WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:06.200 The devil wants to lock you up, he wants you not free, and he wants anything that is 2 00:00:06.200 --> 00:00:11.160 demonstrative, he wants to shut that down because when the Lord does show up, notice he doesn't 3 00:00:11.160 --> 00:00:18.920 say that when the Holy Spirit came, it was a simple gust of wind. 4 00:00:18.920 --> 00:00:26.440 It was a mighty, rushing wind when God comes, he shows up and shows out. 5 00:00:26.440 --> 00:00:31.600 Welcome to the CityLight Church Podcast, thanks for joining us today, as we look into God's 6 00:00:31.600 --> 00:00:35.800 Word and discover the hope and truth that He has for us. 7 00:00:35.800 --> 00:00:41.560 If you want to connect with CityLight Church, feel free to visit us at citylightnyc.com, 8 00:00:41.560 --> 00:00:44.880 that citylightnyc.com. 9 00:00:44.880 --> 00:00:50.120 Pastor Boyan Jansik and his team believe that the power of the Holy Spirit is already 10 00:00:50.120 --> 00:00:52.720 working in our hearts and minds. 11 00:00:52.720 --> 00:00:57.720 As you listen to today's teaching, remember that you are deeply loved by God, that you 12 00:00:57.720 --> 00:01:05.800 are surrounded by His grace, and that He has a real hope and a future for you. 13 00:01:05.800 --> 00:01:12.360 Hallelujah, so wonderful to see you all, and it's good to be here. 14 00:01:12.360 --> 00:01:19.040 Yeah. 15 00:01:19.040 --> 00:01:28.360 So I hurt my back, I believe the medical term is I blew out my back last Saturday. 16 00:01:28.360 --> 00:01:33.760 I didn't mention how I did it, I did it, I'm so glad I did it the way I did it, I was 17 00:01:33.760 --> 00:01:36.760 deadlifting. 18 00:01:36.760 --> 00:01:38.760 Who knew it? 19 00:01:38.760 --> 00:01:41.520 Who I can't see in the darkness. 20 00:01:41.520 --> 00:01:46.280 But here's the thing, I could have easily, this could have happened to me, like baking 21 00:01:46.280 --> 00:01:50.920 cookies or bending over and picking a flower, and then I'd have to sit here and say I 22 00:01:50.920 --> 00:01:56.200 was in my garden bending over picking a flower, and I blew up, at least I was doing something 23 00:01:56.200 --> 00:02:00.600 rough and tough, you know, at least I was in my basement deadlifting, right? 24 00:02:00.600 --> 00:02:08.280 I brought up just so you know, it was almost no plates, it wasn't me trying to be manly, 25 00:02:08.280 --> 00:02:16.040 or this was a warm upset, God in one rep, and just I mean, have you ever seen the colors 26 00:02:16.040 --> 00:02:17.040 of pain? 27 00:02:17.040 --> 00:02:23.320 I haven't, I did one rep and all of a sudden I was teleported to another world, a kaleidoscope 28 00:02:23.320 --> 00:02:31.000 of colors, and the next day couldn't move, it would take me about 20 minutes just to get 29 00:02:31.000 --> 00:02:36.160 out of bed as I strategically planned how I was going to do it and every direction was 30 00:02:36.160 --> 00:02:41.560 pain, and I received so many encouraging texts from so many of you letting me know that 31 00:02:41.560 --> 00:02:47.040 you're praying for me, standing with me in faith, and so I actually got concerned because 32 00:02:47.040 --> 00:02:53.600 Monday came around, I spent every day either going to a chiropractor, going to some doctor, 33 00:02:53.600 --> 00:03:01.120 and nothing was really changing, and then Thursday, right around 1 p.m., and in the space of about 34 00:03:01.120 --> 00:03:08.920 an hour to an hour and a half, I got 60, 70% better to where I could move and do things 35 00:03:08.920 --> 00:03:14.400 like brush my teeth while not having to sit down and things like that. 36 00:03:14.400 --> 00:03:20.280 So I believe in the power of prayer, thank you so much for praying and standing with me. 37 00:03:20.280 --> 00:03:26.720 Next time you see me, we'll get this table out of the way, although it is kind of nice, 38 00:03:26.720 --> 00:03:33.600 kind of liking it, but I'll be as limber as my boy who's nine and a half, amen. 39 00:03:33.600 --> 00:03:37.600 Nine and three quarters, he turns 10 in two weeks. 40 00:03:37.600 --> 00:03:38.600 Hallelujah. 41 00:03:38.600 --> 00:03:48.440 I want to also just let you know that lady, Marcy Erickson, who greeted us and thanked us for 42 00:03:48.440 --> 00:03:52.160 a partnership, she is no joke of a woman. 43 00:03:52.160 --> 00:03:58.440 She was born in Naples, Florida, not exactly the hardest of places in America when you 44 00:03:58.440 --> 00:04:03.800 think of hard people, and she turned 18, coming from the burbs in Naples, Florida, she 45 00:04:03.800 --> 00:04:09.760 turned 18 and wanted God to use her life and flew herself over to Ethiopia and just started 46 00:04:09.760 --> 00:04:11.240 an orphanage from scratch. 47 00:04:11.240 --> 00:04:16.640 This is like 25 years ago now, long time ago, and maybe it wasn't 25, I don't want to 48 00:04:16.640 --> 00:04:23.880 put more age on her, but she's going strong, she has, I just spoke to her, and she said, 49 00:04:23.880 --> 00:04:26.840 did you know I had another child? 50 00:04:26.840 --> 00:04:31.080 And I said, what do you mean, you had another, so I don't know if she's up to a dozen or 51 00:04:31.080 --> 00:04:38.360 13 at this time, but she has had many natural children, she's adopted many, and the reason 52 00:04:38.360 --> 00:04:43.320 why you so rarely see her is because I think it takes a whole administrative team just 53 00:04:43.320 --> 00:04:47.820 because she won't go alone, she brings her whole family and her husband, and she'll 54 00:04:47.820 --> 00:04:52.080 be coming this July towards the end of July, I know this is the first time you're hearing 55 00:04:52.120 --> 00:04:57.200 of this past year, James, because it's not solidified, but as it becomes clear, I'll 56 00:04:57.200 --> 00:05:02.440 let you know, but just plan to be here for that Sunday in late July, if you had a vacation 57 00:05:02.440 --> 00:05:13.760 plan, just cancel it, you'll want to receive from her, she's a very special woman who, 58 00:05:13.760 --> 00:05:19.880 she just showed a little bit of what happens there, I mean, the stuff she survived, and 59 00:05:19.960 --> 00:05:24.400 we take it so for granted that we live in America, and guys with submachine guns don't just 60 00:05:24.400 --> 00:05:27.600 come in and come into our orphanage, say, we'll take this one, this one, that one, and 61 00:05:27.600 --> 00:05:29.760 then you can't even say anything about it. 62 00:05:29.760 --> 00:05:34.520 We think this is the default state of most of the earth, and the freedom and the liberty 63 00:05:34.520 --> 00:05:38.160 and the law and order we experience in America is not the default state. 64 00:05:38.160 --> 00:05:43.320 The default state is pandemonium and tyranny, and so that's also why we have to watch over 65 00:05:43.360 --> 00:05:50.360 and pray over our country, that we not just stay this way, but continue and make progress 66 00:05:50.360 --> 00:05:53.320 when it comes to liberty and civility, amen. 67 00:05:53.320 --> 00:05:54.320 Hallelujah. 68 00:05:54.320 --> 00:05:58.320 Well, happy Pentecost Sunday, everybody. 69 00:05:58.320 --> 00:06:06.320 Let's go to Luke, chapter 24, verse 49. 70 00:06:06.320 --> 00:06:14.080 Pentecost Sunday is important because it was Pentecost Sunday that the Holy Spirit was 71 00:06:14.080 --> 00:06:20.240 given, and the church was birthed. 72 00:06:20.240 --> 00:06:32.840 Pentecost was celebrated 50 days after Passover, and I encourage everybody when you're placing 73 00:06:32.840 --> 00:06:38.520 a particular amount of emphasis on something from the Bible. 74 00:06:38.520 --> 00:06:46.080 A good way to not get into error or excess or just bad doctrine and theology is don't put 75 00:06:46.080 --> 00:06:50.920 more emphasis on it than the Scriptures put on it. 76 00:06:50.920 --> 00:06:55.800 So if there's one obscure verse in a corner of the Bible somewhere, you can't build an 77 00:06:55.800 --> 00:07:02.320 entire movement on that, amen, nor should you build your entire life around that. 78 00:07:02.320 --> 00:07:08.040 We celebrate the giving of the Holy Spirit and the emphasis that Jesus continually placed 79 00:07:08.040 --> 00:07:10.240 on receiving the Holy Spirit. 80 00:07:10.240 --> 00:07:15.680 We do that, I believe, in proportion to how much emphasis the Lord Jesus himself placed 81 00:07:15.680 --> 00:07:22.120 on it, and he talked about receiving the Holy Spirit, also known as being baptized in 82 00:07:22.120 --> 00:07:26.040 the Holy Spirit, also known as being filled with the Holy Spirit. 83 00:07:26.040 --> 00:07:30.880 Those terms are all interchangeable, receiving the Holy Spirit, being filled with the Holy 84 00:07:30.960 --> 00:07:37.760 Spirit, being baptized with the Holy Spirit, Jesus talked about it all the time. 85 00:07:37.760 --> 00:07:42.520 That means that we should put an adequate amount of emphasis on people being filled with 86 00:07:42.520 --> 00:07:48.640 the Holy Spirit and give people an opportunity, not just to hear pretty words and hear good 87 00:07:48.640 --> 00:07:53.160 doctrine, but give people an opportunity to see their lives transformed and be filled 88 00:07:53.160 --> 00:07:55.360 with the Holy Spirit themselves. 89 00:07:55.360 --> 00:07:58.600 We want to give the Holy Ghost place. 90 00:07:58.600 --> 00:08:03.320 We want to give him an opportunity and give you an opportunity so that you can receive 91 00:08:03.320 --> 00:08:04.840 what he has for you, amen. 92 00:08:04.840 --> 00:08:11.840 Now look at the emphasis that Jesus places on being filled with the Holy Spirit here in 93 00:08:11.840 --> 00:08:19.480 Luke 24, 49, he's talking to his disciples who'd been with him anywhere from three to 94 00:08:19.480 --> 00:08:22.080 three and a half years. 95 00:08:22.080 --> 00:08:25.320 You know what's really popular now, master classes, right? 96 00:08:25.320 --> 00:08:26.320 I have a master class. 97 00:08:26.320 --> 00:08:30.720 I'm coming to your town this Saturday, come to my master class. 98 00:08:30.720 --> 00:08:33.440 For an extra thousand dollars, I'll have lunch with you. 99 00:08:33.440 --> 00:08:38.520 You can ask me any three questions you want. 100 00:08:38.520 --> 00:08:41.440 Jesus gave the master class of all master classes. 101 00:08:41.440 --> 00:08:44.400 They were with him for three and a half years. 102 00:08:44.400 --> 00:08:49.200 They not only got a front row seat to seeing the miracles and hearing the teachings, but 103 00:08:49.200 --> 00:08:51.840 they were able to ask in questions afterwards. 104 00:08:51.840 --> 00:08:53.920 And you actually see that in the scriptures. 105 00:08:53.920 --> 00:08:56.480 He pretended to know what he was talking about when he was talking. 106 00:08:56.480 --> 00:08:58.560 They were like, yeah, what he said, yeah. 107 00:08:58.560 --> 00:09:03.920 And then in the back, Jesus, what did you mean when you said that? 108 00:09:03.920 --> 00:09:11.320 Yet even with that kind of intimacy and proximity to Jesus, he tells them, don't even think 109 00:09:11.320 --> 00:09:14.120 about going and ministering. 110 00:09:14.120 --> 00:09:20.480 Don't even think about spreading my word until you're first filled with the Holy Spirit 111 00:09:20.480 --> 00:09:23.880 and in dude with power from on high. 112 00:09:23.880 --> 00:09:31.040 Behold, I send the promise of my father upon you, but Terry, Terry means weight. 113 00:09:31.040 --> 00:09:35.240 Some churches still use that term, Terry for the Holy Spirit. 114 00:09:35.240 --> 00:09:39.040 They had to wait because the Holy Spirit hadn't been given yet. 115 00:09:39.040 --> 00:09:44.440 He came two thousand years ago on the day of Pentecost, the day we're celebrating today. 116 00:09:44.440 --> 00:09:47.520 Guess what though, you don't have to wait. 117 00:09:47.520 --> 00:09:50.640 They had to wait, they were waiting for the day of Pentecost. 118 00:09:50.640 --> 00:09:52.920 He doesn't come just every day of Pentecost. 119 00:09:52.960 --> 00:09:58.000 He came that one, they have Pentecost and he never left. 120 00:09:58.000 --> 00:10:01.760 He's been here on earth since, he said, what is he doing? 121 00:10:01.760 --> 00:10:06.440 He's the one who performs miracles, he's the one who heals. 122 00:10:06.440 --> 00:10:11.360 He's the one who regenerates our heart, he's the one who fills us and he's waiting for 123 00:10:11.360 --> 00:10:17.720 whosoever will, whoever will, whoever will say, Jesus, I trust in you for my salvation. 124 00:10:17.720 --> 00:10:20.400 I believe you died on the cross for my sins. 125 00:10:20.400 --> 00:10:21.840 Come, fill me, Holy Spirit. 126 00:10:22.560 --> 00:10:31.640 He'll just come in and this was what Jesus was announcing was mind-blowing to his listeners. 127 00:10:31.640 --> 00:10:38.160 They'd never even thought that Almighty God in the person of the Holy Spirit could come and live inside them. 128 00:10:38.160 --> 00:10:39.680 You know why they never thought that? 129 00:10:39.680 --> 00:10:44.760 Because they'd never seen that before, because it never existed before. 130 00:10:44.760 --> 00:10:51.800 In the Old Testament, you see that some would have an encounter with the Holy Spirit. 131 00:10:51.840 --> 00:10:56.200 Like for example, Samson was anointed by the Holy Spirit. 132 00:10:56.200 --> 00:11:02.120 The Holy Spirit would come upon him and he would do these miraculous works. 133 00:11:02.120 --> 00:11:05.400 But the Holy Spirit never took up residence within him. 134 00:11:05.400 --> 00:11:09.400 Same thing with every prophet, with even King David. 135 00:11:09.400 --> 00:11:11.360 They were anointed by the Holy Spirit. 136 00:11:11.360 --> 00:11:17.600 I mean, I praise God for the Holy Spirit upon, but that's very difference than the Holy Spirit within. 137 00:11:17.640 --> 00:11:25.280 And now Jesus is announcing, it's not just going to be a few that I select that I'll put my Holy Spirit upon, 138 00:11:25.280 --> 00:11:28.080 but I'm giving you the promise of my Father. 139 00:11:28.080 --> 00:11:32.960 You'll be filled with the Holy Spirit from the inside out. 140 00:11:32.960 --> 00:11:36.440 You could see just the wheels in their head spinning. 141 00:11:36.440 --> 00:11:39.120 This was too much for them mentally to bear. 142 00:11:39.120 --> 00:11:42.040 A promise so great. 143 00:11:42.080 --> 00:11:49.000 Then in Acts chapter 1-8, I just want you to see the emphasis that Jesus places on being filled with the Holy Spirit. 144 00:11:49.000 --> 00:11:53.040 Acts 1-8, you see Jesus's final words. 145 00:11:53.040 --> 00:11:54.960 I think that's important. 146 00:11:58.040 --> 00:12:04.200 Somebody's last words, I mean, this is literally his final words while in bodily form. 147 00:12:04.200 --> 00:12:06.840 And then he gets caught up and goes into heaven. 148 00:12:06.840 --> 00:12:10.160 And angels appear and say, why are you standing around? 149 00:12:10.160 --> 00:12:11.760 In the same way he left, he's coming back. 150 00:12:11.760 --> 00:12:12.880 Go. 151 00:12:12.880 --> 00:12:15.880 Get busy with the work of the ministry. 152 00:12:15.880 --> 00:12:22.680 But his final words, you shall receive power. 153 00:12:22.680 --> 00:12:24.880 Power. He did not leave a powerless church. 154 00:12:24.880 --> 00:12:28.320 He did not leave a powerless people. 155 00:12:28.320 --> 00:12:31.160 And let me tell you something. 156 00:12:31.160 --> 00:12:39.160 If your Christianity is only cerebral, you are missing out on the power of God in your life. 157 00:12:39.160 --> 00:12:49.320 If your Christianity is only religious and you relate to God through rituals and touch, not taste, not rules and regulations only, 158 00:12:49.320 --> 00:12:57.760 you are missing out on the power of the Holy Spirit that word for power in the Greek is dunamis where we get dynamite from. 159 00:12:57.760 --> 00:13:05.600 He wants to fill you with dynamite power from heaven, power to be a witness, power to live a victorious life, 160 00:13:05.600 --> 00:13:08.800 power to live free, hallelujah. 161 00:13:08.800 --> 00:13:17.600 A Christian life is meant to be a life of victory, not of defeat, and that can only come through being filled with the Holy Spirit of God. 162 00:13:17.600 --> 00:13:23.760 And it's available to everybody right now, every single person. 163 00:13:23.760 --> 00:13:28.200 You shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you. 164 00:13:28.200 --> 00:13:36.120 And you shall be witnesses to me in Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria and to the end of the earth. 165 00:13:36.120 --> 00:13:38.440 And by the way, that's exactly how the Gospel spread. 166 00:13:38.440 --> 00:13:39.920 Just, I mean, Jesus. 167 00:13:39.920 --> 00:13:40.800 He called it. 168 00:13:40.800 --> 00:13:42.040 Jerusalem. 169 00:13:42.040 --> 00:13:43.200 First, 170 00:13:43.200 --> 00:13:45.200 Gentile, then Samaria. 171 00:13:45.200 --> 00:13:47.360 And now here's us in the uttermost parts of the earth. 172 00:13:47.360 --> 00:13:49.240 Amen. 173 00:13:49.240 --> 00:13:55.200 By the way, those of you who are wanting to get into ministry, that's exactly how the Lord will work it out in your life too. 174 00:13:55.200 --> 00:13:56.600 You know, people want to get into ministry. 175 00:13:56.600 --> 00:14:00.160 They immediately want to stand on a stage in a foreign nation. 176 00:14:00.160 --> 00:14:06.080 No, get busy with your Jerusalem, your friends and family, and take another step out into Judea. 177 00:14:06.080 --> 00:14:09.000 Then as you see the Lord with you going to some, I'm speaking metaphorically. 178 00:14:09.000 --> 00:14:11.680 Some of you are looking at me like, how do I get to Judea? 179 00:14:11.680 --> 00:14:16.160 I'm talking about ever increasing distance from your safe space. 180 00:14:16.160 --> 00:14:16.960 Amen. 181 00:14:16.960 --> 00:14:20.640 Until you hit the uttermost parts of the earth. 182 00:14:20.640 --> 00:14:22.880 So you see we have Jesus. 183 00:14:22.880 --> 00:14:24.640 I only picked two times. 184 00:14:24.640 --> 00:14:28.080 You want to go into John chapter 14, 15, 16. 185 00:14:28.080 --> 00:14:33.040 All he's talking about is the promise of the Father, the Holy Spirit who's going to come. 186 00:14:33.040 --> 00:14:34.800 I'm not going to leave you as orphans. 187 00:14:34.800 --> 00:14:36.800 I will come to you again. 188 00:14:36.800 --> 00:14:42.680 He's getting I'm ready for this, this new dispensation, the church age, 189 00:14:42.680 --> 00:14:49.040 where anyone can receive forgiveness of sins from Jesus and there's an end. 190 00:14:49.040 --> 00:14:54.560 And after you have been made clean, you're filled with God Himself, 191 00:14:54.560 --> 00:15:01.760 you're filled, baptized with the Holy Spirit, hallelujah. 192 00:15:01.760 --> 00:15:10.400 So let's look at what happened on that faithful day of Pentecost in Acts chapter 2, 193 00:15:10.400 --> 00:15:13.200 verses one through four. 194 00:15:13.200 --> 00:15:16.400 Some of you, you're having a good time right now, you see something's moving in there, 195 00:15:16.400 --> 00:15:19.280 you don't even know how your life's, you don't even know. 196 00:15:19.280 --> 00:15:22.240 It's funny to me, because I know a little, I don't know at all, 197 00:15:22.240 --> 00:15:25.120 but in the spirit I'm catching a glimpse. 198 00:15:25.120 --> 00:15:29.600 So it's funny to me how some of you are going to walk out of here, 199 00:15:29.600 --> 00:15:32.400 and you don't even know it yet. 200 00:15:32.400 --> 00:15:38.400 Hallelujah. 201 00:15:38.400 --> 00:15:41.360 I tell you what, I feel the pleasure of the Lord. 202 00:15:41.360 --> 00:15:43.360 The Lord loves this. 203 00:15:43.360 --> 00:15:46.400 The Lord is going to get a hold of some of you. 204 00:15:46.400 --> 00:15:49.200 Some of you, you've been wanting, you've been wanting him to get a hold. 205 00:15:49.200 --> 00:15:51.360 It's not like you're resisting, you want the Lord, 206 00:15:51.360 --> 00:15:54.880 but you never had anyone just connect the dots for you. 207 00:15:54.880 --> 00:15:57.840 Welcome to my TED Talk this morning. 208 00:15:57.840 --> 00:16:01.840 Holy Ghost TED Talk, you're going to be filled. 209 00:16:01.840 --> 00:16:06.640 When the death Pentecost had fully come, 210 00:16:06.640 --> 00:16:10.640 they were all with one accord in agreements in one place. 211 00:16:10.640 --> 00:16:14.880 You know how many of them there were, 120. 212 00:16:14.880 --> 00:16:17.840 Not just the first disciples, 213 00:16:17.840 --> 00:16:20.640 but all the people that had followed after Jesus 214 00:16:20.640 --> 00:16:21.920 who were close to His ministry. 215 00:16:21.920 --> 00:16:26.240 You know who was a part of that 120 Mary, the mother of Jesus. 216 00:16:26.240 --> 00:16:32.560 She was there in need of getting filled with the Holy Spirit. 217 00:16:32.560 --> 00:16:36.080 And suddenly, they came a sound from heaven 218 00:16:36.080 --> 00:16:38.080 as of a rushing mighty wind. 219 00:16:38.080 --> 00:16:41.120 Please notice that whenever God moves, 220 00:16:41.120 --> 00:16:46.160 He tends to, okay, how can I say it? 221 00:16:46.160 --> 00:16:50.640 He tends to demonstrate His might. 222 00:16:50.640 --> 00:16:57.200 And He's not anxious, He's not nervous, He doesn't mind loud noises. 223 00:16:57.200 --> 00:16:59.520 I have to say that, even though it was a precious lady, 224 00:16:59.520 --> 00:17:01.920 we had a mighty move of God, 225 00:17:01.920 --> 00:17:03.600 of the Holy Spirit in the first century. 226 00:17:03.600 --> 00:17:05.520 So many people getting baptized, 227 00:17:05.600 --> 00:17:06.960 it was a precious lady who said, 228 00:17:06.960 --> 00:17:08.640 I like to pray silently. 229 00:17:08.640 --> 00:17:11.680 I said, you answered a call to get baptized in the Holy Spirit. 230 00:17:12.560 --> 00:17:14.640 Like, there's nothing silent about that. 231 00:17:14.640 --> 00:17:16.480 Like, you will actually speak and you can't. 232 00:17:18.000 --> 00:17:19.280 You get, it's like, 233 00:17:19.280 --> 00:17:22.080 answer an call so you can see and you come in with blinders on. 234 00:17:23.040 --> 00:17:24.080 Is this thing on? 235 00:17:24.080 --> 00:17:24.800 You get what I'm saying. 236 00:17:25.760 --> 00:17:26.880 Because there's something in people, 237 00:17:26.880 --> 00:17:28.960 the devil wants to lock you up. 238 00:17:29.680 --> 00:17:30.960 He wants you locked up. 239 00:17:31.520 --> 00:17:36.080 He wants you not free and He wants anything that is demonstrative. 240 00:17:36.080 --> 00:17:39.280 He wants to shut that down because when the Lord does show up, 241 00:17:39.280 --> 00:17:42.800 notice He doesn't say that when the Holy Spirit came, 242 00:17:42.800 --> 00:17:45.120 it was a simple gust of wind. 243 00:17:47.760 --> 00:17:51.440 It was a mighty, rushing wind. 244 00:17:52.640 --> 00:17:55.200 When God comes, He shows up and shows out. 245 00:17:57.200 --> 00:17:59.840 And it filled the whole house where they were sitting. 246 00:18:00.480 --> 00:18:04.960 Then there appeared to them divided tongues as a fire 247 00:18:04.960 --> 00:18:07.120 and one sat upon each of them. 248 00:18:08.080 --> 00:18:11.120 And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit. 249 00:18:12.720 --> 00:18:14.080 And what happened? 250 00:18:14.080 --> 00:18:21.040 What was the evidence, the initial physical evidence of them being filled with the Holy Spirit? 251 00:18:22.000 --> 00:18:29.280 They began to speak with other tongues as the Spirit gave them the utterance or the ability. 252 00:18:30.800 --> 00:18:33.040 Now, I'm going to put a pin here. 253 00:18:33.040 --> 00:18:40.800 I'm going to come back and show you how every time you see somebody getting filled with the Holy Spirit in the Book of Acts, 254 00:18:40.800 --> 00:18:42.640 and the Book of Acts is our map. 255 00:18:42.640 --> 00:18:44.080 That's our standard. 256 00:18:44.080 --> 00:18:44.880 That's our example. 257 00:18:44.880 --> 00:18:47.520 Did you know it's the only book in the New Testament that doesn't end with an amen? 258 00:18:48.240 --> 00:18:48.880 Did you know that? 259 00:18:49.680 --> 00:18:51.040 Because there isn't an amen. 260 00:18:51.040 --> 00:18:52.160 We're still in it. 261 00:18:52.160 --> 00:18:53.120 We're still writing it. 262 00:18:53.120 --> 00:18:55.920 We're in Acts 29 right now. 263 00:18:56.720 --> 00:18:57.920 This service is in there. 264 00:18:58.000 --> 00:19:01.600 Hallelujah. 265 00:19:04.480 --> 00:19:10.560 Because it's our map, I would say it's pretty important to note that every time someone was filled with the Holy Spirit, 266 00:19:10.560 --> 00:19:13.280 the initial evidence was there speaking in tongues. 267 00:19:14.160 --> 00:19:16.080 Yes, other things happened afterwards. 268 00:19:16.080 --> 00:19:18.000 You cannot deny the fruit of the Spirit. 269 00:19:20.000 --> 00:19:23.040 You can't deny other manifestations, but it just so happens. 270 00:19:23.120 --> 00:19:24.160 I didn't put it in there. 271 00:19:24.160 --> 00:19:30.160 The scripture says it so, that the initial physical evidence was there speaking in tongues. 272 00:19:30.160 --> 00:19:32.800 Because people will say, do I have to speak in tongues? 273 00:19:32.800 --> 00:19:35.280 No, you don't have to do anything. 274 00:19:37.200 --> 00:19:43.360 But if you want to be filled with the Holy Spirit, it seems to me that the first physical evidence is going to be you speaking in tongues. 275 00:19:44.400 --> 00:19:46.480 So I wouldn't come with that mentality, do I have to? 276 00:19:46.480 --> 00:19:47.440 No, you get to. 277 00:19:48.400 --> 00:19:49.840 You get to speak in tongues. 278 00:19:50.800 --> 00:19:54.960 And speaking in tongues, even just the term speaking in tongues. 279 00:19:54.960 --> 00:19:57.040 How do you say language in Spanish? 280 00:19:58.720 --> 00:19:59.360 Is it tongue? 281 00:20:01.920 --> 00:20:05.520 In Serbian, it's yesic, right? 282 00:20:05.520 --> 00:20:06.240 Where's my man? 283 00:20:07.200 --> 00:20:08.160 Where's my mountaineering? 284 00:20:08.880 --> 00:20:09.920 I can't see him in the dark. 285 00:20:11.040 --> 00:20:12.880 It's yesic, which means tongue. 286 00:20:12.880 --> 00:20:17.360 Tongue just means languages, but in English when you say tongues, it sounds already weird and mystical. 287 00:20:17.440 --> 00:20:18.320 Speaking in tongues. 288 00:20:19.520 --> 00:20:21.520 Just means speaking in other languages. 289 00:20:21.520 --> 00:20:24.000 Satan hates it because it gives you so much power. 290 00:20:24.000 --> 00:20:24.720 So what does he do? 291 00:20:24.720 --> 00:20:28.400 He tries to corrupt that beautiful teaching and makes it spooky, he makes it weird. 292 00:20:28.400 --> 00:20:32.800 Whenever you see it in media, it's always somebody really bizarre, really strange, 293 00:20:32.800 --> 00:20:35.520 some wild church in the Appalachian Mountains, 294 00:20:35.520 --> 00:20:39.600 some guy barefoot dancing around with three snakes and then he's speaking in tongues and 295 00:20:39.600 --> 00:20:41.760 of course you're going to see that and go, I don't want that. 296 00:20:42.800 --> 00:20:44.240 No, I don't want that for you either. 297 00:20:47.520 --> 00:20:54.560 But don't let the weird, don't let the excesses, don't let the bizarre keep you from the promise 298 00:20:54.560 --> 00:20:58.560 of the Father, biblical truth and the power he wants to put in your life. 299 00:20:59.840 --> 00:21:02.160 So let's talk about talking in tongues. 300 00:21:04.160 --> 00:21:05.280 What is it really for? 301 00:21:05.920 --> 00:21:07.040 What happens when you do? 302 00:21:07.600 --> 00:21:09.520 Now let's try to take some of the spook out of it. 303 00:21:09.520 --> 00:21:09.920 Amen. 304 00:21:10.640 --> 00:21:13.440 Let's start in Romans 8 verse 26. 305 00:21:14.160 --> 00:21:22.800 What is the purpose of praying and supernaturally in this language? 306 00:21:23.600 --> 00:21:28.000 This language that you never, ever heard before this language that you didn't study in school, 307 00:21:28.000 --> 00:21:32.960 nobody ever taught you, you do the speaking but the Holy Spirit gives you an action. 308 00:21:32.960 --> 00:21:34.240 Here's one of the purposes. 309 00:21:36.320 --> 00:21:38.800 Paul writing in Romans, he says, 310 00:21:38.800 --> 00:21:44.880 likewise, the Spirit also helps in our weaknesses and then he identifies this weakness. 311 00:21:44.880 --> 00:21:48.640 For we do not know what we should pray for as we ought. 312 00:21:48.640 --> 00:21:50.000 How many of you can relate to that? 313 00:21:50.720 --> 00:21:52.800 Paul is saying, that's the weakness we all have. 314 00:21:53.440 --> 00:21:59.440 We don't always know how to pray like we should and isn't it true that the bigger the crisis, 315 00:21:59.440 --> 00:22:00.800 the more you don't know how to pray? 316 00:22:01.360 --> 00:22:07.200 Have you ever been, you get hit and you see the little Tweety birds flying around you? 317 00:22:08.160 --> 00:22:13.600 And you don't even know where to begin praying and praying seems hard and you can't even articulate 318 00:22:13.600 --> 00:22:21.040 in English but then the Holy Spirit who's within you, he'll bypass your doubt filled mind, 319 00:22:21.760 --> 00:22:28.480 he'll bypass your anxiety filled mind and he will use your vocal cords to pray the perfect 320 00:22:28.480 --> 00:22:32.880 prayer that's totally in line with the Father's will to the Father. 321 00:22:33.520 --> 00:22:35.120 That's a distinct advantage. 322 00:22:38.160 --> 00:22:45.040 For we do not know what we should pray for as we ought but the Spirit himself makes 323 00:22:45.040 --> 00:22:50.080 intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered. 324 00:22:51.680 --> 00:22:55.920 Now he who searches the hearts knows what the mind of the Spirit is 325 00:22:56.640 --> 00:23:01.840 because he makes intercession for the saints according to the will of God. 326 00:23:02.800 --> 00:23:10.400 So when you when you pray in the tongues by the way if you don't pray in tongues you'll be 327 00:23:10.400 --> 00:23:15.680 able to leave here today praying in tongues it's no it's not a big deal the Lord's been doing this 328 00:23:16.720 --> 00:23:22.080 since the day of Pentecost I've seen it done through my ministry for the last 30 years 329 00:23:22.080 --> 00:23:26.000 because I started doing this stuff when I was 16 before I was in full time ministry I was praying 330 00:23:26.000 --> 00:23:30.640 for people everywhere to get baptized in the Holy Spirit and my college they called me boy 331 00:23:30.720 --> 00:23:43.360 on the Baptist it's not a big deal for God in fact he doesn't even have to send the Holy Spirit 332 00:23:43.360 --> 00:23:47.920 he already sent him two thousand years ago he's here all you have to do is receive him 333 00:23:49.520 --> 00:23:58.640 so when you're praying in tongues your stuck you don't know how to pray as you are but then 334 00:23:58.720 --> 00:24:03.920 are you are you spirit Ramanda is the vendor Kerevarasho sepe Kandala Kesefanta 335 00:24:13.120 --> 00:24:20.640 you're praying out the father's perfect will for your life he's bypassing you you're not knowing 336 00:24:20.640 --> 00:24:29.120 that weakness that you and I have they're not knowing the confusion the doubt it's almost like cheating 337 00:24:31.120 --> 00:24:38.560 it would be like me telling my son son I'm gonna buy you more robux 338 00:24:41.040 --> 00:24:49.200 if you can guess a number from one to a thousand and he's like that's not fair right but then my 339 00:24:49.200 --> 00:24:57.440 partner that I'm one with my wife whispers in his ear it's 266 and he goes that it's 266 and I go 340 00:24:57.440 --> 00:25:03.120 you're you got it you knew exactly what was in my mind the analogy listen if you're a theologian 341 00:25:03.120 --> 00:25:10.080 out there you don't like my analogy just leave I understand it's two separate people and the Holy 342 00:25:10.080 --> 00:25:14.480 Spirit is one with the father I'm just giving you an earthly terms did you catch what happened 343 00:25:15.200 --> 00:25:22.160 and in that way the Holy Spirit who is God is in you praying through you to the father who is 344 00:25:22.160 --> 00:25:27.520 God say where's Jesus and all this it's all going through Jesus and what he did on the cross he's 345 00:25:27.520 --> 00:25:37.520 the mediator of everything hallelujah let's go to 1 Corinthians chapter 14 and verse 2 if it was 346 00:25:37.520 --> 00:25:45.920 just that if it was just that it'd be enough I mean that's a distinct advantage I would start off 347 00:25:45.920 --> 00:25:53.520 every day and take take a few minutes and pray out your day but bypass your mind that has a weakness 348 00:25:53.520 --> 00:25:59.440 it doesn't know what to pray for you could have a big opportunity coming up tomorrow you don't even 349 00:25:59.440 --> 00:26:04.960 know to pray about it but guess who knows the Holy Spirit who's God and he lives inside of you 350 00:26:05.920 --> 00:26:10.880 and now you open up your mouth and you pray out exactly what the father's heart is for you 351 00:26:11.920 --> 00:26:17.440 that's why we see life transformations that's why we see here testimonies that go I was in the right 352 00:26:17.440 --> 00:26:23.920 place at the right time many times you're not even aware you prayed that into place when you yielded 353 00:26:23.920 --> 00:26:34.720 to the Holy Spirit 1 Corinthians 14 starting in verse 2 Paul and 1 Corinthians 14 he's trying 354 00:26:34.720 --> 00:26:40.800 like he does in many of his letters he's trying to remedy a problem and the problem here is that he 355 00:26:40.800 --> 00:26:48.320 had a wild wild church very similar I guess to New York City because Corinth was an urban center 356 00:26:49.040 --> 00:26:53.680 had a lot of different people with different ideologies from different backgrounds different 357 00:26:53.680 --> 00:26:58.000 nationalities and they were all new to Christianity and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit 358 00:26:58.560 --> 00:27:03.200 so they began in these house meetings they were having they were all just they were so excited 359 00:27:03.280 --> 00:27:08.480 bunching newborn Christians and they're all speaking in tongues at the same time to one another 360 00:27:08.480 --> 00:27:14.080 and Paul is saying hey that's not so great because when we're together everything should be 361 00:27:14.880 --> 00:27:19.360 that we get edified and you can only get edified if you understand what I'm saying right if I 362 00:27:19.360 --> 00:27:23.760 if I've been speaking in tongues this whole time instead of preaching to you in English how would 363 00:27:23.760 --> 00:27:28.480 you like the service so far you'd be like that's nice for you pastor you seem to be having a good time 364 00:27:28.480 --> 00:27:34.240 but I'm not edified I didn't catch one thing he said that's the gist of 1 Corinthians 14 but there's 365 00:27:34.240 --> 00:27:42.000 a lot of hidden nuggets hidden truths concerning the power of speaking in tongues in 1 Corinthians 14 366 00:27:43.040 --> 00:27:50.640 for he who speaks in a tongue does not speak to men but to God for no one understands him 367 00:27:51.280 --> 00:27:58.640 so just note speaking in tongues it's not to speak in tongues to each other you speak to God 368 00:27:59.280 --> 00:28:06.000 no one is going to understand you you don't understand you but you speak mysteries in the spirit you 369 00:28:06.000 --> 00:28:13.760 speak mysteries what do you think some of those mysteries are I had a mystery in my life once 370 00:28:13.840 --> 00:28:21.600 I was $63,000 in debt spurred across 16 different credit cards and I was young and stupid 371 00:28:22.480 --> 00:28:30.160 and my outflow was way bigger than my inflow yet it was a mystery to me what how do I get out of 372 00:28:30.160 --> 00:28:35.600 massive credit card debt what a mystery and it really was as far as I was concerned I was 373 00:28:35.600 --> 00:28:42.240 befuddled it was a mystery but then when I East Alara Vesia pick it tantalara brosantara 374 00:28:42.240 --> 00:28:49.360 queveresto hamprote de Ramonda caravacente you can pray out those mysteries you have a mystery I 375 00:28:49.360 --> 00:28:54.880 can't get along with my spies I was so in love with them now it's just nothing but strife what a 376 00:28:54.880 --> 00:29:00.880 mystery you can pray out that mystery it seems like I can't advance in my career it seems like I 377 00:29:00.880 --> 00:29:06.000 keep making the same bad decisions like a mystery pray it out in the holy spirit 378 00:29:06.800 --> 00:29:11.920 God who knows everything and who lives inside you it's not a mystery to him and you can 379 00:29:11.920 --> 00:29:22.320 pray these things out in tongues it'll change your life hallelujah next verse he who speaks in a 380 00:29:22.320 --> 00:29:29.760 tongue edifies himself so we've already learned two things about the power of speaking in tongues one 381 00:29:30.480 --> 00:29:37.520 you pray out mysteries two you edify or strengthen yourself when you pray in tongues 382 00:29:41.280 --> 00:29:47.280 I just chuckled for a second you know if everybody who prays in tongues actually said they pray 383 00:29:47.280 --> 00:29:53.520 in tongues you'd be shocked at some of the people who pray in tongues some motivational speaker 384 00:29:53.520 --> 00:29:56.960 who you know is Christian but you just don't know how Christian they are and then you meet them 385 00:29:56.960 --> 00:30:03.280 and you realize they're absolutely on fire Christian they speak in tongues not a lot but a 386 00:30:03.280 --> 00:30:09.520 couple of actors in Hollywood but people you would never ever guess and Satan I have to say this 387 00:30:09.520 --> 00:30:14.480 because Satan makes it always seem like it's the wild subway preacher swinging from the light bulb on 388 00:30:14.480 --> 00:30:21.280 the e-train and he's the one who gets down with this stuff no this doesn't make you weird it makes 389 00:30:21.280 --> 00:30:28.160 you more like the apostle Paul amen it makes you more Christ like and it makes you more powerful 390 00:30:30.000 --> 00:30:36.160 he who speaks in a tongue strengthens himself but he who prophesies strengthens the church 391 00:30:37.760 --> 00:30:43.680 what is the conclusion then Paul says I will pray with the spirit he's saying what what is the 392 00:30:43.680 --> 00:30:51.120 conclusion then in a service he's saying I will pray with the spirit I can pray in tongues 393 00:30:51.120 --> 00:30:57.360 but I don't have to do it so loud that I interrupt and bother everybody confuse others 394 00:30:57.920 --> 00:31:02.400 and I will also pray with the understanding that means in the vernacular for us English 395 00:31:03.600 --> 00:31:09.760 couple of things to note here note that Paul says I will pray in the spirit that means you can 396 00:31:09.840 --> 00:31:16.080 will to pray in tongues in the spirit whenever you want once you're filled initially 397 00:31:17.840 --> 00:31:22.240 some people don't believe that they believe they have to be in church they have to they believe 398 00:31:22.240 --> 00:31:27.520 they have to practically be tackled by the Holy Spirit I got to start shake I know how he does it 399 00:31:27.520 --> 00:31:33.040 with me the tears start coming I got to really really feel it and then well one was the last time 400 00:31:33.040 --> 00:31:38.960 you spoke in tongues I roommate was six years ago at this revival meeting but no you're robbing 401 00:31:38.960 --> 00:31:46.000 yourself you can you can will did you know you guys are making me have to stand up 402 00:31:47.360 --> 00:31:52.320 don't listen I thought I had another 30 years before I became that preacher don't make me that guy 403 00:31:52.320 --> 00:31:57.040 listen you guys I got something to tell you 404 00:31:57.040 --> 00:32:08.320 yeah he says I will pray in the spirit you can will how you're going to pray some Christians 405 00:32:08.320 --> 00:32:14.640 are just weird and they mess it up for all of us have you ever heard maybe you were turned off 406 00:32:14.640 --> 00:32:21.040 by speaking in tongues because some Christian came to you and like Hikatarabashotolama 407 00:32:21.040 --> 00:32:30.800 so low sounding like Jabba the Hut from return to the Jedi you can will to speak in tongues 408 00:32:30.800 --> 00:32:38.480 like a normal human being like an actual language you can will to not have a weird face to not 409 00:32:38.480 --> 00:32:46.160 do bizarre things you can will that he says he actually says he prays to himself doesn't 410 00:32:46.160 --> 00:32:50.960 mean he prays he's praying to God but you can under my breath I'm always speaking in tongues in 411 00:32:50.960 --> 00:32:58.720 service you say why why not because I'm building myself up I'm strengthening myself I'm praying 412 00:32:58.720 --> 00:33:04.800 out mysteries the reason why I only look at 20% of my notes is because of all the speaking in tongues 413 00:33:04.800 --> 00:33:10.800 I do I speak in tongues and then I've been speaking in another language that I'm actually 414 00:33:11.600 --> 00:33:16.320 working it out and interpreting some of it translating it as I'm preaching I've seen the 415 00:33:16.320 --> 00:33:21.520 difference if I don't speak in tongues I'm not bound if I'm speaking in tongues I could have been 416 00:33:21.520 --> 00:33:29.440 praying for you five minutes before service and then it comes forth hallelujah so note that your 417 00:33:29.440 --> 00:33:35.840 will is at work you can sing in tongues when you will you can pray in tongues whenever you will 418 00:33:36.240 --> 00:33:44.240 hallelujah I will also pray with the understanding I will sing with the spirit 419 00:33:46.640 --> 00:33:52.400 can you just go back just let me finish that I will sing with the spirit and I will also sing 420 00:33:52.400 --> 00:34:01.040 with the understanding amen otherwise if you bless with the spirit how will he who occupies the 421 00:34:01.040 --> 00:34:05.120 place of the uninformed say amen did you know you can even bless with the spirit 422 00:34:08.560 --> 00:34:12.080 like if I'm going to pray for you I want you to know how I'm blessing you so I'm going to speak 423 00:34:12.080 --> 00:34:16.960 in English but as my little kiddos are running around I just might brush those saka 424 00:34:19.120 --> 00:34:24.640 and I bless them and he knows that does that stuff so he receives amen 425 00:34:25.600 --> 00:34:30.720 Mauricio and I could be out to lunch and we're not going to be all super formal like the food 426 00:34:30.720 --> 00:34:34.560 isn't going to arrive and then I look at Mauricio and he looks at me and says pastor would you like 427 00:34:34.560 --> 00:34:40.080 to say grace and I say I would I appreciate that heavenly Father we come before the now in this 428 00:34:40.080 --> 00:34:48.560 McDonald's no the food might come and I might bless it in tongues I might just because we know 429 00:34:48.640 --> 00:34:54.880 each other he's not the uninformed he's mature in the faith so I might say whoa look at this cut 430 00:34:54.880 --> 00:35:03.200 out of a shake head time I'm out Lord and he goes and he just flows out with the other now I'm not 431 00:35:03.200 --> 00:35:07.680 going to do that around you I'm not going to that's not something you whip out at Thanksgiving 432 00:35:09.120 --> 00:35:15.280 with your unsafe relatives but when you're with believe we're Paul is trying to say here is 433 00:35:15.280 --> 00:35:19.760 there's things you can do when it's just believers that you wouldn't do with the uninformed 434 00:35:20.640 --> 00:35:28.000 and in a city light service over 80% of you speak in tongues that's my conservative estimate yet 435 00:35:28.000 --> 00:35:34.240 notice that nobody's doing so right now or has ever done it in a distracting way or that we've 436 00:35:34.240 --> 00:35:38.800 ever had to never have we had to quiet someone down and say you know you're really getting out of hand 437 00:35:38.800 --> 00:35:42.480 can you can you go to the tongue speaking section in the back of the sanctuary 438 00:35:44.080 --> 00:35:49.760 the Lord is in control and the Lord moves it and really some of you just haven't been exposed 439 00:35:49.760 --> 00:35:57.360 to some of the weird stuff so you never emulated it amen that's a big plus if you were saved in a 440 00:35:57.360 --> 00:36:05.360 Pentecostal church in the 70s that might be different but that's another story hallelujah 441 00:36:08.080 --> 00:36:14.880 let's go to John chapter 4 verse 13 oh no I'm sorry we didn't finish I'm sorry let's finish this 442 00:36:14.880 --> 00:36:17.840 is important but I'm sorry back to Corinthians 443 00:36:17.920 --> 00:36:30.080 what was verse 16 right before then uh-huh okay verse 17 for indeed for you indeed give thanks like 444 00:36:30.080 --> 00:36:35.920 if I did bless someone in tongues Paul once again says hey you give thanks well that's another thing 445 00:36:35.920 --> 00:36:41.120 when you pray in tongues you can be rest assured that you give thanks well but the other is not 446 00:36:41.120 --> 00:36:45.120 edified he didn't understand what you said and then this is what the great apostle Paul 447 00:36:46.400 --> 00:36:52.480 he says I think my god I speak with tongues more than you all that's important to note 448 00:36:54.320 --> 00:36:59.120 because there's some people for whatever reason they're anti tongues maybe because they were 449 00:36:59.120 --> 00:37:04.480 in a church where everybody was hollering at them in tongues or they got had a bad experience or 450 00:37:04.480 --> 00:37:08.000 maybe they're just bound by religious spirit and it's not something that they want to 451 00:37:08.960 --> 00:37:14.080 they pigeonhole god and put him in a box whatever it is just note that the apostle Paul says 452 00:37:14.080 --> 00:37:18.160 I pray in tongues more than any of you and he was the one used by the Holy Spirit to write over half 453 00:37:18.160 --> 00:37:24.400 the New Testament and he closes that whole chapter by saying forbid not to speak in tongues 454 00:37:25.120 --> 00:37:30.640 amen just note that all right John 14 455 00:37:31.120 --> 00:37:39.120 some of you are about to get booster rockets slapped onto your jet pack 456 00:37:40.560 --> 00:37:45.920 your jet pack of Christianity is about to get bammed kicked up a notch 457 00:37:49.040 --> 00:37:54.160 Jesus and the woman at the well Jesus answered and said to her whoever drinks of this water will 458 00:37:54.160 --> 00:38:00.240 thirst again but whoever drinks of the water that I shall give him will never thirst 459 00:38:04.880 --> 00:38:11.920 but the water that I shall give him will become in him a fountain a fountain can you do me a 460 00:38:11.920 --> 00:38:19.120 favorite shout out that word fountain the water that I shall give him will become in him a fountain 461 00:38:19.120 --> 00:38:28.800 of water springing up into everlasting life so Jesus here likened salvation to a fountain 462 00:38:30.160 --> 00:38:36.080 let's fast forward three chapters to John chapter 7 for another water analogy 463 00:38:40.400 --> 00:38:48.080 this was during the week of the Passover days before Jesus was crucified and it says on the last day 464 00:38:49.120 --> 00:38:55.920 that great day of the feast Jesus stood and cried out saying if anyone thirsts 465 00:38:56.560 --> 00:39:07.520 let him come to me and drink he who believes in me as the scripture has said out of his heart will 466 00:39:07.520 --> 00:39:19.680 flow rivers shot rivers all right this is where we get real advanced note that there is a 467 00:39:19.680 --> 00:39:28.640 difference between a fountain and rivers can we all agree on that Jesus speaking of salvation 468 00:39:29.440 --> 00:39:34.400 called the salvation anointing a fountain you can drink from a fountain 469 00:39:34.400 --> 00:39:43.840 it springs up to life everlasting but there is something subsequent to salvation that's not just 470 00:39:43.840 --> 00:39:52.160 a fountain it's rivers and it's not for you it's for others first you get a fountain then you 471 00:39:52.160 --> 00:39:59.440 can get baptized in the Holy Spirit after salvation now you have rivers say how do you know Jesus 472 00:39:59.440 --> 00:40:04.800 was talking about the Holy Spirit well I'm so glad that John he actually tells you that in the 473 00:40:04.800 --> 00:40:10.320 very next verse what was Jesus talking about but this he spoke concerning the spirit 474 00:40:14.640 --> 00:40:21.680 but this he spoke concerning the Holy Spirit whom those believing in him would receive 475 00:40:22.480 --> 00:40:27.680 for the Holy Spirit was not yet given he wasn't yet given because Jesus hadn't gone to the cross 476 00:40:27.680 --> 00:40:35.600 to make everyone justified yet the Holy Spirit cannot end well a sinful temple but through Jesus's 477 00:40:35.600 --> 00:40:42.240 cross we're made clean so the Holy Spirit has been waiting for Jesus's death burial and resurrection 478 00:40:42.240 --> 00:40:49.040 so we can come into man for the Holy Spirit was not yet given because Jesus was not yet glorified 479 00:40:49.440 --> 00:41:01.840 so you know what I find that's a little disturbing still in the American church is the smug I don't 480 00:41:01.840 --> 00:41:14.960 know how else to say but a smug fatness I found I found I was getting that way on our cruise that we 481 00:41:14.960 --> 00:41:21.920 went last year we went on a cruise and was it a 10 day or you know in the beginning you show up 482 00:41:21.920 --> 00:41:28.560 and you're like wow this is so awesome and it's a buffet that doesn't end it's top quality food 483 00:41:28.560 --> 00:41:34.560 and you're really appreciative right around day five or six you're like the lobster today I don't 484 00:41:34.560 --> 00:41:44.240 know maybe I'll get the steak how's your shrimp good today when and that's how we become as an 485 00:41:44.240 --> 00:41:49.120 American church we have this smug fatness so that when the Lord offers you all these things 486 00:41:49.120 --> 00:41:58.960 you're like rivers I don't know a fountain is good no you gotta be hungry you gotta be thirsty you 487 00:41:58.960 --> 00:42:06.720 can't be like oh whatever you know no the things of God must be pursued he must be sought you 488 00:42:06.720 --> 00:42:11.680 can't have an attitude that says well if he wants me to have rivers he'll give me rivers right no 489 00:42:11.760 --> 00:42:17.520 Jesus never operated that way there was no blind person deaf person sick person who said well 490 00:42:17.520 --> 00:42:22.800 Jesus wants me well he'll heal me no they ran to him they got his attention they waived his hands 491 00:42:22.800 --> 00:42:29.920 in his face they climbed up trees they tore off roofs just to get to him you gotta have a hunger 492 00:42:29.920 --> 00:42:38.640 and if you're not baptized in the holy spirit here today today is your day amen hallelujah 493 00:42:39.040 --> 00:42:45.200 yeah it's something he loves to do you'll see all you have to do is come open 494 00:42:46.880 --> 00:42:58.480 axe chapter eight hallelujah so don't settle for a fountain when you can have a fountain and rivers 495 00:42:58.960 --> 00:43:11.920 hallelujah axe chapter eight looking at how the first century church treated the baptism of the 496 00:43:11.920 --> 00:43:18.160 Holy Spirit and with what emphasis so in axe chapter eight you have this entire region this entire 497 00:43:18.160 --> 00:43:25.680 city of Samaria getting saved let's see what the first century church did next now when the 498 00:43:25.680 --> 00:43:33.120 apostles who were a Jerusalem heard that Samaria had received the word of God they sent Peter and 499 00:43:33.120 --> 00:43:42.960 John to them now they sent their top two apostles Peter and John the dynamic duo why Samaria had 500 00:43:42.960 --> 00:43:50.720 just received the word of God why are they sending our Peter and John who when they had come down 501 00:43:51.360 --> 00:43:56.720 prayed for them that they might receive the Holy Spirit so they sent Peter and John to 502 00:43:56.720 --> 00:44:03.440 Samaria that this group who had just gotten saved might be filled or received the Holy Spirit you see 503 00:44:03.440 --> 00:44:15.600 all that uh huh for as yet he had fallen upon none of them they had only been baptized in the name 504 00:44:16.080 --> 00:44:23.920 of the Lord Jesus now if I if I gave you a report from Guatemala we just came back from 505 00:44:23.920 --> 00:44:28.560 mission strip in Guatemala and I said you won't believe we were into this village and they received 506 00:44:28.560 --> 00:44:33.440 the word of God you'd go yeah and then you won't believe it we took them by the river baptized all of 507 00:44:33.440 --> 00:44:41.280 them yeah come home pastor your work is done yet the first century church wasn't contented 508 00:44:42.160 --> 00:44:47.920 to just see them receive Jesus as Lord and Savior they didn't even stop it seeing them get water 509 00:44:47.920 --> 00:44:53.760 baptized but they immediately said Peter and John get over there get them filled with the Holy Spirit 510 00:44:55.760 --> 00:45:00.400 hallelujah and that is their urgency I could sense it in the spirit in the air here today 511 00:45:01.120 --> 00:45:05.360 there is an urgency that's come upon some of you the Lord is putting it there you're gonna quit 512 00:45:05.360 --> 00:45:09.440 putting it off and putting it off and putting it off and some of you you got baptized in the 513 00:45:09.440 --> 00:45:14.960 Holy Spirit a long time ago and you never ever reactivated the gift that he put inside of you 514 00:45:14.960 --> 00:45:18.800 you can do that at any time don't be waiting for the Lord to come and attack you 515 00:45:21.200 --> 00:45:25.360 that's the attitude some people I'll speak in tongues again when he really comes upon me when 516 00:45:25.360 --> 00:45:32.480 in heaven you will you will just like Paul said I will pray in the spirit you can will to 517 00:45:32.480 --> 00:45:40.320 pray in the spirit what happened with some people you know you said a few words and then 518 00:45:40.320 --> 00:45:46.800 immediately froze up because you got nervous you got anxious whatever reason it's it when 519 00:45:46.800 --> 00:45:50.560 you start speaking in tongues there's no other way to put it you're moving over into the supernatural 520 00:45:50.560 --> 00:45:57.120 realm and and when some people start doing that they even though it's wonderful and lovely it's not 521 00:45:57.120 --> 00:46:02.880 our normal it should be our normal but for too many of us it isn't and so we freeze up and and 522 00:46:02.880 --> 00:46:09.680 sometimes then even pull away because it's so unnatural to us and some of you did that when you 523 00:46:09.680 --> 00:46:14.400 were baptized in the Holy Spirit said a few words and never said them again but you can be filled 524 00:46:14.400 --> 00:46:22.640 the fresh and you can pray in tongues whenever in your shower walk in the dog making breakfast cooking 525 00:46:22.640 --> 00:46:28.480 dinner going for a stroll you can pray in the spirit and you'll know that when you're praying 526 00:46:28.480 --> 00:46:32.000 in the spirit praying in tongues you'll know you're doing several things you're praying the perfect 527 00:46:32.000 --> 00:46:37.760 will of the Father you're giving thanks well and you're edifying yourself on top of that you're 528 00:46:37.760 --> 00:46:48.800 speaking mysteries hallelujah then they laid hands on them and they received the Holy Spirit 529 00:46:48.800 --> 00:46:58.160 and when Simon saw Simon was a sorcerer note this Simon saw that through the laying out of the 530 00:46:58.160 --> 00:47:03.920 apostles hands the Holy Spirit was given he offered the money I just want you to see that Simon saw 531 00:47:03.920 --> 00:47:10.400 something you catch that I want you to see that Simon saw something because if there was nothing 532 00:47:10.400 --> 00:47:15.840 to see Simon wouldn't have seen anything in other words when you're filled with the Holy Spirit 533 00:47:15.840 --> 00:47:23.040 there is something to see there is going to be a demonstration of some kind and what we see 534 00:47:23.040 --> 00:47:29.360 over and over again in the scriptures is that demonstration is speaking in tongues worship team come 535 00:47:29.360 --> 00:47:35.040 on up I'm going to read Acts chapter 10 I'm going to open up this altar hallelujah 536 00:47:39.760 --> 00:47:43.040 the baptism in the Holy Spirit is the doorway to the supernatural 537 00:47:43.040 --> 00:47:50.160 you can't go into the deep deep things of the spirit and the anointing without first going 538 00:47:50.160 --> 00:47:54.480 through this doorway where you're filled with the Holy Spirit and speak in tongues 539 00:47:57.920 --> 00:48:03.200 you say do I have to speak in tongues no you get to speak in tongues so what if I don't speak in 540 00:48:03.200 --> 00:48:18.160 tongues what if you do hallelujah quit being afraid you know what I'm not going to end here I'm 541 00:48:18.160 --> 00:48:22.160 going to read I feel that I'm going to read a passage for the ones because there are a number of 542 00:48:22.160 --> 00:48:26.720 people that you're afraid and I understand that I'm I'm now bold I've been walking with the Lord 543 00:48:26.720 --> 00:48:32.320 for 30 plus years but I was 16 years old I was quaking in my boots was terrifying the thought of 544 00:48:32.320 --> 00:48:37.520 God coming inside of me and me speaking another language supernaturally like it doesn't get more 545 00:48:37.520 --> 00:48:44.960 out there than that but I'm going to read you the words of Jesus just for you you know what let's 546 00:48:44.960 --> 00:48:54.000 not do Acts 10 let's do the words of Jesus it's in Luke let me find it here oh it's so beautiful 547 00:48:54.000 --> 00:49:02.720 as only Jesus could look 11 verses 9 through 13 he's actually talking about the Holy Spirit here 548 00:49:02.720 --> 00:49:09.600 you'll see at the end so I say to you ask and it will be given to you seek and you will find 549 00:49:09.600 --> 00:49:17.360 knock and it will be open to you for everyone who asks receives and he who seeks finds and to him 550 00:49:17.360 --> 00:49:25.200 who knocks it will be opened if a son asks for bread from any father among you will he give him a 551 00:49:25.200 --> 00:49:33.040 stone or if he asks for a fish will he give him a serpent instead of a fish or if he asks for an egg 552 00:49:33.040 --> 00:49:40.880 will he offer him a scorpion if you then being evil know how to give good gifts to your children 553 00:49:41.520 --> 00:49:50.880 how much more will your heavenly father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him amen 554 00:49:52.880 --> 00:50:00.800 so that goes out to those who are sitting there going this is really freaky pastor I see it in the 555 00:50:00.800 --> 00:50:08.560 word I believe it but you know what if I'm asking for the Holy Spirit what if another spirit comes 556 00:50:09.040 --> 00:50:16.800 or can the devil come and come in or can something negative at all happen Jesus here is saying when you 557 00:50:16.800 --> 00:50:22.400 ask for bread you're gonna get bread when you ask for an egg you're gonna get an egg when you ask 558 00:50:22.400 --> 00:50:28.960 for fish you're gonna get fish I'm not gonna allow a scorpion to be snuck in there instead of a fish 559 00:50:29.600 --> 00:50:37.040 so when you ask for the Holy Spirit that's all you're going to get pure unadulterated Holy Spirit 560 00:50:37.040 --> 00:50:39.840 not some other spirit amen 561 00:50:41.920 --> 00:50:46.720 this is the city light church podcast if you've missed any part of today's message 562 00:50:46.720 --> 00:50:51.760 or if you would like to find out more about pastor boy on janskik and city light church visit us 563 00:50:51.760 --> 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