Kingdom GPS - Pentecostal Empowerment with P. Mike Krulcik

I want to go to Leviticus chapter 23 and I'm going to read

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verses one through 2 and it says this.

The Lord spoke to Moses saying, Speak to the children of Israel

and say to them the feasts of the Lord, which you shall

proclaim to be holy convocations.

These are my feasts. Now the word feast, I'm going to

give you a combination and a compilation of the English.

Obviously the Old Testament was sitting in written in Hebrew and

the New Testament written in Greek.

I'm going to give you a combination of what this word

feast means. It means to rejoice, It means to

dance, it means to have joy and gladness.

It means to move in a circle and March in a sacred procession.

And I like this one. By implication, it means to be

giddy. I want to say giddy up in the

Holy Spirit, just bubbling up with joy.

Glory to God, how can we be saved and redeemed, filled with

the Holy Ghost and not be giddy even in times of trials, even in

times of temptation, even in times of test?

Are you giddy? My the word of God says in James

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chapter 1 count it all. Joy and feast means to have a

joy and there should be continually joy.

The Kingdom of God is righteousness, peace and joy in

the Holy Spirit. Well, how do I do that?

By faith your your feelings are not always going to feel like

rejoicing. But Hebrews chapter 13 verse #15

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from the Amplified Classic says this through him.

Therefore, let us constantly and at all times OfferUp to God a

sacrifice of praise, which is the fruit of our lips, and

thankfully acknowledge and confess and glorify His name.

Did you notice it says a sacrifice of praise?

Why say sacrifice? Because sometimes you don't feel

like doing it. But by faith we have to learn as

a body of Christ. If we want to see the goodness

of God in the land of the living, we need to live by

faith. And faith has a voice to it, and

faith has an acknowledgement to it, and by faith we just need to

praise the Lord. We need to be giddy, we need to

have joy, we need to dance. King David, when the Tabernacle

came, the presence of God was coming.

His wife despised him because he danced out of his clothes.

Now do that at home. But the point is dance before

the Lord, right? And you know what, because his

wife despised him, she became barren.

And if you despise the goodness of the Lord, can there be

barrenness in your life? Unproductive, no results.

And God's just saying get over into joy.

That's this quote from James one count it all joy.

That means it's not the situation is saying it's not

joyful. But anyways, I'm going to have a

I'm going to have a feast in the middle of this and I'm going to

praise him. First Thessalonians chapter 5,

1 Thessalonians 5:18

verse 18 from the Amplified Classic says this.

Thank God in everything, no matter what the circumstances

may be, be thankful and give thanks for this is the will of

God for you who are in Christ Jesus, the revealer and the

mediator of that will, no matter what the circumstance is.

It could be the devil trying to stand on your back, but you

still can thank God in the middle of it.

Why 'cause God is greater, and I got the greater one on the

inside. So we need to stir ourselves up.

We need to stir ourselves up by way of remembrance.

Like the apostle Peter said, stir yourself up.

You know, it's great to be in church service, but what happens

when you leave this building? What happens tomorrow when a

circumstance may arise? Are you going to rejoice?

Are you going to count it all joy?

Are you going to feast on His goodness, declare His goodness

and praise Him for who he is? I like there's a Psalm that says

that the mountains melt like wax in the presence of the Lord, and

it says He inhabits our praises. You have a mountain of a

situation you need to get through.

Praise Him through it. Thank Him through it.

Leviticus is a power packed the 23rd chapter of the feasts of

the Lord and I wanted to find feasts first because even an

exodus, the very first feast and they have this on the screen.

If you want to take a picture of this, there's seven feasts

identified in the book of Leviticus the 23rd chapter.

But even an exodus, when God told Moses to go to Pharaoh, he

said and let my people go that they may have a feast unto me.

So I want to be etched in your mind.

We should have a feast in the Lord every day.

Psalms 34, eight says taste and see that the Lord is good.

We should be feasting on that every day.

Now the seven feasts are identified in the 23rd chapter,

and the first one is the Feast of Passover and you can see

those scriptural references. The second one is the Feast of

Unleavened Bread. The third one is the Feast of

the First Fruits. The 4th feast identified in

Leviticus 23 as the Feast of Weeks, which is the Feast of

Pentecost. The 5th feast is the Feast of

Trumpets, the 6th feast is the Feast of the Day of Atonement,

and the last feast of the year is the Feast of the Day of

Tabernacles. But today we celebrate the Feast

of Pentecost. Hallelujah, the outpouring, an

infilling of the Holy Spirit. Let me say it today we

celebrate, and let me put this in your remarks, every day we

should celebrate these feasts, the feast of Pentecost.

So the Exodus of Israel took place under the Feast of

Passover. When you read through the book

of Exodus, you'll see that God brought the children of Israel

out of Egypt through the Red Sea into the wilderness.

And that commemorates the very first feast of the year, the

Feast of Passover. And who's our Passover lamb?

Who's our Passover lamb? Who's our Passover lamb?

Remember that feast? They had to take the blood of a

slaughtered animal and they had to apply it to the doorposts.

That was just a type and shadow of what's taking place in this

new covenant. This new dispensation is Jesus

Christ once and for all, the perfect sacrifice.

The lamb without spot, the lamb without blemish.

He came to this earth. He walked it for 33 years.

He was crucified, died, He was buried.

But on the third day, death could not hold him, and he was

raised from the dead. He appeared among his disciples

for 40 days, and he has he was ascended and he's now seated at

the right hand of the Father of the book of Hebrews says he ever

lives to make intercession for us.

It's a settled work. The same way that the blood of

Jesus was a in the old, in the old covenant when the Israelites

applied the blood of the blood to the doorpost, We apply the

blood of Jesus to our lives. And then guess what?

Death passes over? How do I know that I'm born

again? Because I believe and I have

received and I have confessed that Jesus Christ is Lord.

And when you, when you make that profession of faith, Romans

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chapter 10 says, if you make Jesus Lord of your life and

confess with your mouth, you have passed over from death into

life. And this is the gospel, this is

the good news that we're living out and we get to proclaim there

is a lost and a dying and a hurting world out there that

needs the gospel. They need to know about Jesus

Christ. They need to receive Jesus so

they can come out of death and into life.

So the Exodus of Israel took place under the Feast of

Passover. In the first month after

crossing the Red Sea and being led by the pillar of cloud and

the pillar of fire, the children of Israel were brought to the

foot of Mount Sinai. And here at the Mount Sinai they

experienced the Feast of Pentecost.

At Sinai they received the 10 commandments from Moses.

They were written and given to the nation.

And there was the Tabernacle of the Lord, the Ariana priesthood,

and the sacrificial sacrificial system was given to the children

of Israel. It was here and then in it that

this nation at the foot of Mount Sinai was established as a

church in the wilderness. You can reference that in Acts

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Chapter 7 verse #38 It said, This is he that was in the

Church of the wilderness, with the Angel which spoke to him in

Mount Sinai, and with our fathers who received the lively

oracles to give unto us. So they were established at

Pentecost. And I commit to you church

today. If you want to have established

life, thank God for Passover, but you need to go from Passover

to Pentecost. Let me say it again, thank God

for Passover. That's the first step in

redemption. But God has a subsequent

experience. He said, I want you to go from

Passover to Pentecost. It's there that the Church of

the Lord Jesus Christ is really established 'cause that's where

the power of God is poured out at Pentecost.

Jeremiah 31, this prophet Jeremiah 3133 says this, but

this is the covenant that I will make with the House of Israel

after those days, says the Lord. I will put my law in their minds

and write it on their hearts. I will be their God.

They shall be my people. Jeremiah prophesied this and the

old coven, but we're now, we're seeing the fulfillment of it

today. He said, I'm going to write my

law on your hearts. I'm going to be your God.

You're going to be my people. Moses gave a written law at

Mount Sinai, but I said I'm going to inscribe it by the

power of the Holy Spirit in your heart.

So from Passover to Pentecost, Hallelujah.

The physical account of the 10 commandments you can find in

Exodus chapter 34, verses 29 to 35.

Exodus 34:29–35

So if you're taking notes, I just went from what Jeremiah

prophesied, which is taking place today.

We can see what happened with Moses in Exodus chapter 34,

Exodus 34:29–35

verses 29 through 35. And these verses when Moses went

up and got the law from God, spent time with the Father.

It says when he came down from the mountain, his face was

shining. Listen, he didn't have a frown

on his face. He wasn't barely getting by.

He had spent time, so much time in the Prince of God that it was

exuding, permeating through him, so much so that the children are

like, I can't, we can't even look at you put a veil on.

Now He took it off when he went to to be with God, but he put it

on when he was with the children of Israel.

But I submit to you, we are the salt of the earth and the light

of the world. We should not let ourselves be

hidden. Are you with me, GPS, God's

powerful servant. Let's go to 2nd Corinthians

chapter 3. Now if you're doing your yearly

Bible reading, you can mark at least half of this off because

we're going to read the whole chapter when you get to 2nd

Corinthians 3. So you Hallelujah, it's only 18

verses, but we just went from Jeremiah to Exodus, the account

where Moses face was shining so much, where he received the 10

commandments that he had to put a veil on.

But let's look at the new covenant reality in Second

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Corinthians chapter 3, starting in verse #1 it says, do we begin

again to commend ourselves, or do we need some other epistles

of commendation to your letters of commendation from you.

You are our epistle, written in our hearts, known and read by

all men. Clearly.

You are an epistle of Christ, ministered by us, written not

with ink, but by the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets

of stone, but on the tablets of the flesh, that is, of the

heart. And we have such trust through

Christ toward God, not that we are sufficient of ourselves to

think of anything as being from ourselves, but our sufficiency

is from God, who also made us sufficient as ministers of this

new covenant. Not of the letter, but of the

Spirit. For the letter kills, but the

Spirit gives life. But if the ministry of death,

written and engraved on stones was glorious, so the children of

Israel could not look steadily at the face of Moses, because of

the glory of his countenance, which glory was passing away,

how would the ministry of the Spirit not be more glorious?

For even what was made glorious had no glory in this respect,

because of the glory that excels.

For what is passing away was glorious.

What remains is much more glorious, therefore, since we

have such hope with great boldness of speech, unlike

Moses, who put a veil over his face.

So the children of Israel could not look steadily at the end of

what was passing away, but their minds were blinded.

For until this day the same veil remains unlifted in the reading

of the Old Testament, because the veils taken away in Christ.

Hallelujah. But even to this day, when Moses

is read, a veil lies on their heart.

Nevertheless, when the when one turns to the Lord, the veil is

taken away. When one turns towards the Lord,

the veil is taken away. When one turns to the Lord, the

veil is taken away. Now the Lord is the Spirit and

where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.

But we all with unveiled face. We all with unveiled face,

beholding as in a mirror the glory, the Lord are be being

transformed into that same image from glory to glory, just as by

the Spirit of the Lord. Let me read verse 18 again.

But we all all means exclusive of everybody, inclusive

everybody did exclusion of nobody.

God wants all his children. God wants all of his children to

have unveiled face and behold Him as in a mirror.

You, you become what you behold. Church, you become what you

behold. Are you looking into the perfect

law of of liberty every day 'cause you become what you

behold? As we look in this perfect law

of literary, we're being transformed.

How you going to be a change agent if you're not being

changed? Because a change agent

facilitates transformation. And say it starts with me.

Say it it starts with me. Say I choose to be changed.

I choose to behold the Lord. Say I choose to behold the Lord

in all his glory. Hallelujah.

So from Passover the salvation and deliverance of the nation of

Pentecost where divine strength and empowerment was given was 50

days. The Lord Jesus came to fulfill

all the intricate details of the law.

We can find this in Matthew chapter 5 verses 17 through 18.

Matthew 5:17–18

He said I came to fulfill the law, not to destroy.

The book of Acts shows the fulfillment of this time period,

for so from Passover, which is in April to 50 days later, we

see the feast of Pentecost. Christ fulfilled this.

After Christ's resurrection, at the close of his three days and

three nights in the tomb, he was seen of his disciples for 40

days, speaking to them of things pertaining to the Kingdom of

God. At the close of this period of

40 days, Jesus ascended back to the Father and the disciples

chaired in Jerusalem in the Upper Room for 10 days.

So at 50 days the feast of of Pentecost was enacted.

In the book of Acts chapter 1 and Acts chapter 250 is a

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significant number in the Bible. The number 50 is used

symbolically to represent liberty, freedom and

deliverance. This is seen in the fact that

every 50 years in Israel was called the year of Jubilee.

It was the year of release. It was a year of liberty.

It was a year of freedom. Slaves were set free, deaths

were cancelled, families were reunited, and liberty was

proclaimed throughout the land by the sound of the Jubilee

trumpets. For the New Testament believers

today, Pentecost means liberty and freedom from the old Old

Covenant bondages of ceremonialism, of the law.

It means freedom and the liberty wherewith Christ has set them

free. It meant that they were at

liberty to serve the Lord. Our Jubilee is we are at liberty

to serve the Lord. Our jubilee is we're at liberty

to serve the Lord. It's not a license to sin.

It's a freedom to serve him. It's not a license to sin.

If the churches lukewarm and sin tolerance, we lose the immoral

authority to speak power. It's the power to serve.

It's the power to serve and God has anointed us for service.

In the old covenant there was only three offices that were

anointed. The prophet, the priest and the

king were anointed, set apart to do the assignment.

But in the book of Joel, that prophet, and it's actually

prophesied and spoken in Acts chapter 2 from the book of Joel,

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it says in the last days, I'm going to pour out my spirit upon

all. Not just the prophet, not just

the priest, not just the king, but every child of God, the

Spirit of God is going to be poured out on them for service.

So all of us that have received the Holy Ghost experienced

Pentecost are available through for service to the Lord.

I'm going to give you multiple scriptures right now because

what I want to get across to you it it's not our self effort.

The power of Pentecost as He has equipped me through the Holy

Ghost to do what He's called me to do.

I could be the man of God that He's called me to be because

He's equipped me. I could be the husband he's

called me to because He's equipped me.

I could be the parent I need to be because He's equipped me.

I could be the minister I need to be because He's equipped me.

I could be the example and the witness in the community I need

to be because He has equipped me through His grace.

He's poured out the anointing of the Holy Spirit, and I have

received this feast of Pentecost and I'm enjoying it every day.

Hallelujah. In Acts chapter 10, verse 38,

Acts 10:38

These are scriptures. Even Jesus himself, who is the

Son of God but also the Son of man, needed the Holy Spirit for

your homework assignment. If you go to Philippians chapter

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2 and you read verses about one through 11, this is your

homework assignment because the Bible says for you to study, not

just the fivefold ministry. Studying is not just reserved

for the fivefold ministry. Every believer that has an

affection and an adoration and a love and a hunger for Jesus

Christ is going to be compelled and want to study the Word of

God. I'm more in love with Jesus

Christ today than I have been since 1997.

I'm more hungry today for the things of God than I was when I

first started my journey in 1997.

This broke, disgusted and busted aimlessly wandering through

life. Young man in 1997 found Jesus

Christ and my life was transformed and I've never

looked back. When I said Jesus your Lord,

salvation impacted me. I just knew I need to be in

church. Nobody begged me, prodded me,

poked me, I was just God was faithful.

In 1997 I was able to get connected at a good church at

Raymond Christian Center. The only reason I left there is

because God said you need to get further training.

And so he my journey led me to Broken Arrow, OK to Bible school

and I was connected there until God said, see the power of

Pentecost will lead you. Thank God for salvation and

deliverance at Passover, but you want to have a successful life,

you need the power of Pentecost. Let me say this way, at the Red

Sea you can experience deliverance and salvation.

But God said there's some wilderness wondering.

Christians that had come through the Red Sea experienced

Passover, but they never went cross the Jordan.

And the Jordan is symbolic of the baptism of the Holy Spirit.

So you could be saved without being filled with the Holy

Ghost. You can experience Passover, but

you haven't experienced Pentecost.

And God's saying today you need a feast on Pentecost.

Some of you have been filled, but you have been exercising the

gift. So you're, you need to stir that

up on the inside of you. When you don't know how to pray,

what should you do? Pray in the Spirit?

I'll never forget one of my friends at Rhema said this.

He said praying in the spirits is like, like laying down train

tracks. Do you get what I'm saying?

God knows the way that we should take.

And when you pray in the Holy Ghost, you're laying down train

tracks because we want His will done above all else in our life.

You know, I couldn't find in the Bible any chapter verse that

told me in 1997 to move to Broken Arrow.

OK? But what I could find is I could

be led by the Spirit and I had peace about going there and it

was the right decision. Did you know I met apostle or

Marcy there? Think about how instrumental and

big that was. That relationship got started

because of obedience to being led by the Spirit.

Hallelujah. So even Jesus.

Your homework assignment is Philippians chapter 2 verses one

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through 11. It says that he emptied himself

of his royal dignity, of his royal authority, and he, he says

he came in the likeness of man. Why is that important?

Because Jesus in his earthly ministry, from 30 to 33 years

old, he ministered as a man anointed by the Spirit of God.

He did not minister as the Son of God, He ministered as the Son

of man. And why is that important?

Because not only are we the Son of God, but as a Son of man He

gave us an example that we need to minister by the anointing.

Are you with me? So look at Acts 1038 says how

God anointed Jesus of Nazareth. God anointed Jesus of Nazareth

with the Holy Spirit and with power went about doing good and

healing all who are oppressed by the devil, for God was with him.

So God anointed or baptized Jesus in the Holy Ghost, and

that's how He had the power to do His assignment in the earth.

Same way, how are we going to have the power?

Because we experienced Passover, but we also experienced

Pentecost, and then we have that same anointing to go about doing

good. God has called us to do good.

We were born again, baptized in the Holy Spirit to do good

works, and we do that through the power of the Holy Spirit.

In John chapter 16 verse #7 the Amplified Classic says it like

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this. However, this is Jesus talking.

He said, however, I'm telling you nothing but the truth when I

say it is profitable, it's good, it's expedient, it's

advantageous for you, the disciples that me Jesus goes

away. Because if I do not go away, the

comforter, the counselor, the helper, the advocate, the

intercessor, the strength and his stamp, I, he will not come

to you in close fellowship with you.

But if I go away, I will send him the Holy Spirit to you to be

in close fellowship with you. When he put that blood on the

mercy seat and you said, Jesus, I received that blood, your,

your spirit may be became born again and became holy.

And you have, you have the ability of that time to receive

the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit can't dwell in a

bad spirit. So the blood makes me holy and I

received the Holy Ghost in my life.

Jesus said it's expedient that I go away.

Think about it. He's with the disciples.

Could you imagine walking and talking with Jesus?

But he tells them, it's better for you that I go away, 'cause

when I go away, I'm gonna send the third person to the Trinity,

and I'm going to baptize you with the Holy Spirit.

Zechariah chapter 4, verse #6 says this.

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This is the word of the Lord to Zerubbula.

Not by might, not by power, but by my spirit, says the Lord.

If we're going to do demonstrations and good works in

the earth church, we need the power of the Holy Ghost.

We need the power of Pentecost. It's not by our might, it's not

by our strength. It's by the power of the Holy

Spirit in us. In Matthew chapter 12 verse #28

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the word says this. If I cast out demons by the

Spirit of God, surely the Kingdom of God has come upon

you. How's He casting out demons by

the power of the Holy Spirit? In Philippians chapter 4 verse

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#13 the Amplified Classic says this.

I have strength for all things in Christ who empowers me.

I'm ready for anything and equal to anything through Him who

infuses inner strength into me. I am self-sufficient in Christ

sufficiency. What is the Apostle Paul talking

about? He's talking about the power of

the Holy Ghost. He empowers you.

He equips you. You can't do all things through

Christ who strengthened you. You can do all things through

the Pentecost experience in Luke chapter 4.

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I'm going to read verses 16 through 20 from the message

paraphrase and this is after Jesus was baptized by John.

You realize that Jesus was baptized by John and said, and

you saw those, the Spirit as a dove coming upon him.

Jesus was baptized by John and it says the heavens were open

and in the Holy Spirit descend like a dove and came upon Jesus.

And after that experience, listen to what he says in this

verse. It says he came to Nazareth

where he had been raised as he always did on the Sabbath.

He went to the meeting place where he stood up to read.

He was handed the scroll of the prophet Isaiah.

Unrolling the scroll we found the place where it is written.

God's Spirit is on me. He's chosen me to preach the

message of good news to the poor.

He sent me to announce pardon to prisoners and recovery of sight

to the blind, to set the burden and battered free to announce.

This is God's time to shine. He rolled up the scroll, handed

it back to the assistants. He assistants sat down.

Every eye in the place was on him intent then he started in

you've just heard this scripture make history.

It just came true. Now in this place is the power

of Pentecost now true in your life today go to Luke chapter

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24. I'm going to read one verse.

This is the post resurrection. So Jesus already the Passover

lamb has been raised from the dead.

Luke chapter 24, very last chapter of the book of Luke,

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He's talking to his disciples after he's been raised from the

dead. And he said this, behold, so

listen, he's saying I'm Passover, I paid the price, but

behold, I send the promise of my Father upon you.

But tarry wait in the city of Jerusalem until you're endued

with power from on high. So we go to the book of Acts,

'cause Luke the Great Physician wrote the book of Luke and the

book of Acts. So this is a continuation of

what's happening in Luke chapter.

In Acts chapter 1, they're listening to what Jesus said in

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Luke 24. They were waiting for this

outpouring of the Holy Spirit. In Acts chapter 1, Jesus says to

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them, you shall, you shall receive power when the Holy

Spirit's come upon you, and you shall be witnesses.

You shall receive, let me say this way, Pentecostal power and

be witnesses to me in Jerusalem, Judea, Samaria, to the ends of

the earth. How are you going to be a true

witness for Christ without Pentecostal power?

How are you going to be a true witness for Christ without

Pentecostal power? When I was filled with the Holy

Ghost in 1997, I was saved, redeemed.

I knew it, but when I got filled with the Holy Ghost, what a

change. The Bible started coming alive

to me. It was like a a 1000 piece

puzzle that started to come together over time quicker

because I had the power, the person of the Holy Spirit on the

inside. And you're going to be a

witness. This word means you're going to

testify, you're going to give evidence, and you're going to

affirm the truth. Because of Pentecostal power,

you're going to give evidence to the change in your life and

you're going to give evidence to the truth in your life.

So listen friends, because of the Holy Spirit, we should have

gifts of the Spirit and operation as outlined in First

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Corinthians chapter 12. Not only should we have gifts,

but as outlined in Galatians 5, it says, says the fruit of the

Spirit. So we should have the the

character development and the miraculous happened in our life

because of the power of the Holy Spirit.

There's nine fruits of the Spirit starting with love and

there's there's 9 gifts of the Spirit.

But it's all through the power of Pentecost that you're going

to experience this. And how am I going to witness

man? We should be able to go into a

place, whether a hospital, whether at work, whatever's

going on, and pray for somebody and see change immediately by

the power of the Holy Ghost. At the same time too, the Holy

Spirit is always checking us. Somebody cut you off when you're

driving and you want to tell them that they're #1 with the

wrong finger, the Holy Spirit will quicken you and say you

have self-control. How can I be a witness when I'm

something doing something derogatory towards somebody else

right? Glory to God, self-control.

And then Acts chapter 2 verse #4 it says this.

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They were all So the second chapter, Acts, the 1st chapter,

we're going from Luke 2449 to Acts 18, just building a case to

Acts chapter 2 verse #4 they waited as Jesus commanded them.

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It says on the day and when it says the day of Pentecost had

fully come. If you read the verse when the

day of Pentecost, which we're selling the feast of Pentecost

today and I believe there's some in this sanctuary, they're going

to receive the Pentecostal experience today.

I believe there's some that's going to be stirred up to re

experience the Pentecostal experience.

It says when the day of Pentecost at full of come, they

were all filled with the Holy Spirit and they began to speak

with other tongues as the Spirit gave them utterance.

The evidence of being filled with the Holy Ghost is speaking

in other tongues. Yes, come on, there's there's

always in the Word of God. There's always a principle that

God works on and a pattern that He works through.

God always does everything through a principle or a truth

based on a pattern. For example, there was a

Tabernacle in the old covenant. But guess what?

Jesus Christ is the Tabernacle in the old Covenant.

We come through the Red Sea in the New Covenant.

That's like a type of water baptism.

Remember, Pharaoh and his army was drowned.

Now some scholars say, well, they crossed the Red Sea 'cause

it was really dry at that season, and they try to do it

with a miracle. As I said, well, if they cross

the Red Sea, it's even a miracle they drowned in that shallow

water. Either way, it's a miracle.

You don't drown by falling in the wall, you're drowned by

staying in the water. That's all different sermon.

But that's, that's a, a pattern and a principle right there.

But guess what? Just just like I'm married to

Angie. This is an external evidence.

But this doesn't really mean anything without the internal

work, you know, 'cause you could have a house, but do you have a

home? And thank God, by the Spirit of

living God, we have a home. We've experienced the goodness

of God. Can't wait to get home.

I just love getting home. I'm a homebody, glory to God.

But just the same thing that there's an external evidence

with, you get filled with the Holy Ghost.

Guess what? The evidence you're filled is by

speaking in other tongues. Listen BC before Christ I wasn't

living right and I used to be on the bar scene.

All right. Thank God I'm redeemed.

Thank God I'm delivered. I'm not going in the bar to

witness Don, but I will pray I have an interaction with

somebody's coming out so they can come out.

But I was in a lot of that. I never heard once in the bar

anybody speaking in other tongues.

I heard a lot of slur speech and saw a lot of stupid decisions,

but I never heard anybody speaking in other tongues.

So that's want to clarify speaking in tongues.

Some people say, well, that's the devil.

Well, have you read your Bible? Do we believe this infallible

word? I mean, why would God say that

they spoke in other tongues if it wasn't relevant?

Even in Acts chapter 19, if you study this one out, when they

Acts 19 · chapter mention

went to this certain city and people got filled the Holy Ghost

and said they heard them speak with tongues.

There's a second witness in the book of Acts.

So you know you got the Holy Ghost as an evidence because

you, you start to speak in other tongues.

And even in First Corinthians chapter 14, when Paul's talking

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about the prophetic gifts in the church, he's talking about a

private side and a public side of praying in tongues.

Paul said this, I'd rather I speak 10,000 words in an unknown

tongue. What's he talking about?

In my own private prayer life? I pray in the Spirit a lot was

what Paul said. But he said in the church, I'd

rather speak 5 words from under with an understanding why 'cause

if I got up here for an hour and a half and just spoke in

tongues, what good is it going to do for you?

Unless somebody gave it an interpretation for an hour and a

half, which would be like longer than an hour and a half 'cause

they'd have to interpret as I go, right?

But that's what he is saying. I speak with tongues.

He stayed, He did great things for the Kingdom of God, but he

prayed in the Spirit so much. Now, thank God.

You can pray in English, you can pray in Spanish, but you should

be able to pray in your heavenly language.

That's what I'm gonna call it. When you don't know how to pray.

The Moffett translation of Romans 8 says when you don't

know how to pray in your articulate speech, you can pray

in the Spirit. I like that translation.

When you've run out of what to say in English, you can kick

over into the Holy Ghost and lay those train tracks.

Jude says in this there's only 1 chapter in Jude the 20th verse

it says building yourself up in the Holy Ghost.

Listen, some believers, I'm going to give an example like my

iPhone, any Android users the the altar is open.

I'm just kidding. I'm just kidding.

You Jack up text messages or we Jack up your text messages.

One of the two we OK, I'll, I'll humble myself.

I really don't care, but you know, there's a lot of

applications on this. There's a lot you can access on

this, right? Does that, I mean, this is like

a little computer, right? But if the battery dies, what

happens? It's useless, right?

Someone ask you this question, where's your spiritual battery

at 'cause you know, we get excited when it gets yellow.

You put it in that save mode, don't move it, don't use it,

right. It's better to stay charged up

all the time. It's no fun.

It's no fun if you're driving in your car and you see the the 50

drop and you're on the highway and you don't know exactly where

the next gas station's AT and it starts blinking so you got 50

miles to empty. That's no fun.

I'd rather just stay full. So my admonition to you today is

just say full daily practice Pentecost daily keep keep this

thing at fool so you have application to all that God has

available to you. Now all this was given just not

for own benefit and blessing. Thank God for the Holy Ghost he,

he is so personal and you can have intimacy with him, but it's

just not for you to stay at the house and pray in the spirit and

not get out. That is not why the Pentecost

came. It's part of it, man.

He'll reveal things to you. He'll give you a scripture as

you're doing your Bible reading, man.

He'll have things pop off the page to you.

But it's more than just that. He has anointed you for service.

The Holy Spirit has anointed you for service.

So let's go to Psalms 100. Psalms 100 it says this I'm

gonna read this from the new King James version.

It says make a joyful shout to the Lord.

All you lands serve the Lord with gladness.

Come before his presence was singing.

Know that the Lord he is God. It is he who made us and we are,

and we not ourselves. We are his people, the sheep of

his pasture. Enter into his gates with

Thanksgiving into his courts of praise.

Be thankful to him. Bless his name, for the Lord is

good, the Lord is good, the Lord is good, as mercy is everlasting

and His truth endures to all generations.

That is a delicious piece of scripture.

This is prime USDA non-GMO organic sirloin steak for all

your vegetarians. This is a good piece of

broccoli. It's so good I'm going to read

it again. Make a joyful shout to the Lord.

Serve the Lord with gladness. Come before His presence was

singing. Know that the Lord, he is God.

It is He who made us, not we ourselves.

We are His people, the sheep of His pasture.

Enter His gates with Thanksgiving, into His courts

with praise. Be thankful to Him.

Bless His name, for the Lord is good and His mercy is

everlasting, and His truth endures to all generations.

So I'm going to impress this and by the Spirit of God, etch this

in your mind and your heart today.

Serve the Lord with gladness, God's GPS, God's powerful

servant that has Pentecostal empowerment.

I'm going to serve him with gladness, not sadness.

The Bible says I was glad when they said let us go to the House

of the Lord. It didn't say I was sad when

they said the church is a voluntary community.

Nobody's forcing you to be here today.

So if nobody's forcing you, you should be glad to be here.

We serve God because we love Him, and it's a reasonable and

reciprocal response to his grace.

We serve God because we love him, and it's a reasonable and

reciprocal response to God's grace.

He gave us Passover. He gave us Pentecost.

Thank God one day He's coming back.

We we get a feast from Passover to Tabernacle when the last

trumpet sounds and he returns. But our life should be a joyful

feast. We serve the Lord because He is

good. Now listen, I want to give you a

few definitions of service. Serve means this to perform

duties or to fulfill an assignment.

Just like the prophet, priest and king had a specific

assignment. Guess what, God knows you, God

knows every single person in this room and he has a plan for

your life. And I learned this from my BC

days when I was at West Side Barbell, very famous

powerlifting gym. Louie's always you say if if you

want to go far and lift and you got to build a big base.

So you talk about GPP and then SSPGPP was general physical

preparedness, and that's where you're just laying a foundation.

He's working on fundamentals, getting you stronger, but he

also has something further in mind.

And it's kind of like what the Kingdom of God does when you

first get born again and Passover, then you experience

Pentecost. God is building you up.

You know, in 1997 when I started going to church, I didn't know

that I'd be in full time ministry, but I was just

faithful in GPP, general physical appearance, attend

church, do my Bible reading, pray.

Was I perfect? No, I still working some things

out. You know, when you get born

again, your mind is just not automatically renewed.

You got to work and the Holy Spirit and Pentecost will help

you remind you of the Word of God.

But as I went on and faithfulness, you know, God just

was leading me. And things start to get more

specific in the assignment. But God's never going to promote

you unless He proves you. God's never going to promote you

to His plan unless He proves you.

And proving only happens through faithfulness.

Are you going to be faithful to attend church?

Are you going to be faithful to tithe?

Are you going to be faithful at your home?

Are you going to be faithful at your job?

Are you going to be faithful in your meditation?

Are you going to be faithful in your devotional life?

And as your faithful God sees it and at the right time, he'll

start to get things more specific and lined out for you.

And what a journey this is in Christ.

There is not a better life, more exciting, more adventurous than

being with Jesus Christ and being led by the Holy Spirit.

This word serves me to means to be in bondage.

And you say what that means. I'm bound to serve the Lord.

I'm voluntarily placing myself in this service.

Paul said it like this. I'm a bond servant.

You know, in the old covenant said if you loved your master

that much that they'd actually put that awe in your, in your

ear or whatever and put a brand on you just 'cause you didn't

want He released you, but you love the household so much you

wanted to stay. And that's the picture.

I love God so much. I'm not.

He has branded me with the Holy Ghost on the inside.

I'm not going anywhere. I'm bound to serve Him.

I'm bound to serve Him. This word.

Serve means to labor. That means to work.

Work is not a curse. It's not a dirty 4 letter word.

Matter of fact, God gives you work to establish dominion in

the earth in your assignment. He gives you work to establish

dominion even before the fall with in the Garden of Eden.

Guess what? God gave Adam a job, an

assignment work. He said you're to guard this

garden. I'm putting you right.

This is the place that I want you.

This is the place that I assigned you and now you have to

work, you have to till and cultivate this garden, right?

The word serve means to worship and worships really shown sown

through obedience. It really worship really

identifies your source. Who do you run to or what do you

run to when life hits you or falls apart?

That identifies your source. If you go to Ben and Jerry's,

that's identifying your source. Like emotional eating, right?

If you go to anger, are you really running to God?

But worship is obedience. It's really your source.

This word serve means to wait, just like a waiter or a waitress

serves. If you go to a restaurant after

this, you're going to have a waiter, A waitress.

And what they do, they serve the table.

We should be Those that wait upon the Lord shall Well, I'm

not feeling energized. Well, are you waiting upon the

Lord? That word wait doesn't mean like

I'm sitting down waiting. It means I'm serving the Lord.

And those that wait upon the Lord, they shall renew their

strength. They shall mount up with wings

like eagles. They shall run and not grow

wary. They shall walk, and they shall

not faint. So we're to serve with the Lord,

we're to serve for the Lord, and we're to serve through the Lord.

We are to serve with the Lord. We're to serve for the Lord.

We're to serve through the Lord. And the power of Pentecost gives

us the power to do our assignment of service.

And I want to close with these thoughts.

Worship team, you can come as you go out this week.

I want you to know this ministry starts with the person right in

front of you. You're called to be a change

agent through the Pentecostal empowerment as as the Kingdom

GPS representative. And ministry starts with the

person right in front of you. You are a change agent.

If you can change a person, you can change a household.

If you can change a household, you can change a community.

If you can change a community, you can change a state.

If you can change a state, you can change the world.

Ministry starts with the person right in front of you.

I want you to see people first this week when you read the

gospels and you see the way that this anointed man, Jesus Christ,

our Savior, navigated through life, you know, a lot of stuff

happened not in the in the sacred place, but in the

marketplace. As you read the gospels, look,

look at the greatest leader. We have the greatest example.

How did Jesus do it? And no matter where he was,

ministry was always in front of him.

And ministry starts with the person in front of you.

You know, Jesus never saw their condition.

He always saw their humanity first, he said.

I saw a woman who had an issue of blood, he said.

I saw a man with leprosy. I saw a woman that was been over

for 18 years. He saw people first, the Bible

said. He was moved with compassion and

love is our motivating force to be a change agent.

So see people first when you go out this week and understand

this, that if we're going to change this community, we need

to change one person at a time. And you are a change agent.

You are called equipped, anointed to ignite this city.

As a church. We are called equipped and

anointed as servants to ignite this city, impact the nation,

and influence the world. I'm going to give you 3 closing

scriptures and then my wife's going to come up.

We're going to give an altar call either for a a fresh

renewing of the Holy Ghost or for a first time experience of

being filled with this Pentecostal empowerment.

I want to give you Luke Chapter 9 verse #48 from the Living

Luke 9 · chapter mention

Bible. It says this anyone who takes

care of a little children like this is caring for me and

whoever is cares for me is caring for God who sent me.

Your care for others is the measure of your greatness.

Your care for others is see people first this week and

understand I have I'm anointed to being changed as a servant of

God. Matthew chapter 23 verses 11

Matthew 23:11–12

through 12 says the greatest among you shall be your servant.

Whoever exalts himself shall be humbled, but whoever humbles

himself shall be raised to honor and our last scripture in Acts

Acts 20:22–24

chapter 20 verses 22 to 24. This is Paul at the end of his

life. He said, now see, I go bound.

Remember, serve means a bond servant.

I go bound in the Spirit to Jerusalem, not knowing the

things that will happen to me there, except that the Holy

Spirit testifies and every city saying that chains and

tribulations await me. But none of these things move

me, nor do I count my life dear to myself so that I may finish

my race with joy and the ministry which I received from

the Lord Jesus to testify to the gospel of the grace of God.

God has an assignment for you that He wants you to finish.

Strong should have that same confession that the apostle Paul

that I finished my course with joy, I finished my course with

feasting, I finished my course with the power of the Holy

Ghost. But there is a course, there is

a journey, and we need Him today.

Hallelujah.