WEBVTT 00:12.025 --> 00:17.094 [SPEAKER_01]: So Romans chapter eight, we're going to read verses five through eleven. 00:17.174 --> 00:19.818 [SPEAKER_01]: Romans chapter eight verses five through eleven. 00:20.659 --> 00:21.381 [SPEAKER_01]: It says this. 00:22.478 --> 00:30.123 [SPEAKER_01]: For those who live according to the flesh, think about the things of the flesh, like food when I said, are you hungry and you eat that food? 00:30.143 --> 00:31.343 [SPEAKER_01]: I'm just kidding. 00:31.864 --> 00:33.525 [SPEAKER_01]: I'm just kidding, don't worry, I'm just kidding. 00:34.746 --> 00:35.026 [SPEAKER_01]: All right. 00:37.127 --> 00:43.011 [SPEAKER_01]: For those who live according to the flesh, think about the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the spirit about the things of the spirit. 00:43.911 --> 00:48.174 [SPEAKER_01]: For the mindset of the flesh is death, but the mindset of the spirit is life and peace. 00:49.461 --> 00:57.226 [SPEAKER_01]: For the mindset of the flesh is hostile to God, because it does not submit itself to God's law, for it is unable to do so. 00:58.407 --> 01:05.912 [SPEAKER_01]: Those who are in the flesh cannot please God, however you are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, come on, somebody say, I'm in the Spirit. 01:07.073 --> 01:14.058 [SPEAKER_01]: Since the Spirit of God lives in you, but if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he does not belong to Him. 01:14.898 --> 01:22.943 [SPEAKER_01]: Now, if Christ is in you, the body is dead because of sin, but the Spirit is life because of righteousness in verse eleven. 01:23.443 --> 01:36.331 [SPEAKER_01]: And if the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead lives in you, then He who raised Christ from the dead will also bring your mortal bodies to life through His Spirit who lives in you. 01:37.811 --> 01:38.851 [SPEAKER_01]: Hallelujah. 01:39.572 --> 01:40.412 [SPEAKER_01]: Hallelujah. 01:40.932 --> 01:51.835 [SPEAKER_01]: If you're taking notes this morning, the title of today's message which is actually very fitting for what we just experienced during worship is invitation of cooperation. 01:54.036 --> 01:57.157 [SPEAKER_01]: Invitation of cooperation. 01:58.737 --> 01:59.518 [SPEAKER_01]: Glory to God. 02:01.324 --> 02:04.347 [SPEAKER_01]: Father, we thank you, Lord, for your word today. 02:04.387 --> 02:07.370 [SPEAKER_01]: God, I thank you, Father, God, for what you're going to speak to us. 02:08.191 --> 02:13.796 [SPEAKER_01]: Lord, we thank you for the move, the Holy Spirit that we've already been experiencing and we've already discovered. 02:14.337 --> 02:16.639 [SPEAKER_01]: Lord, I thank you that there's more for us today. 02:17.820 --> 02:18.581 [SPEAKER_01]: Hallelujah. 02:19.442 --> 02:22.105 [SPEAKER_01]: Oh, we just scratched the surface during worship. 02:22.982 --> 02:24.383 [SPEAKER_01]: And we're about to go deeper. 02:24.463 --> 02:25.083 [SPEAKER_01]: Hallelujah. 02:25.123 --> 02:28.124 [SPEAKER_01]: We're about to get so consumed in the Holy Ghost. 02:28.924 --> 02:29.925 [SPEAKER_01]: Thank you, Jesus. 02:30.465 --> 02:32.105 [SPEAKER_01]: Thank you for your Holy Spirit. 02:32.726 --> 02:34.907 [SPEAKER_01]: Thank you for your Holy Spirit that's here today. 02:34.947 --> 02:37.428 [SPEAKER_01]: That's resting upon us even right now. 02:38.108 --> 02:40.129 [SPEAKER_01]: Right now, your Holy Spirit is coming. 02:40.509 --> 02:42.790 [SPEAKER_01]: Rest in dwell in amongst us right now. 02:42.870 --> 02:43.550 [SPEAKER_01]: Hallelujah. 02:44.110 --> 03:06.304 [SPEAKER_01]: So we thank you for the fire that's in my belly today that I've been holding for a couple days now to release this word and I thank you that that fire is going to come forth today and Lord you're going to consume us God with a fresh Holy Ghost fire with your window Lord blow through this place, mildly God, in the mighty name of Jesus, Hallelujah! 03:06.804 --> 03:12.168 [SPEAKER_01]: We receive the power and the anointing the presence of the Holy Ghost in this place right now. 03:13.328 --> 03:17.129 [SPEAKER_01]: Oh, we thank you for the revelation of the Word that's coming for today. 03:17.789 --> 03:23.871 [SPEAKER_01]: We thank you for the wisdom, the insight that is being birthed within us by your spirit. 03:24.671 --> 03:25.751 [SPEAKER_01]: We thank you, Lord. 03:26.391 --> 03:30.212 [SPEAKER_01]: We receive it right now in the name of Jesus. 03:30.952 --> 03:32.473 [SPEAKER_01]: Come on, somebody say amen. 03:33.453 --> 03:34.293 [SPEAKER_01]: Hallelujah. 03:36.077 --> 03:51.067 [SPEAKER_01]: I told Torella earlier I said sometimes I just I feel like I'm so excited you know my in the inside that my spirit man just jumping like crazy because you know it's like I get so excited and sometimes I feel like not everybody feels that way 03:51.187 --> 03:55.649 [SPEAKER_01]: And sometimes I feel like I'm the only one or one of the very few that actually feel that. 03:55.669 --> 03:56.890 [SPEAKER_01]: And I don't know about you. 03:57.050 --> 04:00.072 [SPEAKER_01]: Hopefully you get excited for the presence of God. 04:00.752 --> 04:02.053 [SPEAKER_01]: Hopefully you get excited for church. 04:02.073 --> 04:03.754 [SPEAKER_01]: Hopefully you get excited for the word. 04:04.114 --> 04:08.536 [SPEAKER_01]: You get excited for spending time with him and being in worship and all that kind of stuff. 04:08.576 --> 04:13.739 [SPEAKER_01]: But it's like I imagine like a little cartoon just leaping in my belly everywhere. 04:13.779 --> 04:16.841 [SPEAKER_01]: Just jumping just getting all excited in me, you know? 04:17.421 --> 04:19.262 [SPEAKER_01]: And that's just the way I feel about it. 04:20.058 --> 04:20.738 [SPEAKER_01]: Hallelujah. 04:21.859 --> 04:31.522 [SPEAKER_01]: And, you know, worship just, I'm like, okay, I'm like, all right, Holy Ghost, just go ahead and start now, start early, just get it going. 04:31.842 --> 04:32.522 [SPEAKER_01]: Hallelujah. 04:33.622 --> 04:35.803 [SPEAKER_01]: Invitation of cooperation. 04:36.683 --> 04:44.246 [SPEAKER_01]: All right, so I taught you two Sundays ago that the Holy Spirit guides us into all truth, right? 04:44.286 --> 04:45.026 [SPEAKER_01]: The depths of God. 04:47.024 --> 04:55.090 [SPEAKER_01]: When God begins to reveal those things by His Spirit, He's really inviting us into a place of walking with Him. 04:56.371 --> 05:04.378 [SPEAKER_01]: When He invites us into the deep things, when the Holy Spirit is able to guide us into all truth, remember, all truth is the deep things of God. 05:04.398 --> 05:09.261 [SPEAKER_01]: So when He's inviting us into that place, it's literally an invitation to walk with the Spirit. 05:11.563 --> 05:14.546 [SPEAKER_01]: It's like what we see in the garden at the very beginning. 05:15.276 --> 05:18.379 [SPEAKER_01]: The Spirit was actually hovering over the face of the earth. 05:18.439 --> 05:19.300 [SPEAKER_01]: That's what the Bible says. 05:20.581 --> 05:26.046 [SPEAKER_01]: And I believe that the Spirit of God was walking through the midst of the garden, even with Adam and Eve. 05:26.266 --> 05:30.510 [SPEAKER_01]: Just the Spirit of God was there, just walking in, you know, full operation. 05:30.530 --> 05:36.015 [SPEAKER_01]: That's why when they hid themselves and they covered themselves up, God was not surprised. 05:36.075 --> 05:37.136 [SPEAKER_01]: He knew all along. 05:37.637 --> 05:39.098 [SPEAKER_01]: Because the Spirit of God was already there. 05:39.118 --> 05:39.939 [SPEAKER_01]: It was already dwelling. 05:40.932 --> 05:52.215 [SPEAKER_01]: And so when we think about it as him guiding us into all truth and him leading us that way, we have to accept the invitation. 05:53.115 --> 05:56.956 [SPEAKER_01]: There's an invitation that is given before us, just like during worship. 05:57.896 --> 06:04.497 [SPEAKER_01]: And just like what we experience just now during worship, there are some people that will accept the invitation and there are some people that will decline. 06:04.517 --> 06:06.738 [SPEAKER_01]: This is the way it is. 06:07.966 --> 06:19.815 [SPEAKER_01]: And so when it comes to the Holy Spirit and his leading and his guiding and him taking us there, there's an invitation that's made available to us, but it's up to us if we're going to cooperate with the invitation. 06:20.896 --> 06:22.838 [SPEAKER_01]: So there's an invitation of cooperation. 06:22.898 --> 06:25.460 [SPEAKER_01]: It's an invitation not a mandate. 06:26.080 --> 06:31.865 [SPEAKER_01]: It's not that it's optional, but you do get to choose if you're going to cooperate with him or not. 06:32.885 --> 06:35.728 [SPEAKER_01]: You have that choice, you have that option. 06:36.188 --> 06:37.209 [SPEAKER_01]: It's freely yours. 06:39.563 --> 06:49.686 [SPEAKER_01]: And that's why you'll see somebody just really going after God and you look right next to them and the person just... It's like, wait a second. 06:50.326 --> 06:51.166 [SPEAKER_01]: What's the difference? 06:51.226 --> 06:56.268 [SPEAKER_01]: Well, this person accepted the invitation of cooperation and this person just hasn't got there yet. 06:57.588 --> 06:57.848 [SPEAKER_01]: Right? 06:59.829 --> 07:07.951 [SPEAKER_01]: And so listen, there are blessings for those who choose to obey and there listen our consequences for those who choose to ignore. 07:09.655 --> 07:10.535 [SPEAKER_01]: It's just the way it is. 07:10.675 --> 07:28.244 [SPEAKER_01]: So when the Holy Spirit teaches you a deep thing, or when the Holy Spirit leads you to be a light to someone, he's inviting you and I into a moment where we can truly say that we don't just have the Holy Spirit, but we are walking by the Spirit. 07:28.904 --> 07:29.224 [SPEAKER_01]: Amen? 07:29.944 --> 07:32.145 [SPEAKER_01]: We live by the Spirit of God. 07:33.886 --> 07:35.307 [SPEAKER_01]: Listen, there are people who will 07:36.500 --> 07:41.041 [SPEAKER_01]: They'll come to church and they'll say that they live in the Spirit and they will walk out the door. 07:41.061 --> 07:45.502 [SPEAKER_01]: But my question is, does your walk line up with your testimony? 07:47.122 --> 07:51.983 [SPEAKER_01]: If he really saved you, redeemed you, set you free, are you walking accordingly? 07:52.763 --> 07:55.183 [SPEAKER_01]: Are you walking in the Spirit accordingly, amen? 07:55.603 --> 08:01.545 [SPEAKER_01]: If you say you live by the Spirit, then let me tell you according to the Word of God, you must walk by the Spirit. 08:02.365 --> 08:03.665 [SPEAKER_01]: You must walk by the Spirit. 08:05.525 --> 08:09.146 [SPEAKER_01]: Now watch this walking by the spirit is the Greek word. 08:09.206 --> 08:10.346 [SPEAKER_01]: We can throw it on the screen there. 08:11.366 --> 08:13.267 [SPEAKER_01]: Storcio is how I would say it. 08:13.287 --> 08:18.287 [SPEAKER_01]: I don't know if you have any people that are fluent in Greek. 08:19.548 --> 08:30.790 [SPEAKER_01]: But Storcio, which is when we talk about walking by the spirit, this is how this is translated in the original language and the original Greek, which literally means synchronized walking. 08:32.383 --> 08:34.166 [SPEAKER_01]: It's to walk in the same step. 08:34.687 --> 08:39.916 [SPEAKER_01]: So when we are walking in the spirit, it's like when the spirit steps, we're stepping with it. 08:40.763 --> 08:50.450 [SPEAKER_01]: You know, if you ever seen like summer, summer Olympics in the pool, the synchronized dancing, the synchronized swimming, the dancing, that takes place in the water. 08:51.250 --> 09:01.717 [SPEAKER_01]: And you see, it's a beautiful thing, how a group of people can come up and twirl and do all these kind of things and it looks identical to everybody else. 09:02.478 --> 09:04.499 [SPEAKER_01]: They're like right in sync with each other. 09:05.220 --> 09:07.802 [SPEAKER_01]: And that's what it's like walking in the spirit. 09:08.662 --> 09:10.882 [SPEAKER_01]: We are in sync with the Holy Spirit. 09:11.683 --> 09:13.783 [SPEAKER_01]: Like every step we're right there with them. 09:14.503 --> 09:18.504 [SPEAKER_01]: I mean, it's perfect synchronization in the Spirit. 09:21.044 --> 09:27.785 [SPEAKER_01]: And this is why the book of Amis says, how can two walk together unless they be in agreement? 09:28.606 --> 09:28.866 [SPEAKER_01]: Right? 09:29.546 --> 09:31.626 [SPEAKER_01]: How can two walk together unless they be in agreement? 09:32.006 --> 09:36.647 [SPEAKER_01]: Listen, you can't walk with the Spirit unless you come into agreement with the Spirit. 09:38.593 --> 09:44.996 [SPEAKER_01]: You can't walk in the Spirit unless you come into agreement with the Spirit, and you have to come into agreement with what he has for your life. 09:46.217 --> 09:48.678 [SPEAKER_01]: You have to come in connection and in sync with him. 09:49.679 --> 09:58.824 [SPEAKER_01]: So what we have often times is a bunch of people who are saved, but we don't have a bunch of people who are saved and yielded to walking in the Spirit. 10:00.278 --> 10:12.225 [SPEAKER_01]: And so we got to get to a place in the church where we're not just saved and set free, but we are literally synchronizing our walk, come on, aligning perfectly with the Holy Spirit. 10:13.106 --> 10:17.949 [SPEAKER_01]: And everything we do and everything that we say, we're literally being guided and led by him. 10:18.549 --> 10:28.454 [SPEAKER_01]: that we're not just going based on our emotions or on a direction that we feel is best or whatever it may be, but that we're literally walking in sync with the Holy Spirit. 10:28.754 --> 10:32.536 [SPEAKER_01]: Because the direction that he's going is the perfect direction. 10:33.596 --> 10:34.737 [SPEAKER_01]: It's the right direction. 10:35.157 --> 10:38.399 [SPEAKER_01]: It's the direction that's leading us into all truth, amen? 10:39.139 --> 10:39.779 [SPEAKER_01]: Hallelujah. 10:40.340 --> 10:46.903 [SPEAKER_01]: And so, hear me, discipleship is, you've heard this before, it's not a get out of hell, free card. 10:47.953 --> 10:52.624 [SPEAKER_01]: But true discipleship is saying, where you lead me, I will follow you. 10:53.848 --> 11:01.270 [SPEAKER_01]: And as a disciple of Jesus, which all of us are in this room, when He goes a certain place, we follow Him. 11:01.770 --> 11:04.230 [SPEAKER_01]: When He says something, we follow His Word. 11:04.790 --> 11:06.391 [SPEAKER_01]: Where He goes, we follow. 11:06.651 --> 11:09.031 [SPEAKER_01]: But it's the same thing with His Holy Spirit. 11:09.571 --> 11:11.652 [SPEAKER_01]: However, the Spirit leads, we follow. 11:11.912 --> 11:14.112 [SPEAKER_01]: What the Spirit is speaking, we follow. 11:14.252 --> 11:14.592 [SPEAKER_01]: Amen? 11:15.312 --> 11:15.892 [SPEAKER_01]: Hallelujah. 11:15.912 --> 11:18.073 [SPEAKER_01]: That is walking in the Spirit. 11:19.394 --> 11:23.959 [SPEAKER_01]: So since we learned last week of how the Holy Spirit communicates, right? 11:24.540 --> 11:28.964 [SPEAKER_01]: We learned the different three ways that the Holy Spirit will communicate to us. 11:29.004 --> 11:31.387 [SPEAKER_01]: He communicates us to us by his word, right? 11:31.960 --> 11:36.703 [SPEAKER_01]: by the Word of God, which is a live and active, communicates to us by other vessels, right? 11:37.203 --> 11:43.867 [SPEAKER_01]: That he chooses, that he'll speak through to us, and he'll also speak to a spirit to spirit, all right? 11:43.927 --> 11:48.009 [SPEAKER_01]: Because we are also made up of spirit, and so he will speak to a spirit to spirit. 11:48.449 --> 11:54.893 [SPEAKER_01]: So since we know how the Holy Spirit communicates, the next step after we know how he communicates is just to walk it out. 11:56.347 --> 11:58.589 [SPEAKER_01]: walk out what he's doing and what he's saying. 11:59.089 --> 12:03.053 [SPEAKER_01]: And so if we're going to walk by the spirit, we got to learn how the spirit operates. 12:04.234 --> 12:08.777 [SPEAKER_01]: So we got to, we can't just learn how he communicates, but we also got to learn how he operates. 12:09.918 --> 12:10.219 [SPEAKER_01]: Amen? 12:10.399 --> 12:13.081 [SPEAKER_01]: Because we know that God's ways are not always. 12:14.062 --> 12:22.129 [SPEAKER_01]: And so if we think, okay, I understand how he communicates, but this is how I'm going to do this, or this is what I'm, then we're going to be off sync. 12:23.080 --> 12:28.923 [SPEAKER_01]: So we gotta understand how he communicates, but then we gotta take another step further and understand how he operates. 12:29.523 --> 12:29.823 [SPEAKER_01]: Amen. 12:30.403 --> 12:37.267 [SPEAKER_01]: And so if you're taking notes this morning, there's three ways that the Holy Spirit operates that I wanna teach you today. 12:37.687 --> 12:40.008 [SPEAKER_01]: Number one is that he invites you in. 12:41.515 --> 12:42.435 [SPEAKER_01]: He invites you in. 12:43.196 --> 12:45.337 [SPEAKER_01]: There is an open invitation for you. 12:46.217 --> 12:53.020 [SPEAKER_01]: There's an open invitation that is made available to you to be with him and in his spirit. 12:55.981 --> 12:56.822 [SPEAKER_01]: This is not just 12:57.887 --> 13:01.230 [SPEAKER_01]: The Holy Spirit saying, follow or whatever. 13:01.290 --> 13:03.492 [SPEAKER_01]: And then you're like, well, what do I do? 13:04.272 --> 13:10.277 [SPEAKER_01]: It's an invitation where he doesn't just say, follow, but he brings you in and he says, this is how you do it. 13:11.398 --> 13:13.219 [SPEAKER_01]: It's an open invitation, amen? 13:14.660 --> 13:24.729 [SPEAKER_01]: And so again, you get a choice, whether or not you want to cooperate with the Holy Spirit, you do get a choice. 13:25.733 --> 13:28.836 [SPEAKER_01]: And let me tell you, he never forces you. 13:30.858 --> 13:32.480 [SPEAKER_01]: The Holy Spirit will never force you. 13:33.441 --> 13:37.184 [SPEAKER_01]: The Holy Spirit will never push you to cooperate with him. 13:38.246 --> 13:40.207 [SPEAKER_01]: That's not the way he operates. 13:41.829 --> 13:43.631 [SPEAKER_01]: Remember, he invites you in. 13:44.772 --> 13:46.233 [SPEAKER_01]: It's simply an invitation. 13:47.975 --> 13:48.656 [SPEAKER_01]: It's an invitation. 13:50.186 --> 13:56.571 [SPEAKER_01]: It's like if I said, if I said to some of you today, hey, you want to come over tonight and have dinner? 13:57.813 --> 14:00.074 [SPEAKER_01]: You're either available or you're not, right? 14:00.175 --> 14:01.476 [SPEAKER_01]: You're either busy or you're not. 14:01.956 --> 14:07.241 [SPEAKER_01]: You're either going to say, yeah, sure, we'll come or you'll decline politely, right? 14:07.541 --> 14:08.802 [SPEAKER_01]: But it's an open invitation. 14:09.563 --> 14:10.864 [SPEAKER_01]: The Holy Spirit is that way. 14:11.604 --> 14:12.885 [SPEAKER_01]: And we are given the choice. 14:13.326 --> 14:15.528 [SPEAKER_01]: The Holy Spirit says, hey, I'm about to do this. 14:15.588 --> 14:16.589 [SPEAKER_01]: I'm going this direction. 14:16.809 --> 14:18.130 [SPEAKER_01]: I would love for you to come join me. 14:19.643 --> 14:20.864 [SPEAKER_01]: but then the choice is ours. 14:21.664 --> 14:24.526 [SPEAKER_01]: He doesn't come grab us and yank us. 14:24.726 --> 14:25.326 [SPEAKER_01]: He's gentle. 14:25.466 --> 14:26.387 [SPEAKER_01]: He's a gentle spirit. 14:27.447 --> 14:39.774 [SPEAKER_01]: And so because of that, because it's not forceful, it's not demanding, it's not pushy, we're given the choice and the choice is left up to us, whether we will accept or we will decline. 14:41.715 --> 14:46.077 [SPEAKER_01]: And let me just say it this way, it's an invitation of obedience. 14:48.216 --> 14:52.299 [SPEAKER_01]: When the Holy Spirit invites us in, it's an invitation of obedience. 14:53.501 --> 14:59.906 [SPEAKER_01]: It's really having that yes in our spirit that says yes, I'll be obedient to what you're saying Holy Spirit. 15:02.308 --> 15:10.175 [SPEAKER_01]: It's an invitation to say yes to his leading or to say no to his leading, but it's an invitation. 15:13.117 --> 15:13.878 [SPEAKER_01]: I'll share a story. 15:16.747 --> 15:29.029 [SPEAKER_01]: One time when I was in Bible College, we did what was called Scavenger Hunts, and some of you have heard me talk about this before, and maybe even heard this story before, but 15:31.048 --> 15:46.771 [SPEAKER_01]: We would spend time in the presence of the Lord and we would listen to the Holy Spirit and the Holy Spirit would provide certain key words or directions or whatever it may be of wherever the Spirit would lead us to go to Minnesota people, right? 15:47.611 --> 15:57.433 [SPEAKER_01]: And so we'd sit there and typically the way that that looked is, the room we'd have some worship, we'd get quiet, we'd get into some prayer and we'd have a piece of paper, 15:58.278 --> 16:05.907 [SPEAKER_01]: And we'd write down like a location, maybe a person's name, all that kind of stuff. 16:05.927 --> 16:07.809 [SPEAKER_01]: It had these descriptions that were on there. 16:08.470 --> 16:11.693 [SPEAKER_01]: And so we'd sit there and we'd listen to the Holy Spirit. 16:11.773 --> 16:15.097 [SPEAKER_01]: And just as the Spirit would speak, we would jot those things down. 16:15.718 --> 16:18.421 [SPEAKER_01]: And then we would randomly get paired up to go out. 16:19.427 --> 16:25.470 [SPEAKER_01]: and go find those people that the Holy Spirit spoke to us about and minister to them accordingly. 16:25.490 --> 16:27.111 [SPEAKER_01]: It was a powerful thing. 16:27.171 --> 16:31.653 [SPEAKER_01]: I mean, a lot of wonderful Holy Spirit encounters, okay? 16:32.413 --> 16:39.657 [SPEAKER_01]: Remember, one time, I got this description, it was really weird. 16:39.737 --> 16:48.721 [SPEAKER_01]: The only thing I heard was like elephants and monkeys and like monkey on a ball or something, kind of like circusy. 16:49.378 --> 16:50.739 [SPEAKER_01]: just was really like odd. 16:50.759 --> 16:53.822 [SPEAKER_01]: It was like an elephant blowing a trumpet or something. 16:53.923 --> 16:54.403 [SPEAKER_01]: I can't remember. 16:54.423 --> 16:58.807 [SPEAKER_01]: It was something along those lines and I'm like, my god ain't gonna find anything like that out there. 16:58.847 --> 17:01.650 [SPEAKER_01]: You know, I just thought, well, this is the oddest, most weirdest thing. 17:02.511 --> 17:11.921 [SPEAKER_01]: It was like, okay, well, a few people that I was paired up with heard in the spirit, Barnes and Noble, you know, the bookstore. 17:14.036 --> 17:15.037 [SPEAKER_01]: We went there. 17:15.077 --> 17:17.618 [SPEAKER_01]: I didn't have a location, but we went there. 17:18.479 --> 17:25.623 [SPEAKER_01]: And immediately, the group that I was with found the person that they wrote down, that described to the tea. 17:25.723 --> 17:28.365 [SPEAKER_01]: It was a guy wearing a black shirt with white pants. 17:28.405 --> 17:30.326 [SPEAKER_01]: And they were there in Barnes and Noble. 17:30.386 --> 17:31.647 [SPEAKER_01]: The Holy Spirit led them right to them, right? 17:31.947 --> 17:32.508 [SPEAKER_01]: Is that kind of thing? 17:32.548 --> 17:33.548 [SPEAKER_01]: And I'm walking around. 17:33.628 --> 17:39.052 [SPEAKER_01]: I'm like, elephants and monkeys and trumpets and 17:39.908 --> 17:42.430 [SPEAKER_01]: You know, bouncing, you know, all this, like what? 17:43.171 --> 17:52.959 [SPEAKER_01]: And I'm looking, I'm looking, and so I'm walking around and just kind of pacing Barnes and Noble, just kind of with this assumption that I ain't gonna find no animals in here. 17:52.979 --> 17:56.822 [SPEAKER_01]: I ain't gonna see, you know, maybe I just was completely off, and I missed it today. 17:58.563 --> 18:05.369 [SPEAKER_01]: And I'll never forget, I'm walking down this, you know, row of books or whatever. 18:06.281 --> 18:11.006 [SPEAKER_01]: And I just kind of like have my finger on these spines of these books. 18:11.086 --> 18:12.848 [SPEAKER_01]: And I'm just glancing at them. 18:12.928 --> 18:15.390 [SPEAKER_01]: I don't, I'm not interested or, I don't care about them. 18:15.410 --> 18:16.952 [SPEAKER_01]: I'm just, just look at them. 18:17.232 --> 18:19.474 [SPEAKER_01]: And I'm just glancing, I'm just walking or whatever. 18:19.494 --> 18:21.576 [SPEAKER_01]: And all of a sudden, 18:22.557 --> 18:37.144 [SPEAKER_01]: I see on the spine of a book was like, you know, a monkey on a ball and an elephant with like a trumpet, like, you know, cartoon or whatever and I thought, my god. 18:38.464 --> 18:40.345 [SPEAKER_01]: Like, I'm not crazy. 18:42.386 --> 18:45.327 [SPEAKER_01]: But I'm standing there and I look at it and I thought, well, okay, well, great. 18:45.367 --> 18:46.808 [SPEAKER_01]: I mean, I see it, but what do I do? 18:48.898 --> 18:57.012 [SPEAKER_01]: And immediately right here to my left was a man sitting in a chair, you know how they have chairs throughout the bookstore. 18:57.673 --> 18:59.296 [SPEAKER_01]: And he's sitting there just reading a book. 19:00.859 --> 19:02.622 [SPEAKER_01]: And the Holy Spirit says, that's it right there. 19:04.908 --> 19:06.489 [SPEAKER_01]: And so I ministered to that guy. 19:07.229 --> 19:15.232 [SPEAKER_01]: Tears rolling down his face and I don't remember it was, you know, ten plus years ago, I don't remember exactly what it was all about or whatever. 19:15.272 --> 19:28.036 [SPEAKER_01]: But I remember really ministering to that guy and really the heart of God really just pouring out upon him and I remember him experiencing something really powerful in that moment. 19:28.956 --> 19:33.638 [SPEAKER_01]: And I thought, wow, I thought I just heard wrong from the Holy Spirit. 19:34.905 --> 19:37.507 [SPEAKER_01]: But the Holy Spirit is never wrong. 19:39.488 --> 19:40.849 [SPEAKER_01]: The Holy Spirit is never wrong. 19:41.650 --> 19:48.895 [SPEAKER_01]: And all we have to do, even if it makes zero sense whatsoever, is accept the invitation. 19:50.016 --> 19:51.397 [SPEAKER_01]: He's inviting us in. 19:51.417 --> 19:57.261 [SPEAKER_01]: And if we can just say yes to Him and His invitation, He brings us right in. 19:59.138 --> 20:05.700 [SPEAKER_01]: It may not, it may not make sense, but all of a sudden he will reveal exactly what he is leading us to do. 20:06.801 --> 20:07.461 [SPEAKER_01]: Hallelujah. 20:08.221 --> 20:10.162 [SPEAKER_01]: Because that's the way the Holy Spirit works. 20:10.562 --> 20:15.164 [SPEAKER_01]: He doesn't provide an invitation for us for us to just wander out in the left field. 20:15.244 --> 20:17.124 [SPEAKER_01]: And what do I do with this God? 20:17.284 --> 20:18.225 [SPEAKER_01]: He doesn't do that. 20:18.485 --> 20:20.825 [SPEAKER_01]: The Holy Spirit knows exactly what he's doing. 20:21.246 --> 20:21.866 [SPEAKER_01]: Hallelujah. 20:22.406 --> 20:27.508 [SPEAKER_01]: And so listen church in your obedience to the Spirit, God will begin to move. 20:28.488 --> 20:35.249 [SPEAKER_01]: When you were obedient to the Holy Spirit and the voice of the Holy Spirit, God will begin to move. 20:36.030 --> 20:43.011 [SPEAKER_01]: And the Holy Spirit will touch people as you're submitted to him and you continually say yes to him. 20:44.932 --> 20:46.212 [SPEAKER_01]: Let me say it now this way. 20:46.252 --> 20:51.753 [SPEAKER_01]: It's not up to you whether or not the Spirit of God wants to touch someone. 20:52.733 --> 20:56.154 [SPEAKER_01]: It's not up to you because let me tell you he wants to touch him. 20:57.123 --> 20:58.564 [SPEAKER_01]: He wants to minister to people. 21:00.225 --> 21:03.328 [SPEAKER_01]: He wants to pour out the love of God among people. 21:03.988 --> 21:07.130 [SPEAKER_01]: It's not a question if he does or if he doesn't. 21:08.251 --> 21:10.313 [SPEAKER_01]: He absolutely desires to do that. 21:11.153 --> 21:19.800 [SPEAKER_01]: But he's looking for people who will be obedient to the Spirit so that those things can happen and those encounters can take place. 21:21.000 --> 21:21.541 [SPEAKER_01]: Hallelujah. 21:23.783 --> 21:28.186 [SPEAKER_01]: The question is, can you accept the invitation? 21:29.347 --> 21:32.969 [SPEAKER_01]: Can you be obedient to the Holy Spirit? 21:34.610 --> 21:38.373 [SPEAKER_01]: And this is how you live a supernatural lifestyle right there. 21:39.073 --> 21:40.634 [SPEAKER_01]: That's how you live a supernatural lifestyle. 21:40.894 --> 21:45.197 [SPEAKER_01]: This is how you get closer and more connected to the Holy Spirit. 21:46.538 --> 21:52.382 [SPEAKER_01]: This is not a weird or unusual way of living by no means. 21:53.415 --> 21:57.058 [SPEAKER_01]: This is how I believe we were designed to live. 21:58.519 --> 22:01.881 [SPEAKER_01]: We were designed to live a supernatural lifestyle. 22:02.682 --> 22:12.669 [SPEAKER_01]: Being led by the Holy Spirit, the Holy Spirit speaking to us and us coming into cooperation with His invitation and being obedient to Him. 22:13.410 --> 22:19.835 [SPEAKER_01]: That's a supernatural lifestyle and that's the lifestyle that I believe Jesus died for on the cross for us to live. 22:21.330 --> 22:23.431 [SPEAKER_01]: Lord, you should have said amen and hold out louder than that. 22:23.811 --> 22:28.773 [SPEAKER_01]: Because it's far beyond us just coming into church and feeling good one day a week. 22:29.594 --> 22:31.254 [SPEAKER_01]: That's not what this whole thing is about. 22:32.155 --> 22:33.515 [SPEAKER_01]: He died on the cross. 22:33.836 --> 22:34.896 [SPEAKER_01]: He bore our sins. 22:34.956 --> 22:36.057 [SPEAKER_01]: We have been saved. 22:36.097 --> 22:37.017 [SPEAKER_01]: We have been redeemed. 22:37.057 --> 22:41.079 [SPEAKER_01]: We have been set free, not just so we can have everything put together. 22:42.359 --> 22:50.023 [SPEAKER_01]: It's so that we can live a supernatural lifestyle and allow the Spirit to lead us to those who need what we just got. 22:51.212 --> 22:51.852 [SPEAKER_01]: Hallelujah. 22:53.093 --> 22:53.693 [SPEAKER_01]: Hallelujah. 22:55.835 --> 23:03.859 [SPEAKER_01]: So you should be so obedient and so yielded to the Holy Spirit that you never turned down his invitation. 23:06.621 --> 23:07.481 [SPEAKER_01]: Can you imagine that? 23:09.762 --> 23:11.503 [SPEAKER_01]: That you're so obedient. 23:13.064 --> 23:18.147 [SPEAKER_01]: I mean, just so surrendered that turning down 23:19.110 --> 23:21.751 [SPEAKER_01]: An invitation never even crosses your mind. 23:23.852 --> 23:25.953 [SPEAKER_01]: That it's an immediate obedience. 23:26.674 --> 23:35.258 [SPEAKER_01]: It's an immediate yes when the Holy Spirit begins to speak and the Holy Spirit begins to lead and guide and talk to us. 23:35.538 --> 23:38.680 [SPEAKER_01]: There's not a trace in our mind of, I'm not sure. 23:38.720 --> 23:39.620 [SPEAKER_01]: I don't think so. 23:39.660 --> 23:42.462 [SPEAKER_01]: I'm a little doubtful or fearful or whatever it may be. 23:43.724 --> 23:48.607 [SPEAKER_01]: but that we are so obedient that we never decline his invitation. 23:49.528 --> 24:13.265 [SPEAKER_01]: Whether that's at the cash register or at work or sitting at the dinner table, whatever it may be, you could go to Walmart and get your groceries and go to the cash register and there could be somebody that's there scanning your items and doing all of that and your so obedient, the Holy Spirit will speak to you and say, encourage this woman right now. 24:15.925 --> 24:19.046 [SPEAKER_01]: Man, how you do in today, I just wanted to tell you that Jesus loves you. 24:20.386 --> 24:25.647 [SPEAKER_01]: And I don't know what you're going through in your life right now, but you need to know that there is a God that cares. 24:27.328 --> 24:31.889 [SPEAKER_01]: You may not know this God that I'm referring to, but there is a God that cares. 24:31.909 --> 24:33.109 [SPEAKER_01]: There is a God that loves you. 24:33.349 --> 24:35.169 [SPEAKER_01]: And there's nothing that's impossible with him. 24:35.189 --> 24:42.171 [SPEAKER_01]: And no matter what you may be going through, no matter what you may be facing right now, just know that nothing's too big for him. 24:43.822 --> 24:46.063 [SPEAKER_01]: And the woman begins to weep at the cash register. 24:47.464 --> 24:55.608 [SPEAKER_01]: And what seemed like just a normal, just let me scan the items and move on to the next person, turn into a Holy Ghost encounter. 24:58.590 --> 24:59.691 [SPEAKER_01]: And that's the way it can be. 25:02.772 --> 25:04.213 [SPEAKER_01]: That's the way it's supposed to be. 25:06.786 --> 25:15.770 [SPEAKER_01]: There is a constant open invitation for you and I to say yes and be obedient to the Holy Spirit. 25:17.371 --> 25:18.052 [SPEAKER_01]: Hallelujah. 25:20.493 --> 25:23.494 [SPEAKER_01]: Number one is that he invites you in. 25:24.795 --> 25:28.737 [SPEAKER_01]: Number two is that he makes your natural supernatural. 25:31.518 --> 25:34.440 [SPEAKER_01]: He makes your natural supernatural. 25:35.696 --> 25:37.677 [SPEAKER_01]: He puts the super on the natural. 25:38.278 --> 25:38.618 [SPEAKER_01]: Amen? 25:39.038 --> 25:39.378 [SPEAKER_01]: Come on. 25:40.799 --> 25:47.484 [SPEAKER_01]: I mean, you know, we're gifted and skilled and talented and smart, you know, we're all of those things, naturally. 25:48.985 --> 25:50.986 [SPEAKER_01]: Whatever God's blessed us in grace, this with. 25:51.626 --> 25:56.810 [SPEAKER_01]: But then the Holy Ghost comes and he puts his super on everything that we've already got going for us. 25:57.867 --> 25:58.728 [SPEAKER_01]: Hallelujah. 25:59.508 --> 26:05.612 [SPEAKER_01]: And now, you know, we once were maybe gifted in a certain thing, and that's great. 26:06.052 --> 26:13.317 [SPEAKER_01]: But now he put his supernatural power, the power of the Holy Ghost upon it, his hand came upon it, and now it elevated to a whole other level. 26:18.580 --> 26:20.241 [SPEAKER_01]: He makes your natural supernatural. 26:21.221 --> 26:22.422 [SPEAKER_01]: Now the facts are the facts. 26:23.923 --> 26:26.665 [SPEAKER_01]: The Holy Spirit so desires and longs to use you. 26:28.427 --> 26:30.269 [SPEAKER_01]: Remember what Jesus told His disciples? 26:31.049 --> 26:32.831 [SPEAKER_01]: He said, hey guys, I'm going away. 26:33.831 --> 26:34.332 [SPEAKER_01]: I'm leaving. 26:34.472 --> 26:35.673 [SPEAKER_01]: I'm going to be with my father. 26:36.974 --> 26:40.797 [SPEAKER_01]: I've done a lot of great things, but you are going to do even greater things. 26:42.318 --> 26:43.359 [SPEAKER_01]: So he tells us the disciples. 26:44.580 --> 26:46.982 [SPEAKER_01]: You know, the knucklehead group of guys. 26:48.223 --> 26:49.684 [SPEAKER_01]: You know, well, wait a second. 26:49.764 --> 26:50.004 [SPEAKER_01]: I mean, 26:51.093 --> 26:57.020 [SPEAKER_01]: Wow, just a few days ago, Peter was slicing off people's ears and everybody was arguing fighting. 26:57.040 --> 27:00.825 [SPEAKER_01]: They were falling asleep multiple times when Jesus told him, don't fall asleep. 27:00.865 --> 27:02.647 [SPEAKER_01]: You know what I mean? 27:02.727 --> 27:05.651 [SPEAKER_01]: And then they're going to do greater things that Jesus did. 27:08.826 --> 27:13.548 [SPEAKER_01]: The average Joe guys went from living a natural lifestyle to a supernatural lifestyle. 27:14.348 --> 27:16.549 [SPEAKER_01]: They had seen all the things that Jesus had done. 27:17.109 --> 27:18.970 [SPEAKER_01]: They experienced it all with him. 27:19.970 --> 27:24.612 [SPEAKER_01]: And all of a sudden now, God put his super on their natural. 27:25.431 --> 27:26.032 [SPEAKER_01]: Hallelujah. 27:26.612 --> 27:29.155 [SPEAKER_01]: And that's one of the things I love about the Holy Ghost. 27:29.735 --> 27:35.060 [SPEAKER_01]: He'll take the ordinary, average person, and annoyed them for the greater things. 27:35.120 --> 27:35.861 [SPEAKER_01]: Hallelujah. 27:36.462 --> 27:36.942 [SPEAKER_01]: Hallelujah. 27:36.962 --> 27:37.223 [SPEAKER_01]: Come on. 27:37.243 --> 27:40.506 [SPEAKER_01]: How many of you want to walk in the greater things? 27:40.626 --> 27:40.946 [SPEAKER_01]: Amen. 27:40.986 --> 27:41.307 [SPEAKER_01]: Come on. 27:41.607 --> 27:43.048 [SPEAKER_01]: A greater, annoying thing. 27:43.108 --> 27:43.829 [SPEAKER_01]: Hallelujah. 27:44.770 --> 27:46.331 [SPEAKER_01]: That's a supernatural lifestyle. 27:47.453 --> 27:49.795 [SPEAKER_01]: That's what it is to live supernaturally. 27:53.483 --> 27:58.608 [SPEAKER_01]: And so here me church, when it comes to the Holy Spirit, it's far beyond goosebumps. 28:00.831 --> 28:05.796 [SPEAKER_01]: It's far beyond falling out on the floor and shaking around and rolling, you know? 28:06.997 --> 28:08.399 [SPEAKER_01]: And it's far beyond all of that. 28:10.441 --> 28:14.105 [SPEAKER_01]: The Holy Spirit wants to make your natural supernatural 28:15.955 --> 28:21.518 [SPEAKER_01]: He wants you to experience some move of God and there's nothing wrong with falling out in the spirit and all that kind of stuff. 28:21.578 --> 28:23.138 [SPEAKER_01]: I'm not, you guys know me? 28:23.619 --> 28:24.519 [SPEAKER_01]: Not degrading that. 28:24.959 --> 28:25.340 [SPEAKER_01]: I love that. 28:25.520 --> 28:27.280 [SPEAKER_01]: But what I'm saying is it's far beyond that. 28:28.541 --> 28:29.782 [SPEAKER_01]: It's a daily lifestyle. 28:30.682 --> 28:31.663 [SPEAKER_01]: It's a daily routine. 28:31.963 --> 28:32.543 [SPEAKER_01]: Hallelujah. 28:33.463 --> 28:40.267 [SPEAKER_01]: And I want to warn us today to not be resistant to the supernatural. 28:41.415 --> 28:50.057 [SPEAKER_01]: in the supernatural lifestyle and the super that he puts on your natural and the supernatural power that he so desires and longs for you to operate in. 28:51.417 --> 28:59.119 [SPEAKER_01]: I want to warn us today not to resist that kind of life, not to resist that kind of lifestyle and that kind of leading. 28:59.939 --> 29:04.820 [SPEAKER_01]: Because look at what Acts chapter seven verse fifty one says, throw it up on the screen. 29:05.340 --> 29:10.081 [SPEAKER_01]: Acts chapter seven verse fifty one says, you stiff-necked people 29:12.250 --> 29:18.833 [SPEAKER_01]: With uncircum-sized hearts and ears, you are always resisting the Holy Spirit. 29:19.834 --> 29:22.675 [SPEAKER_01]: As your ancestors did, so do you. 29:27.357 --> 29:34.861 [SPEAKER_01]: The last thing I want God to say is to look down at me, say you stiff neck. 29:38.523 --> 29:40.164 [SPEAKER_01]: You resisted the Holy Spirit. 29:41.160 --> 29:46.924 [SPEAKER_01]: You resisted my precious spirit that I left for you and you resisted it. 29:51.407 --> 29:51.987 [SPEAKER_01]: No thank you. 29:54.489 --> 29:55.930 [SPEAKER_01]: I'm interested in the opposite. 29:59.553 --> 30:03.115 [SPEAKER_01]: I want him to say, well done my good and faithful servant. 30:06.758 --> 30:07.298 [SPEAKER_01]: Hallelujah. 30:09.833 --> 30:14.055 [SPEAKER_01]: Not you stiff-knit person who resisted the spirit. 30:16.056 --> 30:24.260 [SPEAKER_01]: When we come into church and when we have a move of the Holy Ghost and things happen just like we experienced today during worship, don't you dare get stiff-knit? 30:27.241 --> 30:27.781 [SPEAKER_01]: Seriously. 30:29.502 --> 30:32.603 [SPEAKER_01]: Now I'm not looking around seeing who's stiff-knit in the room, you know? 30:34.224 --> 30:35.725 [SPEAKER_01]: But I'm telling you the Holy Ghost is 30:37.306 --> 30:37.867 [SPEAKER_01]: And he knows. 30:38.867 --> 30:44.132 [SPEAKER_01]: And that's why he'll begin to move on certain people, but he'll just skip right over you because you're stiffenicked about it. 30:44.792 --> 30:46.954 [SPEAKER_01]: You're resisting the move of the Holy Spirit. 30:46.974 --> 30:51.758 [SPEAKER_01]: Well, my week was just so bad stiffenicked. 30:54.660 --> 30:55.081 [SPEAKER_01]: Guess what? 30:55.121 --> 31:00.025 [SPEAKER_01]: Well, so was the person on the other side of the room from you who was passionately going after the heart of the Father right now. 31:01.126 --> 31:04.008 [SPEAKER_01]: They didn't let their stinky week affect them. 31:04.889 --> 31:06.290 [SPEAKER_01]: They didn't resist the Holy Spirit. 31:09.261 --> 31:22.051 [SPEAKER_01]: Well, I just have, you know, just this morning when I woke up, I just felt so bad, but I just came anyways, and I'm just here, stiff necked, stiff necked. 31:23.833 --> 31:25.554 [SPEAKER_01]: Don't resist the Holy Spirit. 31:27.336 --> 31:37.044 [SPEAKER_01]: You know how many times people will text me and say, I can't make it to church this weekend or I can't make it to church today, I'm just sick or I don't feel good or, you know, or whatever, you know, all these things, I'm like, 31:38.283 --> 31:41.785 [SPEAKER_01]: Well, wait a second, shouldn't this be the place that you come to if you don't feel good? 31:44.407 --> 31:49.231 [SPEAKER_01]: I mean, if you're sick, shouldn't you actually come to church before you actually try to go to a doctor? 31:50.291 --> 31:52.293 [SPEAKER_01]: I mean, don't we serve the great physician here? 31:55.895 --> 31:57.076 [SPEAKER_01]: We all get tired, I know. 31:57.096 --> 31:59.077 [SPEAKER_01]: I get it. 32:00.078 --> 32:01.639 [SPEAKER_01]: We all get tired, and we all get worn out. 32:01.679 --> 32:03.260 [SPEAKER_01]: We all have long week sometimes. 32:04.761 --> 32:07.003 [SPEAKER_01]: It's that all pastor had such a long week. 32:09.312 --> 32:17.135 [SPEAKER_01]: had all these things going on and working, family, and all of these things, and I'm, yeah, me too. 32:18.515 --> 32:19.956 [SPEAKER_01]: You know, that's what I want to say. 32:21.196 --> 32:23.057 [SPEAKER_01]: But I'm thinking, what does the Holy Ghost say in? 32:24.398 --> 32:30.080 [SPEAKER_01]: The Holy Spirit wanted to invite you in, and you decline the invitation. 32:30.720 --> 32:35.842 [SPEAKER_01]: You didn't decline from Pastor Austin, and nothing to do with church or the city, and nothing to do with anybody here. 32:38.091 --> 32:41.892 [SPEAKER_01]: But you allowed that stiff next spirit, if you will, to come over you. 32:45.734 --> 32:48.855 [SPEAKER_01]: And somebody, I would, you know, anyways, I'm not going to do it. 32:48.895 --> 33:01.539 [SPEAKER_01]: But what I'd like to do right now is just say everybody grabbed the neck of the person next to you and just, then somebody's going to get their neck all out of whack. 33:01.579 --> 33:04.500 [SPEAKER_01]: And there'd be like this, I got to go with Kyle repracting now, Pastor. 33:07.540 --> 33:08.341 [SPEAKER_01]: I don't need none of that. 33:11.483 --> 33:13.405 [SPEAKER_01]: Sometimes you just gotta do it yourself then, okay? 33:13.465 --> 33:15.206 [SPEAKER_01]: Just make sure you're not stiff neck this morning. 33:18.549 --> 33:19.369 [SPEAKER_01]: Now let me say this. 33:20.070 --> 33:26.495 [SPEAKER_01]: Make sure before you walk in those doors on Sundays, you're not stiff neck. 33:30.858 --> 33:31.399 [SPEAKER_01]: Is that okay? 33:32.320 --> 33:32.980 [SPEAKER_01]: Can I be real? 33:33.461 --> 33:35.202 [SPEAKER_01]: I mean, you know, like, 33:37.227 --> 33:38.748 [SPEAKER_01]: Take care of it before you get here. 33:41.530 --> 33:43.551 [SPEAKER_01]: I mean, there's nothing wrong with laying it at Jesus' feet. 33:44.652 --> 33:46.053 [SPEAKER_01]: We had to do that during worship today. 33:46.073 --> 33:47.173 [SPEAKER_01]: There ain't nothing wrong with that. 33:48.174 --> 33:53.037 [SPEAKER_01]: But can you lay it at Jesus' feet before you walk in the doors? 33:53.097 --> 34:01.803 [SPEAKER_01]: When you have your opportunity or five minutes, twenty minute, fifty minute drive to get here, whatever it takes, you've got time to lay it at the altar. 34:02.928 --> 34:17.242 [SPEAKER_01]: I mean, just make your car an altar before the presence of the Lord and just get rid of all of it and just say, God, if I'm stiff neck this morning, loosen me up a little bit because I want to hear from your spirit and I want to experience what the Spirit of God has for me today. 34:18.142 --> 34:18.743 [SPEAKER_01]: Come on now. 34:19.704 --> 34:21.386 [SPEAKER_01]: Then you know what we won't have. 34:22.166 --> 34:24.549 [SPEAKER_01]: We won't have, we won't have stiff neck, that's right. 34:24.849 --> 34:26.631 [SPEAKER_01]: But we won't have hindrances. 34:27.964 --> 34:31.045 [SPEAKER_01]: We will have things holding us back. 34:31.085 --> 34:37.628 [SPEAKER_01]: Because if you're resistant, then that means that there's a resistance that all of us feel and we have to try to break for you. 34:40.189 --> 34:43.990 [SPEAKER_01]: And so that's why Melissa will say, there's a heaviness here today. 34:45.531 --> 34:51.473 [SPEAKER_01]: So then we had to go to war and the spirit for heaviness because heaviness wasn't broken before it came in. 34:52.858 --> 34:53.399 [SPEAKER_01]: See what I'm saying? 34:54.059 --> 34:59.605 [SPEAKER_01]: So we go to war, we take care of these things, even if it's in the car on the way here, put on that worship music. 34:59.645 --> 35:01.527 [SPEAKER_01]: That's what we do on Sunday mornings. 35:01.547 --> 35:02.889 [SPEAKER_01]: We just put on that worship music. 35:02.909 --> 35:07.614 [SPEAKER_01]: We're turning it up nice and loud, and we make sure that we're getting ourselves ready. 35:09.696 --> 35:14.662 [SPEAKER_01]: I don't say to Melissa and the kids, okay, now everybody pray in the spirit for five minutes. 35:15.754 --> 35:18.715 [SPEAKER_01]: I don't do that, but we at least kind of set the atmosphere. 35:19.515 --> 35:24.357 [SPEAKER_01]: And at least start to get prepared if you will for what we're about to do. 35:25.818 --> 35:27.378 [SPEAKER_01]: We're about to experience. 35:28.699 --> 35:30.799 [SPEAKER_01]: So there's some little things that you can do. 35:30.819 --> 35:33.520 [SPEAKER_01]: And this is on the daily. 35:33.540 --> 35:34.501 [SPEAKER_01]: I'm not just talking about church. 35:34.561 --> 35:35.841 [SPEAKER_01]: I mean, this is a daily. 35:36.421 --> 35:37.642 [SPEAKER_01]: Before you go to work, hello. 35:38.822 --> 35:43.326 [SPEAKER_01]: Hello, I mean, come on, just, just, okay, hold me go say it. 35:44.808 --> 35:46.409 [SPEAKER_01]: I'm gonna do this thing right today. 35:46.429 --> 35:51.834 [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, even if that person drives me nuts again, like they've been doing all week. 35:56.659 --> 35:57.680 [SPEAKER_01]: I ain't gonna be stiff-necked. 36:05.586 --> 36:07.467 [SPEAKER_01]: Now, I don't want to be called stiff neck, right? 36:08.028 --> 36:22.838 [SPEAKER_01]: I mean, but besides being saved, honestly, there's nothing more important than having the Holy Spirit in your life and full operation and being naturally supernatural, amen. 36:23.978 --> 36:30.643 [SPEAKER_01]: And I could tell you firsthand that I don't know where I would be without the Holy Spirit's operation, a part of my life. 36:31.903 --> 36:32.183 [SPEAKER_01]: Amen. 36:32.623 --> 36:33.724 [SPEAKER_01]: Many of you will say the same. 36:34.404 --> 36:37.306 [SPEAKER_01]: Without the Holy Ghost, I don't know where I'd be. 36:37.326 --> 36:39.847 [SPEAKER_01]: I need the comforter, right? 36:39.927 --> 36:48.752 [SPEAKER_01]: I need the counselor, every part of the supernatural spirit of God and full operation in my life. 36:48.812 --> 36:49.532 [SPEAKER_01]: That's what I need. 36:49.572 --> 36:50.693 [SPEAKER_01]: That's what I want, right? 36:51.313 --> 36:52.594 [SPEAKER_01]: And that should be our prayer. 36:52.634 --> 36:54.014 [SPEAKER_01]: That should be what we desire. 36:54.995 --> 36:55.875 [SPEAKER_01]: More than anything. 36:56.916 --> 36:57.276 [SPEAKER_01]: Amen. 36:59.057 --> 37:00.658 [SPEAKER_01]: So, number one, 37:01.800 --> 37:02.680 [SPEAKER_01]: He invites you in. 37:02.900 --> 37:05.441 [SPEAKER_01]: Number two, he makes your natural supernatural. 37:06.541 --> 37:12.482 [SPEAKER_01]: And number three is this, and we'll probably spend more time in next week or week after I don't know. 37:12.522 --> 37:17.743 [SPEAKER_01]: We'll see, but in upcoming days, but he gives you spiritual gifts. 37:19.383 --> 37:20.863 [SPEAKER_01]: He gives you spiritual gifts. 37:21.003 --> 37:28.245 [SPEAKER_01]: These are supernatural spiritual gifts that the Spirit of God blesses you with. 37:29.865 --> 37:30.065 [SPEAKER_01]: Okay? 37:33.012 --> 37:42.237 [SPEAKER_01]: And I really almost need a whole series on spiritual gifts because there's so much to unpack with it. 37:42.277 --> 37:45.118 [SPEAKER_01]: But let's look at Hebrews chapter two, verse four. 37:45.899 --> 37:47.220 [SPEAKER_01]: Hebrews chapter two, verse four. 37:47.260 --> 37:57.425 [SPEAKER_01]: It says, at the same time, God also testified by signs and wonders, various miracles and distributions of gifts from the Holy Spirit according to His will. 37:58.666 --> 38:02.268 [SPEAKER_01]: So he distributes these gifts to us, okay? 38:03.265 --> 38:19.018 [SPEAKER_01]: So it's amazing because, you know, as the power of God is in full operation, one of the operations that he's doing here besides the signs and wonders and miracles is that man, he's given his children gifts. 38:20.039 --> 38:22.601 [SPEAKER_01]: He's blessing us with spiritual gifts, amen. 38:23.461 --> 38:32.649 [SPEAKER_01]: So not only does the Holy Spirit give us supernatural abilities that we otherwise couldn't do without him operating in our lives, but he also gives us gifts. 38:33.883 --> 38:37.644 [SPEAKER_01]: These aren't present type gifts, okay? 38:38.444 --> 38:40.444 [SPEAKER_01]: These are supernatural gifts. 38:41.325 --> 38:47.566 [SPEAKER_01]: These are spiritual, yeah, holy gifts, but they're supernatural, spiritual, they're spiritual things. 38:48.546 --> 38:57.628 [SPEAKER_01]: And let me say to you today that the Holy Spirit is the answer and the weapon that we need to have in our daily lives. 38:59.162 --> 39:05.727 [SPEAKER_01]: He is the answer and he is the weapon that we need in our daily lives. 39:06.448 --> 39:08.349 [SPEAKER_01]: The Holy Spirit is, amen. 39:09.510 --> 39:15.494 [SPEAKER_01]: And a lot of believers love Jesus, but they don't have the Holy Spirit operating in their lives. 39:16.055 --> 39:17.816 [SPEAKER_01]: So they're missing out on a whole lot. 39:19.177 --> 39:19.718 [SPEAKER_01]: They really are. 39:20.907 --> 39:37.157 [SPEAKER_01]: Some churches, some denominations, whatever traditions or whatever will teach you that, maybe you just gotta get saved and live for him at the Holy Spirit's not an operation anymore, that was for the Bible, that was for the New Testament days, all that kind of stuff, that's a bunch of baloney. 39:40.339 --> 39:43.981 [SPEAKER_01]: Same spirit that raised Jesus from the dead lives also in you. 39:44.561 --> 39:45.902 [SPEAKER_01]: That's the scripture that I read. 39:47.285 --> 39:49.807 [SPEAKER_01]: Okay, so the Holy Spirit hasn't gone away. 39:49.827 --> 39:52.048 [SPEAKER_01]: The Holy Spirit didn't go to sleep. 39:53.209 --> 39:58.152 [SPEAKER_01]: The Holy Spirit hasn't left and maybe making a grand entrance again one day now. 39:58.732 --> 40:00.153 [SPEAKER_01]: The Holy Spirit is here. 40:00.173 --> 40:01.794 [SPEAKER_01]: Hallelujah. 40:06.437 --> 40:08.258 [SPEAKER_01]: I want to be able to prophesy. 40:09.649 --> 40:11.350 [SPEAKER_01]: I want to be able to speak in tongues. 40:12.070 --> 40:21.895 [SPEAKER_01]: I want to be able to flow in healing and all the wonderful things that are made available to us by the Holy Spirit, these gifts that he distributes to us. 40:22.516 --> 40:26.418 [SPEAKER_01]: But let me tell you, they're only available by the Spirit. 40:27.899 --> 40:29.659 [SPEAKER_01]: They're not available any other way. 40:30.480 --> 40:32.241 [SPEAKER_01]: They're available by the Spirit. 40:33.501 --> 40:35.963 [SPEAKER_01]: Okay, so you got to be Spirit filled. 40:37.020 --> 40:40.283 [SPEAKER_01]: I mean, you got to be filled up with the Holy Ghost. 40:41.144 --> 40:44.106 [SPEAKER_01]: It's just something that we got to do. 40:44.166 --> 40:45.267 [SPEAKER_01]: We got to accept it. 40:45.287 --> 40:48.370 [SPEAKER_01]: We got to allow that in our lives. 40:48.770 --> 40:55.556 [SPEAKER_01]: I will say not wanting the Holy Spirit and not wanting to be filled with the Spirit is what he's talking about being stiffened. 40:56.837 --> 40:59.160 [SPEAKER_01]: We got to be filled with the Holy Spirit. 41:00.497 --> 41:07.622 [SPEAKER_01]: So that we can prophesy, that we can pray for the sick, all of those things, okay? 41:08.343 --> 41:09.344 [SPEAKER_01]: It's so important. 41:10.585 --> 41:14.548 [SPEAKER_01]: And it's the Holy Spirit, that distributes the gifts. 41:14.608 --> 41:15.468 [SPEAKER_01]: Now what are the gifts? 41:15.549 --> 41:17.490 [SPEAKER_01]: Well, we got Word of Wisdom, okay? 41:18.211 --> 41:26.517 [SPEAKER_01]: So you'll have words of wisdom that the Holy Spirit will allow us to operate in, a Word of knowledge, okay? 41:27.584 --> 41:28.364 [SPEAKER_01]: A word of knowledge. 41:29.385 --> 41:30.205 [SPEAKER_01]: That's another gift. 41:31.205 --> 41:31.505 [SPEAKER_01]: Faith. 41:32.145 --> 41:33.666 [SPEAKER_01]: That's the third gift that's on the list. 41:34.526 --> 41:35.686 [SPEAKER_01]: Well, I'm saved. 41:35.746 --> 41:36.387 [SPEAKER_01]: I have faith. 41:37.267 --> 41:39.628 [SPEAKER_01]: There's a difference of having faith and having a gift of faith. 41:42.128 --> 41:43.049 [SPEAKER_01]: Gotta have a gift of faith. 41:44.269 --> 41:44.969 [SPEAKER_01]: Gift of healing. 41:44.989 --> 41:50.351 [SPEAKER_01]: Okay, being able to to to operate in healing. 41:50.371 --> 41:52.251 [SPEAKER_01]: Okay. 41:52.291 --> 41:53.252 [SPEAKER_01]: Gift of miracles. 41:54.092 --> 41:54.412 [SPEAKER_01]: All right. 41:55.744 --> 42:11.629 [SPEAKER_01]: Seeing those signs and wonders and miracles and allowing those miracles to happen through you by the Spirit, the gift of prophecy, prophesying, speaking things out as the Spirit gives you utterance to speak. 42:12.569 --> 42:14.470 [SPEAKER_01]: You're declaring things that are to come. 42:15.210 --> 42:16.110 [SPEAKER_01]: You're prophesying. 42:16.130 --> 42:17.691 [SPEAKER_01]: Okay? 42:18.371 --> 42:21.932 [SPEAKER_01]: If somebody comes up to you and says that I have a prophetic word for you, okay? 42:23.553 --> 42:24.793 [SPEAKER_01]: Well, great. 42:26.488 --> 42:30.370 [SPEAKER_01]: Now, you can hear it, but remember, when we talked about last week, we got to filter things. 42:32.011 --> 42:34.692 [SPEAKER_01]: So somebody walks up to you and they say, because this is happened. 42:35.373 --> 42:39.095 [SPEAKER_01]: Somebody walks up to you and says, I have a prophetic word from the Lord for you for your life. 42:39.895 --> 42:41.016 [SPEAKER_01]: Oh, praise God, what is it? 42:41.036 --> 42:48.460 [SPEAKER_01]: And then they say, the Lord told me that you're going to die in three months and you need to start doing that. 42:48.680 --> 42:49.661 [SPEAKER_01]: That's not prophetic. 42:51.362 --> 42:51.962 [SPEAKER_01]: That's pathetic. 42:53.677 --> 42:57.278 [SPEAKER_01]: because prophetic is edification. 42:58.279 --> 43:03.261 [SPEAKER_01]: So if it doesn't edify and if it doesn't exhort the church, it's actually not prophetic. 43:04.441 --> 43:11.964 [SPEAKER_01]: A lot of people will say, well, you know, there was a prophecy that was spoken that this was going to happen in something bad. 43:13.004 --> 43:16.646 [SPEAKER_01]: It's not prophecy, maybe it was actually a word of knowledge that came. 43:17.686 --> 43:19.167 [SPEAKER_01]: But in the church, we like to 43:20.705 --> 43:22.846 [SPEAKER_01]: who things up into something that it's not. 43:23.227 --> 43:31.312 [SPEAKER_01]: So maybe the Holy Spirit dropped the word of knowledge that needed to be released, and it was released, but we call it prophetic when it wasn't actually ever prophetic. 43:32.292 --> 43:40.117 [SPEAKER_01]: So you have a lot of people who say their prophets that are actually not prophets, they just operate in the gift of knowledge. 43:43.039 --> 43:43.620 [SPEAKER_01]: Maybe get this? 43:44.941 --> 43:46.482 [SPEAKER_01]: Because this is so real, because 43:47.373 --> 43:50.894 [SPEAKER_01]: This is a real modern day issue in the church. 43:52.455 --> 44:01.777 [SPEAKER_01]: This is a real modern day issue in the church that everybody thinks that they're a prophet or everybody thinks that they're a pastor or an evangelist or whatever. 44:01.797 --> 44:04.918 [SPEAKER_01]: I mean, you name it, but specifically in the area of prophecy. 44:04.998 --> 44:05.839 [SPEAKER_01]: And why is that? 44:05.899 --> 44:10.620 [SPEAKER_01]: Because the enemy likes to distort this because of what scriptures say about prophecy. 44:11.950 --> 44:17.092 [SPEAKER_01]: In Scripture, say that it is better to prophesy that it is to have any of the other gifts. 44:17.772 --> 44:39.119 [SPEAKER_01]: So people will read that and they'll say, oh, then I wanna prophesy, I wanna have a prophetic voice and they'll start saying things and maybe it is really from the Spirit of God, but it could be a word of knowledge, it could be a word of wisdom, but that does not mean it's prophetic because prophetic is for the edification of something that is to come. 44:42.200 --> 44:51.668 [SPEAKER_01]: So when someone comes up to you and says, I have a prophetic word for you, you can listen, but just really make sure that it's prophetic, okay? 44:52.889 --> 45:03.078 [SPEAKER_01]: And if they say, you know, oh, the Spirit of God spoke to me about that, it's not a prophetic word, then you can stop and you can say, thank you for that word of knowledge. 45:05.640 --> 45:07.442 [SPEAKER_01]: Kindly, respectfully, you can say that. 45:08.553 --> 45:13.574 [SPEAKER_01]: Because we got to get people to get the understanding that not everybody's a prophet. 45:14.415 --> 45:20.036 [SPEAKER_01]: I mean, we've got to get that because it will destroy the church if we don't get it together. 45:23.477 --> 45:24.277 [SPEAKER_01]: Anyways, that's that. 45:25.077 --> 45:25.957 [SPEAKER_01]: Just needed to say that. 45:26.878 --> 45:32.299 [SPEAKER_01]: But we also have distinguishing or some of your versions of your Bible may say, discerning of spirits. 45:33.319 --> 45:35.380 [SPEAKER_01]: That's another gift to discerning of spirit. 45:35.998 --> 45:37.899 [SPEAKER_01]: We also have the gift of tongues. 45:38.740 --> 45:40.161 [SPEAKER_01]: So be able to speak in tongues. 45:40.701 --> 45:44.644 [SPEAKER_01]: But then also following that, the last gift is the interpretation of tongues. 45:46.089 --> 45:48.832 [SPEAKER_01]: So we have tongues, but we also have the interpretation of tongues. 45:49.172 --> 45:51.254 [SPEAKER_01]: Territation of tongues is really a beautiful thing. 45:52.295 --> 45:55.278 [SPEAKER_01]: And I've seen it happen many times. 45:56.199 --> 45:58.561 [SPEAKER_01]: I have seen an interpretation that wasn't interpretation. 46:00.943 --> 46:03.086 [SPEAKER_01]: That is not what it's like. 46:03.506 --> 46:06.088 [SPEAKER_01]: That was what you wanted to say, what you made up. 46:06.709 --> 46:09.632 [SPEAKER_01]: Again, we have to really be careful 46:10.437 --> 46:20.539 [SPEAKER_01]: And when it comes to the spiritual gifts because what tends to happen is that the enemy will use it for spiritual abuse to the church. 46:21.560 --> 46:36.123 [SPEAKER_01]: So what could be an interpretation of tongues is actually something completely off and the enemy used a person to say something that was totally south in comparison to what was actually spoken and it's actually abuses the church as a whole. 46:36.765 --> 46:39.048 [SPEAKER_01]: because they're performing in spiritual abuse. 46:39.688 --> 46:40.209 [SPEAKER_01]: You understand? 46:40.609 --> 46:41.670 [SPEAKER_01]: That's what I'm saying with all this. 46:41.710 --> 46:43.332 [SPEAKER_01]: Actually, we can have a whole series about it. 46:43.352 --> 46:44.694 [SPEAKER_01]: We just don't have time for it today. 46:47.136 --> 46:50.760 [SPEAKER_01]: And so here's the amazing thing about all of these gifts that I mentioned, okay? 46:51.361 --> 46:56.606 [SPEAKER_01]: All of these gifts is that we can flow and be used in those if we desire them. 46:57.679 --> 47:00.900 [SPEAKER_01]: If we desire those gifts, we can operate in those gifts. 47:01.821 --> 47:10.224 [SPEAKER_01]: Many people have bought into the line, into the deception, into the false theology that you can have one gift, but you can't have all the gifts. 47:12.625 --> 47:18.688 [SPEAKER_01]: The Lord will give his people one gift or two gifts or whatever. 47:18.748 --> 47:20.429 [SPEAKER_01]: That's not true at all. 47:20.549 --> 47:21.889 [SPEAKER_01]: It's actually unbiblical. 47:21.909 --> 47:24.870 [SPEAKER_01]: So I'm going to give you the scripture that back set up. 47:24.970 --> 47:26.331 [SPEAKER_01]: First Corinthians chapter twelve. 47:27.049 --> 47:28.209 [SPEAKER_01]: versus four through seven. 47:29.429 --> 47:31.190 [SPEAKER_01]: And Felipe, you can come up now. 47:32.170 --> 47:35.671 [SPEAKER_01]: It says, now, there are different gifts, but the same spirit. 47:36.491 --> 47:38.711 [SPEAKER_01]: So now, making it very clear, here's the gifts again. 47:39.651 --> 47:41.952 [SPEAKER_01]: There are different ministries, but the same Lord. 47:42.532 --> 47:45.673 [SPEAKER_01]: And there are different activities, but the same God, watch right here. 47:45.693 --> 47:46.113 [SPEAKER_01]: This is it. 47:46.193 --> 47:47.153 [SPEAKER_01]: This is the key part right here. 47:47.573 --> 47:53.154 [SPEAKER_01]: But the same God activates each gift in each person. 47:55.250 --> 48:08.781 [SPEAKER_01]: So if you grew up in a denomination, or if you had somebody tell you, well, you can't be prophetic and have tongues, or you can't operate in word of knowledge, and that's wrong. 48:09.501 --> 48:15.406 [SPEAKER_01]: Because the same God activates each gift and each person. 48:16.955 --> 48:21.157 [SPEAKER_01]: So it's already activated within you, all of these gifts. 48:21.997 --> 48:26.799 [SPEAKER_01]: So you may automatically say, well, if a gift of prophecy is within me, does that make me a profit? 48:26.939 --> 48:27.119 [SPEAKER_01]: No. 48:28.920 --> 48:33.842 [SPEAKER_01]: You have the gift of it, but that doesn't mean you are a profit, okay? 48:34.582 --> 48:38.284 [SPEAKER_01]: Just like you wouldn't say that about tongues or anything else. 48:38.884 --> 48:40.085 [SPEAKER_01]: You have the gift of it. 48:40.975 --> 48:46.558 [SPEAKER_01]: Okay, so he's graciously blessed you with the Holy Spirit. 48:47.158 --> 48:54.863 [SPEAKER_01]: And the Holy Spirit says, I'm not gonna just come upon you and live within you and dwell and lead and guide you and guide you into all truth and all that. 48:55.163 --> 48:58.885 [SPEAKER_01]: But I'm also going to give you these spiritual gifts. 49:00.146 --> 49:07.110 [SPEAKER_01]: Now how they're activated and how much they're used and practiced and really pulled out is up to us. 49:08.907 --> 49:12.308 [SPEAKER_01]: But again, it's all goes circles back around to his invitation. 49:13.729 --> 49:18.331 [SPEAKER_01]: So maybe he put the gift of prophecy or whatever in you. 49:18.351 --> 49:20.312 [SPEAKER_01]: I'm just using that one because it's just easy to use. 49:20.352 --> 49:24.313 [SPEAKER_01]: But maybe he put that in you and you've never fully operated in that. 49:24.614 --> 49:26.434 [SPEAKER_01]: You've never spoken anything prophetically. 49:27.175 --> 49:27.815 [SPEAKER_01]: That's okay. 49:28.115 --> 49:29.676 [SPEAKER_01]: That doesn't mean it's not in you. 49:29.816 --> 49:30.216 [SPEAKER_01]: It's in you. 49:32.380 --> 49:36.142 [SPEAKER_01]: But maybe the person next to you is always operates in that. 49:36.702 --> 49:38.463 [SPEAKER_01]: It's always speaking things prophetically. 49:38.964 --> 49:45.027 [SPEAKER_01]: Well, it's just that gift is just more known more prevalent within them than the other gifts are. 49:45.067 --> 49:45.767 [SPEAKER_01]: You see what I'm saying? 49:46.168 --> 49:53.852 [SPEAKER_01]: So we all have these gifts, but they don't always all come out the same way, right? 49:54.922 --> 49:58.668 [SPEAKER_01]: They're not maybe at a hundred percent full steam at all times. 49:58.689 --> 50:07.023 [SPEAKER_01]: Okay, but maybe one of them is, or maybe if two of them are, but we all have the ability each gift was given to each one of us. 50:07.784 --> 50:08.025 [SPEAKER_01]: Amen? 50:10.841 --> 50:12.642 [SPEAKER_00]: Thank you for listening to today's message. 50:12.982 --> 50:16.345 [SPEAKER_00]: We pray you were inspired, challenged, and marked by the word you heard. 50:16.965 --> 50:21.608 [SPEAKER_00]: If this message blessed you today, we encourage you to subscribe to the Church of the City podcast. 50:22.228 --> 50:26.892 [SPEAKER_00]: There you can find more faith-filled messages to uplift you and help you on your journey of faith. 50:27.732 --> 50:36.246 [SPEAKER_00]: For more information about Church of the City, head on over to www.cotcdfw.com. 50:37.008 --> 50:40.934 [SPEAKER_00]: And until next time, remember this, the best is yet to come.