 My name is Bart, Bart shoots People earlier were asking me where I'm from so I'll give you the answer. I gave them I am from my mother's womb anybody else Yes, I hope everybody. No, I'm from Tallahassee, Florida and That's right down the road by plane And I'm excited for what we're gonna do here Just a quick Introduction about myself and then I'm gonna give a minute for us to get to know each other real quick So I am married To my wife Brooke. We've been married for 25 years Yes She's a very lucky woman Yeah, I'm a lucky man and She's been interceding for me last night I was a little stirred up with stuff and she was sharing things with me encouraging me this morning Praying with me and encouraging me. I'm a blessed man We have four children together three girls and a boy our oldest Hannah is 24 Gabrielle is about to be 22 in two weeks Kaley just graduated high school. She's 18 and then our baby boy is Joshua. He's almost my almost my height he's 15 and love my kids and The only part I don't like about traveling and doing ministry as being away from them when I'm home I am fully home and Just love my family But let me do this I'm assuming is there anyone in here that knows everybody in the room raise your hand if you know everybody in the room I'm putting mine down. So do me a favor just the people to you right your left if you don't know them Just introduce yourself. Just give them your name and where you're from. We'll do this real quick All right, that's enough now We want to get to know get to know each other, but not that well What we're gonna do is we're gonna have a combination of some teaching and some interaction we have some activity We'll be praying with each other. So we're gonna get comfortable with each other even more so But before I start I like to start pretty much every event that I do with these catechism quotes So paragraph 2670 and 2671 this is my secret sauce 2670 2671 2670 says this The church invites us that in itself is huge the church invites us To call upon the Holy Spirit every day Not every other day The church invites us to call upon the Holy Spirit every day before and after every important action Let's nuance this a moment. What are some important actions in your day? Give me some answers work Getting out of bed Taking care people prayer conversations with kids that I hear parenting Taking a shower that's important Even going to the bathroom Eating going to bed. How about breathing anyone find that important? So basically what the church is saying to you and I is That we are to call upon the Holy Spirit always always All day every day always 2671 goes on to say The simplest and I like that because I'm simple The simplest and most direct prayer is also traditional. I love that language too Do you guys know what that prayer is the simplest and most direct prayer that's also traditional? Calm Holy Spirit you guys are good Calm Holy Spirit and then it goes on to say what calm Holy Spirit? Fill the hearts of the faithful and in kinder within them The fire of your love and you guys are probably familiar with this one too St. Bonaventure. What does he say? St. Bonaventure says the Holy Spirit comes where he is Loved The Holy Spirit comes where he is invited The Holy Spirit comes where he is Expected So this time we have together now and this evening is only going to be as good as the Holy Spirit is present He is the secret sauce You know the Holy Spirit it says in 696 the very bottom of 696 do not quench the Holy Spirit It's like cutting off the water on a hose the Holy Spirit longs to have his church back So let's do this. Let's stand up and let's just do what the church says And just say with me calm Holy Spirit Again calm Holy Spirit a third time come Holy Spirit If you willing ask the person next to you if you can place their hand on your shoulder, please ask And if they say yes place your hand on their shoulder Everybody linked up All right We're gonna pray for the people next to you or the person next to you depending on however it worked out for you Let's pray in the 2671 Say come Holy Spirit Fill the hearts of your faithful and in kinder within them The fire of your love Let's pray in the Saint Bonaventure's words. You're ready. So with me Holy Spirit We love you Holy Spirit We invite you Holy Spirit We expect you and one more Holy Spirit be with this guy from Tallahassee Because we want you Amen. All right give somebody high five grab a seat and we'll get started So what we're gonna get here is it's a smorgasbord of an event that I do which is a two-day event called day of equipping Actually now called equipping the Saints that we're calling here equipped for sainthood And so we're gonna take two hours worth of material and we're gonna squeeze it into an hour and It's gonna be nothing but teaching for an hour straight. Nope. Not true I'm gonna give some brief little teaching and then we're gonna do some activation and interaction and prayer with one another Okay, y'all ready for this All right so equipped for sainthood What is sainthood? Well, of course, we all know sainthood is like that Hall of Fame of heaven, right those guys that have been canonized Those are saints Is that the only definition of saint? No, the church and scripture actually from what I've understood. There's three categories of saints There's those who have been canonized Which I'm hoping some of you guys will be there one day Then there's those who are in heaven considered to be saints And then there's those the scripture refers to as Just the believers in Jesus saints so Paul when he would address his letters He would say to the church in Corinth to the saints to the saints in Ephesus to the saints in Philippi And there he's referring to the followers of Jesus Christ. I'll read one of them to you. It's in First Corinthians 1 to Paul says to the church of God that is in Corinth To those who are sanctified in Christ Jesus called to be saints So the same hood that we're referring to right now today is you The followers of Jesus Christ those who are living in the mission of Jesus Christ so mission. What do I mean by mission? Well as I referenced last night as I was introducing this John 14 12 One day I was just reading through my Bible just doing my daily readings Going through the book of John And I came upon John 14 and I'm just reading through honestly just checking a box getting done with my readings So I can get on to work And the Holy Spirit caught me and as I'm going through and I read John 14 12 it says Truly truly he who believes in me Will do the things that I've done will do the works that I've done And I pause there and I was like What is he talking about? This was years ago It's like the Holy Spirit says go back and read that again. What is Jesus really saying there? truly truly First of all if Jesus says truly he means it's true if he says it's twice. It's really true So what he's saying is guys, this is really the truth here if you believe in me You'll do what I've done That is quite a statement. What did Jesus do? Well, not much He just forgave the sins of The sinner he had compassion he loved he had mercy He obeyed his parents that alone is great, but Jesus Would cast out demons he would preach in the synagogue the good news of the kingdom He even confronted the Pharisees the scribes the Sadducees But Jesus after his baptism when the Holy Spirit descended upon him For the next two and a half years. It was science members and wonders Where the blind would see and the deaf would hear and the lame would walk Even the dead were raised Lazarus come forth So when the scripture is saying to you when Jesus is saying to you and I hope when you read this you put your name in there Truly truly Bart if you believe in me You're gonna do what I've done You're going to love like I love You're gonna share the good news like I share the good news You're gonna forgive sinners of their sin. You're gonna lay hands on the sick and they're gonna be healed That's radical It's not that radical for you guys, but for a lot of the church and as I travel around pray travel two times a month This is radical and this is what Jesus meant by his mission It is invited you and I To do the things that he did what does the church say about the mission of Jesus Christ 871 The Christian faithful, that's you Say I'm the Christian faithful The Christian faithful are those in as much as they have been incorporated in Christ through baptism Have been constituted as the people of God say we're the people of God For this reason since they have become shares in Christ priestly Prophetic and royal office in their own manner. They are called to exercise the mission Which God is entrusted to the church to fulfill in the world In accord with the condition proper to each one You and I have been invited as the faithful Christian's followers of Jesus Christ as the people of God to live into the mission Of God to live into the mission of Christ to fulfill the mission of Christ. Here's a radical one for you Catechism six seven ninety five seven ninety five. I suggest you read these and hopefully you guys got some notes, right? So you can study this for yourself But this is quoting Saint Augustine and seven ninety five says this Let us rejoice then and give thanks that we have become not only Christians But Christ himself Do you understand in grass brethren? God's grace towards us Marvel and rejoice We have become Christ That's a bold statement Marvel and rejoice. We have become Christ for if he is the head We are the members he and we together Are the whole man the fullness of Christ then is the head and the members head and members as it were One and the same mystical person you don't have a body That doesn't have a head You don't have a head that doesn't have a body So I don't know about you guys these last couple years have been a little crazy. Haven't they I don't know about you But sometimes I'll sit there and I'll go God. Why don't you intervene your sovereign? Why don't you intervene with all that's going on right now? Why don't you intervene and it's like one time in my prayer this thought just hit me and it was like Yeah, but I'd like to But I need a body Marvel and rejoice You Let me read it exactly Marvel and rejoice We have become Christ he is the head We are the body We are called to live into the mission of Jesus Christ if you're wanting the world to see Christ If you're wanting God to show up on the scene, then he says great. Let's go do it. Let's go. I need a body He's invited you and I To live into his mission Catechism 1294 and this will segue us into the next section when we'll have some interactive things that we'll do 1294 says this by confirmation We're off for me with confirmation by confirmation Christians That is those who are anointed. Why does the church say Christians those who are anointed? What does the word Christ mean? Anointed one so as Christians you're anointed You are in Christ by confirmation Christians those who are anointed share more completely in the mission of Jesus Christ In the fullness of the Holy Spirit with which he is filled so that their lives may give off the aroma of Christ What aroma is The world experiencing when they get around Christians Are they experiencing the aroma of Christ? I've put off a lot of aromas in my life. Amen, but my goal now is the aroma of Christ. I Have a friend He walks Into a new age store on a semi regular basis to go buy some cashews or some walnuts or something And he'll purposely walk in there Praying up and down the road, but he's not being weird about it. He's not praying out loud. He's just under his breath And he's just praying for the aroma of Christ or the way he puts it He prays he walks down the aisle and he says Holy Spirit just leak Holy Spirit just leak, but it's all under his breath He's done this for months for years Walks up and down the aisle acts like he's looking at things goes by his his class shoes or whatever Holy Spirit leak So one day he's walking up to the counter and the young lady behind the counter as soon as he walks up there She starts to cry And he acts like he doesn't understand what's going on. He's just purchasing his cashews And she says I don't know what it is about you, but every time you come in here. I feel something We're called to leak We are called to put off the aroma of Christ So let's talk about confirmation. I Would usually take about an hour just to talk about this alone, but I'm gonna do this in five or ten minutes But you have it in your notes there and I encourage you to to look this up and if you teach confirmation, I beg you please Please institute this Because this is what the church says confirmation is 1286 1287 1288 and then 1302 which we'll read in a minute. I'm just gonna try to summarize these for you 1286 is basically saying that the Old Testament spoke of the hope for Messiah that We would you would know the Messiah Because he would be the one who would be baptized and the Holy Spirit would descend upon him that his whole life and his whole mission We're in complete unity with the Holy Spirit 1287 Talks about it wasn't just for Christ, but for all the messianic people messianic as in Jesus Christ the Messiah Christians And it was for all the messianic people Thus John 1412 he who believes in me will do the things that I've done and so it's for you And then 1288 goes on to say it wasn't just for them, but it's it's it's for the days to come which is now and He would say that in the early church when they would lay hands Upon the believers when they went house to house They would ask them they would say have you received the baptism of the Holy Spirit and often they would say there's an X5 in other places Well, we received the baptism from John. They said well the baptism from John was for repentance But John said and this is in Matthew 311 There's one coming after me who will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and with fire more on that tonight And so they would say no we haven't received that So they would say would you like to be baptized in the Holy Spirit and they said yes And so they would lay hands upon them. This is all through the book of Acts and They would receive the Holy Spirit Well the church says in 1288 That that origin in the book of Acts the of the apostles when they would lay hands upon them That is the origins of confirmation What happened when the bishop some cases a priest when you were confirmed what did the bishop do? He laid your laid hands on your head, right? blessed you no I did you with oil blessed you in the name of the father son in the Holy Spirit and said Receive the Holy Spirit receive the seal the Holy Spirit, right? So what the church is saying in 1288 that when the bishop does that we find its origins way back here 2,000 years ago in the book of Acts when the apostles would do this And this was after Pentecost and Then when they would lay hands upon them and said receive the Holy Spirit says they would prophesy and speak in other tongues and then they would go out and they would pray for people and they began doing the things that Jesus did You remember John and Peter they were just going for their daily prayer and there was a guy begging and They said hey silver and gold we have none But what we have the Holy Spirit we give to you get up and walk in this man who I picture with no legs I don't know it's just how I picture it an Envalid Stands up and walks. I can just hear the bones popping as he's getting up to walk in the people are astonished and This is happening all through the book of Acts Philip it says because of the signs may as wonders people were cut to the heart and they would they would cry out What must we do to be saved acts to 42 to 47? Says they gathered together daily for the apostles teaching. They had all things in common They broke bread in one other's homes and signs miracles and wonders happened among them daily and Thousands were added on to them daily Let me ask you something. Are we seeing thousands added on to the church daily? Are we seeing signs miracles and wonders daily now you guys might be able to say yes, but overall in the church Nope Statistics say and you guys probably know this better than me What is it 74% of young people who've been confirmed Catholic? Leave the church by the time they're 24 That's a tragedy As a friend told me if this was a business we'd close the stores, but it's not a business It's the house of God and the remnant will always remain and the church will always prevail But we got a little bit of a problem So everywhere I go I teach on this about confirmation And let me say what 1302 says it is evident From its celebration that the effect of the sacrament of confirmation is the special outpouring of the Holy Spirit as once granted to the apostles on the day of Pentecost Were you taught that at confirmation class? I was not 13 or 2 of the teachings of the church says that confirmation is the same outpouring of the Holy Spirit that happened on the day of Pentecost So everywhere I go whether I have a crowd of 20 people or a crowd of a thousand people I ask this question that i'm going to ask you and it's pretty much the same answer. I have a feeling it's going to be higher here But so i'm talking about at your confirmation When the bishop laid his hands on you And said receive the Holy Spirit how many of you at your confirmation Was it like Pentecost raise your hand? one two three Am I missing some That's amazing. I wish you guys can travel with me That's the number three to five three to five people Experienced what the church says confirmation is intended to be anyone else see a problem with that And as I asked the priests and I asked my friends here. I know both of them Is there a problem with the sacrament father? Yes Would you say there's a problem with the sacrament father? So you're both right right not really a sacrament themselves, but however Perhaps the way we're practicing it Catechism 2111 you can write this down catechism 2111 It says to attribute prayer and or sacraments To their mere external form Apart from the interior disposition Is the fall into superstition? Let me say that again To attribute prayer and or sacramental signs to their mere external performance Apart from the interior disposition is the fall onto superstition 25 I think it's 2563 you can look it up yourself Um, it talks about the heart The heart is the place to which I would to which I would draw the heart is the place of Life or death the heart is the place of decision the heart is the place of encounter the heart is the interior disposition So I think the problem is It's not so much as you guys are saying it's not so much in the sacraments as in what's the church has passed down But somehow in the practice of And maybe the teaching of I don't I don't really know as it relates to confirmation But somehow we're not getting And living fully into what the church says we are intended to have through confirmation Because the church says in 1302 I read again It is evident from its celebration that the effect of the sacrament of confirmation Is the special outpouring of the holy spirit as once granted to the apostles on the day of pentecost So let me ask you this and I think this number is going to go up vastly here How many of you sense confirmation? Have received what the church is saying here and maybe they called it baptismal Holy Spirit Raise your hand look around the room All right Beautiful. Thank God for the moves of the spirit of God within the church But what do you say we bring it into confirmation? All right. So here's what we're going to do folks. We're going to just take a couple minutes I want you just to team up with the with two other people And we're going to put our hands on one another's shoulders And we're going to real quickly just pray that we come more fully Into the conformational graces that God intended us to have okay, and we're going to do more of this tonight But I just want to real quickly just pray with one another So just get into a group of three just kind of form a little triad Put your shoulders on one your hands on each other's shoulders And we're going to do this quickly just because we don't have a lot of time And when you're ready, I'll lead us in prayer and then I'll give you a minute just to pray whatever you want to pray And you can sit you can stand whatever works for you. So everyone's teamed up All right, we're going to just pray that we come into the fullness of our conformational graces You're all ready for this. Everyone just pray with me Say calm holy spirit And kindle within us The fire of your love We ask now In Jesus name By the power of the holy spirit That you bring us more fully into our baptismal And conformational graces May rivers of living water Flow from within us Fan into flame the gifts of your spirit Lord we want more Whatever we've received We ask for more Come holy spirit Now just pray over one another for a minute if you don't know what to say just say more lord or come holy spirit Holy spirit We just ask that you just come and move and just bring your church More fully into what you intend for us and we'll do this more tonight But for right now, let's just pray over one another and just pray as you feel led to pray Calm holy spirit calm holy spirit lord. I asked you to bring us more fully Into pentecost Pour forth your spirit Calm holy spirit calm holy spirit Drive away everything that's not of you and bring us more fully into what is of you May we live into the fullness of what you've intended as your church All right, I'm gonna be quiet for about another 30 seconds and you guys just pray as you feel led to pray Just make sure it's good Let's let's all pray again together say again come holy spirit Feel the hearts of your faithful and then kindle within them The fire Of your love Baptize us in your love Baptize us in your joy Baptize us in your power In your grace Come holy spirit No, we just ask you to bless this time In the name of the father and the son and the holy spirit Amen, all right How we doing kind of fun, isn't it? No matter what we've experienced. There's always more I heard someone say god is so much god is so extravagant How much sky do we really need? More lord more. There's so much more, right? No matter how many times or how many times you gasp or breathe in you're never going to suck up all the oxygen There's always more That's how extravagant our god is All right, now we're going to go into a hearing from god We're doing pretty good. We're doing four days worth of work and we're already halfway through We're in day enough four days two days. We're already in day two. You all ready? All right, so hearing from god For us to live into the mission of jesus christ It's crucial That we recognize his voice. So jesus says He who believes in me will do the things that i've done. What is one of the main things that jesus did He did that which he saw and heard His father do and say Jesus says I only do that which I see my father doing I only do that which I hear my father saying We're to do the same We're to get to the place as his church as his people where we're only doing what we're seeing him doing And we're just saying what we hear him saying You go, well, that's overwhelming. I'm not sure I can do that. I agree. I can't do that either But the holy spirit can and he lives in you the holy spirit This is catechism. Let me see if I have this here Yeah, let's jump there 687 paragraph 687 of the catechism says this No one comprehends the thoughts of god Well, thank god for that. I don't have to figure out god No one comprehends the thoughts of god except the spirit of god Spirit of god knows the thoughts of god. Yeah Now god's spirit Who reveals god makes known to us christ His word his living utterance But the spirit does not speak of himself The spirit who has spoken through the prophets Makes us hear The father's words Let me summarize that for you The holy spirit who lives in you Paul says in 1st Corinthians 6 18 Do you not know that you are the temple of the holy spirit? You're the house of god Who lives in you you were bought with a price. What's the price christ shed blood? Do you not know that you are the temple of the holy spirit who lives in you? So the spirit of god lives in you And if we're not sure about that we just made sure of it right now as we all prayed for one another to come into the fullness of confirmation So the spirit of god lives inside of you. So here's the really good news The spirit of god who lives inside of you knows the thoughts of god And he will reveal to you just like he did the prophets of old just like he did christ himself He will reveal to you the thoughts of god So you and i don't have to struggle to say oh my gosh, what's god saying? Oh, they just came up to me and said Will you give me a prophetic word? Oh No The scripture just says be still and know that i'm god And just to be still and to go okay spirit of god, you know what you want to say to them Reveal it to me And it really is that simple i'll give you a a bart's dummy version of prophecy I've experienced almost every flavor of the body of christ came back to the catholic church eight years ago It was part of interdenominational non-denominational churches traveled for two three years doing prophetic ministry And this is my summary of prophecy Prophecy is simply Hearing from god and sharing it And it's that simple You say how can i hear from god? Well because he lives inside of you The spirit of god who lives inside of you will make known the thoughts of god You say but i'm not sure i can hear from god Well, then let's read john 10 27 Where jesus said my sheep hear my voice who's he referring to? That's not much of a compliment is it i've heard sheep are kind of dumb and dirty and smelly But he says my sheep hear my voice So just humor me a minute and say with me Nice, all right So He says you and i are his sheep And his sheep hear his voice. So that means you hear his voice No matter what the enemy's told you or your own doubts or concerns have told you or your own strivings have told you You're his sheep and he makes his voice known to his sheep And his spirit lives inside of you and his spirit knows the thoughts of god and he'll reveal the thoughts of god to you So let's just renounce the lie that the enemy wants to tell all of us The lie that i don't hear from god So say with me in the name of jesus I renounce the lie That i don't hear from god In the name of jesus I announce The truth that jesus said My sheep hear my voice and he calls me a sheep So therefore I hear his voice And i announce in jesus name That the spirit of god lives inside of me And he knows god's thoughts And he'll reveal his thoughts To me Amen really is that simple John 847 Whoever is from god if you're from god raise your hand Look around if no one's raised your hand pray for them afterward now i'm kidding you okay John 847 you gotta be careful coughing these days don't you John 847 whoever is from god say again i'm from god Whoever is from god hears the words of god In my waterfell whoever is from god Whoever is from god hears the words of god So let's say it again in the name of jesus I announce the truth That i'm from god i've been paid for Through the blood of jesus christ I belong to him and i hear his words