The Holy Spirit In The New Testament | Allen Bailey

We speak a great word of welcome, Trevor, one this

evening and we're thankful that you are here.

As we announced last evening, and even nine or two before

that, we would spend one night studying with you on the Holy

Spirit. Now, I have several sermons that

I preach on the Holy Spirit. This one is one that I've

preached off and on in the last probably five years, three to

five years. And I encourage you to write

down or take a picture of the board work if you would like to

do that. And if you have any question

about the lesson, about any of these verses or the application

that we give, we welcome that. We're not here to to be a know

it all. We're just simply here to show

you what the Bible teaches about the Holy Spirit in the New

Testament. That is the thrust of today's

lesson. Many years ago I did a four part

series on the Holy Spirit and then I passed it around to a

number of my preaching brethren, some that were older, some that

were younger, something about my age, and and we conferred back

and forth along the way. Of course, everybody didn't

agree with everything. I didn't expect that, but I was

definitely open minded to what people concluded as far as being

right and wrong and accurate and not accurate.

And I want to hear it because I want to preach the truth of the

Holy Spirit. And what I don't want is people

to misrepresent God's Holy Spirit.

So therefore, as with all the other lessons that we've heard

throughout this week, you know, we can give you book, chapter,

verse. It's going to be there.

And I want you to take special note and special interest.

There's a number of verses that we will not be going to tonight

that are very valuable. However, I've chosen this

afternoon, late last night, these verses to cover for today

and primarily because I want to cover an additional category or

two that I haven't covered perhaps on an earlier lesson.

So let's get underway. And again, if you have any

questions, please make a note of it.

I'll be more than happy to study with you, visit with you, even

here or later. You can call me, you can text

me, you can e-mail me, communicate with me, however you

want to do it, and we can go with it further as we study.

Therefore, as you sit on the board, the Holy Spirit and the

New Testament. Now this is very, very important

because this is what we want to know and you don't have any

guess for it. There's no infants or buts about

it. The Holy Spirit is alive and

well and active in the New Testament.

No doubts about it. It is Now here's the point that

I want to make it In my earlier years of preaching this, I made

this point, my last point, but it didn't take me too terribly

long to realize I need to make my last point my first point.

Therefore, I've started that and I've done that in the last two

to three years. Point #1 The Word of God, the

Bible is inspired of the Holy Spirit.

This is very important. And again, that used to be my

last point and I'll just hit it and run with it, but this is

very important. I want you to understand this.

Please everybody understand this important point.

Nobody knows anything about the Holy Spirit unless they can read

about it in the Bible. It's the Word of God, book,

chapter, verse. You want to read about it in the

Bible. Now people come up with things

far out about the Holy Spirit and they imagine this and

imagine that. Listen, I could care less what

people imagine. I want to know book, chapter,

verse in the Bible. I want to know some Matthew,

Martin, Luke all the way through Revelation.

That's what I want to know. So therefore, please understand

the only thing you know or I know about the Holy Spirit is

what I can read about in the the Bible.

And that's huge because we don't want anybody to be misled in any

way in any shape or any form. Therefore, when we establish the

fact that God's word in the Bible is inspired of the Holy

Spirit, we now know one of the things the Holy Spirit does.

Listen, the Holy Spirit is very active at the Lord's word.

The Lord has designed the plan. As a matter of fact, you can

begin in Genesis, the first book of the Old Testament, chapter 1.

And in chapter 1 you're going to say God the Father, you're going

to say Jesus Christ the Son, and you're going to say the Holy

Spirit. And guess what?

You go all the way through 39 of the Old Testament books, all the

way 27 books of the New Testament.

You get all the way to Revelation, the very last

chapter of Revelation, chapter 22.

Revelation 22 · chapter mention

And you know what you find there?

God the Father, Jesus Christ, the Son of the Holy Spirit, God

the Father, the Holy Spirit and Jesus are all involved, not in

every chapter, not even on every page, but from the Old Testament

to the New Testament in the paper article, law, the Mosaic

law, the Christian law, the Holy Spirit has been part of God's

plan. Now I'll be, I'll be very frank

with you. I do not and I am not impressed

with anybody who indicates that the Holy Spirit is not active

today, not doing the thing today.

It's only God in Christ. I want you to know that is not

accurate. It's not accurate.

What is accurate is that God's Word teaches us in his in the

Bible what we know about the Holy Spirit.

And that's the point that I want you to remember as you leave

here this evening, that the only thing we know about the Holy

Spirit is book, chapter, verse that we can find in Scripture.

I'm not reading all these verses.

Some of these we've even given through the week, but for the

records sake and for those who are this is going to be a video

and your podcast and etcetera. I want to read the verses into

the record number one, Second Timothy 3, verse 16 and 17.

2 Timothy 3:16

A couple of nights ago we referenced that where he said

all Scripture is given by the inspiration of God, profitable

for doctrine or proof, correction for instruction and

righteousness, that the matter of God would be perfect,

thoroughly furnished unto all good words.

It's very clear. All Scripture is given by the

inspiration of God, and that's what we need to pay attention to

and we make need to make absolutely sure, regardless of

who it is, if it's me, if it's you, or if it's anybody else.

If anybody tries to take away these verses as if they don't

apply, my dear friends, you don't have to walk very far to

walk away from that kind of conversation because this is

very much biblically talked. All right, a second passage,

second Peter 1 point #2 and #3 second Peter one verse 3 says

according to his divine power has given us all things we need

for life and godliness, the Holy Spirit and the word of God, we

learned that he'll give us everything we need for eternal

life. That is fabulous.

That's what we need to know, and it's.

Because that's God's plan. Also in chapter 1, the last two

verses of the chapter and verses 20 and 21, it mentions how holy

men of God moved in the past by the Holy Spirit and inspiring

God's. Word.

Dear friends today so therefore this entire lesson tonight we'll

be given book chapter verse in the Bible.

It is based on a thus sense of Lord.

It's based on what the word of God does say and we do not need

to be doing any guesswork. We do not need to be reading

between the words and the lines and the spaces.

We need to embrace it. You know, there are times today

in which we live that people they've come up with man made

ideas or descriptive terms about the Holy Spirit.

You know one example is some say with Holy Spirit works through

the word only. Who said that God's Word did not

say that? I can even show you in Scripture

where the Bible says people were working in a capacity of

spiritual gifts at one time, and it was not by word only in the

Thessalonian letter. Then again, another very popular

phrase, and that is personally indwelling of the Holy Spirit.

Now I've been raised to hear that phrase quite a bit and

here's my situation. That phrase is not in the Bible

literally. I want to be honest with you,

that phrase is not in the Bible. Now I believe in the dweller of

the Holy Spirit. I definitely believe in, I'm

going to show you today in the Bible, no uncertain terms, it's

in there. But here's what we don't need to

do. We do not need to come up with

some man made phraseology as if that was taught in the Bible.

What I want us to do is go to the Scripture and speak where

the Bible speaks and be silent where the Bible is silent.

Here's what I'm going to show you later on in the lesson, and

we're going to spend quite a bit of time over here once we get

there, but we're going to more hurriedly cover the first two

parts here. But what we wanted to show you

tonight, according to the Bible, we believe in the non miraculous

and dwelling of the Holy Spirit. That's Bible.

Here's a number of verses and we can nearly fill the board up.

With. From passages that would support

that. Now I will make some of my good

buddies upset at me who agree with me in principle on the

indwelling of the Holy Spirit. However, they like the phrase

the person who dwelling in the Holy Spirit, and I just choose

not to use that phrase because I can't read it in the Bible.

Is that too much to ask? If you can't read something in

the Bible, it's not too much and people will ask you all kind of

questions. Say all I want to know what's in

the Bible. Therefore, what I can tell you

is in the Bible is that the Holy Spirit dwells in all.

New Testament Christians, I can show you that.

Therefore I'm not shy, I'm not timid, I'm not in any way taking

a step back. It's fine for me to say we today

believe the Bible teaches in the New Testament of non miraculous

and dwelling of the Holy Spirit. When I get over here, we'll talk

a lot more about that. Momentarily.

But what have we learned already?

We've learned that every conclusion we draw about the

Holy Spirit of the New Testament needs to be biblically based.

That's what we've got to do. We do not go beyond it.

We don't fall short. We don't cut it short.

We simply go by the Bible. I don't care what your

translation of preference is. This is very important, very

important. OK, let's look at #2 I want to

show you all three of the Godhead.

Now, I've used these type of passages and there's a lot more

of them, but then I'm not necessarily going to notice

every one of these, but I'm going to read them into the

record. For those of you that are

listening via your podcast, there are 6 verses we're going

to reference briefly. Matthew 3, verse 16 and 17 #2

Matthew 3:16

Matthew 28, verse 19 #3 John 14 and 26.

Matthew 28:19

Also John 15 and 26 #4 Ephesians 2 and 18 #5 Ephesians 4, four

number six, first, first John six and five.

Many years ago, when I was 18 years old, I had my very first

public debate, and it was a debate on the Godhead, and it

was a United Pentecostal Church. And to preach on that particular

time, he took the position that the United Pentecostal Church

takes, and that is there's only one person in the Godhead,

namely Jesus, and that is God the Father, Jesus Christ the

Son, and the Holy Spirit. All the same guy.

They're all the same person. Of course, I didn't believe

that. I took the position that God the

Father, Jesus Christ the Son, and the Holy Spirit of three

separate and distinct individuals.

There's one God head comprised of three separate and distinct

individuals. And it's really easy to prove

that. But this lesson is not where I'm

going to do all of that, but I am going to show you this.

I'm going to show you that God's plan in that one Godhead is

showing you verse of the Scripture for all three God,

Christ and the Holy Spirit used in the same passage.

This is very important because see this is the way God designed

it to be. Now Matthew the 3rd chapter,

verse 16 and 17 is the baptism of Jesus.

And when Jesus has been baptized, all of a sudden the

Bible said, Behold the Holy Spirit and send it like a dove

and lighted upon him. And a voice out of the cloud

said, This is my beloved Son, and whom I am well pleased, God

the Father Speaking of Jesus. So here we find 3 different

people in three different places doing 3 different things at the

same identical time. You've got Jesus coming up out

of the water. You got the Holy Spirit

descending from heaven as a dove.

You've got God the Father speaking from heaven.

That's the way it works according to God's plan, and we

should be very happy to know that God has a plan that invites

and welcomes the working of His Son and that of the Holy Spirit

that He is designed. All right #2 Matthew 2819.

We mentioned that the other night about a scriptural baptism

requires a baptism of the Great Commission that is in the name

of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.

Now you see these the Bible passages that illustrate for all

three are busy at work and the one godhead, just as the Bible

teaches because it's the word of God and as long as I can get you

focused in stand with what the Bible says the rest of us a

piece of cake. It is so beautiful.

All right, look at the third verse John 1426 also John 15 and

26. This is where Jesus had just

told his disciples or his apostles, I'm going to have to

leave you. They were old, they're beside

themselves. They don't want him to go

anywhere. They like Jesus being around.

And he said, no, no, here's the way it works.

I, Jesus, I'm going to go to the father #2 and I will send the

Holy Spirit to you from the Father.

John 1426 and John 1526. What does this tell me?

What does it show you? It shows you.

You got three different beings again doing 3 different things.

Jesus on earth. Going to the Father in heaven,

sending the Holy Spirit from heaven, you have all three of

these divine beings busy about the Lord's work.

That's important and we need to take hold of that and really

appreciate the fact that we have biblical evidence based on the

Word of God, the inspired Word of God.

It's what's teaching us this in Ephesians 2 and verse 18.

I remember the very night that this verse some way somehow sunk

in my thick skull. We were doing our nightly Bible

reading. Let's turn it over with you.

I just want to show it to you. In Ephesians 2 verse 18 it has

Ephesians 2:18

again. All three people in the Godhead.

This is very important. I love this verse.

It reassured me. It reconfirmed some things that

I believe from other passages, but this one here sealed the

deal and Ephesians the second chapter verse 18.

Look here. It says for through him this

hymn of Jesus. When you look in the contest for

through Jesus, we both have access by 1 Spirit.

That's Holy Spirit unto the Father.

When you pray, and I'm not going to mention this again in passing

later on in the lesson, but when you pray, you pray like Jesus

said, our Father, which art in heaven you're, you pray in the

name of them by the authority of Jesus Christ and the Holy

Spirit. The Bible said in Ephesians 2

and 18 that he would take our prayers to the Father.

Wow, that makes me feel really good about them.

Praying, praying and being thankful.

What the Holy Spirit would do. The Bible teaches they all work

together. My dear friend, please don't

ever let anybody take that away from you because praying is

wonderful. We've heard some beautiful

prayers here throughout this week.

You're opening prayer, the prayer, that's your general

prayer, your main prayer, the dismissal prayer, the prayer for

the food. A lot of prayers throughout this

week. And it's been wonderful.

And these prayers are fabulous. And what we find here in

Ephesians 2 and 18 that the Holy Spirit's involved in your prayer

just like God the Father. Is in Jesus Christ.

I write in Ephesians 4 four. You find 7 ones and concluding

of those 7 ones it's one. God, it's one Father, one God, 1

Lord, Lord Jesus Christ and one Holy Spirit.

Ephesians 4 Four through 6 you. See, all of this is God's plan.

And the reason I emphasize this is because there are people who

act like the Holy Spirit is doing nothing today.

I don't get that. God is not through working and

utilizing the Holy Spirit. And I do not like to hear people

say, well, he does not do anything today.

I'm going to ask preachers that what's the Holy Spirit doing

today? And they had a hard time

answering it. Listen, there's something wrong

if you think 1/3 of the Godhead is lying dormant not doing

anything. There's something wrong with

that picture and with that conclusion.

What is important is that things are done according to God's will

and God's way. What is important is what is

recorded in Scripture that we got book shops reversed for.

That's what's important. Now when people give you some

man made idea and think those are not important at all.

No, if they're not giving you book, chapter, verse, you can

simply just say no, I'm not interested in that.

I want to hear it from the Bible.

All right, let's look at another passage first John 5 verse 7.

1 John 5:7

This is another really good verse.

And now when you have a public debate on the Godhead defending

3 John first John five and seven said there are three.

They're buried record in heaven, the Father, the word and the

spirit. And these three are one.

They're one in unity, one in faith, one in words.

No, not one person, No more than.

You and your spouse or one person?

Whether the Bible says husband or wife or what, but not one

person. No, they work together in God's

plan. Did you know when Jesus prayed

to John 17, he began the prayer about praying for himself and

then the second part of the prayer he prayed for his current

apostles and the third part of the prayer he prayed for all.

Future Christian, that's you and that's me.

And my dear friends, what is so beautiful about Jesus praying

for us in these ways is that He's identifying the need for us

to have prayer. And he prayed to God Almighty

that we would be 1 even as He and the Father are one.

That's not clear. See, God and the Father are one.

Husband and wife are one. All of us disciples are one.

No, not one person. But we're one in unity and faith

and work and wisdom and dedication and following the

Lord Jesus. We're highly committed to making

sure we do things according to the Bible and let nothing get in

our way. Well, see, now we find we've got

the Word of God that's inspired, that's telling us exactly what

it is that's right and wrong, and what we can know bound in

the Bible is wonderful. And down here, we've already

been taught in the New Testament how.

The three are working together in a variety of ways.

Baptism of Jesus, baptism of the Great Commission, when Jesus go

back to heaven and said the Holy Spirit back here showing us how

it works in our prayer, showing us here how it's part of the

seven ones, which is very, very important, and also showing that

these three are one that's all Bible.

I didn't make up any of that. It's all right there for you to

look at, for you to read, for you to study, for you to give

yourself holy unto them. Meditate upon these things that

that's the right way to do it. All right #3 now, this is very

important. And with this row right here,

listen quick because we're going to go through it quickly.

This is very. Very important, though.

It's very important that we grasp this point.

All right #3 Jesus had the Holy Spirit.

A chance is what I abbreviated for brevity's sake on the board.

Jesus had the Holy Spirit without measure.

John 3 and verse 34. I'll give you a moment to turn.

This is a very important message, and it's the only time

is mentioned in Scripture. John 3 and verse 34 and the

reason I want to go here because this is very important, but it

shows a distinct difference. Get hold of this now how the

Holy Spirit works in the life of Jesus on earth, different than

he worked with the apostles and the difference in the way He

works for you or me today. John 334 the word of God says

the following. Please pay very very close

attention because this is a very important principle.

John 3 verse 34 For he whom God has sent speaketh the words of

John 3:34

God. For God giveth not the Spirit by

measure unto him. God did not give the Holy Spirit

with measure, that is without any limitations.

God gave the Holy Spirit to Jesus without measure.

The King James rendering, that is without any limitation.

Jesus had the Holy Spirit in a way that anything the Holy

Spirit could do, he could do through Jesus.

You would never have that, and neither will I.

The apostles never had that, never have, never will.

Jesus had it. God made sure.

These are ways we learn to get hold of this.

I do not mean to be repetitious. I want to reinforce what's true

in the New Testament. We learned Jesus was given the

Holy Spirit without any limitation or measure, without

any limitation at all. According to John 334.

We learned about the Holy Spirit in the New Testament based on

that verse right there. I love to learn about the Bible

from the Bible and I love. For you too too.

So therefore. I want you to understand this is

so very important. We learn the Holy Spirit in the

New Testament, that Jesus had the Holy Spirit without measure

and God is one who gave it to him, the lot he did.

Now when you want to read the gospels, Matthew, Mark, Luke and

John, it's amazing. Did you know this?

Matthew, Mark and Luke are known as synoptic gospels.

They cover essentially the same thing, but one may cover

something another one may leave off.

But Matthew, Mark and Luke are very very similar.

But John. John has 92% of information that

Matthew, Mark and Luke did not even include.

Wow, that's a lot 92%. That just shows there's a lot

more than what Matthew, Mark and Luke gave us.

God gave us the Gospel of John too, and the Holy Spirit is far

that book. Dear friends, listen, there's so

much to learn. I just want I mentioned this in

passing the other day, but I want the Bible to be the number

one book you read. You open that up and you read

it. You concentrate on it.

You pray to God. He'll help you understand this

and I've appreciated different. Ones throughout the week who

pray that that we would understand the scriptures and we

would apply to our lives. That's what's important.

So now remember from this point forward, because these each of

these points are not for you to just hear one time and forget.

These are very important principles taught and that is

here #3 Jesus had the Holy Spirit without measure.

And that's exactly what we need to understand.

He's the only person ever have the holy.

Spirit without measure, it is Jesus your Lord and our Savior,

the Son of God. OK #4 the.

Apostles receive the Holy Spirit baptism.

You got that in your notes. Holy Spirit baptism.

Guess what? Once you're looking at.

Acts one and five. I'll turn there with you.

Melman here. The Holy Spirit baptism was

never a commandment, no. One has ever.

Been commanded to be baptized with Holy Spirit baptism.

Did the the apostle receive the Holy Spirit?

Well sure they did. They received the Holy Spirit

baptism. But look at Acts 15.

It's the Holy Spirit baptism which was a promise.

Many of you are writing notes and that's good.

Write it down. The Holy Spirit baptism was a

promise. It was never a commandment.

It's important we're learning the differences in the way God

has chosen to use the Holy Spirit.

We've learned how he did with Jesus.

Now we're learning how he did with the apostles.

See, here's something important, the Holy Spirit baptism that the

apostles received in Acts 15 and Acts 2 verse one through 8, My

dear friend, that's. Part of God's plan.

Guess what? You would never receive the Holy

Spirit baptism and never will lie.

It's not God's plan for me or you, just like it's not God's

plan for me to receive the Holy Spirit without.

Measure, it's not God's plan for you too.

Will there it was. That plan was for Jesus to get

the Holy Spirit without measure, then the apostles, they receive

the Holy Spirit baptism and you would never get it, never will

lie. All right, let's look at Acts

1:00 and 5:00. These passages are very clear

and very precise, and I just like to read the thrust passage

rather than all the context right now because we've got a

lot of material that I'm wanting to cover.

Acts one verse 5. The word of God says the

following. Actually I want to read the tale

end of verse 4. If you've got a red letter

edition Bible, you can see the latter part of verse four and

all of verse 5. Will be red letter, meaning it's

the words of Jesus. Listen to what it said Acts 1

beginning about midway verse 4 but wait for the promise of the

Father, which saith he you've heard of me.

Verse 5 for John truly baptized with water, but you should be

baptized with Holy Ghost not many days hence.

Wow. Here they're being told, the

apostle been told, listen, you're going to be baptized with

the baptism of the Holy Spirit not many days from now.

That's the reason that when you're reading the very tale

ending of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, and you're reading the

beginning of Acts 1 and Acts 2, what you're finding out is that

the apostle, we're told you, you should stay right here.

You don't leave, you don't leave Jerusalem, you stay right here

because they have something big coming down the Pike, you know,

while it's coming down the pipe you find in Acts 2 verses one

through 8 is where the Holy Spirit baptism came to the.

Apostles. Oh, this is important, and now

here's what's important. What is important is for

everybody to know how the Holy Spirit works in the New

Testament. The only way we know that is by

studying the New Testament. Don't let anybody ever get get

you sidetracked, distracted. No, we learned from reading the

New Testament how Jesus received it.

We learned the New Testament how the Holy Spirit received the

Holy Spirit baptism. And my dear friends, we're off

and running. We have already learned how they

all work together according to God's plan.

We've learned everything we know about the Holy Spirit.

We've learned from. God, I'd love to see everything

fit together so well. And that's exactly what's

happening tonight. Now, when you put in these

sermons together, so all the sermons don't always go good

together. So we have to work it out to

make it where every bit of it is biblical in every way.

But this one right here, my friend, is.

Biblical in every way, and we welcome you the input that you

have pro our time. That's fine, but this is

important. You see now how Jesus received

the Holy Spirit, how the apostle received the Holy Spirit

baptism. Now what about those of the

whole the apostles talked the the next first, the next group

of people they had laid on of the apostles hands.

Now when I gave this at the New Year meeting 3-4 years ago,

somewhere in that range of the Oklahoma New Year meeting, you

only have 15 minutes to give a 45 minute sermon, hour sermon,

but it's OK. But you know, I went right down

this list and I just gave, you know, gave a verse and gave a

point, gave verse, gave a point. I wanted that nearly 1000 people

that were there, I wanted them to have a good grasp.

And understanding of the Holy Spirit of New Testament, because

listen, here it is. It's unsettling to me to hear

people just discount the Holy Spirit.

I like the Holy Spirit, not a big deal.

I want you to know right now, the Holy Spirit is a big deal.

It's a big deal. As a matter of fact.

We need to embrace what the Word of God teaches about the Holy

Spirit. Many of you have heard me preach

this Lodi or Manteca, maybe Oakdale, a number of years ago.

It's been a while since been to Oakdale, but I preach that all

around and I preach all across the country in different ways,

different approaches, but all of them because it's important for

God's children, for my brothers and my sisters to understand

this according to the Bible. Now there are people who are

just going to tell you something and they couldn't want you to

believe what they've said because they've said it.

But let me tell you what, if you don't give me some books, I

prefer to go along with it. I don't care who says it.

It's what does the word of God say?

That's what matters. I don't I'm not being unkind.

I have been respectful, but I want you to know for a fact what

I want to know and what I want you to know and that is simple.

This what does the word God say? Not only this topic, but every

topic is that important. All right, just look here.

The land on the apostles hand. Acts of 6th chapter and verse 6.

And it's the first. Time you have an occasion where

the apostle lay hands on people. Let me tell you what happened

here. And this is brief because I'm

not going to detail because this is not with the thrush of the

lesson, but it is showing you from the Bible how the Holy

Spirit works, but what the apostles could do.

See, the apostles we're going to receive and I'm going to begin

to tie in .5 and six number six spiritual gifts that is found in

Acts 8 verse 12 and 13, Acts 8 verse 7 and 18, First

Acts 8:12 Acts 8:7 1 Corinthians 12 · chapter mention

Corinthians chapter 12, chapter 13 and chapter 14.

And the reason I'm tie these in because they fit together.

The apostles have the ability to lay hands on people and give

them one of the 9 spiritual gifts that were mentioned in

First Corinthians chapter 12. There's 9 gifts given possible

1 Corinthians 12 · chapter mention

to give one person the gift of interpretation, that if they can

interpret a language they've never even studied before, they

can give one the spiritual knowledge they have a supreme

amount of knowledge even though they they never had gone.

And got an. Education in that area, but they

were able to receive that well, here's the view.

The part about it, you know, we began to see House and fold in

here. From without measure to Jesus

the Holy Spirit, Baptism will measure to the land on the hands

of the apostles to receive the spiritual gifts to those who are

not non apostles but they are new converts in that time frame

and the apostles to lay hands on them and give them one or more

of the 9 spiritual gifts. See that's how God has got the

plan working. Now, friends, listen, here's

what's important. We're seeing that from Genesis 1

to Revelation 22. The Holy Spirit's involved, just

like God and Christ are. And now in the New Testament,

we're already seeing how it's working, and it's working in

different ways, but it's working.

It's valuable, It's God's plan, it's God's will, it's God's way.

Don't ever dismiss this, not on your life.

You need to have this right here handy because your friends from

the community, they'll be more than happy to talk with you

about the Holy Spirit and many of them have different ideas

from what they have been. Taught but when you have these

type passages real handy for you, it's easy to show people

here's what the Bible says. So easy.

It is so heartwarming to me. I love preaching it and I

appreciate people who want me to preach it and those who don't

want me to preach it. I want to know if I can study

with them on it because I want every man and woman, young and

old, to fully understand the work of the Holy Spirit

according to the New Testament. OK, now you are ready to see how

it is different, but it's all dealing with the Holy Spirit .33

point 6. Now we're going to spend the

remaining part of our time right here.

Look at #7. Non miraculous things wasn't the

Holy Spirit now I've got I'm friends that nearly every.

Preacher we've got in the Brotherhood.

Maybe all of them, I don't know, but some of them maybe more than

others. But anyway, they don't like

this. They don't like my category, and

I've had to tell them, can't you come up with something a little

bit more creative? I'm going to tell you what we

do. You come up with something more

creative. As long as it describes what I

believe, I believe without any doubt according to the Bible.

I got all these verses to prove it.

It is a non miraculous. The reason I do that is because

those who believe in the word only, they're not shy at all

about saying the reason we are word only is we're afraid.

People go off into Pentecostalism and they want to

label people as if they're going to lose their grip on

spirituality. There is not any evidence of

truth to that any more than somebody who's word only who

will leave and go to Pentecostalism because they

don't have an Holy Spirit. And I can take that and run with

it other way you wanted to go. The fact of the matter is what

we're interested in is what does the Bible say?

What the Bible shows us is, and this is what I emphasize, I

emphasize non miraculous. Some of my really good friends,

you know, just come up sometime. You 2 you come up with something

else. You change that.

As long as it teaches what I believe, I'll be glad to change

it. You know, I've been preaching

this now 5 to 10 years and not one person has come up with

something different. That's OK if they do, I don't

mind. I'm not.

I don't have some big high horse on it.

I just. Wanted to be sure to say what I

mean and mean what I say. Now here's the deal.

By non miraculous, it simply means it's none of these

miracles that were in this second column here, none of

these miracles. No, no, we're not living during

the days of miracles. And I want new people in church,

new converts. I want people who are not

acquainted with first Corinthian teaching and all that.

I want everybody to understand there's not today miraculous

powers like the word of yesteryear, but the.

Apostles and all of them. It's not here today.

It's fulfilled the studies of the 1st Corinthians 1213 and 14.

Let me just give you a brief point.

Chapter 12 will list you the 9 spiritual gifts of First

Corinthians. OK, First Corinthians 12 will

give you the 9 spiritual gifts. Chapter 13 is going to tell you

how long it's. Going to last They're going to

last for a limited amount of time.

The 9 Spiritual Gifts chapter 14 tells you how to utilize them

while they're currently in practice.

So that's chapter 12/13/14. And we learned this because the

Bible teaches it to us. Well, I do today.

Today, according to these scriptures that I'm getting

ready to read into the record, we believe they're going to

teach you the non miraculous and dwelling of the Holy Spirit.

I'm not ashamed, I'm not embarrassed, I'm not intimidated

in any way, shape or form. I don't mind telling anybody and

everybody that we believe the Bible teaches non miraculous

indwelling of the Holy Spirit. Non miraculous.

Don't worry about the preachers of the day who believe in the

indwelling of the Holy Spirit going off the deep end because

they're not going anywhere but to book chapter verse to prove

their point. That's what everybody needs to

do. You can't find what the Holy

Spirit works on through the Word period.

You can't find that I want everybody to stay with God's

word. Now I'm not going to quote all

these verse. I'm not going to read all of

them actually. But here at the.

Passage. I do want to read these into the

record now. I'm miraculously dwell in the

Holy Spirit. Romans, the 8th chapter, verse 9

through 11. I'll be back there in a moment.

Acts 2, verse 3839. Acts 5, verse 32, The 4th

Acts 5:32

passage, First Corinthian 316, The 5th passage, First

Corinthian 6th 18 through 26th passage, Galatians four and six,

7 second 10114 That's just a little bit of them.

It's a whole bunch we can give. I want you to understand this

right here. The thus saith the Lord this

right here the book chapter verse given to us by God

Almighty, inspired by the Holy Spirit and this all flows

together so beautifully it is magnificent yes today we all

need to believe in the non miraculous that is we don't

believe in the miracles today because that first one then

12/13/14 tells us what they are and how long they're going to

last and they. They have taken care of their

time. They're not hate, but we do

believe in the non miraculous. We do believe in the endweller.

Why don't we believe in the endweller?

I'm getting there. Hang tight, I'm going to.

Be there in just a moment, but we believe what the non

miraculous Now get that in your head and get to think about it

by non miraculous these non miracles and dwelling of the

Holy Spirit Romans 8 All right, let's look at it.

I'm putting a little Bible mark here because I wanted to stop

here and I wanted to look. This is real easy to find.

Romans 8 verses 9/10/11 All right, 891011 that's pretty easy

Romans 8:9

to remember. Romans 8 verses 9/10/11 is going

Romans 8:9

to teach us how the Holy Spirit indwells.

Romans 8 verse 9 through 11. The Word of God says begin verse

Romans 8:9–11

9, but you're not in the flesh, but you're in the Spirit.

If so, be that the Spirit of God dwell in you, You know what?

I know exactly how it does. Now He dwells in me.

Who does? The Holy Spirit, the Spirit of

God not here. He dwells in us.

Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he's none of

his. Now let's tell everybody, get

your homework up to anybody who does not believe in the dwelling

of the Holy Spirit. If Christ, if the Holy Spirit is

not dwelling in you, you are none of His.

Do you understand that? That is serious business.

That's what the Bible says. If you do not have the Holy

Spirit dwelling in you, quote UN quote, He is none of his.

We are none of him. If we don't have the Holy Spirit

dwelling in us. Let me tell you one thing.

You better be thankful to your God.

You got the Holy Spirit dwelling in you.

That's Bible. Without the Holy Spirit dwelling

in us, we don't have it at all. All right, look at the nest

first. Oh, there's more from where that

came from verse 10 and if Christ be in you, the body is dead

because of sin, but the spirit is life because of

righteousness. But if the spirit of him the

raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he's raised up

Christ from the dead shall also quicken, which means to be

making life quicken. You are more the body and his

spirit that dwelleth in you. No, if, no as and no buts, you

have no doubt about it the. The Holy Spirit dwells in you.

It's said it two or three times right here in three verses.

You don't let anybody take that away from you.

This is Bible talk. This is Scripture.

This is Romans 8 verse. 9 through 11.

Very very important. So what did we learn from Romans

8? We learned the Holy Spirit

dwells in it. Therefore, when I say non

miraculous and dwell with the Holy Spirit, I get that from

Romans 8 verse 9 through 11. All right #2 Acts 238.

Romans 8:9–11

I want you to turn your Bible here back up a book.

We're in Romans, go back up to Acts.

I want to show you something very important here and I'm I'm

not going to write. It on the board because I'm

going to run out of room and I want to leave this on the board

for those who have chosen to take notes or take pictures, but

let's look at Acts 238. This is very, very important and

very consoling. It is so exciting.

This is God's will and God's way.

Acts the 2nd chapter, the beginning verse 14.

The Bible said Peter stood up with the 11.

He lift up his voice and began to preach and he's just

preaching his heart out all the way down.

And then all of a sudden about verse 34, he was interrupted and

they would want to know, you know, what shall we do?

He went down through actually verse 36, I'll read verse 36.

He said, therefore, let all the House of edition know assuredly

that God has made that same Jesus crucified both Lord and

Christ. So his sermon began in verse 14

through verse 36 and all of a sudden the people were just

really struck with their heart. They began to realize, wow, we

killed the Son of God. It's been prophesied for all

these years and we have murdered him.

What did they do? Verse 37, the word of God said

when they that's the Jewish people of the day at the at that

particular setting. Now when the Jews there, when

they heard this, they were printing their heart and they

said it to Peter. You maybe started sermon in

verse 14. They said it to Peter and to the

rest of the apostles, men and brethren, what shall we do?

They knew they're in trouble. They knew they're getting ready

to lose their eternal soul. They knew they would go to hell.

They didn't change. Now we want to.

What shall we do? My dear friend, if any of you

are lost today, you need to find out what shall we do?

Let's get rid of our sin. Let's get rid of our problem.

Peter didn't hesitate. He didn't beat around the Bush.

He didn't him haul around. He said, tell you what, here's

where it's going to work. Right here.

And Peter said unto them, repent and be baptized.

Who? Everyone of you?

That's pretty inclusive, Everyone of you.

If you repent and you be baptized, everyone of you and

the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and you shall

receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

That's all found in Acts 238. OK, now write down to I've got

several things right there. There's two major points from

this one verse, Acts 238 that I want you to write down if you

choose to do so. Number one, there are two

commandments in Acts 238. Number one is repentance.

Repent. Well, they said, what shall we

do? Peter said repent #1 #2 have

been baptized for the remission of your sins.

Those are the two commands in Acts 238.

That's what these shoes were told.

If you look down in verse 42, you can see about 3000 people

obeyed the gospel. So there are two commands #1

repent #2 be baptized. Not all of that.

There's two blessings in the same verse.

This is a lovely passage. The two blessings are and you

shall receive remission of sins. Number one, you shall receive

the gift. Of the Holy.

Spirit #2 Now Christian friends, listen very important.

When did you receive the Holy? Spirit.

You receive the Holy Spirit the same time you receive remission

of your sins, and Acts 238 the same time you're baptized in the

name of Jesus Christ for the remission of your sins and the

name of the Father, said Holy Spirit, and you're laid buried

in water, grave of baptism, you receive remission of sin.

And it's at that time, according to Acts 238, you receive

remission of sins and you've received the gift of the Holy

Spirit. That what is that?

It's a non miraculous indwelling of the Holy Spirit according to

Acts 238. Well, who does this all apply

to? I know he said everyone of you

need to repent me baptized. Oh, let's look at it.

How long does this last? Verse 39, the very next verse,

the word of God said, for the promise is under you.

That's you, the Jews. OK, that for the promise is

under you, the Jews. And to your children, that is

your generations to come, and to as many that are far off.

And that's your Gentile people. They not come.

They come in Acts 10, but they're not there yet.

OK, So it's to use the Jews to your ancestors to come and to

those who are far off. Which is the.

Gentiles and then it said to as many as the Lord our God shall

call. I love that what we learned from

Acts 2 and verse 39 is similar to this, this same teaching that

applied on the day of Pentecost and Acts 2, that they need to

repent and be baptized soon. Everyone of you in the name of

the Lord Jesus Christ for their mission, sin and you shall have

sinned to give to the Holy Spirit.

That's the same thing that you need and I need when we obey the

gospel. Wow.

OK, I get that. You see, when we do things in

Bible way, it is so easy. It is so easy.

I'm not making this complicated. I'm giving you the verses.

I'm just maybe illustrating the points.

But all these verses are very amazing.

OK, now we've been in Acts 2. That's going over to Acts 5.

I love this one too. I know you say you love them

all. Yeah, I do.

Guilty Acts 532. The Bible said God.

Give the Holy Spirit to who? To them that obey Him.

Dear friends, when we obey the gospel, we become a child of

God, a son or daughter of God. Almighty God will give the Holy

Spirit to all of them that are obeyed.

Well, when is he going to do that?

Well, when you're baptized, according to Acts 238.

That's what it says. Repent, be baptized, You'll

receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

Level of permission of sin. Nothing hard about that.

This is all Bible here. All right, let's go to 1st

Corinthians. There's two passages, First

1 Corinthians 3:16

Corinthians 3 verse 16 and 1st Corinthians 6 verse 18 through

20. Take a good look here.

I mean, just take it for what it says and you'll be so excited to

have learned these truths. All right, so let's go together.

First Corinthians 3 and verse 16.

The word God said, no, you not, but that you are the temple of

God and that the Spirit of God, that's Holy Spirit, the Spirit

of God dwells in you. Now, is there anybody here?

Nobody raise your hand or speak up, but is there anybody here

that don't believe that? I don't believe there's a single

person. Here that don't believe that it

says right here 1st 316 don't you know or know you not that

the temple of God and that the Spirit of God, was there anybody

that does not believe that? No, I don't believe there's

anybody here that doesn't believe that.

I'll be shocked if anybody here doesn't believe that.

I'll tell you what you we do believe.

We believe not non miraculous, no miracle.

And one of the Holy Spirit first in the 316 said your body is a

temple of the Holy Spirit. Oh, flip on over three chapters.

Go to chapter 6, chapter 6, First Corinthians 6 and let's

look here please, verses 18 through 20.

This is continued reinforcement. Paul is addressing it so clean,

so clear here. It is so wonderful.

First friends and sits. Please begin verse 18.

He says flee fornication. He's talking about some

individual who's been immoral. He says flee fornication, so

understand that he's talking to an individual.

And then he said every sin that a man doeth is without the body.

He that committeth fornication sentence against his own body.

Have you ever thought of that? If you commit immorality, you've

sinned against your own body. That's not even what we're

preaching over the night. But it's pretty.

Important, isn't it? Now look at verse 19.

Verse 19 says what? One word sentence?

What he said no you not that your body is the temple of the

Holy Ghost, which is in you. I want to ask you a question

right now. Is your body a temple of the

Holy Ghost? That's what the Bible says.

That's your body, a temple of the Holy Ghost.

This verse says what No, you not.

Your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you,

which you have of God. You're not your own.

You got it from God, so why? Don't complain, don't bellyache,

don't try to figure out a way to excuse it away.

Just simply embrace it because that's put Chuck and verse from

the Bible that teaches us the holy.

Spirit, according to the New Testament, This is why this is

so very important. He said your body, your body.

You remember the previous verse 18, I said he's talking to an

individual and he says fleet fornication, fleet fornication.

You sin, you commit fornication, you sin against your own body,

he said. Why don't you know your body?

Your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit.

You know what that means? It means the Holy Spirit dwells

in you. Wow, that's.

Refreshing. Thank you Lord for these great

verses that teach us the great truth.

OK look at verse 20, the last verse of first one and six for

you. Bought with the price.

Therefore, glorify God in your body and in your spirit.

Which are God's wow, I, I just totally love that all of this is

coming together so beautifully and so well that there's no room

to argue. There's, there's every bit of

the room to embrace it because this is God's will.

Some of you have heard sermons that I preached on YouTube.

There's two or three sermons out there on it and other places

that I've held meetings and they record and one thing after

another. Well listen, you know all the

sermons may vary a little bit because I'm emphasizing one

thing or another, but they all going to take the same thing and

that's right here. The 9 miraculous involved in the

Holy Spirit. OK, now I want you to go to

Galatians. This is really, really good.

Galatians 4 and verse 6. Now the Church of Galatians, we

talked a little bit about it last evening for this is really

promising to us and we'll find out why God gives us hell.

The Spirit. Whoa, don't we want to know

that? But here it is Galatians 4 and

verse 6. The word of God said, And

because ye are sons. God has sent forth the Spirit.

That's your Holy Spirit right there.

God sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, I

have a father. Why?

It said right at the beginning, because you are sons, because

you're baptized believers, because you've obeyed the gospel

God. God has sent forth His Holy

Spirit into yours, and your of His Son into your hearts.

Crying to have a father, Wow. So when you look at these

passages and all of a sudden you began to see the power of the

passage and the power of the Word of God, it begins to be

real and it is so very real. All right.

The last verse under this category of non miraculous and

dwell in the Holy Spirit is found in the young preacher

Timothy receiving a letter. The second Timothy chapter 1.

2 Timothy 1 · chapter mention

You don't hear many people talk about this particular passage,

so I want to talk with you briefly about it this evening.

Second Peter 1, verse 14. Listen carefully, please.

2 Peter 1:14

That good thing which is committed unto thee, keep by.

The Holy Ghost whom dwelleth in US.

You know what? I can read you a list about

passages that I don't have on the board.

Holy Spirit dwells in you Holy Spirit dwells in you.

Holy Spirit dwells in you. Holy Spirit dwells in you.

There's no need to argue about. That just accept it because

that's God's way this verse right here said it so clear Holy

Ghost which dwelleth in US. Who's going to deny that?

Nobody who believes in the word of.

God. Well, what we're learning.

Here, even with these few verses, we're learning that God

has a plan. He started way back here, way,

way back to Genesis, but in the New Testament started right here

with Jesus, then the apostles, then those that laid hands on

here in the day, the spiritual gifts, and now for me and you,

the non miraculous indwelling of the Holy Spirit.

Well, the one question that was asked essentially every time

I've given this lesson, it's my final point from the night

that's right here. Why does the Holy Spirit do for

us according to the New Testament?

I'm glad we talked about that, but early on I just simply

talked the lesson and then we, I think we'll take up the next

part a little bit later. But I.

Found out. No, no, no.

People want to talk about it now.

They'll accept the fact that the Holy Spirit runs in you.

They'll accept them. They won't know what they can do

for you. OK, let's talk about that and

then we will. To begin to think about

concluding y'all have been wonderful tonight.

I told you last night I'm going to go a little longer.

So I'm doing that Madam, I worried.

OK, look at it. Romans 826 Here's what we're

going to do. And I've designed this in a way

because I knew I'd be running late on time, just self

appointed. Nobody has given me a time, but

I'm going to. Romans and Ephesians and there's

many other verses we could go to.

But this is enough for what we need tonight.

This will help us to know. What the Holy Spirit does

according to the New Testament. Let's look at Romans 826, Romans

8 and 27, and then we go to Ephesians.

All right, everybody, please turn over.

This is big. This is big news right here.

This is headline news. All right, Romans 8 and 26.

Listen carefully here. The Bible says likewise the

Spirit talk about Holy Spirit now likewise the Spirit also

helpeth our infirmities. Well #1 thank you.

The Holy Spirit helps our affirmative.

Guess what? We all have infirmities.

It is so great to know the Holy Spirit will help our

affirmative. For we know not what we should

pray for as we ought, but the Spirit itself get hold of this.

The Spirit itself makes intercession for us as grown as

they cannot be uttered. Listen to that.

That is absolutely wonderful. The Holy Spirit intercedes for

your prayers when you pray our Father, which art in heaven, and

you let your requests be made known unto God, and you come

boldly under the throne of God. The Holy Spirit intercedes for

your prayers according to the will of God.

So when you pray, you understand your prayers being heard by God

in the name of Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit.

He intercedes. You don't what the word

intercedes me. It just simply means to speak on

behalf of another. So the Holy Spirit is to speak

to God on your behalf. Wow, I love that I may butcher

up a prayer I may not even finish.

I remember times I wouldn't sleep there and praying with my

kids and they said, Dad, wake up, finish your prayer.

Yeah. Hey listen, the Holy Spirit will

let us see for your prayers. According to the will of God,

the Bible says according to the New Testament, it would do that.

So when you look at Romans 826, what we learn is Holy Spirit

will help within our affirmatives because we don't

always know what we should pray for as we ought, but the Holy

Spirit will let us see for you according to the will of God.

It just does my heart good to know that the Holy Spirit will

intercede from my prayers. Now I'm not ever going to in

depth on this. For some reason I feel like I'm

rushed from giving my lesson here.

But I know it's a little late but give me a little bit more

time here. Thank you.

The reason I feel it's so important that we understand

intercession is that when you speak on behalf of another,

you're interceding for them. For an example, if someone asks

you, please pray for me, you know you're glad to do that.

Pray for your brother, pray for your sister, whoever it is.

Did you know when you do that you're interceding for them?

You look at first Timothy 2 verses one and two, and the

Bible teaches that you intercede from one another by your

prayers. Wow, that's neat.

Not only that, if you're back at Romans and not read the verse

but take it on, just tell you what it says, but Romans 8 verse

Romans 8:34

34 it said Jesus also intercedes for us.

So when I pray for you or you pray for me, we're into seeing

for one another. According to first Timothy 2,

verse one and two, Jesus and the seas for us, the Holy Spirit and

the seas. We pray to God the Father in the

name of Jesus and the Holy Spirit goes to work.

My dear friends, big things happen when we put God first in

our. Life.

Don't you dare ever walk away from the Lord now.

You've got so many blessings to come your way because you've

obeyed the gospel and become a member of God's family.

OK, now let's look at Romans 8. We read 26.

You could look verse 27 also, but let's go ahead and go down

to Ephesians just for uniqueness sake.

Ephesians 1 and Ephesians 2 and Ephesians 3.

Matter of fact, I've got a sermon in the making right now.

The Holy Spirit in the book of Ephesians.

It's amazing what all Ephesians said about it.

But that's just a little teaser for another sermon whenever I'm

back out in California sometime. But you maybe would hear that

sermon. All right, let's.

Look at Ephesians. I'm going to look at chapter 1,

chapter 2, and chapter 3 now. This chapter one will really

blow your socks off. It's amazing.

It is so encouraging. Look at it.

Ephesians chapter 1. Here's what the Bible says,

Ephesians 1 · chapter mention

verse 13 and verse 14, by the way.

Ephesians one verse 13 and 14, and whom you also trusted, after

you have heard the word of the truth, the gospel of your

salvation, and whom also you have believed you were sealed

with that Holy Spirit of promise, which is the earnest of

our inheritance under the redemption of the purchased

possession, under the praise of this glory.

Wow. The whole lesson can be preached

on those two verses. You're sealed with the Holy

Spirit of promise. It's kind of like a down payment

to buy a house or down payment to buy a car.

You've got just a little bit of what heaven has to offer that

God has given to all of us. But we got future blessings to

come, eternal life in heaven. Listen, we're just to be.

Thankful to God Almighty for eternal life in heaven.

And it's for everybody here that's faithful until the day

they die. I'm not afraid.

Listen, the devil doesn't stand a chance.

Not when you put the Lord first. The devil is a loser.

He is a loser. OK, flip chapter 2.

I'm just going to reference this passage.

We've already read it, chapter 2, verse 18, where the Holy

Spirit takes your prayers to the Father.

That's just an Ephesian passage. OK, flip on over to chapter 3

and verse 16. This is a really encouraging

passage. Ephesians the 3rd chapter verse

16 that he would grant you according to the riches of his

glory, to be strengthened with my house by his Spirit and the

inner man. Now Christian friend, I want to

be honest with you. How many more verses do you need

to hear to believe that Holy Spirit dwelled in non righteous

way of indwelling in you the Holy Spirit, non righteous

indwelling the Holy Spirit. How many more verses here and

here do you need to believe that?

I want everybody here to believe it because this is Bible, this

is encouragement, this is helping you.

It's Holy Spirit's interceded to God for you.

You learned it from the day you were baptized, and that's 2:38.

That's when you get it. You learned it from many

generations down. The Lord has prayed for us, my

friend. This is all Bible.

It's absolutely all Bible. One of the hardest jobs I had

tonight was figure out what to include and what not to include.

If I was going to hold a whole weekend meeting on the Holy

Spirit, then it wouldn't be hard at all.

But being that I only had one night that I've designated to

speak on this topic because I really wanted to, because I want

you to understand the value of what the Holy Spirit would do

with you for you. According to Scripture, you

don't believe anything anybody says in the church or out of the

church about the Holy Spirit if they don't give you book,

chapter verse in the Bible to prove it.

People mean well, but people can be mistaken.

When you get book, chapter, verse, you can get confirmation

and that's what we need. But you've been magnificent.

I can keep on preaching. I think you'd keep on listening,

but thank you. If you're in this assembly

tonight and you've never obeyed the gospel, it's time.

It's time for you. Because when you obey the gospel

for the admission of your sins and you've received the gift of

the Holy Spirit, my dear friend, the devil just takes off.

He runs away because he knows he is a defeated foe.

If you've obeyed the gospel, but you've not been living right,

you've not been doing the right things, you're not actually

right. Repent of your sins, confess

your faults. We'll pray with him for you that

your sins be all gone. We're here to serve you, to

serve the congregation. The leadership here is

encouraged by your presence, by your membership.

We're all one spiritually happy family and we need to work

together to help each other. Go to heaven.

Allow us together to work with you.

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Bakersfield. If you would like any additional

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correspondence course by mail, please e-mail us at

[email protected]. Our service times are Sundays at

10:30 AM and 5:00 PM and Wednesdays at 7:30 PM.

Please make plans to join us. We would love for you to be our

honoured guest.