WEBVTT 00:00:00.320 --> 00:00:05.280 Larry Stocksteel is the senior pastor of Bethany World Prayer Center, Baton Rooch, Louisiana. 00:00:05.360 --> 00:00:09.359 It's one of the greatest missions-sending churches in the world. 00:00:09.519 --> 00:00:16.320 Millions and millions of dollars, hundreds of thousands of churches have been planted out of this church. 00:00:16.719 --> 00:00:17.839 He'll share a little bit. 00:00:18.000 --> 00:00:23.039 He and his wife got married, and they've been married 32 years, he and Melanie. 00:00:23.199 --> 00:00:36.159 And two weeks after they were married, Brother Larry did what every new groom should do, and that is he took her to the mission field for two years in Africa with no running water. 00:00:36.399 --> 00:00:39.200 And she stayed with him and uh has been ever since. 00:00:39.359 --> 00:00:42.159 So, but he's the author of multiple books. 00:00:42.399 --> 00:00:47.679 He uh is a um uh in many ways uh a younger Jack Hayford. 00:00:48.000 --> 00:01:01.920 He is very theologically, doctrinally sound, has a long reputation of integrity for building churches and building the kingdom, and yet unashamedly filled with the Holy Spirit of God and has been used tremendously. 00:01:02.000 --> 00:01:05.120 This is his first time to be at Gateway Church, and I am honored. 00:01:05.280 --> 00:01:08.159 Will you welcome, please, Pastor Larry Stockstill. 00:01:19.599 --> 00:01:21.200 Morning, everybody. 00:01:21.519 --> 00:01:22.959 Everybody doing well? 00:01:23.280 --> 00:01:26.959 All these overflows and outlying areas wherever you may be. 00:01:27.200 --> 00:01:28.400 Hey, this is a big church. 00:01:28.480 --> 00:01:29.519 I figured that out. 00:01:29.760 --> 00:01:33.599 I've been here preaching for almost three days just to get to this day, you know. 00:01:36.480 --> 00:01:38.480 Open your Bible to Psalm 92. 00:01:38.560 --> 00:01:41.040 Now I'm from South Louisiana, I make no apology for that. 00:01:41.120 --> 00:01:42.400 I'm actually from Mississippi. 00:01:42.480 --> 00:01:44.319 Everybody say help him, Lord. 00:01:45.280 --> 00:01:51.840 Robert forgot to say that I have six children, and they're all saved and sanctified also. 00:01:52.640 --> 00:01:57.120 And uh I heard in the airport the other day, y'all heard of Boudreau and Thibodeau. 00:01:57.200 --> 00:01:58.239 Any of you heard of them? 00:01:58.879 --> 00:01:59.840 Anyone raise your hand? 00:02:00.400 --> 00:02:01.040 Okay, great. 00:02:01.519 --> 00:02:04.959 Boudreau was talking to Thibodeau down the concourse of the New Orleans airport. 00:02:05.040 --> 00:02:09.199 We overheard him not too long ago, and they had a voice come over the intercom. 00:02:09.840 --> 00:02:14.639 It said, All travelers for Cancun report to gate 23. 00:02:15.280 --> 00:02:19.120 And I heard Boudreau lean over to Thibodeau and he said, Isn't that terrible, Thibodeau? 00:02:19.360 --> 00:02:27.199 He said, uh down here in Louisiana, I said, we get to eat uh fresh coon, and those people gotta eat cancune where they go in. 00:02:34.159 --> 00:02:37.360 They're not too much on geography in South Louisiana. 00:02:38.639 --> 00:02:45.039 They were both taking a survey of international events, and Boudreau had one that said, What do you think about Beirut? 00:02:45.520 --> 00:02:48.479 And he told Thibodeau, he says, I know about Beirut. 00:02:48.879 --> 00:02:53.039 Said, why he was the best baseball player in the history of the game. 00:02:54.319 --> 00:02:58.319 You men are gonna need to explain that to your wife a little later, okay? 00:02:58.879 --> 00:03:00.560 Psalm 92 in verse 10. 00:03:00.719 --> 00:03:01.840 Have you found it yet? 00:03:02.960 --> 00:03:06.479 My horn you have exalted like a wild ox. 00:03:07.360 --> 00:03:11.280 I have been anointed. 00:03:11.439 --> 00:03:13.039 Don't you like that phrase? 00:03:13.680 --> 00:03:17.360 I have been anointed with what kind of oil? 00:03:18.479 --> 00:03:19.439 Fresh oil. 00:03:19.599 --> 00:03:23.599 Take the hand of somebody beside you there, all across these campuses and everywhere. 00:03:23.840 --> 00:03:29.840 We're praying today for the Holy Spirit to fill us with all seven of the manifestations of the Spirit. 00:03:30.000 --> 00:03:36.560 Father, I just thank you for your word that as we study it, you're giving us the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of Jesus. 00:03:36.639 --> 00:03:40.879 We bind the enemy who would try to steal, kill, or destroy, or hinder, or oppose. 00:03:41.039 --> 00:03:47.599 We claim this word is falling upon good ground, producing a harvest in our lives, 30, 60, and a hundredfold. 00:03:47.680 --> 00:03:50.639 We give you the glory in advance in Jesus' name. 00:03:50.719 --> 00:03:53.439 And everybody said Amen. 00:03:53.599 --> 00:03:54.400 I love this phrase. 00:03:54.560 --> 00:03:55.919 I have been anointed with fresh oil. 00:03:56.000 --> 00:04:02.879 I've actually been watching Pastor Robert on the internet a couple of times, getting ready to come here, to kind of see what he's been feeding you. 00:04:02.960 --> 00:04:09.120 And I notice he's been feeding you the last six weeks on the best friend in his life, and that is the Holy Spirit. 00:04:09.439 --> 00:04:11.360 And by the way, Robert's a pretty good preacher. 00:04:11.439 --> 00:04:12.560 Did y'all realize that? 00:04:13.280 --> 00:04:14.000 He's pretty good. 00:04:14.080 --> 00:04:15.280 Y'all appreciate Brother Robert? 00:04:15.360 --> 00:04:16.319 Give him a hand clap. 00:04:20.639 --> 00:04:23.279 And I just I've never preached this message before. 00:04:23.360 --> 00:04:26.319 But the Lord gave me a message about oil. 00:04:26.879 --> 00:04:35.519 And uh I was thinking about this phrase, I've been anointed with fresh oil, and how the Holy Spirit is typified throughout the scripture with oil. 00:04:35.759 --> 00:04:42.160 In fact, if you look at the parable of the virgins, the ten virgins, five of them were wise, five were foolish. 00:04:42.319 --> 00:04:46.240 I think that kind of illustrates really today's church. 00:04:46.560 --> 00:04:54.160 Because I believe even in spirit-filled churches, about half of us sitting here are dry as last year's bird nest, if you know what I mean. 00:04:54.399 --> 00:04:56.240 I mean, we just get dry. 00:04:56.480 --> 00:04:59.920 We go through problems and circumstances, we just run out of oil. 00:05:00.079 --> 00:05:08.319 And I think it's imperative that we look at the Holy Spirit as a continual replenishing of oil in seven areas. 00:05:08.480 --> 00:05:14.399 Zechariah saw a candlestick in chapter four, right before he said, Not by might or power, but by my spirit. 00:05:14.480 --> 00:05:25.120 He saw this candlestick that had a pipeline from two olive trees, and it was continually fed into a bowl, and those lanterns always had a fresh supply of oil. 00:05:25.279 --> 00:05:29.680 Like continually, the fire was sitting on top of the supply. 00:05:31.040 --> 00:05:36.639 In the New Testament in Acts 2, when they were all filled with the Spirit, a flame of fire sat on their head. 00:05:36.720 --> 00:05:40.720 Well, if you don't have any oil, there's nothing to burn on top of your life. 00:05:41.040 --> 00:05:44.639 So somewhere down the line, the Holy Spirit's got to replenish you. 00:05:45.279 --> 00:05:49.040 I don't know who's here today, who's watching this, but you may be dry. 00:05:49.360 --> 00:05:56.319 And if you run the spiritual dipstick down in your spirit and pull it out, it may not even show up on the stick. 00:05:56.480 --> 00:05:58.160 Now, to be honest about it. 00:05:58.399 --> 00:06:01.920 So I want you to tell your neighbor next to you to tell, I think you need to check your oil. 00:06:02.000 --> 00:06:03.439 Come on, just tell them that. 00:06:09.519 --> 00:06:11.360 What kind of oil are we checking today? 00:06:11.439 --> 00:06:13.680 We're actually checking it in seven areas. 00:06:13.920 --> 00:06:19.759 And you're gonna run your spiritual dipstick down in all seven of these, and you're gonna figure out if you really fill with the Spirit. 00:06:20.079 --> 00:06:32.800 Because the Bible says in Revelation 4 that Jesus walks among these golden candlesticks or torches, and the seven lamps not only represent the church, but they represent the Holy Spirit. 00:06:32.959 --> 00:06:37.040 I've got a Jewish menorah here, which is a sign of the state of Israel. 00:06:37.120 --> 00:06:41.839 And I know this church is very involved in reaching out to the Jewish people, and we have been as well and love them. 00:06:42.079 --> 00:06:45.680 But what you see in a Jewish menorah is seven lamps. 00:06:46.160 --> 00:06:49.120 And I want to just start with this center one. 00:06:49.360 --> 00:06:55.439 Because in my mind, the center one, the one that runs right straight up the shaft, represents Jesus. 00:06:55.519 --> 00:06:59.120 And I want you to turn in your Bible to Isaiah chapter 11. 00:06:59.360 --> 00:07:02.319 I think I found what these seven lamps are. 00:07:02.560 --> 00:07:06.319 I often wonder why does it say the Holy Spirit is like seven lamps? 00:07:06.480 --> 00:07:09.680 In fact, some translations say the seven spirits of God. 00:07:09.839 --> 00:07:14.959 It's really the sevenfold Holy Spirit, the seven manifestations in your life. 00:07:15.120 --> 00:07:16.639 Am I spirit-filled? 00:07:16.879 --> 00:07:18.480 Am I full of fresh oil? 00:07:18.720 --> 00:07:21.600 Am I really replenished on a daily basis? 00:07:21.839 --> 00:07:24.160 Seven ways that you can check that. 00:07:24.720 --> 00:07:29.120 Now in Isaiah chapter 11 and verse 1, Isaiah's prophesying about Jesus. 00:07:29.279 --> 00:07:32.959 There shall come forth a rod from the stem of Jesse. 00:07:33.360 --> 00:07:34.639 That's Jesus. 00:07:35.199 --> 00:07:37.600 And a branch shall grow out of his roots. 00:07:37.839 --> 00:07:49.199 The spirit of the Lord shall rest upon him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and the fear of the Lord. 00:07:49.279 --> 00:07:57.439 Now, in that one verse, verse 2, I can see the seven spirits or the seven aspects of the Holy Spirit in your life. 00:07:57.600 --> 00:07:59.759 And let me go back to the first one right there in verse 2. 00:07:59.839 --> 00:08:00.639 Now look at it carefully. 00:08:00.720 --> 00:08:04.800 That's the only verse you need, the rest of the message today is that one verse right there. 00:08:05.040 --> 00:08:07.680 And you're going to check each area as we go through. 00:08:07.920 --> 00:08:12.000 First thing is the spirit of the Lord will rest upon him. 00:08:12.240 --> 00:08:13.680 That's my middle branch. 00:08:13.839 --> 00:08:17.519 I, you know, Isaiah didn't know who the Lord was, he didn't know his name. 00:08:17.680 --> 00:08:18.480 We know his name. 00:08:18.560 --> 00:08:19.120 What is his name? 00:08:19.199 --> 00:08:20.399 Come on, say it out loud. 00:08:21.120 --> 00:08:21.680 Jesus. 00:08:21.920 --> 00:08:26.959 The spirit of Jesus is the first lamp of the Spirit. 00:08:27.920 --> 00:08:30.959 He's called the Spirit of Jesus in the New Testament. 00:08:31.199 --> 00:08:35.519 And what I learned about the Holy Spirit is he's all about pointing me toward Jesus. 00:08:35.840 --> 00:08:37.600 He's not excited about himself. 00:08:38.080 --> 00:08:41.759 He testifies, the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy. 00:08:41.840 --> 00:08:43.360 And here's the thing I want you to see. 00:08:43.600 --> 00:08:54.879 When the Holy Spirit is living in you, like full up, fully replenished, you have a sense of intimacy with Jesus. 00:08:56.320 --> 00:08:57.440 Intimacy with Jesus. 00:08:57.600 --> 00:09:00.320 See, I didn't say going to church, and I mean going to church is important. 00:09:00.399 --> 00:09:02.720 I thank the Lord for you being in church today. 00:09:02.799 --> 00:09:06.000 You could be out somewhere on the lake of the Gulf, of course, you're here. 00:09:06.720 --> 00:09:12.879 But let me tell you, intimacy with the Lord is like when Jesus and I are connected like a vine and a branch. 00:09:13.039 --> 00:09:16.639 And he is my king, my master, my Lord. 00:09:16.879 --> 00:09:21.519 My worship to him in private is very intimate and real. 00:09:21.759 --> 00:09:28.399 My time in his word is not just going through a devotional book, but it's actually talking to me directly. 00:09:28.559 --> 00:09:34.480 The Spirit of the Lord brings my relationship to the Lord where it's very intimate and real. 00:09:34.639 --> 00:09:37.200 And Christians can go on autopilot if they're not careful. 00:09:37.279 --> 00:09:40.399 They'd be completely out of oil in this area and still going to church. 00:09:40.559 --> 00:09:42.799 I heard about a guy that didn't want to go to church. 00:09:42.960 --> 00:09:46.559 And his mama was waking him up on a Sunday morning and said, You are going to church. 00:09:46.720 --> 00:09:49.360 He'd turn over, pull his covers over, said, I'm not going. 00:09:49.600 --> 00:09:50.720 And she kept going in there. 00:09:50.879 --> 00:09:52.639 Finally, she yelled at him, You are going to church. 00:09:52.720 --> 00:09:55.679 He said, Give me three reasons why I need to go to church. 00:09:56.080 --> 00:09:58.480 She said, All right, the first thing is it's good for you. 00:09:58.559 --> 00:09:59.840 You need to be there. 00:10:00.399 --> 00:10:04.399 The second reason is you're 45 years of age. 00:10:06.320 --> 00:10:10.080 And the third reason is you're the pastor of that church. 00:10:11.279 --> 00:10:13.759 How many of you know even pastors can get dry? 00:10:13.840 --> 00:10:14.559 Did you know that? 00:10:14.799 --> 00:10:18.320 We can all get mechanical in our devotional life of the Lord. 00:10:18.399 --> 00:10:24.399 And I just learned, and by the way, angels don't pick me up out of the bed and bring me into my prayer closet in the mornings. 00:10:24.480 --> 00:10:25.200 How about you? 00:10:25.360 --> 00:10:28.559 I do have to get up, but there's something about intimacy. 00:10:28.799 --> 00:10:33.919 I mean, this morning at 5:40, I felt the presence of Jesus. 00:10:34.080 --> 00:10:36.879 Just when I woke up, I could just sense the presence of the Lord. 00:10:36.960 --> 00:10:39.360 Now I don't know who's here, I don't know what you're going through. 00:10:39.519 --> 00:10:45.039 Don't leave this building with your dipstick low in the area of intimacy. 00:10:46.159 --> 00:10:49.279 Number two, the spirit of wisdom. 00:10:50.480 --> 00:10:53.679 The spirit of wisdom in my mind is order. 00:10:53.919 --> 00:10:56.480 Now, order and wisdom go together. 00:10:56.639 --> 00:10:58.240 I learned this in Solomon's reign. 00:10:58.399 --> 00:11:00.320 You know, Solomon was the most organized king. 00:11:00.480 --> 00:11:05.200 He he put his kingdom in order because he had such wisdom. 00:11:05.519 --> 00:11:12.559 In the book of Acts, it says that the Lord appointed deacons who were full of the spirit and wisdom. 00:11:12.799 --> 00:11:14.480 The church was out of order. 00:11:14.639 --> 00:11:18.080 They were overlooking the Hellenistic Jews and the widows. 00:11:18.240 --> 00:11:20.080 And so he says, this is out of order. 00:11:20.240 --> 00:11:24.399 We need some deacons who are full of the Spirit and wisdom. 00:11:24.559 --> 00:11:27.120 Now, this is the second area you need to check yourself in. 00:11:27.279 --> 00:11:31.120 How is the order of your life? 00:11:31.360 --> 00:11:35.120 If there's confusion, the Holy Spirit is not around. 00:11:35.440 --> 00:11:39.039 Holy Spirit is not the author of confusion. 00:11:39.200 --> 00:11:40.799 We read that in 1 Corinthians 14. 00:11:40.879 --> 00:11:45.919 That means if your checkbook is all out of whack, it's not balanced, you don't know how much money you have. 00:11:46.159 --> 00:11:50.399 You don't know, you know, I had one lady tell me, I got plenty of money because I still have checks in my checkbook. 00:11:50.480 --> 00:11:53.039 I said, now, sweetheart, that ain't the way it works. 00:11:53.759 --> 00:11:57.200 But some of you go to your house, man, your car's out of order. 00:11:57.279 --> 00:12:00.480 You'd have to use a backhoe to get in the back seat if you needed to. 00:12:00.720 --> 00:12:02.320 Your closets are out of order. 00:12:02.399 --> 00:12:03.519 Come on, somebody. 00:12:03.759 --> 00:12:09.840 In fact, you need to mow your grass in the backyard because you might find a couple of kids you lost a week ago back there. 00:12:10.559 --> 00:12:12.480 And it's just out of order. 00:12:12.559 --> 00:12:19.279 And I'm telling you, the Holy Spirit does not operate in wisdom unless there's order. 00:12:19.360 --> 00:12:21.279 You see, I learned this about money. 00:12:21.519 --> 00:12:22.960 My money may be out of order. 00:12:23.039 --> 00:12:25.600 I may not be managing my money wisely. 00:12:25.679 --> 00:12:29.120 And that's why I keep praying for more, and God says, I've already given it to you. 00:12:29.279 --> 00:12:30.720 You need to administrate it better. 00:12:31.039 --> 00:12:32.799 My time can be out of order. 00:12:32.960 --> 00:12:34.639 My marriage can be out of order. 00:12:34.720 --> 00:12:36.639 It's like a pump at a gas station. 00:12:36.799 --> 00:12:42.720 If you pull up to this pump and there's a sign hanging over the handle, what does that sign say? 00:12:43.840 --> 00:12:45.039 Out of order. 00:12:45.279 --> 00:12:47.200 It's because it doesn't say it's broke. 00:12:47.360 --> 00:12:48.240 It's out of order. 00:12:48.399 --> 00:12:51.039 It's not going to produce any gas. 00:12:51.200 --> 00:12:53.200 It's not going to produce any oil. 00:12:53.360 --> 00:12:56.480 And that's where order, and I just challenge it secondly. 00:12:56.799 --> 00:12:59.039 Put your life in order. 00:12:59.440 --> 00:13:06.320 From closets to little garage to tools to money to relationships to marriage to kids. 00:13:06.639 --> 00:13:10.960 Work right there, and you're moving in the second anointing of the Holy Spirit. 00:13:11.039 --> 00:13:14.080 Here's the third one: Understanding. 00:13:14.799 --> 00:13:16.000 A spirit of understanding. 00:13:16.080 --> 00:13:17.039 You say, Well, what does that mean? 00:13:17.120 --> 00:13:18.960 Well, that's anything you don't understand. 00:13:21.120 --> 00:13:25.519 The Holy Spirit has come to help you understand things you don't understand. 00:13:25.919 --> 00:13:30.159 I read in Daniel 10 where Daniel had a vision and he didn't understand what it meant. 00:13:30.240 --> 00:13:40.159 And an angel came and said, I've come as a result of your time of 21 days of fasting, and I've come to give you understanding. 00:13:40.960 --> 00:13:43.200 Now I kind of think of it as clarity. 00:13:43.600 --> 00:13:43.919 Okay? 00:13:44.399 --> 00:13:45.120 Clarity. 00:13:45.360 --> 00:13:51.279 The Holy Spirit in my life wipes the windows of my soul. 00:13:52.639 --> 00:13:54.559 Bible says we see through a glass darkly. 00:13:54.639 --> 00:14:01.120 We're never going to understand everything about the will of God, but Paul says, be not foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is. 00:14:01.200 --> 00:14:04.799 And I've learned that I can be kind of like a blind dog in a meathouse. 00:14:04.879 --> 00:14:07.279 Now I don't know if y'all get that expression or not. 00:14:07.600 --> 00:14:09.039 A blind dog in a meathouse. 00:14:09.120 --> 00:14:11.840 He knows it's up there, but he can smell it, but he can't find it. 00:14:12.000 --> 00:14:13.279 A lot of you are like that. 00:14:13.440 --> 00:14:18.960 You know that God's got something for you to do, but you don't have the clarity about it. 00:14:19.200 --> 00:14:27.519 And clarity is when the Lord says, listen, I'm wiping the windows, and I'm going to show you a little bit further than your headlights right now. 00:14:27.679 --> 00:14:28.960 I'm going to reveal the future. 00:14:29.120 --> 00:14:36.320 The Bible says the men of Issachar had understanding of the times to know what Israel ought to do. 00:14:36.399 --> 00:14:48.480 Now I'm claiming that for every one of you here in this building and there at NRH and wherever you are, that when you leave here today, the Holy Spirit is going to show you, and I believe by fasting, what is the will of God in your life? 00:14:48.559 --> 00:14:51.759 I've never made a major decision in my life without fasting. 00:14:52.000 --> 00:14:53.360 I didn't hear an amen there. 00:14:53.440 --> 00:14:55.759 I heard a I rebuke you, devil, right there. 00:14:56.799 --> 00:15:01.120 I didn't say fast food, I say fasting food. 00:15:02.080 --> 00:15:03.519 Oh, Brother Larry, I would die. 00:15:03.600 --> 00:15:07.200 No, really, you could live off the land for about three days and never even know it. 00:15:07.440 --> 00:15:22.879 I've learned in a three-day fast, the Lord clarifies my spirit becomes alive, filled with fresh oil, my soul and my body, because it recedes in the background, and now I can begin to see, and in a lengthy, protracted fast, I've really seen many things. 00:15:23.039 --> 00:15:29.519 I could tell you, the Lord helped me meet with the governor of Louisiana six years in the governor's mansion, and that happened on a 21-day fast. 00:15:29.600 --> 00:15:30.399 God gave me clarity. 00:15:30.480 --> 00:15:32.159 I passed the governor's mansion. 00:15:32.320 --> 00:15:36.559 I turned and looked at it, and in my spirit I saw a wind blow that front door open. 00:15:36.639 --> 00:15:40.240 Just as clear, and I told Melanie, the Lord's about to open a door to the governor. 00:15:40.480 --> 00:15:41.759 He called me a week later. 00:15:41.840 --> 00:15:43.039 I'd never met him. 00:15:43.200 --> 00:15:45.919 He called my office and he'd been watching my little TV show. 00:15:46.000 --> 00:15:49.679 He said, I want you to come teach me the whole Bible in four lessons. 00:15:51.200 --> 00:15:52.720 I mean, he's a bottom line guy. 00:15:52.799 --> 00:15:53.440 I can't get into that. 00:15:53.519 --> 00:15:55.200 I'm just talking, everybody say clarity. 00:15:56.080 --> 00:15:57.519 All right, number four. 00:15:57.919 --> 00:15:59.519 The spirit of counsel. 00:15:59.759 --> 00:16:05.120 Now here's what I've learned about this one: counsel has to do with decisions. 00:16:05.600 --> 00:16:07.360 These are all different. 00:16:07.679 --> 00:16:15.279 First is intimacy, where the Lord brings the word and prayer and Bible study and church attendance, where it's like exciting to you. 00:16:15.360 --> 00:16:16.399 And it seems to be here. 00:16:16.559 --> 00:16:20.240 I really sense the spirit of intimacy on this church. 00:16:20.480 --> 00:16:24.799 And secondly, the Bible says that there was order, there's wisdom in your life. 00:16:24.960 --> 00:16:27.679 Thirdly, there's clarity about direction. 00:16:27.840 --> 00:16:30.000 Fourth, is there's counsel about decisions. 00:16:30.159 --> 00:16:33.679 The Holy Spirit lives in you as a green light or a red light. 00:16:33.759 --> 00:16:38.399 Now, Christians do not utilize the inward witness like they ought to. 00:16:38.720 --> 00:16:54.480 When you get ready to buy a house, or you get ready to hire a person on your job, or you get ready to marry somebody or move to Moose's armpit, Manitoba, or wherever you're thinking about moving, the Holy Spirit living in you has something to say about that. 00:16:55.039 --> 00:17:00.480 Joshua did not ask counsel from the Lord, and so he entered a treaty with the Gibeonites. 00:17:00.559 --> 00:17:05.200 It looked good on the outside, but really they were manipulating and deceiving. 00:17:05.440 --> 00:17:07.119 You need to listen to the Holy Spirit. 00:17:07.200 --> 00:17:12.559 Let me tell you, a lot of the problem with the body of Christ today is the lack of discernment and a lack of good decisions. 00:17:12.640 --> 00:17:14.720 And we call this a yes or a no. 00:17:14.880 --> 00:17:19.200 Because in the Old Testament, the priest had the Urim and Thumen. 00:17:19.920 --> 00:17:25.759 And inside that pouch, he could drop the pouch somehow, and it came out a yes or a no. 00:17:25.839 --> 00:17:29.839 Now, wouldn't it be nice if you had a little pouch like that? 00:17:30.240 --> 00:17:34.079 That if you needed a yes or a no, you just drop that thing, and there it is. 00:17:34.160 --> 00:17:35.359 Well, there's the mind of God. 00:17:35.440 --> 00:17:36.240 But we don't have that. 00:17:36.319 --> 00:17:38.640 It's our spirit that teaches us. 00:17:38.799 --> 00:17:46.079 The fourth way I know I'm filled with the spirit is I follow my inward witness. 00:17:46.880 --> 00:17:50.880 No matter what things look like on the outside, years ago I saw a Disney movie. 00:17:51.119 --> 00:17:53.759 And in this movie, it's called The Barefoot Executive. 00:17:53.839 --> 00:17:55.759 Did any of you see that movie besides me? 00:17:55.839 --> 00:17:59.200 You know, I have all these kids, so we watch all these silly little movies. 00:17:59.440 --> 00:18:14.400 And one of the things stuck in my mind about the inward witness, it was this chimpanzee, who this guy noticed was watching TV all day, and the chimpanzee would either clap for a show or go, and he didn't like the show. 00:18:15.839 --> 00:18:40.880 And so the guy started noticing, he compared the ratings with the chimp's reaction, and the chimp became the number one selector of programs in the nation, and this guy made tons of money just watching this chimp go, ho ho ho, or he goes, So I've just learned, I mean, I'm just kind of dumb like that, but I've just learned when I see things, I just wait on the Lord, and after a while, here I go. 00:18:45.759 --> 00:18:47.039 That's counsel. 00:18:47.200 --> 00:18:52.079 Really, if you want to boil counsel down, it's really the ability to make one good decision. 00:18:52.240 --> 00:18:53.759 Can you say amen to that? 00:18:54.319 --> 00:18:59.599 By the way, if you've made a lifetime of bad decisions, I'm gonna give you hope today. 00:18:59.759 --> 00:19:07.839 All you need is one good decision to bring you out of the woods that your bad decisions have made you. 00:19:08.079 --> 00:19:09.039 You need counsel. 00:19:09.119 --> 00:19:11.039 That's what counselors are here for at the church. 00:19:11.119 --> 00:19:20.079 They're really not here to tell you what to do, but to help you decide a yay or a nay, a yes or a no about relationships, about money, and about everything. 00:19:20.160 --> 00:19:23.119 That's the fourth manifestation of the Holy Spirit. 00:19:23.279 --> 00:19:25.920 Number five, the spirit of might. 00:19:26.720 --> 00:19:28.000 I like this one. 00:19:28.319 --> 00:19:32.000 You know, we Charismaniacs, we really like this verse. 00:19:32.480 --> 00:19:33.599 The spirit of might. 00:19:33.680 --> 00:19:35.039 We always think of power. 00:19:35.119 --> 00:19:40.160 When I was a missionary in Africa, they don't say power, they say power. 00:19:41.680 --> 00:19:45.359 And they say, it is awa, awa of power. 00:19:47.279 --> 00:19:49.279 Try that, you'll be speaking African. 00:19:49.440 --> 00:19:52.319 It is awa, awa of power. 00:19:52.400 --> 00:19:54.880 Now, a lot of you don't even understand what that means. 00:19:55.119 --> 00:19:59.200 It is our in Texas, it's our, our power. 00:20:03.119 --> 00:20:07.440 And by the way, they don't say fire, they say fire. 00:20:08.640 --> 00:20:12.319 Come on, Jesus, light my yeah. 00:20:12.559 --> 00:20:16.640 Well, see, that we're familiar with this fifth one, the spirit of might and strength. 00:20:16.799 --> 00:20:20.240 You shall receive power after the Holy Ghost comes upon you. 00:20:20.319 --> 00:20:29.119 Now, if you're dry and you're not moving in the fresh oil of the Holy Spirit, you're no different from a person who has not received the fullness of the Spirit. 00:20:29.359 --> 00:20:39.359 And you know, you can sit up in a uh, you know, charismatic church, a spirit-filled, and still not feel energy, fire, life, power. 00:20:39.519 --> 00:20:41.680 You know, my daddy is 90 years old. 00:20:41.759 --> 00:20:44.400 He's been in the ministry 64 years. 00:20:44.880 --> 00:20:53.440 He was married to my mama until October of this last year, 63 years and nine months to the same lady, sitting on the love seat, loving on each other. 00:20:53.680 --> 00:20:56.720 And my daddy is 90, but he's filled with the spirit. 00:20:56.880 --> 00:20:57.920 I'm with him every day. 00:20:58.000 --> 00:21:05.920 He lives next to me, and he kicks his leg and he shouts and he praises the Lord because Daddy is filled with the spirit of might. 00:21:06.079 --> 00:21:10.319 Look, Samson killed a thousand men with the jawbone of a donkey. 00:21:10.480 --> 00:21:13.519 Elijah outran Ahab to Jezreel. 00:21:13.680 --> 00:21:24.079 When you really think about the power of God, it's the oil of joy, it's the garment of praise, it's the ability to wake up in the morning like Fred Fenstone and say, Yabba dabba do. 00:21:24.240 --> 00:21:25.279 Do you remember that? 00:21:25.599 --> 00:21:28.559 I mean, it's like, God, Lord, I love life. 00:21:28.720 --> 00:21:30.079 Lord, I'm excited. 00:21:30.240 --> 00:21:39.839 I woke up this morning, I looked out over the West Texas, over the East Texas sun rising, and it was rising right over y'all's new building property out over there. 00:21:39.920 --> 00:21:41.200 Oh, hallelujah. 00:21:41.519 --> 00:21:44.960 And I looked at it and I thought, what a wonderful day to be alive. 00:21:45.119 --> 00:21:47.519 How many of you are glad to be alive today? 00:21:47.759 --> 00:21:49.839 Yeah, give the Lord praise. 00:21:52.319 --> 00:21:53.839 That's the spirit of the Lord. 00:21:53.920 --> 00:21:59.839 We're not down, we're not defeated, we're not in the mully grubs in the can't help us, we're not down and out and grumpy. 00:22:00.319 --> 00:22:10.559 I heard about one lady went to work and her neighbor in the co in the little cubicle next to her looked at her and her face was a little down and she says, Man, you know, you kind of woke up grumpy this morning, didn't you? 00:22:10.640 --> 00:22:13.839 She said, No, I just decided to let him sleep late today. 00:22:17.039 --> 00:22:19.599 That's a good one for you ladies, by the way. 00:22:20.319 --> 00:22:22.160 You know, we don't need to be grumpy. 00:22:22.240 --> 00:22:23.759 Can you say amen to that? 00:22:24.000 --> 00:22:25.839 We're spirit-filled people. 00:22:26.000 --> 00:22:26.960 We're praising people. 00:22:27.039 --> 00:22:28.480 We have the nine gifts of the spirit. 00:22:28.559 --> 00:22:30.880 We have the prayer language, we have spiritual warfare. 00:22:31.119 --> 00:22:33.440 We are people of might and power. 00:22:33.519 --> 00:22:46.960 And I don't know if you're feeling weak and timid and fearful and powerless, but today, the same spirit that raised Christ from the dead is dwelling in you, and he's quickening your mortal body by the Holy Spirit. 00:22:47.519 --> 00:22:50.000 We're people of power and of fire. 00:22:50.319 --> 00:22:50.960 Amen. 00:22:51.680 --> 00:22:52.960 Number six. 00:22:54.000 --> 00:22:57.440 Not only the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge. 00:22:57.680 --> 00:22:59.519 Now you'd say, well, what is knowledge? 00:22:59.759 --> 00:23:02.240 Knowledge is what you don't know. 00:23:03.519 --> 00:23:10.079 I think in the book of Exodus about Bezaliel, how that he was given the task to build the tabernacle. 00:23:10.160 --> 00:23:12.160 Nobody'd ever built a tabernacle. 00:23:12.400 --> 00:23:19.440 But it says he was filled with the spirit of knowledge, and he was a craftsman and an artisan, and he built the tabernacle. 00:23:19.680 --> 00:23:21.440 Now that's knowledge. 00:23:21.759 --> 00:23:28.880 Knowledge about stuff that you don't know how to do, but you've been called upon to do it. 00:23:28.960 --> 00:23:34.640 I got a college degree, I thank the Lord for it, but it was not in business administration, it was in ministry. 00:23:34.799 --> 00:23:39.119 And here I am managing this big church with multiple campuses and places all over the world. 00:23:39.920 --> 00:23:41.200 I don't know what I'm doing. 00:23:41.279 --> 00:23:44.640 I just have to tell you, I'm in way over my head. 00:23:45.759 --> 00:23:52.160 But thank God when I am walking on the water, Jesus says everything that's over your head is under my feet. 00:23:52.319 --> 00:23:52.960 Amen. 00:23:53.359 --> 00:24:02.079 So I know I'm over my head, but education alone is not enough to equip you to do what God's called you to do. 00:24:02.480 --> 00:24:10.559 It's kind of like that little girl went to school and she told her teacher, she raised her hand, she said, Did you know that Jonah got swallowed by a whale? 00:24:10.880 --> 00:24:15.119 This agnostic teacher was real haughty about it, and she says, No, he did not. 00:24:15.359 --> 00:24:16.559 She said, Oh yes, he did. 00:24:16.640 --> 00:24:17.759 He was swallowed by a whale. 00:24:17.920 --> 00:24:20.319 My Sunday school teacher told me he was. 00:24:20.480 --> 00:24:31.359 She said, Well, I'll have you know that whale's jaw cannot even unhinge enough to swallow a human being, plus the esophagus is not big enough, plus they swallow plankton, and plus he would drown, and plus and plus and plus. 00:24:31.519 --> 00:24:34.000 Says, so there, Jonah was not swallowed by a whale. 00:24:34.160 --> 00:24:40.319 She said, Well, when I get to heaven, she said, I'm just gonna ask Jonah if he was swallowed by a whale. 00:24:41.119 --> 00:24:44.160 And the teacher said, Oh, well, what if he's in hell? 00:24:44.400 --> 00:24:46.880 And she said, Well, then you can ask him. 00:24:57.920 --> 00:25:00.640 Shake your right hand if you feel the anointing now. 00:25:01.519 --> 00:25:05.279 Let me tell you, education is not everything. 00:25:05.839 --> 00:25:07.680 Knowledge, knowledge, knowledge. 00:25:07.759 --> 00:25:14.319 I'm looking around this room, and you there at NRH and you in the overflow, you're dealing with business situations and you're dealing with kids. 00:25:14.480 --> 00:25:16.799 Raising six kids is hazardous to your health. 00:25:16.880 --> 00:25:17.839 Did you know that? 00:25:18.160 --> 00:25:19.599 You don't know what you're doing. 00:25:19.759 --> 00:25:24.720 I guarantee you, if I sat down with you and asked you about what you're doing, you'd have to say, I have this insecurity. 00:25:24.880 --> 00:25:26.880 I don't know what I'm doing really. 00:25:27.440 --> 00:25:29.519 But here I am in this position. 00:25:29.680 --> 00:25:32.000 And the Lord says, I'm gonna give you knowledge. 00:25:32.240 --> 00:25:39.680 And I tell you, the Holy Spirit gives me knowledge about stuff, marketing and business and media, and we own this TV station, radio station. 00:25:39.759 --> 00:25:42.240 I didn't know about how to do that, but it's just the Lord. 00:25:42.400 --> 00:25:47.680 And now I'm gonna bring you to the last one: the spirit of the fear of the Lord. 00:25:47.920 --> 00:25:50.799 I don't hear a lot of teaching about this seventh one. 00:25:51.039 --> 00:25:52.480 The spirit of the fear of the Lord. 00:25:52.640 --> 00:25:55.039 What we mean by that is integrity. 00:25:55.759 --> 00:26:03.759 If I dip the dipstick down in this seventh branch of the spirits of the Lord, this is one you don't hear a lot about. 00:26:04.079 --> 00:26:06.160 That's why I wrote the book, The Remnant. 00:26:06.480 --> 00:26:08.400 Because I got involved there at New Life Church. 00:26:08.559 --> 00:26:10.400 Of course, Brady Boyd, I interviewed him. 00:26:10.480 --> 00:26:12.240 We end up making him the pastor there. 00:26:12.400 --> 00:26:14.799 What a blessing that man of God is there. 00:26:15.519 --> 00:26:28.960 But I just have seen, you know, it's not how hot shot you are or how fast your star rises, it's how long you keep walking in purity before the Lord. 00:26:29.279 --> 00:26:34.000 And I have all presuppositions are off, all pretenses off for me. 00:26:34.079 --> 00:26:36.000 Now I am what you see. 00:26:36.720 --> 00:26:39.119 I live the same 24 hours a day. 00:26:39.279 --> 00:26:41.759 Integrity means wholeness, it means sameness. 00:26:41.920 --> 00:26:44.720 I'm the same at seven in the morning on Monday morning. 00:26:44.799 --> 00:26:47.599 I'm the same on Wednesday night at church, I'm the same. 00:26:47.839 --> 00:26:52.319 I live my life with purity, with integrity and with innocence. 00:26:52.400 --> 00:26:54.480 And that's an example and a model. 00:26:54.559 --> 00:26:56.319 I'll be teaching on it in the pastor's conference. 00:26:56.480 --> 00:26:57.440 Let me tell you something. 00:26:57.680 --> 00:27:03.839 This thing is no longer about how high you jump, it's about how straight you walk when you come back to the ground. 00:27:04.240 --> 00:27:07.119 Integrity, purity, all of those things. 00:27:07.279 --> 00:27:13.839 Acts 5, Ananias and Sapphira, good, charismatic Christians, brought some money to the church, but they were lying. 00:27:13.920 --> 00:27:15.359 They were not being truthful. 00:27:15.519 --> 00:27:17.119 They withheld a part of the sum. 00:27:17.200 --> 00:27:19.680 And Peter said, I'm sorry, but you've grieved the Holy Spirit. 00:27:19.839 --> 00:27:20.880 You know what happened to them. 00:27:21.039 --> 00:27:22.559 I heard a guy preaching on them one time. 00:27:22.640 --> 00:27:25.680 He called them Anoninius and Shapariah. 00:27:25.920 --> 00:27:28.400 And I didn't even know who he was preaching about. 00:27:28.720 --> 00:27:30.640 Ananias and Sapphira. 00:27:31.279 --> 00:27:32.400