WEBVTT 00:00:03.359 --> 00:00:05.839 Well, welcome to KCC Church at Home. 00:00:05.919 --> 00:00:11.919 I'm Brody Callman, lead pastor at Kelona Christian Center, along with our pastoral team. 00:00:12.000 --> 00:00:16.399 And we're just so grateful to have you in our lobby here at KCC. 00:00:17.039 --> 00:00:28.800 So today we are just going to take a moment and just invite you to share, throw out a text, and let people know that yes, we are live, and yes, we are together. 00:00:29.120 --> 00:00:39.119 Our encouragement to you is even in these times, if you can have people come over to your place, you don't have to be watching it on as it goes live. 00:00:39.200 --> 00:00:53.280 It's always great if you do, but go ahead and just arrange a time where people can come over to your house and you can gather together with people inside of your bubble, inside of your social circle, and go ahead and watch together. 00:00:53.520 --> 00:00:59.039 And just gather together, worship together, listen to the word together, discuss together. 00:00:59.200 --> 00:01:04.000 It's a big part of our church community when we are together. 00:01:04.239 --> 00:01:06.079 So gather in the summer. 00:01:06.159 --> 00:01:08.400 It's some of the best times that we can do that. 00:01:08.560 --> 00:01:19.439 I want to say thank you as well for all of those of you who are continuing to give to KCC either through our app, the website, you're coming into our office. 00:01:20.000 --> 00:01:36.239 That just shows incredible support and encouragement to us as a team that yes, you are behind us and you are behind the ministry here, and you're allowing us to continue doing what we're doing as well as serve our missionaries and our ministries that are happening right now. 00:01:36.959 --> 00:02:02.640 So we are in the closing message, our last message on our Fresh Winds series, and we're giving you principles right now that you can do to allow fresh wind to enter into your own life, into your own marriage, your own financial account, your own relationship, your own church and parenting. 00:02:02.799 --> 00:02:05.920 You're bringing fresh wind into your life. 00:02:06.159 --> 00:02:16.159 And we realize that a lot of people can find themselves caught in the doldrums of life, a place where there is no movement. 00:02:16.319 --> 00:02:35.919 And we don't want anyone to be caught in that place where they are striving in their own energy to move life forward when God has given us a way to move by positioning our sail and catching the wind, the fresh wind of his spirit. 00:02:36.319 --> 00:02:39.680 So today, uh just a quick review. 00:02:39.840 --> 00:02:50.159 We talked about the first principle being that we should open our life to the love of Jesus Christ and open ourselves up to that relationship with Jesus Christ. 00:02:50.319 --> 00:03:13.280 And last week or the week before Father's Day, we discussed the importance of keeping our attitudes right and making right choices, being holy, being loving, being forgiving, being grateful, and keeping ourselves from attitudes that won't bring life to us. 00:03:13.759 --> 00:03:18.639 So this is our theme verse for the series, and I'm just going to remind you of it. 00:03:18.800 --> 00:03:25.439 We've done this each week, and I'm just going to lay it down before we go on to our third and last principle. 00:03:25.759 --> 00:03:28.479 Deuteronomy chapter 30, verse 19. 00:03:28.639 --> 00:03:30.319 And this is what it says. 00:03:44.000 --> 00:03:45.759 Now choose life. 00:03:46.000 --> 00:03:47.360 So we have this choice. 00:03:47.520 --> 00:03:51.360 We can choose a fresh wind or we can choose the doldrums. 00:03:52.080 --> 00:03:55.759 Life that's still or life that's moving forward. 00:03:56.080 --> 00:03:59.919 And the scripture says, go ahead and choose life. 00:04:00.159 --> 00:04:02.240 Choose that fresh wind. 00:04:02.479 --> 00:04:07.199 So we have that choice, and we're encouraging you, and we're encouraging each other. 00:04:07.439 --> 00:04:08.319 Choose life. 00:04:08.560 --> 00:04:12.879 God's got more for us than what you're even experiencing now. 00:04:13.120 --> 00:04:15.360 He's got a fresh wind for us. 00:04:15.599 --> 00:04:23.519 So you're going to discover today that the source of fresh wind is the Holy Spirit. 00:04:23.759 --> 00:04:27.600 And the Holy Spirit, he's the third person in the Trinity. 00:04:27.839 --> 00:04:41.040 Now, the Trinity is something that many people may not be comfortable with discussing, but really it's three parts of God in one, considered to be one. 00:04:41.360 --> 00:04:45.600 And they're made up of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. 00:04:45.839 --> 00:04:48.560 Now, the Father we're comfortable with. 00:04:48.879 --> 00:04:50.800 Last week we had Father's Day. 00:04:51.040 --> 00:04:53.519 Many of us know how to relate to a Father. 00:04:53.839 --> 00:05:02.319 We realize and recognize who and what a Father is and how he functions in an individual's life. 00:05:02.480 --> 00:05:05.920 And we're comfortable with Jesus as the Son. 00:05:06.560 --> 00:05:09.360 We know what He may have looked like. 00:05:09.519 --> 00:05:21.120 We've perhaps recognized and seen his birth at Christmas, all through his ministry, to the day he was crucified and then rose from the grave. 00:05:21.279 --> 00:05:28.160 We hear his stories, we've seen movies and heard the children's stories about who he is. 00:05:28.319 --> 00:05:34.560 We become familiar to who he is because he was like a man, walked the earth. 00:05:34.879 --> 00:05:44.399 But when it comes to the Holy Spirit, many people struggle with realizing and relating to the Holy Spirit. 00:05:45.680 --> 00:05:51.360 Some people have called it a spirit, or even the Bible talks about him as a ghost. 00:05:51.439 --> 00:05:57.040 And we think, well, we don't want to relate to a ghost, and we don't want to relate to a spirit. 00:05:57.519 --> 00:06:00.879 It's just uncomfortable to use those terminology. 00:06:01.040 --> 00:06:05.279 So how do you relate to Holy Spirit? 00:06:06.560 --> 00:06:13.360 A lot of that is our conflict, is related actually to our English verbiage. 00:06:13.839 --> 00:06:22.639 And I want to discuss with you today the importance of actually realizing and recognizing who the Holy Spirit is. 00:06:23.439 --> 00:06:32.079 The Bible was written in its original context based upon the language of the Hebrew people. 00:06:32.480 --> 00:06:38.879 The Old Testament particularly, and the New Testament was written with a lot of Greek. 00:06:39.279 --> 00:06:48.480 And over 800 times in Scripture, the word spirit is used and described either spirit or ghost. 00:06:48.800 --> 00:06:58.800 And it wasn't really the translators' fault as they were translating spirit, ghost, and the Hebrew words for they were trying in the translation. 00:06:58.879 --> 00:07:01.120 It wasn't their fault in trying to find a word. 00:07:01.439 --> 00:07:08.079 There just wasn't a word that accurately described what they were trying to discuss. 00:07:09.519 --> 00:07:15.279 And so it was their best attempt, but we're going to go back to the beginning. 00:07:15.439 --> 00:07:17.600 We're going to go back to the Hebrew word. 00:07:17.839 --> 00:07:20.720 We're going to do just a little bit of a study today. 00:07:21.279 --> 00:07:26.480 Starting with the Hebrew word for spirit is the word ruach. 00:07:27.040 --> 00:07:32.319 Now it's Hebrew, so you have to make that sound, that guttural sound at the end. 00:07:32.639 --> 00:07:38.160 But that word means spirit or wind or breath. 00:07:38.959 --> 00:07:43.360 It means a violent exaltation, a blast of breath. 00:07:43.519 --> 00:07:53.439 I think about it like a fog horn on a big ship, where you can actually, the sound of the ship's horn goes off, but you feel it in your chest. 00:07:54.000 --> 00:07:57.439 It's a blast of air that affects you. 00:07:57.600 --> 00:08:14.319 Maybe perhaps you enjoyed going out for Father's Day, shooting at targets with rifles, and you've heard that sound go off, and you feel the reverberation of that blast of air that comes from that explosion from that rifle. 00:08:14.560 --> 00:08:22.639 That's the same breath, that's the same blast of air that is referred to as the spirit. 00:08:22.720 --> 00:08:26.079 It's the ruach, it's that ruach spirit. 00:08:26.160 --> 00:08:45.120 And we read about it first in Genesis chapter 1, verse 2, where it says, the earth was formless and empty, and darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the spirit of God, the ruach of God, was hovering over the waters. 00:08:45.360 --> 00:08:47.279 Now, what did this look like? 00:08:48.480 --> 00:09:04.399 It literally means when God spoke, out of his mouth there was a violent blast, and his violent blast created trees, it created fish, it out of that violent blast, lands and mountains were formed. 00:09:04.639 --> 00:09:12.879 And his breath, that breath, when he spoke a word, that breath was charged with life. 00:09:14.159 --> 00:09:18.399 And when he said, Let there be light, there was light. 00:09:19.039 --> 00:09:23.039 And when he spoke, things came into existence. 00:09:23.919 --> 00:09:26.000 Nature began to come into existence. 00:09:26.240 --> 00:09:28.000 Stars were set in the sky. 00:09:28.240 --> 00:09:30.879 It was a wondrous, amazing moment. 00:09:31.440 --> 00:09:38.399 Whales were born, and fish and starfish and the creatures of the sea came alive. 00:09:38.559 --> 00:09:40.080 It was an incredible moment. 00:09:40.240 --> 00:09:48.480 When he spoke, there was a blast of air and the breath created life. 00:09:49.679 --> 00:09:56.559 It really is important if we're going to relate to him this way, that we relate to him as this wind. 00:09:57.039 --> 00:10:02.799 We relate to him as this blast of fresh air that brings life to us. 00:10:03.600 --> 00:10:04.720 Now imagine that. 00:10:29.840 --> 00:10:35.679 It reinforces the reality of the Trinity as a family unit. 00:10:36.000 --> 00:10:40.559 We have the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. 00:10:40.799 --> 00:10:43.120 The Holy Spirit sets the environment. 00:10:43.279 --> 00:10:49.519 The Holy Spirit creates the nature and the environment of the world. 00:10:49.759 --> 00:10:52.080 So where do you need this life? 00:10:52.399 --> 00:11:03.759 And I asked this today because in our life, if you catch yourself in the doldrums, you've been sitting at home, you've been in this environment that's really uncertain. 00:11:04.080 --> 00:11:07.039 Where do you want this blast of life? 00:11:07.279 --> 00:11:12.159 Where do you want this space to invade your home? 00:11:13.120 --> 00:11:15.919 In the New Testament, the word is pneuma. 00:11:17.279 --> 00:11:24.080 It's a Greek word, and it means a current of air, a blast or a breath, a strong breeze. 00:11:24.320 --> 00:11:26.320 And it is not a ghost. 00:11:26.559 --> 00:11:30.320 See, both of these words are neither ghost nor spirit. 00:11:30.559 --> 00:11:34.480 They're wind, they're breath, they're a blast of air. 00:11:34.799 --> 00:11:39.759 So every time you read the word spirit, it really means breath. 00:11:40.879 --> 00:11:42.960 That's what the Holy Spirit came to do. 00:11:43.120 --> 00:11:48.720 He came to breathe life into our religious experiences. 00:11:49.679 --> 00:11:52.399 To cause them to come alive. 00:11:53.679 --> 00:11:55.120 So why all the mystery? 00:11:55.279 --> 00:11:57.200 Why is it so hard to relate? 00:11:57.759 --> 00:12:05.679 John 6.63 says this, and this is really important, is that it's the Spirit that gives life. 00:12:06.080 --> 00:12:08.240 The Spirit gives life. 00:12:08.480 --> 00:12:15.120 And it's the wind of God, it's that wind that brings life into our environment. 00:12:15.279 --> 00:12:24.559 A lot of people will look to money and to fame and to education and to influence to find life. 00:12:24.960 --> 00:12:32.960 But the fact is, life is not found in those things, into good looks and the areas of vanity. 00:12:33.840 --> 00:12:36.159 Those areas will not provide life. 00:12:36.320 --> 00:12:44.000 In fact, we see people who have money and have all the things in life, and they don't have that life. 00:12:44.240 --> 00:12:47.200 And so their perspective is just get more. 00:12:48.080 --> 00:12:49.519 Just find more. 00:12:49.840 --> 00:12:55.759 And the more you have, then maybe you'll reach that space where you actually have life. 00:12:56.960 --> 00:13:00.240 But the Bible says it's the Spirit who gives life. 00:13:00.559 --> 00:13:04.480 The flesh literally counts for nothing. 00:13:05.919 --> 00:13:08.480 If you want life, you need the Spirit. 00:13:08.639 --> 00:13:12.000 Now I'm going to ask you at home, how many of you want life? 00:13:12.240 --> 00:13:32.879 How many of you want this life in your sail, that energy in your step, that spark in your heart that translates, that gives you the smile and the sparkle in your eye that causes you to be attractive in an unrealistic, supernatural way? 00:13:34.399 --> 00:13:36.159 It's this wind of God. 00:13:36.320 --> 00:13:38.159 It's this breath of God. 00:13:39.360 --> 00:13:47.120 So if we're stuck, and that makes sense, what does it take to get unstuck? 00:13:47.840 --> 00:13:52.480 And I'm going to do my best to help move you out of the doldrums. 00:13:52.879 --> 00:13:54.399 This is our final week. 00:13:54.559 --> 00:14:04.960 So if you need to go back and listen to the other option opportunities or the other messages, you can go back and actually look at those. 00:14:05.279 --> 00:14:11.279 But today, if there was a message I'd want to preach and I'd want you to hear, it would be this message. 00:14:12.159 --> 00:14:14.960 What the Spirit does is bring life. 00:14:15.120 --> 00:14:17.840 What the flesh does does nothing. 00:14:18.080 --> 00:14:20.799 So Jesus is saying there's a secret. 00:14:21.039 --> 00:14:30.320 And the secret is if you want this life, it's in his words, it's in the scripture, it's in this relationship with Holy Spirit. 00:14:31.039 --> 00:14:35.440 The Bible is more than just great ideas for us. 00:14:35.519 --> 00:14:41.039 It's more than just something for us to contemplate and consider and read to bring encouragement. 00:14:41.200 --> 00:14:44.000 The Bible is actually the words of life. 00:14:44.320 --> 00:14:55.679 They contain the breath of God, they contain this wind of God that will help motivate and encourage and build you up and move you from one point to another. 00:14:56.000 --> 00:15:00.559 Even over unsurmountable obstacles. 00:15:01.200 --> 00:15:06.399 We can turn to the word and the word will encourage us and move us forward. 00:15:06.960 --> 00:15:09.600 So those words contain this wind. 00:15:10.159 --> 00:15:12.639 But this wind is hard to describe. 00:15:13.039 --> 00:15:19.200 It would be like trying to describe wind to someone who's only been indoors. 00:15:20.080 --> 00:15:22.799 Only experience has been indoors. 00:15:22.960 --> 00:15:26.480 For them to be able to experience wind, how would you explain it? 00:15:26.720 --> 00:15:33.519 And you might be like, well, it's like uh, or it's like uh, huh? 00:15:33.759 --> 00:15:40.879 You just want to take them outside on a windy day and say, this is what it's like. 00:15:41.039 --> 00:15:45.759 But I'm gonna do my best just to help you experience it today. 00:15:45.919 --> 00:15:50.240 The first thing I want you to know about this wind is that the wind is unseen. 00:15:51.120 --> 00:15:53.279 It's something that we cannot see. 00:15:53.440 --> 00:15:59.600 You couldn't explain the wind because the wind doesn't have color, it doesn't have shape, it doesn't have design. 00:15:59.840 --> 00:16:01.519 In fact, it's invisible. 00:16:01.679 --> 00:16:05.440 You can see the effect of the wind, but you can't see the wind. 00:16:05.759 --> 00:16:08.240 The wind of God is much like this. 00:16:08.480 --> 00:16:09.759 It is unseen. 00:16:10.159 --> 00:16:15.039 And for many people that's a problem because we like to see things. 00:16:15.279 --> 00:16:16.559 It's in our nature. 00:16:16.799 --> 00:16:21.120 We want to see, uh we want to see it in our hand. 00:16:21.279 --> 00:16:23.840 We want to observe the way it functions. 00:16:24.159 --> 00:16:29.600 And it goes against our nature to believe in something that we cannot see. 00:16:30.320 --> 00:16:32.960 But the wind of God is unseen. 00:16:33.360 --> 00:16:38.559 And for some of you that's a problem, but I don't have any other response. 00:16:38.799 --> 00:16:44.000 In fact, Jesus even said, he says, I can't apologize for this. 00:16:44.240 --> 00:16:55.840 Um, the wind is, it comes and it goes, and and uh it's not something that you can actually hold in your hand. 00:16:56.000 --> 00:17:00.000 It's not something that you can actually, it's not tangible. 00:17:01.279 --> 00:17:08.000 But the truth is this, is that the the Spirit of God was never meant to be seen. 00:17:09.039 --> 00:17:11.359 The wind of God was never meant to be seen. 00:17:12.240 --> 00:17:22.319 God didn't intend for it to be logical, that you see something through your eye gate, you believe in it, and then you f you act on it. 00:17:23.119 --> 00:17:29.680 In fact, God's intention was that each person individually experience it. 00:17:30.400 --> 00:17:37.200 To be able to experience the wind of God, to be able to experience this fresh wind is so important. 00:17:37.759 --> 00:17:41.680 There's nothing like this manifest presence of God. 00:17:42.079 --> 00:17:55.119 And once you've been in a space where the presence of God is that tangible that you you can't see it, but you know it's there, you walk and you go, something is different in this space. 00:17:55.359 --> 00:18:02.880 Something is different because the Spirit of God is there, the wind of the Spirit is there. 00:18:04.160 --> 00:18:12.000 One of the psalmists said it this way He said, Better is one day in the house of the Lord than a thousand elsewhere. 00:18:12.559 --> 00:18:22.400 Because that psalmist had an opportunity to experience the wind of God, and when he experienced the wind of God, he said, Boy, this is better. 00:18:23.119 --> 00:18:41.200 One moment in this environment, one moment with that wind in your sail, in your life, that fresh breath, one moment is better than a thousand hours of counseling, a thousand hours of working hard to move. 00:18:41.680 --> 00:18:48.160 One moment in the wind just brings refreshment and and new life. 00:18:49.119 --> 00:18:57.279 If you haven't had that, uh you don't need uh a cushy chair or an experience in a physical building. 00:18:57.519 --> 00:19:14.640 You can actually experience that at your home today, just to open your heart to this wind of God and to move in and to move and allow that wind to impact you and to uh influence you. 00:19:14.960 --> 00:19:17.200 I want you to experience that. 00:19:17.839 --> 00:19:20.000 He's here, but he's unseen. 00:19:20.720 --> 00:19:23.759 So Thomas was one of the great examples of this. 00:19:24.079 --> 00:19:35.759 Jesus said, uh went to see Thomas, and because he had heard Thomas had questions, and Thomas was saying, I uh I won't believe it until I actually see it. 00:19:36.160 --> 00:19:46.240 And Jesus, when he finally came to Thomas, he said, put your fingers in the nails in my hands and put your hand in my side and experience it. 00:19:46.400 --> 00:19:54.160 But Jesus said, Because you've seen me, you've believed, but blessed are those who have not seen and still believe. 00:19:54.480 --> 00:20:05.200 There's a blessing for those of us who haven't seen but have, regardless, gone and experienced what God has for us. 00:20:05.440 --> 00:20:12.720 If you really want to see the best of God or you want to experience the best of God, you have to realize that this is a part of who He is. 00:20:12.960 --> 00:20:19.680 The ruach of God, the breath, the wind of God is something that is unseen. 00:20:20.160 --> 00:20:25.839 Next, the wind of God, this wind of God is unpredictable. 00:20:26.400 --> 00:20:27.839 It is unpredictable. 00:20:27.920 --> 00:20:33.359 And how many of you would agree with me that when you're out in the wind, it's unpredictable? 00:20:33.599 --> 00:20:41.839 Uh I've golfed, uh we are always looking for which way the wind is going, which way the wind is moving. 00:20:42.000 --> 00:20:59.839 In fact, when you golf, you see a flag at the end of the uh the fairway, and it's sitting in the hole in the cup, and that flag is blowing one way or another because the wind is always changing, and you have to adjust your shot to accommodate the wind. 00:21:00.160 --> 00:21:06.160 In fact, there's a full-time employee at our airport who's watching the wind. 00:21:06.400 --> 00:21:16.079 That's all his duty is to watch the wind, communicate to those who are flying in how the wind is moving so that the plane can adjust to land. 00:21:16.400 --> 00:21:18.960 The wind is unpredictable. 00:21:19.680 --> 00:21:23.680 The God we serve is also unpredictable. 00:21:23.920 --> 00:21:26.960 Again, this messes us up a little bit. 00:21:27.200 --> 00:21:33.200 It's the challenge that we have with the Spirit of God because we don't like unpredictable. 00:21:33.440 --> 00:21:35.200 We like predictable. 00:21:35.440 --> 00:21:41.279 We like to have a if such and such happens, then such and such happens. 00:21:41.519 --> 00:21:46.000 We want to know a formula, and we want that formula to serve us. 00:21:46.319 --> 00:21:49.680 But the fact is, it doesn't serve us. 00:21:49.920 --> 00:21:59.519 Nicodemus uh uh, a uh a professor of the day of Jesus' time, a professor of religion virtually. 00:22:01.119 --> 00:22:04.559 He said, What does it mean to be born of the Spirit? 00:22:04.960 --> 00:22:08.480 What does it mean to be born again of the Spirit? 00:22:08.720 --> 00:22:11.039 And he tried to lock it down. 00:22:11.200 --> 00:22:12.400 This is what it's going to mean. 00:22:12.480 --> 00:22:16.880 And Jesus said to him, the wind blows wherever it pleases. 00:22:17.119 --> 00:22:22.079 In other words, the Spirit blows wherever it pleases. 00:22:22.480 --> 00:22:26.960 You hear its sound, but you can't tell where it's coming from or where it's going. 00:22:27.519 --> 00:22:30.480 So it is with everyone who's born of the Spirit. 00:22:30.720 --> 00:22:37.119 Everyone is going to have a unique relationship, a personal relationship with Holy Spirit. 00:22:37.359 --> 00:22:49.119 Whether you're eight years old watching today, or if you're 80 years old watching today, you can have a relationship with Holy Spirit, but it's not going to be exact. 00:22:50.000 --> 00:22:51.920 It's unpredictable. 00:22:52.559 --> 00:22:55.759 The wind of the Spirit keeps changing. 00:22:56.000 --> 00:23:04.960 And the translator chose this word, this unpredictable nature of God, so that we wouldn't just serve the formula. 00:23:05.759 --> 00:23:10.000 We don't serve the Holy, we don't serve a formula. 00:23:10.319 --> 00:23:12.960 We don't tell the wind how to move. 00:23:13.200 --> 00:23:14.880 We just set our sail. 00:23:15.440 --> 00:23:20.240 We open up our heart and we adjust to the way the wind is blowing. 00:23:20.640 --> 00:23:25.039 So we have to constantly be looking at where are you going, God? 00:23:25.119 --> 00:23:30.160 I wake up in the morning and I say, Holy Spirit, what does today look like? 00:23:30.559 --> 00:23:34.400 What do you need from me at this time? 00:23:34.799 --> 00:23:36.240 How should I adjust? 00:23:36.480 --> 00:23:39.200 How do I accommodate you today? 00:23:40.240 --> 00:23:52.079 If you're going to have to, if you're going to want this spirit, this wind in your life, you have to get comfortable with the thought that you can't pin him down. 00:23:53.119 --> 00:23:58.160 And it's not always going to be orderly or the same. 00:23:59.359 --> 00:24:03.279 God chose at one time to speak to someone from a mountain. 00:24:03.519 --> 00:24:07.440 God chose another time to speak to someone through a burning bush. 00:24:08.000 --> 00:24:10.799 God uses different ways. 00:24:10.880 --> 00:24:30.880 And actually in Mark chapter 8, there's a really great example of this in verse 22 to 26, where it actually tells about some men who were taking their friend, a blind man, to see Jesus because they heard that Jesus was laying hands on people and they were getting well. 00:24:31.119 --> 00:24:34.720 And they actually approached Jesus, and I find this kind of humorous. 00:24:34.960 --> 00:24:36.400 They approach him this way. 00:24:41.119 --> 00:24:44.880 In other words, Jesus, do what you've been doing with everyone else. 00:24:45.119 --> 00:24:51.359 Go ahead, take your hands that you've been laying on other people, and go ahead and touch him, and you'll get well. 00:24:51.759 --> 00:24:57.119 And Jesus stood back, he goes, Oh, you really think that the power is in the hands? 00:24:57.359 --> 00:24:58.799 You want a formula. 00:24:58.960 --> 00:25:00.640 Well, you're not going to get it. 00:25:00.960 --> 00:25:02.960 So Jesus did something really unique. 00:25:03.119 --> 00:25:08.319 He took him outside of the village, and Jesus spit on the ground. 00:25:08.960 --> 00:25:18.960 He made mud with his hand in the spit, and he put that mud on the eyes of the individual, washed his eyes, and then he saw. 00:25:19.279 --> 00:25:23.759 Jesus said, don't try and pin down the way God works. 00:25:24.640 --> 00:25:32.240 It may be familiar to you, but you have to be open to the unpredictable nature of the Holy Spirit. 00:25:32.880 --> 00:25:35.440 The wind is also powerful. 00:25:36.240 --> 00:25:37.039 Powerful. 00:25:37.279 --> 00:25:38.640 Wind can do many things. 00:25:38.799 --> 00:25:40.559 It can generate electricity. 00:25:40.799 --> 00:25:46.240 It can do things that benefit us, but it can also be devastating. 00:25:46.480 --> 00:25:57.759 I'm always so impressed when they give an aerial shot of a space where a tornado or a hurricane came through, generated by the wind. 00:25:58.079 --> 00:26:01.039 The wind is full of power. 00:26:01.279 --> 00:26:05.599 It has the power to build or it has the power to destroy. 00:26:05.920 --> 00:26:11.279 And I want you to know today that the God I serve is a powerful God. 00:26:12.160 --> 00:26:16.079 I am not interested in serving a powerless God. 00:26:16.319 --> 00:26:19.599 I'm only interested in serving a powerful God. 00:26:20.079 --> 00:26:31.519 And my God has enough power to be able to face any situation that you may have faced and overcome those obstacles. 00:26:31.759 --> 00:26:40.000 In your own heart, in your own experience, in your own history, in your own life, God can do incredible things. 00:26:40.319 --> 00:26:43.839 At the heart of it, we even struggle with this. 00:26:44.319 --> 00:26:52.559 Because our mind considers the power as power as something that only we can achieve. 00:26:53.119 --> 00:26:57.440 So our mind is limited to the power of what we can do. 00:26:58.079 --> 00:27:01.759 But God's power is beyond the natural. 00:27:01.920 --> 00:27:03.759 It's supernatural. 00:27:04.160 --> 00:27:14.720 And this supernatural power allows God to do things that are outside of our understanding or our expectation. 00:27:15.359 --> 00:27:17.759 That's how powerful God is. 00:27:22.400 --> 00:27:29.839 Take a lame person who was lame since birth and pick them up and put them on their feet. 00:27:30.240 --> 00:27:34.079 He can cure cancer where there is no cure. 00:27:34.240 --> 00:27:36.559 And it goes beyond our reason. 00:27:36.960 --> 00:27:41.039 And we might think about it and we go, well, I can't understand healing. 00:27:41.200 --> 00:27:46.960 I don't understand how that one individual was lame and now has stood up. 00:27:47.200 --> 00:27:54.720 And we might never understand it because his power is beyond our capacity to understand. 00:27:55.200 --> 00:28:03.759 And if we want to serve a God who is within our capacity of understanding, then our experience is going to be limited. 00:28:04.000 --> 00:28:16.240 But if we serve a God whose power is greater than our capacity, then we can expect God to do more than we can imagine or even dream or think of. 00:28:17.119 --> 00:28:19.039 That is the wind of God. 00:28:19.440 --> 00:28:21.039 That's the presence of God. 00:28:21.200 --> 00:28:25.759 Charles Finney is a great example of someone who experienced this power. 00:28:25.920 --> 00:28:35.920 He was a great revivalist in America, saw in his lifetime over a half of a million people come to know Jesus through his ministry. 00:28:36.079 --> 00:28:37.920 He was a revivalist. 00:28:38.960 --> 00:28:49.759 And as this major leader, when I looked at his story, I would have considered him to be someone who was a great theologian and man of faith. 00:28:49.920 --> 00:28:51.839 But in fact, he was a lawyer. 00:28:52.319 --> 00:29:06.160 And this lawyer training actually made it difficult for him to rationalize the power of God and the power of the Spirit. 00:29:06.480 --> 00:29:08.720 He didn't understand it. 00:29:08.880 --> 00:29:17.119 And he had a tough time coming to terms with this nature of the wind, the breath of God. 00:29:17.359 --> 00:29:19.440 And listen to what he says. 00:29:20.079 --> 00:29:26.559 He says, at one point in time, he's at home in a cabin, if I can recall. 00:29:26.880 --> 00:29:31.359 He says, I turned and I was about to take a seat by the fire. 00:29:32.000 --> 00:29:34.799 And I received a mighty baptism. 00:29:34.960 --> 00:29:38.720 Suddenly, a mighty baptism of the Holy Spirit. 00:29:38.880 --> 00:29:40.000 He was just baptized. 00:29:40.079 --> 00:29:41.279 He was drenched. 00:29:41.440 --> 00:29:44.640 He was submerged in this Holy Spirit. 00:29:44.960 --> 00:29:50.720 And the Holy Spirit descended upon me in a manner that seemed to go through me. 00:29:51.519 --> 00:29:53.599 Body, soul. 00:29:54.559 --> 00:29:59.359 And I could feel the impression like a wave of electricity. 00:29:59.759 --> 00:30:07.599 He said it was like a wave after a wave after a wave of electricity going through and through me. 00:30:07.839 --> 00:30:10.960 Indeed, it seemed to come in waves and waves. 00:30:11.119 --> 00:30:16.000 And this is the way it landed on him, like liquid love. 00:30:17.200 --> 00:30:20.319 For I could not express it in any other way. 00:30:21.039 --> 00:30:24.640 It seemed like the very breath of God. 00:30:25.680 --> 00:30:33.359 This wind of God, this breath of God right from heaven, does something to our spirit. 00:30:33.759 --> 00:30:36.240 It wakes us up to life. 00:30:36.880 --> 00:30:45.599 It was the same breath of God that was in Genesis 1, he was experiencing at this point in his life, and we can experience as well. 00:30:46.160 --> 00:30:57.839 This breath of heaven, this wind of heaven, Romans 8 says this, this wind of God that raised Jesus from the dead, it lives in you. 00:30:58.559 --> 00:31:07.920 And just as God raised Christ Jesus from the dead, he will give you life in your mortal bodies by the same Spirit. 00:31:08.240 --> 00:31:17.759 So if this is the source of life, if this is the source of wind, of fresh wind, what do we need to do to get it? 00:31:18.000 --> 00:31:22.960 And so I'm going to close with just a few points here. 00:31:23.440 --> 00:31:29.359 I want you to know that you need to let go of your fear and let go of your misconceptions. 00:31:29.759 --> 00:31:32.880 Psalm 34, verse 4 says this. 00:31:38.079 --> 00:31:43.200 And he answered me and he delivered me from all my fears. 00:31:43.680 --> 00:31:51.920 There could be a point in time where we are just concerned about seeking God out because of our fears and our misconceptions. 00:31:52.240 --> 00:32:03.680 But if you want to experience this fresh wind, you have to let go of your traditions, let go of your inhibitions, let go of your fears, your misconceptions. 00:32:03.839 --> 00:32:13.519 Maybe what you saw on TV or you read online or you've seen and experienced from some people that may have set you off. 00:32:13.839 --> 00:32:22.480 And instead you have to just approach God and seek God personally and let go of those fears and misconceptions. 00:32:22.559 --> 00:32:30.960 And the scripture says that He will answer you and He'll deliver you from those fears so that you can move in freedom. 00:32:31.359 --> 00:32:34.079 Number two, go all in. 00:32:34.559 --> 00:32:36.640 This is an all-in moment. 00:32:37.519 --> 00:32:45.119 Just like in a relationship, if you want to have a full relationship with an individual, you've got to go all in. 00:32:45.519 --> 00:32:49.920 The same way you can't do this halfway with God and with his Spirit. 00:32:50.079 --> 00:33:00.480 Jeremiah 29, 13 says this you will seek me and you will find me when you seek me with all your heart. 00:33:00.720 --> 00:33:15.039 The secret here is when you will seek me and find me, when you seek me with everything, all your heart, 100% fully engaged, fully in. 00:33:15.200 --> 00:33:16.960 You gotta seek the Lord. 00:33:17.200 --> 00:33:22.160 And this key word, this means all, it is such a big word. 00:33:22.240 --> 00:33:27.200 It requires such commitment and passion and desire. 00:33:27.440 --> 00:33:30.880 But the scripture says if you do that, you'll find Him. 00:33:31.119 --> 00:33:39.440 You'll find that breath, you'll find that fresh wind that washes away anxiety and fear and concern. 00:33:40.079 --> 00:33:40.960 You'll find it. 00:33:41.039 --> 00:33:44.960 And my best advice to you today: go all in. 00:33:45.680 --> 00:33:46.880 Go all in. 00:33:47.759 --> 00:33:55.759 Go ahead, throw some worship on, throw some time of worship, engage in prayer and just say, God, I want you. 00:33:55.920 --> 00:33:57.200 I want to seek you. 00:33:57.359 --> 00:33:58.480 I want to find you. 00:33:58.720 --> 00:34:00.400 I want to hunger for you. 00:34:00.960 --> 00:34:04.000 And just press and you will find him. 00:34:04.640 --> 00:34:08.960 Number three, develop an intimate relationship with him. 00:34:10.239 --> 00:34:12.719 I wish you would know him in this way. 00:34:12.880 --> 00:34:15.440 I wish we would all know him in this way. 00:34:15.840 --> 00:34:21.199 This relationship that he wants with you, I wish that we would have that with him. 00:34:22.000 --> 00:34:25.519 And we don't have to have it distant. 00:34:26.320 --> 00:34:33.920 We don't have to be in a relationship that's kind of beyond, behind closed doors. 00:34:34.239 --> 00:34:37.920 But we want that relationship that's like face to face. 00:34:38.480 --> 00:34:41.199 That intimate means face to face. 00:34:41.840 --> 00:34:43.840 Where we have that relationship with him. 00:34:44.079 --> 00:34:47.519 And I love this beautiful benediction. 00:34:48.480 --> 00:34:52.480 How it begins with Jesus in 2 Corinthians 13, 14. 00:34:52.559 --> 00:34:58.000 It says this, that there's an amazing grace that comes from Jesus. 00:34:58.960 --> 00:35:02.320 And there's an extravagant love of the Father. 00:35:03.519 --> 00:35:08.239 But there's an intimate friendship of the Holy Spirit. 00:35:08.880 --> 00:35:21.840 And my benediction over to you over you today would that you would experience this amazing grace from Jesus, this love of the Father, and this intimate relationship from the Holy Spirit. 00:35:22.239 --> 00:35:24.480 It all starts with this grace. 00:35:24.800 --> 00:35:26.800 And it starts with this love. 00:35:27.039 --> 00:35:35.280 And you realize that God's given you grace that you don't, this mercy you didn't deserve, this favor you didn't deserve. 00:35:35.599 --> 00:35:49.679 And he's given you this love that that is incredible and perfect so that you could have this intimate friendship with the Holy Spirit. 00:35:50.159 --> 00:36:00.159 If we were to think of it in a way that's contemporary to us, I think about it like people are connected, this connection piece that people have. 00:36:00.239 --> 00:36:04.559 And I think about it like people are forever connected right now to their phone. 00:36:04.719 --> 00:36:19.440 You watch them and you see they've got it on their side or on their hip or beside their bed or on their table, when they're having dinner, when they're watching TV with a family or connecting with family, they've got it with them. 00:36:19.519 --> 00:36:21.440 It's with them all the time. 00:36:21.760 --> 00:36:23.440 When they're driving, it's there. 00:36:23.920 --> 00:36:25.840 They miss their phone when it's not around. 00:36:25.920 --> 00:36:27.760 And you know what I'm talking about. 00:36:28.239 --> 00:36:39.280 That same relationship, but greater, obviously, that people would have with the Holy Spirit that they would wake up and they'd reach over and say, Holy Spirit, what have you got for me today? 00:36:39.440 --> 00:36:46.320 When you're in a meeting and you hear the Holy Spirit say, you know, say this or do this, or what about it gives you wisdom? 00:36:46.480 --> 00:36:53.360 Or you hear the counsel of the Holy Spirit when you're talking with your kids, Lord, what should I say or what should I not say? 00:36:53.519 --> 00:36:55.119 And he's there with you. 00:36:55.840 --> 00:37:08.000 The Bible says this in Isaiah 30, verse 21 whether you turn from the right or to the left, your ears will hear a voice behind you saying, This is the way, walk in it. 00:37:08.079 --> 00:37:14.079 It's like his voice is behind us saying, Go left, right, left, right. 00:37:14.559 --> 00:37:22.239 And the wind of God is just moving you forward in the direction that he wants you to move. 00:37:22.480 --> 00:37:30.480 And if you want that for your life today, as much as I want it for your life today, it's gonna start with Jesus. 00:37:30.639 --> 00:37:36.800 It's gotta start with the grace that God gave us, the love that he gave us. 00:37:36.960 --> 00:37:41.360 If you want that friendship, it's gonna start with that first step of salvation. 00:37:41.440 --> 00:37:50.800 And salvation, it's not about joining a church, it's not about being religious in any way, uh, you know, wearing a cross around your neck. 00:37:50.880 --> 00:37:52.480 That doesn't mean you're saved. 00:37:52.559 --> 00:38:00.480 It means submitting your life to the Lord and Lord Jesus Christ and saying, You're my master. 00:38:00.960 --> 00:38:05.599 You're the one I'm gonna lean on and the one I'm gonna go to. 00:38:05.679 --> 00:38:10.400 And I need your help in my day-to-day, everyday living. 00:38:11.039 --> 00:38:13.920 And I'm gonna submit to your ways. 00:38:14.400 --> 00:38:26.559 And when we do that, we experience that grace, we experience that forgiveness from our sin, then we can walk in the wonder of the relationship we have with the Holy Spirit. 00:38:26.800 --> 00:38:30.480 So if you'd like that today, would you bow your heads with me? 00:38:30.960 --> 00:38:34.719 Father, we thank you today for your Holy Spirit. 00:38:35.760 --> 00:38:41.760 If you would just take a moment right now and just allow Him to fill your heart. 00:38:42.079 --> 00:38:49.039 Allow the wind, allow that fresh breath to enter the chambers of your own soul. 00:38:52.000 --> 00:38:56.079 We thank you, Father, for the love that you have for us. 00:38:56.480 --> 00:38:58.320 We thank you for the grace. 00:38:59.440 --> 00:39:02.880 We thank you for your presence and your friendship. 00:39:03.599 --> 00:39:09.920 And we ask today that you would draw us close, that you would draw us near. 00:39:11.199 --> 00:39:11.840 Amen. 00:39:12.719 --> 00:39:26.480 Father, we thank you for all the people who are listening today, and for anyone who may be listening today who's never made that decision to receive you as their personal Lord and Savior. 00:39:27.920 --> 00:39:31.840 Lord, as you're leading and you're drawing on their heartstring. 00:39:32.719 --> 00:39:39.039 Father, as we pray, may this prayer make an impact on their lives where they're at at this moment. 00:39:40.639 --> 00:39:46.559 So if you're wanting to pray that prayer with me today, would you just repeat these words after me? 00:39:47.679 --> 00:39:55.519 Lord, today I accept you as my Savior. 00:39:57.039 --> 00:40:03.440 I ask that you would forgive me of my sin and any wrong. 00:40:05.679 --> 00:40:24.400 I believe that you died on the cross and you paid for my every penalty, and you've prepared for me a new breath, a new life. 00:40:26.000 --> 00:40:44.960 I ask today that you would, that I would be born again spiritually, that that breath would go through my spirit, wake up my heart, wake up my mind, and that I would know you today. 00:40:47.119 --> 00:40:50.079 I confess you as my Lord and my Savior. 00:40:50.800 --> 00:40:52.480 In Jesus' name. 00:40:52.960 --> 00:40:53.599 Amen. 00:40:54.639 --> 00:40:56.000 God bless you. 00:40:56.239 --> 00:40:59.599 If you pray that prayer today, we want to know about it. 00:40:59.840 --> 00:41:03.599 We want you to know that we love you and we're here for you. 00:41:03.760 --> 00:41:06.320 If you have any questions, reach out to us. 00:41:06.559 --> 00:41:07.599 God bless you.