Let's Get Drunk and Party - Harold Hoffman | TP 2004

Acts chapter 2 Acts chapter 2 very illusive scripture here first number 14 page 1151 that's what it says right here that's what page it is hallelujah it's always a great treat to be with your pastor or as they say down under your pasta pasta where I come from pasta is what you eat in an Italian restaurant but down here it's a whole different game amen and brother slacks been upgrading my vocabulary and I'll learn how to say toodle-pip and my shout and and where I live a car has a hood and it has a roof and has a trunk but here I've got a bonnet and a hood and a boot and so I'll just have to learn you know amen and if I do something stupid tonight that I I sincerely apologize and so you just take for granted that I'm just in training ok learning how to speak Australia chapter 2 and verse 14 Peter standing up with the eleven lifted up his voice and said unto them ye men of Judea and all ye that dwell at Jerusalem be this known unto you and hearken to my words these are not drunken as ye suppose seeing it is but the third hour of the day all right Ephesians 5 5:17 and then we'll go to Luke 15 Ephesians 5 17 wherefore be not unwise but understanding what the will of the Lord is everybody wants to know what the will of the Lord is well here's the will of the Lord be not drunk with wine wherein is excess but be filled with the spirit all right speaking to yourselves in Psalms and hymns and spirits songs singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord finally Luke 15 want to give honor to all of this servants of the Lord in this house and all the ministry appreciate all these people that are in this place here tonight Pentecost is not a cult it is sure not a convent Pentecost is a choice there's one word that we can use to describe serving the Lord it's simply the word privilege this is a great privilege to live this way praise the Lord and Luke 15 verse number 22 says but the father said to his servants bring forth the best robe put it on him put a ring on his hand and shoes on his feet and bring hither the fatted calf and kill it and let us eat and be merry for this my son was dead and is alive again he was lost and is found and they began to be merry my subject tonight is simply going to be entitled I want to get drunk and have a party once you turn around tell somebody that everybody except on the back row you don't get to turn around I want to get drunk and have a party okay and if you'd like to get drunk you may be seated amen according to these big letters that I have here in front of this book it says the Acts of the Apostles the Acts of the Apostles now in the book of Jude there's an interesting verse here in the book of Jude and next to the last book in the New Testament it says in Jude verse 19 these be they who separate themselves sensual having not the spirit the book of Acts is the record of the Apostles the book of Jude is the record of the apostates access 28 chapters and this is what the last verse in acts 28 this is how it reads 28 and 31 of Acts preaching the kingdom of God and teaching those things which concerned the Lord Jesus Christ with all confidence no man forbidding him it's different than just about every other book you can read because if you read any one of those epistles it will all end with amen so be it goodbye adios sayonara arrivederci toodle-pip I'm out of here every one of these epistles basically ends with goodbye this is the end of the letter amen when you get to the 28th chapter and the 31st verse of Acts it just it just sounds like it could go on and on and on there's no a man here there's no this is the end it just stops because the book of Acts doesn't end it just goes on and on and on and on it's going on here because you know if you read the book of Matthew in Matthew chapter 1 see most people think Matthew one starts with verse 18 I always did I never ran all that stuff from 1 to 17 whenever IRA started reading Matthew 1 it was always now the birth of Jesus was on this wise that's verse 18 I never read that other stuff but it does say all Scripture is given for inspiration and doctrine and reproof and so it does have something to teach us and so I started reading some of these boring verses and there were they were interesting things here for instance it says in Matthew chapter 1 and verse 17 so all the generations from Abraham to David are fourteen generations and from David under the carrying away into Babylon are fourteen generations and from the carrying away of Babylon unto Christ are fourteen generations so you've got 42 there 14 14 and 14 but that's not true that's not what it says there are fourteen generations that are recorded between Abraham and David you count them there's fourteen there are fourteen generations that are recorded here between David and the carrying away and the Babylon but there are not fourteen generations recorded here from the carrying away of Babylon unto Jesus Christ there's thirteen and the reason is very simple we are the 14th generation we are the chosen generation and it doesn't stop because most generations they figure about 40 years and that's it but not this one this one's been going on for 2,000 years it's the same generation Jesus doesn't have grandkids he doesn't have nieces and nephews he just has sons and daughters we are all first generation descendants beloved now are we the sons of God when I was a kid I was I lived beside of mrs. Mozingo mrs. Mozingo was special in our little coal mine town because she had 19 kids and we thought that was a big deal but I know a mother that's been having kids for 2,000 years I know a mother had a hundred and twenty kids in the morning and three thousand kids before the day was over the Bible said Jerusalem which is above is free which is the mother of us all and the Bible was very very clear that the heavenly Jerusalem is Zion or the church so he's our Father the church is our mother we have the same blood same spirit same last name that's that's why we be kin we're brothers just got same mom same dad same spirit same blood same last name Peter's my brother Matthew and Luke and Mark those are my brothers I haven't met him yet but we're gonna have family reunion one day and it'll be a great time we're in the same in the book of Acts it keeps on going 28 chapters in it and it doesn't stop because it's still under the influence of the Spirit but Jude Jude is one chapter long there are only two books in the Bible that have one chapter in it in the Old Testament there's a book that has one chapter it's called Obadiah just one chapter that's all it is and it's the it's the story of the descendants of Esau the Bible is very clear in the book of Genesis 36 1 and 36 and 8 it says Esau is Edom and when you read the book of Allah Obadiah it's written to the the descendants of Esau and so it's very interesting because when you study Genesis Jacob comes back home memories running from home and he says if God will be with me give me raiment to put on food to eat bring me back to my father's house in peace then he'll be my god I'll be a servant I'll pay with my ties you can prove biblically we think when Jacob ran away from home he was 16 you can prove biblically that when Jacob left home he was 72 now that's very interesting because his daddy's Isaac and his granddaddy's Abraham he lives in a house of great faith yet he doesn't have a walk with God himself he said if he'll be with me and if he'll keep me in the way that I go give me raiment to put to eat and raiment to put on foody and bring me back to my father's house in peace then then he'll be my god he's not my God now he's my dad's God my grandpa's God he's not mine you got to be very careful what you pray for because the Lord will call you bet and he gives him raiment to put on and he gives him food to eat I mean you study the scripture and there's a there's no there's a wonderful study in the Bible I'll just you know these tapes go everywhere so fine you get fish and worms and tapeworms and you study the Bible in Exodus or in Genesis chapter 12 that's where Abraham came out of Babylon even though he's the father of the faithful and even though he's called out of a out of her the Caddy's he's a liar we got this mental model of Abraham that he does everything great no he doesn't he's a liar I can prove it because in Genesis 12 when he comes out of her the Caddy's he lies about his relationship with Sarah he said she's not my wife she's my sister you can prove biblically there's 10 years difference between Abraham and Sarah and it's very clear in Genesis 12 that when Abraham came out of Earth counties he 75 that means Sarah was 65 now what kind of woman is so good-looking at 65 that some king once there in his harem she's a picture of the bride she's still good-looking doesn't matter how old she is she's still a beauty and in Genesis 12 Abraham lies about his relationship with Sarah well all you gotta do is go to Genesis 20 and in Genesis 20 25 years later he tells the same lie and you read the Bible he's a minimum of 99 minimum that means Sarah's 89 and there's a king and a place called gia or named Abimelech and he wants her in his harem we're not talking eating cake and playing Scrabble here he wants her this is one good-looking gal Abraham lies 25 years later about she's not my wife she's my sister well all you got to do is go to Genesis 26 and in Genesis chapter 26 the Bible talks about Isaac goes back to the very same place Isaac goes back to grr and he meets this King Abimelech chapter 26 of Genesis and verse 7 guess what Isaac does same stunt his dad pulled I see glide about Rebekah and called her his sister now I can prove that you biblically you're many many many years in the margin here over 80 years down the road my question is this Abimelech is one messed up old boy hmm I could stay a long time there but we won't Abraham's a liar Isaac's a liar no wonder they got a kid named Jacob you know what to name Jacob Meads he's got a mom that's a liar she could she she tricks his own bed that's his mom the sending all cahoots with him so he runs away and goes to Laban house guess what Laban is a liar because he thinks he's marrying Rachel and he wakes up in the honeymoon suite at the Sheraton Hotel and he's got Leah and she's dog ugly he works seven more years and gets Rachel she's a liar because she takes her daddy's God's and puts him under a saddlebags he'll know him to Abraham's a liar Isaac's a liar Jacob's name is liar his father-in-law's a liar his favorite wife's a liar it's like highly Baba and the Forty Thieves but God has put Raymond on him give him food to eat and now he's got one more thing you got to bring me back to my father's house in peace he does see if when your carcass is on the line you're gonna get spiritual and when he hears that Esau is coming to meet him with 400 of his pals he knows we're going to bury the hatchet all right he's going to bare the hatchet in my back so he gets spiritual and prays what's the first thing the angel asked him what's your name you think this angel is so stupid that he doesn't know his name this is the angel of the Lord he can quote the yellow pages why did the angel ask him his name he's asking him the publicans can publicly confess what he is what's your name I'm a liar good now I can do something with you and he did do something with him and he changed his name to Israel and when he met Esau the next day he so ran and fell on his neck and hugged him and it looks like everything's okay wrong because Esau has a boy named elephants elephants has a boy named Emelec Amalek is the father of the Amalekites so you come to Exodus 17 and when Moses led the people of Israel out of Egypt who's the first person I had a fight with then cometh Amalek they're cousins they've been in Egypt for 430 years all the 430 years was in bondage but you can prove biblically 144 years of it was finally I mean what kind of guy was Joseph that for 300 years after he's dead he still influences policy the government still won't touch his family there's people die and they forget you by the time they've already gone home from the graveyard this guy's still influencing people three centuries later finally somebody gets on the throne that doesn't know who he is puts the people in servitude for 144 years they do two things very well lay bricks and have babies and you can prove biblically that what started out as 70 people when aber or when when when when Jacob came down at Joseph's invitation said that the hundred four hundred thirty years later you can prove biblically it's at least it's the city the size of Indianapolis Indiana in the states when it says Israel moved it's a big deal and when you read this Bible it's very very very clear that these Amalekites fought fought their own family this is the story of when Moses hands were falling and a guy you read a lot about named Aaron and a guy you don't read much about named her made the connection hands up we win hands down we lose thank God for people that made the connection these people are God's diadem they're God's only hope and they would have lost if he wouldn't have kept his hands up and at that hands being raised they won the battle for 150 years they don't know how to shoot bows throw spears nothing they are they are not a trained army but the Lord anoints them and blesses them and gives them wisdom and they win the victory thus you come to Deuteronomy 28 and in Deuteronomy 28 it's very clear Jew tirana me 25 rather probably 17 18 and 19 when the Lord has given all this stuff to Moses Deuteronomy is is the is there's 34 chapters in Deuteronomy it's the last message of Moses it's his last shot at him before he takes off and one of the last things Moses tells them in Deuteronomy 25 is don't you ever forget what Amalek did to you by the way don't you ever forget what they did we came out of Egypt and they attacked us our own family our own kin don't you forget that 800 years later samuel went to Saul's house and he says time to clean house I want you to destroy the Amalekites the Bible said he right him from Havilah - sure sixteen hundred square miles I don't know how many kilometers that is it's a big bunch and you come to this story in the book of Samuel where the Lord woke Sam you up and said you go tell Saul I'm fed up with him I'm done and it broke Samuel heart because he's the guy that picked him to be the preacher picked him to be the king you read the Bible where that Samuel came to Saul and Saul said blessed be thou of the Lord I have performed the commandment of the Lord I used to preach a message years ago called in complete obedience not disobedience it's not what he did wrong to get him in trouble it's what he didn't do right and all of a sudden he said blessed be thou of the Lord I performed a command with the Lord and Sam has said really I told to kill everything what meaneth the lowing of the oxen and the bleeding out of shape where's that coming from oh he said we got something better than that come here we got the King in a cage and the Bible said when a gag the king of the Amalekites saw Samuel coming he straightened himself brushed his hair straightened his tie he knew this preacher is going to cut him some slack they walked down in front of the cage and all of a sudden Sam he looks at so says you got a sword yes sir let me see that sword bring that King out of here when I was a kid they used to sell something called a veg-o-matic and they advertised it like this it'll slice and dice 27 different ways and when they brought the King out of the cage old Sam this is what the Bible said Samuel you'd him in pieces before the Lord sliced diced and Julie and I mean he field dressed and filleted the old boy rip Sora's garment apart and said this day your kingdoms being taken away from you you read the scripture you know who killed saw and Amla kite one of those men it came to David said saws dead and I killed him and I'm an ammonite something he was supposed to destroy ended up destroying him when Israel went into captivity and we're coming out of captivity the the descendants of Esau caught him at the crossroads brought him back to their captors said we caught these boys running away wouldn't you like to have him and thus you come to one chapter Obadiah who he said though thou make thy nest among the stars and though you dwelleth in the cliffs of the rocks most high he said if the grape gathers would have come to you they would have left the couple grapes if the thief would have come to you by night he left something in the house how art thou cut off because when I get done with you there ain't going to be one grape left on the vine there ain't going to be one stick of furniture in the house you ever heard of Pietra some people call it Petra you ever heard the story about Alexander the Great I said Alexander the Great conquered the world when there were no worlds left to conquer he got drunk set out and cried himself to death that's not true Alexander the Great did not conquer the world there's one place that beat him you know who beat Alexander the Great the they lived in a place called Petra back in through a narrow little Gorge they built this magnificent city carved it out of stone built cisterns magnificent palaces when Alexander the Great's army tried to get in there the gorge was so narrow that the old women rolled rocks down on his men and made a human barricade and he never could get his army back in there to whip him up they were impregnable nobody could touch him but to trade changed the trade routes went right by their front door and they had bad lots of money and magnificent stuff but the trade routes changed and when the trade routes changed they didn't have anybody to barter with so all the kids moved to town and ultimately all the old people died and for hundreds of years petra remained deserted until in the late 1800s they found it and rediscovered it and guess what was there when they went just what Obadiah said he said howls are going to live bats are going to live in your house that's all that lived there then and all that lives there now one chapter one simple chapter Jude is the Obadiah of the New Testament there's just one chapter for the book of Jude and it is summed up in one verse verse 19 these have not the spirit ax goes on and on and on and on and on and on and on but you just got one chapter and it's over these have not the spirit this shouldn't do me very very carefully you read this Bible and it starts out in Acts chapter 2 and verse number 4 it's very very clear and they were all filled with the Holy Ghost and began to speak with tongues as the Spirit gave them utterance that's not the last time that's in that Bible oh you got to do is go to Acts chapter 4 and verse number 8 and then Peter filled with the Holy Ghost now you go to X 4 and verse number 31 and when they had prayed who in the world is the they the same bunch that got the Holy Ghost in acts 2 Acts chapter 4 and verse 31 and when they had prayed the place was shaken where they were assembled and they were all filled with the Holy Ghost Acts chapter 7 and verse number fifty-five same concept is there but he Dean full up the Holy Ghost Acts chapter 11 verse number 24 it simply says this and he was a good man full of the Holy Ghost Acts chapter 13 verse number nine saw who also is called Paul filled with the Holy Ghost except the thirteen verse number 52 and the disciples were filled with joy and with the Holy Ghost they got it again and again and again and again and again and again and again I used to do a Bible study in our church and I get a big glass of tea and I tear off about six of them packets of sugar and I pour it in that big glass and I give it to somebody take a big drink take a big swallow is it sweet yet no pastor it's not because a church learned a very valuable lesson sugar never sweetens tea you know what sweetens tea so I just whip out this big old spoon and I stick it in that glass and it's got about a half inch of white sludge on the bottom and you stir it up sugar don't sweeten keep stirring up the sugars what sweetens tea i used to pastor a church in atlanta georgia and we had a man there that was a nuclear physicist brilliant and one day i was working around the church cutting the grass and jamie came over and the the lawnmower I was using ran out of gas he said it's okay pastor hop and I'll fill it up now you don't have to have the gifts of the Spirit if you can hear and smell okay sometimes you know I mean if you could smell nicotine I don't need the word of knowledge okay so the guy takes up the lid of the gas tank takes the lid off and sticks the gas can and the spout in and you can hear it and I'm thinking pull out the spout he doesn't stop he's just running all over this engine nuclear physicist stupid that's Greek for dumb and I said Jamie what is wrong with you he's just grinning and it's just running everywhere he said you'd never did this to your engine before did you nope he said watch he just sticks it in there after a while old grass starts boiling out pieces of rust start floating out of the top he said you just can't spill it up to the top brother Hoffman all the time every now and then you gotta fill it to where it runs over and he said if you'll fill it to where it runs over it creates this action and it'll flush all that junk that's on the bottom of the tank and it'll clean it completely you read the Bible and in the Greek when it talks about riveting rivers of living water you know what it means it means go by a river you the Bible begins with the story of a river and two trees the Bible ends with the very same story in revelation 22 it talks about a river and two trees and right in the middle of the Bible there's a story about a river and two trees in Ezekiel 47 interesting trees they got healing leaves they got fruit fruit that can't be consumed it doesn't mean that you can't eat it it means that it says it produces fruit every month you eat it next month it's got a new batch of fruit the explanation is in psalms 1 blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly nor standeth in the way of the sinner do you realize that the Bible is the most sold book of all time ever since Gutenberg printed the press or built the press in in Maine's Germany 1455 how many millions of books have been printed to this day the most printed book in the history of the planet is the Bible that's you ever heard about French agnostic named Voltaire Voltaire had all these reasons why the Bible couldn't be true interestingly enough after he died all of his reasons were proved spurious for instance Voltaire said the walls of Jericho could have fallen in they could have fallen out they could not fall down well guess what when they excavated Jericho they just fell down they didn't fall in they didn't fall out they weren't splashed way out beyond the wall they weren't splashed away in they just went boom I'm thinking of Rahab I mean it's just they got a place here in Australia called the Twelve Apostles you know what I'm talking about that place on the coast where them big spires are you ever seen that and in your pictures of your country the Twelve Apostles is a famous picture of these huge fires of rock just out there in the end the surf that's the way Rahab's house was I mean a whole wall goes and she's on this rickety stack of bricks with her house on top and thanking God for the scarlet cord Voltaire said it couldn't have well it has happen yet the cool thing to me is the world Bible Society has their headquarters in Voltaire's house that's where they print their stuff today and the very house of the guy said this book couldn't be a road true see Jesus said do you realize that every religion in the world has a story about a guy with a boat and a flood every religion in the world has a story about a guy on a benefit Jesus said the guy's name was Noah if Jesus said the guy's name was Noah the cat's name was know jesus said there was a guy named job other people say that that's just just just a mythical book in the Bible Jesus said he existed if Jesus said he existed he existed see the Bible has nothing to fear from the archaeologists and all the brilliant people it doesn't say God has life it says God is life it doesn't say God has knowledge he is knowledge [Applause] he's the well he's the bank he's the vault he's the source I mean you you study the Bible here's Satan or Lucifer he gets thrown out of heaven the New Jerusalem gets thrown out so he comes to Eden with his hat in his hand he's a beggar Adams been given dominion over the planet but he deceives the woman and Adam buys in and him when deceived the woman was to see that's why if you got a wife she'll smell a liar quicker than you any day she will it's a gift from God if your wife says that guy's a liar you better believe her because she got deceived way back long time ago and God gave her a blessing gave her a gift smell Liars ever since I wish I had maybe tomorrow morning we'll talk about that but you got to realize they relinquished their god-given Dominion on the planet to Satan he's got power again for the second time he had power he lost it now he gets power again well read what the Book of Colossians says he made a show of him openly nailed it to the cross what's that mean means he stripped him took his power away from him for the second time the early church turned the world upside down they didn't turn the world upside down they turned the world right-side up but if you don't know what's really up you think it's upside down now wasn't upside down they just got it back to the way it was supposed to be see not by works of righteousness which we have done but by His mercy he has saved us by the washing of regeneration and the renewing of the Holy Ghost whenever you put re in front of something in our language that means it's happened before you store restore you place you replace you new you renew you vive you revive you understand that people say we want revival when you say you want revival you know what you're saying I'm dead everybody wants revival but not everybody wants to admit who died watch the larger this church becomes in the more influence in this city you're not going to do more you're going to do less trust me when I tell you this great churches don't do bunches of stuff little churches try to do bunches of things great churches only do a couple things but they do them very very well and so your job in this church is not to make your to-do list longer your job is to make your to-do list shorter now limit your saying amen and that's cool as long as brother slack and Richard are cutting down stuff that you don't care about when they touch the thing that you like what are you going to do take your toys and go home Eddie else in Oklahoma they have a saying don't let the screen door hit you where the good Lord split you if you want to go go if you're so absolutely convinced that this ministry that you're doing has to be done and they're not going to do it here well then you go somewhere so we really going to do that ministry I hear this again and again and again from your pastor this is my third time to be here this is what he says we're a training church we're a training church we're a training church you don't have to be the head cashier Woolworths to figure this one out it's working all right leave it alone don't keep adding to their to-do list we need to do this and we need to do that don't get scattered Paul didn't say these 27 things I do he said this one thing I do you got to stay focused because if you're going to have a apostolic power you are going to have apostolic problems because when revival gets stirred up everything gets stirred up I mean you get in the Bible Paul Saul of Tarsus a magnificent preacher from another denomination God knocked him down and brought him into the truth now if God could do that in acts 9 can God do that and Sidney are you ready for that can you handle that can you love them and receive them if God can knock us all down back then he can knock one down now because the early church turned the world right-side up because they dealt with a relatively weak devil because he's recently stripped at Calvary today we're dealing with a strong enemy my question is very simple where did he get his power from the Lord said I have all power all power is given unto me in heaven and earth and then it says this but you shall receive power after the Holy Ghost is come upon you see if you've ever dealt with witches warlocks or covens this is the dupe of Satan you dedicate your life to me and I'll give you power let me explain something to you right now Satan can't give power he doesn't have power he can only take power from people so my question is where did he get his power from yes he's not getting it from the Lord the Lord ain't given his enemy no power where Satan get power today you're snared with the words of your mouth life and death are in the power of the tongue you're the only other force of power on the planet so when we talk wrong we're empowering the wrong Kingdom don't ever say they'll never get in church they're never gonna turn around if they that careful that comes out of this jesus walks by a tree one day said no meaning no man need fruit of the hereafter the disciples heard it what do you do that day went to Jerusalem cleansed the temple I mean manis the $0.75 the bodied doves are flying and the one-dollar white ones are already gone the cows are lowing in a sheep or bleeding and thus haze flying and this smart aleck rabbi comes up to Jesus are ya he said I'm the resurrection and the life who are you this is my father's house you've made it a bunch of thieves it's supposed to be a place of Prayer you know what that means if it doesn't cause us to pray it's stealing if all I joints watching you fall on the floor around here at this singin that's what it's supposed to do the ministry of the word of the Lord it's supposed to bring us to a place of Prayer if we do stuff in churchy that doesn't cause people to pray it Steven it's stealing we're never more like Satan than when we want the glory for ourselves people say my piano my choir my office Satan's territorial Jesus is not territorial Jesus is and everywhere God you fuss what these pastors say this is mine that's not the spirit of Jesus that's when you empower the wrong Kingdom question is very simple which Kingdom are you empowering today be very careful what comes out of this mouth because the Bible begins with a story of a river and two trees it ends with the story of a river and two trees the story of a river and two trees is right in the middle of the Bible where the trees I say sixty one and three said we are the trees of righteousness the planting of the Lord the most full book in the world is a Bible you know what the most read book in the Bible is Psalms you know what the most read psalm is psalm 1 if the Bible is the most printed book in the history of the planet and if psalms is the most read book in that book and if Psalms chapter 1 is the most read chapter in the most read book in the most sold book of all times that means Psalms one is one of the most important pieces of literature there's ever been in the history of mankind blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly nor standeth in the way of the sinner nor sitteth in the sea this corner remember what I said said you'll run and not be weary memorize says you'll mount up with wings as Eagles that's what you some about number two you'll learn and not be weary number three you'll walk and not faint that's backwards it should have said you'll walk then you learn then you fly Bible that you say you walk around and fly it says you fly to run and walk because when you come to God just flying pal when he fills you with the holy girl and your hair stands up on the back of your neck and your goose bump machines fire on all eight cylinders whoa it's good stuff but let me tell you what Jesus is interested in Jesus is not interested in astronauts he's not interested in airplanes he's not even interested in runners this is what Jesus is after and you just keep on moving and don't you - stop because if you stop you're gonna stand where the sinners are and sooner or later you're gonna be sitting and you're gonna be a scorner people that are scorners today once corners yesterday they were standing there yesterday and the day before that they were moving it's harder to hit a moving target keep moving keep moving ma'am yea though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death keep on walkin gotta keep moving because the Bible said you shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of living water that bringeth forth his fruit in his season his leaf shall not wither and whatsoever we do the prosper the Bible talks about a tree on either side a river got healing leaves and fruit that you can't consume you and I have got to be the trees with the healing leaves and the fruit of the Spirit hanging on our limbs but the only way you're going to have that kind of healing power in that kind of fruit is you gotta live by a river not a pond [Applause] your dams running out of water Sydney you can't water your lawns you're going to wash the cars let me tell you what the Bible says there is a river Sydney's dam may be in trouble Jesus is damming nowhere near run enjoy there is a river you got to be smart enough to live by that River I'm going to talks about living rivers of living water in the Greek this is what it means go out to the fastest running water you can and get a cup and stick it in that water and the water is coming in and filling the cup but as this being filling that that motion of that movie river is actually sucking what was just in it out and it's being replenished again and again and again and again and again it just keeps cycling again and again and again you got the Holy Ghost great let me tell you what I sweeten your life not Holy Ghost I'll tell you what sweetens your life you gotta stir up the gift that's in you you gotta stir it up he isn't gonna do that you gotta do it you gotta stake yourself I'm gonna get that sludge off the bottom of your soul Nixon with your spirit and touching your mouth and touching your mind we are never gonna get enough programs and activities to keep people saved the only thing that's gonna keep people saved is yes filled with the Holy Ghost filled with the Holy Ghost now let the Holy Ghost they got filled max2 gonna fill to get in x4 got failed again x5 got filled again at seven got filled again next time that's the heaven X 13 same people again and again and again and again and again you want to know what the will of God is be filled with the spirit in America they have a guy named John Maxwell who is a teacher to churches I went to one of his seminars and this is what he said I can build a church anywhere I'm I tell you something right now I can't build a church anywhere only God can build a church we can plant and we can water but if God don't give the increase what's that mean and means the people throw their cigarettes down he did it if people quit drinking he did it people get off the drugs he did it in their marriage he did it turn the hearts of the father back to the children and the children turn their hearts back to their parents he did it's the power of God working in our lives Peter said these are not truck as you suppose so I have a friend that lives in North Carolina and he told me this story he told me that an old preacher in their church and he got up redx to 14 and 15 these are not drunken and she suppose he said my sermon title was simply we ain't drunk as we posed to be so before you leave church tonight you gots to take another drink you got to get drunk you know what jump means I read it in the mr. Webster wrote a nice book means overwhelmed intoxicated inebriated to stimulate and be drunk in other words be soused ripped sloshed or my personal favorite under the influence before we turn up the lights tonight it's the will of God to be filled with the spirit to come under the influence I saw a bumper sticker in Detroit it said there's only one way to get drunk keep on drinking not a nip not a touch keep on until yourselves loaded under the influence avoid a hangover stay drunk I can't speak for Australia I can speak for America the statistics are shocking every family in the United States is or will in the near future be affected in some way by alcohol they've either had someone in their family touched by alcohol or fixing to have somebody touched by alcohol because when a drunk begins to have a hangover his ecstasy turns the agony his thrills turn into chills his high takes him very low he gets nervous sick irritable grouchy and grips a lot I personally think we have too many people in Pentecost on a hangover sick of worship sick of praying sick of given sick of loving sick of going what's the answer get drunk again let me tell you something about sober people so poor people hate drunks they get on your nerves why don't you shut up and sit down there's only one cure for enduring drunks you get drunk right along with them I don't care what your problem is tonight there is not one problem in your life than a good drink won't take care of Eila Bible study but the letter killeth it's a spirit that given life not by might not by my power but by his spirit you read you read acts you read Acts chapter 17 the Bible said in acts 17 Paul went to Mars Hill epic Areopagus where the where the smart guys were do you realize what's going on it's his chance he's been educated at Gamaliel sweet he's been in the best schooling you could ever have for the last nine years he's been around just nice sweet Pentecostals but they're not really educated he goes to Athens goes to Mars Hill I know what's going on inside of them I'm going to prove to him God's going to use my schooling I can take all these odds of Education I had years and years of math on and on and on geometry trigonometry all kinds of calculus I graduated in 1975 I have never used calculus again never just what I'd like to be able to show people how smart I am and I don't get to chance Paul goes to Morris Hill and I know what he's thinking fine only I can take all this education and put it to some good use trust me he dipped his tongue in a rainbow trust me when he talks about certain Stoics and the Epicureans trust me that he went through history and literature and poetry and philosophy and when he got done you know what they said off we have time we'll hear you again someday well here you get on this matter next very next verse that's 18 and verse 1 and then Paul came to Corinth and all you got to do is go to the Corinthian letter and this is what it says in Corinthians 2 and I but then when I came to you came not with excellency of speech or of wisdom why I tried that in the last place and it didn't work but this time I determined not to know anything among you except Jesus Christ and him crucified and my speech and my preaching was not with enticing words of man's wisdom but in demonstration of the power of the Spirit listen to me Grace apostolic don't you be guilty of priests enhance the gospel don't you just preach death barren resurrection if only breezes death Berezin lets half the gospel Paul Scylla taken the other half demonstration of a spirit and of the power we got to have that because that's the gospel of the kingdom the gospel of the kingdom is not death parent resurrection I'll prove it to you Jesus said don't preach the gospel of the kingdom next verse heal the sick open up the blinded eyes I stopped the Deaf hear raise up the dead loose the tongue now place more than death parent resurrection Jesus needs to be seen live a life of consecration be filled with the spirit what's your hand own Ariat watch what happens because only ghosts anointed worship ain't gonna drive nothing away except Devils folks do things when they're drunk they will never do in their silver when I was a bully he still live by an old man named red postal and we always knew when red got drunk he had a pet pig and he feed that pig Budweiser and we'd always know when red was drunk because he'd walked down the street across this little bridge up to this beer joint on the side of the hill and the pig a tree right behind him and when I was a kid we always knew red post will be gone and right behind me the pigs gone he could care less what you thought about him because when you really you know what the Bible says in Isaiah 6 it says that there were pillars in that church and they moved they said when the pillars moved the house filled with smoke this church has got pillars pillars of the Assembly elders Stuart strong quiet contained sages were the word people [Applause] there's people in this church that have shouted and it didn't do one thing to you because they shout every service but there's some of you here they shouted for a long time your pillars you get the pillars moving and the place will fill with smoke you get old brother so-and-so that ain't cut a rug for 20 years and the young people go did you see that's God that's God right there the law enforcement agency you got some weird laws in this town hang your hand out the window 225 bucks splashed mud on somebody sledding waiting for a bus 125 dollars law enforcement agencies will tell you that the abuse of alcohol is always evidenced in the extremities it affects your speech it affects your hands and it affects your feet in the bottle when you're filled with the spirit it affects your mouth it says singing and making melody with Psalms we know what Psalms are you sing scripture songs in this church they're great at Psalms then we got him great old things that wonderful righteous people have written and we sing them to the glory of God what's that other thing talking about spirit songs if you're filled with the spirit according to the Bible you're going to speak with tongues the hardest thing in your body to control as the hi-hat I used to preach a message called the little red devil behind the pearly white gates gnaw at things four inches long and it can kill a man six feet tall life and death sin the tongue little rudder turns a big boat little bit turns a big horse little tongue can kill a church I'm telling you can kill a church you can kill a preacher yes you can and you get in this Bible and when people are filled with the spirit they spoke with tongues because the hardest thing could control your Faculty of speech you can never say God is in total control of my life until he controls the Faculty of your speech I witnessed a Baptist pastor one time and I said what do you think that means and they shall speak with new tongues he said all that means they won't cuss anymore I sent me a whole lot more than that he'll fill you like a vessel when it gets to here boy you're all the rest of us full when it gets to your mouth it's out of the abundance of the heart not a half full heart abundance did you ever say something to somebody like you got a big nose oh I didn't mean that yeah you meant it you're just sorry it got out you've been thinking about it again and again again again again it you think about again again again again after well you go set your hearts full of it your thoughts are full of it that's what happens in the spirit God fills you with a spirit it's gonna fit your mouth because that's out of the abundance the mouth speaks alright when your feelings really speak with tongues wonder what does it mean building on your most holy faith praying in the Holy Ghost if you're filled with the Holy Ghost you're gonna speak with tongues if you're gonna pray in the Holy Ghost you're gonna pray in tongues if you're gonna sing in the Holy Ghost you're gonna say in tongues sing them songs sing them hymns but every now and then babe at home you want to get into that third level we just follow the spirit inebriated affecting your mouth affecting your feet affecting your hands drunks hate to drink alone they'll laugh they'll cry I read a story about a guy in a bar he'd drink a big drinking look at his puff drinking another drink look at his pocket fill her up again barkeep another shot look at his pocket barkeep said what have you got in your pocket he said I am married to the ugliest woman in the world he said I drink and tell she looks beautiful and then I go home and he said she's still ugly so fill her up again you know what my Bible is it is you got a drink until sin looks ugly you got a drink until living for Jesus looks good you got a drink until living holy looks right if there is anything connected with God's church that looks ugly to you you ain't drunk you need another drink [Applause] jokes have no feelings you cannot hurt a drunk if you think I'm pretty too hard you need another drink if you're offended because somebody hasn't spoke to you you need another drink tell a drunk he stinks and he'll laugh tell a drunk he's obnoxious in the laugh jokes don't care about the way you shout they don't care about the way you'll end the house you cannot offend them so the prodigal comes back home and he stinks and he's dirty and his father runs out to him and the first thing he does is he puts a robe around him because every family had their own robe and when you wore that robe they knew what family you belong to and he's saying you're in the family again boy everybody's going to know who you belong to hey boy servants only our barefoot here's my shoes son not one of my boys is going to be fair for you're not a servant I'm bringing you back you're my son here's my ring I'm giving you authority to transact business in my name I'm restoring you back to full authority for thing he turns around to those servants and he says go kill the fatted calf everybody saved thee when he said go fill the food camp all the servants knew which one he was talking about because it takes 18 months to fatten up a cow and that means when the boy left by faith the daddy said boys coming back get that count here give him double green give him extra rations give him the best hey why well fixing to have a party you just lost your boy hey just back slid hey just walked away from the church he's coming back and when he comes back we ain't gonna have to worry about where we're getting the groceries and wherever getting the filet we got a fat cow ready I want to get drunk and I want to have a party and there are people that have left this church but don't you mine and pray and moan and grow fat in a cow they're coming back when they come back don't you wait for a week don't you wait for a month to have a party you gotta be ready tonight there's somebody in this house right now that's coming back hey we're here we messed up let's go together people been telling me for years Beauty to go to hell hey you need to go to them people didn't tell me where to go for years i'ma tell them where to go let's go to heaven together [Applause] [Music] here that devil he's coming back [Applause] he's coming to himself you ain't keepin him any longer we are already ready for the party and if we aren't you ain't drunk as we pose to be come clapping ran out of your seats right now come with me just come moving move it don't stop this up keep Washington keep clapping do it unto the Lord will go home in just a while let's have a party thank you Lord for my boy my daughter my home my family my peace my neck coming back coming back don't wait until it gets back to worship prepare the cow now prepare the fatted calf now for you young people let's say got young people used to be in your youth group and they're gone they're coming back what's up now get ready now they're always being the older brother fussing about it but don't you worry about them you have a spirit of worship and acceptance and say we're guys I will be done in earth as it is in heaven whatever is going on there needs to go on here right now if they rest not day and night and say holy holy holy thou art worthy there we don't need to rest right now I'm just as tired as any of you but if I go to the New Jerusalem tonight I'm going good and wore out no in the last time I was ever in a house of God I gave him every last bit of strength inside of this whole body [Applause] whip your hands all ye people and sat under God with your mouth don't just clap clap and shop [Applause]

Channel: POSydney

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Keywords: Pentecost, Grace, Salvation, Holy Spirit, Preaching, Harold Hoffman, Pentecostal, Church, Sydney, Turning Point

Id: SKFD8BuA61M

Length: 73min 58sec (4438 seconds)

Published: Wed Jun 20 2018