WEBVTT 00:00:02.000 --> 00:00:05.120 Welcome to the Celebration Church Orlando podcast. 00:00:05.200 --> 00:00:06.879 Thank you so much for listening today. 00:00:07.040 --> 00:00:09.519 We hope it encourages you and inspires you. 00:00:09.679 --> 00:00:11.359 Here's today's message. 00:00:16.640 --> 00:00:17.600 Thank you. 00:00:19.359 --> 00:00:20.559 You guys can be seated. 00:00:20.640 --> 00:00:22.719 It's great to see everybody today. 00:00:23.760 --> 00:00:25.440 Man, I love the new venue. 00:00:25.519 --> 00:00:26.559 This is a great spot. 00:00:26.719 --> 00:00:28.960 It's uh what a blessing it is, huh? 00:00:29.120 --> 00:00:30.239 Well, my name's Chris. 00:00:30.399 --> 00:00:34.079 Uh Mike, uh, man, you're just uh becoming a legend, man. 00:00:34.159 --> 00:00:36.320 I hear more and more about you uh all the time. 00:00:36.399 --> 00:00:38.719 But uh and of course, Lindsay and the worship team. 00:00:38.799 --> 00:00:41.200 Come on, put our let's put our hands together for them. 00:00:42.880 --> 00:00:51.600 I met uh I met Lindsay when she was just an intern probably 14 years ago, one of our campuses there in Clay County and Orange Park area up in Jacksonville. 00:00:51.679 --> 00:00:54.799 Lindsay was our worship leader there with me for six years, man. 00:00:54.960 --> 00:00:58.079 I remember when she was just learning to play the guitar and wasn't even married. 00:00:58.159 --> 00:01:03.759 Now she's got two kids, but I love seeing God just step into the people just step into the call of God in their lives. 00:01:03.840 --> 00:01:06.400 But it's great to be uh here in Orlando with you. 00:01:06.560 --> 00:01:11.359 And uh like Mike was saying, I've been with Celebration Church uh over uh 22 years. 00:01:11.599 --> 00:01:12.879 My wife Ashley is here. 00:01:13.040 --> 00:01:14.879 Say hi to everybody, Ashley. 00:01:16.159 --> 00:01:21.200 Next month we'll have been married uh 26 years, 26 years next month. 00:01:21.439 --> 00:01:24.000 So and I'm excited to be with you. 00:01:24.079 --> 00:01:25.760 I want to welcome those who are watching online. 00:01:25.840 --> 00:01:28.799 And if you're visiting with us this morning, we're so glad that you're here. 00:01:28.879 --> 00:01:31.439 And it's uh just a great gonna be a great morning. 00:01:31.599 --> 00:01:33.760 This Holy Spirit series right after Easter. 00:01:33.840 --> 00:01:38.560 I thought, what a great uh idea to minister on the Holy Spirit, the power of the Holy Spirit. 00:01:38.719 --> 00:01:42.959 Of course, Pastor Clay was here last week, and I love teaching on this topic. 00:01:43.040 --> 00:01:46.719 When Pastor Keith texts me, I said, Yep, I love I love teaching on the Holy Spirit. 00:01:46.799 --> 00:01:48.640 It's one of my favorite topics. 00:01:48.799 --> 00:01:50.000 So let's just say a quick prayer. 00:01:50.159 --> 00:01:51.120 We'll get into the word today. 00:01:51.200 --> 00:01:56.159 Father, we love you, and we just uh be still and know that you are God today. 00:01:56.480 --> 00:01:57.599 God, we just thank you. 00:01:57.680 --> 00:01:59.599 You want to speak to our hearts. 00:01:59.920 --> 00:02:09.840 Father, some of us are here this morning, and I just during worship, I just felt like you want to light up revival fires in some of our hearts today. 00:02:10.159 --> 00:02:26.400 Even as we leave, even if we're watching online, you want to ignite a revival fire in some of our hearts, and our hearts we would leave change, we would leave on fire for you with your love, your fire burning in our heart like never before. 00:02:26.719 --> 00:02:31.120 In the mighty name of Jesus, everybody said, Amen, amen. 00:02:31.360 --> 00:02:36.319 If you have your Bibles, you can open up to the book of Luke, chapter 11. 00:02:37.120 --> 00:02:38.879 And uh, thanks, my man. 00:02:38.960 --> 00:02:39.439 Thank you. 00:02:39.599 --> 00:02:41.439 Uh Luke chapter 11. 00:02:41.680 --> 00:02:47.840 And you know, this is the passage in chapter 11 where Jesus said, Ask and it will be given to you. 00:02:48.319 --> 00:02:52.560 Seek and you will find, knock and it shall be opened. 00:02:52.639 --> 00:02:58.960 For he who asks receives, he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks, it's opened. 00:02:59.199 --> 00:03:01.360 That's how Jesus starts out this teaching. 00:03:01.439 --> 00:03:06.000 And then he gets down and he talks about if you ask for bread, would you give him a give him a stone? 00:03:06.159 --> 00:03:09.840 If he asks for, yeah, you know, would uh would you give him a serpent? 00:03:09.919 --> 00:03:13.360 You know, this kind of a weird analogy that Jesus is talking about. 00:03:13.439 --> 00:03:26.000 But then he gets down and he says, if you then, though you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your father in heaven give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him? 00:03:26.400 --> 00:03:29.599 I want to talk to you this morning about there's always more. 00:03:30.400 --> 00:03:35.840 Jesus said, if you give good gifts to your children, I have two children, I love giving them gifts. 00:03:36.000 --> 00:03:42.479 My daughter Maggie is gonna be moving to Orlando uh this summer or in the fall here, and she loves getting gifts. 00:03:42.560 --> 00:03:43.759 Her love language is gifts. 00:03:44.000 --> 00:03:46.800 Anyone else have kids or do you know that your love language gifts? 00:03:46.960 --> 00:03:48.240 Maggie's been that way her whole life. 00:03:48.319 --> 00:03:50.240 I mean, you just give her a piece of candy, she's happy. 00:03:50.400 --> 00:03:52.560 Whatever it is, she loves getting gifts. 00:03:52.719 --> 00:03:56.000 And I love giving her gifts because that's how I show her love. 00:03:56.479 --> 00:04:03.120 And so he says, if you if you are evil, come on, Jesus doesn't, he never put he backs around, does he? 00:04:03.199 --> 00:04:04.960 He always goes straight at you, doesn't he? 00:04:05.120 --> 00:04:14.719 If you being evil know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your father in heaven give the Holy Spirit to those who ask? 00:04:14.960 --> 00:04:16.079 There's a lot in this. 00:04:16.240 --> 00:04:22.000 And to me, it just says, it says, all we have to do is ask. 00:04:22.560 --> 00:04:24.720 All we have to do is ask. 00:04:25.199 --> 00:04:30.959 How much more will your father in heaven give the Holy Spirit to those who do what? 00:04:31.360 --> 00:04:32.480 Who ask. 00:04:33.040 --> 00:04:38.720 We so often forget about asking God for the power of the Holy Spirit in our lives. 00:04:39.199 --> 00:04:42.639 And many times we feel we get the Holy Spirit at salvation. 00:04:42.800 --> 00:04:43.519 Of course we do. 00:04:43.680 --> 00:04:48.480 That's how we're born again, that's how we have spiritualized to see the Holy Spirit comes into our hearts. 00:04:48.639 --> 00:04:52.079 Absolutely, that's how we come into the kingdom of heaven. 00:04:52.399 --> 00:04:55.920 But today's topic, there's always more. 00:04:56.160 --> 00:04:57.279 Can I have an amen? 00:04:57.839 --> 00:04:59.439 There's always more. 00:05:00.079 --> 00:05:04.160 And so this passage reminds us that all we have to do is ask. 00:05:04.480 --> 00:05:09.439 More asking, more listening, more dependence on the Holy Spirit in our lives. 00:05:09.680 --> 00:05:14.480 In John chapter 20 is when the disciples receive the Holy Spirit. 00:05:14.560 --> 00:05:19.759 So Jesus said to them, Peace to you, as the Father has sent me, so I also send you. 00:05:19.920 --> 00:05:26.560 And when he has said this, he breathed on them and said, Receive the Holy Spirit. 00:05:26.800 --> 00:05:30.639 This is when the disciples receive the Holy Spirit, right here in John chapter 20. 00:05:30.800 --> 00:05:34.160 So of course we receive the Holy Spirit at salvation. 00:05:34.240 --> 00:05:38.079 He comes to live inside us and dwell in us, but there's always more. 00:05:38.800 --> 00:05:46.000 There's a place in the Bible in Acts chapter 19 where Paul goes to Ephesus and he says that he comes across some disciples. 00:05:46.160 --> 00:05:50.800 He says, Did you receive the Holy Spirit when you believe? 00:05:51.040 --> 00:05:52.240 You know what they say? 00:05:52.959 --> 00:05:56.720 We have not so much as even heard that there is a Holy Spirit. 00:05:57.439 --> 00:06:02.639 And so Paul prays for them, he lays hands on them, and they receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. 00:06:02.800 --> 00:06:05.680 So many Christians today, that's what they would believe, that's what they would say. 00:06:05.839 --> 00:06:08.079 We've not heard much about the Holy Spirit. 00:06:08.319 --> 00:06:11.680 So many people in America, we've not heard so much about the Holy Spirit. 00:06:11.759 --> 00:06:18.399 Whenever I teach on this topic, I'm always reminded, I've been able to been blessed to spend uh been Africa to Africa several times. 00:06:18.560 --> 00:06:20.480 We have a campus in Zimbabwe when I was young. 00:06:20.560 --> 00:06:24.319 I used to go to Peru a lot, been to Peru uh about a year and a half. 00:06:24.399 --> 00:06:28.639 I spent some time, our family was in uh Colombia, been all over the place. 00:06:28.720 --> 00:06:36.959 And listen, in these countries, the Holy Spirit, the moving of the Holy Spirit, it's normal Christianity. 00:06:37.360 --> 00:06:41.600 In America, sometimes we become so intellectual. 00:06:41.839 --> 00:06:43.120 You know, I wrote this down. 00:06:43.279 --> 00:06:48.160 In fact, I I feel like I'm getting old sometimes, especially in this church, there's so many young folks. 00:06:48.399 --> 00:06:54.079 And uh what I is it was all this was all when I tell some of the stories, this was almost 30 years ago. 00:06:54.399 --> 00:06:55.040 30. 00:06:55.360 --> 00:06:57.279 Almost 30 years ago, actually. 00:06:57.439 --> 00:06:58.800 It's hard to believe. 00:06:58.959 --> 00:07:10.000 But I wrote this down almost 30 years ago in a journal that I have that true Christianity is neither barren intellectualism nor thoughtless emotionalism. 00:07:10.240 --> 00:07:12.639 You may want to write that down or put it in your phone today. 00:07:12.720 --> 00:07:14.240 It's a good, it's a good little saying. 00:07:14.480 --> 00:07:20.240 True Christianity is neither barren intellectualism or thoughtless emotionalism. 00:07:20.399 --> 00:07:27.600 The scripture says to love the Lord your God with all of your heart, your soul, your mind, and your strength. 00:07:28.000 --> 00:07:43.920 And so the Holy Spirit, many Christians are living in John 20, where Jesus said, He breathed on and said, receive the Holy Spirit, or they're living in Ephesians 19, where they don't know much about the Holy Spirit. 00:07:44.160 --> 00:08:01.120 And God wants us to step into the story of the scripture in Acts chapter 2, on the day of Pentecost, where God fulfills the promise in Joel chapter 2, and he says, On your sons and daughters, I will pour out your pour out my spirit on all flesh. 00:08:01.279 --> 00:08:06.879 Your sons and daughters will dream dreams, your old men will dream dreams, your young men will see visions. 00:08:07.360 --> 00:08:21.519 That's the fulfillment of Joel and that promise, the scripture says, Peter stood up and he preached, This promise is for you, and to your children, and to as many as the Lord our God will call. 00:08:21.920 --> 00:08:23.839 Maybe you feel far from God today. 00:08:23.920 --> 00:08:25.759 That's that promise is for you. 00:08:25.920 --> 00:08:26.800 It's for our children. 00:08:26.959 --> 00:08:28.639 We can stand on that promise. 00:08:28.959 --> 00:08:42.080 And so he Jesus, he told the disciples there in Luke, he says, wait in Jerusalem, tarry, the King James Version says, and you will be endued with power from on high. 00:08:42.240 --> 00:08:44.559 And so we get to Acts chapter 2. 00:08:44.799 --> 00:08:49.679 When the day of Pentecost has fully come, you know, the day of Pentecost is coming up. 00:08:49.840 --> 00:08:51.279 It's just in a few weeks. 00:08:51.519 --> 00:08:54.080 When the day of Pentecost, it just means 50. 00:08:54.240 --> 00:08:56.720 Pentecostal, Pentecost just means 50. 00:08:56.799 --> 00:09:01.279 It doesn't mean Pentecostal things that you may have in your imagination. 00:09:01.519 --> 00:09:02.720 It means 50. 00:09:02.879 --> 00:09:04.320 And so it's 50 days. 00:09:04.480 --> 00:09:10.080 And so uh they were in one accord in one place, the scripture says. 00:09:10.480 --> 00:09:23.279 And Peter stands up and he says, Repent and let every one of you be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. 00:09:23.519 --> 00:09:25.600 You can circle the word gift. 00:09:26.080 --> 00:09:33.360 For this promise is to you and your children, and to many as who are afar off, as many as the Lord our God will call. 00:09:33.519 --> 00:09:34.960 It's a promise for us. 00:09:35.200 --> 00:09:45.759 So when we read the book of Acts, Holy Spirit baptism was the normal and expected experience for all believers. 00:09:46.240 --> 00:09:52.559 When we read the book of Acts, we see an inbreaking of the Holy Spirit in the lives of God's people. 00:09:52.879 --> 00:09:56.720 Something was happening supernatural in their lives. 00:09:57.279 --> 00:10:00.240 And this experience is for everyone. 00:10:00.480 --> 00:10:09.759 And so I like to say that there's three baptisms: there's a baptism into Christ, there's water baptism, and there's a baptism of the Holy Spirit. 00:10:10.000 --> 00:10:13.039 And so certainly, you know, we're breaking some of this down. 00:10:13.200 --> 00:10:14.080 It's linear. 00:10:14.240 --> 00:10:16.399 But how many of you know God's not a formula? 00:10:16.639 --> 00:10:21.919 And you can't put him in a box, and God, he moves in our lives in different ways, doesn't he? 00:10:22.080 --> 00:10:24.320 We're all wired a little bit different. 00:10:25.919 --> 00:10:27.360 But there's always something more. 00:10:27.440 --> 00:10:29.039 Come on, say there's always more. 00:10:29.360 --> 00:10:32.399 I'm talking to you this morning about there's always more. 00:10:32.720 --> 00:10:43.600 And what I've how I've always been in my life is there's been things that I don't understand and things that maybe I wasn't taught, or you know, but I always said this, God, I want everything you have for me. 00:10:43.919 --> 00:10:46.320 I want everything you have for me in my life. 00:10:46.480 --> 00:10:50.000 I want to go deep with you, I want to know you, I want to walk with you. 00:10:50.399 --> 00:10:55.039 And so there's always another level in our relationship to learn to walk with Him. 00:10:55.200 --> 00:10:58.799 This scripture, I've been reading the scripture the last few weeks for real. 00:10:59.200 --> 00:11:08.720 If you love me, Jesus said, John 14, keep my commandments, and I will pray the Father, and he will give you another helper. 00:11:09.200 --> 00:11:12.799 That word helper, it means comforter, and maybe your translation. 00:11:12.960 --> 00:11:15.600 It's in the Greek, it's periclete or pericletos. 00:11:15.679 --> 00:11:17.759 And that word, it means to come alongside. 00:11:17.840 --> 00:11:37.519 So if I were to pick up like a giant log, don't do that too much anymore, but if I were to pick up a log and someone came and picked up the other side, the one who comes alongside and helps you carry, I will send you another helper, another comforter, that he may abide with you forever. 00:11:37.600 --> 00:11:40.000 Now, this is the part that's been I've been thinking about. 00:11:40.159 --> 00:11:59.120 It says this the spirit of what truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees him nor knows him, but you know him, for he dwells with you and will be in you. 00:11:59.679 --> 00:12:04.240 I will not leave you orphans, I will come to you. 00:12:05.600 --> 00:12:13.279 And so there's a part of the Holy Spirit that's believe it or not, spiritual. 00:12:14.080 --> 00:12:15.200 He's spiritual. 00:12:15.360 --> 00:12:18.480 The natural man, you say, Well, I'm not so sure I understand. 00:12:19.279 --> 00:12:22.879 You're not gonna understand in your mind, just solely in your mind. 00:12:23.120 --> 00:12:32.159 The scripture says the world cannot receive him because it neither sees him nor knows him. 00:12:32.320 --> 00:12:32.720 Why? 00:12:32.879 --> 00:12:45.840 He's spiritually discerned, he's the Holy Spirit, it takes revelation, it's about our hearts, it's about our humility, it's about our hunger for more. 00:12:46.320 --> 00:13:05.600 And so there's a scripture in Corinthians that says, the natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are spiritually, for they are foolishness to him, nor can he know them, for they are spiritually discerned. 00:13:06.320 --> 00:13:19.840 The natural man can does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him, nor can he know them, for they are spiritually discerned. 00:13:20.720 --> 00:13:26.639 The baptism of the Holy Spirit, the things of the Spirit, the scripture says, it's gonna take revelation. 00:13:26.720 --> 00:13:29.120 It's gonna take spiritual discernment. 00:13:29.360 --> 00:13:34.080 Let's talk a little bit about the baptism of the Holy Spirit. 00:13:34.159 --> 00:13:34.799 This doctrine. 00:13:34.879 --> 00:13:36.320 Where does that term come from? 00:13:36.559 --> 00:13:38.799 The baptism of the Holy Spirit. 00:13:38.960 --> 00:13:42.000 Some people may say infilling of the Holy Spirit. 00:13:43.120 --> 00:13:44.799 We get the term straight from scripture. 00:13:44.879 --> 00:13:46.159 In Acts 1, it says this. 00:13:46.240 --> 00:13:48.639 For John, Jesus, this is Jesus speaking. 00:13:48.799 --> 00:13:54.960 And whenever you you think about the baptism of the Holy Spirit or fill or being filled with the Holy Spirit, remember this. 00:13:55.120 --> 00:13:56.799 This is a promise from whom? 00:13:57.919 --> 00:13:58.799 Jesus. 00:13:59.440 --> 00:14:04.320 Jesus said, I will baptize you with the Holy Spirit. 00:14:04.720 --> 00:14:06.639 This is a promise from our King. 00:14:06.960 --> 00:14:08.639 This is a promise from Jesus. 00:14:09.360 --> 00:14:10.639 He said, I will baptize. 00:14:10.799 --> 00:14:12.480 Who's the baptizer of the Holy Spirit? 00:14:13.200 --> 00:14:13.919 Jesus. 00:14:14.240 --> 00:14:15.519 That's what it says. 00:14:15.840 --> 00:14:23.759 It says, For John truly baptized with water, but you shall be baptized with the Holy Spirit not many days from now. 00:14:23.919 --> 00:14:31.360 You know, speaking, John the Baptist said, He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire, speaking of Jesus. 00:14:32.000 --> 00:14:37.519 And so this is the promise that's talking about the day of Pentecost. 00:14:37.679 --> 00:14:44.000 And so what the term comes from the scriptures, the baptism of the Holy Spirit. 00:14:44.240 --> 00:14:45.679 What's the purpose of this? 00:14:45.840 --> 00:14:50.080 What's the purpose of being baptized or immersed in the Holy Spirit? 00:14:50.480 --> 00:15:00.480 It's the purpose is to receive the power and anointing upon an individual so that he or she may carry out their assignment in the kingdom of God. 00:15:01.039 --> 00:15:01.919 That's the purpose. 00:15:02.080 --> 00:15:03.039 What's the anointing mean? 00:15:03.200 --> 00:15:04.080 You hear that term all the time. 00:15:04.159 --> 00:15:05.039 What's anointing mean? 00:15:05.120 --> 00:15:07.039 It means the presence and the power of God. 00:15:07.279 --> 00:15:12.639 Remember in the Old Testament, when they would anoint someone with oil, they would pour oil over a king, or they would anoint someone. 00:15:12.799 --> 00:15:14.720 David, King David was anointed with oil. 00:15:14.799 --> 00:15:15.840 It means to smear. 00:15:16.240 --> 00:15:17.679 They would pour oil. 00:15:17.840 --> 00:15:21.279 Oil's a type and shadow of the Holy Spirit in our lives. 00:15:21.519 --> 00:15:26.960 And so the purpose is to receive the power of God, to receive the anointing of God. 00:15:28.000 --> 00:15:30.240 The power and the presence of the Lord. 00:15:30.399 --> 00:15:39.919 A definition, a distinct experience after salvation, although it can occur immediately, you know, right after salvation. 00:15:40.159 --> 00:15:42.159 Look, there's no formulas. 00:15:42.480 --> 00:15:43.039 Amen. 00:15:43.279 --> 00:15:48.320 This is the power of God moving in our life, but I believe it's a distinct experience. 00:15:48.559 --> 00:15:49.759 I believe God wants to touch. 00:15:50.000 --> 00:15:52.879 You know that scripture in Ephesians says, be filled with the Holy Spirit. 00:15:52.960 --> 00:15:55.919 You know that word filled, it means be continually filled. 00:15:56.159 --> 00:15:56.960 Over and over. 00:15:57.039 --> 00:15:57.360 Why? 00:15:57.600 --> 00:15:58.639 Because we leak. 00:15:59.840 --> 00:16:03.360 We become dry and thirsty in a land where there is no water. 00:16:03.519 --> 00:16:11.759 Jesus said, if any man thirst, let him come to me and drink, and out of his heart will flow rivers of living water. 00:16:11.919 --> 00:16:14.960 And he said, You'll never thirst again. 00:16:16.159 --> 00:16:20.320 And so we have to continually ask God to fill us. 00:16:20.879 --> 00:16:22.960 How do you receive more of the Holy Spirit? 00:16:23.600 --> 00:16:24.240 Ask. 00:16:24.639 --> 00:16:25.759 That's what Jesus said. 00:16:25.919 --> 00:16:26.720 How much more? 00:16:26.879 --> 00:16:29.279 Come on, somebody, somebody say there are always more. 00:16:29.600 --> 00:16:34.960 How much more will my Father in heaven give the Holy Spirit to those who ask? 00:16:36.159 --> 00:16:38.799 And I just started doing this, guys. 00:16:40.720 --> 00:16:44.320 Father, Jesus, fill me with the Holy Spirit. 00:16:45.200 --> 00:16:47.840 Jesus, baptize me with the Holy Spirit. 00:16:48.240 --> 00:16:55.200 I'm telling you, if you take that time, ask him to touch you, ask him to fill you, he's faithful to his promises. 00:16:56.720 --> 00:17:13.039 The baptism of the Holy Spirit, it's an infilling experience that takes place when we open our lives to God without reservation and ask him to baptize, immerse, fill us with the Holy Spirit, overflowing. 00:17:13.279 --> 00:17:16.480 If I had a glass up here, it could be full of water, right? 00:17:16.720 --> 00:17:19.039 But I could, and it's so it's full of water. 00:17:19.519 --> 00:17:25.119 We have the Holy Spirit, but I could pour water into that glass till it overflows. 00:17:25.279 --> 00:17:27.759 To me, this is the Holy Spirit baptism. 00:17:27.920 --> 00:17:34.319 He's moving from your spirit into your soulish realm, into your mind, your will, and your emotions. 00:17:34.640 --> 00:17:38.720 He's saturating your life with his presence. 00:17:39.200 --> 00:17:41.200 I like that word, saturating. 00:17:41.440 --> 00:17:44.559 He's saturating you with his spirit. 00:17:45.039 --> 00:17:46.160 How do we receive? 00:17:46.319 --> 00:17:47.920 We ask by faith. 00:17:48.160 --> 00:17:50.160 How do you receive salvation? 00:17:51.279 --> 00:17:52.960 It's a gift by faith, right? 00:17:53.279 --> 00:17:55.680 How do you receive the baptism of the Holy Spirit? 00:17:56.480 --> 00:17:57.279 By faith. 00:17:57.519 --> 00:17:59.279 It's a gift by faith. 00:17:59.920 --> 00:18:06.960 What can I expect when I ask God to baptize me, to fill me with the Holy Spirit into my life? 00:18:07.680 --> 00:18:09.200 What can I expect? 00:18:10.720 --> 00:18:12.079 A few things here. 00:18:12.799 --> 00:18:19.279 The Holy Spirit, Holy Spirit baptism grants boldness for the purpose of power and mission. 00:18:19.440 --> 00:18:20.960 How many of you know we need boldness? 00:18:21.119 --> 00:18:29.599 The apostles prayed this grant to your servants that with all boldness they may speak your word by stretching out your hands to heal and that signs and wonders may be done. 00:18:29.680 --> 00:18:34.559 And the name of your holy servant Jesus, and God filled them with boldness, and they preached. 00:18:35.359 --> 00:18:36.960 You shall receive what? 00:18:37.519 --> 00:18:38.480 Power. 00:18:38.720 --> 00:18:40.880 After that, the Holy Spirit has come upon you. 00:18:41.039 --> 00:18:41.680 What's that word? 00:18:41.839 --> 00:18:42.480 Dunamis. 00:18:42.880 --> 00:18:45.119 It's where we get the word dynamite. 00:18:45.359 --> 00:18:47.680 You will be you will be endued. 00:18:48.160 --> 00:18:49.039 What's endued? 00:18:49.119 --> 00:18:50.240 It means to clothe. 00:18:50.400 --> 00:18:54.480 You're clothed with power for your purpose, for your assignment in your life. 00:18:54.559 --> 00:18:55.519 Come on, somebody. 00:18:55.759 --> 00:18:56.640 That's what I need. 00:18:56.720 --> 00:18:57.519 How about you? 00:18:58.000 --> 00:19:00.960 We need the power of God in our life today more than ever. 00:19:01.119 --> 00:19:03.200 Come on, somebody say there's always more. 00:19:03.440 --> 00:19:06.880 There's always more of the Holy Spirit available in our lives. 00:19:07.200 --> 00:19:10.799 He's waiting on us to hunger and thirst for righteousness so we can be filled. 00:19:10.880 --> 00:19:12.559 He's waiting on us to ask. 00:19:12.880 --> 00:19:14.319 Paul said this. 00:19:16.000 --> 00:19:30.640 My speech and my preaching were not with persuasive words of man's wisdom, of human wisdom, but in the demonstration of the Spirit and power that your faith should not be in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God. 00:19:30.880 --> 00:19:32.160 What was Paul saying? 00:19:32.319 --> 00:19:37.119 He said, I didn't come to you in the Greek culture, I didn't come to you as some great orator. 00:19:37.680 --> 00:19:42.720 I didn't come to impress you with my speaking skills of human wisdom. 00:19:42.880 --> 00:19:45.440 That's what the Greeks valued in that day. 00:19:45.759 --> 00:19:52.000 He said, I came to you in the demonstration of the Spirit in the power of God. 00:19:52.079 --> 00:19:56.480 He says, that your faith is not in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God. 00:19:56.640 --> 00:19:59.599 That means he's saying, Listen, I don't care if you're impressed with me. 00:20:00.480 --> 00:20:02.240 I want you to hear the message. 00:20:02.880 --> 00:20:05.839 I want you to follow the one that I'm talking about. 00:20:06.160 --> 00:20:08.799 And it points to him and receive his power. 00:20:09.039 --> 00:20:10.400 Always think of Peter. 00:20:10.799 --> 00:20:14.880 Remember when Peter denied the Lord, Jesus told him, You're gonna deny me. 00:20:15.119 --> 00:20:18.400 You know, and he said, When the cock crows three times, you're gonna deny me. 00:20:18.640 --> 00:20:22.960 And then the rooster crowed three times, and the scripture says, The Lord turned and looked at it. 00:20:25.599 --> 00:20:27.519 And he says, I don't know the man. 00:20:27.920 --> 00:20:32.079 And then there's a place, there's another place the scripture says when Peter thought about it, he wept. 00:20:32.480 --> 00:20:33.599 I bet he did. 00:20:34.559 --> 00:20:36.079 But what happens? 00:20:36.559 --> 00:20:42.559 Jesus restores him, but he denied Jesus to a little servant girl. 00:20:44.000 --> 00:20:46.960 And the scripture says he followed Jesus at a distance. 00:20:47.839 --> 00:20:48.880 But what happens? 00:20:49.039 --> 00:20:50.400 Jesus restores him. 00:20:51.279 --> 00:20:54.720 He's filled with the Holy Spirit on the day of Pentecost. 00:20:54.960 --> 00:21:02.160 And the scripture says he stood up with the eleven and preaches, 3,000 added to the church. 00:21:02.319 --> 00:21:06.480 It said with boldness, Peter stands up with the eleven and he begins to preach. 00:21:06.720 --> 00:21:08.960 And the scripture says they're cut to the heart. 00:21:09.039 --> 00:21:11.599 This is what Peter says heed my words. 00:21:12.240 --> 00:21:14.720 And he preaches the gospel to the people. 00:21:15.119 --> 00:21:16.319 What happened to him? 00:21:16.559 --> 00:21:18.400 He did not Jesus to a servant girl. 00:21:18.480 --> 00:21:20.000 He followed at a distance. 00:21:21.279 --> 00:21:23.200 He was filled with the Holy Spirit. 00:21:23.359 --> 00:21:24.400 He received power. 00:21:24.480 --> 00:21:25.519 He received boldness. 00:21:25.599 --> 00:21:27.119 He was a changed man. 00:21:28.880 --> 00:21:35.920 Another thing that the Holy Spirit baptism does, it facilitates emotional healing and freedom in our lives. 00:21:37.839 --> 00:21:43.920 Isaiah 10 says this the yoke shall be destroyed because of the anointing. 00:21:45.119 --> 00:21:48.400 To me, that just means that there's a power. 00:21:48.640 --> 00:21:59.440 The Holy Spirit can bring power and touch our mind and our emotions, and the spiritual realm comes into our soulish realms and brings healing. 00:22:00.880 --> 00:22:04.480 We can be saved and know the Lord, but we can still be bound. 00:22:04.559 --> 00:22:05.759 Remember Lazarus? 00:22:07.039 --> 00:22:09.920 He was raised from the dead, but he had his grave clothes on. 00:22:11.200 --> 00:22:13.440 And so we can be saved but bound. 00:22:13.519 --> 00:22:14.960 We can be bound in addiction. 00:22:15.119 --> 00:22:18.319 We can be bound in hopelessness, bound in depression. 00:22:19.359 --> 00:22:22.640 And the Spirit of God can come and help bring freedom into our life. 00:22:22.720 --> 00:22:27.519 The Holy Spirit can come help break these yokes off of our lives. 00:22:27.839 --> 00:22:31.920 Certainly, depression and other things, it can be a process. 00:22:32.240 --> 00:22:33.920 It's a process at times, right? 00:22:34.079 --> 00:22:37.119 Certainly there's things that we have to walk out and work through. 00:22:37.279 --> 00:22:43.680 However, don't underestimate the power of the Holy Spirit in our lives. 00:22:43.839 --> 00:22:44.160 Why? 00:22:44.319 --> 00:22:49.440 Because He can bring the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness. 00:22:49.680 --> 00:22:52.640 He can touch your mind and bring healing. 00:22:52.880 --> 00:22:55.839 He can break the addictions off of our lives. 00:22:56.319 --> 00:23:03.359 He can take a mild, meek, cowardice person and ignite them on fire for God and his kingdom. 00:23:03.920 --> 00:23:05.759 That's the power of a God in our life. 00:23:05.839 --> 00:23:06.559 That's what he does. 00:23:06.720 --> 00:23:08.720 He calls dead things into life. 00:23:08.799 --> 00:23:10.720 He breathes life into you. 00:23:11.359 --> 00:23:12.640 That's the power of God. 00:23:12.799 --> 00:23:14.640 That's the Holy Spirit in our lives. 00:23:14.880 --> 00:23:21.039 He can break Satan's dominion and bring us into a new level of freedom and power. 00:23:22.240 --> 00:23:28.720 I've not given you a spirit of fear, but power, love and a sound mind, the scripture says. 00:23:28.960 --> 00:23:30.000 This is scripture. 00:23:30.240 --> 00:23:33.759 He who is joined to the Lord is one spirit with him. 00:23:34.240 --> 00:23:35.279 Think about that. 00:23:35.599 --> 00:23:40.960 He who is joined to the Lord is one spirit with him. 00:23:42.160 --> 00:23:53.519 A third expectation we can have of asking God to fill us with his spirit is he brings another dimension of intercession and worship in our lives. 00:23:54.319 --> 00:24:01.680 He brings us into another level, another, it's not just praying in our mind, but the scripture says we know not how to pray as we ought. 00:24:01.839 --> 00:24:07.359 But the Holy Spirit Himself makes intercession through us with groanings that cannot be uttered. 00:24:07.519 --> 00:24:10.160 The Spirit of God is praying through us. 00:24:10.720 --> 00:24:12.880 Another level of intercession. 00:24:13.440 --> 00:24:21.920 Jude says this, but you, beloved, building yourselves up on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Spirit. 00:24:22.079 --> 00:24:24.240 Keep yourself in the love of God. 00:24:24.640 --> 00:24:26.000 Jude 20. 00:24:26.480 --> 00:24:31.039 Praying in the Holy Spirit, keeping you in the love of God is a good place to live. 00:24:31.359 --> 00:24:33.039 It's a good place to be. 00:24:35.119 --> 00:24:41.440 Building up, that word means improving, building yourself up, praying in the Holy Spirit. 00:24:41.599 --> 00:24:47.359 Paul says this I will pray with the Spirit, and I will pray with the understanding. 00:24:47.839 --> 00:24:52.559 Paul says in 1 Corinthians, pursue love and desire spiritual gifts. 00:24:53.359 --> 00:24:55.519 But especially that you may prophesy. 00:24:55.680 --> 00:25:00.720 For he who speaks in a tongue does not speak to men, but to God, for no one understands him. 00:25:00.799 --> 00:25:03.279 However, in the Spirit, he speaks mysteries. 00:25:03.599 --> 00:25:06.319 That word mysteries, it means secret things. 00:25:06.559 --> 00:25:10.720 We can pray in the Spirit, speaking mysteries unto God. 00:25:10.880 --> 00:25:13.519 God hears our prayers, He understands what we're saying. 00:25:13.839 --> 00:25:16.000 The scripture says, eagerly desire. 00:25:16.160 --> 00:25:18.559 That word desire, eagerly desire. 00:25:18.799 --> 00:25:19.839 That's what I here's what I say. 00:25:20.000 --> 00:25:22.079 God, I just want every gift you want to give me. 00:25:22.400 --> 00:25:27.839 I don't understand everything, but I have my heart, I'm hungering for more and thirsting for more of you in my life. 00:25:27.920 --> 00:25:30.240 I want every gift that you want to give me. 00:25:30.319 --> 00:25:31.440 Can I have an amen? 00:25:33.279 --> 00:25:37.680 It's a deeper awareness of the connection to the Lord. 00:25:38.000 --> 00:25:40.640 Come on, somebody say there's always more. 00:25:41.680 --> 00:25:46.480 He who is joined to the Lord is one spirit with him. 00:25:47.039 --> 00:25:51.200 Out of your heart will flow rivers of living water, Jesus said. 00:25:52.480 --> 00:26:08.559 The last idea here of the Holy Spirit, the last thing that we can expect is he restores an intimate relationship of God as Father and reveals his unexplainable love to us. 00:26:08.799 --> 00:26:16.880 You know, I was reading Ephesians 3 where it says this the love of Christ which passes knowledge. 00:26:18.000 --> 00:26:19.440 This is the Holy Spirit. 00:26:24.319 --> 00:26:28.079 It reminds me of that verse, deep calleth unto deep. 00:26:28.960 --> 00:26:33.519 I has not seen, ears not heard what God has prepared for us. 00:26:34.480 --> 00:26:41.039 But you in your spirit, deep calls unto deep, in your spirit, he who is joined to the Lord is one spirit with him. 00:26:41.440 --> 00:26:45.440 It passes knowledge, but in your spirit, you cry, Abba. 00:26:47.039 --> 00:26:47.839 Father. 00:26:49.119 --> 00:26:51.440 It's a revelation of his love. 00:26:52.240 --> 00:26:57.359 The baptism of the Holy Spirit, to me, it gives you power. 00:26:58.799 --> 00:27:01.759 He can heal your mind and your soul. 00:27:02.000 --> 00:27:12.079 It's another level of prayer and worship, but the foundation of the baptism of the Holy Spirit, the foundation of it, of him getting to know him, is his love. 00:27:12.640 --> 00:27:14.480 It's a baptism of love. 00:27:17.359 --> 00:27:26.480 When you seek after him and you experience his love and his power in your life in a real way, it's like he, it's like the difference of taking. 00:27:26.559 --> 00:27:29.119 I have, you know, I was, I saw some of the little kids out there. 00:27:29.279 --> 00:27:33.519 My kids are getting older now, but when I had my little son, I would take him by the hand. 00:27:33.680 --> 00:27:39.920 It's the difference of me taking him by the hand and me picking him up and throwing him up in the air and catching him. 00:27:40.160 --> 00:27:42.000 It's the baptism of his love. 00:27:42.079 --> 00:27:44.799 It's the arms of the Father, it's the Father's love. 00:27:44.960 --> 00:27:48.319 Putting his arms around you and pouring his love. 00:27:48.480 --> 00:27:55.759 The scripture says, hope does not disappoint because the love of God has been shed abroad in our hearts. 00:27:56.000 --> 00:27:56.480 How? 00:27:57.440 --> 00:28:00.559 By the Holy Spirit who's been given to us. 00:28:01.039 --> 00:28:11.519 I'm telling you guys, getting a revelation of his love, it can do it can bring more healing in your soul, into your life. 00:28:12.559 --> 00:28:14.240 It's unexplainable. 00:28:15.759 --> 00:28:17.519 That's what he does. 00:28:19.359 --> 00:28:21.680 Years ago, I read this quote. 00:28:22.240 --> 00:28:25.599 One of the leaders of the Great Awakening, his name was Charles Finney. 00:28:25.759 --> 00:28:28.559