WEBVTT 00:00:01.360 --> 00:00:04.719 Welcome to this week's message from the Church at Chelsea Westover. 00:00:04.879 --> 00:00:10.800 Our core values are vibrant worship, intimate fellowship, fulfilling service, and clear biblical truth. 00:00:10.960 --> 00:00:13.359 We pray that this message changes your life. 00:00:13.519 --> 00:00:17.760 Let's tune in to today's message and see what God has in store for you. 00:00:18.239 --> 00:00:20.239 John chapter 14. 00:00:20.640 --> 00:00:24.800 And by the way, many of you have been asking, how can we join the church? 00:00:25.120 --> 00:00:29.039 We want to be a part of the church, and I'm excited about you wanting to be a part of that. 00:00:29.359 --> 00:00:31.039 I want you to see Tabitha. 00:00:31.199 --> 00:00:32.640 She'll be in the four-year. 00:00:33.679 --> 00:00:36.159 We have a what we call a covenants class. 00:00:36.320 --> 00:00:41.679 You can go through it online with the booklets, and then after that we meet together. 00:00:41.840 --> 00:00:44.240 Pastor Danny and some of the leaders will come by. 00:00:44.799 --> 00:00:45.679 Hopefully I will. 00:00:45.759 --> 00:00:46.399 I'll come by. 00:00:46.560 --> 00:00:48.880 We'll work it out and sit down with you and we'll talk about it. 00:00:49.039 --> 00:00:56.960 Any questions about what we believe, who we are, why we believe it, and or we will be looking at possibly doing another seminar. 00:00:57.119 --> 00:00:58.799 We do them on Saturday morning. 00:00:58.880 --> 00:01:01.200 And there, again, that's from 8:30 to 12:30. 00:01:01.280 --> 00:01:06.799 We go through four, basically, we go through our four uh key values of our church. 00:01:06.959 --> 00:01:08.480 But uh you can do it online. 00:01:08.640 --> 00:01:10.079 So see Tabitha. 00:01:10.640 --> 00:01:18.079 John 14 is one of the greatest chapters ever written in the Gospels. 00:01:18.560 --> 00:01:22.159 Because it talks about Jesus is talking to his disciples. 00:01:22.400 --> 00:01:24.719 He's getting ready to leave. 00:01:24.959 --> 00:01:29.599 And he tells them, I may be leaving you, but don't be afraid. 00:01:30.079 --> 00:01:39.760 Because I have to leave in order to send the person of the Holy Spirit of the living God, which will be our comforter. 00:01:40.079 --> 00:01:44.799 And let's kind of pick up that story in verse 16. 00:01:45.120 --> 00:01:52.319 And he says, and I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another comforter. 00:01:52.560 --> 00:02:00.560 In other words, he says, and I will request of the Father to give you another paracolete, comforter. 00:02:00.640 --> 00:02:14.319 That means another helper, another advocate, another counselor, another friend, someone else to stand by you in the thick and in the thin, in the good, in the bad. 00:02:14.879 --> 00:02:18.080 He says, He will be with you all the time. 00:02:18.319 --> 00:02:21.039 He will never leave you nor forsake you. 00:02:21.199 --> 00:02:28.000 And then he goes on and he describes, he says that he may abide with you forever, to remain with you to the end. 00:02:28.240 --> 00:02:30.400 And then he even describes who he is. 00:02:30.639 --> 00:02:31.759 Verse 17. 00:02:32.000 --> 00:02:35.120 Even the spirit of truth, in other words, of true knowledge. 00:02:35.280 --> 00:02:40.960 It is the truth-giving spirit whom the world now what cannot receive. 00:02:41.120 --> 00:02:45.759 In other words, he said, the comforter is going to be with you. 00:02:45.919 --> 00:02:47.039 He's going to stand by you. 00:02:47.199 --> 00:02:56.240 And his purpose is to teach you, to teach you the things of Christ, to teach you the things that God wants you to know. 00:02:56.479 --> 00:03:00.479 And literally, it means that he is going to come alongside of you. 00:03:00.639 --> 00:03:07.199 He's going to be there to stand you up and to conform you to the image of Jesus Christ. 00:03:07.520 --> 00:03:12.960 He wants you to be like Christ and He's going to help you be like Christ because He's in you. 00:03:13.759 --> 00:03:17.599 And most Christians do not understand the Holy Spirit. 00:03:17.840 --> 00:03:20.479 A lot of Christians don't want to know about the Holy Spirit. 00:03:20.639 --> 00:03:22.960 Some Christians are scared of the Holy Spirit. 00:03:23.039 --> 00:03:26.639 There's a lot of weird stuff out there about the Holy Spirit. 00:03:26.800 --> 00:03:31.759 Well, after these next six weeks, you're going to understand who the Holy Spirit is and what he does. 00:03:31.919 --> 00:03:35.120 It's not going to be what I think or what I feel. 00:03:35.360 --> 00:03:37.919 A lot of people feel the Holy Spirit. 00:03:38.080 --> 00:03:42.080 And yes, you know, there's feelings in our emotions, amen. 00:03:42.400 --> 00:03:46.479 But the Holy Spirit is more than a feeling, he's a person. 00:03:47.199 --> 00:03:47.840 Amen. 00:03:48.159 --> 00:03:51.120 And you're going to see that in this teaching. 00:03:51.360 --> 00:03:55.520 So then he goes on, he says, even the spirit through whom the world cannot receive. 00:03:55.599 --> 00:03:56.639 Now, what does that mean? 00:03:56.800 --> 00:04:01.199 If a lost person will never understand the Spirit of God. 00:04:01.439 --> 00:04:07.120 The world, the lost, will never understand the Holy Spirit of God. 00:04:07.280 --> 00:04:10.159 The Spirit, the world cannot receive. 00:04:10.319 --> 00:04:11.759 The world cannot receive him. 00:04:12.080 --> 00:04:13.199 He doesn't understand him. 00:04:13.680 --> 00:04:16.480 Because it seeth him what? 00:04:16.800 --> 00:04:17.120 Not. 00:04:17.279 --> 00:04:18.480 Neither knows him. 00:04:18.879 --> 00:04:20.879 But, notice what he says. 00:04:21.199 --> 00:04:22.399 Ye know him. 00:04:23.360 --> 00:04:25.519 For he dwelleth within you. 00:04:26.480 --> 00:04:28.399 And shall be in you. 00:04:28.959 --> 00:04:30.560 Because he abides with us. 00:04:30.800 --> 00:04:32.240 He remains by our side. 00:04:32.399 --> 00:04:33.439 He lives in us. 00:04:33.680 --> 00:04:37.040 He is with us now and will be in our hearts. 00:04:37.600 --> 00:04:39.360 Then look at verse 18. 00:04:39.759 --> 00:04:41.120 I will not leave you. 00:04:41.360 --> 00:04:42.160 Comfortless. 00:04:42.399 --> 00:04:43.839 Different Greek word here. 00:04:45.519 --> 00:04:50.160 Instead of being the encourager, now he says, I will not leave you as an orphan. 00:04:50.480 --> 00:04:52.800 You will not be an orphan. 00:04:53.120 --> 00:04:55.600 That's what the Greek word for comfortless means. 00:04:55.759 --> 00:04:59.120 In other words, I'm not going to let you wander out there by yourself. 00:04:59.279 --> 00:05:04.000 Now I don't know about you, but that makes me want to have a, hey, a Pentecostal spell. 00:05:04.959 --> 00:05:06.480 I am not by myself. 00:05:06.639 --> 00:05:15.439 So when you're down and you're down and you're ready to give up and you're ready to quit as a Christian, yet shame on you because you're not alone. 00:05:16.319 --> 00:05:18.800 Now the world, the world has no hope. 00:05:18.959 --> 00:05:20.639 The world has no assurance. 00:05:20.720 --> 00:05:22.079 The world has no victory. 00:05:22.240 --> 00:05:23.680 They have no encouragement. 00:05:23.839 --> 00:05:27.040 That's why we see people kill themselves a lot of times. 00:05:27.199 --> 00:05:28.079 There's no hope. 00:05:28.160 --> 00:05:31.360 And the reason they have no hope, they have no Holy Spirit. 00:05:32.480 --> 00:05:35.759 But if you have the Holy Spirit living in you, you're never alone. 00:05:37.360 --> 00:05:38.800 Man, that's good. 00:05:40.000 --> 00:05:41.600 I will not leave you comfortless. 00:05:41.759 --> 00:05:45.199 In other words, hey, I will not leave you as orphans or fatherless. 00:05:45.439 --> 00:05:46.800 I will come to you. 00:05:47.040 --> 00:05:48.240 I'm coming to you. 00:05:48.399 --> 00:05:49.600 I'm coming back for you. 00:05:49.759 --> 00:05:51.120 I'm coming to you. 00:05:52.240 --> 00:05:54.399 So, and then look at verse 26. 00:05:56.079 --> 00:06:03.759 But the comforter, Heraclectas, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name. 00:06:03.839 --> 00:06:10.560 He shall teach you all things and bring all things to your remembrance whatsoever I have said unto you. 00:06:10.879 --> 00:06:13.439 And then verse 27 peace I leave with you. 00:06:13.759 --> 00:06:15.519 My peace I give unto you. 00:06:17.120 --> 00:06:22.639 Here we see the promise of the comforter, the promise of the Holy Spirit. 00:06:23.839 --> 00:06:35.839 And because the truth about the Holy Spirit involves a person, we get, we sometimes we don't understand it because, see, we are creatures of senses, our five senses. 00:06:36.000 --> 00:06:44.639 If we can't see it, if we can't feel it, if we can't touch it, if we can't taste it, if we can't smell it, we don't know if it's really real. 00:06:45.600 --> 00:06:46.240 Amen. 00:06:46.560 --> 00:06:48.000 And I've got news for you. 00:06:48.240 --> 00:06:50.720 We cannot see the Holy Spirit. 00:06:50.879 --> 00:06:59.120 We cannot feel the Holy Spirit, touch the Holy Spirit, taste the Holy Spirit Spirit, or smell him, but I'm telling you, he's here and he's real. 00:06:59.759 --> 00:07:01.439 Well, now you may feel him. 00:07:03.360 --> 00:07:08.240 Because he'll give you the confirmation, or yes, that's do that, or no, don't do that. 00:07:08.639 --> 00:07:10.160 And you'll know that. 00:07:10.399 --> 00:07:14.319 So there's four things I want us to learn today about the comforter. 00:07:15.120 --> 00:07:23.360 Four things that's gonna really get us excited about this whole study on Christ in you, the hope of glory. 00:07:23.439 --> 00:07:26.480 First of all, Christ in you, the hope of glory, is your comforter. 00:07:26.560 --> 00:07:27.680 Can I get an amen? 00:07:28.319 --> 00:07:31.759 Christ in you, the hope of glory, is your comforter. 00:07:32.160 --> 00:07:35.519 And I want us to learn four things about this comforter. 00:07:35.680 --> 00:07:41.040 Number one, accomplishments are impossible without the Holy Spirit. 00:07:41.519 --> 00:07:43.680 You can't do anything without the Holy Spirit. 00:07:43.839 --> 00:07:52.079 You know what I've learned over oh what, 30 plus years of serving the Lord and pastoring and seeing, discipling people like you and me. 00:07:52.240 --> 00:07:56.319 I've learned that I've seen people get excited about the Holy Spirit. 00:07:56.399 --> 00:07:59.839 I've seen people get excited about Jesus Christ and really start growing. 00:08:00.000 --> 00:08:02.720 Thank God for our youth pastor and his wife. 00:08:02.959 --> 00:08:06.720 They are starting a new discipleship program for teenagers at 9 o'clock. 00:08:06.959 --> 00:08:19.439 Susan and I are talking about trying to find another place, and David came up with a place there in the four-year, maybe over here, that uh we can start an adult discipleship class on Sunday morning at 9 o'clock. 00:08:19.600 --> 00:08:33.759 So we're real close to launching that for you that like to come early at 9 o'clock, get some coffee, get a biscuit or donut, and then for the next uh 40 minutes, really get into the word and learn what a disciple is of Christ. 00:08:33.919 --> 00:08:35.600 Can I get in, amen? 00:08:35.840 --> 00:08:44.879 A learner of Christ and parents that so hopefully you bring your teenagers, or if teenagers have their own cars, you don't bring them, but you can come and be in a class too. 00:08:45.039 --> 00:08:46.240 But here's the excitement. 00:08:46.399 --> 00:08:57.440 I've seen them people get saved and not grow in the Lord, not allow the Holy Spirit to fill them and control them, and they end up, are you ready? 00:08:57.600 --> 00:09:03.679 They end up frustrated, they end up discouraged, and sometimes they even quit God, even though they're saved. 00:09:04.480 --> 00:09:06.000 They quit serving God. 00:09:06.240 --> 00:09:06.960 And you know why? 00:09:07.039 --> 00:09:08.960 They're doing it in the flesh. 00:09:09.679 --> 00:09:12.000 They're not doing it in the spirit. 00:09:12.720 --> 00:09:14.320 Very important you understand that. 00:09:14.399 --> 00:09:16.879 And that's made it easier for me to understand that. 00:09:17.039 --> 00:09:21.200 Every time I have people that are having problems, first thing I ask them, how's your quiet time? 00:09:21.360 --> 00:09:24.000 Here's the most frequent answer I quit get. 00:09:24.639 --> 00:09:26.480 Not what it should be. 00:09:27.120 --> 00:09:28.879 Now you know what that means in Greek. 00:09:29.039 --> 00:09:30.320 They ain't doing it. 00:09:33.039 --> 00:09:33.679 Hello. 00:09:34.399 --> 00:09:35.039 Amen. 00:09:36.240 --> 00:09:37.840 They're not doing it. 00:09:38.080 --> 00:09:39.519 They're not having time with the Lord. 00:09:39.679 --> 00:09:47.360 They're not spending time in the Word, they're not spending time in prayer, and they're sure not being real faithful to church. 00:09:47.679 --> 00:09:50.159 They find every excuse they can to not be there. 00:09:50.320 --> 00:09:50.720 Why? 00:09:50.879 --> 00:09:53.600 They don't want to hear what they're not doing. 00:09:54.799 --> 00:09:55.440 Amen. 00:09:55.759 --> 00:09:58.960 It's kind of like buying when you get saved, it's like buying a new car. 00:09:59.200 --> 00:10:00.480 Or getting a new car. 00:10:00.720 --> 00:10:03.679 You get a new car, you go around, you love it, it's beautiful, man. 00:10:03.759 --> 00:10:07.919 You get in there and you sit in there, you say, Man, this is my car. 00:10:08.080 --> 00:10:12.000 When you get saved, man, the Holy Spirit comes, He takes up residence, he's in you. 00:10:12.159 --> 00:10:14.639 Now you got to learn how to drive the car. 00:10:15.519 --> 00:10:16.159 Hello. 00:10:16.720 --> 00:10:23.360 You got to learn how to turn it on, you gotta learn how to put it in gear, you gotta learn all the different controls, right? 00:10:23.679 --> 00:10:26.480 That's learning who the Holy Spirit is in you. 00:10:26.639 --> 00:10:33.360 And in fact, the Holy Spirit in you is your instruction manual, but it's also your gas, Ben. 00:10:37.200 --> 00:10:40.399 You run out of gas, you run out of power. 00:10:41.360 --> 00:10:47.360 And you can have that beautiful car, and you'll say, Whoa, it's a beautiful car, but it's not going anywhere. 00:10:48.399 --> 00:10:50.080 It's just sitting there. 00:10:50.559 --> 00:10:51.600 It's not good for it. 00:10:51.919 --> 00:10:52.639 It's really not. 00:10:52.799 --> 00:10:54.320 Only thing it's good for is look at. 00:10:54.799 --> 00:10:56.559 And I know a lot of Christians like that. 00:10:56.639 --> 00:10:58.720 All we're good for is somebody look at us. 00:10:59.120 --> 00:10:59.759 Hello. 00:11:00.080 --> 00:11:01.440 I mean, we're a Christian. 00:11:02.080 --> 00:11:05.360 Oh, he's a Christian! Well, what are you doing? 00:11:05.600 --> 00:11:06.480 Nothing. 00:11:06.879 --> 00:11:08.159 But I'm a Christian. 00:11:08.399 --> 00:11:10.000 Are you bringing anybody to Christ? 00:11:10.159 --> 00:11:11.759 Are you talking to people about Christ? 00:11:11.919 --> 00:11:14.879 Are you illuminating the likeness of Christ? 00:11:14.960 --> 00:11:16.480 Or are you just, I'm a Christian? 00:11:17.440 --> 00:11:18.480 Look at me. 00:11:19.039 --> 00:11:20.159 I'm pretty. 00:11:21.360 --> 00:11:21.679 No. 00:11:22.080 --> 00:11:24.080 You gotta understand what you have. 00:11:25.039 --> 00:11:28.080 Without the Holy Spirit, we can accomplish nothing. 00:11:28.320 --> 00:11:29.120 Let me give you some. 00:11:29.279 --> 00:11:30.000 Well, this is good. 00:11:30.159 --> 00:11:31.200 First of all, conversion. 00:11:31.279 --> 00:11:33.440 You can't be saved without the Holy Spirit. 00:11:33.759 --> 00:11:37.840 According to the word of God, a person cannot even become a Christian without the Holy Spirit. 00:11:38.080 --> 00:11:40.000 Nicodemus, look at John 3. 00:11:40.240 --> 00:11:45.679 Nicodemus asked Jesus, he says, How can a man be born again? 00:11:46.000 --> 00:11:49.200 Can he enter the second time into his mother's womb and be born? 00:11:49.360 --> 00:11:51.039 He said, No, no, no, no, no. 00:11:51.279 --> 00:12:05.759 Except a man be born of the water, the physical water, the birth, uh, the water that keeps that baby, except a man be born of the water and of the spirit, he cannot see the kingdom of God. 00:12:06.480 --> 00:12:15.600 Verily, verily I say unto thee, except a man be born of the water and of the spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God. 00:12:16.000 --> 00:12:23.039 Verse 3 says, You must be, except a man be born again, he should not see the kingdom of God. 00:12:23.200 --> 00:12:27.759 Number two, assurance of salvation. 00:12:28.000 --> 00:12:29.600 Romans 8.16. 00:12:30.000 --> 00:12:38.159 He says this, the spirit itself bears witness with our spirit that we are the children of God. 00:12:38.559 --> 00:12:41.759 Oh, ladies and gentlemen, hey, this is so awesome. 00:12:41.919 --> 00:12:46.399 And then Romans 8.9 says, But you're not in the flesh, but in the spirit. 00:12:46.480 --> 00:12:52.240 If so be that the spirit of God dwelleth in you, if any man have not the spirit of Christ, he's none of his. 00:12:52.960 --> 00:12:56.960 If you don't have the Spirit of God in your heart, you are not saved. 00:12:57.039 --> 00:13:02.720 But not only that, if you don't have the Spirit of God in your heart, hey, you don't have assurance of your salvation. 00:13:02.960 --> 00:13:09.600 I know that I'm saved because the Spirit bears witness with my spirit that I'm a child of God and you can't. 00:13:09.759 --> 00:13:11.440 Somebody says, How do you know? 00:13:11.759 --> 00:13:12.399 I know. 00:13:13.360 --> 00:13:17.279 How do you know when the Spirit gives me assurance in my heart? 00:13:17.440 --> 00:13:19.200 And somebody said, Well, nobody can know. 00:13:19.279 --> 00:13:20.320 Oh, yes, they can. 00:13:20.879 --> 00:13:29.039 1 John 5.13, these things have a written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God, that you may know that you have eternal life. 00:13:29.120 --> 00:13:34.799 1 John 5.13, OD, that you can be absolutely assured of your salvation. 00:13:35.039 --> 00:13:35.519 Why? 00:13:35.759 --> 00:13:38.480 The Spirit dwells in me. 00:13:39.919 --> 00:13:40.559 Amen. 00:13:42.080 --> 00:13:44.480 I love what 1 John 4.13 says. 00:13:44.639 --> 00:13:52.159 It says, hereby we know that we dwell in him and he in us, because he has given us of his spirit. 00:13:52.480 --> 00:13:53.840 Hey, that's good. 00:13:54.480 --> 00:13:58.960 So the Holy Spirit gives us assurance of our salvation. 00:13:59.360 --> 00:14:10.320 If you're here and you're doubting your salvation, by the way, it's if you are doubting your salvation, then you need to check up on your, uh check up in your heart that you have salvation. 00:14:11.759 --> 00:14:12.399 Amen? 00:14:13.679 --> 00:14:20.080 Because if you have salvation, you have the assurance of that salvation through the power of the Holy Spirit. 00:14:20.799 --> 00:14:23.679 That's why Paul said, examine yourself whether you be in the faith. 00:14:23.919 --> 00:14:25.279 Prove your own self. 00:14:25.519 --> 00:14:27.360 1 Corinthians 13, 5. 00:14:27.679 --> 00:14:29.600 No, and then number three. 00:14:30.480 --> 00:14:34.960 The accomplishments that we have conversion, we have assurance, and then we have holiness. 00:14:35.200 --> 00:14:37.840 Look at the book of Galatians, and I love this. 00:14:38.000 --> 00:14:39.200 Galatians chapter 5. 00:14:39.279 --> 00:14:41.679 But the fruit of the Spirit, now watch this. 00:14:41.840 --> 00:14:44.000 I want you to see if you have this in your life. 00:14:44.240 --> 00:14:49.039 But the fruit of the Spirit, watch, is love, joy, peace. 00:14:49.200 --> 00:14:50.399 Whew, long suffering. 00:14:50.639 --> 00:14:51.440 That's patience. 00:14:51.600 --> 00:14:54.960 Gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance, self-control. 00:14:55.279 --> 00:14:57.519 Against such there's nothing to compare with. 00:14:57.759 --> 00:15:04.559 If you are walking in the spirit, filled with the spirit, you have every one of those traits in your life. 00:15:05.200 --> 00:15:06.799 Someone says, Whoo, I don't have them. 00:15:06.960 --> 00:15:08.399 Well, you need to check up. 00:15:08.879 --> 00:15:11.279 You need to go to the filling station. 00:15:11.919 --> 00:15:13.440 You need a fill up. 00:15:14.080 --> 00:15:14.720 Amen. 00:15:15.840 --> 00:15:17.360 Because there it is. 00:15:17.919 --> 00:15:21.919 Hadn't you been around people you see, man, they get upset and lose their temper just like that. 00:15:22.000 --> 00:15:25.919 And you've been around somebody, you can kick them in the knee and they'll still smile at you and love you. 00:15:27.440 --> 00:15:28.080 Amen. 00:15:28.879 --> 00:15:30.080 You say, what's the difference? 00:15:30.240 --> 00:15:33.759 One's spirit filled, and the other one's fleshly filled. 00:15:34.960 --> 00:15:36.159 Big difference. 00:15:36.720 --> 00:15:37.360 Amen. 00:15:38.240 --> 00:15:44.480 So we see this is the evidence of being filled with the Spirit of God. 00:15:44.960 --> 00:15:54.799 Holiness and self-control, joy and happiness and love and just satisfaction. 00:15:58.559 --> 00:15:59.759 You're satisfied. 00:16:00.080 --> 00:16:02.639 If you're not satisfied, something's wrong. 00:16:03.279 --> 00:16:08.720 Because you can't know Jesus and be filled with Jesus and not be satisfied. 00:16:10.080 --> 00:16:12.159 Satisfaction guaranteed. 00:16:15.840 --> 00:16:20.559 Well that's I was growing up, I'm telling my hey, give us a song. 00:16:21.440 --> 00:16:24.159 Don't have you can't get no satisfaction. 00:16:24.320 --> 00:16:26.559 Well, you can't get no. 00:16:30.240 --> 00:16:31.600 Well, I got news. 00:16:31.759 --> 00:16:34.159 You can get satisfaction. 00:16:34.559 --> 00:16:35.600 Were you thinking that? 00:16:35.840 --> 00:16:37.360 Rosary, where you think of that? 00:16:40.240 --> 00:16:45.519 Hey, you can get satisfaction through the power of the Holy Spirit. 00:16:46.720 --> 00:16:47.360 Amen. 00:16:49.440 --> 00:16:52.000 So we're not gonna park there. 00:16:52.080 --> 00:16:53.200 Let's keep going. 00:16:53.919 --> 00:16:55.759 Then understanding the scripture. 00:16:56.000 --> 00:16:58.080 Without the Holy Spirit, you can't understand the scripture. 00:16:58.159 --> 00:17:00.399 Look at what he said in 1 Corinthians 2.12. 00:17:00.879 --> 00:17:02.159 Well, this is good. 00:17:03.200 --> 00:17:16.079 He says, but the natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolish unto him, neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned. 00:17:16.559 --> 00:17:17.599 Now watch. 00:17:17.839 --> 00:17:23.039 Now look at what he says in 1 Corinthians 2 12 before verse 14. 00:17:23.279 --> 00:17:32.720 Now we have received not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, that we might know the things that have been freely given to us by God. 00:17:32.880 --> 00:17:42.079 We Christians have living within us the Spirit of God who helps us to understand what the Bible means and it illuminates our minds to the things of God. 00:17:42.240 --> 00:17:43.359 Can I get an amen? 00:17:43.599 --> 00:17:44.880 He's our teacher. 00:17:45.440 --> 00:17:47.759 That we just saw in verse 26. 00:17:48.079 --> 00:17:49.359 And that's good. 00:17:49.759 --> 00:17:51.119 And then prayer. 00:17:51.680 --> 00:17:55.680 We can't really understand how to pray apart from the Holy Spirit. 00:17:55.920 --> 00:17:58.480 Listen to what he says in Ephesians 6.18. 00:17:58.720 --> 00:17:59.359 Powerful. 00:17:59.599 --> 00:18:05.680 Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit. 00:18:06.160 --> 00:18:18.640 And then Romans 8.26 says, when we don't know how to pray or what to pray for, even in those times when we're down and out and we're discouraged and we're on a, you know, we just say, Lord, I don't know what to do. 00:18:18.799 --> 00:18:23.359 You've had a bad uh report, you've lost your job. 00:18:23.440 --> 00:18:27.920 I mean, all the bad things that can happen that Satan tries to take us out with. 00:18:28.079 --> 00:18:31.200 You're down and out, and you just really don't even feel like praying. 00:18:31.279 --> 00:18:32.400 You don't know what to pray. 00:18:32.559 --> 00:18:39.680 He says, likewise, the Spirit also helps our infirmities, for we know not what we should pray for as we ought. 00:18:39.920 --> 00:18:44.799 But the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered. 00:18:44.960 --> 00:18:52.960 In other words, the Holy Spirit comes in and he still comforts us even when we're just down and out, don't know what to say, what to pray. 00:18:53.200 --> 00:18:55.200 He's there encouraging us. 00:18:55.839 --> 00:18:58.559 Now that's what I'm talking about. 00:18:58.799 --> 00:19:00.640 Him being the encourager. 00:19:01.039 --> 00:19:01.920 He's there. 00:19:02.079 --> 00:19:14.880 And then the next two verses, and because of that, we can say verse 28 in Romans 8, we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who will call according to his purpose. 00:19:15.119 --> 00:19:15.759 We know. 00:19:16.240 --> 00:19:18.559 We know that the Holy Spirit's interceding. 00:19:18.960 --> 00:19:21.279 We know that the Holy Spirit's guiding. 00:19:21.440 --> 00:19:23.839 We know that the Holy Spirit's comforting. 00:19:24.079 --> 00:19:26.960 We know that the Holy Spirit's energizing. 00:19:27.279 --> 00:19:32.000 We know that he's going to take us through. 00:19:33.039 --> 00:19:34.240 We're not going to give up. 00:19:34.400 --> 00:19:35.759 We're not going to quit. 00:19:36.079 --> 00:19:37.920 He won't let you quit. 00:19:38.720 --> 00:19:42.559 And we cannot do any service apart from the Holy Spirit. 00:19:43.599 --> 00:19:51.119 Every Christian, at the moment we believe, at the moment we get saved, we receive at least one gift from God. 00:19:51.839 --> 00:19:53.839 Most of us more than one gift. 00:19:54.079 --> 00:19:59.599 And the gifts are found in Romans 12 and Ephesians 4 and 1 Corinthians 12. 00:19:59.920 --> 00:20:04.400 And we learn in 1 Corinthians 12, 5 and verse 7, listen to what it says. 00:20:05.279 --> 00:20:06.240 Verse 5. 00:20:06.400 --> 00:20:10.079 There are differences of ministries, but the same Lord. 00:20:10.319 --> 00:20:12.480 There are differences of gifts. 00:20:13.680 --> 00:20:14.160 Amen. 00:20:14.480 --> 00:20:18.000 Mine's exhortation, mine's evangelism, leadership. 00:20:18.880 --> 00:20:21.680 Susan's is smart. 00:20:25.039 --> 00:20:27.519 She's an unbelievable teacher. 00:20:27.680 --> 00:20:29.920 She's got the gift of teaching and servant. 00:20:30.160 --> 00:20:31.359 No doubt about it. 00:20:31.519 --> 00:20:40.559 But we all have different gifts, but the same Spirit has divided those gifts to who we are. 00:20:40.720 --> 00:20:52.400 And I think a lot of that has to do with your personality, your talents, and all that works together when the Holy Spirit decides what gifts you need or gifts. 00:20:52.559 --> 00:20:53.519 Can I get an Amen? 00:20:54.400 --> 00:20:54.880 Amen. 00:20:55.039 --> 00:20:55.519 That's good. 00:20:55.680 --> 00:20:59.279 And by the way, I can't do your gifts and you can't do mine. 00:20:59.440 --> 00:21:02.240 And that's why you are so important in this body. 00:21:02.400 --> 00:21:07.599 If you're not here activating and using your gifts, we're missing your gifts. 00:21:09.359 --> 00:21:13.279 I have people all the time tell me, here's what they say. 00:21:13.440 --> 00:21:15.200 Well, you really don't need us. 00:21:15.519 --> 00:21:18.319 Yes, we need every one of you. 00:21:19.440 --> 00:21:25.759 God didn't send you here for you just to sit and hear me preach every Sunday, but I'm glad you do. 00:21:27.519 --> 00:21:29.920 Because I have a word for you, I promise. 00:21:30.160 --> 00:21:32.079 I have a word for all of us. 00:21:32.480 --> 00:21:37.359 But God wants you to use your gifts, and that's why Cindy's sitting back there signing you up. 00:21:37.599 --> 00:21:38.880 I love, where's Cindy? 00:21:38.960 --> 00:21:39.839 Wave at me, Cindy. 00:21:40.160 --> 00:21:41.759 Miss Cindy, stand up, Cindy. 00:21:41.839 --> 00:21:42.960 I want everybody to see you. 00:21:43.119 --> 00:21:44.559 She is the sweetest thing. 00:21:44.799 --> 00:21:47.359 Widow lady just has God sent her here. 00:21:47.519 --> 00:21:49.039 She's been such a blessing. 00:21:49.279 --> 00:21:50.240 She really has. 00:21:50.319 --> 00:21:51.359 And she grabs you. 00:21:51.519 --> 00:21:52.799 She'll grab you. 00:21:53.119 --> 00:21:57.519 I mean, we had Kenneth and I was sitting at the table the other day and she came up and told us both. 00:21:57.599 --> 00:21:58.880 She said, Y'all need to go to work. 00:21:59.200 --> 00:21:59.759 Yes, ma'am. 00:22:01.920 --> 00:22:02.720 Amen. 00:22:03.440 --> 00:22:05.039 But get involved. 00:22:05.359 --> 00:22:06.160 Use your gift. 00:22:06.400 --> 00:22:07.839 Somebody say, I don't know my gifts. 00:22:08.000 --> 00:22:10.319 Well, first of all, read through the chapters there. 00:22:10.960 --> 00:22:12.319 But let me tell you what I've learned. 00:22:12.400 --> 00:22:15.519 The best way, my wife hates it when I say we need to teach on gifts. 00:22:16.880 --> 00:22:24.960 Because, and she's partially right, but a lot of you don't understand what gifts are, so we do teach on that even in the covenants class. 00:22:25.039 --> 00:22:26.480 We have a section in there. 00:22:26.640 --> 00:22:27.759 But here it is. 00:22:27.839 --> 00:22:29.200 Let me tell you what your gift is. 00:22:29.359 --> 00:22:32.960 What you love doing the most, I guarantee you, is your gift. 00:22:33.200 --> 00:22:34.720 That's the best way to describe it. 00:22:34.880 --> 00:22:35.519 Whatever you love. 00:22:35.839 --> 00:22:39.759 That's why you may have to try different avenues in the church. 00:22:40.000 --> 00:22:40.880 Try the nursery. 00:22:41.279 --> 00:22:46.160 By the way, for you to help us in the nursery with those children, God bless you. 00:22:47.599 --> 00:22:48.480 We need you. 00:22:48.720 --> 00:22:49.359 Thank you. 00:22:49.519 --> 00:22:50.400 Thank you. 00:22:50.799 --> 00:22:53.519 Hey, thank, I thank Jesse. 00:22:53.759 --> 00:23:00.319 I thank Darren, Russell, uh, Adrian, all that do the cooking that's here at 7.30 and start cooking. 00:23:00.480 --> 00:23:03.119 Do you know every time you eat, these guys have been here hours? 00:23:03.599 --> 00:23:08.880 My wife, she, she, she, by the way, I tasted the banana pudding last night. 00:23:11.119 --> 00:23:12.960 Oh, oh, yes. 00:23:13.359 --> 00:23:17.200 But but they, they, don't laugh, it was good. 00:23:17.680 --> 00:23:19.039 Geez, it was good. 00:23:19.440 --> 00:23:22.400 But but just thank God. 00:23:23.359 --> 00:23:27.279 His gifts cooking, Darren's gifts washing dishes. 00:23:29.279 --> 00:23:30.799 I had to say that. 00:23:31.359 --> 00:23:38.160 And here, no, because Darren's always say, Pastor, please tell him we could use some help washing dishes. 00:23:38.319 --> 00:23:42.640 So every once in a while we need to go back there and relieve Darren and let somebody else wash dishes. 00:23:42.799 --> 00:23:44.400 But let me tell you what we all can do. 00:23:44.559 --> 00:23:50.319 Every week, the chair you sit in when you get through eating, take the chair, stack it up, help put up the table. 00:23:50.480 --> 00:23:50.880 Boom. 00:23:50.960 --> 00:23:58.559 Do y'all realize how quick by the time you leave out of this sanctuary, you go get in line and eat, this whole thing's set up, ready for you to eat. 00:23:58.640 --> 00:24:00.160 Now that doesn't happen by itself. 00:24:00.319 --> 00:24:01.519 This is not bewitched. 00:24:01.599 --> 00:24:04.400 I don't twist my nose and it happens. 00:24:05.119 --> 00:24:05.759 Amen. 00:24:07.440 --> 00:24:08.720 It takes work. 00:24:09.119 --> 00:24:16.160 But let me tell you, at the same time, those guys aren't doing it for what I just did, and they don't even like it when I say their names. 00:24:16.240 --> 00:24:17.359 They get mad at me. 00:24:17.519 --> 00:24:18.880 But hey, they're doing it. 00:24:19.039 --> 00:24:19.599 You know why? 00:24:19.680 --> 00:24:22.319 They're spirit-filled, and they're serving. 00:24:22.799 --> 00:24:23.359 Serve it. 00:24:23.440 --> 00:24:26.559 When a spirit-filled Christian will serve. 00:24:26.960 --> 00:24:29.119 Because it's a joy, not a burden. 00:24:29.359 --> 00:24:31.039 Man, that's good preaching, preacher. 00:24:31.119 --> 00:24:33.519