Keion Henderson - He'll Bring You Out

God told me to tell you He’ll bring you out. That 's what I’m going to talk about today-He’ll bring you out if you believe it. Make some noise in this place! He’ll bring you out. You may be seated in the presence of the Lord. Now, I want to tell you off top, out the gate, if you haven 't been through anything, then you can leave because I ain’t here to talk to you. So let me give a benediction: Lord, thank You today for church. Bless those who came and who had the desire to come. Bless them in Jesus' name, Amen. All right, y’all can go home because the only people that I’m talking to over the next few moments are those who’ve been through hell and high water. The only people I’m talking to over the next few minutes are those who’ve been so mad that you tore up your own house. And you know you’ve got to be mad to punch a hole in your wall, slam your car door, or slam your house door.

I want to talk to people who’ve been through something, and those of us who subscribe to the Scriptures have affectionately come to the book of Acts, Pastor Hammond, and we’ve always, I know I have, referred to this book as the Acts of the Apostles. It’s just a thing. If you’ve ever been through any theological training, if you’ve ever been through any exegetical exercise, if you’ve studied topical preaching, narrative preaching, expositional preaching-whatever type of preaching style you have- all of us, myself included, to the highest-ranking officials in our religion, have referred to this book as the Acts of the Apostles. I’m not here to disagree with anybody, but I would say that, on the contrary, that even though this book, Pastor Torren, has been referred to as the Acts of the Apostles, I believe in my whole heart that this should not just be called the Acts of the Apostles. I truly believe that the book of Acts is the Fifth Gospel: Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, and Acts, and this is the Gospel of the Holy Ghost.

Now, I understand why we call it the Acts of the Apostles. Y’all got time for a biblical lesson real quick? I understand why we call it the Acts of the Apostles because there are some apostles who are mentioned. Save the fact that the Bible says in Acts that we see the ACT of Peter, and we see the acts of Paul. Now those are two apostles. What 's an apostle? Just for the sake of our conversation, they’re simply disciples- somebody who walked with God, somebody who was there. So for the purposes of our conversation, there are the acts of Peter and the acts of Paul because remember, Paul is this missionary journey man. Peter was the one who preached on the day of Pentecost, so we do have the acts of those two apostles.

John is mentioned about three times, and we see John, the son of Zebedee, a famous fisherman, in the text, but the only thing we find out about him is that an evil King named Herod killed him. And those are the complete portraits of the Acts of the Apostles. But what we actually see is what the Holy Spirit did for the apostles. Are y’all listening to me? And so there is this desire, this nomenclature, this heirloom of ideology and thought that has been passed down from generation to generation to subscribe to this as the Acts of the Apostles. But it is not lost on me that I see the Holy Spirit making His mark page after page. All right? That the Holy Spirit is speaking to us page after page, which is why if you look up the Greek word for the Holy Spirit, paracletos (paraclete), the word paraclete simply means «to come alongside.»

Okay, come alongside. Let me give you some examples. If I were to have a paragraph and I wanted to paraphrase the paragraph, then I would take the words of the paragraph and put my words alongside it, which makes it a paraphrase. You see, if you were sick, I would call an ambulance, and there is somebody who would get out of the back of it to put you with them called a paramedic. If you were to jump out of an airplane, on your way down to the ground, the only way you could survive is if you had a parachute because the word " parah» means to come alongside. And so the Holy Spirit is the paraclete. Are you listening to me? He comes alongside. He’s God with us. He 's God with us, and so we continuously, and I know it is because of our cultural phenomenon, give Jesus the credit for everything. «We get in a car accident, thank you, Jesus!» «When our children get good grades, thank you, Jesus!» «When our relationships get on the right track, thank you, Jesus!»

And Jesus is at the right hand of the Father saying, «Why are you thanking Me? My work is finished. I went to a place to prepare for you. That where I am, there you may be also. But I’m no longer in the earth realm; you are ignoring the third person of the trinitarian complex. His name is the Holy Spirit.» So maybe, just for the first time this year, can you do me a favor right now and say thank you?