WEBVTT 00:00:07.919 --> 00:00:11.439 Hey, I'm Steve Holt, the senior pastor of The Road at Chapel Hills. 00:00:11.519 --> 00:00:12.880 This is the Road Podcast. 00:00:13.039 --> 00:00:14.240 Thanks for joining us. 00:00:14.560 --> 00:00:17.600 My heart is to empower you to change the world. 00:00:17.760 --> 00:00:20.480 I hope this message impacts you. 00:00:23.760 --> 00:00:34.159 So turning your Bibles to Ephesians 5, and for you that have been with us and going through the book of Ephesians, I'll just say it again that the first three chapters are doctrinal. 00:00:34.399 --> 00:00:36.479 They're about your position in Christ. 00:00:36.719 --> 00:00:40.159 And the last three chapters, four, five, and six, are practical. 00:00:40.799 --> 00:00:44.320 There's a positional side, but now there's a practical side. 00:00:44.479 --> 00:00:53.840 So the best way I can describe that would be if I was a king and I was a monarch in a country that has kings. 00:00:54.479 --> 00:00:57.119 And I didn't know I was a king. 00:00:57.280 --> 00:01:01.520 But first you have to convince me that I'm a king before I can act like a king. 00:01:01.759 --> 00:01:09.519 When you realize you're king, and you're convinced you're king, then you can begin to practice like a king. 00:01:09.760 --> 00:01:13.439 And so you're king and you're priests, the scripture said. 00:01:13.680 --> 00:01:15.120 That's the first three chapters. 00:01:15.200 --> 00:01:16.239 That's what it's talking about. 00:01:16.400 --> 00:01:21.760 But then four, five, and six are the practical outworkings of being a king and a priest. 00:01:22.719 --> 00:01:28.560 You have authority on this earth in your job. 00:01:29.280 --> 00:01:32.480 There's a level of authority that you have. 00:01:33.120 --> 00:01:41.760 You may be working for a boss, but there's an authority that God gives you even in that workplace under his authority as you're submitted to him. 00:01:42.640 --> 00:01:46.480 Your body is your body. 00:01:47.680 --> 00:01:50.159 And you have authority over that body. 00:01:50.319 --> 00:01:55.519 Now you say, well, I've had a lot of I've had cancer, I've had a tumor, and those things. 00:01:55.599 --> 00:02:00.879 And yes, we live in a fallen world, a satanic world, a demonic world. 00:02:01.760 --> 00:02:04.079 And I don't get the mystery of it all. 00:02:04.560 --> 00:02:18.240 On some things, not everything, but in some things, God has allowed that in your life for you to grow as a conqueror. 00:02:19.759 --> 00:02:21.680 To conquer that thing. 00:02:23.360 --> 00:02:29.520 But you grow up in a world, we all grow up in a worldview where we just accept stuff. 00:02:31.199 --> 00:02:34.319 And then we figure out physiologically what to do about it. 00:02:34.479 --> 00:02:35.759 Nothing wrong with that. 00:02:36.400 --> 00:02:39.759 I had a root canal this week. 00:02:39.919 --> 00:02:43.599 And I rebuked the root canal all the way to the dentist. 00:02:44.879 --> 00:02:46.719 And I still needed a root canal. 00:02:46.879 --> 00:02:47.199 Okay? 00:02:47.599 --> 00:02:50.719 And I'm so glad there's a dentist who knew how to do root canals. 00:02:51.360 --> 00:02:56.879 And then I took a combination of ibuprofen and something else. 00:02:56.960 --> 00:03:01.039 I don't know, Motrin or something like that, to because of the pain. 00:03:01.360 --> 00:03:02.319 I'm not against that. 00:03:02.560 --> 00:03:03.360 You guys understand that? 00:03:03.439 --> 00:03:05.840 Everybody go like this if you understand what I'm talking about, okay? 00:03:06.639 --> 00:03:09.360 But there's a lot of things in our life. 00:03:10.240 --> 00:03:12.639 Like when I dropped a tree on my head. 00:03:13.120 --> 00:03:14.080 Somebody remember that story? 00:03:14.240 --> 00:03:15.039 I'm not going to go through that. 00:03:15.439 --> 00:03:18.319 I I know how to handle a chainsaw. 00:03:18.479 --> 00:03:21.759 I just don't know how to drop the tree knot on my head sometimes. 00:03:22.159 --> 00:03:23.520 So, but God healed it. 00:03:23.680 --> 00:03:25.599 He supernaturally healed it. 00:03:27.120 --> 00:03:42.080 So there's something to be said in this world about a spirit-empowered life where things happen to us that you're supposed to conquer. 00:03:42.879 --> 00:03:45.840 And the only way you know the difference is to walk with God. 00:03:45.919 --> 00:03:48.560 Because listen, it's not religion, it's relationship. 00:03:48.639 --> 00:03:53.280 Here's what religion says everybody do these three things, you'll get healed. 00:03:53.520 --> 00:03:57.439 Or everybody do those three things and you'll get saved, or whatever. 00:03:57.680 --> 00:03:58.960 I just don't think. 00:03:59.360 --> 00:04:03.520 Can you imagine me telling Liz, you do these three things, I'll love you. 00:04:04.000 --> 00:04:05.599 That would go really well. 00:04:07.360 --> 00:04:09.199 No, I have to know Liz. 00:04:09.360 --> 00:04:12.319 I have to have her heart in me and mine and her. 00:04:12.479 --> 00:04:16.399 We talk, we share, so then we know what God's saying to us. 00:04:16.480 --> 00:04:17.279 Does that make sense? 00:04:17.439 --> 00:04:23.600 So it's a personal, relational connection with our Heavenly Father. 00:04:23.839 --> 00:04:25.920 Where we hear from Him and we censor Him. 00:04:26.000 --> 00:04:35.680 And that's why we need each other as a family, because sometimes your faith is here, but your friend that you're next to, their faith is here, and when they pray for you, your faith rises. 00:04:35.920 --> 00:04:37.360 You know, it picks you up. 00:04:37.439 --> 00:04:38.480 That's why we need each other. 00:04:38.639 --> 00:04:41.439 So in Ephesians 5, he's saying three things. 00:04:41.680 --> 00:04:45.600 He's saying, number one, walk in love. 00:04:45.920 --> 00:04:46.639 That's verse 2. 00:04:46.720 --> 00:04:47.600 We already covered that. 00:04:47.759 --> 00:04:48.879 Walk in love. 00:04:49.279 --> 00:04:52.240 And then in verse 8, he says, walk in the light. 00:04:52.480 --> 00:04:54.319 He talks about walking in the light. 00:04:54.399 --> 00:05:02.399 And now he's summing it up with the power of the Holy Spirit in your life in verse 18. 00:05:02.639 --> 00:05:04.000 So look at verse 18. 00:05:04.160 --> 00:05:11.439 In verse 18, we read, do not be drunk with wine, in which is dissipation, but be filled with the Spirit. 00:05:11.600 --> 00:05:16.959 Now, this this is the, in my opinion, this is the pinnacle of the book of Ephesians. 00:05:17.199 --> 00:05:18.560 This is the pinnacle. 00:05:18.800 --> 00:05:21.360 Right here, if you get this, you get the whole book. 00:05:21.519 --> 00:05:23.600 If you miss this, you miss the whole book. 00:05:23.839 --> 00:05:29.439 If you get this part, it changes your life forever. 00:05:30.079 --> 00:05:39.439 If you miss this part, you miss out on one of the great truths of the Christian life, and that is you can't live the Christian life. 00:05:39.600 --> 00:05:43.839 Everybody say, I can't live the Christian life. 00:05:44.480 --> 00:05:45.519 Impossible. 00:05:46.240 --> 00:05:47.279 Improbable. 00:05:47.759 --> 00:05:48.879 Can't be done. 00:05:50.639 --> 00:05:55.279 Because if you could live the Christian life without Christ, then why did Christ come? 00:05:55.920 --> 00:06:01.839 So Christ came and he died and he rose again on the third day because his power needs to be in you. 00:06:02.000 --> 00:06:03.360 That's the spirit-filled life. 00:06:03.519 --> 00:06:14.399 The spirit-filled life is you surrendering your power to his power so his power can flow through you so that you can say unequivocally, Greater is he that is in me than he that is in the world. 00:06:15.040 --> 00:06:17.920 So the first thing, three thoughts this morning. 00:06:18.079 --> 00:06:21.199 Number one, it's about control. 00:06:22.240 --> 00:06:24.959 The spirit-filled life is about control. 00:06:25.600 --> 00:06:31.600 He says, Do not get drunk with wine, but be filled with the Spirit. 00:06:31.920 --> 00:06:45.519 At that time at the Temple of Artemis, the Temple of Diana, one of the six great wonders of the world, 2,000 years ago in Ephesus, they had these drunken religious parties. 00:06:45.680 --> 00:06:49.199 And he's talking to people who've gotten saved out of that. 00:06:49.519 --> 00:06:49.839 Okay? 00:06:50.480 --> 00:06:53.839 So because of that, they understood about getting drunk. 00:06:53.920 --> 00:06:55.759 And some of you in this room know about getting drunk. 00:06:55.839 --> 00:06:57.839 Some of you know about getting high. 00:06:58.240 --> 00:07:00.399 Some of you got drunk this week. 00:07:00.720 --> 00:07:02.959 Some of you got high this week. 00:07:03.759 --> 00:07:04.959 Bad idea. 00:07:05.839 --> 00:07:09.199 Just ask your body how you feel the next day. 00:07:10.639 --> 00:07:23.839 I've never quite understood, even in fraternities and stuff, that I was part of ministering to, and then and a lot of athletic teams, what was so exciting about hugging a toilet? 00:07:24.959 --> 00:07:26.879 I've really tried to understand that. 00:07:26.959 --> 00:07:29.839 I mean, just so I just can't wait to go to that party. 00:07:30.000 --> 00:07:33.680 So in four hours later, I can be hugging a toilet. 00:07:34.879 --> 00:07:37.519 I'm not real smart, I'm from Georgia, but I figured it out. 00:07:37.600 --> 00:07:39.360 I don't want to hug toilets, man. 00:07:39.759 --> 00:07:55.920 And so the reality is, is he's saying, like you guys did at Artemis and the Temple of Diana in Ephesus, don't let intoxicating drink control you, let the Holy Spirit control you. 00:07:56.160 --> 00:08:00.319 It's about control, it's about who's on the throne of your life. 00:08:00.879 --> 00:08:13.199 And we know from, man, we know it from the recent news with pastors and leaders and Christian leaders, how many of them have fallen into sin because it was a spirit-filled life issue. 00:08:13.439 --> 00:08:23.920 They were in control of their lives, they were in control of their churches, and all things started to fall apart after a while, and they're and they're grasping to hold it together and they do bad things and they hurt people. 00:08:24.160 --> 00:08:26.079 We all have that tendency, right? 00:08:26.240 --> 00:08:30.480 So the spirit-filled life is who's in control. 00:08:31.920 --> 00:08:37.840 And it's either you or it's Jesus, his spirit working through you. 00:08:38.240 --> 00:08:42.000 When his spirit is working through you, miracles can happen. 00:08:42.240 --> 00:08:46.240 When you're doing it, miracles can't happen. 00:08:46.799 --> 00:08:48.960 Now, here's the thing that here's what's amazing. 00:08:49.200 --> 00:08:52.960 Some of us in this room are incredibly gifted. 00:08:53.279 --> 00:08:58.799 I mean, it is amazing how some of you guys in this room are so smart. 00:08:59.519 --> 00:09:00.639 I'm not kidding, man. 00:09:00.720 --> 00:09:02.000 There's geniuses in this room. 00:09:02.960 --> 00:09:08.080 There's at least a dozen geniuses that I personally know I would consider you a genius in this room. 00:09:08.240 --> 00:09:10.159 You are so smart. 00:09:10.799 --> 00:09:12.320 And you got a problem. 00:09:13.279 --> 00:09:16.799 Your problem is that you're so smart. 00:09:17.519 --> 00:09:19.279 See, I don't have that problem. 00:09:21.679 --> 00:09:23.679 I know I can't do it. 00:09:24.000 --> 00:09:26.559 I know I'm not a good pastor on my own. 00:09:26.720 --> 00:09:28.320 I know I'm not a good dad on my own. 00:09:28.480 --> 00:09:29.360 I know that. 00:09:29.600 --> 00:09:31.919 And that's like the beginning of wisdom, right? 00:09:32.000 --> 00:09:33.120 That's the beginning of power. 00:09:34.799 --> 00:09:40.000 And I remember coming to Christ and going, man, this makes total sense. 00:09:40.240 --> 00:09:42.799 I can move up in the system. 00:09:43.759 --> 00:09:52.559 Because whenever the kind of the assembly line of God was working, he did not throw a whole lot on the on the belt with me. 00:09:53.039 --> 00:09:54.559 I'm just normal. 00:09:54.799 --> 00:09:56.240 I'm normal. 00:09:58.159 --> 00:10:02.320 But I can be supernaturally empowered by Jesus? 00:10:02.559 --> 00:10:03.519 Are you kidding me? 00:10:03.919 --> 00:10:05.200 That's a great deal. 00:10:06.240 --> 00:10:07.679 And so it's about power. 00:10:07.840 --> 00:10:09.600 It's about the power of the Spirit. 00:10:09.759 --> 00:10:12.960 It's about letting him have control of your life. 00:10:13.200 --> 00:10:14.480 It's so important. 00:10:15.759 --> 00:10:21.679 So some people come and they ask the question hey, are you guys a spirit-filled church? 00:10:22.000 --> 00:10:24.559 And I think they mean like, do we believe in signs and wonders? 00:10:24.639 --> 00:10:25.039 Which we do. 00:10:25.200 --> 00:10:26.399 Do we believe in speaking tongues? 00:10:26.480 --> 00:10:27.039 Which we do. 00:10:27.279 --> 00:10:28.639 Do we believe in miracles? 00:10:28.799 --> 00:10:29.759 Yes, we do. 00:10:30.399 --> 00:10:35.519 But my answer is, well, on Monday we sometimes are, on Wednesday we usually aren't. 00:10:36.559 --> 00:10:36.960 What? 00:10:37.200 --> 00:10:40.720 Because you guys, it's a condition of the heart of who's in charge. 00:10:40.799 --> 00:10:42.240 It's not a title. 00:10:43.120 --> 00:10:44.159 It's about power. 00:10:44.320 --> 00:10:44.960 Number two. 00:10:45.200 --> 00:10:45.919 Number two. 00:10:46.240 --> 00:10:50.080 He says, do not get drunk with wine, but be filled with the Holy Spirit. 00:10:50.480 --> 00:10:55.840 It is for us a command. 00:10:56.240 --> 00:10:57.440 Guys, it's a command. 00:10:57.519 --> 00:10:59.519 It's in the imperative form in the Greek. 00:10:59.759 --> 00:11:01.120 It means here's what he's saying. 00:11:01.200 --> 00:11:03.360 He's saying, be filled with the Holy Spirit. 00:11:03.519 --> 00:11:08.000 He's not saying, hey, if you get to it, you might think about being filled with the Holy Spirit. 00:11:08.159 --> 00:11:21.120 It's actually in the imperative, he's commanding us to be filled with the Holy Spirit because Jesus knows, and Paul understood, and Peter definitely got it, that we cannot live the Christian life without him. 00:11:21.519 --> 00:11:38.720 And so Peter, who disavows any relationship with Jesus as his disciple, to a servant girl at night, some 40 days later gets filled with the Holy Spirit and reaches 3,000 people for Christ and baptizes them. 00:11:38.960 --> 00:11:40.080 How could that happen? 00:11:40.159 --> 00:11:41.440 It's the same with David. 00:11:41.679 --> 00:11:51.360 Samuel records that when Samuel found David in Jesse's household, he anointed him with oil and he became a different person. 00:11:53.840 --> 00:12:00.799 So it is about becoming transformed by Christ every day. 00:12:00.960 --> 00:12:06.480 So I command you, in the Spirit, be filled with God. 00:12:07.039 --> 00:12:08.159 Be filled with Him. 00:12:08.320 --> 00:12:12.000 It's a choice that you make to be filled with Him. 00:12:12.159 --> 00:12:14.960 And when we get filled with Him, He starts to change us. 00:12:15.120 --> 00:12:22.000 And I hope and pray that right now, you look back a year ago, you wow, God did these things. 00:12:22.480 --> 00:12:23.279 I'm being changed. 00:12:23.360 --> 00:12:32.080 And then a year from now, this time, the fall of 22, you won't look the same. 00:12:32.320 --> 00:12:37.519 You're growing, you're a better father, you're a better mother, you're a better student. 00:12:38.879 --> 00:12:43.360 You have closer friends because you're growing in Christ. 00:12:43.519 --> 00:12:43.919 All right? 00:12:44.080 --> 00:12:49.440 Thirdly, thirdly, the spirit-filled life is a daily choice. 00:12:49.759 --> 00:12:51.679 It's a daily choice. 00:12:52.399 --> 00:12:55.360 So it's not a guarantee, it's a choice. 00:12:55.600 --> 00:12:57.200 It's a choice we make. 00:12:57.360 --> 00:13:01.039 I think it's it's starting the day in God's word. 00:13:01.519 --> 00:13:03.039 You heard John's testimony. 00:13:03.200 --> 00:13:05.440 John had to decide with Lyme's disease. 00:13:05.600 --> 00:13:07.200 Is he always gonna have Lyme's disease? 00:13:07.360 --> 00:13:10.080 He's just gonna be a Lyme's disease guy. 00:13:10.399 --> 00:13:13.759 And he takes his 30 pills in the morning and his 30 pills in the evening. 00:13:13.840 --> 00:13:15.919 I don't know what it was, it's something like that, he said. 00:13:16.080 --> 00:13:20.879 But he but he had just, his identity was wrapped up in his disease. 00:13:21.039 --> 00:13:26.720 His identity was wrapped up in his sickness, and it's hard not to when you struggle with that. 00:13:26.960 --> 00:13:29.120 Total compassion, empathy for that. 00:13:29.440 --> 00:13:36.159 But God did a work in John where he got tired of being tired. 00:13:37.200 --> 00:13:40.720 And he decided, I'm gonna start reading the Bible. 00:13:40.879 --> 00:13:41.440 Do you understand? 00:13:41.519 --> 00:13:42.480 Did you see the sequence? 00:13:42.639 --> 00:13:43.679 I thought it was really good. 00:13:43.840 --> 00:13:47.600 The sequence was he started reading the word. 00:13:47.919 --> 00:13:50.320 As he read the word, his faith grew. 00:13:50.480 --> 00:13:52.960 It wasn't that he had faith and started reading the word. 00:13:53.200 --> 00:13:58.960 He had a little bit of faith to start reading the word, but it was the word that began to give him faith. 00:14:00.000 --> 00:14:01.279 Isn't that exciting? 00:14:01.600 --> 00:14:11.039 So when God's word begins to create faith in you, faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God, miracles have potential in your life to experience that. 00:14:11.200 --> 00:14:13.840 So for John, it changed his whole life. 00:14:14.159 --> 00:14:22.720 And now he's a musician, he's joyful, he's uh lime free, um, he's walking in the newness of life. 00:14:22.960 --> 00:14:29.039 But it's a choice, you guys, and so it's getting up in the morning, opening the word, saying, I'm gonna be filled with the Holy Spirit today. 00:14:29.279 --> 00:14:30.720 God, fill me by faith. 00:14:30.799 --> 00:14:32.720 I ask you to fill me with your spirit. 00:14:33.600 --> 00:14:36.080 I surrender my schedule to you today. 00:14:36.240 --> 00:14:39.759 I surrender my relationship with uh with my boss today. 00:14:39.919 --> 00:14:45.840 I surrender my uh my finances to you today, and I ask you to fill me with your spirit. 00:14:46.080 --> 00:14:46.960 Isn't that great? 00:14:47.440 --> 00:14:48.000 You can do that. 00:14:48.080 --> 00:14:50.480 You have the capacity to make that choice. 00:14:50.639 --> 00:14:52.399 Now, look at 1 John. 00:14:52.879 --> 00:14:55.440 So turn your Bibles to the right before revelation. 00:14:55.519 --> 00:14:58.320 You come to 1 John, I want you to look at chapter 4. 00:14:58.960 --> 00:15:05.120 1 John chapter 4 talks about the Antichrist, the spirit of the Antichrist. 00:15:05.200 --> 00:15:15.919 And I think this is really important today in understanding the spirit for the life and understanding how much greater he is who's in you than he that is in the world. 00:15:16.240 --> 00:15:20.559 So look at chapter 4, 1 John chapter 4, verse 1. 00:15:21.200 --> 00:15:26.480 Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits whether they are of God. 00:15:26.879 --> 00:15:30.240 Because many false prophets have gone out into the world. 00:15:30.480 --> 00:15:35.200 So here's what happens with the spirit-filled life is that we start to have discernment. 00:15:36.799 --> 00:15:38.720 Say this, I have discernment. 00:15:39.200 --> 00:15:46.960 You do, and you'll you'll be in a meeting, you'll be in a gathering, and you can discern the spirit of the person. 00:15:47.919 --> 00:15:57.840 Now say this to all you dads, you know, as you come out with that first date with your daughter with a shotgun, that just because he wants to date your daughter doesn't mean he's bad. 00:15:58.159 --> 00:15:58.480 Okay? 00:15:59.200 --> 00:16:11.200 But but I'm saying that the spirit-filled life does give us discernment, oftentimes, about questionable people, about questionable situations. 00:16:11.360 --> 00:16:22.879 If you're hearing things on the news and you're listening to you know trusted news channels like CNN, why are y'all laughing? 00:16:23.759 --> 00:16:28.720 Um you learn, you you guys, you learn to discern stuff. 00:16:29.440 --> 00:16:31.919 You don't have to believe everything you hear. 00:16:32.320 --> 00:16:34.399 Well, they just said this, this, this. 00:16:34.879 --> 00:16:38.480 Wait, could that possibly be slanted? 00:16:38.879 --> 00:16:40.399 I'm gonna do my own research. 00:16:40.559 --> 00:16:42.159 That's a spirit-filled life, too. 00:16:42.240 --> 00:16:45.200 That's having discernment, that's having wisdom. 00:16:46.159 --> 00:16:48.559 Don't trust what everybody tells you. 00:16:48.879 --> 00:16:50.960 Don't trust what I tell you. 00:16:51.759 --> 00:16:53.200 Go to God's word. 00:16:54.080 --> 00:16:55.039 Go to God's word. 00:16:55.919 --> 00:16:58.080 I mean, I don't even agree with me half the time. 00:16:58.320 --> 00:17:03.200 You know, I'll say something and I'll go, wait, whoa, wait, I should have, you know, that, there's this other part to it too. 00:17:03.360 --> 00:17:04.799 So use discernment. 00:17:05.359 --> 00:17:08.400 Verse 2 by this you know the Spirit of God. 00:17:08.559 --> 00:17:26.559 Every spirit that confesses, and this word confession, you guys, doesn't mean a one-time walk the aisles, Billy Graham Crusade, Franklin Graham Crusade, whatever, Greg Laurie Crusade, or go to your church, receive Christ confession. 00:17:26.880 --> 00:17:28.960 This actually means trust. 00:17:29.440 --> 00:17:30.640 So let me say it again. 00:17:30.880 --> 00:17:50.319 By this you know the Spirit of God, every spirit that trusts that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is of God, and every spirit that does not trust that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is not of God, and this is the spirit of the Antichrist, which you have heard was coming and is now already in the world. 00:17:50.640 --> 00:17:57.680 So there is going to be a capital A Antichrist, but that's not what he's talking about here. 00:17:57.920 --> 00:18:04.000 He's speaking of a spirit of the Antichrist that's been in the world since the beginning of time. 00:18:04.240 --> 00:18:09.759 Since the serpent came to Eve in the Garden of Eden, there has been a spirit of the Antichrist. 00:18:09.839 --> 00:18:11.279 Now listen, this is important. 00:18:12.079 --> 00:18:17.200 Anti in this scripture does not mean the opposite of. 00:18:18.240 --> 00:18:27.039 Anti, if we were, and I don't like the choice of words, it would be a better word, in my opinion, would be semi, a semi-Christ. 00:18:27.279 --> 00:18:34.640 Because what it's saying is it will be an impersonation of whatever the anti is a prefix for. 00:18:34.880 --> 00:18:37.359 So antichrist means like Christ. 00:18:37.599 --> 00:18:39.359 It will be deceptive. 00:18:40.160 --> 00:18:52.799 And so there's deception in the world, a spirit across the world, that God, through the power of greater is he that is in you, the Holy Spirit, you'll be able to discern that. 00:18:53.920 --> 00:18:58.640 So you got, man, guys, 22, you're gonna have to walk in the spirit. 00:18:59.920 --> 00:19:07.200 Darkness is on the move, but light is greater than darkness, and we've got to become brighter and brighter and brighter in Christ. 00:19:08.480 --> 00:19:10.000 So now look at verse 4. 00:19:10.079 --> 00:19:12.079 This is all the lead up to verse 4. 00:19:12.400 --> 00:19:18.079 You are of God, little children, and have overcome them. 00:19:19.119 --> 00:19:20.400 This is huge. 00:19:20.720 --> 00:19:25.599 You have overcome this world by your faith, Jesus said. 00:19:25.839 --> 00:19:33.839 By your faith you overcome this world, because he who is in you is greater than he who is in the world. 00:19:35.119 --> 00:19:36.079 So say it with me. 00:19:36.319 --> 00:19:45.680 Greater is he, Christ, who is in me, than he, Satan, who is in the world. 00:19:47.359 --> 00:19:51.039 Greater is he that is in you than any government mandate. 00:19:51.680 --> 00:19:56.000 Greater is he that is in you than what they're teaching at your public school. 00:19:56.319 --> 00:20:00.240 Greater is he that is in you than your failures of the past. 00:20:00.559 --> 00:20:02.960 Greater is he that is in you than your shame. 00:20:03.200 --> 00:20:06.240 Greater is he that is in you than what your parents said about you. 00:20:06.400 --> 00:20:15.759 Greater is he that is in you than your your screw-ups of the past, where you made massive mistakes, you can start afresh in Christ. 00:20:16.079 --> 00:20:18.480 You are a new creation in Christ. 00:20:18.720 --> 00:20:21.680 You've been given a new heart and a new spirit. 00:20:21.839 --> 00:20:23.440 Let's walk in it together. 00:20:23.680 --> 00:20:25.039 Let's walk in it together. 00:20:25.279 --> 00:20:27.440 Greater is he that is in you than he that is in the world. 00:20:27.519 --> 00:20:28.880 Let me give you three final thoughts. 00:20:29.039 --> 00:20:30.079 Three final thoughts. 00:20:30.240 --> 00:20:34.079 And I know this is, I said this in the first service and I'll repeat it again. 00:20:34.160 --> 00:20:39.279 I don't think it's a very good title, but um I couldn't think of anything better. 00:20:39.359 --> 00:20:40.319 But write this down. 00:20:40.640 --> 00:20:47.119 Supernatural manifestations of a greater is he mentality. 00:20:47.200 --> 00:20:49.119 And that's way too long for a title, okay? 00:20:49.359 --> 00:20:52.720 But supernatural manifestations of a greater is he mentality. 00:20:52.880 --> 00:20:56.640 So, what is a greater is he that is in you mentality? 00:20:56.799 --> 00:21:05.839 I think there's three, there's there's ten, but I think there's three major ways we see a difference in us than other people. 00:21:06.000 --> 00:21:07.039 Here's the first one. 00:21:07.279 --> 00:21:10.559 You are overcoming obstacles in your life. 00:21:11.599 --> 00:21:14.880 You are overcoming obstacles in your life. 00:21:15.039 --> 00:21:18.240 Have you figured out that you don't always win? 00:21:18.640 --> 00:21:29.519 Have you figured out that there's a lot of stuff that comes against you in your life, but here's the difference in an overcoming mentality is that you believe you can overcome that obstacle, and then you do. 00:21:29.920 --> 00:21:41.119 You show me any man or woman of God who is powerfully walking in the miraculous in Christ, I'll show you someone who's had to overcome a ton of obstacles. 00:21:41.359 --> 00:21:51.039 It might be intellectual, it might be emotional, it might be their background, it might be their education, it might be stuff that happened to them, abuse that was that came their way. 00:21:51.279 --> 00:22:05.119 They learned that greater is he that is in them, they they learned to walk in the spirit, and instead of complaining and And running and blaming, they become overcomers. 00:22:05.599 --> 00:22:06.720 All right, that's number one. 00:22:06.799 --> 00:22:12.720 Number two, you're no longer living in fear, but you're walking in faith. 00:22:12.960 --> 00:22:16.960 You're no longer walking in fear, but you're walking in faith. 00:22:17.279 --> 00:22:20.240 And that is a big struggle today. 00:22:20.480 --> 00:22:22.720 There's a lot to fear out there, right? 00:22:22.880 --> 00:22:29.279 I mean, if you'd have told us what's happening right now a year and a half ago, we'd have said, you're crazy. 00:22:30.079 --> 00:22:42.160 Stuff that's happening in Washington, stuff that's happening in Denver, stuff that's happening in our city, that we'd have teachers taping mass to kids at Chinook Elementary School in District 20. 00:22:42.240 --> 00:22:43.119 Are you kidding me? 00:22:44.880 --> 00:22:46.319 A lot to fear. 00:22:47.279 --> 00:22:50.400 I am not going to fear. 00:22:51.359 --> 00:22:53.119 We are going to walk by faith. 00:22:53.279 --> 00:22:54.720 We are more than conquerors. 00:22:54.799 --> 00:22:57.920 Greater is he that is in us than he that is in the world. 00:22:58.240 --> 00:23:03.680 We not only don't fear, we not only don't fear, we run for office. 00:23:04.240 --> 00:23:05.200 We run for office. 00:23:05.279 --> 00:23:08.799 That's why Aaron Salt's running in District 20 from our church. 00:23:16.559 --> 00:23:19.279 I get so tired of complainers. 00:23:21.200 --> 00:23:22.960 Don't come complaining to me. 00:23:23.599 --> 00:23:25.519 I got no time for you. 00:23:26.799 --> 00:23:28.079 Do something about it. 00:23:28.720 --> 00:23:30.160 Make some noise. 00:23:30.480 --> 00:23:31.680 Be a radical. 00:23:32.319 --> 00:23:32.960 Stand up. 00:23:33.119 --> 00:23:35.359 Go to the school board meetings. 00:23:35.759 --> 00:23:36.480 Battle. 00:23:36.720 --> 00:23:39.759 Lovingly, kindly, gently, and joyfully. 00:23:40.079 --> 00:23:43.119 But don't sit around and complain. 00:23:43.359 --> 00:23:45.839 Get in there and make a difference. 00:23:46.640 --> 00:23:48.000 Make a difference. 00:23:48.559 --> 00:23:49.440 Okay, number three. 00:23:49.839 --> 00:23:52.319 I mean, I'm sitting here, I'm like, I could go on and on. 00:23:52.559 --> 00:23:54.640 But next week. 00:23:54.880 --> 00:23:57.759 Next week we're going to talk about the spirit-filled life part two. 00:23:58.160 --> 00:24:03.119 Number three, you can expect God, you start to expect God to move in power. 00:24:03.359 --> 00:24:11.519 You start to expect God to move in power when you have a greater is he mentality. 00:24:11.759 --> 00:24:14.160 So I want to challenge all of you. 00:24:14.480 --> 00:24:27.519 Next, you already, most of you do this already, but I'm going to challenge you that do or don't, or kinda, is that when we come to church on Sunday, that we drop and surrender our problems somewhere in that parking lot. 00:24:27.759 --> 00:24:31.920 You can, you know that little that little knoll right there with the rocks and stuff when you come in? 00:24:32.079 --> 00:24:33.680 Just dump it right there. 00:24:33.920 --> 00:24:35.119 Just dump it right there. 00:24:35.200 --> 00:24:39.440 And when you come in, expect God to show up in power in this church while you're here. 00:24:39.839 --> 00:24:41.599 Expect power to come. 00:24:41.759 --> 00:24:46.960 And when I ask for ministry to come up for prayer, and if you need anything for prayer, come up. 00:24:47.200 --> 00:24:47.839 Come up. 00:24:48.000 --> 00:25:02.960 It's it's I think it's a it is a step of the granular nature of mustard seed faith that can move mountains when you just step out and come up and get prayer. 00:25:03.119 --> 00:25:04.720 That takes courage, right? 00:25:04.960 --> 00:25:08.880 Takes courage to come up and admit to someone, I need prayer. 00:25:09.119 --> 00:25:10.799 That is mustard seed faith. 00:25:10.880 --> 00:25:15.839 And Jesus says, mustard seed faith moves mountains. 00:25:16.640 --> 00:25:19.039 And I want to be a mountain-moving church. 00:25:19.279 --> 00:25:24.640 I want to be a mountain-moving pastor, I want to be a mountain-moving dad, I want to be a mountain-moving husband. 00:25:24.880 --> 00:25:28.079 And so I have to do that too in my life. 00:25:31.039 --> 00:25:33.680 Hey, thanks for listening to the Road Podcast. 00:25:33.839 --> 00:25:37.440 It's been my joy to be a part of your life today. 00:25:37.519 --> 00:25:45.519 And you know, that's part of what we do here at The Road, and this is what I do in having this Road Podcast is to empower people to change their world. 00:25:45.839 --> 00:25:54.799 My passion and desire is that you would take God's word through the power of the Holy Spirit and make that relevant for your life. 00:25:54.960 --> 00:26:00.640 You know, the reality is that God has placed your life here on this earth to make a difference. 00:26:00.799 --> 00:26:09.839 And if you'd like more information about how to grow in Christ, if you need prayer, if you want more equipping in different areas of your life, go to the road.org. 00:26:10.000 --> 00:26:11.279 God bless you.