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0:00 You are listening to Waters Church podcast. Waters Church is a multisite, multigeneration community of faith on the East Coast of America. Now for a message from our pastor.0:13 Now this morning, I wanna just share, 7 things about the Holy Spirit. And I wonder if you can just do something for me. If you would just mind standing for a moment, and I and I I0:25 want you to give a nice wonderful applause to the Holy Spirit this morning. Thank0:37 you. You may be seated. Now he's here this morning. The Holy Spirit is here this morning. You say, how do you know?0:49 I brought him. And so did many of you. All of you that are in Christ, you have brought the Holy Spirit here this1:00 morning. Amen? Amen. And I think we need to give him more recognition than we have ever done before. We make sure1:12 that the church is clean and nice, and we prepare so well for every visitor, and we should do that. We want people to come into a wonderful place and a wonderful1:24 environment and just to enjoy the wonderful presence of God and to enjoy the word, and we keep our places nice and clean and very welcoming, and that is right. We need to do1:36 that. We need to make every person who comes into our doors feel very welcome. But at the same time, we must never forget the Holy Spirit.1:48 The Holy Spirit who also is here and needs to be recognized for the wonderful work that he is doing in the lives of so many people. And so I wanna2:00 just quickly mention 7 things. I'm not gonna expound much on any 1 of them, but just a reminder of of the Holy Spirit, of his presence. Just a little while ago, I2:12 felt the Lord really convicted me in that we so often forget the third person of the Trinity. We forget the great work that he is doing and2:24 continues to do many times without applaud, many times under terrible criticism and rejection, but the Holy Spirit continues to do2:36 what God the father has sent him to do. And we, as God's people, need to recognize that. And I think every time we gather as the church, he's with us, and we need to make sure that each2:48 1 of us is very conscious of his presence. Amen? Amen. Now Jesus, when he was here on earth, he said this. He said, nevertheless, I3:00 tell you the truth. It is your advantage that I go away. Jesus had now been raised from the dead. He was now going to ascend into3:11 glory to be with the father, and so he says these words, for I do if I do not go away, the helper will not come to you. But if I3:23 depart, I will send him to you. So Jesus says it's very important that I leave and that I go back to the father so3:34 that I can send the comforter, because the comforter was going to come to teach you all about me. He will not speak of himself, but he will reveal to3:46 you the truth of me. And so Jesus told us that he's going to send the Holy Spirit. Now the Old Testament3:58 can be recognized as the age of the father. When you read throughout the Old Testament, it is primarily God the father dealing with the nations of the world4:10 and dealing with Israel. You don't hear much of the spirit, and you don't hear much about Jesus. Although Jesus and the Holy Spirit are were still there in those4:22 times. Because you remember when the men were thrown into the fiery furnace, and the king came and he said, we threw in 3 men and now we see 4.4:34 And they looked in and he said, and the fourth man is like unto the son of God. So Jesus revealed himself time a few times under the old covenant, and so did the Holy Spirit. Because the4:46 Holy Spirit came upon Samson and empowered Samson to fulfill the purposes of God. So throughout the Old Testament, it was primarily the father, God the father,4:58 operating and functioning, and we just have a glimpse of the Holy Spirit and of the Lord Jesus Christ. But the 4 gospels is the age of5:10 the Lord Jesus. If you read Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, it is all about Jesus. Jesus had come to redeem the world. He'd come to lay down his life. He had come so that men may have life and that more5:21 abundantly. And we read all about Jesus, and we get to know Jesus in the 4 gospels. But when we go to the book of acts, which is a book that is still5:33 open today, the book of acts begins like this. It says, the things that Jesus began to do and teach. Now what does it mean when it says Jesus began5:45 to do and teach? It means he's not finished teaching and he's not finished doing. What he came to do, he continues to do. What he came to teach, he5:57 continues to teach, but he no longer does it through his physical body because his physical body has ascended up into heaven,6:09 seated at the right hand side of God the Father, he now continues to teach, he continues to do through his spiritual body, which is the church. We6:21 are the body of Christ, and he is the head. So Jesus still continues to do and teach. So the 4 gospels is6:32 primarily about him, but from the book of Acts, it is the Holy Spirit. It is the Holy Spirit that Jesus has sent to continue the work. It is the Holy Spirit that is6:44 working today in the world. It is the Holy Spirit that is working in the teeth, in the church. It is he that teaches us the word of God. It is he that makes Jesus real to us. It is he that6:56 is in the church today. So we are living in the age of the Holy Spirit. And yet many times, we give him the least recognition of all.7:07 Many times, we forget the Holy Spirit, and and and and and we need to understand the great work that he is doing today. Now I wanna7:19 just mention this in that. I believe that God the father must get all the glory and glory. It says that, and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord to the7:31 glory of God the Father. We confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, but to the glory of the Father. In fact, Jesus said, whatsoever you ask me to do in my name, I will do it that7:43 the Father may be glorified in the Son. So God the father must get all the glory. And Jesus the Son, God the Son,7:55 must have the preeminence because it says here in Colossians, he is the head of the body. Not the pope, not the pastor, not the prophet, not the bishop,8:07 but Jesus Christ himself is the head of the church of the body, who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, that in all things8:18 he may have the preeminence. And folk, we have to get back to that place where we get we recognize without any doubt that it is8:30 all about Jesus. It's not about what we do. It is not about personalities. It is not about preachers. It is not about charisma. It is not about8:42 that. All this is about 1 person, and that person is the Lord Jesus Christ. And the Bible says he must have the preeminence in all8:54 things. In all things. In everything, it is Jesus. Amen? Amen. The third thing is that the Holy Spirit9:06 must be in control. God the Father gets the glory. God the Son gets the preeminence, and God the Holy Spirit must be in control. Then9:18 those who are in the flesh cannot please God, but you are not in the flesh but in the spirit. And if indeed the spirit of God dwells in you, Now if anyone does not9:30 have the spirit of Christ, he is not his. And so when we are born again, the Holy Spirit comes in and lives within us, and it is he that must be in control.9:42 Control of what? First of all, he must be in control of my life. He must lead. He must give direction. And and and so daily when I make decisions9:53 or go in certain directions, I need to confirm it with the Holy Spirit because he must be in control of my life. The same as the church, the10:05 body of Christ. We mustn't just do things because we think it's clever, or some smart person came up with some new thing. We need to pass everything we do10:17 by the Holy Spirit, because the Holy Spirit is in charge of the church. And without the Holy Spirit, the church is nothing but another dead organization.10:30 We need the life of the spirit. It's not about performance. It's not about great shows. It's about God's people10:42 coming together, giving God the father the glory, and making sure that Jesus Christ the son has the preeminence and that the Holy Spirit is in control of everything that takes10:53 place so that everything in the body of Christ brings honor and glory to the Lord. Amen? I I wanna mention quickly 7 things about the Holy Spirit. First11:05 of all, he's not an it. He's not a force. He's not some mystical cloud or something like that.11:18 He's God. He's the third person of the trinity. And by saying that he's the third person of the trinity doesn't mean he is the lowest 1 in the trinity,11:30 because God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit are coexistent, and they are omnipresent, omniscient, and omnipotent.11:43 The Holy Spirit was there right in the very beginning. The Bible says when the world was the earth was without form and void, and the Holy Spirit hovered over it. So he's been there from the11:55 very beginning. He's coequal with the father, coequal with the son, and we must recognize him as God. We have we we we serve12:07 a triune God, the trinity, father, son, and holy spirit. Man is a trinity. Man is triune. I have a spirit, a soul, and a body. We don't serve 3 gods. We serve 112:19 god, but 3 in 1. Now there are people who question that, and they have another way of teaching. They say that God manifests himself in in 3 ways.12:31 Sometimes God the Father manifests himself as the Holy Spirit, and other times he manifests himself as as the Lord Jesus, and other times, he manifests himself as God the12:42 Father. So there's only 1 who manifests himself in 3 ways. But we see that contradicts scripture, because right in the beginning, God said, let us make man. Why would he say us if he was12:54 singular? Who was he talking to? He was talking to the Holy Spirit and Jesus. And what happened when Jesus went in the New Testament, when Jesus went through the waters of baptism by John13:06 the Baptist. He was standing in the water and the heavens opened up, and a voice said from heaven, this is my beloved son in whom I am well pleased. And then the third thing13:18 happened, the Holy Spirit descend descended upon him in the form of a dove. He's not a dove, but in the form of a dove. He he descends upon Jesus, and Jesus then begins to do his ministry.13:30 There's a very clear picture of the triune God. In fact, what happened to Jesus after his resurrection and after he'd been with the disciples for a certain amount of days? The Bible says he13:42 ascended up into heaven. And while he ascended, the disciples were standing there, and they were looking, and and and there appeared unto 2 men in white apparel and said, ye men of Galilee, why stand you gazing up into13:53 heaven? The same Jesus you see go up will come again. Where did Jesus go to? The Bible says he ascended into heaven to be seated on the right hand14:05 side of God the father. How can someone sit beside himself? So the the the triune God, the Trinity, is clear teaching from scripture, and we14:17 must recognize that the God the father, God the son, and God the Holy Spirit. Amen. The second thing is I want you to know that the Holy Spirit is a giver. He's14:29 a giver. Did you know that the father is a giver? The father is a giver. For God so loved the world, the world that14:40 rebelled against him, the world the world that cursed him, the world that turned his back on him, the world that broke his laws, the world that had no respect for him. It says, for God so loved that14:52 world that he gave his only begotten son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish but have everlasting life. Jesus, God gave15:04 his only begotten son. Listen. He's the king of glory. He's the king of heaven. There are cherubims. There are cherubims. There are archangels. There are other angels. He could have chosen any 1 of them and said, I'm15:16 sending you down to earth to die for the sins of the world. No. He sent his only begotten son. Why? Because he loves us with an everlasting love. He's a giver, and he15:28 gives the best. He gives heaven's very best, his only begotten son. And so this morning, we can say thank you, Lord, for sending Jesus. The son is a giver.15:39 The Lord Jesus Christ, right throughout this ministry, he proved that he was a giver, but the greatest thing was the Bible says he laid down his life. No greater love of a man than this, than a man15:51 lay down his life for his friend. Jesus laid down his life so that you and he was willing to die so that you and I could live.16:03 And he said this, he said, no man can take away my life. I have the power to lay it down, and I have the power to take it up. In the New Testament, as Jesus could have called16:14 70000 angels, and he could have wiped out man. When they cursed him, when they beat him, and they wanted to crucify him, he could have destroyed the world.16:26 But he didn't because he looked down the corridors of time, and he saw you and you and you and you and you and me, and he knew that once he goes through the great plan of redemption, 116:38 day, you and I who are sinners and far from God will be drawn close, and we will come into a living relationship with him. And that's why he endured the suffering of the cross16:49 because he endured the suffering of the cross. Therefore, the father has highly exalted him and bestowed upon him a name that's above every other name, that every knee shall17:01 bow at the name of Jesus. Those in heaven, those on earth, and those under the earth shall confess that Jesus Christ is God God the glory of God the father. Hallelujah. He's a17:13 giver. The father's a giver. The son's a giver. The Holy Spirit is a giver. The problem is the church has not received the gift in its fullness. What is the gift17:25 that the Holy Spirit has given the church? First Corinthians 12, the gifts of the spirit. Why is the church neglecting the gifts of the spirit? Why are we not being taught about the gifts of the spirit? Why are we not17:37 operating in the gifts of the spirit? Those gifts are given by the Holy Spirit so that you and I can grow and develop into the full stature of a man and a woman of God. Amen. And those17:49 gifts are given to us so that we we can fulfill the ministry that God has given to each and every 1 of us. They're not toys, they're tools. And the and the manifestations of the Holy18:01 Spirit, 9 gifts of the spirit are not just for the church gathering, it's for everyday life of the believer. Sometimes in a world, you're in a corner, and you need wisdom, and you don't have wisdom. But there's the18:12 gift of wisdom that comes from the Holy Spirit, and he can give you wisdom at that particular moment. Something great can happen in your life. Amen? Amen. A word of knowledge and and18:24 all those kind of things that gives read the gifts of the spirit, and they're for us, the believers. We need to learn them. We need to embrace them, and we need to ask God to use each 1 of us in those wonderful gifts18:35 that he's given to the church. He hasn't given to to to the church to put on a shelf, to help us to mature and to help us fulfill his great purpose. And I thank God so many times18:47 I've experienced different gifts of the spirit. It's not there for a performance. It's not there for a show. It's to help me in difficult situations, and it's helped me to bring honor and glory to the name of the Lord.18:59 Amen. And it's for every 1 of us. So God the father is a giver. The son is a giver. The Holy Spirit is a giver. The third thing I want you to notice about the Holy Spirit, he's a creator.19:11 The earth was without form and void, and a Holy Spirit hovered over it, and things began to be created. He's a creator. And the wonderful thing about it, what does it say in19:23 Corinthians? It says, if a man is in Christ, he's a new creature. How does he become a new creature? Through the creation power of the Holy Spirit. It is the19:35 Holy Spirit that comes into our lives, and he creates a new man. Sometimes we think God is just matching up the old man. He's not. We are new creatures in Christ Jesus. All the old things pass away,19:47 and everything becomes new. I'm not the old Tommy. I'm a new Tommy. Amen? Amen. When I came to Christ, he took away all the old stuff. No. I19:59 I had a problem. I still went back and grabbed some of the old stuff because my my carnal nature hungered for it. But in time, the Holy Spirit delivers and sets us free. He's continually20:10 working in our lives. There never comes a day that I can say to you or someone can say, well, the Holy Spirit has finished working my life. I've reached the stage of perfection. No. We're all growing in the grace and the20:21 knowledge of the Lord Jesus Christ, and it is the work of the Holy Spirit. And I wanna tell you this morning, if your life is in a mess and it's a disaster, you need to be a new creation, not a patch20:33 job, and the Holy Spirit can do that work because he's God and he's almighty. All you have to do is surrender your life to him, and he'll turn it inside out and make you a brand new man.20:45 Hallelujah. Whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. Thank you, Lord Jesus. He's the creator. He's the author of the Bible.20:57 Holy men of old rotaries, they were moved and inspired by the Holy Spirit. People say, oh, well, who wants to believe the Bible was written by men? Yes. It was written by men but inspired by the Holy21:09 Spirit. The Holy Spirit is the author of the Bible, and the Holy Spirit never does anything that contradicts the word of God. Whatever the Holy Spirit does lines up with the21:21 word of God. And so he he's the author. He's the spirit of truth, and he is the 1 that will guide us into all truth.21:33 So you may you may have a a a man that can teach you the word of God if he's born again and saved. It's not really him that's the teacher. It's the gift of the spirit. It's the holy spirit that is21:45 the teacher. He teaches us the word of God. He makes Jesus real to us. Amen? Amen. And so he's the author of the Bible. He's also presented in scripture as a dove.21:57 He's gentle. I've seen some weird stuff going on lately where where people were throwing people down and walking on top of them, and they were saying that is that is the Holy Spirit. No. The Holy Spirit doesn't do weird22:08 things like that. He's gentle. The Holy Spirit will never force his way into your life. He's never grabbed any 1 of us by the throat or by the neck and say, you better get saved or you're gonna go to hell. He doesn't22:20 do that. He's gentle. He moves upon the word of the Lord, and he speaks to your heart, and he draws you gently because he loves us, and he's22:32 concerned about us. He's also represented as a fire. What did John the Baptist say? He said, listen. When the Holy Spirit comes, he's gonna baptize when when when when Jesus comes, he's gonna baptize you in a22:43 Holy Spirit and fire. Now there's a lot of us that say, I I'm baptized in the Holy Spirit, but where's the fire? Where's the fire? Where's the zeal of the Lord? The Bible says the zeal of the Lord22:55 consumed Jesus. The the the the the the the house of the Lord is it it consumed in the there was a a a desire to serve God and to please God, and and we23:07 need some more of that in the church today. We need some more fire in the church. Like, of you say amen this morning. We need some more people on fire for God. Amen? Amen. That it's23:19 not just becoming a dead religion, going through the same old thing because we used to it, going through because now we know what to say at the right time. No. Every day must be a fresh day in the Lord. Every23:31 day must be a day where we are rejoicing and we're glad because of the goodness of God. Yes. There are difficulties. Yes. There are trials. Yes. There are obstacles and giants, but thank God, he who lives in us is23:42 greater than he who's in the world, and he gives us the victory over and over again. And so we need to put some fire in our soul and and let the let the the the zeal of the23:54 Lord consume us. Amen? Amen. He's presented as that. He's also presented as a wind. Nicodemus Jesus spoke to Nicodemus. He was religious, but he was24:05 lost. And he said, the spirit is like the wind. You you you see a blow, but you you can see the effect, but you can't see it. We don't see the Holy Spirit, but he's here.24:17 He's here in our midst. He's like a wind, blows when he wants to, touches whom he wants to, heal whom he wants to. Amen? And so the24:29 Holy Spirit is presented as the third numb number 6. He's the church's power. He's the church's power. Jesus said to the disciples, go and wait in Jerusalem till you receive power from24:41 on high. On the day of Pentecost, they were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and then things changed. Those men had a reputation of people said, hey, those people, they are turning the world upside24:53 down. They're coming here also. They had a reputation of turning things. They weren't turning things upside down. They were turning it right side up. Everything was upside down.25:05 And so God has given a power to the church, to each and every 1 of us. The no every believer, no matter whether he's a a young believer or an old believer, God gives us power, and the power is the Holy25:17 Spirit. We need power in our lives. Every day, we're challenged. Every day, the devil comes and tempts us. Every day, there's some obstacle in the way. Every day, there's some giant that we have to face, and25:29 many times, we know in our own power, we're weak. We can't overcome. We can't defeat the enemy. But thanks be to God, when we're filled with the Holy Spirit, the Holy Spirit gives us the power, gives us the25:40 victory. Amen? And what did Jesus say about the Holy Spirit? He said, out of your innermost being shall flow rivers of living water. This life that flows from the child of God, and if it's25:52 not flowing, there's something wrong. We told to the Holy Spirit we should open up our heart to the things of God and embrace everything that God is doing today so that in this life of this world26:04 of despair and darkness, every believer can have a river flowing out of them that is bringing life wherever it flows. When you walk into the school, into the business place, wherever you26:16 go, there should be a river that is flowing, and that river comes and it cleanses, and it gives life to that which is dead. Hallelujah. Did you know that you and I can speak as believers to people26:28 who are in total darkness, and in a moment of time, they can come out of that darkness into the light of God, and they can become new creatures. That's the power he's given us. And sometimes we we feel26:39 we're such a a bunch of weak people. We I'm I'm struggling. I can't I can't do this. No. We are more than conquerors through him that loved us. And if there's ever been a day for26:51 God's people to rise up and to make a stand, it is today. A stand for the word of God, a stand for the purposes of God. I'm not talking about other issues. I'm gonna stand up for27:03 Jesus, and I'm gonna let people know there's a better life, every single 1 of them. And I can confess that I've been on the road a long time. I'm I'm not perfect, but 1 day I will be.27:15 1 day when he comes, but they never let me down. I just rode past some place down here where my son lived, and my heart broke.27:36 And I cried, but I said, thank you, Lord Jesus, for giving us the strength. We are we know there's a reason. Never have I questioned the Lord. I won't question him. But there's27:47 things that happen in our lives, but we gotta keep going because the Bible says, he that endures to the end shall be saved. And we're running a race, and it's a race of endurance. Sometimes you trip, and sometimes you27:59 fall, but the righteous man gets up 7 times. Hallelujah. It's hard, but listen, we know we know that the best28:11 is yet to come for every child of God. Hallelujah. He's the church's power. Oh, thank God. You know, sometimes let me tell you something. Sometimes right here in a service,28:24 God and many times, God is so gracious in all of our all of our locations, all our locations. He gives us a wonderful taste of what heaven would be like.28:36 Can I say that again? Sometimes our gathering together is just like heaven. You know, there are times I'm in a in a meeting when people are singing, I got I got I got a little bit of sorrow in my heart. Of course, have.28:48 But there's something about the singing and the worship. It just lifts you up, and and for a moment, I thought, you know, if I can grow wings now, man, I'm gonna fly. It is so28:59 wonderful. Amen. There's nothing, nothing in the world that can compare with the presence of the Holy Spirit in the church. Nothing.29:11 Amen? Amen. Sometimes he moves and people begin to cry. Sometimes people laugh. Different things happen, but it's the move of the Holy Spirit as he moves upon the29:23 hearts of the people that God loves, because he's got a plan and a purpose. Amen. And I'm closing number 7. He was here from the beginning, as29:35 I said before. Came upon David, came upon Samson, gave them power to fulfill the purposes of God under the Old Testament. But you know the cross of Jesus29:47 made a difference. In the Old Testament, the Holy Spirit would come upon a person for a particular purpose, and while that purpose has to be fulfilled, the Holy Spirit comes upon them and gives them the29:58 power, and then moves away from them. But since the cross of Jesus Christ, it's changed. The Holy Spirit no longer comes upon you, he comes in.30:11 That's why the Bible says, know you not that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit. That Holy Spirit that came upon Samson and and moved him to do great things,30:23 that Holy Spirit dwells within us today. But you have to be someone who's given your life to Christ. You have to come to Jesus.30:35 You have to surrender your life and say, Lord, yet I have forgiven you of all my sin. Come into my life and change me. When you do that, this Holy Spirit that I've been speaking about this morning, this loving person of30:47 the Trinity comes in and dwells within your heart. That's why Jesus said from innermost being flows rivers of living water.30:58 Hallelujah. If you're a believer this morning, you must believe that that every day you can be filled with the spirit of God. And wherever you go, he's gonna31:10 help you in every situation. He's the comforter, and he's the power of the church. If you're here today and you've never given your life to the Lord Jesus Christ,31:23 you can do it today. Today, it can be your day. Today, your body can become the temple of the Holy Spirit. What a miracle. All31:35 your sin can be forgiven to be remembered no more. God doesn't remember past, And you become a new creature, new vision, new31:47 hope, new desires, a brand new life, a new creature. And through every hardship and every difficulty, he said, I'll never leave31:59 you nor forsake you, lo, I'm with you until the end of the world. Holy Spirit, thank you for convicting us32:11 of sin, righteousness, and judgment. Thank you for challenging us to become the children of God. And I pray today there's someone here who's going to make that32:23 decision, and for believers to have more respect and more love for the Holy Spirit. Amen? Amen.32:36 Thank you for listening to this message from Waters Church. For more information or to visit 1 of our local assemblies, please visit Waters Church dot org. God bless, and have a great day.
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