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The Person of the Holy Spirit - Week Four with Pastor Marci Glisson

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  1. Thanks for checking out the Anchor Faith Message podcast

  2. from St. Augustine, FL.

  3. Now enjoy this message. Glory to God.

  4. So we started our journey of talking about the Holy Spirit.

  5. So if you don't want it, then that's fine.

  6. We'll just teach the word. All right?

  7. Hallelujah. Glory to God, we got We've been

  8. having some LOL in the congregation lately.

  9. I don't even know what are y'all doing.

  10. I don't know if you're here. I mean, I didn't think you were

  11. here Sunday. I'm not thinking you're here

  12. tonight. Amen.

  13. Come on. We got to get our mind shifted

  14. and our minds fixed. Amen.

  15. On what We really need to be focused on Hallelujah and not be

  16. distracted, evidently, with summer time.

  17. Summertime, Summertime. I guess this heat wave is

  18. getting to all y'all. Amen.

  19. We gotta stir ourselves up. Amen.

  20. And not, uh, coming here just wanting to sit.

  21. Not even wanting to engage and just rest 'cause you had to work

  22. all day, I guess. Come on, we gotta get better

  23. than that. We gotta know how to come in

  24. here expecting, knowing that we're gonna come get filled up.

  25. Amen. That the word of God's gonna

  26. strengthen our spirit, man. Come on.

  27. We should. Be in the overflow at all times

  28. in the overflow. Amen.

  29. Ready to go, you. God says it.

  30. How high? If he says jump, I'm saying how

  31. high if he says come on, whatever he says, I'm there.

  32. Amen. Whatever he says, I'm going to

  33. jump in and I'm going to be the first one to jump in.

  34. Because we we need to make ourselves put ourselves in the

  35. position that he at all times is ready to do something in our

  36. life. But we sit back and just wait.

  37. Instead of just saying, Lord, I'm here, Whatever you want to

  38. do, come on, Fill me up. Give me the word.

  39. Strengthen me so that I can go out tomorrow and continue to be

  40. filled up. Continue to conquer.

  41. Continue to overcome. Come on.

  42. You shouldn't have to run dry. You shouldn't have to be weak.

  43. You shouldn't have to be weary. We shouldn't.

  44. We have the glory of the Lord, the glory, the glory that.

  45. Can bring a manifestation of anything we need in our lives.

  46. Hallelujah. Glory to God.

  47. And so we have to continue to be spirit conscious.

  48. Because this natural world, in this natural realm, continues to

  49. fight against what God says we really are.

  50. We are supernatural beings filled with the glory of God,

  51. filled with the Spirit of Almighty God.

  52. Amen. So there is nothing.

  53. Come on. There's nothing.

  54. In this world that should override that consciousness of

  55. what's on the inside of us and what we have.

  56. Amen. What we have already.

  57. Not what we're trying to get, what we already have.

  58. The glory. His glory.

  59. The full weight of who he is. The full measure.

  60. Come on. And we have to prepare ourselves

  61. to continue to be a vessel. Come on, that his glory can flow

  62. through. But it's not going to flow

  63. through if we don't expect it, if we don't anticipate it, if we

  64. don't come. You know, encouraged and know

  65. that these things are a part of our lives and that we don't have

  66. to live naturally, that we can always walk supernaturally.

  67. Hallelujah. We can always walk

  68. supernaturally, even in the midst of whatever it is going on

  69. in the world. Hallelujah.

  70. So we've got to stir ourselves up and not be what Mark talks

  71. about with the parable of the Sower that we are so-called up

  72. in the things of this world. The riches, the seatfulness of

  73. riches and the cares of life. That the word is being choked

  74. out of your life. The word being choked out of

  75. your life. So when we come in here, we

  76. ought to be excited and and just ready to jump in.

  77. Knowing that God has a word for us, God's going to build our

  78. spirit man up. He's going to give us what we

  79. need that the Holy Spirit's here.

  80. He wants to rest upon us. Come on, He wants to fill us up

  81. every time we come in here so that we can be full of who He is

  82. and not full of the world or full of the circumstance or full

  83. of what's going on around us. But we can be full of Him.

  84. Amen. And not be so distracted that we

  85. can't come in and engage Hallelujah, no matter what's

  86. going on. You got to train yourself to be

  87. engaged in every season, every day of your life.

  88. You have to train yourself to be engaged with the Spirit.

  89. Engaged with the spirit, being spirit conscious.

  90. That's what we're talking about. I mean, that's not what we're

  91. going to talk about, but that's what the Holy spirits want to

  92. talk about, Evidently. Spirit conscious.

  93. More conscious of the Spirit than anything else.

  94. Amen. So that we don't get distracted

  95. with things that's going on. Amen.

  96. In our lives. That we're not conscious of the

  97. spirit of God and what he's wanting to do.

  98. Amen. All right.

  99. Y'all had your little Mama talk. Amen.

  100. I'll make you laugh tonight. Maybe.

  101. Maybe. Maybe.

  102. Whatever the Holy Ghost wants, I'm yielded to him.

  103. Amen. Because he knows what we need

  104. and I trust Him. So we started our journey

  105. talking about the ministry of the Holy Spirit.

  106. It's so important that we talk about the ministry of the Holy

  107. Spirit because so much that's going on right now in the earth,

  108. well, everything that's going on in the earth right now is being.

  109. Revealed to us by the Spirit, OK, And we have to talk about

  110. the ministry of the Holy Spirit, because so many people still do

  111. not understand who the Holy Spirit is.

  112. We still have people that think the Holy Spirit is not.

  113. For today. We still have people that think

  114. the Holy Spirit is a dove. We still have people that say

  115. it's it. We still have people that think

  116. the only thing the Holy Spirit does is give you chill bumps and

  117. power to run around and have fire and and lay hands and have

  118. miracles when there's so much more to the whole, the person of

  119. the Holy Spirit. And so last week we started our

  120. journey all the way back in Genesis, and we saw that in the

  121. beginning in Genesis chapter one, that there was God, right?

  122. And he what began to speak it. Says that the.

  123. Holy Spirit was what? Hovering over the earth just

  124. like we talked about and saying about tonight.

  125. He was resting over the earth, he was hovering over the earth.

  126. And do you know what the holy this is important.

  127. Because you know what? The Holy Spirit is not going to

  128. do anything that the Word hasn't said for him to do.

  129. So he was waiting for the Word to be spoken when God said let

  130. there be light. That's when now the Holy Spirit

  131. can go in and activate what the Word said.

  132. And what God said, He went and He accomplished, He

  133. demonstrated, He manifested. That's what the Holy Spirit will

  134. do. He will demonstrate and manifest

  135. what the Word has said in your life.

  136. But you have to activate it. Just like God had to activate

  137. the Word and say let there be, Then the Holy Spirit could go

  138. into. Motion and create what it was

  139. that God said that it would be. So outside of the Word the Holy

  140. Spirit can't move. He could be hovering over this

  141. house and without you engaging the Holy Spirit and activating

  142. the Word for your life, the Holy Spirit can do nothing for you so

  143. you can be in the atmosphere. Come on.

  144. Every time you could be in the atmosphere of the presents and

  145. the Holy Spirit's ready to go and and work on your behalf.

  146. But because you sit there with no engagement, no activation,

  147. without speaking the Word, yeah, Holy Spirit, you come rest on

  148. me. You can't feel me unless you

  149. activated the Holy Spirit is not going to do it.

  150. Because the Holy Spirit is a gentleman and he won't force you

  151. to do anything. He's not gonna grab your tongue

  152. and flop it out of your. Mouth and make you speak in

  153. tongues. I'd like to rip some tongues out

  154. of some people's mouths. Aren't you glad I'm saved and

  155. sanctified and filled with the Holy Ghost and walk in the love

  156. of God? Hallelujah.

  157. I'm glad I am 'cause I'd be in jail.

  158. I guess there is no telling whoo, no telling.

  159. Praise the Lord. Glory to God.

  160. You, you all looking at me like you ain't the same way.

  161. But thank you for the Holy Spirit.

  162. Amen. The person of the Holy Spirit at

  163. work in our life. And that goes for everything

  164. that the Holy Spirit does in our life.

  165. It's only going to activate anything in our life and unless

  166. we yield to it. So we can have the Holy Spirit

  167. living on the inside of us, but unless we acknowledge the Holy

  168. Spirit and begin to release the Holy Spirit to operate on our

  169. behalf, He won't do anything, won't do anything.

  170. Amen. We have a responsibility.

  171. But anyway, so last week we talked about that, that the Holy

  172. Spirit. Is there to bring the

  173. demonstration of the word of God.

  174. And we've said this multiple times, you must understand that

  175. God has already done everything He's going to do for mankind.

  176. He upholds this world with his word.

  177. It says everything he created is upheld with his word.

  178. Who's his word? Jesus wrapped in flesh, right?

  179. And dwelt among us. He was the Word in the beginning

  180. was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

  181. Amen. And so we know this too, that

  182. Jesus has already fulfilled his assignment.

  183. Everything that God needed Jesus to do to redeem mankind has

  184. already been done. Jesus said It is finished.

  185. And when he said it was finished, he said I had to go so

  186. that someone else can come. And that was who?

  187. The Holy Spirit. So now it is up to the Holy

  188. Spirit in the. Earth to work through.

  189. Man that is born again, and not just born again, but yielded to

  190. him. Because many people are born

  191. again, but they do not yield to the Holy Ghost on the inside of

  192. them. Many people are born again, but

  193. they do not yield to the Holy Ghost on the inside of them.

  194. OK, and so it is the Holy Spirit now that is in the earth

  195. working. To continue to accomplish what

  196. God needs done through man. Amen.

  197. That's born again and yielded to the spirit of God we saw last

  198. week that also I want to remind you.

  199. That we proved through scripture the Trinity.

  200. Because some people don't believe in the Trinity, the

  201. Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.

  202. They have lots to talk about with the Father.

  203. They have lots to say about Jesus, but they still

  204. misunderstand the Holy Spirit and His working His ministry.

  205. He is a He. We prove that in scripture.

  206. Amen. Last week, multiple multiple

  207. scriptures. That he is a person.

  208. He is the third person of the Holy Spirit.

  209. And we talked about last week that it was important that you

  210. recognize that he is a person because he can now under he can

  211. now. Minister, minister to us

  212. personally. If we don't understand him as a

  213. person then how could we ever relate to him?

  214. Right, But because he is a person, we can now relate to him

  215. personally, right? While we are in the earth, we

  216. talked about the fact and and looked at some things concerning

  217. the Holy Spirit and I'm just going to highlight them because

  218. there was a couple that I didn't get to finish and I want to to

  219. move in that arena. Tonight we talked about the fact

  220. that it says that the Holy Spirit is a teacher.

  221. Right. We talked about the fact that

  222. the Holy Spirit says that he was going to be 1, just like Jesus.

  223. So again, the Holy Spirit can do nothing outside of the Word.

  224. They will always be in unity. Whatever Jesus said, whatever

  225. the Word says right through scripture is going to be unified

  226. with whatever you hear that the Holy Spirit is saying to you.

  227. All right. They're going to always be in

  228. unity. We looked at the fact that he is

  229. the Spirit of truth. The Holy Spirit is the Spirit of

  230. truth. Amen.

  231. We looked at the fact that the Holy Spirit convicts he is a

  232. convictor. A lot of people, as I said, only

  233. want to see the power of the Holy Spirit.

  234. I only want to see the miracles of the Holy Spirit, only want to

  235. experience, you know, the power of God and the chill bumps, like

  236. I said, but they disregard, especially in today's Western

  237. society here in the United States of America, do not want

  238. you to talk about the fact that the Holy Spirit's job is to

  239. convict you of. Sin okay, and we never like to

  240. talk about that. But he says when the spirit of

  241. truth comes, what is he going to do?

  242. He is going to convict the world of sin, judgment and

  243. righteousness, right? That's what he's going to do.

  244. We also see that the Holy Spirit can bring fruits to our life,

  245. right? The fruit of the Spirit, right.

  246. We also saw the fact that he is the one, that the Holy Spirit

  247. can bring sanctification to your life.

  248. He is holy. That is His job, part of the

  249. Holy Spirit's job. We're going to look at this in

  250. the weeks to come. Is the inner working of the Holy

  251. Spirit. The inner working of the Holy

  252. Spirit is to bring forth the fruits of the Spirit and

  253. sanctification on the inside of your life.

  254. And there will always be evidence of that, because the

  255. Holy Spirit brings a demonstration.

  256. So there will be fruit and evident of the Spirit, the

  257. fruits of the Spirit in operation in your life.

  258. All right. We talked about the fact that

  259. the Holy Spirit can be grieved. Whenever you choose to disobey

  260. what the Holy Spirit is telling you to do, you are grieving the

  261. Spirit, one translation says Quenching the Spirit, quenching

  262. the Spirit, The Spirit cannot be quenched unless it has been

  263. revealed. So for it to be quenched, or for

  264. it to be grieve, that means then that it has been revealed to you

  265. and you're quenching the spirit. Illumination has come to you

  266. through the word, or whatever the case may be, and you're

  267. quenching it by not obeying it. You're grieving it by not

  268. obeying what you're hearing on the inside to do.

  269. So the Holy Spirit can be grieved.

  270. This is this is a person. A person can be grieved.

  271. A dove cannot, right? A dove cannot teach you

  272. anything, right? A dove cannot convict you of

  273. anything. So we're seeing that he has the

  274. personality here of humanity. We talked about the fact that

  275. the holy. Spirit is jealous.

  276. OK, we said that the Holy Spirit could be blasphemed, right?

  277. We also recognized in reading Second Timothy chapter 3, which

    2 Timothy 3 chapter mention

  278. is where we really have launched from, is that the Holy Spirit

  279. can be denied. The Holy Spirit can be denied

  280. His working in your life. You can deny the power of God to

  281. transform your mind. OK, you have a form of

  282. godliness, but you deny the power to really transform your

  283. life. And that's why we see so many

  284. believers still defeated in their life.

  285. Because they're not allowing the Holy Spirit to actually

  286. transform their thinking, transform their life, OK, they

  287. are what they are denying that power to work within their life.

  288. There are other things that I did not get to, so I want to

  289. continue and this is where we're going to start.

  290. This is found in Hebrews chapter 10 and verse 29.

    Hebrews 10 chapter mention

  291. The Holy Spirit can be insulted. You can only insult a person,

  292. right? The Holy Spirit can be insulted.

  293. So in Hebrews Chapter 9, verse 29 out of the amplified, it says

  294. how much worse, sterner or heavier?

  295. Punishment. Do you suppose he will be judged

  296. to deserve? Who has spurned and thus

  297. trampled under foot the Son of God, And who has considered the

  298. covenant, the blood by which he was consecrated, common, and

  299. unhallowed, thus profaning it, and insulting and outraging the

  300. Holy Spirit, who imparts grace, the unmerited favor and blessing

  301. of God? So the Holy Spirit can be

  302. insulted. That means you can know about

  303. the power of God, know about the blood of God, but then insults

  304. the person of the Holy Spirit. Insulted.

  305. Why? By not actually consecrating

  306. yourself to what it is he has placed within your life?

  307. One translation actually starts talking about trampling on the

  308. blood, trampling on the blood. In Hebrews, you can trample on

  309. the blood. Nobody talks about that today.

  310. You can trample on it, insult it.

  311. Okay. Now here we see in Acts chapter

    Acts 5 chapter mention

  312. 5. And this is New Testament one.

  313. I just read you out of Hebrews but this is also New Testament.

  314. Here says the Holy Spirit can be lied to.

  315. In Acts 5 three out of the Amplified, Peter Said and

  316. Anayas. Why has Satan filled your heart

  317. that you should lie to an attempt to deceive the Holy

  318. Spirit. You can lie to the Holy.

  319. Spirit. And actually the way you do that

  320. is you've become so deceived thinking that you could lie to

  321. the Holy Spirit and the Holy Spirit not know your heart.

  322. You've deceived your own heart. The Bible talks about you

  323. deceive your own heart. To think that you can lie to the

  324. Holy Spirit, know the Holy Spirit knows everything.

  325. That's going on on the inside of you, every single thing.

  326. There is nothing hidden if you are born again and the Holy

  327. Spirit is living on the inside of you.

  328. The Holy Spirit knows everything that's going on.

  329. He knows everything. You're thinking, everything

  330. you're doing, every bit of it. Nothing is hidden from him, he

  331. says. And it's the Holy Spirit that

  332. knows if you're lying to yourself.

  333. Come on. So we have to recognize that

  334. this is one thing that could lead into major deception and

  335. pride, which is what pastors been talking about on Sundays,

  336. is that you've lied so much to the Holy Spirit.

  337. You are so deceived within your own heart.

  338. That pride has entered in and you have a full open door to it,

  339. thinking that you can get away with lying to the Holy Ghost.

  340. Well, what happened to Annanis and Safira in the New Testament?

  341. They drop dead. Why did they drop dead?

  342. They lied to the Holy. Spirit.

  343. Nobody wants to use that New Testament scripture anymore in

  344. the Church. Come on.

  345. So we must be careful about this.

  346. All right and sensitive. To the holy.

  347. Spirit living on the inside of us.

  348. Now I want to look at a couple other scriptures concerning the

  349. fact that. Here we see him in this person.

  350. Well do you know we can see him? The fact that the Holy Spirit

  351. has a mind, has a will and is able to speak, has a mind, has a

  352. will and is able to speak. This is in Romans chapter 8.

    Romans 8 chapter mention

  353. Romans chapter 8 and verse 27 says this.

    Romans 8 chapter mention

  354. And he who searches the hearts, here we go.

  355. The Holy Spirit searches the hearts.

  356. That's why he knows if you're lying or not.

  357. So the Holy Spirit searches the hearts and knows what the mind

  358. of the Spirit is, what the mind of the Spirit is.

  359. So the Spirit has the mind, the person.

  360. The third person of the Godhead, the Holy Spirit has a mind K.

  361. He has a will. First Corinthians chapter 12 and

    1 Corinthians 12 chapter mention

  362. verse 11. First Corinthians chapter 12 and

    1 Corinthians 12 chapter mention

  363. verse 11 says this but one and the same spirit works all

  364. things, distributing to each one individual Lee just as he wills,

  365. as he wills, Amen, so he has a will.

  366. And he can distribute to whom he wants to according to his will.

  367. He has emotions. The Holy Spirit has emotions.

  368. Romans 15 and 30 says this. Now I urge you, brethren, by our

  369. Lord Jesus Christ and by the love of the Spirit, to strive

  370. together with me in your prayers to God.

  371. For me this is. Yes, to strive the love of the

  372. spirit. That's an emotion, right?

  373. We know love is an emotion, right?

  374. So it's the love of the spirit. You see that?

  375. Now look at First Timothy chapter 4 and verse one.

    1 Timothy 4 chapter mention

  376. The Holy Spirit can speak some things, can say some things.

  377. It says but the spirit. Say the spirit explicitly says

  378. the spirit says say the spirit. Speaks.

  379. That in the latter time some will fall away from the faith,

  380. paying attention to deceitful spirits and doctrines of demons.

  381. So it the spirit said this will happen.

  382. So guess what? It's going to happen.

  383. But the Holy Spirit we see as a person can speak and say some

  384. things. Well, he would have to speak and

  385. say some things if he is going to teach us some things, right?

  386. So we're talking about the Person of the Holy Spirit.

  387. This is very important. Now look over in Hebrews chapter

    Hebrews 3:7

  388. 3, verse 7. Here again it says therefore.

  389. Just as the Holy Spirit says, another scripture for you today,

  390. if you hear His voice, so the Holy Spirit as a person can

  391. speak to us all, right, So there's ways He can speak.

  392. He can speak through His word, but He can also speak to our

  393. inner man. All right.

  394. And we're going to get into that later on when we start talking

  395. about the inner working of the Holy Spirit.

  396. Okay. So again, we're laying the

  397. foundation of the Holy Spirit as a person and how we can connect

  398. with him as the third person of the Godhead.

  399. Amen. And this is who is in operation

  400. today in the Earth, OK, the Word has been left, and the Holy

  401. Spirit's at work. Nothing that happens will happen

  402. outside of the Spirit. Nothing that happens for God

  403. will happen outside of the Spirit, and we're going to prove

  404. that. Probably next Wednesday.

  405. OK, Nothing can happen outside of the spirit, because even

  406. though we've been left the word, we've got the word.

  407. The spirit is the only one that can reveal the word to us, can

  408. reveal the word to us. And it's the Spirit that gives

  409. life to anything that we're going to accomplish.

  410. Okay, it's the Spirit that is the revealer of truth.

  411. And we're going to see a couple of scriptures concerning that in

  412. a minute. So is the Holy.

  413. Spirit for today, well, is the Father for today.

  414. Is the sun for the day? So then the Holy Spirit would be

  415. for today, right? Hallelujah.

  416. Now, not only if the Father's relevant for the day and the Son

  417. is relevant for us today, the Holy Spirit is relevant for us

  418. today. And so much so that Jesus told

  419. his disciples to wait for it. To wait for it, right?

  420. So if Jesus didn't think it was important, why would he tell us

  421. to wait for it? Tell his disciples to wait for

  422. it? Or if Jesus didn't think it was

  423. needed for today, why would he tell his disciples to wait for

  424. it? And what he told his disciples

  425. to wait for was a promise. He said.

  426. I want you to wait for the promise of the Father.

  427. It was a promise to us. So why would Jesus promise us

  428. something but yet think that we shouldn't have to receive from

  429. it, right? Because we sure want all of His

  430. other promises. We want all of his other

  431. promises. We want a promise of, you know,

  432. be a blessed in the city and blessed in the field.

  433. And we want the promise of healing and our bodies come on.

  434. And we want the promise of everything that we put our hand

  435. to is going to prosper. We want all these other

  436. promises. Why would we not want the

  437. promise that he said, which was to come right.

  438. So Jesus thought it was important.

  439. Right. And not only did he think it was

  440. important, he said it's to your advantage.

  441. So some people, even as believers, are still missing out

  442. on an advantage for their life when they choose to reject the

  443. Holy Spirit and the fullness of everything that the Holy Spirit

  444. has to offer in a believer's life.

  445. If they reject it, then guess what that means?

  446. They are still at a disadvantage.

  447. So why would we still want to be at a disadvantage when he said

  448. that? It would be to my advantage.

  449. You need it. It's necessary for your life in

  450. the earth. Say I need the Holy Spirit.

  451. Say I want the Holy Spirit. Hallelujah.

  452. Glory to God. So we need the Holy Spirit.

  453. It is to our advantage, not only that we see that Jesus asked the

  454. Father. So the Father wanted to send the

  455. Holy Spirit. He asked of the Father to send

  456. the Holy Spirit, right? And the Father obviously gave

  457. it. Amen.

  458. Now everybody wants to focus on Jesus, and they don't ever want

  459. to focus on the one person that's still in the earth that

  460. makes things happen, which is the Holy Spirit.

  461. Well, I have Jesus and I'm good to go, right?

  462. Well again, he said there's an advantage for understanding who

  463. the Holy Spirit is. And we always say this, that

  464. Jesus is our example, correct? He's our example, so why would

  465. we not want to follow his example?

  466. And we can see all through the New Testament Jesus relied on

  467. the Holy Spirit while he was a man in the earth.

  468. Full of the Holy Spirit, without measure.

  469. He only was able to accomplish His purpose and His assignment

  470. through the Holy Spirit, working through His life.

  471. And we're gonna see, I'm just gonna read to you everything

  472. concerning Jesus and the Spirit of God.

  473. I did not put these scriptures up on the screen.

  474. I would challenge you to write them down as I read them.

  475. OK, I'm not going to read them in their entirety, but I'm going

  476. to give you the scriptures that I have in a minute.

  477. So Jesus needed the help of the Holy Spirit to be able to

  478. accomplish what the Father needed him to do.

  479. Look here in John 1416 through 17.

  480. He This is where he is asking the Father.

  481. It says, I will ask the Father and he will give you another

  482. helper. That he would be with you

  483. forever. See that?

  484. That he would be with you forever.

  485. Because Jesus is not. With you forever only in his

  486. word, right? So the person of the Holy Spirit

  487. replaced the man or the person of Jesus that walked in the

  488. earth. You see what I'm saying?

  489. So he as a man had to go so that the Holy Spirit could come as

  490. the person and live on the inside of what every single

  491. person who would call on his name.

  492. So now every single person can have the Holy Spirit a part of

  493. their life if they've called on the name of the Lord.

  494. So he says, I'm going to give you another helper that he may

  495. be with you forever. That is the Spirit of truth.

  496. Say I have truth on the inside. Now listen to this, It says whom

  497. the world cannot receive. The world cannot receive because

  498. it does not see him or know him. But you know him, because he

  499. abides what with you and will be in you.

  500. He will abide with you and will be in you.

  501. That is the Spirit of truth. That is the Helper, That is the

  502. Holy Spirit One, just like Jesus, John 16/5.

  503. Through 15 I want to read this, it says.

  504. But now I'm going to him who sent me.

  505. This is Jesus. Who's who we going?

  506. He's going to him Who sent him? The Father.

  507. Again this talks of the Trinity and none of you asked me where

  508. are you going? But because I have said these

  509. things to you, sorrow has filled your heart.

  510. But I tell you the truth, it is to your advantage.

  511. Say it's to my advantage. That I go for.

  512. If I do not go away, the helper say, the helper will not come to

  513. you. You have the greatest advantage

  514. when the Holy Spirit comes to live on the inside of you.

  515. Because guess what? You always.

  516. Have help always. There should never be a time

  517. that you feel helpless. Because you have the helper on

  518. the inside of you. You may feel it, but you don't

  519. have to stay in that feeling. You could immediately say, well

  520. wait a minute, I have a helper on the inside of me.

  521. Glory to God, I have the helper. I don't have to feel helpless in

  522. this situation. All I have to do is acknowledge

  523. the Holy Spirit and ask for. Hallelujah.

  524. So the helper will not come to you.

  525. But if I go, I'll send him to you and he when he comes, what

  526. will he do? We already talked about this.

  527. He'll convict the world concerning sin, righteousness,

  528. judgment, concerning sin, because they do not believe in

  529. me, And concerning righteousness, because I go to

  530. the Father, and you no longer see me.

  531. And concerning judgment, because the ruler.

  532. This world has been judged. I have many more things to say

  533. to you, but you cannot bear them now.

  534. But when he, the Spirit of truth, comes, he will what guide

  535. you into all truth. For he will not speak on his own

  536. initiative, but whatever he hears, he will speak, and he

  537. will disclose to you what is to come.

  538. Again, the Holy Spirit will speak to you.

  539. The Holy Spirit will speak to you.

  540. He'll disclose to you what is to come.

  541. He will glorify me. So when the Holy Spirit speaks

  542. to you, is it glorifying Jesus? Is it in line with His word?

  543. Because if it is not, then it's not the Holy Spirit, and we'll

  544. get into that later on. But His Spirit will always speak

  545. the same thing. The word is speaking.

  546. They will be unified. I have to say that continually,

  547. because the Holy Spirit is not going to tell you to go marry.

  548. So. And so's husband y'all think I'm

  549. crazy. Heard of it.

  550. Been there, done that, heard of many of it.

  551. Right, The Holy Spirit is not. Well, I heard the Spirit say it

  552. was a wrong spirit because it does not line up with scripture.

  553. Amen at all. So but people get crazy like

  554. that. OK, And if you're don't found it

  555. in the word, the truth of the word, that's how you get off and

  556. you get deceived. OK, so he's gonna guide you into

  557. all truth. Not going to speak on his own

  558. initiative, but whatever he hears, he will speak and he'll

  559. disclose to you what is to come. He will glorify me, for he will

  560. take of mine and will disclose it to you.

  561. All things that the Father has our mind.

  562. Therefore I said that he takes of mine and will disclose it to

  563. you. Look at Acts chapter 2, Acts

    Acts 2 chapter mention Acts 2:15–21

  564. chapter 2, verse 15 through 21. This is good teaching.

  565. You know, you have to go from A-Z today to teach on the Holy

  566. Spirit because they're still so. It's still so misunderstood, OK?

  567. And not only that, people get off thinking it's the Holy

  568. Spirit and they're listening to other spirits, which goes in

  569. line with deceiving spirits and doctrines of demons, OK?

  570. And so it's very important that we understand fully how the Holy

  571. Spirit functions and operates. So Acts 215 through 21 says

  572. this, for these men are not drunk as you suppose.

  573. This is Jesus, all right? Me saying that Jesus wanted his

  574. disciples to wait so that the Holy Spirit could be poured out,

  575. right? Says for these men are not drunk

  576. as you suppose, for it is only the third hour of the day.

  577. But this is what was spoken through the prophet Joelle, and

  578. shall be in the last days. God says that I will pour out my

  579. spirit on all mankind, and your sons and daughters will

  580. prophesy, young men will see visions, old men shall dream

  581. dreams even on my bond. Slaves, both men and women.

  582. Amen. Will prophesy and and preach and

  583. do the things that God tells them to do.

  584. I will in those days pour 4th of my spirit, and they will

  585. prophesy and I will grant wanders in the sky above, and

  586. signs and earth below, blood and fire and vapor of smoke.

  587. The sun will be turned Into Darkness and the moon into blood

  588. before the great and glorious day of the Lord shall come.

  589. And it shall be that everyone right who calls on my name will

  590. be saved, unless Jesus died and went.

  591. To the Father. And sent the spirit.

  592. No one could be saved, so now that he died.

  593. He rose, and the Holy Spirit was poured out.

  594. Man now can be saved. How are men getting saved?

  595. By the Holy Spirit? We're going to see in a little

  596. bit. Drawing them, OK, by the Holy

  597. Spirit drawing them. Now let's look at the examples

  598. of Jesus and how he walked and everything that we see through

  599. the New Testament. Concerning things of that were

  600. birthed by the Spirit for him to accomplish OK, Jesus needed the

  601. Holy Spirit to be able to overcome the devil to walk in

  602. dominion and authority over demons.

  603. He needed the power and the Spirit of God to be able to.

  604. Heal bodies. To heal every disease, to cast

  605. out devils. He needed all of this to be a he

  606. needed the Holy Spirit to be able to do all of this, to walk

  607. in the earth as a man, just like a he is the representative of

  608. what we were supposed to be right to have dominion over the

  609. earth. To have authority over demons,

  610. over sickness, over disease, to be able to overcome our flesh,

  611. come on everything. And we see through scripture

  612. that Jesus was able to accomplish this by the power of

  613. the Holy Spirit working. Through him in the earth as

  614. well. Look at Matthew.

  615. Well, you don't have to go there.

  616. I just want you to write these down, OK?

  617. In Matthew 118 and 20, I'm not even gonna read it.

  618. I'm just gonna say Jesus was conceived by the Holy Spirit.

  619. Jesus was conceived by the Holy Spirit in the womb of Mary.

  620. Come on. I'm saying that nothing happens

  621. in the earth outside the demonstration of the Holy Spirit

  622. or the manifestation of the Holy Spirit, because when the word

  623. speaks. The Holy Spirit is the one that

  624. brings it to pass. So Jesus It was conceived by the

  625. Holy Spirit and that could be found in Matthew 118 and 20.

  626. Jesus, while his conception was in Mary's womb.

  627. What about this was confirmed by Elizabeth?

  628. What happened when they came together and the Holy Spirit

  629. began to leap? Come on, I got to get my page

  630. flipped. It's sticking.

  631. That was in Luke 141 through 45. Jesus, his dedication as a baby

  632. in the temple was accompanied by the supernatural manifestation

  633. of the Holy Spirit, as Eli the priest and Anna the prophet

  634. prophesied over him. Luke 225 through 38.

  635. Jesus's arrival to Israel was announced by John the Baptist,

  636. who under the anointing of the Holy Spirit declared that Jesus

  637. was the one who would baptize in the Holy Spirit and fire, and

  638. that was found in Matthew 311 and Acts 11/16.

  639. Jesus spoke of the baptism in the Holy Spirit and commanded

  640. his disciples to stay in Jerusalem until he had recited

  641. this right and that was found in Lute 2449 and Acts 1/4 through

  642. five. Jesus was empowered by the Holy

  643. Spirit at the Jordan River right.

  644. When he was baptized by John the Baptist, that's when the Holy

  645. Spirit what came upon him? When he was baptized.

  646. And when he was brought up in the Holy Spirit, the Lord said,

  647. this is my what son? And whom I'm well pleased.

  648. So he was endued with power and Luke.

  649. Or excuse me, that was Matthew chapter 3 and verse 16.

    Matthew 3 chapter mention

  650. Jesus was given the fullness of the Spirit without measure.

  651. That was in John 334, the fullness of the Spirit without

  652. measure. So this is how Jesus functioned

  653. in the earth as a man. Jesus was what led by the Holy

  654. Spirit to the wilderness. So even Jesus had to be led by

  655. the Spirit. He couldn't just go do whatever

  656. he wanted to do. He was submitted to the Father.

  657. He listened to the Holy Spirit lead him as he was in the earth,

  658. doing all the exploits that he did.

  659. It was all because he was being led by.

  660. The Spirit. So he was born of the Spirit.

  661. He was filled with the Spirit. Without measure.

  662. And he was led by the Spirit, the three things that we, every

  663. believer, should be bored of the Spirit, filled with the Spirit.

  664. And now what led by the Spirit, Bored of the Spirit, filled.

  665. With the Spirit and led by the Spirit.

  666. Every believer should be just like Jesus, if we were in his

  667. image, correct? Yeah.

  668. Hallelujah. So he was led by the Spirit that

  669. was Matthew 41, led by the Spirit in the wilderness, right?

  670. And he was led, it also said, in the power of the Holy Spirit.

  671. So he was led by the Spirit, but we know there is power that

  672. comes with the Holy Spirit, so it says he was in the power of

  673. the Spirit in Luke 4. 14 Amen Hallelujah.

  674. And then Jesus stated publicly that his ministry was a result

  675. of the power of the Holy Spirit in Luke 4. 18 For the Spirit of

  676. the Lord is a pawn me, because he has what anointed me.

  677. Hallelujah. Glory to God.

  678. Jesus in Matthew 1231 and 32 warned about the danger of

  679. blasphemy. The Holy Spirit.

  680. Jesus is the one that said that OK Jesus taught about the work

  681. and ministry of the Holy Spirit that was found in Matthew 1020

  682. Mark 1311. Luke 1113, Luke 1212 and John

  683. 739, John 1415 and 16 chapters. All He always taught and talked

  684. about the Holy Spirit. Jesus proclaimed that we must be

  685. born of water and the Spirit. And that was in John 3/5 through

  686. eight. OK, y'all awake.

  687. Jesus offered himself upon the cross like a lamb without

  688. spotter blemish through the power of the Holy Spirit.

  689. Hebrews 914. Hebrews 914.

  690. It's a great book. Hebrews is Jesus was rescued

  691. from the dead. By the power of the Holy Spirit.

  692. The power of the Holy Spirit rescued him.

  693. What? And raised him from the dead.

  694. And if the same power come on? That raised Christ from the dead

  695. lives on the inside of you. See that the same power that

  696. raised him from the dead. Lives on the inside of you.

  697. How could we be helpless? Come on.

  698. How could we not be overcomers? How could we be depressed?

  699. How could we not enjoy life and life more abundantly?

  700. How come we can't be satisfied with what the Holy Ghost has

  701. done for us and given us? Come on.

  702. Walking in joy, walking in freedom, walking in fruitfulness

  703. in our life. By the power of the Holy Ghost,

  704. anything dead in you should be alive.

  705. If you would just yield, yield. Hallelujah that was found in

  706. Romans 811. Jesus was exalted to the right

  707. hand of God, poured out His Spirit upon the Church on the

  708. day of Pentecost. Poured out His Spirit on the

  709. what? The Church at the day of

  710. Pentecost. And they went out, filled with

  711. the Holy Ghost and the power of God and turned this world upside

  712. down. And we are still fulfilling the

  713. book of Acts, guys. Hallelujah.

  714. We should be seeing, come on, miracle still today.

  715. We should still be seeing the power of God in our lives,

  716. working in every situation that's going on.

  717. We should be seeing demonstrations of the Spirit of

  718. God every day in our life. We should be walking

  719. supernatural naturally. But we won't do these things if

  720. we're not yielding and if we're not spirit conscious of what is

  721. on the the power that is on the inside of us to be able to

  722. overcome anything, any obstacle, anything.

  723. You think I'm here because it was easy.

  724. You think I'm here because I didn't have problems to have to

  725. overcome, but we ought to be in a place of overcoming and not

  726. staying in a place of brokenness.

  727. He said he came to heal the broken hearted.

  728. We are not to live in brokenness.

  729. We are not to live in the things that have happened to us in our

  730. life. We are supposed to be overcomers

  731. in everything. We are supposed to be conquerors

  732. over everything. We are supposed to be victors

  733. and not victims of our life. Because we have the power of the

  734. Holy Ghost living on the inside of us.

  735. Amen. We gotta get rid of the old

  736. mentality and the sin consciousness and start walking

  737. in a spirit consciousness every day of our life because it's so

  738. easy to stay in a natural realm. I'm not talking about being so.

  739. Flaky. And you know all, you know, all

  740. this stuff I'm saying we can be solid people walking around

  741. supernaturally and everywhere we go, God is with us.

  742. And there is a demonstration of the glory of God, the power of

  743. God, the anointing of God in our lives.

  744. Everywhere we go and everywhere we go, things change.

  745. Things happen. Because we are constantly

  746. activated, constantly engaged, constantly being led by the

  747. Spirit of God, constantly being, listening to His voice, and no

  748. other voice will I follow. I only listen to his voice and

  749. his voice alone. Amen.

  750. We can't be listening to everything else.

  751. All this garbage always spew. And all these things always

  752. being said, We need to listen to the voice of the Lord on every

  753. occasion, all the time. Quit feeding your spirit on

  754. junk. Feed your spirit on the word of

  755. God, feed your spirit. Come on.

  756. By praying in the Holy Ghost, being conscious, and meditating

  757. on the word day and night. Have the Word turn it around in

  758. your mind all the time, right? But we're so distracted with so.

  759. Many other things that it's pulling us away from that spirit

  760. consciousness, I'm telling you. OK, so Jesus.

  761. Understood. And we see that everything he

  762. did in the earth was through the empowerment of the Holy Spirit.

  763. All right, the empowerment of the Holy Spirit.

  764. Now let's move over to talking about the Spirit of God being

  765. the revealer. Because we said that as he would

  766. go, then the Holy Spirit would be poured out.

  767. And then what? We saw that because he went to

  768. the Father, all man now can be what saved.

  769. So in First Corinthians chapter 2, nothing about Christ can be

    1 Corinthians 2 chapter mention

  770. revealed unless it's revealed by the Holy Spirit.

  771. People can read this Bible all day long.

  772. And you've heard people, I just read the Bible and not it just

  773. doesn't mean anything. It's just a book.

  774. It's just da, da, da, da da. But it's by the Holy Spirit that

  775. it brings. What?

  776. Revelation. Illumination.

  777. It's by the Spirit. So even his word cannot be

  778. revealed unless the spirit reveals it.

  779. So we need the Holy Spirit to reveal the Word to us.

  780. If you heard the statement, it just seems like the Light came

  781. on. That's the Holy Spirit bringing

  782. the illumination or bringing that a revelation of the Word so

  783. that you then now can see that that's why he calls it the

  784. Light. We can see the light.

  785. The light bulb comes on because the Holy Spirit begins to reveal

  786. it. OK, so First Corinthians chapter

  787. 210 through 16 says this, for to us, God revealed them through

  788. the Spirit, For the Spirit searches all things, even the

  789. depths of God. For who among men knows the

  790. thoughts of a man except the spirit of the man which is him?

  791. Even so, the thoughts of God? No one knows except the Spirit

  792. of God. The thoughts of God No one knows

  793. except the Spirit of God, OK? Now we have received not the

  794. Spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God.

  795. And I'm talking to, assuming that everyone in here is born of

  796. the Spirit, is born again. You're not born again if you've

  797. never made a confession with your mouth that Jesus Christ is

  798. Lord, and so that's why you can continue to sit and hear.

  799. And still it makes no sense. Because the Holy Spirit has got

  800. to what? Reveal it to you.

  801. It's got to, it's got to turn the light on, right?

  802. That's why we pray that when people come in, that the eyes of

  803. their understanding will be enlightened, so that the light

  804. can come on, so that they can see the revelation of the word,

  805. so that the Spirit can begin to what reveal to them and draw

  806. them that they need the Lord. Because it says that what the

  807. laws that the veil of darkness is over their eyes so that they

  808. can't see the light. So we have to pray that the veil

  809. of darkness be removed off of people's eyes so that they can

  810. see the light of the gospel, so that the Spirit of God can begin

  811. to illuminate and reveal to them that they need.

  812. The Lord and that they need a savior.

  813. Amen. So and verse.

  814. I think it was 12 where we were. For now we have received not the

  815. Spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, so that

  816. we may know the things freely given to us by God.

  817. So the only way we're going to know is by the Spirit.

  818. Of the things that's given to us, which things also speak not

  819. in words taught by human wisdom, but in those taught by the

  820. Spirit. See that taught by the Spirit.

  821. That's why you want to be in a church that allows the Spirit to

  822. flow and to teach and to be welcome in this place, because

  823. without the Spirit in this place.

  824. The word would be dry, boring, come on, religious and wouldn't

  825. do a thing for your life. And that's why we still see so

  826. many people. That go to church, but there's

  827. no the spirits not there to bring complete wisdom and

  828. revelation and understanding of what's freely given to them.

  829. You see that? Not in words taught by human

  830. wisdom, but those taught by the Spirit, combining spiritual

  831. thoughts with spiritual words. But a natural man does not

  832. accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are what

  833. foolishness to him, and he can't understand them because they are

  834. spiritually appraised. These things are spiritually.

  835. Appraised or discerned, but see people that don't know God, that

  836. don't have God. They is foolishness to them and

  837. you hear them say it all the time.

  838. Why you go to that church, that's just foolishness.

  839. You always at that church, you know you're crazy.

  840. That don't even make no sense. There is no.

  841. God, what are you even doing? It's foolishness to them.

  842. Because they don't have the Spirit of God living on the

  843. inside of them, and the Spirit hasn't revealed to them yet.

  844. That's why we have to pray for them, so that then the veil can

  845. be removed and they can see the light of the gospel.

  846. You see that? Because if we don't, they won't

  847. see. Amen.

  848. So we've got to pray. It says.

  849. But he who is spiritually appraises all things, yet he

  850. himself is appraised by no one. For who has known the mind of

  851. the Lord that he will instruct him?

  852. But we have what? The mind of Christ?

  853. Aren't you thankful? You ought to be thankful that

  854. you have the mind of Christ. If you're born again, you better

  855. be thankful, or you would be crazy like all these other

  856. people, right? Not knowing if you're a girl or

  857. a boy. Come on, Insanity.

  858. You need to be thankful that you have the mind of Christ, that

  859. you've been given his mind. That I have a quick, a sharp, a

  860. bright, a smart mind. Come on.

  861. And I speak over my mind that I'm going to have the mind of

  862. Christ for the rest of my life. I'm not going to have dementia.

  863. I'm not going to have. Come on.

  864. No, my mind's going to be blessed.

  865. I'm going to think straight. Amen.

  866. So that we don't have to lose our mind like all these other

  867. people are losing their mind because we have the mind of

  868. Christ. But we've got to keep our mind

  869. fixed. Come on, we got to keep it fixed

  870. so that we don't start thinking like the world again.

  871. Hallelujah. So let's look at John 644.

  872. It says no one can come to me unless the Father who sent me

  873. draws him. No one can go to God unless the

  874. Spirit or the Father. What draws him Actually the

  875. scripture. One scripture says no man goes

  876. after God. No not one, no one goes after

  877. God. So no one's searching for God,

  878. no one's going after God. People that are lost with the

  879. sin nature, they are not going after God, they are not

  880. searching for God. You see that?

  881. It's the Father that's choosing them.

  882. I chose you. What are I doing?

  883. I'm drawing you into the Kingdom of God.

  884. I'm drawing you by the Spirit of God.

  885. I'm drawing you by illuminating the word of God.

  886. How will they know unless someone is sent?

  887. Someone's got to tell somebody about the Lord.

  888. So that then the Holy Spirit, because that's the word speaking

  889. into them. You're planting the seed of the

  890. word and it's then when you go and begin to what speak to them,

  891. the Holy Spirit now can go into activation, penetrate their

  892. heart with the word of God and. Begin can't begin now to deal

  893. with people. Because you planted the seed of

  894. the word and you what released the spirit of God to go into

  895. activation so that now? It can draw them so that that

  896. when they're laying in the bed all alone at night and the

  897. bottles not there and the drugs aren't there and the girls

  898. aren't there and the money is not there.

  899. And then the Holy Ghost is there with the seed of that word,

  900. speaking, drawing, come on, coming alive on the inside of

  901. them and saying this, This is the bottomless pit.

  902. This is what you need. You see that?

  903. And I've said this in morning prayer time and time again.

  904. Every seed that you've sown into people's lives, you don't give

  905. up on that seed. You keep watering it.

  906. You keep speaking over, you keep releasing the Spirit of God to

  907. go into activation into their life every single time.

  908. Amen. Because as long as they're on

  909. the earth and as long as they're seeds sung, the Holy Spirit can

  910. work, can work, and is always speaking because he has a mouth.

  911. The Holy Spirit is always speaking, always.

  912. Unless he's been grieved and quenched and then he'll go find

  913. somebody else to speak to, Or unless your hearts become

  914. hardened and you've rejected and rejected and rejected and

  915. rejected and rejected. What?

  916. The Spirit is trying to speak to you.

  917. Amen. So he's always speaking and

  918. always trying to draw people to himself.

  919. OK, look at 12 John 1232. It says this and John 1232 and

  920. this will close. And I, if I am lifted up from

  921. the earth, will draw all people to myself.

  922. I will draw all people to myself.

  923. And this was Jesus saying, when I get lifted up now I'm going to

  924. begin to be able to what? Draw all men and to myself?

  925. And he draws them by the Spirit. Draws them by the Spirit because

  926. it's the only the Holy Spirit is in operation today.

  927. He draws them by the Spirit. Amen.

  928. Hallelujah. Glory to God.

  929. He draws them by the Spirit. Now, next week we're going to go

  930. into talking about the inner working of the Holy Spirit.

  931. Once we get born again, we're going to show you.

  932. What it looks? Like and how you get born again

  933. and what it looks like and then begin the journey on the inner

  934. working of the Holy Spirit. The Spirit comes upon us, but he

  935. also what lives within us. And so there's two different

  936. workings and we're going to talk about that and we're going to

  937. just continue on this journey. Amen.

  938. I think it's very important. Because in these last days, we

  939. need the Holy Spirit. We need the Spirit of truth.

  940. There's so many lies going on today, so many things that are

  941. trying to deceive people, Many people are falling away.

  942. They're giving up on their faith, they're helpless, they're

  943. hopeless. And this is the one thing that

  944. they need to be able to overcome.

  945. Amen. And so we need the Holy Spirit

  946. in our lives because of the situations that we may be

  947. encountering as the day draws near.

  948. We need the Holy Spirit working in our life so that we'll know

  949. what people need when we're out and about and know the words of

  950. life to be able to speak to them the gifts of the Spirit to be in

  951. operation. Amen.

  952. When we're out and about. Whatever it is, we need the Holy

  953. Spirit in this last day and the power of God, and we've got to

  954. stir ourselves up with what's been given us.

  955. This is a. Treasure that's been given us a

  956. treasure, a promise from the Father.

  957. Amen. And the power of God.

  958. And we need to be more sensitive and more in tune with what the

  959. Holy Spirit is saying instead of what everything else is saying,

  960. and what everybody else is saying.

  961. But what is the Spirit of God saying to me about?

  962. This circumstance or that situation or what this person

  963. may need or what's going on over here, Amen.

  964. We want to be in tune with what the spirit of God is saying more

  965. and more in this day that we're living.

  966. Because I'm going to tell you, we're seeing the falling away of

  967. people. We're seeing it.

  968. We're seeing congregations. We're seeing churches that shut

  969. down during COVID and aren't opening back up.

  970. We're seeing, you know, people that aren't even attending

  971. church any longer. These are people that are

  972. falling away slowly but surely. Amen.

  973. So we need to recognize these things about the Holy Spirit and

  974. treasure. I'm telling you every day, every

  975. morning, you need to get up and you need to commune with the

  976. Holy Spirit. You need to read the word and

  977. you need to say thank you, Holy Spirit, that you live on the

  978. inside of me and stir yourself up, praying in the Holy Ghost on

  979. the way to work, praying on the Holy Ghost, getting ready in the

  980. whatever. Pray in the Spirit.

  981. Do it. So that you can overcome and and

  982. deal with what's getting ready to take place.

  983. Amen, Holly. Thank you so much for listening

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