HEART SMART | Part 4 | Water of the Spirit

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>> How you guys doing today?

>> Are we ready for the word of God?

>> Praise the Lord. Well, hey, if you're a

first- time guest with us, my name is

Ben. have the opportunity to serve as

lead pastor here. And uh we are going to

dig into the word of God and uh really

excited. If you're uh brand new, be

ready to take notes and talk back to me.

Uh because participation is better than

observation. Would you agree with that?

>> And so I love the new app. You can

follow right along and and it's really

interesting. I was checking it out. You

can after you take your notes, you can

share it with yourself and so you can

open it up and save it in digital notes.

And um I I don't write things on paper

much anymore. How about you?

>> All right. Well, praise the Lord. Hey,

we're going to get dig into the word of

God. Let me let's pray. Father, we thank

you, Lord, for your Holy Spirit. Father,

we thank you for life. We thank you for

revival breaking loose on the inside.

Lord, thank you for every person that

got baptized today. Pray a special

blessing over their walk with you, over

their home, spiritual protection. But

father, in this moment, we thank you for

an anointing upon the preaching of your

word, God, that we would hear you and

receive you in fullness in Jesus' name.

Amen.

>> Well, hey guys, we are finishing up our

series called Hearts Smart today. And uh

next week, we'll be kicking off a new uh

sermon series called When in Romans. And

so uh be ready for that. Next week we're

going to dig in uh to the book of Romans

and see what God has for us. Uh but

today we're going to kick off with

Ezekiel chapter 47. I'm going to read

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from the New Living Translation and I'm

going to read a portion of scripture and

then we'll spend some time unpacking uh

the text. And so Ezekiel 47 and verse

one, it says this. He says, "In my

vision, the man brought me back to the

entrance of the temple." Say temple.

>> Temple. There I saw a stream flowing

east from beneath the door of the temple

and passing to the right of the altar on

its south side. The man brought me

outside the wall through the north

gateway and led me around to the eastern

entrance. There I could see the water

flowing out through the south side of

the east gateway.

Verse three, measuring as he went, he

took me along the stream for 1,750

ft and then led me across. The water was

up to my ankles. He measured off another

1,750

ft and led me across again. This time

the water was up to my knees.

After another 1,750

ft, it was up to my waist. Then he

measured another 1,750

ft. And the river was too deep to walk

across. It was deep enough to swim, but

too deep to walk through.

He asked me, "Have you been watching,

son of man?" Then he led me back along

the riverbank. When I returned, I was

surprised by the sight of many trees

growing on both sides of the river. Then

he said to me, "This river flows east

through the desert into the valley of

the Dead Sea. The waters of this stream

will make the salty waters of the Dead

Sea fresh and pure.

There will be swarms of living things

wherever the water of this river flows.

Fish will abound in the Dead Sea, for

its waters will become fresh. Life will

flourish wherever this water flows.

Fishermen will stand along the shores of

the Dead Sea. All the way from the

Engeti to the Enlium.

The shores will be covered with nets

drying in the sun. Fish of every kind

will fill the Dead Sea. Just as they

fill the Mediterranean,

but the marshes and swamps will not be

purified, they will still be salty.

Verse 12.

Fruit trees of all kinds will grow along

both sides of the river. The leaves of

the trees will never turn brown and

fall. And there will always say always.

>> There will always be fruit on their

branches. There will be a new crop every

month. For they are watered by the river

flowing from the temple. The fruit will

be for food and the leaves for healing.

We're going to continue on this journey

talking about the heart. Uh, we're also

going to be talking about water. Say,

water.

>> Water.

>> I'm going to make you talk back to me

today.

Last week we looked at uh three

conditions of the heart. The contrite,

the convicted, the consecrated heart.

And we said above all else, guard your

heart. Why?

Because everything we do flows from it.

Everything we do flows from it.

Everything that we do flows out of our

heart. And so we get to guard our heart.

We get to be sensitive and conscious of

what we allow in and what we allow out.

>> Everything we do flows

from it. Say flow.

>> Flow.

>> Today I want to give you the most

condition the most important condition

of the heart. the most important

condition of the heart and it's to be

filled with the spirit of the living

God.

To be filled with the spirit of the

living God.

We can be consecrated. We can be set

apart. We can have all of these other

attributes of the heart, but if we're

not filled with fresh living water that

comes by the spirit, we have missed the

mark. Amen.

Ezekiel has this vision. It's the temple

being filled to overflowing, running out

the door to the barren place to the Dead

Sea and giving life to every single

place. But he starts with the vision at

the temple. 1 Corinthians chapter 6 and

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verse 19.

Or do you not know that your body is a

temple? Say temple. Temple. Your body is

a temple of the Holy Spirit within you

whom you have from God. You are not your

own.

Oh my goodness.

Wait a minute. I'm the temple. What in

the world does that mean? You are the

temple of the Holy Spirit of God within

you.

Jesus said in John 7 and:e 38, he said,

"Whoever believes in me, as the

scripture has said,"Out of his heart

will flow rivers of living water." Are

you guys connecting the dots this

morning?

Out of your heart will flow rivers of

living water.

Today, I want to give you three ways to

flow. Three ways to flow. Number one is

probably the most crucial that it flows

in. Number one is flow in. If you

believe in him, his spirit will flow

into you. Again, John 7:38 says,

John 7:38

"Whoever." That's a pretty wide and

broad uh canvas statement, isn't it?

Whoever. Are you a whoever? Amen.

>> Whoever believes in me, Jesus says, as

the scripture has said, out of his heart

will flow rivers

of living water. Romans chapter 8:9 says

this, and man, I'm going to give you

some scripture today. Hey, I hope you're

using the app because I'm going to uh

keep you on your toes with how much

Bible I'm going to give you. Romans 8:9

Romans 8:9

says, "You, however, are not in the

realm of the flesh, but are in the realm

of the spirit, if indeed the spirit of

God lives where?"

>> In you. You are the temple of the Holy

Spirit.

>> You are the temple of the Holy Spirit.

We call it uh the indwelling Holy

Spirit.

The indwelling Holy Spirit. Last week we

talked about how God has put eternity on

the inside of every man. You guys

remember that? That's saved and unsaved

alike. On the inside of every living

person, God has placed eternity. The

interesting thing is when we believe, if

I'm a if I'm a whoever and I believe in

Jesus Christ, it unlocks that that

location on the inside that God has

placed in me that connects with eternal

things. And the spirit of God fills me

on the inside in that temple place, in

that secret place, and connects with

heaven forever more. Amen.

>> We can't really talk about having a

smart heart

without seeing what makes the heart

smart.

>> Even the three conditions of the heart

we looked at last week are unattainable

without the spirit of God.

We can't have a convicted heart if we

don't have the spirit because it's the

spirit that brings conviction.

>> 1 Corinthians 1:25,

1 Corinthians 1:25

I love this scripture. I love when the

Bible's just plain and down to earth and

easy to connect with. It says, "This

foolish plan of God is wiser than the

wisest of human plans, and God's

weakness is stronger than the greatest

of human strengths."

Isn't that interesting?

Uh God doesn't have any bad ideas, but

essentially what it's saying is the

worst possible idea that God could come

up with is still infinitely better than

your best idea on your best day.

>> Can I get a witness?

>> Yeah.

We need God on the inside. The Holy

Spirit is not my backup plan. The Holy

Spirit is the plan.

>> That'll preach right there.

It's not, oh no, we've we're in trouble.

We need to we need now we need to tap

in. It's it's man that that's the plan.

We wake up and we fill up and we go and

we let the river flow through us. Amen.

>> That's revival. That's salvation. That's

freedom. The inddwelling Holy Spirit is

not what some doctrines would say as a

oneanddone experience.

It's not a oneanddone.

It's begins at salvation, but it's a

flow that is available and lasts all the

way through into eternity like a river

that never runs dry.

>> I think of Jesus speaking with the woman

at the well. He's talking about uh you

know to have this living water, this

water to drink, you'll never thirst

again. That's the living water of the

Holy Spirit that's available to you.

Ezekiel 36:27,

Ezekiel 36:27

God said this. He says, "And I will put

my spirit within you."

What a high honor to have the creator of

the universe making the fullness of God.

The Holy Spirit is God.

And he says, "Hey, I connect all the

dots here. If I believe in Jesus Christ,

God says, I will put my Holy Spirit on

the inside of you." Man, that's good

news. We got to let it flow in.

You're the temple of the Holy Spirit. So

when Ezekiel says

in my vision, the man brought me back to

the entrance of the temple.

Uh the symbolism here uh is that he

brought me back to the core to the

things that really matter. If I'm the

temple of the Holy Spirit, essentially

it would mean God brought me back to the

heart of the issue to the things that

actually matter because the land was

going through a drought. The land was

going through devastation and we

sometimes in our selfishness, we go

through a spiritual drought.

We go through emotional and and

spiritual devastation. Have you been

there?

And isn't that when God gets our

attention and takes us back to the door

of the temple,

back to the heart of the issue, back to

that place on the inside. See, in the

flesh, I live from the outside in. If I

could just get some more money, if I

could just eat some more food, if I

could just do this and then go there,

and if I could just hang out with this

person, everything will be okay. And

we're always looking from the outside

in. But God says there's a source, the

Holy Spirit that's available on the

inside. And and when he brings us back

to that temple, it's like everything

else just kind of pales in comparison

and I need to get back to the things

that actually matter. It's God.

>> Brings me back to the door

of the temple.

He says, "There I saw a stream flowing.

The same spirit that once dwelled

in a temple built by man now flows

into living ones. Are you a living one?

The the prophet is led back to the

entrance and I love the descriptive uh

language there. He starts out, he even

gives the measurements. And he says, uh,

first it's ankle deep,

then it's knee deep, then it's waist

deep, and oh my goodness, now it's too

deep. I can't even walk anymore. I got

to learn to swim. Amen.

>> She's the water running under the door.

You know, a couple years ago, we had a

water loss in our home. Uh, it was a bit

of an issue

on the main level. We had of a finished

basement and uh I'll spare you the the

details. It came up out of the stool on

the main level, right? It was an issue.

>> No fun. And so everyone's hollering down

and I'm coming down checking this thing

out. And we're looking at it. Man,

there's standing water everywhere. You

know, you got to get this stuff cleaned

up now. And then the water's still

running out. And so we're trying to tend

to that. And then I'm standing by the

basement by the steps there and I hear

water trickling coming in the basement.

Sounds like a faucet's on or something.

So, I go downstairs and we had the

finished ceiling with the can lights and

the water looks like somebody has a hose

in my can and it's just pouring out and

there's water all over the basement and

I'm like, "Oh my goodness."

So, we call the pros, right? Get the

insurance involved and and they send out

the crew to to dry us out and clean us

up. And uh I don't know. I'm busy with

life and figuring out, you know, all of

a sudden I come back and I go into the

basement and I'm going, "Uh, whoa." Down

to bare 2x4s the entire basement. Like,

we have walls and a bathroom and other

rooms down there and stuff and you could

just look through the entire basement.

It's just bare studs.

>> When you see water coming under a door,

that's an issue.

>> It affects every single thing that it

touches.

Are you guys catching this at all? When

you allow the Holy Spirit to get in on

the inside, it begins to affect every

single thing in your life. And water is

one of those things you can't slow it

down and you can't stop it very easy.

And so when the Holy Spirit starts

moving, he starts getting into the

closet. He starts getting into the

bedroom, into the bath, he starts

getting the Holy Spirit starts getting

everywhere on the inside of my temple to

clean me out, to bring life. And I think

of that stream about flowing down to the

Dead Sea. Man, there's there's life

again.

>> Life again.

It will affect

everything it touches.

Number one is flows in.

Number two is flows up.

Flows up. I want to say this.

God can only fill what you're willing to

empty.

Too often we have our temple and that's

the the core of who we are. We know

we're have we're a spiritual being

having a physical experience, not the

other way around, right? And so there's

this core there's this inside this

spiritual man and sometimes our temple

is so full with worries and cares and

selfishness and fears and doubts and all

of these other things are taking up

residence in the temple. And I'll say

this, God is only able to fill what

you're willing to empty.

And really to open the door to the

spirit is more of an act of surrender

than anything else.

I relinquish that fear. I relinquish

that doubt. I'm going to repent of that

selfishness. I'm going to get it out of

there.

Repentance is the door that opens

for the floodgates of the spirit to

fill.

When you're filled with the spirit

and drowning in the spirit, I'll say

this, your heart can't help but look up.

Do you know that the spiritfilled heart

is always looking upward?

It flows up. Say flow.

>> The spirit isn't just a top off.

You guys ever do that at the gas

station?

>> I bet there's some in here that never do

that. You've got three miles to empty

and you're trying to figure it out.

I like to get, you know, about half a

tank, sometimes a little bit more. And

I'll go, "Oh, I've got time now. I'll

just top it off." Right?

Uh some of you need to write that down

and try that sometime.

The Holy Spirit isn't just a top off.

It's an absolute overflow.

It's a tsunami. It's a surge.

That's where though he sees the water

coming underneath the temple door. And

and I think of that scripture, rivers of

living water flowing out of me. Open up

the floodgates.

E Ephesians chapter 5 18 says, "Be

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filled with the spirit,

addressing one another in psalms and

hymns and spiritual songs, singing and

making melody to the Lord with all your

heart."

Spiritfilled people can't help but sing.

>> I've seen so many at red lights. You

guys ever do that when you're by

yourself? You're like cranking out. It's

like, "Oh man, this is Brandon Lake or

like whoever your person is and then a

song comes on and uh you just start

worshiping in the vehicle and then you

forget, which is really good sometimes

with crazy traffic and people cutting

you off. You kind of forget everyone

else exists and you're just in there

worshiping and I've pulled up to some

red lights and looked over and they're

just like

getting in. I'm like, "That ain't

Metallica, man.

That's CC Wininance or something.

There's something going on in that

vehicle where they're praising God. Man,

you can't help but praise God. Amen.

>> When you get filled up, you start

flowing up.

For the spiritfilled Christian, praise

is a reflex. No matter what's happening,

I just praise God anyways because I'm

full of the spirit. John 4:23, Jesus

John 4:23

said, "True worshippers

will say,

>> will." True worshippers will worship the

father in spirit and truth for they are

the kind of worshippers the father

seeks. Let's put that on our checklist

that I want to be so full of the spirit

and worshiping God in spirit and in

truth. I want to be worshiping in such a

way that the father seeks me out.

That's awesome.

As I'm seeking him, he's seeking me.

And the Bible says without the spirit,

we don't even know how to pray. Romans

Romans 8:26

8:26 says, "The spirit helps us in our

weakness. We don't know what we ought to

pray for, but the spirit himself

intercedes for us."

We got to get full of the spirit. And

it's interesting that when we see the

infilling of the Holy Spirit, the

influence of the Holy Spirit. See, Jesus

opens the door to the Holy Spirit, but

the Holy Spirit is always drawing us to

the father through praise, through

prayer,

drawing us up.

Not only will you aim up, but you'll

also grow up. Say, grow up.

Jude 1:20 says, "But you, beloved,

Jude 1:20

building yourselves up in the most holy

faith and praying in the Holy Spirit."

You know, our spiritual maturity, we

talk about the fruits of the Holy Spirit

that get developed in our life. That's

under uncction of the Holy Spirit. We

talk about uh the gifts of the Holy

Spirit, being able to flow with God and

be used by God.

always uh aiming towards being a

blessing and the spirit is uh almost

opposite to gravity. Gravity is the

thing as we all know that keeps our feet

on the floor. And we know the old

saying, what goes up.

>> Yeah.

In the spiritual realm, when we're full

of the spirit, it changes the flow. It

begins to flow up. And so, what goes

down must go up.

>> Ain't that good? Yeah,

>> man. Life just starts happening and I'm

I'm full of the spirit and the enemy

wants to play around a little bit and

something crazy happens, all this stuff

and man, it doesn't affect me like it

does uh when I'm without the spirit.

Because when I'm without the spirit,

those things affect my emotions. They

affect my thoughts. They start to weigh

me down. But when I'm full of the

spirit, there's already this upward flow

of praise and prayer. And as it comes

in, I just cast my cares upon him

because he cares for me. I just begin to

praise God. Anyways,

the psalmist said, "You anoint my head

with oil and my cup overflows."

My cup overflows. Ezekiel said in verse

5, he said, "And the river was too deep

to walk across." It was deep enough to

swim, but too deep to walk through. Let

me say this. when God shows up, when you

get filled up, uh sometimes you have to

relearn how to do life

because from the time of birth, we're

born with a sin nature and we learn to

walk emotionally.

You guys catching this?

>> And uh man, we kind of get these

patterns and these rhythms of how we

walk. Sometimes the older we get, the

more ingrained they get. Now, you ever

have we talk about uh this where you've

had uh things that you say that really

pushes my buttons,

right? And have you ever been in

emotional or mental state that that you

can feel it coming? Like if they uh say

that thing or if they do that thing or

whatever, you start to feel that same

pattern that's been uh consistent in

your life, you can feel it brewing that

I'm going to react in a certain way.

That's walking. And and sometimes when

we get full of the spirit uh we no

longer have the opportunity to walk

which is the good news because when that

same thing happens and I'm hearing the

same I remember having this experience

man I got full of the Holy Spirit and I

used to have a real anger issue. I used

to fight oh my goodness.

Yeah. And I would know and I used to

actually even was known for warning

people. One more word I'm going to hit

you.

>> This was back in the 90s. You get away

with stuff. can't do that today.

But I would know and it was just an

honest thing. Man, I remember uh being

saved and delivered and full of the

spirit. And I heard that same thing and

there was almost in the back of my mind

I could feel I could hear that going,

man, I this guy could frustrate me. But

there's this overflowing joy of the Holy

Spirit that says it doesn't affect me. I

no longer have to walk. Now I'm floating

in the Holy Spirit.

We have to learn to not walk and learn

to swim. We have to kind of retrain

ourselves emotionally sometimes because

we're caught up in the spirit. I just

snorted. I've never done that while I

was preaching.

Need to go preach at the KIC church

trying to get trying to get some air.

Thank you, Lord.

Stick with me, folks.

Sheesh.

Uh, no more walking. Now we need to

swim. You know, years ago in ministry, I

had a friend of mine that uh came up

through the ministry, came up through

and was working with us in ministry and

and um name was Malcolm. He's a black

guy, man. I loved there there was a

season that Malcolm was with me

everywhere we went and we just kind of

did ministry stuff together, going to

this and going to that and all this

stuff. Well, Malcolm um I brought him

from the city and we were in the

country, right? And so we were known for

having 36 lakes within six miles of our

town. And so a lot of our events

involved water.

Malcolm did not swim. And Malcolm was

afraid of water. And so he'd be on me.

Pastor Ben, why are we always doing

stuff at the lake? So we'd have guys

that would be out there uh playing in

the water and all this stuff. And and

Malcolm always he'd always dress with

with his with his uh swim trunks on and

all this stuff, but he never wanted to

go in the water. I mean, he really had a

fear of water. And so I'm that guy. I'm

always pushing like Malcolm just get

your get your feet in the water, right?

And so he'd get out there a little bit

and he'd get up get up to his knees.

He'd be out there a little bit and then

the guys would start splashing and you

see Malcolm get this fear and he's like

getting right out of the water like I

ain't doing this thing, man. Right.

>> And he had this fear

of water. Can I say this? When you don't

know how to swim, the temptation is to

play it safe.

>> Oh my gosh. And when you get full of the

spirit and you've never flowed in that

way to speak a prophetic word to let God

use you in the gift of healing or all of

these other things to have joy in the

midst of chaos to be able to speak peace

in the middle of a storm when when

you're stepping into that the temptation

is man I've never flowed like this

before and I don't really know how to do

this and can I tell you Christian to

come on in the water's just fine.

>> I almost started preaching.

>> Thank you Lord.

Come on in. The water's fine.

We don't need to walk. We need to learn

to swim.

And I believe my experience with the

Holy Spirit is the goal is that it gets

too deep to walk.

That's the goal of the Holy Spirit is to

fill us to overflowing.

And so from ankle deep to deep, how do

we get there? I think of uh Paul talking

in Corinthians. He says, "I planted,

Apollos watered, but God brings the

increase."

Surrender that helps open the door.

Humility brings grace. Right? We have

all of these things, but it's God at the

end of the day. It's God that brings the

increase.

So, number one, it flows in. Number two,

it flows up. And number three, it flows

out.

John 7:38

John 7:38

Jesus said, "Whoever believes in me, as

the scripture has said, out," say,

"Out."

>> Out of his heart will flow rivers of

living water. Out of his heart will flow

rivers

of living water.

So, not only do we get filled with this

living water, but this living water will

flow out of us like rivers, bringing

life to everything that it touches.

Ezekiel 47, he says, "As the river flows

out, catch this, it makes the salty

water fresh."

You guys heard about the Dead Sea?

I'm I'm leaving for Israel tomorrow, by

the way.

Yeah, if all goes well, I was looking at

the news and uh there's some stuff going

on. So, we'll see what God's up to. But

the plan is right now we're going I get

I get to float in the Dead Sea. You guys

know that nothing can live in that

thing. It's just too salty and uh it's

so there's so much salt that you can

just lay there and float on water. Yeah.

If my back was feeling better, I could

see I was see if I can run across water.

I want to walk on water. See if this

stuff can hold me up.

Yeah, nothing can live there. And when

that river flows, Ezekiel said it makes

the salty water fresh. And then he says

the fruit trees, says fruit trees of all

kinds will grow on both banks. Their

fruit will serve for food. Catch this.

And their leaves for healing.

Once the river of God flows, it makes

dead things come alive.

What's our culture?

We're saved. We go to church. And then

we complain about all the unsaved people

that are evil.

Wait. Oh man, it got really quiet in

here really quick. Yeah. Rather than

being the light shining in a dark place

like a city on a hill. Right. to know

that the same spirit that rose Christ

from the dead now dwells in me and out

of my heart will flow rivers of living

water that God is calling me to go to

the dead places to go to the dark places

just to speak a word of life to speak a

word of encouragement everything the

water touches comes to life everything

changes when you allow yourself to to

let the Holy Spirit flow out of you

whatever it touches

it brings life Fruit is a byproduct of

the river. Healing is a byproduct of the

river. Life is a byproduct of the living

water, the river. All because we let the

water out. He doesn't fill you just to

fill you.

I've been in some circles of

Christianity many years ago that it was

like just us Christians. We'd get filled

with the Holy Spirit and it was just

just for us. We'd have these amazing

meetings, but for year after year after

year, it was the same us.

It was the same us. And it was a type of

uh doctrine that would really not permit

you to go into the dark places.

My pastor wouldn't go into a restaurant

that served alcohol.

So, we had to go to Cracker Barrel with

him and his wife for date night.

>> Yeah. He'd be all upset cuz they're

serving Pap's Blue Ribbon at at Cracker

Barrel. Now, first time I saw I was

like, "Oh, my pastor's not having that."

But you don't go to those places. You

don't listen to that music. You don't do

those things. And God began to shift me

over the years to say, "Man, I got an

evangelistic uh piece on the inside of

me that somebody's got to hear about

Jesus." Amen.

>> And if anyone needs the touch of the

living water, it's the dark places. It's

the places that are dead. When are we

going to get past the us for and no more

holy huddle mentality of of Christianity

and get out and tell somebody about

Jesus?

>> You were filled up so he could flow out.

>> You can write that down.

>> You were filled up so he could flow out.

And I want to say this. The direction of

your worship determines the direction of

your witness.

When your heart flows up in praise, your

hands naturally flow out with purpose.

People don't need stale, stagnant water

of yesterday.

You guys know that moving water is

living water.

People need a fresh revival of the

living

water of God today.

>> Jesus said this in Matthew chapter 10

Matthew 10 · chapter mention

and verse 8. When G when Jesus sent out

the disciples, he told them, catch this,

freely you have received. Freely give.

Freely you have received. Freely give.

Freely you've received the word of God.

Freely you've received the spirit of

God. Freely you've received the fruits

of the Holy Spirit and the gifts of the

Holy Sp.

Now freely give.

The church is a multiplying organism,

not a pond.

water. When we talk about it, what do we

call it sometimes? We call it a body of

water.

A river is known as a moving body of

water. Uh, man, I'm so thankful my

back's doing better.

I've been doing physical therapy. Man,

they put me on this intense track three

days a week. The other day I was five

hours just at the doctor doing physical

therapy and and injections and all this

craziness. And and man, my physical

therapist, he's like a little pitbull.

He reminds me of Esau. He's got red

hair. Little dude, you can tell he works

out like all the time. He's super cool,

man. We actually sparked up a good

friendship. But he's always pushing me,

pushing me, pushing me. And he's really

He's kind of young. And I'm like, "Dude,

I am no kid anymore. You need to, you

know what I mean? I'm just like he keeps

pushing me." And and he tells me, "No,

the more that you sit, the the more that

you're going to hurt. But if you get up

and get moving and start moving those

muscles and moving those joints and all

this stuff, it actually gets the blood

flow and it brings life and it starts to

heal."

>> I was thinking about moving water and

living water. Well, when we are able to

get the spirit of God moving through us

out into the dark places, into the dead

places, it brings life. Stale water

isn't really good. You know, we have uh

in my in our yard, we live in a

subdivision, but we have over 60 like 60

trees I counted at one time, which is

amazing until this time of year when it

comes leaf cleanup time, and I'm just

like I'm my back's been hurting. I'm

just like, there's so many leaves.

But we have a, you know, a lawn mower

and a little wagon that kind of goes

with a little plastic wagon, you know.

And uh my uh normal thing is when I park

the wagon, I flip it up. It's got the

little tilt thing cuz I don't want water

collecting in it, right? And so this

summer I went out and man, I've been

noticing that our mosquitoes were just

like crazy this year. And usually

they're not that bad. And so a few weeks

of this I'm just out there. I'm just

like flipping out cuz I hate mosquitoes.

Anyone else? Right. I don't think they

came from God. I think they flew out of

the pits of hell to suck our blood.

Yeah. I'm out there having an exorcism.

Get out of here, devils.

So, I go back and the wagon was kind of

back behind the trailer was back behind

there and I looked and it had been

absolutely full of water and it was just

ucky. It had all the green, all the

nasties in it. And I'm from the country

so I know what I'm looking for. And I

said, "Let me check this thing." I

started looking in there and you could

see all the little squiggies cuz you

guys know mosquitoes lay eggs in there

and that's where they come out. I said,

I flipped that thing up and no more. No

more mosquito. Do you guys know that

still still water is stale water and

stagnant water and it breeds disease

>> and sickness.

Just because you got filled yesterday

doesn't mean that you're good for today.

>> Out of my heart will flow rivers of

living water. Say, "Keep it moving."

When the spirit moves through you,

let me put it this way. When you're

moved by the spirit, whatever you touch

brings life,

get caught up in the rivers of God.

That's what I think Jesus meant when he

said, "Go into all the world and preach

the gospel to every creature." I think

that's what he was talking about is is

man, get get it moving and get the Holy

Spirit moving. It's not done by

intellect or human standards. It's done

by the spirit, by the river of God. And

I'll just say this for uh the American

church. It's time to start flowing

again. There is a wave of revival moving

across this land. People are getting

caught up in the spirit. There is

something happening. And I want to be

part of it. Amen. I want to be I want to

be caught up in that river of God. And I

want to see young people get saved and

households get delivered. Ah, I want to

be I want to be part of the river, the

living water of God.

>> It's time to start flowing again.

There are places

sometimes in our lives or in our

churches that have been stopped up.

Oh man,

get all stuffed up and stopped up that

God wants to open up. I want to close

with this scripture in Genesis chapter

Genesis 26 · chapter mention

26

and verse 17.

It says, "So Isaac," say Isaac,

>> Isaac,

>> Isaac departed from there and encamped

in the valley of Guerrar and settled

there. And Isaac dug again the wells of

water that had been dug in the days of

Abraham his father, which the

Philistines, catch this, had stopped up

after the death of Abraham. And he gave

them the names that his father had given

them.

But when Isaac's servants dug in the

valley and found there a well of spring

water, the herdsman of Gerrar quarreled

with Isaac's herdsmen, saying, "The

water is ours."

So he called the name of the well Ess.

Because they had contended with him.

Then they dug another well, and they

quarreled over that also.

So he called its name Sitna,

and he moved from there, and dug another

well, and they did not quarrel over it.

So he called its name Rhobath,

saying, "For now the Lord has made room

for us, and we shall be fruitful in the

land."

And give you a little framework.

There was a drought in the land. This is

part of the Middle East known as the

coastal plains. It's just south of Gaza

uh because of recent events. Probably

most of us know where the Gaza Strip is.

It's just a little bit south and west of

that

famine going on.

Some of us are experiencing a spiritual

famine in our own lives.

We know the principles of God.

But we're not moved by the spirit like

we once were. We couldn't say it's a

flood of the spirit flowing through us,

giving life to everything.

There's a famine going on. And Isaac

knows where his father Abraham had dug

the wells in past seasons.

Goes and redigs. Say redig.

redigs the wells of his father Abraham.

Do you know that we've had some revivals

in this world?

Some of you in this room are a product

of the revival in the 70s, the Jesus

movement.

Been pockets of revival all throughout

history.

Man, I see Bill Glover back there

shaking his head.

That's right.

It's time to redig the well

of our fathers.

Revival doesn't happen by accident. Did

you know that?

It's not, oh, God wanted to bless this

people with revival and now this people,

they they're not going to get it. Do you

know that repentance,

surrender, and a chasing after the

things of God opens up the floodgates of

God?

I picture Isaac standing there, man.

They're in drought. They're in

devastation. And he goes, "I know there

used to be water here. I'm going to go

to that place and I'm going to dig a

well." And he begins to dig and all of a

sudden the water comes up. The herdsmen

are there, man. They're there's these

opposition. These Philistines come. Man,

you got to watch those Philistines.

They say, "Whoa, that's that's our

that's our water. You guys go." And so

he says, "All right, all right. Well, I

know where another one is, so I'm going

to go redig another. Well, same thing

happens

at at that point. I don't know if you've

ever dug in and really chased it,

fasting and praying. I'm seeking God for

this thing, and it's like I I get this

momentary breakthrough and it's like the

enemy comes, sweeps in and just takes it

from me.

That doesn't stop Isaac. He says, "I'm

going to dig again." So, he goes

another, man, the enemy comes in on the

second one. And that doesn't stop. He

says, "I know we're another one. I'm

going to go dig again." Say, "Dig

again."

>> I think God has us in this season that

it's time to dig again. It's time to get

back in that temple of the Holy Spirit

to really do a a heart check and a self-

evvaluation and say, "Man, man, is am I

am I flooded? Am I overflowing with

living water? Is it flowing out of me?

Or do I need to dig again?

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I just want the Holy Ghost.

I want the Holy Spirit flowing through

me in such a way that affects everything

that I touch.

Think about this, man. Isaac could have

fought these guys and said, "Oh, no. We

dug this well." You know what Isaac

decides to do with the fresh spring? He

decides just to bless him with it.

I dug it. I did all the hard work, but

if you guys that Adam, you just go ahead

and have it.

keeps that pattern. Can I say this? God

blessed us to be a blessing. And you

don't have to get a resume from somebody

before you bless them.

Well, I don't think they deserve a

blessing.

I'm sure Jesus said that in his

ministry.

>> No, he didn't.

The living water flows through us to

bring life to the dead places. Bless and

do not curse. Jesus even says to bless

your enemy. If he forces you to walk a

mile, just hey, I'll walk with you, too.

If he smacks you on the cheek, man, I'm

so full of the Holy Spirit. Hey, I've

got another one. If that'll make you

feel better, you can smack that one,

too.

Try that when you're unsaved.

Full of the Holy Spirit, full of that

living water.

Somebody takes your coat, say, "Hey,

man. I've got a shirt, too. If you're

cold, I'll give you my shirt. I'm

willing to be cold for you. That's the

heart of Christ. And that's the heart of

the living water. Bless and do not

curse. Let that living water flow

through you and bring healing to

everything that you touch.

Or Hoboth

is what Isaac named that third location.

He said, "Now the Lord has made room for

us and we shall be fruitful in the

land."

You know that Rahoboth is not a place

but a posture. It's the heart saying, "I

will keep digging

until the water breaks. I'll keep

digging until the Lord makes room for

me." It's time for us to get back in the

temple and to dig deep. Isaiah said

this. He said, "With joy, you will draw

water from the wells of salvation.

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Let's

stand to our feet all over this house.

I'll ask the worship team to come.

2 Corinthians 9 and verse 8

says, "And God will generously provide

all you need." That's a good scripture

just by itself, isn't it? God will

generously provide all you need. then

you will always have everything you need

and plenty left over to share with

others.

I got so much joy, man. I'm going to

smack some joy on you. I got so much

peace when I walk in the room, man. I'm

just going to spread the peace wherever

I go. Yeah, you can be caught up in

emotions and chaos, but but I've got

I've got something on the inside of me

that that affects everywhere that I

walk. I've had men of faith. I remember

years ago having men of faith walk into

the room and you could sense something

as they enter and I'm going, man, he

just it makes me feel good. There's

something awesome about that. He's got

the peace of God and the strength of God

and the anointing of God that entered

the room with him and shifted the

atmosphere. I've watched men step onto a

pulpit and the entire atmosphere of the

church changes because they're full of

the Holy Spirit and the living water is

flowing through them. You have

everything you need, plenty left over to

share with others.

Spirit of God, it flows in for renewal.

It flows up for relationship.

And it flows out for revival.

>> Are you willing to be part of the

revival today?

>> Let's pray. Father, I thank you, Lord,

for your spirit. I thank you for the

call to action, God, that that it's not

about how hard we work and and how all

these different efforts that we do, but

Father, I'm thankful that it's just a

heart of surrender that receives you in

fullness.

And Father, today we lift our hands and

we lift our heart. And father, we ask

ask you to fill us to overflowing,

Father, that we would be the revival in

the land, God, that we would be what you

use to bring life to the dead places and

fruit to the trees, Father, and healing.

>> We lift our hands, Lord, and we say,

"Send us."

Father, I pray for those in this room

that have never been filled by your

spirit.

Lord, I pray that today is the day of

breakthrough.

Father, I pray that today is the day

where they're filled to overflowing.

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Thank you, Lord.

Saints, would you just put your hands

out in front of you in a posture of

receiving from God?

And if that's you this morning, you're

saying, "Man, I I'm stirred. I I I I've

never I'm not I'm not there, and I want

to receive God in fullness." Would you

just say this with me? Did you say,

"Father in heaven,

>> Father in heaven

>> through the blood of Jesus Christ,

>> the blood of Jesus Christ,

>> fill me with your spirit,

>> fill me with your spirit

>> to overflowing.

>> I want to be used by you

>> for revival,

for freedom, for peace.

>> So I receive your spirit.

>> I receive your spirit

>> in fullness.

>> In Jesus name in Jesus.

>> Amen.

>> Praise the Lord." We're going to

transition into worship. And uh if you

need prayer for anything, there's not a

lot of room up here, but we don't want

to uh squash that. If you need prayer

for anything, I'm going to ask you to

come right over to this side and and our

elders will pray with you.

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