John Osteen's The Holy Ghost and Fire: Five Reactions to the Holy Ghost (1996)

well we welcome you today to the program Doty 9 the liquid church groupers are always glad that you tuned in to hear the word of God and we don't waste at a time we teach you the Word of God we sing the praises of God so join in with us we're a happy group of people and I know God's gonna bless you today amen I'm gonna remind you the story about Elijah and Elijah you know how God said it's not going to raise the three and a half years and finally there was a great fireman and the people were disgruntled and all and God spoke to Elijah and said it's gonna rain and so he sent his servant out to go look for a cloud it's gonna rain for seven days he went and looked for a cloud and he never saw another I've been thinking about this scripture and I've been observing the skies for several days there was not a cloud in the sky nowhere was there cloud it was beautiful and blue and I look for a cloud the size of a man's hand now everybody look at your hand your hands aren't very big now you think about a size of a man tense in that cloud up there like that the servant went seven days you every day before he said I don't see a cloud on the seventh day he said I see a cloud the size of a man's head now you think about looking up the sky and seeing a little bitty cloud he had proof that there was going to be rain because he saw a cloud the size of a man's hand and I thought about this you may not have any proof except the Word of God that your prayer is going to be answered maybe not the first day maybe not the second day maybe nothing which is God's perfect number there was a cloud it may have not been seen by anybody else except that service but he saw it and then the rain came so you hold on to the Word of God hold on to what you're believing for because the rain is going to come and that you know we're so glad that you're watching and I want to encourage you that the Bible says my people perish for lack of knowledge and the people of God are not only in this church you're out there watching and viewing the telecast and he said my people are destroyed for lack of knowledge we need to have knowledge of the Word of God and that's what this search is all about I'm teaching on the minister the Holy Spirit between 9 the end of 1996 how to say this is my Bible I am what it says I am I have what it says I have I can do what it says I can do today I will be taught the Word of God boldly confess my mind is alert the heart is receptive I will never be the same I am about to receive the incorruptible indestructible everliving seed of the word of God will never be the same shouting out never never never that will be the same in Jesus name Amen you may be seated television audience I am reading and quoting from the first chapter of the book of Acts the book of Acts is a is 28 chapters of what the real church oughta look like it's God's idea of a local church and the church as a whole and the Bible says in Acts chapter 1 and and Jesus showed himself alive after his suffering by many infallible proofs speaking to them the things pertaining to the kingdom of God verse 4 and he commanded them not to depart from Jerusalem until you be endued with power from on high as you have heard me say for John truly baptized with water but you shall be baptized in the Holy Ghost not many days hence and they said Lord if you're gonna restore the kingdom to Israel at this time he said is not for you to know about that political power but you shall receive power after the Holy Ghost is come upon you and you shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem Judea Samaria and the uttermost parts of the earth now Jesus here is promising that power they went up to an upper room where there was Mary the mother of Jesus and all the twelve eleven disciples and about a hundred twenty and all and these continued with one Accord in prayer and the Bible says in acts 2 and when the day of Pentecost was fully come they were all in one place with one Accord and suddenly they came from a HIPPA now many of you viewing by television think liquid church is noisy but you should have been there that day there came a sound from heaven this in heaven has been too quiet we need a sound from heaven it was a rushing mighty wind and filled all the house where they were sitting and the Bible says they were all filled with the Holy Ghost and begin their peered unto them cloven tongues like as a fire and they were all filled with the Holy Ghost and began to speak in tongues as the spirit gave utterance and about three thousand people got saved that day now there were five reactions to that marvelous manifestation of the Holy Ghost and we should never be afraid of anything the Holy Ghost wants to do he is in charge of the church if he wants us to dance we oughta dance if he wants us to laugh we are alive if he bought here if he wants us to roll we are a shake rattle and roll amen if he wants us to preach and to teach we ought to do that same we ought to do that the Holy Ghost is in charge but now the Bible says when they all begin to speak these strange languages it says they were number one they were compounded and then they were all amazed and they marveled and summoned out and some not we're talking about the Ministry of the Holy Ghost and if you have supernatural enemies you need supernatural power can I have a better amen if you have supernatural enemies and you do you have to be a you have to be a loony if you don't know that there has been unleashed upon this world now the devil but demon forces by the hundreds of thousand millions had caused people to do radical terrible things and that's supernatural powers out there and all of your intellect and all of yours your seminary training and your college education and your natural Internet is no match for the power of the devil and demon forces and Jesus what's the church in dude with the power of the Holy Ghost and that is supernatural power to pay super natural enemies this is the Bible talks about that the church is the ecclesia the called out ones and you know the church is not we got to get in our mind the church is not ordained of God to be a social club you know just a place where you can meet the high and mighty and dress right and may have make the right conduct it's not a place to run your business it's not a place to go up and down the aisles and get somebody to join your business outreach god help us we're in church to worship God and the church is not was not organized as a political voice I thank God for politics we pray for President Clinton and his wife in it and the cabinet and all of that and we're for that we know that's another dimension altogether but the church is not a political organization the church here's the body of Jesus in the world to demonstrate the devil here's defeated we were called out first Peter chapter 2 verse 9 but you are a chosen generation you are a royal priesthood a holy nation a peculiar people that you should show forth the praises of him who called you out everybody say I got called out who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light notice all these things the church is a whole is a holy nation a holy nation we are a royal priesthood one thing about Baptists they taught me in college and seminary is that is the priesthood of the believer that every child of God has a right to go to God for themselves we are a royal priesthood I was a Navin only the high priest could go into God but that veil of the temple was rent in twain and God moved out of buildings and moved into people amen we're a royal priesthood we hear people ever watched a while in this great awakening that we're having today they they they quote this and they say well you know God will do nothing unless he first shows his prophets unless it's first revealed to the prophets and that amazes me that's the name as I believe 37 that's under the Old Covenant don't ever quote that scripture today and say well you know if God's going to do anything today he'll reveal it to his prophets and they'll have to tell the poor little pastors what to do and the poor little teachers what to do and the poor little Evangel is what to do and the poor little apostles what to do no and was under the Old Covenant in God did anything under the Old Covenant he did it through the voice of the prophet who was God's messenger but when Jesus died and rose again we can all hear from God our selves thank God we don't wait for some man to come swaggering to to tell us God's will we can hear it from a housewife we can hear it from somebody who's a dog catcher we can hear it from somebody who's a baker who's a who's a butcher we can all hear from God we are a royal priesthood a holy nation a peculiar people a peculiar people Sona and peculiar doesn't mean that you have goofy it means you're a special treasure to God you're protected by God and you're not only a peculiar people but you were to your to show forth the praises of him who called you out of darkness that's one reason we have the Holy Ghost thank God we're the called out group and the called out group is all over the world we are called out of darkness into his marvelous life I can remember when I was called coming home from that nightclub what timing morning two o'clock in the morning lost and undone without God minded my own business but there came that called that I'd heard earlier as a little child and there's 12 years of agent and 13 and 14 but I'd turned it down but again the boy said come out come out come out of the world come out of the world come out of Darkness come into my light Hey and I'll give you eternal life thank God I listened and I didn't I didn't seek God he sought me somebody said I found the Lord no he wasn't lost you were lost whoa I was called out of darkness into his marvelous light what what a joy what a privilege to know and many of you who view now you have received the call again and again and again and again and you have not responded one day you will get your final call and there will be no voice saying come there'll be no boy saying come out you know I'll be over because you've hardened your heart for today our prayer is that you might turn your heart with all your mind and so and give it to the Lord Jesus Christ he's calling you out of darkness into his marvelous light thank God he delivers us from the power of darkness and translates into the kingdom of his dear son here not only have we called out of darkness it says we're called in the fellowship with his son thank God we're walking with new company we're walking with Jesus and then the Bible says he has called us unto his eternal glory whoa we're gonna I know where we're gonna end up we're gonna end up whether or not in a more sign and crying and dying and no more sickness no more migraine headaches no more rheumatoid arthritis no more back pain no more hardened arteries no more trouble no more sorrow no more death no more pain thank God he's called us to his eternal glory oh I like what that little little man said to came through here in his eighties there's a white-haired little man standing here in his ages and gave a little testimony he said well folks I live down in Florida but oh I've just old my way to heaven came by to invite you to go with me hallelujah that's what--that's attitude we are we ought to be able to take we're called out of darkness but we're called to his eternal glory now God God said all that about the church the church is the called out group oh I tell you that'll be a difference in the Church of the Living God in the world not to be a difference in the church and the immorality and the indecency and the ugliness and the uncleanness and the profanity of the world that'll be a difference we are called out of that darkness into his marvelous light we ought to walk as children of light that show our colors that the Holy Ghost empowers not to be ashamed but now notice here notice here but when he gave the church the power they all were filled with the Holy Ghost and began to speak in other tongues and do a signs and wonders a miracle but now that that's up to you somebody said well last window that's where the church got baptized holy-o's no no nice when they got baptized no videos they didn't get saved for us and they can't get baptized Oh Holy Ghost for us all the way through the book of Acts every time new believers showed up they all got born again and then they got baptized know how it goes the Lord Jesus Christ the head of the church watch all of his people and after I look out here and see the thousands here today but I see hundreds of thousands do that camera of every denomination ever Strife ever creed ever backgrounds some of you not even in a church but the thing I want you to know here's Jesus wants all of you to be endued with the power of the Holy Ghost have you received the Holy Ghost since you believed oh that's the question so that happened all the way through the book of Acts but notice now the reactions it says they were confounded well here all these people reelin and rockin and and I know don't doubt live they were laughing and and rejoicing and some of them may be down on the floor and 120 people look like they were all drunk and this blast I've got the attention of the whole countryside and thousands gathered and the these people came out that upper roof and they were just wobbling like this and talking in tongues and and people began to understand what they were saying and the Bible says they were confounded number 1 that means to be troubled in their mind and then the second reaction was they were amazed speaking in tongues is a sign to the unbelieving world and so there's some of them were confounded troubled in the back for some of their manes now tell you not everybody is against God's power not everybody is against a manifestation of the Holy Ghost when they're speaking in tongues err or the joy of the Lord or whatever they're not everybody's against that but they stand amazed amazed that we could praise God and worship God and dance before the Lord and talk about Jesus so freely and but there is an amazement and that's a good reaction they are confounded yes but they were amazed and then the Bible says and and some marvels oh I like that oh my people you know some people watch in our church you know we have an hour telecast here in the Houston area and you see the singing and the dancing and the praising and the prayin put the sink and all of that and you may marvel but I tell you don't have to marvel at as you get in with us Amen just come on join the crowd amen have buddies welcome but then the fourth reaction some were in doubt and you know a lot of people are still plagued with that demon they're in doubt I wonder the scissors of God what if this is of God you know when I first received US began to seek the baptism in the Holy Ghost you know just for the sake of you people viewing out there I passed her to Baptist Church for to about two or three hundred people and and I began to seek the baptism in the Holy Ghost didn't know I speak it doesn't know I'm getting mixed up with all of this you know but I just begin to seek and to seek and to seek and to seek and then one day while I was while I was praying you know I thought lightning would come down to Old Men strike men I turned all different colors my ears wiggled my eyes and room I had I thought I'd be changed into Billy Graham five times better he was I'd really had ideas like that that it was what was going to happen but I was praying in town while praying in my English and I said oh god I didn't know out of their belly shall flow I know y'all heard me say this before I would press oh god out with the Bab didn't hold ago so I looked up at that I want to but that I would excuse me Lord I can't talk English I want the baptism in the Holy Ghost and have come up like that all the time and and I remember what that I'll let it come up it was Otto Leo is the first word I ever spoken jumped he said well that's not much what if you hadn't had anything for 19 years old Tony owes a lot thank God for Oh Tony oh but the first thing the devil said to me as I began to speak that word and a few little other words he said that's not God that's you you got a demon or yes I tell you to tell you the truth I was I was really wondering if you know if I'm liable to get out here to start seeing it all this and get a demon anybody ever think of that when you started to sing at the baptism what it goes well aren't you glad jesus said if he asked for bread he won't give you a stone yes for fish he won't give you a serpent hallelujah if you ask for the Holy Ghost you go get the Holy Ghost but but but you know that and that put doubt doubt I remember I got miserable and I went to the hotel room I said goodbye the Doty I said I'm going until I get satisfied when you doubt the words God gives you at grieves the Holy Ghost and he withdraws he's saddened that now he's given you a few words to praise God the Father with and you you don't even believe you doubt and listen to the voice of the devil so he was saddened in me so when I went up to that hotel room and finally I started with those same little same words and I thought well I never did talk this way before this must be God I said I'm just going to give myself to it and weighed out all the way and I just gave myself to it with all my heart mind and soul and I'm telling you that rushed out of me a torrent of words and the power of God that I'd never felt in all of my life so some are in doubt but don't doubt God no doubt God God believed God God doubt never evangelize the world doubt never won a soul I've never got a miracle I've never built a hospital doc doubt never reached a nation never built an urbanist doubt is the enemy of your soul don't doubt believe down and do without believe and receive hallelujah so they doubt it but then I I wish this one dinner but it has to be an epic or still happens they and some art some art some make fun a people who pray and worship God in other languages and have the power of the Holy Ghost and you know what I pray if you're walking today I pray that God will just give me your part just pour all the belongs you up on me don't mock the Holy Ghost if you can't say inner they keep your mouth shut but God gave that power to the church there in the in the book of Acts and and they then all these reactions but Peter jumped up and says these are not drunken like you suppose they're drunk but not like you suppose but this is that which was spoken of by the Prophet Joel it shall come to pass in the last days and how many of you know where in the last is over the last day it should come to pass in the last days saith god I'll tell you what God says something there's power behind it God said let there be light and there was light he said it shall come to pass in the last days then I will pour out of my spirit upon all flesh and I'm glad for what he said next and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy thank God our sons and daughters don't have to shoot each other and God should crack a crack cocaine and get in games and diary he said I've go to fill him with the Holy Ghost and they shall prophesy and of all my servants and o'morn handmaidens in those days I will pour out my spirit and I will show signs and wonders and that's what he's doing today all over this land and all over the world has a Great Awakening and God is showing signs and wonders but he's still pouring out his spirit so that his church will not be some kind of a little socialized Club that gathers and sing sweet songs and talks about a sweet little Jesus at the Bible to do anything about and and as afraid of Holy Ghost power he has a church that's full of his power the power of the Holy Ghost and that Holy Ghost power will not only help us to have our own needs met but he will help us reach the unreached and tell the untold and move out to the nations of the world and we may win them for the Lord Jesus Christ thank God I'm glad I'm a part of a Holy Ghost Church a Holy Ghost Church I want you to stay with me during the rest of this year because I'm gonna be talking about some things next Sunday and the next Sunday and then Excel that are so vital to every one of you revelation I don't believe you've ever had before we'll just stay with us because God's going to change your life you know we talk about the power of the Holy Ghost but they called out gods called some of you out of today out of darkness out of living with that man a woman you're not married to out of drugs out of alcohol out of alternate lifestyle he's calling you out of the darkness of the devil the devil wants to keep you in darkness until you drags your soul down to hell oh but I made up my mind I'm not gonna go to hell with the devil and you ought to make up your mind today you have been to tenderness toward God at all that's his call he's calling you out of darkness he's calling you out of darkness don't stay in darkness come out into the light use a house again I'll do that just cover appendix toward God and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ what does that mean just look to God today and say there say God I'm sorry for the way I've lived you say God I'm sorry for the way I live not on turning my back on the way I've been living the devil and demons the world and see it I won't turn my back home to God right now and we'll put my faith in your son the Lord Jesus Christ who died and rose again for me who is the Lord of the universe I wanted to be malleable just say those words to him now just say Jesus opened wide the door my heart I want to live in darkness anymore I don't want to die and go to hell I don't want to live under the load of my sins I want to be clean I want to be pure I want you to come into my heart Jesus I surrender my life to you and make you the Lord of my life

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Length: 26min 14sec (1574 seconds)

Published: Tue Mar 18 2014