 One pastor was trying to get to United States from Europe. It was during the time that they did not have airplanes. And so he got his ticket on the voyage on the ship, spent all of his savings to get the money to get the ticket to come to the United States. But he didn't have the money to eat in those fancy restaurants that the ship had. So what he did instead of eating in the fancy restaurants, he got a big bag and saved himself some cheese and crackers. For 21 days this trip would last. So the first day he got there, he kept his hope alive that he's moving to the United States. He was coming from a persecuted country. And the first day he came out on the board eating his cheese and crackers. Second day he's eating cheese and crackers. Third day he's eating cheese and crackers. And the 20th day after eating cheese and crackers, one of the guys comes to him and says, hey, no mean to offend you, sir. But I've noticed that every single day when we go to the buffet, you go into the side and you stick your head into your bag. What is that that you do? And he felt really embarrassed. He said, I'm very poor and I don't have money to afford all of these fancy restaurants. So I could only save up money to buy the ticket. And so all of you giggling over there and laughing as you devouring your fancy food. I'm actually enjoying my cheese and crackers and I cannot wait to get to the States so that this torture of cheese and crackers will come to an end. The man looked at him and he says, you gotta be kidding me. Did you not know that all the buffets and all the restaurants were included in your ticket? I wonder sometimes how many times we as Christians live on cheese and crackers now realizing of stuff that's already included in their ticket. And we're just waiting for the sweet buy and buy for Jesus to come and sweep us and finish all the problems and wait for all of the promises of God to be fulfilled out there when we die. So many people look to death for their deliverance instead of Christ. When I die, this one I'll be free. When I die, this is when things will end. You know, Jesus Christ doesn't want death to be your deliverer. He wants himself to be your deliverer. I want you to rise to your feet. We're going to open the scripture together to Book of Acts chapter 3 verse 2 and verse 3. Book of Acts chapter 3 verse 2 and verse 3. And if you're there, say amen. If you're still opening your app and your app is not loading, say wait for me. Book of Acts chapter 3 verse 2 and verse 3. As you're opening your Bible, I want to remind you that if you use... How many of you use your version Bible app? Alright, so many of you. I actually have two Bible reading plans there. One is for single ready to mingle, five days and one is break free for 14 days. You can read with your friends. So while you're there, you can subscribe to one. If you're there, say amen. If you're not there yet, we can't wait anymore. Acts chapter 3 verse 2. And a certain lame man from his mother's womb was carried. Somebody say carried. Whom? I loved how you guys say it. I think it's so funny for you guys to listen to my accent probably, huh? No? They have a big accent? Okay, I do. I have like Ukrainian mixed with American. Half of the time I'm not even sure what I am. But the way you guys have it is just beautiful. A certain lame man was from his mother's womb was carried. Whom they laid daily at the gate of the temple, which is called beautiful. To ask alms from those who entered the temple. Who seeing Peter and John about to go into the temple asked for alms. And if we flip the next to the next chapter, chapter 4. If you go to your phone, chapter 4 verse 4, it says the following. So after this miracle that he gets freed and he starts dancing and goes into the temple praising God. It says, however, many of those who heard the word believed and the number of men came to be 5,000. Holy Spirit, we welcome you. We thank you for your presence. We thank you for your word. And I pray that you will help me to digest your word today. I pray that you will open our ears to understand, our hearts to understand, our ears to hear and anoint my mouth to speak. Father, I pray that every young person here today, God, who doesn't know you will come to know you. I pray that the sick will be healed. I pray people that are oppressed will be delivered. And Father, I pray that you will baptize us afresh with your Holy Spirit. I pray that you will kindle us, kindle within us a flame for the calling that you have placed upon our life, Lord. We pray all of this in the precious name of Jesus. And everybody said, amen, you may take your seats in the presence of Jesus. I want to speak today for just a moment about walking in the Holy Spirit. Walking in the Holy Spirit. I understand that many of us here today are Pentecostals and praise to God. I'm born Pentecostal, raised Pentecostal and going to die Pentecostal. In the church we have a problem today because the church has created a new trinity. God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Scriptures. All around the western world there has been a third God that's been created. God the Holy Scriptures. Where the Holy Scriptures, which I value so dearly, that God breathed, have replaced and pushed aside the Holy Spirit. I wrote the book too, but I can tell you one thing. The author is always bigger than the book. The Holy Ghost who wrote the Bible is greater than the Bible. The Holy Ghost is God. And I believe that he is the most forgotten God on the earth today. Most people treat the Holy Spirit the same way Pharisees treat Jesus. They love the God of Abraham and hate it, God the Son. They didn't understand him. He was weird. He was crazy. He didn't fit into their mold. And so many people have the same view of the Holy Spirit. They think he is weird just because they met some Pentecostals that are weird. I'm going to tell you one thing. The Holy Spirit is anything but weird. He's wild, but he's not weird. The Holy Spirit is the most normal person that you will ever meet in your life. And the Holy Spirit is a person. The Holy Spirit is God, but he's also a person. So the story we read today is this. The Bible says there was a man and he was lame from the birth. Being lame from birth did not mean that this man did not have legs. It just meant that this man's legs did not carry him. He carried them. The Bible doesn't say that he didn't have legs. The Bible just says that his legs didn't work. Are you with me? Okay. When you were born, when I was born, the legs came as part of the package on the day of birth. Yes or no? How many of you know that you didn't get your legs as an upgrade five years down the road? How many of you know you didn't get your legs as an update because you were obedient and you finally learned to sleep on the right time and everything, and then God just brought the legs by UPS and they attached them to you six years down? No. You were born with your legs. Everybody born with their legs give God some praise. All right. All right. And some of you, you're like, I'm glad. I'll be honest. I'm not sure. I know I was there. I just don't remember if I came out with my legs or not. Let me assure you on the day of your birth, the creator gave you legs. But how many of you know just because you were born with legs? It doesn't mean you walked out of your mother's womb. Having legs is one thing which came at your birth. Learning to use them took some time. Getting them at your birth was a gift. But walking in the legs you got at your birth came with exercise. Came with your parents helping you to walk, correct? It came with falling and getting up. Walking with the legs you can't, you got as a gift. It took some patience. It took somebody to hold you. Somebody to pick you up. Somebody say, come, come, come. Come on, come on, come on. You got, ah, you took one step. You just failed on the second one but you're still awesome. We'll do it again next time. It took some patience. It took some trial and error. It took some time. I'm getting them. I'm getting somewhere. When you got born again, God gave you the Holy Ghost. The Holy Spirit did not come when you started to speak in tongues. The Holy Spirit came when you became saved. God immediately gave you the Holy Spirit. He didn't wait. He didn't give you probation. He didn't give you like a six month period to say, I'll see if you're serious. I'll see if your backslide. God, at that moment that you got saved, God didn't just give you a new heart. God did not just write your name in the Lamb's Book of Life. God did not just clean your record, wipe clean. God gave the Holy Spirit to live inside of you at that very moment. That is a very precious gift. That is an amazing gift. But see the Holy Spirit is like legs. You get them at birth. But most people are just like this lame man. Still don't use them. Except those legs. Don't carry them. The Bible says the man had legs, but he was lame in the sense that they didn't carry him. He dragged them with him to the temple. I want to speak today to people who have the Holy Spirit. But Holy Spirit doesn't have you. Every Christian has the Holy Spirit. But the Holy Spirit doesn't have every Christian. This man had legs. They just didn't work. He just didn't walk with them. He crawled. He dragged them to church. And in fact, the Scripture says, where was this man seated? Where? At the gate? He wasn't inside. He was at the gate. When you have the Holy Spirit, but the Holy Ghost doesn't have you, your body will be sitting in the church pew. Your mind will always be checked out. Sermons are always going to be boring. Worship is always going to be something that is just not your favorite song. Not your favorite tune. I just don't feel it today. The spirit is not here. No, it's just your mind is not here. The spirit is here. It's just the spirit. Your spirit is not there. Why? Because when you got legs, but they don't carry you, you always stay at the gate. The Bible says he was laid at the gate. He didn't stand there and clap and worship God. He was laying at the gate. See, lame Christians are laying Christians. They're not walking with God. They're not dancing and praising and worshiping God and walking with the Holy Spirit. They're usually, their Christian life could be something in one word. Laying. The Bible says that he was laying there at the gate. But I want you to notice another thing. He wasn't saying when people were walking in, he said, hey high five, welcome to the temple. You can have a fabulous day. He was there saying, could you give me a coin or two? He was begging. He had the legs. He was begging. When he started to walk, the Bible says he enters into the temple no longer at the gate. He's not begging in the temple, though his financial situation is still the same. He didn't get a million dollar check. He didn't win a lottery. Nothing changed in his finances. Something happened. When he started to walk in the legs that he got, something changed in him. Inside of the temple and inside of the temple, he doesn't walk around and say, hey guys, can you go to my GoFund account and donate five dollars to improve my financial situation? The Bible says he was praising God. He was at the gate. He was laying and he was begging because he was lame. There's a lot of Christians that are lame Christians. Lame Christians in the sense that they got the Holy Ghost. Holy Ghost hasn't gotten them. They lived their Christian life crawling. And they're like, man, the Holy Spirit created the universe. He can't even carry my algebra and geometry. The Holy Spirit made the heavens and the earth, but he can't even carry my heart. I have to carry the Holy Spirit as a doctrinal disposition. I believe in him. I know I got him, but he is doing absolutely nothing in my life. My whole life is carried by my own strength and my own abilities. My own efforts and my own work. My own pressure and everything that I put in is what I get out. There's nothing the Holy Spirit does out on feel and out on see his activity. And you can get to the point where you start even doubting whether you have the Holy Spirit or not. My friend, if you're a Christian, you have the Holy Spirit. But today I am on assignment to come into your life like Peter and John and not to give you legs, but to help you work them. To help you get your hand up and say, listen, the legs that you brought in can carry you. The Holy Ghost was not sent so you carry the Holy Ghost. The Holy Ghost was sent that he carries you. That he carries your education. That he carries your finances. At the Holy Spirit, he carries your ministry. At the Holy Spirit carries your relationship. At the Holy Spirit carries your family. That he carries the burden. That he has the power to carry the weight of your life. If he created the universe, he can carry your life. But my friends, it's not that we don't have him. It's that he doesn't have us. And you may say, what is the difference? The difference isn't this. We get the Holy Spirit by salvation. He gets us by surrender. Write that down. That's tweetable right there. We get the Holy Spirit by salvation. Holy Spirit gets us by surrender. Many of us, we got the Holy Spirit the same way we got legs. We're grown up babies. And our pastor is pushing a stroller every Sunday. We're grown up babies. And our mentor, our small group leader, what pretty much they're doing is they're just helping us on the wheelchair of rules, on the wheelchair of different advices to push us into church instead of us walking to church on our own. Instead of us being motivated to go to church on our own. Instead of us being initiators to serve in our church. Instead of us coming in and being engaged. And not just coming and saying, I'm not being fed. But realizing is that the only kids who say, I'm not being fed are toddlers. If you're an adult child, you live with your parents and you come to your mama and your daddy say, mama and dad, I'm not getting fed. You know what they will say? There is food in the fridge. And if you're not getting fed, that means you're not hungry. See, when you have the Holy Spirit, you don't have to wait for pastor's revelation. You don't have to wait for the right tune. You don't have to wait for none of them. You got your own legs. And they carry you and you could use them. You don't have to wait for somebody to bring you into the gates. You don't have to wait for somebody to toss you a coin. Why? Because you got your own legs and you can walk with the Holy Ghost. I'm going to preach to myself. It's completely fine. So I want to share with you just practically three things on how to walk in the Holy Spirit. Somebody say amen. I want you to write this down. The first thing I want you to write this down. To walk in the Spirit, I have to talk to the Spirit. 25 minutes. Thank you, buddy. To walk in the Spirit, I have to talk to the Spirit. To the Spirit. Somebody say, talk to the Spirit. So to walk, I have to talk. Now, in order to talk to the Spirit, we have to understand, we have to break few misconceptions. One is the Holy Spirit is not tongues. Abba Ramazda Shara Barahanda is not the Holy Ghost. That's a gift of the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit is a person. The Holy Spirit is not Pentecostal. The Holy Spirit is God. The Holy Spirit has feelings. The Holy Spirit has a will and the Holy Spirit has emotions. He is a person. He's not a dove. He's not a fire. He's not an oil. He's not a shaking and baking. He's not a fat tickling in my stomach right there. He is not none of that. Now, that could be a manifestation of his power, but who he is is a person. Somebody say amen. The Holy Spirit is not a flame. The Holy Spirit is not a feeling. You don't feel Holy Spirit. You know Holy Spirit because he's a person. You feel his power, but you know him as a person. The Bible says be still and know the Lord is God. The Bible doesn't say be still and feel the Lord is God. I don't feel my wife. I know my wife. You can feel the Spirit. You can know the Spirit because he is a person. But you can feel his power. Come on somebody. So to talk to the Holy Spirit, I must break a mental stronghold and Holy Spirit is... Now that's great. But the Holy Spirit is more than that. He is a person. Tongues is a gift. I had a buddy of mine. He gifted me with this iPad. He gave me this iPad. But that's a gift I use every day. My friend is not the iPad. I had a buddy of mine that got saved, US Marine and he came to church and I just moved into my new house and he bought me a nice TV. He's a pastor of God. I haven't been tidying for so many years. I was like, I don't think that's how this works. I don't think you buy a pastor a TV and that's your tide. But I'm like, I'll keep the TV while you figure out the theology. I'm like, if you want to buy anything else while you're still in your little fog of ignorance, feel free to do the good Lord understands your heart. This friend of mine who bought the TV four years ago lives somewhere in Hawaii. I have not talked to him in three years. Tried to reach out on Facebook. He doesn't respond. He's still there. I see his Facebook post. He just doesn't respond back to me. The crazy part is I still have the TV. See, you can speak in tongues till you turn blue and never know the Holy Ghost. You can use the gift and not develop a personal relationship with the person. And my friend did not take the TV back just because he moved to Hawaii. Holy Ghost is not going to take the gift of tongues or other gifts just because you ignore and reject them. You'll come to church and the anointing will present and you will go, and live in sin. And you will say, Holy Ghost is with me. The gift is with you. But the intimacy is not there. I'm not saying you don't have a relationship. I'm saying you don't have intimacy. Just because you're using TV, it doesn't mean you're in contact with the person who gave it to you. That's why Saul would come into the group of prophets laid on the floor and experienced manifestations and prophesied until he ripped all of his clothes and got up and went back to his old ways. Why? Because you can experience the Holy Ghost in the presence where all of us are experiencing it but it doesn't mean you have the intimacy with him. What I'm talking today is to walk in the Holy Ghost. But to walk in the Holy Ghost you got to talk to the Holy Ghost. Now the Bible makes me to understand that I don't pray to the Holy Spirit. We pray to the Father. We don't pray to Jesus. We pray to the Father in Jesus' name. We don't pray to Mary. We don't pray to saints. And we don't pray to the Holy Ghost. We pray to the Father in the name of Jesus by the help of the Holy Ghost. Is anybody with me? But the Scripture says in Corinthians that made the love of the Father the grace of Jesus and the fellowship. Somebody say fellowship. Somebody shout fellowship. And the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you. It's not a fellowship with the Holy Spirit. It's fellowship of the Holy Spirit. That means Holy Ghost wants to fellowship. That's not prayer. That's not Holy Ghost parking orders. Turn right, turn left. Stop. Don't date him. Don't like her. Don't watch this. Don't do this. That's not fellowship. That's parking orders. When I fellowship with my wife in particular, we're just talking. We're just sharing our feelings. We're just sharing what's on our mind. And the fellowship of the Holy Ghost be with you always. That means Holy Ghost is a person and he wants to talk to you and he wants you to talk to him every single day. I'm not talking about prayer. I'm talking about communion. I don't pray to my wife every day and say, thou is the fairest of thousand lily of the valleys. Ari is like a Coca-Cola and I worship thee. I don't do that stuff. Why? Because that's called idolatry. I know it's sexy and I know it's cool, but it's called idolatry. What I do is as I talk to my wife I don't worship my wife. And so the Holy Spirit is my friend. That's why I fellowship. He is my friend. He's not a force I feel. Yes, I talk with. If you want to walk in the Holy Spirit, this is how it starts. I'm going to get it very practical. Talk to him. You're driving in the stock in the elevator. Somewhere in the metro. Somewhere in the bathroom. In the shower. Like this morning, because of a time zone, you know, woke up at 3 o'clock from 3 to 6 and I didn't pray. I just talked to my friend who spent that in the living room all that time waiting for me to wake up and cheers would roll down my eyes because his presence would fill the room. I didn't do anything very special, super spiritual. It's not my favorite Holy Spirit songs. I said, Holy Spirit, I love you, Holy Spirit. I miss you. If I've done anything in the last few days I probably have. I'm really, really sorry. I just want to be with you. I'm not here to milk a sermon out of you. I'm not here so you can give me anointing. I'm here because you're my friend. What are friends for? In order to walk, you have to talk. See, sometimes it's harder to speak to the Holy Spirit because see, when we think of the Father we think of like a like a dad. You know, and if you had a good dad it's easier for you. You're thinking of a great man, little belly kind. You feel safe in his arms. When you think of Jesus, you think of Jim Gaviso in the Passion of the Christ tall, handsome, strong. And then when you think of the Holy Ghost blank, fire, wind, oil, shaking and baking, tongues. Which one do I choose today? And I remember one time I said, Lord, if you wanted me to fellowship with the Holy Spirit, why didn't you give the Holy Ghost a body? I mean, I know that you've chosen to identify like a father, Jesus like a Jewish man, the Messiah. Why didn't you give the Holy Ghost? You keep appearing him like dove and wind. I'm like, it's confusing to talk to a wind. And I feel the Holy Spirit spoke back to me and he said, Jesus chose the male Jewish body, but the Holy Ghost chose your body. He's no less a person just because you don't see him physically. If you want to see the Holy Ghost, look in the mirror. Your body is his house. Your body is his address. Your body is his location. That's why your body has value. That's why you can sell yourself cheap. That's why you can cut your body. That's why you can ink your body. Why? It's not your body. It's his house. You have to always ask the owner's permission. That's why you can't put drugs in your body. That's why you can't put liquor in your body. That's why you can't put a man inside of your body or other things in your body. Why? You got to ask the owner, who is the owner, the Holy Ghost. And you and him happen to be in very good terms. Somebody give us some praise right now. The Holy Ghost owns you and me. In order to have in order to walk with the Holy Ghost we need to talk to the Holy Ghost. I'm telling you one thing, when you start talking to the Holy Spirit, you don't have to be a preacher. You don't have to be a minister. You don't have to be a worship leader. You can be, maybe consider yourself an average Joe, a stay home mom or maybe you're a single mom or maybe today you're just a college person. I'm telling you one thing, begin to talk to the Holy Ghost. He's already there. He's waiting. He wants to talk back to you. I'm not talking about to give you only things to do. He wants to just talk. He is a friend, not a force. My God. But the second thing I want you to notice is not only we have to talk to him if we want to walk in him. Walking in the Holy Spirit doesn't make me better than you. It makes me better than me. Write that down. Tweet that too. Walking in the Holy Spirit doesn't make me better than you. It only makes me better than me. In Galatians it says the following. I say then walk in the Spirit in Galatians chapter 5 verse 16 and you will not feel the lust of the flesh. And then if you read later on in 22 and verse 23 it says, but the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, long-suffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control. Against such there is no law. I want you to see this. Is that when I walk in the Holy Spirit it happens because I talk to the Holy Spirit. But the benefit of walking and talking in the Holy Spirit not only I begin to, he begins to guide me. But what begins to happen is the Bible says that as you walk in the Holy Spirit I don't fulfill. Somebody say fulfill. The Bible doesn't say you won't have. Watch this. The Bible does not say if you walk in the Holy Spirit you will not have lust of the flesh. It says you will not fulfill lust of the flesh. Lust will still be there. Lust is like a an itch at least foot. You know like when it just itches and then you want to scratch it thinking it's gonna go away and the more you scratch it the more itches. That's exactly what lust is. If you give into it it promises it will go away. But in reality it only increases. That's what lust does. And the Bible doesn't say that if I walk in the Holy Spirit that the itch goes away. It's that I have the power not to scratch. That your neighbor say don't scratch it. That guy that's right into you don't scratch back. Don't respond back. Don't scratch it. God will give you the power not to scratch it. But I want you to see this in Galatians chapter 5. It says the fruit of the Spirit. Somebody say fruit. It doesn't say the work. The works is applied to the work of flesh. Meaning I work. I tail. I strive. It says the fruit. Meaning I surrender. If you ever seen how fruits are produced you never see the trigon. Oh Jesus. Hallelujah. Apple is out. Thank you Lord. Next day. Orange is out. Fruits are not produced like work. Fruit happens naturally. Fruit happens slowly. And fruit grows. Fruit is first sour before it's sweet. I always and when I feel like I am impatient. I don't walk around and say I am impatient. I say that patience is sour. But that means it's getting sweet. Because it's a fruit. And fruits don't just appear as gifts. Fruits are grown with time. But the best part about fruits. I want you to see this. The difference between a fruit and a gift. Two apples. This is a gift. This is the fruit. This grows on trees naturally. And this has to be produced by people in China and sold in America for a very, very heavy price. This is the fruit. I want you to notice a big difference. One is this one you wear it. This one you eat it. When you walk with the Holy Spirit I am going to tell you one thing about your life. Your character will be affected by the Holy Spirit. The world tells us work on your character. Nowhere do you see an apple is working on the apple. The apple is the result of a branch abiding on the tree. Christianity, love, kindness long suffering. All of these things are not because you work on them. They happen because you work on your relationship and the fruit comes automatically. You work on your intimacy issues get resolved automatically. I want to give you a freedom today. Stop working on your problems, on your character issues. Stop it. Look in the last five years. How much did you get by working on it? You're still in the same problem. You're still angry. You're still in patience. You're still looking at the stuff you should not be looking. And so can I give you try something for the rest of this year? Stop working on your character. Work on your intimacy and something will happen. Your character slowly but surely will begin to change and you will never be able to say oh because I worked on it. You will say it was the fruit of the spirit. I didn't work on it. He worked on it because I focused on intimacy and I don't get the credit. It's not fruit of lad. It's not fruit of my mama. It's not fruit of my fasting. It's not fruit of my prayer. It's the fruit of the spirit. The only thing I did is I developed intimacy with him and he produced it slowly but surely somebody give God some praise right now. But the best part about the fruit. Watch this. The best part about the fruit. If you have it, people around you will be that is awesome. If you marry somebody who has a fruit of the spirit, they'll feed you. If your parents, if you're in a house, your parents will be fed by you. If you don't have it, they'll be fed up by you. With the fruit, I feed my spouse. See, my wife doesn't care if I can speak in tongues. She just cares how I speak to her in English. My wife doesn't care how many people fall if I lay my hands on her. What she cares is do I touch her gently. My wife is fed when I have a fruit, not the gifts of the Holy Ghost. She doesn't care how many applause I get in a sermon and how many views my sermons get on YouTube. She gets fed by my character. You get blessed by the gift. But the people around me are fed by my character. That's why some men don't have good families and don't have good relationships. Why? Because they only have an apple watch but not an apple fruit. Ladies, don't look for a man who has a new apple watch. Make sure the home slides have some apples. Gentlemen, don't look for a lady just because she's fine. Make sure her fruits are there because you're not just going to be sleeping with her body. You're going to be living with her character. And if that girl has no apples, listen, you're going to be eating of that and this is what you're going to say after six months of marriage. You're going to say, I am fed up by you. Why? Because it's only the fruit of the Spirit that will make you say, I am fed by you. Mic drop right there. I just feel the annoyance being released as I eat this apple. This is very good apple. Not big but sweet. That's what the fruit of the Spirit is. It feeds your family. You go to work, your employees they're fed by you. If you keep hearing this about yourself that people are fed up with you, stop working on your issues. You won't get it better. It will be work of the flesh. Work on your relationship with the Holy Spirit and you will start seeing small little things appear and you will never be able to take the credit for it. You will say it's the fruit of the Spirit. Let's give the Lord a round of applause. How does this happen? Sorry. I have to speak so I need to finish eating faster. How does this happen practically so loud? I'll demonstrate it to you. Can I have two people? One from this and one more. Give me a lady, a guy and give me a girl. Somebody quickly come up to the stage. Quickly, quickly. The girl one will have it easy. Come on, let's go. Is your cup still full? Is your cup or coffee still full? Bring it here. Actually, it's fine. This one is going to be fine. Come on over. What's your name? David. Hold this. What is your name, ma'am? Apizoya. I want you to do this as quickly as you can. I want you to run down all around and come back here and quickly. Now, you have water there. So quickly, as all over, do not spill anything. So one, two, three, go. Don't spill it, don't spill it. Don't spill it. Have you noticed two differences? Have you noticed when David ran he didn't look at you, he looked at his cup. When she ran she just looked at everybody. You know why? Because her cup is empty. His cup is full. You know that she came first? Why? Because she had nothing to protect. He came last. Because it wasn't about coming first. It was about not spilling anything he got. When you are filled with the Holy Ghost you don't care about who comes first. Your main priority make sure you don't spill the Holy Ghost. Make sure you don't spill that peace. Make sure you don't spill that anointing. Make sure you don't spill that glory. Why? Because you know it's a treasure in the earthly vessels. This is how it works. See, many of you are forcing yourself to look at God. Think about God as you go about your day when in reality you're empty. And every five minutes you get distracted. You're like, man, why can't I stay focused on God? You will always be focused on that with what you're filled with. Automatically. Don't try to be focused on God. Be filled with Him. And your focus will follow. What happens here? One of my principles, those of you who follow me in Nisticum, you see, I never put lids on my coffee. Never do that. I spill sometimes in my car for a reason. To me it's a constant reminder. If I am full of the Holy Spirit I become conscious of the Holy Spirit and I change how I live. I slow things down. I watch my mouth. Not because I'm a good person. Because I'm a filled person. So my goal is not to become a better person. My goal is to become better with the Holy Spirit and automatically, somehow, I can't explain it. My anger goes in check. My patience goes in check. The way I treat my enemies goes in check. What I watch on the TV or on the computer goes in check. I don't have to work on it because it's the work of the flesh. I just surrender and yield because when you're filled with Him, you become conscious of Him and it changes the way you live, the way you behave and the way you relate to other people. Can somebody say amen? No, please finish it. I'm just kidding. Thank you so much, guys. Thank you so much. You can put it back. Can somebody say amen? Amen. Touch your neighbor and say, work on your intimacy. And lastly, so the first thing we mention if you talk to the Holy Spirit, you will walk in the Holy Spirit. If you work on the intimacy, your issues will be resolved and Holy Spirit will not make you better than other people. He will just make you better than you. And it will not happen because you're so disciplined trust me. I believe in discipline. I believe in prayer and fasting. I believe in setting up controls on your computer. I believe in deleting apps. I believe in removing the trigger points, all of that. But I believe none of that is powerful enough against the forces of flesh and the demons. There is a power that's greater than any power. It's the power of the Holy Spirit. D.L. Moody talked to his students and he said, how do you remove air out of the glass? And they had different reasons. Vacuum it, blow it out. He says, there's only one way to remove air out of the glass. You want to remove issues? Fill it with something else. That's why I don't work on it. You may say, but I have to fix them. If I don't, nothing will change. You've been working on those things for the last five years, honey. Nothing is going to change now. Your New Year's resolution, look how long did that last? You're not going to make it by your resolutions. You're going to only make it by your relationship and your intimacy. Fruit of the Spirit. It will feed others. People will be so pleasant around you. People will hire you. People will promote you. People will get married to you. Why? Because you will feed people. Lastly, I want you to notice that when this man got healed, when this man got healed, he started to walk. He went into the temple. He started to praise God. He worshiped God. And the Bible says the 5,000 men got saved because of that. If you're taking notes, I want you to write this down. You were given legs not to sit in church, but to walk in your calling to win your generation. You don't need legs if you're not planning to go anywhere. You don't need legs if you're planning to sit on your blessed assurance Jesus' mind and do absolutely nothing. The Bible says because of this miracle, because his legs started to walk, 5,000 men committed their life to God. I'm not sure if he didn't even preach. He was just there dancing and shouting people were asking probably questions, but Peter used that opportunity and led many people to Jesus. I believe walking with Holy Spirit has to lead every person here to win souls for Jesus. Jesus said, follow me and I will make you famous on Instagram. Follow me and I will help you to lose weight. Jesus said, follow me and I will help you to climb the corporate ladder of success. You will have an amazing job, wonderful children, they will always be healthy. You will have a high paying job, drive a really nice car, and you will retire very luxuriously if you follow me. That's not what the Bible says. I believe the first sign that you're truly following Jesus is Jesus says I will make you what? What? Not famous rich preachers or singers or release albums or books those things have their place, but they're not the gold, they're the byproduct. He says, you will become fishers of men. Jesus says in Acts chapter 1 verse 8 He says, and you will receive power when the Holy Spirit will come upon you and you will become tongue speaking Pentecostals. That's not what my Bible says. My Bible says that if you will receive power when the Holy Spirit will come upon you and you will become what? Witnesses. That means that walking in the Holy Spirit is not so that I can have miracles, it's so that I can see people come to know Jesus. The miracles are the sign to salvation. Miracles are the sign to lead them to salvation. We went today to that, what is that thing called? I? The Coca-Cola thing? And so we were trying to get to that and there were different signs guiding to that thing. And so I didn't hug the sign, I didn't go in like, oh my gosh the sign! No, I looked at the sign because the sign was pointing further and until I got into that little thing and saw the whole London this was the goal, you must understand every miracle, every breakthrough. Your blessing is a sign to your generation for them to meet Jesus. Most of us have become the destination when in reality we're supposed to be a sign. This man's miracle was just a sign that man will meet Jesus and get saved. Esther becoming a queen, becoming beautiful and winning the beauty pageant was just a sign so to save a generation. Moses being saved from Egypt's death by not eating crocodiles was just a sign so he can be used to save a generation. God saved Paul so that he can use him to save a generation. I believe you were delivered you were healed, you were saved so that you can bring your generation to Jesus Christ. God wants you to prosper, God wants you to be rich God wants you to be healthy, God wants you to climb the corporate ladder of success, God wants you to graduate with honors, God wants you to write books, write music, create blogs and have millions of people that will follow you but all of that is so that many people will come to know Jesus Christ. Our generation today is obsessed with inspiration. I just want to live to inspire all the girls in the world to reach their fullest potential. That is awesome if hell is not real devil is not real and eternity doesn't exist. Living to inspire your generation is the best goal you can live for. If hell is not real if cross did not happen, if Jesus did not die and heaven doesn't exist. That is an amazing goal. Curious to you. But hell is hot. Forever is very long. Jesus is the only way to salvation. You cannot live your life to inspire. You have to live your life to save. You have to live your life to bring your generation to Jesus Christ. Somebody give God some praise right now. Esther Mardukai comes to Esther and says, Esther your generation is dying. You need to do something about it. And Esther says what? You know, I got this Instagram account. Esther, she was like the Kardashian except with clothes on. Sorry, just something that is stuck in my throat. Very famous. Very beautiful at the time. She was the every girl's dream. Everybody looked at her and Esther says, oh my God, she was an orphan and she was Jewish girl and look at her. I just want to be like Esther. Just want to be like Esther. And Esther had her little blog. She had her little thing going on and Mardukai comes in and he says, I want you to do something radical. I want you to go and save your generation. Esther says, but I'm here to inspire. I just want to help little people to know that they're not what they look and they're just, they're not what they eat. They are what God says they are. Mardukai slapped that out of her and he says, listen girl, if you're not going to save these people, God's going to find somebody else. He says, God made you famous. God made you good looking. Not because you got good genes. God made you good looking and God made you famous is because he had a purpose. Your platform has a purpose. Esther, wake up. You were called for such a time as this. You were raised up for such a time as this. You're not good looking because you're good looking. Because God has a purpose for your platform. You're not just educated because your mama and daddy put you through college. God has a purpose for your platform. You're not just gifted speaker and a singer because you have vocals and because you're able to connect. God has a purpose for your platform. And we walk in the Holy Ghost to go to our purpose and our assignment. Please understand, my friends. I know some of you may say, but you know Vlad, you don't understand. My purpose on this earth is just to help everybody to discover their true potential. Sunshine, people are going to hell. I just want to bring wholeness. You know there's going to be a lot of healthy people in hell. A lot of rich people in hell. Our goal is not just to help people become rich and healthy. That has its place, but at the end we're all going to die 60, 70, 80 and we're going to face judgment. And therefore our assignment on this life is not just to help a blind man to give him a sandwich as he's walking to a cliff. It's to help a blind man get off from the cliff. I'm all for giving sandwiches to blind people, but not if they're headed to the cliff. I'm all for helping our generation to discover their truest selves and reach their dreams. But if a person's heartbeat stops and they're going to hell, I did them this service. The Holy Ghost comes upon me not to make me into a preacher, a singer, but to make me into a missionary, into a witness, and into somebody to give people to Jesus. Whether you work in business, whether you work in school, whether you walk in the hospital, whether you work right now, just simply maybe having a minimum paid job, your job is your platform. You don't have to have a microphone to leave somebody to Jesus. You just have to have influence. And influence comes when you care for people. When you're compassionate for people. When you care for their souls, not for their opinions. Influence comes when something happens. God gives you an opportunity to share your faith. God gives you an opportunity to bring somebody to church, to bring somebody to Christ. And even though you never reached your dreams, you reached your calling. We have a generation that's drunk on reaching their dreams. Please understand, my friends, that's not in a gospel. You have to reach your calling. And your calling is to win souls and make disciples. Whether you're a Christian or you're going to be a janitor for the mayor, your calling is to win souls and make disciples. Your career, you decide that. Your calling, you discover that. Your career is temporary. Your calling is eternal. Your career, it will change throughout seasons, opportunities at the economy. But your calling never changes. Whether you're in a parliament or you're in a homeless shelter, your calling remains the same. Your career gives you money. Your calling gives you eternal significance. Your career requires education and connections. Your calling requires the Holy Ghost and anointing. We are all called, each one of us, myself included, not to write books for the sake of writing books so people meet Jesus. Not to just preach so we can entertain the crowd or even feed the crowd so the people meet Jesus. Our churches exist, not so the 10 other churches in town will close down because our church grew. Our church is to plunder hell and manipulate heaven. Most of what church growth is today is this. My church grew and 10 other churches shut down. If I moved money from my pocket to my wallet, I didn't get richer. If we moved church people from one church to another, the kingdom of God doesn't grow. A pastor's ego grows. He writes a book on how to grow the church while 10 other pastors are seeing a psychiatrist because they want to end their life. That's not growth. My friend growth is when hell has a headache. Growth is when devil runs nervous. Growth is when you pluck young people from the gates of hell. Growth is when demons running rampant. Why? Because royals are on the rise. Royals know who they are because they're winning souls and making disciples. Somebody give God some praise right now. If you're going to win souls, give God some praise right now. If you're going to change who you are, give God some praise right now. God didn't call us to win arguments. He called us to win souls. Some people say I need to go to Bible college so I can be educated. How to debate? How many people have came to Christ here because of a debate? Zero. There's a place for debate. There's a place for apologics, but you must understand the Bible says the power comes to make me a witness, not a lawyer. A witness only says what I saw, I heard and what happened to me. A lawyer debates through the book. A witness says this is what happened to me. I was blind now, I see. I was addicted to drugs but now I'm free. My life was falling apart. I was shooting myself with heroin but now I am a good man. I am a good husband and I am a good father because Jesus Christ, I don't know about that man. She Muhammad said he's the prophet of truth. Buddha said he's the secret of truth. Jesus said I am the truth and that man changed my life. That man saved me. That man forgave me. That man died for me. That man. I don't know about that man but he changed my life. You do whatever you want with that man but I am a different because of that man. We have a church today that is not passionate to win souls. A lot of people I feel like the reason why they're not winning souls is because they want to clean people before they catch people. Nobody goes into the sea to clean the fish until you catch it. People say Pastor Vlad what do you do with people if homosexuals come to church? I said the same thing that you do with people when liars come to church. I don't preach morality. I preach Christ and him crucified. I don't expect homosexuals to live a straight life. Who cares if they go straight or homosexual? If they're going to go to hell in hell it won't matter if you were straight or homosexual. And there's a lot of people who will be in hell who are not homosexual but they were straight. My goal is not to make homosexual men straight. My goal is to make all men to come to know Jesus first. To be won by Christ and then to be disciples of Jesus Christ. That's why I don't clean him until I catch him. I don't disciple corpses. Jesus first raised Lazarus from the dead and then he said remove his grave clothes. You don't go into the grave to remove the grave clothes until you raise him from the dead. And the church has been so obsessed to go change the world. We just want to change the world. Please understand. Sinner sin. That's who they are. This wind birds fly. Sinner sin. That shouldn't shock you. When somebody says I live that kind of life I'm like, it could have been for you, bro. What do you expect out of them? A young man approached me in the lobby of a church and he says, Pastor Vlad, I'm smoking weed. Is it wrong for me? I said, for you? No. He said, what do you mean? I said, look. I knew this man. I knew his family so I had the bonus to say that. I said, you're going to hell. It's obvious. Mama knows that. I know that. God knows that. You know that. And your family knows that. Five people didn't know you're going to hell. He said, okay. I said, what difference will we make if you go to hell with holding yourself from smoking or you go to hell smoking it up knowing why you're there for. You're still going to be there. I said, if I would be in your shoes, bro, I would smoke anything I could get my hands on. Since I'm going there anyway at least I couldn't enjoy the ride. I said, I feel bad for all of your people holding yourself back and still going there realizing, man, I could have smoked a joint. He looked at me, his eyes were like this. He's like, oh my God. That night he got saved. You're not going to heaven because you're now smoking. You're going to heaven because your sins were washed by Jesus. We preach the gospel. We preach Jesus. We preach the cross. We preach the bloodstained Calvary. And that changes people. And only then we disciple people. Only then we bring them and say, listen, I know the school told you you can decide your gender, but listen, it's very simple. You go in the bathroom, you remove your pants, you look down. If it looks like this, you're a girl. If you look like that, you're a boy because that's what the Bible says. So now let's renew our mind and if you don't still don't think it's right, let me cast that demon of perversion out of you in Jesus or maybe they need inner healing or they need counseling, but we don't disciple people who we don't win first to Christ. I know my time is out and I'm I'm not sorry. I was about to say I'm sorry, but I was about to lie. I'm going to lend this plane right now. Are you still with me? Can you handle just a few more minutes? God wants you to win the lost. The Holy Spirit upon us so we can win people to Jesus. Please understand. Use your platform. Start inviting people to the church. God doesn't just want to fill this place. God wants to empty hell. Please understand. Our goal is not to impress people on Instagram with how bigger churches are. Our goal is to shake the devil, give him a headache and let heaven rejoice because people are snapped from the gates of hell. The Holy Spirit is not given to you to give you a ministry. It's given to you to help you fulfill the calling you already got. You don't need bigger platform. If you're not using the platform, you got to win others to Jesus. Stop asking God enlarge my influence. If you never ask God, say, Lord, leverage my influence to bring people to Jesus Christ. God, put me on bigger stages. God, give me a bigger voice. The voice that you already had. God, how many people have come to Royals because of that? How many people today on your prayer list that you are praying for? See, God has only one goal. See, God doesn't want you to live your little life and is concerned about your comfort. If that would be the case, he would never let disciples be murdered and murdered. He would never let my great grandpa sit in jail for 10 years and after to be released and dragged around with the horse while villagers threw rocks at him and he died three days later from a brain damage. God didn't concern about my comfort. God is concerned about me fulfilling my calling and make sure that no man dies. He let his son die on a cross so that nobody does that. That is God's heartbeat. That is God's obsession. That is why when God looks at me, he says, I'll raise you up. I'll give you the anointing. I'll give you the miracles. I'll give you whatever you need, son. But please, go let my people be free from Egypt. The calling of God upon your life is God's attempt to answer the cry of your generation. The reason why God calls you to win souls and make disciples, it's not to punish you. It's not to cause you to lose your job or lose your influence. It's not to cause you to be a gospel thumper and to be a Jesus freak. It's because God hears the cry of your generation and God says the only way I can answer their cry is if you answer the call. The only way. God told Moses, I hear the cry. The crazy part is Moses didn't hear that cry. The only thing Moses heard is comfort. I remember when I'm going to finish on this, I remember when that became personal to me. I went into the new house and my neighbor a retired gentleman we exchanged pleasantries all the time. I live very close to church. About 6-5 houses away from the church. I was about to invite him to church but something came up. We're going to have that special service and I'm going to invite him to church. Then I didn't see him for that special service nowhere in the yard. I was like, I'll see him next time and invite him to church. The FBI went through his house everything flipped upside down. I was like, oh my God, my neighbor must be a criminal. Praise God I didn't invite him to church. A few months later I Googled his name just out of curiosity and then I Googled I saw an obituary from my city. Two months ago he died and the reason why the FBI went through his house is because he worked for some government agency and they were just trying to see which secrets or some other stuff that he had. They were selling his house and the lady who was selling his house came as I was washing my car and she said, I want you to come and see his house. And I said, why would I want to do that? But my past is like, you know, I gotta behave. I was like, okay ma'am, yes, I'll go with you we'll go see the house. I'm not interested, it's like 30 years old house my house is brand new and I don't want to go see the house but I'm gonna go because I'm a Christian. I go in and I'm just little, I'm busy because my car needs to be washed and there's a piece of carpet this size pretty much cut out and so to strike a conversation with the lady selling the house and I said, well that's weird, that's a cool design that they had a carpet cut out in the middle of the room and she said you didn't know how he died, huh? I said, well he was old. He said, that's not how he died. That's why he shot himself. I said, you mean the happy guy who was always waving to me, shot himself? He said, yeah, he had nobody. I went home, I locked myself and I started to cry for this reason see, when God was calling me to witness to him I did not know he heard his cry and God dialed the numbers and he saw his son located next door he says, I don't need to scream to Vlad I could just whisper to him and he'll tell him about me except when God whispered I thought it wasn't urgent when he whispered I didn't think it was important and I kept postponing it and that day I felt the Holy Spirit put in my heart and he said, the reason why I called you is because there is someone's cry I cannot answer if you don't answer the call I'm gonna have to see that guy one day, maybe in eternity on the judgment seat or something I made a mistake right there in my room I bowed my knees and I promised God every opportunity I get a chance to preach I will give a call to salvation like it would happen today I will never miss an opportunity in our church Sunday service without giving a call to salvation and if you prompt me to tell somebody about Christ I will always remember it's not because you want to embarrass me or me to be rejected it's because most likely you're hearing their cry and that's why you're calling me God is calling you to witness God is calling you to make disciples God is calling you not just to be successful but to be fishers of men not just because he wants you to be religious and to fill this church for your pastor it's because there is a cry that is going up to heaven and that cry has filled the voice message of God that so much God cannot delete anymore he dials you and he says, listen you got the Holy Ghost I gave you tongues, I gave you miracles you're good looking, you got the influence listen, all you got to do is start a conversation all you got to do is ask that person how you're doing, what are you doing this weekend would you like to come to church with me all you got to do is listen, come on could you do that and many of us we do exactly what I did we don't answer the call and then we say why does God not answer the cry of people because his people don't answer his call the way you treat the call of God is the way God will treat your prayers you don't answer God's call don't be surprised if he doesn't pick up yours the way you treat the call of God is the way God will treat your prayers people who don't answer the call typically have one thing in common they have bunch of unanswered prayers make the connection God saves you, God loves you but he also loves the world and he wants to use you to impact your world he wants you to be a missionary in London you don't have to go to Siberia or Mexico or Africa to be a missionary you just have to go into your world with a new mindset I walk into the Holy with the Holy Spirit I don't come to church I come to church to be fueled up for my destination which is my world and my platform we're gonna pray right now for an importation of the love of God for the burden you realize maybe today I don't know the Holy Spirit as Vlad was talking about I've abandoned my calling of winning the lost honestly I don't remember last time I even told somebody about Christ for the life of me I don't remember anybody that came to church because of me I don't support missionaries anything that has to do with the gospel the only thing I'm interested in is just getting successful and getting ahead in life and there's nothing wrong with that please understand if hell wouldn't be real thanks for watching