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

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So I want to start talking and as I said before, the rest of

the summer. We're going to talk about the

ministry of the Holy Spirit, the ministry of the Holy Spirit, and

we are going to go from A-Z, Everything that, everything

about the Holy Spirit, we are going to cover through the rest

of the summer. OK.

Everything. I mean, from A-Z, from the

beginning to the end of the Holy Spirit's work in our lives, OK.

And so we're just going to start this series and we're going to

see where it goes. And I just believe that there is

going to be great understanding. For a lot of people, because

there's still such a misunderstanding about the

ministry of the Holy Spirit, you know, there's so many

misconceptions about the Holy Spirit.

This is a spirit filled church. And so we have people that are

new, that have never heard from A-Z, the working of the Holy

Spirit. A lot of times people think that

the Holy Spirit's only about the power, right?

Or demonstrations of miracles and.

Or the Holy Spirit's only about, you know, your prayer language.

OK, but we're gonna see that the Holy Spirit has multifaceted

just like everything in the word of God.

And we're gonna see that there is a working of the Spirit of

God through a believer's life and the Holy Spirit that's at

work today in the earth. OK, and so we need to know about

the Holy Spirit and how he functions in a believer's life

and through a believer's life, so that we can take advantage of

the Holy Spirit operating in our life because so many people

still do not tap into. What is available to us as

believers? OK, so there's a lot we're going

to talk about. And you know, the thing about it

is, is I would encourage you to be here through all of these

Wednesday nights coming up if you do have to miss, go online

and catch up because it is going to build upon each session that

we have together on Wednesday nights.

And I believe we're just going to go on a journey with the Holy

Spirit to bring revelation to our lives, because nothing

actually will happen through the word of God outside the Spirit

of God revealing it to us. These things are spiritually

appraised. And so it's the Spirit that's

going to reveal who he is to us and show us through the

Scripture so that we can have a more understanding of the Holy

Spirit's work. All right, So what do I talk

about? The ministry of the Holy Spirit?

Because a lot of people that don't know about the Holy Spirit

think that the Holy Spirit's a dove.

OK, we've heard that. Some people think that the Holy

Spirit isn't it? K We've heard that.

What about our prayer language? Some people think that the

baptism of the Holy Spirit speaking as tongues is just

fanaticism or gibberish, Right? People say this.

But we're gonna see that there is a working and a ministry of

the Holy Spirit that's at work and is the only thing at work

today in the earth confirming the Word.

It's the Word and the Spirit working together.

K. Because reading the word by

itself, if you just read this book and just read it like a

book out of a library, it's gonna mean absolutely nothing to

you. That's why you need the Holy

Spirit to bring illumination and revelation of the word.

Into your life. And This is why we pray the

Ephesians prayers, that the eyes of our understanding would be

enlightened. What's that mean?

That the light would come on revelation.

Illumination by the Spirit of God would come on so that we can

fully grasp and understand the Holy Spirit.

And the word of God when we're sitting down reading it.

That's why when you sit down to read the Bible, you should be

saying thank you, Holy Spirit, that you're going to bring

illumination to me today. Some people are sitting there

thinking it's dry, boring, Da da da da da.

But if you'll start off reading with that heart, I thank you for

the Holy Spirit that's going to bring illumination and

revelation and understanding of the word every time you sit

down. Then guess what?

You're inviting the Holy Spirit now to be your teacher.

OK, and so we're going to see a lot of this about the Holy

Spirit. But I really want to start.

With the ministry of the Holy Spirit from the beginning and

then hopefully be able to get into the person of the Holy

Spirit tonight And what we see through Scripture concerning and

confirming, because as I said a lot of people have not even

seen, do you know we still have some people that believe that

you know they don't believe in the Godhead.

They don't believe in the Trinity.

They believe in the Father and the Son, but they do not believe

in the Holy Spirit, that all they need is the Father and the

Son. OK, so there's still people that

believe that today, but we're going to see that and prove

through scripture that God is a triune God.

And if we need God the Father and we need Jesus Christ, then

we need the Holy Spirit as well. In our lives, because you can't

separate them. They're all in one, OK?

Father, Son and Holy Spirit. They are three in one.

And we need all three of them at work in our lives as a believer,

OK? And we're going to see this from

the beginning, so let's go to Genesis.

This is the first mention of the Trinity or the Triune God from

the very beginning in Genesis chapter one, right?

We're going to read. In the beginning, God created

the heavens and the earth. The earth was formless and void,

and darkness was over the surface of the deep.

And the Spirit of God was what? Moving over the surface?

Of the waters. So here we see God and the

Spirit. It says, And then God said, let

there be light. And there was God saw that the

light was good. And God separated the light from

darkness, and called the light day.

And the darkness he called night.

And there was evening, and there was morning, and there was day.

So in the beginning there was God, right?

And then we see the Spirit was hovering.

So it's very important that you see that the spirit was

hovering, waiting for a command. So the spirit is not going to do

anything outside of the command of God.

So the spirits waiting on The Voice of God to then be able to

go into action and create what God told.

Him or the Holy Spirit to create.

So the Holy Spirit is the one that will begin to create and

demonstrate what it is that God has said.

OK, so from the beginning we see that and then we know in Genesis

chapter one drop down to 26 and 28 it says and then God said let

us make man in our image. Again, he is using the verbiage

that he's more than one. It says in our image, OK, so

here he's referencing to the Triune God, OK in our image

according to our likeness and let them rule over the fish of

the sea, the birds of the sky, the cattle over all the things

that are creepy upon the earth. Then God created his own.

God created man in his own image, and in the image of God

he created him what? Male and female he created them.

So why am I referencing this? Because one, he says in our

image and then two he created man in that same very image.

OK, I don't have the scripture on here.

Because we're going to get into this a little bit more, but we

as the humanity that God created is a three-part being as well.

Just like God is a triune God, spirit, soul, and God the

Father, Jesus Christ the Son, and what the Holy Spirit.

We are three triune being right. We have a body, we are spirit.

And we have a soul, which is our mind, our will and our emotions.

So he created us in that same image and in his likeness.

And we see that here in Genesis. OK, So what God created was in

his image. And what I also want to say is,

is that God is Spirit. John says this, that John it.

That God is spirit. I'm sorry, my scriptures are

literally not on my notes, my reference points, just the word,

the way it printed out, it didn't print my scripture

references. So hopefully they have it up

here. Yeah.

John 424, I believe that is. Yeah.

OK. It's not on my notes.

So y'all make sure you look at the slides.

I don't know why it printed out like that, so.

It says in John God is spirit and those who worship him must

worship him in what spirit and truth?

So we were created in his image. We were created as a spirit

being and if we're going to worship him we have to worship

him in spirit with our spirit. This is how man and God connect

spirit to what spirit. Spirit to spirit, we connect

with him. We were created to be spirit

beings. So the Spirit of the living God.

Right from the very beginning. We know that Adam and Eve walked

with God in the cool of the day in the garden.

We know that his presence, His spirit as a spirit being, would

show up in the garden, right? We know this, All of us know

this. We've been taught this.

So here he is in the garden, being able to be in the presence

of God, worshipping God, spirit to spirit.

God would come down and meet with him in the cool of the day,

spend time with him in his presence, right.

Nothing was hindering that, Nothing was hindering that.

Until we know Adam ate the fruit and the serpent what deceived

Eve, Adam ate the fruit and then what happened?

We call that the Fall. So at that point we know that

the presence of God could no longer be with Adam because Adam

sinned and disobeyed God. So what happened?

The spirit departed or his glory?

Departed because that's how Adam was clothed in all of God's

glory. That's why they could be naked,

because their clothing was glory.

And so the Spirit had to depart from man because of sin entering

in. Well then we know that.

Here is Adam and Eve in the garden.

The Spirit now is departed. So what does this mean?

They can no longer commune with the Father.

They cannot connect with him the way that they were able to when

the Holy Spirit in his presence was there, ministering to Adam

and Eve and the cool of the day. Communing with Adam and Eve and

the cool of the day. Right.

So his presence could no longer be there.

So what happened? A disconnect, A disconnect

happen. So Satan's strategy will always

be to try to come in between you and God and bring dysfunction or

a communication. But to cut off communication,

that's the number one strategy of the devil.

Is to cut off communication between you and God from the

very beginning. We can see it. #1 strategy is to

cut off communication. We know this is the number one

strategy even in war. We've said this before.

The number one strategy of a war plan is to cut off communication

of the other side, right? If they can cut off

communication, then what happens?

Confusion, disorder, all kinds of things can happen when

communication is cut off. And so we see that this is what

happened with Adam and Eve. Between him and God.

When the Holy Spirit departed, communication was severed, and

therefore confusion, disorder, chaos.

Dysfunction was able to come in and then we see the result of

this with the fall of man. Everything now is about self

governance. Adam and Eve tried to what self

govern take care of themself by putting leaves and figs on them

to try to cover their sin. So man from that point on is

always trying to cover them on self, or be a God unto them self

and try to hide from God. OK.

And so the Holy Spirit is so important in our life that.

We need the Holy Spirit as the communicator to our life.

Say I need the Holy Spirit. Say we need the Holy Spirit.

Say it again. We need the Holy Spirit.

I'm going to look around to see that everybody's mouth is saying

that. Say I need the Holy Spirit.

Thank you. We need the Holy Spirit at work

in our life so that our communication with the Father

can flow properly. Because if we do not have the

working of the Holy Spirit in our life, communication is

always going to be hindered. And so it's so important that we

recognize the role of the ministry of the Holy Spirit at

work in our life. So communication was broken.

Relationship was broken at that point.

Connection was broken at that point with God and his man.

I like to say this, that this is where the spirit of rebellion

came in and an independent spirit.

Come on, come on. I can do it myself.

I can take care of myself. Right.

This is where AT Evil came into play.

And so when we don't have and don't.

This is going to be important. Because when we don't yield and

and and heed the Holy Spirit's work in our life, some things

are going to come into play in our life, even though we are

believers, because we're not yielding to what the Holy Ghost

is trying to say to us. This is going to be important

later on when we start talking about the working of the Holy

Spirit to bring sanctification and purity in our life.

OK, so every evil, everything that could be a part of fallen

man came in the minute Adam disobeyed God and the Spirit

departed. We would like to call this Adam

began to self govern. We as beings were never to be

self governed. We were always to be governed by

the Holy Spirit. Always.

That's how God created us to be. So once we begin as fallen man,

began to become self governed, we started doing things ourself

and what we wanted to do and how we wanted to do it and according

to the way that we wanted to do it, that was a result of the sin

nature. And all the Bible says have

fallen right short of all, have sinned and fallen short of the

glory of God. See that glory?

We were in the midst of His presence.

We were in all of our glory, so to speak, in that what they say

when a baby's born, they're in all their glory.

When they come out of the womb, they're in all their glory,

right? And so here the glories

departed, the spirit of God's departed.

We've all sinned and fallen short of this glory, so it

wasn't just Jesus trying to die on the cross so that we can be

forgiven, so that one day we can go to heaven.

It was also about restoring back to man the glory and the spirit

of God, being able to now dwell back in man in an earthen

vessel, the spirit of God now. Wanting to dwell back in man, it

was always about the Spirit of God.

Wanting to come back and dwell in man this earth and vessel He

came and he dwell in the what? The temple He came and he would

dwell in the Tabernacle. It was all about him trying to

come back in and dwell in the man that he created.

As well as forgiveness of sin. But without forgiveness of sin,

then the Holy Spirit, the glory, can't dwell on the inside.

The glory can't be a part of your life and nothing's changed

just because we have the blood. Amen.

Sin will always separate you from God.

Always. You may still be born again, but

sin is separating you from God and communion with him.

OK, so it's very important that we recognize.

That that is where that disconnect happened.

And now the Holy Spirit had to depart.

Repellion. Independent spirit came in.

Self governance came in. Our spirit was never meant to be

broken off from the spirit of the living.

God was never meant to be broken off.

And This is why we have broken hearts.

This is why we have the broken hearted, because our spirit was

never meant to be broken off from God.

We were created for him, OK? We were created for him.

Hallelujah. And so it's the spirit.

That we need functioning properly in our lives when we

begin to see that we are children of God.

OK, now why I want to talk about the consequence of the

rebellion. I want to talk about the

consequence, real quick, of rebellion, disobedience to God,

the fall of man. And the reason why I want to do

this is because there's going to be a lot discussing in further

teachings concerning the results of our flesh.

OK, but we want to talk about the consequences of the

rebellion and independence and self governance because again,

this has led to chaos in people's lives.

This is why people today that are not born again, that are

still in sin, that are still disconnected from God, are

chaotic. They're dysfunctional.

They're having identity crisis because they never were able to

identify with the spirit of God and with what God created them

to be. OK, And so we have people that

are living and death and destruction every, it seems.

Have you heard the statement with those that are not born

again? They're still lost and under the

sway of this world. They they say every time I turn

around something else bad is happening.

It seems like, you know, something's always knocking at

my door. Yes, because.

Sin will only lead to death and destruction.

That's the only thing it can lead to Death, destruction,

dysfunction, chaos. That's the position that man was

put in. Where we see at when God came

into the garden and spoke to Adam and said Adam, where are

you? And you've heard pastor say it

literally means what position are you in now, Adam?

You're in a position of death. You're out of control.

You have no longer dominion over your life.

We were never supposed to be out of control, people.

We were to have dominion. We were to be able to rule over

our own circumstances. But when death, chaos,

dysfunction, rebellion, independence, self governance,

all of this comes in, we get out of control.

We're out of control, like wild beast, insane.

We see it. We're seeing the insanity happen

all around us because they have nothing governing their lives

any longer, even morality. We know that we're living in a

day and in an hour where we're calling what evil, Good and good

evil. So people are out of control and

living in the destruction because of the sin nature,

because they are out of the position of dominion and

rulership that man was really supposed to have.

And one last thing, since pastors been ministering on

this, we can call this and the scripture calls it the pride of

life. The pride of life.

And this is where man is. There is no one good outside of

God. The scripture says every man

without God is evil. They are not good according to

Scripture. They are evil.

That's not being mean. That's being scriptural.

And we've started watering down all kinds of things.

Hanging out with evil people because, Oh well, they're good

but good. But bad morals corrupt good

character. So how can it be OK to hang out

with evil people according to scripture on a continual basis?

You see, we gotta say it like it is according to scripture.

Because This is why the Church is in a mess.

It's in a mess. People's lives are in a mess

because they are not heeding the spirit of the living God that's

on the inside of them. If we would have heeded the

Spirit of God, and we say this constantly, if you just would

listen and obey the Spirit of God on the inside and the word

of God, you won't find yourself in the midst of some of the

situations that believers are finding themselves in.

The bottom line is We're not yielding to the Holy Ghost,

period. We're not yielding to the Holy

Ghost, and we. In this church need to know all

about the Holy Spirit so that we can yield to the Holy Spirit and

obey the Holy Spirit. Because we don't want to be part

of those that pastor talked about being deceived by

doctrines of demons, right? And being deceived in this pride

that we're better than what we really are.

So the pride of life, I want to just read that first John do not

love the world, nor the things in this world.

If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in

him. For all that are in the world is

in the world is what the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes

and the pride of life is not from the Father, but from this

world. This is what happened when Adam

and Eve fell. And rebelled against God's word.

They what began to take care of their own flesh by trying to

cover their sin By what? Grabbing things of this world.

You know, people are still trying to grab things in this

world to try to. Medicate their sin, Try to cover

their sin. They're grabbing marijuana

leaves. Come on to try to cover it and

sedate it. They're dry.

They're grabbing alcohol, hops to try to cover and sedate,

right? So what?

They're trying to cover up all these things themselves with the

lust of the eyes. What can I see in this world

that I can, you know? Grab to become with the eyes and

the boastful pride of life, in whose case is the God of this

world, has blinded the minds of the unbelieving so that they may

not see the light of the gospel again.

The light has to come on through the illumination of the Holy

Ghost, so people in the world are blinded.

They're in what? Darkness and this world system.

And so they need the Holy Ghost to illuminate or the light to

come on or what? One scripture says the blinders

where he has blinded the eyes. We need the blinders to come

off, and that's up to us to pray for people so that they can have

their eyes enlightened to the word of God.

So that they can see the light of the glorious gospel.

And this is only going to happen by the Holy Ghost or the Holy

Spirit. Some people oh they have ghost

up in their church. No, there's only one the Holy

Ghost, OK? Or the Holy Spirit is the IT

says the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ who is in

the image of God. Hallelujah.

My notes are all messed up. They did not print off right.

This is blowing me away. I have Ephesians up here for

some reason. Do we have this on the screen?

Ephesians. Ephesians.

You have Ephesians. OK.

Huh. So this is probably for later.

Yeah, we'll use that later. That's not for right now.

This is so weird. Literally have no context on my

scriptures. This is why you just need to go

old school. Let's just go on back to the

Bible, OK, now? So here we see in John that they

began to live by the flesh, the lust of the eyes, the pride of

life, because they were separated from God and Romans.

Do we have that? Romans chapter 8, Romans chapter

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8. What did they begin to do?

They began to live by the dictates of the flesh.

Romans chapter eight. I would encourage y'all to read.

I love the book of Romans, but Romans chapter 8 is one of my

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favorite chapters. I would encourage you.

This is your homework, Mr. Mackey.

We're gonna read Romans. He always asked me.

You didn't give us homework, so y'all got homework.

Blame Pat. Mr. Mackey.

OK, read Romans chapter 8, which talks about living by.

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The dictates of the flesh. So this is what happened instead

of living by the spirit. Because Romans chapter 8 also

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talks about living by the Spirit so that you won't live by the

dictates of the flesh. But according to Romans chapter

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8, for if we live according to the flesh you must die, but if

by the Spirit you are putting to death the deeds of the body you

will live. So when the fall of the man

happened, sin entered the world, the less of the flesh, all these

things now we became controlled, so to so to speak, according to

the dictates of the flesh. What your flesh was telling you

to do, you just did, because you had no control.

OK, to its passions or dictates, one translation says in the

amplified. So you just started living by

the flesh. You started living by what you

could see, what you could feel. If it felt good.

Let's do it. Yolo.

You only live. Live.

Come on, you're only young. Whatever that statement is, I

messed it all up. Yo.

I tried at least. Y'all laughed.

So you only live once. I was gonna say one life.

Yeah, but anyway, you only live once, right?

So however it makes you feel whatever love is, love.

Whatever. Come on.

You're living according to the dictates of the flesh, like a

fallen man. But he lets us know.

That's because we aren't living by the spirit.

And we need the Holy Spirit in our life.

Say we need the Holy Spirit. We need the Holy Spirit

dictating to our life. We need the Holy Spirit working,

ministering to our life. OK, so we're going to get into

the dictates of the flesh later on.

But I wanted to bring up the consequences of the rebellion

and independent spirit of what happened when Adam.

Fail. So let me read a couple of other

scriptures concerning the Triume God.

I haven't forgotten that. So in the beginning we saw God,

we saw the Holy Spirit. We saw that He said we were

created in His image and in our likeness.

So that means there's more than one side of God.

OK, now go to Matthew, which I don't even know what the

reference is. Matthew OK, here we go.

Go therefore, and make what disciples of all the nations,

baptizing them in the name of the Father, the Son, and the

Holy Spirit. Here we see all three referenced

as the triune God. All right, go to Colossians.

Colossians. It says for in Him all the

fullness of Deity which is talking about the Trinity.

When you look that up in Scripture, all of the fullness

of the Deity or the Godhead in bodily form.

So this is Father, Son and Holy Spirit.

Let's go to John. John should be next.

It says here I will ask the Father.

So here it is. Jesus is talking, right?

And he's gonna ask the Father. So we have Jesus the Father, and

he will give you another helper that he may be with you forever.

That is what the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot

receive because it does not see him or know Him.

Look at that reference there. It does not see him or know Him.

So what does that mean? It doesn't he that they can't

see him because the light hadn't come on.

But anyway, here's reference of the Trinity or the triume God

the Father, the Son is speaking and the Spirit of truth whom the

world cannot receive because it does not see or know him.

But you know him because what he abides with you and will be in

you. Thank you.

Wow. This is awesome.

That's the craziest thing I've ever seen.

A computer print my outline without the scripture

references. Can we just say that's the

devil? No.

Hallelujah. So now let me find where I was.

Okay. We are past the Ephesians.

Okay. So now we're at John.

Oh my goodness. This is why I don't even preach

with these things. OK, so go to John.

I just need to just get up here and preach.

I don't even know what's happening.

All right. So we see in those three

scriptures as well. The reference is to the triune

God. Now, I wanted you to recognize

this back in John 1416 and 717. It says, I will ask the father.

And he will give you another helper, that he may be with you

forever. That is the Spirit of truth,

whom the world cannot receive, because it does not see him.

This is a reference to him and he which means it's a person,

not a dove and not a it. I put it down like I T And then

I thought. Robotic.

A what? Is this A I that's coming out?

He's not a robot. K he's not a it.

He's not A dove here is referencing him to a person.

You call a person a he and a him, right?

And so recognizing that he is referred to as a person.

So the Holy Spirit is the what we call the third person of the

Godhead or the Triune God. If you've heard that statement

before, he's the third person. OK?

Why is this all so important? Because if he wasn't a person,

you wouldn't be able to relate to him.

It wouldn't be on a personal level, right?

You're not going to be able to relate to something that's not

on a personal level. So here we're seeing that the

Holy Spirit now is a person, and you can begin to relate to this

to the Holy Spirit as a person in your life.

Just like God is a part of your life, Jesus is the one that

saved you. And also we love him.

But the Holy Spirit now is a personal right person that lives

on the inside of you to be able to speak to you and talk to you

and commune with you. And the way you connect to the

Father is through the Holy Spirit, the person of the Holy

Spirit. Alright, now let's look at a

couple of attributes of the Holy Spirit.

Because if the Holy Spirit wasn't it, or if it was a bird,

a bird would not be able to talk to you, even though I know we

have parakeets. OK, so a bird is not going to

talk to you. So here we see the Holy Spirit's

attributes. Or we can also see the humanity

side of his personality. OK, look at John 1426.

In reference to the Holy Spirit it says, But the Helper, the

Holy Spirit now can a dove help you?

Can it it help you? No, the person.

A person can help you. The Helper It says The Holy

Spirit whom the Father will send in my name, He in reference to a

person again He will What teach you?

So here he can teach you. The Holy Spirit is a teacher, a

person, right? This is an attribute of his

personality. He's going to be a helper to

you, and he's going to be able to teach you.

Jesus actually is not teaching you.

Now. I understand that when you read

the word, it's Jesus. What?

Jesus was the word. So it's the Word.

Jesus is wrapped up in flesh and became the Word of God.

So Jesus is the Word, but it's the Holy Spirit that's bringing

the illumination of who Jesus even is.

Because there's many people that just love reading the Gospels of

Jesus and they want to see the. You know the personality and the

ways Jesus operated, but they don't want anything to do with

the Spirit of God. And guess what?

They're going to miss what Jesus did because the Spirit is only

there to confirm the Word and the working of the Word in our

life. OK, It's very important that you

recognize this, so he's going to teach you all things.

And bring to your remembrance all things that I have said to

you. So here again, recognizing even

Jesus said that he's gonna the Holy Spirit is gonna teach you

all things and he is gonna bring you to your remembrance.

What? What I said in my word, you see

that? That's why we say you can't

know. The Person of the Holy Spirit

outside of the Word. And if you don't have the word

in you to confirm what the Holy Spirit is teaching you or saying

to you, then you'll get off by listening to the wrong Spirit.

So we must have the word Jesus and His Word put in our heart so

that the Holy Spirit then can begin to illuminate to you what

the word is saying and what the word is meaning and confirming

the word that you're hearing. So this is the working of the

third person of the Holy Spirit as a teacher.

And as a person. Now look at John again.

You can go back down to verse 26 of that same verse or no.

I want to read that one out of the Amplified.

It says this it says. But when the Comforter, the

counselor, and this is where he breaks up all the I like to call

all the facets of the working of the Holy Spirit as well.

This is many facets, just like there's many facets of grace.

There's many sides and workings and facets of the Holy Spirit at

work in our life. You see that?

So he's a Comforter. He's a counselor, a Helper, an

intercessor and Advocate, a Strengthener, a standby.

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

I like reading this out of the Amplified because it says I was.

He will send in my name. And then it says in my place to

represent me and to act on my behalf, one translation says in

reference, one just like me. So the Holy Spirit, Jesus is

saying I'm getting ready to send you the Holy Spirit that's going

to represent me or be one just like me.

So that's why they're going to say the same thing.

They're going to say the same thing always.

They're going to be in unity, just like the Father, Son in the

Holy Spirit are all three in one.

They are unified the same with the Holy Spirit and the word,

which is Jesus. They're going to say the same

thing and be in unity, OK? And he's going to act and

represent on Jesus's behalf, but then look what he says.

He says, and he will teach you all things again, showing that

he is a teacher. The greatest teacher is the Holy

Spirit in our lives. OK, that's not to neglect the

fivefold ministry and the working of the teachers and the

prophets and the apostles and the evangelists and the pastors,

that when we get up here and begin to teach the Word.

You've got to because how will they know unless we someone what

is sent, someone preaches the gospel, all five ministries are

to be in operation and you should be able to receive from

them so that what the Holy Spirit can confirm in you what

the word is saying through those gifts.

But if you don't have. The word in you, You don't have

a pastor. This is why it says you'll be

like sheep without a shepherd, and you'll be tossed to and fro,

and you'll be listening to every wind and to every wave and every

doctrine that's out there. You won't know how to rightly

hear the voice of the Spirit if you don't have these people in

your life to help lead you, guide you, guard you, teach you

properly what the Scripture is saying.

So the first thing we see about the Holy Spirit's attributes in

as a human personality is he's a teacher.

He's going to be 1, just like Jesus, and then he is the Spirit

of truth, The Spirit of truth. This is why you don't have to

buy the lies of the enemy. Because if you have the Holy

Spirit on the inside of you, and you have His Word on the inside

of you, you don't have to listen to the lies of the devil.

You don't have to be ignorant of the Devil's devices any longer

because you have been in tune with the Holy Spirit who has

been communicating to you the Spirit of Truth.

John 1526. It says when the Helper comes.

Again, he used him as the helper whom I will send to you from the

Father. That is the Spirit of truth.

All of this is also talking about the Triune God, because

he's saying in reference to the Father that this is Jesus

talking, and then you have the Holy Spirit there.

He is what the Spirit of truth who proceeds from the Father.

He will testify about me. Meaning he's only gonna speak

what Jesus has said. He's only gonna speak what the

Word has said, which is the Spirit of truth now.

And John 16. John 16 Remember, I'm just

laying a foundation and we're just going from Genesis to

Revelations on the ministry of the Holy Spirit.

OK, John 16, seven and 11, it says, but I tell you the truth,

it is to your advantage. So this is Jesus speaking and

he's speaking truth, just like the Holy Spirit is the Spirit of

truth. And he's letting you know that

it is more advantageous for you. That He goes to the Father, Say

we need the Holy Spirit. We need the Holy Spirit.

Say it again. We need the Holy Spirit.

It is to say this. It is to my advantage.

It's to my advantage. We need the Holy Spirit at work

in our life and we need to know how the Holy Spirit is moving

and working and His ministry. So it says it's to your

advantage that I go away. For if I don't go away, the

helper will not come to you. But if I go, I will send him to

you. And he when he comes, he will

what? This is very important.

And I'm gonna elaborate on this scripture here.

It says here it says that. And he when he comes say this is

the Holy Spirit. When he comes, he's going to

what he is going to convict the world.

Convict, say convict. It's all right to use the word

convict in the church today. Oh, I don't go to a church.

They always talking about conviction and.

You know they talk about sin and nobody wants to be convicted.

You better be thankful that you get convicted by the Holy Ghost

because you will burn in hell. You need conviction in your

life. I'm so thankful that he

convicted me of my sinful life and brought me out of the domain

of darkness and brought me into the marvelous light.

That's what he'll do. He don't just always tell you

how awesome you are and how pretty you are and how wonderful

you are. He will tell you to protect you

from the gates of hell. You're on the wrong Rd.

You need to be convicted by the Holy Ghost and get out of your

pride. Hallelujah.

I'm telling you, people don't want to be convicted today.

So he says he will convict. This is part of the Holy

Spirit's job that when the word is preached.

And there is somebody that has not accepted Jesus Christ.

The first thing the Holy Spirit's going to do is convict

the world of its sin in hopes to draw you by the Spirit.

So guess what, If the Holy Spirit, and we're going to get

to this, is the one that draws men to himself.

Because outside of the drawing of the Holy Spirit, we don't

have a chance. So if the Holy Spirit is drawing

himself, then guess what he's doing?

As he's drawing a lost person, he's convicting that person of

sin. Convicting that person.

Conviction is not bad. It is a good thing.

Thank God for conviction. It's not a bad thing.

It's a good thing that will save your life.

It'll save your life. Hallelujah.

And that's what he says the Holy Spirit is going to do when he

comes. He's going to convict the world

concerning sin. And what righteousness, What is

righteousness? Right standing with the supreme

authority, the governing authority.

There's that word governance. Again, right standing,

righteousness. Religion has made it something

that it's not. It is.

He's going to convict the world of sin and of righteousness.

You know what that means, right? Living, Kingdom, living.

You don't live like that in the Kingdom.

You don't live in your homosexuality in the Kingdom.

That is not right living. That's not righteousness.

You see what I'm saying? You don't live in your adultery

or immorality, right? That's.

Conviction of sin, righteousness, and what else?

And judgment. Oh, they just always preaching.

You know that you're gonna die and burning it.

Listen, there is a judgment that will come.

And thank God for the conviction of the Holy Spirit to let us

know that if we're not right, one day we will stand before the

judge that has the right to cast us into the lake of fire, right?

So it says, that's what the Holy Spirit will convict the world

concerning sin, righteousness, right living, and judgment

concerning sin. So there is a judgment

concerning sin in people's lives that if they don't repent and

get it under the blood, then guess what?

They will stand before God one day.

And this is all the working of the Holy Spirit that nobody

likes to talk about. They want to talk about the Holy

Spirit and the power and the miracles and the chill box,

right? And all these things.

And the running and the shouting Come on, let's talk about the

Holy Ghost and conviction and righteousness and judgment that

is to come for those who stay in their stiff neck pride and don't

want to come into the Kingdom of God with the Holy Spirit's

drawing and compelling them and convicting them that today is

the day of salvation. Right.

Hallelujah. We need, we need some good fire

and brimstone preaching, I guess again today in the church, you

know, when Billy Graham died, I was listening to a lot of his

preaching, and I tell you what he called sin for what it was.

He talked about the day of judgment that is to come and on

and on and all these people would flaunt to the altar.

And when he died, I said to my husband, who's going to be?

Some evangelists that are going to rise up today and begin to

see some people coming to the Kingdom because they're not

afraid. Talk about Billy Graham is one

of the greatest evangelists in the world, but you know the

majority of his preaching was about sin and repentance and

judgment and people needed to get right with God.

Hallelujah. And this is the ministry of the

Holy Spirit. Without the Holy Spirit

convicting us, we would have all gone to hell, right?

Yeah, right. Conviction, Hallelujah.

And he says, because I go to the Father.

And you no longer see me. And concerning judgment, because

the ruler of this world has been judged.

Who's the ruler of this world? Satan.

The ruler of this world, this world system, everything we see

lost people being ruled and governed by Satan.

Hallelujah. And guess what?

He's already judged and he knows his day is drawing near.

And why do you think there's just been an unleashing amount

of things happening in the world today?

Now look at John, 16 John 1613 and 15.

It says this, but when he the spirit of truth comes, he will

guide you into all truth. He will not speak on his own

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

to close to you what is to come. Hallelujah, Thank God.

So he's the teacher. He's the spirit of truth.

He's going to then begin to tell us about things that are to

come. That's why we don't have to be

ignorant of the devil's devices. We don't have to be ignorant

about what's going on in the world.

We don't have to be ignorant about, you know, the next day,

or tomorrow or the next month. Because the Holy Ghost can

disclose things to come to your life.

Nothing has to take you by surprise or take you off guard.

Really. I'm not surprised by anything

today. Anything.

I mean, it just keeps getting funner and funner about all the

things that I'm just not surprised about any longer.

Yes, Hallelujah. Now let's close this thing out.

Romans 1417. It says this for the Kingdom of

God is not eating and drinking. But what righteousness, peace

and joy in the Holy Spirit. So the Holy Spirit is saying

here. This is what I wanted to show

you as a person of the Holy Spirit.

The person of the Holy Spirit has joy, has peace.

A dove can't have joy, nor can it have peace, right?

So here we see again the personality or the attributes of

the Holy Spirit. And when the Holy Spirit is

operating in your life, guess what?

A believer has a right to peace, joy in the Holy Ghost.

Amen. We shouldn't have to be sad.

Amen. Come on.

We shouldn't have to be terrified or scared or in fear,

because the Holy Spirit brings peace and joy to our lives.

Amen. Peace and joy now.

And we can see this with the Spirit here in Galatians 522 and

later on. We're going to get into all of

these. But it says the fruit of the

Spirit is what? Read of y'all.

All know Galatians. Come on, guess what can happen

in your life if you are literally yielded to the Holy

Spirit? All of these things can be a

part of your life if you're yielded.

And I can tell when you're not yielded if these things aren't

flowing and the fruit isn't just overflowing in your life.

Right. That's just according to

scripture. According to Scripture, these

ought to be fruits in our life, because this is what the person

of the Holy Spirit brings to our life, all of the fruits of the

Spirit. And we're going to talk about

this later on, Lovejoy. Peace, patience, kindness,

goodness, and faithfulness. You should not be a mean person.

When the Holy Spirit is living on the inside of you, mean

spirited, hateful, as a believer that has the Holy Spirit living

on the inside of you, you should be kind, right?

We should be patient. We should have peace in the

midst of whatever it is that we're going on.

Whatever's going on in our life, we ought to have joy and we

ought to be just exuding love for people.

When I go through things where people are on my last nerve and

I'm having to deal with people and their problems, I just want

to. I just want to gush in love like

I want to gusher, you know? Of love.

Because I say I I've got to love people.

Because if you don't, you would want to be one of the mean

people and not be kind, right? But that is the fruit of the

spirit. So what do you do?

You tap into that love and say, I'm just going to go show and

demonstrate love to somebody, somebody.

Because right now there doesn't seem to be one nice person on

the face of the planet. So I'm gonna just go love

somebody. Come on.

This is what you do. Because the Holy Spirit brings

these fruits to our life. Now look at the Holy Spirit's

job here in First Peter. Chapter one and verse two.

According to the foreknowledge of God the Father by the

sanctifying work of the Spirit to obey Jesus Christ and be

sprinkled with His blood, May grace and peace be yours.

In the full list measure the sanctifying work of the Holy

Spirit. So one of the attributes of the

Holy Spirit is to bring sanctification to our life.

He is the. The Sanctifier.

He is the You have heard me say it.

He is the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit is holy because

we are to be holy, just as He is holy.

So the job of the Holy Spirit's work and the ministry, one of

the sides of the ministry of the person of the Holy Spirit living

in the inside of us, is to bring that sanctification in our life,

to bring us into a place of continual holiness.

We've been made right, right with God the minute we get born

again. But now it's the Holy Spirit's

job to continue to work in a believer, sanctifying and

processing them through all kinds of behaviors and thought

processes and all kinds of things that we came out of.

From what we said was the Fall, dysfunction, chaos, all of the

things that were brought about because of the Fall, that even

though our spirit man is alive unto God and we're born again,

we have to allow the Holy Spirit to bring sanctification.

To our lives through the purity of the washing of the watering

of the word and the Holy Spirit of saying, OK, see that in the

word right there? Yeah.

I think you need a little bit more of that and a little more

of this and a little more of that, Right.

That's the Holy Spirit's job to bring sanctification.

So he is a sanctifier. Now.

There's only a couple of other scriptures.

OK, the Holy Spirit as the person right can be grieved.

We can see this. So a dove would not be able to

be grieved and it would not be able to be grieved, right?

No, but the Holy Spirit can be grieved, and it grieves the Holy

Spirit when we do not yield to him.

Don't think you're just getting by with it.

It is grieving to the person of the Holy Spirit that's at work

in your life. When you choose to stay in sin,

when you choose to disobey what the word says and what the Holy

Spirit is trying to do in your life, when you disobey it,

you're grieving him. Say I can grieve the Holy

Spirit. See, people don't want to feel

any type of shame or any type of well, let me tell you.

When you grieve the Holy Spirit, it does not please him, and you

ought to feel shameful, which is part of conviction, OK?

Ephesians 430 says Do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, by whom

you were sealed for the day of redemption, he says.

Do not do it. And we know the other scripture

that we know. It says that He who knows what

to do and doesn't do it. It is what?

Say it again, say it louder. I want y'all to love that word.

Say it again. So if we know he's saying don't

grieve the Holy Spirit, but yet we'll do it constantly when the

Holy Spirit's trying to convict us about something in our life.

It's sin. So whatever you're doing is sin.

But then you're also say, double trouble.

Yeah, you're in trouble. It's OK to say I'm in trouble.

People don't like these words anymore.

Oh, and you know what else? I was just minding my own

Business Today. Just trying to mind my own

Business Today. Praying in the Holy Ghost before

this message, doing my two mile walk in my preserve, minding my

whole old little business and all of a certain the Lord, the

Holy Spirit just started talking to me about this new term.

Church hurt. I am so sick of this word.

And I was talking to the Holy Ghost about it.

And I said, Lord, I'm so sick of this word.

Church hurt, church hurt. We're just church hurt.

And you know, Pastor said the church has never hurt you.

The church that he's building, Jesus Christ has never hurt you.

People can hurt you. But really, you know what?

He said? It ain't even hurt.

It's offense. We have called offenses Church

hurt. You're offended, you're bitter.

You're critical and you're calling it a Pretty Little label

like church hurt. The church hurt me, know you're

offended, and you know there's an answer to offense.

If the church has hurt you, if you are offended at somebody,

you are to go to them in private.

And talk to them about it and continue to be church hurt.

No. To get it right and forgive and

get it under the blood and move on and love and move on and

unity and get your butt back in church.

That's what the Holy Ghost told me.

Blame him, but it's scriptural. We have labeled it.

Offenses church hurt so you can stay in your offense and stay

bitter and stay critical and stay your broken self and a

victim because it's a victim mentality.

But somebody that much is mature could grow up and recognize, you

know, there's just something there.

And I'm just going to go talk to that person about it and get it

under the blood so we can go on in unity and love and brother

and love so that the world will truly know where to his

disciples because we have love for the brother and glory to

God. Hallelujah.

So why don't you tell the next person you hear say church hurt.

Tell him know what you are is just really offended and you

know you can get you can get rid of that offense and how you can

do it is just go to that person and talk to them.

Wow, that would be a miracle, wouldn't it?

Now y'all know I'm right. Raise your hand if you know I'm

right. Because it's the Holy Ghost.

That's right, Hallelujah. So the Holy Ghost can be

grieved. So let's not grieve the Holy

Ghost. The Holy Ghost can be jealous,

James 4-5 says. Or do you think that the

Scripture speaks to no purpose? He jealously desires the Spirit

which he has made to dwell in us.

He can be jealous. He can also be blasphemed.

The Person of the Holy Spirit can be blasphemed and we don't

ever want to get in that place. Matthew 1231 through 32

Therefore it's summertime. So we can stay till 9:30, right?

Matthew 12/31/32 it says. Therefore I say to you, any sin

now recognize. Blasphemy has to do with sin.

Any sin and blasphemy shall be forgiven people.

But blasphemy against the what Spirit shall not be forgiven

against the Spirit? Whoever speaks a word against

the Son of Man, it shall be forgiven him.

But whoever speaks against the Holy Spirit, it shall not be

forgiven him, either in this age or the one to come.

And we don't want to be a part of any of that, that we would

ever blaspheme the working of the Holy Spirit, the ministry of

the Holy Spirit in our lives, grieving the Holy Spirit in our

lives, any of that, because it all leads to blasphemy.

When you begin to start grieving that conviction and grieving the

Holy Spirit, you start moving into pride.

Pride moves you over into deception, and deception can

easily move you over into blasphemy.

Right now, there's some things about blasphemy that can also be

taught on, but I'm not here to teach on that now.

The Holy Spirit can be denied, and this is where we're going to

end tonight. The Holy Spirit can be denied,

and we see it in churches all around the world in Second

Timothy and talking about the last days, all of these things

that we have been ministering on is a result of literally as

pastors and knowing hundreds of pastors and knowing of hundreds

of ministries around the world. Of what is happening to

congregation members today, the apostasy, the pride, the

doctrines of demons, and the deceptions of men right and now.

It's all a result of what we're seeing in Second Timothy chapter

2 Timothy 3 · chapter mention

3. In verses 2 through 5 it says

for men will be lovers of self. They love themselves so much

they are becoming whatever they want to be.

Lovers of money, Boastful, arrogant, rivallers.

Disobedient to parents. Ungrateful.

I'm telling you, that is the start of it all.

Ungrateful. Being ungrateful for even the

blood or for what Jesus has done for you.

You're not even thankful for the life he's given you.

Wow. Or the godly husband that you

have, or the godly wife that you have that you're so prideful and

arrogant and boastful that you would go somewhere else or do

something else. You're ungrateful, unholy,

unloving, irreconcilable, malicious gossips without

selfcontrol, brutal haters of good, treacherous, reckless,

conceited lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God

holding. These are believers he's talking

about here. This is not the world.

This is not sinners. This is not the lost.

These are believers. Look what he says, holding to a

form of godliness. But what, although they have

denied its power, that is the Holy Ghost, the power Dudamus,

working power. They deny the Holy Spirit from

actually, the translation says, transforming their life.

They deny the power of transformation.

They refuse to allow the Word to transform them.

They refuse to allow the Word, the Holy Ghost to take care of

their flesh and to crucify their flesh and to be convicted at all

Of these things are a result of you denying the working of the

Holy Spirit in the power of God that can actually transform your

life into what He's called you to be.

Pure, holy. So we don't want to be a person

that holds on, yeah, to a form of godliness when we know we're

denying the working of the Holy Spirit in our life, the power of

God to deal with whatever it is that's going on in our life.

The same thing that's going on year after year after year after

year after year you are refusing.

The Holy Spirit, the power of God to actually transform and

work in that situation, to get rid of it once and for all.

We gotta ask ourselves This is why we say, is my life look the

same as it did year after year after year, or has Because let

me tell you, the working of the Holy Spirit has already tried to

convict you. Has already through his word and

even probably the preacher of this house, say something that

the Holy Ghost is trying to get you to overcome and get out of

your life, and you deny the Holy Ghost to really get in there and

work it out once and for all, letting the master.

Do whatever he wants to the clay, squishing it down to a

flat pancake and building it back up again to a vessel that

he wants to create. But pride keeps us form of

godliness, religion. No, we got it.

We got it. We're good.

No, this really didn't happen. No, I really didn't happen.

Yes, you did. Denial of reality.

And the Holy Ghost is on the inside at all times.

Trying to get you, trying to get you to yield, trying to get you

to just respond. Just do it.

Just go in that direction and the holy goes to be right there

as your helper to get you on the other side.

Hallelujah. But you got to let him in.

Hallelujah. Really in.

Really, really in. So we don't want to be a part of

these people that deny the power of God to work the Holy Spirit,

working and ministering in our lives.

We don't want to be a part of it.

Amen. Hallelujah.

I want to say this. And then we're closing the

beginning of the year in morning prayer.

The Holy Ghost reminded me about this last week, that at the

beginning of the year in morning prayer, you know, y'all really

should be in morning prayer at 9:30.

During church, instead of out here sipping your coffee because

half your problems that are going on in your life is because

you're out in that lobby seat, but coffee instead of in here

and letting the Holy Ghost talk to you.

So the Holy Ghost said through prayer, as we were all praying

corporately, that this year through auction of the Holy

Ghost, that this year was going to be a pivotal year in people's

lives. That this was a prophetic year.

Do some of y'all remember, I think I even said it in church,

that this was going to be a pivotal year.

This was going to be a prophetic year for your life or a pathetic

seriously, And that this year was going to set a the

trajectory, use that word, trajectory.

Of your future, and it will be according to you, will be shot

and launched forth into a place of fullness.

Of the spirit and walking and wholeness, and what God has

actually done for you and wants to do for you, and be able to

overcome some things in your life.

Or it's going to take you in the direction into the flesh, and

you are going to be off course. And I want to heed and warn

those again in this House. I'm seeing it happen, and it

doesn't have to happen to you if you'll just yield to the power

of God and the Holy Ghost on the inside of you and choose to say,

I'm going to deal with this once and for all, I refuse to go

around this mountain again in my life.

Refuse it. But I'm telling you, this is

going to be the year that will determine some life changes in

people's lives and it's either going to go one way or the

other. It's not going to be any other.

There won't be a coasting any longer.

There won't be a You know the Holy Ghost is OK any longer.

No, he's saying the time is now. It's your time.

It is up, and it is the trajectory of your future, one

way or the other. Amen.

And I'm going to tell you, you already know who you are.

And the Holy Ghost has been dealing with you for years about

this same thing, and you refuse and you stay in pride.

And I'm going to tell you, if you continue in it, it will not

take you down a great Rd. It will not because you know too

much. There's some of you that know

too much. And it won't be nice.

It can never be nice when you grieve and disobey the Holy

Ghost and His working in your life.

It will never end up. Well, it won't.

So let's heed what the Holy Ghost said in prayer to this

whole church body. Even though you weren't here,

you're responsible for it because it came through this

house by auction of the Holy Ghost to help save convict some

people from going down a wrong Rd.

Amen. Hallelujah.

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