1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:05,000 Hey, hey, hey, hey. 2 00:00:05,000 --> 00:00:06,000 Mmm. 3 00:00:06,000 --> 00:00:16,680 Old songwriter said it pretty well in that old song, He Abides. 4 00:00:16,680 --> 00:00:21,540 I'm rejoicing night and day as I walk the narrow way. 5 00:00:21,540 --> 00:00:23,540 Amen? 6 00:00:23,540 --> 00:00:27,280 The comforter abides with me. 7 00:00:27,280 --> 00:00:30,600 Welcome to Pentecost Sunday. 8 00:00:30,600 --> 00:00:31,600 Hallelujah. 9 00:00:31,600 --> 00:00:36,200 Doesn't mean a whole lot to a lot of people around the world, but it does to some of us. 10 00:00:36,200 --> 00:00:37,440 Amen? 11 00:00:37,440 --> 00:00:44,920 Scares a few folks, but I remember when I was old enough to understand it scared me 12 00:00:44,920 --> 00:00:49,320 too when the Holy Ghost began to move. 13 00:00:49,320 --> 00:00:53,720 But soon I found a friend indeed. 14 00:00:53,720 --> 00:00:55,720 My comforter. 15 00:00:55,720 --> 00:00:57,720 My guide. 16 00:00:57,720 --> 00:00:59,720 My convictor. 17 00:00:59,720 --> 00:01:01,720 Amen? 18 00:01:01,720 --> 00:01:13,280 To have your Bibles turned with me, of course, today, let's look at Acts 2. 19 00:01:13,280 --> 00:01:15,880 Let's begin at verse 14. 20 00:01:15,880 --> 00:01:23,240 As you're turning there, remember the entirety of our church family who are grieving and 21 00:01:23,240 --> 00:01:26,040 dealing with the process of grief and loss. 22 00:01:26,040 --> 00:01:33,400 Let me just tell you, you've done wonderful, church, reaching out and just letting folks 23 00:01:33,400 --> 00:01:38,440 know that you love them and appreciating them and praying for them. 24 00:01:38,440 --> 00:01:40,360 So just continue to do that. 25 00:01:40,360 --> 00:01:42,520 A note to my mind. 26 00:01:42,520 --> 00:01:47,840 Remember, Brother Tony Hernandez, he had to go in for surgery this morning, haven't gotten 27 00:01:47,840 --> 00:01:50,160 a report on that just yet. 28 00:01:50,160 --> 00:01:52,960 So continue to remember Brother Tony. 29 00:01:52,960 --> 00:01:55,320 Remember, Al Wood as well. 30 00:01:55,320 --> 00:02:00,920 He's taking some serious falls and he needs a touch from the Lord. 31 00:02:00,920 --> 00:02:02,240 Amen? 32 00:02:02,240 --> 00:02:03,880 Amen. 33 00:02:03,880 --> 00:02:12,880 Acts chapter 2, verse 14 reads, but Peter standing up with the eleven lifted up his 34 00:02:12,880 --> 00:02:19,280 voice and he said unto them, you men of Judea and all you that dwell at Jerusalem, be this 35 00:02:19,280 --> 00:02:24,040 known unto you and hearken to my words. 36 00:02:24,040 --> 00:02:32,520 For these are not drunken as you suppose, seeing it is but the third hour of the day. 37 00:02:32,520 --> 00:02:39,060 But this is that which was spoken by the prophet Joel. 38 00:02:39,060 --> 00:02:43,960 And it shall come to pass in the last days, saith God, I will pour out of my spirit upon 39 00:02:43,960 --> 00:02:44,960 all flesh. 40 00:02:44,960 --> 00:02:51,040 Your sons, your daughters, they shall prophesy, your young men shall see visions and your 41 00:02:51,040 --> 00:02:54,400 old men shall dream dreams. 42 00:02:54,400 --> 00:03:01,800 And all my servants and all my handmaids, I will pour out in those days of my spirit 43 00:03:01,800 --> 00:03:04,600 and they shall prophesy. 44 00:03:04,600 --> 00:03:10,400 I want to preach to us this morning with the help of the Lord on a simple thought. 45 00:03:10,400 --> 00:03:18,200 Kindly spinning off that 16th verse where Peter said this is that, I just want to ask 46 00:03:18,200 --> 00:03:26,240 this question, well then where is it? 47 00:03:26,240 --> 00:03:29,720 Well where is it? 48 00:03:29,720 --> 00:03:33,600 So you can tell by the title I need some help this morning. 49 00:03:33,600 --> 00:03:34,600 Amen? 50 00:03:34,600 --> 00:03:38,160 I'll pray for you if you'll pray for me. 51 00:03:38,160 --> 00:03:40,200 Father I love you. 52 00:03:40,200 --> 00:03:44,760 So grateful, so thankful for the opportunity to worship you in spirit and truth today. 53 00:03:44,760 --> 00:03:50,360 And Lord as we are in your house to do so, we ask God that you continue to pour out of 54 00:03:50,360 --> 00:03:52,600 your blessing on each of us. 55 00:03:52,600 --> 00:03:58,360 Let that sweet anointing, that sweet wonderful, wonderful touch of the Holy Ghost be with 56 00:03:58,360 --> 00:03:59,360 us today. 57 00:03:59,360 --> 00:04:03,880 Touch your people, may we hear, touch me as I am your voice today. 58 00:04:03,880 --> 00:04:08,200 Help me Lord to speak that which is pleasing to you and edifying to the body. 59 00:04:08,200 --> 00:04:12,120 To you be praised forever in Christ's name. 60 00:04:12,120 --> 00:04:21,680 And the church said, ask your neighbor, well where is it? 61 00:04:21,680 --> 00:04:27,160 Some of you may know the name John Wimber who he was a member of the righteous brothers 62 00:04:27,160 --> 00:04:30,680 band back in the day. 63 00:04:30,680 --> 00:04:37,000 Some of you remember the day. 64 00:04:37,000 --> 00:04:44,760 He was a product of a parachurch movement, the Vineyard Church back in the early days 65 00:04:44,760 --> 00:04:48,840 of the charismatic movement. 66 00:04:48,840 --> 00:04:56,480 He met Christ in a dramatic way in his salvation and he began reading the New Testament beginning 67 00:04:56,480 --> 00:05:02,280 with the gospels and then on to the book of Acts as he follows in sequence. 68 00:05:02,280 --> 00:05:05,920 He was excited about what he was reading. 69 00:05:05,920 --> 00:05:12,200 But when he went to a church, he was very dismayed, disillusioned, disappointed if you 70 00:05:12,200 --> 00:05:13,780 will. 71 00:05:13,780 --> 00:05:21,920 The polite and tidy service was over exactly on time, didn't go past 12. 72 00:05:21,920 --> 00:05:26,040 Wimber looked at some of the people around him and he said, I like this one, I read it, 73 00:05:26,040 --> 00:05:27,040 it just stirred me good. 74 00:05:27,040 --> 00:05:32,200 When are you going to do the stuff? 75 00:05:32,200 --> 00:05:35,680 They said what stuff? 76 00:05:35,680 --> 00:05:39,360 He said you know the stuff. 77 00:05:39,360 --> 00:05:49,080 He'd been reading about miraculous conversions, healings, deliverance, miracles that took 78 00:05:49,080 --> 00:05:52,360 place in the early church recorded in the book of Acts. 79 00:05:52,360 --> 00:05:58,060 But instead of signs and wonders, he saw no sign of anything that would make him wonder 80 00:05:58,060 --> 00:06:06,760 at all except the deadness of the ritual he had just sat through. 81 00:06:06,760 --> 00:06:15,560 Isn't it odd that new converts that God just saves and then they begin to get in the word 82 00:06:15,560 --> 00:06:20,760 and they begin just to read the word and they begin to take the word for what the word declares 83 00:06:20,760 --> 00:06:25,560 and then when they may show up at church, well he's asking the same question, well where 84 00:06:25,560 --> 00:06:26,560 is it? 85 00:06:26,560 --> 00:06:35,560 I just, can you not just see a brand new Christian who no telling at the life that he led before 86 00:06:35,560 --> 00:06:41,440 his conversion being radically converted, saved, might have been from reading the Gideon 87 00:06:41,440 --> 00:06:43,940 Bible, I don't know. 88 00:06:43,940 --> 00:06:51,920 But he was saved, radically delivered, changed, transformed and that zeal began to consume 89 00:06:51,920 --> 00:06:56,780 him and he begins to read the word and he makes his way through the gospels. 90 00:06:56,780 --> 00:07:03,040 He makes his way through Luke where he takes him at the beginning to the manger, right? 91 00:07:03,040 --> 00:07:07,200 Too many have been to the manger but yet they've stopped before the upper room. 92 00:07:07,200 --> 00:07:10,840 They haven't made their way all the way through the process. 93 00:07:10,840 --> 00:07:15,640 They made their way from the manger to Calvary but they've stopped at Calvary and don't even 94 00:07:15,640 --> 00:07:19,640 live in the power of the resurrection. 95 00:07:19,640 --> 00:07:25,040 Because you've got to make your way past Bethlehem and past Calvary and past the borrowed tomb 96 00:07:25,040 --> 00:07:29,240 that's now empty and you've got to keep on traveling. 97 00:07:29,240 --> 00:07:31,560 You've got to keep progressing forward. 98 00:07:31,560 --> 00:07:34,880 Now pastor, can I not get to heaven without going forward? 99 00:07:34,880 --> 00:07:38,980 Well, Jesus is the way, the truth and the life. 100 00:07:38,980 --> 00:07:44,440 You got Jesus, you've been forgiven and you're living an upright life, he and you and you're 101 00:07:44,440 --> 00:07:46,480 abiding in him. 102 00:07:46,480 --> 00:07:49,920 That's the criteria for heaven. 103 00:07:49,920 --> 00:07:54,200 Hello Jesus is the criteria for heaven. 104 00:07:54,200 --> 00:07:57,920 But it's like getting ice cream. 105 00:07:57,920 --> 00:08:09,380 If they offer you two scoops for the price of one, why would you stop with one? 106 00:08:09,380 --> 00:08:13,160 We have an offering of more scoops than just one. 107 00:08:13,160 --> 00:08:23,840 Now one is good but two is better if it's chocolate chip. 108 00:08:23,840 --> 00:08:29,400 So we have a man converted, he shows up at church and he won't know where the stuff is 109 00:08:29,400 --> 00:08:31,540 at. 110 00:08:31,540 --> 00:08:36,080 He won't see somebody saved, he won't see a devil run out of church. 111 00:08:36,080 --> 00:08:42,040 Hello, I've read about this, I could just see this full of zeal new convert thinking 112 00:08:42,040 --> 00:08:47,240 that I am ready to see the power of God at work in somebody else's life like it has been 113 00:08:47,240 --> 00:08:48,240 in my life. 114 00:08:48,240 --> 00:08:52,840 He's delivered me, he set me free, he saved me and I'm ready to see it but no, he shows 115 00:08:52,840 --> 00:08:59,800 up at a place of so-called worship and all he encounters is a dead ritualistic service, 116 00:08:59,800 --> 00:09:03,360 people kicking the box and calling it church but he wanted to know. 117 00:09:03,360 --> 00:09:06,960 I'm glad he had enough nerve to ask me, well when are you going to do the stuff? 118 00:09:06,960 --> 00:09:07,960 I'm ready. 119 00:09:07,960 --> 00:09:09,960 I'm ready to see some stuff done. 120 00:09:09,960 --> 00:09:15,600 Amen, I'm ready if Peter stood up on the day of Pentecost and declared this is that, I'm 121 00:09:15,600 --> 00:09:19,760 ready to say where is that at today in our local churches. 122 00:09:19,760 --> 00:09:26,960 I believe that God is still desiring and longing to pour out the power of his Pentecostal blessing 123 00:09:26,960 --> 00:09:28,600 afresh and anew. 124 00:09:28,600 --> 00:09:34,320 Amen as he did at the early church and continues to do today all around the world. 125 00:09:34,320 --> 00:09:40,400 I don't know if you realize this or not but 27% of the Christian denominations around 126 00:09:40,400 --> 00:09:44,560 the world are Pentecostal, 27%. 127 00:09:44,560 --> 00:09:49,040 That's somewhere around 600 million, are you hearing me? 128 00:09:49,040 --> 00:09:53,880 600 million people are Pentecostal believers. 129 00:09:53,880 --> 00:10:02,640 Amen, believe in the power of Pentecost, believe in the pouring out of Acts chapter 2 and 27% 130 00:10:02,640 --> 00:10:05,920 which is 8% of the world's population. 131 00:10:05,920 --> 00:10:07,480 We're gaining ground honey. 132 00:10:07,480 --> 00:10:12,480 They've tried their way for a long time and right now the Pentecostal movement is the 133 00:10:12,480 --> 00:10:15,960 fastest growing movement in Christendom today. 134 00:10:15,960 --> 00:10:16,960 Why? 135 00:10:16,960 --> 00:10:22,320 Because people are tired of the ritualistic church that they went through and seen and 136 00:10:22,320 --> 00:10:24,800 they're wanting to know, well where is it at? 137 00:10:24,800 --> 00:10:25,800 Where is it? 138 00:10:25,800 --> 00:10:27,480 If that was it then where is it? 139 00:10:27,480 --> 00:10:33,400 600 million people are finding themselves around the world on a weekend known as Pentecost 140 00:10:33,400 --> 00:10:38,800 Sunday and they are believers in the power of the promise of Pentecost and the infilling 141 00:10:38,800 --> 00:10:45,160 and the indwelling of the Holy Ghost that would empower them to live a victorious life. 142 00:10:45,160 --> 00:10:48,560 Honey it's my two scoops and I got a three scoop. 143 00:10:48,560 --> 00:10:55,120 I'm so glad the old timey testimony, I'm glad I'm saved, sanctified and filled with the 144 00:10:55,120 --> 00:10:57,080 Holy Ghost and fire. 145 00:10:57,080 --> 00:10:58,080 Hallelujah. 146 00:10:58,080 --> 00:10:59,080 Why? 147 00:10:59,080 --> 00:11:04,240 Because I'm a part of that 600 million around the world but I'm not just a believer. 148 00:11:04,240 --> 00:11:07,680 I'm a full blown Pentecostal practicing person. 149 00:11:07,680 --> 00:11:08,680 Hallelujah. 150 00:11:08,680 --> 00:11:11,120 I am a practicing Pentecostal. 151 00:11:11,120 --> 00:11:12,120 What does that mean? 152 00:11:12,120 --> 00:11:18,360 The power of the Holy Ghost resides in me and when he moves over me I'll have the glossary 153 00:11:18,360 --> 00:11:19,360 move out of me. 154 00:11:19,360 --> 00:11:20,560 What is that pastor? 155 00:11:20,560 --> 00:11:24,120 I'll speak with tongues as the spirit gives me utterance. 156 00:11:24,120 --> 00:11:25,120 Hallelujah. 157 00:11:25,120 --> 00:11:30,920 He enables me, he empowers me, he emboldens me that I am the church of the day and when 158 00:11:30,920 --> 00:11:36,560 somebody comes in here I don't want them to stop when it's over and say well where is 159 00:11:36,560 --> 00:11:37,560 it? 160 00:11:37,560 --> 00:11:38,560 When are you going to do the stuff? 161 00:11:38,560 --> 00:11:47,720 Honey I'm ready to do the stuff from the opening prayer to the closing amen. 162 00:11:47,720 --> 00:11:51,800 Hallelujah. 163 00:11:51,800 --> 00:11:56,480 This world has seen enough of formalized religion. 164 00:11:56,480 --> 00:11:58,760 Don't get me wrong. 165 00:11:58,760 --> 00:12:07,760 I'm a fan of structure because God is a God who does things in decency and in order. 166 00:12:07,760 --> 00:12:11,000 I'm not a fan of the wildfire. 167 00:12:11,000 --> 00:12:18,280 I'm a fan of the real fire because when the real fire begins to burn I never did worry 168 00:12:18,280 --> 00:12:25,120 about false fire springing up because when the real fire is burning it'll consume the 169 00:12:25,120 --> 00:12:29,200 false stuff and it'll fall by the way. 170 00:12:29,200 --> 00:12:30,200 Hallelujah. 171 00:12:30,200 --> 00:12:32,780 So where do we begin? 172 00:12:32,780 --> 00:12:36,040 We begin with the promise of Pentecost itself. 173 00:12:36,040 --> 00:12:42,560 Now we celebrate the manger, we celebrate the birth of Christ, we celebrate the life 174 00:12:42,560 --> 00:12:47,240 of Christ, we celebrate even the death of Christ. 175 00:12:47,240 --> 00:12:51,000 We celebrate to a great deal the resurrection of Christ. 176 00:12:51,000 --> 00:12:55,400 But in Christendom today we have kindly left off right there. 177 00:12:55,400 --> 00:12:58,680 After Easter we fail to continue our celebrations. 178 00:12:58,680 --> 00:13:05,040 40 days after the resurrection the church world needs to celebrate the ascension of 179 00:13:05,040 --> 00:13:09,660 the Lord back to glory to take his rightful place at the throne. 180 00:13:09,660 --> 00:13:13,940 But we blow right by the ascension and we just took it for granted. 181 00:13:13,940 --> 00:13:20,480 And what we cannot fail to take hold of and celebrate today is the birth of the church 182 00:13:20,480 --> 00:13:24,080 on the day of Pentecost when it was fully come. 183 00:13:24,080 --> 00:13:25,080 Hallelujah. 184 00:13:25,080 --> 00:13:30,920 Acts chapter 2 there was a sound from heaven and a rushing mighty wind began to blow. 185 00:13:30,920 --> 00:13:32,760 Are you here with me this morning? 186 00:13:32,760 --> 00:13:34,080 They begin to blow. 187 00:13:34,080 --> 00:13:36,960 There was 120 believers in the upper room. 188 00:13:36,960 --> 00:13:40,040 They are awaiting, awaiting the promise. 189 00:13:40,040 --> 00:13:45,320 And you and I have got to understand that God fulfilled his promise. 190 00:13:45,320 --> 00:13:46,720 The promise was made. 191 00:13:46,720 --> 00:13:52,920 I read it to you out of Acts 2 in our text but it comes from Joel chapter 2 when he would 192 00:13:52,920 --> 00:13:58,240 declare and it shall come to pass afterward that I will pour out of my spirit upon all 193 00:13:58,240 --> 00:14:03,520 flesh your sons, your daughters will prophesy your old men shall dream dreams your young 194 00:14:03,520 --> 00:14:10,000 men shall see visions and also upon the servants and the handmaids in those days will I pour 195 00:14:10,000 --> 00:14:11,680 out of my spirit. 196 00:14:11,680 --> 00:14:16,360 These are the last days that the apostle Paul proclaimed what we are living in and there's 197 00:14:16,360 --> 00:14:21,120 an outpouring even so now it's still going on around the world. 198 00:14:21,120 --> 00:14:27,600 Joel made this promise 700 odd years before the birth of the Messiah but God had already 199 00:14:27,600 --> 00:14:29,800 had it written in glory. 200 00:14:29,800 --> 00:14:32,440 When the fullness of time came Christ was born. 201 00:14:32,440 --> 00:14:34,880 When the fullness of time came Christ died. 202 00:14:34,880 --> 00:14:39,240 When the fullness of time came on the third day he rose again from the dead. 203 00:14:39,240 --> 00:14:44,080 When the fullness of time came 40 days after showing himself and teaching and ministering 204 00:14:44,080 --> 00:14:47,320 to the disciples 40 days he ascended. 205 00:14:47,320 --> 00:14:52,320 In Acts chapter 1 we see a picture of that ascension when Jesus would come down these 206 00:14:52,320 --> 00:14:58,480 angels were standing by the disciples as Jesus was with them and he just begins to leave 207 00:14:58,480 --> 00:14:59,480 their presence. 208 00:14:59,480 --> 00:15:04,040 I can see them begin to talk and in conversation and then all of a sudden they're tilting their 209 00:15:04,040 --> 00:15:09,920 heads back and Jesus is low and behold he's lifting up and elevated before them and they 210 00:15:09,920 --> 00:15:15,560 just stood there with mouths open wide as he ascended back from whence he came and while 211 00:15:15,560 --> 00:15:20,800 they're standing there with their mouths open and eyes in wonder the angel said to them 212 00:15:20,800 --> 00:15:24,520 you men of Galilee why stand ye here gazing? 213 00:15:24,520 --> 00:15:30,280 This same Jesus in like manner he's going to come again. 214 00:15:30,280 --> 00:15:32,080 You got a work to do why? 215 00:15:32,080 --> 00:15:36,920 Because the eighth chapter of the book begins to tell us, eighth verse first chapter you 216 00:15:36,920 --> 00:15:44,920 shall be witness of me after that the power of the Holy Ghost is come upon you. 217 00:15:44,920 --> 00:15:51,600 Don't just stand here get busy. 218 00:15:51,600 --> 00:15:56,280 You have somewhere to be. 219 00:15:56,280 --> 00:16:02,480 Joel made the promise Joel wasn't alone in making his promise. 220 00:16:02,480 --> 00:16:10,640 Jesus in Matthew 3 and 11 we see John the Baptist making testimony at his baptism. 221 00:16:10,640 --> 00:16:21,840 I indeed baptize you with water but he that comes after me is mightier than I am and he 222 00:16:21,840 --> 00:16:27,760 shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost and with the fire. 223 00:16:27,760 --> 00:16:33,440 John 7 37 and 8 on that last day of the feast the great day of the feast Jesus stood and 224 00:16:33,440 --> 00:16:38,520 cried if any man thirsts let him come unto me and let him drink and he that believeth 225 00:16:38,520 --> 00:16:45,720 on me as the scripture has said out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water and 226 00:16:45,720 --> 00:16:52,160 in parentheses we see this statement but thus he spoke of the spirit which they that believed 227 00:16:52,160 --> 00:16:59,960 on him shall receive for the Holy Ghost was not yet given because Jesus was not yet glorified. 228 00:16:59,960 --> 00:17:07,200 40 days of glorification at the ascension he has now been glorified and we see further 229 00:17:07,200 --> 00:17:15,280 in Luke 24 on this day about day 38 or 39. 230 00:17:15,280 --> 00:17:21,840 He leads his disciples out to a little place called Bethany and he begins to tell them 231 00:17:21,840 --> 00:17:29,320 he said I want you to go and tarry into Jerusalem until you be endued with power from on high 232 00:17:29,320 --> 00:17:32,880 because there is where the promise is going to meet you. 233 00:17:32,880 --> 00:17:39,080 In verse 50 he raises his hands and he blesses them at a little town called Bethany. 234 00:17:39,080 --> 00:17:42,380 Now they had a decision to make. 235 00:17:42,380 --> 00:17:47,080 They were either going to have to be contented with Bethany's blessing or they were going 236 00:17:47,080 --> 00:17:51,000 to have to make their way toward Jerusalem's promise. 237 00:17:51,000 --> 00:17:54,520 You're either going to be a one scoop or a two scoop. 238 00:17:54,520 --> 00:17:58,960 Come on somebody and there they stood with a decision to be made. 239 00:17:58,960 --> 00:18:03,880 A hundred and twenty of them decided they were going to be two scoop people and they 240 00:18:03,880 --> 00:18:09,280 made their way to Jerusalem and they made their way into an upper room and there they 241 00:18:09,280 --> 00:18:14,840 prayed for the next ten days and as they are in prayer getting things in alignment, Judas 242 00:18:14,840 --> 00:18:16,020 had to be replaced. 243 00:18:16,020 --> 00:18:19,880 They replaced him and all of a sudden something begins to happen. 244 00:18:19,880 --> 00:18:25,320 They all got in one mind and one accord and when they got in one mind and began to pray 245 00:18:25,320 --> 00:18:30,000 for the same identical thing, oh Lord send the power just now. 246 00:18:30,000 --> 00:18:33,000 Oh Lord send the power just now. 247 00:18:33,000 --> 00:18:37,200 They're praying for the fulfillment of the promise that Jesus had just made them ten 248 00:18:37,200 --> 00:18:42,920 days prior and before his ascension he told them if you will go and tarry then the Holy 249 00:18:42,920 --> 00:18:44,400 Ghost will come. 250 00:18:44,400 --> 00:18:50,000 Oh it's important to know this today because Jesus said greater works than I do shall 251 00:18:50,000 --> 00:18:55,160 you do but you can't do them until I go to the Father and when I get to the Father he's 252 00:18:55,160 --> 00:19:00,440 going to dispatch and the Holy Ghost is coming back your way and he's going to empower you 253 00:19:00,440 --> 00:19:05,360 to do greater things than I have done. 254 00:19:05,360 --> 00:19:13,920 Where is it? 255 00:19:13,920 --> 00:19:24,360 Verse 39 of Acts chapter 2, Peter the apostle declares under the anointing for the promises 256 00:19:24,360 --> 00:19:32,520 unto you and to your children to all that are afar off even as many as the Lord our 257 00:19:32,520 --> 00:19:34,960 God shall call. 258 00:19:34,960 --> 00:19:39,320 Now early on, it was early on that the move of sensationism started. 259 00:19:39,320 --> 00:19:42,920 What does that mean pastor? 260 00:19:42,920 --> 00:19:49,800 Well even today people preach and proclaim that the apostles were the only one that got 261 00:19:49,800 --> 00:19:55,200 it and it died with them when they died. 262 00:19:55,200 --> 00:19:59,000 Well honey I got bad news for somebody. 263 00:19:59,000 --> 00:20:05,280 There was 12 of them and that leave 100 and what to help me do the math. 264 00:20:05,280 --> 00:20:07,280 How many? 265 00:20:07,280 --> 00:20:14,080 Anyway there's 108 we'll go with that. 266 00:20:14,080 --> 00:20:15,400 I'm doing the math. 267 00:20:15,400 --> 00:20:18,400 I don't do math while I'm preaching brother George. 268 00:20:18,400 --> 00:20:21,040 You were supposed to help me right there like that and you dropped me. 269 00:20:21,040 --> 00:20:24,600 You just left me hanging. 270 00:20:24,600 --> 00:20:30,320 I'm pretty good with numbers but not that quick when I'm preaching. 271 00:20:30,320 --> 00:20:31,880 Somebody miss spoke. 272 00:20:31,880 --> 00:20:37,360 There's 108 other folks who were not apostles in that room that spilled out into the streets 273 00:20:37,360 --> 00:20:43,240 of Jerusalem so that everybody in town thought they were just having a drunken party. 274 00:20:43,240 --> 00:20:45,440 But it was an emboldened Peter with a Holy Ghost. 275 00:20:45,440 --> 00:20:49,240 You know who he the guy that ran off and left Jesus hanging. 276 00:20:49,240 --> 00:20:53,880 The guy who was at a distance and standing by the enemy's fire barrel warming his hands 277 00:20:53,880 --> 00:20:55,200 and cussing the preacher. 278 00:20:55,200 --> 00:20:56,200 Come on. 279 00:20:56,200 --> 00:20:57,200 He was over there. 280 00:20:57,200 --> 00:20:59,400 No bless God I'm not one of them. 281 00:20:59,400 --> 00:21:05,000 And three times he denies him but all of a sudden after a reprieve after a resurrection 282 00:21:05,000 --> 00:21:10,280 after a 40 day visitation after an ascension after a 10 day prayer meeting. 283 00:21:10,280 --> 00:21:15,640 My God when the power fell out on him and the promise in field him when they came out 284 00:21:15,640 --> 00:21:18,600 to see who is this and what are you doing. 285 00:21:18,600 --> 00:21:23,200 They're just a bunch of drunken people and he stood up and girded up his loins and began 286 00:21:23,200 --> 00:21:26,120 to declare to them the glorious truth. 287 00:21:26,120 --> 00:21:31,720 These men are not drunk as she supposed because this is that that was spoken by the prophet 288 00:21:31,720 --> 00:21:32,720 Joel. 289 00:21:32,720 --> 00:21:36,760 Now the Sadducees and the Pharisees and the high council and the high priest they all 290 00:21:36,760 --> 00:21:38,640 know who the prophet Joel was. 291 00:21:38,640 --> 00:21:40,640 They knew what he was talking about. 292 00:21:40,640 --> 00:21:44,800 How do we hear these Galileans speaking in our own language. 293 00:21:44,800 --> 00:21:46,240 Are these not all Galilee. 294 00:21:46,240 --> 00:21:50,080 How do they know all the languages of the Mesopotamia region. 295 00:21:50,080 --> 00:21:51,080 Why. 296 00:21:51,080 --> 00:21:56,280 Because the Holy Ghost is wisdom and knowledge and understanding and he filled them until 297 00:21:56,280 --> 00:21:58,120 they spilled out into the street. 298 00:21:58,120 --> 00:21:59,920 The promise had been released. 299 00:21:59,920 --> 00:22:01,960 The promise had been fulfilled. 300 00:22:01,960 --> 00:22:05,480 He stood up said no but this is that. 301 00:22:05,480 --> 00:22:09,960 And here it is. 302 00:22:09,960 --> 00:22:16,360 Then he set forth the preaching the gospel calling the hypocrite a hypocrite and murderers 303 00:22:16,360 --> 00:22:23,760 murderers but he preached to them Jesus and repentance for their sins. 304 00:22:23,760 --> 00:22:28,640 I don't know how many finger pointers got saved that day but I do know this. 305 00:22:28,640 --> 00:22:31,520 Three thousand did. 306 00:22:31,520 --> 00:22:32,520 Hello. 307 00:22:32,520 --> 00:22:36,160 Three thousand were saved. 308 00:22:36,160 --> 00:22:45,800 So many think that it's at this first century that the Holy Spirit just leaves the scene. 309 00:22:45,800 --> 00:22:50,720 The interpreter's dictionary of the Bible quote through the centuries glossalia which 310 00:22:50,720 --> 00:22:56,240 is tongue speech has frequently reappeared among Christian groups. 311 00:22:56,240 --> 00:23:04,120 Dr. Philip Schaff the speaking of tongues was not confined to the day of Pentecost. 312 00:23:04,120 --> 00:23:06,960 This gift perpetuated itself. 313 00:23:06,960 --> 00:23:12,520 We find it still in the second and the third century. 314 00:23:12,520 --> 00:23:17,720 The first Bible dictionary this phenomenon was common in the Christian movement as latest 315 00:23:17,720 --> 00:23:20,040 or Tillian and Araneus. 316 00:23:20,040 --> 00:23:28,280 It has been the seemingly inevitable consequence of an all extended season of revival. 317 00:23:28,280 --> 00:23:30,600 The Catholic biblical encyclopedia. 318 00:23:30,600 --> 00:23:36,040 Come on now in regard to the perpetuation of these charisma's. 319 00:23:36,040 --> 00:23:42,080 It may be said that although they were manifested more frequently in the infant church and the 320 00:23:42,080 --> 00:23:50,320 first few centuries they have never been completely lacking in the church glossalia was a rare 321 00:23:50,320 --> 00:23:56,080 was a true charisma of the Holy Spirit that comes from your Catholic encyclopedia. 322 00:23:56,080 --> 00:24:02,200 There are Pentecostal Catholics in this world full of the power of the Holy Ghost. 323 00:24:02,200 --> 00:24:10,480 Jesus believing empowered and filled Catholic believers full of the Holy Ghost and fire. 324 00:24:10,480 --> 00:24:18,560 Oh we don't have the corner market on this thing. 325 00:24:18,560 --> 00:24:25,440 The Oxford dictionary of the Christian church quote similar phenomena are constantly met 326 00:24:25,440 --> 00:24:28,360 with in religious revivals. 327 00:24:28,360 --> 00:24:35,600 One of the early church fathers origins said this to these promises are added strange fanatical 328 00:24:35,600 --> 00:24:43,800 and quiet into unintelligible words of which no rational person can find the meaning. 329 00:24:43,800 --> 00:24:55,200 Saint Augustine said this he said for there behooved to be that be token of the Holy Spirit 330 00:24:55,200 --> 00:24:59,160 people don't even talk like that anymore. 331 00:24:59,160 --> 00:25:05,520 For there behooved to be that be token of the Holy Spirit in all tongues to show that 332 00:25:05,520 --> 00:25:12,000 the gospel of God was to run through all tongues over the whole earth. 333 00:25:12,000 --> 00:25:15,400 You don't think God was going to leave anybody out do you? 334 00:25:15,400 --> 00:25:20,040 He needed somebody bold enough to go to where they are and if that's in the early days of 335 00:25:20,040 --> 00:25:25,840 the church of God in the early days after spurling when we began a mission movement 336 00:25:25,840 --> 00:25:29,880 one of the things that people realized that they were ready to go on a mission field the 337 00:25:29,880 --> 00:25:34,280 Holy Ghost would give them a language and they would go to wherever that country was 338 00:25:34,280 --> 00:25:40,160 and they would begin to preach under the inspiration of the Holy Ghost and let the world know that 339 00:25:40,160 --> 00:25:41,800 Jesus is the Christ. 340 00:25:41,800 --> 00:25:49,280 The Holy Ghost is sin that he would testify of Jesus and the Lordship of the Christ. 341 00:25:49,280 --> 00:25:56,520 See you just thought it was you could get goose bumps and shout. 342 00:25:56,520 --> 00:25:59,840 I almost guarantee you to shout service this morning. 343 00:25:59,840 --> 00:26:05,480 Sister Barbara just wouldn't stand still long enough she came into service this morning 344 00:26:05,480 --> 00:26:09,720 with three cicadas attached to her. 345 00:26:09,720 --> 00:26:13,320 I grabbed one and carried it and threw it out the back door and then I heard her and 346 00:26:13,320 --> 00:26:18,920 Sister Donna Engel come shouting in there running out she had two more on and I thought 347 00:26:18,920 --> 00:26:24,320 who needs a squirrel all I need is a bucket full of cicada. 348 00:26:24,320 --> 00:26:29,200 We can have Holy Ghost meeting today at least we'd have some shouting and screaming going 349 00:26:29,200 --> 00:26:34,280 on and somebody would leave here not wondering when you gonna do the stuff we could at least 350 00:26:34,280 --> 00:26:38,400 get a little stuff going on couldn't we? 351 00:26:38,400 --> 00:26:42,680 I didn't know she could pick her feet up that high. 352 00:26:42,680 --> 00:26:51,480 Doing all this trying to get that thing off. 353 00:26:51,480 --> 00:26:56,080 Theologian of the fourth century said they spoke with string tongues and not those of 354 00:26:56,080 --> 00:27:00,200 their native land and the wonder was great. 355 00:27:00,200 --> 00:27:04,640 A language spoken by those who had not learned it. 356 00:27:04,640 --> 00:27:11,680 Leo the great a pope a former pope said this in the fifth century let the minds of the 357 00:27:11,680 --> 00:27:17,440 faithful rejoice and that the sign of his presence which appeared in the likeness of 358 00:27:17,440 --> 00:27:22,480 fire is still perpetuated in his work and gift. 359 00:27:22,480 --> 00:27:27,960 The encyclopedia Britannica the miracle of utterance of reoccurred among the mediant 360 00:27:27,960 --> 00:27:33,760 friars of the 13th century in modern times speaking in tongues was an occasional occurrence 361 00:27:33,760 --> 00:27:40,000 listen to this and Roman Catholicism Anglicanism Lutheranism and more established Christian 362 00:27:40,000 --> 00:27:46,560 denominations this is just how far we've moved it wasn't so in the early days Luther had 363 00:27:46,560 --> 00:27:47,560 the Holy Ghost. 364 00:27:47,560 --> 00:27:54,000 Come on somebody even Calvin talked about John Calvin even talked about people speaking 365 00:27:54,000 --> 00:27:59,800 in tongues in his day and his move and it goes on John Wesley my lord the father of 366 00:27:59,800 --> 00:28:05,160 Methodism who's rolling over and doing somersaults in his grave to look at their life's work 367 00:28:05,160 --> 00:28:10,480 and what he wore those thousands of miles on horseback for being divided and took down 368 00:28:10,480 --> 00:28:16,800 a dark road but here is what I'm trying to say the Holy Ghost has shown up in every century 369 00:28:16,800 --> 00:28:22,040 since the first century and he showed up here this morning so let it be written let it be 370 00:28:22,040 --> 00:28:31,520 recorded that they have spoken other tongues at the Hopewell Church of God oh my lord let 371 00:28:31,520 --> 00:28:39,200 history record he's still alive and well. 372 00:28:39,200 --> 00:28:52,560 So you've come too late to tell me that the Holy Ghost is gone too late I'm sorry we've 373 00:28:52,560 --> 00:29:00,720 got Catholic folk testifying of tongue speech we got popes recorded talking about tongue 374 00:29:00,720 --> 00:29:12,120 speech and fire come on huh come too late to tell me matter of fact you were really 375 00:29:12,120 --> 00:29:20,360 showed up late after the night that I encountered the Holy Ghost for myself I know it wasn't 376 00:29:20,360 --> 00:29:30,200 me hello I was as scared as I was when I saw him move on others at the very first time 377 00:29:30,200 --> 00:29:35,640 when I began to seek him out remember the Holy Ghost is not it the third person of the 378 00:29:35,640 --> 00:29:43,600 Trinity that's who he is amen you can make him mad you can grieve him you can hurt his 379 00:29:43,600 --> 00:29:52,480 feelings yeah he has all those as an anisophorus if he won't show up and give a count who's 380 00:29:52,480 --> 00:29:59,760 that that's folks who lied to the Holy Ghost about an offering of all things they were 381 00:29:59,760 --> 00:30:07,480 struck dead right there they didn't even get out of the sanctuary right there carried out 382 00:30:07,480 --> 00:30:16,160 the power we move through from a promise to the power there's power in Pentecost it's 383 00:30:16,160 --> 00:30:23,040 a dunamis power that that word dunamis is where we get our English word dynamite but 384 00:30:23,040 --> 00:30:29,800 you see dunamis power is not even out it's not even dynamite I mean it's seen dynamite 385 00:30:29,800 --> 00:30:38,920 ever see it up close in person explode and the damage it can cause thing about dynamite 386 00:30:38,920 --> 00:30:46,760 is once you set the fuse and it goes off and it goes bang it's over so dynamite is really 387 00:30:46,760 --> 00:30:55,000 not a good definition of dunamis because dunamis power is a is a power that implodes it just 388 00:30:55,000 --> 00:31:03,200 keeps folding in on itself in other words you get more bang for your buck it just keeps 389 00:31:03,200 --> 00:31:08,640 unfolding it never weakens it's never over it's never finished it's never completed this 390 00:31:08,640 --> 00:31:13,560 this dunamis power that is in our life leads us to the exclusive where the grace of God 391 00:31:13,560 --> 00:31:18,520 and the power of God is able to move and equip us how do you think some of you are sitting 392 00:31:18,520 --> 00:31:23,400 in the sanctuary this morning because of that unfolding that dunamis power that's in your 393 00:31:23,400 --> 00:31:29,240 life you should be buried up with your head in a pillow somewhere overwhelmed with grief 394 00:31:29,240 --> 00:31:34,480 but the amazing grace and the power of the spirit that enables you to arise it's cause 395 00:31:34,480 --> 00:31:40,360 you to make your way into a house of worship so that the power of God is able to sustain 396 00:31:40,360 --> 00:31:47,080 you yes you weep tears yes you cry but joy comes in the morning hallelujah why because 397 00:31:47,080 --> 00:31:52,360 we we don't weep for no reason we don't weep without hope we have a hope and why we weep 398 00:31:52,360 --> 00:32:01,400 and we mourn it's until we meet them again it amazes me as I watched you come in the 399 00:32:01,400 --> 00:32:09,120 church this morning knowing having walked with most of you through this last nine days and 400 00:32:09,120 --> 00:32:15,200 how much I've depended on the power of the Holy Ghost to keep me going and to see you 401 00:32:15,200 --> 00:32:22,080 here I know it's not ideal I know you're not a hundred percent but I pray that you're closer 402 00:32:22,080 --> 00:32:27,760 to a hundred percent when you leave than when you came in hallelujah I pray that the healing 403 00:32:27,760 --> 00:32:33,360 power of the Holy Ghost touches and moves upon you and empowers you and emboldens you 404 00:32:33,360 --> 00:32:38,160 that you stand a little taller and put your shoulders back a little further let the tears 405 00:32:38,160 --> 00:32:44,440 roll wipe them but let the joy of the Lord empower you and the wonderful comforting presence 406 00:32:44,440 --> 00:32:53,320 of the Holy Ghost be with you that's what Jesus said he's gonna send another comforter 407 00:32:53,320 --> 00:33:00,800 that comforter paraclete one who comes along and stands beside but it's greater than that 408 00:33:00,800 --> 00:33:05,840 he don't just stand beside you he wraps his arms around you while he's standing there 409 00:33:05,840 --> 00:33:11,960 he embraces you he will strengthen you this another one like unto the previous who was 410 00:33:11,960 --> 00:33:21,280 the previous the Messiah himself he's gonna send you another one just like me y'all ain't 411 00:33:21,280 --> 00:33:36,080 gonna make me have to preach that the Holy Ghost powers us to be sustained Peter stands 412 00:33:36,080 --> 00:33:43,400 lifts his voice and said to him and all that dwells Jerusalem be this known to you listen 413 00:33:43,400 --> 00:33:57,820 to what I'm telling you this is that and then Luke begins to record all that that meant 414 00:33:57,820 --> 00:34:05,700 the power of Pentecost revealed as early as chapter 3 Peter and John are making their 415 00:34:05,700 --> 00:34:14,700 way toward the temple at the hour of prayer and as they go through the church gate there's 416 00:34:14,700 --> 00:34:26,800 a lame man laying there begging on and he fastened his eyes upon them getting rattles 417 00:34:26,800 --> 00:34:39,160 cut silver and gold have a number let me tell you what I've got for you I got some of that 418 00:34:39,160 --> 00:34:49,520 stuff you don't know where it is here it is in the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth rise 419 00:34:49,520 --> 00:34:57,480 up and walk a few days earlier Peter wouldn't have been saying that but something had come 420 00:34:57,480 --> 00:35:04,480 over him it was the power from on high that was just continually repeating itself strengthening 421 00:35:04,480 --> 00:35:09,260 itself just recharging in him recharge him every attack he was recharged every time they 422 00:35:09,260 --> 00:35:19,000 chained him up a gate was open hey the power of Pentecost Paul would put it this way in 423 00:35:19,000 --> 00:35:23,960 1st Corinthians 2 4 & 5 and my speech and my preaching was not with enticing words of 424 00:35:23,960 --> 00:35:30,920 man's wisdom but in demonstration of the spirit and a power that your faith should not stand 425 00:35:30,920 --> 00:35:36,520 in the wisdom of men but in the power of God how do you think he preached all night and 426 00:35:36,520 --> 00:35:41,960 the old boy fell asleep in the window fell out dead in the street what happened Paul 427 00:35:41,960 --> 00:35:50,680 goes down they didn't call 9-1-1 he rang on a prayer bell hello and the old boy that fell 428 00:35:50,680 --> 00:35:55,720 asleep y'all think I'm long-winded on Sunday you would never last under Paul's preaching 429 00:35:55,720 --> 00:36:09,800 you wouldn't make it but I'm not Paul either he goes down to raise as a dead man up the 430 00:36:09,800 --> 00:36:17,240 power of the Holy Spirit the purpose of the Holy Spirit is to witness the purpose of the 431 00:36:17,240 --> 00:36:23,960 Holy Spirit in the life of the believers that we be emboldened to witness it's not that 432 00:36:23,960 --> 00:36:31,200 we can boast as some of the Corinthians were doing about our tongue speech right just like 433 00:36:31,200 --> 00:36:36,720 they had the communion all out of line and all out of order and he had to align them 434 00:36:36,720 --> 00:36:46,800 up on that they were they were just partying down that's what they were doing and knowing 435 00:36:46,800 --> 00:36:50,360 that some of their brothers and sisters that were coming into the fellowship weren't even 436 00:36:50,360 --> 00:37:03,360 able to get the bread he rebuked them and aligned them for that he realigned them in 437 00:37:03,360 --> 00:37:13,200 the purpose of the Holy Ghost in their life though I speak 10,000 words without love it's 438 00:37:13,200 --> 00:37:21,080 a sounding brass and a tingling cymbal I can do all these things and if I don't have love 439 00:37:21,080 --> 00:37:29,320 driving it it's meaningless my lord I almost said I've heard devils for the last 40 years 440 00:37:29,320 --> 00:37:45,480 speaking tongues the devil will inspire too folks you ever you ever hear someone speaking 441 00:37:45,480 --> 00:37:49,440 in tongues and instead of that warm peaceful feeling you get that hair stand up on the 442 00:37:49,440 --> 00:37:55,480 back of your neck and you feel cold all over you thinking that ain't right hello anybody 443 00:37:55,480 --> 00:38:00,640 ever say that hmm and I mean and you don't even claim to be one of them super spiritual 444 00:38:00,640 --> 00:38:07,720 people you just still think that ain't right I've heard the Holy Ghost before and I don't 445 00:38:07,720 --> 00:38:16,760 think that was it don't think the devil won't try to mimic and to imitate if he can appear 446 00:38:16,760 --> 00:38:22,040 as an angel of light don't think he won't try to misuse one of the misused gifts of 447 00:38:22,040 --> 00:38:32,960 scripture because we fail to understand the purpose of the promise to begin with it's 448 00:38:32,960 --> 00:38:44,040 all tied up in a nice little package of when he was poured out the feast of tabernacles 449 00:38:44,040 --> 00:38:50,480 the feast of pentacles 50 days after that that first harvest we bring in that it's about 450 00:38:50,480 --> 00:38:59,400 harvest are you here to me it's about being empowered to witness for the harvest God in 451 00:38:59,400 --> 00:39:05,640 heaven didn't just stick his finger on the mountain say here's a good day to pour him 452 00:39:05,640 --> 00:39:14,200 out no it fulfilled all the sequences the tops and shadows were fulfilled in the reality 453 00:39:14,200 --> 00:39:22,520 of the promises that's okay you'll get it later clap when you hear it at home when he 454 00:39:22,520 --> 00:39:29,800 gets you to start clapping somebody say what's wrong with you say well I just got it don't 455 00:39:29,800 --> 00:39:38,040 come see the stuff and they may get it it's about transformation the purpose of the spirit 456 00:39:38,040 --> 00:39:43,840 is about transformation in order that we may reach the harvest and after that the Holy 457 00:39:43,840 --> 00:39:52,520 Ghost has come upon you you shall be witnesses unto me it's not so that we shout that's a 458 00:39:52,520 --> 00:39:59,640 byproduct why do you shout when well I've had people ask me well why do people fall 459 00:39:59,640 --> 00:40:04,840 out the floor and when you pray for them I was well the only way I can explain that to 460 00:40:04,840 --> 00:40:13,120 you I've seen a few cricks putting next heavy-handed preachers I don't know they make it think 461 00:40:13,120 --> 00:40:20,240 it makes them look better or what the more they can get the floor I don't know if you'll 462 00:40:20,240 --> 00:40:29,480 notice I just barely touch you most times with one finger because if you go down when 463 00:40:29,480 --> 00:40:35,720 you leave here you go saying who touched me you won't leave her saying my lord that preacher 464 00:40:35,720 --> 00:40:44,240 was rough on me the only way to explain it that I've been able to come up with is when 465 00:40:44,240 --> 00:40:54,960 the supernatural touches the natural something gives and it's not the super it's the natural 466 00:40:54,960 --> 00:41:03,480 when my god when the finger of heaven touches the creation of the earth the earth begins 467 00:41:03,480 --> 00:41:09,720 to give way to the touch of the finger of heaven and this old earth and clay vessel 468 00:41:09,720 --> 00:41:15,520 when the glorious hand of God reaches down and touches I get wheat need sometimes I get 469 00:41:15,520 --> 00:41:24,440 wobbly sometimes I fall forward sometimes I fell backwards don't ask me why that's 470 00:41:24,440 --> 00:41:35,120 the only reason I've been able to deduce in my 50 almost eight years in this I've seen 471 00:41:35,120 --> 00:41:39,560 people come walking for prayer and be in front of them and just do this and they fall nose 472 00:41:39,560 --> 00:41:49,640 first in the carpet let me tell you when people fall nose first it's not a CD CD is preacher 473 00:41:49,640 --> 00:42:03,480 and evangelist talk for courtesy drops preachers where you at can I get a man yeah I've had 474 00:42:03,480 --> 00:42:11,640 people I quit laying hands on I'm gonna I say we'll see what happens this morning I'm 475 00:42:11,640 --> 00:42:23,920 not touching I've been in this thing a long time you know I'm saying and I'm thinking 476 00:42:23,920 --> 00:42:37,760 every week I'm like I got I know you've not prayed that much this week I'm not a fan I 477 00:42:37,760 --> 00:42:51,480 saw one CD go through a drum cage one time and it was a mess there's nothing any more 478 00:42:51,480 --> 00:43:05,720 comical than a Pentecostal church gonna ride I'm feeling awful nostalgic right now since 479 00:43:05,720 --> 00:43:11,360 we've lost it we might as well just keep going and a preacher friend of mine took a running 480 00:43:11,360 --> 00:43:27,000 fit and inside the church the back wall was brick one inch and a half goose egg and blood 481 00:43:27,000 --> 00:43:43,480 later I'm thinking no no no because I've seen the days when the altars were full and there 482 00:43:43,480 --> 00:43:49,240 were no catchers and when the Holy Ghost moves you don't have to worry about indecency unless 483 00:43:49,240 --> 00:43:57,640 you're indecent when you get down there you don't have to worry about that I've seen them 484 00:43:57,640 --> 00:44:08,360 hit the floor heads bounce like basketballs I've seen it the skirt tails right around 485 00:44:08,360 --> 00:44:15,120 the ankles tucked in like mom and put them to bed lay there and the Holy Ghost just minister 486 00:44:15,120 --> 00:44:22,000 to people they get up you don't hear man what happened no you get up and they're sobbing 487 00:44:22,000 --> 00:44:27,240 and wiping these tears why because they've been in the presence of the Holy Ghost Holy 488 00:44:27,240 --> 00:44:33,960 Ghost moved on I can't explain all the phenomena of it I give up trying to explain it all but 489 00:44:33,960 --> 00:44:43,580 I do know this he is real and he is available hallelujah well I don't think we have to worry 490 00:44:43,580 --> 00:44:47,680 a whole lot about what we used to be labeled as holy rollers we've all got too much dignity 491 00:44:47,680 --> 00:44:58,360 to roll anymore that's what they used to call us back today why Holy Ghost we want people 492 00:44:58,360 --> 00:45:03,280 they'd run the aisles when there wasn't room to run when they put them in the floor they 493 00:45:03,280 --> 00:45:12,440 just roll when I was a kid it was a dangerous thing to be a spectator in a Pentecostal service 494 00:45:12,440 --> 00:45:20,480 you didn't get within two rows to watch I've been smacked and everything else then the 495 00:45:20,480 --> 00:45:39,800 spirit I wasn't no guarantee of protection over a innocent bystander one of them found 496 00:45:39,800 --> 00:45:47,480 you preaching tonight brother Terry you can pick it back up the power of Pentecost when 497 00:45:47,480 --> 00:45:54,280 it moves upon humanity when the Holy Ghost touches you it's best for us not to quench 498 00:45:54,280 --> 00:46:02,720 him to hold back to resist him but to let him have his way with us I assure you he is 499 00:46:02,720 --> 00:46:08,840 a gentleman he will not embarrass you no more than you've embarrassed yourself when you 500 00:46:08,840 --> 00:46:20,160 were in the world and some of you were flat-out fools I've heard some of your testimonies 501 00:46:20,160 --> 00:46:29,480 so what I want to know is where some of that other ad in here the more we pray and get 502 00:46:29,480 --> 00:46:42,720 in one mind and one accord in the agreement that we need him moving in our faculty today 503 00:46:42,720 --> 00:46:57,640 we need the Holy Ghost to have total reign in our hearts and lives yielded use me Lord 504 00:46:57,640 --> 00:47:04,680 we should sing that little course if you can use anything Lord use me take my hands my 505 00:47:04,680 --> 00:47:18,320 feet if you can use anything Lord use me why because we need witnesses tongues is a sign 506 00:47:18,320 --> 00:47:25,760 to unbelievers that's the reason Paul said I didn't come to you with the enticing words 507 00:47:25,760 --> 00:47:32,800 of men wisdom and if anybody could spin a tongue twister Paul could have he could really 508 00:47:32,800 --> 00:47:39,200 baffle people's mind with his knowledge and understanding of the scripture but that wasn't 509 00:47:39,200 --> 00:47:44,680 why he come he said I've come in the power and in the demonstration what demonstration 510 00:47:44,680 --> 00:47:49,880 there's a demonic damsel following around for days and he has enough and he turns around 511 00:47:49,880 --> 00:47:58,200 and rebukes it and cast it out that's the demonstration the dead are raised he himself 512 00:47:58,200 --> 00:48:04,600 stoned left for dead comes up out of the pile of the rocks to go further to preach the gospel 513 00:48:04,600 --> 00:48:14,400 left for dead in the sea come on beaten three times thirty nine save one demonstration of 514 00:48:14,400 --> 00:48:19,880 the power of the spirit if the apostle Paul went through that what do you think we're 515 00:48:19,880 --> 00:48:28,920 going to have to go through but you can do it why because greater is he that's in you 516 00:48:28,920 --> 00:48:38,800 than he that's in this world then there's the privilege of Pentecost I'm gonna close 517 00:48:38,800 --> 00:48:50,560 stay with me I'm gonna finish with this one there's the privilege of Pentecost the freedom 518 00:48:50,560 --> 00:49:01,520 the advantage the benefit the opportunity to receive Pentecost Rick Kurchoff says this 519 00:49:01,520 --> 00:49:08,440 when God sends forth the spirit amazing things happen barriers are broken communities are 520 00:49:08,440 --> 00:49:15,680 formed opposites are reconciled unity is established disease is cured addiction is broken cities 521 00:49:15,680 --> 00:49:25,920 are renewed races are reconciled hope is established people are blessed church happens today the 522 00:49:25,920 --> 00:49:33,840 spirit of God is present and we're gonna have church and we have had some church this morning 523 00:49:33,840 --> 00:49:45,800 so be ready get ready God's up to something and here we see discouraged folks cheer up 524 00:49:45,800 --> 00:50:00,320 dishonest folks fess up sour folks sweeten up closed folk open up where you at brother 525 00:50:00,320 --> 00:50:15,400 in gossipers I like this one of my favorites shut up conflicted folks makeup you got a 526 00:50:15,400 --> 00:50:21,760 problem in the house go to each other don't come tell me your problem go to each other 527 00:50:21,760 --> 00:50:26,960 and if you can't get it right then come see me that's the way the book tells us to take 528 00:50:26,960 --> 00:50:31,800 care of our situation but so many times we skip step one and want to go plum to three 529 00:50:31,800 --> 00:50:45,400 actually four ostracized put them back out in the world sleeping folk wake up lukewarm 530 00:50:45,400 --> 00:51:02,000 folk fire up dry bones shake up pew potatoes stand up but most of all Christ the Savior 531 00:51:02,000 --> 00:51:15,160 of all the world is lifted up amen the power and the purpose and the privilege of Pentecost 532 00:51:15,160 --> 00:51:26,920 father I love you today and how you use the foolishness of preaching to reach and to save 533 00:51:26,920 --> 00:51:35,800 the lost baffles my mind Lord without a doubt we all know that I didn't come in here with 534 00:51:35,800 --> 00:51:47,080 enticing words of men's wisdom but the power and the demonstration of your sweet Holy Spirit 535 00:51:47,080 --> 00:51:57,520 sinners confess up and look up redemptions draw near you today the redeeming grace of 536 00:51:57,520 --> 00:52:10,600 God the Holy Ghost is our convictor what do you mean pastor he convicts he makes us aware 537 00:52:10,600 --> 00:52:20,560 of our guiltiness aware of the sins that we have transgressed against God and each other 538 00:52:20,560 --> 00:52:34,560 he's our convictor but he's also our escort escort yes he takes you right to Calvary 539 00:52:34,560 --> 00:52:47,360 right to Jesus for cleansing forgiving and renewing if you're here this morning and you 540 00:52:47,360 --> 00:52:57,640 do not know Jesus Christ and free pardon of your sin you don't have to leave here lost 541 00:52:57,640 --> 00:53:02,920 if you're here today and you were ever one time closer to God than you are right now 542 00:53:02,920 --> 00:53:08,120 and you've just turned and walked away back to doing your own thing back out into the 543 00:53:08,120 --> 00:53:17,200 world forsaking your love of him back slider come home you have an escort to the King of 544 00:53:17,200 --> 00:53:28,160 Kings you have an escort to the Lord of Lords he will cleanse you he will forgive you anybody 545 00:53:28,160 --> 00:53:45,360 want to come forward today he's able he's able he's able he's able so pastor I'm saved 546 00:53:45,360 --> 00:53:56,800 but I sure have a desire for the Holy Ghost if that's you come on down we're going to 547 00:53:56,800 --> 00:54:04,120 pray with him pray for you because he's still baptizing today he's still filling people 548 00:54:04,120 --> 00:54:09,540 with his wonderful power and presence does that overflow you say pastor I've got the 549 00:54:09,540 --> 00:54:16,960 Holy Ghost but I need a little more boldness to be that witness I tell you what that should 550 00:54:16,960 --> 00:54:23,560 empty every other seat here today because it's my desire for you to have that desire 551 00:54:23,560 --> 00:54:29,320 because we won't fill this house over and over until we get emboldened to witness amen 552 00:54:29,320 --> 00:54:57,320 come stand in this altar let's pray together that we may be emboldened witnesses.