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The President of the United States, in some
kind of a public relations action, came to
your house.
Pulled up with his entourage in their big
limousines.
In come the guards, his bodyguards, and they
clear the way.
And the President walks into your house, and
he's spending the evening with you, your family.
And you sit there with the President of
the United States, and he is letting you
talk.
And you just happen to want to get
it all off your heart, so you're talking
to him about politics, the economy.
You're telling him about the failing moral standards
in America, and you let it all out.
And then, by the way, you had a
personal problem, and nobody seemed to work it
out.
By the way, Mr. President said, you asked,
could you help me with this problem?
And he turns to one of his associates
and says, take care of it.
And so, it's supposedly taken care of.
How would you act the next day when
you went to work?
First place, you come out of your house,
and one of your neighbors said, who was
that visiting you last night?
All those men standing in the hall.
You say, well, just another friend.
That's what you'd say.
Just one of those friends.
You wouldn't be interested.
Or you'd say, well, that was just the
President of the United States and his bodyguards.
And then you walk on.
Of course you walk on.
No, you wouldn't walk on.
You'd say, that was the President of the
United States visiting in my house.
And you go to work.
First thing you do, you corner the first
person you see.
Guess what?
Guess who was at my house last night?
Believe it or not, the President of the
United States was at my house, and I
told him everything was on my heart.
And they'd look at you and say, what
did you put in your coffee this morning?
And I'll bet you're telling me the Vice
President was there and served tea.
No, honestly, the President was at my house
last night.
And I told him everything was on my
heart.
Folks, when they find out about it, they
come to you and say, hey, that's true,
isn't it?
What did you talk about?
And you rehearse the whole thing, and you
go over and over until they're tired of
hearing about it.
Amazing.
Sad that we have a far greater potentate
living with us in our house and in
our home, and we take him for granted.
He's the true VIP, very important person.
I speak of one who lives a potentate,
representing the very majesty and glory of God.
And he has come, according to the Scripture,
to abide in us.
Our body is the temple of the Holy
Ghost.
And though we would honor the President of
the United States or any other world leader,
when the greatest leader, the greatest ruler of
all condescends to come to your home, to
your house, to your body, to live there,
we hardly know him.
We hardly recognize him.
We very seldom talk to him.
He is left alone.
We go our own way.
You would think that a potentate who lives
and abides in our human frail bodies, we
would at least consult him.
If we knew that he had all the
power of God resident in him, you would
think we would not live in fear.
We would not live with anxiety.
We would go home every day saying, I
have one I can go to.
I have someone I can unbear my soul
to.
The Holy Spirit is the most talked about,
the most ignored member of the Godhead.
He is ignored.
Seldom do we talk to him.
We almost have the idea Jesus might get
jealous.
Jesus might get jealous if we worship the
Holy Spirit, if we pray to the Holy
Spirit.
But we forget that Jesus sent him.
Jesus ascended to the heavens and he said,
in my place, I send the Holy Ghost.
Now, I could live with my disciples, but
I could only live with a handful.
I could only be at one place at
one time.
But the Father, he has come out of
the Father, really given as a gift by
the Father.
But he was given to me to send
to you.
That's why you read in places the Holy
Spirit was sent by the Father.
You're given by the Father.
But you find it written over and over
again, I will send him to you.
I will send the Holy Spirit and he
will live with you.
He will live in you rather, not just
with you, but he will live in you.
Jesus said, I will pray the Father and
he shall give you another comforter that he
may abide with you forever.
Even the Spirit of truth, whom the world
cannot receive because it sees him not, neither
knoweth him, but you know him.
That hit me.
I said, Lord, I really do not know
him.
That's why I'm so obsessed with getting to
know him.
Jesus said, but you know him, for he
dwelleth with you and shall be in you.
I'm asking you, do you really know this
ruler, this potentate of glory?
See, Jesus was looking forward to that time
that the Holy Spirit would be poured out
upon all flesh.
That the Holy Spirit would be given to
his disciples.
And he's a gift, you will surely know
him.
And here's what the Lord is saying.
How can you not know somebody who lives
with you?
It's almost an indictment.
It hit me so hard.
Jesus said, you will know him because he's
going to live with you.
I ask you again, think about it.
How can you not know somebody who lives
with you unless you have ignored them?
If you've ignored that person, either out of
ignorance or out of apostasy, but you have
ignored this ruler of the whole universe who
abides in our bodies physically.
He abides.
How can we not know somebody who lives
within us?
How can you not know, he's saying.
Paul wrote, I gave you this verse, 2
Corinthians 13, verse 14.
The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ and
the love of God and the communion of
the Holy Ghost be with you.
He's given us three admonitions.
Alright, most of the church, most of God's
people have clearly understood the first two admonitions
Paul gives in this verse I've given to
you.
We have all known about the grace of
Jesus.
We know how we've been saved.
We know that part of the gospel.
We know this admonition from Paul and the
grace of the Lord Jesus Christ.
Who is there in this building that loves
the Lord, who doesn't know Christ died for
you?
You can explain it to anybody, the grace
that's been extended to you.
You know about his saving grace.
You know the second admonition also, the love
of God.
How can you not know his love?
He came down and found you in the
depths of sin.
You've tasted, you've experienced the love of God.
But this third admonition here in this one
verse, and the communion of the Holy Ghost
be with you.
This is where we have failed.
This is where the church of Jesus Christ
is primarily blind.
We do not have the communion of the
Holy Ghost.
We have the knowledge of his saving grace.
We have the experience of his divine love.
But we do not know anything about the
communion of the Holy Ghost.
Communion here in Greek, as it's used, means
conversation, sharing.
We do not converse with the Holy Ghost.
We do not share with the Holy Ghost.
We keep things bundled inside, and there he
sits neglected.
There he abides abandoned.
There he is waiting to give all of
the mercies and the wisdom of Almighty God,
and we ignore him.
We shut him out.
Do you talk to the Holy Ghost?
Do you talk to the Holy Spirit?
Then why would you ever be afraid again?
The Holy Ghost did not come to make
himself look good.
He did not come to meet some need
in himself.
There is no need in the Holy Spirit.
He didn't come to satisfy some supernal need
that was created or abiding in himself.
He didn't come to look good for himself.
In fact, the Bible says that he won't
even speak of himself.
He comes to glorify Jesus.
He didn't come for a need in himself.
He was given for you.
He was given for me, a gift of
Almighty God.
It was for our purposes that he's been
sent.
Now here's where I am.
Morning, night, and every waking hour, I'm saying
to the Lord, to my heart, and to
the Holy Spirit, now wait a minute.
If God tells me that he has sent
the Holy Spirit out of heaven, when Jesus
was here, the Holy Spirit was in heaven.
Jesus went to heaven and sent the Holy
Ghost in his place.
The Holy Spirit is here.
Jesus is a man who sits at the
right hand of the Father in glory.
The Holy Spirit has come.
He has come in his place.
He said, I will send him in my
place, and he will be with you.
And I say to my heart, if he's
been sent, and in him is the fullness
of the Godhead, and he is all wisdom
and all knowledge of God, I want to
know why he's here.
I want to know what his ministry is
in me.
I want to know why God sent him
to me, so that I can cooperate with
him, so that I can have all the
benefits of him.
I must have the blinders removed from my
eyes.
The Holy Ghost can no longer be just
some emotional experience.
He can't just be speaking in tongues and
interpretation and gifts.
He's so far beyond that.
That's just the fruit of the tree.
I want to know he is a person.
I want to know why this person, this
God person, abides in me.
I want to know all about him.
Folks, you and I cannot be satisfied in
these last days until God tears off the
blinders and we can see the glory of
the Holy Ghost has been sent to us.
It just consumes my waking hours.
Now, last Sunday, I told you what the
Holy Spirit was speaking to my heart.
That walking in the Spirit, I rehearsed.
I'm going to go over just these three
points.
By the way, anything the Holy Ghost gives
you, you never lose.
If it's man's knowledge, you can't remember it.
When the Holy Ghost reveals it, you never
lose it as long as you live.
It can be ten years later, it'll be
there.
You can't lose it.
And what God is going to bring forth
tonight, you will never lose if you hear
it in the Spirit.
I will never lose these three truths he
gave me last night because it came from
the Holy Ghost.
Number one, walking in the Spirit is simply
allowing the Holy Ghost to do what God
sent him to do, cooperating with him in
his mission.
All right, what is that mission?
The mission of the Holy Ghost, the work
of the Holy Spirit, is to find and
fetch the bride of Christ to the marriage
supper of the Lamb, to get us from
here to the marriage supper of the Lamb,
to present us to him as a perfect
or spotless bride.
Thirdly, everything he does in us relates to
that divine purpose.
Everything he does in us has to do
with his mission.
He's not interested in entertaining anybody.
He's not going to stop and give some
card tricks.
He's not going to stop and make people
happy.
He's got a mission and he's going to
stick to it.
Every gift has to do with that mission.
Every fruit, every operation of the Holy Spirit,
he has one thing in mind.
He's going to take you as a bride
to his Master, our Master.
All right, let's go to the next step.
How many understand that?
Do you understand that walking in the Spirit
is simply allowing him to do what he's
called to do?
Secondly, he's called to find and fetch the
bride.
Thirdly, everything he does has to do with
that divine purpose.
Now, further, here's the next step.
The Holy Spirit is our keeper sent to
preserve a bride as a virgin.
Paul, speaking through the Holy Ghost, said this,
For I am jealous over you with godly
jealousy, for I have espoused you to one
husband, that I may present you as a
chaste virgin to Christ.
2 Corinthians 11.2 Godly jealousy here in
Greek means red-hot fighting defense.
God said, I am red-hot, white-hot
to defend you against the devil and every
seducer because you have been espoused.
You're engaged to Jesus Christ.
And God sent me to keep you as
a chaste virgin.
If I have my way, the Holy Ghost
says, I've been sent not to just gift
you, not just to do something to make
you happy and just get you through life.
No, I have a grand purpose.
I have a grand mission, because when you're
saved, no matter how dirty you were or
filthy, you're considered a virgin in the eyes
of God.
You're a virgin in the eyes of Jesus.
The blood makes you a virgin.
The Lord says, I'm going to send the
Holy Ghost.
I've got an investment in you.
I've invested the blood of my own son.
You're his bride now, and I'm going to
send the Holy Ghost to make sure you
stay a virgin.
You are going to stay a virgin.
The devil's going to come at you with
all kinds of seductions.
He's going to come disguised as an angel
of light.
He's going to send his ministers disguised as
angels of light.
And he's going to mimic another lover.
He's going to mimic and say, God sent
me.
Jesus sent me.
Come with me.
You see, that's an allurement, and the Holy
Ghost has come to expose all the devices
of the devil.
If you and I didn't have the Holy
Ghost in us, we would have no discernment
whatsoever, because discernment is only resident in the
Holy Ghost.
It's not resident in us.
You don't have discernment without the Holy Ghost
in you.
You have no wisdom.
You have no discernment whatsoever.
It's in the Holy Ghost.
If the Holy Ghost is talking to you,
and you're talking to the Holy Ghost, I'm
going to tell you what he's telling you.
He's going to tell you the same thing
he's telling me.
I'm keeping you.
I'm your keeper.
If you will yield to me and trust
me, I'm going to keep you.
A very well-known evangelist, who has fallen
with prostitutes, says, and I've talked to him
personally, I've talked to his family, and I'm
not getting a second hand, I'm getting it
from the dear brother.
When he's nine years old, he says, a
spirit came over him.
And this spirit was of the enemy.
And he claims that his temptation was greater
than most people, because he was more mightily
used of God and had a greater, I
suppose, suggesting a greater gift of God.
And now this temptation has grown so great.
Now, folks, that is totally unscriptural.
That is not in the Bible whatsoever.
The Bible said all our temptations are common
to all men.
They're common to all.
The devil, you fight just as big as
he fought, or anybody else.
He's just as little.
I ought to say he's just as little.
But this evangelist is attributing power to the
devil that he never had.
He never had.
You see, the Holy Ghost is not intimidated
by a 900-foot devil.
He's not intimidated by your lust.
He's not intimidated by any of your problems.
He has never been intimidated by anything out
of hell.
He is not an intimidated Holy Ghost.
Let me tell you what the problem is.
See, the Holy Ghost is received by faith.
The Holy Ghost ministers by faith.
Faith is that which causes the Holy Spirit
to release in us the power of God.
This man lost his faith.
He lost his faith in God's keeping power.
And when you lose your faith in the
Holy Ghost's ability to keep you from the
power of the devil, the fear of the
enemy comes in, and that fear overwhelms you,
and you go down.
It's a lack of faith and confidence in
the keeping power of the Holy Ghost.
Keep that in mind.
People say, well, why are so many falling?
Those who were used of God.
Any man can fall if he gets away
from the keeping power of the Holy Ghost.
He no longer believes, no longer trusts.
The Scriptures, Paul said, how did you receive
the Holy Ghost?
How did you receive the Holy Spirit?
Then he goes on and said, you received
by the hearing of faith.
You heard that the Holy Ghost came to
abide in you, and you put your confidence
in him.
Brother, sister, wherever you're at, you get alone
with God.
You begin to talk to the Holy Spirit.
He's going to remind you, if you'll trust
me, I've been sent to keep you.
I'm on a divine mission, and nothing's going
to stop me from this mission.
You can't fight the devil.
He's bigger than you.
You can't fight the devil.
He's bigger than you, but he's not bigger
than me, the Holy Ghost will tell you.
I have all the power and the glory
and the might.
Satan himself will transform himself into an angel
of light.
So will his ministers, false apostles pretending to
be the apostles of Christ.
But my Bible said the gates of hell
shall not prevail.
Why not?
Because the Holy Ghost is on the job.
The Holy Ghost is doing his mission.
Hallelujah.
Now unto him, unto who?
Looking unto him, the Holy Ghost, who is
able to keep you from falling and to
present you faultless before the presence of his
glory with exceeding joy.
Hallelujah.
Now listen closely.
All error and all false teaching about the
Holy Spirit.
Now listen closely, because there are books out
now about the Holy Ghost, all kinds of
books.
Many of them just absolutely full of error.
And I'll tell you why they're full of
error and how it happens.
How is it that men misjudge the Holy
Ghost and blaspheme the Holy Ghost in what
they write and say and how they act
in the pulpit?
It's because they disassociate him from his eternal
purpose.
They disassociate him from the work that he's
been sent to do.
They have never understood why he came.
He has come to find and preserve a
spotless chaste bride, to present an absolute virgin
to Jesus, unpolluted by the world.
You tell me you go to hear an
evangelist, he's a Holy Ghost evangelist, and you
say, the Holy Ghost is on him?
Let me tell you then what you have
to see.
Let me tell you what there must be.
There must come forth, not entertainment, not some
game the Holy Ghost is purported to be
playing, not to thrill people.
I am shocked at the people that are
so blind today that want to go to
a meeting and just get zapped.
They want to fall over backwards.
Now folks, I'm going to tell you that
there are scriptures in the Bible that God,
when the Holy Ghost comes, has slain certain
people.
Saul, for example, goes to a prophetic meeting.
Samuel's conducting it.
He's already sent to numbers of soldiers and
they didn't come back with David, who's there
at the meeting also because they fell under
the power of God and were slain.
Saul, finally, at the third time goes himself.
And I'll tell you, that must have been
some Holy Ghost meeting when the king comes
and nobody recognizes him.
No one says a word and he's standing
outside the door and the Holy Ghost is
so prevalent in the house it hits him
and he's slain under the power of God
all night long.
He lays there with nothing but his undergarments.
He's stripped off his outer garments and lays
slain all night long.
And he goes right back to his sin.
He goes right back to his apostasy.
Didn't touch him.
And I see people saying, that is the
Holy Ghost.
The Holy Ghost is not interested in playing
games.
There are times I've been slain in the
Spirit.
I believe in being slain by the Spirit.
But it's not a show.
It's not show time.
That comes when you're convicted by the Holy
Ghost for your sins.
And you fall on your knees, the Bible
says.
That comes when the Holy Ghost is doing
his mission.
He's doing his work convicting of sin and
righteousness and judgment.
Hallelujah.
If you're going to go to a meeting
just to be entertained and you want to
see people fall out or you want things...
I want to fall out.
Folks, I'm not making fun of that.
Not at all.
There is a genuine work of the Holy
Spirit.
But let me tell you what a true
manifestation of the Holy Spirit is in a
meeting.
We've been praying, Oh God, come send the
Holy Ghost.
And the Holy Ghost will answer, Do you
really want me to come?
And what do you expect when I come?
You see, we have some people who would
like to see all the gifts in the
operation at one time in the church and
over here word of knowledge and over here
tongues and interpretation of tongues.
And folks, that is part...
That's a part of a believer's meeting.
That is entirely scriptural.
But you see, a true manifestation, the greatest
work of the Holy Spirit, the greatest manifestation
of the Holy Spirit has to be in
line with His eternal purpose for the work
for which He's been sent.
And He will not go off chasing rabbits,
so to speak.
He won't go off this course, this divine
eternal purpose of His.
He ever has that in His mind.
I've been sent to you to keep the
wicked one away.
I've been sent to purge you.
I've been sent to clean you up.
I've been sent to give you a spotless,
to keep your robe spotless.
I've been sent to keep you as a
chaste virgin.
My role is virginity, not corruption, not pollution.
And the greatest manifestation in a meeting is
when God comes on the servant of the
Lord and He has the mind of God
and you're provoked, you're convicted of your sins
and you are provoked to get on your
knees.
You don't care if you're blessed.
You don't care if a gift is operating.
You're saying, I want to be ready for
Jesus.
I want clean hands.
I want a pure heart.
That's the manifestation of the Holy Ghost.
He is doing His greatest work.
He is showing His greatest manifestation when He's
convicting of sin and when people are falling
on their knees and when there are great
searchings of heart.
You show me a meeting where there's a
quiet, still searching of the heart and there's
an inner quaking as the Spirit of God
points out sin.
He doesn't do it just to exult in
some kind of burden that He's placed upon
you of guilt or condemnation or conviction.
No, it's all a part of His eternal
purpose.
God says, Holy Ghost says, I will convict
you.
I will make you miserable.
Have you ever heard of Holy Ghost miseries?
How many have had Holy Ghost miseries?
When you failed the Lord, what is it?
That's the Holy Ghost doing His work.
Hallelujah.
That's His eternal purpose.
He's keeping you as a virgin to present
you as a chaste virgin to Jesus Christ.
Hallelujah.
We are kept by the Spirit in two
ways.
First of all, we're kept You could probably
call this the negative side of His keeping
in that He convicts of sin and righteousness
and judgment.
He provokes to righteousness and that's a very
painful experience sometimes.
Beloved, every time I'm under conviction, I thank
God.
That's a sure sign the Holy Spirit is
being honored in your life because you're being
convicted.
God help you when you're no longer convicted.
God help you when you can sin and
feel no godly sorrow.
That's the Holy Ghost.
You could say something, you could just say
something mean or unkind to a Christian and
the Holy Ghost will say, uh-uh, that
was not of Christ.
You go to God, you go to pray,
it gets bigger and bigger and you can't
pray because the Holy Ghost doesn't support you
while you're walking in disobedience.
The Holy Ghost won't leave you but He
won't cooperate with you.
You understand that?
He won't cooperate with you until you go
back and do what He told you to
do.
And that's why a lot of people are
not walking in the Spirit.
That's why the Holy Ghost is not cooperating
with a lot of Christians because God has
already, the Holy Ghost said, I want you
to make that right.
And until you make it right, you are
not going to have the cooperation and the
ministry of the Holy Spirit in your life
because He said, if you won't obey me
here, no matter what I tell you, you'll
never obey me so why speak further?
So you go back to point A and
say, God, I'm going to do, you do
that, and the Holy Ghost said, now let's
move on.
Hallelujah.
I've had to do that.
I get a suspicion I'm going to have
to do that a lot more since I'm
studying the Holy Ghost.
This is the end of side one.
You may now turn the tape over.
Hallelujah.
You see, that's the negative side but there's
a positive side of the ministry of the
Holy Spirit having to do with communion.
And that's that the Holy Spirit, secondly, listen
closely, the Holy Spirit reveals to the bride
the wonderful things that are prepared for her.
Listen to this Old Testament text from Isaiah
64.
For since the beginning of the world, men
have not heard, nor have they perceived by
the ear, neither have their eyes seen, O
God, beside Thee, what He's prepared for him
that waiteth for him.
Now, isn't that wonderful?
And yet it's sad.
Man has not seen, man has not heard
those things that have entered into the heart
of God.
These great eternal depths of God have not
been revealed, all but in the New Testament
since the Holy Ghost came.
It's different.
I read to you now from 2nd, 1st
Corinthians, don't turn, this is 1st Corinthians 2,
9 and 10.
But as it is written, and Paul is
quoting from Isaiah 64, 4, this very verse
I read, it is written, eye has not
seen, nor ear heard, nor has it entered
into the heart of man the things which
God has prepared for them that love Him.
But God has revealed them unto us by
His Spirit, for the Spirit searches all things,
yea, the deep things of God.
Now, listen to Paul in 1st Corinthians 2,
12.
Here is the very clear statement in the
Bible of God, in God's Word, concerning the
ministry of the Holy Spirit.
Here it is.
Now, we have received not the Spirit of
this world, but the Spirit which is of
God.
That's the Holy Spirit.
You and I have received the Holy Spirit.
Why?
That we might know the things that are
freely given to us of God, which things
also we speak, not in the words which
men's wisdom teaches, but which the Holy Ghost
teaches.
Now, let's stop for just a minute here.
The human mind cannot begin to understand this
text at all.
You could study that, go to any commentary,
study everything every man has ever written on
that.
They're all going to go down the same
path.
You're going to hear one minister, or one
teacher after another repeat the other.
This cannot be known unless you pray for
a revelation.
Stop a minute.
Here's a scripture that says, things never before
heard, never before seen, yea, the deep things
of God that have been hidden from the
beginning of time have been revealed to us
by the Holy Ghost.
You say, well, I missed it.
What are you talking about?
What is this great thing that the Holy
Spirit's to have revealed to me?
Things the eye has not seen, the ear
has not heard, nor entered the heart of
man yet.
What is it?
Folks, the Holy Ghost doesn't lie.
The Word of God doesn't lie.
It's impossible for God's Word to lie.
And my Bible says that the Holy Ghost
has revealed them unto us, and that he's
teaching us in these very things.
Now, what is it?
Well, first of all, folks, I don't think
we realize how fortunate, how wonderful it is
that you and I live in the dispensation
of the Holy Spirit.
For years, centuries, there were heathen nations, there
were people who were without hope, without a
gospel, because God's interest had to do with
the very small remnant, the Jewish people.
All through the Old Testament, here it is,
all through God had a chosen people, and
the prophets didn't see it.
They referred to it, but they didn't understand.
It never dawned on them.
They looked into these things.
They desired to know them, the Scripture says,
but it was not revealed to them.
In fact, even up to the time of
the disciples, they didn't understand.
They couldn't really comprehend that the Gentile could
be saved.
This was a Jewish gospel.
The hope, the covenants, all had to do
with the Jew.
Jesus comes, and he tears down the wall
of partition, and the gospel is given out
freely to Jew, to Gentile, and finally, there's
no more Jew, there's no more Gentile, all
the walls are down, and the gospel is
freely given to everyone who will believe.
This, we take it for granted, but for
centuries, that was not known, that was unknown
to the eye or to the ear, that
God had an eternal plan that he would
eventually send his son to this earth to
die, to pull down all the walls.
Salvation would not be to a small chosen
people, but his chosen people would be extended
worldwide, all races, all colors, and this glorious
gospel.
Folks, the apostles until Pentecost had a hard
time.
In fact, they had a hard time with
it after Pentecost, that the Gentile was to
be an heir with them to the gospel
of Jesus Christ, an heir, an adjoint heir
with Jesus Christ.
It took all the grace of God for
Peter to go down and preach.
He had to have a vision, because he
had not seen it, his eyes hadn't seen
it, his ear hadn't heard it, it hadn't
been revealed from the foundation of the world.
Suddenly, the revelation is given to the church,
it's given to God's people, the Holy Ghost
came down, and it was not given until
the Holy Ghost came, and the Holy Ghost
came and revealed this mighty truth that Jesus
had tried to tell them, and now the
Holy Ghost is making it real.
God has an eternal purpose through His Son,
and you're destined to be saved by faith
in His beloved Son.
Folks, if you'll stop right now and ask
for the Holy Ghost to reveal it, you'll
see something, that your salvation was planned from
eternity, that you were chosen, God chose you
from the foundation of the world.
Think about that for just a moment, you
weren't just chosen a year ago, you weren't
chosen just ten years ago, you weren't chosen
just when you came and gave your heart
to Christ.
Jesus got His eyes on you, your parts
were numbered in the very womb, He said.
Stop and think about it, this is what
has never been known, this is what has
been closed to the eyes and the ears
of the world, that Jesus chose you out
of sin to be His bride.
And the Holy Ghost when He communes with
you is going to remind you how much
you are loved by the bridegroom.
Oh, you'll find it, the Holy Ghost will
say something like this, He says it to
me, and I hope He'll say it to
you.
Spend some time with Him, He'll tell you
the same thing.
You know what He tells me, David?
You know what your master, you know what
your bridegroom is doing?
He's naming you before all the angels.
He tells them how much He loves you.
He's saying, I've got a skinny preacher down
there in Times Square Church, they call Him
David, but I've got another name for Him,
I've got a special name that no one
knows, but He and I, I'm going to
reveal to Him when He's home, and I
really love Him, He's the apple of my
eye, He's my dove, He's my beloved, He's
my undefiled, He's fair, there's no spot in
Him, He's ravished my heart, He's my spouse,
how fair is His love to me, how
much better is His love to me than
wine?
And that's exactly what you're going to hear
from the Holy Ghost.
He not only convicts you of sin, but
when you repent and you allow, you cooperate,
you yield to the Holy Spirit and say,
oh Jesus, thank You for the truth that
cleanses, thank You Holy Spirit for coming upon
me to convict me of my sins, to
do Your holy work, and I yield to
that.
I gladly receive the word as we heard
this morning.
And then He's going to come and say,
now let me tell you how much you
are loved.
And that is the work of the Holy
Spirit to send you every love message from
Jesus.
He brings a constant message, one love letter
after another.
He's giving you a love letter right now
through my lips.
The Holy Ghost has possessed me and He's
saying, Jesus loves you.
You're His bride.
You're His spouse.
You bring joy to His heart.
He can't wait to meet you face to
face.
Hallelujah.
That's the work of the Holy Ghost.
That's the work of the Holy Spirit.
That the blessing of Abraham might come on
the Gentiles through Jesus Christ, that we might
receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.
Hallelujah.
He, the Holy Spirit, is a person.
Not just an ethereal substance, but He's a
person.
He's not in China right now, just in
China, fighting communism.
He's not in Moscow trying to bring down
Gorbachev.
He's not just in Cuba right now trying
to end the godless reign of Castro.
He's right here.
Yes, He's there, but He's right here.
He's here now.
He's in this church.
He's in your physical body.
And He wants to be recognized.
He wants you to recognize Him.
And I have apologized to the Holy Ghost.
I've confessed to the Holy Ghost.
Holy Spirit, I'm sorry that I've neglected you.
I'm sorry that I've not been praying to
you.
I'm sorry I've not been worshiping you.
I'm sorry I've not honored you.
Now, folks, the Holy Ghost wants to be
known only in keeping with His purpose.
He wants to be known for His work.
He wants to be known for His reason
for coming.
In other words, if you were trying to
dig into His eternal substance, if you're trying
to dig into all of these things about
the Holy Spirit that really don't have anything
to do with His mission, the Holy Ghost
will say, I'm not going to tell you
that.
I'm not going to teach you that.
I've been sent to do one thing, and
that's to bring you to Jesus.
And everything that He has, all His wisdom
is given to me.
It's in me.
Jesus said, all things about me He'll bring
to your remembrance.
He'll show you things to come.
And everything He shows you to come, that's
not prophecy.
He's showing you about the preparedness for His
coming.
Anything He shows you to come has to
do with His purpose.
I'll say it again.
The Holy Ghost reveals nothing about prophecy.
He reveals nothing except that which has to
do with His eternal purpose.
You say, I go to the Lord, I
go to the Holy Ghost, and I have
a problem.
And you say, talk to Him, commune with
Him, share with Him.
But let me give you a clue.
If you truly want to hear from the
Holy Spirit, keep in mind, He's wanting to
answer you in line with your Bridehood.
He wants to answer you.
Now, it's not complicated.
I'll try to make it as simple as
I can.
He's not interested in just baby talk.
He's not interested in trivia.
He's interested in making you a better bride.
Of keeping you clean and pure and holy.
So when you're going to get an answer
from the Holy Spirit, He's going to answer
you in a way that keeps you close
to Jesus.
He's not going to answer you in any
worldly way.
He's going to answer you.
Now, I've got to get into this before
I close.
We're talking now about the communion of the
Holy Spirit with the Holy Ghost.
How can you know if it's the Spirit
talking to you and not another voice?
There is, of course, given this grand test
in the Bible.
No man can call Him Lord unless the
Spirit of God be in Him.
But folks, that is not just saying the
words.
The devil can easily...
In fact, I've seen people trying to pray
for demon possessed and say to them, Can
you say Jesus is Lord?
I'll tell you, every demon in hell can
say that.
They know that the Bible says the devil
believes in troubles.
It's not the words.
It's not the utterance.
We're talking about a man speaking by his
life, in his heart.
If Jesus is truly Lord and His life
proves it, His life says it.
His life says that Jesus is Lord.
You can see it by the way He
lives.
It's not just talk.
It's not just repeating a formula.
I believe any demon possessed man in this
city can come here, raise his hands and
shout, Jesus is Lord.
It means nothing unless his heart backs it
up, unless his life backs it up.
Now, let me go on.
I'm going to give you three simple guidelines.
First of all, every one of your desires,
your dreams, your ambitions, everything in us of
the flesh has a voice.
And they're all lining up.
Every time you go to prayer, they get
in line.
Every one of them wanting to be first.
There's ego.
There's desire.
There's ambition.
All lined up.
I'm first.
Paul said there are many voices in the
world and none without, all with some significance.
And I want to tell you something.
Every one of those voices are yes men.
They all say yes because that's what you
want to hear.
I'll tell you, you can go to the
Lord in prayer and get the quickest yes
you ever heard.
Yes, yes, yes.
This is God.
And then, because the devil knows the Bible
says it's a still small voice, he'll say,
this is Jesus.
This is the Lord.
You better believe me.
Listen to me.
The Holy Spirit only speaks to those who
wait.
Wait.
If my Bible tells me that I'm supposed
to be slow at speech, how much more
the Holy Ghost?
He only speaks to those who wait on
the Lord.
You have to wait till all the other
voices get impatient.
They've all said their piece.
You're torn by saying, I don't know.
I'm hearing different things.
Go ahead and let them talk.
Let them say anything they want.
Because you see, the Holy Ghost knows that
if you just wait on the Lord, you're
growing in Jesus.
You're growing in his love.
And you're ready to hear a no if
he speaks a no.
Are you ready for a no?
Are you ready for Holy Ghost to say
just be patient and wait?
It's not time.
Do you believe in Holy Ghost timing?
You see, when the enemy speaks, there's always
a clamor in the heart.
There's always a clamor to be heard and
a clamor to get it done.
There's an urgency, but not with the Holy
Spirit.
My Bible says very, very clearly, rest in
the Lord and wait patiently for him.
David said, my soul waits in silence for
God to speak.
My soul waits in silence for God.
I go to the Lord and I worship.
I praise him.
And I don't rush in and start talking
to the Holy Ghost.
I praise the Lord.
I pray to the Holy Spirit.
And the Holy Spirit begins to lead me
to Jesus.
He always opens up Christ.
Hallelujah.
If the Holy Ghost is not pointing you
to Jesus, then you don't have the Holy
Ghost of the Bible.
The Holy Ghost of the Bible will point
you to Jesus.
Hallelujah.
But you wait.
You sit.
And I'll tell you, Jesus said, my sheep
know my voice.
They hear when I call, but he only
speaks to those who wait on the Lord.
You can be sure he will speak.
It will come and with it comes a
peace that passeth all understanding.
There's a peace.
The presence of Jesus always accompanies the voice
of the Holy Ghost.
I'll say it again.
The presence of Jesus always accompanies the Holy
Ghost voice.
When the Holy Ghost speaks, you will experience
a manifestation of the presence of Jesus.
The devil can't produce that.
He can produce an uneasiness.
And a lot of people run out of
the Holy Ghost presence before the Holy Spirit
has really spoken to them.
You know Elijah in the mountain?
He asked God to speak to him and
the wind began to blow.
It blew the rocks apart.
But the voice wasn't in it.
Then came an earthquake and the ground began
to shake and tremble.
But God's voice was not in it.
Then a fire, white hot fire was leaping
up from the earth and God's voice was
not in it.
You see how long he had to wait?
He wait till the thunder's over.
And that does represent all the voices of
the flesh.
But then it says a gentle breeze came.
It's still a small voice.
Folks, I want you to ask God to
help you wait for that gentle breeze.
You wait before the Lord.
Cleanse me Jesus.
Cleanse my appetites.
Take away all the desire of the world.
Let him deal with every sin.
Let him deal with all the desires of
the flesh.
So that by the time the Holy Ghost
speaks, hallelujah, you'll say, well thank you Holy
Spirit.
But I've got a double portion.
Not only have I got the Holy Ghost
speaking to my heart, not only have I
know, I know, I know I've heard from
God.
And oh, you have that eternal, that great
eternal yes in your soul.
But more than that, you'll say, I've been
drawn closer to Jesus.
You are drawn by the voice of the
Holy Spirit to the beloved.
Hallelujah.
Finally, he speaks to those who minister to
the Lord.
And then let him say what he will.
Acts 13.2, I just read it.
While they ministered to the Lord and fasted,
the Holy Spirit said, set aside Barnabas, the
Holy Spirit said, as they ministered, that word
ministered, as they worshipped, as they worshipped the
Lord.
Folks, if you'll just go into the presence
of God, presence of the Holy Spirit, and
just worship the Lord Jesus, worship the Father,
worship the Spirit, and say Holy Spirit, here
I am, I give you my ears, but
just worship, worship.
Forget hearing anything.
Just worship.
The Holy Spirit will tell you what you
need to know.
He'll tell you what you need to know.
And if you're not going to say it,
it's probably because you don't need to hear
it right now.
Don't tell me you're not going to tell
you what you need to know.
He'll tell you exactly what you need to
know, but it'll come out of worship.
Hallelujah.
Glory be to God.
Hallelujah.
Holy Spirit, thank you.
Let's stand.
Are you beginning to see it's more than
just the gift?
You know the gifts will operate, but you
see, you don't focus on the gifts.
Like the preacher said, you go to buy
a pair of shoes, you don't ask for
the tongues.
You ask for the shoes and the tongues
are in them.
We want the Holy Ghost, not just his
gifts.
We want the Holy Ghost.
We want him living and abiding in us.
Oh God, take the blinders from our eyes.
Holy Spirit, I pray that tonight and in
the weeks to come, you will open our
hearts to the Holy Spirit.
Holy Spirit, we honor you in this church.
We honor you.
Folks, raise your hands and let's honor the
Holy Spirit.
Holy Spirit, we honor you tonight.
We honor you for bringing us to Jesus.
Jesus sent him, folks.
You can worship him.
Jesus sent him.
You can worship the Holy Spirit.
You can praise the Holy Spirit because he's
going to bring you to Jesus.
Lord, we thank you for the Holy Spirit.
The Holy Spirit is God in the flesh.
It's God in the Spirit.
God is the Spirit.
They that worship him must worship him in
spirit and in truth.
Holy Spirit, thank you for coming.
Thank you for being in me, abiding in
me right now.
All right, you may put your hands down.
Here's what I believe the Holy Spirit's leading
me to say to you now in the
closing part of the service.
The work of the Holy Spirit is to
convict of sin.
And if the Holy Spirit's in this meeting
now and you're standing here with sin in
your life or compromise, you're not walking in
the light that you've received, right now I'm
going to bow my head and pray in
the Holy Spirit.
If he's in this meeting, and I know
he is, and if your heart is at
all open to God, if your heart is
open at all, he will convict you.
He does that for the purpose of bringing
you back.
He has an eternal purpose and he's going
to accomplish that tonight.
And what he does, he brings that uneasiness,
he brings, it's like, I'll tell you, for
me, it's like a knife right in the
middle of the stomach.
It's like a knot.
It's just a twisting and a turning.
It's the Holy Spirit saying, now, lay it
down and let me give you power over
that now.
Let me take it off your hands.
Come and trust me with it.
I want you to step out of your
seat without whatever sin, whatever the problem is,
and present it to the Holy Spirit and
say, Holy Spirit, I'm tired of fighting this
in my own strength.
I give it to you tonight and I'm
going to trust you.
And I'll tell you what, if you'll allow
the Holy Spirit to open your eyes, you'll
see the Holy Spirit standing beside you, sword
in hand, twisting and turning in all direction,
and putting every demon in hell to chase.
And saying, leave him alone.
Leave her alone.
This is the bride of Jesus.
Hallelujah.
Come for cleansing.
Come for healing.
Come for his power to deliver you from
the stronghold of Satan.
Father, by your Spirit, Holy Spirit, go throughout
this congregation up in the balcony here in
the main floor.
Holy Spirit, do your work.
Do your eternal purpose.
Convict of sin.
Bring backsliders back to you.
Those who've grown cold and indifferent to you.
Oh, Holy Spirit, draw them.
You said you would draw.
You would draw.
Do that drawing work right now.
Up in the balcony, go down.
Either step on either side and come down
any aisle.
Stand here on the main floor.
Come as a spirit.
Put your finger on that sin.
Obey him.
Say, yes, Holy Spirit, I hear you.
I want deliverance tonight.
Come.
This is the conclusion of the tape.