Coe Whittern teaches on Jesus and the baptism and power of the Holy Spirit in and on and through Jesus as he obeys the Father because of his intimate relationship with Him.

Jesus laid down his former glory and was a man like you and me except without sin.

John 14:8
Jesus ,"I tell you the truth, anyone who has faith in me will do what I have been doing.  He will do even greater things than these, because I am going to the Father.  And I will do whatever you ask in my name, so that the Son may bring glory to the Father.  You may ask me anything in my name, and I will do it."

"If you love me, you will obey what I command."
It requires maintenance but we can be clean.

We have to take time and pursue God.
"If you seek me you will find me"

To the measure we seek intimacy with God and obey him is the measure of God's presence in our lives.

Jesus did what he did as a human just like you and me, but he was without sin.  He had a completely intimate relationship with the Father.  He had an unlimited anointing of the Holy Spirit but he turns around and says we can have that same relationship and we can have the same results and we need to not settle for less. 

But we cant go for the power.  We have to go for being clean.  We have to go for pursuing intimacy with the Father that loves us dearly.  We have to yeild ourselves to him, wanting Him to be free to work his plan in us.  Knowing it is an ongoing progressive thing that will work over time to give us our full inheritance and make us like his character.  That we can be what he said, we can be full of power.

Acts 10:37-38

Luke 3:16
Luke 4:1, 14

 1 Corinthians 14:1-19

Paul now returns to other aspects of the Corinthian assemblies. He establishes the purpose of the customary, weekly, Lord's day assembly: to build up the body of Christ.

Any worship activity that inherently fails to strengthen others, needs to be set aside. For example, though speaking in tongues may allow one's own spirit to address God, it does no one else any good, because no one understands the language. So, if there is no one to interpret the language, then such activity needs to be kept to oneself and the Lord. Paul gives another example to say that prophets, though speaking by the Spirit of God, must take turns in their speaking so that everyone may have opportunity to understand and to evaluate what was said.

Paul's interest, in short, is that genuine love prevail so that each person may use whatever gifts one has to help others be edified. And not to grandstand or show off.

posted by: Jon Paden

Coe Whittern, Jon Paden, and John Honan talk about the congregational meetings and what Jesus is specifically saying to our church body

1 Corinthians 13

How does one live out the call of Christ on his or her life? The "most excellent" way is the way of love.

But this love is not merely a sublime feeling or emotion. It is a love that makes a demand on one's life to behave in a certain way. It is a behavior that pursues the best outcome for another's life.

This love is a way of patience, of kindness; a way that erases wrongs against one; it is a way that protects and endures. Even when we don't feel like it.

This love is eternal, not only in the sense of duration, but in the sense of quality. To walk out Jesus' call on our lives is to love passionately the best interests of our fellows.

Dave Honan gives a 4 minute message and asks us to do some homework.

The church honors Pastor John Honan on his 53rd birthday by sharing how he has impacted their lives.