Deeper Life Bible Church, Aberdeen Sunday Message 09-05-2010 OUTPOURING OF THE HOLY SPIRIT DURING REVIVAL Ezekiel 37:1-10; Joel 2:28,29

Three points; 1. DRYNESS AND POWERLESSNESS WITHOUT THE HOLY SPIRT 2. DESIRE AND PROMISE OF THE HOLY SPIRIT 3. DYNAMITE AND POWER THROUGH THE HOLY SPIRIT

DRYNESS AND POWERLESSNESS WITHOUT THE HOLY SPIRT Ezekiel 37:1-3; Psalms 22:15; 38:10; Isaiah 44:3; Jude 19:; Psalm 63:1; I Kings 19:3; Judges 16:19-21; Mark 9:17,18,28,29. This DRYNESS entails; D – Decaying/Declension R – Religious Y – Yoked with the World N – Nothing – vain spirituality E – Entangled with Sin S – Sensual S - Selfishness

DESIRE AND PROMISE OF THE HOLY SPIRIT Ezekiel 37:4-6; Psalms 38:9; 42:1-4; John 7:37-39; 2 Kings 2:1-10; Ezekiel 36:25-27; Joel 2:21, 13,15-17,23,25,27-29,32; Galatians 3:14 The DESIRE will leads to; D – Decision E – Earnestness S – Sanctification I – Intensity R – Realisation E - Eagerness

7 facts about the Holy Spirit; Person of the Holy Spirit – John 14:26 DYNAMITE AND POWER THROUGH THE HOLY SPIRIT Ezekiel 37:7-10; Acts 1:8; Micah 3:8; Zechariah 4:6; Luke 24:49; Acts 4:24,31,33; Hosea 10:12; Acts 2:1-4,17,18,39 7 facts about the Holy Spirit; Person of the Holy Spirit – John 14:26 Priority of the Holy Spirit – Acts 1:8 Promise of the Holy Spirit – Joel 2:21 Passion after the Holy Spirit – Psalms 63:1 Purity before the Holy Spirit – Ezekiel 36:25-26 Praying for the Holy Spirit – Luke 24:49 Power of the Holy Spirit – Micah 3:8

Conclusion We are too busy to pray, and so we are too busy to have power. We have a great deal of activity, but we accomplish little; many services but few conversions; much machinery but few results. (R.A Torrey) What the Church needs to-day is not more machinery or better, not new organizations or more and novel methods, but men whom the Holy Ghost can use -- men of prayer, men mighty in prayer. The Holy Ghost does not flow through methods, but through men. He does not come on machinery, but on men. He does not anoint plans, but men, men of prayer. (E.M Bounds) Spirit filled souls are ablaze for God. They love with a love that glows. They serve with a faith that kindles. They serve with a devotion that consumes. They hate sin with fierceness that burns. They rejoice with a joy that radiates. Love is perfected in the fire of God. (Samuel Chadwick) Thus saith the Lord GOD; Come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe upon these slain, that they may live. (Ezekiel 37:9)