Speaker 1: Hey, this is Stephen Ferdick.
Speaker 2: I'm the pastor of Elevation Church and this is our podcast.
Speaker 2: I wanted to thank you for joining us today.
Speaker 1: Hope this inspires you. Hope it builds your faith.
Speaker 2: Hope it gives your perspective to see God is moving
Speaker 2: in your life. Enjoy the message wherever you are today,
Speaker 2: whether the weather is gloomy or not, we bring you
Speaker 2: greetings in Jesus' name. Clap your hands. Elevation Church. Let's
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Speaker 3: Around the world, all over the globe.
Speaker 1: The joy of the Lord is our strength. I was
Speaker 1: glad when they sat unto me, let us go to
Speaker 1: the House of the Lord.
Speaker 2: Well, sometimes you can't get to the house of the Lord.
Speaker 2: The house of the Lord is coming to you today.
Speaker 2: We speak God's peace, protection and favor over your life
Speaker 2: on every location, whether in a prison or whether you
Speaker 2: just slept in God can cover all of that. And
Speaker 2: I believe that by the time we're done today, you're
Speaker 2: gonna say it was no accident that my path converge.
Speaker 2: This word is just for you. Clap your hands if
Speaker 2: you believe God has a word for you today.
Speaker 1: Hallelujah.
Speaker 2: I am continuing in my series called ghost Writer. I
Speaker 2: think that you are more excited than your shout just indicated.
Speaker 1: I will say that again.
Speaker 2: I am continuing in my series called Ghost Trouble. Come on, Graham,
Speaker 2: clap grama life good. We are in Acts chapter two,
Speaker 2: verse one, and I'm gonna read eighteen verses. I know
Speaker 2: you didn't read your Bible all week, so I got
Speaker 2: to stack a few extra on for you. Take a
Speaker 2: look at this scripture with me, from Acts chapter two,
Speaker 2: verse one through eighteen.
Speaker 1: Imagine if you would.
Speaker 2: With me the crushing pressure on the disciples of Jesus
Speaker 2: Christ as they wait for the Holy Spirit to be
Speaker 2: poured out, which Jesus has promised them, but how many
Speaker 2: not Just because Jesus promised it doesn't mean the process
Speaker 2: of waiting for it gets any easier. In this predicament
Speaker 2: that you find yourself in in this season of your life,
Speaker 2: it's not really that you doubt God, is it. It's
Speaker 2: that you doubt you? Can I hold out? Can I
Speaker 2: be strong? Can I do what's required? And I guess
Speaker 2: in a way that is doubting God because he made us.
Speaker 2: And to doubt the product is to insult the manufacturer.
Speaker 2: If God says you can make it. You can make it.
Speaker 2: If God says you can do it, you can do it.
Speaker 2: But that doesn't mean it's easy. So then the Lord
Speaker 2: sends a word to confirm in those seasons for us,
Speaker 2: and I believe He's going to do that for you today.
Speaker 2: The Bible says in Acts, chapter two, verse one, when
Speaker 2: the day of Pentecosts came, they were all together in
Speaker 2: one place. Suddenly a sound like the blowing of a
Speaker 2: violent wind came from heaven and filled.
Speaker 1: The whole house.
Speaker 2: Last week I ended on that verse. I talked about
Speaker 2: plot holes in our lives, things we don't understand, can't
Speaker 2: make sense out of, and how God filled the hole.
Speaker 2: But I used the word whole, wholi versus whole, and
Speaker 2: how God has everything taken into account for your life. Now,
Speaker 2: look at what the Holy Spirit did. He filled the
Speaker 2: whole house where they were sitting. They saw what seemed
Speaker 2: to be tongues of fire that separated and came to
Speaker 2: rest on each of them. All of them were filled
Speaker 2: with the Holy Spirit. That's what we want to We
Speaker 2: want to be filled not with the foolish opinions of
Speaker 2: this stupid world, but with the Holy Spirit. And not
Speaker 2: only were they filled with the Holy Spirit, But they
Speaker 2: began to in other tongues as the spirit enabled them.
Speaker 2: Now there were staying in Jerusalem, God fearing Jews from
Speaker 2: every nation under heaven. And when they heard this sound,
Speaker 2: a crowd came together in bewilderment because each one heard
Speaker 2: their own language being spoken.
Speaker 1: Utterly amazed, they asked, aren't all these who are speaking Galileans?
Speaker 2: Then? How is it that each of us here's them
Speaker 2: in our native language? Parthians, Medes, Elamites, residents of Mesopotamia, Judea, Cappadocia, Pontus, Asia,
Speaker 2: Phrygia and Pamphilia, Egypt and all the parts of Libya
Speaker 2: near Syreene, visitors from Rome, both Jews and converts to Judaism,
Speaker 2: Cretans and Arabs.
Speaker 1: Y'all clap.
Speaker 2: I worked hard on pronouncing those words all week, got
Speaker 2: practice ship out loud about ten times. I did it.
Speaker 2: I did it.
Speaker 1: I didn't even have to speak in tongues.
Speaker 2: I did it in English. We hear them decl clearing
Speaker 2: the wonders of God in our own tongues. Now watch
Speaker 2: this contradiction, Verse twelve. Amazed and perplexed. Amazed and perplexed,
Speaker 2: It's like, God, I believe what you're doing, but I'm
Speaker 2: still confused. That's how they felt, amazed and perplexed, really
Speaker 2: blown away, but at the same time kind of you know,
Speaker 2: tossed about, wondering what's going on. Amazed and perplexed. They
Speaker 2: asked one another, what does this mean? Somehowever, you always
Speaker 2: got some in every crowd. Some however, made fun of
Speaker 2: them and said, and they've had too much wine. You
Speaker 2: know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: So so.
Speaker 2: You know how you do. Hey, anytime God is moving,
Speaker 2: someone will be mocking. So if God is moving in
Speaker 2: your life as a teen and your friends aren't inviting
Speaker 2: you to all the parties and they're making fun of you,
Speaker 2: oh you're that little Christian kid, You're that little Bible
Speaker 2: tote kid, You're that little virgin girl. Absolutely God is
Speaker 2: moving in my life and I'm getting ready for the
Speaker 2: next season He's bringing me into and they're mocking. Will
Speaker 2: never stop your God from moving in your life unless
Speaker 2: you let it, because watch this verse fourteen. Then Peter
Speaker 2: stood up with the eleven, raised his voice and addressed
Speaker 2: the crowd, fellow Jews and all of you who live
Speaker 2: in Jerusalem, let me explain this to you.
Speaker 1: Let me break it down. You're talking about it.
Speaker 2: But let me say something about it because I know
Speaker 2: something about it. Listen carefully to what I say. These
Speaker 2: people are not drunk as you suppose. It's only nine
Speaker 2: in the morning. Theeter had jokes. Theeter had a great
Speaker 2: opening line and rapport with this audience. Now if you
Speaker 2: come back at nine o'clock to night, they might be drunk.
Speaker 2: I can't speak, but it's too early for that.
Speaker 1: It's only nine in the morning.
Speaker 2: No, this is what was spoken by the prophet Joel
Speaker 2: in the last days, God says, I will.
Speaker 1: Pour out my spirit on all people.
Speaker 2: Your sons and daughters will prophesy. Your young men will
Speaker 2: see visions, Your old men will dream dreams. Even on
Speaker 2: my servants, both men and women. I will pour out
Speaker 2: my spirit in those days, and they will prophesy. Tell
Speaker 2: your neighbor you will prophesy. Tell them man I prophesy
Speaker 2: over your life. God is going to speak to you today.
Speaker 2: Welcome to Part three of Ghostwriter. The name of our
Speaker 2: sermon this week is called source mais source material. Now
Speaker 2: tell your neighbor on your way to the seat, like
Speaker 2: the new kids on the block said, I got the
Speaker 2: right stuff and be seated. Yeah, source material Week one,
Speaker 2: page turner, Week two, plot hole Week three, Source material,
Speaker 2: Bring me my screen. I feel like teaching, preaching, prophescien,
Speaker 2: speaking in tongues, whatever it takes. You know, source material
Speaker 2: doesn't sound very sexy as a title.
Speaker 1: I understand page turner.
Speaker 2: That's kind of like, oh yeah, new chapter, new boyfriend,
Speaker 2: new neighborhood, new net worth, new zip code, new network.
Speaker 2: My new network is my new net Worth. Put another
Speaker 2: zero because it's a page turner. Open another chapter. It's
Speaker 2: a page turner.
Speaker 1: And then plot hole.
Speaker 2: Once you found out what that was last week, you
Speaker 2: were shouting about it because you were Sometimes what you
Speaker 2: think is a plot hole is actually God setting up
Speaker 2: a twist to take your life in a different direction.
Speaker 2: This one source material, I need to break it down,
Speaker 2: even though you know what it means basically. But how
Speaker 2: about this, First of all, let me just write it.
Speaker 2: And I do appreciate all of you who are praying
Speaker 2: for me while I write on this screen, that God
Speaker 2: would heal my handwriting. I read in the Bible where
Speaker 2: Jesus healed blind eyes, but I don't know if he
Speaker 2: ever healed anybody's handwriting. But I certainly need that. And
Speaker 2: if you're listening on a podcast, I am writing the
Speaker 2: word source material, and I spelled them Praise the Lord,
Speaker 2: source material just put simply, well, let's read the definition,
Speaker 2: and read the definition to you.
Speaker 1: It is the.
Speaker 2: Data, the documents, or the information source material. Yeah, let
Speaker 2: me start over.
Speaker 1: It's the original data.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's the word I needed. Original, the original data,
Speaker 2: documents or records used as the basis for creating new work.
Speaker 2: If you apply it across multiple disciplines, it would look
Speaker 2: like this. If you are a journalist, your source material
Speaker 2: should be first hand accounts, accurate, quote in context, facts, statistics,
Speaker 2: things like that, so that when I read your report,
Speaker 2: I can trust your source. Okay, let me move off that,
Speaker 2: because I felt like that was a little bit needlessly edgy.
Speaker 2: Let's talk about music. If you're a musician, you only
Speaker 2: have so many notes to work with. For every song
Speaker 2: that you would ever create, whether a symphony or whether
Speaker 2: it's just a bop on the radio, you get twelve notes.
Speaker 1: Bach had twelve notes, Beethoven had twelve notes. What you
Speaker 1: do with those.
Speaker 2: Twelve notes, and what you do with meter and rhythm
Speaker 2: and melody is largely up to your talent and your
Speaker 2: ingenuity and creativity, but you get twelve notes, and from
Speaker 2: those twelve notes, millions of songs have been sung and written.
Speaker 2: If you are a screenwriter trying to write a movie,
Speaker 2: you might take a book, or you might take an
Speaker 2: original screenplay, but whatever you built that movie from, that.
Speaker 1: Would be your source material.
Speaker 2: So a musician might take a sample and make a
Speaker 2: source material. An author might take a historical account and
Speaker 2: then kind of embellish it and then make a new
Speaker 2: story out of source material.
Speaker 1: I thought about using Barbara Kingsolver.
Speaker 2: She wrote a book called Demon Copperhead, and she based
Speaker 2: it on the Charles Dickens book David Copperfield, but she
Speaker 2: reset that story in a modern context in Appalachia, and
Speaker 2: so when she did it, it was a fresh story,
Speaker 2: but it came from a classic source. This book that
Speaker 2: I brought up here with me today was written in
Speaker 2: two thousand and four, and it was a New York
Speaker 2: Times bestseller in two thousand and seven. A twenty seven
Speaker 2: year old young man walked by this book just before
Speaker 2: he went on vacation in Mexico, and he needed something
Speaker 2: to read because he really needed to disengage his mind
Speaker 2: when I'm looking for something to disengage my mind. I
Speaker 2: don't take a book this thick, but this is a
Speaker 2: different kind of dude. He walked past it and bought it,
Speaker 2: and he read it while he was on vacation. Don't
Speaker 2: show him what book it is. I'm hiding that on purpose.
Speaker 2: They're trying to help me, but I don't want to
Speaker 2: reveal it yet because the fact of the matter is,
Speaker 2: I'm pretty sure I can't prove it. I don't have
Speaker 2: any records of it. But this particular individual, he's the
Speaker 2: same age.
Speaker 1: That I am, and I've never met him. I respect him.
Speaker 2: The year two thousand and seven, we were both twenty
Speaker 2: seven years old, and I'm pretty sure I went in
Speaker 2: a bookstore when I was twenty seven at some point
Speaker 2: that year, at least once, and this book was such
Speaker 2: a big deal that I'm sure I walked by this book.
Speaker 2: But I did not look at this book and think
Speaker 2: that would make an amazing Broadway musical where I could
Speaker 2: recast the Founding Fathers as hip hop artists and take
Speaker 2: the entire world by storm. The book, of course, is
Speaker 2: the biography of Alexander Hamilton, written by Ron Chernou and
Speaker 2: the person who picked it up is none other than
Speaker 2: the great prophet lin Manuel Miranda. And when lin Manuel
Speaker 2: Miranda walked by this book, he thought, huh, I should
Speaker 2: read that on vacation. If I picked up this book
Speaker 2: for vacation, the result would be a nap, no offense
Speaker 2: to the book. But about page three I'd be out.
Speaker 2: This book would be for me a twenty three dollars ambient.
Speaker 2: That's what it would be, thirty dollars in Canada. For him,
Speaker 2: it captivated audiences. How many of you have seen Hamilton?
Speaker 2: The rest of you, don't throw away your shot. Go
Speaker 2: see Hamilton at least on Disney Plus. Now you can
Speaker 2: download it. It grossed on twenty twenty by that point,
Speaker 2: six hundred and fifty million dollars on Broadway alone. I
Speaker 2: don't even know what it made on Disney Plus and
Speaker 2: all of the merchandise and all that. I couldn't find
Speaker 2: it in chat GPT. And then I found out that
Speaker 2: it was nominated for eleven Tony Awards, or at won
Speaker 2: eleven Tony Awards.
Speaker 1: I believe.
Speaker 2: Check it out later when you get home. You can
Speaker 2: go check the source and see if I'm right about it.
Speaker 2: But what I thought was interesting and we're I want
Speaker 2: to bring this into your life. Is because how was
Speaker 2: I in the bookstore where this book was.
Speaker 1: And maybe even walk by it.
Speaker 2: I mean, it's not typically the section I walked by
Speaker 2: in the bookstore, I'll be honest, but possibly I was
Speaker 2: close by. And why did this book call out to him?
Speaker 2: And why did he take it? Do you ever see
Speaker 2: somebody on shark Tank And you're like, I could have
Speaker 2: thought of that, you know, I picked up this book,
Speaker 2: and I did.
Speaker 1: I bought it this week and I didn't read it.
Speaker 1: I just flipped through it a little bit, skimmed it
Speaker 1: a little bit, and not.
Speaker 2: Once did I think, Huh, this would make an amazing,
Speaker 2: amazing presentation. I could probably create something so wonderful of
Speaker 2: this that people would memorize every line of it. And
Speaker 2: I was holding the book this week, and I was
Speaker 2: thinking about Hamilton the musical, which I have now seen
Speaker 2: eight times, eight times.
Speaker 1: Pray for me. I get obsessed.
Speaker 2: The first time I saw it, I knew I would
Speaker 2: be seeing it again, and I watched it again and
Speaker 2: again and again. But then when I picked up the
Speaker 2: book that he said inspired him to write the story
Speaker 2: of the Treasury Secretary in the form of a hip
Speaker 2: hop musical.
Speaker 1: Here's the question I had, How did he get that
Speaker 1: out of this?
Speaker 2: Put the picture up, there's lin Manuel, there's the cast.
Speaker 2: One of the greatest musicals of all time started with
Speaker 2: something that I won't even ever look at again. In fact,
Speaker 2: I will give this away after church today. Put your
Speaker 2: name in the offering bucket, and I'll find you because
Speaker 2: I'm not reading it. How did he get that from this?
Speaker 2: How was I in the same store walking by the
Speaker 2: same book and he turned it into something so appse,
Speaker 2: I mean a cultural phenomenon.
Speaker 1: He performed this in the White House.
Speaker 2: And I'll be honest with you, I kind of feel
Speaker 2: the same thing about these disciples that we're looking at
Speaker 2: in Acts chapter two, because I'm looking at them right,
Speaker 2: and they're sincere, and they are sincere, and they are sincere.
Speaker 2: But that's about all they have going for them, because
Speaker 2: they're in this small room everybody say small room. And
Speaker 2: they have a big task. Everybody say big task. And
Speaker 2: if you look at the disciples on the surface, they
Speaker 2: do not have the talent that is equal to the
Speaker 2: task that they have been given. They do not have
Speaker 2: the time that is equal to the tasks that they
Speaker 2: have been given. They do not have the team. Remember,
Speaker 2: these are the boys that only one of them stood
Speaker 2: up for Jesus when he went to the cross. It's
Speaker 2: the same theme when you hear about the eleven. The
Speaker 2: only one that's missing is Judas. He's replaced by a
Speaker 2: rookie named Matthias. Peter is the leader of the whole thing,
Speaker 2: and he was the one who was cursing while Jesus
Speaker 2: was being crucified. So I'm looking at them and see,
Speaker 2: I know where the Book of Acts ends. By the
Speaker 2: time you get to the end of the Book of Acts,
Speaker 2: the Gospel has gone from this small room. Everybody say,
Speaker 2: small room, this upper room in Jerusalem, this small little corner,
Speaker 2: this small little place where the disciples were gathered, and
Speaker 2: it has spread within a period of only a couple
Speaker 2: of decades. It spreads the message of Jesus Christ spreads
Speaker 2: and not only does it penetrate the lower echelons of
Speaker 2: society so that the poor might be lifted.
Speaker 1: But by the time you'll get to the end.
Speaker 2: Of the Book of Acts, if you ever read it
Speaker 2: cover to cover, you will see the Gospel standing before
Speaker 2: kings and princes. You will see the Gospel from this
Speaker 2: little small room in Jerusalem all the way to the
Speaker 2: heart of the Roman Empire, the most powerful center.
Speaker 1: Of the day.
Speaker 2: As it journeys through Antioch, where the believers are first
Speaker 2: called Christians, as it makes its way through Ephesus, which
Speaker 2: was a center of commerce and trade, as it even
Speaker 2: sweeps through Corinth, which was the most decadent Las Vegas city.
Speaker 2: What happened in Corinth stayed in Corinth, But what happened
Speaker 2: in Jerusalem didn't stay in Jerusalem. What happened in Jerusalem
Speaker 2: spread all throughout the Roman Empire. It spread across dangerous seas,
Speaker 2: It spread past bendits, It spread through persecution, it spread
Speaker 2: through government edicts. It spread even though they didn't have technology.
Speaker 2: It spread without YouTube, It's spread without Instagram, it spread
Speaker 2: without TikTok. The Truth put its shoes on and made
Speaker 2: a lap around the world. And TikTok wasn't even invented,
Speaker 2: and Wi Fi wasn't even available, and Jesus didn't give
Speaker 2: him the password anyway, He just left and sent his
Speaker 2: spirit and they did it. And you gotta wonder, how
Speaker 2: did this come out of that? How did this? How
Speaker 2: did it get all the way from Palestine? To Balentine, Huh.
Speaker 2: The truth about it is they did what they did
Speaker 2: having less than we have.
Speaker 1: They didn't have.
Speaker 2: The Book of Acts to preach a series from.
Speaker 1: They were living it out.
Speaker 2: They didn't have the Book of Romans to tell them
Speaker 2: I can do all things through Christ, who strengthens me.
Speaker 2: Because Paul was still in prison, he hadn't picked up
Speaker 2: the pin yet. They had none of this at the time,
Speaker 2: and yet.
Speaker 1: They did all of that. I bring it up not.
Speaker 2: To discourage you, but to encourage you because there may
Speaker 2: be a place in your life today where you're saying
Speaker 2: to yourself, not out loud, but you're saying to yourself,
Speaker 2: how am I supposed to do that when all I
Speaker 2: have is this?
Speaker 1: How am I supposed to do that?
Speaker 2: How am I supposed to raise these kids when I
Speaker 2: don't even understand the world that they're living in. How
Speaker 2: am I supposed to raise a family when I came
Speaker 2: from a broken family. How am I supposed to move
Speaker 2: up in my job so that I can provide for
Speaker 2: my future when I don't even have the basic education
Speaker 2: that was required to be in the position I'm in now,
Speaker 2: let alone the one.
Speaker 1: That's ahead of me. How do I do this?
Speaker 2: How do I do that?
Speaker 1: And all I have is this?
Speaker 2: Now, Fortunately, there is a principle that you and I
Speaker 2: can lean on should we choose to. And I want
Speaker 2: you to take this with you into every situation in
Speaker 2: your life where you're saying, how am I supposed to
Speaker 2: do that? All right, preacher, you're telling me to forgive
Speaker 2: and move forward and move and be healed and be
Speaker 2: sanctified and be free and live for Jesus and do
Speaker 2: these things and be patient and be kind and be humble.
Speaker 2: And I hear you, how am I supposed to do that?
Speaker 2: When all I have is this? Because everything you're up
Speaker 2: here talking about I don't have much of a template for.
Speaker 2: And every time I try to do it, my old
Speaker 2: template inserts itself in the place of my good intentions.
Speaker 2: So my template is overwriting my intentions. Every time you
Speaker 2: say amen after one of these sermons, how am I
Speaker 2: supposed to do that? Sounds good? Praise them in the
Speaker 2: midnight hour? How am I supposed to do that?
Speaker 1: And here's the principle.
Speaker 2: If you're supposed to do it, you will have God's
Speaker 2: support for it.
Speaker 1: Past that, it's a lot of me.
Speaker 2: If you're supposed to do it, you will have God's
Speaker 2: support for it. Now. I know it doesn't feel like
Speaker 2: that right now, because sometimes when God is beginning to
Speaker 2: do something in your life, you do not see his support.
Speaker 2: So when all the way back to the beginning of
Speaker 2: the whole Bible in Genesis won one, and I figured,
Speaker 2: since we're talking about the source, we should go to
Speaker 2: the source and see what the source did to create
Speaker 2: every situation that we see. And the Bible says in
Speaker 2: Genesis chapter verse one, in the beginning.
Speaker 1: God, that's the source. Uh huh.
Speaker 2: That's why I can move forward into the next season
Speaker 2: of my life because in the beginning, God, what did
Speaker 2: he do? Created the heavens and the earth? And I
Speaker 2: love this part. It says, now the earth was formless
Speaker 2: and empty. Darkness was over the surface of the deep,
Speaker 2: and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters.
Speaker 2: Stay right there, The Spirit of God was hovering over
Speaker 2: the waters. There was no light yet, but there was
Speaker 2: still spirit. There was darkness, no light, but there.
Speaker 1: Was still spirit. There was no form yet. That means
Speaker 1: it hadn't taken shape yet.
Speaker 2: But even before the earth took shape, there was still spirit.
Speaker 2: There are some things in your life that have not
Speaker 2: taken shape. Yet there are some things in your life
Speaker 2: that are formless and empty and dark and dreary. Just
Speaker 2: because there's no light yet doesn't mean there's no spirit yet.
Speaker 2: Just because there's no apparent solution yet doesn't mean God
Speaker 2: isn't on the scene yet.
Speaker 1: For the Bible says that.
Speaker 2: God hovered over something that seemed empty. But it's not
Speaker 2: just that the spirit was there. Now put up verse three,
Speaker 2: because it was dark, and because it was formless, and
Speaker 2: because there was no light, and because there was no shape.
Speaker 2: The Bible says that God said, everybody, say, God said,
Speaker 2: if you go all the way back to the very beginning,
Speaker 2: past the founding fathers of the United States of America,
Speaker 2: past Lin, Manuel Miranda, past the time you were born,
Speaker 2: past the time you were addicted, past the time you
Speaker 2: got a divorce, past the time you got the job,
Speaker 2: past the time you lost the child in the custody battle.
Speaker 2: If you go all the way back past that, there
Speaker 2: are two things that were always there, the spirit of
Speaker 2: God and the Word of God. God hovered and he spoke,
Speaker 2: and God said verse three, put it back up.
Speaker 1: Let there be light. And there was light.
Speaker 2: Because God said it, everything we see started here with
Speaker 2: the Spirit and the word, the spirit and the spoken
Speaker 2: word of God.
Speaker 1: And now you understand.
Speaker 2: What I mean when I say that if you're supposed
Speaker 2: to do it, you will have God's support for it.
Speaker 2: Are our disciples sitting in a small room with a
Speaker 2: big task.
Speaker 1: How are we supposed to take the Gospel.
Speaker 2: To the ends of the earth. For one thing, we
Speaker 2: don't have a car, let alone a plane. How are
Speaker 2: we supposed to speak their language when we get there?
Speaker 1: But as he.
Speaker 2: Does so many times in our life, God had the
Speaker 2: answer on the way before they even formed.
Speaker 1: The question to ask who is this?
Speaker 2: For God has already dispatched the answer.
Speaker 1: And there's no light yet, but.
Speaker 2: He's already on the scene. And here's where it gets confusing.
Speaker 2: When we go to our scripture. At first it looks
Speaker 2: like maybe God isn't there. Look at this in Acts
Speaker 2: chapter two. I don't always know why people shout about
Speaker 2: stuff in the Bible that they shout about. When you
Speaker 2: say the day of Pentecost came, that was a Jewish festival.
Speaker 1: It was called the Festival of Weeks.
Speaker 2: It was the end of the barley harvest and the
Speaker 2: beginning of the wheat harvest, and so you had to
Speaker 2: make a pilgrimage to Jerusalem, and they would usually see
Speaker 2: about triple the population in the city, so every street
Speaker 2: was crowded, and everybody's there. They're coming from all over
Speaker 2: the world, those who honor and fear God, and they're
Speaker 2: bringing their first fruits, offering to say, thank you, Lord
Speaker 2: for this harvest. We believe you for the next. Everything
Speaker 2: we have comes from your hand. And while they're celebrating
Speaker 2: the harvest, they're waiting on one. They are waiting for
Speaker 2: the Holy Spirit to be given so that they can
Speaker 2: receive the harvest of souls that would reach to the
Speaker 2: ends of the earth. And the Bible says when the
Speaker 2: day of Pentecost came, they were all together in one place,
Speaker 2: and suddenly a sound like the blowing of a violent
Speaker 2: wind came.
Speaker 1: And everybody, when you read that, they always like if
Speaker 1: you read it in a church, everybody will always shout.
Speaker 2: When you say suddenly, and they will shout about the
Speaker 2: sound of a violent win. But let's take ourselves out
Speaker 2: of just the fact that this sounds exciting. What is
Speaker 2: a violent win when this is called a storm? If
Speaker 2: you subtract all of the nice, oh, the sound suddenly
Speaker 2: the sound of violent the sound of a violent wind.
Speaker 2: That's not something that we usually shout about.
Speaker 1: That's something that we usually close the shutters and try
Speaker 1: to survive. And then look at the next thing that happened.
Speaker 2: It said that the violent wind came from heaven and
Speaker 2: filled the whole house where they were sitting.
Speaker 1: And they saw verse three what seemed to be tongues
Speaker 1: of fire.
Speaker 2: And you say tongues of fire, and everybody will shout and.
Speaker 1: Tongues of fire? Can you ever put your tongue on
Speaker 1: the stove? Have you ever even eaten the halapeno pepper?
Speaker 1: Why would you shout about that? A fire will burn you.
Speaker 2: So now we shout about the storm, and we shout
Speaker 2: about the fire.
Speaker 1: But let's be honest. If a wind is un controlled.
Speaker 2: It can kill you. A wind is a blessing if
Speaker 2: it's in the right amount and you have a sail.
Speaker 2: But a wind can also take you off course. A
Speaker 2: wind can also create a hurricane. A wind can also
Speaker 2: knock you on your back. A wind can destroy, so
Speaker 2: can a fire. A fire can sweep through everything that
Speaker 2: you love. A fire can reduce to ruppish an entire village,
Speaker 2: an entire city. We've seen this happen in our time.
Speaker 2: So why are we shouting about a storm? Why are
Speaker 2: we shouting about a fire? I'll show you why. This
Speaker 2: is why you came to church. We're not shouting about
Speaker 2: what the wind was, We're shouting about where it came from,
Speaker 2: because the Bible says that it came from heaven. So
Speaker 2: one thing I know about my life, it's not what
Speaker 2: I go through, it's where it came from that determines
Speaker 2: the result it will have in my life. I'm trying
Speaker 2: to say that the devil is not the source of
Speaker 2: every storm we go through. I'm trying to say that
Speaker 2: some fires that we walk through were not sent by
Speaker 2: the enemy to destroy us. They were sent by the
Speaker 2: Lord to refine us. So now I need to know
Speaker 2: a question. The storm in your emotions, the storm in
Speaker 2: your household, the storm that you're going through in your industry,
Speaker 2: the storm that you're going through as you sort these
Speaker 2: things out that are happening at this age.
Speaker 1: Of your life, where did it come from?
Speaker 2: Did it come from the enemy to destroy you or
Speaker 2: did it come from the Lord to develop you? Better question,
Speaker 2: does it really even matter? Because if God is the source,
Speaker 2: by the time the storm has to pass through his hand,
Speaker 2: the storm that was sent to destroy you. I'll know
Speaker 2: why I'm screaming the whole sermon. I'm just passionate about
Speaker 2: what I say because I hear the sound and it
Speaker 2: sounds like a storm. But it came from the Lord,
Speaker 2: and it will not destroy me.
Speaker 1: It will only develop me.
Speaker 2: You feel that it came from heaven. Say that out loud,
Speaker 2: it came from heaven. I just want us to read
Speaker 2: the Bible like it's real. Here comes a violent win.
Speaker 2: You're not shouting, you're ducking under stuff. Here come tongues
Speaker 2: of fire, And the Bible doesn't say that it was
Speaker 2: actual fire.
Speaker 1: Watch this. Read it real slow.
Speaker 2: It says it was to sound like the blowing of
Speaker 2: a violent wind. It seemed to be tongues of fire.
Speaker 2: It wasn't what it looked like. It wasn't what it
Speaker 2: looked like. It wasn't what it looked like. I know
Speaker 2: it looked like it was the end for you last year,
Speaker 2: but it wasn't what it looked like. I know it
Speaker 2: looked like the reason they pushed you away is because
Speaker 2: you're no good, But it wasn't what it looked like. Ah,
Speaker 2: tell your neighbor it wasn't what it looked like. It
Speaker 2: wasn't what it looked like. It looked like a dead end,
Speaker 2: but it was really a doorway because it wasn't what
Speaker 2: it looked like. How many have a testimony it came
Speaker 2: from heaven. It hurt like hell, but it came from heaven.
Speaker 2: I hear the Holy Spirit blowing in my spirit today
Speaker 2: telling me to tell you it wasn't what it looked like.
Speaker 1: Looked like it would be the last time. But Doc's
Speaker 1: got new wine.
Speaker 3: Well for your mouse had well this atmosphere with Ray,
Speaker 3: it wasn't what it looked like.
Speaker 1: Never thought they had him, put him in the brave.
Speaker 1: Looked like he was a criminal, they're to stay. But
Speaker 1: it wasn't what it looked like.
Speaker 4: Three days.
Speaker 2: Don't let me preach on the holy ghosts. I'm telling
Speaker 2: you right now, it wasn't what it looked like. Yeah,
Speaker 2: all right, sit down. Interesting the Bible said that it
Speaker 2: filled the house where they were sitting, sitting sitting. Are
Speaker 2: you sitting where you're supposed to be sitting? I don't
Speaker 2: mean like right now in the church? Is usher told
Speaker 2: me it's not my fault. Is he sitting where you're
Speaker 2: supposed to be sitting. See, I think some of you,
Speaker 2: m I don't mean, I don't mean to be confrontational theral,
Speaker 2: I think some of you aren't getting what you should
Speaker 2: be getting because you're not sitting.
Speaker 1: Where you should be sitting.
Speaker 2: Okay, if the disciples try to go in their own
Speaker 2: strength and take the Gospel all through the Roman Empire,
Speaker 2: what are the chances that it makes it to Valentine today?
Speaker 2: What are the chances that it makes it to Winston Salem.
Speaker 2: What are the chances it makes it to Gaston County?
Speaker 2: What are the chances that it makes it to Zimbabwe?
Speaker 2: What are the chances that it makes it to your room,
Speaker 2: your hospital room right there? What are the chances that
Speaker 2: we're still preaching about Jesus today if they tried.
Speaker 1: To do it in their own strength.
Speaker 2: Recently, in preaching, I had to adjust some things about
Speaker 2: my style of preaching to sustain my ability to preach.
Speaker 2: And one of the things that I decided I would do,
Speaker 2: in addition to the way that I prepare and plan
Speaker 2: and try to lean more into God and less into
Speaker 2: this idea that I have to change someone's life when
Speaker 2: I preach, and more that He is source, that he
Speaker 2: is the source, and I am just a sail and
Speaker 2: his is the wind. Even in raising your kids, you know,
Speaker 2: sometimes you have to realize that the reason you are
Speaker 2: so stressed out as a parent is because you are
Speaker 2: trying to fill a role in their life that you
Speaker 2: are not supposed to fill. Yeah, and all the teenagers like,
Speaker 2: thank you Jesus, preach Pastor Stephen, see thirteen year olds
Speaker 2: waking up all around the church, tell them lea me alone. No, no, no.
Speaker 2: You are supposed to be their guide, not their God.
Speaker 2: And sometimes we get confused about what we're supposed to do.
Speaker 2: So I want to ask you, are you Are you weary?
Speaker 2: Are you out of stamina? Are you out of strength?
Speaker 2: Because you are asking God to support something that you're
Speaker 2: not even supposed to be doing, of trying to make
Speaker 2: them what you think they need to be. Are you
Speaker 2: minding your own business? Or do you keep borrowing drama
Speaker 2: from social media trying to pray away stress that you
Speaker 2: ingested in your own system by mindless scrolling. You weren't
Speaker 2: supposed to be scrolling at eleven thirty pm.
Speaker 1: You were supposed to be sleeping.
Speaker 2: Then you saw something you weren't supposed to be seeing.
Speaker 2: Because you were scrolling on something when you should have
Speaker 2: been sleeping, and you were sitting somewhere that you shouldn't
Speaker 2: have been sitting, and now you're not getting what you
Speaker 2: could be getting because you're sitting where Anyway, it's half
Speaker 2: holygoes half doctor SEUs. Today.
Speaker 1: But I went to see a guy.
Speaker 2: I said, one thing I need to work on is
Speaker 2: my voice, because I would preach a lot of times
Speaker 2: and I would feel very horse after I preached. And
Speaker 2: I thought the guy he was a voice coach. His
Speaker 2: name is Roger Love. I thought he would say stop
Speaker 2: screaming so much. So I came to him and I said,
Speaker 2: I know you're gonna tell me two things to do,
Speaker 2: and I'm not going to do either one of them.
Speaker 2: You're gonna say, stop drinking diet coke.
Speaker 1: That's off the table. The Lord. The Lord and I
Speaker 1: have an arrangement that is not my Isaac.
Speaker 2: And number two, number two, you're gonna tell me to
Speaker 2: stop screaming and I'm not doing either. And he said,
Speaker 2: I don't need to drink diet coke. It's gonna kill you.
Speaker 2: But it's not what's messing up your voice. I said,
Speaker 2: it's not. I thought you were gonna tell me the
Speaker 2: chemicals came from a conspiracy in China. They're trying to
Speaker 2: He said, no, no, no, He said, you can drink
Speaker 2: that coke and you can scream all you want. He said,
Speaker 2: I don't want you to stop screaming. I want you
Speaker 2: to start breathing. Now. This guy's expensive. I said, I
Speaker 2: paid you how much for you to tell me to breathe?
Speaker 2: He said, yeah, no, wonder your voice hurts. I had
Speaker 2: had a thing in my throat for about six months
Speaker 2: and I couldn't make it go away. And I said,
Speaker 2: I know that when you screamed is supposed to her.
Speaker 2: He said, it's not supposed to hurt. Tell your neighbor,
Speaker 2: it's not supposed to hurt. Yeah, we go through things,
Speaker 2: but I was sustaining damage that I didn't need to
Speaker 2: sustain because of something as simple as I wasn't breathing.
Speaker 2: Did you hear how much I just screamed at you?
Speaker 1: And my voice.
Speaker 2: Still feels strong because he taught me, I can scream
Speaker 2: if I breathe. If I breathe, if I breathe, I
Speaker 2: can make the sound I need to make.
Speaker 1: Whether I should scream or not, that's your business.
Speaker 2: But I do have a scripture, Acts Chapter two, verse fourteen.
Speaker 2: Then Peter put the scripture up, stood.
Speaker 1: Up with the eleven.
Speaker 2: Raised his voice of a scripture.
Speaker 1: I can screen bar.
Speaker 2: He didn't say a soft He said it from a
Speaker 2: deep place.
Speaker 1: And it says he stood up, and it says he
Speaker 1: raised his voice.
Speaker 2: But I have been learning that the only way you
Speaker 2: can really make a volume is if you take a breath.
Speaker 2: The Bible says he raised his voice. What the Bible
Speaker 2: does not say is that he took a deep breath. However,
Speaker 2: we have evidence that he took a deep breath before
Speaker 2: he raised his voice, because that day, off of one sermon,
Speaker 2: he preached about the crucifixion of Jesus, he preached about
Speaker 2: the resurrection of Jesus, he preached about the judgment of Jesus.
Speaker 1: He preached about the need.
Speaker 2: For repentance and baptism and confection of sin. And he
Speaker 2: pierced their heart and three thousand of them became believers
Speaker 2: that day. There were no microphones, there was no public
Speaker 2: address system. How did his voice get all the way
Speaker 2: from here to three thousand people.
Speaker 1: He had to breathe. He had to breathe, And.
Speaker 2: I want to give you a Holy ghost voice lesson
Speaker 2: today for your life.
Speaker 1: You got to breathe. You're not breathing.
Speaker 2: Is some things that are hurting in your life that
Speaker 2: aren't supposed to be hurting, but you're not breathing.
Speaker 1: If you would get a breath from Heaven before you.
Speaker 2: Would take that next step, you would feel the wind
Speaker 2: of God in.
Speaker 1: Your sel and you wouldn't have to row your boat alone.
Speaker 1: You would have something blow in.
Speaker 2: Your sales that would help you get where you're trying
Speaker 2: to go. But you hadn't been breathing. You've been running
Speaker 2: from one appointment to another. You've been running from one
Speaker 2: stressful situation to another. You've been running from one hypothetical
Speaker 2: scenario to another, and you haven't been breathing. You haven't
Speaker 2: stopped lately and said, God, I need you for this. God,
Speaker 2: show me what you have called me to do. And
Speaker 2: if you are trying to do something in your strength
Speaker 2: that you are not supposed to do in God's sovereignty,
Speaker 2: he will not support it. The Holy Spirit will only
Speaker 2: support what the voice of the Lord orders. That means
Speaker 2: God will not help you be more like the person
Speaker 2: you're comparing yourself to. God will not help you reach
Speaker 2: the goal of somebody who has different gifts than you.
Speaker 2: They saw what seemed to be tongues of fire, They
Speaker 2: heard what sounded like a rushing wind. Part of my
Speaker 2: wisdom is knowing what I'm not supposed to do, so
Speaker 2: that i am not expecting God to support me in
Speaker 2: something I'm not even supposed to be doing.
Speaker 1: You're not supposed to be.
Speaker 2: Hanging around them, so you will not have the strength
Speaker 2: to avoid the temptation if you keep spending the majority
Speaker 2: of your time with them, because you are not supposed
Speaker 2: to have them as your inner circle. I am going
Speaker 2: to preach this word to help somebody so you don't
Speaker 2: hurt where you're not supposed to hurt, because you are
Speaker 2: sitting where you are not supposed to sit. This is
Speaker 2: an amazing revelation for us that the way that the
Speaker 2: Spirit of God moved into disciples, the way that the
Speaker 2: Gospel of Jesus Christ reached the end of the world,
Speaker 2: the end of the earth, is all through this one
Speaker 2: little phrase. It says the Spirit enabled them. That means
Speaker 2: they reason the same spirit that was hovering over the
Speaker 2: waters in Genesis One, that they breathe in the same
Speaker 2: spirit that was hovering over the creation when it was
Speaker 2: still chaos, and that same spirit does not hover over
Speaker 2: your life today. It lives within your very soul. Breathe
Speaker 2: it in. Breathe it in. Stop arguing with people, and
Speaker 2: breathe God in. You know, I feel like our whole
Speaker 2: problem is sometimes we try to ask the right question,
Speaker 2: but we ask to the wrong crowd. The Bible says
Speaker 2: there were people staying under heaven from every nation. If
Speaker 2: you think I'm pronouncing all of those names again, you're crazy.
Speaker 2: But the Bible says that they were amazed and perplexed
Speaker 2: and all of the people.
Speaker 1: Now imagine this. They are hearing the Gospel in their
Speaker 1: own language.
Speaker 2: When you talk about tongues in church, there's different things
Speaker 2: that can mean. One is a prayer language that is
Speaker 2: known to God but unknown by others, and spoken by
Speaker 2: the person that speaking, And that is real. This is
Speaker 2: not that they were speaking in one language and the
Speaker 2: people were hearing in another. It was known to the
Speaker 2: listeners even though it was not previously known to the speakers,
Speaker 2: So it was a miracle. How are we going to
Speaker 2: get the Gospel to the ends of the earth and
Speaker 2: we don't even speak the language?
Speaker 1: The spirit will enable you.
Speaker 2: How am I going to show up in that situation
Speaker 2: and know what to do?
Speaker 1: The Spirit will enable you.
Speaker 2: How am I going to be a witness to Jesus
Speaker 2: Christ when my life is such a mess. The Spirit
Speaker 2: will enable you. God hovers over darkness. God feels emptiness.
Speaker 2: God comes to people who are open and waiting and
Speaker 2: ready and breathing and needing. The Spirit enabled them, And
Speaker 2: the Bible says that as all of these different crowds
Speaker 2: gathered around, amazed and perplexed, they asked, here's the mistake
Speaker 2: one another that will always get you in trouble trying
Speaker 2: to process your life with somebody that's at your same level.
Speaker 1: That's why God gives you the gift.
Speaker 2: Of his spirit. That's what Peter said. He stood up,
Speaker 2: raised his voice. Let me circle that because I like that,
Speaker 2: raised his voice and addressed the crowd. The answer was
Speaker 2: not coming from the crowd. It had to be given
Speaker 2: to the crowd. Peter raised his voice and said to
Speaker 2: the crowd, fellow.
Speaker 5: Juice, let me do it loud, fellow juice, let me
Speaker 5: get deep breath, fellow juice, in all of you who
Speaker 5: live in Jerusalem, let me explain this to you Listen
Speaker 5: carefully to what I say.
Speaker 1: Stop asking one another.
Speaker 2: Stop looking for solutions from people who don't know any
Speaker 2: more more than you do about it. He raised his
Speaker 2: voice addressed the crowd, said, all of you, listen to me.
Speaker 2: These people are not drunk as you suppose. Oh I
Speaker 2: love that phrase. As you suppose. Everybody say as you supposed,
Speaker 2: Say it again, as you supposed.
Speaker 1: Here's what happened.
Speaker 2: The crowd saw this crazy thing happening, and they thought
Speaker 2: they must be crazy, they must be drunk.
Speaker 1: This is ridiculous, This makes no sense. What do you
Speaker 1: think they're doing. I think they're drunk.
Speaker 2: What do you think they're doing?
Speaker 1: I think they're crazy. What do you think they're doing?
Speaker 2: And as they're passing this around all through the crowd,
Speaker 2: they begin to support what they have already supposed. Have
Speaker 2: you noticed this in your life that you support whatever
Speaker 2: you've supposed. So if you supposed today that you came
Speaker 2: to Elevation and you're like I heard as a call
Speaker 2: because somebody told you it was a cult, and you
Speaker 2: come in here looking for a cult.
Speaker 1: You know what, you will find evidence.
Speaker 2: For the verdict that you already created because you thought
Speaker 2: you were supposed to be the judge, and you're really
Speaker 2: supposed to be a witness. Even if you suppose somebody
Speaker 2: doesn't like you. I don't think they like me. You
Speaker 2: will find every reason they don't. Did you see how
Speaker 2: they just looked at me? They smiled at you. Yeah,
Speaker 2: but it wasn't a full smile. It was like a
Speaker 2: three four smile. Do you see that three quarter smile?
Speaker 2: Eighty percent at the most was I didn't see any teeth.
Speaker 2: Did you see any teeth? They don't like me. I
Speaker 2: told you they don't like me. I mean, we do
Speaker 2: this all the time. We suppose and then we support.
Speaker 2: I suppose that it's my destiny to be an addict.
Speaker 1: So then I find the friends.
Speaker 2: That will support what I suppose. I suppose that I'm
Speaker 2: never going to get out of this cage. I'm never
Speaker 2: going to break free, I suppose, and then.
Speaker 1: So I don't see anything. What happens in your life
Speaker 1: is you see.
Speaker 2: Something, you think something, you think something, you think something,
Speaker 2: you think something, and then you believe something, You believe something,
Speaker 2: you become something.
Speaker 1: I'll do it again. You see something, so then.
Speaker 2: You think something, you think something, you think something, you
Speaker 2: think something, so you believe something. And then you become
Speaker 2: something and then you say see no, no, no, you
Speaker 2: saw something, you thought something, you believe something, and then
Speaker 2: you became something and then you said, see, I told
Speaker 2: you that's how it was. No, no, no, You just
Speaker 2: supposed and then support it. You supposed that nothing ever
Speaker 2: goes your way. You supposed that God can't use someone
Speaker 2: like you.
Speaker 1: You suppose that it's too late. You supposed that you're
Speaker 1: too young.
Speaker 2: Meanwhile, somebody else that's half your age already did it.
Speaker 2: Somebody else that's twice your age is still doing it.
Speaker 2: But you support what you suppose, and sometimes you.
Speaker 1: Don't realize that.
Speaker 2: Help me, Holy Spirit, that what you have supposed is
Speaker 2: not coming from the right place.
Speaker 1: It's not coming from God.
Speaker 2: I studied it in the Greek because I really wanted
Speaker 2: to understand.
Speaker 1: What Peter said.
Speaker 2: He said, these people are not drunk as you suppose.
Speaker 2: The Greek word for suppose you ready for this?
Speaker 1: Hoopolambano.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a Greek kind of week in elevation church.
Speaker 1: H limbano. What does it mean? It means to take
Speaker 1: up from below? Hoopo lombano. Everybody say hoopo lombano.
Speaker 2: Put it in the comments I want to see who
Speaker 2: spells at.
Speaker 1: The worst hoopo limbono. I'm not writing that on the board.
Speaker 1: Hoopo lombano.
Speaker 2: It means to.
Speaker 1: Take from below.
Speaker 2: You might recognize this verse because it is also in
Speaker 2: Acts one nine.
Speaker 1: Put Acts one nine on the screen. Can I teach
Speaker 1: you a little while today? I'm almost done, but I
Speaker 1: want to.
Speaker 2: Give you this. He he's speaking to his disciples. He's
Speaker 2: getting ready to leave the earth. He's getting ready to
Speaker 2: send the spirit. And Jesus said to them that you
Speaker 2: will be my witnesses. And he was taken up before
Speaker 2: their very eyes. The word taken up hoopo limbano. The
Speaker 2: word suppose, hoopo limbano, taken up. He was taken up
Speaker 2: from below? Where did they get their opinions? Where did
Speaker 2: they get the conclusions? Hoopo limbono? They took it up
Speaker 2: from below? And Peter said, no, this is not a
Speaker 2: hoopo limbano situation. This is not something that you can
Speaker 2: take up from the bottom. No, this is what was spoken.
Speaker 2: So here's the contradiction. I got what you suppose and
Speaker 2: what was spoken. And what I want to know is
Speaker 2: which one are you going to go with? In your
Speaker 2: life for this season, what you took up from the
Speaker 2: bottom or what came down from above. Some of the
Speaker 2: stuff that you've been believing it does not have its
Speaker 2: source in God.
Speaker 1: And if its source is not in.
Speaker 2: God, it will sabotage you and it will lead you
Speaker 2: to a conclusion that is absolutely unsustainable.
Speaker 1: But this is not a take up from below moment
Speaker 1: in your life.
Speaker 2: This is a.
Speaker 1: Come down from above moment.
Speaker 2: Peter said, this is not a moment for you to
Speaker 2: take up an assumption from below. This is a moment
Speaker 2: for you to receive an assignment from on high. I
Speaker 2: feel God saying you are looking up at the wrong thing.
Speaker 2: You are looking around at the wrong thing for in
Speaker 2: this season of your life. You cannot get it from below.
Speaker 2: It must be given from above. Now, there were two
Speaker 2: things present at the creation of the cosmos, the spirit
Speaker 2: of God and the Word of God. That's the source material.
Speaker 2: You have both of those things too. What will you
Speaker 2: do with it? What will you do with it? One
Speaker 2: person will take this word today that was given and say, God,
Speaker 2: where have I been looking around? Where I need to
Speaker 2: be looking up? What have I been looking up at?
Speaker 2: And given my attention to that. Actually I should cast
Speaker 2: under my feet and walk on over the top of
Speaker 2: one person will take this word, put it on the shelf.
Speaker 2: How did he create that from this?
Speaker 4: He worked? He worked, he worked, he worked. This will
Speaker 4: work in your life if you work it. How did
Speaker 4: the gospel go from a small room and spread all
Speaker 4: over the globe to you and I today?
Speaker 2: The source material, the spirit of God, the source material,
Speaker 2: the word of the God. Do you not realize we
Speaker 2: have the same gospel. Do you not realize you have
Speaker 2: been given the same gospel that broke chains off Paul
Speaker 2: and Silas see.
Speaker 1: The same gospel that the.
Speaker 2: Ethiopian eunuch pulled over and stopped this chariot.
Speaker 1: What are you doing with me?
Speaker 2: Ah? I believe there is so much more inside of you.
Speaker 2: And I hear a sound sounds like a violent wind.
Speaker 2: I see what seems to be tongues of fire. I
Speaker 2: hear the voice of the Lord speaking over your life today.
Speaker 2: And God said, everyone standing, we will pray and seal
Speaker 2: this word. Stop right where you are. Nobody moving out
Speaker 2: of this room. Stay where you are. Hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah.
Speaker 1: You hadn't been breathing. Baby, you can't run if you.
Speaker 2: Don't breathe, you can't lead if you don't breathe.
Speaker 1: You can't think if you don't breathe. Breathe, breathe.
Speaker 2: Peter raised his voice. He breathed, the sound of the
Speaker 2: Holy Spirit. That's the breadth of Almighty God coming to
Speaker 2: fill your lungs, fill your life.
Speaker 1: Breathe, baby, breed, breed, breathe, breathe.
Speaker 2: That's the sound of the wind.
Speaker 1: It's the spirit of God.
Speaker 2: It's not a violent wind, it's a creative breath, and
Speaker 2: it's coming to you right now. Lift your hands like
Speaker 2: their sails and receive it. I receive the Holy Spirit.
Speaker 2: I receive a fresh filling of the Holy Spirit for
Speaker 2: my life. I receive it. Tap into it. Speak to me, Lord,
Speaker 2: I'm breathing. Oh, I'm breathing this week for me to
Speaker 2: have the Holy Spirit, for me to have the same
Speaker 2: stuff that created the world, and not worship God. I'm
Speaker 2: breathing this thing in. I'm walking in this word. Peter
Speaker 2: was able to walk on one word on the top
Speaker 2: of a stormy sea. I can walk through the situation
Speaker 2: in my life this week with one word from you,
Speaker 2: Almighty God.
Speaker 1: I worship you. Open your mind and tell him. I
Speaker 1: worship you God. I worship you Lord. I worship the
Speaker 1: one who is and was and is to come.
Speaker 2: His name is Jesus.
Speaker 1: He is the Almighty God.
Speaker 2: He is the Ancient of days. I worship you, Lord.
Speaker 1: I'm not drunk, I'm not crazy. I just need you, Lord.
Speaker 1: I worship you, Lord. I worship you Lord.
Speaker 2: And Lord, Now is your wind, your fire? Come and
Speaker 2: light us up again and fill our lungs with your praise.
Speaker 2: We intend to accomplish every assignment that you've given us
Speaker 2: for our lives this week.
Speaker 1: No, we're not one of.
Speaker 2: The twelve Disciples, but we are your children. I commission
Speaker 2: these your children, by your grace, God, that from the
Speaker 2: upper room of their waiting, they will see manifestations of
Speaker 2: your glory in every area of their life. I believe
Speaker 2: it because you've spoken it. We didn't come to church
Speaker 2: to look around today. We came to look up and
Speaker 2: look in and to praise you for who you are. Now,
Speaker 2: every person who receives this word, clap your hands and
Speaker 2: let the Lord know you're great.
Speaker 1: It's about eyes closed.
Speaker 2: When the day of Pentecost came, they were all together
Speaker 2: in one place, and suddenly your life can change suddenly,
Speaker 2: right now, there is someone in this room who needs
Speaker 2: to receive Jesus Christ as your Lord and savior. It
Speaker 2: is an amazing moment when you finally stop trying to
Speaker 2: do in your own strength what can only be done
Speaker 2: by the spirit of God. And I want to invite
Speaker 2: you right now to receive Jesus Christ as your Lord
Speaker 2: and savior. Everybody in here needs to saying. We need
Speaker 2: the grace of God. We need the forgiveness of our sin.
Speaker 2: And today, if you will repent of your sin and
Speaker 2: believe in Jesus, you will be saved. Everybody who wants
Speaker 2: to give your life to Jesus today, I want you
Speaker 2: to repeat this prayer after me, and we'll all say
Speaker 2: it out loud together for the benefit of those who
Speaker 2: are coming to God. Repeat after me, Heavenly Father, Today
Speaker 2: is my day of salvation. I believe that Jesus Christ
Speaker 2: is the Son of God and the Savior of the world.
Speaker 2: And today I make Jesus the Lord of my life.
Speaker 2: I believe he died that I would be forgiven and
Speaker 2: rose again to give me life.
Speaker 1: I receive this new life. This is my new beginning.
Speaker 1: I am a child of God on the.
Speaker 2: Count of three shoots your hand up if you prayed
Speaker 2: that one, two three. We celebrate you.
Speaker 1: A new beginning upon you. We believe God for greater
Speaker 1: things in your life.
Speaker 2: New beginnings, new mercies, a fresh foundation.
Speaker 3: Let's praise God for what he did for every so
Speaker 3: many said in Jesus' name. Clap those hands and give
Speaker 3: God praise in the name.
Speaker 2: Of Jesus camphis fasters. You can take it right here, church.
Speaker 3: Let's celebrate the Lord who brought us together today. Clap
Speaker 3: both of those hands. If you know who gave you breath.
Speaker 3: Let everything that has bread praise the Lord.
Speaker 2: Holly is gonna come close us in prayer at Valentine.
Speaker 2: You'll welcome her as she comes today. I saw her
Speaker 2: at nine am and I said, that's a stage outfit.
Speaker 2: I need to get you up on that stage, Holly.
Speaker 2: I want you to pray for everybody today who feels like,
Speaker 2: how am I supposed to do this? How am I
Speaker 2: supposed to do this? We saw a woman this week
Speaker 2: give a testimony who's been in a wheelchair for fifty years,
Speaker 2: and she wakes up every day with chronic pain. And
Speaker 2: she said, there's days where I just think, how am
Speaker 2: I supposed to do this well, if you're supposed to
Speaker 2: do it, God will support you for it moment by moment.
Speaker 2: And I want you to pray, Holly, that God would
Speaker 2: show us sometimes to support that we walk past, That
Speaker 2: God would show us what we're walking past.
Speaker 1: That He has put in our life.
Speaker 2: How many of you received that today, that God wants
Speaker 2: to show you the source of your strength.
Speaker 1: So Holly sealed this work for prayer.
Speaker 2: Would you join hands with the person on either side
Speaker 2: of you, Please, let's join together.
Speaker 1: Father, we come to you now, and we are Our
Speaker 1: hearts are so full.
Speaker 6: We're so grateful for the word that has been spoken
Speaker 6: over our hearts today.
Speaker 2: Thank you Jesus, Holy Spirit.
Speaker 6: Your presence has been welcomed in this place. God, Thank
Speaker 6: you Holy Spirit that every time the word of God
Speaker 6: has spoken on this.
Speaker 2: Stage, that you show up. Thank you Jesus.
Speaker 6: Thank you seal this word on our hearts today, God,
Speaker 6: that we are supported. Lord, open up our eyes to
Speaker 6: see the support that is all around us this week. God, God,
Speaker 6: help us to see that you are with us, and
Speaker 6: that you were working for us, and that you were
Speaker 6: working through us. Lord, give us the courage to move
Speaker 6: forward and the callings that you have given each and
Speaker 6: every one of us. Lord, Thank you for our pastor, Lord,
Speaker 6: for the word that you have spoken through him.
Speaker 1: Today we receive it.
Speaker 6: God, we receive what you are speaking to us.
Speaker 2: Thank you that we get.
Speaker 6: To move forward in the strength that you have given us.
Speaker 1: In the strength for our calling.
Speaker 3: Lord.
Speaker 1: And it's in Jesus the same we pray.
Speaker 2: Amen. I five three people who say you got the stuff,
Speaker 2: you got the stuff.
Speaker 3: I dismiss you in the name of Jesus. Have an
Speaker 3: amazing week. You got it, you got the stuff, you
Speaker 3: got the stump.
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