What The Holy Spirit Does - Dr. Efrem Smith | Sacramento

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More about Pastor Efrem

Rev. Dr. Efrem Smith is a pastor, consultant, speaker, and author. He is passionate about life transformation, multiethnic development, healthy churches, and community development. Within his church congregation he is known as Pastor Efrem, Pastor E, and Dr. E.

Pastor Efrem was the founding pastor of The Sanctuary Covenant Church, a multi-ethnic church in Minneapolis, MN, He served as the Superintendent of the Pacific Southwest Conference of the Evangelical Covenant Church. He also served as the President of World Impact, an urban missions organization. Currently, Pastor Efrem is the Co-lead Pastor of Midtown Church, a thriving and multi-ethnic community in Sacramento, California. He is also Co-Owner of Influential LLC, a speaking, consulting, and coaching ministry. Pastor Efrem is the author of Raising Up Young Heroes, The Hip Hop Church, Jump, The Post-Black and Post-White Church, Killing Us Softly, and Church for Everyone.

Pastor Efrem is a graduate of Saint John's University and Luther Theological Seminary. He completed the Doctor of Ministry degree from Fuller Theological Seminary and received an honorary Doctor of Ministry degree from Ashland Theological Seminary. Pastor Efrem is married to Donecia, and they have two daughters, Jaeda and Mireya. 

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My name is Ephraim Smith. I'm one of the pastors here. So glad you're here here in the main sanctuary. Glad you're here in the overflow. Glad you're here online to join us as we are in a series called Empowered by the Spirit. Empowered by the Spirit. It's a series on the Holy Spirit, spiritual matters, spiritual warfare. I don't know how long we're gonna be in this till we ain't in it. I don't know. Um I don't know about you, but I have this problem where there are things that I purchase and I don't take the time to find out all that it can do. Like I should read the instruction manual, I should talk more to the person at the store when I buy it, because the longer I have it, I go, oh, I didn't know it could do that. Oh, it can do that. You know, get a flat screen TV and go, I I know, you know, you can watch cable on it, but oh, you can download streaming channels. I can watch Disney Plus, it's a smart TV. I I didn't know there was uneducated TVs, but there's smart TVs, and so I was like, oh, it can download all these channels. There's apps right here. I can talk into the remote control and to go right to the channel. Why why didn't I know this? All this time, it's been right there inside the TV. I have a laptop. I should I should figure out all that it that it can do. All the access that I have, all the information I can get. It's right there on the inside of the laptop. My cell phone. So many things I didn't know I could sync it with my laptop and my iPad. I could download this and this, and I could track my steps, and it's right there. It's all on the inside of my cell phone. There are things on the inside of my laptop, on the inside of my cell phone, that actually allows the cell phone and the laptop to do what it does. I don't understand it all. I don't know all the technology, but it's right there on the inside. This is true about the Holy Spirit. Holy Spirit lives on the inside of Christians. Maybe we need to check out the instruction manual to know how the Holy Spirit operates, how it functions. Who is the Holy Spirit? And is it a who and not an it? Right here on the inside of me, and I don't even know all about it. Go with me to the Gospel of John chapter 16, beginning with verse 1. Says this. Jesus is speaking. All this I have told you so that you will not fall away. They will put you out of the synagogue. In fact, the time is coming when anyone who kills you will think they are offering a service to God. They will do such things because they have not known the Father or me. I have told you this so that when their time comes you will remember that I warned you about them. I did not tell you this from the beginning because I was with you. But now I'm going to him who sent me. None of you ask me where are you going. Rather, you are filled with grief because I have said these things. But very truly I tell you, it is for your good that I am going away. Unless I go away, the advocate will not come to you. But if I go, I will send him to you. When he comes, he will prove the world to be in the wrong about sin and righteousness and judgment about sin, because people do not believe in me, about righteousness, because I'm going to the Father where you can no longer see me, and about judgment, because the Prince of this world now stands condemned. I have much more to say to you, more than you can now bear. But when he, the Spirit of truth, comes, he will guide you into all truth. He will not speak on his own, he will speak only what he hears, and he will tell you what is yet to come. He will glorify me, because it is from me that he will receive what he will make known to you. All that belongs to the Father is mine. That is why I said the Spirit will receive from me what he will make known to you. From this text, I want to preach to you on the title, What the Holy Spirit Does. What the Holy Spirit does. God, I pray this would be your message. You speak. I only want to be the vessel you use to say what you want to say to these your children, my brothers and sisters. God, I want you to get glory from this. I want you to be known more from this. So please let it be done. In Jesus' name, amen. What the Holy Spirit does. There are organs on the inside of me that I can't right now see, and they have various functions. They're there on the inside of me. My brain, my lungs, my kidney, my liver, on the inside of me. And most of the time I don't even act like I'm really aware of all the things that these organs are doing. They're right there on the inside of me. They all have a function. They all have a purpose. I I'm I'm living, I'm standing here because of the way in which these organs are operating, and yet I don't just go around going, man, I bet my kidney is just doing a great job. You know, I've I'm lungs, I just want to thank you. You know, lungs, I just I appreciate you so much, lungs. I mean, I just I just take for granted what is on the inside of me, and I take for granted that it's operating and working properly. Consider the liver, sisters and brothers. The liver is a vital organ performing over 500 essential functions. Primarily, the liver acts as the body's main uh filtration system, metabolic hub, and detoxifier. This is all that the liver is doing while I walk around, not even acknowledging, sometimes not even aware of all of the things that the liver is doing on the inside of me. So, what about the Holy Spirit? Do I take the Holy Spirit for granted? Am I even aware that the Spirit of God lives on the inside of me? Do I allow my life to be shaped and formed and guided by the fact that God lives on the inside of me? If you are a Christian, right now the Spirit of God lives in you. The Spirit of God has decided to take up residence in you. You are God's address. But what is the purpose of the Holy Spirit? How does the Holy Spirit operate? How does the Holy Spirit function? This, in part, is what John chapter 16 is about. It is about the work of the Holy Spirit. It is also about helping us understand that there's no life for the believer, there's no life for human beings, period, ultimately, without a dependence and understanding of the Holy Spirit on the inside of us. This series, as we've already laid out, this series we're going to be in for a while is about a study of the Holy Spirit and spiritual matters. The theological term is uh pneumatology. And this Greek word uh pneuma means the spirit or the breath of God, uh, the life force of God. In the Hebrew, it's ruach, it's the breath, the spirit of God. In Genesis, we read that God creates human beings after hanging the sun and the moon and the stars, after separating the water that falls from the sky from the water on the ground. You know, uh God decides, after making all of the animals, the animals in the air, on the ground, in the water, God decides to make human beings distinctively different than the animals, distinctively even different than the angels. God makes human beings, male and female. God creates them in God's image, God creates them, and and we are not fully human. We are not truly walking in the Amago day, the image of God, until God, until God breathes, the Spirit of God comes into us. You are not just a physical being, you are not just an intellectual being, you are not just an emotional being, even though you are physical, you are emotional, you are intellectual. Maybe you're more emotional than you want to admit, you know, that it it uh, but you're a spirit being too. And this series about is about bringing up a deeper awareness of who we are as spiritual beings. Who we are, regardless of your education status, regardless of your economic class status, regardless of your pigmentation or your slang, how aware are you that the Spirit of God lives on the inside of you? We are in a denomination called the Evangelical Covenant Church. It was named that at a time when evangelical wasn't so politicized as it is today, wasn't so polarizing as it is today. Our denomination was founded by Swedish immigrants in the late 1800s. Its original name was the Swedish Covenant Church. Uh, and then me and Pastor Susie joined and they had to change the name. No, no, they changed the name way before we even knew anything about the Evangelical Covenant Church, but you get the point. I mean, uh, so uh in in our denomination, we have six affirmations, six things that we believe theologically. Uh, one is we believe that the Bible is the Word of God and it is central and authoritative when it comes to how we live. We believe in the Bible. It's why uh you you know, most of the time when we're preaching, like today, we're taking a text and walking through it, walking through it, breaking it down because the Bible is central to our church and it's authoritative. It means something. We also believe in new birth in Jesus, that it's a necessity, it's necessary to be born again in Jesus. We believe in the fellowship of the local church. We believe in the whole mission of God, not just God's mission for Sacramento, for Elk Grove, but we we believe in God's mission around the world, that we are to make disciples of all nations in some way as a church. And we also believe in freedom in Christ. That the freedom that we have in Christ, we might not agree on every little thing, but there's enough that we're gonna agree on that in our diversity, in our liberation in Christ, we're still gonna try to find community together, even when we don't agree on every little issue. There's enough main issues that are gonna bring us together and keep us together. And then for the purposes of this sermon and this series, we believe in a conscious dependence on the Holy Spirit. That we're conscience, we're aware, we're awake. We woke when it comes to the Holy Ghost. Everybody in here woke when it comes to the Holy Ghost. So you can you can stop just you know, just making woke a bad word. You can be spiritually woke, you can be divinely godly, righteously woke because the Holy Spirit is living on the inside of you to keep you from being spiritually in a coma. Spiritually sleep. Okay? So the Holy Spirit, uh, we are conscious, we're aware that the Holy Spirit is living in us and we're dependent on it. I need more than my intellect, I need more than my degrees, I need more than what's in the bank account, I need more than my good chocolate looks, I need the Holy Spirit. We also here in John 16 get an understanding of the Trinitarian nature of God. That God is Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. God is three persons, one God. God the creator of the universe, God the Son, Jesus Christ, Yeshua, who died and rose for our sins, our righteousness, our salvation comes through him, and God the Holy Spirit, God dwelling on the inside of us. So here's the big question of this message today. Why is the Holy Spirit important for the Christian? Why is the Holy Spirit important for the Christian? I'm I'm I'm I'm also trying to wrestle through another question. Can power come from what is not visible? Can power come from what is not visible? Why is the Holy Spirit important for the Christian? One, the reason the Holy Spirit is important is because the Holy Spirit provides an experience of God. The Holy Spirit provides an experience of God. I'm gonna go to the conclusion of John 15, and then I'm gonna work my way back into John 16. So I'm gonna start with John 15, verse 26. Jesus says, When the advocate, he's talking about the Holy Spirit, when the Advocate comes, whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth, who goes out from the Father, he will testify about me. And you also must testify, for you have been with me from the beginning. One, what we we get right here under point one, is that uh again, this is a picture of the Trinity. We we we see that the Father is mentioned, Jesus is talking, he's pointing to the Holy Spirit. This is giving us the full understanding biblically of who is God. I think I previewed this last week, but we're gonna go from this series, empowered by the spirit, into the summer, where we're gonna launch a series called God Is, where we're gonna look at all the traits, characteristics, and the nature of who God is for the summer. I hope you'll join us for this. But while we're making our way towards that, it's important to know that God, again, is Father, Son, Holy Spirit, chapter 16, verse 1. All this I have told you so that you will not fall away. They will put you out of the synagogue. In fact, the time is coming when anyone who kills you will think they are offering a service to God. He's saying to them, basically, look, if they're about to kill me, if they're about to put me on the cross and leave me for dead, just imagine what's gonna happen to the people when I'm not here in this form who keep saying they believe in me, what they're gonna do to them. Religious people aren't gonna like you. People are gonna think they're doing God's will, killing you. Man, this don't sound like good news. Verse three, they will do such things because they have not known the Father or me. These people that think they know God, these, these, these powerful government leaders who believe they are God. Verse 4, I've told you this so that when their time comes, you will remember that I warned you about them. I did not tell you this from the beginning because I was with you, but now I'm going to him who sent me. None of you asked me where are you going? Rather, you are filled with grief because I've said these things. Why are they filled with grief? Two reasons. One, they didn't realize who Jesus really was. They thought Jesus was going to be this military political leader who was gonna raise up an army, they were gonna take on the Roman Empire, defeat it, and restore Israel back to its glory years of King David and King Solomon. That's what they thought. Now, this guy's saying, I'm gonna be arrested and I'm going to die. The second reason they're grieved is because this has been the most radical experience of God they've ever had. And he's leaving them. So where will their experience of God be now? Ah, there may be somebody in this room that you were so on fire for God, and then something tragic happened. Something happened that broke your heart, something happened that you didn't see coming, something happened that wrecked you, and now you're trying to figure out where is my experience of God going to come from now. I trusted them. I thought that was a safe place, I thought that was a holy moment. I thought God had really stepped in and done something. Look where I am right now. How am I now going to experience God? If you're going to jail, Jesus, if you're going to Calvary's Hill, Jesus, if they're putting nails in your hands, Jesus, if you're going into a tomb, how am I supposed to experience God now when you're not walking on water? When you're not giving sight to the blind, when you're not giving mobility to the paralyzed, when you're not giving the mute verbal action, when you're when you're not raising the dead, when you're not at a well with a marginalized woman, how am I supposed to experience God on the other side of the divorce? On the other side of my dad leaving, on the other side of being laid off, on the other side of getting upside down of my house. How now do I go to church and look people in the face and say, hallelujah? Where will my experience of God come from now? Jesus says, I got you, I got you, I got you. Verse 7, very truly I tell you, it is good for you that I'm going away. It's good that you ain't just going to church because your mama's taking you now. That's a good thing. It's a good thing that you grown and got to make your own spiritual decisions now. That's a good thing. That's a good thing. He said, I have to go. Unless I go away, the advocate, the Holy Spirit, will not come to you. But if I go, I will send him to you. I will send him to you. The Holy Spirit, a person of God. It is important. These followers of Jesus are about to step into a world of suffering, oppression, death, incarceration. They're gonna be in some mess. That's why when you're in mess, you need the Messiah in you. You need God in you when you're going through. Matter of fact, you don't really know if God is really in somebody to that somebody go through something. Then you know. Oh, okay, let me talk about me. When I go through something, see, I'm I'm oh, I'm up here on Sunday, you know, sunshiny day, Reverend Dr. Ephraim Smith, Christian, full of the Holy Spirit, but but you know, let me go through a storm. Let me go through something. And I gotta decide, am I dependent on Christ or cussing? Which one am I? I was just saying that for an example. I'm not really saying that's me, who I am when you go through a storm, that's when we know if the Spirit is really operating and if we're obedient to the way in which the Holy Spirit is operating on the inside. It's like you got to be tested to get a testimony. That are you experiencing God? Oh, I gotta go back to chapter 15, verse 26. When the advocate comes, whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth who goes out from the Father, he will testify about me. So the Holy Spirit is a mechanism, a resource, a person to let you, it gives you the ability to continue, even when the world is crazy, to keep testifying to God, even when everything is chaos and broken to keep testifying to God. And you must also testify. So as the Holy Spirit is testifying on the inside of you, reminding you who God is, leading you back to God's word, leading you to prayer, leading you to worship, leading you to praise in spite of, as the advocate, as the Holy Spirit is testifying to you, then you build up a greater testimony to other people. Yes, yeah, that well, here's really what I'm pointing to. Do you have your own intimate personal experience of God? And do people, when they're around you, get the feel that they're around somebody who is experiencing God in spite of the chaos and the craziness of Of this world. Because there are some people that are dealing with the chaos and the craziness of this world. They don't have the Holy Spirit. They don't know Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior, and they don't know where to turn. They don't know where to go in the midst of all this oppression and suffering and polarization and injustice and brokenness and division and anger and violence. They don't know where to turn. And it would be nice if they could turn to somebody who is already deeply walking in an experience of God. They need to be around somebody that says, I know what it's like to be unemployed and all my bills get paid. I don't know how it happened. Must be God. I know what it's like to be on the other side of divorce, but somehow I wasn't lonely. God met me in my apartment by myself. I didn't think I could raise these kids all by myself, but all of them went to college. It must be gone.

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I don't need Pastor Ephraim to preach it because it's already on the inside of me. I got my own experience with God.

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And the reason as a church, we need to be more experiential. The reason we need that is because there's people right outside this building, unhoused, broken, that need at least let the shadow of your experience of God touch them on the way to your car. Maybe we're supposed to know them by name. Maybe if we won't go to them, God will make sure they write outside the building every time we walk past, so God can keep saying, I'm just waiting for your experience to touch their experience. I'm just waiting for their Don Troudenness to touch the divinity that is in you. Two, the Holy Spirit reveals sin and our true enemy. The Holy Spirit reveals sin and our true enemy. John 16, verse 8 through 11, it says this. When he comes, he will prove the world to be in the wrong about sin and righteousness and judgment. About sin because people do not believe in me, about righteousness, because I'm going to the Father where you can see me no longer, and about judgment because the prince of this world now stands condemned. Jesus is saying the reason we need the Holy Spirit is we need an extra level of discernment. We need an extra level of wisdom and knowledge and understanding because sometimes in our own trauma, it is hard with the intellect we have and the emotions that we have based on what we've been through to truly see something for what it is. Okay, this is true for me. If it's not true for you, y'all more holy than me. Praise God. Amen. Let me try to get to where y'all at. But sometimes I'm wrong on how I see a situation. I'm wrong on how I'm navigating something because I've got to come to terms with my human intellect and my human emotions based on the trauma and the epigenetic epigenetics. That means like the trauma of my parents and my grandparents and my great-grandparents that are in me, that trauma, that built-up trauma and brokenness that has gone generation after generation with my limited human intellect and emotions is not allowing me to see things for what they really are. To see the world for what it really is. And if you ever needed to see this nation, this world for what it really is, now is the time. I'm not against innovation. But yesterday, I thought I was watching the new movie trailer for Avengers Doom Day. I'm so excited about this movie coming out, getting all the Avengers back together. You know, Robert Downey Jr. is coming back into the Marvel universe. I was so excited just to find out it wasn't a real trailer. It wasn't developed by Disney, it wasn't developed by Marvel. It was developed by Chad in his basement behind a laptop. Because that's what you can do now. You can be in your mama's basement, and if you got the right equipment, you can create something that looks real and makes people think that it's true when it's a lie. So much information coming through every device, every news source, every place where you can get information. People that are pretending to be experts on something that you're not. Just because you're famous in one thing, don't give you the authority to speak on all things. Listen, I know my lane. Pastor, theologian, I know my lane. If you go to the dentist this week and you see me in there with some tools, you should leave and then you should call 911 and Dinesha. Please call 911 first. Well, anyway, that's a you get that later. I'm not supposed to be in the dentist cleaning your teeth. Just because you're good in this lane don't mean you can run every lane on the track. And that's why we need the Holy Spirit to give us the kind of wisdom, the kind of discernment, the kind of knowledge so that we can see lies for what they are. We can see conspiracies for what they are. You need, I told this last week. You need the Holy Spirit making just moans and groans. Because sometimes when something don't feel right and you ain't got human words, you just go, that's the Holy Ghost. The Holy Spirit reveals sin. And it says right here, the prince of this world, this is Satan. This is the devil. Satan wants to bifurcate, divide, silo human beings so that we believe we are each other's enemy and get distracted from Satan being the real enemy. So what better way to distract me and you from our real enemy than to make enemies across race, make enemies across politics, make enemies across economic class status, make enemies between the north and the south, make enemies based on ethnicity, pigmentation, slang, gender, make to create all of these wars within the people that are supposed to be made in the image of God. I ain't even got to the church divisions yet. I ain't even got to the denominational divisions yet. I ain't got to the way Christians are supposed to be together and we can't even get it right. I ain't even took a deep dive into that one because we it's all a distraction. It's all the sabotage of Satan. It is all the dastardly deeds of evil, wicked spirits in invisible high places, trying to get you and I fighting each other so long that we never name Satan as the author of division and wickedness and evil and discrimination and racism and sexism and war and famine and depression and suicide, brokenness. It's all pointing to Satan. And we've got to resist against it. And how we resist is in the spirit. We need to take a deeper dive into the spiritual realm as a church so we can resist every strategy Satan is trying to throw at you. He's trying to take your future, he's trying to take your joy, he's trying to take your will, he's trying to take your ability to make good decisions, he's trying to make you self-reliant, he's trying to make you think you're God. He's trying, there's so many distractions, there's so much brokenness, even in the church, even in the body of Christ. But if Jesus didn't stay in the grave, I don't think you and I are supposed to stay in it either. The Holy Spirit reveals sin and our true enemy. If you are overly popular with the world, you need more work in the Holy Spirit. Because it says here in John 15, verse 18, if the world hates you, keep in mind that it hated me first. If you belong to the world, it would love you as its own. As it is, you do not belong to the world. But I have chosen you out of the world. This is why the world hates you. Why would the world want to worship God when men want to be God themselves? Trying not to say what I want to say. Trying not to I mean, why why why are you gonna worship Jesus if you just gonna dress up like Jesus? Okay, it's out there now. Said that, let's move on. Point two. Yeah, we need a little more courage in the church to just I don't I don't care what your political party is, you don't play Jesus. Trust me, I was a theater major in college. I played the whiz, I played a homeless person, I played a butler, I played a security guard, and never tried to play I was Jesus. I don't even want to be in the Easter play. Nope. Nope. Get somebody with hair and a longer beard. I ain't doing it. Point three. The Holy Spirit glorifies Christ. The Holy Spirit glorifies Christ. John 16, verse 12. I have much more to say to you, more than you can now bear. But when he, the Spirit of truth, comes, he will guide you into all the truth. He will not speak on his own, he will speak only what he hears, and he will tell you what is yet to come. He will glorify me because it is from me that he will receive what he will make known to you. All that belongs to the Father is mine. That is why I said the Spirit will receive from me what he will make known to you. The Holy Spirit is meant to point to God and give all the credit and glory to God. This is why I have to be very careful in the role I'm in. Because it would, with all the social media, with all the there, I mean, man, I'm standing up here. There are so many other sectors of life where you can rise to a position, but man, it kind of feels like you're getting a little glory. Feels like you're getting a little celebrity. Feels like you're getting a little, yeah, that, that part, that right there. Ooh, we. Yes, that feels so good. But the problem is when you get a little bit of it, you want a little more. And when you get a little more, and then you actually forget who you're preaching about, you forget who you're teaching about. You you you forget there, there are some people that started saying Jesus and they led a whole group to suicide. They started with Jesus and they led people to ruin. They they started with Jesus and then everybody got broke on that scheme. Because the point is, my job is not to stand up here and point you to me. My job is not to get you addicted to me. My job is not to get you lifting me high. It is not air from high and lift it up. Oh, Lord, that is not the purpose of the song. The purpose is that God would get glory out of me, that God would get shine out of me, that God would be known through me and through you, through your gifts, your talents, your abilities. If you get promoted, praise God. If they give you a raise, praise God. If you can get another degree, praise God. If you can become more known, praise God. But if they know you more than they know God. If they know you, because you ain't Alpha last time I checked. You ain't Omega last time I checked. You ain't a healer last time I checked. You didn't die on Calvary's Cross last time I checked. So you and I need to give all the credit, all the glory, all the focus to God. If it wasn't for him, I'd be torn up for sure up. And my final thought, John 16, 33. Jesus closes out what we know as the chapter by saying, I've told you these things, these things about the Holy Spirit, so that in me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble. Take heart. I will overcome the world. In this world, there's gonna be trouble. In this world, there's gonna be brokenness, injustice, and sin. They're gonna lie, they're gonna misrepresent you. Sorry. It's the world in which we live. But he said, Take heart! I've overcome the world. As I close, I want to steal from my pastor friend. He's here on the second row, Pastor Michael Thomas, him and his wife Kimberly. They're from Radiant Church in Seattle, and they've been here visiting me and Donisha for a few days. And um, I've never done this before. I've never stole another pastor's idea right in front of him. I've never done that. Usually when I steal a pastor's sermon stuff, I I don't even tell you their name. I just do it. But this time I get to steal an idea right in front of the pastor I'm stealing it from. He gave me permission. I want you to think of the Holy Spirit like that burning bush talking to Moses in Exodus chapter 3. Interesting story, sisters and brothers. A bush was on fire, but it didn't burn up. As much as we've been through with fires in California, you know that don't make no sense. I never seen a tree on fire that didn't burn to the ground. But this bush kept on burning because the Spirit of God was speaking through it. Because the Spirit of God had taken residence in this bush. The bush was on fire, but it didn't burn up. Sometimes fires burn things to the ground, but sometimes fires reveal and refine. Sometimes fires are there to reveal what has been in the dark. And sometimes fires are there to refine the people that are navigating life in the dark. And so I used to be a negative when people would say the church is on fire. The church is on fire. Some people that would mean that if the church is on fire, that means that that, you know, man, we got to be careful. There's some mess going on. The church is on fire. We better figure out. Let's get some extinguishers. Let's get this fire out. But I'm not talking about that kind of fire. The old folks used to sing in the church. I grew up, they had a song that said, I wish somebody's soul would catch on fire. Catch on fire, catch on fire. I wish somebody's soul would catch on fire. Burning with the Holy Ghost. What do I mean? I think the Christian should have the Holy Spirit burning in them in such a way that love is burning in you. Truth is burning in you. Peace is burning in you. Hospitality is burning in you. Kindness is burning in you. Forgiveness is burning in you. Reconciliation is burning in you.

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Righteousness is burning in you. Healing is burning in you.