following program is sponsored by seattle open door church yet all open door church is committed to loving god loving people and loving life our doors are open to whomever no mass required seattle open door church anything that comes our way as were filled with your holy spirit baptized with your all the spirit your spirit poured out upon us whatever the phrases that we use lord is that we want to have more of your spirit so we pray that you be with us in jesus name amen so our lesson twelve baptism the holy spirit we have already given the introduction last week we've looked at several verses in the last couple weeks we're going to go to page number six to give a little bit of a summary and then we'll be start on page seven number six at the bottom of the page roman number one what is the baptism of the holy spirit we talked about it last week but we're talking about the promise that that jesus said that the there is going to be the outpour of the holy spirit and then that there will be th spirit that will come with tongues of fire and so we see in the book of acts that the disciples all met together and when they met all the spirit came down they were filled the holy spirit they began to speak another tang's they started sharing the gospel with others have peter who turned around that was the peter that was scared that was afraid remember when jesus got to rest and what if peter do he hid did me hear it he denied christ three times that same peter gets baptized with the holy spirit he preaches to the jews and tells them you killed jesus so can anybody denied that the fact that when he got filled with the holy spirit baptized with the holy spirit that he was a different person he was absolutely a different person the question is how much are you a different person so if you're a person that can't share the gospel that shy to share the gospel i would argue being filled with the holy spirit that you will the gospel a way different than you did before does it mean that you will suddenly be this outgoing person no because you'll still be you but when god's spirit comes upon you and you're you're seeking god you're saying god fill me up give me baldness that boldness will come upon you so now we'll go to page seven roman new number power of the holy spirit do you do if you're a believer in jesus christ and you're one day old in jesus so you accept jesus this morning if you accept jesus morning do you have the holy spirit living within you absolutely have all the spirit limit then you if you accepted jesus today and you turn around and tempted by the devil can you turn around and say no devil of course can you have power of the devil absolutely but what we're talking about baptism holy spirit is that there is the knowing the power of god working within you that there is a fullness of god work within you so that there is more of jesus in you than more of you because how many know that if you accept jesus as your lord and savior that and you become born again how many know the flesh is still active how many know that when you first accept jesus the flesh is probably more active than if you walk to jesus for thirty years ok so you have the power you have the authority when you first accept christ but the reality is that if you're just accepted christ into your life or you've never grown in christ then you're a christian for forty years and you've never grown in christ how you know you'll be a week christian so out of it whether you believe in the baptism of the spirit is a separate event that god does  agreed that we need to grow in christ ok but after the b c even the baptism holy spirit that is the it says that god was going to what is says that he was going to fill them up and they would be filled with power power is what happens when there's a bed dissolve the spirit letter b we see in the baptism of the spirit we have the power to witness noticed the power is not the beat of people the power is an eye you know what i'm  baptized the holy spirit i'm filled with the holy spirit so now i can turn around and beat people up no that's not what we're talking about we're not talking about that kind of power what now i have power that when i walk into a room every asked to do it i say that's not what we're talking about the power we're talking about is the power to be want to be a witness for christ so we're baptized at the holy spirit there is a bonus to share the gospel of jesus christ there's a bonus to share your testimony i've said it before that many christians who get set free from elke all drugs whatever it may be get set free from anger whatever it may be the problem is many get set free but they're not bald in their testimony so i'll give you an example i have a friend that when i first started ministering capitol hill it was probably due in the ministry in about i don't know about the first couple months how many other capitol hill is known for homosexuality how many blights it and especially way back in the old days they were even more blatant than they were now and so that blatantly that is there and i get a guy that calls me up and says hey i like your ministry i would like to be a part of ministry can we have coffee i want to support you that wow great just started the ministry got a guy that wants to support the ministry says i want to walk the streets with the great wonderful i remember my son was with me and we're walking and then all of a sudden the guy says to him by the way i'm a homosexual i'll see you on our appointment on monday i hang up the phone i must have a look on my face  son says dad what's wrong you seem to excited now you're discouraged i said because this guy says he wants to help with the ministry but then he says he likes what we're doing on what he says he's homosexual what does that mean he thinks that support homosexuality that we're going to have a homosexual walking around and that the east he says something's not right so i go with that gentleman and they got with him i said so we talk and everything i says saw you have a heart for jesus the ten was going on he says i was tricking you i am living in homosexuality but i want out and i want to see if you keep the appointment with me or if you would not show up a lot of people wouldn't show up he says well you got my curiosity that's why i showed up what's the what's going on he says i love jesus but i've got myself caught up in this homo sexual lifestyle they've had it for about six seven years that i've been active in and i actually been involved for many more years but actively involved for six to seven years going the gay bars in all this stuff and i want to get free will you help many know that in that moment that part of his life he probably is going to go around telling everybody that's what he is you think is going to walk into most churches say hey by the way i'm practicing homosexuality he's probably not going to do that but  guess what happens when you get set free now he's been free for her to see twelve years something like that totally free he goes on facebook when people start saying you know you know transgender this that and c says you know what it's all a lie and i know because i can tell you my story most of you want to end up telling your story if you have that lifestyle because of fear because i'm worried about judgment but i would argue when you're filling god's holy spirit when god delivers you you have no problem talking about the deliverance that god did in your life because it can touch somebody else's life but smith you people are delivered but they're not testifying about it because they're not filled with god's holy spirit so they're still filled with fear if you're filth the holy spirit there's a bonus as a letter to number two says to be bold and share the gospel of jesus christ you're not on the ball about the deliverance that you experience but are bought about talking about the jesus the delivered you and if you're not bought about the g s that delivered you but here's what happens is when there's opportunity witness you won't witness so this say you're going to a restaurant you sit down a restaurant you're going to eat and the person turns around and says we go to olive garden olive garden they have what they have wine and you have normally have italian food with wine so they spirit god is speaking to you and he tells you as you walk in that restaurant i'm going to give you an opportunity to witness and he knows you will witness because what you're filled with his holy spirit your baptize all these spirits you sit down and the person says to you hey would you like a glass of wine and you say you know i'm i used to be an alcoholic guess what happens you do that and the guy looks at you says you know what he has a tear in his eye i wish i could say that story but i'm an alcoholic can we get together and you say you know what i tell you what right now can you take a break can you take a five minute break you know my brakes come up in fifteen minutes i'll write fifty minutes this meet you to have you leave your food right on the table as a sitting there right there and you walk out to say this guy outside you go to him and you start praying with them you said just want to pray for you oh i can't do that i mean the guys on the clock know he's got a break he could do it every day when he's on a break in a turnaround as you start to pray for and out of that you start to minister to mrs can we get together can god do something amaze in the midst of that but if you're not baptize kingdom we can fully walk in the call of god has forced god as a calling for every single person that is on this earth as a calling for he has a purpose for them and most people live in this earth having no idea why they're here most people have no idea spirit we want to be fully equipped with the character and power of god here's what this is saying is that when you're baptize with the holy spirit you're filled with the holy spirit that the holy spirit or flaw in your life you want to live a holy life one of the struggles as a pastor is to help individuals who you look at their lives they're making a lot of bad choices because they are willfully will walk in and sin and and you will flee walk in sin you have the consequences of it by the way guess what you have the freedom to choose sin we don't get the freedom to choose the consequences you get the free to choose any sin you want but you don't get the freedom to choose what consequence come from that sin so out of it there's individuals that they're born again but they're walking not in the spirit but they're walking in the flesh are not filled with the holy spirit so they find themselves caught in sin all the time if you're baptized philip god's holy spirit think about it if i have more of god's spirit in me than my flesh am i going to walk with less then of course absolutely so if you see me walking and sin you know i'm not being filled with the holy spirit at that time so there when you feel it all the spirit there's a desire to want to walk in the fruit of the spirit there's something you says i want to have the spirit i want to walk in joy i want to walk in self control doesn't mean you're always going to because we're broken vessels but there's a desire a hunger to get to that place and then there's the desire of the gifts of the holy spirit why because you want to be used by god you know you can't do it yourself you see i have a real problem with  individuals who want to say the gifts of the spirit been done away with they look at first corinthians chapter twelve it talks about the gift americas the gift of faith the gift of healing gift of this sermon all the different gifts and they would say we don't need them today we don't they did they've done away with the  apostles and all that kind of stuff what they're saying is you know what i can do it on my own i don't need to give the spirit i can do it on my own good luck good luck minister without the gifts of the spirit but let me tell you something i want to be walk in was time to teach the subject as i got to get my hacked together but out of that i want to walk in god's anointed i want to walk in god's power and i want to see the gifts of the of the spirit because i'll tell you why if you pull up to an accident and you are a just a wimpy christian  to an axe and there's a man bleeding to death in your whip be christian you don't believe in the gifts of the spirit so you walk up and say whoa my goodness that guy's bleeding well call the paramedics nine one one and you prayer parole jesus touch him nothing wrong with that can god use that absolutely but want to be better if you walk up when you say a jesus name be haled i come again i stop the blood flow in jesus name lord you do america right now and all of a sudden the blood stops flowing all of us and that a person's eyes open up and they say well i don't know where i was out but i know where i'm at the paramedics come and they didn't i don't have nothing to do because you've done it all how do you do it through the noise of god by the power of god all that don't happen today it don't you know i don't happen today because nobody says don't happen today why because it's not about us about that person that's dying you see the whole thing about walking the gives of the spirit if you want to have your heart right it's not about you oh look at me i pray for some of the get healed look for me i'm a man of faith look for me on this i'm that if that's what it's about you're not baptized with the holy spirit you're baptized with pride but out of your baptized holy spirit is not about you just for the sake of others lord i want you to fill me with your spirit i want to be baptized your spirit i want to be anointed by god i want the fullness of god so that i get the opportunity to be able to make a difference in this role and i know god i know me is not going to happen through me is going to happen through you and what happens god does some things that only he could do so nobody believes me but i am a shy person i'm a very shy person and you put me in a room that i don't know anybody i'm going to hide in a corner i did not go listen i didn't go to the dances i didn't go to growing up as a kid what is that the prom and all that stuff i don't go to any of that kind of stuff no way i was too shy my first girlfriend was and i was in college and i got girls that knew me from high school on facebook and they said you're really cute guy i was a really cute guy they say you're the and you're a cute guy but you never talk to me and me in the flesh to me says i got a call or up right now i mean i've got to make up for time ok out of it that's how i was is that i've missed an opportunity i probably would've got really messed up so it's probably a good thing that i was shy but out of it that's who i am is that shy person overall why is it that i don't come across because i fight through the shyness because a soul is more important than anything else so when we go we walk out there when we go and we go to that complex or all the mexican kids and families are when we first get out of the car i don't i said why do we do this who came up with this idea oh it was me and then out of it i say god you're nine has to be in the midst of what we're doing and david have kids and then we go again and there's the kids again and so on this week i want something because of b b s so this week i'm going over there and i'm going on and let me tell you that's where it's supposed to be the biggest gang activity there is this supposed be the biggest gang activity there is and that's where we're going to go and probably always going to go with me most people work in other people are scared other people got other things i don't care i'm going i'm going i don't care what the worst the worst that can happen to me they're going to kill me because i shared with the kid  but here's the reality i'm not afraid of that do i want to live a long time yeah until i get all like this and everything and then i don't want it anymore but i'm saying though is when your walk with god ninety not afraid of death you do it god calls you to do you walk in the fullness of god in this look at we want to be fully equipped with the character and power of god we want all of god god given your all how many christians i mean they don't want to love god because if you have all of god what does that mean there's less of flesh less of you i just want i want i just want you know what i'll take ninety percent g s a ten percent me to percent use bad enough ok we should i want all of god needed god's going to courage is when he needed he's going to he's going to give us and sin of to serve him and honor him when we don't feel like it to be edified to be built up is at a place that you know what when when when i'm getting discouraged when i'm feeling kind of h they've got i just need you to fill me with your spirit again and we've seen when we looked at the verses that we see the disciples were filled with the spirit more than once they were baptized in spirit more than once so the reality is you can be baptized in the holy spirit walk with god we live in this road what happens the world starts the eat on you the road starts to drain you so then what starts to happen is that you get discouraged you start to not walk in the same way maybe you would pick up a center or whatever it may be just not a life with god and see say god fill me again i isn't right the devil will do a lot of stuff and make you think you're filled with the spirit so there's that group to believe me there's that group of people who say you know what because i speak in tongues because this happen because of that i'm baptized into the holy spirit but everything in them is about themselves there's nothing but pride and then that's when you see a lot of goofiness stuff because when the flesh manifests itself it acts weird so god may call me to do something this seems strange but they'll be fruit from it so if god tells me to talk that guy at at the at the restaurant and say can we go on a break it's not going to be something weird and strange but it may feel weird and strange because how many people you go to the restaurant you ask the guy hey can we talk on your break i don't think that's normally what most of us do so that's a little bit weird and stra and the guy says you're kind of weird because what if you do that the guy says no he says no end of story but we're afraid of the nose i'm afraid the knolls when he first knocked on the door when he had three knows i was ready to say forget it not something going on saw socks and then it seems like nothing's happened then you say god is it ever done but this is what i do every time i do outreach every time every time i say god give us a moment i am not going to stop until you give us a moment that we know that you are in the midst of this so that means us an hours two hours three hours but whenever i go out and i'm and i intend to do a ministry says god i want evidence that your work in the midst of this because that's incentive for me to do it again because if you don't see any evidence of what you did you keep you no going to do it anymore and so invariably i say god give us a perfect moment and every time i can't remember maybe you'd remember i can remember but every time there's a instance where it's obvious that god's word does say the first time is with they can't remember the kid's name but it was with that one kid right all of a sudden he opened up a door of opportunity for us and then this last time we're going around and it could be irritating could be really irritating but his love because i was free advertising because we are we have the little there is less sent in us to be filled with your spirit in such a way that there is less than a ball miss and the father god what is time to witness this time to share when it's time to go out and touch somebody's life will do it when it's time to do something i don't i'm not equipped i don't know how to do it i've never done it before good  spirit knows how to do it and so we can have the spirit fill a supping give us the gift the grace the bill of t to be able to do it you have us to do and lord god as we've been looking at moving beyond the past for the last several weeks is the father god when we've truly moved beyond the past they were able to move forward and will be able to move for with the power of the holy spirit so i pray father god you would fill us up here when those who are watching this on t v lord god that you would fill them up even now they would get on their knees as a god fill me up their spirit i want something forgiveness and inner healing inner val's of bitterroot judgments closing open doors breaking every curse breaking every d section being filled with the holy spirit and i want to let you know that you d c dot tv 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he's going to say love me because you already love him so loving god leads to loving people let me tell you if you love god or i love you so much what can i do he says i want you to love this person over here i want you to love this person over here i want you to do this for this person here all star you start loving people start loving god you don't think that you are some fire in you you know th do you need to know jesus christ your lord and savior jesus said behold i stand at the door and not going to be one hears my voice and opens the door i will come in robust and thirteen's as wherever calls upon the name of the lord will be today you want to get more information you can always go to our website to learn how to accept jesus christ as your lord and savior you can go to there is hope t v guide or as there is hope to be done or and we have information on frequently asked questions about christianity we let you know step by step and accept jesus christ you lord and savior encourage 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