SPEAKER_00: Welcome to the Life Family Church podcast.
SPEAKER_00: You can check us out on our website at lifefamily.
SPEAKER_00: Let's get right.
SPEAKER_01: We worship you, Lord, we worship you, Jesus.
SPEAKER_01: We love you, Jesus.
SPEAKER_01: We love you, Lord.
SPEAKER_01: Hallelujah.
SPEAKER_01: We love you, Jesus.
SPEAKER_01: Hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah.
SPEAKER_01: Lord, your name is powerful.
SPEAKER_01: Powerful.
SPEAKER_01: This church.
SPEAKER_01: How many of you all have ever watched a horse race before?
SPEAKER_01: Anybody ever seen a horse race?
SPEAKER_01: Have you seen those horses at the gate?
SPEAKER_01: They are absolutely about to come unglued.
SPEAKER_01: They have been prepared.
SPEAKER_01: And they have been roomed.
SPEAKER_01: They have been altered.
SPEAKER_01: And they have been ready for a long time to stand at that gate and run this race.
SPEAKER_01: And I see Live Family Church, just like one of those horses.
SPEAKER_01: We're standing at that gate.
SPEAKER_01: And we can't wait.
SPEAKER_01: Let's go.
SPEAKER_01: I can see it very clearly.
SPEAKER_01: And when that gate is released, there's power release.
SPEAKER_01: Power released.
SPEAKER_01: Holy ghost power release.
SPEAKER_01: And he's gonna use us in a mighty way for one of his ready.
SPEAKER_01: Hallelujah! We have to do it.
SPEAKER_01: How are you?
SPEAKER_01: Lord, but there's so much power in that name.
SPEAKER_01: And when we learn to yield in the name of Jesus, all the things that seem so important in life begin to just fall down.
SPEAKER_01: It doesn't matter anymore.
SPEAKER_01: All of the hurt, the pain, the suffering, the shame, it all just drops off because there's power in that name.
SPEAKER_01: There's authority in that name.
SPEAKER_01: There's deliverance in that name.
SPEAKER_01: There's glory in that name.
SPEAKER_01: The mighty name of Jesus.
SPEAKER_01: The mighty name.
SPEAKER_01: The excellent name.
SPEAKER_01: The name of Jesus.
SPEAKER_01: Hallelujah.
SPEAKER_01: Every knee will bow.
SPEAKER_01: Every tongue will confess.
SPEAKER_01: Demons in hell will shake and tremble at the name of Jesus.
SPEAKER_01: Why?
SPEAKER_01: Because there's power in that name.
SPEAKER_01: Power in the mighty name of Jesus.
SPEAKER_01: But we just don't want to stop there because the Spirit of Christ dwells on the inside of us.
SPEAKER_01: And he said, You shall receive power after the Holy Ghost has come upon you.
SPEAKER_01: And you shall be witnesses.
SPEAKER_01: So the power doesn't just stop with Jesus in his name, his name dwells on the inside of you.
SPEAKER_01: I want you to tap your neighbor on the shoulder and say, You've got power.
SPEAKER_01: And sit down, I'm ready to preach.
SPEAKER_01: Hallelujah.
SPEAKER_01: You've got power.
SPEAKER_01: Look at your other neighbor and say, You have power too.
SPEAKER_01: You have power.
SPEAKER_01: Hallelujah.
SPEAKER_01: Well, good morning.
SPEAKER_01: Are you excited about being in the house of God?
SPEAKER_01: Did you bring an expectation?
SPEAKER_01: Are you ready to receive?
SPEAKER_01: Do you believe?
SPEAKER_01: Are you a believer?
SPEAKER_01: Are you a faith-filled, Holy Ghost filled, a saint of God?
SPEAKER_01: Ready to move, ready to shake, ready to go wherever God sends you?
SPEAKER_01: Yielding to the Holy Ghost.
SPEAKER_01: Amen.
SPEAKER_01: If that's you, say amen.
SPEAKER_01: Glory to God.
SPEAKER_01: The Bible says in Acts chapter 8, or Acts chapter 1, verse 8.
SPEAKER_01: Acts 1 verse 8.
SPEAKER_01: It says this.
SPEAKER_01: Give you time to turn there if you're turning there in your Bible.
SPEAKER_01: Acts 1, verse 8.
SPEAKER_01: It says, but you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you.
SPEAKER_01: And you shall be witnesses to me in Jerusalem and in Judea and Samaria and to the ends of the earth.
SPEAKER_01: We have power.
SPEAKER_01: Power is available.
SPEAKER_01: That word power in the Greek is where we get the word dynomite.
SPEAKER_01: It's the word dudamas.
SPEAKER_01: It means dynamite power, explosive power.
SPEAKER_01: Power that you can be inundated with and at any moment could explode on something.
SPEAKER_01: You have power.
SPEAKER_01: You are a power-packed man or woman of God.
SPEAKER_01: You might not recognize it.
SPEAKER_01: You might say, I'm just shy, I'm not bold, I don't know how to talk in front of people, but when the Holy Ghost comes upon you, you will have boldness.
SPEAKER_01: Boldness to declare, boldness to speak, boldness to pray, boldness to look fear in the eye and say, You have no more power over me.
SPEAKER_01: There's more power in the Holy Ghost than fear.
SPEAKER_01: Amen.
SPEAKER_01: Fear has no more dominion over us.
SPEAKER_01: We are free from it.
SPEAKER_01: If you're dealing with fear, let's get tanked up with the Holy Ghost.
SPEAKER_01: And you'll overcome that fear with the boldness of Almighty God.
SPEAKER_01: Last week was a good week for us.
SPEAKER_01: We saw 13 people baptized in water.
SPEAKER_01: Glory to God.
SPEAKER_01: Hallelujah.
SPEAKER_01: Come on now, give it up.
SPEAKER_01: God is doing wonderful things in our midst.
SPEAKER_01: There was people trembling under the power of God.
SPEAKER_01: Knew that they were called to be baptized.
SPEAKER_01: God's speaking to them.
SPEAKER_01: And God is speaking to us even today.
SPEAKER_01: You see, being baptized isn't the end result, it's just a starting point.
SPEAKER_01: Did you know that your Christian faith can continue to get better and better and better and better and stronger and stronger, more exciting and more exciting every day of your life?
SPEAKER_01: That you can wake up every morning and put a smile on your face and say, This is the day, amen, that the Lord has made, I will rejoice and be glad in it.
SPEAKER_01: Why?
SPEAKER_01: Because there's something to look forward to when you wake up.
SPEAKER_01: There is power to be released on this earth.
SPEAKER_01: It's on the inside of you.
SPEAKER_01: You have it.
SPEAKER_01: It's there.
SPEAKER_01: The equipment of God, the equipment of heaven is for you.
SPEAKER_01: He's given you all the tools that you need to succeed on this earth and to see fruit.
SPEAKER_01: And not only fruit, that fruit that remains, fruit that continues, fruit that continues to flourish day after day after day after day.
SPEAKER_01: Do you know that you don't ever have to be depressed?
SPEAKER_01: You don't ever have to be sad.
SPEAKER_01: Did you know that?
SPEAKER_01: You don't ever have to have a bad day.
SPEAKER_01: Bad things will happen, but that doesn't describe who you are.
SPEAKER_01: Circumstances might take place, but according to the word of God, we rise above circumstances.
SPEAKER_01: Amen.
SPEAKER_01: So no matter what happens to you, you can have joy.
SPEAKER_01: Why?
SPEAKER_01: Because the Holy Spirit dwells on the inside of you.
SPEAKER_01: And if the Holy Spirit indwells you, you can have joy every day of your life.
SPEAKER_01: Amen.
SPEAKER_01: And you don't have to have fear anymore.
SPEAKER_01: No more fear.
SPEAKER_01: Fear is not invited in my house.
SPEAKER_01: Fear is not invited in this church.
SPEAKER_01: Well, aren't you afraid that if you say that, people might get offended?
SPEAKER_01: Nope.
SPEAKER_01: Fear is not in this house.
SPEAKER_01: Amen.
SPEAKER_01: We believe in a God that has overcome fear.
SPEAKER_01: And we believe that he indwells us.
SPEAKER_01: And if the greater one is on the inside of us, then greater is he that is in us than he who is in this world.
SPEAKER_01: Fear is in this world.
SPEAKER_01: Depression is in this world.
SPEAKER_01: Shame is in this world.
SPEAKER_01: Rejection is in this world.
SPEAKER_01: But the greater one lives in me.
SPEAKER_01: Amen.
SPEAKER_01: The greater one lives in me.
SPEAKER_01: So I overcome it.
SPEAKER_01: He said, You're more than an overcomer.
SPEAKER_01: That we overcome by the blood of the Lamb and the word of our testimony.
SPEAKER_01: Hallelujah.
SPEAKER_01: So we don't have to walk in guilt, shame, inferiority, fear any longer, but we can walk with boldness.
SPEAKER_01: Walk with our chest out and our swag and our step.
SPEAKER_01: Walking with joy.
SPEAKER_01: Everybody should look at you and say, you are a peculiar person.
SPEAKER_01: You're different.
SPEAKER_01: What's different about you?
SPEAKER_01: It's Jesus.
SPEAKER_01: It's the Lord.
SPEAKER_01: I have the Spirit of Christ on the inside of me.
SPEAKER_01: Nothing can defeat me and nothing can touch me.
SPEAKER_01: Because I got the greater one on the inside.
SPEAKER_01: Amen.
SPEAKER_01: You say, well, that just sounds impossible.
SPEAKER_01: There is nothing impossible with God.
SPEAKER_01: Amen.
SPEAKER_01: If he says it, that settles it.
SPEAKER_01: Get over it.
SPEAKER_01: Amen.
SPEAKER_01: Acts chapter 2.
SPEAKER_01: Verse 1, it says, The former account I made, O Theophilus, of all that Jesus began both to do and teach, until the day in which he had taken up after he, through the Holy Spirit, had given commandments.
SPEAKER_01: Remember last week when I said it wasn't an option, but a commandment to be baptized.
SPEAKER_01: It's not just an option where we just say, eh, whatever.
SPEAKER_01: I can do it if I want to.
SPEAKER_01: If I don't want to, I don't have to.
SPEAKER_01: Who wants the first decision you make after you've been born again is to tell the Lord, no, I'm not going to do what you ask me to do.
SPEAKER_01: But this is another one.
SPEAKER_01: Okay?
SPEAKER_01: This is another one.
SPEAKER_01: Oh, I'm in the wrong verse.
SPEAKER_01: Oh, I'm sorry.
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
SPEAKER_01: Good way to start, huh?
SPEAKER_01: That's this new technology for you, praise the Lord.
SPEAKER_01: Actually, it's not new technology anymore, it's just I'm new to this technology.
SPEAKER_01: Sorry.
SPEAKER_01: Actually, that was a good one too, but we'll move on to this one.
SPEAKER_01: Acts chapter 2, verse 1.
SPEAKER_01: And when the day of Pentecost had fully come, they were all with one accord in one place.
SPEAKER_01: And suddenly there came a sound from heaven as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled the whole house where they were sitting.
SPEAKER_01: Then there appeared to them divided tongues as of fire, and one sat upon each of them, and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and began to speak with other tongues as the Spirit gave them utterance.
SPEAKER_01: Now, what was this for some people believe that the outpouring of the Holy Spirit was just for the apostles, just for that moment, just for that time.
SPEAKER_01: But I believe that it is forever until we go to heaven and we don't need to speak in tongues any longer.
SPEAKER_01: We don't need the Holy Ghost like we need him now.
SPEAKER_01: I believe that there is power available to us to be a witness, to be powerful, to believers, to be equipped with the ability to do supernatural things beyond our natural ability.
SPEAKER_01: There is a big thing right now going on in the government about UFOs.
SPEAKER_01: Y'all heard all this stuff?
SPEAKER_01: People are talking about UFOs and all this stuff, and and there's a big push on the internet about the Nephilim.
SPEAKER_01: Y'all have probably seen that.
SPEAKER_01: All the talk about all these supernatural things.
SPEAKER_01: Don't let all those things get your attention off of the real supernatural power of Almighty God.
SPEAKER_01: Because the devil wants you to think all that supernatural stuff is is weird.
SPEAKER_01: Flaky, just strange stuff.
SPEAKER_01: But Jesus himself asked over 500 of the disciples, those who have been born again, ask over 500 to go to Jerusalem to be endued with power.
SPEAKER_01: So how many of them went?
SPEAKER_01: I would like to say 500 of them took off and said, thank you, Lord, we'll obey you completely, and walked right into the upper room and waited for the promise.
SPEAKER_01: But how many went?
SPEAKER_01: 120.
SPEAKER_01: Jesus told 500.
SPEAKER_01: How many went?
SPEAKER_01: 120.
SPEAKER_01: That tells me something.
SPEAKER_01: That tells me that not everybody is gonna go after this, and not ever everybody, not everybody is gonna obey God.
SPEAKER_01: So what do they do?
SPEAKER_01: They make excuses of why it's not for today and why it's not applicable to our life, and why I just don't need it in my life.
SPEAKER_01: It's okay for that Pentecostal church over there, but it's not okay for us.
SPEAKER_01: But I'm here to tell you if Jesus himself commanded the disciples to go and to be endued with power, there was a reason why they needed this power.
SPEAKER_01: It's because there was an enemy that was going to attack, and there was people that needed to hear the gospel, and they needed to hear it with people who had a boldness and intention uh to detail what the Spirit of God was saying to them.
SPEAKER_01: So what happened?
SPEAKER_01: Those people who were at the upper room experienced something that had never happened before.
SPEAKER_01: You see, when Jesus was here, the Holy Spirit was not here.
SPEAKER_01: You see, we believe this the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.
SPEAKER_01: The Father is seated at the throne, Jesus, the Bible says, sits at the right hand of the Father.
SPEAKER_01: And because Jesus died and resurrected, ascended to heaven, the Holy Spirit came down to be on this earth.
SPEAKER_01: He's here right now.
SPEAKER_01: God the Holy Spirit is here right now.
SPEAKER_01: He's no less God than God the Father, he's no less God than Jesus.
SPEAKER_01: They all work 100% in agreement and 100% in full authority, full power, fully omniscient, fully full uh fully omnipotent, fully omniscient.
SPEAKER_01: I might have already said that.
SPEAKER_01: That means all-knowing, omnipresent, meaning there he's everywhere at all times.
SPEAKER_01: There is no limit to the Holy Spirit.
SPEAKER_01: And he said he wants to come and indwell in you and give you power.
SPEAKER_01: Power.
SPEAKER_01: Now, this is something I I was preaching one day and I had this lady stand up and say, No, no, no, no, no, Pastor, you're wrong.
SPEAKER_01: And I'm like, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, sit down, you're wrong.
SPEAKER_01: So don't stand up.
SPEAKER_01: I've studied this.
SPEAKER_01: Unless you want to be embarrassed.
SPEAKER_01: And I won't try to embarrass you.
SPEAKER_01: Matthew chapter 3, verse 11.
SPEAKER_01: I want to show I want to show you something here.
SPEAKER_01: This is John speaking.
SPEAKER_01: The Bible said that John baptized with water unto repentance.
SPEAKER_01: But he who comes after me is mightier than I, whose sandals I am not worthy to carry.
SPEAKER_01: He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and with fire.
SPEAKER_01: Who was John talking about?
SPEAKER_01: Talking about Jesus, wasn't he?
SPEAKER_01: Who is the baptizer in the Holy Ghost?
SPEAKER_01: It's Jesus.
SPEAKER_01: Jesus.
SPEAKER_01: You see, man, I I I was over here and I was dunking them.
SPEAKER_01: Some of y'all were resisting.
SPEAKER_01: I had to push you down a little harder.
SPEAKER_01: Made me happy.
SPEAKER_01: Like that.
SPEAKER_01: Until all the bubbles stopped, you know.
SPEAKER_01: We put you underwater, we brought you up.
SPEAKER_01: I did that.
SPEAKER_01: I was your pastor.
SPEAKER_01: I had the authority under Almighty God to baptize you.
SPEAKER_01: I did that.
SPEAKER_01: It's a natural, physical thing that I did as a man, anointed of God, to baptize you in the name of the Father, Son, and the Holy Spirit.
SPEAKER_01: But I cannot baptize you in the Holy Ghost and fire.
SPEAKER_01: I can't.
SPEAKER_01: That privilege is only for one person and one person only.
SPEAKER_01: Jesus.
SPEAKER_01: He gets the privilege of baptizing you in the Holy Ghost and the fire.
SPEAKER_01: So if you've been baptized, it wasn't a man that baptized you.
SPEAKER_01: It wasn't someone bopping you in the head, praying for you, saying, Come on, let it out, or hold on, or shake, or whatever.
SPEAKER_01: It was Jesus that baptized you in the Holy Ghost.
SPEAKER_01: I don't know about you, but that does something to me.
SPEAKER_01: That just really is an intimate moment with Almighty God when you get the privilege of Him coming and baptizing you in the Holy Spirit and with fire.
SPEAKER_01: See, it's not supposed to be weird.
SPEAKER_01: It's supposed to be our natural response to God.
SPEAKER_01: He provided everything we'll ever need.
SPEAKER_01: All we gotta do is say, Yes.
SPEAKER_01: I want it.
SPEAKER_01: Now I know that there's been people that misappropriate it.
SPEAKER_01: There's been people that abuse others who have gifts.
SPEAKER_01: I get that.
SPEAKER_01: But Jesus has never abused anyone.
SPEAKER_01: The Holy Spirit will not abuse you.
SPEAKER_01: The Holy Spirit will not make you feel weird.
SPEAKER_01: The Holy Spirit will not make you do something that's not biblical.
SPEAKER_01: Let me say that again.
SPEAKER_01: The Holy Spirit will not make you do something that's not biblical.
SPEAKER_01: Everything the Holy Spirit does has to be backed up by Scripture.
SPEAKER_01: Or else it is not the Holy Spirit.
SPEAKER_01: It's another spirit, and we need to get rid of it.
SPEAKER_01: But most places, because they've seen the weird, they've seen the outlandish, they've seen the flaky, they've seen the junk.
SPEAKER_01: They've just thrown the baby out with the bathwater.
SPEAKER_01: And they said, Well, we're just not going to receive that here.
SPEAKER_01: In fact, on Sunday mornings, we will not talk about the Holy Ghost.
SPEAKER_01: But I'm here to tell you, the Holy Ghost changed my life.
SPEAKER_01: Changed my life.
SPEAKER_01: And I wanted to be baptized in the Holy Spirit from a young age when I went to Bible youth camp years ago.
SPEAKER_01: I watched all those kids up there shouting and rejoicing, speaking in tongues, and I was like, I want to do that.
SPEAKER_01: And every time I'd go to get prayed for, I just wouldn't receive it.
SPEAKER_01: I don't know what the deal was.
SPEAKER_01: I think 100% of it was I would get in the way and think I had to do something to get it.
SPEAKER_01: I had to come up with the words myself.
SPEAKER_01: I had to do all this stuff myself.
SPEAKER_01: But it's not about you striving to do anything to get it.
SPEAKER_01: It's about you receiving by faith what he's provided through his grace.
SPEAKER_01: All right?
SPEAKER_01: So, I mean, from the time I was probably 14 to 18, I wanted to be filled with the Holy Spirit because I saw out of my mom, I saw out of people that I was associated with power to do things that I know they weren't able to do.
SPEAKER_01: My great-grandmother, just a side note, my great-grandmother was able to pick up any instrument that was put before her and play it skillfully.
SPEAKER_01: She was never taught how to play music, and she never took a music theory class.
SPEAKER_01: What was it that gave her the ability to stand behind any instrument and begin to play it?
SPEAKER_01: It wasn't her natural ability.
SPEAKER_01: Guys, let me tell you something.
SPEAKER_01: You can have all the natural ability you want, but I don't know anybody that can just pick up any instrument and begin to play it.
SPEAKER_01: I'm talking about stringed instruments, I'm talking about pianos, I'm well, that's a stringed instrument technically.
SPEAKER_01: I'm talking about air instruments, horns, and whatever.
SPEAKER_01: She could pick it up and play it skillfully.
SPEAKER_01: When I was 18 years old, I had a desire to play baseball.
SPEAKER_01: And I wasn't good enough to go to a major Division I baseball school, but I I felt like I was good enough.
SPEAKER_01: I thought I was.
SPEAKER_01: Spent enough time doing it, I should have been.
SPEAKER_01: But I was uh I was a good pitcher, but I wasn't a great pitcher.
SPEAKER_01: But I was hurt because no college picked me up to go play baseball.
SPEAKER_01: And I thought, well, I I know these guys that I played with all my life.
SPEAKER_01: I know I'm just as good or better than any of these guys.
SPEAKER_01: And yet they're getting picked up.
SPEAKER_01: And I'm like, how did he go?
SPEAKER_01: How did what how did he go to this place?
SPEAKER_01: And I was like, what is going on?
SPEAKER_01: And I remember I was working at Food City, and I'm just miserable because I feel like my life is slipping away.
SPEAKER_01: I'm 18 years old, right?
SPEAKER_01: So my life's slipping away.
SPEAKER_01: I have no purpose, no goals in life.
SPEAKER_01: Here I am.
SPEAKER_01: I thought I was gonna be a professional ball player, and now I'm working at Food City.
SPEAKER_01: Yay! I just and people come in, I want to hide behind the place because I don't want anybody seeing me because I should be on that baseball field, right?
SPEAKER_01: And I remember I'm, you know, my whole existence, my whole worth was around sports.
SPEAKER_01: And I remember the day I get a call over the loudspeakers, Tim Talent, come to the front desk, please.
SPEAKER_01: And I go to the front desk, and this girl that I knew from school, which is your cousin Shannon, she said, Hey, I got a call from your mom.
SPEAKER_01: She wants to talk to you.
SPEAKER_01: I said, Okay.
SPEAKER_01: So I got on the phone and my mom goes, Do you want to play baseball?
SPEAKER_01: I said, Yeah, I want to play baseball.
SPEAKER_01: I want to get out of this place.
SPEAKER_01: And uh she goes, You just got a call from a coach to come and play baseball.
SPEAKER_01: And I was like, Oh, thank you, Jesus.
SPEAKER_01: Yes, I'm going.
SPEAKER_01: Absolutely.
SPEAKER_01: I'm like, Yeah, I don't even care what they provide, I don't care where it is, it doesn't matter.
SPEAKER_01: I'm going.
SPEAKER_01: Because my identity was wrapped around that.
SPEAKER_01: And I remember I went to a place called Morristown, Tennessee to play Walter State Community College, and I remember I'm pitching, I'm doing my thing.
SPEAKER_01: The coach was an alcoholic.
SPEAKER_01: The it was just an absolute disaster.
SPEAKER_01: I I lived with four guys.
SPEAKER_01: Um, I was I was at the time Holy Ghost filled, loved Jesus, called to minister, called to preach, but my identity was in sports.
SPEAKER_01: And I remember I spent a lot of time when I got there working out and not going to school, not doing what I should be doing in the grades.
SPEAKER_01: So I was making horrible grades, but I was trying to get better at baseball.
SPEAKER_01: And I figured if I can make it just through one year, I could go to minor leagues, you know, just get through this lame college and let's let's go on.
SPEAKER_01: It's like Nate Barghetzi says community colleges for those people who are supposed to stay in the community and and work the rest of their life.
SPEAKER_01: So I had ambitions and goals, and it was not that.
SPEAKER_01: Um I would come home after practice, and these guys, four other guys were in there, and they were smoking pot, drinking alcohol, partying, they had the girls over, and I would go down to the room and hide my room.
SPEAKER_01: And at the time I was on fire for Jesus.
SPEAKER_01: I loved the Lord.
SPEAKER_01: I was Holy Ghost filled, just loved the Lord, felt like I was called to preach, knew I was called to preach, but my identity was in sports, so I felt like I had to go that route.
SPEAKER_01: And I remember one evening I walk in, and they had stolen my TV, and it was up in the front in the living room, and a bunch of girls and guys were all up there watching a dirty movie.
SPEAKER_01: And I was, it was a very dirty movie.
SPEAKER_01: And I got so mad that I went and grabbed my VCR, believe it or not, I had a VCR, VCR and TV, ejected their movie, threw it out, took it downstairs, and they are all standing there, like just absolutely ticked at me.
SPEAKER_01: Needless to say, it didn't help me in the baseball world because my rotation in the pitching just became very minuscule.
SPEAKER_01: Hardly ever got a chance to pitch.
SPEAKER_01: Now, I said, I'm over this, and I went down and I got serious with the Lord, and I began to pray and I began to seek the Lord, and I put on some music, a preaching movie, not a movie, but like this camp meeting tape.
SPEAKER_01: I put it in the VCR and I'm watching that, and I'm worshiping the Lord sitting on the floor, and I begin to speak in another language.
SPEAKER_01: I begin speaking in in tongues and I'm praying.
SPEAKER_01: And as I'm praying, I remember the door opening, someone walking in and goes, ho, ho, ho, and walked out and ran up.
SPEAKER_01: And from then on, I was the weird guy, and probably deserved it.
SPEAKER_01: All he saw when he walked in is me sitting on the floor watching preaching, praying in the Holy Ghost.
SPEAKER_01: So he had no clue what was going on.
SPEAKER_01: But I went from there and I made the decision.
SPEAKER_01: I can't live without God.
SPEAKER_01: I can't live without Him.
SPEAKER_01: I can't live without the Spirit of God using me in a powerful way.
SPEAKER_01: I can't do it.
SPEAKER_01: I've got to be used of God.
SPEAKER_01: So my parents had given me a credit card.
SPEAKER_01: Just in case, credit card.
SPEAKER_01: Just in case I needed books about preaching, credit card.
SPEAKER_01: That my dad was very upset that I went and spent a lot of money on books about preaching and ministry.
SPEAKER_01: But I got hungry and I wanted God.
SPEAKER_01: And I didn't know a lot about the Lord.
SPEAKER_01: All I knew is I wanted more of him.
SPEAKER_01: Sometimes it's it's okay.
SPEAKER_01: You don't know a lot about just you just have a desire that I want to know more about him.
SPEAKER_01: I want to know God.
SPEAKER_01: And when his presence in the room, you know his presence.
SPEAKER_01: One thing about it, I love to be in the presence of God.
SPEAKER_01: I'm going to back up about nine months earlier for three nights in a row.
SPEAKER_01: I woke up in the middle of the night at three o'clock in the morning and I heard the Spirit of God say, dance before me with all your might.
SPEAKER_01: In my bedroom, three o'clock in the morning, dance before me with all your might.
SPEAKER_01: I got up, okay, and began to dance at three o'clock in the morning.
SPEAKER_01: Some of y'all are like, I could not do that.
SPEAKER_01: I'd pull a hamstring, I would break something.
SPEAKER_01: I was 18 years old.
SPEAKER_01: I could do that.
SPEAKER_01: Three o'clock in the morning, I'm shouting, dancing before the Lord.
SPEAKER_01: I lay back down, go to sleep.
SPEAKER_01: Next night, same thing.
SPEAKER_01: Dance before me with all your might.
SPEAKER_01: Same thing.
SPEAKER_01: I did it.
SPEAKER_01: I went back to sleep.
SPEAKER_01: The next night, oh my gosh, this is wild.
SPEAKER_01: So I did it again.
SPEAKER_01: The third time I laid down in my bed, and this is when I received the baptism of the Holy Spirit.
SPEAKER_01: I laid down in my bed and I lifted my hands and the glory of God set on me.
SPEAKER_01: And it felt, have you ever been to the dentist?
SPEAKER_01: And they put that hard lead blanket on top of you?
SPEAKER_01: Well, it was like that, but it was all over my entire body, and it was heavy, and it was awesome, and I did not want it to leave because I sensed the presence of God for the first time in such a powerful way.
SPEAKER_01: And when it left my body, I was speaking in an unknown tongue, and I was praising God and I was worshiping God, and I experienced something that was supernatural.
SPEAKER_01: Now, this was not a man coming in my room coaching me and telling me how to do it.
SPEAKER_01: This was the Lord Jesus Christ that baptized me in the Holy Spirit.
SPEAKER_01: And it was him that baptized you.
SPEAKER_01: If you've been baptized in the Holy Spirit, it was him that did it.
SPEAKER_01: So Acts two, thirty-three.
SPEAKER_01: Acts two verse thirty-three.
SPEAKER_01: Imagine these people had never seen or heard anything like this before.
SPEAKER_01: Some of them even thought that these people were drunk.
SPEAKER_01: In order to think they're drunk, they must have been acting a little drunk.
SPEAKER_01: They must have been acting different.
SPEAKER_01: But they saw joy on them and they were interested, so they gathered around.
SPEAKER_01: And it says, Peter preached to them Jesus Christ and him crucified.
SPEAKER_01: And then in verse 33, therefore being exalted to the right hand of God and having received from the Father the promise of the Holy Spirit, he poured out this which you now see and hear.
SPEAKER_01: And that word he poured out means Jesus poured out the Holy Spirit as you now see and hear.
SPEAKER_01: So that backs up the scripture that Jesus is the one that baptizes you with the Holy Spirit.
SPEAKER_01: Why is this important?
SPEAKER_01: Because if he is the baptizer in the Holy Spirit and you love Jesus, you should want everything He provides.
SPEAKER_01: Everything.
SPEAKER_01: So if you're someone in here and you have never received it, I'm not going to embarrass you.
SPEAKER_01: I'm not going to make you do something you don't want to do.
SPEAKER_01: But I would encourage you to follow through with everything that Jesus has given you.
SPEAKER_01: Everything.
SPEAKER_01: Now Acts eight verse fourteen through seventeen.
SPEAKER_01: Acts eight, fourteen through seventeen.
SPEAKER_01: So people were getting excited about the baptism of the Holy Spirit, even sinners were starting to look at it and say, I want that.
SPEAKER_01: But sinners, it's not for a sinner.
SPEAKER_01: It's only for believers.
SPEAKER_01: If you ever see a sinner out there praying in tongues, that's not from God.
SPEAKER_01: It says verse 14, now when the apostles who were at Jerusalem heard that Samaria had received the word of God, they sent Peter and John to them, who, when they had come down, prayed for them that they might receive the Holy Spirit.
SPEAKER_01: For as yet he had fallen upon none of them.
SPEAKER_01: Now I want you to see this.
SPEAKER_01: Some people say, well, this is not for everyone.
SPEAKER_01: That maybe, maybe it's for some, not for others.
SPEAKER_01: But it says here, these people had been baptized in water, but now they were preaching to them that they need to be baptized in the Holy Spirit.
SPEAKER_01: For yet, verse 16, for as yet he had fallen upon none of them yet.
SPEAKER_01: So it says to me that the fact that they, well, it let me back up just for a second.
SPEAKER_01: It says this those who are born again, you receive the spirit at your born-again experience, but there is another experience subsequent to the spirit of God coming in you at new birth, and it is the power of the Holy Spirit.
SPEAKER_01: So there is two separate acts.
SPEAKER_01: There's being filled with the Spirit of God when you're born again.
SPEAKER_01: The Spirit of God comes on the inside of you and seals you with the Spirit.
SPEAKER_01: And then there's the Spirit of God that comes upon you to do service for God.
SPEAKER_01: And that's what's happening right here.
SPEAKER_01: It says, then they laid hands on them and they received the Holy Ghost.
SPEAKER_01: And when Simon saw that, through the laying on of the apostles' hands, the Holy Spirit was given, he offered them money to get it.
SPEAKER_01: Let me say I haven't been to very many places where people are stopping at churches.
SPEAKER_01: Here's some money.
SPEAKER_01: Can I have what you all have?
SPEAKER_01: It must have been something changing lives.
SPEAKER_01: See, the Holy Ghost they had was doing something different than what you're seeing in the world today.
SPEAKER_01: It was different.
SPEAKER_01: So much so that even the sinners were like, hey, here's a 20.
SPEAKER_01: Come on, man.
SPEAKER_01: Give me some of that.
SPEAKER_01: Come on, man.
SPEAKER_01: Just drop.
SPEAKER_01: I'll take just a little, just some, please.
SPEAKER_01: Give me some of that.
SPEAKER_01: And it wasn't for them.
SPEAKER_01: But they wanted it.
SPEAKER_01: Peter said to him, Your money perished with you, because you thought that the gift of God could be purchased with money.
SPEAKER_01: You have neither part nor portion in this matter, for your heart is not right in the sight of God.
SPEAKER_01: Repent therefore of your wickedness and pray, God, if perhaps through your heart may forgive you.
SPEAKER_01: So what is this saying?
SPEAKER_01: It's saying that only those who are born again can receive this gift.
SPEAKER_01: And it is for you, and it belongs to you, and Jesus is the one that does it.
SPEAKER_01: So why wouldn't we not want this?
SPEAKER_01: It's a gift.
SPEAKER_01: If I were to tell someone right now, hey Seth, hey buddy, um, oh man, I don't have it.
SPEAKER_01: I don't have my keys.
SPEAKER_01: Frank, you got your keys?
SPEAKER_01: I'm gonna give him your car.
SPEAKER_01: Would you take Frank's car?
SPEAKER_01: No, you wouldn't?
SPEAKER_01: You wouldn't?
SPEAKER_01: No, I mean he's giving it to you.
SPEAKER_01: Okay, he'll take it.
SPEAKER_01: All right.
SPEAKER_01: Thank you.
SPEAKER_01: I was getting I was a little nervous there.
SPEAKER_01: It's simply just receiving a gift.
SPEAKER_01: And guys, it's for everybody.
SPEAKER_01: Not just for the Jews, not just for the apostles, it is for everyone.
SPEAKER_01: Go to Acts chapter 10.
SPEAKER_01: Acts chapter 10, verse 44 says this while Peter was still speaking these words, the Holy Spirit fell upon all those who heard the word, and those of the circumcision who believed were astonished.
SPEAKER_01: As many as came with Peter, because the gift of the Holy Spirit had come and been poured out on the Gentiles also.
SPEAKER_01: So guess what?
SPEAKER_01: It's for the Jews, it's for the Gentiles, it's for the apostles, it's for the disciples, it's for those who believe.
SPEAKER_01: Every one of us has the right to receive the baptism of the Holy Spirit, which is given through Jesus Christ.
SPEAKER_01: Amen.
SPEAKER_01: Don't ever tell me something's weird if Jesus has given it to you.
SPEAKER_01: Amen.
SPEAKER_01: Don't walk out, man, that was weird.
SPEAKER_01: No, Jesus said it.
SPEAKER_01: Isn't that who we worship and serve?
SPEAKER_01: Isn't that who gave himself on the cross?
SPEAKER_01: Isn't that the one who did everything for us?
SPEAKER_01: If he did everything for you and said, I want to give you a gift, would you not receive it?
SPEAKER_01: Would you not take it?
SPEAKER_01: Amen.
SPEAKER_01: Acts 2, verse 39, and we'll we'll we'll we're starting to wrap this up.
SPEAKER_01: Acts 2, 39.
SPEAKER_01: It says this, for the promise is to you and to your children, and to all those who are far off, as many as the Lord our God will call.
SPEAKER_01: So for those who argue with the fact that maybe this ended with the disciples, maybe this ended with the apostles, maybe this ended in the Old Testament, New Testament revelations, whatever your complaint is.
SPEAKER_01: It is for us today.
SPEAKER_01: It belongs to us right now.
SPEAKER_01: The Holy Ghost fell on people in the Old Testament.
SPEAKER_01: It set upon Solomon and gave him supernatural wisdom beyond human intellect, to know things beyond human ability, to have wisdom to judge, to have wisdom to lead, to have wisdom to gain wisdom beyond natural ability.
SPEAKER_01: Do you know when the Holy Ghost has come upon you, you can receive wisdom that goes far beyond human.
SPEAKER_01: Intellect.
SPEAKER_01: Samson received the power of the Holy Spirit came upon him, and he was able to destroy armies of the Philistines.
SPEAKER_01: He was able to rip lines' jaws apart with his own bare hands.
SPEAKER_01: He was powerful, not in his own ability.
SPEAKER_01: He was powerful because the Holy Ghost came upon him to do mighty acts for God.
SPEAKER_01: Noah, he had skills and knowledge far beyond anyone else's ability.
SPEAKER_01: He was able to build a cruise boat full of animals.
SPEAKER_01: He was able to do it not by might nor by power, but by my spirit, saith the Lord.
SPEAKER_01: How did he know how to do it?
SPEAKER_01: The Spirit of God would come upon him, and he would get wisdom on how to do it, and he would get strength to do it.
SPEAKER_01: And he would begin to build something that had never been built before.
SPEAKER_01: Special talents, special skills, special abilities.
SPEAKER_01: If you're in here today and you say, I just don't have much going on for me, I don't know how to do much, you're in luck.
SPEAKER_01: Because the power of the Holy Spirit can come upon you and use you in a powerful way to do things you never thought were you were capable of doing.
SPEAKER_01: But you have to learn to yield your members as instruments unto righteousness to God and say, Whatever you want, God, I want it.
SPEAKER_01: If you want to lead me to the jungles of Africa, come on.
SPEAKER_01: Let's go.
SPEAKER_01: I don't care where you send me, I'll go.
SPEAKER_01: He might do it.
SPEAKER_01: Good.
SPEAKER_01: Because if he does, he'll equip me with the power of the Holy Ghost to do it and do it right.
SPEAKER_01: Amen.
SPEAKER_01: And that'll be the only place I want to be.
SPEAKER_01: There's people right now in Iraq, in Iran, and over there in that area, in that region where bombs are flying.
SPEAKER_01: But they're there under the inspiration and the power of the Holy Ghost, being led by the Spirit of God.
SPEAKER_01: And let me tell you something, they're in the safest place they'll ever be.
SPEAKER_01: The will of God for your life is the safest place you'll ever be.
SPEAKER_01: I'm just so nervous for my kids.
SPEAKER_01: I just don't know what they're doing.
SPEAKER_01: Stop it.
SPEAKER_01: Get them filled with the Holy Ghost.
SPEAKER_01: Let me tell you something that someone told us years ago.
SPEAKER_01: God loves your children more than you do.
SPEAKER_01: He loves your boys more than you do.
SPEAKER_01: He loves your girls more than you do.
SPEAKER_01: And he said he would never leave them.
SPEAKER_01: He will never forsake them.
SPEAKER_01: So guess what, mama?
SPEAKER_01: You can take your hands off of that baby and let them grow up in the Lord.
SPEAKER_01: Amen.
unknown: Amen.
SPEAKER_01: Oh, but but but but no.
SPEAKER_01: Get them filled with the Holy Ghost.
SPEAKER_01: Get them saved, delivered, set free, filled with the Holy Ghost, and they will do mighty acts for God.
SPEAKER_01: Hallelujah.
SPEAKER_01: If you're in here today and you don't know Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior, this is the opportunity that I would love to share with you about what it takes to be in a relationship with Jesus.
SPEAKER_01: And that is simple, but it's it's absolutely the most easy thing you could ever do.
SPEAKER_01: And it all it requires is you just totally surrender your life to Him and say, I receive you as my Lord and Savior.
SPEAKER_01: And I call on you to be my Lord.
SPEAKER_01: That's all you have to do.
SPEAKER_01: So if you're in here and you want to receive Jesus as your Lord and Savior, I would ask you.
SPEAKER_01: Stand up where you are right now and just walk up here and I want to pray with you.
SPEAKER_01: Be bold.
SPEAKER_01: Stand up and just come on up.
SPEAKER_01: We're gonna pray with you and lead you to the Lord.
SPEAKER_01: You need to know the Lord is your Savior.
SPEAKER_01: You need to be born again.
SPEAKER_01: I won't do you want to be baptized in the Holy Spirit?
SPEAKER_00: Yes, I do.
SPEAKER_01: Amen.
SPEAKER_01: Let's let's pray for you over here.
SPEAKER_01: Let's let's for those of you, let's all stand up, let's worship the Lord.
SPEAKER_01: Um if you're in here today and you would like to be baptized in the Holy Spirit, I would like you to step out from where you are and come up here.
SPEAKER_01: If you've never been baptized in the Holy Spirit, look, there's no judgment.
SPEAKER_01: You say, well, I've been born again for years, I should already have no, there's no judgment.
SPEAKER_01: Guys, all we want is for you to receive the power of the Holy Spirit.
SPEAKER_01: So if you're in here today and you want to receive that power, it's simple.
SPEAKER_01: It's the same way you're born again.
SPEAKER_01: You believe in your heart that Jesus is the baptizer in the Holy Spirit, and you confess with your mouth that I receive what you've provided, Jesus, and I receive the baptism of the Holy Spirit.
SPEAKER_01: That's all you have to do.
SPEAKER_01: So if you're in here and you would like to be baptized in the Holy Spirit, I pray you'll come up here and praise God.
SPEAKER_00: Thanks for listening.
SPEAKER_00: We hope that this message helps you draw closer to God as you walk out of your faith.
SPEAKER_00: We'll see you next week.