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the message. We're kicking off a five -week journey
of exploring, learning, and experiencing the
Holy Spirit in our June series that we've entitled
Come. Holy Spirit. Now, if we're really honest
about that topic, there's a lot of confusion
around the Holy Spirit. Who is he? What does
he do? Can he really be experienced today? It's
pretty obvious that he's probably the most misunderstood
member of the Trinity. So who is the Holy Spirit?
A simple question, but if it was posed to many
in the church, All outside of the church, they
would struggle to find an answer. This is what
happened when the crew from Alpha, Alpha is a
course designed to help people understand who
God is. We actually host Alpha here at our community
of faith. You can see Kelsey if you're interested
in learning more about it. But the crew from
Alpha went around asking different people from
different backgrounds with different beliefs,
who is the Holy Spirit? And let's watch some
of their answers. Who is the Holy Spirit? I don't
know who I'm sorry. I don't know That's a tough
one God Jesus and the Holy Spirit all like a
trendy angel. I don't know It's it's God I think
the Holy Spirit is different for everyone. Wouldn't
that be your conscience? I don't really have
a lot of, I don't know. I don't know who the
Holy Spirit is. I mean, I don't know. Third person
of the Trinity? The Holy Spirit? I've never even
really much thought of that. See, I believe if
we went out into our community right now, and
begin to ask people the same question, we would
receive a lot of similar responses. There's a
lot of confusion around the Holy Spirit. And
this confusion, unfortunately, is not limited
to people who are just not in a relationship
with Jesus. There's many Jesus followers in the
church today who are confused about the Holy
Spirit. According to a recent study by the Barna
Group, the Barna Group is a firm specializing
in studying of religious beliefs and behaviors
in Americans. 62%. Let me say that again. 62
% of Christians in the United States no longer
believe that the Holy Spirit is a real being.
They see him only as a symbol, a symbol of God's
power and presence. 62 % of the people in churches
in the United States, that's two -thirds of the
Christians in the United States, don't believe
in the Holy Spirit. Don't believe they can be
empowered today. Why? You know, why is that there?
Because there's misunderstanding in the complexity
of doctrine. There's diverse interpretations
of the scriptures. There's a lack of clear and
consistent teaching across different denominations.
For example, some denominations and churches
believe that God's power and presence in the
form of the Holy Spirit was only for those people
that we read about in the Bible. That the signs,
wonders, and miracles that were recorded in the
book of Acts ended with the early church and
no longer in operation today. See, with these
different interpretations and beliefs, churches
today, they avoid teaching about the Holy Spirit.
They focus on God. They focus on Jesus. And the
Holy Spirit is more of an afterthought. It's
kind of quickly brushed over. And it leaves people
wondering, questioning, who is the Holy Spirit?
When you add in the confusion of translators,
they took the Bible, right, and they changed
the word spirit to ghost when they translated
the New King James Version. And people began
to wonder, well, is the Holy Spirit a ghost?
Is he a person? Is he a spirit? Is he a being?
What is he? Unfortunately, some of you here today,
you've had negative experiences with the Holy
Spirit. Maybe you or someone you know was told
unless you speak in tongues, you're not really
saved. Maybe you've seen pastors or leaders in
churches pushing people over in the name of the
Spirit. Maybe you have seen too much emotionalism,
flopping around, running around, screaming, yelling,
laughing, and you're turned off by this idea
of the Holy Spirit. Well, let me explain to you
what we believe. Here at the Vineyard, we are
a church that is a part of movement of churches
across the U .S. and around the world that believes
the Holy Spirit is a person. He is the third
person of the Trinity that includes the Father,
the Son, and the Holy Spirit. Those three are
co -equal. They're co -eternal. We believe in
a triune faith, which means we believe there
is one God. in three persons. And each of those
persons have unique roles and responsibilities,
all working together in harmony and unity, which
is an example of what the church is supposed
to look like. Here at HTV, we believe in the
person, the power, and the presence of the Holy
Spirit. So each of us are on a journey with Jesus.
We all have different misunderstandings. We all
have different comfortability when it comes to
the Holy Spirit. My encouragement to you is this.
I want to invite you to participate on this journey
with me over the next five weeks. I want to encourage
you. Be open to a new understanding of who the
Holy Spirit is in your life as we study and explore
who he really is. Because I believe. All of us
are going to learn something much more than we
previously knew. I'm going to open in prayer.
And you may have noticed, if you've been here
for any time, every week at HTV, before worship,
before I share, we always what? We always invite
the Holy Spirit to come. Because we want the
Holy Spirit to empower us in our teaching, in
our leading of worship. Because he's the one
that draws us closer to God. Let's open in prayer.
Holy Spirit, come. God, I just pray that you
would silence the distractions in Jesus' name.
Open our minds, open our ears. More importantly,
unlock our guarded hearts to receive so much
more from you. Help us, God, to grow closer to
you through learning about your Holy Spirit.
In Jesus' name, amen. So our first thought this
morning, who is the Holy Spirit? Well, the Holy
Spirit is the breath of God. In the Bible, the
Hebrew word for Holy Spirit that we read about
in the Old Testament is the word ruach. And this
word means breath or wind. Many of us know that
in the very beginning of the Bible, Genesis chapter
1, the first words that were written, it says,
God created the heavens and the earth. The earth
was empty, covered in dark. And the spirit, the
ruach of God was hovering over the surface of
the waters. This would be the wind or the breath
of God. Then we read in Genesis 2, 7. The Lord
God formed the man from the dust of the ground.
He breathed the breath, the ruach of life into
the man's nostrils. And the man became a living
person. Fast forward to the New Testament, which
is mostly written in Greek. We find the word
pneuma, which again is defined as breath or wind
of God. We read this in John 20, verse 22. Again,
he said, this is Jesus speaking to the disciples.
After he had risen from the dead, peace be with
you. As the Father has sent me, so I am sending
you. Then he breathed on them and said, receive.
The Holy Spirit, receive the pneuma. Now, all
of us know that breathing is essential for life.
I mean, we can't survive without the breath of
life. And the word that is used to describe the
Holy Spirit reveals to us how vital the Holy
Spirit is in our lives. Interestingly, throughout
the Bible, we'll discover many other vivid descriptions
of the Holy Spirit. He is described as wind.
Water, a dove, fire. So you can see where some
of the confusion comes from, but we must remember
the Holy Spirit is a person. The Holy Spirit
is found in the entirety of the Bible. From the
very beginning, Genesis chapter 1 that I just
read to you, all the way to Revelation chapter
22, we read about the work of the Holy Spirit.
Which is interesting because many people in the
church, when discussing the Holy Spirit, they
zero in on Acts chapter 2, the day of Pentecost,
when the Holy Spirit fell on the early church
and was poured out on all people. But he's so
much more than just Acts chapter 2. Take a look
at this slide. I found this online. I found it
very interesting. The Holy Spirit in the Old
Testament and New Testament. Now, this is not
every... but I found it interesting that both
in the Old and the New, the Holy Spirit is everywhere.
Like I said, he created humanity, right? He fell
on and empowered Deborah, Saul, Zerubbabel in
the Old Testament. He anticipated the anointed
one, the Messiah, right? The prophecies predicted
that the Holy Spirit would come. In the New Testament,
Jesus was born of the Spirit. Jesus lived a sinless
life in the... Power of the Spirit. And any time
that that's referenced, who is it referencing?
The Holy Spirit. He created. He empowered. Throughout
the prophecies, Jesus was full of the Holy Spirit
in his ministry. Now, the best definition of
the Holy Spirit that I have found was written
by Diane Lehman. Diane Lehman is one of the founding
pastors of the Vineyard Church in central Illinois.
And in her book entitled, Hello, Holy Spirit,
she writes these words. Who is the Holy Spirit?
He's not a ghost. He's not an impersonal force.
He's not an elusive power somewhere out there.
He is neither a doctrine to be studied nor a
distant deity to be feared. He is a person to
be known and loved. He is God himself. He is
one of three persons of the Trinity, the Father,
the Son, and the Holy Spirit. One God, three
persons. He is God's gift of himself to each
of us. He makes the Christian life indescribably
beautiful and a fun -filled delight. What a powerful
description telling us of who the Holy Spirit
is. He's a gift. To each of us. And he's going
to make our life abundant, overflowing, full
of joy. This is who the Holy Spirit is. What
does he do? Well, our second thought, the Holy
Spirit gives birth to spiritual life. See, when
we begin a relationship with Jesus, we experience
what the Bible calls a new birth. Or to be born
again. Now this can be, again, very confusing
language for humanity because we understand birth
as what happens when a baby is born from their
mother. So the idea of experiencing this new
birth or this rebirth, which points to a person
going back up inside their mother to be born
again, can be confusing because, let's be honest,
it's impossible. Right, moms? It's impossible.
Jesus tells us though that the Holy Spirit is
going to be a key component to this miraculous
experience which a lot of people don't understand.
He is actually going to be the agent of this
new birth. Let's read John chapter 3 verses 5
through 8. Jesus replied, I assure you no one
can enter the kingdom of God without being born
of water and the Spirit. Humans can reproduce
only human life, but the Holy Spirit gives birth
to spiritual life. So don't be surprised when
I say you must be born again. The wind blows
wherever it wants, just as you can hear the wind
but can't tell where it comes from or where it
is going, so you can't explain how people are
born of the Spirit. So Jesus, he makes this bold
statement saying, We can't, you and I can't experience
the kingdom of God without being born again.
And the Holy Spirit is the agent of this rebirth.
What does this mean? Well, it means that the
Holy Spirit is the one who draws you to Jesus.
The Holy Spirit is the one who makes what was
once unknown, known. Like we understand this
new life. When we come into a relationship with
Jesus, it's actually the Holy Spirit in us empowering
us to understand that truth. We don't do anything
on our own. It's not possible in human strength.
The Holy Spirit is the one who gives birth to
our spiritual life. And friends, this is good
news. Because it means if we said yes to Jesus,
the Holy Spirit is living inside of you. The
same Spirit that rose Jesus from the grave lives
where? in a person who believes. But please understand,
this does not mean that we're gonna understand
everything about the Holy Spirit. This does not
mean we won't have questions about God or faith.
This does not mean we are living in the abundance
that Jesus promised through a relationship with
him. Why? Because quite often we ignore the Holy
Spirit. There's times in our life that we grieve
the Holy Spirit. And let's be honest, in our
everyday lives, we have a tendency to forget
that we have that power living inside of us.
The point, if you've said yes to Jesus and you're
in a relationship with him, you have the Holy
Spirit living inside of you. Jesus has been revealed
to us through the power of the Holy Spirit. But
our enemy, the enemy of this world, is working
overtime on us. To make us confused about this
truth. Right? He wants us scattered. He wants
us divided. Because he doesn't want the church
living in the abundance that Jesus promises.
And that happens when we're connected to the
Holy Spirit. Which leads us to our next thought.
The Holy Spirit reveals Jesus to us. He speaks
to us. He releases truth into us. Now the church
is obviously confused about the Holy Spirit.
62%. Of people who don't believe in the Holy
Spirit. While the world is just confused about
God in general. Right? If we're to go out into
our community and ask not who is the Holy Spirit,
who is God, we're going to get a lot of answers
that are very diverse. The world is filled with
confusion over who God is, who Jesus is, and
why do we even need them? Well, the Holy Spirit.
is active in revealing the truth about why we
need them to us. We have to be open to receiving
that truth. See, the Holy Spirit desires that
our minds, right, that wander and go everywhere
are being transformed by his power. That we begin
to think, act, and live like Jesus each and every
day. Now, in John chapter 16, Jesus, he begins
to tell the disciples that he's about to go.
He's about to leave this place. And of course,
what did the disciples do? They argued with him.
No! No, no, no, you can't go. Remember, they
believed that Jesus was the king that was going
to usher in a new kingdom and overthrow the Roman
authorities that were oppressing God's chosen
people. But Jesus responds to them. And he says,
no, I have to go so that I can leave you a helper,
a gift. That will change your life forever. We
read this in John 16, 13 through 15. When the
spirit of truth comes, he will guide you into
all truth. He will not speak on his own, but
will tell you what he has heard. He will tell
you about the future. He will bring me glory
by telling you whatever he receives from me.
All that belongs to the father is mine. This
is why I said, the spirit will tell you whatever
he receives from me. See, this is a beautiful
picture of the Trinity, three in one, working
together, the Father, the Son, the Holy Spirit,
revealing truth that was previously unknown.
In a world that is full of confusion about who
God is, who we are, what is our purpose, the
Holy Spirit is the key to reveal those truths
to us. We have to be open to receive it. Remember,
Jesus said this in John 14, 9. Have I been with
you all this time, Philip, and yet you still
don't know who I am? Anyone who has seen me has
seen the Father. See, the Holy Spirit is now
revealing the Father and the Son to us. And this
is important as we walk through a life full of
ups and downs. How many of you had a bad day
this week? Show of hands. Come on, let me see
it. Oh, give me a break. So you're telling me
that there's 400 people in here. You're telling
me that 30 people had a bad day this past week.
How many of you had a bad day this past week?
Man, some of you are lying. I know you are. You're
just lying. I'm just, like if you didn't put
your hand up, you're lying. It's just that simple.
Right, Steve? If they didn't put their hand up,
they're lying. Lying. I know that because someone
asked me how I was doing last week. You know
what I said to them? I said, I feel like I'm
on the Rebel Yell. Has anybody ever been on the
Rebel Yell? Now, some of you are younger. You
have no idea what the Rebel Yell is. The Rebel
Yell is a death -defying roller coaster made
of wood. You're not strapped into a cart. I don't
even know if it's still at Kingston Minion. It's
probably been torn down. But it may still be
there. I have no idea. I haven't been there in
20 years. But it's this death -defying roller
coaster made of wood. And you go down this giant
hill and make the sharpest turn ever in your
life. And you think you're going to fly out on
the other side. Right? Whew. It's scary. Anyway,
last week I was like, yeah, I feel like I'm on
the Rebel Yell. I have highs and I have lows.
And I have highs and I have lows. See, here's
the reality when it comes to the Holy Spirit.
When we're having a bad day. All we have to do
is simply pause, step back, and ask the Holy
Spirit to come. And say, God, what is happening
right now that I'm having a bad day? Is it my
attitude? Am I ungrateful? Am I angry? Am I unforgiving?
Am I just having a bad day because I didn't get
enough sleep? And if you pause and invite the
Holy Spirit to reveal that truth to you, he will
if we listen. See, the Holy Spirit wants to free
us from a destructive mindset that pulls us away
from God. He wants to free us from a confusion
of who he is so that we can embrace all that
God has for us. Church, the Holy Spirit is not
a ghost. He's not a non -important member of
the Trinity. The Holy Spirit is a revealer who
is always revealing God to us. He's revealing
Jesus to humanity and speaking about life change.
Now, in John chapter 9, we read about Saul's
conversion experience. Listen to how the Holy
Spirit revealed Jesus to Saul, Acts 9, 3 -6.
As he was approaching Damascus on this mission,
On a mission to kill Christians, a light from
heaven suddenly shone down around him. He fell
to the ground and heard a voice saying to him,
Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me? Who are
you, Lord? Saul asked. And the voice replied,
I am Jesus, the one who you are persecuting.
Now get up and go into the city and you will
be told what you must do. See, when this interaction
took place, some of you are thinking, well, Chris,
that's Jesus speaking to Saul. When this interaction
took place, Jesus had already returned or ascended
where? Into heaven. He had left the earth. This
conversation between Jesus and Saul was the Holy
Spirit revealing truth about who Jesus was and
is to Saul. And see, that initial revelation
of Jesus is so important to us because it draws
us into a relationship with God and launches
us onto a journey of life change. Now, I'm going
to be sharing my story about life change and
start with why today, right after this gathering.
If you want to know about our church, how we
began, what God is doing right now, and where
we're headed, you can join me right after this.
Just go out to the Welcome Hub. I'll tell you
the story about our community of faith, and you
will learn that in my conversion experience,
I was 22 years old, and I woke up in my bed at
5 a .m. in the morning to a voice that was telling
me to go to church. And for about an hour, I
laid in my bed, rolling back and forth from side
to side, sweating, trying to figure out if I'm
going crazy or if this is a real voice. I didn't
know what was happening. Go to church. Go to
church. Go to church. I got up, got a shower,
and started heading to Smithsburg to my old church.
And as I was driving to Smithsburg, about halfway
there, I heard that same voice, same tone, same
audible come back and say, you're going to the
wrong church. Turn around. And as I continued
to drive towards Smithsburg, trying to ignore
the voice, it got louder and louder and louder.
And eventually I pulled over on the side of the
road and said, either I'm going crazy or I need
to turn around. I turned around and headed back
to another church I had been invited to and sat
across the street for 20 minutes because I wanted
to go in and sneak in late, just sit in the back,
check things out. Right? What all of you would
do. Some of you come in late because you want
to sit in the back and you want to check this
out. I don't know if I trust that Chris guy yet.
There's some Holy Spirit activity going on there.
I'm not quite sure if this Jesus thing's real.
I know how you think. Don't worry. I know how
you think. So as I sat across the street, it
was about 11 .20, I decided to walk in. And as
I was about to sit down in the back seat of the
very back row of the church, I heard another
voice that was not the voice of God say, Oh,
Chris, we're so glad you're here. Let's go up
to the second row. To which, at that time, I
said a swear word in my head, not out loud, and
sure enough, ended up in the second row. And
it was on that very day that I heard that same
voice come back to me, speak into my heart. I
gave my life to Jesus, and I've been radically
changed ever since. The point, the Holy Spirit,
the Holy Spirit is the revealer of Jesus to us.
But he's not just the revealer of Jesus to us.
Number four, the Holy Spirit guides us through
life. Now, we're going to read about a man named
Philip. And Philip was this ordinary guy in the
early church that was selected to oversee a food
program in the early church because there were
so many needs that were not being met. Philip
was selected because he was wise, he was a leader,
and because he was full of the Spirit. He was
faithful in serving those in need. Philip was
committed. To serving the church in this capacity
while he was in Jerusalem. Unfortunately though
the early believers were forced to leave Jerusalem.
Because of all the persecution they headed to
Samaria. And it's interesting when they arrived
in Samaria. Philip he wasn't serving food anymore.
He began to preach and pray for people. And the
power of God showed up. And the Holy Spirit came
upon people. And they were healed and set free.
Actually Acts 8 verse 8 says that the city was
full of joy. For all the miraculous wonders that
Philip and the disciples were performing. Now,
an angel comes and tells Philip, you know that
voice, that he's supposed to go to 60 miles south
on the road to Gaza. Philip listens and begins
to walk. And while he's walking, he notices a
distinguished -looking man sitting in a chariot
reading a scroll. Philip learns that this man
is an Ethiopian eunuch who is the chief financial
officer of Queen Candace. In other words, he's
a very big deal. And he had come to Jerusalem
searching for truth. He was reading a passage.
of the scriptures that he couldn't figure out.
And I want you to listen to what happens when
the Holy Spirit partners with Philip. Acts chapter
8, verses 30 to 38. Philip ran over and heard
the man reading from the prophet Isaiah. Philip
asked, do you understand what you are reading?
The man replied, how can I unless someone instructs
me? And he urged Philip to come up into the carriage
and sit with him. The passage of scripture he
had been reading was this. He was led like a
sheep to the slaughter, and as a lamb is silent
before the shearers, he did not open his mouth.
He was humiliated and received no justice. Who
can speak of his descendants? For his life was
taken from the earth. The eunuch asked Philip,
tell me, was the prophet talking about himself
or someone else? So beginning with the same scripture,
Philip told him the good news about Jesus. As
they rode along, they came to some water and
the eunuch said, look, there's some water. Why
can't I be baptized? He ordered the carriage
to stop and they went down into the water and
Philip baptized him there. This, friends, is
a story of how the Holy Spirit uses a person
to reveal the truth about Jesus to someone else.
The Holy Spirit tells Philip, what's he say?
He says, go down 60 miles, go over to the man.
And as Philip was listening to the man, he discovered
he was confused. And in that moment, Philip was
able to share the good news about Jesus with
him. This man chose to receive that truth. And
then Philip baptizes him right away. What an
incredible story of life change. But here's the
reality, church. God wants to do the same in
you. That's what he wants our lives to look like.
God wants us to be open to the leading of the
Holy Spirit. And I personally believe the Holy
Spirit gives us opportunities just like that
each and every day. But we, you and me, we have
to be open to his leading. Which means we have
to prioritize listening to the Holy Spirit. Every
day, we are bombarded with voices. True or false?
You're not right, it's true. Every day we're
bombarded with voices. The loudest voice in our
ear is our own, typically. But we also have the
enemy's voice. We also have friends' voices.
We have culture's voices. Do we really know the
voice of the Holy Spirit? How do we distinguish
between the two? How do we recognize which one
is God, which one is the Holy Spirit, and which
one isn't? See, it's so important that we prioritize
hearing that voice because that voice leads us
to living what? A life of abundance. So many
people, 62%, two -thirds of the church in the
United States aren't living in abundance because
they don't believe in the Holy Spirit. But this
church, our community of faith, was founded on
the Holy Spirit. The whole reason we came to
this community to plant this church is because
God told me to. I was going to Charleston, South
Carolina. Chris was going to the beach. I already
had a plan. I had nearly 40. Let me say this
again. I had nearly 40 people going with me to
Charleston, South Carolina. They were ready to
go to the beach and change the beach for Jesus.
And then, after a vacation, walking on the C
&O Canal, God told me I'm going to the wrong
place, that I had to come home. And I said, I
don't want to come home, God. I want to go to
the beach. But I listened. And I went back to
Syracuse and told the team that I changed my
mind, that we're going to Hagerstown. And I lost
all of them. And we started this church with
12 people. The point, to live in abundance, we
have to experience the Holy Spirit. And notice
these two steps in experiencing the Holy Spirit,
they're really hard. Be expectant and wait. Be
expectant. Acts chapter 1, verses 4 through 5.
Once when he was eating with them, he commanded
them, do not leave Jerusalem until the Father
sends you the gift he promised. And as I told
you before, John baptized with water, but just
a few days you would be baptized with the Holy
Spirit. Now think about it. This is in Acts.
Jesus had already given the church its marching
orders. Therefore, go and make disciples of all
nations in Matthew 28, 19 through 20. Why don't
you suppose someone like Peter, for example,
wasn't already out there living the Great Commission,
sharing the good news about Jesus? Because after
all, during Jesus' earthly ministry, Peter was
the one that what? He was bold, outspoken, ambitious.
He was the one that walked on the water. When
all the other disciples were afraid and trembling,
Peter got out of the boat and walked on the water.
Why isn't he living the Great Commission? Well,
we know he's not living the Great Commission.
Because of the difficult and painful experience
he had in denying Jesus three times. See, Peter
has not yet been empowered. When he tried to
do it in his own strength, he what? Failed. And
that's why Jesus told the disciples to be expectant
and to wait to be baptized with the Holy Spirit.
Fast forward to Acts chapter 2, verses 1 through
4. On the day of Pentecost, all the believers
were meeting together in one place. Suddenly
there was a sound from heaven like the roaring
of a mighty windstorm. It filled the house where
they were sitting. Then what looked like flames
and tongues of fire appeared and settled on each
of them. And everyone was present and filled
with the Holy Spirit. Began speaking in other
languages as the Holy Spirit gave them the ability.
This group was gathering in the upper room. Many
scholars believe it was the same upper room that
the 12 had celebrated the Last Supper, except
this time there was 120. We're also told that
it's Pentecost. That's one of the three major
Jewish festivals that's celebrated in the temple
each year. It takes place 50 days after the Sunday
following Passover, which is Easter Sunday. So
this is 50 days after Easter. The resurrected
Jesus was with the disciples for 40 days after
Easter. After he had died and risen, then he
ascended back to heaven. So that means that Pentecost
was just 10 days after that. So the disciples,
remember, they had been waiting in expectation
for 10 days in the upper room. And they're waiting
and praying. And I can imagine many of them,
they're thinking, it's going to happen on the
third day. Jesus rose on the third day. Holy
Spirit's going to fall on the third day. And
the third day came and nothing happened. And
the fourth day came and went. And the fifth day
came and went. And the sixth and the seventh
day came and went and nothing. And still they
were expectant. Their expectation grew and they
waited. And on the 10th day, the Holy Spirit
fell. See, we live in an impatient culture. And
if we're not careful, our lack of patience will
find its way into our relationship with Jesus.
Is the church supposed to wait to be empowered
by the Holy Spirit today as it was in the book
of Acts? Yes or no? Yes or no? Yes or no? Yes.
And for some of you, you're too impatient to
wait on the Holy Spirit to change your life.
So here's what we're going to do. I'm going to
give God space. I'm going to invite you right
now with me to just put your hands like this.
That's what I want you to do. If you want to,
you don't have to. I'm not going to tell you
what to do. I'm not a manipulator. I'm not going
to say this is going to radically change your
life. I'm going to invite you. This is a posture
of saying I want to receive. Now, as Rhett and
Carl lead us in worship, some of you, some of
you may begin to weep. Don't pretend like you're
not weep. Some of you may want to stand and raise
your arms. Do it. Some of you feel like you need
to come up and kneel down and repent and get
rid of the sin that's in your life. Do it. Whatever
God tells you to do, be obedient. Because that's
how you learn who the voice of the Spirit is.
Amen? Are you ready? Are you ready? Are you ready?
There's no impossible I believe that you are
working now So pour it out Oh, pour it out