[SPEAKER_01]: Turn with me to Acts chapter 19, Acts chapter 19.
[SPEAKER_01]: We're going to begin reading in verse one.
[SPEAKER_01]: We're going to go down through first six, Acts chapter 19.
[SPEAKER_01]: Verses one through six, it will be on the screen.
[SPEAKER_01]: If you want to follow that way, it says, when Apollous was in Corinth, Paul traveled through the interior regions and came to Ephesus, he found some disciples and asked them, did you receive the Holy Spirit when you believed?
[SPEAKER_01]: I want you to turn to somebody and ask them that same question.
[SPEAKER_01]: Did you receive the Holy Spirit when you believed?
[SPEAKER_01]: Come on now, there we go.
[SPEAKER_01]: Well, here we go.
[SPEAKER_01]: Look what it says.
[SPEAKER_01]: It says, no, they told him.
[SPEAKER_01]: We haven't even heard that there is a Holy Spirit.
[SPEAKER_01]: Then what baptism were you baptized with?
[SPEAKER_01]: He asked them, with John's baptism they replied.
[SPEAKER_01]: Paul said, John baptized with the baptism of repentance, telling the people that they should believe in the one who would come after him that is in Jesus.
[SPEAKER_01]: When they heard this, they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus.
[SPEAKER_01]: And when Paul had laid his hands on them, the Holy Spirit came on them, and they began to speak in other languages, and they began to prophesy.
[SPEAKER_01]: So if you're taking notes this morning, the title of today's message is actually the same question.
[SPEAKER_01]: Did you receive?
[SPEAKER_01]: Hallelujah.
[SPEAKER_01]: Thank you, Lord.
[SPEAKER_01]: Let's pray, Father, we thank you, Lord, for your Word this morning.
[SPEAKER_01]: We thank you, Father, for teaching us a new thing.
[SPEAKER_01]: We thank you for your Holy Spirit.
[SPEAKER_01]: That is already so known and so evident here this morning.
[SPEAKER_01]: We thank you, Holy Spirit, for continuing to touch people right now.
[SPEAKER_01]: We thank you, Father, God, that we will be led by your voice, led by your Spirit today.
[SPEAKER_01]: We thank you that you are in control, you're in charge.
[SPEAKER_01]: We receive your word now, and Jesus name everybody said, Amen, hallelujah.
[SPEAKER_01]: So, what exactly is the baptism in the Holy Spirit?
[SPEAKER_01]: Well, in order to know what the baptism in the Holy Spirit is, we need to know what it is not first, okay?
[SPEAKER_01]: The baptism in the Holy Spirit is not just for a specific denomination or a certain kind
[SPEAKER_01]: The baptism in the Holy Spirit is not a toy or a mystery item that God is dangling in front of us and front of our faces hoping that we snatch.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's nothing like that, but I can tell you that the Holy Spirit was never intended to be an option.
[SPEAKER_01]: The Holy Spirit was never intended to be an option.
[SPEAKER_01]: What I have come to find many times is that we make the Holy Spirit an option.
[SPEAKER_01]: Maybe I'll be baptized in the Spirit, maybe I won't.
[SPEAKER_01]: Maybe I'll operate in the gifts of the Spirit, maybe I won't.
[SPEAKER_01]: And it was never intended to be something that we can choose if we want it or if we don't want it.
[SPEAKER_01]: So here me this morning, the Holy Spirit is not an option.
[SPEAKER_01]: But at the same time, living a spirit filled life and being activated by the Holy Ghost is not required to get into heaven.
[SPEAKER_01]: Just like baptism in water is not required to get into heaven.
[SPEAKER_01]: There are denominations that will teach that.
[SPEAKER_01]: There are denominations that will tell you in order for you to go to heaven.
[SPEAKER_01]: You have to be baptized in water.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's false.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's false doctrine.
[SPEAKER_01]: There's nowhere that says that in the Word of God.
[SPEAKER_01]: Is it a good thing to be baptized in water?
[SPEAKER_01]: 100% should we all absolutely we should?
[SPEAKER_01]: but that does not grant you access into heaven.
[SPEAKER_01]: Nor does being filled by the Holy Spirit in living a spirit-filled life give you access to heaven either.
[SPEAKER_01]: It does not.
[SPEAKER_01]: But just because it does not give you access into heaven does not mean that we make it an option for our lives.
[SPEAKER_01]: God never presented the Holy Spirit and said, well, if you want, you can have the Holy Spirit or you don't have to, it's totally up to you.
[SPEAKER_01]: I never read that anywhere in the Word of God.
[SPEAKER_01]: But I read many places all throughout the New Testament where he says, and he commands, be filled with the Holy Spirit.
[SPEAKER_01]: So to God, it's not an option.
[SPEAKER_01]: And so, therefore, if it's not an option to God, I don't believe that it should be an option for us.
[SPEAKER_01]: But we should be filled with the baptism of the Holy Spirit.
[SPEAKER_01]: Many denominations will preach certain theologies when it comes to the baptism in the Holy Spirit.
[SPEAKER_01]: There's a lot of people that would say that you can get baptized in the Spirit, but tongues are crazy or tongues are from the Bible days and all these kinds of things.
[SPEAKER_01]: You'll hear a million different kinds of things out there.
[SPEAKER_01]: But you know, and I know that the only way that you can get to heaven is just by accept and Jesus has your Lord and Savior.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's called on the name of the Lord that you may be saved, right?
[SPEAKER_01]: And so our entry point into heaven, our access into eternity with Jesus, for all of eternity is by saying yes to Him, receiving Him as our Savior, amen.
[SPEAKER_01]: But then what comes after that is this amazing opportunity that Jesus presents to us.
[SPEAKER_01]: And He says, you can, you're going to heaven, that's great.
[SPEAKER_01]: You've accepted me as your Savior, but I'm also offering you my Spirit.
[SPEAKER_01]: And I'm grateful that he would offer us his spirit because I don't know about you, but I want the spirit of the living God in my life.
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, just think about that for a moment.
[SPEAKER_01]: The fact that God, the Father, would say, I'm not only going to save you and rescue you out of the pit of hell, but I'm also going to offer my spirit for you to receive.
[SPEAKER_01]: And my spirit, the Bible says, is the comforter, and is the counselor.
[SPEAKER_01]: In other words, whenever we're going through stuff, it's the Holy Spirit that comforts us.
[SPEAKER_01]: But also when we need help, because we need help a lot, right?
[SPEAKER_01]: Come on, is there any real people in here?
[SPEAKER_01]: We need help a lot in the way that we get help from God is by the Holy Spirit.
[SPEAKER_01]: God says, I have empowered my spirit to be the helper for you that you need to live your life the way that I intended for you to live.
[SPEAKER_01]: And so Jesus freely offers up his precious Holy Spirit for you and I so that we can have the counselor, we can have the confeder, but it also says that the Holy Spirit will be our guide.
[SPEAKER_01]: That means in everything that we do, every decision that we make, everywhere we go, we have the Holy Spirit as our guide.
[SPEAKER_01]: He is guiding us in all things, amen?
[SPEAKER_01]: And I don't know about you, but I want to be led by him.
[SPEAKER_01]: If I feel like I'm supposed to go this way, but the Holy Spirit is saying, no, we need to go this way, that's what I want.
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't want to make a decision that leads me down a path that is no good.
[SPEAKER_01]: Or leads me down a path that I'll make mistakes or whatever it may be.
[SPEAKER_01]: I need the Holy Spirit, so David, come help me real quick.
[SPEAKER_01]: I need the Holy Spirit to be what the Holy Spirit is in my life.
[SPEAKER_01]: So he's not only my confeder in my counselor, but he's my guide.
[SPEAKER_01]: And so the Holy Spirit links arms with me.
[SPEAKER_01]: And everywhere I go, everything I do.
[SPEAKER_01]: If I turn this way, the Holy Spirit's with me.
[SPEAKER_01]: If I go this way, the Holy Spirit is with me.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm grateful that the Holy Spirit never leaves me.
[SPEAKER_01]: You're a good Holy Spirit.
[SPEAKER_01]: You're done great.
[SPEAKER_01]: So even if watch this, watch this, because this is big, even if I think I turn my back on him,
[SPEAKER_01]: He's still with me.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, that's worth of clap right there.
[SPEAKER_01]: Even when I feel like I'm falling short or I'm going backwards and just my life is not doing the best and I'm just making poor decisions guess what?
[SPEAKER_01]: I look in the Holy Spirit still with me.
[SPEAKER_01]: Why?
[SPEAKER_01]: Because he is promised to be with me forever.
[SPEAKER_01]: The Holy Spirit doesn't say, oh, well, forget you.
[SPEAKER_01]: And let go of me.
[SPEAKER_01]: No, the Holy Spirit says, I'm going to link arms with you.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm going to be your comfort.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm going to be your counselor.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm going to be your helper, your guide, and everything that you do in life every single day, no matter what you face, no matter what you do.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm going to be by your side.
[SPEAKER_01]: And that's the power of the Holy Spirit, amen.
[SPEAKER_01]: And so if that's the way that the Holy Spirit is and if that's how he operates and if that is his purpose for my life, I've got to have him.
[SPEAKER_01]: I just got to have him.
[SPEAKER_01]: I've got to have the Holy Spirit.
[SPEAKER_01]: I can't do without.
[SPEAKER_01]: Right?
[SPEAKER_01]: Because oftentimes in life we try.
[SPEAKER_01]: We try to do without, right?
[SPEAKER_01]: And we make our own decisions, and we do this, and we do that, and it always leads down a path of destruction.
[SPEAKER_01]: Eventually, it might not be right away, but eventually it will come on.
[SPEAKER_01]: How many of you know that?
[SPEAKER_01]: You've tried doing things without God, and you found out really quickly that doing things with God is a whole lot better.
[SPEAKER_01]: So if the Holy Spirit isn't required, quote unquote, to go to heaven, then why is being baptized in the Holy Spirit so important?
[SPEAKER_01]: Because listen, the Holy Spirit is the greatest source of joy and power that you as a believer and we as a church could ever experience.
[SPEAKER_01]: We need the power of the Holy Spirit.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's the devil that has turned the Holy Spirit and the Holy Spirit's work into some weird stuff, crazy stuff.
[SPEAKER_01]: People get terrified when a preacher starts talking about the Holy Ghost.
[SPEAKER_01]: They're like, whoa, I don't wanna hear about God being a good God.
[SPEAKER_01]: I wanna hear about God being faithful.
[SPEAKER_01]: I wanna hear about salvation.
[SPEAKER_01]: I wanna hear about this and I wanna hear about that.
[SPEAKER_01]: But if you're gonna talk about the Holy Spirit, I don't want nothing to do with that.
[SPEAKER_01]: And can I tell you, the Holy Spirit is not weird?
[SPEAKER_01]: Hello, the Holy Spirit is not weird.
[SPEAKER_01]: The Holy Spirit is not spooky.
[SPEAKER_01]: And the Holy Spirit is certainly not crazy.
[SPEAKER_01]: The Holy Spirit is not crazy.
[SPEAKER_01]: But the Holy Spirit is the very living spirit of God that the Bible says is making daily intercession for us and is working on our behalf at all times.
[SPEAKER_01]: So when nobody else is praying for you, you've got the Holy Spirit that is praying for you around the clock.
[SPEAKER_01]: When you are crying yourself to sleep at night, the Holy Spirit is interceding on your behalf.
[SPEAKER_01]: When you're going through a storm, when you're going through chaos, the Holy Spirit is making intercession for you, and he is working all things out for your good.
[SPEAKER_01]: Hallelujah!
[SPEAKER_01]: But not only that, but it's the Holy Spirit that empowers us to live a supernatural life.
[SPEAKER_01]: A supernatural life.
[SPEAKER_01]: In other words, we don't have to just live a mediocre life.
[SPEAKER_01]: We don't have to just live what someone say is a normal life, but we can live a supernatural life.
[SPEAKER_01]: What does that even mean?
[SPEAKER_01]: That means we can live a life of science wonders and miracles.
[SPEAKER_01]: That means we can live a life radically on fire for the things of God.
[SPEAKER_01]: that we can be set ablaze.
[SPEAKER_01]: Come on, by the power of the Holy Spirit that we can have a fire, ignited on the inside of us, that we are so in love with Jesus, that we are so set on fire, that we encounter somebody that sick, and we lay our hands on them, and the power God touches them, and they're healed.
[SPEAKER_01]: Come on, when we see somebody that's discouraged or saddened or depressed or whatever, maybe we can speak life into them, we can encourage them, it's all done by the power of the Holy Spirit.
[SPEAKER_01]: So we need the Holy Spirit's work in our life and we need to have this supernatural lifestyle which is certainly essential for us as believers.
[SPEAKER_01]: When I was growing up in church, I was taught something different about the Holy Spirit.
[SPEAKER_01]: Or in Granny's church, we didn't allow the Holy Spirit.
[SPEAKER_01]: You know, and aunt, and aunt, as soon as these church, they told me that tongues was of the devil.
[SPEAKER_01]: You know, a lot of times, we grow up in different denominations or different cultures within churches or whatever it may be.
[SPEAKER_01]: And they will say a lot of certain things about the Holy Spirit and about how the Holy Spirit is not for us today and that the Holy Spirit cannot operate the same way that the Holy Spirit operated in the New Testament.
[SPEAKER_01]: And can I tell you something that it is never mentioned once that the Holy Spirit disappeared?
[SPEAKER_01]: No, the Holy Spirit remained, and Jesus said these powerful words when he left this earth, and he has sinned it to heaven, he says, now I am leaving my spirit to you, and you will do even greater things than I have done.
[SPEAKER_01]: It is like, wait a second, hold on, just one moment, God, you're telling me that you're
[SPEAKER_01]: And I'm gonna do what Jesus did, but even greater, wait a second.
[SPEAKER_01]: Then I'll make, what?
[SPEAKER_01]: Jesus, like, didn't miracle after miracle, like he healed people, and he did this, and he did that, and God says exactly.
[SPEAKER_01]: My son was a demonstration of what your life is supposed to look like.
[SPEAKER_01]: You're supposed to now live this supernatural lifestyle.
[SPEAKER_01]: Jesus demonstrated it upon the earth, and now he has seated at the right hand of the Father, and he says, now you are gonna do greater things and I have done.
[SPEAKER_01]: That means we are required by God.
[SPEAKER_01]: We are set ablaze by God.
[SPEAKER_01]: We are commissioned and called by him to live this super-humanity.
[SPEAKER_01]: supernatural lifestyle that we do lay our hands on the sick and they shall recover.
[SPEAKER_01]: We can't trample upon demons, come on.
[SPEAKER_01]: We can do all of these things because we have been empowered by God to do so.
[SPEAKER_01]: And so I want to live a supernatural lifestyle.
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't want to just show up to church and see the Holy Spirit move on a Sunday morning and be like, oh my gosh, that's amazing and then go live my life and look forward to the next Sunday when I get to experience the Holy Spirit again.
[SPEAKER_01]: When God says, no, you're actually supposed to experience my every single day of your life.
[SPEAKER_01]: Like, you get to come into church and you get just to all corporately bring it together.
[SPEAKER_01]: But every day of your life, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday, you are living a supernatural lifestyle by the power of the Holy Spirit as he empowers you.
[SPEAKER_01]: That means when you wake up in the morning, you say, thank you Holy Spirit for waking me up.
[SPEAKER_01]: Thank you, Holy Spirit, for giving me strength today.
[SPEAKER_01]: Thank you, Holy Spirit, for giving me wisdom today.
[SPEAKER_01]: Holy Spirit, lead me to people that I need to pray for today.
[SPEAKER_01]: Holy Spirit, send people that I need in my life to pray for me today.
[SPEAKER_01]: Hello, it's the Holy Spirit that does that work.
[SPEAKER_01]: And when we live a supernatural lifestyle, that's exactly what takes place.
[SPEAKER_01]: And so while you may have not been taught about the Holy Spirit, in a way that I'm teaching you today, in a way that I'm gonna teach you in the next coming weeks, but I'm grateful that the word says that the truth will set us free.
[SPEAKER_01]: So if you were taught opposite, the Bible says the truth will set you free.
[SPEAKER_01]: In other words, whatever lies or deception that may have come over the course of your life, about who the Holy Spirit is and who he's not and all that that doesn't line up with the Word of God, then it's the truth of the Word that I'm preaching to you right now and that I will preach to you in upcoming days that will help set you free from any kind of hindrance and any kind of mindset that you may have bought into or any kind of lies that have been spoken over you that you have heard that you believed.
[SPEAKER_01]: And so thank God that we have the knowledge and revelation of the Holy Spirit.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's the greatest thing that we can step into as a believer and we can step into as a church.
[SPEAKER_01]: I will say this.
[SPEAKER_01]: The Holy Spirit is the greatest blessing of God.
[SPEAKER_01]: You said, no, my salvation is.
[SPEAKER_01]: Your salvation is a gift.
[SPEAKER_01]: But I know that the Holy Spirit is a blessing.
[SPEAKER_01]: You have been gifted your salvation and you have been blessed by the Holy Ghost.
[SPEAKER_01]: Hallelujah.
[SPEAKER_01]: And so I want to tell you, boldly this morning that salvation is the launching pad to your new life in Christ.
[SPEAKER_01]: When you get saved, you get launched.
[SPEAKER_01]: But then there is more beyond your salvation.
[SPEAKER_01]: And hear me, there is a life in the spirit that is not meant to be a normal life, but it is a life of the spirit that lead us into supernatural thinking and supernatural living.
[SPEAKER_01]: And so with that being said, how many of you want to live a supernatural life in the Holy Spirit?
[SPEAKER_01]: Come on, somebody.
[SPEAKER_01]: And I want to give you some spirit-filled advice, if you will.
[SPEAKER_01]: This morning, so please listen closely.
[SPEAKER_01]: These are not my main points, but I want you to hear this.
[SPEAKER_01]: Number one is this.
[SPEAKER_01]: Don't resist the spirit.
[SPEAKER_01]: You could sit here and hear everything that I'm hearing and you could still choose to resist.
[SPEAKER_01]: You can still make up your mind and say, eh, no, not for me, or I don't believe that, or I don't want that, you can certainly do that.
[SPEAKER_01]: And that's totally on you.
[SPEAKER_01]: But did you know that there is a warning in the Bible for people that resist the Holy Spirit?
[SPEAKER_01]: What?
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, let's look at it.
[SPEAKER_01]: Acts chapter seven, verse 51.
[SPEAKER_01]: Let's put it on the screen.
[SPEAKER_01]: It says, you stiff-necked people.
[SPEAKER_01]: With uncircum-sized hearts and ears, you are always resisting the Holy Spirit as your ancestors did so do you.
[SPEAKER_01]: When God looks at me, I don't want him to say you stiff neck.
[SPEAKER_01]: Is stiff neck son of a gun?
[SPEAKER_01]: Come on now.
[SPEAKER_01]: You're resisting my spirit.
[SPEAKER_01]: No, like, that's a warning.
[SPEAKER_01]: says, you're resisting the Holy Spirit.
[SPEAKER_01]: In other words, don't do it.
[SPEAKER_01]: And this is something that we've got to understand.
[SPEAKER_01]: Because I think so many times we have bought into the lies of the enemy that would say that the Holy Spirit is not for us.
[SPEAKER_01]: The Holy Spirit doesn't operate the same way.
[SPEAKER_01]: The Holy Spirit is only for the Bible, or whatever it may be.
[SPEAKER_01]: So hold on, wait a second.
[SPEAKER_01]: You're being stiff-necked when it comes to my spirit.
[SPEAKER_01]: Don't be stiff-necked, right?
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, something going like this, hmm.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, turn to somebody and say, don't be stiff-necked.
[SPEAKER_01]: Don't be stiff-necked.
[SPEAKER_01]: Listen, one of the worst things that you can do this morning is hear about the wonderful precious Holy Spirit and then turn around and deny his nature and deny his power and deny who he is.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's the worst thing that you can do today.
[SPEAKER_01]: So number one, don't resist the Holy Spirit.
[SPEAKER_01]: But number two, the second thing that I want to tell you is be filled with the Holy Spirit.
[SPEAKER_01]: Don't resist the Holy Spirit, and number two be filled with the Spirit.
[SPEAKER_01]: Ephesians 518, let's look at it.
[SPEAKER_01]: Ephesians 518, it says, do not get drunk with wine, which leads to reckless actions.
[SPEAKER_01]: But be filled by the Spirit.
[SPEAKER_01]: Come on, somebody.
[SPEAKER_01]: You know, in other words, you can go and you can get drunk and you can get wasted.
[SPEAKER_01]: You can have a time of your life and that is fine.
[SPEAKER_01]: But there is nothing better than being filled with the Holy Ghost.
[SPEAKER_01]: Come on, somebody.
[SPEAKER_01]: He says, don't, don't go, don't go, get drunk on earthly things.
[SPEAKER_01]: But get drunk in my spirit.
[SPEAKER_01]: Live a life where you are just set a blaze and set on fire with the things of the Holy Spirit.
[SPEAKER_01]: Hey, listen, you don't have to get drunk with wine, alcohol, whatever.
[SPEAKER_01]: You don't have to get drunk to have a good time.
[SPEAKER_01]: A lot of people say, I got a drink so I can have a good time.
[SPEAKER_01]: I got a drink so I can have fun.
[SPEAKER_01]: I got a drink so I can do this so I can do that.
[SPEAKER_01]: I got a drink so I can get my mind off of things.
[SPEAKER_01]: No, all of those things are alive from the pit of hell.
[SPEAKER_01]: You need the Holy Spirit in your life to take over and to take control.
[SPEAKER_01]: I know we don't like to hear that kind of thing, but it's not me, it's the word.
[SPEAKER_01]: So I'll say, take it up with God.
[SPEAKER_01]: Don't take it up with me, take it up with God.
[SPEAKER_01]: Now, if you can take this advice and mix it with the understanding of the importance of the Holy Spirit in your life and be baptized in the Holy Spirit, I promise you that your whole life will be flipped upside down.
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, I remember when I truly received the baptism of the Holy Spirit.
[SPEAKER_01]: I remember,
[SPEAKER_01]: We used to call it, my grandpa used to call it the church on the hill.
[SPEAKER_01]: It was a church in Natalga.
[SPEAKER_01]: It was one of my grandparents' ministries when we came back here from Michigan.
[SPEAKER_01]: We moved back here and they planted the church and they started out in that building over there.
[SPEAKER_01]: And I remember, I think it was a Sunday night or a Wednesday night.
[SPEAKER_01]: My grandpa was preaching on the Holy Ghost.
[SPEAKER_01]: And they came and got all the kids out of the children's ministry.
[SPEAKER_01]: I was one of them.
[SPEAKER_01]: And I remember, clear as day y'all, walking down the right side of the building, going towards the stage.
[SPEAKER_01]: And nobody laid their hands on me.
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, I was young and the power of God hit me so strong.
[SPEAKER_01]: I fell out in that side aisle.
[SPEAKER_01]: I hit the ground and the Holy Spirit began to do a work in my life.
[SPEAKER_01]: And he began to baptize me.
[SPEAKER_01]: I didn't need nobody to lay their hands on me.
[SPEAKER_01]: I didn't need nobody to pray for me.
[SPEAKER_01]: I didn't need nothing, and I'm sure other people were like, what the heck just happened to that kid?
[SPEAKER_01]: But the Holy Ghost hit me, he'd come on somebody.
[SPEAKER_01]: And I remember getting filled with the baptism of the Holy Ghost right there, and I remember crying on the floor, knowing that I was being touched by the power of God, and I got up off that floor, somebody completely different.
[SPEAKER_01]: Now I still made mistakes and I still was a kid and I still did, you know, what a kid does and all that kind of stuff, but the Holy Spirit didn't leave me because I was stupid a few times.
[SPEAKER_01]: The Holy Spirit didn't leave me because I was a kid, okay?
[SPEAKER_01]: When the Holy Spirit filled me up, the Holy Spirit filled me up, and the Holy Spirit did not go.
[SPEAKER_01]: And he began to do a work in me starting at that time from that point forward, that led me all the way to this point today.
[SPEAKER_01]: And the same Holy Spirit that touched me and smacked me upside that floor and I hit the ground and it baptized me in the Holy Ghost is the same Holy Spirit that is operating in this room today.
[SPEAKER_01]: And I'm telling you that the power of the Holy Ghost wants to come upon your life as well.
[SPEAKER_01]: He wants to wreck you and he wants you to get baptized in the Holy Spirit with fire.
[SPEAKER_01]: Hello, because this is the kind of stuff that gets me excited.
[SPEAKER_01]: This is the kind of stuff that ignites me and gets me on fire when I can talk about the Holy Ghost because there's nothing better than the Holy Ghost.
[SPEAKER_01]: Hallelujah.
[SPEAKER_01]: Thank you, Jesus.
[SPEAKER_01]: There's nothing more important in your spiritual walk with Jesus to get baptized in the Holy Spirit.
[SPEAKER_01]: and allow the Holy Spirit's work to begin, and take action, and to take course.
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know about you, but I don't know where I would be without the Holy Spirit's work in my life.
[SPEAKER_01]: I need the comforter.
[SPEAKER_01]: Hello.
[SPEAKER_01]: I need the counselor.
[SPEAKER_01]: I need everything that the Holy Spirit is.
[SPEAKER_01]: I know I've joked and I've said this before in previous messages, but it's worth saying again.
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't just need the Holy Spirit on a Sunday morning, but I need the Holy Spirit to even make it through HEB grocery store.
[SPEAKER_01]: Come on through all the chaos and all the crowd.
[SPEAKER_01]: Hello somebody.
[SPEAKER_01]: Come on.
[SPEAKER_01]: Can I get a name in?
[SPEAKER_01]: I need the Holy Spirit in the midst of age 20 traffic when it's bumper to bumper and I'm trying to get somewhere.
[SPEAKER_01]: Come on somebody, I need the Holy Ghost.
[SPEAKER_01]: Can I go a step for it?
[SPEAKER_01]: I need the Holy Spirit to make it through my work day.
[SPEAKER_01]: Because there are people that I don't want to deal with.
[SPEAKER_01]: There are people I don't want to talk to.
[SPEAKER_01]: There are people that I don't want talking to me and I need the power of the Holy Ghost to get me through the day.
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't have any real people in the room that will testify to the fact that I need the Holy Spirit just to make it through my Monday.
[SPEAKER_01]: I need the Holy Spirit to make it through my Tuesday, in my Wednesday, in my Thursday, in my Friday.
[SPEAKER_01]: Come on, somebody.
[SPEAKER_01]: I need the Holy Spirit whenever I order a delicious meal on the restaurant and comes out wrong.
[SPEAKER_01]: I need the Holy Spirit when the waitress charges me an extra meal on accident.
[SPEAKER_01]: I needed the Holy Spirit last night when me and Gabriel went after we played pickleball for three hours and I was exhausted and I said I got to get a taco and we went to a taco shop and they shorted me a taco.
[SPEAKER_01]: We're missing a taco.
[SPEAKER_01]: Now if I didn't have the Holy Ghost, I might have gone up to him and I might have said, hey, you left out one of my tacos.
[SPEAKER_01]: And I said, who you think you're talking to?
[SPEAKER_01]: Exactly.
[SPEAKER_01]: See, I need the Holy Spirit to help me buy my tongue sometimes.
[SPEAKER_01]: Just I need the Holy Spirit to help comfort me sometimes.
[SPEAKER_01]: I need the Holy Spirit to help God my mouth sometimes because my mouth will take me to places.
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't want my mouth to go, hello, come on somebody.
[SPEAKER_01]: The devil will take me and lead my thoughts somewhere, but I need the Holy Spirit to take control over my life.
[SPEAKER_01]: And I'm talking to anybody real today that understands
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, Friday, between Wednesday, Thursday, and definitely Friday, my voice was gone.
[SPEAKER_01]: And then Gabriel said, let's go play pickleball for three hours.
[SPEAKER_01]: After the week that we had, I said, praise the Lord.
[SPEAKER_01]: And we went and played, and I got excited.
[SPEAKER_01]: I get some people say, pastor, you're a lot more competitive than I thought you were.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's okay.
[SPEAKER_01]: Praise the Lord.
[SPEAKER_01]: Okay, are you taking notes this morning?
[SPEAKER_01]: I hope you are.
[SPEAKER_01]: You know this is a note taken church.
[SPEAKER_01]: You better be taking notes.
[SPEAKER_01]: You say, oh, I'll remember it.
[SPEAKER_01]: No, you won't.
[SPEAKER_01]: Because you'll get into your car and you'll start thinking about where you're going to eat lunch.
[SPEAKER_01]: And then the next thing you know, you're going to say, what did pastor say?
[SPEAKER_01]: Now, y'all know it's true, I'm just saying.
[SPEAKER_01]: So I want you to take notes.
[SPEAKER_01]: All right, so there's three baptism of three baptisms of a believer that you need to understand.
[SPEAKER_01]: Three baptisms of a believer.
[SPEAKER_01]: You know, somebody will say, oh, there's only one baptism.
[SPEAKER_01]: No, there's two baptism.
[SPEAKER_01]: No, there's three.
[SPEAKER_01]: There's three, okay?
[SPEAKER_01]: The first one is this, is the baptism into Christ.
[SPEAKER_01]: Okay?
[SPEAKER_01]: This is the first baptism that you receive, that you get, that you get to experience when you become a Christian, when you become a believer, when you say yes to Jesus, the first saying that happens to you is that you get baptized into Christ.
[SPEAKER_01]: Okay?
[SPEAKER_01]: Now, you say, well, give me the proof.
[SPEAKER_01]: I got the proof, the proofs in the pudding, baby.
[SPEAKER_01]: Now the proofs in the word, Hebrews chapter six, let's put it up there.
[SPEAKER_01]: Hebrews chapter six, verse one.
[SPEAKER_01]: It says, therefore, leaving the elementary message about the Messiah, let us go on to maturity, not laying again the foundation of repentance from dead works, faith in God, teaching about ritual washing, laying on of hands, the resurrection of the dead, and eternal judgment.
[SPEAKER_01]: So, in Hebrews 6, we see six things here, and I want you to leave it on the screen, we see six things that are mentioned that are essential to our everyday life as a believer in Jesus Christ.
[SPEAKER_01]: Okay?
[SPEAKER_01]: The first one that we see here, the first thing that's mentioned is actually, it's repentance, okay?
[SPEAKER_01]: It says, let us go on to maturity not laying again the foundation of the first one.
[SPEAKER_01]: Here we go, repentance, okay?
[SPEAKER_01]: And then it says, faith.
[SPEAKER_01]: And the next one after that says, teaching about ritual
[SPEAKER_01]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's plural, meaning that there's more than one, okay?
[SPEAKER_01]: There's more than one.
[SPEAKER_01]: Right, so, and then it goes on to say, you know, resurrection of the dead, laying on a hand and internal judgment.
[SPEAKER_01]: So when scripture says the teaching about washings, the word washings there is translated simply to baptisms, right?
[SPEAKER_01]: So says do not, you know, let's lay behind all the elementary, you know, this and that, let's move on.
[SPEAKER_01]: What you need to do is you need to understand that these things, these six things are really important.
[SPEAKER_01]: And one of them is understanding
[SPEAKER_01]: Baptisms, okay?
[SPEAKER_01]: And so this is not a singular baptism.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's multiple baptisms.
[SPEAKER_01]: There's more than one, okay?
[SPEAKER_01]: So we understand that there are multiple baptisms.
[SPEAKER_01]: We must be aware that as a believer of these three kind of baptisms We got to understand that this is a part of our normality and what it means to be a believer now Let's look at first Corinthians chapter 12 verse 13
[SPEAKER_01]: It says, for we were all baptized by one spirit into one body, okay?
[SPEAKER_01]: So you're getting baptized into the body of Christ.
[SPEAKER_01]: Whether Jews are Greeks, whether slaves are free, and we were all made to drink of one spirit.
[SPEAKER_01]: So the first thing that happens to you when you get saved is you get baptized into the body of Christ, okay?
[SPEAKER_01]: So according to the scripture,
[SPEAKER_01]: We have the understanding that being the first baptism that takes place is being baptized into Christ Jesus.
[SPEAKER_01]: This is not a complicated baptism.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's not complicated theology.
[SPEAKER_01]: It doesn't require steps.
[SPEAKER_01]: It doesn't require you understanding things.
[SPEAKER_01]: It doesn't require anything other than just saying yes to Jesus.
[SPEAKER_01]: You say yes to him and you get saved and he baptizes you into his body, okay?
[SPEAKER_01]: So when we accept Jesus as our Savior, the Holy Spirit comes upon us and baptizes us or we know that word baptize is the word baptism, which means to immerse, so we get immersed into the body of Christ Jesus, okay?
[SPEAKER_01]: That's why scripture teaches us in the book of Romans that we have been grafted into the body of Christ through salvation in him, okay?
[SPEAKER_01]: So the first one to understand is that we get baptized into Christ.
[SPEAKER_01]: The second one is this is the baptism in water, right?
[SPEAKER_01]: So the second kind of baptism is that we get to experience as believers is to get baptized in water.
[SPEAKER_01]: Baptism in water is an immersion in water.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's not a sprinkling of water.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's not just a...
[SPEAKER_01]: W. with some water.
[SPEAKER_01]: No.
[SPEAKER_01]: Scripture teaches us that it's full immersion in water.
[SPEAKER_01]: We know that Matthew 28 19 says, go there for and make disciples right of all nations baptizing them and the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.
[SPEAKER_01]: So this is the beautiful baptism in water that we as the disciples of Jesus Christ get to partake in.
[SPEAKER_01]: The baptism is an immersion in water.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's the laying down of our old man and bearing that old man and water and coming up a new man.
[SPEAKER_01]: Water baptism is a public declaration of your faith in Jesus.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's letting everybody know that you have been saved, that you have been redeemed, that you have been restored, that God has rescued you, come on somebody, and that you're living on new life in him, amen?
[SPEAKER_01]: And so water baptism is that public declaration of faith.
[SPEAKER_01]: Not only is it laying down your old man in that water and coming up somebody new, but it's letting yourself know and letting everybody else around you know that you belong to Jesus.
[SPEAKER_01]: Hallelujah.
[SPEAKER_01]: And I'm excited because we have baptism happening and just two or three Sundays, whatever it is on August 30th, come on.
[SPEAKER_01]: We already have six people registered to get baptized.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm excited about that.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's gonna be good.
[SPEAKER_01]: Praise the Lord.
[SPEAKER_01]: Come on, give the Lord a hand clap of praise.
[SPEAKER_01]: We want you to be baptized, it's a good thing.
[SPEAKER_01]: So we have the baptism in the Christ, we have baptism in the water, and the third kind of baptism that we get to partake in as believers is what I believe is the best one is the baptism in the Holy Spirit.
[SPEAKER_01]: Now notice that it's not baptism of the Holy Spirit, it's baptism in the Holy Spirit.
[SPEAKER_01]: You get baptized in the Spirit of God.
[SPEAKER_01]: And Matthew 3, Jesus makes this powerful statement and announcement, he says, I baptize you with water, but the one who is coming after me is more powerful than I am.
[SPEAKER_01]: And it says, in Matthew 3, he will baptize you with Holy Spirit and with fire.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, somebody say fire.
[SPEAKER_01]: Now he will baptize you in Holy Spirit and fire.
[SPEAKER_01]: So the first baptism that we experience when we get baptized into Christ is of the Holy Spirit.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's of him.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's his happening.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's what he's doing.
[SPEAKER_01]: But the baptism in Christ, when it comes to baptizing in the Holy Spirit, is completely different.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's one thing to be baptized of the Spirit.
[SPEAKER_01]: And it's another thing to be baptized in the Spirit.
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't want to just be baptized of the Spirit into the body of Christ, but I want to be baptized in the Spirit of God.
[SPEAKER_01]: Well, Pastor, I thought that when you got saved, the Holy Spirit comes and lives inside of you.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yes, you're right.
[SPEAKER_01]: He does.
[SPEAKER_01]: But there is a difference between him being in you and you being in him.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's one thing to know that the Holy Spirit is present in your life and the Holy Spirit has come to fill you when you got saved.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's another thing to live for the Holy Ghost.
[SPEAKER_01]: to live with Him fully operating in your life.
[SPEAKER_01]: And hear me church, I don't want to just be filled with the Spirit of God, but I want to be immersed.
[SPEAKER_01]: I want to be baptized in the Spirit of God.
[SPEAKER_01]: I want to be constantly immersed in the Holy Ghost.
[SPEAKER_01]: I want to be drenched in the power of the Holy Spirit.
[SPEAKER_01]: Hallelujah.
[SPEAKER_01]: And when you're baptized in the Holy Spirit, the Bible says, you become a witness to the supernatural.
[SPEAKER_01]: In other words, you get to be a partaker of the supernatural things of God, but then you also get the power of the Holy Spirit Activated in your life when you get baptized in the Holy Spirit.
[SPEAKER_01]: So when I was baptized in the Holy Spirit that night, and I hit the ground as a young person, that wasn't because somebody touched me or somebody pushed me down or anything like that.
[SPEAKER_01]: It was because the power hit me.
[SPEAKER_01]: He was like, why did people fall on the ground and churches?
[SPEAKER_01]: It's the Holy Ghost.
[SPEAKER_01]: He was like, I don't understand how somebody just just falls out and passes out.
[SPEAKER_01]: People say, people pass out and church.
[SPEAKER_01]: No, they don't pass out.
[SPEAKER_01]: The Holy Spirit touches them.
[SPEAKER_01]: Because when the Holy Spirit comes upon you and you get baptized in the Holy Ghost and the power of God hits you like that, your physical flesh becomes so weak that you can't even stand.
[SPEAKER_01]: He said, I don't understand people falling on the ground all the time in churches.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's weird.
[SPEAKER_01]: No, it's not weird.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's the Holy Ghost.
[SPEAKER_01]: We make it weird by our own thinking, by our own thoughts, by our own understanding.
[SPEAKER_01]: Our flesh will tell us that's not normal, but in the supernatural things that God in the according to the power of the Holy Spirit, it is definitely normal.
[SPEAKER_01]: Hallelujah!
[SPEAKER_01]: So I don't want to just be a believer that's baptized in two of the three baptisms.
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't want to just be baptized into Christ and say, that's it, that's all I need is to get saved.
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't want to just get baptized in Christ and get saved and then just get baptized in water and say I've made my public declaration of faith but then neglect the third baptism.
[SPEAKER_01]: But I want to be baptized in the Holy Spirit so I can be empowered by God.
[SPEAKER_01]: The book of Acts says that we get power when we receive the Holy Spirit.
[SPEAKER_01]: Acts chapter two, you can look at it later.
[SPEAKER_01]: Acts chapter two tells us all about it.
[SPEAKER_01]: Says when you get baptized in the Spirit, there is the power of the Holy Spirit that comes upon you.
[SPEAKER_01]: And that word power there is that Greek word doonomous, let's put it on the screen, which is where we get our word dynamite from.
[SPEAKER_01]: So it says when you get baptized in the Holy Spirit, there is doonomous power that comes upon your life.
[SPEAKER_01]: In other words, it is a power that is not a weak power.
[SPEAKER_01]: It is not a mediocre power, it is not a normal everyday type of power, but it is a dynamite power.
[SPEAKER_01]: It is a power that is explosive.
[SPEAKER_01]: Come on somebody.
[SPEAKER_01]: When the Holy Spirit shows up, he shows up with explosive power.
[SPEAKER_01]: When the Holy Spirit began to fall in here on our prayer nights this past week, it was explosive dynamite.
[SPEAKER_01]: Duneem as power that was taking place when we were here at worshiping together on Friday night And we were lifting up a sound and God began to move in the Holy Spirit began to fall There was a dynamic dynamite power a Duneem as that hit the room And you know when the Holy Spirit shows up because things shift in the atmosphere
[SPEAKER_01]: You can't deny it.
[SPEAKER_01]: Nobody can be in the presence of God like that.
[SPEAKER_01]: We had on Friday night or even like we had during worship today and say, oh, that's just coincidence.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's just chance that everything just kind of went to the next level.
[SPEAKER_01]: Everything kind of just felt a little bit different at one point.
[SPEAKER_01]: No, that's the Holy Spirit showing up with His doing Him as power and igniting a thing in a room.
[SPEAKER_01]: Igniting the believers that are in the room that are passionately going after God, and He puts His dynamite power and things begin to explode, and you begin to see the work of the Holy Spirit in full action.
[SPEAKER_01]: And you go from things being kind of what we would say is normal, a normal service, normal worship, normal flow to all of a sudden things elevating, feeling like the roof is about to bust off of this place and that the walls are about to fall down or that something's about to happen because there is so much power that is in the room.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's not because we're getting louder with our voices.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's not because more people are standing on their feet.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's not because more people are lifting up their hands or we're shouting in the presence of the Lord.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's because the power of God, His dynamite power, shows up in a room and all of a sudden we start to experience the power of the Holy Spirit.
[SPEAKER_01]: And so our worship will go from normal, normal worship just singing to Him to all of a sudden the power of the Holy Spirit
[SPEAKER_01]: things begin to move.
[SPEAKER_01]: All of a sudden, supernaturally, people start getting healed.
[SPEAKER_01]: People start getting set free.
[SPEAKER_01]: Come on, somebody.
[SPEAKER_01]: God begins to do a work because his power was invited into the room and his power is activated and begins to move and flow.
[SPEAKER_01]: So when you get baptized in the Holy Spirit, the Holy Spirit's power, the dunimus, the dynamite comes upon your life.
[SPEAKER_01]: And listen, that is the supernatural life.
[SPEAKER_01]: That is.
[SPEAKER_01]: You say, what is the supernatural life you're talking about?
[SPEAKER_01]: Doodamus.
[SPEAKER_01]: What is this life that is so amazing that I can live a supernatural lifestyle?
[SPEAKER_01]: It's the power of God.
[SPEAKER_01]: And the power of God is the Holy Spirit.
[SPEAKER_01]: Is the Holy Spirit?
[SPEAKER_01]: You know, ever once in a while, I go to Teen Challenge.
[SPEAKER_01]: And I preach there, teen challenges, a spirit-filled Christian drug rehabilitation program, guys that just literally might have been yesterday coming off the streets that are still trying to get out of the stuff, still trying to work through those problems and
[SPEAKER_01]: whatever it may be, and you've got some of the worst of the worse, and there you've got people that were court issued, that God graced them instead of going to spending time in prison, they were actually granted to go into this program.
[SPEAKER_01]: And so you've got the worst of the worst, the rough of the rough.
[SPEAKER_01]: You've got guys that have never stepped foot in a church before, never heard about Jesus, never certainly never heard about the Holy Spirit.
[SPEAKER_01]: You've got all different kinds of people in there.
[SPEAKER_01]: And I go in there and I preach every once in a while and every time I go every single time I go I preach on the power of the Holy Spirit, just like I'm preaching right now.
[SPEAKER_01]: And I tell those guys that the Holy Spirit is greater than any high you could ever experience.
[SPEAKER_01]: Any high you've ever experienced.
[SPEAKER_01]: The Holy Spirit is greater than ever.
[SPEAKER_01]: Any kind of drink you can put to your lips.
[SPEAKER_01]: Any kind of thing that you can put in your body.
[SPEAKER_01]: Any kind of thing that you can shoot up.
[SPEAKER_01]: The Holy Spirit is so much greater and so much better.
[SPEAKER_01]: And you know what?
[SPEAKER_01]: Every time I go and I preach to these guys and I preach to them about the power of the Holy Spirit and how the Holy Spirit wants to baptize them with power and wants to baptize them with fire.
[SPEAKER_01]: Come on, I'm telling you, it is the most hungry group of people I have ever been in a room with because they realize that in that moment that there is there is an offering of something greater beyond the life that they've lived and they choose to trade the life of drugs or the life of alcohol or the life of adultery.
[SPEAKER_01]: or the life of Narkot, whatever it may be, they choose to trade that off for the power of the Holy Spirit.
[SPEAKER_01]: They say, I'll give this Holy Spirit a shot, and let me see if I like it better.
[SPEAKER_01]: And they do, and the power of God touches them, and I'm telling you, every single time I'm there, the room gets laid out with people on the floor.
[SPEAKER_01]: Some of those guys is the first time they'd ever been in a church service.
[SPEAKER_01]: The first time they've ever heard the Holy Spirit preached.
[SPEAKER_01]: And I preach the Holy Spirit, and the next thing you know, they're going from being strong out on something or just coming off of something to all of a sudden laying on the floor, shaking, Costa Cata, Maso, and they begin to get touched by the power of the Holy Ghost, and God does a supernatural work because they begin to experience the supernatural power of God.
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't want a drug rehabilitation program to be hungrier for the power of the Holy Spirit than a church on Sunday morning.
[SPEAKER_01]: God is looking down upon this house today, and he's saying, are you hungry for the supernatural life that I'm trying to offer you?
[SPEAKER_01]: Are you hungry for the things of the Holy Spirit?
[SPEAKER_01]: Are you hungry for the power of the Holy Ghost?
[SPEAKER_01]: Are you hungry for the work of the power in a fire?
[SPEAKER_01]: Are you hungry for it, church?
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