WEBVTT 00:00:01.201 --> 00:00:03.004 We'll be reading the scriptures in a moment. 00:00:03.004 --> 00:00:05.229 This is from Acts, chapter 2. 00:00:05.229 --> 00:00:17.835 We read a couple of verses and, as you know, this is the month of October and the theme this month is Open Door Ability Uplifted Kingdom Power. 00:00:17.835 --> 00:00:21.980 Open Door Ability Uplifted Kingdom Power. 00:00:21.980 --> 00:00:36.067 And so the whole of this week, whether it's Wednesday services, sunday services and the other points of services we're going to have, we shall be providing an exposition of this theme, and I know it's going to be great. 00:00:36.067 --> 00:00:39.527 We're going to learn a lot, but we're also going to be challenged a lot. 00:00:39.527 --> 00:00:41.386 We are going to be guided a lot. 00:00:41.386 --> 00:00:45.631 We are going to see the hand of God in a very fresh way. 00:00:45.631 --> 00:01:12.887 As you know, for those who are visiting with us for the first time, either in the pavilion or online in this church, we have a theme every month, we have an area of focus, and so we are now shifting to the focus of the month of October, and it's the one I have called Open Door Ability Uplifted Kingdom Power, and therefore, you'll be hearing the word ability or divine ability. 00:01:12.887 --> 00:01:37.611 You'll also be hearing the word divine power or power, over and over again, and so, as I share with us today, I am basically raising the altar of celebrating God's power and inviting us to trust God's power, because this power makes us able and this power is a prayer away. 00:01:37.611 --> 00:01:46.028 It's available, and even through this service, I want you to know God is able to refresh you in terms of power and also in terms of ability. 00:01:46.028 --> 00:01:50.129 And so we shall stand and read the book of Acts, chapter 2. 00:01:50.129 --> 00:01:53.328 Acts, chapter 2, from verse 1 to 8. 00:01:53.328 --> 00:01:57.007 This is what the Bible says in the NIV version. 00:01:58.000 --> 00:02:02.311 When the day of Pentecost came, they were all together in one place. 00:02:02.311 --> 00:02:09.062 All together in one place. 00:02:09.062 --> 00:02:11.106 Suddenly, a sound like the blowing of a violent wind came from heaven and filled the whole house. 00:02:11.106 --> 00:02:21.968 Where they were, they saw what seemed to be tongues of fire that separated and came to rest on each of them, all of them. 00:02:21.968 --> 00:02:31.252 All of them were filled with the Holy Spirit and they began to speak in other tongues as the Spirit enabled them. 00:02:31.252 --> 00:02:38.873 Now they were staying in Jerusalem, God-fearing Jews from every nation under heaven. 00:02:38.873 --> 00:02:43.551 When they heard this sound, a crowd came together in bewilderment. 00:02:43.551 --> 00:02:46.700 Heard this sound? 00:02:46.700 --> 00:02:50.006 A crowd came together in bewilderment because each one and I like this part each one heard them in their own language. 00:02:50.006 --> 00:02:57.022 Utterly amazed, they asked aren't all these who are speaking Galileans. 00:02:57.022 --> 00:03:01.331 Then how is it, in other words, how has this miracle happened? 00:03:01.331 --> 00:03:05.830 How is it that each of us hears them in our native language? 00:03:05.830 --> 00:03:19.949 Then you jump to verse 14, right Then Peter stood up with the eleven, raised his voice and addressed the crowd, fellow Jews and all of you who live in Jerusalem, let it be. 00:03:20.580 --> 00:03:21.986 Let me explain this to you. 00:03:21.986 --> 00:03:25.288 Listen carefully to what I say. 00:03:25.288 --> 00:03:28.848 These people are not drunk, as you suppose. 00:03:28.848 --> 00:03:31.563 It's only nine in the morning. 00:03:32.086 --> 00:03:39.040 No, this is what was spoken by the prophet Joel In the last days. 00:03:39.040 --> 00:03:43.361 God says I will pour out my spirit on all people. 00:03:43.361 --> 00:03:46.366 Your sons and daughters will prophesy. 00:03:46.366 --> 00:03:49.088 Your young men will see visions. 00:03:49.088 --> 00:03:55.829 Your old men will dream dreams, even on my servants, both men and women. 00:03:55.829 --> 00:04:01.519 I'll pour out my spirit in those days and they will prophesy. 00:04:01.519 --> 00:04:11.689 I will show wonders in the heavens above and signs on the earth below, blood and fire and billows of smoke, and they will prophesy. 00:04:11.689 --> 00:04:12.950 And finally, in verse 21,. 00:04:12.950 --> 00:04:24.492 Our God, we thank you for this word. 00:04:24.492 --> 00:04:26.983 We thank you that it's coming across to us. 00:04:26.983 --> 00:04:29.629 Lord, we are open, our hearts are ready. 00:04:29.629 --> 00:04:31.841 Speak to us In Jesus' name. 00:04:31.841 --> 00:04:33.226 We pray, amen. 00:04:33.226 --> 00:04:34.050 We may have our seats. 00:04:36.641 --> 00:04:45.466 Like I said, the title of the message is Uplifted Kingdom Power, drawn from the theme of this month Uplifted kingdom power. 00:04:45.466 --> 00:04:59.086 I have already given us the scriptures and we have an outline on the screen covering three areas Kingdom power promised, kingdom power given, kingdom power manifested. 00:04:59.086 --> 00:05:05.846 Let me repeat Kingdom power, promised, kingdom power given, kingdom power manifested. 00:05:05.846 --> 00:05:32.048 Whenever we give a text in and from this pulpit here, we always give us an outline which assists us in harvesting the most that we can from a text, and the Bible encourages us to correctly divide the word of truth and that is why, for ease of engagement and fellowship around the word of God, then we put up an outline like I did. 00:05:32.579 --> 00:05:37.471 Kingdom power promised, kingdom power given, kingdom power manifested. 00:05:37.471 --> 00:05:40.329 Let me start with the kingdom power promised. 00:05:40.329 --> 00:05:59.985 You know, the disciples knew that they were not able, but thank God that Jesus told them that he was going to make them able and therefore there is a promise that they were given in Luke, chapter 24 and verse 49. 00:05:59.985 --> 00:06:03.509 Luke, chapter 24 and verse 49. 00:06:03.509 --> 00:06:14.574 There is a promise they were given by Jesus himself and he said I'm going to send you what my father has promised, but stay in the city. 00:06:14.574 --> 00:06:22.875 Some verses translations say tarry in the city until you have been clothed with power from on high. 00:06:22.875 --> 00:06:24.105 Let me repeat that verse. 00:06:24.105 --> 00:06:25.324 It's very, very important. 00:06:25.324 --> 00:06:38.673 Jesus said I am leaving, but I'm going to send you what my father has promised, but stay in the city until you have been clothed with power from on high. 00:06:38.673 --> 00:06:44.747 Kingdom power promised and therefore there was an expectation. 00:06:44.747 --> 00:06:54.333 You know, whenever somebody gives you a promise, they create room for expectation or they raise your expectation. 00:06:54.333 --> 00:07:04.612 The challenge we face with men and women is that they promise us, raise our expectation, but they don't live up to their promises. 00:07:05.454 --> 00:07:11.990 I want to thank God for the God we worship and the God we serve, because when he promises, he delivers. 00:07:11.990 --> 00:07:21.901 And I believe you know from Numbers 23, verse 19, where the Bible says God is not man that he should lie or a son of man that he should repent. 00:07:21.901 --> 00:07:23.685 Has he said, will he not do it? 00:07:23.685 --> 00:07:27.454 Has he spoken, will he not fulfill or do it? 00:07:27.454 --> 00:07:39.149 This is the character and nature of God, and so, as we look at this text, we are looking at a God who keeps his word and especially the word regarding power. 00:07:39.620 --> 00:07:49.805 Regarding power, and I really bless the Lord that they waited and they tarried as you read in Acts, chapter 2, verse 1, when the day of Pentecost came. 00:07:49.805 --> 00:07:52.331 They were all together in one place. 00:07:52.331 --> 00:07:58.269 So they went to a particular place and they were together and they waited. 00:07:58.269 --> 00:08:07.274 It could have been one day, two days, day and night, and they were there waiting and tarring and expecting. 00:08:07.274 --> 00:08:22.935 I know there's somebody here who has been waiting for God's promise to come through and I am here as a servant of God to tell you don't rush to plan B or exit on waiting, you know to go, try some other things. 00:08:22.935 --> 00:08:30.629 I want to say to somebody in this service and also following online the God I know the God who kept his word this time. 00:08:30.629 --> 00:08:32.907 He's the same yesterday, today and forever. 00:08:32.907 --> 00:08:34.404 He's coming through for you. 00:08:34.404 --> 00:08:36.125 Is somebody catching what I'm saying? 00:08:36.125 --> 00:08:39.764 God is coming through and therefore wait. 00:08:39.764 --> 00:08:40.801 Tari. 00:08:41.703 --> 00:08:47.951 Isaiah 40, verse 31 says they that wait upon the Lord, he shall renew their strength. 00:08:47.951 --> 00:08:50.488 They shall fly with wings like eagles. 00:08:50.488 --> 00:08:52.827 They shall run and not be weary. 00:08:52.827 --> 00:08:55.349 They shall walk and not faint. 00:08:55.349 --> 00:09:05.094 They that wait upon the Lord, and therefore kingdom people, there is value in patience and there is value in waiting. 00:09:05.094 --> 00:09:14.871 And they were waiting, and they were not just waiting for something they didn't know, they were waiting for something that they were promised by our Lord, jesus Christ. 00:09:14.871 --> 00:09:24.149 Now these disciples are waiting because they knew they could not proceed with God's work without the promise being fulfilled. 00:09:24.149 --> 00:09:36.173 They needed capacity, they needed capacity, they needed ability and, if you recall, at some time before that they had a challenge in Matthew 17. 00:09:36.173 --> 00:09:38.746 Give me on the screen Matthew 17 from verse 14. 00:09:38.746 --> 00:09:40.807 Matthew 17 from verse 14. 00:09:40.807 --> 00:09:42.004 I read up to verse 19. 00:09:42.580 --> 00:09:45.690 When they came to the crowd, a man approached Jesus and knelt before him. 00:09:45.690 --> 00:09:48.207 Lord, have mercy on my son, he said. 00:09:48.207 --> 00:09:50.442 He has in the first service. 00:09:50.442 --> 00:09:52.481 I couldn't read that word, the tongue twister. 00:09:52.481 --> 00:09:53.527 How do you say that word? 00:09:53.527 --> 00:09:59.745 She okay, that one, yes, that one, and he's suffering greatly. 00:09:59.745 --> 00:10:03.019 He often falls into the fire or into the water. 00:10:03.019 --> 00:10:04.100 I brought him to your disciples. 00:10:04.100 --> 00:10:05.260 He often falls into the fire or into the water. 00:10:05.260 --> 00:10:09.701 I brought him to your disciples but they had no capacity. 00:10:09.701 --> 00:10:12.703 I mean, in other words, they were not able, but they could not heal him. 00:10:12.703 --> 00:10:15.624 You unbelieving and perverse generation. 00:10:15.624 --> 00:10:18.585 Jesus replied how long shall I stay with you? 00:10:18.585 --> 00:10:21.605 How long shall I put up with you? 00:10:21.605 --> 00:10:23.126 Bring the boy here to me. 00:10:23.126 --> 00:10:30.028 Jesus rebuked the demon just like that and it came out of the boy and he was healed at that moment. 00:10:30.649 --> 00:10:38.111 Then the disciples came to Jesus in private and asked why couldn't we drive out, you know, those demons? 00:10:38.111 --> 00:10:50.436 They were very conscious and aware that they had an ability and capacity problem and the mission that Jesus gave them, namely the Great Commission. 00:10:50.436 --> 00:11:04.504 And he said go, therefore, and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit and teaching them to observe all that I've commanded you and, lord, I'll be with you to the end of the age. 00:11:04.504 --> 00:11:12.681 You know that mission, that assignment was bigger than them and they truly, and you know, like any human being, felt really they couldn't do it. 00:11:12.681 --> 00:11:20.123 But thank God for a promise, because they are told tarry ye in Jerusalem until you are clothed with power from on high. 00:11:20.123 --> 00:11:28.215 In Acts, chapter 1, verse 8, the Bible says you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit is come upon you. 00:11:28.215 --> 00:11:36.754 Then you shall be my witnesses in Jerusalem, in Judea, in Samaria and to the other most parts of the world, in expanding circles of influence. 00:11:36.754 --> 00:11:53.181 And they knew very well that they couldn't achieve what Jesus left in their hands as an assignment without really the fulfillment of the promise, and I thank God that they waited long enough to be able to be recipients of this promise. 00:11:53.741 --> 00:11:57.149 Some people don't wait long enough and you take another route. 00:11:57.149 --> 00:12:00.461 But you receive not what God wanted for you. 00:12:00.461 --> 00:12:12.687 Even in relationships a young man, a young lady or you know all these arrangements in life, business and stuff like that are not waiting long enough for what the Lord has promised. 00:12:12.687 --> 00:12:20.923 And sometimes we go for another plan and later along the way we realize and discover that really it's more trouble than a blessing. 00:12:20.923 --> 00:12:25.466 But we know the promise of God and the blessing of God addeth no sorrow. 00:12:26.259 --> 00:12:34.565 And so we see in Acts, chapter 2 and verse 1, uplifted kingdom power comes to those who are waiting. 00:12:34.565 --> 00:12:38.544 Uplifted kingdom power comes to those who are tarrying. 00:12:38.544 --> 00:12:43.505 Uplifted kingdom power comes to those who believe and trust in the promise of God. 00:12:43.505 --> 00:12:51.568 And therefore this community of believers teach us something in the 21st century, and this is that God's promises are coming through. 00:12:51.568 --> 00:12:53.626 We just need to wait and to tarry. 00:12:55.341 --> 00:12:57.509 God is so faithful and God is so kind. 00:12:57.509 --> 00:13:01.043 He knows we need strength and he knows you're weak and somebody here. 00:13:01.043 --> 00:13:04.065 You are weak, your strength is gone. 00:13:04.065 --> 00:13:06.046 God understands that you're weak. 00:13:06.046 --> 00:13:17.591 God understands that your strength is not there, but God has a provision also for that strength that you actually need, and his power is enough in his reservoir of power. 00:13:17.591 --> 00:13:19.279 We cannot exhaust his power. 00:13:19.279 --> 00:13:22.780 In fact, god's power is amazing. 00:13:22.780 --> 00:13:25.802 You understand it when you read Ephesians 3.20. 00:13:25.802 --> 00:13:32.703 That says God is able to do exceedingly abundantly, above all that we can ask. 00:13:33.764 --> 00:14:36.553 Transcription by ESO, translation by God is able to understand his capacity, and this is the capacity he wants to share with human beings, and this is a great text on how God shares his resources, and especially power, with his people. 00:14:36.553 --> 00:14:42.019 God is able to do exceedingly abundantly, above all that we can ask or even imagine. 00:14:42.019 --> 00:14:46.052 That means God's power is beyond our imagination. 00:14:46.052 --> 00:14:52.740 God's power is beyond our language in terms of asking, and that is the nature of God's power. 00:14:52.740 --> 00:15:01.028 We understand power and people struggle and fight about power in terms of sharing power and stuff like that. 00:15:01.028 --> 00:15:12.548 We have political power, we have economic power, we have all kinds of powers that are there, but here I'm talking about divine power. 00:15:12.548 --> 00:15:19.404 Divine power, divine power. 00:15:19.404 --> 00:15:54.768 And this is power that we need to be able to complete the assignments God has given us, and not just a great commission For you to be a proper father and discharge a mandate the mandate of fatherhood or for you to be a mother and discharge the mandate of motherhood, and for you to take up any other role anywhere or whichever assignment, you need power, you need ability, and I thank God that this power and ability does come to those who wait on the Lord. 00:15:54.768 --> 00:15:57.634 I don't know where you're waiting for your power from. 00:15:57.634 --> 00:16:01.788 I don't know where you're tarrying, but there is a right place to tarry. 00:16:01.788 --> 00:16:03.563 These people are in Jerusalem. 00:16:03.563 --> 00:16:06.884 They were in the place prescribed and they were all together. 00:16:06.884 --> 00:16:13.080 Some people have called it the upper room and they were all there in the right place at the right time. 00:16:13.847 --> 00:16:20.320 In Ecclesiastes 3.11, the Bible says in each time he makes all things beautiful, and sometimes you must. 00:16:20.320 --> 00:16:26.841 You might feel like the Lord still has forgotten, but God has not forgotten Ecclesiastes 3.11. 00:16:26.841 --> 00:16:32.020 And he makes everything beautiful in its time and therefore congregation. 00:16:32.020 --> 00:16:44.528 We have the joy of delving into a passage that brings out something beautiful the Lord has done and God is here delivering his promise and is doing it in its entirety. 00:16:44.528 --> 00:16:47.563 When God comes through, he is an amazing God. 00:16:47.563 --> 00:16:49.961 And so wait entirely. 00:16:49.961 --> 00:16:50.945 I'm talking to somebody. 00:16:50.945 --> 00:16:54.039 Wait entirely, don't jump the gun. 00:16:54.039 --> 00:16:59.201 God is coming through, his promise has never changed and his promise is true. 00:16:59.201 --> 00:17:00.880 And God is coming through. 00:17:01.375 --> 00:17:02.341 Ability expected. 00:17:02.341 --> 00:17:04.742 What are you expecting from God? 00:17:04.742 --> 00:17:06.740 Is it based on his promises. 00:17:06.740 --> 00:17:11.164 But number two, kingdom power given. 00:17:11.164 --> 00:17:13.041 Kingdom power given. 00:17:13.041 --> 00:17:32.026 I want to thank God for our Lord Jesus Christ, because he could have continued on planet Earth and he could have been a micromanager and he could have tried to do everything everywhere he was capable of doing that. 00:17:32.026 --> 00:17:50.704 But thank God for that promise, which is a statement on how God shares his power, or how God shares his power, or how God delegates his power, and how God invites human beings to be partakers of his mission and does not just invite them to come and hang around. 00:17:50.704 --> 00:17:56.166 He invites them so that he can grant them power to be able to discharge that mandate. 00:17:56.875 --> 00:17:58.923 Now let me read from Acts, chapter 2, verse 2. 00:17:58.923 --> 00:18:00.776 You hear how this happened. 00:18:00.776 --> 00:18:03.698 The sudden layward is very important. 00:18:03.698 --> 00:18:04.898 This year we are talking about acceleration. 00:18:04.898 --> 00:18:05.960 Now let me read from Acts, chapter 2, verse 2. 00:18:05.960 --> 00:18:06.500 You hear how this happened. 00:18:06.500 --> 00:18:07.560 The suddenly word is very important. 00:18:07.560 --> 00:18:08.842 This year we are talking about acceleration. 00:18:08.842 --> 00:18:10.403 So verse 2, chapter 2, verse 2 to 4. 00:18:10.523 --> 00:18:18.490 Suddenly and I'm praying that for someone, the fulfillment of the promise that God has for you comes suddenly, somebody connecting with that. 00:18:18.490 --> 00:18:23.834 May God just come very quickly, very fast, suddenly it's beautiful, you come suddenly, somebody connecting with that. 00:18:23.834 --> 00:18:24.734 May God just come very quickly, very fast. 00:18:24.734 --> 00:18:35.135 Suddenly it's beautiful A sound like the blowing of a violent wind, where you start hearing the sound of that promise coming, and sometimes it is feigned from a distance and then suddenly builds to a crescendo. 00:18:35.135 --> 00:18:43.950 Suddenly, a sound like the blowing of a violent wind came from heaven and filled the whole house where they were sitting. 00:18:43.950 --> 00:18:49.923 When God begins to do something, I mean it's called a breakthrough. 00:18:49.923 --> 00:18:59.319 When you read 2 Samuel, chapter 5, verse 20, or 1 Samuel, chapter 5, verse 20, where it says God will ask 1 Samuel, 1 Samuel. 00:18:59.319 --> 00:19:01.575 No, you're right, just go back to 2 Samuel, verse 20, where it says God will ask 1 Samuel, 1 Samuel. 00:19:01.575 --> 00:19:04.974 No, you're right, just go back to 2 Samuel. 00:19:04.974 --> 00:19:12.979 2 Samuel 5, verse 20, where God breaks forth like many waters 2 Samuel 5, yes. 00:19:12.979 --> 00:19:16.875 So David went to Baal Perazim and there he defeated them. 00:19:16.875 --> 00:19:23.263 He said as waters break out, the Lord has broken out against my enemies before me. 00:19:23.263 --> 00:19:26.564 So that place was called Ba Perazim, which means the breaking out. 00:19:26.564 --> 00:19:31.039 It's called the breakthrough, ba Perazim, the breaking forth of God. 00:19:31.039 --> 00:19:34.758 He says suddenly, and you may have waited for long, but God is coming. 00:19:34.758 --> 00:19:43.678 Suddenly there was a sound blowing and then there was this wind that came and filled the whole house where they were sitting In the first service, early service. 00:19:43.798 --> 00:19:53.654 I told them I had the occasion of dedicating some homes during the week and one of them just here in Lovington, and this family, god has blessed them with a home. 00:19:53.654 --> 00:20:08.325 And I went to dedicate the home and I told that family that you can own something material, physical, own it, but never own it spiritually, and that is why we dedicate homes. 00:20:08.325 --> 00:20:16.048 You know, you may have a piece of land, you have a physical title, deed, but there could be a spiritual caveat on it. 00:20:16.048 --> 00:20:23.328 That's why we come and we pray to discharge it of those caveats in the spiritual realms. 00:20:23.328 --> 00:20:29.266 And although it's clear in terms of the write-ups, there is no charge, there is no caveat. 00:20:29.266 --> 00:20:32.842 You feel it is yours but you need to own your possessions. 00:20:32.842 --> 00:20:34.280 It's called double possessions. 00:20:34.280 --> 00:20:41.487 Possess your possessions, it's double possession and you own it in the material but also own it in the spiritual. 00:20:41.487 --> 00:20:46.282 And so in that homestead I went and I was dedicating that place. 00:20:46.974 --> 00:20:53.278 Then I told everybody we get out of the house, we stand outside the door and I quoted Psalm 24, verse 7. 00:20:53.278 --> 00:20:58.001 I said ancient gates, be open and let the King of Glory, come in. 00:20:58.001 --> 00:20:59.778 Who is this King of Glory? 00:20:59.778 --> 00:21:02.842 You know he's the Lord Almighty. 00:21:02.842 --> 00:21:05.617 And I asked the husband and the wife. 00:21:05.617 --> 00:21:13.150 The couple march to that door, open it and then proclaim and say king of glory, come in. 00:21:13.150 --> 00:21:16.625 And then after that you can invite us to come in. 00:21:17.276 --> 00:21:22.178 Let me tell you, there was something powerful when that happened and I could sense it around as we entered. 00:21:22.178 --> 00:21:24.424 It was no longer the house we got out of. 00:21:24.424 --> 00:21:42.916 The glory of the Lord was everywhere and I tell you, when you invite the king of glory and the glory of God, that glory goes to the bedroom and that bedroom is restored to its mandate A place to sleep, a place to rest, a place to enjoy Psalms, chapter 4 and verse 8. 00:21:42.916 --> 00:21:53.465 Only God's glory can bring bedrooms back to their mandates, and also the sitting room and I prayed a place of fellowship, of communion, of planning, of rest and enjoyment. 00:21:53.465 --> 00:21:54.737 And the dining area. 00:21:54.737 --> 00:21:57.621 They will eat well, the glory is back, hallelujah. 00:21:57.621 --> 00:21:58.965 And now to digest. 00:21:58.965 --> 00:22:00.801 Metabolism will be right. 00:22:00.801 --> 00:22:05.618 A life of kitchen never lack the food cooked there, the ingredients. 00:22:05.618 --> 00:22:09.739 Hallelujah Zita combine vizuri, son, and people will enjoy. 00:22:09.739 --> 00:22:14.522 And sure enough, by the time I left I had eaten food from that kitchen and was poor son. 00:22:14.522 --> 00:22:17.317 I really enjoy those moments and friends. 00:22:17.518 --> 00:22:18.561 God bless you big time. 00:22:18.561 --> 00:22:20.923 May God expand your borders. 00:22:20.923 --> 00:22:22.420 May God come through for you. 00:22:22.420 --> 00:22:31.147 I want to visit every home in Jesus' name and we pray together that the King of glory comes in and fills the whole place. 00:22:31.147 --> 00:22:32.894 It's called the Shekinah glory. 00:22:32.894 --> 00:22:38.488 Now, when you do that, you see the way the Holy Spirit comes in and is going. 00:22:38.488 --> 00:22:41.900 Every other glory is emptied. 00:22:41.900 --> 00:22:45.435 You see, you fill the place with God's glory. 00:22:45.435 --> 00:22:53.196 Any other thing that does not belong to God is actually kicked out, and so we can see the nature of God from the beginning. 00:22:53.596 --> 00:22:54.357 There is a house. 00:22:54.357 --> 00:22:56.059 They were sitting there. 00:22:56.059 --> 00:23:02.748 The whole house, you know, was filled, the whole house and not just the house. 00:23:02.748 --> 00:23:13.205 The people will be filled, also the environment filled by God's Spirit, our inside filled by God's Spirit, verse 4. 00:23:13.205 --> 00:23:21.819 All of them were filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues as the Spirit enabled them, and began to speak in other tongues as the Spirit enabled them. 00:23:21.819 --> 00:23:34.148 And you know there is an amazing way when God is bringing capacity and enabling people, he comes corporately, but he also comes individually, and so the Holy Spirit comes upon them. 00:23:34.148 --> 00:23:38.551 The same way it is in the book of Genesis, chapter 1, and also verse 1 and 2. 00:23:42.015 --> 00:23:43.818 The Spirit of the Lord hovering over the waters. 00:23:43.818 --> 00:23:49.128 And then when the Holy Spirit hovered over right in Genesis, then God started to speak, you know in verse 2. 00:23:49.128 --> 00:23:56.163 Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters. 00:23:56.163 --> 00:24:00.377 Then, after that, god could say let there be light, for example, in verse 3. 00:24:00.377 --> 00:24:06.083 And now there is that whole series of let there be, let there say let there be light, for example, in verse 3. 00:24:06.083 --> 00:24:09.224 And now there is that whole series of let there be, let there be, let there be, and there was. 00:24:09.224 --> 00:24:15.390 And therefore we thank God for this visitation, corporate visitation by the Holy Spirit. 00:24:15.390 --> 00:24:21.980 But then tongues of fire, those are luminous, something that could be seen by people. 00:24:21.980 --> 00:24:27.001 Tongues of fire were coming to rest, not to come and take off. 00:24:27.001 --> 00:24:32.782 You know, tongues of fire were coming and to rest on each one of them. 00:24:32.782 --> 00:24:41.819 I want to say that when ability is received, when God is giving his power, he gives it to all of us. 00:24:41.819 --> 00:24:48.643 Let me just read 1 Corinthians, chapter 12, verse 1, from verse 1, just for us to understand a little more on this. 00:24:48.643 --> 00:24:51.583 1 Corinthians 12 from verse 1. 00:24:52.556 --> 00:24:54.040 Now about the gifts of the Spirit. 00:24:54.040 --> 00:24:57.424 Brothers and sisters, I do not want you to be uninformed. 00:24:57.424 --> 00:25:05.998 You know that when you are pagans, somehow or other you are influenced and led astray to mute idols. 00:25:05.998 --> 00:25:18.647 Therefore, I want you to know that no one who is speaking by the Spirit of God says Jesus be cast, and no one can say Jesus is Lord except by the Holy Spirit. 00:25:18.647 --> 00:25:22.977 By the way, that's very true, except by the Holy Spirit From spiritual rebirth. 00:25:22.977 --> 00:25:26.179 How you get saved, the Holy Spirit, by the way, that's very true, except by the Holy Spirit, from spiritual rebirth. 00:25:26.179 --> 00:25:31.741 How you get saved, the Holy Spirit is a midwife In your own growth, spiritual formation and growth from one level to another. 00:25:31.741 --> 00:25:34.623 The Holy Spirit is involved. 00:25:34.623 --> 00:25:36.344 So it goes on in verse 4. 00:25:36.844 --> 00:25:42.146 There are different kinds of gifts, but the same Spirit distributes them, and this happens at Pentecost also. 00:25:42.146 --> 00:25:49.730 So Paul is providing us what you call an exegesis, or rather a deeper understanding of the Pentecost situation. 00:25:49.730 --> 00:25:53.153 There are different kinds of service, but the same Lord. 00:25:53.153 --> 00:26:01.509 There are different kinds of working, but in all of them and in everyone, it is the same God at work. 00:26:01.509 --> 00:26:01.872 Now, to each one. 00:26:01.872 --> 00:26:02.275 That's verse 7. 00:26:02.875 --> 00:26:07.586 To each one the manifestation of the Spirit is given for the common good. 00:26:07.586 --> 00:26:15.707 To one, there is given, through the Spirit, a message of wisdom, to another a message of knowledge by means of the same Spirit. 00:26:15.707 --> 00:26:19.746 To another, faith by the same Spirit. 00:26:19.746 --> 00:26:23.496 To another, gifts of healing by that one spirit. 00:26:23.496 --> 00:26:35.769 To another, miraculous powers to another, prophecy to another distinguishing between spirits, and to another speaking in different kinds of tongues and to steal one another, the interpretation of tongues. 00:26:35.769 --> 00:26:41.926 All of these are the work of one and the same spirit, and he distributes. 00:26:41.926 --> 00:26:43.181 That's a word I want to underline. 00:26:43.181 --> 00:26:48.007 He distributes them to each one, just as and he's the one who determines. 00:26:48.714 --> 00:26:50.762 And then, yes, we celebrate this. 00:26:50.762 --> 00:27:04.103 So today, as we celebrate the power of God and the power he's given and God choosing to work with us and inviting us to himself through Jesus Christ, and then he empowers us, I want us to understand that he makes us able. 00:27:04.103 --> 00:27:11.265 It is not that you are able, god makes you able and God makes everyone able. 00:27:11.265 --> 00:27:35.142 This power that we're talking about, uplifted kingdom power, is corporate power, but it's also distributed power and therefore, when I look at a church like this, I can comfortably say I'm looking at gifted people and very blessed people and every one of us has a gift, and some people have more than one. 00:27:35.142 --> 00:27:39.579 Pastor Regan, I pray that one day we'll have time to just teach them this. 00:27:39.775 --> 00:27:42.544 This is a great passage and delve into the depths of it. 00:27:42.544 --> 00:27:53.046 But at service level, what I'm trying to say today is that this power has been distributed and this power is called grace lets. 00:27:53.046 --> 00:27:57.045 There is a grace that's resting in you. 00:27:57.045 --> 00:28:04.955 There is a grace on everyone, those tongues of fire that you see on their heads being distributed to each one of them. 00:28:04.955 --> 00:28:13.116 And because of this power distribution and power being vested in every one of them, they are no longer weaklings. 00:28:13.116 --> 00:28:18.343 God begins to use them and they receive capacity they did not have before. 00:28:18.343 --> 00:28:38.251 I told you before they were very fearful, they could not do quite exploits, but all of a sudden, because of this power and ability that has been given to them, they begin to speak in a language or languages that they had not spoken before. 00:28:38.251 --> 00:28:40.021 They get capacity. 00:28:40.021 --> 00:28:47.938 So there is flames or tongues of fire, and now there's this other tongue the Holy Spirit. 00:28:47.938 --> 00:28:49.020 He is around. 00:28:49.020 --> 00:28:52.962 Maintain that picture, but the Holy Spirit, he's also inside. 00:28:52.962 --> 00:28:55.644 He has filled the room, he has filled their hearts. 00:28:55.644 --> 00:29:01.315 There is a flame, you know tongue of fire, that's fire. 00:29:01.315 --> 00:29:09.144 And then there is the tongue languages, and they speak languages they never spoke before. 00:29:09.875 --> 00:29:15.807 And so when they span out into the city called Jerusalem, this time is Pentecost. 00:29:15.807 --> 00:29:19.084 It was a time of celebration, a time of thanksgiving. 00:29:19.084 --> 00:29:35.460 Very many people had come from many parts of the world and they had come for these celebrations and they used to meet around Pentecost, which was, you know, the celebration of the fast fruit, or you would call it the Feast of Weeks. 00:29:35.460 --> 00:29:54.864 It was a festival and it was a time when the harvest would be ready and it's called the early harvest, the very early harvest, when you go through your farm and there's one cup of maize ready here, another one ready there, and they're called fast fruits and this early harvest. 00:29:54.864 --> 00:29:58.942 They would actually bring it as part of a celebration and to thank God for harvest. 00:29:58.942 --> 00:30:06.766 They used Pentecost also to thank God for the Exodus, how God got them out of Egypt into the promised land. 00:30:06.766 --> 00:30:24.922 They also, number three, used to thank God for the giving of the law at Sinai when they became a nation, and so there was a triunion of gratitude around that time and therefore there were so many people who had come just to say thanks and also to celebrate. 00:30:25.474 --> 00:30:28.318 They were speaking different languages, as you will see. 00:30:28.318 --> 00:30:37.643 There were Parthians, there were Medes, there were Elamites, there were some people from Cyrene, egypt, pamphila, from Libya, some people speaking Cretans. 00:30:37.643 --> 00:30:44.025 There, the Arabs, they were there and suddenly you had no capacity to speak Arabic. 00:30:44.025 --> 00:30:49.703 But they have walked out of this place of Taring and they are now able. 00:30:49.703 --> 00:30:58.544 They have been given capacity to propagate the gospel to the nations and right here they must begin to do it. 00:30:58.544 --> 00:31:09.421 And so you show up among Arabs and suddenly you're speaking Arabic and these people are looking at you and say this guy is not an Arab, never heard him speak Arabic. 00:31:09.421 --> 00:31:11.563 And now, look, he's speaking Arabic. 00:31:11.563 --> 00:31:17.134 We have prayed for visas and we have prayed for passports and you are going to the nations. 00:31:17.134 --> 00:31:22.267 Hallelujah, God will grant you capacity even to speak those languages. 00:31:23.056 --> 00:31:29.464 This week I spoke to somebody, our member in Germany, and I told that person speak to me in German. 00:31:29.464 --> 00:31:32.320 They speak German, they are from here. 00:31:32.320 --> 00:31:40.221 Me and you speak Swahili, and we tried to cross the languages like this and I enjoyed the German, although I don't understand much of it. 00:31:40.221 --> 00:31:42.779 Guten Morgen, guten Night. 00:31:42.779 --> 00:31:50.788 I was just saying the wrong things and I saw he mixing everything and it was a joy to see our people beginning to speak German. 00:31:50.788 --> 00:32:03.876 The other week I was addressing a conference in Swiss online a conference and there were Kenyans there and some of them told me they speak the Swiss language. 00:32:03.876 --> 00:32:05.901 God is answering our prayer. 00:32:05.901 --> 00:32:10.619 This has granted languages, given capacity, granted. 00:32:10.619 --> 00:32:12.445 Let's give a hand clap to the Lord. 00:32:12.445 --> 00:32:13.529 He's doing it. 00:32:13.529 --> 00:32:18.340 They speak in languages people understand. 00:32:19.102 --> 00:32:34.382 I said in the early service, I was doing some ministry in Indonesia and there's a town called Jakarta and one day I went out and you know the Holy Spirit, when he comes upon you you can never continue sitting. 00:32:34.382 --> 00:32:38.740 He propels you, he turbocharges you. 00:32:38.740 --> 00:32:41.864 There's just something about somebody who is spirit-filled. 00:32:41.864 --> 00:32:43.159 Now, these people are spirit-filled. 00:32:43.159 --> 00:32:45.605 They are not going to stay anymore in that place there. 00:32:45.605 --> 00:32:48.478 I went into Jakarta. 00:32:48.478 --> 00:32:57.021 I don't know the language, but I went under this bridge, found some people and I decided I was going to share John 3. 00:32:57.021 --> 00:32:59.367 You know, in English, I didn't care. 00:32:59.367 --> 00:33:03.699 You know, in English, I didn't care, but somehow God is God. 00:33:04.619 --> 00:33:10.404 Somebody shows up who knows what I'm saying in English, and somebody from there. 00:33:10.404 --> 00:33:21.537 Imagine how God works and they start saying what I'm saying and right there, far from home, I share the gospel and God, you know, walks through that. 00:33:21.537 --> 00:33:26.484 You know what they called the police, but that didn't matter to me, you know. 00:33:26.484 --> 00:33:29.088 What mattered to me is that I had shared the gospel. 00:33:29.088 --> 00:33:41.078 And so these guys show up, they are speaking Arabic and all these languages and within no time they are talking about Jesus, they are glorifying the wonders of God, and these people are perplexed and they are wondering. 00:33:41.078 --> 00:33:43.535 These people, where did they go to school? 00:33:43.535 --> 00:33:49.826 How did this miracle actually happen that they can speak in a language that we understand? 00:33:50.414 --> 00:34:13.065 God is able to pick weaklings and ordinary people and propel them to high levels of activity and impact and great influence, just simply by his power, and therefore, what we need more than anything is this kingdom power, and you can see the way it translates and the way it's working through ordinary vessels. 00:34:13.065 --> 00:34:23.329 And so I bless the Lord today as I raise the altar of celebrating God's power and inviting us to trust in this power. 00:34:23.329 --> 00:34:25.398 There are two things as I preach across. 00:34:25.398 --> 00:34:38.644 I've raised an altar of celebrating God's power and inviting us you know, just inviting us to just release ourselves to this same power, and God is able. 00:34:38.644 --> 00:34:42.465 These people are very ordinary kawaida, but see what God is doing. 00:34:42.465 --> 00:34:46.342 Ability received, but finally, kingdom power manifested. 00:34:46.342 --> 00:34:55.387 This is ability exercised when you read from the Verse 14. 00:34:55.387 --> 00:34:56.710 This is what it says. 00:34:57.661 --> 00:35:05.168 Then Peter stood up with the eleven, raised his voice and addressed the crowd, fellow Jews and all of you who live in Jerusalem. 00:35:05.168 --> 00:35:06.512 Let me explain this to you. 00:35:06.512 --> 00:35:08.246 Listen carefully to what I say. 00:35:08.246 --> 00:35:11.889 These people are not drunk, as you suppose. 00:35:11.889 --> 00:35:13.306 It's only nine in the morning. 00:35:13.306 --> 00:35:15.242 No, this is what was spoken by the prophet Joel the morning. 00:35:15.242 --> 00:35:19.391 No, this is what was spoken by the prophet Joel In the last days. 00:35:19.550 --> 00:35:28.521 God says I'll pour out my spirit on all people. 00:35:28.521 --> 00:35:29.282 Your sons and daughters will prophesy. 00:35:29.282 --> 00:35:30.083 Your young men will see visions. 00:35:30.083 --> 00:35:35.070 Your old men will dream dreams, even on my servants, both men and women. 00:35:35.070 --> 00:35:39.416 I'll pour out my spirit in those days and they will prophesy. 00:35:39.416 --> 00:35:51.967 When the Spirit of God comes upon a person, there is what happens out of it, and God gives us ability so that we exercise it. 00:35:51.967 --> 00:35:55.661 He doesn't give us ability so that we can gain titles. 00:35:55.661 --> 00:36:02.126 God gives us ability so that we can serve, so that we can exercise that ability. 00:36:02.126 --> 00:36:03.230 Remember Peter. 00:36:03.230 --> 00:36:04.351 He was a coward. 00:36:04.351 --> 00:36:09.829 This guy had even denied Jesus, but he's the one taking the lead in verse 14. 00:36:09.829 --> 00:36:18.907 This guy who used to run away from responsibility, all of a sudden is taking charge in verse 14. 00:36:19.628 --> 00:36:24.505 And he preaches the first sermon in church history. 00:36:24.505 --> 00:36:28.512 In fact, pentecost is a birthday of the church. 00:36:28.512 --> 00:36:38.773 This is the day the church was born and the Holy Spirit was a midwife and the first preacher was Peter and he preached that sermon. 00:36:38.773 --> 00:36:39.614 That is there. 00:36:39.614 --> 00:36:41.543 If you read further you will see it. 00:36:41.543 --> 00:36:44.552 And the sermon was Christocentric. 00:36:44.552 --> 00:36:58.576 He kept Jesus at the center and I think I mentioned last Sunday, he just simply painted the picture of how God became man, how God dwelt among us John, chapter 1, verse 14. 00:36:58.576 --> 00:37:16.987 And then how God in man was crucified, shed, his blood Was died, became the lamb of God, became flesh in the lamb of God and then eventually he died and he was buried and on the third day he rose from the dead. 00:37:16.987 --> 00:37:19.340 And that is the essence of the gospel. 00:37:20.123 --> 00:37:24.572 And Peter therefore stands in front of that crowd and he's speaking. 00:37:24.572 --> 00:37:26.081 Oh, there were no microphones. 00:37:26.081 --> 00:37:33.704 Like this, pastor Keniti, I wonder how they used to preach those, even Jesus, how he used to preach to 5,000, and they didn't have microphones. 00:37:33.704 --> 00:37:41.155 Yeah, my brother, minister Patrick Kubuya from Congo, who ministers to us in the revival season, is here. 00:37:41.155 --> 00:37:41.715 God bless you. 00:37:41.715 --> 00:37:59.456 So how they managed to do that ministry without things like this? 00:37:59.456 --> 00:38:09.259 Yeah, but Peter stood up and with that loud voice he preached and he presented Jesus, he presented the gospel. 00:38:09.860 --> 00:38:24.315 If you read further, you will find that 3,000 people accepted Jesus as Lord and Savior in the first open air, first crusade of church history after Jesus departed. 00:38:24.315 --> 00:38:31.193 And you know, he's one guy empowered by the Holy Spirit. 00:38:31.193 --> 00:38:32.465 Can you imagine, you and me? 00:38:32.465 --> 00:38:35.188 We are just one, empowered by the Holy Spirit. 00:38:35.188 --> 00:38:37.047 Can you imagine what we can do to this city? 00:38:37.047 --> 00:38:42.873 Somebody bold, somebody strong, somewhere along Moy Avenue? 00:38:42.873 --> 00:38:56.764 I was in Moy Avenue earlier in the weekend, walked around, saw the population and you know, the street preacher that is in me felt like I could turn that place to a pulpit the side of the road and begin to shout with a loud voice. 00:38:56.764 --> 00:39:01.322 Jesus came, he became flesh, he died and he shed the blood. 00:39:01.322 --> 00:39:11.820 He was buried for you and for me and he rose from the dead and today that same blood is as powerful as it was then and your sins can be forgiven and you can become a new creation. 00:39:11.820 --> 00:39:16.800 I was feeling something bubbling in me like preaching that gospel right on those streets. 00:39:16.800 --> 00:39:23.409 Now, can you imagine one person, just one of us, you know, like Peter, empowered by the Holy Spirit, going out there. 00:39:23.409 --> 00:39:30.559 Imagine the difference we can actually make in our homes, I mean in our schools, everywhere the Lord has sent us. 00:39:31.181 --> 00:39:38.010 And so this power that is given to us, when it is exercised, results happen. 00:39:38.010 --> 00:39:40.492 And this is guaranteed. 00:39:40.492 --> 00:39:49.431 When you exercise the power that God, divine power that God has given you, results are guaranteed. 00:39:49.431 --> 00:39:54.085 And these results are not guaranteed by earth, they are guaranteed by heaven. 00:39:54.085 --> 00:39:55.869 And that's why we go by faith. 00:39:55.869 --> 00:40:05.706 Matthew 17, verse 20, says If you have faith, the size of a master's seat you can say to this mountain be removed from here to there. 00:40:05.706 --> 00:40:06.851 What does the Bible say? 00:40:06.851 --> 00:40:16.666 It shall move, yeah, and so, as we live at this place today, I am just asking us to trust this power, and oftentimes we trust other powers. 00:40:16.666 --> 00:40:18.659 You know, to trust this power and oftentimes we trust other powers. 00:40:18.659 --> 00:40:23.672 You know, trust this power and begin to practice it. 00:40:24.501 --> 00:40:31.231 In Acts, chapter 3, verse 6, the Bible says you know, peter and John, the beautiful gate. 00:40:31.231 --> 00:40:33.574 They spoke to a cripple. 00:40:33.574 --> 00:40:45.871 They said the following Silver or gold I do not have, but what I do have I give you In the name of Jesus Christ, of Nazareth, walk Taking him by the right hand. 00:40:45.871 --> 00:40:50.387 He helped him up and instantly the man's feet and ankles became strong. 00:40:50.387 --> 00:40:52.753 He jumped to his feet and began to walk. 00:40:52.753 --> 00:40:58.592 Then he went with them into the temple courts, walking and jumping and praising God. 00:40:58.592 --> 00:41:12.811