Advent 2024 - Week 1: Hope

So much, and listen right now to start advent season.

I want you now listen. I mean everybody knows he's

a fixture around here, Butody, I just wanted to have

just take a moment to give honor to a man

that meant so much to my life.

Who's my pastor.

He officiated my wedding, he was there through so many

ups and downs in my life. He gave me my

first opportunity to preach and did so much for me.

And what I want you to do is I want

you to welcome him like you would a guest here,

because we have an honor and a privilege to hear

from an anointed man of God this morning. Uh, Pastor Gary,

come on up and preach God's word and come on,

let me hear you, let me hear you. Come on,

come on, come on, come on, come on, come on.

I know you got it. I just I just I

just did.

If you fail and I want't over there to catch you,

everybody will look bad at me though, So.

Thank you, my brother. And you know if I fell,

you wouldn't have been the one that felt bad beat

yourself up. It would have been Glenn back there. I

just appreciate Glenn sticking by me and being my armor

bearer for so many years. Just just tell you a

little story about Glenn and Nancy. They were coming to

church here. Of course, his grandmother was a member here

and a precious thing of God and loved her so much.

And Glenn and Nancy were coming. Uh uh. Before Glenn

came with his first wife and the boys, they were little.

I mean I saw Alan grow up, and uh, I

remember the first time y'all came and you sat over

here with your grandmother. And the Holy Spirit spoke to

me that day and he said, they're supposed to be

plugged in here. And I never told him that because

it would have looked like I was trying to manipulate

his life. But I just prayed about it and trust

of the Lord. You know, the Holy Spirit tells us

in Glatians five five that the Holy Spirit helps us

to wait. You ever been to that place where you

can't wait for You'll look it up later read it,

or you can look it up now. I really don't

matter me, but he helps you to wait. And there's

some things we just have to wait on. The next thing.

You know, years went by and I hadn't sent him.

He comes to church with this beautiful lady, Nancy, and

she is a jewel, just a wonderful, wonderful person, and

then had the privilege of marrying them and he's been

plugged in here ever since. So tell a lot of

stories about Glenn and Nancy and Allen and Taylor and

all that, how the Holy Spirit's worked in their lives

and our lives. Actually, that's what I want to preach about.

I'd like to share with you a message entitled the

Holy Spirit and Christmas. And I hope that you are blessed.

But more than anything else, I hope you are filled

with the Holy Spirit of God. Now I want to

say hello to my mother who's watching online. I think

she's watching online. She fell and broke four ribs this

week and she's been recovering. And thank you Carrie for

being over there with her and spending the night with

her and all that you've done to help. And we

need her so much because my brother is in Texas

with his wife's family. So, as our pastor has said,

Pastor Clay said, this is advanced season. I have already

watched fourteen Hallmark movies. My wife said, you ain't sitting

there and watching them with me. Well, let me say

that there's been one on our TV every day, and

I love the joke about it. Some of them are

you know, makes some b rating, and some of them

I'm just teasing that there's some good messages and and

some of those folks, I feel sure really have Christ

in their lives. But not only that, I've I've already

heard all the popular Christmas songs. I mean, they used

to start playing those things after Christmas, but now they

played them before Christmas. And I've always judged whether we're

in the advent or Christmas season by one song. When

you've heard this song twice, we are right in the

flow of Christmas. And it's the song Burro Lives sings

have a Holly, Holly Christmas. And I guess because one

year that's all I heard every time I turn on

the radio. But I've heard all the not only that,

seen the movies, heard the songs. I'm already totally exhausted

from Christmas shopping. My finger has been doing like this

the whole time. It's like that commercial guy goes, oh, oh,

not too much. If you watch football, you know what

that one is. But I don't even decorate for Christmas.

But I'm finished decorating now. My wife is an exceptional decorator.

She loves it. I mean, she is a decorator par

excellence and it really looks nice when she finishes. But

there's a lot of pressure she puts on herself, and

we try to help her do what she loves to do.

Oh you heard the story about the two guys from Alabama.

These two guys were out in the woods. They went

to get a Christmas tree, and so they're traps in

through the woods and they're looking for a Christmas tree

and all of a sudden they see a bear over there,

and they they start running and the guy that was

in the rear catches and passes the guy in front

of him. They get over the hill and they stopping

her out of breath and said, we gotta we gotta

find a Christmas tree. And then all of a sudden

they see they see some wolves, a pack of wolves.

Said we our lives have been in hazard. Here we

got and they start running from the wolves. Finally, when

they realized they were out of the danger of the wolves.

One guy's hastening, he said, he said, listen, I'm cutting

down the next Christmas tree, if it's decorated or not

so uh, I guess he was looking for one already decorated.

The word advance means a rival. It's or an appearing

or coming into its place. And we speak of Christ

and his first advent, or we speak about Jesus and

his second advent, his first coming, his second coming, his

appearing and advanced. Season is the season for four Sundays,

always the nearest Sunday to November thirtieth it begins. So

you have four Sundays, then you have the Christmas Sunday,

which is the or the advent or Christmas Day. Excuse me?

Where you like the candle that we did here for

the christ candle? And we have a Christmas Eve service

here at five o'clock on December to twenty fourth. We

want you to be a part of that and it

won't last about an hour or less, and you can

be there and be here in worship Christ and then

attendure with your family traditions. But every seasons is a

season that has been recognized as a time of celebrate

breeding Christ and his coming. Yes, it's a traditional season

that the church, the Christian Church has celebrated for hundreds

of years now that will rub somebody raw because you're

just a lone ranger out there and you just came up.

I don't think we have to do everything the way

the traditional church did back Martin Luther's day. And well,

you know what, you try to throw out all of

the things that the church has brought us through to

today and you're in a major qua quagmire of disbelief

and and uh struggling to hear from God. I'm sure. So.

Advent is celebrated by liturgical churches, churches like the Catholic Church, uh,

Lutheran churches and many other churches. They have a lot

of pomp and and uh things that they do for

in their services, and and the pageantry is just kind

of immaculated. I mean really it captures you when you

go to those kinds of services, and we don't do

that in our church. Look at that while he's wearing there.

You know, we got to get Steve one of those

pointed hat, you know. But but is also celebrated by

a lot of people like us evangelical churches, people who

recognize Jesus and he came into this world and these

four Sundays lead up to uh now Christmas Day, and

then then Epiphany, which is January sixth, and which is

the twelve Days of Christmas. Oh, by the way, on

the first day of Christmas, my true love sent to me.

Come on up arge, all right now we're gonna sing

all twelve verses. No, the uh the twelve days is Christmas,

starts on Christmas Day and goes to Epiphany. And Epiphany

was that time when the early Church traditionally saw as

when the Magi showed up to Jesus to the main well,

probably a Nazareth city of the Manger. And so yeah,

you've heard people talk say, well, I've just had an epiphany. Well,

the word epiphany actually means a revelation of discovery, and

the Magi discovered after a long, ardulous journey, they discovered

the one who star they had saw in the sky,

and what the Bible says, joy filled their hearts. By

the way, it'd be interesting to read the Christmas story

and Matthew and Luke is the ones who gives us

the full meaning or depth of the Christmas story as

we know it on the earth. John gives us a

Christmas story before Jesus came, his pre incarnate life in

him was life, and the life is a lot of men.

John says, but he said the Word was made flesh,

so he talks about Jesus in that sense. But Matthew

and Luke. Matthew wrote for the Jews to present Christ

as the king, and he uses a lot of Jewish

idioms and things that Jews would understand. Marks for the Greeks.

And Mark doesn't tell about Jesus's birth and all that.

Why because he he sees Jesus as a servant. Nobody

cares about the lineage and the heritage of a servant.

He just serves. But then we get to Luke. Luke

writes to present Jesus as the son of Man is

purely God, one hundred percent God, but also man, one

hundred percent man. How can that be? Did you know

that we've always had people that's just celebrated and want

to try to put God and man together? What do

you think Zeus is Hermes and triting out of the sea,

and and all of these gods the Greeks had, they

were to be superhumans. They represented a savior of some kind.

But God, who who saw that we needed a savior,

sent us Jesus born into the flesh like us. He's

like you and like me, and he has the same

kind of things that we go through. Jesus encountered as things.

So we begin to see that the magi came, and

uh and the bird. The Bible uses a word for

them for breath, and in the Hebrewish rush it means

it's the same word for spirit or wind. I want

you to see the scripture Isaiah fifty nine nineteen. In

the west, the people we will respect the name of

the Lord. In the east day will glorify him, for

he will come like a raging flood tide, driven by

the breath of the Lord. I think the New King

James Standards says, when the enemy comes in like a flood,

the Lord will raise up a standard against him. The

New Living Testament or translation says, like the driven by

the breath of the Lord. Let me ask you something.

Have you ever had the breath of God breathe upon you?

Come on? Now? Gee, have you have you ever been

in a church service or a time of prayer point

in your life where you're pouring your heart out to

God and you're hungry for him and you were just

tight with the Lord. I mean, he's got your attention,

you got his, and all of a sudden, you you

since the breath of God breathing on you. Well, I

got news for you. I felt the breath of God

breathing on me. He wasn't actually a real wind like

they felt on the day of Penesecost and Saul. That

was the breath of God and the Holy Spirit.

We used to sing a song in church, let him

breathe on me, Let him breathe one me.

Let the breath of God now breathe on me. Usually

in an order service. We're singing that. And it's almost

like I remember as a kid, the Holy Spirit moving

in the church and it's just God is just gripping

my heart and I just feel so so comfortable and

since his presence and it's like he's breathing on me.

I know that he's breathed. I'm singing that asking him

to breathe upon me. Well, God wants to breathe on you. Oh,

listen to this. Have you ever read that scripture over

in John as after the Resurrection of Christ John twenty,

In the verse twenty one, G said, unto them again,

peace to you as the Father has sent me, I

also send you. And when he had said this, he

breathed on them. I believe if God breathed on the

disciples and he told him, he said, receive the Holy Ghost,

receive the Holy Spirit, I believe that's what happens. When

God breathes upon us, we receive the Holy Spirit of God.

I believe the Bible teaches that there is a baptism

in the Holy Spirit for the believers, and I believe

that when we're baptizing the Holy Spirit. I believe there's

times that we begin to get empty. We got filled

one time. I believe that that was a baptism. I

believe there's one baptism, one baptism, many refeelings. I remember

there was one saint whould go to the ultra and

they pray every time. This old guy, he just lifted

his hands and he cry out, Lord, feel me, Lord,

feel me. And everybody else is praying, and they're hearing

one thing and then another, and but he just seemed

to aggravate this one woman because that's all she heard

him say, Lord, feel me, Lord, feel me. Week after week,

service after service, and finally one Sunday night, they were

at the Order and the man just, Lord, feel me,

and she jumps up and says, don't do it. Lord,

he leaks. You know, the problem is we all leak.

We all have spirit. God breathes upon us, and we

have times when we're filled with the Holy Spirit. We

can run through a wall and leap a truth. You know,

I got that backwards. Someone said we can run through

a troop and leave a wall when the Holy Spirit

comes by. I remember when Joey Hughes got baptized and

the Holy Ghost. I said, what were you doing out

there that stops on? He said, I was preaching. I said,

you're preaching that the stop sign, wasn't you. Yeah, when

you get the Baptists and the Holy Ghost Rundre, you

just feeled and you just that this is no way

to explain it. It's like the old old pastor said,

it's better felt than tell any time. And I want

to tell you something. I believe you can feel God's spirit.

I believe that you can just literally know that He's

air and his breath is upon you. But I believe

there are times when you get dry, and there are

times when you get cold, and you even make become

a little indifferent. Have a critical attitude. I've been inflicted

with that a time or two in my life. Just

critical of everything. You ever been critical of your wife?

Don't answer? I advise you not to answer. Look straight

in this way. I advise you not to be critical

of your wife, especially in her presence. She forgets nothing.

You ever be critical of your husband? Listen, Sometimes we're

filled with a critical spirit. Sometimes we're filled with such

a mundane worldly spirit that all we want to do

is watch things that are worthing and and or ten

things that are worthy, but there's no spiritual significance in

our lives. Seemed like that we saw our plug put

in the bathtub and filled up for the water, and

that represents the spirit of God, and it feels so good.

But somehow, while you're taking a bath, your told reach

down there and hit the chain and pull the stop

ro out, and you're still bathing. The next thing you know,

there's no water there. You know, sometimes it's that way

when the Holy spirit is it's just kind of drains

out because we pull the plug. We may know where

we did it, or we may not know where we've

done it. Okay, I want to give you quickly here

concerning Christmas. In the Christmas Story, there are six instances

where people were filled with the Holy Spirit. Filled with

the Holy Spirit, let me tell you something. You need

to be filled with the Holy Spirit. If you're a

Christian you've been saved. Listening online now may be the

missing element in your life, not being filled with the

Holy Spirit, trying to do everything yourself without relying upon Him.

When I got filled with the Holy Spirit, listen to

me now, when I got baptized in the Holy Spirit,

it helped my Christian experience and walk with Christ ten

thousand percent. I'm telling you, he governized my faith. He

hung a wagon load of confidence in my soul, and

I was able to fight the devil. I could fight

him until I was no more teeth in my mouth,

and then then coming back till he couldn't stand it.

You don't see, God will give you the power to

DeHorn him and send him back to hell. When you're

filled with the Holy Ghost and God breathes upon you

and you feel the breath of God. Oh, hallylujah, hallelujah,

We'll give the Lord a hand. If you're gonna clap,

you're clapping for him. Thank you, my brother, to preach

the water down hedn'tah, I might step on that the

Holy Spirit of God. Here's what I want for you

this Christmas season. I want you to experience the Holy

Spirit in his fullness and in his power this Christmas season.

And here's what you're going to do this first Advanced

Sundays Sunday by hope. Our hope is in Jesus, and

listen to me. Look for Jesus to do something special

in your life. Many times it may be in an

area where you're not really expecting it. You know, it's

not really sure. Couple of people here right now that

God's going to open up something to you. You're looking

for it. You're looking for it. Keep looking, keep prophesy,

keep believing, keep trusting. Okay. Six instances in Luke Chapter one,

John the Baptist where we know that sure you do.

John de Baptist is filled with the Holy Spirit from

his mother's womb. What happens is that that John de

Baptist is six months older than Jesus. And Mary comes

to the hill country there and Judea where Elizabeth and

Zachariasis living over. They she enters the house and when

she enters the house, Elizabeth sees Mary and recognizes her,

and the Holy Spirit feels John de Baptist in the

womb of his mother, Oh, hellelujah. I believe that God

can speak to you in the womb, or even before

you're in the womb. Number of times that I prayed

for people to be able to have children that were

unable to have children, and God give me a word.

I go to them and tell them how you're going

to have a baby, and they get a baby. Oh

this it's not about me. God could have sent anybody

else to tell them. It says about them believing and

having hope, and God has a plan. You're so intricately

involved in God's plan. We're so closely connected to him.

Listen to this. John the Baptist was filled with the

Holy Spirit and empowered even as a child, and that's

why when it came time he started preaching a difficult message,

repent for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand, telling

a bunch of hard headed, stiff neck, angler nosed Phariseic people, Hey,

you gotta you've got to You've got to repent, and

they thought they were the ones that was righteous. The

second person filled with the Holy Guss was Mary and Luke.

Chapter one of verse thirty five, it says the Angel

answered and said, unto her, the Holy Spirit will come

upon you, and the power of the Highest overshadow you.

Therefore also that Holy One who is born will be

called the Son of God. Let me tell you something.

You need to grip this. You need to get this

in your spirit. The very same power that calls Mary

to be impregnated with the Holy Spirit is the very

same power that transforms your soul when you repair and

cry out to Jesus, Lord, save me. I needs you.

It takes that same power, the same Holy Spirit. And

the Bible tells us if the Holy Spirit, this same

spirit dwell in you that dwell in Christ Jesus, he

shall what He shall raise up your mortal bodies. Listen.

It took all the power of the Holy Spirit. Oh,

I don't know if it took it every bit, but

it was easy for him to feel and overshadow Mary.

And next thing, you know, when I cried out to God,

I'll never forget when I cried out, God saved me. Listen.

It was so quick. It was an instant for me.

It was such an instant, and God saved me. So

I gotta go by the way I know. I want you.

I want you to notice the next one. Elizabeth Luke,

chapter one, forty one through forty five. And it happened

when there was Elizabeth heard the greeting of Mary, that

the babe leaped in her womb, and Elizabeth was filled

with the Holy Ghost, well John inside of her roomb.

But then Elizabeth, and I want you to notice the

next part, it says, and she spoke out with a

loud voice and said, blessed are you among women? And

blessed are the is the fruit of your womb. Here's

what I want you to Here's what I want you

to see. When you are filled with the Holy Spirit. Well,

the Bible says you will speaking tongues or prophesy, you

will speak out. We believe that you know that it's Pentecostals.

We believe that initial physical evidence of receiving the baptism

the Holy ghosts is the speaking in tongues, as the

spirit gives evidence. We believe that. And here we have

Elizabeth filled with the Holy Ghost, and she speaks out.

He said, will there want in tongues? She speaks out.

When God breathes upon you. I believe something's gonna come out.

I believe he's gonna uncourt something, and you're gonna just

let the Holy Spirit flow, for out of your inmost

being shall flow rivers of living water. Oh listen, God

wants you to be filled with the Holy Spirit this

Christmas season. I ain't got enough money to buy all

the kid's gifts. That's okay. Be filled with the spirit.

I don't have a sketchuer all my family can get together.

That's okay. Be filled with the Holy Spirit. Oh listen,

she spoke out. The fourth person who was filled with

the Holy Spirit was Zacharias. Look at Luke one sixty seven.

Then his father Zacharias was filled with the Holy Spirit.

Listen to this and gave the prophecy. He spoke out, prophesied, listen,

when the Holy Spirit comes upon you, just go ahead

and speak out. Just go ahead and let him flow

out of your inmost be Oh helllujah. Somebody said it

don't sound right, Isaiah said, He said, with stammory lips

in another tongue. Will he speak to this people saying

this is the rest we're with. You shall call the

weary to rest. And this is the refreshing. Oh, ben

filled with the Holy Spirit. You may not do anything

but have some stammory lips, But somehow you're speaking out

and you're speaking to the Lord. He that speaking into

an unknown tongue. Speak of nothing the men, but of

the God. Oh listens, be filled with the Holy Spirit,

and listen to the next one. Simeon Luke, Chapter two,

verse twenty five through thirty five. The Holy Spirit was

upon him. I liked that the Holy Spirit was upon him.

An old man that were bringing Jesus to be circumcised.

He had revealed to see men. He would not die

till he had seen the Lord's Messiah. That day the

spirit led him into the temple. You see, that's one

thing about being filled with the Holy Ghost. He just

leads you. He just leads you. Larry, I believe I

told you this. The other day. I went to Laura's

audre and I went to Laura's reception for being married.

And I still look in her eyes every time I

see her. That's a joke between me and her all

the way. When we left, we left a little bit early,

and driving down the road, I knew I was supposed

to see or visit someone I knew it and uh,

but I didn't know who it was. He ever been

like that same thing with Simon. He knew he was

supposed to go in there, but he didn't know who

it was. So I'm riding down the road and I

point to or I'll try to say, hey, that's where

Wayne Dean lived. And when soon as I said that,

the Holy Spirit said, go to JD's house. It's across

the road. So I turned in, went down Mustang Drive

out of Circle of Faranel, went to JD's house.

J D.

Elliott, his family owns Elliott Trucking And as I so,

I went in there and I saw Pat. She had

just come from the hospital and JD was in the hospital.

I wasn't fully aware of that. So I talked to

her a little bit, prayed with her, and then on

the way out, she said John Boy his his name

on I called him John Boy, but said his wife's Karen.

Her dad just passed away just an hour or two ago.

I said, well, I'll call him. So when I leave,

I get on the phone and on the radio in

the car there when I'm driving off, and call John

Boy and he answers and he says, boy, Gary, you

must have a hot line to marry and murk, because

they had just left at the funeral home. I said, no,

my brother, you wouldn't believe how many times my ministry

spend the Holy Spirit leading me. I thought I sent

by there to encourage pat and maybe even if JD

was at home, and I probably was. But as I

prayed for them going down the road, Karen began to

weep and weep and weep. Her daddy had just passed away,

and there was somebody that come and brought some comfort

through the power of the whole Spirit. Oh listen, he

will lead you. You're filled with the Holy Spirit. And

the last one is Anna. The same same time, and

the prophet is Annah. She begins praising God. Luke six

two thirty six. She began praising God. She talked about

the child to everyone who had been waiting expectantly for

God to rescue du Jerusalem. These people were filled with

the Holy Spirit, every one of them. Their whole life

was consumed with God and with the Holy Spirit. God

wants you to be filled with His presence. When God

filled me with the Holy Spirit and I was baptized

with the Holy Spirit, I was going to school at

Emmanuel College. My roommates were Bill Jones Tony Moon. Tony

Moon later came back to be a professor at Emmanua

College served as my assistant pastor of church I used

to pastor and they were receiving the Baptist in. My

holy spirit was on fire for God, and I remember

I remember going down to the altar at church. It

was a revival service and praying, please Lord, feel me, please, please, Please,

let me tell you don't have to beg God. And

I've always heard that, didn't really know what it meant,

please God. And I'm saying, please God. All of a sudden,

the word please, I couldn't form it, but it was

so much easier to form the word praise. Praise you Jesus.

When I use the word praise instead of the word please,

all of a sudden and something turned over in my

unmost being. I mean, it felt so good. I gotta

say that word again. And I started saying, pray Jesus.

I said, praise you Jesus, Praise Jesus, Praise Jesus. Praise

Jesus said, And as I began to praise Him and

just began to flow out of my heart so easy,

and I can feel the breath of God breathing upon me.

And the next thing you know, I started speaking in

a language. I spoke why because I was being filled,

just like these individuals in the b were spoke when

they got filled. Oh, Hellelujah. I was so excited. My

mother was living in Florida. My mother and daddy were

living in Florida. Do Rent, Florida. I go to the

only phone on campus. It was a payphone right outside

the library there, and it was in a phone booth.

And I go in that phone booth and I call

my mother collect because I'm not just we just never

had any money. It's a college students called her collect

when she when she answered the phone, I said, Mama,

guess what she said, You've been filled with the Holy Ghost.

I said, how'd you know? She said, I could feel it. Oh,

let me tell you something. Other people know when you're

filling with the spirit of God. Oh. The other day

at the house, Rihanna was there and Robbie and the

kids and been through so many things with the kids

and being sick and stuff. And Grandma was there, and

all of a sudden, Grandma says, I just want to

pray for y'all. Come over, and she started talking in tones.

We knew the Holy Ghost was in that room with us.

I mean, it don't take much for the tones that

come out of her. She's so full of the Holy

goes and she's prayers. That's what she knows to do,

and she sits is God's presence. And I want to

tell you that you can have the spirit of God

breathing in your life. Just ask him asking, you shall receive,

Seek and you shall find, knock and it shall be

opened under you for everyone to ask us to receive it.

Everyone who seeks, fine, and to him who knocks, it

shall be opened. Listen. It's the beginning step when you

were filled, but it's a step further with the Lord

when you're refilled. And some of you just need to

be refilled today. The attitude has got stinking, your thought

life has been loose. You just feel the void of

God's presence when you'll say I need to be refilled.

Not please Jesus, but prist Jesus. Clay, you guys, come on,

and I want you to know that God wants you

to be filled with the spirit of God today and

during this Christmas season. It don't have to happen right

here in this sanctuary all the time. I remember one

time Wendy was preaching and she got up. She couldn't

hardly stand it. She couldn't, I mean, she couldn't hardly

say what she needed to say. She had been by

her bed, on her knees, and she had met God.

I never forgot that, Wendy, Just how I mean, you

could see the whole the Holy Spirit all over you.

Oh Halelujah, oh hall helujah. You see a lot of

times when I see people, I'll tell them I've been

praying for you the words laid you on my heart

this week. I don't know if they just hear that

so much. But you know what, when I say that,

I really mean it. I don't have time to tell

you of many experiences of that concern, of that God

has you on his heart all the time. Would you

stand all across his congregation with me, hallelujah, Halley Louis,

Let him breathe on me, Let him breathe on me.

Let the breath of God now breathe on me. You

may feel like a sinner and unworthy. You may a

lot of things, but listen. Let him breathe on you

today he breathes, hoping to your spirit the first Sunday

of Advent. Let him breathe on you. If you've never

been filled with the Holy Spirit, God speaking to you,

I want you to begin to ask him right now.

I want you to just ask him, just asking, Lord,

fill me with your Holy Spirit. If you need to

be refilled, just asking so Lord, refeel me. Feel me again, Lord,

feel me again. Asks for tells us of the disciples.

He came back having been baptizing the Holy Spirit. In

Acts chapter two. They came up together and they were rebaptized,

and the place shaken where they were praying. Oh, God

can shake this place and your home and the foundations

of iniquity. When you just cry out to Him and

praise him. You know what, I'm gonna ask you to

just lift your hands all across the congregation, and I

might ask you to start praying to the Lord right now.

I'm gonna ask you to start praying right now. Pray

out loud. He can hear all of us at the

same time. He's not nervous, he's certainly knocked deaf praying praying.

The Holy ghosts just praying the Holy Spirit right now.

Just pray right now, Holley, haa hold on my hear.

I'll tell you Handaiah say taya. Oh, I'm not ashamed.

I'm not ashamed. I'm not ashamed. I'm filled with the

Holy Spirit of God. Come on, Church. I know there's

more spirit in this place than what you're leaning on.

I know there is. I know there is. Oh hallelujah.

Hall Hey, Louia, them two people that that I spoke

about earlier, step right out and move to the altar

real quick. You know who you are, you knew know

who you are. You know God's identifying something in your life.

And you're just coming and pouring out your heart before God,

saying God, I need you, I need your presence. Oh hallelujah,

Oh hallelujah. Oh, come on and praise the Lord. Pray,

pray right now, pray right out of your heart, praise Him,

begin to praise Him. Oh, we don't have to have

a song. We don't have to have a song right now.

We want to hear the praises to Jesus. It encourages

me to hear you praise the Lord. Oh he cut

onto totam I taya cut and dayah, oh hallelujah, Oh hallelujah.

Just release the power of the Holy Spirit. He's not

trying to get in. He's trying to come out. He's

trying to speak through you. There you go, hell helujah,

some of you. The Holy Spirit's all over you. What

you need to do is release he cut onto the Botiah. Oh,

hell loujah, Hell Loah, hell helujah. Oh my God, my God,

my God, Oh my God, my God. Oh thank you

Lord Jesus. Oh. Praying the Spirit. Praying the Spirit. Pray

in the Holy Spirit. Right now. We believe you. We

call out to you. We thank you. You give us hope,

you give us joy, you give us strength. Lord. We

can trust you. We can trust you, Lord, we can

trust you. Your helllujah. Oh Hea, tie your hots i,

Oh hallelujah, hallelujah, Oh hallelujah, Oh hallelujah. Oh Jesus, Jesus, Jesus.

You know that several times in the in the Christmas

Story says fear not, do not be afraid, do not

be afraid. Oh hallelujah. Here cohoa hotel your solandanahkaran dayah,

Oh hallelujah. Oh oh, yes, that's right right there where

you are. Pray. Just speak out, Oh hellnluljah, Oh my

God PROPHESI, oh, hellelujah, thank your Holy Spirit of God.

Oh oh oh hallelujah, hallelujah. I praise you Jesus, I

praise you Lord. I thank you Holy Spirit. Hallelujah. Oh kay,

I talk about sun night. Oh hallelujah. You know, I

never told Clay what I was preaching on. And I

don't know if you notice. The songs that we sang

were about the Holy Spirit of God. The Spirit of God,

and the Holy Spirit is not finished. He's not finished

with you. Hallelujah, Glory to God, hallelujah. Let me say this.

I'm gonna turn it back over to you, Steve, but

let me say this. I appreciate my pastor. I appreciate

him allow me to preach, but I want to go

on record saying I'm pleased what he's doing here. There's

never been any rift between us. There's never been any division.

We're pretty much on the same page. I mean, we're

always on and I appreciate the way he's leading you,

and I have confidence that he's leading you right, leading

us right high lighting, and I love him and his

wife and his family, his father in law, mother in law,

some of my dearest friends in the world. Bobby's daddy

was one of my dearest friends, Larry. If I don't

see Larry once in a while, I got to call

him and shake him up. Hey, let's go out and

need let's go do something, or let's see each other

at church. So I just appreciate these folks, appreciate every

one of you. With Terry over here. One time I

walked in the funeral home and Terry and his brother

was standing down there by the casket. And as a

walking in that room, the Holy Spirit spoke and right

into my heart, and I walk up to him and

I say, hey, guys, the Lord just told me something now.

And they're looking at me, like, what the Lord tell you?

And I said, the Lord told me that we're going

to be connected in some way. Jeremy wasn't even dating

Carrie at that time. I had no idea anything I

know that didn't that right get to do. And then

the next thing, you know, Jeremy and Carry gets together

said see the Holy Spirit works still working, always working.

Thank you, brother, I love you, I love you.

Father We thank you for your mercy and your grace,

for who you are and all that we can be.

And you.

And I pray that you receive our worship and our

praise today, that it rises a sweet smelling aroma.

Before you or we love you and we thank you,

Passion Clay. Let's worship on the way out. I mean, everybody,

lift your hands.

Allow the Holy Spirit to speak to your heart during

this Christmas season. Believe it wants to burst something in

you during this time of the year.

Let's worship together.