the Holy Ghost is God and I believe that he is the most forgotten God on the
earth today most people treat the holy spirit the same way Pharisees treated
Jesus they love the God of Abraham and hated God the Son they didn't understand
him he was weird he was crazy he didn't fit into the mold and so many people
have the same view of the Holy Spirit they think he is weird just because they
met some Pentecostals that are weird i'ma tell you one thing Holy Spirit is
anything but weird he's wild but he's not weird Holy Spirit is the most normal
person that you will ever meet in your life and Holy Spirit is a person Holy
Spirit is God but he's also a person to the story we read today is this the
Bible says is there was a man and he was lame from the birth being lame from
birth did not mean that this man did not have legs it just meant that this man's
legs did not carry him he carried them
the Bible doesn't say that he didn't have legs the Bible just says that his
legs didn't work are you with me okay when you were born when I was born the
legs came as part of the package on the day of birth yes or no how many of you
know that you didn't get your legs as an upgrade five years down the road how
many of you know you didn't get your legs as an update because you were
obedient and you finally you know learn to sleep on the right time and
everything and then God just brought the legs by ups and they attach them to you
six years down no you were born with your legs everybody born with their legs
give God some praise all right all right and some of you you're like uh Vlad
I'll be honest I'm not sure I know I was there I just don't remember if I came
out with my legs or not let me assure you to you on the day of your birth the
Creator gave you legs but how many of you know
just because you were born with legs it doesn't mean you walked out of your
mother's womb having legs is one thing which came at your birth learning to use
them took some time getting them at your birth was a gift but walking in the legs
you got at your birth came with exercise came with your parents helping you to
walk correct it came with falling and getting up
walking with the legs you can't you got as a gift
it took some patience it took somebody to hold you somebody to pick you up
someone said come come come come on come on come on you got ah you took one step
great you just failed on the second one but you're still awesome we'll do it
again next time it took some patience it took some trial
and error it took some time I'm getting them I'm getting somewhere when you got
born again God gave you the Holy Ghost the Holy Spirit did not come when you
started to speak in tongues the Holy Spirit came when you became saved God
immediately gave you the Holy Spirit he didn't wait he didn't give you probation
he didn't give you like a six-month period to say I'll see if you're serious
I'll see if you're backslide God at that moment that you got saved God didn't
just give you a new heart God did not just write your name in the Lamb's Book
of Life God did not just clean your record wipe
clean God gave the Holy Spirit to live inside of you at that very moment that
is a very precious gift that is an amazing gift but see the Holy Spirit is
like legs you get them at birth but most people are just like this lame man still
don't use them they got them accept those legs don't carry
them they carry the legs the Bible says the man had legs but he was lame in the
sense that they didn't carry him he dragged them with him to the temple I
want to speak today to people who have the Holy Spirit but Holy Spirit doesn't
have you every Christian has the Holy Spirit but the Holy Spirit doesn't have
every Christian this man had legs didn't work he just didn't walk with them he
crawled he dragged them to church and in fact the scripture says where was this
man seated where at the gate he wasn't inside he was at the gate when you have
the Holy Spirit but the Holy Ghost doesn't have you your body will be
sitting in the church pew your mind will always be checked out sermons are always
gonna be boring worship is always going to be something that is just not your
favorite song not your favorite tune I just don't feel it today the spirit is
not here no it's just your mind is not here the spirit is here it's just the
spirit your spirit is not there why because when you got legs but they don't
carry you you always stay at the gate the Bible says he was laid at the gate
he didn't standard and clap and worship God he was laying at the gate
see lame Christians are laying Christians they're not walking with God
they're not dancing and praising and worshipping God and walking with the
Holy Spirit they're usually their Christian life could be something one
word lame the Bible says that he was laying there
at the gate but I want you to notice another thing he wasn't saying once
people walk walking in he's hey high five welcome to the temple you can have
a fabulous that he was there saying could you give me a coin or two he was
begging he had the legs he was begging when he started to walk the Bible says
he enters into the temple no longer at the gate he's not begging in the temple
though his financial situation is still the same he didn't get a million dollar
check he didn't win the lottery nothing
changed in his finances something happened when he started to walk in the
legs that he God something changed in him he gets inside of the temple and
inside of the temple he doesn't walk around say hey guys can you can you go
to my go fund account and donate five dollars to improve my financial
situation the Bible says he was praising God he was at the gate he was laying and
he was begging because he was lame there's a lot of Christians that are
lame Christians lame Christians in a sense that they got the Holy Ghost Holy
Ghost hasn't gotten them they lived our Christian life crawling and they're like
man the Holy Spirit created the universe he can't even carry my algebra and
geometry the Holy Spirit made the heavens and the earth but he can't even
carry my heart I have to carry the Holy Spirit as a doctor all disposition I
believe in him I know I got him but he is doing absolutely nothing in my life
my whole life is carried by my own strength and my own abilities my own
efforts and my own work my own pressure and everything that I put in is what I
get out there is nothing the Holy Spirit does
I don't feel and I don't see his activity and you can get to the point
where you start even doubting whether you have the holy spirit or not my
friend if you're a Christian you have the Holy Spirit but today I am an
assignment to come into your life like Peter and John and not to give you legs
but to help you work them to help you get your hand up and say listen the legs
that you brought in can carry you the Holy Ghost was not sin so you carry the
Holy Ghost the Holy Ghost was sent that carries you think he carries
your education he carries your finances at the Holy Spirit he carries your
ministry and the Holy Spirit carries your relationship that the Holy Spirit
carries your family that he carries the burden that he has the power to carry
the weight of your life if he created the universe he can carry your life but
my friends it's not that we don't have him it's that he doesn't have us and you
may say what is the difference the difference is in this we get the Holy
Spirit by salvation he gets us by surrender
write that down that that's treatable right there we get the Holy Spirit by
Salvation Holy Spirit gets us by surrender
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