Earth, Wind, and Fire

Dear Father God, we are living on the eve of

the Advent of Jesus Christ, and as a people we

are a fulfilling Bible prophecy. The lay at a Sean church, Lord,

a church that is your church.

Our church.

Is void of eyesav which is the Holy Spirit, because

the righteousness of Christ is not found as it should

be in us. So, Lord, we're not here to virtue,

signal or point fingers.

In any group. But we're here to go to the Bible.

For answers, to know Jesus, to let the Apostolic Gospel

do its good work in us, so that prophetic truth

is about you and not us. So open our ears

and our hearts in Jesus name.

Amen.

How many of you have heard of Corey ten Boone.

Corey ten Boone suffered in a concentration camp in World

War Two, where she learned many lessons for life a

wise woman till the day she died. One of those

great lessons is the lesson of forgiveness. When she was

able to forgive a prison guard years later who had

helped to take the life of her sister. Corey Tenboone

learned to pray and rely upon the Holy Spirit in

her life. Would that be a good thing for us

to do in our life? What do you think it'd

be a hugely important thing to do? Out of her

intense suffering, she dedicated her imperfect life to know God,

to live for God, to share God. Now why do

I say imperfect life?

You know?

Frankly, as a pastor, I'm tired of people telling me

how perfect they are. The last time I checked, I

am not perfect, are you? If we are deeply hon

Us with ourselves and we fall on our knees, we

must admit the truth that without Jesus we are nothing.

And this dear woman of God learned that through suffering

that she's very imperfect, she could be transparent about it.

One said this profoundly, Trying to do the Lord's work

and your own strength is the most confusing, exhausting.

And tedious of all work.

But when you are filled with the Holy Spirit, then

the ministry of Jesus just flows out of you.

Wow.

Just before jesus ascension, Jesus told his disciples to go

back into Jerusalem to wait for the promise of the

Holy Spirit. And they went to the very room of

the Last Supper, and by God's grace, they made it

the place where they stayed right there, and they prayed.

They prayed, they prayed, They demonstrated the angels and men.

The Bible principle that we must meet in one place

to receive God's grace. I'll repeat myself, we must meet

in one place to receive God's grace. We live in

a world that teaches a rugged individualism. America is famous

for that. There's good things about that and bad too.

And we assume naturally that doing things our way on

our terms God's way. It's built into our DNA. But friend,

it's not God's way. When we insist on our personal

will rather than coming together and unity and asking God

to lead us, not just eye me and my being

here and there and not united in mind and heart,

will not move the heart of God to save his

church on earth or help anyone get saved in the end.

It will not produce the atmosphere for healing, for victory

of a sin, for spiritual growth and character transformation in

the church. This is why when people say I will

prove to the universe by developing a perfect character and

vindicate the character of God. Lit friends, you don't have

the stuff in you to vindicate the character of God.

Why don't you let God do that and enamor.

Yourself with Jesus, who is our right now, righteousness, goodness

for the judgment day. You see, arrogance will not produce

the atmosphere for healing, for victory of a sin or

anything like it. My way is not our way, and

it definitely is not God's way.

If we are not united.

In submission to God in the Church, God would have

us pray in one place and one accord. Key themes

in Acts one and two for person, the person and

the power of the Holy Spirit to come into our lives,

to come into the church to make us not just

met us alive. After the twelve Apostles had called together

their support group to be in one accord and to

form the one hundred and twenty, in that upper room,

they prayed for wisdom and for the Holy Spirit to

lead them to replace the broken link of Judas the betrayer,

and they chose Matthias's name and he remeans.

Gift of God.

They waited it out with God, just as Jesus had

commanded them. By staying in Jerusalem to pray. There are

times when staying is more important than going. There are

times when abiding and listening matters more, because your work

will not work unless you stop and allow God to

do his work inside of you. And as they prayed,

they contemplated the time and the opportunities they had lost,

the lessons they had missed, the power and knowledge they

might have attained if they had perceived Jesus' true character

as the Son of God. They didn't get it until

late in the game. And now Jesus was gone to

the right hand of God in heaven, and they were

gathered in one accord, in one place to pray for

the Holy Spirit to take Jesus's place. Sister White says,

he personates Christ. Can't do that if you're not a person.

He personates Christ and the heart and love of the

God had the Father, the love, the Son, and the

Holy Spirit could not be the hoarded love of eternity,

as she calls it, unless there were three persons as one.

And so God sent the one person who had not

been in the scene so much it was not perceived.

It was in the Old Testament moving. But this is

the age of the Spirit, inaugurated by the death the

bar and the resurrection of Christ. So that we might

have Christ in us the hope of glory, and the

world might be illumined with the knowledge of Christ. So

the right place to be when you're seeking a deeper

relationship with God is on your knees together, searching so

that God can feel you for the good of other

human beings. Now I have recommended the book Daniel, Are

you here, Daniel Prabakar, where are you at? Come up

here real quick, give me that book. Actually, Apostles. You

got to run, because well you don't have to run,

you can walk and don't trip whatever you do. But

put that book in my hand if you don't mind.

Acts of the Apostles.

Is it over there?

Okay, Well give me the stack of books and I'll

give them back to you and I'll make a plug here.

What book in our Acts series are we paying attention to? Here,

say loud, Acts of the Apostles. Oh yeah, this is

for Samuel. Samuel, these are yours? Come up and get them.

The Conflict of the Ages series been along the way.

I have learned more about God's Word from these books

than any other book in theology, seminary training anywhere.

And I want to make a statement that can be proven.

These works are chiastic, and she didn't sit down and say, oh,

I'm a ride of chiasm. They are supernaturally God carried

to their final form, like the Canon of Scripture was carried.

God gave the remnant church these books. The book Acts

of the Apostles is hugely important in this series. And Samuel,

it's number four. But I'm giving you the set. You

were supposed to get these after your baptism, so we

need to make sure you get them.

God bless you. Samuel is a good leader in the church.

I'd like to read three paragraphs from actually Apostles with you.

Could I I don't have the slide on the screen,

just the place where you.

Oh, well, look at Lucian. He plugged it in.

As the disciples waited for the fulfillment of the promise,

they humbled their hearts, and look what she says in

true repentance and confess their unbelief. They called to remembrance

the words that Christ had spoken of them before his death.

They understood more fully their meaning. Truths which had passed

from their memory were again brought to their minds, and

these they repeated to one another. They reproached themselves for

their misapprehension of the Savior. In other words, they didn't

have a clue who he was until they finally got

it that God in man had come to them in

Jesus like a processionate, scene after scene of his wonderful

life passed before them. As they meditate upon his pure,

holy life. They felt that no toil would be too hard,

no sacrifice too great, if only they could bear witness

in their lives to the loveliness of Christ's character. Oh,

if they could but have the past three years to

live over. They thought, how differently they would act if

they could only see the Master again. How earnestly they

would strive to show him, how deeply they loved him,

how sincerely they sorrowed for having ever greemed him by

a word or an act of unbelief. But they were

comforted by the thought. Now Here I love this statement.

They were comforted by the thought. And what does it

say that they were forgiven? And they determined that, so

far as possible, they would atone for their unbelief by

bravely and confessing him before the world. I like that

she says forgiven people are about sharing forgiveness. They're about

giving that which God has given them.

She goes on.

The disciples prayed with intense earnestness for a fitness to

meet men and in their daily intercourse to speak words

that would lead sinners to Christ. Putting away all differences,

all desire for supremacy, they came close together in Christian fellowship.

They drew nearer and nearer to God.

And as they did this, they realized what a privilege

had been theirs had been theirs in being permitted to

associate so closely with Christ. Sadness filled their hearts as

they thought of how many times they grieved Him by

their slowness of comprehension failure to understand the lessons for

their good He was trying to teach them. These days

of preparation, which means the days between His ascension and Pentecost,

were days of deep spiritual searching. The disciples felt their

spiritual need and cried to the Lord for the holy

unction that was to fit them for the work of

saving of soul saving. They did not ask for a

blessing for themselves, merely they were weighted with the burden

of the salvation of souls. They realized that the Gospel

was to be carried to the world and they claimed

the power that Christ had promised. The power that Christ

had promised is the Holy Spirit. He's called the Finger

of God, the Rod of God, the hand of God,

the ink of God, the Wind of God, the Fire

of God. I could go on the imagery the Holy

Spirit is immersed in the Old Testament. Doctor Daniel Buxton myself.

We produced a book which we're going to make available

to you on symbolism in the same the Holy Spirit,

to show how much the Holy Spirit appears as a

person in the Old Testament. And we didn't write it

for scholars. We write it for Bible students who want

to open up their Bible and just let the Word

of God speak. The Bible summarizes the outcome of this

seeking after God that they had through prayer and fellowship

and searching of heart. At last, the floodgates of God's

treasury opened wide, and Heaven's treasure poured down upon the earth.

That was the day for earth, wind and fire to meet,

The day for the outpoint of the Holy Spirit had

finally come. The Age of the Spirit had broken into

the darkness of the Old Age, and the power of

the Age to come had become the power that animated

and motivated the New Testament Church. Take your Bible's turn

with me to Acts two Verse one. Let's begin the narrative.

We will not be going far into Acts two. We

will be describing what it is talking about here on

the front side. When the day of Pentecost had come,

the Bible reads, they were all together in one place,

and suddenly a sound came from heaven, like the rush

of a mighty wind. It filled all the house where

they were sitting. The Greek word when panah ace or

for found in verse two, appears in the Greek Old Testament,

not the Hebrew the Greek Old Testament for the first

time in Genesis two seven. It is deliberately chosen because

here in this passage, Luke is not trying to draw

our attention so much to creation as he is to

the new life that we have because of the wind

of God. It is not the word used for the

Spirit of God in Genesis one. It's the word used

for when man was created in Genesis two. Let's look

at the verse Genesis two to seven. I'm reading from

the revised Standard version. Then the Lord God formed man

of dust. The Hebrews yatsar. He formed him like a

potter would form a clay vessel from the ground, and

he breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and

man became a living being. So in the Greek Old

Testament of the Hebrew, God breathed into Adam's nostrils the wind,

the breath of life, the exact same word used in

Acts two, verse two, and he became a living being.

Now what's it saying there. You can have all the materials,

you have the body, that's right, you can have the DNA.

But if you don't have the wind of God in you,

you don't live. And so we don't even get started

in the Christian life unless God's Spirit fills us. The

Church's need is the same as Adam's. Without the Holy

Spirit inside the shell of the body, it's only a

dead organism, no life. There's no movement, no future. And

this is the latest seeing condition problem in the book Revelation.

It lacks ice have because it's naked, and it lacks

the righteousness of Christ. Adam means earth in the Genesis

account in Hebrew, Adam was made from the red muddy earth.

The word for blood is etymologically connected the word for acts,

and we're blood red earth creatures. And without the Holy Spirit,

the earth that is us is nothing but mud.

And there is no life in the.

Clay without the wind of God. So earth and man

must meet the wind and the fire of God to

live for us to be animated and alive. Life is

wind and fire, not just earth. Jesus told Nicodemus, you

remember the story of Nicodemus. He met Jesus by night,

and Jesus had to talk to this bright theologian about

how to have a new heart. He was all enamored

with the how and the what of scripture, like the

House of Hillel and Shamah and Judaism, to figure out

all the intricacies.

Of the Torah.

But he didn't know God as a savior. He didn't

have a relationship where by his heart was renewed. And

in his need, he came to Jesus by night. And

the Greek is a genitive of time. He gave came

to him, and it was not kind of time for him.

It was darkness in his life and he needed something,

and Jesus took the time to speak to the theologian

on how to be a converted man. John three six

to eight. A little excerpt from Jesus' interaction with Nicodemus.

Jesus said, that which is born of the flesh is flesh,

and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.

Do not marvel or be surprised that I said.

To you, you must be born anew. And some translations

will say born again the wind. As soon as he

talks about the new birth, he doesn't talk about some

fanciful religious experience.

We jump up and down, and you say, oh, I

got the spirit. He says.

The wind blows where it wills, and you hear the

sound of it, but you do not know whence it

comes or whither it goes. So it is with everyone

who's born of the spirit. When we are born again,

the wind of God is blowing in your life.

The wind of God that.

You cannot see, is affecting changes, bringing you to brokenness,

so that the Word of God will interact with you,

so that you will come to since your need of Him.

You cannot do that work. Only the Holy Spirit can

do that work. God sends his spirit to save the world.

This gift of the Holy Spirit comes from Jesus into

our lives. Because Jesus and John three is above all,

and because Jesus loves the earth that desperately needs the.

Wind and the fire, and he came to the earth to.

Give us salvation and ultimately his spirit John three point

thirty one. He who comes from above is above all.

He was of the earth, belongs to the earth, and

the earth he speaks. He who comes from heaven is

above all.

Friend.

Jesus came into this world to save you. He didn't

come to waste his time. He came because he loves you.

Jesus returned to the Father and next one so he

could send the Holy Spirit to complete the divine work

of spreading the Gospel of the world and to fill

us with the Holy Spirit, so we would have Christ

in us, the Hope of glory. As we have said

that the Spirit of Prophety says he personates Christ. He

brings the person of Christ because he is one with Christ.

The gift of the Holy Spirit is Christ in Us,

the hope of Gloria mystery. But nonetheless, the truth and

what Jesus did for us in coming to earth, the

Holy Spirit applies that work in us so we can

live on earth as born again, born in New Christians.

I have watched in the church over the years. I'm

sixty two and I still have my hair. Some of

you are cubbageous. Do not break the tenth Commandment. Okay,

but I've lost some of it. On the sides.

It's definitely getting grayer.

The point is, when I'm getting older now with gray hair,

what does it symbolize in our culture? You can help

me with this wisdom. All right, I'm slow here, you're not.

And I have noticed over the years certain people come

to church not to be born again, not to be

born anew.

But to look important. Yes, to be important.

You realize, friends, that we gather here to maintain a

relationship of God, to be born again and help others

come to Christ.

That's what the church is about.

And I've seen over the years people who thank their

God's gift of the world and the church really are

the ones who need conversion the most. Jesus call them

the lost coins. In the church now, as a movement

based on Bible prophecy, we are in desperate need of

conversion in our church, converted lives, converted hearts in the

remnant church. At the end of time, does Jesus love

our church, yes or no, hugely, and so the message

comes from the Bible to us. In Roman's eight fourteen,

Paul says, all who are led by the spirit of God,

these are the children of God. So is it optional

to have the Holy Spirit in your life? Yes or no,

It's not optional. They were all praying for the Holy

Spirit for good reasons that Jesus sent the Spirit just

as he had prom Ax one one says that the

day of Pentecost came and they were together literally in

one place.

And what does this mean? Same place.

It means that they were expecting the Holy Spirit based

in the promise of Jesus. Bible prophecy was in play,

based on the sanctuary system and the feast of Pentecost.

They were in tune with the signs of the times,

the words of Christ's prophetic leading.

They understood the Book of Daniel.

Chapter nine clearly, multiple allusions to it in their testament

in the Praise the Mare of Daniel nine twenty three

to twenty four.

Dane eight fifteen. The mighty man Mare.

Is the appearance of Christ, and this is why Romans

three will say, but now a righteousness has been manifested.

Pheneroo and Greek alluding to the Mare of Daniel nine

twenty three the appearance of Christ. So Christ is the

mighty Man, that is part of the evenings and mornings

that brings us to the year eighteen forty four. But basically,

in real terms, they were enamored by the officecy that

brought Jesus. It became the framework of New Testam escatology,

and so when Christ spoke of the Holy Spirit, they

had open ears, they were prepared, they were ready, they

were there. In one place, Pentecost means fifty in Greek,

it was numbered fifty days from the wave sheaf offering.

Does anybody know what the wave chef offering here is? Say, no,

pastor what's the wave chief offering? Okay, tomorrow after the Sabbath,

which had been the seventh day Sabbath when Jesus was crucified,

or the feast of unloven bread. But when Jesus was

crucified it was Saturday anyway, so the rabbis had two

different views that Tomorrow after that.

Was Sunday, when Jesus died. It's the wave sheaf there.

The priest would enter the temple, you'd take the first

fruits of the dead earth and wave it before the

Lord to say life has come from the.

Ground this spring.

And there was a reason they did it, according to

Leviticus twenty three, ten and eleven, that was done to

demonstrate that God had accepted them in the spring. Now,

Mary was at the garden tomb John twenty do you

remember the story, and Jesus said, don't keep on what.

Holding on to me?

For I have not yet ascended to my father and

your father, to my God and your God. What he's

saying is, look, I'm going to be gone most of

this morning Sunday, and he wasn't back until the afternoon.

He went straight to the throne of God as the

first fruits from the dead. Based on one Corinthians fifteen

Christ as the first fruits. He presented him before God

Almighty as the first fruits of the earth, and the

Gospel his life, his death, his resurrection was accepted by

God before the universe.

As they were all grieving and crying in.

The great disappointment of AD thirty one, it was no

disappointment in heaven because they were rejoicing because Christ is Victor,

and he came back to comfort the flock and to

tell them how much they were accepted because of his death, burial,

and resurrection. Paul says in One Corinthians fifteen twenty that

Jesus the first fruits and the dead.

Now turn with me to Levitgus twenty three ten and eleven.

Here Moses is writing in behalf of God, say to

the people of Israel, when you come to the land

which I give you and reap its harvest, you shall

bring the sheaf of the first fruits of your harvest

to the priest.

He shall wave the sheaf.

Before the Lord that happened on Sunday morning, when Jesus

was resurrected, that you may find acceptance on the morrow

after the Sabbath, that would be Sunday, when Jesus was resurrected.

The priest shall wave it. Paul says in One Corinthians

fifteen twenty that Jesus is the first fruits from the dead.

Look at the verse with me. But in fact Christ

has been raised from the dead. And what does the

Bible call it? Here the calls him the first fruits

of those who've fallen asleep.

Now why was he raised at all?

Now we know In First Corinthians fifteen of first importance,

He died for our sins.

That's the gospel. Paul says. You don't hang on to that.

You don't get that he was buried, which means our

sins were separated from us. Christ took them into the grave,

and then he was raised in the third day in

accords of the scriptures. But what does it mean that

he would be raised? Look at Romans four twenty five

Jesus who was put to death for our trespasses? And

what does it say in your translation he's raised? What

for our justification? Now, this word justification in Greek means

legal acquittal. It implies the idea of full acceptance because

you're not guilty anymore. It's the fulfillment of the wave sheaf.

And look at the outcome in Romans five to one. Therefore,

since we are justified by faith, not by works, but

by faith, what do we have? What does it say?

We have helped me peace with God? Isn't that huge?

You've been worth God? How could God accept me? How

could God be in my life? You know, look at

the sins I made, mistakes I've done. But it says

because we're justified by faith because of his resurrection, he

was raised for our justification. We have peace with God.

We don't have to prove anything to God. We have

peace with God. How not through us, but through our

Lord Jesus Christ.

Friends. God has provided.

For you and me in Jesus a right now righteousness

that's good enough for every day of your life to

bring peace. And it's good enough for the judgment day,

the investigative judgment before the coming of Christ.

It's good enough.

We are not little Jesus as completing the victory of

Christ to be accepted in life.

Pentecost is not the.

Outcome of our powerful striving, of our competent character, perfection

of our innate or acquired goodness, or any other Christian

virtue we have had or might think we have, or

anything we do to try and impress God or others

with our holiness and growth. No final generation can make

the Holy Spirit to them by being good enough to

make him come. So you might get mad at me

for preaching that it's true.

Pentecost only comes because.

Jesus is good enough, you heard me, Because Jesus got

it done for us. And as death is baron his resurrection,

it is the promise of Jesus for those who need it.

There is no victory that is ours that adds one

speck to his virtuous and complete victory. In the Gospel

of God, the life, death, and Resurrection of Jesus, fifty

days from the wave sheaf offering brings us to the

feast of Pentecost. This is a small jubilee cycle of

forty nine days instead of forty nine years, with the

fiftieth being the jubilee idea seven times seven years. In

the fiftieth year, it brought release for the captives. In

ancient Israel, the time when the land would return to

its rightful owner. It wasn't dependent on anything but the

time it was time to do it. Deaths would be

forgiven because of the time, and when the rejoicing of

God would be everywhere because of the time. And if

your life was a failure you lost everything you had,

it would come back to you at that time. It

was called the year of the Lord's Favor. Like the Jubilee,

Pentecost was the day of the Lord's favor that would

do the same thing, to change the church, to change

the disciples, to change the world. A loud trumpet would

be blown throughout the whole land to announce the jubilee,

so expect something loud at the feast of Pentecost. Thus

it was fitting the Holy Spirit came into that upper

room at the right time, when they were in the

right place, in one accord. The Holy Spirit, that is

a still small voice to Elijah.

Came like a rushing wind and.

Loud power, and the room was filled with the loud wind,

the mighty noise, the voice of God. I wish I

could have been there. When you like to been in

that upper room watching that, you know, just like in

the corner, the one hundred and twenty first person there.

I'd like to been there to see it, to feel

to hear it, you know, when the tongues of fire appeared,

to put my finger right there in the fire and

see it, and burn my finger. Glorious and powerful, the

mighty wind of God, the Holy Spirit came to the church.

It was no accident that this happened in the third Month,

which a coincide of the time after the Passover when

the children of Israel came to Mount Sinai to receive

the law, to become a holy nation of missionaries to

save the world. God's segula in Hebrew, his prized treasure,

possession of all.

The nations of the earth.

Thus, the day of Pentecost is the new Covenant day

when God puts his law into the heart by the

gift of the Holy Spirit. The ten Commandments are just

dead works on stone tablets, and thus the Holy Spirit

writes them on our hearts in fire.

With the wind.

Christ is the Law, and the Spirit brings Christ in us,

the hope of glory into our hearts. Hebrews eight ten.

This is the Covenant's quoting Jeremiah thirty one. This is

the covenant that will make with the House of Israel

after those days, says the Lord, I will put my

laws into their minds. I will write them on their hearts. See,

God doesn't do away with the Law and the Covenant.

He puts it in us. I will be their God,

and they shall be my people. And they shall not

teach everyone his fellow or everyone his neighbors, saying no,

the Lord, in other words, no virtue signaling will happen here.

Work for all shall know Me, from the least of

them to the greatest. And how is it based Look

at verse twelve. For I will be merciful toward their iniquities.

How many of you have iniquities.

In your life?

You raise your hand hi, like an honest Christian should. Okay,

I will be merciful toward their iniquities. And then God says,

and I will remember their sins no more. Paul here

informs us that the Holy Spirit brings the knowledge of

God into our life, the knowledge of grace, mercy, and forgiveness.

We cannot be crushed by.

Our sins if we accept the Gospel and we are

a new covenant believer. The Spirit puts the law into

our dead bodies so we can live, so we can

know the Lord from the least to the greatest. No

theologian has an advantage here. And God does this because

Jesus died for us, and because God has forgiven all

our sins in Jesus, making it legal and right to

sin the Holy Spirit. I once had an unfortunate interaction

with a good man who I'm not going to say more,

who was educated but not educated in the New Testaments

he should have been at that time, who would argue

that Christ didn't forgive anybody at the cross, And the

silliness of that, As Paul says, God in Christ forgave us.

You know, he says it a lot. But when Jesus said, Father,

forgive them, he did. Jesus wouldn't ask the Father to

do something he wouldn't do. And we're tolding them about

Christ's object lessons that the forgiveness of the King in

Matthew eighteen represents a universal forgiveness for all sin in

the heart of God. He has forgiven to human race.

Now sure we need to accept it, because he won't

force it on us. It becomes operative in our lives.

It's real. But don't tell me that God didn't forgive

humanity at the Cross in Christ.

It don't work.

The Bible's too clear and the spirit of prophecy is

too clear. We get the Holy Spirit because God is good,

because his character is mercy and justice, mercy first and

more justice eventually, and because Jesus is the righteousness of God.

That makes it right to do the New covenants based

on God's forgiveness and the Old Covenant, every man died

for his own sins, and the New Covenant, Jesus dies

for every man and woman sins, putting Mosaic law upside down.

Mercy becomes the foundation you covenant forgiveness is God's mercy

as the guide in law and principle that will be

the stand of the judgment, according to James, to mercy

triumphs over judgment.

Paul says, the Holy Spirit.

Is the guarantee of our inheritance until we acquire the

possession of it. Now, how many of you feel like

you're perfect this morning? I mean I had to get

up and start confessing imperfections to the Lord in prayer.

Is I mean before I even started my day, And

I'll probably do some of it at the end of

the day. The neat thing is I'm with God. I

don't have to run from that. Praise the Lord, Paul says.

He gives us the Holy Spirit until we're fixed, because

we aren't yet. Look at fleege Pesians one thirteen. In Him,

you also who have heard the Word of Truth, the

gossip of your salvation, and have believed in Him. It's Jesus,

we're sealed with.

What does he call it? Here? The Promised Holy Spirit?

And it could be translated, who is the guarantee of

our inheritance until we acquire possession of it?

Or him know of it? To the praise of His glory?

Excuse me.

The it there, but the person of the Spirit brings

the guarantee of the future into our lives right now. See, friends,

God doesn't wait for you to be perfect to give

you the Holy Spirit. God gives you the Holy Spirit

because you are not perfect.

Did you hear that? Write that now?

God is going to send me the Holy Spirit. I

asked for him in honesty because I'm not perfect. So

what's all this business about trying to be perfect so

we can receive the outpourt of the Holy Spirit.

It's non biblical nonsense. It's in our knees, in our need.

That is the will of the Father that give us

the Holy Spirit right now as we struggle, as we

have problems so that God can heal us, God gives

you the Holy Spirit, encourage you, to help you, to

comfort you, to guide you into the future until the

day you are finally perfect, and that will happen in time,

in God's time. Jesus opened up the floodgate for the

full blessing and treasure of God. Because we acquire perfection

and our inheritance in principle as a gift, through the

gift of the Holy Spirit, it will become our full

experience after the work of the Holy Spirit has been

completed in life. Now that the Roman Church taught in

the Middle Ages that you aren't accepted by God until

you have been sanctified.

That's why you need purgatory.

And the Reformers taught from scripture that when you are

justified by faith, the regeneration of the Holy Spirit occurs

instantly and you're accepted before God is if.

You had never sinned.

And it's in that acceptance you move forward in life,

which means sanctification is not the Gospel. It is the

fruit of the Gospel. It is what results from the

Good News. And so when we blur those two distinctions,

we move back toward Rome. The Roman Church became a

perfectionistic system and it had you put it codified that

theology at the Council of Trent, and I've had the

privilege of reading its theology there. And we just don't

want anything in our church, and we shouldn't have any

and our experience that mimics that which the Reformation fought against.

So christ in us the hope of glory based on

the good work of Jesus. It's not based on our accomplishments.

God gives you to you the Holy Spirit because you

need him. God gives you the Holy Spirit to encourage

you to help you because you are not perfect. Jesus

opened up the floodgate for the full blessing and treasure

of God before we acquire perfection. Because He loves us

in the journey to get there, He accepts us on

the road.

What does that mean practically?

It means that repentant sinners who cling to God, who

come to Christ and their struggle and their weakness, have

the full right to receive the Holy Spirit and faith

because of Jesus' victory on the cross, his burial, and

his resurrection.

That's what it means. That's the gospel.

So you don't twist God's arm to receive the Holy Spirit. Rather,

you need to be in the right place in your life,

humbled by God, praying to him broken, and He will

come to you with the promise of the Spirit. When

you say, please give me the Holy Spirit. I can't

get through life.

He will. You don't have to guess at it.

And that's what happened to day Pentecost Acts two, three continues,

and there appear to them tongues is a fire distributing

resting on each one of them, and they were all

filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in

other tongues, which means languages, as the Spirit gave them utterance.

The Spirit of Prophecy tells us that the same power

is operative in the prophets gives them utterance, and thus

the utter the utterances of man become the word of God.

She says, don't think for a minute that we have

diminished power in prophetic teaching and writings. The same power

that can convert a language and create it out of

nothing can do the same in the prophetic power of

the written word, in the Spirit of prophecy, in the Bible.

That so much has happened here of importance. When God

called Moses, Moses was afraid to speak to Pharaoh because

Moses knew.

That he was not eloquent. He ever had a time

he got up there and go, I don't know how

I'm going to say this. Now. I've had times when

I preach I couldn't. I couldn't you know.

I had a headache, I had a migraine. Once I

told the whole church, I have a migraine, so I'd

preach with a Migraine, at least they'd know. And God

told Moses, who has made men's mouth. He said, I

can't go to Pharaoh. I don't know what to say.

And here he's telling us that when a prophet speaks,

God speaks, don't diminish the word of God to be

something less than it is. Go and I will teach

you what you are to say. Moses went, and God

spoke through Moses and his mouth. A seminary education does

not qualify someone to be a spokesperson for God. We

speak for God when God speaks to us, and when

godfies us, how do we know he speaks to us

when it lines up with what this book the Bible.

That's right.

The prophets are subject to the prophets the Bible. Those

disciples were utterly dependent on God to take the gospep

of the world. They needed Moses, they needed the prophets.

They couldn't get it done on their own power and will.

They needed the Holy Spirit to understand the Bible, to

be true to its teaching, to live out the life

of Christ. At the Tower of Babel, God confused the

people to create the langes of the world because they

wanted to make a name for themselves instead of accepting

God's name. Psalms one hundred and nineteen fifty five tells

us that God's name is God's law.

I am who I am is what the ten commandments is.

It is a description of God's nature. His law is love.

It has ever been, ever will be. It's who he is.

They rejected his name, they rejected his character's law, and

because they wanted to make a tower to climb up

to God, to unleash cosmic powers to control the universe.

How many have you been following the Pyramids lately in

the news, You've been noticing that satellite data, at least

someone's in a group's interpretation of it say that there

are pylons that go all the way down to the

bedrock of the earth beneath the pyramids that have coils

wrapped around them. I don't know, but this is making news.

It's really out there and they're saying this. You know,

there's something else going on with the pyramids now. People

want to focus on something like the pyramids for cosmic power.

Now.

The tire baby was built to harness spiritual forces, God

tells us in deuteronm BE four nineteen. He handed the

nations over the demons because they were seeking that when

he divided the nations and gave to them their inheritance

as recorded in Genesis ten. But for our purposes, we

don't need any of that, do we.

We don't need to go.

To some magazine or tabloid and try to figure out

what's happened to the pyramids to get crystal power.

You know, people, I've picked this.

I was once in a bookstore and a guy came

up to me wanted to show me the secrets power.

He had this satanic thing on him around his neck,

and he showed me his finger and he I guess

he wanted me to admire the fact he had something

black in there, and and I told him, I'm frankly

not interested. I have Jesus Christ in my life and

your power means nothing to me without Jesus. And then

I tried to spend time with him to help him,

but he was so stuck on how powerful he was.

We don't have anything. But they wanted to build a tower,

but it's top into heavens now.

The book Revelation, the tower builders will build a tower.

It says their sins are heaped as high as heaven,

and God remembers end time. Babylon tower building is not

the way to climb up to God. It says in

Exous twenty that we build an altar on level earth.

God says, I will come down to you. You shall

not build an altar by steps and expose your nakedness.

You fall on the ground, on level ground, and that's

where I find you, on the earth where you live.

The prophet zeph and I have predicted that the day

would come when God's people would finally flee to Mount

Zion for the promise of a pure speech and attitude

of one accord to be rescued from their enemies. The

prophet knew that only God can reverse the curse of

the Tower of Babel by bringing the Holy Spirit into

our lives.

Zeph and I have three nine yea. At that time,

I will.

Change the speech of the peoples to a pure speech,

that all of them may call on the name of

the Lord and serve him. And what does it say

in verse nine, serve him with one accord? The Hebrews

Shacha machad from beyond the rivers of Ethiopia, my suppliants,

the daughters of my dispersed ones shall bring my offering

on that day. You shall not be put to shame

because of the deeds by which you rebelled. Now think

about this. When we mess up in life, our mistakes

crush us, don't they. I mean, look at what I did,

Look what my family did to me. Look at that

awful sin. I live it every day in my head.

He says, on that day, you shall not be put

to shame because of the deeds by which you have

rebelled against me.

That's an awesome statement.

For then I will remove from your midst, your proudly

exultant ones, and you shall no longer be haughty. In

my holy mountain, it's a broken, humble people who are

freed from guilt by the cross of Christ. They receive

the Holy Spirit. The condition for receiving the Holy Spirit

is humility, evidenced by confession and repentance. Dear heart, God

comes to those who come to God in this honest

and sincere and humble way. People who turn from the

rebellion to come to Jesus have every right to ask

God to give them the Holy Spirit. At the Feast

of Pentecost, God reversed the Curse of the Tire of

Babel with the special promise of a pure speech that's kind, clear,

focused on sharing God's word, on God's truth to save

other human beings. When you honestly care about someone in

your life and your religion is not about you, but

about others more so, as it says in the book

Steps to Christ and the Work and the Life, and

you talk to people as one who cares for them

with agendas, they will hear your voice, the spirit behind

your voice.

It will get into their heads.

May they may not understand a word you have to

say to them about the content of your faith, but

they will understand how you say it to them. Loving

people when people to a loving Lord. Now, how does

different people can express love in different ways? Some people

can just have this nice, calm demeanor I really care

about you, and they mean it. Others can fake it

by doing something like that. Others can say I care

about you, that wrap their arms around you and just

give you a big hug. Look, I don't know what

your temperament is, but when the Holy Spirit is working

in you, you're focused on caring about other people. It

takes the Holy Spirit to be a loving and kind

power inside of you to make you a Christian that

resembles Jesus in your own personality and temperament. When you

are not the hero in your life, dear heart, God

can then use your life life to help other lives

come to.

God in Christ.

God doesn't need you to be a hero. God is

seeking a sinner who turns to Him for grace and

God and God gets it done. And the lives of

imperfect men and women who are in their brokenness love

Him and they come to Him and they value what

Jesus has done for them. Friend, the Holy Spirit settled

on their heads as tongues of fire, and the wind

didn't blow the fire out because the fire was in

the wind and the storm. The fire and the wind

were one the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit was superpositioned.

That's a scientific term. We're using quantum mechanics to describe

a cubit. Something can be more than one. Thing can

be there, or things can be entwined. It can be

more places than once. The Holy Spirit be everywhere. He's superpositioning,

like quantum mechanics. The Holy Spirit is the fire and

the wind, but it's settled in one hundred and twenty people.

The same Holy Spirit was here. Here here, here, here,

Holy Spirit is the fire and the wind that God

gives that we will all know Him and be born

again from the least to the greatest.

Why does he do it? Because we are the earth.

In need the mud, and we need wind and fire

of the God's Spirit to make us live. We can't

give ourselves life, dear heart, Earth, wind and fire meet

because Jesus died for us. When that spirit went into

Christ's side and blood and water came out, it represented

us in the Holy Spirit coming together through forgiveness and sanctification.

And that stream of blessing will never end till this

world is over. It will be the river of life

for all eternity. And let's face it, we don't get

there because we're good people. We get there because we're

God's people. So cling to the Lord and let him

do his work In you, dear Father, It's an awesome

thing to realize that you have placed the third person

of the Godhead into our lives to bring us Jesus

and You so that we will not be alone, so

that we will have the full benefits of your presence

as we grow as Christians, as we learn to love

as you have loved us. And Lord, may you finish

the work you start. May we not get in the way.

And Lord, may we be about sharing kindness, life, love

with others, so that you will recognize us as the

children of God, because the Spirit dwells in us. Bless

your people. May they leave this place if they have

a forgive a heart that it says, Lord, forgive me.

May you impress upon them that they are forgiven. And Lord,

we ask for the Holy Spirit because forgiven people need it,

need him in Jesus's name. Bless your people in Jesus name.

Amen.