WEBVTT 00:00:00.270 --> 00:00:06.230 Before we begin the message that we have prepared 00:00:06.230 --> 00:00:09.490 for today, I thank God for this opportunity. 00:00:09.869 --> 00:00:12.529 We're going to be giving a little bit of time. 00:00:12.570 --> 00:00:16.469 If you can give your attention to a testimony 00:00:16.469 --> 00:00:19.589 that we're going to hear right now. Praise God 00:00:19.589 --> 00:00:23.370 that will be on our screen here. Praise God. 00:00:25.579 --> 00:00:28.219 Hi, my name is Kong Lower, and I've been a member 00:00:28.219 --> 00:00:31.980 of City Light Church for about a year now. I 00:00:31.980 --> 00:00:35.920 got baptized last year in March, I believe. So 00:00:35.920 --> 00:00:41.100 it's been a year. But my story is I've never, 00:00:41.280 --> 00:00:47.200 in my life, I didn't grow up with Jesus Christ 00:00:47.200 --> 00:00:51.000 in the household. I grew up very, very shamanism, 00:00:51.000 --> 00:00:55.350 Hmong way, right? The way I came into contact 00:00:55.350 --> 00:00:58.450 with Christ was because of my good friend, Isai. 00:01:00.710 --> 00:01:05.129 We met in high school, and ever since then, little 00:01:05.129 --> 00:01:09.230 here and there, he'll try to throw, not throw, 00:01:09.390 --> 00:01:13.109 but he'll try to introduce me to God. And I've 00:01:13.109 --> 00:01:19.250 always been kind of on, I would say, like shielded 00:01:19.250 --> 00:01:26.370 or on the defense with it. He always tried to 00:01:26.370 --> 00:01:29.629 keep pushing it. He always tried to keep pushing 00:01:29.629 --> 00:01:34.129 it. And maybe 10 years later, I got baptized. 00:01:34.170 --> 00:01:39.409 I got baptized because one day I had this stomach 00:01:39.409 --> 00:01:42.269 sickness that was very, very bad. I had a very 00:01:42.269 --> 00:01:46.750 bad sickness. And this pain in my stomach just 00:01:46.750 --> 00:01:51.109 wouldn't go away. And if you know me, I... I 00:01:51.109 --> 00:01:53.590 don't not like going to the hospitals. I despise 00:01:53.590 --> 00:01:55.950 going to hospitals, which is bad. You should 00:01:55.950 --> 00:01:59.849 go to the hospital if you have to. But I didn't 00:01:59.849 --> 00:02:04.609 want to go. And one night I was just on my bed. 00:02:04.709 --> 00:02:07.049 I was curled up because the pain was so much. 00:02:08.349 --> 00:02:12.169 I almost went to the hospital once or two times, 00:02:12.349 --> 00:02:15.409 but I turned to God. Like Isaias always told 00:02:15.409 --> 00:02:20.120 me, I turned to God. And I prayed to God. And 00:02:20.120 --> 00:02:24.340 I asked him, I said, Lord, if you're real, if 00:02:24.340 --> 00:02:27.300 you're here, I pray that you take the sickness 00:02:27.300 --> 00:02:31.360 away. And if you do, I will believe in you. And 00:02:31.360 --> 00:02:34.759 just like that, honestly, it sounds so fake, 00:02:34.900 --> 00:02:39.800 but it was real. Just like that, the pain went 00:02:39.800 --> 00:02:42.580 away. And that's when I knew that God was real, 00:02:42.740 --> 00:02:46.259 that I should believe in him, just like how we 00:02:46.259 --> 00:02:51.300 all should. And that's when Isai introduced me 00:02:51.300 --> 00:02:54.300 to City Light Church. And I love the people here. 00:02:54.500 --> 00:02:58.280 They're so welcoming. Even though you may think 00:02:58.280 --> 00:03:00.259 that you're different, they don't see that here. 00:03:00.360 --> 00:03:04.580 We are all the same. And they show love. They're 00:03:04.580 --> 00:03:16.199 like a family to me now. Amen. Just like that. 00:03:17.479 --> 00:03:20.840 That's how God works. I like, I love that. And 00:03:20.840 --> 00:03:26.319 yes, God responds to our requests just like that. 00:03:26.520 --> 00:03:30.840 And I know that I've been there. And how many 00:03:30.840 --> 00:03:34.199 have ever been in a point of, you know, excuse 00:03:34.199 --> 00:03:37.379 the word, but desperation where there's just 00:03:37.379 --> 00:03:42.180 no other way out. There's just no other remedy 00:03:42.180 --> 00:03:48.229 anywhere, but just. call out to God. Just call 00:03:48.229 --> 00:03:52.289 out to him and the Lord will answer your prayer, 00:03:52.289 --> 00:03:55.250 your request. Amen. And that's the way our God 00:03:55.250 --> 00:03:57.750 is because he's everywhere at the same time. 00:03:57.849 --> 00:04:02.870 And he was with Kong for all those years. And 00:04:02.870 --> 00:04:06.650 the plan was that he would give his life to Christ 00:04:06.650 --> 00:04:10.509 and believe in him completely. And we're so glad 00:04:10.509 --> 00:04:14.599 that he surrendered. Praise God. His will for 00:04:14.599 --> 00:04:17.379 the will of God. Praise God. Just like many of 00:04:17.379 --> 00:04:20.779 us here today, and for those of you that maybe 00:04:20.779 --> 00:04:23.360 are not here, you're listening online, the Lord 00:04:23.360 --> 00:04:28.149 is waiting for you too. Praise God. Definitely 00:04:28.149 --> 00:04:32.189 the will of God and the plan of God that you 00:04:32.189 --> 00:04:36.290 can experience. Praise God. Salvation for yourself. 00:04:36.410 --> 00:04:39.509 Healing for your body, your mind, your soul. 00:04:39.829 --> 00:04:43.189 Praise God. And we're so grateful. Thank God 00:04:43.189 --> 00:04:46.870 for that testimony. Praise God. And we know we've 00:04:46.870 --> 00:04:49.629 already heard a few times, and you can see it 00:04:49.629 --> 00:04:54.120 on the screen, that today is what we... we reference 00:04:54.120 --> 00:04:57.759 or we acknowledge as Pentecost Sunday. It is 00:04:57.759 --> 00:05:01.459 because possibly many, many people throughout 00:05:01.459 --> 00:05:04.480 the world in the valley here are celebrating 00:05:04.480 --> 00:05:09.120 this day. This is something that brings us together 00:05:09.120 --> 00:05:14.720 is that we believe in the outpouring of the Holy 00:05:14.720 --> 00:05:17.939 Ghost. And we're going to be talking about that, 00:05:18.000 --> 00:05:21.100 but I'm going to take a few moments to give you 00:05:21.100 --> 00:05:26.139 a little bit of a backdrop on why and how significant 00:05:26.139 --> 00:05:29.500 this day is. And we've read it many times. If 00:05:29.500 --> 00:05:32.000 you've read the book of Acts, you know. that 00:05:32.000 --> 00:05:34.980 there was an upper room experience and there 00:05:34.980 --> 00:05:38.160 was an outpouring of the Holy Ghost. But I want 00:05:38.160 --> 00:05:42.740 to take you a little bit deeper, if I can, in 00:05:42.740 --> 00:05:46.360 the plan of God. Because, you know, God doesn't 00:05:46.360 --> 00:05:49.899 just think things up just the last minute like 00:05:49.899 --> 00:05:54.040 sometimes we do. Think of doing something the 00:05:54.040 --> 00:05:56.660 very last minute, last second, you thought of 00:05:56.660 --> 00:06:01.620 something and you did it. But God, he doesn't 00:06:01.620 --> 00:06:05.939 work that way. From the beginning of even time, 00:06:06.040 --> 00:06:10.300 time did not even exist until he created the 00:06:10.300 --> 00:06:15.199 heavens and the earth. Time was eternal. There 00:06:15.199 --> 00:06:18.279 was no clock. There was no time. But even before 00:06:18.279 --> 00:06:22.689 all of that, he had a plan. of salvation, and 00:06:22.689 --> 00:06:25.430 that plan is for you and me today. Praise God. 00:06:25.470 --> 00:06:28.610 That Holy Ghost that we referenced too many times 00:06:28.610 --> 00:06:32.490 in the book of Acts, that was already predetermined 00:06:32.490 --> 00:06:35.509 in eternity for us today. Isn't that awesome? 00:06:35.709 --> 00:06:38.649 Praise God. So I want to take you back to, we're 00:06:38.649 --> 00:06:41.110 going to set a foundation, if I may, in the book 00:06:41.110 --> 00:06:49.310 of Acts chapter 2 and verse 1 to 4. It reads 00:06:49.310 --> 00:06:53.620 this way. When the day of Pentecost had fully 00:06:53.620 --> 00:06:58.300 come, they were all with one accord in one place. 00:06:59.120 --> 00:07:02.680 And suddenly there came a sound from heaven as 00:07:02.680 --> 00:07:06.500 of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled the whole 00:07:06.500 --> 00:07:10.360 house where they were sitting. Then there appeared 00:07:10.360 --> 00:07:15.060 to them divided tongues as of fire, and sat upon 00:07:15.060 --> 00:07:18.879 each of them. And they were all filled with the 00:07:18.879 --> 00:07:22.860 Holy Spirit. and began to speak with other tongues 00:07:22.860 --> 00:07:28.319 as the Spirit gave them utterance. Many times 00:07:28.319 --> 00:07:30.920 we have referenced this scripture. You know, 00:07:30.959 --> 00:07:37.459 I had the privilege of doing a tour to Israel 00:07:37.459 --> 00:07:42.220 and particularly, especially Jerusalem, what 00:07:42.220 --> 00:07:45.879 we call the old Jerusalem. And they, in part 00:07:45.879 --> 00:07:49.480 of the tour there, they took us to what was considered 00:07:49.480 --> 00:07:54.019 to be the upper room where... the 120 were gathered, 00:07:54.079 --> 00:07:57.180 and it was quite an experience, and I can't guarantee 00:07:57.180 --> 00:08:00.279 that that was it, but for the most part, they, 00:08:00.399 --> 00:08:05.800 you know, the theologians and geologists, they 00:08:05.800 --> 00:08:09.120 believe that that was. it or very close to it. 00:08:09.180 --> 00:08:12.459 At any rate, it was interesting to be there and 00:08:12.459 --> 00:08:15.699 just to imagine how it all may have happened 00:08:15.699 --> 00:08:19.779 on that day, how they were gathered in that upper 00:08:19.779 --> 00:08:25.319 room just in tearing there in prayer and in belief 00:08:25.319 --> 00:08:28.839 and faith for something they had never, ever 00:08:28.839 --> 00:08:32.480 experienced. Man had never experienced what they 00:08:32.480 --> 00:08:35.539 were anticipating. Isn't it interesting to... 00:08:36.000 --> 00:08:38.480 be anticipating something that you have never 00:08:38.480 --> 00:08:41.899 experienced, and that's the way it was. Even 00:08:41.899 --> 00:08:45.600 having been with the Lord for three, three and 00:08:45.600 --> 00:08:48.320 a half years, and some maybe less, and others 00:08:48.320 --> 00:08:52.019 more, however, the disciples and the followers 00:08:52.019 --> 00:08:56.860 of Jesus, following him around, and much had 00:08:56.860 --> 00:09:01.000 been said about that day, and not until that 00:09:01.000 --> 00:09:04.840 morning or that day did they really experience 00:09:04.840 --> 00:09:08.169 what it was all about. And let me tell you something 00:09:08.169 --> 00:09:10.750 before I get into my thought here today a little 00:09:10.750 --> 00:09:14.210 more. It was worth it. Somebody tell your neighbor 00:09:14.210 --> 00:09:17.570 it is worth it. When you get the Holy Ghost in 00:09:17.570 --> 00:09:20.610 your life, let me tell you, it is worth it. There's 00:09:20.610 --> 00:09:24.450 nothing in this world that can compare to the 00:09:24.450 --> 00:09:28.669 Holy Ghost. Amen. Pentecost is one of the most... 00:09:28.909 --> 00:09:33.389 ancient celebrated feasts of Israel, the Jewish 00:09:33.389 --> 00:09:37.389 nation. When God was about to lead the children 00:09:37.389 --> 00:09:42.129 of Israel out of Egypt, he instituted what was 00:09:42.129 --> 00:09:45.950 called the Feast of the Passover. On the night 00:09:46.490 --> 00:09:51.009 that the Israelites, the night before they were 00:09:51.009 --> 00:09:58.029 about to exit from slavery from Egypt, they were 00:09:58.029 --> 00:10:04.480 commanded to celebrate the Passover. And that 00:10:04.480 --> 00:10:09.100 particular Passover was what we acknowledge as 00:10:09.100 --> 00:10:11.820 the Exodus. When we think about the Passover, 00:10:12.059 --> 00:10:16.639 we think about the Exodus. To liberate God's 00:10:16.639 --> 00:10:20.759 people from bondage. The Passover was a liberation 00:10:20.759 --> 00:10:25.649 time. It was their departure from... Egypt. And 00:10:25.649 --> 00:10:29.289 the Lord instructed them to celebrate it on that 00:10:29.289 --> 00:10:32.750 day. And it was an unusual thing for them even 00:10:32.750 --> 00:10:35.730 to do such a thing because they weren't used 00:10:35.730 --> 00:10:39.009 to those kind of divine orders. But the Passover 00:10:39.009 --> 00:10:44.230 is a typology. of the sacrificial lamb and the 00:10:44.230 --> 00:10:50.129 shedding of blood. It was a foreshadow of what 00:10:50.129 --> 00:10:53.750 was going to come. Everything in the Old Testament, 00:10:53.830 --> 00:10:57.590 the experiences and the commandments of the Lord, 00:10:57.690 --> 00:11:01.669 the festivities, the feasts that were instituted 00:11:01.669 --> 00:11:05.509 in the Old Testament was a shadow of the real 00:11:05.509 --> 00:11:10.090 thing to come. And Israel as a nation, they practiced 00:11:10.090 --> 00:11:13.580 this. literally on the night of their liberation. 00:11:14.000 --> 00:11:17.019 But as you know, and the story says, the blood 00:11:17.019 --> 00:11:20.519 of the sacrifice was put on the doorposts of 00:11:20.519 --> 00:11:23.340 the believers, of the Israelite people. They 00:11:23.340 --> 00:11:27.179 put the blood on their doorposts as a typology 00:11:27.179 --> 00:11:30.940 of the power of the blood that would overcome 00:11:30.940 --> 00:11:34.779 the sting of death. I thank God for the blood. 00:11:34.860 --> 00:11:37.580 How many thank God for the blood? Whether you've 00:11:37.580 --> 00:11:40.870 ever, amen, done such, believed in the blood, 00:11:40.970 --> 00:11:44.250 I believe that many people have declared the 00:11:44.250 --> 00:11:47.549 blood of Jesus upon things. John the Baptist, 00:11:47.830 --> 00:11:52.789 when he first had his encounter with Jesus Christ, 00:11:53.049 --> 00:11:57.470 in John 1 .29, he says, the next day John saw 00:11:57.470 --> 00:12:01.909 Jesus coming toward him, and he said, behold 00:12:01.909 --> 00:12:07.190 the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the 00:12:07.190 --> 00:12:11.830 world. All this in a nutshell. Jesus Christ became 00:12:11.830 --> 00:12:15.970 what they were practicing in the foreshadow, 00:12:16.129 --> 00:12:18.970 what they were practicing back then. Jesus became 00:12:18.970 --> 00:12:23.789 the reality of it in the New Testament. In Ephesians 00:12:23.789 --> 00:12:28.210 1 and 7, it says, in him we have redemption through 00:12:28.210 --> 00:12:31.909 his blood, the forgiveness of sins according 00:12:31.909 --> 00:12:35.629 to the riches of grace. In other words, the blood 00:12:35.629 --> 00:12:39.759 that they put, the Israelites put, on their doorposts 00:12:39.759 --> 00:12:43.399 the sacrifice that they made in their home that 00:12:43.399 --> 00:12:48.279 night. That sacrifice was Jesus for us. It was 00:12:48.279 --> 00:12:51.980 a foreshadow of the Lord Jesus Christ. The blood 00:12:51.980 --> 00:12:55.600 that they took and put it on the doorpost as 00:12:55.600 --> 00:12:59.580 the angel of death came through the midnight 00:12:59.580 --> 00:13:02.940 hour and whosoever did not have the blood on 00:13:02.940 --> 00:13:06.700 the doorpost would lose their firstborn. He would 00:13:06.700 --> 00:13:12.340 die. And you can just imagine that all of Egypt 00:13:12.340 --> 00:13:16.440 was going in turmoil. People screaming everywhere 00:13:16.440 --> 00:13:20.799 because the death angel had come by. And the 00:13:20.799 --> 00:13:24.000 firstborn of every household, if they did not 00:13:24.000 --> 00:13:27.580 have the blood of the Lamb, the sacrifice on 00:13:27.580 --> 00:13:30.879 the doorpost of their home. the death angel would 00:13:30.879 --> 00:13:34.480 come in and take their firstborn. But thank be 00:13:34.480 --> 00:13:37.299 to God that those that believed on that time, 00:13:37.379 --> 00:13:40.820 they put the blood of the sacrifice upon the 00:13:40.820 --> 00:13:43.259 doorposts. And let me tell you something, the 00:13:43.259 --> 00:13:46.539 Lord taught us there that death cannot touch 00:13:46.539 --> 00:13:50.600 you if the blood is upon your life. And let me 00:13:50.600 --> 00:13:54.379 say this, when you have the blood of Jesus, when 00:13:54.379 --> 00:13:57.350 you're buried in... Baptism with him. And you 00:13:57.350 --> 00:14:00.570 resurrect together with him. The blood of the 00:14:00.570 --> 00:14:05.190 almighty son of God is upon your life. Death 00:14:05.190 --> 00:14:09.289 has no more sting upon you. You are alive today 00:14:09.289 --> 00:14:12.309 because of that blood of Jesus Christ. Somebody 00:14:12.309 --> 00:14:16.090 say thank you for the blood. Thank God for the 00:14:16.090 --> 00:14:20.850 blood. 50 days after the Israelites exodus out 00:14:20.850 --> 00:14:23.929 of slavery. 50 days and you all know a lot of 00:14:23.929 --> 00:14:27.370 things happened just to get out of Egypt. There 00:14:27.370 --> 00:14:30.889 had to be great miracles as they exited out of 00:14:30.889 --> 00:14:33.450 Egypt. There were so many miracles that were 00:14:33.450 --> 00:14:36.750 happening. But 50 days after they passed through 00:14:36.750 --> 00:14:40.309 the Red Sea and so many things from slavery in 00:14:40.309 --> 00:14:43.049 their journey through the wilderness, they arrived 00:14:43.049 --> 00:14:47.169 at a mount called... Mount Sinai. When it was 00:14:47.169 --> 00:14:52.129 there in Mount Sinai, in just that space of time, 00:14:52.250 --> 00:14:56.090 that God revealed himself to Moses. If you recall, 00:14:56.190 --> 00:14:59.950 God called Moses up to the mount. And up on the 00:14:59.950 --> 00:15:03.169 mountain, the Lord revealed himself to him once 00:15:03.169 --> 00:15:06.610 again. Probably the last time he had that experience 00:15:06.610 --> 00:15:10.730 was at the burning bush. But now he had an encounter 00:15:10.730 --> 00:15:14.230 with God on the mountaintop. The Lord revealed 00:15:14.230 --> 00:15:17.889 himself to Moses. But out of all of that, the 00:15:17.889 --> 00:15:21.429 Bible teaches us that he wrote his law. God wrote 00:15:21.429 --> 00:15:25.149 his law with his finger on tablets of stone. 00:15:25.350 --> 00:15:29.149 And he gave them to Moses for all the nation 00:15:29.149 --> 00:15:33.549 of Israel. Let me say something here today. God, 00:15:33.549 --> 00:15:39.250 amen, he always has a plan for his people. We 00:15:39.250 --> 00:15:43.440 never catch God off guard. God had a plan. planned. 00:15:43.480 --> 00:15:46.639 And from the beginning, he knew that he was going 00:15:46.639 --> 00:15:49.779 to meet with Moses on that mountaintop. And it 00:15:49.779 --> 00:15:52.080 was going to be on that mountaintop where God 00:15:52.080 --> 00:15:55.580 was going to speak a word. Amen. But he spoke 00:15:55.580 --> 00:15:58.820 it onto tablets of stone. And it was on those 00:15:58.820 --> 00:16:02.139 tablets of stone, praise God, that we got the 00:16:02.139 --> 00:16:05.460 initial, amen, the beginning of the revelation 00:16:05.460 --> 00:16:10.240 of God and his word. He put it on. stones, tablet 00:16:10.240 --> 00:16:13.460 stones. At that time, they were commanded to 00:16:13.460 --> 00:16:18.759 observe this law daily. Every day they observed 00:16:18.759 --> 00:16:22.279 it, but more than that, they were told, the Lord 00:16:22.279 --> 00:16:24.639 told them that they were commanded to observe 00:16:24.639 --> 00:16:29.600 this particular event annually to commemorate 00:16:29.600 --> 00:16:34.059 the giving of the law every year. Amen. Fifty 00:16:34.059 --> 00:16:38.259 days after, praise God, fifty days after, the 00:16:38.259 --> 00:16:41.659 celebration of the Passover feast. They were 00:16:41.659 --> 00:16:46.100 to celebrate the 50th day, which was the feast 00:16:46.100 --> 00:16:50.100 of Pentecost. From then until now, the feast 00:16:50.100 --> 00:16:53.419 of Pentecost, which is known as the feast of 00:16:53.419 --> 00:16:56.919 the harvest, has been celebrated by the Jewish 00:16:56.919 --> 00:17:00.399 nation. It was nothing new to the Israelites. 00:17:00.840 --> 00:17:03.559 It was something that they practiced every year. 00:17:03.820 --> 00:17:07.490 Praise God, they would celebrate Pentecost. It 00:17:07.490 --> 00:17:11.349 costs as the harvest, the first fruits, the harvest 00:17:11.349 --> 00:17:15.369 time, praise God. But it was interesting how 00:17:15.369 --> 00:17:20.970 the Lord, he established 50 days after Exodus, 00:17:21.029 --> 00:17:25.609 they celebrated. Pentecost, that was the giving 00:17:25.609 --> 00:17:28.890 of the word, the giving of the law. The word 00:17:28.890 --> 00:17:31.869 Pentecost comes from the Greek word that calls 00:17:31.869 --> 00:17:36.509 Pentecoste, which means the 50th day. So God 00:17:36.509 --> 00:17:41.210 is interested in how specific he is in everything. 00:17:41.410 --> 00:17:43.930 He just didn't say, well, let's do it today. 00:17:44.089 --> 00:17:47.650 No, it was all in the mind of God. Everything 00:17:47.650 --> 00:17:51.710 that we experience today, praise God, your life 00:17:51.710 --> 00:17:56.910 in him. It's not an accident. Kong didn't just 00:17:56.910 --> 00:18:00.150 accept Christ 10 years later. It was an appointed 00:18:00.150 --> 00:18:04.369 time for him to meet up with his Savior. It was 00:18:04.369 --> 00:18:07.269 an appointed time for every one of us to meet 00:18:07.269 --> 00:18:10.789 up with our Savior. You see, God in his mind, 00:18:10.849 --> 00:18:14.609 he had an appointed time for you, amen, to have 00:18:14.609 --> 00:18:17.829 that encounter with him. In the book of Acts, 00:18:17.890 --> 00:18:22.089 on the day of Pentecost, amen, fully come. is 00:18:22.089 --> 00:18:25.930 when the Jewish had properly commemorated the 00:18:25.930 --> 00:18:29.789 law of God on the mount. Yes, it was called the 00:18:29.789 --> 00:18:33.490 Feast of Weeks. The Lord chose this very day 00:18:33.490 --> 00:18:40.029 to confirm His Word and a new order by the pouring 00:18:40.029 --> 00:18:45.089 out of His Spirit upon all the believers. It 00:18:45.089 --> 00:18:48.650 was the fulfillment of the promise of God, the 00:18:48.650 --> 00:18:52.900 shift from the tablets of stone to the hearts 00:18:52.900 --> 00:18:57.240 of men signifies a transition from the old covenant, 00:18:57.480 --> 00:19:01.420 the Mosaic covenant, to the new covenant, which 00:19:01.420 --> 00:19:05.039 was the grace of God, the dispensation of grace. 00:19:05.279 --> 00:19:09.839 And by it, amen, he sealed it by commemorating 00:19:09.839 --> 00:19:14.759 that day, by pouring out of his spirit upon 120 00:19:14.759 --> 00:19:19.339 people. On Matthew 5, 17, it says, do not think 00:19:19.339 --> 00:19:21.220 that I came to destroy, Destroy the law, the 00:19:21.220 --> 00:19:24.779 Lord says, or the prophets. I did not come to 00:19:24.779 --> 00:19:28.119 destroy it, but I came to fulfill it. On the 00:19:28.119 --> 00:19:32.039 day of... Pentecost. He did not destroy the law. 00:19:32.220 --> 00:19:35.640 He came to fulfill the law. Praise God, somebody. 00:19:35.980 --> 00:19:39.859 It was Christ fulfilling the law. Back then on 00:19:39.859 --> 00:19:44.119 Mount Sinai, they received the word of God. But 00:19:44.119 --> 00:19:48.319 on the day of Pentecost, 50 days after the Passover, 00:19:48.700 --> 00:19:52.500 50 days after they buried Jesus in a tomb, amen, 00:19:52.519 --> 00:19:56.539 he came back to commemorate the Pentecost day. 00:19:56.700 --> 00:20:01.299 The harvest time, the earth, the beginning, the 00:20:01.299 --> 00:20:03.940 birth of his church. Somebody say praise the 00:20:03.940 --> 00:20:08.359 Lord. Jeremiah prophesied in this transition. 00:20:08.700 --> 00:20:12.279 He said in Jeremiah 31, 33, he says, but this 00:20:12.279 --> 00:20:15.319 is the covenant that I will make with the house 00:20:15.319 --> 00:20:18.940 of Israel. After those days, says the Lord, I 00:20:18.940 --> 00:20:23.160 will put my law in their hearts and write it 00:20:23.160 --> 00:20:26.579 in their hearts, in their minds, and write it 00:20:26.579 --> 00:20:29.700 in their hearts, and I will be their God, and 00:20:29.700 --> 00:20:33.099 they shall be my people. Let me say this. The 00:20:33.099 --> 00:20:37.720 new covenant was the fulfillment in the New Testament. 00:20:38.119 --> 00:20:41.599 See, God made a new covenant with his people. 00:20:41.720 --> 00:20:44.839 He became the testator. He became the one that 00:20:44.839 --> 00:20:49.619 died and rose again and made it alive in our 00:20:49.619 --> 00:20:53.099 hearts. God promised to write his laws directly 00:20:53.099 --> 00:20:56.579 into our hearts and our minds. I don't know if 00:20:56.579 --> 00:20:59.339 somebody has the word of God in your life today. 00:20:59.539 --> 00:21:03.920 This represents an eternal transformation where 00:21:03.920 --> 00:21:06.880 the whole Holy Spirit empowers the believers 00:21:06.880 --> 00:21:11.559 to obey God from a place of love and not demand. 00:21:12.039 --> 00:21:14.500 Amen. I don't know about you. I'm not here because 00:21:14.500 --> 00:21:17.640 somebody twisted my arm. I am here because of 00:21:17.640 --> 00:21:21.000 the love of God. He said, if I be lifted up, 00:21:21.039 --> 00:21:24.880 I'll draw men unto me. For God so loved the world 00:21:24.880 --> 00:21:28.640 that he gave his only begotten son. He loved 00:21:28.640 --> 00:21:31.970 you. loves me here today rather than an external 00:21:31.970 --> 00:21:35.769 obligation. I do it out of love. How many responded 00:21:35.769 --> 00:21:39.569 to God because of love? Amen. The scripture declares 00:21:39.569 --> 00:21:43.269 Jesus as the word. And let me tell you something. 00:21:43.490 --> 00:21:46.430 Back then Moses didn't know what was going on. 00:21:46.569 --> 00:21:50.109 He was experiencing God in a whole nother dimension 00:21:50.109 --> 00:21:54.250 from the burning bush to Mount Sinai where the 00:21:54.250 --> 00:21:58.049 Lord appeared unto him. But John 1 says, and 00:21:58.049 --> 00:22:00.380 1 is It says, in the beginning was the Word, 00:22:00.619 --> 00:22:04.640 and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 00:22:04.940 --> 00:22:08.559 In 14, it says, and the Word became flesh, and 00:22:08.559 --> 00:22:12.279 it dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory, the 00:22:12.279 --> 00:22:15.400 glory of the only begotten of God, the Father, 00:22:15.559 --> 00:22:19.000 full of grace and truth. Somebody say, praise 00:22:19.000 --> 00:22:23.519 the Lord. I'm so glad that He came back, not 00:22:23.519 --> 00:22:27.319 to Mount Sinai, but He came back in the form 00:22:27.319 --> 00:22:31.079 of a... man. He came in the form of flesh. But 00:22:31.079 --> 00:22:34.160 let me say this. The Bible says that it was the 00:22:34.160 --> 00:22:38.940 word of God, not on tablets, but it was in him. 00:22:39.079 --> 00:22:43.579 And he demonstrated it. If you saw him, you would 00:22:43.579 --> 00:22:47.400 see the father. He was all in one. Amen. Great 00:22:47.400 --> 00:22:51.099 is the mystery of godliness. If we believe in 00:22:51.099 --> 00:22:54.670 God. You believe in Jesus. Because they say, 00:22:54.730 --> 00:22:57.470 have you seen me? You've seen the Father. They're 00:22:57.470 --> 00:23:02.529 one and the same. He is the Word. He's the Word 00:23:02.529 --> 00:23:05.910 in my spirit and my soul. It's not on the tablets 00:23:05.910 --> 00:23:09.329 of stone. It's in my heart. We now celebrate 00:23:09.329 --> 00:23:12.990 Pentecost. Not because of the old historical 00:23:12.990 --> 00:23:16.450 event of the Israelites receiving the tablets 00:23:16.450 --> 00:23:20.640 of the law. but because of the Holy Ghost that 00:23:20.640 --> 00:23:25.039 initiated a new covenant, a new order, and a 00:23:25.039 --> 00:23:29.740 new dispensation of grace. For the Jews, Pentecost 00:23:29.740 --> 00:23:34.640 was the time when they celebrated the first harvest 00:23:34.640 --> 00:23:40.579 of the agricultural year. It was a time of thanksgiving 00:23:40.579 --> 00:23:44.900 for what the land had produced and what their 00:23:44.900 --> 00:23:50.039 labor had yielded. Jewish feast, Pentecost, was 00:23:50.039 --> 00:23:54.299 celebrated as the seal. Somebody say the seal. 00:23:55.130 --> 00:23:58.950 of the covenant, Mosaic covenant. It was a seal 00:23:58.950 --> 00:24:03.309 for them. Praise God, because it gave life because 00:24:03.309 --> 00:24:07.210 of the harvest, the first fruits. It was life. 00:24:07.490 --> 00:24:10.990 It was sustaining. It was what they needed to 00:24:10.990 --> 00:24:14.789 survive. It was given at Mount Sinai, transforming 00:24:14.789 --> 00:24:19.009 the Israelites from Egyptian order, a life of 00:24:19.009 --> 00:24:22.750 slavery, amen, to a free nation governed by a 00:24:22.750 --> 00:24:26.299 divine law that That Moses had received on Mount 00:24:26.299 --> 00:24:29.900 Sinai. But he listened to this. The apostle Paul. 00:24:30.160 --> 00:24:34.019 Wrote about a new seal. For he whosoever will 00:24:34.019 --> 00:24:37.420 confess Jesus Christ. As the word made flesh. 00:24:37.799 --> 00:24:41.680 And the new covenant. And accept his word. In 00:24:41.680 --> 00:24:45.059 our hearts and in your hearts. A flesh through 00:24:45.059 --> 00:24:50.019 repentance. And the baptism in his name. He promised 00:24:50.019 --> 00:24:53.960 to confirm our salvation. With a seal. Somebody 00:24:53.960 --> 00:24:57.319 say the seal, hallelujah, of the Holy Ghost, 00:24:57.420 --> 00:25:01.700 which is his promise. In Ephesians 1 .13 it says, 00:25:01.920 --> 00:25:06.799 in him you also trusted after you heard the word 00:25:06.799 --> 00:25:10.759 of truth, the gospel of your salvation, in whom 00:25:10.759 --> 00:25:14.880 also having believed, you were sealed with the 00:25:14.880 --> 00:25:20.009 Holy Spirit of promise. This is our seal. Hallelujah. 00:25:20.190 --> 00:25:23.369 We didn't get the harvest. We didn't have to, 00:25:23.369 --> 00:25:27.690 amen, plant and get a harvest of any kind as 00:25:27.690 --> 00:25:30.970 the Israelites did. But that was their seal. 00:25:31.210 --> 00:25:34.869 But let me tell you, our seal, our seal is a 00:25:34.869 --> 00:25:38.549 man that went into a tomb, amen, for three days. 00:25:38.769 --> 00:25:42.190 But on the third day, he came out. And it's not 00:25:42.190 --> 00:25:46.670 over yet. This is just the beginning. Because 00:25:46.670 --> 00:25:51.009 50 days from now, You're going to be sealed with 00:25:51.009 --> 00:25:54.289 the promise, and the promise is the Holy Ghost. 00:25:56.650 --> 00:26:00.250 That is our seal today. That's our confirmation. 00:26:00.549 --> 00:26:03.509 That is our confirmation, the first fruit, amen, 00:26:03.690 --> 00:26:08.490 which was Jesus Christ. And let me say this. 00:26:08.710 --> 00:26:13.119 Born -again believers, celebrate the death. The 00:26:13.119 --> 00:26:16.140 barrier and the resurrection of Jesus Christ. 00:26:16.440 --> 00:26:20.099 This is who we celebrate. This is why Pentecost 00:26:20.099 --> 00:26:23.700 is important for us. Yes, it was important in 00:26:23.700 --> 00:26:26.960 the time of Israel for the Old Covenant, the 00:26:26.960 --> 00:26:29.720 Old Testament. It was beautiful. It was an experience. 00:26:30.019 --> 00:26:32.539 But let me tell you, they expected it. They planned 00:26:32.539 --> 00:26:35.019 it. And they all gathered and they celebrated 00:26:35.019 --> 00:26:38.579 it. But what about us? Hallelujah. What about 00:26:38.579 --> 00:26:42.490 the church on that day? Praise God. There was 00:26:42.490 --> 00:26:47.509 great fruits. There was a harvest of 120 that 00:26:47.509 --> 00:26:51.390 were born again of the water and of the Spirit. 00:26:51.670 --> 00:26:55.910 Oh, 120 believers as the first harvest. Praise 00:26:55.910 --> 00:26:59.390 be to God. Hallelujah. And let me say this to 00:26:59.390 --> 00:27:02.029 somebody. If you're not part of this, you can 00:27:02.029 --> 00:27:05.690 jump in any time. You don't have to go back to 00:27:05.690 --> 00:27:09.789 the upper room. This is the upper room here right 00:27:09.789 --> 00:27:12.329 now. Wherever you are. Lord, if you will call 00:27:12.329 --> 00:27:15.490 upon the name of the Lord, he will answer you. 00:27:15.569 --> 00:27:18.250 If you open your heart and say, Lord, fill me 00:27:18.250 --> 00:27:21.089 with your spirit, he'll fill you with his spirit 00:27:21.089 --> 00:27:24.910 because it is a promise to whosoever believeth. 00:27:25.089 --> 00:27:28.049 And if you don't have the Holy Ghost today, you 00:27:28.049 --> 00:27:31.190 can get it today. If you have not spoken in other 00:27:31.190 --> 00:27:33.769 tongues, you can speak in other tongues today. 00:27:33.869 --> 00:27:36.990 If you want to feel this fire, you can feel this 00:27:36.990 --> 00:27:40.609 fire today. This is the day. Amen. Pity call. 00:27:40.730 --> 00:27:48.690 When God wants to fill you with his spirit. Pentecost 00:27:48.690 --> 00:27:52.210 is the birthday of the church. It is the day 00:27:52.210 --> 00:27:57.089 the church was born. The first chapter of the 00:27:57.089 --> 00:28:00.349 book of Acts tells us of Jesus meeting with the 00:28:00.349 --> 00:28:04.269 apostles at the Mount of Olives. and telling 00:28:04.269 --> 00:28:09.230 them that they were to be his witnesses to all 00:28:09.230 --> 00:28:13.089 the world. Why do we need such a spirit? Why 00:28:13.089 --> 00:28:16.940 do we need it? to the Old Testament in the Israelites' 00:28:17.200 --> 00:28:20.460 time and in that dispensation and under that 00:28:20.460 --> 00:28:25.480 old covenant, the world, the people of Canaan 00:28:25.480 --> 00:28:28.759 and everywhere, they were envious of the Israelites 00:28:28.759 --> 00:28:34.079 because they were able to celebrate things and 00:28:34.079 --> 00:28:36.599 have things that they didn't plant, that they 00:28:36.599 --> 00:28:39.319 didn't build. God gave them to them. Praise God. 00:28:39.420 --> 00:28:42.500 And just like that today, praise God, we have 00:28:42.500 --> 00:28:45.990 things that we didn't. We don't merit. I don't 00:28:45.990 --> 00:28:48.650 deserve that, God. I don't deserve this, and 00:28:48.650 --> 00:28:50.789 I don't deserve that. But God said, I'm going 00:28:50.789 --> 00:28:53.170 to keep my promise to you. I'm going to bless 00:28:53.170 --> 00:28:55.769 you going in, and I'm going to bless you going 00:28:55.769 --> 00:28:59.250 out. Everything you touch will be blessed. Everywhere 00:28:59.250 --> 00:29:01.750 you put your foot will be blessed. That's our 00:29:01.750 --> 00:29:05.009 promise, amen. And if you believe that, you have 00:29:05.009 --> 00:29:07.910 nothing to fear. You have nothing that you lack. 00:29:08.109 --> 00:29:11.549 You have everything in him because you have the 00:29:11.549 --> 00:29:15.019 seal. You have the foot. of God in your life. 00:29:15.119 --> 00:29:18.079 When you have his spirit, you don't need nothing 00:29:18.079 --> 00:29:20.940 else. You don't need to go look for nothing else. 00:29:20.960 --> 00:29:24.500 When you've got God in your heart, you got it 00:29:24.500 --> 00:29:27.940 all. Oh, my God, let me tell you something. Amen. 00:29:27.980 --> 00:29:30.660 You stop looking. You stop searching. Oh, you 00:29:30.660 --> 00:29:33.599 get a stronger relationship with God as time 00:29:33.599 --> 00:29:36.539 goes on, amen, because he's too vast, amen, to 00:29:36.539 --> 00:29:39.900 understand in one sit down. Praise God. So we 00:29:39.900 --> 00:29:42.700 get a stronger, but the thing is that when you 00:29:42.700 --> 00:29:47.319 get the seal, you get the earnest of his spirit. 00:29:47.400 --> 00:29:49.759 That means there's not, he doesn't give it to 00:29:49.759 --> 00:29:52.799 you in portions. He didn't give you 10 % and 00:29:52.799 --> 00:29:57.289 me 20%. No. He didn't give you a portion of who 00:29:57.289 --> 00:30:00.470 he is. He gave you the earnest of his spirit 00:30:00.470 --> 00:30:04.990 who is God manifesting your spirit and your life. 00:30:05.190 --> 00:30:09.269 He became, amen, he became you. You are in him, 00:30:09.349 --> 00:30:12.309 him and you. You have his spirit. You can't say 00:30:12.309 --> 00:30:15.109 my spirit, the Holy Ghost is in this part of 00:30:15.109 --> 00:30:17.829 my body or it's in my hand, it's in my feet. 00:30:17.849 --> 00:30:22.250 No, it's all of you. Every little bit of you 00:30:22.250 --> 00:30:26.319 is the Holy Ghost. man. So whatever the devil 00:30:26.319 --> 00:30:29.079 has formed against you, it's not going to do 00:30:29.079 --> 00:30:32.359 no good because greater is he that is in you 00:30:32.359 --> 00:30:35.099 than he that is in the world. You have it all. 00:30:35.140 --> 00:30:37.460 You don't have to be looking for no more. You've 00:30:37.460 --> 00:30:40.099 got Jesus. And when you got the Holy Ghost, you 00:30:40.099 --> 00:30:42.559 got it all. Can you just shout and say, I got 00:30:42.559 --> 00:30:47.549 it all today. Acts 1 and 8 says, but you shall 00:30:47.549 --> 00:30:50.529 receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon 00:30:50.529 --> 00:30:53.690 you. And you shall be witnesses to me in Jerusalem 00:30:53.690 --> 00:30:57.509 and all Judea and Samaria and to the ends of 00:30:57.509 --> 00:31:00.430 the earth. Let me tell you, hallelujah, when 00:31:00.430 --> 00:31:04.210 you received the Holy Spirit, when you received 00:31:04.210 --> 00:31:06.609 the Holy Spirit, if you haven't yet, when you 00:31:06.609 --> 00:31:08.970 receive it, and for those of you that have already, 00:31:09.089 --> 00:31:11.750 when you received it, you have received power. 00:31:11.910 --> 00:31:15.170 As we heard the song say, amen, you have got 00:31:15.170 --> 00:31:18.170 power. Not power. Praise God. You need not search 00:31:18.170 --> 00:31:21.329 anywhere else. You don't need to be looking nowhere 00:31:21.329 --> 00:31:24.609 else for anything. Amen. I know we depend on 00:31:24.609 --> 00:31:27.170 certain things in life. Praise God. You depend 00:31:27.170 --> 00:31:30.049 on a doctor. Amen. A surgeon and things like 00:31:30.049 --> 00:31:32.269 that. That's okay. Praise God. Those are the 00:31:32.269 --> 00:31:34.970 things of this life. But let me tell you something. 00:31:35.390 --> 00:31:38.690 God is in control of all things. Doctors can 00:31:38.690 --> 00:31:42.490 give up on you. Amen. Judges and attorneys can 00:31:42.490 --> 00:31:45.230 give up on you. Your friends. can give up on 00:31:45.230 --> 00:31:48.029 you. But when you got Jesus in your life, you 00:31:48.029 --> 00:31:50.809 have his spirit in your life, you lack nothing. 00:31:50.910 --> 00:31:54.509 You have everything that you need. You have the 00:31:54.509 --> 00:31:58.130 power to overcome. You have the power to tell 00:31:58.130 --> 00:32:01.410 somebody such as I have, I give unto you, get 00:32:01.410 --> 00:32:04.490 up and walk. You have the authority over anything. 00:32:04.750 --> 00:32:07.529 All opposition that comes against you, you have 00:32:07.529 --> 00:32:10.650 that authority. If you have the Holy Ghost, you 00:32:10.650 --> 00:32:13.549 need nothing else. When you have the Holy Ghost, 00:32:13.640 --> 00:32:16.920 In your life, you can walk. Amen. I'm not telling 00:32:16.920 --> 00:32:20.960 anybody to go walk on water, but in a spiritual 00:32:20.960 --> 00:32:24.859 sense, yes, we can walk on water, spiritually 00:32:24.859 --> 00:32:28.880 speaking, because we can walk above things, things 00:32:28.880 --> 00:32:32.140 that, amen, that are impossible for man to do. 00:32:32.220 --> 00:32:35.880 We can walk above that. Praise the Lord, somebody. 00:32:36.819 --> 00:32:40.259 Hallelujah. God is real. He is alive. He is in 00:32:40.259 --> 00:32:43.279 my spirit. Amen. He's in my life just like he 00:32:43.279 --> 00:32:46.720 is in yours. Amen. You have nothing to fear because 00:32:46.720 --> 00:32:50.039 the spirit of God, his love, casts out fear. 00:32:50.240 --> 00:32:52.579 You don't fear nothing. Praise God. It doesn't 00:32:52.579 --> 00:32:55.160 matter what report they give you. What report 00:32:55.160 --> 00:32:56.900 are you going to believe? You're going to believe 00:32:56.900 --> 00:32:59.200 the report of the Lord? What are you going to 00:32:59.200 --> 00:33:01.220 believe? Amen. You can get bad news tomorrow. 00:33:01.480 --> 00:33:03.640 You can get bad news on your way home today. 00:33:03.759 --> 00:33:06.259 But whose report are you going to believe? say, 00:33:06.420 --> 00:33:08.799 hey, I'm going to believe the report of the Lord. 00:33:08.920 --> 00:33:11.740 He said that he would be with me. He said that 00:33:11.740 --> 00:33:14.279 he would guide me through it. He's a lamp unto 00:33:14.279 --> 00:33:17.920 my feet. He will order my steps every day. I 00:33:17.920 --> 00:33:21.279 believe in God. I believe that he will sustain 00:33:21.279 --> 00:33:25.200 me and keep me and lead me, amen, and hold me 00:33:25.200 --> 00:33:27.980 so that I can get through all of this in life. 00:33:28.240 --> 00:33:30.099 Yes, there's going to be challenges, and they 00:33:30.099 --> 00:33:32.839 are, but you have power. You have the Holy Ghost. 00:33:32.920 --> 00:33:35.950 It's amazing. You cannot compare the power of 00:33:35.950 --> 00:33:38.730 anything. Everybody's talking about nuclear power 00:33:38.730 --> 00:33:43.569 today. They're talking about Iran and other places. 00:33:43.670 --> 00:33:46.970 Everybody's got nuclear power. I'm not afraid 00:33:46.970 --> 00:33:50.029 of nuclear power. Let it happen. Whatever happens, 00:33:50.109 --> 00:33:52.809 it happens because to God be the glory. Amen. 00:33:52.829 --> 00:33:55.289 To be absent from this body is to be ever present 00:33:55.289 --> 00:33:57.650 with the Lord. Amen. So we don't fear death. 00:33:57.849 --> 00:34:00.450 We've already overcome the sting of death. Death 00:34:00.450 --> 00:34:03.589 has nothing over us. Amen. So all the power in 00:34:03.589 --> 00:34:06.829 the world. Man might have power, but God puts 00:34:06.829 --> 00:34:10.130 kings. He takes kings down. Amen. God is in control 00:34:10.130 --> 00:34:13.869 of all things. I don't fear any regimes in the 00:34:13.869 --> 00:34:17.170 world because, amen, there's no higher authority 00:34:17.170 --> 00:34:20.309 in this world than the authority of Jesus Christ. 00:34:20.590 --> 00:34:23.590 And I have that authority. He said, everything 00:34:23.590 --> 00:34:27.090 you bind on earth shall be bound in heaven. Whatever 00:34:27.090 --> 00:34:29.769 you loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven 00:34:29.769 --> 00:34:33.150 because I have that authority in my life. And 00:34:33.150 --> 00:34:34.619 you have that authority. that authority too. 00:34:34.699 --> 00:34:38.320 Don't fear nothing. No, I've got the Holy Ghost 00:34:38.320 --> 00:34:42.400 down in my soul, just like the Bible says. Amen. 00:34:42.579 --> 00:34:46.719 And I'm going to live my life every day like 00:34:46.719 --> 00:34:50.539 I know and I feel and I'm convinced that I have 00:34:50.539 --> 00:34:55.280 his power with me. And that's a power. It's a 00:34:55.280 --> 00:34:58.260 power. It's a Holy Ghost power. You cannot compare 00:34:58.260 --> 00:35:00.980 it. You cannot buy it. You cannot exchange it. 00:35:01.059 --> 00:35:03.420 There's been people that have tried to do that 00:35:03.420 --> 00:35:07.179 with no success. You cannot pretend that you 00:35:07.179 --> 00:35:10.840 have it either. Praise God. As some even biblical 00:35:10.840 --> 00:35:13.139 times try to pretend they have the power, they 00:35:13.139 --> 00:35:15.659 have the Holy Ghost. You cannot pretend to have 00:35:15.659 --> 00:35:18.179 the Holy Ghost. Amen. You either got it or you 00:35:18.179 --> 00:35:20.980 don't. Praise the Lord somebody. Ask your neighbor. 00:35:21.119 --> 00:35:25.650 Amen. You got it? Praise God. If you got it, 00:35:25.690 --> 00:35:29.030 you're all right. Amen. If you don't got it, 00:35:29.090 --> 00:35:33.449 you need to get it. That's it. Amen. It's simply 00:35:33.449 --> 00:35:38.710 said. It doesn't take a real deep theologian 00:35:38.710 --> 00:35:41.389 to figure that out, man. If your cup is full, 00:35:41.570 --> 00:35:44.670 is it running over? What do you got? I know that 00:35:44.670 --> 00:35:47.030 what God gives, it runs over, man. It's just 00:35:47.030 --> 00:35:49.769 not fill my cup. Yeah, you know, that was a nice 00:35:49.769 --> 00:35:52.510 song back in the day, but I want it to overflow. 00:35:53.750 --> 00:35:56.309 Because that's his spirit. You can't not confine 00:35:56.309 --> 00:35:57.929 yourself. You know, that's the interesting thing 00:35:57.929 --> 00:36:00.050 about the Holy Ghost. How can you confine the 00:36:00.050 --> 00:36:05.590 Holy Ghost into this body? You can't. You can't. 00:36:05.710 --> 00:36:07.789 Amen. You can't say, I got the Holy Ghost. I 00:36:07.789 --> 00:36:09.010 got it right here. I'm going to do what I want 00:36:09.010 --> 00:36:11.750 with it. I'm going to shelve it for a couple 00:36:11.750 --> 00:36:14.110 of days and pull it back out. You can't put it 00:36:14.110 --> 00:36:17.130 in the refrigerator to preserve it. Amen. You 00:36:17.130 --> 00:36:19.349 can't do that, man. You either got it or you 00:36:19.349 --> 00:36:24.150 don't got it. Excuse my grammar, but it's true. 00:36:24.309 --> 00:36:27.230 Praise God. But when you get the Holy Ghost, 00:36:27.289 --> 00:36:29.809 when you have the Holy Ghost in your life, praise 00:36:29.809 --> 00:36:33.389 God, there is nothing that can come. I've been 00:36:33.389 --> 00:36:36.530 when I've had much, and I've been where I have 00:36:36.530 --> 00:36:39.369 little. I've been where I've had nothing. I've 00:36:39.369 --> 00:36:41.550 been when I'm sick. I've been when I'm well. 00:36:41.710 --> 00:36:45.110 I've been in different places in life. Amen. 00:36:45.150 --> 00:36:49.369 But life is not in control of me or you. Things 00:36:49.369 --> 00:36:52.889 that life hands you. Your boss could give you 00:36:52.889 --> 00:36:55.650 a pink slip tomorrow. Amen. You thank him for 00:36:55.650 --> 00:36:57.889 it. Thank you very much. God's giving me a promotion 00:36:57.889 --> 00:37:02.070 now. Praise God. When they give you a pink slip, 00:37:02.210 --> 00:37:05.570 you can say thank you for the promotion. Praise 00:37:05.570 --> 00:37:09.230 God. Because it is a promotion because God is 00:37:09.230 --> 00:37:11.650 the rewarder of those that diligently seek him. 00:37:11.750 --> 00:37:13.389 And if you're seeking God, he's going to reward 00:37:13.389 --> 00:37:16.429 you. Amen. And don't worry what man does to you. 00:37:16.489 --> 00:37:19.230 Amen. God will deal with all of that. You know, 00:37:19.269 --> 00:37:21.250 don't take it out on them. They just don't know 00:37:21.250 --> 00:37:23.929 any better. Praise God. But praise be to God. 00:37:24.010 --> 00:37:26.530 God is good, isn't he? How many of you experience 00:37:26.530 --> 00:37:28.590 the goodness of the Lord every day? I experience 00:37:28.590 --> 00:37:32.429 it every day. Praise God. He also tells them 00:37:32.429 --> 00:37:35.070 that they are to wait in Jerusalem. He says, 00:37:35.110 --> 00:37:37.949 wait until they receive the power from on high. 00:37:38.130 --> 00:37:42.489 Then he ascended out of their sight. Wow. Just 00:37:42.489 --> 00:37:46.510 because the Lord is not seen, it doesn't mean 00:37:46.510 --> 00:37:51.090 that he's not there. Praise the Lord. I know 00:37:51.090 --> 00:37:53.949 that went way over your head, right? That's deep. 00:37:54.110 --> 00:37:57.389 Tell somebody, that was deep, man. But the fact 00:37:57.389 --> 00:38:02.719 is, amen. He sometimes disappears and you wonder, 00:38:02.780 --> 00:38:05.539 where is he? Well, I'm sure the disciples are 00:38:05.539 --> 00:38:08.599 wondering the same. Oh, how can this be? Amen. 00:38:08.659 --> 00:38:12.780 But in Luke 24, 49, it says, Behold, I send the 00:38:12.780 --> 00:38:16.219 promise of my Father upon you, but tarry in the 00:38:16.219 --> 00:38:20.199 city of Jerusalem until you are endued with power 00:38:20.199 --> 00:38:25.420 from on high. Wow. It was on this day, Pentecost. 00:38:26.170 --> 00:38:30.429 That the Holy Ghost was poured out upon 120 followers 00:38:30.429 --> 00:38:35.210 of Christ. It could have been 121. I don't know. 00:38:35.750 --> 00:38:39.170 But 120 were there. Praise God. Thank God that 00:38:39.170 --> 00:38:43.210 they were there. Who were gathered in that upper 00:38:43.210 --> 00:38:48.050 room in Jerusalem. It was on this day that the 00:38:48.050 --> 00:38:51.809 church was born in the blaze of glory. Before 00:38:51.809 --> 00:38:54.849 Pentecost, the disciples were hiding from... 00:38:55.380 --> 00:38:58.699 Because of public fear, they were afraid, they 00:38:58.699 --> 00:39:00.940 were hiding. Peter didn't want to be acknowledged 00:39:00.940 --> 00:39:04.199 as a follower of Christ. You know, bold Peter, 00:39:04.380 --> 00:39:06.500 man. I mean, he was hiding. He says, you talk 00:39:06.500 --> 00:39:11.300 like them. Oh, no, no, no, no, not us. You know, 00:39:11.340 --> 00:39:14.880 and everybody was living a life of fear. But 00:39:14.880 --> 00:39:21.539 after Pentecost, they became bold and miraculously 00:39:21.539 --> 00:39:24.780 empowered. Power to carry out the mission of 00:39:24.780 --> 00:39:30.880 God. When God gives us power, it's not just so 00:39:30.880 --> 00:39:35.420 that we can walk around with our shoulders up 00:39:35.420 --> 00:39:39.360 and say, you know, I got power. No. It was because 00:39:39.360 --> 00:39:44.599 God has a mission for us. Praise God, somebody. 00:39:45.179 --> 00:39:47.900 Something happened to the disciples that set 00:39:47.900 --> 00:39:53.130 them on fire for Jesus. To such a degree, the 00:39:53.130 --> 00:39:58.309 Bible says in Acts 17, 16, it says, here are 00:39:58.309 --> 00:40:01.429 those who are turning the world upside down. 00:40:01.929 --> 00:40:07.730 Put the next scripture, brother. Thank you. Look 00:40:07.730 --> 00:40:10.170 at that. How many want to turn the world upside 00:40:10.170 --> 00:40:13.989 down? And I don't mean literally, but I mean 00:40:13.989 --> 00:40:18.309 spiritually. We got something. We have the answer. 00:40:18.880 --> 00:40:22.480 to things that the world can only dream about. 00:40:22.639 --> 00:40:26.219 We have a remedy. We have a plan. We have a something, 00:40:26.420 --> 00:40:30.039 a how it can be done. Praise God. The upper room 00:40:30.039 --> 00:40:34.320 experience then can happen to anyone and set 00:40:34.320 --> 00:40:39.000 on fire your life with the Holy Ghost. If you 00:40:39.000 --> 00:40:45.099 today are looking for something that is different 00:40:45.099 --> 00:40:49.360 from what the world has to offer, We offer you, 00:40:49.480 --> 00:40:55.059 Jesus, the Holy Ghost. It's essential to evangelize 00:40:55.059 --> 00:40:58.480 the world. We need the Holy Ghost to be evangelist 00:40:58.480 --> 00:41:01.679 in this world. Because of the Holy Ghost, we 00:41:01.679 --> 00:41:05.699 can reach our world with the gospel of salvation. 00:41:06.219 --> 00:41:10.639 How I know this is true. I know it is true because 00:41:10.639 --> 00:41:14.219 I experienced it when I wanted to evangelize 00:41:14.219 --> 00:41:19.170 and speak to people about God. I had to get beside 00:41:19.170 --> 00:41:21.989 myself. I had to allow the Holy Ghost to take 00:41:21.989 --> 00:41:25.690 control of my life and my attitudes and cast 00:41:25.690 --> 00:41:30.489 out the spirit of fear and stand up for Jesus. 00:41:30.989 --> 00:41:34.829 And, you know, like a lady, when I was testifying 00:41:34.829 --> 00:41:37.690 to people at work many years ago, I was testifying 00:41:37.690 --> 00:41:39.670 and winning people to the Lord. And this lady 00:41:39.670 --> 00:41:42.429 from out of nowhere, way out. I mean, she must 00:41:42.429 --> 00:41:45.480 have been like maybe. 50 feet away or something 00:41:45.480 --> 00:41:49.559 from way over there, she yells out, I think Joe's 00:41:49.559 --> 00:41:56.679 gone crazy. And I turn, why? And then everybody's 00:41:56.679 --> 00:42:00.400 looking at me like, you don't look crazy. Yeah, 00:42:00.480 --> 00:42:02.659 crazy because I was winning people to the Lord. 00:42:03.039 --> 00:42:06.840 I was turning my workplace upside down with the 00:42:06.840 --> 00:42:09.699 power of the Holy Ghost. Praise be to God. There 00:42:09.699 --> 00:42:12.340 was this one guy. He kind of reminded me of you, 00:42:12.380 --> 00:42:15.659 Brother Kong. He was a Korean guy. He was Korean, 00:42:15.800 --> 00:42:19.670 but he was a black belt, brother. And I don't 00:42:19.670 --> 00:42:22.610 know if you're black belt, but he was black belt. 00:42:22.730 --> 00:42:27.150 And, man, he, I was kind of like, you know, I'd 00:42:27.150 --> 00:42:29.289 get out of his way. He would be coming down the 00:42:29.289 --> 00:42:31.210 hall and everybody would, you know, like step 00:42:31.210 --> 00:42:34.449 out of the way. And here comes that. And one 00:42:34.449 --> 00:42:37.769 time, one time I was coming around a corner and 00:42:37.769 --> 00:42:40.389 he was coming the other way. And I came around 00:42:40.389 --> 00:42:43.690 the corner. Oh, my God. It's a good thing he's 00:42:43.690 --> 00:42:45.989 fast because he put, I mean, he got in a stance. 00:42:46.090 --> 00:42:48.920 It's reaction, you know. He got a reaction. He 00:42:48.920 --> 00:42:51.840 almost let me have it. Whoa, whoa, no, no, man. 00:42:52.000 --> 00:42:55.000 You know, like, easy, man. You know, I was just 00:42:55.000 --> 00:42:57.199 coming around the corner. Oh, man, man. He almost 00:42:57.199 --> 00:42:59.980 took you down. I says, I know. You know, and 00:42:59.980 --> 00:43:03.460 then I said within myself, I'm going to win him 00:43:03.460 --> 00:43:06.760 to the Lord. We'll see who takes who down here. 00:43:09.179 --> 00:43:13.199 A few months later, we were baptizing him in 00:43:13.199 --> 00:43:19.300 Jesus' name. Praise God. And not only him, but 00:43:19.300 --> 00:43:22.860 his fiancée that he married, and we baptized 00:43:22.860 --> 00:43:26.260 her too, and we baptized his dad that we had 00:43:26.260 --> 00:43:28.900 to carry up the stairs to the baptismal. Amen. 00:43:28.980 --> 00:43:31.179 We got a lot of people right there, man, just 00:43:31.179 --> 00:43:35.920 from that black belt. Don't you ever throw that 00:43:35.920 --> 00:43:38.260 black belt move on me, man, because I got the 00:43:38.260 --> 00:43:43.059 Holy Ghost. I'll take you down in Jesus' name. 00:43:43.480 --> 00:43:46.780 Amen. And God, thank God, man, I won that soul 00:43:46.780 --> 00:43:50.139 for him. But, you know, we don't need to fear 00:43:50.139 --> 00:43:53.119 nothing. We don't need to fear anything. Praise 00:43:53.119 --> 00:43:56.280 God. God is good, isn't he? I'm going to close 00:43:56.280 --> 00:43:58.559 with this. I know you want me to go on until 00:43:58.559 --> 00:44:01.179 tomorrow, but I got to cut it short here. I know 00:44:01.179 --> 00:44:03.760 this is a holiday, and you're all probably got 00:44:03.760 --> 00:44:05.559 something going on in the grill, and you're waiting 00:44:05.559 --> 00:44:10.039 to flip it. I don't know. The Comforter. John 00:44:10.039 --> 00:44:14.949 14 and 16, it says. And I will pray the Father, 00:44:15.190 --> 00:44:19.510 and he shall give you another comforter. Praise 00:44:19.510 --> 00:44:22.309 God. You know, when you think that you've been 00:44:22.309 --> 00:44:25.329 comforted, you ain't felt nothing until the Lord 00:44:25.329 --> 00:44:29.030 comforts you. That's a comparison, you know. 00:44:29.070 --> 00:44:32.590 We find comfort in things, you know, and we find 00:44:32.590 --> 00:44:35.869 comfort in life. People are in comfort because 00:44:35.869 --> 00:44:38.760 they have money, you know. Oh, man, as long as 00:44:38.760 --> 00:44:42.420 I got this much money in the bank, I feel pretty 00:44:42.420 --> 00:44:44.980 good. Or as long as my health is real good and 00:44:44.980 --> 00:44:47.559 I get a good report, they're comforted. But you 00:44:47.559 --> 00:44:51.820 know what? Whatever your comfort is, think of 00:44:51.820 --> 00:44:56.320 your best comfort in life. You know, if you're 00:44:56.320 --> 00:44:59.559 driving a Maserati or something, that's comfort, 00:44:59.719 --> 00:45:02.690 right? For you car lovers or whatever, you know, 00:45:02.730 --> 00:45:06.369 but a big house, you know, with 20 bedrooms and 00:45:06.369 --> 00:45:08.389 10 bathrooms that you're going to have to clean 00:45:08.389 --> 00:45:11.570 and, you know, and all that. You know, comfort 00:45:11.570 --> 00:45:16.130 is, you know, certain things in life. And, I 00:45:16.130 --> 00:45:18.789 mean, humanistically, yeah, you probably have 00:45:18.789 --> 00:45:22.510 a place that you would consider a place of comfort. 00:45:23.050 --> 00:45:26.530 But he said, I shall give you another comforter, 00:45:26.570 --> 00:45:31.170 something. Greater than you can ever imagine. 00:45:32.170 --> 00:45:39.409 That he may abide with you forever. This comfort 00:45:39.409 --> 00:45:43.989 you will never lose. You can lose all your money. 00:45:44.710 --> 00:45:49.489 You can lose that nice car. You can lose that 00:45:49.489 --> 00:45:54.170 relationship. You can lose many things such as 00:45:54.170 --> 00:45:58.519 health and what not in life. But the comforter 00:45:58.519 --> 00:46:03.099 that the Lord gives you will abide with you forever. 00:46:04.440 --> 00:46:10.019 My God, when you have his spirit, it's forever. 00:46:11.019 --> 00:46:13.760 It's not for a season. It's not when you need 00:46:13.760 --> 00:46:19.300 it the most. No, it's forever. Even the spirit 00:46:19.300 --> 00:46:23.639 of truth, he says, whom the world cannot receive. 00:46:24.820 --> 00:46:29.619 They can't get it. Because it seeth him not. 00:46:29.719 --> 00:46:35.559 Who? The Lord Jesus. They don't see him. Neither 00:46:35.559 --> 00:46:39.960 knoweth him, but ye know him. Ask your neighbor, 00:46:40.079 --> 00:46:45.139 do you know him? Do you know him? Because if 00:46:45.139 --> 00:46:54.380 you know him, you know of the creator, the comforter. 00:46:55.239 --> 00:47:01.480 for he dwelleth with you and shall be in you. 00:47:02.500 --> 00:47:09.539 It will not leave you comfortless. I will come 00:47:09.539 --> 00:47:17.340 to you. This is the promise. This is the promise 00:47:17.340 --> 00:47:21.059 that we receive from him, that comforter, that 00:47:21.059 --> 00:47:26.559 spirit. That upper room experience could be right 00:47:26.559 --> 00:47:30.019 here today. It could be in your living room. 00:47:31.579 --> 00:47:36.000 My wife and I were counseling a young couple 00:47:36.000 --> 00:47:39.300 that is dear friends of ours when we were down 00:47:39.300 --> 00:47:43.139 there in Southern California. And we were encouraging 00:47:43.139 --> 00:47:47.920 them on their home groups. And they have a nice 00:47:47.920 --> 00:47:52.090 home group. I think how many souls did they, 00:47:52.170 --> 00:47:56.210 I think they had how many souls? Like 24 souls 00:47:56.210 --> 00:48:02.670 in their home group. 24 souls. He says they only 00:48:02.670 --> 00:48:06.230 have, he only has one Timothy. And I met with 00:48:06.230 --> 00:48:08.230 him. We had dinner with his Timothy and another 00:48:08.230 --> 00:48:10.849 day. And then we were over there in their house 00:48:10.849 --> 00:48:13.130 on a certain day. He says, that's my Timothy. 00:48:13.210 --> 00:48:15.719 It's just him and I. And our wives, he says, 00:48:15.780 --> 00:48:18.159 but we got 24 souls that we're witnessing to. 00:48:18.300 --> 00:48:21.960 And we prayed for him and the souls that he has. 00:48:22.340 --> 00:48:29.840 And we prayed that he have the boldness, the 00:48:29.840 --> 00:48:35.300 boldness to speak. And we prayed, I said, God 00:48:35.300 --> 00:48:39.679 give him boldness. He was so encouraged. He was 00:48:39.679 --> 00:48:47.019 so encouraged because I told him. God, one of 00:48:47.019 --> 00:48:50.179 those visitors, those friends that you have, 00:48:50.380 --> 00:48:53.719 one of them is going to get the Holy Ghost in 00:48:53.719 --> 00:48:56.739 your home group. He's going to get the Holy Ghost. 00:48:57.239 --> 00:48:59.239 And he goes, oh, my God, right here. It says 00:48:59.239 --> 00:49:01.980 right here in your home. It says my wife and 00:49:01.980 --> 00:49:04.480 I have been through that. We've had people receive 00:49:04.480 --> 00:49:08.639 the Holy Ghost in our home while giving them 00:49:08.639 --> 00:49:11.619 a Bible study. It says when they get the Holy 00:49:11.619 --> 00:49:17.780 Ghost. man, it's like a fire that takes off. 00:49:17.820 --> 00:49:20.780 Everybody starts getting the Holy Ghost. People 00:49:20.780 --> 00:49:23.739 getting the Holy Ghost. And you can have that 00:49:23.739 --> 00:49:26.219 breakthrough. And there's nothing like when somebody 00:49:26.219 --> 00:49:30.440 gets the Holy Ghost. Nothing like it. It's an 00:49:30.440 --> 00:49:35.780 amazing experience. Amazing experience. And I 00:49:35.780 --> 00:49:37.480 don't know if you've ever prayed with somebody 00:49:37.480 --> 00:49:41.599 that got the Holy Ghost, but I have many times. 00:49:42.489 --> 00:49:45.670 It's an amazing experience for somebody to experience 00:49:45.670 --> 00:49:51.030 it for the first time. My goodness. It's special. 00:49:51.989 --> 00:49:58.230 You can just feel it. Something miraculous that 00:49:58.230 --> 00:50:02.329 happens. That's the comforter. That's what it's 00:50:02.329 --> 00:50:07.550 all about. And that's what Pentecost was. For 00:50:07.550 --> 00:50:14.750 the 120. But it was. God's plan from the beginning, 00:50:14.829 --> 00:50:21.150 first the Passover, then Pentecost at Mount Sinai. 00:50:21.610 --> 00:50:28.769 And that's our experience. The sacrifice, 50 00:50:28.769 --> 00:50:33.969 days later, Pentecost in the upper room. That's 00:50:33.969 --> 00:50:37.150 for all of us today. Praise God.