WEBVTT 00:00:04.480 --> 00:00:07.040 Welcome to the Lake Star Church Podcast. 00:00:07.280 --> 00:00:15.359 Pastor CF and Nicole Ray are here to share the word of God with you each week, helping you craft the fullness of God's plan for your life. 00:00:15.519 --> 00:00:18.160 We hope you'll be blessed by this week's message. 00:00:18.399 --> 00:00:24.320 If you live in Northwest Missouri or southern Iowa, we invite you to join us in person on a Sunday morning. 00:00:24.559 --> 00:00:31.199 For more information about us, visit our website at postarchurch.org or find us on Facebook, Instagram, or YouTube. 00:00:34.640 --> 00:00:42.880 Most Christians believe, in fact, I would say almost all Christians, practicing Christians, believe God has a plan for their life. 00:00:43.600 --> 00:00:46.719 But the problem is most of them have no idea how to hear it. 00:00:46.880 --> 00:00:47.840 So what are they doing? 00:00:48.000 --> 00:00:53.439 They're just literally waking up and just throwing darts and then hoping they're following God's plan. 00:00:53.679 --> 00:00:54.960 Anyone ever been there in life? 00:00:55.119 --> 00:00:56.640 You just hope you're following God's plan. 00:00:56.799 --> 00:00:59.600 What if I told you this morning, you can know God's plan? 00:00:59.840 --> 00:01:00.640 You can know it. 00:01:00.799 --> 00:01:02.560 Without a doubt, you can know God's plan. 00:01:02.640 --> 00:01:05.120 And then here's the thing about it, knowing God's plan. 00:01:05.200 --> 00:01:09.359 I mean, no, just knowing God's plan doesn't mean it's all roses after that. 00:01:10.480 --> 00:01:13.920 There will be a fight, right? 00:01:14.079 --> 00:01:16.079 There will be some resistance. 00:01:16.319 --> 00:01:19.280 But greater is that it's in you than he that's in the world. 00:01:19.439 --> 00:01:21.840 And you're more than a conqueror through Christ who strengthened you. 00:01:22.000 --> 00:01:23.760 But you have to know God wants to lead me. 00:01:23.920 --> 00:01:25.680 Well, how is he going to lead me? 00:01:25.920 --> 00:01:30.079 Well, the number one way God is going to lead you is by the inward witness. 00:01:30.159 --> 00:01:31.680 So let's recap a little bit. 00:01:31.760 --> 00:01:33.280 Let's go to Romans chapter 8. 00:01:33.439 --> 00:01:34.719 Thank you, Lord. 00:01:36.079 --> 00:01:38.000 Looking at my time, got plenty of time. 00:01:38.159 --> 00:01:41.040 Romans chapter 8, we're going to look at verses 14 and 16. 00:01:41.439 --> 00:01:46.799 I know we've read over this before, but how many, how many of you believe that you could probably uh hear it again? 00:01:51.439 --> 00:01:52.799 Look at what Paul says here. 00:01:52.879 --> 00:02:06.079 He says, For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these who, those who are led by the Spirit of God, these are the sons or children of God, led by the Spirit. 00:02:06.319 --> 00:02:09.120 How many believe God wants to lead you by his spirit? 00:02:09.599 --> 00:02:09.840 Right? 00:02:09.919 --> 00:02:12.319 The word, the Bible's not just here by accident. 00:02:12.639 --> 00:02:14.240 He didn't just throw stuff in here. 00:02:14.400 --> 00:02:17.840 These things are here for us to learn, led by the Spirit of God. 00:02:17.919 --> 00:02:19.520 Now look at verse 16. 00:02:20.560 --> 00:02:26.159 The Spirit Himself bears witness where, with our spirit, that we are the children of God. 00:02:26.400 --> 00:02:31.520 So it's the Holy Spirit leading us where in our spirit, right? 00:02:31.599 --> 00:02:34.080 He's bearing witness with our spirit that we're the children of God. 00:02:34.479 --> 00:02:36.000 We're not going to look at the scriptures today. 00:02:36.240 --> 00:02:37.840 We'll do that here in the next few weeks. 00:02:38.000 --> 00:02:41.199 But there are places in the book of Acts where they say these words. 00:02:41.520 --> 00:02:43.520 It seemed good to us. 00:02:43.840 --> 00:02:48.080 Then in a second place, they say, it seemed good to us and the Holy Spirit. 00:02:48.240 --> 00:02:48.800 What is that? 00:02:48.879 --> 00:02:50.080 It's an inward witness. 00:02:50.240 --> 00:02:51.680 Have you ever had just something on the inside? 00:02:51.759 --> 00:02:53.520 You're just like, boy, that just seems right. 00:02:53.759 --> 00:02:55.280 That just feels right. 00:02:56.080 --> 00:02:57.520 He's the spirit of peace, right? 00:02:57.599 --> 00:03:01.039 He's leading guiding directness by this inward witness. 00:03:01.840 --> 00:03:04.240 It's not, can God lead you by outward signs? 00:03:04.400 --> 00:03:05.360 Absolutely. 00:03:05.680 --> 00:03:08.719 Does God sometimes lead you by an outward sign? 00:03:08.879 --> 00:03:09.680 Absolutely. 00:03:09.840 --> 00:03:12.639 But it will always bear witness in your spirit. 00:03:12.960 --> 00:03:17.199 Some outward sign is not going to be opposite of what's in your spirit. 00:03:17.520 --> 00:03:18.960 And he is the spirit of peace. 00:03:19.039 --> 00:03:23.919 So I tell people all the time, this is always what I tell them, what do you feel on the inside? 00:03:24.080 --> 00:03:26.719 Do you have a peace on the inside of you? 00:03:27.120 --> 00:03:29.840 I know you can have a peace in the midst of a storm. 00:03:30.080 --> 00:03:34.000 You can have peace when the world's telling you you're making the wrong decision. 00:03:34.159 --> 00:03:34.400 Right? 00:03:34.479 --> 00:03:37.280 You can have peace when you get an email saying that, hey, guess what? 00:03:37.360 --> 00:03:40.960 When you get out of college, you're going to owe this many thousands of dollars. 00:03:42.240 --> 00:03:42.560 Okay. 00:03:44.960 --> 00:03:48.159 Lucy, we were doing the math the other day. 00:03:49.520 --> 00:03:50.960 You ever do math? 00:03:51.680 --> 00:03:53.120 I do math quite a bit right now. 00:03:53.199 --> 00:03:54.080 I'm teaching math. 00:03:54.240 --> 00:03:57.120 But uh you do math, and sometimes that math does what? 00:03:57.759 --> 00:03:59.759 It'll convince you not to do something. 00:04:03.520 --> 00:04:08.000 Truman and I have been talking about some things that were going on in his life recently. 00:04:08.400 --> 00:04:10.000 We were talking about the math of it. 00:04:12.159 --> 00:04:12.960 Here's the thing. 00:04:13.039 --> 00:04:15.199 If it's God, the math doesn't matter. 00:04:16.639 --> 00:04:18.800 If it's God, the math doesn't matter. 00:04:19.279 --> 00:04:22.480 You ever got yourself into something that wasn't God? 00:04:22.879 --> 00:04:26.079 How do we know when it's not God, the math does matter? 00:04:27.600 --> 00:04:29.519 But when it's God, math doesn't matter. 00:04:30.639 --> 00:04:32.000 I'm supposed to do this. 00:04:32.560 --> 00:04:34.560 I've got a message I preached a couple times. 00:04:34.639 --> 00:04:36.800 It's called this no risk, no reward. 00:04:37.600 --> 00:04:40.000 If it's God, the math doesn't matter. 00:04:40.639 --> 00:04:42.879 And so I just told her, I said, that's that's nothing. 00:04:43.040 --> 00:04:53.439 I said, Lucy, we've we've we've we've talked and you've sat with Pastor Mark and Trina, and he's talked about times when when millions, they needed millions of dollars to do something. 00:04:54.560 --> 00:04:59.519 I said, we're just talking about, you know, a few thousand dollars. 00:04:59.839 --> 00:05:02.319 A few tens of thousands of dollars, maybe. 00:05:03.680 --> 00:05:07.680 Does anyone think a few tens of thousands of dollars is anything to God? 00:05:08.480 --> 00:05:13.839 When the cattle on a thousand hills are his, the gold and silver his, the earth is the Lord's and the fullness thereof. 00:05:15.519 --> 00:05:21.279 So you just all you have to do, and I'll never forget, I think Pastor Nancy Dufrane said it when she was here with us. 00:05:21.439 --> 00:05:24.319 Uh, God's only asking you to be obedient. 00:05:24.879 --> 00:05:28.000 He's not asking you for the money, he's not asking you for the plan. 00:05:28.160 --> 00:05:30.160 He just is asking you to follow. 00:05:30.480 --> 00:05:32.560 But it you've got to hear from him first. 00:05:33.519 --> 00:05:33.839 Right? 00:05:34.000 --> 00:05:41.439 And it's always interesting this time of year, and anytime I teach on this, because I look around, I look at I look at some of these kids that have been in church since they were young. 00:05:43.519 --> 00:05:48.399 Now they're young adults and really getting ready to make some real adult decisions. 00:05:49.360 --> 00:05:51.680 Some of you made a few already. 00:05:54.079 --> 00:05:55.839 There are bigger ones out there, Xander. 00:05:57.199 --> 00:05:58.720 God has a plan for it. 00:05:58.959 --> 00:06:00.480 And He has a plan for you. 00:06:00.720 --> 00:06:05.360 A plan that He's going to speak to you right in your heart, right in your spirit. 00:06:05.680 --> 00:06:08.319 And you're going to do some things business wise. 00:06:09.759 --> 00:06:12.480 That people are going to be like, How did that young man do it? 00:06:12.720 --> 00:06:15.920 And he's going to say, I prayed and I heard from God. 00:06:16.160 --> 00:06:17.680 And he blessed me. 00:06:18.639 --> 00:06:20.240 That's how it happened. 00:06:20.639 --> 00:06:26.959 Not just because he's so good looking or smart, but he heard from God. 00:06:29.600 --> 00:06:33.519 It's interesting, first service, the Holy Spirit kind of just stopped me for a moment. 00:06:33.600 --> 00:06:38.879 And I looked almost right over in the same place, and there's a young person sitting almost right over in the same place Sander is today. 00:06:39.040 --> 00:06:42.000 And he said, You let them know you're not here by accident. 00:06:42.959 --> 00:06:45.199 Well, you're not here by accident this morning either. 00:06:45.680 --> 00:06:47.839 The Holy Spirit wants you to know you hear from God. 00:06:48.000 --> 00:06:50.319 Jesus said, My sheep know my voice. 00:06:50.639 --> 00:06:52.800 That means when he calls, you know who it is. 00:06:53.519 --> 00:06:54.800 When he speaks, right? 00:06:54.879 --> 00:06:57.439 And you've got to convince yourself because the devil will tell you this. 00:06:57.600 --> 00:06:59.680 The devil will tell you, no, you can't hear from God. 00:06:59.920 --> 00:07:01.839 Oh, you know, maybe Pastor hears from God. 00:07:01.920 --> 00:07:04.560 Maybe, you know, Pastor Nicole, maybe Pastor CF, they hear from God. 00:07:04.639 --> 00:07:06.720 Maybe every once in a while you'll hear from God. 00:07:06.879 --> 00:07:12.319 You know, like God's some friend from high school that you only hear from every once in a while. 00:07:13.199 --> 00:07:15.040 No, I hear from every day. 00:07:15.279 --> 00:07:16.560 I hear from every day. 00:07:16.639 --> 00:07:19.120 And the interesting thing about it is this. 00:07:21.199 --> 00:07:21.519 Right? 00:07:21.600 --> 00:07:28.319 When when you show up on a Sunday, it's not just the words I'm saying, it's the it's the example I'm trying to show you. 00:07:29.759 --> 00:07:36.480 You can hear from God, and it can be just as plain as if someone's sitting across the room from you talking to you. 00:07:38.639 --> 00:07:40.560 Right, I pause sometimes. 00:07:40.879 --> 00:07:45.920 This morning, first service, I paused and I heard God say what he wanted me to say. 00:07:46.319 --> 00:07:47.600 And I said, Yes, sir. 00:07:47.759 --> 00:07:48.720 Yes, sir. 00:07:49.199 --> 00:07:51.279 And I said what he told me to say. 00:07:51.600 --> 00:07:52.480 Can I be honest with you? 00:07:52.639 --> 00:07:55.680 There have been times I'll never forget it, it was someone right over here years ago. 00:07:55.920 --> 00:08:02.000 And I was standing right here, and usually if I'm hearing God, I'll stick my hands kind of deep in my pocket and I'll close my eyes and tilt my head a minute. 00:08:02.240 --> 00:08:04.160 Sometimes you'll get one of these. 00:08:05.439 --> 00:08:08.879 You've been here long enough, you you'll you'll you'll remember it. 00:08:09.199 --> 00:08:17.680 And God wanted me to say something, and I knew a little bit about the situation that was going on, and I'm gonna be honest, I didn't want to say it. 00:08:19.839 --> 00:08:23.040 Because I knew they probably thought, oh, he's just trying to meddle. 00:08:24.720 --> 00:08:26.319 I didn't want to say it. 00:08:27.040 --> 00:08:29.199 This bug's just bugging me here. 00:08:30.879 --> 00:08:33.039 And God said, I want you to say it. 00:08:33.360 --> 00:08:35.840 And I didn't look at him, I kind of I was here, I heard it. 00:08:35.919 --> 00:08:41.279 I was, and a lot of times when I get close, I was on that side both times when I heard from God to speak to them. 00:08:41.440 --> 00:08:43.840 And sometimes I'll get close and I'll hear something. 00:08:44.000 --> 00:08:45.919 And I got close over here and I heard it. 00:08:46.000 --> 00:08:50.399 And I was kind of looking out and I saw him, and I'm like, I'm gonna walk over here and say it. 00:08:52.320 --> 00:08:55.440 Sometimes I'll say it directly to someone, right? 00:08:55.519 --> 00:08:57.039 I just spoke directly to him. 00:08:57.519 --> 00:09:03.360 And and and when I say I hear from God, it it helped you know, it it is all the time, but it's not constant. 00:09:03.600 --> 00:09:03.840 Right? 00:09:03.919 --> 00:09:07.039 I don't just go to Walmart and it's like, hey, tell them this, tell them this. 00:09:07.200 --> 00:09:14.559 And honestly, unless I'm under the anointing, which I am now when I'm preaching, I usually don't speak directly to someone like that. 00:09:15.279 --> 00:09:21.759 But there's an anointing that comes when you step into the office of ministry, you're called to, but God will have you do those things. 00:09:22.000 --> 00:09:24.720 So know this when I say something, I'm not trying to meddle. 00:09:24.799 --> 00:09:27.519 And I almost never just say, do this. 00:09:27.679 --> 00:09:29.600 In fact, I didn't tell him to do anything today. 00:09:29.679 --> 00:09:32.879 I just encourage him, he heard from God, and he does hear from God. 00:09:33.759 --> 00:09:35.600 You know how I know he hears from God? 00:09:35.759 --> 00:09:36.960 Because he's born again. 00:09:38.399 --> 00:09:39.759 I witnessed it. 00:09:40.000 --> 00:09:41.519 I baptized him. 00:09:42.000 --> 00:09:45.039 I've been there and seen God move in his life. 00:09:45.120 --> 00:09:52.559 I've been there and seen him in services in this church, whether he wants to admit or not, where he knew that God was speaking to him, where he felt the presence of God. 00:09:54.159 --> 00:09:57.360 Sometimes we just need to remember reminded of that. 00:09:57.759 --> 00:10:00.720 Sometimes you just need to remind it, Jake, you hear from God. 00:10:01.039 --> 00:10:01.360 Right? 00:10:01.519 --> 00:10:04.000 Sometimes we just need someone to tell you, hey, you hear from God. 00:10:04.320 --> 00:10:05.840 God speaks to you. 00:10:06.159 --> 00:10:07.039 God loves you. 00:10:07.279 --> 00:10:08.159 He's not mad at you. 00:10:08.320 --> 00:10:12.480 He wants to talk to you, he wants to tell you things, he wants to show you things to come. 00:10:12.720 --> 00:10:16.399 How many believe, like I think of a guy like Jake, right? 00:10:16.480 --> 00:10:18.240 Or this young man, right? 00:10:18.320 --> 00:10:20.480 Xander, just starting out trying to do some business. 00:10:20.639 --> 00:10:26.320 How many of you think your business would be a whole lot better if you knew what was going to happen six months from now? 00:10:28.159 --> 00:10:34.080 You knew the trends, you knew where to invest, you know what to do, you knew who to be in partnership with. 00:10:34.240 --> 00:10:36.399 Number one, get in partnership with God. 00:10:36.799 --> 00:10:38.639 Number two, let's learn to hear from him. 00:10:38.799 --> 00:10:39.120 How? 00:10:39.279 --> 00:10:40.559 The inward witness. 00:10:40.799 --> 00:10:41.919 The inward witness. 00:10:42.000 --> 00:10:45.360 Uh Proverbs 20 and verse 27. 00:10:46.240 --> 00:10:49.039 Right, look at what it says here, Proverbs 20, 27. 00:10:50.159 --> 00:10:52.799 The Spirit of Man, this is the King James Version. 00:10:52.879 --> 00:10:56.320 The Spirit of Man is the candle of the Lord, searching all the inward parts of the belly. 00:10:56.480 --> 00:11:02.320 The new King James says the Spirit of Man is the lamp of the Lord, searching all the inner depths of his heart. 00:11:02.559 --> 00:11:08.639 So here we see heart, we see belly, uh, and and and we know what is it? 00:11:08.720 --> 00:11:09.600 It's on the inside. 00:11:09.679 --> 00:11:12.559 It's our spirit, our spirit. 00:11:12.960 --> 00:11:13.279 Right? 00:11:13.440 --> 00:11:16.399 The spirit of God on the inside in our spirit. 00:11:16.639 --> 00:11:17.840 We we know we're a spirit. 00:11:17.919 --> 00:11:20.159 We're not going to read it, but make note of this. 00:11:20.320 --> 00:11:23.679 1 Thessalonians chapter 5, verse 23. 00:11:23.759 --> 00:11:25.039 We've read this the last couple weeks. 00:11:25.120 --> 00:11:31.440 1 Thessalonians 5, 23, Paul says, the whole spirit, soul, and body. 00:11:31.679 --> 00:11:32.720 Spirit, soul, and body. 00:11:32.799 --> 00:11:34.559 He says, You are a spirit, soul, and body. 00:11:34.639 --> 00:11:36.639 You're made of three parts spirit, soul, and body. 00:11:36.799 --> 00:11:37.360 In that order. 00:11:37.519 --> 00:11:38.399 Spirit, soul, and body. 00:11:38.559 --> 00:11:41.840 Everybody say spirit, soul, body. 00:11:42.480 --> 00:11:44.480 So the real you is a spirit. 00:11:44.639 --> 00:11:47.039 And this is where, this is where most Christians miss it. 00:11:47.120 --> 00:11:55.679 They get born again, they get a brand new recreated spirit on the inside, and then they go right back into just thinking about their body and their soul. 00:11:56.159 --> 00:11:57.840 I had a discussion after first service. 00:11:57.919 --> 00:12:04.559 Someone said, you know, sometimes the Old Testament, it seems like they're saying soul when when, according to what you're saying, they should have said spirit. 00:12:04.720 --> 00:12:10.320 Well, number one, you need to look at translations, and sometimes it is. 00:12:10.480 --> 00:12:15.039 Sometimes what you also have to understand is uh everyone is born with the spirit. 00:12:15.360 --> 00:12:17.840 Even if you're not born again, you were born with the spirit. 00:12:18.000 --> 00:12:22.879 But you get born again, you accept Jesus as your Lord and Savior, you get a brand new recreated spirit. 00:12:23.360 --> 00:12:26.080 Old things pass away, behold, all things become new. 00:12:26.320 --> 00:12:27.519 Anyone ever heard that scripture? 00:12:27.679 --> 00:12:30.080 Old things passed away, behold, all things have become new. 00:12:30.399 --> 00:12:33.759 I know the new doesn't mean your outside changed. 00:12:33.919 --> 00:12:34.960 So what changed? 00:12:35.120 --> 00:12:36.720 Your spirit changed. 00:12:37.039 --> 00:12:37.360 Right? 00:12:37.440 --> 00:12:42.720 How many know if you're short when you get born again, you're still short when you walk back to the pew. 00:12:43.759 --> 00:12:48.000 If you were bald when you got born again, you're still bald when you walk back to the pew. 00:12:48.960 --> 00:12:49.279 Right? 00:12:49.360 --> 00:12:51.519 Your outward man does not change, but what changes? 00:12:51.679 --> 00:12:53.840 The inward man changes. 00:12:54.480 --> 00:12:55.440 The spirit. 00:12:55.679 --> 00:12:57.279 Spirit, soul, and body. 00:12:57.440 --> 00:12:59.840 Your spirit, the real you, the eternal part. 00:13:00.240 --> 00:13:02.000 That part is eternal. 00:13:02.639 --> 00:13:10.960 And if you don't get born again, that eternal part of you that came with you when you were born will spend eternity apart from God in hell. 00:13:11.200 --> 00:13:16.320 But you get born again, you get a recreated spirit that's going to spend eternity with God in heaven. 00:13:16.559 --> 00:13:22.799 Your soul, your mind, will, and emotions, your body, which is this physical house that we live in. 00:13:23.600 --> 00:13:24.240 Right? 00:13:26.000 --> 00:13:27.759 No, Paul, we talked about last week. 00:13:27.840 --> 00:13:29.279 He talked about departing. 00:13:30.240 --> 00:13:30.559 Right? 00:13:30.799 --> 00:13:33.840 Paul talks about being absent with the bodies to be present with the Lord. 00:13:33.919 --> 00:13:34.720 Well, who's absent? 00:13:35.279 --> 00:13:37.039 The real you, the spirit you. 00:13:38.960 --> 00:13:40.080 What's Paul saying? 00:13:40.320 --> 00:13:41.759 Sometimes nobody's home. 00:13:42.240 --> 00:13:44.480 What happens when a uh a person dies? 00:13:44.639 --> 00:13:46.159 Their spirit leaves. 00:13:47.519 --> 00:13:53.440 Jesus, remember on the cross, told one of the thieves, he said, Today you will be with me in paradise. 00:13:54.320 --> 00:13:56.080 Well, didn't they bury his body yet? 00:13:56.399 --> 00:13:57.840 Well, who is gonna be with Jesus? 00:13:58.000 --> 00:13:58.799 His spirit. 00:13:59.919 --> 00:14:02.480 To be absent from the body is to be present with the Lord. 00:14:02.639 --> 00:14:03.440 Well, who's absent? 00:14:03.600 --> 00:14:05.360 Your spirit is absent. 00:14:05.679 --> 00:14:06.639 The real you. 00:14:07.759 --> 00:14:12.559 So let's look over here at 2 Corinthians chapter 4 and verse 16. 00:14:14.240 --> 00:14:16.480 2 Corinthians 4, 16. 00:14:22.639 --> 00:14:24.639 Says, therefore, do not lose heart. 00:14:24.799 --> 00:14:27.120 Look at your neighbor and tell him not to lose heart. 00:14:27.360 --> 00:14:28.480 Don't lose heart. 00:14:28.720 --> 00:14:29.279 Amen. 00:14:29.440 --> 00:14:30.480 He says, What's going on? 00:14:30.639 --> 00:14:36.080 Our outward man is perishing, but the inward man is being renewed day by day. 00:14:36.320 --> 00:14:37.759 What's the outward man? 00:14:38.639 --> 00:14:39.360 His flesh. 00:14:39.519 --> 00:14:41.840 He says, that part of you is perishing. 00:14:42.000 --> 00:14:44.320 But the inward man is what? 00:14:44.639 --> 00:14:47.039 He's being renewed day by day. 00:14:47.360 --> 00:14:48.000 Amen. 00:14:48.240 --> 00:14:52.320 Aren't you glad that the spirit you right? 00:14:52.559 --> 00:14:54.960 The inward man never grows older. 00:14:56.559 --> 00:14:57.679 Doesn't that sound good? 00:14:57.840 --> 00:15:01.840 The the in inward you, the the the spirit never grows older. 00:15:02.000 --> 00:15:03.600 He's renewed day by day. 00:15:03.840 --> 00:15:04.399 Amen. 00:15:05.360 --> 00:15:07.200 You are a spirit. 00:15:07.840 --> 00:15:09.039 Remind yourself of that. 00:15:09.200 --> 00:15:10.720 No, I am a spirit. 00:15:10.960 --> 00:15:11.440 Say that. 00:15:11.519 --> 00:15:12.639 Say, I am a spirit. 00:15:13.840 --> 00:15:15.360 Man, you just got to remind yourself that. 00:15:15.440 --> 00:15:18.159 That's how we we get more in contact with the spiritual. 00:15:18.399 --> 00:15:20.240 1 Peter chapter 3 and verse 4. 00:15:20.320 --> 00:15:21.919 Let's see what Peter says about it. 00:15:22.159 --> 00:15:24.080 Paul called it the inward man. 00:15:24.480 --> 00:15:28.960 Peter here in 1 Peter 3, 4, look what he calls it. 00:15:29.200 --> 00:15:33.519 He says, but let it be, right, the the hidden man of the heart. 00:15:35.679 --> 00:15:38.639 Hidden person of the heart here in the New King James. 00:15:39.759 --> 00:15:41.840 So Paul says, the inward man. 00:15:42.559 --> 00:15:45.360 Peter calls it the hidden man of the heart. 00:15:45.679 --> 00:15:48.080 In the New Testament, right? 00:15:48.159 --> 00:16:02.960 In the Old Testament, sometimes it uh is referring to uh soul sometimes, but in the New Testament, wherever you see the word heart, you can substitute the word spirit, and you'll get a clear picture of what the Bible's talking about. 00:16:03.360 --> 00:16:03.679 Right? 00:16:03.759 --> 00:16:05.840 It's the spirit of man that gets born again. 00:16:06.000 --> 00:16:08.480 I mentioned 2 Corinthians 5.17. 00:16:08.960 --> 00:16:14.000 2 Corinthians 5.17 says, Therefore, if any man be in Christ, he's a new creature. 00:16:14.159 --> 00:16:17.279 Old things are passed away, behold, all things are become new. 00:16:17.840 --> 00:16:19.039 What's the new? 00:16:19.200 --> 00:16:21.519 It's not your body, it's your spirit. 00:16:21.840 --> 00:16:23.519 2 Corinthians 5.17. 00:16:23.759 --> 00:16:26.159 Old things pass away, behold, all things become new. 00:16:26.320 --> 00:16:26.639 Right? 00:16:26.799 --> 00:16:33.600 Nicodemus came to Jesus in John chapter 3, and he said, What must the man do to get to heaven? 00:16:33.840 --> 00:16:36.960 And Jesus said, You must be born again. 00:16:37.200 --> 00:16:44.159 Nicodemus, thinking natural thoughts, said, How can a man get back into his mother's womb once he's an adult and be born again? 00:16:44.320 --> 00:16:46.240 Jesus said, No, you've missed the point. 00:16:46.320 --> 00:16:49.679 It's not a natural rebirth, it's a spiritual rebirth. 00:16:52.080 --> 00:16:56.320 Outward man stays like it was before he gets born again. 00:16:56.480 --> 00:17:01.200 And the thing is, and we're not going today, but you've got to do something with the outward man. 00:17:02.080 --> 00:17:04.319 Bible talks about keeping your flesh under. 00:17:05.119 --> 00:17:11.839 No, the thing you need to realize, you are a spirit being, and you need to be more spirit conscious. 00:17:12.400 --> 00:17:16.720 And if you'll get more spirit conscious, spiritual things start to become more real to you. 00:17:17.200 --> 00:17:17.920 Here's the amazing thing. 00:17:18.079 --> 00:17:20.720 Want to know something spiritual going on in this room right now? 00:17:21.519 --> 00:17:22.799 There are angels here. 00:17:23.680 --> 00:17:26.000 There are angels in this room right now. 00:17:26.880 --> 00:17:27.920 There are angels here. 00:17:28.319 --> 00:17:29.279 Anyone see one? 00:17:29.599 --> 00:17:30.240 I don't. 00:17:30.480 --> 00:17:31.119 Are they here? 00:17:31.279 --> 00:17:31.680 Yep. 00:17:32.240 --> 00:17:33.759 Here's their thing. 00:17:34.480 --> 00:17:37.519 Every one of you, you're you're a spirit in here. 00:17:38.079 --> 00:17:41.039 You have the Holy Spirit if you're born again, living on the inside of you. 00:17:41.440 --> 00:17:44.000 You've you've you've you've got to talk about that more. 00:17:44.160 --> 00:17:44.480 Why? 00:17:44.640 --> 00:17:48.000 Because God's gonna lead you by the Holy Spirit through your spirit. 00:17:48.640 --> 00:17:50.960 He's gonna lead you by the Holy Spirit through your spirit. 00:17:51.039 --> 00:17:53.920 I I talked about this last week, right? 00:17:55.200 --> 00:17:58.880 With your body, you contact the physical world. 00:17:59.119 --> 00:18:05.599 With your soul, your your mind, world, and emotions, you contact you contact the intellectual and the emotional world. 00:18:05.839 --> 00:18:09.759 But with your spirit, you contact the spiritual world. 00:18:11.519 --> 00:18:15.519 The amazing thing, you teach things like this, and some people are like, that's just weird. 00:18:16.480 --> 00:18:19.279 Well, if you think that's weird, wait till you get to heaven. 00:18:20.640 --> 00:18:28.240 You know there's a being, there's there's a being in heaven that's just got eyes all around and all it does is follow God around going, holy, holy, holy. 00:18:29.440 --> 00:18:34.480 So get used to some spiritual stuff here on earth, otherwise you're gonna be freaked out when you get to heaven. 00:18:35.839 --> 00:18:40.559 You're gonna spend the first few centuries just like, I can't believe all this. 00:18:42.559 --> 00:18:45.279 No, it's spiritual, spiritual truths. 00:18:46.880 --> 00:18:49.519 Your spirit is eternal. 00:18:50.799 --> 00:18:52.640 Your spirit is the real you. 00:18:52.880 --> 00:18:54.480 The Holy Spirit, you get born again. 00:18:54.559 --> 00:18:55.920 He comes to live in there. 00:18:56.160 --> 00:18:57.279 And what's he want to do? 00:18:57.359 --> 00:18:58.720 He wants to bear witness. 00:18:59.519 --> 00:19:04.960 We're gonna talk about as we get a little deeper about um how to hear that a little clearer. 00:19:05.039 --> 00:19:07.440 But the first thing you have to do is just recognize it. 00:19:07.599 --> 00:19:10.720 We're gonna finish here in Hebrews 4, verse 12. 00:19:11.519 --> 00:19:13.920 We won't go too deep into this. 00:19:15.839 --> 00:19:17.119 But I want you to see this. 00:19:17.200 --> 00:19:26.880 It says in Hebrews 4.12, for the word of God, right, is is uh the King James says, quick and powerful, right? 00:19:27.119 --> 00:19:34.160 Word of God is living and powerful, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the division of soul and spirit. 00:19:34.480 --> 00:19:40.079 Your human mind has a real problem with trying to figure the difference between your soul and your spirit. 00:19:40.240 --> 00:19:50.079 And in fact, you can read certain things in the Old Testament, and it can almost be very, very confusing because it almost seems like they're using those two things interchangeably. 00:19:50.720 --> 00:19:52.000 But what's the Bible say? 00:19:52.160 --> 00:19:53.759 There's a difference between the two, right? 00:19:53.839 --> 00:19:58.240 Paul said, your whole spirit, soul, and body, you're a three-part being. 00:19:58.400 --> 00:19:59.440 So there's a difference. 00:19:59.599 --> 00:20:01.920 There are some similarities, right? 00:20:02.079 --> 00:20:10.000 In the fact that you could, we we could take you to the hospital right now, put you in an MRI machine, and and they could see your body, they could see everything in there, but you know what they couldn't see? 00:20:10.160 --> 00:20:12.960 Couldn't can't see your spirit, and they can't see your soul. 00:20:13.359 --> 00:20:14.720 But they're both there. 00:20:14.960 --> 00:20:20.880 And they they truly are uh right, right, right, these things that can't be discerned without what? 00:20:21.039 --> 00:20:25.359 The word of God that that is so sharp it can divide the two. 00:20:28.880 --> 00:20:32.000 Thank you for tuning in to the Lone Star Church Podcast. 00:20:32.160 --> 00:20:35.359 We hope this week's message strengthened your faith in God's word. 00:20:35.759 --> 00:20:42.079 Remember, if you live in northwest Missouri or southern Iowa, we invite you to join us in person on a Sunday morning. 00:20:42.319 --> 00:20:49.200 For more information about us, visit our website at Lone StarCurch.org or follow us on Facebook, Instagram, or YouTube.