WEBVTT 00:00:02.000 --> 00:00:04.400 Hi, my name is Michelle Steele. 00:00:04.639 --> 00:00:10.240 Pastor Phillip and I want to thank you for listening to this message from Life of Faith Church. 00:00:10.480 --> 00:00:16.800 We have more resources available to help you build your faith and frame your world by the Word of God. 00:00:17.039 --> 00:00:22.800 From our website, lifeoffaith.net, you can connect to our YouTube channel. 00:00:23.039 --> 00:00:26.320 Watch the live stream feed from our church services. 00:00:26.559 --> 00:00:29.679 Access books and downloads in our web store. 00:00:29.920 --> 00:00:33.439 And discover more about Life of Faith Church. 00:00:33.600 --> 00:00:36.799 Producing like city, state, nation, and world. 00:00:37.039 --> 00:00:39.759 Visit lifeoffaith.net today. 00:00:44.240 --> 00:00:47.840 Let's go over to John chapter 14 tonight. 00:00:49.119 --> 00:00:54.719 And uh as you're going, we have some uh announcements for you, of course, this Saturday at 9 a.m. 00:00:54.960 --> 00:00:58.719 Uh May 23rd, our Covenant Keepers Men's Meeting. 00:00:58.880 --> 00:01:05.920 Uh breakfast will be served uh for$12, and then of course we'll uh get into the word after that. 00:01:06.159 --> 00:01:14.159 Also, uh this Saturday, the graveside service for Sister Goodnight will be held uh 11 a.m. 00:01:14.480 --> 00:01:23.840 at the Walnut Grove Cemetery off of uh Walnut Grove, uh close to well, it says it's in Little Rock, but it's uh around Ferndale. 00:01:24.239 --> 00:01:26.480 Uh and so that will be at 11 o'clock. 00:01:26.560 --> 00:01:31.920 There will be a potluck dinner to follow at the Ferndale Community Center if you would like to attend that. 00:01:32.239 --> 00:01:34.400 Um Hallelujah. 00:01:34.640 --> 00:01:44.799 The the um the June 3rd, uh Harry and Cheryl Salem will be here at night at 7 p.m. 00:01:45.200 --> 00:01:48.159 uh Wednesday, May 20th, uh June 23rd. 00:01:48.400 --> 00:01:49.200 June 3rd. 00:01:49.519 --> 00:01:50.959 Too many threes here. 00:01:51.920 --> 00:01:54.640 And uh they'll be here at uh 7 p.m. 00:01:55.040 --> 00:01:56.159 uh June 3rd. 00:01:56.239 --> 00:01:58.799 We're so grateful that they're gonna be able to be with us. 00:01:59.120 --> 00:02:02.879 And then June 14th is our Salvation Sunday. 00:02:03.120 --> 00:02:04.239 And uh, amen. 00:02:04.319 --> 00:02:10.159 We're believing uh for people to be saved that day, believing for uh people to bring the unsaved. 00:02:10.319 --> 00:02:20.159 Uh we start our uh Being a Person of Influence series begins this Sunday morning on the 24th of May, and uh God will help us, amen. 00:02:20.719 --> 00:02:23.759 And then October 7th, 8th, and 9th. 00:02:24.000 --> 00:02:30.319 Now, this is something you can put down long term, uh, is our clothing, the Next Generation Conference. 00:02:30.560 --> 00:02:35.120 And uh that's Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday, October 7th, 8th, and 9th. 00:02:35.280 --> 00:02:42.560 Uh, Pastor Calwell will be ministering that Wednesday, Prophet Ford on Thursday, and then I'll finish it up on Friday evening. 00:02:42.719 --> 00:02:45.919 And uh so uh come and be a part of that. 00:02:46.080 --> 00:02:50.159 I believe the Lord's gonna use that to help us in the name of Jesus. 00:02:50.400 --> 00:02:58.080 The Lord said to us that in April of 2026 the door to more was open. 00:02:58.719 --> 00:03:04.960 And he said it had been cracked open, but that in April it would be flung wide open. 00:03:06.319 --> 00:03:14.479 And what we've discovered through teaching on this is that more is a higher standard. 00:03:15.280 --> 00:03:20.000 All right, it's what God's done, yet more of it and at a higher standard. 00:03:20.240 --> 00:03:25.919 You know, anything that you get from God that can what is the goal of the Christian life? 00:03:26.319 --> 00:03:29.280 The goal of the Christian life is maturity. 00:03:30.000 --> 00:03:34.639 And every year, every believer decides how much they're gonna mature. 00:03:35.360 --> 00:03:41.199 It's not up to me, it's not up to God, it's not, it's not up to the devil, it's up to me. 00:03:41.439 --> 00:03:45.120 Every year I mature to the level that I want to mature. 00:03:45.280 --> 00:03:50.159 All right, I enter more into the things of God than I want to more enter into the things of God. 00:03:50.400 --> 00:03:56.960 There are believers by the scores of thousands that every year the needle doesn't move on their walk with God. 00:03:57.199 --> 00:03:58.000 It doesn't move. 00:03:58.080 --> 00:04:04.159 They don't grow, they don't expand, they don't, they don't take, they don't advance because they choose not to. 00:04:04.319 --> 00:04:17.839 They're comfortable in whatever area that they have, they're comfortable with their walk with the Holy Spirit, they're comfortable with their walk in the word, they're comfortable with their commitment to the things of God, and that's where they stay, and their life never changes. 00:04:18.079 --> 00:04:19.519 There are preachers every year. 00:04:19.680 --> 00:04:20.160 I know them. 00:04:20.240 --> 00:04:21.120 I know a lot of them. 00:04:21.279 --> 00:04:28.800 They net they never grow, they never mature, they they never grow into another area with God because they're comfortable, right? 00:04:28.959 --> 00:04:34.000 And they'll talk to you about how it used to be in the early days when they were younger and what they did. 00:04:34.079 --> 00:04:37.120 And I always sit back and think, well, what in the world happened? 00:04:37.519 --> 00:04:42.399 If you were doing all that then and making all that progress, what happened? 00:04:42.720 --> 00:04:47.120 See, this door to more is a higher standard. 00:04:47.600 --> 00:04:56.800 In order to walk through the doors that are open, we have to cultivate on a higher level our relationship with the Holy Spirit. 00:04:57.120 --> 00:04:59.199 All right, with the Holy Spirit. 00:04:59.519 --> 00:05:02.160 Every door is an opportunity. 00:05:04.160 --> 00:05:06.480 But every opportunity is not a door. 00:05:07.439 --> 00:05:08.079 Right? 00:05:08.560 --> 00:05:12.560 I need the leading of the Holy Spirit to show me the difference. 00:05:13.040 --> 00:05:13.600 All right? 00:05:13.759 --> 00:05:17.360 Because this might be an opportunity, but that doesn't mean it's a door. 00:05:19.519 --> 00:05:25.600 I have to depend on the leading of the Holy Spirit to let me know the difference. 00:05:25.839 --> 00:05:33.040 And when we talk about being led by the Holy Spirit, people in spirit-filled circles, we just, you know, it's kind of like, yeah, we have to be led. 00:05:33.199 --> 00:05:34.800 But how often are we led? 00:05:35.040 --> 00:05:41.759 How often every day are we consulting the Holy Guide on the inside of us for what we should be doing? 00:05:42.079 --> 00:05:45.040 How many of our decisions are really decided by him? 00:05:45.360 --> 00:05:51.040 Or how many of our decisions are decided by us, and then we kind of bring him on in on the game? 00:05:54.160 --> 00:05:57.040 I decided to do that because it looked like a good idea. 00:05:57.199 --> 00:05:59.839 Now, Lord bless what I decided to do. 00:06:02.000 --> 00:06:03.040 Hallelujah. 00:06:03.360 --> 00:06:11.839 See, he's the guide, he's the leader, he's the communication arm of the Godhead. 00:06:12.240 --> 00:06:16.160 He's the one that hears from the Father and communicates to me. 00:06:16.560 --> 00:06:19.920 That's why Jesus said, we'll read it before long here tonight. 00:06:20.079 --> 00:06:25.360 That's why Jesus said, Look, I know it makes you sad that I'm going to be going. 00:06:25.519 --> 00:06:28.480 I can see the tears in your eyes, but listen to me, fellas. 00:06:28.639 --> 00:06:32.240 He said, It is expedient that I go away. 00:06:32.480 --> 00:06:36.639 Because if I don't go away, I can't send the guide back. 00:06:36.879 --> 00:06:38.959 I can't send the comforter back. 00:06:39.199 --> 00:06:44.800 And you need him more in you than you need me in your presence. 00:06:45.680 --> 00:06:53.120 It was so important to Jesus that he said, I have to go so I can send the comforter back. 00:06:53.920 --> 00:06:54.879 Hallelujah. 00:06:55.120 --> 00:06:55.199 T. 00:06:55.439 --> 00:06:55.519 L. 00:06:55.680 --> 00:06:56.959 Lowry made this statement. 00:06:57.120 --> 00:07:08.480 He said, He said, uh, when you read through the scriptures, when you read through the the it's in the book of Job, it says, the Spirit of the Almighty has created me. 00:07:08.800 --> 00:07:12.079 Everything about my life, everything about my future. 00:07:12.319 --> 00:07:25.519 The Bible says that the Holy Spirit will remind you of what you've heard, that he will tell you about things to come, that he'll help you where you presently are, but I have to spend time every day engaging with him. 00:07:26.000 --> 00:07:26.720 Hallelujah. 00:07:26.879 --> 00:07:29.279 John chapter 14, verse 16. 00:07:30.879 --> 00:07:42.720 Jesus said, And I will pray, I will ask the Father, and He will give you another comforter that he may abide with you forever. 00:07:42.959 --> 00:07:58.879 Notice verse 17, even the Spirit of Truth, whom the world cannot see because it does not see him or know him, but you know him because he dwells with you in the presence in the form of Jesus and shall be with you. 00:07:59.040 --> 00:07:59.920 Hallelujah. 00:08:00.240 --> 00:08:18.959 Now John 15 and 26, Jesus says, But when the Comforter is come, whom I will send unto you from the Father, even the Spirit of truth, which proceedeth from the Father, he will testify of me. 00:08:19.600 --> 00:08:21.279 John 16, 13. 00:08:21.759 --> 00:08:37.440 How be it, when he, the Spirit of Truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth or all the truth, because he will not speak of himself, but whatever he will hear, that will he speak, and he will show you things to come. 00:08:37.600 --> 00:08:44.559 Now notice in all three of these verses, Jesus referred to the Holy Spirit as the spirit of truth. 00:08:44.879 --> 00:08:50.000 He referred to him as the spirit of truth more than he referred to him as anything else, any other thing. 00:08:50.320 --> 00:08:56.399 In two of these three verses, he called him the comforter, which is the spirit of truth. 00:08:56.799 --> 00:09:01.679 So he referred to the Holy Spirit as the Spirit of Truth. 00:09:01.840 --> 00:09:05.279 There's only one the Spirit of Truth. 00:09:05.919 --> 00:09:06.879 Hallelujah. 00:09:07.440 --> 00:09:11.279 The Holy Spirit reveals to us what is true. 00:09:12.720 --> 00:09:17.200 He teaches and guides us into what is true. 00:09:18.639 --> 00:09:22.879 He exposes what is false or wrong. 00:09:23.120 --> 00:09:24.879 That's a higher standard. 00:09:25.679 --> 00:09:34.480 He reveals to us, and he reveals to us what is true, the direction that I need to go, the things that I need to do. 00:09:35.840 --> 00:09:46.000 I'll be pastoring almost 30 years, 28 years in December, and I've never had one thing that went on in my church that I didn't know about it before it happened. 00:09:46.240 --> 00:09:47.679 Not one thing. 00:09:48.399 --> 00:09:48.799 Why? 00:09:49.039 --> 00:09:51.440 The spirit of truth lives on the inside of me. 00:09:52.960 --> 00:09:55.519 You got to engage him and consult him. 00:09:56.080 --> 00:09:56.720 Amen. 00:09:56.879 --> 00:10:01.919 And Jesus said, notice that he will guide you into all the truth. 00:10:02.960 --> 00:10:04.159 Why is that important? 00:10:04.480 --> 00:10:06.960 Because we're not going to take the time to teach from it tonight. 00:10:07.120 --> 00:10:08.799 But 1 John says this. 00:10:08.960 --> 00:10:11.120 It says there are many spirits in the world. 00:10:11.200 --> 00:10:13.519 And he says there's a spirit of Antichrist. 00:10:13.679 --> 00:10:16.399 There's that spirit that's against the things of God. 00:10:16.639 --> 00:10:25.039 And he said, because you have the spirit of truth on the inside of you, you don't need anybody to teach you what's deception and what's not. 00:10:25.200 --> 00:10:27.759 You have the spirit of truth on the inside of you. 00:10:29.039 --> 00:10:41.039 It boggles my mind how people that are spirit-filled believers can get hung up in things that is clearly deception to anybody that's listening to the Holy Spirit. 00:10:41.200 --> 00:10:43.519 How in the world can you think that's right? 00:10:43.679 --> 00:10:46.000 They're not listening to the spirit of truth. 00:10:46.159 --> 00:10:48.080 That's a higher standard. 00:10:48.480 --> 00:10:50.399 I say that's a higher standard. 00:10:50.639 --> 00:10:57.600 Being spiritual is not speaking in tongues or giving a prophecy or preaching behind the pulpit. 00:10:58.000 --> 00:11:01.279 Being spiritual is listening to the spirit. 00:11:02.320 --> 00:11:04.320 That's being spiritual. 00:11:04.639 --> 00:11:05.279 Amen. 00:11:05.519 --> 00:11:09.519 Say out loud, I listen and I do what he says. 00:11:10.159 --> 00:11:10.799 Amen. 00:11:11.200 --> 00:11:16.559 See, there's human intellect and wisdom, then there's the Holy Spirit. 00:11:17.200 --> 00:11:18.879 The Spirit of truth. 00:11:20.720 --> 00:11:22.399 The book of Jeremiah says this. 00:11:22.559 --> 00:11:26.799 It says, it is not in the heart of man to direct his own way. 00:11:27.679 --> 00:11:28.879 Just not there. 00:11:30.240 --> 00:11:33.360 You don't know enough to form your own life. 00:11:33.679 --> 00:11:36.799 You're not wise enough to make your own decisions. 00:11:37.600 --> 00:11:38.639 You're just not. 00:11:38.799 --> 00:11:41.440 You've got to be consulting with the Spirit of truth. 00:11:41.600 --> 00:11:43.120 Well, this is what we think we're going to do. 00:11:43.279 --> 00:11:45.759 That's what you think, or that's what the Holy Spirit said. 00:11:47.200 --> 00:11:49.519 Because I need to be consulting with him. 00:11:50.159 --> 00:11:52.399 What does the Holy Spirit want me to do? 00:11:52.559 --> 00:11:58.080 There are people stuck in dead-end jobs tonight because they didn't ask the Holy Spirit if they needed to take it. 00:11:58.879 --> 00:12:09.039 There are people that are running around the bush, so to speak, chasing their tail, chasing things, and they're doing that because the Holy Spirit wasn't consulted. 00:12:09.600 --> 00:12:16.000 If you will take time, see, the Holy Spirit and engaging him requires patience. 00:12:17.039 --> 00:12:19.200 This thing doesn't happen overnight. 00:12:19.759 --> 00:12:23.840 You don't just walk into everything God wants you to do overnight. 00:12:24.879 --> 00:12:34.320 If things don't seem to be moving in your life, get alone, get on your face with the Holy Spirit and ask him, why are things not moving? 00:12:35.679 --> 00:12:41.279 That's why the scripture says you need to go to God and rend your heart and not your garment. 00:12:41.440 --> 00:12:53.600 Quit focusing on all the natural things and go before God, go before the Son, go before the Holy Spirit, and wring your heart out before God and ask him, what do I need to be doing? 00:12:54.960 --> 00:12:56.080 And what will he do? 00:12:56.159 --> 00:12:57.679 He will show you that. 00:12:58.879 --> 00:13:04.080 I will be saved, I will be saved 51 years this year. 00:13:04.399 --> 00:13:08.080 And I still go to God and wring my heart out. 00:13:08.879 --> 00:13:11.120 What do I need to be doing? 00:13:11.440 --> 00:13:16.879 Because if I'm hitting a wall, the Holy Spirit didn't lead me to hit a wall. 00:13:18.720 --> 00:13:19.360 Amen. 00:13:19.919 --> 00:13:25.440 He's the spirit of truth, and he's leading me, and he's guiding me. 00:13:25.679 --> 00:13:28.159 Look at John 14, verse 16. 00:13:29.440 --> 00:13:30.639 Hallelujah. 00:13:31.679 --> 00:13:46.799 And I will pray the Father, and he'll give you another comforter, that he may abide with you forever, the spirit of truth that the world cannot receive, because it sees him, seeth him not, neither knows him, but you know him, for he dwells with you and shall be in you. 00:13:46.960 --> 00:13:50.639 Notice this I will not leave you comfortless. 00:13:51.039 --> 00:13:53.120 I will not leave you orphans. 00:13:54.080 --> 00:13:55.440 I will come to you. 00:13:55.679 --> 00:14:02.879 The weast Bible says, as for myself, I will ask the Father and another counselor of the same kind as I am. 00:14:03.679 --> 00:14:06.879 Will he give you in order that he might be with you forever? 00:14:07.120 --> 00:14:10.240 Another counselor of the same kind that I am. 00:14:11.039 --> 00:14:12.000 Hallelujah. 00:14:12.159 --> 00:14:14.720 Do you think Jesus was a wise counselor? 00:14:15.919 --> 00:14:18.320 Would Jesus have been good counsel? 00:14:18.960 --> 00:14:19.360 Right? 00:14:19.519 --> 00:14:20.159 I think so. 00:14:20.320 --> 00:14:23.519 It says, another counselor just like he is. 00:14:24.960 --> 00:14:25.919 Hallelujah. 00:14:26.399 --> 00:14:27.360 Hallelujah. 00:14:27.759 --> 00:14:34.480 And notice he says, I will not leave you comfortless. 00:14:35.120 --> 00:14:37.279 I will not leave you orphans. 00:14:40.240 --> 00:14:42.480 You know, orphans have no help. 00:14:44.000 --> 00:14:51.039 And a long time, especially when this was written, when Jesus said this, that would have been absolutely the truth. 00:14:51.840 --> 00:14:56.559 A child with no parents, the only thing they could have done was beg if somebody didn't bring them in. 00:14:57.039 --> 00:15:03.279 He said, I won't leave you orphans, but I'll send the comforter to you. 00:15:03.919 --> 00:15:05.519 I will come to you. 00:15:06.320 --> 00:15:11.759 So the comforter would do for them what Jesus had done while he was with them. 00:15:12.879 --> 00:15:14.000 Hallelujah. 00:15:15.440 --> 00:15:18.240 I have that comforter inside tonight. 00:15:18.559 --> 00:15:21.600 You have that comforter on the inside tonight. 00:15:22.639 --> 00:15:24.320 The spirit of truth. 00:15:24.639 --> 00:15:25.759 Hallelujah. 00:15:26.480 --> 00:15:26.960 Amen. 00:15:27.039 --> 00:15:33.200 That's why when you hear something, when you see something, when you're trying to make a decision, you've got to stop. 00:15:33.279 --> 00:15:34.639 Don't talk to everybody else. 00:15:34.799 --> 00:15:37.120 Talk to the one person you need to talk to. 00:15:39.679 --> 00:15:40.320 Amen. 00:15:41.519 --> 00:15:42.159 Amen. 00:15:42.799 --> 00:15:43.200 Why? 00:15:43.440 --> 00:15:50.080 Because here's what a lot of people do: they go get four or five other people's opinion and then they consult with the Holy Spirit. 00:15:50.399 --> 00:15:57.279 And then the Holy Spirit's got to try to get through all those four or five other voices that they listened to in the first place. 00:15:57.679 --> 00:15:59.919 And the Holy Spirit is a gentleman. 00:16:00.159 --> 00:16:05.120 He will not shout, he'll not push, he'll not jerk you around. 00:16:05.519 --> 00:16:07.759 He has to be engaged. 00:16:08.320 --> 00:16:11.279 And I have to engage him on a daily basis. 00:16:11.600 --> 00:16:12.639 Hallelujah. 00:16:13.200 --> 00:16:17.679 It could be something as simple as, this is my plan, Holy Spirit, this is my plan. 00:16:17.759 --> 00:16:18.960 What should I do? 00:16:19.279 --> 00:16:20.480 Is this what I need to do? 00:16:20.639 --> 00:16:22.960 Is this the direction that I need to go? 00:16:23.600 --> 00:16:24.159 Amen. 00:16:24.320 --> 00:16:25.519 I've told people for years. 00:16:25.600 --> 00:16:27.519 They'll say, Pastor, when are we going to change this? 00:16:27.600 --> 00:16:28.480 When are we going to do this? 00:16:28.639 --> 00:16:30.399 When the Holy Spirit says. 00:16:31.279 --> 00:16:36.480 Because if I'm doing it and I haven't changed it, it's because the Holy Spirit hasn't told me to change it. 00:16:36.720 --> 00:16:42.480 So it doesn't do anybody any good to get me to try to do something that the Holy Spirit has said not to do. 00:16:44.240 --> 00:16:45.440 Hallelujah. 00:16:46.240 --> 00:16:48.799 See, I'm smart enough to understand this. 00:16:49.039 --> 00:16:54.240 Everything in my life is a result of my relationship with the Holy Spirit. 00:16:54.720 --> 00:16:55.600 Everything. 00:16:55.919 --> 00:16:59.519 My wife is a result of my relationship with the Holy Spirit. 00:16:59.679 --> 00:17:04.160 Our marriage is a result of our relationship with the Holy Spirit. 00:17:04.559 --> 00:17:05.200 Amen. 00:17:05.440 --> 00:17:06.000 Everything. 00:17:06.160 --> 00:17:07.359 God led me everywhere. 00:17:07.599 --> 00:17:09.039 God led us into that. 00:17:09.359 --> 00:17:11.839 You let the Holy Spirit choose your mate, and you'll be happy. 00:17:11.920 --> 00:17:14.240 You'll be living in hog heaven. 00:17:14.799 --> 00:17:16.240 Whatever that is. 00:17:19.599 --> 00:17:21.599 John 14, 26. 00:17:23.759 --> 00:17:38.880 But the comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you all things, bring all things to your remembrance, whatever I have said unto you. 00:17:39.680 --> 00:18:06.880 The Amplified brings out that sevenfold working of the Holy Spirit, the comforter, the counselor, the helper, the intercessor, the advocate, the strengthener, and the standby, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name in my place to represent me and act on my behalf, he will teach you all things and cause you to recall, will remind you of, bring to your remembrance everything I have told you. 00:18:07.200 --> 00:18:10.960 So the Holy Spirit will, and here's the key, if allowed. 00:18:12.000 --> 00:18:16.160 If allowed, if allowed. 00:18:18.319 --> 00:18:21.759 If I let him, what will he do? 00:18:22.079 --> 00:18:25.440 He will teach me all things. 00:18:27.119 --> 00:18:30.319 And bring to my remembrance all that God has said to me. 00:18:30.480 --> 00:18:36.000 Now that's in the word, things that God has spoken to me, promises that he's made. 00:18:36.319 --> 00:18:36.960 Amen. 00:18:39.440 --> 00:18:41.279 But I have to allow it. 00:18:42.319 --> 00:18:44.000 I have to allow it. 00:18:45.119 --> 00:18:47.920 That's why all the busyness of the day. 00:18:48.079 --> 00:18:53.759 You know, I'm I'm I used to think I was just old-fashioned, but I don't think I'm old-fashioned. 00:18:53.839 --> 00:18:55.359 I just think I'm smart. 00:18:56.799 --> 00:19:00.559 You know, they they call they they talk about old man strength. 00:19:00.799 --> 00:19:02.960 I think there's just old man smarts. 00:19:03.279 --> 00:19:05.440 I'm not old, but you understand what I mean. 00:19:06.319 --> 00:19:08.960 They're putting in fiber in our neighborhood. 00:19:09.200 --> 00:19:10.640 And I'm shocked. 00:19:10.880 --> 00:19:14.400 I I go by and and here's what you see all the time. 00:19:19.759 --> 00:19:20.720 They don't even look up. 00:19:20.799 --> 00:19:22.720 You drive by, they don't even look up. 00:19:25.519 --> 00:19:31.440 There's the the Bible says there are many voices in the world, and it says none of them are without significance. 00:19:33.200 --> 00:19:37.680 You want to watch you want to know why so many people don't hear from the Holy Spirit consistently? 00:19:38.000 --> 00:19:39.839 Everything else has their attention. 00:19:40.160 --> 00:19:49.359 YouTube has their attention, Facebook has their attention, TikTok has their attention, Instagram has their attention, YouTube has their attention. 00:19:52.319 --> 00:19:56.799 You look at families in the restaurant, and all four or five of them are sitting there like this. 00:19:58.720 --> 00:19:59.839 That's not a sin. 00:20:00.240 --> 00:20:03.359 That's not something that somebody's gonna go to hell for. 00:20:03.519 --> 00:20:11.680 But here's the issue: if I've got all this noise going on all the time, when does the Holy Spirit have license to speak to me? 00:20:13.440 --> 00:20:17.200 When am I quiet enough for the Holy Spirit to speak to me? 00:20:19.680 --> 00:20:20.640 Hallelujah. 00:20:21.279 --> 00:20:23.039 Well, you know, Pastor, I got I got kids. 00:20:23.119 --> 00:20:26.640 Yeah, you might have to stay up after they go to bed and listen to the Holy Spirit. 00:20:26.880 --> 00:20:30.880 You might have to get up an extra hour early and listen to the Holy Spirit. 00:20:31.279 --> 00:20:32.240 Well, you know, that's hard. 00:20:32.400 --> 00:20:34.880 How bad do you want to hear from the Holy Spirit? 00:20:36.079 --> 00:20:39.680 How much do you want the Holy Spirit to lead you and guide you and direct you? 00:20:40.000 --> 00:20:43.920 Pastor Michelle and I have spent not one day of our marriage without kids. 00:20:44.160 --> 00:20:50.720 Everywhere we went, we had at least three of them, and most of the time four of them, because our younger son would come and stay with us. 00:20:51.200 --> 00:20:52.079 All the time. 00:20:52.240 --> 00:21:00.799 We've never had a day without children, but yet we've never had a day that we use that as an excuse for not being able to do what God wanted us to do. 00:21:01.839 --> 00:21:03.680 Because it's not an excuse. 00:21:04.720 --> 00:21:06.240 It's not a reason. 00:21:07.359 --> 00:21:08.640 I can work things around. 00:21:08.720 --> 00:21:10.400 See, here's what I want you to see. 00:21:10.640 --> 00:21:18.720 If he's allowed, he'll show me things, he'll teach me things, he'll bring things to my remembrance. 00:21:19.039 --> 00:21:30.319 You'd be surprised the impression it makes on God when you say, I'm willing to go without that hour of sleep, so I can get up and meet you and hear what you have to say. 00:21:30.480 --> 00:21:38.640 God, you'd be surprised how it impresses God when you're willing to turn some things off and say, I'm going to turn that off so I can listen to you. 00:21:38.799 --> 00:21:41.839 That ball game doesn't mean anything to me. 00:21:42.000 --> 00:21:44.079 I want to hear something from you. 00:21:44.960 --> 00:21:52.960 People will talk to me about how they can't, they're not hearing from God, but they'll sit and watch eight hours of football on a Sunday. 00:21:53.920 --> 00:21:59.599 You could have been listening to God, letting the Holy Spirit guide you. 00:22:00.480 --> 00:22:03.279 That doesn't mean you can't watch a football game. 00:22:03.920 --> 00:22:06.160 The Chiefs are of the Lord. 00:22:06.559 --> 00:22:07.839 They're of God. 00:22:09.039 --> 00:22:10.400 Hallelujah. 00:22:12.000 --> 00:22:12.880 Glory to God. 00:22:13.039 --> 00:22:18.079 I know that some of you are deceived, and you think other teams are of God, but you're deceived. 00:22:22.000 --> 00:22:23.279 Especially the plowboys. 00:22:23.359 --> 00:22:24.160 Isn't that what they're called? 00:22:24.240 --> 00:22:25.039 They call the plowboys. 00:22:25.200 --> 00:22:25.680 Cowboys. 00:22:25.759 --> 00:22:26.400 That's what they are. 00:22:26.559 --> 00:22:27.039 Yeah. 00:22:27.359 --> 00:22:31.599 Anyway, that's not the Holy Spirit. 00:22:31.680 --> 00:22:32.240 That's flesh. 00:22:32.319 --> 00:22:33.519 That was my flesh. 00:22:34.559 --> 00:22:41.839 But if he's allowed, if he's allowed, if he's allowed, that's so important. 00:22:42.079 --> 00:22:46.000 If he's allowed, he'll lead me, he'll guide me. 00:22:46.240 --> 00:22:54.000 And what you don't want to do is get caught in this pattern of what we know about the Holy Spirit. 00:22:54.160 --> 00:22:55.680 The Holy Spirit is God. 00:22:56.640 --> 00:22:58.480 He's past finding out. 00:22:59.279 --> 00:23:01.599 You can never learn everything about him. 00:23:02.000 --> 00:23:12.240 If you lived for a million years and spent every hour of every day talking to him, you would never be able to learn everything there is to learn about him. 00:23:12.960 --> 00:23:20.079 He's unfathomable, he's unmatched, he's untouchable in that arena. 00:23:20.480 --> 00:23:28.960 But he says, even though I'm all of those things, if you'll make time for me, I'll come sit with you and I'll talk to you. 00:23:29.519 --> 00:23:35.759 And I'll teach you and I'll guide you and I'll direct you and I'll help you and I'll bring things to your remembrance. 00:23:36.000 --> 00:23:38.720 My God, I'll bring some things to your remembrance. 00:23:39.839 --> 00:23:41.519 I'll help you with this. 00:23:42.480 --> 00:23:46.240 But notice he has to be allowed to do that. 00:23:47.039 --> 00:23:48.240 Hallelujah. 00:23:48.960 --> 00:23:57.519 You know, sometimes, sometimes I think we need to regain that awe that the God of earth and heaven will talk to me. 00:23:59.039 --> 00:24:02.880 That the Holy Spirit will communicate with me. 00:24:04.480 --> 00:24:09.039 That God will speak to the Holy Spirit and say, tell Philip to do this. 00:24:12.319 --> 00:24:14.000 Isn't that wonderful? 00:24:14.480 --> 00:24:16.799 John 16 and verse 12. 00:24:17.359 --> 00:24:18.319 Am I helping you? 00:24:23.119 --> 00:24:35.359 You know, I'm at this stage in my life when the Lord said to me a few years ago, we were still in the market, he said, you have more to say now than you've ever had to say in your life. 00:24:36.079 --> 00:24:37.599 Because you've reached this point. 00:24:37.759 --> 00:24:42.960 We've reached this point that we're mentoring people, that we're we're we're spiritual parents to people now. 00:24:43.119 --> 00:24:47.039 We've got churches under our guidance and under our covering. 00:24:47.200 --> 00:25:02.319 And and understand that what I say so often to those ministers that are coming up under us is that there's never there, listen, there's not going to be a substitute for fasting and praying and listening to the Holy Spirit. 00:25:02.480 --> 00:25:03.119 Yes, sir. 00:25:03.279 --> 00:25:03.839 Yes, sir. 00:25:04.160 --> 00:25:06.400 Not going to be any substitute for that. 00:25:07.200 --> 00:25:07.839 Right? 00:25:08.640 --> 00:25:10.000 Well, what do we need to do here? 00:25:10.079 --> 00:25:11.519 Well, let's pray about it. 00:25:12.240 --> 00:25:15.119 Let's ask the Holy Spirit, what do we need to do? 00:25:15.440 --> 00:25:16.000 All right? 00:25:17.039 --> 00:25:21.519 That's not something that we need to attribute to those that went on before. 00:25:22.400 --> 00:25:23.519 Do you ever think about that? 00:25:23.759 --> 00:25:28.240 People talk about how the old saints prayed and how many answers they got. 00:25:29.599 --> 00:25:32.480 And they talk about it, but they don't do it. 00:25:35.359 --> 00:25:36.000 Right? 00:25:36.480 --> 00:25:43.200 If the old saints prayed and got answers, maybe we should pray that way. 00:25:45.440 --> 00:25:46.480 Hallelujah. 00:25:47.599 --> 00:25:51.920 If we we we talk about these great men of, I hear people all the time talk about Wigglesworth. 00:25:52.000 --> 00:25:53.599 And I love Wigglesworth. 00:25:53.680 --> 00:26:01.039 I spent a couple hours on my trip back that I didn't need any speeding tickets paid for on my trip back Sunday. 00:26:02.640 --> 00:26:03.279 Right? 00:26:04.720 --> 00:26:07.839 Listening to audiobooks, his audiobooks. 00:26:08.000 --> 00:26:10.319 And people will talk about, you know, ever how many? 00:26:10.480 --> 00:26:16.640 21 people raised from the dead or whatever, and they'll talk about Wigglesworth and they'll talk about these different things. 00:26:16.799 --> 00:26:23.359 But here's the thing: they don't mention his relationship with the Holy Spirit, his relationship with the Word. 00:26:23.519 --> 00:26:27.279 They laugh about him telling Lester Summerall, don't bring that in my house. 00:26:27.359 --> 00:26:29.119 I don't let lies in my house. 00:26:29.440 --> 00:26:30.559 He meant that. 00:26:31.119 --> 00:26:33.680 That's how he lived his life. 00:26:34.079 --> 00:26:34.720 Amen. 00:26:35.359 --> 00:26:36.880 It was different for some. 00:26:37.039 --> 00:26:45.680 It was it was it was uh whatever, eccentric or whatever it was, but there was 21 people raised from the dead. 00:26:47.680 --> 00:26:48.319 Amen. 00:26:49.920 --> 00:27:02.079 One book I was reading, he said he went with a uh a pastor to a woman that had been diagnosed with cancer, and you know, in those days, cancers can be a death sentence today, but then it was really a death sentence. 00:27:02.160 --> 00:27:03.680 There wasn't anything they could do. 00:27:04.160 --> 00:27:13.759 And he went and he said, I went in the room and he said, the the little daughter was there, and she was, the mom was crying, the daughter was crying, he said, My heart was breaking. 00:27:13.920 --> 00:27:19.039 And he said, While we were there, while we were praying for her, he said, she expired. 00:27:19.279 --> 00:27:20.400 She died. 00:27:21.759 --> 00:27:32.799 And he said, I just picked her up and carried her over to the wardrobe and set her up against the wardrobe and said, Walk in Jesus' name. 00:27:35.119 --> 00:27:36.640 And she didn't move. 00:27:36.880 --> 00:27:40.720 And he said, I said, walk in Jesus' name. 00:27:42.079 --> 00:27:45.759 And the woman opened her eyes and started walking. 00:27:46.640 --> 00:27:48.559 But she told this story. 00:27:48.799 --> 00:27:52.400 She said, When I died, I went to heaven. 00:27:53.039 --> 00:28:00.240 And she said, I was just about to enter into the glory, and I heard somebody saying, Walk in Jesus' name. 00:28:01.359 --> 00:28:03.599 Walk in Jesus' name. 00:28:04.240 --> 00:28:04.720 Right? 00:28:04.960 --> 00:28:06.799 Well, we know that was Wigglesworth. 00:28:06.880 --> 00:28:07.599 Now here's my thing. 00:28:08.319 --> 00:28:10.720 We hear those stories, and that should excite us. 00:28:10.960 --> 00:28:12.799 Man, isn't that wonderful? 00:28:14.000 --> 00:28:16.559 But he wouldn't let newspapers in his house. 00:28:17.759 --> 00:28:19.920 He didn't want to listen to anything but the word. 00:28:20.480 --> 00:28:22.480 Lester Summerall said he went to him. 00:28:22.720 --> 00:28:26.480 Wigglesworth had seen him preach at a conference, and he said, he went to him. 00:28:26.640 --> 00:28:28.000 He said, You need to come visit me. 00:28:28.079 --> 00:28:32.240 So he said, I went, and that was the time he said, Leave that outside, I don't let lies in my house. 00:28:32.400 --> 00:28:36.640 And he said, I went in, and he said the first thing that he did was said, Kneel down right there. 00:28:36.799 --> 00:28:37.680 I want to pray for you. 00:28:37.839 --> 00:28:39.039 And he prayed for him. 00:28:39.279 --> 00:28:41.920 And he said, I was used to doing my own praying. 00:28:42.400 --> 00:28:43.839 He prayed for him. 00:28:44.000 --> 00:28:46.079 And he said, now let's read the scriptures. 00:28:46.240 --> 00:28:50.400 And he said he sat and read a scripture, read, read, read a chapter of scripture. 00:28:50.720 --> 00:28:52.400 He said, I thought, this is weird. 00:28:52.480 --> 00:28:54.319 This is just weird. 00:28:54.640 --> 00:28:56.960 And then he said, now let's let's pray again. 00:28:57.039 --> 00:28:58.799 And he said, we prayed again. 00:28:59.039 --> 00:29:02.319 He said, then his daughter came and said, you know, dinner was ready. 00:29:02.480 --> 00:29:06.480 And he said, as they sat down at dinner, Wigglesworth said, Let's pray again. 00:29:06.720 --> 00:29:08.160 And they prayed again. 00:29:08.319 --> 00:29:11.680 And he said, I was sitting there wondering, is the food gonna get cold? 00:29:12.960 --> 00:29:15.759 And he said, then he said, Let's read some more scripture. 00:29:15.920 --> 00:29:17.359 And they read more scripture. 00:29:17.440 --> 00:29:21.359 And then they ate, and he said, he ate and got and just walked out the door. 00:29:21.519 --> 00:29:24.160