WEBVTT 00:00:01.439 --> 00:00:04.719 Welcome to this week's message from the Church at Chelsea Westover. 00:00:04.879 --> 00:00:10.800 Our core values are vibrant worship, intimate fellowship, fulfilling service, and clear biblical truth. 00:00:10.960 --> 00:00:13.359 We pray that this message changes your life. 00:00:13.519 --> 00:00:17.760 Let's tune in to today's message and see what God has in store for you. 00:00:18.320 --> 00:00:27.760 Today we're looking at, and I think it's a tremendous, tremendous subject today that most people are confused about. 00:00:28.399 --> 00:00:29.519 They really are. 00:00:30.239 --> 00:00:36.399 But the title of the message today is Where Life in Christ Begins. 00:00:37.039 --> 00:00:43.920 A lot of people don't understand where their life begins with Christ. 00:00:44.560 --> 00:00:46.000 There's a first step. 00:00:46.159 --> 00:00:53.039 Now, if you were in my theological uh seminary, I would be teaching on the church. 00:00:53.200 --> 00:00:57.840 I would say, life for the Christian begins at justification. 00:00:58.640 --> 00:01:05.760 And then, secondly, after you get saved through justification, you begin the process of sanctification. 00:01:06.159 --> 00:01:09.840 And then one day when you die, you will be glorified. 00:01:10.879 --> 00:01:12.159 Glorification. 00:01:12.719 --> 00:01:16.560 And boy, we would just take those words apart. 00:01:17.040 --> 00:01:20.480 Well, I didn't enjoy it back then, and I don't now. 00:01:21.760 --> 00:01:25.280 Because those words are very practical if understood. 00:01:25.519 --> 00:01:26.480 They really are. 00:01:26.719 --> 00:01:28.959 So where does life begin? 00:01:29.920 --> 00:01:38.000 Life begins the moment you ask the Lord Jesus Christ to come into your heart and save you. 00:01:38.239 --> 00:01:39.760 That's where it begins. 00:01:40.319 --> 00:01:43.920 Now, it's a process called justification. 00:01:44.079 --> 00:01:47.680 I like the word, but it's a reality. 00:01:47.920 --> 00:01:50.959 Now listen, here's where people get mixed up. 00:01:51.280 --> 00:01:55.760 A lot of people think that it is an experience. 00:01:56.400 --> 00:01:56.719 Okay? 00:01:57.359 --> 00:01:59.840 No, it's not an experience. 00:02:00.319 --> 00:02:01.519 Listen to me. 00:02:01.760 --> 00:02:03.120 It's a reality. 00:02:04.000 --> 00:02:05.200 Big difference. 00:02:05.760 --> 00:02:07.599 A reality means a fact. 00:02:07.840 --> 00:02:09.039 It happened. 00:02:09.840 --> 00:02:12.479 Experience can come and go. 00:02:12.800 --> 00:02:17.280 Experiences are based on a lot of it, emotionalism. 00:02:17.840 --> 00:02:18.479 Hello? 00:02:19.360 --> 00:02:24.400 And that's why we get a lot of our theological terms very confused. 00:02:24.960 --> 00:02:26.000 Now listen to me. 00:02:26.879 --> 00:02:30.479 One thing you've got to love about your pastor, I do not attack anybody. 00:02:30.639 --> 00:02:33.120 If people are preaching Jesus, I'm for them. 00:02:33.919 --> 00:02:34.240 Okay? 00:02:34.639 --> 00:02:44.400 As long as they believe that the only way to heaven, listen to me now, the only way to heaven is through Jesus Christ our Lord. 00:02:44.639 --> 00:02:47.680 Jesus said, I'm the way, the truth, the life. 00:02:47.840 --> 00:02:51.360 Now listen, no man comes into the Father except by me. 00:02:51.599 --> 00:02:52.879 John 14, 6. 00:02:53.039 --> 00:02:54.240 Acts 4, 12. 00:02:54.400 --> 00:03:00.560 Neither is there salvation in any other, for there's none other name under heaven given among men whereby you must be saved. 00:03:00.800 --> 00:03:03.680 You can only go to heaven through Jesus. 00:03:04.400 --> 00:03:05.360 No other way. 00:03:05.520 --> 00:03:09.280 You can only go to heaven through the blood of the Lamb. 00:03:11.599 --> 00:03:14.319 So if you believe that, I'm for you. 00:03:15.520 --> 00:03:16.719 I'm with you. 00:03:17.120 --> 00:03:18.639 I stand with you. 00:03:19.439 --> 00:03:29.919 But then when we get back to the gifts of the Spirit or the understanding of what really baptism of the Holy Spirit is, we may differ a little bit. 00:03:30.080 --> 00:03:31.039 But that's okay. 00:03:31.199 --> 00:03:33.840 So don't take this message today as an attack. 00:03:34.000 --> 00:03:34.879 I do not attack. 00:03:35.039 --> 00:03:36.080 Can I get an amen? 00:03:36.560 --> 00:03:41.439 But what I do believe strongly in is teaching the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. 00:03:41.759 --> 00:03:47.439 When I I've always loved debating people with different theological views for one reason. 00:03:47.680 --> 00:03:52.319 I do not debate on my opinions, I debate on the Word of God. 00:03:53.039 --> 00:03:55.759 And I have studied the Word for a long time. 00:03:56.000 --> 00:04:03.840 And if the Word doesn't say something, and you try to tell me, but Brother Danny, I had this all my ministry. 00:04:04.159 --> 00:04:08.960 Yeah, I know, but but you've never experienced it. 00:04:09.599 --> 00:04:11.919 Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. 00:04:13.520 --> 00:04:25.040 If the book doesn't say it, how do you know what your experiencing is of the Holy Spirit and not the devil's spirit? 00:04:26.639 --> 00:04:28.319 Hello, come on now. 00:04:28.480 --> 00:04:28.959 Whoa, whoa. 00:04:29.600 --> 00:04:30.879 Wait a minute. 00:04:31.360 --> 00:04:31.759 Hello. 00:04:32.160 --> 00:04:33.279 Ha ha ha ha ha. 00:04:33.360 --> 00:04:37.199 The lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, the pride of light. 00:04:37.360 --> 00:04:40.560 That's Satan's d hey, that's Satan's tools. 00:04:43.519 --> 00:04:44.639 You listening? 00:04:45.199 --> 00:04:46.399 It's very important. 00:04:46.639 --> 00:04:50.959 So the baptism of the Holy Spirit is not an experience to expect. 00:04:51.279 --> 00:04:54.720 Now listen, but a reality to recognize. 00:04:54.879 --> 00:04:56.079 Can I get an amen? 00:04:56.879 --> 00:04:57.920 That's good. 00:04:58.160 --> 00:04:59.199 And we're going to look at it. 00:04:59.360 --> 00:05:01.839 You know, there's a French word for shoe. 00:05:02.240 --> 00:05:03.680 Know what the word is? 00:05:04.959 --> 00:05:05.600 Sabbat. 00:05:06.000 --> 00:05:06.959 It's A-B-O-T. 00:05:07.199 --> 00:05:07.839 Sabbat. 00:05:08.959 --> 00:05:11.519 The practice of, here's what it was. 00:05:11.680 --> 00:05:16.240 It was the practice of throwing a wooden shoe into a machine to stop the machine. 00:05:17.839 --> 00:05:18.480 Grab it? 00:05:22.560 --> 00:05:28.240 By the way, sabot is where we get our word, the English word, sabotage. 00:05:30.879 --> 00:05:42.480 Satan likes to throw wood shoes into a church or into a Christian's life to sabotage them from the truth. 00:05:45.040 --> 00:05:45.680 Hello? 00:05:46.560 --> 00:05:55.199 And they do, and he does it through experience, one of the ways, instead of truth. 00:05:56.079 --> 00:06:01.040 The other way he sabotages it is through unbelief, doubt. 00:06:02.160 --> 00:06:02.800 Amen? 00:06:03.360 --> 00:06:08.240 As you're looking in your outline, the introduction right there. 00:06:09.279 --> 00:06:14.560 Satan has two different strategies to take the word of God away from us. 00:06:14.800 --> 00:06:15.920 He really does. 00:06:16.160 --> 00:06:20.079 In fact, you know, I something else. 00:06:20.240 --> 00:06:23.360 I was I got I was just reading so much. 00:06:23.519 --> 00:06:31.199 But back in the 1930s, the French built the massive, I'm not sure if I pronounce it correctly, the Magnot line. 00:06:31.519 --> 00:06:35.600 Literally, what it was was the their country's line with Germany. 00:06:35.759 --> 00:06:43.199 They they came in there, Sylvester built all kind of, you know, bomb shelters and all big guns and all that. 00:06:43.360 --> 00:06:51.839 And the only problem was when Germany decided to attack the French, they didn't come that way. 00:06:52.000 --> 00:06:53.759 They came from Belgium. 00:06:54.000 --> 00:06:57.439 And they came with air, not on the ground. 00:06:57.839 --> 00:07:00.720 So now I thought to myself, boy, that's a good example. 00:07:00.800 --> 00:07:05.920 And the guy used this as an example, and I never thought about it, but it really was unbelievable. 00:07:06.240 --> 00:07:09.279 Because France was aware of the enemy. 00:07:09.759 --> 00:07:11.839 Now you and I are aware of our enemy. 00:07:12.720 --> 00:07:14.160 You believe there's a devil? 00:07:14.879 --> 00:07:16.879 If you don't, you're deceived. 00:07:18.000 --> 00:07:27.279 And I, by the way, he's not, he's not red, he doesn't have horns, and he doesn't have a long pointy tail. 00:07:28.079 --> 00:07:31.120 Okay, that's not the devil I'm talking about. 00:07:32.560 --> 00:07:35.360 He's a real powerful person. 00:07:37.600 --> 00:07:39.920 Ephesians 6 tells us that. 00:07:40.240 --> 00:07:48.720 And they're, hey, and he and his demons are very prepared to take us out. 00:07:50.079 --> 00:07:51.680 You weren't listening? 00:07:52.399 --> 00:07:53.759 You know the verse. 00:07:53.920 --> 00:07:55.040 It's a great verse. 00:07:55.199 --> 00:07:58.079 It's a powerful verse because it has two powerful principles. 00:07:58.240 --> 00:08:01.199 But the first talks about Satan, John 10, 10. 00:08:01.279 --> 00:08:02.800 It says, I've come to what? 00:08:03.120 --> 00:08:07.040 Kill, steal, and destroy. 00:08:07.600 --> 00:08:09.759 But aren't you glad for the second part? 00:08:10.319 --> 00:08:14.959 But Jesus said, But I've come to give you life and give it more abundantly. 00:08:15.920 --> 00:08:16.879 Very important. 00:08:17.519 --> 00:08:22.720 Very hypothesis there for the Satan's purpose and God's purpose. 00:08:23.040 --> 00:08:27.439 So Satan's purpose is to keep you and me from having that abundant life. 00:08:27.600 --> 00:08:33.519 It's for Satan's purpose is to keep me and you from having that abundant life. 00:08:33.679 --> 00:08:38.159 Because when we live the abundant life, we are a light that's set on a hill that cannot be hid. 00:08:38.320 --> 00:08:39.919 We are those who look to him irradiant. 00:08:40.080 --> 00:08:41.200 They should never be ashamed. 00:08:41.360 --> 00:08:46.960 We begin to radiate Christ's likeness, the love of Christ, the power of Christ, the testimony of Christ. 00:08:47.039 --> 00:08:54.559 And if Jesus, whoo, I'm gonna have some, and if Jesus be lifted up, he will draw all men unto himself. 00:08:55.759 --> 00:08:57.279 John 12, 32. 00:08:58.559 --> 00:09:01.679 Somebody asked one of my members the other day, he said, You're a preacher. 00:09:01.759 --> 00:09:02.720 I visited your church. 00:09:02.879 --> 00:09:04.960 Every time he says something, he quotes the scripture. 00:09:05.840 --> 00:09:06.320 Duh. 00:09:08.720 --> 00:09:09.279 Hello. 00:09:09.679 --> 00:09:12.399 That's not what I say, it's what God's Word says. 00:09:12.480 --> 00:09:13.679 Can I get an Amen? 00:09:14.080 --> 00:09:15.519 We're gonna learn the truth. 00:09:15.679 --> 00:09:18.000 You should know the truth, and the truth shall what? 00:09:18.240 --> 00:09:19.120 Set you free. 00:09:19.919 --> 00:09:21.120 John 8 32. 00:09:21.279 --> 00:09:24.480 And I didn't go to school and pay all that money not to teach it. 00:09:25.360 --> 00:09:26.000 Amen. 00:09:28.000 --> 00:09:29.919 So, now listen. 00:09:30.320 --> 00:09:32.159 Here's his sabotage. 00:09:33.039 --> 00:09:48.320 Most Christians are very aware of Satan's desire to destroy the work of God, but few of us stop to evaluate the power he has, the methods that he has, and the way that he sabotages the Christian. 00:09:48.799 --> 00:09:54.320 So today, one of those ways that he sabotages is in two major areas. 00:09:54.639 --> 00:09:56.879 Unbelief is number one. 00:09:57.039 --> 00:09:58.559 There's two different strategies. 00:09:58.879 --> 00:10:02.080 He tries to take the word of God away from us. 00:10:02.960 --> 00:10:05.360 Boy, has he done that in America. 00:10:05.759 --> 00:10:08.480 He tries to take the word of God away from us. 00:10:08.639 --> 00:10:12.879 We can't even read the Bible anymore in our public school system. 00:10:13.200 --> 00:10:15.840 And I know we're, and I'm guilty, I'm with you. 00:10:16.000 --> 00:10:19.360 We have sat back and we've let our government do that. 00:10:20.559 --> 00:10:23.279 So don't blame it on the government, blame it on us. 00:10:25.279 --> 00:10:34.559 If we have as many Christians in America that they say we do, all we'd have to do one day stand up and say, we're not taking this anymore. 00:10:34.639 --> 00:10:35.200 It's over. 00:10:39.039 --> 00:10:41.039 Now, how has he done that? 00:10:41.200 --> 00:10:46.480 For years, for years, hundreds of years since America was formed. 00:10:46.720 --> 00:10:54.799 He has given us liberal scholars, liberal preachers, liberal systems. 00:10:55.039 --> 00:10:57.120 He's taken, by the way, let me tell you how. 00:10:57.200 --> 00:11:03.600 Do you know the uh out of a hundred universities, the first hundred universities, let me get this correct, or maybe it's 110. 00:11:03.679 --> 00:11:07.039 I did not look this up, I apologize, but I'm close. 00:11:07.120 --> 00:11:10.480 Uh that this America started, you know, Harvard, Princeton. 00:11:10.559 --> 00:11:14.000 Do you know all the Ivy League schools were started as Christian universities? 00:11:15.840 --> 00:11:16.799 Every one of them. 00:11:18.080 --> 00:11:25.840 And now over 200 years, they're all become very liberal universities, teaching humanism instead of what? 00:11:26.080 --> 00:11:27.360 Creationism. 00:11:28.960 --> 00:11:36.399 Teaching the absence of God instead of the presence of God, teaching the disbelief of God instead of the belief in God. 00:11:37.519 --> 00:11:41.279 So Satan's, hey, his plan's working. 00:11:43.919 --> 00:11:45.600 But there's a second thing. 00:11:45.840 --> 00:11:56.159 If he can't take us away from the word of God, casting doubt upon the trustworthiness of the word, guess what he does? 00:11:56.720 --> 00:11:59.200 He does, by the way, let me just say something right here. 00:11:59.279 --> 00:12:00.080 Write it down. 00:12:00.320 --> 00:12:06.320 The word of God is infallible, it's inspired, and it's inerrant. 00:12:06.720 --> 00:12:11.600 It is the living, breathing, written word of the living, breathing God. 00:12:12.080 --> 00:12:12.480 Amen. 00:12:12.720 --> 00:12:14.639 2 Timothy 3.16. 00:12:14.960 --> 00:12:21.440 All scripture is given by the inspiration of God, and it's profitable for doctrine. 00:12:21.679 --> 00:12:25.840 Hey, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness. 00:12:26.000 --> 00:12:28.639 My granddaddy used to say, Danny Boy, let me tell you what that verse is. 00:12:28.799 --> 00:12:29.519 Memorize it. 00:12:29.600 --> 00:12:34.720 He said, the word of God teaches you what's right, what's not right, how to get right, how to stay right. 00:12:35.279 --> 00:12:35.759 Amen. 00:12:36.879 --> 00:12:38.480 That's it, right there. 00:12:39.200 --> 00:12:46.000 In verse 17, so that the man and woman of God will be complete and equipped to do the work of God. 00:12:46.639 --> 00:12:53.360 Hey, to be complete and equipped so that Satan cannot sabotage us. 00:12:53.600 --> 00:12:54.159 Amen. 00:12:55.120 --> 00:12:56.320 Like he wants to. 00:12:58.240 --> 00:12:59.759 Powerful truth. 00:13:00.000 --> 00:13:00.720 Powerful. 00:13:01.200 --> 00:13:02.879 2 Peter 1:21. 00:13:03.120 --> 00:13:06.720 For prophecy came not in time by the will of men. 00:13:06.799 --> 00:13:07.919 Whoo, I love this. 00:13:08.159 --> 00:13:11.279 Hey, this you say God, man wrote it. 00:13:11.519 --> 00:13:14.960 No, man was the tool God used to write it. 00:13:15.200 --> 00:13:15.519 Amen. 00:13:16.159 --> 00:13:16.559 Who? 00:13:16.720 --> 00:13:17.679 Listen to what he says. 00:13:17.840 --> 00:13:22.720 Who by him do believe in God that raised him up from the dead and gave him glory that your faith. 00:13:22.960 --> 00:13:23.759 That's 1 Peter. 00:13:23.840 --> 00:13:25.519 Go to 2 Peter 1.21. 00:13:25.679 --> 00:13:30.720 For prophecy came not in the, hey, will in the time of, well, foot. 00:13:31.120 --> 00:13:33.360 My computer's going foo-foo-foo-foo. 00:13:33.679 --> 00:13:40.159 All right, for the prophets came not in time by the will of men, but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Spirit of God. 00:13:40.960 --> 00:13:42.480 2 Peter 1.21. 00:13:42.639 --> 00:13:43.120 Here it is. 00:13:43.279 --> 00:13:45.759 For the prophets came not in old time by the will of man. 00:13:45.919 --> 00:13:57.840 Man had nothing to do with it, but holy men of God, men guided and directed and filled and indwelt by the power of the Holy Spirit of God, spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost. 00:13:58.000 --> 00:13:58.879 Here it is. 00:13:59.200 --> 00:14:02.320 God wrote the book through the tool of man. 00:14:03.279 --> 00:14:03.919 Amen. 00:14:04.879 --> 00:14:08.480 I'm not going any further until you say amen or I don't understand. 00:14:09.519 --> 00:14:10.159 Amen. 00:14:12.399 --> 00:14:13.759 It's God's book. 00:14:13.919 --> 00:14:20.399 That's why, for over 2,000, well, 200 years in America, they've tried to disprove it. 00:14:20.559 --> 00:14:21.759 They've tried to burn it. 00:14:21.840 --> 00:14:25.039 They've tried to do everything they could, but it's still here. 00:14:25.840 --> 00:14:26.240 Why? 00:14:26.480 --> 00:14:28.720 Psalms 119, verse 89. 00:14:28.879 --> 00:14:33.679 Forever, oh God, thy word is settled in heaven. 00:14:35.519 --> 00:14:36.159 Amen. 00:14:36.480 --> 00:14:41.679 For anything was, his word was, after everything will be, his word still will be. 00:14:41.919 --> 00:14:44.240 In the beginning was the word, the word was with God. 00:14:44.399 --> 00:14:45.759 The word was God. 00:14:46.159 --> 00:14:47.519 In Genesis, he's a promise. 00:14:47.919 --> 00:14:49.519 In Exodus, he's a Passover lamb. 00:14:49.679 --> 00:14:51.360 In Leviticus, he's a scapegoat. 00:14:51.440 --> 00:14:52.960 In Numbers, he's a brazen serpent. 00:14:53.120 --> 00:14:54.639 In Deuteronomy, he's a lawgiver. 00:14:54.720 --> 00:14:56.799 In Joshua, he's prophet, priest, and king. 00:14:56.960 --> 00:14:59.120 In judges, he's a judge of all the earth. 00:14:59.360 --> 00:15:02.960 In Ruth, he's our king's kinsman, redeemer. 00:15:03.200 --> 00:15:03.919 Jesus. 00:15:04.720 --> 00:15:08.000 Woo! Get me going, I'll just go all the way through it. 00:15:09.200 --> 00:15:09.840 Amen. 00:15:11.519 --> 00:15:12.879 It's the book. 00:15:13.919 --> 00:15:15.279 It's the book. 00:15:16.240 --> 00:15:22.399 But the second way is Satan has another approach. 00:15:22.639 --> 00:15:39.440 If he cannot take the word of God away from us by undermining its authority, he will take us away from the Word of God by giving us another authority. 00:15:41.279 --> 00:15:45.600 Satan has developed a whole new basis of authority for many people. 00:15:45.759 --> 00:15:46.960 You know what it's called? 00:15:47.279 --> 00:15:48.159 In your notes. 00:15:48.399 --> 00:15:49.200 Experience. 00:15:50.559 --> 00:15:52.159 Called experience. 00:15:53.600 --> 00:16:00.240 They are so wrapped up in their experience that they no longer look to the Word of God for authority. 00:16:01.360 --> 00:16:05.039 Their experience becomes the main thing in their lives. 00:16:05.519 --> 00:16:09.200 Therefore, we see right here the two groups are vying for our minds. 00:16:09.360 --> 00:16:16.639 The liberals who take the Bible away from us, or the experientialists who would take us away from the Bible. 00:16:19.600 --> 00:16:28.159 Whenever experience is placed on the same level as the Bible, the experience group always overrules the Bible. 00:16:29.600 --> 00:16:32.000 I have been in so many debates. 00:16:32.799 --> 00:16:35.120 And I'll just read it. 00:16:35.679 --> 00:16:37.279 And they'll read it. 00:16:38.000 --> 00:16:39.600 And here's what they'll say. 00:16:40.480 --> 00:16:46.559 But I've experienced it. 00:16:54.720 --> 00:16:57.200 We don't need button Christians. 00:16:58.639 --> 00:17:01.440 We don't need billy goat Christians. 00:17:02.559 --> 00:17:06.960 We need submissive Christians to the authority of the Word of God. 00:17:08.559 --> 00:17:11.279 But, preacher, you've not experienced it. 00:17:11.519 --> 00:17:13.359 Now right there they're judging my motives. 00:17:13.440 --> 00:17:15.359 How they know I haven't experienced it. 00:17:16.240 --> 00:17:16.799 Hello? 00:17:17.039 --> 00:17:17.359 Hello? 00:17:17.440 --> 00:17:17.759 Hello? 00:17:17.839 --> 00:17:18.079 Hello? 00:17:18.160 --> 00:17:19.119 Now they're judging. 00:17:19.279 --> 00:17:20.160 Go to Romans 2. 00:17:20.240 --> 00:17:20.640 What does it say? 00:17:20.720 --> 00:17:23.279 Judge not that you Jesus said, judge not that you be not judged. 00:17:23.440 --> 00:17:27.200 Romans 2 says, if you judge me, you're judging me because that's what you're doing. 00:17:28.799 --> 00:17:29.440 Hello? 00:17:29.680 --> 00:17:30.799 Just a thought. 00:17:33.599 --> 00:17:42.400 So as we look at this today, the baptism of the Holy Spirit, where life begins as a Christian. 00:17:43.039 --> 00:17:48.079 Let's take the Word of God and look at the Word of God strategically. 00:17:48.319 --> 00:17:49.359 And you know what? 00:17:49.759 --> 00:17:50.400 I love it. 00:17:50.640 --> 00:17:51.920 Acts 17, 11. 00:17:52.000 --> 00:17:53.680 I'm memorizing this verse today. 00:17:53.920 --> 00:17:56.000 I meant this week, one of my new verses. 00:17:56.240 --> 00:18:02.799 The Berean Christians were more noble than those at Thessalonica, or the correct term, Thessaloniki. 00:18:04.160 --> 00:18:09.279 The Berean Christians were more noble than those that were at Thessaloniki. 00:18:09.839 --> 00:18:10.400 Why? 00:18:10.799 --> 00:18:14.559 Because they received the word of God with readiness. 00:18:14.720 --> 00:18:16.880 I like the King James Version there. 00:18:17.519 --> 00:18:24.160 With readiness of mind, seeking the scriptures daily whether those things were so. 00:18:26.319 --> 00:18:26.960 Wow. 00:18:27.519 --> 00:18:30.880 You know when somebody tells me something, I say, that's good. 00:18:31.920 --> 00:18:33.599 I'm not ugly, I'm not rude. 00:18:34.000 --> 00:18:36.240 When they say, you know, I've experienced this. 00:18:36.480 --> 00:18:44.480 But my when they tell me that, and then they tell me what they've experienced, my computer automatically starts going through the Word of God. 00:18:46.400 --> 00:18:47.680 Does that match up? 00:18:49.519 --> 00:18:52.000 I've had more people, Susan will tell you. 00:18:52.240 --> 00:18:56.079 Because I don't preach like a normal Southern Baptist preacher. 00:18:57.359 --> 00:18:58.880 Lady just visited the other day. 00:18:58.960 --> 00:18:59.920 You know what they asked him? 00:19:00.000 --> 00:19:00.880 How'd you like it? 00:19:01.039 --> 00:19:03.759 Well, he's got Baptist theology. 00:19:03.839 --> 00:19:08.240 I mean, Baptist theology, but he preaches like a Pentecostal. 00:19:10.079 --> 00:19:10.960 Well, guess what? 00:19:11.039 --> 00:19:15.279 I got Baptist theology, I got a Pentecostal heart, and I got Jehovah's Witness feet. 00:19:15.680 --> 00:19:17.680 I'm a Babdecostal witness. 00:19:17.759 --> 00:19:18.720 That's what I am. 00:19:20.000 --> 00:19:20.480 Amen. 00:19:20.880 --> 00:19:21.759 That's what I am. 00:19:21.839 --> 00:19:23.519 I've been that all my life. 00:19:23.920 --> 00:19:26.240 Falwell didn't know what to do with me. 00:19:27.680 --> 00:19:30.079 So he didn't know what to do with me. 00:19:30.160 --> 00:19:33.039 He said he's crazy, so I think I'll make him dean of the seminary. 00:19:35.599 --> 00:19:36.640 You know what he said? 00:19:36.720 --> 00:19:39.839 He said, at least we won't have any dead preachers coming out of here. 00:19:44.640 --> 00:19:46.240 But listen to me. 00:19:46.480 --> 00:19:52.240 When somebody, anything you experience has to be matched up with the word of God. 00:19:53.359 --> 00:19:54.799 If it's really true. 00:19:55.359 --> 00:19:56.000 Amen. 00:19:56.240 --> 00:19:57.519 So hang with me now. 00:19:57.599 --> 00:20:01.759 I'm trying to lay this foundation so you won't stone me in a minute. 00:20:02.160 --> 00:20:03.279 But now watch. 00:20:04.240 --> 00:20:04.880 So good. 00:20:05.359 --> 00:20:08.720 So let's look at three things about the baptism of the Holy Spirit this morning. 00:20:10.000 --> 00:20:12.880 And this is dealing with Christ in us, the hope of glory. 00:20:13.039 --> 00:20:20.799 The first step of Christ coming in us, who is our hope of glory, is the baptism of the Holy Spirit, number one, declared. 00:20:21.279 --> 00:20:22.559 Look at it scripturally. 00:20:23.519 --> 00:20:32.400 To the surprise of many, the whole doctrine of the baptism of the Holy Spirit, listen to me, is seen in eleven passages in the New Testament. 00:20:32.640 --> 00:20:33.200 Eleven. 00:20:33.920 --> 00:20:34.960 That's it. 00:20:35.440 --> 00:20:36.960 Eleven passages. 00:20:39.279 --> 00:20:42.000 And they really fall into three categories. 00:20:42.799 --> 00:20:46.160 Make it very simple for you instead of making it complicated, I hope. 00:20:46.400 --> 00:20:49.519 Number one, the prophetic passages. 00:20:51.039 --> 00:20:52.640 A prophetic passage. 00:20:52.799 --> 00:21:03.119 There are passages that talk about the baptism of the Holy Spirit as an event that is going to happen in the future. 00:21:03.440 --> 00:21:04.640 That's what we mean. 00:21:04.960 --> 00:21:06.559 Prophetic passages. 00:21:06.880 --> 00:21:10.799 It tells us of an event that's going to happen later. 00:21:11.839 --> 00:21:12.880 And that's why. 00:21:13.039 --> 00:21:14.000 Are you ready for this? 00:21:14.160 --> 00:21:28.559 I know the word of God is absolutely inerrant, infallible, the word of God written by God, because over 350 prophecies in the Old Testament have been fulfilled verbatim in the New Testament. 00:21:28.720 --> 00:21:29.039 Amen. 00:21:29.519 --> 00:21:30.640 Verbatim. 00:21:31.839 --> 00:21:37.519 No other prediction, no other prophet, no other book has ever even come close. 00:21:40.400 --> 00:21:42.079 So let's look at them. 00:21:42.319 --> 00:21:44.559 Matthew chapter 3, verse 11. 00:21:45.440 --> 00:21:47.519 John the Baptist is speaking. 00:21:47.759 --> 00:21:52.319 And he says, I indeed baptize you with water unto repentance. 00:21:53.440 --> 00:22:00.720 But he who is coming after me is mightier than I, whose sandals I'm not worthy to Carry. 00:22:00.960 --> 00:22:04.240 He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire. 00:22:04.960 --> 00:22:13.039 Fire was always the symbol of God's unbelievable shekana, glory, power in the New Testament. 00:22:13.359 --> 00:22:15.920 With his power, I will baptize you. 00:22:16.079 --> 00:22:21.119 And it fits with Acts 1.8 when he says, And ye shall receive power. 00:22:21.519 --> 00:22:31.440 After that, the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you shall be witnesses unto me in Jerusalem, all Judea, Samaria, and to the uttermost parts of the world. 00:22:32.960 --> 00:22:37.839 So he says, John is obviously referring to Jesus Christ. 00:22:38.559 --> 00:22:44.880 And the same verse, the same verse is basically repeated in Mark 1.8 and Luke 3.16. 00:22:44.960 --> 00:22:46.799 Now look at John 1.33. 00:22:47.839 --> 00:23:03.599 He says, I did not know him, but he who sent me to baptize with water said to me, upon whom you see the Spirit, which was the dove, it was the symbol of a dove, descending and remaining on him. 00:23:03.920 --> 00:23:06.400 This is he who baptized with the Holy Spirit. 00:23:06.559 --> 00:23:14.720 When Jesus was baptized by John the Baptist, God's Holy Spirit descended onto Jesus through the symbol of a real dove. 00:23:15.359 --> 00:23:17.920 When John was baptizing Jesus. 00:23:18.079 --> 00:23:24.319 And he said the Spirit descended on Jesus Christ at his baptism, Mark 1.10. 00:23:24.480 --> 00:23:28.640 So we know that he's going to baptize with the Holy Spirit at some point. 00:23:30.319 --> 00:23:35.759 And somebody said, Well, we've seen a baptism in the Old Testament a few times. 00:23:35.920 --> 00:23:39.920 Well, it wasn't a baptism, it was the presence. 00:23:40.559 --> 00:23:41.920 There's a difference. 00:23:42.240 --> 00:23:45.119 The presence means he comes upon you. 00:23:45.359 --> 00:23:48.640 His presence is upon you for a task in the Old Testament. 00:23:49.359 --> 00:23:51.599 By the way, that's called the anointing. 00:23:52.640 --> 00:23:57.200 But it didn't possess him, it didn't possess the Old Testament saints. 00:23:57.440 --> 00:24:03.279 The possession of the Holy Spirit, which is true salvation, didn't happen to the day of Pentecost. 00:24:03.359 --> 00:24:05.920 And we're going to see that in Acts 2. 00:24:06.480 --> 00:24:14.400 So these are the prophetic passages saying that now the one that has come, Jesus is not going to just baptize you with water. 00:24:25.839 --> 00:24:28.480 Then we go to Acts chapter 1, verse 5. 00:24:28.640 --> 00:24:33.440 Here's another reference to the baptism of the Holy Spirit happening in the immediate future. 00:24:33.599 --> 00:24:35.680 Notice what the verse says. 00:24:58.079 --> 00:24:59.680 And here's what they were saying. 00:25:03.920 --> 00:25:07.680 And this happened in Acts chapter 2. 00:25:08.160 --> 00:25:11.759 When we read that on the day of Pentecost. 00:25:12.000 --> 00:25:13.599 In fact, let's go there. 00:25:13.759 --> 00:25:15.920 Go to Acts chapter 2. 00:25:18.559 --> 00:25:21.440 I don't know if I had that on there, Jason. 00:25:21.599 --> 00:25:22.400 I don't think I did. 00:25:22.720 --> 00:25:25.440 Well, I did in another place, but I want to go there now. 00:25:25.599 --> 00:25:27.440 Go to Acts 2 for me. 00:25:28.079 --> 00:25:30.400 And we're going to go verses 1 through 8. 00:25:30.480 --> 00:25:31.599 This is very important. 00:25:32.799 --> 00:25:35.279 I'm being very cautious and careful. 00:25:35.440 --> 00:25:38.880 So I'm trying not to chase many rabbits today. 00:25:39.599 --> 00:25:42.160 Because that rabbit could get me in trouble. 00:25:43.359 --> 00:25:45.119 Acts chapter 2. 00:25:45.839 --> 00:25:50.799 And when the day of Pentecost was fully come, and that means something. 00:25:51.039 --> 00:25:56.880 In the course, and by the way, this took place during the course of the harvest Thanksgiving Day when it happened. 00:25:57.119 --> 00:25:58.240 Everybody's there. 00:25:58.400 --> 00:26:02.160 Over 13 different nations are represented right here. 00:26:02.319 --> 00:26:03.039 Did you hear me? 00:26:03.200 --> 00:26:03.839 Very important. 00:26:04.559 --> 00:26:06.880 You'll see it in the scriptures if you read the whole chapter. 00:26:07.039 --> 00:26:14.720 13 different nations from all over the world during that time are gathered for the harvest Thanksgiving Day. 00:26:14.960 --> 00:26:17.920