In The Name of Jesus - Chris Green

acts chapter 4 and i'm going to read verses 7 through 13. if you have it say amen if you're looking at the screen say amen amen we're divided today that's all right the bible says in acts chapter 4 verse 7 it says and when they had set them in the midst they asked by what power or by what name everybody say name by what power or by what name have you done this and peter filled with the holy ghost said unto them you rulers of the people and elders of israel if we this day be examined of the good deed done to the impotent man by what means he is made whole be it known unto you all and to all the people of israel that by the name of jesus christ of nazareth watch whom you crucified how can you heal a lame man with the name of a dead man they thought he was dead peter knew bitter he said by the name of jesus christ of nazareth whom you crucified whom god raised from the dead even by him doth this man stand here before you whole this is the stone which was said at night of you builders which has become the head of the corner neither is there salvation in any other for there is none other name under heaven given among men whereby we must be saved now when they saw the boldness somebody say boldness see when you know the power of the name of jesus something happens to you you get bold well three of you got it i said when you know the power of the name of jesus you don't have to be intimidated insecure inferior when they saw the baldness of peter and john and perceived that they were unlearned and ignorant men they marveled and took knowledge of them because that they had been with jesus very simple sermon but i feel the gift of faith here in this service people today are going to be healed of sickness pain and disease people would be filled with the gift of the holy ghost speaking in tongues for the first time and it's all going to happen because of the name of jesus so i'm preaching to you in the name of jesus if you are ready for an outpouring of the holy ghost would you clap your hands with all of your might and shout to god with the voice of triumph because we are triumphant as long as we know the name of jesus [Music] well somebody shout hallelujah in jesus name you may be seated in the name of jesus to lay just a little bit of biblical foundation and context you need to know that peter and john as most of you know the story of acts chapter 3 going back to acts 1 jesus had told them there's coming a day where my spirit is going to fall he said go to jerusalem and wait for the promise of the father the gift of the holy ghost and just like us they were concerned with the timing and they said well jesus tell us what time i got things to do tell us when this might happen and jesus said it's not important that you know the time or the seasons he said but you need to go to jerusalem and wait for you shall receive power after that the holy ghost has come upon you everybody say power see that's why when anybody comes to an altar of any service that i'm a part of whether i'm preaching or not and i go to lay my hands on somebody and i ask them what is your need it's a setup because truly it doesn't matter what the need is the answer is always the same you need the power of the holy ghost someone says my marriage is broken my finances are lost i got a migraine i got arthritis i've got this i've got that i don't care what it is the answer is always the same it's in the name of jesus in the power of the holy ghost jesus told them that you would receive power after the holy ghost comes upon you and as you know the story just laying the foundation they go to the upper room in jerusalem and waited there and prayed and fasted and sought god and acts chapter 2 lets us know that it came it says that when the day of pentecost was fully come they were in one mind and one place and suddenly you know 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 unto them cloven or divided tongues like as of fire and it set upon each of them and they were all filled with the gift of the holy ghost and began to speak in other tongues as the spirit of god gave the utterance but they knew something they knew jesus said after i get the holy ghost i'm going to have power not to go and be a pew warmer not to just show up on sunday morning but literally to be the body of jesus christ because it was jesus himself who said the works that i do greater works will you do because i'm going home he said you're going to do the same miracles the same wonders the same signs and demonstration that i have done after i have given you my spirit so they came out of the upper room as fresh new converts hadn't been to bible college hadn't been to purpose institute i hadn't even counseled with pastor john's yet they were new converts but they were at least disciple enough that they knew they needed to go back to church so acts chapter 3 lets us know that they already had received the holy ghost been baptized in jesus name and here they come going back to church that's a good place to go when you got the holy ghost go back to church bible says that they were headed back to the church they were headed to the temple and when they got to the gate they found a lame man who had been crippled from his birth and if you know the story and you know the context you know that this man was not allowed into the church he was had never come into the church but yet he got as close as he could he stood at the front gate begging for alms don't he know church people don't like to give money away here comes peter and john and the bible says that peter looked on him and the man looked at him and said hey man you got some money for me and peter should have said you know i'm a pentecostal preacher i ain't got nothing for you ain't got no money for you no i'm playing but you know the famous words that peter looks at him and he says i don't have what you're looking for silver and gold have i none but such as i have give i thee in the name of jesus i almost had to just pause for a second because of the power of that name this man had been crippled from birth which means no remedy no prescription no doctor no drug no rehab no therapy could allow this man's legs to walk but when peter said i don't have a penny but i've got a name i don't have a dollar but i've got a name so in the name of jesus rise up and walk and the bible says that peter he grabbed the hand of that man and he pulled him to his feet i just want to throw this in there it's time that we just stop talking about it and we start doing it didn't get everybody on that one but i i just think it's time in these last days that we don't just preach about it anymore that we don't just talk about it anymore but it's time to lift our hands and say by the power of the name of jesus i rebuked that disease i i rebuked that oh god i said it's time to walk the walker it's time that we demonstrate the power of the name of jesus bible lets us know that he pulled him up and the bible says that he got strength in his legs and he started walking then he said well if i can walk i can leap and he started leaping and it started running and when he was healed he was allowed in the church now here's what gets me i'm crazy you've already deduced that it was this man's first time in church he didn't know how to act you have to pardon him forgive him he didn't know how to be dignified yet he didn't know when to say hallelujah jesus he didn't know how to just act apart the bible says that he stood and he was walking and he started leaping it's under my understanding that when he came into the church i bet he came down that aisle leaping and it flustered the feathers of all the religious pharisees and sadducees and captains of the temple and the high priest and they said who is this man he don't belong here he belongs outside the church who is this man that comes into our church messing up our program messing up our tradition messing up our schedule i'll tell you who it is it is a testimony of the power of the name of jesus christ i tell you what if you ever get in a rut and you now i know this church don't go through this but if you ever find yourself in a rut of dead boring dry dull church i'll give you the secret formula to bust out of it you just preach the name of jesus why because when you say jesus something has to happen [Music] i was in a church like this before believe it or not there are boring churches that have forgotten or rather at least drawn numb to the power of the name of jesus i was in a church several years ago probably about 40 50 people standing in the pulpit and happened almost like what happened there in the bible except i was already in the church and i was preaching and the lord spoke to me and said stop preaching now i want to heal somebody tonight i said okay close my bible turn off my ipad i said okay church the lord just spoke to me sorry i hadn't gotten to my notes yet or sorry i hadn't made sense of where i was going but god said he wants to heal somebody now all the religious people said this i said i'm sorry i i said that and and chinese or something i'm gonna say it in english this time i said the lord wants to heal somebody right now okay god third time's a charm if you will come to the front right now god is going to heal your body today everybody just sat there like i was a fool then i looked in the back and there was a head that was hovering across from the left to the right back uh behind the back pew i thought what and god's name was this she turned the corner and she was in a wheelchair and i said oh god i've done it now she comes down to the front and i did what any good evangelist would do she's in a wheelchair and i said so ma'am what do you need from god i'm praying for a headache or a toothache or something that people can't see she says i've been paralyzed from my waist down for the last 20 years she said this is my first time in this church i love first-time visitor faith you know take somebody like me who's been in church a little while to to to speculate what the pastor says and wonder if it's true what he's saying up there but that first time visitor faith says oh you say i can be healed today okay here i come and then i stepped back and said okay god this better be you and not the lucky charms i had last night i said ma'am i'm not smart enough i'm not powerful enough i have zero ability the only thing i know is that the word says that these signs will follow them that believe in my name he said if you lay hands on the sick in my name if you lay hands on the sick in my name they shall recover i said i'm not smart enough to argue with the word of god so i'm just going to do what the word says and if it don't happen it's his fault so here i come and i prayed in the name of jesus and no angel showed up no fire fell i said how do you feel she said feel the same let's try it again in the name of jesus when i prayed the second time the lord spoke to me and said i'm going to heal her and bring her out of the wheelchair tonight but not in front of the church because they don't deserve to see my power like this he said tell her go home and if she will give her life to me in the privacy of her home there and only there will i bring her out of that wheelchair so i whispered in her ear i said ma'am you need to go home and you need to give your life to god in the privacy of your bedroom and if you will god will heal your body tonight first time visit her faith she said okay wield herself home the next service of revival the pastor was in the pulpit after a few songs and getting ready to bring me up and all of a sudden the back two doors open up and here comes that lady walking down the center aisle the pastor just about lost it he said lady where is your wheelchair she said pastor i don't need a wheelchair i went home and did what that preacher told me to do and all of a sudden i felt something i've never felt before i stood up out of this wheelchair for the first time in 20 years she came and she said but i'm here tonight because i want more than a healing pastor i want to walk in the next life pastor said well come with me we laid her down in the watery grave we baptized her in the only saving name of jesus and when she came out of the water she was filled with the gift of the holy ghost oh i'm coming to you today because there is power there is power there is salvation there is deliverance there is healing in the name of jesus now let that go for just a moment let that go for just a moment there's something when you utter his name there's some call god demons tremble when you just say jesus jesus jesus jesus thou son of david have mercy on me you clap your hands and let faith rise let faith rise huh before your seated just shout his name one time come on shout it jesus may be seated i don't think i'm going to go where i thought i was going to go i feel faith i feel the gift of faith let me tell you what the gift of faith is you see the bible says the bible says that each of us have a measure of faith you may have two degrees of faith i might have one degree of faith you might have five degrees of faith we each have a measure of faith but the gift of faith is what happens when you are approached with an opposition an obstacle a situation that your measure of faith cannot overcome and when you step against that obstacle and say there's no way i can't do it jesus says yes there is a way for i am the way i am the truth i am the life and god imparts his faith just a few weeks ago i wasn't far from here in virginia and was preaching the service and we had 22 people get the holy ghost that morning and and got to the applebees to eat and the pastor i love it when i get to sit down with pastors and hear the back stories you know and because everybody here i mean you're just saved and spiritual nothing wrong with you to me i i don't know i'm giving you the benefit of the doubt ignorance is bliss for me i don't know your backstory in the valleys you've been through and but you see the miracle is always greater when you know the valleys they've been in and pastors telling me about different people man did you see that person well they've been going through this and he said this lady that got the holy ghost right here he said she's the choir director at the trinitarian baptist church down the street they run about 3 000 people i don't know why she came but she was there speaking in tongues for the first time i said wow that's awesome he said but did you see the man standing next to her i said i don't recall and he said you know you would know if you saw him he had a yarmulke curly side burns said man i must have missed him wouldn't forget that he said he is an orthodox jewish man a scholar a theologian he's been to our church twice now and he hasn't come to the altar until today and i was laughing and i said well that's because i didn't give him a choice i said come he was the only one left he had to come he came and he stood there he said he told me in that altar because i gave them just some instruction like paul says to do i said okay all of you are about to receive the holy ghost we had several over here who needed healing i said all of you are about to be healed today i said what we're going to do is we're y'all done this before with other evangelists i said we're going to lift up our hands because it shows that we're surrendering to god and we have faith to receive and i said we're going to lift up our head because god jesus said lift up your head for your redemption draweth nigh and when your head's down it represents fear i said we're going to close our eyes so we're not distracted and we're going to repent of our sins so that we're cleansed of any debris and any distraction i said then the final thing is we're going to praise god with the shout of hallelujah which means i give my life to jehovah i said we're going to do those things and when you shout hallelujah everybody's going to speak in tongues you're going to be healed and delivered he was this man this orthodox jewish man standing here and he just kind of kept his hands down his eyes open his head down he did all the opposite of what i said so the pastor went directly to him and said will you at least try and his response was not unless i hear it in hebrew mistake he said pastor if i hear it in the orthodox language of hebrew then and only then will i do what that preacher said to do well when we went through our prayer and we shouted hallelujah that first-time visitor that lady from the baptist church she received the gift of the holy ghost and when she started speaking in tongues that jewish man his eyes went as big as saucers and he jumped back like he had seen a ghost and the pastor said what is it what is wrong he said that lady is speaking perfect hebrew he said she is he said yes the pastor asked well what is she saying what is she saying he said she's repeating the same phrase over and over and it's this i am god and my name is jesus he said she's saying it over and over i am god and my name is jesus i am god and my name is jesus he said so will you do it he said i'm ready he lifted up his hands and god filled that orthodox jewish man with the gift of the holy ghost come on just another moment i said god is here today i don't have to get through my notes anymore god is here today the name of jesus doesn't need my notes the name of jesus doesn't need my sermon but he's looking for somebody's faith he's looking for somebody's need he's oh he's looking for somebody's desperation that if you could but cry out and say jesus today is my day this is my day i will rejoice i will receive i will be healed everybody stand to your feet if you're able would you stand with me god this is what i feel in the holy ghost so i feel in the holy ghost right now there's people here this morning that you have a need in fact everybody in here has a need but this is what i feel very specific in the holy ghost that there's people here who have had the same need for months and even years you have carried that need to like what that lame man did to the gate called beautiful you brought it to church last sunday you brought that need to church last revival you've carried that need with you only to return home with it i feel an unction of the holy ghost under the prophetic anointing of god that today is your day to release that need into the nail scarred hands of jesus christ and say jesus this need is no longer my need this pain is no longer my pain this depression is no longer my depression this addiction is no longer my addiction this infirmity is no longer my infirmity but i give it to you in the name of jesus

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Published: Fri Mar 26 2021