Timeline to Pentecost | Senior Pastor Kenneth Carpenter

have your Bibles and would join me in the Book of Luke chapter 24 verse number 50. we'll be reading verse 50 through 53 and then we'll go to Acts chapter 1 and verse number 12. and again praise the Lord everybody man you all look so good here today you look so so good here in the house of the Lord of course wooden people look their best when they're doing their best right and just a beautiful sight to see people praising God and worshiping God and I hate to pick on Pastor Hammond every time I get up here after he comments get up here like a little skinny fella talk about eating everything you know when you've had three babies like I had it's going to catch up to you okay talking about taking vitamins sister Jeter I'm I'm out of vitamins I'm now into balance of nature I'm you know I'm into that but the Hammond will catch up with you bro give ketchup catch up with you all right we'll be here to remind you when it does is it serving Jesus fun Luke chapter 24 and verse number 50. he led them out as far as to Bethany lifted up his hands and blessed them and it came to pass while he blessed them he was parted from them and carried up into heaven and they worshiped him and returned to Jerusalem with great Joy and we're continually in the temple praising and blessing God Amen Into the Book of Luke chapter one of the book of Acts Luke writes the book of Acts chapter 1 verse number 12. then they returned unto Jerusalem from the mount called Olivet which is from Jerusalem a Sabbath Day's Journey for a few moments today heading going towards celebrating Pentecost on the last Sunday of this month I simply want to preach the timeline to Pentecost the timeline to Pentecost father I love you this morning I thank you for the joy that has fallen fresh not only on me today but obviously the joy that has fallen fresh on this congregation Lord I Thank you today for our renewed Vision I thank you today God for our dependency upon the holy ghost Lord You Are The Vine and we are the branch Lord You Are The Potter and we are the clay and without you Holy Ghost we can do nothing Lord move upon us today and help us to realize just how dependent we are and should be on the Holy Ghost in Jesus name we pray amen and amen you may be seated today before I go into my message I want to thank brother Chase Condon but the chase Condon accepted uh an invitation or accepted that I asked him after first lady and I returned back from Beirut Lebanon I fell under an incredible burden there for their need for a church building and a Bible Training Center in the Middle East brothers are just uh spent several months training a minister that is now going into Iraq to preach the gospel and he's in need brother Azar is in need of a building he's in need of a training center to the tune of a million dollars is what the cost of this has been estimated and I fell under a burden while I was there and I got permission I've gotten permission from our world missions director brother Matthew ball I've gotten permission brother Chase Condon is in Beirut Lebanon as we speak he arrived yesterday he is going to do a video documentary on the work there in Beirut Lebanon and uh our world missions director is going to be sharing this on world missions night at our general Ministry Conference and anyone else in the body of Christ I feel a burden to use every available resource that I have any influence I may have to try and my best and by the help of God to raise a million dollars that that building that building in Beirut and that Bible training center in Beirut can be used it would only make sense to me and you I would believe you know this gospel started in the Middle East it started there and I believe in the end of time it ought to go back there I believe it ought to make a full circle if God is in circles then I believe what started in the Middle East ought to go back to the Middle East and give these people an opportunity to hear so that's where brother Condon brother Chase Condon is at this morning and he's probably watching through the chase we love you here at fac we thank you that you accepted to go and to spend several days there getting that documentary for us the timeline of Pentecost we can kind of understand Pentecost this word Pentecost of course is one of the three major feasts that the Jews celebrated it was one of one of the three major feasts that they celebrated in Jerusalem when everybody when everybody came back to Jerusalem to celebrate Pentecost the word Pentecost means 50th it was held 50 days after Passover now we understand that when Jesus when Jesus died and rose again and ascended into heaven that just before his feet minutes before his feet left Earth he lifted up his hands and he blessed them and while he blessed them he was carried up into heaven but he had given them he had given them instructions don't depart from Jerusalem until you are endued that word there means clothed with power from on high we understand that when Jesus left them and a cloud received him out of their sight that in verse 53 that they went back to the temple area and there they were praising and blessing God amen they were praising and they were blessing God Amen they had been given a promise from God not many days hence the promise of the Father which is the baptism the infilling the clothing of the Holy Ghost is going to come upon you now please keep in mind with me today this 120 Disciples of Jesus Christ including the mother of Jesus Mary had never received the Holy Ghost all right they had never received it personally they had never seen anyone receive the Holy Ghost all they had all they had and of course obviously they hadn't received it and they had never seen anybody received it because scripture says the Holy Ghost was not yet given because Jesus had not been glorified into heaven and so but my point would be what do you do with a promise from God what do you do with a promise from God what they did they did two things they were number one they were number one they were obedient he said go back to Jerusalem you're not going to get the Holy Ghost any other place but in Jerusalem I have four ordained that the Holy Ghost would be poured out in Jerusalem Samaria won't do another nearby City won't do even the Mountaintop that I'm leaving on here at Bethany won't do you have to be obedient to the promise and the Bible says they went back to Jerusalem but not only do we need obedience to the promise because you can fulfill the obedience to the promise in a few hours by walking back to Jerusalem it just took a few hours for them to walk from Bethany back to Jerusalem that can be done in one thing the beginning and in the ending but it takes more with the promise of God the Bible said they were there in the temple continually praising and blessing God what do you do with a promise what do you do with the promise you have an act of obedience and then you have an attitude of the one who has promised will perform what he has promised he will perform what he has promised we may not understand it they had to tarry some believe it was up to from seven to ten days they gathered together there in that upper room and they carried the word Terry means they waited on they waited on the Holy Ghost to come they waited they waited they didn't know that it was going to come on Pentecost it wasn't that they were saying four days from now it's Pentecost it's coming they they didn't know when it was coming but they knew they had a promise I would love for all of us today when we don't know certain ways in which God is going to bring us out if he's promised to bring us out and he has let's just stay in a mode of praise and a mode of worship because he has never failed nor will he ever fail his word he is that God that keeps his word just before he left and ascended into heaven in John chapter 20 and verse number 21 he meets the disciples he meets the disciples after his resurrection from the tomb the Bible says in John 20 and 21 then said Jesus to them again peace be unto you as my father has sent me even so sinned I you he's referring to sending them in the into the world to preach the gospel and when he had said this verse 22 he breathed on them and saith unto them receive ye the Holy Ghost now we understand one thing they did not receive the Holy Ghost when he breathed on them and said receive you the Holy Ghost then brother Carpenter what happened there he is showing them as he steps close to them and breathes on them he is showing them the nature of what's going to happen when they receive the Holy Ghost they're going to receive the Breath of God they're going to receive the life of God they are going to receive within them the breath the life the power of God when they receive the Holy Ghost we understand then in Genesis chapter 2 and verse number seven when man was made at the very beginning when man was made at the very beginning Genesis 2 and 7 says this and the Lord God formed man of the Dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the Breath of Life and Man became a living soul what Genesis 2 7 is saying is that when God breathed he didn't breathe into animals he didn't breathe into trees he didn't breathe into creation but when he breathed into man the breath of life that is a Divine Life a tree has life because a living Creator created it but a tree does not have the Breath of Life the only creation on this Earth that has the Divine or had the Divine Breath of God was when God made man and he breathed into him the breath of life now if I could use the term and as any of you ever had the horrible Misfortune of having the breath knocked out of you I'm telling you that's that's a that's a horrible it seems like an hour but it's really just a few seconds to not be able to get your breath you've got the breath knocked out of you that's exactly in a form what happened to Adam and Eve when they made a decision to disobey and eat from the tree the breath of life was taken from them they are now starting to die they're now starting to age that breath of life has been taken from them but before there was a man there was a redeemer before God ever made man what a God we serve I'm falling more in love with him I'm just going to stop here and just tell you I am falling more in love you know with him I've been serving God I've been filled with the Holy Ghost since I was 16 years old but I'm here to tell you something today I'm 62 right now and I am falling more in love with him as the day goes by the more I read about him the more I just stop and put my hands down on my Bible and say thank you because before there was ever a man there was a Redemption planned for man he would never make the man that he had not had a plan to go ahead and redeem him you know you mean you're going to make a man with his own will yes you mean you're going to make a man that can choose whether to live for you or not yes well what are you going to do God when the probability of him being tempted you're going to put him you're not going to put him in an Angelic suit you're going to put him in human flesh that can be tempted what are you going to do if he chooses are you going to wipe your hands and create another world and he says no what are you going to do I'm going to redeem him I've Got A Plan of Redemption I'll become like him I'll become like him so that he can come and be like I don't know about you but I am falling more in love with God as the day goes by don't you want to give him a hand right now in John chapter 3 Jesus breathed on them said receive ye the Holy Ghost in John chapter 3 verse number 5 he's trying to talk to a man about New Birth Jesus answered Nicodemus verily verily I say unto thee except a man be born of water and of the spirit he cannot enter into the kingdom of God Jesus is saying in Nicodemus you've got to have a new birth and it's got to be a new birth of water and of spirit if you don't have that new birth you cannot enter into the kingdom of God that which is born of the flesh is flesh that which is born of the flesh is flesh and that which is born of the spirit is Spirit look at the two births he says in the natural realm whatever the flesh conceives it's what it gives birth to but if you're born of the spirit his spirit verse 7 Marble don't be amazed don't be baffled Marvel not that I said unto thee ye must be born again the wind bloweth where it listeth thou hearest the sound thereof but can't not tell whence it cometh and whether it goeth so is everyone that is born of the spirit he's saying Nicodemus let me tell you what it's like it's like the wind it's like the wind that blows you don't know the direction it comes from you don't tell it where to come from or where to go the only thing about the wind is you feel it and you hear the sound thereof so is every man that is born of the Spirit Wind breath in the New Testament the Holy Ghost is called the comforter I'm so glad for the comforter boy I sure have needed him in my life I sure have come up on situations brother stepp and family where I needed a comforter in my life I'm so glad that in the New Testament the Holy Ghost is called the comforter it's called the spirit of truth it's called the holy spirit it's called the spirit of God it's called the spirit of Christ all of these different things and it's called why he's wanting us to know that when we receive the holy ghost that we receive a portion a small amount of the Divine Life of God when we receive the Holy Ghost we receive a small amount of the Divine Life Of God inside of us turn with me if you would to Second Peter chapter one verse number three Peter's going to bear this out II Peter 1 and 3. according as his divine power now we use that word divine there we know this not just power but it's divine power if it's divine power let me test you for a moment is it if it's divine power whose power is it it's God's power according as his divine power hath given unto us most of the things that pertain into life and godliness did I misquote I hear some rumbling in my congregation this morning I somebody help me today all things all things that pertain unto life and godliness through the knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and virtue that word Virtue there means power whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises that by these promises you might be made you might be partakers of the divine nature I'm going to become partaker of the divine nature in other words when I receive the Holy Ghost I receive the divine nature in me and that old Sinful Nature has to bow because now there is a new divine nature on the inside of me the Holy Ghost not maybe not might but the Holy Ghost will bring a change in our lives it will bring a change in our life now let's pretend this morning for just a moment that God is holding a council with his angels before he ever allows one thing to be written and knowing that as we start the Bible that it'll be very important because most people most people will read the beginning of a book maybe not finish the book but most people will read the beginning of the book and so God if you're going to begin this book what do you most want people to understand about you within the first few verses within the first few verses what do you want them to see in you what do they what do you want them to see in the first few verses I'll tell you what he said I'll tell you what he wanted us to see he wanted us to see how the world existed in chaos confusion and darkness without form without void not a flower not a tree not a beautiful mountain no beautiful landscape it's an ugly ucky void empty form of water and dirt suspended in space but God says and the spirit of the Lord moved upon the face of the waters and God said let there be light and when God got the first chapter done he displays himself Reagan he displays himself as a God that can come up on the scene of chaos confusion ugliness and ickiness and just let my spirit begin to move on this Earth and when my spirit lives it'll be a beautiful creation and that's the same thing with the baptism of the Holy Ghost now we often say I have the Holy Ghost but you have to you have to go with me on this one that's wonderful but the step of a change is does the Holy Ghost have you I know you've got the Holy Ghost I know you got it I got it but the beauty doesn't begin to show until the Holy Ghost has us how many wants the Holy Ghost to have you because I want that divine nature hey I you know what after a few months of of living for God I want people to begin to say hey there's a change in him man there's a change in that man there's a change in that woman I'll tell you right now I wouldn't want to say that's a they say some women in this church I'm here to tell you right now there's some women in this church that that I wouldn't have I would not have wanted to tie up and fight with you before you got the Holy Ghost these women in this church the Holy Ghost made a change and I I don't want to mention any names but I'll just drop Rhonda Myers right now I mean I'm just telling you right now these are anxious women they're just women in this church and not all those men in this church what a change I'm glad for that change you didn't go to AAA to get that change you didn't go to some site and get that change you didn't lay on some couch and get that change you got the Holy Ghost and the Holy Ghost got you and all what a change I wish somebody would shout change what what a what what a change how I begin to I begin to I begin to act like Jesus I begin to talk like Jesus I'm not there yet I'm I'm a ways away from being like him but I want you to know I will boast and crow like a rooster this morning I'm not what I used to be I'm not what I used to be now I'm not I'm not anywhere near what I need to be but I want you to know I'm going to praise God today that I'm nowhere near what I used to be I'm not the man I used to be I don't have the thoughts I used to do I don't have the actions and the Deeds well you're just a good man brother carp no no no no no no no no strike the strike the man part it's a good God it's a good God that got on the inside of me we become partakers look at that verse 4 again we become partakers of the what somebody help me today partakers of the what the divine nature that means once we get the Holy Ghost I'm not just for listen we're not just in this business of running people through here to talk in tongues and and so we got a number we can boast and brag about talking in tongues and just getting started then after that we want to get you in A discipleship class we want to get you coming to church on a regular basis we want to get a Bible under your arm we want to get we want to get information in your ears webcast in your ears about the gospel and all that because then the change begins to come begin to talk different I begin to have control of my emotions I begin to to know what not to look at and I begin to know what to look at right right give me the picture of my mom and dad for a moment give me the picture of my mom and dad um this is a picture this is my mom and dad right here um and I you know since we're not awoke culture you know that's my dad on the right there and uh it's my mother on the left um just by an amen just by an amen just by an amen just say Amen to this well I'm going to ask you a question I want you to say Amen okay how many in this room thinks that Pastor that's my biological mom and dad Kathy's biological mom and dad just by an amen how many of you think that I look like my father did you understand the question I want you to just be honest I mean you know that is my father how many things I look like my father I think I counted three I'm sorry I'm counting right here how many of you by any man think I look like my mother what a pretty lady my mother that was my dad and and uh probably uh those of you that know Kathy here today how many things uh Kathy looks like her dad see there okay I gotta type something in my notes the example did not work you know why I look like my mom don't you because that's my mother that's the womb that carried me for nine months I got my facial features from my mother I got my eyes I got my nose I got my chin Mommy I even got your second chin too I even got I haven't even got that I got all I got all of that I got that from my mom now should we be one bit surprised that after we get the Divine Breath of God inside of us that we should begin to look like our creator we should begin to look like him and act like him there ought to be things about us that we get victory over and if we've not got Victory it's because we're not allowing the Holy Ghost to conquer things in our life will I or brother I I I I I've got this going on in my life and I I excuse me but I I I'm stepping outside the church to get an answer for this issue in my life well I understand that sometimes there's issues that we have to go to the world to get certain things but there's nothing that you need to live for God that you won't find in the church the holy ghost that that talking in tongues that you got when you came down and poured your heart out to God and emptied yourself and all of a sudden you spoke in a Heavenly language unknown to you do you know that you got deposited inside of your spirit everything you need for victory water it take care of it keep it in the right environment we do know one thing about the Holy Ghost the Bible says grieve not the Holy Spirit don't grieve it don't put the Holy Ghost around things that Grieves him entertainment that Grieves him different things that grieve him it's it's it's it's grieving to him he's come to give us life not death don't put the Holy Ghost around dead talk don't put the Holy Ghost around destructive talk keep the holy ghost in the midst of Praise because I don't want to grieve the Holy Ghost I want it to be healthy I want it to be continually developing the divine nature on the inside of me again the timeline to Pentecost in Mark chapter 16 verse number 15 just before he ascended into heaven as he breathed on them then said receive ye the Holy Ghost in verse 15 of Mark 16 he said unto them go into all the world preach the gospel to every creature he that believeth and is baptized shall be saved he that believeth not shall be damned and these signs indicators these signs shall follow them that believe in my name they shall cast out devils they shall speak with new tongues they shall take up serpents and if they drink any deadly thing it shall not hurt them they shall lay hands on the sick and the sick shall recover look at the power that we have been given because signs follow them that believe we're able to cast out devils and this sign the believer will speak with new tongues we will speak with new tongues if we take any deadly thing up it shall not hurt us if we drink any deadly things serpents if we take a serpent up it shall not hurt us if we drink any deadly thing that's Divine protection that God places upon us that's Divine protection that's not please please that is not the horrible misapplication of the scripture that we pick up a serpent to show that we have faith in God that's not what that's not what the writer meant at all it meant if that would happen when picking up wood to burn on the fire that God would keep his hands upon the believer the 120 disciples are gathered in Jerusalem in faith that the promise of the father is going to come you have to you have to to not to this morning whatever the promise is of Pentecost that promise of the unfeeling of the Holy Ghost you must embrace it in faith God made you a promise it is God's will that every person under the sound of my voice every person watching on the webcast today it is the will of God for every person to be filled with the Holy Ghost it is the will of God for every person not only to be filled initially with the Holy Ghost but to have a continual refilling of the Holy Ghost they go back to Jerusalem they go back they go back in obedience and in worship they were thankful praise God the promise is coming the promise is coming praise God I can't you see the 120 brother Hammond walking around that Upper Room praising God thank you Jesus I Praise You almighty God I love you you're wonderful Glory Glory Glory Glory we know the Holy Ghost is going to come we know God you're going to give us power we praise you God can I tell you that we have to embrace the promises of God by faith because he that had promised is faithful now I know this is very Elementary today but we we have to understand some things today sometimes we ought to wait on them promises it's not just it's not just I'm going to do the act of obedience and show up at Jerusalem and I'm going to stay here five minutes if it's not here I'm giving up no sometimes our faith is developed when we just have to wait on God we just have to wait on God and again he said I say unto thee wait just we have to wait they just walked around that upper room are they now however they were they were just thanking God and I want to say to anybody here today don't be discouraged well I've come to the altar a few times and I haven't received it do not be discouraged keep on coming to the Altar and keep on praising God it is yours you need to say things like God it's already mine God it's already been given to me how can you say that I don't have it yet if God says it's mine I already have it faith is the substance of things hoped for and the evidence of Things Not Seen I already have my healing I already have my Deliverance my financial blessing is already on the way I go ahead and praise you God I go ahead and magnify you God my new see anybody need a new season why don't you just praise God for a new season he said I make all things new I Just Praise You God I I just love you God it's it's already here God I'm already over this trial I'm already shouting God it's already finished God I just give you praise and I give you honor oh thank the Lord this morning Acts chapter 2 and verse number one when the time was right and when the day of Pentecost was fully come they were all with one Accord in one place hey we have to have one Accord are you in one mind with the spirit this morning or is your mind been dancing between what happened yesterday and what you want to do tomorrow are you here today in one mind with the spirit or is your mind dancing on how much more service have we got left here today we normally get out here we normally get out here is your mind standing there dancing around today if it is I can tell you why you're not being refilled with the Holy Ghost because you need to come to this place and be so disciplined hey you got all day long to reminisce on what you did yesterday hey you got all day long to represent to think about what you're going to do tomorrow don't lose this valuable couple of hours right here when you can interact with the power of the Holy Ghost and become more like Jesus Christ God you said I can be delivered your word says that I can be free your word says that you can bring me joy so God I'm just going to believe you for that Joy God I'm going to believe and when the day of Pentecost was fully come they were all in one Accord in one place suddenly there came a sound from Heaven as of a rushing Mighty Wind wait a minute have we heard that before this morning and we heard that before this morning that a sound came like a mighty rushing win have we heard that I think we have I Think Jesus told Nicodemus the wind bloweth where it will you hear the sound thereof but can't not tell which it comes to where they're going so is every man that is born of the spirit you think Jesus you think God is trying to say connect the dots connect the dots suddenly there came a sound from heaven as of a rushing Mighty Wind it filled all the house where they were sitting there appeared unto them cloven tongues like as of fire and it's set upon each of them and they were all filled with the Holy Ghost and began to speak with other tongues as the spirit gave them utterance I've never seen this before and I want to just present it to you as a thought brother Erickson but praise and worship praise and worship in a church service he said God said I inhabit the Praises of my people so the holy ghost first moved in that room like the sound of a mighty rushing wind is not praise does not praise have that analogy we need to come to church and I'm glad and I'm glad I praise you on this sister Glenn I praise this church on this but I have been I have preached at churches where you have four or five hundred there but there's appraiser there's appraiser there's appraiser there's appraiser there's appraisal there's a prison and and when you say let's all praise the Lord you hear about eight or nine people praise God you hear about eight or nine people praise God I don't know what the resting folks come to do but you hear about eight or nine people praise God but I am so thankful in this place that we create we create through song through music through worship a sound that causes God to fill the house that causes God just to feel just to fill this place now notice that first came a sound from Heaven as of a rushing Mighty Wind and it set upon each of them I liken that see if you she just think with me again you know what I liken that too after praise and worship sister Fallon after praise and worship the spirit's not done after praise and worship it sets Upon Us guess what that is the preaching of the word of God and so the Bible said like a rushing Mighty when it filled the house and it's set upon each of them the word ought to be setting upon us today and after the word sets upon us and after it's set upon them and they were all filled it's three things the wind the sound of the wind filled the sound as of a mighty rushing wind filled the room it sat upon them that's the second thing that's the word and then the third thing and what I hope happens here in just a few moments and they were all filled with the Holy Ghost and began to speak with other tongues oh hell I want the altar call today I want somebody to be filled with the Holy Ghost and speaking other tongues we fill this with praise and worship we fill this with adoration to the king and now we're hearing the word of God and set up on each of them and they were all filled with the Holy Ghost and begin to speak with other tongues as the spirit gave them utterance or the ability to speak Isaiah chapter 28 Isaiah chapter 28. and verse number 11 is referenced to tongues Paul references Isaiah 28 11 and 12 to speaking in tongues Isaiah 28 11 and 12. for his stammering lips and another tongue will he speak to this people to whom he said this is the rest wherewith you may cause the weary to rest and this is the refreshing yet they will not hear now in just a moment in this lesson I'm going to tell you that at least 18 of the 120 spoke in a then known language at least 18 of the 120 spoke in a known language now it was unknown to them because they're poor galileans and they not they don't understand that they're speaking other languages it was unknown to them it was unknown to them but it was known to the different people that came to celebrate Pentecost they began to hear it what did they hear they heard them speak in their own languages the wonderful works of God now I feel as a pastor as a preacher of the word of God that I must always bring Clarity to this because there is an erroneous doctrine that says they spoke in tongues on the day of Pentecost to preach the gospel that is not correct read the second chapter for yourself the Bible doesn't say they preach the gospel because had they preached the gospel at that verse at that verse the people that were listening would have said men in Brethren what shall we do they don't make that statement they don't make that they don't ask that question until Peter preaches in his own voice the Bible says in Acts 2 Peter lifted up his own voice and matter that he's not speaking in tongues anymore he lifts up his own voice and begins to preach the death burial and resurrection of Jesus Christ so what did they hear the Bible said they heard the wonderful works of God well what was that just open up your Bible and pick anyone you want to creation is a pretty good wonderful work of God just go over there when God brought Israel out out of Egyptian bondage that's some good works of God I don't know what they were saying but I know what they weren't saying they were not preaching the death burial and resurrection of Jesus Christ using tongues tongues was used on that day as an evidence that the Holy Ghost had taken up residence and it was also used on that day God to speak to his people God was speaking through them to his people simmering lips in another tongue will he speak to his people God filled them with his spirit it's God's spirit right it's God's spirit right so who speaks God go out no don't joke I'm not I wouldn't trick you I promise you because I just want to show you it's not me speaking in tongues it's God speaking through me who in the world would purchase a home a house and part of the contract read at the closing oh by the way oh by the way Mr Carpenter you can never speak in this house you're going to move into it but you can't ever speak you can't ever say anything you can move into it you can enjoy the air conditioning the refrigerator you can enjoy all the spa you can enjoy all this giving you you can never say anything so what are you trying to say brother Carpenter I'm trying to say why would God move into people's heart and not be allowed to speak when God comes into our heart in the divine nature of the Holy Ghost you're going to open up your mouth and you're going to speak I spoke with tongues you didn't speak with tongues it was your tongue but it was God's language it wasn't you speaking it was God speaking I'm glad for the baptism of the Holy Ghost it's God praying through me it's God speaking through me don't you just love God this morning don't you just love God that he's give you he's given you what you need I mean when you beat been beat down so low and you're so discouraged that you can find a place of prayer and before long you begin to talk in tongues you begin to talk in tongues and all of a sudden you get up with a refresh boldness about you I'm sorry the older that I'm getting I'm falling more in love with Jesus and maybe being a little bit less tolerant of folks that want to suck on a lemon and come around the church and look like they're just the most miserable people in the world and they want to talk about all their problems you know why you got problems is because you're not allowing the divine nature of the Holy Ghost to keep coming into your life you're not allowed listen you're not allowing the divine nature you're glad to show your four foot scar on your side that's what you've been through you're glad to get in the lobby and when somebody says they had a temperature of 105 you say hey now that I've had one of 108 you're just so glad to walk around with Victor mentality that's what I mean you know what I'm just really so less tolerant of that you know what you need you need a good closet and you need to pray yourself through to the joyous baptism of the Holy Ghost and you know what you can get out of that closet you still owe the same amount of money he still hasn't come home you still got a kid on dope you still got crazy things going on but you walk out and say my God I'm ready to go I'm just ready to go I'm just ready to fight I'm just this thing Ain't Gonna Keep Me Down brother Perry I'm just ready to go I'm just ready to preach oh don't you know what's happened to you is going to be your death coffin oh no it's not I'm gonna get the Holy Ghost and I'm gonna fight again I'm going to love again rest yes oh what a change or salmon lips in another tongue will he speak to this people to whom he said this is the rest where which you may cause the weary to rest and this is the refreshing yet they would not hear as a whole the nation of Israel turned its back on Jesus Christ he said I spoke to you on the day of Pentecost I gathered you together on your third most holy Fest feast I gathered you together and I poured out my spirit and I spoke through 120. I spoke to you The Marvelous works of God the baptism of the Holy Ghost was intended to be to the Jew first and then to the Gentile but God said I spoke to you through 120 and you would not hear I spoke to you I spoke to you through the Living Word and you wouldn't hear and I spoke to you through the Holy Ghost and you would not hear Jesus said in Matthew 11 28 listen to Jesus in Matthew 20 Matthew 11 28 come unto me all ye that labor and her heavy laden and I will give you what rest aren't you tired I get tired but oh I'm so glad I've got a place to go to I'm so glad I have put you talk about stacking habits I'm so glad I've stacked Sunday morning and Sunday night on top each other you talk about stacking habits brother Hammond I'm so glad that Wednesday night's a habit Wednesday night's a habit that I I'm so glad you talk about stacking habits I'm so glad that when I get up with the morning then I'm going to go to God in prayer and I'm going to become I'm going to start talking why why do you do that because I need rest outside of the Holy Ghost I've got turmoil I've got trials I got all this crazy stuff going on but let me get in the Holy Ghost let me begin to let him speak through me let me begin to let him speak through me oh God there are people walking on crutches today that God says you didn't you don't have to lean on the flesh you can have my somebody clap their hands if you're glad refreshing refreshing refreshing refreshing let me go on down just for a moment musicians would you go ahead and come right now let me go down there's a verse of scripture Acts chapter 2 14. I know those I give the scriptures to just go to Acts 2 14. um well excuse me go to Acts 2 11 go to Acts 2 11. it's the list of the languages they were hearing Greeks and Arabians Acts 2 and 11 please Greeks and Arabians we do hear them speak in our tongues the wonderful works of God they were all amazed and were in doubt saying one to another what meaneth this others mocking said these men are full of new wine you see when we get in a man-made frame of mind to try to explain away the Holy Ghost we'll become so ridiculous we'll say things like well that's for those people that are emotionally weak they need they need all of that exuberance not me not me I got it together all right can I tell you it's they stood there and they said How's 120. how they speak in our time them are uneducated galileans they're uneducated galileans how are they speaking how are they speaking in our tongues and a group just came up and a group said oh they're just drunk now I know getting drunk will make a man cuss like a sailor and I don't know how sailor cusses I don't get on it since when he's getting intoxicated cause you to be able to know a new language Rosetta Stone would be put out of business if that was the case right but that's how ridiculous people get they said oh just ain't nothing to that this is a bunch of drunk people up there but I love verse 14. but Peter standing up with the eleven lifted up his voice now I just want to stop right there the sermon's over right here because this is the Holy Ghost change that can come to your life this is the Holy Ghost change that can come you do realize that before Peter got the Holy Ghost Before Peter got the Holy Ghost he warmed himself with a campfire outside of caiaphas's Palace and a little Maiden girl said hey you're a follower of Jesus and he said no I'm not no I'm not I don't know the man I don't know what you're talking about I don't know oh you're a follower no I'm not and then he cursed he took an oath it'd be the equivalent of sin I swear I swear to you I'm not him I I don't know him I've not been around him that's Peter without the Holy Ghost but give me Peter that has just been filled with the Holy Ghost and I take the same man that just 50 days prior would say not once not twice but three times I don't know Jesus Christ but let me get filled with the Holy Ghost and I'll stand up in the crowd and and I say let me tell you these are not drunk as ye suppose seeing is just nine o'clock in the morning but this is that which was spoken by the prophet Joel in the last days saith God I'll pour out my spirit go ahead and stand right now I'll pour out my spirit on all Flash what a change what a change what a change what a change what a change what a change what a change what a change oh come on what a change come on folks come on in it just can't be me it just can't be me it's got to be all of us today what a change am I preaching to anybody that's got a before and after come on am I preaching to anybody that's got a before and an after hallelujah hallelujah come on think back on that day when alcohol had you bound think back on that day when promiscuous living had you bound think back on that day when you were nicotine habit think back on that day when you with you your life was miserable think think think come on what a change what a change what a change what a change what a change what a change what a change what a change what a change I was a liar I was a thief I was a fornicator what a change just strip off your church clothes this morning just stop acting all Saint divided all dignified I need some people this morning they don't remember the pit from which you were drawn what a change what a change was nothing oh just for a minute thank you I've been told I've been told I'm too transparent with the church of passion I've had people say you're just way too transparent mother Carpenter but I'm gonna tell you my biggest fear I'm gonna tell you what I fear I won't say my biggest fear right now Brady my biggest fear my biggest fear is not falling in sin with a woman my biggest fear is not becoming greedy better car better house better shoes oh no that's not my biggest fear I love my wife with all my heart I have absolutely no desire for anybody but that woman right there I'm glad for the clothes I wear I love the Daylights out of Dillard's Outlet in Asheville or Orlando even though I buy some church that the sleeves are too long ten dollars is my deal baby I love it I love it I love it I love it go here West Town Mall that same church 99 hey I wear them a little bit big for ten dollars I don't fear that I tell you what I feel you're getting over this I'm here one day church just becoming a business and just becoming something we don't send we go we go do it we just go sit around it it's Church time it's ritual time it's it's the hour and a half time you turn your own time oh God I fear that I won't tell any jokes