WEBVTT 00:00:04.926 --> 00:00:10.314 So here's a little bit of a silly question, but especially for our young people here. 00:00:10.314 --> 00:00:18.902 If you could choose one superpower, and one superpower only, what superpower would you choose If you could only have one? 00:00:18.902 --> 00:00:24.321 And all of you, or most of you, are into all of the superhero movies. 00:00:24.321 --> 00:00:28.589 So if you could choose just one superpower, what would it be? 00:00:28.589 --> 00:00:31.306 You want to throw out an answer? 00:00:31.306 --> 00:00:34.799 Yeah, you. 00:00:34.799 --> 00:00:35.000 What? 00:00:35.000 --> 00:00:39.405 Learn anything just by watching? 00:00:39.405 --> 00:00:42.750 Ooh, that's a good superpower. 00:00:42.750 --> 00:00:43.341 Okay, what else? 00:00:43.341 --> 00:00:51.462 Somebody yell it out yeah, right here, doing everything, anything. 00:00:55.280 --> 00:01:02.030 Mind control okay, we're going to have another session on that at a later time. 00:01:02.030 --> 00:01:04.908 We will be addressing mind control, but that's not tonight. 00:01:04.908 --> 00:01:12.248 Ben, to be able to refill anything at any time? 00:01:12.248 --> 00:01:18.447 Okay, everything, everything. 00:01:18.447 --> 00:01:21.365 Okay, all right, anybody else? 00:01:21.365 --> 00:01:25.450 Yeah, correct, x-ray vision? 00:01:25.450 --> 00:01:27.704 I'll tell you. 00:01:27.704 --> 00:01:30.191 I've had enough MRIs and CT scans and X-rays. 00:01:30.191 --> 00:01:32.004 I don't want to know any more than I need to know. 00:01:32.004 --> 00:01:39.164 For sure, nate Shapeshifting man. 00:01:39.164 --> 00:01:42.150 We got some demonic stuff in the house tonight. 00:01:42.150 --> 00:01:45.727 We're going to be dealing with this for sure. 00:01:47.840 --> 00:01:48.040 Back here. 00:01:48.040 --> 00:01:55.250 Lance, bible man, which means what? 00:01:55.250 --> 00:01:56.393 Here's the question. 00:01:56.393 --> 00:01:57.885 Let's use our discernment tonight. 00:01:57.885 --> 00:02:09.145 Did Lance say Bible man because he was hoping that we would all think that was a good answer yes, and he's acknowledging that he is Bible man. 00:02:09.145 --> 00:02:10.463 He's telling the truth. 00:02:10.463 --> 00:02:14.383 All right, very good, a couple of more, just quickly. 00:02:14.383 --> 00:02:16.401 You want to fly? 00:02:16.401 --> 00:02:29.299 Okay, self healing, okay, regeneration, self healing yeah. 00:02:29.299 --> 00:02:33.042 Double portation what does that mean? 00:02:33.042 --> 00:02:39.562 Oh, teleportation, teleporting Okay, actually, that's in the Bible. 00:02:39.562 --> 00:02:40.485 That did happen. 00:02:40.485 --> 00:02:44.986 Yeah, portals man, you guys are deep. 00:02:44.986 --> 00:02:48.548 What kind of shows are you watching? 00:02:48.548 --> 00:02:50.725 That's what I'm asking Over here. 00:02:50.725 --> 00:02:55.039 You, telekinesis, okay. 00:02:56.742 --> 00:03:05.282 Again, if I don't know what the definition is, you all will just have to yes, what's the right answer? 00:03:05.282 --> 00:03:11.622 The Holy Spirit, give this young man a hand. 00:03:11.622 --> 00:03:15.050 So what does it mean? 00:03:15.050 --> 00:03:15.790 What is the word? 00:03:15.790 --> 00:03:20.669 All right, let's quiet down a little bit, unless the Holy Spirit's doing something. 00:03:20.669 --> 00:03:27.721 So the true definition of super power is the ability to do things we cannot do in our natural selves. 00:03:27.721 --> 00:03:29.724 That's what supernatural is. 00:03:29.919 --> 00:03:37.348 Now here's a question to make all of us think Is the supernatural to us supernatural to God? 00:03:37.348 --> 00:03:40.406 No, what is it? 00:03:40.406 --> 00:03:43.104 It's natural to him, it's normal for him. 00:03:43.104 --> 00:03:48.169 So why does it weird us out so much if that's the way that God lives all the time? 00:03:48.169 --> 00:03:50.264 It's normal to him? 00:03:50.264 --> 00:03:57.846 Okay, the Holy Spirit is the original super power John 14, 15 through 17. 00:03:57.846 --> 00:03:59.229 It's on your sheets. 00:03:59.229 --> 00:04:00.985 Can somebody read that out. 00:04:00.985 --> 00:04:04.042 No, I didn't put it on your sheets, I lied, I apologize. 00:04:04.042 --> 00:04:06.765 John 14, 15 through 17. 00:04:06.765 --> 00:04:09.126 But the actual verses aren't on there, are they? 00:04:09.126 --> 00:04:16.533 If you can discern the verses without them being on there, there will be a special prize. 00:04:16.533 --> 00:04:22.512 So anybody, have your Bible turned to John 14, 15 through 17 and then 25 and 26. 00:04:22.512 --> 00:04:25.026 All right, Coretta. 00:04:26.120 --> 00:04:35.024 If you love me, keep my commandments and I will ask the Father and he will give you another advocate to help you and be with you forever the Spirit of Truth. 00:04:35.024 --> 00:04:43.507 The world cannot accept Him because it neither sees Him nor knows Him, but you know Him, for he lives with you and will be in you. 00:04:43.507 --> 00:04:57.410 All this I have spoken while I'm still with you, but the advocate, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you all things and will remind you of everything I have said to you. 00:04:57.410 --> 00:05:01.084 Peace I leave with you, my peace I give you. 00:05:01.084 --> 00:05:03.706 I do not give to you as the world gives. 00:05:03.706 --> 00:05:07.567 Do not let your hearts be troubled and do not be afraid. 00:05:07.567 --> 00:05:11.769 You heard me say I am going away and I'm coming back to you. 00:05:11.769 --> 00:05:17.130 If you love me, you would be glad that I'm going to the Father, for the Father is greater than I. 00:05:19.505 --> 00:05:19.846 All right. 00:05:19.846 --> 00:05:22.244 So Jesus Himself. 00:05:22.244 --> 00:05:23.567 I mean, I would have. 00:05:23.567 --> 00:05:32.071 It seems like if I was making the plans, I would have made the plans, I think, for Jesus to be here in the flesh forever. 00:05:32.071 --> 00:05:38.172 I mean to me that wouldn't it be awesome to walk and talk with Jesus as a person here in this earth? 00:05:38.172 --> 00:05:39.343 It would be amazing. 00:05:40.519 --> 00:05:58.247 But there was a plan that Jesus said that the Father came up with together the Godhead, father, son and Holy Spirit came up with, and that was for Jesus to come to become flesh and bone and to take the sins of the world upon himself, to redeem us if we believe in Him. 00:05:58.247 --> 00:06:05.384 But then he said I need to go away so that I can send you another helper, somebody that can be with you. 00:06:05.384 --> 00:06:06.543 But what did it say there? 00:06:06.543 --> 00:06:07.666 After that? 00:06:07.666 --> 00:06:14.622 There's another place that says that you'll even do greater things, right In this verse here. 00:06:14.622 --> 00:06:15.266 What does it say? 00:06:15.266 --> 00:06:19.930 Not only will he be with us, he will live in us. 00:06:19.930 --> 00:06:30.423 My friends, if you are a Christian, you have the superpower of Holy Spirit living on the inside of you. 00:06:30.423 --> 00:06:44.206 He's already there, and when we came together tonight, one of the reasons that we felt the presence of God as we were worshiping together is because you brought Him with you and when began to worship God. 00:06:44.247 --> 00:06:49.807 The Scripture teaches us whenever two or more gather in my name, there, I am in the midst of them. 00:06:49.807 --> 00:06:59.764 I know of very few topics within the church world that have caused as much controversy as Holy Spirit. 00:06:59.764 --> 00:07:04.168 And here's the truth behind what I believe the reason is. 00:07:04.168 --> 00:07:13.968 I believe the reason is because Satan will try anything that he possibly can to distract us away from the truth that makes us free. 00:07:13.968 --> 00:07:23.023 Holy Spirit is the one who reveals the truth of Jesus Christ to all of us, and so why wouldn't? 00:07:23.023 --> 00:07:30.470 If Satan was trying to take the church out and stop Christianity from spreading what would be his number one weapon, can he get to? 00:07:31.040 --> 00:07:32.305 Well, first of all, let's ask a simple question. 00:07:32.305 --> 00:07:38.053 If you had to write a letter to God the Father, how would you address it? 00:07:38.053 --> 00:07:39.372 Where would it need to be sent? 00:07:39.372 --> 00:07:41.526 Raise your hand, somebody. 00:07:41.526 --> 00:07:47.627 I'm so glad you didn't say the North Pole. 00:07:47.627 --> 00:07:48.730 I was so concerned. 00:07:48.730 --> 00:07:50.980 Not you, but somebody was going to say the North Pole. 00:07:50.980 --> 00:07:52.264 So where did you say? 00:07:52.264 --> 00:07:54.084 Yes? 00:07:55.461 --> 00:07:59.930 So we know that Scripture teaches us that God the Father is in heaven right now. 00:07:59.930 --> 00:08:02.586 Right, and so where is Jesus? 00:08:02.586 --> 00:08:06.959 Again, if you had to send him a letter or an email, a text? 00:08:06.959 --> 00:08:09.005 What is his address? 00:08:09.005 --> 00:08:09.547 Where is he at? 00:08:09.547 --> 00:08:11.906 He's in heaven, too. 00:08:11.906 --> 00:08:16.107 The Bible says that he is seated where At the right hand of God. 00:08:16.668 --> 00:08:22.872 Okay, so final question in this circle is where is Holy Spirit tonight? 00:08:22.872 --> 00:08:25.630 He's here. 00:08:25.630 --> 00:08:27.980 He's here in the earth. 00:08:27.980 --> 00:08:35.288 He's here covering over the earth and working in the earth, and he's here in us and with us. 00:08:35.288 --> 00:08:43.940 Okay, really important to understand that If we want to know how God operates in the earth, we need to know Holy Spirit. 00:08:44.321 --> 00:08:58.851 And I'm taking the article the Away, because when we say the Holy Spirit, a lot of times it's like we're referring to something that's not really fully a whole thing in itself. 00:08:58.851 --> 00:09:06.203 Holy Spirit, I want you to know him as a person, the person of the Holy Spirit, because that's what Scripture teaches. 00:09:06.203 --> 00:09:10.609 Okay, not a human right, but a person. 00:09:10.609 --> 00:09:13.027 So what does the Bible say about God? 00:09:13.027 --> 00:09:13.649 The Holy Spirit? 00:09:13.649 --> 00:09:15.966 Number one, holy Spirit is God. 00:09:15.966 --> 00:09:25.746 He's not God's friend, he's not God's cousin, he is literally God. 00:09:25.746 --> 00:09:30.980 Okay, the Trinity is dynamic and unified in purpose. 00:09:30.980 --> 00:09:35.927 They always move together, they always keep in step with one another to bring about their purpose. 00:09:35.927 --> 00:09:37.461 Can anybody think of? 00:09:37.461 --> 00:09:45.163 Sometimes throughout history, especially in the Scriptures where you see the Father, god, the Father God, the Son and God, the Holy Spirit working together. 00:09:47.380 --> 00:09:49.889 Creation, yeah, genesis 1. 00:09:49.889 --> 00:09:52.708 In the beginning, god created the heavens and the earth. 00:09:52.708 --> 00:09:59.486 The earth was formless and empty and darkness covered the deep waters and the Spirit of God. 00:09:59.486 --> 00:10:03.980 So, first of all, we saw Heavenly Father, right In the beginning God created. 00:10:03.980 --> 00:10:07.750 And then we see the Spirit of God was hovering over the surface of the water. 00:10:07.750 --> 00:10:09.746 Why was he hovering over the surface of the water? 00:10:09.746 --> 00:10:11.647 What is the Holy Spirit? 00:10:11.647 --> 00:10:16.980 If you had to give him a label within the Trinity, what is his purpose? 00:10:16.980 --> 00:10:17.822 What does he? 00:10:17.822 --> 00:10:19.566 I almost said, what does he do? 00:10:19.566 --> 00:10:21.471 Which gives you a clue? 00:10:21.471 --> 00:10:22.822 He's the doer. 00:10:22.822 --> 00:10:24.488 He's the doer. 00:10:24.488 --> 00:10:27.980 God, the Father, is the one who thinks and considers. 00:10:27.980 --> 00:10:30.166 Jesus is the what. 00:10:30.166 --> 00:10:31.931 John 1.1. 00:10:32.625 --> 00:10:33.839 In the beginning was the Word. 00:10:33.839 --> 00:10:36.769 The Word was with God and the Word was God. 00:10:36.769 --> 00:10:51.533 Jesus gives direction, jesus gives commandment right, and Holy Spirit was waiting, hovering over the earth, waiting for instructions on how to create this beautiful place that we call earth. 00:10:51.533 --> 00:10:53.980 Then God said let there be light. 00:10:53.980 --> 00:10:55.758 So which part of the Godhead was there? 00:10:55.758 --> 00:10:57.394 Let there be light. 00:10:57.394 --> 00:10:57.960 Who was that? 00:10:57.960 --> 00:10:59.110 Jesus. 00:10:59.110 --> 00:10:59.980 And there was light. 00:10:59.980 --> 00:11:03.980 And God saw that the light was good and he separated the light from darkness. 00:11:04.701 --> 00:11:06.708 Genesis 1.26 and 27. 00:11:06.708 --> 00:11:12.633 God said let us make human beings in our image to be like us. 00:11:12.633 --> 00:11:13.903 Who is the us? 00:11:13.903 --> 00:11:17.065 He's talking to the creative counsel. 00:11:17.065 --> 00:11:19.451 You know his deacon board. 00:11:19.451 --> 00:11:23.346 No, he was talking. 00:11:23.346 --> 00:11:26.373 The Godhead was talking amongst themselves. 00:11:26.373 --> 00:11:34.509 Three different personalities, but all have the same purpose, all have the same goals and they are literally one. 00:11:34.509 --> 00:11:39.211 It's hard to understand it with our natural minds, but it is true. 00:11:39.211 --> 00:11:43.629 So God created human beings in his own image and the image of God. 00:11:43.629 --> 00:11:45.543 He created them, male and female. 00:11:45.543 --> 00:11:46.788 He created them. 00:11:46.788 --> 00:11:50.486 What's another time that the Godhead works together? 00:11:50.486 --> 00:11:55.323 Jesus of baptism yeah, that's an excellent. 00:11:55.323 --> 00:11:57.763 Come on, steve, come on down. 00:11:57.763 --> 00:12:00.004 Yeah, come on down. 00:12:00.004 --> 00:12:06.932 Yes, in the Holy Spirit, through me, is asking you to come down here. 00:12:06.932 --> 00:12:11.028 So just quickly tell us how the Godhead was involved in the baptism. 00:12:13.181 --> 00:12:34.586 Well based on the I'm thinking of the descriptions of Matthew right, you have God the Son, of course, in flesh, going down to be baptized by John the Baptist, and the scripture says that God, the Father from heaven, said this is my beloved son, and whom I am well pleased, and the Holy Spirit manifested itself as a dove, so you had all three at the same time. 00:12:35.341 --> 00:12:36.725 Right, you got it right man. 00:12:36.745 --> 00:12:36.966 Great. 00:12:38.802 --> 00:12:39.745 Yeah, that's good. 00:12:39.745 --> 00:12:42.566 Yeah, it says the Holy. 00:12:42.566 --> 00:12:45.960 No, we need to read scripture and read it the way it says it right. 00:12:45.960 --> 00:12:49.691 The Holy Spirit descended in the form of a dove. 00:12:49.691 --> 00:12:52.611 So was it actually a bird? 00:12:52.611 --> 00:12:57.609 What did the Holy Spirit do in that moment? 00:12:57.609 --> 00:13:01.528 What hadn't Jesus done up until that point? 00:13:01.528 --> 00:13:09.869 He never had shape-shifted, that's right. 00:13:09.869 --> 00:13:11.485 What did he do? 00:13:11.485 --> 00:13:16.904 The Holy Spirit descended If you think about Jesus' arms, somebody raised. 00:13:17.360 --> 00:13:18.947 Can you stand up and help me for a minute right here? 00:13:18.947 --> 00:13:22.044 You I'm sorry, I'd need to know your names better. 00:13:22.044 --> 00:13:24.125 Can you raise your hands up to the sky? 00:13:24.125 --> 00:13:25.964 Like both of them, like you're worshiping God? 00:13:25.964 --> 00:13:27.384 So this is Jesus. 00:13:27.384 --> 00:13:29.683 He comes up out of the water, heaven opens. 00:13:29.683 --> 00:13:33.360 The Father says this is my beloved Son, in whom I'm well-pleased, a dove. 00:13:33.360 --> 00:13:40.293 You see how he's open and ready to receive that. 00:13:40.293 --> 00:13:43.408 And the Holy Spirit fills Jesus. 00:13:43.408 --> 00:13:44.705 What does the Holy Spirit do? 00:13:44.705 --> 00:13:48.062 That's the first thing the Holy Spirit did with Jesus, do you remember? 00:13:48.062 --> 00:13:50.682 It's okay, it's okay. 00:13:50.682 --> 00:13:52.128 Thank you for helping. 00:13:52.128 --> 00:13:52.783 You can be seated. 00:13:52.783 --> 00:13:54.785 So what did the Holy Spirit do? 00:13:54.785 --> 00:14:00.591 He led Jesus into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil. 00:14:00.591 --> 00:14:03.687 All right, good. 00:14:04.100 --> 00:14:10.943 What's another example in the scriptures of how the three work together and we'll move on Two more. 00:14:10.943 --> 00:14:11.961 All right, quick. 00:14:11.961 --> 00:14:14.148 They work together in salvation. 00:14:14.148 --> 00:14:16.908 They work together in salvation. 00:14:16.908 --> 00:14:19.167 How does that work? 00:14:19.167 --> 00:14:23.350 Well, the Father sent his Son to this earth. 00:14:23.350 --> 00:14:26.326 We know what Jesus did, the work of redemption that he did. 00:14:26.326 --> 00:14:28.609 And then what does the Holy Spirit do? 00:14:28.609 --> 00:14:30.559 He regenerates. 00:14:30.559 --> 00:14:40.899 He draws mankind unto himself, unto the Father, and causes them to become alive so that they can believe on Jesus Christ. 00:14:40.899 --> 00:14:45.225 And then, finally, they work together in mission, and that's on your, that's a fill in the blank there. 00:14:45.225 --> 00:14:46.860 They work together in mission. 00:14:47.181 --> 00:14:48.787 Isaiah 6-1 through 4. 00:14:48.787 --> 00:14:50.865 The Godhead was together. 00:14:50.865 --> 00:14:53.047 This was the call of Isaiah to be a prophet. 00:14:53.047 --> 00:15:03.383 And the Godhead said Father, said, whom should I send as a messenger to this people who will go for us, for us? 00:15:03.383 --> 00:15:11.587 Okay, so quickly, we'll just keep moving and get finished with this part, and then we're going to do a little exercise at the end. 00:15:12.620 --> 00:15:15.347 Next thing is that Holy Spirit reveals Jesus. 00:15:15.347 --> 00:15:19.229 Holy Spirit reveals Jesus. 00:15:19.229 --> 00:15:29.426 How many of you were just walking along enjoying life and one day you just decided that Jesus was the answer. 00:15:29.426 --> 00:15:33.928 Was there something that brought you to that point? 00:15:33.928 --> 00:15:39.446 Was there at least an acknowledgement of some kind that something was drawing you? 00:15:39.446 --> 00:15:41.446 That's what the Holy Spirit does. 00:15:41.446 --> 00:15:43.563 He reveals Jesus In John 16,. 00:15:44.419 --> 00:15:47.246 Somebody want to look at John 16, 12 through 14? 00:15:47.246 --> 00:15:50.523 Come on up here and read it. 00:15:50.523 --> 00:15:55.904 Get extra bonus points at the end. 00:15:55.904 --> 00:15:59.927 John 16, 12 through 14. 00:15:59.927 --> 00:16:00.802 You got it, caroline? 00:16:00.802 --> 00:16:03.249 Whoa, they amplified. 00:16:03.249 --> 00:16:04.081 Bring it, yeah. 00:16:04.081 --> 00:16:08.023 Now, all of these versions you guys know especially. 00:16:08.023 --> 00:16:12.667 I'm not trying to talk down to you, but I want you to know that there are a lot of different versions of Scripture. 00:16:12.667 --> 00:16:21.787 Most of them are based on the original writings, which is Greek and Hebrew, and that's really important that they come from those places. 00:16:21.787 --> 00:16:28.965 If a translation is a like, for example, the message translation, you guys have you ever read the message? 00:16:28.965 --> 00:16:33.844 It's not actually a translation, it's a paraphrase. 00:16:33.844 --> 00:16:35.765 It's nothing wrong with it. 00:16:35.765 --> 00:16:37.788 Like I read it, enjoy it. 00:16:37.788 --> 00:16:43.865 But would you want to really put truth into your life and make sure that you're standing on truth? 00:16:43.865 --> 00:16:45.866 You don't want to use a paraphrase. 00:16:45.866 --> 00:16:55.043 You want to use a good biblical translation and there's some smart people in the room that can help you afterwards to determine which one is the best one for you. 00:16:57.179 --> 00:17:03.109 So the amplified is a little longer than the other translations, because it amplifies what is it? 00:17:03.581 --> 00:17:04.211 12 and 13? 00:17:04.211 --> 00:17:06.867 Yeah, it's John 16, 12 through 14. 00:17:07.420 --> 00:17:07.741 12 through. 00:17:07.741 --> 00:17:16.429 I have still many things to say to you, but you are not able to bear them or to take them upon you or to grasp them now. 00:17:16.429 --> 00:17:26.566 But when he the spirit of truth, the truth giving spirit, comes, he will guide you into all the truth, the whole full truth. 00:17:26.566 --> 00:17:43.924 For he will not speak his own message on his own authority, but he will tell whatever he hears from the Father, he will give the message that has been given to him and he will announce and declare to you the things that are to come, that will happen in the future. 00:17:43.924 --> 00:17:57.529 He will honor and glorify me because he will take of, receive, draw upon what is mine and will reveal, declare, disclose, transmit it to you. 00:17:57.529 --> 00:17:59.961 That's a lot of synonyms, good though. 00:18:00.001 --> 00:18:01.480 That's excellent, yep. 00:18:01.480 --> 00:18:04.210 So he reveals Jesus to us. 00:18:04.210 --> 00:18:07.990 He pulls back the veil so that we can see who he is. 00:18:07.990 --> 00:18:11.726 Okay, the other thing is the Holy Spirit is a very present helper. 00:18:11.726 --> 00:18:16.425 He's a helper, he meets us in our time of need. 00:18:16.425 --> 00:18:22.046 Active work of Holy Spirit should be the normal experience for every believer in Jesus. 00:18:22.046 --> 00:18:34.689 This is not something that's reserved for a special few, those who are extra spiritual among us, those who spend hours and hours praying, and I mean all of that stuff is really good. 00:18:34.689 --> 00:18:43.105 We should do that when we have the ability to, but Holy Spirit literally is a part of every step of our walk with Christ. 00:18:43.105 --> 00:18:45.605 He's with us and he's in us. 00:18:46.279 --> 00:18:50.968 So there are two schools of thought, at least in the church, concerning Holy Spirit. 00:18:50.968 --> 00:18:57.067 Number one is those who focus on knowing truth about Holy Spirit but have never experienced him personally. 00:18:57.067 --> 00:18:59.686 So they know a lot of truth. 00:18:59.686 --> 00:19:11.749 They can tell you, they can read you verses, they can maybe give you the history lesson of who Holy Spirit is, but they have not actually encountered him from an experiential standpoint. 00:19:11.749 --> 00:19:12.741 You know what I mean. 00:19:13.759 --> 00:19:16.630 Yeah, so like if, how many of you guys? 00:19:16.630 --> 00:19:28.806 You all know who Justin Bieber is right, just wondering, so, huh, yeah, I won't go into the rest of that story, but Justin Bieber, right, so I could tell you all about. 00:19:28.806 --> 00:19:30.683 Do you guys feel like you know Justin Bieber? 00:19:30.683 --> 00:19:32.627 No, no, you don't. 00:19:32.627 --> 00:19:34.512 Well, that's good, you're giving all the right answers. 00:19:34.512 --> 00:19:39.484 You're supposed to play along, though, and say, yeah, we feel like we, really we know everything about him. 00:19:39.484 --> 00:19:51.290 I mean all the Instagram, snapchat, facebook, whatever it is smack your grandma, I don't know what all they are, but so you feel like you know him. 00:19:51.519 --> 00:20:01.345 But if I were to tell you to stand up and turn around that Justin Bieber was walking in the room right now, what would be your reaction? 00:20:01.345 --> 00:20:10.483 Okay, for the adults in the room, I'm trying to be relevant. 00:20:10.483 --> 00:20:11.784 Gotta work with me here. 00:20:11.784 --> 00:20:14.247 How about if Elvis walked into the room? 00:20:14.247 --> 00:20:17.849 No, that would literally be a miracle. 00:20:17.849 --> 00:20:20.487 I think you raised from the dead. 00:20:20.487 --> 00:20:41.607 Anyway, if you believe that he actually died, okay, the second school of thought concerning Holy Spirit is those who have a wonderful experience with the Holy Spirit, but they don't have any scriptural teaching about him, and so why is it that we have to be careful with just building our lives on experience? 00:20:41.607 --> 00:20:44.363 Any reason why that could be a problem? 00:20:44.363 --> 00:20:45.605 Yeah, aliyah. 00:20:47.471 --> 00:20:47.611 Yeah. 00:20:50.359 --> 00:20:54.525 Yeah, emotions can kind of lead us in different directions, right, we don't even know our own hearts. 00:20:54.525 --> 00:20:56.566 God knows our hearts, right. 00:20:56.566 --> 00:20:58.682 What else Another reason? 00:20:58.682 --> 00:21:00.143 Yeah, right here. 00:21:00.143 --> 00:21:04.847 Amen, buddy, that's so awesome. 00:21:04.847 --> 00:21:06.445 That is exactly right. 00:21:07.140 --> 00:21:16.086 Anything that we experience in the supernatural realm, we need to make sure that it lines up with what the Bible is saying, because there are a lot of counterfeits out there. 00:21:16.086 --> 00:21:19.625 I heard a lot of counterfeits being talked about when we talked about superpowers. 00:21:19.625 --> 00:21:24.028 Right, we want the real thing, not a counterfeit. 00:21:24.028 --> 00:21:27.548 Okay, so does anybody know what a caricature is? 00:21:27.548 --> 00:21:29.904 What is a caricature? 00:21:29.904 --> 00:21:35.532 Yeah, but I know what you mean, though. 00:21:35.532 --> 00:21:49.265 Yeah, has anybody ever been to Dollywood and you pass by people and they've got a piece of paper, a pad of paper and a marker and they're like drawing faces of people. 00:21:49.265 --> 00:21:52.364 But, like, if they drew my face, what would they draw? 00:21:52.364 --> 00:21:54.865 Hair. 00:21:54.865 --> 00:21:55.892 I'm thankful for that. 00:21:55.892 --> 00:22:03.375 If you said hair, but they would also draw probably a big nose, right, and that might be the caricature. 00:22:03.375 --> 00:22:05.381 So it's, did you draw me? 00:22:05.381 --> 00:22:07.836 Now? 00:22:07.836 --> 00:22:08.980 Here's the problem. 00:22:08.980 --> 00:22:11.226 Here's the problem. 00:22:11.226 --> 00:22:16.305 I need you to pray for healing from my eyes tonight, because I cannot see that from here. 00:22:16.305 --> 00:22:19.300 Alright, make it bigger, alright. 00:22:19.300 --> 00:22:21.355 So, ruthie, I think you won a job tonight. 00:22:21.355 --> 00:22:23.682 Why don't you come on down to the whiteboard here? 00:22:23.682 --> 00:22:31.655 And, yeah, come on down, let's welcome Ruthie there it is. 00:22:32.037 --> 00:22:48.026 Yeah, so we're going to talk about a few caricatures about the Holy Spirit and Ruthie is going to simultaneously draw caricatures that represent what we're talking about. 00:22:48.026 --> 00:22:49.957 Does that make sense Now? 00:22:49.957 --> 00:23:05.387 And, by the way, ruthie and Melissa Neu and several other people had a spiritual what was it called again, I'm sorry, the Heart of the Creator, art Ministry Connect Group, and it was tremendous. 00:23:05.387 --> 00:23:08.181 It was amazing, some of the stuff that I saw that you guys produced. 00:23:08.181 --> 00:23:10.280 So grateful, so, alright. 00:23:10.300 --> 00:23:12.375 So the first caricature concerning the Holy Spirit. 00:23:12.375 --> 00:23:16.865 The Holy Spirit is essentially only about power. 00:23:16.865 --> 00:23:21.182 So how can you represent power in a caricature form? 00:23:21.182 --> 00:23:26.268 Ah, I like that. 00:23:26.268 --> 00:23:32.375 Actually, it looks a little bit like Steve Cagle, I have to say, doesn't it? 00:23:32.375 --> 00:23:35.467 I can see that right there. 00:23:35.467 --> 00:23:37.335 Oh, john Hefner, I should say John Hefner, yeah. 00:23:37.335 --> 00:23:39.192 So anyway, there we go. 00:23:39.192 --> 00:23:41.375 Can everybody see that? 00:23:41.375 --> 00:23:42.821 So that's yeah. 00:23:42.821 --> 00:23:44.249 So that's a caricature. 00:23:44.249 --> 00:23:52.253 That's something that is part of the character nature of Holy Spirit, but it's also blown up out of proportion. 00:23:52.273 --> 00:23:59.285 Right Now I'm going to tell you a story really quickly To demonstrate the power of God. 00:23:59.285 --> 00:24:10.355 I have been apart, thankfully, of many times, many experiences with Holy Spirit where he has chosen to heal people miraculously. 00:24:10.355 --> 00:24:17.375 There was one time that was a girl about nine years old and she had braces on her legs and she could barely walk. 00:24:17.375 --> 00:24:35.204 She had braces on her legs and on her arms and she was brought down for prayer and the man that was praying for her asked if they could ask the mom, asked the parents if they could take off her leg braces so that they could pray for her and believe God for a miracle. 00:24:35.204 --> 00:24:35.865 Okay. 00:24:35.865 --> 00:24:38.192 So I saw this with my own eyes. 00:24:38.192 --> 00:24:40.375 I was right there on the front row. 00:24:40.375 --> 00:24:44.375 It wasn't doctored, this was not on television, this wasn't. 00:24:44.375 --> 00:24:53.335 It was me in the room watching this with a you know about this number of people, about the same number of people, and so she sat down in her chair. 00:24:53.335 --> 00:24:56.941 It was actually I'm just going to say it was my dad that was praying for her. 00:24:56.941 --> 00:25:08.201 My dad put her heels, the heels of her feet, in his hands, closed his eyes and began to pray that the Lord would heal her and restore her ability. 00:25:08.201 --> 00:25:22.303 Actually, she had never experienced the ability to walk normally and her feet were pointing straight up and they both turned like this and pointed to the ground and then back up like this. 00:25:22.303 --> 00:25:38.268 My dad helped her up off the chair and she began to walk and run completely and totally healed. 00:25:39.538 --> 00:25:41.124 That's the power that we're talking about. 00:25:41.124 --> 00:25:46.946 The Holy Spirit has the ability to do things that are impossible with man, right? 00:25:46.946 --> 00:25:54.778 Is there somebody who needs prayer tonight that we can practice on Anybody that needs prayer for healing? 00:25:54.778 --> 00:26:03.782 Okay, scott, all right, who's got faith for healing tonight that the Holy Spirit can move in power, and not just the caricature, but the real thing? 00:26:03.782 --> 00:26:05.638 Who believes that? 00:26:05.638 --> 00:26:09.039 Okay, judah, do you believe enough to pray for him? 00:26:09.039 --> 00:26:14.375 Right, why don't you go over there and lay hands on him and pray for him? 00:26:14.375 --> 00:26:16.420 Tom, maybe you want to come and help and just pray with him. 00:26:16.420 --> 00:26:22.375 This is discipleship, guys. 00:26:22.375 --> 00:26:27.907 This is how we work with generations to see the Kingdom of God advanced. 00:26:27.907 --> 00:26:32.699 So, scott, tell them exactly what you're asking for it. 00:26:32.739 --> 00:26:34.142 Okay, so, his right foot. 00:26:34.142 --> 00:26:37.636 He's had a lot of different accidents in his life. 00:26:37.636 --> 00:26:40.887 Most, a lot of them were not caused by him. 00:26:40.887 --> 00:26:55.306 He was just in the and and, but this last one has caused a lot of damage to the point, and he's got all kinds of metal rods and things there to the point to where, at times, they have threatened to even take the foot right. 00:26:55.306 --> 00:27:05.096 The Lord has preserved him up to this point, but we would love for God to miraculously touch him and make that foot brand new. 00:27:05.096 --> 00:27:08.423 And you got to remember, god's the Creator. 00:27:08.423 --> 00:27:16.296 It's not hard for him to replace that whatever's on the inside of there that needs to be replaced and fixed. 00:27:16.296 --> 00:27:19.346 That's natural for him, not supernatural. 00:27:19.346 --> 00:27:22.096 Okay, so let's pray right now. 00:27:22.096 --> 00:27:26.465 Believers will lay hands on the sick and they will recover. 00:27:26.465 --> 00:27:27.695 So what the Bible says. 00:27:27.695 --> 00:27:31.605 Thank you Lord, we trust you Jesus. 00:27:31.605 --> 00:27:34.089 We trust you Jesus. 00:27:36.134 --> 00:27:48.563 Now, when you pray for somebody for healing, especially this kind of a really serious healing, they're all serious, but I mean you know what I mean this would be actually would be a miracle for God to do this. 00:27:48.563 --> 00:27:56.872 It's important for you to give them a chance to exercise their faith after you've prayed for them. 00:27:56.872 --> 00:27:59.859 Okay, and there's simple ways that you can do that. 00:27:59.859 --> 00:28:06.023 So, for example, right now I'm gonna ask Tom just to help. 00:28:06.023 --> 00:28:07.608 Well, scott, can stand on his own. 00:28:07.608 --> 00:28:28.022 If you just stand up, scott, and just just focus in on Jesus, scott, you're gonna praise and worship the Lord and just just move around a little bit, move that ankle around, move that foot around and just, lord, we just pray that you would do the good work, that you would cause complete healing, that the swelling would go away. 00:28:28.022 --> 00:28:31.117 We ask you for a creative miracle. 00:28:31.117 --> 00:28:33.722 In the name of Jesus. 00:28:33.722 --> 00:28:37.998 Thank you, Lord, praise you, father, praise you Jesus. 00:28:37.998 --> 00:28:44.782 Yeah, okay, yeah, there's, I can see the swelling is not what it was and I'm not trust me. 00:28:44.782 --> 00:28:47.535 I'm the last person that want to make anything up. 00:28:47.535 --> 00:28:50.423 I did not want that. 00:28:50.423 --> 00:28:51.767 We want the real thing. 00:28:52.228 --> 00:29:07.868 Okay, remember the story of Peter and John when they're going to the temple to pray and they passed by a man who was begging because he was crippled in his legs and feet and they didn't have. 00:29:07.868 --> 00:29:09.057 He was asking for money. 00:29:09.057 --> 00:29:14.157 They didn't have any money, but they said they stopped and they said look at us. 00:29:14.157 --> 00:29:20.862 And when he looked at them he said silver and gold we don't have, but what we do have we give you. 00:29:20.862 --> 00:29:25.836 In the name of Jesus Christ, rise up and walk. 00:29:25.836 --> 00:29:47.320 And the Bible says that the man went walking and leaping and praising God, and the great testimony went throughout that whole region of the goodness of God, and what God had done in that man's life turned his life around just with one word, just in one moment. 00:29:47.320 --> 00:29:50.266 Thank you, lord, for touching Scott. 00:29:50.266 --> 00:29:58.147 Jesus' name, thank you for restoring his ankle, his feet. 00:29:58.147 --> 00:30:02.517 The name of Jesus, the name of Jesus. 00:30:05.261 --> 00:30:07.726 You know, we can give glory to God in many different ways. 00:30:07.726 --> 00:30:18.622 We can give glory to him like Scott has done through his time of suffering with this, this problem in his ankle. 00:30:18.622 --> 00:30:31.722 The fact that he has continued to rejoice in the Lord and trust in him and follow him, even though he's gone through this horrible problem in his body, brings glory to God. 00:30:31.722 --> 00:30:56.223 But another thing that brings glory to God and we're not looking to compare them, because that's up to the Lord what he chooses but another thing that would bring glory to God is to completely restore him, to heal him, so that he could tell the story, the testimony to others of what God has done in his life. 00:30:56.223 --> 00:30:58.930 Thank you, Father. 00:31:00.272 --> 00:31:07.413 I just want to share something real quick about healing, and I totally believe that God heals. 00:31:07.413 --> 00:31:09.759 God heals, not us. 00:31:09.759 --> 00:31:20.348 We had healings at Trinity, at our old Trinity, one night, and it was several nights, and I kept going and kept going. 00:31:20.348 --> 00:31:23.338 Well, I was having some really serious back issues. 00:31:23.338 --> 00:31:25.767 I was going for therapy. 00:31:25.767 --> 00:31:28.073 It was the sciatic. 00:31:28.073 --> 00:31:31.585 If anybody's had sciatica problems, it is crucial. 00:31:31.585 --> 00:31:43.067 I mean, it's painful and I would wake up in the morning and I couldn't move, I would cry, I'd go to work and I'd have to sit on a ball because it hurt my back so bad. 00:31:43.067 --> 00:31:44.049 I went. 00:31:44.049 --> 00:31:45.193 Then I went. 00:31:45.193 --> 00:31:47.060 I put magnets on my body. 00:31:47.060 --> 00:31:50.272 I've heard that magnets work, so I tried magnets. 00:31:50.272 --> 00:31:52.259 That worked temporarily. 00:31:52.259 --> 00:31:53.284 It was like a band-aid. 00:31:53.284 --> 00:31:59.528 Then I went for therapy to a doctor and she said you know, I don't know what else to do for you. 00:31:59.528 --> 00:32:04.088 She said but if you come, if you, you know, told me to take a lot of ibuprofen. 00:32:04.088 --> 00:32:08.106 And she said but if you come up with something, please let me know what it is. 00:32:08.630 --> 00:32:12.951