1 00:00:00,001 --> 00:00:02,580 (upbeat music) 2 00:00:02,580 --> 00:00:07,640 Good morning. 3 00:00:07,640 --> 00:00:09,920 - And his roadie. 4 00:00:09,920 --> 00:00:12,960 - And his roadie, you're a lot more than a roadie. 5 00:00:12,960 --> 00:00:18,600 I'm honored to be with you for sure. 6 00:00:18,600 --> 00:00:22,880 And humbled at the opportunity, 7 00:00:22,880 --> 00:00:24,320 whoops, went the wrong way. 8 00:00:24,320 --> 00:00:26,080 Thank you. 9 00:00:26,080 --> 00:00:29,440 To speak with you, speak to you for a little while, 10 00:00:29,440 --> 00:00:31,040 share with you for a little bit. 11 00:00:31,040 --> 00:00:36,640 I've kind of got the spirit of Alan trying to hit me, so. 12 00:00:36,640 --> 00:00:40,500 Yeah, I know. 13 00:00:40,500 --> 00:00:42,360 It's all right, I don't mind doing that. 14 00:00:42,360 --> 00:00:47,360 It's just, it kind of breaks my concentration 15 00:00:47,360 --> 00:00:48,800 or consecration. 16 00:00:48,800 --> 00:00:51,520 Yeah. 17 00:00:51,520 --> 00:00:57,560 And if you're at home and you're not here, 18 00:00:57,560 --> 00:01:00,440 but you see us or you see me, hi. 19 00:01:00,440 --> 00:01:05,380 Glad you're able to join us. 20 00:01:05,380 --> 00:01:12,240 Last week was the beginning of a series 21 00:01:12,240 --> 00:01:16,440 that Pastor Kevin initiated. 22 00:01:16,440 --> 00:01:19,360 This kind of, if I understand him correctly, 23 00:01:19,360 --> 00:01:21,100 it's gonna run till Advent. 24 00:01:21,100 --> 00:01:24,080 And the theme is the Holy Ghost. 25 00:01:24,080 --> 00:01:29,080 And I think by and large, the content of this series 26 00:01:29,080 --> 00:01:33,260 will come from the book of Acts, 27 00:01:33,260 --> 00:01:36,440 specifically dealing with the personality and the practice 28 00:01:36,440 --> 00:01:41,440 and the dynamics of the Holy Ghost out of that book. 29 00:01:41,440 --> 00:01:46,600 And last week when Pastor Sheard, 30 00:01:46,600 --> 00:01:50,620 about five minutes into that message, he said this, 31 00:01:50,620 --> 00:01:52,860 (coughing) 32 00:01:52,860 --> 00:02:01,740 and I was really impacted by it 33 00:02:01,740 --> 00:02:06,880 because with the history that Pastor Bobby was alluding to, 34 00:02:06,880 --> 00:02:12,460 we were, a few of us, a very, very few, 35 00:02:12,460 --> 00:02:16,740 an ancient few of us were here actually 36 00:02:16,740 --> 00:02:18,720 before Pastor Kevin got here. 37 00:02:19,660 --> 00:02:22,240 But Kevin's been here for years. 38 00:02:22,240 --> 00:02:27,620 But it occurred to me when he was kicking off the series, 39 00:02:27,620 --> 00:02:31,140 how serious he was about the series. 40 00:02:31,140 --> 00:02:34,780 And it also occurred to me based on my history, 41 00:02:34,780 --> 00:02:37,660 I could be wrong, I have been wrong 42 00:02:37,660 --> 00:02:39,860 probably since this morning. 43 00:02:39,860 --> 00:02:42,860 (audience laughing) 44 00:02:42,860 --> 00:02:48,340 But it occurred to me, as I recall, 45 00:02:48,340 --> 00:02:51,620 this will be the longest series that's ever happened 46 00:02:51,620 --> 00:02:53,860 at least since I've been here in this church. 47 00:02:53,860 --> 00:02:56,380 So, yes, right. 48 00:02:56,380 --> 00:03:01,380 So dealing with the Holy Spirit, 49 00:03:01,380 --> 00:03:03,300 if I can use the word dealing, 50 00:03:03,300 --> 00:03:09,660 for this congregation and those that are not necessarily 51 00:03:09,660 --> 00:03:12,300 part of the congregation, but are streamers, 52 00:03:12,300 --> 00:03:14,640 and of course what's in Pastor Kevin's heart 53 00:03:14,640 --> 00:03:17,460 and a lot of our hearts beyond here to the community 54 00:03:17,460 --> 00:03:19,020 and from the community to the region, 55 00:03:19,020 --> 00:03:22,540 from the region to the state, from the state to the nation, 56 00:03:22,540 --> 00:03:24,860 and from the nations of the earth. 57 00:03:24,860 --> 00:03:26,100 'Cause one of the things you don't know 58 00:03:26,100 --> 00:03:29,700 when you bring a message or you minister, 59 00:03:29,700 --> 00:03:32,900 even if it's in spoken word or song or written word, 60 00:03:32,900 --> 00:03:35,660 you have no idea where it goes. 61 00:03:35,660 --> 00:03:37,660 You have none. 62 00:03:37,660 --> 00:03:39,500 Wherever you think it goes, 63 00:03:39,500 --> 00:03:42,340 it is way beyond where you think it goes. 64 00:03:42,340 --> 00:03:45,340 'Cause that too is the work of the Holy Ghost. 65 00:03:45,340 --> 00:03:47,580 The Holy Ghost does what he wants to 66 00:03:47,580 --> 00:03:52,140 with the ministry for the kingdom as he sees fit. 67 00:03:52,140 --> 00:03:57,140 So I just wanna stress before I move down to my teaching 68 00:03:57,140 --> 00:04:02,340 that the importance of what we're doing together 69 00:04:02,340 --> 00:04:05,540 as a corporate body over the next, 70 00:04:05,540 --> 00:04:08,260 really till almost the end of the year, 71 00:04:08,260 --> 00:04:09,980 is really important. 72 00:04:09,980 --> 00:04:13,700 It's really important. 73 00:04:14,700 --> 00:04:18,860 And our pastor, our lead pastor said it was important 74 00:04:18,860 --> 00:04:22,300 in order to survive. 75 00:04:22,300 --> 00:04:26,900 Now you can hear survived in more than one way. 76 00:04:26,900 --> 00:04:28,780 You can hear survived like desperation. 77 00:04:28,780 --> 00:04:30,340 You know, I thought I was gonna be killed 78 00:04:30,340 --> 00:04:31,620 or I thought I was gonna be kidnapped 79 00:04:31,620 --> 00:04:36,620 or whatever negative you look at in terms of survival. 80 00:04:36,620 --> 00:04:40,580 Survival does not sound like an abundant living word. 81 00:04:43,180 --> 00:04:45,860 It doesn't sound like all good things are working for good 82 00:04:45,860 --> 00:04:48,180 for those that are called for the good according. 83 00:04:48,180 --> 00:04:58,220 But the point of being a survivor, if you will, 84 00:04:58,220 --> 00:05:00,020 is that whatever you're carrying, 85 00:05:00,020 --> 00:05:01,480 why ever you're here, 86 00:05:01,480 --> 00:05:03,180 whatever you're doing as unto the Lord 87 00:05:03,180 --> 00:05:04,580 for the sake of the kingdom, 88 00:05:04,580 --> 00:05:06,940 can only be done in your life and your life 89 00:05:06,940 --> 00:05:09,540 and your life and our lives if we're here. 90 00:05:10,700 --> 00:05:13,820 Now, forget about where we're going 91 00:05:13,820 --> 00:05:17,100 when we cross over Jordan, put that to one side. 92 00:05:17,100 --> 00:05:19,140 I'm not talking about the hallelujah part. 93 00:05:19,140 --> 00:05:22,660 I'm talking about patient endurance. 94 00:05:22,660 --> 00:05:24,380 I'm talking about long suffering. 95 00:05:24,380 --> 00:05:28,200 Oh boy, aren't we having fun yet? 96 00:05:28,200 --> 00:05:33,860 But if he said that, we need to pay attention to that 97 00:05:33,860 --> 00:05:36,340 because he's the lead pastor in the house 98 00:05:36,340 --> 00:05:38,080 out of deference to his position. 99 00:05:38,080 --> 00:05:39,300 That's why I'm saying that. 100 00:05:39,300 --> 00:05:43,160 So I'm gonna do, oh yeah, I need to do this. 101 00:05:43,160 --> 00:05:45,000 I need to explain, to give you a little context 102 00:05:45,000 --> 00:05:46,660 for why I'm doing what I'm doing. 103 00:05:46,660 --> 00:05:49,780 Stop it. 104 00:05:49,780 --> 00:05:54,780 In around January, Pastor Justin, thank you. 105 00:05:54,780 --> 00:05:58,680 Yeah, you'll be old someday. 106 00:05:58,680 --> 00:06:04,800 Pastor Justin contacted me and said he was starting 107 00:06:04,800 --> 00:06:07,820 a men's ministry series on the Holy Ghost. 108 00:06:09,000 --> 00:06:12,480 And he asked me, he said the Holy Spirit had showed him 109 00:06:12,480 --> 00:06:16,900 that he needed to contact elders, older folks, 110 00:06:16,900 --> 00:06:21,160 semi-decrepit people that had a history 111 00:06:21,160 --> 00:06:23,320 with things of the Holy Spirit. 112 00:06:23,320 --> 00:06:26,440 And for some reason he said, could I do it? 113 00:06:26,440 --> 00:06:28,400 No, I'm not sure why he did that. 114 00:06:28,400 --> 00:06:38,600 I ain't dead yet, my bell still rings. 115 00:06:38,600 --> 00:06:41,200 (congregation cheering) 116 00:06:41,200 --> 00:06:42,080 Bob Dylan. 117 00:06:42,080 --> 00:06:45,600 I don't know where that came from. 118 00:06:45,600 --> 00:06:47,960 And I said, I'd be glad to. 119 00:06:47,960 --> 00:06:52,420 So in that teaching, Pastor Kevin was there. 120 00:06:52,420 --> 00:06:53,840 And about a month or so after that, 121 00:06:53,840 --> 00:06:56,000 Pastor Kevin contacted me and said, 122 00:06:56,000 --> 00:06:58,700 we're gonna start a series in big church. 123 00:06:58,700 --> 00:07:02,380 He didn't say big church, I said big church. 124 00:07:02,380 --> 00:07:06,400 And he said, would you come teach on the Holy Spirit? 125 00:07:06,400 --> 00:07:09,080 And I said, I'll be honored. 126 00:07:09,080 --> 00:07:12,040 So that's why I'm here today. 127 00:07:12,040 --> 00:07:15,240 He didn't ask me to preach. 128 00:07:15,240 --> 00:07:16,100 I'm not gonna preach. 129 00:07:16,100 --> 00:07:18,800 I can preach, but I'm not gonna preach. 130 00:07:18,800 --> 00:07:20,600 He didn't ask me to bring a TED Talk. 131 00:07:20,600 --> 00:07:24,640 There's six people here that listen to the radio. 132 00:07:24,640 --> 00:07:25,480 That's all right. 133 00:07:25,480 --> 00:07:29,760 Or wherever TED Talks show up. 134 00:07:29,760 --> 00:07:31,380 Because I can tell a bunch of stories. 135 00:07:31,380 --> 00:07:34,000 I'm quite capable of doing that, but that's not why I'm here. 136 00:07:34,000 --> 00:07:34,840 I'm here to teach. 137 00:07:34,840 --> 00:07:38,840 So having said that, I'm gonna do three things, 138 00:07:38,840 --> 00:07:42,900 or try to very quickly in this session. 139 00:07:42,900 --> 00:07:46,400 I'm gonna ask three questions and answer three questions. 140 00:07:46,400 --> 00:07:48,080 And the questions are these. 141 00:07:48,080 --> 00:07:49,680 Who is the Holy Ghost? 142 00:07:49,680 --> 00:07:53,280 Where is the Holy Ghost? 143 00:07:53,280 --> 00:07:55,560 And why is the Holy Ghost? 144 00:07:55,560 --> 00:07:56,680 Or why is the Holy Ghost? 145 00:07:56,680 --> 00:07:58,380 Why is there a Holy Ghost? 146 00:07:58,380 --> 00:08:02,280 So here we go. 147 00:08:02,280 --> 00:08:05,280 (keyboard clacking) 148 00:08:05,280 --> 00:08:10,320 Okay, real quick. 149 00:08:10,320 --> 00:08:14,800 In Deuteronomy, in the commandments, 150 00:08:14,800 --> 00:08:17,960 the first commandment, scripturally, 151 00:08:17,960 --> 00:08:21,200 is "Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, 152 00:08:21,200 --> 00:08:22,560 soul, and strength." 153 00:08:22,560 --> 00:08:25,800 Move to the New Testament. 154 00:08:25,800 --> 00:08:28,040 The disciples asked Jesus, this is for you, 155 00:08:28,040 --> 00:08:29,000 it's not my notes. 156 00:08:30,480 --> 00:08:34,160 The disciples asked Jesus, what is the greatest commandment? 157 00:08:34,160 --> 00:08:38,400 And Jesus responds, 'cause he had done his homework, 158 00:08:38,400 --> 00:08:41,960 he responds with this response. 159 00:08:41,960 --> 00:08:44,840 He says, "Thou shalt love the Lord thy God 160 00:08:44,840 --> 00:08:49,740 with all thy heart, soul, mind, and strength." 161 00:08:49,740 --> 00:08:55,800 Now, Jesus wasn't misquoting the Old Testament scrolls. 162 00:08:55,800 --> 00:08:58,720 Can we picture that happening? 163 00:08:59,700 --> 00:09:02,300 Can we picture Jesus going, "I didn't, that's, 164 00:09:02,300 --> 00:09:03,760 why did I say that?" 165 00:09:03,760 --> 00:09:05,740 That's not what it says in Deuteronomy. 166 00:09:05,740 --> 00:09:09,140 But he added the word mind. 167 00:09:09,140 --> 00:09:15,320 And the word mind there is not intellectual. 168 00:09:15,320 --> 00:09:17,480 It's intelligence. 169 00:09:17,480 --> 00:09:20,400 It's being able to think some thought. 170 00:09:20,400 --> 00:09:23,840 It's not based on IQ. 171 00:09:23,840 --> 00:09:27,160 It's not based on, is it S-E-T, what is that? 172 00:09:27,160 --> 00:09:28,000 What is it? 173 00:09:28,000 --> 00:09:28,840 - S-H-E-T. - S-H-E-T, thank you. 174 00:09:28,840 --> 00:09:30,060 Thank you. 175 00:09:30,060 --> 00:09:32,560 It's not based on how well you test. 176 00:09:32,560 --> 00:09:35,520 It's not based on a curve. 177 00:09:35,520 --> 00:09:38,360 It's not based on A plus down to F. 178 00:09:38,360 --> 00:09:39,380 It's not based on that. 179 00:09:39,380 --> 00:09:43,040 It's based on how you are fearfully and wonderfully made. 180 00:09:43,040 --> 00:09:50,120 Each of us, which had nothing to do with how we got here. 181 00:09:50,120 --> 00:09:53,560 I said I wouldn't preach. 182 00:09:53,560 --> 00:09:57,600 We're here without any say so about how we're put together. 183 00:09:57,920 --> 00:10:00,080 (audience laughing) 184 00:10:00,080 --> 00:10:05,080 So the fact that cumulatively our minds gather data, 185 00:10:05,080 --> 00:10:09,540 so that we can talk and think and write and figure stuff out 186 00:10:09,540 --> 00:10:12,560 is not based on the information that comes to us. 187 00:10:12,560 --> 00:10:17,200 It's based on how the mechanism works or if it works. 188 00:10:17,200 --> 00:10:22,060 And it works because we are fearfully and wonderfully made. 189 00:10:23,680 --> 00:10:28,680 So if you're a low score grader, what odd sentence. 190 00:10:28,680 --> 00:10:32,760 It doesn't matter that you're that way 191 00:10:32,760 --> 00:10:36,080 because the capacity for you to think 192 00:10:36,080 --> 00:10:38,760 is based on who built you. 193 00:10:38,760 --> 00:10:45,720 Seen the after and I'll, you know. 194 00:10:45,720 --> 00:10:48,920 (audience laughing) 195 00:10:48,920 --> 00:10:49,920 I think that was Connie. 196 00:10:49,920 --> 00:10:50,760 Is that Connie? 197 00:10:50,760 --> 00:10:51,580 Yeah, okay. 198 00:10:51,780 --> 00:10:54,940 (audience laughing) 199 00:10:54,940 --> 00:10:57,240 With the mind you have, 200 00:10:57,240 --> 00:11:01,000 love the Lord thy God with all our heart, soul, 201 00:11:01,000 --> 00:11:02,140 mind and strength. 202 00:11:02,140 --> 00:11:03,400 Now Paul picked that up. 203 00:11:03,400 --> 00:11:05,480 And in Romans 12, he says, 204 00:11:05,480 --> 00:11:07,820 present your bodies as living sacrifices, 205 00:11:07,820 --> 00:11:09,960 holy and acceptable to the Lord 206 00:11:09,960 --> 00:11:13,980 and be renewed in the spirit of your mind. 207 00:11:13,980 --> 00:11:19,860 So Paul, I'm playing fast and loose with scripture, 208 00:11:19,860 --> 00:11:22,100 but I'm not violating scripture. 209 00:11:22,100 --> 00:11:24,260 Just let me through it, okay? 210 00:11:24,260 --> 00:11:26,420 Paul takes the thought that Jesus added 211 00:11:26,420 --> 00:11:29,440 when he put mind in for the original, 212 00:11:29,440 --> 00:11:31,900 love the Lord with heart, soul, strength. 213 00:11:31,900 --> 00:11:34,840 When Jesus added mind, Paul picks it up and says, 214 00:11:34,840 --> 00:11:37,380 if you're living as a worship sacrifice, 215 00:11:37,380 --> 00:11:40,540 if your life is a living sacrifice in worship, 216 00:11:40,540 --> 00:11:42,300 then one of the things you need to do 217 00:11:42,300 --> 00:11:46,500 is let your mind be renewed in the Holy Ghost. 218 00:11:46,500 --> 00:11:51,040 So very quickly, very politely, very in reverence, 219 00:11:51,040 --> 00:11:52,980 would you put your hand on your head 220 00:11:52,980 --> 00:11:56,900 and pray this prayer after me. 221 00:11:56,900 --> 00:11:59,380 Holy Spirit, 222 00:11:59,380 --> 00:12:02,420 please 223 00:12:02,420 --> 00:12:04,320 renew my mind. 224 00:12:04,320 --> 00:12:07,720 Okay, amen. 225 00:12:07,720 --> 00:12:11,800 Two resources for this series 226 00:12:11,800 --> 00:12:14,240 that I would highly recommend. 227 00:12:14,240 --> 00:12:16,560 You can screenshot it or you can find it on 228 00:12:16,560 --> 00:12:20,040 streaming if you do streaming. 229 00:12:20,040 --> 00:12:23,160 For time's sake, I'm not gonna say anything 230 00:12:23,160 --> 00:12:25,760 about either one of them, although that's very difficult, 231 00:12:25,760 --> 00:12:30,360 but they're both available in printed form, in PDF form. 232 00:12:30,360 --> 00:12:34,760 The first one is available in audio book form 233 00:12:34,760 --> 00:12:36,880 and the other one, the second one is available 234 00:12:36,880 --> 00:12:41,880 in a message from Miles Monroe about the book itself. 235 00:12:43,120 --> 00:12:45,600 In my life, in my life, 236 00:12:45,600 --> 00:12:48,760 these two books underneath scripture 237 00:12:48,760 --> 00:12:51,060 have been the most important books in my life 238 00:12:51,060 --> 00:12:54,160 about my relationship to the Holy Ghost. 239 00:12:54,160 --> 00:12:57,200 So my recommendation to you 240 00:12:57,200 --> 00:12:59,160 isn't because I've read the books. 241 00:12:59,160 --> 00:13:01,480 Obviously I wouldn't say it if I hadn't read the books. 242 00:13:01,480 --> 00:13:04,360 It's because pastors said, 243 00:13:04,360 --> 00:13:07,260 we need the Holy Ghost in order to survive, 244 00:13:07,260 --> 00:13:09,300 not the next 20 minutes. 245 00:13:10,840 --> 00:13:13,600 We need to survive what we ain't in yet. 246 00:13:13,600 --> 00:13:14,680 Can I get an amen? 247 00:13:14,680 --> 00:13:17,720 Look, we don't know this. 248 00:13:17,720 --> 00:13:19,160 We don't know. 249 00:13:19,160 --> 00:13:21,060 We know what happens at the end of this. 250 00:13:21,060 --> 00:13:24,000 We know what happens when Michael referenced 251 00:13:24,000 --> 00:13:28,680 somebody dying or two funerals, 252 00:13:28,680 --> 00:13:30,800 Saturday or Friday, whatever, okay. 253 00:13:30,800 --> 00:13:34,680 As we age, we all get used to this. 254 00:13:34,680 --> 00:13:36,420 I'm more used to it than many of you 255 00:13:36,420 --> 00:13:38,980 because it seems to be like it's happening all the time. 256 00:13:38,980 --> 00:13:41,660 And the lifestyle that I've lived, 257 00:13:41,660 --> 00:13:45,180 I've got a whole lot of people that I was connected with 258 00:13:45,180 --> 00:13:47,940 that I haven't been connected with in a long time. 259 00:13:47,940 --> 00:13:51,260 And many of those people are noteworthy people 260 00:13:51,260 --> 00:13:54,620 and they just keep popping off 261 00:13:54,620 --> 00:13:59,580 'cause everybody in this room is going to pop off. 262 00:13:59,580 --> 00:14:02,060 So if you're in Christ, if you're redeemed, 263 00:14:02,060 --> 00:14:03,420 you know what's gonna happen. 264 00:14:03,420 --> 00:14:07,040 But between now and when you die, we die, 265 00:14:07,040 --> 00:14:08,480 or the Lord comes back, 266 00:14:08,480 --> 00:14:10,520 we don't know what's going to happen 267 00:14:10,520 --> 00:14:13,640 unless we have prophetic insight. 268 00:14:13,640 --> 00:14:19,200 So this is important and I'll move along. 269 00:14:19,200 --> 00:14:21,200 Oh, great. Thank you, Jesus. 270 00:14:21,200 --> 00:14:24,780 Okay, this is, I think this is part one. 271 00:14:24,780 --> 00:14:25,620 Let me see. 272 00:14:25,620 --> 00:14:29,240 No, maybe not. 273 00:14:29,240 --> 00:14:31,960 Did I go too far? 274 00:14:31,960 --> 00:14:33,320 Hold on. 275 00:14:33,320 --> 00:14:34,200 Bear with me. 276 00:14:34,200 --> 00:14:37,760 Oh no, that's it. 277 00:14:37,760 --> 00:14:40,020 Sorry. 278 00:14:40,020 --> 00:14:44,040 Yeah, Pastor Barbie, that's what I need. 279 00:14:44,040 --> 00:14:45,340 I need Pastor Barbie. 280 00:14:45,340 --> 00:14:48,380 More than she realizes. 281 00:14:48,380 --> 00:14:56,240 First question, who is the Holy Ghost? 282 00:14:56,240 --> 00:15:00,540 The first page of the Torrey book, 283 00:15:00,540 --> 00:15:02,020 the book I just referenced, 284 00:15:02,020 --> 00:15:04,480 the person and work of the Holy Spirit, 285 00:15:04,480 --> 00:15:09,480 the first page, the opening page of the book says this. 286 00:15:09,480 --> 00:15:12,620 I need a microphone. 287 00:15:12,620 --> 00:15:15,720 Okay, here stand by me. 288 00:15:15,720 --> 00:15:16,560 Oh no. 289 00:15:16,560 --> 00:15:17,380 No, it works. 290 00:15:17,380 --> 00:15:18,220 What do you mean, oh no? 291 00:15:18,220 --> 00:15:22,660 Before one can correctly understand 292 00:15:22,660 --> 00:15:24,260 the work of the Holy Spirit, 293 00:15:24,260 --> 00:15:27,640 he must first of all know the Spirit himself. 294 00:15:27,640 --> 00:15:30,660 A frequent source of error and fanaticism 295 00:15:30,660 --> 00:15:32,620 about the work of the Holy Spirit 296 00:15:32,620 --> 00:15:35,540 is the attempt to study and understand his work 297 00:15:35,540 --> 00:15:40,000 without first of all coming to know him as a person. 298 00:15:40,000 --> 00:15:41,820 It is of the highest importance 299 00:15:41,820 --> 00:15:43,220 from the standpoint of worship 300 00:15:43,220 --> 00:15:47,220 that we decide whether the Holy Spirit is a divine person, 301 00:15:47,220 --> 00:15:50,740 worthy to receive our adoration, our faith, our love, 302 00:15:50,740 --> 00:15:53,400 and our entire surrender to himself, 303 00:15:53,400 --> 00:15:56,780 or whether it is simply an influence emanating from God, 304 00:15:56,780 --> 00:16:01,120 or a power, or an illumination that God imparts to us. 305 00:16:01,120 --> 00:16:05,360 If the Holy Spirit is a person and a divine person, 306 00:16:05,360 --> 00:16:07,300 and we do not know him as such, 307 00:16:07,300 --> 00:16:10,460 then we are robbing a divine being well 308 00:16:10,460 --> 00:16:12,740 of the worship and the faith and the love 309 00:16:12,740 --> 00:16:16,280 and the surrender to himself, which are his due. 310 00:16:16,280 --> 00:16:18,560 It is also of the highest importance 311 00:16:18,560 --> 00:16:22,080 from the practical standpoint that we must decide 312 00:16:22,080 --> 00:16:24,940 whether the Holy Spirit is merely some mysterious 313 00:16:24,940 --> 00:16:28,560 and wonderful power that we in our weakness and ignorance 314 00:16:28,560 --> 00:16:31,620 are somehow to get hold of and use, 315 00:16:31,620 --> 00:16:35,740 or whether the Holy Spirit is a real person, 316 00:16:35,740 --> 00:16:39,420 infinitely holy, infinitely wise, 317 00:16:39,420 --> 00:16:43,500 infinitely mighty, and infinitely tender, 318 00:16:43,500 --> 00:16:47,220 who is to get hold of us and use us. 319 00:16:47,220 --> 00:16:57,560 - The Holy Spirit, Holy Ghost, 320 00:16:57,560 --> 00:16:59,840 Holy Ghost and Holy Spirit, this is free. 321 00:16:59,840 --> 00:17:02,140 Holy Ghost and Holy Spirit, 322 00:17:02,140 --> 00:17:05,400 the word spirit and ghost historically 323 00:17:05,400 --> 00:17:11,500 in those languages, in those times is interchangeable. 324 00:17:11,500 --> 00:17:13,500 When you hear the word, when we say the word ghost, 325 00:17:13,500 --> 00:17:15,380 what we tend to do is think about all the things 326 00:17:15,380 --> 00:17:17,140 that have to do with ghost, all of the things, 327 00:17:17,140 --> 00:17:19,720 all of that stuff that we've accumulated. 328 00:17:19,720 --> 00:17:22,420 If we were then, the word Holy Ghost, 329 00:17:22,420 --> 00:17:24,080 ghost would just mean spirit. 330 00:17:24,080 --> 00:17:25,160 It's a synonym. 331 00:17:26,780 --> 00:17:28,140 Okay, capisce? 332 00:17:28,140 --> 00:17:33,100 So don't let me referring, 'cause Justin does it too, 333 00:17:33,100 --> 00:17:36,620 well, there's others, but if I refer to the Holy Ghost, 334 00:17:36,620 --> 00:17:38,680 I'm not like trying to be super spiritual, 335 00:17:38,680 --> 00:17:40,740 nor am I trying to parse the Greek. 336 00:17:40,740 --> 00:17:45,420 What I'm effectively doing is I'm comfortable calling 337 00:17:45,420 --> 00:17:48,980 the Holy Spirit, the Holy Ghost, because it's in my Bible. 338 00:17:48,980 --> 00:17:53,180 You got to go to the KJV to get it, but that's still, 339 00:17:54,560 --> 00:17:58,060 in some circles, the KJV still applies. 340 00:17:58,060 --> 00:18:01,600 Oh, ow, ouch, ouch. 341 00:18:01,600 --> 00:18:09,360 Oh, I haven't moved from that, I need to move from that. 342 00:18:09,360 --> 00:18:13,160 Right, okay. 343 00:18:13,160 --> 00:18:16,280 The Holy Spirit is a person. 344 00:18:16,280 --> 00:18:20,100 He has personage. 345 00:18:21,060 --> 00:18:26,060 He has elevation and worth because of who He is, 346 00:18:26,060 --> 00:18:27,900 supernaturally. 347 00:18:27,900 --> 00:18:30,280 Now, watch. 348 00:18:30,280 --> 00:18:33,900 I'm gonna mess with your theology. 349 00:18:33,900 --> 00:18:39,180 Theology is the study of God, and it basically, 350 00:18:39,180 --> 00:18:43,400 basically, just love me, has three categories, 351 00:18:43,400 --> 00:18:46,540 personal theology, my study of God, 352 00:18:46,540 --> 00:18:51,080 corporate theology, our study of God, 353 00:18:51,080 --> 00:18:56,020 and enlarged theology, which is everybody else 354 00:18:56,020 --> 00:18:58,180 that has theology about God. 355 00:18:58,180 --> 00:19:01,020 One, two, three, and they build together. 356 00:19:01,020 --> 00:19:04,740 Hal can have theology, Hal and me and all these people here 357 00:19:04,740 --> 00:19:07,100 and all of y'all can have theology together, 358 00:19:07,100 --> 00:19:10,340 and people outside this house that love the same Father, 359 00:19:10,340 --> 00:19:12,740 Son, and Holy Ghost can have theology. 360 00:19:12,740 --> 00:19:17,740 So anytime somebody that's got a mic or is teaching 361 00:19:17,740 --> 00:19:20,380 or whatever they're doing says something 362 00:19:20,380 --> 00:19:23,740 that messes with your theology, just extend grace. 363 00:19:23,740 --> 00:19:28,440 Oh no, wake up, just extend grace. 364 00:19:28,440 --> 00:19:31,600 Quit getting your toes bent out of shape 365 00:19:31,600 --> 00:19:35,100 'cause somebody didn't say what you think scripture says. 366 00:19:35,100 --> 00:19:39,180 If they're violating scripture 367 00:19:39,180 --> 00:19:41,080 and you know they're violating scripture, 368 00:19:41,080 --> 00:19:43,620 you still don't have to beat them upside the head. 369 00:19:43,620 --> 00:19:50,680 Look up what grace says, what grace means, 370 00:19:50,680 --> 00:19:53,040 and figure out how, oh, Wayne, don't get so hard. 371 00:19:53,040 --> 00:19:58,720 Try and apply grace to people's lives. 372 00:19:58,720 --> 00:20:00,660 Let's start here. 373 00:20:00,660 --> 00:20:02,280 Okay, so extend to me grace. 374 00:20:02,280 --> 00:20:07,280 Now, what we do is we elevate Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, 375 00:20:07,280 --> 00:20:10,300 just like that, Father first, Jesus second, 376 00:20:10,300 --> 00:20:11,560 Holy Ghost third. 377 00:20:11,560 --> 00:20:12,820 I understand that. 378 00:20:12,820 --> 00:20:15,900 Don't start pulling your feet in, okay? 379 00:20:15,900 --> 00:20:19,760 Look, I understand that, and that's not wrong. 380 00:20:19,760 --> 00:20:21,260 It's not incorrect. 381 00:20:21,260 --> 00:20:26,040 But Father having more going on than Jesus has more going on, 382 00:20:26,040 --> 00:20:27,740 and Jesus having more going on 383 00:20:27,740 --> 00:20:32,260 than the Holy Ghost having going on is kinky theology. 384 00:20:32,260 --> 00:20:35,780 Why would you say that, Wayne? 385 00:20:35,780 --> 00:20:37,120 I'm glad you ask. 386 00:20:37,200 --> 00:20:40,540 (congregation laughing) 387 00:20:40,540 --> 00:20:44,200 Sequentially, I'm gonna run through scripture 388 00:20:44,200 --> 00:20:46,740 with several verses, make a few comments, 389 00:20:46,740 --> 00:20:51,740 and then we'll read through with where is the Holy Ghost? 390 00:20:51,740 --> 00:20:54,200 In order to get to where is the Holy Ghost, 391 00:20:54,200 --> 00:20:55,920 I gotta deal with Father and Son. 392 00:20:55,920 --> 00:21:00,740 I got to, I can't go, oh, well, 393 00:21:00,740 --> 00:21:02,360 we're in a series on the Holy Ghost, 394 00:21:02,360 --> 00:21:05,340 so let's forget about Jehovah and Jesus. 395 00:21:05,340 --> 00:21:07,620 (congregation murmuring) 396 00:21:07,620 --> 00:21:10,800 Okay, so I'll do better over here. 397 00:21:10,800 --> 00:21:14,900 For the Lord has chosen Zion. 398 00:21:14,900 --> 00:21:17,140 He has desired it for his dwelling place. 399 00:21:17,140 --> 00:21:22,140 This is the Psalmist speaking of Jehovah. 400 00:21:22,140 --> 00:21:24,380 This is my resting place forever. 401 00:21:24,380 --> 00:21:27,420 Here I will dwell, for I have desired it. 402 00:21:27,420 --> 00:21:29,620 There are two Mount Zions. 403 00:21:29,620 --> 00:21:33,400 There's a Mount Zion in Jerusalem. 404 00:21:34,380 --> 00:21:35,940 We could go there to visit, 405 00:21:35,940 --> 00:21:37,880 but right now would not be a good time. 406 00:21:37,880 --> 00:21:46,480 And there's a spiritual supernatural Zion somewhere. 407 00:21:46,480 --> 00:21:50,320 See, this is where theology gets quirky. 408 00:21:50,320 --> 00:21:51,980 You want me to say where it is? 409 00:21:51,980 --> 00:21:53,200 I haven't been yet. 410 00:21:53,200 --> 00:21:55,820 And neither have you. 411 00:21:55,820 --> 00:21:59,380 So if you wanna tell me where heaven is, 412 00:21:59,380 --> 00:22:00,780 you're being presumptive. 413 00:22:01,780 --> 00:22:05,580 (congregation laughing) 414 00:22:05,580 --> 00:22:08,000 I can tell you how to get to heaven, 415 00:22:08,000 --> 00:22:10,700 but I can't get you to heaven, 416 00:22:10,700 --> 00:22:13,340 'cause I don't know where it is. 417 00:22:13,340 --> 00:22:17,940 Okay. 418 00:22:17,940 --> 00:22:23,240 So God has chosen Mount Zion. 419 00:22:23,240 --> 00:22:27,700 So scripturally speaking, and this is where you have to, 420 00:22:27,700 --> 00:22:29,540 grace me a little bit, okay? 421 00:22:29,540 --> 00:22:31,500 I'm gonna be up here a few more minutes. 422 00:22:32,260 --> 00:22:34,860 That's where the Father is. 423 00:22:34,860 --> 00:22:39,340 He's omnipresent, so He's everywhere all the time. 424 00:22:39,340 --> 00:22:41,840 Psalm 139, let me get it on the record, 425 00:22:41,840 --> 00:22:45,100 Psalm 139 verses seven through 12. 426 00:22:45,100 --> 00:22:46,580 Read it in your own time, 427 00:22:46,580 --> 00:22:48,380 and then sort through what it says. 428 00:22:48,380 --> 00:22:52,920 He's everywhere all the time because He's omnipresent. 429 00:22:52,920 --> 00:22:56,140 But that passage of many other passages is saying 430 00:22:56,140 --> 00:23:01,140 He is in, or on, or abiding in Mount Zion. 431 00:23:01,980 --> 00:23:02,820 Okay. 432 00:23:02,820 --> 00:23:09,260 Jesus speaking to His disciples, by proxy, that would be, 433 00:23:09,260 --> 00:23:14,180 thank you, I was gonna say some of us, 434 00:23:14,180 --> 00:23:17,460 but let's just be, let's be gracious, let's be gracious. 435 00:23:17,460 --> 00:23:19,580 It applies to us. 436 00:23:19,580 --> 00:23:21,460 "My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, 437 00:23:21,460 --> 00:23:22,540 and they follow me. 438 00:23:22,540 --> 00:23:25,300 I give them eternal life, and they will never perish, 439 00:23:25,300 --> 00:23:27,700 and no one will snatch them out of my hand. 440 00:23:27,700 --> 00:23:32,260 My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all, 441 00:23:32,260 --> 00:23:36,140 and no one is able to snatch them out of my Father's hand. 442 00:23:36,140 --> 00:23:37,980 I and the Father are one." 443 00:23:37,980 --> 00:23:39,300 Real quick, watch. 444 00:23:39,300 --> 00:23:42,820 Jesus is speaking, He says, "My sheep know my voice, 445 00:23:42,820 --> 00:23:45,420 and I know them, and they follow me." 446 00:23:45,420 --> 00:23:49,820 Then He says, "They can't be stretched out of My hand." 447 00:23:49,820 --> 00:23:50,660 Period. 448 00:23:50,660 --> 00:23:54,660 I don't mean resolute, a period. 449 00:23:54,660 --> 00:23:59,660 Next sentence, "My Father, who has given them to me." 450 00:23:59,660 --> 00:24:03,820 Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. 451 00:24:03,820 --> 00:24:07,220 Jesus just said, "I gave them eternal life, 452 00:24:07,220 --> 00:24:08,180 and they will never perish, 453 00:24:08,180 --> 00:24:10,060 and no will snatch them out of My hand." 454 00:24:10,060 --> 00:24:12,640 But now He's saying, next sentence, 455 00:24:12,640 --> 00:24:16,540 "My Father has given them to me, and is greater than all, 456 00:24:16,540 --> 00:24:18,700 and no one will be able to snatch them 457 00:24:18,700 --> 00:24:20,740 out of My Father's hand." 458 00:24:20,740 --> 00:24:24,420 So Jesus has just said to His disciples, us, 459 00:24:24,420 --> 00:24:27,860 right now, I know I don't look like Jesus, I'm a messenger. 460 00:24:27,860 --> 00:24:34,060 He said, "My Father has given me His sheep, 461 00:24:34,060 --> 00:24:35,060 which are My sheep, 462 00:24:35,060 --> 00:24:37,020 and they can't be snatched out of My hand, 463 00:24:37,020 --> 00:24:40,180 'cause they can't be snatched out of My Father's hand." 464 00:24:40,180 --> 00:24:44,040 And then He closes that out by going, 465 00:24:44,040 --> 00:24:46,120 "I and My Father are one." 466 00:24:46,120 --> 00:24:49,500 Okay? 467 00:24:49,500 --> 00:24:50,880 Then He says, 468 00:24:52,780 --> 00:24:55,460 "And I will ask the Father, and He will give you 469 00:24:55,460 --> 00:25:00,400 another helper, person, personage, Holy Ghost," 470 00:25:00,400 --> 00:25:03,680 stay with me, we're headed somewhere, 471 00:25:03,680 --> 00:25:06,260 "to be with you forever." 472 00:25:06,260 --> 00:25:09,060 That's that heaven thing again, it shows up. 473 00:25:09,060 --> 00:25:10,140 I don't know if you noticed, 474 00:25:10,140 --> 00:25:12,340 it's peppered all the way through Scripture. 475 00:25:12,340 --> 00:25:19,100 He's saying, I'm gonna request from Dad, 476 00:25:19,100 --> 00:25:24,100 a person, not a feeling, not a thing, 477 00:25:24,100 --> 00:25:29,020 not an emotion, not an aspect, 478 00:25:29,020 --> 00:25:32,720 not sort of like, 479 00:25:32,720 --> 00:25:40,480 I'm gonna ask Him to send you exactly what you need 480 00:25:40,480 --> 00:25:43,620 in the form of a personage, 481 00:25:43,620 --> 00:25:46,620 to accomplish stuff that you're gonna need 482 00:25:46,620 --> 00:25:48,640 that person in your life to do. 483 00:25:48,960 --> 00:25:52,120 (congregation murmuring) 484 00:25:52,120 --> 00:25:54,620 This is important stuff, ladies and gentlemen, 485 00:25:54,620 --> 00:25:55,820 brothers and sisters. 486 00:25:55,820 --> 00:25:59,680 Then He says, two chapters later, 487 00:25:59,680 --> 00:26:03,040 talking to the same posse, 488 00:26:03,040 --> 00:26:06,340 "Nevertheless, I tell you the truth, 489 00:26:06,340 --> 00:26:10,080 it is to your advantage that I go away. 490 00:26:10,080 --> 00:26:13,480 For if I do not go away, the Helper, the Person, 491 00:26:13,480 --> 00:26:16,300 the Holy Ghost will not come to you. 492 00:26:16,300 --> 00:26:20,520 But if I go away, I will send Him to you." 493 00:26:20,520 --> 00:26:24,120 We just read that He was gonna ask the Father to send. 494 00:26:24,120 --> 00:26:27,440 Now He's saying to the disciples, I will send Him to you. 495 00:26:27,440 --> 00:26:30,220 You see, He said, I and the Father are one. 496 00:26:30,220 --> 00:26:32,260 So that's sealed. 497 00:26:32,260 --> 00:26:35,460 And the Father is on Zion, supernaturally. 498 00:26:35,460 --> 00:26:38,060 And Jesus is with the disciples on the same, 499 00:26:38,060 --> 00:26:41,500 the same planet we dwell on. 500 00:26:41,500 --> 00:26:45,960 And He's saying to them, now watch, watch, watch. 501 00:26:46,740 --> 00:26:51,400 He's saying to them, you don't know what happens next, 502 00:26:51,400 --> 00:26:52,240 but I do. 503 00:26:52,240 --> 00:26:58,360 And there's a hillside and a cross 504 00:26:58,360 --> 00:27:02,760 and unbelievable stuff that you, 505 00:27:02,760 --> 00:27:06,480 not only can you not fathom what it means, 506 00:27:06,480 --> 00:27:08,420 you're not prepared for it. 507 00:27:08,420 --> 00:27:11,360 What, pause. 508 00:27:12,360 --> 00:27:16,160 We know what happens later because we're living now. 509 00:27:16,160 --> 00:27:22,000 So the impetus of Jesus saying that to the disciples 510 00:27:22,000 --> 00:27:24,360 doesn't hit us like it hit them. 511 00:27:24,360 --> 00:27:28,480 It doesn't, it does not, it does not. 512 00:27:28,480 --> 00:27:33,040 So when Jesus said, it's better that I go away, 513 00:27:33,040 --> 00:27:37,840 just for a moment, just for like five seconds, 514 00:27:37,840 --> 00:27:41,520 put yourself in the space where Jesus was talking 515 00:27:41,520 --> 00:27:43,160 to other human beings. 516 00:27:43,160 --> 00:27:48,740 And He says, it's better if I leave. 517 00:27:48,740 --> 00:27:55,000 And you and I are tight, you're hanging out. 518 00:27:55,000 --> 00:27:56,720 You spent three and a half years with me. 519 00:27:56,720 --> 00:27:59,800 You've watched me, Jesus. 520 00:27:59,800 --> 00:28:02,080 All this dynamic is happening. 521 00:28:02,080 --> 00:28:03,280 And you're just coasting through it. 522 00:28:03,280 --> 00:28:05,160 You're going, man, every day we get up, 523 00:28:05,160 --> 00:28:06,720 I don't know what's gonna happen, 524 00:28:06,720 --> 00:28:10,360 but it's just unbelievable. 525 00:28:10,360 --> 00:28:13,240 And I look at you and your cronies and I go, 526 00:28:13,240 --> 00:28:16,820 I'm gonna leave. 527 00:28:16,820 --> 00:28:18,440 And it's better that I leave. 528 00:28:18,440 --> 00:28:25,760 Now you can't pull together, well, why is that? 529 00:28:25,760 --> 00:28:29,080 You're not asking the question. 530 00:28:29,080 --> 00:28:33,320 Your brain, your mind, heart, soul, mind, strength. 531 00:28:33,320 --> 00:28:37,800 You're going, what's He talking about? 532 00:28:37,800 --> 00:28:40,240 Right? 533 00:28:40,240 --> 00:28:41,120 Makes sense? 534 00:28:41,120 --> 00:28:41,960 Right. 535 00:28:41,960 --> 00:28:45,480 But He knows what's gonna happen. 536 00:28:45,480 --> 00:28:49,760 So effectively He's going, I'm gonna see to it 537 00:28:49,760 --> 00:28:54,100 that the Holy Ghost shows up as an embodiment of who I am 538 00:28:54,100 --> 00:28:58,500 so that when He shows up in your life and I'm dead and gone 539 00:28:58,500 --> 00:29:01,880 and crucified and buried and resurrected and ascended 540 00:29:01,880 --> 00:29:03,440 and gone to the Father, 541 00:29:03,440 --> 00:29:08,120 you'll have the person of the Holy Ghost 542 00:29:08,120 --> 00:29:09,400 at work in your life. 543 00:29:09,400 --> 00:29:12,820 (congregation murmuring) 544 00:29:12,820 --> 00:29:17,400 Some of the people in this room, 545 00:29:17,400 --> 00:29:18,780 no, no, no, I can't go there. 546 00:29:18,780 --> 00:29:20,180 We'll get there in a minute. 547 00:29:20,180 --> 00:29:22,440 I can't go there. 548 00:29:22,440 --> 00:29:25,440 What's up next? 549 00:29:25,440 --> 00:29:26,720 What's up, doc? 550 00:29:26,720 --> 00:29:27,880 Yes, yes, yes, yes. 551 00:29:27,880 --> 00:29:30,600 Shifting to Paul, Paul says, 552 00:29:30,600 --> 00:29:33,720 do you not know that you are God's temple 553 00:29:33,720 --> 00:29:36,240 and that God's Spirit dwells in you? 554 00:29:36,240 --> 00:29:37,240 Paul is doing this. 555 00:29:37,240 --> 00:29:40,080 Paul is a believer, duh. 556 00:29:40,080 --> 00:29:42,020 That's Greek from the Hebrew. 557 00:29:42,020 --> 00:29:46,840 Paul says to believers, 558 00:29:46,840 --> 00:29:53,040 have you forgotten that the Holy Spirit indwells you? 559 00:29:53,040 --> 00:29:56,460 It's not like a hypothetical. 560 00:29:56,460 --> 00:30:01,420 It's an academic, is that the right word? 561 00:30:01,420 --> 00:30:04,400 Thank you, thank you so much. 562 00:30:04,400 --> 00:30:06,640 We got people awake in the house, hallelujah. 563 00:30:07,640 --> 00:30:11,800 He's saying, in case you have forgotten, 564 00:30:11,800 --> 00:30:13,920 you are the indwelling of the Holy Spirit. 565 00:30:13,920 --> 00:30:15,540 The Holy Spirit indwells you. 566 00:30:15,540 --> 00:30:18,880 And he actually goes on from there, right? 567 00:30:18,880 --> 00:30:20,200 Is it there? 568 00:30:20,200 --> 00:30:21,240 Yeah, do you not know? 569 00:30:21,240 --> 00:30:22,140 Right. 570 00:30:22,140 --> 00:30:25,300 And then the next verse, which is the kicker, 571 00:30:25,300 --> 00:30:30,300 is if is a conditional word, 572 00:30:30,300 --> 00:30:36,460 this verse is not written to unbelievers. 573 00:30:36,460 --> 00:30:41,460 It's not written to marginal believers, 574 00:30:41,460 --> 00:30:46,020 whatever that means, 'cause I don't know what that means. 575 00:30:46,020 --> 00:30:51,960 It's like saying, oh, well, she's a little pregnant. 576 00:30:51,960 --> 00:30:55,280 (congregation laughing) 577 00:30:55,280 --> 00:31:02,500 Let me lighten that up a little bit. 578 00:31:02,500 --> 00:31:05,900 And you lose your job, you get canned, you're fired. 579 00:31:05,900 --> 00:31:08,240 It's like saying, I'm a little unemployed. 580 00:31:08,240 --> 00:31:15,120 If you have no gig, if you got fired from the gig you had, 581 00:31:15,120 --> 00:31:16,660 then you just aren't working. 582 00:31:16,660 --> 00:31:25,540 Okay, so the passage says, if, that's condition. 583 00:31:25,540 --> 00:31:29,460 If you have been raised in Christ, 584 00:31:29,460 --> 00:31:32,020 seek the things that are above where Christ is, 585 00:31:32,020 --> 00:31:34,020 seated at the right hand of God, 586 00:31:34,020 --> 00:31:36,740 set your mind on things above, not on things of earth, 587 00:31:36,740 --> 00:31:41,740 for you have died and your life is hidden with Christ in God. 588 00:31:41,740 --> 00:31:43,140 So here's the deal. 589 00:31:43,140 --> 00:31:44,900 God is on Mount Zion. 590 00:31:44,900 --> 00:31:47,260 I skipped a verse, but I'll do it on the fly. 591 00:31:47,260 --> 00:31:50,300 Jesus is at the right hand of the Father, 592 00:31:50,300 --> 00:31:52,100 ever interceding for the saints. 593 00:31:52,100 --> 00:31:54,620 I'm just gonna go, I can't get fired 594 00:31:54,620 --> 00:31:56,300 'cause I'm not on staff anymore. 595 00:31:56,300 --> 00:31:59,640 (congregation laughing) 596 00:32:01,760 --> 00:32:06,180 When the text says Jesus is at the right hand of the Father, 597 00:32:06,180 --> 00:32:08,300 ever interceding for the saints, 598 00:32:08,300 --> 00:32:13,940 some translations say us, ever interceding for us. 599 00:32:13,940 --> 00:32:16,660 Look, remember when we did this? 600 00:32:16,660 --> 00:32:20,640 We prayed for our now minds to be renewed. 601 00:32:20,640 --> 00:32:21,780 And I said, don't, you know, 602 00:32:21,780 --> 00:32:25,240 be careful with your toes and extend grace. 603 00:32:30,540 --> 00:32:34,720 When a believer is writing to other believers and says, 604 00:32:34,720 --> 00:32:36,740 Jesus is at the right hand of the Father, 605 00:32:36,740 --> 00:32:40,640 ever interceding for us, the us is us. 606 00:32:40,640 --> 00:32:44,680 Make sense? 607 00:32:44,680 --> 00:32:47,800 It's not them. 608 00:32:47,800 --> 00:32:50,000 It's not us and them. 609 00:32:50,000 --> 00:32:52,160 Now don't get ahead of me. 610 00:32:52,160 --> 00:32:53,420 I'm not clustering. 611 00:32:53,420 --> 00:32:55,820 I'm not building and circling the wagons. 612 00:32:55,820 --> 00:32:57,620 I'm not going, oh, we're all redeemed. 613 00:32:57,620 --> 00:32:59,120 We're going to heaven, hallelujah. 614 00:32:59,120 --> 00:33:00,320 Tough luck for them. 615 00:33:00,320 --> 00:33:01,640 No, no, no, no, no. 616 00:33:01,640 --> 00:33:04,040 That's already worked its way into the body of Christ. 617 00:33:04,040 --> 00:33:06,060 And it's an enormous problem. 618 00:33:06,060 --> 00:33:09,160 Oh no, no, no. 619 00:33:09,160 --> 00:33:11,160 It's an enormous problem 620 00:33:11,160 --> 00:33:12,960 'cause it's not the spirit of Christ. 621 00:33:12,960 --> 00:33:20,060 Let all the thirsty come must mean all the thirsty. 622 00:33:20,060 --> 00:33:25,560 Oh, I can't preach. 623 00:33:25,560 --> 00:33:26,400 No, no, no. 624 00:33:26,400 --> 00:33:30,240 God's on Mount Zion supernaturally. 625 00:33:30,240 --> 00:33:33,320 Jesus is at the right hand of God, 626 00:33:33,320 --> 00:33:38,240 ever interceding for those that are in the house, 627 00:33:38,240 --> 00:33:39,120 so to speak. 628 00:33:39,120 --> 00:33:45,320 And then it says in the passage in Colossians, 629 00:33:45,320 --> 00:33:49,360 you have died and your life is hidden with Christ in God. 630 00:33:49,360 --> 00:33:52,940 So let's just do this 631 00:33:52,940 --> 00:33:54,980 so we can lighten the place up a little bit. 632 00:33:54,980 --> 00:33:57,020 Let the redeemed of the Lord say what? 633 00:33:57,020 --> 00:33:57,860 - Sow. 634 00:33:57,860 --> 00:33:59,900 - Okay, so this is for us. 635 00:33:59,900 --> 00:34:03,620 So, this sow is for us, okay? 636 00:34:03,620 --> 00:34:08,100 If we are in Christ, we are hidden with Christ in God. 637 00:34:08,100 --> 00:34:09,920 Stay with, focus. 638 00:34:09,920 --> 00:34:14,660 If we're hidden with Christ in God 639 00:34:14,660 --> 00:34:18,920 and the Holy Spirit has been extended into our lives, 640 00:34:18,920 --> 00:34:20,600 then the Holy Spirit is in us. 641 00:34:20,600 --> 00:34:22,400 We are hidden with Christ in God. 642 00:34:22,400 --> 00:34:24,200 The Holy Spirit is indwelling us. 643 00:34:24,200 --> 00:34:27,140 Know ye not that you are the temple of the Holy Ghost, 644 00:34:27,140 --> 00:34:30,620 1 Corinthians 3.16. 645 00:34:30,620 --> 00:34:33,840 And Jesus is the right hand, the Father, 646 00:34:33,840 --> 00:34:36,400 and the Father is supernaturally speaking, 647 00:34:36,400 --> 00:34:37,980 seated in Mount Zion. 648 00:34:37,980 --> 00:34:42,980 So, second question, where is the Holy Ghost? 649 00:34:42,980 --> 00:34:47,660 The Holy Ghost is here and here. 650 00:34:52,440 --> 00:34:56,840 If you have a house, oh my God, 651 00:34:56,840 --> 00:35:00,000 if you have a house and you've converted an apartment 652 00:35:00,000 --> 00:35:01,960 or part of your house into an apartment 653 00:35:01,960 --> 00:35:05,560 and you put it up on, what do you call it? 654 00:35:05,560 --> 00:35:11,000 Airbnb or one of a kazillion things now, whatever. 655 00:35:11,000 --> 00:35:11,920 Remember, I'm old. 656 00:35:11,920 --> 00:35:17,480 And somebody rents the apartment 657 00:35:17,480 --> 00:35:21,840 and they come to your city, they come in for whatever reason, 658 00:35:21,840 --> 00:35:25,260 they're coming and they get the code, 659 00:35:25,260 --> 00:35:28,520 they've paid the deposit, they explain when you do the code, 660 00:35:28,520 --> 00:35:29,920 you get the key and you're able to go in 661 00:35:29,920 --> 00:35:31,360 and they go into the apartment. 662 00:35:31,360 --> 00:35:33,000 You actually see them drive up. 663 00:35:33,000 --> 00:35:34,960 You see them in the driveway. 664 00:35:34,960 --> 00:35:39,240 They drive up and they stay for two nights and three days. 665 00:35:39,240 --> 00:35:41,460 And while they're there, they come and go. 666 00:35:41,460 --> 00:35:46,460 But they're abiding, they're dwelling in your house. 667 00:35:46,460 --> 00:35:49,960 They're under your roof. 668 00:35:49,960 --> 00:35:52,480 This is not a secondary building. 669 00:35:52,480 --> 00:35:53,840 Are you with me? 670 00:35:53,840 --> 00:35:55,400 Are you with me? 671 00:35:55,400 --> 00:35:56,680 Okay, okay, okay. 672 00:35:56,680 --> 00:36:00,560 So while they're there, 673 00:36:00,560 --> 00:36:02,000 now when they drive off in the car, 674 00:36:02,000 --> 00:36:06,400 when they're there, they're there is you're there. 675 00:36:06,400 --> 00:36:12,200 There may be doors, there may be walls, maybe a hallway, 676 00:36:12,200 --> 00:36:14,440 but they're where you are. 677 00:36:17,080 --> 00:36:21,020 But if they don't come into your main house, 678 00:36:21,020 --> 00:36:25,080 or you don't go into the apartment, 679 00:36:25,080 --> 00:36:29,120 which is in your house, but you are overseer of, 680 00:36:29,120 --> 00:36:33,080 then you don't have a relationship. 681 00:36:33,080 --> 00:36:40,680 They can come and go. 682 00:36:40,680 --> 00:36:43,300 They can be nice, they can be rich, they can be happy, 683 00:36:43,300 --> 00:36:44,680 they can be idiots. 684 00:36:45,620 --> 00:36:47,660 (audience laughing) 685 00:36:47,660 --> 00:36:50,900 They can be irresponsible, they can be immoral. 686 00:36:50,900 --> 00:36:54,160 Don't let me mess you up with this. 687 00:36:54,160 --> 00:36:56,040 We're not throwing these metaphors out. 688 00:36:56,040 --> 00:36:58,860 The long and short is this, this. 689 00:36:58,860 --> 00:37:01,100 You cannot be in a relationship 690 00:37:01,100 --> 00:37:02,980 unless you're in a relationship. 691 00:37:02,980 --> 00:37:11,260 So it's possible to be indwelled by the Holy Spirit 692 00:37:13,920 --> 00:37:17,180 and have no, she said it, I didn't say it. 693 00:37:17,180 --> 00:37:19,580 (laughing) 694 00:37:19,580 --> 00:37:20,760 Let me lighten this up a bit 695 00:37:20,760 --> 00:37:23,660 and have a marginal relationship. 696 00:37:23,660 --> 00:37:26,060 Stay with the metaphor. 697 00:37:26,060 --> 00:37:29,380 Comes for two nights, three days, 698 00:37:29,380 --> 00:37:30,960 gets in the car and drives off. 699 00:37:30,960 --> 00:37:32,520 And you go over and clean the apartment 700 00:37:32,520 --> 00:37:34,520 or you've hired somebody to clean the apartment 701 00:37:34,520 --> 00:37:36,400 and they've come and gone. 702 00:37:36,400 --> 00:37:38,060 But you didn't interact with them. 703 00:37:38,060 --> 00:37:41,320 You didn't have to, wasn't required. 704 00:37:41,320 --> 00:37:42,940 When they rented, oh Jesus, 705 00:37:42,940 --> 00:37:46,380 when they got permission, 706 00:37:46,380 --> 00:37:49,120 what's the thing we've been doing all year? 707 00:37:49,120 --> 00:37:51,260 The theme of what we've been doing all year, 708 00:37:51,260 --> 00:37:52,100 I can't think of it. 709 00:37:52,100 --> 00:37:52,940 Somebody help me. 710 00:37:52,940 --> 00:37:55,340 Entitlement, no, no, no. 711 00:37:55,340 --> 00:37:57,620 All access. 712 00:37:57,620 --> 00:37:59,280 If the person that's, oh, 713 00:37:59,280 --> 00:38:02,960 if the person that's rented has all access 714 00:38:02,960 --> 00:38:05,660 and they show up and they've done it legally 715 00:38:05,660 --> 00:38:07,940 and ethically and morally and they're there 716 00:38:07,940 --> 00:38:10,320 and you don't relate with them, 717 00:38:10,320 --> 00:38:12,880 even though they have all access, 718 00:38:12,880 --> 00:38:16,160 you're still not in relationship. 719 00:38:16,160 --> 00:38:17,640 Why are you yelling, Wayne? 720 00:38:17,640 --> 00:38:20,980 (congregation laughing) 721 00:38:20,980 --> 00:38:27,200 Great. 722 00:38:27,200 --> 00:38:33,120 Who is the Holy Spirit? 723 00:38:33,120 --> 00:38:34,720 It's a person. 724 00:38:34,720 --> 00:38:36,080 Where is the Holy Spirit? 725 00:38:36,080 --> 00:38:38,000 In us? 726 00:38:38,000 --> 00:38:38,840 Here. 727 00:38:38,840 --> 00:38:41,920 Why is there a Holy Spirit? 728 00:38:41,920 --> 00:38:45,260 (congregation laughing) 729 00:38:45,260 --> 00:38:53,680 Ah, right. 730 00:38:53,680 --> 00:38:55,100 Pastor Kevin asked me, 731 00:38:55,100 --> 00:38:57,540 actually last week he said, 732 00:38:57,540 --> 00:38:59,220 he didn't mention my name, 733 00:38:59,220 --> 00:39:03,440 but he said this would be about the Trinity. 734 00:39:03,440 --> 00:39:05,120 I can't talk to you about the Trinity. 735 00:39:05,120 --> 00:39:07,240 I don't have enough time. 736 00:39:07,240 --> 00:39:08,300 And I'm not really, 737 00:39:08,300 --> 00:39:11,640 I'm not really qualified to do much of that. 738 00:39:11,640 --> 00:39:14,480 I'm gonna give you two sentences from Paul 739 00:39:14,480 --> 00:39:18,360 that say all that needs to be said about the Trinity. 740 00:39:18,360 --> 00:39:20,660 And then I'm gonna make a turn and close. 741 00:39:20,660 --> 00:39:22,400 I'm headed toward the back of this. 742 00:39:22,400 --> 00:39:24,620 Paul says, 743 00:39:24,620 --> 00:39:31,480 now there are varieties of gifts, but the same Spirit. 744 00:39:31,480 --> 00:39:34,800 There are varieties of service, but the same Lord. 745 00:39:34,800 --> 00:39:36,600 There are varieties of activities, 746 00:39:36,600 --> 00:39:41,600 but the same God who empowers them all in everyone. 747 00:39:42,160 --> 00:39:44,760 That verse right there is one sentence. 748 00:39:44,760 --> 00:39:47,660 All of you English. 749 00:39:47,660 --> 00:39:54,420 When Paul hits a groove, 750 00:39:54,420 --> 00:39:57,420 Paul's not concerned about where the period comes. 751 00:39:57,420 --> 00:40:02,680 Paul is processing the data. 752 00:40:02,680 --> 00:40:04,000 I understand how that works 753 00:40:04,000 --> 00:40:05,880 because there's a little of that in my life 754 00:40:05,880 --> 00:40:07,120 if you haven't noticed. 755 00:40:07,120 --> 00:40:10,680 When he makes a statement like that 756 00:40:11,680 --> 00:40:15,820 in one sentence, all you can do, all I know to do is go, 757 00:40:15,820 --> 00:40:20,560 that had to be the Holy Ghost to give him that. 758 00:40:20,560 --> 00:40:23,560 How could anybody sort that out? 759 00:40:23,560 --> 00:40:25,360 And what we just did about where the Father is, 760 00:40:25,360 --> 00:40:27,040 where Jesus is, where the Holy Ghost is, 761 00:40:27,040 --> 00:40:28,760 all of that is interconnected to this. 762 00:40:28,760 --> 00:40:33,120 Then he says, there's one body and one Spirit, 763 00:40:33,120 --> 00:40:35,240 just as you were called and one hope. 764 00:40:35,240 --> 00:40:36,080 Am I there? 765 00:40:36,080 --> 00:40:39,680 Did I pass it? 766 00:40:39,680 --> 00:40:40,520 Where am I? 767 00:40:40,520 --> 00:40:44,580 Bear with me, I'll find it. 768 00:40:44,580 --> 00:40:45,960 There it is, there it is. 769 00:40:45,960 --> 00:40:48,320 There's one body and one Spirit, just as you were called, 770 00:40:48,320 --> 00:40:49,520 he's talking to saints, 771 00:40:49,520 --> 00:40:53,200 you were called to the one hope that belongs to your call. 772 00:40:53,200 --> 00:40:57,240 One Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God and Father of all 773 00:40:57,240 --> 00:41:00,240 who is over all and through all and in all. 774 00:41:00,240 --> 00:41:04,140 And then there's one other brief verse. 775 00:41:04,140 --> 00:41:07,720 No, I missed it, that's all right. 776 00:41:08,680 --> 00:41:10,640 Ah, that's okay, that's where I wanna be, okay. 777 00:41:10,640 --> 00:41:15,640 So those two verses effectively, scripturally sum up 778 00:41:15,640 --> 00:41:19,540 if there's such a thing as summing up the Trinity. 779 00:41:19,540 --> 00:41:21,800 They sum up the Father, Son and Holy Ghost. 780 00:41:21,800 --> 00:41:24,800 Remember a few minutes ago, I was talking about categories 781 00:41:24,800 --> 00:41:28,400 and in our minds, we tend to go, Father's a big shot, 782 00:41:28,400 --> 00:41:30,680 Jesus is my Redeemer, hallelujah for that 783 00:41:30,680 --> 00:41:32,220 and oh yeah, Holy Ghost. 784 00:41:32,220 --> 00:41:35,640 Come on, come on, come on. 785 00:41:35,640 --> 00:41:37,280 Be honest. 786 00:41:37,280 --> 00:41:39,920 You don't have to, I'm not waiting for you to respond. 787 00:41:39,920 --> 00:41:41,000 That's not my point. 788 00:41:41,000 --> 00:41:43,440 Be honest inside yourself. 789 00:41:43,440 --> 00:41:47,040 You're not a bad person if you've done that, 790 00:41:47,040 --> 00:41:51,120 if you relegated the Holy Ghost to some minor role. 791 00:41:51,120 --> 00:41:53,120 You're not a bad person. 792 00:41:53,120 --> 00:41:56,360 You're just in a dynamic where we caught up in a thing 793 00:41:56,360 --> 00:41:59,040 where we've diminished the worth and the value 794 00:41:59,040 --> 00:42:01,220 and the substance of the Holy Ghost 795 00:42:01,220 --> 00:42:05,880 because we don't pay attention to scripture 796 00:42:05,880 --> 00:42:07,840 and the outworking of scripture. 797 00:42:07,840 --> 00:42:10,240 The reason I run these verses by you 798 00:42:10,240 --> 00:42:12,920 is to give you some foundational understanding 799 00:42:12,920 --> 00:42:17,140 of the fact that the scripture is telling us who he is, 800 00:42:17,140 --> 00:42:19,600 where he is and why he's here. 801 00:42:19,600 --> 00:42:23,780 Now, number three, why is there a Holy Ghost? 802 00:42:23,780 --> 00:42:25,920 And I've got, oh, fabulous. 803 00:42:25,920 --> 00:42:28,300 I've got four minutes. 804 00:42:32,000 --> 00:42:35,960 Pastor Kevin mentioned last Sunday, 805 00:42:35,960 --> 00:42:37,640 and I encourage you to go back and look 806 00:42:37,640 --> 00:42:39,240 since we're gonna be in this for six months. 807 00:42:39,240 --> 00:42:41,720 It's pretty important to see how we started out. 808 00:42:41,720 --> 00:42:43,040 He mentioned power. 809 00:42:43,040 --> 00:42:44,260 He mentioned empowerment. 810 00:42:44,260 --> 00:42:46,680 He mentioned what the Holy Ghost can do, 811 00:42:46,680 --> 00:42:49,100 the dunamis of the Holy Ghost in our lives. 812 00:42:49,100 --> 00:42:53,120 But Acts 1.8 says this. 813 00:42:53,120 --> 00:42:55,320 Do I have it in the right place? 814 00:42:55,320 --> 00:42:56,480 But you shall receive, is that? 815 00:42:56,480 --> 00:42:57,920 Yes, yes, yes. 816 00:42:57,920 --> 00:43:00,280 You, he's talking to us. 817 00:43:00,280 --> 00:43:02,320 You will receive power 818 00:43:02,320 --> 00:43:07,340 after the presence of the Holy Ghost has come, 819 00:43:07,340 --> 00:43:08,800 you will be my witnesses, 820 00:43:08,800 --> 00:43:11,940 and you will do witnessing in all kinds of places. 821 00:43:11,940 --> 00:43:13,600 All of that, real quick, 822 00:43:13,600 --> 00:43:15,880 all of that is connected to the Great Commission, 823 00:43:15,880 --> 00:43:17,240 so-called Great Commission. 824 00:43:17,240 --> 00:43:22,200 He tells his disciples to go make disciples. 825 00:43:22,200 --> 00:43:25,620 So go find people that can be discipled and disciple them, 826 00:43:25,620 --> 00:43:27,960 and find them in Judea and Samir, and I don't know. 827 00:43:27,960 --> 00:43:29,380 You see what I'm saying? 828 00:43:29,380 --> 00:43:32,280 The Great Commission is being set up 829 00:43:32,280 --> 00:43:33,880 to be fulfilled for Pentecost. 830 00:43:33,880 --> 00:43:36,360 And Pentecost is when the Holy Ghost came where? 831 00:43:36,360 --> 00:43:37,280 Here. 832 00:43:37,280 --> 00:43:39,360 Why? 833 00:43:39,360 --> 00:43:43,540 Because Jesus said, "It's better that I go away." 834 00:43:43,540 --> 00:43:46,800 If I leave, Holy Ghost will show up. 835 00:43:46,800 --> 00:43:49,180 Okay, so I can't go any further with this, 836 00:43:49,180 --> 00:43:50,220 'cause I had to do a closing, 837 00:43:50,220 --> 00:43:52,900 and I've got two minutes maybe, so let's do this. 838 00:43:52,900 --> 00:43:54,800 This'll wake everybody in the room up. 839 00:43:54,800 --> 00:43:58,760 (audience laughing) 840 00:43:58,760 --> 00:44:00,280 (audience laughing) 841 00:44:00,280 --> 00:44:01,740 If I ask you 842 00:44:01,740 --> 00:44:07,620 who that is, 843 00:44:07,620 --> 00:44:10,660 I know. 844 00:44:10,660 --> 00:44:12,660 (audience laughing) 845 00:44:12,660 --> 00:44:13,500 Yeah. 846 00:44:13,500 --> 00:44:19,720 Your response could be, probably would be, 847 00:44:19,720 --> 00:44:21,240 you might not use these words, 848 00:44:21,240 --> 00:44:24,820 would be, "I know of her." 849 00:44:28,400 --> 00:44:29,800 Said another way. 850 00:44:29,800 --> 00:44:34,000 If I said, "Is this person on the planet?" 851 00:44:34,000 --> 00:44:37,700 Your response would be, "Yeah, 852 00:44:37,700 --> 00:44:41,720 because you know of her being on the planet." 853 00:44:41,720 --> 00:44:45,560 If I then said, "Do you know any data 854 00:44:45,560 --> 00:44:47,760 that relates to who she is?" 855 00:44:47,760 --> 00:44:52,340 Based on what you've heard, and seen, and watched, 856 00:44:52,340 --> 00:44:53,440 and listened to, 857 00:44:55,120 --> 00:44:59,460 you could fill in information about Taylor Swift, 858 00:44:59,460 --> 00:45:03,900 because you know about Taylor Swift. 859 00:45:03,900 --> 00:45:06,600 Pull your toes back in. 860 00:45:06,600 --> 00:45:14,880 Knowing of her means you're aware that she exists. 861 00:45:14,880 --> 00:45:18,640 Knowing about her means you've got information 862 00:45:18,640 --> 00:45:22,560 that you have collected from wherever 863 00:45:22,560 --> 00:45:25,040 that gives you the ability to go, 864 00:45:25,040 --> 00:45:27,360 "Well, she's a singer, she writes, she's famous, 865 00:45:27,360 --> 00:45:28,740 she's made a lot of money, 866 00:45:28,740 --> 00:45:31,200 she loves this football dude," or whatever that is, 867 00:45:31,200 --> 00:45:32,360 however that works. 868 00:45:32,360 --> 00:45:34,360 "Gee, I thought I'd get more out of that." 869 00:45:34,360 --> 00:45:35,200 (audience laughing) 870 00:45:35,200 --> 00:45:37,080 Elite from this row, no, right? 871 00:45:37,080 --> 00:45:39,440 (audience laughing) 872 00:45:39,440 --> 00:45:44,440 If I then said, "Are you in relationship with Taylor Swift?" 873 00:45:44,440 --> 00:45:47,680 Can I see your hand? 874 00:45:50,020 --> 00:45:54,280 Nobody in this room is in relationship with Taylor Swift, 875 00:45:54,280 --> 00:45:59,280 although we all know of her, and we all know about her. 876 00:45:59,280 --> 00:46:02,920 Now take what I just said, 877 00:46:02,920 --> 00:46:06,360 and apply that to your relationship, 878 00:46:06,360 --> 00:46:09,780 or lack thereof, with the Holy Ghost. 879 00:46:09,780 --> 00:46:10,860 Barbie, are you here? 880 00:46:10,860 --> 00:46:19,200 It's so quiet. 881 00:46:19,200 --> 00:46:21,120 (audience laughing) 882 00:46:21,120 --> 00:46:22,620 He has that effect. 883 00:46:22,620 --> 00:46:27,140 We have been given a divine opportunity 884 00:46:27,140 --> 00:46:30,840 to move into relationship with the Holy Spirit, 885 00:46:30,840 --> 00:46:34,880 not just to hear about Him, not just to know about Him, 886 00:46:34,880 --> 00:46:39,220 but to participate in an actual relationship with Him. 887 00:46:39,220 --> 00:46:42,520 A lot of times in my own life, or in your life, 888 00:46:42,520 --> 00:46:44,780 I would imagine that when we pray, 889 00:46:44,780 --> 00:46:47,240 it's like this esoteric prayer, 890 00:46:47,240 --> 00:46:49,700 "Holy Spirit, help me and lead me." 891 00:46:49,700 --> 00:46:53,800 But what if it's just the same as me looking at Hal 892 00:46:53,800 --> 00:46:56,300 and going, "Will you help me? 893 00:46:56,300 --> 00:46:59,060 "Will you show me the way to do this?" 894 00:46:59,060 --> 00:47:01,280 The reality of the relationship, 895 00:47:01,280 --> 00:47:03,320 and the commitment between us, 896 00:47:03,320 --> 00:47:05,000 takes it out of the atmosphere, 897 00:47:05,000 --> 00:47:07,480 and puts it into the reality of where we are. 898 00:47:07,480 --> 00:47:10,020 And the Holy Spirit is extending an invitation 899 00:47:10,020 --> 00:47:13,960 to have a relationship with you, 900 00:47:13,960 --> 00:47:17,720 to offer to you that intimate place to walk with Him, 901 00:47:17,720 --> 00:47:22,600 for you to be empowered to get that strength 902 00:47:22,600 --> 00:47:24,400 that the Holy Spirit does bring. 903 00:47:24,400 --> 00:47:27,160 So we're gonna stand, we're gonna worship for a moment, 904 00:47:27,160 --> 00:47:30,200 and if you are one who has been ministering in prayer, 905 00:47:30,200 --> 00:47:31,100 if you would come. 906 00:47:31,100 --> 00:47:34,880 The invitation today, 907 00:47:34,880 --> 00:47:38,460 see, the enemy would love for you to walk out and go, 908 00:47:38,460 --> 00:47:40,780 "Oh, I know about the Holy Spirit, 909 00:47:40,780 --> 00:47:43,160 "and we have a relationship, 910 00:47:43,160 --> 00:47:46,600 "and you might have an acquaintance, 911 00:47:46,600 --> 00:47:50,820 "but if you want a relationship with the Holy Spirit, 912 00:47:50,820 --> 00:47:53,460 "to have that power, to have that guidance, 913 00:47:53,460 --> 00:47:55,780 "to see the fruits growing in your life, 914 00:47:55,780 --> 00:47:59,820 "to see the manifestation of the gifts of the Holy Spirit, 915 00:47:59,820 --> 00:48:02,520 "because that's all within that package." 916 00:48:02,520 --> 00:48:05,840 I want you to come if you need strength in your life, 917 00:48:05,840 --> 00:48:09,140 if you need wisdom in your life, if you need direction, 918 00:48:09,140 --> 00:48:11,800 this is your time. 919 00:48:11,800 --> 00:48:13,520 Come and somebody's gonna agree with you. 920 00:48:13,520 --> 00:48:17,840 Father God, I thank you for the gift of your Son, 921 00:48:17,840 --> 00:48:20,920 and Jesus, I thank you for the gift of the Holy Spirit. 922 00:48:20,920 --> 00:48:24,200 I thank you that it's not twins, but it's triplets, God. 923 00:48:24,200 --> 00:48:25,920 I thank you, Lord, that there are three 924 00:48:25,920 --> 00:48:27,720 who are moving on our behalf, 925 00:48:27,720 --> 00:48:31,240 and Father, you said where there's a triple cord strand, 926 00:48:31,240 --> 00:48:32,840 it's not broken, so Father, 927 00:48:32,840 --> 00:48:35,560 we lean into the three today, God, 928 00:48:35,560 --> 00:48:37,240 and I ask for all of those, Father, 929 00:48:37,240 --> 00:48:39,320 who don't have an understanding, 930 00:48:39,320 --> 00:48:41,120 I thank you, Lord, that you said 931 00:48:41,120 --> 00:48:44,680 that our hearts are awakened morning by morning 932 00:48:44,680 --> 00:48:46,360 to be taught of you. 933 00:48:46,360 --> 00:48:48,960 Teach us today, Father God, 934 00:48:48,960 --> 00:48:51,360 and Lord, let your Spirit fill this house, 935 00:48:51,360 --> 00:48:54,800 fill this place, the invitation to relationship, 936 00:48:54,800 --> 00:48:57,960 in Jesus' name, if you would come, come forward. 937 00:48:57,960 --> 00:49:00,560 (gentle music)