WEBVTT 00:00:00.262 --> 00:00:01.550 Wave those bibles around. 00:00:01.550 --> 00:00:06.229 Make Jesus glad, the devil man Say heavenly Father, I'm glad to be here today. 00:00:06.229 --> 00:00:33.444 I wouldn't want to miss one thing that you're doing in the last days through your church, where your body, your, our head, direct this service today through the Holy Spirit and help us to understand some things out of the Word of God that will build our faith, move us into a place of victory and keep us there. 00:00:33.444 --> 00:00:37.573 In Jesus' name, amen, you can be seated. 00:00:37.573 --> 00:00:38.259 Praise God. 00:00:38.259 --> 00:00:40.305 Let's look at a couple of verses. 00:00:40.305 --> 00:00:42.191 First John 2.27. 00:00:42.191 --> 00:00:47.390 And while you're turning, find Luke 4.18. 00:00:47.390 --> 00:00:50.847 We'll start first John 2.27. 00:00:50.927 --> 00:01:06.665 First the apostle John, right into the church and to us, says in verse 27, but the anointing which you have received of him abideth in. 00:01:06.665 --> 00:01:15.111 You See, that's what I want to make, the point we all, every believer, has the anointing abiding within. 00:01:15.111 --> 00:01:18.981 Everybody say the anointing within, all right. 00:01:18.981 --> 00:01:22.203 And then, of course, we talked about that at length last week. 00:01:22.203 --> 00:01:25.403 Then we go back to Luke, the fourth chapter. 00:01:25.403 --> 00:01:33.451 Jesus is speaking in Nazareth, his hometown, the synagogue where he was raised. 00:01:33.451 --> 00:01:40.155 They all knew who he was and he stood up in their midst. 00:01:40.155 --> 00:01:46.807 This did not make him popular, this did not win him a lot of medals. 00:01:46.807 --> 00:01:49.566 In fact they wanted to throw him off the brow of the hill. 00:01:49.566 --> 00:02:07.722 In Luke 4.18, he said the spirit of the Lord is upon me because he hath anointed me to preach or to minister to five groups of people the broke, the brokenhearted, the blind, the bound and the bruised. 00:02:07.722 --> 00:02:08.766 Abid. 00:02:08.766 --> 00:02:12.310 So he talked about the anointing upon. 00:02:12.310 --> 00:02:18.389 Everybody say the anointing upon, the anointing within, the anointing upon. 00:02:18.389 --> 00:02:24.366 So we're in the middle of a series called Understanding the Anointing. 00:02:25.600 --> 00:02:29.683 And much is said about the anointing both in the Old Testament and in the New Testament. 00:02:29.683 --> 00:02:41.371 And in the Old Testament that word in the Hebrew means grease or oil, and of course we know that oil is a type of the Holy Spirit. 00:02:41.371 --> 00:02:47.829 And then in the New Testament that word anointing means a smearing or a marking. 00:02:47.829 --> 00:02:52.310 You're marked by the anointing upon you. 00:02:52.310 --> 00:02:59.268 The anointing upon is just like you have a visible marking of God's Holy Spirit upon you. 00:02:59.268 --> 00:03:05.304 So again we said all the believers have the anointing within them. 00:03:05.304 --> 00:03:06.703 When you get saved. 00:03:06.703 --> 00:03:07.646 That's when it happens. 00:03:08.639 --> 00:03:13.526 But the anointing upon is something that comes subsequent to your salvation. 00:03:13.526 --> 00:03:18.069 It comes with the baptism of the Holy Ghost. 00:03:18.069 --> 00:03:23.169 We're fond of saying you know we get, when we get saved we get the Holy Ghost for us. 00:03:23.169 --> 00:03:28.389 And when we get the baptism of the Holy Ghost, we get it for our ministry, for everyone else. 00:03:28.389 --> 00:03:35.942 And that's true to a point, but it's not entirely descriptive, because the anointing upon gives you the baptism, the Holy Ghost. 00:03:35.942 --> 00:03:47.026 It gives you the evidence of speaking with other tongues, and really speaking with other tongues for the believer is so vital, and that's not for everybody else. 00:03:47.026 --> 00:03:50.120 That's for you to build yourself up on your most holy faith. 00:03:50.120 --> 00:03:51.204 Pray it in the Holy Ghost. 00:03:51.204 --> 00:03:55.269 He that prayeth in an unknown tongue edifies himself. 00:03:55.329 --> 00:03:55.991 Who's himself? 00:03:55.991 --> 00:03:56.842 Your spirit? 00:03:56.842 --> 00:04:05.748 Let's stop looking at ourselves in the mirror and looking at our outward man and listening to people describe the outward man. 00:04:05.748 --> 00:04:06.985 No one has ever seen you. 00:04:06.985 --> 00:04:11.729 You're locked up on the inside of your body, amen. 00:04:11.729 --> 00:04:18.146 And it's good to see ourselves the way the Bible says we are. 00:04:19.942 --> 00:04:26.305 And so when you think of yourself, think of your spirit, think of the part of you that's born again, that's gonna live forever. 00:04:26.305 --> 00:04:27.564 Your body's not gonna live forever. 00:04:27.564 --> 00:04:37.187 This body's decaying and it, you know, if Jesus tarries it's all gonna go the way of the grave or whatever, or however you decide to do things. 00:04:37.187 --> 00:04:39.228 Some people you know cremate. 00:04:39.228 --> 00:04:43.889 There gets a lot of people get all upset, especially in the church, they go oh, we can't cremate. 00:04:43.889 --> 00:04:49.112 Well, god can raise anything, amen. 00:04:49.112 --> 00:04:49.853 Oh, don't be worried. 00:04:49.853 --> 00:04:53.886 I mean, if somebody falls overboard and is eaten by a shark, god can raise whatever's left. 00:04:53.886 --> 00:04:59.370 I don't know what's left, I don't wanna think about what's left, but I'm telling you, amen, amen. 00:04:59.370 --> 00:05:01.822 God's not limited. 00:05:01.822 --> 00:05:09.089 So we just kind of touched on this last week. 00:05:09.089 --> 00:05:12.242 But the anointing within supports, it's the part of you. 00:05:12.805 --> 00:05:17.170 The anointing within is your personal relationship with God, your prayer life. 00:05:17.170 --> 00:05:18.324 You've gotta have a prayer life. 00:05:18.324 --> 00:05:22.346 You've gotta have a word life and you've gotta have an action life. 00:05:22.346 --> 00:05:26.867 You've gotta you know, those three things impact the anointing within you. 00:05:26.867 --> 00:05:29.187 We talked about those ways that you can grow. 00:05:29.187 --> 00:05:36.028 They're very similar to some how someone grows in faith, very similar in how someone's spirit is developed. 00:05:36.028 --> 00:05:48.336 The anointing within you See, your spirit and the Holy Spirit occupy the same space and ideally, your anointing within will grow to the point where you can't even tell where you're. 00:05:48.336 --> 00:05:51.209 You end and the Holy Ghost begins and vice versa. 00:05:51.209 --> 00:05:54.470 You get so close to God that way. 00:05:54.470 --> 00:06:06.759 And so we talked about your prayer life, how important it is, your word life, how important it is to read and meditate the Word and put the Word first place and then how important it is to be a doer of the Word. 00:06:06.759 --> 00:06:10.819 So that was the way that we increased in the anointing within it. 00:06:11.682 --> 00:06:13.670 And the anointing upon you is gift. 00:06:13.670 --> 00:06:15.959 It's a gift. 00:06:15.959 --> 00:06:19.372 We're gonna talk a lot about the anointing upon today. 00:06:19.372 --> 00:06:35.190 I mean, when you get baptized in the Holy Ghost, god sets some things into you and it, you know, you're gonna start discovering what it is that God has set you in the body to accomplish. 00:06:36.865 --> 00:06:44.807 And without a strong anointing within, your anointing upon is gonna bring you into trials and tribulations. 00:06:44.807 --> 00:06:47.990 Jesus said in the world, you shall have trouble. 00:06:47.990 --> 00:06:57.540 And the more the anointing upon you is there and the more you give yourself to ministering to others, the more the devil is gonna oppose you. 00:06:57.540 --> 00:07:02.240 You know he doesn't really do much about people that just sit on the pew and do nothing. 00:07:02.240 --> 00:07:03.692 They're not a threat. 00:07:03.692 --> 00:07:04.730 Who's a threat? 00:07:04.730 --> 00:07:05.788 Who's a threat? 00:07:05.788 --> 00:07:12.766 Somebody that's going around and sitting in the world and in the witness chair and telling what Jesus has done for them? 00:07:12.766 --> 00:07:13.829 That's a threat. 00:07:13.829 --> 00:07:18.043 Somebody that's laying hands on the sick, that's a threat. 00:07:18.043 --> 00:07:24.567 And so the anointing upon you is gonna bring you into trials and tribulations. 00:07:24.567 --> 00:07:33.149 That if you don't have a strong anointing within you, amen, then you're gonna be in trouble. 00:07:33.259 --> 00:07:42.502 So we talked a little bit about that last week, but today I wanted to get over into the anointing upon, so important. 00:07:42.502 --> 00:07:45.108 Let's look at 1 Corinthians, chapter 12. 00:07:45.108 --> 00:07:47.367 Let's look at a few verses here before we get started. 00:07:47.367 --> 00:07:50.084 I thought we were starting. 00:07:50.084 --> 00:07:52.122 Well, we are starting, but I'm talking about starting. 00:07:52.244 --> 00:07:56.848 On today's topic, everybody say the anointing upon me. 00:07:56.848 --> 00:08:01.803 See if you've received the baptism of the Holy Ghost, that's, you know Jesus. 00:08:01.803 --> 00:08:05.769 Jesus wants every believer to be filled with the Holy Ghost. 00:08:05.769 --> 00:08:08.387 All right, 1 Corinthians 12, 1. 00:08:08.387 --> 00:08:12.146 Now concerning spiritual gifts, brother and I would not have you ignorant. 00:08:12.146 --> 00:08:22.689 Now the word of gifts there is italicized and so it doesn't really exist in the manuscript. 00:08:22.689 --> 00:08:29.749 And the manuscript the best way to say that first sentence is now about the things concerning the spirit. 00:08:29.749 --> 00:08:31.586 I don't want you ignorant. 00:08:31.586 --> 00:08:39.051 That's why we're preaching understanding the anointing, because God does not want you ignorant about the anointing. 00:08:39.051 --> 00:08:48.751 The anointing is part of knowing about the spirit, his ways, how he operates in the church and through the church. 00:08:48.751 --> 00:08:50.807 He does it by his spirit. 00:08:50.807 --> 00:09:08.890 You know, jesus is not coming back here until he comes for the church, and then, seven years later, he's going to come with the church, but until then he's seated at the right hand of the Father and everything he does on the earth he does through the church anointed by the Holy Ghost. 00:09:10.821 --> 00:09:13.249 Next week I want to talk about the corporate anointing. 00:09:13.249 --> 00:09:15.940 What in the world is that? 00:09:15.940 --> 00:09:22.107 Well, that's the anointing upon the church, like the anointing upon glorious way church. 00:09:22.107 --> 00:09:33.931 Just like there's an anointing upon you individually for your ministry, there's a corporate anointing upon this church to do certain things. 00:09:33.931 --> 00:09:39.785 We want to touch on those because we're right in the middle of doing a whole lot of those things. 00:09:39.785 --> 00:09:40.649 Amen. 00:09:40.649 --> 00:09:44.600 Why, again, why are you preaching this pastor? 00:09:44.600 --> 00:09:47.919 This is kind of spooky. 00:09:47.919 --> 00:09:50.759 No, people don't like the word Holy Ghost. 00:09:50.759 --> 00:09:51.783 It sounds spooky. 00:09:51.783 --> 00:09:55.808 I use the Holy Ghost because I like the King James version. 00:09:55.808 --> 00:09:58.607 You can say Holy Spirit if you want to. 00:09:58.607 --> 00:10:05.888 It's the same thing Holy Ghost, holy Spirit, but I just prefer the Holy Ghost. 00:10:05.888 --> 00:10:13.000 I don't know, but the anointing upon the church is the corporate anointing. 00:10:13.000 --> 00:10:14.546 We'll talk about that next week. 00:10:15.142 --> 00:10:16.960 But he does not want us to be ignorant. 00:10:16.960 --> 00:10:18.940 Ignorance can be three ways. 00:10:18.940 --> 00:10:20.326 It can be total ignorance. 00:10:20.326 --> 00:10:26.609 There's a hundred million people in America that call themselves Christians. 00:10:26.609 --> 00:10:28.712 I don't know that they all are born again. 00:10:28.712 --> 00:10:35.923 Some people call themselves Christians just because they're not Muslim or they're not Buddhist. 00:10:36.865 --> 00:10:39.932 I call myself a Christian long before I was really say. 00:10:39.932 --> 00:10:45.000 And then I started thinking I was so far from God. 00:10:45.000 --> 00:10:52.307 I started considering whether I really was a Christian because I knew I wasn't living the life and I wondered whether I was an agnostic. 00:10:52.307 --> 00:10:54.581 I knew I wasn't just a Atheist. 00:10:54.581 --> 00:10:56.586 Atheist just doesn't believe in God. 00:10:56.586 --> 00:11:01.080 Well, I did believe that God was existed and I believed that, you know. 00:11:01.080 --> 00:11:05.745 But I started wondering whether Maybe I could be an agnostic. 00:11:05.745 --> 00:11:20.687 Until one day I was filling out some paperwork to join the Greater Houston Builders Association and the second question on this long application was Religious preference and I just got irritated. 00:11:20.687 --> 00:11:24.434 I thought what business is it of the Greater Houston Builders Association? 00:11:24.434 --> 00:11:25.662 What I believe? 00:11:25.662 --> 00:11:28.307 I don't like this question, it's all it goes. 00:11:28.307 --> 00:11:31.494 He's just getting making me make a decision. 00:11:34.683 --> 00:11:41.870 And I, at that application, sat on my desk for three weeks and finally my partner said you haven't paid your due, you hadn't filled out the thing. 00:11:41.870 --> 00:11:43.380 You're holding everything up we had. 00:11:43.380 --> 00:11:46.190 We had to do this in order to buy a next round of lots. 00:11:46.190 --> 00:11:51.969 You know, in a subdivision we had to be members of the GHBA for we could be. 00:11:51.969 --> 00:12:06.953 So those lots, and I was holding up the works, you know, and I, you know, really I truly was afraid To put agnostic there and Finally I couldn't put Catholic there, forget it. 00:12:06.974 --> 00:12:13.740 I Would not practice in Catholic anymore, didn't believe much of anything that they had to say anymore. 00:12:13.740 --> 00:12:16.408 I just thrown all of it away, so much of it away. 00:12:16.408 --> 00:12:23.032 But I knew that there was a Jesus, I knew there was a God, the father of God, the son, the God, that Holy Ghost. 00:12:23.032 --> 00:12:24.875 And so you know what I put on their Christian. 00:12:24.875 --> 00:12:28.850 I Put on that application Christian, and God held me to it. 00:12:28.850 --> 00:12:29.150 Are you? 00:12:29.150 --> 00:12:31.465 He held me to it. 00:12:31.465 --> 00:12:35.644 Glory to God, but anyway. 00:12:35.644 --> 00:12:41.913 So we ought not be ignorant concerning the ways of the Spirit. 00:12:41.913 --> 00:12:44.543 He wants us not to be totally ignorant. 00:12:44.563 --> 00:12:51.322 A hundred million people that call themselves Christians are, and many of them are totally ignorant of the anointing. 00:12:51.322 --> 00:12:55.410 Many of them are partially ignorant. 00:12:55.410 --> 00:12:56.495 They know a little bit. 00:12:56.495 --> 00:12:57.840 They know enough to be dangerous. 00:12:57.840 --> 00:13:04.517 They know enough to be dangerous. 00:13:04.517 --> 00:13:13.714 If what they knew about the Holy Ghost was gunpowder, it wouldn't be enough to blow up a paper bag. 00:13:13.714 --> 00:13:16.538 Are you with me now? 00:13:16.538 --> 00:13:21.799 And then, some of them is just ignorance. 00:13:21.799 --> 00:13:23.725 They used to know a lot about the Holy Spirit. 00:13:23.725 --> 00:13:31.871 They were raised in Pentecostal churches, raised in charismatic churches, even some raised in word of faith churches. 00:13:31.871 --> 00:13:33.578 They get away from God they go to. 00:13:33.578 --> 00:13:39.206 They go to schools where they just basically hammer Believe out of you. 00:13:41.919 --> 00:13:46.799 Parents, you better be careful where you send your children, especially if you're paying for the tuition. 00:13:46.799 --> 00:13:50.325 You ought to have some say in it oh, that's my child. 00:13:50.325 --> 00:13:53.014 Well, your child's not paying for it, are they? 00:13:53.014 --> 00:13:54.820 If they are, then they get the chance to choose it. 00:13:54.820 --> 00:14:00.739 But if you're paying for it, you choose it and you ought to guide them anyway. 00:14:00.739 --> 00:14:13.779 There's some places that you you say we've seen, we've seen kids leave here, leave this church full of a Holy Ghost speaking in other tongues, and go to Ivy League schools and completely go, go completely off the rails. 00:14:13.779 --> 00:14:16.730 Ivy League schools are not going to be completely off the rails. 00:14:16.730 --> 00:14:20.793 Ivy League schools is a good place to lose your faith. 00:14:20.793 --> 00:14:37.192 So we ought not be totally ignorant or partially ignorant and we ought not ignore Acts 1-8. 00:14:37.234 --> 00:14:43.212 Let's look at acts I get. 00:14:43.212 --> 00:14:51.316 Let's look at verse 4 being assembled, this time about Jesus after the resurrection. 00:14:51.316 --> 00:14:52.558 Be assembled together with who? 00:14:52.558 --> 00:15:11.629 With them, the Disciples of 12 or the 11 Commanded then that they should not depart from Jerusalem until, but wait for the promise of the father, which he said, which he said you've heard of me, for John, truly baptized with water, but you shall be baptized with the Holy Ghost not many days from now. 00:15:11.629 --> 00:15:14.643 He commanded them. 00:15:14.643 --> 00:15:16.870 Everybody say Jesus commanded them. 00:15:16.870 --> 00:15:19.527 He didn't suggest. 00:15:19.547 --> 00:15:21.763 I Get, I get. 00:15:21.763 --> 00:15:25.280 I get irritating when I hear people the other baptism Don't have to. 00:15:25.280 --> 00:15:35.530 Well, you don't have to have it to go to heaven, but you have to have it to really be, to able to call Jesus Lord, because otherwise you're not being obedient. 00:15:35.530 --> 00:15:39.547 We've made it optional. 00:15:39.547 --> 00:15:43.840 It's not optional to be bit filled with the Holy Ghost. 00:15:43.840 --> 00:15:50.840 It's only optional in the sense that it's not required of you in order for you, when you die, to go to heaven. 00:15:50.840 --> 00:15:52.465 It's not required to go to heaven. 00:15:52.686 --> 00:16:02.254 There are people that preach that you, if you're not baptized a certain way and you don't speak in tongues their way or certain Pentecostal denominations that teach this, then you're not saved. 00:16:02.254 --> 00:16:06.630 Well, I don't teach that, I don't go that far, but I am saying it's not optional. 00:16:06.630 --> 00:16:11.719 Baptism and water is not optional, it's required. 00:16:11.719 --> 00:16:15.850 Jesus said you be baptized. 00:16:15.850 --> 00:16:16.091 Now. 00:16:16.091 --> 00:16:18.716 Baptism doesn't save you, but it's proof that you are saved. 00:16:18.716 --> 00:16:19.840 That's why we had baptism last week. 00:16:21.445 --> 00:16:24.573 We want to give people that are saved a chance to obey Jesus. 00:16:24.573 --> 00:16:41.171 Well, in the same way, we ought to be baptized in the Holy Ghost With the evidence of speaking in other tongues, and if we're not, then we better look at that Bible and we we better get with the program Ignorance. 00:16:41.171 --> 00:16:43.076 Are you with me now? 00:16:43.076 --> 00:16:47.407 So he commanded them. 00:16:47.407 --> 00:16:56.091 And then it says Verse 8 for you shall receive power. 00:16:56.091 --> 00:17:00.389 After that, the Holy Ghost has come upon you Now. 00:17:00.389 --> 00:17:01.799 Word power now see, they are already received power. 00:17:01.799 --> 00:17:03.364 They are received a measure of power. 00:17:03.364 --> 00:17:14.032 In fact, later on he taught, when he, just before he leaves the earth, he said I'm giving you all power, and heaven and earth are given unto me to go you, therefore. 00:17:14.032 --> 00:17:16.799 So that word power is the Greek word exosea, which is authority. 00:17:20.188 --> 00:17:23.998 Authority is what a cop has when he puts on a uniform and a badge. 00:17:23.998 --> 00:17:24.819 That that is a denotes authority. 00:17:24.819 --> 00:17:31.634 I remember back. 00:17:31.634 --> 00:17:33.857 I don't know if it's still true, I doubt it, but I don't know. 00:17:33.857 --> 00:17:38.849 I don't keep up with Great Britain that much, but they used to be very proud of the Bobbys. 00:17:38.849 --> 00:17:42.819 That was their law enforcement, that they would go out in London and streets of London. 00:17:42.819 --> 00:17:47.839 They had the funny looking hats on and they had no weapons. 00:17:47.839 --> 00:17:57.740 They were so well developed, so well developed as a society, that they didn't need those evil guns. 00:17:57.740 --> 00:18:05.839 Oh, no, authorities, all we need, all we need to do is tell somebody and they just snap right up. 00:18:05.839 --> 00:18:09.336 I think they tried that for a couple of decades. 00:18:09.336 --> 00:18:14.373 I don't think it worked, but I don't know you guys could be stand correct. 00:18:14.413 --> 00:18:16.839 I don't keep up, like I said, kind of doubt that that's the case nowadays. 00:18:16.839 --> 00:18:19.909 It's not the case here. 00:18:19.909 --> 00:18:20.269 Why? 00:18:20.269 --> 00:18:23.839 Because a cop needs more than authorities got to have dunamis, which is what this word is. 00:18:23.839 --> 00:18:31.839 You shall receive dunamis, you shall receive supernatural power after the Holy Ghost comes upon you. 00:18:31.839 --> 00:18:38.839 This is the reason we need the baptism, because we need the power, we need the weaponry. 00:18:38.839 --> 00:18:44.395 Just authority alone is not enough. 00:18:44.395 --> 00:18:57.469 The devil is a lawless one and sometimes we got a wallop him and when you stick him with the sword of the spirit, I'm telling you that dunamis is behind that sword and it's gonna. 00:18:57.469 --> 00:18:58.531 He's gonna feel it. 00:18:58.531 --> 00:19:02.575 I said he's gonna feel it. 00:19:02.575 --> 00:19:08.411 Some of you looking at me kind of Alright, praise God, so. 00:19:13.019 --> 00:19:22.826 And then in Acts 10, 38, how God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost and power, who went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed of the devil? 00:19:22.826 --> 00:19:24.550 For God was with him. 00:19:24.550 --> 00:19:27.685 So how did he heal people? 00:19:27.685 --> 00:19:34.839 He did it as a man anointed of God and with the spirit of God or the anointing upon him. 00:19:34.839 --> 00:19:44.839 God was with or upon him, so he never healed anybody or did any miracles as as the son of God. 00:19:44.839 --> 00:20:05.232 He was the son of God, but he lay aside his deity, he laid aside his divine authority and took on himself flesh and he was a legal human being and so everything he did he did as a legal human being anointed of God, to be our example. 00:20:07.923 --> 00:20:12.839 So if we want to help people where you know there's only so much help a do-gooder can do I've watched it over the years. 00:20:12.839 --> 00:20:14.502 I've seen do-gooders. 00:20:14.502 --> 00:20:18.371 They get saved, but they leave this baptism of the Holy Ghost out. 00:20:18.371 --> 00:20:23.508 They just think well, you know, that's, that's for Pentecostals. 00:20:23.508 --> 00:20:24.691 No, it's for every believer. 00:20:24.691 --> 00:20:28.666 You leave it out at your own risk. 00:20:28.666 --> 00:20:31.795 You leave it out at your own peril. 00:20:31.795 --> 00:20:33.038 You really are not. 00:20:33.038 --> 00:20:33.819 You're not when you call. 00:20:33.819 --> 00:20:34.602 You know. 00:20:34.622 --> 00:20:37.667 Jesus said why do you call me Lord and don't do the things I say? 00:20:37.667 --> 00:20:45.172 I mean we call him Lord and then just say oh well, that baptism out of that tongue business. 00:20:45.172 --> 00:20:53.728 I know people say oh, I'm filled with I know I won't mention this preacher's name, but he's been saying this for a long time oh, I'm as filled with the Holy Ghost as anybody. 00:20:53.728 --> 00:20:56.839 No, you're not, because you don't speak in tongues. 00:20:56.839 --> 00:20:59.164 See, he makes the case that he doesn't speak in tongues. 00:20:59.164 --> 00:21:00.186 Well, guess what? 00:21:00.186 --> 00:21:17.392 You're not filled with the Holy Ghost Because the Bible, evidence of being filled, is speaking in a supernatural language ignorance, ignorance see he got the same Bible I do that's why I don't listen to him on TV. 00:21:18.880 --> 00:21:20.201 That's why I don't read his books. 00:21:20.201 --> 00:21:26.433 I don't ever read books by people who speak against the baptism of the Holy Ghost. 00:21:26.433 --> 00:21:27.580 I don't throw it away. 00:21:27.580 --> 00:21:28.563 I don't listen. 00:21:28.563 --> 00:21:33.291 Anybody that dumb doesn't need to be part of my repertoire. 00:21:33.291 --> 00:21:38.885 What do you think about so-and-so? 00:21:38.885 --> 00:21:42.751 If I've never talked about him, that's what I think about him or her. 00:21:42.751 --> 00:21:47.744 I don't get up here and just talk against everybody. 00:21:47.744 --> 00:21:52.594 But I mean, not everybody gets my endorsement, not everybody is in my library. 00:21:52.594 --> 00:21:59.654 I was looking the other day I don't know how to get rid of. 00:21:59.654 --> 00:22:05.048 I hate to burn books, I hate to throw books away, but I've got a whole bunch of books that I didn't buy. 00:22:05.048 --> 00:22:09.762 People have given me over the years that I wouldn't read with your eyes, much less mine. 00:22:09.762 --> 00:22:16.499 Why am I on this? 00:22:16.499 --> 00:22:16.819 I don't know. 00:22:16.819 --> 00:22:23.467 Praise God, so he. 00:22:25.529 --> 00:22:29.656 Jesus said the Spirit of the Lord is the pulmonary minister to five groups of people. 00:22:29.656 --> 00:22:34.799 If Jesus needed the baptism of the Holy Ghost, now, he didn't speak in tongues, but he received the power of the Holy Spirit. 00:22:34.799 --> 00:22:36.362 When did that happen? 00:22:36.362 --> 00:22:38.365 Well, he was in the River Jordan, john. 00:22:38.365 --> 00:22:45.316 You know he had to be baptized, and when John baptized him in water. 00:22:45.316 --> 00:22:51.365 Then John said I saw the heaven open up and the Spirit like a dove. 00:22:51.365 --> 00:22:54.450 And first he heard the voice says this is my beloved son. 00:22:54.450 --> 00:22:57.894 He was marked this right here. 00:22:57.894 --> 00:23:00.839 This is my beloved son, whom I'm well pleased. 00:23:00.839 --> 00:23:07.067 And then the Spirit came down like a dove not not a dove, but like a dove. 00:23:09.452 --> 00:23:20.130 And the apostle John said he was filled with a spirit without measure, which means that I guess, individually we're filled with a spirit with a measure. 00:23:20.130 --> 00:23:21.670 We don't know what that measure is. 00:23:21.670 --> 00:23:27.755 I know the measure can increase as your spirit grows. 00:23:27.755 --> 00:23:38.269 You can contain more and more of this powerful Holy Spirit power as you stay faithful to do what he tells you to do. 00:23:38.269 --> 00:23:42.789 He will give you more and more power and more and more authority. 00:23:42.789 --> 00:23:51.529 He will loose you to go into places that you couldn't go into at first this church. 00:23:51.529 --> 00:23:53.009 We'll get into this next week. 00:23:53.009 --> 00:23:56.175 But this church is doing more right now in the Corp of Noir than we've ever done. 00:23:56.175 --> 00:24:07.596 We knew about it 20 years ago, but God has now opened the door, the last two years for us to occupy what he showed me 20 plus years ago when he told us to wake up the church. 00:24:07.596 --> 00:24:08.953 Are y'all with me now. 00:24:08.953 --> 00:24:11.095 So we have to be faithful. 00:24:12.030 --> 00:24:17.950 So he gave the church the charge to receive the baptism of the Holy Ghost. 00:24:17.950 --> 00:24:22.529 He said you know, don't you leave Jerusalem until you be endued with power from on high. 00:24:22.529 --> 00:24:24.277 He told that to the apostles. 00:24:24.277 --> 00:24:28.959 They had to be filled with the Holy Ghost, and they were, didn't they? 00:24:28.959 --> 00:24:30.193 They are Pentecost. 00:24:30.193 --> 00:24:36.990 They were all seated together in one place, in one accord, and suddenly there came a sound from heaven as of a rushing, mighty wind. 00:24:36.990 --> 00:24:38.916 It filled all the place where they were seated. 00:24:38.916 --> 00:24:51.258 Amen and cloven tongues, like as a fire, came and sat upon each of them and they were all filled with the Holy Ghost and they all began to speak with other tongues as a spirit gave them utterance. 00:24:51.258 --> 00:24:54.075 Read it for yourself. 00:24:54.075 --> 00:25:02.159 It didn't say some of them, I mean even the blessed version was filled with the Holy Ghost 120. 00:25:02.159 --> 00:25:03.871 How many were called? 00:25:03.871 --> 00:25:04.556 Well, 500,. 00:25:04.596 --> 00:25:11.276 He had appeared to over 500 people at one time, 1 Corinthians 15 says, and only 120 showed up. 00:25:11.276 --> 00:25:15.730 24%, that's about the ratio it is today. 00:25:15.730 --> 00:25:17.938 In fact, we didn't good if it's 24%. 00:25:17.938 --> 00:25:21.578 We're doing good if 24% obey God. 00:25:21.578 --> 00:25:34.060 But back then here I mean here's Jesus they saw Jesus risen from the dead and only 24% obeyed him, wow. 00:25:34.060 --> 00:25:42.217 So just lift your hand, thank God for the baptism of the Holy Ghost. 00:25:42.217 --> 00:25:49.698 We ought to thank God every day that we're filled with and we have the opportunity to get more and more full, to stay full, amen. 00:25:49.698 --> 00:25:53.134 This is how we help people. 00:25:53.134 --> 00:25:55.736 We can't help them in the natural. 00:25:55.736 --> 00:25:59.419 I've seen these do-gooders I was about to go down this road, but I've seen do-gooders. 00:25:59.419 --> 00:26:03.615 They get saved and they get on fire for the Lord, but they don't receive the baptism. 00:26:03.615 --> 00:26:03.776 Why? 00:26:03.776 --> 00:26:06.329 Because they go to some dead church. 00:26:06.410 --> 00:26:07.172 I know one kid. 00:26:07.172 --> 00:26:08.375 He was 18 years old. 00:26:08.375 --> 00:26:09.259 He was a Methodist. 00:26:09.259 --> 00:26:10.040 He got saved. 00:26:10.040 --> 00:26:12.395 He was on fire, he was getting his school saved. 00:26:12.395 --> 00:26:17.695 He had died in a terrible car wreck but he never received the baptism. 00:26:17.695 --> 00:26:20.256 You mean that's what killed him. 00:26:20.256 --> 00:26:21.775 Yeah, I'm convinced of it. 00:26:21.775 --> 00:26:22.395 Why? 00:26:22.395 --> 00:26:29.894 Because he's a threat and he didn't have the power, he didn't have the authority that he needed to be in that ministry. 00:26:30.710 --> 00:26:32.718 I knew another guy that was also Methodist. 00:26:32.718 --> 00:26:36.019 He was about 35 and he was having a revival. 00:26:36.019 --> 00:26:45.736 These young people teenagers, were coming from everywhere Later talked to his widow, which we went to school, all went to school together in a refurio, knew her, knew him. 00:26:45.736 --> 00:26:48.397 He was a narrative well, in high school. 00:26:48.397 --> 00:26:55.829 I mean he was always in trouble but he got saved, and I mean genuinely saved, and I mean he was getting young people saved. 00:26:55.829 --> 00:26:59.894 He had I don't think he it was a youth pastor, but he should have been. 00:26:59.894 --> 00:27:10.279 And just one day he just killed over, dead, had a massive heart attack at 36 years old, sitting by his wife on the couch in their apartment. 00:27:10.279 --> 00:27:11.953 He just killed over. 00:27:11.953 --> 00:27:14.501 You mean that killed him. 00:27:14.501 --> 00:27:15.634 Yeah, I listen. 00:27:15.634 --> 00:27:19.992 You know we're a threat when you start getting people saved and you're a do gooder. 00:27:19.992 --> 00:27:21.597 You're out there doing good. 00:27:22.150 --> 00:27:25.469 Jesus said don't leave without the baptism of the holy God. 00:27:25.469 --> 00:27:29.413 Don't dare try to minister to other people without the baptism. 00:27:29.413 --> 00:27:31.695 Must have known something about something. 00:27:31.695 --> 00:27:34.616 Huh, don't you think Jesus knew a little bit about it? 00:27:34.616 --> 00:27:36.131 Amen. 00:27:36.131 --> 00:27:45.180 So we need, if we're gonna help people, we gotta be, we gotta help them from the standpoint of power, amen. 00:27:45.180 --> 00:27:52.655 So he gave the church the charge to receive the baptism of the holy ghost, which is the anointing upon. 00:27:53.730 --> 00:28:02.515 You know we talked about this a couple of weeks ago when I talked to you on the ministry of helps, how that in Acts, chapter six, the apostles needed help. 00:28:02.515 --> 00:28:09.059 It says now it's not reason that we should leave the word of God and serve tables. 00:28:09.059 --> 00:28:16.295 So you know, y'all look out among you of seven men of honest report, full of the holy ghost and wisdom, to a point over this business. 00:28:16.295 --> 00:28:17.439 What was the business? 00:28:17.439 --> 00:28:19.778 Well, it was the ministry of helps. 00:28:19.778 --> 00:28:28.113 They needed help, they needed somebody to be the ushers, they needed somebody to wait on tables and clean the tables and serve the breakfast and all that stuff. 00:28:28.730 --> 00:28:37.137 And so they got seven young men, two of which were Philip and Stephen, and they went out preaching not long after that. 00:28:37.137 --> 00:28:42.692 Both of them they weren't preachers but they were believers and they did. 00:28:42.692 --> 00:28:46.016 They did great miracles and wonders and signs among the people. 00:28:46.016 --> 00:28:47.231 Why? 00:28:47.231 --> 00:28:49.519 Because they'd received the baptism of holy ghost. 00:28:49.519 --> 00:28:56.856 That's why they weren't just out there with an adventure, having an adventure. 00:28:56.856 --> 00:28:58.294 I know people now. 00:28:58.294 --> 00:28:59.880 They get into these adventures. 00:28:59.880 --> 00:29:02.576 They go on missions trips, they go here, they go there. 00:29:02.576 --> 00:29:04.155 They're not baptized in the holy ghost. 00:29:04.155 --> 00:29:06.015 That's a dangerous thing to do. 00:29:07.190 --> 00:29:08.394 What if you got a death wish? 00:29:08.394 --> 00:29:14.234 Obey Jesus, get filled with the holy ghost. 00:29:14.234 --> 00:29:16.076 Then you've got something to offer somebody. 00:29:16.076 --> 00:29:19.538 You've got something of substance to give somebody. 00:29:19.538 --> 00:29:25.715 So God doesn't want us ignorance or doesn't want us to have ignorance. 00:29:25.715 --> 00:29:30.094 He wants us to have a knowledge of the ways the holy ghost works. 00:29:30.094 --> 00:29:37.196 And let's look at Acts 12 now, excuse me, 1 Corinthians 12 again. 00:29:37.196 --> 00:29:41.619 Go back there, because Jesus is the one that said you need this. 00:29:41.619 --> 00:29:45.018 He required it, he commanded it, he didn't suggest it. 00:29:46.490 --> 00:29:52.638 Like you hear a lot of people say they might be sincere, but they're sincerely wrong. 00:29:52.638 --> 00:29:57.141 I've seen guys write books about the whole thing. 00:29:57.141 --> 00:29:59.638 Oh no, I'm built the holy ghost just much than you bought. 00:29:59.638 --> 00:30:02.454 I don't speak it that well, you really aren't. 00:30:02.454 --> 00:30:04.454 Why don't you go with the Bible? 00:30:04.454 --> 00:30:05.955 The Bible's very clear about it. 00:30:05.955 --> 00:30:07.655 I'm not teaching on that part of it. 00:30:07.655 --> 00:30:13.096 I could teach on that, but I don't want to spend time this morning about the baptism by itself. 00:30:14.049 --> 00:30:23.701 It says here verse Corinthians 12, verse seven but the manifestation of the spirit is given to every man or every person to profit with all. 00:30:23.701 --> 00:30:42.557 In other words, it's not a matter of God just picking somebody out and giving them a gift here and a gift over here and scattering the gifts or the anointings or the charisma's or the smearings of the holy ghost. 00:30:42.557 --> 00:30:47.675 He doesn't just do it randomly, it's given to every believer. 00:30:47.675 --> 00:30:50.473 What do you mean? 00:30:50.473 --> 00:30:51.096 Every believer? 00:30:51.096 --> 00:30:53.096 Well, every believer that's baptized in the holy ghost. 00:30:53.096 --> 00:30:56.296 You get baptized in the holy ghost. 00:30:56.296 --> 00:30:59.438 You get an anointing upon you. 00:30:59.438 --> 00:31:11.596 You might not know what it is, it might take you a while to discover it, but you know, if you'll just do the things, develop the anointing within you, you will find out what the anointing upon you is. 00:31:11.596 --> 00:31:16.310 For that makes sense, all right. 00:31:16.310 --> 00:31:26.205 So in verse 24, look at this one, verse 18,. 00:31:28.951 --> 00:31:32.878 But now everybody say now, right now, say right now. 00:31:32.878 --> 00:31:40.132 Now God has set the members, every one of them, in the body as it has pleased him. 00:31:40.132 --> 00:31:45.153 Notice, it doesn't please you, necessarily, it pleases him. 00:31:45.153 --> 00:31:50.195 I've had people covet my gifts and want them. 00:31:50.195 --> 00:31:53.368 Well, you know what, I'm not the one that gives them. 00:31:53.368 --> 00:31:59.374 You're on dangerous territory If you're thinking that what you have is not enough. 00:31:59.374 --> 00:32:05.490 Maybe that's what God wants you to have and God, I know, wanted me to have what I've got. 00:32:05.490 --> 00:32:11.032 There's no room for coveting someone else's ministry. 00:32:11.032 --> 00:32:13.967 Are you with me now? 00:32:13.967 --> 00:32:21.294 And if they were all one member, where were the body I mean, if we all had, if we were all arms? 00:32:21.294 --> 00:32:24.353 Let's just so suppose we're a body of arms. 00:32:24.353 --> 00:32:24.914 Well, what in the? 00:32:24.974 --> 00:32:25.195 world. 00:32:25.195 --> 00:32:26.869 You couldn't function like that. 00:32:26.869 --> 00:32:30.391 What if we were a body composed of little toes? 00:32:30.391 --> 00:32:36.311 Up here, where your head is, is a little toe. 00:32:36.311 --> 00:32:39.250 Over here little toes. 00:32:39.250 --> 00:32:40.868 Here's a little toe. 00:32:40.868 --> 00:32:42.769