1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:17,120 I feel like singing some more. 2 00:00:17,120 --> 00:00:23,960 I just, you sometimes just come into church and you just want to praise God and you don't 3 00:00:23,960 --> 00:00:31,120 want to do much more but we need to build ourselves up with the Word of God, Amen? 4 00:00:31,120 --> 00:00:33,080 Yeah. 5 00:00:33,080 --> 00:00:38,680 Okay, we can take the offering. 6 00:00:38,680 --> 00:00:47,240 It's good to know, you know, when we give in this church, you know some churches put 7 00:00:47,240 --> 00:00:52,640 up a pie graph and then they show you their budget and how much more money we need and 8 00:00:52,640 --> 00:00:54,120 da da da da da da da da da da. 9 00:00:54,120 --> 00:00:55,960 I call those begging charts. 10 00:00:55,960 --> 00:01:00,520 We didn't have to do that in this church because the Holy Spirit always provides what we need. 11 00:01:00,520 --> 00:01:06,880 But if we were to put up one of those charts, we would tell you where the money goes and 12 00:01:06,880 --> 00:01:08,200 I just think it's good people know. 13 00:01:08,200 --> 00:01:12,880 Like if you want to know anything about money in this church, I don't touch it, John handles 14 00:01:12,880 --> 00:01:15,500 it all but it's an open book. 15 00:01:15,500 --> 00:01:19,440 You can come and ask how the money is used but I'll tell you, most of the money is used 16 00:01:19,440 --> 00:01:28,320 to help people that are the most dispossessed, most needy, both spiritually and physically 17 00:01:28,320 --> 00:01:30,600 because we have so much. 18 00:01:30,600 --> 00:01:34,480 And so you can be pleased when you give. 19 00:01:34,480 --> 00:01:40,080 It goes, I believe, to where the Holy Spirit is directing us, Amen. 20 00:01:40,080 --> 00:01:47,280 Okay, if you have a Bible, open it and I'm just going to read two verses today which 21 00:01:47,280 --> 00:01:48,880 I think are really important. 22 00:01:48,880 --> 00:01:53,280 Father God, as we come to Your Word, Lord, You are the Word become flesh. 23 00:01:53,280 --> 00:01:58,640 I ask today that this Word will actually become flesh to us, Lord. 24 00:01:58,640 --> 00:02:06,640 It will become life to us and it will change what needs changing in Jesus' name. 25 00:02:06,640 --> 00:02:15,560 Galatians chapter 5, a great passage in the scriptures that you should know really well. 26 00:02:15,560 --> 00:02:18,520 If you're a spirit-filled believer, you will. 27 00:02:18,520 --> 00:02:28,040 Verse 16, I say then, walk in the Spirit and you shall not fulfill the lusts of the flesh 28 00:02:28,040 --> 00:02:34,520 for the flesh lusts against the Spirit and the Spirit against the flesh and these are 29 00:02:34,520 --> 00:02:40,840 contrary to one another so that you do not do the things that you wish. 30 00:02:40,840 --> 00:02:46,540 I feel the preach a lot on the Spirit at the moment because I believe that God is beginning 31 00:02:46,540 --> 00:02:54,960 to pour out the Spirit upon all flesh and as the world becomes darker, Isaiah 60 says 32 00:02:54,960 --> 00:03:01,040 the time of the world's great darkness and we're seeing it emerge now is also the time 33 00:03:01,040 --> 00:03:08,360 of the greatest glory in the church and the glory in the church can only manifest through 34 00:03:08,360 --> 00:03:11,140 the life of the Spirit. 35 00:03:11,140 --> 00:03:19,160 And in my years of being a pastor, I have witnessed many salvations and I've witnessed 36 00:03:19,160 --> 00:03:25,040 many people receive the baptism of the Holy Spirit and they receive it and they have an 37 00:03:25,040 --> 00:03:31,040 experience in the Holy Spirit and then I've also witnessed many people think that's the 38 00:03:31,040 --> 00:03:32,240 end of it. 39 00:03:32,240 --> 00:03:37,680 I've got it all. 40 00:03:37,680 --> 00:03:45,600 What Paul says here, he says you don't just need to learn to receive the Holy Spirit, 41 00:03:45,600 --> 00:03:52,440 you need to understand how to walk in the Spirit or another translation is walk with 42 00:03:52,440 --> 00:04:00,600 the Spirit because the Holy Spirit is a person who if you've come to the cross of Christ, 43 00:04:00,600 --> 00:04:05,580 recognized that you're a sinner, the Holy Spirit did that work to convict you but you've 44 00:04:05,580 --> 00:04:10,920 actually recognized, repented of that sin and received Christ as your Lord and Savior 45 00:04:10,920 --> 00:04:17,000 at that very moment, that very second, you receive the person of the Holy Spirit to come 46 00:04:17,000 --> 00:04:23,600 and indwell you and then when you are baptized in the Holy Spirit, you receive the Holy Spirit 47 00:04:23,600 --> 00:04:26,220 upon you to empower you. 48 00:04:26,220 --> 00:04:33,320 So every believer who receives Christ as their Lord and Savior is filled with the Holy Spirit, 49 00:04:33,320 --> 00:04:36,600 every believer is. 50 00:04:36,600 --> 00:04:42,560 But Paul was writing to this letter, he was writing to a group of people who had experienced 51 00:04:42,560 --> 00:04:46,520 the Holy Spirit, had been filled with the Holy Spirit, had been baptized in the Holy 52 00:04:46,520 --> 00:04:55,720 Spirit and then what God had started in their life, Satan came and stole it through religious 53 00:04:55,720 --> 00:05:01,360 people and it still happens today. 54 00:05:01,360 --> 00:05:08,720 These people were going along, they believed they needed a Savior, by faith they received 55 00:05:08,720 --> 00:05:14,840 Christ and by faith they also received the blessing of Abraham which is the person of 56 00:05:14,840 --> 00:05:17,160 the Holy Spirit. 57 00:05:17,160 --> 00:05:21,520 So they'd received that and then somebody came in, these Judaizers who were jealous 58 00:05:21,520 --> 00:05:25,920 about what was happening in their midst because when the Spirit is at work, other people will 59 00:05:25,920 --> 00:05:29,500 become jealous of what God is doing in your life. 60 00:05:29,500 --> 00:05:33,880 And when these people came and saw what was happening in these Spiritful believers, they 61 00:05:33,880 --> 00:05:39,800 actually tried to steal them, steal the blessing and these joy killers came and said, aha, 62 00:05:39,800 --> 00:05:47,720 but you are not really saved, you may have received Christ but the real sign of a spiritual 63 00:05:47,720 --> 00:05:51,840 person is circumcision. 64 00:05:51,840 --> 00:05:57,320 And this is what a contemporary Judaizer or a contemporary Pharisee will always try to 65 00:05:57,320 --> 00:06:05,040 convince you is that Christ and the Spirit is not enough. 66 00:06:05,040 --> 00:06:07,960 You need Jesus plus something. 67 00:06:07,960 --> 00:06:12,760 You know today it's not circumcision but people sometimes say it's, you know, you're not really 68 00:06:12,760 --> 00:06:18,720 saved unless you eat the right things. 69 00:06:18,720 --> 00:06:22,440 You know you've got to apply parts of the law, you've got to actually, or you've got 70 00:06:22,440 --> 00:06:25,020 to have your Sabbath on a certain day. 71 00:06:25,020 --> 00:06:28,280 People say that even some people want to bring you back under the Jewish feast. 72 00:06:28,280 --> 00:06:33,760 We celebrated Passover, we did that through the cross, but all these things are dead works 73 00:06:33,760 --> 00:06:42,800 that are added, that are added to the simplicity of receiving Christ and being led by the Spirit. 74 00:06:42,800 --> 00:06:48,160 And the first thing that happens when you're having your, the Spirit of God stolen from 75 00:06:48,160 --> 00:06:52,680 you is you lose your joy. 76 00:06:52,680 --> 00:06:58,840 That's why you call these type of Pharisees joy killers. 77 00:06:58,840 --> 00:07:06,440 And Paul says to these people, when these people are trying to steal what God is doing 78 00:07:06,440 --> 00:07:15,440 is you need to stand fast in the liberty which Christ has made us free and do not become 79 00:07:15,440 --> 00:07:20,800 entangled again, verse one, with the yoke of bondage. 80 00:07:20,800 --> 00:07:28,360 And see, Paul says, he says to us here, he says you need to not only receive the Spirit, 81 00:07:28,360 --> 00:07:32,540 but you need to walk in the Spirit. 82 00:07:32,540 --> 00:07:36,120 You need to reject these Judeanists and learn to walk in the Spirit. 83 00:07:36,120 --> 00:07:41,460 Now when you walk, you're going somewhere. 84 00:07:41,460 --> 00:07:49,460 And Paul contrasts here in the passage I read, he contrasts the life of the flesh. 85 00:07:49,460 --> 00:07:56,160 He says walk in the Spirit and you will not fulfill or gratify the lust of the flesh. 86 00:07:56,160 --> 00:08:01,560 And he focuses on the fact that the flesh lusts against the Spirit. 87 00:08:01,560 --> 00:08:06,440 If you walk in the Spirit, there's one evidence that you're going somewhere and where you're 88 00:08:06,440 --> 00:08:15,240 going and when you get there, the place you're going to will always be a place that glorifies 89 00:08:15,240 --> 00:08:16,800 God. 90 00:08:16,800 --> 00:08:22,560 When you're walking in the flesh, the evidence that you're walking in the flesh is you always 91 00:08:22,560 --> 00:08:26,520 arrive at places that please yourself. 92 00:08:26,520 --> 00:08:35,040 And the problem with us is once you are saved, you receive the Holy Spirit within your body, 93 00:08:35,040 --> 00:08:41,760 but your flesh is going to be with you until you die. 94 00:08:41,760 --> 00:08:47,400 And that's why Paul says as soon as you're saved, there is a struggle that you are born 95 00:08:47,400 --> 00:08:53,800 into and the struggle is caused by the divine life, the seed of divine life you receive 96 00:08:53,800 --> 00:08:54,800 at conversion. 97 00:08:54,800 --> 00:08:59,280 If you don't receive that seed of divine life, there's no struggle. 98 00:08:59,280 --> 00:09:00,680 You're happy to do fleshly things. 99 00:09:00,680 --> 00:09:04,960 You're happy to go the way the world goes, but once you receive the Holy Spirit, the 100 00:09:04,960 --> 00:09:15,840 divine life, it produces a conflict within you and your flesh, which is all your senses, 101 00:09:15,840 --> 00:09:24,560 touch, taste, smell, all those five senses, it wants to do opposite of what the spirit 102 00:09:24,560 --> 00:09:28,200 man inside you wants to do. 103 00:09:28,200 --> 00:09:35,080 There is a struggle going on and it's an age old struggle because it started when Sarah 104 00:09:35,080 --> 00:09:40,860 was pregnant with Ishmael and Isaac. 105 00:09:40,860 --> 00:09:42,320 They couldn't get on. 106 00:09:42,320 --> 00:09:45,320 The flesh will never get on with the spirit. 107 00:09:45,320 --> 00:09:48,720 You saw it again with Esau and Jacob. 108 00:09:48,720 --> 00:09:55,800 There is always, Esau is a man of the flesh, Jacob's a man of the spirit, and they cannot 109 00:09:55,800 --> 00:09:56,800 get on. 110 00:09:56,800 --> 00:09:58,720 They cannot live together. 111 00:09:58,720 --> 00:10:02,040 They want different things. 112 00:10:02,040 --> 00:10:07,000 The Bible says that we have this treasure in a jar of clay. 113 00:10:07,000 --> 00:10:15,320 The container is our flesh and the content, the Holy Spirit, is the treasure. 114 00:10:15,320 --> 00:10:23,760 That's what happens, but they want different things. 115 00:10:23,760 --> 00:10:32,720 This battle is like a, the way I describe it, it's like a gravitational pull because 116 00:10:32,720 --> 00:10:39,120 the flesh is always wanting to pull you down into the lower nature. 117 00:10:39,120 --> 00:10:42,160 The flesh is always wanting you to gossip. 118 00:10:42,160 --> 00:10:44,880 The flesh is always encouraging you to lust. 119 00:10:44,880 --> 00:10:47,900 The flesh is always encouraging you towards greed. 120 00:10:47,900 --> 00:10:55,160 The flesh, there's an exhaustive list in chapter five verse 19, but it's a gravitational pull 121 00:10:55,160 --> 00:10:57,520 to bring you down to a lower state. 122 00:10:57,520 --> 00:11:01,640 It is of jealousy and all those sort of things, drunkenness. 123 00:11:01,640 --> 00:11:08,160 But when we're in the spirit, it's like the law of aerodynamics. 124 00:11:08,160 --> 00:11:16,660 We soar above and live above all the lower nature that the flesh wants us to do. 125 00:11:16,660 --> 00:11:23,880 This is the only way we can make progress, is the only way we can defeat the flesh, the 126 00:11:23,880 --> 00:11:28,180 only way we can get above the lower desires and the lower nature of the flesh, which wants 127 00:11:28,180 --> 00:11:32,700 to do all that stuff, lust, gossip, be jealous, be greedy. 128 00:11:32,700 --> 00:11:38,320 The only way, there is no other way to defeat that except to walk in the spirit. 129 00:11:38,320 --> 00:11:43,600 A lot of Christians I've seen over the years try to get victory in the Christian life through 130 00:11:43,600 --> 00:11:46,880 what I would call self-will and self-effort. 131 00:11:46,880 --> 00:11:50,960 It leads to people living a great life of frustration. 132 00:11:50,960 --> 00:11:56,560 That's why I say that I think the thing that is most needed in the church is to be able 133 00:11:56,560 --> 00:12:03,080 to teach people on how to walk in the spirit. 134 00:12:03,080 --> 00:12:07,240 One of the great evidence I believe that, you see the Holy Spirit as a person is that 135 00:12:07,240 --> 00:12:11,880 you're walking in the flesh is when you come to dark times. 136 00:12:11,880 --> 00:12:15,700 Everyone is going to face dark times, everyone's going to go through difficult, dark periods 137 00:12:15,700 --> 00:12:16,700 in your life. 138 00:12:16,700 --> 00:12:17,700 There's no denying it. 139 00:12:17,700 --> 00:12:23,440 And when you're a Christian, I think you go through darker times. 140 00:12:23,440 --> 00:12:31,360 But when someone who is walking in the flesh encounters darkness, a dark season, a challenge 141 00:12:31,360 --> 00:12:36,360 in your, maybe your family, your marriage, your business, whatever it is, when you're 142 00:12:36,360 --> 00:12:47,360 walking in the flesh, you, that darkness produces fear in you and that fear neutralizes and 143 00:12:47,360 --> 00:12:52,360 often paralyzes your walk. 144 00:12:52,360 --> 00:12:58,280 Now we're all going to experience the darkness, but the Word of God, David said, even though 145 00:12:58,280 --> 00:13:01,400 I walk through the, what does he say? 146 00:13:01,400 --> 00:13:04,360 Shadow of the, I will not fear. 147 00:13:04,360 --> 00:13:05,360 Why? 148 00:13:05,360 --> 00:13:07,320 Because you are with me. 149 00:13:07,320 --> 00:13:11,480 When you're filled with the Holy Spirit, there is a person with you and when you're in those 150 00:13:11,480 --> 00:13:16,320 dark times, you know you're not alone because that person is the presence of God. 151 00:13:16,320 --> 00:13:21,600 It is the Spirit of God and you know, you know that your fear, yes, you're going to 152 00:13:21,600 --> 00:13:29,200 experience the emotion of fear, but rather than that fear stop you, terminate you, you 153 00:13:29,200 --> 00:13:34,120 know that fear is temporary because the person that is with you is the power of God and he's 154 00:13:34,120 --> 00:13:36,800 going to take you through. 155 00:13:36,800 --> 00:13:42,800 He's going to take you through. 156 00:13:42,800 --> 00:13:49,800 So it's like, that's why the Bible says, I did not give you a spirit of fear, but of 157 00:13:49,800 --> 00:13:54,000 power of love and a sound mind. 158 00:13:54,000 --> 00:14:01,280 Now if you turn to Romans chapter 8, this is a great passage again and tells us that 159 00:14:01,280 --> 00:14:07,280 the true sons of God walk by the Spirit, not of the flesh. 160 00:14:07,280 --> 00:14:25,160 Both these passages speak about the tension and the battle between the flesh and the Spirit. 161 00:14:25,160 --> 00:14:40,520 It tells us how to overcome the lower nature, how to be victorious, not through self-will, 162 00:14:40,520 --> 00:14:46,720 how to overcome the gravitational pull of the flesh trying to drag you into the lower 163 00:14:46,720 --> 00:14:53,480 nature and how to walk in the Spirit which lifts you into a different realm. 164 00:14:53,480 --> 00:14:59,240 When you walk in the Spirit, God is with me is not just a theology, it's a reality. 165 00:14:59,240 --> 00:15:05,480 You know the presence of God is with you and you live, this is not an arrogance, but you 166 00:15:05,480 --> 00:15:08,080 live above your circumstances. 167 00:15:08,080 --> 00:15:11,520 You have the same circumstances, but they don't take you down. 168 00:15:11,520 --> 00:15:17,120 You're able to go through them and stay on top. 169 00:15:17,120 --> 00:15:25,080 You're able to go through the same battles, the same challenges, but they do not pull 170 00:15:25,080 --> 00:15:26,800 you down. 171 00:15:26,800 --> 00:15:36,660 They do not take you down and that's because the Spirit has the last say in every battle. 172 00:15:36,660 --> 00:15:42,000 The Spirit has the last word in every battle. 173 00:15:42,000 --> 00:15:50,080 So you say, well how do I walk in the Spirit or with the Spirit and not allow my flesh 174 00:15:50,080 --> 00:15:56,960 to lead me, not be led just by my human senses? 175 00:15:56,960 --> 00:16:02,840 Firstly you have to, when those people come to you, there are Judaizes today. 176 00:16:02,840 --> 00:16:06,880 There are many people, I've encountered many both outside and some have come inside the 177 00:16:06,880 --> 00:16:11,920 church and said, you're a good church, but you need to be doing X, Y, Z. 178 00:16:11,920 --> 00:16:18,120 And if you listen to that, you'll grieve the Holy Spirit, you'll lose your freedom, the 179 00:16:18,120 --> 00:16:23,080 joy of the Lord will leave you, your strength will go and you'll say, I don't know what's 180 00:16:23,080 --> 00:16:30,680 happened but ever since I decided that eating five apples a day was necessary to salvation, 181 00:16:30,680 --> 00:16:37,760 whatever it is, whatever it is you add to the simplicity of Christ will steal your joy. 182 00:16:37,760 --> 00:16:46,600 It'll steal your freedom because it is Christ alone who saves us and the Spirit alone empowers 183 00:16:46,600 --> 00:16:48,400 us. 184 00:16:48,400 --> 00:16:55,440 So when you encounter that, you can't be nice to everyone, you need to stand firm in the 185 00:16:55,440 --> 00:16:56,680 liberty. 186 00:16:56,680 --> 00:17:01,860 You need to be able to recognize it and say, it sounds good, it sounds good but it's not 187 00:17:01,860 --> 00:17:04,680 for me. 188 00:17:04,680 --> 00:17:07,600 So you need to be able to recognize it and stand firm. 189 00:17:07,600 --> 00:17:13,240 Paul says, stand firm now in the liberty you received. 190 00:17:13,240 --> 00:17:22,000 And then I believe the Holy Spirit walking in the Spirit and walking by faith are almost 191 00:17:22,000 --> 00:17:25,200 two sides of the same coin. 192 00:17:25,200 --> 00:17:30,160 And when Paul speaks about walking in the Spirit, you're seeing Galatians chapter five, 193 00:17:30,160 --> 00:17:35,960 which is where he's addressing this, he begins in chapter three by saying, oh you foolish 194 00:17:35,960 --> 00:17:40,240 Galatians who has bewitched you. 195 00:17:40,240 --> 00:17:44,280 And then he goes on to say, this only I want to learn from you, did you receive in verse 196 00:17:44,280 --> 00:17:49,520 two, the spirit of the works of the law or by the hearing of faith? 197 00:17:49,520 --> 00:17:54,440 He goes on to say, therefore he supplies the Spirit to you and works miracles, does he 198 00:17:54,440 --> 00:17:57,560 do it by the works of the law or by the hearing of faith? 199 00:17:57,560 --> 00:18:02,100 You see the connection between the receiving of the Spirit and faith. 200 00:18:02,100 --> 00:18:07,800 And then he says it again in chapter three verse 14, that the blessing of Abraham might 201 00:18:07,800 --> 00:18:12,640 come upon the Gentiles in Christ that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through 202 00:18:12,640 --> 00:18:14,280 faith. 203 00:18:14,280 --> 00:18:20,320 So if you are going to walk in the Spirit, faith really, I've come to like this later 204 00:18:20,320 --> 00:18:27,040 definition as I get older, faith really means dependency upon God for everything. 205 00:18:27,040 --> 00:18:32,160 And faith in this context means dependency upon the Spirit for everything. 206 00:18:32,160 --> 00:18:36,480 You got to know that your flesh can produce nothing good because when you're, let me just 207 00:18:36,480 --> 00:18:41,080 wait, when you're walking some, walk in the Spirit, what do you use to walk? 208 00:18:41,080 --> 00:18:45,640 Use legs and you lean on your legs and you depend upon your legs to get you where you 209 00:18:45,640 --> 00:18:46,640 want to go. 210 00:18:46,640 --> 00:18:50,000 And this is what you've got to do when you walk in the Spirit, you've got to depend and 211 00:18:50,000 --> 00:18:52,520 lean upon the Spirit for everything. 212 00:18:52,520 --> 00:18:56,400 Everything, you got to know from your flesh you can produce nothing good. 213 00:18:56,400 --> 00:19:00,320 If you have a strategy, it may sound good, it may be good, but if it is not birthed by 214 00:19:00,320 --> 00:19:04,120 the Holy Spirit, it will not get you where God wants to get you and that is the place 215 00:19:04,120 --> 00:19:06,160 to glorify Him. 216 00:19:06,160 --> 00:19:09,960 So you got to lean on the Holy Spirit. 217 00:19:09,960 --> 00:19:12,240 And so you come to a temptation. 218 00:19:12,240 --> 00:19:15,600 You know most people I know, they actually, a lot of people they try to overcome temptation 219 00:19:15,600 --> 00:19:17,720 through self-will. 220 00:19:17,720 --> 00:19:21,840 And then they fail because flesh can't overcome flesh and they become despondent, they say 221 00:19:21,840 --> 00:19:23,840 this doesn't work. 222 00:19:23,840 --> 00:19:28,560 But when you throw yourself on God and you say, I know I can't overcome this temptation, 223 00:19:28,560 --> 00:19:32,280 I know I'm going to give it into it apart from you Holy Spirit. 224 00:19:32,280 --> 00:19:38,040 When you do that and when you depend upon the Holy Spirit, a river and a flow is released 225 00:19:38,040 --> 00:19:39,040 to you. 226 00:19:39,040 --> 00:19:40,040 What is it? 227 00:19:40,040 --> 00:19:42,720 Not fear, but power to overcome that temptation. 228 00:19:42,720 --> 00:19:46,560 Love to love that person who's trying to make you angry and control you. 229 00:19:46,560 --> 00:19:52,400 You actually have a supernatural ability to love them and then you have a sound mind. 230 00:19:52,400 --> 00:19:56,200 Your thinking gets onto God's frequency. 231 00:19:56,200 --> 00:20:01,720 But it's only released, that's the life of the Spirit is only released when we are dependent 232 00:20:01,720 --> 00:20:05,440 upon Him for everything. 233 00:20:05,440 --> 00:20:09,200 Everything. 234 00:20:09,200 --> 00:20:14,760 You got to learn to depend on the Holy Spirit. 235 00:20:14,760 --> 00:20:21,480 And the Holy Spirit, when He's in you, Jesus said in John chapter seven, and it's very 236 00:20:21,480 --> 00:20:25,200 instructive even today because this still happens. 237 00:20:25,200 --> 00:20:32,080 But Jesus is watching, He's watching people celebrate what God did yesterday, but they 238 00:20:32,080 --> 00:20:36,000 have no present day expectation God's going to do anything miraculous today. 239 00:20:36,000 --> 00:20:41,720 And He's watching them, they're celebrating when Moses bought water out of the rock to 240 00:20:41,720 --> 00:20:44,760 feed 600,000 people or whatever it was. 241 00:20:44,760 --> 00:20:49,380 And He struck the rock and this supernatural event happened, water flowed. 242 00:20:49,380 --> 00:20:53,640 But they had no expectancy that this was the same God who could do similar things in their 243 00:20:53,640 --> 00:20:54,640 midst today. 244 00:20:54,640 --> 00:20:58,840 And Jesus was watching this, you know, this is what religion is, it's a celebration of 245 00:20:58,840 --> 00:21:02,840 what God did yesterday with no present day expectation that He's alive today. 246 00:21:02,840 --> 00:21:09,120 And He's watching this and He's becoming angry because He's saying, I'm here. 247 00:21:09,120 --> 00:21:13,360 The rock which was struck is standing before you and you can't recognize it. 248 00:21:13,360 --> 00:21:14,760 That's what religion does to you. 249 00:21:14,760 --> 00:21:19,960 And He says, if anyone thirsts, let him come to me and drink, he who believes in me as 250 00:21:19,960 --> 00:21:24,200 the scripture has said, out of his heart will flow rivers of living water. 251 00:21:24,200 --> 00:21:27,040 And He said, that's the Holy Spirit. 252 00:21:27,040 --> 00:21:32,660 But see the Holy Spirit comes when you're filled, when you believe and you're filled, 253 00:21:32,660 --> 00:21:37,960 He comes to indwell you and you are filled and He starts to change you from the inside 254 00:21:37,960 --> 00:21:40,000 out. 255 00:21:40,000 --> 00:21:45,360 But I've said this many times, the Holy Spirit can be in you as a pond or He can be in you 256 00:21:45,360 --> 00:21:48,480 as a river. 257 00:21:48,480 --> 00:21:55,040 And for Him to be in you as a river dominating and dictating to your flesh, there needs to 258 00:21:55,040 --> 00:21:56,040 be a flow. 259 00:21:56,040 --> 00:21:58,480 And how do you make the river flow? 260 00:21:58,480 --> 00:22:01,820 It's the same thing when you're baptized in the Holy Spirit. 261 00:22:01,820 --> 00:22:06,760 So you're filled with the river but you're baptized with fire. 262 00:22:06,760 --> 00:22:11,840 The river needs to be stirred in order to flow, the fire needs to be stirred when it 263 00:22:11,840 --> 00:22:15,400 becomes a flicker. 264 00:22:15,400 --> 00:22:24,440 And that's why Paul says to Timothy, in 1 Timothy chapter, 2 Timothy chapter 1 verse 265 00:22:24,440 --> 00:22:30,680 6, he says this, therefore I remind you to stir up the gift of God which is in you through 266 00:22:30,680 --> 00:22:34,040 the laying on of hands. 267 00:22:34,040 --> 00:22:38,080 So the river that you've received the Holy Spirit sometimes in you as a pond, there's 268 00:22:38,080 --> 00:22:42,680 no life, there's no peace, there's no joy, there's no victory, nothing's happening because 269 00:22:42,680 --> 00:22:45,040 you need to stir up that gift. 270 00:22:45,040 --> 00:22:48,760 Or maybe you received a spiritual gift. 271 00:22:48,760 --> 00:22:53,660 This is referring to a spiritual, remember the gift of prophecy. 272 00:22:53,660 --> 00:22:58,880 But that gift, the person of the Holy Spirit needs to be stirred. 273 00:22:58,880 --> 00:23:02,760 And how do you stir the Holy Spirit which is within you? 274 00:23:02,760 --> 00:23:06,960 You need to be a stirred person so that you're in overflow because when you get to someone 275 00:23:06,960 --> 00:23:11,800 to minister to, it's too late to stir yourself. 276 00:23:11,800 --> 00:23:13,040 There needs to be a flow. 277 00:23:13,040 --> 00:23:17,800 Jesus says, David said my cup overflows. 278 00:23:17,800 --> 00:23:20,800 How do you stir? 279 00:23:20,800 --> 00:23:28,360 Ezekiel chapter 47 is a prophetic picture of the end time church which is moving in the 280 00:23:28,360 --> 00:23:30,700 power of the Holy Spirit. 281 00:23:30,700 --> 00:23:37,080 And it says there is a river that flows and this river flows and it's really the spirit-filled 282 00:23:37,080 --> 00:23:39,320 church being led by the Holy Spirit. 283 00:23:39,320 --> 00:23:44,680 And everywhere these people who are filled with the Spirit go, they bring healing. 284 00:23:44,680 --> 00:23:49,480 Whatever this river touches, it gets healed. 285 00:23:49,480 --> 00:23:56,680 So it says the river flows in verse 1 from under the threshold of the temple. 286 00:23:56,680 --> 00:24:02,920 Now that's in chapter 47 but a lot of people don't know what precedes chapter 47 is chapter 287 00:24:02,920 --> 00:24:06,080 46, profound. 288 00:24:06,080 --> 00:24:13,120 And then it says chapter 46 is which precedes chapter 47 about the river flowing. 289 00:24:13,120 --> 00:24:15,400 It is all about worship. 290 00:24:15,400 --> 00:24:18,440 The headline is the matter of worship. 291 00:24:18,440 --> 00:24:24,240 And it says that he shall worship at the threshold of the gate. 292 00:24:24,240 --> 00:24:29,700 And in Ezekiel 47 says the water flows from under the threshold. 293 00:24:29,700 --> 00:24:31,400 What am I saying? 294 00:24:31,400 --> 00:24:38,820 Is that the way to stir the Holy Spirit, the way to be a stirred is through worship. 295 00:24:38,820 --> 00:24:42,720 And worship, the reason a lot of people are not stirred is they think worship is an event 296 00:24:42,720 --> 00:24:44,440 we do on Sunday. 297 00:24:44,440 --> 00:24:49,800 Worship is an act that we bring to God every second of our lives. 298 00:24:49,800 --> 00:24:54,860 And is just completely being surrendered to Him, completely being needed to Him, praising 299 00:24:54,860 --> 00:24:56,240 Him with our obedience. 300 00:24:56,240 --> 00:24:59,840 That's a life of worship and that's why the Spirit flows. 301 00:24:59,840 --> 00:25:04,840 So to be a stirred person, to walk in the Spirit you must stir what you've received 302 00:25:04,840 --> 00:25:07,840 and the first thing to stir yourself is worship. 303 00:25:07,840 --> 00:25:12,100 The second thing that stirs your spirit is praying in tongues. 304 00:25:12,100 --> 00:25:15,760 And I sometimes come into, I've got to be critical of my own church here, sometimes 305 00:25:15,760 --> 00:25:16,760 I come into the prayer meeting. 306 00:25:16,760 --> 00:25:19,460 You know a good prayer meeting, I'll tell you what a good prayer meeting. 307 00:25:19,460 --> 00:25:24,640 It's about 30% real worship and then it's about the other 30% praying in tongues. 308 00:25:24,640 --> 00:25:28,400 Because when you pray in tongues, God is a Spirit. 309 00:25:28,400 --> 00:25:32,920 You're praying in the Spirit and you're tapping into the very mind of God. 310 00:25:32,920 --> 00:25:37,440 And what you do, you're praying what God wants you to pray into your life. 311 00:25:37,440 --> 00:25:40,520 You're praying things that you don't even know need to be prayed about. 312 00:25:40,520 --> 00:25:42,280 There are things happening in your family. 313 00:25:42,280 --> 00:25:46,120 When you pray in tongues you're actually praying the solution that God is wanting you 314 00:25:46,120 --> 00:25:48,400 to pray because He is the God of the Word. 315 00:25:48,400 --> 00:25:51,400 It is so powerful praying in tongues. 316 00:25:51,400 --> 00:25:55,920 In the Spirit realm you're defeating spiritual powers that you can't even see. 317 00:25:55,920 --> 00:25:59,320 You're cutting off problems that you don't even know are coming against you. 318 00:25:59,320 --> 00:26:04,200 It is so productive to pray in the Holy Spirit. 319 00:26:04,200 --> 00:26:06,820 And I want to be critical with some people. 320 00:26:06,820 --> 00:26:09,760 It is okay to pray in the mind. 321 00:26:09,760 --> 00:26:12,920 We want to come in and we want to, everything that's in the newspaper, everything we've 322 00:26:12,920 --> 00:26:16,000 read, everything that's going on about politics, we want to pray about that, we want to pray 323 00:26:16,000 --> 00:26:17,920 about this. 324 00:26:17,920 --> 00:26:22,920 It's okay, but it's nothing like praying in the Spirit. 325 00:26:22,920 --> 00:26:28,240 And when you pray in your Spirit, your Spirit is stirred. 326 00:26:28,240 --> 00:26:29,240 Your Spirit is stirred. 327 00:26:29,240 --> 00:26:32,760 And you know the evidence, the evidence that you're being baptized in the Holy Spirit, 328 00:26:32,760 --> 00:26:38,320 I know there are some people, and I'm going to be critical, but some people they think 329 00:26:38,320 --> 00:26:45,640 like weird behavior or manifestations of certain things shows that I'm a great spiritual person. 330 00:26:45,640 --> 00:26:48,560 I'm not trying to show we're a great spiritual person, but the evidence you're baptized in 331 00:26:48,560 --> 00:26:53,160 the Holy Spirit is you're praying tongues. 332 00:26:53,160 --> 00:26:55,640 Silence. 333 00:26:55,640 --> 00:26:57,280 Because people like the weirdness. 334 00:26:57,280 --> 00:26:59,440 It means nothing. 335 00:26:59,440 --> 00:27:03,600 Jesus, when he received the Holy Spirit, he's straight up. 336 00:27:03,600 --> 00:27:04,600 Straight up. 337 00:27:04,600 --> 00:27:05,600 There's nothing strange about him. 338 00:27:05,600 --> 00:27:07,880 He's straight up. 339 00:27:07,880 --> 00:27:11,960 Smith Wigglesworth said, once a man is baptized in the Holy Spirit, he is straight up because 340 00:27:11,960 --> 00:27:16,880 it produces the life of Christ. 341 00:27:16,880 --> 00:27:20,120 But we have to be a stirred people. 342 00:27:20,120 --> 00:27:21,120 We have to be stirred. 343 00:27:21,120 --> 00:27:22,120 We have to be stirred. 344 00:27:22,120 --> 00:27:26,640 And this time I believe the Holy Spirit is trying to stir his people. 345 00:27:26,640 --> 00:27:32,800 He's trying to get us into that place where we want Christ, we want to obey him, we want 346 00:27:32,800 --> 00:27:36,000 to praise him, we want him and nothing else. 347 00:27:36,000 --> 00:27:42,400 We want to worship him with all of our life and we want the Spirit of God to flow. 348 00:27:42,400 --> 00:27:48,400 You know, you've got to know that this is corporately and individually. 349 00:27:48,400 --> 00:27:53,660 Without the Holy Spirit, the Christian life is absolutely hopeless. 350 00:27:53,660 --> 00:27:55,360 He is the victory. 351 00:27:55,360 --> 00:27:57,240 He is the one that gives you the victory. 352 00:27:57,240 --> 00:28:04,840 He is the one that will defeat your flesh and trying to overcome and beat temptation 353 00:28:04,840 --> 00:28:11,400 and beat that depression by self-will is only going to lead to frustration. 354 00:28:11,400 --> 00:28:15,600 We have to get to the place where we say, I cannot overcome this. 355 00:28:15,600 --> 00:28:20,040 I cannot defeat this what I'm fighting, whether it be a temptation, whether it be a depression, 356 00:28:20,040 --> 00:28:25,560 I throw myself on the floor and I depend upon you Holy Spirit to do something in my life 357 00:28:25,560 --> 00:28:27,000 that I can't do. 358 00:28:27,000 --> 00:28:31,440 When you get to that place, the Holy Spirit releases a power, he produces a love into 359 00:28:31,440 --> 00:28:38,040 your heart and reduces something into your mind that makes your thinking sound. 360 00:28:38,040 --> 00:28:46,520 You didn't receive a spirit of fear but of power, love and a sound mind. 361 00:28:46,520 --> 00:28:50,660 So we need to depend upon him. 362 00:28:50,660 --> 00:29:00,100 We need to stir ourselves and you also need to feed the man. 363 00:29:00,100 --> 00:29:07,720 There was an advert one day, feed the man meat but we need to because what it is, your 364 00:29:07,720 --> 00:29:17,560 body is alive but your spirit man is in there and I prayed for someone once and it was really, 365 00:29:17,560 --> 00:29:21,240 I couldn't figure out what God was trying to show me but he showed me later. 366 00:29:21,240 --> 00:29:25,800 This person had all these issues in their life and when I stood there and prayed for 367 00:29:25,800 --> 00:29:31,520 them all I could see was this incredibly puny man but they were quite a big person. 368 00:29:31,520 --> 00:29:39,880 And God said to me, he said, the spirit man in them is so weak that the flesh keeps defeating 369 00:29:39,880 --> 00:29:46,520 the spirit because they eat junk food all the time. 370 00:29:46,520 --> 00:29:50,880 You know if all we read about, you know if you read the newspaper all the time you're 371 00:29:50,880 --> 00:29:52,840 going to become worldly. 372 00:29:52,840 --> 00:29:56,200 If you read the Bible all the time you're going to become godly. 373 00:29:56,200 --> 00:30:04,080 And if you're feeding yourself, your soul and your body all the time on just the stuff 374 00:30:04,080 --> 00:30:10,400 that the world, you know on your phone reading stuff all the time, your spirit man cannot 375 00:30:10,400 --> 00:30:11,400 grow strong. 376 00:30:11,400 --> 00:30:13,720 He yearns for the word of God. 377 00:30:13,720 --> 00:30:18,120 He yearns for the logos and he yearns for the rima. 378 00:30:18,120 --> 00:30:24,540 That's what builds your spirit man up is the word. 379 00:30:24,540 --> 00:30:27,600 And we need to be people. 380 00:30:27,600 --> 00:30:33,520 I'm concerned for these generation of Christians because it's almost as though, I've been 381 00:30:33,520 --> 00:30:39,640 to a lot of places over the years, it's almost as though we're becoming post-word Christians. 382 00:30:39,640 --> 00:30:42,600 People go and you go into churches and you see people without Bibles. 383 00:30:42,600 --> 00:30:50,560 I think how can you, how can you be a Christian and not have a Bible? 384 00:30:50,560 --> 00:30:52,400 That's your roadmap. 385 00:30:52,400 --> 00:30:54,160 That's your food. 386 00:30:54,160 --> 00:30:56,920 That's your sword. 387 00:30:56,920 --> 00:30:58,880 Okay. 388 00:30:58,880 --> 00:31:04,360 Now, let me read. 389 00:31:04,360 --> 00:31:05,800 Still got plenty of time. 390 00:31:05,800 --> 00:31:06,800 Okay. 391 00:31:06,800 --> 00:31:09,640 Verse five, hold on to your hat. 392 00:31:09,640 --> 00:31:13,840 Verse five of Romans chapter eight, for those who live according to the flesh set their 393 00:31:13,840 --> 00:31:22,800 minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the spirit, the things 394 00:31:22,800 --> 00:31:30,160 of the spirit, for to be carnally minded is death, but to be spiritually minded is life 395 00:31:30,160 --> 00:31:35,000 and peace because the carnally mind is enmity against God for is not, thanks to us, subject 396 00:31:35,000 --> 00:31:37,800 to the law of God nor indeed can be. 397 00:31:37,800 --> 00:31:41,320 So then those who are in the flesh cannot please God. 398 00:31:41,320 --> 00:31:42,480 That's sobering, isn't it? 399 00:31:42,480 --> 00:31:46,840 But you are not in the flesh, but in the spirit, if indeed the spirit of God dwells in you. 400 00:31:46,840 --> 00:31:51,120 Now, if anyone does not have the spirit of Christ, he is not his. 401 00:31:51,120 --> 00:31:55,840 And if Christ is in you, the body is dead because of sin, but the spirit is life because 402 00:31:55,840 --> 00:31:57,240 of righteousness. 403 00:31:57,240 --> 00:32:02,280 But if the spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, he who raised 404 00:32:02,280 --> 00:32:08,080 Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through the spirit who 405 00:32:08,080 --> 00:32:10,360 dwells in you. 406 00:32:10,360 --> 00:32:17,880 Now what Paul is saying there is that when you receive the spirit, the spirit that's 407 00:32:17,880 --> 00:32:23,640 in you, you have a mind, so you have a body, physical body with legs and arms, you have 408 00:32:23,640 --> 00:32:28,240 a soul which is the realm of your mind, will and emotions, that's where psychologists work 409 00:32:28,240 --> 00:32:30,960 on the soul, but you have a spirit. 410 00:32:30,960 --> 00:32:36,360 In your body and your soul, they are still subject to sin and depravity, but your spirit 411 00:32:36,360 --> 00:32:39,640 when you receive it, it is the spirit of God. 412 00:32:39,640 --> 00:32:40,920 There is no sin in it. 413 00:32:40,920 --> 00:32:45,000 The spirit is completely righteous. 414 00:32:45,000 --> 00:32:46,920 He is in you. 415 00:32:46,920 --> 00:32:52,200 That's why you should say, you don't walk around saying, I'm just a sinner saved by grace. 416 00:32:52,200 --> 00:32:57,160 That requires no faith, but also denies who's come to live in you. 417 00:32:57,160 --> 00:32:58,760 And you're saying, well, I'm just a sinner saved. 418 00:32:58,760 --> 00:33:02,320 That's saying, I want to remain subject to the flesh and defeated. 419 00:33:02,320 --> 00:33:06,400 But you say, no, I am this person, this spirit man. 420 00:33:06,400 --> 00:33:08,040 He's taking over. 421 00:33:08,040 --> 00:33:12,920 The righteousness of God is in me and that's who I identify with. 422 00:33:12,920 --> 00:33:16,560 And you say it by faith. 423 00:33:16,560 --> 00:33:20,720 Not arrogantly, you're not saying, it's not saying that I'm not subject to sin, not saying 424 00:33:20,720 --> 00:33:27,820 I don't fall, but I see myself not as someone who's going to be defeated. 425 00:33:27,820 --> 00:33:33,760 People who say that, often it's an excuse to remain in sin. 426 00:33:33,760 --> 00:33:34,760 It is. 427 00:33:34,760 --> 00:33:36,280 It's an excuse. 428 00:33:36,280 --> 00:33:38,680 They really don't want to overcome. 429 00:33:38,680 --> 00:33:41,760 When you start to, as a man thinks in his heart, so he is, when you start to define 430 00:33:41,760 --> 00:33:47,320 yourself as a righteousness of God, this stuff starts to fall off your life. 431 00:33:47,320 --> 00:33:51,040 And it's not arrogance. 432 00:33:51,040 --> 00:33:55,800 So here it is, it says, same spirit that raised Jesus from the dead. 433 00:33:55,800 --> 00:33:56,800 What is that? 434 00:33:56,800 --> 00:33:59,200 It's the resurrection spirit and it is life. 435 00:33:59,200 --> 00:34:05,560 So it says this spirit, it's not only righteousness, he said, but the spirit is life, verse 10, 436 00:34:05,560 --> 00:34:07,900 because of righteousness. 437 00:34:07,900 --> 00:34:11,840 So the spirit is the same spirit that raised Jesus from the dead. 438 00:34:11,840 --> 00:34:16,000 Jesus was dead and this spirit came in and raised him back up. 439 00:34:16,000 --> 00:34:18,840 And that same spirit is now living in you. 440 00:34:18,840 --> 00:34:20,840 But here's where it gets exciting. 441 00:34:20,840 --> 00:34:25,680 It says, but the spirit from him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you. 442 00:34:25,680 --> 00:34:32,360 He who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through the 443 00:34:32,360 --> 00:34:33,800 spirit who dwells in you. 444 00:34:33,800 --> 00:34:34,800 Ho. 445 00:34:34,800 --> 00:34:40,720 So that spirit that is now in you, that raised Jesus from the dead, is able to bring, when 446 00:34:40,720 --> 00:34:45,120 you're depressed, life into you and raise you up out of that depression. 447 00:34:45,120 --> 00:34:51,440 When you're sick, he's able to come into your sickness and raise you up out of your sickness. 448 00:34:51,440 --> 00:34:55,760 When you're in sin, he's able to come out into you and he's able to raise you out of 449 00:34:55,760 --> 00:34:58,760 your sin because he is the spirit of life. 450 00:34:58,760 --> 00:35:03,600 Everything about the Holy Spirit is life and it is righteousness. 451 00:35:03,600 --> 00:35:11,920 So you have this treasure, this spirit of life in a jar of clay, but your jar of clay 452 00:35:11,920 --> 00:35:16,140 still lasts and it still gets depressed. 453 00:35:16,140 --> 00:35:25,760 So how do you get the life of the spirit to affect the soul and the realm of the flesh? 454 00:35:25,760 --> 00:35:30,360 Paul says here, for those who living according to the flesh set their minds on the things 455 00:35:30,360 --> 00:35:35,240 of the flesh, but those who live according to the spirit, the things of the spirit, for 456 00:35:35,240 --> 00:35:41,200 to be carnally minded is death, but to be spiritually minded is life and peace. 457 00:35:41,200 --> 00:35:50,400 The bridge between the life of the spirit and your soul and your body is your mind. 458 00:35:50,400 --> 00:35:58,160 Your mind is the battlefield and your mind is the bridge, but if you keep thinking, I 459 00:35:58,160 --> 00:36:02,280 am just a sinner saved by grace. 460 00:36:02,280 --> 00:36:05,200 I am just going to be sick forever. 461 00:36:05,200 --> 00:36:09,200 This is never going to change. 462 00:36:09,200 --> 00:36:13,480 Your mind when you think like that is focused. 463 00:36:13,480 --> 00:36:19,800 It's called carnally minded and it is death, but the mind that is... 464 00:36:19,800 --> 00:36:20,800 Listen to this. 465 00:36:20,800 --> 00:36:28,560 The mind, the carnally mind is enmity against God because it is not subject to the law of 466 00:36:28,560 --> 00:36:35,840 God, but if you set your things on the things of the flesh, those according to the spirit, 467 00:36:35,840 --> 00:36:44,080 but if you set your mind on things of the spirit, life is released. 468 00:36:44,080 --> 00:36:46,840 What does the spirit want your mind focused on? 469 00:36:46,840 --> 00:36:49,000 What does the spirit want your mind focused on? 470 00:36:49,000 --> 00:36:54,620 It says there right in the passage. 471 00:36:54,620 --> 00:36:59,560 The spirit is life because of righteousness. 472 00:36:59,560 --> 00:37:05,000 In other words, the spirit comes in you to produce righteousness. 473 00:37:05,000 --> 00:37:09,160 And when your thinking is in line with the spirit, not prosperity, not success, but your 474 00:37:09,160 --> 00:37:12,960 thinking is on righteousness. 475 00:37:12,960 --> 00:37:18,840 When your thinking is on righteousness, you're thinking that's when the spirit, which is 476 00:37:18,840 --> 00:37:26,700 life, releases resurrection life into your soul and into your body. 477 00:37:26,700 --> 00:37:30,360 That's when the power that is in you is released. 478 00:37:30,360 --> 00:37:36,720 It is all dependent upon how you think. 479 00:37:36,720 --> 00:37:38,640 I'm telling you, the mind is the battlefield. 480 00:37:38,640 --> 00:37:39,920 I've seen this many, many times. 481 00:37:39,920 --> 00:37:48,320 I've seen over the years, I've seen how come it is that some believers, they get saved. 482 00:37:48,320 --> 00:37:52,720 Three years later, they're saving others. 483 00:37:52,720 --> 00:37:55,560 They're laying hands on the sick. 484 00:37:55,560 --> 00:37:57,480 They got a ministry. 485 00:37:57,480 --> 00:38:00,480 It's like, wow, so quickly. 486 00:38:00,480 --> 00:38:06,240 In others, they've been Christians for 50 years and they go around circles. 487 00:38:06,240 --> 00:38:07,240 What's the difference? 488 00:38:07,240 --> 00:38:08,240 It's the mind. 489 00:38:08,240 --> 00:38:11,240 It's the mind. 490 00:38:11,240 --> 00:38:19,240 The mind focused on the flesh or the mind focused on righteousness? 491 00:38:19,240 --> 00:38:27,920 The Bible actually says, God saved me to make me righteous like His son. 492 00:38:27,920 --> 00:38:28,920 That's what I want to be. 493 00:38:28,920 --> 00:38:30,800 That's what I think about. 494 00:38:30,800 --> 00:38:32,080 That's my goal. 495 00:38:32,080 --> 00:38:34,920 That's my aim. 496 00:38:34,920 --> 00:38:44,200 The spirit is life because of righteousness and the one who raised Christ from the dead 497 00:38:44,200 --> 00:38:53,000 gives life to your mortal bodies through His spirit that dwells in you. 498 00:38:53,000 --> 00:39:02,280 So we have been filled with the same power that raised Jesus from the dead. 499 00:39:02,280 --> 00:39:10,000 We also have this treasure in a jar of clay. 500 00:39:10,000 --> 00:39:15,320 Every day as a Christian, we need to make a choice. 501 00:39:15,320 --> 00:39:18,680 What realm am I going to live in? 502 00:39:18,680 --> 00:39:19,680 What realm am I going to live in? 503 00:39:19,680 --> 00:39:24,400 The realm of the flesh, the soul? 504 00:39:24,400 --> 00:39:33,420 Am I going to depend upon my own resources, my own thinking, even my own religious history, 505 00:39:33,420 --> 00:39:34,920 my own religious experience? 506 00:39:34,920 --> 00:39:37,680 Am I going to depend upon that? 507 00:39:37,680 --> 00:39:44,760 Or am I actually going to say every day, Holy Spirit, I need you. 508 00:39:44,760 --> 00:39:47,520 I need to know you more. 509 00:39:47,520 --> 00:39:50,660 I cannot overcome temptation of my own. 510 00:39:50,660 --> 00:39:54,440 I know that my flesh can produce no good thing. 511 00:39:54,440 --> 00:39:56,960 I need a fresh touch of you. 512 00:39:56,960 --> 00:40:00,240 I need you to move and I'm going to worship you. 513 00:40:00,240 --> 00:40:04,760 I'm going to pray in the spirit till the Holy Spirit starts to move again in my life. 514 00:40:04,760 --> 00:40:09,680 I'm going to be determined to be a stirred Christian. 515 00:40:09,680 --> 00:40:18,240 I'm going to feed my spirit man the Word of God and I'm going to focus my mind on becoming 516 00:40:18,240 --> 00:40:20,280 the righteousness of Christ. 517 00:40:20,280 --> 00:40:22,800 There's four things. 518 00:40:22,800 --> 00:40:31,080 If you do those, if you do those, there'll be a takeover in your life. 519 00:40:31,080 --> 00:40:37,040 The Holy Spirit will take over you. 520 00:40:37,040 --> 00:40:39,680 You have a body, a soul and a spirit. 521 00:40:39,680 --> 00:40:46,000 The key is to having... You know, have you ever seen an American marching band when they 522 00:40:46,000 --> 00:40:47,000 come out? 523 00:40:47,000 --> 00:40:49,000 That's the most glorious thing. 524 00:40:49,000 --> 00:40:50,000 Have you ever gone to America? 525 00:40:50,000 --> 00:40:53,520 I lived in America for a short while and they have before their sports, they have these 526 00:40:53,520 --> 00:40:58,120 marching bands and they're just all in sync and they're all... They just march beautifully 527 00:40:58,120 --> 00:40:59,800 and they all know what to do. 528 00:40:59,800 --> 00:41:02,240 Everything's in order and it's proper place. 529 00:41:02,240 --> 00:41:04,600 But you know why they're all in order? 530 00:41:04,600 --> 00:41:08,240 There's this guy out the front and he's got a pole and he's going doot, doot, doot, doot 531 00:41:08,240 --> 00:41:13,880 and everything he does, they're watching and they're all following him and they're all 532 00:41:13,880 --> 00:41:18,320 getting their directions from him and they're all doing what he says. 533 00:41:18,320 --> 00:41:21,000 That's how the Holy Spirit has to be in your life. 534 00:41:21,000 --> 00:41:23,120 He has to be the band leader. 535 00:41:23,120 --> 00:41:32,080 The one is out front with the influence that everything else follows. 536 00:41:32,080 --> 00:41:33,280 I am so excited. 537 00:41:33,280 --> 00:41:38,080 As a pastor, I've never been so excited and I'm not meaning to offend anybody here but 538 00:41:38,080 --> 00:41:39,560 I know what God is doing. 539 00:41:39,560 --> 00:41:46,440 We are going to see a great outpouring and the glory of the latter day is going to be 540 00:41:46,440 --> 00:41:48,720 greater than the former. 541 00:41:48,720 --> 00:41:55,720 There is going to be... I want to touch on things but I don't want you to be... Because 542 00:41:55,720 --> 00:42:00,560 what's going to happen is that when the Holy Spirit is poured out... God showed me this 543 00:42:00,560 --> 00:42:01,560 years ago. 544 00:42:01,560 --> 00:42:08,000 I used to be a really poor surfer in Cronulla when I was young and I wasn't very good but 545 00:42:08,000 --> 00:42:13,680 I used to sit on my board and my ski out there and because I wasn't very good, I didn't catch 546 00:42:13,680 --> 00:42:15,400 many waves. 547 00:42:15,400 --> 00:42:21,240 But I stood out there and I sat out there and what I would notice was that if you just 548 00:42:21,240 --> 00:42:27,880 sat out there and a big swell came, big wave came, I would just enjoy the bobbing up and 549 00:42:27,880 --> 00:42:28,880 down. 550 00:42:28,880 --> 00:42:33,320 It was an experience and it was great but the good surfers, they would anticipate what 551 00:42:33,320 --> 00:42:42,720 God was doing and they would ride into it and they would ride the wave a long way. 552 00:42:42,720 --> 00:42:44,880 I had the experiences bobbing up and down. 553 00:42:44,880 --> 00:42:48,160 When revival comes, this is what it's going to be like. 554 00:42:48,160 --> 00:42:52,640 If you're someone who lives in the flesh, you're going to say, oh, God's doing something. 555 00:42:52,640 --> 00:42:56,440 It's gone. 556 00:42:56,440 --> 00:43:01,640 But if you're someone who knows how to walk in the Spirit, you know you're going to go 557 00:43:01,640 --> 00:43:02,640 somewhere. 558 00:43:02,640 --> 00:43:04,400 That wave of God's glory is going to take you. 559 00:43:04,400 --> 00:43:05,560 It's going to take you in a ministry. 560 00:43:05,560 --> 00:43:06,880 It's going to take you in a place. 561 00:43:06,880 --> 00:43:08,680 It's going to take you and heal you. 562 00:43:08,680 --> 00:43:10,040 God's going to use you to heal people. 563 00:43:10,040 --> 00:43:11,200 It's going to take you to preach. 564 00:43:11,200 --> 00:43:14,920 It's going to take you in the dimensions that you can't get to if you're in the Spirit. 565 00:43:14,920 --> 00:43:16,840 It's going to take your business places. 566 00:43:16,840 --> 00:43:19,600 It's going to take you somewhere. 567 00:43:19,600 --> 00:43:25,360 But we really have to and I'm feeling so strong about this. 568 00:43:25,360 --> 00:43:26,360 This is not just us. 569 00:43:26,360 --> 00:43:28,360 It's the Western Church. 570 00:43:28,360 --> 00:43:36,600 It's so carnal and there has to be a repentance of how we've trusted in flesh. 571 00:43:36,600 --> 00:43:39,040 We have trusted in flesh. 572 00:43:39,040 --> 00:43:42,600 We've trusted in programs, you know, and God is dealing with it. 573 00:43:42,600 --> 00:43:47,480 If you've got eyes to see all the entertainment, God's pulling it all down now. 574 00:43:47,480 --> 00:43:54,560 He's going to bring His church back to a people who are dependent upon the Holy Spirit and 575 00:43:54,560 --> 00:43:58,520 know how to walk in and with Him. 576 00:43:58,520 --> 00:44:01,560 That's the future church. 577 00:44:01,560 --> 00:44:02,560 You know? 578 00:44:02,560 --> 00:44:06,160 If I've upset you, I'm sorry. 579 00:44:06,160 --> 00:44:07,840 Actually, I'm not. 580 00:44:07,840 --> 00:44:09,400 It's the Holy Spirit. 581 00:44:09,400 --> 00:44:11,200 I'm just preaching in the Spirit. 582 00:44:11,200 --> 00:44:14,080 The Holy Spirit's upset you. 583 00:44:14,080 --> 00:44:18,280 But we are going to see God do something in this day. 584 00:44:18,280 --> 00:44:29,080 And I even believe, you know, if you've got eyes to see, if you've got eyes to see, you 585 00:44:29,080 --> 00:44:31,520 know that in 2019 something changed. 586 00:44:31,520 --> 00:44:34,000 It's not going back. 587 00:44:34,000 --> 00:44:38,040 We are entering into what the Bible calls the birth pains. 588 00:44:38,040 --> 00:44:40,000 And the world is going to get very, very dark. 589 00:44:40,000 --> 00:44:42,200 It's going to get darker. 590 00:44:42,200 --> 00:44:44,400 But this is what the Bible says. 591 00:44:44,400 --> 00:44:49,080 For behold, the darkness shall cover the earth and deep darkness the people. 592 00:44:49,080 --> 00:44:52,160 But the Lord will rise over you and His glory will be seen upon you. 593 00:44:52,160 --> 00:44:55,520 The Gentiles shall come to your light and kings to the brightness of your rising. 594 00:44:55,520 --> 00:44:56,600 It's on the wall over there. 595 00:44:56,600 --> 00:44:59,080 I didn't even put it up there. 596 00:44:59,080 --> 00:45:01,520 Someone put it up there as a prophetic gesture. 597 00:45:01,520 --> 00:45:06,880 But this means that the hour of the greatest darkness is always, is also going to be the 598 00:45:06,880 --> 00:45:17,720 hour of the church's glory because the church walks in the power of the Holy Spirit. 599 00:45:17,720 --> 00:45:20,560 This is what's coming. 600 00:45:20,560 --> 00:45:24,960 Let's pray. 601 00:45:24,960 --> 00:45:39,560 Father, we come to you today as your children. 602 00:45:39,560 --> 00:45:51,080 We are so thankful for Jesus that you sent Him, that you slayed Him for my sin, that 603 00:45:51,080 --> 00:45:56,880 you put Him on that cross and kept Him there in my place and in my stead. 604 00:45:56,880 --> 00:46:09,040 And I believe, you know, the Holy Spirit says, Peter said in Acts chapter 2, repent and receive 605 00:46:09,040 --> 00:46:11,040 the Holy Spirit. 606 00:46:11,040 --> 00:46:14,240 Someone here, you need to repent. 607 00:46:14,240 --> 00:46:16,640 You've never received the Holy Spirit. 608 00:46:16,640 --> 00:46:17,640 You're not saved. 609 00:46:17,640 --> 00:46:20,080 But that's what the Holy Spirit says to you today. 610 00:46:20,080 --> 00:46:23,520 The very life of God wants to come and indwell you, but you need to repent before you can 611 00:46:23,520 --> 00:46:24,520 receive. 612 00:46:24,520 --> 00:46:28,640 Whoever that's for, that's God speaking, not me. 613 00:46:28,640 --> 00:46:38,400 But Father, we thank you that you put your Son in my place, that He paid the penalty 614 00:46:38,400 --> 00:46:41,760 for all my sin. 615 00:46:41,760 --> 00:46:45,640 And when I came to Him, I was forgiven. 616 00:46:45,640 --> 00:46:47,680 I was cleansed. 617 00:46:47,680 --> 00:46:50,080 I was washed. 618 00:46:50,080 --> 00:46:55,360 And I was made into something new, new creation. 619 00:46:55,360 --> 00:47:01,000 The only reason it is new is because it now has someone living in me that wasn't living 620 00:47:01,000 --> 00:47:03,520 there before. 621 00:47:03,520 --> 00:47:05,360 This is the source of the newness. 622 00:47:05,360 --> 00:47:06,800 It is your Spirit. 623 00:47:06,800 --> 00:47:13,800 And we come to you today, Lord, and we repent and we apologize to you for ignoring you, 624 00:47:13,800 --> 00:47:15,020 Holy Spirit. 625 00:47:15,020 --> 00:47:27,240 We repent and apologize to you for preferring our own wisdom, our own religious background. 626 00:47:27,240 --> 00:47:35,640 We've trusted in other things and we have failed. 627 00:47:35,640 --> 00:47:39,240 But today, Lord, you are doing a new thing and we rejoice. 628 00:47:39,240 --> 00:47:43,600 We rejoice because you're merciful, you're gracious to forgive us. 629 00:47:43,600 --> 00:47:52,400 And we come to you today, Lord, and we say to you, Lord, we can do nothing without you. 630 00:47:52,400 --> 00:48:03,480 We declare to you, Lord, today our dependence, our humble dependence upon you for everything. 631 00:48:03,480 --> 00:48:09,380 Father, to overcome temptation, we need you, Holy Spirit. 632 00:48:09,380 --> 00:48:17,320 To overcome depression, we don't need the doctor, we need you, Holy Spirit. 633 00:48:17,320 --> 00:48:28,520 To overcome the darkness, we need you, Holy Spirit. 634 00:48:28,520 --> 00:48:36,200 To heal what is ailing, we need your resurrection life, Holy Spirit. 635 00:48:36,200 --> 00:48:49,680 I'm asking this morning that you deal with all self-sufficiency, you deal with our pride, 636 00:48:49,680 --> 00:49:02,600 you deal with our mind, you deal with our slothfulness, that you stir us this morning, 637 00:49:02,600 --> 00:49:11,440 stir in us desire to worship you, to stir up that gift by praying in the Spirit. 638 00:49:11,440 --> 00:49:21,120 To feed the man, the word, spiritual man, the word of God. 639 00:49:21,120 --> 00:49:23,320 That we may not frustrate you. 640 00:49:23,320 --> 00:49:28,080 Lord, you say if we walk in the Spirit, we're going somewhere. 641 00:49:28,080 --> 00:49:33,020 You want to take us to a place that glorifies you. 642 00:49:33,020 --> 00:49:38,240 You want us to finish our life knowing that we have not been ordinary but extraordinary 643 00:49:38,240 --> 00:49:43,040 because we have glorified the Lord Jesus Christ in this life. 644 00:49:43,040 --> 00:49:47,140 Lord, that is your plan. 645 00:49:47,140 --> 00:49:48,140 That is your plan. 646 00:49:48,140 --> 00:49:51,520 I ask that you deal with our flesh today. 647 00:49:51,520 --> 00:49:54,080 I give you permission, Lord. 648 00:49:54,080 --> 00:50:04,320 We say come Holy Spirit, convict us, convict us where we are carnal and help us. 649 00:50:04,320 --> 00:50:07,280 You are the helper, hallelujah. 650 00:50:07,280 --> 00:50:16,640 Help us to walk into that place where we will glorify you. 651 00:50:16,640 --> 00:50:18,720 Holy Spirit, we need you. 652 00:50:18,720 --> 00:50:19,720 We need you. 653 00:50:19,720 --> 00:50:27,400 No, thank you that we're not without you, that we have you. 654 00:50:27,400 --> 00:50:35,960 Stir us and keep us stirred for the sake of your kingdom in Jesus' name. 655 00:50:35,960 --> 00:50:41,440 All the people said, get ready church, God is about to move. 656 00:50:41,440 --> 00:50:42,440 I know it. 657 00:50:42,440 --> 00:50:47,900 I just feel those raindrops, first raindrops of an outpouring. 658 00:50:47,900 --> 00:50:51,800 I know it in my spirit and I'm excited. 659 00:50:51,800 --> 00:50:58,760 If you feel like you need to repent of anything or if you feel like the Spirit of God just, 660 00:50:58,760 --> 00:51:01,920 He never leaves you but sometimes you feel like He's left you. 661 00:51:01,920 --> 00:51:06,440 If you need, the Bible says you need to be filled and not just once, you need to be continually 662 00:51:06,440 --> 00:51:09,480 filled and filled and filled. 663 00:51:09,480 --> 00:51:15,200 The way you stay filled is to be empty of your own strength, empty of confidence in 664 00:51:15,200 --> 00:51:16,200 the flesh. 665 00:51:16,200 --> 00:51:19,200 If you need a fresh filling, I'm not going to pray for you, no one's going to touch you. 666 00:51:19,200 --> 00:51:23,880 You just come out here and say to God, I need a fresh touch. 667 00:51:23,880 --> 00:51:27,840 I need the Holy Spirit and He will do something new in your life. 668 00:51:27,840 --> 00:51:47,760 Hallelujah.