The move of the Holy Ghost is not a circus; it’s supernatural.  Can there be emotions involved?  Yes.  Oh, beloved, we are emotional beings; amen?  There’s nothing wrong with worshiping God and shouting out praise to God; amen?  We will not become Presbyterians.  The Bible is full of Scriptures that talk about the great boasting in God.  We see the dancing before the Lord in some of these services.  There’s an old Pentecostal song—I hate that it’s in my head because once you get it in there you can’t get it out either.  “Oh, the Holy Ghost will set your feet a-dancing.”  Amen?  And it has so many verses, dear God, and by the time—I was looking at an old Jimmy Swaggart clip just the other day.  They sang that for eight minutes.  Paul did not suppress emotion, he put it under and into order; amen?  And so, throughout the Scriptures, especially in the Psalms, “Shout unto God with a voice of triumph” (Psalm 47:1); amen?  Around the throne itself, the Lord is speaking, His voice is “as the sound of many waters” (Revelation 1:15).

Can you imagine the singing around the throne of God as this innumerable amount of redeemed declare His greatness and sing the song of the redeemed?  Amen?  But in order.  And so, as the apostles then, go down into Samaria, in the midst of this revival, it's kind of a cool—turn over to Acts, Chapter 8, and we’ll look at it for just a second here.  Now this revival, it’s interesting.  It manifested itself as the Holy Spirit led the church into going into all the world.  It’s interesting, as you read these early chapters in Acts, one of the ways that the gospel was spread was through persecution; amen?  We like to think the gospel was spread because the Holy Ghost spoke to them and told them to go to such and such a city.  These people were fleeing for their lives.  It said only—in fact that’s quite a statement—only the apostles were staying in Jerusalem.  There was a dispersing here.  We know that it dispersed, as we go on further into Acts, into Antioch.  We see here, down into Samaria.  Verse 4 (Acts 8) says, “They that were scattered abroad went everywhere preaching the word.”  Philip coming into Samaria.  The people, with one accord, were listening to “those things which Philip spake, hearing and seeing the miracles which he did” (verse 6).

Hearing and seeing the miracles that he did.  “These signs shall follow them that believe; In my name” (Mark 16:17).  “Jesus…a man approved of God among you” (Acts 2:22) through the working of all these miracles.  Unclean spirits, crying with loud voices came out of many that were possessed with them.  Let me just say this, those that might like a quiet serene service, we’re settled in now, there might be some disturbances as people come in here that are demon possessed and those demons are cast out and they’re screaming and causing havoc, throwing people down to the ground, watching them foam at the mouth.  Do you want to see the power of God?  It gets dirty sometimes; ministering in the kingdom gets down and dirty sometimes when you’re dealing in some of these aspects of warfare.  Though we saw all the abuses over the years of people “falling under the power” and how it turned into just a carnival and people being pushed down, and all the fake demonstrations of falling under the power of God.  Nevertheless, it’s scriptural.  “Art thou He?  I am.  And the whole group fell backwards” (John 18:4‑6); amen?  The presence of God manifests, and they fall at His feet as dead.  It’s not every service but God does nothing that’s trivial.  There’s a purpose, there’s an eternal purpose behind God manifesting Himself.  He’s not here to entertain.