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Introduction<\/h3>\nIntroduction<\/h3>\nSo we meet again.\u00a0 And you are full aware of the topic we are preaching about.\u00a0 We have spent the last 3 messages investigating this thing of being “carried away in the Spirit.”\u00a0 We’ve been trying to acquaint ourselves with the “Things of the Spirit”; the things of the Holy Ghost.\u00a0 I’m interested in the things of the Spirit.\u00a0 Paul said that they that walk after the Spirit do mind the things of the Spirit.\u00a0 I want to set my mind on those things.\u00a0 That’s one way to get to know someone and have fellowship with someone; to take an interest in the things that interest that person?<\/p>\n
John 14:16,17\u00a0 And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever; Even<\/i> the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
YE KNOW HIM… Let me ask you this:\u00a0 Do you know him?\u00a0 Do you know the Holy Spirit of truth?\u00a0 Or are we like those disciples in Ephesus when Paul asked them about the Holy Spirit?\u00a0 Do you remember what they said?\u00a0 “We have not heard whether there be any Holy Ghost!”\u00a0 That’s where most Christians are today.\u00a0 Oprah Whinfrey and Pentecostals have ripped off the doctrine of the Holy Ghost.\u00a0 They have hijacked the Holy Spirit.\u00a0 No, the world does not know the Spirit.\u00a0 The world cannot receive him.\u00a0 The world cannot see him.\u00a0 But, YE KNOW HIM.\u00a0 God’s people know the Holy Ghost; or at least they should…<\/p>\n
I want to say this:\u00a0 We ought to desire to be carried away in the Spirit like Ezekiel.\u00a0 We ought to desire to be driven by the Spirit like Jesus Was.\u00a0 John the apostle said, “And he carried me away in the spirit to a great and high mountain; and shewed me that great city, the holy Jerusalem, descending out of heaven from God.”<\/p>\n
\nSong of Songs 2:10\u00a0 My beloved spake, and said unto me, Rise up, my love, my fair one, and come away.<\/p>\n
Song of Songs 2:13\u00a0\u00a0…<\/span>Arise, my love, my fair one, and come away.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
I want to linger here in our study.\u00a0 I don’t want to miss what god has for us.\u00a0 Ah!\u00a0 Must we be carried away in the Spirit?\u00a0 Brother Wayne Henderson said, “Don’t ever let anyone tell you that there isn’t more!”\u00a0 There is more.\u00a0 There was more for Ezekiel.\u00a0 There was more for John.\u00a0 There was more for Paul.\u00a0 Paul said, “That I may know him and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable unto his death. NOT as though I had already attained, either were already perfect:”\u00a0 Do you know what Paul\u00a0is saying?\u00a0 He’s saying, “Don’t let anyone tell you that there isn’t more!”\u00a0 Paul, in his admission that he’s not there yet, is declaring loud and clear that there’s more!\u00a0 “But I follow after, if that\u00a0 may apprehend that which also I am apprehended of Christ Jesus…”\u00a0 Paul is saying that God has apprehended me so that I may apprehend what God has for me.\u00a0 I’m telling you God has MORE for us!<\/p>\n
God did not save us…\u00a0 Jesus did not die on a cross for us to just remain the same, and sit on a church pew and rot; to learn a few Christian doctrines and say a few prayers. No, he came that we might have LIFE and have it more more more more more MORE abundantly.\u00a0 When I got save, God opened my eyes and let me see that I had EVERYTHING wrong.\u00a0 Everything about me was wrong.\u00a0 Everything inside me was wrong.\u00a0 Everything we wrong.\u00a0 And God, in his amazing grace, wants to change every bit of that. God wants to dramatically change your life, so much that he died on a cross, he took our sin upon him, and paid the wages of sin in order to achieve that in us.<\/p>\n
God has MORE for us!\u00a0 The world is saying that there isn’t more.\u00a0 The devil is telling you that there isn’t more.\u00a0 The flesh is telling you that there isn’t more.\u00a0 Even the brethren, in the way they live their life, are telling you that there isn’t more.\u00a0 Your own sluggish heart and mind are telling you that there isn’t more.\u00a0 But I want to tell you today as an ambassador to the Lord Jesus Christ, and by the authority of the Word of God, that God has more for you!\u00a0 Who told you that he didn’t?\u00a0 What right do we have to limit the power and ability of God?\u00a0 What right do we have to put God in in a little box and restrict him from doing his work?\u00a0 Death couldn’t hold him.\u00a0 The gates of hell did not prevail against him.\u00a0 The grave couldn’t hold him.\u00a0 Who has bewitched us into thinking and believing that there’s not MORE for God’s people.<\/p>\n
God has more for you, that’s a fact.\u00a0 The question is:\u00a0 Do we want more of God?\u00a0 The bible says, “Blessed are they that hunger and thirst after righteousness, for they SHALL be filled…”\u00a0 Filled with what?\u00a0 With God.\u00a0 On that great day of Pentecost, Peter stood up and said, “This is that which is spoken by the prophet Joel; And it shall come to pass in the last days saith God, I will pour out of MY spirit upon all flesh…”<\/p>\n
\nEphesians 5:17,18\u00a0 Wherefore be ye not unwise, but understanding what the will of the Lord is<\/i>. And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit;\u00a0 <\/b><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
God has more for us!\u00a0 He said they SHALL be filled!\u00a0 Filled with God!\u00a0 He told Abraham, “I am thy exceeding great reward!”\u00a0 In Paul’s letter to the Colossians talked about the “mystery which hath been hid from ages and from generations.”\u00a0 He says it’s “NOW made manifest to his saints:\u00a0\u00a0To whom God would make known what is<\/i> the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; WHICH IS Christ in you, the hope of glory:”<\/p>\n
I want to linger here in the “things of the Spirit.” What more God has for you will not be found outside these things of the Spirit.\u00a0 What more God has for you will not be found apart from his Holy Spirit.\u00a0 Don’t ever let anyone one tell you that there’s not MORE to this thing.\u00a0 Don’t ever be content in your walk with God.\u00a0 You are what you believe.\u00a0 If you believe that can’t go any further with God, guess what?\u00a0 You won’t go any further with God.\u00a0 If you believe that you’ve had enough of God, then guess what?\u00a0 You’ve had enough of God.\u00a0 But if you believe there’s more, it’s because it’s so.\u00a0 He that believeth God must believe that he is and is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.\u00a0 How many of you can honestly say that your are not where you were in your understanding of God when you first got saved?\u00a0 When you 1st got save, your condition, your faith, your understanding..\u00a0 Are you at the same point today?\u00a0 What about 5 years ago?\u00a0 What about 2 years ago?\u00a0 What about 1?\u00a0 If what you have is more, more powerful, more amazing, more intimate, more trustworthy, more beautiful, more sweet that it was before, then what makes us think that God is not capable of giving us more and more and more of himself in the days to come?<\/p>\n
Ephesians 3:20 \u00a0Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us,<\/p>\n
Philippians 1:6\u00a0\u00a0 Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it<\/i> until the day of Jesus Christ:<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
God has more for his people… Paul said:<\/p>\n
Philippians 3:13,14\u00a0 Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this<\/i> one thing I do<\/i>, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.<\/p>\n