Look, we've only got $50 and I'm certainly not going to give you $45 of my $50 to build a temple. I've got the Holy Ghost living in me, thank you. I'll do just fine without going to church, thank you. I don't need that, but I need to do this. Make sure I've got a roof over my head and my kids are warm. Kind of interesting. Because the fact is that the carpet had to fight against that in the most radical terms and tell them that if they did not rebuild the temple, all was lost, all was lost. Well, after much haranguing by Hangai and Zechariah, they did finally rebuild the temple, but because of their disobedience and their continual rebellion against God, it's sizzled out. It's sizzled out, nothing happens. You see, they built a superstructure that they really didn't give their hearts to it, didn't give their attention to it, did not repent of their sins, remember they had other religions and things like that going on. And so, as a result, God did not send the core back because the nuclear reactor didn't come back. It stayed away, even though they had the superstructure of it there. And so, for another 500 years, 539 years, for 500 more years, the people of God pulled it out, the nuclear reactor. That's what we call the inter-test mental period. You know, if there were anything to be said about the history of the way God decided to build his kingdom on the earth. Remember what the goal of the kingdom is? I will be done on earth as it is in heaven. There are anything to be said about it, it would be that if we had done it that way, we'd call it an utter failure. Every time he tried to do it, failed. Every time he tried to do it, failed. The biggest thing he had going for was Israel and the temple, and even its sales. And they even rebuilt it, fizzles out. And for 400, 500 years, they're stuck without anything, without anything. Not even the Bible, the Bible's not even being written at this point. It's called the inter-test mental time between the festivities. And it looks like all is lost. And the reason that all seems lost is because it didn't have the nuclear reactor. It just did not happen. Now that starts raising questions for us, of course, as we start thinking about the nuclear reactor for us today. The Holy Spirit is saying you've got to have a nuclear reactor to really have this redemption take place. And of course for us, nuclear reactor is not a building somewhere, but it is what the New Testament calls the Temple of God, which is the living stone coming together and offering sacrifices together. It's called the Church. It's the place where Holy Ghost power is exhibited in ways that is not exhibited anywhere else. It's the place where the gifts of Holy Spirit are used and where the blessings and the curses come in the most dramatic of ways. But we have so diminished the role of Temple in our lives that we just don't get it. And as a result, we don't get the empowerment that needs to take place to do the rest of the redemptive work. Am I communicating with you? I'm kind of talking about these Old Testament things and jumping to where we are. We're moving forward. Keep jumping. We're eventually going to talk about the thing itself and that's where you and I are right now. But I'm trying to give you a sense of what the story of the Holy Spirit is. He's saying to us, look, I'm everywhere, I'm everywhere. But so what? You've got to have the nuclear core. You've got to have the reactor core. And the reactor core is coming to me in my holy place, my temple, my faith that I place. I'm not just going to be anywhere, I'm going to be in my holy place. And if you really want the power that I've got for you to redeem the world, you've got to get it by coming to the core. Okay. So then something happens about 500 years later. We call this 539 B.C. for a reason. You know what the reason is? So this is coming, coming of Christ. And one of the remarkable things, of course, about the first coming of Christ is that Jesus is blessed by God. And the blessing of God is demonstrated in Jesus' life in some pretty remarkable way. By the miracles, by teaching, this would be the primary ways, by His resurrection from the dead, His ascension, those sorts of things. The remarkable thing about all of this is that when you start looking at the way the New Testament describes, the way the New Testament describes all these activities of Jesus, it's always in terms of the Holy Spirit. By what power did Jesus do miracles? Wasn't by His own power by the power of Holy Spirit? And this will get you because I know that this is one of the false things that are around these days. By what power did Jesus come back from the dead? You think it was by His own power? Not according to the Apostle Paul. So I was chapter 6, it makes it very clear that there was one power that raised Jesus from the dead. And I know what the power was, and yes, Holy Ghost, you know, often Christian apologists make a big mistake, and they say that what makes Jesus unique in His resurrection as opposed to say Lazarus. They say Lazarus was a resurrected yeah, but He didn't resurrect Himself, Jesus did it. And they say what makes Jesus special is that Jesus resurrected Himself. Nope, He didn't. He was resurrected by the power of the Holy Spirit. And this is the way the Apostle Paul proves that if you're going to be resurrected, you've got to have a certain power source. It's the same power that resurrected Jesus, Holy Spirit. And connected to that Holy Spirit, the mention of Jesus' life, is the reality that Jesus also is portrayed in the New Testament in His earthly ministry as the Temple of God. Do you remember that in John chapter 2, Jesus said, if you will destroy this temple, I'll raise it up in three days, remember that. And all of the disciples at the time, they thought He was talking about the temple right there in Jerusalem, and then they said, well, after He was resurrected from the dead, they all realized He was talking about His body. Well, it's because Jesus was the temple of God, in the sense that Jesus' human body was the nuclear reactor core. If you wanted redemption, if you wanted life transformation, that would give you the ultimate blessing and the ultimate curse, where did you have to go? When Jesus was on the earth, where did you have to go? To Him, He was the locality of the power of God. It was not that you could just say, well, I'll just pray wherever I am. No, you had to go looking for Him, had to go find Him. And people would do things like touch His garment and be healed, phenomenal power. You know, Jesus would even realize, I didn't go, whoa, what a thing to touch me anyway. You know, because this is what they needed to do, be touched by Him, because He was the nuclear reactor. And so the whole work of Jesus in His first coming is spoken of as the Spirit, and why is this the case? Well, I mean, there are all kinds of passages in the Bible that talk about this, but one of the passages that I love the best is in the book of Zechariah. And it's a prophecy about, I'm going to give it to you here, Zechariah 4, verse 6. I think it's verse 6. 4 verse 6. That talks about the way in which God will bring an end to the exile. You know this, we sing it sometimes. That's right, it's not by my power, but by my spirit, says Lord, you know that song? We don't sing it much here. Let's go to a charismatic or kind of call for church to sing it all the time. Do you know that song? You don't even know it? Okay, it goes like this. It's not by my power, but by my spirit, says Lord, not by my power, not by my spirit. This mountain shall be removed, this mountain shall be removed. You don't know this here. By my spirit, says Lord, it's a good one. What Zechariah is talking about is the conquering of all the intimacy, the earth that had oppressed Israel, all the people that had sent her into exile, you're saying how are we going to overcome these people? How are we going to have the restoration of God's people back to the land, back to Eden, so they can conquer the world? How are we going to do this? What Zechariah says is not going to be by my, it's not going to be by the sword. It's not going to be by horsemen, not going to be by ordinary human army. It's not going to be by the kinds of things you might expect. How's it going to happen? It's going to happen by my spirit. The same spirit that moved against the chaos of the world in the very beginning is the same spirit that's going to move against the darkness of the enemies of God in this world, and bring about, it's very good, and the success of the image of God raining over the world. Not by my power, but by my spirit. This is why Jesus did not carry a sword and start killing people. He rather brought the kingdom of God to this earth by means of the power of the Holy Spirit. That's why the dove came and rested on him and is back to Eden, and he was anointed by the Holy Spirit. And this is why his whole life is devoted to living by the power of the Holy Spirit, and this is why his resurrection was by the power of the Holy Spirit, and this is why when he went on high and led captive, a host of captives, Paul says, he then gave gifts to the church, and those gifts to the church are the gifts of the Holy Spirit, because this is the way the kingdom of God comes, is by the nuclear reactor core coming back again. So, on your first date with the Holy Spirit, and you say, well, tell me where you've been, he says, well, I was at the creation, fixing things and failed because of Adam, he's sinned. But that's all right, because we started up again, and we started up with Israel and had the nuclear core, but they rejected all that too, and mixed me with other religions and so I just left them. But I didn't stop. I didn't give up. God did not give up. We brought the core back again, the core came when Jesus came to this earth. But when Jesus came to this earth, it wasn't just that he and his own body was the blessing of the gifts of the Holy Spirit to the world, the power of God, the transforming redemptive power of God. The story of the Holy Spirit goes further, because you know that at the end of Jesus first coming, the proof that he had ascended into heaven was what? Now, I already mentioned it, but I didn't give you the name of the day. You know the name of the day, so it's a piece. Pentecost. You can put pentecost right here at the sort of the pale end of Jesus' earthly ministry. It really is the closure of the earthly ministry of Jesus. Because as Paul says in Ephesians chapter 4, the pouring out of the Holy Spirit came when Jesus ascended into heaven as the victor. So you remember the apostles are waiting for the 40 days or so and they're waiting there and praying, waiting for the Holy Spirit to come upon them. It doesn't mean that the Holy Spirit has never been there before. You hear that? It doesn't mean that the Holy Spirit has been absent. The Holy Spirit hasn't been absent. What they're looking for is the sort of overflow. The problem here is that if Jesus is a nuclear core, if Jesus is the core of the power of God on the earth, what happens when He goes away? It's a big problem, you know? They're really big problems because we're talking about the only one who could bring the kingdom of God, the only one who had that kind of spirit power. And he's gone. Where is he anyway? The apostles are wondering what to do and Jesus himself had to deal with it and he said, don't worry, I'm not going to leave you with orphans. I'm leaving, but I'm not going to divert you. Instead, what I'm going to do is share Holy Ghost with you. I've been the temple of God. And I am going to be gone now into the heavenly places, but don't let that worry you too much because I'm going to share Holy Ghost with you and you are going to be the temple of God. I am Christ, he said. And this is my body. Now my body is gone into heaven. You know, Jesus is physical body in heaven with God for Father right now. But don't let that body you too much. Don't let that body you too much because I'm giving you Holy Ghost and now you are the body of Christ. Do you know how phenomenal that is? Who have become the temple of God? You have become the body of Christ. You have become the extension of what Jesus was with you. Now the way Joel put it in Joel chapter 2, remember Peter quotes this and on the day of Pentecost? Joel was looking forward to that day like Zechariah was when the ex-Pi would be over and he said, God says, I will pour out my spirit on all flesh. The men and the women, young men, old men, daughters, everybody is going to get it. Everybody is going to get Holy Ghost. You see, that's not the way it was in the Old Testament. The nuclear core was very heavily protected. Yes, all kinds of layers of insulation just like an arm and nuclear reactor. All kinds of layers of insulation, you could kind of get close if you were one kind of person. Another kind of person can get a little closer. There's a quarter of the Gentiles and the women can come a little closer. If you've been to the Wailing Wall in Jerusalem right now, I made the mistake because it was really bad. I was going to the women's side. I didn't know this. I was just kind of wow, this is the way I'm going. Sometimes I sort of leave the group and leave the tour guide, of course, and didn't know what I was doing. So I walk right through and I'm doing the old Americans thing. I'm moving on here and so I've rushed right through the little sort of date area that they have. Not really guarded because people there are kind of watching. I get at least 10 or 15 feet into the women's side. Of course they screamed at me and had to go out and get a little cardboard Yamacan going to the other men's side. They had these little cardboard Yamacas. That was funny. Everybody has to have a little Yamacan so they had those of the Yamacas that you put on and go in. But you see, that's the way it was in the Old Testament. Children did not get as close to the nuclear core as women did and women didn't get as close as men did and all men didn't get as close as the Levi's God and the Levi's didn't get as close as the priest's God and the priest didn't get as close as the High Priest God. And the High Priest only got to go in once a year or so, even that close. I don't know who did the Janitoral work but nevertheless. The Talb was a bit horrific in there but nevertheless. That's the fact. And why is that? It's because this nuclear core, it had to be protected. People had to be protected from it because of their sinfulness. If you got too close to it, you knelt. So in many respects, it was a blessing that people were kept out. But the great blessing of the New Testament is that you now actually become the temple. And it's not just the men who become the temple or a set of priests who have been males. Not just the males but the women. It's not just the women but it's also the children. And beyond that is not just Jews. It's now pagans. I will pour up my spirit on all flesh. Now see, we are so paganized in our Christianity that doesn't seem particularly remarkable. So I've got to think about that within just a minute here. I want you to think for a minute. Around 2000 BC, there was a man whose name was Abraham. And he worshiped the goddess heaven and earth. And because he worshiped the goddess heaven and earth, God loves him dearly and he promised very special things for his descendants. Now what were your ancestors doing around 2000 BC? If you do it, you know, I just told you Abraham. If you're like me, then your ancestors on 2000 BC were chasing after demons, worshipping them, murdering for them, sacrificing their children to them. That's what my ancestors were doing. What most of yours were doing too, by the way. And they did it for about 2000 years after that, as a matter of fact. All along knowing in their conscience that what they were doing was wrong and in rebellion against the goddess heaven and earth, but nevertheless doing it with great vigor and with great enthusiasm, they were doing it. That's what starts becoming remarkable. That's what raises the level of, I can't believe this, when you start thinking about the fact that you, a pagan, you, a godless pagan descendant from godless, murderous pagans, would actually become not just acceptable to God, not just in the outer court of the Gentiles, and not even just in the court of the women, and not even in the court of the men, but you actually become the temple of God, the nuclear reactor is living in you. I think so very often we think that we know we kind of deserve to be Christians because we're Americans. The fact is that the fact that you're an American means you don't deserve to be a Christian. The fact that you're a Gentile that you're a white person means you don't deserve to be a Christian. The fact that you're not a Jew means you are not in line to be a Christian, you are a pagan, a godless, rebellious pagan from godless, rebellion, pagan stock. That's who you are. And according to every prophecy in the Bible, designed to be destroyed by Israel. So for the few that were blessed by God and rescued from the destruction, you say, you're among the few that are rescued from the destruction. And not just rescued, but now actually made the temple of Holy Spirit. It's absolutely phenomenal that you will be given that kind of blessing given what you are. You know, I don't think I really understood that in an emotional way until I just a couple of years ago gave a talk at a meeting on Jewish evangelism in New York City in Brooklyn, New York. Imagine. And I walked into this room and several hundred people and I think I was the only joy in the room. Only Gentile in the room. And I did not expect this to happen, but I felt very second-class because these people were very much into their Jewishness. And I'm kind of, you know, that's fine. Good. Good to do. They're very much into it and very much delighted to have the kind of heritage that they have had of faith in the true God of heaven and earth. And to being in the center of Abraham. And they're talking about things like the paganization of a gospel. And they're talking about me. Wait a minute, I'm retorned. Yeah, that's what we're talking about. Paganization of a gospel. Wait a minute, I'm trying to continue. Yeah, that's what we're talking about. A gentilization of a gospel. That's exactly what we're talking about. You. I felt very, very second-class. And to tell you the truth, at first I resented it. A whole lot. I resented it a whole lot because in Oz came there being very gregarious because I came from a background where being in Gentile was superior to being Jewish. So I thought I was really being nice to just go to this thing and not feel bad. You follow them saying? So we're all one in Christ. This would be nicely together. But that's not what happened. But Heaven was the reverse. Maybe some of you experienced that racially in other ways where you've done the minority in a situation racially. And you sort of go, wait a minute, this is weird feeling. This is so weird. I'm not at the front. I'm in the back row now. I'm at the back of the bus. I don't like this feeling. That's the way I felt. I had to go to the back of the bus. But then I suddenly began to realize, I think it took me two days to realize this, what a great joy it is to be someone who humanly speaking deserves to be at the back of the bus. But who has been given the gift of the Holy Spirit of God in the name? The Holy Spirit of God who was given to Israel has now been given to me. You know, the way Paul puts it is, you know, the branches and natural branches were cut off. And these little wild shoots that were sort of just lying around on the ground out there as human beings, they were grafted on. And we start sucking life out of Abraham, sucking life out of Israel. We become the children of Abraham. And I felt rather than feeling second class, I felt like I had more to rejoice about than any of them did because I was no driving the bus right along with everybody else. Not another deal. It was great. It was great. And that is the kind of feeling we are to be having when we start realizing that the gift of the Holy Spirit has gone from the temple and building, not just to Israelite but to Gentiles as well. And in many respects, that is what the Book of Acts talks about. Did you know that? The Book of Acts. You know that famous verse in the Book of Acts. You shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you and you shall be my witnesses where in Jerusalem, Medea, Samaria and the uttermost parts of the earth. Okay, let's think about that for just a minute. This is magnificent. Here is Jesus, a Jewish man, talking to his disciples to his people. And he says to them, that this promise was given by the process of old, that the temple of God would actually sort of spill over, that the presence of God would come to this earth so much that the Spirit would sort of flow out the windows, the chimney. And he would come out on the people as well. And they would start becoming temple as well. You shall receive power. The nuclear reactor is going to be inside of you. But that's as remarkable as that is, we're still talking Jewishness here. We're still talking about a group of Jewish people who are the natural heirs of the covenant, who are the children of Abraham. But notice what happens when Jesus gives this blessing. He says, you will become my witnesses where in Jerusalem, yes, the center of Eden, in Judah, the circle around the center of Eden, in Samaria, the northern element, and then to the uttermost parts of the earth. This is exactly what God told Adam and even the very beginning at Eden. Be fruitful and multiply, fill the earth to do it and have the minion over it. The reason that the Spirit moved at the very beginning and the reason that people were chosen to be the image of God was so that they could extend the kingdom of God. And this is what Jesus is telling us about. It's going to happen and Holy Spirit comes upon them. Does that make sense to you? What it really is, as you were saying, starting over again, the garden is happening all over again. The victory, you call Beech to Berlin for a headed. And it happens because now Holy Spirit is bleeding over, filling over into all these different areas of life. And it is remarkable when you read the book of Acts, how the book of Acts is oriented towards this. Chapter 2 is the Bay of Pentecost, and where are they on the Bay of Pentecost? In Jerusalem, right there. Chapter 8 is the Roman centurion. And when Peter is extending the kingdom of God, well, it is supposed to be a Jerusalem's idea. And when the kingdom of God is extended to the Northern Territory, then in Chapter 16, the kingdom of God is spread further than that to where, the Gentile nation. And you know how it comes, each time. You know what happens, each time the doors are open to greater and greater expansions of the temple, from the center, the holy place, to the place of the man, to the place of the women, to the place of the Gentiles. You see, it's just like the temple was, you see. You know what happens, each time, in the book of Acts? They were indeed persecuted, and they started spreading out, but something else happens, very dramatic, outpouring the Holy Ghost. Yes, big outpouring, so the Holy Ghost comes, and all those kinds of angels, miracles. And that's because it's like the gates of the various courts of the temple opening up, like the Holy Spirit's presence is too big, too powerful to stay in the little box and more. Boom, the door opens. Too big, too powerful to stay in that part either. It opens up and flows out. And you can imagine how it likes the locks of a, when you go from, you know, lower to higher levels, how the largest flows. And each time the gates open, another gate was opening up. Fantastic freedom. And to realize that the book of Acts is really devoted to showing how the Holy Spirit spreads to all the nations of the earth. It's a story about Holy Spirit beginning to fill up the world. And you see, as you're on your date with him, that's one of the things he's saying to you, he's saying, when Jesus came, and when Jesus was resurrected, and he ascended on high and Pentecost took place, this was the beginning of something that had never come quite as dramatically as it has come now. And that is that I'm not just present in my nuclear power presence, simply in one little spot in Jerusalem, but it's being extended throughout the whole world. And how's it being extended throughout the whole world by my presence in the church, the temple, the body. And so this spillover effect has happened over and over and over again. And of course, as he smiles and you know, you're having your dessert and you're about to, you know, go home, I guess, he reminds you about something. And that is that where you are right now is in this process period, where the temple of God is still spreading all over the world, where the nuclear power resources there are available to people even now. And as wonderful as that is, it's still not the end of the show, that what we've got now is just a foretaste of something. In Ephesians chapter one, the Apostle Paul says that the gift of the Holy Spirit is our the way the King thinks. So that I think it's the deposit guarantee or deposit guarantee. He's the down payment of all the things to come in the future. He's the one that gives us confidence that we really do possess the world to come.
And Holy Spirit says to us, as we think about the future, he says, look, the day is going to come. Revelation chapter 21, and there is no temple anymore. Now what does that mean? There's no more temple. Does that mean that God's absent? Well, he says heavens know that's not what that means. He says that there also will be a sun in the moon. Well, why? He says, well, Revelation 21, you know why? There's no need for a sun in the moon. Why? Because the presence of God will be so glorious. He'll just light up everything. Now you know why. You don't need a temple, too. Because the whole world becomes the temple of God. As the prophets that arise there, even the prophets and hands will have on them holy through the Lord. Everything becomes holy. Everything becomes sacred. The whole world becomes in the Gulf and the nuclear reactor. That's what the second coming is. That's what life in the new world will be. And you see, the wonder of it is that when that takes place, the garden of Eden and the very beginning spreads through the whole world. So that the whole world is this great paradigm, which belongs to us. But God's in the beginning, the fruitful and multi-fossilious to do it has a minute over it, is fulfilled in the second coming. When we possess all things with pride. So the Holy Spirit, you know, for a smile, He says, you know, the wonderful thing about all this is that people say to that the gift of means is something that's just sort of, you know, a sort of psychological condition that you have to have is you're going to make it through life, exactly. So that's okay. So they're really nipping the point. The point is that my presence in their life is supposed to assure them that one day, the whole world will be filled up with my presence. And that they will possess everything because of my power in their life. And yet they don't even write a chapter about me and their confession is same. That's the story of the Holy Spirit, in many respects, and what role He has in this life and why He is so, to be so important to us. I'm hoping that getting a sense of the grandeur of this story that the Holy Spirit has in the world will give us a sense of why it is so very wonderful that we could have connection with Him. If you can get a sense of the splendor of that or the privileging that that is for us, perhaps thinking about what that might mean on a very more practical day-to-day level can be more than just a personality profile, and assessing of your gift. You better do something in the church after all. But rather, something that you do sing about, something that you do dance about, something you do revel in, and something that gives you confidence for life, and something that comforts you in sorrow, and something that gives you a reason for continuing on, in the hope of what's lying ahead by the power of this same spirit to living. I know that for myself, but this is what this story does for me. It gives me a clearer picture of why I'm doing this thing called being a Christian, that it wasn't just because I heard a little simple message one day, Jesus says, I want to get a hell, if I believe in it, now I don't get a hell, I get a heaven. It's not that way for me anymore. Because frankly, as good and as wonderful as that was in childlike faith when it first started, it just really didn't do all that much for me 20 years later. Sorry, I think it would be so honest with you, but I'm just telling you the truth. And the fact that I was a part of a tradition that basically gave little and gives little attention to the ministry of the Holy Spirit in people's lives, it deprives me of a great deal of hope, assurance, and vitality, and life, and comfort, and real, just rosy in the end. And so I have worked hard to get some of that in real back. And we'll talk a little more about my experiences with Holy Ghost later, because I was once charismatic and sort of post-terrorismatic because they sort of walked through that maybe a little bit. It's just what happened to me, and what was good about leaving it, and what was bad about leaving it, and all those kinds of things. But the thing that has helped me the most, I think, is not to return to something that was very poorly based in the beginning, but to come to the story here. And I understand the role that Holy Spirit has in my life, and the light of the role he has in the whole world. Okay. So we have about ten minutes. What do you want to say? Yeah. What Israel got, well, let's just put this way, the angels are there to guard the East entrance to the garden, yes? Yes, everybody? What building had its main entrance on the East? Thank you, the temple, that's right. And from what direction did Israel enter into the promised land? Good, from the East side, that's right. You listen on this? Okay. So it's not that it's the forbidden zone, it's just you can't get in there unless God gives you permission to get in. Yeah. So they get in, but they mess up. And they don't get it all. It never comes back to what it once was. And that's why in the book of Revelation, like in chapter 4, it says, to hand who overcomes to him, I will give the right to eat at the tree of light. In the new world, we're all going to get to walk right through the door and eat from the tree of light. It's going to be fantastic, if we overcome. And that river will flow. Remember, the tree of life will gain this water from the cosmic river that flows from the center of the world, and that river will flow to the whole world. Because the whole world becomes the garden. But we're still in a standing line like a Disney, you know, to get to the tree of life, I guess. We're going to stand in long lines, it'll be long lines in the new world, you know. Long line to see Paul, it's a big tree, yeah. But Paul's not going to be that big. Everybody says, I think we've talked to you about Paul. See, yeah, we have to stand in a long line to do that one. And the line to see Jesus, I think it's very long. But we can trade tickets, right? I think it's too big to see Paul going to see John. It's a very interesting line. And there will be water, but it won't be salt water, so you'll be able to go seeing things. Salt when the Bible says, seeing it means salt water, death water. Water that you bet. From our point of view, we don't think of the salt water as death giving, but the... or death resulting in death, but the Bible does. Very interesting. Yeah, that's what I hope to do, because I want to talk about the experience the whole experience. What I've been trying to do at this point is to kind of give why the experience of the Holy Spirit might be valuable. You know, if you can buy this, if you can buy this story, you can see that ignoring him could be detrimental to your life. I guess this is what the best thing I must say is for like ignoring Jesus. I mean, why would you ever want to ignore Jesus? Don't you ever feel like you need Him to bring this thing that we call life to a happy ending? I mean, it's your only chance that it's going to have any happy ending here, yes? I mean, when I was young, I used to think, well, you know, we lived forever, but you know, you get older and you sort of go, all right, I've lived my whole life, I've done my very best, and everything's a failure. So the only... not everything, but you know what I mean, it's a lot of failure there. And so you sort of look at your life at least I do, and I say, hey, my only chance that there's going to be some happy ending to all of this is that Jesus is going to fix it. Okay, so I'm putting all my chips on him. Every single chip I've got, one spot on the roulette table. One spot only, and that's Jesus. Well, in a similar way, Holy Ghost is your only hope that you're going to have a happy ending to this thing called life. And so paying attention to him might be very valuable, but he's the power that's going to make this world a new world. He's the power. And ignoring him probably is not going to be all that valuable to us. And that's kind of what I'm trying to get at. But yeah, I'm going to talk about my experience. What do you want to say about it then? How do you want to hear about that? Okay. Yes, that's exactly what the Bible says. I'll remove my rampant fan. He's exactly what. I'll fix you out of my mouth. And you know, the fact is that I'm afraid that many times, you know, even if the lampstand hasn't been removed, it's like we put a drape over it. So that we don't, you know, we don't want to fire. No, thank you. What we want is just, you know, I don't know what we want to see doctrine or something. I don't know. And we substitute all kinds of things for the Holy Spirit. Yeah. I think it's Ephesians, I mean, part of me, Romans chapter 6, I think. I have to look at it. Let me look it up on the break. Okay. Let me come back with exactly the exact verses. Just a new testament. I think old testament. Okay. But the possible says that God raised Jesus through the power of the Holy Spirit. Very, very explicit. And that's how we get raised through the use of life by the power of the Spirit working enough. Rick, do you want to find this verse as long as you're coming back there? This will be helping me out here. I think it's from the second, but then I then make some the spirit. We'll talk about it. And I'd have to look it up because it's a good thing. Yeah, but you're right to ask the question. If I then say it explicitly, I thought I did it on the street, but it might be the Corinthians messages. Because I was there. Yeah. Good. Good. Well, you know, the passage is a talk about us being the temple of God. Okay. Especially the Corinthian past is first the second Corinthians. I do know these covers, those are the comments that they're sent for. I mean, just keep saying. Not actually such as that on us. Most of the time when the Bible talks about us being the temple is not as individual. So it says appropriately. Now some of that's a little bit strange to us, but I think you can understand how this is the case. If you're an Old Testament believer and you think about the presence of God and you think about when is the presence of God the most visible and the most dramatic? When is that nuclear core the hottest? Okay. The reactor core is the hottest when the convocation takes place. When all the people get together and they're around the temple and all the big things are happening. And the white news coming down from the sky and the temple seems still the smoke and is pouring out and everybody is spraying all over the place. Okay. That's the convocations in the Old Testament where this were the times of the greatest demonstrations of the presence of the spirit and the temple. And I think this is in that context of Peter's.