WEBVTT 00:00:34.000 --> 00:00:35.679 We must respond to God's word. 00:00:35.920 --> 00:00:37.759 It's not optional anymore. 00:00:39.280 --> 00:00:45.119 All of the invitations and the substitutes that Satan has offered you and me are out the window. 00:00:46.320 --> 00:00:51.520 We must repent of false religious concepts. 00:00:51.679 --> 00:00:56.880 And some of these things sound good, but they wind up shipwrecked. 00:00:57.439 --> 00:01:03.280 And so I want to talk today about the necessity of the Holy Spirit. 00:01:03.600 --> 00:01:05.840 The necessity of the Holy Spirit. 00:01:06.879 --> 00:01:09.439 Because He's the one that does it all. 00:01:13.120 --> 00:01:14.000 That's right. 00:01:15.120 --> 00:01:17.680 And without Him, we're nothing. 00:01:18.239 --> 00:01:21.359 We'll never amount to a hill of beings without the Holy Spirit. 00:01:21.599 --> 00:01:22.400 That's right. 00:01:23.840 --> 00:01:28.959 Now, as I taught last week, the Holy Spirit is the Spirit of Christ, one and the same. 00:01:29.200 --> 00:01:34.560 The Holy Spirit, Holy Ghost, same thing, is the Spirit of God, one and the same. 00:01:36.640 --> 00:01:40.959 But yet the Holy Spirit is not the human spirit of Jesus. 00:01:41.359 --> 00:01:44.400 The Holy Spirit is the third person of the Trinity. 00:01:44.560 --> 00:01:46.079 You all understand this, don't you? 00:01:47.280 --> 00:01:52.079 And so, if we're going to know God, we will only know Him by the Holy Spirit. 00:01:52.159 --> 00:01:53.840 There is no other way to know God. 00:01:54.799 --> 00:01:58.719 The only way we can get connected to the Holy Spirit is by our Spirit. 00:01:58.959 --> 00:02:05.200 So if our Spirit is born of the Spirit, then we're connected to the Trinity. 00:02:07.200 --> 00:02:09.759 And then the growth process begins. 00:02:10.639 --> 00:02:13.360 I know many of us, let me just talk to you today. 00:02:13.520 --> 00:02:17.280 Many of us, we've been taught, speak to the mountain. 00:02:18.240 --> 00:02:19.840 Say to the mountain, move. 00:02:20.000 --> 00:02:22.240 But what if the mountain doesn't move? 00:02:22.479 --> 00:02:24.800 Well, do we believe that God is sovereign or not? 00:02:24.960 --> 00:02:27.599 Do we believe that God is all-powerful or not? 00:02:27.759 --> 00:02:30.080 Do we believe that God knows everything or not? 00:02:30.800 --> 00:02:33.360 And so if the mountain doesn't move, here comes a Rhema. 00:02:33.680 --> 00:02:39.280 If the mountain doesn't move, it's protecting you and me from the storm that's trying to kill us. 00:02:40.800 --> 00:02:44.240 The storm cannot go over the top of the mountain. 00:02:45.439 --> 00:02:47.520 So rejoice, child of God. 00:02:47.759 --> 00:02:48.560 Come on. 00:02:50.000 --> 00:02:50.639 Wow. 00:02:51.680 --> 00:02:52.960 Glory to God. 00:02:53.199 --> 00:02:54.159 Praise God. 00:02:54.400 --> 00:02:58.560 I don't want to climb the mountain because there's a storm on the other side. 00:02:58.719 --> 00:03:00.719 Can I get back to the subject now? 00:03:01.520 --> 00:03:03.840 So I got all these messages coming. 00:03:04.479 --> 00:03:08.240 You might as well share a little bit of what's coming for Africa. 00:03:11.360 --> 00:03:13.759 Why do we need the Holy Spirit? 00:03:14.960 --> 00:03:16.960 First off, He speaks. 00:03:18.719 --> 00:03:20.319 He alone speaks. 00:03:22.400 --> 00:03:23.680 He comforts. 00:03:24.319 --> 00:03:26.319 Everybody say it, He speaks. 00:03:27.840 --> 00:03:30.000 Number two, He comforts. 00:03:31.520 --> 00:03:32.800 He leads. 00:03:34.080 --> 00:03:35.360 He teaches. 00:03:36.479 --> 00:03:37.919 He empowers. 00:03:40.400 --> 00:03:40.960 Amen. 00:03:41.199 --> 00:03:45.280 Just a few aspects of what the Holy Spirit does for us. 00:03:45.520 --> 00:03:52.000 You see, He was sent to the earth to minister to us, to help us. 00:03:56.159 --> 00:04:05.520 And so it seems that we need to acknowledge the Spirit of God every day in our lives. 00:04:08.080 --> 00:04:19.360 When's the last time any of us, well I have recently because God's been dealing with this, that we said, Come to me, Holy Ghost. 00:04:20.800 --> 00:04:22.079 I need you. 00:04:24.000 --> 00:04:28.240 If we think we don't need the Spirit, we're already doomed. 00:04:32.720 --> 00:04:44.639 And so what God is wanting the church in America to do, and also this church right here, is to break out of powerless Christianity. 00:04:46.399 --> 00:04:47.600 Break out of it. 00:04:59.360 --> 00:05:04.079 But if you're going to not expect Him to move, He will not move on you. 00:05:05.439 --> 00:05:07.519 You will say, What meaneth this? 00:05:12.800 --> 00:05:14.720 The Lord has showed me this. 00:05:15.680 --> 00:05:17.199 Take it or leave it. 00:05:18.319 --> 00:05:31.360 The emptiness and dissatisfaction that's in most of us is from God. 00:05:35.759 --> 00:05:41.040 Because He allows it all, so that we will want Him and need Him. 00:05:42.800 --> 00:05:46.959 Now, if you'll check your own self, you will understand there's a void here. 00:05:47.120 --> 00:05:57.120 Maybe not like it was before you were saved, but even after you're saved, there's this emptiness, there's this loneliness, there's this wandering in the Spirit in man. 00:05:58.959 --> 00:06:01.600 There's this dissatisfaction. 00:06:02.160 --> 00:06:04.800 Dissatisfaction can come from God. 00:06:05.199 --> 00:06:15.040 Because He wants to move us from where we are, stagnated in dormant Christianity, to the realm of the Holy Ghost where God is. 00:06:15.439 --> 00:06:18.480 That's what God wants us to move into. 00:06:18.959 --> 00:06:22.240 But if you're going to be hard-headed, you're never going to get there. 00:06:23.439 --> 00:06:26.399 If God is not first in your life, hang it out. 00:06:26.480 --> 00:06:27.839 You're never going to find it. 00:06:28.000 --> 00:06:29.839 You'll never find the secret place. 00:06:30.000 --> 00:06:32.879 So God is going to strip all of us down to nothing. 00:06:33.040 --> 00:06:35.040 So we'll need Him alone. 00:06:37.040 --> 00:06:38.959 You cannot get out of it. 00:06:40.240 --> 00:06:44.959 Because He's called us to be sons and daughters of God with authority on this earth. 00:06:45.120 --> 00:06:49.920 So there must be this purging that takes place inside of every one of us. 00:06:55.360 --> 00:06:56.480 But needful. 00:07:09.040 --> 00:07:10.000 Not me, preacher. 00:07:10.079 --> 00:07:11.199 I'm doing good. 00:07:11.920 --> 00:07:13.600 Why aren't you happy? 00:07:16.800 --> 00:07:20.480 Why don't you why haven't you discovered your purpose yet? 00:07:21.759 --> 00:07:24.560 There is a purpose for you in the Spirit. 00:07:24.879 --> 00:07:30.319 Everything is in the Spirit, by the Spirit, for the Spirit, connected to the Godhead. 00:07:30.399 --> 00:07:32.560 There is no that is the kingdom of God. 00:07:36.319 --> 00:07:40.639 Outside of that, you're wandering in the wilderness, everybody. 00:07:40.800 --> 00:07:44.240 And it's time to get on fire for God and get on the straight and narrow. 00:07:44.480 --> 00:07:46.560 The only way is by the Spirit. 00:07:46.959 --> 00:07:49.759 I tell you, Jesus came to the earth by the Spirit. 00:07:51.120 --> 00:07:55.759 He was placed in the womb of Mary by the Spirit. 00:07:56.480 --> 00:07:59.680 He grew up in the grace of God by the Spirit. 00:08:00.079 --> 00:08:03.519 He ministered by the Spirit for three and a half years. 00:08:03.759 --> 00:08:05.680 He went to the cross by the Spirit. 00:08:05.839 --> 00:08:07.279 He spoke by the Spirit. 00:08:07.439 --> 00:08:09.360 He was anointed by the Spirit. 00:08:09.600 --> 00:08:11.120 He died in the Spirit. 00:08:11.279 --> 00:08:16.879 The Spirit told him what to say at the very second he needed to say it when he was on the cross. 00:08:17.120 --> 00:08:20.240 Before he went back to heaven, he gave commandments by the Spirit. 00:08:20.480 --> 00:08:22.319 He ascended to heaven by the Spirit. 00:08:22.480 --> 00:08:24.319 He sent down in the Spirit. 00:08:24.399 --> 00:08:27.839 And glory to God, He's coming back by the Spirit. 00:08:30.319 --> 00:08:33.519 And if you know Him, you will know His Spirit. 00:08:35.120 --> 00:08:35.440 Amen. 00:08:36.320 --> 00:08:40.000 Because you cannot know Christ except by the Spirit. 00:08:43.759 --> 00:08:46.960 And yet most of the churches push out the Holy Spirit. 00:08:47.200 --> 00:08:54.080 No, we need the Holy Spirit in, or we're twice dead, bucked up by the roots, worthless, good for nothing. 00:08:59.440 --> 00:09:01.440 So shake yourself, child of God. 00:09:01.919 --> 00:09:03.440 The flesh profits nothing. 00:09:03.600 --> 00:09:08.399 It's the words of Christ that brings life and blessing. 00:09:09.279 --> 00:09:10.960 Let me lay a little nugget on here. 00:09:11.039 --> 00:09:12.080 I'm going to preach today. 00:09:13.440 --> 00:09:20.879 You know, in Psalms 23, verse 4, let me, the last part of verse 4, I call it Psalms 23, 4B. 00:09:23.279 --> 00:09:26.639 Getting off to a slow start here, but it's alright. 00:09:28.000 --> 00:09:30.799 God has chosen this to confound the wise. 00:09:32.960 --> 00:09:40.879 Psalms 23, verse 4b says, Thy rod and thy staff, they comfort me. 00:09:42.240 --> 00:09:47.919 Say with me, thy rod and thy staff, they comfort me. 00:09:50.159 --> 00:09:52.399 I found out what that means. 00:09:52.960 --> 00:09:55.279 I always thought it was my rod and my staff. 00:09:55.440 --> 00:09:56.320 No, it's his. 00:09:57.120 --> 00:10:00.399 So the rod is a big stick. 00:10:01.440 --> 00:10:08.639 That when Satan comes to us, the Lord bonk, bonk on the head and drives the devil back out of our lives. 00:10:10.960 --> 00:10:17.600 Number two, the staff, the staff had a hook on the end of it. 00:10:18.320 --> 00:10:27.759 And if the sheep strayed, the good shepherd put a hook around the neck of that sheep and pulled it back into the sheepfold. 00:10:30.559 --> 00:10:32.720 Part two, here it comes. 00:10:33.279 --> 00:10:44.480 Because we're in a covenant with God, the staff puts a hook around the blessing and pulls it into our life. 00:10:46.720 --> 00:10:48.240 You think God can do that? 00:10:50.000 --> 00:10:51.840 It's all invisible. 00:10:52.320 --> 00:11:01.120 We walk by faith and not by sight, but it shows up in the natural when we understand how the Holy Spirit operates. 00:11:01.519 --> 00:11:04.720 He's the one that pulls a blessing back into our life. 00:11:06.000 --> 00:11:09.279 He's the one that keeps us and sustains us. 00:11:11.679 --> 00:11:18.080 He is the one that brings all blessings to us through Christ from the Father God. 00:11:21.120 --> 00:11:23.360 There are many gifts that God gives us. 00:11:23.519 --> 00:11:27.039 In Acts chapter 2 and verse 38 and 39 now today. 00:11:27.279 --> 00:11:29.440 We'll get down the nitty-gritty here today. 00:11:29.519 --> 00:11:30.879 Praise the Lord. 00:11:32.559 --> 00:11:40.080 Repent and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus, Christ, for the remission of sins, you shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost. 00:11:40.159 --> 00:11:41.360 Does everybody see that? 00:11:44.080 --> 00:11:48.879 Well, we get water baptized because we have received Christ. 00:11:49.279 --> 00:11:50.399 That's simple. 00:11:51.679 --> 00:11:52.799 That's the first gift. 00:11:52.879 --> 00:11:56.480 But the second gift is what the prophet's talking about. 00:11:56.720 --> 00:11:59.120 You'll receive the gift of the Holy Ghost. 00:11:59.279 --> 00:12:03.039 Now the gift of the Holy Ghost is not the gift of salvation. 00:12:04.960 --> 00:12:09.440 I said the gift of the Holy Ghost is not the gift of salvation. 00:12:10.000 --> 00:12:21.600 So when a person repents and gets water baptized because they've accepted Christ, then they are to expect the gift of the Holy Ghost, which comes after salvation. 00:12:26.799 --> 00:12:29.279 Then the promise is unto you. 00:12:30.000 --> 00:12:36.879 The promise of the gift of the Holy Ghost is unto every believer that's been washed by the blood of the Lamb. 00:12:37.279 --> 00:12:38.960 Without exception. 00:12:40.960 --> 00:12:43.279 Now God knows what He's doing. 00:12:45.360 --> 00:12:51.440 Because without the power of the Holy Spirit will be defeated Christians our entire life. 00:12:55.440 --> 00:12:58.399 He says unto your children, there you go, the family. 00:12:59.440 --> 00:13:00.879 To your children. 00:13:01.519 --> 00:13:06.159 And to all that are afar off, and as many as the Lord our God shall call. 00:13:07.519 --> 00:13:08.159 Amen. 00:13:08.480 --> 00:13:11.519 And so this gift of the Holy Spirit is very important. 00:13:12.480 --> 00:13:15.840 In Acts chapter 8 and verse, uh, let me go over there. 00:13:16.080 --> 00:13:17.279 Acts chapter 8. 00:13:17.440 --> 00:13:19.440 I'll tell you here in just a minute. 00:13:19.840 --> 00:13:23.600 There's so much anointing on this iPad, it's trying to go out on me. 00:13:24.559 --> 00:13:25.679 Don't worry about it. 00:13:25.840 --> 00:13:26.960 We'll make it. 00:13:28.639 --> 00:13:30.879 Let's look at verse 14. 00:13:31.840 --> 00:13:33.679 Let's get some scriptures here today. 00:13:33.840 --> 00:13:37.039 When the apostles were at Jerusalem and heard of Samaria to receive the word of God. 00:13:37.200 --> 00:13:40.000 Now, when you receive the word of God, you're saved. 00:13:41.759 --> 00:13:42.399 Amen. 00:13:43.840 --> 00:13:47.200 There's a sequence of events, and they sent Peter and John. 00:13:47.440 --> 00:13:51.360 And when Peter and John came down and prayed for them, they might receive the Holy Ghost. 00:13:52.799 --> 00:13:53.919 Praise God. 00:13:56.639 --> 00:13:59.200 The Holy Spirit is our teacher. 00:14:03.840 --> 00:14:09.840 For as yet he had fallen on none of them, they didn't want to baptize the name of the Lord Jesus, or in the authority of Jesus' name. 00:14:10.320 --> 00:14:13.679 And then the leader hands on them and they received the Holy Ghost. 00:14:14.399 --> 00:14:17.519 The leader hands on them and they received the Holy Ghost. 00:14:19.759 --> 00:14:25.039 And when Simon saw that through the laying of hands the Holy Ghost was given, he offered him money. 00:14:25.120 --> 00:14:26.960 Everybody goes, uh oh. 00:14:28.480 --> 00:14:31.360 You can't buy the gifts of God with money. 00:14:32.480 --> 00:14:39.759 The richest man in the world still go to hell without the Holy Spirit helping him to stay saved and get saved. 00:14:42.080 --> 00:14:47.759 Well, oh boy, I wonder how many people in the ministry's day for money. 00:14:49.519 --> 00:14:50.399 Not good. 00:14:56.559 --> 00:14:57.600 Not material. 00:15:00.080 --> 00:15:06.559 Well, old Simon, he saw something or heard something. 00:15:09.519 --> 00:15:12.639 A manifestation of the Holy Spirit showed up. 00:15:13.360 --> 00:15:15.679 And got old Simon's attention. 00:15:16.960 --> 00:15:21.279 So he said in verse 19, give me this power, give me this power. 00:15:21.440 --> 00:15:22.480 There's that, oh. 00:15:25.360 --> 00:15:30.399 That whosoever I lay hands on, he may receive the Holy Ghost. 00:15:32.960 --> 00:15:35.039 True ministry doesn't operate that way. 00:15:38.159 --> 00:15:42.240 But when Peter said to him, Your money perishes with you, uh-oh. 00:15:42.639 --> 00:15:44.960 Word of prosperity may just go there. 00:15:46.000 --> 00:15:50.799 Because you rather thought that the gift of God may be purchased with money. 00:15:51.120 --> 00:15:56.879 You thought the gift of God or the gift of the Spirit could be purchased by money. 00:15:59.120 --> 00:15:59.840 Nope. 00:16:02.000 --> 00:16:06.320 I remember years ago, as you go into John 14, years ago. 00:16:07.519 --> 00:16:10.000 I think Monty and Billy were with me. 00:16:10.080 --> 00:16:10.720 I don't remember now. 00:16:10.799 --> 00:16:12.320 It's been only 24 trips. 00:16:13.039 --> 00:16:14.240 25 coming out. 00:16:16.000 --> 00:16:16.720 Getting tougher. 00:16:18.480 --> 00:16:19.679 Maybe I'm getting older. 00:16:20.320 --> 00:16:22.159 Maybe I'm just getting wiser, you think? 00:16:23.919 --> 00:16:26.720 But this woman was blind in the pyramid. 00:16:26.960 --> 00:16:28.320 I think y'all might remember that. 00:16:30.000 --> 00:16:32.080 And this man said, She wants you to pray for it. 00:16:32.639 --> 00:16:36.399 I wouldn't, you know, I don't know what's going on in those type situations. 00:16:37.360 --> 00:16:41.919 So they had the praise and worship going, which is key. 00:16:42.639 --> 00:16:43.919 But not quite enough. 00:16:45.679 --> 00:16:47.360 Without the Holy Spirit. 00:16:47.840 --> 00:16:49.440 See, this is it. 00:16:49.600 --> 00:16:50.159 This is it. 00:16:50.399 --> 00:16:51.039 He is it. 00:16:51.600 --> 00:16:56.000 He is the one that we must have without exception. 00:16:57.759 --> 00:17:00.720 And I prayed for her and just kind of forgot about it. 00:17:03.039 --> 00:17:10.079 But about ten minutes later, they come to me and they go, Hey, uh she says she can see now. 00:17:10.640 --> 00:17:11.920 I said, What? 00:17:12.960 --> 00:17:14.480 She said she can see. 00:17:15.519 --> 00:17:16.400 And it was night. 00:17:16.559 --> 00:17:17.359 I held my fingers up. 00:17:17.440 --> 00:17:18.880 She could count the fingers and everything. 00:17:19.039 --> 00:17:22.640 And so she got a miracle by the spirit. 00:17:24.559 --> 00:17:28.799 So the next day we're in the van, hopefully, to get out of there. 00:17:29.039 --> 00:17:29.839 Not really. 00:17:30.480 --> 00:17:39.759 And somebody gets a phone call, and one of her family members is wanting to give me money because they didn't know what else to do. 00:17:40.400 --> 00:17:42.079 They want to repay God. 00:17:43.119 --> 00:17:48.960 What I say, no, I can't take any money for what God does. 00:17:49.200 --> 00:17:49.759 That's right. 00:17:50.400 --> 00:17:51.920 Give it to your church. 00:17:53.759 --> 00:17:55.039 Glory to God. 00:17:57.359 --> 00:17:59.759 Silver and go hell now, Peter said. 00:17:59.839 --> 00:18:01.279 Well, he gave it all away. 00:18:04.640 --> 00:18:06.480 John 14, 16. 00:18:07.039 --> 00:18:08.799 Saint John, please. 00:18:10.240 --> 00:18:13.119 I got hundreds of stories I've never even told yet. 00:18:14.480 --> 00:18:16.559 Half has never yet been told. 00:18:18.079 --> 00:18:24.480 But in John 14, 16, the Lord said, I would pray the Father, he shall give you another comforter. 00:18:24.640 --> 00:18:30.799 Now Jesus was the comforter when he was there with him in person, but he said he's going to go away. 00:18:31.359 --> 00:18:33.839 So then here's this emptiness that comes. 00:18:34.960 --> 00:18:39.599 And he said, This comforter, he may abide with you forever. 00:18:40.480 --> 00:18:45.039 The eternal spirit would come and abide with the believers forever. 00:18:46.079 --> 00:18:48.880 That's not just now, but in future eternity. 00:18:51.440 --> 00:18:52.079 Amen. 00:18:52.559 --> 00:18:54.480 Then drop down to verse 26. 00:18:54.640 --> 00:18:59.920 The Lord said, But the comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, glory to God. 00:19:00.480 --> 00:19:08.640 You know, when I was a kid, grandma and mom had this blanket called a comforter. 00:19:09.359 --> 00:19:13.359 And put it over the bed, and I'd get out of there and I'd get real warm, you know. 00:19:14.240 --> 00:19:16.079 It was a comfort to me. 00:19:17.440 --> 00:19:24.880 The girls, whenever growing up, they drug around this little blanket that was a what do you call it? 00:19:25.039 --> 00:19:26.559 Little blanket, a security blanket. 00:19:26.640 --> 00:19:26.799 Yeah. 00:19:27.759 --> 00:19:32.880 So the point is, we all need the comforter. 00:19:34.400 --> 00:19:38.160 Because he screens everything before it hits us. 00:19:39.039 --> 00:19:40.000 Everything. 00:19:40.960 --> 00:19:46.880 Nothing gets due to the child of God unless the Holy Spirit allows it for a reason. 00:19:49.920 --> 00:19:52.319 Have we surrendered to his will or not? 00:19:52.880 --> 00:19:55.440 Is he in charge of our lives or not? 00:19:57.119 --> 00:19:58.079 This is the question. 00:19:59.440 --> 00:20:03.759 The comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name. 00:20:03.920 --> 00:20:05.279 Oh, get a hold of this now. 00:20:05.440 --> 00:20:07.519 The Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost. 00:20:08.960 --> 00:20:11.200 Whom the Father will send in my name. 00:20:12.240 --> 00:20:23.920 He, that's He the Holy Ghost, shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance whatsoever I have said to you. 00:20:25.039 --> 00:20:30.000 So the Holy Spirit then reaffirms the words of Christ. 00:20:32.240 --> 00:20:32.880 Amen. 00:20:34.480 --> 00:20:36.720 And he's called alongside. 00:20:37.359 --> 00:20:44.880 The word comforter, the Greek word paraclete, the word comforter means a one called alongside. 00:20:46.079 --> 00:20:48.319 So there's someone with us today. 00:20:48.720 --> 00:20:51.039 Not only in us, but with us. 00:20:52.079 --> 00:20:52.720 Both. 00:20:53.599 --> 00:20:55.839 In the Old Testament, he was with them. 00:20:56.319 --> 00:20:59.039 New Testament, he's with us and in us. 00:21:05.200 --> 00:21:08.400 And he's called alongside to help us. 00:21:08.640 --> 00:21:14.799 The comforter is actually the one that helps us go through life's journey up and down, back and forth. 00:21:14.960 --> 00:21:16.960 Good times, bad times. 00:21:17.440 --> 00:21:19.920 Victory and supposed agony. 00:21:20.319 --> 00:21:22.400 He's still with us in the storm. 00:21:24.559 --> 00:21:26.400 We don't get out of the fiery furnace. 00:21:26.480 --> 00:21:32.640 We don't get out of the lion's den, but we come through it victorious because the comforter cannot be defeated. 00:21:34.480 --> 00:21:35.599 Praise God. 00:21:36.559 --> 00:21:38.079 You must accept this. 00:21:40.640 --> 00:21:42.480 He would bring all things. 00:21:43.200 --> 00:21:45.680 He would teach us and bring all things to our remembrance. 00:21:45.839 --> 00:21:48.480 So he's called alongside to help us. 00:21:48.799 --> 00:21:50.240 He's assigned. 00:21:50.640 --> 00:21:51.839 He's assigned. 00:21:53.039 --> 00:21:54.559 Everybody say assigned. 00:21:55.279 --> 00:21:59.119 Now, when Billy and I were in Kenya many years ago, we had these two guys. 00:21:59.200 --> 00:22:11.039 One of them was Ex-cop, another one was uh ex-deacon, I don't know what he was, and they had this blue suit they wore 24-7, seven days a week. 00:22:13.839 --> 00:22:27.039 And they were assigned as our security, our bodyguards, assigned to us to watch over us that no harm would come to us. 00:22:27.119 --> 00:22:28.640 They were assigned to us, right? 00:22:29.119 --> 00:22:34.079 And I could always tell when they're with us because I could discern the scent. 00:22:36.799 --> 00:22:38.480 I'm sorry, Africans. 00:22:38.720 --> 00:22:44.160 We love you, but you know, I'm bringing some deodorant December the 8th. 00:22:45.680 --> 00:22:47.200 They'd just sell it. 00:22:50.160 --> 00:22:52.319 But they were assigned to us. 00:22:53.519 --> 00:23:01.680 In like manner, the comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, is assigned to you and me. 00:23:01.920 --> 00:23:02.640 That's right. 00:23:04.240 --> 00:23:05.359 Confess this with me. 00:23:05.440 --> 00:23:16.400 The Holy Ghost is assigned to me to watch over me, to protect me, and empower me in Jesus' mighty name. 00:23:16.559 --> 00:23:18.960 Now shout about a little bit, will you please? 00:23:19.759 --> 00:23:21.039 Because it's true. 00:23:21.920 --> 00:23:25.839 I know a lot of times we don't feel like it, but he's with us. 00:23:27.279 --> 00:23:28.400 When the Mr. 00:23:28.559 --> 00:23:38.400 Pump brought it back to my mind a month or two ago, I said, Look, I don't have any new revelation or anything to give people overseas or here. 00:23:38.640 --> 00:23:40.079 There's nothing new under the sun. 00:23:40.880 --> 00:23:42.880 It's new to those that haven't heard it. 00:23:45.440 --> 00:23:50.720 I said, I don't have a lot of money, I don't have a lot of what do they want? 00:23:52.160 --> 00:23:55.680 And he said, Well, God's with you. 00:23:57.279 --> 00:23:59.440 And I said, Wow, how'd I forget that? 00:24:00.079 --> 00:24:01.279 God's with you. 00:24:01.839 --> 00:24:07.680 So you see, when we go somewhere with the comforter, he's already there waiting on us when we get there. 00:24:07.920 --> 00:24:08.400 That's right. 00:24:08.480 --> 00:24:08.960 Amen. 00:24:10.240 --> 00:24:14.960 I mean, when Satan tries to disrupt travel, God's up to something. 00:24:17.920 --> 00:24:27.200 And one time we sat on the plane for hours, and finally, this is before the bombing went, the airplane went down, and they moved us off of this plane. 00:24:27.359 --> 00:24:33.440 We had to go through another plane and go through all this hassle of being rechecked again and everything, and I was upset. 00:24:33.599 --> 00:24:39.200 And come to find out they shot the plane down that was very close to the one that we were going to be on. 00:24:41.279 --> 00:24:43.680 But God moved us to another plane. 00:24:46.480 --> 00:24:50.400 I tell you, in everything, God is in charge. 00:24:51.200 --> 00:24:53.599 With everyone, God's in charge. 00:24:53.839 --> 00:24:54.559 Even you. 00:24:57.839 --> 00:24:58.480 And me. 00:24:59.359 --> 00:25:00.640 How's it possible? 00:25:00.880 --> 00:25:02.319 By the Holy Spirit. 00:25:03.279 --> 00:25:04.559 He knows best. 00:25:07.279 --> 00:25:07.759 Who was it? 00:25:07.920 --> 00:25:09.519 Benny Hinn wrote a book years ago. 00:25:09.599 --> 00:25:10.799 Welcome, Holy Spirit. 00:25:14.000 --> 00:25:14.319 Amen. 00:25:16.160 --> 00:25:20.559 When we get out of bed, we need to say, Thank you, Holy Spirit, for letting me live another day. 00:25:21.680 --> 00:25:24.799 You know, the Holy Spirit's the one who's going to carry us to heaven anyway. 00:25:26.720 --> 00:25:32.079 Holy Spirit's the one that directs our steps every day. 00:25:32.319 --> 00:25:34.480 I don't know what to do, where to go. 00:25:35.039 --> 00:25:36.160 He alone. 00:25:37.359 --> 00:25:43.759 Like a couple of weeks ago when I thought I was going to get in a car wreck down there in Arkansas, and they'd drive them like maniacs down there. 00:25:44.240 --> 00:25:45.759 You got to be on a race trip. 00:25:46.400 --> 00:25:49.440 How that car missed me, I have no idea. 00:25:53.359 --> 00:26:05.599 But first, we want to take a moment to think of a fine word for our work out the first hour. 00:26:33.039 --> 00:26:36.960 Now, powerful message, Dr. 00:26:37.279 --> 00:26:37.519 Wade. 00:26:38.240 --> 00:26:41.839 I'll tell you, God has his way with us. 00:26:42.480 --> 00:26:49.119 And if we're in the will of God, that devil cannot take us out until the Lord says. 00:26:50.000 --> 00:26:53.200 You get out of the will of God, you're in trouble, child of God. 00:26:54.319 --> 00:26:56.240 You may leave before your time. 00:26:56.559 --> 00:27:01.200 Because God can move up the appointment day as he sees fit. 00:27:02.000 --> 00:27:05.440 Now, if you want to live a long time, you better honor your parents. 00:27:06.960 --> 00:27:12.160 I said you better honor your parents by the Spirit. 00:27:16.720 --> 00:27:20.720 The Holy Spirit, now get a hold of this revelation, please. 00:27:22.319 --> 00:27:33.200 The Holy Spirit has been commissioned to guide us, mold us, and hold us. 00:27:34.559 --> 00:27:36.480 I mean, we want to get, we want to be free. 00:27:36.559 --> 00:27:38.559 No, you're only free in the Spirit. 00:27:42.640 --> 00:27:45.759 We should be running to the anointing, not running away. 00:27:46.640 --> 00:27:50.799 We should want the anointing of the Holy Spirit, which is the Holy Spirit Himself. 00:27:50.960 --> 00:27:51.920 We should want Him. 00:27:52.079 --> 00:27:55.200 Are there something wrong with our hearts, child of God? 00:27:58.079 --> 00:28:04.160 Something's got inside that needs to be extracted. 00:28:04.799 --> 00:28:06.000 God's jealous. 00:28:06.160 --> 00:28:08.160 It'll happen one way or another. 00:28:08.400 --> 00:28:11.599 You're on the potter's wheel and you cannot get off. 00:28:12.880 --> 00:28:14.160 You might try. 00:28:14.400 --> 00:28:15.200 Nope. 00:28:17.119 --> 00:28:20.319 Because the comforter has been assigned to us. 00:28:22.079 --> 00:28:24.160 And he's still working on us. 00:28:25.279 --> 00:28:27.039 He never gives up. 00:28:30.000 --> 00:28:34.559 No, we are secure when he has his way with our lives. 00:28:35.519 --> 00:28:37.440 You want eternal security? 00:28:37.920 --> 00:28:38.880 One way. 00:28:39.920 --> 00:28:43.599 He must have total control of you and me. 00:28:44.960 --> 00:28:46.079 I mean 100%. 00:28:48.000 --> 00:28:52.960 And I tell people, and I have told them, and I tell them, I always tell them, I don't have a will. 00:28:54.400 --> 00:28:57.599 If I try to exert my will above God, I'm sinning. 00:28:57.839 --> 00:28:58.160 No. 00:28:59.119 --> 00:29:02.400 God's will must be top priority. 00:29:04.640 --> 00:29:07.759 Or we're not being led by the Holy Spirit. 00:29:12.559 --> 00:29:15.599 Our understanding needs to be enlightened in these areas. 00:29:17.759 --> 00:29:22.319 We want to further the gospel, then we must be led by the Holy Spirit. 00:29:22.559 --> 00:29:25.200 Now listen to this phrase that I jotted down. 00:29:26.400 --> 00:29:29.519 Every problem in this world was created by a man. 00:29:31.039 --> 00:29:33.039 Now I know Satan's behind it. 00:29:34.319 --> 00:29:35.440 Nevertheless. 00:29:36.480 --> 00:29:40.480 Every problem on earth has been created by man. 00:29:42.079 --> 00:29:47.440 And a problem cannot be solved the same at the same level it was created. 00:29:50.480 --> 00:29:54.240 Man cannot solve the problems that he creates. 00:29:59.599 --> 00:30:02.559 So man can't fix his problem. 00:30:05.920 --> 00:30:10.319 Therefore, man needs an outside help. 00:30:12.799 --> 00:30:18.559 Therefore, Christ sends outside help into our world, and he is the helper. 00:30:18.799 --> 00:30:21.279 He is the Holy Spirit Himself. 00:30:22.799 --> 00:30:25.759 He alone can fix man's problem. 00:30:27.279 --> 00:30:36.559 There is no other hope, no other answer, than the Holy Ghost Himself coming on the scene to fix our mess. 00:30:37.519 --> 00:30:41.200 He's been assigned to us, and what a job he's got. 00:30:44.799 --> 00:30:47.759 So Jesus then came from another world. 00:30:48.079 --> 00:30:50.000 Another realm, if I could say that. 00:30:52.960 --> 00:31:01.599 And then he sends the Holy Spirit into our realm, into our world, to minister to suffering humanity. 00:31:02.000 --> 00:31:10.000 You know, it's time for the church, the body of Christ, to quit licking its wounds and rise up and be strong in the Holy Spirit. 00:31:10.559 --> 00:31:11.519 It's time. 00:31:14.480 --> 00:31:18.640 No sinner wants to come to church and not be challenged to change. 00:31:21.200 --> 00:31:26.640 The church has compromised to become like the world to gain the world. 00:31:27.200 --> 00:31:28.960 No solutions there. 00:31:31.680 --> 00:31:35.359 So the Holy Spirit then is our only hope. 00:31:35.680 --> 00:31:39.200