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Scripture References: Isaiah 61 Ephesians 5: 18 Hebrews 1: 3 John 16: 7 John 10: 10 1 John 3: 8 John 20 Originally shared at Bethel Church, Redding California, on November 5, 2017. Bill Johnson is a fifth-generation pastor with a rich heritage in the Holy Spirit. He is senior leader of Bethel Church in Redding, California, and is passionate about seeing Revival and God’s Kingdom established and revealed in the lives of individuals, families, communities, and nations. Bill’s teaching on the Kingdom of Heaven, hosting the Presence, and the renewed mind has helped thousands around the world to step into their true identity in Christ, God given purpose, and walk in a supernatural lifestyle displaying both purity and power.
the holy spirit is in me for my sake but
he rests upon me for yours we have to
understand that when the spirit of God
comes upon us it’s always for Action
we’ve been privileged to step into the
middle of an impossibility we may not
know what’s supposed to happen but we
step into the middle of an impossibility
knowing that the god of the universe the
creator of all lives in us and he has
practical solutions for the
[Music]
situation good
morning how many of you are horse people
you like
horses you like this for fast Riders we
have fast horses for slow Riders we have
slow horses for those who have never
ridden we have horses that have never
been
ridden probably not huha I’m not a horse
I I got on a horse I mean I’ve been on
horses but I got in
one that was
demonized it it was the it was the horse
where all the demons went from the man
of the gines here in
ring that horse wanted to kill me and he
knew that he had an idiot on his back he
knew it they just they know they know
instantly what you know and what you
don’t know and that thing tried to kill
me they had to keep it in a small Corral
because it run itself to death they had
had it it just wanted and so my friends
put me on that
horse
friends that horse took off across the
field like a rocket
ship and then it ran towards a tree with
low branches because he was trying to
get
deliverance from
me and I I seriously I melted into the
saddle like this and the branches
scraped over the top of my head and back
and I think I need a Soo I’m
not ride yours anded yeah I I you know I
I’ve gotten as close to horses as I have
an appetite for so I I just got it out
of my system all on that one day about
35 years ago or whatever it was all
right everyone thinks a girl’s dream is
to find the perfect guy please every
girl’s dream is to get thin by eating
[Laughter]
cupcakes I didn’t make it to the gym
today that makes 5 years in a
row my bathing suit told me to go to the
gym but my sweatpants were like nah girl
you’re
[Applause]
good I I probably have two or three
hundred of these I just save them you
know there’s three kinds of people in
this world those who are good at math
and those who aren’t
it’s always a little delay what did he
say spell check has got to be my worst
[Laughter]
[Applause]
enema has your phone ever spell checked
you and you sent a
message and as it’s going you go come
back come back come back yeah I I had a
pastor friend of mine send me something
voice voice and it it put swear it put
pretty put a nice healthy swear word in
there he wrote me back it was it was it
was
the the voice thing whatever so anyway
he he was full of repentance
and I’d rather believe that he did it on
purpose just so I could tease
him
one last one if you’re dep if you’re
depressed about being fat you should eat
right in exercise then you can be
depressed about being
hungry all right grab your Bibles and
uh it’ll take me a little while to get
there so open to Isaiah 61 it’s it’s a
kind of a Hallmark passage for us and
actually probably for the church in the
last 2,000
years we’ll get to it a little bit put a
piece of paper in there or
something unless you get bored with what
I’m saying then you can just read it
while I’m
talking
Jesus Jesus modeled what it looks like
to be full of the holy
spirit being filled with the spirit is
actually a command in scripture it’s a
it’s both an invitation and a command
it’s kind of like being invited to a
birthday party and somebody says you
will be at my birthday party that’s it’s
kind of the way this command came and
says be filled with the Holy Spirit
don’t be drunk with wine be filled with
the Holy Spirit don’t live under the
influence of this live under the
influence of this don’t let this shape
how you walk let this sheepe how you
want so Jesus modeled what it looked
like to be full of the Holy Spirit
imagine this um thankfully we just got
finished with a drought we got tired of
it got rid of it last last year and uh
and it wasn’t near as fun as they said
it would be so we we got rid of it
prayed it out of here and we enjoyed
Bountiful rain last year I’ve been here
during three or excuse me two droughts
one back in the 70s and then one that
just finished last year both times the
drought was so severe they said it would
take like 10 years for our Lake to
recover and both times the Lord restored
the lake in one year one
season a real real Miracle I’m I’m I’m
thankful for it but let’s just imagine
for example that you live in uh let’s
just say San Diego I don’t know what the
rainfall is but let’s just say they get
10 inches of rain a year and you move to
reading during a drought and we get 20
Ines and you move into this environment
where there’s 20 inches of rain droughts
don’t mean it doesn’t rain it just means
it doesn’t rain enough but if you move
from an area that has 10 in and you move
to an area where there’s
20 you might think it’s more than
enough see a lot of people experience
outpourings of the spirit and they think
it’s abundant but according to biblical
standards it’s a
drought Jesus models what the fullness
of the Holy Spirit looks like and never
to shame us never to ridicule look what
I have what you don’t have never it’s
always the invitation to pursue it’s
always it’s always the invitation to to
go after what he has made available
it’s interesting to me in Scripture that
some things he has just determined will
be given to you and and sometimes that’s
what happens sometimes there’s just you
know you’re just in the room and you you
catch something other
times you know he’s he’s unpredictable
because he’s a God to join in
relationship he’s not just a philosophy
he’s not just a god of of principles
where you take one two and three steps
and you end up with a
equation point4 or something it’s not
that way it’s a relational Journey
and in this journey he’s invited us to
do things and some things just happen
simply because you’re in the room some
sometimes it’s a simple prayer I’ve I’ve
watched some of the most extraordinary
things happen to people who who weren’t
even asking for it God just literally
just visited them we’ve had people join
us here some some come very hungry
others come to be honest with you
they’ve told me just to check it off the
list you know they had somebody say you
need to go and and and they come just to
kind of get their friend to leave them
alone for a while you know and I I get
that I’ve I’ve done the same thing you
know you you just they won’t get off my
back till I do what they ask so I just
do them a favor and some people
literally have just come into the room
that way and then Jesus completely
totally heals them of something that’s
impossible remember a pastor friend
sitting right over here that uh almost
didn’t become a pastor because his
dyslexia was so bad he just couldn’t
couldn’t read and uh is it it would turn
things around so bad he’d have to study
the Bible on on like CDs and stuff and
uh it was just so challenging and he sat
here and the spirit of God fell upon him
in Fire and and he’s while it’s
happening he re he discovers his bad
attitude he goes face to face with the
fact I don’t even want to be here and
you’re touching me anyway it’s it’s a
it’s a wonderful story he said God in
his grace is just touching and he says
oh God please don’t let me mess this up
because he could tell something was
happening and he went from someone who
can’t read to someone who then within
just days is reading like six and eight
hours a day he just can’t get enough
because he suddenly suddenly has no
problem whatsoever with his with his
eyes he’s sitting right over here just
the Lord just healed and and so there
are things like that that he just does
the surprise thing and there are other
things that just come to us in seed form
or come to us as promises and he waits
for us to pursue he waits for us to come
hungry and there’s so much of of uh so
much of the kingdom is actually
available for those who pursue and we
pursue according to his invitation we
pursue according to his commands so
anyway we have this concept of of Jesus
U modeling fullness of the Holy Spirit
another term that that I use often we
use often is Jesus Christ’s perfect
theology there’s I don’t believe there’s
a problem with a phrase with a statement
but what’s highly possible possible is
theology is is typically thought about
that which we know about God and Jesus
was perfect theology in that he modeled
perfect knowledge of God the burning
conviction of what to do and the actions
that followed that Illustrated what he
believed there was there wasn’t a
separation between idea and display
there was no separation between the
philosophy of healing the burden to heal
and seeing people healed they were they
were seamless in in the way they merged
and Jesus is perfect theology in that
sense that he he he not only had the
perfect insight and knowledge of the
father because he is the Eternal Son of
God he is exactly like the father I love
Hebrews 1 is maybe sometime we’ll take
some time just to to study because I I
really love the I I love Hebrews 1 how
it says that Jesus is the exact
representation of his nature he is that
which emanates from the father in the
same way that light comes from these
light light bulb so Jesus comes forth
from the father so he is exactly like
the father he represents him perfectly
there’s zero blemish there’s zero
difference between the father and him in
nature in kind in action in word
everything is exactly the same so when
Jesus uh said it’s better that I go and
he would send the Holy Spirit he used a
a term to describe the Holy Spirit as
the word another he says I I will send
you another comforter and there’s a
couple words that could have been used
as a word that that for example behind
the piano here is a chair and then
you’re sitting in a chair they’re not
the same kind of chair but they’re both
chairs would you agree so here’s a chair
that you’re sitting and then there is
another but they’re not the same whereas
in the chairs you’re sitting in what Tom
is sitting in is exactly the same as
what Paul is sitting in there’s another
and so when Jesus describes sending the
Holy Spirit he uses a a word that means
exactly the same as me so here here’s
Jesus he emanates from the father he’s
exactly like the father and then he says
I’m going to go and the Holy Spirit who
is with you is going to be in you it’s
better that I go and he is another
comforter he is exactly the same as me
so now if you can imagine this perfect
representation of the father now
dwelling inside every Born Again
believer and his longing is that
accurate expression of who God the
father is would flow in and through
us
so he
models the fullness of the Holy Spirit
he models perfect theology he he
contains
illustrates demonstrates the knowledge
of God and brings about the Deliverance
the healing
Etc
Jesus every situation he entered into he
had a Redemptive solution for it in
other words there wasn’t like like a
problem that he walked into and he
looked at it
went and walked out he goes I got to
avoid this one there wasn’t any of those
he he um he he calmed storms he slept in
a storm he would walk through a storm he
just he was stormless he he he was
unaffected by storms he affected storms
he he he was carrying something that
affected storm so every every situation
he entered into he brought a Redemptive
touch into that situation so the dead
child he raised the blind eyes he opened
the storm he would calm or he would
direct his disciples so the point was is
he didn’t avoid problems he always
walked into them with Redemptive
Solutions we know that the Bible says
that the devil uh comes to kill steal
and destroy that’s not an assignment by
God it’s just what he
does
the devil is not the opposite of God
he’s the opposite of Michael the Devil
is a created
being who has zero zero
Authority don’t want to talk about him
but you get the
point so the Devil comes to kill steel
destroy which means death loss and
destruction are the Fingerprints of his
work it’s the residue of him being
present in a situation you find Death
you know you find something that’s done
dying you find something that’s broken
then you know where the enemy has been
that’s his that’s the what what he
leaves
behind but Jesus comes in every
situation with Redemptive Solutions and
answers in 1 John 3:8 says that he came
to destroy the works of the evil one
elsewhere it says that he came to openly
display the foolishness of
darkness and all of that is is in
measured way with the fullness of the
Holy Spirit looks like when when the
Lord says be filled with the spirit it
is literally enabling us to do exactly
what Jesus did illustrate the father and
deal with the infirmities afflictions
the issues of life there’s not one that
Jesus
bypassed I
remember a a passage that really messes
with me a bit is out of Mark 9
and because it’s very personal to me
there’s a there’s a moment where a dad
who’s got a demonized
child he he brings this child to the
disciples to set him
free and they they were so well
experienced in the area of healing and
deliverance that Jesus actually trusted
them to go on their own in pairs to
their hometowns and they were they were
so successful in their Ministry in their
hometowns that when they regrouped with
Jesus they started arguing as to who was
the greatest they only argued as to who
was the greatest because they just had
such a great week you know they just saw
demons leave and they saw miracles
happen they thought well Peter’s
thinking there’s no way John could have
carried that kind of anointing I’m
pretty sure I have the corner on what
Jesus just did and so they got back and
they were arguing and Jesus doesn’t mind
making you successful to the point ugly
things come to the
surface he’s not afraid of the ugly
things in fact he wants them to come to
the surface so we can deal with them
it’s when we put religious names on them
we actually we actually Pretend We’re
broken we give it a virtuous name and it
now has permission to stay and to
grow so when you take things that are
really marks of Brokenness and you put a
virtuous name on it then it now has
permission to stay and set up camp
anyway back to the story so Jesus brings
the disciples into places of great
success and they taste of heal uh
miracles of healing healing deliverance
and all the stuff and no doubt the the
crowd that the disciples are in have
they’ve been doing that cuz that’s what
they’re assigned to do Jesus told them
to heal the sick raise the Dead cast out
Devils Etc so the the dad sees us going
on with the disciples he grabs his son
because now there’s hope and he brings
the son to the disciples and they try
everything they’ve tried they rebuke
every way they’ve rebuked before they’ve
bound they’ve Loos they’ve done
everything they know to do they probably
poured oil blow the sh far played the
tambourine every Christian toy that they
had available to them I’m sure they used
just to get rid of that demon but
nothing
happened I I had a similar situation
I’ll never forget it I happened to be in
Southern California I was I was in U I
was in some meetings there that quite
honestly were extraordinary it was just
one of those times where Jesus just
seemed to enter the room and there was
so much stuff going
on and I don’t remember one situation
besides the little boy that was brought
to me a young mom brought her son to me
probably five or six years old and he
was just horribly horribly
demonized I’ve seen Jesus set people
free it’s a great privilege to bring
Liberty and freedom from that torment
from that evil evil one I did everything
I knew to do that I had done
before I prayed I bound I you know I I
just tried to do exactly what the father
was doing and and that child didn’t get
free and the mother looked at me after I
spent fair amount of time with them both
and she said what do I do now because
the child wasn’t free I’ll never forget
it I’ll never I’ll never forget the look
in her face she wasn’t rude she wasn’t
she didn’t point the finger at me and
but but it seemed to me that when she
said what do I do now she was really
saying is that all you got you know and
and and it was it was you you you stuck
realizing you’ve done your best
and that child that you are so moved for
moved for is leaving in the same
condition they came in with it’s the
same with the wheelchairs that come in
week after week it’s the same with the
various conditions I am thrilled with
what we see happen I I’ve seen things I
didn’t know I’d ever get a chance to see
we had more stuff happen this week just
unusual invasions of God absolute raw
Miracles and I’m thankful I’m not
ungrateful at all I he’s already gone
Way Beyond anything I’d see in my
lifetime but he’s he’s touched me deep
enough to ruin me to stay
there and this father brought this child
to to Jesus um or to the disciples they
couldn’t they couldn’t get him free and
so um he saw Jesus and he took the child
to Jesus and Jesus uh drove the evil
spirits out and the child was free the
disciples watched this and they were
stunned by his success they were stunned
by him being able to do what they
couldn’t do because they were trained by
him they they weren’t uh careless
rookies I mean they actually knew what
they were doing and and they couldn’t
get free and so they saw Jesus bring
Deliverance to the child and it says
they took Jesus aside and they asked him
how come we couldn’t get the the child
free and there’s that great very famous
statement that Jesus made he said well
this kind only comes out with prayer and
fasting and to come out of that story
with that as a formula and I mean that
in a good sense as a a principle to
follow when you don’t get breakthrough
pray and fast is really really huge it’s
it’s something all of us can glean from
that story but I think there’s a bigger
lesson from that
story when there’s not a breakthrough
you take Jesus
aside because sometimes the Breakthrough
comes with prayer and fasting but
sometimes it’s a decree sometimes it’s a
radical Act of obedience some sometimes
it’s it’s a giving sometimes it’s it’s
the shout of Praise I mean it’s it’s
just any number of things that he brings
us into I’ve watched all these we learn
them as principles but we don’t turn
them on and turn them off at will to get
what we want we are we are children that
learn to respond to a father and do as
he’s leading us to do and that’s our
life’s journey that’s our life’s goal is
to say what the father’s saying do what
we see the father
doing we’ve been invited into that kind
of a relationship where we actually get
to represent the father it was the
command of Jesus in John 20 when
he after he had raised from the dead
disciples were hiding in a room they’re
scared to death Jesus walks through the
wall which really helped them with their
fear
[Laughter]
issues I’m sure Pampers were needed by
everyone
and he gives them there’s this encounter
that extends for several verses but the
but the the conclusion or at the at the
conclusion of this encounter Jesus says
As the father sent me I send you if you
look at every verse that describes
Jesus’s coming as sent from the Father
the overwhelming theme is he was sent by
the father to reveal the
father and so if we take that as Jesus’s
primary function to reveal the father
and then Jesus turns to those who follow
him and he says as the father sent me I
send you then really what he’s saying is
your privilege in life is to reveal the
father but I’d like to suggest you it’s
impossible to do adequately without
being filled with the spirit
right I’m not trying to make this a
doctrinal issue there are many who I I I
I think praying in tongues is glorious I
can’t can’t imagine life without it I
like what Paul said I pray in tongues
more than all of you the language he
uses there he says I pray more in
tongues than all of you combined in
other words I’m a tongue talker and
that’s that’s you know I I believe I
believe in that breakthrough I know what
it’s like to be edified by just praying
in the spirit and have the Holy Spirit
pray through you I I love but it it
would be like it would be like if that’s
the
goal it’s a worthy goal but if that’s
the she I about died right there almost
almost did crowd surfing right there
that would have been fun to see if you
CAU yeah with no crowd down here that
would have plopped
yeah I’ll be careful around that little
hinge again all right I don’t know what
I was saying but it was really
good help me out somebody tongues it
would be like going through the the
River Jordan into the promis
land and you cross the river and you’ve
got houses built you’ve got lands
Vineyards planted you’ve got all this
stuff to inherit you walk through this
River on dry ground you stand on the
banks of the river and you stand there
for your entire life and never enter the
purpose for going through the river yes
tongues are valuable yes that Shoreline
is important but it’s the beginning of a
breakthrough in which the the Lord
Almighty the god of the universe is
represented and manifest through people
that taste of his goodness and his
provision Isaiah
chapter
61 I I fear that
sometimes I become too familiar with the
passage sometimes I’ll read it in a
different
translation sometimes I’ll I’ll read it
out loud sometimes I’ll stop after each
phrase and think I I need to jar myself
from familiarity because some things are
so
huge some things are so
weighty that it’s easy you to skim over
the surface of something and not be
impacted by its depth and this is one of
those passages this is what Jesus read
in his hometown of Nazareth I think we
studied it a week or two ago a little
bit um this is what he read to announce
the beginning of his ministry from
Nazareth and so it’s in verse one he
says the spirit of the Lord God is upon
me because the Lord has anointed me to
preach Good Tidings to the poor he has
sent me to heal the brokenhearted to
Proclaim Liberty to the captives the
opening of the prison to those who are
bound to proclaim the acceptable year of
the Lord the day of Vengeance of our God
to comfort all who mourn to console
those who mourn in Zion to give them
Beauty for Ashes the oil of joy for
mourning the Garment of Praise for the
spirit of heaviness that they may be
called Trees of Righteousness the
planting of the Lord that he may be
glorified such a such such a wonderful
wonderful verse and really what he’s
saying is he’s saying listen the holy
spirit is upon me I know the Holy Spirit
lives in us as as we as I’ve stated
countless times through the years the
holy spirit is in me for my sake but he
rests upon me for yours we have to
understand that when the spirit of God
comes upon us it’s always for action
it’s always for
impact it’s always to change something
we’ve been privileged to step into the
middle of an impossibility we may not
know what’s supposed to happen and we
just know God doesn’t want it left the
way it
is and we come in looking to him our
hearts turned to him for Solutions we
don’t we don’t come as the smart people
we don’t come with the people that
always have the plan sometimes we know
the least about a given situation but we
step into the middle of an impossibility
knowing that the god of the universe the
creator of all lives in us and he has
practical solutions for the
situation and here we have this
announcement that Jesus makes over his
own life and he basically is describing
describing the broken the poor the blind
the lame the you know the imprisoned the
tormented all this stuff he says I’m
here to fix
that but then he comes to this the end
of chap verse three talks about these
people that are broken becoming Oaks of
righteousness I I remember we used to oh
we we go get firewood in Weaverville and
uh and it it was it was a LoveHate
relationship it was fun be outdoors but
man it was work and we we’d go in in in
areas you know where they had uh trees
had fallen down because of the wind
windfall and we’d get in there and chop
or cut them up and get the rounds put
them into the truck and and it was
always this uh very very interesting
Journey but we would get on these
logging roads and sometimes we’d have a
friend that’ have a key to a gate and
we’d get on these logging roads and and
maybe the area hasn’t been logged for
you know like 20 years 30 years and
there’s these little pine trees about
this big around that grow up in the in
the middle of right in the middle of the
road well in your truck you just go
right over them it doesn’t it doesn’t
kill them they just bend over and then
they bounce back up after you go past
them you run into an oak tree that size
you got an issue because that thing
isn’t budging and you now have damaged
your car and so we learned uh oh oak
tree oak tree go around the oak tree you
know but we’d see the Pines they just
bounc down bounc back up Oaks of
righteousness are absolutely stable and
that’s the goal of the Lord for the most
broken of the world Oaks of
righteousness he’s saying I will take
the most broken among you remember he
doesn’t choose us because we’re
qualified he doesn’t choose us because
of we’re gifted if we have anything it’s
only because he gave it to us it’s it’s
it’s not about that at all he chooses
the least for a reason and In this
passage he Champions the most broken why
because that’s where he receives the
most glory and so here are the most
broken of the world Jesus steps into
their life are you the anointed one you
the one who carries the fullness of
power of the holy spirit in your life
step into that person’s life to see that
that individual restore they’re now set
free they sleep at night they’re not
tormented anymore those that were so
bound with fear and anxiety are now free
to think creatively they have they have
an impact in their job they have an
impact as an entrepreneur they influence
other people’s values they don’t do the
addiction the drug thing anymore they’re
now reaching out to their friends that
are bound by those addictions and what
happens is the person that were once the
most broken of the community community
become The Oaks of righteousness that
which has such firm roots that you just
can’t budge them you can’t move them
well there’s a reason for that there’s a
purpose there’s a there’s an unto
something in that great miracle it’s
verse four they shall rebuild old ruins
they shall raise up former desolations
see they shall repair the ruined cities
the desolations of many generations this
is a this is one of the most beautiful
pictures in the Bible you’ve got the
most broken become the most stable but
they don’t stop with their own personal
stability they don’t stop by saying I
can now Prosper they’re saying all right
let’s rebuild the city let’s rebuild the
city here’s the point that I want to
share out of out of this you don’t get
the Rebuilders if you don’t get broken
people healed if you don’t get broken
people healed you don’t get rebuilt
cities we keep crying out for our city
to be healed and restored and you know
all the stuff that’s in our heart this
only happens when you have people here
that are filled with the spirit there’s
a cause and effect there’s people that
carry this fullness of the spirit that
live under the influence of this
outpouring this constantly changing EB
and flow and constantly moving from this
to that because it’s relational it’s not
it’s not we memorize six principles and
then change the world it’s a relational
it’s a relational thing we had an
interesting experience this last uh week
I I met with some leaders and Monday
Tuesday and Wednesday morning and uh
Tuesday was the 500 year anniversary of
of the of the
Reformation yeah it was pretty cool I I
I didn’t realize when I called these
leaders together I didn’t realize that
we would actually be meeting on the
actual day of the 500y year Reformation
we’ve been celebrating it all year
praying into it talking about it but I
didn’t realize that’d be with these
friends of mine on the day and they my
team put name tags for everyone because
they come from uh Nations around the
world there was about 40 of them so we
met up at the summit up by the lake and
and we’re in this uh large area for a
couple days and on the name tags at the
top of the name tag is is a is a
skeleton
key and uh that was above the name tag
well on uh it’s a beautiful sunny day
and we’re outside during breaks we all
stand outside so beautiful you can see
she has the dam in the lake and down
into the valley it’s just it’s just
gorgeous and you know they’re all out
there taking pictures because the view
is so pretty and come back in one of the
guys is looking through his pictures and
he looks and goes
man he says look at this and there are
clouds in the shape of a skeleton
key do you guys have that I was told you
you guys actually had that I I should
have warned you don’t have it okay may
maybe someday I’ll show you until then
you have to
imagine I have people take pictures of
Cl and they say do you see them I
go who am I supposed to see they go it’s
Jesus oh is that it look at the
top now if if I could show look at that
you do have it Presto all I have to do
is dream and it happens it just okay you
see the top the circle that’s exactly
how the key looks on the name tag do you
guys have a picture of that as long as
I’m
asking how about Ferraris do you have
any Ferraris back there I really like
Ferraris no no Ferraris okay all right
so here’s here’s the point here here
we’ve got this
unusual thing there it
is skeleton key it looks exactly like
the one in the nape tag so we come aside
we’re kind of chuckling about it we’re
we’re thinking this is so fascinating
one of the guys turns around and in a
vase is a beautifully Decor decorated
Lodge in a vase that guy turns around
and he looks in a vase and inside the
vase is this skeleton key so we’ve got
these clouds in the sky we’ve got the
name tag we’ve got the skeleton key I I
it came with the house I don’t know why
it’s there but it was it was hiding in
his face he pulls that out and someone
had a prophetic word 500 years ago they
nailed the 95 thesis to the door but the
Lord is now giving you a key to go
through the door in this next
Reformation it’s
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amazing I people give me pictures of
clouds they go do you see them I
go man I’m trying
I’m I’m trying I don’t my staff makes
fun of me they hang up hung up one in my
office just so that I can look at it it
doesn’t look like Jesus to me but that’s
all
anyway so here’s here’s the point is
we’ve got verse four we’ve got this
beautiful beautiful Declaration of God
can I put it this way verse four
rebuilding
cities that was the target God began
with when it began to fill people with
the
spirit it was the
target he was saying all right so you’ve
never dealt with addiction but guess
what I’m going to put the spirit of God
upon you in such a profound way I’m
going to have you talk with somebody
who’s Bound by addiction you’re going to
bring freedom that fullness of the
spirit on you is to bring freedom to
them and that person that becomes free
they are going to become stable and as
they become stable they will become the
real re Builders of broken cities but it
all starts with somebody saying Holy
Spirit Come baptize me a new baptize me
aresh fill me with your
spirit many people stop short of a
Divine encounter because they’re
satisfied with good
theology they’re happy with meeting
whatever qualifications they may have
for being filled with the spirit well I
pray in tongues well I do this I do that
listen the point is is there power
coming forth from your life that sets
captives free that’s the issue that’s
it’s the issue the holy spirit’s in you
to comfort you to bring peace to you to
give you Insight all that stuff that’s
for you but this spirit of God who comes
upon us that is for us to bring about
transformation in the events and and
stuff around us that’s the purpose it’s
measurable the fullness of the spirit is
measured by
impact in Acts chapter 2 we know that
that they were filled with the holy
spirit it’s a extraordinary chapter it’s
a
Pentecostals favorite
chapter it’s where there’s this
outpouring of the spirit it’s
extraordinary but in chapter 4 it
happens
again and it’s anywhere from someone say
two to maybe as many five years after
the day of
Pentecost and so we’ve got some of the
same people that are in act to that are
rocked where thousands are added daily
they’re in the same experience a couple
years later what’s the point as you’re a
broken vessel you
leak Old-Timers used to put it this way
they say stay under the spout where the
glory comes out you know that’s that’s
how that’s the whole deal is just you
just stay under in that place where the
spirit of God comes upon you
continuously my testimony yesterday is
wonderful but it is no excuse for for
the absence of hunger today anytime
yesterday’s experience erases my Hunger
for
today I’ve have shown I’ve chosen where
to level
off when in fact the Lord has invited us
into this relationship we being filled
with the Holy Spirit ongoing filling of
the Holy Spirit actually becomes
necessary for us to demonstrate who the
father is yes that’s it
I don’t think it’s possible fact I’m
confident it’s not possible to
adequately display the love of God
without
power I I love the Practical stuff I
mean I do I I I love and I do mean I
really love I love giving the sandwich
to somebody that’s hungry and giving the
coat and the shoes and the stuff that
the people in need this we love to do
this I love
this
but without power they’re still
bound their belly may be full which is
important but the addiction that’s that
got them to that place of Brokenness has
got to be broken somebody’s got to come
in filled with the spirit of God that
breaks that thing off that knows how to
end this cycle of maybe it’s five
generations of poverty just break it off
God has given the ability to make wealth
to every individual anyone who will just
turn their hearts to him and say yes he
gives the ability and then he reveals
the purpose for wealth for prosperity
for blessing it’s unto something it’s
never about accumulation this this
Kingdom that we live in is so different
so different you you you you’re exalted
by going low you become filled by
becoming empty you it’s just it’s just a
different Kingdom it’s just a different
Kingdom and he welcomes us into this
Kingdom where there’s conflict and
understanding that enables us to
understand it’s a it’s a it’s a
strangest thing where you
realize abundance is measured by what
you’ve given away not by what you
have fullness give me those two water
bottles down there thanks sir so we’ve
got two water one water bottle that’s
full one that’s almost full this is
legal to sell because it’s
full this one has been tampered with
this is legal a cell it’s full but it’s
not really full in fact it’s not full
until it
overflows it’s overflow that’s that’s
what reveals its fullness the fullness
of the holy spirit is never measured by
what you have it’s measured by what
overflows you it’s what it’s measured
what
overflows see this kingdom is a
different Kingdom it’s completely
functions
differently it’s not by what I contain
it’s not by what I keep it’s what I
release
that’s what I give
away I almost threw this without the top
off that
would just yeah throw throw it on Chris
just throw it over on Chris
yeah
I love the privilege of coming together
anytime we have the chance I I do love
Sunday mornings they’re they’re they’re
full uh the multiple Gatherings but I I
do I do love the chance to get together
my only regret is that Sunday night is
the service Without
End so when we come to this point in the
meeting we just say all right everybody
come to the front we start laying hands
on people and just going for it Sunday
morning if I do that to you we have a
whole other group coming up the hill in
just a few
minutes and so I’m just going to say if
you if you have the nerve come
back come back come back to the
Gathering Without
End that’s not a
threat I do want to pray for you now I
want you go and stand I do want to pray
that the spirit of God would come so
powerfully
upon
you that he would so deeply
expand our ability to represent him to
carry
presence is Paul speaking tonight is
that is that a rumor Paul Paul and Sue
are in the house how wonderful back
from from the UK for a short time so
we’re going to turn Paul loose tonight I
also want to have a testimony or two
from Robbie Dawkins so we’ll see how
that works he my goodness he just rocked
my world this week with some
stories oh
Jesus you know
when how many of you are
parents how many of you remember when
you would have a little child that just
wasn’t hungry and it was always a sign
of something not right fever something’s
not right you remember that the absence
of hunger actually revealed something
that wasn’t
right sometimes the beginning place for
me through the years has been just the
the invitation the willingness to become
hungry if shame and guilt could get us
there we’d all all all of us would
already be there we know he never shames
us he’s such a perfect father he never
shames us but he’s also not afraid of
making me uncomfortable he’s also not
afraid of offending the way I think to
show me how he
thinks so I want you just to begin to
pray I want you to ask the Lord to
completely fill you with his his Spirit
just put it on your lips how want you
just to pray it
ask him to
release the presence the power of God
upon you in ways that are new just lift
your voices and
pray yes Lord we are hungry we’re so
hungry for you to
do of above and beyond all we could ask
or think
of we don’t even know what we’re asking
for we just know it’s available and we
know it’s good so we just ask for
more father God let this be the
beginning
season of a fullness of the spirit that
we’ve never yet known
about let it be that which enables us to
not just nail something to the door but
actually go through the door at the
beginning of this next Reformation let
it happen through people that are
actually filled to fullness overflowing
with the Holy
Spirit just continue to pray pray folks
if you would but put your hands down
only because I’m going to give an
invitation but just pray just if you’re
born again ignore me all right just pray
just pray ask God for more we’re going
to we’re going to multitask here I want
to give opportunity for anyone in the
room that would just say Bill I I’ve not
surrendered my life to Jesus I don’t
know what it is to be forgiven I don’t
know what it is to be born again and I
want that the rest of you pray don’t
stop don’t stop I’m not offended by
while you making noise you pray but I
want to invite anyone in the room that
would say Bill I don’t want to leave
here till I know I’m at peace with God
till I know I’ve been forgiven till I
know that I have truly turned from my
life of sin to follow Jesus I don’t want
to leave until I know that’s happened if
that’s you while the others are praying
put a hand in the air and I I want to
pray with you just right where you are
just put your hand up high cuz I want to
see you just wa way back over here I see
that one yes anybody else put your hand
up high if you’re you’re saying yes I
want Jesus yeah right over here’s
another one to my left anybody else put
your hand up high there’s another one
way over to my right thank you Lord we
thank you for this God there’s an yeah I
see that one there okay thank you
there’s one in the back yes thank you
Lord for that thank you for
that keep praying Church keep praying
because it this is this is this changes
everything this changes everything this
is where this is where Everything
Changes in a person’s life it’s where
everything changes so we just say holy
spirit come bring people to Faith bring
them to that place of faith of
relationship with
you yes Lord we thank you for that I
want to ask I saw four people I want to
ask the four people that put their hand
up I want you just to look up at me for
a moment here the four that put their
hands up I I what I want to ask you to
do is we’ve got a team over here that we
know and trust I want them to have just
a couple minutes with you to talk and
pray for you so I want you just to come
down to the front Church bless them as
they come if if you would come over here
I also want the ministry team to come to
the front right
now have the ministry team come let
these four come on down right over here
to my left there may have been more but
I know there’s at least
four just come on come on down to the
front come right over here where this
Banner is and uh and these folks will uh
will talk with you and pray with you
wonderful wonderful thank the Lord thank
the Lord
yeah yeah come on come on over bless you
God bless you God bless you yeah bless
them again would you they’re still
coming still coming to Jesus wonderful
we’re so thankful for this God we’re so
thankful for
this now just put your hands up in front
of you I want to pray for you cuz here’s
what I want to do is I want to pray that
the spirit of God would come upon
everybody in this room in such a deep
and profound way that it would take
weeks to unravel take weeks to fully
discover what’s happening in this moment
because I believe honestly I believe the
Lord is giving us a key it’s a key of
surrender it’s not a key of our
strategic wisdom it’s a key of yielded
that he’s going to take us into the next
season to really see Reformation for
cities and nations of the world so put
your hands in front of you I say holy
spirit please come even now with great
power great
power great power Mark us with purpose
the purpose of the fullness of your
spirit Mark us deeply and profoundly for
this next season I ask in Jesus
wonderful name amen