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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 I'm going to ask you to stand as we read a few scriptures this morning. And0:04 then we're going to share a word from the Lord. The first verse that I'm going to read is Acts chapter 2 verse 38 and 39.0:18 This is the first message that is was preached to the true church. The very first message. And it is still the message of the church today.0:31 Then Peter said to them, repent and let everyone of you be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of your sins, and you shall receive the gift0:43 of the Holy Spirit. For the promise is to you and to your children and to all who are afar off, and as many as the Lord our God will call. I want you to0:55 notice there are 3 things, not 2. It's not just repentance and water baptism. Doesn't end there. It's repentance, water baptism,1:07 and then baptism in the Holy Spirit. The church desperately needs the Holy Spirit today. So we need to act on that verse of scripture. Matthew 3 11,1:19 it says, I indeed bapt John the Baptist, I indeed baptize you with water unto repentance, but he who is coming after me is mightier than I, whose sandals I am not worthy1:31 to carry. He will baptize you with the Holy Ghost and fire. John 7 30 eight-thirty 9, he who believes in me, as1:43 the scripture has said, out of his innermost being shall flow rivers of living water. This spoke he of the Holy Spirit, whom those believing in him would receive,1:55 for the Holy Spirit was not yet given because Jesus was not yet glorified. Then an exhortation in Ephesians to the church, do not be drunk with2:07 wine in which there is dissipation, but be ye filled with the spirit, Speaking to 1 another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and2:19 making melody in your heart to the Lord. Then also, Acts one:eight, but you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you to be my2:30 witnesses. In Jerusalem, Judea, Samaria, and the uttermost parts of the world. Zechariah 4 6, so he answered and said to me, this is the word of the Lord to2:42 Zerubbabel. Not by might nor by power, but by my spirit, saith the Lord. Father, we thank you this morning that we can freely2:54 gather in this place to worship your name and to receive your word. We thank you for your word which is which never will pass away. For you said your word is an everlasting3:06 word. Heaven and earth shall change, but the word of the Lord will endure forever. So we pray for the anointing of your word this morning. We also pray for the anointing of each heart that people may3:18 receive the word of life. That our lives may be transformed. That we may bring honour and glory to your name. We thank you for this privilege. And we pray this morning in3:30 every campus that your name will be exalted and glorified. Amen. Amen. God bless you. You may be seated.3:44 In 1 John 4, the Bible speaks the John speaks about there will be many spirits and don't listen to every spirit. Then he speaks about3:56 the spirit of the antichrist. And he says this spirit is already here now. That was when John wrote that book. At that particular time, the spirit of the4:08 Antichrist was already in the world. But today, he's more visible than ever before. If there's ever been a generation of people that ever4:20 that see just how awful and wicked the spirit of the Antichrist is, we are those people. And so the the Antichrist spirit is all4:32 over the world right at this moment, and he's becoming very very bold. What you and I must understand that the spirit of the antichrist has 1 goal and 1 purpose,4:44 that is to remove God from the face of the earth. The antichrist spirit is against the word of God. He's against the church, every believer.4:56 He's anti God, anti holy spirit, anti Jesus, and that spirit is in the world today. He wants to eradicate everything that speaks of the5:08 God of the Bible, and because of that, the church needs to wake up. We need to not only sing about the Holy Spirit, but we need to be men and women that are full5:20 of the Holy Spirit. Every single day when we get up, we need to ask the Holy Spirit to fill us, so that we can be overflowing with rivers of living water.5:32 Just as Tim spoke last week, he spoke about Shadrach, Meshach, Abednego, and he spoke about the boldness of those 3 young men, when they were threatened, and they were thrown into a fire,5:45 fiery furnace heated 7 times hotter than ever before, because they would not bow to the idol of Nebuchadnezzar. They said this, and they were bold, they were5:56 bold, they stood for what they believed in, and the exhortation from Tim last week was that we all become bold and strong in the Lord, and not tossed to and fro by every wind of6:08 doctrine, and that we don't bow the knee to those that hate God, but that we stand. When they were threatened, those 3 young boys, they said, we will not6:20 bow, O king, our God is able to deliver us, and if not, we still will not bow. That's faith,6:32 we still will not bow. They threw them into that furnace, and when they looked in, said, didn't we throw in 3? Now we see 4, and the fourth is under this looks like the6:44 son of man. You see, Jesus was with them in the fire. I wanna tell you this morning, if you and I make a bold stand for the Lord Jesus Christ in these days,6:56 the fourth man will be with us. Hallelujah. So I wanna just share a little bit about the power7:08 of the Holy Spirit. At this very moment, the church is very well equipped, I'm not speaking particularly of Warder's church, I'm speaking generally. We have everything, we have the best7:20 preachers, the best music, we have everything of the best. What we still desperately need is men and women to be full of the spirit of God. There's7:32 a tragic story in the Old Testament, because what you've got to understand about God, God never hides things. He reveals the good and the bad. He reveals people's weakness7:44 as well as their strength. And he does this so that we can learn by their mistakes. And this tragic story in the Old Testament is the story of Samson.7:55 An angel came to the wife of Benoah and said, you are going to have a son. You will call him Samson because he will begin to deliver8:08 God's people from the hands of the Philistines. You see, God's people had a major problem in the old covenant. 1 moment, they were serving God and they were bowing down to his8:19 commandments. They were walking in obedience, and they were experiencing great blessing from God. But the very next moment, they were bowing to idols and worshiping idols, and every time they turned their8:31 back on God and they worshiped idols, God allowed the enemy to come in and to take them into bondage. And they would suffer. You see that right from the very beginning. And then they suffer under their8:43 taskmaster, and they cry unto the Lord for deliverance, and they pray for the Lord to come and set them free, and God sends a deliverer. Garrett was the same case, and8:55 Samson was to be a deliverer. He was anointed by the spirit of God. Samson did great things. His name9:07 Samson means sunlight because he brought us a ray of hope in the dark era of Israel's history. And so here we find this man, eventually he's grown up and he's anointed by9:18 the spirit of God. He does remarkable things. The number 1, he kills a lion with his bare hands. Not only that, he rounds up 300 foxes, ties9:30 their tails together, and puts a torch between them and burns down the crops of the Philistines. The Bible says he slew 30 men of Ashkelon.9:42 Because they got the secret out of his wife, and he he had to pay them garments for that. And so he kills them. The Bible says, he kills 1000 men with the9:54 jawbone of an ass. It says when he came back to his wife 1 day, the father-in-law said, because you were gone, I gave your wife to somebody else. Samson was furious, and there's a10:06 great slaughter. He pulls down those pillars of that great temple, so that thousands of people lost their lives. So Samson, right throughout his life, was a man that was moved by the spirit10:17 of God. Every single time when you read it, you see the spirit of the Lord came upon Samson, and Samson did these great things. He was moved by God's10:29 spirit. But then he messes around and he fools around all of his life. He doesn't walk in the light. He doesn't obey. He was a Nazarite. A Nazarite is not a10:41 Nazarene. Nazarenes came from Nazareth. But the Nazarites were a group of people who were fully dedicated to God. They made vows to God. And Samson10:53 breaks those vows. And the Bible says, if you make a vow unto the Lord, see that you don't break that vow because God does not delight in fools.11:05 And Samson breaks the vows 1 after the other until Delilah finds a secret of his strength. And she says, Samson, what is your strength? And he tells her something else.11:16 And she winds and dines him, and he falls asleep, and she gets the Philistines to come in, and she says, Samson, Samson, the Philistines are upon you. The bible says11:28 he got up and he slew them. Later on, tries again. Samson, few times she tries, then he gives her a different story.11:41 And every time he gets up and he overcomes the Philistines. But when he eventually tells us because he's long hair, she cuts off his hair. And the Bible says, she says to the the Philistines to come and11:53 to arrest him, and they come. And she says, Samson, Samson, the Philistines are upon you. And the Bible says he got up and he thought he will do as he always did, but he did not know that the spirit of God12:05 had departed from him. Departed from him. What you sow, you reap. And Samson mistaken, the mighty12:17 deliverer of Israel, God's champion. Eyes are taken out. He's bound. No longer can he break the12:29 chains, and he's grinding in the prison house. The man that God sent to deliver his people. And 1 day they all12:40 gathered in their big arena, and they said, send out Samson that he may make sport for us. They bring Samson into that arena. Now he's the fool of Israel.12:53 They cheer him and they jeer him and they're laughing at him. He's blind. He's bound. And he'd been grinding in the prison house. And then he gets a little boy to lead him to the pillars that13:05 holds that upholds that whole place. Puts his arms between the 2 pillars, he looks to God and he says, God, give me my strength back 1 more time,13:17 that I may avenge these people for what they've done to me. The bible says, he pulled those pillars down, and he killed more people in his death than in his13:29 life. Do you think for 1 moment that God's plan and purpose for this mighty deliverer was to die like that? In fact, what's quite amazing, whenever the spirit of God13:41 came upon Samson, it was always because of Samson's desires, not because of the will of God. And even here, at the end of his life, when he asked God to13:53 return that power, he's not thinking of God's purpose, He's thinking of himself. He's saying that I may avenge me, myself, that I may avenge myself for these people. Nonetheless, the grace of14:04 God gives him that power to do that. Because in doing that, even though he walked in disobedience, God's will and purpose was still fulfilled. Let me tell you this14:16 morning, if you and I are not willing to fulfill God's purpose and God's plan, it's still gonna go ahead. It will still go ahead. And so here we find this man Samson in this14:28 terrible condition. And I wanna say to all the campuses this morning, if we reject the Holy Spirit, if we brush him aside, if we take no note of him, if we14:40 think his foolishness when he moves among us, we will end up like Samson, blind, pound, and grinding. We cannot afford to join14:52 those religious people who are always talking bad about the Holy Spirit. Cheering at him, laughing at him, saying his mockery when he begins to move and does things which we don't15:03 understand. We have to have open hearts for God's spirit, that he can do what he wants to do. Now I want to tell you it's a terrible thing when the spirit of God has departed. Let me tell you this morning.15:15 There are many churches functioning this morning without the spirit of God. They are so slicker, they are so smart. They know just how to run that programme. But there's no room for the Holy15:27 Spirit. There's no place for the spirit of God. When you go to the book of Revelation and there's the consummation of all things, when God speaks to 7 churches, there are no 7 churches represent15:39 the churches of all time. He commends them for the good things, but he also rebukes them for certain things. To the 1 church he says, you, I have this against you, you've lost or you've left your15:50 first love. Repent. To another church, he says, You think you're rich, but you're poor. To another church, he says, You think you're doing well.16:03 You think you rely. Your programs are great, smart, dynamic, and you think you're alive, but you're dead. You're dead. You see,16:15 there needs to be room for God's spirit, and the room is in your heart and my heart. We need to open our lives for the Holy Spirit, and so there's the tragedy, did not even know16:27 that the spirit of God had left him. I've seen over the many years in ministry, men that God blessed and anointed, And then they start getting smart with the Holy Spirit. They start playing games with the Holy Spirit.16:39 Throwing cloths on people and jackets on people so that they can fall down and they say it's the Holy Spirit. But they did not know the Holy Spirit has already departed. Does not get involved in foolishness.16:51 And so that's a tragedy. That's a tragedy. No. You know the the wonderful thing is God's grace. God could have looked away and said Samson I'm done with you. But when you17:03 go to the book of Hebrews chapter 11, and you read about the great heroes of faith, you'll find Samson's name there. What is what is the difference between disaster and your name17:15 written in the book of heroes? God's grace. God's grace. Jesus was a man just like you and I.17:27 The bible teaches that he laid down his prerogatives as God, and he became a man. Every temptation you and I experienced, Jesus experienced. And he was a man just like you and I.17:39 For 30 years, there's no not much talk about him. There's no miracles. There's nothing, really. But after 30 years, when he's 30 years old, he goes down to the river Jordan, he's baptized by John the17:51 Baptist. John the Baptist spoke about him early on, he said, the 1 that's coming after me is greater than I, and he's gonna baptize you with the Holy Ghost and with fire. And John the18:03 Baptist John the Baptist baptizes Jesus, and the Bible says, as he comes up out of the water, heaven opens up, and the voice of the father says, this is my beloved son in whom I am well pleased. And18:14 immediately, the holy spirit descends upon him in a form of a dove. And by the way, there is the trium God. God the father speaking from heaven, God the son standing in in the water, and God the18:26 holy spirit descending upon Jesus. And Jesus was then anointed by the spirit of God. And from there he's driven into the18:38 wilderness. To be tempted of the devil. The Holy Spirit took him there. It was a time of testing. The devil came with all these things and tried to get18:49 Jesus to to slip up and to fall but he stood. Kept on saying it is written. It is written. It is written. He overcame. He defeated the devil in the wilderness. And by the way, when he was in the wilderness, he19:01 was hungry. He was thirsty, and he was lonely. That's when the devil attacked him. But he defeated him. The Bible says the devil left for a later time. And so19:13 Jesus, filled with the Holy Spirit, then begins to do miracles. He begins power evangelism. The miracles that Jesus did was not to draw19:25 attention to himself, but to draw attention to the gospel of God, and he performs all these miracles, but he says this in 1 place. He says, the spirit of the Lord is19:36 upon me. He has anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor, to heal the broken heart, to proclaim liberty to the captives, to restore sight to the blind, to free19:48 those that are oppressed. He says that's why the anointing is upon me. So the church must open for that anointing to flow so that the will of God can be done among people.20:00 People are oppressed. People are brokenhearted. People are lost. People are bound. People in all these issues and problems of their lives, and it's only the Holy Spirit that can set them free and break those20:11 bondages. So Jesus was anointed, and then he begins miracles. Now listen, Samson was a deliverer, but he was a shadow. All the old testament things are20:23 shadows of the new testament. He's a shadow of the greatest deliverer that was yet to come, and that is the Lord Jesus Christ. Jesus is a deliverer. He said, I've come to seek and to save those that are20:35 lost, came to destroy the works of the devil, came to deliver us from the power of the evil 1 and set us free that we may be free. That's why the bible says, he whom the son sets free is free20:47 indeed. And so we see very clearly from scripture that Jesus needed the anointing of the holy spirit because he was a man just like you and I. And all the miracles that Jesus performed, if you look20:58 through through the Corinthians where they mentioned, every miracle that Jesus performed, he did not perform it as God in the flesh, but he performed it as a man who was anointed by the spirit of21:10 God. Every single 1. And he sets the pattern. He sets the pattern for the church today. The church of people of21:22 deliverance. We're not just about coming together and singing and stating all our plans and our things, we're about delivering. We're about setting people free. We're about change where we21:33 live and where we work and where we play. Or in fact, that's how it should be. We come to get filled, we come to get encouraged, we come to get built up, we come to get taught, we21:45 come to get trained, so that we can go. The great commission is going to all the world. And I know it's very difficult for us to to speak to21:57 people about Christ. It's it's very hard and and and a lot of people struggle with it. That's why we need the Holy Spirit. They have boldness to speak to men and women22:09 about Jesus. The Bible says when Jesus rose again from the dead, he appeared unto his disciples, and it says he breathed on them, And said, receive the22:21 spirit. What happened? What happened when he did that? They were born again. You see, when you go to the old testament and you see, God takes some dust of the earth and he forms man in his own22:33 image and likeness, It's only a form, but when he breathes in the breath of life, it becomes a living soul. And so when Jesus breathed on them, they became living souls.22:45 I am the way, the truth, the life. He's the life giver. And he gives those people life, and he says to them, now, I want you to go down to Jerusalem, and I want you to sit and wait till you receive22:56 power from on high. So they go down there and they wait. Wait for the day of Pentecost. Day of Pentecost was celebrated by Jewish people from all around the world.23:08 They all gathered there for the feast. Pentecost means fiftieth. And Jesus, when he rose again from the dead, he was with his disciples for 40 days. And then 10 days later, the day23:20 of Pentecost came. Now, in the Old Testament, David wanted to build a temple for the Lord, a permanent place. And God said to23:32 him, no David, you cannot build this temple for me, because you're a man of war. But your son Solomon will build the temple. So the Bible says they built the temple. Beautiful temple.23:45 Gives you a lot of information about it, and Solomon builds this temple, and then it tells you in Chronicles that there were 120 priests that day when the Ark of the23:56 Covenant was put in its rightful place in the temple. And it says that the glory of the Lord came down, that the priests could not stand. The glory of the Lord was24:08 so powerful that those priests could not stand. You know what they were saying? The Lord is good, and his mercy endures forever. I I heard someone say to me 1 day, you know, I'm sick and tired of of24:20 these little songs that we sing. Little little songs that we sing that that are are so like childish. You know what they're saying? The lord24:32 is good and his mercy endures forever. The lord is good and his mercy endures forever and the glory of the lord came down. Day of Pentecost,24:44 the glory of the Lord came down. It says those hundred and 20 were waiting with great expectation. They knew something was gonna happen. The bible says they were there with 124:56 accord. They were united. How important it is for unity in the body of Christ in the church. How how important is for all of us to be like minded? Because the25:07 Bible says where there's unity, God among the brethren, God commands a blessing. And so you and I must be unified. We must catch the vision of the church. We must stand behind it. We must25:19 pray for it. We must pray for 1 another. Encourage 1 another. You don't need to criticize 1 another. You don't need to pull 1 another down. We need to lift each other up, so that the body of Christ can be strengthened25:31 in this day and age in which we are living. I'm telling you this morning, listen to me, there's a day coming, there's going to be 2 kinds of people. Those that are filled with the spirit of25:43 God, and those that are demon possessed. We can see the demonic all over the place now. People in high places, they're demon possessed. The things that they do, the fruit of their lives is demonic,25:55 and the church needs to be on fire, and that's what happened on the day of Pentecost. It says they were 1 accord, and then suddenly, suddenly, God often does things suddenly. That's26:07 why you should not stay away from the house. You never know when God's gonna meet your need in a miraculous way. When suddenly God's going to intervene, and like a mighty rushing wind,26:20 it blew through there, and there was cloven tongues of fire. What did John the Baptist say? He said he's going to baptize you with fire and the Holy Spirit. And on day of Pentecost, they were. They were cloven tongues26:32 of fire, and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and the spirit gave them utterance. They spoke in other languages. I think the churches have been a little bit confused here. Because some people get26:44 a problem with people speaking in tongues. This this year are known languages. Yep. You see what happened in when when when in the time of the of Babel, when the people said we'll build ourselves26:56 a tower to reach heaven, God was displeased with them. They were all speaking the same language and he scattered them and he made many languages out of 1 language. It was a27:08 miraculous thing. But here on the day of Pentecost, there's another miraculous thing. He takes again 1 language, and he makes many languages, so that all the people that were gathered in his church, what's27:19 going on here? Who are these people? We hear them speaking in our own languages, the wonderful works of God. What was going on? The spirit of God gave them utterance, the27:31 spirit of God allowed them to praise the Lord in every single language that was presented there. And people heard what these people were saying about27:43 God. It was a miracle, miraculous thing. Now, there were other people, I said, what's wrong with these people? They drunk. They drunk. What made27:55 them say that? They didn't stagger. They didn't do weird things, but what made them? What made those people say that these people are drunk? Peter said they're not drunk. It's only 9 o'clock in the morning.28:08 Pope opens 10 o'clock. That was a joke, by the way. They're drunk. This is that,28:19 Which was spoken to us by the prophet Joel. The church needs this, that is that. We need it desperately. Amen. Why did they say they they were drunk? Why? Why did they28:31 mock them? Because number 1, they were loud. Some of you don't like loudness. You got a problem with it, it's too loud. Preacher speaks too loud.28:45 But they were loud. It says, when they noise the broad, the wonderful works of God. Not only that, and why do they say, oh, they drunk? Because that's28:57 what drunk people do. Drunk people are loud. I'm a very quiet person when I'm not preaching, and I've been like that all29:09 my life, but when I got drunk, I was loud. Loud. Not only that, they were filled with joy. They were happy. They must have been29:21 jumping around praising the Lord. If you what's wrong with it? They drunk. The joy of the Lord is our strength. And you know drunk people are happy.29:34 They get drunk and they shove and drink all my problems away, but the problem is it's temporal. Problems come back and they bring cousins and uncles with them to make life harder29:45 for you. So they were they were loud and they were they were filled with joy. And the third thing about them is that they were bold. I I29:57 mean, something happened at Pentecost. You must understand this man Peter. He was 1 day a young guild accused and I've used this so many times. She said, hey, I know you.30:10 You were with that man Jesus. The Bible says he swore. Hey, I don't know him. Who's he? He actually swore and denied Jesus. Jesus said when a cock goes twice, you30:22 deny me 3 times and it happened. But now something happens to this man. He's now filled with the Holy Spirit. There's tremendous boldness. And he looks at30:34 those people and he says, with your wicked hands, you have crucified the Lord of glory. He could have lost his head by saying that. But he was bold. He stood strong because he was full of the holy spirit. And30:45 he says, now everyone of you, you've got to repent and be baptized in water and you'll be filled with the holy spirit. And 3000 people were saved. It was a celebration of harvest time.30:58 And here, we see a harvest of 3000 people getting saved. Where did he get the boldness from? Not in the Bible school, but from the Holy Spirit.31:10 And that's what the Holy Spirit has given to us for. He's given to us for boldness. He said you're gonna receive power when the Holy Ghost comes upon you to be my witnesses in Jerusalem, Judea,31:22 Samaria, at the most parts of the world. Where is Jerusalem? Jerusalem is where they live. Jerusalem is where their homes were. Jerusalem was where the people knew them. He said, first be a witness31:34 right there where you live, right there among your family, right there among your acquaintances before you go anywhere else. And then from there to Judah, and Judea,31:46 and from there to Samaria, and to the uttermost parts of the world. Let me tell you, after the day of Pentecost, Jerusalem changed, Judea changed, Samaria changed, and the other parts of the world changed because31:58 of the power of the Holy Spirit. Attleboro will change. Maine will change. Boston will32:09 change. Rhode Island will change when God's people get filled with the Holy Spirit. And we speak God's word with boldness.32:22 You shall receive power when the Holy Spirit comes upon you.
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