Episode Transcript
Welcome to the World Changers Church Gold Coast Podcast. Join us as we listen to today's message. Oh man.
Amen. Alright, hush. No, I'm kidding.
I'll tell you what. It's the funnest day to be a pastor because... It's another one of those moments where we get to celebrate in a calendar year something different.
You know, on Passover, Jesus was preparing to go to the cross. On Palm Friday, as he entered into the cross, entered into the gates of Jerusalem, they were calling him Hosanna and they were looking at him as he was the delivering king, but he wasn't delivering in the manner in which they thought. And then when he was crucified, died and rose again, 50 days after that day, the promise of the Holy Spirit came.
Amen? And The beautiful thing about that is, is that whether you consider them a helper, a comforter, or the way I consider dynamite in a campfire, that's what the Holy Spirit is, powerful. Amen?
It's power to overcome, power to achieve, power to be able to do what men could not do before. And that's to live uprightly before the Lord. How often do we have that small, still voice that says, do that?
Amen? That's an easy one to testify to. And we go, yeah, I bought somebody some groceries in the grocery line.
I was standing behind them. They were fumbling through their money, and I bought them some groceries because I had this feeling in my heart that I should. That's an easy one.
But what about those times when the Holy Spirit's telling you to do something you don't want to do? Amen? Like be kind to someone that's been mean.
Amen. Smile in the face of your enemies. Amen.
That's when we really lean on the comforter and the helper, which is the Holy Spirit. Because it's in those times when it's hard to achieve that we really can glorify God. What you're going through right now is not uncommon to man.
But men used to have a resting spirit that fell on them for these moments and then would leave in the old covenant. They had an anointing that would be on them if they were kings or they were called by God to do a specific thing in a region, but not everyone had that. Am I making sense?
But today, under this new covenant, We do not have a Holy Spirit fire that comes down that we got to call forth like the prophet did, the prophets of Baal. We have a fire that's released from our bellies and our mouth because it's a dwelling presence of God. Just as much as the dwelling presence of God was in the temple and in the Ark of the Covenant, and his presence, wherever that presence went, there was blessings and celebration, you are now living Arks of the Covenant. You have all the principles of the Arks of the Covenant in you.
What was written on stony tablets is now written in your heart. What a priesthood that was only for the Levites is now in you. And the manna, the spirit provision, is now resting in you.
Amen. As Tiger Woods lines up to putt. You have the power of God on the inside of you.
You have the power that caused David to dance down to his ephod, his underwear. Amen. You have something that caused men to go crazy.
on the inside of you and you're so comfortable. Oh yes, praise the Lord, I'm all powerful. I'm an ambassador of Jesus.
What I declare and decree shall happen on the earth. You're so calm and posh with it. Oh.
I can't help contain myself when I begin to think about the dynamo's power that's on the inside of me. It begins to manifest in my body. It begins to cause me to get loud.
It causes me to be passionate. You know what it does? It causes me to get a little emotional.
Amen? I don't know about you, but when I got married and I had kids, there was moments that it was just overwhelming. And when I began to think about the spirit of God, portion of the Trinity resting on the inside of me, I can't contain myself.
And that's what happened on Pentecost Sunday. There were men waiting in an upper room. And wouldn't you know, it came a time where people said, you know, I got to get to my roast.
I got to get home. People left. Others said, you know what?
The wife's been alone with the kids, so I got to get home. Oh, am I saying too much? Oh, you know, I gotta work tomorrow, so I gotta get home.
And it dwindled down to about 120 people that waited for the promise of God. They didn't wait for the dinner bell, the alarm clock. They waited.
We're not moving until God comes. And the Holy Spirit fell and they walked out of the room like drunk men and it was like fire was on their heads and their mouths were speaking with cloven tongues and it was an amazing moment where people said, oh my goodness, what's wrong with these people? They must be drunk, but they were drunk in the Spirit. And from that point forward, the world was turned upside down.
Amen? What a man could do, now many could do. Jesus said that when I leave, you shall do greater works than me.
And I said, man, Lord, I ain't walked on water. I've been rose from the dead, but you did it better than me. Yes, someone raised me from the dead.
If you don't believe it, my wife will tell you the story. And all this stuff, I've had miracles, but Lord, I ain't done what you've done. What do you mean?
He said, I was a light, but now the Holy Spirit makes light in many places. Where there was just a ark, there's many arks. The power is multiplied by the believers of Jesus.
And we can do more because we're not just one man going here, we're many going there, making disciples of many. Amen? Jesus made 12 out of 73. You can make 12, and those 12 can go make 12, and it will continue to multiply.
That is the power of the Holy Spirit in you, to make you a witness unto what God can do. Amen? Well, this just doesn't sound theologically correct.
We ain't even got into the sermon yet. We're just talking. Amen?
This is just the intro, Simon. Amen? Come on, man.
God is so good. But the thing that I began to look about when it comes to the Holy Spirit, we are filled to the overflow. When we fully surrender and allow every portion of ourselves to be redeemed, we are filled to the overflow.
I've been meeting some crazy Christians lately. I'm gonna say it. But not the crazy you're talking about, not spooky pooky, just absolutely happy people.
absolutely overflowing with goodness and mercy and they ain't got nothing to be happy about. Life doesn't look good, everything's upside down, they ain't got no money, they barely got a job, their car's broken and on three wheels instead of four, but they overflowing with the goodness of God, why? Because you're no longer considering the circumstances of earth as much as you're considering the circumstances of heaven flowing through you.
That's why these men waited up in the upper room. That's why they came out like drunk men because they waited for something that no man could give them and only Christ could. Amen.
Pentecost Sunday reminds us that God is not a distant force but a present power. Amen. God's not up here.
He's in here. I can connect with God with one word, God, and he's there. The Holy Spirit is not just a doctrine.
He is a person who fills, guides, and empowers us. Amen? Pentecost was not the end of God's story.
It was the igniting of our fire. There was a bonfire lit in that upper room that's been burning ever since, and we've been carrying fires and striking matches in the hearts of men ever since, amen? There is a fire that is burning, and it feels good.
Oh, well, you know, praise the Lord. Why is he talking about me and my poshness and my quiet? Listen, if your poshness is on fire, let it be on fire, honey.
Let your poshness burn bright. I'm just burning for Jesus. But I can't be that way.
And I'm not making fun of either person. I just believe that as we may burn differently, it's the same power. Amen?
You ain't gotta speak in tongues like me. You ain't gotta lay on hands like me. You ain't gotta operate like me.
But what you can do is burn for Jesus. Amen? Acts 2 and 1 says, when the day of Pentecost had fully came.
On the day of Pentecost, all the believers were meeting together in one place. I remember a small prayer meeting we held in my living room when I was a Baptist boy. I was still, I was Bab-de-costal.
You know what I mean? Like, I had believed in the Spirit, but I was still going to a Baptist church. I was speaking in tongues, but I was being like, and when they would do prayer in the Baptist church, amen.
I remember this one brother of mine, Daniel Parks, he came over to my house and said, let's have a prayer meeting and we're gonna turn on some music. He turned on Rick Pino. I said, what in the world is this? It was some like chords and keys and angelic.
I was just like, Lord Jesus, what are we doing? We were young and unsure what to expect, but deeply hungry. I said, I was sitting in the door frame of this indoor circle in Easley, South Carolina, rocking back and forth like, Lord, I don't know what I'm doing, I'm just gonna rock.
It sounds good. Finally, I just looked at Dan and said, what are we doing here? He said, just wait, quit thinking.
I said, all right, just wait, quit thinking. Who you think you are, just wait, quit thinking. All right, I'm going to stop thinking.
So I just began to focus intensely on nothing but Jesus. Before I knew it, eight hours had passed. And I looked over at Daniel and said, was anything going to happen?
He said, brother, you've been flopping around like a fish on the floor. What do you mean anything going to happen? I was so unconscious of the world that I had become so conscious of God that he was feeding me so much revelation because I had stopped thinking about the worldly things and concentrating on kingdom things that the Holy Spirit began to move in us for about eight hours.
We wrote down revelations and sermons that I preached for five years. because of the revelation that the Holy Spirit gives when you focus on nothing but Jesus and the unity that comes through being in one place and getting out of the constructs of religion, the practices of religion. Well, pastor, that sounds like fun.
Some of you going, yep, y'all do that, I'm out. Pentecost is more than an event. It's an action of the heart, a desire of hunger that says, Lord, I want all of you and nothing else.
It's not a shiver and a shake. It's not a flip and a flop. It's more than an emotion.
It's a decision to desire God more than anything. If you want to move in the fullness of God and overflow with him, you got to desire him more than money. You gotta desire him more than security.
You gotta desire him more than comfort. You gotta say, I just want you. Am I heading home yet?
So Pentecost is more than just a miracle of tongues and the birth of the church. It's a model of how God moves an ordinary people to bring extraordinary things to the world, amen. A missionary once told in our church one time, back when I was probably 25, how a single match dropped in the dry grasses of East Africa ignited fires that would consume thousands and thousands of acres.
What started a small flame became a consuming force that no one could stop. In the upper room of Acts 2, a match was dropped. Amen.
Amen. Men were dry. sopping wet with religion, burnout.
The scriptures had come alive because of Jesus and a match was dropped and the church has been burning ever since. A group of believers unsure of what would come next gathered to pray. They had no platform, they had no influence, no TikTok, no social media, no books, just a promise.
and the fire fell. We've made too many pastors celebrities and we follow too many of them too. We need to get back down to the raw, real essence of what we follow.
Jesus, be led by the Holy Spirit and fan the flame that's on the inside of you. Amen? Acts 2, 2 through 4 it says, suddenly a sound like blowing wind.
And everyone present was filled with, let's see, filled with the Spirit. Yeah, there we go. Suddenly there was a sound from heaven like a roaring and mighty windstorm, and it filled the house where they were sitting. Verse three, then... What looked like flames or tongues or fire appeared and settled on each of them. And everyone present was filled with the Holy Spirit and began speaking in other languages as the Holy Spirit gave them utterance or gave them ability. Jesse Duplantis told a story about how he was in a elevator speaking to a Japanese woman, and she said, Jesse Duplantis, and then spoke in Japanese.
And he said, well, Lord, I don't know what to do. He began to speak, spoke in fluent Japanese, and then they met with the husband and wife the next day, which the husband knew English, said, Jesse, we didn't know you could speak Japanese. He said, me neither.
When Peter began to speak... people that were of another language understood what he spoke. It's more than just an utterance. It's the power of the Holy Spirit to do more than what we are able to do.
But our human constructs and our human thinking has limited the Holy Spirit to religious actions, traditions, and how we think God will perform. The Holy Spirit wants you to sit somewhere and learn of him instead of man. to learn of how he moves and what he does and how he's going to perform miracles through you that you thought were impossible because your finite thinking is trying to define an infinite God. The Holy Spirit not only gives definition to this power, but he gives direction.
Amen? Is this good? So Pentecost was a fulfillment.
It wasn't just something that happened. God prophesied it would happen through Jeremiah. If you look in, I mean, Joel, Joel 2 and 28.
If you look at it, it says, and it shall come to pass afterward that I will pour out my spirit on all flesh. Then after doing all those things, I will pour out my spirit upon all people. Your sons and daughters will prophesy and old men will dream dreams and young men will see visions.
Oh, well, you know, prophecy was for them. After the promise of the Messiah is fulfilled, after these things, as we move towards the end days, we can see that young sons and daughters will prophesy and old men will dream dreams and young men will see visions because the Spirit of God will fall. Amen?
The Spirit of God has fallen on us and dwells in us. You know those songs that say, Holy Spirit come? Set a fire in me.
What are all those ones? They're great songs. I love them. They feel good.
But we ain't got to beg God to come no more. He's in us. You know what we're doing now?
Because you are ambassadors of Christ, because you are the declares of the New Testament, you are releasing with your mouth the power of the Holy Spirit out of the wells of living water that is in you. Somebody give the Lord a hand clap of praise. You know, if anybody's ever made you a promise that fulfilled it, it's God.
He promised the Messiah, it took 400 years, but it happened. He promised the Holy Spirit, it took 50 days, but it happened, amen? It took 50 days for those that were living.
From the time of Joel till then, it was so much longer. Could you imagine believing and dying with no fulfillment. Most Christians would just walk away from Jesus, but no, it didn't ever happen.
I don't know if your God works. Are you willing to die believing for something that may outlive you? That's the power that the Holy Spirit gives, is the ability to catch the baton and run your race and pass the baton.
This life is about more than you. And Western Christianity has made it all about you. Okay, five minutes, we gonna have a good dinner.
Eight minutes, I mean, I love one of those air fryers. They just make everything beautiful. 20 minutes, I got all that I need.
It used to take like two hours. But we're so used to things quickly and consumable. Have we set apart time in our day to not be busy to be able to spend time with God?
You got people pushing you in your life? Amen. Do you have people pushing you in your life?
Your career, your job, your school? Your wife, your friends, your family? Timmy, push your dad a little more.
Amen. We need to give Jim something to do in the Jesus name. He said no.
He's the only one that... No, no. I love you, brother. But most of us have someone pushing us and we're guided or we're driven by those things.
Well, I gotta get this done because so and so needs it. I gotta send this email because so and so needs it. I need to fill out this form because so and so needs it. I need to do this because so and so needs it.
Well, so and so will still need it after you quit your job. So and so will still need it after you burn out. So and so will still need it when you give up. If you do not fill up, you will fall out.
Amen? Be guided in this world instead of driven. Let the Holy Spirit lead you.
God is a promise keeper. Pentecost was more than an event, it's an ongoing daily event in our lives. Years ago there was a 72 year old woman, she'd get up and sing, nothing but the blood of Jesus.
Now as bad as I sound, she'd get up and sound like a cut cat in a wind storm. She couldn't sing the key of J if she wanted to, that's Jesus. I think even the Lord looked at the angel and said, can we give her something else to do? But she'd get up and she would sing. She would sing with all her heart and she'd make a joyful noise, God bless her soul. And one day she got up and she said, I want to tell you a story of how much this song means to me.
I said, please do, don't sing it again. Y'all gonna be mad at me in a moment. She got up, she said, I used to think that the Holy Spirit was only for preachers and missionaries.
Until one day, right here in this church, I held up my hands and I said, Lord, if it's for me, give it to me. And I started singing nothing but the blood of Jesus. And I felt the warm presence of God like oil being poured on the top of my head down to the bottom of my feet.
Every ailment that I had went away. Every fear that I had went away. Every question I had began to be answered. I felt such a presence of God that I didn't know what to do.
So every time I get up and sing, nothing but the blood of Jesus, I'm reminding myself that this gift is for us all and that the presence of God is for us all and the fire is for us all. And I'm gonna tell you what happened next. All of us little judgmental, critical people judging her king, her key is J, singing for Jesus, we fell out in the spirit.
Revival happened for six weeks off of one story, that at Bert Dodson's church. I mean, it was so bad, I think she actually got up and sung Amazing Grace one time. Were you there or were you home with the boys?
You remember? She got up and sang Amazing Grace one time and I swear, the presence of God was so thick, And it wasn't, we had like, we didn't have even what we had here. We had like one speaker in that church.
You understand what I'm saying? We had 350 people that would gather together for Jesus with one speaker. And we had a choir.
Amen. And she got up and sang Amazing Grace, and she got through grace, and it got, it was so, the presence of God was so sick, my ears were ringing, people were running around, and I thought, man, everybody's went crazy, until I realized someone came to talk to me, and I couldn't hear them. That's how the presence of God used to be.
But we'd gotten so, I don't know. Well, somebody would say, well, if y'all did that in this church, I'm going to find me another church. Hey, find you another church.
I want the power of God. I ain't saying we're going to do that every Sunday. I ain't saying it's going to happen here. I'm saying, will you get a taste and see of the power of God and see what he will do in your lives?
Because I've never seen it operate out of order. See, that's the flip side of that coin. I've seen it operate spooky-pooky, people slapping people down, pushing people over, people sounding like hyenas, bringing attention to himself.
The Holy Spirit never brings attention to himself. It's a broad thing. It pours out amongst every believer.
The moment I see one person standing up and bringing attention to their self, they better give me an interpretation of their tongue or sit down and shut up. Amen? Amen? Well, you believe that tongues has to be interpreted to be spoken in the church? No, I believe all y'all can speak in tongues. I believe if you're going to bring attention to yourself and be louder than everybody else, you better have an interpretation.
Amen? Because the Holy Spirit only pauses those holy hush moments when he has something to say through somebody. But the Holy Spirit works corporately, equally through us all, and it's done in order.
So if there's somebody here be freaked out by somebody flopping around like a fish, guess what the Holy Spirit's not gonna do? Have somebody flop around like a fish. That's the Holy Spirit.
He knows each and every one of you equally. If he knows that one person being uber, uber, uber, uber, uber loud is gonna freak you out and you hear, he's gonna get you used to things being loud. He's gonna bring you some peace in those loud moments, amen.
I'm sorry, I just feel like we have some things we need to say today. Y'all enjoying this? Okay.
So there's three core lessons from the day of Pentecost. Write these down if you're taking notes. The power of unity.
There is power in unity. For you solo rangers that are doing everything for Jesus, I just believe I do everything better by myself, that is not the call of God. that God will send you out with somebody, but you're not meant to be alone with what you're doing.
When the day of Pentecost came, they were together in one place. Before the Spirit moved, they were united, not just in a location, but in heart. Pentecost didn't begin with miracles, it began with oneness.
Unity wasn't optional, it was essential. You know what wasn't happening? Sister, you know what wasn't happening?
I've seen it, somebody, y'all got it cooking in here. Y'all warm yet? Turn them things off.
Amen. Sister, you know what wasn't happening? Yeah, I'm talking to you.
You know what wasn't happening? They wasn't judging each other. You know what wasn't happening?
They wasn't looking around going, well, if so-and-so was just getting a spirit, the spirit moved. You know what wasn't happening, Claire? They weren't flopping around like fish looking stupid and everybody going, well, once they're done, the spirit will fall.
They were waiting on something more powerful than what they could comprehend to come. And since he came, he has been comfortably coming to us all in stillness and oneness. You want to see a powerful move of God?
Get united. Quit arguing over doctrinal beliefs. Do you know that that's why things are like, everybody's like, well, if we had more love, we'd have more moves of God.
Well, quit talking about each other. Well, you know, if they had just listened to so-and-so instead of listening to so-and-so, if they had the real revelation of God, the Jews back then didn't even understand raising from the dead. That was something new.
Weird. So Jesus getting up was like, whoa. Him calling Lazarus forth was like, whoa.
That was something that nobody ever heard before. The Holy Spirit coming was something new. You understand? I ain't doing it again.
That's the reality. So while you're busy and arguing about once saved, always saved, grace of faith, tongues and no tongues, this and that, you know what's happening? Nothing.
Because you're focusing on who's wrong and right instead of Jesus. You're focusing on your church hurt instead of Jesus. You're focusing on what I believe instead of Jesus. You're focusing on the thing I said two sentences ago instead of Jesus.
That's why ain't nothing moving. Because you're judging. God doesn't move in judgment.
He does move in love. But he powerfully moves in unity. Amen?
Hallelujah. Did I just run somebody off? I'm sorry if I did. Hallelujah.
In a divided world, the spirit responds to togetherness. Unity invites God's presence in a powerful way. It doesn't require perfection, just this willingness to forgive, to yield, to come together, and to do something greater.
You know how you can practice this? We got a worship night coming up. Don't come in here and wait for the spirit to fall on the worship team.
Come in here and give your worship from a place of love. Partner with what's happening. Don't look around and just worship and watch what happens.
Amen. When you forget the room, but you love your family, God moves in powerful ways. You'll walk out filled up, pumped up, ready to go up.
Amen? The power of unity. The other thing you really need to realize is, another core lesson about Pentecost, is that God uses the ordinary.
1 Corinthians 1 and 27. God uses the ordinary. Instead, God chose things the world considers foolish in order to shame those who think they are wise.
And he chooses things that are powerless to shame those who are powerful. Well, did you hear what pastor said today? I don't know that I agree with that because in the New Testament, in the Apocrypha, and in this version of the Bible, it says this, and in the Greek, it says that, and By the time you started all that, I done went to sleep and cut you off.
I ain't listening to you anymore. It ain't about who's right or wrong. It's about did you hear the revelation?
The Holy Spirit is wanting to move across the earth again through our peace, through our love, And I am foolishly called to something the world looks as foolishness. A man born of a virgin, died, rose again, sent me something powerful to dwell on the inside of me and talks to me daily. If I went to the hospital right now, they would probably lock me up in the psych ward.
And then they would ask me one clear question. So you're saying you hear voices. Let's discover this journey together.
What are they saying right now? Shut up and don't answer this question. History echoes this truth about God used as the ordinary because the apostles weren't scholars.
Peter denied Jesus, Thomas doubted, and when the Spirit filled them, they spoke with powerful courage and the church grew. You're looking at you, you're like Moses. Lord, send Aaron.
At the burning bush, at the burning bush, takes off his shoes, comes before God. God says, I want you to go. Lord, send Aaron.
He's more apt. Moses hooked a measuring tape to the bottom of his heel, to the top of his head, and this is all I can do. God says, good, now that you're done measuring you, measure me and see what I can do through you.
and he sent Moses anyway. God is going to send you no matter how much you measure up to man's capacity, you're measuring up to God's willingness to fulfill what he said will happen through you. Trust him, amen?
God still uses the ordinary, not the most qualified, and not the most available. Well, pastor, I'll preach for you. Yeah, I'm sure you would.
Sit down, shut up, learn. Pastor, I'll lead that group for you. I'm sure you would. Sit down, shut up, and learn, because until you learn how to be led, I don't want you to lead.
I want to see you surrender. I want to see you serve. I want to see you with a vacuum cleaner in your hand.
My wife says, I'm sorry for what I'm about to say, but she said, that's the sexiest thing in the world. Got to take it where I can get it, Patty. Amen.
Some of y'all offended. I'm offended. Well, good.
Holy Spirit, we pray for those with a spirit of offense. Y'all having fun yet? God help them that that's all they're going to remember today, Caitlin.
Be sure that we get a good social media post to remind them about what's preached. Nah, just keep that on the podcast. I want you to elevate that volume there.
Okay. Father, we need some fire to fall. Acts 2 and 3 says this.
Get back to the Word. Did y'all cut me off? Y'all just started playing?
It's time to close it up, Pastor. Acts 2 and 3 says this. You know, we have the happiest church in the world.
I'm gonna come talk to y'all. Till they calm down. We do have the happiest church in the world.
We got joy, peace, love, and the Holy Spirit. The Old Testament When the fire fell on altars, it says, then what looked like flames or tongues of fire appeared and settled on each of them. The Old Testament fire would fall and consume offerings, but in Pentecost something changed.
Fire no longer fell on stones, but burns in the altars of the believer. You are now a living sacrifice like Romans talks about. The altar is in your heart.
The fire is in you. The sacrifice is living, surrendered before God, which is you. God's fire still burns, but only where there's surrender.
A surrendered life is what fans the flame, not talent, not status, not performance, surrender. When we offer ourselves wholly to God, we become vessels where his presence dwells and his power can move. Paul wrote in Romans 12 and 1, offer your bodies as a living sacrifice.
That's not a metaphor. It's a call to daily surrender. And so, dear brothers and sisters, I plead with you to give your bodies to God because of all he has done for you.
Let them be a living and holy sacrifice, the kind he will find acceptable. This is truly the way to worship him. You're not going to die.
You're surrendering. You're saying, God, your way, not mine. You are performing the Garden of Gethsemane every day.
Not my will be done, Father, but yours. That's a living sacrifice. Jesus had to become a living sacrifice before he became the sacrifice.
Now, since he became the sacrifice, he showed us how to be the living sacrifice in the Garden of Gethsemane. Father, may this cup pass from me, but let thy will be done, not mine. Sometimes you don't want to do what the Holy Spirit's telling you to do.
Not my will be done, but yours, Father. The fire of the Spirit comes where there's something to consume. It flows where there's something to consume.
I want to say that a better way. If you're not offering anything, there's nothing to burn. Fan the flame inside of you.
Pray, worship, read. Quit doubting. Well, I believe that I'm more Pentecostal holiness than I am denominational.
Good. I'm probably more Baptist than I am word of faith or word of truth. Good.
Glad for your badge. Who are you burning for? Who are you burning for?
Who are you living for? Who are you surrendered to? That's what Pentecost defined.
Amen? Let the Holy Spirit burn in me, Lord. Let it burn in us.
Too often we treat Pentecost like a power-up or a personal encouragement, but the Spirit did not descend to stay confined within walls. He came to send the church on the streets. Acts 1 and 8 says, oh Lord.
You got that? Yeah, thank you. But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes upon you and you will be my witnesses telling people about me everywhere in Jerusalem, throughout Judea and Samaria and all the ends of the earth.
The fire started with them and it finishes with us. Tell people about Jesus. Don't be afraid.
They're mocking you anyway. They're making fun of you anyway. But tell them with love, Jesus loves you.
I love Patty. We were here in the church the other day and Kim over there, she said, I'll bring you your coffee and Carlos comes every once in a while, right? He comes to church and comes in and Kim's first, I don't know if it's the first time she's actually been in here.
I have no idea. I've been here in a while. She goes, oh, it looks real beautiful in here.
Patty just says, well, there's a seat right here for you on Sunday. I was like, well, praise God. She just said, yep, and walked on out.
But she has an invitation. She knows she's welcome. Sometimes that's all it really takes is an invitation to church.
An invitation to study the Bible together. Across the globe, from underground churches in Iran to homes gathering in Brazil, believers are still living out Pentecost calls boldly, sacrificially, and powerfully. We're not getting dragged out in the street and beaten in India.
We're not hiding in basements. We're not being trash talked and beaten up and killed in Brazil. We're right here in comfortable heated chairs in Australia, the land down under, the great south land of the Holy Spirit.
We want to make that a reality? Then I got to ask you one question. Are you flammable?
Are you going to burn for Jesus? Was that song something about come and watch me burn? I don't know what that is.
Huh? Touched by fire. I wish we had that song, but not really.
Simon, I saw you. 1 Thessalonians 5 and 19 says, don't quench the spirit. The spirit hasn't stopped moving.
God's wind still blows. His fire is still flowing through us. The question is not whether the spirit is active.
The question is whether we're ready to receive him and burn for him. Amen? I was, I know it's not godly, and you know, some of you are going to judge me for it, but it's all right.
I was watching the Hunger Games the other day, and I can't remember the name of the, what's the name of the main character? Katniss, yeah. It was Hunger Games 1.
Don't go watch it. I'm not promoting it, you know, but if you want to watch it, you can. and she's scared to go out and the guy that created her dress just said, just go out there and twirl.
And her dress caught on fire and everybody shouted. I was like, wow, that's all it takes. She rode out scared and the designer of the dress said, just wait till the right moment and you'll see what happens. And her dress caught on fire and the crowd shouted.
She had nothing to do with the design. She couldn't control the trial that she was walking in. God, how in the world did we turn this into a message?
But all she had to do was surrender to the dress designer and believe that what he said was gonna happen would come to pass, and he caused the fire. that calls the shout. All she had to be was the vessel present in surrender.
You think you still got to do something for this? Yeah, you got to believe, you got to pray, you got to intercede, you got to read your Bible. Yeah, there's things you got to do.
You got to have words in you that the Holy Spirit can call from you. Oh my goodness, we're going to talk about that in a few weeks. You got to have faith.
But the fire and the power comes from God. The result, listen, do what God told you to do and leave the result up to him. Amen?
Pentecost has said, surrender. Get in unity. Get in oneness.
So, Claire, a lot of people would ask me, what's this message about? It's about it's time to get in unity. It's time to settle our doctrinal differences.
and stop questioning everything and live in your revelation and stop force feeding it down everybody else's throat. Let the Holy Spirit teach them. That's my job to force feed it.
Amen. Amen. It's time to get in oneness, to get in faith together and to receive from the Holy Spirit.
And then when we begin to get in oneness in this mission at World Changers, We will be sent out and many will come and be gathered under this house, be helped, healed, equipped, empowered, amen, and they will see change. Because we have a working force of people that have given their lives their time, and they've given themselves as a gift. You're giving a phone call and a disagreement and a Sunday dinner of, well, I can't believe pastor said that.
We are giving our 72 hours a week, if not more. Wow, that's probably more hours than that, really. We're giving at least six days a week under this thing, praying for you, designing things for you, and being led by the Holy Spirit.
All you got to do is come in and receive. It's no longer about who's right and wrong It's not about names anymore. It's about a name.
Jesus. Amen. Isn't that what we want?
And it's about the Holy Spirit falling on men that we can't control the outcome. Amen. And it's about people being saved.
Amen. I told the Lord the other day, and I'm gonna close with this. Lord, all I wanna do is see people saved.
I wanna see people healed. I wanna see them stop living in pain. And Lord, I want them to just stop putting my name in their mouth.
But then the Lord showed me how Paul went through the same struggle. We stay the course, people. We stay the course.
God is good. Amen. Tap your neighbor and say, God is good.
So, all the time. Now, I'm going to pray a prayer. We got announcements today, Patty?
Baptisms, that's it. I'm going to pray a prayer. I'm going to pray a prayer.
Thanks, bro. I'm going to pray a prayer, but I'm not expecting God to perform anything. I'm alert expectation that God will fulfill in you everything that you've prayed for.
So no matter what trial you're in or triumph, no matter what victory you've just won, we are going to celebrate what God is doing and has done in your life. Amen? Father, we come to you in one heart and one mind and one faith. with a revelation of who Jesus is and what he's done and what he has done for us.
And that your Holy Spirit is flowing freely through each and every one of us. And as there are many callings and offices in this place, whether it be teacher, missionary, pastor, prophet, whatever it may be, Lord, we believe that titles can be taken off for this very moment. And as we are all equal at the feet of Jesus, as we are all equal focused on him, let your Holy Spirit begin to awaken and burn brightly in each and every one of these believers that even their shadow begins to heal men and women. More than their words, may their life bring glory to you, God. And Lord, as they're searching their minds, For those that will receive the unity of the Spirit in this place, I ask God as we partner with each and every one of their prayers, give them lands, homes, cars, mend their marriages, mend their relationships, heal their bodies. For that is what your word promises and that is the power that your Holy Spirit gives. So as we lay hands on our own selves, whether it be your leg, your shoulder, your heart, wherever, you may feel led.
Father, heal the body as you've mended the soul. Give revelation in spirit. Give wisdom for each and every day that speaks louder than the truths of man and scholars, but may seem foolishness, but is the power and direction of heaven.
May they walk upright before you, God, knowing that you are their Lord and they are the righteousness of God. Holy Spirit, we give place to you to speak to us first before anyone else. Take our words to the throne room and bring words from the throne room, God. We thank you, Holy Spirit, Abba Father, brother, how you speak to us.
Friend, teacher, master, Lord. It's in Jesus' name we pray and we all say amen. Come on, give the Lord a hand clap of praise.
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