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? Jesus is worthy ?
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? oh yes, he's worthy
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? all the praise ? ? (Theme) ?
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Pa Byr Take yoibles and
turn with me to Acts 2:1.
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If you have that scripture,
just let me hear you say Amen.
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The Word of God says to
us today, "And when the day
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of Pentecost was fully come,
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they were all with
one accord in one place.
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And suddenly there came a sound
from heaven as of a rushing
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mighty wind, and it
filled all the house
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where they were sitting.
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And there appeared unto them
cloven tongues like as of fire,
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and it sat upon each of them.
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And they were all
filled with the Holy Ghost,
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and began to speak with
other tongues, as the Spirit
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gave them utterance."
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I like verse 41.
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It says, "Then they that gladly
received his word were baptized:
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and the same day
there were added unto them
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about three thousand souls."
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Hallelujah, somebody.
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Verse 47: "Praise
God, having favor with all
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the people, and the Lord
added to the church daily
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such as should be saved."
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It's power time.
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It's power time.
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Father God, now, for the
next couple of moments, show us
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your power through your word.
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Forgive us of our sins,
hide us behind your cross.
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God, at the appeal time,
move, move by your power,
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sprinkle out your grace.
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My prayer, Lord, is that
men, women, boys and girls
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would give their lives to you.
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In Jesus' name, Amen.
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It's power time.
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The Book of Acts
records the early actions
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of the New Testament church.
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Acts teaches that the
early church witnessed the power
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of God moving
in miraculous ways.
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Acts lets us know that 3,000
people were saved in one day.
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Acts lets us know as we
read on that 5,000 were saved
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on another day.
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In fact, souls were
being saved every day.
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The power of God was
seen, the power of God was felt,
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and the power of God was heard.
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The power of God was on
the church in such a mighty way
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that Acts 2:43 says, "Fear came
upon every soul, and many signs
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and wonders were
done by the apostles.
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Acts 4 then goes on and teaches
that many of the Jewish leaders
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tried to arrest the
apostles and stop them from
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preaching the
gospel, but that didn't work.
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In fact, the Bible teaches
that the more they persecuted
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the people of God, the
more people got converted
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and accepted Jesus
Christ as their personal Savior.
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Which means the more
they persecuted the church,
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the church grew even more.
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Let that be a
lesson for you and me.
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The word of God
cannot be stopped.
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The word of God
will be preached.
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The gospel will go forth.
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Souls will be saved,
people will be baptized,
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with or without you.
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I've heard many
church folk say, "Pastor,
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they can't make it without me.
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Pastor, they won't make it
without me." Well, the cemetery
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is full of folk who
thought the church would die
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without them.
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Don't be a
legend in your own mind.
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This is God's church.
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And His truth still marches on.
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Do I have a
witness in this place?
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In the book of
Acts, God clearly reveals
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that the Christian today
can experience the same presence
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of the same Holy Spirit
who came with the same power
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at Pentecost and fueled the
gospel message into a flame.
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In other words, friends of mine,
the powerful acts of the Holy
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Ghost through Peter, Paul,
Silus, James, John and others,
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can be repeated in us today.
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I'm a fifth-generation
Seventh-day Adventist Christian.
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I'm proud of that too.
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I'm a fifth-generation
Adventist both paternally
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and maternally.
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And if there's ever
been a hindrance to the body
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of Christ, it is not
tapping into the full
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power we have in God.
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Let me remind you,
in case you forgot,
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that Jesus got up at Calvary.
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You will remember that
he was crucified on Friday,
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he did die, and
his body did rest
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in the grave
according to the commandment
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on the Sabbath day.
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But he did get up.
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And when he got up, he got
up with all power in his hands.
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And because he got up with all
power in his hands, there was
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a transfer of that power
from Christ to you and to me.
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Ellen White says in
"Testimonies," volume 6,
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that the fullness of
divine power has been
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imparted to God's people,
that they may impart to others
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light and joy and refreshing.
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So in case you didn't
know, you have power today.
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We have Holy Ghost power.
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Are you hearing what I'm saying?
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Acts opens by telling us
of Jesus' transfer of power
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to his disciples and
then his subsequent ascension
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to heaven.
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The power in Acts 1:8 refers
to God's power to exercise his
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strength and
authority in our lives.
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I have learned in my
life that God can strengthen
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and God can energize
those who put their trust
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in him.
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God is the source.
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That means that you, that means
that me, that means we can't
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fight the devil
in our own strength.
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That's why so many folk give up.
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They're fighting the
devil in their own strength.
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But the Apostle Paul said
in Ephesians 6:10, "Be strong
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in the Lord and in
the power of His might."
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Which means when a
believer's faith is in God,
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then God's power becomes
the power of that believer.
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You see, when we as a church,
when we grasp the concept,
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when we grasp the
concept that we are as strong
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as that in which we
trust, we will revolutionize
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this world.
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You see, if you trust in
yourself, you are as strong
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as you are.
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Let me say that one more time.
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If you trust in
yourself, you are as strong
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as you are.
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But somebody knows, when you
trust in God you are as strong
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as God is.
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Somebody's still not getting it.
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Let me illustrate it this way.
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I know I cannot fly.
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I know my last name is
Byrd, but I cannot fly.
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I tried it as a child.
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You know what I'm talking about.
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My brother and I,
we had bunk beds and I
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used to sleep on the top
bunk, and I would jump off,
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talking about I
can believe I can fly.
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But I knocked my
head on the way down.
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Does somebody know
what I'm talking about?
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I learned as a little
boy that the law of gravity
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is real.
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I cannot fly.
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But when I put myself
in an airplane and I yield
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to the airplane's power,
suddenly I have the ability
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to soar 36,000 feet in the air.
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I cannot run fast.
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I cannot run 70 miles per hour.
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But when I get in my car
and I yield to my car's power,
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I suddenly have the
ability to achieve speeds that I
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could not achieve on my own.
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Which means when my faith
is in God's, when my faith
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is in God's power, then
my strength, hallelujah,
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somebody, becomes His strength,
my power becomes His power.
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That's why the Bible says in
Ephesians 3:20, "Now unto him
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that is able to do exceeding,
abundant and above all we could
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ever ask or think, according to
the power that worketh in us."
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Now, there are
two types of power.
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How many types
of power, everybody?
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Two types of power.
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Power number 1, dutamas.
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Everybody say dutamas.
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Dutamas is dynamite,
or miracle-working power.
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Number 2 power is exousia.
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Everybody say exousia.
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Exousia is authoritative power.
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Exousia gives you the
authority to use the dutamas.
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Somebody missed that.
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There are two types of power.
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Dutamas power is
dynamite, miracle-working power.
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The second type
of power is exousia,
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or authoritative power.
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Exousia gives you the
authority to use the dutamas.
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Oh, you all don't
know what you have.
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You don't know the
strength that's in you.
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You don't know the
power that's in you.
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You don't know the
authority that's in you.
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Listen to me good.
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The devil is not afraid of you.
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The devil is afraid
of who's inside of you.
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You're sitting on
a ton of dynamite.
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Listen to me carefully.
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No Christian has
ever been demon-possessed.
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Check your Bible on that.
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No Christian has
ever been demon possessed.
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What do you mean, Pastor Byrd?
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If the Holy Ghost is living
in you, you cannot be, ooh,
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possessed by a demon.
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You can be
influenced but not possessed.
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Why?
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Because I'm already
possessed by the Holy Ghost.
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And the Holy Ghost and a
demon can't live inside of you
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at the same time.
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Darkness can't stand light.
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You're already
possessed by the Holy Ghost,
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so what you're dealing
with is demonic influence.
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But all you gotta do is yield
to the power of the Holy Ghost.
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We've got Holy
Ghost power today.
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It's power time.
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Everybody say "Its Power Time"
I want to live in the power
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of the Holy Spirit.
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God wants his people to live
in the power of the Holy Spirit.
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But how does the church live
in the power of the Holy Spirit?
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well, number one...
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three points and then
I'm going to sit down.
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Number one, we've got
to recognize the presence
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of his power.
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Everybody say "the
presence of his power."
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Now, notice the text, Acts 2:1
begins with, "And when the day
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of Pentecost was fully come."
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Repeat after me, "And when
the day of Pentecost was fully
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come." Now, let's stop there.
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Now, remember, I told you I
grew up in an Adventist home.
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I grew up in the
Adventist church.
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And growing up in
the Adventist church,
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we didn't talk
much about Pentecost.
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We didn't talk
much about Pentecost
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and Pentecostalism.
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That was a no-no, because we
primarily branded Pentecostals
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as overzealous, charismatic,
loud people who didn't have
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much substance, and all they
did was shout and make noise,
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and we called
them the sanctified,
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or the Holy Roller church
down the street because of all
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their running,
all their jumping,
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all their shouting
and loud brand of worship.
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But in my deeper
study of the Word of God,
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I discovered that this
was merely their worship
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methodology.
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But this methodology
did not mirror the message
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or the definition
of the word Pentecost.
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Fifty is what
Pentecost literally means.
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It's important to get
this because a lot of people
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have misunderstandings
and misinterpretation about
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Pentecost, that the word
Pentecost is bad, is wild,
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is crazy.
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But Pentecost is not bad.
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Pentecost is not wild or crazy.
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Pentecost just means fifty.
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It was a reference to the
fifty days between the beginning
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of the Feast of
Unleavened Bread and the Feast
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of the First Fruits,
exactly 50 days after Jesus'
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resurrection, 40 in which
Jesus had repeated contact
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with his disciples,
just before his ascension,
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and then another 10
days in which the disciples,
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after Jesus' ascension,
were in earnest prayer,
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something the Bible says
like never before happened.
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Acts 2:1 says, "And when
the day of Pentecost was fully
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come, they [the disciples]
were all with one accord
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in one place." Now, I like that.
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Because you know what the
text is really suggesting here?
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It suggests that they
had the right environment.
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They had the right culture.
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On the day of
Pentecost, the Bible says
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they were in one accord.
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There was a spirit of agreement.
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They were all together.
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They were all unified.
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Unity existed
amongst the disciples.
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Can I tell you
something right quick?
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The reason why we don't see
many manifestations in the house
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of God anymore is because
there's too much discord.
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But the Bible declares
that the power of the Holy Ghost
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is present when the
people of God come together
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in one accord.
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Which means personal agendas
have to get out of the way.
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Ego has to get out of the way.
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Self has to get out of the way.
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How can two walk
together lest they agree?
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But somebody knows
that whenever there are two
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or three gathered in the name
of Jesus, God is in the midst.
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Somebody knows that whenever
we come together in agreement,
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there is power.
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There is strength in unity.
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Understand that regardless
of your intellectual training,
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regardless of your analytical
mind, you have to move beyond
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skepticism into a realm
of corporate faith that says,
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"I believe that God is
about to do something."
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I don't know what it
is, but I believe that God
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is about to do something.
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And when the people of
God come together like this,
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when the people of God
believe together like this,
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the people will come in
sick and they'll leave healed.
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People that come in
blind will leave seeing.
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The lame that come in
crippled will leave walking,
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when you create
the right atmosphere.
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When you create the right
culture, power will be released
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over this church.
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How can people be in the church
for so long and their lives
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are in the same place?
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Because there's no environment,
no atmosphere for miracles
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to take place.
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You see, friends of mine,
when we come on Sabbath morning
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and we call
people down to the altar,
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I don't know about you,
I'm not just calling people
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to come down to come down.
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We're calling people
down because we believe
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that sooner than right
now, faster than immediately,
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the Lord is
going to answer prayer.
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When folk come
down to the altar,
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I don't know about you,
but I'm looking for a miracle.
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I'm expecting the impossible.
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I'm believing the invisible,
because the sky is the limit
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to what I can have.
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When the environment is
right, the people of God
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are of one accord,
the presence of his power
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will be evident, the world
will be turned upside down,
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the gospel will be preached,
individuals will be baptized,
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and souls will be saved.
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I was studying this week,
and the "Bible Commentary"
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says on this subject
that whatever interferes
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with such unity must be removed.
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It must be removed or it
will obstruct God's spirit.
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The Bible says they were
in one accord, in one place.
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Now what we're seeing
in Acts 2 are the embryonic
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or
developmental beginning stages
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of the ecclesia, the church,
defined as God's called-out.
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The church.
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The text continues in verse
2, "And suddenly there came
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a sound from heaven as
of a rushing mighty wind,
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and it filled all the
house where they were sitting."
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The Bible says "suddenly,"
which means without warning.
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Suddenly, which means
unexpected, immediately.
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The disciples had no
idea in the way in which
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the Holy Spirit
would come; the Holy Spirit
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just came.
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And so now I hear
today, I hear God saying
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to his commandment-keeping,
remnant people,
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I hear him saying that
when you come to a place
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of agreement that there are
some manifestations that are
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going to happen in
the light of the church.
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Not next week.
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Not next year.
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Not 10 years from now.
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But suddenly.
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God's going to bring about
healing for somebody, suddenly.
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God's going to bring about
deliverance for somebody else,
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suddenly.
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Rescue for
somebody else, suddenly.
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God is going to bring
about Salvation, suddenly.
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God is trying to tell us
today, I'm tired of things
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taking so long in your life.
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There are some things
I'm trying to do suddenly.
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Verse 3 he continues,
"And there appeared unto them
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cloven tongues like as of fire,
and it sat upon each of them.
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And they were all filled
with the Holy Ghost, and began
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to speak with other
tongues, as the Spirit gave them
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utterance." Now,
let's paint this picture
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This is not just a
mere moving of the Spirit.
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This was not merely
the breath of the Spirit.
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This was the complete
possession of the disciples by
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the Holy Ghost.
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There was something
within the disciples that they
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could not explain.
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Let me pause here.
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Anybody ever have something
in you, and you just couldn't
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get it out?
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You tried, but it was in you.
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For somebody
maybe it was a song.
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You tried to get it
out, but you just couldn't
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get it out.
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Maybe it was a saying,
maybe it was a feeling,
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but it just wouldn't leave you.
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You couldn't get it out of you.
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Let me tell somebody something.
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When you get Jesus in you,
hallelujah, somebody, nobody
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can take him from you.
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When you get the Holy
Ghost in you, nobody can
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take him from you.
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A thief can come in your house
and try to take everything,
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but they can't
take the Holy Ghost.
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Verse 4, the Word of God
says, "And they were all filled
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with the Holy
Ghost, and began to speak
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with other tongues."
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Now, you know I'm a teacher
preacher, so let me teach
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this for a minute.
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Let me stop there because
we need to know and be reminded
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what the Word of God says,
not what somebody told you,
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not what you heard, but
you need to know biblically
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what the Word of God
says regarding the speaking
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of tongues.
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Because if it's not in
the Word, it doesn't deserve
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to be heard.
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And I'm finding we'll say to
folk, "Well, we just don't do
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that." Well, why
don't we do that?
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You need to know what you
believe, why you believe it,
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and where it's found
from the Word of God.
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Now, the Greek work
for tongues is glossa.
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That's where we get
the word glossary from.
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It is a fact that the disciples
began to speak in languages
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that were known by other people.
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Unknown to them, but
known to other people.
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Are you hearing what I'm saying?
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The ability to speak
foreign languages was a gift
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given to the disciples
for the special purpose
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of carrying the gospel
message into all the world.
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Because at Pentecost
everybody came from everywhere.
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People came from the
four corners of the earth:
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the north, the
south, the east, the west.
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People were
assembled in Jerusalem for
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the Feast of Pentecost.
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For the disciples'
sake and for those who
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would receive the message
through them, the Holy Spirit
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enabled the disciples
to proclaim the gospel
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in the native languages
of the different people.
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The Holy Spirit gave the
disciples not only the gift
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of speaking other
languages, but he also gave them
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their message.
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They spoke under direct
influence of the Holy Spirit's
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guidance.
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Now, this is important,
because a lot of this stuff
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out there that we hear today
-- I'm talking about speaking
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in tongues -- is not tongues.
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You see, this is
what has messed people up.
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And we have folk in the
church who are confused.
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I don't know about you, but
I'm looking for an authentic
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experience from God.
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I'm not looking to
learn how to speak in tongues.
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So don't carry me up to a
room and make me stay in there
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until I learn how
to speak in tongues.
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The intent of tongues
was to show those who had not
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experienced the power of
the Holy Ghost that the power
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had shown up,
because when they began
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to speak in other tongues,
other languages, men sat
00:23:13.66\00:23:16.80
from afar off and said,
"These men don't naturally
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speak our language, so
how could they know this
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unless the Holy
Ghost be upon their life?"
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And as a result of the tongues,
the people were evangelized
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because the power of
God moved in that way.
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When you read 1 Corinthians
12, go home and read it,
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you discover that
tongues are a gift.
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But the gift of tongues
is not exclusive evidence
00:23:38.90\00:23:42.90
of the Holy Ghost.
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What am I saying?
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Don't let anybody
tell you that yodon't have
00:23:48.30\00:23:52.33
the Holy Ghost just because
you don't speak in tongues.
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Because I don't have to speak
in tongues to have the power
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of the Holy Ghost.
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Tongues are a
gift that is given.
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But the Bible
declares, when you read on in
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1 Corinthians, chapter 14,
it talks about how the tongues
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ought to be used in order.
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Because if there are
tongues in an assembly,
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there must be an
interpreter, because all gifts
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are for the edification
of the body of Christ.
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And if a spiritual gift
is not manifested to edify
00:24:20.93\00:24:25.16
the body of Christ, then
it's not an authentic gift
00:24:25.16\00:24:28.16
from God.
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Do I have a
witness in this place?
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I Corinthians 14:4 says,
"He that speaketh in an unknown
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tongue edifieth himself."
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If somebody spoke in
tongues in church without
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interpretation, those
others present wouldn't know
00:24:41.60\00:24:44.56
what they were talking about.
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How could they
take part in worship?
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How could they be edified?
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You don't have to
speak in tongues to prove
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you've got the Holy Ghost.
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And we don't have to
stay in church all night
00:24:57.16\00:24:59.33
to prove and wait
on the Holy Ghost.
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We're living with the
power of the Holy Ghost.
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The presence of the power.
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Number two, not only do we
have the presence of the power,
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but we have the
promise of his power.
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Acts 2:17, "And it shall
come to pass in the last days,
00:25:20.06\00:25:23.96
saith God, I will pour out
of my Spirit upon all flesh:
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and your sons and your daughters
shall prophesy, and your
00:25:35.46\00:25:38.50
young men shall see visions,
and your old men shall dream
00:25:38.50\00:25:41.10
dreams: And on my
servants and on my handmaidens
00:25:41.10\00:25:44.00
I will pour out in those days
of my Spirit; and they shall
00:25:44.00\00:25:47.40
prophesy: And I will
shew wonders in heaven above,
00:25:47.40\00:25:49.80
and signs in the earth
beneath; blood, and fire,
00:25:49.80\00:25:52.23
and vapour of smoke:
The sun shall be turned
00:25:52.23\00:25:54.23
into darkness, and the moon
into blood, before the great
00:25:54.23\00:25:56.66
and notable day of the
Lord comes: And it shall come
00:25:56.66\00:25:59.03
to pass, that
whosoever shall call on the name
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of the Lord shall (hallelujah)
be saved." All I've got to do
00:26:03.96\00:26:11.56
is call on the name of the Lord.
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Not only has God given us
the presence of his power,
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but God has also given
us the promise of his power.
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