Haunted House - Week 1: Holy Ghost

Jesus' name.

Amen, Amen, and amen, give the Lord a hand clout

one more time.

Thank you Lord.

H We're starting a brand new series today called Haunted House.

Now listen, don't freak out with a name, don't don't listen,

don't freak out.

Uh.

Basically everything this year has been that house theme, and

we're talking about the supernatural this month. Uh, So it

just seemed fitting that we just kind of threw in

that reference because that's all about I promise, I'm not

gonna be preaching about ghosts and we're not gonna scare

you when you go into the nobody's gonna jump out

when you go to the bathroom. That's not what this

is about. But we're going to focus on the invisible

part of.

The Kingdom of God. Amen.

We're gonna talk about the supernatural. Uh, we're gonna talk

about the Holy Ghost today. Come on somebody. Uh then Uh,

then U Pastor Clay's gonna preach a message to you

about heaven and Hell. Then we're gonna talk about angels

and demons, and then we're gonna talk about spiritual warfare

through this month. So this is that this this says

that time, these are the things that the people you

know want to hear about.

Amen, that supernatural aspect.

So now is a great time for you to invite

somebody to come to.

Church with you or to send them a link to

the online.

Worship experience, because we want people to understand that we

serve a supernatural God. We serve a supernatural God because

most people walk through their lives and they look around

and they don't think there's any natural way for them

to have a change in their situation and their circumstance.

And the reality is, most of the time there is

no natural way. But we don't serve a natural God.

We serve a supernatural God who doesn't have to play

by the same rules, who's not bound by those same principles.

He has his own set and he can do whatever

he wants whenever he wants, and he can bring you

through something just like that. He can position you for blessing,

he can heal your body, he can put a relation

ship back together.

He can do all those things in a moment.

If we just lean into the supernatural part of who

he is and stop thinking that we have to help him. Listen,

I'm gonna preach better than y'all are y'all are not

warmed up. Y'all'm gonna preach better than what y'all are

letting on right now. I just wanted you to know

that's where we're going today. If you've got a Bible,

John chapter sixteen, John chapter sixteen.

I think that the.

Primary purpose of the indwelling power of the Holy Spirit

and the presence of the Holy Spirit the.

Number one objective.

His number one priority is to glorify Jesus. The Spirit's

number one priority is to glorify Jesus. And I want you,

I want to go ahead and clarify something here. Holy

Spirit is not God's power on earth, as if you know,

God is sitting up there and he's going and whatever

out of the end of his fingers is Holy Spirit.

And the movie Holy Spirit is a third part and

equal part of the Triune godhead of the Trinity. Three

and one. I've already had some conversation without this morning. Listen,

I do not have I'm not smart enough. Steve knows me.

He's laughing.

I'm not smart enough to give you an in depth

explanation because my mind is finite and I cannot understand

three but one that's just not something that we do,

because there's no natural explanation to that.

You have to take that by faith. It just lives

out there somewhere.

And I just trust that God is who he says

he is and he does the things he says he

can do, because he's never ever let me down and

he's proven himself time and time again. So my faith

is just engaged on everything he says. And Holy Spirit

is a is a person, a part of the try,

so it's not just He's not just power. He is

a person, just like the Father, just like the son,

and his primary purpose is to glorify Jesus.

John chapter sixteen, Starting in verse twelve, it.

Says, I still have many things to say to you,

but you cannot bear them now.

I wish I was.

Preaching that this morning. Do you know that the Lord

has so many things for you? He has so much

there's so much purpose and so much destiny ahead of you,

But he has to withhold it because you can't bear

it right now. If he told you the totality, the

immensity of what he wanted for your life, or your

children's lives, or your grandchildren's lives, you wouldn't be able

to bear it right now. So he just says, hey,

be patient, walk with me, and I'm going to give

it to you, little by little by little.

Amen.

He says, listen, I want to tell you, but you

can't bear it right now.

However, when he.

The spirit of truth has come, he will guide you

into all truth. For he will not speak on his

own authority, but whatever he hears, he will speak, and

he will tell you things to come. He will glorify me.

He will take of what is mine and declare it

to you. All things that the Father has are mine.

Therefore I said, he will take of mine and declare

it to you. Let's pray, Father, we thank you for

your word. It's the only change agent on the face

of the planet. And I pray that today you change us,

that you mold us and shape us. Lord, that when

we leave today we're we're a little more like you

and a little less like us.

Father, that we hear.

Receieve your impartation of truth, or we give you glory

and honor and praise in Jesus' name.

Amen, Amen, and amen.

So his his primary purpose is to glorify Jesus, you know,

and that would be uh, that seems like a pretty

easy thing for God to do. After all, he's God.

He could just come and make force everybody to bow

their knee. He could he could just if that's the

path he chose to take, he could just force everybody

down on their knees, head up towards heaven, and he

could just say, here's Jesus, give him glory. But he

has a different path because in order to worship God,

which is why he created us. He created us to

worship him. He created us to uh to exalt him.

He created us for his pleasure. I listen, a lot

of we we we have problems sometimes when we say

things like that, but we were created for God's pleasure.

A lot of times we think that God is there

for our pleasure. But God created us for his pleasure.

He's the creator and as a result, he desired. His

desire is for us to willingly come to him, And

anything forrest is not true worship. If I hold a

gun to Calvin's head and say Calvin, tell me you

love me, and he says I love you, Pastor, that's

not that, that's not really a true expression of how

he feels about me. Amen, that's self preservation. But you

know how I know Calvin loves me. It's because he

comes up every day and he says, hey, you dropped

your ear, and he tries to make me look at

the ground because that's our thing, right, That's that's the relationship.

We We just joke with each other all the time.

We're poking fun with each other all the time.

And and that's how I know.

It's because there is a true, unslilicited expression of how

he feels towards me.

It's the same with my wife. She doesn't screams say

tell me you lie me. I just say baby, I

love you, Baby, I love you all the time, Baby,

I love you. I love you. Sometimes you just say

I know.

That's a five hundredth time you said it today.

But I want you to forget I love you.

I love you. Can I go get you a chocolate bar?

At eight thirty at night? Can I go get you?

Can I go get Because I want to give amen?

Because it's an expression of love. That's what I want

to do, and that's what the Lord wants of us.

So in order for the Holy Spirit to glorify Christ,

he chooses to do it by working in our lives

to position us to be able to love Jesus better.

In John chapter fourteen, verse twenty five, he gives us

two expressions of how he does that.

It says, these.

Things, I've spoken to you while being present with you.

But the Helper, the helper holy Spirit. He's defined as

helper and comforter. He's the one who comes alongside the paraclet.

He comes alongside and he helps us, and he brings

us comfort in times of trouble. So he is our helper,

he's our comforter. He says, these things, I've spoken to

you while being present with you. But the Helper, the

Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name,

he will teach you all things and bring to your

remembrance all that I said to you, he says.

So I'm gonna help you, I'm gonna.

Comfort you, and he's also going to teach you all things.

Everybody look at me for a second. You cannot use.

I don't know. I can't figure it out.

I don't understand as an excuse not to grow closer

to Jesus, because the very God who created you is

also teaching you the principles he wants you to learn.

Now, you may be.

Hard headed, and as far as I know hard headedness

is the only learning disability that keeps you from maturity

in the body of Christ. Because the Holy Spirit teaches

you all things. He will teach you things through the

situations and circumstances in life. He will teach you things

when you go to bed at night and you have

those spiritual dreams. He will teach you things through his word.

He will teach you things through preaching. He will teach

you things through encounters with other people.

He's always teaching, and he's always.

Calling you up towards more and empowering you to be

more than you ever thought you could be. Because he

is our comforter and he is our teacher, and it's

all pointing us back to glorify Jesus. He's never going

to teach you something that will diminish Christ. Now watch

hold on for all of you, for all of you

YouTube Christians. I mean, you know you're just you spend

eight hours a day on the social media's and you're

just trying to find that.

Glory to God.

I'm just trying to find revelation. My pastor, he's just

so shadow Listen, I know I'm shallow. I know my

teaching is shallow. It's okay, and it's on purpose. It's

it's on purpose because here's the thing. I just want

you to leave every week with one thing. I want

you to leave every week with one thing that you

can put into practice this afternoon at lunch.

Just one thing.

And if you can get one thing and you show

up every week, you're gonna have fifty two godly principles

that you are able to put into work over the

course of the year.

Amen.

So yeah, I'm not gonna stand up here and give

you a theological dissertation followed by emailing you this essay.

That supports all of the evidence.

I'm not gonna do that because I want you to

go do something, because I believe the number one principle

of discipleship is doing, not learning. Now, you got to

learn before you can do. But you also can't keep

learning without doing. So listen, He's always going to point

towards Christ.

He's always going to lift up Christ.

When you're out there and you're scouring the internet and

you're looking for revelation, you're looking for that next thing,

and people start teaching things that does not elevate Jesus

but brings him down.

That's not godly.

So if they're teaching you something and they're like, oh, well,

maybe Jesus wasn't born of a virgin, or maybe Jesus

didn't do or maybe Jesus was married, maybe Jesus pushed

a baby off house and died and called him back.

That's not godly teaching because it brings Christ down. And

everything the Holy Spirit does, who is the teacher of

all things, he only lifts him up and glorifies him.

So in your pursuit of the next great revelation, make

sure that it lifts Jesus up, that.

It talks about how great he is and doesn't bring

him more to a human level.

Because although he was, he came in flesh, he was

fully God and fully man, and he was elevated and

he always will be. He always has been above us

because he is our King of kings.

And our Lord of lords.

He is not a crucified king, though he is our

resurrected savior.

Who I'm sweating. The way he does that most often

is that Holy Spirit.

It's purpose in glorifying Christ is to empower believers, to

empower us to live above because if people look at

your life and they see you're not like everybody else.

They start looking for the reason why if you handle

stress different than everybody else. People want to know why,

if you're able to manage money better than they're able

to manage money.

People want to know why if you know what's.

Coming before it gets their people want.

To know why. And God empowers us to.

Live differently, to set us as a city on a hill,

not on Hell.

That was just hold on, we're gonna cut that out

of the tape. Oh we're live already said it.

He sets us as a city on a hill for

the purpose of being a navigate gational beacon. That Jesus

in us helping other people navigate their lives, not to

Hell to heaven. Pastor Clay is going to clarify those

things next week. In Acts, chapter one, verse eight, Jesus

speaks of the coming promise. He says, but you shall

receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you.

And here's the purpose of the power. Now, look, I

want to be I want to be straight up. The

purpose of the power is not so you can get

your own preaching show on TBN. It's not so we

can have some tricks in the altar. It's not so

we can all come together say, oh, we had a

good service. Forty two people spoke in tongues that thirteen

people fell down.

We don't know why. One on we couldn't get up.

We just had to care home and dropped them in

the yard. Didn't got him in the house.

And you shall receive power when the Holy Ghost has

come upon you, so that you can be my witnesses,

to be witnesses of me in Jerusalem and in all

Judaea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.

So that you can be witnesses to me in your

direct sphere of influence, So that you can be witnesses

to Me and the places that you regularly go, so

that you can be witnesses to Me, to the people

that live around you. But they don't look like you,

they don't talk like you, they don't smell like you,

they're nothing like you. But you can still be witnesses,

and that you can go anywhere in the world and

still have your light shining. He says, that's the purpose

of the empowerment that's coming. The reason for the baptism

in the Holy Spirit is so that we can be

a better witness and we can live and glorify Christ

in a better way. Not in the altar, but in

the world.

You know, I have.

Somebody asked me one time. They said, Apprecier, you talked

about it. You prave about the baptism, the Holy Spirit.

You think you can go to heaven without the Holy Ghost.

I said, yeah, I think you can go to heaven

without the baptism with the Holy Spirit.

I said, but I.

Don't even want to go to the grocery store without

the baptism with the Holy Spirit. I don't know why

you want to go to heaven right, Because it's.

That in dwelling power.

It's that empowerment for the life of the believer that

my witness stands out and stands above that I don't

have to listen when I go to the grocery store.

If I see somebody, I don't have to pray if

God wants me to talk to them or not. I

don't stop get on my knees and say, Lord, give

me revelation. Should I witness or not. No, He's just

in me and he comes out of me. Somebody says,

old Pastor, I got this is going on. That's going on.

You know, we're standing at to Gas pump pumping gas.

I don't stop saying, should I pray for him right now?

While I'm pumping gas, I lay hands on people pray

for him right there, because it's an empowerment of the witness,

and I treasure that experience. The baptism in the Holy Spirit. Now,

let me talk about that for just a moment. When

you get saved, the moment you get saved, holy Ghost

is present in your life. The moment you're saved, holy

Ghost is there. It's not like he saves you and

then you're empty and you're an orphan. Holy Ghost is

in you. And listen, he's all the way up to here.

He's all the way up to the top. He doesn't

give you just a little bit of a taste. He's

not a drug dealer trying to get you to get more.

That's not what it's about. He gives it to you

right here.

And the baptism of the Holy Spirit is when we

have an experience where God continues to poor Holy Ghost

until what was in me I'm now flooded by So

it's out of my belly. That river of living water

flows and it fills up the environment and the atmosphere

around me. So I'm now enveloped in just what once

was on the inside of me, and now I'm empowered.

And when the spirit comes, or when the enemy comes,

the Spirit stands up, lifts up a standard against him,

and I'm able to persevere, stands shoulder to shoulder, toe

to toe, knows to those with the enemy, understanding that

there is an empowerment.

In my life.

And He's given me a set of tools to handle

any situation, in any circumstance, and those tools. First Corinthians,

chapter twelve, Go there, first Corinthians, chapter twelve. We're gonna

start in verse seven. Everybody when we say yeah, by

going too fast. Verse Corinthians, chapter twelve, Verse seven, it says,

but the manifestation of the Spirit is given to each

one for the profit of all. That word all does

not mean everybody that goes to a Pentecostal church. It

means everybody lost saved somewhere straddling the fence in between.

Everybody is for the profit of every body. All. But

the manifestation of the Spirit is given to each one

for the prophet of all. For to one is given

the word of wisdom through the Spirit, to another the

word of knowledge through the same spirit to another. Faith

by the same spirit to another, gifts of healings by

the same spirit to another, the word of miracles to another,

prophecy to another, discerning of spirits to another, different kinds

of tongues to another, the interpretation of tongues.

But one in the same.

Spirit works all these things, distributing to each one individually

as he wills. He says, there's a set of tools

that comes with this indwelling power of the Holy Spirit.

These nine tools are there to equip you to go

and glorify Jesus in the world and lift him up,

drawing people to him. They're not things to be hidden.

For a long time, the modern Church has said, if

we want to have a crowd, if we want to

get people to come, if we want to get people

to give, if we want to get people to serve, oh,

you can't do those weird things.

You can't you can't do them, weird things.

You can't listen. And this is how we get around it.

Oh no, no, no, no, won't do those things in corporate worship.

Those are intimate expreier, that's an intimate expression. Those things

happen in small groups. They happen everywhere I go, small group,

big group, no group. My favorite place to exercise the gifts.

Of tongues is in my automobile.

I know people drive up next to me and my

mouth is going so fast that they think I'm like

trying to launch a rap album or something a man,

because I'm just praying in.

A holy goo. It's just me and him, and I'm

just enjoying it.

And the Bible says that when I'm praying in the spirit,

I'm releasing the hidden wisdom of God that was laid

up for me from the for the ages, for my glory.

That when I'm speaking in my prayer language, when I'm

praying my prayer language, that I'm releasing destiny and purpose

over my life. The things that I don't know, the

things that I may not even understand are coming yet,

but I'm releasing them, and it's changing the atmosphere and

setting the condition of destiny around me. We're talking about

the supernatural where God dwells, and here's here's here's.

These nine things. I want to break them down to

you in a list of three. These Uh.

The first three gifts that I want to talk about

are the proclamation gifts, the proclamation gifts are those things

that that happen with our mouth. That's prophecy. And the

word prophecy is different than the office of profit. I'm

gonna go quick. It's different than the office of prophecy.

This prophecy is not actually the foretelling of the future.

That's the office of prophets what he does. But but

this prophecy is an encouraging and uplifting word that points

people in the direction of Jesus. Somebody comes in, you

look at them and you think, wow, you know, I

just I'm my gift to work. Fave of your hair

looks nice today. Prophesying, baby prophesy. Somebody's going through a

terribly hard time and they.

Just feel unloved.

And I look at them and I say, I want

you to know that Jesus will never leave you, and

he will never forsake you.

I'm prophesy.

That encouraging, strong, edifying word that breaks the bondage of the.

Enemy out of people's life. Prophecy. The second proclamation gift

is tongues.

It's that one that you know, It's probably the one

that people are the most squeamish about because it does

sound I'm just transparency. Right, that's gonna teach through core

values in November. Transparency. It sounds and feels as supposed

to look like everybody else.

And there are three.

Different types of gifts of tongues talked about in the

New Testament. The first, it's what happens right there in

Acts chapter two, where they spoke and people understood it

in their language.

It's the ability to speak a language you don't know.

The second is your prayer language. It's when you pray,

and it's those groanings and utterings that happened from within you.

You don't know what to pray, you don't know how

to pray, and you just allow the Holy Ghost to

move in you, and that gift of tongues comes out

in your prayer language. And that's the one that Paul

treasured the most. He said, listen in church, y'all all crazy,

everybody speaking in tongues, and it's chaos, man, nothing is happening.

Two or three at the most. And then he looks

at him and says, but I thank God, I pray.

I speak in tongues more than all of you. He

just said, don't because he prayed. He used his prayer

language and his gift, and he treasured it and he

used it all the time. And then the third is

that one that most people have a problem with. It's

when somebody stands up in a corporate worship experience and

they give a message in tongues and that is accompanied

by interpretation. The third in that list interpretation. So somebody

gives a message in tongues, somebody stands up in interprets.

Now, this is what scripture says.

And I'm trying to cover a lot, and I and

I'm not close to being done, but I'm not gonna

keep you forever.

Amen.

We'll be out here by three. Actually I got a

meeting at too, so we'll be out by two. So

here's the thing interpretation that we don't have somebody that

wears a jersey that like says interpreter on it. Every

time I have somebody that's that's not Pentecostal, they look

at me and say, y'all got an interpreter at y'all's church,

as if like we keep them in a room somewhere,

you know. And when somebody gives a man like hey, hey, hey, hey,

come get in there, get.

A micro want to get in there. No, here's the thing.

It's a spiritual gift.

If you have received the baptism of the Holy Spirit.

Listen to me, you got that gift. It's there, it's potential.

Send you it's there. But the reality is, Paul says,

when you give a message in tongues, pray that you

receive the interpretation, interpret it yourself, and if not, someone

else will come alongside. But the same thing goes.

Listen. You know, we have people that.

Worship in their prayer language that they pray out loud.

That does not require an interpretation because that's prayer language.

That's not a message.

A message in tongues, and an interpretation is equal to prophecy.

Those are the three proclamation gifts. The second set is

the perception gifts Word of wisdom, where God gives you

the wisdom and the ability to speak into a situation.

And most of the time people just look at you

and say, while you're wise beyond your years.

They don't say that to me anymore because I'm old,

but they used to say, oh, you're wise, and it's

the gift of wisdom. Pastor Clay operates at a very

high level in Word of wisdom, very high level because

I know him. He's not as smart as the things

that come out of his mouth. Amen, I just know.

So it's word of wisdom, high level word of wisdom.

The next is word of knowledge. It's when God gives

you the ability to understand what's happening in somebody's life

with no context.

You just know that something's going on.

You know what that thing is, so that you can

speak into that thing. The fourth is discernment, the ability

to know if something's origin is of the enemy or

of God. Something is originated with the enemy or something

is originated with God. That's a hard thing that goes

back to remember trials and temptations that we preached about

a couple of weeks ago. Discernment is where that comes

into play. The third group the power gifts. These are

the ones everybody wants because this gets you on TBN.

This is the one. These are the ones right here. Faith.

Faith is the currency of the Kingdom. Faith allows me

to stand and believe that God is doing something. He's

collapsing time frames, He's bringing something out of the invisible

and setting it in the visible. Faith is what allows

us to stand no matter what the enemy's doing. Faith

gives us the assurance that even if we fail, God

has got us. It was faith when Peters stepped out

of the boat onto the water, and it was still

faith even if he sank, because he believed and took

action on his belief. And listen, faith is this. I'm

willing to fail if it's on God's behalf. I'm willing

to fail if it glorifies Jesus. I don't have to win,

it doesn't have to come to pass. I just believe

him and I trust him. And if he says jump,

I don't even look for a place to land.

I just go.

Miracles a divine interruption in the natural progression of things.

Somebody comes in, they have cancer, we pray, they leave,

they ain't got it. Miracle.

Amen, I'm twenty seven dollars short on my rent. Somebody

walks up to me after church hands me twenty seven dollars.

Miracle.

The scope of those things feel different equal miracle. There's

no big miracles and little miracles. It is the divine

interruption in the night occurrence of things. So miracle. They're

all around you every single day. If you will look,

they're all around you every day. Because you're a broker

of miracles. The lass is healing. It's when God comes

alongside and he speeds up that natural progression of things.

Let me say that again, He speeds up the natural

progression of things. A miracle is when He intervenes. Healing

is when it's progressive, but it's sped up and God

keeps you. He brings your he brings your restoration faster,

your recovery is easier. He's allowed those things to happen

in your life. It's still progressive, it's still moves, but

still a testimony, and it still baffles those that are

in the healthcare world and the people around you, and

as a testimony to them, that's healing.

Clay, come and get ready.

These nine gifts are in a tool belt that we

wear into the world that we're equipped to glorify Jesus

in both the good times and the bad times, in

front of our small group and in.

Front of the world.

It is a is it an equipping and an empowering

for the believer to live Jesus out loud. In Acts

Chapter two, verse one, this is when we see the

New Testament church born. This is when the modern church,

the way the modern church is supposed to function, was born.

In Acts, chapter two, Verse one, it says, when the

day of Pentecost had fully come, they were all with

one accord in one place, and suddenly there came a sound.

From heaven.

Was as of a rushing, mighty wind, and it filled

the whole house.

Where they were sitting.

Then there appeared to them divided tongues as a fire,

and once in one set upon each of them, and

they were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and began

to speak with other tongues.

As the spirit gave them utterance.

There was a There was suddenly a change in the

atmosphere of that place where there was.

There was this this.

Moment where where God was just there more than he

previously was his manifest presence, and he began to sit

on each of the believers. And this had happened throughout

all the writings of the Old Testament. He had moved

on the prophets, and they prophesied. He had moved on people,

and they were healed. He had moved on. He had

moved on, he had moved on, he had sat upon

he had.

But for the first time something different happened.

Instead of sitting on them, it says they were all filled.

That the Holy.

Spirit didn't just change the outer context, but he changed

the inner context, and he would dwell inside the believer

from that moment on and empower them with signs and

wonders that would glorify Christ and lift him up above

every situation, in every circumstance, and point the way to

serve a supernatural God, not a God that takes pleasure

in our hurt and our pain, but a God who

is trying to deliver us through it. If we could

just get our eyes on him, and he sent the

church here so that we could show people that there

is a better way, that there is a way through,

that there is a way to make it, if we'll

just trust and.

Dig into those gifts that he placed on the inside

of us. Today is the day.

That we become more like the early first Church, because

we embrace and we understand the power of Holy.

Spirit, no emotion.

You know what I would normally do, and in years prior,

what I would normally do is I would I'd tell

a story right now, tell us tell this moving story. Man.

I get y'all all fired up, excited, and I'd be like,

if you want that, come on to the hater. You'd

be like, whoa, you'd run down here, I push you

down in the floor. Come on, somebody, I've done it, man,

I've gone listen. Early in my ministry, I'd go home

my shoulder and be so sore because I'd be like ah,

because I was so concerned whether people fail or not.

But now I realize I don't care if you fall

or not. If you fall high you get up. Do

you get up empowered? Do you leave just dying to

tell somebody about Jesus?

Do you leave wanting to be on Hell's hit list?

So right now, as you think about it, everybody standing

with me, if you're hearing you say, pastor.

Hey, you know this whole empowered by the Holy Ghost thing.

I like that. I want to live different. I want

that boldness. You know. Our denomination.

Teaches that that the initial physical evidence of the baptism

of the Holy Spirit is speaking in tongues. And there

is a pattern in the Book of Acts that when

people got baptized in the Holy Ghost, that they spoke

in tongues.

Then one time they spoke in tongues and they prophesied.

Then another time Peter was preaching and it just happened

and they started speaking in tongues, and then we don't

know what happened when Paul got the baptism of the

Holy Spirit.

We know that he eventually spoke in tongues.

But here's something that is not a pattern, something that

exclusively happened every single time somebody got the baptism of

the Holy Ghost, is that they they were empowered in

boldness of witness. They told people about Jesus. Now, I

personally believe that when you receive the baptism of the

Holy Spirit, you speak in tongues.

But I can't look and say that I know that.

I know that. I know it's my personal opinion because

it happened to.

Me that way, it happened to Pastor Gary that way,

It's happened to so many people I've seen that way,

and that's what I believe. But listen, if you leave

here in boldness, how can I say you didn't receive

the baptism of the Holy Spirit.

But I want you to get all today, Alterton, come

on down.

So if you're here and you want to receive the

baptism of the Holy Spirit, or maybe you've had the

baptism of the Holy Spirit, but you know, it's just

not cool.

Today. You know what I mean. We got a worship

leader that looks like Jesus. We want them hip churches.

You know it ain't cool.

I mean, look at me rocking the I mean the

vintage den them. I mean they're cool looking people, you know.

I mean, look at me, a cool cat.

And you think you know why. It's just not something

that I've regularly done.

I haven't come back week after a week just saying God,

touch me and feel me.

God touched me and feel me. Because you know, I've

had some some sin.

I've made some decisions in my life that I think

I kinked the power of the Holy Spirit flowing through

my life. And I want to come and make things

right and I want to be touched again and baptized again.

But if you're looking for this experience, I'm gonna count

to three. If you want to receive the baptism of

the Holy Spirit. When I count to three, I want

you to step out. I want you to move if

you want to be touched by God freshen you. You've

received the baptism in the Holy Spirit, but you want

to be touched again, I'm gonna count to three, and

when I count to three, You're not gonna wait to

see if anybody else moves. You're just gonna You're just

gonna step out and move because this is about you

and your ability to be empowered to glorify Jesus, not popularity.

This is about you and God. So on the count

of three, I want you to step and move if

that's you. So as I say three, they're gonna start

singing one, two, three, step out and move right now,

Come on,