Every believer has access to the power of the Spirit

I want to invite you in the book of Acts, chapter 10... as you know we are in this day of sermons, I have called them doctrinal sermons, orthodox sermons, sermons that help us better understand the doctrine of our Christian faith. Unexpectedly I stumbled upon a sub-series within the larger series when I started talking about the Holy Spirit.

Because in reality my wish was simply to have just one... just one sermon on the Holy Spirit and the baptism of the Holy Spirit within so many other doctrines that make up our Christian faith but discovering the importance of We have been talking about the baptism of the Holy Spirit for about 5 Sundays or so in this teaching and it is an obviously vast and profound subject, very varied in its different dependencies, let's say.

And last Sunday morning, those of you who were here in the morning service will remember that I took David's case as a comparison, let's call it the Saul case, where Saul is, in a sense baptized in the Holy Spirit and we pointed out that the baptism of the Holy Spirit is not something that occurs to God in the New Testament but already in the Old Testament we see that when God wanted a special achievement from someone, whether it was a priest, a prophet, a king and assigned him a supernatural task, he anointed that person with his Holy Spirit.

The difference in what we see in the Old Testament with the New Testament, is that now with Pentecost, with the coming of Jesus Christ, the baptism of the Holy Spirit, the anointing of the Holy Spirit, the empowerment of God, now it is made universal, every believer has access to the power of the Holy Spirit, how many believe that? Amen.

The apostle Peter says when he preaches his first sermon "...it is for those who are far away and for those who are near, for all whom the Lord will call..." And that is something that we forget many times in the Christian faith, which is for everyone... some say: well, I don't need the baptism of the Holy Spirit because I am a Christian and I already received Christ and everything comes with Christ.

But we see in the Scripture that there is an experience called the baptism of the Holy Spirit that is very diverse in its way of manifesting itself but that we must look for it, and we must isolate it from other experiences, such as receiving Christ as Lord and Savior and that this does not require a great sacrifice.

I don't know why people have made something so problematic about the baptism of the Holy Spirit, I think that many times what happens is that we become affiliated with that experience, that doctrine of the baptism of the Holy Spirit, I believe that we have complicated it more than necessary many times, and people have gotten a little afraid of it and it has caused so much controversy through the centuries, but I believe that every believer can ask the Holy Spirit to baptize him and fill him with the absolute certainty that he is going to receive that filling of the Holy Spirit. And we have to do it in order to have that extra bit of anointing that we need to complete the tasks like the kings, the priests, the Old Testament prophets that God assigns us.

God assigned the early church, the first century church, an impossible task by rational standards. He told him: “…go into all the world and preach the gospel making disciples of the nations, commanding them to obey everything that I have taught you…” in other words, conquer the world. And he said this to a band of ignorant, scared, unstable people, look at Peter there, he denied Jesus Christ, the others scattered when the Lord was crucified and said: well, we who thought he was the chosen one of God. And he assigned them an impossible task and that is why he told them: do not leave Jerusalem until you receive power from on high, until you receive the anointing of the Holy Spirit, because by themselves they could never do that, but with the anointing of the Holy Spirit, then they would be able to fulfill what God asked of them.

And so are we brothers, God asks us to live victorious lives, to evangelize the world, to obey his word, to tithe to the Lord, to subdue the meat, to be effective in colonization, for so to speak of the world, tasks that we cannot accomplish by ourselves, and that is why we need that anointing, that touch, that endowment of power from God and that is why it is also so important to insist on this.

I want to invite you, in Acts chapter 10, so that we study for a moment, but simply as a starting point, because I want to analyze a little today about what are the specific effects of the baptism of the Holy Spirit, what does the baptism of the Holy Spirit do, and I also want to talk about errors that there are about the baptism of the Holy Spirit.

And here we see a situation, in chapter 10, when Cornelius, a centurion, a soldier, an officer in the Roman army, who does not belong to Judaism, that is, he had not converted, he was not an evangelical, He wasn't even a Catholic, he was just a God-fearing man, who had been stationed in a region where he had come into contact with Judaism and kind of been captivated by the doctrine of Judaism, but he wasn't a convert, he was just a man who feared God, who offered to the Lord perhaps using his authority, did good works to the Jews and was hungry and thirsty for God and prayed to that God that he wanted to know.

Look at that, and the reason why I choose Cornelius is because Cornelius is a sui generis case as they say in philosophy, a unique case, which violates all the patterns that had been in place up to that moment. force in the way that God worked with the Gentiles, with the non-Jewish people.

And it is important for us to understand that the Holy Spirit can do whatever he wants, we cannot fit the move of the Holy Spirit, we cannot put it in a pattern and say only this way going to manifest the baptism of the Holy Spirit in a person.

And look… we're going to start like this quickly, verse 30, chapter 10, Peter arrives at Cornelius' house and so in terms of describing what has happened, an angel appears to Cornelius one day While he was praying and fasting, he told him: Cornelius, God has heard your requests and your prayers, your offerings have come to the memory of God and God is going to do something in your life and the Holy Spirit goes to Peter, a Jew. very insistent in his Judaism, that they have the prejudices that all Jews have against Gentiles, and the apostle Peter tells him: go and travel to Joppa and talk to Cornelius and his family because I want you to do something there.

First he gives him a vision of unclean things that a Jew is not supposed to eat and tells him: kill and eat and Peter tells him three times I can't eat that Lord because that is unclean, and finally the The Lord tells him: do not call unclean what I have sanctified and then he sends Peter to Cornelio's house and Peter begins to preach... rather, when Cornelius receives Peter, he tells him what happened to him, right?

“....4 days ago… verse 30…. that at this time I was fasting and at the ninth hour, while I was praying in my house, I saw that a man in a resplendent dress stood before me...." and he describes what I have just described to you.

In verse 34 he says: "...then Peter, opening his mouth, said truly, I understand that God is no respecter of persons, but in every nation he is pleased with those who fear him and do justice..." and then Peter He begins to preach the Gospel to him as one would in any situation, he begins to preach an evangelistic sermon to Cornelio and his entire family who are gathered in the living room of the house, let's say.

And what happens? that while Peter is preaching the gospel, in verse 44 he says:

"...while Peter was still speaking these words, the Holy Spirit fell on all who heard the speech..." verse 44 "...and the faithful of the circumcision who had come with Peter..." that is, there were other pious Jews who had arrived, Christians evidently, ".....who had come with Peter, were astonished that the gift of Holy Spirit......”

Why? Because until then the Jews who had converted to Jesus Christ until that moment 99.99% of the converted church was Jewish, but evidently God wanted his word and his anointing to reach the ends of the earth and this is the official beginning, so to say so, of a Gospel that is now beginning to spread throughout the world, from Jerusalem, to Judea, to Samaria, to the whole earth.

This is a key moment in the history of the church, and so this moment needs to be marked in a very dramatic, very graphic way, and it needs to be celebrated in a very powerful way as was also the day of Pentecost. There had to be something absolutely extraterrestrial, extraordinary to mark that moment when the Holy Spirit now descends and falls on the crowd now saying the Gospel and God's anointing is for everyone. And for this reason, I believe that the exceptional nature of that baptism of the Holy Spirit on the day of Pentecost in which they speak in tongues, but not just any tongue but human tongues, tongues that were knowable and understandable to all the Jews who were in that time in Jerusalem celebrating Passover, who came from all over the world and who had their own languages in which they had been raised.

Now at this moment God wants to do something exceptional too and while Peter preaches the gospel he says that the Holy Spirit falls and these Jews, Christians who thought that Jesus Christ was simply a messiah for Israel and that the gospel was leaving to stay only among the Jews, the Lord says: no, it is not like that, this is for the whole world and then they are astonished. Their theology is violated, they were astonished that also only the Gentiles, only poured out the gift of the Holy Spirit because they heard them speak in tongues and that they magnified God, that is, they prophesied, they praised, it was a moment of exaltation as there is to Sometimes in the worship of a congregation where the Lord begins to move and people feel the joy of the Holy Spirit, they feel an intensity. There was a moment like this a little while ago in our time of worship here.

They magnified God “.....and then Peter answered, can any one forbid the water so that those who have received the Holy Spirit, like us, may not be baptized? And he commanded to baptize them in the name of the Lord Jesus...”

See? Peter obediently realizes – wow, if these have been baptized that way, who am I to mess with what God has done? Why is God baptizing these people without Peter laying hands on them? Because if Peter had laid his hands on them, he would have gotten into a tremendous mess with the denominational authorities in Jerusalem, he would have told him how dare you lay hands on people who were not legitimate believers? God had to do things in such a way that there would be no doubt that it was not a man's thing, but a God's thing, because it was something so, so violent against the prevailing theological schemes among the Jews, Christians that a very direct intervention was needed from God to break that scheme and declare: no, I want these people to do it too... the Gentiles receive the baptism of the Holy Spirit.

And then when Peter returns to Jerusalem to give a report of what happened because it was something very serious to the disciples, to the apostles who were there, he uses as evidence that this was from God, the fact that they were baptized without him laying on his hands, without anyone intervening, but it was something sovereign on God's part, that in the same way that he baptized those who were in the upper room, so he had also baptized Cornelius.

Now why do I choose this passage? Because I want you to see something here, what I want is to stretch your theological flexibility and show something is that... look, when it comes to the baptism of the Holy Spirit... as I was saying, God can do whatever he wants...

I think many denominations have wanted to put it into a pattern, right? You have to do this, you have to do that, you have to talk this way, you have to fall to the ground, you have to... you have to tremble, you have to...cry, there has to be a moment of great dust that rises in the sanctuary or things like that.

Look brother, God does what he wants, he baptizes here with the Holy Spirit, first people who do not lay hands on him, second Gentile people and third people who have not really yet said: I receive Christ as my Lord and Savior. Cornelius no, he is still not a trustworthy Christian in the sense of the word that Peter did not tell him: you receive Christ as your Lord and Savior, oh yes I do. No, while Peter is preaching about Jesus, the Holy Spirit falls on them, the spirit blows, says the Lord, where it wants, and we have to have that flexibility, brothers.

If anything I have learned through the years reading the word and observing the phenomenon of the baptism of the Holy Spirit and observing many Pentecostal churches and many varieties of spirit-baptized and spirit-filled people and the phenomenon of the baptism of the Holy Spirit and after having read so many comments and so many books on how the baptism of the Holy Spirit is received, I want to tell you, brothers, that in the people of God there is an immense diversity regarding how the baptism of the Spirit is received Holy. Even Pentecostal denominations, like the Assemblies of God, have been slowly and subtly retreating from that doctrine that says you absolutely have to speak in tongues and that tongues are absolute evidence that you have received the Holy Spirit and if you don't speaks in tongues, cannot have received the Holy Ghost.

I believe in tongues, I speak in tongues as Paul says. Paul says: "...I speak in tongues more than all of you..." I'm not going to say that but I believe in tongues, I believe that speaking in tongues is not something from another world, we make it very complicated but I believe that the Lord can baptize... there are people in different parts of the Christian world who I believe are Christians filled with the Holy Spirit who have not spoken in tongues, but that does not mean... I have seen those people have visions, dreams, God do miracles through them, God will miraculously operate in their lives in powerful ways, effective people in evangelism, people full of passion for the Lord, knowledgeable people and lovers of the word, but they do not speak in tongues.

I don't think that's why we can say that they are not filled with the Holy Spirit. Now I also believe that God can baptize you with your spirit and you should seek to speak in tongues. Speaking in tongues is something, and I'm getting a little ahead of my subject, which actually doesn't require so much emotionalism, so many things, if God touches you that way, praise God, but it's not... and I know that... many If you look at the classic Pentecostal background, that may sound a bit shocking, but I assure you that I am in very good company, with great theologians and people much more biblically known about these matters than I am who are in great agreement with this.

So we have to be careful, we have to be very, very flexible about the baptism of the Holy Spirit and not box God in that it has to be this way or “x” way. I already told you about how I received the baptism of the Holy Spirit years ago, it was not a thunderous thing with cymbals and bombs and angels turning on the ceiling, it was something calm, personal, quiet and the Lord filled me with his holy spirit and I began to see powerful changes in my life and in my circumstances and from that moment the Lord sort of sealed me and began to unleash a ministerial call in my life, which had already been there for many years.

And it's important that you don't get uptight about the doctrine of Holy Spirit baptism.

Now stand aside and I say, well, why is it so important without Yet one receive the baptism of the Holy Spirit? What does the Holy Spirit do when it fills a person? What are the effects of the baptism of the Holy Spirit?

Look, after looking a lot and reading a lot of scripture and reading a lot of different kinds of books and looking at Christians in different denominations and different groups, I've come to the conclusion that here are some of the characteristics and effects of the Holy Spirit.

Number one, I believe that the baptism of the Holy Spirit seals the believer with a supernatural mentality, what I call a supernatural mentality, that is, it's like the spirit… when you are filled with the baptism of the The Holy Spirit is imparted to you as an awareness that the world you inhabit is a supernatural world, which is... like there is a... there is a very intense impartation of that awareness. I believe that many other Christians, evangelicals of other types, have that awareness, but I believe that the person filled with the Holy Spirit kind of like their mentality... the filter through which they look at reality is a filter that they know is moving in a supernatural realm. That believer, in my opinion, knows in a very strong, very intense way the importance of the power of the Holy Spirit, the power of prayer and fasting, the aspect of spiritual warfare, the perfection of scripture, the necessity of holiness, the gifts of the Holy Spirit. All those components of what I call a supernatural mentality become more valid in the life of a person who is filled with the Holy Spirit. So there is a supernatural mentality that grows stronger in the believer's life.

Number two, I believe that the baptism of the Holy Spirit imparts passion to the believer for the things of the Kingdom of God, there is like an additional passion, there is a greater enthusiasm for the things of God, that does not want I can say that others who have not experienced that experience do not feel passion, but I think it is more general, that spreading of passion for the things of the kingdom of God when a person receives that filling of the Holy Spirit.

Thirdly, I call it this way, it changes the engine of the believer, it adds a new capacity, a new strength to carry out the tasks that God wants us to carry out. That is why the Lord Jesus Christ tells his disciples: "...you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you and then you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, Judea, Samaria and all the earth..." It is like there is an additional component, It puts more horsepower in the engine you have. I was talking about a computer that puts more memory in it, adds more power, more operational capacity, that is the classic impact of the baptism of the Holy Spirit.

Fourth, it gives authority to testify of Jesus and increases passion for souls and what the Bible calls boldness when testifying. What about Pedro and his colleagues? When Peter receives the baptism of the Holy Spirit, the same fearful Peter who denies Jesus before a small group of people and denies him with curses to convince them that he is not a follower of Jesus, now stands up before a crowd and preaches a sermon so effective that it becomes thousands of people. That is a change, and those disciples who were running around and hiding, now shake all of Jerusalem, and create a political, social, religious crisis in all of Israel practically as a consequence and upset all the surroundings and in a short time the Gospel begins to spread. spread like fire throughout all the regions, because they receive that authority, they receive that passion, that boldness to testify of God. That's something, it's a feature.

I have seen many fellow believers, who are not educated people, they are not even very spiritual Christians in the sense that they are people who show the fruit of the Holy Spirit but have a passion and an effectiveness to bring souls to the Kingdom of God. Many times they screw up just like they do one good thing, they do 10 bad things but they bring people, they are… they have a passion for the kingdom of God and they are effective in evangelizing. Then you have to take away the new believers because if you leave them, you know... just as they entered them, they also take them out, but at least they bring them in, they have a passion for God.

Another thing, the baptism of the Holy Spirit seals the believer against slipping away. I have seen many, many Christians who have been touched by the Holy Spirit and then you see them… look, they can be on drugs, they can get out of the Gospel but when you meet them, you see that they have a mark and there is anguish in them , there is an agony, it is like the Lord does not leave them alone and I believe that sooner or later those people who had an experience with the fire of God are going to have to return to the Gospel because the divine hound persecutes them until they return again to the way of the Lord. So one sees them but one knows that they are marked, they are persecuted, like Cain they have a mark wherever they go, the Lord will be pointing it out and will be calling them to his kingdom. It is the advantage I think, there is something that does not leave them alone because they know that God has marked them.

Another thing, your regular exercise opens access to the supernatural gifts of the Holy Spirit. I believe that when the person has an experience with the baptism of the Holy Spirit it is like opening a spiritual bank account where the person can now begin to draw supernatural powers, the gifts of tongues, interpretation of tongues, signs and wonders, miracles, faith, prophecy, all these gifts begin to manifest in different ways, the Holy Spirit begins to do something supernatural in the life of the believer.

A congregation where the Holy Spirit and its baptism is something common is a congregation where people are going to be receiving the word of the Lord, someone is going to have a dream here, another person is going to have a concern and going to share it There is going to be evangelistic effectiveness in its entirety, it is like the gifts begin to flow in different ways as the Lord distributes them in the body of Jesus Christ.

Seventh, it intensifies the believer's experience, makes him passionate about the Christian life. I think I've already talked a little bit about that so I'm not going to emphasize it.

Eight, makes the believer more productive than they would normally be without baptism. In other words, a lot of Christians who normally wouldn't be very effective because they aren't educated, or don't have the evangelistic temperament, or don't have teaching gifts or whatever, start bearing more fruit than they normally would.

I have seen people without any education, without any great skills, when they receive the baptism of the Holy Spirit, God begins to use them in ways that one would not expect of them because they have that which is inside of them. which is the anointing of God that opens their capacity a little more.

And finally it imparts conviction to the believer regarding his faith. That word conviction is very important, I believe that the person filled with the Holy Spirit has a... it's like they put a piece of cement in his bowels that anchors him, affirms him, gives him weight, gives him conviction about his faith. He may not have the rational arguments to argue against someone about their faith, but he has an unshakable conviction that Christ is who he says he is.

Believe in the Lordship of Jesus Christ, believe in witnessing with conviction, believe in the claims of the gospel, believe in your experience of salvation, that conviction is there underpinning your Christian experience.

As you can see, these are some of the things… again this is based I believe on my observation, it is based primarily on what the word of the Lord suggests and it is based on many readings that I have made from different theological viewpoints, including within the Pentecostal world, different commentators on this.

Making a summary of all these things, how these elements come to light. If you examine the book of Acts in its entirety, you're going to see this kind of atmosphere, this kind of environment, where these qualities that I just pointed out are in effect.

Notice something interesting, the book of Acts is the only narrative book in the New Testament, all the other books… well there are the gospels, I correct myself, but once you get out of the gospels, the The only other narration of Old Testament type events that one has in the New Testament is the book of Acts, the rest are doctrinal books, letters that the apostle Paul or John or Peter or James write.

Why did God want us to have this book of Acts? Because it's kind of like taking the roof off the first century and looking at the life of the Holy Spirit-filled church, a church empowered and empowered, a church that speaks with authority, a church that experiences signs and wonders in its midst. , a church that impacts the society in which it operates, a church where the power of God is manifested in terrible ways as it was manifested with Ananias and Sapphiras, a church that causes conflict and causes spiritual clashes with society because it cannot be ignored , an inclusive church of divine appointments in the evangelization process where God helps the church in its evangelistic process.

It's like when... it's like fishing in a pool, souls are already ready to enter the gospel, they're dizzy, and you blow them away and they enter the kingdom of God once and for all.

Look, for example, in the case of the Ethiopian, the Holy Spirit takes Felipe, miraculously transports him to a deserted place, and there Felipe finds himself with a man from Ethiopia, a senior official of the Queen of Ethiopia and Felipe approaches the Ethiopian, the man is reading just like Cornelius, worried about…

Look, there are so many restless souls in the world out there today, wishing someone would come and speak to them about the gospel, there are many people restless to receive from God and as what we lack today is the connection, it is the connection only and today the modern church has to invest so much effort, so much money, so much program, so much apparatus so that a soul convert and there are churches that have literally not seen a conversion in decades in their churches, what's more, they are dying. New England is a graveyard of churches, you know?

The first church we occupied was a church in Cambridge well from that time, do you know what I mean? that had died, a church that only had a handful of elders left, struggling for years to keep the church open and finally they had to deliver a wonderful, beautiful church in the city of Cambridge, with a beautiful parsonage in the city of Watertown and they had They had to give it away because nobody came anymore and those pious old men couldn't even clean the church, they had to hand it over so that a group of Latino people would come to take it filled with the Holy Spirit and to possess it and take advantage of it.

And this is what happens many times, when the anointing of God is on a people, the gifts and resources of the kingdom pass to that people, do you know that?

It says that he who has a lot will be given, right? To those who have, more will be given, and to those who do not have even what they have, it will be taken away, he says. Powerful things happen where the anointing of the Holy Spirit is, where there is no anointing of the Holy Spirit, where there is a people who is not actively seeking and desiring and asking for the anointing of the Holy Spirit, little by little the power is decreasing, the energy is decreasing, life is waning, the evangelistic force, the anointing, the joy of praise, the transformation of God in the body of Jesus Christ is waning and the body is dying, that infusion of God's grace is needed so that a church, a person remains vital and active and effective in the Kingdom of God and that is why a church that wants to be effective in society must always be preaching these things, remembering these things, re-trying them, learning them, strengthening them, because otherwise, little by little the torpor of life is taking place and the church is declining, declining, getting more involved in the routine, in the program, in what was done yesterday, what was done a year ago and the strength, the vitality declines and that has an impact on how that church relates to society out there.

But when the Holy Spirit is vital in a congregation, things happen as the choir says, there are divine encounters, there are appointments that are given.

When Felipe is sent by the Holy Spirit, he finds this official from a distant and powerful nation, Ethiopia, that man is restless and the Holy Spirit makes sure that this meeting takes place between Felipe who has a evangelistic gift and this man who has an evangelistic need. And Felipe initiates a dialogue with this man and preaches the Gospel of Jesus Christ to him, and this man receives the Lord, he even puts pressure on Felipe and tells him, because perhaps Felipe spoke to him about water baptism, and he says: well, Look here there is a little puddle, what prevents me from being baptized? Since I'm leaving, I want to go completely. And he says that Felipe baptized him right there and this man left happy, singing and adoring the Lord.

And you know what? Today, today in the 21st century, there are people in Ethiopia who link their Christianity to that Ethiopian who arrived. In Ethiopia, one of the few nations in the Middle East that has a vital Christian community and that clearly dates from this Ethiopian's encounter with the Holy Spirit.

And we see many times like this, Cornelius, another man, a Roman soldier, fearing God, an angel appears to him and makes a connection with Peter and brings Peter to preach the Gospel to him, the Spirit Santo falls on this man, he and his entire household are converted. Because when the Holy Spirit is moving in a congregation, in an environment, in a Christian community, things become much easier, do you understand?

God's call to evangelize, to impact, to disciple, to convince the community of the messianic claims of Jesus Christ is made much easier. Why is it so difficult to evangelize in New England today? Why are people so tough? Why is there so much filth? So much rancid rationalism in this New England society? Because once, in this place, God visited in Boston, in all of Massachusetts, in Connecticut, in New Hampshire, in Rhode Island, God visited this region with his power, with his Gospel, and this region flourished and knew the power of God and it was the seat of an entire evangelistic movement throughout the whole earth and then they died little by little, they embraced rational doctrines that came from Europe with the illustration of the 18th century and Boston became a humanist, unitary place, where the Gospel was rejected and they grieved the spirit of God.

And today this place, which was the cradle of the Gospel, is the hardest place in all of the United States and one of the hardest places in the whole world because to whom much is given, much is asked, do you understand? They didn't take care of the garden, they didn't keep looking for the intensity of the Holy Spirit, they fell in love with the rational doctrines that came from other winds instead of looking for the wind of the Holy Spirit. And it is terrible when a person has known the grace and power of God and saddens him and drives him away, his last state becomes worse than the first.

And I think that's why the devil has expanded so much in these cities and has become so angry against New England, and this is only going to be broken by a church filled with the Holy Spirit, a visitation of fire from part of God That's why there are a lot of people asking for revival but they're asking it their way, they're asking the Lord to do it very decently, very appropriately, middle class style. But when the Holy Spirit comes, it will not be like that, and people have to... we as believers have to be open to what God wants to do, we have to have an appetite for the Lord, we have to have concern for the Holy Spirit, We have to tell the Father: Lord, do what you want, if you want to make the pastor dance the macarena in front of the whole crowd, so be it in the name of Jesus. I say amen, glory to God.

Let us not hinder the Holy Spirit, let us be yearning for the Holy Spirit, let us say to him: Lord, do what you want but without you we die, without your powerful move we cannot leave, do not take us out of here if you are not ahead of us. And when many churches, when many congregations throughout this area begin to desire God's move in this way, when they begin to break out of their middle class patterns, when they begin to humble their appetite for elegance and order and prediction and repetitive pattern in their meetings and begin to give dominion and sovereignty to the Holy Spirit and this begins to spread throughout the region, an anointing network will be created that will make possible the meeting like the meeting with the Ethiopian, the meeting with Cornelius, the meeting with Jesus with the Samaritan woman, because when the Holy Spirit is in a community, it facilitates things, facilitates meetings, prepares souls, softens their hearts so that they receive the seed of the Gospel, and what before required a lot of work, a lot of effort, now is easily done.

A grain is thrown and it makes noise like the Jordan, because there is a fertile land that God has been preparing, oh, but how difficult it is to sow where the earth is tight and hard, where it has not been moved, And that's up to the church, it's up to you, it's up to me.

We have to ask the Lord: Lord, move us with the power of your Holy Spirit, fertilize us with the power of the Holy Spirit, open us. I have to ask the Lord every day: Father, you have given me a task to shepherd a congregation, to impact a community, I need your spirit. And you have assignments as a mother, as a father, how difficult today it is to transfer our faith to our children, how difficult it is today to educate adolescent children, how hard it is in a land that you do with your hands, the school undoes with the feet.

You preach… you want to preach to your children respect, fear of God, subjection to authority and at school questions authority, you don't owe anything to your parents, God is not one but that there are many gods, you can do whatever you want, express yourself, how difficult.

But when the power of the Holy Spirit is in a family, brotherly impact becomes much easier. God makes you more effective in sharing the Gospel with your children, God gives you a special anointing, God gives you wisdom, you need in your work a filling of the Holy Spirit for the dilemmas that exist today in modern life, the temptations What is there in modern life, how one begins to decline spiritually because one moves in a sterile environment, it is like walking in the desert, the fluids wear off, they dry quickly because you are in a desert environment.

Similarly, it happens in the anointing of God, the filling of the Holy Spirit, the joy of God, the perception of the supernatural, this ultra-secularized and ultra-rational world in which you move absorbs you, and you need to drink more spiritual water, you need to have more of the anointing of the spirit, you need to have your little basket there ready to drink again of the wine of the spirit and stay alive and full.

We cannot live as we do in other environments where perhaps the pressure is less, we struggle here with principalities and powers that were entrenched in this society and living a fruitful, prosperous, blessed, vital Christian life becomes triple or ten times more difficult than in other environments where there is less resistance.

Here in the United States and in the western industrialized world, there are demons who wear three-piece suits and we don't identify them as demons because we believe that only demons are people drooling and rolling their eyes. basins, those are... look, there are demoniacs in the high corporations of the United States, in Washington there are demoniacs, at Harvard universities there are demoniacs giving classes and giving conferences because this is an ultra demonic environment and only people filled with the power of the Holy Spirit can To thrive in these environments, only a church endowed with exceptional power can do the work God wants it to do.

This is not going to break with a 6 ounce hammer, it takes a mandarin to break this hard stone and for that you need more than just a generic spiritual experience, you need more than just come to church on sunday and sit there and hear a wet sermon as we say and then go home barren as you came in, you need to know where to go to eat and where to drink, straight to the fountain of spirit of God.

I want the musicians to pass through here, I didn't have time to go into many more things but at least brothers, let this be clear. I do not believe that this baptism of the Holy Spirit is something spectacular or problematic, we have made it more complicated for ourselves, the only thing I am saying is that there is something called the baptism of the Holy Spirit and you need that something and you have to go to the heavenly Father every day and ask him: fill me again Lord, fill me again, this is not done with a merely routine life, do not think for a moment that it is enough to simply come to church and sit in a bank, and that with that you are already a Christian filled with the spirit. That's just something important but very minimal in what is required.

You have to be every day, every day, going to the spring, every day renewing your walk with God, every day asking the Lord, as I go every day saying, Father, I have a day ahead and I have to minister to your people, I have to give advice, I have to make administrative decisions, I have to preach the gospel, and I need… my hands are empty and I am the steward of your house and I have to pay those who come to sell the milk and to sell the food so that your children can eat and I have to make decisions about your house, so give me the portion that I need.

You have seen those people who work in Latin America, we call them servants, it is a horrible name in my opinion, but girls who work and in the morning, if they are cooks, they have to go to the owner of the house. home to give you the money to buy meat for the day, or vegetables, have any of you experienced... have you seen that or have you experienced it? They do not have the money, the one who has it is the owner of the house or the owner, but they need to manage the economy of the house and they have to go to the owner or the owner, they have to ask him or her.

This is how I visualize myself and this is how you have to visualize too, you have a burden on your life, you have children that depend on you, a home, a wife, a husband, you have a world that needs to hear from Jesus Christ, you have serious decisions to make that will affect the well-being of your home and your community. And you have to come to the Holy Spirit every day and tell him: Holy Spirit, my hands are empty, I am your steward, I need my food for today and for my people who are… who depend on me, and you have to go back to filled with the Holy Spirit, you have to go back to seek the anointing of the Holy Spirit.

I finish with this, years ago, many years ago, God gave me a dream that has always marked me, few dreams in my life have marked me and this was one of them, and I dreamed of a Volkswagen , mind you, from the 60s, they were those vans of a certain size, don't you remember? They were like the first Volkswagen mini-vans, they were those squares… how many remember? Don't worry, admit it, admit it, okay? With that, perhaps I am already giving away my age.

The fact is that I saw in the dream a Volkswagen of those squares like this, a mini-van, like a Volkswagen pickup truck, and but the wheels, the four wheels of that Volkswagen were bicycle, it looked ridiculous, because I had this heavy Volkswagen and four bicycle wheels supporting it and the Lord told me: you are like that Roberto, you have a lot of load on you, but you have four wheels that are weak, and you need to strengthen them. And I remember that they told me which were the four wheels: prayer, fasting, the word and holiness. And God told me: you have to strengthen yourself in those four things because you have a lot of people on top of you, you need to strengthen yourself.

Brother, that is what God says to you in your life and mine, how are we going to deal with the burdens of life? How are we going to deal with the tasks that he sends us to fulfill? Impossible tasks, we need to strengthen, we need to give it air. Sister, we need to change the rubber bands and strengthen ourselves spiritually, we have to come to the waters, drink from the waters, fill ourselves up.

The word says “…do not get drunk with wine, rather be filled with the Holy Spirit…” Hallelujah and that doesn't mean you have to be jumping around like a little lamb and you have to be yelling, doing crazy things, just fill yourself with the spirit of God, drink the waters every day, take time to pray, take time to fast, take time to meditate on the things of God, take time to pray… to pray with someone who has the anointing of God and tell him: come brother, I want you to hit me because I want some of your anointing and you have to look for more of God every day in your life. And that way you can live a life filled with the Holy Spirit.

How many want that effective life? Amen, how many want to renounce right now the dead, routine, empty religion that gives nothing, brothers? God wants a people filled with the Holy Spirit that can conquer the nations, a people that can break the hard rock of this barren society and that is seized by the devilish net of Satan on which the apostle's word is fulfilled, if the Gospel It is hidden among those who are lost, among whom the king of this world has blinded their understanding so that the light of the gospel does not shine on them, and this church has to break that yoke, it has to break that net of blindness and it has to enter souls.

I believe that God has a revival for the nations, but that revival is going to be carried out by a church anointed and filled with the power of the Holy Spirit, a church that knows and that returns to the old ways, a church to rescue the temple utensils that are stuck in Babylon and look for them and put them back in the temple of God. Those utensils that are the gifts of the Holy Spirit.

Oh, may the Lord allow us to have a great hunger, a desire. I have tried these Sundays to awaken in you and in my own life, to stimulate it again, a passion for the Holy Spirit, an awareness of the crisis of the importance of being filled with the Holy Spirit and a desire for a church that walks solidly, entirely in the power and the flow and the endowment of God's power.

Stand up now, I want to invite you as we have done these days, to renew your pact with the spirit of God. If you want, raise your hands to the Lord right now, and say: Father, fill me up again, refresh me today, refresh me, bring a new anointing to my life, pour your oil on my Lord, pour your oil on my life, I want more of you Holy Spirit, transform me, fill me, change me, break me, undo me, reform me, transform me.

Spirit of God I need you, Spirit of God I need you, Lord we need you, without you we can do nothing, fall in love with you Lord, we love you so much, we love you so much Spirit of God, strengthen us, we want to cast roots in your land, we want to drink from those subterranean waters, we want to drink from those secret waters, even in desert places sink our roots deep down and drink from the water of your spirit Lord, because you want a people that walks and does not get tired, You want a people that runs without getting tired, you want a people that raises wings like eagles, that renews its strength in flight without having to land because you renew it day by day and walk eating food not made with the hands of man .

Father, lift up your people, we ask for a revived church in New England Lord, we ask for a church that, like David, will defeat the giant with one well-placed stone, Lord and cut off his head and bring revival to your church.

Oh start with us Lord, start with us, start with me Father, break our glass, undo the wrong mud Father and make it anew, give us a new heart Father.

Oh in the name of Jesus, Lord let this word set a new course for this congregation and so I bless my brothers from Barbara Anne Rossler, Lord, who have come to visit this morning and I ask that their church is also renewed and that they can experience today, Lord, a soft breath of your breeze, and that their pastors there, Lord, that congregation can be strengthened in spirit.

And we pray for our nations Lord, wherever we come from, different countries represented here, continue to strengthen your church Lord, continue to pour out your anointing Father on the Anglo-Saxon community, the African-American community, the Asian community Lord, the Haitian Padre, Brazilian community in this region.

Pour out your spirit oh Lord, pour out your glory, Father we want to see your glory manifested, revive your people Father so that Goliath no longer laughs at the army of the living God, so that he knows that there is authority in the earth.

O Lord, pour out your spirit on your people this morning.

We receive it, say: I receive and I receive baptism, I receive the filling of the Holy Spirit in my life. You strengthen me Lord, you give me wings like eagles, thank you Lord, thank you for renewing me, thank you for strengthening me, thank you for filling me up, tell the Lord, hallelujah, hallelujah, glory to the name of the Lord, thank you Jesus.