I’m speaking this week about how we lost the original… it says in the Book of Hebrews the first chapter of the seventh verse “He makes His ministers a flame of fire.” Those Jewish believers were flames of fire and those flames were pretty good because every Gentile that believes in Jesus owes a debt of gratitude to a Jewish person who was faithful with the scriptures. And that’s why the Gentile in Romans 11:11 “Salvation has come to the Gentile to provoke the Jew to jealousy.” The call on the Gentile is to reach the Jew, the call on the Jew is to reach the Gentile. You put those 2 spiritual DNA’s together you got the full package. It’s so simple you need help to get confused. Well I’m pretty upset because the church today is so far removed from what God wants it to be. I know I know some of the reasons. So on yesterday’s broadcast I was talking about a revelation God gave me recently from First John chapter 5 verse 8 “There are 3 that bear witness on earth, the Spirit, the water,” which represents the Word of God “and the blood” which is the blood of Messiah, “and these 3 agree as one.” When you have these 3 you have the whole package. So let’s break them down for a minute. First we have the Spirit, the Holy Spirit. Now where does the Holy Spirit belong, well you can’t come to know Jesus unless the Holy Spirit has led you to Jesus. Every born-again believer has the Holy Spirit in them. John 14:17 says “The Helper,” or “the Spirit of Truth,” or “the Holy Spirit dwells with you and will be in you.” So the first, the Spirit of God must be IN you. Second is the Word of God, the way we get the Word of God into us is the way Joshua did was told if he would “Meditate on God’s Word day and night he would be like a tree whose roots go down into the river, into the water and no weapon formed against will prosper.” It’s going to be so strong nothing can cause it to fall. Then the blood, whose blood? The blood of Yeshua it’s called “precious blood” This precious blood spells satan’s defeat. It spells victory over sin, victory over death, victory over sickness, victory over defeat in any arena of life. What God is showing, and you’ll learn more about it in future weeks, is the early believers broke bread from house to house. That breaking bread when you first read it you think “Oh they had a meal,” and they probably did, but I believe it’s having communion. There is such power in communion and I’ll be speaking about more in future weeks, but let’s take these 3 ingredients. First the Holy Spirit, well I said every born-again believer has the Holy Spirit in them, but they haven’t had the mikvah or the baptism of the Holy Spirit. You know what’s kind of interesting in Judaism the baptism, where it’s called mikvah where we get Christian baptism from, is a self-immersion. There’s something that we do and that’s why I believe Ephesians 5:18 says in the Greek “Be being, or keep on being filled with the Holy Spirit.” There’s a part we play in this, and the way you build up your Spirit is to have it immersed, or be baptized. You see these 3 things the Spirit of God, the water or the Word of God, and the blood it’s a matter of immersion. If you are immersed in the Spirit of God, if you are immersed in the Word of God, if you are immersed in the blood of Yeshua, then you’re a flame of fire and just like the early believers. You can do the same things they’ve done and Yeshua said “You can do the same things He has done and even greater.” The word baptism in the Greek it comes from a process where people would take cloth, linen cloth, and dip it in purple dye until every drop of the cloth is saturated with purple. You can’t see the original color of the cloth, all you see is total purple. That’s what God wants with the Holy Spirit, that’s called the baptism in the Holy Spirit. A lot of people they misunderstand, in fact today the Pentecostal and charismatic churches they don’t even emphasize speaking in tongues anymore. Why is so important to speak in tongues because the book of Corinthians tells us when you speak in tongues you edify yourself, you edify your spirit. You build your spirit up so it saturates throughout your whole body. You see why the devil wants confusion over speaking in tongues? There’s some churches that say “Yes we believe in it, but we don’t want it done publicly, or we don’t even want it done in our church because it so divisive.” Well who wins there? You think God wins when you’re not a flame of fire? When you’re not built up in the Holy Spirit? So we’re going to be talking about the baptism or the immersion in the Holy Spirit. Acts 1:8 Jesus said “But you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you shall be witnesses.” What kind of power? The Greek word is “dunamos,” “dynamite power.” Do you have dynamite power? When that Holy Spirit comes upon you and is inside of you, and you are just like that white linen cloth that is totally saturated with purple you can’t even tell that cloth was white. It’s something brand new, it’s something different. Every fiber of your being is to be saturated with power. That’s what Jesus said “You shall receive power” dynamite power, dunamos, dynamite; you receive a stick of dynamite it’s time to let it explode and saturate from the inside out your entire body. When the Holy Spirit of God saturates you you will have the power for what purpose? The purpose is to witness, and today is Pentecost, Shavuot. Acts 2:1 it begins with “When the day of Pentecost had fully come” have you got it it’s already fully come. What are you waiting for? Don’t let some seeker sensitive people rob you of being a bold witness for the living God.
Tags: its supernatural, Sid Roth
Tags: its supernatural, Sid Roth