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Empowering multimedia ministry for bold Christian living: Weekend Messages, Deep End Podcast, Deep Dive Bible Study. Tim Hatch, Lead Pastor, Waters Church, 26 years of pastoral ministry, book author.
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0:00 You're listening to Waters Church podcast, where faith meets real life. Where 1 church, many locations, and 1 mission, to see lives changed by Jesus. No matter where you're listening from, you0:12 are a part of Waters Church family. Now let's dive into today's message from our pastor.0:20 We're gonna go to the book of Acts, and the title of my message in your bible, in your notes there, is New Year, New Power. Take out your notes. It looks like this. Fill in the blanks with0:32 us. We're talking about this day called the day of Pentecost. Acts chapter 2 verse 1, when the day of Pentecost arrived. But like I said, I don't like the ESV here. I like the NKJV.0:44 I think it translates this phrase a little bit better. When the day of Pentecost had fully come. So if you've got your notes out, when I underline, you underline. And we are gonna do some0:55 serious bible truth extraction today. Are you ready to go deep into the word? Well, Luke paints this picture of the day of Pentecost, summarizing the day1:07 the holy spirit descends. It says there was a sound from heaven, rushing wind, fire. Tongues of fire settle on the disciples' heart heads. They've been waiting and praying and wondering what's going on. Jesus has1:19 ascended to the father. They're changed. They start to speak in other tongues. These tongues are not gibberish. These are languages that other nations understand. The reason why people from other nations were there that1:31 day is because it was the day of Pentecost. This was a feast day of Israel. And so they came and they heard the glories of God. They wondered what was going on, and some people accused them of being drunk. And1:43 Peter stands up, and he preaches, and he says, it's 9 AM. We're not drunk. This is what the holy spirit this is what the Lord told us through the prophet Joel. He was gonna pour out his spirit in the last days. Your1:53 young sons and daughters will prophesy. Your old men will dream dreams. Your young men will see visions. And this is this is now happening, and you are hearing it now. And and then Peter Peter, who had a hard time2:05 testifying in front of a little 12 year old girl that he was with Jesus just a few weeks earlier, now he's telling the very people who handed Jesus over to the Romans to kill him that they, with their2:17 wicked hands, crucified the Lord of glory, but God has raised him up, and he has ascended to the right hand side of God the Father, and he has given the spirit which you now see and hear. And then he says, let this be2:29 known to all the house of Israel, that this Jesus whom you crucified, but whom God raised to life is both Lord and Christ. And they were cut to the heart. The very people who called2:40 for his crucifixion changed. They cry out to Peter, what shall we do? And he says, repent and be baptized every 1 of you for the forgiveness of your sins, and you will receive the Holy Spirit.2:52 This promise is for you and for all who are far off, anyone whom the Lord God calls to himself. In that day, 3000 people.3:04 3000 people. That's bigger than our church. 3000 people were added to their number in that day. Amazing thing. And it all starts on this powerful day3:15 called Pentecost. What is Pentecost? Let me summarize. Let me put this definition up on the screen for you. Here's what happened. God filled ordinary people with his spirit to declare the gospel resulting3:27 in changed hearts and a growing church. God filled ordinary people. You heard the scoffing of the crowd when I read the text. They said, aren't all these3:39 Galileans? I always think about Galileans when I think about Bostonians because Galileans were known, they were from the north of Israel, and they were known for their accent.3:52 Instead of saying clams, they said steamers. Instead of saying lobster, they said lobster. Right? They parked their car. So that's how they knew they4:04 were Galileans because of their accent. And yet they were unschooled, ordinary. They didn't go to Harvard. These were Southie boys.4:15 These were, you know, Matt Damon kind of kids, you know, Mark Wahlberg Cruise. And and they weren't they weren't educated. They weren't the smart elites of society.4:27 These were ordinary people. If there's an ordinary person in the house, give me a good amen. Amen. Alright. Good news. God fills ordinary people. And then he fills them to do what?4:39 To preach, to declare the gospel. For some of you, what you need more than ever in your life is boldness. Just boldness. Just a just a4:51 you know, our whole world is all about being who you are. This whole mess of our society. Everybody, be who you are. And the problem with that is nobody really knows who they are. And really, everybody's really5:03 just a big fat mess. And so we got a lot of people out there celebrating their mess, thinking that that's gonna make them happy. They're not happy. The depression rates are through the roof. Psychological problems5:13 through the roof. Mental illness through the roof. You can't celebrate who you are. Who you are needs to change. You need to celebrate who God is. You need to celebrate what God has done to change you.5:25 And the result of the gospel is changed hearts. Changed hearts and a growing church. That's what we want in 20 26. Changed hearts and a growing church. Now write5:37 this down for 20 26. Before anything else, I need holy spirit power. God the father, god the son, god the holy spirit. God the father, god the son dwell in heaven. God the holy spirit5:49 dwells in you. God the holy spirit does not stay in this building. He goes with you when you leave this building. You are the temple of the holy spirit. You need the power of the Holy6:01 Spirit before anything else. Single people, before you find a spouse, get the power of the Holy Spirit. The power of the Holy Spirit will give you gifts. 1 of those gifts is discernment.6:13 You I can't think of anything more important for a young person without a spouse than discernment. Discerning whether or not the guy is a real Christian or a fake. Whether or not the6:25 girl is really serving the Lord or is she a phony. We need discernment of spirits about what jobs we're gonna take. Maybe what house we're gonna buy. Where we're gonna live, what we're do. Who should be our6:37 friends? What should or should we not do? Now just a few moments ago, I referenced something about how I gave up alcohol. That was last year. That was how the Holy Spirit discerned something in my body.6:49 That is not our law. The Bible does not say thou shalt not drink alcohol. In fact, there are many passages that celebrate alcohol. There are many passages that warn about alcohol. What that is, is a matter of7:01 personal decision brought about through the Holy Spirit, working through you in a personal way to change you into what God wants you to7:13 be. It's not a it's not a 1 size fits all. Now there are some things in the bible that are cut and dry. They are black and white. Sex outside of marriage, that is black and white, is sin.7:25 Any sexual morality outside of marriage is sin. Adultery is a sin. The the the stealing is a sin. Murder and hatred, these things, they're sinful inclinations. Those are black7:37 and white. But but the holy spirit guards you and guides you through the gray areas, the debatable matters. And I I wanna say thank you holy spirit for telling me that last year, and maybe this7:49 year for me is caffeine. Maybe I'm gonna be done with caffeine this year. By God's grace, if he wants me to go in that direction. But what I'm trying to say is I'm not here telling you now caffeine is evil. The bible7:58 doesn't say that. No. No. No. What I'm saying is that the holy spirit is leading me through discernment for what is good for me. Likewise, I believe that some of you, this is where you are the most desperate in8:10 your life. You need the Holy Spirit to start telling you what's good for you. And hear this, what he tells you is not good for you.8:23 Amen. What he tells you is not good for you. That could very well be perfectly fine for somebody else, but God is saying that's not good for you. And8:35 what this is the power of the holy the leading of the holy spirit. This is what God wants to do with you. So how do we get ahold of this power? Okay. Number 1, write this down. God's power comes to comes to those who8:46 come together. Notice the framing of Luke's words in Acts chapter 2 verse 1. The day of Pentecost had come, fully come, and they were8:58 all with 1 accord in 1 place. Back to the ESV. They were all together in 1 place. Get together. You want God to work in your life? Get together.9:10 Join us. Congratulations. You came together today. Those of you online, next week. Or first Tuesday, which is this Tuesday, except Apollo Beach9:22 is next Tuesday. But we're not calling it first Tuesday. We're calling it together Tuesday. All of our locations together here this Tuesday, except for Apollo Beach, next Tuesday. Confusing, I understand,9:34 but just show up this Tuesday. Come together. Show up at church. Some of you, this was your New Year's resolution. Gotta get back to God. Gotta get back into the church. Wonderful.9:46 Glad you're here. Do it in March. Do it in June. When the weather's nice and the beach is calling your name,9:58 come to church. Go to the beach after. Right? This is important. You need community. We got small groups for10:10 this very reason. Come together outside of the weekend experience. Get with other because you never know what what's God what God's gonna do when you get together with other people. Now in the book of Acts,10:22 the framing is the day of Pentecost. Pentecost. You have to understand that Pentecost was a Jewish feast. It was 1 of 3 pilgrimage feasts10:34 for the people of Israel. Pentecost was 1 of 3 pilgrimage feasts for the people of Israel. Now God stipulated in the law that there were to be 3 separate feast days on which all their males this10:46 is Deuteronomy 16 16. All your males shall appear before the Lord your God. Now males also includes wives and children. So all your males shall appear before the Lord your God at the place that he would choose 3 times a10:57 year. The feast of unleavened bread, the feast of weeks, which is another name for Pentecost or in the Hebrew, Shavuot, and the feast of booths. 3 times a year. Oh, by the way, I just want you to check this out.11:09 3 feasts a year, God is in favor of eating. So this is just temporary right now. We have plenty of time to eat11:21 later. But God loves feast. God loves togetherness. God God loves Thanksgiving with the family. Just like America has Thanksgiving and Easter and July fourth and Chris well, Israel had11:32 3 big holidays. There was actually 7 feasts. 3 of them, though, you would travel to Jerusalem. Now the feast of unleavened bread, there was a day before this called11:44 Passover. That was actually the first feast on the calendar, and this was the feast this was the spring feast. So you would have Passover, which celebrated the time when God passed over the Israelites because they had11:55 the blood of the lamb on their doorposted lintels, and the death angel swept through Egypt and killed all the firstborn, including the firstborn of pharaoh that broke the back of pharaoh's stubborn will. Pharaoh gets up12:06 in the morning, sees his dead son, says, get out. Just get away from me. I don't want you anymore. And the and the slaves are set free. Hey. Jesus is crucified. If you got your notes, write this down. Jesus is crucified12:17 on Passover or on the feast of unleavened bread. Because the the Passover came before the feast of unleavened bread, the next day would be the first day of the 7 day12:29 feast. Here's something else that is not in this text, but there was another feast, so you would have the feast of Passover, unleavened bread, 7 day celebration, but then on the first Sunday12:42 of unleavened bread, they had a feast called first fruits. Now on that day, they would take a barley sheaf. Barley was the poor man's12:53 food, but it was also the earlier harvest in the harvest season of Israel in the spring. And they would wave it before the Lord, a barley sheaf. And they would say, the first13:05 fruits go to God. This was on does anybody remember? I just said it. On the first Sunday, the day after Sabbath for Jews, of13:17 the unleavened bread feast. Okay. Jesus is put to death on Passover because Jesus is the true lamb of God who13:29 was slain for the salvation of the world. That if you have the blood of the lamb applied to your life, the deaf angel doesn't take you, you are13:41 spared, you are saved, you are redeemed, you are alive in Jesus. Now you remember that they couldn't go to the tomb the next13:53 day because it was the Sabbath. They don't go. But they show up on what day? Sunday. And they see Jesus as a rose. Guess what that day was?14:05 First fruits. While the barley sheaf was being offered to God in the temple, the true barley sheaf remember Jesus was poor, and Jesus is the first fruits of our14:17 salvation because the scripture says, because he rose, he is the first his resurrection is the first fruit of our resurrection. Because he rose, we too will rise. And he rose on first fruit. So Jesus14:29 was crucified on Passover, he rose on first fruits, now you count off 7 weeks and add a day, and you get 50, which is where we get the word14:41 Pentecost from. It just means 50 days, Pentecost. Another term for the feast of weeks. 7 weeks. 7 times 7 49 plus 1 50. There you go. We get the 50, the feast of14:52 weeks. The spirit was given on the day of Pentecost. Now, which is this is this is incredibly ironic. Do you know what the15:04 Jews were celebrating or commemorating around the time of Christ at the feast of Pentecost? Couple things. First, the priest, he would bake15:16 2 loaves of bread with leaven, with yeast, and he would offer those 2 loaves to the Lord. Remember that they celebrated the feast of unleavened bread for 7 days. That's a that's a symbol of no sin. Leaven was a15:27 symbol of sin. Yeast is a symbol of sin. No sin in the bread. No leaven in the bread. No sin in your life. Okay. Now here's a question. Can any of us do that?15:41 No. Can Jesus? Yeah. He did it. He fulfilled the feast of unleavened bread. Because he is the sinless he if you will, the15:52 sinless bread from heaven that came to us. And he rose and he was offered to God and he and he came and he offered himself to us. Now on Pentecost, they offered 216:04 loaves with leaven to the Lord. Leaven is a picture of sin. Here's what that means. God is going to build a church, and unfortunately, that church is gonna have some16:16 leaven. There's always gonna be a little sin in your life. No matter how hard you try, there's always gonna be you're always gonna think a thought you shouldn't think, you're always gonna do an action you really16:26 shouldn't do, and you know it, and you're convicted, and you hate it, but you still do it. That is the church. Now why would there be 2 loaves? Why would there be 2 loaves on the day of Pentecost? Because God has 216:36 people, The people of the Jews and the people of the Gentiles. And on the day of Pentecost, the languages were spoken to the to the nations about the mighty works of God as16:48 the spirit gave them utterance, and now that message of the gospel was gonna go beyond the Jews to the Gentiles. Jew and Gentile are now 1 new family of God through the Lord Jesus Christ.17:00 Amen. 2 loaves, always mixed with a little bit of sin. We need to work that out. That takes time. But we come through the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ and through the work of the spirit to this day on17:11 Pentecost. Now, back to my question. What did they commemorate on the day of Pentecost? The giving of the law, which is kind of weird. Because when the law was given, it wasn't a very happy17:23 day for Israel. In fact, I can take you to it. It's back in Exodus chapter 32. Very dark day in Israel's history. Because Moses is up on a mountain getting the17:35 law. He's getting the 10 commandments. The people see that he's delayed. Exodus 31 verse 32 verse 1. And they say to Aaron, his brother, make us17:47 gods so that we can worship them. And and Aaron does this. He fashions from their gold rings and all of their jewelry. He fashions 2 golden calves. And the bible17:58 says that the people worship these calves, and verse 6 says, they rose up early the next day and offered burnt offerings and brought peace offerings, and the people sat down to eat and drink and rose up to18:10 play. And the Lord knows this is going on with Moses up on the mountain. And for a moment, God disowns them. He says to Aaron, he says to Moses, the Lord said to Moses,18:22 go down for your people. You know what this is? This is like when the wife says to the husband, did you see what your son did?18:35 That's what this is. God's having a parent moment. He's not mine. Right? Whom you brought out of the land of Egypt for they have corrupted themselves. And long story short, Moses18:47 descends, and he he sees the people are going crazy, and he calls everyone who's on the Lord's side to come to him. The Bible says in verse 28, the sons of Levi, that's the tribe that18:59 that Moses is from, they came and did according to the word of of Moses, and they put to death, look at this, 3000 of the men of Israel fell. Now ironically,19:12 the day Israel got the law, people died. This is not this is not without intention on God's part.19:23 This is teaching us a theological truth about the law that so many of us don't get, but the Bible makes clear. You19:35 can't do the law. I can't do the law. All19:47 the law does is show me how bad I really am. Are you following this? This is gonna set you free in just a moment. Just give me time.20:00 This is in the if people would bother reading the bible, they would know that this is what the bible actually says about the law. So let me show20:12 you a couple passages. In the book of Romans chapter 4 verse 15, Paul says, for the law brings wrath.20:24 I thought that God wanted us just to obey. Well, he does, but he knows you can't. He knows that it's your heart level. You see, the problem is not what you do, the problem is your heart.20:36 The problem is not your habits, the problem is your heart. The problem is not your marriage, the problem is your heart. At your heart level, there is a a compass that is offset from true20:48 north. So you're always going in the wrong direction. And because of the law, it brings around. Paul will bemoan this in his own life in Romans chapter 7 when he says in this chapter in verse 10 well, verse20:59 9. He says, when I I was alive apart from the law. I was okay until I grew up and I realized what the law said. Then the commandment came, sin came alive, and I21:11 died. And the very commandment that promised life proved to be death to me. What are you saying, pastor? Here's what I'm saying. The law21:23 is intended to kill you. What do you mean? Kill your self righteousness. Kill your sense that you're21:35 a good person on your own. You're not. And you know you're not. That's why you're at church. We're all bad people.21:47 That's why we came today. And to the people who didn't come, do you know why they didn't come? Because they know they're bad people. No. Really, that's really it. That that that's why21:59 people don't come here. Because they oh, I know. The day I go to church is the day the roof caves in. Why? Because you know you're a bad person. Why? Because you've heard the law. Don't kill, don't cheat, don't commit22:11 adultery. How about what Jesus does with the law? He elevates it. He says, hey, I'm not talking about just touching a woman who's not your wife. I'm talking about even looking lustfully. He said, I'm not talking about22:22 killing your brother, I'm talking about even being angry in your heart against your brother. You've already broken the law. Don't you see? Sin is that deep. Oh, to the people who22:34 are not yet saved. I hope you hear me today. Sin is that deep. It's a disease that you can't fix, that the doctor cannot cure, that a scalpel cannot cut22:46 out of your life, that a therapist cannot work out with enough conversation. Sin only has 1 solution, and the solution is the blood of Jesus22:58 Christ that washes away every stain of sin. It's an internal work that God wants to do in you. The work of God's grace, miracle working23:09 power. Because even the apostle Paul, a Pharisee, a religious leader, an elite member of Hebrew society in his day says, when I heard the commandment, I died to myself. Sin seizing23:21 an opportunity through the commandment deceived me, and through it, it killed me. So the law is holy. The commandment has been holy. And all this is true about the law, but what the law does is it defeats our ability to23:33 save ourselves so that we find ourselves in need of a savior. Write this down so I know you're getting it. The purpose of the law is to kill. The purpose of the23:45 spirit is to resurrect those who are defeated by the law. Oh, I I want you to understand the gospel, friend. The gospel is not do better. The gospel is23:56 not stop sinning. The gospel is not check the boxes of going to church and saying your prayers and doing your little spiritual24:08 rituals. The gospel is Jesus Christ is the true unleavened bread, the true sinless bread from heaven that was crucified, was buried, was raised24:20 to life, and now sends the Holy Spirit into anyone who believes on him for the forgiveness of their sins. The only thing necessary to get24:32 saved today is to know you're a sinner and you can't do the law. Isn't that good news? Because the moment you come to that realization, God accepts you through faith in Jesus Christ, his son. All24:44 of this part of God's cosmic calendar on the day of Pentecost. I could go on, and I could take you to Galatians Galatians chapter 3 verse 23 when Paul says,24:56 before faith came, we were held captive where? Under the law, imprisoned until the coming of faith would be revealed. So then the law was our guardian. This is a word for teacher until Christ came. The25:08 law was pointing us to our need for Christ. Pastor, I can't stop these habits because you need Christ. Pastor, I have so much animosity towards this people25:19 group. That's because you need Christ. Pastor, I've got these these addictions. I I don't have any freedom from. You need Christ. Hallelujah. He's the solution.25:31 He's the answer. He's the 1 who can set you free from you and from every compulsive desire that is out to destroy you. So Paul tells us back25:43 to his monologue in Romans chapter 7, he turns the page on Romans chapter 8, and he says, therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are where? In Christ. For the law of the spirit of life has25:55 set you free from the law of sin and death through Jesus Christ. Now in Christ Jesus, you stand uncondemned. Sinful, yes, and still uncondemned because26:06 Christ bore your sins on the tree. You say that's not fair. Exactly right, my friend. It's grace. It's grace. Now back to my26:18 discussion from 0.1 as I've been jumping around a lot. Pentecost is part of 3 annual feasts that you were supposed to celebrate by going to Jerusalem if you were a devout26:30 Jewish man and with your family. And I just want you to think about this. Jesus was crucified on Passover, rose on first fruits, and the spirit was poured out, you can write that down in your notes, on the feast of weeks26:42 or on Pentecost. Check this out. If you were alive in the year this all happened as a Jew and you did the work necessary to get to the26:54 feast of unleavened bread and the feast of weeks, you would have personally seen Jesus Christ crucified, Jesus Christ resurrected, and the spirit poured out on the church.27:06 Here's here's the big point. Come together. Show up. You want God's power in your life? I'm gonna tell you how you're not gonna get it. By hanging27:18 out with pagans all week and giving no time to the church. You you gotta hang out with pagans. You can't not be around pagans. Some of you got friends as pagans, and that's fine. Family as pagans. Maybe some of you27:29 live with pagans. You say, I don't have anybody in my life who's a pagan. That's because you are a pagan. You need Christ.27:41 Pagans are everywhere. You you can't do life in the power of the holy spirit completely on your own. Even Jesus didn't send them out 1 by 1. He sent them out 2 by27:53 2. When Paul and Barnabas go out to the mission field, they go together. Paul actually goes to 1 place in Troas, and he says, I found no rest there because my brother Titus wasn't with28:05 me. You're not gonna have rest in a culture that hates God if you do life alone. Show up. Turn to your neighbor and say, show up. Show up. So28:17 that's why we put on that's why we put on all these morning worship sessions for you. And I know you got to get to work, but maybe what you could do is get earlier, get dressed for work, come here, worship28:29 God with us, and then go to work after worship. How could your atmosphere at work change if you came to work out of an atmosphere of worship? Whoo. Now I'm preaching.28:41 Give God your first. Get into life if you're not in the life group yet, get into life group. Come together. Because I don't know how God is gonna move in your life when you show up, but I know 100 percent28:53 he won't move if you don't. So come together and receive all that God wants to do in your life. Oh, I I do have to say this29:05 just so that we can kinda finish off this little teaching on the feast. You probably are saying, well, what about the feast of booths? When did that happen? It hasn't yet. Just like the Passover,29:17 unleavened bread, and first fruits go together, there are 3 feasts. These are the fall feasts, by the way. So these are the spring feasts. These are the fall feasts. And before the feast of booze is the day of trumpets,29:28 where they sounded the trumpet, and then the day of atonement follows that, where they sacrificed the lamb after pronouncing all the sins of the nation on it and sent it into the wilderness. And then the29:40 feast of booze where they gathered in booze and shelters around the temple for a week and just celebrated, had a big old party. Friends, the Bible says that Jesus is coming back at the trumpet of29:52 God. When he comes back, he's wiping sin off the face of the earth, and we are gonna live in the rooms prepared for us forever in the30:04 presence of almighty God. Now now just a heads up for all of you prognosticators on when Jesus is coming. Jesus died on30:16 Passover, which is around March and the spring feast, March or April, depending on when, you know, the solar thing happens. And the Pentecost Pentecost is still 50 days after that. The feast of trumpets is in30:27 September. So all I'm saying is, around September, get yourself right every year. You you should be looking up a little bit more in September than30:39 any other time of the year. I know Jesus said no man knows the day or the hour, but he didn't say no man knows the month. All that to say this, come together, be30:51 prepared, grow together, experience the presence of the holy spirit in community. Number 2, God's power comes on those who wait upon him. You say, pastor, I've been in church for a long time. I haven't experienced the31:02 holy spirit power. Just wait. Wait with anticipation. That's what the disciples had to do. In Luke chapter 24 verse 49, Jesus says, behold, am sending the promise of the father, but stay in the31:14 city until you are clothed with power from on high. In acts chapter 1, a continuation of Luke's gospel, very same thing. Verse 4, it says, while staying with them, he ordered them not to leave the31:26 city. They needed to be where God wanted them to be. Wait until the promise of the father, which he said you heard from me, for John baptized with water, but you will be baptized with the holy spirit not many days from31:37 now. What do they need to do? They needed to stay, and they needed to wait. Now I don't know about you, but I hate to wait. I hate to wait. Those of you who have the gift of patience, oh, I envy you. You31:49 you know, when I'm sitting at the red light and and the person in front of me doesn't move when that light turns green. You all know what a honk a second32:01 is? A honk a second is the amount of time you give the person in front of you before you start honking after the light turns green. Now for some of you, it's 3 or 4 seconds. For me, it's about a half a second.32:13 Go. Get off your phone. Let's move. I hate to wait. We hate to wait. And we are being conditioned in our culture not to wait. Amazon is gonna start32:25 flying drones over our houses to drop off toothpaste seconds after we order it. It's only getting worse. Our disease for impatience is only gonna get worse. Hey,32:37 listen. It doesn't work that way in the kingdom. God is patient. God has a time. A time for everything. For some of you, you've never experienced the power of the holy spirit. Let me just say this, your time is32:48 coming. But it won't come if you don't show up and wait. Show up and wait. When I was a young boy, I was privileged to have the holy spirit power upon me when I was 12 years old.33:00 12. And I did. I spoke in other tongues. I felt the fire of the holy spirit all over my body. It was an amazing moment. Changed my life forever. How can your life change that much after 12? It changed.33:12 Let me tell you something. The holy spirit wrecked high school for me. I was the weirdest, awkwardest, most crazy, corny, gospel loving33:24 child you ever seen. But God spared me from so much damage that high school could do to you. That's the power of the holy spirit. But I had to wait. You have to wait. Some of you, you33:36 haven't given God enough time of seeking him, praying with us, fasting with us, going after God, until he moves. Now the disciples had a problem with waiting because verse 6, it says this.33:48 He just told him to wait in Jerusalem, so then he said, hey, Lord. Are you gonna restore the kingdom of Israel now? Are you gonna bring us back to our former glory? And and Jesus is like, oy. Oy vey. Here we go. It's not33:59 for you, verse 7, he says, to know the times and the seasons. That's my father's business. The the Lord is in charge, listen to me, especially today. The Lord is in charge of the34:11 governments of men. Don't freak out about that. Get informed, but understand that the Lord is in charge of the governments. He knows what he's doing. You34:24 get power in the Holy Spirit because you got neighbors, you got friends, you got family members that need a Holy Spirit empowered you in your in their life. And then he says, and you will be my witnesses through this34:36 power in Jerusalem, Judea, Samaria, other places. You're gonna go to strangers. You're gonna go places you've never been before. And the book of acts outlines that as the gospel goes through Judea and onto Samaria and to34:46 the nations through the apostle Paul. But you got to wait. Hey, write this down so I know you're getting this thought. Waiting on God is not doing nothing. It's refusing to move without him.34:58 It's all I know what I want to do. I know what God has set my life up to do. I have this in my heart. I have a burning passion, but I'm not gonna do it until the Holy Spirit fills me. I'm gonna ask for the Holy Spirit.35:09 I'm gonna seek the Holy Spirit. I'm gonna pray for the Holy Spirit, and I'm gonna ask more than I've ever asked before that God move in my life through the power of the Holy Spirit. What could he do in you? Isaiah35:21 chapter 40 verse 31 says, they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength. They shall mount up with wings as eagles. They shall run and not grow weary. They shall walk and not faint. In other words, you're going35:30 to be empowered to move, to fly, to soar through the Holy Spirit. But you gotta come together, you gotta wait, and here's number 3. God's power comes to those who surrender to35:42 him. Come, wait, surrender. Come, wait, surrender. So the apostles are waiting, and the scripture says in Acts chapter35:54 2, and just check this out, a sound from heaven like a mighty rushing wind filled the entire house where they were sitting, and it divided as tongues of fire appeared to36:06 them and rested on each 1 of them. Wind and fire are the images that the bible uses when the tabernacle and the temple are dedicated. Moses dedicates the tabernacle. This was a a36:17 makes a makeshift tent where God dwelt in the wilderness with his people. Solomon comes along, builds the temple, this immaculate gold plated structure in in first Kings.36:30 When Moses dedicates the temple, fire, wind fill the temple. Fire from heaven and wind. When Solomon a tabernacle. When Solomon dedicates the temple, fire and wind fill the temple,36:42 and everybody is blown away. Hey, this time, fire and wind divided and rested on each 1 of them. What's the picture? Now you, the church, are the temple36:54 of the holy spirit where God dwells in you and not in a building made by men. Powerful stuff. But they received this as they were37:05 filled with the holy spirit. Filled. Now just check something out with me real quick. In the book of John chapter 20, on the morning of the resurrection, the scripture says37:17 that Jesus says, peace be with you, verse 21, as the father sent me, I'm sending you. And when he had said this, he breathed on them and said to them, receive the Holy37:29 Spirit. At that moment, the disciples were saved. At that moment, the disciples received the Holy Spirit, and the Holy Spirit dwelt in them. And you don't get half the Holy Spirit.37:42 You get the whole Holy Spirit. When you get saved, you get the Holy Spirit. Amen? Understand that? The Holy Spirit dwells in those who believe by faith in Jesus Christ. So37:54 what's the deal then with the fact that those same people, 10 days later or 50 days later, were filled with the holy spirit? They received it in John38:06 chapter 20 on the morning of resurrection, but they were filled with it on the day of Pentecost. I gotta illustrate this with a with a picture so that you understand, a little prop, if you don't mind.38:20 The scriptures often use water as a symbol of the holy spirit. I'm gonna do that for you as well. And this is gonna really set some people free today. This is really gonna show some people clearly what is lacking in your38:31 life. This is you before Christ. You're empty. You got nothing to give, nothing to offer. Consequently, the world has all kinds of nonsense38:43 to offer you, to fill you up with. The word filled in this context means to be controlled by. That's the theme of this word. It's not it's not just an info,38:55 it's a controlling influence. Let me ask you a question right now. What's your controlling influence? If greed is your controlling influence, you'll be all about getting money. If lust is your controlling39:07 influence, you'll be controlled by sexual morality. If carnality and materialism is your controlling if you're filled with this, you're gonna be always unhappy, always dissatisfied, always jealous and envious of otherShow more
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