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Speaker 1 (00:00):
God has kingdom. This kingdom is the joy of the
Holy Ghost.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
Doctor Tony Heavens says, getting close to God doesn't involve
changing our external location, but our internal condition.
Speaker 3 (00:12):
This kingdom goes beyond what you can get physically, and
the joy of the Lord will.
Speaker 1 (00:16):
Be your strength.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
This is the alternative broadcast featuring the timeless biblical teachings
from the archives of doctor Tony Evans. A car without
an engine can look good, but it's not going to
take you very far. Today, Doctor Evans explains that the
same is true of a Christian without the power of
the Holy Spirit in their life. Let's join him as
(00:38):
he begins in your pursuit.
Speaker 3 (00:41):
Of God, in your desire for spiritual passion. The Holy
Spirit is indispensable. He is not a negotiable item. No
place points that out than when the Spirit was introduced
to the inauguration of the Church and Acts one and two.
(01:02):
Four things come out of our thoughts today. First of all,
the purpose of the Spirit's power Jesus in chapter one,
Luke is the one writing but referring to Jesus Christ
in verse two, until the day when he was taken
up after he had by the Holy Spirit given orders
to the apostles, whom we had chosen. So Jesus now
(01:23):
has given instruction to the apostles as to how they
were to function while he leaves and goes to Heaven.
In Verse three says to these he also presented himself alive,
risen from the dead, after having suffered by many convincing
proofs appearing to them over a period of forty days
between his resurrection and his ascension.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
Speaking of the things concerning the Kingdom.
Speaker 3 (01:49):
Of God, he was introducing his people through his leadership,
to a whole new orientation of life. That new orientation
is called in the Bible the Kingdom. The Kingdom are
the new guidelines for how life is to be lived
in this new realm that a converted person becomes a
part of when they become a Christian, and that new
(02:13):
environment is called the Kingdom.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
Jesus had promised them that he was going to leave.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
He was going to exit, he was going to ascend
to his Father, but he would not leave them alone.
He was going to leave another helper. This helper was
called the Holy Spirit, and it was the Holy Spirit's
job to be to them and us what he had
been to them. Over three years, he's called the helper.
(02:40):
In other words, God fully understands you can't pull off
what he expects. The challenges that you face in your
personal life, the challenges in our marriages, the challenges of
our attitudes, the challenges of our personalities. Barring biological anomalies,
(03:01):
the challenges that are involved in those things will not
merely be overcome simply because you come to church and
get new data. That's not enough. It is not enough
simply to have the truth of God. It's critical, but
it is insufficient to have the truth of God taught
(03:22):
to you, because there is no power in information alone.
There must be the actualization of the third member of
the Trinity, the Holy Spirit.
Speaker 1 (03:34):
However, far too.
Speaker 3 (03:37):
Many of us have become like fans at a game
who sit in the stands watching players on the field
or on the court do their thing, never having had
the experience ourselves. All we do is enjoy the show
and applaud the effort, by the way, always critiquing what's
(03:58):
happening on the floor to critique. If you in the stands,
you just need to understand that he should have made
that shot. Well, you may have a point, but at
least he on the floor to take it. Sitting in
your seats right now, and I trust that they are comfortable.
(04:19):
Are merely bleachers. It's the place where you come to
extract what is provided in an atmosphere hopefully of worship.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
But it is not sufficient simply to be in the stands.
Speaker 3 (04:34):
There must be the personal involvement of the believer in
accessing the power of the provision and promise of the
Spirit that Jesus has made available to every Christian equally.
No Christian has more of the presence of the Holy
Spirit than another Christian. However, some Christians have more of
(04:57):
the power of the Holy Spirit other Christians. All Christians
have the presence, only some enjoy the power.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
What were they to do?
Speaker 3 (05:10):
Jesus tells them in Chapter one, in verse four, Gathering
them together, he commanded them not to leave Jerusalem, but
to wait for what the Father had promised, which he says,
you heard from me, Go and wait, tell you and
the Spirit have connected.
Speaker 1 (05:29):
Now.
Speaker 3 (05:29):
That is with serious days in which Jesus said this,
This is a very serious time. There was persecution, there
was fear, there were negative circumstances, there was doubt. I mean,
even when Jesus arose from the dead, and they came
and saw him and said, some doubt it. So these
(05:49):
are not the best of times. Jesus, knowing what they
would face, says, you go out and you get together,
and you into my presence until the spirit comes. Because
I know if you just jump out there, based on
what I taught you, you will mean well. But when
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push comes to shove, there will be no power. Most
of us on Sunday leave church and mean well. We
make promises to ourselves, promises to other people, and before
we have accident the parking lot, that meaning well has
gone out the door because there is no power in promises.
(06:34):
There is no power in meaning well. It's like New
Year's resolution. It's a good idea, there's just no power
in it. So Jesus tells them, because he knew the
issues they would face, that in spite of the theological
education he had given them, he wanted them to know
(06:55):
that knowing the fundamentals will make you a mechanical Christian,
it won't make you a power for one. When the
day of Pentecost had come, Chapter two, verse one says
they were all gathered together in one place, and suddenly
there came from heaven a noise like a violent rushing wind,
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and it filled the whole house where they were sitting.
It also says there appeared to them tongues is of fire,
distributing themselves as they rested on each one of them.
Now are a couple of observations here. The tongues were
as of fire. In other words, when they spoke the word,
those words were not gonna just fall as just information
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from Webster's dictionary. Those things were gonna shake something. So
the Holy Spirit has turned things in the wind, and
now he's lit things up so that now ordinary speech
becomes super ordinary communication. Now this leads to a very
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interesting scenario. Verse four. They were all filled with the
Holy Spirit and began speaking with other tongues as the
spirit gave them utterance. He says that they began to
speak things that they didn't know, or, to put it
in another way, they had a supernatural experience. One hundred
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and twenty people in the room. Let's go back and
describe this. One hundred and twenty folks.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
The leaders looked at them in chapter four and say,
these are unlearned men.
Speaker 3 (08:36):
They don't even have a college education. That's what the
assumption was. You got Peter Heaves, denying the Lord after
being with him three years. You got Dubton Thomas, he said,
I ain't gonna believe it. I'm from Missouri.
Speaker 1 (08:50):
Show me.
Speaker 3 (08:52):
You got the people on their Mayor's road. They live
in a life of depression. Okay, they depressed. Now all
them Christians. You got a denying Christian. You got a
doubting Christian. You got depressed Christians, it says, and they
all were afraid of the Jews. So you got scared Christians.
You've got Christians who have blown it every way conceivable.
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You've got one hundred and twenty defeated people gathered in
the room. And that's good news because that means if
you don't have it all together yet, but you're willing
to come into his presence and stay there, he can
turn defeat into victory because you're in the right room.
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Fulk who was too scared to say anything because we
told them the scripture, they hidden for fear of the Jews.
They are Jews everywhere. But because the Holy Spirit has
shown up.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
The folks who are a couple.
Speaker 3 (09:52):
Of days earlier were too scared to say anything, too
scared to go out in public. It says now, because
I had been endowed with the supernatural ability. It says,
there were Jews living verse five in Jerusalem, deveoutment from
every nation under heaven, and when the sound occurred, the
mighty Russian wins. The multitude came together and were perplexed,
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bewildered because they were each one hearing them speak in
his own language.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
And they were amazed and marveled, saying.
Speaker 3 (10:27):
Why are not all these who speak Galileans?
Speaker 1 (10:32):
In other words, where they learned this? What happened? Holy
Ghost showed up, Holy Spirit showed up.
Speaker 3 (10:41):
They became filled with the spirit, and therefore they could
do supernatural things that they could never have even learned
to do in time, naturally because God has shown up
in the place.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
Doctor Evans will unpack what it truly means to live
under God's supernatural control and why it changes everything when
He returns in just a moment. But first, if you
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of today's message.
Speaker 4 (12:10):
And this let me start off by thanking all of
our friends for how you've walked with us and stood
by us all year long. We felt your prayers and
they've made a difference in the lives of people that
we've had the privilege of ministering too. And as we
anticipate the new year, we want to not only end
this year is strong, but go into the new year
able to take advantage of all the opportunities that God
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has brought our way, for the building of strong biblically
based families, for strengthening churches so that they're able to
do the work of kingdom building.
Speaker 1 (12:43):
God has called them to do, and for speaking.
Speaker 4 (12:46):
Into the culture. This culture needs to hear a word
from God and a word that works.
Speaker 1 (12:51):
And that's what we're committed to do.
Speaker 4 (12:53):
Stand with us with your generosity and your prayers, because
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Speaker 1 (13:02):
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The filling of the spirit is when you come under
God's supernatural control. Watch this and act outside of your
natural self.
Speaker 1 (13:19):
Let me say that again.
Speaker 3 (13:20):
The filling of the spirit is where you come under
God's control to the point where you.
Speaker 1 (13:26):
Act outside of your normal self.
Speaker 3 (13:30):
The Bible says, be not drunk with wine Ephesians five eighteen,
but be filled with the spirit. Now, what happens when
a person is drunk with wine, they act outside themselves.
When you're not drunk with wine, you walk like this.
When you are drunk with wine, you all over the place.
Why because something else is now controlling your motor skills.
When you are not drunk with wine, you talk in
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normal conversation. When you are drunk with wine, you stammer
and stutter because something else is controlling.
Speaker 1 (13:57):
Your ability to communicate.
Speaker 3 (13:59):
When you're not drunk with wine, you may be more
of a reserved person. You get drunk with wine, now
you think you Papa Rapte why Because being drunk with
wine causes you to act outside of your natural self.
Speaker 1 (14:13):
He says, don't be.
Speaker 3 (14:15):
Drunk with wine Ephesians five eighteen, but be filled with
the spirit. And the way you know that you are
filled with the spirit is you're acting outside your natural self.
Where you would normally cuts somebody out, you now find
the ability to control your tongue where you normally would hate.
You now find the ability to love where you normally
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would be. One way, you are now supernaturally another way,
because you have now become filled with a force outside
of yourself.
Speaker 1 (14:48):
That's what happened here.
Speaker 3 (14:50):
When they were completely controlled by the Holy Spirit, because
they were living in his presence, they were now experiencing
something of a much higher level. They had experience to
call the updraft of the spirit. The updraft of the spirit,
meaning by that where the wind of God blew them
higher than ground earth, where they were no longer talking
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as mere men, where they were not speaking as people
who were powerless, who had no ability, who could not adjust.
Where now they were drafted up by the spirit of
God so that they took on heavenly characteristics.
Speaker 1 (15:27):
In the Bible, the feeling of the spirit is.
Speaker 3 (15:29):
Not an invisible thing, or else you could never use
it as a criteria. Yet when he told them to
choose the leaders in Act chapter six, he said, choose
men who are filled with the spirit. That means feeling
of the spirit is an observable commodity. What does the
feeling of the spirit look like? It looks like folks
who act outside themselves, folks who do not live on
the level of the earth. That you find them living
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on the level of Heaven. Even though they are functionally
and physically located on earth. Earth does not control how
they function because they are living based on a whole
new standard, because they've been updrafted by the breeze of
the spirit. He has picked them off the ground, so
that they're now living at a totally another level. You say,
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but you don't know my problem. I know this about
your problem. It's an earthly one. I don't care what
it is. It's an earthly problem. Okay, it's an earthly
situation no matter what it is. But you say my
problem is insurmountable, It is only insurmountable as long as
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you're on earth, as long as you're on ground level.
It's insurmountable because it may be a hill and you
may be in a valley. But if you can be
updrafted and picked up outside of your natural self and
lifted higher, then your problem may not change, but your
relationship to it may That's like a wife says, but
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my husband never gonna change. Okay, let's take the worst
case scenario that your husband is never gonna change, all right.
That's the worst case anybody in that situation. Don't raise
your name. My husband is never ever gonna change. The
vice version, my wife is never ever gonna change, all right.
Speaker 1 (17:20):
The problem is.
Speaker 3 (17:23):
They may never change, but because you are living on
the same level, you find it impossible to deal with
that change the situation. But if you are updrafted by
the power of the spirit, then even though he does
not change, because you have changed the position from which.
Speaker 1 (17:45):
You are looking at him or her, or the problem
at work, or whatever it is. It changes how you
are even though there's no change in your situation.
Speaker 3 (17:56):
If you want to give up, and it could be anything,
whatever it is, you.
Speaker 1 (17:59):
Want to give up.
Speaker 3 (18:00):
If you want to give up before you've been updrafted,
before you've waited in God's presence, before you have pursued
the Holy One and his feeling, then you want to
give up too soon. You've not gone all the way.
Now we can talk about holy ghost power. Don't tell
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me holy ghost power. Oh, the Holy Ghost was here
this morning because I shouted, Oh, the Holy Ghost was
at church today?
Speaker 1 (18:32):
Why how you know? You acting the same way in
the parking lot?
Speaker 3 (18:36):
I don't know where would you know where the Holy
Ghost was today?
Speaker 1 (18:41):
The Holy Ghost is more than that.
Speaker 3 (18:44):
It's more than rowing like lions, barking like dogs, laughing
like hyaenas.
Speaker 1 (18:48):
He's more than that.
Speaker 3 (18:50):
He his job is to cause you to live outside
of your natural self. His job is to make you
do stuff you don't want to do, cause you to
act in ways you would naturally act, called you to
responding ways you wouldn't normally respond. Now we can talk
about you found the power because I have something to
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do with something. It has something to do with this
momentary moments. It has to do with God gave me
the ability.
Speaker 1 (19:19):
To act outside of myself.
Speaker 3 (19:24):
He transformed these people, and they declared his mighty works.
Speaker 1 (19:30):
It says.
Speaker 3 (19:32):
At the end of verse eleven, they declared, speaking the
mighty deeds of God. These were the same scared people
a couple of days ago. Now they rattled off at
the mouth. What changed them? Nothing but a new wind.
Let me tell you something about holy ghosts.
Speaker 1 (19:48):
The feeling.
Speaker 3 (19:50):
Yesterday's feeling can't help you today. You gotta have fresh
wind in fresh fire. Yesterday's wind was good yesterday. Okay,
you can't bring state holy ghosts. Then let me tell
you a secret. Romans fourteen says the Kingdom of God
is not eating and drinking, that stuff you do to
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maintain your physical well being.
Speaker 1 (20:13):
Eat and drink, right, He says, that's not this kingdom.
This kingdom is the joy of the Holy Ghost.
Speaker 3 (20:22):
This kingdom goes beyond what you can get physically eating
and drinking. It has to do with what God supernaturally does.
And the key to it, he says, is that what
the Holy Spirit brings. When the Holy Spirit shows up,
it's joy. Now you know what you can do a
lot when you have joy. You see, joy will keep
you from quitting something. You may hate your work, that
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is the stuff you do, but if you have joy
in the environment, you can deal with the work. If
you have joy, Have you ever been happy on the
inside and been able to deal with mess on the
outside because that was joy? He says, that's the kingdom.
Because when the holeess Burk comes and updrafts you, he
leaves you joy behind. And joy is internal stability, regardless
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of external scenarios.
Speaker 2 (21:12):
Doctor Tony Evans talking about what it's like to live
life in the spirit, and he'll return in a moment
to wrap up today's program with a final story. Well,
as we've been learning, believers don't have to live with
a restless heart or a weary spirit. In his book
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that's Tonyevans dot org or by phone at one eight
hundred eight hundred three two two two. Like electricity flows
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through a power line, God's grace is intended to flow
through us to others tomorrow. Doctor Evans explains what needs
to happen if something's blocking that flow right now. Though
he's back with this story to wrap up today.
Speaker 1 (22:34):
A couple of.
Speaker 3 (22:34):
Years we took our kids to Disneyland disney World. One
year went to California. The other year we went to Florida.
It's called the Magic Kingdom. It really is like a
magic kingdom, you know, you know, we drove one time
the Florida and then we drove one time in La
and you know, everybody, you know a little long drives
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are hot.
Speaker 1 (22:56):
And tied and miserable. But when they saw the top
of the cast.
Speaker 3 (23:03):
And they saw a picture of Mickey Mouse, they knew
a change was gonna come. We come up to the
Magic Kingdom, you take a little boat across the dock,
and you enter into a whole new world. It's a
whole new phenomenon because everything in the Kingdom is designed
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to rally around the same thing.
Speaker 1 (23:26):
It comes in different ways.
Speaker 3 (23:28):
But you can go nowhere in the Magic Kingdom and
miss the fact that you're in Mickey's house. Now, Mickey
got a lot of Buddy, he got Goofy, he got
Donald Duck. You know he's got He's got all these characters.
And no matter where you go, you're running in the
something that reminds you this world in here ain't that
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world out there. This world in here operates different, It
functions different. You know when when the kids got tired,
Cinderella would show up and that's burke back up when.
Speaker 1 (23:58):
There was always so to come alongside, to remind.
Speaker 3 (24:02):
You you were in a totally different environment. You also
knew when you left the magic was gone, because all
the magic of Disneyland is.
Speaker 1 (24:14):
In the Kingdom.
Speaker 3 (24:17):
God has a kingdom, and he wants wherever you go
you run into that kingdom. Wherever you go, you run
into that king He wants to be the source and
substance of the Kingdom, and he guarantees you in the updraft,
while the situation may not disappear, if the supernatural will
be present and the joy of the Lord will be
a street
God has kingdom. This kingdom is the joy of the
Holy Ghost.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
Doctor Tony Heavens says, getting close to God doesn't involve
changing our external location, but our internal condition.
Speaker 3 (00:12):
This kingdom goes beyond what you can get physically, and
the joy of the Lord will.
Speaker 1 (00:16):
Be your strength.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
This is the alternative broadcast featuring the timeless biblical teachings
from the archives of doctor Tony Evans. A car without
an engine can look good, but it's not going to
take you very far. Today, Doctor Evans explains that the
same is true of a Christian without the power of
the Holy Spirit in their life. Let's join him as
(00:38):
he begins in your pursuit.
Speaker 3 (00:41):
Of God, in your desire for spiritual passion. The Holy
Spirit is indispensable. He is not a negotiable item. No
place points that out than when the Spirit was introduced
to the inauguration of the Church and Acts one and two.
(01:02):
Four things come out of our thoughts today. First of all,
the purpose of the Spirit's power Jesus in chapter one,
Luke is the one writing but referring to Jesus Christ
in verse two, until the day when he was taken
up after he had by the Holy Spirit given orders
to the apostles, whom we had chosen. So Jesus now
(01:23):
has given instruction to the apostles as to how they
were to function while he leaves and goes to Heaven.
In Verse three says to these he also presented himself alive,
risen from the dead, after having suffered by many convincing
proofs appearing to them over a period of forty days
between his resurrection and his ascension.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
Speaking of the things concerning the Kingdom.
Speaker 3 (01:49):
Of God, he was introducing his people through his leadership,
to a whole new orientation of life. That new orientation
is called in the Bible the Kingdom. The Kingdom are
the new guidelines for how life is to be lived
in this new realm that a converted person becomes a
part of when they become a Christian, and that new
(02:13):
environment is called the Kingdom.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
Jesus had promised them that he was going to leave.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
He was going to exit, he was going to ascend
to his Father, but he would not leave them alone.
He was going to leave another helper. This helper was
called the Holy Spirit, and it was the Holy Spirit's
job to be to them and us what he had
been to them. Over three years, he's called the helper.
(02:40):
In other words, God fully understands you can't pull off
what he expects. The challenges that you face in your
personal life, the challenges in our marriages, the challenges of
our attitudes, the challenges of our personalities. Barring biological anomalies,
(03:01):
the challenges that are involved in those things will not
merely be overcome simply because you come to church and
get new data. That's not enough. It is not enough
simply to have the truth of God. It's critical, but
it is insufficient to have the truth of God taught
(03:22):
to you, because there is no power in information alone.
There must be the actualization of the third member of
the Trinity, the Holy Spirit.
Speaker 1 (03:34):
However, far too.
Speaker 3 (03:37):
Many of us have become like fans at a game
who sit in the stands watching players on the field
or on the court do their thing, never having had
the experience ourselves. All we do is enjoy the show
and applaud the effort, by the way, always critiquing what's
(03:58):
happening on the floor to critique. If you in the stands,
you just need to understand that he should have made
that shot. Well, you may have a point, but at
least he on the floor to take it. Sitting in
your seats right now, and I trust that they are comfortable.
(04:19):
Are merely bleachers. It's the place where you come to
extract what is provided in an atmosphere hopefully of worship.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
But it is not sufficient simply to be in the stands.
Speaker 3 (04:34):
There must be the personal involvement of the believer in
accessing the power of the provision and promise of the
Spirit that Jesus has made available to every Christian equally.
No Christian has more of the presence of the Holy
Spirit than another Christian. However, some Christians have more of
(04:57):
the power of the Holy Spirit other Christians. All Christians
have the presence, only some enjoy the power.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
What were they to do?
Speaker 3 (05:10):
Jesus tells them in Chapter one, in verse four, Gathering
them together, he commanded them not to leave Jerusalem, but
to wait for what the Father had promised, which he says,
you heard from me, Go and wait, tell you and
the Spirit have connected.
Speaker 1 (05:29):
Now.
Speaker 3 (05:29):
That is with serious days in which Jesus said this,
This is a very serious time. There was persecution, there
was fear, there were negative circumstances, there was doubt. I mean,
even when Jesus arose from the dead, and they came
and saw him and said, some doubt it. So these
(05:49):
are not the best of times. Jesus, knowing what they
would face, says, you go out and you get together,
and you into my presence until the spirit comes. Because
I know if you just jump out there, based on
what I taught you, you will mean well. But when
(06:13):
push comes to shove, there will be no power. Most
of us on Sunday leave church and mean well. We
make promises to ourselves, promises to other people, and before
we have accident the parking lot, that meaning well has
gone out the door because there is no power in promises.
(06:34):
There is no power in meaning well. It's like New
Year's resolution. It's a good idea, there's just no power
in it. So Jesus tells them, because he knew the
issues they would face, that in spite of the theological
education he had given them, he wanted them to know
(06:55):
that knowing the fundamentals will make you a mechanical Christian,
it won't make you a power for one. When the
day of Pentecost had come, Chapter two, verse one says
they were all gathered together in one place, and suddenly
there came from heaven a noise like a violent rushing wind,
(07:18):
and it filled the whole house where they were sitting.
It also says there appeared to them tongues is of fire,
distributing themselves as they rested on each one of them.
Now are a couple of observations here. The tongues were
as of fire. In other words, when they spoke the word,
those words were not gonna just fall as just information
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from Webster's dictionary. Those things were gonna shake something. So
the Holy Spirit has turned things in the wind, and
now he's lit things up so that now ordinary speech
becomes super ordinary communication. Now this leads to a very
(08:02):
interesting scenario. Verse four. They were all filled with the
Holy Spirit and began speaking with other tongues as the
spirit gave them utterance. He says that they began to
speak things that they didn't know, or, to put it
in another way, they had a supernatural experience. One hundred
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and twenty people in the room. Let's go back and
describe this. One hundred and twenty folks.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
The leaders looked at them in chapter four and say,
these are unlearned men.
Speaker 3 (08:36):
They don't even have a college education. That's what the
assumption was. You got Peter Heaves, denying the Lord after
being with him three years. You got Dubton Thomas, he said,
I ain't gonna believe it. I'm from Missouri.
Speaker 1 (08:50):
Show me.
Speaker 3 (08:52):
You got the people on their Mayor's road. They live
in a life of depression. Okay, they depressed. Now all
them Christians. You got a denying Christian. You got a
doubting Christian. You got depressed Christians, it says, and they
all were afraid of the Jews. So you got scared Christians.
You've got Christians who have blown it every way conceivable.
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You've got one hundred and twenty defeated people gathered in
the room. And that's good news because that means if
you don't have it all together yet, but you're willing
to come into his presence and stay there, he can
turn defeat into victory because you're in the right room.
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Fulk who was too scared to say anything because we
told them the scripture, they hidden for fear of the Jews.
They are Jews everywhere. But because the Holy Spirit has
shown up.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
The folks who are a couple.
Speaker 3 (09:52):
Of days earlier were too scared to say anything, too
scared to go out in public. It says now, because
I had been endowed with the supernatural ability. It says,
there were Jews living verse five in Jerusalem, deveoutment from
every nation under heaven, and when the sound occurred, the
mighty Russian wins. The multitude came together and were perplexed,
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bewildered because they were each one hearing them speak in
his own language.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
And they were amazed and marveled, saying.
Speaker 3 (10:27):
Why are not all these who speak Galileans?
Speaker 1 (10:32):
In other words, where they learned this? What happened? Holy
Ghost showed up, Holy Spirit showed up.
Speaker 3 (10:41):
They became filled with the spirit, and therefore they could
do supernatural things that they could never have even learned
to do in time, naturally because God has shown up
in the place.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
Doctor Evans will unpack what it truly means to live
under God's supernatural control and why it changes everything when
He returns in just a moment. But first, if you
long to experience more of God's power at work in
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your creator more deeply and to see how his strength
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of today's message.
Speaker 4 (12:10):
And this let me start off by thanking all of
our friends for how you've walked with us and stood
by us all year long. We felt your prayers and
they've made a difference in the lives of people that
we've had the privilege of ministering too. And as we
anticipate the new year, we want to not only end
this year is strong, but go into the new year
able to take advantage of all the opportunities that God
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has brought our way, for the building of strong biblically
based families, for strengthening churches so that they're able to
do the work of kingdom building.
Speaker 1 (12:43):
God has called them to do, and for speaking.
Speaker 4 (12:46):
Into the culture. This culture needs to hear a word
from God and a word that works.
Speaker 1 (12:51):
And that's what we're committed to do.
Speaker 4 (12:53):
Stand with us with your generosity and your prayers, because
you know this word a word that the world desperately
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Speaker 1 (13:02):
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Speaker 3 (13:09):
The filling of the spirit is when you come under
God's supernatural control. Watch this and act outside of your
natural self.
Speaker 1 (13:19):
Let me say that again.
Speaker 3 (13:20):
The filling of the spirit is where you come under
God's control to the point where you.
Speaker 1 (13:26):
Act outside of your normal self.
Speaker 3 (13:30):
The Bible says, be not drunk with wine Ephesians five eighteen,
but be filled with the spirit. Now, what happens when
a person is drunk with wine, they act outside themselves.
When you're not drunk with wine, you walk like this.
When you are drunk with wine, you all over the place.
Why because something else is now controlling your motor skills.
When you are not drunk with wine, you talk in
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normal conversation. When you are drunk with wine, you stammer
and stutter because something else is controlling.
Speaker 1 (13:57):
Your ability to communicate.
Speaker 3 (13:59):
When you're not drunk with wine, you may be more
of a reserved person. You get drunk with wine, now
you think you Papa Rapte why Because being drunk with
wine causes you to act outside of your natural self.
Speaker 1 (14:13):
He says, don't be.
Speaker 3 (14:15):
Drunk with wine Ephesians five eighteen, but be filled with
the spirit. And the way you know that you are
filled with the spirit is you're acting outside your natural self.
Where you would normally cuts somebody out, you now find
the ability to control your tongue where you normally would hate.
You now find the ability to love where you normally
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would be. One way, you are now supernaturally another way,
because you have now become filled with a force outside
of yourself.
Speaker 1 (14:48):
That's what happened here.
Speaker 3 (14:50):
When they were completely controlled by the Holy Spirit, because
they were living in his presence, they were now experiencing
something of a much higher level. They had experience to
call the updraft of the spirit. The updraft of the spirit,
meaning by that where the wind of God blew them
higher than ground earth, where they were no longer talking
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as mere men, where they were not speaking as people
who were powerless, who had no ability, who could not adjust.
Where now they were drafted up by the spirit of
God so that they took on heavenly characteristics.
Speaker 1 (15:27):
In the Bible, the feeling of the spirit is.
Speaker 3 (15:29):
Not an invisible thing, or else you could never use
it as a criteria. Yet when he told them to
choose the leaders in Act chapter six, he said, choose
men who are filled with the spirit. That means feeling
of the spirit is an observable commodity. What does the
feeling of the spirit look like? It looks like folks
who act outside themselves, folks who do not live on
the level of the earth. That you find them living
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on the level of Heaven. Even though they are functionally
and physically located on earth. Earth does not control how
they function because they are living based on a whole
new standard, because they've been updrafted by the breeze of
the spirit. He has picked them off the ground, so
that they're now living at a totally another level. You say,
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but you don't know my problem. I know this about
your problem. It's an earthly one. I don't care what
it is. It's an earthly problem. Okay, it's an earthly
situation no matter what it is. But you say my
problem is insurmountable, It is only insurmountable as long as
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you're on earth, as long as you're on ground level.
It's insurmountable because it may be a hill and you
may be in a valley. But if you can be
updrafted and picked up outside of your natural self and
lifted higher, then your problem may not change, but your
relationship to it may That's like a wife says, but
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my husband never gonna change. Okay, let's take the worst
case scenario that your husband is never gonna change, all right.
That's the worst case anybody in that situation. Don't raise
your name. My husband is never ever gonna change. The
vice version, my wife is never ever gonna change, all right.
Speaker 1 (17:20):
The problem is.
Speaker 3 (17:23):
They may never change, but because you are living on
the same level, you find it impossible to deal with
that change the situation. But if you are updrafted by
the power of the spirit, then even though he does
not change, because you have changed the position from which.
Speaker 1 (17:45):
You are looking at him or her, or the problem
at work, or whatever it is. It changes how you
are even though there's no change in your situation.
Speaker 3 (17:56):
If you want to give up, and it could be anything,
whatever it is, you.
Speaker 1 (17:59):
Want to give up.
Speaker 3 (18:00):
If you want to give up before you've been updrafted,
before you've waited in God's presence, before you have pursued
the Holy One and his feeling, then you want to
give up too soon. You've not gone all the way.
Now we can talk about holy ghost power. Don't tell
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me holy ghost power. Oh, the Holy Ghost was here
this morning because I shouted, Oh, the Holy Ghost was
at church today?
Speaker 1 (18:32):
Why how you know? You acting the same way in
the parking lot?
Speaker 3 (18:36):
I don't know where would you know where the Holy
Ghost was today?
Speaker 1 (18:41):
The Holy Ghost is more than that.
Speaker 3 (18:44):
It's more than rowing like lions, barking like dogs, laughing
like hyaenas.
Speaker 1 (18:48):
He's more than that.
Speaker 3 (18:50):
He his job is to cause you to live outside
of your natural self. His job is to make you
do stuff you don't want to do, cause you to
act in ways you would naturally act, called you to
responding ways you wouldn't normally respond. Now we can talk
about you found the power because I have something to
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do with something. It has something to do with this
momentary moments. It has to do with God gave me
the ability.
Speaker 1 (19:19):
To act outside of myself.
Speaker 3 (19:24):
He transformed these people, and they declared his mighty works.
Speaker 1 (19:30):
It says.
Speaker 3 (19:32):
At the end of verse eleven, they declared, speaking the
mighty deeds of God. These were the same scared people
a couple of days ago. Now they rattled off at
the mouth. What changed them? Nothing but a new wind.
Let me tell you something about holy ghosts.
Speaker 1 (19:48):
The feeling.
Speaker 3 (19:50):
Yesterday's feeling can't help you today. You gotta have fresh
wind in fresh fire. Yesterday's wind was good yesterday. Okay,
you can't bring state holy ghosts. Then let me tell
you a secret. Romans fourteen says the Kingdom of God
is not eating and drinking, that stuff you do to
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maintain your physical well being.
Speaker 1 (20:13):
Eat and drink, right, He says, that's not this kingdom.
This kingdom is the joy of the Holy Ghost.
Speaker 3 (20:22):
This kingdom goes beyond what you can get physically eating
and drinking. It has to do with what God supernaturally does.
And the key to it, he says, is that what
the Holy Spirit brings. When the Holy Spirit shows up,
it's joy. Now you know what you can do a
lot when you have joy. You see, joy will keep
you from quitting something. You may hate your work, that
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is the stuff you do, but if you have joy
in the environment, you can deal with the work. If
you have joy, Have you ever been happy on the
inside and been able to deal with mess on the
outside because that was joy? He says, that's the kingdom.
Because when the holeess Burk comes and updrafts you, he
leaves you joy behind. And joy is internal stability, regardless
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of external scenarios.
Speaker 2 (21:12):
Doctor Tony Evans talking about what it's like to live
life in the spirit, and he'll return in a moment
to wrap up today's program with a final story. Well,
as we've been learning, believers don't have to live with
a restless heart or a weary spirit. In his book
God Himself, doctor Evans unpacks what it means to encounter
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the living God, the only one who can satisfy the
deepest longings of your soul. It's an invitation to stop
settling for substitutes and start living from the source. Request
your copy of God Himself and will also include all
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When you make a contribution to help keep the Alternative
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through a power line, God's grace is intended to flow
through us to others tomorrow. Doctor Evans explains what needs
to happen if something's blocking that flow right now. Though
he's back with this story to wrap up today.
Speaker 1 (22:34):
A couple of.
Speaker 3 (22:34):
Years we took our kids to Disneyland disney World. One
year went to California. The other year we went to Florida.
It's called the Magic Kingdom. It really is like a
magic kingdom, you know, you know, we drove one time
the Florida and then we drove one time in La
and you know, everybody, you know a little long drives
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are hot.
Speaker 1 (22:56):
And tied and miserable. But when they saw the top
of the cast.
Speaker 3 (23:03):
And they saw a picture of Mickey Mouse, they knew
a change was gonna come. We come up to the
Magic Kingdom, you take a little boat across the dock,
and you enter into a whole new world. It's a
whole new phenomenon because everything in the Kingdom is designed
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to rally around the same thing.
Speaker 1 (23:26):
It comes in different ways.
Speaker 3 (23:28):
But you can go nowhere in the Magic Kingdom and
miss the fact that you're in Mickey's house. Now, Mickey
got a lot of Buddy, he got Goofy, he got
Donald Duck. You know he's got He's got all these characters.
And no matter where you go, you're running in the
something that reminds you this world in here ain't that
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world out there. This world in here operates different, It
functions different. You know when when the kids got tired,
Cinderella would show up and that's burke back up when.
Speaker 1 (23:58):
There was always so to come alongside, to remind.
Speaker 3 (24:02):
You you were in a totally different environment. You also
knew when you left the magic was gone, because all
the magic of Disneyland is.
Speaker 1 (24:14):
In the Kingdom.
Speaker 3 (24:17):
God has a kingdom, and he wants wherever you go
you run into that kingdom. Wherever you go, you run
into that king He wants to be the source and
substance of the Kingdom, and he guarantees you in the updraft,
while the situation may not disappear, if the supernatural will
be present and the joy of the Lord will be
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