1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:16,000 Last week I preached on the Holy Spirit and I feel I'll go further down that path this week because, as I said last week, I think I said last week, I believe the Holy Spirit is the most important person in the world because Jesus is at the right hand of the Father and the Father is in heaven. 2 00:00:16,000 --> 00:00:22,000 And the Holy Spirit is the only part of the Godhead that is on here, on earth, to help us. 3 00:00:22,000 --> 00:00:31,000 And that's why Jesus was able to say, it's better that I go away because when Jesus was here, all he could do, he could only operate in time and space and help people that were near him. 4 00:00:31,000 --> 00:00:41,000 But now the Holy Spirit can operate everywhere. In you, he can be, you know, helping heal somebody in Egypt today and he can come upon me to preach this morning. 5 00:00:41,000 --> 00:00:49,000 That's why it's better that Jesus went away because the Holy Spirit is working everywhere today and we want to know him. 6 00:00:49,000 --> 00:00:54,000 So Father, I thank you that you have poured out the Holy Spirit on all flesh. 7 00:00:54,000 --> 00:01:02,000 And Father God, I'm asking today that you will make the person of the Holy Spirit real to us. 8 00:01:02,000 --> 00:01:09,000 Father God, you will enable us to know the person of the Holy Spirit more intimately. 9 00:01:09,000 --> 00:01:17,000 And you will help us be empowered by the Holy Spirit and to be led by the Holy Spirit. 10 00:01:17,000 --> 00:01:21,000 Holy Spirit, have your way in Jesus' name. 11 00:01:21,000 --> 00:01:34,000 So this passage Paul was writing to the people of Corinth who are, that's a Greek city, and the Greeks were infatuated and almost worshiped philosophy. 12 00:01:34,000 --> 00:01:46,000 And so Paul begins by speaking about how he came and his words were, his preaching was not with demonstration, persuasive words or human wisdom. 13 00:01:46,000 --> 00:01:50,000 Because that's how a lot of people spoke in those days. 14 00:01:50,000 --> 00:01:54,000 They would quote philosophers and try to show off how good orators they are. 15 00:01:54,000 --> 00:01:56,000 Some preachers still do that today. 16 00:01:56,000 --> 00:01:58,000 But Paul said, I didn't do that when I came. 17 00:01:58,000 --> 00:02:03,000 I came in a demonstration of the Spirit's power. 18 00:02:03,000 --> 00:02:05,000 And he said, that's how I preached. 19 00:02:05,000 --> 00:02:13,000 He said, I preached in the Holy Spirit and that means that the things he said, God confirmed that he was God's man by doing signs and wonders. 20 00:02:13,000 --> 00:02:23,000 And I want to talk today, you know, Paul went to Corinth and he said, human wisdom is not the way. 21 00:02:23,000 --> 00:02:29,000 What the way, the ways of God is all about being led and empowered by the Holy Spirit. 22 00:02:29,000 --> 00:02:37,000 And then in the second part of the voice, the pastors, he speaks about the wisdom that comes from the Holy Spirit. 23 00:02:37,000 --> 00:02:41,000 And you know, what the Holy Spirit wants to do. 24 00:02:41,000 --> 00:02:48,000 You know, first of all, Paul said, the Holy Spirit when he came to Corinth was the key to the power of his preaching. 25 00:02:48,000 --> 00:02:54,000 And he speaks about the testimony of that he gave. 26 00:02:54,000 --> 00:03:04,000 And what God wants to do to you, he says, I, brethren, I came to you, did not come with excellence of speech or wisdom, declaring to you the testimony of God. 27 00:03:04,000 --> 00:03:13,000 God wants you to give you a power by the Holy Spirit to testify, to have a testimony to the world of what Christ has done for you. 28 00:03:13,000 --> 00:03:24,000 And when you always know when you're actually giving a testimony that is empowered by the Holy Spirit, because he will, Paul says to me, when he gave this testimony, 29 00:03:24,000 --> 00:03:37,000 you didn't want anything, didn't want to know anything except Christ crucified, when you have a testimony that is God is going to empower and touch, it will always include the work of the cross. 30 00:03:37,000 --> 00:03:41,000 Because the work of the cross is the key to accessing the power of God. 31 00:03:41,000 --> 00:03:46,000 So Paul said, I didn't come with philosophy or human. I came depending on the Holy Spirit. 32 00:03:46,000 --> 00:03:54,000 I just told people what God had done at the cross, signs and wonders followed, and it wasn't philosophical. 33 00:03:54,000 --> 00:04:00,000 So the Holy Spirit wants to empower your testimony. He wants to give you a testimony. 34 00:04:00,000 --> 00:04:05,000 He wants to give you a mode of preaching to the world. I'm not the only preacher here. 35 00:04:05,000 --> 00:04:12,000 We all have a commission to preach to the world. And when you're preaching in the power of the Holy Spirit, something is different to just speaking philosophically. 36 00:04:12,000 --> 00:04:20,000 When you speak philosophically, you only reach people's minds, but when you preach in the power of the Holy Spirit, the Holy Spirit brings a force to your words, 37 00:04:20,000 --> 00:04:27,000 and those words are able to cut the human heart and bring conviction. That's what happens when we preach in the power of the Holy Spirit, and that's what Paul did. 38 00:04:27,000 --> 00:04:34,000 He said, I didn't come with all my tracks and all my information, all my philosophical debates and this, that, and the other. 39 00:04:34,000 --> 00:04:39,000 I just came speaking about the cross of Jesus, and I was empowered by the Holy Spirit, and that's what God wants. 40 00:04:39,000 --> 00:04:44,000 That's what the Holy Spirit wants to do to you. He wants to empower your witness and testimony. 41 00:04:44,000 --> 00:04:51,000 Second thing he wants to do, he says, we speak wisdom among those who are mature. 42 00:04:51,000 --> 00:05:04,000 Holy Spirit wants to bring you to maturity, and you can be a mature Christian after five years, or you can be a baby still drinking milk after 40 years. 43 00:05:04,000 --> 00:05:13,000 And the difference is the Holy Spirit. The difference is your relationship to the Holy Spirit. 44 00:05:13,000 --> 00:05:21,000 The Holy Spirit wants to bring you to maturity, and Paul speaks about here, he speaks about, 45 00:05:21,000 --> 00:05:29,000 it's really important to know the context of this passage because there are immature people, 46 00:05:29,000 --> 00:05:35,000 there are even immature Christians, and there are mature Christians. 47 00:05:35,000 --> 00:05:45,000 And this passage unpacks the difference between the two, but he begins by speaking about natural men versus spiritual men, 48 00:05:45,000 --> 00:05:53,000 and it's not kind of gender exclusive. He's speaking about the natural man versus the spiritual man, 49 00:05:53,000 --> 00:05:59,000 and he's speaking about how the rulers of this age, they're just natural people, and they speak a form of wisdom. 50 00:05:59,000 --> 00:06:07,000 They're very confident. They speak a form of wisdom, a philosophical wisdom, and he speaks about the rulers of the age speak like this. 51 00:06:07,000 --> 00:06:13,000 They're the ones that cruels through the ages, he says, but what they're speaking about, it's all coming to nothing. 52 00:06:13,000 --> 00:06:21,000 It's all going nowhere, and it's all coming to nothing. Eternally, it has no value. It has no weight. 53 00:06:21,000 --> 00:06:30,000 And he speaks about these people, they speak like this because they're merely natural men. 54 00:06:30,000 --> 00:06:36,000 And a natural man, he speaks about, eye has not seen nor ear has heard. 55 00:06:36,000 --> 00:06:44,000 What he's saying is that the difference between the natural man who can never mature and the spiritual man is the natural man, 56 00:06:44,000 --> 00:06:52,000 the rulers of the age are natural men. They are led, they're informed, all their intelligence comes from the five senses. 57 00:06:52,000 --> 00:07:02,000 They are sensual. So everything they learn, everything they process, everything they speak comes from seeing, hearing, 58 00:07:02,000 --> 00:07:09,000 testing, tasting, all that sort of stuff. The five senses. They are sensual people, and they are led, 59 00:07:09,000 --> 00:07:16,000 and they are informed by their five senses, and they depend on their five senses for receiving information, 60 00:07:16,000 --> 00:07:27,000 processing information, and distributing orders. They are sensual people. But he says a mature Christian is not sensual. 61 00:07:27,000 --> 00:07:34,000 He doesn't, the thing you've got to know, if you're going to mature in Christ, the way you reach maturity in Christ, 62 00:07:34,000 --> 00:07:40,000 at the end of the passage it says, we have the mind of Christ. A mature Christian has the mind of God, 63 00:07:40,000 --> 00:07:47,000 knows how to access the mind and the thoughts of Christ about decisions you make, about the future. 64 00:07:47,000 --> 00:08:02,000 You actually can tap into the mind of Christ. But in order to do that, you've got to know access does not come through your senses. 65 00:08:02,000 --> 00:08:11,000 Eye has not seen it, nor ear has heard it. They're the senses, things that have entered in the hearts of man. 66 00:08:11,000 --> 00:08:20,000 So where do you receive the mind of Christ? How do you walk in the mind of Christ, which brings you to maturity? 67 00:08:20,000 --> 00:08:27,000 You know, we have a thing in Australia, it's called ASIO, and it's our intelligence agency. 68 00:08:27,000 --> 00:08:33,000 But I think the Americans have got a medical name, they call it the Central Intelligence Agency. 69 00:08:33,000 --> 00:08:44,000 You know, intelligence. And the Holy Spirit contains God's intelligence. 70 00:08:44,000 --> 00:08:55,000 The Holy Spirit is God's central intelligence agency. You know, you can be educated but not intelligent. 71 00:08:55,000 --> 00:08:58,000 I've met lots of people. They're highly educated but not intelligent. 72 00:08:58,000 --> 00:09:07,000 And you can be completely uneducated but intelligent. Very intelligent, but completely uneducated. 73 00:09:07,000 --> 00:09:17,000 And the key is knowing the mind of Christ, because He knows all things. 74 00:09:17,000 --> 00:09:23,000 And God wants to give you the mind of Christ. He wants to give you access to the mind of Christ. 75 00:09:23,000 --> 00:09:30,000 And this passage just tells us how we get the mind of Christ. It's a progression. 76 00:09:30,000 --> 00:09:35,000 And how we get this mind of Christ which contains hidden wisdom. 77 00:09:35,000 --> 00:09:45,000 And He says, it comes, this mind is revealed by God to us, verse 10, through the Spirit. 78 00:09:45,000 --> 00:09:55,000 And He says, the Spirit, the Holy Spirit, and you've got to understand, some people, they know when we receive the Holy Spirit 79 00:09:55,000 --> 00:10:01,000 and the baptism of the Holy Spirit, we receive power, and then they start to speak about the Holy Spirit like He's a force. 80 00:10:01,000 --> 00:10:09,000 Like wind, wind is a force. Wind has no personality. But the Holy Spirit is not only power and a force, He is a person. 81 00:10:09,000 --> 00:10:19,000 And He is a person who wants to, He says here, the Holy Spirit reveals things to us through His Spirit. 82 00:10:19,000 --> 00:10:29,000 So the person is somebody who wants to reveal things that God knows to you. 83 00:10:29,000 --> 00:10:40,000 And it says, the way He does this, the Spirit searches all things. Yes, the deep things of God. 84 00:10:40,000 --> 00:10:48,000 So, you know, we have Google. What do we call it? It's a search engine. 85 00:10:48,000 --> 00:11:01,000 And it's a thing that in your computer, it brings to the surface things that are relevant just to your request. 86 00:11:01,000 --> 00:11:08,000 And they release this information. 87 00:11:08,000 --> 00:11:20,000 And the search engine can take things that are not obvious, that are hidden, and bring them to the surface. 88 00:11:20,000 --> 00:11:26,000 And those things are brought up that are relevant to the request you make. 89 00:11:26,000 --> 00:11:44,000 And God, and Paul says the Holy Spirit is like that, and He searches all things, all things, and brings to the surface things that are relevant to your life, to your battle you're facing, to your future, to your past. 90 00:11:44,000 --> 00:11:56,000 He searches, the Holy Spirit searches, and then it says He reveals. And reveals means things that are hidden are now disclosed to you. 91 00:11:56,000 --> 00:12:04,000 Things that only God knows, deep things. And He brings them to the surface. 92 00:12:04,000 --> 00:12:16,000 And this information is released to the heart and then the human mind. And this is what we call intelligence. 93 00:12:16,000 --> 00:12:28,000 This is real intelligence. It's accessing the deep things of God that are hidden from the world, that only He knows. 94 00:12:28,000 --> 00:12:38,000 The Holy Spirit goes and gets them when you need them, brings them to the surface, and speaks them into your heart when you need them. 95 00:12:38,000 --> 00:12:46,000 This is what intelligence is. This is how we receive the mind of Christ. 96 00:12:46,000 --> 00:12:54,000 And you notice this passage says the Spirit searches all things. Yes, the deep things of God. 97 00:12:54,000 --> 00:13:00,000 That is so important. He searches all things. Because the Holy Spirit, you know, you are going to make a decision today. 98 00:13:00,000 --> 00:13:08,000 This is where people get in a mess. You have information and intelligence about the present. 99 00:13:08,000 --> 00:13:18,000 But the Holy Spirit knows all things. He has information about the past, the future, and sorry, the past, the present, and the future. 100 00:13:18,000 --> 00:13:35,000 He knows all things. And we get in a mess when we make decisions based on what we know today instead of waiting on the Holy Spirit who knows past, present, future. 101 00:13:35,000 --> 00:13:52,000 He is able to lead us into making good and wise decisions because He doesn't give us information just based on the present. 102 00:13:52,000 --> 00:13:57,000 And sometimes, you know, you've got stuff in your past. You've got stuff in your past. 103 00:13:57,000 --> 00:14:09,000 But the Holy Spirit knows what you need to free you, to get free. And the Holy Spirit says He will show you the things to come. 104 00:14:09,000 --> 00:14:16,000 So the Holy Spirit knows what's in your future ten years from now. So He knows the sort of spouse you need. 105 00:14:16,000 --> 00:14:31,000 You only know the present. And so the Holy Spirit wants to take those things and its knowledge about the past, the present, and the future 106 00:14:31,000 --> 00:14:44,000 because He knows the end from the beginning. And He searches all things and releases to you the information that is needed. 107 00:14:44,000 --> 00:14:59,000 The problem is who do you take advice from? And I want to tell you that where your life ends up depends very much on what advice you listen to. 108 00:14:59,000 --> 00:15:12,000 It depends very much on what voices you listen to. It's very, and it took me a long time in my Christian walk to realize this. 109 00:15:12,000 --> 00:15:21,000 The importance of the voices you listen to because, believe me, your life is a direct result of what you listen to. 110 00:15:21,000 --> 00:15:36,000 And the Holy Spirit, the Holy Spirit wants to release to you the wisdom to make good choices because He knows yesterday, today, and tomorrow. 111 00:15:36,000 --> 00:15:45,000 All about yesterday, today, and tomorrow. He knows all things. You just know the present, a little bit about the past. 112 00:15:45,000 --> 00:15:53,000 You've got no idea about the future. And a humble person knows that the finite mind is so limited, 113 00:15:53,000 --> 00:16:04,000 but we're able to receive the mind of Christ through our relationship with the person of the Holy Spirit. 114 00:16:04,000 --> 00:16:16,000 So He knows all things. He also says here that the Holy Spirit searches all things, 115 00:16:16,000 --> 00:16:24,000 and He says that we may know the things that have been freely given to us by God. 116 00:16:24,000 --> 00:16:32,000 And He didn't say you may know about the things. He said you may know the things that have been freely given to us by God. 117 00:16:32,000 --> 00:16:36,000 What has freely been given to us? Because Romans 8 speaks about this. 118 00:16:36,000 --> 00:16:46,000 It's not just, you haven't just been chosen, you're not just saved. Romans 8, verse 31, I think, says, 119 00:16:46,000 --> 00:16:51,000 What shall we say to these things if God is for us? Who can be against us? For He who did not spare His own Son, 120 00:16:51,000 --> 00:17:00,000 but deliver Him up for us all, how shall He not with Him also freely give us all things? 121 00:17:00,000 --> 00:17:09,000 But see, the Holy Spirit can only reveal to you the things that God has freely given to you. 122 00:17:09,000 --> 00:17:14,000 What has He freely given to you? We say, well, salvation is a free gift. Yeah. 123 00:17:14,000 --> 00:17:25,000 But how many Christians do I know that are still struggling with guilt and shame 15 years after they've been saved 124 00:17:25,000 --> 00:17:30,000 because they do not know in their Noah that they're being pardoned? 125 00:17:30,000 --> 00:17:38,000 But the Holy Spirit brings a conviction that you just know in your Noah what God has freely given you. 126 00:17:38,000 --> 00:17:42,000 I remember I met my wife. People say, how do you know you're going to marry her? 127 00:17:42,000 --> 00:17:45,000 How do you know she's right? Well, I just knew it. 128 00:17:45,000 --> 00:17:50,000 It's something the Holy Spirit gives you. You know in your Noah. 129 00:17:50,000 --> 00:17:55,000 Not about, you don't have the, you don't have all the scriptures about forgiveness, 130 00:17:55,000 --> 00:18:05,000 but you know I have been a sinner. I'm guilty and I deserve to die on that cross, but He has pardoned me. 131 00:18:05,000 --> 00:18:12,000 I get to go completely free. Not only I'm pardoned, but I know I am loved by God 132 00:18:12,000 --> 00:18:17,000 and there's nothing I can do that can ever separate me from that love. 133 00:18:17,000 --> 00:18:22,000 How many people come to me and they say, I think I've blown it with God. 134 00:18:22,000 --> 00:18:29,000 I say, the Bible says nothing, nothing, nothing, no height, no depth, no nothing at all can separate you from the love of God 135 00:18:29,000 --> 00:18:32,000 which is in Christ Jesus. 136 00:18:32,000 --> 00:18:37,000 The Bible says also that because of Christ and His death on the cross, He came, 137 00:18:37,000 --> 00:18:43,000 He lived a perfectly righteous life for this sinner 138 00:18:43,000 --> 00:18:48,000 and then He died on the cross for all my unrighteous acts 139 00:18:48,000 --> 00:18:56,000 and when I put my faith in Him, I'm not only forgiven, but I become the righteousness of God in Christ. 140 00:18:56,000 --> 00:19:04,000 So I know I have received freely, not by anything I've done, the righteousness of God in my life. 141 00:19:04,000 --> 00:19:06,000 And that's why people walk in and say, I'm just a dirty sinner. 142 00:19:06,000 --> 00:19:10,000 I said, no, that's because the Holy Spirit has not yet revealed to you. 143 00:19:10,000 --> 00:19:14,000 He has not yet revealed to you the things that have been freely given. 144 00:19:14,000 --> 00:19:18,000 You have been given the righteousness of Christ through the power of the Spirit. 145 00:19:18,000 --> 00:19:22,000 But you don't know it. 146 00:19:22,000 --> 00:19:30,000 You don't know it in your Noah till it has been revealed by the search engine. 147 00:19:30,000 --> 00:19:36,000 You know, we also know we have received mercy. 148 00:19:36,000 --> 00:19:41,000 I deserve judgment, but because Christ died for me, I received mercy. 149 00:19:41,000 --> 00:19:47,000 And not only I've received mercy once, but every time I've failed, I have received mercy over and over again 150 00:19:47,000 --> 00:19:50,000 because His mercies are new every morning. 151 00:19:50,000 --> 00:19:57,000 So when I receive the judgment because of Christ, I'm in Christ, I'm living in the mercy of God. 152 00:19:57,000 --> 00:20:04,000 So the Holy Spirit shows me all these things, my pardon, my freedom, my righteousness, 153 00:20:04,000 --> 00:20:08,000 blessings of peace, blessings of joy. 154 00:20:08,000 --> 00:20:10,000 They're all mine. 155 00:20:10,000 --> 00:20:15,000 And the Holy Spirit then shows me, this is what produces hope in a Christian, 156 00:20:15,000 --> 00:20:21,000 and He makes it real to you, the future glory that is ahead. 157 00:20:21,000 --> 00:20:27,000 That heaven is not just a theory, but heaven's where I'm heading. 158 00:20:27,000 --> 00:20:29,000 And what a difference that makes. 159 00:20:29,000 --> 00:20:32,000 Heaven has been freely given to me. 160 00:20:32,000 --> 00:20:36,000 There's no sin in heaven. My sin has been cleansed, so I'm free to enter heaven. 161 00:20:36,000 --> 00:20:39,000 That's where I'm heaven. Because of that, I have hope. 162 00:20:39,000 --> 00:20:46,000 But only the Holy Spirit reveals these things and makes them real, 163 00:20:46,000 --> 00:20:58,000 so that I know it, not by head knowledge, but I know it in my heart, because deep calls unto deep. 164 00:20:58,000 --> 00:21:04,000 So the Holy Spirit knows all things, and I need to trust Him when I make decisions. 165 00:21:04,000 --> 00:21:11,000 I need to get my advice from Him and not my self, who only knows about today. 166 00:21:11,000 --> 00:21:14,000 Who's made a mess of decisions? 167 00:21:14,000 --> 00:21:19,000 This is when you go into the chastening of God. 168 00:21:19,000 --> 00:21:21,000 I did it again. 169 00:21:21,000 --> 00:21:29,000 I remember one day, I was sitting there, in India, I was coming home and God spoke to me really clearly in the airport. 170 00:21:29,000 --> 00:21:31,000 And don't ask me why He said this, but He said, 171 00:21:31,000 --> 00:21:36,000 I want you to just don't get guest preachers for a season, just you preach. 172 00:21:36,000 --> 00:21:39,000 This is because God was, I think, raising me up and wanted me to preach all the time, 173 00:21:39,000 --> 00:21:45,000 but also I think He wanted me to guard the pulpit because of things that were being taught around the church in those days. 174 00:21:45,000 --> 00:21:48,000 And I just knew it. I just knew I heard from God. 175 00:21:48,000 --> 00:21:54,000 But after I got back from Australia, my kind of mind took over. 176 00:21:54,000 --> 00:22:02,000 And I thought, well, you know, the people, the people might get sick of hearing from me. 177 00:22:02,000 --> 00:22:04,000 Might get tired of hearing from me. 178 00:22:04,000 --> 00:22:09,000 And someone came to me and said, you know, this guest guy I know in Queensland, we should get him down. 179 00:22:09,000 --> 00:22:12,000 And so I said, okay, forgetting. 180 00:22:12,000 --> 00:22:14,000 I need the Holy Spirit to inform me of all things. 181 00:22:14,000 --> 00:22:16,000 He said, yeah, let's get this guy in. 182 00:22:16,000 --> 00:22:20,000 Man, if you're in the church then, it was such a disaster. 183 00:22:20,000 --> 00:22:28,000 I spent an entire evening after the first meeting like Joshua on my face before God. 184 00:22:28,000 --> 00:22:33,000 And then I had to go to this guy who invited him and say the next day, I'm canceling you. 185 00:22:33,000 --> 00:22:38,000 And then I spent six months in God's school of chastening. 186 00:22:38,000 --> 00:22:44,000 Because He never leaves you, but just after six months, He said, you know, this is... 187 00:22:44,000 --> 00:22:55,000 I'm here with you, but these are lessons you learn, painful lessons from not listening to the Holy Spirit. 188 00:22:55,000 --> 00:22:57,000 But see, He knows all things. 189 00:22:57,000 --> 00:22:58,000 This is what you've got to know. 190 00:22:58,000 --> 00:23:00,000 He knows all things. 191 00:23:00,000 --> 00:23:02,000 All things. 192 00:23:02,000 --> 00:23:04,000 It's so... 193 00:23:04,000 --> 00:23:05,000 And you know, this is... 194 00:23:05,000 --> 00:23:09,000 I think being led by the Holy Spirit, I said last week, it's harder for intelligent people because your mind, 195 00:23:09,000 --> 00:23:11,000 your natural mind will get you places. 196 00:23:11,000 --> 00:23:13,000 It'll get you success and things like that. 197 00:23:13,000 --> 00:23:19,000 But the Holy Spirit, the Holy Spirit will take you so much further. 198 00:23:19,000 --> 00:23:21,000 So we've got to know He knows all things. 199 00:23:21,000 --> 00:23:26,000 We've got to know He wants to reveal to us what we've been freely given. 200 00:23:26,000 --> 00:23:35,000 So it's things are not a theory, but the truth is lifted and we can see in our hearts who we are, 201 00:23:35,000 --> 00:23:39,000 what God's really done for us at the cross, where we're really heading, 202 00:23:39,000 --> 00:23:44,000 so we can walk into all the promises God has given us. 203 00:23:44,000 --> 00:23:50,000 And then He says here, He says, the Holy Spirit, this great search engine, searches all things 204 00:23:50,000 --> 00:23:54,000 and reveals, yes, the deep things of God. 205 00:23:54,000 --> 00:23:59,000 And see, the Scripture says, deep calls unto deep. 206 00:23:59,000 --> 00:24:00,000 What does that mean? 207 00:24:00,000 --> 00:24:08,000 It means God is a Spirit and you have a mind, you have a body, you have a soul, mind, will and emotions, 208 00:24:08,000 --> 00:24:09,000 and you have a spirit. 209 00:24:09,000 --> 00:24:13,000 But the Spirit of God doesn't speak in your soul. 210 00:24:13,000 --> 00:24:14,000 It doesn't speak to your body. 211 00:24:14,000 --> 00:24:18,000 The Spirit of God, deep, the Spirit of God calls unto deep. 212 00:24:18,000 --> 00:24:22,000 He speaks to your spirit. 213 00:24:22,000 --> 00:24:33,000 And He wants to show us, yes, the deep things of God, the deep things of God. 214 00:24:33,000 --> 00:24:36,000 What are the deep things of God? 215 00:24:36,000 --> 00:24:42,000 Some of the deep things of God are to do with the direction He wants to take you. 216 00:24:42,000 --> 00:24:52,000 In Acts chapter 16, you see Paul wanted to go into Asia, what we know today as Turkey. 217 00:24:52,000 --> 00:24:59,000 But the Bible says very, very clearly in Acts 16, and if he'd trusted his human decision making, 218 00:24:59,000 --> 00:25:02,000 he would have gone in the wrong direction. 219 00:25:02,000 --> 00:25:08,000 But it says, when he was there, when they had gone through Persia in the region of Galatia, 220 00:25:08,000 --> 00:25:12,000 they were forbidden by the Holy Spirit to preach the word in Asia. 221 00:25:12,000 --> 00:25:18,000 After they'd come to Misia, they tried to go into Bithynia, but the Spirit did not permit them. 222 00:25:18,000 --> 00:25:22,000 And when they stopped and didn't just press ahead in their flesh, 223 00:25:22,000 --> 00:25:30,000 a vision appeared to Paul in the night, the man from Macedonia said, come over here. 224 00:25:30,000 --> 00:25:33,000 So the deep things of God are to do with direction. 225 00:25:33,000 --> 00:25:38,000 And in Acts chapter 21, verse 11, Paul was going back to Jerusalem, 226 00:25:38,000 --> 00:25:43,000 and a man called Agabas came, he came from Judea. 227 00:25:43,000 --> 00:25:48,000 Now when he heard these things, both he from Paul pleaded with Paul not to go to Jerusalem, 228 00:25:48,000 --> 00:25:56,000 and Agabas took a belt and tied Paul's hands and feet and said, 229 00:25:56,000 --> 00:26:01,000 this is what they're going to do, thus says the Holy Spirit, so sell the Jews at Jerusalem, 230 00:26:01,000 --> 00:26:06,000 bind the man who owns the belt and deliver him into the hands of the Gentiles. 231 00:26:06,000 --> 00:26:12,000 So that was something unknown to the human mind, something nobody else could know about the future, 232 00:26:12,000 --> 00:26:18,000 but the Holy Spirit revealed something deep, not surface, not superficial, 233 00:26:18,000 --> 00:26:23,000 about what was going to happen tomorrow. 234 00:26:23,000 --> 00:26:29,000 And Paul was able to listen and be directed, and this is where God wants to take us now. 235 00:26:29,000 --> 00:26:34,000 It's so important, I just know what's coming in the future, that you reject human wisdom, 236 00:26:34,000 --> 00:26:38,000 and we learn to receive the wisdom of God that comes from the Holy Spirit, 237 00:26:38,000 --> 00:26:41,000 so that we can receive the mind of Christ. It's so important. 238 00:26:41,000 --> 00:26:44,000 I remember a time myself where I learned this lesson, and I'm still learning it, 239 00:26:44,000 --> 00:26:46,000 but 20 years ago I got a vital lesson. 240 00:26:46,000 --> 00:26:54,000 I was in Austria, and I was working for a mission group, and I was over there, 241 00:26:54,000 --> 00:27:00,000 and see, the Holy Spirit will sometimes just disturb you. 242 00:27:00,000 --> 00:27:05,000 And sometimes that is just to get to pray, and many times even overseas, 243 00:27:05,000 --> 00:27:10,000 I've been woken and just I'm disturbed in my spirit, and the Holy Spirit is saying pray, 244 00:27:10,000 --> 00:27:15,000 so I start to pray in tongues and pray in the Spirit, and the next day I may come into a dangerous situation, 245 00:27:15,000 --> 00:27:20,000 but somehow I'm protected. The reason is because I've been praying in the Spirit, 246 00:27:20,000 --> 00:27:23,000 and God has already gone ahead of me. 247 00:27:23,000 --> 00:27:25,000 That's what the Holy Spirit wants to do. 248 00:27:25,000 --> 00:27:31,000 But when I was in Austria, I remember the Holy Spirit was disturbing me, and I just clearly heard. 249 00:27:31,000 --> 00:27:34,000 Now I'm in a conference, and I'm kind of new to the role, and the Holy Spirit said, 250 00:27:34,000 --> 00:27:39,000 go home. And when you get a word from the Holy Spirit, it comes packed with meaning. 251 00:27:39,000 --> 00:27:45,000 And I just, in my spirit, I knew that my new family was in danger. 252 00:27:45,000 --> 00:27:49,000 There was no physical information, and I couldn't contact Michel for some reason. 253 00:27:49,000 --> 00:27:52,000 Remember, I couldn't, but I just went to the head of the thing, and we're in Austria, 254 00:27:52,000 --> 00:27:55,000 and this great conference, everything's paid for, and I'm supposed to be here. 255 00:27:55,000 --> 00:27:57,000 I said, I'm going home. 256 00:27:57,000 --> 00:27:59,000 I said, someone's going to take me to the airport now. 257 00:27:59,000 --> 00:28:02,000 So I had to get driven, and I went all the way to Frankfurt Airport, 258 00:28:02,000 --> 00:28:04,000 and they said, oh, the flight's full. 259 00:28:04,000 --> 00:28:07,000 And I miraculously got on the flight, and the same thing happened in Singapore, 260 00:28:07,000 --> 00:28:10,000 and miraculously I got on the flight, even though the flights were booked. 261 00:28:10,000 --> 00:28:19,000 I got home, and when I walked in the door, my daughter had a fevral convulsion, 262 00:28:19,000 --> 00:28:21,000 and she was like overheating. 263 00:28:21,000 --> 00:28:23,000 Michel didn't have a license. 264 00:28:23,000 --> 00:28:25,000 She couldn't drive. 265 00:28:25,000 --> 00:28:30,000 And I was there literally, literally one minute in time. 266 00:28:30,000 --> 00:28:34,000 I picked the baby up, rushed the baby to the North Shore Hospital. 267 00:28:34,000 --> 00:28:40,000 But that's when I learned the importance of how the language of the Spirit 268 00:28:40,000 --> 00:28:44,000 and how important it is to be yielded to the Holy Spirit. 269 00:28:44,000 --> 00:28:48,000 That's one of the deeper things, the deeper things. 270 00:28:48,000 --> 00:28:54,000 So Paul says, you know, this Holy Spirit is the key to the mind of Christ. 271 00:28:54,000 --> 00:28:57,000 He has hidden wisdom, which the world doesn't know, 272 00:28:57,000 --> 00:28:59,000 and He's the search engine that knows all things. 273 00:28:59,000 --> 00:29:02,000 He goes deep into the mind of God, and He brings it up to the surface. 274 00:29:02,000 --> 00:29:06,000 The things that you need, and He knows all things. 275 00:29:06,000 --> 00:29:09,000 He knows the things freely given. 276 00:29:09,000 --> 00:29:19,000 He knows the things that are hidden, and He knows the things which are deep, deep things. 277 00:29:19,000 --> 00:29:27,000 And you say, well, how do I walk and know and receive the mind of Christ in a practical way? 278 00:29:27,000 --> 00:29:33,000 And I want to tell you, there is a, Paul says here, he says, these things, 279 00:29:33,000 --> 00:29:40,000 now we have received, not the Spirit of the world, but the Spirit is from God, received. 280 00:29:40,000 --> 00:29:45,000 Now that means we have things in the world that we call receivers. 281 00:29:45,000 --> 00:29:53,000 And so in this room right now, there are radio waves blasting all over the place, 282 00:29:53,000 --> 00:30:00,000 and we can't hear them, but if we had a receiver, we could hear them. 283 00:30:00,000 --> 00:30:02,000 But here it is. 284 00:30:02,000 --> 00:30:09,000 In this room, there are AM radio waves, and there are FM radio waves. 285 00:30:09,000 --> 00:30:16,000 If I have an AM receiver, I cannot hear what is on FM. 286 00:30:16,000 --> 00:30:22,000 If I am a natural carnal man, God doesn't speak on that frequency. 287 00:30:22,000 --> 00:30:27,000 If I am led by my five senses, God does not speak on that frequency. 288 00:30:27,000 --> 00:30:30,000 He's on FM. 289 00:30:30,000 --> 00:30:35,000 He's speaking as a Spirit into my spirit. 290 00:30:35,000 --> 00:30:40,000 And this is why so many Christians, I believe such a small amount of Christians are able to receive from God, 291 00:30:40,000 --> 00:30:46,000 because they live in the five senses, and God wants to change it in this season. 292 00:30:46,000 --> 00:30:50,000 He wants people to know, hear His voice, have the mind of Christ, 293 00:30:50,000 --> 00:30:55,000 and we are going to need it because of what's coming. 294 00:30:55,000 --> 00:30:57,000 So need it. 295 00:30:57,000 --> 00:31:01,000 So we have to be on the, to receive it, you have to have the right receiver. 296 00:31:01,000 --> 00:31:07,000 And that is to know how to receive from God. 297 00:31:07,000 --> 00:31:09,000 It's not difficult. 298 00:31:09,000 --> 00:31:17,000 You've, if you're a Christian, it's what says here, if you're a Christian, 299 00:31:17,000 --> 00:31:20,000 now we have received. 300 00:31:20,000 --> 00:31:23,000 You have got the Holy Spirit. 301 00:31:23,000 --> 00:31:28,000 Just that you have to learn to listen to the person of the Holy Spirit living in you. 302 00:31:28,000 --> 00:31:31,000 And in order to do that, you've got to be on the right frequency. 303 00:31:31,000 --> 00:31:36,000 And the Bible says, it's not a secret, but so many times it says, in the Scriptures it says, 304 00:31:36,000 --> 00:31:40,000 be still and know. 305 00:31:40,000 --> 00:31:45,000 I believe one of the great enemies of being able to be led by the Spirit of God 306 00:31:45,000 --> 00:31:48,000 and receive the mind of Christ is human busyness. 307 00:31:48,000 --> 00:31:53,000 When you have a problem, when you have a dilemma, it's not the time to pick up the phone, 308 00:31:53,000 --> 00:31:56,000 it's not the time to rush around, it's not the time to be Martha, 309 00:31:56,000 --> 00:32:06,000 it's time to be Mary and be still in quietness and confidence shall be your strength. 310 00:32:06,000 --> 00:32:08,000 So you need to be still. 311 00:32:08,000 --> 00:32:11,000 And there's something really instructive. 312 00:32:11,000 --> 00:32:15,000 Elijah, we're told, is the man of the Spirit. 313 00:32:15,000 --> 00:32:17,000 He is the man of the Spirit. 314 00:32:17,000 --> 00:32:23,000 And when the Holy Spirit told him rain was coming, 315 00:32:23,000 --> 00:32:31,000 but there was just a little puff of a cloud in the future, Elijah did something really instructive. 316 00:32:31,000 --> 00:32:38,000 Elijah says when he knew what God wanted, knew God said rain, even though it was only a little puff of cloud, 317 00:32:38,000 --> 00:32:41,000 he actually put his head between his knees. 318 00:32:41,000 --> 00:32:43,000 This is a great way to pray. 319 00:32:43,000 --> 00:32:46,000 Why did he put his head between his knees? 320 00:32:46,000 --> 00:32:47,000 I tell you what it's all about. 321 00:32:47,000 --> 00:32:51,000 It's about closing out the outside voices. 322 00:32:51,000 --> 00:32:53,000 When you want to hear from the Holy Spirit, there are many voices. 323 00:32:53,000 --> 00:32:58,000 There's your voices, the devil's voices, other people's voices, everyone has a voice. 324 00:32:58,000 --> 00:33:05,000 The trouble is, apart from God, I've learned, everyone, even good people, are manipulative. 325 00:33:05,000 --> 00:33:07,000 Everyone has a bias. 326 00:33:07,000 --> 00:33:09,000 So you've got to get your head between you. 327 00:33:09,000 --> 00:33:10,000 You've got to shut out all the voice. 328 00:33:10,000 --> 00:33:15,000 You've got to have a secret place where you go, turn off your phone, get rid of the TV forever, 329 00:33:15,000 --> 00:33:17,000 and just get before God. 330 00:33:17,000 --> 00:33:20,000 So the TV is the one thing that will stop you hearing. 331 00:33:20,000 --> 00:33:28,000 Get before God and till the Holy Spirit in a still, quiet vase just speaks to you. 332 00:33:28,000 --> 00:33:33,000 And when he speaks, you know because there'll be peace. 333 00:33:33,000 --> 00:33:38,000 Even if it's hard, there'll be a peace. 334 00:33:38,000 --> 00:33:46,000 And one of the things that will happen when the Holy Spirit speaks to you, 335 00:33:46,000 --> 00:33:53,000 one of the evidences that you've heard from the Holy Spirit says here, 336 00:33:53,000 --> 00:33:58,000 the spiritual man does not receive the things of the Spirit for they are foolishness to him. 337 00:33:58,000 --> 00:34:05,000 When the Holy Spirit speaks to you, more often than not, natural carnal people are going to say, 338 00:34:05,000 --> 00:34:07,000 are you kidding? 339 00:34:07,000 --> 00:34:09,000 How stupid. 340 00:34:09,000 --> 00:34:13,000 I remember when God spoke to me and said, I want you to go to Pakistan. 341 00:34:13,000 --> 00:34:15,000 I shared this with somebody who was in my family. 342 00:34:15,000 --> 00:34:19,000 I said, this is ridiculous. 343 00:34:19,000 --> 00:34:21,000 But look how much fruit's been bought. 344 00:34:21,000 --> 00:34:22,000 A foolishness. 345 00:34:22,000 --> 00:34:25,000 You know, when you go to say to someone who's not a believer, you say, 346 00:34:25,000 --> 00:34:30,000 I spend my time reading the Word of God and in prayer or fasting. 347 00:34:30,000 --> 00:34:32,000 How do they respond? 348 00:34:32,000 --> 00:34:37,000 Like you spend your time not eating, praying, reading the Word of God. 349 00:34:37,000 --> 00:34:38,000 It's foolishness to them. 350 00:34:38,000 --> 00:34:40,000 They think it's a waste of time. 351 00:34:40,000 --> 00:34:42,000 But it's God. 352 00:34:42,000 --> 00:34:45,000 It's God. 353 00:34:45,000 --> 00:34:49,000 And this is how God wants the church to be led in the future. 354 00:34:49,000 --> 00:34:51,000 Spirit led church is what's coming. 355 00:34:51,000 --> 00:34:56,000 The spirit led church will know how to receive the mind of Christ. 356 00:34:56,000 --> 00:35:04,000 And they will know in the face of dilemmas, in challenges, in the face of giants, 357 00:35:04,000 --> 00:35:08,000 in the face of because there's great problems, there's great evil coming into the world. 358 00:35:08,000 --> 00:35:09,000 Believe me. 359 00:35:09,000 --> 00:35:16,000 We're in a season where the evil is just rising so quickly and things are going to change so quickly. 360 00:35:16,000 --> 00:35:19,000 And the church needs to hear from the Holy Spirit. 361 00:35:19,000 --> 00:35:21,000 Believe me. 362 00:35:21,000 --> 00:35:25,000 If you don't know that in the spirit things are coming, economies are going to collapse, 363 00:35:25,000 --> 00:35:27,000 wars are going to explode all over the place. 364 00:35:27,000 --> 00:35:28,000 It's just rising. 365 00:35:28,000 --> 00:35:29,000 It's in the background now. 366 00:35:29,000 --> 00:35:32,000 But if you know the Holy Spirit, He shows you the things to come. 367 00:35:32,000 --> 00:35:33,000 It's not more of the same. 368 00:35:33,000 --> 00:35:35,000 We are heading towards the end. 369 00:35:35,000 --> 00:35:37,000 But this is what's going to happen. 370 00:35:37,000 --> 00:35:44,000 The Holy Spirit church is going to be able to be like Jericho, like Joshua. 371 00:35:44,000 --> 00:35:51,000 Joshua is facing a giant, a battle that is supposedly unwinnable. 372 00:35:51,000 --> 00:35:58,000 The walls of Jericho were, it was in a strategic location in the middle of the Palestine. 373 00:35:58,000 --> 00:36:01,000 And every time it was conquered they built the walls higher and higher. 374 00:36:01,000 --> 00:36:06,000 And when Joshua got there it was just considered like America today, impregnable. 375 00:36:06,000 --> 00:36:11,000 But Joshua was a man who knew how to get his head between his knees. 376 00:36:11,000 --> 00:36:14,000 Shut out the Word of God and get God's plan. 377 00:36:14,000 --> 00:36:16,000 And he says, I've heard from God. 378 00:36:16,000 --> 00:36:17,000 This is what we're going to do. 379 00:36:17,000 --> 00:36:18,000 Imagine if you said it today. 380 00:36:18,000 --> 00:36:19,000 This is what we're going to do. 381 00:36:19,000 --> 00:36:25,000 That fortress over there, forget about your weapons, we're going to walk around it seven times. 382 00:36:25,000 --> 00:36:31,000 And on the last day we're going to give a great shout. 383 00:36:31,000 --> 00:36:38,000 And the people on the wall were going, what foolishness. 384 00:36:38,000 --> 00:36:45,000 But you know what Joshua said to the people that he spoke to? 385 00:36:45,000 --> 00:36:50,000 He said, walk around that wall and say nothing. 386 00:36:50,000 --> 00:36:56,000 Because I want this word to be the last word. 387 00:36:56,000 --> 00:37:01,000 And that's why the Bible says the man, the man does not receive the things of the Spirit. 388 00:37:01,000 --> 00:37:12,000 Now here it says, he says, but these things we also speak. 389 00:37:12,000 --> 00:37:14,000 We speak them. 390 00:37:14,000 --> 00:37:22,000 This is so important that when God shows you a human, a Holy Spirit strategy, 391 00:37:22,000 --> 00:37:28,000 see the name it and claim it movement gets it wrong because they say you're a being who can create 392 00:37:28,000 --> 00:37:30,000 and you just speak in your words about, that's not true. 393 00:37:30,000 --> 00:37:36,000 But when we hear what heaven is saying, what heaven's CIA reveals to us, 394 00:37:36,000 --> 00:37:43,000 what heaven's strategies and we receive it and we speak it, that's when it comes into being. 395 00:37:43,000 --> 00:37:47,000 We speak, our word is not powerful but heaven's word is powerful. 396 00:37:47,000 --> 00:37:54,000 And when the church is led by the Holy Spirit and we hear from heaven and we speak what heaven is saying, 397 00:37:54,000 --> 00:38:01,000 the church becomes indefeatable but it must be led by the Holy Spirit. 398 00:38:01,000 --> 00:38:04,000 Must be led by the Holy Spirit. 399 00:38:04,000 --> 00:38:11,000 Verse 12 to finish, it says, we have received. 400 00:38:11,000 --> 00:38:18,000 You know, if you're a believer you have received the Holy Spirit. 401 00:38:18,000 --> 00:38:23,000 But Holy Spirit as I said at the start, you've got to realize he is not a force. 402 00:38:23,000 --> 00:38:28,000 He has a personality and I think many people in the church they've got to repent of that, 403 00:38:28,000 --> 00:38:33,000 of just thinking the Holy Spirit is power. 404 00:38:33,000 --> 00:38:39,000 But he has personality and a person has intelligence. 405 00:38:39,000 --> 00:38:48,000 He is the person of the Godhead and he's the intelligence agents, agency of God. 406 00:38:48,000 --> 00:38:52,000 And there has to be a humility that comes into people. 407 00:38:52,000 --> 00:39:00,000 I believe there has to be a humility that says, you know, on my best day, on my greatest day I have, 408 00:39:00,000 --> 00:39:06,000 if I'm led by my five senses and make a decision, it's going to end in tears. 409 00:39:06,000 --> 00:39:09,000 Just is. Or it's going to go nowhere. 410 00:39:09,000 --> 00:39:19,000 But if I know how to wait, to get onto the right, receive, if I get onto the right frequency, 411 00:39:19,000 --> 00:39:31,000 by being still, in quietness, waiting for that still small voice, get my head between my knees, 412 00:39:31,000 --> 00:39:35,000 and when the Holy Spirit speaks, I start to speak it. 413 00:39:35,000 --> 00:39:41,000 I start to declare, I am a prophet to nations in the name of Jesus. 414 00:39:41,000 --> 00:39:46,000 It's not presumption. It's like I've heard what God says and I declare it and it'll happen. 415 00:39:46,000 --> 00:39:53,000 This is what God wants. He wants a Spirit-led church. 416 00:39:53,000 --> 00:40:04,000 He wants us to know that the greatest search engine in the world, the Holy Spirit, knows today, tomorrow. 417 00:40:04,000 --> 00:40:08,000 Knows the key to your deliverance. 418 00:40:08,000 --> 00:40:12,000 He knows who you're going to need for the future. He knows what you're going to need for the future. 419 00:40:12,000 --> 00:40:14,000 He knows the challenges you're going to need for the future. 420 00:40:14,000 --> 00:40:18,000 He knows what you should do because he's gone ahead of you already. 421 00:40:18,000 --> 00:40:21,000 You just know the present. 422 00:40:21,000 --> 00:40:29,000 He wants to reveal to you the deep, deep things that you have received through Christ's death on the cross. 423 00:40:29,000 --> 00:40:36,000 So you know them. You know the truth and you're free. 424 00:40:36,000 --> 00:40:40,000 I know some people that know a lot about God, but they don't know the things of God. 425 00:40:40,000 --> 00:40:45,000 Things that are freely given to them. You've been pardoned. 426 00:40:45,000 --> 00:40:53,000 You are the righteousness of Christ. It's a free gift. You are heaven-bound. 427 00:40:53,000 --> 00:41:04,000 And he wants to reveal to you the deep things. The deep things. What's coming? 428 00:41:04,000 --> 00:41:09,000 You know, I tell you one of the reasons it's really important. 429 00:41:09,000 --> 00:41:12,000 You know, the Holy Spirit reveals the deep things. The deep things. 430 00:41:12,000 --> 00:41:17,000 These are just beyond things to do with what Christ has done for us. The deep things. 431 00:41:17,000 --> 00:41:22,000 Recently, I said, I'm no longer the pastor here. I'm the head of the church. I'm not the pastor anymore. 432 00:41:22,000 --> 00:41:24,000 He's the pastor. 433 00:41:24,000 --> 00:41:27,000 You know that was from the Holy Spirit. 434 00:41:27,000 --> 00:41:30,000 And you know why it's important? 435 00:41:30,000 --> 00:41:36,000 It's because God doesn't want me doing the things today that I was doing 20 years ago. 436 00:41:36,000 --> 00:41:44,000 But the only way to be shifted in God from your now to your next is hearing from the Holy Spirit. 437 00:41:44,000 --> 00:41:49,000 Holy Spirit. Now's the time. 438 00:41:49,000 --> 00:41:53,000 And God wants to deepen us. 439 00:41:53,000 --> 00:41:55,000 Before we go today, I want us to pray. 440 00:41:55,000 --> 00:42:01,000 When Ezekiel saw in the end times, he saw in a vision the river of God. 441 00:42:01,000 --> 00:42:05,000 That river represented the end times church. 442 00:42:05,000 --> 00:42:11,000 And it started, the river started as a trickle coming from under the temple, the place of worship. 443 00:42:11,000 --> 00:42:15,000 And it deepened the further it went into the valleys. 444 00:42:15,000 --> 00:42:18,000 And by the way, the valleys represent the broken world. 445 00:42:18,000 --> 00:42:22,000 So the more we're willing to go into the broken world, the more of the Holy Spirit we'll have. 446 00:42:22,000 --> 00:42:27,000 But the river started ankle deep. It went knee deep. It went waist deep. 447 00:42:27,000 --> 00:42:30,000 And then they were swimming in it. This is the baptism of the Spirit. 448 00:42:30,000 --> 00:42:34,000 So I want to pray today that if you are ankle deep, God's going to take your knee deep. 449 00:42:34,000 --> 00:42:40,000 If you're knee deep, God's going to make your waist deep. 450 00:42:40,000 --> 00:42:44,000 But I'm going to pray most of all that we are swimming. 451 00:42:44,000 --> 00:42:50,000 That means we don't have the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit has us. 452 00:42:50,000 --> 00:42:53,000 The Holy Spirit has us. 453 00:42:53,000 --> 00:42:55,000 It's so important in this. I can't... 454 00:42:55,000 --> 00:42:58,000 This is a series we're talking about, the Holy Spirit. 455 00:42:58,000 --> 00:43:06,000 I can't impress how much we need to hear His voice in this time. 456 00:43:06,000 --> 00:43:08,000 Let's bow our heads. 457 00:43:08,000 --> 00:43:15,000 Father God, I thank You that Your Son said, 458 00:43:15,000 --> 00:43:21,000 It's better that I go away. How could that be? 459 00:43:21,000 --> 00:43:25,000 The answer is so that what You were doing through Jesus, You could do everywhere. 460 00:43:25,000 --> 00:43:31,000 And I want to thank You. I want to thank You, Holy Spirit, that You are not restricted. 461 00:43:31,000 --> 00:43:34,000 And that You want to speak to us. 462 00:43:34,000 --> 00:43:41,000 You want to release to us the mind of Christ that brings us to maturity. 463 00:43:41,000 --> 00:43:47,000 You want us to leave the dimension of the carnal where we trust in our five senses. 464 00:43:47,000 --> 00:43:50,000 And You want us to know Your voice, Your sheep hear Your voice. 465 00:43:50,000 --> 00:43:54,000 And so Father, I'm asking You that we would begin a season in this church 466 00:43:54,000 --> 00:43:57,000 where You teach us. 467 00:43:57,000 --> 00:44:03,000 You teach us, Lord, not just from the pulpit, but You teach us in our secret place 468 00:44:03,000 --> 00:44:05,000 how to better hear from You. 469 00:44:05,000 --> 00:44:09,000 Father, You teach us the language of the Spirit, 470 00:44:09,000 --> 00:44:13,000 how You speak in impressions, dreams and visions. 471 00:44:13,000 --> 00:44:16,000 You speak to us through Your Word. 472 00:44:16,000 --> 00:44:24,000 Father, I'm asking that, Lord, You will release to us the intelligence of heaven 473 00:44:24,000 --> 00:44:30,000 for our problems, for our challenges, for the direction we need, 474 00:44:30,000 --> 00:44:32,000 for the decisions we need to make. 475 00:44:32,000 --> 00:44:37,000 Father God, I'm asking You produce in us a dependence upon the Holy Spirit as never before. 476 00:44:37,000 --> 00:44:42,000 And I thank You, Father. You are so willing to speak to us. 477 00:44:42,000 --> 00:44:45,000 And when we have rushed ahead of You, 478 00:44:45,000 --> 00:44:48,000 Father, when we have made choices on our five senses, 479 00:44:48,000 --> 00:44:50,000 we ask Your forgiveness here today. 480 00:44:50,000 --> 00:44:53,000 We ask Your forgiveness. You wash us clean. 481 00:44:53,000 --> 00:44:57,000 Thank You for it, Lord. 482 00:44:57,000 --> 00:44:59,000 Father, speak to us. 483 00:44:59,000 --> 00:45:04,000 Reveal to us what we've been freely given. 484 00:45:04,000 --> 00:45:07,000 Reveal to us who we really are in Christ. 485 00:45:07,000 --> 00:45:13,000 Reveal to us the deeper things, the season that we are in, 486 00:45:13,000 --> 00:45:16,000 whether You are changing our season. 487 00:45:16,000 --> 00:45:18,000 Reveal it to us. 488 00:45:18,000 --> 00:45:23,000 Reveal it to us, Lord, as You revealed to Paul the things to come. 489 00:45:23,000 --> 00:45:26,000 Reveal Your direction for us. 490 00:45:26,000 --> 00:45:29,000 Holy Spirit, we need to hear Your voice. 491 00:45:29,000 --> 00:45:34,000 We just say today, we want to go deeper. 492 00:45:34,000 --> 00:45:37,000 I want to go deeper. 493 00:45:37,000 --> 00:45:39,000 Holy Spirit, take me deeper. 494 00:45:39,000 --> 00:45:42,000 Take me deeper into that river. 495 00:45:42,000 --> 00:45:46,000 Anyone who is ankle deep, bring them to knee deep. 496 00:45:46,000 --> 00:45:49,000 Anyone who's knee deep, just baptize them. 497 00:45:49,000 --> 00:45:52,000 Take them completely into that river, Lord. 498 00:45:52,000 --> 00:45:55,000 And for this church, Lord, we say, 499 00:45:55,000 --> 00:45:58,000 may we not say that we have the Holy Spirit. 500 00:45:58,000 --> 00:46:01,000 May we be able to say the Holy Spirit has us. 501 00:46:01,000 --> 00:46:04,000 The Holy Spirit owns us. The Holy Spirit leads us. 502 00:46:04,000 --> 00:46:08,000 The Holy Spirit directs us, empowers us completely. 503 00:46:08,000 --> 00:46:11,000 We declare and proclaim the Holy Spirit. 504 00:46:11,000 --> 00:46:15,000 The Holy Spirit owns Elam Church. 505 00:46:15,000 --> 00:46:18,000 In the mighty name of Jesus, all the people said, 506 00:46:18,000 --> 00:46:20,000 amen, amen, amen. 507 00:46:20,000 --> 00:46:22,000 Stand up and start to praise God. 508 00:46:22,000 --> 00:46:25,000 Instead last week, worship releases the Spirit. 509 00:46:25,000 --> 00:46:29,000 You know, I just want to, it just, this is what happens. 510 00:46:29,000 --> 00:46:32,000 When we are able to hear from heaven, 511 00:46:32,000 --> 00:46:36,000 and when we are able to receive God's intelligence 512 00:46:36,000 --> 00:46:40,000 and speak what God is saying, 513 00:46:40,000 --> 00:46:44,000 you know those walls fell when Joshua spoke what heaven said. 514 00:46:44,000 --> 00:46:46,000 You know for the praise and worship team, 515 00:46:46,000 --> 00:46:49,000 there are songs you can sing. 516 00:46:49,000 --> 00:46:51,000 But you know what happens when you sing a song 517 00:46:51,000 --> 00:46:54,000 the Holy Spirit wants you to sing? 518 00:46:54,000 --> 00:46:57,000 Atmosphere changes. Lives change. 519 00:46:57,000 --> 00:47:00,000 Captives get free. 520 00:47:00,000 --> 00:47:04,000 Because the Holy Spirit knows best. 521 00:47:04,000 --> 00:47:06,000 That's what we want. 522 00:47:06,000 --> 00:47:10,000 The Holy Spirit.