Our Home With Him // Judah Smith

[Music] so we're gonna jump in to John and chapter 14 John in Chapter 14 and the title of my talk here on this snowy Sunday in Seattle is our home with him our home with him and I'd like to talk to you about the advantage you have for anyone who has freely received the forgiveness of Jesus and the love of Jesus you have an advantage in life for jesus has made his home in you are you ready I'm so excited God just showed me this and I cannot wait to show it to you and we're gonna have a bit of a bit of a Bible study on this snowy Sunday got my cable knit sweater on I'm just gonna have Bible study get a little coffee in there alright you ready here we go John chapter 14 and verse 15 Jesus says if you love me you will keep my Commandments and I will ask the Father and He will give you another helper to be with you forever even the Spirit of Truth whom the world cannot receive because it neither sees him nor knows him you know him for he dwells with you and will be in you oh I love this next verse I will not leave you as orphans he is our Father he has adopted us he will not leave us I will come to you Jesus says you a little while and the world will see me no more but you will see me because I live and you also live in that day you will know that I am in my father and you and me and I in you I love that verse can I read it again look how intertwined we are with God and that day you'll know that I'm in the father and you and me and I am you whoever has my Commandments and keeps them he it is who loves me and he who loves me will be loved by my father and I will love him and manifest myself to him Judas not Iscariot notice the parenthesis there was another Judas poor guy got lumped in with the other Judas if you know what I mean he says Lord how is it that you a man of professor yourself to us and not to the world what do you mean Jesus said if anyone loves me he'll keep my word and my father will love him and will come to him and make our home with him Wow make our home with him whoever does not love me does not keep my words and the word that you hear is not mine but the fathers who sent me these things I have spoken to you while I'm still with you but the helper the Holy Spirit whom the father will send in my name he will teach you all things and bring to your remembrance all that I have said to you peace I leave with you and my peace I give to you not as the world gives do I give it to you notice this let not your hearts be troubled neither let them be afraid somebody say that's good you thought I was going to say Amen I know not that's good would you join me in prayer Jesus thank you for the moments that we share what I pray for the oldest follower of Jesus in the room - the very first time guests here I pray that you'd meet all of us you'd meet all of us in where we really are in life I pray you'd help us to see you help us to see Jesus help us to encounter your love and your grace for us and help the Seahawks beat the Washington Redskins by three touchdowns today and help it warm up a little bit for those of us go into the game and Jesus name and everybody said are you um do you remember growing up that that term scaredy-cat remember that term don't don't all respond at once please it's over it's actually over whelming scaredy-cat remember that term and it usually was reserved for people like me to be honest I have a vivid imagination and so I was the kid who every time my dad put me to bed I was blessed enough that like a heroic father who I loved so much and honestly to like the day I was married my dad pretty much tucked me in at bed at night and you you think that's a joke it's actually not like the night before I was married I I was sleeping in my bedroom but up but uh okay so that's kind of my life so dad will put me to bed and for the majority of that time I would like if the closet door was open right I'd have them check under the bed not every night did we check under the bed just most nights I have a vivid imagination so sometimes it would run wild it would kind of get the best of me and so you could say that when I was a kid I was kind of a scaredy-cat right like I people recently are like all stranger things we love the show it's amazing like season 2 is coming out and people all over like I run into them like are you watching stranger things like absolutely not it is the scariest thing I've ever seen I turn it off within the first 10 minutes I heard of sound in the house I sent Chelsea to check on it by the way today is our 18th wedding anniversary yeah we're doing that we're doing this we're just getting started we're just getting started so yeah I'm kind of one of those guys now when I was younger and when I say younger when I was a teenager so not that young if I got scared and I'm just gonna be I'm gonna be very vulnerable with you right now when I got scared oftentimes I would knock on my dad mom's door and dad would almost know be like probably three four or five in the morning whatever it was and he'd say all right grab your pillow grab your blanket and I would lay on the floor next to mom and dad's bed now some of you're like mom and dad would let me jump in the bed never never never never what my dad was like absolutely not you are not sleeping in my bed okay this is mine but he gave me the floor so his love had had limits right but it's crazy how no matter how scared I was well the noises I heard or the imagination that was running wild the moment I had the proximity to my father who was always a half-inch taller than me six foot two big quarterback hands from high school larger-than-life figure the moment I got under that blanket and that pillow on the floor next to Dad's bed absolutely every ounce of fear evaporated and those were actually some of the nights I slept the best right next to dad we're living today in such fearful troubling times have you noticed so many people are so scared so worried so anxious so fearful and of course it doesn't help that a lot of the outlets in which we get our information understand that today if you're going to get viewers if you're gonna get clicks if you're gonna get likes if you're gonna get content out there you kind of have to enhance its horror have you noticed it has to be extra scary and so then we forward it to friends and it goes viral because we're all like woohoo this sounds crazy this virus is gonna go airborne and we're all gonna die right like we it's something about us we kind of drawn like a fly to one of those zappers right like you know we something in us kind of likes it but yet it ends up robbing us of the full human experience so worried so anxious so stressful recently I was taking a flight from Seattle to LA and the man in front of me was reading an article and I happened to notice because I love to read over people's shoulders it's so weird you know I don't know why I notice but I just kind of looked up and this is reading a prominent magazine and the article with the title the article was something like adolescence today are are struggling with chronic or extreme anxiety and like epic rates and I'm thinking what Adam the word adolescent it's like that means kids remember the days when kids were like being a kid was in the summers lasted forever her and you were worried free and you'd look at kids and go wow to be a kid again right and here's this article saying even kids are being anxious and worried and fearful I was talking to a publish that I work with recently and he was talking about kind of the felt need in the world today and he said you know due to the books that are selling our books that are speaking to this idea of fear and anxiety in fact I've noticed recently other than my friend Carl Lentz whose book is either 1 or 2 right now and all of Christian spiritual writing which I'm pretty excited about it's called own the moment by the way but Max Lucado just wrote a book be anxious for nothing and it's number one on the list be anxious for nothing why because we are anxious for everything people are fearful people are worried have you come today is something on your mind that's kind of got you worked up kind of got you fearful all the sudden you know we just turn on whatever news outlet you prefer like it doesn't matter there is so much content that we can consume that actually doesn't add to our piece at all it adds to more worried and more fear and more anxiety do you remember like there were days in the past like I don't know the 80s speaking of stranger things there were things in the past like the 80s where like remember the scripture from Jesus like each day has enough to be concerned about on its own but now you're in the aisle trying to buy honey nut cheerios and you're getting alerts on your phone about countries going to war and pestilence and disease and all these things that are happening it's it's like I just came to get honey nut cheerios back in 85 you could just go to the store and get honey nut cheerios like your biggest concern was where's the cereal aisle again sir sir I can't you know that was like the big issue but now you can be inundated without even thinking about it I'm not saying that technology is all bad by any means we're just taking an honest observation of the times and seasons in which we live and it is clearly affecting us all Jesus starts off John 14 by saying let not your hearts be troubled it's like I'm trying right first of all it is kind of an encouraging phrase though at the beginning to John 14 verse 1 let not your hearts be troubled it means that we actually have options like that's kind of an encouraging aspect right it means that actually we don't have to let the core of our being get shaken by external situations circumstances and news outlets we actually can find some steadfastness and some sureness on the inside but if you like me kind of a classic scenario in church life preacher gets up on Sunday and says come on church we're not gonna be fearful we're not gonna be worried we're not gonna be anxious God is good we can do this everyone's like yeah whoo okay and then you get to the parking lot right and because of the snow your car's lost battery charge and you're like I knew I shouldn't have come to church hey and it's like and then there's Christians leaving the parking lot there's supposed to be Christians and you can't find one Christian because it's game day no one's gonna stop in the parking lot to ask you need a job your God how quickly right we can have moments like these insurance we're like that's right come on we're gonna be bold we're gonna be peaceful we're gonna be calm we're gonna be cool we're gonna be collected come on with Christians it was like yeah let's just give us ten seconds in the parking lot with a battery that won't charge or is uncharged don't even know what the term is lost its power I [Laughter] love what I use examples I know nothing about reminds me of construction work I don't know anything about that but it is amazing how fragile our pieces I don't think that's God's plan for our life in fact you'll find in John 14 John 14:1 and then John 14:27 they both say let not your heart be troubled verse 27 says neither let them be afraid these two statements book in for us a passage that actually will give us spiritual realities and practical helps so that actually our heart isn't troubled and I'd like to take a little bit of Bible study time today on this snowy Sunday to give you some spiritual realities some spiritual tools to help you be not anxious to not worry to not be fearful oh we're gonna have our days we're gonna have our moments but I think generally speaking we have a strength we have a savior we have a God who can give us some stability who can give us some confidence and today I think his a day God wants us to share in community these spiritual realities and practical tools that will help us worry less who could use a little less worry in your life and the rest of you that did not raise your hand are liars you brought a friend he's like you doesn't call people liars man I'm really sorry next time raise your hand job 14 let's jump in verse 15 we're gonna focus on these 12 verses Jesus says in red he says if you love me you will keep my Commandments now here's the problem when it comes to interpretation of Scripture it's called I so Jesus it's when you isolate a verse and don't put it back in its context it leads you oftentimes to error if I said that scripture to you if you love me you'll keep my Commandments you say who said that Jesus you'd go oh that's right people will tell you if you don't if you curl they don't love Jesus cuz you don't obey him you don't bat a thousand you don't do everything right you're not you if you weigh well we'll wait a second let's put this back in context because by the way the very next verse says what the very next verse verse 16 says and I will ask the Father and He will give you another was it say their helper friend which is to say if you love me you'll keep my Commandments and I'm gonna give you a helper to do that which is to say who amongst us can claim that you love God all by yourself you don't even love God let alone keep his Commandments we love God because God loved us and put the love we have towards him in us in the first place and by the way has anyone ever been able to keep his Commandments has anyone ever been able to bat a thousand has anyone had been able to always obey God so Jesus can't be saying he here that you need to muster up your willpower muster up your strength I'll tell you how your heart won't be troubled you will keep God's commandments and you'll prove to him that you love them and guess what that's why some Christians and Jesus followers are more anxious than other people in the world because now they've doubled down on their anxiety so now their anxiety is also layered with the sense of condemnation and guilt because I can't live up to God's rules so clearly I don't love him I'm out right I mean if you ever read scriptures like that I've been like this is what God I need some help here have you gave you do you get alerts on your phone right like this is tough no we can't love him on our own we can't keep his Commandments on our own verse 15 if I could say like this is an introductory statement that is to provoke you to look for the answer Jesus saying if you if you love me you'll keep my Commandments and we all go I want I want to but every time I try I can't he's like yeah that's what I'm asked the Father and he's gonna put the helper inside of you oh so you're gonna help us yeah totally I just wanted to remind you you really need help and if you try verse 15 on your own you're gonna really realize really quickly how much help you need he says so I I last the father and he'll give you another helper to be with you how long forever gonna give you a helper who will be with you forever a helper who so you're gonna get a foretaste of eternity on the in side of you I'm gonna give you a helper and it says even the Spirit of Truth whom the world cannot receive because neither sees him nor knows him you know him free dwells with you and will be in you Jesus is telling us that he's going to live on the inside of us here's the advantage you have in this life if you have believed and received the free gift that only Jesus gives you you have a helper on the inside let me explain it like this anybody ever been to Sunday school when you were a kid anybody any Sunday school people okay if you haven't no problem and explain this but for those of us that are scarred I mean blessed by Sunday school okay miss Delores used to teach us that if we responded and said the prayer Jesus would come where in our heart remember miss Delores teacher Delores she would say and boys and girls Jesus is gonna come in your heart now chances are you were one of those people or you brought a friend who was like a missile or something like yes Sammy what is it mr. Lawrence how does he fit how does Jesus write and we would all sit there I remember this we I was in Portland Oregon we don't sit there and be like oh how does he get in there miss Delores meanwhile is a volunteer and she's at winging it that's a hard question for the senior pastor of the lead pastor and she's like well boys and girls Sammy it's a good question all these are delay tactics it's a good question appreciate you for asking thank you for being here love you love your parents um well he just does and one of the kids go yeah cuz he's God mistletoes exactly he's God and he just does and he fits in there and we're all whoa Jesus in my heart and like if you grew up in the 80s it's like Honey I Shrunk Jesus you know like like and we're like whoa I miss horses like yeah it's like I think it's working like there right now volunteers are winging it as we're in this room you know but when we say Jesus is in your heart what we're saying is it's the spirit of Jesus so the Father Son and spirit now have noticed I will make we will make our home in you the title of the message our home in him our home in you so the Father the Son and the Spirit the Spirit of Jesus for Jesus is the fullness of the Godhead in bodily form he's the expressed image of God and so when you see Jesus you've seen the spirit when you've seen Jesus you know the father the father and jesus are one the father and the spirit are one the freezes in the spirit of one it's one God three distinctions and so the spirit makes its home in you and now you have Father Son and spirit so actually teacher Delores was right Jesus does come in your heart in spirit form and how long will he stay forever forever forever and notice what his name is his name is helper helper which is to say yeah you need help loving God you need help keeping his Commandments you know this word helper it can mean friend which is awesome but it truly speaks to two aspects of the Spirit of Jesus that's on the inside of you and by the way you like why I don't know if I have the spirit oh the Bible makes it very bluntly clear you actually can't say Jesus is God he's my Savior unless the Spirit of Jesus gets on the inside of you and helps you say it so if you have ever said Jesus is Lord Jesus is God you have the helper on the inside of you whether you're aware of it or not he's on the inside of you and that word helper would be best described in two ways he is advocate and he is counselor he is advocate and he is counselor which is to say what does the helper do in me and through me because he's in side of me well first of all he is your counselor let's read on look look at the advantage you have in troubling times to experience supernatural peace look at verse 18 Jesus says I will not leave you as orphans I have adopted you and you are mine look at this semicolon I will come to you do you feel abandoned do you feel overlooked you feel marginalized you feel undervalued you feel like your spouse and you've grown distant you feel like you haven't heard from your son and went off to college you're starting to get worried and you wanted God are your faithful God are you true God are you there look at this promise he says I come to you I am NOT a negligent father I am not far from you I'm on the inside of you I will come to you time and time and time and time again I am faithful I am true I do not change so I'm here to tell somebody who's going through the fight of their life or the storm of a lifetime and you got questions and you got concerns and you got stress and you got anxiety and you got fear and you're going God where are you I want to remind you we have a promise that he is faithful he is true and he will never leave you nor forsake you I will come to you Wow thank you Jesus yet a little while in the world will see me no more but you will see me listen to that the world's not gonna see him because he's not no longer in his physical visible form but we will still see him because now he's in his spirit form and the spirit within us will show us Jesus he says in the day you will know that I'm in my father and you and me and I in you whoever has here it is again whoever has my Commandments and keeps them it is he who loves me and he who loves me will be loved by the father and I will love him and manifest myself to him I will manifest myself to him Jesus the Holy Spirit spirit of Jesus is your counselor which is to say the primary role of the Spirit of Jesus is to show you Jesus the Spirit wants to do one thing the most on the inside of you he yearns to show you Jesus that's his passion for he is Jesus and I'm telling you I'm just gonna give you a little a little tool a little a little key when you open this book look for Jesus it's my faith it's like a treasure hunt it's my favorite thing to do is to open this book and say now now now spirit of Jesus show me Jesus I'm telling you he'll show you Jesus in the Book of Lamentations don't look for principles merely don't look for just a good story merely don't look for success Keys merely look for Jesus and this book will come alive to you I love it and by the way sometimes I just read one verse a day chelsey reads way too much I'm much more just want to get Jesus out of the word you know kidding she's it's convicting she's also go I read my New Testament 12 times today oh cool whatever you're not encouraging anyone we get it but sometimes I'll read a whole whole verse in one day and all throughout the day I'm thinking spirit and spirit of Jesus show me Jesus in this verse show me Jesus in a verse like if you love me you'll keep my Commandments Jesus is in there that's when you go wait a minute I can't love you and I can't keep helping me keep my keep your commandment and that's what Jesus cuz I know that's what I do through you for you help you and there he is telling you when we get together it's got to be more about Jesus in ourselves we read this book it's got to be more about Jesus than ourselves the strength and power fortitude strength and peace is not in ourselves it's in Jesus it's in Jesus what does the counselor do he manifests to you Jesus notice what it says going all the way down it says verse 26 the helper the counselor the Holy Spirit whom the father will send in my name he will teach you all things he's a counselor and bring to your remembrance all that I have said can I get incredibly candid with you this happens on a semi-regular basis some days are really average and ordinary and it's like wow Jesus I really you know I'm not feeling a lot today but consistently God has been faithful in every season of my life and I know a lot of people could testify in this room here comes the counselor all of a sudden it's Monday morning oh we had great services on Sunday well you know what who cares if it doesn't change your Monday morning if what we're talking about in here has no translation into your everyday ordinary life it's just religious rhetoric tradition and customs and we want to go beyond that and I want to live love and look like Jesus and I'm telling you this is what will happen it'll be a Monday morning and one of your co-workers is in your face talking about this that and the other and you're late and you're always this and I'm telling the boss you shouldn't even work here you're not qualified to work here all of a sudden you are getting real time in the moment in the instant council and all of a sudden counselor starts calling back to your remembrance verses of Scripture that you don't even remember memorizing because you probably didn't I'm telling you this is my life I've been under so much preaching lord have mercy but I'll be in in the moment i I can't I've lost count every time in the moment here comes a verse of scripture somebody spit in your face and here's that verse nursery of your enemies bless those who curse you and spits now just hitting your face from your coworker and you're like aah I'm telling you it is the only thing that has kept me from hurting that co-worker in the moment people like wow you're really self controlled it's I just have a built-in counselor sometimes it's annoying but he will teach you all things he will teach you all things he will teach you all things podcasts are nice you have a built-in counselor he would teach you all things no don't go there no don't say that don't say it don't say it I don't know about you but I have never prayed under my breath more especially for the Seahawks but also for life just just print okay god help me help me right now I'm telling you what in life god help me calm down right now oh I need you who I need you I want to hurt him real bad real bad real bad real bad okay thank you and all of a sudden he brings to my remembrance are you like me I have things that I've been taught that are not true of God and not true of Scripture and sometimes they leave me and my social experience and all of a sudden here comes my counselor to say that's actually not what the word says remember who you are you aren't defined by your policy views you aren't defined but you're defined by me love all people all people are God's children and I know you weren't raised to see people like I see people but I'm gonna help you because I'm in you and I'm your counselor and don't talk down to people don't patronize people don't belittle people don't marginalize people don't do that look let's change come on right now it's who you are that's right I'm changing you okay that's that's right and all the sudden an old dog can learn new tricks and all the sudden they said you wouldn't change and you're set in your ways but you are changing because you have a real time counselor up to date in the moment who is teaching you and calling to remembers do not underestimate the significance of our times together unpacking scripture because you are putting seeds in your heart that I'm telling you your counselor and friend and helper will call on when you need it most I mean you don't need this right now but you might need in the parking lot in a few minutes there the counselor will be faithful to reveal himself to you he is not only counselor but he's also advocate can I show you how he's your advocate he's your counselor but he's always and also your advocate notice what John 16 says you know fast forward with me I'll just read it to you John 16 and verse 7 says nevertheless I tell you the truth Jesus says as it is to your advantage it is to your advantage we have an advantage we have an advantage it's to your advantage I have an advantage how to preach right there that I go away think about that Jesus this better than I go away in physical visible form because now my spirit will be on the inside of you and I will walk with you for I do not go away we're buddy the helper will not come but if I go I'll send him to you and when he comes he will convict the world concerning sin and righteousness and judgment concerning sin because they know it doesn't say you it says they meaning those that do not believe in me concerning sin because they do not believe concerning righteousness because I go to the Father and you notice the distinction sin they righteousness you and then verse 11 verse concerning judgment because the ruler of this world is judged what is an advocate it's a go-between the spirit of Jesus is to remind you that Jesus is your advocate has been your advocate and you now are righteous so he will counsel you in real time what to do how to conduct yourself he'll anchor you back to the word the living word Jesus and he'll remind you who you are which is how he works as an advocate now now well if Jesus forgave you all of your sins notice the words of Jesus the LAT the seven statements he breathed that on the cross while suffocating in his own blood what was the last statement it is finished which is to say it is complete all sins are now able to be forgiven if we simply accept the free gift that only Jesus offers so it is finished works into the future it works in the past and it works in the present so when you receive the forgiveness of Jesus you're not just receiving forgiveness for sins you can remember or sins you've done you're also being forgiven for the future sins that you will commit so why would the spirit of Jesus convict you of something that's been forgiven hold on a second don't stone me why would you say you're forgiven but hey that's really bad and you should stop I thought you forgave me so here's what he does he convicts the Advocate convicts you of righteousness the focus is not sin the focus is the finished work of Jesus that conquered sin and so the Spirit of Jesus does not use condemnation or guilt or shame for none of that produces the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus only Jesus can do that for us he who knew no sin became sin so that we might become the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus so here's how it works you start to sin you're already forgiven but you start to sin you're sinning and yet that sins already been forgiven so you know how the Spirit works on the inside the spirit of Jesus he nudges you just like this he says that's not who you are that's not who you are it's not who you are well Who am I you're righteous you're righteous you got right standing with God you don't want that that's that's your old life that's your old appetites that's your old desires those won't fulfill that's not who you are the Spirit of God does not move in and say look at you look how bad or look you did it again I know what you did last summer I can't believe you did it again how bad are you guilt guilt guilt shame shame shame judgment judgment judgment and no wonder we are not very nice to people who's we Jesus followers because again we've doubled down the fear and anxiety with shame and guilt and then we're walking around going I thought I loved Jesus but a kid keep his Commandments and now the spirit of Jesus is inside of me reminded me you can't keep his Commandments you never keep his commands your batting average stinks and now we're just like and no wonder people don't want to come to church I don't want to be reminded I've already reminded internally judgment sin no no I've already been judged righteous sins forgiven and covered because of Jesus it is finished Jesus is more righteous than you have ever been sinful your sin has been covered in his righteousness you are you are you are you are don't mean like you always act like it but you are we are I am the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus and my advocate on a regular basis reminds me that's who you are hey you're not acting like who you are but I still love you this is who you are be more who you are be true to yourself be true to who God has made you to be designed you to be that's who you are and here comes the goodness of God that leads us to repent the goodness of God that leads us empowers us enables us to change isn't it amazing that little advocate nudge who says that's not who you are and you go you know what that's right I do not have to live like this this is not who I want to be no matter who said I was gonna be like this that and the other and you're gonna be just like your grandpa just like your dad just like your mom just like your aunt who you remind me just your uncle you know that dirty look uncle in the end you just like all the sudden you like no that's not i'm not defined by the hat i'm defined by the righteousness of god in christ jesus and that's Who I am and he comes to convict you of who you are and who's you are that's how you can experience traction it's also how we experience a peace confidence and an ease you'll never be more righteous than you are right now this forgiveness that you have it's forever it's permanent you're accepted and you're loved it's quiet because our brains go what your brain goes tilt it can't be right too good to be true yep that sounds like the gospel sounds like the gospel we have a helper we have an advocate we have a counselor notice what it says it says in verse 24 whoever does not love me does not keep my words and the word that you hear is not mine but the father now let's for a few moments let's define this word keep because much has been misunderstood about this word keep you here keep my Commandments and what do you what do you what do you think of you probably think of something like adhere to the list and checking everyone off I got to keep his Commandments I got to keep his Commandments the goal is keep his commands got to keep his Commandments okay okay if you love me you keep my commandment okay I promise I love you I'm gonna prove it'll be down here and he proven that I love you Kim gonna keep your Commandments gonna keep your Commandments and the way that we understand key is not the actual mean of the word deal with the word keep here means in its literal most literal form it means to keep a close eye on or watch that's all watch watch it also means guard it also means follow you know what Jesus is actually saying here he's saying if you love me because I first loved you and gave you the ability to love me back and shows you in your mind you will watch me you will guard and value me and you will follow me second Corinthians 4:7 we have this treasure in Jars of Clay the word keep here literally speaks to the idea that you have something so valuable that you watch over it you guard it and you do whatever it takes to value it it's actually not the picture in portrait of robots serving Jesus what are you doing keeping his Commandments and there's this built in fear system what are you doing keeping his Commandments oh oh man oh man and by the way when you're living with this kind of anxiety and stress if you see one other person who's not your like you who you ever you ever lived like this for Jesus and then you meet someone who's living like this for Jesus and you're like ah wrong bad let's go protest them let's blog about them why cuz we're all over here what am i doing I'm proving to God that I love them back off whom the Sun sets free is free indeed you don't look free I am never been more free just leave me alone don't talk to me love your neighbor I'll have time for that come on you don't look free I I think I am yeah you you love Jesus ah yeah yeah it's tough times though okay ah it's hard so I just keep praying oh are you happy yeah I got the toy the Lord sometimes is just not on my face okay relax I'm beyond happy I got joy that never manifests because it's so deep so but God bless you you should go to church read your Bible but you don't and this word keep doesn't mean a type walk it means you just keep your eyes on Jesus and you guard your time with him and make margin to be with him and and then you just love following him nowhere in the word keep does it mean that you're bad a thousand no we're in the word keep does it mean that you always check off every box it just means that you realize the treasure you have and you've oriented your life around it and you watch it and the love of God motivates you to live a life that you otherwise wouldn't never be able to live we have this treasure in these ordinary lives people like I could not have you heard about so and so well I am that so and so you wouldn't believe what I'll be capable of if it wasn't for Jesus no it's not us and then we are all one where humanity we're all broken we're all dust we're all incapable of living up to the rules of God but he loved us sent his son for us and then sent his spirit in us who reminds us every day that's not who you are remember when Jesus said remember what I said remember who you are who you are come on you can do this and all the sudden there's distinction in the world between those who follow Jesus and those who have yet to realize His grace and His goodness and the Bible says and I Jesus says peace I leave with you my peace I give to you not as the world gives which is to say I don't give you a sense of well-being because I make all your circumstances scenarios and situations right can we just all get really really bare-bones honest today anybody can have a sense of stability and general joy and peace when things are going great I'm talking to some people that live life long enough to know that some seasons are hard and some seasons are beyond your understanding but in it all God grants you peace in the midst of your storm jesus says peace I leave with you peace I give to you underst and what this piece is this piece is not a state of mind this piece is not merely an attitude this piece is a person for he is the Prince of Peace and ensures you have the spirit of Jesus on the inside of you you have the spirit of peace it's one of his names so peace as a person is inside of you peace lives in you and has made his home in you I leave it with you I give it to you I have a peace that passes all understanding why cuz I gotta help her it counsels me he's my advocate reminds me of Who I am every day and you know I'm telling you that's why historically Jesus followers are at their best when the world is at its worst did you know when we have thrived the most under the most intense persecution did you know that that's when we multiply the most the batter the harder the more difficult the stronger and more distinct those are who have the helper on the inside notice what Jesus says he says let not your hearts be troubled that's how the whole chapter started member and then he adds , neither let it be afraid in other word the word troubled there literally means agitated and the word afraid means actually full of fear now that's a little bit challenging because Jesus if the climactic conclusion of our study today is Jesus saying not only do I want you to avoid being full of fear I don't want you to be agitated in the core of your being that's no way to live so if you're hearing you said you know I'm fine I think you're kind of over playing the whole fear thing but have you been a little shaking on the inside getting agitated you ever get kind of just feisty you're like why am I so feisty right now just educated right so much information stuff going on so God Jesus is saying hey you don't have to live way I got piece for you on the inside I got piece for you on the in side well lord help me I will I'm gonna bring things to your remembrance I'm gonna teach you and I remind you who you are and I'm gonna do it every day I'm gonna do you know the advantage that we you and I have now all of a sudden if you step back from this and go wow wow wow doesn't it somewhere in your heart push you to say we gotta get this message out we gotta tell broken hurting people that God wants to make his home in them that's the big impetus behind our new name welcome home you are home with God and God is home with you and there's a god space in your soul and when he feels it when he feels at your home and miss Delores was right Jesus comes into your heart and that's the big idea of the universe and so we're passionate about whatever God wants us to go we're gonna go and I'm gonna tell the world you can come home now God's not mad at you he loves you he's for you he's with you and only he can make you right not only will he make you right but he'll walk with you every day he'll give you counsel he'll bring to your remembrance the story of Jesus the love of Jesus the grace of Jesus the mercy of Jesus and you will live a life you never dreamed possible Wow yeah that's what we got to get the message out we got to get the story out we got to tell people how good god is what you don't think God cares about the divorce now you don't think God cares about your kids you don't think God cares about your pay cut you don't think God cares about that diagnosis you don't think God cares about your sleeplessness you don't think God cares about that headache he don't think God cares about the knee surgery you don't think God cares about your grandparents oh no he is there every step of the way and he cares about every detail and he is involved so guess what you can grab that pillow and you can grab that blanket and you can cozy up to your father and that fear that you had can evaporate because the proximity you have is intimate he has made his home in you he is home in you and you are home in him this is our confidence in Jesus can I hear an amen can I pray for you can I pray for Jesus we thank you so much for your realities we thank you for what you're saying and what you're doing in our community we we are blown away by you I pray in this moment that you'd speak to hearts all over this room in any room watching if you say Judah I would like to ask Jesus in my heart I'd like to welcome Jesus to be home in me and me to be home in him I believe I believe that Jesus died rose again he's my Savior he's the only one that can forgive me of my err am I wrong and my sin and I'd like to declare my life's gonna be for him my life's gonna be about him what I'm gonna ask on the count of three if you want to make this decision of your own free will be to lift up your hand and put it right back down you know who you are God loves you so much on the count of three even ask you to lift up your hand put it right back gonna ask you to do this because I truly believe when you respond on the outside to what's happening on the inside it becomes even more real to you personally the count of three one God loves you too I actually believe we'll never be the same three at that she would you raise your hand all over the room and say I'd like to make this decision beautiful amazing extraordinary anybody else you slip it up and put it right back to him God thank you for these hands no God thank you for these hearts that are finally home home in you welcome home thank you God thank you for your forgiveness that flows freely in this room and in this space if you hear you said Jude I love Jesus but I needed to be reminded of the advantage I have I want to think different I want to walk different I want to remember my counselor and my advocate who's gonna help me every day if God speaking to you today would you lift up your hand this is a sign that you're signalling God hey I get it you're talking to me you're speaking to me or responding today let you know you're talking to us through your word the greatest story ever told and we say yes to your ways and to your word and God we welcome we welcome your spirit the spirit within us leading us guiding us The Advocate the counselor the friend the helper you are home with us and we are home with you and we thank you for that today and Lord in these moments that we begin to sing and use music as a platform to connect with you we pray you meet us in real genuine authentic ways on the inside come on if you're willing and able would you stand with us and let's sing out what we believe about our great God come on church so do you love our YouTube channel does it remind you of The Fresh Prince of Bel Air 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Length: 50min 12sec (3012 seconds)

Published: Mon May 28 2018