The Promise You Need Series

You need the Holy Spirit

You need the Holy Spirit. He isn't a matter of do you want him, no God says you need the Holy Spirit whether you want him or not. If you want to walk the solid Christian Life, you're going to have to go after, and bring the Holy Spirit into living reality to your life. We can pray with you at the altar to get you a jump start, Hallelujah!, but you got to go after him more than just in the church. You got to make him something you really want to seek and spend some time seeking at home.

1st Corinthians chapter 2 verse 9

"but as it is written"

I could make a whole message out of as it's written but you've heard me talk about it before whenever these people write down the word it is written, that puts Authority behind it. That means it's done. "Eye Has Not Seen Nor Ear heard natural eye natural ear nor have entered into the heart of man the things that God has prepared for those that love him". Verse 10

"but God has revealed them to us through his spirit for the spirit searches the things, yes the Deep things of God. for what man knows the things of a man except the spirit of the man which is in him even so no one knows the things of God except the Spirit of God. Now we have received not the spirit of the world" that's important not the spirit of the world but the spirit capital S Holy Spirit who is from God. "And we might know the things that have been freely given to us by God, these things we also speak not in Words which man's Wisdom teaches but which the Holy Spirit teaches comparing spiritual things with spiritual but the natural man does not receive the things of the Holy Spirit of God for they are foolishness to him nor can he know them because they are spiritually discerned. But he who is spiritual judges all things, yet he himself is is rightly judged by no man. For who has known the mind of the Lord that he may instruct Him" that's Capital H.

Has anybody ever tried to tell God how to do it. You're not going to get far. But we have the mind of Christ, praise the Lord! He's talking about the Holy Spirit and today in the churches there is a great lack of the reality and preaching about the Holy Spirit. Receiving and moving in the Holy Spirit, and I don't know how it all happened but if you go to many churches that even claim to be Holy Spirit Full Gospel Pentecostal, you hardly even know that the Holy Spirit is there, that there is anything special about it. It takes time to seek the Holy Spirit and to have the Holy Spirit move among you and because for whatever reason, we quit going aggressively after the Holy Spirit.

Churches have replaced Him by programs. We got a program for everything and some of it if you'd seek the Holy Spirit you wouldn't need a program.

Entertainment

some people are entertained with the gimmicks, smoke machines, flashing

lights, it gives you a tingle. It gives you an emotional experience, but most of the time it's not the real power of the Holy Spirit coming your way

So we've gone and replaced the Holy Spirit's power, and I could go down a long list of things such as...

Preaching about how to get rich. Send me your money and you'll get rich. Go ahead you can laugh. If you've watched TV you know what I'm talking about.

The Devil is Attacking Our Churches Backbone

We don't want to offend anybody so we're not going to talk in tongues, we're not going to talk about Holiness, we're not going to talk about sin, and that's just exactly the way the devil wants it because our faith has to do with God, Our faith has to do with the Lord Jesus Christ, our faith has to do with the power the Holy Spirit, our faith has to do with being saved actually saved, not saying a prayer, but repenting of sin and giving your life over to the Lord Jesus Christ and believing that he has paid for our sins and receiving the Holy Spirit in and being born again. We have problems not only with that crowd, but you got another group, and I don't often name names but I'm going to this morning. Beware of the false doctrines of John MacArthur and RC Sproul. They are of a group called cessationists which means they don't believe the Holy Spirit does these things anymore. They don't believe. They believe that after the Bible was written and the last Apostle went off, that all miracles all movings of the Holy Spirit quit. That's a Doctrine, in fact both of them hammer on it so hard that I wonder if they're not blaspheming the Holy Spirit. Calling the miracles of God today Devils, demons, I don't know if any of you are watching them or listening to them but once in a while I hear Christians paying a lot of attention. Well you pay attention to that guess what's going to happen? You're going to go flat in your walk with God. Say Amen somebody. I guess you don't agree with me. Well anyhow you can look it up and see.