Changed into Another Man: full transcript and answers

▶ 0:00 1 Samuel chapter 10 verse 6 and the spirit of the Lord will come upon you and you shall prophesy with them and you shall be turned into another man. And let it be when these signs are come upon you that you do as occasion serves you for God is with you. Skipping down to verse 9, and it was so that when Saul had turned his back to go from Samuel the prophet God gave him another heart and all those signs came to pass that day. And when they came to the hill behold a company of prophets met Saul and the spirit of God came upon Saul and he prophesied among them now there are several things in this verse that are very pertinent to anyone. Number

▶ 1:13 one: the spirit of the Lord will come upon you all right the spirit of the Lord now I know in America today and the world there’s so many denominations. There’s so many people saying so many things and some said the spirit of the Lord is this and the Holy Ghost is that and whatever and all I just want to remind you that the Lord our God is one Lord one God. Okay it just so happens to be that God is our father in the Bible he’s the one that gives us birth he’s the one that gives us life he’s the one that provides for us and takes care of us he is called the father in the Bible all right it just so happens to say in the Bible that God is a

▶ 2:11 spirit. God is what? A spirit and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth not mechanics, not [unclear], but God is a spirit so in Genesis 1 in the beginning God created the heavens and the earth and the earth became without form and void and darkness was on the face of the deep and God moved on the face of the deep the spirit I say moved the spirit of God moved on the waters. what God is saying what it really is saying God is a spirit right. God moved on the face of the

▶ 3:08 water. There’s nothing complicated about this there is one God he happens to express himself in three different dimensions three different expressions the father the son the Holy Ghost but he’s every one of them now let me continue in Genesis 1 it says let us make man in our image. Plural does that mean there is more than one God. No but remember the Bible says that Jesus was the first of creation now I know people turn that around and and and some of your some of your translators say he Jesus was at the beginning of creation he was before the beginning of creation king James says Jesus was the what

▶ 4:07 first of God’s creation. And Jesus, we know in John 1, in the beginning was the word the word was with God plural right all right let us make man in our image plural in the beginning was the word the word was with God and the word was God. You see God keeps the context of his message throughout the Bible see Jesus is the word and it goes on to say that God became flesh and dwelt among us and we know knew him as his only begotten son full of grace and glory right so the word was Jesus in John 1:1 the Bible also says that Jesus blood was shed before the foundation of the world before anything happened the earth the water before anything happened.

▶ 5:09 Jesus blood was shed now we know it wasn’t shed until he died on the cross is that correct yes but see in God’s plan he already designed that he would come in the flesh and he would die for the sins of the world to reconcile people back to him there there was no plan a and plan b there was only one plan God isn’t mixed up are you with me so when it says the Holy Spirit came upon him it’s saying what? God came upon

▶ 5:46 him. Amen. Yes hallelujah God came upon him and the Muslims are lying to the world when they say that Christianity believes in a plurality of God we don’t. Now at least normal Christians don’t we believe in one God and he expresses himself through the Holy Ghost through the father and through the son and so God came upon him you can even say Jesus came upon him because God is Jesus and Jesus is God one God you understand young people all right there’s only one God he just expresses himself so the Holy Spirit the spirit of the Lord came up on Saul and that’s the first thing that is emphasized here and then he says second you shall prophesy with the prophets that you’re going to meet when you leave me prophesy means to speak by the inspiration of the Holy Spirit or speak by the inspiration of God.

▶ 6:59 Not your inspiration a lot of people tell me they’re talking by the Holy Ghost when they’re talking by their ghost their spirit God told me blah blah blah well I know the Holy Spirit never goes against the word so I know they’re just talking about themselves. all right and prophecy if prophecy is speaking by the inspiration of God the inspiration of the Holy Spirit then prophecy never is wrong. Never because the holy spirit’s never wrong could that be an amen are you guys understanding me so when these prophets who pro self-proclaimed to be prophets out there and and and in the church and they miss was it the Holy Spirit speaking no it was them talking and we got a lot of them especially in spirit-filled circles we got a lot of people saying the Holy Ghost is saying things that the Holy Ghost isn’t saying because the Holy Ghost never contradicts God or the word.

▶ 8:09 Never and the Holy Ghost don’t doesn’t make mistakes and when angels come to talk to us they are messengers sent by God to give us a message and that message is accurate. Joseph Smith’s message was not accurate, so it wasn’t an angel of God, was it? It’s just that simple. Folks now I’m sure when you read the Bible you get all this when you’re, and I’m just reminding you of this stuff so now you’re going to prophesy with them okay, number three: and you shall be changed into another man shall means nothing can stop it from happening turn turned is changed turned into another man how many would like the Holy Ghost to come upon you and turn you into another person yeah you don’t like who you are as as far as spiritual things go yeah and it takes the Holy Ghost we can’t do this through recovery ministries and and seminars in the mountains to get away it it’s got to be God coming and making a change in our life.

▶ 9:30 We think we go to seminars and we think we get somebody’s tapes and oh wow now I got it together. No the spirit of God needs to come upon you the spirit of God needs to express himself when he comes upon you as he desires to express himself and he mainly wanted Saul to be turned into the man another man and the prophecy is a minor part here and I’ll show you. Why okay are you with me so far am I making this clear okay now this stuff is what [unclear] me this stuff is what ministers me this stuff is why I can spend hours reading the Bible it just makes sense, you know. So verse 9, when Saul had turned his back to go from Samuel here’s number four.

▶ 10:28 Okay now, number four: God gave him another heart and all those signs came to pass that day everything that God said happened that same day wasn’t no missing wasn’t no problem wasn’t no mistakes everything when God speaks it happens just like God said and that way we know a real prophet from a false one and we got a lot of false prophets running around, folks. Now the Holy Ghost hadn’t come upon Saul yet God gave him another heart and the Holy Ghost hadn’t come upon him yet he hadn’t prophesied yet and he hadn’t been turned into another man yet. He simply turned to do what God told him to do go meet the prophets and when Saul

▶ 11:25 turned, when he repented, when he did an about-face, God gave him another heart. Church that is good stuff you see when we come to Christ in the New Testament and we admit we are wrong and we confess those sins and we repent we turn from those sins immediately God will give us what another heart we don’t have it’s not the baptism of the Holy Ghost yet it’s not prophesying or any other ministry in the church yet he starts with giving us what? Another heart. Man that’s good stuff if you’re getting it are you getting it let me see first God has to do it and no, there’s no church structure for this stuff there’s no procedure for this stuff it’s God personally coming and having an encounter with you as an individual and his objective is to turn you into another man and to do that he’s got to give you another heart now the word heart is not this blood pumper.

▶ 12:41 Okay in the Hebrew and in the Greek both the heart is not talking about this blood pumper in our body it’s talking about the intellect he’s going to give you another mind a new way of thinking how many could use that yeah how many know your thinking is kind of messed up and you need to think like God thinks. Yeah people are always saying well I believe I don’t care what you believe. If you believe what God said to believe you’re okay but when you believe what you want to believe you’re not okay. And we excuse ourselves, well I believe this and I believe that and I believe it it’s not what you believe, it’s what God said to believe and he comes and gives you a mind that can change to thinking on and doing what is truth, right and

▶ 13:42 just. Amen. The second thing about the heart it is the will you see let thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven the will is our behavior our action. See you have a will to come to church or you have a will to stay home you have a will to read your Bible you have a will not to read your Bible. And this word heart I’m going to give you another heart he’s going to give you not only a mind to understand and to think on righteousness truth and justice but he’s going to give you a behavior that backs it up. And then the third thing about the heart is the emotions. See I don’t have to fall apart in bad

▶ 14:40 times. I don’t have to hate when I’m hated I don’t have to get angry because somebody mistreated me I don’t have to curse somebody out because they said something that I didn’t like my emotion he’s given me a new emotional being I can have joy when other people are depressed and I don’t have depression because he is giving me joy that is eternal are you there? Everlasting joy the Bible says shall be upon their head. How long is everlasting? Forever. I don’t have to God’s people don’t have to get depressed like the world does and go to psychologist and take pills, and you don’t have to go to a seven step recovery program or a 12-step recovery program let the Holy Ghost come upon you and he will transform

▶ 15:40 you his way. he’ll turn you into another man and so in Ezekiel 36:26 remember God said I will give you a new heart and a new spirit will I put within you God said in his [unclear] promise to the church the promise the prophecy to the church just like Saul he said to everybody I am going to put a new heart in them I’m going to put a new spirit and I’m going to take the stony heart out Ezekiel 36:26 that hard heart out that insensitive heart out and I’m going to give him a sensitive heart and I’m going to give him a new spirit folks that’s our promise why do we want a [unclear] when we can have a new heart and a new

▶ 16:33 spirit? See, why do we ask for petty things when we can ask for things that transform our life forever? Are you with me? And when people pray how many pray for a new spirit and a new heart or they’re always wanting something they’re wanting what they want and James says when you do ask you ask amiss because you want to consume it on yourself instead of asking for wisdom and things that are important. Saul that very day when Samuel met him he was chasing donkeys. How many of you feel like you’re just chasing donkeys. Stubborn hard-headed. Yeah Saul was chasing donkeys.

▶ 17:31 When they come to choose a king Saul was hiding behind the baggage, bashful, timid. I’ll just sit in church, I’ll just stay home, just hiding but when the spirit of God came upon him and he became another man and he got another heart he became a leader the king king of the nation the king was the head of the justice department he chose he made the decision of right and wrong truth and not truth and he was the leader of the army to defeat the enemies of God’s people he went from following donkeys to being a leader of the army to defeat the enemies of God and to being the chief justice of the nation to make sure everybody got treated with truth justice and fairness.

▶ 18:36 Amen and we think we’re really doing good because we got saved I believe in Jesus there is so much more for us. Am I getting this across and it’s promised to all of us it’s promised to all of us to prove it will go to the New Testament and remember the focus here was not on prophecy how many times did Saul prophesy can anybody tell me he prophesied how many times twice and he spoke of the mighty works of God like they did on the day of Pentecost he didn’t give anybody any personal prophecies and see we we come up with these religious methods and we we think that closing our eyes and and and saying it with with with enthusiasm will make it work it’s not going to work unless Jesus is working.

▶ 19:38 it. Cut out the showmanship, cut out the pretense, come to God with an honest heart and I’ll tell you great things can happen and the focus here is not on prophecy it is another heart and being turned into another man that’s the focus. Saul was not involved in the kingdom he wasn’t involved in spiritual things and when God came it turned him around so in 2 Corinthians 5:17, 2 Corinthians chapter 5:17, we’re going to see it in the New Testament also. Does God want us change into another person rather than prophesy and have a word of knowledge and speaking tongues and all these gifts that everybody’s worried about would he rather have you turned into a just truthful honest.

▶ 20:46 Person I’m asking you a question yes yeah and why do we get sidetracked with all these peripheral thing God gives us to build the church and we don’t don’t change our life you’re changed because you’re changed you have another heart because you got another heart and the emotions do come and when the emotions are inspired by God the emotions are genuine but when the emotions are, are, are inspired by music or you then it is a dead expression yes now that was good. you understand people say you can’t be emotional it’s just emotion no no Jesus wept, that’s emotion. am I right yes and God rejoices over one sinner that repents that’s emotion emotions are good when they’re inspired by God not by music and not by yourself 2 Corinthians 5:17 if any man be in Christ he is a new creature old things are passed away and all things are become new same thing.

▶ 21:59 This person was given another heart a new heart the old man followed sin disobeyed God the new man follows right truth and justice and obeys God. If any man be in Christ when you pray your sinner’s prayer and you admit your sinner your sins and you ask God to forgive you and you promise to repent from them that’s when you become in Christ if any man become in Christ he is a what new creature see I told you earlier when Saul turned to go do what the God said to do through the prophet when we turn from our sin God gives us another heart when you don’t turn from your sin you’re not going to get another

▶ 22:55 heart. That make sense? yeah. In Galatians 6:4, by whom the world by Christ the world is crucified unto me and I am crucified unto the world see when I come to Christ the lust of the eyes the lust of the flesh the pride of life doing my own thing is dead to me now, and I am dead to the world we don’t even connect. I’m a different person. Okay continuing for in Christ Jesus neither circumcision avails anything nor uncircumcision but what is important the new creature the new person the person that has let God give him another heart let God give him another spirit a person that has let the Holy Ghost come upon them and do this work in them.

▶ 23:59 That’s what’s important it’s not your church cultural issues it’s not your church beliefs and the methods that they do things it is the new creature that is the measurement because the new creature is the goal of God it doesn’t matter if you can speak eloquently and inspire people it doesn’t matter if you can speak in tongues and even interpret them or prophesy what matters is you allowed God to come to you by his spirit and give you a new spirit and a new heart. Amen. Then Christianity becomes personal and Christianity becomes real and you have a supernatural source you don’t need to read every book in the Bible book store you don’t need to listen to every tape on tv ministries that tell you to send in money and get their tapes and God will bless your socks off there’s nothing higher than this book.

▶ 25:11 Amen he’s not talking about being a Catholic, he’s not talking about being a Protestant, a Jew or a Muslim or their religious customs he’s talking about being changed into another person and having a new spirit. Remember Joshua and Caleb they had a different spirit the Bible says see the spirit was on them that’s why they thought different and behaved different than the rest of the spies the 10 spies didn’t see things right why they didn’t let the spirit of God come upon them God tries how many know he tries you can’t blame God you see we don’t seek him or we reject him when he comes but Joshua and Caleb they had a what different spirit they had the spirit of God God that gave him another heart that gave him another mind that gave him another will that gave him another emotion and they said these giants are bread for us when the other ones are shaking in their shoes and their knees are knocking and they want to run back to

▶ 26:17 Egypt. The spirit makes the difference the mind the new mind the new will the new emotion makes the difference you remember Joseph, when he went down, or before he went down to Egypt, he was mistreated by his own brothers if somebody mistreat somebody in the church that person gets a broken heart depressed and stays home what kind of church is that bunch of hypocrites. Not Joseph. When his brothers mistreated him brothers sold him into slavery he had no animosity against his brothers no ill feelings at all. What wh why can that be he goes down and they sold him to Potiphar and Potiphar’s wife tried to have sex with him and he says I can’t do that and Potiphar believed his wife and put him in prison in prison he ministered to the prisoners and the butler and the baker he told them what was going to happen to them and the baker met his maker and the butler got restored and the butler forgot all about Joseph.

▶ 27:28 Just neglected him didn’t bother Joseph a bit here I help this guy and look he don’t even he don’t even talk to Pharaoh about me and don’t get me out of here no Joseph would just went on about life no anger no hatred, no depression. he wasn’t depressed when his family mistreated him he wasn’t depressed when his employer mistreated him he wasn’t depressed when some woman tried to seduce him he didn’t get depressed when he was thrown into prison and he didn’t get depressed when the butler who promised to talk to Pharaoh the king didn’t do it why because he let God come to him he asked God to come to him God came to him and gave him a new spirit I gave him a new mind and Joseph could handle anything just like Daniel and when Pharaoh, was, Joseph was brought up, what did Pharaoh say can we find a man such as this in whom the the spirit of God is so why could Joseph do that because of the spirit that same spirit that

▶ 28:37 Saul was visited with the same spirit that the New Testament church was visited with the spirit of God changing us into another man changing our into another mind another heart remember Barnabas in Acts Barnabas was an apostle he healing the sick preaching the gospel and all the rest but when Acts describes Barnabas this is what it says Acts 11:24, Barnabas was a good man, full of the Holy Ghost why was he good because he allowed the Holy Ghost to come and give him another heart and give him another

▶ 29:25 spirit. Amen, he was a good man it didn’t go that well Barnabas did this and boy down here in Athens he he he healed this person he healed that that’s what we do today if anything goods happen we got the list that we want to tell everybody and we just keep that list every time you know this is what I did this is what I did Barnabas was a what good man didn’t he mention him prophesying didn’t he mention the fact that he spoke in tongues didn’t he mention the fact that he interpret didn’t he mention the fact that God used him in healing supernaturally physical body it says what he was a good man and see the emphasis with Saul was what being changed into another man and the emphasis in the New Testament is what being changed into another man. And see being a good person is what’s going to bless your marriage being a good person is what’s going to help your children being a good person is what’s going to honor your parents being a good person is what’s going to help the community and being a good person is what what’s going to help the United States of America and to be a good person you got to let the Holy Ghost come upon you he’s got to move you toward truth justice and what is right and you don’t back down for anything your family your friends or whatever you stand for truth right and justice giving you a real life experience. My

▶ 30:50 dad before 1948 had his beer like other macho men do they follow the culture give me my beer give me my cigarette but that’s what Americans do man it’s the transition between childhood to adulthood now it’s marijuana now it’s drugs and alcohol yeah I’m becoming a man yeah my dad used profanity blankety blank this blankety blank that why cuz everybody did it everybody did, did it. My dad was angry lose his temper and then in 1948 Jesus met with my dad in that 48 outpouring of God that refreshing and restoration time that lasted until the 60s my dad had an encounter with Jesus Christ and my dad I never seen him lose his temper I never heard one curse word from my father not one my dad never had to have a beer to perk him up at night. My

▶ 32:07 dad, he never prophesied he never led one person to Christ, he never taught Sunday school but my dad had the experience that Saul had and the New Testament said you could have he let God change him into another man a good man and everywhere my dad was talked about he was called a good man your father is a good man I was told that over and over as a child your father is a good man. He didn’t lead a church he didn’t pastor a church but my dad put his family first his wife first my dad took the smallest piece of meat on the table not the biggest when we all were wearing the same t-shirts my dad got the t-shirts with holes in it so us boys could have the t-shirts that were looking good see my dad had it together and these people that said they had the gift of prophecy and the gift of healing and and all these special unique things they didn’t even most of them didn’t even come close to my father.

▶ 33:28 Because my dad and when I asked my dad dad why didn’t you ever speak to us why didn’t you ever share the gospel with us and my dad said I thought it would be better to live it and that zipped my lip because I’ll tell you I live with that man and he lived it he was a good man and my mom was a good woman and because of that when I grew up I didn’t get into drinking I didn’t get into cigarette smoking I didn’t have the example in my home I didn’t even use profanity because it wasn’t spoken in the home I never used profanity they used it out on the streets the gangs were bad the public schools were horrible but my parents were such an example to me that I didn’t do what normal kids did because of my parents I never heard anger in my home I never heard profanity. I,

▶ 34:27 us children were put first we knew our parents loved us and they were an example to us. I could go on and on telling you about Esther having to give up choosing her mate to marry a king that had many wives and she never was depressed she never got cast down and when it was asked of her to go to the king and she knew that if the king did not invite her she was dead she simply said I will do what I got to do if I perish, I

▶ 35:13 perish. Church has a big difference when you allow the Holy Spirit to come upon you who is God and that Holy Spirit change you into another person and it takes some time he gives us another heart but it takes time for that new heart to capture our our our conduct and our speech but it’s there you see there’s a scripture in the Bible says we don’t know what we shall be but we know but when we see him we will be like him now let me give you this illustration this week we had to choose carpet down there for the middle learning center school classroom room and I wanted an elegant carpet I wanted an estate looking carpet I wanted it looking good when the [unclear] wasn’t in there and uh Melissa is my color coordinator my wife is a very good color

▶ 36:11 coordinator. And uh anyway we have these swatches in front of us and uh Melissa says this one will work and that one will work and I go you’re nuts I ain’t going to work in here you’re crazy she says yes I said well how how’s it going to work those beams I I want it to contrast with the beam she says those beams have red in them I you crazy red in those beams so she tells get up and put that swatch by that beam and so I get up there and I remember but when we see him we will be what like him you see so when he comes and this is what the swatch did once I got the swatch up there by the beam I look back at her like oh man you got me it did that beam had red in it and it just brought the carpet out.

▶ 37:10 Beautiful but see I had to get close and when Jesus comes you may not feel you have enough of him to be worthy but only took a little red in that carpet to bring out the beam and it doesn’t take much of Jesus when he comes you’re going to see that you’re like him you may not be at his height of glory at his height of power but you’re going to see that you have enough of him in you to be like him.