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00:00:42,840 --> 00:00:44,240 10019. 15 00:00:45,500 --> 00:00:47,900 John Chapter 1, I'm going to speak about 16 00:00:47,900 --> 00:00:50,820 the way to true spiritual awakening. 17 00:00:51,680 --> 00:00:53,760 There is a way folks, and if you'll 18 00:00:53,760 --> 00:00:56,500 open your heart to it tonight, I believe 19 00:00:56,500 --> 00:01:00,740 that in whatever area of your heart and 20 00:01:00,740 --> 00:01:02,600 mind you may not be awakened yet to 21 00:01:02,600 --> 00:01:03,459 the things of God. 22 00:01:04,180 --> 00:01:06,580 If this applies to you, God will do 23 00:01:06,580 --> 00:01:09,040 everything he's promised he's going to do this 24 00:01:09,040 --> 00:01:09,300 evening. 25 00:01:09,520 --> 00:01:09,980 Let's pray. 26 00:01:10,120 --> 00:01:12,280 Father, I thank you for the anointing of 27 00:01:12,280 --> 00:01:12,940 the Holy Spirit. 28 00:01:13,900 --> 00:01:15,440 Oh Holy Spirit, I ask you to quicken 29 00:01:15,440 --> 00:01:15,620 me. 30 00:01:16,320 --> 00:01:18,080 I ask you to quicken my mind. 31 00:01:18,260 --> 00:01:21,380 God, I have a sense of what you 32 00:01:21,380 --> 00:01:23,300 want to do in my heart. 33 00:01:23,300 --> 00:01:25,960 But you've got to take me deeper in 34 00:01:25,960 --> 00:01:26,900 you than I've ever known. 35 00:01:27,400 --> 00:01:29,220 You've got to give me abilities that I 36 00:01:29,220 --> 00:01:29,860 don't have. 37 00:01:30,760 --> 00:01:33,080 Lord, I hear you calling and I ask 38 00:01:33,080 --> 00:01:34,740 you for the grace to run after you. 39 00:01:35,660 --> 00:01:37,940 Lord, I pray God tonight I may stand 40 00:01:37,940 --> 00:01:39,940 in this pulpit and speak as an oracle 41 00:01:39,940 --> 00:01:40,420 of God. 42 00:01:41,020 --> 00:01:43,400 Lord, only your word has the power to 43 00:01:43,400 --> 00:01:44,320 create and recreate. 44 00:01:44,760 --> 00:01:47,580 Everything else is just flattery and human effort. 45 00:01:47,920 --> 00:01:48,720 It has no power. 46 00:01:49,100 --> 00:01:51,700 God, help me to speak your mind. 47 00:01:51,700 --> 00:01:54,660 Holy Spirit, walk closely with me. 48 00:01:55,160 --> 00:01:56,580 Overshadow my frailty. 49 00:01:57,300 --> 00:01:58,520 Overshadow my weakness. 50 00:01:59,200 --> 00:02:00,480 God, be my strength. 51 00:02:01,280 --> 00:02:04,220 Lord, I desire with all my heart to 52 00:02:04,220 --> 00:02:05,460 see your church quickened. 53 00:02:06,200 --> 00:02:08,320 I desire, Lord, to see a multitude of 54 00:02:08,320 --> 00:02:10,420 people come to the saving knowledge of Christ. 55 00:02:11,140 --> 00:02:14,480 God Almighty, push back the power of darkness. 56 00:02:15,300 --> 00:02:17,600 Let the glorious freedom of Jesus Christ be 57 00:02:17,600 --> 00:02:19,300 shouted in the streets of this city. 58 00:02:19,980 --> 00:02:23,340 God, do something so beyond us, so beyond 59 00:02:23,340 --> 00:02:24,600 our ability to do. 60 00:02:25,300 --> 00:02:28,820 Lord, do something that would cause all of 61 00:02:28,820 --> 00:02:30,240 the world to take notice. 62 00:02:30,980 --> 00:02:32,940 Lord, that you are here, you are alive. 63 00:02:33,400 --> 00:02:34,960 I thank you for it with all my 64 00:02:34,960 --> 00:02:35,340 heart. 65 00:02:36,420 --> 00:02:37,980 I believe, Lord, you're the God of the 66 00:02:37,980 --> 00:02:38,360 miraculous. 67 00:02:38,660 --> 00:02:39,400 I believe it, Lord. 68 00:02:40,000 --> 00:02:41,060 In Jesus' name. 69 00:02:42,200 --> 00:02:45,760 John chapter 1, the way to true spiritual 70 00:02:45,760 --> 00:02:46,220 awakening. 71 00:02:46,220 --> 00:02:47,360 Verse 1. 72 00:02:48,320 --> 00:02:50,680 In the beginning was the Word, and the 73 00:02:50,680 --> 00:02:53,060 Word was with God, and the Word was 74 00:02:53,060 --> 00:02:53,400 God. 75 00:02:54,460 --> 00:02:56,600 The same was in the beginning with God. 76 00:02:57,460 --> 00:03:00,260 All things were made by him, and without 77 00:03:00,260 --> 00:03:03,260 him was not anything made that was made. 78 00:03:04,280 --> 00:03:07,240 In him was life, and the life was 79 00:03:07,240 --> 00:03:08,060 the light of men. 80 00:03:08,880 --> 00:03:09,580 Now, it's interesting. 81 00:03:09,820 --> 00:03:12,940 This is John's report of Jesus Christ. 82 00:03:13,140 --> 00:03:15,800 John who walked with Jesus, who knew Jesus. 83 00:03:16,220 --> 00:03:18,540 He was close to him. 84 00:03:18,640 --> 00:03:21,720 He described himself as the disciple that Jesus 85 00:03:21,720 --> 00:03:22,220 loved. 86 00:03:22,660 --> 00:03:24,400 His heart was open to the love of 87 00:03:24,400 --> 00:03:24,700 God. 88 00:03:24,940 --> 00:03:27,920 And that openness that he had to the 89 00:03:27,920 --> 00:03:30,460 love that God had for him opened his 90 00:03:30,460 --> 00:03:32,600 spirit and his mind to something about God 91 00:03:32,600 --> 00:03:36,040 that very few in any generation really begin 92 00:03:36,040 --> 00:03:36,780 to understand. 93 00:03:36,960 --> 00:03:39,720 He saw that in Jesus Christ was the 94 00:03:39,720 --> 00:03:40,740 totality of God. 95 00:03:41,800 --> 00:03:43,580 And it's interesting that in the beginning of 96 00:03:43,580 --> 00:03:45,440 his report, he says, In the beginning was 97 00:03:45,440 --> 00:03:47,960 the Word, and the Word was with God, 98 00:03:48,040 --> 00:03:48,980 and the Word was God. 99 00:03:49,060 --> 00:03:51,900 And the Word in the Greek New Testament 100 00:03:51,900 --> 00:03:55,420 is logos, and it means simply intelligent speech. 101 00:03:56,120 --> 00:03:58,360 In the beginning was intelligent speech. 102 00:03:59,320 --> 00:04:01,080 Don't you wish it had stayed that way? 103 00:04:02,760 --> 00:04:04,720 I think of the airwaves today, and the 104 00:04:04,720 --> 00:04:06,740 talk radio, and all the rest of it. 105 00:04:06,760 --> 00:04:10,120 All of the piles of unintelligent speech that 106 00:04:10,120 --> 00:04:12,380 is going on in the airwaves even this 107 00:04:12,380 --> 00:04:13,700 very moment throughout our world. 108 00:04:15,040 --> 00:04:17,899 Not only intelligent speech, not only possessing all 109 00:04:17,899 --> 00:04:20,540 knowledge, but in verse 3 says, All things 110 00:04:20,540 --> 00:04:22,380 were made by him, and without him was 111 00:04:22,380 --> 00:04:24,920 not anything that was made. 112 00:04:25,820 --> 00:04:28,420 He had not only intelligent speech, but God 113 00:04:28,420 --> 00:04:29,860 had the power to create anything. 114 00:04:30,740 --> 00:04:33,440 Hebrews 11.3 says, Through faith we understand 115 00:04:33,440 --> 00:04:35,100 that the worlds were framed by the Word 116 00:04:35,100 --> 00:04:37,580 of God, so that things which are seen 117 00:04:37,580 --> 00:04:39,600 were not made of things which do appear. 118 00:04:40,420 --> 00:04:42,140 Really, what is spiritual awakening? 119 00:04:42,140 --> 00:04:45,260 Spiritual awakening is when God speaks, and he 120 00:04:45,260 --> 00:04:47,180 has free course, and there is no resistance 121 00:04:47,180 --> 00:04:48,400 to his voice. 122 00:04:49,300 --> 00:04:50,340 It's an amazing thing. 123 00:04:50,780 --> 00:04:52,360 In the beginning, if we go to Genesis, 124 00:04:52,520 --> 00:04:53,820 we're not going to turn there now, but 125 00:04:53,820 --> 00:04:56,140 we see that there was nothing. 126 00:04:56,260 --> 00:04:57,420 It was just an empty void. 127 00:04:57,960 --> 00:04:59,320 And the Spirit of God moved on the 128 00:04:59,320 --> 00:05:01,120 face of the waters, and God began to 129 00:05:01,120 --> 00:05:01,440 speak. 130 00:05:01,800 --> 00:05:04,240 And that which existed at that time didn't 131 00:05:04,240 --> 00:05:04,940 resist him. 132 00:05:05,200 --> 00:05:07,120 And as he began to speak, light was 133 00:05:07,120 --> 00:05:09,440 created, and light was divided from darkness, and 134 00:05:09,440 --> 00:05:11,860 dry land was divided from the waters. 135 00:05:12,140 --> 00:05:14,260 And living things were commanded to come to 136 00:05:14,260 --> 00:05:16,500 life, and they began to live, fowls and 137 00:05:16,500 --> 00:05:17,440 birds and creatures. 138 00:05:17,760 --> 00:05:20,220 And then ultimately, God spoke right into the 139 00:05:20,220 --> 00:05:23,220 dust, and breathed with his own breath into 140 00:05:23,220 --> 00:05:25,040 dust of the earth, and created a man 141 00:05:25,040 --> 00:05:25,820 in his own image. 142 00:05:26,000 --> 00:05:28,300 There was nothing that could resist the voice 143 00:05:28,300 --> 00:05:28,640 of God. 144 00:05:28,720 --> 00:05:30,740 Nothing was resisting the voice of God. 145 00:05:31,520 --> 00:05:34,320 There was an awakening that happened in a 146 00:05:34,320 --> 00:05:36,360 time that we don't fully understand, other than 147 00:05:36,360 --> 00:05:37,060 it was dark. 148 00:05:37,180 --> 00:05:38,980 There was darkness on the face of everything, 149 00:05:39,380 --> 00:05:40,940 until God began to speak. 150 00:05:40,940 --> 00:05:43,580 And out of nothing, the writer of Hebrews 151 00:05:43,580 --> 00:05:45,440 says, things began to be formed. 152 00:05:46,140 --> 00:05:47,220 There was no resistance. 153 00:05:47,820 --> 00:05:50,540 Would you be surprised to know today that's 154 00:05:50,540 --> 00:05:52,020 the way that God still works? 155 00:05:52,180 --> 00:05:54,740 When his word is spoken, when he finds 156 00:05:54,740 --> 00:05:56,340 a heart that is open to him, and 157 00:05:56,340 --> 00:06:00,080 is without doubt and unbelief and resistance, chooses 158 00:06:00,080 --> 00:06:02,160 to believe God rather than the circumstance? 159 00:06:02,820 --> 00:06:05,000 Chooses to believe what God's book says rather 160 00:06:05,000 --> 00:06:06,840 than what they see in the mirror, or 161 00:06:06,840 --> 00:06:09,000 what their ancestors have reported of them, or 162 00:06:09,000 --> 00:06:10,240 what people have told them? 163 00:06:10,940 --> 00:06:12,780 When God finds a heart that does not 164 00:06:12,780 --> 00:06:15,540 resist his spoken word, the miraculous begins to 165 00:06:15,540 --> 00:06:15,880 happen. 166 00:06:16,660 --> 00:06:18,160 Things begin to be created. 167 00:06:18,960 --> 00:06:21,320 Life comes where there was only death. 168 00:06:22,460 --> 00:06:24,540 In the Garden of Eden, we find the 169 00:06:24,540 --> 00:06:27,040 introduction of unintelligent speech. 170 00:06:28,020 --> 00:06:30,620 Now, unintelligent speech came from Satan himself. 171 00:06:30,900 --> 00:06:34,460 And it's the speech of a creation that 172 00:06:34,460 --> 00:06:37,400 ultimately was transferred to men who were created 173 00:06:37,400 --> 00:06:38,340 in the image of God. 174 00:06:38,340 --> 00:06:41,020 It's the speech of a creature that was 175 00:06:41,020 --> 00:06:44,080 created by God who exalted himself above the 176 00:06:44,080 --> 00:06:44,780 knowledge of God. 177 00:06:44,840 --> 00:06:46,840 In a sense, began to resist what God 178 00:06:46,840 --> 00:06:47,360 had spoken. 179 00:06:48,240 --> 00:06:49,180 Has God said? 180 00:06:49,660 --> 00:06:51,120 Does God really mean this? 181 00:06:51,340 --> 00:06:53,140 Is God really the last authority? 182 00:06:53,600 --> 00:06:54,700 Is there not another way? 183 00:06:54,760 --> 00:06:55,680 Is there not a better way? 184 00:06:55,800 --> 00:06:59,200 Can we not be as God is through 185 00:06:59,200 --> 00:07:03,120 some alternative route that we might take? 186 00:07:03,460 --> 00:07:06,020 I'm paraphrasing, obviously, but this was really the 187 00:07:06,020 --> 00:07:06,800 intent of Satan. 188 00:07:06,800 --> 00:07:08,480 He sowed it in the heart of Adam. 189 00:07:08,800 --> 00:07:13,060 And subsequently, unintelligent speech became part of humankind. 190 00:07:13,840 --> 00:07:17,420 And today, there's no limit to unintelligent speech 191 00:07:17,420 --> 00:07:18,960 that's going on in our society. 192 00:07:19,840 --> 00:07:21,800 The Bible says the last days are going 193 00:07:21,800 --> 00:07:26,440 to be characterized by fleshly wise, but spiritually 194 00:07:26,440 --> 00:07:27,860 unintelligent speech. 195 00:07:28,660 --> 00:07:30,540 The scriptures bear witness to it very, very 196 00:07:30,540 --> 00:07:30,980 clearly. 197 00:07:31,600 --> 00:07:34,180 In 2 Peter 2, I'll just paraphrase it 198 00:07:34,180 --> 00:07:35,380 for you if you don't mind it. 199 00:07:35,380 --> 00:07:36,620 Verses one to three. 200 00:07:37,840 --> 00:07:39,100 Here's what it says. 201 00:07:39,800 --> 00:07:41,920 There were false prophets also among the people, 202 00:07:42,060 --> 00:07:43,920 even as there shall be false teachers among 203 00:07:43,920 --> 00:07:47,300 you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, 204 00:07:47,760 --> 00:07:50,260 even denying the Lord that bought them, and 205 00:07:50,260 --> 00:07:52,840 bring upon themselves swift destruction. 206 00:07:53,620 --> 00:07:55,380 There are going to be teachers. 207 00:07:55,920 --> 00:07:57,240 There have been throughout history. 208 00:07:57,420 --> 00:07:59,540 There are in our generation who cast off 209 00:07:59,540 --> 00:08:02,540 the absolute right of Christ to complete ownership 210 00:08:02,540 --> 00:08:04,460 of those who are rightfully his. 211 00:08:04,460 --> 00:08:06,340 In other words, they will deny the Lord 212 00:08:06,340 --> 00:08:07,360 that bought them. 213 00:08:07,560 --> 00:08:10,280 Oh, they might profess his name, but they 214 00:08:10,280 --> 00:08:11,680 will deny his lordship. 215 00:08:12,220 --> 00:08:14,860 They will deny the fact that Jesus Christ 216 00:08:14,860 --> 00:08:17,260 has the sole authority to speak into my 217 00:08:17,260 --> 00:08:18,720 life and into your life. 218 00:08:18,820 --> 00:08:19,980 He has the right to govern us. 219 00:08:20,020 --> 00:08:21,100 He has the right to guide us. 220 00:08:21,320 --> 00:08:22,580 He has the right to lead us. 221 00:08:23,020 --> 00:08:25,200 If we are truly his, we have truly 222 00:08:25,200 --> 00:08:26,440 given ourselves to him. 223 00:08:26,820 --> 00:08:29,140 We don't resist what he speaks into our 224 00:08:29,140 --> 00:08:31,440 hearts, but we embrace it as the highest 225 00:08:31,440 --> 00:08:32,260 way of life. 226 00:08:32,260 --> 00:08:34,960 We embrace it as that voice that brings 227 00:08:34,960 --> 00:08:37,260 us into places where within us will be 228 00:08:37,260 --> 00:08:39,780 created things of God that make us far 229 00:08:39,780 --> 00:08:41,600 more than we could ever be of ourselves, 230 00:08:41,720 --> 00:08:44,120 that begin to create within us the life 231 00:08:44,120 --> 00:08:45,880 that only God can give to us. 232 00:08:46,080 --> 00:08:47,740 But there will be teachers in the last 233 00:08:47,740 --> 00:08:50,480 days who will deny this right of Christ 234 00:08:50,480 --> 00:08:52,900 to ownership of those who come to him. 235 00:08:53,580 --> 00:08:55,940 Verse 2, he says, And many shall follow 236 00:08:55,940 --> 00:08:59,400 their pernicious ways, by reason of whom the 237 00:08:59,400 --> 00:09:02,280 way of truth shall be evil spoken of. 238 00:09:02,360 --> 00:09:04,380 Now, it doesn't mean they will be speaking 239 00:09:04,380 --> 00:09:07,240 evil overtly of Jesus Christ. 240 00:09:07,600 --> 00:09:09,640 What it really means is that they will 241 00:09:09,640 --> 00:09:12,900 emphasize another way, as Satan did, above the 242 00:09:12,900 --> 00:09:13,640 ways of God. 243 00:09:14,020 --> 00:09:15,700 Another way to be godly. 244 00:09:16,300 --> 00:09:18,660 Another way to achieve what only God can 245 00:09:18,660 --> 00:09:19,780 bring into a person's life. 246 00:09:19,840 --> 00:09:21,320 Another way to find happiness. 247 00:09:21,740 --> 00:09:22,660 Another way to be healthy. 248 00:09:22,840 --> 00:09:24,020 Another way to be holy. 249 00:09:24,380 --> 00:09:27,240 Another way to be accepted among the beloved 250 00:09:27,240 --> 00:09:30,120 in heaven, other than the way prescribed through 251 00:09:30,120 --> 00:09:31,960 the word of God and by the mouth 252 00:09:31,960 --> 00:09:33,460 of Jesus Christ himself. 253 00:09:34,480 --> 00:09:37,240 Verse 3 says, And through covetousness shall they 254 00:09:37,240 --> 00:09:39,940 with feigned, or that means imagined words, make 255 00:09:39,940 --> 00:09:42,480 merchandise of you, whose judgment now of a 256 00:09:42,480 --> 00:09:46,520 long time lingereth not, and their damnation slumbereth 257 00:09:46,520 --> 00:09:46,800 not. 258 00:09:47,320 --> 00:09:50,120 In the last days, people will be captivated 259 00:09:50,120 --> 00:09:52,720 by empty words of those who want their 260 00:09:52,720 --> 00:09:53,840 money and their admiration. 261 00:09:54,480 --> 00:09:56,920 The Bible clearly says that under their influence, 262 00:09:56,920 --> 00:09:59,120 people will become servants of their own inner 263 00:09:59,120 --> 00:10:01,800 corruption, according to 2 Peter chapter 2 and 264 00:10:01,800 --> 00:10:02,840 verse 19. 265 00:10:03,380 --> 00:10:05,160 And they will take on a form of 266 00:10:05,160 --> 00:10:08,500 lifeless outer religiousness that has no true interchanging 267 00:10:08,500 --> 00:10:12,300 power, according to 2 Timothy chapter 3 and 268 00:10:12,300 --> 00:10:12,980 verse 5. 269 00:10:13,520 --> 00:10:16,280 A religion of self will be the religion 270 00:10:16,280 --> 00:10:17,840 of the last day, in the name of 271 00:10:17,840 --> 00:10:18,160 Christ. 272 00:10:18,340 --> 00:10:19,920 It will not be the voice of God. 273 00:10:20,340 --> 00:10:21,840 It will be unintelligent speech. 274 00:10:21,980 --> 00:10:24,000 Paul says they'll be turned from truth and 275 00:10:24,000 --> 00:10:27,120 be turned to fables, stories, words, as it 276 00:10:27,120 --> 00:10:28,220 is, of no profit. 277 00:10:28,680 --> 00:10:29,460 They have no power. 278 00:10:29,820 --> 00:10:32,160 And all these words can do is cause 279 00:10:32,160 --> 00:10:34,820 the outer man to try to form himself 280 00:10:34,820 --> 00:10:36,620 into something that looks like God. 281 00:10:37,000 --> 00:10:39,580 But there'll be no power, because where God 282 00:10:39,580 --> 00:10:42,520 is, there is a creative and a recreative 283 00:10:42,520 --> 00:10:44,020 power going on in that life. 284 00:10:44,480 --> 00:10:46,980 That's why the apostle Paul says, if any 285 00:10:46,980 --> 00:10:48,820 man be in Christ, he is a new 286 00:10:48,820 --> 00:10:49,080 creation. 287 00:10:49,960 --> 00:10:51,700 There's a new life that has come within 288 00:10:51,700 --> 00:10:52,240 his life. 289 00:10:52,520 --> 00:10:54,600 The old things in him are dying off. 290 00:10:54,860 --> 00:10:56,980 They're passing away virtually by the hour, and 291 00:10:56,980 --> 00:10:58,400 by the minute, and by the day. 292 00:10:58,720 --> 00:11:00,640 And a new life is beginning to be 293 00:11:00,640 --> 00:11:01,460 formed within him. 294 00:11:01,620 --> 00:11:04,160 Darkness is passing away, and light is coming. 295 00:11:04,580 --> 00:11:07,400 There's a division between things that used to 296 00:11:07,400 --> 00:11:08,900 be gray and foggy. 297 00:11:08,980 --> 00:11:11,160 Now he clearly understands what is God and 298 00:11:11,160 --> 00:11:12,040 what is not God. 299 00:11:12,320 --> 00:11:14,160 He begins to know the voice of God. 300 00:11:14,560 --> 00:11:18,060 Jesus himself said, My sheep know my voice, 301 00:11:18,780 --> 00:11:21,300 and they will follow me, and no man 302 00:11:21,300 --> 00:11:22,820 will be able to pluck them out of 303 00:11:22,820 --> 00:11:24,300 my Father's hand. 304 00:11:24,860 --> 00:11:27,680 Now, John chapter 1, again in verse 4, 305 00:11:28,500 --> 00:11:32,080 says, In him was life, and the life 306 00:11:32,080 --> 00:11:33,100 was the light of men. 307 00:11:33,360 --> 00:11:35,200 The word life is zoe, which means the 308 00:11:35,200 --> 00:11:38,260 highest and best which Christ is. 309 00:11:39,020 --> 00:11:43,140 In him is everything that you will ever 310 00:11:43,140 --> 00:11:44,080 aspire to. 311 00:11:44,760 --> 00:11:48,020 Everything that your heart has ever secretly longed 312 00:11:48,020 --> 00:11:48,320 for. 313 00:11:49,200 --> 00:11:51,640 Everything that brings you to this house tonight 314 00:11:51,640 --> 00:11:53,760 is not found in religion. 315 00:11:53,760 --> 00:11:55,800 It's not found in self-effort. 316 00:11:56,380 --> 00:11:58,540 It's not found in trying to prop yourself 317 00:11:58,540 --> 00:11:59,780 up to be a better person. 318 00:12:00,060 --> 00:12:02,420 Everything you've ever longed for is found in 319 00:12:02,420 --> 00:12:02,960 Jesus Christ. 320 00:12:04,120 --> 00:12:05,620 He is the one who is in the 321 00:12:05,620 --> 00:12:06,640 beginning with God. 322 00:12:07,060 --> 00:12:09,620 He was with God, and nothing that was 323 00:12:09,620 --> 00:12:10,940 made was made without him. 324 00:12:11,420 --> 00:12:13,680 He was involved in the creation, the scripture 325 00:12:13,680 --> 00:12:15,580 says, of all things. 326 00:12:16,280 --> 00:12:20,140 John, the beloved apostle, saw that the words 327 00:12:20,140 --> 00:12:23,100 of Jesus Christ had the power to stop 328 00:12:23,100 --> 00:12:23,940 certain action. 329 00:12:25,140 --> 00:12:27,340 In Mark chapter 4, the disciples were in 330 00:12:27,340 --> 00:12:27,700 a boat. 331 00:12:28,180 --> 00:12:30,000 They got into a terrible storm. 332 00:12:30,500 --> 00:12:32,020 Jesus was asleep in the boat. 333 00:12:32,260 --> 00:12:34,080 They cried out to him and said, Master, 334 00:12:34,240 --> 00:12:35,720 don't you care that we're perishing? 335 00:12:36,500 --> 00:12:38,660 The scripture tells us that he rose up. 336 00:12:39,160 --> 00:12:41,120 He stood in the face of that storm. 337 00:12:41,620 --> 00:12:43,860 He said three words according to the scripture. 338 00:12:44,160 --> 00:12:45,960 Peace, be still. 339 00:12:46,980 --> 00:12:47,500 Amazing. 340 00:12:48,040 --> 00:12:49,020 The wind stopped. 341 00:12:49,660 --> 00:12:50,900 The waves got calm. 342 00:12:51,120 --> 00:12:53,600 And the scripture says the disciples greatly feared. 343 00:12:53,940 --> 00:12:55,380 And they said, what manner of man is 344 00:12:55,380 --> 00:12:58,180 this that even the wind and the sea 345 00:12:58,180 --> 00:12:58,940 obey him? 346 00:12:59,400 --> 00:13:01,540 What kind of a man is this who 347 00:13:01,540 --> 00:13:03,000 has authority over the elements? 348 00:13:03,140 --> 00:13:07,580 You see, nature, ironically, it's only man that 349 00:13:07,580 --> 00:13:09,580 is created with the will to resist God. 350 00:13:10,580 --> 00:13:12,440 Nature can't resist God when he speaks. 351 00:13:12,540 --> 00:13:13,840 The wind had to be quiet. 352 00:13:14,060 --> 00:13:16,100 The waves had to be still at the 353 00:13:16,100 --> 00:13:16,860 voice of God. 354 00:13:17,640 --> 00:13:20,220 He had the power to stop certain action. 355 00:13:21,120 --> 00:13:22,660 And he had the power to start other 356 00:13:22,660 --> 00:13:23,720 things into motion. 357 00:13:24,440 --> 00:13:26,400 Think for a moment as John stood on 358 00:13:26,400 --> 00:13:29,000 the hillside and witnessed or was told of 359 00:13:29,000 --> 00:13:32,120 John 11, 43, when Jesus arrives at the 360 00:13:32,120 --> 00:13:33,060 tomb of Lazarus. 361 00:13:33,420 --> 00:13:35,680 And he stands on the mountainside in spite 362 00:13:35,680 --> 00:13:39,180 of all the human condition of unbelief that's 363 00:13:39,180 --> 00:13:40,180 going on around him. 364 00:13:40,640 --> 00:13:42,700 The only one that couldn't resist his voice 365 00:13:42,700 --> 00:13:43,460 was a dead man. 366 00:13:43,500 --> 00:13:44,200 Isn't that ironic? 367 00:13:45,520 --> 00:13:48,240 Everyone else is doubting and full of unbelief. 368 00:13:48,580 --> 00:13:49,860 And there's a dead man. 369 00:13:51,120 --> 00:13:51,660 There's a dead man in the room at 370 00:13:51,660 --> 00:13:52,240 that moment. 371 00:13:53,220 --> 00:13:55,960 And Jesus stands on the mountainside as it 372 00:13:55,960 --> 00:13:59,320 is and cries out, Lazarus, come forth. 373 00:13:59,560 --> 00:14:01,740 And John saw this and John knew this. 374 00:14:02,200 --> 00:14:03,800 So this man who was in the beginning, 375 00:14:04,140 --> 00:14:06,680 this man who is the one of intelligent 376 00:14:06,680 --> 00:14:09,680 speech could stop the wind, could stop the 377 00:14:09,680 --> 00:14:12,240 waves, and could start something back to life 378 00:14:12,240 --> 00:14:13,180 again that was dead. 379 00:14:13,660 --> 00:14:15,340 He is a God of the impossible. 380 00:14:15,920 --> 00:14:16,780 John knew it. 381 00:14:16,880 --> 00:14:17,940 John saw it. 382 00:14:19,200 --> 00:14:24,540 That's why when Jesus stood in Luke chapter 383 00:14:24,540 --> 00:14:29,760 4 and verse 18 in the temple, and 384 00:14:29,760 --> 00:14:31,460 this was the beginning where he begins to 385 00:14:31,460 --> 00:14:33,800 identify what the father had sent him to 386 00:14:33,800 --> 00:14:34,040 do. 387 00:14:34,120 --> 00:14:35,960 He took the book of the prophet Isaiah 388 00:14:35,960 --> 00:14:37,600 in chapter 17. 389 00:14:38,360 --> 00:14:39,340 He opened the book. 390 00:14:39,440 --> 00:14:41,020 He found the place where it was written. 391 00:14:41,360 --> 00:14:41,940 Isn't it amazing? 392 00:14:42,000 --> 00:14:42,760 He could have spoken. 393 00:14:42,900 --> 00:14:44,180 It's not like he needed to read it 394 00:14:44,180 --> 00:14:44,900 out of a book. 395 00:14:44,980 --> 00:14:45,960 He had written it himself. 396 00:14:47,940 --> 00:14:49,300 For the sake of those in the temple, 397 00:14:49,940 --> 00:14:50,840 he found the place. 398 00:14:51,700 --> 00:14:53,180 And he began to read, the spirit of 399 00:14:53,180 --> 00:14:54,300 the Lord is upon me. 400 00:14:54,500 --> 00:14:54,760 Why? 401 00:14:54,980 --> 00:14:56,580 Because he has anointed me to preach the 402 00:14:56,580 --> 00:14:57,980 gospel to the poor. 403 00:14:58,080 --> 00:15:00,920 In other words, I've come to stop certain 404 00:15:00,920 --> 00:15:03,680 things which have been set into motion in 405 00:15:03,680 --> 00:15:04,160 your life. 406 00:15:04,900 --> 00:15:08,760 Now there are people here tonight that by 407 00:15:08,760 --> 00:15:10,420 the fact that you were born into sin, 408 00:15:10,540 --> 00:15:11,960 by the fact that you were born into 409 00:15:11,960 --> 00:15:14,240 a certain family, that you have had certain 410 00:15:14,240 --> 00:15:17,460 experiences in life, that you have certain perhaps 411 00:15:17,460 --> 00:15:20,260 limitations because of various things that have gone 412 00:15:20,260 --> 00:15:22,680 on in your life, you are in effect 413 00:15:22,680 --> 00:15:24,420 bound by certain conditions. 414 00:15:25,000 --> 00:15:27,060 But Jesus says, no, I've come to nullify 415 00:15:27,060 --> 00:15:27,760 these things. 416 00:15:28,120 --> 00:15:31,180 And I've come to stop certain things which 417 00:15:31,180 --> 00:15:32,360 have been set in motion. 418 00:15:32,840 --> 00:15:34,900 In other words, for those who are spiritually 419 00:15:34,900 --> 00:15:36,980 poor, I've come to open to you. 420 00:15:37,260 --> 00:15:40,020 I've come to eradicate this spiritual poverty in 421 00:15:40,020 --> 00:15:40,440 your life. 422 00:15:40,760 --> 00:15:42,900 I've come to take away the poverty out 423 00:15:42,900 --> 00:15:43,680 of your thinking. 424 00:15:44,420 --> 00:15:46,040 I've come to take you out of a 425 00:15:46,040 --> 00:15:48,260 place where you've come to believe that nothing 426 00:15:48,260 --> 00:15:49,220 will ever change. 427 00:15:49,540 --> 00:15:50,960 Nothing will ever be any different. 428 00:15:51,440 --> 00:15:53,160 You best just sit back and hope for 429 00:15:53,160 --> 00:15:54,680 the best and hope to get through it 430 00:15:54,680 --> 00:15:56,120 somewhat intact near the end. 431 00:15:56,340 --> 00:15:57,580 He said, I've come to put an end 432 00:15:57,580 --> 00:15:58,740 to this kind of thinking. 433 00:16:00,080 --> 00:16:03,380 I've come to open the treasure of God's 434 00:16:03,380 --> 00:16:05,020 life to the spiritually poor. 435 00:16:06,160 --> 00:16:08,060 I've come to heal the brokenhearted. 436 00:16:08,440 --> 00:16:10,960 Those who have had some kind of an 437 00:16:10,960 --> 00:16:14,020 experience come into your life that has damaged 438 00:16:14,020 --> 00:16:16,380 you, that has made you believe that you're 439 00:16:16,380 --> 00:16:19,280 going to always be under the influence of 440 00:16:19,280 --> 00:16:19,720 this thing. 441 00:16:19,880 --> 00:16:22,300 He said, I've come to stop this thing 442 00:16:22,300 --> 00:16:22,800 in your life. 443 00:16:23,180 --> 00:16:25,420 I've come to stand up and speak to 444 00:16:25,420 --> 00:16:28,300 it and say, peace, be still, and stop 445 00:16:28,300 --> 00:16:30,080 the roaring of this thing in your life 446 00:16:30,080 --> 00:16:32,560 and stop these waves of sorrow that are 447 00:16:32,560 --> 00:16:34,760 rolling over and over and over in your 448 00:16:34,760 --> 00:16:35,120 mind. 449 00:16:35,280 --> 00:16:36,600 I've come to put an end to it 450 00:16:36,600 --> 00:16:38,380 if you'll just listen to my voice. 451 00:16:40,520 --> 00:16:43,020 I've come to preach deliverance to the captives. 452 00:16:43,080 --> 00:16:46,800 Every sexually addicted person, every drug addict, every 453 00:16:46,800 --> 00:16:51,040 alcoholic, every immoral person, everyone captivated by something 454 00:16:51,040 --> 00:16:52,760 of the flesh and of the mind. 455 00:16:52,980 --> 00:16:54,780 He said, I've come to preach deliverance. 456 00:16:54,980 --> 00:16:56,740 I've come to put a stop to these 457 00:16:56,740 --> 00:16:58,860 things that have dominated your life. 458 00:16:59,340 --> 00:17:01,300 I've come to give sight to those that 459 00:17:01,300 --> 00:17:02,420 are spiritually blind. 460 00:17:02,740 --> 00:17:04,280 You couldn't see your way out. 461 00:17:04,400 --> 00:17:07,420 Just like creation, before my voice began to 462 00:17:07,420 --> 00:17:10,220 speak into this abyss of darkness, there was 463 00:17:10,220 --> 00:17:11,720 no life, there was no hope, there was 464 00:17:11,720 --> 00:17:13,460 darkness upon the face of the deep. 465 00:17:13,800 --> 00:17:16,480 I've come to open your eyes to the 466 00:17:16,480 --> 00:17:19,619 reality that God has come, that His mercy 467 00:17:19,619 --> 00:17:22,280 is now yours, that the freedom of Christ 468 00:17:22,280 --> 00:17:24,420 can now be attained by faith, that you 469 00:17:24,420 --> 00:17:25,960 can be saved from your sin. 470 00:17:26,180 --> 00:17:28,160 The chains of hell can be broken from 471 00:17:28,160 --> 00:17:28,880 off of your life. 472 00:17:29,140 --> 00:17:31,520 You can be a new creation in Christ 473 00:17:31,520 --> 00:17:31,940 Jesus. 474 00:17:32,800 --> 00:17:34,660 I've come to set at liberty those that 475 00:17:34,660 --> 00:17:37,120 have been bruised, those who feel that your 476 00:17:37,120 --> 00:17:39,380 heart is so deep, it's so dark, it's 477 00:17:39,380 --> 00:17:41,820 so far, that you'll never climb out of 478 00:17:41,820 --> 00:17:43,460 the pit that you find yourself in. 479 00:17:43,640 --> 00:17:45,340 He said, I've come to show you a 480 00:17:45,340 --> 00:17:45,740 way out. 481 00:17:45,920 --> 00:17:47,660 I've come to stop these things that have 482 00:17:47,660 --> 00:17:49,940 governed your life and to tell you that 483 00:17:49,940 --> 00:17:52,300 this is the hour of your freedom and 484 00:17:52,300 --> 00:17:53,060 your deliverance. 485 00:17:57,670 --> 00:18:03,440 2 Peter chapter 2 and verse 1, again, 486 00:18:04,280 --> 00:18:06,420 or 2 Peter chapter 1, rather, verse 3, 487 00:18:07,480 --> 00:18:09,560 not only to stop certain things, but to 488 00:18:09,560 --> 00:18:10,440 start other things. 489 00:18:11,280 --> 00:18:12,580 I thank God for that. 490 00:18:12,580 --> 00:18:15,800 Not only to stop the wind in the 491 00:18:15,800 --> 00:18:17,740 ways, but to bring Lazarus back to life 492 00:18:17,740 --> 00:18:18,100 again. 493 00:18:19,480 --> 00:18:21,840 2 Peter chapter 1, verses 3 and 4 494 00:18:21,840 --> 00:18:27,840 says, according as His divine power has given 495 00:18:27,840 --> 00:18:30,460 to us all things that pertain unto life 496 00:18:30,460 --> 00:18:33,220 and godliness, through the knowledge of Him that 497 00:18:33,220 --> 00:18:34,820 has called us to glory and virtue. 498 00:18:35,580 --> 00:18:38,600 Now, the word glory means to be brought 499 00:18:38,600 --> 00:18:42,000 to reputation, where the testimony of Christ in 500 00:18:42,000 --> 00:18:43,140 you is seen by men. 501 00:18:43,780 --> 00:18:47,580 Now, by His power, the scripture says, He's 502 00:18:47,580 --> 00:18:49,820 given to us all things that we need 503 00:18:49,820 --> 00:18:53,240 for life and godliness, through the knowledge of 504 00:18:53,240 --> 00:18:54,920 Him, that is Christ, that has called us 505 00:18:54,920 --> 00:18:56,300 to glory. 506 00:18:56,380 --> 00:18:57,940 That means to be brought to reputation. 507 00:18:58,420 --> 00:19:00,120 God said, I've not called you just to 508 00:19:00,120 --> 00:19:00,500 survive. 509 00:19:01,480 --> 00:19:03,240 I've called you to be a wonder in 510 00:19:03,240 --> 00:19:03,960 your generation. 511 00:19:04,740 --> 00:19:07,180 I've called you to have so much of 512 00:19:07,180 --> 00:19:07,660 my life. 513 00:19:08,280 --> 00:19:10,140 I've called you to change so drastically. 514 00:19:11,360 --> 00:19:13,080 I've called you to be so much other 515 00:19:13,080 --> 00:19:15,820 than what you were without me, that men 516 00:19:15,820 --> 00:19:18,100 will look at you, and they will have 517 00:19:18,100 --> 00:19:19,540 to acknowledge that I am alive. 518 00:19:20,200 --> 00:19:22,020 They will know it's not you that's brought 519 00:19:22,020 --> 00:19:22,880 about this change. 520 00:19:23,480 --> 00:19:24,880 The change in you has come about by 521 00:19:24,880 --> 00:19:26,240 the Spirit of Almighty God. 522 00:19:26,860 --> 00:19:28,340 And He says, I've called you to virtue. 523 00:19:28,640 --> 00:19:30,540 And the word virtue means the excellency of 524 00:19:30,540 --> 00:19:32,500 God, revealed in the work of salvation. 525 00:19:32,880 --> 00:19:34,600 It means the force or energy of the 526 00:19:34,600 --> 00:19:37,720 Holy Spirit, which accompanies the preaching, as it 527 00:19:37,720 --> 00:19:40,300 says in the Zodiac, of the glorious gospel. 528 00:19:40,880 --> 00:19:43,340 God said, I've called you to moral excellence. 529 00:19:44,020 --> 00:19:45,760 I've called you to right standing. 530 00:19:46,140 --> 00:19:47,900 I've called you back into divine order. 531 00:19:48,320 --> 00:19:49,840 I've called you to be awakened to the 532 00:19:49,840 --> 00:19:51,400 fact that I'm able to call you out 533 00:19:51,400 --> 00:19:54,160 of darkness and into the marvelous light of 534 00:19:54,160 --> 00:19:54,800 who I am. 535 00:19:54,960 --> 00:19:56,700 I've invited you into my life. 536 00:19:57,160 --> 00:19:59,120 I've called you back into divine order. 537 00:19:59,340 --> 00:20:00,940 You're not to be confused anymore. 538 00:20:01,320 --> 00:20:03,340 You're not to walk around like the rest 539 00:20:03,340 --> 00:20:05,220 of society, dependent on circumstance. 540 00:20:05,800 --> 00:20:07,620 No, you're to be much deeper than that. 541 00:20:08,000 --> 00:20:09,000 You know who you are. 542 00:20:09,180 --> 00:20:10,340 You know where you come from. 543 00:20:10,540 --> 00:20:12,160 You know who bought you with His blood. 544 00:20:12,680 --> 00:20:14,440 You know who God's life is within you. 545 00:20:14,480 --> 00:20:16,320 And you know where you're going into eternity 546 00:20:16,320 --> 00:20:17,620 and as well as time. 547 00:20:22,860 --> 00:20:26,880 In Ephesians 1, verse 13, the scripture tells 548 00:20:26,880 --> 00:20:28,820 us that after you trusted, Paul says you 549 00:20:28,820 --> 00:20:31,380 were sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise. 550 00:20:33,020 --> 00:20:34,400 The Holy Spirit came. 551 00:20:36,000 --> 00:20:39,220 And the seal of the Holy Spirit, according 552 00:20:39,220 --> 00:20:41,600 to the definitions I was reading, is a 553 00:20:41,600 --> 00:20:44,140 legal term denoting a summons or a promise 554 00:20:44,140 --> 00:20:46,160 undertaking to do something. 555 00:20:47,180 --> 00:20:48,640 God said, I made promises to you. 556 00:20:48,720 --> 00:20:50,600 That's what Peter says, whereby are given to 557 00:20:50,600 --> 00:20:54,240 us exceeding great and precious promises that by 558 00:20:54,240 --> 00:20:57,120 these you might be partakers of the divine 559 00:20:57,120 --> 00:21:00,120 nature, having escaped the corruption that is in 560 00:21:00,120 --> 00:21:01,420 the world through lust. 561 00:21:01,760 --> 00:21:03,440 God says, I've given you promises. 562 00:21:04,060 --> 00:21:05,360 I spoke to you. 563 00:21:05,680 --> 00:21:07,520 I've got a book for you. 564 00:21:07,640 --> 00:21:09,520 Folks, you've got to know this book in 565 00:21:09,520 --> 00:21:10,560 this last hour of time. 566 00:21:11,060 --> 00:21:13,260 This is not something you open and read 567 00:21:13,260 --> 00:21:15,200 just to pass the time or to fulfill 568 00:21:15,200 --> 00:21:18,000 some legal obligation for 15 minutes in the 569 00:21:18,000 --> 00:21:18,200 morning. 570 00:21:18,300 --> 00:21:19,180 This is your life. 571 00:21:19,660 --> 00:21:21,340 This is the word of God to you. 572 00:21:21,960 --> 00:21:23,960 The words on this book are not just 573 00:21:23,960 --> 00:21:25,620 a historical account of God. 574 00:21:25,840 --> 00:21:28,160 This is the voice of God speaking to 575 00:21:28,160 --> 00:21:28,420 you. 576 00:21:29,020 --> 00:21:31,820 Every word in this book by the power 577 00:21:31,820 --> 00:21:33,300 of the Holy Spirit is yours. 578 00:21:33,440 --> 00:21:36,400 You have, with the power of Christ within 579 00:21:36,400 --> 00:21:39,440 you, the ability to receive these promises and 580 00:21:39,440 --> 00:21:42,640 to be changed, the Bible says, into this 581 00:21:42,640 --> 00:21:44,920 very divine nature of God that is within 582 00:21:44,920 --> 00:21:45,220 you. 583 00:21:45,900 --> 00:21:47,780 There's a life that is given you in 584 00:21:47,780 --> 00:21:50,020 Christ through the promises that you find in 585 00:21:50,020 --> 00:21:50,440 this book. 586 00:21:50,860 --> 00:21:53,320 And the Holy Spirit is the evidence of 587 00:21:53,320 --> 00:21:55,840 God that every promise that's been given to 588 00:21:55,840 --> 00:21:56,960 you in this book is going to be 589 00:21:56,960 --> 00:21:58,680 made into a reality in your life. 590 00:21:59,400 --> 00:22:01,660 Look at John chapter 16, please, with me, 591 00:22:01,720 --> 00:22:02,140 if you will. 592 00:22:03,720 --> 00:22:09,500 John chapter 16, verse 13. 593 00:22:12,530 --> 00:22:15,210 Here's what Jesus said about the Holy Spirit. 594 00:22:16,970 --> 00:22:18,310 I'll be it when he, the spirit of 595 00:22:18,310 --> 00:22:19,070 truth has come. 596 00:22:19,730 --> 00:22:21,410 He will guide you into all truth. 597 00:22:22,310 --> 00:22:24,230 For he shall not speak of himself, but 598 00:22:24,230 --> 00:22:26,350 whatsoever he shall hear that shall he speak. 599 00:22:26,830 --> 00:22:28,750 And he will show you things to come. 600 00:22:29,650 --> 00:22:30,810 Oh, thanks be to God. 601 00:22:31,510 --> 00:22:33,230 Folks, I got into this book as a 602 00:22:33,230 --> 00:22:38,490 young Christian and bound as most are bound 603 00:22:38,490 --> 00:22:40,310 before they come to Christ and just after. 604 00:22:41,070 --> 00:22:43,950 So far back, even in understanding, but I 605 00:22:43,950 --> 00:22:47,130 began to read this book and God's Holy 606 00:22:47,130 --> 00:22:49,050 Spirit began to show me things to come. 607 00:22:49,830 --> 00:22:52,730 I'm not talking about future events for cities 608 00:22:52,730 --> 00:22:55,470 and countries and such like, but things to 609 00:22:55,470 --> 00:22:56,030 come in me. 610 00:22:57,150 --> 00:22:59,030 You see, every promise is a thing to 611 00:22:59,030 --> 00:22:59,310 come. 612 00:23:00,050 --> 00:23:01,470 God says, I know it's not in you, 613 00:23:01,470 --> 00:23:03,670 but I speak about things that are not 614 00:23:03,670 --> 00:23:04,370 as if they are. 615 00:23:04,630 --> 00:23:07,370 I can create something out of nothing, but 616 00:23:07,370 --> 00:23:08,270 these things are for you. 617 00:23:08,310 --> 00:23:09,490 And I began to read it. 618 00:23:10,250 --> 00:23:11,930 And you know, my story, one of the 619 00:23:11,930 --> 00:23:13,930 first things to come is God has not 620 00:23:13,930 --> 00:23:15,610 given us a spirit of fear, but a 621 00:23:15,610 --> 00:23:17,930 power and of love and of a sound 622 00:23:17,930 --> 00:23:18,270 mind. 623 00:23:18,430 --> 00:23:19,210 I didn't. 624 00:23:19,270 --> 00:23:20,490 I had a spirit of fear. 625 00:23:20,710 --> 00:23:22,250 I had very little power in my mind. 626 00:23:22,370 --> 00:23:24,510 Wasn't all that sound regarding these things. 627 00:23:24,810 --> 00:23:25,750 Now I have a choice. 628 00:23:25,790 --> 00:23:28,830 I can either stay in that condition or 629 00:23:28,830 --> 00:23:31,930 I can stop resisting what God has spoken 630 00:23:31,930 --> 00:23:32,310 to me. 631 00:23:33,130 --> 00:23:34,890 And I made a choice to believe what 632 00:23:34,890 --> 00:23:37,090 God had spoken and started to move in 633 00:23:37,090 --> 00:23:39,030 the direction of his voice, just like Lazarus 634 00:23:39,030 --> 00:23:40,290 did when he came out of the tomb. 635 00:23:40,870 --> 00:23:42,290 A little step at a time. 636 00:23:43,410 --> 00:23:45,230 Lazarus didn't come out bounding because he was 637 00:23:45,230 --> 00:23:47,510 all wrapped up in that thing that had 638 00:23:47,510 --> 00:23:49,870 gripped his body, but still he walked out 639 00:23:49,870 --> 00:23:51,730 towards the voice that was speaking to him. 640 00:23:52,650 --> 00:23:54,490 And I began to walk towards that voice 641 00:23:54,490 --> 00:23:56,430 and I began to understand that it's the 642 00:23:56,430 --> 00:23:59,650 Holy Spirit's job in this book, as I 643 00:23:59,650 --> 00:24:01,570 read it with an open heart and unresist 644 00:24:01,570 --> 00:24:04,250 understanding that this is intelligent speech. 645 00:24:04,670 --> 00:24:06,810 What God speaks has the power to create 646 00:24:06,810 --> 00:24:09,770 and recreate life in me and to begin 647 00:24:09,770 --> 00:24:11,030 to walk towards it. 648 00:24:11,450 --> 00:24:13,150 And the Holy Spirit will show you things 649 00:24:13,150 --> 00:24:13,650 to come. 650 00:24:13,990 --> 00:24:15,810 In verse 14 he said, he shall glorify 651 00:24:15,810 --> 00:24:18,370 me for he shall receive of mine and 652 00:24:18,370 --> 00:24:19,310 shall show it to you. 653 00:24:19,610 --> 00:24:23,650 The Holy Spirit will understand everything I won 654 00:24:23,650 --> 00:24:24,450 on Calvary. 655 00:24:24,910 --> 00:24:26,830 I've won the resources of heaven. 656 00:24:28,250 --> 00:24:29,370 It belongs to me, Jesus said, but it 657 00:24:29,370 --> 00:24:31,730 belongs to my body, my bride, my church. 658 00:24:32,050 --> 00:24:33,370 And the Holy Spirit will come. 659 00:24:33,770 --> 00:24:35,010 He will reside within you. 660 00:24:35,250 --> 00:24:36,650 I'll be seated at the right hand. 661 00:24:36,790 --> 00:24:38,910 Now we understand that God is not divided. 662 00:24:39,450 --> 00:24:40,990 He's three persons in one God. 663 00:24:41,150 --> 00:24:43,530 But for the sake of understanding, Christ sits 664 00:24:43,530 --> 00:24:44,690 at the right hand of the Father. 665 00:24:44,930 --> 00:24:47,570 The Holy Spirit comes, indwells the heart of 666 00:24:47,570 --> 00:24:48,010 the believer. 667 00:24:48,350 --> 00:24:51,170 And everything that Jesus won on that cross, 668 00:24:51,730 --> 00:24:53,990 everything that is his where he sits at 669 00:24:53,990 --> 00:24:58,770 the right hand of all authority and things 670 00:24:58,770 --> 00:25:00,290 that were lost because of sin. 671 00:25:00,850 --> 00:25:02,830 Now the Holy Spirit in the life of 672 00:25:02,830 --> 00:25:05,170 the believer makes all of this victory known 673 00:25:05,170 --> 00:25:06,570 and says it's all yours. 674 00:25:06,870 --> 00:25:08,470 Everything in this book is yours. 675 00:25:08,650 --> 00:25:08,990 Read it. 676 00:25:09,030 --> 00:25:09,570 It's yours. 677 00:25:10,190 --> 00:25:10,850 It's yours. 678 00:25:11,230 --> 00:25:12,650 It's not for somebody else. 679 00:25:12,770 --> 00:25:14,390 Don't resist what God has spoken. 680 00:25:14,750 --> 00:25:15,750 Open this Word. 681 00:25:16,110 --> 00:25:18,150 See the promises of God and claim them 682 00:25:18,150 --> 00:25:19,250 for your very own. 683 00:25:19,810 --> 00:25:22,530 Folks, don't live in spiritual poverty any longer 684 00:25:22,530 --> 00:25:24,910 when you have the riches of Christ's victory 685 00:25:24,910 --> 00:25:26,270 living inside of you. 686 00:25:30,580 --> 00:25:32,420 Remember, you have the Holy Spirit and he 687 00:25:32,420 --> 00:25:33,680 will teach you all things. 688 00:25:33,880 --> 00:25:34,960 He will show you. 689 00:25:35,280 --> 00:25:37,280 You don't have to run to somebody for 690 00:25:37,280 --> 00:25:37,720 a word. 691 00:25:38,000 --> 00:25:40,120 God has given you all of these pages 692 00:25:40,120 --> 00:25:40,880 of his Word. 693 00:25:41,200 --> 00:25:43,540 You just get in it and say, Holy 694 00:25:43,540 --> 00:25:45,080 Spirit, make it real to me. 695 00:25:45,220 --> 00:25:46,440 Show me, oh God. 696 00:25:47,140 --> 00:25:47,900 Awaken me. 697 00:25:48,000 --> 00:25:48,620 Awaken me. 698 00:25:48,740 --> 00:25:49,540 Awaken me. 699 00:25:50,700 --> 00:25:53,140 Don't let me live in darkness any longer. 700 00:25:53,520 --> 00:25:54,920 Don't let me live in poverty. 701 00:25:55,240 --> 00:25:57,300 Don't let me live behind prison doors. 702 00:25:58,320 --> 00:26:00,220 God, don't let me live in a place 703 00:26:00,580 --> 00:26:01,560 of wounding. 704 00:26:01,820 --> 00:26:03,680 Don't let me join groups where we just 705 00:26:03,680 --> 00:26:05,840 rehearse our wounds of the past. 706 00:26:06,140 --> 00:26:07,480 I want to move beyond it. 707 00:26:11,740 --> 00:26:13,520 You're not called to lay in the corner 708 00:26:13,520 --> 00:26:15,480 and lick your wounds until Christ returns. 709 00:26:16,100 --> 00:26:18,180 You are called to be a victorious testimony 710 00:26:18,180 --> 00:26:19,360 of Calvary. 711 00:26:27,520 --> 00:26:29,420 Every once in a while throughout history God 712 00:26:29,420 --> 00:26:31,320 finds a heart that doesn't resist him. 713 00:26:32,320 --> 00:26:34,920 God finds somebody that's just foolish enough to 714 00:26:34,920 --> 00:26:35,400 believe him. 715 00:26:38,000 --> 00:26:40,100 Say, Lord, I'm just putting away my thoughts 716 00:26:40,100 --> 00:26:40,840 about myself. 717 00:26:40,840 --> 00:26:42,900 I'm putting away what everyone else has said 718 00:26:42,900 --> 00:26:43,420 about me. 719 00:26:43,640 --> 00:26:45,500 I'm putting away what the devil's trying to 720 00:26:45,500 --> 00:26:46,560 speak into my heart. 721 00:26:50,670 --> 00:26:53,450 And just like the universe did when you 722 00:26:53,450 --> 00:26:56,250 began to speak, I choose to believe you. 723 00:26:56,490 --> 00:26:57,790 I choose to get out of the way 724 00:26:57,790 --> 00:26:59,110 and I'm not going to resist you. 725 00:27:00,190 --> 00:27:01,850 If you say this is what I am, 726 00:27:01,890 --> 00:27:02,930 then this is what I am. 727 00:27:03,070 --> 00:27:04,390 If you say this is what I can 728 00:27:04,390 --> 00:27:05,590 do, this is what I can do. 729 00:27:05,750 --> 00:27:07,210 If you say this is where I'm going, 730 00:27:07,310 --> 00:27:08,410 this is where I'm going. 731 00:27:16,540 --> 00:27:18,520 But God's word was made possible. 732 00:27:19,340 --> 00:27:21,260 He calls us to an impossible journey. 733 00:27:21,760 --> 00:27:24,000 He's not looking to you for the resources 734 00:27:24,000 --> 00:27:25,440 to do what he's asked you to do. 735 00:27:25,600 --> 00:27:27,700 He's only looking for an obedient heart. 736 00:27:28,800 --> 00:27:30,720 A man or woman who has the courage 737 00:27:30,720 --> 00:27:32,980 to say, God, I know I'm not a 738 00:27:32,980 --> 00:27:33,520 good speaker. 739 00:27:33,820 --> 00:27:35,260 I know I can't do this. 740 00:27:35,400 --> 00:27:36,780 But you made my mouth. 741 00:27:37,000 --> 00:27:38,820 Your Holy Spirit lives within me. 742 00:27:39,140 --> 00:27:41,020 I have your word, oh God. 743 00:27:41,620 --> 00:27:43,060 I have you walking with me. 744 00:27:43,180 --> 00:27:45,340 God, I can do all things It's through 745 00:27:45,340 --> 00:27:46,740 Christ who strengthens me. 746 00:27:47,080 --> 00:27:48,460 That's what Your Word says. 747 00:27:48,680 --> 00:27:50,360 That's what I choose to believe. 748 00:27:52,120 --> 00:27:54,280 By the Word of the Lord, Gideon was 749 00:27:54,280 --> 00:27:56,460 brought out of weakness and made a warrior, 750 00:27:57,180 --> 00:27:59,460 hiding in his father's backyard as it is, 751 00:27:59,520 --> 00:28:01,960 trying to squeak out a little living which 752 00:28:01,960 --> 00:28:04,300 may even have been illegal in that day. 753 00:28:04,940 --> 00:28:07,180 But nevertheless, God's Word came to him. 754 00:28:07,580 --> 00:28:09,760 And out of weakness, he was made strong. 755 00:28:10,360 --> 00:28:12,540 But God has to find a heart that 756 00:28:12,540 --> 00:28:13,400 won't resist Him. 757 00:28:14,200 --> 00:28:16,440 Oh, the strength that's in this room! 758 00:28:16,800 --> 00:28:18,220 If you could see it, if you could 759 00:28:18,220 --> 00:28:19,180 understand it. 760 00:28:19,760 --> 00:28:21,320 The missionaries that are here. 761 00:28:21,600 --> 00:28:23,260 The great good that could be done. 762 00:28:23,540 --> 00:28:25,420 The volume of people who could come to 763 00:28:25,420 --> 00:28:27,360 the saving knowledge of Jesus Christ! 764 00:28:27,600 --> 00:28:29,900 If somebody would just believe Him! 765 00:28:30,940 --> 00:28:33,360 Somebody, somebody would have an open heart and 766 00:28:33,360 --> 00:28:36,280 say, God, I refuse to be bound by 767 00:28:36,280 --> 00:28:37,380 my image of myself. 768 00:28:38,020 --> 00:28:39,880 You've spoken words into my life. 769 00:28:40,000 --> 00:28:41,500 I'm getting back into this book. 770 00:28:41,500 --> 00:28:43,540 I'm blowing the dust off my Bible at 771 00:28:43,540 --> 00:28:43,720 home. 772 00:28:43,820 --> 00:28:45,000 I'm opening the pages. 773 00:28:45,420 --> 00:28:47,100 And God, you're going to teach me again. 774 00:28:50,250 --> 00:28:52,270 Through the Word of the Lord, David, the 775 00:28:52,270 --> 00:28:54,630 king was shown how to walk righteously in 776 00:28:54,630 --> 00:28:56,110 terribly adverse situations. 777 00:28:57,450 --> 00:29:00,030 The Word of God is so powerful that 778 00:29:00,030 --> 00:29:03,850 only a whisper of God's Word brought Elijah 779 00:29:03,850 --> 00:29:07,410 out of thoughts of self-destruction and into 780 00:29:07,410 --> 00:29:09,570 a place of continued and fulfilling life. 781 00:29:10,010 --> 00:29:11,970 That's how powerful God's Word is. 782 00:29:12,510 --> 00:29:14,410 Only a whisper is necessary. 783 00:29:15,010 --> 00:29:17,010 Only a sweet promise in the morning as 784 00:29:17,010 --> 00:29:19,370 you open this book can change the course 785 00:29:19,370 --> 00:29:20,130 of your life. 786 00:29:23,130 --> 00:29:25,730 Josiah, the king, discovered the Word of the 787 00:29:25,730 --> 00:29:27,290 Lord as he set out to repair the 788 00:29:27,290 --> 00:29:28,010 house of God. 789 00:29:29,010 --> 00:29:31,390 And the Word of God brought blessing and 790 00:29:31,390 --> 00:29:33,490 righteousness one more season to the people of 791 00:29:33,490 --> 00:29:33,770 God. 792 00:29:34,690 --> 00:29:37,210 Peter, the apostle, found the direction he needed 793 00:29:37,910 --> 00:29:41,250 to guide him from impulsive spirituality to the 794 00:29:41,250 --> 00:29:43,110 rest that truth brings. 795 00:29:43,710 --> 00:29:46,910 The apostle Paul was made into completely another 796 00:29:46,910 --> 00:29:47,290 man. 797 00:29:47,430 --> 00:29:47,750 Hallelujah! 798 00:29:48,510 --> 00:29:48,910 Hallelujah! 799 00:29:49,710 --> 00:29:52,830 If I'm going to make a choice, if 800 00:29:52,830 --> 00:29:54,250 I had somebody I'd like to follow, it 801 00:29:54,250 --> 00:29:54,830 would be Paul. 802 00:29:55,330 --> 00:29:56,990 God, make me into another man. 803 00:29:57,630 --> 00:29:59,310 Make me into a completely different man. 804 00:29:59,770 --> 00:30:01,050 Make me into a man who at the 805 00:30:01,050 --> 00:30:02,370 end of my life, no matter what kind 806 00:30:02,370 --> 00:30:04,390 of circumstance I'm in, I can still take 807 00:30:04,390 --> 00:30:06,430 a pen in my hand and still write, 808 00:30:06,730 --> 00:30:09,070 inspired by the Holy Ghost, words of encouragement 809 00:30:09,070 --> 00:30:11,190 and support to others who are coming after 810 00:30:11,190 --> 00:30:11,470 me. 811 00:30:13,710 --> 00:30:17,690 By the Word of God, the apostle John, 812 00:30:18,190 --> 00:30:19,550 at the end of his days when he 813 00:30:19,550 --> 00:30:23,550 was in prison, saw hope and where it 814 00:30:23,550 --> 00:30:25,170 was to be found in his present time 815 00:30:25,170 --> 00:30:25,650 of struggle. 816 00:30:26,870 --> 00:30:29,110 He said, I saw heaven open and behold 817 00:30:29,110 --> 00:30:31,150 a white horse and he that sat upon 818 00:30:31,150 --> 00:30:33,330 him was called Faithful and True and in 819 00:30:33,330 --> 00:30:35,210 righteousness he does judge and make war. 820 00:30:35,490 --> 00:30:36,950 His eyes were as a flame of fire 821 00:30:36,950 --> 00:30:39,070 and on his head were many crowns and 822 00:30:39,070 --> 00:30:40,450 he had a name written that no man 823 00:30:40,450 --> 00:30:41,210 knew but himself. 824 00:30:41,210 --> 00:30:43,270 And he was clothed with a vesture dipped 825 00:30:43,270 --> 00:30:45,930 in blood and his name is called The 826 00:30:45,930 --> 00:30:47,350 Word of God. 827 00:30:47,830 --> 00:30:49,790 John saw where his hope was. 828 00:30:50,050 --> 00:30:52,050 His hope was in the Word of God. 829 00:30:52,610 --> 00:30:54,370 The Word of God who comes to deliver. 830 00:30:54,910 --> 00:30:56,750 The Word of God who is all-powerful. 831 00:30:57,290 --> 00:30:59,050 The Word of God who is the only 832 00:30:59,050 --> 00:31:02,250 intelligent speech and has the power to shape 833 00:31:02,250 --> 00:31:04,090 and reshape a man or woman's life into 834 00:31:04,090 --> 00:31:06,530 the very image of the Son of God. 835 00:31:08,540 --> 00:31:14,110 In John chapter 16, I want to close 836 00:31:14,110 --> 00:31:15,050 with this tonight. 837 00:31:18,420 --> 00:31:23,360 In verse 23, now the disciples had been 838 00:31:23,360 --> 00:31:24,660 in a time of confusion. 839 00:31:25,740 --> 00:31:27,900 Jesus was speaking about going to the Father. 840 00:31:28,200 --> 00:31:30,240 He had just finished telling them when the 841 00:31:30,240 --> 00:31:32,800 Comforter, the Holy Spirit comes he's going to 842 00:31:32,800 --> 00:31:34,520 show you all things and he will glorify 843 00:31:34,520 --> 00:31:35,740 me, he will take of mine he will 844 00:31:35,740 --> 00:31:36,460 show it to you. 845 00:31:37,480 --> 00:31:40,620 And in verse 18 they said we cannot 846 00:31:40,620 --> 00:31:41,640 tell what he says. 847 00:31:42,560 --> 00:31:45,820 We don't know we can't fully understand this. 848 00:31:45,900 --> 00:31:47,360 You see their minds were not yet open 849 00:31:47,360 --> 00:31:50,060 to that kind of speech that can bring 850 00:31:50,060 --> 00:31:52,160 about this newness of life that Jesus Christ 851 00:31:52,160 --> 00:31:53,160 was speaking about. 852 00:31:54,500 --> 00:31:56,520 But then he told them they were going 853 00:31:56,520 --> 00:31:58,020 to have sorrow but in the moment that 854 00:31:58,020 --> 00:31:59,280 sorrow was going to be over. 855 00:32:00,160 --> 00:32:02,820 In verse 22 he said now therefore you 856 00:32:02,820 --> 00:32:04,160 shall have sorrow but I will see you 857 00:32:04,160 --> 00:32:07,020 again your hearts shall rejoice and your joy 858 00:32:07,020 --> 00:32:08,140 no man takes from you. 859 00:32:09,000 --> 00:32:11,180 In that day, verse 23, you shall ask 860 00:32:11,180 --> 00:32:11,520 me nothing. 861 00:32:11,520 --> 00:32:13,280 In other words, in that day there will 862 00:32:13,280 --> 00:32:14,120 be no more questions. 863 00:32:14,880 --> 00:32:16,200 You're going to know who I am. 864 00:32:16,820 --> 00:32:18,580 You're going to understand what I've done. 865 00:32:19,400 --> 00:32:21,400 And you're going to enter into a life. 866 00:32:22,400 --> 00:32:23,580 Oh God help us. 867 00:32:24,360 --> 00:32:25,280 God help us. 868 00:32:25,680 --> 00:32:28,480 What has the church of this generation become? 869 00:32:29,400 --> 00:32:36,270 A self-seeking gluttonous people who are so 870 00:32:36,270 --> 00:32:37,830 far from the heart of God. 871 00:32:38,910 --> 00:32:40,970 The heart of God is to reach fallen 872 00:32:40,970 --> 00:32:41,590 humanity. 873 00:32:42,090 --> 00:32:43,470 That is the work of God. 874 00:32:44,310 --> 00:32:45,530 It's to deal bread to the hungry. 875 00:32:45,790 --> 00:32:47,570 It's to give clothing to the naked. 876 00:32:48,170 --> 00:32:49,430 It's to go to those that have no 877 00:32:49,430 --> 00:32:49,750 helper. 878 00:32:50,630 --> 00:32:52,170 It's to reach out with the tender but 879 00:32:52,170 --> 00:32:55,330 it takes a recreation because man by nature 880 00:32:55,330 --> 00:32:56,790 is not giving like that. 881 00:32:57,610 --> 00:32:59,030 It requires a new nature. 882 00:33:00,130 --> 00:33:02,190 It has to be a man or woman 883 00:33:02,190 --> 00:33:04,010 who is reborn by the spirit of God. 884 00:33:04,110 --> 00:33:05,230 There has to be a new heart. 885 00:33:05,490 --> 00:33:06,630 There has to be a new mind. 886 00:33:06,730 --> 00:33:07,950 There has to be a new spirit. 887 00:33:08,770 --> 00:33:12,430 Otherwise we will learn but never realize where 888 00:33:12,430 --> 00:33:13,790 that learning is to take us to. 889 00:33:14,490 --> 00:33:16,990 It's to the simplicity of ministering to those 890 00:33:16,990 --> 00:33:19,430 who are without God and the joy of 891 00:33:19,430 --> 00:33:21,910 seeing one soul come to the saving knowledge 892 00:33:21,910 --> 00:33:22,830 of Jesus Christ. 893 00:33:22,930 --> 00:33:24,050 This is the work of God. 894 00:33:24,170 --> 00:33:25,710 In my life it's the work of God 895 00:33:25,710 --> 00:33:26,310 in your life. 896 00:33:27,570 --> 00:33:29,390 He says in that day you won't have 897 00:33:29,390 --> 00:33:30,050 any more questions. 898 00:33:30,170 --> 00:33:30,930 You'll ask me nothing. 899 00:33:31,270 --> 00:33:32,850 Verily I say to you whatsoever you shall 900 00:33:32,850 --> 00:33:35,730 ask the Father in my name He will 901 00:33:35,730 --> 00:33:36,630 give it to you. 902 00:33:36,630 --> 00:33:39,870 Now it's not to consume says upon your 903 00:33:39,870 --> 00:33:40,410 lusts. 904 00:33:40,450 --> 00:33:42,250 That's why people are praying and not hearing 905 00:33:42,250 --> 00:33:42,730 anything. 906 00:33:42,890 --> 00:33:44,550 Not receiving an answer. 907 00:33:44,990 --> 00:33:47,590 But whatever we ask for that we might 908 00:33:47,590 --> 00:33:51,050 be made into the very expression of God's 909 00:33:51,050 --> 00:33:52,250 heart for this generation. 910 00:33:52,930 --> 00:33:55,250 That we might become the extended hands of 911 00:33:55,250 --> 00:33:58,090 God to a generation that needs to be 912 00:33:58,090 --> 00:33:59,690 shown the way to eternal life. 913 00:34:00,350 --> 00:34:02,190 That we may have the compassion of God 914 00:34:02,190 --> 00:34:04,410 that He exhibited to us through Jesus Christ 915 00:34:04,410 --> 00:34:06,250 when He became a man and walked this 916 00:34:06,250 --> 00:34:07,969 earth to pay the price for our sins. 917 00:34:12,100 --> 00:34:15,280 I don't waste my time asking for God 918 00:34:15,280 --> 00:34:18,219 says if I seek first His kingdom and 919 00:34:18,219 --> 00:34:20,280 His righteousness He'll provide for me everything I 920 00:34:20,280 --> 00:34:20,520 need. 921 00:34:22,580 --> 00:34:25,960 I'm more concerned about having a heart for 922 00:34:25,960 --> 00:34:28,840 Him first and for His people. 923 00:34:30,560 --> 00:34:33,960 That my life truly be an expression of 924 00:34:33,960 --> 00:34:39,600 His grace to people all around In verse 925 00:34:39,600 --> 00:34:41,659 24 he says Hitherto or up to this 926 00:34:41,659 --> 00:34:43,300 point you've asked nothing in my name. 927 00:34:44,480 --> 00:34:48,080 Ask and you shall receive that your joy 928 00:34:48,080 --> 00:34:48,800 may be full. 929 00:34:50,679 --> 00:34:51,500 Ask me. 930 00:34:52,420 --> 00:34:53,239 Ask me. 931 00:34:54,739 --> 00:34:57,040 I've been hearing this recently from this pulpit. 932 00:34:59,410 --> 00:35:02,690 Brother Dave preached a message recently bind God 933 00:35:02,690 --> 00:35:03,410 to His promises. 934 00:35:06,300 --> 00:35:06,840 Ask me. 935 00:35:08,120 --> 00:35:11,020 You don't care about people Ask me for 936 00:35:11,020 --> 00:35:11,760 a heart that cares. 937 00:35:12,540 --> 00:35:14,000 You don't have the courage to take a 938 00:35:14,000 --> 00:35:15,280 step if I were to ask you to 939 00:35:15,280 --> 00:35:17,980 do something outside of your sense of ability 940 00:35:17,980 --> 00:35:18,780 your own ability. 941 00:35:19,060 --> 00:35:20,380 Ask me for the courage. 942 00:35:22,200 --> 00:35:23,160 You're captivated. 943 00:35:23,300 --> 00:35:24,000 You need to be free. 944 00:35:24,200 --> 00:35:24,660 Ask me. 945 00:35:25,120 --> 00:35:25,780 You're blind. 946 00:35:26,080 --> 00:35:27,300 You need spiritual sight. 947 00:35:27,600 --> 00:35:28,040 Ask me. 948 00:35:29,020 --> 00:35:32,520 You're wounded and you've been driven and led 949 00:35:32,520 --> 00:35:35,420 by this wounding in your life You don't 950 00:35:35,420 --> 00:35:36,560 know if you'll ever get out of it. 951 00:35:36,640 --> 00:35:37,220 Ask me. 952 00:35:38,500 --> 00:35:39,220 Ask me. 953 00:35:40,520 --> 00:35:43,060 And come with a heart that's not filled 954 00:35:43,060 --> 00:35:44,820 with excuses as to why I can't do 955 00:35:44,820 --> 00:35:45,400 this for you. 956 00:35:46,460 --> 00:35:49,680 Come with a heart believing without faith it's 957 00:35:49,680 --> 00:35:52,400 impossible to please Him for he that comes 958 00:35:52,400 --> 00:35:54,220 to God must believe that He is and 959 00:35:54,220 --> 00:35:56,460 He's a rewarder of those who diligently seek 960 00:35:56,460 --> 00:35:56,660 Him. 961 00:35:57,420 --> 00:36:00,480 If a son or daughter asks for bread 962 00:36:00,480 --> 00:36:02,160 will his father give him a stone? 963 00:36:02,460 --> 00:36:03,980 If he asks for a fish will he 964 00:36:03,980 --> 00:36:04,720 give him a serpent? 965 00:36:04,820 --> 00:36:06,260 He said if you know if you being 966 00:36:06,260 --> 00:36:07,540 evil know how to give good gifts to 967 00:36:07,540 --> 00:36:09,760 your children how much more will your heavenly 968 00:36:09,760 --> 00:36:11,420 father give good things? 969 00:36:11,560 --> 00:36:13,520 And another version says give the Holy Spirit 970 00:36:13,520 --> 00:36:14,720 to those who ask Him. 971 00:36:15,640 --> 00:36:17,480 Ask and your joy shall be full. 972 00:36:18,380 --> 00:36:19,640 Folks, I have to be honest with you. 973 00:36:19,680 --> 00:36:22,160 My joy is increasing in my heart. 974 00:36:22,220 --> 00:36:24,720 I struggle like everyone else does. 975 00:36:25,260 --> 00:36:27,560 I've got difficulties in my physical body and 976 00:36:27,560 --> 00:36:29,140 do I have family troubles once in a 977 00:36:29,140 --> 00:36:29,300 while? 978 00:36:29,380 --> 00:36:30,560 Yes, just like everyone else. 979 00:36:30,740 --> 00:36:33,020 But there is an abiding joy that's increasing 980 00:36:33,020 --> 00:36:33,840 in my heart. 981 00:36:34,700 --> 00:36:36,880 The things I'm asking for are not temporal 982 00:36:36,880 --> 00:36:37,740 things around me. 983 00:36:38,020 --> 00:36:39,980 I'm asking for things far beyond that. 984 00:36:40,740 --> 00:36:42,500 God, You've got to give me a mind 985 00:36:42,500 --> 00:36:43,060 to understand. 986 00:36:43,260 --> 00:36:44,480 You've got to give me a heart to 987 00:36:44,480 --> 00:36:45,300 be able to communicate. 988 00:36:45,840 --> 00:36:47,500 You've got to give me compassion for the 989 00:36:47,500 --> 00:36:48,500 wayward and the lost. 990 00:36:48,880 --> 00:36:50,920 Oh Jesus, You've got to open the treasure 991 00:36:50,920 --> 00:36:52,100 of this book to me that I may 992 00:36:52,100 --> 00:36:52,940 understand it. 993 00:36:53,860 --> 00:36:55,120 Lord, I'm asking You. 994 00:36:55,380 --> 00:36:57,080 I've asked Him that my family be a 995 00:36:57,080 --> 00:36:57,980 missionary family. 996 00:36:58,280 --> 00:37:00,600 Years after I'm dead and gone that my 997 00:37:00,600 --> 00:37:03,400 family, my lineage would be traveling the world, 998 00:37:03,660 --> 00:37:05,360 helping those who are in need and don't 999 00:37:05,360 --> 00:37:05,940 have a helper. 1000 00:37:06,340 --> 00:37:08,040 I've asked Him for this and I'm watching 1001 00:37:08,040 --> 00:37:09,820 God begin to answer my cry. 1002 00:37:10,940 --> 00:37:13,360 Folks, you have not because you ask not. 1003 00:37:14,040 --> 00:37:15,180 It's as simple as that. 1004 00:37:15,820 --> 00:37:17,740 You've got to ask and when you're asking 1005 00:37:17,740 --> 00:37:19,520 for the purposes of God and for the 1006 00:37:19,520 --> 00:37:22,340 will of God, God comes and He begins 1007 00:37:22,340 --> 00:37:25,520 to speak into your situation, calming your storms 1008 00:37:25,520 --> 00:37:26,900 and bringing death to life. 1009 00:37:28,440 --> 00:37:30,140 This is a miraculous walk. 1010 00:37:30,140 --> 00:37:32,200 It's a supernatural life, folks. 1011 00:37:32,780 --> 00:37:34,940 Christianity is not just a mental agreement with 1012 00:37:34,940 --> 00:37:36,100 concepts in a book. 1013 00:37:36,240 --> 00:37:38,160 It's a supernatural life. 1014 00:37:44,110 --> 00:37:45,210 There are missionaries here. 1015 00:37:45,290 --> 00:37:47,050 There are preachers of the gospel here. 1016 00:37:47,830 --> 00:37:50,450 There are people who will have powerful testimonies 1017 00:37:50,450 --> 00:37:54,070 of God's keeping and saving and changing ability 1018 00:37:54,070 --> 00:37:55,550 if you will simply ask Him. 1019 00:37:56,910 --> 00:37:58,490 Ask Him for the right reasons. 1020 00:38:00,430 --> 00:38:02,710 Jesus, be a testimony in me. 1021 00:38:02,710 --> 00:38:07,410 So change me that my cup will overflow, 1022 00:38:07,910 --> 00:38:09,270 that I won't be able to contain it 1023 00:38:09,270 --> 00:38:10,490 in myself anymore. 1024 00:38:13,180 --> 00:38:16,300 To be an overflow of your life, to 1025 00:38:16,300 --> 00:38:17,840 be an overflow of your compassion. 1026 00:38:18,920 --> 00:38:21,640 God, I will be compelled because of the 1027 00:38:21,640 --> 00:38:23,560 love that you place in my heart to 1028 00:38:23,560 --> 00:38:26,880 reach out to those who are afflicted and 1029 00:38:26,880 --> 00:38:28,260 without hope in our generation. 1030 00:38:30,040 --> 00:38:33,840 Ask and your joy shall be full. 1031 00:38:35,320 --> 00:38:35,760 Ask. 1032 00:38:37,460 --> 00:38:39,100 You see, I can't do it for you. 1033 00:38:39,700 --> 00:38:41,200 And now you've got to face something. 1034 00:38:41,340 --> 00:38:45,720 Now you're either going to be like the 1035 00:38:45,720 --> 00:38:49,620 world was when God began to speak and 1036 00:38:49,620 --> 00:38:50,700 you're going to open your heart and let 1037 00:38:50,700 --> 00:38:52,920 Him begin to do what only He can 1038 00:38:52,920 --> 00:38:54,100 do or you're going to resist Him. 1039 00:38:57,540 --> 00:39:01,660 Folks, let's go with God. 1040 00:39:03,850 --> 00:39:05,190 New York City needs a testimony. 1041 00:39:06,290 --> 00:39:07,670 There's a lot of churches around. 1042 00:39:07,770 --> 00:39:11,570 Thank God for the testimony now of the 1043 00:39:11,570 --> 00:39:12,210 glory of God. 1044 00:39:13,790 --> 00:39:15,330 There needs to be an awakening in New 1045 00:39:15,330 --> 00:39:17,150 York City, but it must start first among 1046 00:39:17,150 --> 00:39:17,790 God's people. 1047 00:39:18,610 --> 00:39:19,990 There has to be a testimony. 1048 00:39:23,390 --> 00:39:25,290 Oh, I'd love it tonight if out of 1049 00:39:25,290 --> 00:39:28,530 this sanctuary there's probably 1,800 people here 1050 00:39:28,530 --> 00:39:31,190 tonight, and if out of this sanctuary even 1051 00:39:31,190 --> 00:39:33,690 1,000 would go into the city and 1052 00:39:33,690 --> 00:39:35,470 you would be virtually compelled to tell people 1053 00:39:35,470 --> 00:39:36,530 what God has done for you. 1054 00:39:38,130 --> 00:39:41,250 You're not throwing Scripture at people trying to 1055 00:39:41,250 --> 00:39:44,350 stuff a tract in their pocket, but you 1056 00:39:44,350 --> 00:39:45,310 have a living testimony. 1057 00:39:45,490 --> 00:39:47,130 I've got to tell you what God did 1058 00:39:47,130 --> 00:39:48,650 for me last Tuesday night. 1059 00:39:48,990 --> 00:39:50,010 I've got to tell you. 1060 00:39:50,330 --> 00:39:52,030 Folks, there's nothing more attractive than that. 1061 00:39:52,410 --> 00:39:53,850 You go in your office and you start 1062 00:39:53,850 --> 00:39:56,190 telling people and all of a sudden the 1063 00:39:56,190 --> 00:39:58,150 pencils go down and the sneers go away 1064 00:39:58,150 --> 00:40:01,470 just for a moment because everyone, everyone, everyone 1065 00:40:01,470 --> 00:40:04,810 wants evidence of the reality of God and 1066 00:40:04,810 --> 00:40:07,050 God says, I've chosen to show it to 1067 00:40:07,050 --> 00:40:07,830 them through you. 1068 00:40:08,370 --> 00:40:08,770 Hallelujah. 1069 00:40:08,770 --> 00:40:09,530 Hallelujah. 1070 00:40:14,380 --> 00:40:15,660 Thank you, Jesus. 1071 00:40:17,840 --> 00:40:21,240 The Holy Spirit is speaking to you tonight 1072 00:40:21,240 --> 00:40:22,820 and there's something that you need. 1073 00:40:23,300 --> 00:40:25,260 Now I know that sounds very general and 1074 00:40:25,260 --> 00:40:27,160 I don't mean it to be overly general, 1075 00:40:27,480 --> 00:40:29,620 but the Holy Spirit has spoken specifically into 1076 00:40:29,620 --> 00:40:33,940 your heart and you know what it is 1077 00:40:33,940 --> 00:40:36,320 that God's got his finger on tonight, whether 1078 00:40:36,320 --> 00:40:38,160 it's an imprisonment to sin that you need 1079 00:40:38,160 --> 00:40:42,610 to be free from or an area of 1080 00:40:42,610 --> 00:40:44,910 fear in your heart that you need to 1081 00:40:44,910 --> 00:40:46,330 be released from or a wound of the 1082 00:40:46,330 --> 00:40:49,090 past or maybe you're beyond that but you 1083 00:40:49,090 --> 00:40:52,270 say, God, I just lack compassion. 1084 00:40:53,530 --> 00:40:57,110 I lack faith to believe, God, that maybe 1085 00:40:57,110 --> 00:40:59,310 you just need to be asking God for 1086 00:40:59,310 --> 00:41:00,750 some discipline to get in this book. 1087 00:41:02,150 --> 00:41:04,570 Whatever it is, and the Holy Spirit is 1088 00:41:04,570 --> 00:41:05,430 speaking to you tonight. 1089 00:41:07,030 --> 00:41:09,150 This is the pathway to spiritual awakening. 1090 00:41:10,190 --> 00:41:12,330 It's the pathway to hearing his voice again. 1091 00:41:13,550 --> 00:41:15,710 And if God's speaking to your heart, as 1092 00:41:15,710 --> 00:41:17,430 we stand, please step out of your seat. 1093 00:41:18,310 --> 00:41:20,990 Join me here at this altar and let's 1094 00:41:20,990 --> 00:41:23,110 worship for a moment together and then we'll 1095 00:41:23,110 --> 00:41:23,350 pray. 1096 00:41:23,510 --> 00:41:24,510 Let's stand on the balcony. 1097 00:41:24,650 --> 00:41:25,570 You can go to either exit. 1098 00:41:26,330 --> 00:41:27,170 Make your way here. 1099 00:41:29,170 --> 00:41:30,010 Walk out. 1100 00:41:30,250 --> 00:41:31,710 Just walk out of that prison. 1101 00:41:32,910 --> 00:41:34,230 It's as simple as that. 1102 00:41:35,250 --> 00:41:37,430 Jesus said, I set before you an open 1103 00:41:37,430 --> 00:41:37,750 door. 1104 00:41:38,370 --> 00:41:39,450 Just walk out. 1105 00:41:40,790 --> 00:41:42,070 God's spoken to you tonight. 1106 00:41:42,210 --> 00:41:42,970 You don't have to reason. 1107 00:41:43,450 --> 00:41:44,930 You don't have to try to figure it 1108 00:41:44,930 --> 00:41:45,150 out. 1109 00:41:45,810 --> 00:41:47,490 You don't have to procure any amount of 1110 00:41:47,490 --> 00:41:48,650 natural effort. 1111 00:41:48,790 --> 00:41:50,370 You just walk out. 1112 00:41:50,910 --> 00:41:52,110 Walk out of the hurt. 1113 00:41:52,330 --> 00:41:53,470 Walk out of the past. 1114 00:41:58,100 --> 00:42:01,420 And walk into the power of God. 1115 00:42:03,060 --> 00:42:06,060 God, help us to be intelligent. 1116 00:42:07,180 --> 00:42:09,700 Help us to open our hearts to intelligent 1117 00:42:09,700 --> 00:42:10,260 speech. 1118 00:42:10,960 --> 00:42:13,260 You are the Word that created the world. 1119 00:42:14,180 --> 00:42:15,960 We are the result of the breath of 1120 00:42:15,960 --> 00:42:16,520 your mouth. 1121 00:42:17,480 --> 00:42:20,240 God, help us to understand these things and 1122 00:42:20,240 --> 00:42:23,040 to open our hearts and minds again to 1123 00:42:23,040 --> 00:42:24,720 the words that you speak to us. 1124 00:42:25,380 --> 00:42:28,320 I pray, Father, with all my heart, that 1125 00:42:28,320 --> 00:42:30,740 this be a church congregation that gets into 1126 00:42:30,740 --> 00:42:33,160 your Bible and knows the Word of God, 1127 00:42:33,580 --> 00:42:36,260 rightly dividing it from beginning to end. 1128 00:42:36,260 --> 00:42:38,340 I pray, God, that we not be like 1129 00:42:38,340 --> 00:42:40,600 the children of Israel who limited the Holy 1130 00:42:40,600 --> 00:42:41,280 One of Israel. 1131 00:42:41,820 --> 00:42:44,520 But, God, we would take off all of 1132 00:42:44,520 --> 00:42:47,040 the trappings of unbelief and say, Lord, if 1133 00:42:47,040 --> 00:42:48,380 you've spoken it, I believe it. 1134 00:42:48,740 --> 00:42:50,160 God, I can walk into it. 1135 00:42:50,200 --> 00:42:52,080 It's mine in Jesus Christ. 1136 00:42:52,580 --> 00:42:55,000 I pray, God, that you establish in this 1137 00:42:55,000 --> 00:42:57,600 church a testimony for Christ that will shake 1138 00:42:57,600 --> 00:43:00,180 this city, that will shake the business community, 1139 00:43:00,300 --> 00:43:02,280 it will shake the parks, it will shake 1140 00:43:02,280 --> 00:43:05,400 the streets, it will shake Times Square, everywhere 1141 00:43:05,400 --> 00:43:07,400 we go, there will be a shaking of 1142 00:43:07,400 --> 00:43:08,340 the powers of hell. 1143 00:43:08,660 --> 00:43:11,320 I pray, God, as in the day when 1144 00:43:11,320 --> 00:43:12,980 you did it through Jonathan and his armor 1145 00:43:12,980 --> 00:43:15,280 bearer, that you cause a great trembling to 1146 00:43:15,280 --> 00:43:17,440 go into the host of darkness that have 1147 00:43:17,440 --> 00:43:19,240 partied over this city for too long. 1148 00:43:19,720 --> 00:43:22,440 God Almighty, send a trembling into the host 1149 00:43:22,440 --> 00:43:22,880 of evil. 1150 00:43:23,560 --> 00:43:25,400 God, as you have a people that are 1151 00:43:25,400 --> 00:43:28,240 willing to believe you and are willing to 1152 00:43:28,240 --> 00:43:28,780 walk with you. 1153 00:43:28,920 --> 00:43:30,720 Lord, we choose to be the people. 1154 00:43:30,720 --> 00:43:32,540 We open our hearts to you. 1155 00:43:32,660 --> 00:43:35,000 We say, God, do whatever you want to 1156 00:43:35,000 --> 00:43:35,180 do. 1157 00:43:35,260 --> 00:43:37,620 Jesus, let your life come into us. 1158 00:43:38,160 --> 00:43:39,800 Let your thoughts be our thoughts. 1159 00:43:40,400 --> 00:43:42,960 My God, we give you praise and thanks 1160 00:43:42,960 --> 00:43:43,280 tonight. 1161 00:43:43,600 --> 00:43:45,080 You've got to thank him from the very 1162 00:43:45,080 --> 00:43:46,440 depths of your heart tonight. 1163 00:43:49,630 --> 00:43:51,390 This is the conclusion of the message.