1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:12,080 Welcome to Logan City Christian Church podcast where we bring God's Word to you weekly. 2 00:00:12,080 --> 00:00:17,480 We pray that what you hear will bring clarity to your situation and open doors in your life. 3 00:00:17,480 --> 00:00:21,360 Enjoy the message. 4 00:00:21,360 --> 00:00:23,360 Praise be to God. 5 00:00:23,360 --> 00:00:24,360 Hallelujah. 6 00:00:24,360 --> 00:00:26,160 Glory be to God. 7 00:00:26,160 --> 00:00:29,100 Father, we thank you for this morning. 8 00:00:29,100 --> 00:00:33,360 We thank you Lord God for the wonderful worship in this place. 9 00:00:33,360 --> 00:00:36,000 And Lord for the congregation singing and joining in. 10 00:00:36,000 --> 00:00:38,880 It's just so good. 11 00:00:38,880 --> 00:00:46,400 Father, this morning we sent your presence in this place and we're so grateful for this. 12 00:00:46,400 --> 00:00:51,120 And Lord that we are expecting something mighty to happen again. 13 00:00:51,120 --> 00:00:54,160 And we're just so grateful Almighty God. 14 00:00:54,160 --> 00:00:57,840 And we thank you for it in Jesus' name. 15 00:00:57,840 --> 00:01:04,840 And again Lord we sense your presence and your holy angels in this place. 16 00:01:04,840 --> 00:01:10,240 Holy Spirit, we ask that you would flow in this place. 17 00:01:10,240 --> 00:01:14,920 That there would be a fresh outpouring of your Spirit. 18 00:01:14,920 --> 00:01:17,600 Touch our lives. 19 00:01:17,600 --> 00:01:30,200 You make such an impact in our lives, in our families, in our churches, in our communities. 20 00:01:30,200 --> 00:01:37,240 We declare the Lordship of Jesus Christ in Jesus' name. 21 00:01:37,240 --> 00:01:38,240 Amen. 22 00:01:38,240 --> 00:01:39,960 You may be seated. 23 00:01:39,960 --> 00:01:49,080 Now there's what a beautiful, beautiful presence of God in the house this morning. 24 00:01:49,080 --> 00:01:57,200 Welcome to church and I just know that God's going to continue blessing and impacting our 25 00:01:57,200 --> 00:01:59,640 lives for the better. 26 00:01:59,640 --> 00:02:06,400 I'd just like to again welcome you all if you're here for the first time today, welcome. 27 00:02:06,400 --> 00:02:11,760 And my name's Rob Urban, the pastor of Logan City Christian Church and on behalf of this 28 00:02:11,760 --> 00:02:14,660 congregation we welcome you. 29 00:02:14,660 --> 00:02:19,520 To our online congregation we welcome you again this morning. 30 00:02:19,520 --> 00:02:29,160 Please let me just lay the direction for today is simply this, that after the Word of God 31 00:02:29,160 --> 00:02:35,780 has been ministered there will be opportunity for those who have not yet received Christ 32 00:02:35,780 --> 00:02:38,960 as their Lord and Savior to receive Christ. 33 00:02:38,960 --> 00:02:44,440 There will be an opportunity given to you today to make the most important decision 34 00:02:44,440 --> 00:02:46,520 of your life. 35 00:02:46,520 --> 00:02:51,720 The most important decision of your life and also there will be opportunity for those of 36 00:02:51,720 --> 00:02:58,760 us today who have not yet received the infilling of the Holy Spirit or the baptism of the Holy 37 00:02:58,760 --> 00:03:02,520 Spirit with the evidence of speaking in other tongues. 38 00:03:02,520 --> 00:03:08,600 I'm going to be speaking about that this morning and also if there be any among us today that 39 00:03:08,600 --> 00:03:15,280 are sick or infirm we're going to have a prayer line for healing and I know that the Spirit 40 00:03:15,280 --> 00:03:18,320 of God is going to touch your life. 41 00:03:18,320 --> 00:03:19,320 Amen. 42 00:03:19,320 --> 00:03:20,320 Amen. 43 00:03:20,320 --> 00:03:21,320 Praise God. 44 00:03:21,320 --> 00:03:30,100 Wow, this is a really high privilege to be experiencing this, it really is. 45 00:03:30,100 --> 00:03:34,240 Today I'm going to speak on what I know the Lord has been impressing on my spirit a lot 46 00:03:34,240 --> 00:03:39,280 of times that when a message is delivered here it's not something that's pulled out 47 00:03:39,280 --> 00:03:44,960 of the top pocket, it's something that God has been brewing for a while and this one 48 00:03:44,960 --> 00:03:49,880 is awakening Pentecost in the modern church. 49 00:03:49,880 --> 00:03:56,160 Awakening Pentecost in the modern church and this is something that I know myself, I'm 50 00:03:56,160 --> 00:04:01,960 very passionate about it as I do know many of you are as well and I believe that the 51 00:04:01,960 --> 00:04:12,520 modern church today is drifting away from our roots and at a phenomenal rate of speed 52 00:04:12,520 --> 00:04:19,560 and I believe today that the Spirit of God really wants to touch our lives and to bring 53 00:04:19,560 --> 00:04:22,640 us back to where it all began. 54 00:04:22,640 --> 00:04:25,220 Bring us back to where it all began. 55 00:04:25,220 --> 00:04:31,240 And if we really want this, we need to go back to where the church started and that 56 00:04:31,240 --> 00:04:33,080 was at the day of Pentecost. 57 00:04:33,080 --> 00:04:34,740 We've got to get back there. 58 00:04:34,740 --> 00:04:40,440 So what I'm going to do, I'm going to read probably about ten Scriptures that are going 59 00:04:40,440 --> 00:04:48,200 to lay the historical foundation of the Holy Spirit and what Jesus taught and what the 60 00:04:48,200 --> 00:04:54,880 apostles taught and accounts out of the book of Acts that will give us a very clear baseline 61 00:04:54,880 --> 00:05:03,920 as to what the plan is for the Holy Spirit in the church and so bear with me as I read 62 00:05:03,920 --> 00:05:13,560 these Scriptures because I need to lay a foundation and from that then we will see what God does. 63 00:05:13,560 --> 00:05:21,400 But the first Scripture this morning is John chapter 14 verse 15 to 18 and it reads, If 64 00:05:21,400 --> 00:05:28,600 you love me, this is Jesus speaking, keep my commandments and I will pray the Father, 65 00:05:28,600 --> 00:05:33,880 listen, and He will give you another helper. 66 00:05:33,880 --> 00:05:39,360 In other words, God is going to do something, He's going to give something or someone to 67 00:05:39,360 --> 00:05:44,240 the Christian church that He may abide with you forever. 68 00:05:44,240 --> 00:05:49,200 The Spirit of truth whom the world cannot receive because it neither sees Him nor knows 69 00:05:49,200 --> 00:05:54,640 Him but you know Him for He dwells with you and will be in you. 70 00:05:54,640 --> 00:05:59,100 I will not leave you orphans, I will come to you. 71 00:05:59,100 --> 00:06:05,440 And so there Jesus is saying, there's another person when Jesus leaves when He is raised 72 00:06:05,440 --> 00:06:12,100 from the dead and performs and fulfills His priestly role, He said, you're not going 73 00:06:12,100 --> 00:06:18,400 to be left orphans, there's someone else is coming to take my place. 74 00:06:18,400 --> 00:06:25,240 Someone that would do exactly the same thing as I do when I'm here and that is speaking 75 00:06:25,240 --> 00:06:26,240 of the Holy Spirit. 76 00:06:26,240 --> 00:06:32,480 Now, I could go deeper into a lot of these things but I need to build a nice broad foundation 77 00:06:32,480 --> 00:06:35,000 for where I feel the Spirit of God wants to go after. 78 00:06:35,000 --> 00:06:43,200 John chapter 14 verse 25 to 26 and it reads, These things I have spoken to you while present 79 00:06:43,200 --> 00:06:51,920 with you but the Helper, the Holy Spirit, listen, whom the Father will send in My name, 80 00:06:51,920 --> 00:06:56,280 He will teach you all things and bring to your remembrance all things that I said to 81 00:06:56,280 --> 00:06:57,280 you. 82 00:06:57,280 --> 00:07:02,160 So again, Jesus is saying to the Christian church that there was a day that Jesus is 83 00:07:02,160 --> 00:07:04,880 saying whom the Father will send in My name. 84 00:07:04,880 --> 00:07:09,120 In other words, somebody's coming, something's coming. 85 00:07:09,120 --> 00:07:16,840 John chapter 15 verse 26, but when the Helper comes, here it is again, when He comes, whom 86 00:07:16,840 --> 00:07:22,720 I shall send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth who proceeds from the Father, He 87 00:07:22,720 --> 00:07:25,000 will testify of Me. 88 00:07:25,000 --> 00:07:30,280 So there's something cooking, there's something happening, there's a mission. 89 00:07:30,280 --> 00:07:40,040 John chapter 16 verse 13, however, when He, the Spirit of truth has come, He will guide 90 00:07:40,040 --> 00:07:46,080 you into all truth but He will not speak on His own authority but whatever He hears, He 91 00:07:46,080 --> 00:07:50,600 will speak and He will tell you things to come. 92 00:07:50,600 --> 00:07:52,120 Hang on to that. 93 00:07:52,120 --> 00:08:01,760 Luke chapter 24 verse 49, behold, I send the promise of My Father upon you, but tarry in 94 00:08:01,760 --> 00:08:09,360 the city of Jerusalem until you are endured with power from on high. 95 00:08:09,360 --> 00:08:11,640 Something was coming. 96 00:08:11,640 --> 00:08:19,040 Acts chapter 1 verse 4 to 8, I should say somebody was coming. 97 00:08:19,040 --> 00:08:25,880 Acts chapter 1 verse 4 to 8, and being assembled together with them, He commanded them not 98 00:08:25,880 --> 00:08:33,960 to part from Jerusalem, listen, but to wait for the promise of the Father, to wait for 99 00:08:33,960 --> 00:08:38,200 the promise of the Father which He said you have heard from Me. 100 00:08:38,200 --> 00:08:45,120 For John truly baptized with water that you shall be baptized with the Holy Spirit not 101 00:08:45,120 --> 00:08:47,280 many days from now. 102 00:08:47,280 --> 00:08:53,720 Therefore, when they had come together, they asked Him saying, Lord, will you at this time 103 00:08:53,720 --> 00:08:56,440 restore the kingdom to Israel? 104 00:08:56,440 --> 00:09:02,120 And He said to them, it is not for you to know times or seasons which the Father has 105 00:09:02,120 --> 00:09:12,560 put on His own authority, but you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you 106 00:09:12,560 --> 00:09:21,320 and you shall be witnesses to Me in Jerusalem and all Judea and Samaria and to the ends 107 00:09:21,320 --> 00:09:22,960 of the earth. 108 00:09:22,960 --> 00:09:32,320 When Jesus said to the apostles, and you shall receive power, that you was not confined to 109 00:09:32,320 --> 00:09:33,900 them. 110 00:09:33,900 --> 00:09:40,160 It was prophetically speaking about all who receive the baptism of the Holy Spirit from 111 00:09:40,160 --> 00:09:46,320 that time on, all will receive power from on high. 112 00:09:46,320 --> 00:09:53,680 And that word power is the Greek word dunamis, and the word dunamis for the believer, it 113 00:09:53,680 --> 00:10:04,440 means a power given divinely, which inherits the Lord's ability. 114 00:10:04,440 --> 00:10:11,160 So if you can imagine when the Holy Spirit came upon the church and comes upon us, there 115 00:10:11,160 --> 00:10:17,760 is a dunamis power, there is a power that is not from this world, it is from heaven, 116 00:10:17,760 --> 00:10:23,440 that it was sent from heaven, the promise of the Father that has been given to the Christian 117 00:10:23,440 --> 00:10:31,760 church, a power from heaven, a dunamis power, an ability of God given to humanity. 118 00:10:31,760 --> 00:10:40,080 And it says here that with dunamis is needed in every scene of life to grow in sanctification 119 00:10:40,080 --> 00:10:44,640 and preparation for glorification, meaning going to heaven. 120 00:10:44,640 --> 00:10:51,800 But Jesus was saying, guys, you need to hang about, make this a priority when I go. 121 00:10:51,800 --> 00:10:56,480 Jesus is saying, when I am ascended, there is one thing I'm asking you to do, just one 122 00:10:56,480 --> 00:11:02,440 thing, do not leave Jerusalem, stay where you are in that upper room, because not many 123 00:11:02,440 --> 00:11:09,080 days from now, everything that I've been preparing you guys for, you cannot afford to miss out 124 00:11:09,080 --> 00:11:15,400 on this because you are going to need every part of this to be successful in ministry, 125 00:11:15,400 --> 00:11:18,700 the power of the Holy Spirit. 126 00:11:18,700 --> 00:11:28,640 And they waited, Acts chapter 2 verse 1 to 4, and when the day of Pentecost had fully 127 00:11:28,640 --> 00:11:46,320 come, oh Jesus, they were all with one accord in one place, and suddenly there came a sound 128 00:11:46,320 --> 00:11:54,080 from heaven as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled the whole house where they were 129 00:11:54,080 --> 00:11:56,200 sitting. 130 00:11:56,200 --> 00:12:04,360 Then there appeared to them divided tongues as of fire, and sat upon each of them, and 131 00:12:04,360 --> 00:12:11,080 they were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and began to speak with other tongues as the 132 00:12:11,080 --> 00:12:15,440 Spirit gave them honorates. 133 00:12:15,440 --> 00:12:27,000 What an incredible encounter that the Christian church was birthed with this power, the Holy 134 00:12:27,000 --> 00:12:29,680 Spirit that Jesus had spoken about. 135 00:12:29,680 --> 00:12:35,600 He said, when I leave, I'm not going to leave you orphans, I'm going to leave you someone 136 00:12:35,600 --> 00:12:40,800 in my place that will do exactly what I would do if I was here. 137 00:12:40,800 --> 00:12:47,280 And the Scriptures teach that not only will the Spirit of God be with you, He will be 138 00:12:47,280 --> 00:12:54,520 in you, and empowering the very core of a Christian to be a mighty man and a mighty 139 00:12:54,520 --> 00:13:04,400 woman of God, to possess this ability of God, His ability in our lives to do ministry, to 140 00:13:04,400 --> 00:13:09,040 do things, to live life, to change this world. 141 00:13:09,040 --> 00:13:14,400 And if you have received the baptism of the Holy Spirit as a born-again believer, because 142 00:13:14,400 --> 00:13:21,600 that is the beginning of it all, we need to be a child of God washed by the blood of Jesus. 143 00:13:21,600 --> 00:13:27,760 You see the Holy Spirit, He is exactly that, He is holy. 144 00:13:27,760 --> 00:13:36,040 And the Holy Spirit can't indwell a vessel that is not first cleansed. 145 00:13:36,040 --> 00:13:41,720 From the work of the cross of Calvary, the shed blood of Jesus, thank you Pastor Francisco 146 00:13:41,720 --> 00:13:43,240 for the word this morning. 147 00:13:43,240 --> 00:13:45,440 It was great. 148 00:13:45,440 --> 00:13:50,280 The washing of the blood of Jesus cleansed us. 149 00:13:50,280 --> 00:13:58,300 We were sinners, and because of the work of Christ, we became saints. 150 00:13:58,300 --> 00:14:06,840 From a sinner to a saint, all because of what Jesus did on the cross of Calvary for you, 151 00:14:06,840 --> 00:14:08,880 for me. 152 00:14:08,880 --> 00:14:17,160 And from the sinner to the saint, everything in the middle, your past mistakes and everything 153 00:14:17,160 --> 00:14:23,160 had been washed away, you've been cleansed, you've been forgiven, that you stand before 154 00:14:23,160 --> 00:14:29,960 a holy God just as if you have never ever seen once in your life, and you stand there 155 00:14:29,960 --> 00:14:33,460 before God clean. 156 00:14:33,460 --> 00:14:41,240 And it's there that when that person opens up their heart before Almighty God and receives 157 00:14:41,240 --> 00:14:48,600 the baptism of the Holy Spirit, well the Holy Spirit being holy will identify that their 158 00:14:48,600 --> 00:14:55,400 vessel's been cleansed, and then He Himself will indwell that being that has opened their 159 00:14:55,400 --> 00:14:57,480 life up to Him. 160 00:14:57,480 --> 00:15:04,580 And there we see a mighty, mighty work of God take place. 161 00:15:04,580 --> 00:15:09,600 The baptism of the Holy Spirit is subsequent to salvation. 162 00:15:09,600 --> 00:15:16,760 In other words, it's another blessing after salvation. 163 00:15:16,760 --> 00:15:24,720 And I tell you, I believe the modern day Christian church, we need to go on a journey and go 164 00:15:24,720 --> 00:15:29,520 back to the place where it all began. 165 00:15:29,520 --> 00:15:32,560 I truly believe that. 166 00:15:32,560 --> 00:15:44,320 And so there has been given such dunamis power, explosive power of God that when you lay hands 167 00:15:44,320 --> 00:15:50,720 on the sick, that they will recover. 168 00:15:50,720 --> 00:15:56,900 That when you and I, when we share this marvelous gospel of Christ, that the power of the Holy 169 00:15:56,900 --> 00:16:06,040 Spirit anoints and empowers the words that you say, and there we see people coming out 170 00:16:06,040 --> 00:16:08,960 of darkness into light. 171 00:16:08,960 --> 00:16:15,280 It's a work of the Holy Ghost through everyday people like you and me. 172 00:16:15,280 --> 00:16:22,800 Can you imagine that Jesus, He chose fishermen, He chose a tax collector. 173 00:16:22,800 --> 00:16:29,080 I mean, He chose them, there's hope for us. 174 00:16:29,080 --> 00:16:31,840 And they moved in the power of God. 175 00:16:31,840 --> 00:16:33,720 They didn't get it right in the beginning. 176 00:16:33,720 --> 00:16:39,040 Poor old Peter strikes me as the guy that he was probably barely even able to write 177 00:16:39,040 --> 00:16:44,960 his own name, but when he received the baptism of the Holy Spirit, he preached his first 178 00:16:44,960 --> 00:16:49,960 sermon and 3,000 souls came to Christ. 179 00:16:49,960 --> 00:16:54,040 And they preach another message and then 5,000 come. 180 00:16:54,040 --> 00:16:56,240 You see, that is the work of the Holy Spirit. 181 00:16:56,240 --> 00:17:03,640 Jesus said, you will receive power from on high and you will be witnesses to me in Jerusalem, 182 00:17:03,640 --> 00:17:08,880 Judea, and Samaria, and to the outermost most parts of the world, and that you will carry 183 00:17:08,880 --> 00:17:13,840 an authority from heaven to preach the gospel. 184 00:17:13,840 --> 00:17:19,440 Saints of God, let me encourage you today, I'm speaking about you. 185 00:17:19,440 --> 00:17:24,960 You're watching online, I'm speaking about you today, that if you truly are a child of 186 00:17:24,960 --> 00:17:32,640 God, you need to receive this infilling of the Holy Spirit because it's been promised 187 00:17:32,640 --> 00:17:38,560 and it's been spoken about in the Scriptures over and over again and the reason is, is 188 00:17:38,560 --> 00:17:42,640 because without it, we are powerless. 189 00:17:42,640 --> 00:17:51,240 We need this power from on high in our everyday life and ministry, the power of the Holy Spirit, 190 00:17:51,240 --> 00:17:54,440 the infilling of the Holy Spirit. 191 00:17:54,440 --> 00:17:59,600 And I believe that there's going to be a great move of the Spirit of God. 192 00:17:59,600 --> 00:18:05,480 In fact, I'd have to say this that I feel it's knocking on our door right now and I 193 00:18:05,480 --> 00:18:11,560 believe one of the signs that we are going to see is that the average Christian, Joe 194 00:18:11,560 --> 00:18:18,120 Blow, is going to be empowered from on high and is going to go into the workplace, into 195 00:18:18,120 --> 00:18:24,160 wherever it is and are going to be preaching Christ and bringing a lot of converts into 196 00:18:24,160 --> 00:18:26,280 the kingdom of God. 197 00:18:26,280 --> 00:18:32,800 That's what I see happening, a great expanse of evangelism one on one, one on two, one 198 00:18:32,800 --> 00:18:37,640 on five, one on ten, that sort of thing. 199 00:18:37,640 --> 00:18:42,360 Sometimes what we want, and it does happen when the Spirit of God moves, that we see 200 00:18:42,360 --> 00:18:48,280 miracles and signs and wonders but let us always remember what the greatest miracle 201 00:18:48,280 --> 00:18:55,160 of all is and that is when someone comes from the grips of Satan, from darkness, the kingdom 202 00:18:55,160 --> 00:19:01,780 of darkness and is translated into the kingdom of light and is born again, forgiven, given 203 00:19:01,780 --> 00:19:08,920 a new nature, accepted by God and then filled with the Holy Ghost and therefore that person 204 00:19:08,920 --> 00:19:13,240 replicates after themself because they too got saved one time. 205 00:19:13,240 --> 00:19:18,840 They too, the person witnessing once they were lost, now they're found, the child of 206 00:19:18,840 --> 00:19:20,620 God filled with the Holy Ghost. 207 00:19:20,620 --> 00:19:33,480 So I see that this is going to happen on such a great expanse across this nation. 208 00:19:33,480 --> 00:19:35,840 God is so good. 209 00:19:35,840 --> 00:19:40,640 There are so many people today and I believe there are a couple here this morning that 210 00:19:40,640 --> 00:19:45,980 have not yet made their peace with God and I believe that today is a day that you're 211 00:19:45,980 --> 00:19:51,760 going to choose Christ because when I finish what I have to say today that I know that 212 00:19:51,760 --> 00:19:57,320 the Spirit of God has given me that you're going to see it, that you're going to feel 213 00:19:57,320 --> 00:20:05,160 it and you'll understand it that before you walk out of these doors of this place today, 214 00:20:05,160 --> 00:20:10,080 that you're going to accept this great and wonderful gift of salvation that Christ has 215 00:20:10,080 --> 00:20:17,000 purchased for you and freely offered to you, that if we would just simply from our heart 216 00:20:17,000 --> 00:20:23,920 choose Christ, He will come into your life and do a wonderful work in you as He did with 217 00:20:23,920 --> 00:20:25,520 us. 218 00:20:25,520 --> 00:20:32,440 And so the Upper Room, they had this empowering, they had this encounter that they were never, 219 00:20:32,440 --> 00:20:35,280 ever the same again. 220 00:20:35,280 --> 00:20:41,100 How many of us here today want to never be the same again after the Spirit of God fills 221 00:20:41,100 --> 00:20:42,880 us once again? 222 00:20:42,880 --> 00:20:53,660 That empowers us to never be the same again and obviously I'm speaking of a better position. 223 00:20:53,660 --> 00:20:59,680 Now I'm going to read a few Scriptures and we're going to see what the apostles did and 224 00:20:59,680 --> 00:21:07,600 some of them everyday people when they were filled with the Holy Spirit and went out and 225 00:21:07,600 --> 00:21:10,080 started preaching the gospel. 226 00:21:10,080 --> 00:21:15,540 I'm going to start with Acts chapter 8 verse 14 to 19. 227 00:21:15,540 --> 00:21:22,080 And now when the apostles, let's realize these are not bedtime stories that somebody 228 00:21:22,080 --> 00:21:27,520 wrote that we could read to kids and just, you know, this happened, this is history, 229 00:21:27,520 --> 00:21:32,760 this is historical, this really happened and what I'm reading here really happened, what 230 00:21:32,760 --> 00:21:36,880 happened in the Upper Room really happened. 231 00:21:36,880 --> 00:21:39,160 Well someone might say, well what evidence do you have? 232 00:21:39,160 --> 00:21:41,480 Do you speak in tongues? 233 00:21:41,480 --> 00:21:45,560 If you speak in tongues today, that's evidence, it really happened. 234 00:21:45,560 --> 00:21:47,840 It really happened. 235 00:21:47,840 --> 00:21:52,200 Speaking in tongues and the gift of the Spirit, the outpouring of the Spirit on the day of 236 00:21:52,200 --> 00:21:55,680 Pentecost is evidence of a resurrected Savior. 237 00:21:55,680 --> 00:21:57,800 Do you know that? 238 00:21:57,800 --> 00:22:01,800 Jesus said, when I go to the Father, the promise will come. 239 00:22:01,800 --> 00:22:05,640 So obviously Jesus went to the Father because the promise is here. 240 00:22:05,640 --> 00:22:11,320 And I'm saying church, we've got to get back to where it all began to really experience 241 00:22:11,320 --> 00:22:13,400 a great move of the Spirit of God. 242 00:22:13,400 --> 00:22:18,040 Acts chapter 8 verse 14 to 19, I'll see if I can get it this time. 243 00:22:18,040 --> 00:22:24,120 Now excuse me, now when the apostles who were at Jerusalem heard that Samaria had received 244 00:22:24,120 --> 00:22:27,080 the Word of God, you see that they were going out. 245 00:22:27,080 --> 00:22:29,560 They didn't stay in, they were going out. 246 00:22:29,560 --> 00:22:35,280 They received the Word of God, then they sent Peter and John to them who when they had come 247 00:22:35,280 --> 00:22:41,760 down prayed for them that they might receive the Holy Spirit. 248 00:22:41,760 --> 00:22:44,960 For as yet He had fallen upon none of them. 249 00:22:44,960 --> 00:22:50,120 They had only been baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus. 250 00:22:50,120 --> 00:22:56,160 Then they laid hands on them and received the Holy Spirit. 251 00:22:56,160 --> 00:23:00,260 You see how that is subsequent to salvation? 252 00:23:00,260 --> 00:23:07,640 That the apostles went down, Samaria had received the Word of God, people were being saved. 253 00:23:07,640 --> 00:23:11,480 And the apostles went down and said, we've got to make sure that they receive the full 254 00:23:11,480 --> 00:23:12,980 blessing. 255 00:23:12,980 --> 00:23:17,400 So once they were saved, then they received this incredible blessing. 256 00:23:17,400 --> 00:23:23,160 And it says here, they laid hands on them, verse 17, and they received the Holy Spirit. 257 00:23:23,160 --> 00:23:26,360 Now there was this guy called Simon, he was a sorcerer. 258 00:23:26,360 --> 00:23:30,120 He was a tricky little fellow and he was very dishonest. 259 00:23:30,120 --> 00:23:36,840 And he had for many years been conning people for money that he pretended to be this great 260 00:23:36,840 --> 00:23:38,640 power of God. 261 00:23:38,640 --> 00:23:43,880 But when this Simon, when he saw that through the laying on of the apostles' hands, the 262 00:23:43,880 --> 00:23:50,440 Holy Spirit was given, he offered them money saying, give me this power also that anyone 263 00:23:50,440 --> 00:23:54,040 whom I lay hands on may receive the Holy Spirit. 264 00:23:54,040 --> 00:24:00,760 Two things here, obviously Simon the sorcerer saw there was an obvious outward sign of an 265 00:24:00,760 --> 00:24:03,600 infilling that took place. 266 00:24:03,600 --> 00:24:05,520 And people began to speak in tongues. 267 00:24:05,520 --> 00:24:08,000 There was such an obvious sign. 268 00:24:08,000 --> 00:24:13,080 And he says, give me this power also. 269 00:24:13,080 --> 00:24:17,840 And Peter rebuked him and it didn't end well for Simon. 270 00:24:17,840 --> 00:24:22,400 To this day, there is such a term called simony. 271 00:24:22,400 --> 00:24:27,000 If you don't know what it is, look it up, but what you hear me say, you'll find is true. 272 00:24:27,000 --> 00:24:30,360 Simony is when people try to buy the office of ministry. 273 00:24:30,360 --> 00:24:38,920 Now I don't have to go too far to mention how many denominations do that. 274 00:24:38,920 --> 00:24:40,640 But it is not of God. 275 00:24:40,640 --> 00:24:46,440 But me tell you when the power of God is in you and moving through you, you don't need 276 00:24:46,440 --> 00:24:53,440 to pay for anything because it already resides in you and it will flow through you. 277 00:24:53,440 --> 00:24:59,840 It's all about the great grace of God and this other gift, the infilling, the baptism 278 00:24:59,840 --> 00:25:01,480 of the Holy Spirit. 279 00:25:01,480 --> 00:25:08,680 Acts chapter 10, 44 to verse 48, while Peter was still speaking, now what happened, Peter, 280 00:25:08,680 --> 00:25:13,680 he was told by the Lord that some guys are coming, I mean I'll just shorten this a bit, 281 00:25:13,680 --> 00:25:17,760 and they're praying for you to come so you can preach the gospel to them. 282 00:25:17,760 --> 00:25:21,040 And these were unsaved people. 283 00:25:21,040 --> 00:25:26,940 They weren't in the Jewish faith, so to speak. 284 00:25:26,940 --> 00:25:34,560 And so Peter goes there and he preaches the gospel and something really amazing happened. 285 00:25:34,560 --> 00:25:35,560 Let me read. 286 00:25:35,560 --> 00:25:40,560 So they were still speaking these words, the Holy Spirit fell upon all those who heard 287 00:25:40,560 --> 00:25:46,920 the word and those of the circumcision, that means those of the Jews who believed, so they 288 00:25:46,920 --> 00:25:53,480 were born again Jews who believed, were astonished as many as came with Peter because the gift 289 00:25:53,480 --> 00:25:58,520 of the Holy Spirit had been poured out on the Gentiles, also the unsaved, the people 290 00:25:58,520 --> 00:26:01,720 outside of the Jewish covenant with God. 291 00:26:01,720 --> 00:26:06,040 But they heard them speak with tongues and magnify God and Peter answered, can anyone 292 00:26:06,040 --> 00:26:10,880 forbid water that these should not be baptized who have received the Holy Spirit, just as 293 00:26:10,880 --> 00:26:13,680 we have, referring to the upper room. 294 00:26:13,680 --> 00:26:17,000 And he commanded them to be baptized in the name of the Lord and they asked him to stay 295 00:26:17,000 --> 00:26:18,000 a few days. 296 00:26:18,000 --> 00:26:19,480 Let me take something out of this. 297 00:26:19,480 --> 00:26:27,360 I know that the people that have been mentoring or going through a lot of people that have 298 00:26:27,360 --> 00:26:32,040 been just recently saved, you do need to be water baptized, it's important, I know you've 299 00:26:32,040 --> 00:26:35,640 been told that and it really is important. 300 00:26:35,640 --> 00:26:40,960 So we are organizing baptisms in the coldest month of the year here in Australia, but praise 301 00:26:40,960 --> 00:26:46,020 the Lord, it'll be a real test of your commitment in Jesus' name, hallelujah. 302 00:26:46,020 --> 00:26:52,320 But it's good, it is really good and there today maybe you will receive if you want and 303 00:26:52,320 --> 00:26:55,480 if you want it, you will receive it, the gift of the Holy Spirit. 304 00:26:55,480 --> 00:26:58,680 I would encourage you with this, don't wait another day. 305 00:26:58,680 --> 00:27:01,960 I remember the day that I was filled with the Spirit of God. 306 00:27:01,960 --> 00:27:07,880 It was just such an incredible experience, such an incredible experience. 307 00:27:07,880 --> 00:27:13,180 And so in Acts chapter 9, 17 to 18, here is another encounter, Apostle Paul, he went out 308 00:27:13,180 --> 00:27:18,280 to persecute the Christians, he was giving them a hard time and on the road to Damascus, 309 00:27:18,280 --> 00:27:24,240 he encountered Jesus and right there, Saul, he was converted. 310 00:27:24,240 --> 00:27:27,520 Saul gave him a new name, his name became Paul. 311 00:27:27,520 --> 00:27:34,200 But listen to this, Paul, when he fell to the ground, he was blinded by this great light. 312 00:27:34,200 --> 00:27:39,720 Then God speaks to Ananias, I'll pick up there from verse 17 of Acts chapter 9, and Ananias 313 00:27:39,720 --> 00:27:44,600 went his way and entered the house and laying his hands on him, on Saul, he said, Brother 314 00:27:44,600 --> 00:27:51,760 Saul, the Lord Jesus who appeared to you on the road has come, as you come, has sent me 315 00:27:51,760 --> 00:27:57,320 that you may receive your sight and be filled with the Holy Spirit. 316 00:27:57,320 --> 00:28:02,680 And immediately there fell from his eyes something like scales and he received his sight at once 317 00:28:02,680 --> 00:28:05,920 and he rose and was baptized. 318 00:28:05,920 --> 00:28:10,040 Acts chapter 19, this is the last one. 319 00:28:10,040 --> 00:28:17,680 There was a great move of God happening around Ephesus, a mighty move of God. 320 00:28:17,680 --> 00:28:24,200 And Apostle Paul just happened to be around the area and I'll pick up from verse 1 of 321 00:28:24,200 --> 00:28:26,400 Acts 19. 322 00:28:26,400 --> 00:28:30,920 And it happened while Apollos was at Corinth that Paul, having passed through the upper 323 00:28:30,920 --> 00:28:36,520 regions, came to Ephesus and finding some disciples, said to them there, did you receive 324 00:28:36,520 --> 00:28:39,120 the Holy Spirit when you believed? 325 00:28:39,120 --> 00:28:44,360 And this is a question that I pose to everyone here today and those watching online, did 326 00:28:44,360 --> 00:28:51,520 you receive this wonderful gift, the Holy Spirit, when you gave your life to Jesus? 327 00:28:51,520 --> 00:28:57,380 Because if you haven't, there is still another blessing to come into your life, the baptism 328 00:28:57,380 --> 00:28:58,880 of the Holy Spirit. 329 00:28:58,880 --> 00:29:01,000 Did you receive the Holy Spirit when you believed? 330 00:29:01,000 --> 00:29:05,980 And they said to him, we have not so much as heard whether there is a Holy Spirit. 331 00:29:05,980 --> 00:29:08,240 And he said to them, into what then were you baptized? 332 00:29:08,240 --> 00:29:10,960 And they said into John's baptism. 333 00:29:10,960 --> 00:29:13,520 John's baptism was pre-cross. 334 00:29:13,520 --> 00:29:17,400 So they had some distance to go. 335 00:29:17,400 --> 00:29:22,880 And then Paul said, John indeed baptized with a baptism of repentance saying to the people 336 00:29:22,880 --> 00:29:28,860 that you should believe on him whom would come after him, that is on Christ Jesus. 337 00:29:28,860 --> 00:29:32,880 When they heard this, they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus. 338 00:29:32,880 --> 00:29:40,480 And listen, and when Paul had laid hands on them, the Holy Spirit came upon them and they 339 00:29:40,480 --> 00:29:44,960 spoke with tongues and prophesied. 340 00:29:44,960 --> 00:29:50,560 And so here is another way people receive the infilling of the Holy Spirit. 341 00:29:50,560 --> 00:29:56,240 I know Pastor Chantelle, she received it one night just asking the Lord. 342 00:29:56,240 --> 00:30:01,980 And her encounter was that she felt like this hot oil running over and she began to speak 343 00:30:01,980 --> 00:30:04,440 in other tongues. 344 00:30:04,440 --> 00:30:11,120 Mine wasn't so easy like that because I had to get my head out the way and allow God to 345 00:30:11,120 --> 00:30:13,040 get here. 346 00:30:13,040 --> 00:30:18,120 If you're a mechanic or a handyman, you always want to try and work things out. 347 00:30:18,120 --> 00:30:21,840 Let me tell you, this is one of the things you will never work out. 348 00:30:21,840 --> 00:30:26,400 It is something that you just receive in Jesus' name. 349 00:30:26,400 --> 00:30:29,340 And it is an incredible blessing. 350 00:30:29,340 --> 00:30:36,880 So I want to just now just go open here. 351 00:30:36,880 --> 00:30:42,840 What I mean by that, I've laid a foundation and I just want to speak what the Holy Ghost 352 00:30:42,840 --> 00:30:46,300 puts in my mouth from here on in. 353 00:30:46,300 --> 00:30:58,600 And I feel like there's such a, I don't know the word to use right now, a sadness that 354 00:30:58,600 --> 00:31:12,160 a church that was birthed with such power has ended up being such a modern institution. 355 00:31:12,160 --> 00:31:21,080 We see that there have been such great institutions, Christian institutions built over the years 356 00:31:21,080 --> 00:31:30,120 that do do a great job and teach us sound theology and do their best to keep us strong 357 00:31:30,120 --> 00:31:31,120 in the Word. 358 00:31:31,120 --> 00:31:33,880 I'm not denying that. 359 00:31:33,880 --> 00:31:41,620 But it becomes a problem when everything pertaining to the birthing of the church with the Holy 360 00:31:41,620 --> 00:31:44,240 Spirit is left out. 361 00:31:44,240 --> 00:31:46,680 There's a problem. 362 00:31:46,680 --> 00:31:53,520 You see, the Scripture says that knowledge puffs up, but love edifies. 363 00:31:53,520 --> 00:31:55,560 Love edifies. 364 00:31:55,560 --> 00:32:03,880 So we can have all the biblical knowledge, theology can be so, so good and be so well 365 00:32:03,880 --> 00:32:06,880 trained in theology. 366 00:32:06,880 --> 00:32:10,000 But theology is theology. 367 00:32:10,000 --> 00:32:16,840 That somehow the information that came to our mind has to be converted to revelation 368 00:32:16,840 --> 00:32:18,280 in our spirit and church. 369 00:32:18,280 --> 00:32:23,280 The only way that that can happen is by the Holy Ghost who brings that revelation so that 370 00:32:23,280 --> 00:32:26,720 from our belly will flow rivers of living water. 371 00:32:26,720 --> 00:32:34,400 Otherwise it just remains information. 372 00:32:34,400 --> 00:32:40,800 We've got to go back to where it all began and that is in the upper room. 373 00:32:40,800 --> 00:32:43,160 Now I'm not saying we've got to find an upper room. 374 00:32:43,160 --> 00:32:48,920 I'm speaking about the experience that happened in the upper room. 375 00:32:48,920 --> 00:32:51,320 Have we moved on from that? 376 00:32:51,320 --> 00:32:58,080 Because many of us as Christians we have and rightly so been born again, baptized in water, 377 00:32:58,080 --> 00:33:03,240 filled with the Holy Ghost, we began to speak in other tongues and then it stopped and we 378 00:33:03,240 --> 00:33:04,680 go, well what's next? 379 00:33:04,680 --> 00:33:05,840 I know what I'll do. 380 00:33:05,840 --> 00:33:10,440 I'll sit down, I'll read my Bible and I'll just chill. 381 00:33:10,440 --> 00:33:14,680 And this is something that I believe the devil is so happy with. 382 00:33:14,680 --> 00:33:19,720 What I believe God wants is not for anything else in this hour that we live in or maybe 383 00:33:19,720 --> 00:33:26,600 there might be a few, but I think primarily is for Pentecost to be awakened in the heart 384 00:33:26,600 --> 00:33:34,000 of every true believer that we truly in our hearts go what has become of the modern church 385 00:33:34,000 --> 00:33:35,240 today. 386 00:33:35,240 --> 00:33:41,880 You look at it today from Pentecost, from the day of Pentecost there was how many churches? 387 00:33:41,880 --> 00:33:43,040 One. 388 00:33:43,040 --> 00:33:50,040 One church that believed the entire infilling of the Holy Spirit, the whole gospel message 389 00:33:50,040 --> 00:33:51,640 and they went out. 390 00:33:51,640 --> 00:33:53,160 And here we are today. 391 00:33:53,160 --> 00:33:57,520 We got one denomination that says that if you speak in tongues you have a demon. 392 00:33:57,520 --> 00:34:01,480 There's another one that says that the Holy Spirit doesn't do anything anymore. 393 00:34:01,480 --> 00:34:05,920 Another denomination will say, well where of this part that actually don't believe that 394 00:34:05,920 --> 00:34:08,060 God does miracles anymore? 395 00:34:08,060 --> 00:34:13,760 And another will say that we have all the truth because we believe this and I am a Christian 396 00:34:13,760 --> 00:34:16,840 because I'm baptized into this denomination. 397 00:34:16,840 --> 00:34:22,280 What has become of the modern church that we look at today that it's drifted so far 398 00:34:22,280 --> 00:34:27,400 and fragmented and Christ I believe wants the Christian church to go back to where it 399 00:34:27,400 --> 00:34:29,840 didn't start that way. 400 00:34:29,840 --> 00:34:33,280 But look at where it's become, what it's become. 401 00:34:33,280 --> 00:34:34,960 The very person that was promised. 402 00:34:34,960 --> 00:34:38,940 I shared with you the Scriptures this morning. 403 00:34:38,940 --> 00:34:45,160 How important Jesus laid it out and the apostles received it and they went out with this power 404 00:34:45,160 --> 00:34:50,340 and for some reason now the modern church has seemed to think, well we can put programs 405 00:34:50,340 --> 00:34:52,200 in its place. 406 00:34:52,200 --> 00:34:59,280 We can put some technology in its place because we can do it now without the Holy Spirit. 407 00:34:59,280 --> 00:35:02,520 And that's why people today are saying there are no healing. 408 00:35:02,520 --> 00:35:03,760 God doesn't heal anymore. 409 00:35:03,760 --> 00:35:06,760 Yes He does. 410 00:35:06,760 --> 00:35:08,520 God doesn't save anymore. 411 00:35:08,520 --> 00:35:11,400 God still does save. 412 00:35:11,400 --> 00:35:13,400 That God doesn't do this and God did. 413 00:35:13,400 --> 00:35:15,280 Well that's the world that they live in. 414 00:35:15,280 --> 00:35:16,280 Why? 415 00:35:16,280 --> 00:35:19,840 Because they took the Holy Ghost out of their theology. 416 00:35:19,840 --> 00:35:23,280 They removed God out of it and left with the Word. 417 00:35:23,280 --> 00:35:30,280 The Word is good but it needs to be empowered by the Author and the Author is the Holy Ghost. 418 00:35:30,280 --> 00:35:34,400 We got to go back to where it all began. 419 00:35:34,400 --> 00:35:39,040 What we see today, it didn't start that way. 420 00:35:39,040 --> 00:35:41,120 God is waiting for a church. 421 00:35:41,120 --> 00:35:46,620 He's waiting for a people that we look back and say within ourselves, am I one of those 422 00:35:46,620 --> 00:35:50,480 people that I did receive salvation? 423 00:35:50,480 --> 00:35:51,480 Praise God. 424 00:35:51,480 --> 00:35:53,000 Yes, I was water baptized. 425 00:35:53,000 --> 00:35:57,600 Yes, I received the infilling of the Holy Spirit and I speak in tongues. 426 00:35:57,600 --> 00:36:02,660 And yes, I'm one of those people that has allowed it to lay dormant in my life. 427 00:36:02,660 --> 00:36:09,440 And a lot of times many of us have this residing, dunamis power in our life and are going through 428 00:36:09,440 --> 00:36:12,800 tests and trials, going through hardships. 429 00:36:12,800 --> 00:36:14,940 God, where are you? 430 00:36:14,940 --> 00:36:17,800 And Christ would say, I'm in you. 431 00:36:17,800 --> 00:36:20,320 Stir up that gift that is within you. 432 00:36:20,320 --> 00:36:21,600 Stir it up. 433 00:36:21,600 --> 00:36:23,160 Stir it up, church. 434 00:36:23,160 --> 00:36:26,900 Go back to the day or the place where it first began. 435 00:36:26,900 --> 00:36:30,200 Do you remember the day when you got saved? 436 00:36:30,200 --> 00:36:31,940 Can you remember that day? 437 00:36:31,940 --> 00:36:36,000 What a glorious day it was when Christ saved you. 438 00:36:36,000 --> 00:36:41,960 And the day that you received, if you had the infilling of the Holy Spirit and the Spirit 439 00:36:41,960 --> 00:36:49,440 of God came upon you and filled you and all of the sudden that you start speaking in this 440 00:36:49,440 --> 00:36:52,160 language that you never had before. 441 00:36:52,160 --> 00:36:58,800 And as we begin to pray in this heavenly language, we see that things begin to change, that our 442 00:36:58,800 --> 00:37:04,560 spirit man, the very core of our being comes alive in God, becomes powerful in God. 443 00:37:04,560 --> 00:37:10,760 I tell you church, your life changes, your marriage change, your family dynamics change. 444 00:37:10,760 --> 00:37:12,400 Everything begins to change. 445 00:37:12,400 --> 00:37:17,800 I believe that God is wanting the heads of homes, the husbands, to bring Pentecost back 446 00:37:17,800 --> 00:37:23,320 into their marriage, into their family, to bring the very core of how it began back into 447 00:37:23,320 --> 00:37:25,680 where it belongs in family. 448 00:37:25,680 --> 00:37:28,560 What is the thing that the devil's attacking today? 449 00:37:28,560 --> 00:37:29,560 Family. 450 00:37:29,560 --> 00:37:30,560 Family. 451 00:37:30,560 --> 00:37:33,000 And the church should have all the answers. 452 00:37:33,000 --> 00:37:34,920 The church should have all the resources. 453 00:37:34,920 --> 00:37:40,080 Now many churches have a lot to offer, but if they do not have primarily the first thing 454 00:37:40,080 --> 00:37:45,960 to offer is the power of the counsel of the Holy Spirit and the power to heal, if we have 455 00:37:45,960 --> 00:37:52,640 left that at Pentecost, if we've left it behind, what do we have? 456 00:37:52,640 --> 00:37:59,840 I'm reminded of the story when Jesus and His mom and stepdad, Joseph, they went, I think 457 00:37:59,840 --> 00:38:04,700 to Jerusalem, I think it was, for the Passover feast. 458 00:38:04,700 --> 00:38:12,880 And then on the way home, they married the first night, I think it was, where's Jesus? 459 00:38:12,880 --> 00:38:15,480 Where's Jesus gone? 460 00:38:15,480 --> 00:38:18,160 Where is He? 461 00:38:18,160 --> 00:38:24,120 And see, as a mom would, first light, she was there and she found Him. 462 00:38:24,120 --> 00:38:27,600 But let's look at the modern day Christian church. 463 00:38:27,600 --> 00:38:33,640 We've gone on in ministry, where's Jesus? 464 00:38:33,640 --> 00:38:35,240 I'm not going back there. 465 00:38:35,240 --> 00:38:38,920 I'm not going to do that. 466 00:38:38,920 --> 00:38:41,180 Been there, done that. 467 00:38:41,180 --> 00:38:47,480 I'm going to move this way and Jesus is like still there. 468 00:38:47,480 --> 00:38:49,760 I believe it's a message for the modern day church. 469 00:38:49,760 --> 00:38:54,560 Get Christ back in your pulpit, get Christ back in all of your departments, get Christ 470 00:38:54,560 --> 00:38:59,240 back in every area of our lives, get Him back in our prayer meetings, that He is the central 471 00:38:59,240 --> 00:39:00,240 focus. 472 00:39:00,240 --> 00:39:03,600 It's not a church program that's going to win souls to Christ. 473 00:39:03,600 --> 00:39:08,460 It's the power of the Holy Spirit moving through yielded vessels. 474 00:39:08,460 --> 00:39:11,720 That's where it's going to happen, church. 475 00:39:11,720 --> 00:39:18,520 Holy Ghost led worship, Holy Ghost led prayer, Holy Ghost led prayer meetings. 476 00:39:18,520 --> 00:39:27,040 We've got to go back to where it started because what we see today, it didn't start that way. 477 00:39:27,040 --> 00:39:28,960 I think we can all agree with that. 478 00:39:28,960 --> 00:39:32,560 Now I know there are some great churches out there that are moving in the power of the 479 00:39:32,560 --> 00:39:36,720 Holy Ghost and are experiencing Pockets Revival, praise God. 480 00:39:36,720 --> 00:39:42,520 And I know the ones that I'm aware of, they all are preaching what I'm speaking today. 481 00:39:42,520 --> 00:39:49,480 The reason why it's happening is because Christ is center focus, not a superstar in the pulpit 482 00:39:49,480 --> 00:39:55,400 or not some clever orator that has got some new idea of how we can do church. 483 00:39:55,400 --> 00:40:01,640 No, Christ needs to be at the forefront in everything that we say and do. 484 00:40:01,640 --> 00:40:03,140 It's Him. 485 00:40:03,140 --> 00:40:04,660 It is Him. 486 00:40:04,660 --> 00:40:11,200 And if we try to move on in life without the presence and power of the Holy Spirit, we 487 00:40:11,200 --> 00:40:15,800 are going to find life being incredibly difficult. 488 00:40:15,800 --> 00:40:22,600 I'm also reminded of the story where Elisha the prophet, and he was with the prophets, 489 00:40:22,600 --> 00:40:26,720 and they said, our house has become too small. 490 00:40:26,720 --> 00:40:31,160 Give us permission to go out and we'll cut some timber and we'll build a bigger dwelling 491 00:40:31,160 --> 00:40:34,920 for the prophets, he said, go. 492 00:40:34,920 --> 00:40:40,800 So off they go, they get their axes and they head off and they start cutting down trees 493 00:40:40,800 --> 00:40:48,180 and preparing the best of the best of trees to build a place for the prophets. 494 00:40:48,180 --> 00:40:54,680 And then this one particular guy, he comes to Elisha and he says, master, I can just 495 00:40:54,680 --> 00:40:55,680 picture him. 496 00:40:55,680 --> 00:40:59,560 He's standing there with an axe handle with no axe head on it. 497 00:40:59,560 --> 00:41:05,520 He says, master, as I was chopping, the axe head flew off. 498 00:41:05,520 --> 00:41:09,240 Has anyone ever done that before you split in wood and all of a sudden you feel it get 499 00:41:09,240 --> 00:41:10,240 really light? 500 00:41:10,240 --> 00:41:15,520 You know, there was a debauchery. 501 00:41:15,520 --> 00:41:18,000 It's got to come down. 502 00:41:18,000 --> 00:41:24,320 He said, master, I was chopping and the axe head flew off and went into the water and 503 00:41:24,320 --> 00:41:28,880 I'm worried because it was borrowed. 504 00:41:28,880 --> 00:41:34,000 Come back to that. 505 00:41:34,000 --> 00:41:37,800 You know what I see and I sense the Spirit of God. 506 00:41:37,800 --> 00:41:44,040 He's been talking to me for months now saying, Robin, all things Pentecost needs to be the 507 00:41:44,040 --> 00:41:54,060 forefront driving force within every minister, within every Christian, every one of us. 508 00:41:54,060 --> 00:41:59,840 And there are times in life that we go through hardship and sometimes we can be standing 509 00:41:59,840 --> 00:42:05,200 there like one of those prophets with an axe handle with no axe head on it because something 510 00:42:05,200 --> 00:42:09,340 went wrong. 511 00:42:09,340 --> 00:42:11,560 But do we... 512 00:42:11,560 --> 00:42:18,640 Axe head's gone, I'll just keep going and trying to chop a tree down with an axe handle 513 00:42:18,640 --> 00:42:20,800 that has no head on it. 514 00:42:20,800 --> 00:42:25,040 And it's hard work and you don't see much fruit and it wears you out. 515 00:42:25,040 --> 00:42:26,440 It's fruitless. 516 00:42:26,440 --> 00:42:30,280 And so, well, there must be another way of doing this. 517 00:42:30,280 --> 00:42:35,640 Instead of looking for the axe head, let's find another alternative way how we can get 518 00:42:35,640 --> 00:42:40,920 this tree down where initially the way was is the sharpness of that edge of that axe 519 00:42:40,920 --> 00:42:42,920 was designed to cut that tree down. 520 00:42:42,920 --> 00:42:48,240 The Holy Spirit is like that axe that this Christian uses to cut through the powers of 521 00:42:48,240 --> 00:42:49,740 darkness. 522 00:42:49,740 --> 00:42:53,920 But if we're just using an axe handle with nothing on it, we're going to be there a long 523 00:42:53,920 --> 00:42:54,920 time. 524 00:42:54,920 --> 00:42:58,960 And so, he went to Elisha and he says, Elisha, what do I do? 525 00:42:58,960 --> 00:43:00,600 He says, where did it fall in? 526 00:43:00,600 --> 00:43:04,040 He said, over there. 527 00:43:04,040 --> 00:43:07,600 We know the story that Elijah broke off a stick, threw it in the water, the axe head 528 00:43:07,600 --> 00:43:10,640 floated and he said to the guy, you go and get it now. 529 00:43:10,640 --> 00:43:12,520 But what did Elijah do? 530 00:43:12,520 --> 00:43:17,440 He took him back to the place where he lost the axe head. 531 00:43:17,440 --> 00:43:23,360 And some of us today, we're feeling dry and morbid in the Spirit, dry as a chip, that 532 00:43:23,360 --> 00:43:28,120 we feel that, oh, you know, this Christian walk is becoming so hard. 533 00:43:28,120 --> 00:43:31,440 But I'm hearing what you're saying, Pastor, and I know I've got to get to... 534 00:43:31,440 --> 00:43:35,220 You've got to go back to the place where you lost it. 535 00:43:35,220 --> 00:43:42,080 You've got to go back to where that axe head symbolically fell off and ask the Holy Ghost 536 00:43:42,080 --> 00:43:48,640 to reveal to you where it is, why it happened and learn from those experiences and get that 537 00:43:48,640 --> 00:43:53,720 axe head put firmly back on the handle and get back to work and think no more about the 538 00:43:53,720 --> 00:43:59,140 past. 539 00:43:59,140 --> 00:44:06,500 The Christian church, I believe today, has to go back to where it began. 540 00:44:06,500 --> 00:44:13,520 What we see today, most of what we see today was not so back then. 541 00:44:13,520 --> 00:44:19,880 Now, if you're agreeing with me this morning, come on, acknowledge it, say something, because 542 00:44:19,880 --> 00:44:25,760 I tell you, the Spirit of God is wanting to wake up the Christian church and to say you 543 00:44:25,760 --> 00:44:29,520 need to revive Pentecost in your own life. 544 00:44:29,520 --> 00:44:32,060 There needs to be a reviving. 545 00:44:32,060 --> 00:44:35,040 So you're asking, how do I do that? 546 00:44:35,040 --> 00:44:40,280 Paul said that he who prays in this unknown tongue is edified. 547 00:44:40,280 --> 00:44:46,160 It's like in your car if your battery's flat and you go, man, what am I going to do? 548 00:44:46,160 --> 00:44:50,540 So you get a battery charger, all of us have got battery chargers in the shed, right? 549 00:44:50,540 --> 00:44:58,800 And you get a battery charger and you edify your battery, charge your battery. 550 00:44:58,800 --> 00:45:05,160 And we as Christians, as children of the living God, have been filled with the Holy Spirit, 551 00:45:05,160 --> 00:45:12,800 and maybe we've allowed that fire to go from a roaring inferno down to smoldering coals. 552 00:45:12,800 --> 00:45:20,400 Well today is a day that I believe that God can set it alight again, such power of God. 553 00:45:20,400 --> 00:45:26,280 And he who prays in an unknown tongue is edified, their spirit, man, begins to be set alight 554 00:45:26,280 --> 00:45:29,280 again, on fire again. 555 00:45:29,280 --> 00:45:36,160 And so how many here today can say that, yes, that is me, I need to be edified, I need to 556 00:45:36,160 --> 00:45:41,840 be charged up, I need to get back to Pentecost, I know I've got to get back to that place 557 00:45:41,840 --> 00:45:44,960 where it began. 558 00:45:44,960 --> 00:45:52,720 This modern day things like TVs, iPads, phones, what a distraction. 559 00:45:52,720 --> 00:45:57,560 It's like pulling the plug out of one's spiritual life. 560 00:45:57,560 --> 00:46:03,800 Social media and all these things that had to offer, it wasn't so back then. 561 00:46:03,800 --> 00:46:06,480 There are so many distractions today. 562 00:46:06,480 --> 00:46:14,100 I tell you, saints of God, it wasn't like that then. 563 00:46:14,100 --> 00:46:22,560 And we can choose today to be filled again fresh of the Holy Ghost. 564 00:46:22,560 --> 00:46:29,120 In Acts chapter 5, I think it's Peter and John, they were put in prison and they were 565 00:46:29,120 --> 00:46:34,320 let go and then they were released and as they get out with the rest of the disciples, 566 00:46:34,320 --> 00:46:39,400 they praise God and they thank God and the ground shook and it says, and there, those 567 00:46:39,400 --> 00:46:47,360 who were in the upper room, same people, it says, and they were filled with the Holy Spirit. 568 00:46:47,360 --> 00:46:53,600 See when you're doing ministry and you're giving out and you're ministering to people, 569 00:46:53,600 --> 00:46:56,720 you need to have that top back up again. 570 00:46:56,720 --> 00:47:02,760 It's just continually flowing and if streams of living water are flowing out of your belly 571 00:47:02,760 --> 00:47:07,120 when you're ministering, you've got to be connected to the fountains. 572 00:47:07,120 --> 00:47:11,560 If we don't, we run dry. 573 00:47:11,560 --> 00:47:18,520 And if we run dry and we don't put the time in to remain filled with the Spirit, we begin 574 00:47:18,520 --> 00:47:22,320 to find easier other ways to do things. 575 00:47:22,320 --> 00:47:25,800 And that's where so many different doctrines come. 576 00:47:25,800 --> 00:47:32,760 Well, you want to be part of our denomination, you have to sign this document that you will 577 00:47:32,760 --> 00:47:37,120 never speak in tongues in this church and you'll never raise your hands in worship and 578 00:47:37,120 --> 00:47:40,760 that you never, never do this and never, never do that. 579 00:47:40,760 --> 00:47:43,440 You might be thinking, oh yes, if that would happen. 580 00:47:43,440 --> 00:47:49,520 It happens today. 581 00:47:49,520 --> 00:47:58,400 It was never so in the beginning and you see salvation. 582 00:47:58,400 --> 00:48:04,240 Salvation is not found in a denomination. 583 00:48:04,240 --> 00:48:11,080 Never has been, it was never so from the beginning. 584 00:48:11,080 --> 00:48:22,960 Salvation, hear me, is not found of something that Logan City Christian Church has to offer. 585 00:48:22,960 --> 00:48:29,360 The same with the Baptist, A.O.G., the Catholics and all the others. 586 00:48:29,360 --> 00:48:36,040 Just because you attend that church or part of a denomination doesn't grant you salvation. 587 00:48:36,040 --> 00:48:41,720 And I think that's one of the biggest traps ever. 588 00:48:41,720 --> 00:48:46,320 Now I have Baptist friends and friends from various different denominations, we're good 589 00:48:46,320 --> 00:48:48,360 friends and we've spoken about this. 590 00:48:48,360 --> 00:48:55,920 I'm not bagging them out, I'm just telling you a very simple truth here. 591 00:48:55,920 --> 00:48:57,640 There's no salvation in the denomination. 592 00:48:57,640 --> 00:49:04,120 Oh, I was confirmed, water dropped on my head when I was three months old and that sort 593 00:49:04,120 --> 00:49:05,120 of thing. 594 00:49:05,120 --> 00:49:07,880 Great, you were confirmed in that denomination. 595 00:49:07,880 --> 00:49:11,640 But what about now? 596 00:49:11,640 --> 00:49:18,440 You see, salvation is only found in one alone and that is Jesus Christ. 597 00:49:18,440 --> 00:49:20,360 It's not found in a denomination. 598 00:49:20,360 --> 00:49:24,240 Jesus did not establish denominations. 599 00:49:24,240 --> 00:49:28,360 He didn't say to Peter, I want you to be the Pope of the Catholic Church and to someone 600 00:49:28,360 --> 00:49:34,880 else, the followers of John, you can be of the Baptist Church and you find out what scriptures 601 00:49:34,880 --> 00:49:39,200 you want and what beliefs that you will underscore. 602 00:49:39,200 --> 00:49:44,680 But Jesus didn't say that. 603 00:49:44,680 --> 00:49:50,720 Acts chapter four, verse 12, there is no name given under heaven, no other name by which 604 00:49:50,720 --> 00:49:55,820 men must be saved, but the name of Jesus. 605 00:49:55,820 --> 00:50:00,840 You may be wanting this empowering gift this morning, but please again, let me just say 606 00:50:00,840 --> 00:50:04,100 this, you first need to be born again. 607 00:50:04,100 --> 00:50:09,600 Have you ever given your life to Christ, you ever surrendered your life to him? 608 00:50:09,600 --> 00:50:15,200 If you haven't, I'd like to give you this opportunity today that receiving Christ is 609 00:50:15,200 --> 00:50:20,680 the most beautiful thing that you will ever do in your entire life. 610 00:50:20,680 --> 00:50:27,440 That God loves you and without Christ, we stand before God at a great distance, guilty 611 00:50:27,440 --> 00:50:32,480 before God because of the sin nature we had that we received from Adam. 612 00:50:32,480 --> 00:50:41,520 But when we receive Christ, we are forgiven of our sin and that sin nature is washed away 613 00:50:41,520 --> 00:50:46,180 and we receive the nature of God, a nature of righteousness. 614 00:50:46,180 --> 00:50:52,480 And it's there that we stand before our living God, justified as if we've never seen. 615 00:50:52,480 --> 00:50:55,300 Have you received that gift this morning? 616 00:50:55,300 --> 00:51:01,780 Because if you haven't, I want to lead you to this person, Jesus Christ. 617 00:51:01,780 --> 00:51:04,120 And it's as simple as this. 618 00:51:04,120 --> 00:51:10,360 If you really mean what I'm about to say, it's a simple prayer, receiving Christ into 619 00:51:10,360 --> 00:51:13,400 your life, he will truly save you. 620 00:51:13,400 --> 00:51:15,440 He will truly save you. 621 00:51:15,440 --> 00:51:16,440 Amen. 622 00:51:16,440 --> 00:51:18,160 Truly save you. 623 00:51:18,160 --> 00:51:26,480 Now I'm going to pray this prayer and I encourage you all and those watching online, maybe you've 624 00:51:26,480 --> 00:51:29,120 wandered away from the things of God. 625 00:51:29,120 --> 00:51:31,660 Today's a good day to come back. 626 00:51:31,660 --> 00:51:34,680 So why don't you pray with me? 627 00:51:34,680 --> 00:51:35,680 Would you repeat after me? 628 00:51:35,680 --> 00:51:43,160 If this is what you really want, let me say this, it's what you need. 629 00:51:43,160 --> 00:51:46,880 I didn't know it until I got saved some 30 whatever years ago. 630 00:51:46,880 --> 00:51:53,800 The best thing I ever had in my life, to receive Christ as my Lord and Savior. 631 00:51:53,800 --> 00:51:54,800 Would you do that today? 632 00:51:54,800 --> 00:51:57,800 Would you do this today? 633 00:51:57,800 --> 00:51:59,680 Okay, pray with me. 634 00:51:59,680 --> 00:52:08,240 Would you repeat after me, Father God, I come to you in the name of Jesus. 635 00:52:08,240 --> 00:52:18,400 I believe in my heart and I confess with my mouth, the Lord Jesus, God that you died for 636 00:52:18,400 --> 00:52:19,400 me. 637 00:52:19,400 --> 00:52:25,920 God, you raised him from the dead for me. 638 00:52:25,920 --> 00:52:29,920 This day, I give my life to you, Jesus. 639 00:52:29,920 --> 00:52:38,800 I ask that you would forgive me all that I've done wrong in Jesus name. 640 00:52:38,800 --> 00:52:39,800 Amen. 641 00:52:39,800 --> 00:52:40,800 Amen. 642 00:52:40,800 --> 00:52:45,080 Thank you for joining us. 643 00:52:45,080 --> 00:52:47,720 We pray God's richest blessing on your life. 644 00:52:47,720 --> 00:52:52,380 If you haven't already, make sure to join us on Facebook, Instagram and YouTube. 645 00:52:52,380 --> 00:52:56,420 You can also find us at LoganCityChristianChurch.com. 646 00:52:56,420 --> 00:53:23,440 See you next week.