Demonstrations of the Holy Ghost Power
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[00:00:00] worship you this morning. We give you praise, Lord. We run after you, Lord, we
[00:00:04] choose to run after you this morning to seek you, to seek you with all of our
[00:00:10] heart to ask and keep asking, to seek and keep seeking, to knock and keep
[00:00:15] knocking. Because, Lord, we know there's more and more and more that you can
[00:00:20] teach us, that you can reveal to us, Lord, more power, Lord, to help set
[00:00:26] people free. Lord, we thank you for that. We praise you that there's always more.
[00:00:32] There's always more of your glory, your presence, your power, your truth, that you
[00:00:38] want your people, Lord, digging into, seeking after, being filled with. We thank
[00:00:45] you, Lord, that we refuse to be the lukewarm church that is satisfied where
[00:00:52] they are. We thank you for that, and we praise you in Jesus' name. Amen. Hallelujah.
[00:01:00] Want to welcome everyone this morning? Our great church? Yes. The Lord said He will
[00:01:13] not leave you, that there will be victory here. Amen. As the phone goes off.
[00:01:26] Oh, hallelujah. There will be victory. Amen. You know why there's victory?
[00:01:33] Because God promised that if we seek Him and keep seeking Him, if we keep
[00:01:37] asking and asking, if we keep knocking, if we keep running after Him, if we keep
[00:01:42] digging into the Word, if we keep fasting and praying and studying His Word, and we
[00:01:48] implement what He tells us to do and what He's revealed in His Word, then we
[00:01:54] break through. We push the enemy back, we push back the demons and the
[00:01:57] darkness and the devil, and Jesus wins. And we have many battles. We don't win
[00:02:02] all of them, but in Jesus' name, we're going to win the majority of them, and
[00:02:08] we're going to win the war. Amen. Well, this week we're going to continue. I
[00:02:13] started last week talking about the gifts and power of the Holy Spirit. I
[00:02:18] talked about the gift of tongues last week because it took a whole hour and a
[00:02:22] half to really deal with that, and I left out a bunch of stuff. Today, I've
[00:02:27] just entitled this demonstrations of Holy Ghost power. We're going to get into
[00:02:33] this because the power of God, there's much more in the New Testament
[00:02:37] demonstrations of the Holy Spirit power than just the gift of tongues or even
[00:02:42] the gift of prophecy, and so we're going to look at some of that this morning.
[00:02:46] But I'm going through this, and you know, somebody the other day told me I
[00:02:51] should ignore a certain individual that's been having fun attacking us now out
[00:02:57] there, and they said I should ignore him. And I said, No, I said,
[00:03:01] Actually, his attacks and his betrayal has, you know, put forth a good
[00:03:06] teaching moment here. And so it's important because all of a sudden it
[00:03:12] seems like, you know, we had a problem a number of years ago in faith. If you
[00:03:16] would, would you bring me a polluted church book, please? We have a problem.
[00:03:21] We have two problems, and I'm going to share this in the body of Christ
[00:03:25] that's troubled me for many years. Okay, we have the real gifts and power
[00:03:31] of the Holy Spirit revealed in the Bible, and those are still for today.
[00:03:37] And there are still Christians, fivefold ministers, pastors that still
[00:03:43] believe and operate in the real gifts and power of the Holy Spirit.
[00:03:48] But we also have a lot of counterfeit. We also have a lot of seducing
[00:03:53] spirits and doctrines of devils. Now, the problem is, is that we have a
[00:03:57] lot of people on one side, and I would call them the extreme Pentecostals
[00:04:03] and Charismatics who've opened the door to all kinds of deceiving spirits,
[00:04:06] seducing spirits, Kundalini spirits. And I'm going to explain what that is
[00:04:10] and why. But we also have the other side that now they're afraid of
[00:04:14] anything supernatural, and they just deem everything that happens in
[00:04:18] Christianity, whether it be tongues or, you know, people falling in the
[00:04:24] floor, we're going to deal with that, or whatever manifestation might happen.
[00:04:27] They want to deem all of it Kundalini or the devil or serpent power or whatever.
[00:04:32] And both sides are wrong. All right. But what we have to do is determine this.
[00:04:41] Now, of course, everybody knows who I'm talking about.
[00:04:43] This individual out there, Mr. Nathan Roberts, and if you don't know him,
[00:04:46] don't waste your time. But I want to say that I wrote the
[00:04:51] polluted church book from Rome to Kansas City in 2012 when Mr. Roberts was
[00:04:58] still going to his Andy Stanley megachurch, okay, before he knew what
[00:05:02] Kundalini was. I have a chapter in this book entitled, in fact, let's see here.
[00:05:09] Yes, it's entitled, Astral Projection in the Kundalini Spirit.
[00:05:16] And this book I wrote in 2000. It started writing about 2010 and finished it end of
[00:05:25] 2011, and we published it in 2012. So what I want to say here is I have thoroughly
[00:05:34] researched this subject of the difference between the real gifts of the Holy Spirit
[00:05:43] and the counterfeit. And I have written extensively about it as a Pentecostal
[00:05:48] and Charismatic pastor, minister, five-fold minister, yes, in the office of
[00:05:54] apostle and prophet, evangelist, pastor, and teacher. I'm not ashamed of any of that.
[00:05:59] And I just want to say this. The last Christian YouTuber that mocked the gifts
[00:06:05] of the Holy Spirit within this ministry and mocked the five-fold ministry here
[00:06:09] ended up falling back into his sins and addictions and in a divorce. So I'd be
[00:06:15] very careful what you attack. It's one thing to attack me, but once you start
[00:06:18] attacking the gifts of the Holy Spirit, the power of God, and you start
[00:06:22] attacking what God did, particularly when the Holy Spirit moves as he did at
[00:06:28] Skyfall at our conference, when you start attacking what the Holy Spirit does
[00:06:32] and you start attacking the Word and you start twisting things, then you are
[00:06:39] headed into big trouble. You better take that warning, young man, because it's
[00:06:45] coming to you. I've seen it over the years. And here's another thing. A guy
[00:06:52] that just stepped out of Andy Stanley's church, you know, the Baptist church, the
[00:06:56] Baptist megachurch, it's even more watered down than his father's first
[00:06:59] Baptist church in Atlanta when it comes to the gifts of the Holy Spirit. A guy
[00:07:04] that just stepped out of that church about four years ago versus a guy who's
[00:07:07] walked in the gifts of the Holy Spirit for 32 years, who's taught on it, who's been
[00:07:13] in the midst of it. There is no comparison here, okay? Why anybody gives
[00:07:17] this young rebel the time of day, I don't understand, but it's really
[00:07:24] the dividing line now, and a lot of things. There's a dividing line about the
[00:07:29] truth of creation. There's a dividing line about homosexuality and how the church
[00:07:33] is going to respond to that and transgenderism. There's been a dividing
[00:07:36] line for a long time about abortion. Well, there's been a dividing line of law for a
[00:07:41] long, long time about the gifts and power of the Holy Spirit. And you have to
[00:07:45] choose what side you're going to be on, all right? But as anyone should, we should
[00:07:50] study the scriptures. So let's study this a little bit. We're going to move
[00:07:57] on through this. I'm going to try. It's going to take me a bit today using the
[00:08:00] old-fashioned mic today, so hopefully it'll sound better out there. But Luke
[00:08:05] 11, verses 9 through 15, we're going to read these first here. And remember that
[00:08:11] we're going to be addressing this kundalini spirit. The word kundalini
[00:08:15] simply means serpent power, right? And really this doorway, and let me just say
[00:08:22] this, this doorway to this kundalini spirit came in to the church from
[00:08:28] Buddhism and Hinduism because many in the church started practicing Buddhist
[00:08:33] and Hindu techniques. Meditation, the Buddhist Hindu meditation that
[00:08:40] couples using repetitive chants and phrases and visualization and yoga and
[00:08:48] these other things, many Christians are doing these things. And these things
[00:08:52] crept into the church. I've got a chapter in the polluted church talks
[00:08:55] about this going back to in, you know, 200, 250 A.D., all right? When there were
[00:09:04] Christians who were out in the desert who didn't have a good foundation and
[00:09:09] there were Buddhist monks and missionaries that had come there and Buddhism and
[00:09:14] Christianity got mixed together right before the Roman Catholic Church was
[00:09:18] founded in 313 A.D. And many of these desert fathers who got out in caves and
[00:09:24] started using Buddhist techniques of meditation and visualization and
[00:09:29] chanting and all these things, these people ended up moving into the Roman
[00:09:35] Catholic Church. Now for some of you, you're going to find out that the Roman
[00:09:39] Catholic Church, remember Buddhism was around 1500 years before Roman
[00:09:44] Catholicism. Do you know that Buddhists are the ones that had the rosary
[00:09:49] beats? They started out with those, the Buddhists, so they could count their
[00:09:53] repetitious prayers. There's nowhere in the Bible that talks about having rosary
[00:09:57] beats. So you see where Roman Catholicism, this is just one example of how it
[00:10:02] incorporated Buddhism into it. That's why you have the repeated Hail Marys, the
[00:10:07] repeated our fathers, the repetition, the vain repetitious prayer that Jesus
[00:10:13] said in Matthew 6.9, we don't do. That's why I have a whole chapter in the
[00:10:17] polluted church called praying like pagans. I mean, once you start with the
[00:10:22] repetitive phrase over and over and over and over and over again, I don't care if
[00:10:27] it's a Christian word or phrase, you're doing the same techniques that the
[00:10:31] Buddhists and the Hindus do. Even the Muslim Sufis do the same thing.
[00:10:35] And the Kabbalists Jews, it's an occult practice that is across the board,
[00:10:40] this repetitive chanting like prayer or meditation and also coupling in
[00:10:46] visualization with this. This is what opens the doorway. And then of
[00:10:51] course, we know that Ignatius Loyola, the founder of the Jesuits, he perfected
[00:10:58] this for the Catholics, the Roman Catholics in what he called Lecto Divina.
[00:11:02] It's all the same thing. So let me tell you what opens the doors to this.
[00:11:05] You start playing with yoga, you start getting into contemplative
[00:11:09] mysticism with the visualization, repetitive type prayer that Jesus said
[00:11:15] don't do, or you get connected with Roman Catholics
[00:11:19] or some of these churches that have opened the doors to these
[00:11:22] things. Yes, you can open yourself up to deceiving
[00:11:26] spirits and these Kundalini spirits, these demon
[00:11:30] spirits that will manifest and will give you
[00:11:35] experiences similar, not exactly like, but similar
[00:11:40] to what it means to walk in the gifts and power of the Holy Spirit.
[00:11:44] And so I want to say right now, there's a lot of Christians
[00:11:47] that are deceived by this, okay, but that's because they won't listen
[00:11:54] to what the scriptures say and they want to keep playing with
[00:11:58] yoga or they've been deceived about meditation or visualization or chanting
[00:12:03] prayers or repetitive prayers. So everybody, you know, when I go through
[00:12:07] this book, I name names like Mike Bickel of IHOP,
[00:12:11] alright, International House of Prayer, Rick Joyner, Morning Star Ministries,
[00:12:18] a lot of the Charismatic and Pentecostals that have gotten into this
[00:12:22] stuff, I name by name because I have studied what they teach
[00:12:27] and what they have written and I quote them
[00:12:30] and they're into this. Mike Bickel talks about saying, Jesus, you are beautiful
[00:12:34] for five hours over and over and over again until he had a spiritual
[00:12:38] experience. And this is what he's teaching all these young people
[00:12:41] at his big IHOP ministry out in Kansas City.
[00:12:45] And then it's no, it should be no surprise that recently
[00:12:49] IHOP has linked up big time with the Roman Catholic Church. Why is
[00:12:56] that same spirit there? Okay, so I want to say as a
[00:13:01] pastor, as a minister of the gospel, I have warned about this counterfeit
[00:13:08] for many, many years. So for someone to accuse
[00:13:12] me of operating in it, you better, you better have a basis for that
[00:13:17] because I don't chant, I don't use repetitive prayer or visualization, I
[00:13:23] don't, we don't have yoga class in church.
[00:13:27] You know what I'm saying? And I separated myself from these Pentecostals
[00:13:31] and Charismatics who were getting into this a long time ago.
[00:13:38] So if you want to go down that road, and I'm just going to remind
[00:13:41] that particular young man and whoever else wanted to join him,
[00:13:45] you don't bring an accusation against an elder lightly.
[00:13:50] You guys are in big trouble. That's all I'm going to take. You're in big,
[00:13:55] big trouble. Now let's go back to this. Let's go back to the true Christian
[00:13:59] who's earnestly and honestly seeking God for his Holy Spirit, for his power,
[00:14:07] and not deceived to go mess around with these goofy people who are
[00:14:11] into Eastern mysticism, even if it has Christian labels on it.
[00:14:16] But here's what Jesus, if you're just seeking
[00:14:19] after God, you're studying your Bible, and you're making sure you're not getting
[00:14:23] involved in any form of Eastern mysticism or contemplative mysticism,
[00:14:28] then here's your promise you have right here.
[00:14:32] This is the promise, so you don't have to be afraid.
[00:14:35] And this is Jesus, Luke 11 9 through 15. He says here,
[00:14:39] And I say unto you, Ask, and it shall be given you.
[00:14:43] Seek, and you shall find, knock, and it shall be opened to you,
[00:14:47] for every one that asketh receiveth, and he that seeketh findeth,
[00:14:50] and to him that knocketh it shall be opened. Now before I go any further,
[00:14:53] this ask, seek, and knock, these verbs are present tense Greek verbs,
[00:14:57] which means ongoing continuous action taking place in the present. So it really
[00:15:01] means if you ask and keep asking, if you seek and keep seeking, if you knock
[00:15:05] and keep knocking, you're going to receive. And the
[00:15:07] parable Jesus told right before this was one where he was talking about,
[00:15:12] you know, being in bed, the father's in bed with the children, and somebody's
[00:15:16] knocking at the door, give us bread, but he wouldn't do it. But
[00:15:20] because the person kept on knocking, he finally got up out of bed in the
[00:15:24] middle of the night and went and gave him what he needed.
[00:15:26] Sometimes God delays because he wants us to seek and keep seeking, to ask and
[00:15:30] keep asking, to knock and keep knocking until we receive.
[00:15:33] So many, like I said last week, a lot of people are not baptizing the Holy
[00:15:37] Spirit with the evidence of tongues like it is
[00:15:39] in the Bible because they give up. Well, I asked and
[00:15:44] it didn't happen right now, so I'm done. All right, that's not what we do as
[00:15:50] Christians seeking more of the Holy Spirit power in our
[00:15:53] lives. You never quit. You never back down. You never say I'm
[00:15:58] rich and increased with goods and have need of nothing. You never say I'm
[00:16:01] satisfied. I'm going to tell you, I've experienced
[00:16:04] nearly every miracle in the New Testament and the power of God in my
[00:16:08] life for 32 years, and I'm just as hungry today for more
[00:16:12] than I was back then. All right, I mean, I don't understand wanting to
[00:16:18] settle for powerless Christianity. I don't get it.
[00:16:22] All right, but let's go on here. So Jesus goes on to say,
[00:16:27] verse 11, if a son shall ask bread of any of you that is a father,
[00:16:32] will he give him a stone? Or if he ask a fish,
[00:16:36] will he for a fish give him a serpent? If you're seeking something good, do you
[00:16:41] think your father wants to give you something
[00:16:43] bad? A serpent? Isn't that interesting? Kundalini
[00:16:48] serpent? No. Or if he shall ask an egg, will he offer him a scorpion?
[00:16:52] If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children, how
[00:16:56] much more shall your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit
[00:17:00] to them that ask him? Now, I find this interesting
[00:17:04] that this goes right into the situation where Jesus was casting out a devil and
[00:17:08] it was dumb and it came to pass when the devil was gone out. The dumb spake and
[00:17:12] the people wondered, but some of them said he castes out
[00:17:15] devils through Beelzebub, the chief of the devils.
[00:17:18] Isn't it interesting that that follows this?
[00:17:22] People asking for the Holy Spirit, God promising, I'm not going to give you a
[00:17:26] serpent if you're asking and seeking me for
[00:17:29] for the Holy Spirit. And then he has the religious crowd
[00:17:34] accuse him of operating in a in satanic power when Jesus was
[00:17:40] clearly operating in the power of the Holy Spirit.
[00:17:43] You better be careful what you call a devil
[00:17:51] because the Lord's not playing games with you. Let's keep going here.
[00:17:57] I already covered this. We covered this in the book.
[00:18:01] There's just some reviews on there. I didn't even know I had four stars in
[00:18:05] four point five star. I know. I was like, wow, I guess most people
[00:18:12] haven't figured out I wrote that book, I guess.
[00:18:15] All right. They'll go get bad reviews just because it's me.
[00:18:22] They won't read it. They'll just go do that because that's what they do.
[00:18:26] I got haters. I want to read these verses. I put this on Facebook the
[00:18:35] other day, but I just think it's important as we get down into this.
[00:18:39] First Corinthians 12. Now, concerning spiritual gifts, brethren, I would not
[00:18:43] have you ignorant. So the Holy Spirit through Paul and Paul
[00:18:47] is an apostle that you should not be ignorant of the gifts and power of the
[00:18:51] Holy Spirit. How many of you would think most of the
[00:18:54] church is completely ignorant, which is why they fall for so many
[00:18:59] deceptions and errors, right? Because for the most part, they've
[00:19:03] even been discouraged from seeking after this.
[00:19:06] But then when you teach someone and you tell someone
[00:19:11] and really Paul's talking about the the gifts of the Holy Spirit and love
[00:19:15] and the proper order for these things through from 1 Corinthians 12 all the
[00:19:20] way through 1 Corinthians 14. He ends 1 Corinthians 14 with this.
[00:19:24] But if any man be ignorant, let him be ignorant.
[00:19:28] Wherefore, brethren, covet to prophesy and forbid not to speak with tongues.
[00:19:32] Let all things be done decently and in order. What he's saying here is
[00:19:36] not that he said, I don't want you ignorant. So Paul spent
[00:19:41] three chapters teaching on this, right, explaining this.
[00:19:45] And then he says, but if anyone wants to continue to be ignorant,
[00:19:49] let them be ignorant because this is not complicated.
[00:19:53] This is this is not an obscure doctrine or
[00:19:56] theology we have here about the gifts and power of the Holy Spirit. It is
[00:20:00] clearly in the Bible from the gift of tongues and
[00:20:04] interpretation of tongues to the gift of prophecy,
[00:20:06] discerning of spirits, the gifts of healing and working of miracles, the gift
[00:20:10] of the word of knowledge and the word of wisdom. There are nine gifts of the
[00:20:13] Holy Spirit and many more manifestations of the
[00:20:17] Holy Spirit than that. And I'll share some of that with you
[00:20:19] because the Holy Spirit is not God's Spirit is not
[00:20:23] held back. He can do what he wants, how he wants. Remember splitting the Red Sea,
[00:20:28] Jesus walking on the water, multiplying food,
[00:20:32] raining bread from heaven. There's all kind of things that are not mentioned in
[00:20:36] the gifts of the Holy Spirit because it's covered with
[00:20:39] working of miracles. And we'll get into that. But I want to say this,
[00:20:44] Mr. Roberts and certain people now have this
[00:20:48] weird twisted obsession that somehow it's wrong to associate
[00:20:54] fire, the symbol of fire with the Holy Spirit.
[00:20:57] Well, if that's true, then we got to not associate the symbol of oil with the
[00:21:00] Holy Spirit anymore, the symbol of the dove or the symbol
[00:21:04] of water or the river of life or wind. All of these
[00:21:09] are symbols. They are spiritual symbols and even
[00:21:13] manifestations that happened. A rushing mighty wind filled all the house where
[00:21:17] they were sitting, cloven tongues like is a fire.
[00:21:19] Jesus album are going to baptize you in the Holy Ghost and
[00:21:22] fire, right? But for some reason now, certain psychos out here that have gone
[00:21:29] crazy can't seem to understand that these
[00:21:33] are just the human terms or that God's
[00:21:37] given us to try to describe how he will manifest and work
[00:21:42] in our lives. And the Holy Spirit as a fire
[00:21:45] is a sanctifying force. Water is a satisfying life-giving force.
[00:21:52] Dove represents the peace that we need, right? I mean, it's not complicated.
[00:21:59] Oil was poured into wounds to heal them. Oil was to keep parasites away from you.
[00:22:05] I mean, we study that in our class. You know, the shepherd looks at the 23rd
[00:22:08] Psalm, a great book, and he talks about how the reason
[00:22:12] they would pour oil in the ears of the sheep
[00:22:15] and on the head to keep the gnats and the bugs from getting in the
[00:22:19] sheep's ears because they get in the sheep's ears and the sheep would get
[00:22:21] irritated and they wouldn't lay down and they wouldn't eat right and they
[00:22:24] wouldn't. And so there's a whole reason for it.
[00:22:28] But the Holy Spirit, he is the anointing oil. He is the water of life.
[00:22:33] He is the river of life. He is the fire
[00:22:37] of Almighty God. He's that fire, that same fire that came upon the burning bush
[00:22:41] but did not consume the bush. It's not literal fire. It's spiritual
[00:22:45] fire. Why this is a problem? I don't know
[00:22:50] because the Bible makes it clear. Look here. What does this say? First
[00:22:53] Thessalonians 5, 19 through 21 here.
[00:22:57] Quench, not the Spirit. Now if you look at this word quench
[00:23:03] here in the Greek it means to extinguish the fire of the Spirit. Don't
[00:23:08] extinguish the fire of the Spirit. Well let me tell you
[00:23:11] the quickest way to extinguish the fire apart from sin.
[00:23:14] That's speaking against it. That's doubting it and not believing in it.
[00:23:22] How do you as a Christian say there's no such thing as holy ghost fire
[00:23:27] in power when the Bible tells you don't quench the fire of the Spirit of God.
[00:23:34] You have become foolish, very foolish and you show your ignorance
[00:23:43] or stubbornness, I don't know, or just demonic deception
[00:23:47] when you ignore things like this. Quench, not the Spirit.
[00:23:50] But let's just stop on that for a second. I'm not bringing that up just because
[00:23:53] it means don't extinguish the fire of the Holy Spirit.
[00:23:59] But quench, not the Spirit. You shouldn't receive
[00:24:03] anything that discourages you from seeking, pursuing
[00:24:09] the gifts and power and infilling of the Holy Spirit.
[00:24:12] If anybody says anything that discourages you
[00:24:16] or it sounds even the slightest, even subtly
[00:24:19] negative, that's the devil folks. That's the devil trying to get you to
[00:24:24] quench the fire of the Holy Spirit in your
[00:24:29] life and you should not allow it. And that's why
[00:24:34] I'm not allowing this to go unaddressed. Quench, not the Spirit.
[00:24:41] Despise, not prophesying. Prove all things and hold fast to that which is
[00:24:47] good. So he says don't quench the gifts and
[00:24:49] power of the Holy Spirit. Don't despise prophesying but prove or
[00:24:53] test these things as we should. The fruit of them. Let's keep going.
[00:25:01] We got a lot of scripture to cover. Now I mentioned this a minute ago but I
[00:25:05] want to read this again. I've preached on this passage for years
[00:25:09] and years and years. But please let this sink down because
[00:25:13] the same young prideful arrogant individual
[00:25:20] made a statement, we're not known by our gifts
[00:25:24] but by our fruits. Let me just explain something to you.
[00:25:28] If you have the true gifts and power of the Holy Spirit
[00:25:32] they will bear fruit in your life. Let me give you an example.
[00:25:40] At Skyfall, yes I was praying for the fire of God to fall on people.
[00:25:46] And one of the gifts of the Holy Spirit is the word of knowledge. Meaning God
[00:25:50] reveals something to you that you cannot know by natural means.
[00:25:55] So many of you know about this. I'm standing on the platform
[00:25:59] and the Holy Spirit gives me a word of knowledge. It's one of the gifts of the
[00:26:02] Holy Spirit. He revealed to me that there was someone
[00:26:04] and I did feel like they were standing on this side but I didn't know where.
[00:26:09] But I said you have been struggling with homosexuality your entire life.
[00:26:14] You didn't want it. You've never wanted it and the Lord's going to set you free
[00:26:17] from it. And I'm pointing over here all right.
[00:26:22] So that was all I knew. That's a gift and a manifestation
[00:26:27] of the Holy Spirit. That's a manifestation of power when God reveals to you
[00:26:30] something. You didn't plan on saying I didn't plan
[00:26:32] on saying that. I didn't plan on pointing over there to this side. I
[00:26:35] didn't. None of it was planned. Completely Holy Spirit led.
[00:26:40] So that's on Saturday night on Sunday evening when we're here after the Sunday
[00:26:43] morning service and we're going to baptism.
[00:26:46] A man stands up and confesses that he has struggled with homosexuality his entire
[00:26:51] life. That God spoke to him to confess his
[00:26:54] sin in front of his brothers and sisters.
[00:26:57] That he didn't want it and that Pastor Dean stood up on Saturday night and
[00:27:00] when he said that that was him and I was pointing straight at him when I
[00:27:03] said it. And that brought him to a place to
[00:27:08] publicly repent, confess it, and get delivered from it. And he
[00:27:13] sent me his testimony. He sent me how he was healed
[00:27:17] in that meeting. That's fruit. You know what I'm saying?
[00:27:24] And I could share I could share testimony after testimony. I'm going to
[00:27:27] share some of them today. But see when the gifts and power of
[00:27:31] the Holy Spirit are working through you they touch people's lives and
[00:27:35] convinces them that God is really in you and with you and that you
[00:27:39] are speaking the truth. Isn't that what 1 Corinthians said?
[00:27:44] Right? If you prophesy, if you're if you're in those gifts of the Holy
[00:27:47] Spirit and someone comes in and the secrets of their heart is
[00:27:51] revealed they will fall down on their knees and admit God is in you of a
[00:27:55] truth. It is proof. It is a witness. I'm going
[00:27:58] to show you that too. God says he's going to give proof
[00:28:04] of his gospel, of his message, and of his power
[00:28:09] in your life. He is not I mean remember when Thomas said
[00:28:13] I'm not going to believe unless I put my hands in the nail prints and in his
[00:28:17] side and Jesus appeared in the room and said come and do it.
[00:28:25] The Lord loves it. Show me Lord. Reveal to me Lord.
[00:28:29] Do something in my life. He he loves that. He's not sitting back
[00:28:34] going no I'm going to make you just figure it out through
[00:28:37] men's logic and wisdom. Now Christianity real Christianity
[00:28:46] is a power. It's a powerful thing. It's a real thing. It's a supernatural thing.
[00:28:52] If you want Christianity without the supernatural element
[00:28:56] yeah I mean you can find any church on any corner in town just leave us alone.
[00:29:05] You want powerless Christianity but let's read this 2nd Timothy 3 this know
[00:29:09] also that in the last days perilous times shall come
[00:29:13] for men shall be lovers of their own selves covetous boasters proud blasphemers
[00:29:17] disobedient to parents unthankful and holy without natural
[00:29:20] affection truce breakers false accusers. I know a bunch of those
[00:29:26] people incontinent fierce despisers of those
[00:29:30] that are good traders heady high-minded lovers of
[00:29:33] pleasures more than lovers of God here it is
[00:29:35] having a form of godliness but denying the power thereof denying the
[00:29:44] power from such turn away meaning every
[00:29:49] Christian that is in a powerless dead church
[00:29:53] that denies rejects or speaks against or quenches
[00:29:56] the gifts and power of the Holy Spirit you ought to turn around and walk away
[00:30:01] from those people because they're the ones that have been
[00:30:08] taken over by a deceiving spirit a lying spirit a demon spirit
[00:30:12] that wants you to stay away from the Holy Ghost power
[00:30:16] and demonstrations of Holy Ghost power he says for of this sort are they which
[00:30:22] creep in the houses and lead captive silly women laden with sins let away with
[00:30:26] divers lust yeah there's a whole lot of secret sin
[00:30:30] going on ever learning and never able to come to the
[00:30:35] knowledge of the truth i have watched people go to
[00:30:40] seminary theological seminary study the bible for six years
[00:30:48] eight years in a seminary and can't get this they still deny
[00:30:57] the power dunamis the miracle power of the Holy Spirit
[00:31:02] let's keep going just so you see it for yourself
[00:31:06] here is the word deny to disregard listen to this one right here to
[00:31:11] disregard his own interest and to prove him
[00:31:13] faults to himself isn't that something and this is what these people do when
[00:31:19] they give this is what it says to deny
[00:31:22] the power of the Holy Spirit of the power of God
[00:31:24] to deny and negate to not accept to reject to refuse something offered
[00:31:30] contradict to disavow the next one is the word power
[00:31:34] let's go to it here is the word dunamis force especially miraculous power
[00:31:42] a miracle itself of course it says power to perform miracles
[00:31:47] so when it's there's two words in the greek for power
[00:31:50] one is dunamis this one and one is exusia
[00:31:54] and that just means authority or the right to do something
[00:31:57] but this one is the miraculous actually the power the miraculous power the
[00:32:01] supernatural power and he said people would have a form
[00:32:05] of christianity a form of godliness but deny reject talk themselves out of
[00:32:13] the miraculous power of the Holy Spirit i could name a
[00:32:17] presbyterian church methodist church baptist church
[00:32:23] well we could go down the list nazarene church
[00:32:27] church of christ well sad then you got some that claim they believe it
[00:32:33] but they never operate in it what is it what are they
[00:32:41] dead let's keep going first Corinthians 2 4 through 5
[00:32:52] if if if the supernatural power the dunamis power of the Holy Spirit is
[00:32:56] not important why did Paul say it's important
[00:33:00] why does he say that he wants the power of the spirit to be manifested
[00:33:04] so that your faith would not be in the wisdom of men but in the power of god
[00:33:08] dunamis dunamis right here let's look at first Corinthians 2 4 through 5 in my
[00:33:12] speech and my preaching was not with the enticing words of man's wisdom the
[00:33:16] word enticing here means persuasive you'll see persuasive words of man's
[00:33:21] wisdom but in the demonstration of the spirit and of power that your
[00:33:26] faith should not stand in the wisdom of men but in the power of god
[00:33:30] does everybody see that or are we just going to keep reading over verses like
[00:33:34] this and ignoring them Paul said he was very
[00:33:39] important to him that there was a demonstration of the
[00:33:43] spirit the holy spirit and the power of god so that people's faith would not
[00:33:47] be just in his persuasive words and Paul understood because Paul was a
[00:33:51] very educated man he was a very eloquent man he was he
[00:33:56] could speak on anything at the drop of a hat
[00:33:59] any topic in the Bible and he said i'm not just trying to convince you with my
[00:34:04] ability to persuade you i want your faith to be
[00:34:10] not in the wisdom of men but in the power of god in the demonstration and
[00:34:14] he said my preaching had the demonstration
[00:34:17] the manifestation of it folks if you're preaching the gospel and nobody's
[00:34:22] getting healed nobody's getting delivered from demons
[00:34:24] there's no miracles there's no signs and wonders
[00:34:27] you are dead you're an empty shell well i preach the gospel and people get saved
[00:34:34] yeah that's because the gospel has power on it but do you have anything beyond
[00:34:43] that ask yourself and if not then get hungry
[00:34:52] get thirsty get to seeking get to asking get to knocking get to believing
[00:34:57] and it will happen because i was 20 years old
[00:35:03] praying for a person paralyzed in an acoma in intensive care and watch them
[00:35:07] snap out of it in a moment and get up wake up from the
[00:35:12] acoma wake up healed and go home that day so
[00:35:17] don't talk to me about your theology talk to me about
[00:35:21] your power talk to me about the people in that
[00:35:25] family that saw that miracle and got saved because they saw
[00:35:28] the power of god saved their 14 year old
[00:35:32] that fell out of the back of a pickup truck and cracked their skull open
[00:35:40] does your christianity have some of that this is what i'm talking about people
[00:35:48] are dying people are sick people are in trouble
[00:35:54] and they need christians with something more than just the enticing
[00:35:58] words of man's wisdom how about a demonstration
[00:36:04] a manifestation of the power of the holy ghost
[00:36:09] that's what's missing let's keep going here are the words just like i told you
[00:36:16] the enticing words persuasive look at that enticing if all i've got
[00:36:22] some words folks not good enough let's keep going
[00:36:28] look at this right here this is the word demonstration
[00:36:32] a making manifest showing forth a demonstration
[00:36:35] proof here's the strong's greek dictionary
[00:36:38] manifestation demonstration here's the thayer's greek lexicon
[00:36:43] a proof by the spirit and power of god operating in me and stirring the minds
[00:36:48] of my hearers the most holy emotions and then
[00:36:51] persuading them contextually and then he talks about
[00:36:54] opposed to proof by rhetorical arts or or philosophic arguments alone
[00:37:01] demonstration and outward proof let's keep going
[00:37:10] there's the dunamis power again so that's in this verse
[00:37:13] first corinthians chapter two there you're talking about the power god it's
[00:37:18] dunamis power let's keep going now let's read this right here i love
[00:37:22] this passage this is for those that are puffed up
[00:37:28] all you got is you want to you want to make a little theological arguments
[00:37:31] you just joined yourself up with the Pharisees if you want to make little
[00:37:35] theological arguments or you want to nitpick
[00:37:38] remember the Pharisees wanted to nitpick remember i got it in my phone i
[00:37:44] got the the verse somewhere where the uh the woman oh it's luke 13 and the
[00:37:49] woman who had the uh it was bent over and crippled with
[00:37:53] arthritis and she came in the synagogue on the
[00:37:57] sabbath day and jesus went over and laid hands on her
[00:38:00] and healed her and the Pharisees stood up
[00:38:04] and told everybody there are six days in which men ought to work
[00:38:10] in them come and be healed but not on the sabbath day and jesus turned to
[00:38:13] him and said in front of everybody you hypocrite
[00:38:21] you want to you want to nitpick you want to cast doubt
[00:38:28] listen why was the Pharisee why did he do that why why was he going
[00:38:32] why did it matter because he because jesus told him said you know what
[00:38:35] you take your your donkey your ox and you feed them and you give them water on
[00:38:40] the sabbath day and if one falls into a ditch you get
[00:38:43] him out on the sabbath day you hypocrite but you think i did wrong by healing
[00:38:48] this woman who's been bound and tormented and
[00:38:51] afflicted by satan for 18 years of her life
[00:38:59] kundalini i can hear him screaming that kundalini
[00:39:07] the proof of god's mercy is that those Pharisees and just drop dead
[00:39:15] i just said it's over you're done but you know
[00:39:21] that's why it says they they got angry at him
[00:39:26] they wanted to kill him you know why because jesus came into a system that
[00:39:31] proclaimed to be the religion of god the creator
[00:39:36] the miracle worker the god of alijah and alicia
[00:39:42] and moses and it had nothing it had no power and jesus came in and
[00:39:48] started doing demonstrations of power and they hated him
[00:39:53] because he exposed their emptiness that's why there's so much hatred for any
[00:40:00] christian or minister of the gospel who has
[00:40:03] any power of the holy spirit upon them because the ones who don't get jealous
[00:40:09] and all they've got is a theological nitpicking argument
[00:40:16] in the middle of sucking their pacifiers here's what paul said to these
[00:40:23] people first corantheans 4 17 through 20 for
[00:40:27] this cause have i sent unto you timotheus who is my
[00:40:30] beloved son and faithful in the lord who shall bring you into remembrance of
[00:40:34] my ways which be in christ as i teach everywhere in every church
[00:40:39] now some are puffed up prideful arrogance stubborn
[00:40:44] as though i would not come to you but i will come to you shortly
[00:40:48] if the lord will and will know not the speech of them which are puffed up
[00:40:53] but the power dunamis power for the kingdom of god is not in word
[00:41:00] but in power paul basically says i'm coming oh yeah and when i show up
[00:41:07] i don't want to hear a bunch of talk i want y'all to show me the power
[00:41:11] or shut your mouth because you're going to pick the humble side of your right i
[00:41:23] don't have the power and i need the power of the holy spirit
[00:41:26] or you're going to take the side of the Pharisee you're going to pick a side
[00:41:31] when it comes to this oh oh me for the kingdom of god look at
[00:41:40] that for the kingdom of god is not in word
[00:41:43] but in power it's not important we're not known by
[00:41:47] our our gifts we're known by fruits that was his latest post right there
[00:41:54] i don't know paul said here is all you gots words
[00:42:01] you're nothing but puffed up oh pastor dean you're arrogant as they come
[00:42:07] no i got the power chief had it for a long time because i humbled myself
[00:42:13] and sought for it believed wanted god to do whatever not embarrassed
[00:42:25] not ashamed don't care how many people leave the church
[00:42:29] and want to go back to the mega church or to the first badge i don't care
[00:42:32] if that's where you want to go back to dead christianity go
[00:42:37] go lukewarm get spit out you know but that's another sermon let's keep going
[00:42:50] matthew 11 power and signs and wonders and miracles not important
[00:42:56] why did jesus go around doing so many of them that why did the new testament
[00:43:02] church go around doing so many of them why did the book of acts is so full of
[00:43:06] that's not important snap out of it here's what jesus said to john the
[00:43:14] baptist when john the baptist doubted for a minute
[00:43:18] let's read it matthew 11 2 through 6 now when
[00:43:22] john and this is john the baptist had heard in
[00:43:25] the prison the works of christ he sent two of his disciples instead of them
[00:43:29] art thou he that should come or do we look for another
[00:43:32] and jesus answered and said him go and show john again those things which you do
[00:43:36] hear and see the blind receive their sight the lame
[00:43:40] walk the lepers are cleansed and the deaf here and the dead are raised and the
[00:43:44] poor have the gospel preached unto them and blessed is he
[00:43:47] whose revel shall not be offended in me john's doubting
[00:43:53] are you the one or should we look for someone else
[00:43:58] and jesus said go tell john the blind see
[00:44:01] the death here the lepers walk the dead are raised
[00:44:07] the lepers are cleansed the miracles i am the one prophesied that's what he was
[00:44:12] saying i'm the one because of the power
[00:44:17] not just the words but because of the power they are the witness they are the
[00:44:21] signs that i am the one not important you're just empty
[00:44:32] let's keep rolling here's the here's here's what jesus said in john 14
[00:44:39] look at this jesus said look you know i'll just read it here from john john
[00:44:47] 14 9 the gospel of john jesus said him have i been so long a time we remember
[00:44:51] phillips said show us the father and jesus said have i been so long time
[00:44:55] with you and you have not known me phillip he that had seen me had seen the
[00:44:59] father how say us down then show us the father
[00:45:01] then he says this believe us thou not that i am in the father and the father
[00:45:04] in me and the words that i speak unto you i
[00:45:06] speak not of myself but the father that dwelleth in me
[00:45:09] he doeth the works believe me that i am in the father and the father in me or
[00:45:14] else believe me for the very works sake he's talking about the miracles the power
[00:45:18] the signs and wonders and then he says this verily verily i
[00:45:21] send you he that believe with on me the works that i do show he do also
[00:45:28] meaning the ministry of power the ministry of of the gifts and power of
[00:45:31] the holy spirit were to continue in believers that was
[00:45:37] that's god's plan that's god's word but the seminary talked me out of it
[00:45:47] who cares the seminary your seminary was
[00:45:50] infiltrated by jesuits a long time ago they've been teaching you lies ever since
[00:45:59] believe the bible let's keep going hebrews 2 1 through 4
[00:46:12] say pastor dean all your slides are scriptures that's right
[00:46:15] scriptures and definitions of words that's all i got today hebrews 2
[00:46:21] 1 through 4 therefore we ought to give the more earnest heed
[00:46:25] to the things which we have heard at any time we should let them slip for
[00:46:28] if the word spoken by angels was steadfast and every transgression and
[00:46:32] disobedience received a just recompense of reward
[00:46:35] how shall we escape if we neglect so great salvation
[00:46:38] which at the first began to be spoken by the lord and was confirmed unto us by
[00:46:42] them that hurt him god also bearing them witness both with
[00:46:48] signs and wonders and divers miracles and gifts of the holy ghost
[00:46:52] according to his own will meaning god was with them bearing witness god
[00:46:59] himself bearing witness to the gospel they
[00:47:02] preached to the word they preached and notice he says both with signs and
[00:47:09] wonders comma and divers are different kinds of
[00:47:15] miracles comma and gifts of the holy ghost
[00:47:22] according to his own will meaning we don't get to choose
[00:47:28] people say why don't you go clean out a hospital because i don't choose who
[00:47:30] gets healed and who doesn't i'll go pray for everybody in there if
[00:47:34] god tells me to and i have gone into hospitals and just
[00:47:38] prayed for random people i'd be terrified to do that well that's
[00:47:45] you you can't be scared so pastor dean what if they don't
[00:47:52] get healed what if they do my job is to step out in faith and
[00:48:00] believe what god says and to pray for them and lay hands on them
[00:48:03] and pray for people and to believe for the power of god if you never do that
[00:48:07] then you're never going to see it if you don't act on your faith
[00:48:13] you never see anything and god's promise isn't
[00:48:19] he would work with us if we believe him and go preach the gospel
[00:48:26] and when we see somebody who needs a touch from the power of god
[00:48:31] whether it be casting out demons or praying for their sick body or their sick
[00:48:35] child you step out there and you do it believing
[00:48:43] fully that god's going to move through you and work through you
[00:48:47] this isn't just for preachers that's the beautiful thing of this
[00:48:55] what's going on i i broke this down a little bit
[00:48:58] so bearing witness i just want to look at this bearing witness
[00:49:01] a test together with to join in bearing witness to unite in adding
[00:49:07] testimony so literally god says he united with
[00:49:11] them and bore testimony by doing signs wonders
[00:49:16] miracles gifts of the holy spirit but it's not important right let's
[00:49:29] keep going here's another one sign sign when
[00:49:34] it says sign and wonder say beyond is the greek word it's a miracle a token a
[00:49:39] wonder of miracles and wonders by which god
[00:49:41] authenticates the men sent by him oh oh paul's
[00:49:48] timeout you mean god uses signs and wonders to authenticate
[00:49:57] true men and women that he sends oh yes he does
[00:50:02] remember when moses was the lord told moses you go
[00:50:05] you i want you to go tell the children of israel i'm going to deliver
[00:50:07] them from egyptian then it's yeah the he was like yeah lord they're going to
[00:50:10] believe me yeah right okay well i'm all right then i give
[00:50:15] you a couple of signs stick your hand in your
[00:50:18] your clothes pull them out it'll be lepers put it back in it'll be healed
[00:50:22] throw your rod down it'll turn into a serpent pick it back up it'll turn back
[00:50:25] into a stick go do these in front of them they'll
[00:50:28] listen to you then and what was the biggest authentication
[00:50:33] that moses was a man of god and speaking for god
[00:50:37] the red sea the plagues the red sea god authenticates the men look at all
[00:50:46] the men and women that he used he authenticated them by
[00:50:51] power working through them from gideon to joshua remember when
[00:50:58] joshua joshua moses dies joshua takes over
[00:51:03] the lord tells him today i'm going to magnify you in the eyes of the people
[00:51:08] they're going to know that i'm with you like i was with moses
[00:51:12] how are they going to know this he moves them to the jordan river and he parts it
[00:51:16] like he did the red sea that's god that's what god does
[00:51:25] things you go to church and there's no signs and wonders and miracles
[00:51:30] there's no gifts of the holy spirit time to find one there is
[00:51:38] i'm just being honest with you let's keep going so that's a sign
[00:51:42] what's a wonder a wonder a miracle performed by
[00:51:48] anyone according according something so strange as to cause it to be watched or
[00:51:52] observed on the day of pentecost you imagine
[00:51:56] them seeing 120 people speaking in tongues they
[00:52:01] thought they were drunk they were in awe and wonder they were
[00:52:07] amazed they're like what is this but god used that to hold them there a
[00:52:14] supernatural sign to hear peter preach the gospel and
[00:52:19] 3000 people got saved let's keep going he said but divers
[00:52:28] miracles what's divers mean here poeculos motley various in character
[00:52:35] many various things i mean i think of some of the weird things god did with
[00:52:42] taking paul's aprons from work like a carpentry apron
[00:52:48] from work with sweat and dirt and sawdust on it
[00:52:52] and go put that on somebody and then they get healed
[00:52:56] that's weird okay most of you go oh don't put that on me
[00:53:10] i know a story of a man that fasted for 40 days
[00:53:15] i said y'all don't want to hear this he fasted for 40 days because someone was
[00:53:19] in a mental institution completely demon possessed just but the
[00:53:24] world doesn't know what to do with them except put them in a mental institution
[00:53:28] and so this man fasted for 40 days and again i wouldn't advise anybody to do
[00:53:32] that because i put you near death this man fasted for 40 days praying
[00:53:37] over a bag of m&m's because he knew they would let him take
[00:53:44] the m&m's into the mental institution and he prayed that god would deliver
[00:53:50] his friend from the demon spirits and set him free from the mental institution
[00:53:55] but he couldn't go in there and talk to him about jesus he couldn't go in
[00:53:58] there and pray for him because they wouldn't let him
[00:54:00] but he took him a bag of m&m's that had been fasted over prayed over hands
[00:54:05] laid on him and the guy ate the m&m's and god
[00:54:09] completely delivered him he came back in his right mind and he left the mental
[00:54:11] institution you say what but if god can take a
[00:54:20] sweaty dirty apron from paul and heal somebody
[00:54:25] and drive out demons he could take a bag of m&m's and put
[00:54:29] the anointing and power of the holy spirit on it
[00:54:31] and set somebody free from mental institution listen i was one time i was
[00:54:39] praying there was a a guy that i knew and i wouldn't visit
[00:54:44] him in the mental institution the the it used to be grill hospital in
[00:54:47] mcgumry then this guy had was running around the city calling
[00:54:50] himself jesus christ jumped off a bridge broke his back
[00:54:53] i mean this dude was completely out of bounds okay demon-possessed
[00:55:00] wigan they lock him up go pray for him or go visit him and
[00:55:07] not they wouldn't let me pray for him and talk to him because they think that
[00:55:09] makes him more crazy but i remember i started praying for him
[00:55:13] at home and i remember that another friend of
[00:55:18] mine was visiting this individual and he was having an episode he didn't
[00:55:24] know i was across the city i was in mcgumry but i was miles away
[00:55:28] praying for him binding the demons command them to come
[00:55:31] out of him and loose him so he could come in his right mind
[00:55:36] and he he stops his his episode and he goes
[00:55:40] dean's over there praying for me but you know what happened
[00:55:46] he came back to his right mind he left the mental institution went back to
[00:55:51] school had a normal life this is not a game
[00:55:59] people's lives are at stake here let's keep going hebrews 6 1 through 3
[00:56:05] therefore leaving the principles of the doctrine of christ let us go on to
[00:56:08] perfection and maturity not laying again the foundation of
[00:56:12] repentance from dead works and of faith toward god
[00:56:15] of the doctrine of baptisms and of the laying on of hands
[00:56:18] and of the resurrection of the dead and of eternal judgment and this we will
[00:56:21] do if god permit now i bring this up because this is a
[00:56:25] list of what the apostle paul and i believe he
[00:56:27] wrote hebrews gives us of the foundational the basic
[00:56:32] principles of the doctrine of christ and he's saying if we could just get
[00:56:37] these down we might could move on to maturity
[00:56:41] if we could get these down and he lists them
[00:56:45] repentance most of the church does not have that one down yet
[00:56:49] well it just means to change your mind no much more than that repentance from
[00:56:57] faith most people have no idea what faith is
[00:57:01] faith always has actions it always has words behind it it always has something
[00:57:05] with it it's not just mental assent so what
[00:57:10] most of the church doesn't have faith down
[00:57:15] but then he says this of the doctrine of
[00:57:18] baptisms plural more than one not bad just baptized in water
[00:57:27] jesus there's three baptisms you know the bible says there's one lord one
[00:57:29] faith one baptism right phasians chapter four one lord one faith one
[00:57:34] baptism yet the one lord has three parts the faith i could talk about the
[00:57:39] different aspects of faith the gift of faith the measure of faith
[00:57:43] we're born with and so on but baptism water holy ghost and fire
[00:57:55] bab tisms right follows that but comma and
[00:58:10] the laying on of hands what is the purpose
[00:58:14] of the doctrine the foundational doctrine of the laying on of hands why do we lay
[00:58:21] hands what does the bible teach not pastor dean
[00:58:24] not Pentecostals and cares what does the bible teach about the doctrine of
[00:58:30] laying on of hands i don't know let's look at a few verses
[00:58:40] first hemathe four verse 14 neglect not the gift krismah the supernatural
[00:58:47] gifts of the holy spirit is the greek word here the endowment from
[00:58:51] on high the power from on high that's the word gift neglect not the
[00:58:55] gift the krismah that is in the which was given me by
[00:58:59] prophecy with the laying on of hands of the
[00:59:02] presbyter or the elders show me a verse that's what
[00:59:09] mr nathan robert showed me a verse where holy ghosts fire came through the
[00:59:15] hands of ministers well here's your verse and if you're
[00:59:22] taking notes the doctrine of the laying on of hands
[00:59:25] is part of imparting or transferring the gifts and power of the holy spirit
[00:59:32] from one person to another now does god have to do it that way i
[00:59:37] we were talking about this last night in our prayer meeting
[00:59:39] can god heal anybody without a believer laying hands on them
[00:59:42] yes he can anytime anywhere he so chooses if they believe
[00:59:46] they don't have to have anybody lay hands on them but does god's word say
[00:59:49] that believers will lay hands on the sick and they shall recover mark 16 did
[00:59:53] believers go lay hands on the sick did he say for elders of the church to
[00:59:57] anoint people with oil that were sick and to pray for them
[00:59:59] yes so it's not either or a bunch of psychos it's both
[01:00:12] why is this so hard i don't understand why it's so difficult to
[01:00:17] understand this but look at this this is second timothy so we had it he mentions
[01:00:22] it paul mentions it in first timothy don't neglect the gift the
[01:00:25] supernatural gifts of the holy spirit so don't neglect it
[01:00:28] it's meaning christian if you choose to you can neglect this
[01:00:31] you can neglect the gifts of the holy spirit you can neglect the power of god
[01:00:34] you can just go on with your life and you can go on and mosey on through
[01:00:38] christianity go to church go home go to prayer
[01:00:44] and never really stir yourself up to really have
[01:00:47] the fullness and the power of the holy spirit administer that to other people
[01:00:51] it's your choice how far you want to go with this
[01:00:55] so paul reminds him again in second timothy wherefore i put thee in
[01:00:58] remembrance that thou stir up the gift of god which is in thee by
[01:01:03] the putting on of my hands now here's what's interesting next
[01:01:11] slide please the word stir up here an odd zoo poor eo
[01:01:22] as you see the second part of it is really where we get our word pyro from
[01:01:27] you see that what does pyro have to do with
[01:01:30] fire right the strong's definition of this
[01:01:38] pyro compound word means to rekindle to stir up
[01:01:43] the thayer's greek lexicon says here the remains of a fire
[01:01:47] the embers that by which the fire is kindled anew or lighted up
[01:01:53] a pair of bellows basically how to rekindle resuscitate a fire what are
[01:02:00] the ways you what what's another what's another good
[01:02:03] thing for getting a fire back going the way it
[01:02:06] needs to go when let me tell you something else it's
[01:02:09] very flammable i learned this when i didn't have any
[01:02:12] charcoal lighter one day and that is olive oil will light
[01:02:15] up and burn i poured olive oil on my coals it nearly burned them up before i
[01:02:22] could cook with them so you got a little fire's about
[01:02:28] to go out it needs a little wind maybe a little oil
[01:02:33] it'll light up again and paul's telling timothy i mean this is this is the
[01:02:38] picture stir up rekindle the fire of the holy
[01:02:42] spirit in you through the putting on of my hands
[01:02:45] it's what he's telling that's the greek definition
[01:02:49] so when i lay hands on somebody and pray for a holy ghost fire to come in
[01:02:52] them it's very biblical in spite of your
[01:03:03] youtube theologians that i hope humble themselves soon
[01:03:10] they zoomed in for you paul said to stir up the gift
[01:03:15] the remains of a fire that were in you through the putting on of my hands
[01:03:24] what what really took me off and i'll be honest one of the things took me off
[01:03:27] about mr nathan roberts he said i didn't give him any scripture
[01:03:29] to back up laying hands on people in the fire of the holy ghost coming in
[01:03:33] people and i did and he just rejected it now when you
[01:03:37] give somebody scripture and the definitions of the words in the
[01:03:40] original greek or hebrew and they reject it there's no place you can go
[01:03:44] now for him to reject that and to keep attacking shows that he is
[01:03:48] probably possessed by the kind of kanye leny
[01:03:53] he's been listening to kanye a little too much that i got from jordan that's
[01:03:59] not an original kanye leny we're talking about the laying on
[01:04:04] hands so let's look at it let's continue acts 8
[01:04:08] 12 through 19 but when they believe phillip preaching the things concerning the
[01:04:12] kingdom of god and the name of jesus christ they were
[01:04:15] baptized men and women so they were baptized in water they
[01:04:18] believed the gospel and they were baptized then simon simon the sorcerer
[01:04:23] or otherwise known as simon magus himself believed also and when he was
[01:04:27] baptized he continued with phillip and wondered beholding the miracles and
[01:04:30] signs which were done so here we have phillip going to
[01:04:34] samaria preaching the gospel people are getting saved
[01:04:39] people are getting hit miracles are happening demons are getting cast out of
[01:04:42] people and then you would think well that's
[01:04:48] enough no it's not imagine that the story
[01:04:52] didn't quit so he says here now when the
[01:04:57] apostles were trapped jerusalem heard that samaria had received the word of
[01:05:00] god they sent it to them peter and john why
[01:05:06] who when they were calmed down prayed for them that they might receive the
[01:05:09] holy ghost for as yet he was fallen upon none of
[01:05:12] them only they were baptized in the name of the lord jesus
[01:05:14] so these people were saved but not yet baptized in the holy spirit
[01:05:20] so the apostles came down to pray for them
[01:05:23] and verse 17 then laid they their hands on them and they received
[01:05:28] the holy ghost everybody see this and when simon saw that through the laying
[01:05:33] on the the apostles hands the holy ghost was given he saw something happen
[01:05:38] what did he see happen probably the same thing that happened on the day of
[01:05:43] pentecost probably the same thing that happened in
[01:05:45] axe 10 at cornea because that's probably the same thing that happened in axe
[01:05:48] chapter 19 with emphasis but i digress
[01:05:56] and when simon saw that through the laying on the apostles hands the holy
[01:05:58] ghost was given he offered the money saying give me also this power
[01:06:02] that on whomsoever i lay hands he may receive
[01:06:07] the holy ghost the holy spirit god uses
[01:06:13] men and women that are full of his holy spirit to lay hands on other men and
[01:06:17] women to receive more of the holy spirit i didn't make
[01:06:20] this up am i making this up or is this bible
[01:06:30] let's keep going speaking of axe chapter 19 figured you might need to see it
[01:06:37] let's read it from verse one and it came to pass that while apollos was
[01:06:41] that Corinth Paul having passed through the upper coast came to Ephesus fighting
[01:06:44] certain disciples he said to them have you received the holy ghost since you
[01:06:48] believed this is a valid question but yet i
[01:06:52] have found over the years that Baptist and Methodist and Presbyterians and other
[01:06:57] anti-holy ghost denominations when you say there's more you don't have enough
[01:07:04] god has more they get offended instead of humble
[01:07:12] oh no i'm Baptist i have all there is no
[01:07:17] you don't i know you think you do because you know you've got an aquarium
[01:07:25] and a gym and a pool in your church
[01:07:30] and a coffee shop with the with the daggone mermaid fish but i'm sorry
[01:07:41] that's not what you need you need more of the holy ghost have
[01:07:49] you received the holy ghost since you believe and they said and we have not so
[01:07:52] much as heard whether there be any holy ghost so they just didn't know
[01:07:55] they didn't know there was more he said unto what then were you baptized
[01:07:58] they sent it to john's baptism water repentance then said paul john
[01:08:03] verily baptized with the baptism of repentance saying unto the people that
[01:08:05] they should believe on him that should come after him that is on
[01:08:08] christ jesus when they heard this they were baptized in the name of the lord
[01:08:11] jesus maybe they already believed in jesus they
[01:08:13] already believed paul said if you receive the holy ghost
[01:08:15] spirit since you believe meaning he expected them to have been baptized in
[01:08:18] holy spirit a lot of people twist this right they
[01:08:21] twist this to say oh they weren't believers
[01:08:23] no but the water baptism that they had was only john's baptism
[01:08:28] but they had become believers in jesus born again believers
[01:08:31] and so they decided to be baptized again in water in the name of jesus
[01:08:35] because they wanted to do it the right way right the way not that
[01:08:41] the first way was wrong but that they just wanted to do it the right way
[01:08:44] and then notice what it says here and when they heard this they were baptized
[01:08:48] in the name of the lord jesus verse 6 and when paul had laid his hands upon
[01:08:53] them the holy ghost came on them and they
[01:08:56] spake with tongues and prophesied that was the beginning
[01:09:01] of the church at ephesus one of the mightiest churches of the first century
[01:09:06] god found 12 disciples who hadn't who were believers but weren't baptized in
[01:09:11] the holy spirit and the first thing paul asked him
[01:09:13] have you received the holy spirit since you believe
[01:09:17] and when he laid hands on them the holy spirit came on them and they spoke in
[01:09:21] tongues imagine that all 12 not 11 of them
[01:09:24] not 10 of them not five of them not two of them
[01:09:27] all of them but folks have a problem not everyone's going to speak in tongues
[01:09:35] you're right with that attitude you will not
[01:09:43] but once you have the attitude you know what this is for anybody
[01:09:47] this is for any believer i want this i'll do whatever's necessary
[01:09:51] god showed me if there's any sin in my life any obstacles in my life any
[01:09:54] unforgiveness in my life any doubt in my life
[01:09:57] whatever it takes god showed me and helped me get there
[01:10:01] that's humility but paul laid hands on people
[01:10:08] and the holy spirit came on them and they spoke in tongues and probably when
[01:10:12] they were baptized in the holy spirit i mean some of these people going off
[01:10:18] that's just a pet doctrine of the pentecostals to say the baptism the holy
[01:10:21] spirit that the initial evidence is speaking in other tongues
[01:10:24] simply because we define it that way you know some of you talk about the word
[01:10:27] rapture it's not in the bible either but we understand what you mean
[01:10:31] the reason that pentecostals say that tongues is the initial evidence
[01:10:35] of the baptism the holy spirit because that's the bible pattern
[01:10:39] and we know that that's not the only evidence that should follow
[01:10:42] being baptized or filled with the holy spirit but that should be part of
[01:10:46] it because that's the bible way now does that mean if you don't speak
[01:10:52] in tongues that you don't have the holy spirit in you know if you're born again
[01:10:55] you have the holy spirit in you but when you get baptized in the holy
[01:10:58] spirit you get filled you get immersed you get
[01:11:01] filled to running over and trust me the first thing god needs to get a hold
[01:11:08] of in a lot of christian's lives is their tongue
[01:11:13] because it spews evil it'd be good for you to be speaking in an unknown tongue
[01:11:17] than talking to stupidity you talk most of the time especially that
[01:11:30] starts bordering on blasphemy of the holy spirit
[01:11:33] you might want to keep your mouth shut on that one all right
[01:11:38] let's keep going let's talk about falling on the ground
[01:11:44] since this has become a topic sometimes i marvel i even have to address
[01:11:55] this stuff but y'all realize i've preached messages
[01:11:58] like this since i was 19 20 21 years old
[01:12:06] so y'all pardon me if sometimes i seem a little exasperated
[01:12:12] it gets old when it's in here if it wasn't in here if it was obscure if we
[01:12:18] had to hunt down the book of jayshire or enoch to find it
[01:12:21] i would understand where some of you would go okay i'm not sure about this
[01:12:27] but it's here over and over and over again
[01:12:32] so let's look at this supernatural i entitled this message a
[01:12:36] demonstrations outward manifestations of the power
[01:12:40] the holy spirit and i showed you where there's a difference there's
[01:12:44] signs wonders miracles gifts there are different things
[01:12:48] that happen here's one acts nine verse one and saw yet breathing out
[01:12:54] threatenings and slaughter against the disciples of the lord went into the high
[01:12:56] priest and desired of him letters to damascus
[01:12:59] and to the synagogues that if he found any of this way
[01:13:02] whether they were men or women he might bring them bound unto jerusalem and
[01:13:05] as he journeyed he came near damascus and suddenly
[01:13:08] there shined around about him a light from heaven this has happened to me
[01:13:13] this happened to me in october of 1987 in prayer heaven was open and the light
[01:13:19] of god shined down on me and the power of god was so strong
[01:13:23] had i not already been on my knees praying
[01:13:26] i would have been knocked to the floor because i could not move
[01:13:31] and i was trembling under under the power not fear
[01:13:35] power and as he journeyed he came near to mass suddenly there shined around
[01:13:44] about him a light from heaven and he fell to the earth
[01:13:48] now we got a bunch of people out there arguing if you fall forward
[01:13:52] or backwards it either if you fall forward it's god if you fall backwards
[01:13:56] it's the devil i'm not joking this is looney tunes
[01:14:07] nitpicking and it's causing people i've had i've had to delete some people
[01:14:12] from a page they start down this road i'm like you're gone
[01:14:16] because you you're just gone we don't know if he fell
[01:14:21] backwards or forwards all we know is the glory and power of the holy ghost
[01:14:26] appeared light from heaven we've got a supernatural
[01:14:29] encounter with god going on saw falls to the ground
[01:14:33] let me tell you the word glory in the old testament is the hebrew word
[01:14:38] kabod and it means heaviness weightiness
[01:14:42] now let me explain something to you when i took martial arts back in the day
[01:14:47] privately all right my instructor rick johnson
[01:14:52] was six foot tall 240 pounds of solid muscle
[01:14:57] all right this guy would make me stand in a position and he would stand on my
[01:15:04] shoulders and make me stand still and hold
[01:15:08] him and balance him let me tell you when the
[01:15:14] weightiness and heaviness of god really the glory drops on you
[01:15:19] the real thing you will not stand up but most of you've never encountered that
[01:15:28] you felt the little breeze of god you're so sweet
[01:15:33] and that's good i love the breeze but there's also a russian mighty wind
[01:15:42] and i want to tell you i've been i've been in the glory see what oh man
[01:15:51] i was preaching yes one time preaching in the first baptist church
[01:15:56] in doubling georgia 1996 while i'm preaching my eyes are open i'm in the
[01:16:05] first baptist church they shouldn't have let me in there right
[01:16:10] it's a big mens meeting on a saturday night
[01:16:16] and i see basically the ceiling opens up
[01:16:20] and i see the lord holding a pitcher of like
[01:16:25] water like he's about to pour it out and the glory of god that came out of
[01:16:34] that once that that heaven opened and it was coming i could feel the glory of god
[01:16:38] in the light of god coming down in there i had to hold on i was holding on to the
[01:16:44] podium like this to keep from falling down
[01:16:50] because the glory the weightiness the heaviness of god's glory was so strong
[01:16:55] i could not hardly stand up and there's times that i have fallen down
[01:17:01] front ways back ways sideways and the glory of god be upon me and
[01:17:09] i'm weeping crying my eyes out he's telling me
[01:17:13] things showing me things or he has me interceding for people i
[01:17:18] have i have fallen in the floor sobbing and groaning and weeping over
[01:17:23] lost souls holy i mean fell out of my out of my off
[01:17:27] my couch into the floor i have fallen i've had uh ministers
[01:17:36] pray for me and i have hit the ground and the glory of god come on me so
[01:17:40] strong i know the difference between the glory of god and the demons
[01:17:45] trust me i know i have been in the glory of god
[01:17:53] so pastime i haven't experienced anything like that you can
[01:17:58] you get hungry and thirsty he's promised he will fill you
[01:18:02] well we shouldn't seek experiences really we just read what jesus said ask
[01:18:08] and keep asking knock and keep knocking and seeking keep seeking for
[01:18:12] what and he tells you the holy spirit i have enough
[01:18:16] no you don't you know what let me just go ahead and tell you
[01:18:20] if your shadow's not healing the sick there's probably a little more you can
[01:18:23] get a hold of just maybe a little bit he fell to the
[01:18:33] earth he heard a voice saying saw saw wine persecuted thou me
[01:18:37] he said who art thou lord and he said i am jesus who now persecutes is hard
[01:18:40] for thee to kick against the pricks and he trembling and astonished that
[01:18:46] means paul was shaking violently let me tell you
[01:18:53] if you have an encounter with the power and glory of god almighty
[01:18:58] your body will have a reaction i'm not talking about the breeze
[01:19:04] you can handle the breeze i'm talking about the glory
[01:19:11] these are different words let's keep going
[01:19:19] john 18 oh did some people fall backwards now now
[01:19:32] we had the power of god come down and skyfall people
[01:19:36] got saved backsliders and prodigals repented and came back
[01:19:40] there were many healings that happened in the name of jesus christ
[01:19:47] the presence of god was so strong people were weeping and crying
[01:19:52] there were things happening folks that we still don't even know about at all
[01:19:55] we're just we're still getting testimonies in
[01:20:00] one guy that i prayed for a guy from nigeria
[01:20:07] on sunday morning fell backwards on the floor nobody caught him
[01:20:11] now there were false accusations that he fell back and busted his head
[01:20:14] i'm standing right in front of him i was praying for him he didn't bust his head
[01:20:18] he didn't hit his head on anything he was fine
[01:20:22] and he got up i saw him later he was quite joyful but there's all kind of
[01:20:27] weird things but here's what we've got people out there oh somebody fell
[01:20:30] backwards kundalini i'm not joking i'm like you can go
[01:20:34] the whole weekend stand outside the deliverance service
[01:20:38] when you should have been inside saying it was the power of god
[01:20:41] amazing move of god happening but you go to sunday morning and one guy
[01:20:44] falls backwards and oh i'm out it's the devil
[01:20:49] you're a psycho let's read this john 18 1 through 6
[01:20:55] when jesus had spoken these words he went forth with his disciples over
[01:20:59] the brooks cedron where there was a garden into which he
[01:21:02] entered and his disciples and judas also which betrayed him knew the
[01:21:07] place for jesus oft times resorted there with his
[01:21:10] disciples judas then having received a band of men and officers from the
[01:21:13] chief priests and Pharisees cometh there with lanterns and
[01:21:16] torches and weapons jesus therefore knowing all things that
[01:21:20] should come upon him went forth and said unto them whom seek ye
[01:21:23] and they answered him jesus of nazim jesus sayeth unto them i am he
[01:21:28] and judas also which will betrayed him stood with them as soon as then as he
[01:21:34] had said unto them i am he they went backward
[01:21:38] and fell to the ground went backward and fell to the ground literally there are
[01:21:45] people argue well these were enemies of the lord
[01:21:49] so that's why they fell to the ground i've heard people say they went backward
[01:21:53] and fell foot ways because we can't fall back
[01:21:57] i just asked a simple question on facebook
[01:22:00] just to see the pop quiz the simple pop quiz
[01:22:05] was this a demonstration of the power of the holy spirit or the devil
[01:22:12] that the power of god hid them and they went backward and fell to the
[01:22:17] ground was this the holy spirit of the
[01:22:18] devil just answer my question holy spirit of the devil folks in here
[01:22:25] it's easy right it was jesus jesus say i am he
[01:22:29] power of god backwards on the ground and you want to talk about listen i've been
[01:22:37] in services have i seen people fake it yes
[01:22:43] we called them courtesy drops back in the day
[01:22:53] we're like something becomes something starts happening super
[01:23:00] supernatural listen whenever whenever god starts moving you can get one of
[01:23:04] three things you can get him you can get the flesh and you can get
[01:23:08] the devil and you can have them all in the same
[01:23:11] service because people act like fools and people
[01:23:15] get in the flesh and people want to be you know they want to be filled like
[01:23:18] they're in with the crowd if so if if so and so are getting hit
[01:23:21] with the power over here and they fall down well i want to fall down too
[01:23:23] no stop just see god he may not want you to fall down
[01:23:29] don't try you don't have to try trust me if you get hit by the glory
[01:23:34] hard enough you will go down i remember standing up there during when i
[01:23:40] went to the first service at brownsville revival i'm like i will not go down
[01:23:45] i will not steve hill i say and this is what i said steve hill was behind the
[01:23:51] the podium i was in the middle aisle there were people all in front of me
[01:23:56] and i said lord if this is you i didn't speak it out loud i said lord if
[01:23:58] this is you have steve hill come down off the altar
[01:24:01] the crowd part he comes straight to me prays for me
[01:24:05] steve hill walked straight down from the from the pulpit the crowd parted he
[01:24:09] walked straight to me he never put his hand on me he didn't get close enough
[01:24:13] i flew about 10 feet backwards nobody caught me
[01:24:17] and it was not a courtesy drop i flew backwards into the power of god and
[01:24:23] the glory of god and i hit the ground and let me tell you something when i
[01:24:26] got up from there the peace of god and the joy of god
[01:24:30] and the anointing of god was all over me
[01:24:32] when i went back to my church this was like on a saturday night i went
[01:24:36] back to the church i was pastoring in montgomery i didn't tell anybody what
[01:24:39] happened i gave an altar call and started
[01:24:43] praying for glory of god fell in our church people
[01:24:48] weeping crying repenting power of god and you can always tell
[01:24:55] if it's real by the fruit if they get up and and just say i just
[01:25:00] i just love jesus i just want more jesus i just i've got to deal with this sin
[01:25:05] in my life i've got to repent i've got to get on
[01:25:07] i've got to do what god's called me to do it's good fruit
[01:25:13] let's look at another one one more at least one more
[01:25:19] of these this is not the last slide second chronicles 5 13
[01:25:27] and it came to pass as the trumpeters and the singers
[01:25:30] whereas one to make one sound to be heard in praising and thanking the lord
[01:25:33] when they had lifted up their voice with the trumpets and symbols and
[01:25:36] instruments of music and praised the lord saying for he is good
[01:25:39] for his mercy endureth forever this is at the dedication of
[01:25:43] solomon dedicating the temple the lord had him build for him
[01:25:46] he says then the house was filled with the cloud this is the glory this is the
[01:25:50] manifest presence of god the house was filled with the cloud even
[01:25:54] the house of the lord so that the priest everybody read this with me
[01:25:58] could not stand they didn't oh let me kneel down
[01:26:04] show no they were trying to minister they were trying to do their work and
[01:26:08] could not and he tells you why they could not
[01:26:12] stand to minister by reason of the cloud
[01:26:16] for the glory of the lord had filled the house of god
[01:26:19] now listen sometimes you will see the cloud and sometimes god doesn't allow
[01:26:24] you to see the cloud but it does if you don't see it doesn't mean it's not
[01:26:27] there i have seen the cloud of god's glory
[01:26:32] in a service and i have not seen it but felt it
[01:26:38] but folks when you get hit by the real power
[01:26:42] your legs will not hold you and i talked about this
[01:26:48] years ago i think i did a message this is way back way way back the
[01:26:53] difference between the anointing the presence of god and the glory of god
[01:26:58] completely different different words and i defined it the
[01:27:03] best way i could i defined it the anointing god is
[01:27:07] kind of the atmosphere around him the glory of god is him it's his fullness
[01:27:15] his full essence just like remember when moses said you know let me see your face
[01:27:21] and the lord said no man see my face and live but i'm gonna hide you in this rock
[01:27:26] and then i'm gonna pass i'm gonna cause my glory to pass
[01:27:30] you're saying i'm gonna pass and you can see my back
[01:27:36] and so god walked by the glory of god walked by
[01:27:39] moses couldn't even look upon it what he did see when he came down from the
[01:27:43] mountain his face was glowing and freaked everybody out
[01:27:48] come to leave me folks were freaking out you want bible here's bible the glory of
[01:28:05] god appears to people fall on the ground yes they do
[01:28:08] it's elementary my dear watson let's move along here
[01:28:13] daniel 10 let's read this and daniel alone i daniel alone saw the vision
[01:28:18] for the men that were with me saw not the vision but a great quaking fell
[01:28:21] upon them so that they fled to hide themselves
[01:28:25] i could preach right here for a few minutes one man see in the vision
[01:28:31] other ones start quaking shaking and run away boy isn't this something
[01:28:36] isn't this the church one man embraces what god is doing the others run from it
[01:28:44] but notice he says a great quaking the presence of god comes into this
[01:28:47] situation the glory of god and the man around him
[01:28:51] it says folks when you see the words great quaking
[01:28:55] this means these people their teeth were rattling out of their head their
[01:28:59] knees were knocking the power of god will rattle you
[01:29:04] let's keep reading this therefore he said i was left alone and saw this great
[01:29:08] vision there remain no more strength and no
[01:29:11] strength in me for my commonness was turned into
[01:29:14] in me into corruption i retain no strength yet heard i the voice of his
[01:29:18] words now listen this daniel saying i heard the voice of
[01:29:20] his words and then he says this and when i
[01:29:24] heard the voice of his words i was in a deep sleep then was i in a
[01:29:29] deep sleep on my face and my face toward the
[01:29:33] ground he was awake and when god spoke to him
[01:29:41] it wiped him out he put him unconscious pastoring
[01:29:49] that's gonna leanie no it's not are y'all see this or is this just me
[01:29:58] i i copied it i promised straight from king james version i promise
[01:30:04] he says behold a hand touched me and set me upon my knees upon the palms of
[01:30:07] my hands that'd be somebody you know somebody
[01:30:10] had a problem with that well why didn't he stand him up
[01:30:13] see he's on his hands and knees that can't be god whatever
[01:30:17] he said oh daniel man greatly beloved understands the word that i speak into
[01:30:20] thee and stand upright front of thee now am i sent and when he
[01:30:23] had spoken this word unto me i stood trembling let's go the next one
[01:30:34] oh this one they're gonna hate this one here peter fell into a trance
[01:30:39] another lady x10 9 through 16 on the morrow as they went
[01:30:49] on their journey they drew nigh into the city peter went up
[01:30:53] upon the housetop to pray about the sixth hour
[01:30:56] and he became very hungry it would have eaten but while they made ready he fell
[01:31:00] into a trance and saw heaven open and a certain
[01:31:03] vessel descending upon him as it had been a great sheet knit at the four
[01:31:06] corners and let down to the earth
[01:31:10] we're in all manner of four-footed beasts of the earth and wild beasts and
[01:31:13] creeping things and files of the air and there came a voice to him rise
[01:31:17] peter killed and eat peter said not so lord for i have never eaten anything
[01:31:21] that is commoner and clean and the voice speaking to him again the
[01:31:24] second time what god hath cleansed call thou
[01:31:27] that call not thou common this was done thrice and the vessel was received up
[01:31:31] again into heaven we continue with the story here
[01:31:38] now while peter doubted in himself what this vision which he had seen should
[01:31:42] mean behold the men which were from corneas had made inquiry for simon
[01:31:48] house and stood before the gate and called and asked whether simon which
[01:31:51] was surname peter were lodged there now look at this while peter thought of
[01:31:55] the vision the spirit said unto him behold three men seek thee
[01:31:58] arise therefore get thee down and go with them doubting nothing for i have
[01:32:01] sent them then peter went down to the men which
[01:32:04] were sent from uh sent unto him from corneas and said
[01:32:08] behold i am he whom you seek what is the cause wherefore you are come
[01:32:12] and they said corneas the centurion a just man one that fearth god and of
[01:32:15] good report among all the nation of the jews was worn
[01:32:18] from god by that holy angel to send for thee into his house and to hear
[01:32:22] words now let me just show you something here
[01:32:27] there's several things going on here but let's go to the next
[01:32:30] slide all right the word here for trance is
[01:32:38] ecstasy ecstasy oh that's a bad word but here's the
[01:32:49] definition of this word trance or ecstasy in greek a displacement of the
[01:32:54] mind bewilderment be amazed astonished trance
[01:32:59] the multiple lexicon usage of this word they define it as a
[01:33:05] throwing of the mind out of its normal state
[01:33:07] alienation of mind whether such as makes a lunatic lunatic or that
[01:33:12] of a man who by some sudden emotion is transported as it were out of himself
[01:33:16] though in this rap condition although he is awake
[01:33:20] his mind is drawn off from all surrounding objects and wholly fixed on
[01:33:23] things divine that he sees nothing but the forms and
[01:33:26] images lying within and things that he perceives with his bodily eyes and ears
[01:33:30] reality shown to him by god so this is a state
[01:33:37] where you're awake but it's like you're asleep
[01:33:42] was this the holy spirit or satan exactly but now we say well don't they
[01:33:52] do that doesn't that happen with the new agers and the mediums and the
[01:33:57] trance channelers in the occult yes but they go into a trance by demonic power
[01:34:04] this was by holy ghost power so because they
[01:34:08] they do it we should throw this out too is that what we should do can god do
[01:34:15] this with a believer yes of course he can
[01:34:18] now here's a question for you there were plenty of scriptures
[01:34:24] that god could have given peter instead of this
[01:34:29] trance and vision let's let's look about going to the
[01:34:33] gentiles look at look at this list of scriptures let's go
[01:34:37] i said why didn't god just give peter the scriptures why didn't why didn't
[01:34:40] why didn't he pull out his scroll and roll it out
[01:34:45] and read up verses like this he says in that day there shall be a
[01:34:54] root of jesse and shall stand for an insight of the people
[01:34:57] the gentiles shall seek isaiah 42 one behold my servant whom i hold mine elect
[01:35:02] in whom my soul delighted i've put my spirit upon him he shall bring forth
[01:35:05] judgment to the gentiles isaiah 42 i the lord have called the
[01:35:09] in righteousness will hold on hand will keep the and give the covenant of the
[01:35:12] people and the light for the gentiles how many goes on the gentile shall
[01:35:16] come so my my my point here is is that god
[01:35:20] could have just given peter the scriptures and said
[01:35:23] go to corneas's household why a trance why a vision
[01:35:29] because christianity is supernatural y'all we judge things by the word see peter
[01:35:35] could have judged his trance and vision and direction to go to corneas's house
[01:35:40] by what was written we have these scriptures he knew
[01:35:44] yes jews were told you don't have anything to do with the gentile
[01:35:47] right but here you have these scriptures saying
[01:35:53] no the messiah the gentiles are going to come to him
[01:35:56] his light's going to be among the gentiles you're going to minister you're
[01:36:00] going to be a light to the gentiles but god gave peter a trance put him in a
[01:36:07] trance gave him a vision then spoke to him by the the still
[01:36:11] small voice of the holy spirit go with these men
[01:36:13] all supernatural why for peter or for us do you believe the things
[01:36:22] written in this book are examples for us or not
[01:36:27] god did not have to do it that way that's my point
[01:36:32] yet he did because he's trying to get across to us
[01:36:38] this is all about the supernatural power and manifestation of the holy spirit
[01:36:44] don't ever resist that don't ever quench that don't ever push that aside
[01:36:49] if you're seeking after god if you're staying in his word
[01:36:54] if you're trying to live holy and obedient to him
[01:36:58] and you're wanting more of his spirit he's not going to give you a serpent a
[01:37:02] condilini spirit a scorpion he's not going to give you a demon
[01:37:06] he's going to give you what you so desire and that is more of
[01:37:11] his glory his presence his anointing what for you to just sit around
[01:37:20] in some kind of bliss no it's for you to go help other people
[01:37:29] let me read something here let me talk about signs of what i gotta read this
[01:37:33] oh and by the way people want to talk about holy laughter of the devil
[01:37:38] let me tell you something that didn't come into america until about 1993 with
[01:37:43] a preacher by the name of rodney howard brown
[01:37:46] i know two people that know him really really well
[01:37:49] that man loves jesus you could disagree with some of his doctrine his theology
[01:37:53] that's fine but i know he loves jesus and the power
[01:37:56] of god was working through him let me tell you something long before
[01:37:59] that happened somewhere around 1989 1990 i was in a prayer meeting with
[01:38:03] about just a few people and we were praying and we got done
[01:38:08] we got right at the end and finished praying
[01:38:11] and the power of the holy spirit hit me and i started laughing
[01:38:16] and i laughed and then it got just got worse
[01:38:20] and i laughed and i laughed i was laughing
[01:38:22] until the tears were coming out of mine and they're sitting there going
[01:38:26] what are you laughing at i couldn't even hardly talk
[01:38:29] i fell out of my seat into the floor laughing
[01:38:33] laughing laughing laughing for about 45 minutes
[01:38:39] the joy of god was a point when i got up from there
[01:38:43] i felt refreshed strengthened filled with the holy spirit and you know what we're
[01:38:48] getting ready to do go out and witness on the street man i was ready
[01:38:52] and let me tell you what it's called folks it's called joy
[01:38:55] unspeakable and full of glory a merry heart doeth good like a medicine
[01:39:02] he said you will mourn now some of you are mourning but god's going to turn
[01:39:05] your morning into laughter that's it look up the words
[01:39:11] so yes it can be real holy ghost inspired laughter and joy
[01:39:17] there's nothing wrong with it is there is there a counterfeit
[01:39:23] yeah it's called marijuana yeah there's no
[01:39:31] coincidence they call alcohol spirits y'all right now i've been preaching a
[01:39:36] long time i gotta stop i know listen this this is dr michael brown
[01:39:43] now he and i would agree or disagree agree on a lot of things and he and i
[01:39:47] would disagree on something he wrote this book back during the
[01:39:51] probably right around the time yeah 1996 so it was
[01:39:56] when he first came to the brownsville revival and i was there i was there the
[01:39:59] day he he got there and they were unloading his
[01:40:02] cases of books i was there in the office i was at the brownsville
[01:40:05] revival oh and let me just say this i was at the brownsville revival
[01:40:10] sometimes weekly one of my good friends was the children's
[01:40:15] pastor there i counseled at the altar many nights i
[01:40:19] saw thousands of people weeping and repenting running down to
[01:40:22] that altar to get saved every night i was there
[01:40:28] in 19 from 1996 until 2001 i went regularly
[01:40:33] okay so i was going to the brownsville revival
[01:40:39] when nathan roberts was still playing with gi joe's
[01:40:42] and hot wheels yet he's somehow now an expert
[01:40:48] don't listen to these people who don't know what they're talking about
[01:40:55] do you want an eyewitness or a four years out of andy stanley's church
[01:41:00] witness who was never there every move of god gets slandered false
[01:41:07] accusations and rumors get pushed about it
[01:41:10] and people years later believe those apart from believing
[01:41:14] eyewitnesses was it perfect no did they have some goofy people come
[01:41:21] did toward the end they allow some people in there they should have never
[01:41:24] allowed yes but was it a move of the holy ghost
[01:41:28] i can assure you it was an outpouring of the holy spirit
[01:41:32] where probably somewhere over half a million people got saved
[01:41:37] five million people visited that one church
[01:41:41] in five years the line was out the door
[01:41:44] two blocks down the road every night the the messages were repent of your
[01:41:55] sin make jesus lord of your life and get more
[01:42:00] of the holy spirit but here's something that dr brown wrote this is in the
[01:42:08] chapter 10 called jerkers jumpers and holy disorder
[01:42:12] he says this jerkers jumpers and holy disorder there are
[01:42:15] these are just a few of the accompaniment
[01:42:18] accompaniments of revival some of them good
[01:42:22] some bad some neutral there are heavenly manifestations hellish
[01:42:26] manifestations and human manifestations there is the presence of fresh fire
[01:42:31] false fire and fleshly fire there's that which is from above and
[01:42:36] that which is from below and that which is
[01:42:39] in between some bringing about conversion others bring about confusion
[01:42:44] they need to be sorted out this is not an endorsement of everything
[01:42:49] he's telling you there's good there's bad
[01:42:53] there's real there's counterfeit there's false
[01:42:56] but let's go back real quick and i'm gonna close on this i promise you
[01:43:03] let's go back before the pentecostal revival of
[01:43:07] 1906 so we're going to go back to the days of
[01:43:11] john westley and george whitfield one was armenian one was calvinist
[01:43:18] three members of the uh three the two of the three members of the holy club at
[01:43:22] oxford right now these are leaders of the first
[01:43:28] great awakening there was uh jonathan edwards was one
[01:43:32] john westley george whitfield john westley's work has pretty much
[01:43:37] lasted because he started churches he was a true apostle in my
[01:43:42] in my opinion which is why churches um started but this is his when surprising
[01:43:49] outward manifestations began to occur in the meetings of john westley george
[01:43:54] whitfield who was the first among them to break
[01:43:57] with tradition and begin open-air preaching
[01:43:59] heard about these strange occurrences and was critical
[01:44:02] so his friend george whitfield who was an evangelist pure evangelist
[01:44:07] became critical of these outward manifestations that were he heard were
[01:44:11] happening in john westley's meeting this is
[01:44:14] before zoos a street long before 1700s
[01:44:21] here's what westley stated about this this is john westley
[01:44:25] founder of the methodist church he'd roll over in his grave if he
[01:44:28] knew what was going on with the methodist now but he said this he
[01:44:31] said i had an opportunity to talk with him
[01:44:34] of those outward signs which had so often accompanied the inward work of god
[01:44:39] i found his objections were chiefly founded on gross misrepresentations
[01:44:43] of matters of fact but the next day he had an opportunity of informing himself
[01:44:48] better for no sooner had he begun in the
[01:44:51] application of his sermon to invite all sinners to believe in
[01:44:54] christ then four persons sunk down close to him
[01:44:57] almost in the same moment one of them lay without either sense or motioned
[01:45:03] a second trembled exceedingly the third had strong convulsions all over
[01:45:08] his body and made no noise unless by groans
[01:45:11] the fourth equally convulsed called upon god with strong cries and tears
[01:45:16] from this time i trust that we shall suffer god to carry on his work
[01:45:21] in the way that pleases him when similar things began to occur in
[01:45:26] whitfield's meetings he was inclined to silence the people
[01:45:29] or have them removed but lady huntington whom whitfield greatly respected saw
[01:45:35] things otherwise this was the council that she gave
[01:45:38] the greatest preacher of that century quote you are making a mistake don't be
[01:45:43] wiser than god let them cry out it will do a great
[01:45:46] deal more good than your preaching are we trying to be wiser than god
[01:45:53] or can we trust him to do his work in his way
[01:45:58] the great caneridge revivals the great hebrides revival in every great
[01:46:04] outpouring of the spirit of god where souls were saved by the thousands some
[01:46:08] by the tens of thousands hundreds of thousands
[01:46:11] when it was an outpouring of the holy spirit of god
[01:46:14] these things happened there were outward manifestations of and demonstrations of
[01:46:18] holy ghost power caneridge hebrides the revival in 19
[01:46:22] in the night in 1970 in indonesia amazing
[01:46:27] um and the fruit goes on i think about the fruit from azusa street just one man
[01:46:34] who got saved got filled with the holy spirit of the
[01:46:36] zuzah street by the name of john g lake went to africa sold everything he was a
[01:46:42] wealthy insurance salesman successful businessman
[01:46:46] left everything sold everything after going to azusa street
[01:46:50] went to africa and preached the gospel and prayed for the sick and hundreds of
[01:46:54] thousands were born again and hundreds of thousands were healed and miracles
[01:46:58] happened just one man i could tell story
[01:47:02] after story of people who went to azusa street
[01:47:04] filled with the holy spirit and the gift of tongues and the other gifts of
[01:47:07] the spirit and went on to shake nations with the power of god and we've
[01:47:16] got these little internet to keyboard warriors out here these little youtubers
[01:47:20] that some of them hadn't been really saved right even for a few years
[01:47:23] that think they're experts on this stuff i'm sorry
[01:47:28] you're not so i guess i ought to quit there was an old saying i can't
[01:47:36] remember the old preacher used to say it
[01:47:39] but you have as much of the holy spirit as you as you want
[01:47:49] see the reason we've had sub par christianity because we've been
[01:47:53] content to live with it and i think it was one of the old
[01:47:57] preachers that said i think it was a raven hill one of them said
[01:47:59] the reason we haven't had revivals because we've been content to live
[01:48:02] without it or we have theological excuses for it
[01:48:07] not having if you have a revival there will be power
[01:48:11] from heaven let's stay this morning that was long teaching i know
[01:48:21] but you know i pretty much get y'all once a week so
[01:48:24] let's see a tithe of 24 and okay pray father in heaven we love you today
[01:48:33] we thank you for your word we thank you for the truth
[01:48:37] and i'm praying for your people to be baptized in the holy spirit
[01:48:41] for the gift of tongues to begin in their lives for the gifts of
[01:48:44] healing and working in miracles for the gifts discerning of spirits
[01:48:49] word of knowledge word of wisdom interpretation of tongues the gift of
[01:48:53] faith or all the gifts of the holy spirit and
[01:48:56] that signs and wonders and amazing things would happen in
[01:49:00] their lives and in the people that they
[01:49:03] preach to and minister to and teach and try to disciple or
[01:49:07] whatever lord that your power will flow through your people
[01:49:13] to those people