Baptism of the Holy Ghost & New Testament Reality — Denny Kenaston

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The River of God and the Need for the Holy Spirit

I don't know, maybe this week is like what Ezekiel was talking about there back in the Old Testament. Remember when he talked about this river flowing out from under the throne of heaven? And he went so far and he was in up to his ankles, and then he went so far and he was in up to his knees, and then he went so far and he was in up to his waist, and then he was swimming!

Let's stand for a word of prayer. Can we do that?

Lord, we love you this morning. We come to you in Jesus' name. We thank you for loving us. We don't really understand it, but we thank you that you do, you love us. Father, we come to you this morning because we have nowhere else to go.

We come to you this morning because we don't have anything to say. If you don't give us something to say, Lord, we know. We come to you this morning because without you we can do nothing. And so we pray that you will, again this morning and throughout this day, anoint this day with your presence.

Anoint this preacher with your anointing, Lord, with your message for the day. Anoint the ears of our heart, Lord, the eyes of our understanding. This day we pray in Jesus' name. Amen. Alright, this morning's message was supposed to be yesterday morning's message, and yesterday morning's message was supposed to be this morning's message.

But the Lord changed my direction and switched those messages around, and I wasn't sure if I understood why. But after the message last evening, I knew why. That all of that just fit together so beautifully.

And so this morning I want to speak on the baptism of the Holy Ghost and New Testament reality. The baptism of the Holy Ghost and New Testament reality. What is the effect of the anointing of the Holy Ghost in a believer's life?

Pentecost Transforms the Apostles

The prophet Samuel was speaking prophetically to Saul during the time that he was to be anointed king. He said these words to Saul. He said, That's powerful. That puts the whole thing in a nutshell, doesn't it?

The 120 in the upper room, the apostles, I'm sure that they could say those very words. When the day of Pentecost was fully come, the Spirit of the Lord came upon us and we prophesied and we were turned into another man.

Before that, they had dull apprehensions of the truths that Jesus was speaking to them. Before that, they had a weak vision, seeing very dimly the things that Christ was trying to describe to them that would happen in the future.

Before that, they were a feeble bunch with a feeble faith. Before that, they were weak in their brotherly love one for another. And their resolutions were very short-lived. They were fearful. They were doubters.

They were running scared. And I think we could probably say to describe just an overall description of them. I mean, they were very sincere. These were the men who had enough insight to be able to say way beyond those Pharisees who knew their Bibles inside and out.

They had enough insight to say, we have found the Messiah. They were full of religious zeal. They were seeking the highest that they knew. They were not evil, wicked men, but they were moving in the natural rather than in the spiritual.

I think that's a good description. They had open hearts. They had found the Messiah. They had forsaken all. They treasured His words, but yet they moved in the realm of the natural so much of the time.

That's a good description of them. Maybe it's a good description of us also. We are here. We love to be here. We love the Word. We're excited about what's happening here. But if we give an overall evaluation of our day-to-day life, we move in the natural rather than in the spiritual most of the time.

I mean, Peter was so bold when Christ began to prophesy to them and tell them that He was going to go to the cross and shed His blood, which would be the redemption of all mankind. Peter was so much in the natural and so out of tune in the spiritual that Christ had to say to him, Get thee behind Me, Satan.

Thou savorest not the things that be of God, but savorest the things that be of men. Interesting. Interesting. They moved in the realm of the natural so much of the time. But after Pentecost, they were changed into another man.

Imagine, Peter was changed into another man after Pentecost. They began to move in the realm of the Spirit. Their character was transformed. They were different men. Their words became quick and powerful, life-changing words.

Their words cut to the heart. Imagine, just a little bit with me this morning, the day after Pentecost. The day after Pentecost. Yesterday was a busy day. Peter was busy all day long. There was a lot going on on the day of Pentecost.

Christ Comes to Dwell Within Believers

I'm not sure how many people he baptized himself, but I'm sure when he laid his head down to go to sleep at the end of that day, the day of Pentecost, he was very weary in body. He woke up the next morning, he heard the Lord speaking in him.

Good morning, Peter. With the ears of his heart he heard the voice of his Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ, who told him, He dwelleth with you and shall be in you. I will not leave you comfortless, Peter.

I will come to you. That was the day after Pentecost. Imagine when they all got together and began to share. I'm just so different. I'm just so different. I am too. I mean, the Lord is just speaking inside of my heart.

It's the same way with me. Oh, my goodness. Praise God. This is wonderful. Yes, it is. I wonder what it all means. I do too. You know those kind of conversations went on the day after Pentecost. Maybe they dropped down on their knees together and started praying, Oh, Lord, now we understand what you were talking about, Lord.

We don't know what we're doing. Lead us, oh God. Oh, please help us to know what to do. Give us your guidance, Lord. Thank you that you didn't leave us comfortless. You didn't leave us as an orphan, but you did come unto us.

You know him. He is with you. But he shall be in you. Now, do you think that the Lord Jesus was giving those apostles a doctrinal teaching when he said those words to them? Or do you think he was trying to help them to understand that they would have a totally different experience after that day?

How many think he was giving a doctrinal statement? Good. Now, it is a doctrinal statement. Don't misunderstand me. It is a doctrinal statement, but that is not all it is. He dwelleth with you and he shall be in you.

I will not leave you comfortless. I will come to you. Just picture that. He's been with them for three and a half years. I mean, every problem they had, they just went and said, Lord, what should we do?

It was all cared for. Every question they had, they just went to him and said, Well, Lord, we don't understand this. Could you explain it? And he gave them the answer. Every situation that they faced, we have all these people we need to eat.

We don't know what to do with them. He took care of it. But now, they were standing on the Mount of Olives and he just disappeared out of their sight. But now, it's the day after Pentecost and they understand.

He didn't leave us comfortless. He didn't leave us comfortless. What is the effect of the anointing of the Holy Ghost in the life of the believers? That He, God, would raise up, by that anointing, holy people with holy hearts.

Living holy lives. Filled with holy character. Who walk with a holy God and speak holy words that are anointed by the Holy Spirit. Brethren, that is what the anointing of the Holy Ghost is all about. That is what it's all about.

That is what is in the longing heart of God for His people. God is an awesome holy God. One half a second glimpse of this holy God that we've been talking about all week long. One half of a second glimpse of Him would break every one of us down on our face in utter abandonment.

And it's the longing of the heart of God that His great name would be sanctified among the heathen by the way that His people move and live and breathe and act and speak in this world around us. That's the longing of His heart.

And it was the joy that was set before the Lord Jesus as He despised the shame and endured the cross. Don't you think for a minute, brethren, that Jesus went through all of that so that He could buy a one-way ticket to heaven for you and me.

He didn't go through all of that so that we could live our own selfish lives all of our days and end up in glory for all of eternity after that. Brethren, that's not what Jesus went to the cross for. He went to the cross that He might raise up through the anointing that was poured out because of that cross a holy people anointed with the Holy Ghost speaking holy words.

We all know that. That's nothing new to us. That's not a new revelation. But it's good for us to consider it again and again. To explain the whole plan of God in a very simple nutshell. That anointing was given to make us like Jesus.

The Holy Spirit's Twofold Purpose

To make us like Jesus and you can spend the rest of your life figuring out what all of that means. Amen. To make us a chosen generation. A royal priesthood. A holy nation. A peculiar people that show forth the praises or the virtues of Him who has called us out of darkness and into His marvelous light.

That is what the anointing of the Holy Spirit is all about, brethren. To cause us to glorify God. To cause us to love God with all of our heart and mind and soul and strength. To turn our hearts away from selfishness.

To love our neighbors as ourselves. This is what the anointing of the Holy Spirit is all about. That we henceforth no longer live unto ourselves but unto Him. Unto Him. As I see the baptism of the Holy Spirit, I see a twofold purpose for that baptism of the Holy Spirit.

Number one, to empower us to be New Testament Christians. Emphasizing the be there. To be New Testament Christians. And number two, to empower us to do exploits in building God's kingdom while we are here upon this earth.

That combination, brothers, is pretty powerful when you put the two together. To be New Testament Christians doing exploits of kingdom building while we are here upon this earth. That is what the anointing is all about.

Brethren, new covenant reality comes through and by the overwhelming presence of the living God coming upon us and abiding. Think about that. New covenant reality comes through and by our being overwhelmed by the presence of the living God.

And abiding in that presence. That's the only way it comes. Consider this morning Christ, the Anointed One. I told you earlier this week we will come back to that word. We want to consider Christ, the Anointed One, this morning.

He is the mediator of the New Testament. He is the mediator of the new covenant. He, through the anointing, mediates, dispenses, gives forth the reality of the new covenant in our hearts and our lives.

That's where it comes from. He is the mediator. Just like in this natural world we live in, there is a mediator of the will. When someone dies, there is an executor that has been appointed. That executor is the one who mediates the will to those who are written in the will.

He dispenses to those the things that are written in the will. And the Lord Jesus Christ, the Anointed One, He is the mediator, the dispenser of that which was written in the will. He mediates the reality of the new covenant.

Spiritual Realities in the New Testament

Consider these words. The Bible speaks of spiritual warfare in Ephesians chapter six. It speaks of spiritual mindedness in Romans chapter eight. It speaks of a spiritual walk in Romans chapter eight. The Bible speaks about spiritual weapons in 2 Corinthians chapter ten.

And spiritual gifts in 1 Corinthians chapter twelve. The Bible speaks of spiritual fruit in Galatians chapter five. And spiritual armor in Ephesians chapter six. And it speaks of a glorious spiritual ministry in 2 Corinthians chapter three.

Now all these things are only reality in a believer's life if they are overwhelmed with the presence of the living God. Those spiritual realities, they don't mean very much at all if we are not going to live in the power of the Holy Spirit.

None of these can happen without the anointing, brethren. It makes no sense at all. They are far away somewhere. These are only far away concepts if we are not filled with the Spirit of God. I guess the burden that I have this morning is simply this.

Here we have this New Testament and all the beautiful things that are written in it. But what does it do for us if we are not going to walk in the anointing of the Spirit of God? What does it do for us?

The New Testament becomes a book full of dreams. That's all. It becomes a book of heavy reminders of unreality in our lives. It can be a book of discouragement as we look again and again and again and see, I'm not there, I'm not there, I'm not there, and I'm not there, and I'm not there.

Yeah, I read those words, but I don't know what spiritual weapons are in reality. I read about the armor, but I don't understand what it means in reality. I see those words in the Bible, spiritual ministry, but what is spiritual ministry?

The New Testament becomes a book full of dreams to us. Just a few thoughts and meditations from the heart of a pastor. My heart is soaring in the lofty revelations of the New Testament. I'm thrilled with the New Testament.

When I read of the New Testament, it excites my heart. I see, and I want to say, and I want to tell, and I want to preach, and I do. God began to lay all these things on my heart. I don't know if I can tell you when, but I began to give them to the people, week after week after week, not in condemnation, but to lay them out and say to the brothers and the sisters,.

Brothers, this is it. Look at it. Look what the Bible says.

Look what the New Testament says. Let's go for this. Let's go for this kind of a life. Come on, let's go. But all the while doing that and saying those words, as the weeks and months go by and turn into years, it takes a while to get through realizing so many of the people, they do not live anywhere near this.

They don't live anywhere near this. And if you're a minister in this room, you know that's the way it is. You know it. Slowly it dawned upon me as I prayed. You know, when you minister to your people and you know, you know you're giving them solid meat, good stuff, things that could change their lives, and you don't see them changing.

You know, you have to then say, OK, what's wrong here? Is there something wrong with me? And I'm sure that there's something wrong with me. But slowly it dawned upon me as I prayed about it, and I prayed about it much.

These people can't do this stuff. They've never been empowered by the Holy Ghost. They can't do this stuff. Well, I'm getting up there on Sunday morning waxing eloquent out of Ephesians chapter 3, you know, strengthened with might by His Spirit in the inner man, you know, the revelation, the spirit of revelation of the knowledge of Jesus and all those lofty things that are in the New Testament, you know.

And I would finish my sermon and go sit down and I would sit down and everybody just sit there and they don't even say anything, you know. It's like, you know, and at first I thought, hey, maybe I didn't do that right.

Nobody's saying anything, you know. I tried to figure it out, but I think I figured it out. They're just sitting there thinking, I am nowhere near that. I have nothing to say. I'm just going to sit there.

Living in the Reality of the New Covenant

It began to dawn upon me. These people, they can't do this. They've never been empowered by the Holy Spirit. They've never been overwhelmed with the Spirit of the living God. They've never been strengthened with might by His Spirit in the inner man, Ephesians chapter 3, 16.

They don't know the reality of Christ dwelling in their hearts by faith. They are not comprehending the breadth and the length and the depth and the height. They do not know the experiential knowledge of the love of Christ, which passes knowledge and can't be explained.

They need the Holy Ghost to make it a reality. And brothers, so do you. To make it a reality, you need the Holy Ghost. You ministers, you preachers, you know what I'm talking about. You know it's that way.

If at all, in the sincerity of your heart, you've examined the reality in so many that are in the flock. They just hardly know anything about all of this. What a miserable way to go to church Sunday by Sunday by Sunday.

Hearing all these lofty things lifted up before your eyes. And going home, not being able to live in the reality of any of it. It's kind of miserable, isn't it? When instead we should be going home thrilled.

Praise God for the reality that is in the New Testament. Praise God for the reality of the New Covenant. Praise God. We listened to the reading of the will again this morning and I found out I'm richer than I ever thought I was.

Praise God. I've got money in my pocket. I went to church Sunday morning and my pockets are full. I found out I have so much more wealth than I thought I did. But dear brothers, it's not wealth just because it's written in this book.

It's only wealth after you've been to the bank and picked up the check. If it's wealth, if it's only wealth that's in this book, that's a very miserable way to live. Standing outside the bank, looking in and all the money stacked up in there.

Living in poverty, not knowing how you're going to take the next step that you're supposed to take in your New Testament life. And you're looking inside the door of the bank and all the money's stacked in there, but the door's locked and you can't get any of it.

What a miserable way to be a New Testament Christian. But that's reality in many, many people's lives. They're just kind of gazing in there. Boy, that's beautiful. My, yes. Look at all that. Wow. That's glorious.

But you can't get it. Dear brothers, these things are made real in the life of the believer by the power of the Holy Spirit and no other way. No other way. Hear the words of the New Testament. I am crucified with Christ.

Nevertheless, I live. Yet not I, but Christ liveth in me. Isn't that a beautiful verse? Wouldn't that be a beautiful life? To walk through life in the reality of that. I am crucified with Christ. Nevertheless, I live.

Yet not I. But Christ liveth in me. The spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of Him. Do you know what that verse means, brethren? That's talking about the spiritual revelation of the Lord Jesus Christ.

It's talking about a spiritual revealing of the Christ in His glory, in His majesty, in His character, in His beauty being imparted to my heart and my life. But it won't be imparted if I don't see it.

And I won't see it if I don't live in the unction of the Holy Ghost. It's just some nice story. Otherwise, just some nice story about a nice man. Listen to the words of the New Testament. Changed from glory to glory.

Oh, you want to be changed this morning, brethren? You want to be changed? Changed from glory to glory. Even as by the Spirit of the Lord. See these verses.

They're in the New Testament. We read them all the time.

God wants them to be a reality to us. If I understand that verse at all, what that verse is saying to me is this. That I should be living in the unction of the Holy Ghost. And under that unction, I should open up this Bible with an open face.

Beholding as in a glass, the glory of the Lord in the pages of this book. And as I gaze by the Spirit on the glory of the Lord in the pages of this book, I am changed into that very image. Isn't that a right interpretation of those verses?

You say, well, Brother Denny, you're going way over our head today. I may be going over our head, but this is normal New Testament Christianity. And if it's going over our head, we need to come to grips with the fact that we're anemic.

I mean, we sing the song, all of us. Oh, to be like the blessed Redeemer. Oh, to be like the common eye for all that song. No, that song doesn't become a reality in our life. We are changed in the image of Christ if we are not going to live in the power of the Spirit of the living God.

And that's why men can go for twenty years, and still there's just not much about them. Twenty years? Why? Well, they read their Bible, they go to church, you know, all that stuff, but there's no abiding anointing in their life, and because there isn't, they just don't get much imparted as the weeks go by and the years go by.

They stay relatively the same. Where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty. Liberty, that is the power to do God's will. Beautiful verse. Being more than conquerors, amen? Where the Spirit of the Lord is, we are more than conquerors through Christ Jesus.

Christ in You, the Hope of Glory

Christ in you, the hope of glory. See these verses? Oh, listen, I could do this for a long time. I mean, my heart is full of all these verses. I've been reveling in the revelation of the new covenant.

But, how about it? Theological statement or living reality? In you, the hope of glory. Paul says it's a mystery that has been hidden from the foundation of the world, but now is being revealed in these last days through His holy apostles and prophets.

A mystery. Christ can live in you. And, that is the hope of glory. You want your one-way ticket to heaven in your back pocket? That's how you keep that one-way ticket in your back pocket. Christ living in me in reality.

The hope of glory. But, if the Spirit of Him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you. That word dwell means habitate. It doesn't mean visit every now and then. Dwell in you. He that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies.

How is this resurrection going to take place? By His Spirit that dwelleth in you. Christ in you, in reality, is the hope of glory. That's the reality of the hope of the resurrection. It is God that worketh in you both the will and to do of His good pleasure.

Work out your own salvation with fear and trembling. For it is God that worketh in you both the will and to do of His good pleasure.

What a beautiful way to live.

With God living inside of me, motivating me, inspiring me, empowering me, leading me both to be motivated to want to do and empower me to do His good pleasure. That's beautiful. I can handle that kind of a Christian life.

How about you? Amen, Lord! I'll vote for that one. Dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God. And I could just go on and on and on. There are so many of them. It's the reading of the will, brethren. It's what Jesus bought and paid for by His death and through the resurrection.

It's the will and testament of Jesus Christ. This is the in-Christ experience in the life of the believer that we're talking about here. The in-Christ experience in the life of the believer. You know all those verses in the Bible?

In Him, in whom, in Christ. This is the in-Christ experience in the life of the believer. The anointing of the Holy Spirit is the in-Christ experience of the life of the believer. To be in Christ is to be in the anointing.

To be in the anointing is to be in Christ. Why? He is the anointed. That's what His name means. He is the anointed. He is anointed now, brethren. He is anointed now. To be in the anointing is to be in Christ.

The Church as the Body of the Anointed One

Are the body of the anointed one. Can I say it that way? That's right, isn't it? Now, ye are the body of Christ and members in particular, Paul said. Ye are the body of the anointed one. You can stay on that verse for about two weeks.

Ye are the body of the anointed one. Let me say it this way. Are you the body of the anointed one? He has no hands but our hands. He has no body to live out His glorious holiness through but our bodies.

Are you the body of the anointed one? These are good questions to consider this morning. These are good questions. I mean, it changes things quite a bit, doesn't it? We can't sit in here this morning and say, yeah, the worldly church out there, I mean, it's apostate, and I mean, they're just all this and they're that, and they're worldly, and they're departing.

We can't sit here this morning and throw any stones, brethren. You know, I thought about it this morning. I thought about the dear charismatic people, and the charismatic movement all around the United States, as I was meditating upon all of this, and their interpretation of what we've been speaking about this week.

You go to an altar, and you have this ecstatic experience, and like I said yesterday, I'm not saying that all of that is wrong. There is a reality there, in some, but so many of them, it is an emotional, ecstatic experience that they go through on Sunday morning, and they live in unreality all the rest of the week long.

But the greatest burden of that is, they are so utterly deceived that they think because they had that ecstatic experience on Sunday morning, I mean, you meet some of those fellows, and they hit you right between the eyes as soon as they meet you.

Hey, do you speak in tongues? You know, I've got something that you don't have. And I think to myself, what a deception. No reality. No blessing. No holiness. No victory. None of these beautiful things that we've been speaking about, but yet this puffed up idea in their mind that because they had a babbling experience on Sunday morning at the altar call, and everybody got with it in the Lord, that they are the spiritual elite upon the earth.

My heart just broke for them. My heart just broke this morning. I thought, Lord, so deceived. Then I thought about us. You know, we have ours too, you know. If we're living in the natural, then we have our own natural interpretations of the remnant.

You know, we're the remnant, and oh, we look different, and we do this different, and we this, and we that. But if we don't have the anointing on our hearts and our lives, we better shut our mouths too.

Our day of embarrassment is coming. It's coming. Promise. If we live in unreality, and just keep on pumping this thing up, you know, and get your coverings on, and all these things, and the unction of the Holy Ghost isn't there, our embarrassing day is coming of the Anointed One.

These are probing questions this morning. Probing questions. These are deep realities we're speaking about, brethren. Realities you begin to see them rising up out of the book of Hebrews, if you read it about thirty times.

You know the book of Hebrews? You know, our High Priest, a more excellent priesthood, the Mediator of the New Covenant, a spiritual priesthood, the Minister of the Heavenly Sanctuary. That's our Christ.

The Minister of the Heavenly Sanctuary. Have you been into the throne room lately? Don't you know you have a Minister of the Heavenly Sanctuary? We have our Aaron, bless God. We have Him. And Paul said to the Hebrews there, Oh, there are many, many things that I would like to speak to you concerning these things, but you are dull of hearing.

You cannot hear them. You cannot hear them. Dear brothers, what I'm speaking about, this is not a New Testament option. This is a New Testament imperative. It is not an option. Somehow I think that we have gotten that in our mind.

Oh, well, yes. The preachers, they must. Yes, they need to be anointed. The preachers must. Yes, they need to be men of God. There are preachers. This is a New Testament imperative for every child of God.

You know? I think we skipped the book of Acts and ran into the epistles and we are miserably stumbling around in there trying to figure out what this Christian life is all about. We skipped the book of Acts, brethren.

And the New Testament is just kind of a maze to us. We bounce around in there and try over here. I think that's not the way. Try to go this way. We are just bouncing around in there and we skipped the book of Acts.

We cannot simply go our way living a carnal, sub-normal Christian life anymore. We can't do it. It's time to have judgment day early. Judgment day early. Have you been immersed in the overwhelming presence of the living God since you believed?

The Anointing Flowing from the Heavenly High Priest

Remember I told you the other day that interesting little bit of information about the word Christ 60 times in the Gospels. 500 times from Pentecost onward. Christ. The Anointed. The Anointed. The Anointed.

All through the New Testament. 500 times that phrase is used in the New Testament from Pentecost onward. 500 times. The Anointed. The Anointed. The Anointed. The Anointed. The Anointed. Yet the people of God are not anointed.

How can this be? Christ was anointed with the Holy Ghost for His earthly ministry in Luke chapter 3, Matthew chapter 3. But Christ is also anointed with the Holy Ghost for His heavenly ministry. Turn to Acts 2.

Hold your place there and turn to Psalm 133 for a moment. Psalm 133 says, Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity. And may I put it in a New Testament context that for brethren to dwell together in the unity of the Spirit.

The word behold means stop and gaze upon that. Verse 2. It is like the precious ointment upon the head that ran down upon the beard, even Aaron's beard that went down to the skirts of his garments. Do you get that picture?

Aaron was anointed with the precious ointment. They poured it on his head. And I think it's very clear just from looking at that Scripture that they didn't do it like this. What do you think? They dumped it on him.

They dumped it on him. And it went down onto his head and ran down his head and went down over his beard and started dripping down off of his beard and started landing on his shoulders and flowed and ran all the way down to the hem of his garment.

Do you get the picture? Now, let's look at the heavenly Aaron for a moment. Acts 2, verse 33. Peter must have got this in the spirit of revelation. Because I know he didn't study for that sermon that he preached on the Day of Pentecost.

He didn't meditate on that one ahead of time. But in his explanation to all these people that are trying to figure out what is going on, why these men, these women, these 120 that came out of the upper room seem like they're drunk in the middle of the day, speaking all kinds of languages.

And all these people from all these different countries from all over the known world are hearing these words in their own language. Peter stands up to try to explain to them what's going on. And of course, he begins by telling them, this is that which was spoken by the prophet Joel.

And he quotes the verses there out of the book of Joel. Then he goes on to preach about Christ. Christ. The Christ. And he says in verse 32, this Jesus hath God raised up, whereof we are all witnesses.

Therefore, being by the right hand of God exalted and having received of the Father the promise of the Holy Ghost. Received? Same word. Received? Same thing. Received, baptized, filled, fallen upon. All those are the same words.