Message: "Our Helper" by Joel King

He will reveal to you the selfish parts of you, the parts of you that you've put way down or that you've reasoned away, even religiously reasoned away. And he will testify about Jesus' grace and goodness in your life, so that you might give witness to others about the good news of Jesus. That he is our hope. He is the way, the truth, and the life. And the only way to the arms of the father, the only way to eternity is is by him. [00:40:13] (40 seconds)  #OnlyThroughJesus

In short, if you love Jesus, then you'll seek to obey what he taught. And the Holy Spirit's job, his role is to be your personal guide to help you accomplish that goal. As you read the scriptures, he, the Holy Spirit, will help you understand them and bring them to mind when you need them, but they've got to be there in the first place. He will convict you when life gets out of line with what you know to be true or at times what you think is right, but it's not. [00:39:36] (36 seconds)  #SpiritGuidesObedience

Now, I want you to think about this. You are convicted. You realize you have much to be forgiven. You love much and that results in obeying much. If you are not obeying much, it's probably because you don't love much. And if you don't love much, it's probably because you don't understand what kind of a sinner you are. If you don't understand what kind of sinner you are, it's probably because your heart is hardened to the Holy Spirit. That's the Holy Spirit's job. [00:25:35] (32 seconds)  #LoveBegetsObedience

What kind of righteousness? Not that, you know what, I'll just take this room. If I can just do better than most people in here, I'm good. No. Jesus. And then he reminds us, Jesus is standard. Jesus' standard is so high that he sits at the right hand of the father. That is a huge standard. That, by the way, is why it's important to believe because Jesus had to do for us meet a standard that we ourselves cannot meet. [00:26:26] (33 seconds)  #ChristMeetsTheStandard

And there'll be others who are broken, that have struggled through life, that have slipped and fell and gotten back up, and they will stand before God. And he will not convict them. Why? Not because they finally got it together, but because all along they depended on him. They wanted him to be God even though they struggled doing that. That's the Holy Spirit's job. [00:31:04] (26 seconds)  #DependenceOverPerfection

This is the kind of help maybe we don't want so much, a helper to convict. A helper to convict. It's it's that nagging feeling in the back of your mind that kind of keeps reminding you. It's that little it's that feeling when you tell others, You know, I've come so far. I think I'm good. And then there's that little thing that goes, not really. You can fool them, but I still know. We still know. [00:22:23] (35 seconds)  #InnerConviction

He says, I'm going away, but here's the deal. I'm going to send you Now, in New International Version, it says, counselor. But it's a Greek word called paraclete. You know I'm not usually a this is the word kind of thing. But the problem is it's a really hard word to interpret because no single word really explains what's going on here. In some versions, it's counselor. In some versions, it's comforter. In some versions, it's helper. In some versions, it's advocate. [00:06:33] (33 seconds)  #ParacleteExplained

And what the Holy Spirit does is that he impresses it's his job to convict us that there is gonna be a judgment, and we are gonna we are going to to come out on the wrong end of that judgment if it's us versus God's standard. On the other hand, for believers, it's the Holy Spirit's job to say, but you but you Joel, you can be a pastor. A, because I'm doing a work in you, but b, because it's Christ who met that standard for you. [00:29:35] (32 seconds)  #SpiritAssuresRighteousness