? (Theme Song) ?
? Jesus is worthy ?
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? oh yes, he's worthy
? ? worthy of all... ?
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? all the praise ? (Theme)
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Pastor Byrd: Acts 2:1 says,
"And when the day of Pentecost
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was fully come,
they [the disciples]
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were all with one
accord in one place."
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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 they were
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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 or three
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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, when you
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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, I don't know
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about you, I'm not
just calling people to come
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down to come down.
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We're calling people down
because we believe that sooner
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than right now, faster than
immediately, the Lord is going
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to answer prayer.
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When folk come down to
the altar, I don't know
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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 are of one
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accord, the presence of
his power will be evident,
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the world will be
turned upside down, the gospel
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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 of the ecclesia,
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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 the Holy
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Spirit would come;
the Holy Spirit just came.
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And so now I hear
today, I hear God saying to his
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commandment-keeping, remnant
people, I hear him saying
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that when you come to a place
of agreement that there are some
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manifestations that are
going to happen in the light
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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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God's going to bring
about Rescue for somebody else,
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suddenly.
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God's going to bring
about Salvation, suddenly.
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God is trying to tell us today,
I'm tired of things taking
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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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verse 4 And they were all filled
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they were all what everybody?
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filled 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
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by the Holy Ghost.
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There was something
within the disciples that
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they 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, but it just
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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 take him
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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 with
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other tongues." Now, you
know I'm a teacher preacher,
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so let me teach
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 to be heard.
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And I'm finding
we'll say to folk,
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"Well, we just don't do that."
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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 word
for tongues is glossa.
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everybody say glossa
That's where we get the word
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glossary from. Glossa It
is a fact that the disciples
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began to speak in
languages that were known
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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 a foreign
languages was a gift given to
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the disciples for the special
purpose of carrying the gospel
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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 the Feast
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of Pentecost.
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For the disciples' sake
and for those who would receive
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the message through
them, the Holy Spirit enabled
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the disciples to proclaim
the gospel in the native
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languages of the
different people.
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The Holy Spirit gave
the disciples not only
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the gift of speaking
other languages, but he also
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gave them 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 out there
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that we hear today--I'm talking
about speaking in tongues--
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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 until
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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
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that the power had shown up,
because when they began to speak
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in other tongues,
other languages, men sat
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from afar off and said,
"These men don't naturally
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speak our language, so how
could they know this unless
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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
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of the Holy Ghost.
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What am I saying?
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Don't let anybody tell you that
you don't have the Holy Ghost
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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, there must be an
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interpreter, because all
gifts are for the edification
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of the body of Christ.
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And if a spiritual gift is
not manifested to edify the body
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of Christ, then it's not
an authentic gift 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 what they
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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 you've
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got the Holy Ghost.
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And we don't have to stay
in church all night to prove
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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,
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saith God, I will pour out
of my Spirit upon all flesh:
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and your sons and your
daughters shall prophesy,
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and your young men shall
see visions, and your old men
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shall dream dreams: And on my
servants and on my handmaidens
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I will pour out in those days
of my Spirit; and they shall
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prophesy: And I will
shew wonders in heaven above,
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and signs in the earth beneath;
blood, and fire, and vapor
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of smoke: The sun shall
be turned into darkness,
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and the moon into blood,
before the great and notable day
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of the Lord come: And
it shall come to pass,
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that whosoever shall call
on the name of the Lord shall
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(hallelujah) be saved."
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All I've got to do 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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Ellen White says that
whatever God promises, he's able
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to perform.
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That's a word for somebody
right there, that whatever God
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promises, he's able to perform.
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When God says something,
you better believe it's going
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to happen.
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If the Lord said it, you
can count on it; he will do
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just what he says.
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God has promised
his people power.
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Which means we
don't have to be scared.
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We don't have to be afraid.
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We don't have to be fearful.
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God has promised to pour
out his spirit on all flesh.
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Not some flesh, but all flesh.
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Which means red flesh,
yellow flesh, white flesh,
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black flesh, all
flesh, old flesh, young flesh,
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male flesh,
female flesh, all flesh.
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And whosoever shall
call on the name of the Lord
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shall be saved.
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That's the promise of his power.
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So we have the
presence of his power.
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We have the
promise of his power.
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And then finally, number
three, we have the pouring
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of his power.
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Here's the pouring.
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Acts 2:41, when the Word of
God was preached, the Bible says
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in verse 41, "Then they
that gladly received his word
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were baptized: 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 42, "And they continued
steadfastly in the apostles'
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doctrine and fellowship,
and in breaking of bread,
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and in prayers...
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Praising God, and having
favor with all the people.
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And the Lord added
to the church daily."
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Ellen White says in
"Acts of the Apostles," it was
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as if for ages this outpouring,
this influence, had been held
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back in restraint and now heaven
rejoiced in being able to pour
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out upon the church the
riches of the Holy Ghost.
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And the good news today
is that this same pouring
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is available for us today.
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I just need some
witnesses that believe and know
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that this same
pouring of the Holy Ghost,
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I wish the Holy Ghost
would come upon Oakwood,
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that this same pouring
is available for us today.
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It's power time.
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We have the
presence of the power.
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We have the
promise of the power.
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And now we need to get ready
for the pouring of the power.
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When we preach God's
Word in God's strength,
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thousands will be saved.
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Thousands will be baptized.
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But the Bible says
we have to continue
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in the apostles' doctrine.
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Which means teaching.
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People must be
taught the Word of God.
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Preaching is good,
but we need teaching too,
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do I have a
witness in this place?
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But not only that.
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The Word of God says apostles'
doctrine, it says teaching,
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but the Word of God
also says fellowship.
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Which means you have to speak.
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You gotta smile.
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It can't be, "Welcome to
Oakwood University." "Welcome,
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we're glad you're here
at the Oakwood church."
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You gotta speak.
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You gotta smile.
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You gotta fellowship, you gotta
be nice, you gotta shake hands,
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you have to have fellowship.
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Fellowship is koinonia.
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And true koinonia,
true fellowship, is when
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I'm up and
fellowship when I'm down.
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Let me tell you something.
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I don't just need friends
when I got money in my pocket.
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I need some friends when
the bottom is falling out.
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Do I have a
witness in this place?
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I need friends when
I don't know where my
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next dime is coming from.
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That's when I need you
to call and check on me.
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Not when you need a dollar,
but when I need a dollar.
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Preach, Pastor Byrd,
I'm doing the best I can.
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You see, in prosperity
your friends know who you are.
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But in adversity, you
know who your friends are.
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Paul says in Philippians
3 that we have to fellowship
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with Jesus and his sufferings.
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So then if I have to fellowship
with Jesus and his sufferings,
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and I must love the Lord God
with all my heart, mind, body,
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soul and spirit, and then love
my neighbor as myself, then I
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must fellowship with my
neighbor in his sufferings too.
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Let me tell you something.
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Talking about fellowship,
you'll never know what true
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fellowship is, what true
friendship is, until you've had
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a Judas betray you.
00:17:31.73\00:17:33.73
Until you've had
a Peter deny you.
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You'll never know Jesus until
you've had people you've helped
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turn on you.
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Until you've had
church folk crucify you.
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But the good news is
that after every crucifixion
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there is a resurrection.
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Which means you may crucify
me, devil, you may nail me
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to a tree, but I'm coming back.
00:18:04.06\00:18:06.83
Do I have a
witness in this place?
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I'll bleed a while,
but I'm coming back.
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You've got to
continue in teaching, continue
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in fellowship,
continue in the breaking
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of bread.
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That means we
got to eat together.
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It's all right if the
people of God eat together
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as long as they're
eating the right stuff.
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Do I have a
witness in this place?
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But not only that, we've
got to continue in prayer.
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The church that prays
together stays together.
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I found the answer.
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I've learned how to pray.
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Prayer is the key that
opens heaven's storehouse.
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Somebody knows that
prayer time is high time.
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Verse 43 says, "And fear
came upon every soul: and many
00:18:51.93\00:18:56.06
wonders and signs
were done by the apostles.
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And all that believed
were together, and had
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all things common;
And sold their possessions
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and goods, and parted them to
all men, as every man had need."
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Verse 46: "And they,
continuing daily with one accord
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in the temple, and breaking
bread from house to house,
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did eat their meat with gladness
and singleness of heart,
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Praising God, and having
favor with all the people.
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And the Lord added to the church
daily such as should be saved."
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So, Pastor, how many
baptisms are we going to have?
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I would have a baptism
every Sabbath if I could.
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The Lord is going to
add to the church daily
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in this last and evil day.
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The body of Christ
cannot major in minors,
00:19:46.03\00:19:50.06
cannot sweat the small stuff.
00:19:50.06\00:19:52.86
Worrying about stuff
that has nothing to do with
00:19:52.86\00:19:55.33
our soul's salvation.
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Let the church be in
one accord on progression.
00:19:57.06\00:20:01.13
Let the church be in
one accord on evangelism.
00:20:01.13\00:20:04.90
Let the church be in
one accord on kindness.
00:20:04.90\00:20:08.86
Let the church be in one
accord in fulfilling the mission
00:20:08.86\00:20:13.00
of the church.
00:20:13.00\00:20:14.00
Let there be a
centrality of focus and purpose
00:20:14.00\00:20:17.56
that is seen, felt and heard.
00:20:17.56\00:20:19.53
Because when the people of
God come together, and when they
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come together in one accord,
there will be a mighty pouring.
00:20:24.60\00:20:28.93
There will come a sound
from heaven as of a mighty
00:20:28.93\00:20:32.33
rushing wind.
00:20:32.33\00:20:33.33
And all will be
filled with the Holy Ghost.
00:20:33.33\00:20:36.60
The sick will be healed,
the lame will be made to walk,
00:20:36.60\00:20:41.10
the dumb made to
talk, the blind to see,
00:20:41.10\00:20:45.43
marriages mended,
our children are going to
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come back to Jesus.
00:20:48.73\00:20:51.36
Habits broken,
addictions alleviated,
00:20:51.36\00:20:55.00
strongholds torn down.
00:20:55.00\00:20:57.53
Individuals baptized,
ways made out of no way.
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If God be for us,
who can be against us?
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People need the Word of God.
00:21:07.40\00:21:14.20
Folk are tired or
seeing an outside show
00:21:14.20\00:21:17.00
for an unfriendly world.
00:21:17.00\00:21:18.83
Folk are tired of
form and fashion without
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no power and deliverance.
00:21:20.86\00:21:22.23
Folk are tired of
rules and regulations without
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relationship.
00:21:25.30\00:21:27.70
folk want to experience
the power of the Holy Ghost,
00:21:27.70\00:21:31.20
the presence of his
power, the promise of his power,
00:21:31.20\00:21:34.43
the pouring of his
power, it's power time.
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It's power time.
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Let me close this
way: I was reading a story
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from a preacher,
and he says that one day
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he was in the hospital,
visiting church members, and he
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saw these people in the
hospital who were hooked up
00:21:58.90\00:22:03.33
to life support.
00:22:03.33\00:22:05.56
And so he saw a nurse and
he asked the nurse, can you
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explain to me what
happens around here in a storm?
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What happens?
00:22:17.96\00:22:18.96
Because I know
in my neighborhood
00:22:18.96\00:22:21.53
that sometimes when lightning
strikes all the lights go out.
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All the electricity goes out.
00:22:27.60\00:22:31.26
What do you do with all these
people who are on life support,
00:22:31.26\00:22:35.60
hooked up to all
these sustaining machines,
00:22:35.60\00:22:38.20
when the storms come?
00:22:38.20\00:22:40.13
What do you do with all these
people when the lights go out,
00:22:40.13\00:22:42.13
when the power goes out?
00:22:42.13\00:22:43.43
They need power to life support.
00:22:43.43\00:22:46.83
She said, Preacher,
you don't understand.
00:22:46.83\00:22:52.73
Although these are our
primary lights, she said,
00:22:52.73\00:22:59.70
we're equipped for the storm.
00:22:59.70\00:23:03.50
She said, you see, you don't
see it, but there's a room down
00:23:03.50\00:23:07.76
the hallway.
00:23:07.76\00:23:08.76
And it has a
big generator in it.
00:23:08.76\00:23:12.73
It doesn't have any
external power, but the power
00:23:12.73\00:23:17.06
is on the inside.
00:23:17.06\00:23:18.06
And you'll never know how
much power is in that generator
00:23:18.06\00:23:24.03
until the lights go off.
00:23:24.03\00:23:27.13
You'll never know the generator
exists until the lights go off.
00:23:27.13\00:23:33.10
But the moment the lights
go off, the power kicks on in.
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I'm trying to help somebody
understand that that's what
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the Holy Ghost is.
00:23:45.36\00:23:47.06
When you don't have anything
left, that's when the Holy Ghost
00:23:47.06\00:23:50.60
kicks in.
00:23:50.60\00:23:51.60
When you're down to your last
dime, that's when the Holy Ghost
00:23:51.60\00:23:55.50
kicks in.
00:23:55.50\00:23:56.50
When your body is
wracking with pain, that's when
00:23:56.50\00:23:59.46
the Holy Ghost kicks in.
00:23:59.46\00:24:01.66
When something or
somebody is driving you crazy,
00:24:01.66\00:24:05.73
that's when the
Holy Ghost kicks in.
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Greater is he that is in me
than he that's in the world.
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I've got power today.
00:24:17.53\00:24:19.90
I said I've got power today.
00:24:19.90\00:24:22.13
Does anybody
else have power today?
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We're living in the power
of the Holy Ghost, the power
00:24:24.76\00:24:29.13
to walk right, the
power to talk right, the power
00:24:29.13\00:24:33.70
to act right, to live
right, to keep your mind,
00:24:33.70\00:24:38.26
power over your future,
over sickness, over demons,
00:24:38.26\00:24:41.93
over divorce, over debt,
over depression, over the enemy.
00:24:41.93\00:24:46.26
Why are you
walking around pitiful?
00:24:46.26\00:24:48.76
Child, you've got power!
00:24:48.76\00:24:51.90
It's like getting in
the car, driving the car,
00:24:57.63\00:25:01.56
and not knowing all the
stuff you got with your car.
00:25:01.56\00:25:04.83
You haven't read the manual.
00:25:04.83\00:25:07.30
Don't you
realize you've got power?
00:25:07.30\00:25:09.30
Have you read the manual?
00:25:09.30\00:25:11.70
Open up the Word and
realize you've got power.
00:25:11.70\00:25:16.33
Let me tell you something.
00:25:16.33\00:25:18.06
Getting upset because
somebody won't pray for you.
00:25:18.06\00:25:21.93
Pray for yourself.
00:25:21.93\00:25:24.13
You've got power.
00:25:24.13\00:25:27.20
Sometimes I've got
to pray for myself.
00:25:27.20\00:25:29.66
Sometimes you got to
encourage yourself in the Lord.
00:25:29.66\00:25:33.03
Getting upset because
somebody won't lay hands on you.
00:25:33.03\00:25:35.93
Lay hands on yourself.
00:25:35.93\00:25:38.00
Cast demons out of
your house yourself.
00:25:38.00\00:25:40.63
Go room to room and
begin to pray in your house.
00:25:40.63\00:25:42.96
You've got power.
00:25:42.96\00:25:45.13
God says whatever you bind
on earth, I'll bind in heaven.
00:25:45.13\00:25:51.36
Whatever you loose on
earth, I'll loose in heaven.
00:25:51.36\00:25:56.93
You've got power,
in the name of Jesus.
00:25:56.93\00:25:59.73
I bind envy in this place.
00:25:59.73\00:26:01.46
In the name of Jesus I
bind jealousy in this place.
00:26:01.46\00:26:07.43
I bind sickness in this place
I bind poverty in this place,
00:26:07.43\00:26:11.70
I bind
depression, in this place,
00:26:11.70\00:26:14.36
I bind
back-biting in this place.
00:26:14.36\00:26:17.06
Get thee behind me, Satan!
00:26:17.06\00:26:21.16
I got power.
00:26:21.16\00:26:22.33
It's power time.
00:26:22.33\00:26:25.30
I must confess, I'm tired
of Christians coming around me
00:26:25.30\00:26:31.70
with batteries not included.
00:26:31.70\00:26:33.73
Quit waiting for batteries.
00:26:33.73\00:26:36.03
When you accepted the Lord
Jesus in your life, you got
00:26:36.03\00:26:42.40
everything inside
of you that you need.
00:26:42.40\00:26:46.43
All you gotta do is reach
down and tap into that power.
00:26:46.43\00:26:53.36
Do I have a
witness in this place?
00:26:53.36\00:26:57.96
Tap into the source.
00:26:57.96\00:27:00.36
Tap into the light.
00:27:00.36\00:27:02.66
Tap into the power.
00:27:02.66\00:27:04.96
Walk in the light.
00:27:04.96\00:27:07.56
Beautiful light.
00:27:07.56\00:27:08.66
Come where the dew
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Jesus is the light of the world.
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