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Encountering the Holy Spirit
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| And Malachi 4, 4 and 6 says, Remember the law of my servant Moses, the statutes and rules that I commanded him at Horeb for all Israel. | |
| Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the great and awesome day of the Lord comes, and he will turn the hearts of fathers to their children and the hearts of children to their fathers, lest I come and strike the land with a decree of utter destruction. | |
| And I believe, Jim, that the older generation today, especially in the church, you know, they're the ones that built the church. | |
| They're the ones that paid for the pews and the hymnals. | |
| And today it seems if you're over 30 years of age, you're not acceptable on the platform. | |
| But these people are the people that actually built the church. | |
| And they're the prayer warriors. | |
| They're the intercessors. | |
| These are the people of God that have walked faithfully with God. | |
| And they've paved the path. | |
| There's a song called Find Us Faithful. | |
| We're pilgrims on the journey of the narrow road. | |
| And those who've gone before us line the way. | |
| You know what I'm talking about. | |
| These are the people that have gone before us. | |
| They've lined the way. | |
| They've walked with God. | |
| And his testimony of faithfulness in their lives is necessary to be imparted to the next generation. | |
| Now, what you're doing here at Morningside with all these young people and the school, and they're all the young people behind the cameras and in the editing booths, you're actually living out that example because what we need now is the men with white hair and wisdom passing down the wisdom of God through their lives to the younger generations. | |
| Jim is almost 80. | |
| Mondo's almost 40. | |
| Sorry, Mondo. | |
| He's over 40. | |
| Come on. | |
| I'm 60. | |
| So I'm right in the middle. | |
| We need a bridge to gap the wisdom of the white-haired men with wisdom to the younger generation. | |
| Folks, when we talk about the old camp meetings of sawdust where the Holy Spirit moved and he knocked you out and four hours later you arose a different person because he'd surgically done his work in your life. | |
| You know what I'm talking about, some of you. | |
| And we talk about that to the young people and they have no idea what we're talking about. | |
| We owe the younger generation an encounter with the Holy Spirit. | |
| 1 Kings 12, 1 through 15 is the greatest story about this. | |
| The folly of Rehoboam, Jeroboam. | |
| And so they came in and instead of listening to the wise men who gave him wise counsel, he only listened to the young men. | |
| And it cost him the kingdom for 350 years. | |
| He didn't listen to those men. | |
| So there are men of God who've been prepared. | |
| They've gone through the steps. | |
| They have this encounter with God that they trust him fully because the Holy Spirit's superintending everything in their lives. | |
| You don't do anything unless you're being led by the Holy Spirit. | |
| You don't say anything. | |
| You don't go anywhere. | |
| You don't touch anything. | |
| You don't do anything unless the Holy Spirit instructs you to do it. | |
| Then you get outside of your boat and you start walking on the water and God meets you. | |
| You see, the heavenly Father's up here on the throne. | |
| Jesus is at his side ever interceding on our behalf. | |
| But the third part of the Godhead, the Holy Spirit, is down here on earth superintending the will of the Father. | |
| So when we come into agreement with the will of the Father in heaven, Jesus says to the Father, Jim Baker is in agreement with your will, Father, and the Father says, make it happen by the power of the Holy Spirit. | |
| That's what happened. | |
| I love that. | |
| That's what's going on. | |