HAVE YOU PERSONALLY MET THE HOLY SPIRIT OF GOD? HE TRANSFORMS EVERYTHING IN YOUR LIFE!

well let's open our bibles to galatians chapter 5. now to tune you into where we are uh we are going through we've gone through the doctrine now we're going through the duty part i've gone through the theory of discipleship you know spiritual exercises for spiritual health and fitness but now i'm showing you how to apply it and and the the setting for this and i i can't remember if i said it here last week when i was speaking up at the bible institute but in my youth pastor days uh for five years as a youth pastor you wouldn't have caught me very long up on this platform i mean i preached in the aisles and uh you know what it's much more effective when you're talking about a point and you turn right there and look at someone and you're standing three feet away from them i mean they really pay attention but that's not my goal my goal this morning is for you to think about sitting on the other side of a table with your favorite you know morning beverage you know coffee or tea or whatever and with your bible open to galatians 5 and i've got mine open and i'm going through another lesson of discipleship and discipleship is huge in the scriptures god says there's an unfading crown for those who are shepherding nurturing the flock of jesus christ now primarily that that crown goes to the elders because they're the first line of those who are in charge of shepherding the flock but i really believe because of other scriptures that anybody that truly nurtures others that have come to christ and helped them to to kind of get really grounded and growing and connected and not driven with every wind and storm and wave that there's an unfading crown in fact daniel says those that turn many to righteousness will shine like the stars forever and i believe that god attaches an especial reward on those who lead people to christ and those who nurture people to christ so to give you an opportunity to to get into that deeper or to start into that i'm i'm doing a group session but it's like a one-on-one so here's the goal we're looking at the spirit of god now remember we've already gone through salvation and if you remember i went through the 22 different times the gospel was presented in the book of acts and we looked at how you can't just pray one prayer that it's actually not a set of words but a relationship that begins and then that relationship issues into being fed by the scriptures and i talked about reading the bible and the effect of the scriptures and and how tight it is to salvation it's engrafted into our souls but now we're looking at what what is so central to every part of our spiritual lives and that's the spirit of god and so i have a session and so if you're sitting with me at my favorite vitamin c place i would say this morning we're going to talk about meeting the spirit of god now i don't mean for the first time because discipleship is only for believers by the way when i cover salvation many times over the years as i've covered that the person i'm discipling gets saved because they say you know what i'm not sure that what you just described has ever happened to me i said well why don't we just do this why don't we renew all of those commitments to christ that you made at salvation and and make sure that you really are connected and they go yeah i really like that many of them are completely different people it's they knew all about the lord they just never had connected they're kind of like the 18-inch rule they knew about him in their head but they'd never received him in their heart and a lot of people are going to miss heaven by 18 inches they know all the facts but they don't know the person and there's not a relationship there so we go through salvation that remember the evidence of salvation is uh as newborn babes we desire the sincere milk of the word you can tell if if the person has been born again and become a new living spiritual creature by where there's a appetite for the word of god and we go through that but then i say all the rest of your life is tied right here the spirit of god so i want you to meet the holy spirit and what what is it we're looking at he's the one who empowers us and transforms my life if we are born again we are connected to the power source and that power source the holy spirit of god is changing us we're empowered to deny ungodliness and we're transformed in fact the holy spirit do you know what his primary role is we're going to see this morning he is the one that does the personality transplants most of us we our personality we were born with it's called the works of the flesh manifests itself in very awful ways anger and wrath and outbursts and dissensions and and and jealousy and strife and malice that's how we were born he transplants into us the personality of christ and that's it's so powerful that in the early church in fact when when the church was born at pentecost in acts chapter 2. now i've been teaching all week long at a bible institute and so i had them repeat you know their 263 first-year students at one of the last bible institutes left in the united states i don't mean there are many call bible institutes but a bible institute used to only study the bible and evangelism and discipleship that's missions evangelism discipleship no you know you couldn't get other you know like music education and computer and stuff it was just purely a bible institute there are fewer and fewer of them left and i was at one of them uh in fact i saw our three students you know aaliyah and ethan and hannah that were there we have one percent of the freshman class up there at word of life but um i was teaching them and and i said to them i said where where was the church born this is your quiz acts chapter 2. so now i'll give you a quiz when you want to know about the birth of the church and day of pentecost what chapter do you look at very good now do you know what you just did you increased your capacity to remember when you see and hear and say each one is an exponential increase in in retention of things and so in acts 2 the church was born at pentecost and when the church was born at pentecost what happened is all of the former barriers and divisions and strife that characterized normal people were broken down now you say where'd you get that well have you ever noticed at the end of most of paul's epistles like in romans 16 and you know in philippians 4 and in colossians 4 and i mean you can pick them up in other spots but there are these little lists of names quite a few names if you ever take the time to study those names you'll find out that in one breath paul talks about a new family grouping of people where there are people of every ethnic background of every socio-economic strata of former very separate types of people people that you know there we have that in america there there's a whole group of people that don't ever do what we do they don't fly through the airport where all that ebola is they have private chartered jets now remember one time i've told you all my stories i went with someone like that my roommate when i was going to college he introduced himself i said i'm from texas i said great tell me about texas oh he says we have a ranch he said how big is he says ten thousand acres i said what do you grow he says oil rigs they i visited they had ten thousand acres of pumpers and he was from a dynasty you know kind of like the the all the television series about that wild money flowing and he said how would you like to go on a trip the way we travel and i said okay you know as long as we don't do anything god doesn't approve of he said oh no no and and when we flew we were brought to the loading dock when we got off we came in a car we left in a car none of this dragging stuff through you know you know the airport i never touched my bags they were put in they were taken out they were taken to the room they were opened in the room well we went to a we went to see the opening of annie to show you in london no less we came to the back of the theater they opened the door for us there was no money tickets they ushered us into our box the normal people were out there you could just kind of see them moving in the darkness we were in this box and i mean it was like annie was in our box with us he was right in front of us you know and you never had contact with commoners the restaurants we ate in there were no prices on the menu if he my friend said if you need to ask the price you can't afford it see that kind of lifestyle breeds something remember i told you a while back bonnie and i were we were 12 rows separate on an airplane crossing the ocean and so they had sorrow for us and they moved us up and they moved us up into the not just first class they put us in the nose of the airplane up where there's a table and the people are all sitting around it it's really different up there someone from in the back behind the curtain came up and used our bathroom and i looked at them get out of this is our bathroom you know up here in the front with us see that breeds and you get like that and you don't like people did you know the early church at pentecost you had roman senators next to slaves that's as far as you could get in culture and they were called brother and sister and they greeted one another with a holy kiss there was no prejudice there was no separation of socioeconomic you know race whatever it was all marvelously transformed in acts 2 by the power of the spirit you read there's 19 different nations represented and and these people were transformed well after we go through that what i emphasize is that this is how you know that you have made connection to christ therefore if anyone is in christ he is a new creation the old is passing away the new has come and salvation is not me joining something not me saying something not me affirming something it's me becoming the dwelling place of the infinite god of the universe who transforms me by his spirit i become and you become the very dwelling place of god and that changes us that transforms us and that's what happened at pentecost and did you know us sitting here this morning every born-again believer sitting here this morning all of us collectively are a continuation of what began on the day of pentecost god moved in broke down all the racial barriers and all the hatred and all the the the kind of pompous you know you don't belong in my part of the airplane lifestyles of the first century church and made the people one and that's what he continues to do that's what's so amazing about being in christ and so as i'm sitting at the table i remind them think about what happened on pentecost god's spirit was washing clean sin stained hearts the people at pentecost now who was at the day of pentecost they were all religious people everybody at pentecost had come to the feast in jerusalem the majority of them traveled at great expense they came three times a year these were huge events they were very religious they were very sacrificial and they were devoted to their religion the only thing is they had sin stained hearts and no amount of religion can take care of that you can push it away and try not think about it you can ignore it and try and hope that your good outweighs the bad but only god's spirit can wash clean sin stains hearts that's what he did at pentecost that's why there was this everybody on the day of pentecost that entered the church had the same experience there they were joyfully talking to each other and saying i'm forgiven i'm forgiven i'm forgiven i'm forgiven all my sins jesus christ the one that died on the cross is the one and that all was prompted by the spirit of god entering them and empowering them to know that god had washed them clean the washing of regeneration of titus 3 5. god's spirit breathe life into sin dark and souls did you know that everybody that you live next to that you work next to that you go to school with and that you're related to that's not a believer has a sin darkened soul that's why all day long you can say that is not tissue that is a living abortion is killing a conceived by god human being and they go no no no it's tissue it's tissue don't get don't politicize this see they don't understand that god said life begins at conception they understand that why they have a sin darkened soul the light of truth doesn't penetrate very far and so that's why we have to be so careful we cannot force those people to live righteously we can only expose them to the truth and ask god's spirit to breathe life into them see that's what's very dangerous about christian political activism we're trying to impose god's standards on people that have totally sinned our consoles that will only follow those standards as long as you constrain them to as soon as they're loose they go back to their lostness and so all of the movements i mean i lived through the 70s and 80s you know the moral majority and everything and and it was like a dike was built and as long as the believers could plug all the holes and and spend all their time doing that they kind of kept the dike up but it was hopeless because you can't hold back sin dark and souls with with moral rules you can only see god's spirit breathe life into them and all of a sudden their sin dark and souls come to life and they go whoa that's wrong i mean you ought to hear bonnie's testimony sometime i mean my wife was led to the lord by reading the gideon bible and when she read that instantly as she fell to her knees and called the name of the lord she knew that the alcohol that she lived to drink was wrong and nobody screamed and yelled and told her stop drinking the spirit of god in her heart bore witness she knew what the righteousness of god was it because the spirit of god works within us when he transforms us also here's what everybody that we live around and go to school with and work with they have empty hopeless lives that's why do you know what the newest big industry is in silicon valley read the news read bloomberg read new york times do you know what is the fastest growing segment of industry in silicon valley it's prostitution because those mega millionaires and billionaires have everything and they just they're just trying to to get more of the things they want the most and i mean we're even having prostitutes murdering google executives because they're charging a thousand an hour and they don't want to pay they only want to pay 900. and it's unbelievable and you say what's all that about everybody is born with an empty hopeless life and they fill it with something alcohol sex money [Music] western michigan there are a lot of empty helpless souls that are filling that ache earning money they still have the first time they made and everyone in between and that's what keeps them going and if they didn't have the money they would be empty and hopeless again and that's what god's spirit can fill and and make us not empty and hopeless even if you know what your true wealth is if you lost everything it's what you still had left what cannot be taken away by you know a flash crash in the market or by a downturn or by an extended depression or deflation that's the new thing that's happening deflation what do you have no one can take away from you it's what god's spirit does and that's what he did on pentecost he took sin stains sin dark and empty hopeless lives and he took barren lives i mean people that were that had nothing redeemed in their lives nothing that would last forever everything was going to burn up they were barren and he turned them into literal spiritual gardens that were just bearing the fruit so that's and you know what as i sit across the table i say do you remember when your sin stained heart got cleaned in fact you know what tonight is i've had more people ask me about tonight's service i don't know what i didn't i mean i read my bulletin but i didn't i since i wrote it i don't know what i said wrong but tonight is we're having communion and i'm doing a discipleship on why we celebrate communion how we do it what the steps are in first corinthians 11. it's just the what biblical communion is all about how you have to look back at the cross how you have to look up at christ and his coming and then how you the lord said we're supposed to look within and when we look within we're not supposed to just say wow it looks pretty nice in there we're supposed to purge anything out that displeases the lord that's what god is doing and so discipleship is you say hey do you remember when your sin stained heart got clean do you remember when your sin dark and soul the breath of life of god came in yeah i just taught membership class yesterday um in fact it was so much fun i i stopped early yesterday morning at my favorite vitamin c dispensary and as i was standing there in line they says boy you're pretty chip early this morning it was the water street vitamin c dispensary that i was at and the person behind the counter says boy you look pretty chipper this morning what are you what are you heading off to i said oh i'm going to a member class all of the workers remember and what i said oh it's just a group of people that are joining you know i was playing along with it you know and they i mean they were so curious they said well how long does it last i says oh it goes all day long it's over six hours long they went wow membership and what i mean they were starting to get interested in joining something i mean because they like it when it's something that's you know that it's like climbing a mountain you know and i says oh yeah i said it's a church membership and it was so sweet one of the workers said who would go six hours to classes to join a church and that gave me an opportunity to say uh people that have empty hopeless lives and that were sin dark and souls you know is really interesting one of the workers you know what happens is more spiritual you get they peel off one of them said where is this place that that a room full of people would sit for six hours to join it and i said well it's the one that's over between stadium and main under oh that one you know it's interesting he was a college kid and i guess that that our our maybe a lot of college kids live around us we said oh that church i said yeah that's a place where god's spirit is filling empty hopeless lives and god's spirit is transforming barren lives into spiritual gardens and so we need to understand the holy spirit what i do right now as i'm sitting across i usually have a little piece of paper that i'm writing on or depending on the person i can already have it written out and i have on that these references and what i do is i just take them and and if you want if you've never done this you can open your bible to genesis 1 2. we're coming back to galatians but i'm going to project it on the screen and i say look at genesis chapter one and they can all find that you always start with something they can find they say it's in the front right after the index you know and they go right there and i said look at this it says the spirit of god moved upon the face of the waters i said did you know that it's the holy spirit that was the agent of creation the holy spirit is the one that i know that that god created the heavens and the earth and jesus christ all things were made by him without with him was not anything made but the agent the actual hands-on fashioner the agent what we find is the the operative force the the member of the trinity that does stuff is the holy spirit and he does it for the glory of god and to point to christ but he is the person who is the agent of creation if you keep going he's also the agent of conviction my spirit will not always strive god said god didn't say i'm striving he says my spirit is striving and so what you show as you're discipling is how utterly vital the holy spirit's work is he is the one that that was the one who created all things that's why when in genesis chapter or i mean exodus chapter 20 the holy spirit says i created the earth in six literal 24-hour days just like you're supposed to work six literal days sun up to sun down evening in the morning you know that whole solar thing he said just like i created the universe that way and rested the seventh you worked that way and rest the seventh everybody in the 14th century bc was a creationist a literal a maximalist we have so many terms nowadays they were all six dayers because the agent of creation explained it and he was the only one that was there carl sagan wasn't there the spirit of god was and he wrote down what he did that's what's so interesting we trust other people more than the spirit of god who wrote down the truth of god and so you explain he's the one that convicts people and just like with my vitamin c people yesterday i go no further if the if the spirit of god is not working on the other side if he is not inside them making them curious convicted wanting to know more interested in understanding how to be saved you don't we can't save people i can't you can and no quick prayer and no we can't do the work of regeneration the holy spirit does he's also the author of scriptures it says in second samuel 23 2 david said the sphere of the lord spoke by me and his word was in my tongue and i even have them mark that in their bibles that's one of the key verses about inspiration holy men of old didn't speak whatever they wanted to they were moved peter said by the holy spirit this is david saying that the spirit of god he's the author of the scriptures and when i read the bible it's god's voice he spoke by me that's why when daniel read his bible in daniel 9 do you know what he said he said we haven't listened to your prophets he looked at reading the bible as listening to the prophets tell what god wanted you know one of the evidences of salvation is we want to hear god's voice we can't go very long without hearing his voice we long to hear his voice and so we plan to neglect other things so we can in fact when i was being mentored and trained by dr macarthur in the 80s he said there's something you need to learn if you're going to succeed in the ministry plan to neglect he said my goal in life is i plan to neglect everything except what god called me to do and to be responsible for and he said i surround myself with people that are better than me at everything they do so i can do what i was called to do did you know we need to plan to neglect whatever it takes to hear the voice of god because he is the one that speaks through his spirit writing down the scriptures so then i take him on i mean john 16 13 the spirit of god is the one who reveals jesus he won't speak of himself he'll speak of me he'll show you things to come it's the spirit of god when we read the bible the holy spirit is hoping and desiring and and working to make us see christ not himself see there's a little problem with this new movement of fixation on the spirit you know what the bible says he won't speak of himself he'll speak of me jesus said the focus of the holy spirit is not to focus on the holy spirit but to put the spotlight on christ the holy spirit is in the background energizing the agent of creation the one who caused the inspiration the scriptures one who regenerates hearts but the focus is on christ to the glory of god the father and so he's the one who reveals jesus and when you read the bible if you invite him he reveals jesus did you know i'm testing that right now do you know what i'm reading in the bible i'm reading in the bible where it talks about the oval and the call and the liver and separating and this mold and the blood and the issues of blood and the scabs and you know where i am leviticus do you know what if you ask the spirit of god will reveal jesus in any part of the scriptures because jesus said in luke 24 all the bible talks about me you can get a blessing out of any page of the bible if you invite the holy spirit to reveal in fact usually if it's very very hard to understand you know there's something about christ in there because he is the theme of the whole book and the spirit of god is one who secures us see the reason why a lot of people don't feel saved they don't feel secure in their salvation either they're not or they are not living in such a way that the spirit of god can make them feel his ministry you know why we're going to see that next time lord willing he gets grieved and quenched the spirit of god is a person he gets grieved and quenched by our behavior because he lives inside of us it's kind of like having someone living in the back bedroom of your house that you refuse to acknowledge is there other than now and then and and they start feeling like you don't want me here you know and when the holy spirit is grieved and quenched we don't feel secure we don't have the joy of our salvation when he's grieved and quenched and he's the one that that as it says in second corinthians 1 22. now he is the down payment he is the engagement ring of our salvation he's the one that sealed us and keeps us from satan being able to enter and to deceive and to and and come in and and corrupt us he seals us we're kept by the spirit of god and also it's the spirit of god who makes us brand new titus 3 5 says not by works of righteousness which we have done but according to his mercy he saved us by the washing of regeneration and the renewing of the holy spirit the holy spirit is is every day resetting us i mean my i have a uh iphone 4 and i think they're on six now and probably there's one in the works beyond that and mine is getting old and tired and you know what it regularly gets mixed up and shuts off or spins and i have to hold down the power button until it goes to sleep then i wake it back up with the power button and it kind of fixes itself it needs to be reset we regularly need to invite the spirit of god to make us brand new to reset us to the original settings to hunger after him too long because we love him not to grieve and quench him and to surrender in fact we'll see in just a moment that our lives are kind of like if if this platform was a plot of ground the holy spirit in any part of our life that he is given access to by us surrendering he plants something that grows and you know what that's called the fruit of the spirit it's the fruit of the spirit flourishes in any part of our life that we have given up and over and surrendered to him that's that's what he wants to do he makes us brand new he takes that that thorny stoney fallow ground and he brings forth life it's a byproduct of our salvation it's a spirit of god who cleanses our minds now let's turn there i don't know where you guys probably still in genesis but let's look for just a minute at hebrews 9 because this is where i look across the table and i say and primarily 99. well no about 95 percent of the time i disciple men uh of course i have daughters and a wife so i spend a lot of time discipling ladies but but but the biblical pattern is tightest two women nurture and disciple women and titus ii men nurture and disciple men and you don't have a lot of this cross-fallination which you know really protects the church because when you nurture and disciple someone you have a growing attachment to them and that's why women counsel and disciple women and men uh counsel and disciple men and and that that is vital of course though now with all of our sexual disorientation you know everything is dangerous nowadays but uh not if you're in the spirit and this is what it says turn in your bibles hebrews 9 14. i actually have them mark this and what i say is this is vital for you to know because the spirit is the one who cleanses our minds what is our mind our mind is our connection to the spirit world our mind is like wi-fi wi-fi opens up an unseen world and we can see things out there that we couldn't see without it and it opens to us the ability to get things from this unseen world that we need or want and send things to the unseen world what what is all that that's all that that interface between the physical world here where we live you know this world of weather and pain and needing to pay bills the physical world and the spiritual world is connected with our mind the mind is the interface to the spirit world that's why we're supposed to guard our minds we're supposed to to wear the helmet of salvation that protects our minds so it's the spirit of god the one who already has sealed us who keeps our minds clean you know bonnie and i just flew back i was i told you i was teaching that bible institute we we had about four flights and uh i don't know if she noticed but i noticed unusually how many people didn't touch anything in the airplanes they'd sit down in their seat now come to the white piece and they're wiping everything off you know these uh you know the anti-bacterial things you know and and they're using paper to open door i mean it's just like the whole country is just a little on edge about you know how close is close and who has it and now they're trapped on the cruise boat i guess the boat got back and the 4000 are released but you know what i mean it's just we're so aware of some pathogens god says if you allow into your mind what does the verse say how much more shall the blood of christ who through the eternal spirit offered himself without spot to god hebrews 9 14 are you reading it do you see what it says it's talking about the three persons of the trinity the father the son and the spirit and it says how much more shall the blood of christ the son who through the eternal spirit offered himself without spot to god the holy spirit took the sacrifice of christ on the cross and offered it to the father what does it say the rest of the verse to purge your consciences from things that lead to death what is that did you know that just as much as you know i read an interesting study this week a company was hired in manhattan by the corporation and everybody knew it was going to happen they just didn't know when but they were hired to infect an entire office building with a virus now it was a harmless virus that doesn't make anything bad happen there are harmless viruses and they came in when no one knew and they only put the virus on the doors entering into the building and everybody came in the way they always come in and some came in touched the door and touched the coffee pot handle you know those people they before they even work they got to start the coffee other people went right from the doors to the restrooms and there are people like that it's like they come to work to go to the bathroom you know so okay and so they picked it up on the handles and took it into the bathroom the others picked it up and took it into the break room others went right to work at their keyboards but as they were sitting at their keyboards about 16 times an hour we as humans do this about every four minutes we're we're touching a port of entry into our body and so before the end of the day everyone in the office was infected now it was harmless and nobody died and they didn't even have runny nose but they tested the blood it was willing they got paid and it was fun but what they found is if we are not vigilant we get infected you know what the bible says whatever things are true honest just pure lovely of good report let those things into your mind that's philippians 4 8. do you know what it says whenever we are not doing what is true honest gesture lovely and of good report and thinking on those things we're infecting our minds just like the office building in manhattan and we're getting a virus that grieves and quenches the spirit of god and when he's grieved and quenched the bible doesn't make any sense we can't tell where we're going it's kind of like you know having your windshield fog up instantly you know and you can't see anything or having a huge rainstorm where the wipers can't keep up and you have to immediately slow down and start pulling over you don't know where you are did you know when we get infected with things that are true and aren't honest aren't just and aren't pure and aren't lovely and aren't of good report it fogs the window we can't see where we're going spiritually we can't hear the voice of god we don't feel like we're related to him anymore and so the holy spirit is the one when we pull over and say whoa i don't feel close to you i can't understand the bible i don't even want to pray i feel far away i don't even feel saved hebrews 9 14 how much more shall the blood of christ who through the eternal spirit offered himself without spot to god that's a past event right here that was a.d 30 that that took place but it says he today can purge your minds your consciences from anything that's a pathogen that leads to death and then by the way you know what the twin verse is if you write in your bible you ought to put a little arrow the twin verse to this is hebrews 10 22 and it says let us draw near with a true heart and full assurance of faith having our minds sprinkled and our bodies washed with pure water which is the word of god and so what it says is that no matter how far away from the lord it's only one step back as we invite him to cleanse our minds and we can draw near to him again in full assurance that we're welcomed and that's all a work of the holy spirit every bit of that and he does that in our life when we give him access you know it's kind of like yesterday we're trying to transfer a big file between me and one of my children and they said oh dad you know this net and i said well why don't you just open up you know let me connect to your computer i'll just pull it across oh yeah fine did you know that's what the lord is saying just open up i'd like to come in and cleanse that part of your life i'd like to come and plant the fruit of the spirit and that part and that part and that part in that part i just want to i want to work inside of you the spirit of god is the one who calls us homeward to heaven and that's why assurance of salvation that's how the bible ends the spirit and the bride say come and let him si that is a thirst say come and drink of the water of life freely so after we go through that i talk about the work of the holy spirit and i say that the work of the holy spirit is he is in the life-altering personality changing business those are the things that the spirit of god does if he enters us and it's almost time to go so i'll give you a preview if you come back for coffee next week uh and the lord doesn't return and we're still alive and uh all of the ebola gets you know stymied this is the text we open to and and they are patiently usually sitting there on the coffee table waiting for me to get there some people once they open they never move you know and and when i finally say look at at galatians 5 they get so excited and i say look at this the works of the flesh galatians 5 19 to 21 that's how we were born that's our original settings that's the original operating system of our lives and this is what happens the longer we live in the flesh adultery fornication uncleanness lewdness idolatry sorcery hatred contentions jealousies outbursts of wrath selfish ambitions dissensions heresies envy murders drunkenness and revelries and the like that's 17 manifestations of the flesh this is the majority text or it's called the western or the byzantine text now this is a great opportunity i'm not teaching about this this morning but i will for a moment these two are from the eastern text or the minority or the alexandrian and that whole thing it's the eastern text this this is called the critical text new american english standard niv original niv before they started doing all the neutering and everything of it um and the muslim friendly and the homosexual friendly and the feminist friendly versions which the niv you know is owned by fox broadcasting and uh they're purely for profit and if they can make the bible say what you want they'll do it the new nivs you know that it's just the direction publishing is going but forget all that because i don't want to tie that in with this the english standard in the new american follow the eastern minority alexandrian critical text what that means is the rule is that it's better according to them if it's older and shorter that's the two rules the older the text is and the shorter it is they think it's better and that's fine and by the way that's the direction christendom's going but let me show you where christendom's been and and why you know i'm an old fogey and i stay over on this side not because i believe this is the bible and that's not for this reason simple church history lesson if you measure the um the sermons the actual recorded sermons of century 2 through centuries 6 plus of the early church okay so we're talking about old church fathers anthony fathers and post nicene fathers and all of that post-apostolic literature after john is gone in patmos from the second century onward there are thousands of sermons that are extant that means they're still out there they're copies of them here and there and and and scientists have taken those sermons and analyzed them and looked at the verses it's like do you notice how many verses i've either quoted or printed and and these were transcribed sermons that people out in the audience wrote down and and they've looked at all those sermons and they've gaged them and what they found out is that two-thirds of the sermons the the person preaching was reading from group a of manuscripts and one-third of the pastors were reading from group b you can tell what bible they were reading from what version just like you could with me now look at this the two-thirds is here two-thirds of all recorded sermons it's well it's 60 i don't know three percent of all existing sermons from the first six centuries of the church are from the majority western byzantine text one-third are from here both were christians both were the bible what's the difference i'll show you on this page right here the the only differences between the two manuscripts are these two words you see those two words that's the 17 works of flesh they only have 15 on this side you notice that that there is no adultery here which would have been right there and there's no murder it would have been right there and is that a huge difference no adultery and murder show up in many other places and so there's really not a concern but i prefer just my own personal preference to side with the pastors of the first six centuries that that went this direction but that's the works of the flesh next time we come back we're gonna look at this the fruit of the spirit see when the spirit of god moves into my life he alters my personality i stop being driven and dominated by the flesh and i don't have envy and outbursts of wrath and jealousies and immorality and carousings and orgies instead i love the lord so much and his presence fills me so much i start changing i start acting like christ that's why the early believers began to be called in acts 11 christ ones christians and when we come back next time we will look at how the fruit of the spirit shows up in our relationship with god we have an absence of selfishness we have a release from our circumstances we have an internal serenity then the spirit of god spills over into our lives and starts changing the way we treat other people and and what shows up in our lives is that we have a long-suffering patience we don't get irritated at the actions of others and they look at us and they go you're not going to not going to do anything go hmm they go what's wrong with you they say spirit of god or i'd punch you you know you know on and on and and finally we'll see in our private life and and all of that and let me get to the end because it's time to go you know i really get spoiled when i travel because uh especially when i'm when i'm overseas they don't have clocks over there they just say go as long as you want i said are you serious they say yeah go you know okay we need the spirit's power to follow god we can't follow god this week you can't follow the lord in anything you've heard whatever part you remember without the holy spirit secondly we need the spirit's power or we grieve god god's looking at the field of our life and he sees all the patches we are not giving to him that grieves him and we need the spirit of god to constantly renew us so this is how we're going to end it's 11 46 let's all stand and what i'd like you to do three weeks ago or so our group we were up in jerusalem on mount zion in the upper room and uh we read all the scriptures outside and we marched inside and it was remarkably empty we were the only group up there and i said hey let's just do the day of pentecost and let's pray and sing this song and while we were singing it the police ran in with whistles and i thought was there a riot outside i said sing a little louder you know i thought they were dealing with someone else not us on our second time through our guide went over to see the policeman blowing the whistle while we were singing and the policeman said the muslims and the orthodox jews are offended when you christians sing loudly or at all up here in the upper room so you may not sing up here and you know what our guide said you're the last group that got to sing because now we came in the back door in the front door they say you may not sing or pray loudly in the upper room it offends the muslims and the you know the orthodox that are all around what we're doing up there is what we need to do before we go did you know you can't have love joy and peace without the holy spirit of god and he only plants in places we surrender to him we surrender he moves in this song and i hope many of you know it spirit of the living god fall fresh on me melt me mold me fill me use me it's an invitation and you can either sing it to get over with because you want to go to lunch or you can make it an invitation and say i need love in this part of my life i need patience here i need your gentleness at work you know it's just you can apply it anyway or he can apply it any way you allow him to okay let's just bow before the lord and sing this is our prayer before we go and father you've heard our prayer and i pray in jesus name that you would find access to more and more of our lives today and every day that we invite you in in the precious name of jesus we pray and all god's people said amen god bless you as you go [Music] you

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Published: Fri Feb 19 2021