Experience the Baptism of the Holy Spirit and Gift of Tongues - Bill Johnson Sermon | Bethel Church

who Among Us thinks we don't need edification and help and strength and encouragement I wake up in the night praying in the spirit I need it all the time especially in this particular day that we live in the just the intensity of conflict and stuff that's going on around us we just need strength and when he gives you an internal source that can keep you refreshed and encouraged you'll start getting Clarity of thought certain burdens will come certain Burns will lift because you are praying in the spirit [Music] thank you thank [Music] you well I

love you too yes I do oh goodness I keep imagining a group hug but I'm afraid there'd be fatalities it's just wonderful to be together I just I just like it I like hanging out with worshiping people and you know and being led by people who these guys have actually committed their life to learn how to lead us into the presence and before the face of the Lord and wow just I'm just amazed by I'm almost too happy to talk but I'll talk anyway just just so wonderful so wonderful wonderful to be I I I

love the holidays too I I I saw this I saw this um little meme it said my favorite thing about the fall is all those mosquitoes go back to hell you know I am a mosquito Target I am I I years ago we went up fishing up at hat Creek and I was uh I didn't have waiters on or anything up but I was in the water and I had uh corduroy pants you remember those kinds of pants C I don't know if they still have them or not I I don't have any but they're

back I'll I'll try to get another pair then yeah maybe we'll see and I took Cutters insect repellent and and I rubbed it all over my pants to keep them away and I got 50 bytes between here and here I'm not kidding I counted them I had 27 or 29 I forget now in a 3-in circle right here they eat Cutters they eat insect repellent they do I'm sure of it I'm positive I I was so mad I was oh I was not very Sanctified at that moment and and if I could have I would

have sent every mosquito to hell right at that moment yes I would money may not buy happiness but I'd rather cry in a Bentley than in a bus I'd take a bullet for you not in the head but maybe like in the leg or something sorry that's I like it though I sorry it's it's I'm sorry for what I said before I had my coffee Three Wise Women would have asked directions arrived on time helped deliver the baby clean the stable made a casserole and there would be peace on Earth we are all mature until

someone pulls out bubble wrap that's probably enough H yet another day has passed and I did not use algebra once very interesting I'll I'll do one more when I when I die I want my last words to be I left a million dollars under [Laughter] the um we're going to read quite a bit of scripture so you guys have your Bibles me you got Bibles electronic is fine but hold them up I want to see them I love my Bible anybody love your Bible all all right let's what what I want you to do is

uh open to John chapter 20 put a piece of paper there and go to Genesis chapter 2 Genesis chapter 2 Genesis 2 we'll start with verse 4 this is the history of the heavens and the earth when they were created in the day that the Lord God made the earth and the heavens before any plant of the field was in the earth before any herb of field had grown for the Lord had not caused it to rain on the earth there was no man to till the ground but a Mist went up from the earth

and watered the whole face of the ground and the Lord formed man of the Dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life and he became excuse me and Man became a living being verse seven is our verse so let's look at it again and the Lord God formed man of the Dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life and Man became a living being God literally breathed life into this hunk of Flesh that he had just formed out of the dirt and when he breathed into

it it came it became alive it became a living being now I want you to look at um John chapter 20 and uh it's I love teaching out of John 20 it's one of my favorite portions of scripture to talk about I I can't do it justice tonight but we'll get to it to the key verse in verse 19 the same day at even now this is after the resurrection Jesus is the first born of the Dead many were raised from the dead before him but they all died again he was the firstborn of the

Dead in the sense that he was never to die again verse 19 the same day at evening being the first day of the week when the doors were shut where the disciples were assembled for fear of the Jews Jesus came and stood in the midst and said to them peace be with you and when he had said this he showed them his hands in his side then the disciples were glad when they saw the Lord Jesus said to them again peace to you as the father has sent me I also send you and when he

said this he breathed on them and said to them receive the Holy Spirit verse 22 and when he said this he breathed on them and said to them receive the Holy Spirit Genesis 2:7 says the Lord God form man of the Dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils a breath of life and Man became a living being now the firstborn of the Dead took his 11 remaining disciples and he breathed on them and said receive the Holy Spirit you remember where the scripture says um we are a new creation it actually gives uh

it actually is addressing the fact that we are something that has never existed before so when you were born again you received the Holy Spirit and became other than human it doesn't mean we don't we no longer have Humanity it just means we are other than mere human beings not by anything we've done it's it's just it's just a work of Grace that God has made us living examples of the resurrected Christ Satan Works to stir up an antichrist Spirit Christ is not Jesus's last name right it's not Jesus Johnson you know it's not it's

not that at all it's Jesus Christ Christ actually means anointing technically it means one smeared with if you were to take a lotion and smear it all over your body that actually is a picture of what anointing is so when it says Jesus Christ it is saying Jesus the one completely covered in smeared with the holy spirit so the Antichrist spirit is an an anti anointing spirit so good Jesus functioning in the anointing is what brought such great offense to religious leaders right it was the anointing in his speech it was the anointing in the

Deliverance it was the anointing in the healings and the walking on water and multiplying food it was the anointing was the spirit of God all over him that enabled him to do what he did right now I I can't belabor this but he's eternally God and he could he could Resort on his divinity he could turn to his divinity at any time and do anything but he chose to live with the limitations of a human being that number one had no sin and number two was completely dependent on the holy spirit so he actually provided

in an example for us that could be followed if he did his miracles as God I'm still impressed but I can't do it but when he does it as a human being dependent on the Holy Spirit he's providing an example that actually can be followed yes and I may never get it right I just don't have any other options come on I don't have the right to turn down the privilege of following the one who says follow me so Jesus Takes these 11 disciples and he breathes on them and I would like to suggest to

you that they became born again because they received the Holy Spirit this is when they were converted in the same way that God breathed into the nostrils of Adam and made him a living being in the same way Jesus breathed into the nostrils of the 11 and they became a new creation it's the Holy Spirit who is the spirit of the resurrected Christ that comes in and transforms us it is the actual Spirit if you can imagine the Tomb of Jesus and on the third day the spirit of God comes and raises him from the

dead that exact spirit is doing the same in you and in me out of the death of sin out of the death of slavery out of all these things he comes to resurrect us into the newness of Life Satan got the surprise of his life I I it's humorous but but I mean it very seriously he got the surprise of his life because he thought he could destroy the anointing let me rephrase it he thought he could destroy the Christ through death not realizing that in his death he became a seed that when it came

forth in fruitfulness there are millions and billions of resurrected ones little christs Christians that now roam the earth now what we've got to do is learn together and help to encourage the people of God to learn who God made them to be on because we're we're not here to occupy occupy space until we die we're actually here to to to to illustrate what the love of God looks like which requires compassion which requires mercy and requires power come on love of God must be demonstrated in power it's not adequately revealed and so this is our

great privilege so Jesus now takes these 11 disciples and he breathes on them and they become born again now if you go to Luke chapter 24 we'll read a piece of instruction that he gave to his disciples that's pretty critical Luke 24 he says uh verse 46 are you guys in Luke 24 did you find it yes yes yes yes yes yep travel fast with me if you can Luke uh Luke 24 then verse 46 then he said to them thus it is written it was necessary for the Christ to suffer and rise from the

dead on the third day and that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his name to All Nations beginning in Jerusalem and you are witnesses of these things behold I send the promise of my father upon you but Terry in the city of Jerusalem until you are endued or clothed with power from on high so now he's talking to 11 guys remaining disciples that have just received the Holy Spirit every Born Again believer has the Holy Spirit but I'd like to suggest that because Jesus came to the same 11 that he had breathed

upon and told themo not leave Jerusalem until you clothe with power that there was yet another work of Grace that he wanted to establish in their lives and so when you get to Acts chapter one Luke wrote acts and and the Gospel of Luke and so you come to 2 before it's logical to go right to Acts chapter 1 and pick up where the story left off so if you would go to Acts chapter 1 I'm going to wait make you work a little bit here tonight so I hope you don't mind working and if

you do oh well I got a note here it says somebody figured out my password now I have to rename my dog sorry all right little just slightly off subject some of us are easily distracted by shiny things you know so all right uh verse one of Acts chapter 1 the former account I made o theophilos of all that Jesus began to do and teach please make a mental note if nothing else I have it underlined of anytime you see in the scripture doing and teaching in the same verse because in our culture we're accustomed

to teaching without [Music] doing our culture a culture allows you to be taught how to run a business by people who never owned a business because we value certificates and other things and I don't want to say they don't have value I'm just saying our culture is different and biblical culture put doing and teaching in the same breath so this is an account of all that Jesus began to do and teach uh sorry uh John chapter 3 Nicodemus comes to Jesus and he says we know you are a a teacher come from God because no

one can do these signs that you do unless God is with him so again it's it's it's all through the scripture all right all that Jesus began to do and teach until the day in which he was taken up after he through the Holy Spirit had given Commandments to the apostles whom he had chosen to whom he had also presented himself alive after his suffering by many infallible proofs being seen during 40 Days by them during 40 days in speaking of the things pertaining to the kingdom of God and being assembled together he commanded them

not to depart from Jerusalem but to wait for the promise of the father there's that phrase again which he said you have heard from me for John baptized with water but you shall be baptized with the Holy Spirit not many days from now still alive verse six therefore when they had come together they asked him saying Lord will you at this time re restore the kingdom to Israel and he said it's not for you to know the times or the seasons that the father has put by his own authority but you shall receive power when

the Holy Spirit has come upon you and you shall be witnesses to me in Jerusalem Judea Samaria the ends of the Earth here's what I want you to notice a couple things first of all is the Commandment that the Lord has for his followers to be clothed with power it's available it's a gift and he tells his original 11 and then of course uh he uh he appeared to actually in the in the 40 days after the resurrection is 50 days between his resurrection and Pentecost Pentecost means 50 but he he uh departed 10 days

previous and in that 40-day period he had actually appeared to over 500 people with very many infallible convincing proofs that he was alive now I don't know why only 120 showed up to the prayer meeting but 500 heard about it sounds like a normal church right there that's pastoral sarcasm just just adjust to it it it it yeah that's all right but here here's what I want you to notice is in um in verse three he talks to them about the Kingdom right things pertaining to the kingdom and then in verse five he says for

John will baptize you baptize you with water but you shall be baptized with the Holy spir Spirit not many days from now so he addresses the kingdom and the first subject he talks to after addressing the kingdom is the baptism in the Holy Spirit now they asked him in verse six will you at this time restore the kingdom he said it's not for you to know but then he takes the subject back to the baptism in the Holy Spirit you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you you shall be witnesses to

me in Jerusalem Judea Samaria to the ends of the Earth are you guys still following everybody still alive all right so so this is Egypt over here sorry all you dancers you've been in Egypt all night but uh bad joke bad joke so this is this is Egypt and Israel is they are slaves in Egypt they put the blood on the doorpost of the house which was their Deliverance that's when they were set free from slavery I was just looking at a Psalm earlier tonight it says in Egypt was glad to see them go they

had suffered so much of God's dealings with them on a nation that they sent them with all their treasures and everything so here's Israel they they put the blood on the doorpost of the house and they are literally set free when they are set free they end up coming to a body of water called the Red Sea now in 1 Corinthians 10 it says that Israel went through the baptism of Moses so this Red Sea even though they didn't get wet the fact is they went through deep into the sea I I read something recently

that it could have been as as deep as as a several hundred feet uh down that they had to go into and then come back up the other side so here here's their blood set the blood sets them free they come to this body of water called the Red Sea they go through a baptism and then before they come to the promised land there's another body of water but this one is not a still body of water it is a river sir and in John chapter 7 the holy spirit is referred to as a river

now please take note two and a half tribes decided to live on this side of the river nine and a half went through the second baptism that's right into a promise land that I would like to suggest is the picture of the Kingdom the kingdom of God a present reality that we have the privilege and responsibility to Steward and to live in here and now and to discover with everything that we do learn what the Kingdom looks like Jesus said repent for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand repent is to change the way you

think change your perspective on reality because I brought my world with me and if you don't change your perspective of on reality you can live an entire lifetime within the reach of everything you ache for and you'd never know it's there so here here is a river that separates now Israel was commanded to to stay in Harmony in unity regardless of what side of the river they lived on remember that it's not Hales and have knots it's not privileged and unprivileged it's one nation but there was a choice made two and a half tribes lived

on this side of the river two and a half tribes lived on this side of the river if you can imagine going through this second baptism is what I'll call it the second baptism many people when they're baptized in the Holy Spirit they pray in tongues but they never explore the land they just inherited they they stand they stand on the banks of the river and pray in tongues for the rest of their life and and that's awesome because it's a glorious gift and I'm going to talk about it in a minute because it's one

of the greatest privileges we have but to to merely experience a prayer language and not explore what this world looks like that we've just inherited is really sad see Jesus actually modeled and Illustrated what the promised land looked like promises get you there and part of the problem is we is we want everything brought to us we don't want to pursue let me illustrate this just for a quick moment um the Apostle Paul in writing to Timothy he said he said take the promises the prophecies that have been given to you and fight with them

so that you come into your destiny so here here's where I am right now in my life but God sees me here and then what he does is he brings me every promise that I will need to get from there to he and so he gives it to me in reading of scripture scripture and conviction during worship uh somebody will lean over and share a thought with me a prophet will call me out and prophesy the point is is that he is very generous in making sure that we become exposed to what he says and

think we have to have the intelligence to embrace it many seeds fall on the ground and never take root so here I am God gives me promises to get me from here to there but Paul warns us he says those promises are swords which tells me what there's a fight between here and there there's a conflict between here and there and I want there brought to me I I I you know I I remember sitting in my recliner I've told you this before but sitting in my recliner and watching something on TV and Benny would

say Hey you want something to eat I go yeah I'm starving and so she would go into the kitchen make something bring it to me and and I would eat it I was starving not enough to get out of the recliner I I wasn't hungry enough to actually go in there and make it but I was hungry if it was brought to me and a lot of this Kingdom stuff we handle well if it's brought to us but we don't always know how to pay the price to go get it most of what you need

in life will be brought to you most of what you want you'll have to go get and you can't you can't learn how to apprehend without a fight and to do that you actually have to know what God has said you have to know what God has said you have to be you have to have a a um you have to have a solid a fix your fixed attention on the word of the Lord that cannot be um unsettled or removed or distracted I have probably in the last week or so I have probably spent

honestly goodness I I think at least an hour a day just hearing old prophetic words over my life just reminding me this is what he said this is what he said this is what he said fighting to protect that which has been deposited in my heart because I know that that he he gave something to me that I have to Steward Larry rondol helped us years ago with this uh quote one of my favorite quotes ever he said God will fulfill all of his promises to you but he's not obligated to fulfill your potential and

often times the promises of God come to outline potential they are not guaranteed it doesn't mean God lies it just means your role is extremely necessary to see the Fulfillment of that word you know what I I I feel like I could talk for hours and that's scary and I'm not going to that's I'm not threatening you I I know some of you just you just turned white but I'm I'm not I'm not threatening you I just I've got so much racing through my heart and mind right now with this with this theme did you

know the will of God is represented in two words in the New Testament one means that which is absolutely fixed and certain it'll happen you don't get to vote you know like Jesus is coming back you believe it great you don't believe it doesn't matter your your opinion does not matter at all and then there's another will of God it's another word that's used that actually describes his desire that he actually Longs for certain things to take place but there has to be human partnership or it won't happen so so these folks that say well

whatever happens was meant to happen that's absolutely dumb that's absolutely dumb we we cannot give God praise for for Hitler you know Hitler was given a gift of leadership that he distorted he was given a gift though he was given a gift and we we you know we can't credit god with stuff it's just nonsense all right you all right good okay so here here is this this journey from sin to a baptism of water and a second baptism and the second baptism is to introduce us to a lifestyle where things are different see in

this Kingdom it's not by human reasoning or human strength while those things are useful tools our life our life our livelihood is not dependent upon them in in this Kingdom you march around a city for six days and then the seventh day you do it seven times and lift up a shout and the walls fall it's not the best military strategy in in this Kingdom you sometimes send a choir out first in this Kingdom everything is dependent upon hearing hearing what God is saying knowing what he's doing participating as C- laborers with him his dream

from day one was for Humanity to be C- labors with him it's why he says be fruitful multiply subdue the Earth subdue implies that there is opposition right you have to bring into order because there's chaos and disorder there is a power outside of this Garden that is at war with your destiny subdue it so we were born into a war with a purpose to see the reality of God's Dominion realized in every single part of life I'd like to suggest to you that in Acts chapter 1 when when uh the subject of the kingdom

was brought up the very next phrase was baptism of Holy Spirit and when the disciples asked about the kingdom the very next phrase was the baptism of Holy Spirit I'd like to suggest it's that second baptism that gives you exposure to a potential gives you exposure to a reality that we can give ourselves to to fully learn all right Acts chapter 2 Acts chapter 2 when the day of verse one when the day of Pentecost had fully come they were all with one Accord in one place and suddenly man I love the suddenlies in the

Bible I mean I'm I'm I can be fairly impatient so when it suddenly comes I'm happy when I have to wait gradually for six months for something I'll do it I'll do it but I like the suddenly better and suddenly there came a sound from Heaven as of a rushing Mighty Wind and it filled the whole house where they were sitting and there appeared to them divided tongues as of fire and one sat upon each of them what are the two natural um Earthly manifestations that we have spoken of in these two verses we have

wind and fire and fire in Hebrews it talks about it's actually a quote from the Old Testament but in Hebrews 1 it talks about angels being Ministers of wind Ministers of fire is it possible that this Divine moment when the the Lord was going to spread the Christ anointing upon every believer is it possible it became so crowded with an Angelic presence that fire and wind just became just exploded just a thought verse three then there appeared to them divided tongues as of fire one sat upon each of them and they were all filled with

the Holy Spirit began to speak in other tongues as the spirit gave them utterance I've had people you know they ask if you get baptized in the Holy Spirit do you have to speak in tongues no but you get to Paul Paul says prophecy is the is The Ultimate Gift tongues is your edification prophecy is for edification in the church we if we have time we may look at those passages so people say well I I want I want prophecy and not tongues I don't know how your house works but at Christmas time gifts are

very important because that's what I like to do and anything I like to do is very important for our family and so if I provide gifts for my children let's just say I provide one of my kids I say son this this cost me 300 bucks here's another one this one cost me 50 if he doesn't open the 50 I'm taking the 300 away if he doesn't open the 50 because he says well it's just not worth as much oh we're going to have a we're going to have a conversation because because each gift I

buy is significant and it's impossible for God to give us a gift make a gift available to us that does not have eternal significance there's nine gifts listed uh gifts of the Spirit listed in 1 Corinthians uh 12 and 14 nine gifts are listed I think there's more personally I can't prove it but the lists that you find in the Bible don't don't contain God they reveal him come on they're not boundaries come on I have a couple family members that when they were baptized in the Holy Spirit they actually wrote they wrote in perfect

Chinese we actually have copies in our our family history two of them I forget now um a couple of them were baptized in the Holy Spirit in Smith Wiggles wors meetings wow and they wrote in perfect Chinese a missionary came to town and and read these two documents ments one document was the 23rd psalm and the other was just this PSAL this uh song of praise to God writing in Chinese is not on the list but listen to me it's consistent with the list right it's consistent with the list the lists in scripture do not

contain God they're not offence to fence him in they reveal him verse six in Acts uh two when the sound occurred you guys still doing okay we're doing all right time wise uh when the sound occurred a multitude came together and they were confused because everyone heard them speak in his own language then they were all amazed and marveled saying to one another look not are not all these uh who speak galileans how is it that we each hear them each in our own language and then he goes on in verse 11 crans and Arabs

we hear them speaking in their own tongues the wonderful works of God so that tells us about tongues is either the language of Praise or the language of prayer the wonderful works of God verse 12 so they were all amazed and perplexed verse 13 others mocking so here here's the fruit of Revival confusion amazement marveled amazed perplexed and mocking that's how you know it's God that's how you know it's God so this this whole thought of of squeaky clean Revival is just nonsense this it's never happened it never will and in every great move of

God God introduces something new that offend people so here they are speaking in unknown tongues now I'm going to ask you to go with me to 1 Corinthians chapter um 13 I'm I I just I'm trying to work to lay some things out in front of you and then we're going to pray at the end and see what Jesus does let's go to chapter 14 instead um pursue love desire spiritual gifts but especially that you may prophesy um verse 31 is uh of of chapter 12 I'm sorry I'm I'm speaking of riddles now chapter 12:31

connects directly with chapter 14 verse1 in the middle is chapter 13 where he takes a step outside of the subject to talk about a priority and that's the subject of love and then he comes back to the subject of the gift so just you know how how information is Flowing here so in Deuter Deuteronomy wow it's gonna be a this gonna be a long night verse 31 of 1 Corinthians 12 but earnestly desire the best gifts and yet I show you a more excellent way then he talks about love pursue the best gifts um this

this part uh is important for you to to hear Paul Paul expanded expounded on the subject of the gifts of the Spirit in 1 Corinthians chapter 12 the teaching of a subject does not impart the subject in other words teaching you about prophecy doesn't enable you to prophesy it enables you to hunger to prophesy the teaching is to open up an understanding what's possible that's why it says in chapter 14 pursue earnestly spiritual gifts especially that you may prophesy now when it says desire the best gifts what gifts is he talking about well let me

ask you this if you're dying of a disease do you want a word of wisdom no you want healing you want a miracle if you've got this crazy mystery at work and you don't know how to solve it and you don't know how to fix and recover and restore the focus and the direction for your business do you want a healing anointing of course but not for that moment that's what not what the need is the need determines what the best gift is now I'm I'm not suggesting did you adopt my my way of thinking

but I like it I'll pay you later thanks it's it's common for people to think the one who prays for the sick has the healing gift if you're the sick one you need the healing gift it's the gift of healing the holy spirit is in me he has all the gifts I may become more proficient in one over the other but it's generally because it's what I focus on the most and practice the most yeah just I'm here to confuse you that's what that's what my job is so the person who does the praying we

pray and somebody's healed who received the gift if I'm well I I I don't need it right of course I want the anointing to be able to pray and to see things happen but but the point is is we often think of people are extra special qualified for something when actually the spirit of God is in them and they're just delivering packages so good I've told you the story a number of times with Chris uh Chris valon I was um he left the business world to come and help me and I invited him to come

he had several businesses that he closed down as a result he had quite quite a bit of debt and uh and was working to pay that off and I knew about it I don't know if anybody else in the church knew but I was standing right back at that door on a Sunday morning and a lady came by with uh a check and uh she came by with a check and said hey is Chris here and I said no he's not here uh today but he'll be here tonight and so she said well would you

give this to him I said sure So after she walked around the corner it it wasn't in a sealed envelope so because of that I figured it was the will of God for me to know what was on this check so just in case she didn't feel the same I waited till she walked around the quter and I went like this I went $30,000 $30 $30,000 I looked I made sure it was his name not mine on there it was so that night pre-service prayer I Chris walked in I said hey Chris somebody gave this

to me for you and he said does that say $3,000 I said no that's $30,000 he ruined the entire permitting he walked around waving his chest totally ruined the permitting exactly and he never never thanked me for all that [Applause] [Laughter] money I didn't write the check I delivered the check and when you pray for the sick and they get healed or you give them your prophetic word or you do whatever you give them that Word of Wisdom or that you're that strength in that time of of difficult times it's a wonderful privilege to be

able to deliver the checks but just just remember you didn't write [Music] it so here in chapter 14 it says pursue love desire spiritual gifts verse one especially that you may prophesy he who speaks in a tongue does not speak to men but to God for no one understands him however in this in the spirit he speaks Mysteries he who prophesies speaks edification and exhortation and comfort to Men He who speaks in a tongue edifies himself but he who prophesies edifies the church all right here's here's the deal you've got nine gifts listed only one

helps the user right and to not that not want that one I'm trying to think of a very kind way to say this but you're just being stupid I mean who Among Us thinks we don't need edification and help and strength and encouragement honestly honestly I I I need it all the time I wake up in the night praying in the spirit I need it all the time especially in this particular day that we live in the just the intensity of conflict and stuff that's going on around us we just need strength and when he

gives you an internal source that can keep you refreshed and encouraged I mean a lot of people perhaps even in this room you've been given the ability the gift to pray in the spirit but you hardly ever do it has to be at a very special moment no it doesn't you wake up that's a special moment in in fact I have I have I have prayed many hour hours I haven't counted but lots of lots of time I prayed while I'm sleeping song Solon says though I sleep yet my heart is awake and keeping uh

in tune in touch with the spirit of God and and and praying so here's what it says it says he who speaks in unknown tongue speaks to God not to man now when I was growing up we would often have prophetic words and then we'd also have tongues and interpretation the interpretation was always a prophet phy he who speaks an unknown tongue speaks to God not to man tongues is either praise or prayer so my opinion is is that most of the time when an interpretation of a tongue is given it's either a response to

the intercessory prayer that was just prayed or the tongue gave the person with the prophecy the courage to give it now Paul says at the beginning of 1 Corinthians 13 He says though I speak with the tongue of men and angels so it's possible there in the context of tongues that when you pray in the spirit you are either praying any language of man or a language of the Angelic realm now when you pray in tongues When you pray in the Holy Spirit it is the holy spirit praying through you the reason it's called unknown

tongues because it doesn't go through your brain if you'll live a life full of the spirit learning to be moved by the spirit praying in the spirit often what will happen is you will number one you will learn the value of spontaneity and you will pray in a way that helps to teach you how the kingdom works you you pick up almost indirectly if you will understanding of the nature of his world by praying in the spirit so good so let's let's say um let's say I'm praying and I and Paul says you he says

I pray with the understanding I pray with the spirit I sing with the understanding I sing with the spirit so singing in the spirit prayer in the spirit is biblical with understanding it's very important too the reason I sometimes will say I mean I I like for us to pray in the spirit but there are times well I'll emphasize I say listen only pray with the understanding and the reason is we're supposed to love God with all of our mind it's wonderful to have a prayer language that that bypasses but it's also wonderful to harness

the mind and to use it to consider who he is what he's like and use what you you you think about as the language of praise to honor him and exalt him so let's say I'm praying and I said oh somebody Drives By in a 700 horsepower Corvette and I just have that internal witness that that really is the will of God for my life and so I pray said God it would just be awesome to have 700 horsepower Corvette would be and I promise I'll drive I'll drive for your glory god I I will

drive for the glory of God I I will and and and I'll and I'll let everybody know that you provided it for me amen and and you said I could have anything I wanted anything I asked for will be done and then I make the mistake of praying in tongues and the Holy Spirit who only prays the will of God is praying through me saying don't give him that Corvette he'll kill himself with 700 horsepower cancel that last prayer even though you said you do anything he ask cancel the prayer that's that's not what he

needs so when you pray in the holy spirit it's the holy spirit in your spirit that inspires your language here's what I here's here's really the main thing I wanted to tell you tonight I don't know if it's a big thought or not but it's it touched me this last couple weeks so we've got the Father the Son is at his right hand the holy spirit is God on earth now in Romans 8 there are two scriptures one is about verse 26 that says the holy spirit intercedes for us and then I think it's verse

29 no 30 31 it's over on the right hand side of the page about two inches down it says and Jesus intercedes for us wow so we have the Holy Spirit interceding with groanings that cannot be uttered we have Jesus interceding for us and in the middle sandwiched between these two incredible passages is a statement all things were work together for good to those who love God are called according to his purpose no wonder Jesus and the Holy Spirit are interceding for us so now where is the holy spirit he is in me so when

I pray in tongues I am coming before the father with a message from the Holy Spirit is this mic on is is is this even on what if is it the Holy Spirit praying through US yes praying in the language of angels man it I don't need to figure it out all I want to do is i' I've noticed that edification strength uh learning to be sensitive to him uh learning to uh to be more easily moved to spontaneous quick obedience all that happens in that reality of the Holy Spirit praying praying in tongues so

here now the holy spirit is praying through me and he he now is brought me in through Jesus Through the blood of Jesus brought me in before the father and I actually have the privilege of now bringing a message a prayer to the father from the Holy Spirit wow Judas it says building yourselves up in your Most Holy Faith praying in the holy spirit so edification is actually the strengthening of Faith all right so I come in before the father and I'm praying in tongues I'm praying in the spirit and I'm delivering a message to

the father and the son is in full agreement these two the spirit and the son are both interceding in full agreement before the Father the one missing element has been the human element because he's wanting co- laborers so now it is my surrendered voice my surrendered will to come in before the father to come into agreement I don't know what it is yet if you'll if you'll stay if you'll stay tender and and quiet in your relationship with the Lord you will learn to pick up little tidbits of the kinds of things that you're praying

for you'll start getting Clarity of thought certain burdens will come certain Burns will lift that you carried into this time because you were praying in the spirit and and the Lord is already answering and you don't even know what it was yet in heaven it'll all you'll see all you'll see all the dots all the eyes dotted and the te's crossed you'll see everything lay out as it happened in our lifetime but in this moment it actually just requires abandon M and Trust so now I come in before the father knowing I am now because

I'm praying in the spirit I'm not praying my stuff I'm wanting to be shaped by his will his will I love his will I don't always know what it is but I love his will so here I am I'm in I'm in yielding to the Holy Spirit I'm bringing a message to the Father the Son is in full agreement and we have this powerful moment because now a human Made In His Image has come in surrender to see his will done on Earth as it is in [Applause] heaven wow the Apostle Paul made this statement

to the church at Corinth now he he taught them about the gifts and then he told them about the importance of prophecy why why did he emphasize prophecy he explained it because prophecy edifies the church so if you're in a public meeting where you're going to demonstrate something for me to stand up here and just pray in tongues all night instead of talk to you would not help you at all it would help me but what Paul is warning about is you don't want to use you don't want to use your I can put it

this way your public moments for personal edification you wanted to use your public moments for the benefit of the public he's not putting down praying in tongues and exalting prophecy he's recognize your moment recognize your moment and use whatever gifting is most beneficial to the whole when a person is baptized in the Holy Spirit the Holy Spirit does not take over a person's mouth or tongue many people have said I I want it so bad but they wait for some cosmic power to come over and possess them and that's just scary the Bible says the

spirit of the Prophet is subject to the prophet you'll probably have to do the talking right let me tell you one funny story and then we're going to pray together um in in Weaverville I uh we had a u Mountain Chapel where I I passed for 17 years um Bill Dairy Berry some of you have heard Chris talk about him a lot he was a spiritual dad to Chris and was such an amazing man we had we had a church of 150 200 people and half the people were there because a bill literally half you

could stand On Any Sunday he says how many of you were brought Here by Bill derar and they would raise their hand in fact it might have been more than half but it was it was it was at least half extraordinary man and uh his gift was just Hospitality just kindness you know he wasn't a teacher he didn't sing he didn't lead worship didn't do any of those kinds of things anyway he called me one day he says I've got a I've got a friend that I I want to bring in he goes to uh

another or organiz church type organization and uh and he just needs help so as soon as I hung up as clear as could be this doesn't always happen to me but this as clear as could be the Lord spoke to me and said he needs to be baptized in the Holy Spirit what I didn't know is Bill had told him my pastor will not shove the baptism of the Holy Spirit on you he will he will not he will not take advantage of you coming from a different denomination that doesn't believe in that he he

he's won't do that he's just not that kind of Pastor now Bill didn't bother telling me what he told him but he assured him because this guy was scared to death to come you know see the Pentecostal guy yeah some yeah sometimes we uh cils think we have the key to everything and and we just don't but we're we're part of the team which I'm happy about anyway he he told her he just won't do that well they they come in my office sit down together and I said you know I said bill as soon

as I hung up the front from you the Lord told me what you need is to be baptized in the Holy Spirit and I I just went over laid hands on and I'm telling you what the fire of God came on that guy which I've only seen seen twice in my life like that and and it I mean he was wrecked he was all I can say is that guy was he got hit by a truck and and it was the Holy Ghost truck and boy he was he was marked after that but it it

complet obviously just completely changed his life and then Bill told me later I told him oh sorry sorry let's stand [Music] I have been feeling for a while that there's just a lot of a lot of our family hunger for for the baptism in the Holy Spirit some of you some of you have had that experience if you will it's just not something that you're activating I don't know how to describe it I probably don't have theologically correct language for it but hopefully you you know what I'm talking about some some just uh it was

an experience that you had maybe many years ago but it's not something you keep current in I want you to know the father wants you to bring a message from the Holy Spirit to him Jesus paved the way with blood so that you and I could come before him and just through simple utterance it may be praise it may be intercessory prayer but we come before the father with a message from the Holy Spirit was it the holy spirit that helped the 120 in the upper room to pray in unknown languages and it says they

spoke of the mighty Deeds of God so the holy spirit is a praiser a worshiper we actually learn that's why we worship in spirit and in truth is the holy spirit is the great worship leader and so for us to in in moments like this to to to be able just to pray in the spirit and to see God exalted and honored and glorified I'm going to ask a series of questions how many have never been baptized in the Holy Spirit but you would like to me just put a hand up real quickly okay yeah

several all right good how many of you have but it's not an ongoing practice or part of your your walk with the Lord and and you would like for it to be okay all right how many of you just need an [Laughter] upgrade yeah yeah yeah you came on a Sunday night that's automatically you you know even if you got drugged here by a friend you know you're you're you're here oh goodness what let's let's do this I I would like to I would like to have those who are hungry for the baptism of Holy

Spirit just to come stand along the front up here and uh and what we're going to do is we're going to pray just yeah just yeah wonderful yeah it it just takes in this kind of environment always takes so much courage for people to do this I'm so glad that hunger has uh yeah oh goodness all right so squeeze together we got a pile more coming so all [Applause] right thank you Lord I I have honestly been anticipating tonight I I I I'll tell you honest I didn't know when I would do it but I've

been anticipating for probably at least a year that we needed to do this and uh two weeks ago it really really hit me that that I would be speaking tonight reminded and uh that this would be a perfect chance to be able to pray for you and so I'm going to I'm I'm going to pray um I don't know what all we're going to do yet so if if you get through before I do just go home otherwise but we're going to start praying for these folks because I I I don't think the Lord would

stir that up in my heart without his complete full commitment what I'm going to ask of all of you that are up front here all you have to be is a willing vessel I'm not going to tell you what to say I'm not going to tell you what to do all I want you to do is turn your heart towards the Lord this is not uh it's not something you have to qualify for it's not something there's no such thing as super Saints they're just Saints and ANS that's all there is that that was bad

but you know it's it just came to me it was it was a it was a revelation that I should have sent back but it's all right so we're going to I'm going to have the team here uh walk with me we're just going to start praying for you we're going to lay hands on you hopefully we'll be able to lay hands on everyone and uh and just pray that that Jesus himself will baptize you now when baptism in water you're immersed and you come out when you're baptized in the holy spirit it's an immersion

it's an immersion in presence I've seen it happen like I described to you this man that came into my office man it was a lightning bolt and I I've only seen it twice in my life so I'm I'm I'm over 29 years old so but I've I've only seen that like that twice in my life but often times it's just this very gentle touch that the Lord gives and you just you you just you just adore him and you begin to express it verbally and as the Lord just enables you to speak in another language

just do it don't analyze it don't analy it I know of one person who was baptized in the Holy Spirit and they got one syllable literally one syllable and they found out sometimes later that there was a tribe in Africa their entire language was one syllable and it was the pitch and the duration the length of the note wow so don't don't analyze just give God what you have in language and Lord we just pray right now I ask that you would come holy spirit that you come fact let's get some music on and and

we're going to pray for everyone in the room to have a fresh touch from God some of you that have not walked in this you know in a in an ongoing current way I want you to start praying over yourself right now and begin to use that gift to exalt and honor the Lord and I want to ask the team come on up here and just begin to pray all all of you guys come on up and just begin to lay hands in y Mark come on up here and just just pray and pray in

the spirit if the Lord's giv you that that wonderful language and I want you just to pray in the spirit right where you are and let's get some music up and we'll uh yeah and just uh yeah the the prayer team here just reach through and we just ask Lord we just declare it's not by might it's not by power it's by the spirit says the Lord and we invite you Holy Spirit come with power even right now give a deep deep immersion in the presence right now just turn your affection towards the Lord begin

to speak praise begin to speak words of Honor towards him yes we bless and honor you Lord Jesus we exalt you Lord God we boast in you Lord [Music] come with power here father come with power just a fresh baptism in the spirit fresh baptism in the spirit come with [Music] power power [Music] Che [Music] keep Come Holy Spirit come with power that day a fresh baptism a fresh baptism in the Holy Spirit and power come Lord God [Music] [Music] [Music] baptism baptism of fire baptism of fire baptism of fire baptism of fire come spirit

of God come [Music] baptism of fire baptism of fire come B thank you thank [Applause] [Music] [Music] God come with fire on this one baptism of Fire baptism of fire baptism of [Music] fire sometimes we miss when he comes because we're expecting him to shake us and knock us down but sometimes he comes so gently and it's just like a weightlessness and it just lifts off of you just Release Yourself from how you expect him to come he's right here he's touching each and every one of you excuse me it might be wild and crazy

it might be calm but he's here and he's touching [Music] you foree [Music] [Music] thank you Lord that the hungry always gets filled they always get filled and we are hungry for your presence we are hungry for your presence settle settle settle holy spirit that you would rest upon us he would rest upon us rest upon us rest upon [Music] us Holy Spirit come with power [Music] stir up in US Lord the hunger for the Holy Spirit Stir It Up in us that hunger that is filled with you and I thank you that it doesn't

stop here but we get to take the Holy Spirit home with us it's so fun and he stays with you and when you're asleep he's working at the nighttime [Music] and you don't even have to have us lay hands on you the Holy Spirit he's falling now I can see him he's touching you he's going [Music] oh wow wow wow wow wow that we get to partner with the Holy [Music] Spirit wow wow what a great perspective [Music] fear go fear go I want to encourage everyone that has come forward everyone in the room actually

just turn your affection towards the Lord and uh and just begin to express your heart of affection for and use whatever language you got just began to uh declare his kindness his goodness his love just out of your heart out of your heart just just re really rivers of your own love language to God your love for him your honor your celebration of the great Wonderful Name of Jesus God is touching so many people and he's going to do it differently CU we are we're so different as individuals but I want to encourage everybody in

the room much time you have left to be with us in the room tonight just literally just lift your face towards the Lord your your heart towards the Lord and uh give him thanks give him honor give him praise and as the Lord gives you a other words other language other syllables just begin to speak them don't analyze them the Lord will actually the longer that river flows the deeper it gets and so you don't want to just dabble in it you want to really give it to him so let's just lift up if you

have a prayer language just lift that up before the Lord even right now [Music] [Music] keep going online community there's no distance in the spirit there's no distance in the spirit online community lift up your voices lift up your voices [Music] oh we just pray for a fresh wave of the Holy Spirit throughout this room every hungry person would be filled and satisfied every hungry person spirit of God come in power Fall upon us once again fall upon us once again [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] in [Music] [Music] let's take just a few more minutes for

this just a few more minutes just lift up that Heavenly language [Music] [Music] yeah s [Music] [Music] you can turn and pray for each other as [Music] well [Music] [Music] for for [Music] [Music] that day he could he [Music] in [Music] a thank you [Music] Lord of all the [Music] thank you God thank you thank you Lord [Music] [Music] thank you Lord wonderful wonderful Jesus wonderful Jesus [Music] thank you Lord [Music] how many of you that have come down to the front God just just touched you and just actually gave you at least the beginning

of a prayer language put your hand up I want to see who you are yeah look look this this wonderful yes it's wonderful Lord I I want to encourage you children when they learn to talk they learn to talk slowly but they do learn and the Lord has released sometimes I've seen it instant and suddenly other times it's a gradual work but but we just welcome anything that he's doing he's giving you a language that will bring encouragement to you any time you need it and I need it all the time so I pray in

tongues all the time Paul said in one place in in 1 Corinthians 14 he said I pray in tongues more than you all and the language there actually implies I pray in tongues more than all of you put together so in other words I'm I'm into this and and I pray that for you some of you didn't have anything happen to but you'll wake up in the night you'll wake up in the morning you you have prayed a prayer that God has not resisted he has not turned from he's actually responding to and each of

us are so different he knows how to best work with each of us but just all of you out here extend your hand towards these up front just extend your hand and we just pray in fact I want to ask all of you just to lift up just your prayer language right now in worship and just whatever he's given you just use that rest of you just Jo join with them let's just lift up one chorus one song Heavenly language [Music] thank you Lord thank you Lord [Music] Wow Wow Thank You Lord God how many

of you out in the in the seats the lord gave you just a real fresh just a real fresh touch and just in your walk with him yeah good yeah we we just we want we want this deeper and deeper and deeper um as as somebody once said you can't overdose on the Holy Ghost so that's that's that's good news right there can't overdose on the Holy Ghost wow wow [Music] wow thank you Lord who's in charge now Ben you are come on up Ben you're char No you're in charge you're in charge just do

whatever Ben says it's a lot of lot of power you got right there wow that's a lot of power right there yeah you know what just just one moment we just really bless the online Church the online community we bless you in the name of the Lord we pray for a mighty outpouring of the Holy Spirit into your homes in Jesus mighty name amen amen