WEBVTT 00:00:11.176 --> 00:00:11.410 Well. 00:00:11.410 --> 00:00:12.478 Good morning, Valley View. 00:00:12.478 --> 00:00:13.480 Check check, check. 00:00:13.480 --> 00:00:16.483 Good morning, good morning, good morning. 00:00:16.850 --> 00:00:22.856 How many thunderites do we have here this morning out there yesterday at Thunder? Wave ‘em, wave ’em proudly. 00:00:22.856 --> 00:00:25.859 I know we're all sleepy. 00:00:26.259 --> 00:00:28.728 Well, Pastor John sends his love. 00:00:28.728 --> 00:00:36.802 He is with a group of guys that he gets with yearly, and they just spend time encouraging each other in mountain biking. 00:00:36.802 --> 00:00:39.606 And I think that is awesome. 00:00:39.606 --> 00:00:41.607 I love that our pastor does that. 00:00:41.607 --> 00:00:46.512 He has a group of guys that just, encourage each other. 00:00:46.512 --> 00:00:50.283 It really, speaks to me, encourages me to do the same. 00:00:50.283 --> 00:00:51.618 So I'm grateful for that. 00:00:51.618 --> 00:00:53.652 So he'll be back next week. 00:00:53.652 --> 00:01:00.960 So, this morning, can you grab your Bibles and open them up to Acts chapter two. 00:01:02.060 --> 00:01:03.195 Acts chapter two. 00:01:08.268 --> 00:01:27.853 I was, flipping through some old pictures the other day, and, if y'all remember when I first came to Valley View, I had glasses and then, thank the Lord I got Lasik, and I can see my eyes weren't real bad, but I needed glasses for anything that required precision. 00:01:27.853 --> 00:01:33.793 So if I was shooting rifles, driving a car, I need glasses. 00:01:34.060 --> 00:01:51.243 But when I rode my bike, I didn't wear glasses and then when I ended up getting Lasik surgery, I begin to realize how many things that I avoided by the grace of God that I was like, I didn't know that was there. 00:01:51.243 --> 00:01:52.912 I didn't know there was a hole there. 00:01:52.912 --> 00:01:59.918 And you know, you get you're like, this was the best investment to my cycling was being able to see where I was going. 00:01:59.918 --> 00:02:01.853 And it was. Yes, it was. 00:02:01.853 --> 00:02:07.459 It really surprised me, to be honest, but it's amazing. 00:02:07.459 --> 00:02:15.700 And Acts chapter two, when the disciples had their lens change, when the Holy Spirit came upon them. 00:02:15.700 --> 00:02:22.608 So let's lay some groundwork this morning, and I'm going to ask for a little participation here. 00:02:22.608 --> 00:02:25.578 So where's God the Father? 00:02:26.245 --> 00:02:26.778 Heaven. 00:02:26.778 --> 00:02:27.312 Let's try it again. 00:02:27.312 --> 00:02:29.649 Where's God the Father? Yeah. 00:02:29.649 --> 00:02:31.283 Where's Jesus? 00:02:31.283 --> 00:02:32.151 At his right. 00:02:32.151 --> 00:02:33.552 Yes, at his right hand. 00:02:33.552 --> 00:02:35.221 Interceding for us. 00:02:35.221 --> 00:02:37.323 And where's the Holy Spirit? 00:02:37.323 --> 00:02:38.957 Yes. Okay, let's try that again. 00:02:38.957 --> 00:02:40.626 Where's God the Father? 00:02:40.626 --> 00:02:43.562 Yes. Jesus. 00:02:43.562 --> 00:02:44.729 Yes, by his right hand. 00:02:44.729 --> 00:02:50.836 And the Holy Spirit is here with us, helping us keep our eyes on Jesus. 00:02:51.304 --> 00:02:52.437 Amen. 00:02:52.437 --> 00:02:56.209 The Holy Spirit's favorite topic is Jesus. 00:02:56.209 --> 00:02:58.176 So let's jump into Acts two here. 00:02:58.176 --> 00:03:08.486 And this morning what I want to do is really just break down the four key things in Acts two that I really feel apply to us, where we're at as a church. 00:03:10.423 --> 00:03:11.157 Acts chapter two. 00:03:11.157 --> 00:03:23.635 When the day of Pentecost had fully come, they were all with one accord in one place, and suddenly there came a sound from heaven as of a rushing mighty wind. 00:03:24.135 --> 00:03:27.439 And it filled the whole house where they were sitting. 00:03:27.439 --> 00:03:32.979 Then there appeared to be divided tongues as fire, and one sat upon each of them. 00:03:33.645 --> 00:03:40.819 And then they were filled with the Holy Spirit, and began to speak with other tongues, as the spirit gave them utterance. 00:03:43.556 --> 00:03:52.298 When we yield to the Holy Spirit, it produces unity with other believers. 00:03:52.531 --> 00:04:07.145 When we yield to the Holy Spirit, not when we yield to each other, but when we yield to the Holy Spirit, true unity comes from turning and tuning our hearts to his. 00:04:07.580 --> 00:04:23.562 If you've ever seen an orchestra tune before you go to a concert, maybe The Nutcracker, maybe something of that, they, they all tune to the first chair, whatever the tuning is chosen by the first chair. 00:04:23.562 --> 00:04:25.463 Everybody tunes to that. 00:04:25.463 --> 00:04:26.398 On Sunday mornings. 00:04:26.398 --> 00:04:30.769 We all tune to 440 C 440 frequency. 00:04:31.704 --> 00:04:41.646 One time I was involved in a recording project and one of the guys’ tuners, we were playing with some alternate tunings and we were tuned at 432. 00:04:41.646 --> 00:04:57.161 Now that's only a slight difference, but it messed us up so much by just hearing the subtle difference that to everyone else, it may appear like we were together, but we really were off. 00:04:57.161 --> 00:04:59.764 440 is the frequency we choose. 00:04:59.764 --> 00:05:20.218 As believers, when we come into a place of worship, when we come together as the body of Christ, true unity comes when we engage our heart to his, not worried about what's happening to the left and the right, not worried how our neighbor's doing it, but how we're doing it. 00:05:20.218 --> 00:05:22.654 That was what happened when the disciples came together. 00:05:22.654 --> 00:05:24.689 They were like, hey, look, it wasn't uniformity. 00:05:24.689 --> 00:05:30.562 It was unity all focused on one thing. 00:05:31.062 --> 00:05:31.930 The last command. 00:05:31.930 --> 00:05:34.699 Jesus said, go and wait. 00:05:34.699 --> 00:05:35.733 So they were engaged. 00:05:35.733 --> 00:05:37.870 Their hearts were in that place of engaging. 00:05:37.870 --> 00:05:46.478 Like the early believers of Pentecost, yielding to God allows His Spirit to work through us, changing hearts and cities. 00:05:48.112 --> 00:05:53.451 And when that happens, a sound comes forth that draws other people around. 00:05:53.451 --> 00:06:00.324 When we're in unity as believers, when we're at one accord, it makes it attractive for others. 00:06:02.728 --> 00:06:04.930 It really creates a sound. 00:06:04.930 --> 00:06:07.932 Unity brings a sound. 00:06:09.000 --> 00:06:15.206 Then there appeared to be divided tongues as fire, and one sat upon each of them. 00:06:16.375 --> 00:06:30.288 This is so cool to me, because what this says is you can come together here on a Sunday morning, and the corporate body of believers worshiping and have an individual encounter. 00:06:30.288 --> 00:06:31.790 I love it says divided tongues. 00:06:31.790 --> 00:06:37.228 What that means is each of them had an experience that was happening. 00:06:37.963 --> 00:06:51.610 That means you can come in here and be like, hey, look, I'm in a place of need, I need hope, I need rest, I need peace, I need joy, and you can come in the corporate body and experience that. 00:06:51.610 --> 00:06:54.612 Fire symbolizes refining and purifying. 00:06:55.146 --> 00:07:07.059 I truly believe that when the fire began to set sit on each believer, they were having their own little spiritual surgery that was taking place. 00:07:07.059 --> 00:07:08.694 And that'll make a little more sense in a minute. 00:07:08.694 --> 00:07:18.769 But each person was sitting there encountering the presence of God, encountering the Holy Spirit, and things were taking place inside. 00:07:18.769 --> 00:07:21.439 Yet they were there corporately together. 00:07:21.439 --> 00:07:22.341 That encourages me. 00:07:22.341 --> 00:07:27.978 Every Sunday morning we go into worship and we're gathering, here's the body, and we're listening to the word. 00:07:27.978 --> 00:07:32.783 Each of us can have our own experience while being together as one body. 00:07:35.853 --> 00:07:39.490 The crowd's response let's jump down to verse five. 00:07:40.425 --> 00:07:44.295 And there were dwelling in Jerusalem, Jews. 00:07:44.995 --> 00:07:48.934 Devout men from every nation under heaven. 00:07:48.934 --> 00:07:58.610 And when the sound occurred, the multitude came together and were confused, because everyone heard them speak in his own language. 00:07:58.610 --> 00:08:05.617 Then they were all amazed and marveled, saying to one another, look, are not all these who speak Galileans? 00:08:06.117 --> 00:08:09.987 And how is it that we hear our own language in which we were born? 00:08:09.987 --> 00:08:13.791 And then the next part list a ton of places they were from. 00:08:13.791 --> 00:08:19.230 And I'll let Pastor John pronounce this properly, because he's the guy that would study that really well. 00:08:19.230 --> 00:08:20.197 I'm not going to try. 00:08:20.197 --> 00:08:23.901 So let's just say they were from everywhere, but not there, right? 00:08:23.901 --> 00:08:25.870 So they're hearing their native language. 00:08:25.870 --> 00:08:26.771 They're from Asia. 00:08:26.771 --> 00:08:27.605 They were from Egypt. 00:08:27.605 --> 00:08:30.408 They were from Italy, which I love. 00:08:30.408 --> 00:08:33.043 They were from, you know, all around. 00:08:33.043 --> 00:08:35.080 But yet they were hearing their native tongue. 00:08:36.081 --> 00:08:40.552 When hearing them speaking in their own tongue, the wonderful works of God. 00:08:40.552 --> 00:08:47.158 So they were all amazed, perplexed, saying to one another, whatever could this mean? 00:08:49.760 --> 00:09:01.239 When the Holy Spirit moves, you will see people amazed, marveled, mocking, perplexed. 00:09:02.273 --> 00:09:11.448 I personally have never seen a true move of the spirit where all those things did not take place. 00:09:12.250 --> 00:09:15.253 Another example is Jesus. 00:09:15.620 --> 00:09:24.528 How many times did Jesus do something and there wasn't mocking, marveled, or perplexed? 00:09:25.764 --> 00:09:34.972 So those that choose to live under the influence of the Holy Spirit will have those traits follow. 00:09:36.841 --> 00:09:43.947 When the Spirit of God moves, it makes the religious mad and the sinners glad. 00:09:44.081 --> 00:09:53.057 And when I say religious, I mean like what Pastor John's been teaching is the self righteous, one of my heroes in the faith. 00:09:53.057 --> 00:10:02.167 He shares the story that he was at a conference, he was a guest speaker and he was worshiping and worship was going on. 00:10:02.167 --> 00:10:06.004 And he's he's sitting there just worshiping, having a moment in the presence. 00:10:06.004 --> 00:10:15.980 And there was this woman that was a couple rows in front of him worshiping, and it was really distracting, like just over the top distracting. 00:10:15.980 --> 00:10:17.815 And he's like, man, should I say something? 00:10:17.815 --> 00:10:20.784 It's a little even borderline inappropriate. 00:10:20.784 --> 00:10:22.953 You know, he's sitting there going, this is kind of awkward. 00:10:22.953 --> 00:10:27.057 I'm sitting here worshiping and this is distracting. 00:10:27.558 --> 00:10:30.193 Suddenly he's like, okay, should I say something should or not? 00:10:30.193 --> 00:10:32.397 And someone nudged him beside him. 00:10:32.397 --> 00:10:34.798 And it was a lady who was a missionary. 00:10:34.798 --> 00:10:36.900 She says, isn't that beautiful? 00:10:36.900 --> 00:10:37.869 He's like beautiful? 00:10:37.869 --> 00:10:40.370 This is distracting. 00:10:40.370 --> 00:10:48.980 She said, that woman was a prostitute and a drug addict for 15 years and recently got saved. 00:10:48.980 --> 00:10:51.615 And when she worships, she worships with everything inside. 00:10:53.784 --> 00:10:56.788 His response was, she can have my spot at the conference. 00:10:56.788 --> 00:11:03.160 I don't need to say a thing because I'll learn more by her worship than what I have going on inside. 00:11:03.160 --> 00:11:08.899 We see this in Second Samuel Michal, David's wife. David comes. 00:11:08.899 --> 00:11:10.368 He's worshiping before the Lord. 00:11:10.368 --> 00:11:14.371 He's laying it all out there and what does it say? 00:11:14.371 --> 00:11:16.673 That she mocked him? 00:11:16.673 --> 00:11:19.043 David's response was, you think this is undignified? 00:11:19.043 --> 00:11:21.044 I've got more. 00:11:21.044 --> 00:11:31.788 I will worship more undignified than this, because worship at a distance looks weird. 00:11:33.224 --> 00:11:37.695 Worship at a distance looks weird. 00:11:37.695 --> 00:11:42.567 You need to be slow to judge when the Spirit of God is moving. 00:11:43.167 --> 00:11:46.703 And be sensitive to what's happening and engage. 00:11:46.703 --> 00:11:53.110 You may worship differently, may look different than anything you've experienced before, but engage with what's happening in the moment. 00:11:54.611 --> 00:12:09.559 I remember years ago I was a, worship pastor, youth pastor at the preview I did the youth for for a season, and we had done this large outreach. 00:12:10.461 --> 00:12:23.607 And during this large outreach I was helping work as a kind of, a prayer counseling guide at the end of service for people that came forth and hundreds of people got saved. 00:12:23.607 --> 00:12:30.914 And I remember I was in the back, we were receiving people coming in, and there was a large room similar to the size of our chapel. 00:12:30.914 --> 00:12:40.224 We had chairs lined around the the wall and we would take people, sit with them, pray with them, people that had gotten saved. 00:12:40.224 --> 00:12:53.169 And I remember standing there and this 14 year old girl starts walking in and as she came, I remember seeing the tears in her eyes. 00:12:53.236 --> 00:12:58.009 And as she got closer to me, she collapsed. 00:12:58.009 --> 00:13:05.816 And I just kind of held her like in a in a very healthy, safe, loving way, like a father would. 00:13:05.916 --> 00:13:07.618 And she began to weep. 00:13:07.618 --> 00:13:12.423 And when I say weep, I mean she begin to ugly cry. 00:13:13.890 --> 00:13:15.860 And not only ugly cry. 00:13:15.860 --> 00:13:22.700 She began to wail so loud that it became very distracting. 00:13:22.700 --> 00:13:30.607 In certain times and certain moments, when that happens, you know you would be like, okay, let's go off to give me another couple counselors, go off into another room or whatever. 00:13:30.607 --> 00:13:33.309 But in that moment, the Lord said, don't, don't move. 00:13:33.309 --> 00:13:34.644 Just stay right there. 00:13:34.644 --> 00:13:39.549 And I just held her and she just cried and cried and cried. 00:13:41.184 --> 00:13:41.784 Here's the thing. 00:13:41.784 --> 00:13:44.754 She was in a safe place. 00:13:44.754 --> 00:13:48.392 She was in a safe place to receive the love of Jesus. 00:13:48.392 --> 00:13:54.097 She was in a safe place and God was doing a cleansing work inside her heart. 00:13:55.566 --> 00:14:03.506 What no one else knew in the room-- is I was with her six months before that, in the E.R. 00:14:04.307 --> 00:14:17.086 when she tried to commit suicide and she had slit both her wrists, and I got to pray with her and plant those seeds in that season and just love on her. 00:14:17.086 --> 00:14:20.524 And I knew she didn't have a father in her home. 00:14:23.660 --> 00:14:29.667 I even had a few people come up afterwards, and say, man, that was a little distracting and I said, yeah, but wasn't it freeing? 00:14:29.667 --> 00:14:31.368 Wasn't it beautiful? 00:14:31.368 --> 00:14:33.736 Wasn’t it amazing what God was doing? 00:14:37.106 --> 00:14:44.380 And I'm sharing that to say we have to be sensitive to what God is doing in the room. 00:14:45.249 --> 00:14:49.720 We have to be sensitive to when the Holy Spirit is moving. 00:14:50.988 --> 00:14:57.827 Usually when I that instant thing inside me that wants to jump out and say, I don't know if that's God, I don't know if this is that. 00:14:57.827 --> 00:15:02.499 I'm usually have to just take a breath and go, okay, Lord. 00:15:02.599 --> 00:15:02.865 Okay. 00:15:02.865 --> 00:15:04.333 What are you saying? What are you doing? 00:15:04.333 --> 00:15:07.336 And constantly be asking. 00:15:08.572 --> 00:15:09.706 John 16. 00:15:09.706 --> 00:15:12.042 Oh, some jumped ahead a little bit. 00:15:12.042 --> 00:15:19.249 14 - 38 I'm going to summarize this because this is the message that Peter preached. 00:15:19.249 --> 00:15:28.558 But Peter, standing up with the 11, raised his voice, explaining that what they were witnessing is not drunkenness, but the fulfillment of prophecy. 00:15:28.558 --> 00:15:36.033 He declares Jesus, as the promised Messiah, emphasized his resurrection, ascension. 00:15:36.099 --> 00:15:42.172 Peter's words pierced the crowd, leading them to ask what they should do to be saved. 00:15:42.172 --> 00:15:54.017 He urges them in verse 38, repent each of you, and be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for forgiveness of your sins, and you will receive the Holy Spirit. 00:15:54.017 --> 00:15:57.120 And that day 3000 people were saved. 00:16:00.289 --> 00:16:03.293 The Holy Spirit transforms. 00:16:03.559 --> 00:16:09.466 The Holy Spirit transforms. 00:16:11.500 --> 00:16:13.102 I love that. That is, that is the... 00:16:13.102 --> 00:16:16.539 the Holy Spirit transforms. 00:16:16.539 --> 00:16:17.474 Think about this. 00:16:17.474 --> 00:16:19.610 Pastor John taught on this last week. 00:16:19.610 --> 00:16:25.014 50 days earlier, Peter had denied who Jesus was. 00:16:25.782 --> 00:16:31.254 50 days earlier, Pastor John taught on how Jesus restores him. 00:16:31.254 --> 00:16:39.596 But then waiting, he receives the boldness of the Holy Spirit, and then suddenly he is preaching to the multitude. 00:16:39.596 --> 00:16:42.599 And 3000 people get saved. 00:16:44.400 --> 00:16:45.769 What happened? 00:16:45.769 --> 00:16:52.008 The guy that was hiding is now standing in front of everyone declaring who Jesus was. 00:16:52.274 --> 00:16:55.278 When the Holy Spirit comes upon you. 00:16:56.513 --> 00:17:01.518 He brings restoration, healing. 00:17:01.518 --> 00:17:10.227 The Holy Spirit's job is to help us look more like Jesus and remove anything that hinders love. 00:17:10.559 --> 00:17:13.563 So I went ahead and made a list of things that you find in Scripture. 00:17:13.563 --> 00:17:21.171 Just a, just through a bunch of adverbs, adjectives, descriptive words of who and what the Holy Spirit does. 00:17:21.171 --> 00:17:22.538 So let's put those up on the screen. 00:17:23.640 --> 00:17:24.840 All right. 00:17:24.840 --> 00:17:30.846 The Holy Spirit is God, co-equal with God the Father and God the Son. 00:17:30.846 --> 00:17:54.104 Scripture tells us the Holy Spirit will guide, reveal, lead, empower, fill, teach, testify, produce, distribute, anoint, wash, renew, unify, free, comfort, seal, guarantee, quicken, speaks through, and transforms. 00:17:54.604 --> 00:18:10.019 He strengthens, he enables, grants, supplies, gives access, moves, confesses Jesus, casts out demons, knows all things, leads us into all truth, and brings all things to our remembrance. 00:18:10.252 --> 00:18:13.256 And these are just a few. 00:18:13.890 --> 00:18:26.102 7-- Jesus says, nevertheless, I tell you the truth, it is to your advantage- this is Jesus speaking- that I go away. 00:18:26.102 --> 00:18:30.440 For if I do not go away, the helper will not come. 00:18:30.539 --> 00:18:36.011 But if I depart, I will send him to you. 00:18:37.346 --> 00:18:47.323 God's best plan for you and I was that Jesus leave and the Holy Spirit come. 00:18:47.323 --> 00:18:50.326 Think about that. 00:18:50.993 --> 00:19:05.741 There's been lots of times where I'm sitting there going, oh, well, if just Jesus was here, if Jesus was here, if, if, if I could just if I could just talk to Jesus. 00:19:05.741 --> 00:19:17.119 If he if he was just in the room with me, if he was here while I'm walking through these situations and circumstances. 00:19:18.153 --> 00:19:30.098 And yet he says it's best that I go, because I'm going to leave you someone who is going to be your guide and help you keep your eyes on me. 00:19:30.866 --> 00:19:33.469 That's powerful. 00:19:33.469 --> 00:19:41.644 So then I ask myself, am I really accessing the fullness of the Holy Spirit on a daily basis? 00:19:42.244 --> 00:19:47.717 Am I accessing all the things that the Holy Spirit has for me? 00:19:47.717 --> 00:19:49.586 Jesus came to bring us salvation. 00:19:49.586 --> 00:19:52.788 The Holy Spirit came to seal and empower. 00:19:58.728 --> 00:20:05.268 You and I were not designed to merely be rescued from sin. 00:20:05.734 --> 00:20:16.778 You were designed as a son and a daughter of the King of Kings, to bring his kingdom into every location and situation that you find yourself in. 00:20:16.980 --> 00:20:19.582 That's your purpose. 00:20:19.582 --> 00:20:22.085 That's my purpose. 00:20:22.085 --> 00:20:44.539 I think one of the biggest drawbacks to limiting the gospel to mere salvation is that what should be a kingdom building, people healing, and darkness crushing message is reduced to a self focused, get out of hell free prayer with little to no impact outside of mine and my circle. 00:20:44.539 --> 00:20:47.242 Yeah, I'm going to read that again. 00:20:49.578 --> 00:20:59.955 I want us to grab a hold of that, because you and I, we're not just designed for a rescue mission. 00:20:59.955 --> 00:21:04.026 Waiting for the gospel, for Jesus just to return. 00:21:04.026 --> 00:21:09.965 You and I were meant to carry the gospel into every situation we face. 00:21:10.833 --> 00:21:11.800 We are the hope. 00:21:11.800 --> 00:21:13.068 We are the backup. 00:21:13.068 --> 00:21:16.071 We are the army of God. 00:21:20.910 --> 00:21:22.310 I'm going to read that one quote again. 00:21:22.310 --> 00:21:39.394 I think one of the biggest drawbacks to limiting the gospel to mere salvation is what should be a kingdom building people healing, and darkness crushing message is reduced to a self-focused get out of hell free prayer with little to no impact outside of just me. 00:21:39.729 --> 00:21:48.237 The Holy Spirit is in me for my sake, but upon me for yours. 00:21:48.436 --> 00:22:00.082 The Holy Spirit is in me to see me get purified, to see me get refined, to see me look more like Jesus. 00:22:00.082 --> 00:22:08.958 But it's in me also, so that I can carry that anywhere I go, and that I can be a reflection of the King of Kings and Lord of Lords. 00:22:08.958 --> 00:22:14.130 That I can walk into any situation and carry the hope that I can put on the news. 00:22:14.130 --> 00:22:18.768 And I know that we win, and I get to be a part of the winning team. 00:22:19.835 --> 00:22:29.778 There is no darkness that can stand up to what heaven's kingdom is. 00:22:30.179 --> 00:22:32.347 I remember I had this teacher when I was a little kid. 00:22:32.347 --> 00:22:42.657 I used to say this and this is always stuck in my mind on the power of God's kingdom versus the enemy's. 00:22:44.794 --> 00:22:46.561 God's kingdom 00:22:48.196 --> 00:22:57.839 if you've ever been to the ocean and you find sand and you gotten in sand, and you never can get all the sand off you, you know how it is. 00:22:57.839 --> 00:23:00.509 You get in your car, it --you always find it. 00:23:00.509 --> 00:23:10.451 But if you take that grain of sand and you compare it to the ocean, that is what you're comparing God's kingdom to Satan's. 00:23:10.451 --> 00:23:15.089 It's not this 50/50, Star Wars kind of comparison. 00:23:17.425 --> 00:23:25.067 We have the power and we have the opportunity to access it. 00:23:26.067 --> 00:23:36.444 This baptism of power, Jesus instructed them with his last words on earth that after the baptism of water, that they were to be baptized with the Holy Spirit. 00:23:36.511 --> 00:23:39.515 Some of you wonder, have you experienced? 00:23:40.316 --> 00:23:41.482 Do you have the Holy Spirit? 00:23:41.482 --> 00:23:45.287 If you're a believer here in this room, and I want you to hear this really clear because this is easy. 00:23:46.555 --> 00:23:55.396 There's different camps that think this, but let me tell you, if you are a born again believer and you proclaim Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior, you have the Holy Spirit. 00:23:55.396 --> 00:23:56.898 Okay? 00:23:56.898 --> 00:24:00.669 You could have not gotten saved without the Holy Spirit. 00:24:00.669 --> 00:24:07.875 It took the Holy Spirit wooing on your heart, longing and calling you to respond to his. Okay, so are we clear? 00:24:07.875 --> 00:24:13.582 And then there's the baptism of water, which we've done the last few Sundays, that that's another. 00:24:13.582 --> 00:24:19.354 But there's also baptism of power and that's what I'm talking about this morning. 00:24:19.354 --> 00:24:27.829 It's another element that, as a believer, I'm asking for daily. 00:24:27.829 --> 00:24:30.932 As a believer, I'm praying daily. 00:24:32.034 --> 00:24:39.407 And First Corinthians chapter 14, Paul encourages us-- Lord, clothe me with your power. 00:24:40.642 --> 00:24:46.347 Lord, fill me fresh and anew with your Holy Spirit. 00:24:47.115 --> 00:24:52.954 This is a very biblical prayer to pray daily. 00:24:55.857 --> 00:25:04.132 Every day that I get here at the office, I have my time in the word at home drinking my coffee. 00:25:04.132 --> 00:25:05.733 And that's always wonderful. 00:25:05.733 --> 00:25:11.839 But every day I get here to the office, I sneak in the back and I, put my backpack down and all that. 00:25:11.839 --> 00:25:18.547 And then I come in here and I just walk in, pray and pray in the spirit every day. 00:25:18.547 --> 00:25:22.683 Not for a real, lengthy time, but every day I do that. 00:25:22.683 --> 00:25:24.051 Is it because I'm holy? 00:25:24.051 --> 00:25:24.720 Nope. 00:25:24.720 --> 00:25:27.088 It's because I'm desperate. 00:25:27.088 --> 00:25:30.525 I got to deal with people and I need to carry hope. 00:25:30.525 --> 00:25:31.593 I need to carry love. 00:25:31.593 --> 00:25:32.728 I need to carry joy. 00:25:34.128 --> 00:25:37.098 I need to not react. 00:25:38.834 --> 00:25:40.669 I don't know, maybe I'm the only one human here. 00:25:40.669 --> 00:25:49.277 I react sometimes to my wife, my kids, traffic, all the people at Thunder yesterday. 00:25:50.077 --> 00:25:52.013 Um... 00:25:52.013 --> 00:26:04.960 but if I'm carrying the hope and I'm bringing the Holy Spirit in and I'm letting that be my guide, and I'm tuning my ear and I'm keeping my frequency dialed into heaven. 00:26:06.494 --> 00:26:08.329 I'm in tune. 00:26:08.329 --> 00:26:11.298 I'm in step. 00:26:12.666 --> 00:26:17.672 This last analogy I want to use before we pray, because I want to do something a little different this morning. 00:26:17.672 --> 00:26:21.175 So, Craig, if you want to jump up here, you can. 00:26:22.810 --> 00:26:32.721 When you develop history with the Holy Spirit, you begin to dial your spiritual tuning fork into knowing the voice. 00:26:35.723 --> 00:26:43.097 When I grab my acoustic guitar and I grab it out of the case, and I was going to do this as an illustration, but I'll just explain it. 00:26:43.097 --> 00:26:48.103 I can strum one chord and I can instantly tell what's out of tune. Why? 00:26:48.103 --> 00:26:49.637 Because I've developed history there. 00:26:50.605 --> 00:26:52.606 I've tuned my ear to that. 00:26:52.606 --> 00:26:56.178 We have the Word of God, which is what keeps us on target. 00:26:56.178 --> 00:26:58.846 This is our roadmap, okay? 00:26:58.846 --> 00:27:02.616 But the Holy Spirit is the lens in which we view things. 00:27:02.616 --> 00:27:06.488 It's kind of like you have your your phone, your map when you're driving down the road. 00:27:06.488 --> 00:27:12.227 Well, if you just stare at your map and you don't look out the windshield, disaster is going to happen. 00:27:12.227 --> 00:27:13.827 And the reason I say that is this. 00:27:13.827 --> 00:27:24.372 Because if I just take the the word without the spirit, I have a tendency to bend towards legalism. 00:27:25.874 --> 00:27:28.742 The Pharisees, Sadducees. 00:27:28.742 --> 00:27:35.884 If I just have the Spirit without the roadmap, I have a tendency to follow the lawlessness. 00:27:37.685 --> 00:27:47.095 It is the Spirit and the Word that come together, that not only empower us, but keep us on target to where the Lord has us going. 00:27:48.329 --> 00:27:52.032 So what I'd like to do now is this. 00:27:53.667 --> 00:27:55.470 I want to pray. 00:27:55.470 --> 00:28:01.710 Two responses. So I want to pray, If there's anybody here this morning that doesn't know Jesus, I want to pray for you. 00:28:01.710 --> 00:28:12.153 Second, I want to pray for a deeper, a greater experience of the knowing of Holy Spirit. 00:28:12.153 --> 00:28:15.490 So if you have if y'all can just close your eyes. 00:28:15.490 --> 00:28:18.259 And let's start with the first thing that I said. 00:28:18.259 --> 00:28:20.327 No one looking around. 00:28:20.327 --> 00:28:23.298 If you're here this morning. 00:28:24.265 --> 00:28:29.737 And you would say, Andrew, I do not know Jesus as my Lord and Savior. 00:28:30.305 --> 00:28:33.307 Could you raise your hand? 00:28:33.775 --> 00:28:34.741 I'm not going to embarrass you. 00:28:34.741 --> 00:28:36.009 I'm not going to make you come down front. 00:28:36.009 --> 00:28:38.145 But if you need Jesus as your personal Lord and Savior. 00:28:40.448 --> 00:28:41.749 Okay. 00:28:41.749 --> 00:28:43.817 And you're more than welcome to come down. 00:28:43.817 --> 00:28:44.219 Okay. 00:28:44.219 --> 00:28:48.288 I've seen some people, people raising their hands. 00:28:48.288 --> 00:28:51.291 Okay. 00:28:53.760 --> 00:29:00.602 I'm going to pray for you first, and then we're going to pray for the Holy Spirit to come. 00:29:03.037 --> 00:29:09.376 Let's do this as one big family, because I saw at least one, maybe two hands. 00:29:09.410 --> 00:29:11.746 Let's pray as one body. 00:29:11.746 --> 00:29:17.184 And, if y'all can repeat this after me, say, father, forgive me. 00:29:20.387 --> 00:29:23.391 Of my sins. 00:29:23.924 --> 00:29:28.496 I declare Jesus as my Lord and Savior. 00:29:30.263 --> 00:29:38.538 I invite you in to take residency inside my heart this morning. 00:29:41.009 --> 00:29:44.011 Wash me clean. 00:29:45.680 --> 00:29:49.416 I declare you Lord and Savior. 00:29:51.251 --> 00:29:56.723 I give you my life in Jesus name. 00:29:56.723 --> 00:29:57.258 Amen. 00:29:57.258 --> 00:29:59.727 Now here's the next thing I want to pray. 00:29:59.727 --> 00:30:11.105 If you are a born again believer that loves Jesus and you want to say, Andrew, I want to walk in those things that the Holy Spirit has to offer me. 00:30:12.105 --> 00:30:15.442 No one looking around, just raise your hand, okay? 00:30:15.442 --> 00:30:17.478 Hands are going up everywhere. Okay, cool. 00:30:17.478 --> 00:30:19.413 So here's what we're going to do. 00:30:19.413 --> 00:30:25.051 I want you to put your hands in a receiving posture, just like the disciples did in the Upper Room. 00:30:25.051 --> 00:30:35.163 Not saying they had their hands like this, but they were in a receiving posture to receive what the Holy Spirit was bringing. 00:30:35.163 --> 00:30:40.468 And we're just going to take a moment here and just wait. 00:30:44.171 --> 00:30:49.143 Holy Spirit, we receive your power. 00:30:50.978 --> 00:30:53.980 We receive your power this morning. 00:30:55.348 --> 00:31:00.520 Wind of Spirit, move in this room. 00:31:06.928 --> 00:31:10.830 Move in this room right now. 00:31:17.837 --> 00:31:19.240 Let us feel your presence. 00:31:25.546 --> 00:31:28.548 We love you, Holy Spirit. 00:31:28.883 --> 00:31:31.885 We love you, Holy Spirit. 00:31:44.798 --> 00:31:51.439 Say Holy Spirit, I want to know you. 00:31:54.107 --> 00:31:59.846 Holy Spirit, I want to hear your voice. 00:32:02.950 --> 00:32:06.252 Teach me, Holy Spirit. 00:32:08.655 --> 00:32:19.066 So, father, I just pray over our congregation this morning that we would be tuned to hearing the voice of the Holy Spirit. 00:32:20.000 --> 00:32:24.438 That we would stop each and every day and wait. 00:32:24.771 --> 00:32:27.775 We would wait. 00:32:32.479 --> 00:32:34.280 We love you, Holy Spirit. 00:32:34.280 --> 00:32:37.284 We thank you, Jesus. 00:32:38.484 --> 00:32:40.887 It's in your name we pray. 00:32:40.887 --> 00:32:42.722 Amen. 00:32:42.722 --> 00:32:44.057 Amen, Amen. 00:32:44.057 --> 00:32:46.527 Well church family, I want to encourage you. 00:32:46.527 --> 00:32:49.696 Let that be part of your daily routine. 00:32:50.763 --> 00:32:53.767 Take time. 00:32:54.434 --> 00:32:54.969 I'll. 00:32:54.969 --> 00:32:56.869 I'll share a little inside of me. 00:32:56.869 --> 00:33:02.977 Holy Spirit and I sometimes dialogue a little different than I would advertise to everyone. 00:33:02.977 --> 00:33:07.881 But, I'll walk in here some times and I'll be like, Holy Spirit, I'm looking for you. 00:33:07.881 --> 00:33:09.016 Just let everybody know I'm. 00:33:09.016 --> 00:33:09.782 I'm looking for you. 00:33:09.782 --> 00:33:17.924 I'm I'm I'm trying to hear and see and know what you're doing because I desire that daily in my life. 00:33:18.157 --> 00:33:20.294 So I encourage you do that daily. 00:33:20.294 --> 00:33:22.796 Ask for the Holy Spirit's guidance. 00:33:22.796 --> 00:33:28.736 And I promise you this, he'll show up and ask the Holy Spirit questions. 00:33:28.769 --> 00:33:35.642 Sometimes I'll ask the Holy Spirit questions to tune my ear to hearing. 00:33:36.442 --> 00:33:43.549 The Holy Spirit will never violate the Word of God, but he will blow up the boxes that we put the word of God in. 00:33:43.549 --> 00:33:47.421 So sometimes I’ll ask, Holy Spirit, how do you see my children? 00:33:47.421 --> 00:33:49.123 How do you see this situation? 00:33:49.123 --> 00:33:50.390 How do you see this? 00:33:50.390 --> 00:33:53.192 How do you see my wife? 00:33:53.192 --> 00:33:55.962 How do you see this perspective, this situation? 00:33:55.962 --> 00:33:59.833 And I just wait until the Holy Spirit shows me. 00:33:59.833 --> 00:34:01.268 But it's encouraging. 00:34:01.268 --> 00:34:03.002 Amen. Amen.