Looking Unto Jesus Pt 7 - God Is With Us - Joe Sweet

this is week number seven in a series I'm doing I'm calling it looking unto Jesus and we get that from Isaiah 45 verse 22 and of course there's other verses in the book of Hebrews were to look unto him but Isaiah 45 verse 22 says look to me and be saved all you ends of the earth for I am God and there is no other that's what God says he says look to me it's that simple and in John chapter 17 verses 24 to 26 Jesus is praying for the church then in verse 26 he says father I have declared to them your name and I will declare it that the love with which you loved me may be in them and I and them so God wants us to look at him and he wants to see him with the eyes of our heart in John 17 26 tells us what happens when he when the Lord is made known to our heart that's what it means to look to the Lord Jesus by his life and by his words declared the name of the Father that means the character and the nature of the Father he said I'm doing this father I'm declaring your name and I will do it so that the love with which you love me will be in them and I will be in them so there's something that happens to the human heart when God has made known to our heart it changes us it causes the love the father has for Jesus to be inside us it causes the Spirit Christ to live in us so the greatest need that we have is revelation of who God is and we cannot know him except by the Holy Spirit we'll get to that later in the message in Psalm 34 verse 5 it says they looked to him and they were radiant their faces were not ashamed by looking to the Lord it causes us to begin to glow with his presence and again we're talking about the Holy Spirit revealing Christ to our heart that's where transformation happens we saw in 1st Peter chapter 1 verse 13 the Bible says gird up the loins of your mind and be sober it means that says pay attention and focus and it then it says and set your hope fully upon the grace that's to be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus so when the Holy Spirit unveils to our heart we have a revelation of the beauty the goodness the love the purity the holiness of God when that happens to our heart were changed were saved something happens all of a sudden we love God the spirit of God fills us and it all happens by seeing him that's why the greatest need any of us have is to know him better now I want to give you an example of of this by sharing a testimony I I heard recently of a young man twenty-five years old son of a pastor someone sent me the video this week powerful testimony he's driving with his father in a car and from what I gather from the testimony he wasn't doing well as far as walking with God he was raised in church and knew God but he's anyway he started having a heart attack and a stroke in the car he's only 25 years old and demonic manifestations and and then he went unconscious we found out his father found out later he died so he said his father who's a preacher a pastor a believer he said with one hand on his son and praying and interceding he was praying for God's mercy on his son and the other hand on the steering wheel he said he drove a hundred miles an hour to the hospital his son was seemed motionless he didn't know at the time his son had died or had left his body and he kept praying Lord let him live let him fulfill all the prophecies over his life let him fulfill the purpose which you sent you just kept praying and praying over son thank God for praying parents and praying grandparents and it's probably why a lot of us are still alive right now and I'm not kidding I'm here because my mother prayed me in and so he's anyway he tells and I'm not gonna tell the whole testimony he tells him dropping he felt his spirit leave his body and drop and he had a horrible experience going down into darkness I'm not gonna focus on that his father kept praying and praying for him then he said he was brought out of hell you know and he said I had a sense of travel and I found myself standing before the throne of God now we've heard many people who've had encounters and experiences like this but I slowed down the video and I typed word-for-word some of his responses I want you to listen to this some of the things he said he said I found myself standing in front of the throne Agra throne of God these are quote it was the most brilliant light there are no shadows it was pure light everything was light God's presence was so strong it was like a soft thunder you couldn't hear the thunder but you could feel it he said it's a place of absolute reverence and awe you literally just want to serve Him these are a word for word he said you're just before him all you want to do is serve Him you're waiting for his every command o Lord what can I do for you I know this is what life is all about he said I couldn't remember anything on earth all I want to do is serve Him and that was it he's he said he is so powerful and so sovereign you respect and love and honor him so much the feeling of being in his presence is beyond satisfying I was standing before him doing nothing but while I was standing before his presence at his throne I had the most complete feeling of accomplishment and satisfaction that far surpassed anything I could ever feel on earth doing nothing but being in his presence I felt completely satisfied like this was the greatest accomplishment and then he said I was just waiting to hear whatever he had to say and everything in me all I wanted to do was to serve Him now that's the change that happened in him when the when he saw the Lord that's the effect that's what happened to Saul on the road to Damascus he was filled with anger and murder he didn't like Christians he was going the wrong way he was persecuting Christians even unto death and all of a sudden the Lord appears he gets an encounter what's happening God is being revealed to his heart and I say to his heart because it's possible to see the Lord Jesus Christ in front of you physically even with his eyes and not be changed it's the eyes of our heart that have to see him the Lord Jesus Christ walked up the steps of the temple in his 30s in the fullness of his ministry signs wonders and miracles but the Pharisees who had blind hearts they saw Jesus face-to-face and they couldn't see him they didn't know who he was their foolish hearts were darkened according to Romans chapter 1 then you can get other people like Simeon who came into the temple when Jesus was only eight days old and Anna the prophetess they had no there was nothing in the natural to reveal to them who Jesus was all they saw was an infant wrapped in swaddling clothes or whatever he was dressed it at that eight days nothing in the natural woods but the eyes of their hearts saw him they recognized him they prophesied seeming said I can go in peace now for my eyes have seen the salvation of God so the greatest need for every human being is to have the eyes of our heart flooded with revelatory light it only comes from the Holy Spirit to see Jesus that's where transformation happens this young man at 25 apparently was away from God Baxley not loving God but a few moments in his presence in the interview they said did the Lord say anything to you did he he said nothing hours before his presence my life was completely transformed and then I was back in my body in the hospital so just getting a glimpse with the eyes of his heart of who the Lord is completely turned him around from being lost living for self in the world sinful to now going oh my god all I want to do is love and serve him now did he all these things that he had I want to do his will I want to hear his voice I want to serve him was that because he was so saintly no was it because he was so virtuous no it was because God's grace touched his heart and let him see Jesus that's where the change comes we don't become saintly by our own effort we become transformed by the revelation of Jesus again that's why it says in 1st Peter chapter 1 verse 13 gird up the loins of your mind be sober let me paraphrase focus pay attention that's what he's saying and put all of your hope it says rest your hope fully upon grace that would be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus that's why Paul wrote toward the ends of his life one of his last writings that we know of is the book of Philippians Paul was in prison at the end of his life and here's his cry here's his prayer oh that I may know him Paul knew that every time his heart got another revelation of Jesus he was changed here's the change that takes place it's again and I'm gonna read it again John 17 verse 26 father I've declared to them your name that means the character and the nature of God were manifested through Jesus remember Philip said show us the father will be happy he said you've seen me we see you seen the father he's I've declared to them I will declare it so that the love that you love me with Mobe in them and I in them this is what happened to that young man he got a few moments before the presence of God in the name of God was made known to his heart he came back change he said I love God I want to serve Him that's what we need that's what we need when we're saved that's how we get saved and we need to all the rest of our life we need one thing there's one thing that we need to know him to know his word to know his ways to know the Holy Spirit moving in us to know what he likes to know what he doesn't like knowing him is it everything else comes out of that so that's why our series is looking unto Jesus now here's another verse that tells us what happens when the knowledge of God is made known to our heart and by the way than the word knowledge it's translated knowledge in English but in the Greek it's epignosis it means experiential knowledge so information is like this Acts chapter 2 verse 17 and 18 God says in the last days they'll pour out his spirit on all flesh that's information you can call that knowledge if you can quote that you have head knowledge but that's not epi gnosis like the Bible's talking about epi gnosis means experience real knowledge so experience is the Holy Spirit's poured out on you and you get filled with the Holy Spirit and you feel this fire on your head and you start speaking in tongues that's called the knowledge of God amen okay that's what we need second Peter chapter one verse two Peter writes Grace and peace be multiplied to you in the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord so that's what happens when the eyes of our heart get a glimpse of Jesus what happens he says grace and peace are multiplied not added multiplied that's what happened to Saul on the road to Damascus he encountered the love of God the light of Christ this the light drove away the darkness he saw the beauty of the Lord he got up after falling down and the rest of his life he just wanted to serve the Lord 2nd Peter chapter 1 verse 2 Grace and peace be multiplied to you and the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord as his divine power has given that's past tense to us all things that pertain to life and godliness how through the knowledge of him who called us to glory and virtue so God has past-tense given us everything that pertains to life and godliness we begin our study in Ephesians chapter 1 this last Thursday the Bible says that God has past-tense blessed us with every spiritual heavenly blessing in Christ Jesus he has so where are those blessings where is every good thing concerning life and God lives it's in Christ and it's revealed we can access it through the knowledge of Christ so he said by which through which so God is giving us grace he's giving us Grace and peace through the revelation of Jesus to our heart and as we access the knowledge of Christ that gives us everything we need for life and godliness isn't that great how through the knowledge epi gnosis of him who called us to glory and virtue now he's gonna elaborate a little further in verse four by which have been given unto us exceedingly great and precious promises that through these you may be a partaker of the divine nature having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust so God said um through the knowledge the experience all knowledge of Christ grace and peace are given through the spiritual experience all knowledge of Christ everything that pertains to life and godliness is given to us and he said the way this happens practically is God has given us exceedingly precious promises it will take them and act on them we can access the knowledge of God and access to everything that God's given us what are some of those promises here they are they're exceedingly precious back in the Old Testament when God's grace covenant was not as revealed as it is in the New Testament he's the same God yesterday today and forever there's no difference between God in the Old Testament and God in the New Testament he's the same loving God but the revelation how much he's revealed of himself to us has increased in the New Testament so here's the the exceedingly precious promises in many in the Old Testament didn't know God was our Father we know God as a distant God but Jesus came and revealed him his father Abba the word Abba means daddy okay so here's some of the things that exceedingly precious promises Jesus from the lips of Jesus ask and you'll receive do we want the knowledge of God ask and you'll receive seek and you'll find it how right here if you read proverbs chapter 2 verses 1 through 5 it says if you'll treasure up my words in your heart store them up in your heart if you'll search for wisdom and cry out for discernment like you would for treasure store my word in your heart he said then you'll understand the fear of the Lord and you'll find the knowledge of God so being able to look at Jesus God said it's in my word store up my word in your heart now putting the word in our heart without the Holy Spirit making alive is nothing's gonna happen but when we put the word in our heart the Holy Spirit makes it alive it's the spirit of the Holy Spirit who makes Jesus real to us amen that's proverbs two verses one through five he said treasure my words stored up in your heart while you're putting the word in your heart cry out Lord I want to know you give me discernment give me wisdom give me understanding when we didn't know these are these are some of the exceedingly precious promises by which we become partakers of the divine nature now being a partaker the divine nature doesn't mean that we did it it means God gives us a glimpse he starts revealing himself to our heart and that changes us we're transformed seek and you'll find knock and the door will be opened to you these are exceedingly precious promises seek and you'll find knock and the door will be open you you want to know the Lord knock seek ask here's another one hunger and thirst for righteousness and you'll be filled this is a good one hunger now this is a year I know this by revelation this is a year that everybody that's hungry and thirsting for righteousness they're gonna get filled this year humble yourself before God and he'll lift you up into his presence these are exceedingly precious promises wait on the Lord wait on the Lord and it says he'll renew your strength and you'll mount up with wings like an eagle that means going into the presence of God ask seek knock hunger wait these are the promises keep his word proverbs 2 1 through 5 those are some exceedingly precious promises this is a promise from God anybody was watching I don't care if you're you just got saved yesterday or if you've been saved 50 years if we'll make it our aim to spend time regularly in the word and as we do it we pray and say God make yourself known to me I want to know you and we store up his word in our heart God will answers and he'll make himself known it's him making himself knowing where all the change happens and you see the same thing as proverbs 2 verses 1 through 5 you see it in the New Testament Jesus said in John chapter 14 verse 20 and in verse 23 he said the one that keeps my Commandments that's the one that loves me and I will love him and I will manifest myself to him there's the knowledge of God verse 23 whoever keeps my word that's the one that loves me my father and I will love him we will come and make our abode our dwelling with him that's the knowledge of God so the the knowledge of God is all we need period everything else comes with it we want to know him now it says humble yourself he'll lift you up in due time so we got to be patient that's where faith is exercised we believe the promises we keep believing them we believe them we act on them we keep believing them so that's that's how we can look unto Jesus now that was my introduction looking unto Jesus finding the knowledge of God here's what a we want to look at another name of the Lord remember he said I made I've manifested your name your character in your nature we've looked at different aspects of Jesus we saw him as a righteousness our sanctification or redemption we seen him as the Living Word we've seen him as the lamb slain we seen him as our provider Jehovah Jireh today we want to look at another aspect of Jesus and our prayer will you pray this with me God as we look in your word Holy Spirit will you open the eyes of our heart will you cause us to see the beauty of the Lord that we would see Jesus for who is amen Matthew 1 verse 23 behold the Virgin shall be with child and bear a son and they shall call his name Emmanuel which is translated God with us so we're looking at today at Jesus God with us God with us if you're a born-again believer God is with you if you've called on the name of Jesus God is with you let's look at it together in Exodus chapter 3 verse 12 God told Moses I will be with you when God sent Moses to go and confront Pharaoh and to prophesy farik to Pharaoh Moses said how will they know and God said I will be with you all the exploits that happen through Moses life was because God was with him when Moses died God said to Joshua as I was with Moses I will be with you Joshua 1 verse 5 he said no man will be able to stand before you all the days of your life as I was with Moses so I will be with you I will not leave you nor forsake you in 2nd Samuel verse 5 chapter 5 verse 10 concerning David it said the Lord God of hosts was with him God was with Moses God was with Joshua God was with David that's why every time Moses obeyed God there was complete and total victory God was with him it's the same for us today every time Joshua followed God's instructions there was complete and total victory every time David obeyed and followed the leading of the Lord there's absolute complete total victory why God was with him now in the Old Testament the idea seems to be that God would just be with special people throughout history but again in the New Testament the revelation of who God is is greater God hasn't changed from the Old Testament in Malachi said I'm the Lord I changed not in Hebrews 13 verse 8 Jesus Christ the same yesterday today and forever so God is not changing but the revelation of who he is is increasing so they didn't know the concept was God was only with a few special people but now in the new test that we know that's not true everybody who calls on the name of the Lord he's with him that's what he said here's what he said to his disciples in Matthew 28 verse 19 and 20 he said go therefore and make disciples of all the nations baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit could that mean you know baptize means immerse and wash name means character and nature apart from the ritual which were supposed to do I believe we're literally to baptize people in water but could it also mean that we are to immerse and wash disciples in the character and in the nature of the Father Son and the Holy Spirit that's we're attempting to do in this series he said baptize him teaching them to observe all things that I've commanded you and lo here it is I'm with you always even to the end of the age all believers you called in the name of Jesus God's with you let's look at it Hebrews chapter 13 verse 5 it says let your conduct be without covetousness be content with such things as you have for God Himself has said I will never leave you nor forsake you now this gives us some insight into what's at the root of covetousness it's fear and unbelief he said be without covetous be content with what you have God said I'll never leave here forsake you by the way the word never in the Greek is a double negative it could be translated like this I will never ever know how no way leave you nor forsake you they say that you know sometimes hoarding fear covetousness chasing after things what's underlying it is a subconscious fear of lack a fear of what about tomorrow and Jesus said sufficient for the day is the evil thereof leave tomorrow to itself we're not saying don't plan the Bible also says plan and be wise but we're not to worry because the same God that's with us today is gonna be with us tomorrow so it doesn't say don't plan and it doesn't say be foolish it says don't worry and don't be covetous he said do why why should we not be covetous he said because God said I will never leave you or forsake you we need to get that down in our spirit no matter what comes tomorrow or the next day I don't care how the world shakes if you walk with God he's with you then he says in the next verse so that we may boldly say the Lord is my helper I will not fear what can man do to me God gives us promises so that we can boldly say them look what it says in verse 6 so we may boldly say so God has said I'll never leave here forsake you and the reason he said it is so we can boldly say it because death and life are in the power of the tongue 2nd Corinthians 4:13 is the Apostle said we have the same spirit of faith I believed and therefore I spoke so we believe what he says we say it like we said in the last few weeks about God being our provider Abraham said it before he ever saw the provision in the mountain the ram caught in the thicket before he ever saw it Abraham said it he said son God will provide come on somebody so God is with us and he told us he's with us so that we can boldly say it and when you say it something happens in your own heart now when Jesus walked the earth with the twelve disciples he was physically with them and how awesome that would be he was with him he lived with him he taught them by his example they watched his life they saw him get up in the morning early and pray they saw him cast out demons they watched everything about him and he was right there present physically to disciple them and then one day he said I'm gonna go and they became sad and he told him no it's better that I go and they're thinking how could it be better can you imagine be with Jesus for more than three years personally I mean it's just to hear him say I'm gonna leave now would be the worst news you could ever hear but Jesus said no it's not bad it's better that I go because when he was with them he was beside them he was outside of them but he said when I go the Holy Spirit's gonna come he said he's with you now but when he comes he'll be in you he said that's better come on somebody so when Jesus walked the earth he was Emmanuel God with us but when he went after his resurrection from the dead Gnaeus into the Father he said I'm not going to leave you alone one translation says I won't leave you orphans but I'm gonna send another helper a comforter he will be with you let me read it in John 15 verse 26 but when the helper comes whom I shall send you from the father the Spirit of Truth who proceeds from the father he'll testify of me and you also will bear witness because you've been with me from the beginning so Jesus sending the Holy Spirit it's better because with Jesus beside them he wasn't in them after the resurrection the Spirit of Christ the Holy Spirit is called in the book of Philippians the spirit of Jesus the same spirit that raised Jesus from the dead now came to live inside them so now they could be transformed by the Holy Spirit living in them and begin to manifest not just be excited about Jesus being beside them but now him living in them and manifesting that is God with us so God with us Emmanuel is better for us today than it was before Pentecost amen here's what Jesus said in John 15 so we're gonna we're gonna take a little look at God with us how is God with us today he's with us by the Holy Spirit he'll never leave your forsake you doesn't matter what the economy does it doesn't matter what doctors say doesn't matter what the news say God is with you and if God is with you what do we have to fear all we have to do is pay attention pay attention to his word pay attention to the leading of his spirit he's a good god he's with us he's not going to leave her forsake us so we want to look at some things about the Holy Spirit hid what he does his function while he's with us as we look at that with the eyes of our heart it should bring transformation should bring hope peace encouragement exhilaration to know the Living God is with us and what he's here for now Jesus called the Holy Spirit the Spirit of Truth he's the spirit in Philippians 1:19 he's called the spirit of Jesus he's the spirit who lived in Jesus and did all the works he's also called the spirit of the Father there's the mystery of the Trinity the Holy Spirit is the Holy Spirit he's the spirit of Jesus he's the spirit of the Father Father Son and Holy Spirit are one he the Spirit of Truth who proceeds from the father Jesus came from the Father he's in the father's bosom he said I came from the Father I'm returning to the Father here's what he said the Holy Spirit will testify of me all right let's read John 16 in in the last we just read the last verse two verses of John 15 where he said the Holy Spirit procedure in the father he will testify of me I'm going to send him to you now look at John chapter 16 verse 1 these things I've spoken to you that you should not be made to stumble now what did he just speak and the end of John 15 the Spirit of Truth from the father will be with you he is the helper he will testify of me so the Spirit God is here to help us he's going to testify of Jesus he said I've told you this so you won't stumble let's ponder that the Holy Spirit is our helper what makes us stumble when we get into unbelief we get into fear we're facing something and we think I'm all alone I'm all alone I don't know what to do and we stumble so he said I'm sending the Spirit of Truth he will be with you I'm telling you this so you won't stumble so we have to believe that verse 2 he's warning us now they will put you out of the synagogues yes the time is coming that whoever kills you will think that he offers God's service we see that going on now with Islam Islam is not a religion it's a demonic ideology it's it's satanic in nature and people that are deceived by that false religion are killing people thinking they're doing service to God and I want to just mention this if you're not familiar with that you can go to our YouTube channel type in Shekinah worship center and then put in the named Ramin Parsa remains testimony and you'll see a beautiful testimony of a man who grew up under the Iron Fist of Islam the oppression of that satanic cult fish religion and he was delivered out of it born again and now is serving Jesus watch his testimony you get really blessed but he said verse three these things they will do to you because they have not known the father nor me and we started out the message showing how when the revelation of God is made known to her heart it changes us to love God now he's saying these people will hate you they'll even kill you thinking they serving God and the reason they're doing it is because they don't know me so all they need is what saw the terrorist needed Saul was hating and killing all he needed was to know him but these things I've told you that when the hour comes the time comes you may remember that I told you them and these things I did not say to you at the beginning because I was with you but now I'm going away to him who sent me and none of you asked me where are you going because I said these things to you sorrow has filled your heart verse 7 nevertheless I tell you the truth it's to your advantage that I go away or if I do not go away the helper will not come to you but if I depart I will send him to you now I've heard Rick Joyner say this and I think it's a good nugget of wisdom he said the Holy Spirit's not called the doer he's called the helper we have to do our part he helps us amen in that also know that God that in the Trinity God the Spirit the helper is with us and in us forever well I'm excited about it praise the Lord and when he has come he will convict the world of sin and of righteousness and of judgment a sin because they don't believe in me of righteousness because I go to my father and you see me no more that means when Jesus was here he convicted the world Jesus said in the Gospel of John the world hates me because I testify that their deeds are evil but Jesus said I'm gonna go and you're not gonna see me anymore so the Holy Spirit's gonna come back and that's his job he'll come he'll bring conviction for sin so then he said and he convicts them of judgment verse 11 because the ruler Satan the ruler of this world is judged let's keep reading verse 12 I still have many things to say to you but you cannot bear them now however when he the spirit truth has come he'll guide you into all truth isn't that awesome listen God is with us the helper is with us the Spirit of Jesus is with us he'll never leave us he'll never forsake us here's what he does when he comes he will guide you into all truth now we need that everyday we need to pray every day Lord show me your truth for he will not speak on his own authority but whatever he hears he will speak and here's the prophetic he will tell you things to come now I have a really precious niece I didn't even tell John this yet one of my niece has called me this week it really blessed my heart she's a Catholic you know she's got such a sweet kind tender heart she said Uncle Joe I haven't even told other people this but I know that you'll understand I need to talk to somebody she said I find myself just knowing things it's like and I don't want to say something she told me she gave me example after example she'll have words of knowledge just prophetic dreams she'll know things and she said uh and anyway we talked all about it and uh I just had such a joy telling her I said that's the Holy Spirit talking to you he's showing you and I know she has such a caring tender heart that uh God shows are those things that's the Holy Spirit he said he will show you things to come now listen every believer is prophetic every believer Baptists are prophetic every believer that walks with God if we learn to listen to the rue-ing's the promptings the stirrings the nudging zuv the Holy Spirit he is showing us things to come even people that don't believe in the gifts of the Spirit if they're born-again they're prophetic not everybody's a prophet there's a difference but if the Holy Spirit is you in your life he will show you things to come but he's so natural we think we have to see an open vision or here inaudible voice it can be as natural as this you're driving home and you get nudged and have this thought that doesn't even seem rational buy some milk on the way home and you think no no I don't buy some milk on the way home ah ok but some milk and you get home and your wife says oh honey can you go the store and buy some milk I already did oh thank you I was making this stuff and I thought we had milk and I was all out we have company coming over how many have had those happen we've all had that happen it's the Holy Spirit sometimes you start to go a certain way and you get a aunt aunt in your spirit it's not a voice it's not a vision it's a knowing it's the helper he's here to help us when you feel like aunt aunt sometimes people start coming to you and they start gossiping and you feel it and don't get into this don't get it change the subject it's to help her it's other times where you feel drawn to something you feel drawn host per se do this by that right now Lord I got three of those at home buy another one all right and you buy and you find out later that was the Lord so he's our helper it helps us through life he convicts us of sin he says that's bad this is good that's true that's a lie say God for the helper he's with us and I want to say this every believer you have the Holy Spirit in you not every believer is baptized in the Holy Spirit that's a whole other thing that's an enumerative power for ministry but every believer in Jesus Christ is indwelt by the Holy Spirit now I'll show you things to come here's I love this verse this is one of the greatest verses in the whole Bible he jesus said verse 14 John 16 verse 14 he will glorify me he will take of what is mine and declare it to you that's the knowledge of God that's what I want I want to know Jesus better every time God reveals a little bit more of Jesus to our heart were changed change doesn't come by sweat it doesn't come by grit it comes by revelation of the Holy Spirit now we have our part if we want the knowledge of God we got to ask seek and knock that'll read the Bible but in response to that hunger the Holy Spirit will glorify Jesus he'll take the things of Jesus and declared us he said all things that the father has are mine therefore I said that he will take of mine and declare it to you isn't that awesome Jesus and the father won everything that the father has is Jesus's Holy Spirit takes the things of Jesus in 1st or 2nd Corinthians he said the Holy Spirit searches the deep things of God he searches out the heart of God he says who knows the spirit of a man a man's heart but his own spirit in the same way the Holy Spirit searches out the deep things of God it says eye has not seen ear is not heard neither's it entered into the heart of man what God has prepared for those that love him but they are revealed to us by the Holy Spirit God is with us holy holy Emmanuelle he's with us so we should not ignore the Holy Spirit we should not forget get the holy spirit we should talk to him all the time so Holy Spirit you're my helper Holy Spirit you'll guide me in the truth I don't know what to do Holy Spirit I remember hearing this awesome testimony from the late saint DGS Denikin a saintly man and because he walked with God so close people everywhere came to him for prayer because when he prayed his prayers miracles happened a businessman came to him and got an appointment with him sometimes it takes seven years to get an appointment with him that's how popular he was when he hadn't wanted to get a break if he just wanted a couple days rest he had to sneak out at night and get on a plane and leave the country because when everyone out in public hundreds thousands of people would gather anyway this man got to his office when he was air got in to see him and he said please pray for me he said my business partners cheated me he said he came to me said we own a business fifty-fifty he filled out he came to me with a blank piece of paper and said I don't have time to fill all this out just sign it I'm going to do such-and-such with it he said I trusted him I signed it then he filled it out saying that I gave him my whole half of the business he stole it he said I'm broke now and he said he's ripped me off and he said uh please pray for me he said our court date is tomorrow he said I need justice in court he just in econo was a seer prophet walked very close to God he said he began to pray and when he prayed he saw a vision of the face of Jesus and the Lord spoke to him and said I'll have nothing to do with helping this man he said he mistreats My servants now let's put it in context first John chapter 3 says we receive what we ask because we keep his Commandments and do the things that are pleasing in his sight this guy's been bad to the ministers of God I know what they mean in India they call servants means pastors and ministers he said he mistreats my servants so dinner cut and said I'm so sorry he said God said he won't help you he said because you mistreat his servants and when he said that the man was so convicted because he remembered how he'd been whatever he'd done I didn't say what maybe he was verbally abusive I don't know maybe back right maybe caused a vision I don't know but he said oh he started crying he said oh please ask Oh ask the Lord for mercy please please daesil I need help I can't lose everything he prayed again and the Lord he said the Lord in a vision say I won't help him and then he said the Lord he said you've mistreated his servants he's not going to answer that prayer and the man kept crying so then he said I didn't know what to do he said the Lord wouldn't say yes and he wouldn't leave me alone it was Denikin and said so I went to the Holy Spirit I said Holy Spirit what do I do come on this is awesome he's our helper he searches the deep things of God he said Holy Spirit what do I do the Lord Jesus told me this and that this man won't leave me alone and go away what do I do the Holy Spirit said to him many years ago he was on a road traveling and he saw a young woman about to be abused by three men he pulled over his car got out and scattered those men and saved that girl he said blessed are the merciful they shall obtain mercy he said remind Jesus of this one act of goodness that he did and ask him for mercy that amazing wonderful counselor the Holy Spirit's the spirit of counsel he came back he said Lord I know he's mistreated your servants but do you remember when he did this Lord said yes he said would you have mercy on him Lord he said all right I'll answer his prayer tell him to repent and treat my servants good from now on glory to God we need the Holy Spirit we don't need our human mind figuring everything out we need to say Holy Spirit talk to me help me but here's what we're trying to say where we are so blessed were born again God is with us he's with us to the end of the age a whole spirits in us we don't know what to do we've got a helper we don't know the answers he'll guide us into all truth amen he convicts us when we're going the wrong way we need to be convicted the worst thing that could ever happen to any of us is to start going into sin and not get convicted he confirms us he comfort us he's a spirit of wisdom and revelation anyway I have a few points here I want to talk about some of the characteristics of the Holy Spirit God with us God is with us I've already said this number one he's the spirit of truth he's going to keep us from error as long as we read the Bible and pray and ask for his guidance he'll guide us in the truth in Romans 1 verse 4 he's the spirit of holiness in second Thessalonians it's his work of sanctifying us were sanctified by the spirit he's the spirit of holiness so he separates us unto God from everything that's unclean we cannot sanctify ourselves but the spirit of holiness the Holy Spirit can do it in us amen he is Romans 8 verse 2 the spirit of life in Christ he is the very life of Christ he imparts the life of Christ into us in he's also in Romans 8:15 he's called the spirit of adoption he works to sanctify us and bring us that word adoption is wilth easier it means he works in our life to bring us to maturity adoption doesn't mean signed papers and bring a baby into your home it means to be placed in the house of God as a fully mature son or daughter he's that spirit who does at work second green is 4:13 he is the spirit of faith faith comes through him when the lame man was healed at the gate beautiful the Apostle said this was not done by us it wasn't done by our godliness but faith he said yes the faith that comes through M has given this man perfect soundness in the presence of you all so the holy spirit is called the spirit of faith he gives us the faith Ephesians 1 verse 13 we mentioned this Thursday when we begin our study in the book of Ephesians he's the spirit who seals us that means he affirms he confirms he helps he guides he's the seal of God Ephesians 1:17 we'll get into that Lord willing next Thursday he is the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of Jesus amen second Timothy chapter 1 verse 7 he's the spirit of power and the spirit of love said God has not given us a spirit of fear but of power and of love and a sound mind sanity that's who the Holy Spirit is you ever feel like you're losing your mind Holy Spirit help me help me Holy Spirit he gives us power now listen all I need this I know about you I know about me I need and I pray for it regularly I need the Holy Spirit to fill me with his love I cannot love the way God commands me to unless the Holy Spirit fills me neither can you so he's a spirit of love and the Bible says now may God make you increase and abound in love so it's God who makes us increase in abound in love come on this is good here's so he's a spirit of a sound mind that keeps us stable insane he's a spirit of grace Hebrews 10:29 he is the agent of the Godhead who supernaturally enables us to do the will of God that's called the grace of God God is with us he's with us you can do it I can do it through Christ who strengthens us how does he do it the Holy Spirit he's the spirit of grace grace to you somebody needs to hear that right now you can do it grace to you the Holy Spirit is in your life it's God's power in you it's not my minor powers by the Spirit of God hallelujah God is with you Jesus put a seal on you that's the Holy Spirit in our life he's the spirit of glory first peter 4:14 it says blessed are you when you're persecuted and blaspheme for the spirit of glory rest upon you that's the Holy Spirit the Holy Spirit is the one who fills us and enables us to radiate the life of Jesus God is with us he's the spirit of prayer Romans chapter 8 when we don't know how to pray as we ought to the Holy Spirit helps us with groanings I pray this all the time I pray it probably every day of my life I ask the Holy Spirit anoint me Lord here's what I pray Romans 8 the Holy Spirit will help you to pray as you ought to my primary calling is my in the ministry is prayer that's what the Bible says the Apostle said let us give ourselves we we must not be caught up in all the administration we must give ourselves continually to prayer and the Ministry of the word the Apostles in the New Testament were praying day and night exceedingly for their flocks they prayed and then minister the word so I need the help of the Holy Spirit every day every day I ask him Holy Spirit make me feel what you feel make me care like you care make me think what you think help me there you should claim that when you don't know how to pray claim Romans 8 it said the Holy Spirit will come it will help us to pray when we don't know how and then the prayer goes beyond words into groanings oh oh that kind of prayer gets things done because it's a Spirit of God isn't that awesome God is with us you're not alone you never will be and I already said this one I have at point number 15 he's the one who searches the deep things of God and reveals them to us so we're just taking a look today see God says look unto me and be saved we're getting our eyes off ourself the more I look at myself the worse I do and I've been there in the past I'll try harder oh I didn't do very good I'll do better no I'm not gonna do better the Holy Spirit's gonna make me do better Holy Spirit helped me to be diligent in the word helped me to pray help me he's our comforter he's our strength he's our helper aren't you glad see when the disciples were around Jesus there can you imagine being around Jesus just get in his presence and you feel strong everywhere that for three years they felt good because he was full of the Holy Spirit and was radiating from him they said man we don't want you to go we feel great we feel courageous we're excited we're full of faith were encouraged what's going to happen if you go he said don't fear I'm gonna say the holy spirit the same spirit that's hidden me he'll be in you God is with us God is with us he's our helper he'll guide us into all truth he keeps us to have a sound mind he gives us the love he gives us the power he gives strength to the weary when we wait on him he lifts us up when we cry to him he answers God is what a precious precious precious gift that God has given us what a precious gift that's the Holy Spirit is in our life he's here spirit of the Living God Thank You Holy Spirit that's how Jesus when Jesus said I'm going to the Father but I won't leave you alone I'll be with you he's with us by his Spirit he'll never leave us we look at him with the eyes of our heart it says they look to him and they were radiant look unto me and be saved so we look at he's we look at God with us the Holy Spirit we look at that and were saved look at God with us and our faces become radiant Jesus is with us to the end of the age come hell or high water he's with us he said in the world you will have tribulation but be of good cheer I've overcome it thank you Lord for being with us thank you Holy Spirit for being with people that are watching online right where you are God is with you lord help us never forget Holy Spirit our helper our comforter our teacher the one who corrects us the one who trains us the one who guides us the one who warns us the one who strengthens us the one who fills us with love who have parts the life of Christ Thank You Holy Spirit thank you for being with us in the name of Jesus amen praise the Lord [Music] Oh [Music]

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Published: Sun Apr 19 2020