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Overtaken by the Holy Spirit 0:01 Welcome to the men's global livestream. If you have a bible handy, I want you to hold 2 spots. I want you to hold 1 in Ecclesiastes 4 and Acts chapter 6. If you're joining us for the first time, we are in part0:13 3 of a series called Overtaken. And what we're talking about is when a force or a feeling overtakes us to the point where it's0:25 controlling our thinking. And because it's controlling our thinking, it's controlling our actions. Now every man watching this has experienced being overtaken. Maybe you were overtaken by0:36 fear, and that started dominating your thoughts and your actions, or maybe you were overtaken by excitement. Alright? And that started dominating your thoughts and actions. A lot of us know what it's0:48 like to be overtaken by love. Right? The pixie dust falls. It dominates. It overtakes us. Right? And we start doing things and saying things and being in places we1:00 were never before, like Buddy the Elf. Right? I'm in love. I'm in love, and I don't care who knows. Right? Some of us have been overtaken by the opposite emotion. Some of us have been overtaken by1:12 anger, dominated by rage and anger. And some of us, even right now, we're might be feeling dominated and by sadness, where that's a force,1:23 that's a feeling. And it's to the point where it is overtaken us, and people who know us would say, whether it's fear, excitement, anger, love, sadness,1:36 what's going on? What what's gotten into you? Right? Now, I share that because that's exactly the dynamic of what was happening with1:48 the first spirit empowered followers of Jesus. Jesus had predicted that they would be overtaken by the power of the Holy Spirit and that2:00 it was gonna rock and shock their their world, literally in their context and then the world, globally. And now, as then, God wants to2:12 do the same thing through the power of the Holy Spirit. When Jesus says you'll receive power when the Holy Spirit comes upon you and you will be my witnesses, that's called being overtaken.2:23 Right? Dominated by a controlling influence that is super natural. And that's what God wants to do right now, where you live, where you work, where you pray, where you2:35 play. He knows exactly what he wants to do. So in part 3 of overtaken, we're looking at the second specific way that the Holy Spirit overtakes us and moves through us2:47 as spirit empowered followers of Christ. To do what? To advance God's purposes. Now to get you thinking about this second way, the Holy Spirit wants to move in us and2:59 through us to advance God's kingdom and God's purposes. I want you to think about maybe a time in your life when you felt alone in your circumstance.3:11 Now there's a lot of different ways that life and circumstances can make a man feel alone. Physical pain. Okay? When when3:23 something's broken or you're suffering, in your body and you can't fix it or it stops your life. You feel like everybody else's life is moving on, and because of what's3:35 happening physically, my life isn't, and it makes you feel alone. Perhaps it's emotional pain that you're suffering. Like, there's a loss that you have suffered that's unique to3:47 you that other people haven't experienced that loss or are not experiencing that loss, and that's isolating. You feel like I'm the only 1 who feels this way. Could3:59 be relational pain. Maybe there's a fracture or a breaking or a shifting in a relationship. It's happening to you, but it's not happening to4:10 your friends and the people that you know and see. So that becomes very isolating and makes you feel alone. Maybe it's spiritual pain. Maybe it's the consequence of4:22 a choice you made, a sin that really has created distance between you and God, and you're in it, and that makes you feel isolated and alone, and you're4:34 not talking about it. And so whatever the cause, the common denominator in all of those types of pain, physical, emotional,4:47 relational, spiritual, is that that it isolates us. Alright? It's happening to us, but it's not happening to other people. Therefore, we feel alone in it,4:59 somewhat confused by it, maybe controlled by it, maybe forced to accept it. Some people, in their isolation and pain, they internalize it, and then5:11 they their self perception and their identity takes it on, and they feel like, well, that's just who I am. All of that is so isolating, and here is5:23 the big factor that is around people who are alone in pain and isolated. The devil loves it. That's when he strikes. That's when the voices come. That's when the lies5:35 come. That's when the suggestions on how to deal with your pain and isolations come. Right? Does it feel good? So the suggestion is, hey.5:47 Get a new feeling, or maybe you're you're in pain because someone did something to you, man. It's just get get even, man. And these these lies and suggestions come.5:59 And and that's where, you know, there's a battle between God's spirit and Satan, where there's conflict. And the devil knows6:11 when to strike. It's when not when we're riding the wave of success, although he can do that. It's it's when maybe we're low and isolated. But in war, isolation is always a good thing.6:22 Right? Because if you can isolate your enemy, you can eliminate your enemy. There's no support. You kinda smelling what I'm stepping in. Right? God wants that pain in people's lives.6:35 And 9 out of 10 people that you know, they have right now, right now, just make the assumption, a problem or private pain they're really dealing with. Why? Because it's life on earth. And God wants that pain6:47 relieved, and he has a plan to do it. Alright? Satan, on the other hand, wants the pain ramped up, and he wants the isolation ramped up. So are you guys seeing the spiritual6:59 battle here in the lives of people, in the spaces, in places that you find yourself? Right? There's a spiritual battle going on. There's people that are going through it. They're in your7:10 context, your unique context, and God has a plan to relieve their pain and and and keep them from the strategies and schemes of the devil, and it's you. So we want7:22 the Holy Spirit to overtake us, and we want him to help use us to relieve the pain in others' lives. So here's where we're going in today's study. We're gonna see God's mind on how7:34 personal and private pain affect us. Then we're gonna look at God's solution. Alright? Then what we wanna look at is we wanna look at God's men in action. You know, spirit empowered7:46 men relieving pain. Right? And then we're gonna look at application. How how what are some specific ways that we can bring relief and security7:58 and support to people in pain who are in the spaces and places that we find ourselves. Alright? So let's first read a couple8:10 passages of scripture. We're gonna look at a couple of dudes who are experiencing some serious pain. And the first first guy is David. In Psalm 42 verses 9 and 10, listening listen8:22 to the battle that David is in. He says this, sometimes I ask God, my rock solid God, why did you let me down? Why am I walking around in tears,8:34 harassed by my enemies? They're out for the kill. These tormentors with their obscenities taunting day after day, where is this God of yours? Alright. So you see8:46 David really battling loneliness in this circumstance of pressure and harassment, and and the people that are8:57 pressuring and harassing him are like, you're all alone. Alright? So that's that's example number 1. Example number 2 is Jesus himself. Listen to this dark day. Right?9:09 Says in Matthew 27, from noon to 3, the whole earth was dark. Around midafternoon, Jesus groaned out of the depths9:21 crying loudly loudly, Eli, Eli, Lama Sabachthani, which means my God, my God, why have you abandoned me? Wow.9:33 So you have 2 men feeling very isolated, very abandoned, and it's it's creating this this circumstance. And so I wanna make just9:45 3 simple observations because when you're living on earth, this is what's happening. And the first observation from just these couple passages of scripture, number 1, pain9:57 isolates the person in it. Please get this. Jesus said there's gonna be a lot of pain going around on a broken planet. He said in this world, you will have tribulation,10:10 equal sign, pain. Alright? So pain isolates people that are in it. Secondly, pain is redeemed by God's purpose. Okay? Our10:22 circumstance, your circumstance, the circumstances that are causing pain in the lives of others around you, alright, though those circumstances do not limit10:34 God. God isn't isn't being wagged by those circumstances the way they are. They feel certain things, but that does not dictate God's power, God's presence,10:46 or God's purpose, or his plan coming through in that situation. It's just how they feel. Alright? It's like David and Jesus. That's how they felt. But was God working out his plan for David? Yes. Was God working out our10:57 salvation while Jesus felt that way? Yes. And so pain is redeemed and can be redeemed by God's purpose. Alright? So we gotta remember that. Third,11:10 pain and isolation are relieved by presence. Okay? If isolation in pain feels like abandonment, right, presence11:22 in pain feels like relief and assurance. Right? Somebody get under the rock with me. Somebody get in there with me. Alright? Don't leave me alone11:34 in this. I feel alone in this. Okay? Talks about how presence, provides relief in Ecclesiastes chapter 4 verses11:46 9 through 12. Says this, 2 people are better off than 1, for they can help each other succeed. If 1 person falls, the other can reach out and help. But someone who falls11:57 alone is in real trouble. Likewise, 2 people lying close together can keep each other warm, but how can 1 be warm alone? A person standing alone can be attacked12:09 and defeated, but 2 can stand back to back and conquer. 3 are even better for a triple braided cord is not easily broken. So Ecclesiastes 4 just12:21 highlights the principle that if you're by yourself in a pressure situation or you fall down, that's trouble.12:33 Okay? But if someone comes alongside you and they're with you in it, alright, always better, to get help. Right? So as we think about12:46 the Holy Spirit in us and how he wants to use us, makes sense that he would want us to be a part of the lives of other people here12:58 on Earth. And the reality is is that is that 9 out of 10 of your friends or who you know or who you bump into, they got they got some private pain going on. Right? And they can be in it by13:10 themselves, which is exactly what Satan wants, or, right, they can experience some relief. So I want us to write down kind of a simple fact. It's, about13:21 life and about, where people are at, and it's this. In pain and isolation, people are either afraid and alone, or they're secure and supported.13:33 Think about that. Right now, you and your pain, you're either afraid and alone, you're kinda carrying it yourself, or you're secure and supported. Right? And the result13:45 emotionally of feeling secure and supported versus afraid and alone is relief. Right? Look at the definition13:57 of relief on your notes. It's a feeling of happiness that occurs when something unpleasant or distressing stops. It's a removal or lessening of14:09 something painful or troubling, something that interrupts in a welcomed way. Right? Have you ever said when you're in private pain and14:21 somebody comes alongside, have you ever said, man, am I glad to see you? Right? You know what that statement reflects? Your relief. Right? This is a14:32 welcomed interruption. Right? You're happy. Right? Because something unpleasant or distressing is gonna stop because somebody's coming alongside you.14:44 Think about that. Right? Thank God you're here. And what we're gonna see as we move down through our study is that spirit empowered relief14:58 is 1 Christ following man away. Right? Now Jesus told his followers, he predicted, you're gonna get overtaken by the Holy Spirit and15:10 then that happened. We we covered that in part 1. Right? He he predicted it. It happened, and then this force called the Holy Spirit15:22 took over and dominated the thinking and living of the followers of Jesus. And then what they did is they started to go into the spaces and places of their right now life,15:34 and people were like, what's gotten into these guys? This is the way they were before, but now they're acting different. And what we see in today's study, following15:46 that that overtaking by the Holy Spirit is we see spirit empowered men bringing relief. They're being mobilized to bring relief, and we read about that in Acts chapter 6. So let's just get15:58 let's just set the scene, and let's see god's men in action. Right? The Bible says, during this time, as the disciples were increasing in numbers by leaps and bounds, Hard16:10 feelings developed among the Greek speaking believers, the Hellenists, toward the Hebrew speaking believers because their widows were being discriminated against16:22 in the daily food lines. So the 12 called the meeting of the disciples, and they said it wouldn't be right for us to abandon our responsibilities for preaching and teaching the word of God to help with the care of16:34 the poor. So, friends, choose 7 men from among you, whom everyone trusts, men full of the Holy Spirit and good sense, and we'll assign them16:46 to this task. Meanwhile, we'll stick to our assigned task of prayer and speaking God's word. Stephen, a man full of faith and the Holy Spirit, Philip, Prochorus, Nicanor,16:58 Timon, Parmenas, Nicholas, a convert from Antioch. Then they presented them to the apostles. Praying, the apostles laid hands and commissioned them for the17:10 task. The word of God prospered. The number of disciples in Jerusalem increased dramatically. Not least a great many priests submitted themselves to the17:22 faith. Alright. So let's just unpack the headlines. What do you see? Alright. You see a growing community of believers, and then you see a group of people needing relief.17:34 Right? You had Greek speaking believers and you had Hebrew speaking believers. You had Gentiles and Jews, but there's this new community called the church. Right? And17:46 there's a subgroup that's not getting their needs met. Alright? And those are the Hebrew speaking widows. Okay? There's there's food that's being17:58 distributed. There's discrimination happening even within the believing community. And so the apostles are like, alright. What's the solution? Let's appoint18:10 7 spirit empowered men. They're gonna go bring relief. They're gonna go secure these widows who are in need. Right? What's the result of that? Alright?18:23 They come together. They pick spirit empowered men. They assign this task of relief to them. Alright? Go provide relief. Okay? There's people in need. Go provide relief. Problem18:35 solved, but now there's a consequence to that that maybe they didn't expect. God's word, when those guys come and provide that relief, it starts to prosper even more. Right?18:47 The number of disciples in Jerusalem increases dramatically, right, as men full of the Holy Spirit are going out, and they're providing18:58 relief in simple, practical ways in the spaces and places right in their context. Even the tough nuts to crack of the time,19:10 the priests, right, the ones who conspired to put Jesus on the cross. Even they are getting converted in this context, this outpouring, this overtaking19:22 of men filled with the Holy Spirit. Why? Because they're witnessing the transformation of men who used to be 1 way, now they're acting this way, and they're doing the works of God. It's a19:33 witness of the kingdom of God. So you've got a group who feels abandoned and alone. They're in pain. Right? They're a group in need. What's God gonna do? Well, the Holy Spirit19:46 says, provide my relief. Right? The Holy Spirit says, provide my relief through making others feel secure. Write that19:57 down. Okay? Write that down on your filling. The Holy Spirit says, provide my relief through making others feel secure. Right? You've got those the fear and insecurity inShow more In this video 0:00 Overtaken by the Holy Spirit20:04 Relieving Pain Through the Holy Spirit
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