Receive Ye the Holy Ghost!

I've asked God to bless my mess. Look, there's times where I make a mess of things and then

I'm trusting, oh God, make it all work together for your good. I'm sorry, I repent, I made

a mess. Please take this trash and garbage I created and refine it and recycle it into

gold. That's especially effective when you've gone ahead in the spirit and prayed it through

in your heavenly language. Hallelujah.

Welcome to the City Light Church podcast. Thanks for joining us today as we look into God's

Word and discover the hope and truth that He has for us. If you want to connect with City

Light Church, feel free to visit us at citylightnyc.com, that's citylightnyc.com. Pastor Boyan Jansik

and his team believe that the power of the Holy Spirit is already working in our hearts

and minds. As you listen to today's teaching, remember that you are deeply loved by God, that

you are surrounded by His grace and that He has a real hope and a future for you.

Well, today is Pentecost Sunday. What does that mean? It means that we're celebrating

what happened on the day of Pentecost, Pentecost meaning 50, 50 days after the Passover. It's

the birth of the New Testament church. It's the first time the Holy Spirit was given two people.

Prior to that, the Holy Spirit would just light upon people for a specific task, a mission,

the Old Testament prophets didn't have the Holy Spirit indwelling them like He does Christians

today. He lighted upon them. He would come off of them. But on the day of Pentecost, because Jesus

was glorified, He went to the cross and was resurrected, people sins were forgiven. For the first

time, what Jesus did on the cross, that hadn't been done before in the Old Testament with the

animal sacrifices, that was just an atonement, a covering for sin. The cross caused the remittance of

sin. Your sin has been taken out of the way. Your sin has disappeared when you placed your faith in

Jesus. And now you can have the very spirit of God come and live inside of you. And this is one of the

most misunderstood topics in the Bible. It really is the indwelling of the Holy Spirit, being filled with

the Holy Spirit, being baptized in the Holy Spirit. It's very, very misunderstood. And that's because

Satan, he knows that once you get filled with the Holy Spirit, it's over, baby. And so he comes and

tries to bring confusion. And really, when you just let the scriptures speak for themselves, there

shouldn't be any confusion. I'm just saying there's some obscure passages. You just wonder, I'm

wondering what this means. But not concerning with the baptism in the Holy Spirit, because we have a

map in the book of Acts for how people were filled, what happened when they got filled, and we see the

same pattern over and over and over again. So we can learn from that. We don't have to over

complicate it. I think when man gets involved, they read into it more than they should, and they

overcomplicated. It's actually quite simple. And it'll change and transform your life. I don't want

to fly coach when first class is available. If I have a, you know, if I'm going on a cruise, and I

have the balcony cabin, I'm not going in the inner cabin. So Jesus, with his own blood, paid the way

and made this available to everyone, I don't understand why somebody would take less than what he's

offering, unless they just don't know. Well, that's my job. I want to get you to know. I want to show

you what's all in the benefits package. You didn't read the pennies. You got to read the pennies.

In fact, the psalmist cried out, Lord, bless the Lord, oh my soul, and forget not any of his

benefits. Even the psalmist cried out, Lord, help me to keep the penny package in the forefront of my

mind, because the enemy comes and tries to get me to forget. Let's read Acts chapter 8, verses 14

Acts 8:14–20

through 20. I want to start right here, because it shows us how, in the new covenant, our forefathers,

their early apostles, how they operated. It says, now, when the apostles who wear Jerusalem

heard that Samaria had received the Word of God, everybody just say received the Word of God.

That means that the town, the area of Samaria, more than a town, excuse me, the region. But

there was such a bold proclamation of the word that the majority got saved. It was a radical

revival. They received the Word of God later. You'll see they got baptized in water, too.

But that wasn't enough for the first century apostles.

Some things have been distorted in our modern-day version of Christianity. Like, for example,

did you know the altar call is only about a 200, 250-year-old invention? Did you know that?

Some of you thought the altar call was, some of you think Jesus implemented the altar call.

Charles Finney is credited with starting the altar call.

And, I mean, when he gave an altar call, you had to change your underwear.

And the power of God came into the place in the conviction of the Lord, and people came running

and sobbing to the front. But then, over time, that devolved into something that sounds like

this. Won't you just pray Jesus into your heart? Just pray Jesus into your heart. The gospel has

never been, just say this quick five-second prayer with me and pray Jesus into your heart.

It doesn't exist. The message of the gospel has always been, surrender your life to Jesus. Come to

Him. Surrender to His Lordship. Give Him your whole life and trust in Him for His righteousness.

Believe, and you will be saved. Except the word believe doesn't just mean, uh-huh, I believe.

It means, stake your life on, cling to, trust in, with every fiber of your being, believe,

not a mental ascent. So that, you see how that just got changed into, won't you just say this

quick prayer with me? And then, we wonder why there's people who fill out con-conven-um-not

connection cards, but... Commitment cards, thank you. Commitment cards, and then you call them

up to check on how they're doing, and they don't even remember praying your 10-second prayer.

I mean, oh, we're not supposed to judge. Yeah, I'll judge that. Nothing happened.

Something's, if they don't remember getting saved, they're not. Amen.

And something similar happened with the baptism of the Holy Spirit. People don't know,

they haven't been provoked into a godly curiosity to find out more about it, but there is this wonderful

thing called indwelling of the Holy Spirit, the baptism in the Holy Spirit, also called receiving

the Holy Spirit, also called being filled with the Holy Spirit. It all means the same thing.

It's a Christian who's got their sins forgiven. They're on their way to heaven, but they get filled

with the Holy Spirit. So you can be a Christian who's not filled with the Holy Spirit. I'll show

you in the scriptures. What does that mean? Well, it means you're going to heaven, you know the Lord,

except you're flying in coach. Why? I don't want to show up to heaven and find out I could have had more.

Amen. Some people are going to be very, very saddened. They're going to get to heaven,

and they live to just a dry, miserable life on earth looking like they were baptized in lemon juice,

and find out, go to heaven and find out they could have had a drink all along.

They could have drunk from God's new wine all along, and I'm like, oh, I was so sour and uptight

all my life. I didn't know this was available. Well, I hope to never leave you with that excuse.

You'll know what's available. Now, when the apostles were Jerusalem, they heard that Samaria had

received the Word of God. They sent Peter and John. This is not the B team, not the C team,

but the A team. Peter and John, the dynamic duo, they sent them to Samaria. Why? Samaria had

already received the Word of God, because the apostles said, but you're on the right track,

but there's more. We're the next verse. Who, when they had come down, pray for them that they

might receive the Holy Spirit. Verse three, the third verse, verse 16, four, is yet he had fallen

upon none of them. Wait, what? They were only baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus. Wait, what?

They got saved. Today, if someone goes on a mission's trip and says, hey, I'm in this region,

like 85% of the region accepted Christ. We don't clap, cheer, and forget about it.

Like that's enough. The apostles said, no, no, there's more. Well, do they get baptized?

And what are, yeah, they got, in fact, the scripture almost belittles it. It doesn't

be little baptism, but it's, they had only been baptized. Today, we'd celebrate, wow, you,

you not only got them all saved, but they also got baptized in water. Job complete, not the first

century church. No, no, they said, Peter and John, show time, baby, go all the way down to

Samaria and leave them into the deeper things, leave them into the greater things, get them filled

with the Holy Spirit. So the 18 Peter and John comes to Samaria. Next verse 17, then they laid hands

on them and they received the Holy Spirit. That's got to plan for every Christian to receive the

Word of God and get saved to be water baptized and then to be filled to receive, to be baptized

with the Holy Spirit of God. Then they laid hands on them and they received the Holy Spirit.

And when Simon saw, now this is a deep, deep revelation. Buckle your seatbelt. The fact that the

scripture says that Simon saw that through the laying on of the apostles hands the Holy Spirit

was given, that means there was something to see. All right, hold on. Let me use a more provocative

word. That means there was a manifestation because there's this whole camp and Christianity that

just believes, well, I just received the Holy Spirit by faith. Well, how do you know? How do you

know you received? Well, you know, I just, and then they ask like with a question mark at the end,

because I believe I do. What was the evidence? Well, how about the fruit of the Holy Spirit? The

fruit of the Holy Spirit is great. I love the fruit of the Holy Spirit. May the Lord increase the

fruit of the Holy Spirit. But it doesn't say, and we'll read all the accounts of people getting

filled with the Holy Spirit. It doesn't say they came out with more kindness, goodness, temperance,

love, joy, peace, meekness. There was a physical evidence. And you will see that every single time

in the Scriptures where it's noted what the physical evidence was, the physical evidence is

speaking in tongues. Speaking in another language, you were never ever taught.

The Holy Spirit supernaturally fills you and gives you the utterances.

This is why the enemy comes against this. This is why for some of you, when I mentioned speaking

in tongues, you immediately flash back to some documentary of some Appalachian church where the

Dancin' around with snakes and saying some gibber jabber. No. How are you saying this stuff in

New York City? Take your shoes off and go dance barefoot in the mountains if you're going to be

preaching this. Thank you, too. It's worth it just for the laughter of two people, because it's from

the heart. Simon saw. There was a physical manifestation. He saw that through the laying on of

the apostles' hands, the Holy Spirit was given. Look, I just have to say this.

You cannot put God in a box. And it's not his job to make you feel comfortable and do things

your way. God is not Burger King. It's not your way right away. God is God. We conform to him. He

does not conform to us. I didn't make it this way. God made it this way. I'm going to show you,

if you're not convinced then I don't expect you to be convinced yet. All throughout the book of

Acts, which is our map, it's our blueprint and how the church should function. All throughout the

book of Acts, immediately when they were filled, they spoke in other tongues. And it's powerful.

It doesn't make you weird. It makes you more like Jesus. Christianity is not a frontal lobe

in, sanitized, Western faith. People in America have tried to make that. Christianity is an

Eastern faith, a supernatural faith, an experiential faith. And yes, a faith that actually gets results

and produces a manifestation in this natural realm. Amen. That makes some hoidy, toyty or scared

people even more scared. The only thing I can tell you is yield surrender. You cannot make God

into your own image. You conform as you've been made in his image. The only time, and I'm doing

that one first, where it doesn't specifically say tongues, but it says that Simon saw something.

He offered the money, saying, give me this power also, that anyone on whom I lay hands may

receive the Holy Spirit. He saw, he was so impressed by what was happening as the apostles laid hands

on the Christians and they were filled with the Holy Spirit. He wasn't even saved, but he

recognized real power and he offered the money for that same ability. And of course,

Peter said to him, your money, perish with you because you thought that the gift of God

could be purchased with money. Hallelujah. Let's go to Romans chapter 8. I want to talk about tongues.

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The Bible says, the Spirit also helps in our weaknesses. What are those weaknesses? Well, it defines

them in the next line. A weakness is we do not know what we should pray for as we ought, but the

Spirit himself makes intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered. So here's the

weakness that we all have in common. We're wondering what the future holds. We have problems right now

and in English, in our mother tongue, whatever that may be, in the vernacular, we may be stumble

about in prayer. Like I know several things about my future right now. God is good. God is with me.

God wants to show his loving kindness, his covenant kindness to me. This is what I'm believing.

But the specifics sometimes elude me. I know I'm going to have the best summer of my life.

But I don't know the specifics. I know we're going to close out 20, 25 in a bang. But I don't know

the specifics. That's a weakness. In fact, even the Apostle Paul, when talking about the Spirit

realm and the future, he said, we behold through a glass dimly, a glass is a mirror. And back then

they didn't have pretty mirrors like we had today. What they really had was a highly polished piece

of bronze or brass. That's how they would see their reflection. And so you can imagine, although

they can see there's still a wet and some details for the most part, it was blurry. That's how it

often is when looking into the future. By the way, that's how it is for me. And every pastor I know,

every vent, that's how it is. I have to say that because when I was a young Christian,

I thought pastors just knew the future. I just thought of it. David Wagner can prophesy over people,

but for himself, he's beholding through a glass dimly. That's how the Lord does it. So you have

to rely on him. He's not going to show you the whole movie. He'll give you some snapshots. Maybe

a five second clip of the movie, a trailer, a teaser, if you will. So you don't know how to pray

specifically for the details, but when you pray in tongues, like when I, you don't have to be weird

about it. You don't have to swing from the light bulb as you're doing it, shouting, foaming at the

mouth. You can converse with the Lord as you're praying out of your spirit. And the Holy Spirit is

utilizing my vocal cords and going to my future and praying the perfect will of God. So I have a

weakness. I don't know how to pray as I ought, but the Holy Spirit within me, he makes intercession for

me with these groanings of intercession, which cannot be put in intelligible speech. Next verse,

now he who's, this is really the power of praying in tongues and speaking in tongues. Now he who searches

the hearts knows what the mind of the Spirit is because he makes intercession. The Holy Spirit now

is praying through you for you. And I got to say, some people say, I was praying in tongues for

my friend. You really weren't. I know you'd like to think that you were praying in tongues for you.

It doesn't say that we're praying in tongues. It says, I edify myself. I edify myself. I strengthen

myself. It's not for someone else. It's for you. You're the beneficiary of it. And when you pray in

tongues, the Holy Spirit is making intercession for you according to the will of God. So when you're

praying in tongues, you don't have to wonder, I hope God agrees with this prayer. I hope this is in

line with his will. You're actually, and it's a beautiful thing. You're bypassing the mental mess

that's up here. You know how many times I've gone to pray? And when you go to pray, you go with some

anxiety sometimes. You go with some doubt sometimes. And the heavier the attack, the more uncertain

than cloudy your future is. And then I'll start praying in English. And I can't even get that far.

It's like I had a wall. What do I pray? That's my weakness. But the Holy Spirit who searches the

deep things, prays through me according to the will of God. What a secret weapon. What a distinct

advantage. And then verse 28, this is like every Christian's favorite verse right after I can do

all things through Christ to strengthen me. This is like my favorite verses taken out of context.

This would be number two. And we know that all things work together. This, you cannot untie this from

the previous two verses. We know that all things work together for good to those who love God,

to those who are the call according to his purpose, and especially to those filled with the Holy

Spirit. I've asked God to bless my mess. Look, there's times where I make a mess of things,

and then I'm trusting, oh God, make it all work together for your good. I'm sorry, I repent.

I made a mess. Please take this trash and garbage I created and refine it and recycle it into gold.

That's especially effective when you've gone ahead in the Spirit and prayed it through in your

heavenly language. Hallelujah. Thank you, Jesus. First Corinthians, chapter 14, verse 2.

1 Corinthians 14:2

If you have never spoken in tongues, today's your day. I'm always amazed at how much the Lord

wants this. This morning, the whole altar was filled. People started speaking in tongues within

seconds. People who, honestly, some of the people when they came up, I was like, oh God,

Lord, I'm going to go by faith, but some of them look rock hard. What do you, you have to do a

miracle here? You know, it's not like they came up, oh God, they came up like, what is this guy

going to do? And then within seconds speaking in tongues, the Lord loves this. He loves to fill people.

So if you've never spoken in tongues today's your day, some of you, you were filled,

but you never learned about the purpose of tongues. So you didn't keep speaking.

But when you see how beautiful speaking in tongues is, praying in tongues, the power that's behind

it, the baptism in the Holy Spirit is the doorway to the supernatural. If you can't walk through

that doorway, the Lord isn't going to visit you in your dreams. He's not going to speak to you.

He's not going to, there's a ceiling you're going to hit quickly that you don't have to hit

when you walk through the doorway of the baptism in the Holy Spirit.

For he who speaks in a tongue does not speak to men, but to God, because that's a question

people often ask, but what are you saying? None of your business. I don't know what I'm saying.

The scripture says I don't speak to men. I speak to God. And this is where they get tripped up.

It's that on the day of Pentecost, when they were filled with the Holy Spirit, they actually

did speak earthly languages. And in Jerusalem, it says they heard them all speaking these

different languages and they recognized some of the languages. That the scripture says only

happened one time that God did it as a specific sign and a wonder. But Paul talks about the tongues

of men and the tongues of angels. Like I just spoke in tongues and you may be going, well, I don't

know what language that is. I don't either. It could be a tongue that's in heaven. You think God,

like speaks English? Is that how you think it's going to go down? When God created the world,

do you think he did it in English? When he said let there be, that's how some people

didn't even thought about these things. He actually has a language and he's so diverse and so big

and such a creator, dare I believe that he has many, many languages. And all you have to do,

I watched recently a news reporter out of Kazakhstan speaking and it sounded like a car

storming to me. And it sounded like, and I thought to myself, no, that's a language.

But I don't know, but I don't know that language. So to me, it sounds like he's got an old

Suzuki that just won't start. And then people will judge tongues. Oh, it just sounds like you're

saying the same six words. It sounded like he was saying the same three words and he's giving the news.

For he who speaks in a tongue does not speak to men but to God for no one understands him.

However, now this is a key and it requires faith in the spirit you speak mysteries.

Like for me years ago, I was massively in debt. How to get out was a mystery.

You may be here today. You feel like God is taking you to a different place, a better place.

But the steps to that place are a mystery. You may be in a bad marriage. God wants to make it a

great. You made your decision. You don't bail. So how do you get God to turn it around?

That's a mystery. The Bible says you can pray out these mysteries. There were times when I was

hurting, when I was anxious, when I was confused. And in English, I was all prayed out. I was done.

I was spent. I was sick of forking me. I'm done. Well done. That good and faithful servant.

All I had, all I had then was, I'm praying out to God. I'm going and I'm saying everything right.

Do I know what I'm saying? No, but it's by faith. My understanding is not fruitful. I didn't make

that up. Paul said that. My mind doesn't know what I'm saying. God made it that way on purpose,

because it would freak you out if you knew what you were saying. If you knew what you were

praying about for your future, distant or immediate, is oh no, Lord. Don't do that. That's too much.

He who speaks in a tongue edifies himself, but he who prophesies edifies the church. So a couple

of things we've learned. When you pray in tongues, you give thanks well, you're praying out the

mysteries, you're praying completely in line with the will of God and you give thanks well. Hallelujah.

And then verses 14 through 18. For if I pray in a tongue, by the way, this is the Apostle Paul.

He wrote half the New Testament. If you believe he wrote the book of Hebrews and he wrote two thirds

of the New Testament. And he spoke in tongues. You know who talked about speaking in tongues?

Jesus. I couldn't believe it. When I got saved and I read that in Mark chapter 16, verse 16,

Mark 16:16

he says these signs will follow those who believe they will speak with new tongues. I was shocked.

Nobody ever mentions that. Jesus talked about it. And then you know what, people, some people just

resist what God wants to do. So they'll do say things like, well, did Jesus speak in tongues?

No. He didn't have to. He already had a hotline to heaven. I need help. He already had the direct

direct line. He didn't have to worry about not praying in line with the Father's will.

He only did what he saw the Father do, said what he saw the Father heard what he saw the Father.

You know what I'm saying. For if I pray in a tongue, my spirit, see that's the thing your Bible up here

can be a mess. You're not doing a frontal lobe in prayer. Some of you, you do yourselves a

favor by stopping the panicky anxious prayers. You got to understand there's faith and there's fear.

I feel like going in this route a little bit. Listen, it was T. L. Osborne, famous crusade evangelist

went up and down Africa mighty moves of God in miracles. His wife, Daisy Osborne got cancer

and they made the mistake of letting everybody know and they wanted prayer support. So they

they sent out a partner letter saying, Daisy's got to please pray for her. And they noticed she

got worse, not better. And so he fasted and sought to Lord and here's what he what he says he heard

in the spirit. He said, stop them. I'm getting this the Lord speaking. I'm getting tens of

thousands of anxious prayers and they're hurting not helping. You cannot miss anxiety and worry

and fear with your prayers. It has the opposite effect. Fear pulls into your life which you don't want,

the thing you're afraid of. Faith pulls into your life that thing you're believing God for from

his word. So I want to bypass my mind which can be riddled with anxiety and pray right out of my

spirit. And you can too once you're baptized in the Holy Spirit. My understanding, well I don't

know what I'm saying. It's unfruitful. Verse 15, what is the conclusion then? I will pray with the

spirit and I will pray with the understanding. I will sing with the spirit and I will also sing

with the understanding. So Paul also says you can sing in tongues that's singing in the spirit.

How many of you have ever sung in tongues? Yeah. You can sing with the understanding that's in the

vernacular English for us. Sing in the spirit. Pray in the spirit. Pray with the understanding.

Verse 16, otherwise if you bless with the spirit how will he who occupies the place of the uninformed

say amen at your giving of thanks since he does not understand what you say? For indeed you give

thanks well again when you speak in tongues you're giving thanks well but the other is not

edified and this is the Apostle Paul he says I thank my God I speak with tongues more than you all.

Listen if it's good enough for Paul it's good enough for me and it's available to everyone today

because nothing has changed this is the new covenant dispensation. Hooray we're still in the new

covenant. We're still a part of this dispensation and Jesus is the same yesterday today and forever.

This is available to all today. Hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah. So let's go to Luke.

Luke chapter 24 verse 49.

Luke 24:49

Speak in tongues every day. Speak in tongues in the shower. Speak in tongues as you're getting ready.

Speak in tongues as you're cooking. It helps you stay plugged in. It keeps you submitted to the Lord.

It's like you know when the Tesla's in my neighbor now I just see every third person has a Tesla

and they at night stick it in. That's what happens when you speak in tongues. You're getting charged

up. Some of you are driving around with 12%. Don't you drive around life with 12%. You want to be

at 100%. Speak in tongues as you're getting hooked up to the greatest conductor of power and

energy. God himself and as you're speaking in tongues you're getting edified. You're getting

strengthened. You're speaking out mysteries. You're giving thanks. Well your human battery. God is

charging up. That's what I believe Paul was talking about in Ephesians. He said I pray that you

would be strengthened in your inner man. Your spirit and actually I believe has an energy level.

There's times where I feel like right now I'm exhausted physically. We got back anyway I won't

give into details but I didn't get the bet till 2 a.m. So physically I'm exhausted right now but my

spirit I feel on you. But there are times where where you know you don't want to be at a place.

This is where dangerous things happen when you're great physically and you're exhausted spiritually.

Oh that's when trouble happens because then you're getting ahead of yourself. You know you're

you got the strength to carry out a lot of stupid things and your spirit is too weak to stop you.

So I want to juice up and get my spirit to 100%. This is Jesus after the resurrection talking to

his disciples who spent three three and a half years with him. You think they'd be ready for

ministry right now but they're not. He says behold I send the promise of my father upon you

but Terry in the city of Jerusalem until you are in dude with power from on high. Now to anyone

sitting here and saying look I received Jesus and I'm just happy with that I just ask you what

would Jesus say to you? His disciples received him and he didn't say guys you're set go on and

take the world for me. He said you spent three three and a half years with me. You were I

witnesses to every miracle to every parable you were I witnesses even to the resurrection and

you're still not ready go to Jerusalem until you're in dude with power from on high until you're

filled with the Holy Spirit until your acts chapter 2 until your day of Pentecost it then you

Acts 2 · chapter mention

can go out. So who are we to think we're better than the disciples if they weren't ready without

the baptism of the Holy Spirit how could I be ready? Hallelujah so Acts chapter 1 verse 8 kind of

Acts 1:8

a continuation of Luke 2449 these are the final words of Jesus pretty important Christ's final

words in the very next verse he's taken up into heaven and his final words are you shall receive power

see without a Pentecostal Christianity and I'm not talking about the denomination no matter

Pentecostal a spirit filled Christianity you have a lukewarm dry Christianity I wouldn't I wouldn't

have made a three months as a Christian I wouldn't have I thank God for the Holy Spirit thank God

that he goes ahead of you that he puts his super over your natural when I see what he's done

around city light only he can get the glory thank God for the Holy Spirit thank God that sometimes

I think what I should preach I've been preparing all week and then if he says preach something different

I'm immediately yield because I've learned his ways it better than my ways thank God for the Holy

Spirit the Holy Spirit who will lead you and guide you and all the affairs of life thank God for the

Holy Spirit you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you and you shall be witnesses

to me in Jerusalem and in all Judea and in Samaria and unto the uttermost parts of the earth of the

end of the earth now Acts chapter 10 I want you to see every example of people getting filled with

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the Holy Spirit and I'm also teaching you I hope you realize that how to interpret scripture

because deception is very very nasty you know why because it's so deceiving

and deception has only and the only antidote for deception is the purity of the word of God

and I don't want you to be deceived and deceivers are everywhere mainly the internet but they're

everywhere actually used to be a lot more spread out they were in the street corner they were

on the radio they were in TV now they're just almost exclusively on Facebook and Instagram

while Peter was still preaching can you believe the Holy Spirit had the audacity to interrupt Peter's

sermon and notice no alter call was given Charles Finney hadn't come around yet

the Holy Spirit fell upon all those who heard the word now how do they know the Holy Spirit fell

upon all those who heard the word how do they know

because something happened what does it say in the very next verse

and those of the circumcision who believed were astonished as many as came with Peter

because the gift of the Holy Spirit had been poured out on the Gentiles also how did they know

for they heard them speak with tongues and magnify God if it's just this one verse it should seriously

if you're not filled with the Holy Spirit they should seriously cause you to want to explore

this concept even more but there's not only one verse there's multiple verses and that's what I was

trying to say about deception and fighting deception when it comes to doctrine you need at least two

or three very clear verses to establish doctrine and who taught us that some pastor no the Bible

the Bible says led out of the mouth of two or three witnesses everything be established

and that's you'll see other call it arms of Christianity they don't follow that so they come

up with all weird kooky doctrines like for example this is going to hurt some people's feelings but

that's my job in Roman Catholicism they worship Mary there's no we don't worship we venerate I've

seen pictures of people crawling underneath a quarter of a mile in Mexico to kiss the foot of a

statue with tears in their eyes they're worshiping you're praying to Mary you're worshiping Mary

you you sometimes talk way more to Mary than you do to Jesus and then when I ask for scriptural

proof they'll come back to only one verse which doesn't even make sense but they say well you know

Gabriel greeted her and he said Hail Mary you are full of grace and blessed are you among women

okay that's beautiful doesn't say to pray to her doesn't say to get her to be your mediator

doesn't say God is an angry father and you know you need to talk to his mother because she'll

calm him down which is what was taught that's actually what's taught the Jesuits taught that

you know and they'll use the example you know in real life the father

you know the father's just emotional he'll just snap like that but Mary's like okay hold on now

give him give him another chance

but the point is that all comes from one verse taken out of context so don't let you be that sucker

the reason why I go through all these verses is so that you don't believe what I say so that

you believe what God says through his holy word so that no one can deceive you amen

then Peter answered oh this is awesome so can anyone forbid water they weren't even baptized in

water yet never answered an alter called didn't even have time to fill out a commitment card

they're just hearing the word of God and on the inside going yes I believe this and they get saved

and start speaking in tongues and then Peter says all right you went straight to third base from

first let's get you to second base now and get you water baptized can anyone forbid water

that these should not be baptized who have received the Holy Spirit just as we have in other words

he's saying I recognize what's happening here because the same thing that happened to us back in

Acts chapter 2 is happening to them they receive the Holy Spirit just as we have right with the

Acts 2 · chapter mention

evidence of speaking in tongues and then verse 48 and he commanded them to be baptized in the name of

the Lord and they asked them to stay a few days let's now go to Acts chapter 19 and I'll close with

Acts 19 · chapter mention

this I've taken you now with this passage through every instance of someone getting filled with the

Holy Spirit in the Bible Acts chapter 2 Acts chapter 8 Acts chapter 10 and now Acts chapter 19

Acts 2 · chapter mention Acts 8 · chapter mention Acts 10 · chapter mention Acts 19 · chapter mention

and you should find a pattern an initial physical manifestation and it happened while Apollo

was at Corinth that Paul having passed through the upper regions came to Ephesus and finding some

disciples what were they disciples they were believers and this is what he asked them did you

receive the Holy Spirit when you believed I don't know if you're catching the significance of this

question today we meet Christians all the time and we just assume they're filled we just not we're

just happy for them to say I believe in Jesus oh good good I don't let's work for me

but that's not how the Paul that's not how the Apostle Paul ministered he found believers they

believed in Jesus they were saved and he asked them but have you received the Holy Spirit imagine

if you ran around from church to church and asked every Christian you're Christian great you receive

the word great you got baptized in water great have you received the Holy Spirit since you believed

yet that's what the Apostle Paul did did you receive the Holy Spirit when you believed

hint he knew they hadn't he felt a stirring in his spirit he wanted to leave them into more

excellent things into the greater things of God that's what today is about God wants to take you

higher he wants to give you everything he paid for with his own blood for you to have why why would

you leave anything on the table it's good to be spiritually hungry it's good to be even spiritually

I use the term greedy I know it has a as a bad connotation but Jesus said zeal for my father's house

has consumed me that it's not a greedy like a carnal greediness it's a spiritual zeal God I want

all that you have for me they said we have not so much has heard whether there is a Holy Spirit

then Paul said into what then where you baptized so they said into John's baptism

then Paul said John indeed baptized with a baptism of repentance saying to the people that

they should believe on him who would come after him that is on Christ Jesus and when they heard

this they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus and when Paul had laid hands on them also

different ways of receiving the Holy Spirit this is the second time that we see the laying out

of hands as a means of transferring the Holy Spirit Acts chapter 10 there was no laying out of

Acts 10 · chapter mention

hands they just with an open heart received and began speaking in other tongues same thing in

Acts chapter 2 there was nobody there's nobody who had the Holy Spirit to administer him by the

Acts 2 · chapter mention

laying out of answer they received from heaven directly and you can receive that way too you can

receive through the laying out of hands in about five minutes too but when they were filled with the

Holy Spirit when the Holy Spirit came upon them there was evidence there was a physical manifestation

they spoke with tongues and prophesied worship team come on up the Holy Spirit is here right now

the Holy Spirit loves to fill people with himself and the main thing for those

desiring to be filled with the Holy Spirit this really is the main thing because Satan gets up

in your head and the first thing he makes you feel unworthy he makes you condemned he tells you

oh you still have so many issues in your life go clean yourself up and then come back to be filled

with the Holy Spirit that's completely backwards that's like trying to lose weight to get to the

gym that's like trying to get better before you check into the hospital God wants you right where

you are as long as your faith is in Jesus and you've acknowledged him as your Lord and Savior you

qualify and God get this God does not have to give the Holy Spirit do not picture God in heaven

holding his spirit back and if he likes you enough he has already given him when the day of

Pentecost circa two thousand years ago the day of Pentecost the Holy Spirit was given and he's been

here ever since so then what's the problem well you need to receive God doesn't have to give

you need to receive so don't come up here with that mindset of our hope God gives me no you just

need to yield relax and receive so every head bowed every eye closed please say this allowed

with me say Lord Jesus I believe in you I believe you took my sins away on the cross I trust you

for your righteousness and now everybody here who wants to be filled with the Holy Spirit with

the evidence of speaking in tongues I want you to raise your hand you got to forget about others

yeah keep that hand up high can't be self-conscious those of you with your hands lift it up

stand and come on up to the front and face me the ushers will come and they're just gonna line you

up in a straight line thank you Lord and just begin praying when you come up here just be praising

hallelujah thank you Jesus and those of you in your seats be blessing them and releasing the

anointing upon them oh is it gonna be awesome thank you Lord thank you Lord thank you Lord

thank you Jesus now I'm gonna just set up some ground rules number one do not speak English

you can't speak in tongues in English at the same time number two do not speak Spanish

don't speak Chinese Portuguese we got over 80 nations at city light I can't list every language but do not

speak a known language refuse to speak a known language and know this God is not gonna possess you

he's not gonna take you over he's gonna gently give you utterances you might start with stuttering

with stammering yield do not judge yourself do not analyze what you're saying I don't care if you

start up saying yeah but dad but do scuba do be day do not judge yourself just open your mouth

and begin speaking the Bible in fact says with stammering lips and another tongue will I speak to

this people so in the beginning it'll be stammering stuttering the devil will say you're foolish

stop that do not back off yield even more say the next thing refuse to speak in English or whatever

language you know yield to him lift your hands up high and say this Lord Jesus oh I trust you

you pay the price for the baptism in the Holy Spirit I believe the moment hands are laid upon me

I receive the Holy Spirit and I will speak in tongues as you give me utterance now get ready the

moment I lay my hands upon you begin to open your mouth and speak in the name of Jesus be filled

with the Holy Spirit right now open your mouth and talk filled in Jesus name filled open your mouth

and talk filled begin to talk open your mouth be filled some of you may start even before I get to you

be filled no shyness say it loud move your mouth move your tongue be filled with the Holy Ghost

be filled with the Holy Spirit say it go ahead say it you're doing great take that said see that's

how it goes you take a deep breath say it again it's a little scary at first because you're like

what in the world this actually works imagine that be filled with the Holy Spirit there we go keep

talking keep talking boldly says boldly ask keep talking filled right now I lose that tongue and

lose those lips be filled in Jesus name say it this is the city light church podcast if you've missed

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