Title: Empowered by the Holy Spirit Meta: We have to be men, but not men strong in the flesh and strong in personality and strong in their presence and strong in their words, no, but men strong and empowered by the Holy Spirit. Tags: Holy Spirit, power, presence, God, prayer 1 00:00:13,441 --> 00:00:21,517 Everything you are in public is formed by what you are in private. 2 00:00:21,523 --> 00:00:29,303 You can stand before any man if you stand before God. 3 00:00:29,309 --> 00:00:33,035 And to walk in the power of the Holy Spirit, 4 00:00:33,041 --> 00:00:41,361 not like these silly little evangelists that come in and have their healing lines 5 00:00:41,367 --> 00:00:46,507 and people falling down and all of the other circus and blasphemy that goes on. 6 00:00:46,513 --> 00:00:50,964 I am talking about really the power of the Holy Spirit, 7 00:00:50,970 --> 00:00:56,931 not some kind of circus show for money.(P) 8 00:00:56,937 --> 00:00:59,955 Like I have said, so many people say the Spirit of God is here. 9 00:00:59,961 --> 00:01:04,917 No he is not, because if he was you would be dead.(P) 10 00:01:04,923 --> 00:01:09,100 We must be men filled with the Holy Spirit.(P) 11 00:01:09,106 --> 00:01:12,309 We must be men who seek God.(P) 12 00:01:12,315 --> 00:01:14,627 And let me tell you something. 13 00:01:14,633 --> 00:01:18,070 There is a big difference - and I want to point it out to you 14 00:01:18,076 --> 00:01:21,414 and it will probably get me in trouble if this goes on to YouTube - 15 00:01:21,420 --> 00:01:27,077 but it is this: There is a sense in which we look at Ephesians five, 16 00:01:27,083 --> 00:01:30,647 we look at Colossians 3:16-17 17 00:01:30,653 --> 00:01:33,927 and we do understand that there is a direct relationship 18 00:01:33,933 --> 00:01:36,999 between the Word of God and it dwelling in our heart 19 00:01:37,005 --> 00:01:41,512 and the fullness of the Holy Spirit working through us. 20 00:01:41,518 --> 00:01:45,266 But there is another sense that if you are just a man who is sitting there 21 00:01:45,272 --> 00:01:47,122 meditating upon Scripture 22 00:01:47,128 --> 00:01:51,548 and thinking that because you are doing that you are going to be filled with Holy Spirit 23 00:01:51,554 --> 00:01:55,578 and have everything you need for the ministry, you are wrong.(P) 24 00:01:55,584 --> 00:02:02,408 You must go to God and cry out for greater and greater manifestations 25 00:02:02,414 --> 00:02:09,198 of his power in your life to carry out the task that he has given you. 26 00:02:09,204 --> 00:02:11,949 You must have that. 27 00:02:11,955 --> 00:02:15,557 You must go to him. 28 00:02:15,563 --> 00:02:18,285 It is an encounter with God. 29 00:02:18,291 --> 00:02:20,531 Yes, founded upon his Word. 30 00:02:20,537 --> 00:02:26,689 Yes, everything God does with you in prayer must be conformed to his Word. 31 00:02:26,695 --> 00:02:33,647 But seeking God is more than just simply having a good Bible study. 32 00:02:33,653 --> 00:02:37,320 It is crying out to meet with the living God. 33 00:02:37,326 --> 00:02:47,550 It is waiting at his door step and rising up 34 00:02:47,556 --> 00:02:54,432 and not just simply believing by faith that he has done something to you.(P) 35 00:02:54,438 --> 00:03:01,789 It is rising up and knowing that he has done something to you. 36 00:03:02,742 --> 00:03:13,682 We have to be men, but not men like John Wayne or Jean-Claude Van Damme, 37 00:03:13,688 --> 00:03:17,623 not men strong in the flesh and strong in personality 38 00:03:17,629 --> 00:03:21,455 and strong in their presence and strong in their words, 39 00:03:21,461 --> 00:03:30,993 no, men strong, strengthened in the Holy Spirit.(P) 40 00:03:33,239 --> 00:03:40,245 The battle is horrifying. 41 00:03:40,251 --> 00:03:45,212 To think that you are going to oppose principalities and powers 42 00:03:45,218 --> 00:03:51,120 and mights and dominions, you are going to oppose the ancient serpent. 43 00:03:51,126 --> 00:03:55,130 You are going to go down into the well and fight hell itself. 44 00:03:55,136 --> 00:03:58,689 You are not going to do that in your physical strength. 45 00:03:58,695 --> 00:04:03,244 You are going to do that in the power of the Holy Spirit. 46 00:04:03,250 --> 00:04:09,098 And do you know what is so sad today? What is so sad? 47 00:04:09,104 --> 00:04:13,386 It is that it is so hard to speak about these things. 48 00:04:13,392 --> 00:04:15,400 And do you know why? 49 00:04:15,406 --> 00:04:27,481 Because of all the corruption and that ludicrous activity of many, many groups 50 00:04:27,487 --> 00:04:32,183 that consider themselves groups filled with the Spirit 51 00:04:32,188 --> 00:04:35,199 when they are not filled with Spirit at all. 52 00:04:35,205 --> 00:04:39,287 They may be filled with a spirit, but it is not holy 53 00:04:39,293 --> 00:04:42,388 because whatever they are filled with causes them to do things 54 00:04:42,394 --> 00:04:48,896 that contradict everything we know about Scripture and the fruit of the Spirit.(P) 55 00:04:48,902 --> 00:04:58,411 I am talking about power, not to fall down on the ground and shake like a worm, 56 00:04:58,417 --> 00:05:02,682 not power to claim a Mercedes Benz, 57 00:05:02,688 --> 00:05:08,392 not power to say you healed somebody when, in fact, he didnít get healed. 58 00:05:08,398 --> 00:05:11,712 I am talking about the power to live the Christian life, 59 00:05:11,718 --> 00:05:18,344 the power to walk in sacrificial love, the power to pray down strongholds, 60 00:05:18,350 --> 00:05:21,314 the power to preach the gospel. 61 00:05:21,320 --> 00:05:25,965 That is what I am talking about. That is what we need. 62 00:05:25,971 --> 00:05:33,698 We can be men and women transformed, transformed.