1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:20,000 Music 2 00:00:21,000 --> 00:00:28,000 Open your Bibles with me to the book of Acts chapter 2. 3 00:00:28,000 --> 00:00:36,000 In our continuing series of sermons from strong faith to stained glass. 4 00:00:37,000 --> 00:00:42,000 Acts chapter 2 verses 1 through verse 13. 5 00:00:43,000 --> 00:00:50,000 When the day of Pentecost had come, they were all together in one place. 6 00:00:50,000 --> 00:00:59,000 And suddenly from heaven there came a sound like the rush of a violent wind. 7 00:01:00,000 --> 00:01:03,000 And it filled the entire house where they were sitting. 8 00:01:04,000 --> 00:01:12,000 Divided tongues as a fire appeared among them and a tongue rested on each of them. 9 00:01:12,000 --> 00:01:22,000 All of them were filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other languages as the Spirit gave them ability. 10 00:01:23,000 --> 00:01:28,000 Now there were devout Jews from every nation under heaven living in Jerusalem. 11 00:01:29,000 --> 00:01:39,000 And at this sound the crowd gathered and was bewildered because each one heard them speaking in the native language of each. 12 00:01:39,000 --> 00:01:45,000 Amazed and astonished they asked, are not all these who are speaking Galileans? 13 00:01:46,000 --> 00:01:51,000 And how is it that we hear each of us in our own native language? 14 00:01:52,000 --> 00:02:05,000 Parthians, Medes, Elamites and residents of Mesopotamia, Judea and Cappadocia, Pontus and Asia, Frigia and Pamphylia, 15 00:02:05,000 --> 00:02:15,000 Egypt and the parts of Libya belonging to Cyrene and visitors from Rome, both Jews and Prosalites, Cretans and Arabs. 16 00:02:16,000 --> 00:02:22,000 In our own languages we hear them speaking about God's deeds of power. 17 00:02:23,000 --> 00:02:30,000 All were amazed and perplexed saying to one another, what does this mean? 18 00:02:30,000 --> 00:02:38,000 But others sneered and said they are filled with new wine. 19 00:02:39,000 --> 00:02:41,000 Thank you, you may be seated. 20 00:02:42,000 --> 00:02:54,000 Luke chapter 1 and verse 35 reads, the Holy Ghost shall come upon you and the power of the highest shall overshadow you. 21 00:02:54,000 --> 00:03:04,000 Therefore also that holy thing which shall be born of you shall be called the Son of God. 22 00:03:05,000 --> 00:03:17,000 The Spirit responsible for the birth of Jesus is also the same Spirit responsible for the birth of the church. 23 00:03:17,000 --> 00:03:29,000 The gift of the Holy Spirit indeed fulfills the prophecy of Luke at chapter 3 and verse 16. 24 00:03:30,000 --> 00:03:44,000 John the Baptist says, I indeed baptize you with water, but one mightier than I comeeth, the lachit of whose shoes I am not worthy to unloose. 25 00:03:44,000 --> 00:03:51,000 He will baptize you with the Holy Ghost and with fire. 26 00:03:52,000 --> 00:04:08,000 Moreover, the same Spirit that descended on Jesus in the form of a dove at his baptism in the Jordan is the same Spirit that fill the disciples in the upper room. 27 00:04:08,000 --> 00:04:15,000 Brothers and sisters, Bethlehem is God with us. 28 00:04:16,000 --> 00:04:25,000 Calvary is God for us, but Pentecost is God in us. 29 00:04:26,000 --> 00:04:35,000 Acts chapter 2 must be interpreted in the light of Acts chapter 1 verses 4 through verse number 8. 30 00:04:35,000 --> 00:04:49,000 Whether risen Lord instructed the disciples to wait in Jerusalem for the promise of the Father and the promise of the Father was the Holy Spirit. 31 00:04:50,000 --> 00:04:59,000 The lesson for believers today is that obedience is a prerequisite for a move of God. 32 00:04:59,000 --> 00:05:08,000 Naaman would never have been cured of his leprosy had he not obeyed. 33 00:05:09,000 --> 00:05:18,000 The walls of Jericho would still be standing this morning had the children of Israel not obeyed. 34 00:05:19,000 --> 00:05:27,000 The 10 lepers in the New Testament would never have been cleansed of their leprosy had they not obeyed. 35 00:05:27,000 --> 00:05:39,000 Obedience is better than sacrifice because all sacrifice does is try to make up for what obedience would have prevented in the first place. 36 00:05:40,000 --> 00:05:50,000 There were three great feasts or three great festivals in Jewish culture. 37 00:05:50,000 --> 00:06:01,000 The Feast of Passover, the Feast of Pentecost, or the Feast of Booth, or the Feast of Tabernacles. 38 00:06:02,000 --> 00:06:11,000 The best attended of these three feasts was the Feast of Pentecost or the Feast of First Fruits. 39 00:06:11,000 --> 00:06:21,000 The word Pentecost is found only in the Book of Acts and in the Book of First Corinthians. 40 00:06:22,000 --> 00:06:39,000 Pentecost is the Greek word transliterated for our English word 50 or 5, meaning it is celebrated some seven weeks and one day after the Feast of Passover. 41 00:06:39,000 --> 00:06:47,000 Jesus Christ is the first fruit from the dead because of the resurrection. 42 00:06:48,000 --> 00:06:56,000 He spent 40 days on earth and told the disciples to go in an upper room and wait for the promise of the Father. 43 00:06:57,000 --> 00:07:04,000 40 days after he spent his time here on earth he ascended back to heaven on the 50th day. 44 00:07:04,000 --> 00:07:15,000 On the 50th day, 10 days after his ascension, the Spirit of God came precisely as Jesus came on the day of Pentecost. 45 00:07:16,000 --> 00:07:28,000 To say to the church, just like Jesus was born in Bethlehem, the church, the new age, the dawning of the church is born on the day of Pentecost. 46 00:07:29,000 --> 00:07:31,000 Let me see if I can help us this morning. 47 00:07:31,000 --> 00:07:40,000 The Scripture says they were all with one accord in one place. 48 00:07:41,000 --> 00:07:58,000 What I want us to look at this morning, brothers and sisters, if there will be another Pentecost, and I'm not talking about speaking in tongues or rolling on the floor because the Holy Ghost does not come to make us tongue talkers and holy dancers. 49 00:07:58,000 --> 00:08:03,000 The Holy Ghost comes to make us witnesses for Jesus. 50 00:08:04,000 --> 00:08:13,000 And if we would be the witnesses that Jesus is demanding today, there must first be participation. 51 00:08:14,000 --> 00:08:20,000 They were all with one accord in one place. 52 00:08:20,000 --> 00:08:33,000 The word here is the Greek word homo fumadon, which the King James translates beautifully, I believe, with one accord. 53 00:08:34,000 --> 00:08:42,000 It is a musical term that means every instrument struck the same note. 54 00:08:42,000 --> 00:08:53,000 They were on one accord because every instrument struck the same note. 55 00:08:54,000 --> 00:09:00,000 The choir this morning all look alike. 56 00:09:01,000 --> 00:09:05,000 The greeters all look alike. 57 00:09:05,000 --> 00:09:14,000 Deaconesses all have on white dresses. We who preach and are deacons and trustees have on black suits and white ties. 58 00:09:15,000 --> 00:09:21,000 You have come to church dressed up this morning. All of us look like the body of Christ. 59 00:09:22,000 --> 00:09:32,000 All of us, many of us in our particular respective obligations are in uniform. 60 00:09:32,000 --> 00:09:39,000 But the Holy Ghost does not call us to uniformity. 61 00:09:40,000 --> 00:09:45,000 He calls us to unity. 62 00:09:46,000 --> 00:09:54,000 Because you can be in uniform and never be unified. 63 00:09:54,000 --> 00:10:01,000 You think everybody in the choir, lack everybody in the choir? 64 00:10:02,000 --> 00:10:09,000 You think everybody in the ushering or greeting or everybody in the white dresses and everybody here in this sanctuary this morning? 65 00:10:10,000 --> 00:10:14,000 We don't all have the same educational level. We don't all have the same financial status. 66 00:10:15,000 --> 00:10:18,000 We don't all live in the same neighborhood. We don't all like the same kind of food. 67 00:10:18,000 --> 00:10:23,000 We don't all like the same kind of clothes. We don't all shop at the same places. 68 00:10:24,000 --> 00:10:27,000 We don't all sound alike or talk alike or look alike in terms of our resemblance. 69 00:10:28,000 --> 00:10:39,000 But if we are filled with the Holy Spirit, we have one thing in common and we've come here to praise God out of our diversity. 70 00:10:39,000 --> 00:10:47,000 There are diversities of gifts, but one Holy Spirit. 71 00:10:48,000 --> 00:10:56,000 There is no reason why anybody cannot work with anybody else in the body of Christ if you are filled with the Holy Spirit. 72 00:10:57,000 --> 00:11:03,000 Because if you are filled with the Spirit, your spirit connects with my spirit. 73 00:11:03,000 --> 00:11:16,000 And what I believe hooks up with what you believe and we work together in the body of Christ, not in uniformity, but in unity. 74 00:11:17,000 --> 00:11:29,000 It's very possible to be in one place and not be on one acolyte. 75 00:11:29,000 --> 00:11:43,000 It's very possible to be in the same house, can't stand each other, be in the same room and don't talk to each other. 76 00:11:44,000 --> 00:11:49,000 That's not being on one acolyte. How can two walk together? 77 00:11:49,000 --> 00:12:03,000 Except they'd be agreed. I wish I had a witness. We don't have to all agree on the same things when it comes to non-essentials, but we got to agree he was born in Bethlehem. 78 00:12:04,000 --> 00:12:10,000 We've got to agree that he was baptized in the Jordan. We've got to agree that he was born of a virgin. 79 00:12:10,000 --> 00:12:18,000 We've got to agree that he died one Friday. We've got to agree that he rose early one Sunday morning. 80 00:12:19,000 --> 00:12:24,000 We've got to agree that he's seated at the right hand of the Father and we've got to agree that he's coming back again. 81 00:12:25,000 --> 00:12:29,000 And if we can agree to that, we can all shout together in unity. 82 00:12:29,000 --> 00:12:55,000 Being a Christian is not a spectator sport. You have to participate. You can't be off by yourself. God has no secret saints. 83 00:12:55,000 --> 00:13:04,000 I'm a Christian, but I don't want to be around all them people. You run all them people at the club. 84 00:13:05,000 --> 00:13:13,000 You run all them people at NRG. You run all them people on your job. 85 00:13:14,000 --> 00:13:22,000 No, no, no, no. All of us participate in this thing called Christianity if we all have the Holy Spirit. 86 00:13:22,000 --> 00:13:28,000 They were on one accord in one place. 87 00:13:29,000 --> 00:13:38,000 Brother and sister, hear me. When the early church prayed, there was no wrong notes struck. 88 00:13:39,000 --> 00:13:46,000 No ugly attitudes. No finger pointing. 89 00:13:46,000 --> 00:13:52,000 No pity parties. No gossip sessions. 90 00:13:53,000 --> 00:13:58,000 Because it's hard to pray for somebody that you don't love. 91 00:13:59,000 --> 00:14:11,000 So either stop criticizing and start praying or stop praying and stop criticizing because you can't do both. 92 00:14:11,000 --> 00:14:23,000 How can you love God whom you have never seen and hate your brother who you see every day? 93 00:14:24,000 --> 00:14:29,000 You are a liar and the truth is not in you. 94 00:14:30,000 --> 00:14:36,000 If we all walk in this way and you start walking that way, maybe something's wrong with you. 95 00:14:36,000 --> 00:14:42,000 But the Holy Ghost is not in any discord. 96 00:14:43,000 --> 00:14:51,000 Wherever there's disagreement and strife and meanness and ugliness, that's a sign that the Spirit is not present. 97 00:14:51,000 --> 00:15:07,000 Because the Spirit of God does not dwell in mess and conflict and confusion and mean-spiritedness and bad attitudes. 98 00:15:08,000 --> 00:15:13,000 That's a spirit, but it's not the Holy Spirit. 99 00:15:13,000 --> 00:15:20,000 Oh yeah, you have a spirit, but it's not the Holy Spirit. 100 00:15:21,000 --> 00:15:25,000 Because the Holy Spirit is not going to let you sit back to me and not speak. 101 00:15:26,000 --> 00:15:33,000 The Holy Spirit will not let you rejoice when I get in trouble. 102 00:15:34,000 --> 00:15:36,000 Have I got a witness here? 103 00:15:36,000 --> 00:15:44,000 If you have the Holy Spirit in you and I have the Holy Spirit in me, we feel the same thing on Sunday morning. 104 00:15:48,000 --> 00:15:50,000 I want you to get this. 105 00:15:51,000 --> 00:16:00,000 Not only was there participation, but suddenly there is a manifestation. 106 00:16:00,000 --> 00:16:04,000 There's a manifestation. 107 00:16:05,000 --> 00:16:14,000 There's a sound like a mighty rushing wind. 108 00:16:15,000 --> 00:16:20,000 They heard something. 109 00:16:20,000 --> 00:16:29,000 And not only did they hear something, but they saw something. 110 00:16:30,000 --> 00:16:37,000 A sound like a rushing wind. 111 00:16:38,000 --> 00:16:42,000 It was not a tornado of sorts. 112 00:16:42,000 --> 00:16:51,000 It was not a hurricane, gale force of wind, because we do not read that anybody's hair was blowing. 113 00:16:54,000 --> 00:16:57,000 Nobody's coat was flying open. 114 00:16:58,000 --> 00:17:01,000 Papers were not strewn all over the place. 115 00:17:01,000 --> 00:17:11,000 It was like a rushing wind, but it was a sound that they had never heard before because it came from heaven. 116 00:17:15,000 --> 00:17:22,000 And that sound that came from heaven was like a sound they had never heard. 117 00:17:24,000 --> 00:17:27,000 And there's a sound that takes place in church. 118 00:17:27,000 --> 00:17:32,000 That's a sound that's different from every other sound. 119 00:17:35,000 --> 00:17:39,000 I said this to the brothers in the back. 120 00:17:40,000 --> 00:17:43,000 I've preached this and I've preached it wrong for 45 years. 121 00:17:44,000 --> 00:17:46,000 And I thank God for the illumination of the Holy Spirit. 122 00:17:47,000 --> 00:17:49,000 I see it now. I got it now. 123 00:17:50,000 --> 00:17:53,000 I thought for 45 years of preaching. 124 00:17:53,000 --> 00:18:09,000 I thought that when the fire of the Holy Spirit, like as cloven tongues of fire, I thought that when that fire came in the upper room, I thought it was just over the heads of the 11. 125 00:18:10,000 --> 00:18:12,000 But that's not what the Scripture says. 126 00:18:13,000 --> 00:18:15,000 I've been looking at it. If you want to hide something from Negro, just put it in writing. 127 00:18:16,000 --> 00:18:21,000 It's been in Scripture all these years and I've never seen it. 128 00:18:21,000 --> 00:18:26,000 The fire was not just over the heads of the apostles. 129 00:18:27,000 --> 00:18:38,000 There were 120 in that room, men and women, and the fire was over every last head in the room. 130 00:18:41,000 --> 00:18:44,000 That is the democracy of Christianity. 131 00:18:44,000 --> 00:18:50,000 The Holy Spirit is not just for men, it's for women as well. 132 00:18:51,000 --> 00:18:54,000 It's not just for men and women, it's for children as well. 133 00:18:55,000 --> 00:18:58,000 It's not just for white folk, it's for black folk. 134 00:18:59,000 --> 00:19:01,000 It's not just for black folk, it's for Hispanic folk. 135 00:19:01,000 --> 00:19:22,000 Everybody who wants to get under the umbrella of the Holy Spirit, if you just get in the way, a rushing wind, because when you hear something, you got to say something. 136 00:19:31,000 --> 00:19:36,000 Jeremiah said, I'm going home. 137 00:19:37,000 --> 00:19:40,000 I'm not preaching another word. 138 00:19:41,000 --> 00:19:44,000 I'm not speaking another word in that name. 139 00:19:46,000 --> 00:19:48,000 But then something happened to him. 140 00:19:52,000 --> 00:19:55,000 And he said, it's like fire. 141 00:19:55,000 --> 00:19:57,000 It's like fire. 142 00:20:00,000 --> 00:20:04,000 Shut up in my bowl. 143 00:20:06,000 --> 00:20:12,000 Somebody in here this morning said I wasn't going to tell nobody. 144 00:20:16,000 --> 00:20:20,000 But I can't keep it to myself. 145 00:20:20,000 --> 00:20:23,000 I can't keep it to myself. 146 00:20:24,000 --> 00:20:26,000 God's been good to me. 147 00:20:27,000 --> 00:20:29,000 And so I got to say something. 148 00:20:33,000 --> 00:20:35,000 God has opened the door for me. 149 00:20:37,000 --> 00:20:39,000 So I got to say something. 150 00:20:40,000 --> 00:20:43,000 God has put down some enemies for me. 151 00:20:44,000 --> 00:20:46,000 So I got to say something. 152 00:20:46,000 --> 00:20:50,000 God has provided when I didn't have a dime. 153 00:20:51,000 --> 00:20:53,000 I got to say something. 154 00:20:54,000 --> 00:20:57,000 God has made a way when it looked like there was no way. 155 00:20:58,000 --> 00:21:00,000 Is there anybody else here? 156 00:21:01,000 --> 00:21:03,000 Said it's like fire. 157 00:21:04,000 --> 00:21:06,000 Shut up in my bones. 158 00:21:07,000 --> 00:21:09,000 I said I wasn't going to tell nobody. 159 00:21:09,000 --> 00:21:12,000 I said I wasn't going to tell anybody. 160 00:21:13,000 --> 00:21:15,000 But I can't keep it. 161 00:21:16,000 --> 00:21:17,000 I can't be quiet. 162 00:21:18,000 --> 00:21:19,000 I can't keep still. 163 00:21:20,000 --> 00:21:22,000 I can't act like I don't know who brought me. 164 00:21:23,000 --> 00:21:25,000 I can't sit down here trying to act all sophisticated. 165 00:21:26,000 --> 00:21:28,000 And I'm wearing God's clothes. 166 00:21:29,000 --> 00:21:31,000 I'm spending God's money. 167 00:21:32,000 --> 00:21:34,000 I'm driving around in a car I didn't qualify for. 168 00:21:35,000 --> 00:21:37,000 I'm living in a house that they said I'd never be in. 169 00:21:37,000 --> 00:21:39,000 Nobody but God who did that. 170 00:21:40,000 --> 00:21:43,000 And you think I'm going to let you make me be quiet? 171 00:21:54,000 --> 00:21:58,000 Clover tongues of fire. 172 00:21:58,000 --> 00:22:04,000 What I heard was over every head in the room. 173 00:22:06,000 --> 00:22:12,000 And there were people there for the Feast of Pentecost. 174 00:22:14,000 --> 00:22:18,000 The people there were there from all nations in the world. 175 00:22:18,000 --> 00:22:31,360 world. And the people in the upper room were Galileans who spoke either Cornei 176 00:22:31,360 --> 00:22:40,120 Greek or Aramaic. But I just read you the names of the 15 places that people were 177 00:22:40,120 --> 00:22:49,300 there from all over the world. And when the wind came and made that sound, they 178 00:22:49,300 --> 00:22:56,640 were walking on the street and they came to that upper room. Because the sound 179 00:22:56,640 --> 00:23:09,320 drew them. And when the church makes a sound, it draws people. But then they saw 180 00:23:09,320 --> 00:23:19,520 the fire and they came to watch it burn. If Lily Grove would ever catch on fire, 181 00:23:19,520 --> 00:23:25,940 people would come out of their houses to watch us burn. I need somebody who's on 182 00:23:25,940 --> 00:23:35,600 fire this morning, not just on Sunday, but you on fire on Tuesday. You on fire on 183 00:23:35,600 --> 00:23:41,240 Friday because you got to tell somebody. 184 00:23:47,000 --> 00:23:58,760 When they saw those tongues of light as fire, the Bible says the Holy Spirit 185 00:23:58,760 --> 00:24:15,280 gave them the ability to speak in other languages. They did not speak in an 186 00:24:15,280 --> 00:24:18,440 unknown time. 187 00:24:18,440 --> 00:24:28,840 They did not babble. 188 00:24:29,760 --> 00:24:45,920 They spoke clear, intelligent, dialectical language. Xenolalia. They spoke a 189 00:24:45,920 --> 00:24:57,760 language that they didn't learn. People were there from Africa, from Spain, from 190 00:24:57,760 --> 00:25:03,160 Italy, from areas of the Mesopotamia between the Tigris and the Euphrates 191 00:25:03,160 --> 00:25:11,400 River. Not only did they speak their language, but they spoke their dialect. 192 00:25:11,400 --> 00:25:16,360 You do know that there's a different dialect between North and South 193 00:25:16,360 --> 00:25:32,280 Louisiana. In North Louisiana, they go by groceries. In South Louisiana, we go 194 00:25:32,280 --> 00:25:43,760 make groceries. Now we're talking about the same thing. It's just a different 195 00:25:43,760 --> 00:25:51,640 dialect. Somebody ought to help me here. The Holy Ghost got in their tongue and 196 00:25:51,640 --> 00:26:02,120 got in their speech and let them speak a language that they never heard. That is 197 00:26:02,120 --> 00:26:12,600 the miracle of Pentecost, which is descriptive and not prescriptive. A 198 00:26:12,600 --> 00:26:23,600 sign that you've been saved is not that you speak in tongue. A sign that you're 199 00:26:23,600 --> 00:26:29,520 saved is because you want to talk about Jesus. Because it is the job of the 200 00:26:29,520 --> 00:26:44,840 Holy Spirit to magnify Jesus. Can I help you further? Pentecost reversed Bible. 201 00:26:44,840 --> 00:26:52,640 Because at the Tower of Bible, they could not understand each other, but on the day 202 00:26:52,640 --> 00:26:59,500 of Pentecost, everybody heard the gospel in their same language. Because what 203 00:26:59,500 --> 00:27:04,920 happened at Bible, they tried to build a tower to see what God was doing and he 204 00:27:04,920 --> 00:27:10,760 confounded their language. But on the day of Pentecost, God opened their 205 00:27:10,760 --> 00:27:22,160 language so that disciples who spoke Aramaic got power to speak Latin. That 206 00:27:22,160 --> 00:27:35,340 was repeated only three other times and it is not for us today. Because the 207 00:27:35,340 --> 00:27:48,760 Bible says, tongues will cease. So why would you want a gift that's not 208 00:27:48,760 --> 00:28:01,860 necessary? I've preached in Haiti and when I preached in Haiti, if I was all 209 00:28:01,860 --> 00:28:11,100 that spiritual, which I'm not, but if I was all that spiritual, I could speak in 210 00:28:11,100 --> 00:28:19,620 Haiti to the Haitian people in Creole because that's their native language. Now 211 00:28:19,620 --> 00:28:25,700 I know some Creole because my family, my grandmother, all my relatives are 212 00:28:25,700 --> 00:28:31,260 Creole. Creole people speak a dialect and a language that is French, but it's 213 00:28:31,260 --> 00:28:42,660 different from French and I know some Creole, mostly Cuss words. But that's 214 00:28:42,660 --> 00:28:48,500 not what I'm talking about right now, so come on back to what I'm saying. If I 215 00:28:48,500 --> 00:28:54,900 was all that spiritual, I would go to Haiti and speak fluent Creole and they 216 00:28:54,900 --> 00:29:00,420 would understand me. But when I preached in Haiti, Lucien Armandard had to stand 217 00:29:00,420 --> 00:29:08,620 right beside me to interpret what I was saying. And if by chance you have the 218 00:29:08,620 --> 00:29:15,060 gift of tongues, you need somebody to interpret, but they need to interpret an 219 00:29:15,060 --> 00:29:24,320 intelligent language. That's the manifestation on the day of 220 00:29:24,320 --> 00:29:31,180 Pentecost. Cloven plungs of fire was over the head and they started to speak in 221 00:29:31,180 --> 00:29:38,060 other languages as the spirit gave them utterance, as the spirit gave them 222 00:29:38,060 --> 00:29:45,900 ability. And then when the people who came around that noise and that sound and 223 00:29:45,900 --> 00:29:53,100 that light and that fire, when they heard it, they said, what is this? Or not these 224 00:29:53,100 --> 00:30:01,460 people Galileans? How is it that we hear the Gospel in our own language? We move 225 00:30:01,460 --> 00:30:06,980 from participation and manifestation to observation because somebody in the 226 00:30:06,980 --> 00:30:16,340 crowd said, I know what happened. They got a hold of some new wine. 227 00:30:16,340 --> 00:30:31,540 That's why they talking like that. It's some new wine. It's some new wine. It's 228 00:30:31,540 --> 00:30:44,980 some new wine. Somebody gonna get it in a minute. It's some new wine. I'm not 229 00:30:44,980 --> 00:30:49,660 talking about Mad Dog 2020. I'm not. I'm not talking about Boone's Farm, 230 00:30:49,660 --> 00:30:55,380 Strawberry Hill. I'm not talking about anything you would find in Napa Valley. 231 00:30:55,380 --> 00:31:02,300 I'm talking about the newness of the spirit of God falling on people afresh 232 00:31:02,300 --> 00:31:08,980 and making them act like they didn't act before. And when you get a hold of 233 00:31:08,980 --> 00:31:14,220 that new wine, it'll make you love people who don't even love you. It'll make 234 00:31:14,220 --> 00:31:18,300 you shake hands with folk who don't want to shake your hand. It'll make you be 235 00:31:18,300 --> 00:31:23,340 nice to people who don't even speak to you. It'll make you love your enemies. 236 00:31:23,340 --> 00:31:28,220 It'll make you pray for people who despitefully use you because you can't 237 00:31:28,220 --> 00:31:34,340 put new wine in an old wine skin. 238 00:31:36,700 --> 00:31:44,180 You cannot put the freshness of the Holy Spirit in the old wine skin of your 239 00:31:44,180 --> 00:31:47,020 bad attitude. 240 00:31:48,380 --> 00:31:53,300 Somebody ought to help me preach it. All I'm trying to say brothers and sisters 241 00:31:53,300 --> 00:31:58,820 is that when the Lord gets a hold of you, somebody ought to observe something 242 00:31:58,820 --> 00:32:05,420 different about you. There ought to be a change in your life. There ought to be a 243 00:32:05,420 --> 00:32:11,620 change in your disposition. There ought to be a change in your attitude. The 244 00:32:11,620 --> 00:32:16,180 things you once enjoyed, you can't even have a good time doing anymore. The 245 00:32:16,180 --> 00:32:19,500 places you used to go, you may still go there, but you don't have the same 246 00:32:19,500 --> 00:32:24,460 attitude anymore because the Lord has done something new in your life. And 247 00:32:24,460 --> 00:32:29,860 Christian, you ought to have a new shout on Sunday morning. You ought not still be 248 00:32:29,860 --> 00:32:35,020 shouting over what God did 36 years ago. God should have done something for you 249 00:32:35,020 --> 00:32:42,220 yesterday or the day before yesterday or the month before last month or the year 250 00:32:42,220 --> 00:32:47,060 before last year. I'm not talking about shouting over house now or shouting over 251 00:32:47,060 --> 00:32:51,460 pregnancy or shouting over car or shouting over job. You ought to shout 252 00:32:51,460 --> 00:32:56,980 because God has made you new in your attitude. You ought to shout because God 253 00:32:56,980 --> 00:33:01,420 has helped you to put some boundaries around you and then God has helped you 254 00:33:01,420 --> 00:33:07,140 to say goodbye to some things in your life. And not just goodbye to some things, 255 00:33:07,140 --> 00:33:10,580 but goodbye to some people. 256 00:33:15,140 --> 00:33:20,660 I wish I had a shout out here this morning. I wish I had a witness here this 257 00:33:20,660 --> 00:33:26,180 morning. And it's so noticeable. It's so observable. People look at you and say, 258 00:33:26,180 --> 00:33:32,620 girl, you must have a new boyfriend. It's something different about you. You 259 00:33:32,620 --> 00:33:38,060 weren't smiling like that last week. You weren't that excited last year. You've 260 00:33:38,060 --> 00:33:42,580 been looking depressed and down and not as a bounce in your step. Now you don't 261 00:33:42,580 --> 00:33:46,260 care what people say. You don't even hear what they're saying about you. It 262 00:33:46,260 --> 00:33:49,860 doesn't even bother you how they look at you. What's wrong with me? Ain't 263 00:33:49,860 --> 00:33:57,980 nothing wrong with me. Peter said, this is not a new wine. These people are not 264 00:33:57,980 --> 00:34:04,180 drunk as you suppose because it's still nine o'clock in the morning. Peter said, 265 00:34:04,180 --> 00:34:10,420 this is that. I wish I had a Bible reader which was spoken of the prophet 266 00:34:10,420 --> 00:34:18,660 Joel that in the last days I will pour out my spirit on all flesh and your 267 00:34:18,660 --> 00:34:25,060 sons and daughters shall prophesy. Your old men shall dream dreams. Your young 268 00:34:25,060 --> 00:34:29,860 men shall see visions and brothers and sisters, my question this morning for 269 00:34:29,860 --> 00:34:37,220 you Lily Grove is this that? Is this the same Holy Ghost that fell on the day of 270 00:34:37,220 --> 00:34:43,220 Pentecost? Then it ought to change your expression. It ought to change that frown 271 00:34:43,220 --> 00:34:51,300 into a smile. It ought to change that bad attitude into a sweet, sweet spirit. It 272 00:34:51,300 --> 00:34:56,300 ought to change how you look at people. It ought to change how you walk. It ought 273 00:34:56,300 --> 00:35:02,300 to change how you talk. I wish I had a witness here. You don't always physically 274 00:35:02,300 --> 00:35:10,220 feel like it but if God's been good to you, if God has opened doors for you, if 275 00:35:10,220 --> 00:35:17,220 God has made a way for you, there ought to be something in how you praise God. 276 00:35:17,220 --> 00:35:22,540 You don't have to praise like everybody else praises. Maybe you're not a 277 00:35:22,540 --> 00:35:27,700 shouter who jumps up and waves your hand. Maybe you're not one who runs all 278 00:35:27,700 --> 00:35:33,060 around the sanctuary. Maybe you don't make noise like everybody in your section 279 00:35:33,060 --> 00:35:39,700 but there ought to be something noticeable about how you give God praise. 280 00:35:39,700 --> 00:35:47,660 You can worship God quietly but you can't praise God quietly. If God has opened 281 00:35:47,660 --> 00:35:55,220 the door for you, you need to make some noise. If God has routed an enemy for 282 00:35:55,220 --> 00:36:02,060 you, there ought to be a testimony in your mouth. If God has moved a mountain out 283 00:36:02,060 --> 00:36:07,220 of your way, there ought to be a noticeable difference in how you worship. 284 00:36:07,220 --> 00:36:13,820 If God has put down some rivers in your life, there ought to be a noticeable 285 00:36:13,820 --> 00:36:19,460 difference in how you worship. You ought to tell Him, thank You differently. You 286 00:36:19,460 --> 00:36:24,660 ought to wave your hands differently because it was not just about what they 287 00:36:24,660 --> 00:36:32,620 said, it was about what they heard. Peter stood up in the midst of them and it 288 00:36:32,620 --> 00:36:37,460 was not brothers and sisters just about participation. It was not just about 289 00:36:37,460 --> 00:36:43,780 manifestation. It was not just about observation but it was forthly about 290 00:36:43,780 --> 00:36:48,580 proclamation because they really couldn't shout like they were supposed to 291 00:36:48,580 --> 00:36:55,780 until somebody talked about Jesus. Peter stood up in the crowd and said, 292 00:36:55,780 --> 00:37:04,700 ye men of Israel, this Jesus that you crucified, God raised him from the dead 293 00:37:04,700 --> 00:37:11,260 because it was not possible that the grave should hold him down and when 294 00:37:11,260 --> 00:37:19,540 Peter got through preaching, 3,000 souls were added to the church. Now we got to 295 00:37:19,540 --> 00:37:25,740 preach 3,000 sermons before one person changes their mind. But all the 296 00:37:25,740 --> 00:37:33,380 tell somebody this morning, when God has saved you, when the Holy Ghost is in you, 297 00:37:33,380 --> 00:37:41,220 He'll make you act right. He'll make you live right. He'll make you talk right. 298 00:37:41,220 --> 00:37:49,140 He'll make you give right. Is there anybody here know you're filled with the 299 00:37:49,140 --> 00:37:55,380 Holy Spirit? If you can feel Him like I can feel Him, I don't have to be a church 300 00:37:55,380 --> 00:38:01,180 to feel Him. It don't have to be Sunday for me to feel Him. Sometimes riding in 301 00:38:01,180 --> 00:38:08,980 my car, sometimes sitting down by myself, I look back over my life and see 302 00:38:08,980 --> 00:38:15,340 where God has brought me from and then the Holy Ghost get a hold to me. I wish I 303 00:38:15,340 --> 00:38:21,700 had a witness here. When I was growing up in my church down in Louisiana where 304 00:38:21,700 --> 00:38:31,540 I'm from, they used to sing something got a hold of me. Something got a hold of 305 00:38:31,540 --> 00:38:40,660 me. I went to a meeting last night and my heart wasn't right. But something got a 306 00:38:40,660 --> 00:38:50,980 hold of me. Is there anybody here who can help me testify? Something got a hold of 307 00:38:50,980 --> 00:38:57,140 me. Let me fix your theology this morning. It was not something that got a 308 00:38:57,140 --> 00:39:06,580 hold of you. Somebody got a hold of you. And somebody is Jesus Christ. He walks 309 00:39:06,580 --> 00:39:17,620 with me. He talks with me. He tells me I am His own. If you feel Him right now, if 310 00:39:17,620 --> 00:39:24,460 He's been good to you, if He's made a way for you, why don't you grab somebody? 311 00:39:24,460 --> 00:39:30,860 Don't be scared to grab somebody. The Holy Ghost will take care of you. Why don't 312 00:39:30,860 --> 00:39:41,460 you grab somebody? Tell them something, something got a hold of me. Something, 313 00:39:41,460 --> 00:39:52,140 somebody got a hold of me. I went to a meeting last night and my heart wasn't 314 00:39:52,140 --> 00:40:03,060 right. But somebody named Jesus. Y'all know Him, don't you? He died. Didn't he die. 315 00:40:03,060 --> 00:40:17,060 But bright of He had a... bright of He had a... Sunday morning, He got up. Didn't He do it? 316 00:40:17,060 --> 00:40:25,260 Didn't He do it? He sent the Holy Ghost. He's all over this building. He's all over 317 00:40:25,260 --> 00:40:32,620 these grounds. He's all over my life. Thank you Jesus. Can you tell Him, thank 318 00:40:32,620 --> 00:40:44,620 you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. I know He's all right. 319 00:41:02,620 --> 00:41:15,020 I know He's all right. He's a waymaker. He's a heart fixer. He's a burden-barrel. 320 00:41:15,020 --> 00:41:21,140 He's a mother when you're motherless. A father when you're fatherless. A friend 321 00:41:21,140 --> 00:41:27,980 when you're friendless. Bread when you're hungry. Y'all know Him, don't you? If He's 322 00:41:27,980 --> 00:41:36,860 been good to you, why don't you shout right now? Don't wait till the battle is over. 323 00:41:36,860 --> 00:41:47,820 Don't wait till your prayer is answered. Don't wait for your breakthrough. Go ahead. 324 00:41:47,820 --> 00:41:56,420 Shout right now. Thank your Holy Ghost. Thank your Holy Ghost. Thank your Holy 325 00:41:56,420 --> 00:42:04,300 Ghost. Thank your Holy Ghost. Thank your Holy Ghost. Thank your Holy Ghost. 326 00:42:04,300 --> 00:42:13,040 Thank your Holy Ghost. I feel Him right now. Thank your Holy Ghost. Thank your Holy 327 00:42:13,040 --> 00:42:16,040 He goes, I knew he's all right. 328 00:42:43,040 --> 00:42:57,040 You don't have to know very much. 329 00:42:57,040 --> 00:43:02,040 You don't have to have very much. 330 00:43:02,040 --> 00:43:06,040 Because listen to what the scripture says. 331 00:43:06,040 --> 00:43:17,040 They were ignorant, unlearned men. 332 00:43:17,040 --> 00:43:25,040 But they noticed that they had been with Jesus. 333 00:43:25,040 --> 00:43:31,040 And when you've been with Jesus, 334 00:43:31,040 --> 00:43:35,040 He'll put something in your face. 335 00:43:35,040 --> 00:43:38,040 He'll put something in your personality. 336 00:43:38,040 --> 00:43:41,040 He'll put something in your smile. 337 00:43:41,040 --> 00:43:45,040 That you don't even hear them criticizing you. 338 00:43:45,040 --> 00:43:48,040 You don't even hear what they're saying about you. 339 00:43:48,040 --> 00:43:51,040 Because when you know Jesus, 340 00:43:51,040 --> 00:43:57,040 it's hard for somebody else to impress you. 341 00:43:57,040 --> 00:44:01,040 When you really know Jesus Christ, 342 00:44:01,040 --> 00:44:17,040 He makes the difference in your life.