♪ We shall come, we shall come to she ♪
♪ With wings so sustained our spirit often grieves ♪
♪ Things though he will be ♪
♪ We shall come to she, we shall come to she ♪
♪ We shall come to she ♪
Let's sing everybody.
Brother Paul, would you please open yourself
on a word of prayer?
- All those who are underscored,
we just pray that Lord, you children,
grace and blessing by helping our church here
from Magnus, in Jesus name, amen.
- Amen.
All right, if you want to take your hymnals,
turn to page number 96.
Page number 96, God Leads Us Along, 96.
Sing it out on the first.
♪ In shady green pastures ♪
♪ So his dear, his dear, his dear ♪
♪ Is an anointing of his dear ♪
♪ We can call the feast ♪
♪ His dear, his dear, his dear ♪
We'll have our announcements.
- Good morning, everyone.
Sorry about the bulletins, the printer is down,
but you did receive a text, or in the church group text,
the bulletins did go out,
if you would like to follow along.
The first of the week is Psalms 103, verse eight,
103, verse eight.
The Lord is merciful and gracious,
showing slow to anger and plenteous in mercies.
That's Psalms 103, verse eight.
Service times are at 10.30 this morning,
3.30 this afternoon, and 6.30 p.m.
I believe there was one additional salvation this week,
so a total of eight so far for the year.
So it's as well unplanned our goal to get over
three figures this year, so amen to that.
No baptisms so far, and other admission there.
Hopefully you've been keeping up.
If not, hopefully you're catching up
because you should pass the hump.
We still doing the New Testament challenge.
We are over halfway through the month,
so hopefully you're keeping up,
and if not, hey, just keep going.
And if you haven't started yet, just start now.
'Cause hey, the end goal, we want you in the word.
And you know what we put on these challenges,
not to make anyone feel bad or fall behind,
we put it there so you get in the word and watch it read.
'Cause when we get people behind this pulpit,
we want you to be knowledgeable
of what the word says as well.
So hey, just really looking forward to hear
everyone that was able to do the challenge this year.
February 14th will be the next,
sorry, the sweetheart banquet, so RSVP if you haven't yet,
if you're gonna make it.
And then I believe just to know,
I think next week, the Thompsons will be traveling as well.
So I just wanted to put that out there,
going back to Vancouver for our pastor's birthday,
or at least that's what I assume.
Okay, good.
I knew you're traveling, I actually put two together.
Okay, so and just so you know, pastor's birthday
will be in a little over a week.
So kids, if you want to receive a piece of candy,
you got a new verse to memorize to receive that reward.
It's John 10 verse 27, John 10 verse 27.
My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me.
That is John 10 verse 27.
And I apologize, my phone's clarity is not that good.
All right, if you have any prayer requests,
please just let the Thompsons know.
And I guess probably next week, let me know,
and I will make sure the bulletin is up to date.
We got the prayer request.
And just overall, just letting you know.
And then rules are all the same.
And no birthdays or anniversaries.
So with that, let's turn to the Lord in prayer.
- Holy Father.
- All right, you wanna take your Bibles or your Psalm books
and turn to Psalm number 139.
Psalm number 139.
Psalm 139.
Getting there, verse number 19.
We'll sing it out on the first.
♪ Surely thou would slay the wicked ♪
♪ Surely thou will slay the wicked, O God ♪
♪ Depart from me, therefore ye bloody men ♪
♪ Do not, O Lord ♪
♪ Those that rise up against thee ♪
♪ Thee ♪
♪ Up against thee ♪
Let's sing everybody with apology, please.
Pray for the offering.
- Thank you so much for all of you.
You said one of the first blessings of the Lord
to our public brothers and sisters, especially them.
- Good morning, everybody.
Go ahead and take your Bibles and turn to John chapter 14.
That'll be our text this morning.
John chapter 14, and as always, here at our church,
we read the entire chapter before the preaching.
John chapter 14, the Bible reads,
"Let not your heart be troubled.
"You believe in God, believe also in me.
"In my Father's house are many mansions.
"If it were not so, I would have told you,
"I go to prepare a place for you.
"And if I go and prepare a place for you,
"I will come again and receive you unto myself,
"that where I am, there ye may be also.
"Whether I go, ye know, and the way, ye know."
Thomas sayeth unto him, "Lord, we know not
"whether thou goest, and how can we know the way?"
Jesus sayeth unto him, "I am the way,
"the truth, and the life.
"No man cometh unto the Father, but by me.
"If ye had known me, ye should have known my Father also,
"and from henceforth ye know him, and have seen him."
Philip sayeth unto him, "Lord, show us the Father,
"and it sufficeth us."
Jesus sayeth unto him, "Have I been so long time with you,
"and yet hast thou not known me, Philip?
"He that hath seen me hath seen the Father,
"and how sayest thou then, show us the Father?
"Believest thou not that I am in the Father,
"and the Father in me?
"The words that I speak unto you I speak not of myself,
"but the Father that dwelleth in me, he doeth the works.
"Believe me that I am in the Father, and the Father in me,
"or else believe me for the very work's sake.
"Verily, verily I say unto you, he that believeth on me,
"the works that I do, shall he do also,
"and greater works than these shall he do,
"because I go unto my Father.
"And whatsoever ye shall ask in my name, that will I do,
"that the Father may be glorified in the Son.
"If ye shall ask anything in my name, I will do it.
"If ye love me, keep my commandments,
"and I will pray the Father,
"and he shall give you another comforter,
"that he may abide with you forever,
"even the Spirit of Truth, whom the world cannot receive,
"because it seeth him not.
"Neither knoweth him, but ye know him,
"for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you.
"I will not leave you comfortless, I will come to you.
"Yet a little while, and the world seeth me no more,
"but ye see me, because I live, ye shall live also.
"At that day ye shall know that I am in my Father,
"and ye in me, and I in you.
"He that hath my commandments and keepeth them,
"he it is that loveth me, and he that loveth me
"shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him,
"and will manifest myself to him.
"Judas sayeth unto him, not ascariot,
"Lord, how is it that thou wilt manifest thyself unto us,
"and not unto the world?
"Jesus answered and said unto him,
"If a man love me, he will keep my words,
"and my Father will love him,
"and we will come unto him and make our abode with him.
"He that loveth me not keepeth not my sayings,
"and the word which ye hear is not mine,
"but the Father's which sent me.
"These things have I spoken unto you,
"being yet present with you,
"but the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost,
"whom the Father will send in my name,
"He shall teach you all things,
"and bring all things to your remembrance,
"whatsoever I have said unto you.
"Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you,
"not as the world giveth, give I unto you.
"Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.
"You have heard how I said unto you,
"I go away and come again unto you.
"If you loved me, you would rejoice,
"because I said I go unto the Father,
"for my Father is greater than I.
"And now I have told you before it come to pass,
"that when it is come to pass, you might believe.
"Hereafter, I will not talk much with you,
"for the Prince of this world cometh and hath nothing in me,
"but that the world may know that I love the Father.
"And as the Father gave me commandment, even so I do.
"Arise, let us go hence."
Brother Daniel, could you pray for the preaching?
- Amen.
Well, thank you for coming out today.
Today, I wanna talk about the comforter, the comforter.
'Cause one thing is, the Christian life,
and even anyone else's life, anyone who says,
"Oh, you're living the Christian life.
"Why don't you have any good life, a fun life,
"this or that?"
You know, a blessing that we have,
that no one else has in this world,
is that you get the comforter, all right?
And here's the thing is, obviously,
I think there's many reasons why.
I think sometimes, maybe out of the Trinity,
we forget about the third part, which is the Holy Spirit.
And here's the thing is, I know we've reached on it,
it's good to be reminded of these things,
not doing anything,
but I just wanna remind you of the comforter,
'cause as I read this,
this is during my Bible reading this time,
just really stuck out to me.
And what's really interesting is,
every time you read the Bible,
other things jump out at you.
And I always laugh that, you know,
as a very kind of strong-willed, unlearned person,
I just got saved, I think I know everything.
And I remember the first time I read the Bible,
and I remember I went to the pastor of the church,
and I was like,
like, where do we get the Holy Spirit from?
Like, I didn't even, like, see him.
And I think it's really hilarious,
'cause, you know, now getting on to, you know,
nine times or sweating out through the Bible,
I'm like, he's everywhere.
Like, from the start to finish, and we'll get there,
but I think it's just interesting 'cause,
a lot of times, 'cause I think we like to have a name,
or authority, or title,
but the thing is,
the Comforter is everywhere throughout Scripture,
and I just really want to emphasize,
who was the Comforter?
Who is the Holy Spirit?
The Holy Ghost.
All the names associated in the Spirit of God.
Who is He?
How is He shown in this in Scripture?
And if you're in John 14,
if you look down at verse 16, we'll start,
and it says,
"And I prayed the Father,
"and He shall give you another Comforter,
"that He may abide with you forever."
So right off, right here, it says,
"The Comforter will abide with you."
In the next verse, it says,
"Even the Spirit of truth,
"whom the world cannot receive,
"because it seeth him not,
"neither knoweth him, but ye know him,
"that he dwell with you and shall be in you."
So when is it that,
look, Christian, faithful, believer,
when do you get the endowment of the Holy Spirit
after you die, like so many people teach?
Do you get it at some point in the future?
Well, it wouldn't be really a Comforter.
He really wouldn't be here.
He wouldn't really help us get through this life
if it's a reward that we receive post-death.
That is not what the Bible says.
It says, "You shall have Him now."
"He will be with you."
Basically, one of the great promises of God.
What Jesus is literally telling those that follow Him,
"I will leave, but the Comforter will come to you."
"He will be with you and He will indwell with you."
This is just so you can stay here and follow me
because we'll come right back to John 14.
But in Ephesians 1.13 it says,
"In whom ye also trusted after that ye heard the word of truth,
and the gospel of your salvation,
in whom also, after that ye believed,
ye were sealed with the Holy Spirit, a promise."
You were sealed with Him.
That's not the promise of the future.
Currently you are sealed.
Just last week I gave a whole sermon on baptism.
And yes, water baptism is your first step to authority.
But the more important thing is,
have you been baptized in the Holy Spirit?
Which is that sealment?
It is the promise of everlasting life.
And continuing in verse 14 in Ephesians 1 it says,
"Which is the earnest of our inherits
unto the redemption purchased of the possession,
unto the praise of His glory?"
Understand, the Comforter comes,
the Holy Spirit actually indwells in you.
You are a child of God because God is within you.
The part of the Trinity, the part of the Godhead is in you.
The Holy Spirit is of you.
That's why we can say we are a child of God.
We are of His.
And God cannot allow sin into His presence.
And that is the only reason why our sin is not imputed to us
is because we have the Holy Spirit within us.
This is a critical doctrine,
because so many people believe, well, yes,
I mean, maybe after we're dead,
we'll put our good deeds and our bad deeds on a scale.
And at the internal judgment seat,
we're gonna be judged,
just like the book of the dead says in the Egyptians.
And so many religions go after that idea.
But the thing is,
all has sinned and come short of the glory of God.
If it was up to us, no one would be saved.
The why we can have that hope and why it's a comfort
is that we have the eternal God within us
that has sealed us.
And it says in verse 18, if you're still back in John 14,
it says, "I will not leave you comfortless,
I will come to you."
And here's the thing is,
blessed are those that have not seen and yet have faith,
as Christ says.
But here's the thing is,
even those that believed to be without sight,
without seeing him in presence,
he gave us the gift of the Holy Spirit.
He called us to us and we're given.
That is the comforter.
Jump down to verse 26 there in John 14, it says,
"But the comforter, which is the Holy Ghost,
whom the Father will send in my name,
he shall teach you all things
and bring all things to your remembrance,
whatsoever I have said unto you."
So here's the thing is, once you receive the Holy Ghost,
once you have that, once you are born in the Holy Spirit,
he is with you until the end and then into eternity.
He has sealed you forever.
That's the first comforting part.
The next comforting part is,
he shall teach you all things, all things spiritual.
And this is such a critical doctrine
because when do you receive the Holy Spirit?
When you place your faith on Christ.
When can you start learning truth in Christ?
When you accept Christ.
And I will get more into this, but understand this.
When you get saved, God expects you to be a babe.
Pretty much ignorant and he doesn't think,
you do not need to have a theological degree
and most likely that will harm your chances
of getting saved.
'Cause frankly, you have to come as a babe.
If you don't have the faith of a child, you can't be saved.
So we have to humble ourselves and let me tell you,
everyone comes with predetermined ideas into them
and what they have to repent.
Now, are you repenting for your sins?
No, you're repenting on what you thought God was
or what your sins were or how you get to heaven.
You have to throw that all away,
turn to Christ in the way that he wanna reach out to you
and at that time, now you get to learn again.
And that can be really humbling.
If you think yourself so wise in the world's knowledge,
that can be really hard for you.
And you know what God says?
Humble yourself more then.
'Cause understand, without the knowledge of the Holy Spirit,
you don't know anything spiritual.
And you go ahead and say in John,
well, as Isaiah said in John 14, it says,
and Jesus said to them,
"I am the way, the truth, and the life,
"cometh unto the Father, but by me.
"If ye know me, you should have known the Father also.
"And from henceforth ye know him,
"and I have seen him."
In verse 27 of John 14, it says,
"Peace I will leave with you,
"and my peace I will give unto you,
"not of the world giving, but I unto you.
"Let not your hearts be troubled,
"neither let them be afraid."
Let me tell you this.
The Holy Spirit will be with us,
and now that we are sealed,
we can actually come to God in knowledge,
'cause the Holy Spirit will speak
and teach us all things.
And he will show us truth.
In John 16, John 16.
In John 16 and verse 12, it says,
"I have yet many things to say unto you,
"but ye cannot bear them now.
"Howbeit, when he, the Spirit of truth, is come,
"he will guide you into all truth.
"For he shall not speak of himself,
"but whatsoever he shall hear, he shall he speak,
"and he will show you the things that come.
"He shall glorify me for," and that's Jesus,
"and he shall receive of mine and show it unto you."
So understand this, one of the interesting things
about Christian doctrine is this.
Do you know what the Spirit will teach you?
What has already been taught in Scripture?
'Cause the Spirit's not coming to teach a new thing.
He's here to teach the Word of God, which is Christ.
And here's the thing is, He shall glorify Christ.
So if the Spirit comes to you
and ever lowers Christ off the throne,
you're not, you may be full of spirits or spirits,
but it is not of the Holy Spirit.
And the Spirit is here to teach us all truth,
and it literally says, "The things of which we have heard."
That is what He shall speak to you.
In other places, in John 14 and verse 26 says,
"But the, I already read this to you,
but the comforter which is of the Holy Ghost,
whom the Father will send in my name,
He shall teach you all things,
and bring all things to your remembrance,
whatsoever I said unto you."
Just so you said.
If you have read the Bible and read all this,
you know how the Holy Spirit will teach you?
He'll bring a verse to your mind.
He will teach you what you already should know.
Now, can you learn more things?
Yes, but it has to be supported
by what the Word of God tells you.
That is how the Holy Spirit teaches us.
That's how you come to knowledge of spiritual things.
The world doesn't like this.
The world doesn't think this is wise.
The world can show you an entire library
of the wisdom of this world, and that's all to not.
That's not what the Holy Ghost will guide you to,
unless it edifies what the Word of God,
which is Christ, already has said.
In Acts 2 and verse 24, it says,
"And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost
"and began to speak with our other tongues
"as the Spirit gave them utterance."
Now, why I'm bringing this up is,
you know what a lot of people try to teach?
Oh, if you're saved,
you gotta be able to show the gifts of the Spirit.
And I will teach you what the gifts of spirits are,
but let me tell you this,
is what the Pentecostals say,
anything to do with what the Bible has just taught you.
The Holy Spirit will teach you all truth
and give you utterance to what?
What the Bible already says
and what has already been shown.
It'll bring you to remembrance of what the word of God,
which is Christ, has already said.
If it tells you a new doctrine, a new thing,
that is not of the Holy Spirit.
Now, yes, the holy men of God were moved by the Holy Spirit
to give us the New Testament, but here's the thing is,
we don't believe in secondary inspiration.
We don't believe in this idea.
We believe when the revelation was finished,
so is the canon.
When Christ comes to this world,
he wants to give us another, he will.
But I'll tell you this,
this is eternal in heaven, this is what we were given.
This is what we based our faith, our hope, our doctrine,
our view on God.
What morality is, is all for the finished work of God.
Until Christ comes again,
he has set down his law, our rules,
and what we should learn from it.
The Holy Ghost should guide us into this knowledge.
The Holy Ghost is to help us decrease
of what we view in this world,
and more onto the word of God.
But let me tell you this,
if your interpretation is new,
it's like, (speaking gibberish)
I need a lesbian woman to preach you
the words so you learn some truth.
That is not of the Holy Spirit.
That is straight saint-ism, that's drug addict,
or that's just, I want money.
Whatever it is, it is not of the Holy Ghost.
'Cause He will bring to remembrance what you said,
which is a beautiful word to say,
look, you see what we've written?
That's what the Holy Spirit should bring to your mind.
Now, if you haven't learned it,
what's the Holy Spirit gonna do?
If you're not reading the Bible,
what's He gonna remind you of?
How is He gonna teach you truth
if you don't even know what He can remind you of?
'Cause frankly, the only thing He could teach you
at that point is hopefully, well, the gospel,
how you got saved.
But if you don't even have that,
you can't learn anything else.
So here's the thing is,
if someone is telling you
the Holy Spirit taught them this
and it is out of the Bible,
that wasn't the Holy Spirit.
If the person is not saved,
if you know, like here's the thing is,
well, this is what the oldest church
has believed for a thousand years.
You're like, oh, Saint so-and-so,
what's his testimony?
You're like, wow, that's not the gospel.
He didn't know step one.
He was not even allowed to be a baby in Christ.
He could not teach the meat of the word.
You can basically discredit most churches,
most views, most doctrines
that are contrary to the Bible,
because you can immediately say,
you can't know truth
because you didn't even receive the milk of the word.
That is a test of the Holy Spirit.
If you want to see the gifts of the Spirit,
first, can they even speak truth?
And if they can't even give you like salvation
by faith alone,
you don't need to worry how elegant their other doctrine is.
It doesn't matter
because they don't have the Spirit of truth within them.
God doesn't live within them.
How could they teach you the deeper meanings of the word?
It doesn't matter how elegant they are.
They don't matter how popular they are.
It doesn't matter how rich they are.
It doesn't matter how much media and influence they have.
If you can listen to the simple doctrine,
which is the milk of the word,
and you don't think a person can get saved by what they said,
all other doctrine is irrelevant
because they don't have the comforter within them.
Because here's the thing is,
the Holy Ghost will speak of Christ himself,
will shall speak of Christ and not of the Holy Spirit.
So here's the thing is,
you're like, "Well, Christ was a good teacher,
but Muhammad, but Joseph Smith, but Gandhi, but anything."
It doesn't matter.
As soon as there's a but, you don't even...
Done.
I don't even need to waste my time.
Because obviously you don't have the Spirit of truth in you
because you are not raising Christ up above all.
If you're like, "Well, Christ's words are nice,
but the ecclesiastical authority of the church can supersede that."
Incorrect.
Doesn't matter.
The world has authority.
The God of this world may give you much authority in this lifetime,
but that doesn't give you authority over God or morality or the Spirit of truth.
1 Corinthians 2, in 1 Corinthians 2, starting in verse 7, it says,
"But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, even the hidden words,
which God ordained before the world unto glory,
which none of the princes of the world knew.
For they known it, they would have not crucified the Lord of glory.
But as it is written, eyes have they not seen, nor ears heard,
neither have they entered into the heart of man,
the things which God hath prepared for them that loveth him.
But God hath revealed them unto us by His Spirit.
For the Spirit searches all things, yea, the deep things of God.
For what man knoweth the things of man, save the Spirit of man which is in him.
Even so, the things of God knoweth no man but the Spirit of God.
Now we that have received not the Spirit of the world,
but the Spirit which is of God, that we might know.
The things that are freely given unto us of God,
which the things also we speak, not in the words which man's wisdom teaches,
but which the Holy Ghost teaches, comparing spiritual things with spiritual.
Here is just literally the entire thing I'm just trying to teach you.
Understand this, the world has a spirit, the world even has a God,
a leader if you will, a place to pub it, but guess what?
That's not the God of spiritual truth, that's not your spiritual leader,
that's not the everlasting God, and that's not the Spirit of truth.
You know how you learn the things of God?
By spiritual knowledge, which is given to you by the Holy Spirit.
Outside of that, all the wisdom of man.
They can teach you the wisdom of this world.
They can teach you what man believes.
They can even tell you what man thinks is good, but you know what?
You're not going to come to the knowledge of God,
but what God wants you to know,
until you have the endowment of the Holy Spirit.
The Spirit of truth within you.
The Spirit of truth, and you do honest study.
God wants you to study His Word, study and make thyself approved.
Because if you do the study of Word,
and you don't even understand it at the time of your study,
but guess what, from that moment forward,
can the Holy Spirit bring to remembrance the truth of God?
And this is how you learn, and it's hard to explain
unless you've lived the Christian life long enough
that you just know this is the way it works.
You'll be out of the door, and I'm like,
any day of the week, I would not be able to quote you a verse,
and somebody just asks a question out of nowhere.
I'll be like, oh, well, how about this?
Give me a moment to find that verse maybe,
but I'm like, oh, I got one for you.
Here's the verse, what are you going to say?
And this is why pretty much every false way,
the first thing they need to do is get the Bible out of the way.
Because if you're going to quote Bible, and that's true,
it's going to destroy all their views.
And it doesn't matter what denomination, church, fellowship, belief, religion out there,
if you can quote the Bible, they don't like that,
so they have to destroy the Bible.
And maybe they just say, well, we honor the Bible,
but we're going to make it the message of the NIV or whatever else,
and by gosh, it doesn't have any authority at that point.
Because here's the thing is, the Spirit is going to search all things.
Yay, the deep things of God.
If you want to know the meat of the word, you got to learn the milk.
You got to give the Spirit time to get in you,
get you the words of God over and over and over again.
And slowly through time, you'll come to the deeper things of God,
because the Spirit will teach you.
And here's the thing is, you can't go to man's knowledge.
And let me tell you this, I think this is a fault.
You can go to save churches, save people.
And what you're going to find is a whole collection of like,
oh, well, if you really want to know the Bible, here's a commentary.
You got to have this commentary is better than this commentary,
or this commentary, this commentary.
Or you know what, let's, you know, maybe you say it, maybe not.
Here's a Paul Chapel book.
Here's an entire book with five verses maybe in it,
but let me expound it more easily to you.
And here's the thing is, maybe some of it might even be right,
but it's like, are you really studying the word in that?
No, like get in the word.
Jesus came to this world and he's literally like,
have you not read?
Have you not read?
Like that's how he rebuked Satan himself in the Pharisees
and all the children of the devil.
Have you not read?
And Christian, don't you want to have the deeper meaning of God
and let the Holy Spirit teach you all things?
Have you not read?
Get in the word of God.
Let it read to you.
If you feel that you're slow, hey, you know what?
Maybe not everyone's, yeah, you can turn on the audio book
and probably listen to it once a week.
I think, what, the Bible's like 18 hours or three?
I forget.
The New Testament is at least like 16, I think.
But you can watch that.
And if I actually looked how often people have, you know, Facebook or TV on,
you'd probably get through the Bible like once a week,
you know, in the amount of time if we just equally transferred that out.
And I'm not calling myself out.
Do I listen to it once a week?
No.
But all I'm saying is it is fully possible to listen to the entire Bible.
To read the entire Bible is very possible.
To listen to it is at least twice as fast.
At least that's how I take information.
I can listen at least twice as fast as I read.
Maybe you're the other way.
But all I'm saying is give the Holy Spirit something to bring to remembrance to you.
And that is the spiritual truth.
That's just the beauty of the Holy Spirit, the comforter that Jesus sent to us.
One, He indwells us.
He will never be left alone.
You know, sometimes we feel alone.
We feel lost.
We don't know what's going to do.
But here's the thing is, in the end, the Spirit is within us.
We know where our home is.
We know we will get there.
Even if we're lost in the moment, we know we'll be there.
And here's another beautiful thing.
We can always decide, "I want to learn deeper things of God."
And let the Spirit work within us to gain that deeper knowledge.
But who is the Holy Ghost?
Well, the Holy Ghost is so many things.
In 1 John 5, 1 John 5, you go ahead and turn to Genesis 1.
Genesis 1.
But in 1 John 5, in verse 7, it says,
"For there are three that bear record in heaven,
the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost.
And these three are one."
The Comforter is part of the Godhead.
And when we say we're a child of God,
it's because we literally mean within us is a part of God.
That is who we mean.
Born and born again, being a child of God.
It is to have that endowment, that blessing,
that sealing of the Holy Spirit within us.
Yes, that allows us to gain knowledge
because He is the Spirit of Truth.
And the Holy Spirit will not teach of Himself.
He teaches of Christ.
These are just ways that we know
the Holy Spirit is speaking through someone.
But here's the thing is, maybe you're, you know,
you haven't seen this because, hey,
when I first came, I needed the milk of the word.
Obviously, as I've said, I called myself out.
When I was in my first year of Christianity,
I did not understand the Holy Spirit.
I did not get any of that.
But it's funny because you're like,
well, where do you see the Holy Spirit?
Because I hear people ask that.
They're like, you know, Muslim is like,
well, I see the Father and I see Jesus.
Do you guys just make up this other one?
What's interesting is,
sometimes you just go to the first mention of the Bible,
and I have you in Genesis 1.
Well, how about you go to verse 2?
Yes, it's not in the first verse,
but how about verse 2?
And yeah, there's no gap in between these,
but that's a whole different thing.
In verse 2, it says,
"And the earth was without form and void,
and the darkness was upon the face of the deep,
and the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the water."
So God started creation,
and already there is the Spirit of God.
And understand, in Matthew,
this is how the Spirit of God,
it says the Spirit of God descended like a dove onto Jesus Christ.
In the other gospels, it is the Holy Spirit,
but it says the Spirit of God.
And here's the thing, as you type in Spirit of God,
Holy Spirit, the Comforter, all this,
you understand there's like 120, I can't go to all of them.
But I'm just telling you, from the beginning,
the Spirit of God was there.
It was not a New Testament doctrine.
He was there from the beginning.
Excuse me.
In Matthew 12, in verse 31, it says,
"Whereunto I say unto you, all manners of sin and blasphemy
shall be forgiven unto man, but blasphemy against the Holy Ghost
shall not be forgiven unto man.
And whosoever speaketh the word against the Son of Man,
it shall be forgiven him.
But whosoever speaketh against the Holy Ghost,
it shall not be forgiven him, neither in this world,
neither in the world to come."
Here's something that really sets the Holy Ghost separate.
It literally says, "All forms of blasphemy."
Because let me, you do not raise your hands on all this.
How many of you feel, in your lifetime,
you have been blasphemous towards the Father,
in one way or another?
I imagine if you understand the first commandment of God,
we've all failed that in some way.
But it literally says, "All forms of blasphemy."
I know I came to Christ late in life.
There was blasphemy that came from my mouth,
through cursing, through this, not a will,
not turning to God early in my life.
And here's the thing is, like, one of the weird things
is like people curse by insulting the Son.
It even says, "Whoever speaketh the word against the Son of Man,
it shall be given to him."
So if you've cursed Christ,
and you think of Paul in the Bible,
he literally allowed and supported the murdering
of the children of God, the people following Christ.
You know, Stephen, he literally did that.
It says that can be forgiven.
What's very interesting about this is
literally the blaspheming of the Holy Ghost
shall not be forgiven.
So it's very interesting because I think some people,
they think, oh, well, this must be the lesser part
of the Godhead and all this.
And we're like, no, the Godhead's all together.
They're all holy.
And it's just interesting that God the Father is merciful,
Jesus is merciful, but insulting the Holy Spirit,
mercy shall not be shown.
Are you going to give us examples?
No, because I want to just tell you,
I just want to show you the comforter.
I do believe in this context here,
it was basically denying the works
that God did in front of people,
because understand the miracles of God,
a lot of times was the Holy Spirit moving.
It literally says Christ did these things
through the Holy Spirit.
So basically miracles are,
so you're not denying Christ,
but denying the miracles,
you're denying the power of the Holy Ghost.
Now, I don't know if you have seen miracles
done by Christ in your person.
If you have, that may be an interesting tale,
and I don't know how you did that,
but here's the thing is, God does not want you to insult.
If you see a miracle, you should accept it.
And I think I've told you this story before,
and I'm not saying this is the Holy Spirit,
because I think it's the other,
but I think sometimes we might need to keep a prayer journal,
or kind of a spiritual journal,
because I think sometimes things happen in our lives,
and we're like, "Man, that's meaningful, that's purposeful,"
and then it fades from our mind.
And I know this is not probably the best example in this,
but I had to remind myself of this, like, "Man,
how do I not think about this more?"
And whether or not this moves you, it moved me.
But I think I told you a few years ago, I was doing a ride-along,
and we went to a mental health crisis.
And it just happened the week before Jason is preaching on,
I believe it was Jehovah Witnesses or Seventh-day Adventists,
I do not remember at this point,
but we're running into this woman who is a schizophrenic person.
She is talking all over the place,
does not engage with us in person.
And through this contact, she's silenced for a minute,
stares at me, ignores the three officers around her,
and goes, "Who's Jason?"
Okay, that could be a coincidence.
There's a lot of people named Jason.
What's wrong with the Jehovah Witnesses?
I understand no one else I work with
knows that this was three days ago.
I'm like, "Oh, a demon's speaking to me."
Because I don't assume that she's a subscriber to our channel.
I mean, that would even be a smaller world.
I mean, you could take that idea
if you don't want to take it by faith in what I'm saying.
But I'm going to tell you this, like, I don't remind myself.
I was like, because I've told you,
I think going soul-witting,
I have ran into possessed people before.
I think if you've gone soul-witting, you can at least say,
but this woman, for a moment of clarity,
because she wasn't violent in that moment,
literally asked me that question
and then started rambling off.
And like the social work and the people I work with,
it's like, "I've never heard her talk about.
Do you go to church?
Is there someone we can call?"
And like, they're all going off because like,
"Oh, maybe this is something fruitful."
And it never came back up again.
But I was like, "My gosh."
I was shown for a moment
that there is battles going on that I cannot see.
And why I'm saying this is sometimes
I think we miss the miracles we've seen.
Like, and I can go even to like,
man, I've seen people go down holding my newborn.
There's things that happen in our lives
that I think we let go of.
And I think if you have something
that moves you in a day, in a week,
and you think back on it, write it down.
Have a little journal that you can go back to
that can make the remembrance,
I think, of what God has shown you in your life.
Because don't we see this with the children of Israel?
They receive miracle after miracle, miracle,
and then time goes and they don't remember.
And I think that's like me.
But what I'm just saying is God will show you all things
and just allow the truth to come through you.
But don't blaspheme the miracles of God.
Sometimes, because I think what I'm trying to get to is here,
I think each one of us has seen a miracle of God in our life.
But at some points we hit down, we hit low points,
and we go, God, you're not even in my life.
God, I don't think you're working through me.
God, I think you've forsaken me, even if you've gone that far.
But I'll tell you this.
I'm not telling you that that is blaspheming the Holy Spirit,
but that is speaking against God.
And God's miracles through your life,
I think are some part of how God moves the Holy Spirit through us.
So even if that's in the area of going towards blaspheming the Holy Ghost,
I would just avoid that.
Because, I mean, God pretty much says all, you know,
pretty much sins can be forgiven.
Like, isn't that the whole Christian teaching?
But blaspheming the Holy Ghost, he's like, don't, don't.
Like, it can't be more clear.
And I just think that's an important thing to realize
when we talk about the Holy Spirit.
Now, as I already showed you in verse 2 of Genesis,
the Holy Spirit was there.
But throughout the Old Testament, he's there multiple times.
In Psalms 51, Psalms 51, in verse 8, it says,
"Make me to hear the joy and gladness
that the bones which thou has broken may rejoice.
Hide thy face from my sin, and blot out all my iniquities.
Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit with me.
Cast me not away from thy presence, and take not thy
Holy Spirit from me, and restore unto me the joy of thy salvation,
and uphold me with thy free spirit."
I mean, I could take you through all the verses of the New Testament teaching on
the Holy Spirit, and it won't do as clear a job as just the Old Testament teaches you.
He's a comfort to us. The rejoicing of our Holy Spirit, like our salvation,
is because He's indwelling in us. He is our seal. He is our promise
that we shall rise with Christ, as just as we were buried with Him.
This is literally what our joy in the Lord comes from,
and that's what the Old Testament teaches us in this psalm. Do not take,
because here's the thing is, I want all this joy. I want to not, I want my sins
blotted out. I want, you know, to be right with the Lord.
How do I do that? Don't take your Holy Spirit from me.
And here's the thing is, we already promised He's not going to.
So when we hit these low points, we can read the psalm and go,
"I have the joy and the peace of God within me, because I have even that."
Maybe you've shunned the Holy Spirit. Maybe you've transgressed and He,
the Holy Spirit isn't as full as He could be within you, but there is still
something within you, saved Christian. So even here it says, "I want even the bones
that thou hast." And He's speaking to God. "If you've had to punish me for whatever
reason, or this is the will you're putting me through, that my bones are
being broken, I want to be so filled with the Spirit that they can rejoice."
Now that's a prayer. And here the thing is, I think at times, man, our YouTube gets
shut down, or we can't get an audience, you know, we get all this and we call that
persecution. But man, you get back in that word and you go, you know, the saints are
having their bones broken by being stoned. And I want to be so filled with
joy that if I'm pulled out and I am stoned to death like Stephen or Paul or
many others, I want my broken bones to scream out with joy. That's how much
Spirit I want to have within me. That is a, I mean, I think that's the gifts of the
Spirit right there. And that's in, that's the Old Testament Psalms. In Isaiah 50,
or Isaiah 63, Isaiah 63 in verse 10, it says, "But they," this is in Israel, "rebelled
and vexed this Holy Spirit. Therefore he was turned against by their enemies and fought
against them. Then he remembered the days of old, Moses and his people saying, 'Where is he that
brought them out of the sea with the shepherd of the flock when they were just put on his Holy
Spirit within them?'" Uh-oh, my phone just freaked out. I'll find that in a minute. The whole point
is this, is God is saying, you know what moved the children of Israel? Moses was the Holy Spirit.
His miracles were done by the Holy Spirit. It says the Holy Spirit guided them through the oceans,
you know, brought them out of the ocean. That's crossing the Red Sea. Holy Spirit is throughout
the Bible, is all I'm trying to show you there. It is not a brand new doctrine that only the New
Testament revealed and all that. We received the name of Christ, but let me tell you, we did not
receive the Holy Spirit, just the New Testament. The Holy Spirit was moving and acting in the Old
Testament. Even as I've said before, holy men of God were moved as the Holy Spirit would have them.
That is how we received any of the words of God is through his glorious name, through the Holy
Spirit moving within them. So sorry, just over and over again it speaks. Go ahead and turn to
2nd Peter 1, 2nd Peter 1 and Matthew 1 verse 20 says, "But while he thought on these things,
behold, an angel Lord appeared unto him in a dream saying, 'Joseph, thou son of David, fear not
to take up thee Mary thy wife, for that which is conceived in her is of the Holy Ghost.'" And I'm
just telling you the Holy Ghost, the Holy Spirit, the Comforter, the Spirit of God is throughout
the Bible. He's working through. I can almost view him. Why I think we receive a bit of the
Holy Spirit is because I think the Holy Spirit is essentially, I'm not trying to teach you,
God does miracles. God has the power. The Holy Spirit is just sent out. Understand,
we don't learn of the Holy Spirit of his name because he's just the worker. He does as his
authority. He think it shows that worker and laborer aren't we supposed to be? Will we be
honoring ourself in heaven? No, we'll be honoring God. And isn't that the way the Holy Spirit is
described? He won't teach of himself. He will teach of the things of Christ. And I think that's why
he's indwelling in us because you know how we become the best servants we can to Christ?
We become like the Holy Spirit in that small way with him, with us. We raise Christ up. He must
increase. We must decrease. And here's the thing is throughout the Bible he's working fruits,
working miracles. But here's the thing is I've already told you a lot of people are like oh you
got to show the gifts of the Spirit to be saved. A lot of churches believe this. Well here's the
thing is I want to teach you what I believe truly are the gifts of the Spirit that we can see in our
lives and if you turn to Galatians 5, Galatians 5, Galatians 5 let's talk about the fruits of the
Spirit because I think the gifts of the Spirit we've already said He is our Comforter. He shall
comfort us and that's a great gift. He will teach us all truth. If we want to know the deep things
of God it's going to be by the Holy Spirit which is truly a gift of God. But here's the thing is
the Spirit within us will work what's called fruit. I think this is truly yet another gift
of the Spirit. But in Galatians 5 and verse 22 it says, "But the fruit of the Spirit is love,
joy, peace, long-suffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance. Against such there is
no law and they that are Christ have crucified the flesh with their affliction and lust."
If we live in the Spirit let us also walk in the Spirit and as a contrary if you're walking the
Spirit you should show all the gifts of the Spirit and in verse 26 it tells you the opposite let us
not be desirous of vainglory provoking one another or ending one another. So I'll just tell you are
you walking in the Spirit because here's the thing is I think God has given us a gift that all of us
can be different than this world and I think that is truly a gift the Spirit because the gift of
the Spirit is what is backwards to this world especially if we want to talk about American
culture because look at verse 26 it says "desirous of vain glory" uh being popular being well known
look at my subscribers look how many views I am I'm trendy or whatnot provoking one another hey
starting fights gossip debate I mean that's just everything that's popular and says envying one
another keeping up with the Joneses is called or hey I got most the one who dies of the most wins
right I mean aren't that modern American culture right there and it says if you want to see the
fruits of the spirit it's to be the opposite of everything this culture upholds I mean that
whole list now here's the thing is I think the war of the flesh and the spirit because understand
our flesh is fighting against the spirit within us the new man which is the part of God within us
which is the Holy Ghost that is within us this is our fight for the rest of our lives is the fight
between the new man and the old man and this is it do we uphold the new man which is to show all
those virtues that is spoken of you know joy peace long-suffering gentleness goodness fate meekness
temperance I mean all those those don't come natural to the flesh anyone here has had kids
or you see the kids around here are we just going to you know silence the church and just
let their actions teach us what how we should be no because let me tell you anyone who tells me
you got to teach kids to lie has never seen kids i don't even know like how they figure this out
immediately they'll have you know cheeks filled with a cookie they're like i have never had a
cookie why our flesh wants what it wants it wants to make justifications for why it wants it but the
spirit of truth within us goes against all those things and what i'm saying is the gift of spirit
is to be able to have peace that supersedes all understanding so let me turn to acts two acts two
let's kind of go through where i think the bible shows how the spirit was so full in the you know
right after pentecost because pentecost like the holy spirit was just on 3 000 people and it says
in acts two in verse 32 it says this jesus hath god raised up whereof we are all witnessed therefore
being by the right hand of god exalted having received the father the promise of the holy ghost
he has shed forth this which ye now see and hear for david is not ascended into heaven
but he said the lord said to my lord sit thou on my right hand until i make thy foes thy footstool
therefore let the house of israel know assuredly that god has made the same jesus whom ye have
crucified both lord and christ now when they heard this they were pricked in their ears and said
unto peter and the rest of the apostle men and brethren what shall we do then peter said unto them
repent and be baptized every one of you in the name of jesus christ for the remission of sin
and ye shall receive the gifts of the holy ghost for the promise is unto you and to the children
and all that they are far off even as many as the lord shall call and when many others did testify
and exhort saying save yourselves from the untold generation then they gladly received the word and
were baptized the same day when they were added unto them about three thousand souls and they
continued steadfastly in the apostles doctrine fellowship and breaking of bread and prayer and
fear came upon every soul and many wonders and signs were done by the apostles and all that
believed were together had all things in common they sold their possessions and goods and departed
them to all men every man had need and they continued daily with one accord in the temple
breaking bread from house to house and did eat meat with gladness and singleness of heart praising
god my phone just jumped i apologize praising god and having favor with the people and the lord
added to the church daily such as be saved now why did i just read you all this because understand
peter through the holy ghost said hey turn to christ be baptized in the holy spirit and you
will receive the gifts of the holy spirit now a lot of people a lot of churches teach man that's
healing that's speaking in tongues and we're not talking about different languages like the bible
we're talking chambalaka laka lak which wouldn't be edifying and it's not the remembrance of the
holy spirit to bring to your mind but this is what people believe but if you read that all in context
it says you will receive the gifts of the holy spirit now here's the thing is it does say they
were all baptized and many wonders and miracles were done by the apostles peter said they would
get the gifts of the spirit what proof did they give here's the proof that they had meekness love
charity towards one another these people gave up everything they had gave it all to everyone they
lived all together ate the same food with gladness and oneness of mind that's a miracle and i'm not
even being facetious this is unbelievable that 3 000 people could give up everything they have
to dedicate their lives to god we don't ask that of you okay can you imagine giving up everything
you own your house everything and just allowing it if someone doesn't have enough you just you
just give that all you just give it all that's the miracle shown here this is the gift the holy
spirit if we were so indwelled by the holy spirit our humbleness our meekness our charity our
temperance was so great yes the apostles are growing out doing great miracles in front of us
but we won't have any connections to this world i believe that is the gifts of the holy spirit
shown there but that is the fruits of the spirit that god promised the spirit could show to us
because let me tell you this all of us know we're a little confident to this we're a little envious
we're a little that you're like no no not me brother really what side of the bed will you
not sleep on if you're married you know now grant you my bed is not equal i get one little sliver
but it's mine all right that's my my little sliver all right do you guys ever just switch sides
heck no that this isn't the silliest thing think of the flesh right here would it really matter if
you just switch sides just slept on it dude that would start like a revolution all right like and
isn't that funny we're reading in the bible where people literally gave up everything they had lived
together ate together went door to door with gladness and singleness of mind that i believe
is the miracle of the holy spirit in this story now grant you here's the thing is i believe many
of the apostles later they went back to having families and all this this was the start of a
church a push you can have different views on that but i believe i mean here's the thing is
we sometimes get together you know a couple hours a week and yet we still got like are we all in
singleness of mind now we all got differences we all have different wants we all have different
things and here's the thing is the more we are focused and have the holy spirit grow within us
the less issues we should have but i just wanted to highlight the three thousand came together and
turned together that's a miracle and i think that's the holy spirit working through them
showing the fruits of the spirit right there excuse me in aphesians 4 in aphesians 4
in aphesians 4 in verse 27 says neither give them place place to the devil let him that stole
steal no more but rather let him labor work with his hands the things which are good that he may
have to give to him that needeth let no corruption corrupt communications proceed out of your mouth
but that which is good to the use of edifying that they may minister grace unto the here
and grieve not the holy spirit of god whereby you are sealed unto the day of redemption
let all bitterness and all wrath all anger all calamity and all evil speaking be put away from
you with all malice and be ye kind one towards another tender heart of forgiving one another
even as god for the christ's sake have forgiven you is this just another place explain the whole
thing like if the holy spirit is just dwelled within us you know we're all sinners we've all
come sure the glory of god we've all done things in our past that has earned us eternal damnation
in hell if there's not something if we ever feel buffed up at least with me sometimes i have to
remind myself i should be thrown into hell god would have been justified to have taken me off
this earth long ago and just put me where i belong and if that's not humbling hey may i
give you the gospel because that should humble us all let me tell you if we actually had that in the
front of our mind every day how much easier would it be to be graceful to be temperate to have the
fruits of the spirit that god describes in us because let me tell you all strife comes from
pride right and let me tell you we all have it the sinnerness of our mind but god just says put
those things away put all bitterness all wrath all anger all clamoring all evil speaking put away
from you that's the fruit of the spirit and that's the comfort within us because let me tell you is
your life going to be better or worse if you got rid of all your bitterness how about all your evil
speaking how about all your anger i mean we got rid of all our wrath that's a comfort and that's
what god says let him indwell let him grow within us because that will only improve our lives
be kind one to another tender heart forgiving one or even god for christ's sake has forgiven you
the parable that just came to my mind i mean is this not the master who forgave the debt to a
servant he forgave so much and then what did that evil servant go and do he found someone who owned
so less to him it would not forgive him. And it literally says the master came back and destroyed
the servant. And is that not how God should look upon us? Is there anything anyone has ever done to
us? And let me tell you, bad things have been done to people in this church. Wicked things have been
done to people in this church. But has any of that ever been as bad as what we have when we have
rejected God, when we have sinned, and what God has forgiven, the eternal punishment of what we have
rightfully earned? No. No matter what we would have to forgive others, even as hard and as grievous
and as deep in our flesh that we revolt at the idea of letting go, God says, "Let the Holy Spirit
grow with you and let it go." That's a comfort. If we can ever do it, if we can ever have the strength
of the Spirit within us to overcome the strength of our flesh, that is the comfort God has given us.
That is a true blessing. Now, God, the Holy Spirit is a comforter. He teaches all knowledge and He
teaches us to be kind and all this. But Christian, don't let this stop you from the first mission
of being a Christian. What is the Holy Spirit here to do? To teach us all things, and that is
to teach Christ. Don't let the teachings of grace suppress the message of Christ. Turn to Acts 7,
Acts 7, Acts 7 and verse 52, where at the tail end of one becomes the hard preaching of Stephen
before he goes home. And I just want to reach here at the end, it says in verse 52, it says,
"Which of the prophets," this is speaking to the Jews and Pharisees from, "Which of the prophets
have ye not your fathers persecuted? And they have slain them which showed before them the coming of
the just one of whom ye have been now the betrayers and murderers who have received the law by the
dispensation of angels and have not kept it. When they heard these things they were cut to the heart
and they gnashed their teeth with and gnashed on him with their teeth." Now many of you be like,
look the Holy Spirit would never say anything mean. The Holy Spirit would never have people be angry
at them. I mean if you're just living in the Spirit and you're just doing all niceties,
you shouldn't run into hardships. But just read the next verse there and it says 55. "But he,"
this is Stephen, "being full of the Holy Ghost looked up steadfastly into heaven and saw the
glory of God and Jesus standing on the right hand of God. And he said, 'Behold I see the heavens open
and the Son of Man standing on the right hand of God.'" And if you know the rest of this,
he's stoned to put to death because he literally took God's word, which is the Old Testament of
the Jews, the Israelites, the children of God at the Old Testament, reject God through and through.
"Jesus even gave that and you've made the tradition of man more important than my word." What does
the Holy Spirit teach us? He brings to remembrance the words of God and literally the whole
message Stephen said was, "Hey, do you remember the testimony? You sit there and you read and you
memorize the words of God. Do you ever think about them?" They must not have the Holy Spirit
because he's like, he wows through and tells the whole history up until this day and says,
"You know who killed all the prophets? You guys." And the whole Old Testament was pointed to the
just one to come, which is Jesus, who you killed. And you know where Jesus is right now? He is at
the right hand of God, being the Messiah. This angered them so much, they gnashed their teeth,
were full of rage, and went out and killed him. Was he full of the Spirit? Yes, he was. Because
speaking truth is more important than kindness. Now, Remy has just gone through a very true thing.
If you're just rude all the time, people won't receive the truth. Steven just said, "Hey,
let's go through our whole history." But what's the nice way to go? "Hey, you know, every righteous
person in history, you killed him." You tell me how that goes, like, "Hey, I'm just going to let
you know it's your fault the just one's dead." You know the Messiah you're looking to? You killed
him. How do you want me to say that kindly? I'm not telling you to go out and purposely be rude
because, hey, we just learned Remy was right. You know, hey, we should have grace. We should have
patience because we're here to edify and bring truth to people. But let me tell you this. My whole
point in this is this. How many churches take being kind above God's word? God's word is kindness and
love because it pulls people from the eternal fire. That is more important than kindness, which is
what we teach, everyone here teaches. But I just want to take that emphasis because I think some
people, some churches, some denominations literally take where they go, kindness, and then if you're
not kind, you're not loving. Paul was loving, and he was thrown out of cities. Stephen was loving,
and he was killed. Christ is love incarnate, and he was put to death. So Christian, I understand
to be full of spirit, it should show grace, it should do that. And let me tell you this,
if you want a picture of Christ's love, you have everyone who's reviling, spitting, and crucifying
him, and he was willing there in pain to forgive them all, for they know not what they do. That's
the level of spirit shown through amazing amount of pain. I'll just take you to two more places,
because here's the thing is, the Holy Ghost, from the beginning to end, is our Comforter and our
grace. You go ahead and turn to Philippians 4. Philippians 4, I will read from 1st Thessalonians
1. In verse 5, it says, "For our gospel came not unto you by the word only, but also in power,
in the Holy Ghost, and as much assurance as you know what manner of men you were among you,
for your sake. And you became followers of us and the Lord, having received the word in so much
affliction with joy of the Holy Ghost." How amazing is it? Because here's the thing, why I wanted to
bring those two things. The Apostles, the Disciples, Christians now, you live through afflictions and
hardships. But if you are saved and you are right with the Spirit, it says with joy of the Holy
Ghost, "Hey, you've received the Word in much affliction." Affliction, hardship, suffering is
acceptable in God for His children to go through. But here's what He's given us, is the Comforter,
the Holy Spirit within us. Because we could have joy and happiness despite any hardship.
That is the gift of the Holy Spirit. That is what adores us. That is the Comforter Christ said,
"He will not leave us alone, but He will give us." And let me tell you, throughout the Bible it
shows the greatest hardships. Just read Paul's epistles. If you're in the, currently reading
with us, you're in Paul's epistles now in the Bible reading. And it is just hardship, trouble,
roadblock, just drama. And He's just pushing forward. Not always perfectly, not always that,
because God doesn't expect sinful, unperfect people to be perfect. Just keep pressing forward,
race, being that race towards that mark. And God's comforter will be with us. And if you turn to
Philippians 4 and verse 6, it says, "Be careful for nothing, but in everything be in prayer and
supplication with thanksgiving. Let your requests be known to God. And the peace of God, which passes
all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Jesus Christ." That peace that passes all
understanding. That's the comforter God wanted us to have. That is what Jesus said, "I go away for a
time before he comes back." But in that time, we have a comforter that can give all children of God
peace that supersedes all understanding. The world won't make sense. He's like, "Dude, if you just
work Sundays, you could have more money. And wouldn't that bring you peace? Man, just having
a little bit more money wouldn't life be a little bit easier? Man, if I just spent a little bit more
time with my family, wouldn't that bring me peace? Oh man, if I just relaxed, that would just bring
me peace. God just says, "Hey, whatever you give unto me, I can give you more." And he says, "Peace
that supersedes all understanding." That's the world's knowledge. That's our knowledge. That's
God's knowledge. I hope the Holy Spirit can speak to you today and draw you to the deeper knowledge
of God. With that, let's pray. Heavenly Father, thank you so much today. I hope this message was
edifying. I hope it was honoring to the third part of the Triune God, the Holy Spirit. I just hope
that people got from this. They learned and the Holy Spirit could speak to them in the remembrance
of the things I said that they are true, edifying, and will guide us into a happier, more enjoyable
life serving you. In Jesus' name, amen. Take your hymnals. We're going to turn to page number 129.
Page number 129. Rock of Ages. Page number 129. We'll sing it out on the first. Rock of Ages,
cleft for me, let me hide myself in thee. Let the water flow from thy wood side which flows
in the double queue. Say from 'round me pure tears forever flow. Could my zeers force it,
could not atone. Say a hand I break, simply 'tis I cling.
Let's sing everybody with the rinds you please close with a word of prayer.