John Osteen's The Holy Ghost and Fire: Loose Him and Let Him Go! (1996)

throughout his life one thing that made most of Jesus was people he sacrificed everything to lead them to his father and to love them no matter what Jesus loved everyone that was what made him so different and so necessary to our lives I'm John Osteen pastor of Lakewood Church in Houston Texas through many years of Medicine we've discovered that there's no greater joy than loving and caring for God's people that means you no matter your denomination grace or walk of life your dreams and desires are important to God and that makes them important to us we've dedicated our lives to bring in the compassion of Jesus to everyone by building faith in God through the teaching and preaching of his word they could help those who have been overcome to be overcomers we're interested in God's fair best-reviewed so please just as you all join the people of Lakewood for the next hour as we open God's Word together well praise the Lord we're so glad you've tuned in today you know we have a good time here at Lakewood Church the joy of the Lord is our strength and we just invite you to come out and enjoy some of that joy could I have an amen I would just give you a scripture very quickly about something that really spoke to my heart in the book of 2nd Kings Jay who was a king and he was talking to another man and he said to this man I'm loyal to you and this is in the essence this is the essence of it I'm loyal to you but here are the words he said in that King James Version is your heart right as my heart is turn toward your heart now you think about that we are an example to people and if we're looking to people and I thought about mothers and daddies is your heart right is your heart toward God or is it turned toward somebody else because your children are looking at you and saying where's your heart mother and daddy how's it turned because I'm looking to you and my heart's turned like your heart is turn so I just want to encourage you be good Christians love God those of you are not saved turn your heart right today get your heart right with God today is the day of salvation today is the day you need to make the decision so your heart will be turned right toward God then when people look at you their heart will be turned right because yours theirs just turn toward you and all the people said amen amen Thank You Dodi that's real good you know I want to I want to remind the television artists today we're going to be speaking on the Holy Spirit and Paul said to the people in the nineteenth chapter he of Acts he said have you received the Holy Spirit said she believed you they said we haven't even heard with a be a Holy Spirit well that's one reason we talk about this on television a lot of Christians do not know about the power of the Holy Spirit but I'll tell you is wonderful to be filled and baptized with the Holy Ghost and you know we want to encourage you that you have a mighty helper a great helper and you don't have to face life alone with all the ups and downs and troubles and sorrows the Holy Ghost can come and be a mighty helper to you in every situation he knows all things he can reveal things to you he will guide you so stay tuned to power Bibles and let's make our confession everybody say if this is my Bible I am what it says I am I have what it says a hell I can do what he says I can do today I will be taught the Word of God I boldly confess my mind is alert my heart is receptive I will never be the same I'm about to receive the incorruptible indestructible everliving seed of the word of God I will never be the same never never never I will never be the same in Jesus name Amen you may be seated television artists we're reading for the book of John chapter 14 and Jesus said in verse 14 of chapter 14 if you shall ask anything in my name I will do it if you love me keep my Commandments and I will pray the father and he will give you another comforter that he may abide with you forever even the Spirit of Truth whom the world cannot receive because it seeth him not neither knoweth him but you know him for he dwells with you and he shall be in you I will not leave you comfortless or his orphans I will come to you talking about the Holy Ghost and we're talking in these days to the local church here and also to you who view about television on the Holy Spirit you know Jesus spent so much time when he started to talk about going away talking about the Holy Ghost and he thought it was so important to the church because he was going away but he was going to say and the Holy Ghost back to direct the affairs of the church and somehow there is a greater antagonism even in religious areas when you start talking about the baptism in the Holy Ghost and fire some people say well don't talk to me about the Holy Ghost I remember as an ordained Southern Baptist minister and I'm still ordained so the bad dispenser thank God for the Baptist's thank God for all they do everybody say God bless the Baptist said out loud you know thank God for everybody who's getting people saved into it some good but I didn't have any life they didn't teach me about the baptism in the Holy Ghost and you know that I could speak in other tongues and that I could have the fullness of the Holy Ghost in fact they taught me to stay away from people like you that that all of this was just an emotional experience and I believe that with all of my heart but Jesus said you know that I'm going to send to the church and individuals the Holy Ghost he'll be another comforter he'll be the power of God in your life have you ever wondered why so many religious people against the baptism in the Holy Ghost is because the devil knows that that's the power of God and if he can keep them from the power of God he can keep victory out of their life now all Christians who were born again have the Holy Ghost because I remember as a denominational preacher they'd come to me said you need the Holy Ghost it made me mad because I knew I was born of the Spirit just make me mad make me think that that I didn't know anything about God and really hurt my pride for them to tell me that you know that I needed something else and so I grew up for 19 years in my ministry afraid to touch anything that had to do with what people call the baptism in the Holy Ghost yet Jesus the head of the church is the one who said I'm going away so the Holy Ghost can come he called the Holy Ghost a helper thank God for the help not just because you're born of the Spirit of God doesn't mean you're full of the Holy Ghost when you're born again that qualifies you then to receive the baptism in the Holy Ghost you saw I got the baptism notice when I got saved no you did the Bible says the world cannot receive the Holy Ghost how many of you when you didn't serve Jesus know you were of the world shall amen say you were of the world you cannot receive the Holy Ghost as a lost person you can receive Jesus into your heart and Holy Ghost can give you the new birth but now the Bible says a lot about receiving the Holy Ghost who's that far that's for somebody who has been born again washed in the blood and somebody said well I sure don't want to speak in tongues why not we don't get mad when people speak German we don't get mad when people speak Russian around us why should we get mad if God who made all languages will give us a supernatural language to communicate with heaven it's unnatural the antagonism against what they call could coach speaking in tongues you know years ago I won't tell this on Dodi we were in that little builder y'all know what hotel we were in that little building over there and we were having would turn on the map you know for world evangelism in which stretch out our hands toward the map would pray you know it and so Dodi got up she's just just getting used to getting up you know before the people you know and and exercising her ministry you know and she was real concerned and real real moved about missions and she said I want to understand and she meant to say stretch out your hands toward the map and pray in tongues and she said I want about to stretch out your tongues and dota started crying because everybody started laughing and Dodi just stood in the pulpit and cried and I jumped up and I said number one I said let's take five minutes to laugh so we all laugh for five minutes I said now there's a little dark cloud don't notice and I said let's all knock it off because I've got to drive home with her so we knocked the dark cloud off and we went on with the service and so again I got in the car I said to Dodi we're going home don't eat cook and about five o'clock that morning cooked a book pulled me election normal and did you know it and when we had all the kids in the car and we were going home and and have we got in the car now sent out Dulce word don't bring up that subject it's over we're done with gone forever don't even mention it so we went on and we had lunch and Dodi stopped washing dishes or what if she did walked over there she said and can I say one thing I said what just one she said as a little boy came up to me and said Dodi so don't ask your questions she said what she said how far out will we just stretch our tongues but you but you know you know the Bible says he that speaks in another tongue speaks not unto me but under God for no man understands him howbeit in the spirit he speaketh mysteries to God and what translation says divine secrets I don't know about you but I like this idea of speaking divine secrets stand up Tim Ruth put the camera on them we were having a staff prayer meeting and they've always wanted a child they haven't had a child yet but they're going to have a child but we were in the staff prayer meeting I wasn't there with the staff was there and they were praying and the power of the Holy Ghost came and they were praying strong in other language now Justin my son here and Slava and and Dede they all understand Russian and they walked in when Tim was gravely mu to pray in other tongues and he was saying of one phrase one sentence over and over and over again and these people that understand Russian were electrified because he was speaking perfect Russian to God and you know what was saying out of the depths of his being is crying in Russian come on a son I want a son I want a son I want a son I believe he's going to get a son you see God heard the secrets of his heart you cannot tell God how much you love him are all your problems and all your needs in your human language you can't do it you run out of language so God gives you the opportunity to pray not in your mind but in your spirit and when you run out of your normal language if it's English you run out of English the Holy Ghost takes over and you begin to pray in heavenly languages and you know I was against that high I really was I I didn't I didn't think there was anything to that I you know I've been told really I hate to say this but I've been told it wasn't the devil anybody ever hear that two things I remember being taught one speaking in tongues was of the devil and that all these people are supposed to been healed by these evangelists and people prayed with the sick they were all paid to say they were sick and paid to say they were healed anybody ever hear that as an old lie the devil's got run all over the world but anyway I didn't have the you know I didn't have much love toward this idea of speaking in touch and yet I knew I needed power from God why should it seem incredible to anybody in the world that God could give you a heavenly language he can he's a helper the Holy Ghost comes in when you receive the Holy Ghost after being saved you get a heavenly language and that's how you know that you have received the fullness of the Holy Ghost and then the super natural gifts of the Holy Ghost begin to operate in your life now I was down in the dark dark hole of tradition I was bound by a thousand chains all the doctors all the teaching of my college in seminary days had found young and I was thoroughly convinced that there was nothing to all of this even though the Bible's full of it I had a reminder normally show glasses I had my year's denominational years plugged up and I just read the Bible with denomination glasses only just glanced over that it's all done away with it's not for today I don't have any helper today there's no Holy Ghost power today and I live that way for 19 years I wonder how did it but one day I got to associate with a simile of God man dangerous how is pastored the Baptist Church in Baytown Texas he was pastor with that seto bow chicas woods is his name and he was he was passed with the First Assembly of God in in pseudo vile he's still over there 125,000 years old I guess but he's still over that if you hear this Jenkins I didn't mean that but anyway we were we would eat breakfast together or lunch together and this happen to be a breakfast on Monday morning and you know he'd tell about his service I tell about my service I was always glad because I had more than here I had a much bigger Church in he had see I was in the Book of Numbers we're not getting to baptism the Holy Ghost I got of the Book of Numbers and got to book acts it's not how many you got it's how much power you got out you get there hey man so anyway we were sitting there talking and you know he never would just try to choke to baptism and the Holy Ghost down me but he said you know brother OCD said we had a wonderful service yesterday he said there was a little girl in our service about eleven twelve years old ten eleven twelve years old and she rose up and began to give a message in other tongues I my own thinking now was this you've heard me tell this many a time I thought in my mind what he was telling me this poor child she'll be in a mental institution sure shooting she'll be in a minister's you lose her mind that's what I thought as we on stone and then he kept on talking because he didn't know what I was thinking and he said and there was a missionary home on leave on furlough from Africa brother McCorkle whose lives in this area now believe he's retired he stood up in the congregation went to the front and said congregation this child is speaking in the language of the tribe that I minister to in Africa and here's what she said I want you to know a little choked to death or what does he it was the first time in all of my ministry that I ever came face-to-face with a super natural gifts of the Holy Ghost that was the gift of tongues not the prayer language that no man understands as a gift of tongues and did you know when he told me that it seemed like in the dark hole of tradition found by a thousand change I couldn't get out I knew there was light somewhere but I couldn't get out but when he told me that it seemed like every chain broke and I came out of that dark hole I saw there was reality to what they had told me was of the devil I came out of that dark hole with every chain broken and I sent my heart to seek the face of God I said O God if there's power to be had in this generation I'm going to find it I'm going to climb the hill of God I'm going to get above the fog and smoke of this world and above the tradition of man and teaching a man I'm going to climb up there and wrap my fingers in the garments of God and my cry is I'll not be shaken all I need the power of God in this generation Carol is too hot heaven is too real time is too short eternity is too long to fail God I would not want to be a success for God in my generation and I cried out I didn't care what anybody both said about me I didn't care who it separated me from our identified me with I set my face to see for the power of the Living God I saw that I had the same right that Peter and James and John and all the apostles had to have the baptism in the Holy Ghost to have a heifer I was not to be as an orphan in a storm forlorn and destitute without any power laughed out by the devil I wanted power now send myself to seat the Lord not was free to do that I'll tell you I began to seek not begin to seek and there were no charismatic Specter then I'll tell you they're just denominational people and Pentecostal people in and I went to the Pentecostals and they nearly scared me to death god bless the Pentecostals amen but I've you know I got the idea from them that you had to get your wife to take off all her earrings and all of her bracelets all over her dude and all of her makeup and I had seen her without makeup I mean real strange I didn't want to get Dodie in that let me tell you something it's not the outside got look shown it's the inside listen to the scripture we have received not the spirit of bondage to fear the Holy Ghost is not a spirit of bondage we don't have to obey the laws of man that they made with their religious ruse the Holy Ghost is a spirit of Liberty amen oh my I think about you know dices is dead just like we were dead in sins Jesus stood before that grave and he said rolled away the stone and you cried out Lazarus come forth and he was bound hand and foot I don't know how I got out the Holy Ghost just lifted him up and brought him out he's alive he's got those grave clothes on him you know that's how I seem like I was I've been dead in sins according to Ephesians ooh and Jesus had called me out of death and I was alive but I still had on the grave clothes I couldn't dance because I was wound up I couldn't lift my hands because they're bound up I couldn't talk in tongues because the napkin was across my face and Jesus said lose him and let him go and you know that's what I've been doing ever since I've been losing people Oh some of you are so bad you can't put your hands up in there to praise God oh it makes you nervous some of you can't do a little dance for Jesus Oh some of you can't speak in tongues and magnify the Lord but I'm telling you we need the denominational world with all of the good things that they have we need to unwrap the grave clothes and we need to take the napkin off in the face we need the church fill with the power of God amen well we need that I'm thinking about that little donkey Jesus rode into Jerusalem did you know according to the Old Testament that that little donkey was living because it been redeemed it says when what a foal of a cold like that is born if you don't offer sacrifice you got to break his neck they'd offered a sacrifice and that little donkey was the save donkey he was a redeemed dog and and they found this little donkey tied to a post and they came to him and started loosing him they said what are you doing lose not donkey he said the master has need of him that little donkeys destined to carry Jesus into Jerusalem and you know I was like that I'm not going to say this about anybody else I was like that I was a redeemed donkey but I was tied to my post my denominational post and I could see green grass out there but my robe wouldn't reach that far I can see a little extra supernatural over here but my throat wouldn't leave that reach that far and I can see healing over here but my robe wouldn't reach that far how much time but jesus said lose him I would have lived and died in a denominational camp never man into hill of beans but thank God I was destined to take Jesus to the nations of the world and I've never could have done it unless I'd gotten loose and you have a destiny preacher you have a destiny deacon you have a destiny man a woman and I'll tell you you need to be loosed in the Holy Ghost to fulfill the will of God for your life Oh hallelujah it's said that that little dog he was tired were two ways met the way of the world of the religious world or the way of God's perfect will I mean you got to make a choice oh I've got such good news for you listen people God's not gonna take anything away from you he's going to add something to you you're gonna have signs and wonders and miracles and fulfill the will of God for you live throw your pride away and arise and go to Jesus I'm talking about Holy Ghost and oh that's what we need and somebody said to me help me proudly said you've ruined your ministry you'll never have anybody preach - never have anybody shoot well just look at this audience thousands and thousands in poverty look at look at this audience thousands and thousands of people and another thousand outside in the children's building about a thousand people in the children just think about a thousand and we're reaching over a hundred nations of the world because we're free to believe that Jesus Christ is the same yesterday today and forever and we have the baptism in the Holy Ghost in fire and we speak in tongues and we pray for the sick and we cast out devils somebody said well you will never amount anything you lose your ministry well thank God I found mummys hey man you can't you can't imagine businessman businesswoman housewife whoever you are you can imagine the change that will come into your life how real God will become when you make Jesus not only your savior but the Baptizer in the Holy Ghost now the greatest experience of course is to make Jesus the Lord of your life and we want to meet you in heaven and we want you to pray this prayer is in a doubt about your salvation have your name on the church roll someplace but you may not know for sure that you're born again many of you know that you're not because you're living in the world and you think well God wouldn't have anything do it someone like me but listen Christ died for sinners he died for you and he wants you he loves you if you'd have been the owner in the world it was lost he would have died for you so simply pray this prayer the Bible said whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved let's call him while the oldest here's real quiet you just say these words Oh God I know I'm a sinner you know I'm a sinner for God's a day I turned my back on the way I've been living I'll never go back never never never Jesus I believe you're the Son of God I ask you right now Jesus opened wide the door my heart come in come in and be my Lord and be my Savior I surrender to you Jesus I thank you Jesus you belong to me and I belong to you and I won't act like it didn't happen

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Length: 28min 32sec (1712 seconds)

Published: Wed Mar 05 2014