i'm going to ask you to stand if you
would and you can either
turn to acts chapter 17 or you can look
to the screens
but we're going to pick it up where we
left off last time in our study acts
chapter 17.
i'll begin reading in verse 16. if
you'll pick it up in verse 17
again new king james version on the
screens if you would acts chapter 17.
we're looking
at our series tonight uh theology and me
and we're talking about the holy spirit
and
much needed much needed teaching for us
this evening
acts chapter 17 verse 16 now while paul
waited for them in athens his spirit was
provoked within him
when he saw that the city was given over
to idols
then certain epicurean and stoic
philosophers
encountered him and some said what does
this babbler want to say
and others said he seems to be a
proclaimer of foreign gods
because he preached them jesus and the
resurrection
did the word areopagus mess you up
for you are bringing some strange things
to our ears therefore
we want to know what these things mean
it's called gossip that's a funny verse
verse 22
then paul stood in the midst of the
aeropagus and said men of athens i
perceive
that in all things you are very
religious
god who made the world and everything in
it since he is lord of heaven and earth
does not dwell
in temples made with hands
and he has made from one blood every
nation of men to dwell on
all the face of the earth and as
determined their pre-appointed times and
the boundaries of their dwellings
wow verse 28 we'll end here for in him
we live
and move and have our being as also some
of your own poets have said
for we are also his offspring father we
pray that your holy spirit would
minister to us tonight we pray lord god
through the worship and through our time
together and the worship of
you in the word that you would draw us
closer
and pull us lord into you we submit
ourselves to you gladly jesus
in your name we pray and all god's
people said amen amen you can be seated
church
and as i mentioned last time theology
and me is
the topic that we've been going in our y
series on these wednesday nights and we
started looking at last time and we'll
finish off tonight
theology and me and how that all works
that the fact that theology of course
really means theo god ology the words
or the words or the study of god
theology big word but that's simply what
it means what does the bible say
about who god is and you read a moment
ago that
it's announced in the scriptures that he
is near to
all of us and that is true
tonight you can be uh so distant from
god and and a non-believer you can be an
atheist and
and and you can or agnostic and you can
be pushing god off
the god that you don't believe in you're
fighting against which always cracks me
up
but you're pushing him off saying you
don't believe him but you're constantly
battling with
the idea of him and maybe he does exist
and
even in that god is near you
because he's reaching out to you and
he's drawing you and he does that by the
holy spirit
and for us who are believers the holy
spirit is active in our lives both
listen both in us and upon us
in life for the unbeliever the holy
spirit is alongside them
convicting them and pointing out the air
of their
ways with hopes that they'll repent of
their sin right
and call out to him and receive his
mercy and forgiveness
but when we talk about theology it would
be
horrific if we studied all about god
and never came to know god i've shared
with you before that i have friends
who have gone to seminaries and
christian universities
and have had unbelieving professors
and the unbelieving professors announced
that they're unbelievers
in the christian university
and they tell the students on the first
day i'm a good teacher
i'm not a believer that's why i was
hired by this school
so don't witness to me i don't need to
hear it i could preach it myself
so open up let's let's study isaiah and
they open it up and it's like are you
kidding me
you can be a theologian and not be saved
you can be a christian and not be saved
i'm i'm reading the life of george
whitefield it's awesome
book incredible book did you know that
man was schooled in theology
he was a trained minister of the church
of england
and he was ordained into the ministry he
was preaching christ
and people were getting saved and george
whitfield tells you later on
that he wasn't saved himself and he
wound up bowing his knee to christ
well into the ministry life the great
george whitfield is that crazy doesn't
seem nuts
but it's possible well the thing that
sets us or i should say the one that
sets us apart from this world
is none other than the work of the holy
spirit
and when we look at this and i mentioned
it last time i want to say it again
from acts chapter 17 verse 28 when
we looked at for in him we live we move
and have our being those three
dynamics we saw that the the new
testament church
has a lofty place
in the work of god because the old
testament economy church
you know that the holy spirit came upon
the old testament prophets and then left
them i don't know if you know that or
not
but the holy spirit never indwelt the
old testament believers
that never happened including david
including abraham the holy spirit came
upon them
in fact you know the song which is from
the psalm
take not thy holy spirit from me did you
know that's old testament theology
it's not new testament theology if
you're a believer the holy spirit cannot
leave you
he will never take his holy spirit from
you
the holy spirit has been commissioned at
your salvation the holy spirit came into
your life
never to leave he can't leave he's
bound by the words of jesus i'm sure
many days he feels like leaving
but he can't leave
his job if i can put it that way is to
get you into the presence of christ
that's the work of the holy spirit and
he uses the bible
the more you have of your word or his
word in you
the greater the work the holy spirit in
your life and we saw this
we saw that theology in me means that we
walk in the spirit
we walk in the spirit and there's two
great contrast of life regarding walking
in the spirit
that we are christians are called by god
to walk in the spirit and i did a little
reenactment about walking in the spirit
if you remember i i read a verse of the
bible and then i prayed that as i moved
back and forth
on the screen or on the stage i should
say and that this is
this is what it means to walk in the
spirit to moment by moment
practice his presence to be uh having
his word
memorizing his word uh living his word
god does that the other day monday i
went to albertson's supermarket to get
something poorly so you need to pray for
her she sent me to get something like
uh almond milk and bread it was almond
milk and bread and
about an hour and 20 minutes later i got
home
why because a young man i think his name
was robert
working at the store uh recognized me
even though i was massed up because you
can't go in i don't wear a mask but i
have to put a mask on to go in the
grocery store
and so i put the mask on so i thought
i'm kind of undercover
and i got the mask on and this guy this
guy working there says question check
and ask you a question
and so that thought was a great moment
to take off the mask right then and
there
and uh he said um i think god has
stirring me up because i'm just terribly
disgusted with how i live my life and i
don't want to live my life anymore like
this and i need to change
i couldn't believe it's like somebody
get a net this guy's gonna jump in
the fishing is great at albertsons
and um and it's remarkable and i was
able just to share with him right then
and there why what's going on the holy
spirit
had been working in his life and he was
sick of the life that he was living and
he wants to
live a life of walking in the spirit and
this is what the bible says about that
in galatians 5 verse 22
it says that but the fruit of the spirit
remember we talked on this last time
that the fruit of the spirit that's
singular
is love that's it
the fruit of the spirit is love
it's technically not all those other
wonderful things that follow love
the fruit of the spirit singular is love
and from
love comes all of the other beautiful
attributes of
the love of god in your life joy
joy you can't have joy unless you have
the love of god
in your life this is no way the world
works on happiness and that's a tough
one
because happiness is based on happen
stance that's where it comes from
you have a happy day okay i did not have
a happy day
until i got that phone call i told you
about but then i had to go right back to
my
unhappy day but in through the midst of
the incredible unhappy day
i had joy joy doesn't change
it's not based upon what's going on it's
constant because it's in him
and it's a result of god's love in your
life
peace long-suffering kindness gentleness
faithfulness
self-control against such there is no
law
and those who are christ have crucified
the flesh with
its passions and its desires or its
desires if we live in the spirit
let us also walk in the spirit why is
that important because
if you go up a little bit in chapter 5
this is what it will spare you from this
is what walking in the spirit will spare
you from
verse 19. now the works notice it's
plural
the works of the flesh are evident it
means they're clearly seen
here's the thing when you were doing
those things i'm about to read here in
your old life
you didn't think any of those things
were seen you thought they were clearly
veiled and hidden by you and me in our
cleverness
when we lived in the world we we
practiced sin but we we we hid it
the thing is god sees it all now the
works of the flesh are evident so this
is how you combat right this is how you
this is how you come out of i should say
uh a life that is lived without the lord
is
we are bent on sexual immorality
it's human nature we listen we we're
born into this world with that appetite
impurity sensuality
idolatry worship of things sorcery
greek word pharmakei uh the word means
hallucinogenic drugs isn't that weird
it doesn't mean mickey mouse with the
hat with the
crescent on it and make some potions
no it means that you enter into a world
that
that unlocks the door into spiritual
realms
hallucinogenic drugs will do that
it's terrifying enmity
strife jealousy
fits of anger revelries dissensions
divisions envy drunkenness
orgies and things like these
i want uh i warn you as i warned you
before that those who do such things
will not
inherit the kingdom or will go to heaven
why because he just described
how the world lives and i think it's
safe to say that in the world in which
you and i live in today that
several of those things are in reference
to to sexuality i think sex is the
is the new god in the world that we live
in it certainly seems to be the new god
in america
everything is sexualized and driven that
way and of course pornography rules the
day and
ruins people's lives and every chance i
get i i want to say this i i don't know
how to talk to women about it but men
let's pretend there's no women here
right now you can buy
books as long as you're armed they're
out there libraries are filled i think
of books
regarding men and a voting pornography
avoiding pornography and i'm not
knocking that
those are probably some tremendous books
but i'm going to tell you right now guys
and if this applies to women
then this truth is is applicable to you
too and it is this you can have all
kinds of things on your phone you can
have all kinds of guards and apps and
passcodes and all that stuff and maybe
you have to have that that's fantastic
but the greatest way
i'm telling you right now the greatest
way to defeat that temptation
is to literally literally
crawl if you have to
scrap if you have to
but get to the love of god listen love
god
more than what the world has to offer
you can have all the safety things in
place and if you've got to do it do it
but the greatest thing of all
is that you love god more in fact
samson's thing is all about that think
about samson
everything was about women he had the
power of god but there's a woman
first thing the first word out of his
mouth in the book of judges
is samson i saw a woman he says to his
parents give me that woman that's a
weird request from a
kid to a parent but
the weird thing is
it wasn't until the end of his life that
he saw the value and the power of loving
god more
you can save yourself a lot of grief by
not walking in the flesh but walking in
the spirit
by the power of the holy spirit and
that's what i told that young man at the
store
don't do christianity don't do it
get into god's word and let the holy
spirit do it through
you and that's the greatest power of the
message of the cross in christ
is that god does this and when you
realize wait a minute you know i
all these sins that are punching me in
the face and coming after me
and wait a minute love god more and
watch that stuff diminish and it
vanishes away you'll still be tempted by
some other things but those big
mountains
god's grace can be shouted to it and
it's absolutely awesome
listen if god didn't grant that power
i'd quit this job this calling today
because that victory happened in my life
over 45 years ago
where that was my life that was my
previous life
and god in his power came in and he
showed me right up front
because if you're all alone and you're
away and you're there's nobody around
and it's just you
you know what will keep you loving god
more
the love of god that's why you read a
moment ago that there's
no law that can keep you from that
you're free from the law when you walk
in the spirit
the law's guidelines and that's
fantastic but the spirit of god
transcends that in your life absolutely
awesome and then we saw that
serving the holy spirit serving by the
holy spirit
to the glory of god matters in acts
chapter 1 verse 5
there the scripture says for john truly
baptized with water jesus said but you
shall be baptized with the holy spirit
not many days from now
therefore when they had come together
they asked him saying lord will you at
this time restore the kingdom to israel
and jesus said to them it is not for you
to know the times and the seasons
brother in which the father
has put in his own authority verse 8 the
punchline
but you shall receive power notice this
he's not talking about salvation
he's not talking about ordination he's
not talking about vision
he said you shall receive power when
the holy spirit has come upon you and
you shall be witnesses to me in
jerusalem
and in all judea and in samaria and i
love this
and to the ends of the earth serving by
the power of the holy spirit
and of course zechariah 4 verse 6. if
you want to see it in hebrew it's out
there in the foyer when you leave
tonight and you go out the foyer
on that great jerusalem stone there's a
seven lampstand menorah
coming out of that stone and in hebrew
it says this very verse this is the word
of the lord to zerubbabel
not by might nor by power that's not
human might
and that's not human power but by my
spirit
says the lord of hosts that's how god
gets things done
is that his holy spirit working in and
through your life
does it and the more you give up
and the more you see your weakness the
more god wants to use you
what an amazing kingdom we've been
called
to god doesn't bring all these heavy
lifters in and say oh yeah
i'm going to use her and i'm going to
use him and they're super strong
believers
they're super saints this one prays ten
hours a day and that one this one leads
five people a day to christ
and this one are you hearing me he
doesn't do that
the man that's on the corner that beats
his arm or his hand against his chest
and says be merciful to me lord a sinner
jesus said is the man that goes away
justified before god
the man that can't do anything paul the
apostle who says i'm the chief of
sinners
paul said that paul's the one that also
said i can do all things to christ
why did he say that because paul was
aware that he couldn't do anything
without christ
we revel in our weaknesses god comes in
and takes control
it's awesome wonderful we saw this last
time that we
as believers are sealed by the holy
spirit
i love this sealed
ephesians 4 verse 30 says do not grieve
the holy spirit
of god by whom you are sealed for the
day of redemption
that word sealed listen to this it means
to set the seal
upon and the object is in this case
you so if you're listen if you trust
jesus christ as lord and savior
if you believe he died on the cross for
your sins and rose again from the dead
and you've come to him the bible says
you've been sealed by the holy spirit
listen it means to mark on or to
identify as belonging to
i love that in my little cartoon brain
i see a lot of my toys growing up
because i would write my name on my toys
and i love the fact that god has
inscribed as it were his name upon you
as a believer by the holy spirit sealing
you
some of you need to embrace this and get
excited about it because
sometimes you're so terrorized by doubt
and fear the holy spirit
has sealed you
the word means that he has made you this
sounds
this sounds kind of carnal in a sense
but
the word is asset he has sealed you as a
as a material asset those of you own
companies for example there's
there's there's equipment that you have
that have have an
asset label on it it's got a number on
it and it's got a label there i mean you
can't take that thing off
and it's inventoried and the company
knows it and you have this asset mark
on that item well god puts an asset mark
on you
this child is owned by me god says this
child is my family
my holy spirit is upon them and he has
sealed you into the day of redemption
the word means to be secured
specifically against satanic
and demonic powers and i like one author
said that the word seal here can also be
translated
sealed to conceal
and i love that i am sealed by the holy
spirit unto the day of christ
and my redemption but my previous life
out of christ right my bc days before
christ
that world is concealed by the blood of
jesus
he not only seals you but he takes your
past
and he removes it away and you need to
remember that
and then we're taught by the holy spirit
the bible says we saw this
in first john that we have an anointing
by the holy spirit
he teaches us he's our teacher and then
tonight is where we're going to end with
this final push and that is
regarding theology and me is that we
are indwelt by the holy spirit as
believers and from this
argument i'm going to fan out into a
couple things that i hope
is a comfort to you when i talk about
indwelt by the holy spirit
i'm talking about the indwelling the
coming in
of the holy spirit some would say
it's listen it's the baptism experience
of the holy spirit i want to be careful
everybody how i say this this is very
technical
there is the baptism of the holy spirit
listen which happens once
in the believer's life only once listen
carefully the baptism
of the holy spirit means this that the
baptism of the holy spirit
is to take the new believer at that
moment and he baptizes
the holy spirit does the baptizing and
he
places you into the body of christ you
all get that
listen i'll give you some uh verses here
in a moment
you say wait i heard it the other way
just wait i'm not done
the bible teaches that the moment you
come to faith in christ
you become a member of the body of
christ you get that it's called the
church
we're all one how does that happen the
holy spirit takes you
and he baptizes you he immerses you
baptizo
is the word and it means to be
completely submerged
how do we baptize people here we hold
them down
no we hold them under and if you've ever
been to one of our baptisms down at the
beach
some guys to me some guys look more
gnarly than most
i'll hold them down extra long it's true
and i but i always tell them i'll tell
them um they don't know the family
doesn't know they're all looking on and
i'll tell them look don't worry i'm
gonna hold you down a long time
no i sometimes if the if the woman looks
gnarly i'll do the same i'll just
hold her down
and uh it's kind of cool though because
when you bring when you bring them up
the people on the shore they just go
yeah that's great
i don't know if they're happy that they
got their friend back from the dead or
or they're just celebrating the moment
but the fact is
that the holy spirit takes your life and
he puts you
inside of christ listen
we need to create a new a new talk
in our age
when i was a christian in the 70s
there were things like they were there
they were the one way i saw some of you
tonight by the way with the one way sign
one way jesus i saw you worshiping like
this that's awesome i understood what
you meant by that
i grew up in that generation
then there were things like praise the
lord that was praise the lord
and there were stickers and t-shirts
praise the lord
and then maranatha maranatha maranatha
maranatha all that's okay and then it
just goes on and then people
moved on to say i'm a christian well i'm
a christian
and then it's like everybody was a
christian is this like really
so saying you're a christian i don't
know that even matters anymore
or being born again i'm born again i'm
born again now you have to be born again
under the kingdom of heaven but people
just drop the word and it means nothing
you mentioned christian people go yeah
yeah whatever you mentioned born again
yeah yeah
whatever it's it's been lost
but i tell you what a a good code word
is in this day and age
so far only a believer would know it and
that is
exactly what we're talking about that
the holy spirit places you into the body
of christ
and the bible says that we as believers
listen we need to be found
in christ in
christ do a word search later on and
find out how many times in the new
testament does the scripture say
in christ and you're going to find a
wonderful pattern it's spoken
only of believers
only those who are going to heaven you
need to ask yourself are you in christ
if you're in christ guess what the holy
spirit has baptized you
in christ and you're in the family of
god
the bible says in first corinthians 12
12 for as the body is one and as many
members but all the members of that one
body being many
are one body so also is christ
for by one spirit notice capital s we
all were baptized into one body whether
jews or greeks
whether slaves are free and have all
been made to drink
into one spirit for in fact the body is
not
one member but many that's the church
isn't that powerful and then we talk
about the baptism or we could say the
filling
of the holy spirit that experience
this is the baptism some will say that
jesus christ performs
for the benefit of the christian listen
the holy spirit baptizes you in the body
of christ
but listen after you're saved the bible
and we'll see
here in a moment the bible will often
talk about you being
baptized or filled with the holy spirit
what is that
listen this is the baptism of jesus
christ
with the holy spirit upon you
notice the holy spirit takes you at
salvation and places you
into the body of christ but regarding
our empowerment
the bible teaches us that it's jesus who
puts the holy spirit upon the believer
for witness for ministry for power
one baptism happens once into the body
of christ in other words you're born
again once you have to get saved next
sunday
did you get saved this last sunday you
got saved
yeah but i have a rough week i need to
get saved again
that's not how it works friends
but as a christian in life we seek for
his filling
all the time i'm going to give you a
bunch of verses right now if you write
them down
acts chapter 2 verse 1 and 4 when the
day of pentecost had fully come they
were
all in one accord in one place and
suddenly there came a sound from heaven
as of a rushing mighty wind and it
filled the whole house where they were
sitting
then there appeared to them divided
tongues as a fire
and one sat upon each of them and
they're all filled with the holy spirit
and began to speak with other tongues as
the spirit that is the holy spirit
gave them utterance the holy spirit came
down first time ever
in the new testament church and the
church was born
and he came upon the believers
they were born again but they didn't
have the holy spirit's power upon them
now acts 2 is unique because he not only
came upon them
but he came inside of them this was the
beginning the birth of the church acts 4
verse 31 and when they had all prayed
the place where they were assembled
together was shaken
and they were all filled with the holy
spirit and they
spoke the word of god with boldness
i love that it doesn't matter to me if
you speak the
if you speak in tongues the important
thing is
according to the bible you speak in
tongues it has to be interpreted
so that everybody can understand what it
was you just said
that's the gathering of believers
is it a manifestation of the power of
the holy spirit yes but it's not the
only manifestation
i love this one we just read in acts 4
31
the holy spirit came upon them and they
spoke with boldness
do we not need that today where's the
church and its boldness
we need to be so radically dependent
upon the holy spirit
do i'm so weak i'm so weak great listen
let him be strong in you tell him i'm
weak i need your strength god
and listen he'll give you his strength
if you plan on doing something with him
you tell them lord use me
and he'll use you
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he used the donkey he used balaam's
donkey
he uses this jack right here right
just be willing just be willing
we have so many great pastor teachers on
staff i tell you we've got guys that can
just
they're some of the best teachers around
and here's the thing
i'm blown away because they they open
their mouth and it's golden
but i happen to be called right now to
be the pastor here at this church
and i got to tell you it's by god's
grace
because i can barely put two sentences
together outside of this pulpit
god is so generous but i revel in my
weakness
jeff do you get scared before you speak
to people like i want to throw up
you know butterflies that would you call
them do you think do you think i don't
have them
i have them all the time whenever i'm
getting ready you got to do a wednesday
night you got to do sundays
three times you gotta speak are you
gonna go speak at this thing and the
other i'm sick
i'm sick to my stomach you don't look
like it because after all the years you
realize i'm gonna i'm gonna live i'll
make it
i'll survive i may be a total fool when
i'm done
but i'll make it and you just get used
to it i asked chuck smith
but listen before pastor chuck smith
died a couple years out before he died
i said pastor chuck i'm still always so
nervous i'm so nervous all the time i'm
so nervous are you ever nervous
yep oh yes i go you don't look nervous
he goes i've learned how to deal with it
i just couldn't believe he was nervous
you ever see greg laurie before he
preaches
he's nervous he said no way
i've seen him before a crusade in the
dugout at anaheim stadium he's nervous
but when he gets up there the power of
god comes upon him
listen get involved in the call ministry
learn how
to give the gospel and you'll be
terrified
i'm going to tell you right now sign up
it'll scare the snot out of you
do it and you know what we'll teach you
how to give the gospel it'll be amazing
it's full proof it's amazing
it's awesome you'll be so equipped and
we'll and teams will take you and you
and we'll go door to door
and then it's your day it's your and
you're like this
you're you're losing it and your friends
are behind you and it's your moment and
they open the door and you'll go
and you know what happens holy spirit
takes over and you're like
you're like going and all of your
training's coming out and you're like oh
my goodness what's happening here look
at this
and you're telling you're giving them
the gospel and the in power
and then you come to the moment where
would you like to accept christ and
they'll go yes and you go
you do you will why because god's power
did it it's not of you
it's awesome acts chapter 10 verse 34.
then peter opened his mouth and said and
while peter was speaking
these words the holy spirit fell upon
those
who heard the word and those of the
circumcision that is the jews
who believed were astonished as many
as came with peter because the gift of
the holy spirit had been poured
out on the gentiles also for they heard
them
speak with tongues and magnified
god luke 11 i we read it last week i'm
gonna skip it for time's sake it's
simply this
jesus said ask how much more will your
heavenly father give you the holy spirit
if you ask
listen this filling experience of his
power
ephesians 5 17 says therefore do not be
unwise but understand what the will
of the lord is you want to know what
god's will is here it is
do not be drunk with wine
why because it doesn't last
honestly look in which is dissipation
god says why why get drunk you turn into
an idiot you make bad decisions and then
the influence of the wine is so brief
that it leaks out why waste your time
why give yourself to the power of
something else that won't even do you
good
see you could set up rules thou shall
not drink
and people go whoa that's a bummer as
soon as you tell somebody don't drink
then they go i've never drank before but
now that you said don't do it now i want
to
you know that's how we are we have no
problem walking on the sidewalk until
somebody
puts a sign that says don't walk on the
grass and then now it's like you're not
going to tell me what to do
now you want to walk on the grass
listen the the bible
is god's communication to us that he
loves us
and father knows best he really does so
he says why waste your time think about
that
he says but and the word in greek is
this but
be being
continuous active
be this to you the believer be
being filled with the spirit
isn't that cool speaking to yourselves
speaking to one another in psalms and
hymns and spiritual songs
singing and make a melody in your heart
to the lord you know what so what does
that mean
probably the best thing is to just tell
you about this evening
did you see the sunset okay if you
didn't see the sunset
then you're probably vision impaired i
get that
how did you how could you miss it i was
inside the house
and i looked out the window and
my the grass was pink
the trees were pink the fence was pink
and i said lise i did i said lisa get
out here
we went outside and stood we'd look like
a bunch of lemmings or whatever like
this
like the claw we were like
it was amazing did you see it look
look maui is famous for sunsets
tonight i'm telling you
now we wish it had a sunset like this
tonight
see what does that have to do with
anything that's exactly what we're
talking about here
when the spirit of god is controlling
you and you're filled with the spirit
you're going to have
god's perspective of things that's why
you can be in the midst of this nation
right now that's going through this
world
you can be in the midst of a covet
craziness and have a
song in your hearts
you can you can have a melody you can be
praising god
you can thank him in the midst of all
this insanity
absolutely awesome got so excited i lost
my
place john 7 verse 37
jesus said there but bible tells us
first of all that on the last day
the great day of the feast jesus stood
and cried out
saying if anyone thirsts let him come to
me and drink
and he who believes in me as the
scripture has said out of his heart
will flow rivers of living water but
this he spoke concerning the spirit
whom those believing in him would
receive for the holy spirit was not yet
given because jesus was not yet
glorified or resurrected from the dead
what an awesome promise hey you want to
have an awesome life
jesus said drink of the spirit
and out of your innermost being down
deep inside the real person of who you
are will be transformed
and life will come out of you does that
sound good to you
life will come out of you god does that
what about salvation second corinthians
1 22 we're almost done
second corinthians 1 22 says he who also
has sealed us
and given us the spirit that's the holy
spirit
in our hearts as a guarantee i love that
verse look at that verse the holy spirit
is inside your heart as a guarantee a
deposit
given to you by god
man that's awesome amen is that true in
your life has that happened to you
god wants it to happen to you
romans chapter 8 verse 9 romans 8 9.
but you are not in the flesh but in the
spirit
see that's a statement of fact don't
raise your hand but are you born again
yes i am then the spirit of god is in
you that means you're not in the flesh
in fact it means if you try to get in
the flesh you'll
you can't even get in the flesh good
you'll mess up
a born-again believer with the spirit of
god in them really stinks
at sinning like they used to they don't
sin good anymore
they're miserable they hate it they
fumble
why because the holy spirit's inside of
you saying what are you doing
i don't want to be here let's go
if indeed the spirit of god dwells in
you now if anyone does not have the
spirit of christ
he is not his that's pretty clear
galatians 3 verse 2 says this only paul
said i
i want to learn from you the church at
galatia
did you receive the spirit by the works
of the law or by the hearing of faith
church which one do you think it is
do you go to heaven by the law or by
faith
by faith and then here's the evidence
romans chapter 8 verse 12
therefore brethren we are debtors not to
the flesh
to live according to the flesh you know
what he means by that right the flesh
talks
our flesh talks to us all the time
let me encourage you if you you can be
absolutely
totally filled with the holy spirit born
again believer walking in the power of
god do you understand something
the flesh still talks that's why the
bible says another place in romans
that we have to crucify the flesh all
the time
okay you know you come to church you
come to church you praise the lord oh my
goodness
it's so great to be here humans we're
people
we're together god you're amazing
and you're going like this and you have
this lame horrible thought
do you ever have that happen and you go
well i don't want that i don't want that
thought
that's a horrible thought oh and then
listen and the enemy he'll wait a few
minutes and then
shoot another one in your head and then
you start by the time the last song's
over you're thinking
i think i'm going to hell i think i'm
lost how can i be here
i was loving god when i came in here and
these thoughts have been hitting my head
that's because this and the enemy is
attacking you that's good news
let him attack greater is he that's in
you than he that's in the world
he's the devil that's what he does he's
going to shoot he's going to shoot
he's going to shoot at you he's satan
that's what he does he's the best satan
they'll ever be
and his job is to shoot those thoughts
at your head that's why you're supposed
to grab every thought and put it
under the captivity of christ bring it
under his reign
that's very important to remember that
verse 13 says for if you live according
to the flesh you will die but if by the
spirit
you put to death the deeds of the body
you will live
for as many as are led by the spirit of
god that's you
church these are the sons of god
for you did not receive the spirit of
bondage again to fear
but you receive the spirit of adoption
by whom we cry abba
that's hebrew for father dad
the spirit himself bears witness with
our spirit
that we are children of god
life in the spirit and i end here
in john 17 such a precious moment it's
actually known as the high
priestly prayer of christ
in john 17. here's an excerpt from it in
john
17 verse 20 jesus is praying to his
father and listen to this he says i do
not pray for these
alone so he must have been think about
him gesturing
father he's talking to his father and he
must have had the disciples
in view maybe it's even the disciples
and others who had come to faith and
they're standing
within his view and he says i do not
pray for these alone
but also for those who will believe in
me listen
through their word
wow isn't that amazing
the world is going to learn about me
jesus is saying because these right here
are going to tell the next person they
meet and then that person is going to
tell somebody
and then that person is going to tell
somebody until it gets to chino hills
where were you when you heard for the
first time
it's amazing that they all may be one
as you father are in me
and i in you that they also may be one
in us
that the world may believe that you sent
me is that not precious do you want to
cry
is that not sweet
people tell me they don't believe in god
and they don't need jesus
you're rejecting that what's wrong with
you
jesus he'd have to come here he came
here
so that you would experience oneness
with almighty god
and not only oneness with almighty god
jesus said it's going to be
just as equal as his oneness with his
father
so they will have oneness with my father
can you believe that
you see why we're going to walk around
eternity forever going you're amazing
you're amazing holy holy holy wow
almighty
this is incredible
he said in verse 22 and the glory which
you gave me
i have given them i don't even pretend
to understand what that means
the glory that you gave me i've given
them you know what that means
i think it means you know when somebody
says hey junior
you know when i die i'm gonna leave you
my empire
you know the kid's like 11 years old
picking his nose sitting on his tricycle
he doesn't know what you're talking
about
but the kid he's like he's like a
multi-millionaire in waiting are you
with me
he doesn't have a clue he doesn't even
have a
hint that attorneys are in place
and and all these mechanisms are in
place listen
that when that guy dies his death
triggers all of this legal action
to make that little punk
a multi-millionaire he doesn't even know
it
god set it all up and no wonder why it's
called the new testament
we have last wills and testament when we
die
to transfer something to somebody else
the gospel of jesus christ the fact that
he died on the cross and rose again from
the dead
is awesome but powerless
unless he dies jesus says
jesus had to die for it to be
empowered amen
everything that you experience and shall
experience
is all based upon the death
of the one who promised he wrote you a
will
but wills are powerless until somebody
dies
and then he not only died he empowered
the will
then three days later he rose again from
the dead to be your advocate
to make sure the will that he left you
doesn't get
messed up by anybody so that it's truly
applied to you forever
that's amazing and i know i'm supposed
to end
three minutes ago but here it is
and the glory which you gave me i have
given them and that they may be one just
as we are one verse 23
i in them and you and me
that they may be made complete are
perfect in one
and that the world may know that you
have sent me
and i have loved them as you have loved
me i love how that is
the the world is gonna find out
that these christians
are loved by me they're loved by you
father
and they're loved by me and you gave
them to me
and they're in me and i'm in them
and they are one with us
this is the gospel of god
hallelujah for it thank god for it
i hope you're trusting him tonight and
part of trusting him tonight
is allowing his holy spirit can i put it
this way
i believe this what i'm about to say
allowing the holy spirit to possess your
life
i love that that's how i talk to him
lord possess me
if he possesses me then it's going to be
a good day
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