Demonstrations of the Holy Ghost Power

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   worship you this morning. We give you praise, Lord. We run after you, Lord, we choose to run after you this morning to seek you, to seek you with all of our heart to ask and keep asking, to seek and keep seeking, to knock and keep knocking. Because, Lord, we know there's more and more and more that you can teach us, that you can reveal to us, Lord, more power, Lord, to help set people free. Lord, we thank you for that. We praise you that there's always more. There's always more of your glory, your presence, your power, your truth, that you want your people, Lord, digging into, seeking after, being filled with. We thank you, Lord, that we refuse to be the lukewarm church that is satisfied where they are. We thank you for that, and we praise you in Jesus' name. Amen. Hallelujah. Want to welcome everyone this morning? Our great church? Yes. The Lord said He will not leave you, that there will be victory here. Amen. As the phone goes off. Oh, hallelujah. There will be victory. Amen. You know why there's victory? Because God promised that if we seek Him and keep seeking Him, if we keep asking and asking, if we keep knocking, if we keep running after Him, if we keep digging into the Word, if we keep fasting and praying and studying His Word, and we implement what He tells us to do and what He's revealed in His Word, then we break through. We push the enemy back, we push back the demons and the darkness and the devil, and Jesus wins. And we have many battles. We don't win all of them, but in Jesus' name, we're going to win the majority of them, and we're going to win the war. Amen. Well, this week we're going to continue. I started last week talking about the gifts and power of the Holy Spirit. I talked about the gift of tongues last week because it took a whole hour and a half to really deal with that, and I left out a bunch of stuff. Today, I've just entitled this demonstrations of Holy Ghost power. We're going to get into this because the power of God, there's much more in the New Testament demonstrations of the Holy Spirit power than just the gift of tongues or even the gift of prophecy, and so we're going to look at some of that this morning. But I'm going through this, and you know, somebody the other day told me I should ignore a certain individual that's been having fun attacking us now out there, and they said I should ignore him. And I said, No, I said,

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   Actually, his attacks and his betrayal has, you know, put forth a good teaching moment here. And so it's important because all of a sudden it seems like, you know, we had a problem a number of years ago in faith. If you would, would you bring me a polluted church book, please? We have a problem. We have two problems, and I'm going to share this in the body of Christ that's troubled me for many years. Okay, we have the real gifts and power of the Holy Spirit revealed in the Bible, and those are still for today. And there are still Christians, fivefold ministers, pastors that still believe and operate in the real gifts and power of the Holy Spirit. But we also have a lot of counterfeit. We also have a lot of seducing spirits and doctrines of devils. Now, the problem is, is that we have a lot of people on one side, and I would call them the extreme Pentecostals and Charismatics who've opened the door to all kinds of deceiving spirits, seducing spirits, Kundalini spirits. And I'm going to explain what that is and why. But we also have the other side that now they're afraid of anything supernatural, and they just deem everything that happens in Christianity, whether it be tongues or, you know, people falling in the floor, we're going to deal with that, or whatever manifestation might happen. They want to deem all of it Kundalini or the devil or serpent power or whatever. And both sides are wrong. All right. But what we have to do is determine this. Now, of course, everybody knows who I'm talking about. This individual out there, Mr. Nathan Roberts, and if you don't know him, don't waste your time. But I want to say that I wrote the polluted church book from Rome to Kansas City in 2012 when Mr. Roberts was still going to his Andy Stanley megachurch, okay, before he knew what Kundalini was. I have a chapter in this book entitled, in fact, let's see here. Yes, it's entitled, Astral Projection in the Kundalini Spirit. And this book I wrote in 2000. It started writing about 2010 and finished it end of 2011, and we published it in 2012. So what I want to say here is I have thoroughly researched this subject of the difference between the real gifts of the Holy Spirit and the counterfeit. And I have written extensively about it as a Pentecostal and Charismatic pastor, minister, five-fold minister, yes, in the office of apostle and prophet, evangelist, pastor, and teacher. I'm not ashamed of any of that. And I just want to say this. The last Christian YouTuber that mocked the gifts

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   of the Holy Spirit within this ministry and mocked the five-fold ministry here ended up falling back into his sins and addictions and in a divorce. So I'd be very careful what you attack. It's one thing to attack me, but once you start attacking the gifts of the Holy Spirit, the power of God, and you start attacking what God did, particularly when the Holy Spirit moves as he did at Skyfall at our conference, when you start attacking what the Holy Spirit does and you start attacking the Word and you start twisting things, then you are headed into big trouble. You better take that warning, young man, because it's coming to you. I've seen it over the years. And here's another thing. A guy that just stepped out of Andy Stanley's church, you know, the Baptist church, the Baptist megachurch, it's even more watered down than his father's first Baptist church in Atlanta when it comes to the gifts of the Holy Spirit. A guy that just stepped out of that church about four years ago versus a guy who's walked in the gifts of the Holy Spirit for 32 years, who's taught on it, who's been in the midst of it. There is no comparison here, okay? Why anybody gives this young rebel the time of day, I don't understand, but it's really the dividing line now, and a lot of things. There's a dividing line about the truth of creation. There's a dividing line about homosexuality and how the church is going to respond to that and transgenderism. There's been a dividing line for a long time about abortion. Well, there's been a dividing line of law for a long, long time about the gifts and power of the Holy Spirit. And you have to choose what side you're going to be on, all right? But as anyone should, we should study the scriptures. So let's study this a little bit. We're going to move on through this. I'm going to try. It's going to take me a bit today using the old-fashioned mic today, so hopefully it'll sound better out there. But Luke 11, verses 9 through 15, we're going to read these first here. And remember that we're going to be addressing this kundalini spirit. The word kundalini simply means serpent power, right? And really this doorway, and let me just say this, this doorway to this kundalini spirit came in to the church from Buddhism and Hinduism because many in the church started practicing Buddhist and Hindu techniques. Meditation, the Buddhist Hindu meditation that couples using repetitive chants and phrases and visualization and yoga and these other things, many Christians are doing these things. And these things crept into the church. I've got a chapter in the polluted church talks about this going back to in, you know, 200, 250 A.D., all right? When there were Christians who were out in the desert who didn't have a good foundation and

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   there were Buddhist monks and missionaries that had come there and Buddhism and Christianity got mixed together right before the Roman Catholic Church was founded in 313 A.D. And many of these desert fathers who got out in caves and started using Buddhist techniques of meditation and visualization and chanting and all these things, these people ended up moving into the Roman Catholic Church. Now for some of you, you're going to find out that the Roman Catholic Church, remember Buddhism was around 1500 years before Roman Catholicism. Do you know that Buddhists are the ones that had the rosary beats? They started out with those, the Buddhists, so they could count their repetitious prayers. There's nowhere in the Bible that talks about having rosary beats. So you see where Roman Catholicism, this is just one example of how it incorporated Buddhism into it. That's why you have the repeated Hail Marys, the repeated our fathers, the repetition, the vain repetitious prayer that Jesus said in Matthew 6.9, we don't do. That's why I have a whole chapter in the polluted church called praying like pagans. I mean, once you start with the repetitive phrase over and over and over and over and over again, I don't care if it's a Christian word or phrase, you're doing the same techniques that the Buddhists and the Hindus do. Even the Muslim Sufis do the same thing. And the Kabbalists Jews, it's an occult practice that is across the board, this repetitive chanting like prayer or meditation and also coupling in visualization with this. This is what opens the doorway. And then of course, we know that Ignatius Loyola, the founder of the Jesuits, he perfected this for the Catholics, the Roman Catholics in what he called Lecto Divina. It's all the same thing. So let me tell you what opens the doors to this. You start playing with yoga, you start getting into contemplative mysticism with the visualization, repetitive type prayer that Jesus said don't do, or you get connected with Roman Catholics or some of these churches that have opened the doors to these things. Yes, you can open yourself up to deceiving spirits and these Kundalini spirits, these demon spirits that will manifest and will give you experiences similar, not exactly like, but similar to what it means to walk in the gifts and power of the Holy Spirit. And so I want to say right now, there's a lot of Christians that are deceived by this, okay, but that's because they won't listen to what the scriptures say and they want to keep playing with yoga or they've been deceived about meditation or visualization or chanting prayers or repetitive prayers. So everybody, you know, when I go through this book, I name names like Mike Bickel of IHOP,

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