WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:01.700 Give him good praise in his house, would you? 00:00:03.960 --> 00:00:10.439 Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Again, I want to thank 00:00:10.439 --> 00:00:14.080 you so much for being in the house of the Lord 00:00:14.080 --> 00:00:21.780 today. I have to pray extra hard during the summer. 00:00:24.940 --> 00:00:27.579 I have to pray Lord's protection over you while 00:00:27.579 --> 00:00:33.070 you travel. And vacate and all that good stuff. 00:00:33.229 --> 00:00:35.689 So I have to pray the Lord keep you and bring 00:00:35.689 --> 00:00:41.350 you back. As you can tell, there's several out 00:00:41.350 --> 00:00:50.070 there today. And I'm always tempted on Memorial 00:00:50.070 --> 00:00:58.560 Day weekend to vacate myself. Brother Green grinning 00:00:58.560 --> 00:00:59.899 over there. He knows what I'm talking about. 00:01:00.000 --> 00:01:04.939 That Memorial Day weekend. Thank you for being 00:01:04.939 --> 00:01:07.200 in the house of the Lord, and I mean that. Thank 00:01:07.200 --> 00:01:11.060 you for being here today. This is a very special 00:01:11.060 --> 00:01:14.459 weekend for our nation as we honor those who 00:01:14.459 --> 00:01:20.019 have paid the ultimate, given the ultimate, so 00:01:20.019 --> 00:01:24.739 that we could gather here, continue to gather 00:01:24.739 --> 00:01:30.109 here freely. uninhibited, without worry, without 00:01:30.109 --> 00:01:34.329 fear. The only fear or worry we have is if some 00:01:34.329 --> 00:01:39.590 nut goes off the deep end. But we're prepared 00:01:39.590 --> 00:01:41.890 for that. Brother Mark's in the room monitoring 00:01:41.890 --> 00:01:47.590 the cameras. We're ready. And I'm not going to 00:01:47.590 --> 00:01:51.609 ask for a show of hands, but if they came in, 00:01:52.650 --> 00:01:54.409 One of these days we're going to have to go over 00:01:54.409 --> 00:01:57.549 safety protocol for you. There's going to be 00:01:57.549 --> 00:02:02.409 a key word that just simply means duck. Just 00:02:02.409 --> 00:02:05.349 get low. Don't get up and try to run. There'll 00:02:05.349 --> 00:02:10.990 be so much friendly fire in this place. So you, 00:02:11.110 --> 00:02:14.229 and let me just tell you, it's not just the men 00:02:14.229 --> 00:02:20.810 packing in here. He's 38 and 40 calibers. Nines 00:02:20.810 --> 00:02:25.550 in purses all across this room. So woe be unto 00:02:25.550 --> 00:02:29.569 them. But what we do have freedom from is our 00:02:29.569 --> 00:02:36.909 government coming in here. Because of lies. And 00:02:36.909 --> 00:02:40.150 I know we have our opinions about putting our 00:02:40.150 --> 00:02:42.830 noses in places they don't belong around the 00:02:42.830 --> 00:02:45.710 world and globally. But can I tell you, somebody 00:02:45.710 --> 00:02:48.270 has to stand up where others cannot stand up 00:02:48.270 --> 00:02:52.319 for themselves. I don't like it. I don't like 00:02:52.319 --> 00:02:56.199 it. But I'm telling you, the tyranny that would 00:02:56.199 --> 00:03:00.939 be in this world, the tyranny in people had we 00:03:00.939 --> 00:03:06.259 not helped. I don't know what kind of shape they 00:03:06.259 --> 00:03:09.919 would be in today. So it's a catch -22, if you 00:03:09.919 --> 00:03:13.639 will. So let's just pray, continue to pray. But 00:03:13.639 --> 00:03:16.400 if you have lost a family member at some point, 00:03:17.199 --> 00:03:22.020 In service to this nation. Thank you. Amen. And 00:03:22.020 --> 00:03:26.840 we honor that today. It is the ultimate sacrifice. 00:03:27.659 --> 00:03:32.819 And I for one am grateful. Amen. But the freedom 00:03:32.819 --> 00:03:36.780 that we proclaim in this house today. Is the 00:03:36.780 --> 00:03:40.840 freedom that we have in Jesus Christ. Who gave 00:03:40.840 --> 00:03:48.620 the ultimate. Amen. Also. what kept me in your 00:03:48.620 --> 00:03:53.800 presence today, it's Pentecost Sunday. And if 00:03:53.800 --> 00:03:58.960 there is a church of God, Holy Ghost field preacher, 00:03:59.240 --> 00:04:03.219 pastor, that took off on Pentecost Sunday, shame 00:04:03.219 --> 00:04:11.379 be upon them. I'm talking shame. There's at least 00:04:11.379 --> 00:04:16.139 three Sundays a year that any Holy Ghost field 00:04:16.649 --> 00:04:22.810 Preacher that's worth his salt can preach. Christmas, 00:04:23.069 --> 00:04:29.370 Easter, and today, Pentecost Sunday. So I've 00:04:29.370 --> 00:04:32.310 been stirring and fuming. I've preached a couple 00:04:32.310 --> 00:04:34.529 sermons to Sister Kathy this week in the car. 00:04:34.910 --> 00:04:36.990 I told somebody the other day I about got her 00:04:36.990 --> 00:04:40.709 saved on Thursday. And if she'd have yielded 00:04:40.709 --> 00:04:42.930 on Thursday, I know what I preached to her Friday 00:04:42.930 --> 00:04:46.990 would have got her sanctified. hoping that what 00:04:46.990 --> 00:04:49.410 I'm going to deliver today will get somebody 00:04:49.410 --> 00:04:53.709 hungry for the baptism of the Holy Ghost. Amen, 00:04:53.910 --> 00:04:57.170 amen, amen. So with that, today is Pentecost 00:04:57.170 --> 00:05:00.870 Sunday. Look with me to course Acts 2 for just 00:05:00.870 --> 00:05:06.009 a moment. Go ahead and throw that slide up there, 00:05:06.170 --> 00:05:11.089 Samuel. This has been stirring me all week. Take 00:05:11.089 --> 00:05:15.819 it outside. And here we had to come inside because 00:05:15.819 --> 00:05:20.120 of the rain. But the Lord stirred this in my 00:05:20.120 --> 00:05:23.360 heart about Tuesday, and it's just been building 00:05:23.360 --> 00:05:26.759 ever since. And so as, knowing all that today 00:05:26.759 --> 00:05:31.160 holds, so as that I would not just keep us here 00:05:31.160 --> 00:05:35.160 at about one. Look here, I got one little bitty 00:05:35.160 --> 00:05:40.100 hand written. You see this? You see this? And 00:05:40.100 --> 00:05:42.199 there's gaps. There's spaces. It's not full. 00:05:42.339 --> 00:05:46.319 And then just this little bit on back. Now, I 00:05:46.319 --> 00:05:49.300 think Brother Robbie's out on the grill. Pray 00:05:49.300 --> 00:05:53.660 for him. He's starting to get things going. So 00:05:53.660 --> 00:05:57.220 we'll have a baptism following the service while 00:05:57.220 --> 00:05:59.220 others are back there getting everything spread 00:05:59.220 --> 00:06:02.959 out. Amen. We're going to baptize, and then we've 00:06:02.959 --> 00:06:04.660 got the rest of the day to fellowship. Is that 00:06:04.660 --> 00:06:09.430 all right? Here we go. Acts 2. And when the day 00:06:09.430 --> 00:06:11.470 of Pentecost was fully come, they were all with 00:06:11.470 --> 00:06:14.910 one accord in one place, and suddenly there came 00:06:14.910 --> 00:06:17.149 a sound from heaven as of a rushing mighty wind, 00:06:17.329 --> 00:06:20.329 and it filled all the house where they were sitting. 00:06:21.029 --> 00:06:23.269 And there appeared unto them cloven tongues like 00:06:23.269 --> 00:06:26.050 as a fire, and it sat upon each of them, and 00:06:26.050 --> 00:06:30.350 they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and 00:06:30.350 --> 00:06:33.810 began to speak with other tongues as the Spirit 00:06:33.810 --> 00:06:37.500 gave them utterance. And there was dwelling at 00:06:37.500 --> 00:06:41.899 Jerusalem devout men of every nation under heaven. 00:06:42.079 --> 00:06:44.339 Do you understand that? That's pretty clear. 00:06:44.500 --> 00:06:52.000 Devout men from every nation under heaven. Now 00:06:52.000 --> 00:06:54.720 when this was noised abroad, the multitude came 00:06:54.720 --> 00:06:58.420 together and were confounded because that every 00:06:58.420 --> 00:07:03.740 man heard them speak in his own language. Take 00:07:03.740 --> 00:07:07.500 it out. I'll pray for you if you pray for me, 00:07:07.540 --> 00:07:09.860 and hopefully we'll get to this pretty quickly. 00:07:09.959 --> 00:07:13.220 Father, we love you today. Such a wonderful time 00:07:13.220 --> 00:07:16.379 of worship this morning on this great day. Lord, 00:07:16.519 --> 00:07:19.399 as we celebrate sacrifice, we also celebrate 00:07:19.399 --> 00:07:23.920 promise. Lord, today is that day. Today is as 00:07:23.920 --> 00:07:26.720 we celebrate the sending forth of your power 00:07:26.720 --> 00:07:30.319 upon all humanity. So touch, Lord, on all those 00:07:30.319 --> 00:07:33.579 that will and all those that would. Lord, we 00:07:33.579 --> 00:07:36.180 thank you for the sending of the promise, the 00:07:36.180 --> 00:07:38.240 promise of your spirit. To you be praise forever 00:07:38.240 --> 00:07:41.680 in Christ's name. The church said amen and amen. 00:07:41.800 --> 00:07:47.480 Take it outside. Pentecost Sunday, after the 00:07:47.480 --> 00:07:50.620 death and burial, the resurrection of Jesus Christ, 00:07:50.800 --> 00:07:57.720 on the 40th day after the resurrection, Jesus 00:07:57.720 --> 00:08:00.399 leads the disciples. He's present with them. 00:08:00.480 --> 00:08:03.269 He had been present. From that day, you remember, 00:08:03.370 --> 00:08:06.290 he's walking to Bethany. He sees the women at 00:08:06.290 --> 00:08:09.230 the graveside. And so he'd been present with 00:08:09.230 --> 00:08:13.009 them. And he'd been teaching at one time a crowd 00:08:13.009 --> 00:08:16.629 as large as 500 in his presence as he's teaching. 00:08:16.889 --> 00:08:19.350 The Lord is with them. The Lord is near them. 00:08:19.689 --> 00:08:23.269 And as the Jewish feast and the custom were, 00:08:23.490 --> 00:08:27.230 50 days after Passover was the feast of the harvest. 00:08:27.959 --> 00:08:30.819 And the celebration of the harvest. So it's been 00:08:30.819 --> 00:08:33.259 40 days the Lord has walked with them. It's been 00:08:33.259 --> 00:08:36.580 40 days that the Lord has taught them. And Luke 00:08:36.580 --> 00:08:39.960 begins to record this event as he's writing it 00:08:39.960 --> 00:08:42.279 out in that 24th chapter. And he's leaving it 00:08:42.279 --> 00:08:45.679 as a heritage for you and I. He leaves it behind 00:08:45.679 --> 00:08:48.879 and he lifts up his hands and the Lord blesses 00:08:48.879 --> 00:08:52.159 them. And he instructs them to go tarry in Jerusalem 00:08:52.159 --> 00:08:56.960 until they be in tune. and endued with power 00:08:56.960 --> 00:09:00.860 from on high. And as the Lord promised, ten days 00:09:00.860 --> 00:09:03.799 later, as they followed the instructions, when 00:09:03.799 --> 00:09:06.740 the day of Pentecost was fully come, when it 00:09:06.740 --> 00:09:10.340 was right on time, amen, you understand that 00:09:10.340 --> 00:09:13.419 the Old Testament is the types and the shadows. 00:09:13.460 --> 00:09:16.379 It's the foremarking. It's the arrows pointing 00:09:16.379 --> 00:09:40.970 the direction to. Don't think that bothers me 00:09:40.970 --> 00:09:43.210 none other than it aggravates the life out of 00:09:43.210 --> 00:09:44.990 me. It doesn't hinder anything that I'm about 00:09:44.990 --> 00:09:48.169 to do. I've seen it all in 30 -something years 00:09:48.169 --> 00:09:52.549 of ministry. Interruptions just happen. Amen. 00:09:53.809 --> 00:09:57.679 Ten days come to pass. The disciples... or in 00:09:57.679 --> 00:09:59.980 that upper room, taking care of the finishing 00:09:59.980 --> 00:10:02.379 business, putting things together, putting the 00:10:02.379 --> 00:10:05.019 bow, if you will, on the package. Their number 00:10:05.019 --> 00:10:09.080 is down to 11 in the apostles, and they had to 00:10:09.080 --> 00:10:11.360 elect another. Matthias the Lot fell upon him. 00:10:11.559 --> 00:10:15.740 He comes in as number 12, and now time is fulfilling. 00:10:15.919 --> 00:10:18.120 They're praying. They're going about the day. 00:10:18.259 --> 00:10:20.980 They're just waiting. If you and I had to wait 00:10:20.980 --> 00:10:23.980 10 days for something, we'd go stir crazy. We 00:10:23.980 --> 00:10:26.200 just don't have it in us these days to tarry. 00:10:26.299 --> 00:10:29.919 I think that's a missing attribute of the church 00:10:29.919 --> 00:10:31.919 anymore, to tarry and to wait and to see what 00:10:31.919 --> 00:10:34.799 the Lord has to bring to pass. But when the day 00:10:34.799 --> 00:10:37.980 of Pentecost was fully come, there was a sound, 00:10:38.179 --> 00:10:41.720 there was a wind, and there was a fire. Amen? 00:10:42.000 --> 00:10:46.120 The sound came from heaven, the wind filled the 00:10:46.120 --> 00:10:49.580 room, and the fire filled the people. You do 00:10:49.580 --> 00:10:52.539 understand that it wasn't little flaming things 00:10:52.539 --> 00:10:55.299 that set on them, Luke just didn't have any other 00:10:55.299 --> 00:10:59.059 way to describe what was happening to the 120 00:10:59.059 --> 00:11:01.919 in the room. He could not describe. How many 00:11:01.919 --> 00:11:03.700 of you have ever been baptized? How many of you 00:11:03.700 --> 00:11:06.460 baptized in the Holy Ghost and spake with other 00:11:06.460 --> 00:11:08.940 tongues as the Spirit gave you? I can't describe 00:11:08.940 --> 00:11:12.019 it either. If you'd asked me the day of, I couldn't 00:11:12.019 --> 00:11:14.100 tell you what happened. All I know is something 00:11:14.100 --> 00:11:16.299 hot hit me on the head, and it went through my 00:11:16.299 --> 00:11:19.120 toes and back up and came out my mouth. And that's 00:11:19.120 --> 00:11:22.019 the way Luke is trying to describe. It was like 00:11:22.019 --> 00:11:24.500 flaming tongues. Tongues of fire. Why? Because 00:11:24.500 --> 00:11:27.019 when the Holy Ghost takes control of that unruly 00:11:27.019 --> 00:11:30.600 member, when you surrender it to him and it begins 00:11:30.600 --> 00:11:32.820 to operate under the power of the Spirit, it 00:11:32.820 --> 00:11:35.519 just looks like it's going everywhere. And it's 00:11:35.519 --> 00:11:38.820 just moving. It's like tongues clove and they're 00:11:38.820 --> 00:11:41.580 split. It's just moving and fire is set upon 00:11:41.580 --> 00:11:44.740 them. But this is the promise that was given 00:11:44.740 --> 00:11:48.320 to the disciples. Amen. The miracle of Pentecost, 00:11:48.320 --> 00:11:51.200 if you will, was not the glossolalia. That's 00:11:51.200 --> 00:11:53.389 just the fancy word. for speaking in tongues, 00:11:53.509 --> 00:11:56.289 meaning the ability to speak another language. 00:11:56.570 --> 00:12:00.190 The miracle wasn't glossolalia or speaking in 00:12:00.190 --> 00:12:04.049 tongues. It was the fact that they left the room. 00:12:04.409 --> 00:12:07.049 Now, when we begin to think about this, you think 00:12:07.049 --> 00:12:10.490 about this 50 -day time frame from Christ, death, 00:12:10.710 --> 00:12:14.029 burial, and resurrection. They were still probably 00:12:14.029 --> 00:12:16.690 wanted men. They were probably still being hunted, 00:12:16.750 --> 00:12:19.370 and they probably couldn't go out in public too 00:12:19.370 --> 00:12:21.929 much without someone drawing attention. of them, 00:12:22.029 --> 00:12:24.509 maybe even pointing fingers and sneering and 00:12:24.509 --> 00:12:27.129 laughing, having not yet seen the risen Christ, 00:12:27.230 --> 00:12:30.110 not yet knowing that they were following in the 00:12:30.110 --> 00:12:33.110 footsteps of the one who called them from Galilee, 00:12:33.230 --> 00:12:36.529 amen? And when they were there in this day, and 00:12:36.529 --> 00:12:39.159 the Spirit... It was promised, was given. You 00:12:39.159 --> 00:12:41.360 have to remember and go all the way back to Matthew. 00:12:41.419 --> 00:12:44.720 When you hear what John the Baptist said, look 00:12:44.720 --> 00:12:47.799 and behold, as John and David recorded, the Lamb 00:12:47.799 --> 00:12:49.840 of God which takes away the sin of the world. 00:12:49.919 --> 00:12:53.480 Matthew recorded the very fact that this is he. 00:12:53.860 --> 00:12:58.059 I'm not worthy even to tithe. and latch his shoes. 00:12:58.320 --> 00:13:01.519 I'm not even worthy to do that. But this one 00:13:01.519 --> 00:13:04.899 that I'm pointing you to right now, I may baptize 00:13:04.899 --> 00:13:08.399 you in water, but he indeed will baptize you 00:13:08.399 --> 00:13:13.059 in the power of the Holy Ghost. That's what he's 00:13:13.059 --> 00:13:16.740 going to do for you. He will baptize you in the 00:13:16.740 --> 00:13:19.299 Holy Ghost, and as we used to say in my own church, 00:13:19.500 --> 00:13:22.340 the fire. You're going to get a little fire in 00:13:22.340 --> 00:13:24.820 your life. Some of you need a rekindling of a 00:13:24.820 --> 00:13:27.220 little bit of fire. You may need a refreshing 00:13:27.220 --> 00:13:30.299 of a spirit, baptism in your life, but you won't 00:13:30.299 --> 00:13:32.659 get it unless you start to get hungry and maybe 00:13:32.659 --> 00:13:35.860 even tarry and pray and seek God for it. Let 00:13:35.860 --> 00:13:38.539 me get back on here. The miracle was the fact 00:13:38.539 --> 00:13:41.940 that they spilled out of the room. You do understand 00:13:41.940 --> 00:13:44.759 that the church, the Greek word there is ekklesia, 00:13:44.980 --> 00:13:47.480 which means to call out ones. It doesn't mean 00:13:47.480 --> 00:13:50.240 the structure. When they talk about the structure, 00:13:50.340 --> 00:13:53.000 you'll see where Peter and James and John and 00:13:53.000 --> 00:13:55.139 Paul and the others, they would gather in the 00:13:55.139 --> 00:13:57.350 church. synagogue. That's the house. It's not 00:13:57.350 --> 00:13:59.690 the church. You need to understand something. 00:13:59.809 --> 00:14:03.590 If you are blood -bought, born again, your sins 00:14:03.590 --> 00:14:05.990 are washed and purged, you are the ecclesia. 00:14:06.149 --> 00:14:08.889 You are the called out. You are the church of 00:14:08.889 --> 00:14:11.730 the living God. Amen. And you are the witness 00:14:11.730 --> 00:14:14.250 of the Christ, of the resurrection, of the death, 00:14:14.269 --> 00:14:17.129 of the burial. That's who you are. You are the 00:14:17.129 --> 00:14:20.980 church. And so the miracle is that they spilled 00:14:20.980 --> 00:14:24.240 out of the room into the streets with the power 00:14:24.240 --> 00:14:32.779 that was sent from on high. The plan was what 00:14:32.779 --> 00:14:41.820 that starts inside you, he intends to send outside 00:14:41.820 --> 00:14:51.350 through you. It's very important to understand 00:14:51.350 --> 00:14:56.110 that the sending of the Holy Ghost was not to 00:14:56.110 --> 00:15:01.289 give you goosebumps. The miracle of Pentecost 00:15:01.289 --> 00:15:04.090 was not to make you shout, and it might. I tell 00:15:04.090 --> 00:15:06.269 you what, he's got his job cut out for him today, 00:15:06.370 --> 00:15:12.309 though, in our time. Not to make you run. There's 00:15:12.309 --> 00:15:14.289 something that's gone by the wayside in most 00:15:14.289 --> 00:15:16.509 places. The runner, people are too embarrassed. 00:15:17.279 --> 00:15:19.539 to stand under the unction when the spirit hits 00:15:19.539 --> 00:15:21.799 them and just take off with a wild whoop and 00:15:21.799 --> 00:15:24.980 give a lap for the glory of God. My Lord, we're 00:15:24.980 --> 00:15:28.200 dignified now. We've moved beyond the principles 00:15:28.200 --> 00:15:34.019 of some things that are particular avenue of 00:15:34.019 --> 00:15:38.580 faith. The miracle is the fact that God sent 00:15:38.580 --> 00:15:41.860 the power to you to go in you that you would 00:15:41.860 --> 00:15:46.120 go out there and present him. Him who? Christ. 00:15:46.419 --> 00:15:49.759 If you remember, Jesus said this. When the Spirit 00:15:49.759 --> 00:15:53.019 is come, when he is here, he's going to draw 00:15:53.019 --> 00:15:55.759 all men unto all truth. And you must remember 00:15:55.759 --> 00:15:58.580 the declaration. I am the way, the truth, and 00:15:58.580 --> 00:16:01.840 the life. He's going to draw people to me. He's 00:16:01.840 --> 00:16:04.480 going to bring people to me. And you do remember, 00:16:04.580 --> 00:16:07.360 as Luke is recording in 24, around that verse 00:16:07.360 --> 00:16:10.360 49, as I've already told you, go tarry in Jerusalem 00:16:10.360 --> 00:16:12.759 till you be due with power. And then he picks 00:16:12.759 --> 00:16:14.799 up in the book of the Acts of the... apostles 00:16:14.799 --> 00:16:17.960 in that first chapter our mission emphasis verse 00:16:17.960 --> 00:16:21.600 in 1 and 8 and you shall be witnesses in me after 00:16:21.600 --> 00:16:26.039 that the Holy Ghost is come upon you in where 00:16:26.039 --> 00:16:29.000 Jerusalem Judea Samaria and to the uttermost 00:16:29.000 --> 00:16:32.419 parts of the world here we now declare and find 00:16:32.419 --> 00:16:35.960 out the exact purpose of the sending of the power 00:16:35.960 --> 00:16:39.720 of God and that power has come that when we get 00:16:39.720 --> 00:16:43.679 on the inside when we receive him on the inside 00:16:43.690 --> 00:16:47.769 It enables us and he empowers us to go and declare 00:16:47.769 --> 00:16:51.509 it on the outside. It's time the church again 00:16:51.509 --> 00:16:55.629 get back out of the room and spill into the streets 00:16:55.629 --> 00:16:59.950 and begin to glorify the name of Jesus Christ. 00:17:06.890 --> 00:17:12.759 That's pretty good, wasn't it, baby? Man, you 00:17:12.759 --> 00:17:17.319 just don't know how that helps me right there. 00:17:23.839 --> 00:17:29.339 Empowered to spill into the street. Enabled with 00:17:29.339 --> 00:17:33.640 boldness to proclaim. The name of Jesus Christ. 00:17:34.259 --> 00:17:37.720 Nobody likes to shout near as much as I do. I 00:17:37.720 --> 00:17:40.240 love it when the power of God moves and stirs 00:17:40.240 --> 00:17:43.059 on my heart, and I shout to the glory of God. 00:17:43.240 --> 00:17:46.339 I'll cut me a jig when the Spirit moves on me. 00:17:46.400 --> 00:17:49.119 I'll do me a whirlwind when the Spirit moves 00:17:49.119 --> 00:17:51.799 on me. I used to run, but not as much as I've 00:17:51.799 --> 00:17:54.480 gotten older. I used to be one of them that take 00:17:54.480 --> 00:17:57.220 a laugh. I miss Brother Kenny. Right now, Brother 00:17:57.220 --> 00:18:00.460 Kenny Cooper would give me a jog or a shuffle 00:18:00.460 --> 00:18:06.369 always. around this room, enabled, empowered 00:18:06.369 --> 00:18:11.829 by the Spirit to proclaim the resurrected Lord. 00:18:16.309 --> 00:18:25.230 So number one, what happens when we take it outside? 00:18:29.450 --> 00:18:34.309 As 120 spilled into the streets of Jerusalem, 00:18:34.450 --> 00:18:38.849 the scripture says it was noise abroad. That 00:18:38.849 --> 00:18:42.029 tells me that they were down there for a little 00:18:42.029 --> 00:18:45.410 while. It wasn't just a little whooping over. 00:18:47.450 --> 00:18:51.849 Huh? You got to remember, they had been waiting 00:18:51.849 --> 00:18:58.509 10 days for this. They got prayed up. They fasted. 00:18:58.509 --> 00:19:00.589 They were ready. They're awaiting the promise 00:19:00.589 --> 00:19:04.069 because you remember Jesus told them, it is expedient 00:19:04.069 --> 00:19:08.470 that I go away for after I go away, I'll send 00:19:08.470 --> 00:19:12.349 back the comforter. Well, my God, who doesn't 00:19:12.349 --> 00:19:15.549 need a good comforter? Who doesn't need the paraclete 00:19:15.549 --> 00:19:18.109 to walk, the parakeet to swan, who would stand 00:19:18.109 --> 00:19:21.329 beside and walk beside and be partner with you 00:19:21.329 --> 00:19:24.710 and never leave you, my God, and lead you into 00:19:24.710 --> 00:19:31.150 all truth. He will come. And he said, after he 00:19:31.150 --> 00:19:34.450 gets here, you think I've done something? The 00:19:34.450 --> 00:19:38.029 water's parallel, paraphrase. You think I've 00:19:38.029 --> 00:19:45.029 done some stuff? When he gets here, y 'all gonna 00:19:45.029 --> 00:19:54.019 put on the dogs. King James translator said, 00:19:54.160 --> 00:19:56.900 and greater works than these shall you do also. 00:19:57.980 --> 00:20:00.660 In other words, you've seen me lay hands or just 00:20:00.660 --> 00:20:03.859 speak to the dead and they rise up. You've seen 00:20:03.859 --> 00:20:07.500 me spit mud balls in blinded eyes and they walk 00:20:07.500 --> 00:20:10.000 away seeing. You've seen me putting my fingers 00:20:10.000 --> 00:20:13.019 in the dumb's ears and the tongue begin to quake 00:20:13.019 --> 00:20:16.240 and I pull forth and they hear and begin to proclaim. 00:20:16.460 --> 00:20:19.809 You've seen it all. You've seen me walk up to 00:20:19.809 --> 00:20:23.829 demoniacs and proclaim the power of my name and 00:20:23.829 --> 00:20:27.130 cast them. You've seen it. But let me tell you, 00:20:27.170 --> 00:20:30.329 when the Holy Ghost gets in you and you take 00:20:30.329 --> 00:20:41.829 it outside, you ain't seen anything yet. The 00:20:41.829 --> 00:20:45.539 crowd is a... 120 spilled into the street, the 00:20:45.539 --> 00:20:49.880 purpose of Pentecost is demonstrated. As Peter, 00:20:50.099 --> 00:20:59.359 who 50 days, 51 days earlier, cursed, denied, 00:20:59.680 --> 00:21:06.220 and in that same 51 day period of time, repented, 00:21:06.259 --> 00:21:16.609 cried, came home, and he's in the room. And the 00:21:16.609 --> 00:21:21.049 Holy Ghost fills him. Peter's in the street with 00:21:21.049 --> 00:21:27.829 the other 119 speaking in tongues. The multitude 00:21:27.829 --> 00:21:31.410 gathered and said, hey, ain't these flatheads 00:21:31.410 --> 00:21:37.849 all Galileans? That's that bunch of fishermen 00:21:37.849 --> 00:21:43.210 there. I even see a tax collector. What's that 00:21:43.210 --> 00:21:47.990 doctor doing? Speaking like that. Hey, wait a 00:21:47.990 --> 00:21:55.609 minute. They're speaking my language. Every nation 00:21:55.609 --> 00:21:59.970 under heaven represented. Make your way all the 00:21:59.970 --> 00:22:02.730 way back to Genesis and see where everybody has 00:22:02.730 --> 00:22:05.069 to gather up with folks that can understand them 00:22:05.069 --> 00:22:07.869 and go live somewhere else because at the Tower 00:22:07.869 --> 00:22:11.210 of Babel, God confused and confounded language 00:22:11.210 --> 00:22:13.049 and they couldn't understand one another until 00:22:13.049 --> 00:22:14.890 they got some folks that they could understand 00:22:14.890 --> 00:22:17.369 and they went on their merry way. Now all of 00:22:17.369 --> 00:22:20.650 those folks are from Babel back to the uniting 00:22:20.650 --> 00:22:25.369 of the Babel of heaven. And they are, oh, come 00:22:25.369 --> 00:22:34.349 on now. I'd love to be preaching this at about 00:22:34.349 --> 00:22:39.049 a 90 % African -American congregation. And with 00:22:39.049 --> 00:22:43.950 a good organ person going, I'd have a heart attack. 00:22:47.890 --> 00:22:50.049 So it's a good thing I'm just preaching to you 00:22:50.049 --> 00:22:58.180 mediocre folk. A little clap and a hoorah. By 00:22:58.180 --> 00:23:00.200 the time they'd stop for a praise bake, I'd pass 00:23:00.200 --> 00:23:10.759 out. Take it outside. Peter is outside with what 00:23:10.759 --> 00:23:15.680 is moved inside of him. Here come the scoffers. 00:23:15.700 --> 00:23:18.339 They're always around you folks. Don't, don't. 00:23:18.490 --> 00:23:20.549 been out of shape about the scoffers and the 00:23:20.549 --> 00:23:23.970 ridiculers and the mockers. Amen. My home church 00:23:23.970 --> 00:23:25.970 when I was growing up as kids on Wednesday night, 00:23:26.150 --> 00:23:28.829 we'd take our pocket knives and dig 22 bullets 00:23:28.829 --> 00:23:31.750 out of the board and batten walls. Amen. On the 00:23:31.750 --> 00:23:34.589 outside. That was fun to us. Why? Because idiots 00:23:34.589 --> 00:23:37.549 would rise up and down a road and shoot at our 00:23:37.549 --> 00:23:40.269 church building. That's just the way it was. 00:23:40.349 --> 00:23:43.029 Why? Because we were them. We were those folks 00:23:43.029 --> 00:23:45.670 who wasn't afraid to take it outside. We've shouted 00:23:45.670 --> 00:23:49.069 in the parking lot so it could be heard. I've 00:23:49.069 --> 00:23:52.309 run laps around my home church parking lot speaking 00:23:52.309 --> 00:23:54.569 in tongues as the Holy Ghost would move. Why? 00:23:54.650 --> 00:23:57.970 Because driven by the power for the purpose. 00:23:58.829 --> 00:24:00.910 The purpose and the fact of getting it outside 00:24:00.910 --> 00:24:04.109 Peter, when they come saying these men are drunk, 00:24:04.309 --> 00:24:07.210 he had all he was going to take, and he come 00:24:07.210 --> 00:24:09.329 out of the spirit and got into their language, 00:24:09.410 --> 00:24:12.690 and he began to speak to them. Listen to me today. 00:24:12.829 --> 00:24:16.089 These men are not drunken as you suppose, but 00:24:16.089 --> 00:24:20.109 this is that, my God, which was spoken by the 00:24:20.109 --> 00:24:30.130 prophet Joel. That's what this is. And like any 00:24:30.130 --> 00:24:32.869 good Pentecostal preacher, he started at Genesis 00:24:32.869 --> 00:24:37.910 and took them all the way. I preach from Genesis 00:24:37.910 --> 00:24:43.450 to Revelation most every week. I used to envy 00:24:43.450 --> 00:24:45.309 those boys that could take one verse and get 00:24:45.309 --> 00:24:48.009 you for 45 minutes. And now I'm thinking, boy, 00:24:48.029 --> 00:24:55.799 that'd be awful boring. Some of them there. Give 00:24:55.799 --> 00:24:58.000 me that Genesis Revelation guy. He'll hit me 00:24:58.000 --> 00:25:01.980 somewhere. In 66 books, he'll get my hide, I 00:25:01.980 --> 00:25:09.119 guarantee you. Huh? I'm not knocking that style. 00:25:09.200 --> 00:25:10.940 That's the way the Lord moves on some people. 00:25:12.299 --> 00:25:14.339 Amen. This right here wouldn't even get Brother 00:25:14.339 --> 00:25:17.940 Terry, Pastor Terry started. He's a manuscript 00:25:17.940 --> 00:25:21.259 man. I've got one or two of them. He got it all 00:25:21.259 --> 00:25:24.480 down there, about 12, 14 pages. Do you know what 00:25:24.480 --> 00:25:26.539 kind of shape you would be in if I got up here 00:25:26.539 --> 00:25:33.440 with 14 pages? We'd go back. We'd preach it from 00:25:33.440 --> 00:25:35.220 Genesis to Revelation and then Revelation back 00:25:35.220 --> 00:25:42.359 if I had 14 pages. The purpose of Pentecost is 00:25:42.359 --> 00:25:48.299 demonstrated in the streets of Jerusalem. Remember, 00:25:48.339 --> 00:25:50.359 Jesus said, and after that the Holy Ghost has 00:25:50.359 --> 00:25:52.640 come upon you, you shall be witnesses of me. 00:25:53.259 --> 00:25:55.779 My God, somebody needs to hear this. This thing 00:25:55.779 --> 00:25:59.140 ain't about you. It's not about your shame. It's 00:25:59.140 --> 00:26:01.660 not about them mocking you. It's not about what 00:26:01.660 --> 00:26:05.099 they say to you, around you, or behind your back 00:26:05.099 --> 00:26:08.400 about your witness. It's all about him. It's 00:26:08.400 --> 00:26:11.039 about, would somebody square a shoulder back 00:26:11.039 --> 00:26:14.099 and come out with a boldness? See, the purpose 00:26:14.099 --> 00:26:17.059 of Pentecost was to give boldness to some weak 00:26:17.059 --> 00:26:20.339 -backed, spineless people. Like who? Like Peter 00:26:20.339 --> 00:26:23.400 at the first sign, at the first trouble. He ran. 00:26:23.640 --> 00:26:27.220 No, no, I'm not one of them. No, mm -mm. Not 00:26:27.220 --> 00:26:29.500 me. Well, I saw you with him. And then he'd be 00:26:29.500 --> 00:26:32.440 just throwing a little cuss word or two to verify 00:26:32.440 --> 00:26:34.839 that he's not one of them. And he runs off to 00:26:34.839 --> 00:26:38.000 hide away enough to watch what happens to the 00:26:38.000 --> 00:26:40.980 Lord. And when he hears that third crowing of 00:26:40.980 --> 00:26:44.099 the rooster, he began to quiver and quake. And 00:26:44.099 --> 00:26:47.039 he began to just melt before the convicting power 00:26:47.039 --> 00:26:49.680 of the spirit that was to come and set upon him 00:26:49.680 --> 00:26:52.180 to empower him. And he goes out and he says, 00:26:52.259 --> 00:26:58.549 this is that. And he preached to them Jesus. 00:27:01.289 --> 00:27:09.670 And when he got done, 3 ,000 souls were added 00:27:09.670 --> 00:27:13.630 unto him. That's a pretty good report for one 00:27:13.630 --> 00:27:19.190 sermon right there. That's what will happen when 00:27:19.190 --> 00:27:21.990 you take it outside. What's it look like when 00:27:21.990 --> 00:27:24.690 it goes outside? Well, not far different from... 00:27:25.319 --> 00:27:28.319 What had happened there in 1801 in Cain Ridge, 00:27:28.460 --> 00:27:33.559 Kentucky, near Paris, Kentucky, up near pretty 00:27:33.559 --> 00:27:38.779 close to Lexington, Kentucky. 1801. Presbyterian 00:27:38.779 --> 00:27:44.920 folk, of all people, were having a meeting. And 00:27:44.920 --> 00:27:50.099 this meeting exploded. From August the 8th, can 00:27:50.099 --> 00:27:56.309 you imagine? Humidity. That little house that 00:27:56.309 --> 00:27:58.369 they were in, little schoolhouse, couldn't hold 00:27:58.369 --> 00:28:02.269 them all. Why? Because by the time the noise 00:28:02.269 --> 00:28:05.869 reached the hollers and the borders beyond, it's 00:28:05.869 --> 00:28:10.980 estimated between 10 and 30. 30 ,000 people attended 00:28:10.980 --> 00:28:14.539 this revival, and things began to happen that 00:28:14.539 --> 00:28:19.759 Presbyterian folk hadn't seen in millennia. Oh, 00:28:19.900 --> 00:28:23.200 Lord, and centuries, and as it began to happen, 00:28:23.240 --> 00:28:26.400 they began to describe it like this. They would 00:28:26.400 --> 00:28:29.960 just faint. They'd just fall down. Something 00:28:29.960 --> 00:28:32.519 would come on them, and they'd just melt, and 00:28:32.519 --> 00:28:35.039 there they would lay. Some would quiver. Some 00:28:35.039 --> 00:28:38.259 would quake. Some of them looked. like and sounded 00:28:38.259 --> 00:28:41.119 like this, barking like dogs. They were speaking 00:28:41.119 --> 00:28:45.140 things that we could not understand. Why? Because 00:28:45.140 --> 00:28:47.579 you'd have a group of about 100 and a preacher 00:28:47.579 --> 00:28:49.880 over here on the stump, and you'd have a group 00:28:49.880 --> 00:28:52.539 of about 50 back on the backside, and they'd 00:28:52.539 --> 00:28:54.079 gather over there, and the preacher was preaching. 00:28:54.160 --> 00:28:55.740 Well, they didn't have a microphone. They didn't 00:28:55.740 --> 00:28:57.799 have all this stuff, but what they had was men 00:28:57.799 --> 00:29:00.980 hungry to preach Jesus. And when the power of 00:29:00.980 --> 00:29:04.019 the Holy Ghost began to move and fall upon them, 00:29:04.019 --> 00:29:07.980 some 30 ,000 heard. The good news and revival 00:29:07.980 --> 00:29:11.519 breaks out. You move forward about 85 years. 00:29:11.880 --> 00:29:15.839 What is it? 1886. Take away the one. 85 years. 00:29:16.000 --> 00:29:19.980 Up in the mountains right over here. What's the 00:29:19.980 --> 00:29:23.319 name of that place? Coker Creek. Right up over 00:29:23.319 --> 00:29:27.109 here close to us. Right up above Teleco. Old 00:29:27.109 --> 00:29:29.450 Baptist preacher by the name of R .G. Sperling 00:29:29.450 --> 00:29:33.130 had a hunger begin to gnaw at his gut. And it 00:29:33.130 --> 00:29:35.730 wasn't for cornbread and soup beans. He began 00:29:35.730 --> 00:29:39.130 to get hungry for more of God. And listen, when 00:29:39.130 --> 00:29:41.450 you start to get hungry for more of God, you 00:29:41.450 --> 00:29:43.710 start digging around in the Word of God to find 00:29:43.710 --> 00:29:46.410 something to eat on. And he landed on the promise, 00:29:46.609 --> 00:29:49.589 and he landed upon the exaltation of it all, 00:29:49.750 --> 00:29:52.289 and he landed upon the reality of its sending. 00:29:52.509 --> 00:29:56.660 And he began to ask God for it. 1886, R .G. Sperling 00:29:56.660 --> 00:30:00.079 was baptized. in the Holy Ghost. And through 00:30:00.079 --> 00:30:02.740 a couple different name changes, you make your 00:30:02.740 --> 00:30:07.299 way to 1905 and 1906. You make your way all the 00:30:07.299 --> 00:30:10.039 way out to the west coast of Azusa Street. And 00:30:10.039 --> 00:30:11.839 an old black preacher by the name of William 00:30:11.839 --> 00:30:15.519 Seymour had his face in a crate seeking God. 00:30:15.740 --> 00:30:18.779 And the power of the Holy Ghost was poured out 00:30:18.779 --> 00:30:23.339 on Azusa Street about 87, 90, 105 years after 00:30:23.339 --> 00:30:26.720 this 1801 Cane Ridge revival. What are you saying? 00:30:27.400 --> 00:30:30.319 it outside. I want you to take the power of the 00:30:30.319 --> 00:30:33.400 gospel of Jesus Christ emboldened by the Holy 00:30:33.400 --> 00:30:36.259 Ghost and you take it outside. Time, it's time, 00:30:36.299 --> 00:30:39.900 it's time. Take it outside. I wish somebody would 00:30:39.900 --> 00:30:43.059 get a hunger for enough of God to take it outside. 00:30:47.559 --> 00:30:50.980 When you take it outside, the power of Pentecost 00:30:50.980 --> 00:30:58.089 is witnessed. Acts 3. I had about a dozen of 00:30:58.089 --> 00:31:00.450 these outside encounters, but I thought, that 00:31:00.450 --> 00:31:07.490 can't happen. No, that can't happen. Not today. 00:31:09.430 --> 00:31:13.670 But the power was demonstrated. Purpose on day 00:31:13.670 --> 00:31:18.349 one. Just a few days later, the power is about 00:31:18.349 --> 00:31:21.849 to be demonstrated. Peter and John on their way 00:31:21.849 --> 00:31:27.599 to church to go and pray. And they run across 00:31:27.599 --> 00:31:31.500 something that we still have today. They ran 00:31:31.500 --> 00:31:35.880 across a lame man outside a gate. The gate was 00:31:35.880 --> 00:31:40.039 called Beautiful. Popular place. Good place to 00:31:40.039 --> 00:31:45.039 beg and alms for the poor. Good place to have 00:31:45.039 --> 00:31:51.940 your cup. And so he thought he saw two good candidates 00:31:51.940 --> 00:31:54.240 coming. He didn't know they were Pentecostal 00:31:54.240 --> 00:31:58.640 preachers. He's about to find out. Peter and 00:31:58.640 --> 00:32:01.900 John's walking by. The scripture says, and he 00:32:01.900 --> 00:32:04.819 looked on them expecting to receive. Let me tell 00:32:04.819 --> 00:32:07.240 you something. Sometimes folk look expecting, 00:32:07.240 --> 00:32:09.799 but you don't get exactly what you were expecting. 00:32:10.559 --> 00:32:16.240 He was not expecting what he got. Alms for the 00:32:16.240 --> 00:32:21.059 poor. He turned them pockets inside out. Look, 00:32:21.220 --> 00:32:26.720 we're Pentecostal preachers. Silver and gold 00:32:26.720 --> 00:32:31.259 we ain't got. But he didn't leave the man empty. 00:32:32.599 --> 00:32:37.759 But such as I have, give I unto thee. And he 00:32:37.759 --> 00:32:41.079 reached his hand. And he took him by the right 00:32:41.079 --> 00:32:45.119 hand and he lifted him up. And as he lifts him 00:32:45.119 --> 00:32:48.859 up, the power that is on and in him begins to 00:32:48.859 --> 00:32:52.039 move outside of him. And the point of contact, 00:32:52.119 --> 00:32:55.720 which was a man expecting, he began to feel strength 00:32:55.720 --> 00:32:58.500 come into his ankle bones. And the next thing 00:32:58.500 --> 00:33:01.779 you know, he made a spectacle in synagogue worship 00:33:01.779 --> 00:33:04.819 that day. Look, when God does the miraculous 00:33:04.819 --> 00:33:08.200 for you, you cannot contain it. You can't hold 00:33:08.200 --> 00:33:10.579 it and you don't. care if it hair lips the devil 00:33:10.579 --> 00:33:13.619 and any other hypocrite around you. You're going 00:33:13.619 --> 00:33:16.440 to proclaim it. So he runs through the synagogue 00:33:16.440 --> 00:33:19.299 shouting, giving glory to God. They say, what 00:33:19.299 --> 00:33:22.579 is it? Boy, he just got healed. And let me tell 00:33:22.579 --> 00:33:26.660 you how. In the name of Jesus Christ, Nazareth, 00:33:26.680 --> 00:33:36.519 rise up. The power demonstrated because the quickening 00:33:36.519 --> 00:33:46.000 boldness. Of the Holy Ghost. Huh? Look here, 00:33:46.059 --> 00:33:47.799 we're turning it. We're good. We're doing good. 00:33:48.740 --> 00:33:53.839 You know when I turn it, we're about done. You 00:33:53.839 --> 00:34:00.839 got the promise. You got the purpose. You got 00:34:00.839 --> 00:34:04.240 the power. And that promise is what we're still 00:34:04.240 --> 00:34:09.170 holding to. Turn over to Acts 6 and 7 real quick. 00:34:10.869 --> 00:34:24.250 When you take him outside, things happen. The 00:34:24.250 --> 00:34:28.670 power is released and the purpose is fulfilled. 00:34:30.510 --> 00:34:35.969 Apostle by the name of Stephen. Gets drug out 00:34:35.969 --> 00:34:43.130 to be stoned. And he gets threatened to be stoned 00:34:43.130 --> 00:34:45.949 because of the boldness of the spirit that was 00:34:45.949 --> 00:34:49.869 just newly infilling him. And he just preached 00:34:49.869 --> 00:34:55.909 to them like he knew them. And how many know 00:34:55.909 --> 00:34:58.309 when you preach like you know them, it can get 00:34:58.309 --> 00:35:03.570 personal? I have to be careful sometimes. Well, 00:35:03.590 --> 00:35:07.230 Stephen got personal with them. He read their 00:35:07.230 --> 00:35:13.510 mail. He read their daddy mail. Hello? He told 00:35:13.510 --> 00:35:18.110 them what sorry scoundrels they were. You know 00:35:18.110 --> 00:35:22.610 that he was sent from God, and yet you've done 00:35:22.610 --> 00:35:26.989 it anyway. And they got so tore up, they are 00:35:26.989 --> 00:35:29.829 screaming and hollering and begin to cast stones 00:35:29.829 --> 00:35:37.260 to kill Stephen. The promise is realized outside. 00:35:39.300 --> 00:35:43.159 Stoned for his witness in the throes of death 00:35:43.159 --> 00:35:52.199 itself. Verses 54 through 56. He being full of 00:35:52.199 --> 00:36:01.420 the Holy Ghost. Look up steadfastly unto the 00:36:01.420 --> 00:36:06.659 heavens. And here's what he said. I want to make 00:36:06.659 --> 00:36:13.880 sure I get it right. Behold, verse 55. But he 00:36:13.880 --> 00:36:16.460 being full of the Holy Ghost looked up steadfastly 00:36:16.460 --> 00:36:21.119 into heaven and saw the glory of God and Jesus 00:36:21.119 --> 00:36:28.739 standing on the right hand of God. When you start 00:36:28.739 --> 00:36:32.099 reading the Bible, it kindly takes care of some 00:36:32.099 --> 00:36:36.780 false doctrine that's out there. I'm sorry. You 00:36:36.780 --> 00:36:41.119 got a man looking up, sees God the Father on 00:36:41.119 --> 00:36:44.739 the throne and Jesus the Son at his right hand, 00:36:44.900 --> 00:36:47.820 not seated. Now, I don't know what that does 00:36:47.820 --> 00:36:50.079 for you, but every time I read it, Brother Don, 00:36:50.159 --> 00:36:54.940 it really does something for me. Why? Because 00:36:54.940 --> 00:36:57.539 it lets me know no matter what the enemy's coming 00:36:57.539 --> 00:37:00.800 against me with, no matter what life's atrocities 00:37:00.800 --> 00:37:03.900 are coming after me with, if I continue to look 00:37:03.900 --> 00:37:07.559 up steadfastly, Jesus isn't taking it all casually. 00:37:07.840 --> 00:37:10.480 He isn't just idly sitting up there waiting on 00:37:10.480 --> 00:37:12.539 us to get done with life and then take over. 00:37:12.739 --> 00:37:16.260 He come to attention when he saw the apostle 00:37:16.260 --> 00:37:20.179 Stephen. He's standing. My God, he's standing 00:37:20.179 --> 00:37:24.940 there. I want to get it right. Then they cried 00:37:24.940 --> 00:37:28.800 out in verse 57. Verse 56, and he said, Behold, 00:37:28.820 --> 00:37:32.300 I see the heavens opened. I see the heavens opened 00:37:32.300 --> 00:37:36.360 and the Son of Man standing on the right hand 00:37:36.360 --> 00:37:40.760 of God. Then they cried out, My Lord, it pierced 00:37:40.760 --> 00:37:43.300 their ears. They put their fingers in their ears. 00:37:43.420 --> 00:37:45.659 They ran on him and won a court and cast him 00:37:45.659 --> 00:37:49.059 out and stoned him. And the witnesses laid their 00:37:49.059 --> 00:37:53.289 clothes down at a young man's feet. Name was 00:37:53.289 --> 00:37:56.469 Saul. Here's what happens. When the promise is 00:37:56.469 --> 00:38:00.170 realized on the outside, you'll come headlong 00:38:00.170 --> 00:38:04.070 into your confrontation one way or the other. 00:38:04.190 --> 00:38:07.650 My God, Saul thought he was there seeing and 00:38:07.650 --> 00:38:09.969 doing the goodwill of the law to see another 00:38:09.969 --> 00:38:12.909 Christian die at his feet while he holds the 00:38:12.909 --> 00:38:15.510 coat of those. But little did he know that he 00:38:15.510 --> 00:38:19.590 had been exposed. He had been exposed because 00:38:19.590 --> 00:38:22.610 they took it outside. Had they left him in there 00:38:22.610 --> 00:38:25.070 and killed him inside, everything might have 00:38:25.070 --> 00:38:27.449 been clear for Saul. But no, can I tell you, 00:38:27.469 --> 00:38:30.010 he had a divine appointment awaiting him, and 00:38:30.010 --> 00:38:33.610 it was to be standing there watching the one 00:38:33.610 --> 00:38:37.489 declare that God is still on his throne and that 00:38:37.489 --> 00:38:40.110 his son is at his right hand. Why? Because he 00:38:40.110 --> 00:38:43.650 could not deny the glory that was on Stephen's 00:38:43.650 --> 00:38:46.349 face. And when they began to stone him, oh, look 00:38:46.349 --> 00:38:48.989 what he said. Take it outside. This is what happened. 00:38:49.130 --> 00:38:52.250 Hold this not to their charge. Don't hold them 00:38:52.250 --> 00:38:54.849 guilty. Don't let my blood be on their hands. 00:38:55.110 --> 00:38:57.929 Oh, God, forgive them. Cleanse them. My Lord, 00:38:58.070 --> 00:39:00.510 you can only do that when you've been empowered 00:39:00.510 --> 00:39:03.989 with the Holy Ghost. A half -hypocritical heart 00:39:03.989 --> 00:39:06.929 can't do it. You can't do it in your own. You 00:39:06.929 --> 00:39:09.070 can't do it in your strength. Why? Because we 00:39:09.070 --> 00:39:12.610 despise those who hurt us and do harm to us. 00:39:12.690 --> 00:39:14.590 But if you've got the power of the Holy Ghost 00:39:14.590 --> 00:39:17.590 on the inside and they drag you out, You say, 00:39:17.610 --> 00:39:19.550 you know what's going to happen to them. You 00:39:19.550 --> 00:39:22.250 know their end if they don't meet Jesus. And 00:39:22.250 --> 00:39:24.710 you begin to declare, oh God, don't hold it to 00:39:24.710 --> 00:39:27.530 their charge. And I love it. And he just bowed 00:39:27.530 --> 00:39:37.489 his head and he went to sleep. Let me tell you 00:39:37.489 --> 00:39:39.610 right now, you worry too much about the naysayers. 00:39:48.250 --> 00:39:54.110 Take it outside. What? The purpose, the promise, 00:39:54.230 --> 00:40:01.809 and the power. By a straw pole. How many of you 00:40:01.809 --> 00:40:06.929 know you're going to heaven? Don't raise your 00:40:06.929 --> 00:40:10.769 hand. Just say it to yourself. I don't want to 00:40:10.769 --> 00:40:12.769 know if you know, and I don't want you to lie. 00:40:13.679 --> 00:40:15.739 Just because I might be looking or somebody else 00:40:15.739 --> 00:40:17.519 might be looking. I don't want another charge 00:40:17.519 --> 00:40:20.139 against you. Something else you got to repent 00:40:20.139 --> 00:40:24.099 for. Another lie to cover with the blood. So 00:40:24.099 --> 00:40:27.360 I'm not going to. Because I dare say there'd 00:40:27.360 --> 00:40:28.940 be anybody that wouldn't raise their hand. Oh, 00:40:29.019 --> 00:40:36.539 I'm going. Are you? I hope. It's my prayer. It's 00:40:36.539 --> 00:40:42.219 my efforts. To see you go. But if you got sin 00:40:42.219 --> 00:40:47.780 in your life. You ain't going. I'm old school. 00:40:48.320 --> 00:40:50.139 You can go down the road somewhere and find you 00:40:50.139 --> 00:40:51.780 one of these new schools and tell you can get 00:40:51.780 --> 00:40:54.219 in with about anything you want to do. Help yourself. 00:40:55.079 --> 00:40:56.860 If you're coming in here, I'm going to preach 00:40:56.860 --> 00:41:03.380 to you Jesus Christ crucified. I'm going to preach 00:41:03.380 --> 00:41:06.599 to you the declaration of without holiness no 00:41:06.599 --> 00:41:11.440 man shall see the Lord. I'm going to preach to 00:41:11.440 --> 00:41:17.739 you the first message. Be born again. That's 00:41:17.739 --> 00:41:19.500 what I'm going to preach to you. But I'm not 00:41:19.500 --> 00:41:20.840 going to leave you there. I'm going to declare 00:41:20.840 --> 00:41:23.460 to you, you must be sanctified with the washing 00:41:23.460 --> 00:41:26.840 and the regeneration of his word. Sanctified. 00:41:26.900 --> 00:41:29.579 What does that mean, pastor? Separated from the 00:41:29.579 --> 00:41:34.699 ills and the vials of this world. And I'm going 00:41:34.699 --> 00:41:38.059 to tell you, you need the emboldened presence 00:41:38.059 --> 00:41:45.460 of the Holy Ghost in your life. Why? So you don't 00:41:45.460 --> 00:41:51.800 duck your head and run when you're outside. So 00:41:51.800 --> 00:41:53.619 that when somebody asks you in a public setting, 00:41:53.780 --> 00:41:56.559 you can say, yes, I know Jesus. Yes, I'm saved. 00:41:59.800 --> 00:42:02.099 I've seen these polls going around. People asking, 00:42:02.280 --> 00:42:05.460 you know, does your pastor's church you go still 00:42:05.460 --> 00:42:07.380 preach against sin? I'd love to hear some of 00:42:07.380 --> 00:42:10.400 y 'all's answers. Well, yeah, mine told me I'm 00:42:10.400 --> 00:42:16.150 going to hell last week. Well, where do you go? 00:42:16.210 --> 00:42:17.690 I ain't going there. Well, you might want to 00:42:17.690 --> 00:42:24.030 come. He might keep you out of hell. I know it's 00:42:24.030 --> 00:42:26.090 not for the faint of heart. Snowflakes exist 00:42:26.090 --> 00:42:30.429 in this type of preaching. Why? Snowflakes melt 00:42:30.429 --> 00:42:40.210 when there's fire. It's hamburger and hot dog 00:42:40.210 --> 00:42:45.340 time. You better stand. It's baptism time. Y 00:42:45.340 --> 00:42:46.719 'all go ahead and start getting ready for baptism. 00:42:53.260 --> 00:42:55.039 Here's what I want to know today, real quickly. 00:42:55.199 --> 00:42:57.119 Every head's bowed in this house. I know I cut 00:42:57.119 --> 00:43:01.920 up and carry on, but sometimes it's easier to 00:43:01.920 --> 00:43:05.579 swallow a bitter medicine with a sweet drink. 00:43:09.960 --> 00:43:11.880 And the bitter medicine is if you don't know 00:43:11.880 --> 00:43:13.780 Christ as your Lord and Savior, I don't care 00:43:13.780 --> 00:43:17.500 how old you are. Oh, Pastor, I thought there 00:43:17.500 --> 00:43:22.840 was an age of innocence. There is. But most everybody 00:43:22.840 --> 00:43:25.219 in this room is past it. Sister Danelle is holding 00:43:25.219 --> 00:43:32.039 one that's not. What is the age of innocence? 00:43:32.139 --> 00:43:36.179 When is it gone? When an individual understands. 00:43:37.819 --> 00:43:43.260 right from wrong, and that wrong is sin. Well, 00:43:43.280 --> 00:43:44.760 I'm 60 and still ain't got that figured out, 00:43:44.800 --> 00:43:48.539 Pastor. Well, yes, you do. You just don't want 00:43:48.539 --> 00:43:54.599 to accept the fact. So as you can keep doing 00:43:54.599 --> 00:44:01.400 what you want to do, knowing it's wrong. Listen 00:44:01.400 --> 00:44:03.420 to this preacher this morning. Jesus loves you. 00:44:06.760 --> 00:44:19.679 He loves you. God loves you. Somebody's thinking, 00:44:19.760 --> 00:44:21.719 well, if there's a trinity, where was the Holy 00:44:21.719 --> 00:44:23.760 Ghost? If the Father was on the throne and Jesus 00:44:23.760 --> 00:44:27.039 had his right hand, he's on the earth. He's here 00:44:27.039 --> 00:44:30.079 with us. Why? He'd already been sent. Stephen 00:44:30.079 --> 00:44:36.059 had already been empowered. The Holy Ghost is 00:44:36.059 --> 00:44:40.420 here. Why? To convict sinners, first of all, 00:44:40.420 --> 00:44:46.800 and to bring them to Calvary. First order of 00:44:46.800 --> 00:44:50.119 business is repent. It's not repeat a little 00:44:50.119 --> 00:44:53.460 prayer after me. It's not something like that. 00:44:53.519 --> 00:44:55.559 I've been convicted over that. I'll just be honest 00:44:55.559 --> 00:44:58.320 with you, I have. That's a tradition that we've 00:44:58.320 --> 00:45:00.579 created. Look here, you need to repent where 00:45:00.579 --> 00:45:05.969 you stand. Coming to the altar, the old mourner's 00:45:05.969 --> 00:45:08.909 bench. Back in the day, they'd go to the mourner's 00:45:08.909 --> 00:45:10.590 bench, and when you got done mourning, you'd 00:45:10.590 --> 00:45:12.309 have to stand up and tell everybody, confess 00:45:12.309 --> 00:45:14.449 your sins in front of the whole bunch, all of 00:45:14.449 --> 00:45:27.269 them. No, you confess to him. You repent to Jesus. 00:45:29.969 --> 00:45:36.070 Repent. And then following those footsteps, be 00:45:36.070 --> 00:45:40.329 baptized. Why? Because it's an outside declaration. 00:45:40.530 --> 00:45:44.969 That's why. It's not just on the inside. I'm 00:45:44.969 --> 00:45:53.949 showing it on the outside now. Jesus, I repent 00:45:53.949 --> 00:45:58.650 if I have sin between me and you. I invite anybody 00:45:58.650 --> 00:46:02.969 and everybody in here that would. Pray it with 00:46:02.969 --> 00:46:09.929 me. I repent of my sin. Whatever it may be, Lord, 00:46:10.130 --> 00:46:13.210 if I have sinned against you, the psalmist said, 00:46:13.309 --> 00:46:15.510 if I have sinned against you, Lord, take not 00:46:15.510 --> 00:46:17.769 the joy of thy salvation from me, but restore 00:46:17.769 --> 00:46:22.469 unto me. Cleanse me. Purge me with this, the 00:46:22.469 --> 00:46:25.630 blood of Jesus Christ. Cleanse me of my sins. 00:46:27.179 --> 00:46:29.860 As I turn and walk away from my behavior and 00:46:29.860 --> 00:46:36.739 actions this day as I repent. And follow you. 00:46:41.159 --> 00:46:43.900 If you repented of your sin, you need to tell 00:46:43.900 --> 00:46:47.460 somebody today. Tell me. Run into the first person 00:46:47.460 --> 00:46:50.599 you lay eyes on. I repented of my sin today and 00:46:50.599 --> 00:46:52.719 ask Christ into my heart and be Lord of my life. 00:46:54.219 --> 00:47:00.099 That's my testimony. And go and walk differently. 00:47:01.679 --> 00:47:06.800 For a church, let's pray and grow hungry again 00:47:06.800 --> 00:47:10.139 for the power, the purpose, and the promise of 00:47:10.139 --> 00:47:20.119 Pentecost. That promise includes a very conclusive 00:47:20.119 --> 00:47:27.039 promise. And that is at the end. And that promise 00:47:27.039 --> 00:47:30.920 is this. The same power that raised Christ from 00:47:30.920 --> 00:47:36.219 the dead will also quicken your mortal bodies. 00:47:38.820 --> 00:47:43.760 That's the promise. The promise of the power 00:47:43.760 --> 00:47:48.599 of the Spirit. Say, Pastor, I don't have the 00:47:48.599 --> 00:47:50.340 baptism of the Holy Ghost. If you want him, we'll 00:47:50.340 --> 00:47:55.119 come seek him right now. But let me set you on 00:47:55.119 --> 00:48:01.519 the course right now. Start to desire more of 00:48:01.519 --> 00:48:03.639 God. Because that's what it's about. It's not 00:48:03.639 --> 00:48:05.719 about the glossolalia. It's not about the tongue 00:48:05.719 --> 00:48:08.659 speaks, the shout, the goosebumps. That's just 00:48:08.659 --> 00:48:10.739 evidence on the outside of what he done to you 00:48:10.739 --> 00:48:13.199 on the inside. Are you getting this thing, this 00:48:13.199 --> 00:48:19.320 outside concept? That's what it is. Why does 00:48:19.320 --> 00:48:21.739 it have to be that? I told you what James said 00:48:21.739 --> 00:48:23.780 about the tongue. It's the most unruly member 00:48:23.780 --> 00:48:27.159 of the body. Most of the time, we can't even 00:48:27.159 --> 00:48:29.880 control our own tongue. And so if we yield and 00:48:29.880 --> 00:48:36.559 surrender, what a witness on the outside. Begin 00:48:36.559 --> 00:48:41.219 to seek God. More of God's power, more of God's 00:48:41.219 --> 00:48:45.099 grace, more of his anointing in your life. Start 00:48:45.099 --> 00:48:48.179 praying now and seeking God. Well, I don't understand 00:48:48.179 --> 00:48:50.980 it. I didn't either. And then I couldn't explain 00:48:50.980 --> 00:48:54.480 it. and still can't explain it. Well, you're 00:48:54.480 --> 00:48:56.159 the pastor. Well, there's just some things I 00:48:56.159 --> 00:48:59.719 don't have a grasp on. And that's one of them. 00:49:01.019 --> 00:49:06.139 Father, go with us today. Bless your people. 00:49:07.320 --> 00:49:09.320 Thank you for your touch. We thank you for the 00:49:09.320 --> 00:49:15.099 outpouring of the Holy Ghost. Amen, amen. Give 00:49:15.099 --> 00:49:16.079 the Lord a hand clap of praise.