0:00 Good morning brothers and sisters, a warm welcome to each of you this Sunday morning. We want to turn our eyes to the Lord and give Him the glory. 0:22 We serve the risen Savior. Shall we all sing this first song? Thine be the glory, risen, conquering Son, endless is the victory, thou o'er death has won. 0:47 Angels in bright raiment, roll the storm away, careful for the grave load, Where thy body lay. Thine be the glory, risen, conquering Son, endless is the victory, thou o'er death has won. 1:20 Lord Jesus, Jesus, risen from the tomb, lovingly He grieves us, scatters girls in blue. Let the church with gladness, hymns of triumph, sing, for the Lord now live and death has lost the sin. 1:50 Thine be the glory, thine be the glory, risen, conquering Son, endless is the victory, thou o'er death has won. No more we doubt Thee, glorious prince of life. 2:15 Life is not without Thee, aid us in our strife. Make us more than conquerors, through thy death has won. Make us more than conquerors, through thy death has won. Lead us in thy triumph, to thy home above. 2:39 Thine be the glory, risen, conquering Son, endless is the victory, thou o'er death has won. Thine be the glory, risen, conquering Son, endless is the victory, thou o'er death has won. 3:13 Glory to God, He has lifted me up, He has lifted me up, I know. He reached out His hand and He lifted me up, and that's why I love Him so. I love Him more and more, I love Him more and more. 3:41 And when I stand upon the other shore, I'll praise Him evermore. Glory to God. Glory to God. Oh, glory to God, He has lifted me up, He has lifted me up, I know. He reached out His hand and He lifted me up, and that's why I love Him so. 4:08 I love Him, I love Him more and more, I love Him more and more. And when I stand upon the other shore, I'll praise Him evermore. 4:28 And when I stand upon the other shore, I'll praise Him evermore. Praise the Lord, He's worthy of praise. The song says, Lord, I stand in the midst of a multitude of those from every tribe and town. And there are no words good enough to thank you, but I will lift up my voice and sing from my heart with all of my strength. 4:52 Lord, I stand in the midst of a multitude of those from every tribe and town. Amen. 5:12 We are your people, redeemed by your blood, rescued from death by your love. There are no words good enough to thank you. There are no words good enough to thank you. There are no words to express my praise. 5:39 But I will lift up my voice and sing from my heart with all of my strength. Hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah to the Lamb. 6:01 Hallelujah, hallelujah, by the blood of Christ we stand. Every tongue, every tribe, every people, every land, giving glory, giving honor, giving praise unto the Lamb of God. 6:24 Lord, we stand by place in your presence. Hence, by the blood of the Lamb, we are your children. We're called by your name. 6:47 Humbly we bow and we pray. Release your power to work in us and to us. Till we are changed to be whole like you. 7:08 Then all the nations will see your glory revealed and worship you. Hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah to the Lamb. 7:29 Hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah, by the blood of Christ we stand. Every tongue, every tribe, every people, every land, giving glory, giving honor, giving praise unto the Lamb of God. 7:51 Giving praise unto the Lamb of God. Giving praise unto the Lamb of God. Giving praise unto the Lamb of God. Giving praise unto the Lamb of God. Giving praise unto the Lamb of God. Giving praise unto the Lamb of God. Giving praise unto the Lamb of God. 8:00 Giving praise unto the Lamb of God. Giving praise unto the Lamb of God. Jesus Christ, Lamb of God. Giving praise unto the Lamb of God. My God, how wonderful Thou art. Thy majesty, how bright. 8:22 How beautiful Thou art. Thy majesty, how bright. How beautiful Thy mercy see. 8:46 In depths of burning light. How bright. How bright are Thy eternal years. 9:06 O everlasting Lord. Thy cross-strained spirits, day and night. It sets and leave the door. 9:26 It sets and leave the door. How beautiful. How beautiful. How beautiful. How beautiful. How beautiful. The sight of Thee. How beautiful. How beautiful. How beautiful. How beautiful. How beautiful. How beautiful. How beautiful. 9:45 How beautiful. How beautiful. How beautiful. How beautiful. How beautiful. How beautiful. How beautiful. How beautiful. The sight of Thee must be. How beautiful. How beautiful. How beautiful. The sight of Thee must be. It's the boundless part and all full purity. 10:12 Oh, how I feel the living God with deepest, tenderest fear. And worship Thee with trembling hope and penitentiary. 10:54 Yet I may not be true, O Lord, almighty as Thou art. For Thou hast took to ask of me the love of my heart. 11:29 No earthly father loves like Thee. No mother e'er so mild. Bears and forbears as Thou hast done. 11:54 With me, Thy sinful child. Sing the last verse. Just the voices. Father of Jesus, love's reward. 12:21 What rapture will it be? Prostrate before Thy throne to lie. And gaze, and gaze on Thee. 12:45 Thou art worthy, Thou art worthy, Thou art worthy, O Lord. To receive glory, glory and honor, glory and honor and power. 13:15 For Thou hast created, has all things created. Thou hast created, Thou hast created all things. And for Thy pleasure, they are created. 13:37 Thou art worthy, O Lord. Thou art worthy, Thou art worthy, Thou art worthy, O Lamb. 13:58 Thou art worthy to receive glory and power at the Father's right hand. For Thou hast redeemed us. Thou hast ransomed and cleansed us. 14:21 By Thy blood setting us free. In wise robes arrayed us. Kings and priests fade us. Thou art worthy, O Lamb. Thou art worthy, O Lamb. 14:42 Thou art worthy, O Lamb. Thou art worthy, O Lamb. Thou art worthy, O Lamb. Thou art worthy, O Lamb. 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I want to begin with Luke's Gospel, Chapter 3. Our theme for this conference is Be Filled with the Holy Spirit. 25:21 And I want you to see the type of people God chooses to fill with his Holy Spirit. Luke Chapter 3 and Verse 1. Look at the names of all these great men in the world. 25:49 In the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar, he was the ruler of the world, as it were, in Rome. Pontius Pilate, governor of Judea. Herod, tetrarch of Galilee. His brother Philip, tetrarch of the region of Iteria and Trichoninitis. 26:13 Licinius, tetrarch of Labillene. It's the Holy Spirit mentioning all this with a purpose. Those are the great leaders in the world. And then the great leaders in religious Jewish society. Annas and Caiaphas, great Bible scholars and religious leaders. 26:35 The word of God bypassed all of them and came to a man in the wilderness called John. And he became the greatest prophet and man born since the time of Adam, as Jesus said. 26:57 And that's something that's characteristic throughout scripture. Today in Christendom, the people who are admired are great famous people, great Bible scholars who got a lot of degrees after their names. And I think of this passage. 27:20 The work of God, the real work of God that will remain for eternity. A lot of things that you see today in Christendom, I want to tell you. Maybe you don't have discernment to see it. It's wood, hay and straw. I've seen it clearly. 27:36 And I've decided that I've got only one life to live. And I want to make sure that I don't spend it building with wood, hay and straw. But with gold, silver and precious stones. 27:58 We don't want to come to the judgment seat of Christ and discover that we spent our earthly life taken up with what was big and great in the eyes of man. A lot of things that are bigger and great in Christendom than in the eyes of man were not what God wanted. 28:26 The only way to know what God wants is by reading the scriptures. If you are careless about reading God's word. If you have more time to read other things on the internet. If you spend more time every day with Facebook than with God's book. 28:53 Don't expect to be a man filled with the Holy Spirit. Just forget it. You'll drift along with the rest of Christendom. Wasting your life and wasting your time. There's nothing wrong with these things. There's nothing wrong with reading the news or going to Facebook. 29:13 It's a question of time. When the devil cannot get Christians falling into sin. He says these Christians are careful about falling into sin. His next tactic is to keep them busy. Busy, busy, busy with a whole lot of things that will not bring spiritual profit in their life. 29:40 And a person who is eager to be filled with the Holy Spirit doesn't have time for that. I was mentioning yesterday that when you build a skyscraper you first find out whether you want to pay the price. So I'm mentioning part of the price. 29:56 Are you willing to give up some of those things which are not wrong? To be told to give up the things that are wrong we understand. Things were not in the will of God. But to give up that which is not wrong but which is lawful. 30:14 That's where we are tested. And that's what makes the difference between an ordinary believer and a man of God or a woman of God. An ordinary believer and one full of the Holy Spirit. Generally in Christendom in Pentecostal charismatic circles. 30:33 It is an initial experience of the Holy Spirit that's emphasized. And that's about all. They ask you questions like are you baptized in the Holy Spirit? Do you know that in the Acts of the Apostles nobody asked that question? 30:51 Nobody. In that way are you baptized in the Holy Spirit? See baptism is another religious word like I said prophecy yesterday. We got to understand what it really means. Baptism. Baptism is a Greek word which means immersion. 31:07 Immersion. And I really wish that that word had been translated immersion rather than transliterated. Which is import the word from the Greek into English and nobody knows what it means. Because when you hear baptism what's the picture you have in your mind? 31:27 For 90% or 80% of Christians it's the sprinkling of a baby. That's baptism. You see it as being put under water. The word is immersion. So baptism in the Holy Spirit is to be immersed in the Holy Spirit. 31:47 And that is to be filled with the Holy Spirit. And let's get that clear. First of all let me turn you to Acts of the Apostles chapter 1. In Acts 1 Jesus said. There are three expressions here you see. 32:07 Acts 1:5. John baptized with water. John baptized with water. But you will be baptized or John immersed you in water. For repentance. But you will be immersed in the Holy Spirit. Not many days from now. That's one way he expressed it. 32:28 Immersed in the Holy Spirit. There are two ways to be immersed. One is to be put into a river or a tank. And the other is to stand under a waterfall. You stand under a waterfall you are immersed too. So one is a picture of water baptism. 32:44 The other is a picture of immersion of the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit is pictured in Revelation. Like a river flowing from the throne of God. And when I get under that river. It flows through me. From my innermost being. 33:02 Into other people and blesses them. So the second expression he used here is verse 8. You shall receive power. When the Holy Spirit has come upon you. And when that actually happened. In Acts 2:4. It says they were filled with the Holy Spirit. 33:24 So immersed in the Holy Spirit. The Spirit coming upon them. And verse 2:4. They were filled with the Holy Spirit. It's really the same thing. Now remember. What I read yesterday in John chapter 20. And verse 22. 33:44 That Jesus had already breathed on them. And said receive. The Holy Spirit. So. The question is. Did they receive the Holy Spirit at that time or not? Was there ever a word that Jesus spoke. In his life that did not take place. 34:03 When he said that somebody was healed. Or a demon was cast out. It always took place. What about when Jesus said. Receive the Holy Spirit. I believe they did. But they were not filled. Now I don't go into analysis of all these things. 34:22 Because if you think of the early Christians. You know. Unfortunately. We think. Theological study. Is the. Way to. Know God. It's not. The early Christians. Did not have a Bible. The. God. The whole New Testament. Was not written. 34:41 Till. About 15. The first. Book. Was written about 15. 20 years. After the day of Pentecost. And. Some of the other books. 30. 35 years. After the day of Pentecost. So. Picture an early. Gathering of Christians. Nobody has a Bible. 35:00 There's no way. The preacher doesn't have a Bible either. And. You can't say. This verse. This chapter. This verse. We have it today. It's good. The only place. Where they had a Bible. The only Old Testament. Those days. 35:14 Was in the synagogue. Which was in a parchment. They rolled the scroll. And see what the scripture says. That's how they would compare scripture. With scripture. But. How did these people. Come into the fullness of the Holy Spirit. 35:26 Without somebody explaining. The theology. Of the baptism of the Holy Spirit to them. Today we can do that. Look at this verse. Look at that verse. Look at that verse. And we study it. And there are books written on it. 35:37 And the end result is. I hardly find many people. Really full of the Holy Spirit. Because we've made it a matter of the head. And you know. You can sit in a meeting like this. And make it a head affair. Remember what I said yesterday. 35:52 It is not for you to know. Acts 1:7. It's not for you to know. But you shall receive power. In the heart. The Holy Spirit does not fill the head. He fills the heart. It's one of the things. The Lord helped me to understand. 36:09 From the time. I was a very young Christian. When I started reading the Bible. I didn't know much about the Bible. I had never read it in my life. When I was converted. At the age of 19 and a half. But in six months. I decided to read through the whole Bible. 36:23 Just to get an overview of it. And then. I would look. Take some. Commentaries. Because I didn't know anything. And I. When I took a commentary. And I found it spoke to my head. I put it away. I said. I don't want to read that. 36:39 For example. A commentary on the Philippines. Would tell me. All about the history of Philippi. And. I was not interested in that. I was interested in the letter to the Philippines. So I put it aside. And most commentaries are like that. 36:53 Unfortunately. But I found one or two. That really helped me. To understand scripture. And that. Started me off on the study of scripture. I didn't read many commentaries. I think only one or two. That was for individual books. 37:08 And. That started me on studying the scripture. In a way that it would speak to my heart. You remember what. The psalmist said in Psalm 119. You know. If you read scripture carefully. You notice something. Psalm. 119. Verse 11. 37:30 Thy word. Have I treasured. In my heart. That I may not sin against you. Remember that word. I. One of the words I. Memorized. When I was a young man. The King James Version said. Thy word have I hid. Or treasured. In my heart. 37:48 That I may not sin against you. So I realized. I must not treasure God's word in my mind. It's in my heart. If I study God's word. If I study God's word in my mind. It's just to preach to other people. A lot of people. Even a lot of preachers. 38:07 They study the Bible to prepare sermons. God didn't give us the Bible to prepare sermons. Yet most preachers. They study the Bible to prepare sermons. It was not meant for that. It was to keep us from sin. Like someone said. 38:24 This book will keep you from sin. Or sin will keep you from this book. Thy word have I treasured in my heart. That I might not sin against thee. So what I want to share is. Always emphasize the heart. More than the head. 38:40 When you study scripture or any doctrine. You understand. You want to understand forgiveness. Understand it in your heart. There are a lot of people who understand justification in their head. Who are not justified. A lot of people who understand being filled with the Holy Spirit in their heads. 38:55 They can explain it. But they're not filled with the Holy Spirit. God chooses the most unusual people to fill. Think of the way Jesus chose his apostles. There was a Bible school in Jerusalem. Run by a great professor called Gamaliel. 39:11 He was the professor who taught Saul of Tarsus. And there were great scholars there. You had to be a fairly rich person's child. To be able to pay for all that and study there. But Jesus didn't go there to select one single person to be his disciple. 39:29 He picked up people who were ignorant of the scriptures, humanly speaking. In fact, in Acts 4, the chief priest said about Peter and John. These unlearned men. They were called unlearned because they were fishermen. They were the first people filled with the Holy Spirit. 39:47 Showing that God was not interested in a head knowledge of the fullness of the Holy Spirit. You can take a Bible study on the baptism of the Holy Spirit and be as dry as a bone in your own life. Because it's not a head matter. 40:04 Then to whom does God give this? To those who have a thirst. Very, very important. See John chapter 7. John 7. 40:24 Jesus stood on the last day of the great day of the feast. This is one of those rare instances where Jesus stood up and proclaimed the word. He said to sit and speak. John 7:37 He said, "If any man is thirsty, let him come to me." 40:39 Who said anybody can come to Jesus? It's not true. Remember the word I quoted yesterday? Come to me, not any Tom, Dick, and Harry, those who are weary and heavy laden. Lord, what if I am not weary and heavy laden? 41:00 Stay where you are. You are not invited. What if you are not sick and tired of your defeated Christian life? Stay where you are. You are not invited. Because he did not come to call the righteous. He did not come to call the self-satisfied. 41:16 He came to call sinners who were sick and tired of their defeated life. And I tell you that is the reason why so many Christians never enter into this deeper or higher Christian life. There is one single reason. They get angry and they are not sick and tired of their anger. 41:32 They confess it. But they are not sick and tired of it. They lust in their mind sexually and they are not sick and tired of it. They say, "Oh well, Jesus forgives me." Some of them even go further and watch pornography in secret. 41:45 And they have the hypocrisy to come on Sunday and sing loud that they are giving their eyes and their, "Lord, take everything, take my life and let it be consecrated, Lord, to thee." And they don't feel anything about it because next week they are going to do the same whole thing. 42:02 You think Jesus is inviting such people? He is not. They can continue to be hypocrites and continue to sit in the best church in the world for all their life and finally end up in hell. But if you are sick and tired of your defeated life, 42:20 you are invited brother, sister, young child, you are invited. And if you are thirsty, if any man is thirsty, come to me. If you are not thirsty, don't come. If you want to get a Bible study on the fullness of the Holy Spirit, God says don't come. 42:38 You are not invited, go somewhere else. Because you only want an intellectual answer. You may get it. There are lots of books on it. I know how I began to seek God for the fullness of the Holy Spirit when I was 22, 23 years old. 42:57 I was in an assembly called the Brethren Assembly. We study the Bible like we study chemistry or physics, you know, analytically and history books with a head. It was good I got to know the scriptures. But I found a tremendous lack of power in my life and they never preached the fullness of the Holy Spirit in that church. 43:19 They are good people. But, you know, every church has got some limitations. But I found a lack of power in my life and I said, Lord, there is something missing in my life. And I need the power of the Holy Spirit. It was not through analytical study of scripture that I came to that. 43:42 It is because I honestly felt I'm not experiencing the power of the early Christians. I read commands in scripture that I never seem to be able to obey. Have you read a verse like Philippians 4:4, "Rejoice in the Lord always"? 44:02 Are you disturbed when you read that verse that you are not rejoicing always? You are not. I will tell you why. Because almost 100% of the Christians you meet don't rejoice always. You say, well, I suppose it doesn't mean that. 44:20 Maybe it always meant something else in the first century. It doesn't mean 24/7, maybe 6/24 or something like that in a day. But if you are honest, you say, Lord, I don't do it. Or a couple of verses later, Philippians 4:6, "Be anxious for nothing." 44:42 You say, well, nothing probably meant something else in the first century. What does it mean to be anxious for nothing? You take a verse like that and say, "Lord, I'm not living there." That's what I mean by being sick and tired of your defeated life. 44:58 I'm not talking about murder and adultery and all. I'm talking about seeing the standard of God in the New Testament and saying, "Lord, I'm not coming up to it." Or Philippians 2:14, "Do all things without murmuring or grumbling or complaining." 45:16 Is it true in your life? Are you sick and tired of the fact that you're not obeying that? Or in Philippians 4, further down, verse 11, "I'm content in whatever state I am." Is that true in your life? 45:36 See, the thing is, we don't see these as sins. Because no preacher tells us these things. And so we see a Christendom that in a very pathetic state, increasing in numbers, people glorying in megachurches, 15,000, 20,000, 30,000. 45:57 Are these 30,000 people disciples? Are these 30,000 people who are rejoicing always, who never grumble, never complain, never anxious, content in what they are? There's not even 5 or 10 people in that 30,000 crowd who are like that. 46:11 What are you boasting about? So I'm not impressed by numbers. You know, earthly people count the number of people and say so many in a church. If the angels were to ask Jesus up in heaven, how many people in that church of 30,000? 46:28 Jesus may say three. That's the way I want to look at it. I want to look at it, everything on earth, the way heaven looks at it. I don't want to look at anything on earth, the way human beings look at it. I want to look at a church the way heaven looks at it. 46:43 Are these really disciples? So, if anyone is thirsty, "Lord, I long for this life." Ephesians 5:20 says, "In everything give thanks." Give thanks for all things, always. 47:04 Do I say, "Lord, I'm not living up there?" I'm just showing you a few verses. I could show you a lot more, but I don't want you to all feel condemned. I'm just trying to show you why we are not really filled with the Holy Spirit. 47:17 Because we are not thirsty for this life. And Jesus doesn't invite anybody. "You want an intellectual answer? Come to me." He never said that. He said, "Are you thirsty? Do you read my word and do you thirst? Lord, I want this life." 47:34 That's how I sought God. I did not read books on being filled with the Holy Spirit. I was thirsty because I saw a standard in scripture which I just did not have. And I found all the people in my church, or most of them anyway, were pretty content with their substandard state, but I was not. 47:53 You know, you go into some of the slums, or ghettos, where people live in a very, very unhygienic state. I mean, there are many like that in India. Where there are no proper toilets, the drains are all filthy, there are rats and mosquitoes and cockroaches. 48:11 And it's filth. The roofs are leaking and... Would you like to live there? I don't want to live there. Even if I have to spend half my income on renting a house, I wouldn't want to live there. That's the picture of most of Christendom. 48:33 To me, most of Christendom and many churches, spiritually speaking, if you have eyes to see it from God's point of view, is like a filthy slum. What's it that makes a slum? I mean, they're all... The exterior is grand. Probably millions of dollars spent on that building and the carpets and the chairs. 48:53 But God sees it as a slum because there's sin. There's sin in the family life. A number of those people are divorced who sit there. They've disregarded marriage. And now there are even more crazy things coming into so-called churches. 49:12 It's a slum. It's filth. And if you have eyes to see, you will see it. And say, "Lord, I don't want to live in this filthy slum in my own life. I want to live pure. I want to be holy." I'm not saying we walk away from there, 49:27 but keep yourself from that filth. If God has placed you in that church, then you must be a blessing to the other people and lead them out of their filth and their slum. That's how I see it. Don't be impressed by greatness. 49:42 You know, people think that if something's growing, that must be of God. You hear of some church, "Oh, it started out with just 20, 30 people and it's grown to 10,000, 20,000." It doesn't impress me. Shall I tell you how Islam has grown? 50:00 Shall I tell you how Islamic fundamentalists have grown? Far faster than any Christian church. Are you going to be impressed by numbers? You've got to join them. Don't be impressed by numbers. Jesus was never impressed by numbers. 50:18 So when I'm in the midst of all this type of Christendom, if you long for the type of life that the New Testament speaks about, then you will come into Jerusalem, the true church. You know, in the end of the Bible, you read about two types of churches, Babylon and Jerusalem. 50:38 And Babylon is called the great city, the mega church, 11 times. In today's language, it is the mega church Babylon. Jerusalem is called the holy city, the holy church. 50:58 There are two types of churches at the end of Revelation. It's the end of time. The mega church and the holy church. Which one do you want to be a part of? Which one gets greater recognition on earth? Which pastor gets invited to big TV programs to be interviewed? 51:19 Not the one from the holy church. The mega church. Who wants to be interviewed in those TV programs anyway? We want to be accepted by God, not recognized in the world. We're not interested in Time magazine recognizing us. 51:35 But that almighty God recognizing us. And I'll tell you honestly, Satan recognizing me. That's more important. You know, when somebody tried to cast out a demon and the demon said, "Jesus I know and Paul I know, who are you?" 51:52 And I tell you, Jesus knows that the devil doesn't recognize great people in the world. But he recognizes a Jesus and he recognizes a Paul. Men who are full of the Spirit, humble men whom the devil trembled when such people were around. 52:06 Do you want to be one like that? You can be. If you're willing to pay the price. Jesus said, "Sit down and count the cost." If you want it. And I'll tell you one thing. If any of you are not continuously full of the Holy Spirit, there is only one reason. 52:23 You are not willing to pay the price. So, let me read a verse in Matthew chapter 6. When Jesus taught us to pray. You know, we pray for the Holy Spirit to fill us. 52:43 But let's begin with praying like this. Matthew 6 verse 9. "Pray then in this way. Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name." So, what is the first request? 53:04 He didn't say we must repeat that every day. He said, "Pray in this way." I don't have to repeat it every day, but that means the basic principle that motivates me in prayer must be the things written here. In other words, my number one burden, you know, prayer must come out of a burden. 53:24 If it doesn't come from a burden, it's not prayer. I'll tell you why a lot of prayers are not answered. Let me, first of all, mention something about prayer is like a circle. The first half of the circle is from heaven, God putting a burden in my heart for something. 53:42 The second half of that circle is me praying that prayer back to God in faith. In dependence on God, believing He will answer it because it was a burden from Him. I mean, if it's something I myself want, like, I'd like a nice house, Lord, or a better car, or, you know, a better job. 54:01 Okay, fine. I don't know whether that came as a burden from God. You can ask for it, but there's no guarantee you'll get it. But if it is a burden that was given by God, you can be absolutely sure you'll get it. That's why I say read the scriptures. 54:16 Because in the scriptures, you have God's mind. And you ask for the things written, Lord, I want to rejoice always. If you trust the Lord, He'll do it for you. Lord, I want to live a life where I'm anxious for nothing. He'll do it for you. 54:28 Lord, I want to live a life where I never complain, never grumble. He'll do it for you. Lord, when it says in Ephesians 4:31, "Put away all anger." Lord, I want a life where there's no anger, zero anger in my life. He'll do it for you. 54:40 If it's a burden from God, we can have faith for it. The circle, it has to begin with God. All prayer begins with God through the Holy Spirit. Comes into my heart, comes back. If it stops here and I don't pray in faith, I don't get anything. 54:54 If it doesn't start from God, it doesn't. I don't get anything. Jesus once said in Matthew 15, "Every plant which my heavenly Father has not planted will be rooted out." It can be a good plant, it can be a big plant, it will be rooted out because God did not plant it. 55:11 God is the only, listen to this. God is the only legitimate originator of anything that is eternal. He is the only legitimate originator of anything that will last for eternity. So I want everything that I do to originate in God. 55:30 God gives me a burden and I express it back to God in faith and it will be mine. Does God want you to be filled with the Holy Spirit? That's why we are coming to our Father who art in heaven. Hallowed be thy name. Let your name be respected, revered, honored. 55:53 That should be the number one desire in the heart of every true believer. Lord, my backache can wait. My backache can wait. My cancer can wait. Hallowed be thy name. You start praying like that, you live a completely Christian life on a completely different level. 56:21 What that means is, I look around and I say, "Lord, your name is so dishonored in the world. And worse than that, your name is so dishonored in Christendom. I want your name to be honored. I can't remember how many hundreds of times I have prayed to God. 56:44 Lord Jesus, your name is so dishonored in India. That's why, that's where my ministry is. That's where I've lived all my seventy-five and a half years. Your name is so dishonored in India. I want your name to be glorified. 57:01 Can I do something in a small way to hallow your name? That has been the burden of my heart for many years. It's the burden of my heart today. Wherever I go, "Lord, your name is not hallowed in this church." I'm not talking about this one. 57:19 The different churches I go to, different, so many churches that call themselves Church of Jesus Christ. "Lord, your name is not hallowed." It's not respected, honored. Your name is not being glorified. That's the most important thing. 57:34 What can I do to glorify your name? What can I do, Lord? Somebody's asked me to speak in a church. I don't know whether your name is being glorified in this church, but I'm concerned it should be. Will you give me words to help them to hallow your name? 57:49 By the time I finish speaking in that church in a series of meetings, they learn to hallow and respect your name a little more. That should be the burden of a heart. You don't have to be a preacher. You can be a brother or sister and you meet people. 58:04 If you meet people and you speak to them. If you have a burden, you meet people who are not glorifying God's name. Are you concerned about it? Then you need to be filled with the Holy Spirit. See, that's the type of person who's longing, if any man thirsts. 58:21 Let me show you another passage. It's in Luke chapter 11. Luke 11. Similar words. He was praying in a certain place. Luke 11:1. And when he finished praying, the disciples said, "Wow!" 58:43 I mean, that's not written there, but that was in their heart. "Lord, teach us to pray." We've never heard anybody pray like this. We've heard all the long, boring prayers that the Pharisees pray. And Lord, this is so different. 58:55 Speak to the Father in such an intimate way. Teach us to pray like this. Then he taught them, "Father, hallowed be thy name." And he didn't finish there. The teaching on prayer, which he began in verse 2, ends in verse 13. 59:11 And verse 13 he said to pray for the Holy Spirit. That's why I'm getting there. So it began. Remember, he's teaching them how to pray for the Holy Spirit. Okay? Because that's where it concludes. How will your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit, verse 13, to those who ask him? 59:28 You don't have because you don't ask. You ask and you don't receive because you ask with wrong motives. For your own honor or for your own excitement. Then also you don't get. You don't get because you don't ask. You don't get because you ask with the wrong motive. 59:46 So let's get these things right. Let's ask and let's ask for the right motive. So, Lord, teach us to pray. Teach us to pray in the right way. Okay, first of all, learn to pray that God's name will be hallowed. Forget your own needs. 59:58 You seek God's kingdom first. He will add all your needs to you. I've experienced that for more than 50 years. God's preserved us. Individually, as a family, as a church. He honors us if we honor him. So, hallowed be your name. 1:00:17 Lord, that must be the burden of my heart. Your kingdom must come in your church. Your will must be done on earth. Those are the first three requests he taught us to pray. And then we can pray for our own needs. But then he goes on in verse 5. 1:00:31 Remember, keep in mind always, we are praying for the Holy Spirit. Supposing, one of you have a friend and you go to him at midnight. And see, that's your neighbor. Why do you go to him at midnight? Because, verse 6, another friend of mine came to my house. 1:00:49 Someone comes to your house at midnight. And you don't have any food in your home. The fridge is empty. There's no food. Because you didn't expect him to come. You don't want to ask him, have you eaten? Because if he says no, you're stuck. 1:01:10 You don't have anything. But this guy was so concerned. I mean, if that was your son or daughter, you would ask him, have you eaten? And he was concerned for a stranger. And he says, no, I haven't eaten. Well, I'm going to get something. 1:01:29 I don't have anything in the house. But I'll go and ask my neighbor. So he goes to his neighbor's house. And it says here, he knocks at his door at midnight. And listen to this. First of all, how many of you would go to your neighbor's house? 1:01:42 I mean, just think of it practically. Even if he's a good friend of yours, to wake him up at midnight and say, "Hey, I want some bread for my friend who's come." I think most of us would tell this friend, "Hey, let's just pray, drink a glass of water, man. 1:01:53 In the morning we'll eat something." But he was so concerned. Remember, remember this. What are we driving at? How to pray for the Holy Spirit, okay? You see a friend of yours in need. Spiritual need. And you don't ignore it. 1:02:11 That's where it begins. You see people around you in spiritual need. This is where prayer for the Holy Spirit begins. And you know him, he's a friend of yours. And you see his need, but you can't help him. You don't have anything to help him. 1:02:27 The words that you give don't satisfy him. You give him a glass of water, that's not enough. He's hungry. Every person will begin to seek God. And how will he seek God? He goes to his friend. His friend is God now. And now God doesn't answer like this man, but there's a lesson here. 1:02:49 The friend, verse 7, says to him, "Don't bother me now. The door is shut. My children are in bed with me and I cannot get up and give you anything." How many of us will continue to knock? Unashamedly, keeping on knocking at somebody who says, 1:03:08 "Get away man, don't disturb me." I don't think you'd knock even if he's a good friend of yours. But this man continued. And I tell you, even though if he doesn't get up because he's a friend, he'll get up because of his persistence. 1:03:23 He says, "I can't sleep man, this guy is banging away at the door." So he gets up and gives him. How much does he give? Listen to this. This is a beautiful expression of seeking for the fullness of the Spirit. He will give him, verse 8, 1:03:38 "As much as he needs." Wow! Lord! Here are some people who need you. I don't have what it takes. How much will you give me? As much as you need. I want to tell you my honest testimony. 1:04:00 I proved this in 50 years of preaching. To people, very often, I don't know most of them. I say, "Lord, what is their need? You know. Give me what they need. As much as they need." And he's always given it. 1:04:22 If I'm persistent. And if I have a love. That's important. A love for the people I'm speaking to. I always tell preachers, my fellow elders. You must love the people you're preaching to. You must see them as slaves who should be kings in God's eyes. 1:04:43 You must see them as bound who should be conquering. Have a burden. Then you seek God, he'll fill you with his Holy Spirit. That's the point here. And if you don't get an answer immediately from God, what do you do? Persistence. 1:05:01 Lord, I'm not going to give up. I didn't get it yet. Now. Verse 9. And I say to you. Ask in this way. And it will be given you. That's the meaning. Seek in this way. And you will find. Knock in this way. 1:05:22 And it will be opened to you. Do you see why we. Don't get. Why we don't find. And why the door is not opened. Because we are not asking, seeking, knocking in this way. Then he uses another example. One is persistence. We've understood the parable of persistence. 1:05:44 Now here is another parable which is speaking about faith. You need persistence and you need faith. They go together. If you ask your father for fish, will he give you a snake? You know, there are people like that who say, 1:05:56 Oh, I better not pray for the Holy Spirit. I may get some other spirit. No. God will not give you a snake if you ask for fish. If he asks you for an egg, will he give you a scorpion? If you being evil. Now from that I get. 1:06:17 And give good gifts to your children. How much more shall your heavenly father give. The Holy Spirit to those who ask him like this. The truth from that verse is that the best earthly father. Think of the best earthly father in the world. 1:06:30 He is evil compared to God. It's like saying the light of the star is darkness compared to the light of the sun. That's why you can't see the stars right now. They are there, but you can't see it. Because it's almost like darkness compared to the light of the sun. 1:06:45 Because the best earthly father's light and love is like the light of a star compared to the love of God, which is like the sun. If I can believe that, that's faith. If my earthly father will not deny me. The best earthly father will not deny his child what he needs. 1:07:07 He's not asking for an elephant or a railway train or something. He's asking for bread. He's asking for that which he needs. And if he will not deny it, how will my heavenly father deny the fullness of the Holy Spirit? To those who ask him. 1:07:23 So it's persistence and faith. Thirst, which leads to persistence and faith. So if we come to God like that, we may be ordinary people. Let me encourage you. 1:07:43 The type of people whom God chose. Here's another example. Turn with me to 1 Kings. Because sometimes we say, "Oh, I'm just an ordinary person." 1 Kings chapter 19. God wanted a prophet to replace Elijah, the great man of God. 1:07:58 Where Elijah came from, we don't know. Because he suddenly appears as a prophet. But where his successor came from, we know. Elisha. Elijah went. And 1 Kings 19:19. He found Elisha. Elisha was not in a Bible school either. 1:08:18 You know, God doesn't go to Bible schools, I tell you. I wish you'd understand that. I never went to a Bible school. I'm thankful for that. The men of God who have blessed me the most in my life, from my earliest Christian life, 1:08:32 are men who never went to a Bible school. Elisha. Elisha. He was plowing. He was an ordinary farmer. And Elijah threw his mantle over him, which everybody understood. Was to signify that you're going to be the next prophet. 1:08:51 Elijah immediately understood that. Oh, really? Let me say goodbye to my father and mother and I'll follow you, he says in verse 20. And he took the pair of oxen and sacrificed some of them and boiled their flesh, verse 20. 1:09:06 And he followed Elijah immediately. Whom did God pick? Who got a double portion of Elijah's spirit? An ordinary farmer. Amos. Amos was one of the prophets in Israel. 1:09:29 And you read some fantastic things he says in his prophecy. If you have read Amos. Amos chapter 7. I hope you know your Bibles where Amos comes. You're going to meet him in heaven. 1:09:49 He'll ask you whether you read his book. Amos chapter 7. Amos said to Amaziah, I am not a prophet. He was. But he didn't think of himself as some great prophet. That's a mark of genuine prophets and apostles. 1:10:10 They don't think of themselves. They think of themselves as ordinary people. I am not the son of a prophet. That means my dad was not a prophet either. I am a herdsman. I look after herds and I gathered sycamore figs. 1:10:32 I am a farmer. But the Lord took me from following the flock. And said go prophesy. I am just showing you the type of people whom God chose as John the Baptist out in the wilderness. Peter, Peter, James and John fishermen. 1:10:48 And Elisha was a farmer. Amos was just a gatherer of figs. Suddenly God lays hold of him and says go and be my prophet. Do you think God could be laying hold of you? If you don't have high thoughts about yourself. If you say I am just an ordinary person. 1:11:05 God chooses ordinary people to be his servants. You can seek him. If you have a concern. Lord, I want your name to be honored. I want the name of Jesus to be honored around me. First of all in my life. I want the name of Jesus to be honored in my family life. 1:11:26 The way I live with my wife or husband. I want the name of Jesus to be honored in the way my children grow up. Do you have a burden about these things? Or do you have a desire to be a great preacher? You'll completely miss God's will if your desire is to be someone great in the world or someone great in the church. 1:11:49 Get rid of it. That may be the thing that's hindering you from being filled with the Holy Spirit. I remember hearing of a pastor in a church in Boston at the end of the 19th century. He was a very famous speaker, but he heard D.L. Moody and I'll speak about the baptism of the Holy Spirit. 1:12:15 And he felt there was something missing in his ministry. And he began to seek for the baptism of the Holy Spirit. And he prayed and prayed and he surrendered everything, laid everything on the altar. As far as he knew, and still nothing happened. 1:12:28 And as he sought the Lord, the Lord said, "Why do you want to be baptized in the Holy Spirit? So that you can become a famous preacher?" And he suddenly saw his motive was all wrong. And he said, "Lord, I give it up. I place that also on the altar. 1:12:46 I don't want to be a great preacher in this church. You can take it away. I just want to be filled with the Holy Spirit. Be your child." And God filled him. And God led him to leave that church. And he joined William Booth in England. 1:13:06 The Salvation Army. And William Booth was a wonderful, godly man. He knew how to train people. This great preacher come from America. He said, "If you come here to be trained to be a servant, you've got to first go down to the basement and polish everybody's shoes. 1:13:25 That's your job for the next six months. Polish the shoes of all these Salvation Army people." Imagine this great preacher. He went down there. And he developed from there to be one of the greatest men of God in the Salvation Army. 1:13:38 So often, when we think we have laid everything on the altar, we haven't. There's something on earth or in the church we're seeking. And that blocks the pipe. The river doesn't flow. So let's examine ourselves. Let's bow before God. 1:13:59 Heavenly Father, as we bow before you, we want to walk in your light. And let the light of God shine into every nook and corner of our heart. We really want to be filled with the Holy Spirit. Thank you. In Jesus' name. Amen. 1:14:19 Like the woman at the well I was seeking, 1:14:41 For things that could not satisfy. And then I heard my Savior speaking, Draw from my well that never shall run dry. 1:15:02 Till my come, Lord, I lift him unborn. Come and quench his thirsting of my soul. Man of heaven, feed me till I want no more. 1:15:23 Fill my cup, fill it up, and make me whole. So, my brother, if the things this world gave you, Fill my cup, Lord, I lift him unborn. Fill my cup, Lord, I lift him unborn. Fill my cup, fill it up, and make me whole. Fill my cup, Lord, I lift him unborn. 1:15:42 Fill my cup, Lord, I lift him unborn. Fill my cup, Lord, I lift him unborn. Fill my cup, Lord, I lift him unborn. 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