Jesus had told them as recorded in the book of Acts: 1-8, Ye shall receive power after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you; power to witness to all the world of the wonderful grace of God.

Mark Chapter 16 known as the great commission. Go ye into all the world and preach the Gospel. Verse 17, these signs shall follow them that believe, In my name they shall cast out devils and shall speak with new tongues. Verse 18, They shall take up serpents and if they drink any deadly thing it shall not hurt them. They shall lay hands on the sick and they shall recover. That is the work of the Holy Spirit in the lives of the believer.

I’d like to inject here that this working of the Holy Spirit does not come in the collection plate.

1 Peter 1:18
We are not redeemed with corruptible things such as silver or gold, but with precious blood of Jesus. When Peter and John went up to the temple to pray, Acts Chapter 3; the man at the gate ask for alms. Peter fastening his eyes upon him said, silver and gold have we none but in the name of Jesus rise up and walk.

The Holy Spirit was given to equip the church, the church with Power and authority to finish the work that Jesus came for to do, that is to destroy the works of the devil. Let the Power of the Holy Spirit be manifested and you will soon find out how many devils are at work and where they are at, just recently I found that out. With all due respect to the medical department, yet they have a medical name put on a lot of them; Jesus called them by name.

Someone might say, you are gone a little off track in this area, Oh no! The church has been given the authority; Jesus said I will give you power over the power of the enemy which is the devil and all his imps. Jesus said, the thief commeth for to kill and destroy, but I am come that ye might have life, and more abundantly.

My friends, the Apostles never had time to attend to the affairs of the community, they had to give themselves over to prayer and fasting and to the word, that they might excel in that which God had called them to do. Paul said the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God, or the Holy Spirit to pulling down of strongholds. You can’t pull down the strongholds of satan in the flesh or with natural means.

Jesus said, Matthew 12:29, You don’t enter in a strong mans house to spoil his goods except you first bind the strong man; church it’s time to rise up in the Power and authority given us by the Holy Spirit. You can’t win a community that’s bound by the unseen forces by indulging in community activities. You have to allow the Holy Spirit’s Power to operate in the manner it was designed by God in the beginning.

Paul said, it’s according to the Power that worketh in us.

Some of these things can only come about by prayer and fasting and allow the same Holy Ghost that worked in the Apostles to so the same now.

To finish I’m not saying there hasn’t been anything since the apostles, I’m saying this, that this generation needs to see the Power of God at work.

Therefore I know and am quite aware that all of the gifts of the spirit was executed in the old testament. When the need arose, the great God of the universe allowed things to happen through the prophets, naming some of them; Elijah, Elisha, Samuel, Nathan (King Solomon) and many more.

Now when Jesus came, He was conceived of the Holy Ghost, born of the Holy Ghost, operated in the Holy Ghost because He said in Luke 4:18, the spirit of the Lord is upon me, etc. John 20:22 Jesus breathed on the disciples and said, “receive ye the Holy Ghost” Acts 2:1, and when the day of Pentecost was fully come, the day had finally arrived for the Holy Spirit to descend from Heaven.

Now the purpose. John 16:8, to reprove the world of sin and of righteousness and of judgment. Then Jesus said, “ye shall receive power after that the Holy Spirit is come upon you. Power to overcome sin, the flesh and the Devil. Power to heal the sick, to cast out demons. The Holy Spirit was also given to comfort and as a guide to lead us into all truth. (John 16:13)

The Holy Spirit cannot lead you astray. The Holy Spirit was not given to make people feel good, or just to have a one time experience. The Holy Spirit was given to the believer or the Church to equip them to carry out the work that Jesus had left for them to do when He ascended into Heaven. I repeat, the Holy Spirit wasn’t given to make people feel good in an assembly setting with a lost and dying world out there going to a lost eternity without God.

I guess I could write a book but the fact is, there are so many books out there, the book shelves are full of them, yet very few do minister to the needs that is in the very soul of man. What we really need is the Holy Spirit working in the body of Christ to deliver and set men and woman free from the bondage that Satan has got them in.

The work and purpose of the Holy Spirit is to convict the world of sin, to bring men and woman to the saving knowledge of Jesus Christ.

Don’t mistake to have the experience of the baptism of the Holy Spirit and to speak in another language as the spirit gives utterance is wonderful and sure there is that blessedness, that full assurance, and joy unspeakable and full of glory and tongue cannot express. But we should not be satisfied with a one time experience or a few minutes around an alter on a Sunday night and say “we had a good service”. If it don’t go beyond that then we have missed it. I mean missed the real purpose why God sent the Holy Spirit on the day of Pentecost. Some say it ended there, well I feel sorry for you because it was only three weeks ago, a lady received the Holy Spirit with the initial evidence of speaking in tongues. The power of God filled all the house that is all that was in it.

The same purpose that the Holy Spirit came for on the day of Pentecost hasn’t changed. He hasn’t went back. He is still here on the Earth, dwelling in the temples of clay, and will not leave until the Church is caught away.

Many times the Holy Spirit is grieved because it is not allowed and not recognized and can’t do the work that He was intended to do in the lives of the Church body.