"How to Host the Holy Ghost" with Jentezen Franklin

the following program is sponsored by friends and partners of Kingdom connection you have your Bible I'd like for you to open it with me to the book of Mark chapter 15 mark chapter 15 and I'm talking today on how to host the Holy Ghost I don't know about you but I want to learn how to be a great host to welcome you see people who host visitors and guests and people who are there for one purpose to to welcome to make feel at home and that is the job of every believer to learn how to host the Holy Ghost this word that Jesus said when he was on the cross it was left in its original Aramaic language because the translators could not find exactly the right translation they did not know how to put it into words it's found two other times in the New Testament where you will see the original word use from the original language because it's it's hard to put into words all of the emotions that would be contained in that phrase so they left the original words and then they said translated the best that we can do it means my God my God why have you forsaken me what happened on the cross that day the conversation between God the Father and God the Son was beyond our comprehension the abandonment of Jesus the son by the father and by the Holy Spirit in that moment the Holy Spirit lifted and left the god man Jesus Christ hanging on the cross alone by himself for the first time in his life and God Almighty turned his eyes away because he who knew no sin and that ugly moment became every sin of every person who would ever commit a sin he became that on the cross and the father looked away and the spirit withdrew his presence and Jesus cried my God my God the best the interpreters could translate it they didn't know how to put into words really what he was saying they heard such an agony as the presence left him it it devastated the god man Jesus as he said why have you forsaken me what was it that killed Jesus was it the lack of blood the loss of blood the blood that He shed when they beat his back the blood that poured from his hands and his feet through the nest rusty nails was it the spear and his side that caused him to bleed out did he die from lack of blood I don't think so did he die because of the pressure the weight of the Cross we know that he collapsed we know that on the way to Calvary burying his own cross the weight of it became so great that he collapsed under it and a man had to help carry his cross to Calvary but that was not what killed him Pilate was it Pilate that killed him someone may say was that the Jews was it was it the Sanhedrin court was it the Roman soldiers what killed Jesus and I submit to you none of those things killed him he could not die until two things happen number one he had to quit speaking because there was so much power in the words of Jesus he said my words are spirit and they are life and as long as he was speaking death was held at bay as long as his words the same mouth that spoke the world into existence as long as it was speaking there was no way that death could overcome his words and the only way he could die was to quit speaking as long as he was in conversation with the thieves death couldn't touch him as long as he was in conversations with God the Father death couldn't touch him because his words were the words of God himself and then the second thing that caused him not to die he couldn't die as long as the presence was upon him as long as the presence was upon him of the eternal spirit the Holy Spirit he could not die but when it lifted it Bible said he gave up the ghost he he released it and when he did he cried my God my god it was not the bleeding it was not the the soldiers but when the presence lifted in the words of his mouth ceased he died there's a clue that we need to pick up from this today that as long as we are confessing the Word of God and we are active in the Word of God and as long as we take the time to entertain the presence of God and get in the presence of God and have the Holy Spirit near us we cannot die spiritually this church will never die if we will continually activate the word and be and preach the word and live the word and if we will entertain and host the Holy Ghost those two things keep you spiritually alive we'll all die physically but we don't ever have to die spiritually because if we learn to appreciate the presence and not lose the presence it's when the presence lifts and the word is no longer active in our life that we die spiritually there will always be life in our church if the word is preached and the presence of God is here this church cannot die and you and your own life spiritually cannot die don't ever lose the presence of God Jesus died naked on that cross we we paint him with a little coffee around the loins but he was naked on the cross why because he was the second Adam and the first Adam in the garden was naked and unashamed and many of the scholars believe it was because the glory of God the presence of God clothe him but when he sinned and when God came back in that garden he hid from his presence the Bible said why because when you get in the presence of God not only will the presence of God keep you alive as I preached the first point I just made but the second thing the presence of God does when you host the Holy Ghost is he will expose sin in your life and the reason that that that he noticed he didn't have any clothes on he never noticed it before he was clothed in the glory of God but when he got in the presence of God this time after he sinned and fail and disobeyed it exposed his sin in the Bible said he was naked and ashamed there's something about the presence of God that if we keep it in our life and in our church that it exposes the sin in our life and that's why it's so important to do more than go to church and leave just like you came we we need more than a little talks we need more than little songs we need more we need to get in God's presence so he can bring up those things that only begin to surface you get in a good Holy Ghost service where the Spirit is moving where the presence of God just womb it just comes in there and suddenly not in a condemning way not in a way that puts you down and look causes you to feel like a nothing in a nobody but that gentle steel small voice will begin to expose things in your life the things that are not pleasing the things that you've been you've been doing the things that you've been thinking the things that you said are done the Holy Spirit when you get in his presence it's amazing how he would gently bring them up and say you need to repent of this and you need to turn away from this and you need to get this right now thank God for the presence of God that exposes sin in our life I don't just want the Holy Spirit to bless me I don't want the word to just bless me every now and then I want it to blister me I want it to drive me to my knees and brokenness and awaken me to the fact that I am sinful without the grace of God and without repentance and without a need I will I will grow I will sear my own conscience with a hot iron but you get in his presence and suddenly those things that you've written off they start coming up in the Holy Spirit will convict you and expose sin in your life we need that kind of preaching we need those kinds of services we need those kinds of churches I believe the reason there's so much sin in America is because there's so much sin in the church and it's because we don't have enough of the presence of God to bring old-fashion conviction that exposes sin in people's life because when you get your sin washed away you can shout you can be happy you can be joyful you have authority and power in Jesus name I need somebody to host the Holy Ghost and say come on and stir me up Holy Spirit don't just bless me blister me every once in a while reprove and convict me of sin we're so concerned about the presence of his power I want miracles I want power I want healing I want God to move we need to be concerned not just with the presence of his power but what about the power of his presence Jacob got in the throne zone saw the angels ascending in descendant he got in the presence of God in the next chapter he made God this promise he said God if you'll bless me I'll give you a tenth of everything I make God when he was in God's presence God never one time brought up money but what is amazing is when you get in God's presence he'll be the Holy Spirit will bring things up that you hadn't even thought about where did he get that idea from he got in the presence of God and when he started tithing it wasn't out of law an obligation it was out of love and out of something that happened in the secret place in the presence of God and he began to tithing God blessed him mightily and the Bible said quote he was very rich when you get in the presence it'll stir up the good and the there are things in your life that you haven't even thought about that you only find when you get in the presence when you get in the presence of the Lord a lot of things come out he begins to stir and he'll bless you and sometimes he'll blister you when's the last time you really felt conviction when's the last time you grieved over sin in your life you haven't been in his presence when you enter into his presence with praise he enters into your circumstances with power and the more you enter into his presence with praise the more he will enter into your circumstances with his power you have to host the Holy Ghost man may be maxed out in his thinking but God has never maxed out in his power faith places no limitations on God but God places no limitations on faith you've got to learn how to host the Holy Ghost how do we host the Holy Ghost in the story of Noah and the Ark the Dove is a symbol of the Holy Spirit the Bible said he opened the window and he released the Dove and the Dove went out again a type of the Holy Spirit but what is amazing is when he released it the Dove flew out and he couldn't find anywhere for the soles of his feet to rest and he said to himself that little dove which represents the Holy Spirit that Noah really knows how to host the Holy Ghost I'm going back to him I'm going back to his window I'm going back to his family I'm going back because that man really knows how to host me and the Bible said when the Dove came back that Noah stretched forth his hands and pulled the Dove unto himself you see he learned how to host the Holy Ghost and the scripture speaks of Jesus and it said when the Dove descended upon him when he was baptized in the water and it remained on him of the one of the chapters talking about that said here it remained on him how do we get that dove to remain how do we host how do we make feel welcome the Holy Spirit in our everyday life not just a visitation at church but a habitation of our life daily how do we become like like Noah I don't know about you but something in me wants to host the Holy Ghost doves are very observant they just a little disturbance makes them fly away they're very flighty you have to be very careful when you approach a dove because they can they can be chased away easily there was no place for his feet to rest so he came back to the man who hosted him so well what a picture for you and I and when he came back he had an olive branch in his mouth and the olive branch represents the anointing notice that when the the Holy Ghost comes wherever he's being hosted well he brings the anointing with him he brings with him in his mouth it's in his mouth that the olive branch was in his mouth and it was evidence of a new world that was coming it was the it was the down payment on what else was out there and when the Holy Ghost comes to your life if you ever learn to host his presence with worship and with clean living and with glorifying God and with living right and just just honoring him and being aware of his presence he will bring evidence of a new world to come in other words that that that that olive branch represented the new creation the old world had been washed away and now there was a new creation and the Dove will bring to your house a language called the Holy Spirit language and it's a down payment on the world to come it's a down payment and it's a proof that there is a new creation that has happened in your life the old things have passed away they all is a type of the Holy Spirit notice that he came speaking another language that does that Olive Branch in his own his mouth represents the the fact that he could speak another language in other words he was saying there's peace out there Noah that branch was saying there's peace out there the storm is over and when we learned to host the Holy Ghost no matter what kind of storms we're going through he can bring peace to us right in the midst of the storm it's his job and I want to host the Holy Ghost I want to talk the language of the dove I want to pray in that sweet prayer language and many of you hundreds of you put perhaps have never been filled and baptized in the Holy Ghost and ever spoke as the Spirit gives you the utterance but when the Dove of the Spirit which fully comes you you the spirit touched you and you've been saved and the spirit lives there but when you get baptized in the Holy Ghost he will bring an anointing upon your mouth and your lips and it will be a rest and it will be a refreshing and it would be a peace and it's a worship language and it's a prayer language and it empowers you to host the Holy Ghost when we know not what we should pray as we want Romans they said the Spirit Himself makes intercession through us we host the Holy Ghost this stuff of acting like just going to church on Sunday is enough it's not enough it won't be transferred to your children and your children's children unless you have the presence of God we've got to have more than a head knowledge we've got to have more than talks on Sunday we need the presence of God in our churches and in our services it's why the story of the woman with the issue of blood and I've heard many preachers say before you know and I know what they meant but technically they were not right they said that that woman with the issue of blood touched Jesus and she was healed that is not correct the Bible said that she touched the hem of His garment and when she touched the hem of His garment she was made whole she didn't touch him she touched she touched something that had touched him if you're here today and you touch him and you get in his presence you do more than have a church service but you actually encounter his presence and then you go back to work and you go back to school and you go back to your home you go back to people who don't know the Lord even in your own family and even though they may not ever want to touch Jesus if you have touched him you touch him for them when you learn to host the Holy Ghost because I've been with him if they touch me they touch him if they talk to me because I have His Word in me and because I've been with him he can bring out and say tell them this but the problem is how long has it been since you personally have touched him well I came to church but have you encountered the presence has he moved you have you that Bible said of the disciples in the book of Acts they took note of them that they were unlearned men that they had been with the Lord they said we can't explain this these guys are brilliant and it's not because they've been to university they have been with the Lord and there's something irresistible about them in other words they got close to him and they touch them your job as a Christian once you're saved is not to have some distant cold callous used to be has been relationship with Jesus but it is to be in his presence full of his word so that when the lost and dying community all around us is dying we have such a heart for them that we touch him and the only G since they will ever know and ever see is the Jesus and me the Jesus in you turn to somebody and say touch him for them Church is not about you all the time and what this service is supposed to be about is not another bless you again see Paul put it like this Paul said I charge you everybody say charge I charge you before the Lord Jesus Christ he didn't say I shocked you there's a difference between a shock and a charge as a little boy every once why when we're really bored we would we would undo a light bub and we'd get an old clothes rack and we'd see who's a man I don't recommend that and don't do it I'm afraid that's what we do we come to church and we come for the shock they sing your song oh I got it praise God that felt good Franklin Jensen played the saxophone nerd oh I got what I wanted he prayed my old hymn get a little shocked you know what the problem with the shock is it's temporary but a charge if you get in his presence in you you really soak in his presence you get charged then when you walk out of here it's not just about an electrical feeling at free chapel during the sermon or during the music but I have my batteries full because I've learned how to host the Holy Ghost I close with this but I love Moses attitude in Exodus 33 God said to him my angels will go before you it's time to go go forward move forward my angels will go before you and then he said my promises are in you it's gonna happen go but God said but I'm not going because I'm so upset at those people dancing around that golden calf you go my angels going before you my promise is in you go ahead Moses and Moses put on the brakes and stop two and a half million people and said back to God in Exodus 33 if your presence does not go with us we will not go in other words angels are wonderful promises are wonderful teaching of the word is wonderful hip knowledge is awesome get all of it you can but there is nothing that can take the place of the presence of the Holy Spirit the letter killeth you can sit and hear somebody teach you the word until you're blue in the face and the letter kills but it's the presence it's the spirit that makes it come alive and we've got churches that teach the word but our nation is going to hell because somebody's got to get in the presence with him for them and I can't find shortcuts it still takes fasting it still takes prayer it still takes inconvenience on the flesh it still takes hours alone with God hearing his voice welcoming and and learning how to host the Holy Ghost because he has the answer and as you as you worship in that heavenly language that anointing that comes on your mouth and your tongue in with stammering lips in an unknown tongue will I speak to my people and this shall be a rest and a refreshing as you host the Holy Ghost in worship as you host the Holy Ghost in and reading the word and study in his letters as you worship and host the Holy Ghost he he brings life he brings the exposure of sin and inconsistencies in your own life he David ate the showbread and the showbread was called the bread of his presence and he went out the next day and won an incredible battle because when you when you're in his presence his presence brings strength for the battle some of you're in a battle and you just keep fighting in the flesh and fighting in the flesh fine and you don't understand that victory is when you get in his presence he'll help you be still and know that I am God I can handle cancer I can handle disease I can handle financial difficulty come into my presence because if you get the power of my presence you get the presence of my power Charice and I want to thank all of you wonderful partners and friends who support and feed so many children here in Haiti I'm in kingdom connection village race this is the hundred homes and here's some of the children that live in the homes that you provided and now the five hundred and forty thousand meals a month and on and on the miracle goes so I just wanted to say thank you thank you 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Published: Sun Apr 24 2016