There is a statement that cought my eye here.



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This is not a time for God's people to be incapacitated. We need to
be thinking, planning, strategizing, researching and building-all
using the Holy Spirit's wisdom. Yes, we need to be filled with the
Holy Spirit like never before-but He is not going to fill us so we
can act like giddy freshmen at a frat house keg party. Let's put
the childish things behind us. It's time for us to grow up and sober up.
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I do agree with about 90% of what was said and do see the importance of it. Isnt it funny how this man refers to a man who he never met? It was through the grapevine. Just a thought. However we do need to be concerned with not having the joy of the Holy Spirit. No joy no freedom. He made mention of the day of pentacost as refering to being drunk. Its funny how the others that came to see what was going on accused them of being drunk in Acts chapter 2. Now these people doing the accusing here were not other church memebers...it was the world and the world trully knows what being drunk is! Now this needs to be seen for what it is. They were actually accused of being drunk wether we like it or not. There is no need to refute what the bible says here.This is when Peter stood up with the rest of them. Thats the difference. They were accused of being drunk but were also able to answer the accusations as well. We need to look up the references to joy in the bible. There joy, abundant joy, exceeding great joy, and joy unexpressable and full of glory. All of these references in the new testament are refering to the filling of the Holy Spirit. Now I got to say, when you start getting the joy of the Lord filling into you, there is no way to just stand still! You have to at least dance or shout or whatever else. There is no way to just do nothing and appear to have your composure. If we cant just simply let go in His presence, what are we doing to quench the Holy Spirit's presence? Now by no means let it become abuse. All things should be done properly. 3 years ago I would have never said that people can just have so much joy from the Lord that they almost appear intoxicated. Now I know better! I say this as a person who has never had alcohol ever touch my mouth (God's grace not my own) and have no clue what its like to be drunk or even on the verge of it. I have not done drugs either. So in reality there is no way that I can comprehend the feeling of this being drunk with wine.


Ephesians 5:18
And do not be drunk with wine, in which is dissipation; but be filled with the Spirit,

If we look carefully here, what is this trully saying??? Its saying do not be drunk with wine but what is it that we are to replace that wine with? How is it that Paul compares being drunk with wine to the filling of the Holy Spirit here? Bretheren we need to seriously consider this reference. We cant be so ignorant of certain scriptures that we become a stiff rigid legalist with no extreme joy from our Lord. We also need to be careful about accusations as well.

Look, there is a simple reality here. I have never drunk stuff and dont have a clue what its like, but I can certainly tell you that when the presence of the Holy Spirit comes upon me in extreme joy, I cant drive for that moment. People need to read my profile testimony. I went 5 miles collapsed on the steering wheel of an 18 wheeler on the highway in New Hampshire. I could not even lift my head. I'm sure I looked like I was sloshed. I could not even lift my head. I was balling my eyes out in the presence of my Lord. Was this not being serious with the Holy Spirit? I'm sure the women who was riding in the mini van next to me with her daughter probably called the cops. How could they not have? Imagine that call, "ah... there is an 18 wheeler with a man who has seemed to collapse on the steering wheel going down the highway and the truck is still going 65 miles per hour and we are afraid that it going to run someone over". Can we imagine the police's responce? "Can you ride near so you can keep people away for the moment so they will not get run over and we will show up in a few minutes? Stay on the phone so that you can inform us what is happenning. It wont be long till the truck goes off the road". Now can we even begin to imagine this women on the phone for maybe 5 minutes waiting for the truck to go off the road and her explaining to the police that the truck was driving itself staying in the right lane even going around the bends for 5 miles still going 65 mph? She probably watched what was occuring and finally told the police "never mind... he is ok" after seeing that somehow the truck was going in the right direction on the highway with there being no way to explain it to the police. Wether this women who rode next to me called the police or not, I dont know. But I can testify that the truck went 5 miles like this at 65 miles per hour and when I finally got to being able to lift my head off the steering wheel, the first thing I did was look out the drivers window. What I saw was a mother and daughter riding next to me in a minivan just staring as hard as staring could be with their mouths dropped wide open. They continued staring at me as they rode directly beside me for the next mile and was probably waiting to see what would happen next. How can I explain this stuff? I cant. It was the presence of God!!!!!! I saw Him for the first time that day and had an encounter that rocked my world forever.

Now with listing this partial testimony, was I sober? I have no clue. All I know is the presence of the Lord was so strong I could not drive. Was I alert to what was going on around me? Yah right. No clue at all what was going on around me at that moment and trully didnt even care and to tell you the truth... I didnt even remember that I was driving an 18 wheeler at that moment and it was the furthest thing from my mind. So when we see in the book of Acts, the day of pentacost in Acts chapter 2 where the apostles were accused of being drunk, I think we need to seriously just sit quiet and ponder this really hard and not get all defensive about it. I mean I was driving an 18 wheeler doing my job and loving doing it well as I take pride in doing my work well. But God just decided to whack me. Did the apostles chose this event at the day of pentacost? Do we think they enjoyed being accused of being drunk? The answer is no to both questions. See this ride that day in the tractor trailer was a day that brought in a whole new meaning to the presence of the Holy Spirit in my life. I could have never dreamed this up nor even predicted it coming. But I have to tell you, its been just as wild as this since! There is too much to even begin to speak about.

However I will say this, some people are just being stupid clowns in the flesh and make no mistake, they will get their just reward. I do not pay attention to those people. I just give out the real deal and move on and the presence of the Holy Spirit just gives people a dose of Himself and it just puts these clowns to shame! I dont have to try to protect God! As if. He protects me! So therefore I am not going to waste my time or even the little bit of space in my mind on this stuff. If its not of God it will come to nothing as the man Gamliel spoke in the first couple of chapters in the book of Acts.


We need to think again and I will end it with this simple word.

Ephesians 5:18
And do not be drunk with wine, in which is dissipation; but be filled with the Spirit,

Praise God!!! I got it!


Last Edited By: Nathan Oct 30 09 1:25 AM. Edited 6 times.