Holy Spirit Directed Ministry — Jim Cymbala

You know there's a lot of causes and organizations and all of that and I really believe so much in what God has raised up Daniel Henderson to do with the 6 -4 fellowship because if we can't agree on those things I don't know what we could ever agree on.

You're not going to get Calvinists together with Arminians, you're not going to get some evangelicals together with people charismatic leanings, but if you can't agree that we should give ourselves to the Word and prayer I don't know what Bible we would be reading.

Prayer, the Word, and the Holy Spirit in Ministry

Am I right? Can I get an amen here? Are you all allowed to say amen in Texas here? Not sure. So I want to talk about that. I want to talk about the combination of prayer and the Word but mingled together with the missing element that we have to keep in front of us which is the Holy Spirit because the Holy Spirit is the one who inspired that Word.

He wrote the Word. This Bible was written by the Holy Spirit and he's the only one who can teach you the Word. The only one who gave us a spirit of revelation so that we read and understand what is the meaning of it is the Holy Spirit.

He's the author and the interpreter. When it comes to prayer you can say prayers but only the Holy Spirit can really teach you how to pray. Paul tells us first person plural including himself. How about that?

For we know not how we ought to pray but who helps us? The Spirit helps us. Us. Come on Paul, you know how to pray. You saw the Lord on the road to Damascus. You're writing a third of the New Testament.

You don't know how to pray? Nope. I know how to say prayers. I learned that when I was a Pharisee but to really pray from my heart with faith, with fervency, that takes the Holy Spirit. So leading a church, pastoring, doing what God's called us all to do takes that balance, again that only the Holy Spirit can give, of the Word and prayer and the gospel of Jesus Christ and evangelism.

You know it's like it's like one of those chords, pastors. It's like one of those chords. Let's hope this thing is on if it's not it's okay but it's like one of those chords. It's like one of those beautiful chords that my wife will hit and sometimes she's writing a song and I'll hear her hit this beautiful chord and I go to the behind her and she's writing a song and she's playing maybe four notes with her right hand and then a bass note with her left and that chord you know I can't play the piano but it's a beautiful chord.

So what is that chord? You can't just take this note and say that's the chord. No, that's one note in the chord. That's only one note. No, then it's this. No, that's just one note in the chord. No, then it's this.

No, that's just one note. The beauty of a chord is you have to hit them all together at the same time and that's why Paul tells Timothy to do a lot of things at once. First of all, I want men everywhere to pray.

Preach the Word. Be instant, in season, and out season. Do the work of an evangelist. Find people who are apt to teach and train them so they can become leadership. Watch out for the widows and the people who are vulnerable.

Take care of them. Well, which are we supposed to do? All of them. And most churches, I'm afraid, we fall into the practice of being a one or two-note church. I'm into praise and worship. Well, that's great.

We need to praise and worship, shouldn't we? How many love to praise and worship? Just lift your hand up. But that's only one note. If you just have praise and worship, the people will never learn the Word of God.

No, we're not into praise and worship. That's too emotional. We're into the Word. We're going to teach the Word. Well, that's good, but without prayer, that becomes very intellectual and heady and dry.

Am I right? So all of us, we got to root for each other and pray for each other that we hit all the notes. Do I get a witness here? All the notes. I'm struggling with that today. All the notes. But certainly, prayer, the Word, and dependence on the Holy Spirit is the substance of the New Testament church as we find it in the Bible.

Now, what American version we come up with or what we might meet in England or anyplace else, that's another matter. But if we want to go by the outline given to us in Scripture, we know that the Word, the preaching of the Word, the good news of Jesus, teaching of the Word, surrounded by an atmosphere of prayer, energized all of it by the Holy Spirit, that is what those fishermen and tax collectors started with.

I owe everything to people who pray. I just turned to my friend, Elmer Towns, who I'm honored to know as a friend, and told him that I'm so encouraged, my wife and I, that last night she called me today and told me that in the choir practice last night, there was such a sweet time of prayer that God really ministered to the choir.

She has about 300 voices. But on Tuesday night, I was there, and there were about 2 ,500 people there for the prayer meeting, and oh my goodness, the Lord was there. And we prayed, and there was no choir, and there was no big sermon.

There was nothing. There was just calling on the name of the Lord. Men ought always to pray and not give up, amen? And if we pray like that, you mean God's not gonna do something? Come on, now be real.

Let's do real talk. We're gonna call on God and pray, and say, God, you call us in the ministry. We have to present the gospel in an alien culture, and God will not help us. No, then you gotta throw away the Bible.

Then throw away your Bible. That's impossible. No one has ever prayed and sought the Lord, and God has not responded. That has never happened. Blessed is the man who puts his trust in the Lord. He'll never be ashamed, right?

Ask, and you shall receive. Knock, and it shall be opened. Seek, and you'll find, right? But we have to be convinced of that, just like we know the Lord is gonna come again. How many believe the Lord Jesus is gonna come again?

Just like that, amen, we gotta know these things, what I'm gonna share with you here. You gotta believe this like the back of your hand. You gotta know this like it's an instinct. You just know, know, God will do that.

God’s Answer to Prayer and a Ministry Calling

That's why he put this story in the Bible. When my mom and dad got married, they had, she got pregnant later on in the first year of their marriage, and she gave birth to a son, my older brother, and then she got pregnant about two years later, 18 months later, and she gave birth to a baby, stillborn, and he died.

Well, they wanted to have another child. She couldn't get pregnant. My mother's Polish, my father's Ukrainian, my late father, so now time, months and months, years went by, couldn't get pregnant, and they didn't want just one child.

So they were Christians, fairly new Christians, and they prayed, and my mom said they prayed and said, God, I guess they thought because of the complication of the loss of that second child that maybe she couldn't have any more babies.

They said, God, give us a baby, and before that baby is born, we give the baby to you. We dedicate the baby to you, and then I came along. Later on, it was a sister born, my sister. I was the least of the three of them in terms of behavior, wasn't a strong Christian, troublemaker.

My dad started drinking. I used that as justification for a lot of stuff. Then couldn't come in the house because it was hellish, a lot of violence. Stayed out in the parks, in the playground, shooting hoops.

That was my life. That was my world. Wasn't strong Christian in high school. Wasn't a strong Christian in college, but I'm the one in the ministry, and I can only, yeah, I know God is sovereign, and He chooses these things, but I got to link it to my mom and dad saying, please, God, give us a baby, and before He's even born, we give Him to you for your purposes.

How many believe God answers prayers like that? Can you lift your hand? Oh, yeah. So I'm the least of all of you, but God has put me in the ministry, and I want to talk to you about something so important, which you got to, we got to believe this.

Starting out in the ministry, I did not believe this like I believe it today, but I want to believe it more. You got to believe this. This got to be instinct, like when the doctor says sit, and he taps your knee, and then your foot goes up like that.

It's got to be an instinct in us. It's got to be absolutely rock-solid. You can't be pulled away to the left or to the right. You have to believe that God put this story in the Bible for a reason, and I'm talking about the story that's found in Acts 13.

My friend Daniel Henderson and I were talking about this chapter over some barbecue last night. Now, there were in Antioch, in the church there, as prophets and teachers, Bartimaeus Simeon named Niger, Lucius the Cyrenian, Manson, who was Herod the Tetrarch's foster brother, and Saul, that's Saul of Tarsus.

While they were worshiping the Lord and fasting, while they were worshiping the Lord, communing with the Lord and fasting, the Holy Spirit said, separate me, set apart Barnabas and Saul for the work to which I've called them.

So after fasting and prayer and the laying on of hands, they let them go. They therefore being thus sent out by the Holy Spirit. Notice what's in there? The church sent them out, but now it says the Holy Spirit sent them out.

Well, who sent them out? Both, the church and the Spirit. They went down to Seleucia and then sailed to Cyprus. Having reached Salamis, they began to announce the Word of God in the synagogues of the Jews and they had John, that's John Mark, as their assistant.

When they had gone through the whole length of the island as far as Paphos, they there met with a Jewish magician and false prophet, Bar-Jesus by name, who was a friend of the pro-council Sergius Paulus, that's a Roman official.

The pro-council was a man of keen intelligence. He sent for Barnabas and Saul and he asked to be told the Word of God, the gospel, but Elymas, or the magician for such is the meaning of the name, opposed them and tried to prevent the pro-council from accepting the faith.

Then Saul, who is also called Paul, this is by the way the place in the Bible where his name changes, Luke tells us that, was filled with the Holy Spirit and fixing his eyes on Elymas said, you are full of every kind of craftiness and unscrupulous cunning, you son of the devil and foe to all that is right.

Will you never cease to misrepresent the straight paths of the Lord? The Lord's hand is now upon you and you will be blind for a time and unable to see the light of day. Instantly there fell upon him a mist and a darkness and as he walked about he begged people to lead him by the hand.

Then the pro-council, Sergius Paulus, seeing what had happened, he believed, no kidding, being struck with amazement at the teaching of the Lord. Now this story is put in the Bible for a reason. You know, we have so little of Jesus's life, all the things he said and did.

John said it would fill up the whole world with books, all that he said and did. We have very few fragmentary things that Matthew, Mark, and Luke are repeated, so many of them. Then John has some other unique ones.

But Jesus ministered for three and a half years, day in, day out, morning, noon, and night. Think of all the things that he did that we don't know about. And in the time of the book of Acts, just think of all the things that happened to Paul and Peter that we don't know about, and the other apostles.

God chose not to reveal it to us. We don't need to know it. He doesn't tell us what we want to know. He gives us what we need to know. So when you do find a story like this in the Bible, it captures your attention that the Holy Spirit would anoint Luke and have him tell that story.

Out of all the stuff Luke researched, he's led by the Spirit and inspired by the Spirit to put this in Scripture. Now this happens in Antioch, and it's right around this time where the whole focus of the book of Acts changes from Jerusalem to Antioch.

In chapter 11 of Acts, we find out that from the persecution of the Christians, people were flying about everywhere sharing the gospel. And certain men from Cyprus and Cyrene went to Syria, Antioch in Syria, which is undergoing all this stuff in the news now, all this killing.

A church was begun there. Why? Because the hand of the Lord was with them. Oh my goodness, would I love the hand of the Lord with me like that? Why was there a church? Because certain men didn't even give us the names.

They weren't into hero pastors or hero evangelists back then. They just said certain men from Cyprus and Cyrene went there. But the hand of the Lord was with them, and multitudes turned to the Lord. I've often thought I'd rather live just a few years with the hand of the Lord with me, powerfully, than live a long life just struggling in my own strength.

Anybody here with me, say amen. So that church begins, and then Saul of Tarsus ends up going there, and Barnabas ends up there from Jerusalem. Now that's a heavyweight staff in a church. You got Paul, you got Saul of Tarsus, you got Barnabas and others, prophets and teachers.

And now they practice what 6 -4 is all about. They begin to seek the Lord and worship the Lord. Remember, praying always has to be mingled with praise and thanksgiving, or it can get very, very depressing.

Waiting on God Through Prayer and Worship

I always have to caution the people in our church. Okay, remember now, no matter what, how your heart is broken and what you're asking God for, always be mingling some thanksgiving. Remember Philippians 4 -6, be anxious for nothing but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving.

Make your needs known to God. Sometimes I hear people's prayer and it's just such a laundry list of negativity and problems that it overwhelms you. You get depressed hearing a guy pray, but you throw in some praise and thanksgiving.

It builds your faith because God who is, oh God is faithful. Isn't God faithful? Isn't God faithful? God is so faithful. So as they're ministering to the Lord and waiting on God and praying and not rushed, oh brothers and sisters, pastor listen to me, you can have instant potatoes, you can have instant coffee, you can have instant a lot of things, you can't have instant God.

They that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength. And the idea of a rush service with a line of what's going to happen every minute, I was just somewhere recently at some large conference and they said, okay Pastor Jim, they mic'd me up and they said, okay here's the thing for the service, not the menu, the script for the service.

So okay, the praise and worship is going to go exactly 12 and a half minutes. And then we're gonna have a guy come up and he's gonna share something for three and a half minutes. Then we're gonna have a special song by the choir, the song is four and a half minutes.

Then if someone's gonna come up and prepare for the offering, that's gonna take one minute. He's gonna pray for another minute before the offering. The offering song is gonna take four minutes. Then they're gonna introduce you, you have 21 minutes to speak, okay?

Then we want you not to lead people to pray as we know you want to, but we've got to keep our eye on the clock here. So then we're gonna, we want to turn it, the choir's gonna do an anthem, God Bless America or something.

So and there the whole thing was lined up. And then after they gave it to me and I said, whatever, because where you go someone you just want to serve, amen? You serve, you go with the program. Then they began to pray, Lord, Holy Spirit come and move among us today.

Wind of God breathe upon, where would he fit in? He's not even in the agenda, he's not even in the script. How would he get in? You think the meetings back in the book of Acts were the way we had them?

No, I'll be honest with you, be real. You think they were? Oh but brother that will lead to fanaticism. No, you can say anything you want. I'm asking you a question, do you think Paul was constrained by that?

And what troubles me and bothers me, let's just take this city, this great city, in this great area. It's strange to me that pastors tell me they can't hold the people but for an hour, an hour and ten minutes they get itchy and want to leave.

But if the Cowboys are playing and the game goes into overtime, nobody complains, nobody complained. Or they watch a movie or go to a movie or watch a football game, nobody complains. Like wow, this game is going long.

Nobody says that. But church is going long. Pastors, if that's the kind of congregations we have, maybe we better check ourselves. What are we producing? And would heaven be heaven to these people? No games, no movies, no cell phones, no texting.

I mean what in the world are we going to do up there? How many are looking forward to being in the presence of God without end? But if we're not training people and seeing the Holy Spirit acclimate their hearts to a loving the presence of the Lord, something must be wrong.

Something's got to be wrong. I'm not legalistic. I don't want to judge anyone, but that just doesn't sit right with me. Church, let's get out of here. But in His presence there's fullness of joy. Well then how come you want to get out so quick?

Am I wrong or right, brothers and sisters? So that's probably not a good symptom. That's not a good sign. So here they were taking time to wait upon the Lord, to seek the Lord. And the Spirit moved. And we're going to see the Word preached.

But here's what I want you to know. Whenever your church, or my church, or you and your staff, however, whenever we seek the Lord and wait on Him, whenever we pour out our hearts to God and go back to primitive religion, a couple pastors on my staff went recently or a couple of years ago to one of these church growth gurus and went to the conference.

And you know, people going, they were there two and a half days and they came back and they had learned some interesting things, but mostly technique and style, not much substance. And they mentioned one thing that did bother us, Pastor, was in the two and a half days we were there and we went to every session, there was not one minute given to prayer.

Not one minute of prayer. Not 60 seconds. And there was not one verbal reference to the Holy Spirit. Now, what did they want to talk about? Lights? How to do PowerPoint? How to utilize your space better?

What colors on the walls are more comfortable to people? Is that what this is all about? That's why Christ died on the cross? That girl that I mentioned to the pastors earlier today in my church that we're fighting for, a 14-year-old who's cutting herself and trying to take her life now two or three times, but she wrote with a knife on her inner thigh, I help, H-E-L-P.

Lights are going to change that? No, I'm dead serious. What world, what world are those people living in? We wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities. You think principalities and powers care about the lighting?

I'm all for lighting. Use the best lighting you know. Change whatever colors you want. Have PowerPoint. Use whatever you want to use. But don't tell me that's what the Christianity is about. Can we all say amen to that?

It's interesting to me, it's interesting to me, Rabbi Zechariah, my friend and I were talking about this, it's interesting that Christianity is now going over and through the most massive decline probably in history right now in America.

Probably real born-again evangelical by believing Jesus is the only way of salvation. Christians, part of the population, is either 9 or as low as 6. That's from five different Christian polling agencies.

It's interesting that we're having the most books written and most conferences about church growth and church to growth and church is in decline. We have the most books and conference about leadership and pastors are quitting at a record rate.

And more than 50 say they would quit the ministry next week if they could only get a job to pay the bills. That's from Focus on the Family. So behind a lot of the posturing and the pulpit and God is on the throne and praise God all the time and all that, there's a lot of defeated people.

I don't know what to do. And every time they try to redefine the church or go to a new church growth scheme or strategy, they get further discouraged because it doesn't work. Brothers and sisters, I want to declare to you, nothing works.

God works. No song works. No mood works. No church formula works. Don't copy anyone. We got to get in touch with God. For your own sake, don't copy any church. Don't go and copy anyone. Learn, be influenced, but don't copy anyone.

If God wanted you to be that way, he would have made you that way. And isn't it interesting that the church, the country that now has the most Christians in the world is mainland China. Robbie and I were over in Hong Kong ministering to underground church leaders, home church leaders, half of whom had been in jail.

I felt so unworthy to even speak to them. And all that we're teaching is a necessity to have church. They wouldn't even know what you're talking about. They're meeting in secret. They don't even know the names of other Christians in the city because if somebody got arrested, they might give up names.

And they're multiplying, multiplying, multiplying, just depending on the Word of God, the gospel, prayer. They have no lights, no PowerPoint. They have nothing, but they have everything. They have Jesus.

They have Jesus. So the early church is ministering, and here's what will always happen when you and I give ourselves to this prayer that Daniel Anderson 6 -4 is encouraging us to. You give yourselves to the Word and prayer, and you're open to the Holy Spirit.

Holy Spirit Guidance and Direction

This is what will always happen. It will always happen. Listen to me now. I've made more mistakes than all of you put together, I feel. But I want to tell you this. You can take this to the bank. This is what will always happen when you seek the Lord.

Number one, you will get Holy Spirit guidance and direction. If anyone's here today and you're facing, you don't know what to do, you're not sure what the next step is, if we seek the Lord, give ourselves, open ourselves to the Holy Spirit, give ourselves to the Word of God, because you can't pray effectively unless you're filled with the Word of God like George Miller said.

Faith comes by hearing, hearing by the Word of God, and you need faith when you pray. As they're waiting on God, how about being in that service? As they're waiting on God and worshiping and fasting, the Holy Spirit says, probably through one of the gifts of the Spirit, out loud, separate me Paul and Barnabas, Saul and Barnabas, for the work that I've called them to do.

Talk about drama, talk about Holy Ghost hysteria, wonderful, edifying, the Holy Spirit speaks, not in an audible voice, but through some, probably had to be someone in the congregation, and the word, the names are mentioned.

We would say that's ludicrous, that's impossible, but that's our lack of faith. That's in the Bible that we're pounding and we want to argue with agnostics, oh this is the Word of God, well this is what that Word of God says.

That as they gave themselves to the Lord and the presence of God and the Word and to seeking the Lord, the Lord said separate me Paul and Barnabas to the work that I've called them to do. And every time you and I will seek the Lord and really give ourselves to it, be radical about it, you know be like radical about it, the Lord will always give us, it has to happen.

Sooner or later, we don't know how long they were doing this before the Lord spoke, the Spirit spoke. Notice the personality of the Holy Spirit there. Separate me Paul and Barnabas to the work that I've called them, I, the Spirit.

The Spirit knows what you're supposed to preach on this Sunday, even though you might have something else scheduled. The Holy Spirit knows who in your church is the hand of the Lord is upon, that you need to take time and develop.

The Holy Spirit is the only one who can direct us to a building program. You do it without him leading, you can get in a whole lot of trouble. Because nowhere in the Bible does it say I can do what I want and God's going to pay the bills.

That is not found anywhere in the Scripture. But when the Holy Spirit leads us to do something, we know God is going to do it. God is going to do it. Would the Holy Spirit lead us and then let us drop?

Our problem is we make unilateral decisions without seeking the guidance of the Holy Spirit and that's very strong now. In places that should know better, people are mocking the idea that you seek God for his will.

I've heard that from young preachers, older preachers. You don't pray about these things. Just whatever you feel like doing, God could care less. Where would you get that from Scripture? Later on in this book, Paul is now called Paul and he's with his missionary team and he wants to go up into Asia, remember that story, to preach the gospel, but the Spirit forbids him.

So then he wants to go to Bithynia and the Spirit of Jesus stops him. Why doesn't he just do what he wants to do? Like God could care less. Marry anyone you want. Oh, how many believe that God, who knows the number of hairs on our head, he has the one we're supposed to marry?

How many believe that? How many? Do you believe that? Lift your hand up if you believe that. Well, of course. You just marry anyone I want and then say, God bless it? I don't humble myself and say, Lord, lead me to the one that you picked out for me.

He that does the will of God shall abide forever, but who? The will of God, in terms of moral teaching, is found in the Scripture. You don't pray and say, God, can I steal this money from my job? You don't pray about that.

The Bible says don't steal. That's tempting God, but there are a lot of other decisions in life. You have no idea. I have no idea what to do, but the Spirit will guide us. They didn't know to separate.

How would they know to separate Saul and Barnabas for a missions trip? They didn't have a clue to do that. No software is going to tell you that. The Holy Spirit is going to tell you that, and they didn't do a personality study.

Is Saul fit? Do they go together? How will they do in foreign environments? I mean, come on. How many, I thank God for the Holy Spirit today. Come on, let's say amen to that. I'm not being simplistic.

I'm not being simplistic, and I'm not trying to be anti-Diluvian. What I'm saying is this is what Scripture tells us. If you honor the Holy Spirit, he'll honor you. He'll honor me. If you and I feel we're too smart and don't need his help, he'll say go for it, but I'm not part of that.

By the way, can I just suggest this also when you're preaching? How many want when you preach you want the help of the Holy Spirit? Just lift your hand if you want the help. Here's what I've learned. If you mix anything except glorifying Christ, the Holy Spirit will draw his influences.

If you want to show off yourself and have people think you're clever and smart, you can do it, but the Holy Spirit says no, no, no. I was not sent to glorify you. You're on your own. Go ahead and do it.

I was only sent to glorify Christ. You want to glorify your denomination like it's special? You're on your own. He was not sent to glorify any denomination because they don't exist to God. There are no assemblies of God or Baptists or Calvary chapels to God.

That doesn't exist. He only has one body. How could there be division in the one body? So you and I bring up any pet doctrine or Brooklyn tabernacle-ism, you want to just glorify anything but Jesus and you'll see a withdrawal of the Holy Spirit, but if we want to just lift up Jesus, what we could see the Holy Spirit do.

Because when he sees that we only want to glorify Christ and have no agenda, he'll come in rivers that we have never even imagined. So you've got to know today, know this, whatever you're facing, whatever dilemma, whatever decision with the staff, if we seek the Lord, he will direct our steps.

We will hear a voice saying behind us, this is the way, walk in it. Scripture tells us all doctrinal matters, you don't pray about that, but there are so many other decisions like a building program, like hiring a new person, like who to lead worship, like what songs to lead in worship, like what to do when you get up and you feel a dry spirit in the church.

How many pastors here have noticed there's a different spirit in every meeting that we have in church? Am I right or wrong? Different atmosphere. So what do you do if you feel like the whole church is like, they're like comatose?

What do you do? The Holy Spirit knows. Holy Spirit knows what to do at all times. And he was sent to help us build the Church of Christ. If we seek the Lord, the Holy Spirit will lead us. And this terrible anti-supernaturalism that's in so many churches that mock the fact that God will lead us and guide us, that's horrible.

That's grievous. That's why the Spirit of God is so not felt in so many assemblies, because they mock his power. They act like they don't need him. Look at me. If I don't have the Holy Spirit help me, what am I gonna do?

I'm in downtown Brooklyn trying to do some good in the hood, as they say, and I got all these kinds of problems walking in the building, and I didn't even go to seminary without the Holy Spirit. Well, I do.

You're listening to me. Am I a great orator? No. Am I a great preacher? Have a great speaking voice? No. So without the Holy Spirit, what are my wife and I gonna do? She can't read or write music, and she's directing a choir.

Isn't that just amazing? They sang at the, and they were invited in July, long before the election was decided, to sing by Senator Schumer, to sing a new version that Carol made of the battle hymn of the Republic at the inauguration.

Anyone see them sing there? And, and, and I just thought to myself, Schumer, Senator Schumer came by the church for the last practice. He wanted to hear what they had put together, massive orchestra arrangement, very beautiful.

She's such a genius, and she doesn't know what she's doing. The joke in our church is, she doesn't know what she's doing, she just keeps doing it every Sunday, and we're all happy, and just keep doing it, even though you don't know what you're doing.

Can't, can't imagine, written 130, 40 songs, and can't read the sheet music of any of the songs she's written. Won six Grammy Awards, and now Senator Schumer came and said to them, you're going to be singing to six to eight hundred thousand people live there, but it's going to be televised to one billion people around the world.

A woman who can't read music was leading people who had fasted and prayed because they wanted to glorify God, and it so transcended the smallness of politicians, and presidents, and Republicans, and Democrats.

What's that all about compared to God? God is awesome. Can we say amen to that? In the beauty of the lilies, Christ was born across the sea. As he died to make men holy, let us die to make men free. As he died to make men holy.

So you and I can know this, we will be led by God. Not maybe, we will be led by God. That's why this story is in there. God will show you in the church, the person, the talent in your church. He'll lift, he'll elevate them.

There'll be some sign. He'll just show us. If we get our churches praying and waiting on the Lord, seeking God, things will happen led by the Holy Spirit. In all those realms where it's not a moral thing.

You know, if there's no command to build a building, there's no command in the Bible not to build a building. We got to be led by the Holy Spirit. Number two, if you and I are seeking the Lord and giving ourselves to the Word and to prayer and we're open to the Holy Spirit, you will face demonic opposition.