Baptized for Revival | Pastor Adam Mesa

Well, Praise God.

Thank you to all those that consider Patriar your home

church and you partner with us through your generosity for

those that may be new to our church or new

to coming around us, I want to thank you so

much for your generosity. I think what's amazing about Patrio

and this isn't any you know, every church has a

different emphasis and sometimes people come to us and they'll say, hey,

why don't you emphasize more of this or more emphasize

more of that. Maybe when it comes to local outreach

national outreach. Well, one of the things that we highly

emphasize is the physical needs being the hands in Jesus

in our own community. And so we have a Generosity center.

And our Generosity center is across our Pomona campus, our

Rancho campus here a Utica, where our original church building is,

and so we have a Generosity center over there where

we feed thousands of families a week.

We have a ten million dollar food.

Contract with Costco where they've committed annually that much in

food that they give to us in our Generosity center.

And so if you just google food banks in an Empire,

Patrio will be in the top ten three times. It'll

be our campus or our Generosity Center or whatever. Maybe

I don't say that braggadociously. I say that because we

aren't government funded. We do not get checks by the government,

we do not get donations by the government. It is

only through the generosity of our church that funds our

Generosity Center. It's the generosity of business people that come

alongside and fund what we're doing so that we can

serve our community. And I want to thank you because

when situations happen like it has in the nation, where

people's benefits have been turned off, we don't have to

start something up to reach our community. We do this

three hundred and sixty five days a year, every single

week as a church, fifty two weeks a year. Even

on days like Saturday when it may be closed and

someone needs something on a Thursday, our team works and

does what wherever they can to feed someone to get

them to our Generosity Center. We cannot do that without

your generosity. And I want to just thank you. I'm

not here to ask you for anything in that regard.

I'm just here to say thank you that people have

food on their table today Thanksgiving. People are gonna come

through your generosity. We have been able to buy all

of our turkeys for our Thanksgiving outreach because you give.

And that is the church being the church.

That's not just taking care of our campus and making

sure that it looks good and that we can worship freely.

It's being the hands and feet of Jesus. And so

thank you.

And I say that also because you may not know

that we have that, and you may talk to someone

that says, hey, I'm in need for food, or we

have one of the largest diaper contracts in the Inland Empire.

You may meet a mother who doesn't have diapers or whatever.

It's called Patria Generosity Center. Okay, that's what you look up.

That's what you connect with. And please make sure that

you share that with people that you may meet that

may be in need. And they can always call the

office anytime to get more information in that regard. Well,

if you have a Bible, would you turn and get

your Bible ready. We're not going to turn to anywhere

in particular. We're actually gonna jump through a bunch of

passages this weekend because as you see, we got the

baptismal right in front of us, and tomorrow we have

I think over two hundred people signed up to be

baptized tomorrow between first.

And second service.

And that's just at our Rancho campus, and our other

campuses are doing baptisms as well, And so I'm gonna

be talking about baptism today, but maybe not just water baptism.

It's going to be slightly different.

We've been in a series called Seeds of Revival, and

if you haven't caught any of it, I encourage you

to go back on YouTube and look at week one

and two. Week one we introduce what a healthy view

of revival is. It's where God will pour out his

spirit fresh on his people. Last week we talked about

how prayer is a foundation for revival, and if you

were here last week, I want to say thank you

for leaning in to praying together corporately. I just I

wasn't here last week, and I'll share in a few

moments why, but just seeing and I'm part of our

preaching team, so we all study together every Tuesday, and

our team decided, hey, we're going to have our church

corporately pray. And just seeing people pray together, I mean,

it was beautiful and I've just heard story after story

about how God moved into people's lives, and thank you

so much for participating and just seeing the Spirit of

God active. And this week, what we're going to continue

to talk about is baptism, not just water baptism. We're

gonna talk about the baptism the Holy Spirit and us

being baptized into the body of Christ. Because what's beauty

is when you talk about the word baptism. And if

you're new to church, I'll explain that in a few moments,

but when you talk about baptism, it's one of the

moments that the whole trinity of God, the Godhead is

what we say, it's the Father, Son, Holy Spirit is

involved in all forms of the baptism. In the form

of baptism, when we talk about it in a few moments,

you have the God had you, the Father who is there,

and he's approving you and I. He's marking us with

his approval not because of what we've done, but because

our faith in Jesus. And then you have the work

of Jesus that stands in the balance that now as

God sees you and I received Christ as our savior,

we see the work of Jesus in our life. And

then lastly, what happens is is you have a moment

where the Holy Spirit now puts his seal on your life.

It's a beautiful moment where all of God is at

active work in your life. And whether it's through the

baptism of the Holy Spirit, the baptism of salvation, or

the baptism into water, the Trinity is there in that moment.

So I want to encourage you today in the few

moments that we have. If you have a Bible, you

can go to First Corinthians twelve. But we'll jump a

little bit today, but that'll be the first part we'll

be at.

In just a few moments.

But one of the things I want to encourage you

today is to be open to God to baptize you.

Open to God, Be open that God would speak to you,

Be open to God that maybe the Lord would stretch

you a little bit. Today. You may have said to yourself,

what I've been water baptized before. Well, it's not just

about water baptism that we're gonna talk about, because what

happens is when the Holy Spirit gets a hold of

our life. The Bible says that miracle, signs and wonders

follow when you and I receive the power of God.

In our life. But you and I we have to

be open to it. God's not gonna force his way

into your heart. God doesn't force his way into your day. Today,

you and I have to say, God, my life is

open for you to do with what you please. My

heart is open. It's like the moment that you've ever

been in, a moment of surrender. It's like, I'm not

gonna fight anymore. If you're married before, hopefully if you've

been married long enough, you've experienced surrender because there's been

a type where you and your spouse have been in

an argument, whether it be for three days, four days,

five days, some of y'all five years, and someone at

some point has to hit a moment of surrender that

just goes, all right, I'm done fighting. I want to

move forward. And every person when we're a first a

foreigner from God, when we encounter the work of Jesus

in our life and the Holy Spirit start knocking on

your heart.

You can fight it or you can surrender.

You can either keep going against what God is trying

to do in your life, where you could say, God,

I'm done, I can't do it anymore, can't do it

alone anymore. You know, just this past week, I was

gone for like a week, and I was at a

conference in Atlanta, and then I flew to Indiana and

I spoke to two hundred senior pastors in Indiana, and

then I flew from Indiana to Miami and I did

something at a church in Miami, and so I was

gone for over a week, and so I was on

my way home, and normally me and my household with

my wife, we we only let our boys have their

like iPads on the weekend. So Monday through Friday, they're

not allowed to use their iPads. I'm not saying that's

a rule you should have. I'm just saying we're sick

of those dumb things. So you know, like it's been

a rule that we've had now for you know, four

or five months, and so they only get it on

Saturday and Sunday, and they.

Got to earn it throughout the week.

So but it happened that I was coming home on

a Thursday, our boys were really excited, or maybe on

a Wednesday. Our boys were really excited this past week.

And so Ashley said, you know, they're you know, they're

gonna keep bugging your mom, and you know when when

is mom and dad home? When is mo? Because Ashley

came in with me halfway through the trimp and so

we both were gone, and so she said, I'm gonna

just let them play on their iPads and until we

get home, so that they're just not anxious. Okay, cool,

no problem. So I noticed my son's online and I'm

on the airplane. I'm an hour from landing, and I

text my son. I want you to see what I said.

I have a screenshot of it. I text my son this,

I say, excited to see you soon. Chicky. That's my

oldest is nickname, who's seven? He said yeah. I said,

I'm excited. I love you and miss you. He said

me too. I said, tell tommy boy, who's our youngest.

I miss him. Why are you texting me so much?

Hold on with a mad face emoji? No no, no, no,

don't show that one yet. Don't show that one yet.

Don't guys, don't show.

So so I'm hurt.

Like my wife we because we changed a flight. She

wasn't sitting with me, so she was a few rows up.

So I screenshot it and I send it to her

and she starts laughing, and I was like, I don't

think it's funny. This isn't funny, and so I'm like, sad,

you know, And but then I assume, well, he doesn't.

He hasn't really been getting his iPad. He's probably playing roadblocks,

which means every time he has to text me, he

has to leave the game. That's probably what he's frustrated about,

which I get it, because if he logs out, it

means he's got to go back in. He's got a

load of new game, et cetera. I'm sure he just irritated.

So then there's the follow up text, and I'm giving

him the bene of the foult and I said, are

you trying to play a game? He says, no exclamation

Mas made one.

I said, bro, why are you so mad?

He left me on red for a little bit, and

then he said, because I can't look at my Christmas songs.

He was listening to Christmas songs. I went from sad

to now angry because I'm like, wait, jingle bells just

beating me out. I've been gone for eight days. I'm

coming home. I'm excited. And he's like, Dad, I got

Christmas songs. I'm set in the playlist. Man, leave me alone,

and I was just like man. And then the Lord

struck me in that moment, and he said, Adam, there

are so many times with you and my people that

I am trying to anticipate a moment. I'm trying to

bring a visitation. I am trying to bring my presence.

I'm trying to show myself to my people and my children,

just like your son respond to me the same way. God,

what do you do?

I got things going on?

Come on, got God, it was just Halloween. I just

now now apparently I gotta take those decorations down and

put Christmas decorations on November first. Apparently it's a thing.

And God, I got I got stuff.

Going on, and then we completely miss it.

Because I'll tell you this, in that moment, I had

a I was like, oh, okay, you know, me and Mathics,

we're gonna text and we're gonna have this and we're

and he's like, hey, stop bothering me. And guess what

I did as a dad. I stopped bothering him. I said,

I'm i'ma respect your space. That's what you want. And

then I saw him later on how many times are

we saying, God, I'm a hunger for your presence. God

will see in a few most God, baptize me with

your power, baptize me into the family, and we won't

look up.

We won't look up from our phones.

We won't look up from Facebook, we won't look up

from TikTok. We won't look up from our computer at work.

It's just we're not We won't. We won't look up

from the TV, whatever other distraction. It's not that God's

not there, it's that we're not paying attention. We're not looking.

God has never said, oh, I got my secrets and

you gotta figure me out, and you gotta come this way. No, God,

God is always there. He's always available, and the spirit

of God is always ready to move. I want you

to see in just a few moments when we look

at three quick baptisms, the first baptisms that we see

that God wants to do in our life is he

wants to baptize you into the body of Christ.

This is the work of salvation.

And if you and I ever want to experience a

revival in our life, that's a fresh move of God.

The first thing that you and I must do is

we must experience a personal revival. I found myself that

way in my own faith. At time, I've looked at

people and I've thought how much they needed God, how

much they needed salvation, how much they needed rescuing, all

while I'm drowning. It's so much easier for us to

look on the outside and point at who needs all

the redeeming and who needs all the saving, when at

the end of the day, it's us the individual, and

it's living in line of saying, God, before I ever

claim that you would renew my household, that you would

ever renew my region, renew a city, renew anywhere, would

you first start with me. I need renewal. I need

a fresh move of God. I need to be baptized

by you God. I want to be baptized in the family.

And this is the work of salvation that God has

readily for all of us. One Corinthians twelve thirteen says,

for in one spirit, we've all been baptized into one body.

Jews are Greek slaver free. All were made to drink

of One's spirit. We've all been invited to participate. Regardless

of who you are, what your background is.

There is nobody walking.

This orth today that God has said they are excluded

from the work of Jesus. Should they choose to receive,

He said, if they choose to drink of salvation by

the spirit, salvations for them. Coalations Chapter three, verse twenty

seven says, for as many of you were baptized into

Christ have put on Christ, you are all in one

in Christ Jesus.

You see what happens is in the Jewish days.

So you know, if you read the New Testament enough,

you'll see most of the time we connect baptism to

either just wider baptism or like what we would say

is a spiritual baptism, baptism of the Holy Spirit, where

there's empowerment and miracle, signs, wonders, healings of prophecy, tongues,

stuff like that. But then there's this baptism, which is

the baptism into Christ.

And this this is they all work coherently together.

But this is the first step of baptism. You see,

in Jesus's day, baptism wasn't uncommon. It was something that

Jews did, if weekly, if not, some very regularly, and

many monthly. What you would do is you would have

what they called a mikvah, which their mikvah was what

we would say is a modern day baptism.

It just looked like that. And what it had to

do is.

It had to be connected with a stream of running water.

So it couldn't be something that you fill up with

a hose or anything like that. It had to be

running water because what it represented was is it was

that when you get in that water, the running water will.

Take your sins downstream.

And so, let's just say, a woman after her cycle

in Jesus's day and even still to this day in Judaism,

a woman after her cycle ends, they have to go

and be baptized.

So like when David saw.

Bathsheva, the Bible specifically says she had ended her cycle

and she was just trying to get baptized.

She was just trying to do her ceremonial ritual of cleansing.

And what happened was is before a wedding, when the

couple wanted to go to the marriage bed, peer they

went into the mikvah, and it was this idea that

the water carried your impurities, carried your dirt, carried your

shame downstream. But guess what a month later for a

woman she had to do it again, and the next

time you sinned or you committed some type of air,

you had to do it again, and you had to

do it again, and you had to do it again

because as many times as you.

Got dirty, you needed to get clean.

But then what we just read is when you and

I are baptized into Christ, what it means is it

means that when Jesus's blood.

Was shed on the cross and.

He resurrected three days later, that the water of the

spirit of God that you would be baptized in is

no longer peer and you're impure, and you are no

longer impure. It's a baptism that God has for you.

That isn't a ritual that you got to do all

the time. It's this thing that God says that when

you and I believe in Christ, Jesus says, Lord and Savior,

God says.

This, they are pure.

You've been baptized, You've been cleansed by the blood of Jesus,

and it doesn't have to happen again. You ever met

someone who goes to an alter call thirty times a year.

I just want to make sure I'm fresh in case Jesus,

in case I die or in case Jesus comes back.

I want to get friend. I was a children's pastor.

Every week there is twenty kids that always raise their

hand at the alter call, right Pastor Garfield's here.

It was our children's pastor for some years.

There was always those set twenty kids that were like,

I just want to be sure. Now we can laugh

at that, and that's cute, and it's not really that

wrong to respond to an alter call many times, but

the reality is it just happens once. When you're baptized

in the body of Christ. God doesn't say, oh, you

got a little dirt.

On you, you need to recommit your life to Christ.

No, what you have to do from that point on

is you have to repent, confess, and continue to follow Jesus.

But God doesn't have a ledger.

In heaven, and he's like, oh, Adam was clean until.

Yesterday, and what he did yesterday.

Now he's a little dirty. And so he has to

wait till Sunday, till he goes to church, and he

has to sing the right amount of worship songs and

read the right And I say that some of you

might say, well, it's so silly that people would do that.

People do it all the time. We fall prey to

that work's righteousness all the time. But there's only one

work that's good enough to save you and I, and

it's the work that you and I cannot do.

It's the work that only Jesus can do.

And so what happens is is God saves you and

redeems you and baptizes you into His body. We're received

and were accepted. But here's where we begin to get

it wrong, especially kind of more in American Christianity, because

what will happen is is we will get baptized into

the body of Christ. And and and that's a that's

not a physical that's not a literal baptism.

Water baptism is a literal baptism.

We just read it.

It's a spiritual baptism.

It's one whereby the spirit you and I are brought

into the body of Christ, that we're saved. But a

lot of times what happens.

Is is we get saved, we get.

In church for a while, and then what happens is,

especially kind of more so in our American Christianity, we

want faith to go easy. We we want this walk

with God to be really easy from now on, and

as a pastor, I hear it all the time. People

come up to me and they say, Pastor Adam, I've

given my life to Jesus. I go to church as

often as I can. I started reason reading my Bible.

Why do I still have the problems that I have?

Or or why don't I have the thing that I've

been asking for? Or why are why isn't my marriage fixed?

And why why aren't my kids better? And and what

happens is is what we want is we want the

product and not the process. And so what we don't

recognize is we got We came into faith with Jesus

to receive something, and not just to receive something. It's

it's to receive something material. It's to receive an answer

to a to an earthly issue. Rather than understanding that God,

when you and I have faith in Jesus, this is

an eternal reward and he has promises in this life.

But that's a process, that's something that we call sanctification.

It means that God is gonna take you through a

process that will make you and I look more and

more like Jesus.

But in today's age, we don't like that.

We hate that as much as we hate self checkout.

I want someone else to back my groceries. I want

someone else to check me out. I don't want to

do all that. Or you get there and be like,

oh that little thing didn't scan.

Oh well no it's solid.

Let me just keep mo And what we do is

we take our faith into that same space. And so

what happens is is like, look I got I was

having a peanuts not too long ago, and I thought

to myself, this process is the worst. Yeah, like you

ever like truly eat peanuts in the raw form? I mean,

first of all, there's only two ever inside of it.

Half the time, it's like a trick.

You open it and there's only one, or you open

it and both of them didn't even develop good enough,

and so it's not even good. Or what happens is

is one of my favorite fruits is like a pomegranate.

Has anyone ever tried to prepare pomegranates? And you're pain

My sister in law at Sina, she's Persian, and part

of Persian New Years, you have to.

Have buckets and buckets and buckets of.

Pomegranates, and so, like her family will commonly have like

parties where the whole job for hours is just to

peel and take out pomegranates. And what happens is for me,

what I what I would you know, rather prefer is

you know, I just want to go.

To the store.

Man, I don't want to open up all those peanuts.

I'm just gonna go buy some Jiffy. I don't I

don't want to go deal with all that pop. I

know it tastes better and there's more flavor and there's

a but listen, it's the product I want.

I just want some pomegranate juice.

And a lot of times when we go to God,

what we're trying to remove from God is the process

that God's trying to do and develop in your life.

We find ourselves going.

God, I don't want to do forgiveness, love, self control, discipline.

I didn't ask you about all that, God.

What I asked you is, what's the quickest way to

get some pomegranate juice? What's the quickest way to get

some peanut butter? And you can't pay for this process,

and you can't outsource this process.

You can't say, oh well, I'm I'm gonna let my

fouse do it for me.

They're gonna go to church for us, They're gonna read

their Bible for us. Or I'm gonna let my grandma

do it. She's really spiritual. I'm gonna let her pray orma,

I'm gonna let this happen to that. You can't outsource that.

It's something you and I. You gotta develop in yourself.

So I want to encourage you today that when you

say yes to Jesus, you're starting a process. It's gonna

be a process, and there's gonna be days that you

feel like you're on the verge of getting some peanut butter.

And there's gonna be days that you feel like you're

getting crushed, and there's gonna be days that you feel

like you're getting cut open. But don't quit because you're

in the body, You're in God's family. And Roman says

that if God is for you, then he'll be against you.

And so when you have God on your side in

the process, it may be difficult, but you will hear

the upward call of God, and you will see the

product of your faith one day and you will stand

before God and you will inherit every blessing that God

has for you. Here here's the second one, which is

the one that we commonly know, is that we get

baptized into water. So as you get baptized into salvation

and baptized into the church, then you have water baptism.

But here's what I love about water baptism.

Not just water baptism, but the moments of salvation that

follow water baptism, because what happens is what we were

out to recognize when you and I exercise faith in

Jesus and then we go and get water baptism and

we start the process of our faith walking out in

a daily basis. I just love this story in Acts,

chapter six the Story of the Early Church of verse

thirty one. I want you to see what it says.

In Acts sixteen, verse thirty one to thirty four. It

says this, and it's Peter speaking to a jailer, and

and they said, believe in the Lord Jesus, and you

will be saved in your household. And they spoke the

word of the Lord to him and to all that

were in his house. And he took them the same

hour of the night and washed their wounds, and he

baptized at once, he and all of his family. Then

he brought them into his house and set food before them,

and he rejoiced, along with his entire household, that he

had believed in God. You see, when one life has changed,

families begin to follow. Revival always disrupts a lineage. Old

Testament talks about curses and talks about these things that

are handed down family trees and family lines, and you

will experience that. And maybe you have experienced that in

your own life, that you've seen addiction in your family,

unforgiveness in your family, hate in your family. And you're

thinking to yourself, what can I do about this? I

don't want this for my children, and I don't want this.

For my children's children.

What can I do? And here you see that a

suggested answer by the spirit of God in Act sixteen

says that if you would disrupt that moment and say

yes to Jesus and start the process of baptism, start

the process of publicly proclaiming to your household and your family.

He says this, what will happen is is your yes.

Your family will see it and they will follow say.

Things will end in your.

Family tree because of your yes, because of God's faithfulness

in your life. Oftentimes, the greatest thing that you can

do is a yes to God. It's just obedience. Pastor Adam,

I need to what is the perfect thing I can

say to this family member. What's the perfect thing? You

can't say nothing to nobody if their will isn't there.

But you can't say yes to God. You can't say

they have a revival for yourself. Because we've seen in

this Philippian jailer he said yes, and his family said yes.

He got in the water and got baptized. And it

says his family got in the water and got baptized.

I see it all the time when we do water baptism.

One family member gets baptized, and all of a sudden,

an entire family and all of their clothes starts getting

in the water.

Because the spirit of God is active in those moments.

I love what one of the early church fathers, Gregory Nissa, says.

He says, under Moses, the people pass through the sea,

the red Sea. Under Christ, the sea passes through the people.

That's the difference between what happens in the Old Testament

and the New Testament. In the Old Testament, you see

Israel's obedience by themselves. In the New Testament, you see

obedience powered by God that flows through you, not around you.

And when we get baptized in water, what we're doing

is we're proclaiming to other people that, in the same

way that Jesus Christ died for my sins and he

rose from the grave, so too do I do. I

go in the water one person, and I come out

of the water, signifying a new creation. The Old Testament

says that it's a picture of saying that God has

taken your heart of stone, and He's given you a

heart of flesh, and that's something that God will do.

Matthew Henry says, when God saves a soul, he rarely

stops with one. The light that enters one heart soon

shines throughout the entire household. That's what happens. When you

and I walk exteriorly into the obedience of God. What

will often happen is you're breaking a cycle. You're declaring

that what ran in your family ends here, and what

begins in you will bless generations after you. That's what

the baptism of God will do. Jonathan Edwards said, the

gospel runs in families, when it truly runs in hearts.

You want to change an environment change the heart. How

can you change your heart? Only by the power of

the spirit, only by the work of Jesus. That's how

you change a heart. And it's a faith action that

says God, I surrender Jesus, I'm yours, This family's yours,

My life is yours, this body is yours, this mind

is yours, my soul is yours. It's receiving Christ into

all areas of our life. And here's the last point.

Is this as we begin to close in a few moments,

is not only do we get baptized in the body

of Christ, not only do we see water baptism, but lastly,

we see baptism in the.

Holy Spirit in the Bible. And this is what happens.

Is when we can be baptized in the Holy Spirit,

you will see revivals spread throughout the entire Body of Christ,

through entire regions, entire people groups.

I love it Acts Chapter two and if you want

to study.

It more on your own, this is the moment that

the Holy Spirit descends upon the Church. But I just

want to give you an accurate picture before we close

in a few moments of what has happened. But what

has happened is Jesus has twelve disciples. One of the disciples, Judas,

turns on Jesus. He ends up having so much guilt

because he was just trying to get a payday. He

didn't think that they were gonna crucify Jesus. He has

so much guilt. He goes and he hangs himself out

of his guilt. So now there's eleven disciples. When Jesus

died on the cross and he was put in the tomb,

every disciple just totally gave up on the gospel message

of the Kingdom of God. None of them were like, well,

Jesus's message was bigger than this moment.

Let's in his honor, Let's continue to preach the gospel.

Let's continue to talk about the Kingdom of Heaven. Nope.

Peter his main right hand guy, he was like, people

were like, hey, aren't you with Jesus, And he started

in the original Aramaic, in the original Arabic and Greek,

he starts cussing.

He's like, absolutely not. I don't know Jesus. I'm not

one of his. So he completely rejects.

Jesus just because he doesn't want his future to be

what Jesus's future was, and then what happens is it

they all walk away. Jesus resurrects three days later, and

now Jesus spends forty days with his disciples, preparing them,

and then he ascends to the right hand of the Father.

But even in this moment, there's still only one hundred

and twenty people in Jerusalem who have enough faith that

God might still do something incredible. I mean, you're talking

about Jesus flipped an entire region upside down, an entire

country upside down, and forty days after his reserve, forty

days after his resurrection, people are just like, yeah, no, yeah,

it was a cool hype when he was preaching. Yeah,

he healed people. That was fun to see that. That

was really cool. He walked on water yet one time. Yeah,

that was pretty cool.

You know, I can't explain that that was awesome, but

I I don't know.

They just and now what happens in Acts chapter two,

it's called the Day of Pentecost.

You take these eleven teenagers, because that's what they were.

Jesus didn't choose men their thirties or anythings like that.

Peter was the oldest. He was probably in his early twenties.

All the rest were in their teens, so we had teenagers.

And now one hundred and twenty people are in a room,

and here's what happens acts Chapter two. Whe's one of four.

You can read all of it on your own, but

here's a summation of it. It says, when that day of

Pentecost arrived, they were together in one place, and suddenly

there came from heaven a sound like a mighty rushing wind,

and they.

Were all filled with the Holy Spirit.

And they say that it was like a fire that

rained down on them, and they began. It was during

the Pentecost season, so that means there were Jews from

all over the known world. There Jews who spoke all

types of languages.

And they run outside and every.

Person they can come in contact with, they are empowered

to preach the gospel. They go from forty days prior

being cowards, being scared, being afraid, doubting God, doubting Jesus,

to now the Holy Spirit baptizes them, the Holy Spirit

covers them, and now they're bold as lions. Now they

have no issue with whatever the result will be for

preaching this gospel. Everyone starts going. Man, these guys must

be drunk. These guys must be insane, because we know

some of these guys. These guys were timid little boys

one month ago. Now now they're teenagers boldly telling everyone

to believe in the Kingdom of God.

Who are these kids?

They were baptized by the Holy Spirit. They were empowered

by the spirit of God. Leonard raven Hill says it

like this, Pentecosta was not a one time event.

It was the opening of a heavenly fountain that has

never been shut since.

That day when the Holy Spirit descended on the church.

It has been a light that has flicked on and

it's never shut off.

It's never turned off.

And you and I have access to that well any

day of the week. You have access to that well.

For power, you have access to that well. For hope,

you have access to that well. For faith. You have

access to that well for joy, for peace, for compassion,

for love. God has made through the Spirit of God,

that well available. I did some research in the Book

of Revelation. There's seven churches in Revelation. One of the

cities is a city in Turkey called Smyrna. I did

some research wondering what is the longest surviving fountain that

has never stopped running water. And apparently there's been a

fountain in Turkey, specifically in Smyrna that has been running

for two thousand and seven hundred years.

There's been running water through it.

I have a picture of it in its ruins that

could or should be on the screen, so that's what

it looks like. And then I have a second picture.

This is what it would have looked like in its prime.

So you'll see water at the bottom of that in

the architeus. But this is what it would have looked

like in its prime. And you can go back to

the photo. That's the architecture of it. And it still

stands today and you can still see a water puddle

at the bottom. It's still running water for two thousand

and seven hundred years, that has been an active fountain.

I don't know about you, but I want my faith

to live on way longer than I'm here on this earth.

I want my faith in Jesus. I want the spirit

of God that has used me in my life. I

want it to extend a lot further than me. I

don't want it to stop with me. I don't want

it to stop with a moment I had with God

in the nineties, or the two thousands, or the two

thousands and tens, or even the twentyds and twenties. I

want God every single day to bring a fresh anointing

into my life. And that's my prayer for your life,

that the baptism of the Spirit of God, as God

has redeemed you and given you that on salvation. Every

single day though you can have a fresh baptism of

the goodness of God in your life. You can have

a fresh baptism of God's anointing. You see Jesus baptized

as the believer in spirit for powerness and unity. The

early Church wasn't born through structure. It was born through

the spirit. When the Holy Spirit feels people, the church

stops being an organization and we become a movement. It's

only by the Spirit of God that we can actually

see God make an impact. It's only through the Spirit

of God that we can see God moved. And as

we begin to close, Revival filled people to create, and

Revival was created to fill the churches. And when you

and I are full of the spirit, your house has

become full of revival. And when your house is full

of revival. Your city begins to feel Heaven's rhythms. But

it starts with you, and it starts with me to say, God,

have I received your work into my life? Have I

stepped into a moment. There's three things I want to

invite you. Tomorrow we have baptisms and so have you

never been water baptized? You want to be water baptized.

Come back tomorrow for nine or eleven A m service

will get you a change of clothes. We'll get you

a shirt to get baptized in. But as I close,

I just want to encourage you with this. Maybe you're

here today and you've never been baptized into the body

of Christ. In other words, you've never received Jesus as

your savior. I want to make that invitation to you today,

but also for those that may be here in the

church today and you've never experienced the baptism the Holy

Spirit in terms of a move, like when you are saved,

you know that the Holy Spirit sealed you and the

Holy Spirit redeemed you. But what happens is when you

and I experience a move of the Holy Spirit. It's

something that what happens is, though it cannot be contained

the empowerment of God becomes so overwhelming in your life

that it just starts to break things, starts to empower

you in areas that you know you are weak for.

Romans Chapter eight just says it beautifully. What happens is

when you and I are powered by the Holy Spirit.

It means the Holy Spirit speaks with groanings that you

and I don't even understand. And that may be with

praying with a heavenly language. That may be seeing God

heals someone and delivers some that may seek be God answering,

a prayer, a.

Boldness that you've been asking for, whatever it is.

The baptism, the Holy Spirit, God empowers you to do

things that no human could ever do.

Like people that would know you would go, I.

Know that's not you, because I've been around you so

many times. You and I maybe you've experienced a compliment before,

but you know it was God in you. And you're like,

I can't take any credit for that because I know

what Adam would have done, and Adam would not have

said what I just said. Adam wouldn't have prayed the

way I just prayed. That was all the spirit of God.

Maybe you're here today and you're just saying God, I

just want a fresh move of your spirit in my life.

I want I want to be empowered with a boldness today.

So would you join me for just a moment. Would

you bow your heads and close your eyes. I just

want to pray over you as we close here in

a matter of moments. If you're here today, first I'll

just ask you. If you're praying and you're saying God,

I will love a fresh baptism of your spirit.

I want to be.

Empowered by you. I feel that my fountain has run dry.

I feel like the sand beneath my feet has gone barren.

And I want to be like that fountain in Turkey

and in Spyrna. I want to be continually pouring. I

want to continually be overflowing with your goodness and mercy.

I want to overflow with the anointing in the spirit

of God. If you're here today and you're saying I

need to believe for more empowerment of the spirit, would

you raise your hand in this moment so that I

could pray for you. I just want to pray over

your life. I see those saying Lord, I just pray

right now, Father God, that for those that are believing

for more empowerment from you, God God, I know that

you are faithful and just to give what it is

that we ask for according to your will. So, Lord,

as we ask you for a fresh pouring out, Lord,

fresh manna from heaven. Father God, I pray that our

cup does not run dry. Father God, I pray that

the Holy Spirit would dwell in the hearts and lives

of your children today.

Father God, I pray that.

Our oil would overflow, Lord, that everything that we would

need God would not be barren or dry, but it

would be full of life and life abundantly.

Lord.

We pray, Father God, for the fullness of your goodness

and mercy in our life. Lord, I pray that as

every person would leave this building and leave this room,

that their thoughts would not be their thoughts, but it

would be full of Your thoughts, Father God, that their

strength would not be their own strength, but it would

be the strength of God in their life. Father God,

I pray Lord that they would be empowered to say,

do and experience things by Your spirit like they never

understood where they were capable of they never thought was possible.

Father God, I pray Lord that you would somewhat freak

us out. God, show yourself to us. Lord, make us

feel uncomfortable. Lord, there's no way today if we stood

in heaven with sometimes the lives that we're living, that we.

Would be comfortable in heaven.

Because God, when you're moving, there are things that take

us out of our comfort zone. Father God, So I

pray Lord, you would take us out of our co

refine us.

God, refine us.

Lord, so that we could see your goodness and mercy

in our life. Lord. May we be a light on

a hilltop that cannot be hidden. Lord, And I pray

the Holy Spirit would empower every person right now. If

you're in this place, and you're here and you want

to receive Jesus as your Lord and savior, I'm gonna

ask you, would you just slip your hand up in

the air. I already shared about His goodness and mercy.

I want to pray over you if you're ready to

give your life to Christ and you're ready to say, God,

I surrender and I give you all of me, and

you're ready to believe in the mercy of Jesus, the death, burial,

resurrection of Gee. I see those hands. Would you repeat

after me? Dear Lord Jesus. In this moment, I confess

you as my Lord and my Savior. I believe in

my heart that you died on the cross Jesus for

my sins and resurrected in victory. From this moment forward,

I choose to follow you for the rest of my

days in Jesus' name. Amen. Can we celebrate those that

join the Family of God today? Praise God. If you

want to be water baptized tomorrow, come back tomorrow. We

would love to see you. Additionally, I want to invite

you in two weeks. We have our Vision Sunday, So

if you consider Patriot your home church, we're sharing some

incredible things that God is doing in this church across

all of our campuses, and some incredible things. We're also

give our annual financial report that you'll be able to

find online because we give our transparent giving and our resources,

and so you'll be able to download that starting in

two weeks as well.

But if you consider Patriot home church, I want to

encourage you.

To come in two weeks to see all that God

is doing in the life of our church across our campuses.

I'm gonna pray for us one more time.

If anyone here today needs any prayer at all, maybe

you need someone to come alongside of you. You felt, Yeah,

that was great for me responding, but sure would love

for someone to pray over me, agree with something that

I'm in need of, or.

Whatever that may be.

Our elders, deacons and prayer team will be up here

in the front and they would love to pray for

you today.

And they'll be up here at the front of the altar.

Lord, I pray God that as we leave here, Lord,

would you bless every person. Lord, cover them, anoint them,

continue to care for them. Father God, I pray that

you bless their hands and their feet, and their thoughts

and everywhere that they go. Lord, I pray that they

would dwell in your shadow. God. I pray God that

your spirit would enable them every single day of this week.

In Jesus' name, Amen and Amen, God, bless you family.

We'll see you