 00:25:18,400 --> 00:25:22,400 Your homework assignment is Philippians chapter 2 verses one 375 00:25:22,400 --> 00:25:24,840 through 11. It says that he emptied himself 376 00:25:25,680 --> 00:25:30,800 of his royal dignity, of his royal authority, and he, he says 377 00:25:30,800 --> 00:25:38,400 he came in the likeness of man. Why is that important? 378 00:25:38,400 --> 00:25:43,760 Because Jesus in his earthly ministry, from 30 to 33 years 379 00:25:43,760 --> 00:25:50,000 old, he ministered as a man anointed by the Spirit of God. 380 00:25:50,560 --> 00:25:55,600 He did not minister as the Son of God, He ministered as the Son 381 00:25:55,600 --> 00:25:58,920 of man. And why is that important? 382 00:25:58,920 --> 00:26:03,600 Because not only are we the Son of God, but as a Son of man He 383 00:26:03,600 --> 00:26:08,480 gave us an example that we need to minister by the anointing. 384 00:26:10,160 --> 00:26:13,960 Are you with me? So look at Acts 1038 says how 385 00:26:13,960 --> 00:26:18,520 God anointed Jesus of Nazareth. God anointed Jesus of Nazareth 386 00:26:18,840 --> 00:26:21,120 with the Holy Spirit and with power went about doing good and 387 00:26:21,120 --> 00:26:25,280 healing all who are oppressed by the devil, for God was with him. 388 00:26:26,120 --> 00:26:31,920 So God anointed or baptized Jesus in the Holy Ghost, and 389 00:26:31,920 --> 00:26:34,800 that's how He had the power to do His assignment in the earth. 390 00:26:35,000 --> 00:26:37,080 Same way, how are we going to have the power? 391 00:26:37,080 --> 00:26:40,360 Because we experienced Passover, but we also experienced 392 00:26:40,360 --> 00:26:45,280 Pentecost, and then we have that same anointing to go about doing 393 00:26:45,280 --> 00:26:47,640 good. God has called us to do good. 394 00:26:48,760 --> 00:26:52,000 We were born again, baptized in the Holy Spirit to do good 395 00:26:52,000 --> 00:26:56,240 works, and we do that through the power of the Holy Spirit. 396 00:26:56,240 --> 00:27:02,080 In John chapter 16 verse #7 the Amplified Classic says it like 397 00:27:02,080 --> 00:27:04,320 this. However, this is Jesus talking. 398 00:27:04,320 --> 00:27:07,800 He said, however, I'm telling you nothing but the truth when I 399 00:27:07,800 --> 00:27:11,840 say it is profitable, it's good, it's expedient, it's 400 00:27:11,840 --> 00:27:16,040 advantageous for you, the disciples that me Jesus goes 401 00:27:16,040 --> 00:27:18,440 away. Because if I do not go away, the 402 00:27:18,440 --> 00:27:21,520 comforter, the counselor, the helper, the advocate, the 403 00:27:21,520 --> 00:27:24,360 intercessor, the strength and his stamp, I, he will not come 404 00:27:24,360 --> 00:27:26,440 to you in close fellowship with you. 405 00:27:27,040 --> 00:27:31,640 But if I go away, I will send him the Holy Spirit to you to be 406 00:27:31,640 --> 00:27:37,280 in close fellowship with you. When he put that blood on the 407 00:27:37,280 --> 00:27:40,240 mercy seat and you said, Jesus, I received that blood, your, 408 00:27:40,240 --> 00:27:43,480 your spirit may be became born again and became holy. 409 00:27:44,080 --> 00:27:46,440 And you have, you have the ability of that time to receive 410 00:27:46,440 --> 00:27:49,960 the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit can't dwell in a 411 00:27:49,960 --> 00:27:54,080 bad spirit. So the blood makes me holy and I 412 00:27:54,080 --> 00:27:55,600 received the Holy Ghost in my life. 413 00:27:55,600 --> 00:27:57,800 Jesus said it's expedient that I go away. 414 00:27:58,040 --> 00:27:59,960 Think about it. He's with the disciples. 415 00:28:00,720 --> 00:28:03,280 Could you imagine walking and talking with Jesus? 416 00:28:05,080 --> 00:28:08,000 But he tells them, it's better for you that I go away, 'cause 417 00:28:08,000 --> 00:28:12,000 when I go away, I'm gonna send the third person to the Trinity, 418 00:28:13,240 --> 00:28:15,560 and I'm going to baptize you with the Holy Spirit. 419 00:28:18,640 --> 00:28:22,760 Zechariah chapter 4, verse #6 says this. 420 00:28:22,760 --> 00:28:25,640 This is the word of the Lord to Zerubbula. 421 00:28:26,080 --> 00:28:32,360 Not by might, not by power, but by my spirit, says the Lord. 422 00:28:33,880 --> 00:28:36,120 If we're going to do demonstrations and good works in 423 00:28:36,120 --> 00:28:39,240 the earth church, we need the power of the Holy Ghost. 424 00:28:39,440 --> 00:28:43,240 We need the power of Pentecost. It's not by our might, it's not 425 00:28:43,240 --> 00:28:45,960 by our strength. It's by the power of the Holy 426 00:28:46,200 --> 00:28:51,160 Spirit in us. In Matthew chapter 12 verse #28 427 00:28:53,040 --> 00:28:55,280 the word says this. If I cast out demons by the 428 00:28:55,280 --> 00:28:59,080 Spirit of God, surely the Kingdom of God has come upon 429 00:28:59,080 --> 00:29:01,320 you. How's He casting out demons by 430 00:29:01,320 --> 00:29:07,480 the power of the Holy Spirit? In Philippians chapter 4 verse 431 00:29:07,480 --> 00:29:10,240 #13 the Amplified Classic says this. 432 00:29:10,920 --> 00:29:15,280 I have strength for all things in Christ who empowers me. 433 00:29:15,280 --> 00:29:19,240 I'm ready for anything and equal to anything through Him who 434 00:29:19,240 --> 00:29:24,320 infuses inner strength into me. I am self-sufficient in Christ 435 00:29:24,640 --> 00:29:28,440 sufficiency. What is the Apostle Paul talking 436 00:29:28,440 --> 00:29:30,800 about? He's talking about the power of 437 00:29:30,800 --> 00:29:33,000 the Holy Ghost. He empowers you. 438 00:29:33,000 --> 00:29:37,160 He equips you. You can't do all things through 439 00:29:37,160 --> 00:29:39,840 Christ who strengthened you. You can do all things through 440 00:29:39,840 --> 00:29:46,880 the Pentecost experience in Luke chapter 4. 441 00:29:48,760 --> 00:29:51,840 I'm going to read verses 16 through 20 from the message 442 00:29:52,600 --> 00:29:56,840 paraphrase and this is after Jesus was baptized by John. 443 00:29:56,840 --> 00:30:00,600 You realize that Jesus was baptized by John and said, and 444 00:30:00,600 --> 00:30:03,640 you saw those, the Spirit as a dove coming upon him. 445 00:30:06,640 --> 00:30:10,600 Jesus was baptized by John and it says the heavens were open 446 00:30:10,600 --> 00:30:13,920 and in the Holy Spirit descend like a dove and came upon Jesus. 447 00:30:14,200 --> 00:30:17,560 And after that experience, listen to what he says in this 448 00:30:17,560 --> 00:30:19,760 verse. It says he came to Nazareth 449 00:30:19,760 --> 00:30:22,320 where he had been raised as he always did on the Sabbath. 450 00:30:22,600 --> 00:30:24,880 He went to the meeting place where he stood up to read. 451 00:30:25,160 --> 00:30:28,560 He was handed the scroll of the prophet Isaiah. 452 00:30:28,960 --> 00:30:31,240 Unrolling the scroll we found the place where it is written. 453 00:30:31,240 --> 00:30:38,200 God's Spirit is on me. He's chosen me to preach the 454 00:30:38,200 --> 00:30:41,680 message of good news to the poor. 455 00:30:42,000 --> 00:30:46,200 He sent me to announce pardon to prisoners and recovery of sight 456 00:30:46,200 --> 00:30:50,800 to the blind, to set the burden and battered free to announce. 457 00:30:50,800 --> 00:30:57,480 This is God's time to shine. He rolled up the scroll, handed 458 00:30:57,480 --> 00:31:00,360 it back to the assistants. He assistants sat down. 459 00:31:00,760 --> 00:31:04,760 Every eye in the place was on him intent then he started in 460 00:31:04,760 --> 00:31:07,000 you've just heard this scripture make history. 461 00:31:07,200 --> 00:31:11,920 It just came true. Now in this place is the power 462 00:31:11,920 --> 00:31:20,120 of Pentecost now true in your life today go to Luke chapter 463 00:31:20,120 --> 00:31:22,800 24. I'm going to read one verse. 464 00:31:23,040 --> 00:31:27,440 This is the post resurrection. So Jesus already the Passover 465 00:31:27,440 --> 00:31:29,840 lamb has been raised from the dead. 466 00:31:32,560 --> 00:31:35,680 Luke chapter 24, very last chapter of the book of Luke, 467 00:31:37,040 --> 00:31:39,520 He's talking to his disciples after he's been raised from the 468 00:31:39,520 --> 00:31:43,840 dead. And he said this, behold, so 469 00:31:43,840 --> 00:31:47,520 listen, he's saying I'm Passover, I paid the price, but 470 00:31:47,520 --> 00:31:51,560 behold, I send the promise of my Father upon you. 471 00:31:51,800 --> 00:31:56,680 But tarry wait in the city of Jerusalem until you're endued 472 00:31:56,680 --> 00:32:02,000 with power from on high. So we go to the book of Acts, 473 00:32:02,360 --> 00:32:05,440 'cause Luke the Great Physician wrote the book of Luke and the 474 00:32:05,440 --> 00:32:08,320 book of Acts. So this is a continuation of 475 00:32:08,320 --> 00:32:10,360 what's happening in Luke chapter. 476 00:32:10,680 --> 00:32:14,640 In Acts chapter 1, they're listening to what Jesus said in 477 00:32:14,640 --> 00:32:17,320 Luke 24. They were waiting for this 478 00:32:17,320 --> 00:32:22,320 outpouring of the Holy Spirit. In Acts chapter 1, Jesus says to 479 00:32:22,320 --> 00:32:26,880 them, you shall, you shall receive power when the Holy 480 00:32:26,880 --> 00:32:29,840 Spirit's come upon you, and you shall be witnesses. 481 00:32:31,400 --> 00:32:34,680 You shall receive, let me say this way, Pentecostal power and 482 00:32:34,680 --> 00:32:38,840 be witnesses to me in Jerusalem, Judea, Samaria, to the ends of 483 00:32:38,840 --> 00:32:41,560 the earth. How are you going to be a true 484 00:32:41,560 --> 00:32:45,040 witness for Christ without Pentecostal power? 485 00:32:46,080 --> 00:32:48,280 How are you going to be a true witness for Christ without 486 00:32:48,280 --> 00:32:52,680 Pentecostal power? When I was filled with the Holy 487 00:32:52,680 --> 00:32:56,600 Ghost in 1997, I was saved, redeemed. 488 00:32:56,600 --> 00:33:00,680 I knew it, but when I got filled with the Holy Ghost, what a 489 00:33:00,680 --> 00:33:03,600 change. The Bible started coming alive 490 00:33:03,600 --> 00:33:06,080 to me. It was like a a 1000 piece 491 00:33:06,080 --> 00:33:08,720 puzzle that started to come together over time quicker 492 00:33:10,320 --> 00:33:13,560 because I had the power, the person of the Holy Spirit on the 493 00:33:13,560 --> 00:33:17,160 inside. And you're going to be a 494 00:33:17,160 --> 00:33:19,480 witness. This word means you're going to 495 00:33:19,480 --> 00:33:24,320 testify, you're going to give evidence, and you're going to 496 00:33:24,320 --> 00:33:27,680 affirm the truth. Because of Pentecostal power, 497 00:33:27,680 --> 00:33:31,440 you're going to give evidence to the change in your life and 498 00:33:31,440 --> 00:33:33,800 you're going to give evidence to the truth in your life. 499 00:33:35,640 --> 00:33:40,680 So listen friends, because of the Holy Spirit, we should have 500 00:33:40,680 --> 00:33:42,920 gifts of the Spirit and operation as outlined in First 501 00:33:42,920 --> 00:33:45,480 Corinthians chapter 12. Not only should we have gifts, 502 00:33:45,480 --> 00:33:49,080 but as outlined in Galatians 5, it says, says the fruit of the 503 00:33:49,080 --> 00:33:52,520 Spirit. So we should have the the 504 00:33:52,520 --> 00:33:56,320 character development and the miraculous happened in our life 505 00:33:56,320 --> 00:33:57,760 because of the power of the Holy Spirit. 506 00:33:58,520 --> 00:34:02,640 There's nine fruits of the Spirit starting with love and 507 00:34:02,640 --> 00:34:04,400 there's there's 9 gifts of the Spirit. 508 00:34:04,400 --> 00:34:07,480 But it's all through the power of Pentecost that you're going 509 00:34:07,480 --> 00:34:09,760 to experience this. And how am I going to witness 510 00:34:09,760 --> 00:34:11,760 man? We should be able to go into a 511 00:34:11,760 --> 00:34:15,239 place, whether a hospital, whether at work, whatever's 512 00:34:15,239 --> 00:34:19,440 going on, and pray for somebody and see change immediately by 513 00:34:19,440 --> 00:34:22,960 the power of the Holy Ghost. At the same time too, the Holy 514 00:34:22,960 --> 00:34:27,520 Spirit is always checking us. Somebody cut you off when you're 515 00:34:27,520 --> 00:34:34,440 driving and you want to tell them that they're #1 with the 516 00:34:34,440 --> 00:34:43,080 wrong finger, the Holy Spirit will quicken you and say you 517 00:34:43,080 --> 00:34:50,040 have self-control. How can I be a witness when I'm 518 00:34:50,040 --> 00:34:52,840 something doing something derogatory towards somebody else 519 00:34:52,840 --> 00:34:59,000 right? Glory to God, self-control. 520 00:35:00,560 --> 00:35:06,720 And then Acts chapter 2 verse #4 it says this. 521 00:35:06,720 --> 00:35:09,720 They were all So the second chapter, Acts, the 1st chapter, 522 00:35:09,760 --> 00:35:14,440 we're going from Luke 2449 to Acts 18, just building a case to 523 00:35:14,440 --> 00:35:18,640 Acts chapter 2 verse #4 they waited as Jesus commanded them. 524 00:35:18,840 --> 00:35:21,680 It says on the day and when it says the day of Pentecost had 525 00:35:21,680 --> 00:35:24,160 fully come. If you read the verse when the 526 00:35:24,160 --> 00:35:27,280 day of Pentecost, which we're selling the feast of Pentecost 527 00:35:27,280 --> 00:35:33,080 today and I believe there's some in this sanctuary, they're going 528 00:35:33,080 --> 00:35:36,480 to receive the Pentecostal experience today. 529 00:35:38,600 --> 00:35:42,800 I believe there's some that's going to be stirred up to re 530 00:35:42,800 --> 00:35:45,120 experience the Pentecostal experience. 531 00:35:47,040 --> 00:35:48,880 It says when the day of Pentecost at full of come, they 532 00:35:48,880 --> 00:35:52,760 were all filled with the Holy Spirit and they began to speak 533 00:35:52,760 --> 00:35:56,240 with other tongues as the Spirit gave them utterance. 534 00:35:57,160 --> 00:36:00,280 The evidence of being filled with the Holy Ghost is speaking 535 00:36:00,280 --> 00:36:03,880 in other tongues. Yes, come on, there's there's 536 00:36:03,880 --> 00:36:10,040 always in the Word of God. There's always a principle that 537 00:36:10,040 --> 00:36:12,400 God works on and a pattern that He works through. 538 00:36:15,360 --> 00:36:17,960 God always does everything through a principle or a truth 539 00:36:17,960 --> 00:36:21,920 based on a pattern. For example, there was a 540 00:36:21,920 --> 00:36:25,880 Tabernacle in the old covenant. But guess what? 541 00:36:27,040 --> 00:36:33,000 Jesus Christ is the Tabernacle in the old Covenant. 542 00:36:33,000 --> 00:36:36,080 We come through the Red Sea in the New Covenant. 543 00:36:36,080 --> 00:36:38,120 That's like a type of water baptism. 544 00:36:40,440 --> 00:36:42,760 Remember, Pharaoh and his army was drowned. 545 00:36:45,440 --> 00:36:50,160 Now some scholars say, well, they crossed the Red Sea 'cause 546 00:36:50,160 --> 00:36:53,680 it was really dry at that season, and they try to do it 547 00:36:53,680 --> 00:36:55,600 with a miracle. As I said, well, if they cross 548 00:36:55,600 --> 00:36:57,800 the Red Sea, it's even a miracle they drowned in that shallow 549 00:36:57,800 --> 00:37:01,200 water. Either way, it's a miracle. 550 00:37:06,360 --> 00:37:09,360 You don't drown by falling in the wall, you're drowned by 551 00:37:09,360 --> 00:37:11,720 staying in the water. That's all different sermon. 552 00:37:11,720 --> 00:37:16,800 But that's, that's a, a pattern and a principle right there. 553 00:37:16,800 --> 00:37:19,040 But guess what? Just just like I'm married to 554 00:37:19,040 --> 00:37:22,640 Angie. This is an external evidence. 555 00:37:23,800 --> 00:37:26,160 But this doesn't really mean anything without the internal 556 00:37:26,160 --> 00:37:32,160 work, you know, 'cause you could have a house, but do you have a 557 00:37:32,160 --> 00:37:35,920 home? And thank God, by the Spirit of 558 00:37:35,920 --> 00:37:38,120 living God, we have a home. We've experienced the goodness 559 00:37:38,120 --> 00:37:41,120 of God. Can't wait to get home. 560 00:37:41,160 --> 00:37:45,520 I just love getting home. I'm a homebody, glory to God. 561 00:37:46,760 --> 00:37:49,480 But just the same thing that there's an external evidence 562 00:37:49,480 --> 00:37:50,800 with, you get filled with the Holy Ghost. 563 00:37:50,800 --> 00:37:52,800 Guess what? The evidence you're filled is by 564 00:37:52,800 --> 00:37:59,360 speaking in other tongues. Listen BC before Christ I wasn't 565 00:37:59,360 --> 00:38:02,760 living right and I used to be on the bar scene. 566 00:38:05,840 --> 00:38:08,280 All right. Thank God I'm redeemed. 567 00:38:08,640 --> 00:38:11,840 Thank God I'm delivered. I'm not going in the bar to 568 00:38:11,840 --> 00:38:17,560 witness Don, but I will pray I have an interaction with 569 00:38:17,560 --> 00:38:21,000 somebody's coming out so they can come out. 570 00:38:22,880 --> 00:38:25,360 But I was in a lot of that. I never heard once in the bar 571 00:38:25,360 --> 00:38:26,720 anybody speaking in other tongues. 572 00:38:27,680 --> 00:38:30,000 I heard a lot of slur speech and saw a lot of stupid decisions, 573 00:38:30,000 --> 00:38:33,680 but I never heard anybody speaking in other tongues. 574 00:38:34,400 --> 00:38:35,920 So that's want to clarify speaking in tongues. 575 00:38:35,920 --> 00:38:37,520 Some people say, well, that's the devil. 576 00:38:38,240 --> 00:38:42,120 Well, have you read your Bible? Do we believe this infallible 577 00:38:42,120 --> 00:38:44,280 word? I mean, why would God say that 578 00:38:44,280 --> 00:38:47,600 they spoke in other tongues if it wasn't relevant? 579 00:38:49,000 --> 00:38:52,440 Even in Acts chapter 19, if you study this one out, when they 580 00:38:52,440 --> 00:38:55,000 went to this certain city and people got filled the Holy Ghost 581 00:38:55,000 --> 00:38:56,560 and said they heard them speak with tongues. 582 00:38:56,560 --> 00:38:58,840 There's a second witness in the book of Acts. 583 00:38:58,840 --> 00:39:03,040 So you know you got the Holy Ghost as an evidence because 584 00:39:03,040 --> 00:39:06,120 you, you start to speak in other tongues. 585 00:39:06,680 --> 00:39:09,280 And even in First Corinthians chapter 14, when Paul's talking 586 00:39:09,280 --> 00:39:12,440 about the prophetic gifts in the church, he's talking about a 587 00:39:12,440 --> 00:39:14,960 private side and a public side of praying in tongues. 588 00:39:15,160 --> 00:39:18,600 Paul said this, I'd rather I speak 10,000 words in an unknown 589 00:39:18,600 --> 00:39:19,800 tongue. What's he talking about? 590 00:39:19,960 --> 00:39:25,120 In my own private prayer life? I pray in the Spirit a lot was 591 00:39:25,120 --> 00:39:28,120 what Paul said. But he said in the church, I'd 592 00:39:28,120 --> 00:39:31,200 rather speak 5 words from under with an understanding why 'cause 593 00:39:31,200 --> 00:39:33,040 if I got up here for an hour and a half and just spoke in 594 00:39:33,040 --> 00:39:35,280 tongues, what good is it going to do for you? 595 00:39:37,920 --> 00:39:40,520 Unless somebody gave it an interpretation for an hour and a 596 00:39:40,520 --> 00:39:44,400 half, which would be like longer than an hour and a half 'cause 597 00:39:44,400 --> 00:39:46,200 they'd have to interpret as I go, right? 598 00:39:46,960 --> 00:39:48,600 But that's what he is saying. I speak with tongues. 599 00:39:48,600 --> 00:39:51,320 He stayed, He did great things for the Kingdom of God, but he 600 00:39:51,320 --> 00:39:55,160 prayed in the Spirit so much. Now, thank God. 601 00:39:55,160 --> 00:39:57,520 You can pray in English, you can pray in Spanish, but you should 602 00:39:57,520 --> 00:39:59,800 be able to pray in your heavenly language. 603 00:39:59,800 --> 00:40:02,840 That's what I'm gonna call it. When you don't know how to pray. 604 00:40:02,960 --> 00:40:06,400 The Moffett translation of Romans 8 says when you don't 605 00:40:06,400 --> 00:40:09,680 know how to pray in your articulate speech, you can pray 606 00:40:09,680 --> 00:40:11,640 in the Spirit. I like that translation. 607 00:40:11,720 --> 00:40:15,240 When you've run out of what to say in English, you can kick 608 00:40:15,240 --> 00:40:18,520 over into the Holy Ghost and lay those train tracks. 609 00:40:21,440 --> 00:40:25,120 Jude says in this there's only 1 chapter in Jude the 20th verse 610 00:40:25,120 --> 00:40:28,000 it says building yourself up in the Holy Ghost. 611 00:40:28,160 --> 00:40:31,280 Listen, some believers, I'm going to give an example like my 612 00:40:31,280 --> 00:40:37,720 iPhone, any Android users the the altar is open. 613 00:40:37,880 --> 00:40:39,440 I'm just kidding. I'm just kidding. 614 00:40:40,480 --> 00:40:43,440 You Jack up text messages or we Jack up your text messages. 615 00:40:43,440 --> 00:40:46,680 One of the two we OK, I'll, I'll humble myself. 616 00:40:48,360 --> 00:40:51,800 I really don't care, but you know, there's a lot of 617 00:40:51,800 --> 00:40:54,360 applications on this. There's a lot you can access on 618 00:40:54,360 --> 00:40:56,760 this, right? Does that, I mean, this is like 619 00:40:56,760 --> 00:41:07,500 a little computer, right? But if the battery dies, what 620 00:41:07,500 --> 00:41:10,300 happens? It's useless, right? 621 00:41:11,740 --> 00:41:13,980 Someone ask you this question, where's your spiritual battery 622 00:41:13,980 --> 00:41:20,900 at 'cause you know, we get excited when it gets yellow. 623 00:41:20,900 --> 00:41:26,920 You put it in that save mode, don't move it, don't use it, 624 00:41:26,920 --> 00:41:29,440 right. It's better to stay charged up 625 00:41:29,440 --> 00:41:30,920 all the time. It's no fun. 626 00:41:32,040 --> 00:41:36,080 It's no fun if you're driving in your car and you see the the 50 627 00:41:36,080 --> 00:41:38,800 drop and you're on the highway and you don't know exactly where 628 00:41:38,800 --> 00:41:42,200 the next gas station's AT and it starts blinking so you got 50 629 00:41:42,200 --> 00:41:43,640 miles to empty. That's no fun. 630 00:41:45,320 --> 00:41:50,080 I'd rather just stay full. So my admonition to you today is 631 00:41:50,080 --> 00:41:55,600 just say full daily practice Pentecost daily keep keep this 632 00:41:55,600 --> 00:41:58,360 thing at fool so you have application to all that God has 633 00:41:58,360 --> 00:42:04,560 available to you. Now all this was given just not 634 00:42:04,560 --> 00:42:08,560 for own benefit and blessing. Thank God for the Holy Ghost he, 635 00:42:08,680 --> 00:42:13,640 he is so personal and you can have intimacy with him, but it's 636 00:42:13,640 --> 00:42:18,200 just not for you to stay at the house and pray in the spirit and 637 00:42:18,200 --> 00:42:22,120 not get out. That is not why the Pentecost 638 00:42:22,120 --> 00:42:25,320 came. It's part of it, man. 639 00:42:25,320 --> 00:42:29,880 He'll reveal things to you. He'll give you a scripture as 640 00:42:29,880 --> 00:42:31,200 you're doing your Bible reading, man. 641 00:42:31,200 --> 00:42:33,240 He'll have things pop off the page to you. 642 00:42:34,600 --> 00:42:38,800 But it's more than just that. He has anointed you for service. 643 00:42:41,120 --> 00:42:43,360 The Holy Spirit has anointed you for service. 644 00:42:43,360 --> 00:42:50,760 So let's go to Psalms 100. Psalms 100 it says this I'm 645 00:42:50,760 --> 00:42:52,200 gonna read this from the new King James version. 646 00:42:52,200 --> 00:42:54,280 It says make a joyful shout to the Lord. 647 00:42:54,640 --> 00:43:00,280 All you lands serve the Lord with gladness. 648 00:43:02,000 --> 00:43:04,000 Come before his presence was singing. 649 00:43:04,360 --> 00:43:07,800 Know that the Lord he is God. It is he who made us and we are, 650 00:43:08,000 --> 00:43:10,920 and we not ourselves. We are his people, the sheep of 651 00:43:10,920 --> 00:43:13,080 his pasture. Enter into his gates with 652 00:43:13,080 --> 00:43:15,640 Thanksgiving into his courts of praise. 653 00:43:15,760 --> 00:43:19,200 Be thankful to him. Bless his name, for the Lord is 654 00:43:19,200 --> 00:43:25,000 good, the Lord is good, the Lord is good, as mercy is everlasting 655 00:43:25,200 --> 00:43:27,280 and His truth endures to all generations. 656 00:43:27,520 --> 00:43:31,240 That is a delicious piece of scripture. 657 00:43:31,400 --> 00:43:43,360 This is prime USDA non-GMO organic sirloin steak for all 658 00:43:43,360 --> 00:43:45,280 your vegetarians. This is a good piece of 659 00:43:45,280 --> 00:43:52,160 broccoli. It's so good I'm going to read 660 00:43:52,160 --> 00:43:54,760 it again. Make a joyful shout to the Lord. 661 00:44:01,840 --> 00:44:05,920 Serve the Lord with gladness. Come before His presence was 662 00:44:05,920 --> 00:44:09,960 singing. Know that the Lord, he is God. 663 00:44:10,080 --> 00:44:12,240 It is He who made us, not we ourselves. 664 00:44:12,440 --> 00:44:14,680 We are His people, the sheep of His pasture. 665 00:44:14,880 --> 00:44:18,000 Enter His gates with Thanksgiving, into His courts 666 00:44:18,000 --> 00:44:20,400 with praise. Be thankful to Him. 667 00:44:20,400 --> 00:44:25,520 Bless His name, for the Lord is good and His mercy is 668 00:44:25,520 --> 00:44:30,200 everlasting, and His truth endures to all generations. 669 00:44:35,840 --> 00:44:40,680 So I'm going to impress this and by the Spirit of God, etch this 670 00:44:41,320 --> 00:44:43,080 in your mind and your heart today. 671 00:44:43,800 --> 00:44:51,440 Serve the Lord with gladness, God's GPS, God's powerful 672 00:44:51,440 --> 00:44:54,720 servant that has Pentecostal empowerment. 673 00:44:54,920 --> 00:44:59,280 I'm going to serve him with gladness, not sadness. 674 00:45:00,760 --> 00:45:06,520 The Bible says I was glad when they said let us go to the House 675 00:45:06,520 --> 00:45:09,600 of the Lord. It didn't say I was sad when 676 00:45:09,600 --> 00:45:13,560 they said the church is a voluntary community. 677 00:45:13,560 --> 00:45:15,840 Nobody's forcing you to be here today. 678 00:45:19,200 --> 00:45:23,160 So if nobody's forcing you, you should be glad to be here. 679 00:45:27,320 --> 00:45:32,440 We serve God because we love Him, and it's a reasonable and 680 00:45:33,080 --> 00:45:36,040 reciprocal response to his grace. 681 00:45:37,680 --> 00:45:42,480 We serve God because we love him, and it's a reasonable and 682 00:45:42,480 --> 00:45:45,240 reciprocal response to God's grace. 683 00:45:45,520 --> 00:45:48,600 He gave us Passover. He gave us Pentecost. 684 00:45:48,760 --> 00:45:50,880 Thank God one day He's coming back. 685 00:45:52,720 --> 00:45:57,320 We we get a feast from Passover to Tabernacle when the last 686 00:45:57,320 --> 00:46:02,160 trumpet sounds and he returns. But our life should be a joyful 687 00:46:02,160 --> 00:46:08,840 feast. We serve the Lord because He is 688 00:46:08,840 --> 00:46:10,200 good. Now listen, I want to give you a 689 00:46:10,200 --> 00:46:15,040 few definitions of service. Serve means this to perform 690 00:46:15,040 --> 00:46:16,760 duties or to fulfill an assignment. 691 00:46:16,880 --> 00:46:19,720 Just like the prophet, priest and king had a specific 692 00:46:19,720 --> 00:46:23,280 assignment. Guess what, God knows you, God 693 00:46:23,280 --> 00:46:26,480 knows every single person in this room and he has a plan for 694 00:46:26,480 --> 00:46:29,600 your life. And I learned this from my BC 695 00:46:29,600 --> 00:46:35,800 days when I was at West Side Barbell, very famous 696 00:46:35,800 --> 00:46:40,520 powerlifting gym. Louie's always you say if if you 697 00:46:40,520 --> 00:46:43,840 want to go far and lift and you got to build a big base. 698 00:46:45,240 --> 00:46:50,760 So you talk about GPP and then SSPGPP was general physical 699 00:46:50,760 --> 00:46:54,200 preparedness, and that's where you're just laying a foundation. 700 00:46:54,680 --> 00:46:57,560 He's working on fundamentals, getting you stronger, but he 701 00:46:57,560 --> 00:46:59,120 also has something further in mind. 702 00:46:59,120 --> 00:47:01,080 And it's kind of like what the Kingdom of God does when you 703 00:47:01,080 --> 00:47:03,880 first get born again and Passover, then you experience 704 00:47:03,880 --> 00:47:05,560 Pentecost. God is building you up. 705 00:47:05,560 --> 00:47:08,520 You know, in 1997 when I started going to church, I didn't know 706 00:47:08,520 --> 00:47:10,800 that I'd be in full time ministry, but I was just 707 00:47:10,800 --> 00:47:13,680 faithful in GPP, general physical appearance, attend 708 00:47:13,680 --> 00:47:15,520 church, do my Bible reading, pray. 709 00:47:15,800 --> 00:47:17,880 Was I perfect? No, I still working some things 710 00:47:17,880 --> 00:47:19,520 out. You know, when you get born 711 00:47:19,520 --> 00:47:21,560 again, your mind is just not automatically renewed. 712 00:47:23,160 --> 00:47:25,800 You got to work and the Holy Spirit and Pentecost will help 713 00:47:25,800 --> 00:47:27,920 you remind you of the Word of God. 714 00:47:28,720 --> 00:47:31,160 But as I went on and faithfulness, you know, God just 715 00:47:31,160 --> 00:47:33,360 was leading me. And things start to get more 716 00:47:33,360 --> 00:47:36,440 specific in the assignment. But God's never going to promote 717 00:47:36,440 --> 00:47:41,880 you unless He proves you. God's never going to promote you 718 00:47:41,880 --> 00:47:44,960 to His plan unless He proves you. 719 00:47:44,960 --> 00:47:47,400 And proving only happens through faithfulness. 720 00:47:47,960 --> 00:47:49,960 Are you going to be faithful to attend church? 721 00:47:49,960 --> 00:47:51,720 Are you going to be faithful to tithe? 722 00:47:51,720 --> 00:47:53,360 Are you going to be faithful at your home? 723 00:47:53,360 --> 00:47:54,920 Are you going to be faithful at your job? 724 00:47:54,920 --> 00:47:56,720 Are you going to be faithful in your meditation? 725 00:47:56,720 --> 00:47:59,040 Are you going to be faithful in your devotional life? 726 00:48:00,880 --> 00:48:06,880 And as your faithful God sees it and at the right time, he'll 727 00:48:06,880 --> 00:48:09,880 start to get things more specific and lined out for you. 728 00:48:10,040 --> 00:48:11,800 And what a journey this is in Christ. 729 00:48:11,920 --> 00:48:18,840 There is not a better life, more exciting, more adventurous than 730 00:48:18,840 --> 00:48:21,960 being with Jesus Christ and being led by the Holy Spirit. 731 00:48:25,280 --> 00:48:27,960 This word serves me to means to be in bondage. 732 00:48:29,960 --> 00:48:33,280 And you say what that means. I'm bound to serve the Lord. 733 00:48:34,680 --> 00:48:38,840 I'm voluntarily placing myself in this service. 734 00:48:39,520 --> 00:48:42,440 Paul said it like this. I'm a bond servant. 735 00:48:42,560 --> 00:48:44,920 You know, in the old covenant said if you loved your master 736 00:48:44,920 --> 00:48:48,320 that much that they'd actually put that awe in your, in your 737 00:48:48,320 --> 00:48:51,080 ear or whatever and put a brand on you just 'cause you didn't 738 00:48:51,080 --> 00:48:54,720 want He released you, but you love the household so much you 739 00:48:54,720 --> 00:48:57,520 wanted to stay. And that's the picture. 740 00:48:57,520 --> 00:48:59,160 I love God so much. I'm not. 741 00:48:59,360 --> 00:49:02,000 He has branded me with the Holy Ghost on the inside. 742 00:49:02,160 --> 00:49:04,800 I'm not going anywhere. I'm bound to serve Him. 743 00:49:05,640 --> 00:49:08,160 I'm bound to serve Him. This word. 744 00:49:08,160 --> 00:49:10,360 Serve means to labor. That means to work. 745 00:49:10,360 --> 00:49:15,960 Work is not a curse. It's not a dirty 4 letter word. 746 00:49:17,920 --> 00:49:20,800 Matter of fact, God gives you work to establish dominion in 747 00:49:20,800 --> 00:49:26,080 the earth in your assignment. He gives you work to establish 748 00:49:26,080 --> 00:49:31,000 dominion even before the fall with in the Garden of Eden. 749 00:49:31,200 --> 00:49:33,960 Guess what? God gave Adam a job, an 750 00:49:33,960 --> 00:49:36,240 assignment work. He said you're to guard this 751 00:49:36,240 --> 00:49:39,600 garden. I'm putting you right. 752 00:49:39,600 --> 00:49:41,320 This is the place that I want you. 753 00:49:41,440 --> 00:49:43,960 This is the place that I assigned you and now you have to 754 00:49:43,960 --> 00:49:47,440 work, you have to till and cultivate this garden, right? 755 00:49:49,040 --> 00:49:55,480 The word serve means to worship and worships really shown sown 756 00:49:55,480 --> 00:49:58,280 through obedience. It really worship really 757 00:49:58,280 --> 00:50:01,600 identifies your source. Who do you run to or what do you 758 00:50:01,600 --> 00:50:05,080 run to when life hits you or falls apart? 759 00:50:05,480 --> 00:50:09,560 That identifies your source. If you go to Ben and Jerry's, 760 00:50:14,120 --> 00:50:16,960 that's identifying your source. Like emotional eating, right? 761 00:50:18,800 --> 00:50:22,440 If you go to anger, are you really running to God? 762 00:50:22,560 --> 00:50:26,120 But worship is obedience. It's really your source. 763 00:50:26,360 --> 00:50:30,640 This word serve means to wait, just like a waiter or a waitress 764 00:50:30,880 --> 00:50:33,840 serves. If you go to a restaurant after 765 00:50:33,840 --> 00:50:36,080 this, you're going to have a waiter, A waitress. 766 00:50:36,080 --> 00:50:37,560 And what they do, they serve the table. 767 00:50:37,640 --> 00:50:42,800 We should be Those that wait upon the Lord shall Well, I'm 768 00:50:42,800 --> 00:50:44,880 not feeling energized. Well, are you waiting upon the 769 00:50:44,880 --> 00:50:46,200 Lord? That word wait doesn't mean like 770 00:50:46,200 --> 00:50:49,360 I'm sitting down waiting. It means I'm serving the Lord. 771 00:50:49,520 --> 00:50:51,880 And those that wait upon the Lord, they shall renew their 772 00:50:51,880 --> 00:50:54,040 strength. They shall mount up with wings 773 00:50:54,040 --> 00:50:56,560 like eagles. They shall run and not grow 774 00:50:56,560 --> 00:50:58,320 wary. They shall walk, and they shall 775 00:50:58,320 --> 00:51:03,960 not faint. So we're to serve with the Lord, 776 00:51:04,920 --> 00:51:09,800 we're to serve for the Lord, and we're to serve through the Lord. 777 00:51:10,640 --> 00:51:16,440 We are to serve with the Lord. We're to serve for the Lord. 778 00:51:16,440 --> 00:51:23,240 We're to serve through the Lord. And the power of Pentecost gives 779 00:51:23,240 --> 00:51:25,960 us the power to do our assignment of service. 780 00:51:29,320 --> 00:51:31,080 And I want to close with these thoughts. 781 00:51:31,320 --> 00:51:35,440 Worship team, you can come as you go out this week. 782 00:51:37,280 --> 00:51:40,520 I want you to know this ministry starts with the person right in 783 00:51:40,520 --> 00:51:45,480 front of you. You're called to be a change 784 00:51:45,480 --> 00:51:49,560 agent through the Pentecostal empowerment as as the Kingdom 785 00:51:49,560 --> 00:51:53,160 GPS representative. And ministry starts with the 786 00:51:53,160 --> 00:51:56,520 person right in front of you. You are a change agent. 787 00:51:57,720 --> 00:52:01,840 If you can change a person, you can change a household. 788 00:52:03,680 --> 00:52:06,960 If you can change a household, you can change a community. 789 00:52:08,200 --> 00:52:11,680 If you can change a community, you can change a state. 790 00:52:12,520 --> 00:52:15,360 If you can change a state, you can change the world. 791 00:52:15,800 --> 00:52:19,400 Ministry starts with the person right in front of you. 792 00:52:19,800 --> 00:52:25,280 I want you to see people first this week when you read the 793 00:52:25,280 --> 00:52:30,400 gospels and you see the way that this anointed man, Jesus Christ, 794 00:52:30,400 --> 00:52:33,840 our Savior, navigated through life, you know, a lot of stuff 795 00:52:33,840 --> 00:52:36,560 happened not in the in the sacred place, but in the 796 00:52:36,560 --> 00:52:39,560 marketplace. As you read the gospels, look, 797 00:52:39,560 --> 00:52:42,800 look at the greatest leader. We have the greatest example. 798 00:52:42,800 --> 00:52:46,560 How did Jesus do it? And no matter where he was, 799 00:52:46,560 --> 00:52:48,800 ministry was always in front of him. 800 00:52:49,160 --> 00:52:51,000 And ministry starts with the person in front of you. 801 00:52:51,160 --> 00:52:53,120 You know, Jesus never saw their condition. 802 00:52:53,120 --> 00:52:58,160 He always saw their humanity first, he said. 803 00:52:58,160 --> 00:53:07,160 I saw a woman who had an issue of blood, he said. 804 00:53:07,160 --> 00:53:13,760 I saw a man with leprosy. I saw a woman that was been over 805 00:53:13,760 --> 00:53:17,440 for 18 years. He saw people first, the Bible 806 00:53:17,440 --> 00:53:22,720 said. He was moved with compassion and 807 00:53:22,720 --> 00:53:26,360 love is our motivating force to be a change agent. 808 00:53:26,480 --> 00:53:30,240 So see people first when you go out this week and understand 809 00:53:30,240 --> 00:53:32,880 this, that if we're going to change this community, we need 810 00:53:32,880 --> 00:53:36,320 to change one person at a time. And you are a change agent. 811 00:53:36,320 --> 00:53:41,000 You are called equipped, anointed to ignite this city. 812 00:53:44,120 --> 00:53:48,080 As a church. We are called equipped and 813 00:53:48,080 --> 00:53:53,080 anointed as servants to ignite this city, impact the nation, 814 00:53:53,400 --> 00:53:57,720 and influence the world. I'm going to give you 3 closing 815 00:53:57,720 --> 00:54:00,280 scriptures and then my wife's going to come up. 816 00:54:00,280 --> 00:54:05,480 We're going to give an altar call either for a a fresh 817 00:54:05,480 --> 00:54:09,280 renewing of the Holy Ghost or for a first time experience of 818 00:54:09,280 --> 00:54:11,400 being filled with this Pentecostal empowerment. 819 00:54:12,080 --> 00:54:16,440 I want to give you Luke Chapter 9 verse #48 from the Living 820 00:54:16,440 --> 00:54:19,640 Bible. It says this anyone who takes 821 00:54:19,640 --> 00:54:24,000 care of a little children like this is caring for me and 822 00:54:24,000 --> 00:54:26,560 whoever is cares for me is caring for God who sent me. 823 00:54:26,800 --> 00:54:31,480 Your care for others is the measure of your greatness. 824 00:54:32,480 --> 00:54:36,160 Your care for others is see people first this week and 825 00:54:36,160 --> 00:54:40,360 understand I have I'm anointed to being changed as a servant of 826 00:54:40,360 --> 00:54:44,160 God. Matthew chapter 23 verses 11 827 00:54:44,160 --> 00:54:47,800 through 12 says the greatest among you shall be your servant. 828 00:54:48,520 --> 00:54:51,560 Whoever exalts himself shall be humbled, but whoever humbles 829 00:54:51,560 --> 00:54:56,760 himself shall be raised to honor and our last scripture in Acts 830 00:54:56,760 --> 00:55:00,960 chapter 20 verses 22 to 24. This is Paul at the end of his 831 00:55:00,960 --> 00:55:03,560 life. He said, now see, I go bound. 832 00:55:03,560 --> 00:55:05,920 Remember, serve means a bond servant. 833 00:55:05,920 --> 00:55:08,640 I go bound in the Spirit to Jerusalem, not knowing the 834 00:55:08,640 --> 00:55:10,720 things that will happen to me there, except that the Holy 835 00:55:10,720 --> 00:55:13,880 Spirit testifies and every city saying that chains and 836 00:55:13,880 --> 00:55:17,120 tribulations await me. But none of these things move 837 00:55:17,120 --> 00:55:20,840 me, nor do I count my life dear to myself so that I may finish 838 00:55:20,840 --> 00:55:25,040 my race with joy and the ministry which I received from 839 00:55:25,040 --> 00:55:28,680 the Lord Jesus to testify to the gospel of the grace of God. 840 00:55:28,880 --> 00:55:31,200 God has an assignment for you that He wants you to finish. 841 00:55:31,200 --> 00:55:34,520 Strong should have that same confession that the apostle Paul 842 00:55:34,720 --> 00:55:38,440 that I finished my course with joy, I finished my course with 843 00:55:38,440 --> 00:55:41,320 feasting, I finished my course with the power of the Holy 844 00:55:41,320 --> 00:55:43,240 Ghost. But there is a course, there is 845 00:55:43,240 --> 00:55:45,800 a journey, and we need Him today. 846 00:55:46,120 --> 00:55:47,200 Hallelujah.