Our Guest John Bevere

Sid: I want every one everywhere to hear how brilliant God has made John Bevere to teach how to have intimacy with God. I want you to hear a section where he talks about a word this is so confusing, trinity that I don’t even like to use it. I like to say the triune nature of God.

Excerpt of John teaching: So who is the Holy Spirit? He is the third person of the Godhead. Genesis 1:26 God said “Let Us (Us) make man in our image” our image according to our likeness. God didn’t say “Let Me make man, let Us make man. If you look at Acts 10:38 you see “The Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit” all distinctly identified; how God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit who went about doing good and healing all that were oppressed of the devil. You got God the Father anointing Jesus with the Holy Spirit, there’s the 3 right there. And when Jesus was baptized at the river Jordan the 3 manifest as totally different persons. You Jesus our Lord being baptized by John. You have him coming up in the Spirit of God descending on Him like a dove. And you have God the Father speaking from heaven saying “This is My beloved Son in whom I’m well pleased.” So 3 distinct persons yet God because Deuteronomy 6:4 says “Hear oh Israel the Lord our God the Lord is one.” If you look at Roman’s 3:30 “There is one God who will justify.” James 2:19 “You believe there is one God you do well.” An example to help you understand is you got water. How many of you know that water takes 3 different forms? You got steam, you got liquid, you’ve got solid which is ice but all 3 have the exact same molecular makeup. Three distinct forms but yet it’s 1 that’s the Father, that’s the Son and that’s the Holy Spirit Amen. He is actually the first member of the Godhead that appears in the Bible. Genesis Chapter 1 “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.” What’s verse 2 say? “The earths was without form and void and darkness was on the face of the deep and the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters.” He shows up right there in Genesis chapter 1 verse 2; so who is the Holy Spirit? We’ve got to ask that, amen? He is the most amazing wonderful, beautiful, kind sensitive, mighty person on the face of the earth. You say John on the face of this earth? Oh yeah on the face of this earth because you have to understand the Father is not here on earth; He’s on His throne in heaven. Jesus is not here on the earth; I hear people say all the time “Jesus is in my heart.”   He’s seated at the right hand of God, and the angels specifically said, well this is Acts 1:9 and 11. While the disciples watched Jesus was taken up and a cloud received Him out of their sight. The two angels said “Men of Galilee why do you stand gazing up into heaven?” This same Jesus who was taken up form you unto heaven will so come in like manner as you saw Him go into heaven. In other words, He’s going to come in the clouds. Has He come in the clouds? No, there’s some people that might think that but they’re out in a ranch somewhere where we can’t find them. But He hasn’t come in the clouds yet that means He’s at the right hand of God in heaven. Because when Steven was being stoned Steven looked at and he saw the glory of God and Jesus standing at His right hand (I love that how Jesus stood for his martyr to come home I just love that.) But you see Jesus has been there you know for approximately 2000 years ago. He’s not here, I don’t care how much you say He’s in your heart it’s the Holy Spirit, the Spirit of Jesus Christ. Because the Holy Spirit is referred to as the Spirit of God the Father. Matthew 10:20 Jesus made the statement that “It is not you that speak but the Spirit of your Father who speaks in you.” Do you know who speaking through me right now? The Spirit of my Father; I used to, and I haven’t tried it here before this taping. I used to try to preach my message oh anybody that’s ever preached before that is a miserable thing; because it’s horrible I can’t preach. But then all of a sudden the Spirit of My Father comes on me and I begin to speak the word of God. Are you with me? Oh, I love Him He’s so amazing; He’s never left me dry, He’s never left me out to dry. He never leaves us nor forsakes us. He is the Spirit of God the Son. I said “The Holy Spirit is the Spirit of God the Son.” Philippians 1:19 “For you know this will turn out for my deliverance through your prayer and the supply of the Spirit of Jesus Christ.” How do the three work together? Well 1^st Corinthians chapter 12 verses 5-7 gives us a little window into it. We read “And there are differences of administrations but the same Lord.” That would be Jesus, there’s differences of operations but the same God which worketh all and all. That’s God the Father, but the manifestation of the Spirit is given to every man to profit with all. So you can see what this shows is it gives us an insight into how they work together. So we’ve got the Father operates. That’s verse 6 or in other words He initiates. We have the Son who administrates and we have the Holy Spirit who manifests. Now to help you get an understanding of this let’s say we want to build a house okay. If we’re going to build a house what happens? You’ve got an architect, you’ve got a foreman and you got the people that actually build the house, the workers right, the subs right? Well in that illustration and this is crude but it works. God the Father’s the architect, Jesus is the foreman and the Holy Spirit’s the workers that actually build the house. He’s the manifester of creation, are you with me? Because Jesus said in Matthew 12:28
If I cast out demons by the Spirit of God.” Now hear that? “If I cast out demons by the Spirit of God,” but Luke’s gospel records it this way “If I cast out demons with the finger of God.” So exact same situation, Matthew writes Spirit of God; Luke writes “Finger of God.” So Holy Spirit if the Finger of God.” Now listen, there’s something that you’ve got to understand the Greeks always wrote according to form. You’ve got their statues and all that stuff they’re into all of the stuff. Hebrew writers would always write according to function. So that’s why He’s not actually fingers, this is like if I was trying to communicate to you how the Holy Spirit is my hand does the work that my head desires my hand to do. You see He’s revealed as the finger of God, the Hand of God, the Arm of God. He delivered them with a strong hand and an outstretched arm, He delivered them by His Spirit. If you look at Psalm 8:3 “If I consider Your heavens the work of Your fingers.” So the Holy Spirit is the One who actually put those stars in the orbit; put the moon in the earth. Because He says the work of Your fingers the moon and the stars which you have ordained. He’s the one that manifested all creation. That’s why He’s hovering upon the waters waiting for the Architect and the Son to administrate by saying “Light be,” because Jesus is the Word of God. So when “Light be” was spoken that was the Son administrating what the Father said to do and the Holy Spirit made it happen. I love that, man that is so good are you with me? I mean got to be my favorite scriptures in the Bible on the Holy Spirit Isaiah 40 verse 12. Who else? Well listen to these words. “Who else has held the ocean in His hand?” Think about it He held the entire ocean in his hand. “Who has measured off the heavens with His fingers?” So you can see the Holy Spirit being described here by His function; okay. “Who else knows the weight of the earth or who has weighed the mountains in a scale? Who is able to advise the Spirit of the Lord? Who knows enough to give Him advice or teach Him? Has the Lord ever needed anyone’s advice?” No way baby, “Does He need instruction about what is good; does someone teach Him about what is right or show Him the path of justice.” No, “For all of the nations of the world are but a drop in a bucket; they are nothing more than dust on the scales; He picks up the whole earth as though it were a grain of sand.” That’s the Spirit of the Lord. Do you see how mighty He is? Do you understand how mighty He is. Remember when I said “He’s agreed with the Father and the Son to come and make His residence in us, puts on our face. Can you say amen?

Sid: As you can see John Bevere is a world class teacher but the subject “How to Know the Holy Spirit.” How He can be your best friend, how to have intimacy with Him; how to get supernatural direction, supernatural ideas. How to yield to the Holy Spirit. I’m telling you that if there’s ever been a time that the Holy Spirit must be your best friend this is the time and this is the book. This will be a classic just as his previous book was a classic “The Bait of Satan” most of you read it but you must have intimacy with the Spirit of God. You must know how to hear His voice and distinguish His voice from all the other voices.