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Adam Mesa is Lead Pastor of Patria Church and speaks to a congregation of 12,000 about how the gospel of Jesus Christ brings purpose to every life. Patria
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The Power of Pentecost and the Holy Spirit 0:08 And if you know about Pentecost Sunday according to the book of Acts, told the church, wait for me because the spirit is going to come and the helper is going to0:20 be with you and he's going to fill you and he's going to activate you to start the church. He's going to give you the ability to move forward in your walk and the church is and so they waited in a room. Day in a day. And0:32 till the holy spirit show. And it was a normal day for the church, the Jewish church, which we'll talk about.0:54 To do a message about? And so, we got things like people had asked about anxiety and depression, and we did that a couple weeks ago. So you go to our YouTube channel if you want to hear that message. People also asked1:06 about prayer. Pastor Diego covered about the holy spirit. Who the holy spirit In the month of October, we're going to passionately1:17 pursue the works of the holy spirit. But this is a message about just who the holy spirit is. More about the Book of Revelations and in time. So1:29 I want to invite you back to next week, because we'll do a 2 part or a 2 part message on the Book of Revelation and in times. A 30000 feet over about what what the book of Revelations is1:41 about, who is it for, and how do we apply it into our life. So I encourage you to come back next week and the week after if you've been curious about end times and that last book of the bible called revelations. But1:52 today, it just so happens we didn't plan it or prepare it, that we are talking about the Holy Spirit. And on the day of Pentecost is when we celebrate the work of the Holy Spirit descending upon the church. So I love2:03 how God works and how he aligns things his way. Also today, we'll be baptizing close to 800 people across both campuses, and we thank God for what an2:15 incredible day that is. And this is a public declaration of an in for inward transformation that the Holy Spirit has done a work in your life, whether you're in the courtyard, you're in this room, that God has done a2:27 work and the power of the Holy Spirit has moved, and you're ready to show the world. Hey. Celebrate the work of the cross. So we're so excited with that, and we joined 3002:39 churches today in the state of California called Baptized California. 15000 people will be baptized churches. So, no other2:50 state is doing this right now. We play it goes to other states by next year, but today is the day that we do it. And when other people have ridden California off as a place where God can't move, we're seeing that3:02 God is moving in our state, and God is doing a work in the lives of those who want to know him. And so, all the way from Northern California down to the tip of San Diego, there are churches all over3:16 So we're so excited to be part of that family that's doing that today. We're ready. If you're ready, let's dig into Axe Chapter. In a few moments, you could turn to Axe Chapter 2. When we get started,3:28 We did this first service. So beautiful. Everybody was here. We're baptizing inside. We're baptizing outside. I'm just going to ask that everybody stay in service together. We're going to get out of here on time with3:40 1 another. Service will not go over in any way. But I'm just going to ask because at the end of our baptism, we're going to make an appeal that if anybody is here, wants to give their life to Christ, or wants to3:52 publicly proclaim Jesus in baptism, even with their clothes on. We our team, they have a change of clothes for you. But here's the thing. When some of us start going, oh, the person I came to see4:03 baptized is done. Or if we go, okay, I want to beat, the crowd to get to children's ministry. When we're walking in and out of the aisles while God is trying to talk to somebody, just that little act of,4:15 excuse me, can you move? Can you do this? It just disconnects that person and then they may think, oh, I could do it next time. I'll leave too. And so we want to just honor God. Okay?4:27 Pixar movie, okay? If you can make it through a Pixar movie. We can make it to the end of service together and give God all of that attention, because there's some people here that you'll see.4:41 That God and the Holy Spirit is doing a work in their life. And we just don't want to distract from that in any way. And so if we can all stay in service together, that would be amazing. Let's jump to Acts4:53 chapter 2. And if you'd like to stand for the honor of reading God's word today, we will dig in and we will just share a message about the Holy Spirit for a few moments before we jump into baptism. Here it says, when the5:04 day of Pentecost came, there were all together in 1 place. Suddenly, a sound like blowing of a violent wind came from heaven and filled the whole house where they5:16 were sitting. They saw what seemed to be tongues of fire that separated and came and rested on each of them. All of them were filled with the holy spirit. And they began to speak in5:27 other tongues as the spirit in a Now there were staying in Jerusalem God fearing Jews from every nation under heaven. When they heard this sound, a crowd came together in bewilderment5:40 because each 1 heard their own language being spoken. Utterly amazed, they asked, aren't these all who are speaking Galileans? Then how is it that each of us hears5:52 them in our own native language? Parthians, Medes, and Elamites, residents of Mesopotamia, Judea, and Cappadocia, Pontus and6:03 Asia, of Phigra, and Pamphylia, I'm not speaking in tongues right now, these are real states. Egypt and parts of Libya near Cyrene. These are all people gathered. Visitors from Rome,6:15 both Jewish and converts to Judaism, Christians and Arabs, they said, we hear them declaring wonders of God in our own tongues. Amazed and perplexed, they6:27 ask 1 another, what does this mean? Somehow, however, made fun of them and said, they have had too much wine to drink. You may be seated. Praise God.6:39 So here in this moment, we see a moment that in the Old Testament, any time God wanted to get a message across, any time God wanted to speak to humanity, he spoke6:51 through individuals that we called prophets. And what prophets mean specifically in the Greek is to profess a message. Profess. Profess. So prophets7:02 would come and they would profess a message of God. And generally, those prophets were people that the spirit would speak to on a regular basis, and the7:14 prophet would come to Israel or to a king or to a person, and they would say, thus saith the Lord. The reason why God could not speak to any individual in humanity7:26 is because sin was corrupted, and prophets lived a certain separate type of lifestyle that gave them the ability to be able to hear from God. But God had a plan7:38 where he said, I don't want to, for all of history, want to just speak through a prophet or a king. I want to speak directly to my people like I did in the days of Adam and Eve. And so God has established a7:50 plan that there would be a day where Jesus, his son, would die on the cross and resurrect, so that anyone that would confess him Lord and Savior and allow their sins to be placed on the8:02 cross. Yeah. God would now have the ability, not because of anything you did, but have the ability, not because of anything you did, but have the ability by the power of the Holy Spirit to talk to you and through you8:13 because of Jesus's righteousness. It's God's desire. It's God's desire that he can talk to you. It's God's desire that he can whisper to you. It's God's desire that he can speak to you. But if8:25 he does it without the work of Jesus, you will be completely compelled to see your own sin, and you will go crazy over your own sin. So you need8:36 the washing, the purification of Jesus's work, so now the Holy Spirit says, okay. Now the work of Jesus has been applied to you. Now we can get to business. Let's start working on your8:48 life. Let's start leading you to a new place. Let's start giving you profound purpose for your life God's way, and not man's way. And so here's what the Holy Spirit means. In the Bible, the word9:00 spirit is, given us 2 types. Old Testament, New Testament. Old Testament is written in Hebrew. New Testament is written in Jesus' language that he spoke every single day was Aramaic,9:12 an early Arabic. But Jesus' religious language that he spoke when it came to following God was Hebrew. And so the words that we see in the Bible is the New Testament, the word for9:24 spirit that we know and that we see is. And the word in Hebrew is. Both mean the same thing. Little bit of homework outside and inside. I want you guys9:36 to say, Noom. That's a really easy 1. Greek is easy because it's close to English. But then there's ruach. I want you guys to say, Ruach.9:48 I hear some of you add this spit in your throat. Okay? Good job. Might have some Arabic people in here or something. Ruach and both numba both mean wind or10:01 In other words, God which means holy, God's or what it is is God's wind and breath.10:12 Which means you and I need God's breath in order to fully live in wholeness the way that God has intended. We translate it to spirit because we don't10:24 have an understanding of wind or breath. But here's how you do have an understanding of wind or breath, and you'll know this very quickly. Has anyone ever got caught under a wave in the ocean10:36 before? You ever been caught under a wave of ocean? I know I have. I've been out in the beach, a wave tumbled me, 1 time a boogie board went over my head, and so therefore, you've had that moment in the10:48 ocean before if you've ever swam. You thought, today's the day that I die. Where you feel or you've maybe wrestled someone in the pool before and they were they were holding you under too long and you're thinking10:59 to yourself, this is a wrap. I've been in that ocean before and I've been under that boogie board and I'm and and and then you just start negotiating with God. If you just let me out of11:11 this wave, I'll give it all to you. I'll commit it all to you. I'll follow you for the rest of my life. And next thing you know, the boogie board or the wave, it subsides. And then you swim to the top and you go11:55 every single moment of every single day. God doesn't want you to appreciate your breath just when your life is in jeopardy. He wants you to appreciate your breath as12:07 you take a breath every single moment. And when you are a believer and you follow Jesus, every moment of the day that you take a breath, God is with you. That's why it's called holy wind and holy12:18 breath because in every breath that you take, The holy spirit is with you. So here's some verses I'm going to read really fast. For those of you that maybe like doing weekly reading or home12:30 work, I'm just going to love to support you. Speak for themselves. So you can write them down if you like, and you can revisit them this way. But I just think the Bible doesn't take too much The Bible will explain the12:42 work of the Holy Spirit pretty much on its own. Here's some verses. John, 4 20 20 20 20 20 this is Jesus, while I'm still with you. But the helper,12:54 the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, he will teach you all things and bring to your remembrance all that I have I13:06 need the Holy Spirit to bring about our remembrance of things. And so we can rely on the Holy Spirit when it comes to daily things and life. And I will give you a new heart. Ezekiel 36 26 to 28. I will give13:18 you a new heart and a new spirit I will put within you. And I will remove the heart of stone. What's the heart of stone? That brokenness, that unforgiveness, that13:29 hatred, that resentment, that addiction, that all those things. God says, I can take that stone, that heart of stone, and I can give you the heart of flesh, and it will be a gift of the Holy13:41 Spirit. So the only 1 that can transform our heart is the Holy Spirit. So not only pray for salvation in people's lives, but pray that God would take someone's heart of stone and13:53 give them a heart of flesh. Because it is a work of the Holy Spirit. In the next verse, Ezekiel, and I will put my spirit within you and cause you to walk in my statue and be careful to obey my14:05 rules. You shall dwell in the land that I give your fathers and you shall be my people and I will be your God. You see the Holy Spirit helps us to follow God's word. Now the Lord is the spirit. And where the14:17 spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom. So it's in the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit brings freedom. The Holy Spirit brings deliverance. The Holy Spirit brings healing. It is the Holy Spirit that can bring these things.14:28 And we all with unveiled faces, beholding the glory of God, are being transformed in the same image from 1 degree of glory to another. For this comes from the Lord who is the14:40 spirit. There it is again. First Corinthians 6 19 to 20. Or do you not know that your body is, this is 1 of the most famous ones we know, a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God.14:54 You are not your own for you were bought with a price, so glorify God in your body. In other words, when you and I say yes to Jesus and the holy spirit feels, we now become the dwelling place15:06 every breath, every movement. God is with you every step of the way. Every step of the way. That's not meant to scare you. That's meant to excite you. Oh, so God sees everything? He saw everything with with and without15:17 the Holy Spirit bring filled you. When you was in the alley. He saw you when you was in college. He saw all those things. The only difference with you now having the Holy Spirit15:29 is the Holy Spirit says, oh, they're made for so much more. And they know it. And they know they're made for so much more. That's the difference. God saw all those situations. But this time, the Holy Spirit goes,15:41 man, if they would just rely on me, they don't have to chase those things no more. The Holy Spirit does. Romans 8 26 to15:53 27. It's likewise, the spirit helps us in our weakness. I don't know if you've ever felt weak before, but I feel weak every single day.16:07 The There will be times in your life where you do not know the answer, where you do not know what direction to turn, you do not you don't have an answer for your children, you don't have an answer for your you don't know16:18 what your purpose is, but guess what? When you don't the the and try to lead us in a way if we are willing to16:30 say and that is a and, we'll go to the next 1. Ephesians 1 more. Ephesians give me Ephesians. 4. There. And do give me Ephesians. 4. There. And do give me Ephesians. 4. There. And do the holy spirit. There.16:42 4. There and do not the holy spirit of by whom you were sealed for the day a little bit about the day of redemption16:54 next week with, revelation, but that's also the day that you and17:08 The Holy Spirit enable us to do for that. Study all of Ephesians 4, you'll see what things grieve the Holy Spirit. It's our attitudes. It's our actions.17:20 It's our attributes that are contrary to God. It's our habits. It's our un it's our addictions. It's our unforgiveness. Things can grieve the Holy Spirit who's with us every single day. And yet there's17:31 a promise in Ephesians chapter 4 verse 30 that says that these things can, grieve the spirit of God, by whom you have been sealed.17:44 The day, many of you guys probably know this. What happens is, is you can take a letter and a message that you want to send to someone. And so let's just say I'm pastor Diego up here in the front. And so let's just say I17:55 want to write a letter to Pastor Yeah. Here's his name on it. It's addressed to him. So let's just say I went to 1 of you guys and I said, can you get this note that's meant18:07 to be for Pastor Diego, opened by Pastor Diego. Could you get this note to him by the end of the day? And then 1 of you guys say, Yeah, absolutely. I can do that. No problem. And then as you're walking, you kind of see18:18 this flapping, like, and some of you all those sneaky snakes. If you see this flapping, you're gonna say, your and your and your and your18:30 and your and your and your and your and your and your and your and your and your they had an insignia,18:42 a seal with their family crest on it or their name and they would melt wax and they would take their ring and then they would place it and they would seal the letter. And so To say this is a letter written by me and18:54 To say, this is a letter written by me and can only be opened by the person that it's addressed to. The contents cannot be accepted or19:06 examined unless it goes to the person who it's written to. So here's what happens in salvation. You say yes to Jesus, and so God has a19:17 scroll. And so this scroll is called the lamb's book of life, according to the book of Revelation. God has a scroll and guess what gets put in the scroll when you say yes to Jesus? Your name.19:30 And when your name is written on that scroll, guess who seals the envelope? The Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit says, I was there that day19:42 when that person gave their life to Jesus Christ because they could not do it without the Holy Spirit. So the Holy Spirit seals the moment. Your life gets put into the19:53 contents of God's hand. And guess what? There is a day in which you and I will stand before God, and God will see the seal of the Holy Spirit on your life, and God will open it,20:05 and he will redeem the contents, which is you into Heaven. Which means no 1 can touch this letter. No 1 can open this letter. No 120:17 has the authority to alter this letter. And that is a statement that God would make to Satan and sin. That no 1 can touch your life. No 1 can inhibit your walk. No 120:29 can deter your faith, because the Holy Spirit has sealed you and you are God's promise. You are God's anointed. And you are God's chosen. That is20:41 fully a work of the Holy Spirit. You and I need the Holy Spirit. You can't be a Christian without the Holy Spirit. It's not possible. To be filled with the Holy Spirit apart20:52 from the gifts of the Spirit, which we'll talk about in some months, but apart from that salvation, the Holy Spirit is a requirement in salvation. It's like a boat with beautiful21:04 sails with no wind. That's a person's life. They live their life their whole life, and they could have very impressive things in their boat. They could have very pretty things in their boat. Their mask21:16 can look really nice and their sails can look really nice. But if you don't have the wind of the Holy Spirit in your life, you can't go anywhere. There's nowhere to go. And there's a reason why so many people, they21:28 feel like they're falling flat and they go, but look at my boat. My boat is beautiful. I got nice things in my boat. I got a retirement in my boat. I got cars in my boat. I got a beautiful family21:40 in my boat. But you don't have no wind. You don't have no pneuma. You don't have no ruach. We need the spirit of God to put wind in your sails to take you from glory to glory as21:52 the Bible just says. And so I encourage you today as that step is to follow Jesus, That step to confess to say, God, Jesus is the only 1 that can pin22:04 salvation over my heart. And the Holy Spirit is the only 1 that can seal that work. And the Father is the only 1 who can redeem that work. That's the goodness of God and that's the mercy of God. And so today,22:16 as we're about to partake in baptism, it's that second step to salvation. You say, God I follow you. I believe in you. The Bible says that then we outwardly get baptized to show the world this is22:27 significant to me because I'm not who I want you once was. It's a change. It's a change. Sometimes people ask is there something special in the water? No. Other than22:39 water and chlorine, there is nothing special in the water. But want to know what is special and what needs to be special is this heart. That's what's special. The fact that God has taken that heart of22:51 stone and he's given you a heart of flesh. And the fact that today, you're going to show the world that as we get baptized and we submerge under the water, it represents the 3 day the 3 day tomb experience that Jesus23:03 experienced. Then when you come out of the water, it represents the resurrection, which is the victory that Jesus has. And our pastors, they'll ask every single person inside and outside, do you confess Jesus Christ as23:14 your personal Lord and savior? Which you'll respond, yes. And then at that moment, we'll baptize you in the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit as the Bible tells us. Because this work today is not a work of man.23:25 It's not a work of Patriot Church. It's not a work of baptized California. Today, baptism is a work of God. Solely a work of God, and God is the only 1 who gets the credit for today.23:38 It's only a work of the spirit. And so as we celebrate God's goodness and mercy today, I just ask that as we do it, we worship together, and we sing together, and we celebrate23:49 God's goodness together, because you never leave a delivery room early. As people are being delivered into the kingdom and celebrating God's goodness and mercy, we celebrate that work today. And as we all24:01 prepare in some moments, we'll all lead together. We'll have plenty of time together. I encourage you that if towards the end, either myself or Pastor Diego will ask you, if you're here today, you've never been water24:11 baptized today, or you've never made Jesus your Lord and Savior, we have some clothes for you. So don't let that be an excuse as to not to follow Jesus or not to proclaim Jesus as Lord and Savior. I'm going to pray today24:23 and we'll jump into baptisms and worship together. Laura, we thank you for your goodness, God. We thank you for your spirit today, God, that has activated every person's life and heart who has said yes to Jesus. God,24:35 we all are part of the family of God when we call upon Jesus as Lord and savior. Only you, God, according to Romans 8, bring us into adoption. It's children of God. And it's only by the power of the Holy Spirit that has24:47 taken the works of flesh, that has taken our sin, and you've put it under your foot, God. So we thank you, Lord, that your spirit is alive today, not only in this church, but in the world24:58 today.25:02 See how they're scoring on us? Shots left and right.25:05 I know. They know our next play before we even make it.25:08 We gotta tighten up off the court too. Businesses track and sell our personal information. They dunk on us all the time with that data.25:15 Wait. What do you mean?25:16 You have to exercise your privacy rights. If you don't opt out of the sale and sharing of your information, businesses will always have the upper hand.25:23 The ball is in your court. Get your digital privacy game plan at privacy dot c a dot gov.In this video 0:00 The Power of Pentecost and the Holy Spirit
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