 I want to speak to you for the remaining few moments concerning the difference that the Holy Spirit makes. The Holy Spirit makes all the difference. If you take your notes, write this down. The Holy Spirit makes all the difference. In the Old Testament, God placed Adam, the first human being, and Eve into his presence called Garden of Eden. But in the New Covenant, God places his presence, the Holy Spirit, within humanity 2.0. Us, born again believers, God actually puts his presence inside of us. When he created humanity, he placed humanity within his presence. But when he saved us, he placed his presence within us. Amen. And the Holy Spirit is not an aura, he's not an attitude, he's not a mood, he's not an atmosphere. He is a person. But he is a person that you can experience. He is a person that you can, his power can be tangible, where you can experience it on your own body. Where you can have certain things that happen to you because of that. And though we're not chasing experiences, but we also don't reject them. We don't follow experiences, we follow the Lord, but you cannot separate God of the Bible from his power. God is not a topic you study in the university. God is almighty. When I went to Tanzania a few years ago, I've studied about lions. I've watched lions on movies and TVs and seen pictures of lions. I was always fascinated with lions. It's totally another when you face one eye, when you look at one in the eyes. Right behind me you see a video as well, when actually one passes by your car. The fear of God hits you so hard. You start confessing your sin. I mean it's a total different experience than the one you see in your room painted and you have a photo of. It's one thing to study the Holy Spirit, to read the Holy Spirit is totally another when he encounters you. You can't explain it. There is no words to explain it. There is no Greek or Hebrew to explain what happens. It's just you just have to experience it. There's certain things you just have to experience it. And I want to challenge you today. Don't want to talk about the Holy Spirit, but nothing comes close to what can happen to your life when you encounter Him. And He's not available to pastors, preachers, and bishops only. He's available to every believer. Amen. Just like the air. Air does not discriminate. Everyone can take in. You can take in of the Holy Spirit. You can receive Him in Jesus' name. Amen. The verse I'm going to read today or the story of the scripture that I'm going to take is from the story of the Ark in the Old Testament. In 1 Samuel chapter 5 we see that the Ark of God, and the Ark of God is like a God box. It was just this box that God told Moses to make, and then God said He will dwell actually on this Ark. And Moses made it, and eventually Israel sinned against God, and they decided to use an Ark as like a good luck charm. They brought it to a battle that they didn't have a relationship with God, but they thought this will save them. They started to shout, and the Philistines got intimidated. Nevertheless, Israel got conquered, and the Philistines conquered Israel, and they actually conquered God box. Philistines bring this God box into the temple of their God, and they placed it next to their God Dagon, and they made a very bad mistake, because though you can put God with other gods, all other gods have to bow to Him. The next day, this God, He fell. And Philistines, you know, were like, okay, they helped their God. See, anytime you got to help your own God, it's not worth serving Him. They helped their own God get on His feet. He got on His feet, and the next day, so the first day, their God Dagon falled. The second day, God broke Him to pieces. So Dagon not only fell, He got decapitated. Literally, all of His body parts were broken, and Philistines got the point like, the God of Israel is not to be messed with. And so they took quickly the Ark out, and they kept it in their land, then plagues broke out, tumors broke out, and then they finally got rid of the Ark of God, and send it back. If you're taking notes, write down the first thing that I want to share with you, is whatever the Holy Spirit breaks, you are empowered to remove. Whatever the Holy Spirit breaks, you are empowered to remove. See, just like Philistines, all of us, when we get saved, we bring the Holy Spirit inside of our life, but many of us, we have different gods, we have erected in our own heart. It might not be Dagon, it might be jealousy, it might be witchcraft, it might be generational curse of barrenness or poverty. It could be different things that are erected in our life, and when you bring the Holy Spirit inside, by the virtue of His presence, He doesn't remove the bad. He defeats it, which empowers you to remove it. I want you to notice the Ark broke Dagon. It didn't remove Dagon. It didn't take him out of the temple. Many Christians realize, they don't realize this, is when I come to Jesus Christ, God forgives me of my sin. He breaks the power of the sin, but He gives me the power now to remove the presence of the sin, to change my habits, develop new relationships, and to begin to fight back against every power that held me hostage. The presence of God cannot be controlled. Philistines thought they can control the presence of God. God cannot be controlled. God is not a charm. God is not a vending machine. If you punch the numbers right, you get what you want. You don't get what you want with God. You either get God, and He gets you, or you get nothing. God is not your ex. God is not a machine. You can get in and just do. God can't be figured out. He can only be trusted. He can lead you. The Bible says don't lean on your understanding, but in everything trust in God. I want to encourage you today not to control God. Let Him lead you. God doesn't even control us. He gives us power to control ourselves. The other part that I want to mention in here is that God cannot cohabitate. God would not cohabitate with other gods. Now He can. He just won't. Meaning you can temporarily put God together with actual projection. You can temporarily put God together with Dreamcatchers. You can temporarily put God together with chants and daily terror cards and angel destiny cards and spells and crystals and necromancy and charms and superstitions, witchy boards and occult books and burning incense to cleanse the house from the bad spirits. You can put God together and that's what many people do. They add Jesus to whatever crap that they've been doing. And in the beginning it's fine because I understand. We don't know much truth. We're ignorant. It's fine. What I just want to let you know is that God will not stay in the place that will force Him to cohabitate with other gods. Other gods will have to go down and begin believers. A lot of times they do that today. What they do is they get a lot of the witch talk. They get a lot of the witchcraft and they're like, well and there is Jesus and everything else. God does not play well with other gods. He doesn't. But it's okay when you start like that. What I just want to let you know, He will begin to defeat other gods. He will defeat other problems in your life but He will ask you to clean the garbage. Meaning to remove that stuff. I have a dog named Jacko. Jacko is very jealous of anything that represents an animal. Lana one time bought a distinct called Lama and I have to be careful to pronounce not Lana but Lama. Lama, so she bought Lama and we brought Lama into the house, put it on the top of the refrigerator and when Jacko saw Lama, spirit of jealousy entered in. He was jumping on that fridge every single day crying and yelling. It got so bad that my wife went to Poland for two weeks. Jacko was crying all the time. So then I switched Lama and then of course I irritated him more. I took Lama and I pet it. I said, good boy, good boy. Provoked that guy to jealousy. So finally on one Thursday's stream I decided to give Jacko to throw Lama in the battle with Jacko. And so I gave Jacko an opportunity to defend himself. And this is exactly what came out of Lama. Jacko pretty much took that Lama. He usually just takes the eyes out of any fake animal and just leaves the animal. He usually just takes the eyes out so I guess they won't be able to see him or something. And so but with this animal he tore it to pieces. He literally stood there almost like, I'm the God in this house. Nobody else beside me. You know and it was as I was reflecting on that that is a totally not spiritual illustration. But as I was reflecting on that honestly, anytime you would put something, put a Lama in your life, you will provoke God to jealousy. All you have to do is give God access to it. When Jesus entered the house of Zacchaeus, there was a lot of Lamas there. There was a lot of Gods there. Greed, lying, cheating. And this presence came in and God starts falling. Jealousy starts falling. Greed starts falling. And as Zacchaeus says, Jesus didn't even say anything. The virtue of His presence caused other Gods to be decapitated. Caused other issues to fall flat before Jesus. And Zacchaeus says, Jesus, I will no longer lie. I will no longer cheat. I will no longer do that. But I want to challenge you. You can defeat other Gods without God. Let me say that again. You can't defeat other Gods without God. You can't defeat jealousy without Jehovah. You can't defeat greed without God. You can't defeat nightmares without God. Nightmare paralysis. You can't defeat it without God. You can't defeat pornography without God. You have to bring God in if you want other Gods to go down. So many people say, I will clean my temple first and then I'll come to God. It will be foolish to go to a barber after you had a haircut. It will be foolish to go through a car wash after you washed your car. My friend, God is not intimidated by your Gods. He just says, when I come in and they go down, can you get them out? When I come in and they go down, can you get them out? Hey! You're like, but I can't get them out. Let the preacher pray for you. Let the pastor pray for you. Let your husband pray for you. But get them out. You can get them out. I want to challenge you today. The presence of God can't be controlled. The presence of God won't cohabitate with other Gods. And the presence of God will conquer other Gods. You can't fight your demons on your own. You've got to bring God in. But when you bring Him in, He will decapitate. He will defeat. He will destroy. But He will leave some job for you. Doug Jacko did. When he destroyed Lama, he left some work for us, which was the cleanup work. Deliverance defeats, but discipleship and discipline cleans up the temple. Listen, deliverance defeats. Discipleship gets rid of the garbage. And that's why you can't lend everything with deliverance, but that's where everything starts. And you can come as you are. But I want to tell you, God will go to war and every God will suffer a head trauma. But after they are defeated, you have to begin to start renewing your mind and changing your habits. Can somebody say, Amen. Number two thing I want you to notice is the Holy Spirit will make no difference in someone who is indifferent to Him. The first mention of the Ark that I highlighted is the one where Philistines took the Ark in and they made Him be with other Gods. And God defeated those Gods, but Philistines, unfortunately, got rid of God. They didn't get rid of Gods. They got rid of the God of Israel. And that's what I'm saying is that when God comes in, He begins to defeat and challenge His lies and sins. You don't get rid of God. You get rid of lies and sins. But the second thing I want you to notice is Philistines sent the Ark back. The best thing you have, they got some cows, they put a cart, a wheelbarrow, like a trailer, pretty much like a trailer, connected it to cows, put this God box on the cart, because that's the best they knew. They didn't know that you don't put a God box on the cart. You have to put it on the priests of Levites and priests. And they put this on the cart and then the cows went back to Israel. There's a tragedy that happened. Somebody touched it, looked it, few people died. And then this guy, Levite, Abinadab, he takes the Ark inside of his house. Now, Josephus, who is the Jewish historian, he says that Abinadab was a Levite who was known for his righteousness and deemed appropriate keeper of the Ark. For Samuel chapter 7 verses 1 and 2, it talks about this guy named Abinadab. And I want you to stay with me for just a second. I'll give you just a short little teaching. Abinadab had few sons. The oldest son was Elishar, Elishar, Eleazar, Eleazar. One of his sons was also Uzah. For 20 years, the Ark lived in Abinadab's house. All of his sons were around the Ark. They got used to it, took it for granted, and became indifferent to it. In fact, for 20 years, nothing happened in Abinadab's house because of the Ark. Imagine, the Ark caused gods to fall in Philistines, but nothing is happening. We don't see one mention. We don't see nothing supernatural. We don't see nothing spiritual taking place. In fact, what we see is indifference because guess who puts the Ark on the card 20 years later? Abinadab's children. Uzah was one of them. Uzah and the other brother of Uzah was actually guiding the Ark. Where did they get the idea that God Box could be transported through a trailer? When God clearly stated in his word, it should be transported through the shoulders of his servants. That tells me that Uzah got so accustomed to nothing happening around God Box, he honestly developed irreverence. Started as an indifference, became irreverence, which then cost him his life. And when the oxen stumbled, Uzah without any caution thought goes into help the Ark that shows to us complete irreverence, which was a result of 20 years of indifference. They had it in the house like a microwave, like a fridge. You get used to it. You touch it. You clean it. No sacredness. It did nothing bad, nothing good. It was just there. It reminds me of a lot of Christians who have the Holy Spirit inside, but don't have intimacy, reverence, and after a while we develop indifference. And indifference does not mean we hate, reject. It just means that he is there, I'm here, he does nothing. He seems to be so quiet there for the past 20 years. He hasn't said anything. He hasn't done anything. He doesn't do anything. Is he even there? Maybe he died. Maybe it's just an idea that he's there. And we develop indifference. There will be no difference in our life caused by the Spirit if we are indifferent to the Holy Spirit who lives inside of us. Indifference to the Holy Spirit will lead to irreverence of the Holy Spirit. Every irreverence, lack of reverence, grieving, quenching, does not start there. It starts with being indifferent. I really believe the greatest insult to the Holy Spirit is not your sin as much as your indifference. And when I say yours I mean myself as well. It's to live your life as though he doesn't exist. Pray as though he doesn't live in you. Walk every day as though he is not real. Now we know he's real theologically. We know that in our doctrine. Same way that Uzzah knew that this is a God box. But the fact that there was a God inside there. There was a God's presence that was there. Uzzah completely disconnected these two ideas. And church I want to draw everybody back. My desire is not to shame you. It's not to guilt you. But to stir up a slight appetite that you will begin to become curious and fascinated by the God the Holy Spirit who lives inside of you. And that you and I will repent from the sin of indifference. Repent from the sin of irreverence. And we will cultivate hunger, communion, and longing for the person of the Holy Spirit. That you will not pray without talking to the Holy Spirit. That there will not be one day without thoughts, affections, and attention given to the Holy Spirit. And as you begin to not be indifferent. He will begin to make a difference in your life. He will make a difference in your work. He will make a difference in your family. He will make a difference with your speech and with your attitude. He will make a difference in your finances. He will make a difference you will lay hands on the stick and they shall recover. You will command demons and they will go because the Holy Spirit makes all the difference in the church, said Amen. Proximity to the Holy Spirit does not matter as much as your passion for the Holy Spirit. You know, Uzzah was a Levite, but it did not matter. Uzzah did not have a passion for the Holy Spirit. Being a Pentecostal doesn't mean much if you're not a passionate one. Being charismatic does not mean much if you're not burning. Speaking in tongues does not mean much if you don't love the Holy Spirit. You can get the gift of tongues, you can even have other gifts, but if you don't have the desire, if you don't have the delight and the passion, my friend, it won't matter much. And I want to encourage us today that just because we had past experiences with the Holy Spirit, it does not mean the Holy Spirit is committed to us if we're no longer chasing Him. The Holy Spirit is not committed to any denomination. It's not committed to any groups of people. He's only committed to those who chase Him. The moment people lose interest for Him, He moves on. And the person He begins to use next, He doesn't ask the person He used before for permission. I remember meeting with the president of the university this week and we were discussing how there are movements of the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit moved and they became controversial and then they became so sound and balanced, but the Holy Spirit's moving is no longer there. And we discussed even few movements and I was mentioning to him how the Holy Spirit does not look at your status. He does not look even at your education level. He doesn't look even at your past where you've been, what you've done, what your driver's record, because there are people among us here today who are like, Lord, thank you for not looking at my past. Thank you for not judging me based on my weaknesses and what I've done, because what the Holy Spirit is after is your passion, which will result in purity. God said to Saul, I found a man, and he said this, after my heart. Meaning this man is chasing me. This man is after me. And God's like, that man is what I'm gonna use. That man I will pull back from the sheepfold and I will put him in a throne. My friend, if God will notice that you are after his heart, God will pull you out from where you are at and he will promote you. And he will give you new measure of grace. He will give you new measure of anointing. Seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness and everything else shall be added. Early will I seek you, David says. I will long for you, David said. I want to stir your appetite today. Don't be an ousa. Don't be a person who's familiar with God. Don't be the person who's familiar with the Holy Spirit that you take him for granted. Even when the word Holy Spirit is mentioned, something should stir inside of you. There has to be an emotion, an affection. Oh, they're talking about my friend. They're talking about the person that I love. They're talking about the person that lives inside of me. They're talking about the person that helps me in the dark night, in the valley of the shadow of death. They're talking about the person that brought healing to my body. They're talking about the Holy Spirit. If we live with indifference, it leads to irreverence and irreverence always leads to death of intimacy. ousa touches and dies. Anytime our whole life is built on indifference and irreverence, there will be a death of intimacy. But I want to tell you today, God has brought you here to resurrect your intimacy with the Holy Spirit. My desire that after this message tomorrow morning, you will wake up earlier and spend time with the Holy Spirit. My desire is before you go to sleep tonight, that you will talk to the Holy Spirit. That you will recognize you have a God box inside of your spirit called the Holy Spirit to treat it reverently. Not to be afraid, but to have reverence. And I'm finishing on this. The Holy Spirit will transform those who take Him in. Look at Philistines. Absolutely, no regard, no understanding. God destroyed their gods, they got rid of Him. ousa, 20 years of irreverence, accustomed to it. Death of intimacy touches them and dies. And there is a guy there. His name is Obed Edom. He's actually a Gerite. He's from Philistine. He is not technically like an Israelite. He's not a Levite from what we see. He's Obed Edom. When ousa dies, this would be a good moment to say, oh no, Ark for my house. I was like, I'm not bringing guns. I have children, you know, like I'm not bringing this. This thing can kill people. And ousa dies. Obed Edom says, come over here. Let's take him in. He brings it into his house. And the Bible says in three months God blesses Obed's Edom's house so much that David gets the rumor. Obed Edom is blessed. In fact, let me read to you because it's it's important to read this. So David would not move the Ark of the Lord with him into the city of David. But David took it aside into the house of Obed Edom the Gerite. The Ark of the Lord remained in the house of Obed Edom the Gerite three months. And the Lord blessed, somebody say blessed. Come on somebody say, Lord bless me. And the Lord blessed Obed Edom so he blessed him and all his household. Now it was told to King David saying, the Lord has blessed the house of Obed Edom and all belong and all that belongs to him. Watch this. Because of the Ark of God. Because of the Ark of God. Obed Edom the Gerite gets so blessed by God that David gets a rumor that this Ark killed Uzah but blessed Obed Edom. Because Uzah was 20 years with it with no respect and honor. Obed Edom was not a Levite a Gerite but with a different heart. Three months in the Lord maybe. Two weeks with God. Does not know much but knows one thing. Holy Spirit good and I gotta love him. And the Lord blessed Obed Edom because of the Ark. God is ready to bless your family. God is ready to bless your marriage. God is ready to bless your life but he says I want you to have an attitude of gratitude and honor toward the Holy Spirit. He transforms Obed Edom. This blessing was visible. This blessing was within few months. This blessing was because of the Ark and I love this because this blessing caused other people not to want Obed Edom's blessing but to want Obed Edom's presence. This blessing produced a ministry not materialism. Now I followed up with Chuck and few other people. It's very interesting because the moment David comes in and takes the Ark back he's like man I want this blessing. It's interesting to see this about Obed Edom. Obed Edom actually it says that he becomes a gatekeeper in 1 Chronicles chapter 15 verse 18. It's like Obed Edom it says I'm following wherever the Ark went. I'm not staying where the blessing is. I'm staying where the blesser went. I'm attracted by the blesser. Therefore I'll never be distracted by the blessing. I'm going where the Ark went. I'm not staying what the with what the Ark has brought. He becomes the gatekeeper like a watchman like a security at the Tabernacle. Then Obed Edom becomes a musician like a Levite. I get the question. He's a Gyrite. How could Gyrite become a Levite? Well God will always churn somebody into somebody else who has the right heart. God will promote somebody into another place who has the right heart. Obed Edom becomes the doorkeeper for the Ark. So not only he's a gatekeeper, not only he's learning to play music, he's also a doorkeeper for the Ark. Obed Edom becomes a watchman for the south gate of the Ark. And Obed Edom and his sons, eight sons, become leaders and are over the storehouse meaning like over the banking the what funds come in for the Ark. I'm surprised. This guy literally chased the Ark whatever the Ark went and he says every available position what I can serve around the Ark count me in and then he says oh and I got eight children. They're all signed up to serve. See this is where you know you love the presence when you always serve around the presence. Real blessing caused by God doesn't cause you to be materialistic. It caused you to be ministry minded. If the blessing caused you to lose ministry and become materialistic my friend that's your blessing not his because the blessing of God makes you want to do things for God. Like Obed Edom he went and started serving around the temple. I want to challenge you today. The blessing of God makes rich and adds no sorrow with it but please understand it's the blessing of God. It's not a blessing of your degree. It's not a blessing of your job. It's not a blessing of your position. It's not a blessing of you marrying that person or having those kids. It's not a blessing of you living in that house or driving that car. It's a blessing that comes directly from him. There is a blessing that comes from him but God gives us a short secret. He says if you take me in I'll transform you. Take my presence in. Host my presence. Host my spirit. I gave you the spirit. Treasure him. Value him. Host him. Communicate with him. Talk to him. Let him lead you. Let him guide you. And God says and I'm gonna bless what concerns you. Now that blessing will look different for you than it is for me. It will look different for you than it will look for David. But one thing is going to be certain. People on the outside will look at your life and they will not say we'll look at how smart you are. They will say look at how blessed you are. And they will want not the blessing but your blessing. Because David did not say I want the blessing of Obed Edom. He says I want the ark that Obed Edom has. Unfortunately there was only one ark. But today the Holy Spirit that lives inside of me can live inside of you. The spirit that lives inside of you. I also can know that spirit inside of me and every person can benefit from that Holy Spirit. Amen. Hey thanks for watching this video. If you enjoyed this content and this was a blessing to you would you help us and hit thumbs up so that it could help more people to discover this video. It cost you nothing but it can go a long way to help with the algorithm. As well as if you're not subscribed to our channel hit subscribe, click on the bell so that you can be reminded each time that we upload videos. Thank you so much for being a part of this community. If you're interested in learning more about hungry gen, our internship, our conferences, deliverance and so many other things go to hungrygen.com for more information. And as always remember better is not good enough the best is yet to come.