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In Jesus’ baptism, we see a powerful demonstration of what God intended to do in human flesh through the baptism in the Holy Spirit

This is different than having the Holy Spirit in you at your time of salvation

This is the baptism in the power of the Holy Spirit that Jesus knew his believers would need to live in the world and be effective for the Kingdom of Heaven.

It’s not just an experience, but a lifestyle

It’s a confirming lifestyle - children of God

It’s a commending lifestyle - God’s mark of approval upon our lives

It’s a Great Commission lifestyle - Going and making a difference.

In that great commission, Jesus sends his church into their world, but first he tells them to not to go until they are first endued with the power that they will need to go and do it.

(Jeannie)

The Baptism of the Holy Spirit empowers us

emboldens us

emblazes us.

The Holy Spirit in and on our lives brings God the glory through our lives.

In - Jesus prophecies about himself and his church that this is what they would be because of his Holy Spirit upon them.

The Spirit of the Lord is upon Me, Because He has anointed Me To preach the gospel to the poor; He has sent Me to heal the brokenhearted, To proclaim liberty to the captives And recovery of sight to the blind, To set at liberty those who are oppressed; To proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord.”

So Jesus wanted His Church to be filled or baptized in the power and presence of the His Holy Spirit

The Holy Spirit of Presence

he wanted this because he was getting ready to leave them.

They had been use to him doing everything.

They saw miracles all around them.

They had gotten pretty used to having him around.

They enjoyed the benefits of being with him

But now he is telling them it’s their turn and they are scared.

Look what he tells them in John 16

They could see no good in his leaving them.

In fact, we see that Jesus has held off saying some of these things that he is saying now, because he knew that they weren’t ready to handle it before.

But look what he says here - It is to your advantage that I go away.

No longer would they be able to experience God’s presence and power through him, now he wanted to bless them with God’s presence and power through them.

You see brothers and sisters.

When Jesus was with them they had God’s presence through him with them.

But they weren’t experiencing these things in their own lives.

They are living through him.

And how many know that when you trust in someone for something in life, when they have to go away, it is a very nerve wracking time?

Why?

They were your sustanance

They were your provider

They were your strength and your hope.

This is where the disciples are at this moment.

We all want Jesus with us.

But what is better?

To have Jesus here walking and talking with us, or to have Jesus in us.

If he doesn’t leave and go to the father, they won’t experience him in them.

He couldn’t be everywhere when he was here in the flesh

But through the Holy Spirit, Jesus is everywhere that we are at any given moment.

And each of us too.

Think about how far Jesus’ Words and compassion can reach when it’s through us.

This was why he told his followers to wait for the baptism in the Holy Spirit.

he says, if I stay, you are limited.

But when I go, my presence is not just with you, but it is now in you.

As the title of the message insinuates - without the Power and Presence of the Holy Spirit in your life - you are going at it alone.

And that’s hard.

Today we will leave this place at the end of this message.

Even though it Church Family Week, most of us still won’t be together til next Sunday again.

We are going to walk out of this room that has been electrified by the power of God.

We are going to walk back into our lives and situations that surround us.

We are going back to work to the same situations that we left Friday or yesterday.

We are not going to have that feeling that we have right now.

Our faith will be tested

Our Christian walk will be stressed

Life comes at us fast

And if this is all that we have.

If we are a church that does not believe in the baptism in the Holy Spirit than this is all that we have.

And we will struggle until next Sunday morning.

But because we believe in the pentecostal lifestyle - the spirit filled life.

Because we believe that this is for each of us as believers.

We leave this place with the powerful presence of God in and around our lives.

And we can walk in victory in every area of our lives

We bring the presence of God into our homes

We bring the presence of God into our work environments

We bring the presence of God into every situation that may surround us or even come against us.

That’s the Holy Spirit of presence.

When the disciples were away from Jesus they were alone

When we are away from each other, we are never alone.

Through the presence of the Holy Spirit in our lives, we are very much in the presence of God every moment of every day.

The Holy Spirit of Wisdom

He is the Holy Spirit of presence

And he is the Holy Spirit of Wisdom.

Jesus says, this helper will be with you everywhere you go.

And know this - he is the spirit of truth.

That word truth in the hebrew and greek means - certain, stable, trustworthy, honesty, faithful, permenant, consistant - from it we get our word for Amen

This Baptism in the Holy Spirit moves our lives into the dynamic of this word truth.

If you want to know the plans of God in your life.

If you want to know the faithfulness of God beyond your human emotion and feelings

If you want to be a person who bears these qualities of God in their lives

You need the baptism of the Holy spirit.

God’s wisdom lasts forever

God’s wisdom is above our situations and circumstances

God’s wisdom is eternal

God’s wisdom is constant and stable

How many know that we need God’s wisdom?

(break of thought)

If I told you that you could know your future, what would you do?

You’d say, what is it?

Am I going to make it?

Am I going to be succesful?

Pastor, am I going to get through this situation?

Am I going to be healed?

How is this going to happen in my life, or what should I expect in this?

We have Christians going to fortune tellers