Sunday Morning Worship | The Names of the Holy Spirit | The Breath | 12.27.20

[Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] forgot to love the world that he gave his only son that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life [Music] the kingdom agenda good morning everyone and welcome to our worship service at oak cliff bible fellowship we're excited to be together with the entire body of christ no matter where you're coming from because we're going to worship in one accord we're going to hear his word so that we can execute it so that we can learn grow and achieve and what god has for our lives so i'm excited but i want to make sure that you're also ready we're going to commune with him together and we're going to have communion so make sure you get your juice and your water your crackers or your bread come together as a family and make sure you're ready for that moment at the end of our service so that we can have an intimate time with our lord and savior jesus christ remembering what he has done let's worship right now let's go come on clap those hands come hey everybody yeah father we honor your presence this morning we magnify your name we say you are the lord you are the lord god almighty you're perfect in everything you do the angels [Music] there is no other god like you what we were created to do [Music] [Music] you're perfect in everything [Music] there's no other god like you father in here [Music] every nation this morning let all creations [Music] [Music] yes [Music] [Music] voices [Music] [Music] is giving praise in this house this morning somebody shout hallelujah hallelujah father we honor your presence this morning we're magnified and we give you all the glory yes jesus [Music] [Music] father we give you glory say that one more time that's all the words sing with us this [Music] morning this morning we declare my god [Music] do you believe that this morning if you do sing with us [Music] oh father we give you all the glory my god [Music] say that one more time with power and majesty [Music] lord you're seated in heavenly places [Music] [Music] with power and majesty [Music] [Music] [Music] is [Music] yes hallelujah one more time over my [Music] circumstances [Music] [Music] jesus [Music] [Music] one more time to the king of kings [Music] hallelujah glory father we magnify your name you reign over sickness you reign over disease we magnify you yes jesus hallelujah this morning our desire is that the glory of the lord would settle right where you are that the glory of the lord the presence of the lord the manifested presence of the lord will bring peace right where you are [Music] [Music] purifying our hearts lord purify our hearts lord [Music] sanctify our hearts lord [Music] sanctify our hearts lord lord we need you as jesus we need to see you we're desperate for you now let your glory settle here settle here help me say that in the room purify our hearts purify our hearts lord father this morning wash us sanctify us and make us clean sanctified father we need you and we need to see you we need to see we're desperate for you now let your glory glory settle hey father that's our hearts cry this morning [Music] settle father as long as we have you we don't need anything else settle settle rest in the room father right where we are jesus we need you right there where you're seated i want you to lift up your hands before the father i want you to open up your mouth and give him praise right there where you are as if your very life depended upon it now we sing to the father [Music] come on and take your seat our bird is at your feet with you we can't be won't you settle won't you settle here yes god [Music] take your rightful place [Music] every one of our burdens [Music] we need you to settle right here [Music] foreign [Music] we're crying now for you to settle [Music] settle [Music] father we give you glory we magnify your name jesus settle in this place rest ruling about in our hearts and our minds father well let me start off by wishing everybody a happy new year i'm excited about a new year and i'm glad for a new year too i know you are too because we're anticipating this year to be a lot better than last year it was challenging in 2020 wasn't it but god in his own unique way is going to use the havoc of 2020 to make us a better people in 2021 because he gave us a divine disruption in order that we might have a divine reset so let's get our spiritual priorities in order that's why i've been so excited to do this series on the holy spirit and i hope you have been blessed by it you know as we move forward in this uh in this year i want you to draw near to god that's why at our church at old cliff we're gonna spend the whole month of september every wednesday night fasting and praying from six o'clock wednesday pm to six o'clock thursday p.m our whole congregation let's go let's go fast and pray for that 24-hour period and we're going to get on our zoom at 8 o'clock on wednesday night and we're going to pray together and then pray by ourselves and with our families and we'll do it every wednesday night because we need god to to just envelop us this month in order to launch us into this year so i want to invite all of you to take advantage of doing that wherever you are and whatever group of people you are associated with so that we calling on god because we desperately need him if you're in the metroplex then we want to invite you if you need a church home that's kingdom mind that's building disciples but that loves people then go online to ocbfchurch.org forward slash membership and find out about our church about our zoom membership process and uh if you need a church home where we experience god together we invite you to look and see if this is where the holy spirit is leading you we would love to get to know you look at the scriptures as we go over them don't just again i want to say it again it's not the preacher it's the word of god through the preacher so let's go back to scripture because that's our final authority and again as we launch the new year and as we are working toward meeting back again uh starting to meet back in person here we're making our plans to do that real soon in a safe and responsible way uh we still need your support if you remember your tithe is keeping us strong and you are faithful because god has sustained you and so you want to let him know you are grateful to him for sustaining you and the offering is that which is above the tithe to in or take us further then we can go even with the tithe if you're a member of another church please support your ministry your pastor your church needs you and then if this ministry continues to bless you you can give an offering to help keep us coming your way and ministering to you which is our great joy well it's an honor to be with you it's an honor to celebrate the lord with you it's an honor to grow together with you and to to believe that god has something special this year that he set us up for last year well let's prepare our hearts to continue in worship [Applause] there [Music] there is a name that can heal calm my storms peace be still [Music] things will change there is no greater name than jesus [Music] there is no greater name than jesus than jesus [Music] oh [Music] [Music] is [Music] [Applause] jesus [Music] jesus listen [Music] it works [Music] [Music] yes [Music] [Applause] [Music] is [Music] [Music] [Music] oh [Music] [Applause] jesus there's nobody [Music] he'll be there [Music] me [Music] [Music] 17 [Music] is there is no greater name than jesus [Music] [Applause] [Music] all of us have become all too familiar with the refrain i can't breathe whether it was eric gardner in new york or george floyd that reframe i can't breathe was a life-and-death cry because we all know that the inability to breathe means that life is in jeopardy conversely the ability to breathe means that i am i'm taking in life and i'm free to live breath matters it matters for good and it is terribly detrimental when the ability to do it is lost we're talking about the names of the holy spirit today i want to talk about the holy spirit who is the breath the bible refers to the holy spirit as the breath he is literally the oxygen of god many scriptures bring this out but when you understand that he is your oxygen he is your ability to breathe it means he is your ability to live life and death is tied to our relationship to the holy spirit because that is the relationship we have to breath it is the rallying cry of the christian and of the christian community it is to the degree that we are breathing the holy spirit is to the degree that we experience the life and presence of god in our midst it is to the degree we experience hope in the midst of hopelessness i remember the doctor was giving a patient some information on some tests that they did he said i've got some bad news and i've got some really bad news what do you want to hear first he said well what's the bad news the bad news is based on your test results you only have 24 hours to live he said well what's the really bad news well the really bad news is i should have told you this yesterday because things can really go from bad to worse and just as the physical respiratory system is in trouble when you can't breathe so is the spiritual respiratory system in trouble when you can't breathe in john chapter 20 we read these verses beginning with verse 19. so when it was evening on that day the first day of the week sunday when the doors were shut where the disciples were for fear of the jews jesus came and stood in their midst and said peace be with you and when he had said this he showed them both his hands and his side the disciples then rejoiced when they saw the lord so jesus said to them peace be with you as the father sent me i also send you and when he said this he breathed on them and said receive the holy spirit if you forgive the sins of any their sins have been forgiven them if you retain the sins of any their sins have been retained it says he breathed on them and what happened they received the holy spirit the hebrew word in the old testament for the breath of god the spirit of god is ruach the breath of god hovered over creation and brought life out of chaos in genesis 1. in genesis 2 verse 7 it says god breathed he rocked the spirit of god into dirt that god had formed into a man and man became a living soul you see the ruach is the breath of god that gives life when jesus was talking to nicodemus in john chapter 3 verses 5 to 8 he said new life comes from this breath of god the spirit of god in fact jesus said in john chapter 6 verse 63 that this spirit of god gives life the new testament word is pneuma where we get pneumonia from it has to do with the ability to breathe so both the old testament word ruach the new testament greek word pneuma is designed to let you know that the spirit of god is tied to your ability to breathe that is your ability to live without the presence of the spirit of god you are d.o.a dead on arrival that's why ephesians 2 says in verse 1 that we were dead in our trespasses in our and our sins that a baby is born dead on arrival spiritually because they do not have the ruach that is the pneuma the life of god pulsating within them even though they have physical life and access to physical oxygen so the absence or presence of the spirit of god as the breath of god lets you know whether you are experiencing life jesus said in john 10 10 i have come to give you life and to give it to you more abundantly so the more of the holy spirit you are inhaling breathing the more life of god you experience the less of the holy spirit you are breathing the less of the life of god you are experiencing so you must have the life of god and then you must be breathing that life in order to live that is to experience the spiritual realm at the highest possible level so the breath of god is the spirit of god at work job 33 verse 4 says that the breath of god is the spirit of god so it combines the two the breath of god is the spirit of god the spirit of god is the breath of god so when god exhales it's the spirit of god working god doesn't just exhale he exhales life because the spirit gives life one of the problems today that we have is because people christians are not breathing the holy spirit we're not experiencing the life of god like it was meant to have now non-believers can't breathe him because they don't have him so they do the best they can but believers have been given a personal internal oxygen tent we've been given the life of god to breathe god's life within us outside of us around us because he is the life of god that is within us frankenstein was a monster but when he was first created he was anatomically correct but he couldn't do anything because he wasn't alive but the moment he got struck with life he became animated and alive far too many people are monsters in their attitudes and actions character and conduct because they haven't yet learned to breathe and the holy spirit is in fact the breath of god now you can fake breathing one of the things you probably won't uh ever see me applying for a job for is a mortician that's just not it just doesn't grab me to be living my life in the midst of cadavers now one of the reasons is i had a friend who was a mortician and he worked on cadavers all the time and he was explaining to me what happens when they're working on cadavers he says sometimes there is muscular reaction when they're working on a cadaver in other words sometimes it'll twitch sometimes the cadaver will blink he said one time he was working on a cadaver and there was such a rumbling of muscular reaction it literally knocked itself off the table now you know i i'm not that's not my job description because if i was there and i saw it do that there would be two cadavers on the floor the one that was there and me all right so being a mortician that's not that's not my thing because you could actually be anatomically correct you can go to church you can go to prayer meeting you can read your bible you can do the religious thing without breath you can have the movements the muscular reactions either because you're not a christian or because you are a fleshly christian and you aren't breathing the breath of god which is the work of the holy spirit psalm 104 verse 30 says that all of creation exists and all of creation is renewed in its life because of the spirit so even non-christians don't know it but they benefit from the holy spirit because the holy spirit brings life to to the created order so the even even living your physical life is tied to the holy spirit even when you don't have a spiritual life so so non-believers don't know it but they even have a reason to praise god that they can breathe physically but you and i get to breathe physically and spiritually because one of the names of the holy spirit is the very breath of god in this passage there was a problem jesus has died now he's risen from the dead and it is resurrected body he comes through a closed door we see that the doors were shut and jesus stood in their midst there had to be a sight he walks through a shut door by the way you'll be able to do that in your glorified body that's why jesus was able to step on a cloud when he was lifted up in the ascension to heaven 40 days after he rose from the dead because the physical body will be able to do things that it cannot do limited as it is in this world order but when you get your glorified body you'll be able to walk through matter and still be physical you'll be able to eat it's going gonna be an amazing reality because the bible says our bodies will be like his so you're gonna be able to do things you can only imagine now so you can imagine when they saw the resurrected christ come through the door when the resurrected christ came through the door it says they were huddled together for fear of the jews they were afraid that the those who had killed jesus was now going to kill them so they huddled together because of their fear they could not breathe we're living in a world today where there's a lot to be afraid of in our human existence we're afraid of disease we're afraid of viruses we're afraid of violence we're afraid of our health breakdown conflict racially culturally we're afraid of abuse well they were afraid and they could not breathe you ever notice when you're afraid it takes a little work to breathe you might you might not have been conscious of your breathing before then but you're conscious now because something has invaded your peace so now you understand why jesus says peace be with you because he knew they were scared they were terrified their lives were in danger so if you are afraid today of what's happening around you what's happening in our nation what's happening with our families there is in our humanity a reason to be afraid yes but jesus shows up the resurrected christ and he brings with him oxygen he brings with him the breath so let's look at this a little closer he comes with fear and he says in verse 19 of john 20 peace be with you what he what is he doing he's uh dialing down the fear temperature peace be with you well wait man i'm scared how is peace going to be with me because i'm with you now watch this you have the person of the risen christ watch this and the word of the risen christ you have the person of the risen christ because he's risen from the dead he's come through a closed door resurrected christ and the word of christ because he doesn't just show up he talks he speaks and he speaks peace to them so if you are scared if you're a little toe up from the flow up if you're a little shook up if your world has been rocked i want to let you know that jesus has risen and just as he walks through woken or walks through closed doors he can break into your life like in revelation 3 behold i stand at the door and knock if any man opens up the door he stands wanting to enter in he even though he has risen still wants to enter in to what is causing you to be emotionally or circumstantially disabled right now the context is the context of fear but he brings his presence and he brings the word so let me bring the word because he says peace be still he says peace be unto you when you are cultivating a relationship with the risen christ when you just aren't a christian but you're cultivating a relationship you've led him through the door and you are listening to his word you are now ready to breathe again because right after those two things he breathes on them what does it mean he imparts life of the holy spirit to calm their fears the word of god is the word of life the word of god gives life the bible says in second timothy 3 16 and 17 all scripture is inspired of god the greek word there is theo dos which means to out breathe to exhale so all scripture is the holy ghost of god it is inspired the bible explains in second peter chapter one in second peter chapter one verse 20 and 21 it says that no prophecy is given a private interpretation but the men who wrote scripture was born along they were born along by the spirit of god so the word of god is the breath of god it's the voice of god in print but you say i'm not seeing it give me peace but wait a minute it is the voice of god remember jesus showed up and then he spoke whenever you separate the word of god from the relationship with god it may not have the life-giving effect of the spirit on you that's why you don't just want to have a relationship with jesus you want to have a relationship with his word in other words you want the living word to be connected to the written word so that the breath of god he breathed on them the holy spirit can bring life into your circumstance into your situation and into your environment you see the problem today is we got folk who can't breathe trying to get along we got folk who can't breathe trying to get along with themselves and you know if you can't get along with you we're gonna have problems with you and me getting along with one another but when the spirit of god is connected with the word of god because it's tied to the person of god that we are seeking to pursue a relationship with so when you read the bible you don't just read it because the verse of day will keep the devil away you read it because you're looking for the lord you're reading it because lord show me how i can get closer to you by reading what i read today lord show me what you want me to obey because i know if i obey you i'm drawing closer to you and if i grow closer to you i'm going to get more oxygen from you you see it is the trinity it is god it is jesus it is the holy spirit based on the word that's teaming up to give you life and like a xerox machine what the holy spirit does is he xeroxes the truth of the bible onto your heart you've literally put your heart on a xerox machine so that god could lift the words of scripture off of the page because of the relationship with jesus so that the word of god is in your heart it is being manifested in your life in other words it has become an experience let me tell you what the job of the spirit is the job of the spirit is to take a still photograph and turn it into a motion picture i remember many years ago when the passion of the christ came out many of us saw the movie now i have read about the crucifixion of christ in all the gospels can tell you what it says i can tell you how it seemed like it would have felt but when i went and saw the movie the passion of the christ i didn't just read it and i didn't just understand it i experienced it we've all known what it is to enter into the experience of something because it has become more real to us than just learning about it and reading about it the bible can seem like a dead book now the bible is not a dead book the scripture is clear that the bible is alive but it can seem like a dead book because it hasn't become animated in our experience yet but when i saw the passion of the christ i felt the lashes that jesus was going through i felt the thorns didn't feel them physically but i felt them emotionally tears welled up in my eyes because i was entering into the experience of the crucifixion you know what the holy spirit's job is when you start when you start to breathe the holy spirit's job is to turn the book that's given by a living author who's written a living document and to animate it in your life so you breathe again so that you are experiencing the reality of god operating within your life and it is to the degree you know when you turn on a faucet based on how much you turn it on will tell you how much water flows if you just turn on a little bit you get drips or maybe you get a slow run you turn on a lot you get a gush a lot of us are living our christian lives with either the faucet off or barely turned on so we just get a drip of animation and then there are those spiritual christians who let the water just gush out of the faucet because the dynamic relationship with the breathing is a way of life it's not a sunday visit that's why the bible says in galatians chapter 5 verse 25 if we live by the spirit we need to walk by the spirit if we live by the spirit if he's the life source that every believer has he must become the way you walk in other words god does not want you visiting the holy spirit just because you have him he wants you walking with him that is living in reliance on him that's why the bible says pray without ceasing it doesn't mean get on your knees 24 hours a day it means operate all of your life in consultation with him let me ask you a question when you're breathing do you just do this is that how you breathe that's not how you breathe cause that's not living if you gotta if you got to do that like that you're not living you're existing something else is going on you know what cuz breathing is something just a natural flow it's the way you flow it's the way you operate in other words you breathe so naturally you don't even think about breathing until you can't breathe okay let me make this more personal i grew up as an asthmatic i still carry the remnants of asthma today i have a inhaler that i take as needed but growing up it was really bad i had to go once a week to the hospital to get epinephrine shots to control my asthma was a bad problem the problem with asthma is you can't breathe you're wheezing you're struggling because your lungs are not able to take it in and put it out you feel like you're dying inside when it gets bad enough and many have lost their life due to asthma attacks what's the problem i can't breathe i can't breathe my natural way of operating has been interrupted he says if you live by the spirit if you live by the breath if you have the holy spirit within you you need to learn to walk with him that is operate in concert with him in other words holy spirit got me in this situation holy spirit i need you to leave me and sometimes you just think it sometimes you don't you're not in a position to say it but it's the way you're operating you're walking with him you are you're rolling with him he's part of the consultation but you say but i'm supposed to roll with jesus absolutely and the holy spirit is christ in you so when you're rolling with the holy spirit you're rolling with jesus and when you're rolling with jesus you're rolling with the father because these computers are networked they're all hooked up together but the one who is operating in you now on behalf of the father and the son is the person of the holy spirit and it is his job to enable you to breathe that is to operate with spiritual life and when he gives you the ability to operate with spiritual life he speaks peace to you jesus says in john 16 in this world you will have tribulation but be of good cheer i have overcome the world he spoke peace to them and what god wants you to do is experience his peace he doesn't want us to succumb to the chaos around us you may not be able to stop the chaos you may not be able to change the chaos but you're not to be controlled by the chaos once the chaos is controlling you that means you're not living in the peace the peace of god watch this which the bible says passes understanding how does the peace of god pass understand it because you don't understand why in the world you have it right now given what you're going through giving what you're living in giving what you're facing you want to know how am i calm in this chaos you remember in mark chapter 4 verses 35 to 41 the disciples are crossing the uh they're crossing the sea of galilee jesus is asleep on the stern and they hit a lilac a lilac is a windstorm that's tossing this boat all over the place and they are scurred they think they're going to die and he's a professional fisherman so this was a bad storm jesus is asleep on the stern it says with his head on a cushion that means on a pillow pillow you know he he got his head on a pillow in a storm and guess what they said carrots thou not that we perish that was not just a storm on the outside there was a storm on the inside they thought they were going to die they were afraid and isn't that how we feel when life has crashed in on us we've all experienced it i've experienced it you've experienced it those feelings that god doesn't care right now martha and mary had that in john 11. they said if you would have been here a brother would not have perished what were they saying i don't know that you care and we can be super spiritual and say oh i never feel like that i've never felt like that and maybe there are few super spiritual people who have never had that feeling but sometimes you don't want it you don't expect it it just shows up and you want to get rid of it but it's there and so they said don't you care we can't breathe because we can ray die it says they aroused him in other words he was in deep sleep they had to shake him back they had to get him up because he was dying or they were dying and they needed their savior to intervene he said oh you have little faith why are you so timid in other words you should be scared right now you should be terrified right now why shouldn't we be terrified don't you know we get ready to die how can you sleep when we can't breathe when we're scared we're huffing and puffing because they say they were bailing the water out so they huffing them we can't breathe we can't breathe because jesus said let us go to the other side so he went to sleep you see you know what our fear does it causes us to forget his word he said let us go to the other side not let us go halfway and drown but that's what circumstances do it causes us to forget what god says and to focus on the circumstance then you can't skip the fact that you're being inundated with a storm but he wants his word to overrule so they had his presence he was in the boat they had his word let us go to the other side and they forgot both so they lost the work of the spirit giving them peace jesus said peace be still they said what manner of man is this that even the winds and the waves obey him see you need to know who you're dealing with jesus in john 20 walked through a door and he said peace be unto you same thing he did in mark he said chill calm down cool it he said i got this yeah we got that problem out there but i'm in here you know one of the reasons we can't breathe jesus is too far from us the word of god is too rare to us oh yeah we open it when the preacher gives us a scripture but we don't know where to go when in various situations show up in our lives we don't know what psalm to go to to give us peace in the storm or when we are afraid of uh of a virus or when we are afraid of violence or danger we don't know where to turn because we only go to it when it's convenient we don't breathe it this is not the air we breathe i challenge all of you to read psalm 119 the longest chapter in the bible it's all about one subject the word of god and david says this word of god is my life here's why because the spirit of god here it is only works in his fullness in concert with the word of god don't miss that if you want to breathe if you want to hear peace be unto you because you're scared no matter what is causing that fear the spirit of god who is the breath of god will only give you the oxygen you need not because he doesn't want to but because you're not breathing the right stuff you got too much smog in your life you're not taking advantage of the word of god so to help you out here i want to take you to another passage that i can only summarize but i don't want you to miss this it's in the book of ezekiel the book of ezekiel chapter 37. it's the famous valley of dry bones now when you get a chance read all 14 verses meditate on it because it puts it all together so that you can breathe again if you have the holy spirit in you you have the oxygen tank it's already in there but you can have an oxygen tent and not use it so you can be huffing and puffing and not having peace that the breath of god who is the holy spirit offers to believers he says in verse 1 the spirit of the lord sent me to a valley full of dry bones what was the problem with these dry bones he says can these bones live again they're so dry they are lifeless it was so bad all that ezekiel could say is at the end of verse 3 oh lord god you know i can't answer that question because it looks real bad are you in a real bad situation are you are you having a spiritual asthma attack because everything around you is causing you to causing you to be constricted in your soul and you're wheezing trying to breathe with all the chaos that's surrounding you he tells the prophet verse 4 prophesy over these bones old dry bones hear the word of the lord so give them some bible prophesy over them give them the word of the lord in their situation now watch verse 5 thus saith the lord god to these bones behold i will cause breath uh-uh there's our word to enter you that you may come to life hello the spirit of the lord leads him he says listen to the word so i can give you breath breath is the holy spirit as you'll see i'ma cause breath to enter so verse 7 i prophesied as i was commanded and the bones began to rattle uh oh the bones began to shake and bake then he said verse nine prophesy to the breath to the spirit prophecy son of man and say to the breath the spirit thus saith the lord god come from the four winds the spirit from everywhere all breath and breathe on thee slain that they may come to life oh this is getting good and good he's prophesying to the bones but then he's prophesying to the breath the breath is the spirit coming from the four winds it's the air it's the air we breathe so the the bones that are dry hopeless helpless they're desperate he says prophesy to him tell them bones it's time to live it's time not to not to fake it no more time not to be just going to church and living in your dryness but then prophesy to the breath the spirit why am i prophesying to the spirit because the holy spirit acts in concert with the word so when you get the word of god and you are speaking the word of god the spirit of god attaches to it and when the spirit of god attaches to the word of god something begins to happen so i prophesied verse 10 as he commanded me and the breath came to them and they came to life and stood on their feet an exceedingly great army let me read a little bit more verse 11. then he said to me son of man these bones are the whole house of israel or to put in the new testament word it's the whole church behold they say our bones are dried up and our hope has perished so how do you know you have no life because you have no hope when your hope leaves your life leaves he says our hope is gone we are completely cut off can't find god nowhere but then he says prophesy and say to them verse 12 thus saith the lord god behold i will open your graves and cause you to come up out of your graves my people and i will bring you into the land of israel then i then you will know that i am the lord when i open your graves and cause you to come up out of your graves my people i will put my spirit within you verse 14 and you will here it is come to life and i will place you on your land you will know that i am the lord and have spoken and has done this declares the lord did you did you see that he said i'ma take you out your grave you feel like you're dying because you know when you're dying you're losing your breath you can't breathe you feel like you you you're in crisis you're the world is in crisis the culture's in crisis the church is in crisis we're in crisis and god says it's time to breathe why is god allowed all of this stuff to take our breath away crisis after crisis chaos after chaos conflict after conflict why this divine disruption that you will know i am the lord it's not by might it's by my spirit says the lord it's not because you come up with a new program or because you elect a certain person to a political office it's not because of that i've interrupted all this stuff it's not because of your money it's not because of your clout it's not because of your notoriety no if you don't have my spirit you can have all that and be in a graveyard you know what he's trying to do god is trying to wake up the church this is all about waking up to church because we can't get them to live out there if we dig in our own graves in here he says i want to give you life and how do you know you have life he says because you're going to be commissioned for spiritual impact whoever sends you remit they will be remitted he says in john 20. he says in other words you're going to make a spiritual impact you know what the world is waiting for spiritual impact you know why we're not having spiritual impact because we're six feet under we're in our graves we're saved we're on our way to heaven but there is no life and he says there's no hope that's when me when hope is gone then then being alive as it was meant to be spiritual life is lost you and i have a plan that god has given us to make a spiritual impact in the world but if god can't even make a spiritual impact in the aisles of our church why do we think he'll make a spiritual impact in the isles of congress or in the streets of the city when there's a graveyard in the sanctuary so it's time to come alive and that's based on the breath but not breathing occasionally breathing the holy spirit as you connect it with the word of god you should now be running to the scripture running to the bible running to find out or get someone to help you find out where do i go and we're going to help you do that by giving you scriptures to run to and talk to the holy spirit all day long as you go from this situation to that situation as you're feeling hopelessness bring him in on it so that he can breathe life into you and me you know one of the issues today and throughout the year of 2020 is corona 2020 is the year that everybody was fearful of corona because it's the virus that had no mercy didn't care who you were whether you were rich or poor black or white hispanic or asian didn't care where you lived because it was a worldwide epidemic the great fear of corona was that when it hit you it would create inflammation and that in inflaming would hit the lungs and if it got bad enough and it hit the lungs you can't breathe you lose the ability to breathe so what the united states did was it called on places all over the country to retrofit their manufacturing factories to produce more ventilators because we were running short of ventilators and so they were calling on groups to to have enough ventilators for focal what who can't breathe now a ventilator has one job to come as an aid to people who can't breathe and give them the ability to breathe that they no longer have on their own it literally does the breathing for them you know what the goal of the ventilator is to save lives the ventilator is there for folk who can breathe to save lives you and i are living in a spiritual virus and it doesn't care who you are where you live what your color is culture is what your economic status is and it hits everybody everywhere so that you lose hope and you lose life and it doesn't care whether you're a church goer or not but god has a venerating system a ventilator and guess what he's manufactured more than enough in fact he's got this ventilation system so sophisticated it's not one operating outside to put a tube on you he's built it inside of you to breathe for you inside out so even though you got this fearful situation in the culture this fearful situation of evil this fearful situation of circumstances inside of you is a holy ghost ventilator and he wants to do the breathing for you and if you'll connect the risen christ with the word of god so that god breathes on you you'll hear him say to you regardless of the circumstances out there peace be unto you you can calm down now because the holy spirit is the air you breathe now if you've heard my voice and you don't have a ventilation system you're living in hopelessness and despair you're living in worry and anxiety and you want peace within there is a peace provider the lord jesus christ and if you will come to the lord jesus christ and acknowledge the fact that you have been infected by the virus of sin you are a sinner and you need a savior you've tried to find your own ventilation system but it hasn't working your own ventilator but it's not it's not it's not doing the job jesus will give you a built-in one if you'll go to him right now and acknowledge your sin your need for a savior because he only saved sinners and your willingness and decision to trust him alone the lord jesus christ who died on the cross for you to be your savior you can go to him right now and say i receive you i trust you to enter into my life forgive me of my sin and i receive now your gift of eternal life and the holy spirit breathe on me lord come into my life and make me your child if you're already a christian if you're already on your way to heaven but you still may be choking a little bit you may happy having a little spiritual asthma attack you're wheezing because there's so much chaos surrounding you here it is that's why we offer communion each week to be a reminder it's christ in you that's the hope of glory and how is he in you through the holy spirit and the holy spirit is in you he said he's in you you don't have to go find him you can't get away from him if you're a believer he's in you you and i look in all the wrong places to find peace he's in you as you go to the lord right now i want you to thank him for the holy spirit and i want you to tell the lord you're going to walk with the spirit you're going to hang out with him you ain't going gonna leave him on the side you're gonna bring him in on everything because you need him for all the things that are gonna face you in this upcoming week and that provision was made by the cross thank the lord for the holy spirit that he's going to be with you all late all week long and as you eat this bread you're remembering that provision was made because of the cross let's eat together [Music] and now the cup that provision was made because of the blood that provides forgiveness of sin shall we drink together [Music] thank you lord that you've not left us alone but your word can come alive in our hearts because of the work of the holy spirit we yield ourselves to him now in jesus name amen what an awesome word i can't wait to see you again next week thank you for joining us this week and remember to be steadfast unmovable always abound in the work of the lord know that it will not go in vain remember sunday morning 10 a.m ocbfchurch.org ocbf youtube ocbf facebook we can't wait to see you again next week [Music] blessings [Music] you

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