Sermon Transcript Tone Analysis

Before.

Acts chapter 4.

And where you at?

We're going to start in verse 33.

Act 433.

And we're going to look at the 56 places where the Lord uses the word, great as it concerns.

A church.

Ask for.

Let me turn their myself.

Acts 4 verse.

33.

And this is what the Bible says at 4:33.

And with great power, the apostles gave witness to the resurrection of the Lord Jesus and great grace.

Was upon them.

All the Firstmark.

Of a great church is that church has great power.

Someone misfire already mentioned that.

She said, Spirit-filled a church with great power.

Now.

I'm going to stop right there and talk about how I just want to say.

It is a church is not does not operate.

On human Ingenuity.

Operate on our gifts and talents are wet or our wisdom.

A great church will operate on Supernatural power.

It is the power of the holy spirit.

It's not all the marketing things that you can do.

Although we will Market our church cuz I want people to know that our church exists, but that has nothing to do with the power in the church.

It's not how eloquent I am in the Pulpit.

I know I'm not but even if I was that has nothing to do with.

It's not the stories that I tell or the joke that I tell it is a supernatural power that makes the church great.

They ought to be something about new Grace Church.

That is Supernatural.

And if it is, then we're on our way to being a great church.

It's possible to have a great organization.

You can have great mechanic, great planning, great talent, and still not be a great church.

If the, if the power of the holy spirit is not upon the people in the church and the pastor, I would say, but remember on the day of Pentecost, we start here and Acts chapter for the day of Pentecost.

Is the day that the Holy Spirit came and they had 120 preachers their preaching.

And remember how many people were saved that day? 3,000 3,000 people were saved onto debt on the day of Pentecost.

By 120 people preaching.

Today it would take 12,000 people preaching to save five or six.

It seems like and yet they did this in one day that most churches can't do any year.

You see that there was a supernatural power.

Listen to what act 18 says.

You shall receive power after that.

The Holy Ghost has come upon you and you shall be witnesses to me.

That's what the Lord said.

He said you will receive power.

After that.

The holy spirit will come upon you and you shall be Witnesses unto me.

What Jesus Christ is on trial today, like, never before, and we are to be his witness and his witness needs to be filled with the holy spirit.

So let me ask you something this morning.

Are you filled with the Holy Spirit?

Are you filled with it?

Now?

You say, wait a minute, when I was saved.

I thought the Holy Spirit Come to live in my heart life.

He did.

So I have the Holy Spirit in me.

Yes, you do.

If your Christian the holy spirit is in you, but is he active in?

You? Are you filled with his Spirit?

Yes, look once wear it.

When we are saved the Holy Spirit comes to live in us, but friends, we have to have this continual feeling of the spirit if we're going to be filled and to witness with power, like the Bible tells us here.

So are you filled with the spirit?

Is your pastor filled with the spirit?

Well, I trust that I am but I don't want to ask.

Do you believe in the Holy Spirit?

I don't want to ask.

Are you a spirited person but does the power and the anointing of the Holy Spirit rest upon your life.

Do we have each has to answer that question?

I'll show you verse hear Ephesians.

5:18.

Look at this here.

What the Bible says, and do not be drunk with wine and pitches dissipation.

But be filled with the spirit.

Now, let me give you very quickly.

A very important rule grammar lesson here.

I just want you to look at that.

Last phrase, be filled with the spirit.

Number one.

That is an imperative verb, which means it's a command God is commanding us that we be filled with the spirit.

Not only is that.

Verbs in the present tense, which means it's ongoing are feeling needs to be on going every single day.

When we get up out of bed.

We ought to ask the Lord to film, fill us with his Spirit.

We need that.

You say, why?

Because we Are, Holy vessels, We Are Holy to the Lord, but we also leaked, you know, that we leak sometimes, and sometimes it's easy to get away from the spirits on the morning, and we're just living our Christian Life and our own strength and our own power.

This is a present, which says Not only are you feel with a spirit?

Are you being filled daily with the spirit?

That's what he's saying when he says, be filled with the spirit Nexus, a passive voice.

What does that mean?

Well for verbs in a passive, what does that mean?

Well that the subject is not doing the action.

He is being acted upon in other words.

This is not something that you do.

This is not something that you attached is something that God does in you and through you.

And with you, it is his power that's doing it.

It's not from your own effort.

And then it says it isn't, it is plural and number.

What does that mean?

Means if you would read that, it would say y'all be filled with the spirit.