Dr. John Adolph - Have You Seen The Ghost?

let's read together i'm reading from the king james version of the text acts chapter 2 verses 1 2 3 and 4. and when the day of pentecost you see where i am okay y'all come over with me so i don't have to do a solo let go and when the day of pentecost was fully come they were all with one accord in one place and certainly there came a sound from heaven as of a rushing mighty wind and it filled all the house where they were sitting and there appeared under them cloven tongues as a fire and it 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 say amen for the rape if you don't mind being nice and neighborly christian cordial and kind find a good neighbor's hand to hold somebody that hope you love and you like if you don't love me like or pretend that you love them you are in church find a hand hold on if you don't know their name get their name so you know who you're sitting by that just makes good sense grab their hand and just look at them and smile and just say neighbor i'm glad to be in church the preacher needs your prayers all of your amens tonight's sermon subject excuse me have you seen the ghosts you asked three people have you seen the ghost have you seen the ghost grass withers the flower fades word of our god shall last and stand forever thank you you may be seated anytime you ascribe human attributes to the divinity of god the term that's used for that is a technical tongue twister they're called anthroposomes you do understand for those who've been to sunday school god is a spirit they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth so when we ascribe human attributes to this mysterious deist mysterious that we honor whenever that happens those attributes become known as anthropothisms when we say things like the hand of god was upon me the eye of god was watching me uh the breath of god blew upon me all of those things are anthropophagisms anthropos meaning man popethism means description it's how we understand ourselves so we ascribe those same attributes to god uh if that's true dr bessex and i believe that it is i was trained pretty good uh while in the alamo city of san antonio texas not long ago i had a anthropo pathistic encounter with god listen to the story if you will i'm there for city-wide revival with my dear friend dr cedric veal we're tag teaming preaching for the entire alamo city of san antonio uh he's preaching sessions i'm preaching a session and so it's my night to preach i'm downstairs in the historic menger hotel right across the street from the alamo and i'm waiting on the car to come pick us up when all of a sudden a young white kid maybe 11 or 12 years old he would kind of remind you of someone you would see on the andy griffith show in mayberry he kind of looked like andy to be honest with you he comes running through the lobby disturbing everyone's peace bothering everyone including me saying excuse me sir have you seen the ghost i'm looking for the hey guy have you seen the ghost excuse me he tapped me on the shoulder y'all i'm trying to focus i gotta preach to black baptist that night it's city wide revival 71 churches have come together and so i'm trying to make sure at least i cover every principle i'm not thinking about this ghost this boy is talking about i'm watching him run around the foyer so in my being nosy i do what postmodern folk do i took out my trusty iphone went to my google search engine and typed in menger hotel y'all this is a trip it is one of the five haunted hotels in america hold on i have stayed at the best western i have stayed at a motel 6. keep the light on if you will i have stayed at the four seasons and i have stayed at a windham in a western and now they got me in the hotel that's haunted i'm going through the history of the menger hotel it's founded in 1847 built in 1849 and the two people that founded it mr and mrs minger are supposed to be on the premises i'm reading i'm about to just lose it here cause i'm wondering if that bump i heard in the night was mrs minger are you listening to me i'm trying to figure out what's going on and what's happening and so i'm reading about this hotel only to discover that mrs minger is supposedly seen on the premises wearing a bell-shaped white dress with a white parasol mr menger a ducktail black tuxedo top hat and a cigar the purpose for these ghosts is to help people on the premises get where they're going safely i said to myself here i am for citywide revival and i'm not looking for the ghost and the people i'm preaching to ain't seen no ghosts and there is an 11 year old boy looking for the ghost in his hotel even he had the right ambition i said to myself he's looking for was haunted we should have been looking for what's holy but there has to be a ghost somewhere isn't it amazing as we look at church life in the post-modern era fought the ten ghostless churches all the time every building with a steeple on it doesn't have the holy ghost we even have whole sections of people that don't want no ghosts at all i call that whole section of ghostbusters sense if you look like you're gonna have some holy ghost they're about to move you out of their way yet my brothers and sisters i've come to stand before you and declare tonight that a church without a holy ghost without the presence of god is like a burger king with no whopper it's like apple without a i thought it's like a television without a picture too how can we do ministry lest we have the holy ghost let me digress right quick and make sure i echo for the sacred of the for the cause of sacred sentiment that the holy ghost listen is not an it do not ever refer to him as an it as long as you live the holy ghost is a person he is the third person of the godhead co-equal and co-eternal with god the father and god the son he walks with you he talks with you he will dry your tears and if you know him like i do you don't have to be sitting in church to feel his presence god will catch you while you're on the 35 i wish i had prayers earth god will catch you walking through the kitchen and let you know i am real and i have not forsaken you ladies and gentlemen it is the historic book of acts luke that physician is now writing don't close your bible it's all i know how to teach he is now writing us to give us the historic account of the birth of the church in acts chapter number one let me give you your first official shout before resurrection sunday on easter comes in acts chapter number one jesus is alive although i'ma say it one more time cause i know that got by me hold on in acts chapter one jesus is alive second time to charm in acts chapter one jesus is alive the fourth time ought to get it in acts chapter 1 the cross is vacant the tomb is empty and he is alive i wish i had about a hundred of y'all in here who worship a god who has been resurrected you ought to tell your neighbor i'm glad i don't serve a dead defunct godly god but i serve a god who's alive he gives his disciples marching orders here is what he says dr kirkland he says tarry in jerusalem and i'm going to send the holy ghost for you he said and when the holy ghost comes you will be my witnesses first in jerusalem and then in judea and then in samaria and then to the other most parts of the world wait i gotta throw this in the gumball while i'm making my rule the holy ghost doesn't make you shout only on sundays the holy ghost will make you open your mouth and tell somebody what god has done for you if you haven't told anybody your story it may be because you don't have a story to tell i need somebody in here with a story to tell that says i was sick but he healed me i was broke body pain i was low but who am i talking to i need some people to talk back to me look at her neighbor say neighbor i know i got a story to tell [Applause] watch this ladies and gentlemen after he gives him these instructions dr bessex i love this the bible says he was concerned with the cloud and went back to heaven y'all don't know when to get happy your god is so awesome that whenever he needs fish he doesn't need to catch him he can multiply him in his hand feed 5 000 and have leftovers your god is so awesome that when he gets ready to cross a lake he doesn't need a boat he can make late judicial sidewalk and your god is so awesome when he gets ready to go home he doesn't need a rocking or satellite he can just step up on the cloud and take an elevator ride back to heaven i wish i had about 50 who said my god is that kind of a god wait ladies and gentlemen check out this text jesus ascends back to glory is now seated at the right hand of the father and the bible says that they call a meeting ladies and gentlemen they have a meeting to decide who's going to replace judas who hung himself they chose tears but but the lord chose paul it's very important for me to caution you be careful with ghostless meetings where the holy ghost is not invited you want to be involved in a meeting where people can say holy ghost have your way oh i feel the holy ghost it's acts chapter number two stay with me it's the day of pentecost and the bible says that when they get to pentecost notice they are in one place on one accord they were in one place or they were in one place or they put aside all of their differences they put aside all of their egos they put aside who the oldest who the youngest they put aside who's gonna run the show and they were on one accord and then the holy ghost shows up as a rushing mighty wind and they were all filled with the holy ghost and the bible says they had clothing tongues as a fire resting upon each of them and when they stood up the miracle of the pentecost was they began speaking in other languages pastor adolph why preach this tonight it is because we've got crack houses and other kinds of houses in our neighborhoods and sometimes they've got more spirit than we do and i want to challenge you to know right now just because you were here that mean the holy ghost is large and in charge can i tell you why i'm preaching this because it's possible for a christian to run low on the holy ghost you do realize there's a difference between the sealing of the spirit and the feeling of the spirit when you confess a belief in jesus you are sealed until the day of redemption but every now and then you need a fresh refill of the holy ghost weight that's not anything bad don't forget this park cars don't need gas so if you ain't been doing that you don't need a refill but if you have been trying to help serving your god doing your best then you ought to tell somebody i came for more the holy ghost can i tell y'all why you're preaching this because your pastor needs the holy ghost your choir needs the holy ghost your deacons need the holy ghost and you need the holy lord single mom must need the holy ghost that is the holy ghost we hey can i go ahead and give y'all a second official shout out there are two groups of people those that need him and those that came with him here is how you know you came with him when you woke up with your mind stayed on cheek you did not wait to get to church you've been having church all day long tell your neighbor i got some ghosts with me but i'm looking for them now touch three people and say have you seen the ghost have you seen to go tell them i'm looking for the ghost i'm trying to find the ghost [Applause] that's really my whole sermon i'm really finished uh but let me put a crease in the sleeve of the text and uh and then we're gonna have prayer and then i'm through watch it how do you know when the holy ghost is present number one watch this he always enters at the appropriate at the appointed time [Applause] uh i am not about about the costal uh i'm not a liberal i'm not a moderate i'm just i'm a redemptionist i happen to believe the bible and and really i want to tell you all this because i want you to be clear i am thankful that we have a god you can feel sometimes okay hold on i don't want to sing too eclectic i don't want to seem way out on the periphery of what we believe but listen to me whenever the presence of god is near you can feel him okay hold on let me try one more time i want you to hear this because god's presence is everywhere he's omnipresent but there is an anointing that god engulfs us in that when he is present the worst of sinners know it and the greatest of saints shout because of you cannot sit in the presence of god and act like ain't nothing going on i needed about 25 of y'all who know what the presence of god feels like to tell somebody he's real i ain't got to play he will show up on you when you least expect him to watch it it's the day of pentecost hey church y'all say pentecost i need you to understand this is a jewish feast and in order to understand the tenor and tone of the text and the jewish feast of pentecost you have to look at the previous feast to at least get a grip on pentecost so let me give you a quick lesson on jewish feasts right quick the first feast is called the feast of the passover y'all say passover hold on i need you to understand in exodus chapter number 12 moses is in egypt and the people are in egyptian captivity but god is about to bring them up out and over he says moses here is how it's going to go down i want you to have every family and every household take a lamb a male lamb and i want you to make sure you don't gut him don't break none of his bones and i want you to take the blood of that lamb and i want you to put it in a basin and i want you to take the bush of a hyssop dip it in that blood and put the blood of the lamb over the door post and the side post he said moses make sure now you don't that that that that that that somehow you don't boil this lamb and you don't eat it wrong i want you to roast him over fire y'all say roast him over fire hold on pay attention because this is very important because they were thinking they would just be able to turn the lamb so that he wouldn't burn on one side or another and that may have been true but let's go deeper in order to roast a lamb you have to stick a long splint down his back and a short split across his shoulders what they had was a lamb on the cross to hold on time and what they had in their possession was the i'm about to preach myself and what they had was the blood of the lamb now ladies and gentlemen here is your third official shout some of y'all ain't got happy yet but let me give it to you the people that were covered by the blood were as messed up as the people in egypt that were uncovered that were dogs in them houses but they were covered by the blood there were homosexuals that now that were fornicators that were all kind of folk in there but the difference was they were covered by the blood i need about a hundred y'all to help me right quick to tell a man but i ain't perfect but i am covered i may not have it all together but i am covered if i was at a good church i tell him it reaches from the highest mountain it flows to the lowest fat the blood that gives me strength some day today you ought to shake somebody's hand and tell them it will never never lose its power but wait that's the end i say passover but then from the passover comes the feast of first fruits it happened three days later it was a type of resurrection and here is what they did watch as dr bessex on the feast of first fruits the people of israel would go out to the field and pull the first sheaf or leaf up they could find and they would wave that at god it was their way of saying thank you for what i got but i still need more of it pause pump to break don't take the car out of drive if you can't shout when you're broke you'll never shout when you got two nipples to love together you would think you boozing up with me and more than other people so sometimes you gotta learn how to be thankful for what you already have okay i need some people in here that ain't never been rich but they never missed a meal to tell your god god i thank you for what i got i'm thankful for everything i have and if you don't mind disturbing the peace touching dog wrong neighbors and neighbor i may not shop where you shop but i'm still thankful i may not drive what you tried but i'm still thankful i may not live in your neighborhood but when i think of the goodness of jesus and all he's done for me my soul cries out happily [Applause] everybody say leaf shout and say leaf hold on that is the feast of first fruits can i go deeper down right quick after the feast of the passover three days later the feast of first fruits a type of resurrection now 49 days later they have been celebrating the feast of weeks uh seven weeks of seven is 49 days but on the 50th day is pentecost everybody say pentagon i'm teaching so good about the show okay wait if i say pentecost and on pentecost they went out to the field watch this doctor basics this time they didn't wave leaves they waved loaves hold on it went right past you i know hold on stay with me you see baby listen there's a big difference between a leaf and a loaf hold on some of y'all know what a syrup sandwich tastes like and some of y'all know what sugar water tastes like some of y'all know how to eat leftover the whole week long some of y'all been broke before and when you had your least people would look at you kind of funny because they wonder how you could be so happy and be broke but now that you've got a loaf or two you can say hold on i was broke but god has given me a little increase i need about 100 of y'all in here who got a loaf or two and you ain't scared to say thank you jesus for what you bless me with i need a few loaf people to tell somebody if you didn't hate me when i had to leave don't get mad when i got a loaf god has blessed me and i'm glad about it wait here is the biblical signature of the text the difference between a leaf and a loaf is portion and what pentecost is about is not having a little holy ghost it's about having all of the holy ghost it's not about having a peace it's about having a person lord have mercy the cry of the church in this age ought to be to lift up your hands and tell the lord i want more of you i need more of you in my heart i need more of you in my anybody in here really love god and want more of god can i tell you what you ought to do stand to your dog on feet in here lift up your hands and tell the lord i need love pass it off when does he show up here it is when two or three hold on he don't need a crowd just two or three who are gathered together in his name touching and agreeing the bible says that is when god show hey ladies and gentlemen can i tell you a secret it is possible to come to church and leave and never encounter the holy ghost but i promise you when the ghost does show up everybody hey i feel you holding though everybody in here is going to know it say neighbor i believe in the holy ghost let me go let me just do one more point that's enough for tonight watch it he enters at the appointed time does that make sense when everybody say on pentecost but for us when with two or three again in his name for his sake hold on watch the second thing when he does enter watch the second principle he alters the atmosphere [Applause] uh i have an announcement to make and this is kind of personal for me so just bear with me for a minute this ain't got nothing to do with the bible so i'm asking your permission is it okay that best i hope it is because this i just want to like take a sidebar a footnote a parenthetical reference this is on the side of the page it's like a scribble note it ain't in the bible i just want to share some with you i hate boring church nothing is more nauseating to me than to get in the house full of saints and you got to say why don't you give the lord i don't want to ask for a hand clap you should have come in saying with my hands i'm going to clap these bad boys why wait i know i know there are conservative people here who say listen we ought to be silent before the lord and we ought to hold our peace hold on that ought to last for a little while but we have our theology messed up we like loud clubs and quiet church and i'm going to offer you going to have loud church and a quiet club we ought to have some noise in this house that ought to make people outside wonder what's going on inside it's the day i know i'm right it's the day of pentecost and the bible says check me out y'all this is so rich they were all together on one accord they might say wonder cold this is caviar on the cracker watches dr kirkland feel this the word accord has musical genre attached to it now i don't care whether you like hip-hop jazz zydeco blues whatever it is but all of us got a little music lover in us it just depends on whatever you from if you from the 70s you like smokey rhymes carol melvin the dog on blue notes diana ross and the supremes michael jackson with tito with them and the jacksonville if you from the 80s you like lou the vandrums you like that it depends on what everybody got a loose submit that makes them say i like my music are you listening to me watch this the blessing of music is that every note on the scale is different e flat is not b flat b flat is not g g ain't f but if you know how to put them together they make pretty music when they strike a chord after adolf what's the lesson here the biggest demon in the church is division and the enemy knows if he can ever divide a church he can come so here is what happens when you get to church the old folks are fighting the young folk the new folk are fighting the older people the rich folk don't like the pro folk the with geds that want to hang around with the phds all divided but i want to stand against the enemy right quick and tell you if you just come together you've got more in common than you do apart i'm preaching right here you want to look at your neighbor right quick watch this here is what's the difference what's the heroes what's the what's required is you gotta love you first you see if you don't like you you ain't gonna never like your name so right quick let's just do it i love me check look at your neighbor and say neighbor i love me i like my eyes i like my nose i like my feet i ain't trying to beat you i don't want to be just like you i like being who god made me every now and then i look at myself in the mirror and say god must have broke the mold after he got through doing this you're like hold on you're looking at me look at your neighbor and say i'm not jealous of you i'm not envious of you i'm not mad at you because i'm so in love with the lord and what he's doing with me i just keep telling the lord have thine own way and when we come together the lord will bless that thing like hey i feel the holy ghost in here tell your neighbor we're coming together whether the devil in hell wants to or again okay i've been up in 30 minutes that's welding up let me just say this let me close this i keep going let me say this and i'm done i'm finished say this they came together i want to call there will always be things that divide you but there's only one reason to come together we love the lord jesus christ can you hear what i said hold on dr blessed watch this and i'm done i'm finished watch this not only do they come together on one accord but when they do the atmosphere shifts here's what the bible in your hand says that was the sound of a rushing mighty wind and the presence of the holy ghost filled the place and then he filled the people i wish i had time to take all that i don't have time just remember this place came first people came next and the evident that the people were filled with the holy spirit is that they had clothing tongues as a fire that set upon each of them here's a good lesson whenever you see fire in the bible god is somewhere in it if you're on my karma with elijah there's fire if you with elijah getting caught up in a chariot there's fire if you're in babylon with shadrach meshach and abednego there's fire and if you are jeremiah he will tell you when the holy ghost is in charge somebody talking to me it feels like fire shut up in my mind i want to appeal to you intellectually i want to appeal to you intellectually watch this existential question if the church on its first day started with a fire and here we are thousands of years later here's the question who put the fire out i don't care what you tell me nobody can be on fire and sit still and be cool calm and collected i ain't never seen somebody on my time i'm on fire no dog it ain't working like that you ought to show some kind of a style but dr bessex dr kirkland i have a hypothesis i'd like to present i believe that in every church there are people who are fire fighters they don't want no fire they got a water hose and they curse they gotta extinguish it in their back pocket and if you start acting like you're from the have some church they think the water that thing down they finna tell you sit down we don't act like that we don't pretend like that they get mad at you in fact right now there are people who are standing up and happy and it's both looking at y'all like what you're so happy for if you had a little fire you feel like we see it the reason i act like i act is because i just can't help myself i need about five people in here who know what it's like to have a firefighter trying to sit you down and shuts you up here is what i want you to tell them if you didn't wake me up you can't make me be quiet with everything i got you ought to start doing a pew check saying did you come to start a fire or put one out ask your neighbor did you come to start want to put one out because for every fire fight there was the awesome specialists they came to start a fight they got a fire burning in their bosom here's how you know you're a fire starter when you wake up early in the morning saying thank you holy ghost [Music] for a brand new day is there anybody in here that came to church already with a fire burning on the inside yes don't fool me now but if you've got a little holy ghost grab your name about the hand and say lady has come [Music] labor be careful sitting around me because sometimes it runs off i'm so thankful i can't help it i'm so grateful i can't keep it tell your neighbor it might run over i gotta get in my seat but i got one more thing i gotta tell you dr i saw what the what what what the history of the and hotel caught that little boy by the arm i said son tell me one thing how will you know when the holy ghost comes up he said holy ghost i said oops i meant yolos he said oh sir that's simple there's gonna be screaming there's gonna be excitement that's gonna be running there's gonna be shouting i said thank you very much i got to trust that night and i said if his ghost could cause running if his thoughts could cause shouting and his ghosts can cause hallelujah and that ghost is haunted it ought to be some ghosts in here that make somebody have running in your feet clapping in your hands and a hallelujah find your name about [Applause] open up your mouth and tell the lord hallelujah thank you jesus glory [Music] i may [Music] beyond [Music] hallelujah i've said hallelujah stay wow this is just for the one who got some notes grab your neighbor one last time and same name [Music] so good [Music] [Music] so find a neighbor's hand [Applause] [Music] by the neighbors [Music]

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Length: 41min 10sec (2470 seconds)

Published: Thu Aug 18 2022