 Good evening. Are you glad to be in the house of God on this midweek for this midweek service? Amen. Let's give the Lord a great big hand tonight. Amen. Stand with us all over this house if you can. So glad to see you tonight. It's gonna be a great night. Are you ready to receive from the Lord? Amen. I've been looking forward to this night pastors beginning a brand-new series on Spirit-filled living in the last days. Boy, I am excited about this series and I know it's gonna be a blessing to all of us. I want us to go to the Lord in prayer tonight. We there are a number of needs and I know many of you have walked into this house and you have a need in your life. And I know that God is able to touch and bring strength and peace and healing today. And so let's just go to the Lord right now. Let's ask God for his blessings upon this service and that he would reach down his hand and be with us tonight. Amen. Father, we thank you Lord for the wonderful privilege it is to be in your house. There's no place that we would rather be than in your presence and we're so grateful for the presence of the Lord. Thank you Lord for the touch of heaven that's upon this house and every time we gather together we sense your presence and we experience your presence in such a real way. Help us to be a people not to take that for granted because Lord it's truly a gift to this house. We pray for this service tonight that the fresh anointing of the Holy Spirit would just flow in this house. That you would speak to us, that you would challenge us and Lord your word will go forth and accomplish what you would have it sent to do. We lift up ministries that are taking place all across our campus tonight. From the children to the youth God that you would reach down your hand and bless and minister in this house on this property father. Every need that's represented in here today. Father, you know where we're at, you know what we're in need of, you know what we're facing and we thank you Lord that you know the most minute details of our life. And we're asking that you would reach down your hand and touch us and help us in our time of need. Lord for every prayer request has been turned in that's on our prayer and praise tonight. Will you reach down your hand and let your healing virtue flow. Lord we declare the word of the Lord over each and every life right now that you were wounded for our transgressions. You were bruised for our iniquities. The testisement of our peace was upon you and it's with your stripes that we are healed and we declare it over our lives and we declare it over this church in the name of Jesus. Hallelujah. If you believe it tonight come on let's slip by it. Let's give the Lord a great big hand. And those same hands that you're clapping when you slip them up in the air just as a sign of surrender isn't just tell the Lord. Lord we're surrendered to you. We belong to you. I like to tell the Lord this Lord you're stuck with me. I'm not going anywhere. I know you're not going anywhere. Lord I'm not giving up on you. I know you're not giving up on us. We thank you today Jesus that you're holding us in the palm of your hand. We don't have to worry about Lord what the world is doing and the chaos the world is in. We are in strong hands. We're in mighty hands. We're in big hands tonight and you're holding us Lord and it's so good to be held by you. Hallelujah to God and we thank you for it. Amen. One more time give God a great big hand of praise tonight. Praise the Lord. Praise the Lord. Will you look to the left and to the right? Let there be the sound of fellowship tonight. Let someone know you're glad to see him. Come on encourage somebody tonight. Encourage somebody tonight. They may need it. Amen. Amen. Amen. We're a blessed people tonight. You're a blessed people. Praise the Lord. Praise the Lord. Thank you so much for joining us. If this is your first time being with us, you're our honored guest. Thank you so much for being with us at Pace Assembly. We want to welcome our online campus and those that are in tune with us. The campuses that are joining us tonight. We're honored that you're with us as well. So home folks, let's give all of our guests and our online campus a great big round of applause. Thank you for joining us. And we want you to know that you are loved by this house and we appreciate you so much. There are several things that are taking place all over the campus. Please make sure that you open up your app tonight or the website at your convenience and you check out everything that's taken place. We're about to enter into a very busy time of the year, a very busy season for the church with so many events and great things that are taking place, throwing out the mission net and reaching out to our community. So we're in a great season and we're excited about what God's getting ready to do. The Lord's adding to His church week by week. The altars are being filled with people being born again, people rededicating their lives, so many families that are moving to the area and they're wanting to experience what this house has. Amen. So listen, my friend, we want you to help be the hands extended of this house. Invite somebody to be in church this Sunday. I know that those that are looking for strength and peace and help, man, if you just get them here every single week, I believe that the Lord will challenge them. The Holy Spirit will convict them and draw them to Jesus. Amen. So make sure you invite somebody this Sunday to the house of God. Whenever you walked in over the past few weeks, we've been requesting that you help us out in an area and that's updating your information. And there is a card that is on your seat. If you have not updated your information, we are needing that. We are needing that very quickly. And so as soon as you can, get that into us. And if you will just do the front office a great big favor, if you will fill that out completely and fill that out very clearly, they would greatly appreciate this. Now, October is Pastor Appreciation Month and it's birthday month. And on the back table, whenever you walked in, right in the lobby, there is a place for you to be able to bless our pastor with an appreciation card or whatever you feel. We encourage that you take advantage of that and you do that. There's an event taking place for the young adults this Sunday at Befo Brady's. All of our young adults, we encourage you to get connected to that. And amen, great things are taking place. Do you have a handout tonight? Do you have a handout tonight? Listen, if you don't have a handout, you may want to get one because you're going to want to keep these, this great teaching on the Holy Spirit. Now, if you don't have a handout and you want to use your phone, you go straight to the PACE app and right on the front page of the PACE app is the study notes and you click right there and you can follow along with Pastor tonight. But whatever you do, follow along because there's going to be some great teaching that's going to take place. We want to receive tonight's tithe and offering. Thank you so much for your faithfulness and giving to the work of the kingdom. We appreciate that so much and I know as you give, God will bless you today. Several ways in which you can give, we share that with you every single week, whatever is convenient for you. Thank you so much. If you're giving by cash or check, there's an offering envelope. Make sure that you place that in the buckets in the back. Amen. Let's pray tonight and let's ask God to bless the tithe and the offering as our pastor comes to deliver the word of God tonight. God, thank you so much for the privilege that we have to give. We're asking that you would bless the tithe and the offering, the gift to give her a like. Bless it today, God. Good measure. Press down, shaking together, running over. And we ask this in the mighty name of Jesus, amen and amen. God bless you. Praise God. Amen. How y'all doing tonight? Somebody run over your dog or something? Everybody all right? Y'all slow crowd tonight now. Come on. Look at your neighbor and tell them I'm glad to be sitting beside you. Ask them, have you lost weight? Because I'm just telling you something's different about you. Y'all so scared. Come on, ask them something. Good to be in the house of the Lord, isn't it? It's good to be in the presence of God. Good to be with God's people. It's refreshing to be able to come on Wednesday night and receive the word of the Lord and the fellowship of God's people. And I just thank you for being in attendance. This is not some religious form that we do. This is the necessity of life and living. That is to be in the opportunity, if the opportunity is available, to move everything else out of the way and make it a priority of your life, amen. And so I'm glad that you've made it a priority of your life and people that are watching online as well. Excuse me just a minute, this thing got short. And we're so glad for all of you that are watching online this evening. And may God bless your life for being in attendance with us as well. I want to just echo that what Pastor Jason said concerning this coming weekend, you will not want to miss it. I believe it will be a tremendous blessing for you. And I don't want you to miss one moment. I can tell you over the past several weeks, the Lord has been tremendously pouring out his spirit. You can tell that and people's lives being changed and we're getting the reports of miracles. Someone called me last night and told me that when the word of knowledge came, somebody's leg was getting healed in the service. I believe it was off the top of my head. It was two or three of them. They called last night said, listen, I just want to let you know that that was me. Instantly, the pain went away in that service and it has not returned. Amen. To God be the glory. He's still the healer. Amen. And so I encourage you to make plans to be here and invite a couple hundred people of your friends and let them know that if they miss it, they're going to be missing something that could be very vital to their life. It's every service is an opportunity for your life to be changed. So I just encourage you to invite somebody to be with you. And I want you to open your Bibles up this evening to the book of John chapter number 16. You're ready to study the Word of the Lord? Praise God. Father, thank you for your goodness to us. Thank you for your blessings upon our life. We thank you for the Word of God. We would not know how to live. Were it not for the Word of God giving us strength and opening up our mind and helping us to realize and have understanding, knowledge, wisdom that comes from the divine mouth of Almighty God, the spoken Word of God into our spirit. So now, Lord, we dismiss everything of today and everything about tomorrow and we focus upon the Word of God that is life to us. Fetus, I pray. Fetus, Lord Jesus, right in the presence of our enemy and we give you praise for it tonight in Jesus mighty name. Everybody said a good amen in the book of John chapter number 16. I'm beginning a brand new series tonight on spirit filled living in the last days. And the reason why in just a moment, I'll give you this the premise behind it, but over the next several weeks on Wednesday night, we're going to take this up. I don't have a timeframe on how long it may go because I truly believe, especially based on what I'm about to share with you that too many people even in Pentecostal churches, spirit filled churches are not spirit filled. They may have and you may have received the baptism of the Holy Spirit. You may have had that wonderful experience, but the reliance and hear what I'm about to tell you, the reliance upon the Holy Spirit, especially now, could not be stated enough. I do not believe that I think we find ourselves just like I've told you before dealing with all of the things that are happening in our world. You can expect that the world and the mentality, the humanistic philosophies and the ideologies, all that kind of stuff is going to lean on the arm of the flesh. That's what they know to do. That's what they're going to do. And you can expect that, but for the believer, the spirit filled believer, the spirit of God is life to us. He is and as I will share you with you here tonight, our very existence happens because the spirit of God, the Christ, the Christo lives on the inside of us. And if we don't lean upon him as the pericle, the one that's come alongside to help, then we're forfeiting the very mind of God, the very helper that he sent on purpose for us to be able to say, help me, guide me, direct me in this a personal attorney with you every day of your life. Come on, somebody already bought and paid for. You can call him anytime. And so the reason why I want to share this with you is because of this. I shared it in prophecy files just a few weeks ago, but there's a little bit more to the story and the article. You can look it up online. It came out on the 10th of September, as a matter of fact, and a little bit more previous that through the polling and the process of taking a polls of Arizona Christian University, as well as the Pew Institute, as well as others that have taken these polls and collectively come together with this, some 62% 62% more than half of evangelicals do not even believe that the Holy Spirit exists. Okay. Now we're wondering why we're in the condition that we're in today. And I'm not even talking about, I'm not even talking about the world because you'll find out in a moment the Bible says, Jesus said, the world cannot receive the spirit of truth. No wonder they're in darkness. No wonder they're lying and cheating and doing all this kind of stuff. You expect center sin, but when the evangelicals don't believe, we're not polling centers. They're polling Christians evangelical people that are supposed to have as one of the cardinal doctrines of the church, not only the belief, but the fact that of our leaning upon the Holy Spirit for our very existence. Check this out. This is at the beginning of this article of an estimated 176 million American adults who identify as Christian. Listen to this, just 6% or 15 million of them actually hold to a biblical world view. So of a hundred people saying, I don't understand how that our country is getting in the shape that it is. I mean, if all these people that claim to be Christians would simply go out and vote, this entire country could flip around if we held to a Christian world view concerning what's taking place. Are you hearing me? We wouldn't be wrestling with mandates and all that kind of stuff because the voices of the people are evangelicals would remain and stay true to the principles of God's Word and the founding of this nation. But now we're a group of people who are allowing the world to influence to such a degree to tell us what we believe, to tell us when we can worship. Do you hear me? And I'm talking about the Holy Spirit in the last day. So I'll insert these little nuggets along the way. The question was asked and I know you're hearing this from me, but I'm sorry it's just out there all the time that Dr. Fauci said the other day when asked, are people going to be able to gather together at Christmas? And he said it's too soon to tell. Well, there was 100,000 Alabama fans in Tuscaloosa last weekend, shoulder to shoulder. Come on, somebody. Now, why are we looking at this? Because now we have the dictates of someone who does not have the Spirit. There's no claim of that. There's no fruit of it. Can I speak some truth here to you? There's no claim of Christianity. In fact, I've already researched his background. He does not have that kind of ideology. And so being led by the Spirit is not anywhere in his purview, it's about follow the science. And so if we're only going to follow the knowledge, then we're always going to be behind the ball. But that's not even the issue because back in the day when Muhammad Ali was the champ all the time, nobody could beat him and nobody got close enough to him to bite off his ear. You have to be a little older to understand what I'm talking about. Okay? But he'd do the little rope-a-dope and he would get everybody focused on one hand and then from out of nowhere, the other one would come and just way later. So we've got a lot of this and people are paying attention to this. And now we got this question about can we even gather for Christmas? What's the point? Ladies and gentlemen, Christmas, and I'm not talking about some pagan kind of ideology. I'm talking about the celebration, not of X-mas, but of the Christ. Miss. Is the high holy day of Christianity. The other one would be Easter. They've already hit that with spring break and all that kind of stuff. What's the point? To attack Christians and Christmas to say whether or not you can gather or not is where this is going. Now, how am I going to be able to live in a society that is now only 6% biblical worldview? And 62% of that group don't even believe that the Spirit, the Holy Spirit, is even in operation. It doesn't exist. They believe in the Creator. They believe in presence, but they have no understanding and no embracing of the person of the Holy Spirit. So we can talk all this language and lingo about we're living by the Spirit and we're talking in tongues and we're walking by the Spirit, all this kind of thing. But unless we understand that the Holy Spirit was sent on purpose by Jesus himself to empower the believer, not entertain the believer, because most people regulate, watch what I'm telling you, most people regulate the Holy Spirit with presence. I'm not talking about under the tree. I'm talking about an atmosphere. And most of the time, it is regulated to what's happening during the time of singing. And while that is part, it is only part. And to reduce the Holy Spirit to a moment and a service when I feel the presence of God, my emotions have been stirred. You got it all wrong. Because the Holy Spirit is not an emotion. He's a person who indwells the deepest part of your Spirit when you become born again. That's the reason why this series is coming to you tonight. Because here's the issue. We can hang a sign out there that says we're Pace Assembly and we can talk about 80-some-odd years of Spirit-filled services and all that kind of thing. But I am not satisfied, nor am I going to lie to myself to think that everybody's sitting in this room right now and people that are watching right now or remember this, Ephesians says filled, not satisfied, filled. And the term filled there is not the term to just bring it to the top. It is to be baptized, immersed. It is to be overflowing that when you're filled, it's not just the vessel that's been filled, but it is the overflowing of the Spirit of God in your life. The residual that actually affects and influences the lives of other people. In other words, if we only have enough infilling for ourselves to survive the day, Holy Ghost, I need your help. I'm going into Walmart. Well, first of all, you chose to go on Friday afternoon when 150,000 other people already are there. And I'm telling you, I made that mistake more than one time and I knew I wasn't led by the Holy Ghost. The devil was in place. Come on. I'm saying to you, it is so necessary and needful that we are filled with the Holy Spirit in this time. And I'm going to explain some things to you, but let me go ahead and preface it by saying this. The Holy Spirit is not speaking in tongues. And for some of you, this may be brand new. And I'm glad you're here. And for those of you watching, maybe you've heard or you've sensed or you've been in services where the Holy Spirit has been moving and you've sensed something. Different people were walking out the door after a service a couple of weeks ago and some of the guys in the booth back there heard, overheard the conversation as they were walking out. Apparently they were brand new here and said, man, I felt something in here. I don't know what was going on, but I felt something. And that's usually the way people who are not accustomed to the moving of the Spirit operate. I don't know what I was feeling, but I was feeling something was different in here, right? Isn't that the way it's supposed to be? Come on. I mean, take the shingle off and let's let the Spirit of God move. And let me say that, and this is no throw off to any denomination. I'm just saying this, that we have helped me Holy Spirit. And I don't want to say this to offend anybody. I certainly don't want to grieve or offend the Holy Spirit when I say this, but understand what I'm about to say. We have in Spirit-filled churches, many occasions, bummed down the Holy Spirit. So now people that are supposed to be Pentecostal feel very comfortable in non-Pentecostal churches because the worship, the lights, and everything else is the same. And now we have worshipology instead of the Holy Spirit. We have religion and a relationship with what happens through music or how I feel. But ladies and gentlemen, hear what I'm telling you. The Holy Spirit is much deeper than how I feel today. And if I'm waiting on a feeling, especially in these last days, the feeling may never come. In fact, on the day of Pentecost, I'm going to give you something to write down. None of this is in my notes. I'm just rolling right here. Y'all all right? On the day of Pentecost, according to the commentary, there's some 400 people that were gathered up there. But by the time that the Holy Spirit came and baptized them in cloven tongues of fire sat upon their head, there was only about 120 according to the Scripture. And it took 10 days for them to get in one accord. Could it be that somebody else in the room was bitter at somebody else in the room and they had to pray through until they walked over and said, Brother, I'm sorry, I've been holding something against you. And then suddenly, because you're going to find out the Holy Spirit as we symbolize Him as a dove, can be grieved, can be quenched. You hear what I'm saying? You can have fire going on. And if somebody comes along with enough water, they can make just smoke out of it. Now, why is this so important? Because we are not in a world that is embracing what most of us in this room perhaps have known as the moving of the Holy Spirit. However, here's the promise. And you'll hear about this over the next few weeks. Here's the promise. In the last days, sayeth the Lord, I will pour out my Spirit upon all flesh and your sons and daughters are going to prophesy. And your old men, they're going to dream dreams. And your young men, they're going to see visions. And upon my handmade boy feeling coming in here, I like it when I feel him. Makes me feel better about it anyway. I will pour out of my Spirit upon all flesh in the last day. So here's the promise. The Holy Spirit outpouring, let me say it like I said Sunday, the latter will be greater than the former. That's the promise of the Word of God. Now, if what we're seeing right now is simply church, when people come to have a relationship with church or with music, if somebody sings something they don't like, or if somebody gets offended or whatever it may be, people are easy to go and come and go and come. But let me just tell you something. If the captain of our salvation said, as we're flying at 32,000 feet, everybody's going to get off the plane. And here's a parachute for those of you who want to be able to be ready. And only 6% of the people on the plane put on the parachute. I think I'm teaching something right now. Only 6%. So here you are, the 6%. You're not the 1%, you're the 6%. And there you are with this parachute on your back because you heard the captain say, everybody's jumping out at 32,000 feet. And you said, I want to be ready, give me one of them parachutes. The parachute is Jesus. Put you on the Lord Jesus Christ. So you put him on. And there you are. Have you ever been in one of those seats in the airplane with a parachute on, trying to eat? Come on, some of my Israel trip people know exactly what I'm talking about. We got in there and the trade table, some of this brings trauma back to them right now. The trade table dropped right down on their belly. I mean, they were right there. They didn't have to move very far. It was just that tight. And somebody comes along and says, what are you wearing that stupid parachute for? You say, well, the captain said, well, who's the captain? Well, that's Jesus. The captain said, put this on because we're going to get out of 30,000. You look stupid. And they mock you and they sneer you and they say, you shouldn't, aren't you uncomfortable with all of that going to church? I mean, wearing that parachute, aren't you uncomfortable with all that kind of stuff? Don't you know you're out of the norm? Most of the people on this plane are not even wearing a parachute. And here you are. You're all bowed up. And then along comes the stewardess and you hit an air pocket. And there she is with a hot cup of coffee and all of a sudden there you are. She spills it. Do you then because she spilled the hot coffee on you, take the parachute off, throw it to the ground and say, forget it. I don't want to be anywhere around this. Or do you keep it on, strap it tighter and look forward to the jump? I just want to let you know the captain of our salvation has said in just any moment in the twinkling of an eye you're going to get off of this flight. And when that takes place, you've got to have on Jesus Christ or you won't survive. But if you'll put on Jesus Christ when the time comes and you get ready for the leap then be ready faithful people because it's going to change in a moment in the twinkling of an eye and it's only going to be a small group of people. Now how am I going to know that we're getting closer? Because of all the people on the plane that are mocking me and the stewardess had just slopped hot coffee on me? Or am I going to know it because I heard the word of the Lord and in my spirit I know I got to be ready for the jump. The Spirit of God confirms with our spirit that we are the sons of God. If I've heard one thing over and over again in recent days, it's been this. I'm not sure pastor. I'm really struggling with this and this and this all this kind of stuff going on. I'm talking about people that are supposed to be filled with the Holy Spirit. I'm not mocking anybody. I'm just telling you it's time to be filled. Now, it's not just a one time in filling. In fact, you need a good filling today. I won't mention any names but I've had a few folks that are close by me that got a little upset because for whatever reason their wife ran the gas right out of the car and then got stranded. I'm not getting any help there. I shouldn't have said that. You understand what I'm saying? You have to somewhere stop by the filling station. Welcome to the filling station. Now, let me just say this to you and I'm not throwing off on anybody here but there's a whole lot larger crowd on Sunday morning here than there is here tonight and only those that are filled with the Holy Spirit are going to experience this pickup called the rapture. How am I going to know? How am I going to know? Because the Holy Spirit is called in the Scripture the quickening power. He shall quicken your mortal body and you shall be changed. Then what is that? That means, ladies and gentlemen, that the need for me to be so sensitive and so filled with the Holy Spirit because I don't want to admit there will not be a second call. He's getting a bride ready. The bride will be without spotter blemish but the bride may have some scars and some weariness but the one thing the bride does if they're truly married to the bridegroom engaged, I am engaged. Come on somebody. Marriage has not happened but I am definitely engaged. Now, if you're going to run around on Jesus you're going to drop off that parachute because he won't have two lovers going on here. Come on somebody, he's not getting a harem, he's getting a church, a bride. And when he puts that bride together he puts not another spirit of another kind, he puts himself Christ on the inside of you. Christ in us, the Bible says, the hope of glory. Now I could preach this but I'm trying not to. Now let me give you some scripture to it. John 16 verse 7 says this, nevertheless, this is Jesus speaking to his disciples. I love this passage of scripture, nevertheless I tell you the truth. Boy that's a refreshing thing to hear in this hour isn't it? It is expedient, it is better for you that I go away, for if I go not away the comforter will not come unto you but if I depart I will send him unto you. And, now let me stop right here because I won't touch in the depth of this but Jesus said it's better for you I go away, why? Because I am here in person as Jesus and the fullness of Christ, the fullness of the Holy Spirit. The fullness of my spirit is dwelling on the inside of me. So I can't be a disembodied Christ. He's all in me. Jesus said I'll take this body, Jesus and I'll go back to the Father but when I get there I'll pray the Father and he'll send the Christ. That's the reason why we're not the body of Jesus, we are the body of Christ because there's only one body of Jesus but for all of you that are out here it is expedient in all of us and all those since the day of Pentecost he says it is better for you that I go away for when I go away, the Comforter. Have you watched the news? How many of you watched the news tonight? How many of you watched a little bit today? Sometime, look at you. How many of you know you need the Comforter to come right now? The Comforter will come. I'll send him to you and when he comes what's he gonna do? Because he's not gonna do something other than what Jesus was doing while he was walking on this earth because this is Christ. He's not a little Christ. He's not a semi-Christ. He is the Spirit that lived in the body of Jesus while he walked here and now his Spirit because the body is gone his Spirit now dwells in all of those who are the sons of God. What is he gonna do? When he comes he will reprove the world of sin. Number one, he will reprove the world of sin. He's gonna preach that sin is a reality and the consequences of sin. He'll reprove the world of sin of righteousness and of judgment. Three things the Holy Spirit's gonna do. Of sin because they believe not on me. People have to be convinced that Jesus is the Christ because he's not walking around on this earth now physically. So he's dwelling on the inside of us so he's going to preach in and through us. Witnesses, okay? Witnesses to others about who Jesus is and what he's done dying on the cross, forgiving of our sins, etc. Number two or verse number 10 of righteousness because I go to my Father and you see me no more. What does this mean? Jesus is not right here because if he was right here right now there'd be some folks in this altar changing their ways. I'm talking about not later. Forget what you got to say preacher. I am in the altar right now because Jesus, you know how many of you understand when mama shows up? When daddy shows, let me make it plain. So you're driving down the road exceeding the speed. You're on the interstate and you're flying. You're praying angels are staying with you at 90 and all of a sudden you're going down there because you're late and all of a sudden you see coming off the ramp they get in front of you and the other 10 cars are in front of you. The law and suddenly brake lights start flashing. People drop their phones in their lap and stop texting. You put the brake on and the front of the car lurches forward. Why? Because the law is physically present in you. Now let me ask you this question. Is he any less law when he's not right in front of you? Are you hearing me? And because we have female troopers that are in this church. Is she any less law when she's not driving right in front of you? Now I was needing to get to the church this morning in a very quick way. I'm coming down Spencer Field and they put that light in there and I said, you know, I need to get there and I was thinking about some other things and I was coming on down the road a little bit. And all of a sudden I looked in the corner of my eyes. We approached the intersection there. Here comes this white Tahoe or whatever and I noticed that there's a big old grill thing on the front and then there's one of those little lights on the side and I started looking for markings and you know what? I stopped at that light. I did. I sure enough did. I did. I did right there. I stopped. Yeah, you should too. I'm just telling you. Keep the parachute on, right? Come on. Can I get some amens out of here? Look at you. A bunch of lying, fast driving folk out of here. All right. All right. I'm just saying and what happened when I pull up there and it's an unmarked car. It's got, it looks like he pulled the sticker off of the car but actually it's like, and you know what? As I'm sitting there at the light, I'm thinking to myself, I'm really glad I stopped. Thank you, Holy Spirit for the righteousness. He will approve the world of sin and righteousness because I go to my father. You seem in a more of judgment because the prince of this world is judged. In other words, there's something he's happened since he's been here sin to reaffirm the message of the gospel, the righteousness of what's happening right now and how to live right and then into the future to remind us that judgment is coming and that Satan himself will be the one who will be judged. Verse 12, I have yet many things to say into you Jesus said but you can't bear them now. How be it when he the spirit of truth, there's an identifying title right there. He the spirit of truth. He the spirit of truth. I'll tell you this coming weekend what we're going to, what I'm going to be involved in on this next Tuesday night at the Wahoo Stadium and I'll let you know what's going on there. I'm sure that I'll find letters and crayon and all that kind of stuff, emails coming my way but there's a time to speak truth. Time to speak truth to power and let the chips fall as they say. And so I didn't get in this to tickle people's ears or to have a career move. This is a God call for me and so if we ever needed the spirit of truth to speak we need him right now. And you do too my dear friends because you're going to be confronted when he the spirit of truth is coming. He will guide you into all truth. How much truth? I'm just reading the scripture here for you. We'll get there. For he shall not speak of himself. So what does the Holy Spirit do? I have a lot of you heard it. They've written books about it. They're always said, oh, you know, the Holy Spirit, this Holy Spirit. And I'm not saying, I'm not saying that the Holy Spirit is not real and he's not working because he is, you'll see that he's a person. But he will never turn the spotlight on himself. He comes to glorify Jesus Christ. Always remember that. Never elevate the miracle signs, wonders the presence of God above the Word who is Jesus Christ. For he shall not speak of himself not so ever he shall hear that shall he speak and he will show you. This is the reason why I'm bringing it. He will show you things to come. Did you hear that? The Holy Spirit is going to show you things to come. Not just Bible prophecy events, but things to come in your life that you need to know. How many of you have ever had the experience where the Holy Spirit is? And you may not have even attributed to it, but the Holy Spirit inspired you about something to do or not to do or to go or not to go, all that kind of stuff. You had that and you turned around backwards a day or two later and went, that was the spirit of God leading me right. How many of you ever had that happen? Let me tell you, the more sensitive you are to that, the more he will order your steps. He will show you things to come. Isn't it amazing how that we now have such a society in the United States of America that a large percentage of people believe that it's okay to be like Venezuela? And another group of people say, wait a minute, we're drifting way far away from our Constitution and our values and biblical Judeo-Christian values. And you can't even sit down and have a conversation with people today because they've not come into the truth of God's Word. Even some Christians, verse 14, He shall glorify me for He shall receive of mine and shall show it unto you. So all of that introduction, and this is the series coming your way. The Holy Spirit is not wind. He's not fire. He's not a dove and any other of symbols. That's symbols. And the Word of God many times will use those symbols to identify an action of the Holy Spirit. Elijah caught up in the whirlwind of fire, you know? The wind blew through the upper room. But that's not the Holy Spirit. In other words, if you go outside tonight, the wind starts blowing. Don't say that's the Holy Spirit. If you see fire burning, don't say that's the Holy Spirit. He's using it as symbols. Why? Because He is a person, not merely a presence. Many refer to the atmosphere in a church or around a person as the spirit of the place or the spirit of that person. But the Holy Spirit is not an attitude. He's not an atmosphere or an environment. He is a person. How do you know He's a person? There are certain attributes about the Holy Spirit that constitute a person. He talks. He thinks. He plans. He is the voice of the Godhead inside of us. John 16, 13, He will not speak of Himself, but whatsoever He shall hear, that shall He also speak. A presence doesn't have a mind, a will, or a plan. His presence is evidence of His person. I feel the presence of God, okay? Then that means the person of the Holy Spirit has come into that place. Several weeks ago, I was walking and praying before the service. Actually, the service was going on. I was walking behind the screen back here and just praying and preparing to step out and preach to you. And it was like I stepped from one moment into the door of the presence of God. It was just that real, just that consuming. And the more you have a relationship with God, the more sensitive you will be to the presence of God or the person of God in your car, in your house, while you're laying on your pillow. And yes, inside of the house of God. Why is this so important? Because Jesus in John 14, 26 said, the Holy Spirit is our mentor. He will teach you all things. Now, I'm teaching you this lesson tonight, but I just want to let you know something. If you'll dare to take a deeper step in studying the Word of God, the Holy Spirit, you won't have to wait on the Pope. You won't have to wait on a preacher. You won't have to wait on a prayer group or a small group. The Holy Spirit will teach you all things. Let me tell you what makes church exciting is when you've been studying the Word of God and you've been reading the Word of God all week long and then all of a sudden you walk in here and I open up and I say, turn in your Bible to such and such and you all of a sudden your eyes get that big around because you've been studying that and the Spirit's been speaking to you and the next thing you know, you feel the plug-in of the power of God at that moment. How many of you know what I'm talking about? That's what he wants to do. Don't let all the teaching and all that be right here. Let the Holy Spirit speak to you and it's not how much of the Word of God you consume. It's how much you digest. So you meditate upon one verse of Scripture. When I preached that message a few weeks ago about when Jesus comes, that phrase right there, just three words is just pounding my spirit. And the Holy Spirit says, ask the question. Here, let me just say this to you when you're studying the Word of God, if you want the Holy Spirit to speak to your heart, ask of the text questions. Who is he speaking to? I'm teaching you how to study the Word of God right here because the Holy Spirit is waiting. And believe me, you may have read a passage of Scripture a hundred times but if you ever get in the zone, the Holy Spirit will peel the onion cover off of that thing and the next thing you know, he'll open up revelation to you. Come on, somebody. It's just like that message I was preaching this past weekend about Job and then because my wife wrote my message, she told me you missed the best part. And I didn't get to tell you the best part because that thing was downloading in my spirit. Why did Job's wife? This is what the Holy Spirit said. Why did Job's wife? It was a joke, y'all. She writes some of my messages but not all the time. Y'all locked up. All right, well, if she's gonna be it, then let her be the preacher. I'll tell you. So the Holy Spirit said, why did I keep her alive? See, when you start asking questions of the text, you start engaging in the text. Y'all missing what I'm saying. You're just reading the Bible. If you'll let the Bible start reading you and start asking questions of the text, who is he talking about? What's that all about? God, I don't understand this. The Holy Spirit, according to the Book of Ephesians chapter one, will illuminate your understanding. And that's what he did with me when I'm reading this. Now, you may have had that revelation, but I'm just telling you I went through commentary after commentary and I couldn't find anything about some of them so we don't know what happened all that, but all you gotta do is read the Bible and then ask the question. And the next thing I know I'm reading and I'm asking the question and the Holy Spirit said, even the Holy Spirit will give you the question to ask and he's already got the answer. Come on, somebody. Come on, come on, you know. So he said, ask this question, ask this question. How did he get all these children? Job could have done that by himself. He was the one who had the seed. He had to have someone to reproduce that. What's the job of Job's wife? That's the reason why Job's wife wasn't taken off the scene because he was going to give her fruit in her old age and a supply and a satisfaction because God needed her. I'm gonna mess with you. The Holy Spirit is like water. The Bible says in Isaiah 44, in fact, he goes even deeper and says, it's like water on dry ground. Sometimes I feel that way when I'm preaching. Y'all want to know why I spit to the third pew. That's why I'm just trying to water the dry ground. That's the reason why they sit in the wings. The Holy Spirit is like fire, Acts 2, number two. He's not fire, but he's like fire. The Holy Spirit is like wind, Acts 2, but he's not wind. These are the... Man, you can't talk about the Holy Ghost and things not start stirring in you. That's the reason why that he's not able to pin it down. He's like wind. He's like fire. He's like this. He's like that, but that's not him. When he comes, he shall baptize you. So you've been needing something to write down. Here it is. The Holy Spirit is not a power to get hold of and use. We think somehow we're going to use... I'm gonna use the Holy Ghost to witness. No, no, no, no. The Holy Spirit is not power for you to get a hold of and use. Rather, he is the divine power who gets hold of us. And uses us to accomplish the will of God in us, by us, and through us. So let me say to you here tonight, ladies and gentlemen, that the desire of the Holy Spirit is to fill you and refill you and refill you to do the service, the work of the Lord. Now, that's not just churchy stuff, because he empowers you to do and to be who you are. I am... I just want you to know after 30-some odd years or whatever it is that I've been in the ministry, I'm always amazed that anybody would come out. My best crowds that I was always looking for was last year when empty seats were out here, because that's what I thought, you know? Because I don't... I say ain't. And all my English teachers just crawl the wall when I do that and I mispronounce words and spit. I do all the things that you're not supposed to do as an order, but I just want to let you know something. When the Spirit of the Lord comes, He'll put the words in your mouth, won't He do it, Peter? Oh, yeah, I was just a cuss in fishermen. In fact, I cussed out Jesus, but He turned around and used my life and anointed me so much that my first sermon reaped 3,000 souls. Come on, somebody. When you recognize that you're not the one who's going to control the thing, you're going to let the Holy Spirit flow through you. He will do things that you will never be able to do. Now, some of you say, well, I'm on my job, Pastor. He has nothing to do with that. Oh, my dear friends. I'm going to tell you what, if you're an electrician, He'll make you a better electrician. How is it that you can figure it out and the rest of them can't because you consult with the Holy Spirit and He says, this is what you're supposed to do. Come on, somebody. And I'll just use that one example. He will, He enables you to do what you do with ease. Can I say it like this? No sweat. Well, I don't know if I'll get to this whole thing here tonight, I can just tell you. Because when the priests, the high priests, wore the garments, the inner garment that He wore was a linen garment. That's what He went into the presence of God with. Not all the bells and the pomegranates and the hat and all that kind of stuff. He went into the presence of God with a linen garment. Why did God say linen? Because it doesn't hold sweat, it breathes. Because God doesn't want you doing it on your own effort. If you're sweating to serve the Lord, stop it. You're doing it in your own humidability. Lean upon the Holy Spirit and let Him guide you and it will be sweatless. I'm not saying you won't have to work because anything you do for the kingdom. Now some of, see some of y'all think you're just going to lay back and get your God's stimulus check but that's not the way it works. God's not going to pay you no stimulus check. You're going to have to get up and do. Be my witnesses in Judea and Samaria. But when you get there, you won't have to worry. I'll put words in your mouth when you stand before the magistrate. Come on somebody. Oh my God, I don't know if you're getting this or not but I am and I'm having a good time. So we'll be here for the next three hours. It's not just some influence or feeling or blessing. When do we receive the Holy Spirit? That's a question that some people really don't understand and even denominational leaders and doctors of theology don't even understand. I heard a major preacher the other day on television say a remark of something about the Holy Spirit and this is another reason why I'm teaching you here because when I heard this person, I have great respect for them but their denominational teaching keeps them in this box and because some people, and I'm just amazed at a world that will watch supernatural stuff on television constantly but then walk into church and want to put a leash on God as to how far he can go and what he can do. Come on somebody. It's supernatural, you know, all these shows and stuff and then walking here and saying I don't believe in that. Really? That's the reason why Peter and John stood up in front of all those people that were much more learned than they were and said we can't but speak of what we've heard and seen. That's what makes somebody dangerous because if you ever get the touch of God and the experience of God one time and you put that together with faith, the Holy Ghost is going to make that combustible. You can't tell somebody who's had that experience even if it's been a wrong experience many times. You can't tell them, I know you saw it on TV but I experienced it for myself. Are you hearing what I'm saying? I'm amazed. So let's identify this because the person receives the Holy Spirit as a mark of identity confirming that they're really the child of God. So I don't have, I wish I had an empty one right here but I don't. But I will here go empty that out and then bring it back to me, will you? I'll wait for you. I need to show you this. Can I take my time here tonight, y'all? All right, I'm going to let you out here in just a little bit. I probably won't get to the rest of this. Jesus said, listen to this. Jesus said in John 14, 17, the world. This is what makes the Holy Spirit exclusive. The world, he said, could not receive the Holy Ghost because they don't see Him. Are you hear me? The world can't receive the Holy Ghost because they can't see Him and they only follow what they can see and what they can feel. They do not have faith. And ladies and gentlemen, if you want to know the Holy Spirit and you want to know whether or not He's alive and working and I'm amazed that 62% of evangelicals would miss this but all you got to do is read the first three verses of the book of Genesis. And what is the first thing you see the Spirit doing? The Bible says, and the Spirit of God moved and He hasn't stopped moving since then. So He's been moving ever since. He's been in there since the beginning and before the beginning and He'll be there after. Now, when we get to the Holy Spirit we won't have to speak in tongues. When we get to heaven, we won't have to speak in tongues and we won't have to operate in the same way that we are right now. That's the reason why we need the Holy Spirit now. So when do I get the Holy Spirit? Well, let me explain that there's actually, there's actually for a person who's been who is being baptized in the Holy Ghost who desires and believes in Acts chapter number two and for any believer for that matter, I'm explaining it in two phases here for you but I'm gonna put it in one phrase. Scripture teaches us that receiving the Holy Spirit at salvation is not the same as being filled with the Holy Ghost. Why is that? How can you verify it? Well, some disciples followed Jesus and I don't have time to elaborate but some disciples followed Jesus for years before they were filled with the Holy Ghost and spoke in tongues. Paul comes to the Ephesus church and says, have you received since you believed? And they say we don't even know that there was a Holy Ghost. In fact, that sounds like to me the explanation of the majority of churches today because the pulpit is not declaring the power of the Holy Spirit and the need to be filled with the Holy Spirit and therefore there's a whole group of people that are coming in regulating him to some feeling when they're worshiping and lifting their hands and they really don't have the power that comes as a result of being baptized on the Holy Ghost. So when they get in situations that they're having to stand up for Jesus Christ, they acquiesce, they back up, they quit, they fall out, all that kind of stuff because they don't have the power of the Holy Spirit. All they've had is a church feeling. So when do I get the baptism? Or when do I get the Holy Spirit? Let me make it plain in a phrase for you. Pass over because everything is a pattern in the Scripture. Pass over must precede Pentecost. Blood and then the Spirit. Before any vessel in the tabernacle could be used, first it had to be sprinkled with blood. Before you can be filled with the Holy Spirit and don't ever, don't ever allow this to get out of your mind and doctrine and theology because some people believe even to this day that they can operate in the Holy Spirit and live any old way they want to and they've never, I've heard people say that I've never confessed Jesus Christ but I got the Holy Spirit. Well, no, you don't. You got your spirit but you don't have the Holy Spirit. You got some spirit but you don't have the Holy Spirit. When does he come in? You're Passover. That is salvation at the cross and the blood of Jesus being applied to your life precedes the feast or the next subsequent infilling of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost. So Jesus dies on the cross. He goes in the tomb. He raises up from the dead. He walks around alive for 40 days. He tells all his disciples, go and tarry in Jerusalem until you be endued with powerful and high. What were they not saved? Sure they were saved. They confessed and they believed in Jesus Christ, died on the cross, nothing added to it, nothing taken away. You better hear what I'm telling you. Anything added to the cross or taken away from the cross and the work of the cross inside of the life of the believer is to add a work that you must attain before you can be saved. And if that's true, then grace is not grace. I wish I had time to take on that but all you gotta do is read the book of Romans chapter 6, 7, and 8 and you'll find that out very clearly. So you can be saved and not yet filled with the Holy Ghost. The pattern is saved, then you're a candidate to be filled with the Holy Ghost. The vessel is clean and that's the only way the Holy Ghost, Holy Spirit, Son of the Stearns can come in on the inside. Now that can happen simultaneously. I've seen it happen many times. I'm just teaching you here tonight. Y'all with me? Believers in the book of Acts have been saved by grace but not filled with the Holy Ghost. Acts chapter 10 verse 44, 46, Acts chapter 19, two specific instances that took place as a result of them already being born again and then being filled with the Holy Ghost at a different time. Salvation must precede the baptism of the Holy Spirit or the Holy Ghost. Paul admonished them to be filled with the Holy Ghost not a suggestion but a command in Ephesians chapter 5 verse 18. What does he say? Be not drunk with wine whereas in excess but be filled. The term is over and over again. Be being filled. So it's not just a one-time occasion and I'm trying to stay focused here for you. I don't want to get too far away but being drunk with wine means you're under the control of the wine. Now I don't want to ask how many drunks were in here but I'm just going to say there was a definite difference in your speech, in your walk. Come on somebody. In having a good time we're not talking about sitting down stale. You let the brothers on the stool start picking up a few of them and leave them there for about a half hour and they're steady tossing them down and when you come back in a half hour I guarantee you they're going to be different. They're going to be seeing all kinds of stuff wanting to dance with everybody. Now let me stop right here and say there ain't no dancing with anybody up in here, up in here. Your partner is Jesus, that's it. I'll see y'all out here cutting a rug over there. I'm going to throw some cold water on you and we'll be all right. Y'all with me? Being drunk with wine he uses the analogy for us and to remain drunk you must continually partake of whatever brought you about to the drunkness. Am I right? Now please, and I'm not trying to demean the Holy Spirit but he uses the terminology here and the metaphor to help explain to us the effect of the Holy Spirit in the life of the believer. Now let me just ask you something. People live for the weekend and what do they want to do? They want to have that feeling that they had when they were plastered and the only reason why they're working is to get enough money so I can hit it again. I know I'm in the right place when y'all lock jaw up like that I know, I know, I know, I know, I know, I know. I mean the doors are swinging right now. I can see it right now. We're looking forward to the opportunity. Have I got any real people in here? I mean, let me just say it to you like this. If sin wasn't fun, you wouldn't be tempted to do it. Come on. If it wasn't any fun, you wouldn't be going out. Come on, let's tie one on. Come on. And watch this. Watch this. Nobody wants to drink by themselves. They want everybody. They want everybody. They'll come on all the way around everybody. We come to church and we talk about Holy Spirit and the moving of the Holy Spirit and we won't. And if somebody gets a little bit excited, oh brother, I know what I'm talking about. I've watched them this past weekend. Get up and jump right up out of here. Because when it comes right down to it, all they have in the alcohol buzz is a temporary fix. Come on, let me preach to you, brother Fisher. You'll help me out right here, won't you? Just a temporary buzz. And we want to go back to that, but now we've got to wait all week long. And you know what? If I went to some of these non-drinking churches in the Holy Ghost, I wouldn't want to be excited about going back there either. But when I find me a real good one, come on somebody. And the Spirit of God is moving. I can't wait to get back there and load my car up and talk it up all over it down. Come see a man. If I got to convince you to tell other people about Jesus, then we're doing something wrong. Because the Spirit of God ought to be pushing you. Can't wait till the weekend. Come on, can't wait till Sunday. Can't wait till Wednesday night. Can't wait to get back together. Come on, if I get a three-day weekend, we're going to turn it on. We're going to crank it up. Ain't it funny? People come in the house of God, turn them into the down to love. Get to the bar. They're sitting three feet away from the platform and the dude is going, I came to tell you in these last days, God ain't going to be in your Baptist box, your Presbyterian box, or your Pentecostal box. He's looking for somebody who wants to be filled with the Holy Ghost and fire. So Paul knew the believers. Y'all calm down out there. You're getting a little too excited now. Paul knew the believers would never come to church or attempt any service for the Lord while they were under the influence of wine. If it was wrong to be drunk on wine and attempt to do the service for the Lord, then it would be wrong to serve him and not be filled with the Holy Ghost. Let me run that past you again. If it would be wrong to be drunk on wine and attempt to do service for the Lord, then it would be wrong to serve him and not be filled with the Holy Ghost. What can you do without the Holy Ghost? Listen to me, folks. I love the fact that you're here listening to me preach and people watching and so forth, but I'm just telling you right now. I can tell you straight up, I'm not that good. I get plenty of people to tell me that all the time. I'm not that good. Well then pastor, why are we here listening to you? Because it's not me talking and you know it. It's the Holy Ghost that's bearing witness with your spirit. And the more the word comes, not my opinion, the more the word comes, the Holy Ghost puts this anointing on it and suddenly it's feeding your soul and you're saying give me some more drinks for everybody. Come on everybody, drink up. The spirit of the Lord is pouring out his spirit. Drink to you. What drunk do you know only drinks a little bit? I've never, not in the movie or anywhere else have I ever seen somebody, you know what? I had one, that's good. You a liar. They have to, Jesus, I'm about to preach right now. They have to tell the guy, you're not hearing me. They got to tell him and they ask you, how many of you had your stumbling around? And we get all weirded out because people are falling out in the Holy Ghost and then we got to try to explain it. Well, I don't understand it. You'll never understand that. But if the spirit of the Lord dwells in you and he's in the place, in his power, in his glory, you'll know him when he shows up and you'll say give me another drink and if it makes your shoes wobble and your knees get weak and you fall out in the floor, just count it up as being down there. Come on, somebody. I can tell the folks I'm connecting with and some that I'm making very, very nervous right now. But I'm just gonna tell you, let me just say to you like this, there's a few people in here to understand and know what I'm talking about. The byline, that's what I'm looking for, the byline of this church that was on billboards and everywhere else for years, a church that makes no apology for the old-time gospel, which included the moving of the Holy Ghost. Now, my dear friends, I've stood on this platform. Boy, I'm way off my notes here tonight. But I have stood on this platform right here and led this 120-voice choir and there would be 2,000 people all over this place waiting to get in at six o'clock. On a Sunday night, come on, somebody. That choir was pumped up so much and prayed up that we had to pull them out of the prayer room to get them on the platform just so that they could minister to the crowd. And sometimes without anybody saying anything, the cloud of the comforter came and suddenly people begin to get saved, healed, and delivered. I just wanna let you know the Holy Ghost has not changed. He has not changed. Oh, we've changed. We've told him you can only show up on Sunday morning for an hour. You only get 20 minutes, Holy Ghost. I came to tell you it's time to take the lid off and let God be God. Do it again at Pace Assembly until everybody is filled with the Holy Ghost. Throw your hands in the air and say, Feel me again, Holy Ghost. Come on, come on now. He's not gonna come like you think he's gonna come. But when he does come, you're gonna know he's in the building. I've run out of my time. I was raised in this, y'all. I was raised in this. So here's the problem. When you get the knowledge of something and you've had the experience of it and it's anything less. Saribiketan dibokoshaya. Anything less. Anything less. Anything less. If it dumps it down, if it gets less than what your experience is, then ladies and gentlemen, you know what I'm talking about. And you can call it whatever you wanna call it. Oh, Pace, that's just old fashioned. That's just way back. No, no, no, no. The Holy Spirit is as relevant and needed and right now, right now, right now than ever before. And I promise you, he has not changed. He's still baptizing. He's still moving wherever people will let him move. Stop calling your revival. Three days of services. Call on the Lord and let the Holy Ghost bring the revival. He has no obligation to the church of God, the assemblies of God, the four square, the holiness, the Pentecostal holiness. Are you hearing what I'm saying? He's just looking for some people who are looking for him. So, I know I won't finish this here tonight, but that's what the Holy Ghost does. He just interrupts the whole thing. And then watch this. He gives you the option. You can either flow in that direction or you can get stale and go with your program. Chaya cattore me che sondra boche. I'm talking about, you can stay with your little planning center online where you do this at 10.05 and this at 10.20. Or you can say, Holy Ghost, we're gonna get started. We're gonna start worshiping the Lord. And then whenever you want to interrupt and do what you want to do, you are welcome in this house to do what you want to do, Jesus. Do what you want to do, Jesus. Don't you want a church like that? I'm asking you, I'm asking you because let me just tell you, it's hard to have a true Pentecostal church today. Most preachers are not, am I talking right? Pastor Jason knows. It's hard. It's hard to do that. You know why? Because the effort is, I just want, I want, I want, I want the least amount for the greatest amount back. And God said, if you're not willing to wait on me, you can't have my stuff. Man, I'm feeling, I feel like I'm in a flow right here, y'all. I feel like I'm saying something to this church prophetically. God wants to use this house right here, but we better not put God on some kind of doggy leash and tell him, you can do this and if I get tired, I'm going to go, why aren't we tired of God? When we, when we spend all of our time out there, when what we're looking for is the presence of God and the nearness of his spirit. That's what gets people saved. That's what gets people healed. That's what gets people filled with the Holy Ghost. Did you hear me? That's, that's, that's where it happens. That's where it's at. I don't give you two cents just to say I went to church today. That's the reason why there's such great falling away right now because people are not only disillusioned by it, but there's nothing there that wants to attract and hold them. I got a great preacher. He says some great words, praise God, but, but, but what's next? You know why? Because the letter kills, but the spirit gives life. And I'm just going to tell you, I can, I, I've, I've been doing this from this pulpit and doing handouts on Wednesday night now for all 15 years of my existence as your pastor right here. Every Wednesday night, there's hardly a Wednesday night. There hadn't been a handout. There's been enough Bible study and discipleship going on in 15 years that we ought to have a mighty army of God, people training and teaching somebody else. What's the lacking? It's not for the lack of the word. And I say that humbly right here because I don't give you some canned over warmed over kind of thing. I'm bringing you right off the top plate, right off of the fire straight out of here, right out of the grill to you. But ladies and gentlemen, it's going to take more than just me saying I'm going to preach the word of God to you. There has to be an engagement from the people in the congregation who not only say, I want that word, but I also want the demonstration. And after Paul had preached the word in Mars Hill and nothing happened, he said, I'm going up here, but I don't want to know anything among you. Say Jesus Christ and crucify. And by the way, I did not come with enticing words of man's wisdom, but I came in the power and in the demonstration of the Holy Ghost. Oh God to this world and Jesus, demonstrate your power in this hour. We must have him. We must have him. We must have him. We must have him. We must have him. We must have him. We don't have it. He has us. Take control of my life. Take control of my life. Take control of every part of me. Don't let me, don't let me live one day where I'm making my own decisions for myself. Let me be led by the Spirit because the moment that I don't need to drive through the intersection and I need to stop, the moment that I don't need to turn the corner and go this way, the Holy Spirit will guide me and lead me into all truth. Pastor, I don't know what to believe. Ask the Holy Spirit to reveal truth to you and He will breathe on us. And I'm not selfish. I'm not selfish. I want him to move wherever and any place. I could care less. Well, he can't move over there at the Catholic Church. You better watch out. You better watch out what you say. In the Jesus movement, the Catholic people got together and said, we want this Holy Ghost. And the next thing you know, he pours out a spirit, a bunch of people. Come on somebody who everybody else wanted to say, they can't have it, but let me just tell you something. Whenever Peter came over here and he's walking with Jesus and John was all around Jesus and holding on to his hand and Peter said, what's he doing here? Why is he here? He said, you leave him alone. Follow me. In other words, ladies and gentlemen, you stop looking down anywhere else because in the last day, sayeth the Lord, I will, oh my God, I will, I will pour out of my spirit upon all flesh. And if Jesus said he will, he ain't gonna lie to you. You're sitting, many of you that have never been, you come to Pace Assembly and there's only a handful of people here that's been here for that length of time. But I've seen the power of God move in this place. And I'm not here to just hold a pastorate, not a career, a calling. One Sunday night, the power of God was flowing in this building. I remember having led the choir and the Spirit of the Lord had moved and he was still moving and people were still speaking in tongues and I dismissed the choir and they went down and gathered right out over here, just beyond that wall right there. Gathered out there and they couldn't even make it on up to get their robes taken off. These two right here were right in the middle of that pile. The service was going on and Brother Lowry was trying to keep things moving but the Spirit of the Lord said, not tonight. How many of you were here when you said, you remember that right there? A few of us, the Spirit of the Lord began to move and young people, mostly young people out of my youth group were over in that wall crammed up so tight you couldn't put anybody between them and they were speaking in tongues and laying hands on one another. Nobody was having to prime them or pump them or they were just in the flow of the Holy Spirit. It was so powerful that it shut down the entirety of the service. Brother Lowry said, go get me an extension ladder and we throwed an extension ladder up right here in the sanctuary on that wall right there. Pull this down a little bit. On that wall right there and got up top and got a camera and there's somewhere there's some pictures of that wad of teenagers. The next morning, Brother Merv, who was the business administrator came to my office and said, Brother Rogers, what are you going to do with this group? I said, what you told him about it? He said, there's a hole in the wall that big out there where they kicked a hole in the wall. Then they do it, Stephen. Kicked a hole in the wall. Just kicked a hole in the wall. You can fix a wall. But there's a thousand young people that are laying up underneath bridges tonight that need the infilling of the power of God and they need a church that's not going to say, stay out there because you're not one of us. They're going to say, come on in here. Oh, you've got a laborer in there heavy laden. That's what the Holy Ghost does. He opens wide the arms of Christ. I can tell you story after story. There's Heather, she knows exactly what I'm talking about. Question is, do you want your children and your children's children? Because it's going to cost us something. I couldn't wait to get here to tell you this and we're going to pray. I told you Sunday morning, I told you, if you're going to get somebody to pray for you, get that five year old or younger. One ain't got no bills and cares and worries. Taylor and Lauren got to the house Sunday night. They were putting Adeline to the bed and they helped down to do their prayers. They started to pray and she looked up at Lauren and said, we need to pray for Mimi and Pa for them to get saved. She said saved. I forget the other word she used but you mean this? No, she said saved. Heard that out there in that kids church. I need to pray for them to get saved. She texted Mimi and she read it out loud to me and I said, let her pray for them to get saved. You don't have any idea what I did last night. Pray, let that girl pray. Come on, how many of you know you need to get saved every day? Come on, am I talking to somebody? Let them babies pray on you and then what did she do? She said, let's pray for people to get healed. So Adeline, is she five? Five years old. She reaches up and lays her hand on Lauren's head and she says, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la. Now you may think that is the mutterings of a little five-year-old child. But what it is Isaiah said is stammering lips and an unknown tongue. Pastor, where did she hear that from? She heard it somewhere. I don't know where but let her learn into that because by the time she gets there, when she's ready to have that experience, hey, she'll already know I'm already moving in that direction. You let them little babies pray in what they believe to be a tongue. I bet you one thing is probably closer to a tongue in the Holy Ghost than most people are. I say, let the babies pray in the Holy Ghost. If John got baptized in his mother's womb, then let the babies pray in the Holy Ghost. Get on your feet tonight and let's bless the Lord. Open your mouth all over this hour. You want your babies to be able to survive in this hour? You better be able to teach them how to pray. And Holy Ghost, take over. Come on, come on, come on. I want you to begin to pray in the Holy Ghost. Will you do that right now? Ta'yarabakosondrabohoshatalabiandalabahaya. Hallelujah, mighty God. Hallelujah, hallelujah. Come on, church, open your mouth. Be filled, be being filled with the Holy Ghost. I don't know what I'm going to face tomorrow and neither do you, but the Holy Ghost is already there. He will lead you and guide you into all truth. He'll show you things to come while you're laying on your pillow tonight. The Holy Ghost is going to start talking to you. He's going to show you what you need to do. You're worried over something. He said, don't be afraid. I got it covered. Hallelujah. You need healing? Trust me, I am the healer. I'm not another healer. I'm the same healer. I am the Christ. I wish you'd lift your voice in here and not be intimidated. I wish you'd lift your voice in here and not be afraid to speak out loud because if you can't do it here, you surely won't do it out there. Come on, church, lift your voice all over this house. Open, you're not going to get nothing when your mouth closed. But if you'll open your mouth, he'll fill you, he'll fill you tonight. He'll fill you overflowing. He'll fill you overflowing. You need a fresh in feeling tonight. Come on, but those of you that have never been baptized in the Holy Ghost, you don't have to do anything special. The same faith that it took for you to be saved is the same faith that takes for you to be baptized in the Holy Ghost. Receive ye the Holy Ghost. There are many people watching online praying in the Holy Ghost right now. Lift your voice out there in Texas and begin to pray in the spirit. Let the anointing of God begin to come upon you in a fresh anointing tonight. Come on, my Pentecostal church. I'm just telling you this is what it's going to take. This is what it's going to be. The Spirit of God is going to give you the touch you need. But the touch is not for you, it's for somebody else. Spirit of God, Spirit of God, fresh anointing, fresh anointing. Breathe upon us tonight. Yikarabakasorebyandalabahoshayah. Handikasete ramahoshondalabakotalabahoshayah. Hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah. Hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah. Hallelujah. Here's what the Holy Ghost will do. He'll let you pray. He'll let you pray and prophesy. And tonight you're going to demonstrate that. I want you to reach to your neighbor in front of back, side by side and begin to pray. Now don't pray in English, pray in the Holy Ghost because you don't know how to pray for her as you are. But the Spirit of God, heikasundekandalaboshayah. The Spirit of God will pray through you right now to the innermost need of that life. That's right, that's right. Don't you be afraid right now to reach out and pray one for another. Pastor, I don't know how to pray. Just talk to God. Just talk to God. Let the Spirit of the Lord begin to show you how to pray and what to pray. Come on, minister to the body right now, prophesy. If you got a word for the Lord, for them, share it with them right now. It's time that the gifts of the Spirit begins to flow in the church again. It's time that the anointing of God begins to restore broken places and heal broken hearts and bind up wounded spirits so that we can do the work of the kingdom. Oh my God, be my strength and my helper tonight. Holy Spirit, you've been sent by Jesus Himself, deposited inside of this human earthly vessel. We have this treasure in earthen vessels that the Excellency is not of us but of Christ. Come on, my church, come on, my church. You're gonna put a praise in your mouth. This is what restores your soul. This is what he talks about when he says your cup will run over. Hallelujah, let my cup run over. My God, that's what I've been looking for, pastor. This is the kind of church I've been looking for. I don't even know what I was looking for, but I found my soul satisfied in the very presence of God. Sweet Jesus. I want you to know, watching in Kenya tonight, the Holy Ghost is not a different Holy Ghost in Kenya as he is in America. He's the same Holy Ghost there right now. Just begin to worship Him all around the world. The Spirit of the Lord is moving. I said the Lord is moving all around the world while Christians are dying. The Spirit is moving while we're in dilemmas and in all kinds of decisions that have to be made. The Spirit Himself is moving like never before. Hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah. Kairabakosundraboshi. Now you prayed for your neighbor. Just slip those hands up and maybe begin to worship the Lord tonight. Why don't you just thank God for the Holy Ghost right here? Thank you. Thank you, Jesus, for sending us the Holy Ghost. Your Spirit to dwell among us. Your Spirit to infuse us. Your Spirit to instruct us, to teach us, to show us what righteousness looks like. Lord, I look around. I don't see a whole lot of righteousness, but you're righteous. Show me, Holy Ghost, what righteousness is supposed to be. Show me things to come. What should I do? How should I do? What do I need to do? I thank you, Jesus, that you've been the friend. Klautorimikesandekataramoho shandekasaya. Come on now. In a few moments, this service is going to be included and the doors will be closed, but the spirit of life is going to get in the car with you. The spirit of resurrection is going to get in the car with you. He's going to be waiting up for you to wake up tomorrow morning to go to work on your job and show you what you need to do. I don't have the answer. I came home today, God, and I don't have the answer to the situation. Don't you worry. While you're asleep, the Holy Ghost is going to be doing what he needs to do, getting you ready for what you need. Oh my God. Oh my God, lead me, Jesus. Lead me, spirit of God. Clear out the cobwebs of my mind of indecision and let me be fully yours. Fully yours. I surrender to you tonight, Holy Spirit. I'm going to stop telling you what you need to do. I want you to tell me what I need to do. Ain't it right, church? Ain't it right? You know what I'm talking about. Isn't this the church you want to have? It's going to be laboring. Come on, like a woman travailing with child. It's going to be laboring, but the Bible says when Zion travails, sons and daughters. Your sons and daughters are going to be born into the kingdom, the Bible says. And these are the days of the spirit of the Lord. These are the days of Elijah. I wish I could put a period on the end of this, but I can't and I surely won't. I'm just going to tell you tonight, my dear friends, don't leave home without him. Can you say, man? Don't leave home without him. Before you leave and get in that car on the way home, get in this car with me, Holy Ghost. In fact, the business take the steering wheel. When you get up in the morning, get in this car with me, Holy Ghost. You're in me and I'll get all around me. I said, hey, you better get out of here. I'm going to preach another sermon. Turn around to your neighbors, shake hands with them and tell them we need more of this. Amen. Come on, tell them we need more of this. Come on, tell them we need more of this. All of you that are watching online, don't miss Sunday morning right here at 10 a.m. Spread the word. Pace assembly live where the spirit of the Lord is moving.