WEBVTT 1 00:00:02.040 --> 00:00:05.639 Stay standing, Stay standing, Let's honor the Lord. Oh Lord, 2 00:00:05.679 --> 00:00:09.439 You're so good, You're worthy, You're worthy. Thank you Lord 3 00:00:09.439 --> 00:00:13.560 for your flow, Holy Spirit flow through this place. Lord, Lord, 4 00:00:14.599 --> 00:00:17.239 blow your wind. Let the wind of the Holy Spirit 5 00:00:17.280 --> 00:00:20.359 blow in this house today. Lord, let it. Let the 6 00:00:20.399 --> 00:00:24.440 wind blow inside inside of us. Lord, and we thank 7 00:00:24.480 --> 00:00:27.039 you for your presence, and we honor you this morning 8 00:00:27.199 --> 00:00:30.960 in Jesus name. Amen. Thank you for that, and thank 9 00:00:31.000 --> 00:00:34.119 you Lord. I'm so grateful to be with you. This 10 00:00:34.159 --> 00:00:37.520 is the church of my dreams. My wife and I, Karen, 11 00:00:37.560 --> 00:00:39.920 my beautiful wife, showed up here seven eight years ago 12 00:00:40.000 --> 00:00:42.520 and we've been in heaven on earth at new horizons. 13 00:00:42.600 --> 00:00:48.560 So yes, yes, so we're we're grateful. If if I 14 00:00:48.600 --> 00:00:51.479 can flow today the way that John and Hugo we're 15 00:00:51.520 --> 00:00:55.799 playing guitar, we're in good shape. Man, those guys can 16 00:00:55.880 --> 00:01:01.119 just shred it. Okay, here we go. Two major seasons. 17 00:01:01.159 --> 00:01:04.439 I've had two major seasons in my life as a believer. 18 00:01:05.159 --> 00:01:09.079 The first season, the lights were off. The second season, 19 00:01:09.200 --> 00:01:12.239 the lights were on. The first season was up until 20 00:01:12.280 --> 00:01:15.959 I was age twenty one, and I'd tried to be 21 00:01:16.000 --> 00:01:19.280 a Christian as a kid. I'd go and i'd sneak 22 00:01:19.319 --> 00:01:21.280 into our TV room as a kid and turn on 23 00:01:21.959 --> 00:01:25.719 hot summer nights and watch Billy Graham and his and 24 00:01:25.760 --> 00:01:29.799 I'd get born again every time and walk down the 25 00:01:30.760 --> 00:01:33.920 aisle with as that art sung by George Beverly Shay, 26 00:01:34.480 --> 00:01:37.680 and it was I had an experience with God, but 27 00:01:38.439 --> 00:01:42.040 I never experienced the power to live it. I'd go 28 00:01:42.120 --> 00:01:45.519 to church, but I was just living like any normal 29 00:01:45.799 --> 00:01:49.319 unbelieving person would. There was no real difference in my life. 30 00:01:49.359 --> 00:01:52.200 I'd go to Young Life in high school and that 31 00:01:52.239 --> 00:01:54.959 didn't take. And I was around the Jesus People movement 32 00:01:55.040 --> 00:01:57.480 in the seventies when I was in high school and 33 00:01:57.519 --> 00:02:03.200 that didn't really take. And I was in college and 34 00:02:03.680 --> 00:02:09.199 trying different things, and it's just nothing really stuck until 35 00:02:10.439 --> 00:02:14.319 the lights came on. And the lights came on when 36 00:02:14.319 --> 00:02:18.680 I moved from the shallow end of the pool to 37 00:02:18.759 --> 00:02:21.759 the deep end of the pool. And that's why I know. 38 00:02:21.800 --> 00:02:24.159 I titled this message going Deeper with Holy Spirit, and 39 00:02:24.159 --> 00:02:26.560 that's what we're going to do today. We're going to 40 00:02:26.919 --> 00:02:30.120 get ourselves activated at a deeper level to go into 41 00:02:30.159 --> 00:02:34.680 the deep with Holy Spirit. So I was at church 42 00:02:34.719 --> 00:02:36.120 here Friday night and I thought, you know what, the 43 00:02:36.439 --> 00:02:39.360 title of this message really needs to be pool party. 44 00:02:40.719 --> 00:02:42.639 So we're going to have a pool party here and 45 00:02:42.719 --> 00:02:45.159 we're going to get more of us into the deep 46 00:02:45.319 --> 00:02:48.199 end with Holy Spirit. Is that good? That's okay? Okay. 47 00:02:48.680 --> 00:02:57.439 So water was a big deal as a kid growing 48 00:02:57.520 --> 00:03:00.879 up in Spokane. My parents said, moved from an eight 49 00:03:00.960 --> 00:03:05.039 hundred square foot a little tiny house in the valley. 50 00:03:05.479 --> 00:03:08.000 I was the oldest of six kids at age six, 51 00:03:09.039 --> 00:03:12.479 and we moved up onto the hill with this big 52 00:03:12.759 --> 00:03:15.280 house with five bedrooms that was built in nineteen ten, 53 00:03:15.879 --> 00:03:18.599 you know, and it had this old pool in the backyard, 54 00:03:19.479 --> 00:03:22.240 and the pool was concrete, it wasn't a fancy fiberglass one. 55 00:03:22.680 --> 00:03:25.039 And my dad would repaint it with that aqua pane 56 00:03:25.120 --> 00:03:27.439 every spring to make sure it was ready to go, 57 00:03:27.879 --> 00:03:30.120 and we filled it with water. Eventually we got a 58 00:03:30.159 --> 00:03:36.360 heater for it, and that was really cool. But there 59 00:03:36.479 --> 00:03:40.000 was nothing like going into the deep end when the 60 00:03:40.080 --> 00:03:42.039 paint was dry and all the repairs were done on 61 00:03:42.039 --> 00:03:44.000 the pool in the spring and it was time to 62 00:03:44.000 --> 00:03:46.479 bring in the hoses and we put those hoses in 63 00:03:46.520 --> 00:03:48.439 because it took about three days to fill it just 64 00:03:48.520 --> 00:03:52.039 running the hose, and it was so fun to go 65 00:03:52.120 --> 00:03:54.400 into the deep end and play in that water as 66 00:03:54.400 --> 00:03:58.039 it got deeper and deeper and deeper. And I think 67 00:03:58.080 --> 00:04:01.120 that's some of what the Holy Spirit wants us to 68 00:04:01.120 --> 00:04:04.560 do with him, is just go deeper and play in 69 00:04:04.599 --> 00:04:08.800 the water with him and try stuff out and try 70 00:04:08.840 --> 00:04:14.439 things and experiment with his presence and his goodness. So 71 00:04:15.199 --> 00:04:17.439 we also had a pool up the street where we 72 00:04:17.439 --> 00:04:21.480 took swimming lessons, a public pool, and I took Beginner 73 00:04:21.560 --> 00:04:25.839 Intermediate Advance and took the swimming lessons. But when I 74 00:04:25.879 --> 00:04:27.560 was a little kid, at the other end of the pool, 75 00:04:27.600 --> 00:04:31.160 in the deep end, they had a ten foot high 76 00:04:31.279 --> 00:04:33.800 diving board back in the day when you could have 77 00:04:33.879 --> 00:04:38.079 diving boards and pools, and that would be so cool 78 00:04:38.120 --> 00:04:40.160 to go in the deep end and jump off that thing. 79 00:04:40.519 --> 00:04:42.639 So finally I got old enough to go to the 80 00:04:42.680 --> 00:04:45.439 deep end. I got up enough courage one day to 81 00:04:45.519 --> 00:04:49.040 go up the ladder. Once you're standing up there, you're 82 00:04:49.040 --> 00:04:51.680 not just from five feet looking up at a ten 83 00:04:51.720 --> 00:04:55.240 foot diving board. You're at fifteen feet looking down at 84 00:04:55.240 --> 00:04:59.519 the water way way down there. And you're up on 85 00:04:59.560 --> 00:05:02.600 the board and there's people waiting on line. You can't 86 00:05:02.639 --> 00:05:07.000 go back down. That would be embarrassing, you can't return. 87 00:05:08.160 --> 00:05:11.639 And so so I crept out there to the edge 88 00:05:11.639 --> 00:05:17.639 of the board and just okay, I gotta step off. Okay, one, two, three, Oh, 89 00:05:17.680 --> 00:05:21.360 I gotta do it. I gotta do it. I gotta 90 00:05:21.439 --> 00:05:24.519 do it. Well, that's kind of like with the Lord. 91 00:05:24.560 --> 00:05:26.759 You know. Sometimes he the Holy Spirit, is leading us 92 00:05:26.800 --> 00:05:32.120 to go deeper with him, and it's okay. I wasn't 93 00:05:32.120 --> 00:05:34.399 going to die jumping off that board. I might land 94 00:05:34.399 --> 00:05:37.360 crook and hurt myself a little bit, but I wasn't. 95 00:05:38.720 --> 00:05:40.560 You know, when we'd be at the lake as a 96 00:05:40.560 --> 00:05:43.439 little kid, and my dad would take us out in 97 00:05:43.480 --> 00:05:46.040 the water, and when we were little, and he'd throw 98 00:05:46.199 --> 00:05:49.120 us way up in the air and we'd come down, 99 00:05:49.600 --> 00:05:52.759 but you knew that when you went under the water, 100 00:05:53.000 --> 00:05:55.600 his hands were going to be on you. Then sure 101 00:05:55.680 --> 00:05:58.040 enough those big hands around my side and he would 102 00:05:58.160 --> 00:06:02.040 pull me up out of the water. But I trusted 103 00:06:02.120 --> 00:06:06.040 him to throw me up and enjoy me and have 104 00:06:06.120 --> 00:06:08.959 that thrill. It was so fun to be suspended in 105 00:06:08.959 --> 00:06:11.720 the air like that and then come down in the water, 106 00:06:11.920 --> 00:06:16.240 knowing that his hands were there. Then I wasn't gonna sink. 107 00:06:18.319 --> 00:06:21.920 So we're safe jumping into the deep the Holy Spirit. 108 00:06:22.079 --> 00:06:26.519 So eventually I stepped off that diving board, and wow, 109 00:06:26.639 --> 00:06:29.040 that was cool because you hit the water so hard, 110 00:06:29.079 --> 00:06:31.920 and that's not you just crash into the water and 111 00:06:31.959 --> 00:06:34.600 you go down a long ways too. You're in the water. 112 00:06:35.160 --> 00:06:37.240 And then there came the day when it was not 113 00:06:37.399 --> 00:06:40.079 cool anymore just to step off, had to go head 114 00:06:40.120 --> 00:06:45.199 first and dive, and then you really went deep when 115 00:06:45.199 --> 00:06:46.959 you hit the water, in fact, so deep that you 116 00:06:46.959 --> 00:06:49.600 could touch the bottom. This is a twelve to fifteen 117 00:06:49.639 --> 00:06:52.319 foot deep pool, and man, it's a long ways up 118 00:06:52.399 --> 00:06:54.639 to the top. Let what you get to do and 119 00:06:54.720 --> 00:06:57.959 you're on the bottom is push and you go shooting 120 00:06:58.040 --> 00:07:01.240 up to the surface. And what a thrill. And that's 121 00:07:01.279 --> 00:07:04.560 what it's like when we go deep with Holy Spirit 122 00:07:05.439 --> 00:07:09.600 and go deep with him. There's more. He's got more 123 00:07:09.720 --> 00:07:13.759 for us. He's got more gifts. He's a good father. 124 00:07:14.160 --> 00:07:17.920 He gives gifts to his children. He's made that promise 125 00:07:18.759 --> 00:07:22.040 that he gives good gifts and that he gives the 126 00:07:22.079 --> 00:07:24.680 Holy Spirit to those that ask him. And Luke eleven 127 00:07:24.759 --> 00:07:26.600 it says he gives the Holy Spirit to those that 128 00:07:26.759 --> 00:07:30.079 ask him, and so we can have more of Holy 129 00:07:30.160 --> 00:07:34.120 Spirit and more of his presence, and I've even been 130 00:07:34.160 --> 00:07:38.720 practicing that over the last few weeks. I'm thinking, you know, 131 00:07:38.759 --> 00:07:41.560 how come we don't really operate, not just in speaking 132 00:07:41.560 --> 00:07:45.560 in tongues and that gift, but the interpretation of tongues 133 00:07:46.480 --> 00:07:49.759 and Holy Spirit start convicting me. Why don't you start 134 00:07:49.879 --> 00:07:53.800 practicing doing this in your own prayer time. I want 135 00:07:53.839 --> 00:07:57.319 you to interpret your tongue, so I would willfully do it. 136 00:07:58.199 --> 00:08:00.439 Now you might say all that you just make up 137 00:08:00.879 --> 00:08:04.959 the interpretation of the tongue. Well maybe, but I have 138 00:08:05.199 --> 00:08:07.839 the spirit in me that witnesses to whether, oh you 139 00:08:07.920 --> 00:08:10.800 just made that up, Jeff, or you know what? That 140 00:08:10.920 --> 00:08:14.639 was the Lord. You know, he encouraged me this week 141 00:08:14.680 --> 00:08:17.079 about some stuff in business and so forth. Just a 142 00:08:17.079 --> 00:08:19.959 little word that I spoke in English after I prayed 143 00:08:19.959 --> 00:08:24.319 in tongus. I thought that was God. That was really 144 00:08:24.800 --> 00:08:28.360 the Lord. Karen and I were sent on an assignment 145 00:08:28.439 --> 00:08:30.240 one day. A church used to and we were building 146 00:08:30.279 --> 00:08:34.360 a school, and our assignment was to go visit Oral Roberts, 147 00:08:35.159 --> 00:08:37.559 you know, the healing evangelists the nineteen sixties. And we 148 00:08:38.000 --> 00:08:40.279 sat in his living room in Newport Beach, California, and 149 00:08:40.279 --> 00:08:42.559 he talked to us for two hours. I mean, what 150 00:08:42.679 --> 00:08:45.240 a privilege. You know, the founder of Oral Roberts University, 151 00:08:45.840 --> 00:08:49.919 and he said why. I asked him, how did you 152 00:08:49.919 --> 00:08:51.759 build the school? What was the main thing you did? 153 00:08:52.519 --> 00:08:56.440 And he said, we would first dig a hole. We 154 00:08:56.600 --> 00:08:58.679 dig a hole, we would go to the edge of 155 00:08:58.720 --> 00:09:03.480 the hole and we pray in tongues, and then we 156 00:09:03.519 --> 00:09:08.080 would interpret what God was telling us to do, and 157 00:09:08.120 --> 00:09:11.679 then we would get the strategy on how to fill 158 00:09:11.720 --> 00:09:14.960 the hole with concrete and steel and beams. And now 159 00:09:15.360 --> 00:09:18.679 he's built this. He built a beautiful university that has 160 00:09:18.720 --> 00:09:21.519 sent tens of thousands of people in the mission field 161 00:09:21.559 --> 00:09:24.480 and onto the seven Mountains of society. And our son 162 00:09:24.559 --> 00:09:29.919 graduated from all Roberts University. I mean, it's still producing 163 00:09:30.200 --> 00:09:35.080 for God. So it's like, what what are we called 164 00:09:35.080 --> 00:09:39.919 to build? A family, a household, a business, a ministry? 165 00:09:39.960 --> 00:09:41.600 What is it that you want to build? What is 166 00:09:41.639 --> 00:09:44.080 it that you want to do? Would you like to 167 00:09:44.120 --> 00:09:49.720 participate with the Holy Spirit in the design we've been 168 00:09:50.360 --> 00:09:53.000 We did a remodel on the interior of a home 169 00:09:53.120 --> 00:09:55.840 here this last year and we just decided, Karen and 170 00:09:55.879 --> 00:09:57.879 I just decided we're going to invite you Holy Spirit 171 00:09:58.720 --> 00:10:02.559 into this project. Jesus, you are the chief designer. You 172 00:10:02.679 --> 00:10:06.159 are a designer, and we've just brought him into all 173 00:10:06.200 --> 00:10:09.080 the details of it. And it's amazing the way we're 174 00:10:09.120 --> 00:10:13.480 not experienced at doing remodels, and it's just amazing how 175 00:10:13.519 --> 00:10:19.000 things came together. So he wants to help us. He's 176 00:10:19.039 --> 00:10:26.240 the helper. So the lights came on when I got 177 00:10:26.960 --> 00:10:31.720 filled with the spirit, when the baptism of the Holy Spirit, 178 00:10:31.840 --> 00:10:34.639 or the immersion in his presence, with the evidence of 179 00:10:34.679 --> 00:10:38.000 speaking in tongues was introduced to my life and I 180 00:10:38.039 --> 00:10:42.919 responded to it, That's when the lights came on. That's 181 00:10:42.960 --> 00:10:45.600 when they came on, and I was a changed person 182 00:10:45.639 --> 00:10:49.159 from then. Actually calculated the other day. That was about 183 00:10:49.200 --> 00:10:55.320 seventeen four hundred days ago, and I've been praying in tongues, 184 00:10:55.639 --> 00:10:57.360 I think every day. I don't think I've missed the 185 00:10:57.440 --> 00:10:59.759 day since then. You know, I could not keep my 186 00:10:59.799 --> 00:11:03.600 hands on the plow in the lights off season. Not 187 00:11:03.639 --> 00:11:05.879 only was I looking back, I couldn't even hold onto 188 00:11:05.919 --> 00:11:13.080 the plow, but the Holy Spirit strengthened me with power 189 00:11:13.559 --> 00:11:16.320 to be a witness. The Word of God just came 190 00:11:16.360 --> 00:11:18.720 alive to me. It's like as I read the Bible, 191 00:11:18.720 --> 00:11:21.080 it would leap off the page like it was living, 192 00:11:21.159 --> 00:11:24.440 because it is living, and it would just grow in 193 00:11:25.120 --> 00:11:28.360 me and stuff was happening, and I could measure my 194 00:11:28.480 --> 00:11:33.240 progress as a Christian. And please keep in mind that 195 00:11:33.399 --> 00:11:35.759 entering into this power of the Holy Spirit and all 196 00:11:35.840 --> 00:11:38.679 that it is, it's not a free hall pass to 197 00:11:38.840 --> 00:11:44.360 a trial less life. You're still going to have challenges 198 00:11:44.799 --> 00:11:47.879 and difficulties. And there's still a whole part of walking 199 00:11:47.919 --> 00:11:54.440 with God that involves repenting and holiness and purity. And 200 00:11:54.519 --> 00:11:57.399 unless no matter how powerful you get, whether you whether 201 00:11:57.440 --> 00:12:00.000 you get out there, you're prophesying, you're raising the day, 202 00:12:00.279 --> 00:12:02.320 you're doing all that. We're doing all that. But if 203 00:12:02.360 --> 00:12:06.200 we aren't repenting and looking at our soul and doing 204 00:12:06.279 --> 00:12:09.399 our house cleaning, we're not going to be able to 205 00:12:09.399 --> 00:12:13.879 fill our walk. We won't finish strong. We stand on 206 00:12:13.919 --> 00:12:16.639 two legs and walk on two legs as believers. One 207 00:12:16.720 --> 00:12:19.240 side is the holiness and purity. The other side is 208 00:12:19.279 --> 00:12:23.879 the power. And some people don't choose to take the 209 00:12:23.960 --> 00:12:30.120 power side. And that's okay, that's okay, Paul said, I 210 00:12:30.159 --> 00:12:33.120 wish that you all prayed in tongues, but mostly that 211 00:12:33.399 --> 00:12:36.320 you'd prophesy. Paul had that desire for everyone, knowing that 212 00:12:36.639 --> 00:12:40.200 not everyone would, but it is available to all of us. 213 00:12:40.440 --> 00:12:44.360 And what's the difference and what allows us to have 214 00:12:44.480 --> 00:12:47.759 that or not. Sometimes if we think, well, I've tried 215 00:12:47.759 --> 00:12:49.600 to pray in tongues, but it hasn't happened, so God 216 00:12:49.679 --> 00:12:53.360 must not have that gift for me, I would suggest 217 00:12:53.960 --> 00:12:57.960 that the gift is for you. The gift is for you. 218 00:12:58.480 --> 00:13:02.200 Maybe there's just another piece of learning or something that 219 00:13:02.519 --> 00:13:04.840 has to happen. But the gifts and callings of God 220 00:13:04.840 --> 00:13:09.799 are without repentance. And what separates those that pray in 221 00:13:09.840 --> 00:13:11.600 the spirit and enter in the gifts of the spirit 222 00:13:11.759 --> 00:13:15.360 and those that don't is desire. Because it's God's the 223 00:13:15.399 --> 00:13:17.200 same for all of us. He has these gifts for 224 00:13:17.240 --> 00:13:20.679 all of us. But it's simply desire. Are you cultivating 225 00:13:20.720 --> 00:13:24.519 the desire or not? And so let's not sweat it 226 00:13:24.600 --> 00:13:26.399 with the ones that don't desire it. They want to 227 00:13:26.399 --> 00:13:28.600 swim in the shallow end. Great, they're in the pool 228 00:13:28.679 --> 00:13:31.399 with us. They're born again. Karen and I were in 229 00:13:31.440 --> 00:13:35.679 Thailand on a mission trip with our daughter where they 230 00:13:35.679 --> 00:13:40.840 were ministering two prostitutes in the Red Light district, and 231 00:13:41.759 --> 00:13:43.840 we spent about a week there at night, going out 232 00:13:43.840 --> 00:13:46.240 to the red light district, inviting the girls to the 233 00:13:46.399 --> 00:13:49.919 restaurant and coffee house and so forth, to get ministry 234 00:13:50.039 --> 00:13:53.799 and support and move on and separate from that lifestyle 235 00:13:53.879 --> 00:13:58.120 they wanted. And so half the team would stay at 236 00:13:58.159 --> 00:14:00.879 the house we are staying and pray. The other half 237 00:14:00.879 --> 00:14:05.480 would be out on the streets. And one night we 238 00:14:05.480 --> 00:14:10.679 were in the house praying, and there was other people 239 00:14:10.720 --> 00:14:14.159 there that were praying too, but we were quietly praying 240 00:14:14.159 --> 00:14:17.399 in tongues because there was people there that weren't and 241 00:14:17.440 --> 00:14:19.600 in received, but they were in their Bibles and they 242 00:14:19.600 --> 00:14:22.399 were turning pages and they're looking at things. And so 243 00:14:22.519 --> 00:14:24.519 after the meeting, I said to the person that was 244 00:14:25.279 --> 00:14:26.799 one of the people who is reading their Bible, son 245 00:14:26.840 --> 00:14:30.120 till I said, well, what were you doing? What is that? 246 00:14:30.759 --> 00:14:34.279 And they go, we are asking God for the scripture 247 00:14:34.360 --> 00:14:39.039 to pray for the exact situation that the people out 248 00:14:39.080 --> 00:14:41.519 on the street are in. And so they would be 249 00:14:41.600 --> 00:14:44.279 asking God. Were they praying in tongues? No, but there 250 00:14:44.320 --> 00:14:47.399 are brothers and sisters and so no big deal. But 251 00:14:47.440 --> 00:14:50.200 by the end of the week I had a prophetic 252 00:14:50.279 --> 00:14:53.000 word for one of them. For one couple and their 253 00:14:53.080 --> 00:14:56.440 daughter and they just loved it. And these people don't 254 00:14:56.440 --> 00:14:59.200 even believe in praying in tongues, but they were happy 255 00:14:59.240 --> 00:15:04.480 to receive them word. And everybody loves edification, exhortation, and 256 00:15:04.519 --> 00:15:07.519 comfort and that's what the spirit of prophecy is, right, 257 00:15:08.200 --> 00:15:14.679 it's edifying, it's exhorting, it's it's comforting. And so amen, 258 00:15:15.240 --> 00:15:20.080 I completely went off my notes. But we're moving from 259 00:15:20.120 --> 00:15:24.919 the shallow end to the deep end. Okay, who is 260 00:15:24.919 --> 00:15:29.399 this Holy Spirit? He's God for one, he's God. In 261 00:15:29.519 --> 00:15:33.759 Acts five one to four where Anonius lied to the 262 00:15:33.759 --> 00:15:37.120 people about the size of his gift, and Peter confronted 263 00:15:37.159 --> 00:15:40.519 him and said, you lied to the Holy Spirit. And 264 00:15:40.559 --> 00:15:43.960 then two verses later he said you lied to God. 265 00:15:45.120 --> 00:15:47.480 So right there, God in the Holy Spirit are one 266 00:15:47.559 --> 00:15:49.799 and the same. And we know Anonyus draw dead on 267 00:15:49.840 --> 00:15:51.360 the spot and they drug him out and buried it. 268 00:15:53.519 --> 00:15:55.799 I tell you a great power and respect. The Holy 269 00:15:55.840 --> 00:15:59.120 Spirit is to be respected. You know, he has feelings 270 00:15:59.120 --> 00:16:03.399 and emotion and he's easily grieved. But he is God 271 00:16:04.600 --> 00:16:07.759 and he's a member of the Godhead. When Jesus was 272 00:16:07.840 --> 00:16:12.480 baptized by John in the desert, he was water baptized. 273 00:16:12.559 --> 00:16:14.840 He came up, and what does it say? The Spirit 274 00:16:14.879 --> 00:16:18.000 of God, this Holy Spirit descended on him like a dove, 275 00:16:18.720 --> 00:16:22.960 and so he was baptized in the spirit. I think 276 00:16:23.360 --> 00:16:25.440 I don't know all the theology of this passed when 277 00:16:25.519 --> 00:16:28.679 you probably do, but I imagine because he's a man, 278 00:16:28.799 --> 00:16:31.600 as a human being, he needed the strength of the 279 00:16:31.600 --> 00:16:34.080 Holy Spirit to go in the desert for forty days 280 00:16:34.440 --> 00:16:37.720 and face the temptation. And it says the Spirit drove 281 00:16:37.840 --> 00:16:41.320 him into the desert. So he submitted to the voice 282 00:16:41.840 --> 00:16:47.399 of Holy Spirit. Okay. And also, Holy Spirit is like 283 00:16:47.440 --> 00:16:53.840 the wind. Let's go to John three eight. Holy Spirit 284 00:16:54.000 --> 00:16:57.960 is like the wind. The wind blows wherever it pleases. 285 00:16:58.240 --> 00:17:00.799 You hear it sound, but you cannot tell where it 286 00:17:00.840 --> 00:17:03.679 comes from or where it is going. So it is 287 00:17:03.960 --> 00:17:08.480 with everyone born of the spirit. The spirit is like 288 00:17:08.519 --> 00:17:11.079 when and a couple of weeks ago, I said, Lord, 289 00:17:11.119 --> 00:17:15.640 what are the characteristics of wind? And Jesus makes so 290 00:17:15.680 --> 00:17:21.720 many comparisons to weather and nature to illustrate the Bible, right, 291 00:17:21.839 --> 00:17:25.200 So he gave me this one. Can you see with 292 00:17:25.240 --> 00:17:28.359 me way back here? And it says, okay. So when 293 00:17:28.640 --> 00:17:32.119 there's two basic types of wind and how they form, 294 00:17:32.200 --> 00:17:43.359 there's high pressure and there's low pressure. Okay. The characteristics 295 00:17:43.359 --> 00:17:48.440 of high pressure is the air is stagnant and it 296 00:17:48.480 --> 00:17:52.640 doesn't rise. Okay. Here's the ground, here's the air, and 297 00:17:52.680 --> 00:17:56.440 it just sits there. It just sits there, and nothing happens. 298 00:17:56.759 --> 00:17:59.319 During the summer, this is characterized by weeks on end 299 00:17:59.359 --> 00:18:03.200 of hot rye, windless weather and where the air gets 300 00:18:03.240 --> 00:18:06.079 dirty and stagnant and so forth, and it's still the 301 00:18:06.119 --> 00:18:08.200 air is still. Nothing happens in the winter time. It's 302 00:18:08.240 --> 00:18:10.920 when it's cold week after week and sunny. That's a 303 00:18:11.000 --> 00:18:15.759 low pressure or excuse me, high pressure system. They say that, right, 304 00:18:15.880 --> 00:18:21.119 high pressure, high pressure. So the pressure is pushing down 305 00:18:21.359 --> 00:18:24.519 on the earth. Okay. The low pressure, on the other hand, 306 00:18:25.240 --> 00:18:33.359 is warm. Air is rising, okay. And the Bible says, 307 00:18:33.400 --> 00:18:36.200 our prayers are like incense. What do our prayers do 308 00:18:37.599 --> 00:18:40.240 they rise? Okay? You can start to see the connection here. 309 00:18:40.680 --> 00:18:44.640 So low pressure air is rising. And what happens when 310 00:18:44.680 --> 00:18:48.319 the air rises It leaves the void. And what has 311 00:18:48.359 --> 00:18:52.960 to happen. Air has to flow into the void into 312 00:18:53.039 --> 00:18:57.039 low pressure. So air has to flow in. And the 313 00:18:57.079 --> 00:19:01.079 faster and the more this rises, the more air has 314 00:19:01.160 --> 00:19:04.559 to swirl in. And the air doesn't just come straight in. 315 00:19:04.960 --> 00:19:08.640 It swirls like this because the earth is round, it turns. 316 00:19:08.920 --> 00:19:12.519 It causes this moving air to swirl. And this is 317 00:19:12.559 --> 00:19:19.119 where rainstorms and bad weather and then moving up the ladder, tornadoes, hurricanes, 318 00:19:19.240 --> 00:19:26.079 all the stuff. But was Jesus ever intimidated by a storm. No, No, 319 00:19:26.559 --> 00:19:29.839 he likes storms. You know, if he would have been 320 00:19:29.880 --> 00:19:34.079 in the movie, what's that movie called Twister? If he'd 321 00:19:34.119 --> 00:19:36.240 been in Twister, he'd be the guy driving the pickup 322 00:19:36.279 --> 00:19:40.400 trying to drive into the center of the tornado. Because 323 00:19:40.400 --> 00:19:42.680 he took the boat into the middle of the storm 324 00:19:42.720 --> 00:19:46.079 and slept. He didn't care. He walked on water in 325 00:19:46.119 --> 00:19:49.759 the middle of a storm. The Spirit of God came 326 00:19:49.799 --> 00:19:53.440 by Moses in a storm so strong that it broke rocks. 327 00:19:54.880 --> 00:19:57.640 You know, Jesus was not intimidated by the storm. And 328 00:19:57.720 --> 00:20:00.480 in the natural Jesus walk into a crowd that hated 329 00:20:00.559 --> 00:20:03.680 him and wanted to kill him and walk white through him. 330 00:20:04.079 --> 00:20:10.960 Jesus had no problem with storms. So so what if 331 00:20:11.000 --> 00:20:16.960 we're praying a lot, the wind of the spirit can 332 00:20:17.000 --> 00:20:21.200 move in right the window. Spirit and all great revivals 333 00:20:21.200 --> 00:20:27.359 were preceded by prayer, warm air rising. The prayer created 334 00:20:27.480 --> 00:20:30.960 low pressure in the Spirit and the Holy Spirit could 335 00:20:31.039 --> 00:20:34.240 move and start to swirl, and yeah, there'd be storms 336 00:20:34.240 --> 00:20:37.319 and havoc. Think about Azuza Street. They had so many 337 00:20:37.359 --> 00:20:41.319 critics that the critics of William Seymour and his team 338 00:20:41.400 --> 00:20:43.480 of prayer warriors would come in and try and mock 339 00:20:43.559 --> 00:20:46.000 them and discredit them, and they'd get saved and repent. 340 00:20:48.119 --> 00:20:53.000 You know this, the the Azuza Street started on the 341 00:20:53.039 --> 00:20:56.599 front on the in the house in La and there's 342 00:20:56.640 --> 00:20:59.039 so many people showed up to pray the front porch broke. 343 00:20:59.400 --> 00:21:03.400 Then they had to to another building. I mean, in revival, 344 00:21:03.440 --> 00:21:06.960 a lot of crazy stuff happens, and a lot of 345 00:21:07.000 --> 00:21:12.319 wild stuff happens, but revival happens, the wind gets moving. 346 00:21:12.799 --> 00:21:16.119 And what about all these people out here in the 347 00:21:16.160 --> 00:21:20.279 world standing around looking waiting for something to happen in 348 00:21:20.319 --> 00:21:22.960 their lives. This low pressure is just going to pull 349 00:21:23.039 --> 00:21:27.319 them in to the Kingdom. And so I tell you 350 00:21:27.359 --> 00:21:30.359 we need some storms, We need some low pressure created. 351 00:21:30.759 --> 00:21:36.000 And what triggers it is our prayer, our prayer. Well, 352 00:21:37.319 --> 00:21:39.839 it says in the Bible that we pray the mysteries 353 00:21:39.880 --> 00:21:43.000 of God when we pray in tongues. It's a mystery 354 00:21:43.039 --> 00:21:45.839 how that can happen in the spirit. We don't have 355 00:21:45.920 --> 00:21:51.039 to know every detail about it. We just need to 356 00:21:51.240 --> 00:21:54.599 partner with God. Can you imagine praying in tongues. It 357 00:21:54.640 --> 00:21:57.279 says we're praying the mystery of God. We get to 358 00:21:57.359 --> 00:22:08.000 participate with God's mystery. He has entrusted us with mystery. 359 00:22:08.680 --> 00:22:11.480 You know, you say, well, I praying tongues, believe in 360 00:22:11.519 --> 00:22:14.680 the interpret but I don't know if that's really God. Hey, 361 00:22:14.839 --> 00:22:20.000 it's okay, it's a mystery. It's just it's just a mystery. 362 00:22:20.880 --> 00:22:23.839 But he will He will give us insight through through 363 00:22:23.880 --> 00:22:28.279 prophecy and and and so forth. So we get to 364 00:22:28.279 --> 00:22:30.680 share in the in the in the mysteries of this. 365 00:22:30.839 --> 00:22:36.759 So okay, Well, how did the Holy Spirit came on 366 00:22:36.839 --> 00:22:39.519 that come on the scene. Well, uh, he he would 367 00:22:39.519 --> 00:22:43.000 show up in in leaders profits and so forth, annointed lives. 368 00:22:43.119 --> 00:22:45.839 But now it's available to all of us since the 369 00:22:45.960 --> 00:22:48.720 upper room. Uh. In the in the Book of Acts 370 00:22:49.200 --> 00:22:51.880 where the big group of over one hundred people were 371 00:22:52.039 --> 00:22:55.119 had tongues of fire come on them. That said in 372 00:22:55.200 --> 00:22:58.119 Acts two four that tongues of fire descended and they 373 00:22:58.160 --> 00:23:03.559 all all prayed in in in other tongues. And that's 374 00:23:03.599 --> 00:23:05.880 what really got started Jesus. Of course, we talked about 375 00:23:05.960 --> 00:23:09.960 Jesus baptism, the Upper Room experience. But a lot of 376 00:23:09.960 --> 00:23:13.440 critics will say that tongue cease there and the only 377 00:23:13.599 --> 00:23:16.720 legitimate tongues is when people understand in a foreign language 378 00:23:16.720 --> 00:23:20.759 when they hear their own language. But I would contend 379 00:23:20.759 --> 00:23:24.359 with that just by reading Acts eight fourteen to nineteen. 380 00:23:24.400 --> 00:23:28.720 Can we bring that up real quick? Acts Chapter eight 381 00:23:28.799 --> 00:23:35.519 fourteen to nineteen. This is in Samaria. Philip goes to 382 00:23:35.559 --> 00:23:39.079 Samaria and does great miracles and there's a revival of salvation. 383 00:23:40.359 --> 00:23:42.720 But Peter and John were kind of the tag team 384 00:23:42.799 --> 00:23:45.920 partners of Philip, and they go down to help people 385 00:23:45.960 --> 00:23:50.440 with the Holy Spirit. And I guess we don't have 386 00:23:50.440 --> 00:23:55.880 that scripture, but that's okay. So but they were filled 387 00:23:56.079 --> 00:23:58.920 with the spirit separately. They didn't even know about this 388 00:23:59.000 --> 00:24:03.680 Holy ghostism the spirit, but Peter and John helped him 389 00:24:03.720 --> 00:24:07.960 with Paul in Acts nineteen two to seven goes to 390 00:24:08.039 --> 00:24:12.279 Ephesus in a whole and these were believers in Ephesus, 391 00:24:12.279 --> 00:24:14.799 but they didn't know about the Holy Spirit. And they 392 00:24:14.880 --> 00:24:19.759 received the baptism of the Holy Spirit, and that was 393 00:24:19.799 --> 00:24:24.480 the beginning of the giant revival in Asia. It said 394 00:24:24.759 --> 00:24:28.279 all of Asia heard the word of the Lord, and 395 00:24:28.359 --> 00:24:31.960 it was twelve people that got filled and baptized in 396 00:24:32.000 --> 00:24:37.319 the spirit there. But Paul said, it said that he 397 00:24:38.920 --> 00:24:43.039 took those disciples and they debated and contended with the 398 00:24:43.079 --> 00:24:45.400 word of God for two years. In all of Asia 399 00:24:46.119 --> 00:24:50.240 heard the gospel. We received power to be a witness. 400 00:24:50.799 --> 00:24:53.039 When we're filled with the spirit, we don't have to 401 00:24:53.119 --> 00:24:55.920