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Adam Mesa is Lead Pastor of Patria Church and speaks to a congregation of 12,000 about how the gospel of Jesus Christ brings purpose to every life. Patria
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In this video 0:00 The Promise of the Holy Spirit17:35 The Power of Humility and Help30:45 Relying on the Holy SpiritComments No comments yet. Start the conversation.
The Promise of the Holy Spirit 0:01 So good to see everybody in this morning. As many of you guys know who've been coming during this month of the series, we have a shorter praise kinda at the beginning because we end our service and conclude it with a0:12 little bit more worship. So, we'll continue to lean into the presence of God, at the end of the message. Shout out to all those who joined us last week, even last Sunday as part of our conference. How many of you0:24 guys were here last week and even Pastor Mark Clark sharing last weekend? I mean, pastor Mark's message was amazing, and the Lord moved, and we're already preparing for next year's0:35 conference as well. We already have 1500 tickets presold for next year's conference. Believe it or not, when you offer a deal, people know how to jump on it. So, good on you. You got Yeah. You know, this is my0:47 Marshalls and TJ Maxx crowd, because we jumped on them discounted tickets in a second. Well, we're gonna continue our series talking about the Holy Spirit, but not just talking about the Holy Spirit, but really0:59 leaning in to encounter the Holy Spirit. So if you have your bibles today, would you turn to John chapter 14? And as we're doing so, shout out to those that are online joining us today live as1:11 well. Thank you so much for everyone in your continued patience in the courtyard. The reason why you might may not have seen any momentum yet is because we're waiting for the city to approve, some last1:23 amendments that we made, and if you know anything about Rancho City Council, we love them, we love the planning commission, we pray for them, we pray nothing God's best for them, but
1:36 dragging their feet? So once they give us the green light, our teams will finish the courtyard, and we'll be able to experience all the beauty, that will be out there as well, with the fire pits, and the
1:48 lucky climber, and the pickleball court that we're building and all these other things like that. So just get ready. It's gonna be a lot of fun, that we're gonna be fellowshipping with each other. We're building we're
1:58 building a whole coffee cart, like coffee, build out container. It's gonna be amazing, but thank you for your patience open, closed, open. Well, here we are in John chapter
2:10 14. If you're ready, would you stand for the honor of reading God's word today? We're going to be in a few verses today. But we're going to be talking about the Holy Spirit. I want you to really lean in and pay attention
2:19 to the word the helper. We're gonna see it twice, but really what Jesus is encouraging with is who the Holy Spirit is and how he's gonna leave us with the Holy Spirit. So here's what God's word says today,
2:31 if you love me, keep my commandments. And I will ask the father and he will give you another helper to be with you forever. Even the spirit of truth who the world
2:43 cannot receive because it's neither sees him nor knows. You know him for he dwells with you and will be in you. I will not leave you as orphans. I will come to you yet a little
2:55 while and the world will see me no more. But you will see me me
3:07 and I in you. Whoever has my commandments and keeps them, he it is who loves me. And he who loves me will be loved by my father and I will love him and will manifest
3:19 myself to him. Judas, not Iscariot, I love that. Like, not the weird 1, not the traitor. There's another Judas. It's a very common name back then. I like how they gotta let us know, like,
3:30 not not not that 1. Said to him, Lord, how is it that you will manifest yourself to us and not to the world? Jesus answered him, if anyone loves me, he will keep
3:42 my word and my father will love him, and we will come to him and make our home with him. Whoever does not love me does not keep my words, and the word that you hear is not mine, but the father who
3:54 sent me. But the helper, the Holy Spirit whom the father will send in my name, he will teach you all things and bring to your remembrance
4:06 all that I have said. Give to you. Not as the world do I give to you. Let not your hearts be trouble troubled neither let them be afraid. You heard me say
4:18 to you, I'm going away and I will come to you. If you love me, you would have rejoiced because I'm going to the father, for the father is greater than I. And now I have told you before it takes place, so that when it
4:30 does takes place, you may be leave. You may be seated in this moment. God bless you. Let's talk about a little bit about what we read. There's a moment Jesus is talking about the
4:42 time he's gonna ascend to heaven. Now for a moment that worries the disciples because how many of you guys know someone be physically in your presence than absent from your presence.
4:54 You know? Oftentimes, I travel and I preach other places. And believe it or not, when you do it enough, my wife doesn't look forward to when I leave. On
5:06 her. I I normally help get the boys ready in the morning. I normally help with breakfast and dinner. And so when I leave, there's more of a load on my wife. So when I tell her, hey, babe. Don't forget. I'm leaving to
5:17 Texas this week for 3 days, she doesn't go, oh, yippee. Oh, this is going to be amazing. It's going to be quiet. I'm going to be able to She goes, aw. I got to do double the
5:29 workload. Right. Double the things. So first the disciples, what they're saying is she's saying, Hey, I'm ascending to heaven. And the disciples are like, it's been
5:41 so easy with you being here, Jesus. To come, and then we point to Jesus and go, ta da. And then and then you do your thing,
5:53 and then and then people get healed, people get delivered, you touch them, you all these miracles happen and they're like, Jesus, we like that. When you leave,
6:05 it's gonna be more of a workload on us because we gotta talk about a guy who's not even here. And Jesus says, but what happens is when he goes to heaven, he will
6:17 give you a helper who's gonna come alongside of you. And in fact, Jesus gives us hope to say,
6:33 authority of God's spirit. So that leaves to the question, would we rather prefer Jesus standing in front of us or the Holy Spirit working inside of us?
6:45 If I took a hand count, I bet you probably included myself at times, 90 percent of us would just say, just put Jesus in front of me. That would make my faith easier. That would make my trust easier.
6:57 That would make my life easier. But guess what? Jesus, when he's in front of you, he holds the power and authority. But when you choose to follow Jesus, believe his word, believe in his death, burial, and resurrection,
7:09 what happens is the very same power that Jesus operated, the Holy Spirit operates with you. And so, in fact, we should simply say, Jesus,
7:21 we're good. Stay in heaven. We await your return. We look forward to that day, but we're gonna be okay because we have the spirit of God alongside of us and moving inside of us.
7:33 And so what happens is Judas goes, wait, wait, wait, wait. Okay. So how can God move and no 1 see it unless they believe in Jesus? That doesn't make any sense in his
7:45 head. He says, because Jesus, when you move, when you heal, when you do a miracle, when you manifest, we can all see it. Even people who don't believe you, they see it. Right. And so then that's where
7:57 Jesus starts to explain who this helper is, the Holy Spirit. And so what Jesus says he uses, we saw it twice, he calls the Holy Spirit the helper twice. And it's
8:09 so important for us to understand who the helper is. Because it's not like a helper like you and I, maybe you were in elementary school and every day the teacher would choose a helper for that day. You remember that? And
8:19 that helper got to pull out the markers, and the crayons, and the scissors, or maybe you're getting out groceries, and you know, your your spouse comes, hey, hey, you need help with that? And you're like, oh, yeah. I'd
8:30 love help. That'd be nice. That's not who the Holy Spirit is. The Holy Spirit is not just looking at you carrying your groceries going, you know, I can help you with that. No. You see, there's a word that's used when
8:41 Jesus talks about the helper. It's a Greek word called the Paracletes. Okay? And see what the paraclete is, and we have it up on the screen for you so you can see. You see the paraclete, the
8:53 the actual literal definition, because in Greek they they kind of use opposing word, the opposite word. So it means beside to call. In other words, if you flip it, to call beside. More
9:05 than that, it's got kind of 4 depending on how you use it and where you use it, it has 4 applications. The first 1 is an advocate. So like a a lawyer.
9:17 Right? I don't know if you've ever had a lawyer before. I've had lawyers help me before. And what lawyers will tend to do when they advocate for you, the best thing they want you to do is stop talking so that they could
9:28 talk. Alright? It's a great lawyer. A great lawyer goes, hey, stop talking. You're getting yourself in charge. Let me speak to the judge on your behalf. Let me hey, before you before you
9:40 respond to your boss or respond to this, let me let me help you. And so a lawyer will step in and advocate on your behalf. Was it 80 miles an hour or could it have been
9:51 78 miles an hour? That's a great advocate. See, so the the term, the helper, the paraclete is not just someone who helps you, it's someone who literally
10:03 advocates for you on your behalf. Jesus. Speaks on your behalf. Fights on your behalf. Defends you on your behalf. And so what happens also, the Holy Spirit will also step
10:15 in as a counselor. I don't know if you ever been to therapy before. I don't know if you ever were in high school before and you had to sit with a school counselor and they said, what are you good at? Let's help you find
10:25 a major. Let's help you talk about a college you could go to. Are and how we can get the best version of you. You see, the Holy Spirit is a helper. He's a counselor for you. If you spend
10:36 time with the Lord and you spend time with the Holy Spirit, the Holy Spirit is there to say, hey, how can we get the best version of you out of you? How can we get you to decrease so that the Lord
10:48 can increase in your life? So that I can help counsel you to say, hey, Adam, the direction you're going in right now, it's not going to lead to peace. It's only going to lead to destruction. So the more time I sit
11:00 in the presence of the Holy Spirit, sit in the presence of God, the Holy Spirit will begin to counsel me and help me avoid these train wrecks I tend to find
11:12 myself in. Holy Spirit wants to help you. Holy Spirit wants to come alongside of you. The next thing the Holy Spirit wants to do, the Holy Spirit does want to help you.
11:23 I don't
11:23 know about you, but there are times that I just say, God, help me. I Help me. I I don't know. I'm I'm at a loss. I need your help. The Holy Spirit is there to help
11:35 you. The next thing is that the Holy Spirit's there to comfort you. There's times me and my wife, we've got a new mattress before or whatever for our room and we're laying in bed
11:47 at night. We like to run our house pretty cold. So we got like 3 fans on us at all times, AC low, and there is nothing like or maybe you go to a hotel and you drop that hotel to 61 degrees
11:58 because it's not your bill that you're paying for. So you go to the hotel and you just lower that. Good comforter on top of a bed. Just a warm, fluffy comforter. When it's cold, you
12:10 just get under it. You're like, man, I could stay here all day. See, the Holy Spirit, as the helper, is there to comfort you and I. To bring comfort. And there are times that in the comfort it
12:22 may cause discomfort, but the reality is the Holy Spirit is trying to comfort you and I. We say, J. S. W. A. R. A. R. D. Where have you been? What's going on? The Holy Spirit comes in and goes, Hey, I'm here with
12:34 you. I'm here to walk alongside of you. I'm here to be beside you. So Jesus makes this statement to say, not only does the Holy Spirit walk alongside of you, the Holy Spirit works inside of you.
12:46 So the truth is, you and I, we all need help. I don't care how gifted you are. I don't care how talented you are. I don't care how many degrees you have on the back of your name.
12:58 I don't care how long you've been in your trade. I don't care how many people come and want to listen to you or learn about you, but we all need God's help. We all need the Holy Spirit's help. We all need the
13:10 Holy Spirit's comfort. We all need the Holy Spirit's advocacy. I wanna see by a show of hands, does anyone recognize this name? Does anyone know the name Doctor Prasya Hall by a show of hands? Anyone know that name? Oh,
13:21 my gosh. Nobody knows the name. That's okay. I didn't know the name up until a year ago. Let me see this. Does anyone know the name of this, individual named Doctor Martin Luther King Junior? Anyone know that name?
13:33 Anybody? Okay. We got a hundred percent participation at this point. Does anyone does anyone know a little speech? It's only known as the greatest speech in the past hundred years, a speech called the I Have a Dream
13:45 speech. Anyone know that name? Okay. Back. We're back to we went from 100 percent to 99 percent. Okay? So there it is. Everybody knows that speech. Did you know that that speech was born out of a prayer
13:57 meeting? You see, there was a woman named Doctor Prathea Hall. She was a gifted, gifted preacher. She was a gifted leader. She was in the Baptist church in the Baptist movement. Not only that, she was also a
14:08 woman who fought, alongside Doctor. Martin Luther King. They were friends and she was a leader in the civil rights activist movement. Doctor Martin Luther King said there's only 1 person he would never want to
14:20 follow-up after a sermon, and it was her. He said there was only 1 person that was more gifted to him in oratory skills than he was, and it was doctor Hall. Time in 19
14:32 62, there was 4 African American churches that were burnt down in Georgia. Doctor. Hall showed up in 19 62, and they were having a prayer meeting that night because half of
14:44 the church had burnt down. What happened was 4 white white supremacists had went through multiple cities, and they set these churches on fire. And so she came into town. Martin Luther King Junior happened to
14:56 come into downtown too, and it was a few weeks prior to the famous walk that he was gonna make on Capitol Hill where he was gonna give a speech. His speech at the time had not been written or not been planned at the
15:07 moment. Doctor Hall, it was her time to stand up in the prayer meeting, and she began to pace back and forth on the burnt down rubble, the burnt down ashes, and she began to yell 4 times, I have a
15:19 dream. I have a dream. And as she would begin to pray and intercede, the Spirit of God would fall in that place.
15:31 Defined by our color. I have a dream that our children be treated as equals. And she starts to pray and intercede, and the spirit of God falls as she cries, I have a dream. I have a dream.
15:43 I have a dream. Doctor Martin Luther King Junior, he's in the back of the room. It's his friend. The prayer service ends. He goes backstage and he says, hey, Prathea. Do you mind if I use that I have a dream
15:55 prayer that you were using right now? And she said, yeah. Go ahead. We're friends. Use it. So a few weeks later, he would march on
16:07 Capitol Hill, and he would give 1 of the greatest speeches known to mankind. Not only did Martin Luther King Jr. Use a little help, not only did he take a little help from Doctor. Hall,
16:19 but he also took some help from the Holy Spirit. Because it was the Spirit of God that fell during that prayer meeting. It was the Spirit of God that moved in that prayer meeting. It was the spirit of God that spoke to
16:30 doctor Hall, and it was the spirit of God who spoke to doctor Martin Luther King Junior and said, what I'm birthing in a moment of prayer, I'm gonna affect culture, and I'm gonna affect society. Yeah. And see, doctor
16:40 Martin Luther King Junior, he didn't say, I'm Martin. I don't need someone else's content. I don't need someone else's prayers. I don't I'm a man myself. I don't need he
16:52 there's a million things he could have done to rationalize. I'm gonna go write my own speech. But instead, he got the Holy Spirit's help and he said, I'm a go ask my friend if I can have her speech.
17:04 The rest of her life until the day she died, people would ask about that rumor on that day. They would ask her, doctor Hall, did Martin Luther King Jr steal his speech from the I Have a Dream speech? She would say, No. I
17:15 love Martin. That's my buddy. That that he's my friend. And then finally, when she died, a family member came out and said she was just being humble her whole life. Yeah. She gave him permission and and then his family
17:25 member came out and said, no. Yeah. He got permission from her. You see, not only when the Holy Spirit moves, the way that you fight pride when the Holy Spirit starts working in your life is you operate in humility.
The Power of Humility and Help
17:36 You
17:36 work in humility. You don't say, oh, that's my credit. Oh, yeah. I did that. No. You say, I'm just happy God did his thing. I'm just glad that we're 1 step closer to equality. I'm just glad we're 1
17:48 step closer to freedom. I'm just glad we're 1 step closer. You just thank and praise God for what the Lord did. And a lot of us, it doesn't matter how skilled you are, we all need help. Oh, yeah. I'll tell you, if
18:00 the I have a dream speech needed help, you and I need help. If the greatest speech in the past hundred years needed the Holy Spirit, then you and I need the Holy Spirit just to
18:12 say hello. Amen. That's how bad we need the Holy Spirit's help. With a few moments that I have, I want to just share with you 3 aspects that we need the Holy Spirit's help for. You know, in Mark chapter
18:24 2, there's a famous passage of the paralytic man. What happens was in Mark chapter 2 verses 3 to 11, I'll just paraphrase them for us. Gospels a lot of the healings in the gospel,
18:36 God does heal today and he does do miracles today. But also a lot of in the Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, when you see Jesus doing a miracle, a lot of times what it represents, the physical reality of what
18:47 happens represents the spiritual breakthrough. Okay? So like, if a man gets healed of blindness, it represents that you and I are blind before Jesus touches our lives. We can't see life. Okay?
19:00 If he if he raises Lazarus from the death, it represents that when we believe in Jesus, God will raise us to life. And so a lot of the miracles represent miracles where he will heal
19:12 a man who can't walk, and that represents without God's touch, we can't go anywhere in life. Right? So a lot of the physical healings represent spiritual realities. So there's a famous passage in Mark 2 where there's a
19:23 man who's paralyzed, he can't walk, and he has 4 friends that come and gather him on a piece of cloth or a rug, and they carry him to Jesus. Jesus was in a home teaching and
19:35 preaching, and the Bible says that they couldn't fit in the room. So what the 4 friends decided to do, because they wanted their friend to get healed and he couldn't do it on his own, was they go to the roof, they tear
19:47 the roof open, and then they lower their friend in front of Jesus. And when Jesus sees the faith, Jesus looks at them and he says this, your faith has made you well and your sins
19:59 are forgiven. And what happens is is that man who his sins were forgiven could not do it without his friend's help. You see that story represents the fact that you
20:11 and I cannot encounter the presence of God without the Holy Spirit's help. You and I, I don't know if you've ever felt paralyzed in life before, but I have felt paralyzed in life. And I didn't know what to do. I didn't
20:23 know what to say. I didn't know where to go. I didn't know what to choose. I didn't know what door to walk. I didn't know whether to say yes. I didn't know whether to say no. I didn't know what to pray for. I didn't know
20:31 what to believe for. But yet the Holy Spirit came. And the Holy Spirit can lower you to the presence of God. And the Holy Spirit can get you some face time with J. And when you get face time with
20:43 the presence of God, what will happen is you will encounter God the way you couldn't on your own. Without the Holy Spirit, we could never encounter God. The Holy Spirit is there to lower you.
20:59 Help you when you feel like you can't help yourself. And I'll tell you this, we can rarely help ourselves. We know how much that gets us in trouble. Here's some ways that the Holy Spirit can help us. Just 3 simple ways
21:10 if you're taking notes. Number 1, the Holy Spirit can help you with your words. Luke chapter 12 verse 12, Jesus says, the Holy Spirit will teach you what
21:22 to say at the time and what time you should say it. And he was telling his disciples who he was charging them to draw and to draw and to draw. And he said there will be times that people will ask
21:34 you questions, people will make statements, people will, what to do, but the Holy Spirit will give you the words. So there are just simple times that you and
21:46 I need to just sit for a moment, pray to God
21:49 and say, 'Dawd and say, 'Dawd and
21:49 say, 'Dawd and say, 'Dawd and say, 'Dawd and say, 'Dawd and would you help me with my words? It's as simple as that. People are often thinking that we need to go into a room and we need to put on all this
22:01 worship music, which that helps. That helps get into a rhythm and a routine. But but you could just as simply as, when you're about to say something you know you shouldn't, or you don't know what to say, you to just
22:12 separate yourself for a moment and say, Holy Spirit, help me with my words. There are times that I go home, and Ashley has a frustrating day, and she may say something, and I just got
22:24 it under my breath say, Holy Spirit, help me with the next 5 words. Because if I match her energy, these next 5 words are gonna turn into 5 days of hell.
22:36 So there's times you gotta ask the Holy Spirit. You go into work and they're like, hey, we need to sit with you. Please sit down. Let's talk. Or you get that HR email. Are you available today at 1? Blah blah blah blah.
22:46 And you just say, Holy Spirit, I need you to help me with my words. Because when I go in there defending myself, I I know what's going to happen. The Holy Spirit can help you with your words.
22:59 Not only can the Holy Spirit help you with your words, the Holy Spirit can help you with your mind. Sometimes, the mind in our mind is the worst place that we can allow thoughts to sit. Romans chapter 8 verse
23:11 6 says, the mind governed by the flesh is death. But the mind governed by the spirit is life and peace. And so if you want to operate in more peace and more
23:23 life, I'm pretty sure all of us would love to operate with more peace in our life. Jesus told us that peace is what he leaves us through the Holy Spirit. And so there are times that you just need to step aside and you
23:34 need to pray for your mind and you need to say, Jesus, by the power of the Holy Spirit, I pray for peace in my mind. I pray for life in my mind. When you find yourself negative, when you find yourself broken down, when
23:46 you find yourself living in your mind, when you find yourself overly sensitive, where you're seeing everything that everyone is doing is offending you, I know I know they're talking about You need to separate and say,
23:58 God, my mind is full of death right now. I need you to give me life right now. I need peace in my life right now. I need peace in my mind. The third thing the Holy Spirit can do is the Holy
24:09 Spirit can give you a bounce of faith. We all need faith in our life. Faith is what builds up your spirit. Faith is what allows you to trust God in
24:21 the midst of storms. Faith is the thing that you can't see in front of you, but yet you trust God is in the middle of it. And Romans chapter 8 26 says this, likewise, the spirit helps us in our
24:33 weakness. Where are normally weakest in? We're normally weakest in our faith. It's when we pull back from God. That's when we stop going to church. That's when we stop worshiping. That's when we stop reading our Bible.
24:43 That's when we start obeying God. That's when we stop trusting God. It's when we are weakest. It's also when the enemy comes to prowl the hardest. And so he says the Holy Spirit will help you in your
24:55 weakness, for we don't know what to pray for as we but the spirit himself will intercede for you with groanings too deep for words.
25:07 Spirit that we call speaking in tongues, but it's also a reality that we say, holy spirit. I can't put to words what I need right now, but I trust God that you know what I need. And
25:19 so therefore, I'm gonna build my faith in you. And what will happen is you'll start to see the holy spirit work on your behalf and move on your behalf and speak on your behalf because you're building your
25:31 face. You build your trust up. It's like Peter when he was in a store. Jesus walks on water and he says, Peter, join me. That's faith. There's gonna be times the Holy Spirit, you will find
25:42 yourself across the Holy Spirit and the Holy Spirit will say, hey, come join me over here. And you have a decision to make. You get you're either gonna join the Holy Spirit, the Spirit of God, where the Spirit of God is
25:54 at. Or you're gonna try to fight to say, no, Holy Spirit, you meet me where I'm at. But the reality is if you're meeting if the Holy Spirit's meeting you where at and where you're at is deathly, the Holy Spirit doesn't
26:06 go there. So that's why he says, if we have the spirit of God and yet our mind though is dealing in the flesh, then it leads to death. There's a lot of times for me, I don't see
26:18 God moving or active in my life, but if I'm honest with myself, it's because the things I've been thinking about are fleshly, and they're leading to death. God doesn't operate in death. God only operates
26:30 in life. And so if we want God to operate in death, the only thing we're asking is for him to speak life over it. But a lot of times we're like, but God, we don't want you to speak life to over this. I want this to die,
26:42 that to die. But over here, in in the spirit of God, say, you it's it's it's not a both and. It's a 1 or the other. You gotta look for
26:54 the Holy Spirit's moving in your life. The Holy Spirit is always doing things, trying to be in comfort, trying to bring advocacy to you, trying to be your counselor. There's a time in my life where I just saw the Holy
27:05 Spirit move in such an active way. In March 20 on March 20 first of 20 20, my my father-in-law, went home to be with the Lord. Tough time because COVID had
27:16 just, started. And, so, you know, everyone was social distancing and separating and all these things like that. And so and our
27:30 whole family were grieving. And it was so difficult and it was so hard and we still grieve to this day. That's the thing about grief. So there's no time, stam, you grieve when you need to grieve. And so we
27:42 still grieve to this day. And so what happened was March 20 first 20 20, over the next 90 days and Sometimes it feels like there's no
27:54 hope. Sometimes it feels like there's no words. And a lot of times you're thinking, God, where are you in this circumstance? Where where What is going on? Are you around? What are
28:06 we not doing? What are we missing? You're you're just battling. You're fighting. You're wrestling with God, and that's okay. You can wrestle with the Lord when you can't put answer to dates, but you also gotta look where
28:16 the Lord is trying to answer you. Because he will. The Holy Spirit will bring you comfort. So about 90 days after Tom had gone home to be with the Lord,
28:29 Ashley and I found out that we were pregnant. So we find out we're pregnant and a couple months after that is when you go to your first appointment. And when you go to your first appointment, that's where you find out,
28:40 okay, potentially, you know, what's gonna what's the heart rate like? Is the baby healthy? Blah blah blah blah blah. Document that says expected due date. The due date that they
28:52 expect, because you got pregnant, this is when we the baby's. The baby's. At the paper, it says expected due date March 20 first 20 21.
29:05 12 months to the date that Tom went home to be with the Lord. Everybody called Tom papa TC because his nickname growing up was Tomcat because he was smooth. If you Tom was an elder
29:17 here, and so you know you know Papa Tom was smooth, and so his name was Tomcat. And so all of us, we just called him Papa TC. And so when we saw that on the document, we looked and we said, Lord,
29:29 you are providing peace to us in this storm. Holy Spirit, you're giving to us comforted. What are the chances? 12 months to the day? And so
29:41 in honor of that moment, but really in honor of God, because we we know that God saw us, saw us in our brokenhearted. The Holy Spirit saw us in a time of need. We named our son Thomas
29:53 Cohen, little baby TC. And so Thomas was born on March tenth 2021. So he came 10 days about 10 days earlier because we know that for Papa
30:05 TC, he was like, you can name him after me, but don't don't share that day with me. So Thomas came 10 days earlier. So now we have TC, little baby TC. We named him after
30:17 PA, not just because we want to remember him, but because we want to remember that God is faithful. That if you would grieve with God, if you would trust with God, if you would think with God, if you would cry with
30:29 God, if you would love with God, if you would have faith with God, then I'll tell you this, you will see the Holy Spirit in your life. You will see the Holy Spirit bring you comfort in your broken times. You will see the
30:39 Holy Spirit fill you with words. The question is, are we going to the Holy Spirit for help? Are we trusting the paraclete? Or are we saying, God, no, I'm mad at you. I don't needShow more
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