GET DRUNK WITH THE HOLY GHOST

  Ephesians 5:18

There is a level God expects every child of God to get to in his/her spiritual walk with Him. God is not only interested in getting you baptized in the Holy Spirit, but He expects you to be drunk in the Holy Ghost. There are many examples of those who were drunk with the Holy Ghost and this enabled them to accomplished great things for God. Jesus never began his ministry on earth until he was drunk in the Spirit, that was why he was able to overcome the temptations that came.

Definitions of terms:

1. Drunk:
   1. Lacking control from drinking alcohol.
   2. A person who drinks large amounts of alcohol very frequently and is unable to give up the habit.
   3. Unable to speak or act in the usual way because of having had too much alcohol.
      1. i.    Anyone who is drunk act in an abnormal way because of the influence of the alcohol.
      2. ii.    The person can sleep on the road, gutter or anywhere. The person is not afraid. He feels on top of the world.
      3.  iii.    ILL. Someone dived on a tarred road under the influence of alcohol thinking he was swimming on a big river.
2. Holy Ghost: The third person in the Godhead. Also called Holy Spirit, He is God.
   

1. I.             WHAT IT MEANS TO BE DRUNK IN THE HOLY GHOST

• IF THERE IS ANY HABIT ONE NEEDS TO CULVITATE AND NOT GIVE UP IS TO BE DRUNK IN THE SPIRIT.
• When one is drunk in the Holy Ghost, the person is no longer in control over himself, but the Holy Ghost leads him to do things abnormally. Not the way the rational man will do.
• In Matthew 11:12 a translation says “…right from the days of John the Baptist until now, the kingdom of heaven suffers abnormality and the abnormal takes it by force”.
• If you must survive in this world, you must be abnormal. Why many are not used of God is because they are too normal. When you get drunk with the Holy Ghost, you will behave abnormally. John the Baptist ate honey and wild Locust, he lived in the wilderness, and his message was rugged. He was filled and drunk with the Holy Ghost right from his mother’s womb. (Luke 1:15-17).
• Alcohol on the other hand is bad and makes you not to reason well, it also destroys your liver but the Holy Ghost is good, He helps you to reason well and strengthen your relationship with God.
  • ILL. (1) Girl who was kidnapped for ritual but was drunk with the Holy Ghost and spoke in tongues and got her deliverance.
• Eph 5:18 is a command that believers should get drunk with the Holy Ghost. It is not optional.
  • ILL (2) a smoker who saw Reinhard Bonnke and threw away his cigarette confessed he saw Jesus in his eyes.

1. BIBLICAL EXAMPLES OF THOSE WHO WERE DRUNK WITH THE HOLY GHOST (FILLED WITH/FULL OF THE HOLY GHOST

1. John the Baptist. – Luke 1:15-17.
2. Elisabeth was drunk when Mary who was pregnant of Jesus visited and she prophesied. – Luke 1:41-45.
3. Zacharias was drunk immediately he gave the name John to his child on the 8th day. Luke 1:67-68.
4. Jesus – Luke 4:1
5. Peter – Acts 4:8-10
6. The apostles – Acts 4:31-33
7. The first deacons. Acts 6:3-5
8. Stephen. Acts 6:8; 7:55-56.
9. Barnabas. Acts 11:22-24
10. Paul. Acts 13:6-12
11. The Disciples Acts 13:50-52.

Conclusion: There is no law against getting drunk in the Holy Ghost. This is what God requires from believers.