Living In The Spirit - Rev. Chester Wright - Apostolic Conference 2006

hallelujah praise God well today I'm gonna be dr. Jekyll yesterday I was mr. Hyde yesterday it was time to tear down today it's time to build up don't take something right now the Holy Ghost is inviting us to go someplace in the spirit that most of us have never been I [Music] love my brethren I love the men who have been faithful to God worked for God done the best they could all these years but I have a special special burden and love for men under 40 and let me tell you why because what God is going to do in the earth in the next little while it's going to require great strength not just spiritual strength but physical strength those of us who are older and have been faithful to God our primary role is going to be to help keep those young guys saved I'll address the Oh elders they hold been and addressed the young men there has to be a team effort and a relationship of trust the problem of course isn't as much getting the young men to trust the old men as it is to get the old men to trust the young men but the Lord's wanting to do so I have a I [Music] have such a feeling of desperation today to somehow be used of the Holy Ghost to open a door for some of you that at the very least you would look inside of it if you would walk through it have a I can't explain it it's just such a feeling of desperation because there are some of you especially under 40 the my generation it's a long story and I don't want to take part of my time going any great detailing but my generation was deeply affected by the damage done to the face of our movement by the Lateran movement the devil won two major victories in the 40s and 50s through the latter a movement he took some very hungry men and they lost their tide of their foundation and that they up giving up truth for the things of the spirit not understanding you can't have truly have the things of the Spirit if it's not tied to them built on the foundation of truth but that wasn't the greatest victory that the adversary won the greatest victory the adversary won in that time was all the people that stayed faithful the truth he scared about 95% of them into never searching out the depths of the Spirit of God and I remember as a young man before I was a preacher and then when I began to be a preacher I remember the cautions I got and it wasn't that I ignored the cautions but they didn't fit with the Word of God and I watched many of my peers come under the subjection and the control of that fear and never become what they could have been in God because they lived under the fear of the things of the Spirit of God never became it lived and regret there's men standing in this room right now that God opened a door for you in your younger years gave you a glimpse into the spirit world but you were so afraid because of the warnings and for so afraid of the rejection that would come that you didn't walk through that door and you live in regret today and you are hollow shells of what you could have become in God because you would not enter in because of fear I have suffered many things at the hands of my brothers in 38 years of ministry because of my desire for the things of the Spirit of God I've had horrible things said about me been rejected been banned from districts because I simply believed in the things of the Spirit of God you know something it's not my problem because it's not a person that they're rejecting you can't reject the things of the Spirit of God without rejecting God God is a spirit I know that's what the Bible says I know this is editing the scripture but in this context can I can I change the word God is the spirit he's the spirit when I say God is spirit that means automatic 'god is that anything I do with God concerning God if God is involved at all it is super natural super means above or greater than the natural and I've watched my generation many many good men love God the best they knew how but lived under that fear I've watched them try to do a work for God and avoid the supernatural and we have an entire generation of men the majority of which has never become what they could have been in God I don't want that for this next generation coming up some of this new generation is cynical and it's not their fault some of them are teetering in the balance of making a decision which way they're going and it should have never come to this they should have been born in the fire raised in the fire lived in the fire know of the things that God should have been so absolutely normal to them Paul said I would not believe it I would not have you to be ignorant of King James says spiritual gifts but if you look real closely the word gifts is in italics which is the honesty of the translators of the King James Version letting you know that there was no Greek word they translated there and in a very literal sense all of the writing about what we call the gifts of the Spirit Paul could accept could be summed up simply as saying Paul was saying beloved I I would not have you to be ignorant of spirituality of the spiritual because if you're ignorant of the spiritual you're ignorant of the operation of God Galatians chapter 5 we could go there verse 16 we're going to read a little bit here I don't know if we'll go very fast today I with the Morgan said I'm a teacher I love to teach yesterday I don't know what it was it was just everything turned loose nothing held back but impartation isn't done 90 miles an hour today is impartation Paul said I want to profit you by imparting to you some spiritual gift and you say ooh that sounds spooky no when I when I communicate to you about the things of the Spirit of God if you open your heart there's an impartation that takes place by God it's not some whatever it's not mysterious yes I say then and of course understanding the entire book of Galatians up to this point was God was Paul the Holy Ghost through Paul expressing how deeply concerned he was about the church of Galatia which can be something his concern can be summed up in this one statement having begun in the spirit are you now made perfect by the flesh this I say then walk in the spirit and you shall not fulfill the less than flesh you know why there's so many great men of God that have fallen adultery over the years because we learned to be oratorical preachers and we didn't learn to walk in the spirit men burn out men just shells of what they used to be just enduring to the end hanging on just trying to be saved because when you're walking in the flesh trying to live for God it is exhausting verse 17 for the flesh lusteth against the spirit the spirit against the flesh these are contrary the one for the other so that you cannot do the things that you would 18 but if you be led of the Spirit you're not under the law 19 now the works but it's a works effort the works of the flesh are manifest which are these adultery fornication uncleanness lasciviousness and of course we don't have much problem with those things do we idolatry of course we do it's called covetousness we have a problem at witchcraft you say we don't oh yeah rebellion is witchcraft we've got a problem of that hatred oh we got a lot of problem with that works of the flesh variance emulations jealousies whatever wrath against one another oh we got plenty of that strife boy do we ever have that you know what that word literally is the Greek political party spirits seditions that's overthrowing people that are in authority because we don't like the way they're leading us heresies that's when we make our opinions equal to God's envious murders and hatred of courses murder drunkenness revellings and such like of the which i tell you before as i have also told you in time past that they which do notice works do works do works do do such things shall it not inherit the kingdom of God 22 but the fruit of the Spirit where's the works in that you don't strain to be the love I got to love I got to have joy bees I got to be gentle through the spirit is love joy peace longsuffering gentleness goodness faith meekness temperance against such there is no law verse 24 and they that are Christ's that belong to Christ they that have renounced or disavowed ownership of themselves they that have settled settled the ownership issue when Jesus said if any man will be my disciple let him deny himself that as it's translated is impossible self cannot say no to self that's a totally unbiblical principle of course the Greek word has nothing to do with denying self the Greek word there means to to denounce ownership it simply means to renounce or to renounce ownership of self or to act to acknowledge who really owns you for those who have renounced ownership of yourself later of Christ's have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts of the word affections in almost every other place of the Greek is translated affliction or suffering because it's written it sounds redundant affections and lusts are synonyms but sufferings and lusts are opposites they that are Christ's have crucified the flesh with the sufferings and the lust how do you create we know how to we think we know how to curse up ourselves to the lust how do you crucify you to the sufferings you quit resisting and resenting the path God leads you on that's being crucified to your sufferings 25 if we live if we want where preposition in I end of translation of the Greek preposition en which according to Strong's means a fixed position a relation of risk in other words the Spirit is not supposed to be a place we visit but an atmosphere that we live in not in church 24/7 if we live in the spirit let us also walk in the spirit going back to verse 16 this I say then walk in the spirit and you shall not fulfill the lusts of the flesh so if I can learn to live in the spirit then I can walk in the spirit if I live in the spirit and then can walk in the spirit then I will not fulfill the lusts of the flesh but the average Pentecostal is trying to not do the works of the flesh without the first two prerequisites that's why the average Pentecostal thinks this is a hard life to live you may be seated thank you fact the average Pentecostal has the attitude that is just like the servant with one Talent I knew you are a hard man that is the average Pentecostals opinion of God I knew you were hard man and you expect something for nothing you reap where you didn't so you don't give me much but you expect everything from me you're a hard man in the heart of hearts of the average Pentecostal that's our attitude toward God that's why we have no fruit that's why we live in fear trying to protect this talent trying to just be saved you see it's one thing to be saved it's another thing to be used to God but it's a completely different thing to be truly used of God and saved in our midst rather than being divided in the Third's we're divided about 45 45 10 it's about 45 percent of us want to be saved that's all we focus on it's about 45 percent that may be generous they want to be used they want to see something happen they want to be somebody and there's only about 10 percent truly seeking out the path to be truly used and saved the people are seeking to be saved they judge the people are trying to be used because they think they've only got wrong attitudes and that the and and and they just full of themselves and you know they just want to grow to be somebody they want a big church bla bla bla bla bla so they judge them as being carnal and compromisers and the people who are seeking to be used to God look at those that are just trying to hang on to the end it's not having any idea anything about God not loving God not carrying anything about God just trying to save their own skins and then the other 10% of us we think about the other 90% as little as possible because we really don't know how to relate to either group true I told you a little bit of my story yesterday let me tell you about one of the most significant events of my life I was 18 years old I was just a few months from graduating high school I already had my appointment to the Naval Academy I knew there was no church over there in Annapolis I knew there was not going to be any place to go to church I had left it up to God whether to go to Bible School of the Naval Academy and since it was a lot harder to get my Naval Academy than the Bible school I just applied and left it in God's hands and it wasn't something you could accidentally do and that was the advice my Sunday school teacher which is the only conversation in 18 years of being in Pentecost that I ever truly remember anyone outside of my mother ever giving me any kind of spiritual advice in 18 years of having the Holy Ghost or being in the church 12 ago or six of those having the Holy Ghost from the age 12 I never had I don't ever remember a conversation never had with a pastor because again we were a military family and I was just a kid in the military family and so it was okay for me to benefit what was going on but there was no investment made me at all I literally honestly don't remember ever having one conversation with any pastor I had 18 years but this one Sunday school teacher I went I went Tim for advice on what to do because I was really concerned I I knew I was called to preaching and and and he said to me and if that was advice he gave me say well gesture it's a lot harder to get in the David katniss Bible School and the Lord may have a plan for you to go there so well it's just apply see if you get in if you do if you do then then except it is the will of God if you don't then didn't go to Bible School you always get Bible School well there were a lot of times those four years I thought that was a bad way to find the will of God what an easy let me tell you what God did just about tough two months before I had to go to the Naval Academy that was a two-man team traveling up through there doing Sunday school seminars I forget the man's name the guy to start your search for truth he was teaching the seminars somebody might know him brother Wilhite and and and and the other man who was preaching the night services was named Marvin Cole I didn't know either one of these men I never heard of one of them but you know back then your church rarely ever put a guest speaker in a hotel people didn't have the money to do that kind of stuff and so it wasn't unusual for people to stay in different people's homes I I don't ever remember my mother actually my dad wasn't saved at the time and I don't ever remember my mother ever volunteered to keep anybody before but for some reason like you ever heard of God you know for some reason she had talked to my dad and my dad had agreed to let these two preachers stay in our house well it's a strangest thing some of the best friends my dad ever had at all those years he was lost with preachers preachers loved my dad and my dad loved preachers he just wasn't saved he loved preachers he'd sent talk Bible with him for hours he's won saved but he had agreed for these to minister in our house other than receiving the Holy Ghost in the first 18 years of my life those two days were probably the most impacting than anything had ever happened to me my heart aches for young men they've never had that experience I've never seen anything like it in my life maybe you know brother Marvin Cole's a little different and whatever but let me pay something this man walked in my house I saw something I'd never seen my I never seen anything like this from the moment he came in the house the presence of God filled the house it was like being in church I mean not because of what was going on but just the presence of God was in the house I didn't know you could do I didn't know that was possible and and my dad would ask him to ask the blessing over the meal and it's just simple personal intimate blessing of the food to God just it ignited something in my soul and he would walk through the house and and just say oh I love you Jesus praise the Lord and it wasn't just something that was said in church if he was talking to somebody and there was a feeling of intimacy in it I had never experienced I'd never seen before my mother loved God best she could and and III respect my mother and I appreciated her or her birthing me in a Pentecostal church and all of that but I'd never seen anything like this before it was so personal in so intimate and and I don't mean in a showy way at all it was nothing showy about it that was it was there was no height to it there was no put on it was like.he there were times just he'd space out and not even realize there's anybody else there he was just talking to the Lord it I don't mean to be crude here but it was so intimate it felt like you'd accidentally open the bedroom door on a married couple it wasn't embarrassing as it much as it was uncomfortable because it was so intimate it touched something it got something in my being it sparked a desire that for 42 years I have never let anybody or anything definite regardless of the price because I haven't cared what anybody thought I've had one goal I want that that's what I want I didn't start out seeking a ministry I been in those two days they was all in the house two days just just two days and when we talked I don't remember what we talked about in fact I try to engage him in conversation just to stay in his presence I don't remember anything he said specifically I know we talked he was very kind to me but just being around whatever that was I couldn't get enough of it I couldn't get enough of it and less than two months later God separated me from everything Pentecostal and I went to the Naval Academy and there was no church and there was no Pentecostal music and there was no pastor and we were required to go to Chapel and sit through all that formality so there was no chance in the world I was going to be drawn to that because I went from light to dark life to death and I spent four years by myself with no teacher and no influence and all that that worked on me for four years by myself was the memory of what it felt like to be intimate with God that's all I felt that's it that's it that's it that's it brother Gomez I didn't spend my four years seeking a ministry I spent my four years seeking Jesus I didn't go after whether Sanders the gifts of the Spirit I went after Jesus I didn't go after a ministry in the word brother I went after Jesus I went hard after Jesus the problem was in six months sitting around talking to study our knowing only what I was taught in Sunday school about the Word of God repeating what I'd been taught I found that it wasn't mine it didn't take but six months for them to take it away from me I was at a crossroads I got a Study Bible for my 19th birthday my first birthday at the Academy it was right at my crisis point it would have been easy to have walked away with it from it all but were two things that happened to me in my life I could not walk away from even though I didn't even know what was truth at all anymore I couldn't walk away from the fact the reality of the Holy Ghost and I couldn't walk away from the experience I had in my house for two days with a man I had never seen before and that it would be almost 20 years before I see him again but but that atmosphere lingered around me brother Dylan it lingered when I was drawn when I was pulled when we're all kind of things trying to get me to go here and there and all the pressure from my classmates and you you don't know pressure do you live with a bunch of guys 24/7 for four years and you're different pressure but I couldn't give up because I had I had touched the glory or excuse me the Gloria touched me I hadn't touched the glory the Gloria touch I couldn't give up I couldn't give up I couldn't let that go but it was real so I started I got my Study Bible I remember getting down by my bunk my roommate wasn't in the room at the time I got down my button by my bunk and I said now God either you're an absolute liar or you're no respecter of persons now which is it if you're no respecter of persons you know I don't have a pastor I don't have anybody to discuss this stuff with I don't have anybody to turn to but you in this book now if you're no respecter of persons I pledge to study this and your obligation is to lead me into the truth I don't care who's right I don't care what truth is I don't care if it's Catholic I don't care if this mug I don't care I don't care who what I end up being as long as when I end up with truth I took a semester of thermodynamics I can hardly remember any of that Electrical Engineering one semester I don't remember that I have three semesters of calculus IQ I don't remember I passed all the courses somehow I don't remember any of that I don't remember any of that I don't remember any other I can't I can't hardly remember anything that I studied that I got a degree for but I got stacks and notes we're on eight and a half by 11 sheets of paper I wrote out scriptures that I found in pencil using only little concordance in the back of that Bible and that center column reference that it had just study and read and studying every time I'd find a scripture on a subject a category categorized it by subject how to be saved how to be baptized whether or not the Holy Ghost is necessary speaking in tongues all these things just studied I want to know if all that was necessary all that was real I have said frequently that I went to the Naval Academy a third generation Pentecostal I left their first generation apostolic and you know what the difference was in those four years without a teacher without anyone I felt obligated to and afraid that I'd be betraying if I was seeking after God different than the way they had been raised I found God you know the problem I didn't even realize it was putting me at odds with my generation that it was making me the oddball with most of my generation that it was guaranteeing more rejection than acceptance with my generation but you know what in those four years I found Jesus I found Jesus I found Jesus I'm not telling you today after all these years I got it all down I find that it's a daily quest it's a daily search the Lord said through Paul on on Mars Hill he's not very far from any one of us but we have to feel after him we got to find him while some are studying the preach I'm looking for Jesus while some are studying the latest church growth message I Memphis I'm just looking for Jesus hallelujah it this is not a church growth conference that's not what this is in case you haven't figured this out you know why because if you were a Church Road comforts the most important Church growth scripture in the Bible wouldn't even be brought up in a church growth conference you want to know what it is the most important church growth the scripture in all of the Bible is except a grain of wheat fall into the ground and die it abides alone but if it dies it brings forth much fruit now you know something that's guaranteed it's not what method you use it's not what cultural style of preaching you use when I hear guys that talk regular they can't even get up and make an L switch without going - what does that have to do with the Holy Ghost it's not anointing it's a cultural thing give me a break I said it's going to be nice if mercy we wonder why people don't think we're real when you got a preaching voice and a rest of the time voice I'm sorry it's just something about that bit it just doesn't click with me I can receive from you but it takes every ounce of the Holy Ghost I've got to do so I'm talking about seeking for Jesus here I'm talking about clearing the clutter out of the way if you haven't been listening every service every message could be boiled down to this get the clutter cleared out of the way that's what's keeping it from happening for you it's not that you can't do it you just let it all get cluttered you've let it all get complicated it's not complicated it's simple let's just get back to the simplicity of it I've got to die you've got to die that's what living in the spirit is Paul didn't say I hope one day to be crucified with Christ or some day just before the rapture I'll be crucified with Christ he said I am but a system he said I am if one of us said I am crucified with Christ we look at him say boy you're full of pride I am crucified with Christ nevertheless I live yet not i but Christ liveth in me if we live in the spirit we walk in the spirit but Christ liveth in me and the life that I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God or the son of God's faith not faith in the Son of God faith the faith of the Son of God others the prepositional phrase of possession it's exactly saying the same thing to say the faith of the son of gods faith the life that I now live in the flesh I live by the son of God's faith his faith not mine who do you think has more faith your Jesus who do you thinks faith works better yours of Jesus while you're living and not dead the only fate you muses yours but if you let him allow you to be crucified and you don't resist it and you don't resent it then you switched fate you're no longer living in your faith you're living by his thing is there any question about his faith working is the Lord rubbing his hands and his palms all sweaty about how in the world to build a church in Virginia Beach with all of those false Pentecostals you think that's hard for God is he sweating is his brow broke out in perspiration trying to figure out how to get it done you need to thank God every day for those guys that are nailing those spikes in your hands and your feet to that cross because there's one problem with crucifixion I can't do it to myself there has to be someone whether ignorant otherwise that are the agents of crucifixion who are doing it for me so the very people I think are doing me the greatest harm are doing me the greatest favor because they're the ones is driving the nails in the cross for me because I can't draw drive them in myself I can get the nail in one hand but how am I going to get the nail in the other somebody else has got to drive the nails in the cross for me if I'm going to be crucified with Christ that's why I've got to quit hatin I've got to quit being offended I've got to quit resenting I've got to start appreciating and I've got to start saying Father forgive them they don't know what they do they meant it for evil you meant it for good and even though you're using it for my good I allowed me to be crucified by it you're still going to punish them if they don't repent so hope and father they've been such a blessing to me doing to me what I cannot do for myself can do for us in those circumstances that you're in those obstacles you're facing that you just think I can't go on I don't know what I'm gonna do about all this I don't know how to go farther I don't know where to go from here they're just agents of crucifixion that's all they are they're no big deal to God he will move them when the time is right let them do their perfect work in you let them bring you to the end of yourself the name Sol means supplanter the name Paul means small or brought to the end you want to be so you want to be Paul the more you're brought to the end of yourself the more fruit the Lord will be able to do through you for his glory if you're going to resent being brought to the end of yourself if you're going to resent and resist being brought to the end of yourself if you're going to pray your way out of every gym just because it's uncomfortable and it's causing you to die then you're never going to live in the spirit and your best you'll ever be is just a caretaker maintenance man in some pulpit someplace just trying to maintain somebody else's fruit just taking care of somebody else's place and never seeing anything for yourself because you're not willing to die Jesus name Jesus name I got a bunch of guys on the staff at home and even though most of them are not that much younger than me they all want me to be dead but brother Middleton they just think they want me to be dead because there's not hardly any of you guys that could handle me treating you like a son just ask those two boys sitting in the back some guys pains the way for their sons I have purposely put obstacles in the way the hardest situations the most difficult ones we had a youth pastor who's doing a great job he came to me I guess he was trying to get a little more control because he's already separated the youth and unto themselves where they really weren't a part of the church anymore they were his little followers and I think he thought I was so dependent on him he came to me and said it's a will of God for me to leave I said okay he he was shocked he thought I'd never agree to that and I said to him oh and by the way if it's the will of God for you to leave you understand it I've got nobody here can do what you and your life does you know that as well as I do so that means if it's the will of God for you leave it must be for me the will of God for me to completely change the way you're doing the youth because even if I had three or four people to do it they couldn't do what you're doing what was he gonna say well I knew whoever took over that job was gonna fail impossible to succeed so who died give it to my youngest son truth before the Almighty God did he try hard yeah then he worked hard at it yeah did he make some progress with it yeah but somebody was going to fail oh no one I could spare failing with him rest of them wouldn't take it rest that wouldn't have trusted me enough he needed to die he needed to fail the guy that took it was going to fail because everybody's going to compare him with a guy that left that's why some of us only want to be servants we don't ever want to be sons because the Lord treats sons different than he does servants he does he does servants you know your feed it conserve it you take care of a servant you know whatever you don't you don't clue them in on a whole lot you just expect them to do what you tell them to do and they do that and the obligation is since you own them and their servant and they just do what you want you you make sure that fed and clothed and see in the morning not so of the son father's make it tough on sons because they love them you know what the saddest one of the saddest things I've experienced in all of my years of Pentecost brother Dylan is to watch men who have been strong for truth have a son come up in the ministry and the guy go away from the truth and all of a sudden dad changes what he's preaching because he can't bring himself to admit that the son is lost it's happened all over this country let me tell you something one of my sons had a little problem a few years ago I brought him in for the elders I cranked on him really hard I was gonna stand him up for everybody rebuking the elders talked me out of it well as I will do that because as much as I love my son I'm not standing back and let anybody destroy what I've spent more my whole life building I wouldn't be not stop living my son but this wasn't about family this is about God hallelujah hallelujah it's about God notice in the flesh in are you kidding in the flesh there is there's effort there's effort in the flesh you have to you have to put in work in the flesh you you carry the pressure of responsibility in the flesh when it's flesh in the spirit you know God's definition of success you know this the definition of success that every man of God and the Bible used every man of God in the Bible used including the Lord Jesus Christ this is the only biblical measure of success whether or not you find the will of God today and do it and a story results and numbers are not the measure of success the whole world was going to hell and if numbers our success how do you call Jesus a success after the thousands and thousands he healed that experienced a personal miracle as a result of his ministry the thousands and thousands at eight miraculous food but the tens of thousands that heard him teach and he couldn't get but a hundred and twenty of all of those thousands to be where he wanted him to be on the day he wanted to be there by any numerical measure he was a failure brother Dylan but he told us his standard for success the son can do nothing of himself what he sees the father do he does what here's the father say he says his measure of success was to what degree does God have control of my life today to do whatever he chooses to do end of story if you've got any other bit of the measure of success it is not scriptural some so some water who gives the increase I don't earn increase I can't deserve increase I can only do the will of God if there will of God today is two so I so if it's really God today the water out water but but the reaping is an act of a spirit that only takes place when and where God says do it because we don't know that that is the very reason why we don't get thrilled and excited when somebody else has revival because all that it demonstrates is not what somebody's done or how much they've got it together and how much you don't have it together it just demonstrates they had a visitation of God and God visited and produce some increase and if he visits there and he's no respecter of persons my time is coming if I'll just do the will of God every day my time is coming it's coming my time is coming why don't we see more of it well I got to go really fast here we don't see more of it because we just really don't understand about living for God when you get out of the realm of religion and you enter the mount realm of relationship it's a completely different concept it's a completely different perspective it's not about what you got to do and what's right and what's wrong it's what pleases God when I was when I was single band I could eat with I could go out the McDonald's with in the Burger King with any single female that would agree to eat with me and there's not anybody could set a thing about it or say a sinner hey look if we both showed up in our same car in different cars and we sat down and simply shared a meal together Jesus ate with sinners and anybody could accuse my morality or spirituality as a single man sitting in eating a hamburger with another single woman let me tell you what I'm a married man I don't care their circumstances I don't care the explanation if you woke in Burger King and you see me sitting to the table with a woman that's not my life it might be my daughter-in-law but if you didn't know that you're gonna have questions he's a married man I wouldn't do that because it says no no you can't show me any place in the Bible where they'd be sin because it's immoral show me where that's immoral you arrive at different cars leave in different cars you sit at a public place across the table from each other share a meal and don't touch one another that's immoral I wouldn't do it you know I wouldn't do it not because of my religion but because it's a relationship [Applause] because I wouldn't want to do anything to bring a question on my relationship with my wife it's just like that with my Jesus we don't understand but we have a problem Paul said Romans 7 things I would do I don't doing things I don't want to do I do the will is present with me but how to do that which I will I don't find I got this problem I've got the spirit worn against my flesh flesh warning is my spirit and I'm caught in the middle and I don't know what to do and I'm trying my best and it's just not working and it's a problem and after 36 years of pastored I have watched so many sincere honest the God Christians give up because they never could figure out how to get past that well here's how Romans 8:1 there is therefore now no condemnation to them that are in Christ Jesus that's where the denominator which reading of course unfortunately the Pentecostal subject stop reading there too but that's it's it's a conditional statement based on something here's what it's based on who walk not after the flesh but after the spirit again you can't walk in the spirit if you don't live in the spirit you can't live in the spirit unless you're seeking Jesus understanding that he is spirit he is supernatural the Word of God tells me about him the Word of God tells me how he thinks the Word of God tells me what he loves and does not love the Word of God is his expression it's the it's the Express image of his person but it is not his person his essence his substance is spirit and I cannot fellowship with God and avoid the supernatural that it you know how you can tell when something's flesh and it's not spirit because flesh has got its grubby fingers around it controlling everything we're going to start here we're going to end here we're going to do this then we're going to do that oh don't you believe in things being decent done decently in order that's not what the Bible is talking about that's talking about somebody with authority to do so standing up here overseeing the thing making sure that what's being done isn't out of the book it's not talking about programming such predictability into it that the Spirit of God is completely suffocated our midst first two for the law of the spirit of life in Christ Jesus the laws of the spirit what spirit of life in Christ Jesus has made me free from the law of sin and death it doesn't cause the law to cease to exist you know you know we get so defensive when that went with the denied anomalous legalists from their perspective I'm a legalist and proud of it you know why because without the law there is no sin Paul said if it had not been for the law I wouldn't know what sin so without the law there's nobody lost so they're all hypocrites that don't believe in legalism because they're out there raising money to save so that they don't even believe are lost because they don't believe in the law and those of you that want to be liberated from the rules I want to find out how you getting liberated from the word you get liberated from the word you know what that's called lost but I just don't believe all this stuff is necessary really really you know why would people compromise standards it's not longer they compromise truth even though they promised themselves they'll never do it because how do you how do you say this isn't necessary and still say this is where do you draw the line where do you draw the line oh come on preacher you don't believe a few inches of my hair's gonna make that much difference Oh Oh so a few inches your hair is no big deal but let my tongue make sounds that my brain can't even comprehend is essential it is a short trip from a few inches of hair makes no difference so this all this tongue talking this makes no sense I cannot be important it's a short trip it's not a long trip with the short trip people say what do you believe you have to speak in tongues to be saved no I do not I believe you have to have the Holy Ghost to be saved there's no place in the book says you have to speak in tongues to be saved yes that the Holy Ghost to be safe but the only way I can initially know I have a Holy Ghost is speaking tongue oh then you believe you have to speak in tongues me sakes no you will never get me to say I believe you have to speak in tongues to be safe that's not scriptural I believe that the Holy Ghost to be saved but how do you know where the winds blowing do I believe a woman cutting her hair or a guy let his hair grow you don't send up the hell no I believe it's whatever is in their heart to make someone to do it's gonna send them to hell that's just an outward sign of an inward problem you're not going to get me to say somebody lop it off the hair or some guy growing his ass sending the hell but that rebellion in there now that'll send you to hell I got a relative that's become a Christian and he said Pentecostals this and Pentecost is that finally one day I did everything but jerk him up by the time I supposed to be you can talk about you PC all you want because he was raised to you PC even though he never became one of us said you I did it verbally even though I didn't I wanted to do it you can sit you can blame all this stuff on what you were taught as a kid and that we're just following somebody else's stuff you want to but I got mine out of the book and if you got the guts to look at it I'll show it to you because it's in there because I'm not falling in I'm not in the United Pentecostal church because I believe anything you believe I'm in the United Pentecostal church because you just happen to be the closest to what God showed me for myself in the book period and if yours is the office of that I feel sorry for you because until this is yours instead of watch somebody's passed down to you you're never going to give yourself forth and you're not going to be willing to die for it if they came in fact we prove we're not willing to die for it every day because you got to believe this thing to be willing to be crucified for this every day you got to believe it god I got hurt what verse Monier free for what's next one three what the law could not do in that it was weak through the flesh let me tell you something if you've left if you began the spirit you're now trying to let do this live this life by the flesh and you're not trusting the Spirit of God every day let me tell you something friend the book right there says you're not going to succeed and you may be a good hypocrite hiding it from everybody but the Word of God says you're failing and you know how we know you may have the outside alright but your attitude gossiping about people talking about people criticize the people judging people the Bible says don't judge another man's servant when you criticize a preacher you just crossed the line but I don't agree what he's doing it's not your problem you're not his master nor dastaan of those that's one that did satisfies both of those all you've done is reader is reveal your stinking spirit that you're walking in the flesh and you're claiming you're doing it better than him and you're a liar I was trying to be nice I'm sorry sorry I guess I'm just not a nice person I just can't do it stuff stirs me up man if you can't tell I just I just hate that stuff I hate fault I hate facade Christianity I got that this facade of Pentecostalism that we've held by hid behind it's going to send us to hell it's not acceptable to God it's not okay with God it might be okay with you but it's not okay with God there's no life in it there's no reality in it there's no fruit fulness in it there's no profit to God in it for what the law could not doing it was weak through the flesh God sending his own son like a sinful flesh and for sin condemned sin the flesh for here we got it again that's the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us how is the righteousness of the law failed enough for building us not because we dot your i's and cross your T's but because we walk not after the flesh but after the spirit you're not righteous because you do right you're righteous because you live in the spirit and because you walk in the spirit that's what make you right yes because it's not your righteousness anyway [Applause] kingdom of God nut is not meat and drink but it's righteousness peace and joy if you ain't in the Holy Ghost excuse the vernacular if you ain't in the Holy Ghost you ain't righteous you don't have peace and you don't have joy I've had the fortune or misfortune whichever way you want to look at it preacher and every continent but Australia and you know something it's not just an American problem it's the church problem in the Church of the Living God today there is so little joy in the people of God anywhere in our world today there is so little joy because it's not our joy it's the joy of the Lord and I can only have the joy of the Lord if I'm living in the spirit and walk in the spirit to do my circumstances has nothing to do with my problem because that's doing how big my church is how big my income is it has to do with whether or not I'm fellowshipping and have a relationship with the Lord Jesus it's not about you it's not about the UPC guy it's about Jesus it's about first five please like first five I got to go got to go David after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh they're after the spirit of things of the Spirit but we have so perverted the scripture I bet you know and I'm not talking off the top of my head I'm talking about stuff where I've heard it preached all my life it's a perversion it's not true we equate carnality with living in sin it is not anywhere close carnal is not referring to sinners it's referring to Christians who are attempting to live for God through human strength and ability it's not talking about doing sin it's talking about trying to do the things of God through the power of the flesh Oh God for they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh later after speaking to the spirit verse 6 for the be carnally minded to think in fleshly terms to think about human ability human assets to grade preachers on how good one is another isn't the grade churches and ministries based on outward results what appears to be results let me taste them until we're all willing to post rosters about our churches and state where they all came from I must say this as strongly as I feel it then it's stupid of us to look at somebody with a larger group in some of the smaller group and consider one more successful the other that's just foolishness that's not carnality that's just stupidity for the B Carly I'm sorry you know what you want to do I'm gonna tell you a miracle I'm the only guy that's been in every one of these conferences from the beginning and that's a miracle this is this is a very brave man I can't imagine the stuff he puts up with people saying to him about what I said I'm off the subject we have time to feel far sorry for myself for the be carnally minded is death it's what if you are operating in the flesh you're dead you're not alive if you're trying to do right if you're worshiping God if you're singing if you're praising if you're preaching but you're using your own strength and ability you are dead it's not an acceptable alternative it's not what it's just not my personality your dad but to be spiritually minded is what you know what I feel you know who the people are I feel the most sorry for of all of our movement the foreign missionaries you have to see what we're really like they have to go from church to church to church and see what we're really like and I hesitate to say this because I wouldn't want to hurt any of them and and but I got a couple of my close enough friends with that they're not critical they're just they're sad said brother right you just won't believe it just won't believe it how bad it is the most frightening thing in the world to me would be to go overseas and trust my income to people who operate in the flesh not in the spirit and no I don't eat and I can't do my call again unless they give and the first little sign of trouble they won't stop getting because it's not convenient life and peace next verse please verse eight please that upstart was at seven F seven I'm sorry because the carnal nine the one that's trying to do right to their effort and let me tell you how you can know if you feel pressure you're in the flesh that's the automatic sign you're trusting your ability you can't show me anywhere in this book where's the will of God for his people to have internal pressure if it's God's will he'll take care of it if it's not God's will if you're still trying to make it happen you better change it but we thrive on pressure and whatever let me taste something the devil wants the people of God under pressure because pressure produces a pressure produces what come on come on come on come on no this the hundred times probably this part I usually go backwards from weariness weirdness is the adversaries antidote to revival be not weary in well-doing produces you shall reap you faint not well where does weariness come from pressure oh no from frustration that's it weirdness comes from living under frustration and frustration comes on the friend comes from living under pressure and yourself because you've internalized it pressure produces frustration frustration produces weirdness we're and it stops God from being able to work and it's all because we've been raised in a climate that's trying to avoid the supernatural because we don't want to be out there we want to be safe and we can't trust God's Spirit so we have to stay in control we've got to keep our fingerprints on everything because if we don't keep a tight grip on everything then it might get out of control Edward enmity look it up it's the Greek word for hostility the carnal mind is hostility toward God it's not okay it's just not an alternative way to do anything you know it's not preferable but you can still go to heaven like that you can trust your salvation to that lifestyle but I'm not because I don't believe you're saved according to this here's why because the carnal mind is hostility against God it's not subject to the law God it's subject to tradition it's subject to opinion right it's subject to peer pressure it's not subject to the law of God neither indeed can be and that's the Greek word tuna my which is the verse verb for Dunamis power or the ability to do supernaturally what you cannot do through the flesh when your mind is in control instead of being submitted to God you don't have the power to do what's pleasing to God and God's not going to help you verse eight so then they that are in the flesh cannot please God but but but but brother but brother right we had a great service last night one the choir couldn't then we just really clap and praise the Lord that's Old Testament stuff that's not Pentecostalism dancing and before the Lord and that's not Pentecostalism that's Jewish you didn't have to have the Holy Ghost to do that that's why the most specific instruction we have on it is in the book of song that's what most of our churches are Pentecostal they're Jewish because we have a little bit of demonstration or whatever we think that's all there is to this know if you're Pentecostal apostolic you live in the spirit you walk in the spirit that's New Testament because you're filled with the spirit and you're governed by the spirit that's New Testament it's New Testament verse nine but you're not a flesh but in the spirit of Soviet the Spirit of God dwell in you if any man have spirit across these none of us in this last couple of minutes I'm acquitted 1st Corinthians chapter 2 verse 1 oh I love this chapter I love all the Bible but I love this chapter how do we 1st Corinthians 2 1 and I brother when I came to you came with typed out notes and at using the thesaurus and the dictionary and made sure it was really impressive for everybody to listen to and I brother when I came to you came not P with excellency of speech or of wisdom declaring unto you the testimony of God in fact I did my best to forget everything but one thing I didn't want to impress you with my knowledge of anything but one thing all I wanted you to know for me next verse please all I wanted you to know from me is Jesus Christ and him crucified I didn't want you to think I was smart about anything else but that when I came into your presence that's all I wanted you to know after listening to me was he knows Jesus and he's experienced the crucifixion of Jesus that is right and he believes I can have the same experience dude you don't have to listen to tapes and copy somebody else's message to do this you don't have to do that to do this but you do have to die out to your flesh you do have to seek the face of God you do have to seek the process of God you do have to spend some time in the spirit rather than everything in the flesh verse 3 and I was with you in weakness and in fear in much trembling but for and my speech and my preaching was not with enticing words of man's wisdom my God have mercy on us what an indictment against present-day Pentecost the most powerful hanging thing that happens most after most of our messages you will have a few people give us compliments mine that was really good tonight preacher nothing ever happens nobody's ever changed but it was really good tonight you know I never thought of that before that thank you for the thought just the purpose of preaching it's not to impress people with man's words and wisdom but the preaching of the word is most a lead to a demonstration of the Spirit and the power of God why why is that the purpose verse 5 that your face did you any shop on a conference because so-and-so screeching why woods getting blessed when he's preaching would to God did everybody that caught claims to have a call to preach walk in the spirit and we could really reach the place of believing that any man of God standing in a pulpit with a microphone in the will of God will have a word from God for us and we can receive what we need regardless of the face regardless of the personality regardless regardless regardless that God's goal that's why Paul said ye are dead and your lives are hidden with Christ in God and you precious people come in here and you feel like you're so incapable of competing thank God maybe you'll find God's Way and squits quit trying to find out how you close close you can come to somebody else's way God's got away and i'ma tell you how you know God's Way it always brings him glory and not man when it's God's Way it brings God glory and not man what I'm going to guys through preaching if they talk more about the guys and then the God that spoke that it wasn't God I don't care how good it was I don't like leftovers and I don't really like much can excuse me next verse howbeit we speak wisdom among them that are perfect yet not the wisdom of this world nor the princes of this world that come to naught 7 that we gonna have to roll through this thank you very much we I don't wait for me just keep good but we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery even the hidden wisdom which God ordained before the world unto our glory under her what how can it be our glory if it's not known and how's it going to be known if I don't spend any time with God to know it which none of the princes of this world knew Fred they know that they would not have crucified the Lord of glory but as it is written eye hath not seen nor ear heard neither entered the heart of man things that God has prepared for those that love me period but it's not period in us in the spirit that continues in the spirit but God have to reveal them unto us by his Spirit but God had revealed them unto you unless you spend time in the spirit God is revealed among us by spirit for the spirit searcheth all things yea the deep things of God that's why we're so shallow so our worship is so shallow it's why our preaching reaches for entertainment for what man knows the things of a man save the spirit of Man which is in him even so the things of God knows no man but the Spirit of God though she said well said yesterday I think it's inside of a book an awful tape I appreciated him saying that but hidden it's sad he had to if it said he felt the necessity to why would he have to identify that the implication is most of what comes coast our pulpits don't come like that because people don't have the ability no doesn't want to make the investment of dying after themselves now we have not received the spirit of the world but the spirit which is of God that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God you precious home missionaries I'm so glad you're here it is such a privilege to have the opportunity administer you because I want to you because once you ever build a church it doesn't matter how long you stay there you always see yourself as a missionary you never stop seeing yourself as ho missionary that's how I feel I don't identify with other people I don't I really don't I thank thankful to God for men who have taken the church and really really brought that church where it needed to be and seen the increase but I can't relate to that not when you got two people and you got no building you don't know where to go you don't know where you're going to get a job to eat and it's totally from scratch and it's not move-ins and the people that pray through have to be started with their ABCs because they don't know anything and after you invest time and so many of them but they be feed I'm so glad you're here please go back 12-hour bear sorry you were just doing what I asked you to do if you would just spend time with God not the moaning your situation not feeling sorry for yourself but knowing how privileged you are and how much God has trusted you that you're not doing what you're doing because you can't get a church someplace but because you're honest enough and sincere you're not to respond to a call of God to place where somebody has never had the opportunity to hear the gospel before there are so many things that God is willing to freely give you but you can't receive it if you don't know why you got to spend time with God to know the things that are freely given to us of God would you stand please I am NOT going to apologize for what I've said today I am going to say that I understand that in the heat of the moment sometimes I say things stronger than I really intend to not understanding how sensitive some people are because that most of you I don't know I don't know your situation I'm not picking on you I'm not using head knowledge I'm just trying to hear and repeat here and repeat ear repeat ear repeat to me that's the essence of ministry when you're when you're when you're walking in the spirit it's just it's not what you think or what you're what you believe is hearing and repeating you're repeating so if I've said something they this has offended you it was not on purpose but if you'll receive it from God and get past the personality you can be benefited by it I don't apologize for the passion I don't apologize for the intense desire to see you have what your rightful place as a Holy Ghost filled child of God I don't pause for net we just raise your hands some of your heads are just swimming it's not that you're rejecting it you get a the message like this if you haven't heard anything exactly like this before it's just kind of just knock you off it's like it's like hitting a top that's spinning you bump that top it it just kind of wobbles because it was spinning all perfectly and everything but it gets bumped or jarred and it starts wobbling that I got to have it we're not going to spend a long time doing this we're not asking I'm not I'm not talking about changing anything today I'm just saying to the just asking you to say to the Lord Here I am I will do your will if your will is for me to stay where I am I'm staying where I am I'll stay the rest of my life but if it's your will for me to do something else if it looks like it first it's a lower road I will take the lower road as long as it's your will I tell you what right now I promise you before God I wouldn't change my life even up for Mike Mullins or Mike Hagee's I wouldn't change my life even up I wouldn't trade places with any classmate I had even up today wouldn't do it because I have lived the will of God and I'm glad I did it oh there was a time when they were wearing white uniforms and on board ships and I was in a ditch digging ditches because that's all the only job I could get and still stay on site literally three bucks an hour they were my classmates had already started flying in squadrons and I was out of the flight program and I was I was in a ditch working for d-ball construction company putting in storm drains sewer lines and water lines for $3 an hour because that's all the job I could find that would give me the time to do what I went to Annapolis to do and you don't think the devil jumped my case how are the mighty fallen he said you were starched white impeccable uniform you flew their airplanes you were going someplace and all you're doing today is operating a hickory handle backhoe that's all you're doing and you're going to do this a long time because ain't nothing going to happen if this is an offensive expression to you I'm sorry from where I'm from it's not offensive but it expresses everything take that devil take that devil take it come on one more sin just just another moment I'm Yours Jesus I don't believe anybody's too old to find a new place in God I don't believe anybody lived one way too long to find a new place Moses didn't even get Vidhan started till he was 80 and get good and started till he was 80 come on it's never too late to say Lord I want your will I want your will I'd give up my dreams my ambitions my strength my flesh I want to live in your spirit I want to walk in your spirit in Jesus name

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