Four Reasons to Follow the Holy Spirit

Thank you very much. I'm privileged to be here to

speak to us again. And before I start, I'd like to

play our worships from our church, which was recorded

during our convention. This is the worship we are used

to. None.

The. The.

Thank you. So you, you see, we really have

to manage when we come here and you are having your worship.

So you're welcome to our vibrant worship in Agus.

Amen. All right.

This morning I'd like to speak to us, and there are four

reasons to follow the Holy Spirit.

Amen. Let's pray.

Father, in the name of Jesus, I thank you for the opportunity to

share your word with your church.

I ask that you speak to our hearts and our minds as that you

feel out of your spirit and your presence be with us.

I established the dominion of Jesus and his presence here and

let your name be glorified. We cast out any demonic presence

in the name of Jesus. Let your spirit come upon us and

bring times of refreshing to us. In Jesus name I have prayed,

Amen. Yesterday our brother Segun took

us, took us out and then we're going around the town and it's

like this is Blackpool. So if you're going to live here,

then you need a guide to live in Blackpool, or a personal guide,

or you need a written manual that will show you how to live

in Blackpool. Amen.

And then my aim this morning is to tell us, brothers and

sisters, that when we got saved, we have joined a holy fellowship

in heaven and on earth. There's a fellowship among the

Father, the Son and the Spirit. They are together, they respect

one another, they work together with good understanding.

But when we go save, we have joined this fellowship of the

Father, the Son and the spirits, and we needed to know how they

live and how they wake. So Jesus came to introduce the

Father to us, introduce the Spirit to us, and through him we

have joined this holy fellowship.

And to know how they work, Jesus introduced them to us.

Jesus taught us a lot about himself and what it came to do.

But when he was leaving, he left us with the Holy Spirit to help

guide us to be part of this holy fellowship and know how to live

our life, this new life and lifestyle that came from heaven.

Amen. So I have finished my sermon.

So in in Hebrews chapter one verse one to four, we were told

that in the past God spoke to our forefathers, to the prophets

at many times and in various ways.

But in this last days he has spoken to us by his son

commentators who explained that to me, the language God used to

speak to us is his son. He spoke in a language that we

can understand. So he says God came to Blackpool

and he spoke English. So God came into the world and

he spoke Jesus, Amen, in a way that everybody can understand.

So Jesus was the language God spoke when he came to have.

So he revealed the Father to us. He is a way we can understand

who the Father is. If you met Jesus.

So he said the Son is the radiance of God's glory and the

exact representation of His being sustaining all things by

His powerful word. After he had provided purific,

He had provided purification for sins, He sat down at the right

hand of the majesty in heaven. And he also tells us in Matthew

Matthew 6:8–11

chapter 6, verse 8 to 11, when He was teaching the disciples

how to pray that do not be like them, for your Father knows what

you need before you ask him. Pray therefore like this, our

Father who is in heaven. So Jesus introduced God to us as

our Father and also asked us to call him Father.

So Jerry Parker says this Father is the Christian name for God.

Our understanding of Christianity cannot be better

than our grasp of adoption. We have a father, but he said

his name is Father. Amen.

So Jesus was the one who introduced God the Father to us.

He's a language God used to speak to us, and through him we

join the holy fellowship of the Trinity when we give our life to

Christ. So it says to us in Ephesians

2126, As for you, you were dead in your transgressions and sins.

But because of his great love for us, God, who is rich in

mercy, made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in our

transgressions. It is by grace you have been

saved, and God raised us up with Christ and seated us with him in

the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus.

Amen. So where God the Father, God the

Son is, by giving our life to Christ, we were raised to join

them. So although we are here in this

body, we have joined this fellowship of the Father, the

Son and the Spirit. That must make us think again

about how we live our lives and who we are on this earth.

We are not just flesh and body, we are spirits and we are with

Jesus. When I was thinking about this

message, I asked myself, what if I'm doing something that the

Father, the Son, and the Spirit do not like?

How do they feel about it? Do I know them?

Do I know what they want to achieve on this F?

And I'm part of this fellowship now.

What am I doing to achieve what they want to achieve on F?

Maybe if you ask yourself that question, if you don't know, now

you know you are part of a fellowship called the Trinity,

the Father, Son and the Spirit. So Jesus, in order to help us to

be part of this fellowship, left us with the Holy Spirit when he

was leaving. So in John 14 verse 16 to 17,

John 14:16–17

the Amplified Bible said, I will ask the Father and He will give

you another helper, comforter, advocate, intersexor,

counsellor, strengthener. Somebody will stand by to be

with you forever, the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot

receive and take to His heart because it does not see Him or

know Him. But you know Him because He

remains with you continually and will be in you.

So if we want to know what the Father, the Son, and the Spirit

are doing, Jesus has left us with the Holy Spirit.

Let's follow him, He's in US, Let's listen to Him, let's work

with Him. Then we will be living like

them. We will be doing what they want

to do. We will be part of what they

want to achieve on this earth, and our lives will be blameless.

Amen. So we need to be filled with the

Spirit. That's what Jesus said we should

do. So in his final moments, Jesus

left his disciples with this powerful promise that he will

not leave them alone. The Holy Spirit is another

person sent from the Father like Jesus to be with us.

So the Holy Spirit is our strengthener in these days until

Jesus retains the evidences of the Holy Spirit in the Bible,

where we were told that the presence of God filled the

temple when the leaders prayed. So the Holy Spirit was in the

Old Testament, came to do stuff, but was not on everybody.

He specifically prove individuals with skills and

power like Moses, David, Samson, Gideon to do great things, and

they are great examples for us. But it was foretold by the

prophets like Isaiah and Joel that the time is coming when the

Spirit will be poured upon all flesh.

And these encounters in the Old Testament were temporary and

selective and symbolic of something greater to come.

But the good news is that the something greater has not

arrived, and it's with all of us which is the Holy Spirit.

So brothers and sisters, let me tell you 4 reasons we should

depend on the Holy Spirit. Some people may not like him,

but I have to convince you to like him, Amen, And to work with

him. The first reason is that we are

in the age of the Spirit. Jesus left us with the Holy

Spirit. You see Joel prophecy then?

Then after doing all these things, I will pour out my

Spirit upon all people. Your sons and daughters will

prophecy, your old men will dream dreams, and your young men

will see visions. In those days I will pour out my

Spirit even on servants, men and women alike.

So Jesus is gone. The Spirit is here to lead us

into this fellowship that we are part of now.

If you ignore the Holy Spirit today, you'll be missing out of

God's current method of leading and empowering His people.

So you cannot be a Christian and not be working with the Holy

Spirit and not be filled with the Holy Spirit.

You would have been doing your own thing, doing what the

fellowship of the Father and Son, the Spirit are not doing.

To do what they are doing. To be part of them, you must

follow the Holy Spirit. If you don't like him, please

like him, because because we are left with him to as the first

reason, you should follow the Spirit.

The second reason is that we have a new temple enabled by

this Spirit and Ezekiel. It says to us, So I will

consecrate the tents of meeting and the altar and will

consecrate Aaron as his sons to serve me as priests.

Then I would dwell among the Israelites and be their God.

They will know that I am the Lord their God who brought them

out of Egypt so that I might dwell among them, and I am the

Lord their God. So in the past God wanted them

to create a Tabernacle became a building where humanity meets

divinity. As some people who put it, you

want to meet God, you go into the temple and consult the

priests, and then you meet with God.

So the temple at the time was a place where people go to meet

with God. But then that changed Jesus.

Death changed that for us. He tore the veil which separated

the presence of God from men. So now God's presence with all

of us He says to us in John chapter 4 verse 23 to 24.

John 4:23–24

But the time is coming. Indeed, it is here now when true

worshippers who worship the Father in spirit and in truth,

the Father is looking for those who worship him that way.

For God is spirit, so that who worship him must worship in

spirit and in truth. When Jesus was talking to the

Samaritan woman said, oh, you say we worship God on this

mountain and we worship God on that mountain, but when the

Messiah comes, he will tell us the truth.

Jesus said, well, I'm the Messiah.

The truth is that you're no longer going to worship God on

this mountain or that mountain, but God is going to be in you.

And so we become the new temple of God.

So it says to us clearly in Corinthians, first Corinthians

316 to 17, don't you know that you yourself are God's temple

and that God's spirit goes in your myths?

If anyone destroyed God's temple, God will destroy that

person. For God's temple is sacred and

you together at that temple. So walking with the Holy Spirit

is engaging with God in our daily life.

So if you want to engage with God now, you don't have to go to

a special place or a special tent or a special auditorium.

You are a working temple of God. His spirit lives in you.

So when you learn to walk with the Holy Spirit, that is how you

are engaging with God. You're engaging with the Trinity

living inside of you, this jar of clay, Amen.

It's very difficult in our in our country to explain this to

many people where people think that God is in the temple.

And so if they pray and they are not praying in the temple or in

the auditorium, then God is not going to hear them.

It's not true. Now, are you with me?

Wherever you pray, God will hear you.

Even if you pray in the toilet, in the market, on the street,

wherever you pray, God will hear you because God lives inside of

you by His Spirit. So your body now carries this

Holy Spirit. Are you still here?

So we will pray here. God will hear us.

You can pray in your car, God will hear, You can pray in the

shopping mall. God will hear you.

Wherever you need to need God's attention, just stand and pray

and then He will listen to you and answer.

I see is the Holy Spirit that has made this possible.

So if you don't walk with the Spirit, if you are not baptising

the Spirit, then you will think you have to go somewhere to pray

for God to hear you. You have to go into a temple, go

and hold an altar and pray for God to hear you.

Please. You are the altar, you are the

temple, the Spirit lives inside of you.

So if you listen to the Holy Spirit, you are engaging with

God. And the third reason we follow

the Holy Spirit is we have a new life in the Spirit.

Many of us, we get saved and then we ask the question, how

can I live a righteous life without following the laws of

God or performing sacrifices in the temple?

Because God gave the Israelites laws in the past, many laws that

help them to know the nature of God and to discover what sin is

so they can live separate life from other nations.

So same thing happens to people today when they give their life

to Christ. Then they ask, so where should I

start from? How do I know what is right from

what is wrong? So that will be the 10

commandments. And we say no, God has a new

plan for you and that plan has nothing to do in following the

10 commandments or following all the Jewish laws.

What His plan is now is that you will be filled with His Spirit

and His Spirit will teach you how to live for Him.

So when people get born again, we pray for them to be filled by

Spirit and teach them how to walk with the Spirit.

And when they do that, they're able to overcome sin and bear

the fruit of the Spirit, which is God's character.

So the Spirit in US help us to bear the fruit of the Holy

Spirit, which is the character of God and the spirit that gives

us abilities to save one another and the world with the power of

God. Amen.

I mean, some people teach that, say our present worship leader

that I just show us in the picture of essential she was

part of a church and the pastor taught them that the gift of the

Holy Spirit, the baptism and the Spirit is like a reward that God

gives you after you have lived a very good life.

So it is not for people who have just given their life to Christ.

So in that church, holy, the senior pastor speaks in tongues,

not everybody else, because they have not lived good life to

merit the Holy Spirit. The best thing that happened to

that church is that the man listening to me preach on radio

and when he got to 72 years, he invited me, said I've been

listening to you preach on radio and I like what you say about

Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit.

I don't have anybody to take over three of my churches.

I want to hand them over to you. Amen.

Said you don't know what you have asked for because this is

an elephant. You have to turn around that's

just started salvation. Stop preaching on the Holy

Spirit. Start preaching a baptism in the

Spirit. Fortunately, he didn't say

anything. Although I was saying things

that He will not agree with. He allowed me to see everything.

So now all the three churches are ours.

We have turned them around by grace.

Amen. So he says to us in Ezekiel 36,

Ezekiel 36:26–27

verse 26 to 27, and I will give you a new heart and I'll put a

new spirit in you. I'll take out your Stony,

stubborn heart and give you a tender, responsive heart.

And I'll put my spirit in you so that you will follow my decrees

and be careful to obey my regulations.

And in Galatians says to us, So I say, let the Holy Spirit guide

your lives. Then you won't be doing what

your sinful nature desires. So how do I live a righteous

life? Follow the Holy Spirit, be

filled with the Holy Spirit, learn how to work with the Holy

Spirit, learn how to listen to Him and let Him guide you in

your daily lives. So a new life in crisis,

impossible without the Holy Spirit following Him, is how we

grow, overcome sin, and live with purpose.

Amen. Are you still here?

OK now, so let me make the last point.

We have a new certainty of our salvation.

How can I be sure of my salvation and God's protection?

So after the debate still goes on, can I lose my salvation?

Can I not lose my salvation? How do I know I'm a Christian?

When I first got born again, that was my big problem.

And I think one time I had a dream and the devil said to me

in the dream, oh, everybody who is safe, they've already gone to

heaven. Those of you on earth, you are

not going to heaven, you're going to hell.

So I went to my apostle and I asked him, is Christianity still

real or is a past tense 10 And I saw it's still real.

I said somebody told me in a dream that those who are saved,

they've already gone to heaven. We, those who are here now,

we've wasted time, not so. And our certainty that we are

saved, we belong to God and will be protected by God comes from

the Holy Spirit who lives in US. So the Holy Spirit does not only

empower us and transforms us. He also reassures us that we are

the children of God. So he says to us in Ephesians

Ephesians 4:30

chapter 4 verse 30 best visions of the four So God has creature

wrong and do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God with whom you were

sealed for the day of redemption.

Romans 815 tells our God Spirit doesn't make us slaves who are

afraid of him. Instead we become his children

and call him our Father. God's Spirit make us sure that

we are his children, Amen. So from the inside of us he

assures us that we are God's children and he helps us to call

him Father, Amen. We need the Holy Spirit, we

cannot do without him. He is God's seal over us, is God

stamp on us that we belong to Him and when Jesus returns He

will come for us who are His elites?

So we are currently living in the age of the Holy Spirit and

not under the law. A time where God's Spirit is no

longer reserved for a few, but growth in every believer,

empowering, guiding, teaching and sealing us until the day of

redemption. This age began without pouring

of the Holy Spirit of pentacles and will continue until Jesus

returns in glory. And we leave you with this quote

from Terry. Virgo says the wonder of

Christianity is that it is not based on external rules that we

have to check up and obey. New appetites, ambitions and

desires are put inside of us. We are actually given a new

responsive heart to replace our old Stony one.

The Holy Spirit changes us from inside.

Without the Holy Spirit, you can't be sure of your salvation,

you wouldn't know what the Trinity is doing, and you don't

even know how to live your life to please God.

So I encourage you ask for the Holy Spirit if you have given

your life to Christ, learn to work with the Spirit and you

will please God. You will be part of this

fellowship world with the Trinity and you will achieve

what the Trinity is doing on FI mean.

Thank you very much. I like to pray with us.

If you've not been filled with the Holy Spirit, please just ask

Jesus Amen. So can I ask us to if you can

stand those who can stand, please.

And Ben, sorry Ben, I don't know if it's good to ask those who

still want to be filled with the Spirit if they can just raise up

their hands and those who are filled with the Spirit can just

go near them, lay hands on them and pray for them.

So, but we need continuous feeling of the Holy Spirit.

So you have filled the Holy Spirit.

You speak in tongues. But there are issues in life

that makes us, some people don't even know the last time they

spoke in tongues because you're thinking about your children,

thinking about life, thinking about this one.

But we need continuous feeling of God's love, God's hope, God's

trust. So if you think you need help,

please just raise up your hand and let somebody close to you

come and pray for you. Pray that the Holy Spirit will

come upon you and empower you with his gifts.

Amen. Can we just do that quickly and

then?