1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:02,560 George, I'm gonna invite you if you can, 2 00:00:02,560 --> 00:00:07,160 join me in the Word of God, Matthew chapter three, in verse 11. 3 00:00:07,160 --> 00:00:09,600 Matthew chapter three, verse 11. 4 00:00:09,600 --> 00:00:13,960 This is the Word that God has laid upon my heart, amen. 5 00:00:13,960 --> 00:00:15,680 It reads this way, 6 00:00:15,680 --> 00:00:20,680 I indeed baptize you with water unto repentance, 7 00:00:22,280 --> 00:00:27,280 but he who is coming after me is mightier than I, 8 00:00:27,280 --> 00:00:32,280 who sandals I am not worthy to carry, 9 00:00:32,280 --> 00:00:37,280 he will baptize you with the Holy Ghost and with fire. 10 00:00:39,720 --> 00:00:41,880 Someone say amen. 11 00:00:41,880 --> 00:00:44,720 Gonna preach today on a simple topic, 12 00:00:44,720 --> 00:00:46,840 Holy Ghost and Fire. 13 00:00:46,840 --> 00:00:50,040 Father, I thank you for your spirit that is in this place, 14 00:00:50,040 --> 00:00:53,880 God, Lord that over 2,000 years ago, 15 00:00:53,880 --> 00:00:57,180 you descended in the form of your spirit 16 00:00:57,180 --> 00:01:00,880 and you feel the church and the believers with power 17 00:01:00,880 --> 00:01:03,720 and we're walking in that same power today. 18 00:01:03,720 --> 00:01:07,480 I pray God that you would encourage us through the Word, 19 00:01:07,480 --> 00:01:11,520 God enlighten us, God illuminate these words today 20 00:01:11,520 --> 00:01:13,760 in our hearts, anoint our hearing 21 00:01:13,760 --> 00:01:15,780 and anoint my lips of clay, God. 22 00:01:15,780 --> 00:01:18,840 We give you all the glory and all of the honor, 23 00:01:18,840 --> 00:01:21,600 can someone say amen, amen. 24 00:01:21,600 --> 00:01:24,280 You may be seated in the presence of God. 25 00:01:24,280 --> 00:01:29,280 Pentecost Sunday, amen, celebrates the initial outpouring 26 00:01:29,320 --> 00:01:32,840 of the Holy Ghost in Acts chapter two, 27 00:01:32,840 --> 00:01:37,360 which occurred on the Jewish harvest festival 28 00:01:37,360 --> 00:01:42,360 known as Pentecost or as the Feast of Weeks. 29 00:01:43,160 --> 00:01:47,720 Pentecost occurred 50 days after Passover 30 00:01:47,720 --> 00:01:49,680 or in the case of the church, 31 00:01:49,680 --> 00:01:53,680 50 days after the resurrection of Christ. 32 00:01:53,680 --> 00:01:58,680 And Pentecost is a significant day on God's calendar 33 00:01:58,720 --> 00:02:03,560 because it fulfilled his plan from the very beginning 34 00:02:03,560 --> 00:02:08,560 to inhabit or to not only dwell among his people, 35 00:02:09,320 --> 00:02:11,840 but within his people. 36 00:02:11,840 --> 00:02:14,520 It has been the heart of God. 37 00:02:14,520 --> 00:02:19,520 It has been the plan of God to dwell not only around 38 00:02:19,520 --> 00:02:24,400 or above, but within his people. 39 00:02:24,400 --> 00:02:28,600 And from the prophets of old who would prophesy 40 00:02:28,600 --> 00:02:31,840 and foretell of this great occasion, 41 00:02:31,840 --> 00:02:35,640 which would be Pentecost, they didn't have the name for it, 42 00:02:35,640 --> 00:02:39,760 but there was a day that these prophets like Joel 43 00:02:39,760 --> 00:02:44,760 and Isaiah and Ezekiel foretold the moment they hinted, 44 00:02:44,760 --> 00:02:49,760 they talked about this day in the future 45 00:02:50,080 --> 00:02:53,360 where God would break through the heavens 46 00:02:53,360 --> 00:02:56,600 and descend upon his people. 47 00:02:56,600 --> 00:03:01,600 Prophet Joel said that I will pour out my spirit 48 00:03:01,600 --> 00:03:03,600 on all flesh. 49 00:03:03,600 --> 00:03:05,560 I'm gonna say, amen today. 50 00:03:05,560 --> 00:03:09,200 He said this, I'm gonna pour out my spirit on all flesh 51 00:03:09,200 --> 00:03:13,240 and your sons and your daughters will prophesy. 52 00:03:13,240 --> 00:03:16,440 The prophet Isaiah said that God 53 00:03:16,440 --> 00:03:20,160 he would with stammering lips and another tongue 54 00:03:20,160 --> 00:03:23,080 speak to his people. 55 00:03:23,080 --> 00:03:24,280 Amen. 56 00:03:24,280 --> 00:03:28,760 In Ezekiel, he said that he would give you a new heart 57 00:03:28,760 --> 00:03:31,960 and put a new spirit within you. 58 00:03:31,960 --> 00:03:35,400 This has been the priority of God 59 00:03:35,400 --> 00:03:37,920 throughout the narrative of scripture 60 00:03:37,920 --> 00:03:42,760 that one day he would feel the heart of his people 61 00:03:42,760 --> 00:03:47,760 and turn their hearts of stone into hearts of flesh 62 00:03:47,800 --> 00:03:52,440 and all of God's people for generation to generation 63 00:03:52,440 --> 00:03:56,840 was living with anticipation of this very moment. 64 00:03:56,840 --> 00:03:59,920 They were living with the expectation. 65 00:03:59,920 --> 00:04:04,000 They were living with bated breath on the edge of their seat 66 00:04:04,000 --> 00:04:07,280 on the tiptoes of their toes for the moment 67 00:04:07,280 --> 00:04:10,520 that God would fulfill this prophecy. 68 00:04:10,520 --> 00:04:12,640 They didn't know when, they didn't know where, 69 00:04:12,640 --> 00:04:16,280 but they knew that this day was going to come. 70 00:04:16,280 --> 00:04:18,560 And then all of a sudden, 71 00:04:18,560 --> 00:04:21,320 a man by the name of John the Baptist 72 00:04:21,320 --> 00:04:24,480 who was the forerunner of Jesus Christ 73 00:04:24,480 --> 00:04:29,480 stepped on the scene after 400 years of silence 74 00:04:29,880 --> 00:04:32,880 between the old and the New Testament, 75 00:04:32,880 --> 00:04:36,440 between Malachi and Matthew. 76 00:04:36,440 --> 00:04:38,920 The silence of heaven is broken 77 00:04:38,920 --> 00:04:41,320 and he prophesies these words 78 00:04:41,320 --> 00:04:43,320 that I have read to us today. 79 00:04:43,320 --> 00:04:48,320 I indeed baptize you with water unto repentance, 80 00:04:48,720 --> 00:04:52,360 but there is one that is coming, hallelujah. 81 00:04:52,360 --> 00:04:56,560 There is one that is mightier than I, praise be to God, 82 00:04:56,560 --> 00:05:00,120 whose sandals I am not even worthy to carry. 83 00:05:00,120 --> 00:05:04,760 He will indeed baptize you with the Holy Ghost 84 00:05:04,760 --> 00:05:09,760 and with fire somebody give God a hand, praise today. 85 00:05:09,760 --> 00:05:13,240 Somebody shout hallelujah today. 86 00:05:14,600 --> 00:05:17,960 John with the fire in his belly 87 00:05:17,960 --> 00:05:22,440 preaches unto the citizens of Judea 88 00:05:22,440 --> 00:05:26,560 and tells them that there is coming a baptism. 89 00:05:26,560 --> 00:05:29,080 And it's not like just any baptism. 90 00:05:29,080 --> 00:05:33,800 He tells them I'm baptizing you into water with repentance, 91 00:05:33,800 --> 00:05:37,920 but there is coming a whole another level of baptism. 92 00:05:37,920 --> 00:05:42,760 And he describes to us a unique experience. 93 00:05:42,760 --> 00:05:46,400 He describes a two-part experience 94 00:05:46,400 --> 00:05:48,360 with two separate elements 95 00:05:48,360 --> 00:05:53,360 or two divine or supernatural works that takes place. 96 00:05:54,440 --> 00:05:58,840 And it is the baptism of the Holy Ghost and fire. 97 00:05:58,840 --> 00:06:02,480 I want you to understand that the infilling of the spirit 98 00:06:02,480 --> 00:06:04,320 is but one baptism. 99 00:06:04,320 --> 00:06:07,080 I'm not talking today about two baptisms 100 00:06:07,080 --> 00:06:08,480 or three baptisms. 101 00:06:08,480 --> 00:06:11,360 We're not talking about successive baptisms. 102 00:06:11,360 --> 00:06:13,880 We're talking about one baptism, 103 00:06:13,880 --> 00:06:17,200 one Lord, one faith, one baptism. 104 00:06:17,200 --> 00:06:21,520 But in this baptism, it is composed of different elements. 105 00:06:21,520 --> 00:06:24,400 It's composed of power. 106 00:06:24,400 --> 00:06:26,320 Someone say power. 107 00:06:26,320 --> 00:06:27,600 Amen, come on, say it again. 108 00:06:27,600 --> 00:06:29,120 Say power. 109 00:06:29,120 --> 00:06:32,120 And fire, somebody say fire. 110 00:06:32,120 --> 00:06:34,040 I want to tell you today that you cannot, 111 00:06:34,040 --> 00:06:36,320 if you could put that slide up from your brother, please, 112 00:06:36,320 --> 00:06:38,800 the infilling of the spirit is one baptism, 113 00:06:38,800 --> 00:06:41,880 composed of two elements, power and fire. 114 00:06:41,880 --> 00:06:44,240 I want you to understand today, friend and church, 115 00:06:44,240 --> 00:06:48,560 anybody watching that you cannot have the Holy Ghost 116 00:06:48,560 --> 00:06:50,560 and not have the fire. 117 00:06:50,560 --> 00:06:54,080 If it is the real Holy Ghost, because there's a lot of, 118 00:06:54,080 --> 00:06:57,640 I'll just call them like fake Holy Ghosts going around today. 119 00:06:57,640 --> 00:06:59,640 What looks to be the Holy Ghost. 120 00:06:59,640 --> 00:07:02,000 And not everybody that's speaking in gibberish 121 00:07:02,000 --> 00:07:03,880 is speaking in a holy tongue. 122 00:07:03,880 --> 00:07:06,120 Come on, I need you to help me today. 123 00:07:06,120 --> 00:07:08,880 I need you to understand that not everyone who speaks 124 00:07:08,880 --> 00:07:11,080 with gibberish and go la la la la, 125 00:07:11,080 --> 00:07:13,880 if somebody has to teach you how to speak in tongues, 126 00:07:13,880 --> 00:07:15,880 that's not the Holy Ghost. 127 00:07:15,880 --> 00:07:19,360 If they say, just say Jesus, Jesus, Jesus real fast 128 00:07:19,360 --> 00:07:20,880 and just say a bunch of words 129 00:07:20,880 --> 00:07:22,280 and then you got the Holy Ghost. 130 00:07:22,280 --> 00:07:24,880 No, that's not what the Holy Ghost is. 131 00:07:24,880 --> 00:07:28,880 The Holy Ghost is the spirit of God taking residence in you 132 00:07:28,880 --> 00:07:33,760 and supernaturally empowering you to speak in a holy tongue. 133 00:07:33,760 --> 00:07:36,680 And I get excited to speak in a language 134 00:07:36,680 --> 00:07:40,720 that you have never learned or spoken before, amen. 135 00:07:41,720 --> 00:07:44,040 So I'm not talking about a fake Holy Ghost. 136 00:07:44,040 --> 00:07:45,880 I'm talking about a real Holy Ghost. 137 00:07:45,880 --> 00:07:48,280 And when the real Holy Ghost shows up, 138 00:07:48,280 --> 00:07:52,120 there's going to be real fire that shows up. 139 00:07:53,200 --> 00:07:55,760 We need to understand the baptism of the Holy Ghost. 140 00:07:55,760 --> 00:07:59,160 This is an essential doctrine of our apostolic church 141 00:07:59,160 --> 00:08:01,240 of what it means to be Pentecostal, 142 00:08:01,240 --> 00:08:04,640 what it means to be a spirit-filled believer, 143 00:08:04,640 --> 00:08:07,920 to understand the spirit and fire baptism. 144 00:08:07,920 --> 00:08:12,880 We have to grasp the biblical concept of baptism. 145 00:08:12,880 --> 00:08:15,880 Somebody say baptism, amen. 146 00:08:15,880 --> 00:08:17,400 That's a powerful word. 147 00:08:17,400 --> 00:08:20,320 That's a very important word, baptism. 148 00:08:20,320 --> 00:08:24,480 The word baptism in Greek is baptism. 149 00:08:24,480 --> 00:08:29,480 And it means to dip, to immerse, or to submerge. 150 00:08:29,480 --> 00:08:32,760 A baptism, no matter the kind, 151 00:08:32,760 --> 00:08:35,600 it is not a sprinkling of water. 152 00:08:35,600 --> 00:08:37,800 It is not a partial dip. 153 00:08:37,800 --> 00:08:40,600 When we say the word baptism, 154 00:08:40,600 --> 00:08:42,840 we're not talking about a shower. 155 00:08:42,840 --> 00:08:46,640 We are talking about full immersion. 156 00:08:46,640 --> 00:08:51,640 All one's life and body be consumed, amen. 157 00:08:52,520 --> 00:08:54,480 And in the case of water baptism, 158 00:08:54,480 --> 00:08:57,560 we do not practice a sprinkling or a shower. 159 00:08:57,560 --> 00:09:02,560 We practice full submersion, amen, somebody. 160 00:09:02,560 --> 00:09:04,280 Amen, do we believe this? 161 00:09:04,280 --> 00:09:08,280 Full submersion into the water, amen. 162 00:09:08,280 --> 00:09:09,880 If you've got a foot that came out, 163 00:09:09,880 --> 00:09:11,680 we gotta get that foot down too. 164 00:09:13,680 --> 00:09:16,480 Everything's got to go down. 165 00:09:16,480 --> 00:09:17,440 Bravely to God. 166 00:09:17,440 --> 00:09:20,720 Full submersion in the name of Jesus, 167 00:09:20,720 --> 00:09:23,560 not in the name of the Father and the another Son 168 00:09:23,560 --> 00:09:24,920 and of the Holy Spirit. 169 00:09:24,920 --> 00:09:25,920 No, we don't. 170 00:09:25,920 --> 00:09:27,760 We don't. 171 00:09:27,760 --> 00:09:30,880 In the name of Jesus Christ. 172 00:09:30,880 --> 00:09:32,520 And that's all you need to preach. 173 00:09:32,520 --> 00:09:34,000 That's all we need to do. 174 00:09:34,000 --> 00:09:36,560 And there's one formula, one formula. 175 00:09:36,560 --> 00:09:39,040 And I wanna say that if there's somebody today, 176 00:09:39,040 --> 00:09:41,040 I just feel this of the Holy Ghost. 177 00:09:41,040 --> 00:09:42,720 If you are contemplating, 178 00:09:42,720 --> 00:09:46,200 if you've got like a toad that's kinda dipping in, 179 00:09:46,200 --> 00:09:48,000 you should or should not, 180 00:09:48,000 --> 00:09:50,680 I just need to tell you in the Holy Ghost today, 181 00:09:50,680 --> 00:09:53,680 give your life to Jesus. 182 00:09:53,680 --> 00:09:58,680 Surrender your heart and be baptized in His name. 183 00:09:59,000 --> 00:10:00,480 Hallelujah. 184 00:10:00,480 --> 00:10:03,120 Peter got up on the day of Pentecost 185 00:10:03,120 --> 00:10:06,000 and he preached the Acts 238 message. 186 00:10:06,000 --> 00:10:09,040 Repent and be baptized. 187 00:10:09,040 --> 00:10:12,600 Every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ 188 00:10:12,600 --> 00:10:15,200 for the remission of your sins. 189 00:10:15,200 --> 00:10:19,400 And ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost. 190 00:10:19,400 --> 00:10:22,560 Somebody give God some praise for that today. 191 00:10:22,560 --> 00:10:23,400 Hallelujah. 192 00:10:23,400 --> 00:10:24,400 Hallelujah. 193 00:10:24,400 --> 00:10:26,640 Thank you Jesus. 194 00:10:26,640 --> 00:10:29,200 Thank you God for this revelation. 195 00:10:29,200 --> 00:10:32,080 And if that's you, you need to be baptized in Jesus' name. 196 00:10:32,080 --> 00:10:33,520 Don't you wait another day. 197 00:10:33,520 --> 00:10:35,280 Don't you wait another hour. 198 00:10:35,280 --> 00:10:37,160 Jesus is coming soon. 199 00:10:37,160 --> 00:10:39,520 And you've gotta be baptized. 200 00:10:39,520 --> 00:10:41,040 Not only in water, 201 00:10:41,040 --> 00:10:45,160 but you've gotta be baptized with the Holy Ghost 202 00:10:45,160 --> 00:10:46,600 and with fire. 203 00:10:46,600 --> 00:10:49,400 The Lord wants to consume somebody today. 204 00:10:49,400 --> 00:10:51,160 My Lord, I feel something in my heart. 205 00:10:51,160 --> 00:10:53,920 The Lord wants to consume somebody today. 206 00:10:53,920 --> 00:10:58,600 He wants to immerse you in spiritual power 207 00:10:58,600 --> 00:11:01,560 and spiritual fire. 208 00:11:01,560 --> 00:11:03,840 Oh my Lord, I get excited. 209 00:11:03,840 --> 00:11:06,320 I have preached many different messages. 210 00:11:06,320 --> 00:11:08,360 I would assume hundreds, maybe thousands. 211 00:11:08,360 --> 00:11:09,520 I don't know the number, 212 00:11:09,520 --> 00:11:11,240 but I have preached a lot of different things. 213 00:11:11,240 --> 00:11:14,800 And I gotta tell you that nothing gets me more excited 214 00:11:14,800 --> 00:11:15,640 than when I preach. 215 00:11:15,640 --> 00:11:17,480 There's two messages that get me excited more 216 00:11:17,480 --> 00:11:18,440 than anything else. 217 00:11:18,440 --> 00:11:20,600 It's when I preach about the oneness of God 218 00:11:20,600 --> 00:11:21,880 or the name of Jesus. 219 00:11:21,880 --> 00:11:24,320 And when I preach about the Holy Ghost, 220 00:11:24,320 --> 00:11:27,960 whoo my God, something just gets a hold of me 221 00:11:27,960 --> 00:11:31,160 because that is in my spiritual DNA. 222 00:11:31,160 --> 00:11:32,520 That's who I am. 223 00:11:32,520 --> 00:11:34,160 And I'm not ashamed of it. 224 00:11:34,160 --> 00:11:36,000 And we need to tell the world about it. 225 00:11:36,000 --> 00:11:37,160 Amen, somebody. 226 00:11:38,160 --> 00:11:39,680 Oh my Lord, hallelujah. 227 00:11:39,680 --> 00:11:43,120 Let me talk to you about the baptism of power. 228 00:11:43,120 --> 00:11:45,520 Let's just talk about these two elements today 229 00:11:45,520 --> 00:11:47,600 because I know we got a part day. 230 00:11:47,600 --> 00:11:48,920 Amen. 231 00:11:48,920 --> 00:11:50,800 I know we got some food waiting for us. 232 00:11:50,800 --> 00:11:52,280 We have a wonderful time. 233 00:11:52,280 --> 00:11:54,320 But amen, I will feel so much better 234 00:11:54,320 --> 00:11:55,240 before we go to the park. 235 00:11:55,240 --> 00:11:56,760 Someone gets renewed in the Holy Ghost. 236 00:11:56,760 --> 00:11:58,600 Say, someone speaks in tongues. 237 00:11:58,600 --> 00:12:01,440 Amen, hallelujah, hallelujah. 238 00:12:01,440 --> 00:12:04,600 The Bible declares, let's talk about a baptism of power. 239 00:12:04,600 --> 00:12:07,200 The Bible declares that God is spirit. 240 00:12:07,200 --> 00:12:08,560 God is spirit. 241 00:12:08,560 --> 00:12:13,560 One of the chief revelations of God is that God is spirit. 242 00:12:13,600 --> 00:12:15,680 He is not limited by a body. 243 00:12:15,680 --> 00:12:19,240 He is not limited by time and space. 244 00:12:19,240 --> 00:12:22,000 He is not limited by the physical laws 245 00:12:22,000 --> 00:12:24,320 that govern our natural world. 246 00:12:24,320 --> 00:12:27,080 He is not limited by any of those things. 247 00:12:27,080 --> 00:12:29,520 God is eternal. 248 00:12:29,520 --> 00:12:32,000 And God is spirit. 249 00:12:32,000 --> 00:12:35,800 And God is unchanging, hallelujah. 250 00:12:35,800 --> 00:12:38,440 Come on, now God is, He is eternal. 251 00:12:38,440 --> 00:12:41,600 He is spirit and unchanging, hallelujah. 252 00:12:41,600 --> 00:12:43,840 And God is all powerful. 253 00:12:43,840 --> 00:12:46,120 And God is all-knowing. 254 00:12:46,120 --> 00:12:48,880 And God is all present. 255 00:12:48,880 --> 00:12:52,040 He is a spirit, hallelujah. 256 00:12:52,040 --> 00:12:54,880 And the first glimpse of God that we read 257 00:12:54,880 --> 00:12:58,280 in all of scripture happens at creation 258 00:12:58,280 --> 00:13:01,160 in Genesis one and verse two. 259 00:13:01,160 --> 00:13:06,000 While the earth was with our form and void 260 00:13:06,000 --> 00:13:09,600 and darkness was upon the face of the deep, 261 00:13:09,600 --> 00:13:14,600 the spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. 262 00:13:15,200 --> 00:13:20,200 What a profound picture of God moving upon the face 263 00:13:21,160 --> 00:13:25,720 of the deep in a world that was dark and void. 264 00:13:25,720 --> 00:13:28,360 Ooh, I just feel the stop right now 265 00:13:28,360 --> 00:13:32,080 and tell somebody that if your world is growing dark 266 00:13:32,080 --> 00:13:37,080 or void, that's a recipe for God to move. 267 00:13:37,080 --> 00:13:41,200 Because there is something about things that look hopeless, 268 00:13:41,200 --> 00:13:43,280 about things that look dark, 269 00:13:43,280 --> 00:13:46,320 and things that look shapeless and formless 270 00:13:46,320 --> 00:13:49,600 and without any hope that attracts the spirit, 271 00:13:49,600 --> 00:13:51,480 the moving of the spirit. 272 00:13:51,480 --> 00:13:54,040 So I just wanna tell somebody today 273 00:13:54,040 --> 00:13:57,520 that no matter what shape your world is in right now, 274 00:13:57,520 --> 00:14:00,400 you are a candidate for a move of God. 275 00:14:00,400 --> 00:14:01,640 Woo, my Lord. 276 00:14:01,640 --> 00:14:06,640 You are a candidate for God to sweep across your life. 277 00:14:08,880 --> 00:14:11,160 Come on, someone just love him right now. 278 00:14:11,160 --> 00:14:15,080 Oh, rabbi, by Yasha, I feel the Holy Ghost in this place. 279 00:14:15,080 --> 00:14:19,680 The spirit is moving and the spirit was moving 280 00:14:19,680 --> 00:14:22,800 upon the waters, above the waters. 281 00:14:22,800 --> 00:14:25,040 And this gives us a concept. 282 00:14:25,040 --> 00:14:29,040 It gives us a picture of how God's spirit moved 283 00:14:29,040 --> 00:14:31,760 throughout the ages of the Old Testament. 284 00:14:31,760 --> 00:14:34,240 From the very beginning in Genesis, 285 00:14:34,240 --> 00:14:38,000 through the Tabernacle system and the wilderness 286 00:14:38,000 --> 00:14:42,200 with the children of Israel and through the prophets even, 287 00:14:42,200 --> 00:14:47,200 we see the spirit of God moving above the people. 288 00:14:47,400 --> 00:14:50,720 This is how God chose to relate to his people 289 00:14:50,720 --> 00:14:52,000 in the Old Testament. 290 00:14:52,000 --> 00:14:54,680 He was always above the people. 291 00:14:54,680 --> 00:14:57,520 The spirit was moving above the waters. 292 00:14:57,520 --> 00:15:00,640 It was moving above the Israelites 293 00:15:00,640 --> 00:15:05,640 as a pillar of fire by night and by a cloud by day. 294 00:15:06,000 --> 00:15:08,000 He was above the people. 295 00:15:08,000 --> 00:15:12,160 And then he was in a special room called, 296 00:15:12,160 --> 00:15:15,360 in the Tabernacle called the Holies of Holies 297 00:15:15,360 --> 00:15:17,400 or the most holy place. 298 00:15:17,400 --> 00:15:21,360 And in a way, it was still very much above the people. 299 00:15:21,360 --> 00:15:22,480 Why is that? 300 00:15:22,480 --> 00:15:27,000 Because only the high priest could enter into that place, 301 00:15:27,000 --> 00:15:30,720 but once a year, no one else had access 302 00:15:30,720 --> 00:15:34,880 to the glory of God that was in that special room. 303 00:15:34,880 --> 00:15:39,480 And it was like that for generations and generations. 304 00:15:39,480 --> 00:15:44,480 But all of that changed when God came down 305 00:15:44,880 --> 00:15:47,560 through the incarnation of Christ. 306 00:15:47,560 --> 00:15:49,880 In here the words of John, 307 00:15:49,880 --> 00:15:54,880 in the words of John, the word became flesh 308 00:15:54,880 --> 00:15:59,880 and dwelt among us and we beheld his glory, 309 00:15:59,880 --> 00:16:03,720 the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, 310 00:16:03,720 --> 00:16:06,280 full of grace and truth. 311 00:16:06,280 --> 00:16:09,920 Jesus or God said, I don't just wanna dwell 312 00:16:09,920 --> 00:16:11,880 above my people anymore, 313 00:16:11,880 --> 00:16:15,080 I wanna dwell among my people now. 314 00:16:15,080 --> 00:16:18,080 And so when Christ came down to earth, 315 00:16:18,080 --> 00:16:22,560 he went from being God above us to being God among us. 316 00:16:22,560 --> 00:16:26,320 Somebody give God some praise here today. 317 00:16:26,320 --> 00:16:30,680 How many of you are thankful that God stepped into our world? 318 00:16:30,680 --> 00:16:33,960 How many of you are thankful that God robed himself 319 00:16:33,960 --> 00:16:38,960 in humanity and he came and for 33 and a half years 320 00:16:39,560 --> 00:16:44,080 he bottled up all of his divine essence into the Christ, 321 00:16:44,080 --> 00:16:47,320 the man named Jesus and he was with us 322 00:16:47,320 --> 00:16:50,280 and he dwelt among us. 323 00:16:50,280 --> 00:16:53,120 Who praise be to God, he did that. 324 00:16:53,120 --> 00:16:57,880 And it was during that among us period of the Bible, 325 00:16:57,880 --> 00:17:02,640 during that among us time when John the Baptist now, 326 00:17:02,640 --> 00:17:06,800 John the Baptist is the link between the Old Testament 327 00:17:06,800 --> 00:17:07,760 and the New Testament. 328 00:17:07,760 --> 00:17:09,640 Can I preach this like I want to today? 329 00:17:09,640 --> 00:17:12,440 Who God, I said can I preach this like I want to? 330 00:17:12,440 --> 00:17:17,440 He was the link between the Old system and the New system. 331 00:17:17,440 --> 00:17:21,440 And he came like a herald to announce there is coming one 332 00:17:21,440 --> 00:17:23,440 that is mightier than I. 333 00:17:23,440 --> 00:17:27,440 And he said he's not just gonna do what everyone else did. 334 00:17:27,440 --> 00:17:32,440 He's going to baptize you with the Holy Ghost and with fire 335 00:17:32,880 --> 00:17:37,880 and likewise Jesus when he speaks to his disciples, 336 00:17:38,160 --> 00:17:43,160 he said but ye shall receive, everyone say power. 337 00:17:43,160 --> 00:17:46,640 He said ye shall receive power. 338 00:17:46,640 --> 00:17:50,520 After that the Holy Ghost has come upon you. 339 00:17:50,520 --> 00:17:54,520 Oh my Lord, I feel something in my spirit today. 340 00:17:54,520 --> 00:17:57,760 Oh, rabababaya shambhala makandala. 341 00:17:57,760 --> 00:18:00,160 Oh, rabababaya shambhala. 342 00:18:00,160 --> 00:18:02,800 Hallelujah, I don't even know if I'm gonna get 343 00:18:02,800 --> 00:18:04,240 through my message today. 344 00:18:04,240 --> 00:18:09,240 I just feel something electric flowing through my veins today 345 00:18:09,240 --> 00:18:14,240 because Jesus said where all you gotta do is wait for me 346 00:18:14,360 --> 00:18:18,000 and you're gonna receive power when the Holy Ghost 347 00:18:18,000 --> 00:18:23,000 has come upon you and then not too many days from there 348 00:18:23,000 --> 00:18:28,000 about 40 days or so then it reads in Acts chapter two 349 00:18:28,360 --> 00:18:33,360 in verse one when the day of Pentecost had fully come 350 00:18:33,360 --> 00:18:38,360 they were all with one accord in one place 351 00:18:38,360 --> 00:18:43,360 and suddenly someone say suddenly, come on say suddenly, 352 00:18:43,800 --> 00:18:46,920 suddenly there came a sound from heaven 353 00:18:46,920 --> 00:18:50,920 as of a rushing mighty wind and it filled the whole house 354 00:18:50,920 --> 00:18:54,920 where they were sitting and there appeared unto them 355 00:18:54,920 --> 00:18:59,920 divided tongues as of fire and it set upon each of them 356 00:18:59,920 --> 00:19:03,040 and they were all filled with the Holy Ghost 357 00:19:03,040 --> 00:19:05,480 and began to speak with other tongues 358 00:19:05,480 --> 00:19:09,080 as the spirit gave them the utterance. 359 00:19:09,080 --> 00:19:12,080 I wanna show you today church and friend 360 00:19:12,080 --> 00:19:15,920 that at Pentecost there was a divine shift 361 00:19:15,920 --> 00:19:18,880 and how God related to man. 362 00:19:18,880 --> 00:19:22,560 In the Old Testament he was God above us 363 00:19:22,560 --> 00:19:26,560 and when Jesus was here he was God among us. 364 00:19:26,560 --> 00:19:31,560 But on the day of Pentecost he was God within us 365 00:19:31,560 --> 00:19:33,920 and I came to tell somebody today 366 00:19:33,920 --> 00:19:36,320 you don't just have to touch him 367 00:19:36,320 --> 00:19:38,520 you don't just gotta feel him 368 00:19:38,520 --> 00:19:43,520 but he wants to feel your life to the utter most. 369 00:19:43,400 --> 00:19:45,800 Somebody give God some praise 370 00:19:45,800 --> 00:19:48,120 somebody lift up a voice 371 00:19:48,120 --> 00:19:50,560 somebody lift up a shout 372 00:19:50,560 --> 00:19:52,840 somebody clap your hands 373 00:19:52,840 --> 00:19:55,560 somebody clap your hands 374 00:19:55,560 --> 00:19:59,200 somebody shout to God today. 375 00:20:00,640 --> 00:20:05,480 Oh my God it is the infilling of the spirit 376 00:20:05,480 --> 00:20:09,600 that gives us the power to live for God 377 00:20:09,600 --> 00:20:13,400 and to accomplish his purpose in our lives. 378 00:20:13,400 --> 00:20:15,760 We need the Holy Ghost. 379 00:20:15,760 --> 00:20:17,560 Someone say I need the Holy Ghost. 380 00:20:17,560 --> 00:20:18,840 Holy Ghost. 381 00:20:18,840 --> 00:20:21,720 You know let me just clear this up. 382 00:20:21,720 --> 00:20:23,920 Do you need the Holy Ghost to go to heaven? 383 00:20:23,920 --> 00:20:24,760 Yes. 384 00:20:25,880 --> 00:20:27,360 I thought it was a trick question. 385 00:20:27,360 --> 00:20:28,760 It wasn't hallelujah. 386 00:20:28,760 --> 00:20:30,840 But can I tell you you need the Holy Ghost more 387 00:20:30,840 --> 00:20:32,600 than just to go to heaven. 388 00:20:32,600 --> 00:20:34,920 You need the Holy Ghost just to go to work. 389 00:20:37,600 --> 00:20:38,440 Amen. 390 00:20:38,440 --> 00:20:39,280 I don't know. 391 00:20:39,280 --> 00:20:40,680 Hallelujah Jesus. 392 00:20:40,680 --> 00:20:43,000 You need the Holy Ghost just to go to Walmart. 393 00:20:43,000 --> 00:20:43,920 You know what I'm saying? 394 00:20:43,920 --> 00:20:46,200 You need the Holy Ghost just trying to find a parking at the 395 00:20:46,200 --> 00:20:47,760 you know whatever it is you're going. 396 00:20:47,760 --> 00:20:48,800 I don't know about you 397 00:20:48,800 --> 00:20:51,120 but I don't just need the Holy Ghost to go to heaven. 398 00:20:51,120 --> 00:20:53,800 My goodness I need the Holy Ghost to go to heaven. 399 00:20:53,800 --> 00:20:57,120 I need the Holy Ghost in every aspect of my life. 400 00:20:57,120 --> 00:21:00,000 I couldn't be married without the Holy Ghost. 401 00:21:00,000 --> 00:21:02,240 And it's not because of my wife but it's because of me. 402 00:21:02,240 --> 00:21:03,640 She's not here right now for God. 403 00:21:03,640 --> 00:21:04,960 But hallelujah. 404 00:21:04,960 --> 00:21:08,800 I couldn't be a father without the Holy Ghost. 405 00:21:08,800 --> 00:21:09,640 Come on now. 406 00:21:09,640 --> 00:21:13,720 I couldn't be a preacher without the Holy Ghost. 407 00:21:13,720 --> 00:21:17,000 I couldn't be a singer without the Holy Ghost. 408 00:21:17,000 --> 00:21:20,480 I couldn't be a musician without the Holy Ghost. 409 00:21:20,480 --> 00:21:25,400 And there is nothing that we can do apart from the Holy Ghost. 410 00:21:25,400 --> 00:21:29,400 We need God to consume us. 411 00:21:29,400 --> 00:21:31,560 Hallelujah. 412 00:21:31,560 --> 00:21:32,400 Hallelujah. 413 00:21:32,400 --> 00:21:34,760 Shalomakala. 414 00:21:34,760 --> 00:21:36,280 Oh hallelujah. 415 00:21:36,280 --> 00:21:37,760 Speaking tongues every day. 416 00:21:37,760 --> 00:21:39,360 Hallelujah. 417 00:21:39,360 --> 00:21:40,320 Is that all right? 418 00:21:40,320 --> 00:21:41,960 Every day speaking tongues. 419 00:21:41,960 --> 00:21:43,160 Hallelujah. 420 00:21:43,160 --> 00:21:46,240 Sometimes I get to praying and I never get to praying in 421 00:21:46,240 --> 00:21:46,760 English. 422 00:21:46,760 --> 00:21:47,520 Hallelujah. 423 00:21:47,520 --> 00:21:48,760 Some of y'all are blessed. 424 00:21:48,760 --> 00:21:49,640 You know why? 425 00:21:49,640 --> 00:21:51,720 You get to pray in English. 426 00:21:51,720 --> 00:21:53,920 You get to pray in Spanish. 427 00:21:53,920 --> 00:21:55,120 Hallelujah. 428 00:21:55,120 --> 00:21:56,560 You know, glory. 429 00:21:56,560 --> 00:21:57,840 You just get all there. 430 00:21:57,840 --> 00:21:59,880 Some of you, how many of you prefer to pray in Spanish? 431 00:21:59,880 --> 00:22:00,720 Don't lie to me. 432 00:22:00,720 --> 00:22:01,360 Come on. 433 00:22:01,360 --> 00:22:02,720 Amen. 434 00:22:02,720 --> 00:22:05,240 And everybody says we're going to be talking in Spanish when 435 00:22:05,240 --> 00:22:06,840 we get to heaven, huh? 436 00:22:06,840 --> 00:22:08,920 And the Chinese church are saying, no, we're going to be 437 00:22:08,920 --> 00:22:10,200 speaking Chinese, right? 438 00:22:10,200 --> 00:22:11,440 And then hallelujah. 439 00:22:11,440 --> 00:22:13,720 And the Swahili are saying we're going to be speaking. 440 00:22:13,720 --> 00:22:16,120 I don't know what language we're going to be speaking. 441 00:22:16,120 --> 00:22:19,600 But all I know is that when I begin to pray and I begin to 442 00:22:19,600 --> 00:22:21,960 enter the spirit of God, whatever it is I'm going through, 443 00:22:21,960 --> 00:22:24,080 whatever's on my mind, whatever's bothering me, 444 00:22:24,080 --> 00:22:28,080 whatever I need, I get to praying in the Holy Ghost. 445 00:22:28,080 --> 00:22:33,040 And then all of a sudden, English is sheep. 446 00:22:33,040 --> 00:22:34,680 Spanish is sheep. 447 00:22:34,680 --> 00:22:36,120 Whatever language is sheep. 448 00:22:36,120 --> 00:22:37,840 There is only one language. 449 00:22:37,840 --> 00:22:40,440 And it's the Holy Ghost. 450 00:22:40,440 --> 00:22:43,360 As you begin to speak with other tongues, 451 00:22:43,360 --> 00:22:47,360 the spirit of God is making intercession for you. 452 00:22:47,360 --> 00:22:52,640 There are things that I don't even know what to say. 453 00:22:52,640 --> 00:22:54,000 I don't even know what to say. 454 00:22:54,000 --> 00:22:56,640 But God begins to swear in me. 455 00:22:56,640 --> 00:22:58,840 And I've got that baptism of his spirit. 456 00:22:58,840 --> 00:23:00,240 Woo, praise be to God. 457 00:23:00,240 --> 00:23:02,040 Somebody say, amen today. 458 00:23:02,040 --> 00:23:02,960 Come on, clap your hands. 459 00:23:02,960 --> 00:23:03,960 Give God a praise. 460 00:23:06,960 --> 00:23:08,040 I need the Holy Ghost. 461 00:23:08,040 --> 00:23:09,440 Woo, my Lord. 462 00:23:09,440 --> 00:23:11,720 But I've got to switch gears here. 463 00:23:11,720 --> 00:23:15,760 I've got to switch gears because we get excited when we talk 464 00:23:15,760 --> 00:23:20,160 about the baptism of power. 465 00:23:20,160 --> 00:23:22,280 Woo, man, I feel it. 466 00:23:22,280 --> 00:23:26,560 Holy Ghost, miracles, signs, wonders, right? 467 00:23:26,560 --> 00:23:27,840 All these things excite us. 468 00:23:27,840 --> 00:23:29,480 And they should. 469 00:23:29,480 --> 00:23:31,640 But there's another element. 470 00:23:31,640 --> 00:23:32,280 Amen. 471 00:23:32,280 --> 00:23:37,000 Someone say, uh-oh. 472 00:23:37,000 --> 00:23:41,800 Because you can't have the Holy Ghost without the fire. 473 00:23:41,800 --> 00:23:44,280 And I've got to talk to you before I leave today 474 00:23:44,280 --> 00:23:46,480 about a baptism of fire. 475 00:23:46,480 --> 00:23:48,200 Now, I had you say, uh-oh. 476 00:23:48,200 --> 00:23:52,320 Because when we start talking about the baptism of fire, 477 00:23:52,320 --> 00:23:55,960 all of a sudden, we begin to see what the will of God 478 00:23:55,960 --> 00:23:57,880 looks like in our life. 479 00:23:57,880 --> 00:23:59,320 Oh, hallelujah. 480 00:23:59,320 --> 00:24:03,280 Because we like to focus just on the power, how it makes us 481 00:24:03,280 --> 00:24:06,760 feel, and oh, yes. 482 00:24:06,760 --> 00:24:11,360 But many times, our understanding of the baptism of fire 483 00:24:11,360 --> 00:24:12,880 is lacking. 484 00:24:12,880 --> 00:24:17,800 We don't quite many times understand what God means 485 00:24:17,800 --> 00:24:20,320 by a baptism of fire. 486 00:24:20,320 --> 00:24:23,680 In the church, we say we use fire. 487 00:24:23,680 --> 00:24:26,360 We talk about fire in a variety of ways. 488 00:24:26,360 --> 00:24:29,760 But usually, it's when we talk about passion, right? 489 00:24:29,760 --> 00:24:34,280 We say, man, that brother, he's on fire for God. 490 00:24:34,280 --> 00:24:37,600 And what we mean is, like, man, he's passionate, right? 491 00:24:37,600 --> 00:24:41,000 Or service today was fire, right? 492 00:24:41,000 --> 00:24:44,000 What we mean is, man, service was lit, right? 493 00:24:44,000 --> 00:24:45,280 It was awesome, man. 494 00:24:45,280 --> 00:24:46,360 You felt it. 495 00:24:46,360 --> 00:24:49,400 But can I tell you, we don't have to stop saying those things. 496 00:24:49,400 --> 00:24:50,200 That's awesome. 497 00:24:50,200 --> 00:24:51,520 Nothing wrong with that. 498 00:24:51,520 --> 00:24:57,920 But a baptism of fire goes beyond just passion and what 499 00:24:57,920 --> 00:25:02,600 you feel and what the temperature is like in the building. 500 00:25:02,600 --> 00:25:06,480 A baptism of fire goes beyond all of that. 501 00:25:06,480 --> 00:25:08,400 The Bible declares this. 502 00:25:08,400 --> 00:25:12,600 It says that for our God in Hebrews 12, 29, 503 00:25:12,600 --> 00:25:19,400 for our God is a consuming fire. 504 00:25:19,400 --> 00:25:20,280 Woo! 505 00:25:20,280 --> 00:25:22,040 Hallelujah. 506 00:25:22,040 --> 00:25:26,640 Our God is a consuming fire. 507 00:25:26,640 --> 00:25:30,880 There is a fire nature to God. 508 00:25:30,880 --> 00:25:34,560 And when John preached about this baptism, 509 00:25:34,560 --> 00:25:38,160 he said, you're going to be baptized with the Holy Ghost. 510 00:25:38,160 --> 00:25:41,320 And then he didn't put a period there and stop. 511 00:25:41,320 --> 00:25:43,080 He said, and! 512 00:25:43,080 --> 00:25:45,600 Someone say, and! 513 00:25:45,600 --> 00:25:47,560 With fire. 514 00:25:47,560 --> 00:25:49,520 With fire. 515 00:25:49,520 --> 00:25:53,040 There is something to the baptism of God's spirit 516 00:25:53,040 --> 00:25:55,080 that has this fire in it. 517 00:25:55,080 --> 00:25:58,680 And he was describing something that would revolutionize, 518 00:25:58,680 --> 00:26:01,200 that would radically change our life. 519 00:26:01,200 --> 00:26:05,000 God is not interested in just feeling you. 520 00:26:05,000 --> 00:26:07,600 He's interested in forming you. 521 00:26:07,600 --> 00:26:08,240 Woo! 522 00:26:08,240 --> 00:26:09,440 My Lord, that wasn't in my nose. 523 00:26:09,440 --> 00:26:10,840 I got to say it again. 524 00:26:10,840 --> 00:26:13,160 God doesn't just want to feel you. 525 00:26:13,160 --> 00:26:14,880 He wants to form you. 526 00:26:14,880 --> 00:26:17,600 And the only way you can form somebody, brother, 527 00:26:17,600 --> 00:26:18,440 is through the. 528 00:26:21,800 --> 00:26:22,720 I'll tell you why. 529 00:26:22,720 --> 00:26:26,120 Some believers, as many tongues as they talk into, 530 00:26:26,120 --> 00:26:28,600 never mature in Christ. 531 00:26:28,600 --> 00:26:30,720 They never go from glory to glory. 532 00:26:30,720 --> 00:26:32,800 They never go from faith to faith. 533 00:26:32,800 --> 00:26:33,520 Why? 534 00:26:33,520 --> 00:26:35,840 Because they may talk in tongues and all that there. 535 00:26:35,840 --> 00:26:37,640 And that could be wonderful. 536 00:26:37,640 --> 00:26:42,920 But they never let the fire consume them. 537 00:26:42,920 --> 00:26:44,720 They never let the fire. 538 00:26:44,720 --> 00:26:48,120 They're just satisfied with the feeling, but not 539 00:26:48,120 --> 00:26:49,440 with the forming. 540 00:26:49,440 --> 00:26:50,680 Woo, my God. 541 00:26:50,680 --> 00:26:54,240 And God is saying, I didn't just come to feel you. 542 00:26:54,240 --> 00:26:58,480 I came to form you. 543 00:26:58,480 --> 00:27:04,040 And when John says this, he explains himself 544 00:27:04,040 --> 00:27:09,040 in the next verse to understand what John means about the fire. 545 00:27:09,040 --> 00:27:12,200 We need to keep, you know, it's very helpful in your Bible 546 00:27:12,200 --> 00:27:12,680 studies. 547 00:27:12,680 --> 00:27:14,120 Keep reading. 548 00:27:14,120 --> 00:27:16,960 Don't just take one verse and lift it. 549 00:27:16,960 --> 00:27:19,840 You got to read before and you got to read after. 550 00:27:19,840 --> 00:27:23,840 So you can capture the full meaning, the full context. 551 00:27:23,840 --> 00:27:25,600 So read the next verse. 552 00:27:25,600 --> 00:27:28,800 And then he explains to us what this fire is. 553 00:27:28,800 --> 00:27:30,280 He said, I'm going to baptize you, 554 00:27:30,280 --> 00:27:33,280 or he will baptize you with the Holy Ghost and with fire. 555 00:27:33,280 --> 00:27:38,960 Next verse, verse 12, John says, his windowing fan 556 00:27:38,960 --> 00:27:41,080 is in his hand. 557 00:27:41,080 --> 00:27:45,520 And he will thoroughly clean out his threshing floor 558 00:27:45,520 --> 00:27:48,760 and gather his wheat into the barn. 559 00:27:48,760 --> 00:27:55,840 But he will burn up the shaft with unquenchable fire. 560 00:27:55,840 --> 00:28:02,040 And John is talking about something 561 00:28:02,040 --> 00:28:06,320 that's called a windowing process in a harvest. 562 00:28:06,320 --> 00:28:11,880 In a time of harvest, in this ancient agricultural society, 563 00:28:11,880 --> 00:28:14,720 they would grain or they would thresh grain 564 00:28:14,720 --> 00:28:16,360 on a threshing floor. 565 00:28:16,360 --> 00:28:16,880 Amen. 566 00:28:16,880 --> 00:28:19,640 I've preached about that before here. 567 00:28:19,640 --> 00:28:22,760 And they would thresh the grain or the wheat or the barley 568 00:28:22,760 --> 00:28:24,560 on the threshing floor. 569 00:28:24,560 --> 00:28:27,520 And ideally, the wind would come. 570 00:28:27,520 --> 00:28:31,240 The wind from the east would blow in at twilight 571 00:28:31,240 --> 00:28:35,040 and would carry away the shaft. 572 00:28:35,040 --> 00:28:39,360 All of the loose outer husk of the grain 573 00:28:39,360 --> 00:28:40,880 would be carried away. 574 00:28:40,880 --> 00:28:45,080 And the heavier true grain would fall to the ground. 575 00:28:45,080 --> 00:28:47,240 This is called a threshing. 576 00:28:47,240 --> 00:28:50,440 But sometimes there was no wind. 577 00:28:50,440 --> 00:28:53,960 So what the farmer would do is get his windowing fan. 578 00:28:53,960 --> 00:28:55,320 I wish I had one today. 579 00:28:55,320 --> 00:28:57,160 But it's a fan. 580 00:28:57,160 --> 00:29:00,480 Think of almost sometimes when you fan the flames inside 581 00:29:00,480 --> 00:29:03,040 of a fireplace. 582 00:29:03,040 --> 00:29:04,240 It's a fan. 583 00:29:04,240 --> 00:29:09,000 And that fan would, he would blow since there was no wind. 584 00:29:09,000 --> 00:29:13,480 He would, with the windowing fan, blow away the shaft 585 00:29:13,480 --> 00:29:16,840 and separate it from the true grain. 586 00:29:16,840 --> 00:29:20,240 And after a while, after he does this, 587 00:29:20,240 --> 00:29:23,400 there would be a pile of shaft. 588 00:29:23,400 --> 00:29:26,440 All the false grain would be over there. 589 00:29:26,440 --> 00:29:29,520 And what he would do was gather up that shaft 590 00:29:29,520 --> 00:29:34,040 and then torch it with fire and burn up all the shaft 591 00:29:34,040 --> 00:29:35,400 that was there. 592 00:29:35,400 --> 00:29:40,120 What John is describing for us is a process in which, 593 00:29:40,120 --> 00:29:43,680 when the Holy Ghost takes resident in our life, 594 00:29:43,680 --> 00:29:46,680 I'm almost done, but hear me, this is so important. 595 00:29:46,680 --> 00:29:51,200 He doesn't just come to feel us and make us feel good. 596 00:29:51,200 --> 00:29:54,600 But the fire comes with the Holy Ghost. 597 00:29:54,600 --> 00:29:58,200 And the Holy Ghost comes, God sends His fire. 598 00:29:58,200 --> 00:30:02,280 The fire of God is sent into our lives 599 00:30:02,280 --> 00:30:07,280 to consume all of the shaft, all of the things. 600 00:30:08,680 --> 00:30:12,360 Hear me today, all of the things in our life 601 00:30:12,360 --> 00:30:14,880 that is not the true grain. 602 00:30:14,880 --> 00:30:16,960 Are you following what I'm saying right now? 603 00:30:16,960 --> 00:30:18,480 Amen, somebody say amen. 604 00:30:18,480 --> 00:30:21,640 Okay, and he blows those things away 605 00:30:21,640 --> 00:30:22,960 and that's what the word does. 606 00:30:22,960 --> 00:30:26,080 The word blows these things and it starts to separate. 607 00:30:26,080 --> 00:30:30,000 And then the fire comes, who shall aba maya shana? 608 00:30:30,000 --> 00:30:34,560 And it begins to burn up all of those areas, 609 00:30:34,560 --> 00:30:38,760 those characteristics, those elements of our life 610 00:30:38,760 --> 00:30:43,760 that doesn't glorify God and doesn't look like Jesus. 611 00:30:43,760 --> 00:30:48,760 And my God, it doesn't compliment a life in Christ. 612 00:30:51,840 --> 00:30:56,840 And he begins to consume those things and burn those things. 613 00:30:56,920 --> 00:31:00,680 I've come to tell somebody today on this Pentecost Sunday 614 00:31:00,680 --> 00:31:05,040 that if you will let the fire of God consume your life 615 00:31:05,040 --> 00:31:10,040 in his spirit, he will start to burn those areas in our life 616 00:31:10,040 --> 00:31:15,040 that have got to change, have got to be removed 617 00:31:15,200 --> 00:31:18,520 so that we can walk in greater perfection. 618 00:31:18,520 --> 00:31:20,240 Somebody say amen today. 619 00:31:23,000 --> 00:31:25,880 I know, I know, it's not very popular to talk. 620 00:31:25,880 --> 00:31:27,040 We get excited. 621 00:31:27,040 --> 00:31:29,440 You can draw a crowd, I guess, 622 00:31:29,440 --> 00:31:32,240 talking about just the power of the Holy Ghost. 623 00:31:32,240 --> 00:31:34,360 But then when we start talking about the fire 624 00:31:34,360 --> 00:31:37,680 and what the fire does and how it begins to burn, 625 00:31:37,680 --> 00:31:38,600 you know what it burns? 626 00:31:38,600 --> 00:31:39,880 Someone say what? 627 00:31:39,880 --> 00:31:41,880 It burns bad attitudes. 628 00:31:41,880 --> 00:31:44,560 It, my God, you know what else it burns? 629 00:31:44,560 --> 00:31:48,040 It burns relationships, bad relationships. 630 00:31:48,040 --> 00:31:51,120 Oh, my God, it burns things like pride. 631 00:31:51,120 --> 00:31:52,680 It burns arrogance. 632 00:31:52,680 --> 00:31:54,240 It burns greed. 633 00:31:54,240 --> 00:31:56,080 It burns disobedience. 634 00:31:56,080 --> 00:31:59,800 It burns all of these things that are contrary 635 00:31:59,800 --> 00:32:00,960 to the spirit of God. 636 00:32:00,960 --> 00:32:02,240 I'm not getting a lot of amen right now, 637 00:32:02,240 --> 00:32:03,360 but I know you're hearing me. 638 00:32:03,360 --> 00:32:07,720 It burns these things so that ultimately what is left 639 00:32:07,720 --> 00:32:10,200 is a true living witness. 640 00:32:10,200 --> 00:32:12,840 What is left is a life. 641 00:32:12,840 --> 00:32:14,360 And I understand. 642 00:32:15,560 --> 00:32:18,400 How many of you have ever touched physical fire? 643 00:32:21,200 --> 00:32:22,720 Like, how many of you, 644 00:32:22,720 --> 00:32:25,120 some of you are real sophisticated Hispanics in Mexican. 645 00:32:25,120 --> 00:32:28,320 You probably cook your tortillas like on, you know, 646 00:32:28,320 --> 00:32:30,800 one of them fancy things that came from Mexico 647 00:32:30,800 --> 00:32:32,480 and was passed down from generation. 648 00:32:32,480 --> 00:32:34,640 But some of us, we just put their tortillas 649 00:32:34,640 --> 00:32:35,680 right on the burner. 650 00:32:35,680 --> 00:32:36,520 Yeah. 651 00:32:37,720 --> 00:32:40,280 Did I make some of you nervous when I said that? 652 00:32:40,280 --> 00:32:41,400 You just kind of just got to, 653 00:32:41,400 --> 00:32:43,680 you don't got time to heat up the kuma. 654 00:32:43,680 --> 00:32:46,400 You know, you just gotta like burn it right there. 655 00:32:46,400 --> 00:32:48,920 And every once in a while, my wife has a technique. 656 00:32:48,920 --> 00:32:51,680 You know, one time I saw she was, you know, 657 00:32:51,680 --> 00:32:52,880 she was warming up the tortilla. 658 00:32:52,880 --> 00:32:54,200 Man, I really feel the Holy Ghost now. 659 00:32:54,200 --> 00:32:55,120 Hallelujah. 660 00:32:55,120 --> 00:32:55,960 Hallelujah. 661 00:32:55,960 --> 00:32:57,840 She was burning one of those tortillas. 662 00:32:57,840 --> 00:32:59,120 And then I heard her blowing. 663 00:32:59,120 --> 00:33:01,160 I heard, what are you doing over there? 664 00:33:01,160 --> 00:33:02,040 And I couldn't understand. 665 00:33:02,040 --> 00:33:04,080 So I asked my, what are you doing here? 666 00:33:04,080 --> 00:33:04,920 Why are you blowing? 667 00:33:04,920 --> 00:33:06,960 So I can grab the tortilla because if not, 668 00:33:06,960 --> 00:33:09,000 it'll burn my fingers. 669 00:33:09,000 --> 00:33:11,800 Oh, you're blowing the flame that way. 670 00:33:11,800 --> 00:33:13,880 I see the technique now because a couple of times 671 00:33:13,880 --> 00:33:15,080 I was sticking my fingers down there 672 00:33:15,080 --> 00:33:16,640 because I was excited to get the tortilla. 673 00:33:16,640 --> 00:33:17,480 Woo! 674 00:33:18,560 --> 00:33:19,400 Fire was hot. 675 00:33:21,720 --> 00:33:22,800 Fire burns. 676 00:33:24,040 --> 00:33:25,240 Someone say it burns. 677 00:33:26,600 --> 00:33:30,720 When the Holy Ghost and fire consumed your life. 678 00:33:30,720 --> 00:33:31,560 Come on up. 679 00:33:31,560 --> 00:33:33,520 When the Holy Ghost and fire consumed your life. 680 00:33:33,520 --> 00:33:35,360 It's not always gonna feel good. 681 00:33:38,040 --> 00:33:42,080 It's not always going to feel exciting. 682 00:33:42,080 --> 00:33:46,080 It's not always going to feel, fire is painful. 683 00:33:47,280 --> 00:33:50,640 There's no getting around into the baptism of fire 684 00:33:50,640 --> 00:33:51,960 is gonna burn. 685 00:33:51,960 --> 00:33:53,520 Yes it will. 686 00:33:53,520 --> 00:33:57,000 But I'm gonna say something with a lot of respect. 687 00:33:57,000 --> 00:33:59,080 I hope no one gets offended at what I'm about to say. 688 00:33:59,080 --> 00:34:03,720 If you do, I apologize in advance. 689 00:34:03,720 --> 00:34:07,720 But let me say this, we're all going to burn. 690 00:34:11,920 --> 00:34:14,400 I prayed about before I say what I'm about to say. 691 00:34:14,400 --> 00:34:15,520 We're all going to burn. 692 00:34:18,120 --> 00:34:20,320 The only question is do you wanna burn now? 693 00:34:23,720 --> 00:34:25,120 Or do you wanna burn later? 694 00:34:25,120 --> 00:34:25,960 I'm gonna burn. 695 00:34:28,840 --> 00:34:29,680 Wow. 696 00:34:32,200 --> 00:34:33,240 But you're gonna burn. 697 00:34:35,040 --> 00:34:37,840 And wow, Lord, you took all the excitement 698 00:34:37,840 --> 00:34:38,680 out of the room, pastor. 699 00:34:38,680 --> 00:34:42,000 No, I didn't. 700 00:34:42,000 --> 00:34:46,000 Because my job is to get, to help you get to heaven. 701 00:34:47,640 --> 00:34:49,800 I don't just want people to feel the Holy Ghost 702 00:34:49,800 --> 00:34:55,800 and go right back to living the same life that they live. 703 00:34:55,800 --> 00:34:57,000 That's kind of heavy. 704 00:34:57,000 --> 00:34:58,920 You can burn now or you can burn later. 705 00:34:59,960 --> 00:35:01,000 But you will burn. 706 00:35:02,240 --> 00:35:03,560 So guess what I've decided? 707 00:35:04,520 --> 00:35:05,720 I'd rather burn now. 708 00:35:06,720 --> 00:35:09,680 I'd rather say, God, oh Jesus, 709 00:35:09,680 --> 00:35:11,400 whatever it is you need to burn. 710 00:35:11,400 --> 00:35:16,400 Whatever it is you need to consume. 711 00:35:20,400 --> 00:35:23,920 Whatever it is God, you need to torch in me. 712 00:35:23,920 --> 00:35:24,920 He alamaboyosh. 713 00:35:26,160 --> 00:35:29,440 Whatever it is God, you need to burn God. 714 00:35:31,200 --> 00:35:32,680 Burn it now. 715 00:35:34,240 --> 00:35:35,880 I don't wanna leave this service. 716 00:35:35,880 --> 00:35:37,640 God, until you burn it. 717 00:35:37,640 --> 00:35:42,640 I don't wanna go another day, God, until you burn it, God. 718 00:35:42,640 --> 00:35:44,440 I need you to burn it. 719 00:35:44,440 --> 00:35:46,240 Would you stand with me at this hour? 720 00:35:46,240 --> 00:36:08,240 God, I don't wanna leave this service.