Good morning. If you want to take a moment and find the book of Joel, the book of Joel, it's one of the small books in the back of your Old Testament. We're going to be in Joel chapter 2 to begin with this morning. Let's ask the Lord's blessings on our time together. Our Heavenly Father, Thank you for bringing us here this morning. Thank you for your Holy Spirit who puts into our hearts a desire to worship, a desire to know thee, a desire to look upon Christ Lord, we pray that your Holy Spirit would now fulfill that heart's desire, Lord, that you've created in us, that you would bless us this hour and that you would open our hearts and open your word, Lord, that you would reveal Christ to us and by your spirit enable us to have a spirit of worship in our hearts. We ask it in Christ's name, amen. Joel chapter 2, at verse 28, the prophet is prophesying many years before the fulfillment of this prophecy. We don't know exactly when Joel ministered, because there's not a reference in the book of Joel to a king or to a person that we know the dates of, but probably it was around the 7th or 8th century BC when Joel was prophesying. So seven or eight hundred years after the prophet Joel, this prophecy is going to be fulfilled on the day of Pentecost. on the day of Pentecost. You'll be familiar with these verses. Joel chapter 2 verse 28, and it shall come to pass afterwards that I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions, and also upon the servants and upon the handmaids in those days will I pour out my spirit. And I will show wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood and fire and pillars of smoke. The sun should be turned into darkness and the moon into blood before the great and terrible day of the Lord come. And it shall come to pass that whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be delivered. For in Mount Zion and in Jerusalem shall be deliverance, as the Lord hath said, and in the remnant whom the Lord shall call." Now, if you'll turn with me to the book of Acts. The book of Acts. The fulfillment of this prophecy is made on the day of Pentecost. In verse 1 of Acts chapter 2, and when the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all with one accord in one place. You remember in the beginning of Acts chapter 1, when the Lord ascends back into glory, he tells the disciples to go into Jerusalem and to wait. And the Holy Ghost would come upon them. And then they would be his witnesses. So they're huddled together in this upper room. And 10 days or so after the ascension of Christ, the day of Pentecost comes. Now, the day of Pentecost was celebrated all throughout the Old Testament after the Exodus. It was a day of recognizing the giving of the law. The children of Israel were delivered out of Egypt at the Passover, and the Lord Jesus was crucified as the lamb, the Passover lamb who shed his blood. The fulfillment of what the Lord told Moses, when I see the blood, I'll pass by you. And so the death of Christ was purposed and ordained of God to take place on that day of Passover. And it is the shedding of his blood that covers our sins and that delivers us out of the bondage of the law and of sin. 50 days after the children of Israel came out of Egypt, They are now at Mount Sinai, and God is going to give the law. And so Pentecost was a recognition of that. It was a celebration of the giving of the law. Now, that's significant for us, because now the Lord is going to give a new law on the same day that that Old Testament ceremony was made. Just as Christ was the fulfillment of the true Passover, so the Holy Spirit now is going to be the fulfillment of the law. The law that's not written now on tablets of stone, but the law that's written on hearts of flesh. This is the law of grace. This is the law of the Spirit. This is the law of Christ. This is the fulfillment of that Old Testament picture of God giving the law. I will create a new spirit within them and I will take out their heart of stone, that's the old law, and I will put in a heart of flesh that living, warm, beating heart that follows after Christ. So here's the fulfillment. This is all very, very, well, it's timed perfectly by God, but it's also very relevant to us today because this is, I've titled this message, the true Pentecostals, the true Pentecostals. And a proper understanding of Joel's prophecy and what happened on the day of Pentecost makes a believer the fulfillment of that promise. Let's read what happens now in Acts chapter 2. In verse 2, And there suddenly came a sound from heaven, as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting. And there appeared unto them cloven tongues like of fire, and it sat upon each of them. John said, I baptize you with water, but there's one that comes after me that's going to baptize you with fire and with the Holy Ghost. Whose shoes I'm not worthy to unlatch. This is the fulfillment of what John promised. This is that spiritual baptism, the baptism of the Spirit of God that every believer experiences. In verse 4, and they were all filled with the Holy Ghost and began to speak with other tongues as the Spirit gave them utterance. Just yesterday, we had a man working at our house, and we've been talking to him for several days about the gospel. And he asked me yesterday, what do you all believe about speaking in tongues? And I said, well, interesting that you should ask me that question, because tomorrow I'm planning to bring a message on that very subject. I'd love for you to come. So I see he's not here, but maybe he's listening. I don't know. But I want to address this subject. Verse five, and there were dwelling at Jerusalem Jews, devout men out of every nation under heaven. Now when this was noised abroad, the multitude came together and were confounded because that every man heard them speak in his own language. Speaking of tongues is a known language. It's not some sort of ecstatic utterance that cannot be understood unless someone has the gift of interpretation. Tongues was the preaching of the gospel, the clear preaching of the gospel in a language that the person that was preaching had not previously learned. Now, When I hear of someone able to declare the truth of the gospel in its simplicity and in its fullness, in a language that they've never learned, a known language that they've never learned before, then I'll believe that the gift of tongues is still relevant today. This is what it was. They were all amazed and marveled, verse seven, saying one to another, behold, are not all these that speak Galileans? And the Galileans were the country pumpkins of Palestine, of Judea and Israel. And now every man in our own tongue, wherein we were born, we hear them clearly. Parthians, and Medes, and Elamites, and dwellers of Mesopotamia, and in Judea, and Cappadocia, and in Pontus, and Asia, and Phrygia, and Pamphylia, and Egypt, and all the parts of Libya, about Cyrene, And strangers of Rome, Jews and proselytes, Cretes and Arabians, we do hear them speak in our own language, the wonderful works of God. That was the gift of tongues that God gave. It was a sign gift. Much like the Old Testament prophets who were given special gifts to perform miracles in order to authenticate the message that they were preaching as being one from God. They're called signed gifts. And now that we have the completed message of the gospel given to us in scripture, And we have the Holy Spirit, the same one who inspired the penman of scripture to reveal the things of God, is the one who inspires the believer's heart to understand and to believe the things of God. We have the Spirit of God and we have the Word of God. And we no longer need those outward manifestations Verse 12, and they were all amazed and were in doubt, saying one to another, what meaneth this? Others, mocking, said, these men are full of new wine. But Peter, standing up with the eleven, lifted up his voice and said unto them, ye men of Judea, and all ye that dwell in Jerusalem, be this known unto you, and hearken to my words, for these are not Drunken as you suppose seeing it is but the third hour of the day nine o'clock in the morning But this is that which was spoken by the prophet Joel and It came to pass in the last days saith God that I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh upon all flesh This is not a second work of grace. This is not an experience that someone has after they're converted. This is the fulfillment of what the Lord promised when he said, I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, not like the old covenant, which my fathers broke, which your fathers broke. I will write my laws upon their hearts. I will oppress it upon their mind. no longer will an Israelite have to say to his brother you need to know the Lord for they shall all know me from the least of them from the servant to the greatest of them they shall all know me it wasn't that it wasn't that way in the Old Testament Israel in Old Testament Israel God would pour out his spirit on kings on prophets on priests there would be There would be temporary anointings for the purpose of authenticating the work of God among his people. But now in the fulfillment of Joel's prophecy, there's going to be an outpouring of God's spirit on all God's people. Every one of them are going to be baptized in the Holy Spirit. If they have not the Spirit of God, they're none of His, is what the Lord tells us. Verse 18. I'm sorry, I don't know if I finished verse 17. And it shall come to pass in the last days, and the last days is a reference, as most of you know, between that period of time, between the first and second coming of Christ. That's the last days. That's the fulfillment of this prophecy. And so you and I are living right now in the last days. And every generation of believers, since the Lord ascended back into glory, have been living in the last days. And the man that we were talking to yesterday also asked me about the second coming. And the Lord has given us enough revelation about his second coming for us to be able to anticipate that in our lifetime. And every generation of believers have longed for and looked for the second coming of the Lord Jesus. And no generation has had more reason to believe that he would return in their lifetime more than ours. What a hope we have. But here's the last days. And your sons and your daughters shall prophesy. Now, yes, there were signed gifts of prophecy given to the apostles in the apostolic time. But the definition of prophecy is this, to declare that which can only be known by divine revelation. That's prophecy. To declare that which can only be known by divine revelation. And what we're doing right now is we're prophesying. Let me be like a prophecy of some vision into the future events. No. is to declare what can only be known by divine revelation. And what can be known by divine revelation must be, it must be according to what God has revealed in his word. And it can only be understood by the Holy Spirit. It can only be believed by the Spirit of God. So this This prophecy of Joel that in the last days there would be prophecies is being fulfilled and has been fulfilled now for 2,000 years. Your old men shall dream dreams. And the prophets, I mean the apostles, think about Peter in Joppa when he had that vision of Cornelius' house. Saul of Tarsus, when he heard and saw the Lord Jesus in that vision, these were the fulfillments of this prophecy. And on my servants and on my handmaids I will pour out my spirit in those days and they shall prophesy." The pouring out of the Spirit of God, the anointing of God's Spirit, the Lord is telling us, is not going to be limited to the prophets and priests and kings of the Old Testament, special individuals and special events for special purposes. It will be a pouring out of His Spirit on all men, all of God's people, whether it be a servant, and the word servant here is slave, And whether it be a master or whether it be an apostle, this fulfillment of the Holy Spirit is for all of God's people. And I will show wonders in heaven and signs in the earth beneath, blood and fire and vapors of smoke. Is this not? The revelation that can only be understood, the truth that can only be understood by divine revelation. This is a reference to what the Lord Jesus experienced on Calvary's cross when the fire of God's wrath fell upon him and he satisfied God's justice. This is the prophecy of what will happen to those who have not the spirit of God in terms of eternal judgment, and the sun shall be turned to darkness and the moon and to blood before that great and notable day of the Lord come and it shall come to pass that whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord shall be saved. Never was there darkness on the earth like there was those three hours when our Lord hung on Calvary's cross as our sin bearer, as our substitute. The moon was darkened when the light of the gospel, the scripture refers to the church as the reflector, the moon that shines in the dark world and how this reflection of the gospel has been so darkened in our world and what a rare thing it is for there to be a a reflection of the light of the Son of God in the world. And what a rare blessing it is for us to be able to enjoy that light. This is the fulfillment of the law. modern-day Pentecostalism and the charismatic movement evolved over a few hundred years from the teachings of John Wesley. The error in John Wesley's gospel, which was no gospel, was not only that he believed that an unregenerate person could make a decision. He believed in free will. He believed in a works gospel that we could satisfy what God could not do. But his error went beyond that. His error went to what he called the second blessing. It became the Holiness Movement in the 1800s. And in 1901, in 1901, just 125 years ago, in Topeka, Kansas, a woman by the name of Agnes Osborne, she was a Bible student. And she professed to have received the second blessing evidenced by an ecstatic utterance of tongues. From the time of the apostles until 1901, the church never, the Christian church at large, never knew anything about this. They knew what the Bible meant by this. They knew that tongues was a known language. What she experienced enticed a lot of people and not long after that it moved to California and there was a great revival in Los Angeles and and the fire spread from there. And everything that we see today called Pentecostalism and the charismatic movement. And I've been amazed that this thing has even found its way into churches that say they believe grace. John Wesley's error was that he believed that one could receive a second blessing, and as a result of that, they could ultimately be perfectly sanctified and live a sinless life. Now, only a dishonest man would believe such a thing. Only one who lied to themselves would believe such a thing. John and his brother Charles started what was called the Holy Club at Oxford University. And this is what they promoted. Now, it might be that they were reacting against the formalism of the Anglican Church at the time. It might be that the Anglican Church had fallen in such sinful behavior that maybe these men thought, you know, we need to promote holiness. But I want you to know that everything we see today in the holiness movement, in the Pentecostal movement, in the charismatic movement, is a perversion of what the scripture teaches about the baptism of the Holy Spirit. And never be intimidated, never be thought, well, yo, somebody else has got a blessing that I don't have. It's not true. You know, any time we preach against an error. We always err in swinging the pendulum too far the other way and err on the other side. And I don't want to do that. I don't want to do that when it comes to the Holy Spirit. I don't want to err in suggesting that the Holy Spirit is not an experience. It is, but it's one of the heart. It's an experience of the heart. People that are always looking for some outward manifestation that they have the Spirit of God, like tongues, and like performing miracles of healing, and like having prophecies of future events, those are people that can't find any comfort. Well, they're people that actually don't have the Holy Spirit. Because it's the Holy Spirit that gives you the eye of faith that enables you to look on something that the physical eye cannot see. We look not on that which can be seen, for that which can be seen is temporal. They which are after the flesh, they mind the things of the flesh. But we look upon that which cannot be seen. And that which cannot be seen is spiritual. We're not looking for a physical manifestation. We're not competing with one another to see who's got more of the Holy Spirit, or see who's got better gifts, or better blessings, and trying to intimidate everybody with the, no. The Holy Spirit is a work of grace in the heart that enables us to look not to that which can be seen, but that which cannot be seen. that which cannot be seen. This is what God promised he would do when he poured out his spirit upon all flesh, not just the Jews, but the Gentiles as well, not just kings and priests and prophets, but all of God's people would have the spirit of God so that they could see, they could see what the natural man cannot see. That which is of the flesh is flesh, and the flesh profiteth nothing. That which is of the spirit is spirit, and it is the spirit that giveth life. It is the spirit that giveth life. We're not, this second work of grace, it's a lie. It's not true. This ability to achieve some level of perfection, it's a lie. It's a devilish lie. In fact, there's really no difference between what is being practiced among many Pentecostals and Charismatics and holiness people than what you see being practiced in all the different forms of voodoo and demonic practices in terms of out-of-body experiences and ecstatic speaking and prophecies and visions and all of those things. That's devilish. It's not of God at all. It's not of the Holy Spirit. It's of a spirit. There's a spirit involved in it, but it's not the Holy Spirit. And it's not the fulfillment of this prophecy. I don't know how to be any more clear about it than that, but I want you, I want you to have some understanding of what this prophecy means for you. The Holy Spirit first brings gifts. He brings gifts. What are those gifts? It's the gift of faith. That's the first gift of the Holy Spirit. It's the gift of faith. It's the Spirit of God that enables us to look through the eye of faith back to Calvary's cross and to see who died on the cross and what he accomplished on the cross. We weren't there. It happened 2,000 years ago. Only by faith can you do that. It's the Holy Spirit that gives us the eye of faith and enables us to look back to eternity past and see that God the Father and God the Holy Spirit and God the Son entered into a covenant promise to save a particular people and that the Lord Jesus accomplished that salvation at Calvary's cross. We don't need some sort of physical evidence of that in our life today. We need the gift of the Spirit of God that enables us to look and to believe and to rest in who the Lord Jesus is and what he did. That's the work of the Spirit of God. Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved. You know, there's one third of the Earth's population that profess themselves to be Christian today. That's about 2.3 billion people in the world. And every single one of them would say, I believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, therefore I must be saved. Two problems. First of all, what does the Bible mean by belief? And most of those 2.3 billion people would say, well, believing is the decision that you make, or many of them would say, well, believing is something I've always had. I was born believing. And neither of those is what the Bible says about believing. To believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, is a work of grace performed by the Spirit of God that strips us of our righteousness, strips us of our free will, strips us of our works, lays us bare, and shuts us up to the Lord Jesus so that we have, coming to Christ is not a choice. It's not a choice. It's the only place we can go. or to whom shall we go? You alone have the words of eternal life. We know and are sure that thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God. How do we know that? How are we sure? And why is it that he is the only one we can go to? The Holy Spirit. Those people who think that they believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, therefore they're saved, have the Holy Spirit. They're looking to a decision they made, or an aisle they walked, or some sort of warm fuzzy feeling that they had to give evidence that they are the people of God. And then the second problem with that is what Paul told the Philippian jailer in Acts chapter 16. Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved. The first problem is, Apart from the Holy Spirit, men don't know what it means to believe. The second problem is, apart from the Holy Spirit, men don't know who the Lord Jesus Christ really is. They don't know who he really is. This is the gift. We'll deal with the second part of that more in the next hour. But this is the gift of the Holy Spirit, saving faith, the new birth. The Lord told Nicodemus, except you be born from above, except you be born of the Spirit, you cannot see the kingdom of God. You can't perceive of it, you can't understand it, you can't believe it. And it's not something we're looking for an outward evidence to prove. The evidence that we have is the Word of God confirmed to our hearts by the Spirit of God. We go anywhere beyond that and we're flirting with danger. It is the Holy Spirit that opens the eyes of our understanding. The Holy Spirit that reveals Christ to us. The same spirit that inspired the penman of scripture to record the revelation of Christ is the Holy Spirit that inspires us to understand and believe what God has written. It is the Holy Spirit that speaks peace to our hearts. that delivers us from the bondage of the law and of sin and enables us to rest in knowing that the Lord Jesus Christ put our sin away by the sacrifice of himself and that he separated it from us as far as the east is from the west and that God remembers it no more. We rest right there. We can't atone for our sins. We can't add to what he did. And we dare not ever take anything away from what he accomplished. We're looking to Christ alone. That's the Holy Spirit. And every time we wander from that, it is the Holy Spirit that brings us back to Christ. And for me, I have to say that it's multiple times a day. an occasional experience of backsliding and now, you know, God bring, no, I'm constantly in need of the spirit of God. Lord, give us your spirit. Give me your spirit. Take not thy spirit from me is what David prayed. This is the gift of the Holy Spirit. You know, We don't have time this morning, but in Romans chapter 12 and in 1 Corinthians chapter 12, Paul speaks of the gifts of the Holy Spirit. But these are where these get, he talks about each member of the body being, each member of the church being like a member of the body and each member having its own function and each member being different from the other, but all for the purpose of making the body whole. And I know from my own personal experience that those gifts are grossly abused in religion. Men go about trying to figure out what gifts they have. I can remember in one church, we took personality, psychological personality tests in order to discern what gifts of the spirit we had. I mean, how foolish is that? And I remember one lady, she'd go around giving people unsolicited advice. Don't do that. Unsolicited advice is always perceived as criticism. Be very careful about offering people advice they're not asking for. But she was very bold about it. And nobody liked her, and nobody wanted to be around her. But she excused it all by saying, I've got the gift of discernment, and I'm going to tell you the way it's supposed to be for you. And that was just one example. I mean, I could tell you many, many, many. That's not the gift of the Holy Spirit. That's just a rude person. That's all that is. Just as important as the gift of the Holy Spirit is the fruit of the Holy Spirit. Turn with me to Galatians chapter five and we'll close. Galatians chapter five. Look at verse 16. This I say then, walk in the Spirit and you shall not, don't miss the word fulfill, the lust of the flesh. We carry about a sinful flesh, a body of death that does nothing but lust after worldly safety, worldly recognition, worldly pleasure, worldly popularity, that's the flesh. But as the spirit of God that causes us to own that flesh, to admit what that flesh is, and to not want that flesh to be fulfilled. And if the flesh is to be restrained, you're never gonna be made better, but if he's to be restrained, if he's to be held down, if he's not to be, you know, made the ruler of your life, then it's the Holy Spirit that will do that. Walk by the Spirit of God. What is it to walk by the Spirit of God? Well, it's the Spirit of God that points us to Christ. So we're walking after Christ. We're looking unto Jesus, the author and the finisher of our faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross and despised its shame. The writer of Hebrews goes on to say, you've not yet suffered unto blood. This struggle, the flesh against the spirit and the spirit against the flesh. Walk in the spirit. That's not some ecstatic fleshly experience or feeling or intimidating other men with some sort of gift that you think you have. Now walking in the Spirit is looking to Christ. That's what the Spirit of God does. For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh, and these are contrary one to another, so that you cannot do the things that you would Child of God, if you have the Spirit of God, you would be perfect without sin. You would want a second blessing. You would want a second work of grace like John Wesley taught and the holiness movement taught and the Pentecostals believe. You would want that if it was available. Why? Because you hate your sin. You'd want to be done with it once and for all. You can't be what you want to be. You know, like the person who said, well, if I believe what you believe, I'd live like I want. And what's the child of God say? I wish I could live like I want. If I could live like I want, I would live completely without sin. But I have a flesh that wars against my spirit. I cannot be what I want. But here's the flip side to that. Here's the flip side to that. We have the spirit. so that we cannot be what our flesh would want, sold out and under the dominion of sin. We cannot be. But if you be led of the Spirit, you're not under the law. The strength of sin is the law. You try to restrain your sinful flesh by the law. In other words, pull yourself up by your bootstraps and make some new commitments and decide what you're gonna do and grit your teeth and make your promises and say, I'm never gonna, you just, and you try to live. Use the law. as the motivation for your godly living. And you will find that the strength of your sin is the law. All that law will do is aggravate more sin. It's all it'll do. It might curb your outward behavior in the sight of other men, but it's not gonna do anything for restraining the sin of your flesh for you. There's only one restraint for that, and that's grace. The greatest inducement for not sinning is to know that I've already been forgiven. The greatest inducement for not sinning is to know that I'm loved. This is the work of the Spirit of God. Now, the works of the flesh, they're manifest. Now I want you to take notice of this because he talks about the works of the flesh being manifest. What are these Charismatic and Pentecostals doing? They're trying to manifest the works of the Spirit. But the Lord's going to tell us that this work of the Spirit is not something that's manifested like the works of the flesh. The work of the Spirit is something that's hidden in the heart. The works of the flesh are manifest, which are these, adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, envy, drunkens, murders, drunkenness, revelry, and such the like, of which I tell you before, as I also told you in times past, that they which do such things, they which live by these, they which are just given over to these things, Do we see these things in the lust of our flesh? Yes, yes. They which do those things shall not inherit the kingdom of God, but the fruit of the Spirit is love. I like to think about these verses like this because It says fruit, which is singular. The fruit of the spirit is love. Where does that take place? We all love somebody in this life. Where is that love? It's in the heart, isn't it? It's in the heart. The heart is what loves. Oh, does it? As goes the heart, so goes the whole person. but it's in the heart where love starts. What does the fruit of the spirit is love? What's love look like? Well, we could go to 1 Corinthians chapter 13. Matter of fact, 1 Corinthians chapter 12 talks about the gifts of the spirit. And then in the last verse of chapter 12, it says, I show you a more excellent way. That's the last verse. In other words, don't be so concerned about the gifts of the Spirit. I'm going to show you a more excellent way, and then he talks in chapter 13 about love. That's the more excellent way. Love. It's the love of Christ that constraineth us. This is the work of the Spirit of God. He causes us to love Christ. He causes us to love His Word. He causes us to love His Spirit. He causes us to love the Father. He causes us to love His people. He causes us to love the gospel. He causes us to hate the opposite. You can't have love without hate. He causes us to hate any message of salvation that would rob our Lord of His glory. Any message of salvation that would make works man's contribution to salvation, we hate that. He causes us to hate our sin. We hate our sin, we hate our unbelief. Lord, help them on unbelief. But this is the fruit. We can't think about the fruit of the Spirit of God without thinking about what the Lord Jesus said in John chapter 14, when he said, I am the vine and you are the branches. The branch cannot produce fruit of itself. It must abide in the vine. It must remain in me. And if it remains in me, then it will produce fruit. The vine can't produce fruit of its own. This is not something, well, I'm gonna love, I'm gonna produce fruit. This is the fruit of the spirit. It's the spirit of God that works in us. And so whenever there's an evidence of this, We give to him all the glory. What does this love look like? Well, the fruit of the spirit is love. And I'm sure we could say the fruit of the spirit of joy, the fruit of the spirit is peace, the fruit of the spirit is long-suffering, but these things also are the evidence of love, are they not? Love is the fulfillment of the law. So if I have the love of Christ in my heart given to me by the Spirit of God, I'm going to rejoice. I'm going to be able to rejoice in Christ always. I'm going to know something about peace with God, and I'm going to know something about the peace of God. This is the Holy Spirit's work in the heart. I'm going to know something about waiting on the Lord. All my impatience and all that. Know something about these things. Because it is the love of Christ in my heart given to me by the Spirit of God. Gentleness and goodness and faith and meekness and temperance. Against such there's no law. There's no law that can make these things happen, and there's no law against these things. This is the new law. And I'll close with the same point we made at the beginning. Pentecost, 50 days after Passover, was a celebration of the giving of the law of Mount Sinai. I will write my law upon their hearts. This is the fulfillment of Joel's prophecy. not on tablets of stone, but on hearts of flesh. I'm gonna pour out my spirit upon all men. And my spirit's gonna give gifts to my children, all my children, from the least of them to the greatest. They're all gonna know something of the Holy Spirit. And the Holy Spirit's gonna give them faith. He's gonna grow them in grace. He's gonna produce the fruit of love and joy and peace and long-suffering and temperance and patience and gentleness. They're going to acknowledge, I think I mentioned this Wednesday night, I just want to make this, I said, I think last Sunday, that if you hear a preacher preaching against a particular sin of the flesh, it's probably what he's guilty of. And Adam, Sharon brought something up that I thought was very interesting. He said, what is the sin that we preach against? Is it not the sin of unbelief? And is not that the sin that we're guilty of? But we're not trying to hide it. We're owning it. We're confessing it for what it is. We're not pointing our finger at others and saying, look what they're doing. It's the Holy Spirit. that causes us to see the unbelief that remains in us, and that causes us to say, oh, Lord, save me. Save me from myself. Save me from my sin. That's the Holy Spirit. That's the Holy Spirit. You won't have those things without the Holy Spirit.