One more time, God has allowed us to come together one more time. Certainly we know we are privileged as people of our Christ because he has allowed us the privilege of being in this place. This is a place of prayer, place of his presence, place of his power, and place of his provision. we can receive from the Lord as we gather in the house of the Lord together. The Bible says, wherever two or three are gathered in his name, there he is also in the midst. So we thank him for being present. And as the word says, a present help in our times of trouble. And he knows those who trust We are commanded by way of the word to trust in the Lord and lean not into our own understanding. In all our ways we are to acknowledge him and he will direct our paths. Amen. We are blessed. Blessed indeed. Psalm 25, let me take us back as we start this year of study. Let's go back to familiar ground. Let's go back to our preparatory passage. Psalm 25, sentences 1 through 5. In you, O Lord, I put my trust. I trust in you. Do not let me be put to shame, nor let my enemies triumph over me. No one who hopes in you will ever be put to shame. But shame will come on those who are treacherous without cause. Show me your ways, Lord, teach me your paths. Guide me in your truth and teach me. For you are the God of my Savior, and my hope is in you all day long. All right, John chapter 14. John chapter 14, verse 26. John chapter 15 verse 26 and John chapter 16 verses 13, 14. Verse 26 of John 14, but the advocate, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you all things and will remind you of everything I have said. to you he will teach and remind amen he is our spiritual bank memory bank amen you have to let the holy spirit work once you read trust him to remind you amen he will remind you all right john chapter 15 verse 26 When the advocate comes, whom I will send to you from the father, the spirit of truth who goes out from the father, he will testify for you. He would testify about me. So he, he governs our conversations. Amen. You are not at liberty to just say whatever you want to. When the Holy Spirit is in charge, the conversation is Christian. Amen. Y'all look at somebody and say, have a Christian conversation. Yeah, the conversation is Christian when he's in charge. So you need to let him be in charge everywhere you go. All places you be, you need to let him be in charge because you need Christian conversation. The world is in need of Christian conversation. Amen. As people have gone awry, they need Christ-centered conversations. All right, here's the last, John chapter 16, verses 13 and 14. Now, let me back up to verse 12 so you understand what he's saying in verses 13 and 14. I have much more to say to you more than you can now bear so the holy spirit helps us bear the word of god you see it all right now let's go but when he the spirit of truth comes he will guide you into all the truth he will not speak on his own he will speak only what he hears and he will tell you what is yet to come he will glorify me because it is from me that he will receive what he will make known to you amen amen so we see the workings of the holy spirit and how he deals with us as god's people and how we need him to be in charge, to be active. You don't want the spirit dormant in your life. You want the spirit active in your life. Amen. Amen. Because he has a role to play. He's the third person of the Godhead. We know that he is from the father through Christ. And he has been given to us to operate the will of God on earth as it is in heaven. Amen. That's your task. That's your responsibility to operate as citizens of his kingdom. You have never been to heaven before, but you have heavenly help to help you live a life that's pleasing to God, a life that's according to God's standard. Amen. So we have help. We see the word calls him the advocate. The advocate. Now we, last year, dealt with the Holy Spirit and how he ministers to us and what we have received from him. That, you know, he has power to operate and to connect us with God and to make sure that we are within the parameters of God's will. You don't want to operate as a child of God outside of the will of God. If you are expecting your life to be blessed, can I just talk it out tonight? You want to make sure that you are within the wheel. Don't suppose the wheel. You know, the Bible tells us not to lean to our own understanding, but we ought to trust Him. And in all our ways, we ought to what? Acknowledge Him. And He'll do what? Direct. There is a way that seems right under man, but the end thereof is destruction. So you don't want to suppose or assume the will of God. The Holy Spirit helps us know the will of God. You know that little sensation you feel when you are going in the wrong direction or you're doing the wrong thing? The Holy Spirit is trying to bring you back in and line you back up. On these vehicles, you know, you have to put your signal light on these new vehicles in order to do a lane change. And some of you are fighting the Holy Spirit. He's just vibrating and trying to get you to stay in that lane. And you're fighting the Holy Spirit, and He's trying to keep you straight. Y'all know what I'm talking about? You know, these cars have sensors on them. And you need sensors on your life so that when you try to make a wrong turn, or you try to get in the wrong lane, there's some vibration going on. Kinda get you back in line with where you're supposed to be. So we see the workings of the Holy Spirit. Tonight, I wanna deal with the omnipotence of God reveal. the omnipotence of God revealed by way of the Holy Spirit. That he is the manifestation of God's power. That apart from the Holy Spirit, you won't experience the power of God. You know, in the first church, they had to wait on the Holy Spirit. Jesus Christ gave them instructions to go into Jerusalem and tarry and wait for the coming of the Holy Spirit. And the Bible says when the Holy Spirit showed up, there were signs and wonders and demonstrations. The Holy Spirit took control of them. The omnipotence of God took control of them in such a way that they look like drunk men. Now, there's, there's, you know, parallel, there's, you know, we see the illustration of how the spirit works, uh, in Acts chapter two, uh, when he comes in, he takes control and you have to surrender yourself to the control of the Holy Spirit and stop fighting him. You know, you come to church and he tell you to say man, and you just sit there quiet. Or he said, get up and clap your hands, and you just said, well, I'm not going to do it today. But when he comes in, he takes control. And the Bible says that he was in such control that the men seemed drunk. In other words, they seemed to be intoxicated by something. You know, they seemed to be drunken men. And you know, in Ephesians, the Bible tells us not to be drunk with wine, where in excess, but be ye filled, which means to be controlled by. So the omnipotence of God is manifest through the Holy Spirit in our lives. That when you are truly surrendered to the Holy Spirit, he moves you beyond who you are. And he moves you into the realm of the supernatural so that there can be, you know, intimacy and communing with God. See, when you come to church, you can't afford to come to church and not commune with God. Sometimes you're holding yourself back from communing with God because you're so stuck in being who you are and responding like you normally respond or you're afraid of how people will perceive you. But he's omnipotence of God reveal. Look with me on the sheet. The dynamo. of power inherent in the person of the Holy Spirit distributes God's omnipotence through seven different power lines, each operating in a revelation of Jesus Christ. So you cannot experience the omnipotence of God, for lack of better words, ignorantly. You need to know, you need to have received revelation of Jesus Christ so that the Holy Spirit has free course to move in your life. You can't worship God without truth. You remember what Jesus said to the woman? God is looking for those who will worship him in what? Spirit and truth. So you can't have a part of it and think that you have worship of God or you are worshiping God. No, it requires both spirit and truth. Because God wants to be worshiped the way he wants to be worshiped. So you have to decrease and get out of the way so the Holy Spirit can give you revelation. You need revelation. You need Christ revealed. So you can experience the omnipotence of God. Now we talk about seven power lines. The first is Arche. The second is Egeusia. The third is Escu. The fourth is Didomi. The fourth is Megalahatas. The sixth is Enerhia. And the seventh is Kratos. Seven lines, power lines. Seven power lines. One spirit. Seven power lines. Okay. All right tonight. I want to deal with RK RK and I've tried to give us a working definition of what RK means We see that that that it means prior Original First Operating source of action or originating source of action, excuse me. Divine power that can create out of nothing. Power that brings forth from itself as the source. In other words, it doesn't rely on or depend on anything or anyone else. We see that it also means creative power. So let's go over them again. means prior, original, first, originating source of action, cause, divine power that can create out of nothing, power that brings forth from itself as the source, creative power. Now, let's look at some expressions of RK. We see RK in the very beginning when the Godhead created, okay? We see the power of God, the omnipotence of God exercise, manifests from the very beginning. So we see the creation of the universe. The creation of the universe. Now Genesis chapter one, verses two and three, the earth was without form and void and darkness was on the face of the deep. And the spirit of God, capital S, was hovering over the face of the waters. Then God said, let there be light. and there was light. Now, look at it again. The spirit of God was hovering. Here's the picture. The picture is that of a hen and the eggs in a nest, and that hen is setting the nest, hovering, because the hen knows that when she sets the nest, then she's bringing forth. Unattended eggs don't hatch. Oh. Unattended eggs don't hatch. So if the earth was not being hovered by the Holy Spirit, nothing would have happened. So what we see here is, is that the Holy Spirit had a role in creation. Because nothing happened until God said, remember, it requires revelation. God has to say something. And when God said something, he activated the manifestation of his power in the person of the Holy Spirit to bring to pass what he said. As long as God said nothing, the Spirit just hovered. And I'll show it to you in a minute in Scripture. Beyond Genesis chapter one, it's important for us to understand that Spirit and Word goes together. That you can't be no more spiritual than your revelation. You cannot be ignorantly inspired. I'm trying to help us. See, if you're gonna shout, you need to know why. You don't need to be mimicking somebody else. You need some revelation. God needs to be revealed in your life. Christ needs to be revealed in your life, not only through, you know, experiences, but through the word of God so that your worship, your response to God will be appropriate and a pleasing to God. So the spirit hovered over the face of the waters. Then God said, let there be light and the Holy Spirit turn the switch on. See, one thing I discovered is that we can't turn on the light in our own lives. We need the Holy Spirit to turn the light on. That ought to be our prayer. You know, after living such a devastating life in darkness, we all desire light. So he turns the light on. So now the Holy Spirit is the agent of creation. That the Holy Spirit is the indivisible power that animates humans and all creation. There is no life apart from the Holy Spirit. The Bible calls us dead. If you're unsaved, the Bible calls you dead. So He animates. He brings to life. He brings to being life. He helps us live. Now, in the Old Testament, I want us to see it, the Spirit is often translated as wind or breath. Wind or breath. You know, when God created Adam, the Bible says he what? Breathe into him the what? Breath of life. You see that? Adam had the spirit so he could be connected with God. Prior to the fall, that's why he enjoyed communion with God in the garden before he received of the forbidden fruit. So he had the spirit of God in him. So when God would come in the garden in the cool of the day walking, the Bible uses anthropomorphism to describe the voice of God because voices don't have legs. But the Bible says that his voice came walking in the cool of the day. Just to give us a picture of God and how God communed with Adam and Eve. And they would run to God. But after they sinned, The spirit was severed and they had nothing to commune with God with. See, you can't commune with God in your flesh. It requires the spirit of God inside. And I'm getting somewhere. I'm going somewhere with this now, because I want you to understand that the spirit working on the inside of you, and I'm going to deal with this in just a minute. He makes you a new creature. So God is not so much dealing with the old you. He's dealing with the new you. I'm sorry. Let's look at, you know, in the Old Testament spirit, considered as we in a breath, Psalm 33. Psalm 33, verse six. Psalm 33, verse six. Psalm 33, verse six. Listen to, and you see the creative power of the Holy Spirit. Now watch this, it says what? By the word of the Lord, the heavens were made. You see it, the starry host by the what? Breath of his mouth. You see that? Holy Spirit is often translated as wind or breath. All right, let's look at Job 26, Job 26 verse 13. It says, by his breath, the skies became fair. Look at that. His hand pierced the gliding serpent. So we see that the Holy Spirit has what? Creative power. Creative power. Again in just a minute. I'm gonna show you how he's working in you to create a new you So you have to give up some you have to give up the old you So that the Holy Spirit can create within you a new you I'm going in a minute. Okay I'm new So all that stuff I did in the past You know, I'm new. He has wiped all that away. I don't care how much you try to remind me. What I've done, you know, people that you haven't seen in a long time, you know, they have a knack of saying, you know, you remember when? No, I'm a new person now. I got convenient all-timers, some-timers, and any-timers. I don't want to remember. I'm new. And you have to know that because it's a constant being made new. So you are never to be blackmailed by the devil concerning the old you. Because even yesterday is considered the old you. Because he's constantly making you what? A new. Oh, I'm a new, I'm a new me. So he has creative power. Now let's look at the Holy Spirit's role in the incarnation. In the incarnation. And we'll look at Luke chapter one, verse 35. And the angel answered and said to her, the Holy Spirit will come upon you. And the power of the highest will overshadow you therefore also that Holy one Who is to be born will be called the son of god So the incarnation now hear me the concept Or the conception of christ Was unique Because he didn't have an earthly father So the Holy Spirit, notice the Holy Spirit moved upon the virgin, upon a virgin, and it was more than just a sign that Jesus is no mere man, but the precursor of the new creation by the Spirit, the Holy Spirit, the divine glory dwelling among men. So he's the first, He came to show us, to reveal unto us what God is really doing in us and with us because the Holy Spirit is in us. So that this whole idea, whole concept of the virgin birth, how the Holy Spirit moved upon Mary and formed a human body. so that the word could be fulfilled, Emmanuel, God with us. So he's dwelling on the inside. Now let's look at it. Because in the Old Testament, the Holy Spirit manifests God's glory to Israel in earthly tabernacle and temple. So it's not through an earthly tabernacle or temple now we are the temple the house for the Holy Spirit so God wants to what reveal his glory through us so the Holy Spirit is working to reveal God's glory in us and through us. Are we together? So we are the temple. We are the tabernacle. We are the place of his Holy Spirit. So you don't have to welcome the Holy Spirit into the sanctuary because when you walk in, he comes with you. You know, we say, well, if you come in, if you don't stay long, he going to stay as long as you stay. I think you're saying something, you know, call the Spirit if you come on in and come on in if you don't stay long. We be praying, we be praying so much vain stuff in church, you know. Feel this house. He already in you. He's in you. And so you have to know how to relate, and that's why I'm dealing with this, because we say a whole lot of vain stuff. Sounds good, but there's no biblical basis to it. And see, when you get up and leave, guess what? There it is. He told you he's your helper, he's your company keeper, he's your advocate. So he doesn't come and go in your life like in the Old Testament, you know, they would pray and then the Holy Spirit would come and go, come and go, come and go. No, he has taken up permanent residence in you. And so you are always indwelt by the Holy Spirit. Now, when the Bible speaks of being filled, that really means to be controlled by. because there's only one feeling. When he comes into your life, he's in to stay. When he comes into your heart, he's in to stay. When he comes into your soul, he's in to stay. So he's not leaving out and coming back in, but what can happen because you ignore him, you can become desensitized. Wherein it feels as if he has vacated. And it happens because you have seared the conscience. You're no longer sensitive to the Holy Spirit. So you have to stay sensitive. You know, it's like a relationship. A relationship, a marriage, or a friendship can grow dull. If you're not nurturing and if you're not doing maintenance, on friendships and relationships and marriage, you know, it grow dull. And you can be in the same house and not even seem like it and not feel like it. Y'all say amen. Cause y'all make me start digging now. Cause you know, you watch TV in two different rooms. Sleep in two different rooms? Drive two different cars? You just share the same address. Come to church and your holding of hands don't even look right? They know you ain't together. Because it has grown dull. There's no sensitivity to the relationship and the friendship. and the marriage. And it can happen the same way with the Holy Spirit. He's in there, but you have ignored him so long. And when you constantly ignore him, you forget how he sounds. You forget how or what he says. You forget how he wants to control. And so you, you set up authority. You want to be in a position of authority and control. And so you are no longer yielded. And so when you wake up on Sunday and the Holy Spirit said, go to church. And then you go to talk about how you feel. You done had a two week headache. See, so you're no longer sensitive. And if he says do this or do that, you no longer respond immediately to the prompting of the Holy Spirit because you have ignored him. You have become desensitized to the voice and guidance of the Holy Spirit. So we see That he's a part of the incarnation. He was a part of the incarnation. That the conception of Christ is unique. That he wants to live in us, not meet us here in this sanctuary. And once we are done with our worship, we leave him here and we go on about our week as if he's no longer with us. No, he's inside us. So when you come down front, And you say, well, I want to give the preacher my hand and give God my heart. I want to be saved. The Holy spirit right then takes up residence in you. Now you need to, you need, you, you have to learn how to let him be in charge because you know, babies often fight against parents. You know, a lot of that crying is nothing but trying to have their own way. And so, even as a babe in Christ, that's why Bible study is so important, that you come in and learn how to respond, how to yield to the Lord, and how to yield to the moving and working of the Holy Spirit, so you won't cry so much, and you won't experience so much hardship in your life. See, when you fight God, Lord, help me teach this today. When you live your life outside of the will of God, understand you are only making for yourself a hard life. That's why we're stressing this so much is because we don't want you to live a hard life. The Bible says the way of the transgressor is what? Hard. There are no exceptions because it's you. So he wants to live within. Now in Haggai chapter two verse five, notice according to the word that I covenanted with you when you came out of Egypt, so my spirit remains among you, do not fear. Thank you, Lord. So the Holy Spirit is preparing the body, the human tabernacle for Emmanuel. Because you do not want to just say he's Emmanuel and not know him as Emmanuel. God with us. See, that's why the Church of old would say he walked with me. So y'all thought I was just saying some and just hooping some out, but that's true. He's, he walks with me. He talks with me and he tells me that I am his all. See that? So, so he's Emmanuel in my life. If I don't have anyone else, he's in my life. If everyone else decides to walk away and walk out of my life, I'm not alone. and the Holy Spirit stamps me, gives me that blessed assurance and approval that I'm not alone, that God is with me. And listen, you get some courage when you can settle inside that God is with you. If God before you, you worried about people on your job, You're worried about people out in the retail stores and people at places you go. And the Bible says, if God before you, who can be against you? I don't stay up at night worried about what folk can do to me. I got somebody. I got somebody with me and he told me to stand still. and see the salvation, which means that he will take my part in war. He's my battle act. I'm trying to help us change our minds and experience the joy and the peace that we should because we're trying to fight it too much ourselves. Reverend, why are you always smiling? You know who with me? You all be happy if you know God, would you? You all be smiling. So we see that we have no reason to fear. Fear is a weapon of Satan that he can control by fear as God controls by faith. Y'all missed it. So you want to live your life. You don't want to live your life in fear. You want to live your life in faith. That's why the Bible says we walk by faith. We don't have, we don't have a need to fear because he says he's with us. So the Holy spirit is preparing the human tabernacle for Emmanuel. So that God, the son dwells among men in human flesh. Thank you. Joel R. Beach, in his article, What Was the Holy Spirit's Role in Incarnation, said, Christ would not be the God-man apart from the power of the Holy Spirit forming his humanity from Mary's flesh. that God's promises hinge upon this great work, that all the Spirit's saving operations on men and women through Christ spring from His work in this one man, the last Adam. Therefore, let us glorify God, the Father, God, the Holy Spirit forever. for the virgin birth now here's the last thing and I'm done he deals with creation he deals with incarnation but then there's a new creation now here's our shout because I said a few minutes ago that we are constantly being made anew so that the era of your day Never if you confess God forgive is never held against you God makes you new every Let's look at it John chapter 6 verse 63 Says it is the Spirit who gives life The flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit and they are life. That the Holy Spirit is the transformative power of Christ through the word he speaks. So you're receiving the word of God. Listen, on Sundays when I'm preaching, that word is at you. That's why y'all think I'm picking at you and picking on you because, you know, God has your address and he knows your seat where you sat at on Sunday. And he works with you. He's working with you. You know, you're thinking, pastor must have been around the house. See, the spirit of God and the word of God works together. So by the time the word leaves my mouth, and it hits your ear is what God needs it to be to have a thump in your life. It just hits you. Boom. And I'm just preaching and just preaching. I'm just preaching. Boom. Boom. God is trying to beat that old man out of that old woman out of you and create a new man. See, it is the spirit who gives life. Isn't it something that God has to fight us to live? That we are so resistant and reluctant to give up what's killing us. You ever thought about that? That he has to fight us to give us life. Every Sunday, every Tuesday, every Wednesday, it's a wrestling match with you. Every time you sit over the word of God and read the word of God, God is sitting there wrestling with you. Get you to give up who you are so he can create anew in you. It's a tussle every day. That's why it's so hard to pray. It's so hard to read scripture. Satan gets busy. When you want to read scripture, you get sleepy. You know, if you got a case of insomnia, start reading the scripture at night. You'll wake up, you'll wake up with your face in the Bible the next morning. So it's a struggle. He's fighting to give you life. And you're resisting it because you want things to stay as they have always been. No. He wants to create a new in your life. A new you. So we see it's the spirit. who's the transformative power of Christ through the word of Christ. First Peter chapter one, verse 22 and 23, since you have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the spirit in sincere love of the brethren. Now notice you didn't do it yourself now. He puts a through. the Spirit in sincere love of the brother and love one another fervently with the pure heart having been born again not of corruptible but of incorruptible prove the Word of God which lives and abides forever notice every time you see the moving of the Holy Spirit you see the Word of God are y'all with me? So the spirit of God is working the word of God in your life to transform your life. Peter says we didn't do it on our own. He says, since you have purified your souls in obeying the truth through, so you have help, the paraclete. He's helping us obey the word of God, the word of truth. so that we'll be sincere as we not only relate to God, but as we relate one to another. Don't you hate fake folks? There's nothing Christian about being fake, being a phony. The Bible says we ought to be sincere in our love. In other words, if you say you love me, love me. Don't just say it. Because I'm hearing what you're saying. He says that we are to love one another with sincere love. Love one another fervently. That would be some passion. Heartfelt passion. He says we've been born again. There's nothing corrupt about loving when you're real and sincere. In other words, he says, through the word of God, which lives and abides forever. In other words, don't come up with your own way. I told you he's fighting us now. You know, he has to fight us with love. He has to fight us with forgiveness. You know, and I, you know, I want to deal with that, but I don't have time tonight to deal with how he fights us with love. You know, we want to pick and choose who we love. Or we want to love people with a certain socioeconomic status. Or we want to love people that have not wronged us. And in a sly-like way, hate people who have. See, you can't do this your own way. I'll never forget when I first took on the pastorate at Joseph Creek. May have been a year or two after. Had a young lady that got killed by her boyfriend. She had two sons, and those boys were furious, and several sisters. And the man that killed her went to prison. And the sisters and the sons, I had to counsel. And I said to them, extend forgiveness. and love. And they said, well, what does that look like? A person that has done this to my sister. What does this look like? What does it look like, Reverend? What does it look like, pastor? I could feel the tension. And so the man in prison started writing them, asking for forgiveness and asking them to pray for him to be saved. And they would come into the office with those letters. Reverend, how can I pray for this man that has taken the life of my sister? How can I forgive? How can I let it go? I said, just like Christ said to. It don't take and require understanding. See, that's where some of us trying to get to. You're trying to understand your way. But the scripture says we are to love sincerely. And as you think on life and look back over the landscape of your life, the most horrendous and horrific thing that has ever happened to you, the person who done it to you, can you love them sincerely? If not, this is an area of your life you need to yield to the Holy Spirit so he can help you overcome. What does it look like? See, we talk a lot of this in church, but we are not really doing it. We haven't set it in motion and at practice in our lives because it's easier to say. was a young lady jumped on my mom in church. I told y'all Sunday, if I could show y'all my mind and roll out my emotions, you'll see the scars, the mental and the emotional scars. Jumped on my mom, mom just trying to help her. And mom is a strong lady because, you know, now that young lady and mom, they on talking basis and mom would do whatever she can for. But that young lady was in high school and jumped on my mom and my mom never hated her. And then I had to pastor the two. And had to love her. And look out for her. Wish her well. What does it look like? Does it look like animosity? Does it look like tension? See, when the Spirit is in charge, it looks like what the Bible said it is. You know, the Bible constantly, or the Bible tells us not to let the sun go down on our wrath. That's not to say don't go to sleep angry. What it's saying is, don't let anger consume and control your life. Because you hung up on what someone has done to you. What someone has done can shut the sun out of your life. If you don't manage it by way of the Holy Spirit, it'll manage you. What does your love look like? It looks like what God says in the Word. Let me read it to you again and I'm done. Since you have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit in sincere love of the brethren, this ought to be a place of sincerity. Love one another fervently with a pure heart having being born again, not of corruptible seed, but incorruptible through the word of God, which lives and abides forever. Thank you, Holy Spirit, that you take the word of God and work on me from the inside. That's why it's so important to get in the Word, stay in the Word, so the Holy Spirit will have tools to work on you and to create in you a new you. Any questions? All right, let's look at it. Who's really in charge? You are the Holy Spirit. Well, whose house is it? What I'm trying to show you is, that's the point right there, is you have to allow him, you're not in control, you never can say to him what to do. You can never say to him what to do. Even if you're saying, if you're yielding yourself to him and you're saying you're welcome, he's already there. Because the moment you got saved, He indwelt you. So why say to Him, come in, when He's already in? Or, why say, take control, when He's just really waiting on you to yield? So what's the correct verbiage to use? Because we do say that, even when we're singing and we're praying, Lord, have your way. Holy Spirit, we say, Holy Spirit, have your way. Holy Spirit, do what you want to do. So what's the correct verbiage? I think that's what she's saying. Instead of us saying that, we have intentions to yield to the Holy Why don't you say, Lord, I know you're here, but will your spirit manifest yourself? Because I want a theophany. I want a God moment. I don't want to come to church and risk not seeing you. I know you're here. Matter of fact, when you wake up in the morning, you can appreciate him for being present. You can treat him and talk to the Lord, good morning. See? That means to control me afresh because the Holy Spirit is never inadequate. So the feeling, the indwelling, of the spirit, you got all you needed at the initial indwelling. But what happens in life, we don't yield control. So to be filled means to be controlled by. So now it's a moment where you're saying to him, control me. I'm yielding, I'm giving up my life to you. Control me. Yeah, control me. You yield. But to invite him in this place, when you walked in, he came in. Huh? You said what? Y'all stop. Come on, say it again. But your attitude, your attitude doesn't Extinguish him from your life See you're never kicking him out because if you are ever without the Holy Spirit you lost You lost See now you can come in with attitude But that doesn't mean the Holy Spirit is not in you because he's trying to work on you with that attitude All the way to church he was working on you But you resisted it. And even in coming to church with that ill attitude, he came on in with you and he's going to work on you in the sanctuary as a monk. But you're never without it. You can never leave him at home. All right. So where does the Shekinah Glory dwell now? See, you're talking about old, new. Old covenant, new covenant. Where does the Shekinah Glory dwell now? See, what we're doing is looking, and notice when the Shekinah Glory would fall down upon the temple, they couldn't enter. They couldn't enter. They couldn't approach that tabernacle or temple now. because the spirit was just that powerful within that place. And they had to wait until it lift up. So what are you asking? See, when you studied the word, you got to look at it because he's giving us patterns of worship, paradigms of worship. So we say things that sound good, but there's no biblical basis to it. You couldn't go in there with that glory, it was too rich and too deep. Pastor, I wanna ask you, I wanna, like you said, the Holy Spirit is breath and wind. Mm-hmm. Okay. Symbol, now, symbol. Say that again? Symbols. You know, we, symbols, so we can understand how he works. We won't say he's breath, wind, but it gives us an idea of how he operates. So he speak things into existence. So by the Holy Spirit being breath and wind, and he speak things into existence, and his presence is just everywhere. So by his presence being everywhere, and his wind and breath, and we pray, you know what I'm saying? we speak to him and then just like the lady was saying, just back there, like if we work, like we all gonna say it, like if we pray and if we worship and we invite him in, you know what I'm saying? And he present already and he's coming from us, he dwells in us, you know what I'm saying? So by that being said, why is it not that we invite him in even though he's within us as well as outside of us? All right, let me give you, it's like in Ephesians chapter 3 verse 20, now unto him who's able to do exceeding abundant above all we could ever ask or think according to the power that works. What that sound? See how we just skipped it? We ask him to put it in and it's already in. So you got to know what you're dealing with. You have to know how to work that word and the revelation, not assuming the word, guessing at the word, but what is the word really saying? The reason we're dealing with this Holy Spirit, the purpose of the Holy Spirit is because a lot of us don't know how to relate to him. We think we're in charge of him. That's why we be saying stuff to him like that. Come on in the house. We're gonna invite him into his own house. Okay, let me get her. Right. Right. That's it. That's it. Thank you. Deny self. See, Now that's the catch. It's like you giving him the steering wheel. You're saying, I trust you. I trust you to guide me. That's how I live. I live a life of void of so much undue stress because God is working out. God is working this thing out. pastor today. He said, man, you don't let much bother you, do you? I said, man, I'm not gonna let this stuff kill me and put a young hump in the ground. I'm not doing it because I understand who's in charge. Even when it comes to this pastoring business, all God wants is a willing vessel. You don't have to know everything, but what God can do is take you and he can use you for his glory if you yield it. See, I'm trying to help us shift from thinking we in charge. That's why your life is so challenged. That's why your life is so tough and hard. Even in dealing with sickness, y'all sometimes hear me say at funerals, see it the way God sees it. If God says it's precious, Why are you looking upon it as something else? The Bible says, precious in his sight is the death of his saints. So why are you looking at it, oh, that's the worst thing that could ever happen in your life? Maybe it's the best thing. If you're looking at it right, because to be absent from the body is to be what? You got to stop letting your flesh take over and cause you to see things in a way that's so unbiblical. That's how I live. You know, my dad died. And my dad made me promise that I would preach his funeral if he would join church. And I said, yeah, I'll preach his funeral. And when he died, it was 05. And boy, my family, you know, all of us, they were struggling with that. And the Lord held me together. And I'll never forget looking up on my dad when he first passed away. You know, I said, man, you know, in my subconscious, well, you do something like this. And he says, I had nothing to do with it. You know, just kind of question and response. And he was gone. And the Bible says the Lord gives and the Lord takes away. What can you do about it? What can you do about it? All of that energy that you're burning up and you're exerting, what is it going to do to change the narrative? Or you can accept your own mortality. One day, I got a day, I'm fine with that. That's why I give so much responsibility over because if something happened to me, nobody knows what's going to happen. I don't need preachers with me that don't know what to do. You shouldn't take no just dip and slump. You ought to be able to keep course because we have shared so in this ministry where it's not so much of a bad thing. Because when you're in Christ, to die is gain. But you've got to mature in your faith now. So you know you're not in charge. Is there someone else? You spoke about the sensitivity to the Holy Spirit. How do you increase that sensitivity? Is part, like self-denial part of that? You're self-denied to obey. The more you obey, the more you feel you need to, and the more you'll see why. You know, there are so many stratagems, and there are so many traps, and so many things ensnared. But the more you obey, the more you see you need to. And because God's going to help you and navigate you, through and let you see what you're missing, what could have been, you know. So, yeah, just obey, obey. Ask him to speak, pray as you, you know, Lord, keep me sensitive to the Holy Spirit. Let me hear, sensitize my ears. So, when he speaks the word, you can identify as the word and you don't do contrary to it. but you do in accord, you wanna obey. Okay, all right. All right, y'all ready to go home? All right. All right, Father, we thank you, we love you. We worship you, Father. We thank you for this lesson that has challenged us, convicted us, Father, to yield our lives to you. Father, we are blessed when we hear your word and obey your word with the help of the Holy Spirit. Father, I pray that he be RK in our lives, that the power line of RK will be experienced in us and through us. Father, watch over us as we come down from this place, but never your presence. Bless us individually. and collectively, all who had prayer requests, Father, you are omniscient God. We pray that you hear them pray as they pray silently and answer their prayers. Lord, we thank you. We pray for our sister who lost her father. Lord, I've conversated with coming in and others, Ms. Wiley, and we pray for Ms. Ida as we have laid to rest Brother John today. Lord, we are praying for the sick and shedding in Mr. Taylor. Lord, we pray for our fellow in the choir that got sick on Sunday, Cedric. Lord, strengthen him. Strengthen them. Strengthen all. We pray for Myra Armstead as she has undergone a surgery. Make her better day by day. Watch over us, regulate our health, regulate our minds. Father, that we'll serve you to the best of our ability to bring pleasure to your heart. In Jesus' name, amen.