The Holy Spirit In The Life of the Believer

so tonight we're going to be commencing this study that we're going to entitle the holy spirit in the life of the believer and i'm going to ask you to definitely take notes especially if you have questions because on the wednesday nights like this when we do get the questions i know that i'm very very bad about that i promised you questions on wednesday nights and i'm hoping that tonight will be one of those nights so we'll go as far as we can this evening but i'm going to ask you to grab your bibles or look at the screens if you don't have a new king james version bible and if you don't have a new king james you ought to buy a new king james bible they're pretty cool you know the these and the vows are out and they put in the you and me's but they have stayed true to the accuracy of the scripture the new king james version that's what we'll be reading on the screens and so let me read this along and if you again if something pops up in your mind there's no paper in front of the seat that's there in front of you you pull it out and you write it down because i don't want anybody to leave this place tonight in any way confused because it's my opinion that satan would love to have you confused about the holy spirit because i got to tell you church you're not going to have any impact and you're not going to have any joy and you're not going to have any fun as a believer unless you understand the workings of the holy spirit and when i say fun i mean this kind of fun like like like like ripping up the world for jesus kind of fun okay so here we go these letters technically should be written in red huh this is jesus speaking he says let not your heart be troubled you believe in god believe also in me in my father's house are many mansions if it were not so i would have told you i go to prepare a place for you and if i go notice now listen he's leaving he's announcing that he's leaving and he's telling us don't be troubled by the fact that he's leaving it's essential that he leaves he's got to go and prepare a place for you i will come again and receive you to myself that where i am there you may be also that's a key statement because he's announcing i'm leaving earth i'm going to heaven i'm preparing a place there and there's going to come a time when i'm going to take you there okay but for our study's sake that's not what we're focusing on by the way if you are an eschatologist this is the first introductory verse by jesus christ himself regarding the doctrine of the rapture right here by jesus himself i'm leaving i'm going to prepare a place for you i'm coming back i'm going to grab you i'm going to take you to that place that i've been preparing for you it's not on earth it's in heaven verse 4 and where i go you know and the way you know thomas said to him lord we do not know where you are going don't you love thomas he's the best and how can we know the way and jesus said to him see if he wouldn't have asked that we never would have known this next awesome verse i am the way the truth and the life no one comes to the father except through me oh i love that when you're not a christian you hate that verse because it's so narrow this is jesus saying it and he's saying this is the way i'm the ticket i'm the key i'm the path it's vital if you had known me verse 7 you would have known my father also and from now on you know him and have seen him i'm going to insert this what jesus is saying cannot happen to your life without the holy spirit owning you and you'll never be able to merge the understanding or the love or the relationship that you can have with the father and with the son unless the holy spirit is operational in your life you are not going to get that intercourse between the father and the son and the believer without the holy spirit being in your life that's why if people read this they don't get it i'll simply submit to you tonight you need the spirit of god in your life to understand this jesus makes that very clear and so he says and from now on you know him and have seen him verse 8 philip said to him lord show us the father and it is sufficient for us i love all these questions by these guys jesus said to him to philip have i been with you so long and yet you have not known me philip he who has seen me has seen the father what does that mean i'll tell you what it doesn't mean listen up it doesn't mean that jesus is the father make sure you know that jesus is not the holy spirit jesus is not the father jesus is jesus the spirit is the spirit and the father is the father so then what is jesus saying this is awesome to be reminded of jesus is announcing by this if you and you know this if you've read the entire uh gospels jesus said i only say those things my father tells me to say and i only do those things my father tells me to do and i do nothing without him saying so and i say nothing without him saying so the will of the father is exactly what i do that's the meaning behind what jesus is saying he is announcing have i been so long with you and you're still trying to figure out who the father is look at me meaning everything i say everything i do is the exact expressed perfect will of the father so in other words when the woman was caught in the act of adultery and the pharisees grabbed her which why were they there watching i think it was a set up they drug her to jesus threw her down at his feet and said moses says the stoner what do you say and jesus begins to announce to them you who are without sin which one of you have no sin go ahead and cast the first stone and the bible says that he stooped down in that awesome he stooped down and began to write in the dirt and the bible tells us that they being convicted each of them began to leave the oldest first to the youngest you hear the genius of that jesus stoops down and answers the question moses is killer what do you say jesus and jesus begins to write in the dirt and these pharisees the oldest one you know why the oldest person left the oldest pharisee left first when you're older you're very aware you've lived longer you've sinned more when you the longer you live the longer you live the more sin you rack up on your sin-o-meter the oldest person leaves first and then the younger ones young people you got to love them the younger ones are harder to convince because they have they have an ideology that is sometimes accurate most often theoretical it's something that they've got to get through it's part of growing up but the younger theologians they they're really impressed with themselves finally they get convicted and they leave and jesus says to the woman woman where are your accusers and she says lord she looks around i i i think i i think i think she said it like this woman where are your accusers and she says lord i have none [Laughter] and jesus says neither do i condemn thee go now and sin no more in other words uh go live a different life now okay how did that happen there's no there's no war jesus said your sins are forgiven and yet there was no gospel preached you know you don't even read about the word repent because you don't have to the holy spirit had convicted her of her sins jesus is going to teach us tonight that the holy spirit does the convicting humans cannot convict now you may think that you're the holy spirit's helper you're not you may be a sin sniffer and a fault finder you're not we are commanded to love we're commanded to love even our enemies which the fun part is if you have you ever loved one of your enemies i i've i had an enemy i had wha i have enemies i just haven't gotten a chance to love them all yet but i had a real enemy years ago guy was out to get me big time and uh of the worst type of enemy it was out of pure envy uh something that happened and this person became very envious and is outside of my control uh and the the lord said i want you to love him and i thought was that lord you want me to kill him now i want you to love him and i uh i can honestly tell you i did not want to do that and it was really hard for me and so i said lord i'm going to do this for you and i want you to i want you to know i'm doing it for you and lord i'd appreciate it you've never if you would never forget that i'm doing this for you out of absolute obedience to you because i don't want to do this and i did it and it didn't change that person one bit you know who it changed it completely changed me totally set me free that person that person no longer had control over my life that was supernatural it was like what there's like an explosion happen how did that happen holy spirit the holy spirit did that amen and so he says show us the father and he says do you not believe that i am in the father and the father in me the words that i speak to you i do not speak on my own authority but the father who dwells in me that's important does the works verse 11 says believe me that i am in the father and the father in me or else believe me for the sake of the works themselves verse 12. most assuredly i say to you he who believes in me the works that i listen the works that i do he will do also and greater works than these will he do because i go to my father stop right there jesus christ is saying that it is so expectant of those who believe in me to do greater works than me can you imagine how can you how can i do greater works than jesus i've never raised anybody from the dead would i like to raise somebody from that'd be cool but then i'd have to have enough faith to pray for that dead person to raise them which is kind of overwhelming have you ever been next to a dead person and somebody says pray ask god to let me tell you you need to find some faith that's a big deal i've not done that i don't know maybe you have i've not done that that's not what jesus is talking about jesus is talking about something that's greater than that what in the world can we do that's greater than raising the dead what in the world is it that we can do by the power of the holy spirit based on the words of jesus that are greater than walking on water it doesn't matter if you walk on water would it be cool to walk on water would it be awesome to walk from here to catalina i think it'd be awesome but that's not important it's not needed it's not needed the greater work the greater work is the holy spirit in you leading other people to christ is the greater work that's the greatest work for you to be a witness to someone that leads them to the love of god greater works that uh that he will do because i go to my father notice notice it goes back to earlier verse 14 or chapter 14 early on i'm going i'm leaving you're going to be able to do this because i'm going i got to go and whatever you ask in my name that i will do that the father may be glorified in the son if you ask anything in my name i will do it verse 15 if you love me keep my commandments i can't do that unless the holy spirit does it in me you ever feel inadequate okay first let me scratch that raise your hand everyone just raise your hand keep them up raise your hand if you feel inadequate there you are all you have to do is read those three words keep my commandments into this that's it i'm going home no no no no you cannot do it he does it in you don't lose heart he does this you don't do christianity christianity is done to you by the holy spirit amen you know what it's not in my notes but let's just say it god says to his priesthood in the old testament you got to put cotton in your crotch and in your armpits did you know this the priests were ordered to put cotton in their armpits and in their crotch because god said my priest shall never sweat you know what's awesome about that when we start sweating we're not trusting in him when we're when we start sweating and get anxious we need to back up and calm down my priest shall never sweat and the bible tells us and peter that we are a kingdom of priests to our god he says in verse 16 and i will pray to the father and he will give you another there's the word don't notice by the way even in the english it's in capital h the word is parakletos or paraclete paraquatos pera para parachute parabol parallel it means alongside clitos peroquitos the helper who comes alongside you you hear what he's saying i'm leaving i gotta go i gotta go by the way i gotta go i'm gonna build you a place i'll come pick you up but i gotta go for a lot of reasons i gotta go if i go listen i'll give you another helper that he may abide with you forever the spirit of truth so mark it down in your notes that's that's one of the names of the holy spirit the spirit of truth whom the world cannot receive in other words listen up everybody this is not going to go over big this go over like a bunch of rocks the spirit of truth in you and i in this world the world cannot receive instantly the christian how many of you are christians raise your hands okay the christian who's possessed by the holy spirit is at odds with this world and the world cannot receive your worldview now they don't get it look let's be honest before we were christians we didn't get it come on and this immediately puts us at odds you're not of this world anymore remember the bible tells us that we are our ambassadors for christ and that greek word for ambassador is an ambassador that is sent to go into a hostile territory it's not an ambassador you know like the ambassador of the rose parade oh big deal what do you do you sit in a car and you wave no no we're talking about an ambassador that goes into where would that be today uh north korea or iran to be an ambassador can you imagine going to going into iran and saying hey i'm a christian kim jong-un before you press the next button i just want you to know i'm a christian that's the word that's radical that's how we are in this world the world doesn't get it they don't get us they don't understand that's why they think we hate you're you're all these things you christians you this and this by the way beware beware if you claim to be a christian and everybody of the world thinks you're awesome jesus said you can't be friends of both you know that conviction you're feeling right now that's the holy spirit talking i just want people to like me they're not going to unless you give them stuff the way humans are i just want a lot of friends you don't need a lot of friends they just got news for you don't need a lot of friends you just need you know first of all you've got jesus yeah but i want somebody to hold my hand okay you you only need two or three of those okay i've got 5 000 people on my facebook friends no you don't they're not your friends i have all these friends i have hundreds of thousands of friends on facebook and they ain't always nice to me so how can they be my friends right think of that it's kind of weird well let me back up actually verse 17 for the spirit of truth whom the world cannot receive because it neither knows him or sees him nor knows him but you know him for he dwells with you listen watch with you and we'll be in you this is this is amazing we may not get any further tonight just due to the importance of this statement verse 17 jesus is saying the holy spirit operationally is always alongside everybody he's he's everywhere he's listen the holy spirit in future weeks we'll get into his deity but the holy spirit is god and we'll prove that to you if you know if you have any jehovah witness friends in the next five six weeks seven ten weeks bring them bring them it's bring them they need to know this because they do not believe the holy spirit is a person and they do not believe that he is god and the bible says he's god and we're going to show you where it says all that so watch this he dwells for he dwells with alongside you and some of you have the old king james where it says and shall be in you that's a futuristic statement when jesus said this it hadn't happened yet what hadn't happened yet it had never happened in the history of mankind up until this time and that is the holy spirit had yet to dwell inside of a human being jesus christ is our prototype he's a he's the forerunner so the holy spirit is not only god we heard a moment ago that the father dwells within the son the son within the father and we understand that the trinity is not able to be trisected and so god is one right did hero the shema here here o israel the lord our god is one okay so jesus is saying the holy spirit is alongside you but something's going to happen and he's going to be in you in fact he's going to be in you to the point we read a moment ago forever verse at the end of verse 16. so he says he dwells with you and will be in you verse 18 i will not leave you orphans i will come to you okay this gets incredibly beautifully wild look at that carefully bible students we're talking about jesus the son of god he's speaking right you all agree on that he's talking about the father we all agree on that and he's talking about the helper the paraqualitos the holy spirit well understand that this is amazing look at verse 18. i will not leave you stop right there you just told us you were leaving did you did you catch that got to go got to go see ya i'm going to go i'm gonna go build you a place i'll come back gotta go in fact it's better for you for me to go i'm gonna send the holy spirit though i'm not gonna leave you orphaned i said okay i get that okay so he's not going to leave us orphaned he's going to send us the holy spirit yes but notice what he says i will not leave you i will come to you how does jesus christ interact in your life if we went right now and asked all the children in children's ministry where's jesus where's jesus uh jay vernon mcgee was talking about a kid that went to his school a church for the first time some of you have heard this this is awesome so this this family shopping for a church and they go to a church and the kid goes to the sunday school class and the teacher is trying to get the kids to understand where's jesus where's jesus and it just freaked the kid out and so the teacher was saying okay do you know do you know and he she says to this kid oh you're you're new so he concluded wait a minute they're asking where's jesus she's asking do you know do you know and then she just figured out that i'm new here and the kid got up and ran and got a hold of his parents and said we've got to leave this church we have to leave this church and the parents said what are you talking about why and he said they don't know where jesus is and they're trying to pin it on me that's very cute if you go to children's ministry and ask the kids where's jesus listen it's so amazing only only 150 feet from here think about it if i ask you where jesus is you're going to go like this if if i ask the kids where's jesus they're going to go like this did you know that and jesus said you need to become like a little kid to enter the kingdom of heaven now are you correct in pointing up i guess i mean symbolically we point up it's like but they get it that's the right answer inside okay guys put up john 15 starting at verse 18. john 15 18. if the world hates you you know that it hated me before it hated you if you were of the world the world would love its own does the world love you good yet because you are not of the world but i chose you out of the world therefore the world hates you remember the word that i said to you a servant is not greater than his master if they persecuted me they will also persecute you if they if they kept my word they will keep yours also verse 21 but all these things they will do to you for my name's sake because they do not know him who sent me verse 22 if i had not come and spoken to them they would have no sin but now they have no excuse for their sin he who hates me hates my father also verse 24 if i had not done among them the works which or miracles which no one else did they would have no sin but now they have seen and also hated both me and my father but this happened that the word might be fulfilled which is written in their law they hated me without a cause because when the helper look at that all of a sudden he goes from persecution and assault guilt guilt by association the christian with jesus and the father he goes right back to verse 26 and he says but when the helper comes when the holy spirit comes the paraqualitos whom i shall send to you from the father by the way here's the trinity in the bible the spirit of truth who proceeds from the father he will testify of me let's keep going with this john 16 verse 7 through 11 john 16 verses 7 through 11 you guys okay i know we're just we're not even really teaching tonight we're just walking through this tonight but this is good for us plus it's the most bible you've had all day today so it's great nevertheless i tell you the truth it is to your here you go this is amazing it is to your advantage that i go away those guys must have been scratching their heads jesus you don't get it we'd rather just hang out with you it's amazing there's free food with you there's always action it's amazing anybody dies you raise them up anybody's sick do you heal them no we want to stay with you don't leave don't go no he said it's better for you it's you're you're going to have an advantage if i go away for if i do not go away the helper will not come to you but if i depart i will send them to you you know what that means do you know what the day of pentecost means do you know what happened what happened the holy spirit came down and the church was born on the day of pentecost that's 50 penta cost in other parts of the world they're called 50-day christians did you know that 50-day i'm really seriously i'm not joking 50-day christians the christians who believe in the full gospel are we know we know in america they'll say pentecostal but if you believe in the gospels if you believe in the full in the full gospel of god they'll co in other parts of the world they call them oh you must be a 50-day christian if you believe the bible yep you're a 50-day christian what does that mean it means that the holy spirit controls you the holy spirit owns you so watch how cute this is this is awesome how do we know if jesus after he ascended do you remember he ascended from the mount of olivet up out of their sight how do we know jesus christ made it to heaven you have no evidence or proof whatsoever until 50 days later how do you well jack i don't get it because jesus said when i go to the father i'll send him to you you see what it take him 50 days to get there no it didn't take him 50 days to get there jesus came jesus sent the holy spirit on the feast of pentecost which listen the sending of the holy spirit by jesus down upon his church 2000 years ago was the actual fulfillment of the reason why there was a feast of pentecost in the old testament every old testament feast there's seven of them all of them have a new testament answer to him accept the feast of trumpets and the feast of tabernacles there's did you get that five of the feasts have been fulfilled in a new testament act example pentecost the holy spirit gave birth to the church two have not been fulfilled in new testament times we're waiting that we're waiting for it to happen the feast of trumpets get the trumpet hello a trumpet shall sound the dead in christ will rise and we who are alive and name shall be caught up to meet them in the air and where do we go we go to the father's house and we tabernacle with the father i will send him to you verse 8 and when he comes he will convict the world of sin this is amazing the holy spirit jesus said when the holy spirit comes to earth to do his work he's going to convict the world of sin what he does that's why people grind their teeth and hate god they they love their sin more than god and they grind their teeth and hatred against god listen i'm not joking when i say this i'm not being funny when we have legislators who try to silence the preaching of the word of god because it's offensive they are literally totally ignorant of who the holy spirit is they're trying to sue god when when the gospel's preached and the holy spirit's moving you want to know if you're going to a church where the holy spirit's moving there's going to be all kinds of stuff going on but the key thing will be conviction it's going to be the holy spirit that's going to tell you inside your head be nicer to your wife will ya it's the holy spirit that's going to say you know what it's not good for you to do drugs you're killing yourself he doesn't punch in the face you could be sleeping with bubbles tonight he's not going to beat you up he's going to tell you you shouldn't be sleeping with bubbles that's going to kill you but if you dig your heels in and you resist him the bible tells us in the book of revelation in the end people will be so hardened that it says that they're going to shake their fist and curse god well all these miracles are going on on earth what he loves you he knows exactly how your life is supposed to go how it's supposed to be let's finish this section and then we'll we'll have some q a okay so start thinking of your question now so we don't don't miss anything so he will convict the world of sin and of righteousness the holy spirit's the one that says that's right and that's wrong everybody knows it listen friends listen oh pastor pray for my teenager pray for my 23 year old daughter pray for my 25 year old sin they know the gospel but they've gone astray and they're nope i got it we'll pray just know this the holy spirit their life's miserable well no they're doing fine no they're not but they're making so much money and they're doing it that's okay it's okay if they're christians they're miserable if they're really putting it on the more they put it on no i'm doing great awesome it's so great oh man i'm doing great have you ever seen people do that to you so you haven't seen in a while yeah yeah i'm just kind of you know taking the break from god it's awesome just doing great i'm doing great they oversell it okay and it's not so great the world it's not so great if you're not a christian tonight and you're you know you you you're doing you you're doing your stuff whatever that is let's be honest it's not so great you talk that's why that's why you always talk it up on monday at work remember remember when you were not a christian you'd lie your face off on monday hey how was your weekend awesome what'd you guys do oh my goodness you won't believe it we did this and this and this and then we went and did that and oh man it wasn't that great you know it that's why you got to talk it up it wasn't so good he convicts us of sin and he also tells us what's the right way to go listen you're a wayward kid just i told the lady on uh sunday she she wanted me to call her son i go wait does he did you tell him that he shouldn't be doing this yes does he know the gospel yes i said how many times have you told him he shouldn't be doing this thousands and i said never tell him again stop it and just pray him pray him right in to the hands of god so i don't know how to do that and i thought i said you need to go like this dear lord the next time he goes to that place this is how you're going to pray ma'am lord the next time he goes to that place and puts his last stolen dollar into that slot machine and pulls it may he vomit all over the place may he get sick the next time he hears a casino that he would just be repulsed and become sick see can you pray like that that's in the bible it's in the bible david prayer david said lord my enemies you know who they are break their teeth off in their mouth did you know david did that it's called imprecatory prayer it's called impractitory prayer i kid you not you can pray you pray lord hey we pray like that there's some you know there's people that don't like us it's so hard to believe but there's people that don't like us and so you know we're gonna come by and we're gonna lord just stop them before they get here what does that mean don't know don't care god just stop them before they get here and so because i go to my father and you see me no more and of judgment because the ruler of this world is judged that's a reference to satan so that was i'm halfway through page two of the notes we'll stop here because the rest would just do damage if we tried to hurry through this and and if you have a question tonight um guys how are we gonna do this we can do it any way we want wow and that's good because wednesday night is no we do cue q a sometimes um i see some non-christians that seem to act more like some christians than some christians boy i know i know that person i know who you're talking about how can that be if the holy spirit is truly working in the christian but not in the unbeliever um you're very generous with your assessment you're assuming your christian friends are christian but let's be nice at face value let's take that question on let's say the guy is a christian and he doesn't live as decent as the non-christian which one's the christian this is a great great question first of all paul writes in the book of romans is it not that god has written his law upon their hearts the gentiles so that without the law they do the law that's interesting that means god's working in that non-believer's life you don't know what's going on in that non-believer's life yeah but what about the christian that's a goofball he's the one that's the he's he's the worst witness than the non-believer so let's assume he's a christian and he's a work in in progress pray for him and by all means and this is where we fail shame on us if we really loved one another we would tell one another stuff you know what come on let's be let's be honest about this and by the way i've been here for a while i don't care how big this church is or how it ever gets or how many services we have the size of this church and but is is irrelevant regarding its capacity to love in other words let me put it this way you can be a you can be in a church of 10 people and it can be the most unloving gossip ridden nut job church so size does not matter it's the love okay so having said that if you if you know this person i hope you speak to them and you say to them hey were you there wednesday night because i text a question about you and and here's the thing i was thinking about you when i text that question and you need to really i'm coming to you in love and you need to really straighten that up i love you let's straighten it up let's read a book together on this let's let's let's do this together i i you know listen do you have to know someone if you are in guys i'm just talking to the guys right now isn't it universal guys in the universe you don't have to speak russian if you're in moscow to tell the guy in the elevator your zipper's down you know it's a universal thing in the world you don't let the guy get out of the you don't let him get out all men protect other men when it's like it's just universal and yet you and i meet people walking around town or whatever and and they have they have like food on their face or a booger like right there and and it's and you're like and here's the thing that blows my mind i will tell people i will flat out say look i'm i'm sorry but you've got a booger on your on your upper lip why are you laughing listen if you see that if you see that and you go oh man what that is a bummer for that guy shame on you if you love them tell them if this guy's a goofball and he's not doing the name of jesus right tell him okay you got to tell him next question how can we be clear and discerning when it's the holy spirit speaking in our minds versus our own thoughts fantastic oh man next time together that that's that we're going to answer that jesus says the holy spirit is only going to speak to you what i have uh spoken he's only going to speak the word to you how do you know great question how do you know when the holy spirit's speaking he's going to speak the word listen so yeah but didn't satan use the bible against jesus and he uses it against you this is how satan attacks christians he uses the bible and he he'll give you a half a verse or he'll mix verses up [Music] so how do you know the holy spirit will speak the word not a funny goofball version of it okay so know the word and you'll hear you know the word more and you'll hear him speak more i'm convinced god is constantly talking amen i'm rarely listening i'm reading a book right now it's a secular book but it's all about listening and what's the name of the book i have to i don't know but i'm i'm reading it i was reading it today and it's it was saying something about listening no but it's good we need to work on listening we don't listen anymore you know what uh oh kid i can't hear god i can't hear god um so i just i'd love to have god talk to me i just i don't hear god's voice put this down turn off the tv uh pull the earbuds out have you ever had the holy spirit tell you while you're driving or whatever turn off the radio and then you say oh god i'm listening christian music like he cares oh i'm sorry i have many times it's very important we need to train ourselves to listen and we don't do it enough we need to do that we'd have a lot less drama in our lives if we listen to god by the way i'm a big fan of what i'm about to say big fan the more you wait and listen the less mistakes you'll make in life you want to have a good life stop making mistakes want to do that listen to god how do i do that read the word how do i do that soak in it just get in it just get in it and listen you will live your life and you'll look i'm an old guy now it's pretty awesome i've been a christian 40 almost 44 years now it's amazing because now i look back and it's like god today i'll tell you don't tell anybody today truly i was all by myself i was driving and i saw something that i drove through an area where i used to go go as a kid you ever done that and i drove through and i looked at something and i remembered oh my goodness lord you knew me when i didn't know you i was 12 years old riding my bike going right past that right past this spot and here i am now today and you brought me through all these storms and all of these things of life and all of the drama and all of the ups and downs and all of the pain and all of the joys and all of this stuff and lord and i just went because i was by myself i just went you're awesome and it felt good it felt really good next question do you expect to see a physical being represent representing the holy spirit once we get to heaven or will the holy spirit just be god's spirit with us listen to this great question the answer is yes listen jesus said blessed in the beatitudes jesus said blessed are the pure in heart for they shall see god is father son holy spirit now don't ask me to explain what i just said you're that's that's going to be part of heaven's excitement how are we going to see god the father god the son and god the holy spirit i don't know but jesus said blessed are the pure in heart for they shall see god this is god in totality in heaven you'll see them how's that going to be wow i'm impressed by your question next question do we have a quote we have yeah we have one more if the holy spirit is with us or in us all of the time why do we sometimes feel separated from god because that's emotion it to notice the word feel circle the word feel feel put it in red and and jack up the font 50 times feel honestly let's be honest people ask me you know i don't know i don't know if i'm saved or not well do you uh have you given your life to christ yeah do you believe he died on the cross for your sins and rose again from the dead yep you do know you're a sinner right oh yeah uh do you believe that he's god incarnate yeah we'll read john 3 16. i believe that uh throw your bible away i can't do that okay that's why i said throw your bible away i knew you can't do that so tell me how does how does how does it feel i don't i don't know if i don't feel saved well how does feeling safe feel how does it feel like do you feel it because you know we need to we this is a good place to end because we live in a really weird christian age what do you feel um well what i feel is my true my truth what are you feeling i'm feeling a totally different truth you're both crazy and need to read the bible it's true because how do you feel about that think about it how do i feel it's not the feeling it's what you know so he's always with you because he said i will never leave you or forsake you when you feel and i'm gonna be brutally honest when you feel like he's not with you it's just your feelings that's all it is okay they're really they're really no big deal they'll they'll fool you every time he said it he cannot lie i believe him so that goes against everything i feel in the negative and there are those moments and worship you can come on out because we're late i'm late we're all late but you know listen let's all stand if you would let's um let's let's remember this that when if our theology is emotionally based if we have an emotionally based theology then you're going to be shipwrecked in the near future in your faith don't have your your relationship with god based upon how you feel because when you feel a certain way you'll be led astray your feelings need to be governed with what you know feelings are great when they're it's like a horse horses are great when they're under control okay when they're not under control they they can really mess things up but when a horse has a bridle and a bit and the horse is under control then there's there's a lot of good and your emotions are like that and the holy spirit as you'll learn in the next many weeks as we cover this topic of who he is he's the one who will give you the strength to govern your impulses and your drives because we all have them and they could all destroy us in an instant but for the grace of god as we end in this song i want you to remember that it's jesus who died on the cross for your sins no church no pope no evangelist no pastor no priest it's jesus who died on the cross for you he rose again from the dead the bible says because sin couldn't hold him down i mean the grave couldn't hold him down because he had no sin isn't that awesome jesus laid in that tomb and and and death walked around him think about it death tried to hold him down and it couldn't it couldn't find a handle anywhere couldn't find anything to hang on to because he had no sin jesus and the bible says on the third day because he was god incarnate he rose again from the flesh jesus christ is the prophesied son of god that's what the old testament is all about is who he is he died on the cross for your sins if you are if you're here tonight or you're watching and you're a murderer god can forgive you of your murdering if you are a top-notch super citizen excellent moral person and you don't know god you're just as lost as the murderer all have sinned and come short of the glory of god we're all in this together but we don't get all out together unless you go to him [Music] so may the holy spirit lead you even now in the decision for you to say jesus christ i'm inviting you into my life to be my lord and savior tonight i'm asking you right now lord to take control of my life and make me brand new i'm asking you to transform me by your power i surrender to you fully and i'm asking you god to conquer my will i don't want to be in charge anymore i quit and i want you to just cause me to live the life that you intended for me to live before i was ever born i'm yours jesus and from this moment on friend if you've prayed that prayer go forward don't look back don't turn around because your life is just beginning today thanks for watching the real life 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Published: Thu Feb 27 2020