More Than Repentance: Embracing the Holy Spirit's Work

The same spirit that raised Jesus Christ from the dead lives in you. That's not me talking. That's Paul. That's why Paul writes in Colossians chapter one that the mystery of faith is Christ in you. And that is the hope of glory. That Christ living in you is the only hope you have of anything and everything glorious being made manifest in your life. No longer a temporary thing. Now the spirit stayed permanently with a person. [00:43:45] (32 seconds)  #ChristInYouHope

And as such, the holy spirit of god has been a part of all creation since the very beginning. If you wanna see the first verse in scripture where you see mention of the holy spirit, then go back to Genesis chapter one verse one. In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth, and the earth was without form and void, and darkness covered the face of the deep. And the who? Spirit. The spirit of God moved on the face of the water. [00:39:16] (31 seconds)  #SpiritAtCreation

I believe there are a lot of Christians who don't have a very good understanding of the Holy Spirit. So maybe today, you're a blank slate and you're not sure about any of it. Or maybe you know you've experienced the presence of the Holy Spirit in your life, but you're really not sure how to pinpoint it or talk about it. If someone wants to look at a few things about the Holy Spirit so that we can get a little bit more comfortable getting to know the most present and most overlooked part of the holy trinity. [00:38:11] (32 seconds)  #LearnHolySpirit

To activate the Holy Spirit in your lives. Did they have the Holy Spirit of God? Yes. What did Paul do when he prayed over him? He prayed that the Holy Spirit's activity in their life would increase and come abundant. That the Holy Spirit will come alive in their lives that would show out throughout them and and let them know and convince them of his presence within them. And guess what? They did happen really quick. They started doing all kinds of spiritual activity. When it says, they were speaking in other tongues and prophesying, just translate that as they engaged in spiritual behavior. Right? They engaged in spiritual activity. [00:51:45] (40 seconds)  #ActivateTheSpirit

Think of it this way. You can shut him up. You can tune him out. You can turn up all the noise in your life so much that you won't hear what the Holy Spirit has to say. So the question is, you allowing him to speak? Are you listening to what he has to say? Are you allowing him to lead? Are you allowing the Holy Spirit to overwhelm your life? You may have received the Holy Spirit at your baptism, but do you spend time activating him or do you spend time quenching him? What do you put? What is the majority of what you put on the fire? You you throw a new logs on there, surrendering new parts of your life, be burned up on the altar of God, or you just dumping out your water jug on it? [01:00:01] (49 seconds)  #DontQuenchTheSpirit

He will do all the things that we have seen Jesus do, only now he'll do them through our hands and through our feet. So do you want that in your life? Do you know if you have the Holy Spirit? Oftentimes, we talk about receiving the Holy Spirit at baptism. As I pointed out in the story, the disciples in the story are said to receive the Holy Spirit when Paul prayed over them. So I don't wanna confuse you. I I wanna clarify that a little bit. When you accept Christ, when you are baptized, when you receive salvation, the new birth, we got a lot of names for it, how to refer to this time in your life, but however, you refer to it, know that in that moment, you receive the Holy Spirit. [00:49:58] (47 seconds)  #HolySpiritAtSalvation

And then you have Christ in you. And he can lead you and how you are to act and behave in all situations not simply going by generic statements that you've seen in the past. And in the Holy Spirit, we get to experience God working within us and through us. And so the question comes to us today. Do you want the Holy Spirit? Do you want the work of the holy spirit in your in your life? Because I asked that specifically rather than just assuming that everyone would answer yes because I can promise you that the holy spirit working in your life will not always feel good. [00:48:30] (42 seconds)  #GodWorksWithinYou

I want you to clearly and visibly see the presence of God in your life, to be able to look at different times when you thought, I was all alone. I was by myself. There was nobody but me and for you to look and recognize God there with you. Just as Peter would have seen God in that jail cell if he wasn't asleep. In the Old Testament, we see God in the spirit. We know how God is moving and working in the spiritual realm. In the person of Jesus Christ, we see what God looks like in the flesh. [00:47:21] (31 seconds)  #RecognizeGodsPresence