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0:00 The title of number 7 is the power of the holy spirit. The holy spirit gives us power. Billy Graham once said, every true believer is0:11 charismatic. End quote. Every true believer is charismatic. How many know a few crazy charismatics from your past? Anybody? I was 1 of them, kinda am still0:22 anyway. Charismatic though, the word charisma, we get that from the Greek word charis, which means grace or gift. It can mean grace or gift. Charisma in the Greek. Grace or0:34 gift. Good thing for you today around the dinner table. Tell people you learned a little bit of Greek today. Charisma means grace or gift. And what Jesus did was he gave us the grace to forgive us of our sins so that0:46 he could give us the gift of the Holy Spirit. And the Holy Spirit is not just for Pentecostals and charismatics. The Holy Spirit is for the entire body of Christ. Every Christian that names the name of0:58 Christ. Every person that believes Jesus died for their sins and rose again on the third day and declares that he is Lord. Every single 1 can be filled with the Holy Spirit and do life in the power of the1:09 third person of the Trinity and not their own. You can have this power. I have this power. And I was thinking about the fact that I am alive today because of the power of the Holy1:21 Spirit. I exist because of the power of the Holy Spirit. Let me explain why. When my parents were young, they were going to college over at UMass1:33 and they met, my mom was raised in a Pentecostal church and she wandered away from the Lord and from the church. My father was raised in a congregational church that barely talked about Jesus and salvation. And they got1:45 together, they dated, they married and they're happily married now almost 60 years. God bless them but they were Yeah. But they wandered away from the Lord. My mother wandered away from the Lord. My father probably1:56 really never knew him. They had 2 daughters. They were raising those daughters. They thought life was done, life was complete. They were gonna raise those daughters and party with their friends and they would. They would2:07 do what young 20 year old people do. Party with their friends, go out drinking, mess around, do all that kind of stuff as a young married couple. Then they finally came around the fact that they have kids that they're2:16 responsible for as many people do and they needed, to get their lives right. My mother's old heritage from her past, raise up a child in the way that he should go. When they're old they will not depart from it. Right? So2:26 my mother decided, hey we gotta get back to the church and so they started shopping around for a church and 1 of their friends from college invited them to an Episcopalian church in Northwest Connecticut. And they went2:37 to this Episcopalian church and they heard a preacher in that church but that Episcopalian priest was not an ordinary Episcopalian priest. He was a charismatic, born again Episcopalian priest. How many know they're not2:49 making many of those anymore? Amen. Drag queen priest, yes. Born again, not so much. Anyway, that's for the deep end. So they go to this church and he's talking about3:01 repentance of sin, repentance from sin, turning to Christ, being born again. My parents are hearing this. And then he talks about that you don't just get saved, you get filled. You don't just get saved, you get filled3:13 with the Holy Spirit. God doesn't just take away your sins, he wants to replace your sins with the power of the holy spirit. Can I get a good amen at every location? And he talks about this, and my parents go up to the3:23 altar. They get filled with the holy ghost. They get prayed for. They speak in other tongues at that crazy moment, and totally radically committed to the Lord Jesus. Their whole household changed the spirit of their3:34 lives and marriage totally changed on fire for Christ Jesus. And then my father decides, let's have another baby. Ta da.3:50 I'm thankful today for the power of the holy spirit. I wouldn't be here if it wasn't for the power of the holy spirit. And my mother came from a big Italian family where if you didn't have a son you were a failure as a4:01 mother. So she prayed. Thank God we're not like that anymore. But she prayed for a son and she said, I had a prayer. She said, Lord if you give me a son I'll give him to your service all the days of his life. She never4:11 told me that. She never told me that. And then I went to a youth camp when I was 12 years old and I got filled with the Holy Ghost. Came down to the altar, somebody laid hands on me. It might not be your tradition, you4:23 might have been Baptist or Catholic or whatever growing up. Don't get freaked out when I share this, but I spoke in other tongues. I still speak in other tongues. I don't think everybody has to speak in tongues, but I4:32 speak in tongues. I love the fact that I have that gift. It's a blessed gift, thank God for it. I don't do it publicly, I follow scripture's commands there. So nonetheless, I speak in tongues. And I was born4:44 I was radically changed. And I remember it was a Tuesday night at that youth camp up in New Hampshire, up in New Hampshire and I got on the phone. How many remember pay phones? Had to put the coins in the phones. Called4:55 my mom and said, Ma, you'll never guess what happened at youth camp. And this is what she said, God honest truth. This Pentecostal born and bred woman, she said, Don't tell me you smoke marijuana.5:07 I said, Mom, no. I got filled with the Holy Ghost and I spoke and talked. She's like, Oh, that's wonderful. So you know, A year later, same camp, the Lord called me into ministry. He said, want you to preach the word.5:19 I had this unrelenting burden to teach people what God's word says. I didn't create it, didn't come up with it. My father wasn't a preacher. My grandfather was on my mother's side, but no 1 ever really told me to do it.5:30 I just had a burden, a real sincere burden. My most favorite thing to do in life is to tell people what God's word says. And it was all because of the power of the Holy Spirit.5:42 I believe every person needs to experience the power of the Holy Spirit. I believe a lot of Christians have these up and down roller coaster lives because they don't have the power of the Holy Spirit. You've repented5:54 from sins, but you've never been filled fully with God. And he has a gift for you. And and you don't need to be worried about it. And you don't need to be freaked out about this. I I can almost read it on some of6:06 your faces. You're like, oh, no. I came to that service. Because you you've experienced a couple of crazy charismatic Pentecostals in your past. These are the people who who speak in tongues around6:17 the Thanksgiving dinner table. You don't know what you're gonna do. Okay. Listen to me. I just wanna let you know if you've ever experienced a crazy charismatic Pentecostal, please understand me today that that person6:28 was crazy before they were charismatic at Pentecostal. They were a crazy heathen, they just became a crazy Christian. Okay. That's because God doesn't totally renovate our personality, He works with it. Okay. But the6:40 point of the matter is that I believe that there is a power available to you that unites and uses all the other powers we've talked about up to this point in the series. 7 things we've talked about. The power of the6:49 word. The word of God brings power to our lives. Amen? The power of prayer. When we don't know what to do, we pray. The power of the name of Jesus. Pastor Geiser's message, we talked about that in week 3. The power7:01 of praise. We talked about that. We talked about the power of community. And then we talked last week about the power of your words. Your words have power. But the 1 power that unites and empowers all7:13 the other powers is the Holy Spirit. John chapter 16, Jesus is at the last supper with the disciples. John chapter 13, he washes their feet. Then he sends Judas off to betray him and he tells the disciples, When are7:24 gonna betray me? Then he tells Judas what you do? Do quickly. They've just heard that 1 of them is gonna betray them, betray Jesus. Then he turns to them all and he says, You're all gonna leave. In a few hours. You're7:36 all gonna run for your lives. They're all like, No, no, no, we'll never, we'll never leave you. They're all like, No, no, that'll never happen. Peter's like, I'll die with you Jesus. And Jesus says to Peter, Actually7:45 tonight you're gonna deny me 3 times. 3 blows to the disciples' spirits right there. 3 consecutive blows. Judas betraying me, you're all gonna leave me, Peter's gonna deny7:57 me. Boom, boom, boom. I wonder who's been through a few of those moments in your life. How many know that it always works in threes? Something happens and then another8:09 thing's up, another and you're just, ah. And I can just imagine the disciples are like, oh my word, what is going on? And then the the king knock out blow to their spirits. In John chapter 16,8:21 Jesus then tells them, I'm leaving. Woah. What are you talking about? You're leaving. He says, I'm leaving and I'm going away. I'm going to the father. I'm going back. And I got good8:32 news for you. That's what he says in verse 7. Nevertheless, I tell you the truth, it is to your advantage. Somebody say advantage. Advantage. That means this is good for you that I go away. And then he says8:44 why? For if I don't, the helper will not come. But if I go, I will send him to you. Underline him, circle him. Because I want you to understand that the Holy Spirit is a person, not a8:56 thing. It's not the force like in Star Wars. It's a person, it's the person of God dwelling in you. That means he has a personal relationship. He can talk to you.9:09 He can warn you. He can advise you, but you've gotta be filled with him. You better be filled with him. And Jesus said, I've I I need to go away. I am9:21 leaving so that he will come. The word helper there is parakletos in the Greek. Parakletos is a 2 part Greek word. Para mean to come alongside and kaleo meaning to call out. Here's what the hope,9:32 helper, the Holy Spirit does. He comes alongside us and he calls out to us. Ladies and gentlemen, the Holy Spirit is the 1 who calls out to you right when you're in the midst of sin and says, this isn't right.9:45 He's the 1 who calls out to you when you're drifting from the Lord and says, hey, you know you're not on the right path. You need to get back. That's the Holy Spirit. By the way, Holy Spirit is the 1 who says, hey, speak9:53 to them about Jesus. Speak to them about Jesus. Right? He's the 1 who comes up. He when you're depressed and down, he says, don't worry. God is for you, not against you. I'm still with you. I'll never leave you. I'll10:02 never forsake you. The holy spirit is calling out to his people on a regular basis. The question is, are we listening to him? And I think about this moment when Jesus says I'm leaving and the disciples, they're freaked10:13 out. They don't know what he's talking about. He's saying I'm going to the cross. Let's put up verse 16 16. John chapter 16 16. He says, a little while you'll see me no longer and then a10:25 little while you'll see me. He's like, I'm go And and and he kind of explained this already ad nauseam before in the in other passages but he said, I'm I'm gonna be betrayed. I'm gonna be handed over. I'm gonna be10:34 crucified and on the third day I'm gonna be raised to life. Now he said that many, many times to the disciples, and every time they were like, what? What? What? And they didn't get it. They never got it. And here was the10:46 point that Jesus was saying, I have to go to the cross. I have to take away your sins so that the Holy Spirit can come in. That's what it is. So in your notes, I've got a phrase there. It's a pop quiz. Pop quiz today,10:57 everybody. Jesus died and rose to what? Fill in the blanks. Fill in the blanks. Go ahead and try it yourself. There's probably a bunch of right answers. I know there's bunch of right answers, so don't worry about getting11:08 it wrong. But what do you think that answer is? Jesus died and rose to blank. And I bet you would say, yeah, save me. I bet you would say, forgive me. I bet you would say, to give me eternal life, to bring11:20 me to heaven, maybe to bring me back to God. Can I tell you, all those are right? Those are all right. But there's more. And Jesus is explaining that here in John chapter 16. Here's the 1 that I want to dwell with,11:32 and we're going to unpack this as we go through this text. Write this down. Jesus died and rose to fill me with the power of the Holy Spirit. You see, the Christian life is not just about getting your sins11:44 forgiven. It's not just about not doing bad things. A lot of people think that's what faith is about. That's what religion's about. Stop doing bad things. No. It's11:56 also about being empowered to do good things. That's what Jesus was. He was he was empowered with the Holy Spirit that he might go around doing good to everybody. Acts chapter 10 verse 38. He went around telling12:06 everybody what good what God said, and he went around healing and sit and and casting out demons and and solving people's major problems. That the Holy Spirit came upon Jesus means to do good. Means that the Holy12:18 Spirit must come upon you to do good. If Jesus needed the Holy Spirit, you would need the Holy Spirit. So Jesus is having this conversation trying to explain this to disciples and he says,12:30 listen, a little while and you will see me no longer, verse 16, and then after that you'll see me. And, and then he says in verse 7 then it says in verse 17, some of the disciples again, this is the fourth12:42 consecutive blow that Jesus has given them at the at the last supper. Some of his disciples said to another, what is this that he says to us? A little while you will see you will not see me. And then again, a little12:51 while and you will see me and because I am going to the father. In verse 18, g John gives us further commentary. He says, so they were saying, what does he mean by a little while? We don't know what he is talking about.13:02 John is building up the tension of the moment. And then Jesus I love verse 19. Jesus knew that they wanted to ask him, so he said to them. I love that moment. Jesus always knows the questions that you wanna ask even when13:13 you're too afraid to ask. So he's like, oh, here we go again. They have questions. Let me tell them what they're asking before they even ask. And he says, is this what you were asking yourselves? What I meant by saying a13:23 little while and you will not see me, and a little while again you will see me? Truly, truly, I say to you. Now notice what he says here. You will weep and lament, but the world will rejoice. You will be sorrowful, but13:34 your sorrow will turn into what? Into joy. What is Jesus talking about? Now from most of my young life, and I had even heard preachers talk about13:46 this, that the interpretation of John chapter 16 verses 16 to 20 was that Jesus would die, rise to life, and go to the father, and we13:58 wouldn't see him anymore. And then 2000 some odd years later going strong, we would then see him again, and our sorrow would be turned into joy.14:10 So when it talks about this little while where we wouldn't see the Lord, I was taught, and I don't know if you were taught this, but it's wrong. I was taught that that meant Jesus would go to the father14:22 as he is right now, and 1 day as he will, he will come back again. And while he's in the father's presence, the world will rejoice because he's not here to bear witness of the truth and upset them.14:34 But the church would mourn because we need him. That's what I was taught. I don't know if you were taught that, but I'm here to tell you that's wrong. That's not the time frame that Jesus is talking14:46 about in this text. What is he talking about? He's talking about the fact when he said well, first off, he says a little while. When Jesus says a little while, he means a14:58 little while. So he's not talking about this 2000 year timeframe that we're still experiencing where we're waiting for him to come back. He's talking about going to the cross.15:10 I You won't see me. I'm going to the cross, they're going to bury me. You will not see me for a little while. When that happens, the world's15:22 gonna be happy. They think they've won. They think they've gotten rid of me. You're going to weep. And we all know that Peter, he's When he does deny the Lord, he goes away and he weeps. And15:33 apostles go The disciples at that time, they go away and they they weep, they're crying, they're scared, they're worried, they're nervous, their dreams have collapsed. The world's rejoicing. Pilate puts 2 guards at the15:45 at the tomb. It looks like the movement is over, they're happy about it, the disciples are depressed, but Jesus said, your sorrow will turn into joy. Because15:56 3 days later, hallelujah, he did not stay dead, he came alive again by the power of the Holy Ghost and he lives forever. He16:08 defeated death. 3 days later, fast forward to John chapter 20, the disciples, Mary and the other Mary come to the tomb with embalming spices. They come to the tomb with embalming16:20 spices because they did not expect a resurrection. They were still weeping. Mary comes to the tomb and she sees that the tomb is open. And she's freaked out and she runs back and she tells the16:32 disciples, the tomb's open. The disciples are like, what? And Peter and John, chapter 20 of John, they go running to the to the tomb. And the bible says that John just kinda stoops in and Peter runs in because16:44 Peter always has to go too far. Peter runs in and they're all confused and they're bewildered and there's no body. And they walk away. And then it says Mary doesn't walk away. I love16:56 Mary. She just stays there. She's like a good woman. She has to think things out from every angle. You know what I'm talking about? And she's standing outside the tomb, and then she gets to thinking and she says, let me17:06 just take another look, and she looks into the tomb. And the scripture says in John chapter 20 verse 12, And she saw 2, what? In white. Notice the little factoid17:19 that John, who wrote the book of John, decided to give us. The 2 angels are sitting where the body of Jesus had been laid, 1 at his head and the other at his17:31 feet. What is that about? Who cares where the angels are, John? But every scripture is inspired by17:43 God. There's no accidents, there's not 1 flippant word in holy scripture. What Mary saw at the tomb where17:54 Jesus' body had been laid was a pitcher that goes all the way back to the book of Exodus. When the people of Israel had come out of Egypt, God said, want you to18:06 establish a place to worship me. There's 1 place where you worship me. 1, the tabernacle. The tabernacle was made of goat skins and camel hair and poles. And they would set it up and18:18 move it wherever they went. And inside the tabernacle was an inner court and an outer court. And the and the priest the regular worshipers would go to the outer court, the priest would go to the inner court. And inside18:27 the inner court, there was another place. It was a cubical structure. Cubicle, all sides equal. It was called the holy of holies. And inside the holy of18:39 holies was a chest made of gold with a cover on top. Anybody know what the name of that chest was called? The Ark of the Covenant. And on18:51 top of the Ark of the Covenant, there was a cover. Inside the Ark were the tabernacle where the where the law, the testimony is the law of the 10 commandments, the manna and Aaron's rod that had budded. And so inside,19:02 that's what was inside. But on top, there was a structure, it's a very interesting structure, that God commanded Moses to make it specifically like this. You're gonna put 2 angels on top of that cover.19:14 And both angels are gonna be at each end of the cover. You're gonna call that cover the mercy seat. And both angels are gonna stretch out their wings and they're gonna touch, but their eyes are gonna be facing the mercy19:25 seat. And every day I mean, and every year, right around this time of year, by the way, the Israelites would celebrate a feast called the Day of Atonement. And they would fast, and they still do to this day. But on the19:36 Day of Atonement, the priest would go into the holy of holies 1 time a year. Wash his clothes, clean him up, go inside, offer the bull offering and the sacrifice of the 119:48 spotless lamb blood, and pour the spotless lamb's blood on the mercy seat between the angels as they watch. And God says, and I will forgive the people all their sin through20:00 the atoning blood of the 1 spotless lamb between the angels on the mercy seat and the ark of the covenant. This is a picture, by the way, of the ark of the covenant. If you've never seen it before, you probably have seen20:12 it on, the Raiders of the Lost Ark. Can we put it up there? There you go. Raiders of the Lost Ark, that's what the picture was. Exodus chapter 25 says this, you shall make a mercy seat of pure gold. Make20:23 1 cherub look at it with me. Acts, Exodus 25. Make 1 cherub on the 1 end and 1 cherub on the other end, and this was to be the place of offering the20:34 blood to purify all God's people from their sins. This, my friends, is the picture that God gave Mary who had been delivered, by the way, from 7 demons, who had20:46 probably been a woman of the night. And when she looks into the tomb, she sees a picture from ancient times in Exodus 25 of the place where God would provide forgiveness for sins including hers, yours and mine20:58 and everyone who calls on the name of the Lord. Those 2 angels were sitting there telling you something cosmic has happened. Something bigger than you can imagine has happened.21:10 And then did you know that there was all kinds of stringent regulations about that high priest as he offered that blood on the day of atonement? Leviticus chapter 16. Leviticus, everybody's favorite bible book.21:22 Said in verse 15, it said, he shall kill the goat of the sin offering that is for the people and bring the blood inside the veil and do with his blood as he did on the blood of the bull, sprinkle it over the mercy seat,21:31 in front of the mercy seat, thus he shall make atonement. Let me just tell you what atonement means. You can break it down into 3 parts. At onement. That God brings a oneness between you and21:43 him through the blood of a spotless firstborn male lamb. And for thousands of years, the Jews practiced that21:54 ceremony. And when Jesus came, John the Baptist baptized him and saw him walking by the Jordan River and turned to his disciples and said, behold the22:06 lamb of God that takes away the sins of the world. Mary's staring at those 2 angels And she's befuddled and she doesn't know what's going on. And she goes outside the tomb22:18 and she runs into a guy and John tells her that she thinks it's the gardener. And she says, If you've taken away my Lord, tell me where you put them. Look what it says in John chapter 20 verse 16. And Jesus said to her,22:29 Mary. And she turned and said to him in Aramaic, Rabboni, which means teacher. And Jesus said to her, look at this, don't cling to me. Another translation says, don't22:41 touch me. Don't touch me. Sounds kinda code of Jesus to do that. For I have not yet ascended to the father. But go and tell22:53 my brothers and say to them, I'll meet them up again in Galilee. That's what he just told her. And she's running. She runs. And then he says this in verse 17, I am ascending to my father and to23:05 your father. To my God and to your God. But don't touch me. Why? Well, let's go back to Leviticus chapter 16 verse 17. When the high priest came in and says this, no23:17 1 may be in the tent of meeting from the time he enters to make atonement in the holy place until he comes out and makes atonement for himself and for the house and for all the assembly of Israel. There was a great23:27 ritual that the high priest had to go through to offer that blood 1 time a year. He had to change his clothes. He had to wash his body. He had to put on the holy garments. He had to go into the holy place, offer the23:36 blood. Then after the blood was offered, he had to take his clothes off, wash again, put his clothes back on, and come big ritual, big telling ritual. And no 1 was supposed to be in there. Listen what he was saying. No 123:47 was allowed to touch the high priest as he made offering. Because if anybody touched him, he'd be defiled. So when Jesus says to Mary, don't touch me, it meant23:59 that he was still up to something. Not as a sacrifice anymore, but as our true and great and final high priest. What Jesus did on the day of resurrection, understand this, what Jesus did on the day of24:10 resurrection was he ascended to the father and he brought the blood that he had shed 3 days earlier on the cross. And he brought it not to a earthly temple but he brought it to the heavenly temple. Because24:22 God told Moses, you make the temple on earth like the 1 I'm gonna show you in heaven. There's a replica in earth that represents what's going on in heaven. And Jesus went into that tabernacle in heaven before the throne24:34 of God, and he brought his perfect final sacrifice of sin for all the world and laid it on the altar in the heavenly places. And God the Father said, accepted, paid in full,24:45 sins removed once and for all. No more need to sacrifice for sins. Then he comes back later that night in John chapter 20 verse 17. Notice what it24:57 says. He shows up behind closed doors with the disciples and and as he had said in verse 6 17 to Mary, don't cling to me. Look what it says in Luke chapter 24 verse 39. He says to the disciples, see my25:09 hands and feet. This is the evening of the resurrection. See my hands and feet that it is I myself. Next 2 words, everybody. Touch me. Touch me and see for25:21 a spirit does not have flesh and blood as you see that I have. Why no touching me to Mary in the morning and touch me and see to the disciples in the evening? Because that afternoon he had been to heaven25:34 and he offered the final sacrifice to make it available for you and I, not just to know God, not just to believe in Jesus, not just to be forgiven,25:46 but to be filled with the power of God. Hebrews chapter 9 sums this up so very well. It says, when Christ appeared as a high priest of the good things that have come, then25:57 through the greater and more perfect tent, not made with hands, that is not of this creation. That's the 1 in heaven. He entered once and for all into holy places, not by means of the blood of boat boat goats and calves,26:07 but by means of his own blood, thus securing an eternal redemption. Don't you see how the bible all comes together? The bible all comes The confusing passages of Exodus, the weird practices of Liticus, the strange things26:19 that they saw when Jesus was around, and then the interpretation of all those things in the book of Hebrews. Past, present, future all center on the person and the work of Jesus Christ. And he is the 1 who ties it all26:30 together and fulfills the law and the prophets and makes a way for you and I to come boldly into the presence of God. That's our faith, And this this book was written by26:42 40 some odd different author authors from all kinds of walks of life, from poets to slaves to former slaves to kings to princes to poor people, and it all comes together26:53 around 1 central message. The price has been paid for you to have a relationship with God that fills you totally and changes your life.27:07 It says this in John chapter 20, verse 20. The disciples were glad. Remember that, what Jesus said? Your sorrow returned to what? Joy. The disciples were glad when they saw the Lord. And then Jesus says to them,27:19 peace be with you. As the father has sent me, I am sending you. Now notice this last line. And when he had said this, he breathed on them27:31 and said, receive the Holy Spirit. Oh, I love that. What is that all about? Why did he have to Do you know why? Because centuries27:43 earlier he had breathed into Adam. Genesis chapter 2, verse 7, it says, The Lord God formed a man out of the dust of the ground and breathed into his27:55 nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being. But we all know how that story went, didn't we? Went poorly, got about 2 chapters into the Bible and everything goes crazy.28:07 And they fall into sin and they run from God. And they died spiritually. We talked about that they didn't die physically, they died spiritually. And the fact that you're gonna die physically means it's because you're28:16 dead spiritually. But if you're alive spiritually, you're gonna be raised to life again just like Jesus was. But every human being outside of that of the of the faith of Jesus Christ, every human being is a walking dead28:27 person. Is a walking dead person. We need the breath of God. What Jesus did at the cross and in the heavenly temple to offer the perfect sacrifice and coming down to the disciples and breathing into them the Holy28:39 Spirit, he redid what Adam undid and reconnected man and God together. And that's what we need. That Jesus did not do all28:50 that just so that you could be forgiven. Some of you live this kind of Christian life where it's so focused on all the things you do wrong.29:03 Every mistake you make, oh no I'm such a bad person, I'm such a bad person. Oh I don't believe I blew it again. Oh I'm so sorry Lord. And that's your life. That's your conversation with God. And I you know I get it.29:13 Humility, repentance is very important. It's foundational. You can't know Jesus without repentance. But some of you need to flip a switch29:25 and realize that he didn't just come to take away your sin. He came to put the spirit within. Came to fill you with the goodness of God. Came to fill you with himself.29:37 Another comforter, helper to be with you always who will lead you and guide you into all truth. As Jesus says in John chapter 14 15, he says, I'll ask the father and he will give you another helper. Who will be with you29:49 when? Forever. The spirit of truth, the world cannot receive because it sees neither sees him nor knows him. But you know him for he dwells with you and he will be in you. The power30:00 of God in you is why Jesus died for you. So that brings me to my points finally. Some of you are like, what the?30:14 And if you'll notice, there's 6 points. So let's get started because the Holy Spirit power empowers all the other powers of this series.30:26 Part 1, the word of God is the power to fill and form our lives. Well, here's 0.1 in your notes. The Holy Spirit helps us receive and understand the word of God. Now some of you know this30:38 experientially because you didn't understand a thing about the Bible until you got saved. And then suddenly it started to make sense. I had a conversation with somebody from the service last night. They said, that's30:48 exactly what happened to me. I had no clue what the Bible meant. I had no clue how to read it until I repented of my sins and turned to Jesus and asked the Holy Spirit to help me. And it was31:00 like, bam. It just pow. And everything started to open up. That's right. Because when you get saved, the third person of the trinity who inspired the authors to31:12 write the book is there to help you understand the book. It's like reading Shakespeare. Anybody ever get confused by Shakespeare? Of course you don't because you don't read Shakespeare, do you?31:24 But if everybody had English like I did in high school, we had to read Shakespeare and it was confusing, I couldn't But how cool would it be to read Shakespeare sitting next to Shakespeare?31:36 He'd be like, well, that's what wherefore out there out means. That's what that means right there. And and and and so here's what you get with the holy spirit. You get the 1 who wrote it there to help you understand it.31:48 So Paul will tell the Corinthians in first Corinthians 2 12, now we receive not the spirit of the world, but the spirit who is from God. Circle the word that. That, that we receive the holy spirit, that for this32:00 reason, so that we might understand the things freely given us by God. Verse 13, and we impart this in words not taught by human wisdom32:12 but taught by what? The spirit. Interpreting spiritual truths to those who are spiritual. And by the way, this is not on the screen but he goes on to say this in the next verse. The natural person does not32:24 accept the things of the spirit of God for they are folly to him. They're foolish to him and he's not able to understand them because they're spiritually discerned. Ladies and gentlemen, the world is supposed to think32:34 we're crazy. The world's supposed to think we're nuts for believing an old book. Oh, you're gonna go and believe a book written by ancient peasants in the Middle East from 2000 years ago.32:46 How stupid are you? Bingo. You're a natural person. You're not supposed to get it. We get it when we get the Holy Spirit. We32:58 get the Holy Spirit when we repent from our sins and turn to Jesus Christ. And suddenly that book doesn't just become an old dusty book my grandma had on the shelf somewhere in her house. That book becomes my lifeline to33:10 heaven. Number 2, the Holy Spirit helps me pray in harmony with God's will. I love this promise of the Holy Spirit because he empowers our prayers. And I talked about week 2,33:22 the power of prayer. So the Holy Spirit is there to help you pray. This is why no Christian should have the excuse, I don't know how to pray. Listen to the Holy Spirit. He'll33:34 help you. And the best part about it is every time the Holy Spirit prays, he nails it. Look what Paul says in Romans chapter 8 verse 26.33:46 We don't know what God wants us to pray for. How many can agree with that? I don't know when to pray for. Okay. Welcome to the club, Paul says. But the Holy Spirit prays for us with groanings that cannot be expressed in33:57 words. And the father who knows all hearts knows what the spirit is saying for the spirit pleads for us believers in harmony with God's own will. When you don't know what to pray, you just stay silent and you say, okay,34:09 holy spirit. Help me. Same thing with the word, by the way. You get to a confusing passage in the bible and you say, okay, holy spirit. You wrote it. Help me understand it. Okay, Holy Spirit, I'm going through this34:20 craziness right now in my life. I don't know what to pray for. What do I pray for? And you just listen. Sometimes prayer is just silence before the Lord and let the Holy Spirit lead you. Number 3, the Holy Spirit34:30 convinces us of the power of Jesus' name. The Holy Spirit convinces us that there's power in the name of Jesus Christ. Again, the world thinks it's a swear word. The world uses that as a34:42 curse word, but we know it's a powerful word. It's the name of Jesus that demons flee. Is that the name of Jesus that we see blind men made to see? Is that the name of Jesus that we see our family saved, our children34:53 saved, our lives protected? The name of Jesus is the name above all names. How do you get convicts how do you get convicted of that? The Holy Spirit. Because Jesus said, he will glorify35:05 me. The Holy Spirit will glorify. He will make big Jesus in your life. That's why when Peter and John go to pray in Acts chapter 3 after the day of Pentecost, they go to pray, they see a35:17 layman and he says, give me some money. And Peter says, I have no silver, I have no gold, but what I have I give. In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, rise up and walk. And that guy got up and walked and danced his35:29 way into the temple. I'm seeing an increase in demon possession in my in my ministry. I've never seen so much and I think demons are starting to act out much more boldly in our culture as we have wandered away35:41 from God. And more now than ever before, the church needs to have boldness to say in the name of Jesus, get away from my family, get away from my children, get away from my marriage, get35:53 away from my heart. The therapist cannot heal your marriage. God can heal your marriage. The counselor cannot heal your children. God can heal your children. They can help36:04 but they cannot heal. God alone is the power of God to heal and save and deliver. Confidence in the name of Jesus. That's what the Holy Spirit does. He glorifies Christ36:16 in you. I got a great compliment from you guys, for for you guys. A great compliment. I was blown away. Last week at church afterwards someone came up to me and said, I come from another church, and she mentioned the36:28 church that she comes from. And she said, I just love this church. She said, You know what is different about this church? There's a compliment for you. When the people of this church pray, they pray36:41 expecting God to do something. Oh, I love that compliment for you friends. I love that because it's true. We pray, we expect God to hear us. If you've never been to a first Tuesday and soon down at36:53 Apollo Beach a first Wednesday, you gotta come and and we call on God and then he just shows up in a mighty powerful way. That's what the holy spirit helps us pray. Confidence in the name of Jesus. Helps us understand37:04 the word. Number 4, the holy spirit lifts my heart so that I praise through my problems. That was week 4 of this series, the power of praise. How37:16 on earth can you praise God when everything is going terrible in your life? The Holy Spirit. He empowers praise where there should be complaint. He empowers praise37:28 where there should be despair. I think of Paul and Silas down in the prison, down in Philippi, and they're locked in the stocks in the dungeons of the prisons. And they're they're37:40 illegally. They're there without cause, without justification and they're imprisoned for Christ. And the bible says that they lifted up their voice and they praised. They worshiped God in spite of their circumstances.37:51 How? They didn't know an earthquake was coming, they didn't know deliverance was coming, they praised because the Holy Spirit was in them. What does it say in Ephesians chapter 5 verse 18? Don't get drunk with wine.38:03 Some of you, that's a good word for you. Why do people turn to drugs? Why do people turn to alcohol? Because they can't cope. Because they can't figure out what life's going on. They're38:15 depressed. They're still ruminating over their childhood trauma and their past. They can't deal with it. Or they just wanna party and have a good time and escape their troubles and regular life. 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