WEBVTT 02:18.600 --> 02:21.000 Good evening everyone, welcome to Anchor Baptist Church. 02:21.000 --> 02:22.760 It is time to go ahead and get started. 02:22.760 --> 02:25.200 If you would find a seat and grab a hymnal, 02:25.200 --> 02:28.140 turn to our first hymn, number 97. 02:29.680 --> 02:33.200 Hymn number 97, nine seven, 02:33.200 --> 02:35.100 I need thee every hour. 02:37.800 --> 02:40.200 Ham number 97. 02:45.200 --> 02:50.000 I need thee every hour. Let's sing it out all together. 02:50.000 --> 02:58.400 I need thee every hour, most gracious Lord. 02:58.400 --> 03:06.500 No tender voice like thine can be soft-bored. 03:06.600 --> 03:11.400 I need Thee, oh I need Thee 03:11.400 --> 03:14.900 Everywhere I need Thee 03:14.900 --> 03:19.000 Oh bless me now my Savior 03:19.000 --> 03:23.100 I come to Thee 03:23.300 --> 03:31.700 I need thee every hour, stay thou near by. 03:31.700 --> 03:37.940 Temptations lose their power when power... 05:05.600 --> 05:06.600 So bow your heads with me. 05:07.200 --> 05:11.360 Heavenly Father, we thank you for this day, for your opportunity to gather together and 05:11.360 --> 05:13.880 sing praises and learn from your word. 05:13.880 --> 05:18.740 I pray that you would be with the seeds that were planted this afternoon and that you would 05:18.740 --> 05:25.400 also just put your spirit in us to continue soul winning even when it is difficult, either 05:25.400 --> 05:29.320 from a carnal or a spiritual perspective, that we would just keep our zeal and we would 05:29.320 --> 05:32.600 keep trying to go forth and bear your truth. 05:32.600 --> 05:35.200 Lord for this service specifically, I pray that you'd open our ears to the message. 05:35.200 --> 05:39.480 that you'd fill pasture with your spirit and that everything would be done decently and in order. 05:39.480 --> 05:41.480 These things we pray in Jesus name, Amen. 05:41.480 --> 05:42.480 Amen. 05:42.480 --> 05:47.440 For our next hymn, number 179, Such Love. 05:47.440 --> 05:55.120 179, 179, Such Love. 06:00.000 --> 06:02.840 179 let's sing it out 08:55.100 --> 08:59.480 evening service. If anyone needs a bulletin, please raise your hand and an usher will come 08:59.480 --> 09:05.860 and bring you one. We do have there our Bible memory passage of the week, 2 Timothy chapter 09:05.860 --> 09:06.600 number 2. 09:07.000 --> 09:11.960 Verse 6 nice short one this week. So kids if you want that ice cream on Wednesday 09:12.220 --> 09:17.700 Learn the memory verse and we still have plenty of ice cream even after that feast this afternoon 09:17.800 --> 09:21.940 So make sure to do the verse on the inside our service times are listed there 09:22.300 --> 09:30.480 Sunday morning at 10 30 a.m. Sunday evening at 430 and our Wednesday Bible study through the Gospel of Mark at 7 o'clock p.m 09:31.500 --> 09:33.620 Below that we have our soul winning times. 09:33.620 --> 09:36.780 Those meet here at the church building except for Saturday. 09:36.780 --> 09:40.620 Keep your eye on the signal group for the address on Fridays 09:40.620 --> 09:44.180 that are usually sent out for that Saturday time there. 09:44.180 --> 09:48.060 Below we do have our year to date soul winning statistics 09:48.060 --> 09:51.220 for local and abroad salvations. 09:51.220 --> 09:53.700 And like I had mentioned, not included in this. 09:53.700 --> 09:55.580 A lot of our soul winners went and participated 09:55.580 --> 09:56.640 in the Fiji. 09:57.300 --> 10:01.200 Missions trip recently and I've heard a lot of great reports from people 10:02.080 --> 10:08.280 Many have told me that it's the most receptive place they've ever went soul-winning that it beats the Philippines that it beats the Bahamas 10:08.440 --> 10:12.600 Which that's that's quite a high praise right there to say it's better than those places 10:12.600 --> 10:15.040 So I really want to get out to Fiji someday 10:15.200 --> 10:20.280 The only downside that I really see is that it's really far and so that's why I think like we should still hit up 10:20.280 --> 10:24.960 The Bahamas often is because it's four or five hours away, and I think what's the flight? 10:25.300 --> 10:28.340 or 14 hours to 12 hours to Fiji. 10:28.340 --> 10:30.580 So obviously that's a long flight for sure. 10:30.580 --> 10:33.860 But it's worth it to go to a receptive place. 10:33.860 --> 10:36.520 Below that we have our online visitor card 10:36.520 --> 10:39.180 and our online giving information. 10:39.180 --> 10:42.740 Then we also have our prayer list below. 10:42.740 --> 10:44.120 If you have any additions to that, 10:44.120 --> 10:46.660 please do email the church. 10:46.660 --> 10:47.920 One thing, pray for me please. 10:47.920 --> 10:50.180 I'm gonna be traveling this upcoming week. 10:50.300 --> 10:55.740 I'm gonna be preaching at Straight Paths Baptist Church in St. Louis next Saturday. 10:56.200 --> 11:01.080 And so I'm really excited. I've never been to St. Louis before, never been to that church, but 11:01.080 --> 11:04.600 it seems like that church is doing well and reaching souls for Christ. So it's going to be 11:04.600 --> 11:09.480 a fun weekend. Pastor Anderson will be preaching on Friday. I'll be preaching Saturday. And of 11:09.480 --> 11:13.960 course, Pastor Corbin Russell on Sunday. So I'm really excited to be taking that. Just keep me 11:13.960 --> 11:17.720 in prayer, if you will, for travels and just health and everything to go well for that trip. 11:17.720 --> 11:18.520 I'd appreciate it. 11:19.100 --> 11:22.960 Upcoming events August 15th is our next soul winning marathon in Shawnee, Oklahoma 11:23.660 --> 11:29.140 Just a short drive down the road and we're meeting at 9 a.m. At Chick-fil-a in Shawnee 11:29.140 --> 11:33.780 It's the northern location not the Chick-fil-a at the college campus 11:34.300 --> 11:40.420 Then soul winning from 10 to 1230 lunch 1232 round two of soul winning it from 2 to 4 p.m 11:41.300 --> 11:50.900 Then our next men's preaching night will be August 23rd for the Sunday evening service followed by a potluck and just fellowship and games. 11:50.900 --> 11:52.400 That's always a good time. 11:52.400 --> 11:57.300 September 19th is the Osage Indian Sowing Marathon in Pawhuska. 11:57.300 --> 12:01.900 October 24th is the Orr Family Farm Fellowship Weekend. 12:01.900 --> 12:03.900 That'll be on a Saturday this year again. 12:04.400 --> 12:08.200 October 31st is the next Chili Cook-Off. 12:08.200 --> 12:10.520 I think that's also on a Saturday. 12:10.520 --> 12:13.280 And then November 7th is the Enid Oklahoma 12:13.280 --> 12:14.480 Soul Winning Marathon. 12:14.480 --> 12:16.680 That's it for announcements this evening. 12:16.680 --> 12:18.900 Let's go ahead and go to our third song together. 12:21.800 --> 12:26.200 for our third song. Turn if you would to number 31. 12:29.100 --> 12:31.740 He lives. 12:31.740 --> 12:36.740 Ham number 31, 3-1, he lives. 12:49.600 --> 12:55.360 him number 31. Let's sing it out all together. I serve a risen 12:55.360 --> 12:56.360 saint. 16:21.400 --> 16:25.860 are being passed, turn if you would to John 14, 16:25.860 --> 16:27.860 John chapter number 14. 16:57.300 --> 16:59.860 John Chapter 14. 16:59.860 --> 17:01.660 Let not your heart be troubled. 17:01.660 --> 17:04.580 Ye believe in God, believe also in me. 17:04.580 --> 17:06.900 In my Father's house are many mansions. 17:06.900 --> 17:09.180 If it were not so, I would have told you. 17:09.180 --> 17:11.640 I go to prepare a place for you. 17:11.640 --> 17:16.980 And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you unto myself, 17:16.980 --> 17:20.060 that where I am, there ye may be also. 17:20.060 --> 17:22.540 And whither I go ye know, and the way ye know. 17:23.300 --> 17:27.780 Thomas saith unto him, Lord, we know not whither thou goest, and how can we know the way? 17:28.460 --> 17:32.800 Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life. 17:33.360 --> 17:37.880 No man cometh unto the Father, but by me. If ye had known me, 17:37.880 --> 17:42.760 ye should have known my Father also, and from henceforth ye know him, and have seen him. 17:43.320 --> 17:47.200 Philip saith unto him, Lord, show us the Father, and it sufficeth us. 17:47.700 --> 17:53.340 Jesus saith unto him, Have I been so long time with you, and yet hast thou not known me, Philip? 17:53.460 --> 17:58.820 He that hath seen me hath seen the Father, and how sayest thou then, Show us the Father? 17:59.580 --> 18:05.180 Believest thou not that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? The words that I speak unto you 18:05.180 --> 18:09.980 I speak not of myself, but the Father that dwelleth in me, he doeth the works. 18:10.540 --> 18:13.840 Believe me that I am in the Father, and the Father in me. 18:14.300 --> 18:19.260 or else believe me for the very works sake. Verily, verily, I say unto you, 18:19.260 --> 18:22.460 he that believeth on me, the works that I do 18:22.460 --> 18:25.860 shall he do also, and greater works than these shall he do, 18:25.860 --> 18:27.560 because I go unto my Father. 18:28.400 --> 18:34.020 And whatsoever ye shall ask in my name, that will I do, that the Father may be glorified 18:34.020 --> 18:35.020 in the Son. 18:35.020 --> 18:38.740 If ye shall ask anything in my name, I will do it. 18:38.740 --> 18:41.460 And if ye love me, keep my commandments. 18:41.460 --> 18:45.540 And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with 18:45.540 --> 18:46.300 you forever. 18:48.200 --> 18:54.200 even the Spirit of Truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him. 18:54.200 --> 18:58.200 But ye know him, for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you. 18:58.200 --> 19:01.200 I will not leave you comfortless, I will come to you. 19:01.200 --> 19:08.200 Yet a little while, and the world seeth me no more, but ye see me, because I live, ye shall live also. 19:08.200 --> 19:13.200 At that day ye shall know that I am in my Father, and ye in me, and I in you. 19:13.400 --> 19:17.720 He that hath my commandments and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me. 19:17.720 --> 19:22.760 And he that loveth me shall be loved of my father, and I will love him and will manifest 19:22.760 --> 19:29.480 myself to him. Judas saith unto him, not Iscariot, Lord, how is it that thou will manifest 19:29.480 --> 19:32.280 thyself unto us and not unto the world? 19:32.400 --> 19:38.320 Jesus answered and said unto him, If a man love me, he will keep my words, and my Father will love him. 19:38.320 --> 19:44.320 And we will come unto him and make our abode with him. He that loveth me not, keepeth not my sayings. 19:44.320 --> 19:48.600 And the word which ye hear is not mine, but the Father's which sent me. 19:49.040 --> 19:52.820 These things have I spoken unto you, being yet present with you. 19:53.300 --> 20:05.300 But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in My name, He shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you. 20:05.300 --> 20:11.800 Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you, not as the world giveth give I unto you. 20:11.800 --> 20:15.100 Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid. 20:15.100 --> 20:19.740 You have heard how I said unto you, I go away and come again unto you? 20:20.000 --> 20:26.640 If you'd love me, you would rejoice, because I said, I go into the Father, for my Father is greater than I. 20:26.640 --> 20:32.320 And now I have told you before it come to pass, that when it is come to pass, ye might believe. 20:32.320 --> 20:38.160 Hereafter I will not talk much with you, for the Prince of this world cometh, and hath nothing in me. 20:38.500 --> 20:43.380 but that the world may know that I love the Father, and as the Father gave me commandment, 20:43.380 --> 20:50.340 even so I do. Arise, let us go hence. Let's pray. Dear Heavenly Father, thank you for this day. 20:50.340 --> 20:56.100 I pray that you fill Pastor Oz with your spirit, help him to preach an edifying sermon, and for us to receive it. 20:58.100 --> 21:03.460 You know you go to some churches and they pray for like 20 minutes brother. Theodore is the fastest 21:03.540 --> 21:08.260 I gotta run up here when he's reading but at least he's not doing it for a vain show. You know that right? 21:08.980 --> 21:10.660 John chapter 14 21:10.660 --> 21:14.340 Look at what the bible says in verse 26 the bible says but the comforter 21:14.900 --> 21:18.900 Which is the holy ghost whom the father will send in my name 21:19.460 --> 21:24.340 He shall teach you all things and bring all things to your remembrance whatsoever. I've said 21:24.800 --> 21:30.220 Unto you and title my sermon is the Holy Spirit of God the Holy Spirit of God 21:30.420 --> 21:36.200 There's a lot of weird and false teachings about the Holy Spirit out there today and one of the false accusations 21:36.200 --> 21:41.180 That's often leveled against us as fundamental Baptist. I can't even tell you how many times 21:41.180 --> 21:45.420 I've been soul winning and someone has said this to me. You guys don't believe in the Holy Spirit 21:45.920 --> 21:47.920 You guys don't even believe in the Holy Spirit 21:48.400 --> 21:52.000 And usually this is Russian Pentecostals when I lived in in Washington. 21:52.100 --> 21:56.200 And what they mean by that is you guys don't believe in running around the aisles 21:56.200 --> 21:59.540 and barking like a dog and speaking gibberish is what they really mean. 21:59.940 --> 22:03.140 But, you know, it's a false accusation to say that we don't believe in the Holy Spirit. 22:03.140 --> 22:05.200 We do believe in the Holy Spirit. 22:05.200 --> 22:09.640 But we need to base our beliefs on the Holy Spirit based on what the Bible says. 22:10.240 --> 22:14.840 And I think there's lacking today in churches, this idea of just teaching doctrine. 22:15.300 --> 22:20.820 I don't think every single sermon needs to be like a line by line doctrinal sermon. I think we need preaching 22:20.820 --> 22:25.860 We need exhortation. We need face ripping, but you know, we also need doctrine to be taught 22:26.260 --> 22:30.280 There's so much shallow doctrine out there and you know how you know this by going soul winning 22:30.600 --> 22:35.720 When you go out soul winning and you hear people's doctrine people today are just starving for doctrine 22:35.800 --> 22:40.200 And so we need to have a balance in church between preaching hard preaching and just going through 22:40.520 --> 22:43.960 What does the bible teach about the holy spirit of god? 22:44.040 --> 22:48.940 Okay, number one, let's talk about the person of the holy spirit the person 22:49.400 --> 22:55.660 The Holy Spirit right away a lot of Charismatics or oneness Pentecostals would have a problem with me using that word 22:56.100 --> 22:58.520 Regarding the Holy Spirit saying that he is a person 22:59.000 --> 23:03.000 But I submit to you the Bible teaches that the Holy Spirit of God is a person 23:03.800 --> 23:06.680 Not a force not some sort of esoteric 23:07.320 --> 23:11.720 Mythical force that exists in this world, but the Holy Spirit of God is a person 23:11.720 --> 23:17.380 He's the third person of the Trinity of the Godhead if you will look at John 14 verse 16 23:17.400 --> 23:21.320 The Bible says and this is Jesus saying this and I will pray the Father and 23:21.320 --> 23:25.640 He who's the he referring to their God the Father we know God the Father is a person right? 23:26.360 --> 23:34.440 He shall give you another comforter that he who's that talking about the comforter may abide with you forever 23:36.600 --> 23:42.840 That's being assigned to the comforter and this person is going to abide with you forever 23:42.840 --> 23:48.840 You know, thank God that when we believe in Jesus Christ we get sealed with the Holy Spirit of God 23:49.320 --> 23:54.920 That is not some sort of force that dwells with us forever, but that is a person that dwells with us forever 23:58.500 --> 24:06.500 The third person of the godhead dwells within us and has sealed us until the day of redemption. That's not a force. That's a person 24:06.980 --> 24:08.980 Let's keep reading verse 26 24:09.380 --> 24:13.940 Bunt the comforter, which is the holy ghost whom the father will send in my name 24:14.180 --> 24:19.220 Notice he shall teach you all things and bring all things to your remembrance whatsoever 24:19.300 --> 24:22.980 I have said unto you, you know a force doesn't teach you things 24:23.620 --> 24:25.500 You know what a force is gravity 24:25.800 --> 24:31.600 Gravity is a force that pushes you down towards the center of the earth gravity is exerting, you know will on us 24:31.600 --> 24:36.960 But gravity is not teaching us anything a force doesn't teach you anything, right? But the Holy Spirit he abides with you 24:37.080 --> 24:43.660 He has a pronoun he and he's teaching you things and he's bringing things to your remembrance 24:43.660 --> 24:48.740 You know, we have we have a direct relationship with the Holy Spirit of God when we are saved, right? 24:48.740 --> 24:53.440 You're reading God's Word and the Holy Spirit of God is guiding you leading you to all truth 24:53.800 --> 24:58.680 bringing other verses to your remembrance to help you and to bless you flip the page go to john 15 24:59.560 --> 25:01.160 John chapter 15 25:01.160 --> 25:04.360 It says but when verse 26, but when the comforter is come 25:05.080 --> 25:12.280 Whom I will send unto you from the father even the spirit of truth which proceedeth from the father notice this he 25:12.920 --> 25:14.920 Shall testify of me 25:15.400 --> 25:21.280 This is a person and he is what he's the comforter and he's testifying of the father. 25:21.280 --> 25:22.280 What does that mean? 25:22.280 --> 25:26.920 He's he's bearing truth to the father and to the Lord Jesus Christ. 25:26.920 --> 25:29.920 You know elsewhere the Bible talks about how he does not speak of himself. 25:33.400 --> 25:39.620 Speaking of like the source the Holy Spirit isn't just making up things to say but he's saying only that which was given to him 25:39.760 --> 25:45.640 From the father and this is kind of why he's referred to as the third person of the Godhead is 25:45.880 --> 25:49.480 Because of the fact that he's just pointing you to Jesus. He's pointing you to the father 25:49.720 --> 25:53.520 He's getting the words to speak from the father. He's not speaking of himself 25:54.160 --> 25:57.420 So he's the third person in that sense go to John 16 25:58.040 --> 25:59.800 John chapter number 16 25:59.900 --> 26:02.540 Verse 7 again, let's look at this pronoun used once again. 26:02.540 --> 26:07.260 Nevertheless, I tell you the truth, it is expedient for you that I go away, for if I 26:07.260 --> 26:11.980 go not away, the Comforter will not come unto you. 26:11.980 --> 26:16.020 But if I depart, I will send him unto you. 26:16.600 --> 26:20.600 the Holy Spirit of God because Jesus said, Hey, unless I go away, 26:20.800 --> 26:22.600 the Holy Spirit is not going to come to you. 26:22.800 --> 26:24.400 But of course, he did go away. 26:24.600 --> 26:27.200 He ascended up to be seated at the right hand of the Father. 26:27.400 --> 26:31.200 And on the day of Pentecost was when the Holy Spirit was poured out. 26:31.400 --> 26:34.800 That's that baptism of the Holy Spirit that we studied from Mark chapter number 26:35.000 --> 26:39.080 one, that's when God sent the comforter to us and every 26:39.080 --> 26:41.040 that we studied from Mark chapter number one, 26:41.040 --> 26:44.340 that's when God sent the comforter to us. 26:44.600 --> 26:52.440 Since the day of Pentecost every believer who's ever put their faith in Jesus Christ has been sealed and indwelled with that the person the Holy 26:52.440 --> 26:53.480 Spirit of 26:53.480 --> 26:54.700 God now 26:55.200 --> 26:59.840 Not every religion believes this right we as Baptist why are we Baptist because we believe what the Bible says 26:59.920 --> 27:06.800 There are false religions that teach all sorts of crazy stuff about the Trinity and one of the most blasphemous teachings 27:07.680 --> 27:10.120 Of the Holy Spirit is what the Jehovah's Witnesses 27:10.720 --> 27:16.880 Teach on the Holy Spirit so they they have like a publication outhouse that they call the Watchtower Society 27:17.000 --> 27:20.800 And they have this publication called reasoning from the scriptures 27:21.600 --> 27:27.520 And in page 204, this is what the Jehovah's Witnesses say, the Trinity doctrine, their 27:27.520 --> 27:32.360 concept of God, and there they're referring to like Christians like us, their concept 27:32.360 --> 27:35.880 of God himself is borrowed from pagan sources. 27:36.200 --> 27:42.840 and was developed in its present form centuries after Bible writing was completed. 27:42.840 --> 27:47.480 So Jehovah's Witness just deny the Trinity. This is how you know by the way Jehovah's Witnesses 27:47.480 --> 27:53.240 are not saved. They're not brothers in Christ. The Jehovah's Witnesses are a false cult, 27:53.880 --> 27:58.680 weirdo cult. And you know the only thing that I like about the Jehovah's Witnesses 27:58.680 --> 28:02.920 is I feel like they used to go door to door, but now every time I see them they're just 28:02.920 --> 28:04.200 standing by a little sign. 28:04.200 --> 28:09.200 And in fact, almost every day where I work right outside of the door of where I work, 28:09.200 --> 28:13.200 these Jehovah's Witnesses put up their little stand and they're just like looking at you as you walk by. 28:13.200 --> 28:15.200 But I've never seen them talk to a single person. 28:15.200 --> 28:19.200 So that like that's the only good update I've seen from the Jehovah's Witnesses. 28:19.200 --> 28:22.200 But they just they completely deny the concept of the Trinity. 28:22.200 --> 28:27.200 But I don't get how you do that because Jesus is saying, Hey, I'm going to send you the comforter. 28:27.200 --> 28:31.200 And if I don't go away, he won't come. 28:32.200 --> 28:38.600 Doesn't sound like this is the same person sounds like they're distinct persons, right? The person of the Holy Spirit of God 28:39.320 --> 28:41.320 Here's another thing they say 28:41.480 --> 28:46.520 They have an article called. Do you appreciate our spiritual heritage paragraph seven? 28:47.400 --> 28:52.280 Jesus told his followers to make disciples of people of all the nations 28:52.900 --> 28:56.300 Baptizing them in the name of the father and of the son and of the holy spirit 28:57.100 --> 29:01.000 Yeah, that kind of destroys their doctrine of not believing in the Trinity, right? 29:01.000 --> 29:06.340 They say this means that a person who wants to be baptized as a true Christian and be 29:06.340 --> 29:12.020 one of Jehovah's Witnesses must believe that the Father Jehovah has authority over Jesus 29:12.020 --> 29:16.420 and that Jesus is God's Son who came to earth as a ransom. 29:16.420 --> 29:21.500 The person must not believe that the Holy Spirit is part of a Trinity. 29:21.500 --> 29:23.740 That's what Matthew 28 and 19 is teaching according to them. 29:24.500 --> 29:26.500 Instead, it is God's active 29:26.800 --> 29:33.540 Force right it is part of our special heritage to know that the Trinity teaching 29:34.120 --> 29:40.200 Dishonors God and is not true. So this is the gaslighting you get in cults today like the Jehovah's Witnesses 29:40.200 --> 29:44.240 They take you to Matthew 28 19 where it verbatim just spells out 29:44.720 --> 29:50.480 Baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost and they look at that and say you see 29:50.480 --> 29:53.720 What this is teaching is that one must not believe that there's a Trinity 29:54.500 --> 30:00.340 And one must realize that this teaching of the Trinity is dishonoring to God. 30:00.340 --> 30:04.660 Again, it's kind of, you know, to go along with this morning sermon, this idea of just 30:04.660 --> 30:08.140 arguing against Jesus, arguing with the Bible, right? 30:08.140 --> 30:10.900 No, Jesus, let's not listen to what you said. 30:10.900 --> 30:13.020 Baptize them in the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. 30:13.020 --> 30:16.620 Really, we're supposed to realize that what Jesus taught dishonors God. 30:17.000 --> 30:24.060 Jesus is teaching of the Trinity dishonors God or we can realize that this is a false cult that is sending people straight to hell 30:24.760 --> 30:29.940 Here's another quote from them a publication called why be guided by God's Spirit 30:30.360 --> 30:37.140 They say so what is the Holy Spirit a footnote at Genesis 1 2 in the New World translation? 30:37.140 --> 30:38.900 That's the Jehovah's Witness Bible 30:39.000 --> 30:44.280 the Holy Scriptures with references says that the Hebrew word ruach is 30:44.960 --> 30:53.040 translated spirit at Genesis 1 2 in other verses is translated as wind or words with a similar meaning 30:53.840 --> 31:00.860 Compare footnotes at Genesis 3 8 Genesis 8 1 even though we cannot see the wind we can see what it does in the same way 31:00.860 --> 31:04.060 The Holy Spirit is invisible, but it can cause things to happen 31:05.100 --> 31:11.100 They say the Holy Spirit is not a person, it is energy from God. 31:11.100 --> 31:16.600 He uses it on people or things to make sure that whatever he wants will happen. 31:16.600 --> 31:18.600 It is hard to believe that such a marvelous force 31:19.100 --> 31:24.520 Is it hard to believe that such a marvelous force comes from the Almighty God? No, not at all 31:24.520 --> 31:28.960 So what are the Jehovah's Witness say it's a it's a force its energy 31:29.200 --> 31:34.720 But it's not a person you can't believe that he's a person that that dishonors God and they say well 31:34.720 --> 31:38.280 You know, it's translated as spirit in Genesis 1 31:38.320 --> 31:42.940 But that same Hebrew word is translated in other places as different words 31:42.940 --> 31:47.100 And it's like what if I told you that the same word could have different meanings in different 31:47.100 --> 31:50.580 context. Right? It's just crazy. And you got to be careful of 31:50.580 --> 31:53.220 people that want to take you back to the Greek, take you 31:53.220 --> 31:56.340 back to the Hebrew to correct what the King James Bible says. 31:56.420 --> 31:58.260 And they don't even use the King James Bible, but just to 31:58.260 --> 32:00.840 correct the English because they have an agenda. 32:01.300 --> 32:08.800 They have an agenda to corrupt your mind and to teach false doctrine and they're not interested in giving honor and glory to the Holy Spirit of God 32:08.860 --> 32:14.380 They're interested in bringing God down a notch and saying oh don't honor the Holy Spirit. He's just a force 32:14.380 --> 32:19.140 He's just an energy. No, he's a person. He's a person that dwells within us 32:19.640 --> 32:22.740 So let me give you some examples here because it is true that sometimes 32:23.400 --> 32:24.020 That's true. 32:24.060 --> 32:26.300 We talked about that with shield, right? 32:26.300 --> 32:28.100 We talked about that with the doctrine of hell. 32:28.400 --> 32:32.400 You know, in English, there are words that are spelled the exact same way. 32:32.400 --> 32:36.100 That are the exact same word, but mean different things in different contexts. 32:36.100 --> 32:42.320 How about this B A S S you could go fishing for bass, or you could have a 32:42.320 --> 32:45.780 stringed instrument, a low pitch string instrument called what a bass. 32:49.800 --> 32:56.360 Okay, you could have a tear right you tear paper or you could have a tear coming from your eye 32:56.840 --> 33:02.920 Hey, there's no such thing as tears because over here. It's it's tear right that's ridiculous. What about this content? 33:03.240 --> 33:06.040 Hey, i'm producing content or i'm content 33:06.680 --> 33:08.200 I'm not saying I am content 33:08.300 --> 33:09.300 I'm content. 33:09.300 --> 33:10.300 Okay. 33:10.300 --> 33:12.580 Again, we talked about this one about plane, right? 33:12.580 --> 33:15.500 Something that flies in the sky or a flat surface. 33:15.500 --> 33:18.740 This is like the elementary knowledge that they just try to snow people with. 33:18.740 --> 33:22.740 It's be like, oh, Ruach is spirit here, but Ruach is wind over here. 33:22.740 --> 33:26.700 It's like, yeah, sometimes words can be translated different ways in different contexts. 33:26.700 --> 33:27.700 But you know what? 33:27.700 --> 33:32.020 The 54 expert scholars of the King James Bible, you know what they said Genesis one to us? 33:32.020 --> 33:33.660 The spirit of God. 33:34.400 --> 33:42.160 Let's look at some more scripture here to prove that the holy ghost is a person the holy spirit of god is a person 33:44.640 --> 33:46.640 Acts chapter number five verse one 33:47.520 --> 33:51.760 Says but a certain man named ananias with sephira his wife 33:52.320 --> 33:59.360 Sold a possession and kept back part of the price his wife also being privy to it 33:59.360 --> 34:01.960 his wife also being privy to it. 34:02.200 --> 34:06.600 and brought a certain part and laid it at the apostles feet. 34:07.320 --> 34:11.080 I think if you study out this passage, what they're doing here is I believe what they're 34:11.080 --> 34:15.080 doing is they're acting like they've sold this property and they're pretending like they're 34:15.080 --> 34:19.560 giving it all to church, like they're just sacrificing it all to God. 34:19.560 --> 34:22.840 But clearly there's some act of conspiring going on here. 34:23.200 --> 34:27.200 Because they're lying and it says that his he kept back part of the price 34:27.200 --> 34:34.200 That's what the husband did and his wife was also privy to it. So she's in on this conspiracy. She's helping her husband sin and 34:35.200 --> 34:37.840 Verse 3 says but Peter said Ananias 34:38.400 --> 34:43.760 Why have Satan filled thine heart notice to lie to the Holy Ghost? 34:44.600 --> 34:49.800 Let me ask you this can someone lie to an impersonal force 34:50.600 --> 34:54.760 Can you lie to energy can I go tell a lie to electromagnetism? 34:55.480 --> 34:59.080 Can I deceive gravity today can I tell a lie to gravity? 34:59.080 --> 35:01.080 No, you could tell a lie to a person 35:01.560 --> 35:06.360 Right. You say why is Satan filled your heart to lie to the Holy Ghost? 35:06.360 --> 35:08.360 Why because the Holy Ghost is a person 35:12.200 --> 35:14.200 Let's keep reading those what it says 35:14.640 --> 35:16.400 Whilst it remained 35:16.400 --> 35:21.000 Was it not thine own and after it was sold was it not in thine own power? 35:21.600 --> 35:28.500 Why has thou conceived this thing in thine heart thou has not lied unto men but unto who God? 35:29.500 --> 35:31.960 So the Holy Spirit is a person. 35:31.960 --> 35:32.640 How do we know that? 35:32.640 --> 35:34.540 Because you can't lie to an impersonal force. 35:34.540 --> 35:37.260 You can't lie to energy, right? 35:37.260 --> 35:38.500 You have to lie to a person. 35:38.500 --> 35:41.140 And Peter says, hey, you haven't lied unto men. 35:41.140 --> 35:43.280 You've lied unto God. 35:43.280 --> 35:43.780 Guess what? 35:43.780 --> 35:46.040 The Holy Spirit is God. 35:46.040 --> 35:47.460 He is a part of the Trinity. 35:47.460 --> 35:48.820 These three are one, the Bible says. 35:48.820 --> 35:50.240 He's the third person of the Godhead. 35:50.240 --> 35:53.660 But the Trinity, I'm sorry, the Holy Spirit is God. 35:53.660 --> 35:54.700 Let's prove this further. 35:54.700 --> 35:55.500 Go to Romans 5. 35:56.300 --> 35:58.740 Romans chapter number five. 36:05.000 --> 36:07.000 Romans chapter 5 look at verse 5 and 36:07.960 --> 36:09.960 Hope maketh not ashamed 36:10.400 --> 36:17.980 Because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us notice 36:18.360 --> 36:21.080 Ask yourself this can an inanimate object 36:21.960 --> 36:25.880 Can a force shed love abroad in your hearts? 36:26.600 --> 36:29.240 No, you know who sheds love abroad in your hearts? 36:29.240 --> 36:32.400 The Holy Spirit of God, because he's a person, right? 36:32.400 --> 36:34.480 You can't make some sort of invention, 36:34.480 --> 36:38.320 some sort of physical object that sheds love abroad, right? 36:38.320 --> 36:41.640 That's a supernatural thing to shed love abroad in our hearts. 36:41.640 --> 36:44.320 And that's done by the third person of the Godhead, 36:44.320 --> 36:45.480 the Holy Spirit of God. 36:45.480 --> 36:48.760 Flip the page to Romans eight, Romans chapter number eight. 36:48.760 --> 36:50.600 I mean, there's so much scripture proving 36:50.600 --> 36:52.720 that the Holy Spirit is a person. 36:53.300 --> 36:56.900 Here's some more person like language being used here. Verse 26. 36:57.780 --> 37:03.700 Likewise, the spirit also helpeth our infirmities, for we know not what we should pray for as we 37:03.700 --> 37:10.660 ought. But the spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings, which cannot be uttered. 37:11.380 --> 37:16.660 And he that searcheth the hearts knoweth what is the notice mind of the spirit. 37:17.400 --> 37:23.120 Because he maketh intercession for the saints according to the will of God a force doesn't have a mind 37:23.760 --> 37:27.920 Energy doesn't have a mind right but the Holy Spirit of God has a mind 37:28.100 --> 37:31.380 The Bible says that we have the mind of Christ, right? 37:31.380 --> 37:36.900 God the Father has a mind the Lord Jesus Christ has a mind the Holy Spirit has a mind 37:37.220 --> 37:40.600 the Bible says it very clearly what is the mind of 37:41.300 --> 37:42.500 the spirit 37:42.600 --> 37:46.120 The spirit of God is a person go to second Corinthians 3 37:47.320 --> 37:51.800 Now what's funny is here's what the new world translation does to that passage 37:51.800 --> 37:54.200 We just read in romans chapter number eight 37:54.760 --> 37:57.880 They say this but the one who searches the hearts 37:58.520 --> 38:01.160 Knows what the meaning of the spirit is 38:01.880 --> 38:07.260 Because it is pleading in harmony with god for the holy ones. That's not an accidental change right there 38:07.400 --> 38:10.000 They hate the Holy Spirit of God. 38:10.000 --> 38:11.920 They don't want to acknowledge Him as God. 38:11.920 --> 38:13.840 They don't want to acknowledge Him as a person. 38:13.840 --> 38:17.640 So they come to a verse that clearly says, hey, we have the mind of the Spirit. 38:17.640 --> 38:22.120 And they're like, well, let's just change that to the meaning of the Spirit. 38:22.120 --> 38:25.820 This is yet another reason why it's important to be King James only, because there are so 38:25.820 --> 38:31.240 many wicked people in this world that hate God's Word, hate the truth of the Bible, and 38:31.240 --> 38:33.160 they have an agenda to change God's Word. 38:33.600 --> 38:36.960 It's not just like, hey, let's update the language, the these and the vows. 38:37.060 --> 38:39.140 Let's make things easier to understand. 38:39.360 --> 38:43.960 There are Bible versions out there that are intending on attacking God himself, 38:44.340 --> 38:46.440 attacking the person of the Holy Spirit of God. 38:46.640 --> 38:49.680 That's what the new world translation is doing. 38:50.680 --> 38:55.640 Look at second Corinthians three, verse six, who also have made us able ministers 38:55.640 --> 38:58.600 of the New Testament, not of the letter of the spirit. 38:59.100 --> 39:05.100 Or so not of the letter but of the spirit for the letter killeth but the spirit giveth life 39:05.660 --> 39:12.460 You know how the spirit can give life because it's not an inanimate force. It's not an energy. It's because the spirit is god 39:13.020 --> 39:15.100 That's how the spirit can give 39:15.740 --> 39:17.740 Life go to ephesians chapter four 39:18.200 --> 39:23.560 Ephesians chapter number four. I mean there's just so much in the Bible just proving over and over 39:23.880 --> 39:28.840 That the Holy Spirit of God is a person and look it's important for us to know this kind of doctrine 39:28.960 --> 39:32.680 Because you never know in some sort of weird freakish doctrine is gonna pop up 39:33.200 --> 39:35.840 Right. Many of you may remember some of you may not. 39:35.840 --> 39:41.040 You know, back in 2018, a doctrine that you would never think would be controversial among 39:41.040 --> 39:46.080 independent fundamental Baptists rose up to where people were starting to teach oneness. 39:46.500 --> 39:52.940 People were starting to teach modalism, which is a denial of the Trinity saying hey, it's not three persons that 39:53.380 --> 39:59.540 Basically, Jesus is the Holy Spirit of God and Jesus is the father and that God is basically just 39:59.900 --> 40:06.820 Shapeshifting into these different forms and revealing himself in these different ways. That is not true. That's not biblical, right? 40:06.820 --> 40:11.000 I mean Jesus talked about how he shared glory with the father before the world was 40:11.700 --> 40:18.260 how God loved the sun before the world was right in Genesis chapter one we see the trinity being 40:18.260 --> 40:22.420 taught we see it all over the place and so look I don't think anyone in here is like man I didn't 40:22.420 --> 40:25.620 know that the holy spirit of God was a person but you know you better know how to prove it 40:26.180 --> 40:29.300 you better know where it is in the Bible because you never know what kind of weird 40:29.300 --> 40:33.860 heresy is going to pop up you got to be instant in season out of season the Bible teaches 40:34.300 --> 40:35.880 Okay, here's a great one. 40:35.880 --> 40:37.740 Ephesians chapter 4 verse 30. 40:37.740 --> 40:44.600 The Bible says, and grieve not the Holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day 40:44.600 --> 40:45.900 of redemption. 40:45.900 --> 40:48.780 You know why you could grieve the Holy Spirit? 40:48.780 --> 40:50.560 Because He's a person. 40:50.560 --> 40:52.860 You can grieve me, I can grieve you. 40:52.860 --> 40:55.300 Again, I can't grieve gravity. 40:55.300 --> 41:00.220 I can't grieve electromagnetism, but you know, you could grieve the Holy Spirit of God because 41:00.220 --> 41:01.220 He's a person. 41:01.220 --> 41:01.300 you 41:01.400 --> 41:03.840 And by the way, we should take that seriously, right? 41:03.840 --> 41:06.340 That the Holy Spirit of God dwells within us, 41:06.340 --> 41:09.640 and we should make an effort not to grieve the Holy Spirit of God. 41:09.640 --> 41:12.940 We've been given this great gift of being indwelt by the Holy Spirit, 41:12.940 --> 41:15.340 and yes, we're sealed until the day of redemption. 41:15.340 --> 41:16.940 We can never lose our salvation, 41:16.940 --> 41:19.340 but why would we want to live our whole life grieving Him? 41:19.900 --> 41:22.200 This is also great proof by the way people say, 41:22.200 --> 41:25.280 oh if you get saved you're just going to automatically do the works. 41:25.280 --> 41:27.200 You're just automatically going to have works. 41:27.200 --> 41:31.400 Then why does the Bible instruct us to not grieve the Holy Spirit? 41:31.400 --> 41:35.240 Right, if works were automatic then I would never grieve the Holy Spirit of God. 41:35.240 --> 41:38.960 The reason I have to do this is because you know what works are not automatic 41:38.960 --> 41:41.600 and I have to choose to walk in the Spirit. 41:41.800 --> 41:46.900 Walk in the spirit and you will not fulfill the lust of the flesh. Hey grieve not the Holy Spirit of God 41:47.440 --> 41:52.440 Whereby you're sealed. Hey, you're always saved but you shouldn't grieve the Holy Spirit of God go to first John chapter number five 41:53.120 --> 41:55.560 first John chapter number five 42:00.500 --> 42:02.840 1 John 5. 42:02.840 --> 42:03.840 Look at verse number 7. 42:03.840 --> 42:04.840 Here's a great verse on the Trinity. 42:04.840 --> 42:11.720 It says, for there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, that's Jesus, 42:11.720 --> 42:16.280 and the Holy Ghost, and these three are one. 42:16.280 --> 42:17.280 So what is the Trinity? 42:17.280 --> 42:20.080 Hey, we believe that there is one God. 42:20.300 --> 42:25.020 But that one God is the father, the son, and the Holy Spirit. 42:25.220 --> 42:27.580 You say, I can't fully wrap my mind around that. 42:27.780 --> 42:28.780 OK, well, guess what? 42:28.980 --> 42:29.980 It's God. 42:30.180 --> 42:31.220 I wouldn't be able to expect. 42:31.420 --> 42:33.780 I wouldn't expect you to fully wrap your mind around God. 42:33.980 --> 42:34.780 But here's the thing. 42:34.980 --> 42:38.020 Let's not get too into illustrations or anything like that. 42:38.220 --> 42:39.620 Let's just believe what the Bible says. 42:42.900 --> 42:47.780 that there are three that bear record in heaven the Father the Word and the Holy Spirit these three 42:47.780 --> 42:52.740 are one we believe in the Trinity at anchor Baptist Church but this verse here's how it reads in the 42:52.740 --> 42:56.260 new world translation for there are three witness bearers that's it. 42:57.400 --> 43:02.760 For there are three witness bears who are they Jehovah's Witnesses who are the three they just omit it from the bible 43:03.000 --> 43:07.160 And you know what most modern versions of the bible just omit this verse. It's just gone 43:07.720 --> 43:13.080 You might if you're lucky, you might have a little footnote on your bible that says like hey, you know 43:13.160 --> 43:17.660 This wasn't in the earliest and best manuscripts, which is a bunch of garbage. It's a lie 43:17.900 --> 43:20.220 You know, the Bible teaches there are three to bear record. 43:20.220 --> 43:25.020 And it's like, you know how we know that 1 John 5, 7 is authentic scripture? 43:25.020 --> 43:27.660 Because the entire Bible teaches the Trinity. 43:28.200 --> 43:30.600 I mean, you see the Trinity all over the Bible. 43:30.600 --> 43:32.160 You see it in Genesis. 43:32.160 --> 43:35.000 You see it in Daniel, the fourth man in the fire, 43:35.000 --> 43:36.120 like under the Son of God. 43:36.120 --> 43:38.000 You see it in Proverbs chapter 30. 43:38.000 --> 43:39.440 Hey, what's his name? 43:39.440 --> 43:40.920 What's his son's name? 43:40.920 --> 43:43.560 You see it at the baptism of the Lord Jesus Christ. 43:43.560 --> 43:44.960 Jesus is baptized. 43:44.960 --> 43:47.600 The Holy Spirit descends in the form of a dove. 43:47.600 --> 43:49.680 God the Father says, this is my beloved Son 43:49.680 --> 43:50.800 in whom I am well pleased. 43:50.800 --> 43:52.040 You know how I know this is right? 43:52.040 --> 43:54.440 Because the whole Bible matches what this teaches. 43:54.700 --> 43:57.040 So we know this is the Word of God right here 43:58.100 --> 44:02.220 Go if you would to Daniel chapter number 11 Daniel chapter 11 now 44:02.220 --> 44:08.340 Here's the thing that this idea of calling the Holy Spirit a force or an energy 44:08.540 --> 44:13.920 This is not just like hey, we agree to disagree. This is demonic wicked false doctrine 44:14.180 --> 44:21.060 That is something that's categorized by the end times. Why do I say that? Look at Daniel chapter 11 verse 37 44:22.100 --> 44:28.820 It says this I think this is a foreshadowing of the antichrist says neither shall he regard the god of his fathers 44:29.460 --> 44:31.460 Nor the desire of women 44:31.540 --> 44:36.100 Nor regard any god for he shall magnify himself above all 44:36.660 --> 44:40.760 But in his estate shall he honor notice the god of forces? 44:41.600 --> 44:48.560 God whom his father's new knot shall be shall he honor with gold and silver and with precious stones and pleasant things 44:48.560 --> 44:50.240 you know, that's kind of a 44:50.240 --> 44:54.740 Trendy thing right now is this idea of like force and energy 44:55.260 --> 45:00.780 Right this new age type religion where it's like, you know, I just want to give off good energy, you know 45:00.780 --> 45:06.860 I want to you know, take these mushrooms so I could get some good energy some force. This is wicked demonic stuff 45:07.500 --> 45:15.340 And you know, one of the end times characteristics of end times religion is that the Antichrist is not going to honor the god of his fathers, 45:15.340 --> 45:18.780 he's going to have this new religion like this god of forces. 45:18.780 --> 45:24.460 I think this new age mentality is going to be a big part of end times false religion. 45:24.460 --> 45:29.500 And you know what? It's not necessarily a new thing because the Jehovah's Witnesses have been teaching this for a long time. 45:30.200 --> 45:34.440 Go if you would back to John 14 number one. I said the person of the Holy Spirit number two 45:34.440 --> 45:39.400 Let's talk about the purposes of the Holy Spirit the purposes of the Holy Spirit 45:39.960 --> 45:42.840 The Holy Spirit is dwelling inside of us for a reason 45:43.320 --> 45:50.360 He has a work to accomplish in our lives and one of the things that the Holy Spirit does is he bears witness to the truth 45:51.000 --> 45:56.940 He shows us what the truth is and let's read this before I go into this but john 14 verse 16 45:57.500 --> 46:04.140 The Bible says and I will pray the father and he shall give you another comforter that he may abide with you forever 46:04.700 --> 46:07.660 Even notice the spirit of truth 46:08.220 --> 46:12.700 Whom the world cannot receive because seeeth him not neither knoweth him 46:13.260 --> 46:15.980 But ye know him for he dwelleth with you 46:16.620 --> 46:21.840 And shall be in you go to john 15. Let's look at a few verses on this john chapter number 15 46:22.900 --> 46:29.040 John 15 look at verse 26, but when the Comforter is come whom I will send unto you from the Father even the 46:29.540 --> 46:33.540 Spirit of truth which proceedeth from the Father notice he shall 46:34.220 --> 46:35.500 testify of 46:35.500 --> 46:39.260 Me one more go to John 16 John chapter number 16 46:39.860 --> 46:43.940 Look at verse 13. How be it when he there it is again the spirit of truth is 46:44.460 --> 46:48.060 Come he will guide you into all truth 46:48.700 --> 46:51.020 for he shall not speak of himself. 46:51.300 --> 46:53.700 And he will show you things to come a couple of things. 46:53.700 --> 46:54.740 I want to say about this. 46:54.980 --> 46:58.980 We see very clearly, Hey, the Holy Spirit of God, he is the spirit of truth. 46:58.980 --> 46:59.940 That's one of his names. 46:59.940 --> 47:01.100 He's the spirit of truth. 47:01.420 --> 47:04.980 And one of his purposes is to guide us into all truth. 47:05.380 --> 47:09.540 Now we already know that believers, we are sealed with the Holy Spirit of God. 47:09.900 --> 47:11.940 He's going to be with us until the day of redemption. 47:12.100 --> 47:13.540 We're never going to lose the Holy Spirit. 47:13.540 --> 47:14.140 Once we're saying 47:18.400 --> 47:23.080 So there's this idea out there that says, well, you know, what happens if you stop 47:23.080 --> 47:24.200 believing, right? 47:24.200 --> 47:24.920 Who's heard this out? 47:24.920 --> 47:25.840 So many, right? 47:25.840 --> 47:29.560 Like, Hey, what if you get saved, but then you stop believing? 47:29.560 --> 47:30.920 Are you going to lose your salvation? 47:31.240 --> 47:37.680 I submit to you that it is impossible for a saved person to stop believing. 47:38.000 --> 47:38.360 Why? 47:38.360 --> 47:39.720 Because we have the Holy spirit. 47:40.200 --> 47:43.560 He's going to be with us forever to the day of redemption. 47:43.560 --> 47:46.200 And he bears witness to the truth. 47:46.200 --> 47:49.800 The Holy Spirit of God is never going to testify to you, hey, 47:49.800 --> 47:51.400 Mormonism is true. 47:51.400 --> 47:53.600 Hey, Jehovah's Witness, that's the real religion. 47:53.600 --> 47:55.560 Hey, Islam, that's the real religion. 47:55.560 --> 47:56.600 Hey, become a Jew. 47:56.600 --> 47:59.000 The Holy Spirit will never do that. 47:59.000 --> 47:59.400 Right? 47:59.400 --> 48:02.400 When you wake up in the morning, you know what your name is. 48:02.400 --> 48:03.000 You don't forget it. 48:03.000 --> 48:04.000 You don't have to wonder. 48:06.700 --> 48:08.300 Santa Claus isn't real. 48:08.300 --> 48:10.300 Mom and dad have been lying to me. 48:10.300 --> 48:12.860 I can't believe they lied to me and told me that Santa Claus 48:12.860 --> 48:13.380 was real. 48:13.380 --> 48:13.900 You know what? 48:13.900 --> 48:14.660 He's not real. 48:14.660 --> 48:16.620 Man, I can't believe my parents were lying to me. 48:16.620 --> 48:18.300 The Easter bunny's not real. 48:18.300 --> 48:19.900 The tooth fairy's not real. 48:19.900 --> 48:23.100 Once someone knows that the tooth fairy's not real, 48:23.100 --> 48:25.340 Santa's not real, the Easter bunny's not real, 48:25.340 --> 48:26.860 do you think there's anything I could 48:26.860 --> 48:29.900 do to convince them that Santa Claus is real? 48:33.300 --> 48:36.900 You think I could pull out an AI video and be like, look, bro, look at the North Pole. 48:37.100 --> 48:38.540 I've got the video evidence. 48:38.740 --> 48:39.740 Santa is real. 48:39.940 --> 48:42.380 Look at this tooth fairy, you know, AI generated thing. 48:42.580 --> 48:43.900 No one's going to fall for that. 48:44.100 --> 48:45.820 Once you know the truth, you know the truth. 48:46.020 --> 48:49.820 And look, once you know that Jesus is the son of God, once you know that he died 48:49.820 --> 48:52.620 for your sins, that he rose again, you've put your faith in him. 48:52.820 --> 48:54.620 You're not going to stop believing that. 48:57.700 --> 49:02.540 Let me tell you something if someone said they were a Christian and then they became a Muslim 49:02.660 --> 49:06.580 Then they became a Mormon then they became a Jehovah's Witness. Let me help you 49:06.580 --> 49:14.620 They were never saved to begin with they never believed to begin with they are what the Bible says are false brethren 49:15.400 --> 49:18.560 False brethren crept in unawares, right? 49:18.560 --> 49:20.640 There are gonna be people in our midst 49:20.640 --> 49:23.000 that give lip service to the right gospel, 49:23.000 --> 49:24.280 that say the right things, 49:24.280 --> 49:26.640 but don't truly believe them in their hearts. 49:26.640 --> 49:27.600 What's a good example of that? 49:27.600 --> 49:28.920 I don't know, how about Kenny Baldwin 49:28.920 --> 49:30.640 that we're talking about this morning? 49:30.640 --> 49:33.680 Kenny Baldwin, an independent fundamental Baptist pastor 49:33.680 --> 49:36.200 who just got exposed for being a wicked sodomite, 49:36.200 --> 49:38.360 sending lewd pictures to children. 49:38.360 --> 49:40.680 That guy didn't just slip and fall, 49:40.680 --> 49:42.440 he was a devil from the beginning. 49:42.600 --> 49:47.720 He never believed the gospel. He never trusted the gospel. He never had the Holy Spirit of God 49:48.200 --> 49:52.320 And by the way, you should learn to discern the difference between performance 49:52.800 --> 49:58.140 Preaching and preaching that's based on the Bible. You know what his sermons lacked Bible doctrine 49:58.560 --> 50:02.680 You know what his sermons lacked going through the Bible and teaching what the Bible actually says 50:02.840 --> 50:06.720 It's just all this, you know, black church antics is what it was. Let's just be honest 50:07.360 --> 50:09.360 Bunch of performance ism is what it was 50:10.600 --> 50:14.360 the Holy Spirit of God guides us into all truth. 50:14.360 --> 50:18.280 Okay, look, what you need to do before you read the Bible, 50:18.280 --> 50:20.080 here's a good thing to do is to pray 50:20.080 --> 50:21.880 that the Holy Spirit could lead you 50:21.880 --> 50:23.240 and guide you into all truth 50:23.240 --> 50:24.560 because that's one of the ministries 50:24.560 --> 50:26.560 of the Holy Spirit of God. 50:27.000 --> 50:30.300 And look, I think it's great to come to church and learn from other people. 50:30.500 --> 50:32.560 The Bible says iron sharpeneth iron. 50:32.800 --> 50:37.100 But you know, you can learn any truth in the word of God with just you, 50:37.100 --> 50:39.440 the Bible and the Holy Spirit of God. 50:39.440 --> 50:43.060 And this is why I recommend that you get a Bible that just has the word of God. 50:43.600 --> 50:47.520 and not all the commentary, not all the extra man's words, man's knowledge, 50:47.520 --> 50:50.480 you know, go into AI for every Bible question that you have. 50:50.480 --> 50:55.680 You know what? There's good tools in this world, but before you go to AI to ask what AI thinks the 50:55.680 --> 51:00.720 Bible means, why don't you pray and ask for the Holy Spirit to help you, to enlighten you? You know, 51:00.720 --> 51:05.360 why don't you put some work into your Bible? Why don't you put some effort in prayer to God wanting 51:05.360 --> 51:09.600 those deep truths from God rather than just like, well, let's see what this dead theologian thinks. 51:10.100 --> 51:15.780 Let's ask this dead Catholic theologian who doesn't even understand salvation. Let's see what he has to say about this 51:15.940 --> 51:21.620 How about we let the holy spirit of god teach us and guide us and lead us to all truth 51:21.940 --> 51:23.940 Go if you will to first Corinthians chapter number two 51:24.660 --> 51:29.220 First corinthians chapter number two, but also if you notice the bible talks about how he takes 51:29.700 --> 51:33.540 He he takes what christ has said and he brings it to your what? 51:34.240 --> 51:35.300 remembrance 51:35.400 --> 51:40.000 This is also why it's important to have read your Bible cover to cover. 51:40.000 --> 51:43.900 Because the Holy Spirit of God cannot bring something to your remembrance 51:43.900 --> 51:45.600 that you never learned to begin with. 51:45.900 --> 51:47.660 that you never had in your heart. 51:47.660 --> 51:49.580 And it's amazing when you're filled with the Spirit, 51:49.580 --> 51:51.420 you're out soul winning, you're filled with the Spirit, 51:51.420 --> 51:53.660 and all of a sudden just a verse pops in your mind, 51:53.660 --> 51:55.980 and you're like, I didn't even know I had that memorized. 51:55.980 --> 51:58.300 I thought I had forgotten where that is in the Bible. 51:58.300 --> 52:00.220 You just all of a sudden remember where it's at. 52:00.220 --> 52:01.420 Same thing with preaching. 52:01.420 --> 52:03.980 The Holy Spirit of God can help us to do these things. 52:03.980 --> 52:05.740 First Corinthians 2 verse 1. 52:06.200 --> 52:12.560 And I, brethren, when I came to you, came not with excellency of speech or wisdom, declaring 52:12.560 --> 52:15.040 unto you the testimony of God." 52:15.040 --> 52:16.400 What was Paul's preaching like? 52:16.400 --> 52:18.280 Let me just tell you what the Bible says. 52:18.280 --> 52:21.360 I'm just going to give you the testimony of God. 52:21.360 --> 52:22.680 It's not my own wisdom. 52:22.680 --> 52:24.320 It's not my own greatness. 52:24.320 --> 52:26.040 It's not my own excellency of speech. 52:26.040 --> 52:28.320 And by the way, you know what the best preaching is? 52:28.320 --> 52:30.640 It's just spirit-filled biblical preaching. 52:31.400 --> 52:35.400 It's not like the Pentecostals sprinting around the room and barking like a dog. 52:35.400 --> 52:38.400 And it's not the person who could get the most energy in the crowd. 52:38.400 --> 52:41.400 Though I like dynamic preaching, let it be biblical. 52:41.400 --> 52:43.400 Let it be spirit-filled. 52:43.400 --> 52:44.400 Verse 2. 52:44.400 --> 52:48.400 For I determined not to know anything among you save Jesus Christ and Him crucified. 52:48.400 --> 52:53.100 And I was with you in weakness and in fear and in much trembling. 52:53.200 --> 52:58.160 And my speech and my preaching was not with enticing words of man's wisdom. 52:58.160 --> 52:59.760 He said, I wasn't a Calvinist. 52:59.760 --> 53:03.920 I wasn't trying to impress you with my big vocabulary using words you can't even understand. 53:03.920 --> 53:04.640 Right? 53:04.640 --> 53:09.520 But in demonstration, notice, of the Spirit and of power. 53:09.520 --> 53:11.840 What's one of the purposes of the Holy Ghost? 53:11.840 --> 53:14.240 It's to give you power in your preaching. 53:14.600 --> 53:16.940 And you know what we need when we go out soul winning 53:16.940 --> 53:19.340 is not just the perfect little plan 53:19.340 --> 53:21.420 and the perfect little memorized spiel, 53:21.420 --> 53:24.260 it's to be filled with the spirit of God. 53:24.260 --> 53:26.660 And you know what, if you are a rookie soul winner, 53:26.660 --> 53:28.760 you're not that great with your words, 53:28.760 --> 53:30.060 you fumble around in your Bible, 53:30.060 --> 53:32.100 but you are spirit filled, let me tell you what, 53:32.100 --> 53:33.600 you will be an effective soul winner. 53:33.900 --> 53:39.500 And you know, you could just be like this robot that says everything perfectly and you've just got everything down 53:39.660 --> 53:43.820 But if you're not filled with the spirit of god, you're not going to accomplish much and if you're not saved 53:43.900 --> 53:45.660 You're not going to accomplish anything 53:45.660 --> 53:49.820 Judas never got anyone saved jojo's never got anyone saved. We just say that 53:51.020 --> 53:53.020 verse number five 53:53.500 --> 53:58.300 Why is it that you want to preach with the spirit so that your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men? 53:58.700 --> 54:00.100 But in the power of god 54:00.200 --> 54:03.600 You keep people with what you win them to. 54:03.600 --> 54:04.440 Right? 54:04.440 --> 54:06.100 So we want to win people over with 54:06.100 --> 54:08.900 spirit-filled biblical preaching. 54:08.900 --> 54:10.400 Because then to keep people with that, 54:10.400 --> 54:11.240 you know what I have to do? 54:11.240 --> 54:15.000 I have to keep giving spirit-filled biblical preaching. 54:15.000 --> 54:18.080 But when you get Kenny Baldwin and he wins people over 54:18.080 --> 54:20.140 by theatrics and acting crazy 54:20.140 --> 54:22.940 and his little black culture church mentality, 54:22.940 --> 54:23.780 you know what he's got to do? 54:23.780 --> 54:25.100 He's got to keep making those jokes. 54:25.100 --> 54:29.500 He's got to still keep acting like a clown, acting like this, you know, fake performance 54:29.500 --> 54:30.500 type preaching. 54:30.500 --> 54:33.140 And that's what he has to keep people with. 54:33.140 --> 54:38.500 Verse six, how be it we speak wisdom among them that are perfect, yet not the wisdom 54:38.500 --> 54:41.420 of this world, nor of the princes of this world that come to not. 54:41.700 --> 54:46.660 But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, even the hidden wisdom, which God ordained 54:46.660 --> 54:50.740 before the world unto our glory, which none of the princes of this world knew, for had 54:50.740 --> 54:54.100 they known it, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory. 54:54.100 --> 54:59.820 But as it is written, I have not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart 54:59.820 --> 55:04.980 of man the things which God hath prepared for them that love him. 55:04.980 --> 55:08.540 But God hath revealed them unto us by His Spirit. 55:09.000 --> 55:14.360 For the Spirit searcheth all things, yea the deep things of God. 55:14.360 --> 55:16.680 There's some deep things in this Bible. 55:16.680 --> 55:18.800 There's some treasure in this Bible. 55:18.800 --> 55:20.240 And you know how you're going to find it? 55:20.240 --> 55:22.480 By being filled with the Spirit of God. 55:22.480 --> 55:26.540 The AI search is not going to show you the treasures of the Word of God. 55:26.540 --> 55:30.840 Your online searches, your dead theologians, you know it's going to show you the deep things 55:30.840 --> 55:32.700 of God, the rich things of God. 55:32.700 --> 55:33.520 It's the Holy Spirit. 55:33.800 --> 55:36.840 The Bible says the Holy Spirit is going to reveal that unto us. 55:36.840 --> 55:41.240 And by the way, we ought not to let the Charismatics take away the Holy Spirit from us. 55:41.240 --> 55:45.080 Right? I feel like some Baptists are kind of afraid to talk about the Spirit and the 55:45.080 --> 55:48.280 power of the Spirit and being filled with the Spirit because they don't want to look 55:48.280 --> 55:49.280 like a Charismatic. 55:49.280 --> 55:51.880 I'm not going to let those heretics take the Holy Spirit of God away from me. 55:52.200 --> 55:54.800 Hey, I want to be filled with the Spirit of God. 55:54.800 --> 55:56.600 I want the power of God. 55:56.600 --> 55:57.600 You know what? 55:57.600 --> 56:01.240 Every day of my life I beg God for the power of the Holy Spirit and I'm not going to stop 56:01.240 --> 56:05.520 because some fake Pentecostal, you know, drags the Holy Spirit's name through the mud by 56:05.520 --> 56:09.060 being a fake charismatic rolling around like a dog barking. 56:09.060 --> 56:10.060 You know what? 56:10.060 --> 56:11.060 The Spirit of God is real. 56:11.060 --> 56:12.060 The power of God is real. 56:12.060 --> 56:14.780 We should be searching for that. 56:14.780 --> 56:19.440 Verse 11, for what man knoweth the things of a man save the spirit of man which is in 56:19.440 --> 56:20.000 him. 56:20.000 --> 56:23.200 Even so the things of God knoweth no man but the Spirit of God 56:23.760 --> 56:26.980 Now we have received not the spirit of the world 56:27.320 --> 56:32.820 But the spirit which is of God that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God 56:33.180 --> 56:38.180 Which things also we speak not in the words which man's wisdom teacheth 56:38.600 --> 56:45.240 but which the Holy Ghost teacheth, comparing spiritual things with spiritual. Notice verse 56:45.240 --> 56:49.240 14. This is a key verse. You need to know where this verse is in your Bible. It says, 56:49.240 --> 56:54.760 but the natural man, that's the unsaved man, receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God, 56:55.320 --> 57:02.120 for they are foolishness unto him. Notice this, neither can he know them, because they are 57:02.120 --> 57:03.480 spiritually discern. 57:03.900 --> 57:09.900 The unsaved cannot understand the word of God because they don't have the spirit of God. 57:10.200 --> 57:14.200 You know how I understand you is because I'm a human being and you're a human being. 57:14.200 --> 57:17.400 We have the same spirit of man so we can communicate, right? 57:17.400 --> 57:19.600 You can't go up to a horse and be like, 57:19.600 --> 57:22.200 hey horse, if you were to die today, are you 100% sure? 57:22.200 --> 57:23.600 The horse doesn't speak English. 57:23.600 --> 57:26.000 The horse doesn't have language to communicate, right? 57:26.000 --> 57:27.400 We have a different spirit. 57:27.400 --> 57:31.200 Okay, this is like, you know, try getting a horse to understand me. 57:31.200 --> 57:33.800 This is like trying to get an unsaved person to understand the Bible. 57:33.800 --> 57:35.600 It's not possible, right? 57:35.600 --> 57:38.200 They have to have the spirit of God first. 57:38.200 --> 57:43.180 Now can they know the carnal truths the Bible yes some of them but even some of those people struggle with sometimes 57:43.180 --> 57:46.540 I mean it cracked me up in the comments today for my morning sermon 57:46.540 --> 57:52.560 I'm sitting here teaching what the Bible says about being fro word and we went to like 20 verses to prove what it means to 57:52.560 --> 57:56.360 Be fro word and this person the comments like I don't think you understand what fro word means 57:56.820 --> 58:01.640 And I'm just like okay, you know tell me where I'm wrong and then later on they're like you can lose your salvation 58:01.640 --> 58:04.600 I'm like, ah, you can't understand the Bible because you're not saved 58:05.400 --> 58:10.600 Right, this is why it's unprofitable to go and argue Bible doctrine with people who aren't saved. 58:10.600 --> 58:14.920 You know we needed to go, hey I determined to know nothing among you, save Jesus Christ and 58:14.920 --> 58:19.800 Him crucified. When someone's not saved there's one topic I want to talk about, the gospel. 58:20.440 --> 58:24.120 After that, hey let's teach them to observe all things whatsoever Christ commanded, 58:24.120 --> 58:27.800 but you know what I'm not going to be able to talk end times prophecy with an unsaved person. 58:28.400 --> 58:32.960 I'm not going to be able to explain the deepness of the Holy Spirit of God to an unsafe person. 58:32.960 --> 58:36.320 Right? There's one thing that they need to hear and that's the gospel. You know, take that as some 58:36.320 --> 58:41.120 advice with your lost family members and friends. You know, don't beat your head against the wall 58:41.120 --> 58:46.000 trying to get them to understand the truth about the Jews. You know, the post-trib rapture, 58:46.000 --> 58:50.160 the reprobate doctrine. You know what your unsafe family members need is for you to open your mouth 58:50.160 --> 58:52.240 boldly to make known the mystery of the gospel. 58:52.700 --> 58:57.660 is to preach the gospel to them. Then once they get saved, hey, then we can teach them other 58:57.660 --> 59:04.140 things. Go to 1 John chapter 4. 1 John chapter number 4. 59:08.200 --> 59:10.200 first john chapter number four 59:12.520 --> 59:19.640 Talking about discerning truth how the holy spirit guides us and leads us into truth notice first john 4 1 the bible says beloved 59:20.280 --> 59:22.280 Believe not every spirit 59:22.920 --> 59:30.920 But try the spirits whether they are of god because many false prophets are gone out into the world 59:31.500 --> 59:35.260 And boy when you go slowly and you just learn it's like wow there's so many false prophets 59:35.260 --> 59:36.300 in this world. 59:36.300 --> 59:39.820 You look on the comments on our Instagram and our church page. 59:39.820 --> 59:44.060 There's just so many false prophets in this world though they claim hey I'm the spirit 59:44.060 --> 59:45.060 of God. 59:45.060 --> 59:46.460 I'm a man of God I'm teaching the truth. 59:46.460 --> 59:50.540 But you know what you have to try the spirits whether they are of God. 59:50.540 --> 59:52.780 You know how you try the spirit? 59:52.780 --> 59:53.780 This right here. 59:53.780 --> 59:56.300 you try the spirit this right here. 59:56.900 --> 59:59.220 Because what does the Holy Spirit do? 59:59.220 --> 01:00:02.500 He brings into remembrance that which Christ said, 01:00:02.500 --> 01:00:04.180 that which God the Father said. 01:00:04.180 --> 01:00:06.100 He leads and guides you into all truth. 01:00:06.100 --> 01:00:08.900 So if someone's claiming, hey, I'm a spirit filled man, 01:00:08.900 --> 01:00:10.740 I'm of God, but what they're preaching 01:00:10.740 --> 01:00:12.420 doesn't match with the Bible, you say, hey, 01:00:12.420 --> 01:00:13.460 that's not the right spirit. 01:00:14.420 --> 01:00:17.300 And it's funny, people like to use that terminology like, 01:00:17.300 --> 01:00:19.380 I don't think you guys have the right spirit. 01:00:19.380 --> 01:00:20.900 You know, if we're preaching what the Bible says, 01:00:20.900 --> 01:00:21.860 that's the right spirit. 01:00:22.500 --> 01:00:24.500 The right spirit matches what this says. 01:00:24.500 --> 01:00:25.500 And you know what? 01:00:25.500 --> 01:00:28.500 The right spirit is not always about being nice. 01:00:28.500 --> 01:00:34.500 Right? Because Jesus Christ flipped tables, physically assaulted people, called them names, 01:00:34.500 --> 01:00:39.500 called out government leaders, made people so mad that he was drug and crucified. 01:00:39.500 --> 01:00:40.500 Right? 01:00:40.500 --> 01:00:42.500 And people would say, oh, you need to have a right spirit. 01:00:42.500 --> 01:00:44.500 You know, you would have disliked Jesus' spirit. 01:00:45.100 --> 01:00:50.320 Because when we're preaching this we're giving you the mind of Christ. We're giving you the mind of the spirit 01:00:50.320 --> 01:00:54.820 We're giving you the right spirit. You know if you don't like this and you don't like us. You just don't like God 01:00:55.360 --> 01:01:00.260 You just don't like the Holy Spirit of God you say I don't like the way you preach that you don't like the way that the Holy 01:01:00.260 --> 01:01:01.600 Spirit 01:01:01.600 --> 01:01:03.600 leads 01:01:03.760 --> 01:01:05.100 Go if you would 01:01:05.800 --> 01:01:07.540 to John chapter number 16. 01:01:07.540 --> 01:01:10.240 John chapter number 16, another really important purpose 01:01:10.240 --> 01:01:11.900 of the Holy Spirit of God, 01:01:11.900 --> 01:01:14.680 is that he convicts the world of sin. 01:01:15.000 --> 01:01:19.400 And boy, this is an important part of the role of the Holy Spirit of God to 01:01:19.400 --> 01:01:23.000 convict the believer of sin and even the world of sin, right? 01:01:23.000 --> 01:01:25.400 Because you know, you need to get saved from something, right? 01:01:25.400 --> 01:01:29.400 You need a little bit of fear of hell, the punishment for your sin to get saved. 01:01:29.400 --> 01:01:33.400 But you know, there's false prophets out there that teach that the Holy Spirit 01:01:33.400 --> 01:01:35.400 never convicts you of sin. 01:01:35.800 --> 01:01:38.920 There's a false prophet named Joseph Prince. 01:01:38.920 --> 01:01:40.440 Who's heard of Joseph Prince? 01:01:40.440 --> 01:01:44.120 He's a pastor of Grace Revolution Church in Singapore, 01:01:44.120 --> 01:01:46.680 has 33,000 members in his church. 01:01:46.680 --> 01:01:48.200 He's a big false prophet. 01:01:48.800 --> 01:01:52.240 He has two satellite campuses even in the Dallas Fort Worth area. 01:01:52.240 --> 01:01:55.440 So he's like bringing his doctrine to the United States. 01:01:55.440 --> 01:01:58.240 And I have met disciples of this guy. 01:01:58.240 --> 01:02:03.520 I've had people in the flesh tell me that the Holy Spirit of God never convicts anyone of sin. 01:02:03.520 --> 01:02:05.680 And they're getting it from this false prophet Joseph Prince. 01:02:06.240 --> 01:02:06.880 Here's what he said. 01:02:06.880 --> 01:02:07.840 He said this. 01:02:07.840 --> 01:02:13.120 The bottom line is that the Holy Spirit never convicts you of your sins. 01:02:13.920 --> 01:02:16.160 He never comes to point out your faults. 01:02:16.800 --> 01:02:23.960 Now remember what the Bible told us to do try the spirits whether they are of God. Okay, let's try Joseph Prince's spirit 01:02:23.960 --> 01:02:27.020 You know how he presents himself very soft very kind 01:02:27.120 --> 01:02:31.540 Just very smooth as a preacher and some people look at that and say wow, what a good spirit 01:02:31.560 --> 01:02:37.240 What a nice spirit, but let's test his words with the words that were inspired by the Spirit of God 01:02:37.520 --> 01:02:40.320 Go to John 16. Are you there verse 7? 01:02:41.360 --> 01:02:42.900 Nevertheless, I tell you the truth 01:02:43.000 --> 01:02:45.760 It is expedient for you that I go away. 01:02:45.760 --> 01:02:48.040 It's actually going to help you when I go away. 01:02:48.040 --> 01:02:51.000 For if I go not away, the Comforter will not come unto you. 01:02:51.000 --> 01:02:53.760 But if I depart, I will send him unto you. 01:02:53.760 --> 01:02:58.400 And when he has come, he will reprove the world of sin. 01:02:58.900 --> 01:03:03.300 and of righteousness and of judgment, of sin because they believe not on me, 01:03:03.300 --> 01:03:06.380 of righteousness because I go to my father and you see me no more, 01:03:06.380 --> 01:03:10.180 of judgment because the prince of this world is judged. I have many things to 01:03:10.180 --> 01:03:11.460 say to you but you cannot 01:03:11.460 --> 01:03:12.540 bear them now. 01:03:13.100 --> 01:03:15.060 For he shall not speak of himself, 01:03:15.060 --> 01:03:17.860 but whatsoever ye shall hear, that shall he speak, 01:03:17.860 --> 01:03:19.540 and he will show you things to come." 01:03:19.540 --> 01:03:20.740 What did Jesus say? 01:03:20.740 --> 01:03:22.100 The Holy Spirit's coming. 01:03:22.100 --> 01:03:23.700 Hey, it's expedient that I go away. 01:03:23.700 --> 01:03:25.780 If I don't go away, the Comforter's not going to come. 01:03:25.780 --> 01:03:26.620 But you know what? 01:03:26.620 --> 01:03:29.140 When I go away and he does come, you know what he's going to do? 01:03:29.140 --> 01:03:31.780 He's going to reprove the world of sin. 01:03:35.800 --> 01:03:42.900 Again this foward attitude where people look at what the Bible says and say no Jesus you're wrong the Bible's wrong 01:03:43.100 --> 01:03:46.320 You're just arguing against Jesus arguing against the Bible 01:03:46.360 --> 01:03:52.680 What did Jesus say the Holy Spirit comes to convict the world of sin to prove the world of sin? 01:03:52.680 --> 01:03:55.040 And you know what this is a good thing 01:03:55.800 --> 01:04:03.120 When I go soul winning, I want to knock on the door of a person with a heart that's been convicted by the Holy Spirit of God. 01:04:03.120 --> 01:04:11.200 You know, I've heard testimony after testimony of people who got saved and said, man, before this, I was scared every night. 01:04:11.200 --> 01:04:13.800 I was scared every night that I was going to die and go to hell. 01:04:13.800 --> 01:04:18.920 I was terrified because I knew I wasn't saved because I knew that I was going to go to hell if I died. 01:04:18.920 --> 01:04:21.560 You know what that is? That's the Holy Spirit of God convicting them of sin. 01:04:22.300 --> 01:04:25.300 The unbeliever is not indwelt with the Holy Spirit of God. 01:04:25.300 --> 01:04:27.900 The unbeliever is not sealed by the Holy Spirit of God, 01:04:27.900 --> 01:04:32.100 but the unbeliever can have a heart that's been smitten by the Holy Spirit of God. 01:04:32.100 --> 01:04:35.300 To where they realize, hey, man, I'm unsaved, 01:04:35.300 --> 01:04:37.300 and it could bring them to that decision of saying, 01:04:37.300 --> 01:04:38.700 hey, I don't want to be unsaved anymore. 01:04:38.700 --> 01:04:40.500 I need to believe on the Lord Jesus Christ. 01:04:40.500 --> 01:04:42.300 I need to call upon the name of the Lord. 01:04:42.300 --> 01:04:46.500 That's a very vital purpose that the Holy Spirit serves. 01:04:46.700 --> 01:04:48.700 And you know what we should be doing as believers? 01:04:48.700 --> 01:04:51.200 Before we go out soul winning, we should be praying. 01:04:51.200 --> 01:04:53.200 Hey, that the Holy Spirit goes before us. 01:04:53.200 --> 01:04:55.700 That the Holy Spirit of God convicts these people. 01:04:55.700 --> 01:04:58.200 Allows them to have a soft heart. 01:04:58.200 --> 01:05:00.700 You know we've got a soul winning marathon coming up in August. 01:05:00.700 --> 01:05:02.200 Start praying now. 01:05:02.200 --> 01:05:04.700 For the very souls that we're going to be speaking to. 01:05:04.700 --> 01:05:06.700 That the Holy Spirit will go before us. 01:05:06.700 --> 01:05:09.200 That He'll break down barriers for us. 01:05:09.200 --> 01:05:11.200 That'll cause those hearts to be soft in the Gospel. 01:05:11.200 --> 01:05:13.700 Because that's what He does. He approves the world of sin. 01:05:14.400 --> 01:05:21.360 Also, it's vital for a Christian that we are reproved of sin and some people you know what they do 01:05:21.360 --> 01:05:26.960 They just quench the spirit quench the spirit quench the spirit where they don't even feel bad anymore that they sin 01:05:27.240 --> 01:05:29.240 That's a scary place to be 01:05:29.700 --> 01:05:33.700 If I'm not right with God, I want to be bothered by that. 01:05:33.700 --> 01:05:35.600 I want that to bother me. 01:05:35.600 --> 01:05:39.980 If I don't have power in my preaching or in my soul winning or in my Bible reading, I 01:05:39.980 --> 01:05:43.180 want there to be alarm bells going off in my mind and in my heart. 01:05:43.180 --> 01:05:44.780 And you know who's ringing those bells? 01:05:44.780 --> 01:05:46.060 The Holy Spirit of God. 01:05:46.060 --> 01:05:50.620 Look, you should be very careful not to quench the spirit because you could just end up being 01:05:50.620 --> 01:05:53.460 this person where it's like your conscience has been seared. 01:05:54.000 --> 01:05:57.360 doesn't even bother them to lie doesn't even bother them to drink alcohol anymore 01:05:57.360 --> 01:06:01.120 doesn't even bother them to commit fornication that's a scary place to be 01:06:01.120 --> 01:06:06.160 in your life because if you're saved God will punish his children God will he'll 01:06:06.160 --> 01:06:09.920 get your attention somehow you know what I would rather the Holy Spirit get my 01:06:09.920 --> 01:06:12.960 attention by saying hey you're messing up 01:06:15.300 --> 01:06:16.900 You're going down the wrong path. 01:06:16.900 --> 01:06:21.060 You need to stop right now and need to be sensitive to that rather than ignoring that 01:06:21.060 --> 01:06:24.740 and waiting for God to drop the hammer on you because God's going to get your attention 01:06:24.740 --> 01:06:29.220 if you're saved one way or another and it's a lot easier to just yield to the Holy Spirit of God 01:06:29.220 --> 01:06:35.540 than to get punished. Go to Ephesians chapter number four Ephesians chapter number four also 01:06:35.540 --> 01:06:40.580 I think that we should just have a love of the Holy Spirit of God and not want to grieve him 01:06:40.580 --> 01:06:41.580 just because we love him. 01:06:42.000 --> 01:06:43.500 We love God the Father. 01:06:43.500 --> 01:06:44.900 We love the Lord Jesus Christ. 01:06:44.900 --> 01:06:47.300 You know, we should love the Spirit of God too. 01:06:47.300 --> 01:06:49.700 And like here's a great reason not to sin, 01:06:49.700 --> 01:06:52.040 because the Holy Spirit's with you, right? 01:06:52.040 --> 01:06:54.300 And you say, well like, hey, my sin's not gonna affect 01:06:54.300 --> 01:06:55.140 anyone else. 01:06:55.140 --> 01:06:56.180 No one else is gonna know. 01:06:56.180 --> 01:06:57.880 Is the Holy Spirit gonna know? 01:06:57.880 --> 01:06:59.180 Is it gonna affect him? 01:06:59.180 --> 01:07:00.720 Well, you know, that's a good enough reason 01:07:00.720 --> 01:07:03.220 to walk in the Spirit and not to grieve him. 01:07:03.220 --> 01:07:04.060 Verse 22. 01:07:04.800 --> 01:07:08.560 that you put off concerning the former conversation, the old man, 01:07:08.760 --> 01:07:12.480 which is corrupt, according to the deceitful lusts and be renewed 01:07:12.740 --> 01:07:16.520 in the spirit of your mind, and that you put on the new man, 01:07:16.740 --> 01:07:20.620 which after God is created in righteousness, in true holiness, 01:07:21.080 --> 01:07:23.580 wherefore notice putting away lying. 01:07:23.960 --> 01:07:28.200 Speak every man truth with his neighbor, for we are members one of another. 01:07:28.700 --> 01:07:34.400 Be ye angry, and sin not, let not the sun go down upon your wrath, neither give place 01:07:34.400 --> 01:07:35.680 to the devil. 01:07:35.680 --> 01:07:39.880 Let him that stole, steal no more, but rather let him labor, working with his hands, the 01:07:39.880 --> 01:07:43.400 thing which is good, that he may have to give to him that needeth. 01:07:43.400 --> 01:07:47.300 Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the 01:07:47.300 --> 01:07:52.920 use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers, and grieve not the Holy 01:07:52.920 --> 01:07:54.900 Spirit of God. 01:07:54.900 --> 01:07:56.100 So what does it look like? 01:07:56.600 --> 01:08:00.040 Again, this is not some esoteric, you know, mystical force. 01:08:00.280 --> 01:08:02.480 Here's how you know if you're grieving the Holy Spirit of God. 01:08:02.680 --> 01:08:03.680 Are you lying? 01:08:04.680 --> 01:08:07.880 If you're telling lies, you're grieving the Holy Spirit of God. 01:08:08.680 --> 01:08:10.400 Do you have unrighteous anger? 01:08:10.800 --> 01:08:14.120 It's not a sin to be angry, but you can sin while you're angry. 01:08:14.120 --> 01:08:14.800 Let's be honest. 01:08:14.800 --> 01:08:16.920 Most of the anger in this world is sinful. 01:08:19.600 --> 01:08:26.120 Most of the road rage in this world is sinful. You know, most of the just getting in fights getting in shootouts. That's sinful anger 01:08:26.120 --> 01:08:34.000 Hey, if you have unrighteous anger, you are grieving the Holy Spirit of God if you're stealing you're grieving the Holy Spirit of God 01:08:34.680 --> 01:08:38.780 You know that means if you're lying on your time cards to your boss, you're grieving the Holy Spirit of God 01:08:39.080 --> 01:08:44.680 You're stealing company time. You're grieving the Holy Spirit of God. Oh, you know just they're not gonna miss this pencil 01:08:44.680 --> 01:08:46.500 You're grieving the Holy Spirit of God 01:08:46.700 --> 01:08:50.380 And look, of course, there's a lot more serious versions of that too. 01:08:50.380 --> 01:08:52.060 Hey, you're stealing bicycles? 01:08:52.060 --> 01:08:53.800 You're grieving the spirit of God. 01:08:53.800 --> 01:08:55.300 Stop stealing people's bikes. 01:08:55.300 --> 01:08:56.820 Stop stealing people's cars. 01:08:56.820 --> 01:08:59.380 You know, when I was a kid, we went on vacation, 01:08:59.380 --> 01:09:02.720 and we came back, and our entire house was wiped empty, 01:09:02.720 --> 01:09:05.220 except for the gun safes that weighed like two tons. 01:09:05.400 --> 01:09:09.960 You know the criminals couldn't get those things but you know what that would be grieving the spirit of god 01:09:09.960 --> 01:09:13.400 If you just wipe someone's house out like that, that's obviously wicked 01:09:13.560 --> 01:09:16.280 You know having corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth 01:09:16.840 --> 01:09:18.840 You know what that is lying 01:09:18.900 --> 01:09:20.100 slandering 01:09:20.100 --> 01:09:21.540 railing 01:09:21.540 --> 01:09:26.300 Blaspheming, you know sinning with your mouth that is grieving the spirit of god 01:09:27.100 --> 01:09:28.560 Let's get some more examples. 01:09:28.560 --> 01:09:32.280 Verse 31, let all bitterness, hey, you're holding on to bitterness, you're grieving 01:09:32.280 --> 01:09:34.000 the spirit of God. 01:09:34.000 --> 01:09:36.600 You're bitter against your wife, husbands. 01:09:36.600 --> 01:09:37.600 You know what? 01:09:37.600 --> 01:09:40.400 That doesn't just affect you and your wife, it affects the Holy Spirit of God. 01:09:40.400 --> 01:09:43.680 And the Bible even teaches you can hinder your own prayers by being bitter against your 01:09:43.680 --> 01:09:44.680 wife. 01:09:44.680 --> 01:09:48.040 You're bitter against another brother or sister in Christ, you're grieving the Holy 01:09:48.040 --> 01:09:48.960 Spirit of God. 01:09:49.800 --> 01:09:56.400 Wrath anger clamor evil speaking, you know that is speaking with an intent to harm 01:09:56.560 --> 01:10:02.520 Right because that's what evil is is harm and it's not talking about wicked false prophets because Jesus called those people out 01:10:03.080 --> 01:10:05.840 Reprobates Paul called those people out Jesus called those people out 01:10:05.840 --> 01:10:09.460 But there are some people that are intentionally trying to harm other Christians 01:10:10.100 --> 01:10:12.300 And you know, you see people like this in your life. 01:10:12.500 --> 01:10:14.940 And is it any wonder that their soul winning lacks power? 01:10:15.140 --> 01:10:17.500 Is there any wonder why they're preaching lacks power? 01:10:17.700 --> 01:10:20.380 Because they're sitting there grieving the Holy Spirit of God. 01:10:21.380 --> 01:10:25.540 Forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake, hath forgiven you. 01:10:25.740 --> 01:10:28.020 Right. So sometimes I think that people just want to. 01:10:33.200 --> 01:10:36.400 Overly, you know, I'm losing the right terminology for this 01:10:36.400 --> 01:10:38.760 But I will say like overly spiritualized the Holy Spirit 01:10:38.760 --> 01:10:43.960 But the Bible gives us like concrete things that you're actually grieving the Holy Spirit by doing these concrete things 01:10:44.280 --> 01:10:49.860 And we need to avoid those things go if you would to Romans chapter number eight Romans chapter number eight 01:10:50.520 --> 01:10:56.200 Here's another thing that the Holy Spirit does is he interprets and intercedes our prayers to God 01:10:56.640 --> 01:10:59.920 he interprets and intercedes our prayers to 01:11:00.500 --> 01:11:06.900 God. Look at Romans chapter 8 verse 26 and actually before we read this, you know, I've 01:11:06.900 --> 01:11:12.100 kind of heard a few preachers say, you know, that we should pray to the Holy Spirit of 01:11:12.100 --> 01:11:12.600 God. 01:11:13.000 --> 01:11:18.000 And look, if you don't if you do that, I don't think God's gonna like smite you dead if you pray to the Holy Spirit of God. 01:11:18.000 --> 01:11:24.000 But you know what I see in scripture is consistently taught that you pray to the Father through the Lord Jesus Christ. 01:11:24.000 --> 01:11:27.000 Pray to the Father in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ. 01:11:27.000 --> 01:11:33.000 So when it comes to prayer, you're not praying to the Spirit of God because the Spirit of God is actually interceding. 01:11:33.000 --> 01:11:37.000 He's taking your prayers and he's translating it to the Father. 01:11:37.400 --> 01:11:41.400 And you know, it's better to pray, not knowing exactly what to pray for, 01:11:41.720 --> 01:11:44.600 then to just skip praying because the Holy Spirit can translate. 01:11:44.800 --> 01:11:46.800 This is what I'm saying. Look at Romans eight, verse 26. 01:11:47.400 --> 01:11:52.240 Likewise, the spirit also helpeth our infirmities, like our weaknesses, our 01:11:52.240 --> 01:11:57.520 issues, for we know not what we should pray for as we ought. 01:11:57.520 --> 01:11:58.720 Who's ever been there before? 01:11:59.120 --> 01:12:00.720 You're just, you're praying to God. 01:12:00.720 --> 01:12:01.320 It's like 01:12:04.400 --> 01:12:06.400 I don't even know. 01:12:06.400 --> 01:12:09.400 You just like, God, help me. 01:12:09.400 --> 01:12:13.400 And the Holy Spirit says, alright God, here's what he needs. 01:12:13.400 --> 01:12:15.400 Here's what she needs. Here's what's going on. 01:12:15.400 --> 01:12:17.400 And sometimes you're praying to God and you're just like, 01:12:17.400 --> 01:12:21.400 God, just please help me. I have no clue. I have no words. 01:12:21.400 --> 01:12:24.400 Right? But you know what? That prayer is better than not praying at all. 01:12:25.100 --> 01:12:29.980 Just saying God help me that's better because the holy spirit of God he could take those prayers 01:12:30.140 --> 01:12:34.700 He takes our infirmities. This is we don't know what to pray for as we ought but the spirit itself 01:12:35.180 --> 01:12:39.820 Maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered 01:12:40.620 --> 01:12:46.620 Hey, i'm all for you know praying with power and praying specific prayer requests and praying for other people 01:12:46.860 --> 01:12:50.160 But there's going to be times in your life where you just don't know how to pray as you want 01:12:50.700 --> 01:12:55.880 And I've even heard people say like they don't pray because they don't know how to pray just start praying 01:12:56.200 --> 01:12:59.760 Right just start. What is prayer? It's asking right little kids 01:12:59.760 --> 01:13:02.700 Those are you kids especially you kids that are saved start praying 01:13:03.200 --> 01:13:07.900 Start learning to pray start asking God for things and just maybe even say this like God 01:13:07.900 --> 01:13:10.680 I don't know exactly what to ask for right now, but God just please help me 01:13:11.500 --> 01:13:16.060 Hey God, please give me power. Please fill me with the Holy Spirit of God. God, please guide me 01:13:16.060 --> 01:13:19.340 That's a pretty general prayer. But you know what God can make that real specific 01:13:19.740 --> 01:13:24.140 God, please guide me and you know what the steps of a righteous man are ordered by the Lord. The Bible says 01:13:25.180 --> 01:13:29.600 Here's when you're here's a fail. Here's a fail of a prayer is not praying 01:13:30.600 --> 01:13:32.320 That's the fail of a prayer. 01:13:32.320 --> 01:13:35.860 And you know, I even recommend praying a lot of if prayers, 01:13:35.860 --> 01:13:38.860 like, hey, God, if this is going on, help. 01:13:38.860 --> 01:13:42.100 Hey, God, if this person is a false prophet, do this. 01:13:42.100 --> 01:13:44.340 Hey, God, if this is going on, right? 01:13:44.340 --> 01:13:46.540 And the Holy Spirit, he knows the truth. 01:13:46.540 --> 01:13:47.380 God knows the truth. 01:13:47.380 --> 01:13:51.040 He can interpret those things and work on our behalf. 01:13:51.700 --> 01:13:55.880 Think for sake of time I'm gonna skip some of this another thing that the Holy Spirit does 01:13:55.880 --> 01:13:58.540 He empowers believers to do the work of the Lord 01:13:58.660 --> 01:14:04.240 We've seen that with the Apostle Paul his preaching was effectual not because of the wisdom of his words 01:14:04.460 --> 01:14:07.420 Not because of his education not because of his stature 01:14:07.580 --> 01:14:13.020 But because of the Spirit of God and that's what we need today is we need the power of the Spirit of God 01:14:13.020 --> 01:14:17.040 We will look at a few things go if you would to Acts chapter number six Acts chapter number six 01:14:17.700 --> 01:14:23.700 And you constantly see in the New Testament when believers do the work of God and the 01:14:23.700 --> 01:14:27.380 Holy Spirit of God steps in, they get filled with the Holy Ghost, you know what you always 01:14:27.380 --> 01:14:32.500 see? Great works for God being done. So again, you know, when it comes to like who has the 01:14:32.500 --> 01:14:37.700 right spirit in this world, what church has the fullness of the Holy Spirit? You know, 01:14:37.700 --> 01:14:41.940 this is not as subjective as people make it out to be because if you're seeing thousands 01:14:41.940 --> 01:14:44.500 of people saved, you say that's the right spirit. 01:14:45.200 --> 01:14:51.520 That's where the Holy Spirit of God is moving. You know you see people they get up. They're all theatrical. They're yelling and screaming 01:14:51.520 --> 01:14:54.460 It's a show. It's a party, but no one's getting saved 01:14:55.080 --> 01:15:00.240 Lives aren't being changed people's hearts are not being touched. That's not the Spirit of God 01:15:00.320 --> 01:15:06.600 You know what that is that's a circus show and you know what even the world can cause us to feel emotional 01:15:06.920 --> 01:15:10.420 You ever heard any piece of music ever written by Hans Zimmer? 01:15:11.300 --> 01:15:14.740 I mean that guy will make your heart beat a little differently, right? 01:15:14.740 --> 01:15:20.260 I mean that music can move you. Music can just instantly just have you feel a certain emotion. 01:15:20.260 --> 01:15:23.300 There's some music you hear and it's just like you automatically feel like tears are 01:15:23.300 --> 01:15:27.220 welling up or something. It's like what is going on, right? But does that mean that that's the 01:15:27.220 --> 01:15:34.020 Holy Spirit of God? No. What is the Holy Spirit of God? It's when works are being done for Christ. 01:15:34.980 --> 01:15:37.380 Don't tell me you're Spirit-filled and you don't get people saved. 01:15:38.000 --> 01:15:43.720 Don't tell me the spirits really moving in our church and you've gotten how many people say oh I got you know one person 01:15:43.720 --> 01:15:47.000 Saved this year. No people saved this year. That's not the spirit of God 01:15:47.920 --> 01:15:54.880 Acts chapter 6 verse 1 and in those days when the number of the disciples was multiplied there arose a murmuring of the Grecians against 01:15:54.880 --> 01:15:58.580 The Hebrews because their widows were neglected in the daily ministration 01:15:58.920 --> 01:16:02.540 Then the 12 called the multitude of the disciples unto them and said 01:16:03.000 --> 01:16:06.500 It is not reason that we should leave the Word of God 01:16:06.500 --> 01:16:08.000 and serve tables. 01:16:08.000 --> 01:16:09.140 What's happening? 01:16:09.140 --> 01:16:11.240 The work of God has grown so much. 01:16:11.400 --> 01:16:13.900 that the apostles are kind of neglecting 01:16:13.900 --> 01:16:16.160 some of the daily administrative tasks 01:16:16.160 --> 01:16:18.940 of running these churches and running the work of God 01:16:18.940 --> 01:16:20.940 just because of the sheer number of people 01:16:20.940 --> 01:16:22.780 that are involved in ministry. 01:16:22.780 --> 01:16:25.020 Right, Jesus said, I must be about my father's what? 01:16:25.020 --> 01:16:26.280 Business, right? 01:16:26.280 --> 01:16:27.660 The house of God is a business. 01:16:27.660 --> 01:16:29.160 We shouldn't be ashamed of that word. 01:16:29.160 --> 01:16:31.580 It's the greatest business in the world. 01:16:31.580 --> 01:16:33.920 And you know, they're so busy that unfortunately 01:16:33.920 --> 01:16:35.620 some widows are being neglected. 01:16:36.100 --> 01:16:41.760 That's not a good thing, but the apostles they're saying look it doesn't make sense for us to leave the word of God 01:16:42.340 --> 01:16:47.960 To stop doing the things that only we could do to stop preaching the sermons studying the Bible 01:16:48.020 --> 01:16:52.360 You know preaching the gospel doing these things just to take care of the administrative stuff 01:16:52.400 --> 01:16:57.000 They're saying hey, we need to get some other people involved in this work. Look what it says in verse 3 01:16:57.800 --> 01:16:59.300 wherefore brethren 01:16:59.400 --> 01:17:05.880 Lucky out among you seven men just average Joe's off the street who cares about their qualifications 01:17:06.000 --> 01:17:09.680 Anyone will do this job doesn't matter the work of the ministry is not a real job 01:17:10.360 --> 01:17:13.720 Being church staff isn't a real job. Who cares who these people are. Oh 01:17:14.280 --> 01:17:16.640 I must have been reading the Salvador Alvarez version there 01:17:17.640 --> 01:17:19.640 Excuse me 01:17:19.640 --> 01:17:21.680 Because he said working for a church is not a real job 01:17:21.680 --> 01:17:26.120 It's amazing how a pastor would say something like that. Does a pastor ever want to have staff? 01:17:26.600 --> 01:17:30.200 Hey, who wants to sign up to not have a real job? 01:17:30.200 --> 01:17:32.440 To do something that's not important? 01:17:32.440 --> 01:17:33.680 What an idiot, folks. 01:17:33.680 --> 01:17:35.040 Good night. 01:17:35.040 --> 01:17:36.780 It says, wherefore, brethren, looky out among you, 01:17:36.780 --> 01:17:40.940 seven men of honest report, full of the Holy Ghost. 01:17:40.940 --> 01:17:44.520 Hey, get some real men of God to do this. 01:17:44.520 --> 01:17:47.680 And wisdom whom we may appoint over this business. 01:17:48.000 --> 01:17:52.720 But we will give ourselves continually to prayer into the ministry of the word. 01:17:53.040 --> 01:17:57.200 Right. We'll have apostles today, but I think the way churches do things is great. 01:17:57.200 --> 01:17:59.680 How you have a pastor and you have staff. That's fine. That's great. 01:18:00.000 --> 01:18:03.120 And it's like, what's the pastor's primary job? Preach the word. 01:18:03.700 --> 01:18:08.740 Be in season, be instant in season, out of season, reprove, rebuke, exhort, right? 01:18:08.740 --> 01:18:12.500 The Bible gives lots of instructions to the pastor of things that he is supposed to be 01:18:12.500 --> 01:18:17.220 taken care of. It's a special office. It has high qualifications for a reason. 01:18:17.900 --> 01:18:21.740 And it's not that the pastor is above doing administrative tasks. 01:18:21.740 --> 01:18:23.980 Look, I worked for Pastor Shelley for four years, 01:18:23.980 --> 01:18:26.860 and I've seen him do all the same things that I was doing in my role. 01:18:26.860 --> 01:18:31.020 I saw him get down and dirty and paint the building and work in the building and do things. 01:18:31.020 --> 01:18:33.980 It's not saying, hey, these guys are too good to do the work. 01:18:33.980 --> 01:18:35.820 It's just that when there's so much work, you need help. 01:18:36.620 --> 01:18:39.740 You just need people to get on board and assist you and help you. 01:18:39.740 --> 01:18:41.100 And who do you want to do that? 01:18:41.100 --> 01:18:43.100 You want men that are filled with the Holy Ghost. 01:18:43.900 --> 01:18:45.900 You don't want just some random bozos. 01:18:45.900 --> 01:18:47.900 It's like, oh, well, they couldn't hack it in the real world, 01:18:47.900 --> 01:18:49.660 so let's have them work in church. 01:18:49.660 --> 01:18:51.100 That's how some churches are. 01:18:51.100 --> 01:18:52.900 It's like, hey, this person can't get a job. 01:18:52.900 --> 01:18:55.700 I can't tell you how many emails I've gotten from unemployed bums. 01:18:55.700 --> 01:18:58.020 Hey, can you hire me to be a full-time soul winner? 01:18:58.020 --> 01:19:01.460 No, why don't you go get a job and be a full-time soul winner, 01:19:01.460 --> 01:19:04.180 like all the other men in our church that go to work, 01:19:04.180 --> 01:19:06.020 and then they go soul winning on Saturday? 01:19:06.020 --> 01:19:07.180 You lazy bum. 01:19:08.800 --> 01:19:13.920 It says whom they set before the apostles notice and when they had prayed they laid their hands on them 01:19:14.480 --> 01:19:17.840 Verse seven is the key and the word of god 01:19:18.460 --> 01:19:20.320 increased 01:19:20.320 --> 01:19:27.600 And the number of the disciples multiplied in jerusalem greatly and a great company of the priests were obedient to the faith 01:19:28.400 --> 01:19:32.020 You know, there's going to be results when people are filled with the holy spirit of god 01:19:32.500 --> 01:19:37.860 There's going to be results. What do you see you see that they hire the hire for lack of a better term 01:19:37.860 --> 01:19:40.820 They ordained these seven men, right that were filled with the holy ghost 01:19:41.060 --> 01:19:45.300 And as by joining steven to your team and these other men that are filled with the holy spirit 01:19:45.380 --> 01:19:47.380 You know what you see you see the work of god get better 01:19:47.800 --> 01:19:53.640 You see things increase. You see more souls being saved. You see more missions trips. You see more projects 01:19:53.800 --> 01:19:55.400 You see more people coming to church 01:19:55.400 --> 01:20:01.080 You see the church grow you see these things happen when the holy ghost is involved because the holy spirit of god is real 01:20:01.480 --> 01:20:05.160 He's powerful. He's a person and he enables us to do the work of god 01:20:06.120 --> 01:20:11.960 And you know what? You know, you look at said fast baptist church when pastor shelley had help the church grew every single year 01:20:12.300 --> 01:20:13.960 More stuff was done every single year. 01:20:14.060 --> 01:20:16.000 Now I think he has multiple guys helping him. 01:20:16.260 --> 01:20:17.300 The work of God goes forward. 01:20:17.300 --> 01:20:18.300 It does even more every year. 01:20:18.420 --> 01:20:18.740 Why? 01:20:18.740 --> 01:20:22.860 Because the Holy Spirit is involved and wherever the Holy Spirit is getting 01:20:22.860 --> 01:20:24.780 involved, you're going to see results. 01:20:24.860 --> 01:20:26.500 You're going to see things getting done. 01:20:26.780 --> 01:20:30.900 And it's not always what people would look at the outside as carnal results. 01:20:31.340 --> 01:20:31.740 Right. 01:20:31.900 --> 01:20:33.180 It's spiritual results. 01:20:33.660 --> 01:20:36.580 You know, it's a real thing that we do getting souls saved. 01:20:37.260 --> 01:20:39.420 And you know, the carnal will just laugh and mock at that. 01:20:39.800 --> 01:20:41.460 You guys don't get anyone saved. 01:20:41.460 --> 01:20:45.000 You know what, getting one soul saved is a big thing. 01:20:45.000 --> 01:20:47.900 Getting one soul saved from the flames of hell 01:20:47.900 --> 01:20:49.400 is a big thing. 01:20:49.400 --> 01:20:52.900 And you know what, getting 100 souls saved is a big thing. 01:20:52.900 --> 01:20:56.820 And you know what, getting 2,000 people saved is a big thing. 01:20:56.820 --> 01:20:58.080 And you want to know why that's happening? 01:20:58.080 --> 01:20:59.680 Because the spirit of God is there. 01:20:59.900 --> 01:21:02.780 That's why you don't ever want to look down be like well, you know 01:21:02.780 --> 01:21:06.880 I don't know if our church is accomplishing much because we're in a strip mall and we're not that renowned 01:21:06.880 --> 01:21:09.400 You know what anchor Baptist Church is doing a big thing 01:21:09.820 --> 01:21:17.040 It's doing a big thing and you know why not because of wisdom of speech or excellency or power of the flesh 01:21:17.040 --> 01:21:19.040 It's only by the Spirit of God 01:21:19.400 --> 01:21:24.600 Anything that you accomplish for the Lord Jesus Christ and anything I accomplish for the Lord Jesus Christ 01:21:24.800 --> 01:21:30.040 It's not because of us. It's not because of our skills or our talent or our speaking ability 01:21:30.040 --> 01:21:35.500 It is because of the Holy Spirit of God, you know what that means. You better get the Holy Spirit of God involved in your life 01:21:36.100 --> 01:21:37.700 You better get him involved in your life. 01:21:37.700 --> 01:21:40.100 You better pray and ask God for power of the Holy Spirit. 01:21:40.100 --> 01:21:42.900 Because otherwise, what are you doing just spinning your wheels? 01:21:42.900 --> 01:21:45.380 You want to just go out soaring and not get someone saved? 01:21:45.380 --> 01:21:48.100 When I go soaring, I want to get someone saved. 01:21:48.100 --> 01:21:51.140 I'm not just trying to go die in the heat. 01:21:51.140 --> 01:21:53.220 I'm not trying to just go get sunburned. 01:21:53.220 --> 01:21:57.860 I'm trying to keep people from getting sunburned for all of eternity in hell. 01:21:57.860 --> 01:21:59.940 That's what I'm trying to do. 01:21:59.940 --> 01:22:01.540 Go, if you would, Ephesians chapter number five. 01:22:01.540 --> 01:22:02.300 But look. 01:22:02.400 --> 01:22:11.200 I don't care how big our church is our church has and can make a huge impact on eternity 01:22:11.200 --> 01:22:13.760 if we decide to be Christians that are filled with the Holy Spirit of God. 01:22:15.040 --> 01:22:19.280 If some Christians would just stop treating Christianity like their side gig 01:22:19.500 --> 01:22:23.220 If they would stop acting like this is just a game or just playing church 01:22:23.300 --> 01:22:28.400 But if you would actually get serious about your Christian walk and actually desire to be filled with the Holy Spirit of God 01:22:28.660 --> 01:22:32.220 You yourself can do a great work for God in your life 01:22:33.400 --> 01:22:36.180 Ephesians 5 verse 15 see them that you walk 01:22:37.500 --> 01:22:42.860 Circumspecly it means in a careful or prudent way right with wisdom discreetly 01:22:43.400 --> 01:22:45.960 not as fools, but as wise, 01:22:45.960 --> 01:22:48.400 redeeming the time because the days are evil. 01:22:48.400 --> 01:22:51.440 Wherefore, be ye not unwise, 01:22:51.440 --> 01:22:53.940 but understanding what the will of the Lord is, 01:22:53.940 --> 01:22:56.700 and be not drunk with wine wherein is excess, 01:22:56.700 --> 01:22:59.640 but be filled with the Spirit." 01:22:59.640 --> 01:23:03.140 Being filled with the Spirit is a wise choice. 01:23:03.140 --> 01:23:05.720 And by the way, it's a choice. 01:23:05.720 --> 01:23:07.700 Do you know that this is a command? 01:23:07.900 --> 01:23:11.200 It's not like, Oh, the spirit of God is magically filled. 01:23:11.200 --> 01:23:12.860 It just magically came upon me. 01:23:13.180 --> 01:23:15.100 You actually have the choice to be spirit filled. 01:23:15.860 --> 01:23:19.300 And it's like, you see a soul winner and they have power and they get people saved. 01:23:19.460 --> 01:23:21.780 You see people preaching and they have power and they have effect. 01:23:22.020 --> 01:23:23.500 It's not because that person's special. 01:23:23.580 --> 01:23:25.820 It's because they chose to be filled with the spirit. 01:23:26.460 --> 01:23:31.180 They chose to, to put off lying and filthy communication and theft and all 01:23:31.180 --> 01:23:33.340 those things, and they asked God to be filled. 01:23:33.800 --> 01:23:35.600 That's walking circumspectly. 01:23:35.720 --> 01:23:39.960 That's redeeming the time saying, Hey, I've only got a few short years in this 01:23:39.960 --> 01:23:41.120 world, right? 01:23:41.200 --> 01:23:45.080 I've got, you know, 60 years, 70 years, 80 years of God blesses me. 01:23:45.320 --> 01:23:47.200 Maybe more of God really blesses me. 01:23:47.400 --> 01:23:47.920 And you know what? 01:23:47.920 --> 01:23:52.800 I would be a fool to spend those days drunk smoking marijuana. 01:23:58.500 --> 01:24:02.160 Because when I'm filled with the spirit, my time that I'm spending is going to be 01:24:02.160 --> 01:24:02.660 effectual. 01:24:03.060 --> 01:24:04.200 I'm going to get stuff done. 01:24:04.500 --> 01:24:05.600 I'm going to get people saved. 01:24:05.900 --> 01:24:09.980 I'm going to do the work of God effectually because I'm filled with the spirit of God. 01:24:10.140 --> 01:24:12.140 You can be filled with the spirit of God anytime you want. 01:24:17.100 --> 01:24:24.300 Here's one way you could do that verse 19 speaking to yourselves and psalms and hymns and spiritual songs 01:24:24.940 --> 01:24:27.020 Singing and making melody in your heart to lord 01:24:27.580 --> 01:24:31.500 You know why some of you are not filled with the holy spirit of god is because you don't want to be filled with the holy 01:24:31.500 --> 01:24:32.620 Spirit of god 01:24:32.620 --> 01:24:34.620 You know why some people are not powerful? 01:24:35.340 --> 01:24:39.500 Why they're not powerful in their preaching why they're not powerful in their soul is because you don't want to be 01:24:40.200 --> 01:24:43.560 You know how I know that because we have singing time. I'll just add to brother Cameron sermon here 01:24:43.800 --> 01:24:46.280 We have singing time and people just don't sing they don't sing out 01:24:46.920 --> 01:24:47.400 And you know what? 01:24:47.400 --> 01:24:52.040 That is a choice to not be filled with the holy spirit of god because hey you want to be filled with the spirit 01:24:52.200 --> 01:24:57.080 Here's how you do it practically speaking speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs 01:24:57.560 --> 01:25:01.960 I've never once met a spirit filled preacher who didn't belt his lungs out during the singing time 01:25:03.000 --> 01:25:07.480 You know what? I'll take that back. The only time i've seen that happen is like when their voice is literally failing them 01:25:08.000 --> 01:25:13.760 The only time I cut back on my singing is like I have to preach and if I don't cut back 01:25:13.760 --> 01:25:20.320 I'm not gonna be able to speak. That's it. Okay, but you know what you go to conferences and you get around other men of God 01:25:20.320 --> 01:25:22.320 You know, you always see them singing out 01:25:22.340 --> 01:25:26.920 You're around them in their personal life. They're just like always singing hymns just singing it 01:25:26.920 --> 01:25:28.800 You know what you should sing hymns at your house 01:25:29.200 --> 01:25:34.080 As you walk by the way in your house with your kids you should have a song in your heart because you're saved 01:25:34.080 --> 01:25:39.160 You're a child of God. You have the Spirit of God. Why would you not be joyful and sing unto the Lord? 01:25:39.760 --> 01:25:45.240 Right heavens are home. The Bible is our book. Jesus is our Savior. The Holy Spirit is our Comforter 01:25:45.240 --> 01:25:47.120 Why would you not be happy? 01:25:47.120 --> 01:25:51.120 Because you don't want to be happy. Oh, yeah, I forgot because you don't want to be filled with the Holy Spirit 01:25:51.600 --> 01:25:54.000 You know, it's not magical. 01:25:54.000 --> 01:25:56.240 It's not this weird equation you have to solve. 01:25:56.240 --> 01:25:58.400 If you want to be a powerful Christian, 01:25:58.400 --> 01:26:00.160 you could be one at any time you want. 01:26:00.160 --> 01:26:03.200 You just have to decide to be filled with the Spirit of God. 01:26:03.200 --> 01:26:05.920 Get on your face and ask Him to fill you. 01:26:05.920 --> 01:26:08.400 Get on your face and ask for power every day of your life. 01:26:08.800 --> 01:26:11.840 Get on your face and say, God, hey, when I go soulening this Saturday, I don't want to 01:26:11.840 --> 01:26:12.840 just check this off a list. 01:26:12.840 --> 01:26:18.080 I want you to please have a person cross my path whose heart has been spitting by the 01:26:18.080 --> 01:26:22.560 Holy Ghost, who's receptive to the gospel so that I can get him saved. 01:26:22.560 --> 01:26:25.840 You know, you get an opportunity to preach, hey, God, please fill me with the spirit of 01:26:25.840 --> 01:26:30.920 God, not so that I could just get attention or clicks or preach a good sermon, but so 01:26:30.920 --> 01:26:33.360 that I could be your faithful servant and help God's people. 01:26:33.800 --> 01:26:35.000 You get to make the choice right now. 01:26:35.000 --> 01:26:37.000 Do you want to leave this building tonight filled with the spirit of God? 01:26:37.200 --> 01:26:37.800 Sing out. 01:26:44.100 --> 01:26:48.420 to your heart in your heart to the Lord. Let's pray. Lord, thank you so much for the Holy Spirit 01:26:48.420 --> 01:26:53.380 of God that we are sealed with the Spirit of God until the day of redemption. Thank you that we 01:26:53.380 --> 01:26:58.340 could never lose our salvation. Thank you that you've given us a comforter to help us in hard 01:26:58.340 --> 01:27:04.820 times. You've given us a teacher to instruct us in the Bible to lead us into all truth. I pray that 01:27:04.820 --> 01:27:11.140 we would not be foolish Christians that just grieve the Spirit of God, but rather we would be wise 01:27:11.140 --> 01:27:12.100 and asked to be f***ed. 01:27:12.100 --> 01:27:16.100 filled with the Spirit. I pray that you would fill us with the Holy Spirit now, 01:27:16.100 --> 01:27:17.940 and in Jesus' name we pray, Amen. 01:27:25.800 --> 01:27:28.800 him this evening, him number 82. 01:27:33.000 --> 01:27:36.680 Hymn number 82, 8 2. 01:27:39.600 --> 01:27:44.600 When he cometh, ham number 82. 01:27:59.900 --> 01:28:01.900 82, let's sing it out all together. 01:28:01.900 --> 01:28:04.900 When he cometh to 01:28:04.900 --> 01:28:06.900 When he cometh to 01:28:06.900 --> 01:28:09.900 When he cometh to