1 00:00:00,001 --> 00:00:02,580 (upbeat music) 2 00:00:02,580 --> 00:00:10,240 We're gonna continue our series on His Church, 3 00:00:10,240 --> 00:00:12,600 and I'm excited about where we're going today 4 00:00:12,600 --> 00:00:16,400 and through Christmas, actually, through the Advent season, 5 00:00:16,400 --> 00:00:20,960 we're going to be looking at the gift of the Holy Spirit, 6 00:00:20,960 --> 00:00:22,160 the gift of the Holy Spirit. 7 00:00:22,160 --> 00:00:24,040 And so we're gonna stand this morning 8 00:00:24,040 --> 00:00:27,940 and we're gonna read from Acts chapter two. 9 00:00:27,940 --> 00:00:28,920 Actually, that's not true. 10 00:00:28,920 --> 00:00:30,920 We're gonna read from Acts chapter one. 11 00:00:30,920 --> 00:00:35,780 I have a feeling that this is wrong again. 12 00:00:35,780 --> 00:00:37,480 No, it's not. 13 00:00:37,480 --> 00:00:38,780 Man, you guys are on it. 14 00:00:38,780 --> 00:00:40,000 Here we go, all right. 15 00:00:40,000 --> 00:00:41,140 We're in Acts chapter one. 16 00:00:41,140 --> 00:00:42,480 We're going back to Acts chapter one. 17 00:00:42,480 --> 00:00:43,960 So here we go. 18 00:00:43,960 --> 00:00:46,760 In my former book, Theophilus, 19 00:00:46,760 --> 00:00:51,180 I wrote about all that Jesus began to do and to teach 20 00:00:51,180 --> 00:00:54,200 until the day He was taken up to heaven 21 00:00:54,200 --> 00:00:57,240 after giving instructions through the Holy Spirit 22 00:00:57,240 --> 00:01:00,080 to the apostles He had chosen. 23 00:01:00,080 --> 00:01:04,520 After His suffering, He presented Himself to them 24 00:01:04,520 --> 00:01:08,760 and gave them many convincing proofs that He was alive. 25 00:01:08,760 --> 00:01:12,400 He appeared to them over a period of 40 days 26 00:01:12,400 --> 00:01:15,280 and spoke about the kingdom of God. 27 00:01:15,280 --> 00:01:18,480 On one occasion, while He was eating with them, 28 00:01:18,480 --> 00:01:20,620 He gave them this command. 29 00:01:20,620 --> 00:01:24,100 "Do not leave Jerusalem, but wait for the gift 30 00:01:24,100 --> 00:01:28,400 "My Father promised, which you have heard Me speak about. 31 00:01:28,400 --> 00:01:32,040 "For John baptized with water, but in a few days, 32 00:01:32,040 --> 00:01:35,500 "you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit." 33 00:01:35,500 --> 00:01:38,360 Then they gathered around Him and asked Him, 34 00:01:38,360 --> 00:01:41,840 "Lord, are You at this time going to restore 35 00:01:41,840 --> 00:01:43,740 "the kingdom to Israel?" 36 00:01:43,740 --> 00:01:47,560 He said to them, "It is not for you to know the times 37 00:01:47,560 --> 00:01:51,580 "or dates the Father has set by His own authority, 38 00:01:51,580 --> 00:01:53,860 "but you will receive power 39 00:01:53,860 --> 00:01:56,520 "when the Holy Spirit comes on you, 40 00:01:56,520 --> 00:01:59,980 "and you will be My witnesses in Jerusalem 41 00:01:59,980 --> 00:02:04,980 "and in all Judea and Samaria and to the ends of the earth." 42 00:02:04,980 --> 00:02:09,920 After He said this, He was taken up before their very eyes 43 00:02:09,920 --> 00:02:12,820 and a cloud hit Him from their sight. 44 00:02:12,820 --> 00:02:17,080 They were looking intently up into the sky as He was going 45 00:02:17,080 --> 00:02:21,300 when suddenly two men dressed in white stood beside them. 46 00:02:21,300 --> 00:02:24,660 "Men of Galilee," they said, "why do you stand here 47 00:02:24,660 --> 00:02:26,460 "looking into the sky? 48 00:02:26,460 --> 00:02:30,480 "This same Jesus who has been taken from you into heaven 49 00:02:30,480 --> 00:02:32,580 "will come back in the same way 50 00:02:32,580 --> 00:02:35,120 "you have seen Him go into heaven." 51 00:02:35,120 --> 00:02:36,540 Father, I thank you for your Word. 52 00:02:36,540 --> 00:02:38,520 I thank you that it is true. 53 00:02:38,520 --> 00:02:40,240 And I thank you, Lord, that it is alive 54 00:02:40,240 --> 00:02:41,560 and it can transform us today. 55 00:02:41,560 --> 00:02:45,820 I pray that that would be the case in Jesus' name, amen. 56 00:02:45,820 --> 00:02:46,820 You may be seated. 57 00:02:50,760 --> 00:02:52,420 The Holy Spirit. 58 00:02:52,420 --> 00:02:57,420 I grew up in a independent, fundamental Baptist culture. 59 00:02:57,420 --> 00:02:59,820 We did not talk about the Holy Spirit. 60 00:02:59,820 --> 00:03:01,500 We talked about hell. 61 00:03:01,500 --> 00:03:03,520 And everybody was going to this place called hell. 62 00:03:03,520 --> 00:03:07,080 I learned a lot about hell in that particular church. 63 00:03:07,080 --> 00:03:09,280 And we didn't talk about the Holy Spirit. 64 00:03:09,280 --> 00:03:11,280 In fact, the times that we mentioned, 65 00:03:11,280 --> 00:03:13,300 maybe got close to talking about the Holy Spirit, 66 00:03:13,300 --> 00:03:15,900 we were talking about the crazy people across the road 67 00:03:15,900 --> 00:03:17,640 who were jumping and dancing, 68 00:03:17,640 --> 00:03:20,280 and they too were going to hell for talking 69 00:03:20,280 --> 00:03:22,120 and experiencing the Holy Spirit. 70 00:03:22,120 --> 00:03:25,520 And so thankfully the Lord has rescued me 71 00:03:25,520 --> 00:03:29,640 from that ideology and that has liberated me 72 00:03:29,640 --> 00:03:33,100 to understand that there really is a Holy Spirit. 73 00:03:33,100 --> 00:03:34,060 And guess what? 74 00:03:34,060 --> 00:03:36,000 Everyone in this room, if you're a believer, 75 00:03:36,000 --> 00:03:38,160 you have access to Him. 76 00:03:38,160 --> 00:03:39,900 You have access to Him. 77 00:03:39,900 --> 00:03:42,320 Now I'm gonna say something right now 78 00:03:42,320 --> 00:03:44,540 that is might gonna offend some of you, 79 00:03:44,540 --> 00:03:47,520 but if it does, just go back and watch last week's message. 80 00:03:47,520 --> 00:03:48,520 That might help you, okay? 81 00:03:48,520 --> 00:03:49,580 But no, I'm serious. 82 00:03:49,580 --> 00:03:50,740 I may say something right now 83 00:03:50,740 --> 00:03:52,100 that's gonna offend some of you, okay? 84 00:03:52,100 --> 00:03:52,940 And that's okay. 85 00:03:52,940 --> 00:03:54,660 I want you to work through it, okay? 86 00:03:54,660 --> 00:03:57,000 I am not much of a woohoo guy. 87 00:03:57,000 --> 00:03:59,760 What do you mean by that? 88 00:03:59,760 --> 00:04:02,560 I'm not much of a, 89 00:04:02,560 --> 00:04:06,020 let's just see all of this stuff happen around. 90 00:04:06,020 --> 00:04:07,260 Why is that? 91 00:04:07,260 --> 00:04:08,780 I'm not much of a woohoo guy 92 00:04:08,780 --> 00:04:12,320 because I don't need the woohoo of God 93 00:04:12,320 --> 00:04:15,680 to prove to me His reality and His sovereignty. 94 00:04:15,680 --> 00:04:18,000 And I have a propensity in my flesh 95 00:04:18,000 --> 00:04:20,840 that if I get around a lot of the woohoo of God, 96 00:04:20,840 --> 00:04:23,200 then I begin to chase after the woohoo 97 00:04:23,200 --> 00:04:24,760 instead of chasing after God. 98 00:04:24,760 --> 00:04:27,860 And I never want that to be the case in my life. 99 00:04:27,860 --> 00:04:30,640 But in the same vein, I don't wanna dismiss the fact 100 00:04:30,640 --> 00:04:33,240 that God does move in the miraculous. 101 00:04:33,240 --> 00:04:35,320 He does move in the supernatural. 102 00:04:35,320 --> 00:04:37,960 He does do these things among us, 103 00:04:37,960 --> 00:04:40,960 but there is a purpose for when God moves 104 00:04:40,960 --> 00:04:43,160 in the miraculous and in the supernatural. 105 00:04:43,160 --> 00:04:45,380 And let me tell you what the purpose is not. 106 00:04:45,380 --> 00:04:48,680 The purpose is not to sell a book for 1995. 107 00:04:48,680 --> 00:04:51,060 The purpose is not to draw a big crowd. 108 00:04:51,060 --> 00:04:55,280 The purpose is not to put on a show. 109 00:04:55,280 --> 00:04:59,360 The purpose of the supernatural move of God in your life, 110 00:04:59,360 --> 00:05:00,900 whether it be through healing, 111 00:05:00,900 --> 00:05:04,300 whatever thing you can throw under the umbrella of woohoo, 112 00:05:04,300 --> 00:05:07,160 anything like that is nothing more or less 113 00:05:07,160 --> 00:05:09,900 than to point people to Jesus Christ. 114 00:05:09,900 --> 00:05:13,640 To remind you that we are to exalt Jesus Christ 115 00:05:13,640 --> 00:05:16,340 at some point from point A to point B, 116 00:05:16,340 --> 00:05:19,360 we have to get to a point of acknowledging Jesus Christ. 117 00:05:19,360 --> 00:05:22,480 There is no man on the earth who is able to do 118 00:05:22,480 --> 00:05:24,400 what the Holy Spirit is able to do. 119 00:05:24,400 --> 00:05:26,260 It is the Holy Spirit. 120 00:05:26,260 --> 00:05:29,100 Now, I would be remiss to say, 121 00:05:29,100 --> 00:05:31,320 I'd be remiss not to say that I don't believe 122 00:05:31,320 --> 00:05:33,980 that anyone has the total picture of the Holy Spirit. 123 00:05:33,980 --> 00:05:35,960 I don't think there's anybody that can stand up and say, 124 00:05:35,960 --> 00:05:37,000 "I've got it down. 125 00:05:37,000 --> 00:05:38,800 "I know the Holy Spirit in and out. 126 00:05:38,800 --> 00:05:40,960 "And like I said, I'll sell you a book, 127 00:05:40,960 --> 00:05:42,320 "a pamphlet or whatever." 128 00:05:42,320 --> 00:05:45,440 No, nobody really, truly, 129 00:05:45,440 --> 00:05:47,240 totally understands the Holy Spirit. 130 00:05:47,240 --> 00:05:49,600 And I do believe that churches back off 131 00:05:49,600 --> 00:05:51,340 from teaching about the Holy Spirit 132 00:05:51,340 --> 00:05:54,160 because there seems to be some confusion 133 00:05:54,160 --> 00:05:55,960 around the Holy Spirit. 134 00:05:55,960 --> 00:05:57,800 And here's the reason why that is. 135 00:05:57,800 --> 00:06:01,280 I believe that pastors or preachers or leaders 136 00:06:01,280 --> 00:06:03,640 have an experience with the Holy Spirit, 137 00:06:03,640 --> 00:06:06,200 then they build a doctrine based on that experience 138 00:06:06,200 --> 00:06:07,800 and they expect everybody to walk with them 139 00:06:07,800 --> 00:06:10,400 and it doesn't line up with the truth of God. 140 00:06:10,400 --> 00:06:13,100 And so you can really woo a lot of people 141 00:06:13,100 --> 00:06:15,920 and you can really lead them astray 142 00:06:15,920 --> 00:06:18,720 when you're not following the principles 143 00:06:18,720 --> 00:06:20,800 laid out in God's truth. 144 00:06:20,800 --> 00:06:23,400 The Holy Spirit, the gift of the Holy Spirit 145 00:06:23,400 --> 00:06:25,080 does not have to be confusing. 146 00:06:25,080 --> 00:06:28,640 There is enough scriptural precedent. 147 00:06:28,640 --> 00:06:31,040 There is enough in scripture to tell us 148 00:06:31,040 --> 00:06:33,520 about the Holy Spirit, some concrete things 149 00:06:33,520 --> 00:06:36,760 that we can learn and draw from about the Holy Spirit 150 00:06:36,760 --> 00:06:39,800 that allows us and puts us in a position to access Him. 151 00:06:39,800 --> 00:06:41,760 In fact, I would go a step further 152 00:06:41,760 --> 00:06:45,160 to acknowledge the fact that we need Him in our life 153 00:06:45,160 --> 00:06:48,400 in order to survive in this world. 154 00:06:48,400 --> 00:06:49,680 In order to survive in this world. 155 00:06:49,680 --> 00:06:53,880 So we don't have to operate or lean in to confusion. 156 00:06:53,880 --> 00:06:55,600 And it is my hope and it's my goal 157 00:06:55,600 --> 00:06:57,960 as the leader of this house, as the pastor of this house 158 00:06:57,960 --> 00:07:01,400 that we never lead you into a place of confusion. 159 00:07:01,400 --> 00:07:05,400 That we do things in such a way that are clear 160 00:07:05,400 --> 00:07:08,440 and that point us back to the Word and back to the Lord. 161 00:07:08,440 --> 00:07:10,640 Here's what Paul says in 1 Corinthians. 162 00:07:10,640 --> 00:07:14,560 God is not the author of confusion, but of peace. 163 00:07:14,560 --> 00:07:16,200 He is not the author of confusion. 164 00:07:16,200 --> 00:07:19,600 If you leave somewhere after a teaching with confusion, 165 00:07:19,600 --> 00:07:22,880 my encouragement to you is to lay down whatever it is 166 00:07:22,880 --> 00:07:25,480 that you heard at the feet of the altar of the Lord 167 00:07:25,480 --> 00:07:28,200 and say, Lord, I need you to bring me clarity. 168 00:07:28,200 --> 00:07:30,800 Do not build your life off of something 169 00:07:30,800 --> 00:07:32,040 that you're confused by. 170 00:07:32,040 --> 00:07:35,520 Do not build your life off of something 171 00:07:35,520 --> 00:07:37,080 that you're confused by. 172 00:07:37,080 --> 00:07:41,160 Later in the same book, it says God does things decently 173 00:07:41,160 --> 00:07:43,360 and in order. 174 00:07:43,360 --> 00:07:45,200 He is not a messy God. 175 00:07:45,200 --> 00:07:47,280 He doesn't, now he'll mess with your life. 176 00:07:47,280 --> 00:07:50,480 'Cause he wants you to straighten up, right? 177 00:07:50,480 --> 00:07:52,600 He wants to show you some better things. 178 00:07:52,600 --> 00:07:55,240 But he's not sloppy. 179 00:07:55,240 --> 00:07:57,520 He's a God of order. 180 00:07:57,520 --> 00:08:00,280 And he works things in that way. 181 00:08:00,280 --> 00:08:02,840 So the Holy Spirit. 182 00:08:02,840 --> 00:08:06,000 I am a teacher at heart and I believe that Jesus Christ 183 00:08:06,000 --> 00:08:08,400 was one of the best teachers that ever set foot 184 00:08:08,400 --> 00:08:09,440 on the planet. 185 00:08:09,440 --> 00:08:11,800 When I read scripture and I see the way that he taught, 186 00:08:11,800 --> 00:08:14,800 the way he talked to people, the way he used examples 187 00:08:14,800 --> 00:08:17,400 and testimonies and objects and all of these things, 188 00:08:17,400 --> 00:08:18,840 I believe we can learn a lot. 189 00:08:18,840 --> 00:08:20,180 If you're an educator in the room, 190 00:08:20,180 --> 00:08:23,160 I believe you can learn a lot from looking at Jesus's life 191 00:08:23,160 --> 00:08:24,840 and the way that he taught. 192 00:08:24,840 --> 00:08:26,840 And if you are an educator, you understand 193 00:08:26,840 --> 00:08:29,980 that the practical baseline of teaching 194 00:08:29,980 --> 00:08:34,120 is that you teach a lesson, then you assess the lesson, 195 00:08:34,120 --> 00:08:36,640 and then you go back and restate what they've learned. 196 00:08:36,640 --> 00:08:38,920 Those are just the three basic parts 197 00:08:38,920 --> 00:08:40,560 of getting through whatever. 198 00:08:40,560 --> 00:08:42,160 And Jesus did that. 199 00:08:42,160 --> 00:08:43,360 Jesus does that. 200 00:08:43,360 --> 00:08:44,480 He did that. 201 00:08:44,480 --> 00:08:47,120 And what we're looking at here in Acts chapter one 202 00:08:47,120 --> 00:08:51,160 at the very top is Jesus has already died. 203 00:08:51,160 --> 00:08:52,080 He's been buried. 204 00:08:52,080 --> 00:08:53,440 He's been resurrected. 205 00:08:53,440 --> 00:08:54,680 And now he is back. 206 00:08:54,680 --> 00:08:56,640 He's saying, "I'm here. 207 00:08:56,640 --> 00:08:59,400 "I did exactly what I told you I was gonna do." 208 00:08:59,400 --> 00:09:02,400 And he spent 40 days reviewing everything 209 00:09:02,400 --> 00:09:04,400 that he'd been saying was gonna happen. 210 00:09:04,400 --> 00:09:06,960 So he took the time and he did three things. 211 00:09:06,960 --> 00:09:08,140 This is what it says in the scripture. 212 00:09:08,140 --> 00:09:11,140 He says that he gave instructions. 213 00:09:11,140 --> 00:09:12,680 So he had 40 days 'cause guess what? 214 00:09:12,680 --> 00:09:15,640 Jesus knew he was about to go be with his father. 215 00:09:15,640 --> 00:09:17,460 And so just like any good teacher, he said, 216 00:09:17,460 --> 00:09:20,840 "I need to give some final instructions to my followers." 217 00:09:20,840 --> 00:09:21,800 So he gave instructions. 218 00:09:21,800 --> 00:09:24,400 The second thing it says that he did over in Acts chapter one 219 00:09:24,400 --> 00:09:26,920 is he proved that he was alive. 220 00:09:26,920 --> 00:09:31,160 If Jesus would have not shown up physically to the disciples, 221 00:09:31,160 --> 00:09:33,040 there would have been a question on whether or not 222 00:09:33,040 --> 00:09:35,000 he was truly resurrected. 223 00:09:35,000 --> 00:09:35,840 But he took the time. 224 00:09:35,840 --> 00:09:37,600 Remember, we talked about back at Easter 225 00:09:37,600 --> 00:09:40,460 where doubting Thomas, he was like, 226 00:09:40,460 --> 00:09:43,800 "Man, I'm not gonna believe until I touch Jesus." 227 00:09:43,800 --> 00:09:45,000 And he did. 228 00:09:45,000 --> 00:09:47,440 Jesus was so gracious to say, "I'm alive. 229 00:09:47,440 --> 00:09:50,400 "You need to know that I am exactly who I said I am 230 00:09:50,400 --> 00:09:52,200 "and I am resurrected from the dead." 231 00:09:52,200 --> 00:09:55,240 So he spent the 40 days proving that he was alive. 232 00:09:55,240 --> 00:09:59,280 And then lastly, he spoke about the kingdom of God. 233 00:09:59,280 --> 00:10:03,440 He spoke about the kingdom of God. 234 00:10:03,440 --> 00:10:05,180 Over in Matthew chapter six, it says, 235 00:10:05,180 --> 00:10:07,140 "Seek first the kingdom of God." 236 00:10:07,140 --> 00:10:12,140 This was a pillar in Jesus's life, in his ministry. 237 00:10:12,140 --> 00:10:13,880 "Seek first the kingdom of God." 238 00:10:13,880 --> 00:10:17,200 And so he was pointing to the kingdom of God. 239 00:10:17,200 --> 00:10:19,680 And so after we establish, 240 00:10:19,680 --> 00:10:22,720 after Luke establishes these three points, 241 00:10:22,720 --> 00:10:24,240 he goes into the section and he says, 242 00:10:24,240 --> 00:10:27,680 "Now one day when Jesus was eating with his disciples, 243 00:10:27,680 --> 00:10:32,680 "he says to them, 'I want you to not leave Jerusalem, 244 00:10:32,680 --> 00:10:36,880 "'and I want you to do something while you wait.'" 245 00:10:36,880 --> 00:10:40,040 And we're gonna talk about that in just a second, okay? 246 00:10:40,040 --> 00:10:42,560 What they were supposed to be waiting on. 247 00:10:42,560 --> 00:10:45,040 Who, more importantly, they were supposed to be waiting on. 248 00:10:45,040 --> 00:10:46,400 So this is what we're going to do. 249 00:10:46,400 --> 00:10:51,260 We're gonna go to John chapter 15, if you have your Bibles. 250 00:10:51,260 --> 00:10:53,400 John chapter 15, and I'm gonna read a little bit more 251 00:10:53,400 --> 00:10:55,000 than you're used to today 252 00:10:55,000 --> 00:10:57,760 because I want us to transport back from this point, 253 00:10:57,760 --> 00:11:01,020 we were Acts chapter one, Jesus is resurrected. 254 00:11:01,020 --> 00:11:05,680 We're gonna transport our minds back before the cross 255 00:11:05,680 --> 00:11:08,400 where he's walking with these same disciples. 256 00:11:08,400 --> 00:11:13,400 I want you to understand that the concept, the idea, 257 00:11:13,400 --> 00:11:15,940 and the introduction of the Holy Spirit 258 00:11:15,940 --> 00:11:18,920 did not happen in Acts chapter one. 259 00:11:18,920 --> 00:11:21,280 Jesus already was on the scene 260 00:11:21,280 --> 00:11:23,560 talking about this promised gift. 261 00:11:23,560 --> 00:11:27,200 And so we're gonna look at that here in John chapter 15. 262 00:11:27,200 --> 00:11:32,240 "If the world hates you," and it does, 263 00:11:32,240 --> 00:11:34,600 "know that it hated me before it hated you. 264 00:11:34,600 --> 00:11:36,900 "If you belong to the world, 265 00:11:36,900 --> 00:11:39,340 "the world would love you as its own 266 00:11:39,340 --> 00:11:42,480 "and would treat you with affection. 267 00:11:42,480 --> 00:11:44,240 "But you are not of the world. 268 00:11:44,240 --> 00:11:45,500 "You no longer belong to it, 269 00:11:45,500 --> 00:11:47,520 "but I have chosen you out of the world, 270 00:11:47,520 --> 00:11:50,400 "and because of this, the world hates you." 271 00:11:50,400 --> 00:11:52,360 How many know that the world hates you? 272 00:11:53,360 --> 00:11:56,440 "Remember that I told you, 273 00:11:56,440 --> 00:11:59,240 "a servant is not greater than his master. 274 00:11:59,240 --> 00:12:03,260 "If they persecuted me, they will also persecute you. 275 00:12:03,260 --> 00:12:07,660 "If they kept my word, they will keep yours also. 276 00:12:07,660 --> 00:12:10,400 "But they will do all these hurtful things to you 277 00:12:10,400 --> 00:12:12,240 "for my name's sake, 278 00:12:12,240 --> 00:12:14,860 "for they do not know the one who sent me. 279 00:12:14,860 --> 00:12:17,800 "If I had not come and spoken to them, 280 00:12:17,800 --> 00:12:20,320 "they would have not sinned, 281 00:12:20,320 --> 00:12:23,120 "but now they have no excuse for their sin. 282 00:12:23,120 --> 00:12:27,300 "For the one who hates me also hates his father, my father. 283 00:12:27,300 --> 00:12:30,380 "If I had not done among them the works, 284 00:12:30,380 --> 00:12:34,480 "which no one else did, they would have not sinned. 285 00:12:34,480 --> 00:12:37,760 "But now they have both seen and have hated me 286 00:12:37,760 --> 00:12:39,600 "and my Father as well. 287 00:12:39,600 --> 00:12:43,800 "But that the word which has been written in their law 288 00:12:43,800 --> 00:12:48,120 "would be fulfilled, they hated me without a cause." 289 00:12:48,120 --> 00:12:49,760 Now listen to this, church. 290 00:12:50,600 --> 00:12:53,420 But when the helper, the Holy Spirit, 291 00:12:53,420 --> 00:12:57,280 comes whom I will send to you from the Father, 292 00:12:57,280 --> 00:13:00,620 that is the spirit of truth, who comes from the Father, 293 00:13:00,620 --> 00:13:05,040 he will testify and bear witness about me. 294 00:13:05,040 --> 00:13:09,080 But you will testify also and be my witnesses 295 00:13:09,080 --> 00:13:12,680 because you have been with me from the beginning. 296 00:13:12,680 --> 00:13:15,120 I have told you these things so that you would not stumble 297 00:13:15,120 --> 00:13:16,920 or be caught off guard and fall away. 298 00:13:16,920 --> 00:13:18,540 They will put you out of the synagogues 299 00:13:18,540 --> 00:13:20,740 and make you outcasts, a time is coming 300 00:13:20,740 --> 00:13:23,440 when whoever kills you will think it is offering 301 00:13:23,440 --> 00:13:25,720 a service to God. 302 00:13:25,720 --> 00:13:27,800 And they will do these things because they have not known 303 00:13:27,800 --> 00:13:30,000 the Father or me. 304 00:13:30,000 --> 00:13:32,840 I have told you these things now so that when their time 305 00:13:32,840 --> 00:13:35,960 comes, you will remember that I told you about them. 306 00:13:35,960 --> 00:13:38,240 I did not say these things to you at the beginning 307 00:13:38,240 --> 00:13:40,220 because I was with you. 308 00:13:40,220 --> 00:13:44,600 But now I am going to him who sent me 309 00:13:44,600 --> 00:13:47,460 and none of you asked me where are you going. 310 00:13:47,460 --> 00:13:49,420 But because I have said these things to you, 311 00:13:49,420 --> 00:13:51,480 sorrow has filled your hearts. 312 00:13:51,480 --> 00:13:54,760 Now why was sorrow filling their hearts? 313 00:13:54,760 --> 00:13:56,580 Why was sorrow filling their hearts? 314 00:13:56,580 --> 00:14:00,420 Jesus Christ was physically in front of them. 315 00:14:00,420 --> 00:14:02,680 They were leaning on his strength. 316 00:14:02,680 --> 00:14:04,720 They were listening to his teaching. 317 00:14:04,720 --> 00:14:06,620 They were following in his ways. 318 00:14:06,620 --> 00:14:10,020 Jesus is saying, I'm about to leave. 319 00:14:10,020 --> 00:14:12,560 So sorrow is filling their heart. 320 00:14:12,560 --> 00:14:14,220 Not only am I about to leave, 321 00:14:15,320 --> 00:14:19,200 but your lives are gonna be real interesting without me. 322 00:14:19,200 --> 00:14:22,600 You're gonna need something to help you along the way. 323 00:14:22,600 --> 00:14:26,800 More importantly, someone to help you along the way. 324 00:14:26,800 --> 00:14:30,860 But I tell you the truth, it is to your advantage 325 00:14:30,860 --> 00:14:32,540 that I go away. 326 00:14:32,540 --> 00:14:36,760 Friends, it was to our advantage that Jesus Christ 327 00:14:36,760 --> 00:14:38,360 ascended and went to heaven. 328 00:14:38,360 --> 00:14:42,020 I love you guys. 329 00:14:42,020 --> 00:14:44,240 I'd love to hang out with every single one of you 330 00:14:44,240 --> 00:14:45,600 all at the same time. 331 00:14:45,600 --> 00:14:47,560 It's impossible. 332 00:14:47,560 --> 00:14:49,660 It's not impossible for the Holy Spirit. 333 00:14:49,660 --> 00:14:54,160 For if I do not go away, the Helper will not come to you, 334 00:14:54,160 --> 00:14:57,200 but if I go, I will send him to you. 335 00:14:57,200 --> 00:14:59,000 That's a promise. 336 00:14:59,000 --> 00:15:01,720 And he, when he comes, will convict the world 337 00:15:01,720 --> 00:15:04,280 about sin and about righteousness and about judgment. 338 00:15:04,280 --> 00:15:06,080 He says specifically about sin, 339 00:15:06,080 --> 00:15:07,480 because people do not believe in me. 340 00:15:07,480 --> 00:15:10,360 About righteousness, because I'm going to my Father 341 00:15:10,360 --> 00:15:11,480 and you will no longer see me. 342 00:15:11,480 --> 00:15:13,960 About judgment, because the ruler of this world 343 00:15:13,960 --> 00:15:15,960 has been condemned. 344 00:15:15,960 --> 00:15:19,400 I have much more to say to you, 345 00:15:19,400 --> 00:15:21,040 more than you can now bear. 346 00:15:21,040 --> 00:15:22,960 I could only imagine. 347 00:15:22,960 --> 00:15:24,280 They can't bear another thing. 348 00:15:24,280 --> 00:15:25,680 You're leaving us, what? 349 00:15:25,680 --> 00:15:31,300 But when he, the Spirit of truth comes, 350 00:15:31,300 --> 00:15:33,360 he will guide you into all truth. 351 00:15:33,360 --> 00:15:34,720 He will not speak on his own. 352 00:15:34,720 --> 00:15:36,240 He will speak only what he hears, 353 00:15:36,240 --> 00:15:40,720 and what he will tell you is what is yet to come. 354 00:15:40,720 --> 00:15:43,520 He will glorify me. 355 00:15:43,520 --> 00:15:47,480 The Holy Spirit will glorify Jesus, 356 00:15:47,480 --> 00:15:49,700 because from me, it is from me, 357 00:15:49,700 --> 00:15:54,140 that he will receive what he will make known to you. 358 00:15:54,140 --> 00:16:01,940 And so, Jesus is promising these disciples, 359 00:16:01,940 --> 00:16:06,340 physically in front of them, promising them a gift 360 00:16:06,340 --> 00:16:08,800 that he is saying is better than the gift 361 00:16:08,800 --> 00:16:10,400 standing right in front of them. 362 00:16:11,760 --> 00:16:14,840 And it is the person of the Holy Spirit. 363 00:16:14,840 --> 00:16:17,840 And friends, that same gift is available 364 00:16:17,840 --> 00:16:20,640 to everyone who believes. 365 00:16:20,640 --> 00:16:22,740 Everyone under the sound of my voice who believes, 366 00:16:22,740 --> 00:16:25,940 you have access to the Holy Spirit. 367 00:16:25,940 --> 00:16:28,320 So now let's transport back into time, 368 00:16:28,320 --> 00:16:30,480 the death, burial, and resurrection has happened. 369 00:16:30,480 --> 00:16:33,360 The apostles, the disciples have this information. 370 00:16:33,360 --> 00:16:35,040 Jesus is resurrected from the dead. 371 00:16:35,040 --> 00:16:36,880 We're in Acts chapter one. 372 00:16:36,880 --> 00:16:40,320 He has now recapped everything we just read. 373 00:16:40,320 --> 00:16:42,040 He said, "I am alive." 374 00:16:42,040 --> 00:16:44,880 And he's got them sitting at a table, and he says this, 375 00:16:44,880 --> 00:16:47,120 "I want you not to go back to Jerusalem. 376 00:16:47,120 --> 00:16:48,000 "I'm about to leave. 377 00:16:48,000 --> 00:16:50,560 "I'm about to ascend to heaven like I told you. 378 00:16:50,560 --> 00:16:51,720 "I'm about to do." 379 00:16:51,720 --> 00:16:54,120 Aren't you so glad that Jesus always does everything 380 00:16:54,120 --> 00:16:55,360 he said he's gonna do? 381 00:16:55,360 --> 00:16:57,480 Every single time. 382 00:16:57,480 --> 00:17:01,160 And so he said, "I'm about to go to be my father, 383 00:17:01,160 --> 00:17:02,540 "but here's what I want you to do. 384 00:17:02,540 --> 00:17:07,260 "I want you to wait for the gift of the Holy Spirit. 385 00:17:07,260 --> 00:17:09,920 "I want you to wait for the gift of the Holy Spirit. 386 00:17:09,920 --> 00:17:13,600 "I did a thing this past week. 387 00:17:13,600 --> 00:17:15,660 "I did a thing this past week, Ashley. 388 00:17:15,660 --> 00:17:22,160 "I went on a daddy-daughter date with my daughter, Lucia. 389 00:17:22,160 --> 00:17:25,040 "And one of the things that she likes to do 390 00:17:25,040 --> 00:17:27,900 "is she likes to go to the pet store, 391 00:17:27,900 --> 00:17:31,000 "and she likes to pet puppies. 392 00:17:31,000 --> 00:17:32,260 "It's a free activity. 393 00:17:32,260 --> 00:17:34,020 "If you want something free for your kids, just go. 394 00:17:34,020 --> 00:17:35,760 "They bring the puppies out. 395 00:17:35,760 --> 00:17:38,360 "And I had zero intention on buying anything 396 00:17:38,360 --> 00:17:39,540 "from that pet store. 397 00:17:40,140 --> 00:17:42,820 (congregation laughing) 398 00:17:42,820 --> 00:17:45,380 "But we got in there and the Holy Spirit of God." 399 00:17:45,380 --> 00:17:49,060 (congregation laughing) 400 00:17:49,060 --> 00:17:51,140 We got in there, Ashley, and I'm telling you right now, 401 00:17:51,140 --> 00:17:53,180 we got in there and that puppy, 402 00:17:53,180 --> 00:17:54,720 can I just describe the puppy to you? 403 00:17:54,720 --> 00:17:56,980 The puppy is like, it's black, 404 00:17:56,980 --> 00:17:59,180 and it's got like this brown fur in the front. 405 00:17:59,180 --> 00:18:00,660 It's got these beady black eyes 406 00:18:00,660 --> 00:18:02,380 and this nose that kind of sticks out. 407 00:18:02,380 --> 00:18:05,260 It kind of can fit like right here in the palm of my hand. 408 00:18:05,260 --> 00:18:06,780 And it's so soft. 409 00:18:06,780 --> 00:18:09,100 And like when I put my face up against it, he just rubs. 410 00:18:09,100 --> 00:18:11,300 I mean, it's just, don't you think that's cute? 411 00:18:11,300 --> 00:18:12,580 Like don't you, doesn't that just make you 412 00:18:12,580 --> 00:18:13,580 wanna have a puppy? 413 00:18:13,580 --> 00:18:15,420 I mean, it's a, you know, I tell you what, 414 00:18:15,420 --> 00:18:17,400 I tell you what, I tell you what, I tell you what. 415 00:18:17,400 --> 00:18:18,940 Let me just show you a picture, okay? 416 00:18:18,940 --> 00:18:19,880 Here's the picture. 417 00:18:19,880 --> 00:18:22,860 Isn't that, isn't that just the, Ashley, 418 00:18:22,860 --> 00:18:24,860 isn't that not the best right there? 419 00:18:24,860 --> 00:18:25,700 Look at that. 420 00:18:25,700 --> 00:18:27,620 I mean, do you see how the paws are just kind of like 421 00:18:27,620 --> 00:18:29,460 dangling over my arm like this? 422 00:18:29,460 --> 00:18:31,460 And the ears just kind of like, it's just, 423 00:18:31,460 --> 00:18:34,840 he's, and then at home, at home, 424 00:18:34,840 --> 00:18:36,900 he's like, he like hops in the grass. 425 00:18:36,900 --> 00:18:38,900 Like you just boop, boop, you know? 426 00:18:38,900 --> 00:18:41,540 And he's just cute, just runs around. 427 00:18:41,540 --> 00:18:42,820 Don't you think he's just so cute? 428 00:18:42,820 --> 00:18:44,540 Ashley, hold on, wait a second. 429 00:18:44,540 --> 00:18:45,380 I just. 430 00:18:45,380 --> 00:18:51,700 Ashley, I mean, goodness gracious. 431 00:18:51,700 --> 00:18:53,220 I mean, look at this. 432 00:18:53,220 --> 00:18:54,380 There's nothing cuter. 433 00:18:54,380 --> 00:18:56,460 Look, I mean, come on, look. 434 00:18:56,460 --> 00:19:00,500 I mean, is he not the star of the show? 435 00:19:00,500 --> 00:19:02,340 My goodness, come on. 436 00:19:02,340 --> 00:19:04,860 See, look, oh, he's just walking around, come on. 437 00:19:04,860 --> 00:19:06,600 Oh, come here. 438 00:19:08,180 --> 00:19:10,440 Ashley, I just don't know that you're getting quite 439 00:19:10,440 --> 00:19:12,140 how cute this puppy is. 440 00:19:12,140 --> 00:19:16,420 Ashley, look, look at this. 441 00:19:16,420 --> 00:19:17,900 I know you want to hold, come on. 442 00:19:17,900 --> 00:19:20,000 Look at this, don't you just love it? 443 00:19:20,000 --> 00:19:23,500 Oh, isn't it just the best? 444 00:19:23,500 --> 00:19:25,540 Makes you want one, huh? 445 00:19:25,540 --> 00:19:26,620 I know, I know. 446 00:19:26,620 --> 00:19:29,100 It makes you want one, right? 447 00:19:29,100 --> 00:19:30,860 Yeah, it's amazing. 448 00:19:30,860 --> 00:19:37,460 (audience laughing) 449 00:19:37,460 --> 00:19:39,660 (audience laughing) 450 00:19:39,660 --> 00:19:43,020 Some of us spend our life describing the Holy Spirit, 451 00:19:43,020 --> 00:19:47,380 looking at pictures of what he's doing 452 00:19:47,380 --> 00:19:48,740 in other people's life, 453 00:19:48,740 --> 00:19:55,360 but until you experience it and touch him yourself, 454 00:19:55,360 --> 00:20:00,360 you do not know how much power is in the Holy Spirit. 455 00:20:00,360 --> 00:20:02,380 This room turned upside down 456 00:20:02,380 --> 00:20:04,300 the minute that dog came on this stage. 457 00:20:04,300 --> 00:20:06,100 (audience laughing) 458 00:20:06,100 --> 00:20:08,400 Because you experienced something. 459 00:20:08,400 --> 00:20:13,860 And there is an experience available to you 460 00:20:13,860 --> 00:20:16,820 with the gift of the Holy Spirit. 461 00:20:16,820 --> 00:20:20,860 If you will choose to lean in and engage him, 462 00:20:20,860 --> 00:20:24,940 if you'll choose to lean in and engage the Holy Spirit, 463 00:20:24,940 --> 00:20:28,380 the experience of the Holy Spirit is a joyful one, 464 00:20:28,380 --> 00:20:30,620 it is a full one, it is a convicting one, 465 00:20:30,620 --> 00:20:32,740 but every time the Holy Spirit gets done 466 00:20:32,740 --> 00:20:33,860 doing what he's doing, 467 00:20:33,860 --> 00:20:36,240 you are off better than you were before. 468 00:20:36,240 --> 00:20:40,100 Experiencing the gift of the Holy Spirit 469 00:20:40,100 --> 00:20:41,860 is far better than talking about him 470 00:20:41,860 --> 00:20:43,780 or acting as if he is not there. 471 00:20:43,780 --> 00:20:51,600 And you have access to experience him today, 472 00:20:51,600 --> 00:20:55,020 right now, moment by moment. 473 00:20:55,020 --> 00:20:57,960 You need the Holy Spirit in your life. 474 00:20:57,960 --> 00:21:01,380 Hear me, you need the Holy Spirit in your life. 475 00:21:01,380 --> 00:21:03,180 In this Acts chapter, after he tells them, 476 00:21:03,180 --> 00:21:04,180 "Wait on the Holy Spirit," 477 00:21:04,180 --> 00:21:07,940 he references two different types of baptism. 478 00:21:07,940 --> 00:21:10,260 We experienced one of the baptisms today. 479 00:21:10,260 --> 00:21:12,900 The first one was baptism by water. 480 00:21:12,900 --> 00:21:14,560 What is baptism by water? 481 00:21:14,560 --> 00:21:17,420 We believe, did you know Jesus got baptized? 482 00:21:17,420 --> 00:21:19,900 You all realize Jesus got baptized. 483 00:21:19,900 --> 00:21:22,300 Can I just pose a little thought-provoking question? 484 00:21:22,300 --> 00:21:24,240 If Jesus got baptized, 485 00:21:24,240 --> 00:21:29,600 I just don't know if that's exactly 486 00:21:29,600 --> 00:21:31,660 what the Lord wants me to do right now. 487 00:21:31,660 --> 00:21:34,460 (congregation laughing) 488 00:21:34,460 --> 00:21:35,820 Jesus got baptized. 489 00:21:35,820 --> 00:21:37,080 This is what baptism does. 490 00:21:37,080 --> 00:21:39,080 Pastor Justin referenced it before. 491 00:21:39,080 --> 00:21:45,300 Daniel Edwards today professed to about 300 people, 492 00:21:45,300 --> 00:21:47,980 "I am dead to the world and alive in Christ. 493 00:21:47,980 --> 00:21:49,920 "I no longer have one foot in the world, 494 00:21:49,920 --> 00:21:50,900 "one foot in Christ. 495 00:21:50,900 --> 00:21:53,360 "I am dead to the world and I'm alive in Christ, 496 00:21:53,360 --> 00:21:55,220 "and I want you to know." 497 00:21:55,220 --> 00:21:57,840 It is a public proclamation. 498 00:21:57,840 --> 00:22:00,460 Every believer should be baptized. 499 00:22:00,460 --> 00:22:02,460 Every believer should be baptized 500 00:22:02,460 --> 00:22:04,580 and make that public proclamation. 501 00:22:04,580 --> 00:22:09,340 This is what it says over the same author in Luke wrote this. 502 00:22:09,340 --> 00:22:10,780 I baptize you with water. 503 00:22:10,780 --> 00:22:13,740 It's talking about John the baptizer. 504 00:22:13,740 --> 00:22:16,520 But one who is more powerful than I will come, 505 00:22:16,520 --> 00:22:20,300 the straps of whose standals I am not worthy to untie. 506 00:22:20,300 --> 00:22:24,860 He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire. 507 00:22:24,860 --> 00:22:29,820 That's the second baptism, the baptism of the Holy Spirit. 508 00:22:29,820 --> 00:22:31,520 The baptism of the Holy Spirit. 509 00:22:31,520 --> 00:22:36,520 So baptism over there in water is a submergence into water. 510 00:22:36,520 --> 00:22:39,420 And then you come out of the water, 511 00:22:39,420 --> 00:22:41,220 dead to the world, alive in Christ. 512 00:22:41,220 --> 00:22:44,500 The baptism of the Holy Spirit is the indwelling, 513 00:22:44,500 --> 00:22:46,200 the filling of the Holy Spirit. 514 00:22:46,200 --> 00:22:50,100 And why do you need to be baptized with the Holy Spirit? 515 00:22:50,100 --> 00:22:53,580 Here's the answer, because you and I need power. 516 00:22:53,580 --> 00:22:57,460 And you don't have power without the Holy Spirit. 517 00:22:57,460 --> 00:23:00,220 Now some of you like to wear underwear on your head 518 00:23:00,220 --> 00:23:02,780 and put Superman capes on and act like you do, 519 00:23:02,780 --> 00:23:04,520 but you don't really have power 520 00:23:04,520 --> 00:23:07,060 unless you have the Holy Spirit. 521 00:23:07,060 --> 00:23:12,020 It is the Holy Spirit's power that gives you the ability 522 00:23:12,020 --> 00:23:15,300 to defeat the sin and the giants in your life. 523 00:23:15,300 --> 00:23:17,780 See, I went to NASCAR yesterday for the very first time. 524 00:23:17,780 --> 00:23:19,360 Any NASCAR fans in here? 525 00:23:19,360 --> 00:23:21,400 I went to NASCAR and you know what you do at NASCAR? 526 00:23:21,400 --> 00:23:23,180 You sit and you watch cars go around 527 00:23:23,180 --> 00:23:24,820 in a circle 188 times. 528 00:23:26,320 --> 00:23:29,480 (imitates car engine) 529 00:23:29,480 --> 00:23:34,500 It costs me a lot of money to go watch those cars 530 00:23:34,500 --> 00:23:36,500 go around 188 times. 531 00:23:36,500 --> 00:23:40,660 Some of you are staring at the same problem 532 00:23:40,660 --> 00:23:42,840 over and over and over again, 533 00:23:42,840 --> 00:23:46,220 and it is costing you everything. 534 00:23:46,220 --> 00:23:48,600 You need the power of the Holy Spirit 535 00:23:48,600 --> 00:23:50,840 to break the cycle in your life. 536 00:23:50,840 --> 00:23:54,420 You need the power of the Holy Spirit to break the chains. 537 00:23:54,420 --> 00:23:56,460 Some of you have been praying so hard 538 00:23:56,460 --> 00:23:57,980 for a move of God in your life, 539 00:23:57,980 --> 00:24:01,300 but you have not accessed the power available 540 00:24:01,300 --> 00:24:03,940 by the Holy Spirit, because here's the thing, 541 00:24:03,940 --> 00:24:08,940 the blood of Jesus is sufficient enough to cover your sin. 542 00:24:08,940 --> 00:24:12,440 You don't have to add to the blood of Christ. 543 00:24:12,440 --> 00:24:15,320 You are forgiven because of the blood of Jesus Christ, 544 00:24:15,320 --> 00:24:17,100 you have access to Father God. 545 00:24:17,100 --> 00:24:19,740 You can be in relationship to Father God. 546 00:24:19,740 --> 00:24:21,460 My sin has been forgiven, 547 00:24:21,460 --> 00:24:24,580 but I still contend with all of the giants. 548 00:24:24,580 --> 00:24:26,160 I still have to go out and be ready 549 00:24:26,160 --> 00:24:27,940 to fight all of the giants. 550 00:24:27,940 --> 00:24:30,540 This is why some of us are continuously at the altar 551 00:24:30,540 --> 00:24:32,800 all the time asking God to forgive us for the same thing 552 00:24:32,800 --> 00:24:34,780 over and over and over and over again, 553 00:24:34,780 --> 00:24:37,500 because we're out there fighting powerless. 554 00:24:37,500 --> 00:24:40,660 But you have access to this God 555 00:24:40,660 --> 00:24:42,820 who will give you the tools that you need. 556 00:24:42,820 --> 00:24:45,260 Some of you have not forgiven that person 557 00:24:45,260 --> 00:24:49,020 that you need to forgive because they did the unforgivable. 558 00:24:49,020 --> 00:24:51,660 The power of the Holy Spirit gives you the ability 559 00:24:51,660 --> 00:24:54,620 to do things that you could never imagine possible. 560 00:24:54,620 --> 00:25:03,340 You need the power of the Holy Spirit in your life. 561 00:25:03,340 --> 00:25:08,100 So I was over at Junior Bible Quiz several years ago. 562 00:25:08,100 --> 00:25:10,260 They were reading scripture. 563 00:25:10,260 --> 00:25:12,620 They were memorizing scripture. 564 00:25:12,620 --> 00:25:14,500 All of these kids and the pastor got up and said, 565 00:25:14,500 --> 00:25:17,580 "If you've memorized 20 scriptures, come to the altar." 566 00:25:17,580 --> 00:25:18,960 People were applauding. 567 00:25:18,960 --> 00:25:21,740 If you memorized 40 scriptures, come to the altar. 568 00:25:21,740 --> 00:25:23,920 If you memorized 60 scriptures, come to the altar. 569 00:25:23,920 --> 00:25:26,060 This is within a year's time. 570 00:25:26,060 --> 00:25:28,980 200 scriptures come to the... 571 00:25:28,980 --> 00:25:32,660 There were kids who had memorized 200 scriptures 572 00:25:32,660 --> 00:25:33,820 in a year's time. 573 00:25:33,820 --> 00:25:38,980 I believe that the generation we are living in 574 00:25:38,980 --> 00:25:42,100 is redefining Christianity 575 00:25:42,100 --> 00:25:45,660 without the use of biblical principles. 576 00:25:45,660 --> 00:25:48,060 And the reason that it's being redefined 577 00:25:48,060 --> 00:25:52,420 is because there's a lack of knowledge of His word. 578 00:25:52,420 --> 00:25:57,620 So I wept when all of those kids came down 579 00:25:57,620 --> 00:26:01,220 after having memorized 200 scriptures. 580 00:26:01,220 --> 00:26:04,940 I wept and I went to clean myself up in the restroom. 581 00:26:04,940 --> 00:26:07,180 And I look up and in the restroom, 582 00:26:07,180 --> 00:26:11,020 there is this sign that reads this. 583 00:26:11,020 --> 00:26:15,900 You will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you. 584 00:26:15,900 --> 00:26:19,140 And the Holy Spirit of God spoke to my heart 585 00:26:19,140 --> 00:26:22,260 and He spoke to my heart about every one of you. 586 00:26:22,260 --> 00:26:26,920 And He said, "Kevin, there is a foundation of the word 587 00:26:26,920 --> 00:26:30,320 "at Springhouse, but if you will introduce them 588 00:26:30,320 --> 00:26:33,720 "to my Holy Spirit and my Holy Spirit 589 00:26:33,720 --> 00:26:36,040 "will couple up against the truth of my word, 590 00:26:36,040 --> 00:26:38,560 "explosive wonderful things will happen 591 00:26:38,560 --> 00:26:40,260 "in those people's lives." 592 00:26:41,260 --> 00:26:45,700 I believe the Lord wants to do explosively wonderful things 593 00:26:45,700 --> 00:26:50,100 in your life if you will allow Him. 594 00:26:50,100 --> 00:26:52,340 Why do we need power? 595 00:26:52,340 --> 00:26:56,060 What do we need power for? 596 00:26:56,060 --> 00:26:58,660 This past weekend I was helping over at the Jansen home 597 00:26:58,660 --> 00:27:02,060 on they were laying this new patio. 598 00:27:02,060 --> 00:27:03,380 Is it called a patio? 599 00:27:03,380 --> 00:27:04,220 Patio, okay. 600 00:27:04,220 --> 00:27:09,220 And we're hauling these slight pieces from this trailer. 601 00:27:09,340 --> 00:27:12,060 And you know what I did to my hands? 602 00:27:12,060 --> 00:27:14,060 I put on gloves. 603 00:27:14,060 --> 00:27:16,000 Now not everybody was that smart that day, 604 00:27:16,000 --> 00:27:17,340 but I put on gloves. 605 00:27:17,340 --> 00:27:20,780 But why did I put on gloves? 606 00:27:20,780 --> 00:27:23,380 Why? 607 00:27:23,380 --> 00:27:26,180 Because I wanted to protect my hands. 608 00:27:26,180 --> 00:27:28,100 I was doing the work. 609 00:27:28,100 --> 00:27:30,940 The work would have not changed had been different 610 00:27:30,940 --> 00:27:33,220 had I not had gloves on, except for the fact 611 00:27:33,220 --> 00:27:35,100 it would have been much more painful. 612 00:27:35,100 --> 00:27:36,020 Here's the thing. 613 00:27:36,020 --> 00:27:37,980 Some of you are in your profession, 614 00:27:37,980 --> 00:27:39,940 you're in your occupation, you're doing the thing 615 00:27:39,940 --> 00:27:41,940 that you're supposed to do, but you are going there 616 00:27:41,940 --> 00:27:44,980 without protection and so you are being beat up every day 617 00:27:44,980 --> 00:27:47,380 doing the thing God wants you to do. 618 00:27:47,380 --> 00:27:49,220 Put on the protection. 619 00:27:49,220 --> 00:27:50,780 Bring on the power. 620 00:27:50,780 --> 00:27:52,740 Allow the Holy Spirit to use you. 621 00:27:52,740 --> 00:27:55,660 Invite Him into your day in day out routine. 622 00:27:55,660 --> 00:27:58,500 Is that not what Romans 12 talks about? 623 00:27:58,500 --> 00:28:01,380 Take your everyday ordinary life, right? 624 00:28:01,380 --> 00:28:03,900 Put on the protection of God. 625 00:28:03,900 --> 00:28:06,760 He also, some of you, this is a hammer, 626 00:28:06,760 --> 00:28:09,860 if I had a hammer, I'd hammer in the morning. 627 00:28:09,860 --> 00:28:13,220 I'd hammer in the evening. 628 00:28:13,220 --> 00:28:18,240 Pastor James had this hammer and he's wanting to like 629 00:28:18,240 --> 00:28:21,980 chip off some of the slate to make it go 630 00:28:21,980 --> 00:28:22,820 and he had this hammer and he's like, 631 00:28:22,820 --> 00:28:26,320 man, this is not probably gonna do exactly what I need to do. 632 00:28:26,320 --> 00:28:30,160 I need to get the right tool because with the right tool, 633 00:28:30,160 --> 00:28:32,460 I'll be able to finish the job in the way 634 00:28:32,460 --> 00:28:34,260 that it's intended to be done. 635 00:28:34,260 --> 00:28:37,440 See, some of us are using the wrong tool 636 00:28:37,440 --> 00:28:39,680 because you're not listening to the Holy Spirit 637 00:28:39,680 --> 00:28:41,960 to tell you pick this up instead of that. 638 00:28:41,960 --> 00:28:44,640 Do this and say this instead of that. 639 00:28:44,640 --> 00:28:46,860 And so you're using the same tactics 640 00:28:46,860 --> 00:28:48,540 over and over and over again and you're wondering 641 00:28:48,540 --> 00:28:50,760 why is this not working? 642 00:28:50,760 --> 00:28:55,000 The Holy Spirit, He wants to give you the tools. 643 00:28:55,000 --> 00:28:57,380 He wants to point you and here's most of the time, 644 00:28:57,380 --> 00:29:00,880 most of the time, listen to me, most of the time, 645 00:29:00,880 --> 00:29:03,620 the tool He asks you to use is not a tool 646 00:29:03,620 --> 00:29:05,040 that you would have ever thought to use 647 00:29:05,040 --> 00:29:06,440 for that particular problem. 648 00:29:06,440 --> 00:29:11,220 But you can go with confidence with that tool right into, 649 00:29:11,220 --> 00:29:14,520 you can go fight that giant with five smooth stones 650 00:29:14,520 --> 00:29:16,660 when the Lord's on your side. 651 00:29:16,660 --> 00:29:18,160 When the Lord's on your side. 652 00:29:18,160 --> 00:29:22,760 So we're contending against our flesh. 653 00:29:22,760 --> 00:29:25,840 I mean, maybe I'm not making enough sense 654 00:29:25,840 --> 00:29:26,680 to you this morning. 655 00:29:26,680 --> 00:29:28,040 Maybe it's not computing, I don't know, 656 00:29:28,040 --> 00:29:29,080 maybe this will help. 657 00:29:29,080 --> 00:29:31,560 - Hey, listen, man, I'm really glad 658 00:29:31,560 --> 00:29:33,360 that you accepted Christ into your life, man. 659 00:29:33,360 --> 00:29:34,280 Welcome to the family. 660 00:29:34,280 --> 00:29:35,620 - Yeah, man, it feels good to be a part 661 00:29:35,620 --> 00:29:36,520 of the family in Christ. 662 00:29:36,520 --> 00:29:38,940 - Ha ha, yes sir, yes sir. 663 00:29:38,940 --> 00:29:40,960 - Now listen here, young buck. 664 00:29:40,960 --> 00:29:41,800 (yelling) 665 00:29:41,800 --> 00:29:43,200 I only got one thing to say to you. 666 00:29:43,200 --> 00:29:44,040 - Where your clothes go? 667 00:29:44,040 --> 00:29:45,560 - Here, you're gonna need this. 668 00:29:45,560 --> 00:29:46,680 - Wait a minute, what's that for? 669 00:29:46,680 --> 00:29:48,100 - Oh, this? 670 00:29:48,100 --> 00:29:49,100 Oh, that's for him? 671 00:29:49,100 --> 00:29:50,940 (yelling) 672 00:29:50,940 --> 00:29:51,760 - And what is that? 673 00:29:51,760 --> 00:29:53,720 - Oh, that right there? 674 00:29:53,720 --> 00:29:55,040 Oh, that's your flesh. 675 00:29:55,040 --> 00:29:59,120 - Yeah, y'all used to be real good friends, you two. 676 00:29:59,120 --> 00:30:01,360 - Till you gave your life to Jesus. 677 00:30:01,360 --> 00:30:05,000 - See now, you're a new creation in Christ. 678 00:30:05,000 --> 00:30:06,860 Yeah, you're on God's team. 679 00:30:06,860 --> 00:30:07,700 - Okay, okay. 680 00:30:07,700 --> 00:30:09,920 - You can't walk with your flesh no more. 681 00:30:09,920 --> 00:30:11,200 You walk in the Spirit. 682 00:30:11,200 --> 00:30:13,120 So now that you're on God's team, 683 00:30:13,120 --> 00:30:15,780 he's gonna come at you with everything he got. 684 00:30:15,780 --> 00:30:19,000 - Oh, okay, what do I do? 685 00:30:19,000 --> 00:30:21,040 - Relax, relax, young buck. 686 00:30:21,040 --> 00:30:22,360 Show me your fighting stance. 687 00:30:22,360 --> 00:30:23,180 - Okay. 688 00:30:23,180 --> 00:30:26,120 What's that? 689 00:30:26,120 --> 00:30:27,640 - What you doing, playing street fighting? 690 00:30:27,640 --> 00:30:28,480 You wanna come back? 691 00:30:28,480 --> 00:30:29,920 This is my fighting stance, okay? 692 00:30:29,920 --> 00:30:32,240 This is not how you fight against that thing. 693 00:30:32,240 --> 00:30:33,800 - Okay, but what do I do? 694 00:30:33,800 --> 00:30:35,560 - Let me show you the only fighting position 695 00:30:35,560 --> 00:30:38,000 that is ever gonna work on that thing over there. 696 00:30:38,000 --> 00:30:41,240 Dear Heavenly Father, 697 00:30:41,240 --> 00:30:44,440 thank you for this opportunity to kill my flesh. 698 00:30:44,440 --> 00:30:46,240 Get down full and pray. 699 00:30:46,240 --> 00:30:48,640 Holy Spirit, I need your strength right now. 700 00:30:48,640 --> 00:30:50,760 Word says to resist the devil. 701 00:30:50,760 --> 00:30:54,040 Submit yourself to God and he will flee from you. 702 00:30:54,040 --> 00:30:55,120 I don't think this is working. 703 00:30:55,120 --> 00:30:57,160 So right now in the name of Jesus, 704 00:30:57,160 --> 00:30:59,680 I am so ready to take you to the temple. 705 00:30:59,680 --> 00:31:01,240 - Jesus. - Jesus. 706 00:31:01,240 --> 00:31:03,080 - Jesus name. - Jesus name. 707 00:31:03,080 --> 00:31:04,540 - Jesus name. - Jesus name. 708 00:31:04,540 --> 00:31:06,380 - Amen. - Amen. 709 00:31:06,380 --> 00:31:09,040 - He's the goin' look over your shoulder. 710 00:31:09,040 --> 00:31:09,880 - Boom. 711 00:31:09,880 --> 00:31:15,380 - Work separate time son, work separate time. 712 00:31:15,380 --> 00:31:16,220 (congregation laughing) 713 00:31:16,220 --> 00:31:19,200 - Yeah, get down through and pray. 714 00:31:19,200 --> 00:31:23,600 Without the Holy Spirit, 715 00:31:23,600 --> 00:31:26,400 you are powerless against your sin. 716 00:31:26,400 --> 00:31:27,780 Without the Holy Spirit, 717 00:31:27,780 --> 00:31:31,440 you are powerless against your flesh, against your sin. 718 00:31:31,440 --> 00:31:32,880 Romans 8 26 says this, 719 00:31:32,880 --> 00:31:35,860 "The Spirit helps us in our weakness." 720 00:31:35,860 --> 00:31:36,740 You know what this means? 721 00:31:36,740 --> 00:31:38,520 If the Spirit helps us in our weakness, 722 00:31:38,520 --> 00:31:40,680 that tells me that Christians can be weak. 723 00:31:40,680 --> 00:31:43,740 Christians can be weak. 724 00:31:43,740 --> 00:31:46,200 So who helps us in our weakness? 725 00:31:46,200 --> 00:31:47,600 The Holy Spirit. 726 00:31:47,600 --> 00:31:49,360 So we do not know what we ought to pray for, 727 00:31:49,360 --> 00:31:51,420 but the Spirit himself intercedes for us 728 00:31:51,420 --> 00:31:52,460 through wordless groans. 729 00:31:52,460 --> 00:31:53,640 I hate that. 730 00:31:53,640 --> 00:31:56,040 I hate that. 731 00:31:56,040 --> 00:31:56,880 You know why? 732 00:31:56,880 --> 00:31:58,980 The Holy Spirit is praying on my behalf 733 00:31:58,980 --> 00:32:01,360 about things I don't want him to pray for. 734 00:32:01,360 --> 00:32:03,840 I don't want him to bring that person back in my path. 735 00:32:03,840 --> 00:32:05,680 I don't wanna have to deal all of those things, 736 00:32:05,680 --> 00:32:08,500 but he is doing that because he sees me 737 00:32:08,500 --> 00:32:10,500 as perfect and completing like Christ 738 00:32:10,500 --> 00:32:13,680 on this journey to being like Christ. 739 00:32:13,680 --> 00:32:15,800 This week, July 4th, we talk about freedom. 740 00:32:15,800 --> 00:32:18,120 True freedom, we know where that comes from, right? 741 00:32:18,120 --> 00:32:19,420 Now the Lord is the Spirit 742 00:32:19,420 --> 00:32:21,680 and where the Spirit of the Lord is, what? 743 00:32:21,680 --> 00:32:23,000 There is? - Freedom. 744 00:32:23,000 --> 00:32:24,320 - There's freedom. 745 00:32:24,320 --> 00:32:26,460 Don't you wanna be free? 746 00:32:26,460 --> 00:32:27,640 Don't you wanna be free? 747 00:32:27,640 --> 00:32:29,960 Listen, some of you are begging God 748 00:32:29,960 --> 00:32:32,160 to liberate you and heal you, 749 00:32:32,160 --> 00:32:34,960 but your loyalty lays with the thing that's killing you. 750 00:32:34,960 --> 00:32:40,760 And the Holy Spirit of God wants to take that place, 751 00:32:40,760 --> 00:32:42,720 that supreme place in your life 752 00:32:42,720 --> 00:32:45,800 where your loyalty and your allegiance is to him, 753 00:32:45,800 --> 00:32:47,600 and then he will give you everything you need 754 00:32:47,600 --> 00:32:48,440 to be successful. 755 00:32:48,440 --> 00:32:49,280 Now guess what? 756 00:32:49,280 --> 00:32:50,740 He's probably not gonna give you the tools 757 00:32:50,740 --> 00:32:52,440 and things that you need for five years from now. 758 00:32:52,440 --> 00:32:55,240 He's giving it to you for this afternoon. 759 00:32:55,240 --> 00:32:57,360 He's giving it to you for the next moment, 760 00:32:57,360 --> 00:32:59,180 for the thought that you're gonna have your thought life 761 00:32:59,180 --> 00:33:00,160 in 30 seconds from now. 762 00:33:00,160 --> 00:33:01,420 He's going to give you the power. 763 00:33:01,420 --> 00:33:03,020 At moment by moment, the Holy Spirit, 764 00:33:03,020 --> 00:33:04,260 it's not like the Holy Spirit says, 765 00:33:04,260 --> 00:33:06,060 "Okay, you're good, I'm gonna go away and come back." 766 00:33:06,060 --> 00:33:09,800 He's with you all of the time. 767 00:33:09,800 --> 00:33:11,340 You need the Holy Spirit's help. 768 00:33:11,340 --> 00:33:14,980 Why is this important at the crux of everything? 769 00:33:14,980 --> 00:33:17,500 It's because you belong to a kingdom 770 00:33:17,500 --> 00:33:20,000 and you are called to be a witness. 771 00:33:20,000 --> 00:33:24,100 Your salvation is not just about you. 772 00:33:24,100 --> 00:33:28,220 You are a small part of a larger picture. 773 00:33:28,220 --> 00:33:31,360 Do you know that you have, Lord, 774 00:33:31,360 --> 00:33:37,820 you probably have been at grocery stores 775 00:33:37,820 --> 00:33:41,900 right next to a person who's on their way to hell, 776 00:33:41,900 --> 00:33:43,920 and the Lord wanted to use you 777 00:33:43,920 --> 00:33:45,700 to be a voice piece in their life. 778 00:33:45,700 --> 00:33:51,220 And the reason that we're not the voice piece 779 00:33:51,220 --> 00:33:53,120 is because we're not paying attention. 780 00:33:53,120 --> 00:33:58,120 You want to be in lockstep with the Holy Spirit, 781 00:33:58,120 --> 00:34:02,960 hand in hand, moment by moment. 782 00:34:02,960 --> 00:34:06,760 Guys, our lives, our salvation, 783 00:34:06,760 --> 00:34:08,700 it's not just for us to have a better life 784 00:34:08,700 --> 00:34:09,880 here on the planet. 785 00:34:09,880 --> 00:34:13,160 Every moment, there's a reason 786 00:34:13,160 --> 00:34:15,980 that you are in the places that you're in. 787 00:34:15,980 --> 00:34:19,020 He wants to use you to advance. 788 00:34:19,020 --> 00:34:22,260 There's a reason why he has not split the sky yet. 789 00:34:22,260 --> 00:34:23,840 It's because there's a dying world out there 790 00:34:23,840 --> 00:34:25,780 that needs this Savior. 791 00:34:25,780 --> 00:34:28,700 And I wonder, Kevin O'Day, 792 00:34:28,700 --> 00:34:30,760 how many opportunities have just, 793 00:34:30,760 --> 00:34:35,400 because I'm concerned about Kevin O'Day, 794 00:34:35,400 --> 00:34:37,700 where I'm going, what I'm doing. 795 00:34:37,700 --> 00:34:41,040 But the Holy Spirit of God 796 00:34:41,040 --> 00:34:44,520 wants to embolden and empower you 797 00:34:44,520 --> 00:34:49,380 to advance his kingdom by adding numbers to the kingdom. 798 00:34:49,380 --> 00:34:50,840 Somebody was just telling me yesterday 799 00:34:50,840 --> 00:34:53,900 that there was a person who lost their wife just recently, 800 00:34:53,900 --> 00:34:55,360 and he said, "Man, I invited them to church. 801 00:34:55,360 --> 00:34:56,260 "I wanted them to come." 802 00:34:56,260 --> 00:34:58,620 Holy Spirit moment, Holy Spirit moment. 803 00:34:58,620 --> 00:35:01,660 Are you listening? 804 00:35:01,660 --> 00:35:06,300 You can't say you're obeying if you're not listening. 805 00:35:06,300 --> 00:35:07,480 Right? 806 00:35:07,480 --> 00:35:09,300 Ruby, go clean your room. 807 00:35:09,300 --> 00:35:10,660 It's not clean. 808 00:35:10,660 --> 00:35:11,700 There was not obey. 809 00:35:11,700 --> 00:35:13,000 There's no obeying there. 810 00:35:13,000 --> 00:35:17,880 How do you receive the gift of the Holy Spirit? 811 00:35:19,180 --> 00:35:21,140 What I'm about to say in the next three minutes 812 00:35:21,140 --> 00:35:24,520 is specifically why I wanted to bring this message today. 813 00:35:24,520 --> 00:35:26,660 I wanted to start out this series. 814 00:35:26,660 --> 00:35:31,020 Because as your lead shepherd, as the pastor of this house, 815 00:35:31,020 --> 00:35:33,760 I do not wanna lead you astray. 816 00:35:33,760 --> 00:35:36,940 I want us to be sound in our doctrine. 817 00:35:36,940 --> 00:35:41,320 I do not want us to take our focus off of Christ Jesus. 818 00:35:41,320 --> 00:35:46,320 So what I'm about to tell you is real important. 819 00:35:46,320 --> 00:35:48,520 How do you receive the gift of the Holy Spirit? 820 00:35:48,520 --> 00:35:50,800 There are people out there that are selling books, 821 00:35:50,800 --> 00:35:52,820 that preach and everything that say, 822 00:35:52,820 --> 00:35:55,260 the only way that you can receive the Holy Spirit 823 00:35:55,260 --> 00:35:57,780 is by making a spectacle out of yourself. 824 00:35:57,780 --> 00:36:01,780 Compulsions, all of these different things. 825 00:36:01,780 --> 00:36:03,560 And I'm not negating that at times 826 00:36:03,560 --> 00:36:05,480 those things might could happen. 827 00:36:05,480 --> 00:36:10,760 But the way that you receive the Holy Spirit is very simple. 828 00:36:10,760 --> 00:36:13,080 Ask. 829 00:36:13,080 --> 00:36:15,220 That's it. 830 00:36:15,220 --> 00:36:17,260 Ask. 831 00:36:18,140 --> 00:36:20,660 Ask and you shall receive. 832 00:36:20,660 --> 00:36:22,340 Knock and the door will be open. 833 00:36:22,340 --> 00:36:24,820 This is what Luke says, 834 00:36:24,820 --> 00:36:26,540 "If you then though you are evil, 835 00:36:26,540 --> 00:36:28,580 "know how to give good gifts to your children, 836 00:36:28,580 --> 00:36:30,500 "how much more will your Father in heaven 837 00:36:30,500 --> 00:36:35,100 "give you the Holy Spirit if you ask him?" 838 00:36:35,100 --> 00:36:37,040 All you have to do is ask him. 839 00:36:37,040 --> 00:36:38,820 I'm not asking for a show of hands, 840 00:36:38,820 --> 00:36:40,780 but I am asking this question. 841 00:36:40,780 --> 00:36:44,320 How many have actually uttered the words, 842 00:36:44,320 --> 00:36:47,460 Father God, I want your Holy Spirit. 843 00:36:47,460 --> 00:36:51,180 Would you please give me the gift of your Holy Spirit? 844 00:36:51,180 --> 00:36:53,380 If you haven't asked the question, 845 00:36:53,380 --> 00:36:57,160 then it's likely that you haven't received the Holy Spirit. 846 00:36:57,160 --> 00:36:58,980 Ask him for the gift. 847 00:36:58,980 --> 00:37:03,340 Ask him for the gift and begin to believe 848 00:37:03,340 --> 00:37:04,520 in what he tells you. 849 00:37:04,520 --> 00:37:06,500 Begin to believe that you've received it 850 00:37:06,500 --> 00:37:08,460 and you will begin to see some things happen. 851 00:37:08,460 --> 00:37:11,380 Now in two weeks time, let me say next week, 852 00:37:11,380 --> 00:37:13,500 we're gonna talk about the Father, the Son 853 00:37:13,500 --> 00:37:16,620 and the Holy Spirit and the distinction between the three. 854 00:37:16,620 --> 00:37:18,260 The following week, we're gonna talk about 855 00:37:18,260 --> 00:37:21,600 some incredible gifts that the Holy Spirit has available 856 00:37:21,600 --> 00:37:23,400 for those who believe in him. 857 00:37:23,400 --> 00:37:29,620 Guys, there's always more with the Lord. 858 00:37:29,620 --> 00:37:33,200 There's always more with the Lord. 859 00:37:33,200 --> 00:37:38,100 And so if you want to receive the Holy Spirit, 860 00:37:38,100 --> 00:37:42,860 you simply need to ask and understand 861 00:37:42,860 --> 00:37:46,020 that the primary job of the Holy Spirit 862 00:37:46,020 --> 00:37:48,740 is to point people to Jesus. 863 00:37:48,740 --> 00:37:51,340 And this truth right here is the foundation 864 00:37:51,340 --> 00:37:53,580 that we're gonna walk on this entire year, 865 00:37:53,580 --> 00:37:56,060 that the primary job of the Holy Spirit 866 00:37:56,060 --> 00:37:59,340 is not to glorify you, is not to have the woo-woo happen, 867 00:37:59,340 --> 00:38:01,380 is not for the miraculous signs, is not for, 868 00:38:01,380 --> 00:38:03,600 and all of that stuff might happen. 869 00:38:03,600 --> 00:38:08,780 But at the end of the day, when the Holy Spirit moves, 870 00:38:08,780 --> 00:38:11,080 it is to point people to Jesus Christ 871 00:38:11,080 --> 00:38:13,740 so that numbers can be added to the kingdom 872 00:38:13,740 --> 00:38:16,140 day by day by day. 873 00:38:16,140 --> 00:38:17,460 What does that have to do with you? 874 00:38:17,460 --> 00:38:19,420 I'm saved, what does that have to do with me? 875 00:38:19,420 --> 00:38:21,280 I'm already a number in the kingdom. 876 00:38:21,280 --> 00:38:23,220 It's because somebody out there's looking at you 877 00:38:23,220 --> 00:38:25,740 screw up your life and they need to actually see Jesus 878 00:38:25,740 --> 00:38:26,940 in your life. 879 00:38:26,940 --> 00:38:28,700 And you need the power of the Holy Spirit 880 00:38:28,700 --> 00:38:31,020 to clean yourself up so that when they look at you, 881 00:38:31,020 --> 00:38:33,580 you're not one of those hypocrites they're talking about. 882 00:38:33,580 --> 00:38:38,100 You need the power of the Holy Spirit in your life. 883 00:38:38,100 --> 00:38:39,740 It is available to you. 884 00:38:39,740 --> 00:38:44,180 It's a wonderful gift that Jesus Christ himself promised us. 885 00:38:44,180 --> 00:38:48,860 Why would you wait to ask for this precious gift? 886 00:38:48,860 --> 00:38:52,120 There's coming a day, I said earlier, 887 00:38:52,120 --> 00:38:54,360 Jesus has done everything he said he would do. 888 00:38:54,360 --> 00:38:58,100 There's coming a day where he's going to split the sky 889 00:38:58,100 --> 00:38:59,220 and he's coming back. 890 00:38:59,220 --> 00:39:03,200 And I cannot wait for that day. 891 00:39:03,200 --> 00:39:08,780 But the reason that we have the Holy Spirit, guys, 892 00:39:08,780 --> 00:39:11,400 is because there's other people that need to be able to say, 893 00:39:11,400 --> 00:39:13,600 I can't wait for that day. 894 00:39:13,600 --> 00:39:15,900 I can't wait. 895 00:39:15,900 --> 00:39:17,700 Libby, what's going on with you and your husband 896 00:39:17,700 --> 00:39:19,300 is not just for you. 897 00:39:19,300 --> 00:39:21,080 It's a glorious thing that's happening in your life. 898 00:39:21,080 --> 00:39:22,100 But you know what? 899 00:39:22,100 --> 00:39:24,140 There are people who are watching your story saying, 900 00:39:24,140 --> 00:39:25,860 I can't believe this God actually did it. 901 00:39:25,860 --> 00:39:27,860 There's something about this God that might be real. 902 00:39:27,860 --> 00:39:31,260 There's something here happening. 903 00:39:31,260 --> 00:39:34,160 And they're watching you walk out your faith in your walk 904 00:39:34,160 --> 00:39:36,000 and you come up here and testify and they're going, 905 00:39:36,000 --> 00:39:37,460 man, that really encourages me. 906 00:39:37,460 --> 00:39:40,960 There really must be something to this Lord, to this God. 907 00:39:40,960 --> 00:39:45,980 And the same is true in all of your lives as he's touching 908 00:39:45,980 --> 00:39:48,060 and as he's moving, as he's ebbing and flowing 909 00:39:48,060 --> 00:39:51,500 in your lives, in your homes, in your relationships. 910 00:39:51,500 --> 00:39:57,080 God, to be magnified so that we can become witnesses for him 911 00:39:57,080 --> 00:39:59,140 so that his kingdom can be advanced. 912 00:39:59,140 --> 00:40:04,540 I want to see multitudes come into the kingdom, friends. 913 00:40:04,540 --> 00:40:06,540 So would you stand with me this morning? 914 00:40:07,540 --> 00:40:10,040 We're gonna just do something a little different. 915 00:40:10,040 --> 00:40:13,500 Are we gonna do something different, Lord? 916 00:40:13,500 --> 00:40:15,780 Holy Spirit. 917 00:40:15,780 --> 00:40:16,620 Jeez. 918 00:40:16,620 --> 00:40:25,540 Maybe you have once thought that you maybe asked 919 00:40:25,540 --> 00:40:29,120 to receive the power of the Holy Spirit 920 00:40:29,120 --> 00:40:32,680 and you just realize I've not been accessing him 921 00:40:32,680 --> 00:40:33,600 like I should. 922 00:40:35,140 --> 00:40:37,740 But what I would like to do this morning 923 00:40:37,740 --> 00:40:42,180 is if you would like to ask the Holy Spirit 924 00:40:42,180 --> 00:40:48,420 to fill you up, if you would like to ask the Holy Spirit 925 00:40:48,420 --> 00:40:52,580 of God, invite him into your life to walk with you 926 00:40:52,580 --> 00:40:56,500 every day, every moment, this is a gift 927 00:40:56,500 --> 00:40:59,340 that is available to you and I can't let us leave here 928 00:40:59,340 --> 00:41:01,340 without extending the invitation 929 00:41:01,340 --> 00:41:04,300 'cause I just talked about how important it was. 930 00:41:04,300 --> 00:41:06,780 If that is you and you've never prayed that prayer 931 00:41:06,780 --> 00:41:09,780 or you think maybe you've prayed that prayer at some point 932 00:41:09,780 --> 00:41:12,620 but man, you've just forgotten about the access you have, 933 00:41:12,620 --> 00:41:17,060 I'm gonna ask you to come forward, take a step of faith, 934 00:41:17,060 --> 00:41:21,460 come to the altar space and this song says I surrender. 935 00:41:21,460 --> 00:41:22,460 Doesn't that say I surrender? 936 00:41:22,460 --> 00:41:24,740 Yeah, it's a posture of surrender. 937 00:41:24,740 --> 00:41:27,820 God, I surrender myself and Father God, 938 00:41:27,820 --> 00:41:29,920 I am asking for your Holy Spirit 939 00:41:29,920 --> 00:41:32,660 'cause I need your power in my life. 940 00:41:32,660 --> 00:41:35,660 If that's you, come to the altar space 941 00:41:35,660 --> 00:41:37,180 and we're gonna worship together 942 00:41:37,180 --> 00:41:39,720 and I'm gonna ask some of our leaders 943 00:41:39,720 --> 00:41:41,700 to come around and face some of these guys 944 00:41:41,700 --> 00:41:44,460 and just agree with them and pray with them, 945 00:41:44,460 --> 00:41:47,420 lay hands on them and ask the Holy Spirit 946 00:41:47,420 --> 00:41:49,500 to fill their lives. 947 00:41:49,500 --> 00:41:50,920 So if you guys would step forward 948 00:41:50,920 --> 00:41:53,660 so we know that you are not just sitting on the front row 949 00:41:53,660 --> 00:41:57,060 and the rest of us are going to worship. 950 00:41:57,060 --> 00:41:58,900 Guys, this is an amazing step. 951 00:41:58,900 --> 00:42:01,140 This is next to salvation. 952 00:42:01,140 --> 00:42:03,820 I mean, you're talking about coupling up 953 00:42:03,820 --> 00:42:06,620 with the God of the universe. 954 00:42:06,620 --> 00:42:08,560 I need this power in my life. 955 00:42:08,560 --> 00:42:13,300 All you got to do is ask and believe, let's worship. 956 00:42:13,300 --> 00:42:14,700 Leaders, would you come pray? 957 00:42:15,100 --> 00:42:17,680 (gentle music) 958 00:42:17,680 --> 00:42:19,740 you