1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:01,640 everyday life, right? 2 00:00:01,640 --> 00:00:08,700 But what I want us to do tonight is really look at the Holy Spirit and see how he is helping us even today, 3 00:00:08,800 --> 00:00:10,400 right at this moment even. 4 00:00:10,400 --> 00:00:17,420 And what we've covered so far is we've talked about who the Holy Spirit is and that the Holy Spirit is God and 5 00:00:17,420 --> 00:00:21,240 the Holy Spirit is fully God yet also a person. 6 00:00:21,480 --> 00:00:23,480 The Holy Spirit has personhood. 7 00:00:23,580 --> 00:00:27,740 What does that mean? It means that he has a will, he has intellect, he has emotions. 8 00:00:27,740 --> 00:00:30,320 It's not just some random being. 9 00:00:30,320 --> 00:00:35,800 We've also talked about the Holy Spirit working in the Old Testament and the New Testament and also at salvation. 10 00:00:35,800 --> 00:00:37,640 We've covered that extensively as we should. 11 00:00:37,640 --> 00:00:45,120 How the Holy Spirit and dwells us, lives inside of us when we are saved and when and seals us that we're not ever going to lose our salvation 12 00:00:45,120 --> 00:00:48,000 and then baptizes us into the family of Christ. 13 00:00:48,000 --> 00:00:53,760 And tonight I want us to see that the Holy Spirit is working in you believer this very day. 14 00:00:53,760 --> 00:00:59,040 So let's start off with the question. I want you to be honest. I want someone to tell. 15 00:00:59,040 --> 00:01:00,760 I'll tell you mine, but I want you to tell me yours. 16 00:01:00,760 --> 00:01:02,440 All right, let's go to this question. 17 00:01:02,440 --> 00:01:05,600 Have you ever had an imaginary friend? 18 00:01:05,600 --> 00:01:06,600 Okay, raise your hand. 19 00:01:06,600 --> 00:01:08,840 Okay, I got honest people. 20 00:01:08,840 --> 00:01:09,840 All right, okay. 21 00:01:09,840 --> 00:01:12,040 Anybody want to tell me their imaginary friend? 22 00:01:12,040 --> 00:01:13,540 Who is their imaginary friend? 23 00:01:13,540 --> 00:01:15,240 Mr. Eli, what's your imaginary friend? 24 00:01:15,240 --> 00:01:16,440 Who was your imaginary friend? 25 00:01:16,440 --> 00:01:18,440 Billy? Okay, I like it. 26 00:01:18,440 --> 00:01:19,440 Zeke, what about you? 27 00:01:19,440 --> 00:01:21,440 Zeke was your imaginary friend? 28 00:01:21,440 --> 00:01:22,440 Wow, that's good Zeke. 29 00:01:22,440 --> 00:01:24,440 Zeke's imaginary friend was Zeke. 30 00:01:24,440 --> 00:01:25,440 All right, I like it. 31 00:01:25,440 --> 00:01:27,440 Anyone else? Anyone else got one? 32 00:01:27,440 --> 00:01:28,440 All right, let's see. 33 00:01:28,440 --> 00:01:30,440 Abby, what you got? 34 00:01:30,440 --> 00:01:31,440 Bob? I like it. 35 00:01:31,440 --> 00:01:34,440 Bob, you were her imaginary friend. Did you know that? 36 00:01:34,440 --> 00:01:37,440 All right, my imaginary friend was... 37 00:01:37,440 --> 00:01:41,440 Okay, I was a weird kid, so this is going to be a weird story. 38 00:01:41,440 --> 00:01:44,440 All right, but my imaginary friend was... 39 00:01:44,440 --> 00:01:47,440 Go ahead, Logan, you put that slide up there. 40 00:01:47,440 --> 00:01:49,440 It was a group of animals, right? 41 00:01:49,440 --> 00:01:51,440 So here's what I did as a kid. 42 00:01:51,440 --> 00:01:53,440 Before you're like, wow, he's weird. 43 00:01:53,440 --> 00:02:00,440 When I was like two years old, my mom bought me a whole bunch of action figures, animal figures, I guess, that looked just like that. 44 00:02:00,440 --> 00:02:02,440 And I was obsessed with them. 45 00:02:02,440 --> 00:02:03,440 I play with them all the time. 46 00:02:03,440 --> 00:02:07,440 So naturally, when I had to go to school, I wanted to keep playing with them. 47 00:02:07,440 --> 00:02:10,440 So I made this whole animal zoo at my school. 48 00:02:10,440 --> 00:02:18,440 And I would play with my friends and stuff too, but I really enjoyed just playing with my zoo animals because they were less maintenance than my two-year-old friends, I guess. 49 00:02:18,440 --> 00:02:29,440 And I remember doing it, I remember there was one time I was laying in my cot at nap time, and I had a storybook, and I was reading my zoo animals the story, and it was very cute and sweet. 50 00:02:29,440 --> 00:02:31,440 Or weird, one of the two. 51 00:02:31,440 --> 00:02:40,440 But what it did is it gave me this escape from people, and I kept on to it for probably longer than I probably should have, right? 52 00:02:40,440 --> 00:02:41,440 But I really liked it. 53 00:02:41,440 --> 00:02:46,440 I had a vivid imagination, and I liked having these imaginary friends with me. 54 00:02:46,440 --> 00:02:55,440 And it's something like, you keep for a little while, but if I came to you tonight, and I was like, and I still have those imaginary friends, you'd be like, that's probably not good, Miles. 55 00:02:55,440 --> 00:02:56,440 We probably need to talk, right? 56 00:02:56,440 --> 00:03:04,440 But it's something you keep for a little while, and then you move on from it as you get older, and it's not really real, and it's just an idea, right? 57 00:03:04,440 --> 00:03:08,440 I was telling my mom, the zoo animals are on our car today, and she's like, yeah, okay, son, right? 58 00:03:08,440 --> 00:03:12,440 But it was something that eventually I moved on from. 59 00:03:12,440 --> 00:03:19,440 What I want us tonight to do is be careful not to do the same thing to the Holy Spirit, and not put it in the same category. 60 00:03:19,440 --> 00:03:22,440 And our immediate reaction as it should be is like, I would never do that. 61 00:03:22,440 --> 00:03:23,440 The Holy Spirit is God. 62 00:03:23,440 --> 00:03:25,440 He indwells me. 63 00:03:25,440 --> 00:03:30,440 But what I found in my own life, this is my personal experience, is that I don't think about him a lot. 64 00:03:30,440 --> 00:03:34,440 And what the Holy Spirit does in Scripture is it points to the Savior, right? 65 00:03:34,440 --> 00:03:38,440 But the Holy Spirit, sometimes I'm not really thankful for it. 66 00:03:38,440 --> 00:03:40,440 I think of the Holy Spirit in this different way. 67 00:03:40,440 --> 00:03:43,440 A commentator kind of wrote about the Holy Spirit like this. 68 00:03:43,440 --> 00:03:50,440 He said, the Holy Spirit, a lot of people think of the Holy Spirit as kind of like the buzz you get when you sing your favorite hymn at church. 69 00:03:50,440 --> 00:03:57,440 The doctrine of the Holy Spirit often ends up becoming an empty affirmation in a theological checklist. 70 00:03:57,440 --> 00:04:02,440 Now, if I went to each one of you and said, do you believe that the Holy Spirit is real living inside of you and is God? 71 00:04:02,440 --> 00:04:04,440 You would say yes. 72 00:04:04,440 --> 00:04:06,440 But how much do we actually think about the Holy Spirit? 73 00:04:06,440 --> 00:04:13,440 Even bigger than that, how much do we think about the Holy Spirit effect in our life even this moment? 74 00:04:13,440 --> 00:04:15,440 And I thought, why do I do this? 75 00:04:15,440 --> 00:04:21,440 And I thought about it and kind of what I want to make sure I don't do is I don't unbiblically over-emphasize the Holy Spirit. 76 00:04:21,440 --> 00:04:27,440 Because I've seen in different cultures, different ways that people misuse the Holy Spirit and they get too supernatural. 77 00:04:27,440 --> 00:04:28,440 And I don't want to do that. 78 00:04:28,440 --> 00:04:34,440 But then it results in this kind of like pneumophobia of like, I'm kind of scared to think about the Holy Spirit. 79 00:04:34,440 --> 00:04:39,440 So instead to help me feel better, I don't want to do wrong doctrine and I don't want to over-emphasize, 80 00:04:39,440 --> 00:04:43,440 but I don't want to de-emphasize and I'm working through how I'm thinking about the Holy Spirit. 81 00:04:43,440 --> 00:04:49,440 And what ends up happening is I make the Holy Spirit this emotionless entity that does something. 82 00:04:49,440 --> 00:04:54,440 Like, I know the Holy Spirit's there, but it's like, what does the Holy Spirit do? 83 00:04:54,440 --> 00:04:56,440 What does He do? 84 00:04:56,440 --> 00:05:05,440 And what we all need to recognize is that when Christ ascended, He sent the Holy Spirit for a purpose in our lives, for even today. 85 00:05:05,440 --> 00:05:11,440 And it's not just out salvation that the Holy Spirit works as we've covered, how He seals, how He dwells, how He baptizes, 86 00:05:11,440 --> 00:05:15,440 but the Holy Spirit is working in our everyday lives. 87 00:05:15,440 --> 00:05:17,440 And Jesus makes that purpose very clear. 88 00:05:17,440 --> 00:05:20,440 Look with me at John 14-16. 89 00:05:20,440 --> 00:05:28,440 Jesus says, And I will pray the Father, and He shall give you another comforter that He may abide with you forever. 90 00:05:28,440 --> 00:05:34,440 Jesus is saying that He's going to pray to the Father, and the Father's going to send this another comforter. 91 00:05:34,440 --> 00:05:37,440 That word, another, in the Greek is allon. 92 00:05:37,440 --> 00:05:38,440 Like, why does that matter? 93 00:05:38,440 --> 00:05:42,440 Why it matters is it means another of the same kind. 94 00:05:42,440 --> 00:05:49,440 It's saying that I am Christ and I am about to ascend up into heaven, but I'm seeing you someone of the same kind. 95 00:05:49,440 --> 00:05:50,440 You say, I'm still seeing you God. 96 00:05:50,440 --> 00:05:52,440 It's not some different entity. 97 00:05:52,440 --> 00:05:53,440 It's not some emotional entity. 98 00:05:53,440 --> 00:05:55,440 It's still God that's being sent to you. 99 00:05:55,440 --> 00:05:56,440 That's what He's making sure we know. 100 00:05:56,440 --> 00:06:00,440 It's still God, not some random person being sent to you. 101 00:06:00,440 --> 00:06:01,440 But it's also a comforter. 102 00:06:01,440 --> 00:06:05,440 That word, comforter, is pericolleton, and that's a packed word. 103 00:06:05,440 --> 00:06:11,440 And it means that the Holy Spirit is a comforter, is an advocate, a counselor, an intercessor. 104 00:06:11,440 --> 00:06:18,440 That word has so much meanings, but at its simplest form, what that word means is the Holy Spirit is a helper. 105 00:06:18,440 --> 00:06:24,440 The Holy Spirit is God and dwelling within us to help us. 106 00:06:24,440 --> 00:06:31,440 And the Holy Spirit is so valuable and significant, and we have to know how the Holy Spirit helps us as believers in our everyday life. 107 00:06:31,440 --> 00:06:32,440 And that's our main point for today. 108 00:06:32,440 --> 00:06:35,440 I've said it a few times because I really want us to grasp that idea. 109 00:06:35,440 --> 00:06:42,440 Every believer can be confident that the Holy Spirit is a helper in their everyday life by recognizing three actions. 110 00:06:42,440 --> 00:06:46,440 We're going to see three actions of the Holy Spirit that I want us to work through today. 111 00:06:46,440 --> 00:06:51,440 The Holy Spirit is our helper, and when we say helper, we're not saying that the Holy Spirit is lesser and a mere servant. 112 00:06:51,440 --> 00:06:52,440 It does what I say. 113 00:06:52,440 --> 00:06:54,440 I don't get to boss the Holy Spirit around. 114 00:06:54,440 --> 00:06:56,440 That's not what helper means at all. 115 00:06:56,440 --> 00:07:04,440 But it means that God loved you so much and cared for you so much that he's provided a helper for your everyday life. 116 00:07:04,440 --> 00:07:09,440 For the Sunday, for the Monday, for the Tuesday, for the Friday, every day, he's provided a helper. 117 00:07:09,440 --> 00:07:10,440 So let's see how he helps. 118 00:07:10,440 --> 00:07:14,440 Number one, we see that the Holy Spirit teaches. 119 00:07:14,440 --> 00:07:18,440 We see this in John 16, 12 through 15. 120 00:07:18,440 --> 00:07:22,440 And what we pick up is Jesus doing his farewell discourse. 121 00:07:22,440 --> 00:07:25,440 He knows his time is short, and he's teaching the disciples. 122 00:07:25,440 --> 00:07:27,440 He's saying everything they need to hear. 123 00:07:27,440 --> 00:07:37,440 And one of the things he says is the promise of the Holy Spirit, specifying what the Holy Spirit is, who the Holy Spirit is more so, and what the Holy Spirit will do. 124 00:07:37,440 --> 00:07:41,440 And we see this in John 16, starting in chapter 12. 125 00:07:41,440 --> 00:07:43,440 Let's look at it together. 126 00:07:43,440 --> 00:07:44,440 Jesus says, 127 00:08:13,440 --> 00:08:17,440 In verse 12, we see that Jesus, we've got to make sure we see the context here so we don't take it out of context. 128 00:08:17,440 --> 00:08:19,440 But we see that he is talking to his disciples. 129 00:08:19,440 --> 00:08:20,440 In verse 12, he's saying, 130 00:08:20,440 --> 00:08:26,440 I'm about to go, and I still have a lot more to say to you, but you're not ready for it. 131 00:08:26,440 --> 00:08:29,440 He's about to die and then resurrect and then ascend. 132 00:08:29,440 --> 00:08:33,440 But he says, I have so much, but disciples, you are not ready for it yet. 133 00:08:33,440 --> 00:08:34,440 I kind of thought of it this way. 134 00:08:34,440 --> 00:08:36,440 Okay, here with the next slide, Logan. 135 00:08:36,440 --> 00:08:37,440 All right. 136 00:08:37,440 --> 00:08:39,440 So we got this equation, right? 137 00:08:39,440 --> 00:08:40,440 Okay. 138 00:08:40,440 --> 00:08:42,440 Anybody can solve it? 139 00:08:42,440 --> 00:08:43,440 Anybody? 140 00:08:43,440 --> 00:08:44,440 Anybody want to volunteer? 141 00:08:44,440 --> 00:08:46,440 Man, I don't know what any of them mean. 142 00:08:46,440 --> 00:08:47,440 I don't know what a single thing means. 143 00:08:47,440 --> 00:08:48,440 I think that's pi right there. 144 00:08:48,440 --> 00:08:49,440 I think I got that. 145 00:08:49,440 --> 00:08:50,440 That's it. 146 00:08:50,440 --> 00:08:51,440 That's all I know. 147 00:08:51,440 --> 00:08:52,440 All right. 148 00:08:52,440 --> 00:08:53,440 That says eat at the top. 149 00:08:53,440 --> 00:08:54,440 I'm not sure if that's coincidental, all right. 150 00:08:54,440 --> 00:08:57,440 But we see this equation, right? 151 00:08:57,440 --> 00:08:58,440 Okay. 152 00:08:58,440 --> 00:09:04,440 You would never be able to solve this equation if you didn't first know, get this, like addition, right? 153 00:09:04,440 --> 00:09:09,440 If you didn't know addition, you're like, you needed a lot more than just addition to solve that, right? 154 00:09:09,440 --> 00:09:15,440 If you don't know the starting point, if you don't know this even simple truth, you're not going to be able to get to all these complicated truths. 155 00:09:15,440 --> 00:09:17,440 You can't even, I can't even start that. 156 00:09:17,440 --> 00:09:18,440 I don't know where to start. 157 00:09:18,440 --> 00:09:20,440 I don't even know where it begins, right? 158 00:09:20,440 --> 00:09:27,440 But what Jesus is saying here is there's so many things he has to say to them, but the disciples just can't get it yet, right? 159 00:09:27,440 --> 00:09:29,440 Because they have still so much to learn. 160 00:09:29,440 --> 00:09:33,440 They still got to go to simple addition to make sure they're, they're firm that Jesus is the Messiah, right? 161 00:09:33,440 --> 00:09:37,440 And that he's coming back again, that he's not staying dead, right? 162 00:09:37,440 --> 00:09:43,440 And that's what he's trying to get them to understand, and there's so much more, and the disciples wanted to know so much more too. 163 00:09:43,440 --> 00:09:45,440 But Jesus comforts them. 164 00:09:45,440 --> 00:09:49,440 He says, I'm not going to tell you everything right now, verse 12, but verse 13, 165 00:09:49,440 --> 00:09:56,440 when I am gone, I'll be sending you the spirit of truth, and he will guide you into all truth. 166 00:09:56,440 --> 00:09:59,440 He will provide for you the proper doctrine, the truth. 167 00:09:59,440 --> 00:10:02,440 I mean, think how confused the disciples must have been. 168 00:10:02,440 --> 00:10:09,440 Like, just through their whole ministry with Jesus, and then especially afterwards, where Jesus ascends, and they're like, well, now what? 169 00:10:09,440 --> 00:10:11,440 What's next? 170 00:10:11,440 --> 00:10:15,440 And they go back to this promise, and they see that Jesus says he's going to send a comforter. 171 00:10:15,440 --> 00:10:17,440 But what does that mean? 172 00:10:17,440 --> 00:10:27,440 He says he's sending someone to guide us into all truth, and they have to rely on this promise that Jesus will send clarity and certainty of truth from the Spirit. 173 00:10:27,440 --> 00:10:29,440 And he says, this is the truth from the Spirit. 174 00:10:29,440 --> 00:10:34,440 He continues on, and he talks about the Spirit we'll hear, and he will speak of what he hears. 175 00:10:34,440 --> 00:10:36,440 And he will show you about the future, right? 176 00:10:36,440 --> 00:10:41,440 That the disciples were able to have this special revelation that came from the Holy Spirit. 177 00:10:41,440 --> 00:10:44,440 That's how they were able to write this, the Word of God, right? 178 00:10:44,440 --> 00:10:47,440 That's how we know what happens in the future. 179 00:10:47,440 --> 00:10:49,440 That's how we have revelation, John Ryan. 180 00:10:49,440 --> 00:10:54,440 It's not just by coincidence, the Holy Spirit working, guiding John into all truth. 181 00:10:54,440 --> 00:10:56,440 And then verse 14 gives a little more specificity. 182 00:10:56,440 --> 00:10:59,440 It says it will be perfectly in line with Jesus' teaching. 183 00:10:59,440 --> 00:11:01,440 It will all be in God's will. 184 00:11:01,440 --> 00:11:04,440 It's the same track of truth pointing to God's glory. 185 00:11:04,440 --> 00:11:09,440 And then verse 15, he talks about how the whole Trinity is working here. 186 00:11:09,440 --> 00:11:12,440 He's saying that the Father gave it to him, Christ. 187 00:11:12,440 --> 00:11:15,440 Now Christ gave it to the Spirit, and now the Spirit will give truth to the disciples, 188 00:11:15,440 --> 00:11:19,440 and then that truth will also be given to us in this modern age. 189 00:11:19,440 --> 00:11:20,440 Alright, let's work through this more. 190 00:11:20,440 --> 00:11:24,440 That's going through the passage, but how does this apply to the Holy Spirit? 191 00:11:24,440 --> 00:11:27,440 First, we have to see that there's this need here. 192 00:11:27,440 --> 00:11:29,440 The Holy Spirit helps fulfill our needs. 193 00:11:29,440 --> 00:11:30,440 What is our need? 194 00:11:30,440 --> 00:11:33,440 The need here is truth and guidance. 195 00:11:33,440 --> 00:11:36,440 The disciples were about to be leaders in a world for Christianity, 196 00:11:36,440 --> 00:11:41,440 in a world confused by false doctrine, uncertainty, discord, division. 197 00:11:41,440 --> 00:11:43,440 Things weren't great there. 198 00:11:43,440 --> 00:11:45,440 And how were they supposed to do it? 199 00:11:45,440 --> 00:11:47,440 What is the right way to go? 200 00:11:47,440 --> 00:11:49,440 In some ways, it's the same for us. 201 00:11:49,440 --> 00:11:50,440 We struggle with that. 202 00:11:50,440 --> 00:11:51,440 There's false doctrine. 203 00:11:51,440 --> 00:11:53,440 How do I navigate that? 204 00:11:53,440 --> 00:11:54,440 How do I navigate uncertainty? 205 00:11:54,440 --> 00:11:57,440 I don't know what's going to happen in the future, or even tomorrow. 206 00:11:57,440 --> 00:11:59,440 How do I work through division? 207 00:11:59,440 --> 00:12:00,440 It's confusing. 208 00:12:00,440 --> 00:12:05,440 You just open up your phone and you'll see how confusing the world is. 209 00:12:05,440 --> 00:12:07,440 And there's so many opinions, right? 210 00:12:07,440 --> 00:12:09,440 And everyone, like going to social media is crazy. 211 00:12:09,440 --> 00:12:11,440 Like everyone that goes on social media and posts something, 212 00:12:11,440 --> 00:12:12,440 thanks, they're right, right? 213 00:12:12,440 --> 00:12:14,440 That's why they're posting about it. 214 00:12:14,440 --> 00:12:15,440 And not everyone can be right. 215 00:12:15,440 --> 00:12:18,440 There's so many different opinions there. 216 00:12:18,440 --> 00:12:21,440 But he says, breathe, here's the help. 217 00:12:21,440 --> 00:12:24,440 The help is what the Holy Spirit does, what He provides. 218 00:12:24,440 --> 00:12:26,440 The Holy Spirit provides truth. 219 00:12:26,440 --> 00:12:27,440 How so? 220 00:12:27,440 --> 00:12:30,440 Inspiration inspired the Word of God. 221 00:12:30,440 --> 00:12:32,440 He inspired the Word of God. 222 00:12:32,440 --> 00:12:33,440 Let me prove it to you. 223 00:12:33,440 --> 00:12:36,440 2 Peter 1 verse 21. 224 00:12:36,440 --> 00:12:37,440 It says, 225 00:12:46,440 --> 00:12:47,440 The Holy Ghost is the one working. 226 00:12:47,440 --> 00:12:50,440 God is the one working in His Word. 227 00:12:50,440 --> 00:12:52,440 This isn't just mere coincidence that this got together 228 00:12:52,440 --> 00:12:55,440 and that it's true and that it guides us every day. 229 00:12:55,440 --> 00:12:56,440 This is God's Word. 230 00:12:56,440 --> 00:12:58,440 This is the Holy Spirit. 231 00:12:58,440 --> 00:13:01,440 And as these disciples were moved by the Holy Spirit, 232 00:13:01,440 --> 00:13:03,440 they were guided in all truth. 233 00:13:03,440 --> 00:13:06,440 And that's how I know the Bible is true, right? 234 00:13:06,440 --> 00:13:07,440 I'm not relying on man-made knowledge, 235 00:13:07,440 --> 00:13:09,440 and we could go through the arguments about it 236 00:13:09,440 --> 00:13:11,440 and even how it's been translated there. 237 00:13:11,440 --> 00:13:14,440 But really, I know that it's true because my God tells me it's true 238 00:13:14,440 --> 00:13:15,440 and He wrote it. 239 00:13:15,440 --> 00:13:17,440 That's how I know it's true. 240 00:13:17,440 --> 00:13:20,440 And what also is amazing is that this book, 241 00:13:20,440 --> 00:13:22,440 Hebrews 4-12 talks about it. 242 00:13:22,440 --> 00:13:23,440 It's not dead. 243 00:13:23,440 --> 00:13:24,440 It's alive. 244 00:13:24,440 --> 00:13:25,440 It's active. 245 00:13:25,440 --> 00:13:26,440 It pierces me, right? 246 00:13:26,440 --> 00:13:28,440 It gets to the very core of who I am. 247 00:13:28,440 --> 00:13:29,440 It is alive. 248 00:13:29,440 --> 00:13:30,440 It transforms. 249 00:13:30,440 --> 00:13:33,440 It's sufficient, as Paul says. 250 00:13:33,440 --> 00:13:35,440 It's my source for truth. 251 00:13:35,440 --> 00:13:38,440 Man, you're in a confused world where no one knows what truth is anymore. 252 00:13:38,440 --> 00:13:40,440 And everyone says, this is my truth. 253 00:13:40,440 --> 00:13:41,440 This is my truth. 254 00:13:41,440 --> 00:13:43,440 Like, no, this is the truth, right? 255 00:13:43,440 --> 00:13:46,440 And we see that the Holy Spirit gave us this truth. 256 00:13:46,440 --> 00:13:49,440 May we not act like we have been given nothing. 257 00:13:49,440 --> 00:13:51,440 We have the word of God. 258 00:13:51,440 --> 00:13:54,440 And when we study it, we see how applicable it is, 259 00:13:54,440 --> 00:13:58,440 how it helps us, how it strengthens us through each day. 260 00:13:58,440 --> 00:14:01,440 And we all want truth and guidance, 261 00:14:01,440 --> 00:14:04,440 but He's given us the help there through His Word to guide us 262 00:14:04,440 --> 00:14:08,440 to make a lamp unto our feet, to help us not feel lost. 263 00:14:08,440 --> 00:14:12,440 You know, sometimes the objection I have to when a preacher says that, 264 00:14:12,440 --> 00:14:16,440 is like, yeah, Miles, I know I need to read the Bible. 265 00:14:16,440 --> 00:14:18,440 I don't always understand it, right? 266 00:14:18,440 --> 00:14:19,440 It's hard. 267 00:14:19,440 --> 00:14:21,440 And I have this desire, but how do I do it? 268 00:14:21,440 --> 00:14:24,440 Here's something I've been doing that I should have started a long time ago. 269 00:14:24,440 --> 00:14:26,440 And this is not like me pet, not at all. 270 00:14:26,440 --> 00:14:28,440 But I've done this crazy thing. 271 00:14:28,440 --> 00:14:30,440 It's kind of like, duh, Miles, right? 272 00:14:30,440 --> 00:14:35,440 It's before I do my devotions, it's like, I pray, right? 273 00:14:35,440 --> 00:14:37,440 And it changes everything, right? 274 00:14:37,440 --> 00:14:39,440 Like, it's crazy, right? 275 00:14:39,440 --> 00:14:43,440 I'm like, Lord, I'm going into our devotions for D group have been Hebrews. 276 00:14:43,440 --> 00:14:46,440 And every time I'm like, Lord, I'm going into Hebrews, all right? 277 00:14:46,440 --> 00:14:48,440 And I don't understand everything about Hebrews. 278 00:14:48,440 --> 00:14:52,440 I understand a lot more after Pastor Ben Sirius prays Lord for it, right? 279 00:14:52,440 --> 00:14:54,440 But I don't understand everything about Hebrews. 280 00:14:54,440 --> 00:14:55,440 You know what the Holy Spirit does? 281 00:14:55,440 --> 00:14:57,440 It helps me, it guides me. 282 00:14:57,440 --> 00:14:59,440 It says it opens up His Word to me. 283 00:14:59,440 --> 00:15:01,440 It's a game changer. 284 00:15:01,440 --> 00:15:03,440 Because I see that I'm not just reading it by myself. 285 00:15:03,440 --> 00:15:04,440 I have the Lord with me, help me. 286 00:15:04,440 --> 00:15:06,440 How does the Holy Spirit help you? 287 00:15:06,440 --> 00:15:08,440 He gives you truth and helps you understand it. 288 00:15:08,440 --> 00:15:10,440 That's amazing to me. 289 00:15:10,440 --> 00:15:13,440 So that's the first help, His guidance in leading through the Word. 290 00:15:13,440 --> 00:15:15,440 That's pretty applicable, right? 291 00:15:15,440 --> 00:15:16,440 We need truth. 292 00:15:16,440 --> 00:15:18,440 He's given us the truth, right? 293 00:15:18,440 --> 00:15:20,440 All right, let's go to number two, all right? 294 00:15:20,440 --> 00:15:22,440 We see what He does in Scripture. 295 00:15:22,440 --> 00:15:25,440 Now, we also see that the Holy Spirit prays. 296 00:15:25,440 --> 00:15:28,440 That's not something we necessarily think about. 297 00:15:28,440 --> 00:15:30,440 It's more so me praying to God, right? 298 00:15:30,440 --> 00:15:34,440 But you see in Holy Spirit, who is God, it is praying and praying to the Father. 299 00:15:34,440 --> 00:15:36,440 And this isn't just me saying it. 300 00:15:36,440 --> 00:15:40,440 We see it in Romans 8, verse 26-27. 301 00:15:40,440 --> 00:15:43,440 Likewise, the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities, 302 00:15:43,440 --> 00:15:46,440 for we know not what we should pray for as we ought. 303 00:15:46,440 --> 00:15:49,440 But the Spirit itself makes its intercession for us 304 00:15:49,440 --> 00:15:51,440 with groanings which cannot be uttered. 305 00:15:51,440 --> 00:15:56,440 And this verse, if understood properly, transforms your prayer life. 306 00:15:56,440 --> 00:15:58,440 Let's focus on the need here. Let's look at it. 307 00:15:58,440 --> 00:16:01,440 So we see in verse 26, it starts and it tells us our need. 308 00:16:01,440 --> 00:16:04,440 It says, likewise, the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities. 309 00:16:04,440 --> 00:16:07,440 Our need here is strength and weakness. 310 00:16:07,440 --> 00:16:09,440 That we have this infirmity. 311 00:16:09,440 --> 00:16:11,440 That what infirmity is saying, weakness. There's this shortcoming. 312 00:16:11,440 --> 00:16:13,440 We aren't all powerful. 313 00:16:13,440 --> 00:16:15,440 We aren't all perfect. 314 00:16:15,440 --> 00:16:17,440 We aren't all knowing. 315 00:16:17,440 --> 00:16:19,440 We have real weaknesses, real hardships 316 00:16:19,440 --> 00:16:21,440 that we don't know how to get through 317 00:16:21,440 --> 00:16:24,440 and we don't even necessarily know how to ask for help for. 318 00:16:24,440 --> 00:16:27,440 Like, we know the struggle's there, but how do I even ask for help 319 00:16:27,440 --> 00:16:30,440 to even start tackling that problem in my life? 320 00:16:30,440 --> 00:16:32,440 And things get hard. 321 00:16:32,440 --> 00:16:35,440 And there's a reason I've noticed is that the older you get, 322 00:16:35,440 --> 00:16:37,440 the more ready you are to go to heaven, right? 323 00:16:37,440 --> 00:16:39,440 Because you're realizing, like, I'm just ready to be with my Savior. 324 00:16:39,440 --> 00:16:42,440 And, like, I'm 24 and I'm like, Lord, come back. 325 00:16:42,440 --> 00:16:45,440 Like, there's... And I know life does get harder, 326 00:16:45,440 --> 00:16:49,440 but we see that He doesn't leave us alone through those problems. 327 00:16:49,440 --> 00:16:53,440 And what we see is that, likewise, the Spirit helpeth our infirmities. 328 00:16:53,440 --> 00:16:56,440 He says, I know you're weak. Like, no one's arguing that, right? 329 00:16:56,440 --> 00:16:59,440 He knows we're weak, but He doesn't leave us there. 330 00:16:59,440 --> 00:17:02,440 He loves us. I mean, there is real pain and real weakness 331 00:17:02,440 --> 00:17:05,440 and real hurt, even, like, tonight. 332 00:17:05,440 --> 00:17:08,440 And we need strength. And Paul gets even more specific. 333 00:17:08,440 --> 00:17:11,440 He talks about even specifically weakness we have. 334 00:17:11,440 --> 00:17:15,440 He says, for we know not what we should pray for as we ought. 335 00:17:15,440 --> 00:17:17,440 I don't know if you've ever been there and you're like, 336 00:17:17,440 --> 00:17:19,440 I don't know how to pray about this. 337 00:17:19,440 --> 00:17:21,440 Someone gives you a really hard prayer request. 338 00:17:21,440 --> 00:17:23,440 They're going through cancer. They're suffering. 339 00:17:23,440 --> 00:17:25,440 Someone just passed away. Something really bad happens. 340 00:17:25,440 --> 00:17:30,440 Like, how do I even go about coming before the throne? 341 00:17:30,440 --> 00:17:34,440 Or even this idea of praying in public, right? 342 00:17:34,440 --> 00:17:37,440 And the nervousness that can sometimes come with that, right? 343 00:17:37,440 --> 00:17:39,440 We get that, youth group, right? When Miles stares at you and says, 344 00:17:39,440 --> 00:17:41,440 you're praying, right? And there's like, I'm praying. 345 00:17:41,440 --> 00:17:45,440 And then you have to think of words to say, and there's this nervousness, right? 346 00:17:45,440 --> 00:17:51,440 And then even like, in how we practice our prayer, 347 00:17:51,440 --> 00:17:53,440 how we give prayer requests, 348 00:17:53,440 --> 00:17:55,440 how we don't even know where to start in our prayer. 349 00:17:55,440 --> 00:17:58,440 We don't even know what the content of our prayer should be. 350 00:17:58,440 --> 00:18:01,440 We kind of beat around the bush and say the same five things every time we pray. 351 00:18:01,440 --> 00:18:04,440 But how do we get deep into our prayer life? 352 00:18:04,440 --> 00:18:07,440 How do we say things? How do I actually talk to him? 353 00:18:07,440 --> 00:18:09,440 And it's this question of how do I pray? 354 00:18:09,440 --> 00:18:13,440 And then if I am praying, am I doing it right? 355 00:18:13,440 --> 00:18:16,440 And there's this profound mystery. Prayer really is. 356 00:18:16,440 --> 00:18:18,440 Because like, think about it. 357 00:18:18,440 --> 00:18:20,440 We've been in Christian circles for a long time, 358 00:18:20,440 --> 00:18:24,440 but think about prayer and think about how kind of amazing it is, right? 359 00:18:24,440 --> 00:18:27,440 Is that we are by ourselves, right? 360 00:18:27,440 --> 00:18:29,440 And in this realm, right? Physically, right? 361 00:18:29,440 --> 00:18:33,440 And we're alone and the prayer we send up gets to heaven. 362 00:18:33,440 --> 00:18:35,440 Like, that's crazy to me. 363 00:18:35,440 --> 00:18:39,440 That what I'm saying when I say, Lord, help me, he gets it, right? 364 00:18:39,440 --> 00:18:41,440 Because what's happening in prayer is like, 365 00:18:41,440 --> 00:18:44,440 think about what's really happening in prayer. 366 00:18:44,440 --> 00:18:47,440 Is that when you pray, you come before the throne room of the Father. 367 00:18:47,440 --> 00:18:50,440 Okay, Hebrews 4.16, you come before God's throne. 368 00:18:50,440 --> 00:18:52,440 And then Hebrews 7.25 says, 369 00:18:52,440 --> 00:18:55,440 on one hand you have Christ interceding for you, right? 370 00:18:55,440 --> 00:18:58,440 That's what his work is now. That's in Hebrews. We see that. 371 00:18:58,440 --> 00:19:01,440 And then also we see that the Holy Spirit's interceding for us. 372 00:19:01,440 --> 00:19:03,440 That's the verse we just read. 373 00:19:03,440 --> 00:19:06,440 Says, but the Spirit itself make its intercession for us. 374 00:19:06,440 --> 00:19:09,440 Prayer is a beautiful thing because the whole trinity is working. 375 00:19:09,440 --> 00:19:11,440 And the crazy thing is that the whole trinity is working 376 00:19:11,440 --> 00:19:15,440 and caring about my prayer request. 377 00:19:15,440 --> 00:19:19,440 That's amazing that the God of the universe 378 00:19:19,440 --> 00:19:21,440 cares about what I'm saying 379 00:19:21,440 --> 00:19:26,440 and cares deeply about who I am and what's going on in my life. 380 00:19:26,440 --> 00:19:29,440 And what we see how the Holy Spirit helps, 381 00:19:29,440 --> 00:19:34,440 to be very specific, is he intercedes on our behalf. 382 00:19:34,440 --> 00:19:36,440 The Holy Spirit intercedes. 383 00:19:36,440 --> 00:19:40,440 He literally comes between us and the Father and he pleads our cause. 384 00:19:40,440 --> 00:19:42,440 That's what it means by intercede. 385 00:19:42,440 --> 00:19:47,440 And he tells the Father exactly what we need and what we mean. 386 00:19:47,440 --> 00:19:51,440 And that's a very doctrine we don't think about a lot. 387 00:19:51,440 --> 00:19:54,440 But it's crazy to me that when I pray, 388 00:19:54,440 --> 00:19:57,440 the Holy Spirit's interceding and it goes perfectly to the Father 389 00:19:57,440 --> 00:19:59,440 that he is praying on my behalf. 390 00:19:59,440 --> 00:20:03,440 What an intercession does is say I have Sophie over here, right? 391 00:20:03,440 --> 00:20:05,440 And then she, this illustration falls apart, but we'll try it. 392 00:20:05,440 --> 00:20:09,440 We have Sophie over here and she's yelling a message all the way to Alan, right? 393 00:20:09,440 --> 00:20:12,440 And they can't hear each other because she's like whispering. 394 00:20:12,440 --> 00:20:14,440 Probably in this building you probably could, right? 395 00:20:14,440 --> 00:20:18,440 But if she's yelling this all the way over there and Alan can't hear it, 396 00:20:18,440 --> 00:20:21,440 he sees Sophie's mouth moving, right? 397 00:20:21,440 --> 00:20:26,440 What Alan needs is he needs this intercessor to come in and deliver that message. 398 00:20:26,440 --> 00:20:28,440 It's someone that comes in between. 399 00:20:28,440 --> 00:20:31,440 And what we see how the Holy Spirit does is he comes in between you. 400 00:20:31,440 --> 00:20:35,440 When you are on your knees praying, he comes in between and he talks to the Father 401 00:20:35,440 --> 00:20:38,440 and he intercedes on our behalf. 402 00:20:38,440 --> 00:20:40,440 There's this twofold work that he's doing. 403 00:20:40,440 --> 00:20:45,440 He's communicating with the Father and he's helping us pray. 404 00:20:45,440 --> 00:20:49,440 I don't know if you've ever felt that, but the Holy Spirit helps us pray. 405 00:20:49,440 --> 00:20:54,440 Even in some ways, I believe, because I've experienced it and there's no other way, right? 406 00:20:54,440 --> 00:21:00,440 And Scripture testified to it more so, is that when you come up and you're called on to pray, 407 00:21:00,440 --> 00:21:03,440 I get so nervous, like every time, right? 408 00:21:03,440 --> 00:21:05,440 And then I'll start praying. 409 00:21:05,440 --> 00:21:09,440 And sometimes I'm coming up the stairs and I'm like, Lord, I got to pray. 410 00:21:09,440 --> 00:21:11,440 I got to say words. I got to say something, right? 411 00:21:11,440 --> 00:21:14,440 I can't just stand there in awkward silence, right? 412 00:21:14,440 --> 00:21:16,440 I'm like, Lord, what do I even say? 413 00:21:16,440 --> 00:21:19,440 And then I start talking, right? 414 00:21:19,440 --> 00:21:21,440 And I don't mean to get super mystical or supernatural, 415 00:21:21,440 --> 00:21:25,440 but if you have ever preached in a public setting or prayed in a public setting 416 00:21:25,440 --> 00:21:30,440 and you realize that the Holy Spirit's helping you and giving you words and guiding you and strengthening you, 417 00:21:30,440 --> 00:21:31,440 that's what the Holy Spirit does. 418 00:21:31,440 --> 00:21:34,440 Every time we come up here to preach, man, it's the worst thing ever. 419 00:21:34,440 --> 00:21:38,440 If I'm just the one preaching up here, if it's just me and my power, right? 420 00:21:38,440 --> 00:21:41,440 The Holy Spirit comes and helps. That's how involved the Holy Spirit is. 421 00:21:41,440 --> 00:21:44,440 That's how involved He is in everything we do. 422 00:21:44,440 --> 00:21:46,440 He's not just some emotionless entity. 423 00:21:46,440 --> 00:21:50,440 He cares about you. Why would He be distant when you're called up to pray? 424 00:21:50,440 --> 00:21:53,440 When you're in your closet by yourself praying, why would He be gone? 425 00:21:53,440 --> 00:21:55,440 He cares about you. 426 00:21:55,440 --> 00:21:58,440 The Holy Spirit is involved. God is involved. 427 00:21:58,440 --> 00:22:02,440 And what we see is we continue on with groanings which cannot be uttered. 428 00:22:02,440 --> 00:22:07,440 And what that doesn't mean is that the Holy Spirit's making some random noises or differing tongues. 429 00:22:07,440 --> 00:22:11,440 What it means is there's this deep compassion. 430 00:22:11,440 --> 00:22:14,440 The Holy Spirit cares about what He's praying about. 431 00:22:14,440 --> 00:22:19,440 The Holy Spirit compassionately cares about you. 432 00:22:19,440 --> 00:22:21,440 He compassionately cares about what you're going through. 433 00:22:21,440 --> 00:22:23,440 That's what that means. 434 00:22:23,440 --> 00:22:26,440 That He's groaning. That He knows what you're struggling for. 435 00:22:26,440 --> 00:22:31,440 And what's crazy to me is that He cares as much about the stubbed toe of a three-year-old to the arthritis of an eight-year-old. 436 00:22:31,440 --> 00:22:34,440 He cares about someone whose car was broken down. 437 00:22:34,440 --> 00:22:37,440 And He cares about someone whose family member just passed away. 438 00:22:37,440 --> 00:22:40,440 And they're praying and He cares because He pleads our case. 439 00:22:40,440 --> 00:22:43,440 He intercedes on our behalf. He cares about our case. 440 00:22:43,440 --> 00:22:48,440 And what we see in verse 27 is adds to the comfort of it. 441 00:22:48,440 --> 00:22:49,440 It says, 442 00:22:49,440 --> 00:22:53,440 And He that searcheth the hearts knoweth what is the mind of the Spirit 443 00:22:53,440 --> 00:22:57,440 because He makes intercession for the saints according to the will of God. 444 00:22:57,440 --> 00:23:03,440 What that means is the Father perfectly knows and understands the Holy Spirit in His requests. 445 00:23:03,440 --> 00:23:08,440 And what the Spirit does on our behalf is perfectly aligned with God's will. 446 00:23:08,440 --> 00:23:11,440 When the Holy Spirit prays, when the Holy Spirit intercedes, 447 00:23:11,440 --> 00:23:15,440 it's perfectly aligned with the Father's will. 448 00:23:15,440 --> 00:23:18,440 You know, you've been here because you're human. 449 00:23:18,440 --> 00:23:22,440 It's that you say, Lord, I'm here and I'm struggling. 450 00:23:22,440 --> 00:23:27,440 I don't know what to say, but I need help. 451 00:23:27,440 --> 00:23:31,440 And what happens there is that He does. 452 00:23:31,440 --> 00:23:34,440 The Holy Spirit pleads our case for help perfectly to the Father, 453 00:23:34,440 --> 00:23:37,440 and the Father listens and helps us. 454 00:23:37,440 --> 00:23:39,440 What an amazing privilege. 455 00:23:39,440 --> 00:23:44,440 Like, we as Christians can get so nervous about everything we do. 456 00:23:44,440 --> 00:23:46,440 And we want to make sure we're doing it perfectly 457 00:23:46,440 --> 00:23:49,440 and we want to make sure we're doing it right and we don't want to fail. 458 00:23:49,440 --> 00:23:53,440 When the Holy Spirit is involved, there isn't a failed prayer. 459 00:23:53,440 --> 00:23:54,440 He works. 460 00:23:54,440 --> 00:23:55,440 He guides. 461 00:23:55,440 --> 00:23:56,440 He prays. 462 00:23:56,440 --> 00:23:59,440 And what's interesting to me is the two biggest things that help you grow, 463 00:23:59,440 --> 00:24:01,440 the Holy Spirit's involved in. 464 00:24:01,440 --> 00:24:03,440 He's involved in Scripture. 465 00:24:03,440 --> 00:24:06,440 He's involved in your prayer life. 466 00:24:06,440 --> 00:24:08,440 The Holy Spirit's involved in your life. 467 00:24:08,440 --> 00:24:11,440 He helps you to grow. 468 00:24:11,440 --> 00:24:13,440 And then, let's zoom out a little bit. 469 00:24:13,440 --> 00:24:15,440 We've gotten very specific, but the Holy Spirit also, 470 00:24:15,440 --> 00:24:18,440 and finally, the Holy Spirit sanctifies. 471 00:24:18,440 --> 00:24:21,440 The Holy Spirit sanctifies. 472 00:24:21,440 --> 00:24:23,440 Now, let's make sure we know what this word sanctification means 473 00:24:23,440 --> 00:24:25,440 before we dive into it, okay? 474 00:24:25,440 --> 00:24:28,440 I'm going to throw a decent amount of theology here, but it's good. 475 00:24:28,440 --> 00:24:32,440 More so, soteriology, the idea of the doctrine of salvation. 476 00:24:32,440 --> 00:24:36,440 But the word sanctified, the most simple definition for it is, 477 00:24:36,440 --> 00:24:38,440 you've been set apart for holiness. 478 00:24:38,440 --> 00:24:41,440 You've been taken from something and been placed to something better. 479 00:24:41,440 --> 00:24:44,440 And what we see is there's three different types of sanctification. 480 00:24:44,440 --> 00:24:46,440 They all work together. 481 00:24:46,440 --> 00:24:49,440 There's first this positional sanctification. 482 00:24:49,440 --> 00:24:51,440 It's the moment when you believed on Christ, 483 00:24:51,440 --> 00:24:55,440 you were immediately, that moment, justified and declare righteous. 484 00:24:55,440 --> 00:24:58,440 But I believe in you have forever been united with Christ forever. 485 00:24:58,440 --> 00:25:03,440 That goes back to Pastor Corey's great message on baptism in the Spirit. 486 00:25:03,440 --> 00:25:06,440 And that we're sealed and we never lose our salvation, right? 487 00:25:06,440 --> 00:25:10,440 There's this positional sanctification 488 00:25:10,440 --> 00:25:12,440 that no matter what I am saved, 489 00:25:12,440 --> 00:25:16,440 and when God sees me, he sees someone who was innocent rather than guilty. 490 00:25:16,440 --> 00:25:18,440 That's the first sanctification, okay? 491 00:25:18,440 --> 00:25:20,440 That's very important because it means that no matter what, 492 00:25:20,440 --> 00:25:22,440 we're not losing our salvation, right? 493 00:25:22,440 --> 00:25:26,440 No matter what, God sees us and declares us righteous because of what Christ has done. 494 00:25:26,440 --> 00:25:27,440 We've got to get that. 495 00:25:27,440 --> 00:25:29,440 Positional sanctification, beautiful, right? 496 00:25:29,440 --> 00:25:35,440 So we have positional, but we realize, as we've all been here, right? 497 00:25:35,440 --> 00:25:38,440 Even today, that we still struggle with sin. 498 00:25:38,440 --> 00:25:42,440 I've been saved, if I die right now, I know I am going to heaven. 499 00:25:42,440 --> 00:25:43,440 Praise the Lord. 500 00:25:43,440 --> 00:25:46,440 But I still sin and mess up. 501 00:25:46,440 --> 00:25:48,440 And that's where this need comes in. 502 00:25:48,440 --> 00:25:53,440 Our need here is resisting the desires of the flesh. 503 00:25:53,440 --> 00:25:56,440 And we see this in Galatians chapter 5 verse 17. 504 00:25:56,440 --> 00:25:57,440 It talks about it. 505 00:25:57,440 --> 00:25:58,440 It says, 506 00:25:58,440 --> 00:26:00,440 For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit. 507 00:26:00,440 --> 00:26:01,440 They're against each other. 508 00:26:01,440 --> 00:26:03,440 And the Spirit against the flesh. 509 00:26:03,440 --> 00:26:05,440 And these are contrary of the one to the other. 510 00:26:05,440 --> 00:26:08,440 So that you cannot do the things that you would. 511 00:26:08,440 --> 00:26:10,440 They don't work together, right? 512 00:26:10,440 --> 00:26:12,440 There's either the Spirit or the flesh. 513 00:26:12,440 --> 00:26:13,440 You can't have both. 514 00:26:13,440 --> 00:26:15,440 There's this constant battle. 515 00:26:15,440 --> 00:26:20,440 And sometimes it can feel like I'm failing and like I keep giving in to the flesh. 516 00:26:20,440 --> 00:26:23,440 And my need is I want to resist, but I feel like I'm not. 517 00:26:23,440 --> 00:26:25,440 And I'm never losing my salvation. 518 00:26:25,440 --> 00:26:26,440 Praise the Lord. 519 00:26:26,440 --> 00:26:27,440 But man, I can feel with them. 520 00:26:27,440 --> 00:26:28,440 And Paul talks about this. 521 00:26:28,440 --> 00:26:33,440 I feel with them that I still want to sin, but it's weird because I don't want to sin. 522 00:26:33,440 --> 00:26:38,440 But yet I keep sinning and my flesh wants me to sin, but I want to glorify God. 523 00:26:38,440 --> 00:26:40,440 And there's this battle in between, right? 524 00:26:40,440 --> 00:26:45,440 You should feel that tension as a Christian of I want to do what the Lord says, but I keep messing up. 525 00:26:45,440 --> 00:26:47,440 And I'm not perfect. 526 00:26:47,440 --> 00:26:48,440 And there's that battle. 527 00:26:48,440 --> 00:26:52,440 Now the encouraging thing is that he doesn't leave us in that battle alone. 528 00:26:52,440 --> 00:26:55,440 Encouraging thing is, is that we have help. 529 00:26:55,440 --> 00:26:56,440 Okay. 530 00:26:56,440 --> 00:26:57,440 Look what the Holy Spirit does. 531 00:26:57,440 --> 00:27:05,440 He transforms us, transforms believers specifically into Christlikeness. 532 00:27:05,440 --> 00:27:06,440 He transforms us. 533 00:27:06,440 --> 00:27:07,440 All right. 534 00:27:07,440 --> 00:27:09,440 Let me see if I can help illustrate this with a story. 535 00:27:09,440 --> 00:27:10,440 Okay. 536 00:27:10,440 --> 00:27:12,440 It's very random, but that's kind of how my mind works. 537 00:27:12,440 --> 00:27:13,440 All right. 538 00:27:13,440 --> 00:27:14,440 Go ahead Logan, you hear me with that next slide. 539 00:27:14,440 --> 00:27:15,440 All right. 540 00:27:15,440 --> 00:27:16,440 So this is a road. 541 00:27:16,440 --> 00:27:17,440 All right. 542 00:27:17,440 --> 00:27:18,440 This isn't the exact road I'm going to be talking about. 543 00:27:18,440 --> 00:27:24,440 But as a kid, I, there was this place that we called, it was, it was a lot like this. 544 00:27:24,440 --> 00:27:26,440 Like this is very scary looking. 545 00:27:26,440 --> 00:27:28,440 But the road I'm talking about is a lot like this. 546 00:27:28,440 --> 00:27:33,440 It was a road my mom and her friends used to go on because they lived in Fayetteville, 547 00:27:33,440 --> 00:27:38,440 North Carolina there for a very, very long time as to back in their kids and they would 548 00:27:38,440 --> 00:27:41,440 go around and they would go on their bikes and they'd go up and down the neighborhood. 549 00:27:41,440 --> 00:27:45,440 But they had this one spot that they would call, it was a lot like this and they would 550 00:27:45,440 --> 00:27:48,440 call it, not the nicest name, but they would call it bloody murder. 551 00:27:48,440 --> 00:27:49,440 Right. 552 00:27:49,440 --> 00:27:51,440 And that was like where you don't go because that's the bloody murder stream. 553 00:27:51,440 --> 00:27:53,440 You don't go down there because it's really scary. 554 00:27:53,440 --> 00:27:54,440 Right. 555 00:27:54,440 --> 00:27:58,440 And my mom would tell me about this when I was a kid, we would drive down. 556 00:27:58,440 --> 00:28:00,440 She's so used to drive our bikes down there. 557 00:28:00,440 --> 00:28:01,440 We'd call it bloody murder. 558 00:28:01,440 --> 00:28:04,440 And as a kid, I was like, I got to go down bloody murder. 559 00:28:04,440 --> 00:28:05,440 Right. 560 00:28:05,440 --> 00:28:06,440 I got to do it. 561 00:28:06,440 --> 00:28:07,440 Like I got it. 562 00:28:07,440 --> 00:28:08,440 My mom did it. 563 00:28:08,440 --> 00:28:09,440 I can do it. 564 00:28:09,440 --> 00:28:10,440 Right. 565 00:28:10,440 --> 00:28:11,440 I got to do it. 566 00:28:11,440 --> 00:28:13,440 And I remember that I was, I was, it was supposed to be super dangerous. 567 00:28:13,440 --> 00:28:15,440 Like it was a, it was a hill that shot right down. 568 00:28:15,440 --> 00:28:18,440 There was all these little potholes and there was always a stick. 569 00:28:18,440 --> 00:28:21,440 And as a young kid, I always wanted to go down it. 570 00:28:21,440 --> 00:28:26,440 And my mom, cause she's an awesome mom was like, no, you're not going down the hill. 571 00:28:26,440 --> 00:28:27,440 Right. 572 00:28:27,440 --> 00:28:31,440 But then one day finally I was old enough and I got a new bike and I was ready. 573 00:28:31,440 --> 00:28:35,440 And I said, first thing my mom gave the bike, it's like, can I go, can I go down bloody murder? 574 00:28:35,440 --> 00:28:36,440 Right. 575 00:28:36,440 --> 00:28:37,440 Which is a weird thing to say to your mom. 576 00:28:37,440 --> 00:28:39,440 But like, I'm like, can I, can I go down this really scary street? 577 00:28:39,440 --> 00:28:42,440 And she said, yeah, yeah, she did. 578 00:28:42,440 --> 00:28:46,440 And I went up to the top of it and I was absolutely terrified. 579 00:28:46,440 --> 00:28:50,440 I was looking down at it and I don't, I don't think I can do this. 580 00:28:50,440 --> 00:28:56,440 Cause what I was seeing is like, I'm going to shoot down there and like, there's not like a nice little stop at the end of it. 581 00:28:56,440 --> 00:28:57,440 It's like, I'm going in the tree. 582 00:28:57,440 --> 00:29:00,440 Like there's a little curve and there's like this little daycare there. 583 00:29:00,440 --> 00:29:03,440 And I was like, I'm going to go flying up and just like landing their place slide in the daycare. 584 00:29:03,440 --> 00:29:05,440 Like this isn't going to go well. 585 00:29:05,440 --> 00:29:06,440 And I was terrified. 586 00:29:06,440 --> 00:29:07,440 So I chickened out. 587 00:29:07,440 --> 00:29:08,440 I was a win. 588 00:29:08,440 --> 00:29:09,440 All right. 589 00:29:09,440 --> 00:29:12,440 But then one day I, I'm my friend came, my best friend, Jack. 590 00:29:12,440 --> 00:29:14,440 And he's like, I told him about bloody murder. 591 00:29:14,440 --> 00:29:17,440 I was like, yeah, we have this, we have this hill and we call it bloody murder. 592 00:29:17,440 --> 00:29:21,440 And of course it's like elementary school boys were like, bloody murder. 593 00:29:21,440 --> 00:29:22,440 We got to go down it. 594 00:29:22,440 --> 00:29:23,440 Right. 595 00:29:23,440 --> 00:29:24,440 So then he talked me into it again. 596 00:29:24,440 --> 00:29:28,440 So we went up to the top of the hill and I was still scared because it was steep. 597 00:29:28,440 --> 00:29:30,440 I didn't know how to use my brakes very well. 598 00:29:30,440 --> 00:29:34,440 What if a car just popped out around the curve and just like hit us? 599 00:29:34,440 --> 00:29:35,440 Right. 600 00:29:35,440 --> 00:29:37,440 What about the holes, the branches that were there? 601 00:29:37,440 --> 00:29:40,440 What about the neighbor's rabbit dog that came out from time to time? 602 00:29:40,440 --> 00:29:41,440 Would that come and chase us? 603 00:29:41,440 --> 00:29:43,440 Are we going to make it? 604 00:29:43,440 --> 00:29:46,440 But I remember I had a friend with me and he didn't like, 605 00:29:46,440 --> 00:29:48,440 push me to go down it. 606 00:29:48,440 --> 00:29:49,440 Right. 607 00:29:49,440 --> 00:29:51,440 He was in a jerk and like, oh, there you go, Miles. 608 00:29:51,440 --> 00:29:52,440 You did it. 609 00:29:52,440 --> 00:29:53,440 Right. 610 00:29:53,440 --> 00:29:55,440 But he went alongside me and actually went right, right before me and I followed right 611 00:29:55,440 --> 00:29:56,440 along from him. 612 00:29:56,440 --> 00:29:59,440 And what he would do is, because he's a great friend, is that he would tell me where the 613 00:29:59,440 --> 00:30:00,440 holes were. 614 00:30:00,440 --> 00:30:02,440 He would, he would help me avoid the branches. 615 00:30:02,440 --> 00:30:05,440 He would tell me when I needed to use my brakes to make sure I wasn't like dying. 616 00:30:05,440 --> 00:30:06,440 Right. 617 00:30:06,440 --> 00:30:09,440 And we, it seemed like forever, but it was so much fun. 618 00:30:09,440 --> 00:30:12,440 We're going down and he's showing me how to make sure I avoid everything, how I do it 619 00:30:12,440 --> 00:30:13,440 safely. 620 00:30:13,440 --> 00:30:17,440 And we reached the very end and we're hitting our brakes and we turn and we do this nice 621 00:30:17,440 --> 00:30:18,440 little drift. 622 00:30:18,440 --> 00:30:19,440 That was really cool. 623 00:30:19,440 --> 00:30:21,440 This is how I imagine it in like my, my six year old mind. 624 00:30:21,440 --> 00:30:22,440 So that's probably not very accurate. 625 00:30:22,440 --> 00:30:23,440 Right. 626 00:30:23,440 --> 00:30:25,440 But we made it to the finish line. 627 00:30:25,440 --> 00:30:27,440 We got to the end of the street and we were alive. 628 00:30:27,440 --> 00:30:32,440 And I was so thankful that I didn't have to go down this road alone. 629 00:30:32,440 --> 00:30:34,440 I didn't have to do it alone. 630 00:30:34,440 --> 00:30:35,440 Right. 631 00:30:35,440 --> 00:30:36,440 And I was so scared of all the twists and turns. 632 00:30:36,440 --> 00:30:39,440 I was like, how in the world am I supposed to make it out of there? 633 00:30:39,440 --> 00:30:42,440 And that's the idea we're talking about here. 634 00:30:42,440 --> 00:30:46,440 And the idea is that we have this positional sanctification we've been saved, but now we've 635 00:30:46,440 --> 00:30:50,440 been moved to what's called progressive sanctification, that we have this, this new identity, this 636 00:30:50,440 --> 00:30:51,440 new walk with Christ. 637 00:30:51,440 --> 00:30:57,440 But then this walk starts and I'm walking down this road and I'm realizing this road is really 638 00:30:57,440 --> 00:30:58,440 hard. 639 00:30:58,440 --> 00:31:01,440 There's sin seemed like there's a trap at every corner. 640 00:31:01,440 --> 00:31:04,440 It seems like there's, there's people saying one thing, but I don't know if they really 641 00:31:04,440 --> 00:31:06,440 believe Christ since how do I remain faithful? 642 00:31:06,440 --> 00:31:09,440 How do I not go off track? 643 00:31:09,440 --> 00:31:12,440 How do I become less like the world and more like Christ? 644 00:31:12,440 --> 00:31:18,440 And what we see here, my illustration is, is guiding us to is that there's a helper there. 645 00:31:18,440 --> 00:31:20,440 You've been positionally sanctified. 646 00:31:20,440 --> 00:31:22,440 Now you're being progressively sanctified. 647 00:31:22,440 --> 00:31:27,440 And the praises is that what that means is he's setting you apart to be holy and you 648 00:31:27,440 --> 00:31:29,440 don't have to do it by yourself. 649 00:31:29,440 --> 00:31:30,440 The Holy Spirit is your helper. 650 00:31:30,440 --> 00:31:32,440 The Holy Spirit is sanctifying you. 651 00:31:32,440 --> 00:31:34,440 The Holy Spirit is the one setting you apart for holiness. 652 00:31:34,440 --> 00:31:39,440 The Holy Spirit is the one invested in your life that's so encouraging because you could 653 00:31:39,440 --> 00:31:44,440 give me stories of your life, whether you're a teenager, whether you're, you're 80 years 654 00:31:44,440 --> 00:31:47,440 old, you can tell me stories of your life and you're saying, this is where I went off track. 655 00:31:47,440 --> 00:31:49,440 This is how God brought me back. 656 00:31:49,440 --> 00:31:51,440 This is how God helped me avoid going off track. 657 00:31:51,440 --> 00:31:54,440 There was the pothole here, but he guided me away from it. 658 00:31:54,440 --> 00:31:55,440 He's helped me. 659 00:31:55,440 --> 00:31:56,440 He's grown me. 660 00:31:56,440 --> 00:32:02,440 And what I'm seeing is that I'm not even close to being perfect, but I see that he's growing 661 00:32:02,440 --> 00:32:03,440 me. 662 00:32:03,440 --> 00:32:04,440 He's helping me. 663 00:32:04,440 --> 00:32:06,440 I'm seeing more victories than even losses. 664 00:32:06,440 --> 00:32:09,140 And I'm seeing his grace even in those losses. 665 00:32:09,140 --> 00:32:12,440 And what it says is our progressive sanctification takes time. 666 00:32:12,440 --> 00:32:13,440 It's why it's progressive. 667 00:32:13,440 --> 00:32:17,440 There's not this flip of switch we can all hope we get. 668 00:32:17,440 --> 00:32:22,440 There's this road filled with ups and downs, but the Spirit is right side along us. 669 00:32:22,440 --> 00:32:27,440 And it shows us in Romans 8.13, specific help the Holy Spirit gives. 670 00:32:27,440 --> 00:32:28,440 Let's look at it. 671 00:32:28,440 --> 00:32:32,440 Romans 8.13 says, for if we live after the flesh, ye shall die. 672 00:32:32,440 --> 00:32:37,440 If I'm living by the flesh, I'm headed towards death, right? 673 00:32:37,440 --> 00:32:38,440 But I've been saved. 674 00:32:38,440 --> 00:32:43,440 And what we see now is that, but if ye through the Spirit do mortify, put to death the deeds 675 00:32:43,440 --> 00:32:46,440 of the flesh, ye shall live. 676 00:32:46,440 --> 00:32:49,440 By what Jesus did on the cross, I have been redeemed. 677 00:32:49,440 --> 00:32:51,440 I have been saved. 678 00:32:51,440 --> 00:32:56,440 And now by the Spirit, my flesh and its desires are being done away with. 679 00:32:56,440 --> 00:33:00,440 They're not nonexistent, but I know that I'm growing. 680 00:33:00,440 --> 00:33:03,440 And it's not because of my own perfection, it's because the Holy Spirit working inside 681 00:33:03,440 --> 00:33:06,440 me to make me more like my Savior. 682 00:33:06,440 --> 00:33:10,440 What an honor to be like Christ. 683 00:33:10,440 --> 00:33:14,440 And what I'm seeing is that one day, oh, this is great, one day I will reach the bottom 684 00:33:14,440 --> 00:33:15,440 of that hill. 685 00:33:15,440 --> 00:33:20,440 One day you will reach the finish line and you will be with your Savior in glory. 686 00:33:20,440 --> 00:33:25,440 And what the Bible calls it is perfected sanctification, that you've reached heaven with your Savior 687 00:33:25,440 --> 00:33:26,440 and you have been changed. 688 00:33:26,440 --> 00:33:27,440 Let's prove it through Scripture. 689 00:33:27,440 --> 00:33:35,440 We see it in 2 Corinthians 3, 18, but we all with open face beholding as in a glass, 690 00:33:35,440 --> 00:33:40,440 the glory of the Lord are changing the same image from glory to glory, even as by the 691 00:33:40,440 --> 00:33:43,440 Spirit of the Lord. 692 00:33:43,440 --> 00:33:47,440 There will be a day where I will be made perfected, made perfectly holy. 693 00:33:47,440 --> 00:33:52,440 And it's no more my flesh, but it's just me with my Savior forever. 694 00:33:52,440 --> 00:33:54,440 And we'll be very clear. 695 00:33:54,440 --> 00:34:00,440 That was a lot, but I want us to see the Spirit's help and us being sanctified and us being 696 00:34:00,440 --> 00:34:06,440 set apart is removing away from sin and moving closer to our Savior, to having a relationship 697 00:34:06,440 --> 00:34:07,440 with Him. 698 00:34:07,440 --> 00:34:09,160 He's never going to cast us out when we are saved. 699 00:34:09,160 --> 00:34:10,440 Make sure you understand that. 700 00:34:10,440 --> 00:34:15,440 No sin can separate you from the love of God when you are saved with Him. 701 00:34:15,440 --> 00:34:20,440 But we get to grow closer and I get to know my Savior more and be more like Him each day 702 00:34:20,440 --> 00:34:25,440 until I reach my home in glory when I'm with Him forever. 703 00:34:25,440 --> 00:34:29,440 And we have to see that through our life, we don't got this. 704 00:34:29,440 --> 00:34:32,440 Sometimes that's definitely starting to some of this morning. 705 00:34:32,440 --> 00:34:33,440 Sometimes I'm like, I got this. 706 00:34:33,440 --> 00:34:34,440 I got this. 707 00:34:34,440 --> 00:34:35,440 Usually I don't. 708 00:34:35,440 --> 00:34:38,440 Like 99.9% of times I do not got this. 709 00:34:38,440 --> 00:34:42,440 I tell myself I do and then end up failing. 710 00:34:42,440 --> 00:34:45,440 I can't do this life by myself. 711 00:34:45,440 --> 00:34:48,440 And Christ says, you weren't supposed to. 712 00:34:48,440 --> 00:34:52,440 When I ascended, I sent someone to help you, to guide you, to strengthen you, to pray for 713 00:34:52,440 --> 00:34:53,440 you, to teach you. 714 00:34:53,440 --> 00:34:54,440 Don't think you're doing this by yourself. 715 00:34:54,440 --> 00:34:57,440 The Holy Spirit's endulled and empowered you. 716 00:34:57,440 --> 00:34:58,440 I'm being transformed. 717 00:34:58,440 --> 00:35:01,440 The Holy Spirit is not only giving me the tools. 718 00:35:01,440 --> 00:35:05,440 He is the one helping me to grow to be more like Christ. 719 00:35:05,440 --> 00:35:11,440 He's right there with me and dwelling me, filling me. 720 00:35:11,440 --> 00:35:17,440 I have this tendency to make God really small and to make me really big. 721 00:35:17,440 --> 00:35:22,440 To make my priorities and my life about me. 722 00:35:22,440 --> 00:35:26,440 But the more I'm in God's Word, and I don't do it nearly enough, but the more I'm in God's 723 00:35:26,440 --> 00:35:30,920 Word, the more I'm meditating on His character, the more I'm meditating on salvation, the more 724 00:35:30,920 --> 00:35:39,200 I realize how He's working so magnificently in every area of my salvation, of my sanctification, 725 00:35:39,200 --> 00:35:40,520 of my life. 726 00:35:40,520 --> 00:35:45,740 Even my life today couldn't be possible without the Holy Spirit's help. 727 00:35:45,740 --> 00:35:47,840 That's how involved the Holy Spirit is. 728 00:35:47,840 --> 00:35:49,680 That's what it means that the Holy Spirit is a helper. 729 00:35:49,680 --> 00:35:52,240 That He's helping you through each day. 730 00:35:52,240 --> 00:35:56,480 You know, tonight, if you have trusted on Jesus and believed in Him as your personal 731 00:35:56,480 --> 00:36:02,040 Lord and Savior, and you know that His work on the cross makes all this possible, I have 732 00:36:02,040 --> 00:36:06,120 the Holy Spirit because of what Christ lovingly did on the cross for me. 733 00:36:06,120 --> 00:36:11,200 How He gave a sinner like me a new name written down in glory and a new identity. 734 00:36:11,200 --> 00:36:13,920 And I've been transformed because of Him. 735 00:36:13,920 --> 00:36:18,600 Man, tonight, if you haven't believed in Jesus as your Lord and Savior, had a time where you've 736 00:36:18,600 --> 00:36:22,760 seen your sin, seen your need for Him and what He did on the cross for you, how He died 737 00:36:22,760 --> 00:36:28,280 for you, how He took on your sin, if you haven't believed in Jesus as your Savior, let me tell 738 00:36:28,280 --> 00:36:30,960 you, like, you're missing out. 739 00:36:30,960 --> 00:36:33,000 Like, you're really missing out. 740 00:36:33,000 --> 00:36:34,000 It's the best thing ever. 741 00:36:34,000 --> 00:36:36,440 It's the best thing that's ever happened to me, how the Lord saved me. 742 00:36:36,440 --> 00:36:37,440 Being a Christian is amazing. 743 00:36:37,440 --> 00:36:39,840 Sometimes we focus on all the like, oh, it's hard, it's hard. 744 00:36:39,840 --> 00:36:42,520 I have to do all these things and sanctification is hard. 745 00:36:42,520 --> 00:36:44,880 Being a Christian is like really amazing. 746 00:36:44,880 --> 00:36:48,680 And it's way better to live life as a Christian than anything else because I have God with 747 00:36:48,680 --> 00:36:52,840 me every day helping me. 748 00:36:52,840 --> 00:36:57,640 I want you to be encouraged that when you believe He's with you, the Holy Spirit's with 749 00:36:57,640 --> 00:37:00,640 you. 750 00:37:00,640 --> 00:37:04,120 Believe us here tonight, I want you to know that God hasn't left you alone. 751 00:37:04,120 --> 00:37:07,080 He's left you with Himself, the Holy Spirit. 752 00:37:07,080 --> 00:37:11,960 The Holy Spirit indwells you right now and the Holy Spirit can help you right now. 753 00:37:11,960 --> 00:37:19,400 The Holy Spirit is not a passive bystander in our life, but an active advocate for every 754 00:37:19,400 --> 00:37:20,400 believer. 755 00:37:20,400 --> 00:37:21,600 He's not on the sidelines. 756 00:37:21,600 --> 00:37:24,760 He's not in retirement now because you got saved. 757 00:37:24,760 --> 00:37:32,320 The Holy Spirit is here in your life, working and helping and giving all the glory to the 758 00:37:32,320 --> 00:37:35,000 Father for it, through it. 759 00:37:35,000 --> 00:37:36,680 I think about the word advocate. 760 00:37:36,680 --> 00:37:40,440 That's another way to translate that word comfort that we read about in John 14-16. 761 00:37:40,440 --> 00:37:43,960 It's that the Holy Spirit is like pleading our case. 762 00:37:43,960 --> 00:37:47,960 Man, the Holy Spirit is so invest in you. 763 00:37:47,960 --> 00:37:50,920 The Holy Spirit cares about you more than anyone's ever cared about you. 764 00:37:50,920 --> 00:37:54,120 God cares about you more than anyone's ever cared about you. 765 00:37:54,120 --> 00:37:55,120 He's invested in you. 766 00:37:55,120 --> 00:37:56,120 He's sealed you. 767 00:37:56,120 --> 00:37:57,120 He's redeemed you. 768 00:37:57,120 --> 00:37:58,120 He's justified you. 769 00:37:58,120 --> 00:37:59,120 That's all that God's done. 770 00:37:59,120 --> 00:38:00,680 And He's transforming you. 771 00:38:00,680 --> 00:38:06,280 What we see is the Holy Spirit was sent by Christ to be our comforter, to be our advocate, 772 00:38:06,280 --> 00:38:11,480 to be our intercessor, to be our counselor, to be our helper. 773 00:38:11,480 --> 00:38:15,960 And what we have to make sure we do is not try to push back, not try to grieve the Holy 774 00:38:15,960 --> 00:38:16,960 Spirit. 775 00:38:16,960 --> 00:38:21,200 Not try to say, I have this in my own hands, but look at the three actions the Holy Spirit 776 00:38:21,200 --> 00:38:22,360 has done for us. 777 00:38:22,360 --> 00:38:24,800 It still does for us, right, even right now. 778 00:38:24,800 --> 00:38:28,640 First, we need to be guided into all truth. 779 00:38:28,640 --> 00:38:33,880 Read God's word and understand the word. 780 00:38:33,880 --> 00:38:39,680 People who read God's word and seek to follow God and are looking at His word for truth 781 00:38:39,680 --> 00:38:41,600 aren't lost, right? 782 00:38:41,600 --> 00:38:45,840 Because it gives you the guidance you need to get through your day. 783 00:38:45,840 --> 00:38:50,000 I felt lost before, even as a Christian, like, what am I doing today? 784 00:38:50,000 --> 00:38:51,800 It's 10 o'clock on Tuesday. 785 00:38:51,800 --> 00:38:53,120 What am I doing? 786 00:38:53,120 --> 00:38:57,720 And what I need to do is have myself so saturated in God's word and see this truth. 787 00:38:57,720 --> 00:38:59,600 That's what I need to do first, right? 788 00:38:59,600 --> 00:39:02,880 It's not a checklist of legalism, like, God do this and God do this to be close to God. 789 00:39:02,880 --> 00:39:05,880 It's the idea that I need to give my whole life's surrender to Him. 790 00:39:05,880 --> 00:39:07,880 So first, I'm guided into all truth. 791 00:39:07,880 --> 00:39:10,600 And second, I'm praying. 792 00:39:10,600 --> 00:39:14,760 There's literally not any reason for you not to pray. 793 00:39:14,760 --> 00:39:16,040 Like no reason. 794 00:39:16,040 --> 00:39:17,120 Like the veil has been torn. 795 00:39:17,120 --> 00:39:18,520 We get to pray to God. 796 00:39:18,520 --> 00:39:22,640 And the Spirit does all the work there of interceding. 797 00:39:22,640 --> 00:39:25,560 Just talk with God and He's going to get the message. 798 00:39:25,560 --> 00:39:28,520 He knows and hears and cares. 799 00:39:28,520 --> 00:39:31,080 Then number three, be growing. 800 00:39:31,080 --> 00:39:32,800 God's desire for us is to grow. 801 00:39:32,800 --> 00:39:37,640 And He better than anyone, Hebrews talks about, knows the struggles of sin. 802 00:39:37,640 --> 00:39:45,320 And He gave us the Holy Spirit so that we can, not by ourselves, but through His power, 803 00:39:45,320 --> 00:39:49,280 reject the flesh and see how He works. 804 00:39:49,280 --> 00:39:55,760 It's all too easy to miss the most obvious and encouraging parts of the Holy Spirit's 805 00:39:55,760 --> 00:39:59,680 ministry, but don't let it escape you tonight. 806 00:39:59,680 --> 00:40:05,360 What I need to do more in my week is let go of the reigns and the Holy Spirit, you're 807 00:40:05,360 --> 00:40:08,880 my helper, help me. 808 00:40:08,880 --> 00:40:10,680 And He does. 809 00:40:10,680 --> 00:40:13,880 And what He does is, and when we let go of the reigns, we see how the Holy Spirit helps 810 00:40:13,880 --> 00:40:14,880 us. 811 00:40:14,880 --> 00:40:18,360 He points me even back to the Savior and His work and His lasting work, to the Father's 812 00:40:18,360 --> 00:40:20,000 glory. 813 00:40:20,000 --> 00:40:23,720 It's all about Him and His glory through my life. 814 00:40:23,720 --> 00:40:27,560 And what the Holy Spirit does is it helps me stop looking at myself, but to start looking 815 00:40:27,560 --> 00:40:31,120 upward and see how it affects everything else in my life. 816 00:40:31,120 --> 00:40:33,040 That's what the Holy Spirit does. 817 00:40:33,040 --> 00:40:38,000 That's how the Holy Spirit helps you every day, every hour. 818 00:40:38,000 --> 00:41:00,600 That's what the Holy Spirit does.