Leading Under an Open Heaven
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Matthew 3:13-17 ESV
“Then Jesus came from Galilee to the Jordan to John, to be baptized by him. John would have prevented him, saying, “I need to be baptized by you, and do you come to me?” But Jesus answered him, “Let it be so now, for thus it is fitting for us to fulfill all righteousness.” Then he consented. And when Jesus was baptized, immediately he went up from the water, and behold, the heavens were opened to him, and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and coming to rest on him; and behold, a voice from heaven said, “This is my beloved Son, with whom I am well pleased.””
Acts 10:38 AMPC“How God anointed and consecrated Jesus of Nazareth with the [Holy] Spirit and with strength and ability and power; how He went about doing good and, in particular, curing all who were harassed and oppressed by [the power of] the devil, for God was with Him.”
The Ministry Of The Holy Spirit In Jesus Life:
At Birth
At Baptism
At Temptation
At Resurrection
Christology - is the study of the person and work of Jesus Christ. It explores who Jesus is (His nature and identity) and what He accomplished through His life, death, and resurrection.
Pneumatology - is the study of the Holy Spirit. It investigates the nature, role, and work of the Holy Spirit within the Godhead and in the life of believers
John 16:6-7 AMP
“But I tell you the truth, it is to your advantage that I go away; for if I do not go away, the Helper (Comforter, Advocate, Intercessor—Counselor, Strengthener, Standby) will not come to you; but if I go, I will send Him (the Holy Spirit) to you [to be in close fellowship with you].”
John 16:12-13 AMP““I have many more things to say to you, but you cannot bear [to hear] them now. But when He, the Spirit of Truth, comes, He will guide you into all the truth [full and complete truth]. For He will not speak on His own initiative, but He will speak whatever He hears [from the Father—the message regarding the Son], and He will disclose to you what is to come [in the future].”
John 16:14-15 AMP
“He will glorify and honor Me, because He (the Holy Spirit) will take from what is Mine and will disclose it to you. All things that the Father has are Mine. Because of this I said that He [the Spirit] will take from what is Mine and will reveal it to you.”
I Corinthians 12:5-7 NKJV
“There are differences of ministries, but the same Lord. And there are diversities of activities, but it is the same God who works all in all. But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to each one for the profit of all:”
What The Holy Spirit Is Not:
Not An “It”
Not A Universal “Force” or “Cosmic Mind”
Not A Symbol: Dove, Water, Wind, Fire, Oil etc.
Not Just A Feeling or Sensation.
Divine Person
He has a mind (see Romans 8:27).
He has a will (see 1 Corinthians 12:11).
He has emotions,(see Romans 15:30; Galatians 5:22).
He comforts (see Acts 9:31).
He speaks; in fact, He speaks clearly (see Hebrews 3:7;1 Timothy 4:1).
Divine Person
He teaches (see 1 Corinthians 2:13).
He can be griefed (see Ephesians 4:30).
He can be insulted (see Hebrews 10:29).
He can be resisted (see Acts 7:51).
10.He can be lied to (see Acts 5:1-11).
Acts 1:8 NKJV
“But you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be witnesses to Me in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.”” -
get up get out your seat live out your Desy get out hi my name is Dean and I serve as the lead pastor at real life church and I want to take a moment before we jump into the message just to say thank you first of all for engaging with the message we believe that this message is going to lift up your faith and lead you to encounter God through his word if you haven't already we would love for you to take a second and subscribe to our YouTube channel our online community is growing this way you can stay engaged
and upto-date on the latest messages and this will help us to get the message of the Gospel out to you and others again thank you so much for joining us from Sacramento and Beyond we trust you'll be blessed by the message today man it feels good to be back welcome welcome oh y'all welcoming me well hey I'm nervous I'm with my family now come on man look at all these beautiful people out here we've been looking forward to this day as well uh before I say something I just want to come against a burner phone in
the name of Jesus for that digital fast for anybody who Tred to get a burner account I'm I'm praying that you get on that fast anyways uh we are so blessed to have and continue to be under Pastor Dean and Amy's leadership we still consider them our pastors um they are some of the most incredible leaders compassionate leaders generous leaders can we give it up for the pastors of this house so grateful uh to just have been so supported um our church is doing amazing because of the leadership of Pastor Dean and Amy um I took this
incredible vision of this house which is a church that looks lives and leads like heaven and we're doing that at centy assembly amen um it it truly is a Heavenly model uh my church we're practicing the five habitudes love God personally learn empathy uh what is it live abundantly uh lead uh humbly and lift Humanity come on y'all almost said I forgot it I I was hoping to get some help from y'all but they was looking down like don't look at me uh but I am extremely grateful for the vision and Mission we do Discovery
track at Century assembly as well um so I know we're in a new sermon series that Pastor Dan has asked me to kick off Supernatural leadership uh leading like heaven well thank you for giving me a Heavenly model to lead like heaven with amen um well we're going to find our topic of discussion from one of the synoptic gospels in Matthew 3: 13-1 17 again we're going to be finding our topic of discussion from Matthew chap 3 verse 13 through 17 and can we give it up for pastor Jesse as well happy birthday you just broke the 40s are you
just creeping into you know 25 amen she's said 25 uh and shout out to the staff man RLC has one of the most amazing Church staffs can we give it up for the staff as well seeing Pastor Brandon lead worship Pastor James new addition uh Pastor Taylor uh and all the visioners can we give it up for the visioners man so amazing so amazing Matthew 3: 13-17 it says this verse 13 then Jesus Came From Galilee to the Jordan to John to be baptized by him John would have prevented him saying I need to be baptized by you and do you
come to me now real quick context John's message was about repentance so considering baptizing Jesus to him seemed in inappropriate and inconceivable because Jesus had nothing to repent of so verse uh 15 says but Jesus answered him let it be so now for thus it is fitting for us to fulfill all righteousness then he consented now again context Jesus insisted on being baptized because by doing so he's perfectly fulfilling all the demands of the law and all who accept his sacrifice on the cross will be considered
righteous because of his perfect in sinless life this is where we get that scripture he who knew no sin became sin for us that we can be the righteousness of Christ amen verse 16 then says and when Jesus was baptized immediately he went up from the water and behold the heavens were open to him I'm going to say that again the heavens were open to him let's say that together the heavens were open to him and he saw the spirit of God we see the Trinity right here we see Jesus God in the Holy Spirit we saw
the spirit of God descending like a dove he wasn't a dove but like a dove and coming to rest on him verse 17 says and behold a voice from Heaven said this is my beloved Son with whom I am well pleased the sermon title that I want to speak to us from today is leading under an open Heaven leading under tell your neighbor say leading under an open Heaven leading under open Heaven let's pray real quick Spirit of the Living God I acknowledge your presence in this place you are already here and we thank you uh for
just giving us revelatory insight into your word we lay hold to wisdom we lay hold to Insight give us eyes to see ears to hear and a heart to receive I decrease and ask that you would increase in and through me help me to articulate myself with Simplicity and Clarity so that everyone at the sound of my voice can receive the word of God on Good Grounds in Jesus name we all say he to the man so in order to lead like heaven we want to make sure we're living under an open Heaven first amen and then up until this point
Jesus actually had not done anything Supernatural in his life in fact according to the other synoptic gospel Jesus was just a carpenter or the carpenter son and which means that for 30 years Jesus was in preparation although he uh was born supernaturally he had not yet walked under an open heaven so therefore Heaven had not made its resources available to him now this isn't this is a significant point that I want to bring out because many people think that they have to be in a spiritual role to be prepared for a
spiritual role I'm going to say that again many people think that I have to be a pastor before I can be prepared to be a pastor that I have to be in a spirit I have to lead worship before I can start leading worship God can use natural things to prepare you for Spiritual things somebody needs to hear that because God can use work he can use parenting he can use your business to cultivate the fruits of the spirit in you because you do want the fruits of the spirit before you operate in the gifts of the Spirit because if you have the gifts
without the fruit chances are you may misuse them to your own advantage and we've seen a lot of people who are gifted but not gifted with character we see a lot of people who are gifted but got bad attitudes in fact the holy spirit is giv us a repertoire of gifts we got nine gifts of the Spirit we got nine fruits of the spirit and we got nine betit for some of your bad attitudes so if you got a bad attitude you better tap into them Beatitudes now again many many people think that we have to be in a spiritual
role to be prepared spiritually this is not true God prepares us spiritually why we do natural things we learn stewardship we learn Excellence we learn patience we have a chance to practice our values and our virtues and God doesn't always use the spectacular to build our life on he uses the money of everyday life situations why so we can learn rhythms and routines of everyday obedience and faithfulness so you're trying to obey Jesus and walk on water but have you obeyed him in Walking on dry land first
amen have we obeyed him in the Practical before we trying to obey him in the Supernatural have we been faithful in the little before we try to be faithful in the much God will use natural things to prepare prare us now this is interesting I'm going to use acts 10:38 if we can go there for scripture reference I love how this passage how this pass passage excuse me of scripture shows us that once Jesus gets Anointed with the Holy Spirit something happens how God anointed and consecrated means set apart Jesus of Nazareth with the
Holy Spirit and with strength and ability and power check this out once he was anointed with the Holy Spirit he went about doing good and in particular caring all who were harassed and uh oppressed by the power of the devil for God was with him so one of the things that if we're going to lead like heaven we have to be able to cast out things that are not from Heaven if we are going to lead like heaven we uh we need the holy spirit so that we can lay hands on the sick and they recover and we can cast out demons
and we can make disciples Jesus couldn't walk in power until he first was anointed by God through the Holy Spirit which gave him power now this is interesting because Jesus uh last time I checked was the son of God he was born supernaturally so if he was born supernaturally why did he need the Holy Spirit if he was already the Son of God because Jesus was the son of man and the Son of God he was fully human and he was fully Divine in fact Jesus walked this life out like you and I so that we can have a model of obedience to follow so
that whatever he does we can do so that we can have access to the Greater Works that he says that we can have access to so he's following the motto to lead like heaven and Jesus main mission was to come to seek and save the lost and give his life as ransom for many which means Jesus is the gift to the unsaved but the holy spirit is the gift to the believer Jesus is for the unbeliever because it is through Jesus's life his death his burial and his resurrection it's through the precious blood of Jesus Christ
that's why we say we're not redeemed with corruptible things such as silver and gold in other words you can't be redeemed with only man can purchase with you need something much more purchasable something much more redeemable let me say that way than man's currency you need Heaven's currency which is the blood of Jesus Christ because the blood purchased are freedom from sin's Dominion the blood purchased are freedom from sin's uh oppressive thoughts over us the blood of Jesus open the door so we can have
access into a new covenant this is why we can go from Darkness to light from sickness to health from defeat to Victory because we are in a New Covenant where there is no longer separation between Heaven and Earth Jesus Paid the price so now his kingdom come his will be done on Earth as it is in heaven because the pericos the holy spirit is the one helping us to hear what the father is saying so we can do what the father wants us to do somebody say the Holy Spirit holy spirit so leading under an open Heaven means there is no more separation
between Heaven and Earth God in man the kingdom come thy will be done on Earth as it is in heaven Jesus remove Mo the barrier in the Old Testament the Holy Spirit can come on someone but as soon as the work was done the Holy Spirit couldn't stay or live on them because sin hadn't been dealt with yet this is why you can see people kill Goliath but still go back and make a bad decision and sleep with somebody else's wife this is why we can see somebody do great feats like Samson and then give all his
power away to a Delilah it's because the power will come on them but the power didn't live inside of them and Jesus died so that uh God no longer has to dwell in Tabernacles and temples made by man's hands he can now live in a physical body Temple made by his hands therefore we can have access to all of Heaven's resources now this is important if we're going to lead like heaven the kingdom of God which means his Reign his rule his authority is not a kingdom of talk the kingdom of God is of power that
means results that if we are leading like heaven we should begin some results in life I'm somebody who likes results amen if if if uh if if I can get results a book that I normally wouldn't study I'll study just because I want results amen I am an outcom driven individual uh it has its pros and cons but but the reason why I chose Christianity the reason why I chose the Bible the reason why I chose Jesus the reason why I allow the Holy Spirit to be the leader of my life is because I get results I get results in my marriage I
get results in my church I get results in my friendship I get results in all of my life I don't have to compartmentalize the holy spirit cuz he wants to be involved in all of that he wants to be involved in all of your life so again the kingdom of God is Not of talk but it is of righteousness it is of peace and joy in the Holy Ghost I wonder if it's in that sequence that we need righteousness meaning we need to know who we are in Christ first before we can access peace and then once we have peace then we may have joy could it be we're
trying to go after the joy before we have the righteousness we don't even know who we are in Christ but we're trying to claim peace we're trying to claim Joy you can't claim peace and joy that comes from God unless you know who you are as a son or daughter of God Amen so let me say this way I think I heard Pastor Dean say say this you guys might hear me say a lot of things Pastor Dean say you know cuz he's my hero he says a lot of good stuff we are no longer waiting on heaven heaven is waiting on
us we are not waiting on heaven heaven is waiting on us and let me say this way Heaven is not lacking resources Earth is just lacking surrender and submission let me say that again Heaven is not lacking there is no shortage in Heaven There is no shortage of Miracles there's no shortage of finances there's no shortage of anything Heaven is fully eternally supplied Heaven has infinite of everything you name something you need Heaven has an infinite amount of that so there is no s shortage when it comes to Heaven supplying us there is
just a shortage of surrender and submission this is why Jesus was fully human and fully Divine because he needed to teach Humanity how to be fully surrendered I love the song that you uh was that Kim Walker where you go I go where you stay man I love that song Because if you listen to that whole song part of the lyrics was every single step was in surrender yes that every Jesus went where God told him to go he moved where God told him to move he said what because every step was in surrender to the holy spirit so again Jesus fully human fully
Divine model somebody say model mod the surrender and submission God so loved the world let me say it this way God Loved Us by sending Jesus Jesus shows us how to love the father back by being obedient let me say that again God says look I'm going to show you I love you by sending my only son Jesus is saying to us I'm going to show you how to love the father back because he sent me and you need to be obedient true love is obedience to the word of God if you say you love someone if you say that you have love but it's
contrary to the word and will of God that's not love that is perversion perversion means to point in a different direction a different direction from God's word God's word produces obedience to his nature he if we are to love God that means we're to obey his word amen and this is not to be punitive this is not to force you should learn or we should learn about how good God is and it makes us want to obey see when I stop looking at the Bible as a book of rules and I looked at it as a Divine love letter I stopped
looking at it as God trying to control me and I started to look at it as God is trying to bless me he's trying to empower me he's trying to cause me to flourish amen and take it from somebody who is super rebellious still lightwe is I'm just rebellious for the Lord now but but but I didn't like rules I didn't like structure I didn't like Authority but I like like freedom and God showed me Freedom requires structure Freedom requires responsibility Freedom requires Authority in fact in the Old Testament
the the spirit of God will rest on structure he would set things up and then his Spirit would come so if you are a free person are you're a creative in the house and you just like to do what you want to do I'm here to tell you real freedom is not in you doing what you want to do real freedom is laying down what you want and picking up what Christ wants it is no longer I who live but Christ that liveth in me and the life I now live I live by faith in Christ Jesus in fact doing you is the reason why you are where you at right
now maybe you should stop doing you and doing less of you because doing you is creating some problems in your life respectfully respect respectfully if you get mad you need to go on that digital fast so the Holy Spirit plays a significant role in the Supernatural life and Leadership of Jesus if you're taking notes notet takers are World Changers if you uh uh if if if if if we are going to look at the supernatural life and Leadership of Jesus we understand that the Holy Spirit plays a significant role these are the roles
that the Holy Spirit played a significant role in at Birth at baptism I think we should have it on the screen there we go at temp temp ation excuse me and at Resurrection at Birth why was this significant because Mary conceived Jesus Through the Holy Spirit affirming his identity as both fully human and fully Divine the son of man and the Son of God at baptism the heavens opened it's the beginning of Jesus public Ministry and the Holy Spirit affirmed Jesus's identity as the Son of God and empowered him for his mission at
Temptation Jesus was led by the spirit Into the Wilderness to be tempted by the devil now this is interesting why because the Holy Spirit Led Jesus Into the Wilderness to be tempted because he knew that if Jesus had his power the Holy Spirit he can overcome any Temptation and that part of scripture is to show us that if we are in Temptation we can overcome it like Jesus we are not the Temptations we Face we are the virtues we choose to embrace somebody needs to know this because you think because you're tempted
with same-sex attraction you're tempted with drugs you're tempted with something you are allowing the feeling of being tempted the shame of that be your identity it is not a sin to be tempted in fact it's human to be tempted it used to be very hard for me to follow certain Christian leaders because I I used to ask myself dude iin ever sin you know they were never honest and vulnerable and authentic and then I got around some authentic and honest and vulnerable leaders and it's so important as leaders that we're transparent and
honest so people don't deify us because if they deify you they may get discouraged because they'll see and think that you're perfect but if you can show them that you're imperfect but called by A Perfect God who can still do a perfect work and through your imperfections you you'll have hope so the Holy Spirit role was to guide Jesus and face and overcoming Temptation and showcasing his humanity and obedience to God now I'm going be a little bit transparent in voter mode in this moment uh my wife and
I we faced a recent Temptation now prior to me taking the lead Pastor role at Century assembly my wife had just got a a a new job and this it was a it was an awesome job she was going to be my sugar mama with this job I was like you taking me shopping where we going now just just disclaimer my wife me and her always has always had this healthy competition I'm I'm going to make more than you no I'm going to make more than you and it it was finally got a moment where I was like yeah I got you and then
she get this promotion I'm like dang it's going to take me some years to get here anyhow this promotion we prayed and we felt the wind of God in fact her job allowed me to take less at centry assembly because uh my church wasn't in a position to uh really absorb the salary that that someone in my position and what I'm bringing should should have receed but it it didn't matter because God told me to do it anyways so because of my wife I felt like yeah we can do this so I man we're about six seven
months into leading at Century assembly we got a great financial Rhythm I mean we we blessed and my wife who has been working for about 21 years she ain't never she's a rule follower I'm a rule breaker God God knew what he was doing by having me married Stacy but but Stacy ain't never been ritten up she ain't never got uh any suspension I mean the girl is always on time she's just the perfect model employee we get this new job six months in and out of nowhere they lay her off now we believe in multiple revenue
streams we have quite a few but Stacy brought in about 60% of the revenue stream so here I am in a sermon series preaching faith and we prayed to take this job yeah and my wife comes home and tells me what happened I said what I was like what happened she was all calm God got us I said does he I'm super like nervous and and for the very first time we've been faithful tithers for about uh we going on being married 15 years in January she tithed before I met her I've tithed before I met so I would say
probably about 17 years faithful tithing man out of nowhere this thought came in my mind I don't know if you can get at tithe anymore anybody ever been there raise your hand shame the devil come on come on I was going to say y'all lying in church again it's not sinful to have the temptation but I'm man we we we got some some responsibilities financially and for the first time I'm nervous I'm tempted I know what God's word says but but but I'm struggling because I'm like I don't see how we can
keep this all together with 60% of our income loss but but my my my wife says something that I really appreciate it ladies y'all in the house ladies just say we in the house in the house sometimes you got to keep your man strong and and I know she was trying to keep me strong when she said pastor Damian she hit me with the pastor Damian not the sweetie not the honey I understand she was like you've been preaching on tithing you require your staff to tithe how dare you even think about this can I you know I talked about being
vulnerable right we we family if y'all don't like me I got a church I can go to it's all good we cousins now we were siblings so my wife said no we are going to rebuke the devour and keep the windows of Heaven opened up now we have to go on strong Reliance of the Holy Spirit we've done all the Dave Ramsey we had reserves and all that but it just put us in a in a position where we have to shift very very uncomfortably and my wife was doing her due diligence she was doing all of this and nothing was happening but I but but
but as we are in this more so me as I'm in this tempting moment the holy spirit is speaking see we think the Holy Spirit stops speaking when we're in our most tempting moments but that's when you got to lean into the Holy Spirit that's the time where you need to start speaking in tongues if you don't know what to pray that's the time that you need to start building yourself up that's a time you need to start reading and praying and leaning in more don't go backwards when you're in Temptation press in tell your
neighbor press in press in so we pressed in and we gave beyond what we can give and what I realized that in this season where we didn't have this for about 3 months God was recalibrating us he was recalibrating our spending he was recalibrating our rhythms he was recalibrating uh just a lot of different things and for three months we are being recalibrated by the Holy Spirit and in these three months uh my wife birth the women's ministry our first event at our women's ministry was over 200 people and and and and my wife came in
she was she she pastored dami and me at home but in the church she Pastor Dam she came and worked almost every day at our church for 3 months and when I tell you the sister excelled us in a lot of areas man Stacy blessed the heck out of our church and in those three months not only did God recalibrate us not only did God birth uh Ministries not only did he uh solidify what he wanted to do in her life our marriage and other things he eventually gave Stacy another job comparable to the come but had way more work Life Ministry balance come on
praise the Lord for that woo man I'm so glad I'm out of that battle but that previous job she couldn't come to midweek Services she was really working about six hour uh not six six days a week and I saw it it was taking a toll on my wife and we prayed that God would do something to help us we just didn't want it to happen act like that but but I just wanted to kind of share how the holy spirit in our Wilderness season let me say it better this way in our Wilderness season it's not to defeat
you it's to develop you for a better season and we also see Jesus at Resurrection or excuse me the Holy Spirit at Resurrection Romans 8 11 states that it was the spirit of God who raised Jesus from the dead and highlights that the holy spirit's role in affirming Jesus was victory over sin death and the grave why is this important sometimes we get too casual about Jesus uh overcoming the de hell uh death sin death in the grave sometimes we Easter comes and we just very casual about it uh the Holy Spirit resurrecting
Jesus from the dead from the grave from from all of that the reason why that's so important to you and I is because you and I were once bound to sin couldn't get out of it in fact we liked our sin and we prefer to stay in it but then Jesus comes and he is the savior of the world he redeems us but not only does he just redeems us he gives us access to the holy spirit so we no longer have to be bound to sin here's the part that's very important to me we can also like to please God you know there's some sins that you
don't you know you shouldn't do but you still like to do but Jesus being resurrected not only will he free you from those sins he will give you the heart to want to please God above that sin oh that's good that's good for me cuz I had a lot of sin sin that I like to do come on y'all can laugh on that dang Pastor Dean do we got to pray against judgment in here sheesh judging the pastor but what I'm trying to say is and be honest with you there are things that we know we shouldn't do but we still
like to do and when you have a relationship with the Holy Spirit he will take the light out of the things you know you shouldn't do and he can give you a desire for something else you might be promiscuous but God can give you a desire to be faithful you might like smoking weed but God can give you a desire to be sober you might like gossiping and God can give you the desire to watch what you say so you can only speak that which is edifying and uplifting to those who are hearing it now um I believe in order for us to
understand how to lead under a open Heaven I learned this word from Pastor Brandon we need to delineate between christology and patology I'm going read this I know I'm introducing some theological terms but this is a teaching church amen this is a Teaching Ministry right Dr felle we got we got doctors and theologians in the house christology is the study of the person and work of Jesus Christ it explores who Jesus is his nature and identity and what he accomplished through his life death and Resurrection patology is the
study of the Holy Spirit it invest investigates the nature the role and work of the Holy Spirit within the godhead and in the life of Believers this is important because right now the most important person on earth is not Jesus come on now y'all like what blasphemy are you talking about it's the Holy Spirit even Jesus speaks to his disciples and tells him it's profitable for what I need to do let's let's look at John 16 verse 6-7 Jesus is speaking to his disciples but I tell you the truth it is to your advantage that I go
away for if I do not go away the helper the paracletos the comforter the advocate the intercessor the counselor the strengthener the standby will not come to you but if I go I will send him the Holy Spirit to you to be in close fellowship with you communion with you that Fellowship means not just Fellowship but it's partnership and deep intimacy it means he is revealing the secrets in heaven about you that that that you know how uh I I also heard Pastor Dean mention we have dual citizenship do you know how we have dual
citizenship because the holy spirit that lives in us also has access to heaven and on Earth so when I spend time with God the holy spirit is letting me know what he heard in Heaven's courtroom and he's proclaiming it to me on Earth the hly ho spirit is letting me know no this is not going to get you this this sickness is not unto death you are going to live and you won't die the holy spirit is telling me no you won't be broke busted and disgusted I I put an economic system in place called tithing
and giving and generosity and he proclaims the truth of God's word to us which means our victories on Earth are determined by our intimacy with Heaven our victories on Earth are determined by our intimacy with Heaven there's some things about life that not even AI can tell us you can't chat gbt your purpose and Destiny you can't chat gbt how to reconcile broken relationships it will give you information but it won't give you impartation you can't chat G BT who you supposed to marry yeah it's artificial
intelligence but the holy spirit is absolute intelligence the holy spirit is infinite intelligence the holy spirit is infinite he's omnipotent he's omnicient he's omnipresent and yes I like chat gbt it's my assistant but that's what it is it's my assistant not my savior not my Lord I don't go to it when my soul is troubled I don't go to it when my heart is heavy I don't go to it when I was three months of in that Temptation I go to the paracletos I go to Absolute intelligence
I go to the Holy Spirit I go in my throne room and I begin to speak in my heavenly prayer language this is a Bible believing spirit filled demon rebu and tongue talking church we are Pentecostals in here we believe in the power of the Holy spirit and I begin to speak things that I can't interpret but the Holy Spirit can interpret I begin to pray my perfect language I want to say this if our steps are ordered by the Lord then our life is not random amongst men if our steps are order your life is not random you shouldn't just randomly
date people you shouldn't just randomly choose things you shouldn't just randomly do anything if your life is ordered pre-arranged predestin pre purpose to collabor with God so if my life is not random then my steps are ordered and if my steps are ordered there is a holy spirit that can give me vision for my life I call it Redemptive Focus y'all know my testimony most of you guys I thought I was going to be a club promo and a real estate agent praise the Lord God gave me some Redemptive focus and says I have
anointed your words I've anointed your mouth I called you to preach the gospel but God I'm not good enough I will qualify you but God but God you don't you you don't know the sentence that I just had it don't matter uh uh debt paid in full Jesus paid for it we come up with every excuse and God doesn't care about that he wants Your Surrender he wants your heart he wants to introduce you to the Holy Spirit look what John 16213 says as I'm coming to a close I have many more things to say to
you but you cannot bear to hear them now but when he somebody say he he the spirit of truth comes he will guide you into all Truth for complete truth for he will not speak on his own initiative but he will speak whatever he hears from the Father the message regarding the son he will disclose to you what is to come in the future verse 14 and 15 he will glorify and honor me he the holy spirit will take from what is mine and will disclose it to you all things the father has are mine because of this I say that he the spirit will take from what is
mine and reveal it to you we don't walk under an open Heaven because we see the Holy Spirit as an it we see it as a universal Force we see him as Dove as wind as water as fire we do not need to see the holy SP Spirit as these things we need to see him as a Divine person he is a person yes he's like a dove gentle yes he's like when he can move quickly in your life yes he's like water he can refresh you yes he's like fire he can purify you these are uh uh things that he can produce in your life but he is
not these things he is a person and if you don't see the Holy Spirit as a person you'll do what I have often done and still do sometimes they got to remind myself we will say stuff like this God give me more of you give me more of you God I want more of you I want more of you but the thing about that is let me give you an illustration imagine having a roommate who lives in your house y'all live together this roommate doesn't sleep this roommate doesn't eat their whole purpose to living with you is is
just to strengthen you encourage you advocate for you and they're always there for you they'll give you your space if you want it but they're always present if you need them imagine telling a roommate like that give me more of you that roommate will be like I've given you all of me it's we we we're not praying God give me more of you because Jesus gave us all of him through the holy spirit all of us are all of God is he sent the Holy Spirit that's all of him because it's the same spirit that
hovered over the waters in Genesis before God spoke it's the same spirit that resurrected Jesus it's the same spirit that put put Jesus in Mary's womb it is the holy spirit that does the power the work and all the different things of the godhead so when God Gave You and I the holy spirit this is why what no eye has seen what no ear has heard neither has it entered into the heart of man except those who love God God can reveal so much to you it's not about God give me more it's about you emptying your cup so he can fill you up
with more you're full of Pride you're full of selfishness you're full of your own ways and for God to give you more you got to empty your life discipleship requires lose your life before you find it I was telling God I want more in my season here at real life I was telling God a lot of different things and more does not always show up in a package that you like more for me showed up in a city that I never heard of called Loi California Lo uh more for me showed up in uh accepting a salary package that I
didn't feel was best for my family but but but we were in a a series of in Galatians and God used that book to speak to me because it it I said it earlier it is no longer I who live but Christ that liveth in me and and the life that I Live Now I live by faith so when you are a disciple of Jesus Christ what you're simply saying is I'mma lay my ambitions to the side I'mma lay my preferences to the side I'mma lay what I want to the side and I am God's vessel send me to Loi if you want to send me to Alaska if you
want to send me to s wherever you want me to go send me I'll go because I am a disciple of Jesus Christ and now since I've been there my board gave me two raises ain't that nice and we went and my i i i inherited a staff that all their salaries were cut in half we had nothing in the bank our attendance was 90 or less and and I just I heard the Holy Spirit tell me to say yes because he know let me say it this way the Holy Spirit I feel Heaven on this one the holy spirit is in my tomorrow today so he's
telling me to do things today so I can walk in His blessings tomorrow you say you want more God and he shows it in a path that you might be like all right not that one give me something else let me show you this graph as I come to the close or as I come to a close I really want us to understand this the Trinity the godhead God the Father father His function is the provider his status he's set apart he's holy his location is in heaven Jesus His function is our savior he's seated in Heavenly places at the
right hand Throne of God so we don't we don't need more of Jesus cuz Jesus is in heaven he did his work but the Holy Spirit the helper he's active right now he's on Earth right now his job is to help you and I lead Like Heaven Come On Come On gu go give God some Praise on that one while every head is bowed and every eyes closed if you want more of this message come to the second and third service I want to respect the time now as a pastor I realize how much time is important while every head is bowed and
every eyes closed everyone keeping this moment reever reverential if you are here today and you do not know Jesus as your lord and personal Savior Jesus is a gift to you the most incredible gift that God has sent all of humanity is that that we can accept Jesus who knew no sin but became sin for you and I if you're in here today and you don't not know Jesus as your lord and personal savior or you've walked with Jesus at one point in time and you've broken Fellowship in other words you're not sure what your relationship
status with Jesus is if you're in here today and you want to be saved you want your name written in the Lamb's Book of Life or you want to rededicate your life back to Christ I'm going just ask you to do one simple thing while every head is bowed and every eyes closed just lift up your hand and I want to pray with you and for you you say Pastor that's me I see that hand in the middle Pastor that's me I see those hands in the back I see that hand in the back I see that hand p that's me I want salvation I want
rededication Jesus will never turn down forgiveness he wants to love you he wants to forgive you he wants to clean you up and he wants to use you in a mighty way again if that's you if you've already raised your hand you can put your hand down but if you're in here and you did not raise your hand this is arguably one of the most important parts of the service I see that hand any other any other person in here I see that hand I see that hand in Jesus name amen and while every head is still bowed and
every eye is still closed Jesus is the gift to the unbeliever but the holy spirit is a gift to the believer if you are saved as salvation you get the Holy Spirit but it's a different type of experience it's almost like you drink water but at the baptism of the Holy Spirit at the filling of the holy spirit it's almost like you get submerged you get dunked in water so if you're here today and you want to be filled with the holy spirit so that you can lead lead like heaven if that's you and you're
here today and you're like hey I'm a Believer but I want to be filled with power according to acts 1 and8 I want to be filled with his presence I want to be filled with a a active relationship with God where he is walking with me he's strengthening me he's guiding me if that's you and you've never invited the Holy Spirit The Filling of the Holy Spirit the baptism of his power to be upon you if that's you I want you to raise your hand and I want to pray with you and for you I see the hands I see
those hands amen amen anybody else you may put your hands down let's do this let's cover salvation and then I'm going to lead us into an important prayer on filling being filled with the Holy Spirit together as a family you may lift up your head and let's read this together as a family let's say this together on three 1 2 3 dear Lord Jesus excuse me I know that I am a sinner and I ask for your forgiveness I believe you died for my sins and rose from the dead right now I turn from my sins and invite
you to come into my heart and life I want to trust and follow you from this day forward I confess you as my personal Lord and Savior thank you for saving me in jesus' name amen can we give it up for all those that made that decision and for those that lift up their hands for the Holy Spirit I still want us to corporately do this together I believe it's in Luke 11 it talks about if a Earthly father can give these type of gifts how much more would your heavenly father give you the Holy Spirit if you ask operative word all you got to
do is ask for him Holy Spirit like a dove is a gentleman he won't force himself on you but if you invite him he will come and it's not a filling it's by faith if you ask for him you have the Holy Spirit and with that evidence sometimes we speak in tongues with that evidence the most important evidence we should be living a life of Love or forgiveness we should walk in the fruits of spirit because we have the Holy Spirit so as a body of Believers today say this prayer with me say holy spirit Holy Spirit I ask I ask for you to come
into my life you to come into my life fill me with your power I accept I accept any gifts that you have for me as I invite you in I receive you right now I receive you and I ask that you lead me you guide me you strengthen me you advocate for me you counsel me and you comfort me I receive that by faith re in Jesus name amen and if we're in agreement of these prayers can the church give God some praise stand to your feet come on you can do better than that let's give him a shout of praise and Victory hey once again thank you for joining us
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