WEBVTT 00:00:00.101 --> 00:00:03.593 Let's lift our Bibles up, wave them around, make Jesus glad, the devil mad. 00:00:03.593 --> 00:00:04.240 Say this together. 00:00:04.240 --> 00:00:07.389 Say Heavenly Father, you are an awesome God. 00:00:07.389 --> 00:00:29.730 I'm glad to remind myself and others of how great you are and you have a great word for me today, and your Holy Spirit is here to bring it into reality in my spirit and I thank you for what's gonna happen in Jesus' name. 00:00:29.730 --> 00:00:31.382 Amen. 00:00:31.382 --> 00:00:34.159 You can be seated and live streaming. 00:00:34.159 --> 00:00:38.079 Please follow along in your Bibles. 00:00:38.079 --> 00:00:40.247 1 Corinthians, chapter six, please. 00:00:40.247 --> 00:00:47.348 And before I get into the message, I just wanna I was thinking about this the other day. 00:00:48.381 --> 00:00:52.551 I used to say it more often, so I have to remind myself to say it. 00:00:52.551 --> 00:00:54.487 You know, give me a year of your life. 00:00:54.487 --> 00:00:56.387 I invite you, give me a year of your life. 00:00:56.387 --> 00:01:03.706 And I heard that 40 plus years ago when I had just started going to Lakewood. 00:01:03.706 --> 00:01:08.287 It was so far from my house that I thought you know, I couldn't go there all the time. 00:01:08.287 --> 00:01:27.147 It's 28 miles each way, it's on the other side of town and I just had it built up in my mind that it wasn't practical to go there all the time, and so I stayed in the Catholic church most of the time and about once a month I'd go over there and within one time, after a few months, I heard him say that give me a year of your life. 00:01:27.147 --> 00:01:27.965 And it kinda hit me. 00:01:27.965 --> 00:01:34.061 And then I read in my Bible about a couple of weeks after that. 00:01:34.061 --> 00:01:40.483 I read in my Bible where Jesus and his own hometown could there do no mighty work because they're unbelief. 00:01:40.483 --> 00:01:46.906 And how Jesus said that the traditions of mid render the Word of God in none effect. 00:01:46.906 --> 00:01:58.825 And I remembered my Baltimore Catechism that said the Catholic church is one true church created by God, and its foundation is scripture and tradition equal. 00:01:58.825 --> 00:02:07.010 And I'd already been offended by the traditions of their men because I'd seen that they had changed. 00:02:07.010 --> 00:02:09.903 I mean, does God change? 00:02:09.903 --> 00:02:24.346 But when I got saved, see, you know, I started questioning some of the things that I'd been raised on, and you know what I made that decision to give brother Osteen a year of my life turned into 15 years and this church is a result of it. 00:02:24.346 --> 00:02:31.704 So you know we live in a time right now where people are kinda floating around, there are church left them. 00:02:31.704 --> 00:02:37.425 In many cases they come up and tell me you know, the first time guests I'll get to meet them and they'll tell me their story. 00:02:37.520 --> 00:02:47.324 I had one said your other church turned woke Pastor accused all the people of being, you know, white supremacists. 00:02:47.324 --> 00:02:48.387 We need to repent. 00:02:48.387 --> 00:02:50.085 What a bunch of garbage. 00:02:50.085 --> 00:02:54.887 It's just the communist propaganda is what it is. 00:02:54.887 --> 00:02:58.288 What kind of an idiot would say that from the pulpit? 00:02:58.288 --> 00:02:58.801 Not me. 00:02:58.801 --> 00:03:00.963 I know my Bible. 00:03:00.963 --> 00:03:02.364 We're new creations. 00:03:02.364 --> 00:03:04.465 We're new creatures we never before existed. 00:03:04.465 --> 00:03:06.724 Shut up about your racism. 00:03:06.724 --> 00:03:10.901 You're not black, you're not brown, you're not white. 00:03:10.901 --> 00:03:12.328 You're a new creature. 00:03:12.328 --> 00:03:14.683 You know race. 00:03:15.442 --> 00:03:17.840 You don't need any reparations. 00:03:17.840 --> 00:03:25.639 Oh, I'm getting off All right, so we can all get reparations. 00:03:25.639 --> 00:03:31.750 Our government has cheated them, us out of billions trillions, robbing us blind. 00:03:31.750 --> 00:03:33.840 We need reparations. 00:03:33.840 --> 00:03:36.531 Everybody needs a reparation. 00:03:36.531 --> 00:03:39.679 Oh, I'm really off of it now. 00:03:39.819 --> 00:03:41.233 I was talking give me a year of your life. 00:03:41.233 --> 00:03:43.819 Well, let's see if this was rubbing you wrong. 00:03:43.819 --> 00:03:46.519 Where you don't belong here, go, keep looking. 00:03:46.519 --> 00:03:51.020 But if you like what I'm saying, hey, you've been going. 00:03:51.020 --> 00:03:54.362 You're like a grasshopper, you know, just popping from one place to the other. 00:03:54.362 --> 00:03:56.532 How's that working for you? 00:03:56.532 --> 00:03:59.099 You're not designed to do that as a Christian. 00:03:59.099 --> 00:04:00.979 You're designed to plant somewhere. 00:04:00.979 --> 00:04:02.498 Well, I just don't know. 00:04:02.498 --> 00:04:03.758 Well, give me a year. 00:04:03.758 --> 00:04:05.235 What have you got to look? 00:04:05.235 --> 00:04:07.866 Give me a year and after a year. 00:04:07.866 --> 00:04:09.271 If you don't like it, you can leave. 00:04:09.271 --> 00:04:14.485 Then At least you took me up on that, at least you took me up on my word. 00:04:15.460 --> 00:04:20.449 But it takes me a year to preach messages like I'm gonna share with you this morning. 00:04:20.449 --> 00:04:23.543 It takes me a year to give you the whole counsel of the Word of God. 00:04:23.543 --> 00:04:25.286 That's why I ask you to give me a year. 00:04:25.286 --> 00:04:26.622 I mean after a year. 00:04:26.622 --> 00:04:33.019 I didn't wanna leave Oastad, brother Oastad, I didn't wanna leave Dodie, I didn't wanna leave what I was getting. 00:04:33.019 --> 00:04:35.204 But that might not be you, me. 00:04:35.204 --> 00:04:36.168 You might be here a year. 00:04:36.168 --> 00:04:42.408 Some people are here six months, some people here a year, and then I don't see them and I don't call them and say, hey, where are you? 00:04:43.910 --> 00:04:55.185 And we have, you know, we have give you an opportunity to find out whether you belong here or not, and so this message this morning is a real key message for your Christian life. 00:04:55.185 --> 00:05:03.228 It'll take me a couple of weeks to preach it, but let's start with 1 Corinthians, chapter six, and give me a year of your life If you haven't. 00:05:03.228 --> 00:05:07.908 And that doesn't mean that you have to join us and be an official member. 00:05:07.908 --> 00:05:09.853 Even we don't require that. 00:05:09.853 --> 00:05:12.168 We give you an opportunity that's coming up here pretty quick. 00:05:12.168 --> 00:05:22.665 We're gonna have a new members class and it's not any obligation for you to be a member once you complete the class. 00:05:22.665 --> 00:05:26.170 It's really an investigation on your side and our side. 00:05:26.170 --> 00:05:30.346 We get to kind of know you too, see if you belong here. 00:05:30.346 --> 00:05:32.005 We just want the ones that belong here. 00:05:34.220 --> 00:05:44.630 Sometimes it takes a little while to discover that, like I've told you my testimony about Lakewood, I had to overcome mental, false mental ideas. 00:05:44.630 --> 00:05:50.970 And so 1 Corinthians, chapter six, verse 19,. 00:05:50.970 --> 00:05:54.225 Paul's writing to the Corinthians and to us. 00:05:54.225 --> 00:05:57.841 He says what See? 00:05:57.841 --> 00:06:02.879 I like to say it like I think he said what Don't you know? 00:06:02.879 --> 00:06:17.108 Don't you know that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which you have of God, and you're not your own? 00:06:17.108 --> 00:06:31.882 Question mark, hey, you're not your own News flash, you're not your own, you don't belong to yourself, for you're bought with a price. 00:06:31.882 --> 00:06:42.649 Therefore, glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are gods. 00:06:44.187 --> 00:06:48.994 And so I wanted to start a message entitled cooperating with the Holy Ghost. 00:06:48.994 --> 00:06:51.785 Cooperating with the Holy Ghost. 00:06:51.785 --> 00:06:52.512 This is. 00:06:52.512 --> 00:07:03.584 You know, I teach a lot on faith, I teach on healing here recently and turning things around the last couple of weeks I'll teach a lot on faith, because our faith needs to be fed, but on the flip side of that, we need the spirit. 00:07:03.584 --> 00:07:10.353 We need to know how to cooperate with the third person that God has actually living on the inside of us. 00:07:10.353 --> 00:07:30.084 Years ago I realized that really cooperating with the Holy Ghost is the epitome of humility when you realize that you don't belong to yourself, when you realize that the Holy Ghost lives on the inside. 00:07:30.084 --> 00:07:32.052 Everywhere you go he goes. 00:07:32.052 --> 00:07:35.293 Everything you do he's doing with you. 00:07:37.564 --> 00:07:39.653 I call it being God inside minded. 00:07:39.653 --> 00:07:55.752 You know, the church is not very God inside minded, I have to say, in 43 years of being saved, 35 years of being an ordained minister, next January 29th I'll enter. 00:07:55.752 --> 00:07:58.072 This church will enter its 30th year. 00:07:58.072 --> 00:07:59.488 We're 29th anniversary. 00:07:59.488 --> 00:08:01.154 We're going into our 30th year. 00:08:01.154 --> 00:08:04.350 Next year, all next year, we're going to talk about that 30th year. 00:08:04.350 --> 00:08:06.487 We're in this thing. 00:08:06.749 --> 00:08:08.555 This is not a fly by night church. 00:08:08.555 --> 00:08:09.507 This is not a cult. 00:08:09.507 --> 00:08:12.214 This is not a Johnny come lately. 00:08:12.214 --> 00:08:18.151 It deserves honor and respect. 00:08:18.151 --> 00:08:25.434 For you know, really these verses are talking about you individually, but it's talking about the Corinthian church corporately. 00:08:25.434 --> 00:08:35.691 The Holy Ghost dwells in them corporately and that they need to be God inside, minded when it comes to coming together. 00:08:36.745 --> 00:08:37.648 The Holy Ghost is here. 00:08:37.648 --> 00:08:38.711 You all feel him. 00:08:38.711 --> 00:08:42.293 I mean he's tangible here this morning. 00:08:42.293 --> 00:08:49.754 Those, I mean they hit the second song and it just went, you know, hard to stand up out there. 00:08:49.754 --> 00:08:51.878 What is that? 00:08:51.878 --> 00:09:00.562 That is the presence of God, and so, thank God for the Holy Ghost. 00:09:00.562 --> 00:09:18.756 Every believer has the Holy Ghost living inside of them and every Bible believing spirit yielding church and assembly has a spirit of God living inside of them collectively. 00:09:18.756 --> 00:09:21.828 I like first John, four, four. 00:09:21.828 --> 00:09:24.450 Greater is he that's in you than he that's in the world. 00:09:24.450 --> 00:09:29.373 No matter what's going on, you've got the greater one living inside of you. 00:09:29.373 --> 00:09:32.191 He's far you, he's with you. 00:09:32.191 --> 00:09:34.931 That last song, the blessing. 00:09:37.404 --> 00:09:44.990 And so in John, chapter 14, 15 and 16, jesus began to teach. 00:09:44.990 --> 00:09:53.147 The disciples started with 12 and then one of the 12 left, that was Judas, and he finished teaching about the Holy Ghost. 00:09:53.147 --> 00:09:56.428 After Judas left the room to go out to betray him. 00:09:56.428 --> 00:10:12.592 I mean, right the last minute, he starts talking to them about the Holy Spirit and he called the Holy Spirit the Comforter or really the Greek is Paracletus and Comforter and the King James. 00:10:12.592 --> 00:10:21.993 It's a poor translation of the word, you know, the Greek language is a, and I'm not a Greek scholar, but I've got books and I can consult my coordinates. 00:10:21.993 --> 00:10:25.929 And I've got other books and I can get a sense of what the meaning of the word is. 00:10:25.929 --> 00:10:30.571 And you know, comforter's just not really that much of what the Holy Ghost does. 00:10:30.571 --> 00:10:31.629 I like the amplified. 00:10:31.629 --> 00:10:35.253 It kind of tells you a little bit more of the amplified when you read John 14. 00:10:36.265 --> 00:10:43.254 It says the Comforter is the counselor, helper, intercessor, whole play for me. 00:10:43.254 --> 00:10:44.448 Well, the Holy Ghost is inside. 00:10:44.448 --> 00:10:45.152 He's praying for you. 00:10:45.152 --> 00:10:46.948 Is that good enough or not? 00:10:46.948 --> 00:10:48.533 Or do you need more? 00:10:48.533 --> 00:10:49.469 You need more prayer. 00:10:49.469 --> 00:10:54.010 You need somebody else to pray for, you need a whole army. 00:10:54.071 --> 00:11:01.327 People have the idea if I can get an army of people praying, but you've got the intercessor, you've got the Holy Ghost Praying for you. 00:11:01.327 --> 00:11:04.917 How does that work? 00:11:04.917 --> 00:11:05.466 I don't know. 00:11:05.466 --> 00:11:14.152 You can ask him when you see him, god praying to God, the third person praying to the first person. 00:11:14.152 --> 00:11:16.727 He's so humble. 00:11:17.691 --> 00:11:18.553 The spirit of God is. 00:11:18.553 --> 00:11:24.913 He's not gonna elbow his way to the forefront, he is not gonna insist that you pay attention. 00:11:24.913 --> 00:11:33.653 He is going to lead you, he's going to guide you and it's up to you to cooperate, which is why we're giving you this message. 00:11:33.653 --> 00:11:37.153 I believe it'll help you live in a successful manner. 00:11:37.153 --> 00:11:39.451 God wants you to be successful. 00:11:39.451 --> 00:11:40.730 He's not against you, he's for you. 00:11:40.730 --> 00:11:44.328 He's not trying to make things complicated, he's trying to ease you. 00:11:44.328 --> 00:11:48.333 He's trying to bring you into the fullness of what he's created you to do. 00:11:48.333 --> 00:11:52.792 All this message to help you. 00:11:52.792 --> 00:11:56.653 So you know he's the intercessor, the advocate. 00:11:56.653 --> 00:11:57.707 You need an attorney. 00:11:57.707 --> 00:11:58.350 He's your attorney. 00:11:58.350 --> 00:12:03.054 When you mess up, he represents you to the Father. 00:12:03.054 --> 00:12:05.048 He doesn't condemn you. 00:12:06.004 --> 00:12:10.404 I hear people say this a lot in Christianity and I try to teach people better. 00:12:10.404 --> 00:12:19.331 But the Bible says that the Holy Ghost convicts the world of sin, righteousness and judgment. 00:12:19.331 --> 00:12:22.551 Everybody say convicts who? 00:12:22.551 --> 00:12:24.736 The world, the world? 00:12:24.736 --> 00:12:25.802 Are you in the world? 00:12:25.802 --> 00:12:28.429 Well, you're in the world, but what You're not of the world. 00:12:28.429 --> 00:12:31.371 So he doesn't convict you of sin. 00:12:32.644 --> 00:12:39.211 Huh, I've heard Christians all the time oh, the Lord convicted me? 00:12:39.211 --> 00:12:39.849 No, he didn't. 00:12:39.849 --> 00:12:42.511 Well, the Holy Ghost convicted me? 00:12:42.511 --> 00:12:43.274 No, he didn't. 00:12:43.274 --> 00:12:46.110 He doesn't do that to the believer. 00:12:46.110 --> 00:12:46.471 Why? 00:12:46.471 --> 00:12:49.971 Because you've been born again and he's not the accuser. 00:12:49.971 --> 00:12:50.948 Who is the accuser? 00:12:51.009 --> 00:12:57.432 The devil, I'll tell you who does remind you when you miss the mark, and that's your own spirit. 00:12:57.432 --> 00:12:58.831 Your conscience hurts you. 00:12:58.831 --> 00:13:08.248 You get into the Word of God and pray in the Holy Ghost, then your conscience will let you know when you've missed it. 00:13:08.248 --> 00:13:13.494 In fact, sometimes, if you just get sensitive enough, you don't need any kind of a voice to tell you you missed it. 00:13:13.494 --> 00:13:15.732 You just feel bad and you know, you recognize. 00:13:15.732 --> 00:13:17.130 Oh man, I missed it. 00:13:17.130 --> 00:13:23.634 Lord forgive me, I shouldn't have said that, I shouldn't have done that and right then you get it taken care of. 00:13:23.634 --> 00:13:24.908 1 John 1-9,. 00:13:24.908 --> 00:13:30.893 And then he cleanses you of all unrighteousness, he forgives you and he forgets it. 00:13:30.893 --> 00:13:32.450 No, the only person that remembers it? 00:13:32.450 --> 00:13:33.433 You and the devil. 00:13:33.433 --> 00:13:35.972 So you need to forget it. 00:13:35.972 --> 00:13:38.144 Well, how about penance? 00:13:38.144 --> 00:13:39.725 No, the penance is not in the Bible. 00:13:39.725 --> 00:13:42.924 That's another Catholic tradition that you're gonna have to get over. 00:13:42.924 --> 00:13:43.633 Some of you Catholic? 00:13:43.633 --> 00:13:44.523 How many of you Catholic? 00:13:44.523 --> 00:13:49.544 Oh, you don't have to lift your hand, but anyway, I'd rather not know. 00:13:49.544 --> 00:13:58.144 Anyway, I spent that first few months after I got saved thinking that God was gonna use me with Catholics. 00:13:58.144 --> 00:13:59.484 Well, he has. 00:13:59.484 --> 00:14:04.825 I guarantee you, I've preached to more Catholics than anybody. 00:14:04.825 --> 00:14:08.655 I mean, I've been to the Catholic capital of the world, philippines. 00:14:08.655 --> 00:14:11.544 You talk about Catholics. 00:14:11.544 --> 00:14:12.150 I had. 00:14:12.150 --> 00:14:13.524 The nuns protested me. 00:14:13.524 --> 00:14:15.365 They were carrying signs. 00:14:15.684 --> 00:14:23.378 So he's your strengthener. 00:14:23.378 --> 00:14:36.691 He's your strengthener, he's your standby, he's the one called alongside to help think about God standing by you. 00:14:36.691 --> 00:14:42.091 Oh my goodness, how much help do you really need? 00:14:42.091 --> 00:14:46.534 See, I'm talking about cooperating with the Holy Ghost. 00:14:46.534 --> 00:14:52.729 And so he taught them a little bit John, chapter 14, 15, and 16,. 00:14:52.729 --> 00:14:57.192 He says I've got so many things to share with you, but you cannot bear them now. 00:14:57.192 --> 00:15:02.144 He couldn't teach them all that he could have and he waited till the end. 00:15:02.144 --> 00:15:02.486 Why? 00:15:02.486 --> 00:15:06.094 Because they're not spirit, they're not born again yet. 00:15:06.094 --> 00:15:07.565 They hadn't died on the cross yet. 00:15:07.565 --> 00:15:10.433 There's only so much they can understand of the Holy Spirit. 00:15:10.433 --> 00:15:16.284 They did, even though they were anointed of the Holy Spirit, to get the sick healed and devils cast out. 00:15:16.284 --> 00:15:22.313 They were anointed, they had the Spirit of God upon them when he sent them out first you know the 12 and then the 70. 00:15:22.313 --> 00:15:27.131 They were familiar with the anointing upon them, but they didn't have it inside them. 00:15:27.131 --> 00:15:30.312 He said you can't bear it yet. 00:15:32.326 --> 00:15:36.125 And so I like what one Bible scholar said about Paul's ministry. 00:15:36.125 --> 00:15:42.394 He preaches the things that went to heaven with Jesus, unuttered, untaught. 00:15:42.394 --> 00:15:53.054 Jesus had to keep those things to himself, and that's why he brought Paul up to heaven to share with him this gospel of in Christ. 00:15:53.054 --> 00:15:59.332 I mean, man, you've got to get that revelation and this is part of it here in 1 Corinthians. 00:15:59.332 --> 00:16:05.347 So you know, he's not just here today and gone to more. 00:16:05.347 --> 00:16:10.475 Like people are, like relationships are even like churches are. 00:16:10.475 --> 00:16:15.388 No, he's forever, he's in there. 00:16:15.388 --> 00:16:18.749 You know, some people think they sin and the Holy Ghost leaves. 00:16:18.749 --> 00:16:19.250 Where would he go? 00:16:19.250 --> 00:16:23.404 And they're just constantly. 00:16:23.625 --> 00:16:25.653 Oh, I have one famous preacher. 00:16:25.653 --> 00:16:32.386 I won't mention his name, but he got on TV after he was caught in terrible sin and it was just really embarrassing for his family and his ministry. 00:16:32.386 --> 00:16:33.431 It ruined his ministry. 00:16:33.431 --> 00:16:35.067 It was so public. 00:16:35.067 --> 00:16:37.272 You probably know who it is, but I don't care. 00:16:37.272 --> 00:16:39.472 I'm not interested in demeaning him. 00:16:39.565 --> 00:16:45.094 I'm using what he did as an example of somebody that doesn't know his Bible like he thinks he does. 00:16:45.094 --> 00:16:52.590 And he prayed David's prayer, oh, in front of the whole congregation after they knew what he had done. 00:16:52.590 --> 00:16:59.380 Holy Spirit, oh God, god, take not thine Holy Spirit from me. 00:16:59.380 --> 00:17:01.408 Well, what a bunch of bunk. 00:17:01.408 --> 00:17:02.508 I heard that. 00:17:02.508 --> 00:17:04.510 I thought you don't even know what you're talking about. 00:17:04.510 --> 00:17:10.548 Man, yeah, you sin, but the Holy Ghost ain't going nowhere, you're not lost. 00:17:10.548 --> 00:17:15.074 See, he's comparing himself to David. 00:17:15.074 --> 00:17:19.825 Well, david was Old Testament and David prayed that prayer because of Saul. 00:17:20.467 --> 00:17:28.175 Saul God took the Holy Ghost off of Saul and he rejected him for his sin. 00:17:28.175 --> 00:17:31.105 That's not the same at all. 00:17:31.105 --> 00:17:34.233 That's the anointing to minutes, the anointing of King. 00:17:34.233 --> 00:17:37.365 That has nothing to do with being lost or saved. 00:17:37.365 --> 00:17:42.664 So there's a lot of Pentecostal teaching going around where people just feel like they're lost. 00:17:42.664 --> 00:17:45.065 Every time they feel like it, they feel lost. 00:17:45.065 --> 00:17:48.480 They come to the altar and rededicate See, that's a bunch of bunk. 00:17:48.480 --> 00:17:49.721 Stop it. 00:17:50.906 --> 00:17:52.071 He's not gone anywhere. 00:17:52.071 --> 00:17:56.190 He's with you, he's in you, he's for you. 00:17:56.190 --> 00:17:59.771 He didn't convict you, he's not accusing you. 00:17:59.771 --> 00:18:02.132 Just go ahead and get right. 00:18:02.132 --> 00:18:06.611 Just go ahead and get right and get it under the blood and get on down the road. 00:18:06.611 --> 00:18:09.365 I don't know who this is for, but anyway, all right. 00:18:09.365 --> 00:18:09.605 All right. 00:18:09.605 --> 00:18:14.273 So he's in us for our benefit. 00:18:14.273 --> 00:18:18.451 It's all benefit, it's all a blessing. 00:18:18.451 --> 00:18:20.794 It's not in you to condemn you. 00:18:20.794 --> 00:18:22.893 He's not in you to spy on you. 00:18:22.893 --> 00:18:25.413 He's not in you to find fault with you. 00:18:25.413 --> 00:18:26.710 He's in you to help you. 00:18:26.710 --> 00:18:30.955 Really, the shortest definition of paraclete is helper. 00:18:30.955 --> 00:18:37.548 He's here to help you, and when you don't cooperate with the helper, then you're cheating yourself. 00:18:37.548 --> 00:18:42.930 How many of you determined not to cheat yourself. 00:18:42.930 --> 00:18:44.707 Amen. 00:18:44.707 --> 00:18:45.787 All right. 00:18:45.787 --> 00:18:53.653 So I want to give you four areas Everybody say four areas In which it's vital to cooperate with the Holy Ghost. 00:18:55.424 --> 00:18:58.045 Vital when you go to the doctor, what do they do? 00:18:58.045 --> 00:19:02.134 They check your vital signs, check temperature, check your blood pressure, your pulse. 00:19:02.134 --> 00:19:07.045 Old Jewish doctors would take you by the hands and feel your hands. 00:19:07.045 --> 00:19:08.644 They'd get you to stick out your tongue. 00:19:08.644 --> 00:19:13.471 They'd look at your tongue, they'd look up your nose, they'd look in your ears. 00:19:13.471 --> 00:19:23.554 They could do more with just that amount of observation than most of these fancy million dollar pieces of equipment they have down there now. 00:19:23.554 --> 00:19:27.164 They just knew how to doctor people. 00:19:27.164 --> 00:19:28.039 Why'd you say Jewish? 00:19:28.039 --> 00:19:39.255 Well, because most of the doctors are Jewish or were Back when I grew up, and so it's vital. 00:19:39.255 --> 00:19:39.948 What is it vital? 00:19:39.948 --> 00:19:42.011 It means your life depends on it. 00:19:42.011 --> 00:19:45.590 I said your life depends on it. 00:19:45.625 --> 00:19:48.492 It's vital for you to cooperate with the Holy Ghost in these four areas. 00:19:48.492 --> 00:19:48.954 What are they? 00:19:48.954 --> 00:19:53.192 I'm not gonna get all four up the day, but I'll name them right now, up front. 00:19:53.192 --> 00:19:58.211 Cooperate with the Holy Ghost, be God inside minded. 00:19:58.211 --> 00:20:03.946 Think about the fact you don't belong to yourself, amen. 00:20:03.946 --> 00:20:11.952 This is the epitome of humility when you let God number one be controlled by the Holy Ghost. 00:20:11.952 --> 00:20:14.511 Number two be led by the Holy Ghost. 00:20:14.511 --> 00:20:17.112 Number three be filled with the Holy Ghost. 00:20:17.112 --> 00:20:21.375 Number four have fellowship with the Holy Ghost. 00:20:21.375 --> 00:20:24.788 Let's go through it again Now. 00:20:24.788 --> 00:20:26.094 This is what I'm gonna teach. 00:20:26.094 --> 00:20:28.071 You're probably first two today. 00:20:28.071 --> 00:20:33.087 Maybe If I get past the first one that's what beauty being a pastor. 00:20:33.087 --> 00:20:37.993 I don't have to give you the whole load this Sunday, I can just dole it out as it comes out. 00:20:37.993 --> 00:20:54.698 But I'm gonna teach you to cooperate with the Holy Ghost in these four areas Be controlled by the Holy Ghost, be led by the Holy Ghost, be filled with the Holy Ghost and have fellowship with the Holy Ghost. 00:20:54.698 --> 00:20:57.558 So we start with be controlled by the Holy Ghost. 00:20:57.950 --> 00:21:02.433 We notice here in 1 Corinthians, chapter six, that we are not our own. 00:21:02.433 --> 00:21:03.959 We are bought with a price. 00:21:03.959 --> 00:21:12.038 Therefore, what we should glorify God in our body, in our body and in our spirit, with your gods. 00:21:12.038 --> 00:21:13.717 Now he wrote this to Corinthian church. 00:21:13.717 --> 00:21:27.833 I wanna remind you what came out in our teaching week before last and last week about the Corinthian church, because I was reading out of 1 Corinthians 1 last week and the week before about turning things around the Corinthian church. 00:21:28.694 --> 00:21:33.738 Paul said in verse seven you come behind in no good gift. 00:21:33.738 --> 00:21:36.737 They were a spirit filled church. 00:21:36.737 --> 00:21:38.075 They were tongue talking church. 00:21:38.075 --> 00:21:40.474 They spoke in tongues, they had gifts of the spirit. 00:21:40.474 --> 00:21:44.438 They had disorder in their services. 00:21:44.438 --> 00:21:48.194 He had to address that in 1 Corinthians, chapter 12, 13 and 14. 00:21:48.194 --> 00:21:52.459 They had a lot of problems in their church. 00:21:52.459 --> 00:22:02.121 They came out of the occult, they had a background in the dark arts and so they were not unfamiliar with the spirit realm. 00:22:02.121 --> 00:22:12.192 But they'd been thoroughly familiar with the wrong end of the spirit realm and so, you know, they loved being in the spirit and the Holy Ghost. 00:22:12.192 --> 00:22:12.915 They loved that. 00:22:12.915 --> 00:22:15.499 But they had a lot of dysfunction. 00:22:16.797 --> 00:22:18.769 And then he said and so he congratulated him. 00:22:18.769 --> 00:22:21.681 He said you know you come behind in no good gift. 00:22:21.681 --> 00:22:25.309 And then he said you know some of you. 00:22:25.309 --> 00:22:28.424 You know some of you were foolish, some of you were weak, some of you were base. 00:22:28.424 --> 00:22:32.342 God delights in calling those things you know. 00:22:32.342 --> 00:22:35.558 And we went through all those verses. 00:22:36.653 --> 00:22:38.819 But then in chapter three he said you know you're. 00:22:38.819 --> 00:22:42.529 It's reported that you guys have clicks and factions. 00:22:42.529 --> 00:22:51.160 Some of you are bragging that you were baptized and some are baptized of Paul and some are baptized of Apollos and you have respective persons. 00:22:51.160 --> 00:22:58.537 You've got your little internal clicks and clubs that nobody can gain entrance to. 00:22:58.537 --> 00:22:59.574 This is a church. 00:22:59.574 --> 00:23:08.719 Everybody ought to know everybody and everybody ought to be able to get along with everybody, ideally, if the Holy Ghost is really in charge of you. 00:23:08.719 --> 00:23:29.079 And so he said you're living, you're carnal, you're carnal and living as mere men. 00:23:29.079 --> 00:23:31.934 You're carnal, your body rule. 00:23:31.934 --> 00:23:33.278 Carnal means body rule. 00:23:33.278 --> 00:23:35.898 Well, what did he say in chapter six later on? 00:23:35.898 --> 00:23:47.933 He said well, you need to glorify God in that body of yours Instead of how it's been, instead of having clicks and divisions and factions and fusses and strife and division. 00:23:47.933 --> 00:23:50.631 You're not letting you're not. 00:23:50.631 --> 00:23:55.877 You're not glorifying God in your body, you're letting your body rule you. 00:23:55.877 --> 00:23:59.458 You're not allowing the Holy Ghost to control. 00:23:59.458 --> 00:24:04.938 You Are y'all now you're getting pictures writing it up Said he had a purpose for writing this. 00:24:04.990 --> 00:24:07.598 Well, he just traveled down 2000 years right to us. 00:24:07.598 --> 00:24:08.391 Now, see we? 00:24:08.391 --> 00:24:12.119 I teach this on a fairly regular basis. 00:24:12.119 --> 00:24:12.942 Why do I teach it? 00:24:12.942 --> 00:24:14.395 Because everybody needs this. 00:24:14.395 --> 00:24:16.656 We have to develop in these things. 00:24:16.656 --> 00:24:18.977 We don't look when you get saved. 00:24:19.237 --> 00:24:20.480 What about a baby? 00:24:20.480 --> 00:24:22.757 A baby's gotta have all kind of care, doesn't it? 00:24:22.757 --> 00:24:26.719 You can't send the baby out to mow the grass. 00:24:26.719 --> 00:24:31.458 Okay, baby, go in there and you need to clean this room. 00:24:31.458 --> 00:24:32.574 This room is a mess. 00:24:32.574 --> 00:24:33.277 You need to clean this. 00:24:33.277 --> 00:24:34.494 No, the baby's laying there. 00:24:34.494 --> 00:24:35.674 It's all it can do is lay there. 00:24:35.674 --> 00:24:41.653 It mainly sleeps when it's a wicked Christ. 00:24:41.653 --> 00:24:49.657 It's either hungry or it's pooping, or it's doing something that requires you to take care of it. 00:24:49.657 --> 00:24:53.096 Well, it's no different in the church. 00:24:53.096 --> 00:24:55.478 A baby Christian needs a constant care. 00:24:55.478 --> 00:25:08.976 They need constant nurturing and hopefully they get fed enough and they get nurtured enough to where they can start then to grow in these different things about allowing the Holy Spirit to control them. 00:25:08.976 --> 00:25:10.075 You know, at first you don't. 00:25:10.075 --> 00:25:13.715 We're all different stages. 00:25:13.715 --> 00:25:16.759 I mean, you know, fruit is grown, but gifts are given. 00:25:16.759 --> 00:25:18.557 See, they came behind and no good gifts. 00:25:18.557 --> 00:25:19.574 They had the gifts of the Spirit. 00:25:19.574 --> 00:25:20.155 Those are given. 00:25:21.009 --> 00:25:32.558 You might be talking tongues, you might prophesy, you might, and yet you might be way down the list of being controlled by the Holy Ghost, because that's something that you've never really paid much attention to. 00:25:32.558 --> 00:25:34.856 Well, now it's time to start paying attention. 00:25:34.856 --> 00:25:48.978 These four things all fit together, they dovetail together, and so if it were possible to do one without doing the other I don't know that it is, but if it were, you wouldn't do the thing that you are doing as well. 00:25:48.978 --> 00:25:53.940 You need all four working on all four of them. 00:25:53.940 --> 00:26:08.638 So this first one, controlled by the Holy Ghost it affects being led by the Holy Ghost which, and then, of course, being filled with the Holy Ghost, affects the other two, and then fellowship with the Holy Ghost. 00:26:08.638 --> 00:26:12.714 Well, if you're not controlled by the Holy Ghost, you're not gonna have much fellowship with it. 00:26:12.714 --> 00:26:13.557 You see what I'm saying. 00:26:13.557 --> 00:26:14.853 So it begins to. 00:26:14.853 --> 00:26:16.839 They all dovetail together. 00:26:16.839 --> 00:26:19.960 They're all important and we're all at various levels. 00:26:20.109 --> 00:26:21.415 And why am I preaching? 00:26:21.415 --> 00:26:26.258 Because we have knowledge of something and yet we have what we're doing. 00:26:26.258 --> 00:26:31.773 The gap between knowing something and doing something has to be closed. 00:26:31.773 --> 00:26:34.932 Where are you gonna close it? 00:26:34.932 --> 00:26:38.977 In church, you learn how to close the gaps in your life. 00:26:38.977 --> 00:26:40.260 That's my job. 00:26:40.260 --> 00:26:46.278 If I don't do it, I'll stand before Jesus and give an account of my pastoring. 00:26:47.650 --> 00:26:52.442 Well, you know, griner, you just gave them the high spots. 00:26:52.442 --> 00:26:55.219 You didn't get into the difficult areas. 00:26:55.219 --> 00:26:57.438 You didn't give them anything to chew on. 00:26:57.438 --> 00:27:03.040 You didn't show them how they could do better in this area. 00:27:03.040 --> 00:27:04.013 See, he's trying. 00:27:04.013 --> 00:27:04.757 What's he doing? 00:27:04.757 --> 00:27:05.815 Is he fussing at them? 00:27:05.815 --> 00:27:13.602 No, he's trying to get them to elevate, trying to get them back out of the mess that they've created. 00:27:13.602 --> 00:27:15.497 We'll get more into that mess here in a minute. 00:27:15.497 --> 00:27:19.415 You know, holy Ghost is not afraid of any kind of mess. 00:27:19.415 --> 00:27:24.992 He's the master at correcting messes and cleaning them up. 00:27:24.992 --> 00:27:28.310 All right. 00:27:28.310 --> 00:27:33.875 So they're carnal, they're body rule, they've got factions favorites, they've got all kinds of problems. 00:27:33.875 --> 00:27:34.838 They've got sin in the camp. 00:27:34.838 --> 00:27:41.917 We'll find out about that next chapter, actually the last chapter, chapter five. 00:27:41.917 --> 00:27:43.737 We skipped over chapter five. 00:27:43.869 --> 00:27:48.076 There was sin in the camp, he said it's reported in chapter five. 00:27:48.076 --> 00:28:02.202 He says it's reported that there's such fornication among you, such as not even been named among the heathen, that a man would have his father's wife. 00:28:02.202 --> 00:28:05.336 And how do you put up with that? 00:28:05.336 --> 00:28:14.420 How do you put up with a man bringing his stepmother to church and living together in sin and you don't rebuke that and you don't require that to stop? 00:28:14.420 --> 00:28:18.698 You should have handed this man over. 00:28:18.698 --> 00:28:20.615 Never said anything about the woman. 00:28:20.615 --> 00:28:22.941 That's curious. 00:28:22.941 --> 00:28:25.775 Could be that she's not saved. 00:28:25.775 --> 00:28:31.732 She might not be saved, but he is saved. 00:28:31.773 --> 00:28:33.198 Because what did he tell him? 00:28:33.198 --> 00:28:40.155 He told the Corinthian church you should have handed this young man over to Satan for the destruction of his flesh. 00:28:40.155 --> 00:28:42.297 That spirit would be saved in the day of judgment. 00:28:42.297 --> 00:28:43.855 So he is saved. 00:28:43.855 --> 00:28:50.480 He is saved and he's sinning openly in front of everybody. 00:28:50.480 --> 00:28:52.784 Why? 00:28:52.784 --> 00:28:54.555 Well, he probably doesn't know any better. 00:28:54.555 --> 00:29:01.398 He hadn't heard anything in that church that would make him feel like that. 00:29:01.398 --> 00:29:02.040