God longs to fill you with the Holy Spirit, but are you ready to receive the promised One? Join Elder Batchelor to uncover the often ignored biblical prerequisites for receiving the fullness of the Holy Spirit.

GYC 2011: Fill Me

<p>God longs to fill you with the Holy Spirit, but are you ready to receive the promised One? Join Elder Batchelor to uncover the often ignored biblical prerequisites for receiving the fullness of the Holy Spirit.</p>

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Generation. Youth. Christ. (GYC)

GYC 2011 Seminar: The Necessity of the Spirit

Doug Batchelor

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Conformation or Transformation, Part 2

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Victorious Overcomers, Part 2

The Greatest Need, Part 1

The Greatest Need, Part 2

This message was presented at the GYC 2011 conference.

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Please turn in your Bibles to the book of Romans, Romans chapter 12.

We're going to look at verse 1 and 2 I think most of us are acquainted with this Romans 12 verse 1 and 2 I beseech you therefore brethren by the mercies of God that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service.

And do not be conformed to this world but be transformed by the renewing of your mind that you might prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God." Wow, there's a lot there.

First I want you to notice that proving what the perfect, good and acceptable will of God is involves presenting your bodies.

Being transformed and not conformed in your minds also involves your bodies, because your body is going to play out what's happening in your mind.

And he begins by saying, I beseech you, I beg you, I plead with you.

Brethren, by the mercies of God, He's offering us this incredible mercy that you present yourself, you surrender yourself.

The only way that we can have the Holy Spirit is to present ourselves as a holy sacrifice, acceptable to God, which is reasonable.

Now, I think the main purpose of this seminar is that we might plead for the filling of the Holy Spirit.

When a person is, they lose their temper and they're angry, and they're full of anger, what controls them?

If a person has fallen in love and they're full of love, what controls them?

You know, how they plan their time and how they plan where they go and how they spend their money, it's all being governed by this person they have fallen in love with.

And when a person is full of the Spirit, what controls them?

It's the Holy Spirit that's controlling them.

You know, I'll just, I'll be very open and honest with you in our time that we have together, I think that the Lord has a very interesting sense of humor in that before I ever came to this seminar or knew what the theme was, the desire of my life has been to be filled with the Holy Spirit.

I mean more so than usual and I probably ought to encourage you a little bit by making it clear right now that you don't get filled with the Holy Spirit 1 time, and I'm convinced everybody here has experienced the Holy Spirit in some degree.

When you're baptized, the promise that Peter says, repent and be baptized, This is Acts chapter 2.

Matter of fact, why don't we turn there real quick?

Peter said, Acts chapter 2, 38, I hear the rustle of the pages.

Then Peter said to them, repent and let every 1 of you and be baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ for the remission of sin and you shall receive, you might?

You shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit for the promise promise of what promise of the gift of the Holy Spirit is to you and your children and to all who are far off and as many as the lord god will call that covers everybody.

God has made a promise of the Holy Spirit to everybody.

If you repent of your sins and you come to Christ for baptism and you want to live a new kind of life, he has promised to give you the Holy Spirit.

It's the Holy Spirit that comes in our life that convicts us of sin.

How many of you have been convicted of sin before?

It's the Holy Spirit that gives us the ability to resist temptation.

Everything you need for the Christian life comes through the Holy Spirit.

But I think when we talk about being filled with the Holy Spirit, we all picture maybe what happened at Pentecost.

And we're going to look at that in a little bit.

But that baptism of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost was unique.

Now the filling of the Spirit happened many times after Acts chapter 2.

You can read in Acts chapter 4, I think it's verse 32, the place where they prayed was shaken and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and they began to speak the Word of God with boldness.

So even after they were baptized with the Holy Spirit in Acts chapter 2, that wasn't, They didn't just get like filled up like some kind of oil tank that's sealed and they just went around the rest of their life filled and sealed.

The Holy Spirit tends to seep out and you need a constant filling every day.

The spirit is like oil in a lamp and it burns and you've got to keep adding kerosene to the lamp and So Christians need an ongoing filling of the spirit And then we're talking about being cleansed by the spirit which is different again from the latter rain of the Holy Spirit.

Now, we might all pray for the latter rain at this meeting.

I think that we've been counseled to do that.

I think both in the Word of God and the spirit of prophecy.

But that's something that's connected with a time that is in God's keeping.

God has a time on his calendar when he is going to pour out the Holy Spirit in latter reign power.

When the disciples received the Holy Spirit at Pentecost, did God schedule that?

Or did that just happen because they prayed?

Well, maybe a little of both, but it was according to God's schedule.

Remember Jesus said, wait in Jerusalem until you receive the Holy Spirit.

50 days after Passover, Pentecost, Penta means 50.

It fell right when it was supposed to fall during the time of the former rain.

But for us to be filled with the Spirit as they were in Acts chapter 4 where they were all praying that they might have boldness to preach, did the Holy Spirit come on the disciples before Pentecost?

In the upper room when Jesus breathed on them and said, receive ye the Holy Spirit, did they get a measure of the Holy Spirit then?

Can you get the Holy Spirit after baptism?

Can you get the Holy Spirit before baptism?

Cornelius In chapter 10 of Acts, the Roman centurion, Peter comes to him and he preaches to him and while he hears the word, the Holy Spirit fell on them and they began to speak in tongues and they had the evidence of the Holy Spirit.

Speaking actually not 1 of the fruits, 1 of the gifts.

At Jesus' baptism, the Holy Spirit came at the time of baptism.

He came up out of the water and the heavens were open and the Holy Spirit descended like a dove and he was led of the Spirit into the wilderness.

By the way, what does the word Christ mean?

Christ is Christos, it means anointed in Greek.

The Messiah is the anointed in Hebrew, Jesus if he was anything he was the anointed, the anointed.

When did he especially get the Holy Spirit?

It says that 27 AD at the 483 years after that prophecy in Daniel chapter 9, to anoint the most holy, I'm talking Daniel chapter 9 now.

How many of you know what I'm talking about?

I'm talking to you like you have some Bible background.

That prophecy in Daniel 9 about when the Messiah would come, you know how it identified him?

That's when he began his public ministry.

He was filled with the Holy Spirit in a special way.

Did Jesus not have the Holy Spirit before his baptism?

John the Baptist, when did he first get the Spirit?

Series

GYC 2011 Seminar: The Necessity of the Spirit

Conformation or Transformation, Part 1

Transcript

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GYC 2011 Seminar: If I Go, He Will Come

What On Earth Is HE Waiting On, Part 1

1h 50m

Empowered by His Spirit

39m

Unlock Revelation

Our Greatest Need

36m

The Science of Surrender

56m

Part 5 - Crossing the Jordan

1h 9m

Sanctuary, Salvation, & Our Savior

Sanctuary, Salvation, & Our Savior - Part 5: Sanctuary Under Siege

1h 12m

Knees, Keys, and Please!

2. Encountering God

1h 5m

Alan Parker ~ Biblical Holiness: A Guide for Sinners

Radical Holiness: Steps to a Sanctified Life

55m

GYC 2011 Seminar: The Necessity of the Spirit

Conformation or Transformation, Part 2

36m

Acts

The Baptism of the Holy Spirit, Part 1

31m

Plenary

Going Big So We Can Go Home

1h 43m

How To Survive the Shaking

1h

Sound Doctrine