1 00:00:00,160 --> 00:00:03,000 Now back to Paul's letter to Ephesians and 2 00:00:03,000 --> 00:00:03,840 chapter 1. 3 00:00:07,560 --> 00:00:09,580 Ephesians 1 and we're going to read first 4 00:00:09,580 --> 00:00:11,780 of all verse at verse 13. 5 00:00:15,079 --> 00:00:16,940 In whom you also trusted after that you 6 00:00:16,940 --> 00:00:19,400 heard the word of truth the gospel of 7 00:00:19,400 --> 00:00:22,560 your salvation in whom also after that you 8 00:00:22,560 --> 00:00:24,760 believed you were sealed with that holy spirit 9 00:00:24,760 --> 00:00:27,200 of promise which is the earnest of our 10 00:00:27,200 --> 00:00:30,140 inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession 11 00:00:30,700 --> 00:00:34,320 unto the praise of his glory over to 12 00:00:34,320 --> 00:00:46,300 chapter 4 and verse 29 let no 13 00:00:46,300 --> 00:00:48,940 corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth but 14 00:00:48,940 --> 00:00:50,580 that which is good to the use of 15 00:00:50,580 --> 00:00:53,600 edifying that it may minister grace unto the 16 00:00:53,600 --> 00:00:56,880 hearers and grieve not the holy spirit of 17 00:00:56,880 --> 00:00:59,640 god whereby you are sealed unto the day 18 00:00:59,640 --> 00:01:03,060 of redemption let all bitterness and wrath and 19 00:01:03,060 --> 00:01:05,440 anger and clamor and evil speaking be put 20 00:01:05,440 --> 00:01:08,320 away from you with all malice and be 21 00:01:08,320 --> 00:01:11,640 kind one to another tender-hearted forgiving one 22 00:01:11,640 --> 00:01:14,720 another even as god for christ's sake hath 23 00:01:14,720 --> 00:01:21,560 forgiven you and chapter 5 verse 17 wherefore 24 00:01:21,560 --> 00:01:24,000 be not unwise but understanding what the will 25 00:01:24,000 --> 00:01:26,340 of the lord is and be not drunk 26 00:01:26,340 --> 00:01:28,840 with wine wherein is excess but be filled 27 00:01:28,840 --> 00:01:32,800 with the spirit speaking to yourselves and psalms 28 00:01:32,800 --> 00:01:35,580 and hymns and spiritual songs singing and making 29 00:01:35,580 --> 00:01:38,440 melody in your heart to the lord giving 30 00:01:38,440 --> 00:01:40,580 thanks always for all things unto god and 31 00:01:40,580 --> 00:01:41,940 the father in the name of our lord 32 00:01:41,940 --> 00:01:45,800 jesus christ submitting yourselves one to another in 33 00:01:45,800 --> 00:01:51,370 the fear of god now i was wondering 34 00:01:51,370 --> 00:01:54,770 really how what i have in mind would 35 00:01:54,770 --> 00:01:56,130 fit in with what we've been able to 36 00:01:56,130 --> 00:02:00,970 hear already today i think our brother mccandless 37 00:02:00,970 --> 00:02:02,970 gave us a a bit of a survey 38 00:02:02,970 --> 00:02:08,470 on the title jesus of nazareth and brother 39 00:02:08,470 --> 00:02:13,470 frank he reminded us similarly a survey of 40 00:02:13,470 --> 00:02:17,550 the christians battle and our brother william just 41 00:02:17,550 --> 00:02:21,350 gave us a survey of the role of 42 00:02:21,350 --> 00:02:24,910 that anointed cherub down to when he will 43 00:02:24,910 --> 00:02:27,510 be confined forever in the lake of fire 44 00:02:27,510 --> 00:02:30,810 now i've just made that up to get 45 00:02:30,810 --> 00:02:32,650 you to buy into what i'm about to 46 00:02:32,650 --> 00:02:34,290 say because this is what i'm going to 47 00:02:34,290 --> 00:02:38,650 do i want to give a survey a 48 00:02:38,650 --> 00:02:42,530 seven-fold survey of the role and work 49 00:02:42,530 --> 00:02:44,250 of the holy spirit in the life of 50 00:02:44,250 --> 00:02:48,770 a believer and brother william's uh reference there 51 00:02:48,770 --> 00:02:51,910 in first john greater is he that is 52 00:02:51,910 --> 00:02:53,850 in you than he that is in the 53 00:02:53,850 --> 00:02:57,690 world so i've just highlighted in my own 54 00:02:57,690 --> 00:03:01,450 meditation here seven things about the spirit of 55 00:03:01,450 --> 00:03:05,090 god that is true about his work his 56 00:03:05,090 --> 00:03:09,430 person his role in every believer okay and 57 00:03:09,430 --> 00:03:11,350 so it's not seven because this is all 58 00:03:11,350 --> 00:03:13,630 there is actually in the drive on the 59 00:03:13,630 --> 00:03:15,890 way here i thought of another so it's 60 00:03:15,890 --> 00:03:18,590 not seven because of completion or whatever seven 61 00:03:18,590 --> 00:03:20,870 is supposed to mean but it is seven 62 00:03:20,870 --> 00:03:23,290 because i've stopped at seven for the purpose 63 00:03:23,290 --> 00:03:25,990 of the okay so we're going to look 64 00:03:25,990 --> 00:03:29,190 at seven things about the holy spirit you 65 00:03:29,190 --> 00:03:31,250 know as as our brethren have been mentioning 66 00:03:31,250 --> 00:03:34,130 but just in case for younger believers our 67 00:03:34,130 --> 00:03:36,690 age is uniquely the age of the holy 68 00:03:36,690 --> 00:03:39,830 spirit it began the day of pentecost when 69 00:03:39,830 --> 00:03:42,930 the spirit rushed in and it will end 70 00:03:43,570 --> 00:03:46,570 when he that restraineth is taken away the 71 00:03:46,570 --> 00:03:48,510 role of the spirit of god in the 72 00:03:48,510 --> 00:03:54,030 church and and and universal church okay so 73 00:03:54,030 --> 00:03:56,910 this is very uniquely our period of time 74 00:03:56,910 --> 00:03:58,530 it is the age of the holy spirit 75 00:03:59,910 --> 00:04:02,230 and while there are so many differences even 76 00:04:02,230 --> 00:04:03,430 in in the few of us who are 77 00:04:03,430 --> 00:04:07,870 here today different callings for the lord's use 78 00:04:07,870 --> 00:04:11,210 and different places we all live the one 79 00:04:11,210 --> 00:04:14,870 thing that is true of every believer is 80 00:04:14,870 --> 00:04:17,790 you are a possessor of the holy spirit 81 00:04:17,790 --> 00:04:20,649 of god romans 8 makes it clear if 82 00:04:20,649 --> 00:04:22,750 anyone has not the spirit of christ he 83 00:04:22,750 --> 00:04:25,130 is none of his and so i think 84 00:04:25,130 --> 00:04:27,350 for all of us but especially for young 85 00:04:27,350 --> 00:04:29,790 believers because this is kind of the feature 86 00:04:29,790 --> 00:04:33,090 that marks our era our age and because 87 00:04:33,090 --> 00:04:34,830 this is something that is true of you 88 00:04:34,830 --> 00:04:37,590 it would be good to have some idea 89 00:04:38,210 --> 00:04:39,970 of who the spirit of god is and 90 00:04:39,970 --> 00:04:42,150 his role in us so i've got seven 91 00:04:42,150 --> 00:04:44,570 of them i'm going to just go through 92 00:04:44,570 --> 00:04:46,270 them i'll give them all to you like 93 00:04:46,270 --> 00:04:50,250 uh like pegs and then we'll go through 94 00:04:50,250 --> 00:04:53,410 them first of all he has a convicting 95 00:04:53,410 --> 00:04:57,230 work this is luke chapter 15 the woman 96 00:04:57,230 --> 00:04:59,890 who sweeps the the house a picture of 97 00:04:59,890 --> 00:05:01,730 the he has a convicting work by the 98 00:05:01,730 --> 00:05:07,210 way a pre-conversion convicting work okay a 99 00:05:07,210 --> 00:05:10,850 pre-conversion convicting work you say you better 100 00:05:10,850 --> 00:05:12,790 explain that good i'm glad you're all awake 101 00:05:12,790 --> 00:05:16,430 i'll do my best convicting number two he 102 00:05:16,430 --> 00:05:19,930 has a creating work this is john chapter 103 00:05:19,930 --> 00:05:22,270 three that which is born of the flesh 104 00:05:22,270 --> 00:05:25,290 is flesh that which is born of the 105 00:05:25,290 --> 00:05:28,830 spirit is spirit he has a creating work 106 00:05:28,830 --> 00:05:32,190 number three that was number two number three 107 00:05:32,190 --> 00:05:34,490 he has a confirming work how do i 108 00:05:34,490 --> 00:05:36,790 know i'm saved how do i know i'm 109 00:05:36,790 --> 00:05:38,950 a believer and we read that here in 110 00:05:38,950 --> 00:05:42,410 ephesians 1 sealed with the spirit in romans 111 00:05:42,410 --> 00:05:45,250 8 he has a comforting work the spirit 112 00:05:45,250 --> 00:05:50,010 bears witness the spirit makes intercession for us 113 00:05:50,010 --> 00:05:53,330 there's a comforting work another ephesians is big 114 00:05:53,330 --> 00:05:55,870 a letter big on the holy spirit but 115 00:05:55,870 --> 00:05:58,730 another crucial chapter is romans chapter 8 if 116 00:05:58,730 --> 00:06:00,750 you wanted to look look at that and 117 00:06:00,750 --> 00:06:02,370 get a handle on it so he has 118 00:06:02,370 --> 00:06:04,970 a comforting work then here in ephesians 5 119 00:06:04,970 --> 00:06:06,970 i put it as a controlling work that's 120 00:06:06,970 --> 00:06:08,850 what it means here to be filled with 121 00:06:08,850 --> 00:06:13,610 the spirit number six he has a conflicting 122 00:06:13,610 --> 00:06:17,090 work we didn't read that but in galatians 123 00:06:17,090 --> 00:06:20,150 it talks about the spirit lusts against the 124 00:06:20,150 --> 00:06:22,790 flesh and there is this conflict going on 125 00:06:22,790 --> 00:06:26,230 not merely between believers and the devil but 126 00:06:26,230 --> 00:06:28,930 between the spirit and the flesh and so 127 00:06:28,930 --> 00:06:31,210 there is a conflict a conflicting work and 128 00:06:31,210 --> 00:06:35,390 lastly a conforming work and that again is 129 00:06:35,390 --> 00:06:38,310 romans 8 you say seven points how long 130 00:06:38,310 --> 00:06:39,630 is this going to be not long not 131 00:06:39,630 --> 00:06:40,790 long we're just going to go through them 132 00:06:40,790 --> 00:06:43,350 hang a hat on each peg and then 133 00:06:43,350 --> 00:06:46,170 i'll sit down first of all a convicting 134 00:06:46,170 --> 00:06:48,850 work the lord jesus is the one who's 135 00:06:48,850 --> 00:06:51,670 speaking there in luke chapter 15 and he 136 00:06:51,670 --> 00:06:54,270 speaks about the role of the father as 137 00:06:54,270 --> 00:06:57,350 the one who waits and runs when the 138 00:06:57,350 --> 00:07:00,170 prodigal returns the good shepherd the role of 139 00:07:00,170 --> 00:07:02,730 the son who goes out and picks up 140 00:07:02,730 --> 00:07:04,810 the sheep and the role of the holy 141 00:07:04,810 --> 00:07:09,410 spirit who sweeps the house and disturbs the 142 00:07:09,410 --> 00:07:13,310 mind and uh just seems to clear away 143 00:07:13,310 --> 00:07:16,070 things to find the lost silver and we 144 00:07:16,070 --> 00:07:17,930 all but we believe that the bible teaches 145 00:07:17,930 --> 00:07:21,050 that that before someone is saved there is 146 00:07:21,050 --> 00:07:23,270 a work that the spirit of god is 147 00:07:23,270 --> 00:07:25,730 doing that's why by the way some of 148 00:07:25,730 --> 00:07:28,990 us have just commented among one another here 149 00:07:28,990 --> 00:07:30,550 we are at the end of the summer 150 00:07:30,550 --> 00:07:32,630 and you look back at the summer meetings 151 00:07:32,630 --> 00:07:34,330 and maybe there's been some blessing here and 152 00:07:34,330 --> 00:07:37,350 there if there has been blessing it is 153 00:07:37,350 --> 00:07:40,610 not because necessarily it's been great preaching but 154 00:07:40,610 --> 00:07:44,670 because the spirit is at work god is 155 00:07:44,670 --> 00:07:47,590 at work there's a sense in which when 156 00:07:47,590 --> 00:07:50,250 somebody is truly saved we should have a 157 00:07:50,250 --> 00:07:54,930 sense of fear god is working here because 158 00:07:54,930 --> 00:07:57,070 it takes god and so the spirit of 159 00:07:57,070 --> 00:07:59,690 god is working sweeping away the dirt people 160 00:07:59,690 --> 00:08:01,590 come into a meeting feeling good about themselves 161 00:08:01,590 --> 00:08:04,350 not thinking anything about their sin they're just 162 00:08:04,350 --> 00:08:05,610 pretty good people and all of a sudden 163 00:08:05,610 --> 00:08:08,710 they say i felt bad i felt disturbed 164 00:08:08,710 --> 00:08:10,590 it's the work of the spirit of god 165 00:08:10,590 --> 00:08:18,550 now there is an idea out there uh 166 00:08:18,550 --> 00:08:20,950 and maybe what you would call reform circles 167 00:08:21,470 --> 00:08:23,410 that this work that the spirit of god 168 00:08:23,410 --> 00:08:30,190 does in convicting is irresistible that he disturbs 169 00:08:30,190 --> 00:08:33,130 a person to the point that by hook 170 00:08:33,130 --> 00:08:35,809 or by crook to use theological language there 171 00:08:36,370 --> 00:08:38,250 that that person is going to be born 172 00:08:38,250 --> 00:08:41,490 again and the spirit of god is going 173 00:08:41,490 --> 00:08:45,490 to sovereignly grab that person from the kingdom 174 00:08:45,490 --> 00:08:48,090 of darkness and make them come into the 175 00:08:48,090 --> 00:08:51,110 kingdom of his son now that idea as 176 00:08:51,110 --> 00:08:52,170 far as i can tell is not found 177 00:08:52,170 --> 00:08:56,890 in the bible the bible teaches that the 178 00:08:56,890 --> 00:08:58,670 spirit of god is at work before a 179 00:08:58,670 --> 00:09:01,630 person is saved but it never teaches that 180 00:09:01,630 --> 00:09:05,930 that work cannot be resisted i think we 181 00:09:05,930 --> 00:09:09,170 just heard even earlier today it is hard 182 00:09:09,170 --> 00:09:13,490 for thee to kick again to resist to 183 00:09:13,490 --> 00:09:16,330 resist and so yes the spirit of god's 184 00:09:16,330 --> 00:09:18,610 work we all probably can relate maybe loved 185 00:09:18,610 --> 00:09:20,870 ones family members people that you bring into 186 00:09:20,870 --> 00:09:23,590 sunday school who maybe for years have resisted 187 00:09:23,590 --> 00:09:25,470 and it's no failure on the spirit of 188 00:09:25,470 --> 00:09:27,970 god right but at the same time there 189 00:09:27,970 --> 00:09:30,450 is a work that is being done before 190 00:09:30,450 --> 00:09:32,690 a person is saved where the spirit of 191 00:09:32,690 --> 00:09:36,450 god is bringing things into that person's mind 192 00:09:36,450 --> 00:09:41,930 so pre-conversion convicting work number two the 193 00:09:41,930 --> 00:09:44,950 creating work how is a person born again 194 00:09:45,790 --> 00:09:47,770 for those of you who are saved how 195 00:09:47,770 --> 00:09:49,350 were you born again how did that all 196 00:09:49,350 --> 00:09:52,450 happen you say a verse came into my 197 00:09:52,450 --> 00:09:54,750 mind and i understood i'd never be in 198 00:09:54,750 --> 00:09:58,150 hell and well i i think for simplicity 199 00:09:58,150 --> 00:09:59,930 i think the hymn has it right when 200 00:09:59,930 --> 00:10:02,350 it says that as soon as my all 201 00:10:02,350 --> 00:10:05,950 i ventured on christ's atoning blood as soon 202 00:10:05,950 --> 00:10:08,730 as i rested on christ now listen the 203 00:10:08,730 --> 00:10:11,370 holy spirit entered and i was born of 204 00:10:11,370 --> 00:10:14,230 god how is a person born again it 205 00:10:14,230 --> 00:10:15,410 is a work of the spirit of god 206 00:10:15,410 --> 00:10:17,250 i didn't realize that when i was saved 207 00:10:17,250 --> 00:10:20,730 at 11 i understood that because jesus christ 208 00:10:20,730 --> 00:10:23,270 was wounded for my sins i wouldn't be 209 00:10:23,270 --> 00:10:26,270 punished for my own but something happened when 210 00:10:26,270 --> 00:10:27,630 i was 11 and i don't know how 211 00:10:27,630 --> 00:10:30,110 old it was for you but the spirit 212 00:10:30,110 --> 00:10:32,550 of god entered and you were born again 213 00:10:32,550 --> 00:10:37,250 you were given divine life eternal life and 214 00:10:37,250 --> 00:10:39,950 so he has a creating work it is 215 00:10:39,950 --> 00:10:41,130 a work of the spirit of god that's 216 00:10:41,130 --> 00:10:43,150 why by the way one of the good 217 00:10:43,150 --> 00:10:46,770 gauges a good measure of whether a person 218 00:10:46,770 --> 00:10:50,750 is truly saved is the fruit of the 219 00:10:50,750 --> 00:10:55,810 spirit right there are a lot of things 220 00:10:55,810 --> 00:10:58,910 that a person can put on and a 221 00:10:58,910 --> 00:11:01,670 person can be around assembly life enough to 222 00:11:01,670 --> 00:11:05,750 learn the lingo but there is that fruit 223 00:11:05,750 --> 00:11:10,790 of the spirit because that is how a 224 00:11:10,790 --> 00:11:12,930 person is born again so there is a 225 00:11:12,930 --> 00:11:16,350 convicting work and a creating work just i 226 00:11:16,350 --> 00:11:19,310 don't think i mentioned this just in the 227 00:11:19,310 --> 00:11:25,290 spirit of god is a person okay he 228 00:11:25,290 --> 00:11:29,370 is not a force or an influence he 229 00:11:29,370 --> 00:11:33,570 is a person as much a person if 230 00:11:33,570 --> 00:11:36,070 i can use a poor expression as god 231 00:11:36,070 --> 00:11:40,070 the father and god the son we were 232 00:11:40,070 --> 00:11:41,350 thinking this morning a little bit in the 233 00:11:41,350 --> 00:11:43,450 breaking of bread there about the trinity and 234 00:11:43,450 --> 00:11:45,730 how it all worked together in our salvation 235 00:11:45,730 --> 00:11:49,170 there's a subject to boggle the mind for 236 00:11:49,170 --> 00:11:52,930 a bit the trinity i remember a man 237 00:11:52,930 --> 00:11:55,730 he's in heaven now and uh in my 238 00:11:55,730 --> 00:11:58,810 home assembly i'm sure he's uh he had 239 00:11:58,810 --> 00:11:59,930 never i don't think he'd ever been to 240 00:11:59,930 --> 00:12:02,170 ankeny but i'm sure he spent many many 241 00:12:02,170 --> 00:12:06,530 times in iowa mr crawford and he corrected 242 00:12:06,530 --> 00:12:08,250 some of the sunday school teachers one day 243 00:12:08,250 --> 00:12:09,790 because you know they were bringing up water 244 00:12:09,790 --> 00:12:13,530 and they were bringing up a three-leaf 245 00:12:13,530 --> 00:12:15,670 clover and they were using different things and 246 00:12:15,670 --> 00:12:17,810 in his own gentle way he was just 247 00:12:17,810 --> 00:12:21,150 saying that you know you will never find 248 00:12:21,150 --> 00:12:25,550 anything in this world that god is like 249 00:12:25,550 --> 00:12:28,770 because there is nothing that god is like 250 00:12:30,690 --> 00:12:32,530 there is nothing that god is not like 251 00:12:32,530 --> 00:12:34,810 a three-leaf clover god is not like 252 00:12:34,810 --> 00:12:37,390 water that exists in three states god is 253 00:12:37,390 --> 00:12:39,370 not like body soul and spirit of a 254 00:12:39,370 --> 00:12:41,970 human being god is not like an egg 255 00:12:41,970 --> 00:12:45,270 these are our own analogies and our limitations 256 00:12:45,270 --> 00:12:48,110 god by nature is transcendent there is nothing 257 00:12:48,110 --> 00:12:51,630 like god and so all of our analogies 258 00:12:51,630 --> 00:12:53,650 best we can do we're trying they all 259 00:12:53,650 --> 00:12:56,070 fall short but the spirit of god is 260 00:12:56,070 --> 00:12:59,550 as much a person of god as the 261 00:12:59,550 --> 00:13:03,090 son of god okay so anyway convicting creating 262 00:13:03,090 --> 00:13:06,290 confirming how do i know i'm saved maybe 263 00:13:06,290 --> 00:13:07,970 there's somebody here struggling with that at a 264 00:13:07,970 --> 00:13:10,970 bible conference you wouldn't be the first person 265 00:13:10,970 --> 00:13:13,870 how do i know i'm saved i'm struggling 266 00:13:13,870 --> 00:13:16,510 with many doubts i i go back to 267 00:13:16,510 --> 00:13:18,630 that time and i wonder what i believed 268 00:13:18,630 --> 00:13:21,070 back then and how do i know well 269 00:13:21,070 --> 00:13:23,570 the bible points you in romans chapter 8 270 00:13:23,570 --> 00:13:26,410 and again here in ephesians 1 romans chapter 271 00:13:26,410 --> 00:13:28,610 8 tells us this that god has sent 272 00:13:28,610 --> 00:13:31,450 forth the spirit of his son into our 273 00:13:31,450 --> 00:13:36,070 hearts whereby we cry abba father and so 274 00:13:36,070 --> 00:13:39,510 the spirit of god in a believer testifies 275 00:13:39,510 --> 00:13:41,570 to that believer that you are a child 276 00:13:41,570 --> 00:13:44,730 of god it is his work how does 277 00:13:44,730 --> 00:13:46,870 the spirit of god do that well the 278 00:13:46,870 --> 00:13:49,870 spirit of god has one great tool it's 279 00:13:49,870 --> 00:13:53,370 the word that's why that's why people say 280 00:13:53,370 --> 00:13:55,710 sometimes when they come to a gospel meeting 281 00:13:55,710 --> 00:13:58,390 or a gospel series i know we have 282 00:13:58,390 --> 00:14:01,110 them for those who are lost but one 283 00:14:01,110 --> 00:14:02,930 of the great results is some of the 284 00:14:02,930 --> 00:14:04,750 christians come and they say if i wasn't 285 00:14:04,750 --> 00:14:06,450 saved before i've been saved all over again 286 00:14:06,450 --> 00:14:08,850 what happened the spirit of god used the 287 00:14:08,850 --> 00:14:11,550 word and testified you're a child of god 288 00:14:11,550 --> 00:14:14,330 it's great great to have that happen so 289 00:14:14,330 --> 00:14:16,590 he has a confirming work that i know 290 00:14:16,590 --> 00:14:19,630 i'm a believer i cry abba father i 291 00:14:19,630 --> 00:14:22,350 have access in relationship with god it's the 292 00:14:22,350 --> 00:14:24,550 work of the holy spirit ephesians 1 says 293 00:14:24,550 --> 00:14:27,070 it like that it says in that's what 294 00:14:27,070 --> 00:14:31,650 we read upon believing you were sealed with 295 00:14:31,650 --> 00:14:33,950 the holy spirit as we've already touched reformed 296 00:14:33,950 --> 00:14:39,830 theology let's just do it again uh sometimes 297 00:14:44,080 --> 00:14:46,180 i just don't know where these ideas come 298 00:14:46,180 --> 00:14:49,160 from to be honest i i mean these 299 00:14:49,160 --> 00:14:50,700 guys some of the men i've i've listened 300 00:14:50,700 --> 00:14:54,940 to them they're smarter than me but they 301 00:14:54,940 --> 00:14:56,880 have this idea that the spirit of god 302 00:14:56,880 --> 00:14:58,640 takes up a work in in a person 303 00:14:58,640 --> 00:15:05,280 and by sovereign sway he regenerates them made 304 00:15:05,280 --> 00:15:09,060 alive and the first thing they do as 305 00:15:09,060 --> 00:15:11,180 a child of god is believe the gospel 306 00:15:13,280 --> 00:15:16,580 because nobody could believe the gospel who's just 307 00:15:16,580 --> 00:15:19,560 a dead sinner of course the bible says 308 00:15:19,560 --> 00:15:22,640 upon believing you were sealed with the spirit 309 00:15:22,640 --> 00:15:28,260 of god the bible says that look and 310 00:15:28,260 --> 00:15:31,440 you will live nicodemus believe and have eternal 311 00:15:31,440 --> 00:15:34,560 life so i don't know where it comes 312 00:15:34,560 --> 00:15:37,460 from i've tried to look into the greek 313 00:15:37,460 --> 00:15:40,020 myself and i haven't found it yet but 314 00:15:40,020 --> 00:15:42,420 maybe i have to read some roman catholic 315 00:15:42,420 --> 00:15:44,560 no i shouldn't go there maybe i have 316 00:15:44,560 --> 00:15:46,800 to read some different documents to find out 317 00:15:46,800 --> 00:15:49,920 where it all came from no the bible 318 00:15:49,920 --> 00:15:52,480 makes it clear that the spirit of god 319 00:15:52,480 --> 00:15:55,060 enters and confirms that a person is saved 320 00:15:55,060 --> 00:15:57,680 and it's beautiful here william was taking us 321 00:15:57,680 --> 00:16:00,380 to that day of ultimate redemption and we 322 00:16:00,380 --> 00:16:04,140 are sealed sealed with the spirit of god 323 00:16:04,140 --> 00:16:07,160 can never be lost can never lose our 324 00:16:07,160 --> 00:16:11,400 salvation and so a confirming work a comforting 325 00:16:11,400 --> 00:16:13,900 work likely even here in our audience today 326 00:16:13,900 --> 00:16:16,320 there are believers who have been through trials 327 00:16:16,320 --> 00:16:19,100 even in the last and the last little 328 00:16:19,100 --> 00:16:22,700 while i love that reference in romans chapter 329 00:16:22,700 --> 00:16:29,240 8 it says the spirit makes intercession for 330 00:16:29,240 --> 00:16:33,980 us with groanings that cannot be uttered what 331 00:16:33,980 --> 00:16:39,000 do you think that means some people think 332 00:16:39,000 --> 00:16:41,480 that means that the spirit of god speaks 333 00:16:41,480 --> 00:16:47,260 a heavenly language and you know god can't 334 00:16:47,260 --> 00:16:50,740 really understand our prayers so the spirit takes 335 00:16:50,740 --> 00:16:54,600 our prayers and makes it known i just 336 00:16:54,600 --> 00:16:57,020 have a problem i don't know god can't 337 00:16:57,020 --> 00:17:00,600 understand our prayers that's just doesn't sit right 338 00:17:00,600 --> 00:17:04,619 with me i think what it means is 339 00:17:04,619 --> 00:17:07,000 there are times and you know this some 340 00:17:07,000 --> 00:17:08,680 of you who've been on the road a 341 00:17:08,680 --> 00:17:11,180 lot longer than the speaker you know that 342 00:17:11,180 --> 00:17:12,500 there are times where you've gotten to a 343 00:17:12,500 --> 00:17:13,460 point where you've gotten down to pray and 344 00:17:13,460 --> 00:17:19,119 you can't get the words out groanings that 345 00:17:19,119 --> 00:17:25,619 can't be uttered nothing formulated not our father 346 00:17:25,619 --> 00:17:29,160 we come into the presence no just the 347 00:17:29,160 --> 00:17:32,700 groaning of a heart and and how can 348 00:17:32,700 --> 00:17:34,480 that be known but the spirit of god 349 00:17:34,480 --> 00:17:37,100 he is so intimately connected with you as 350 00:17:37,100 --> 00:17:39,380 a believer that he takes those groanings that 351 00:17:39,380 --> 00:17:41,180 cannot be uttered and he speaks them in 352 00:17:41,180 --> 00:17:43,940 the presence of god that's the role of 353 00:17:43,940 --> 00:17:46,100 the holy spirit it's a comforting work there 354 00:17:46,100 --> 00:17:49,220 in romans 8 with all the persecution tribulation 355 00:17:49,220 --> 00:17:51,580 distress and all that these believers are going 356 00:17:51,580 --> 00:17:53,500 through the apostle paul says the spirit of 357 00:17:53,500 --> 00:17:55,680 god can take those groanings that you cannot 358 00:17:55,680 --> 00:17:57,620 utter and you can make them well known 359 00:17:57,620 --> 00:18:00,060 in the presence of god and so it's 360 00:18:00,060 --> 00:18:02,880 a very comforting work there are times where 361 00:18:02,880 --> 00:18:06,320 i know even well even for myself not 362 00:18:06,320 --> 00:18:08,360 to speak of myself there have been occasions 363 00:18:08,360 --> 00:18:13,260 where you just don't have the words but 364 00:18:13,260 --> 00:18:15,780 thank god that we have that person as 365 00:18:15,780 --> 00:18:19,180 we already heard about in us and so 366 00:18:19,180 --> 00:18:22,380 every one of our needs is known in 367 00:18:22,380 --> 00:18:26,800 the presence of god comforting so convicting creating 368 00:18:26,800 --> 00:18:29,460 comforting confirming comforting okay we'll go to this 369 00:18:29,460 --> 00:18:33,160 one controlling controlling be filled with the spirit 370 00:18:33,160 --> 00:18:36,460 brother frank mentioned this in his ministry there 371 00:18:36,460 --> 00:18:38,780 in ephesians 6 using the word filled in 372 00:18:38,780 --> 00:18:46,060 a different with a different idea there my 373 00:18:46,060 --> 00:18:48,780 wife comes from a hutterite colony i don't 374 00:18:48,780 --> 00:18:50,460 know if you know hutterites around here in 375 00:18:50,460 --> 00:18:57,460 iowa there's three groups anabaptist group hutterite minunite 376 00:18:57,460 --> 00:19:03,740 amish shout out david yoder um different in 377 00:19:03,740 --> 00:19:08,760 their theology and but similar in some ways 378 00:19:10,680 --> 00:19:12,820 it's dead religion so one of the things 379 00:19:12,820 --> 00:19:17,820 that happens when people decide to leave is 380 00:19:17,820 --> 00:19:20,020 some of them can swing quite a way 381 00:19:20,020 --> 00:19:23,700 to go to something exciting i was back 382 00:19:23,700 --> 00:19:26,820 at one of the colonies uh just not 383 00:19:26,820 --> 00:19:30,000 too long ago and visiting and a guy 384 00:19:30,000 --> 00:19:32,200 had left and he had joined a church 385 00:19:32,200 --> 00:19:35,420 um we would know them as a charismatic 386 00:19:35,420 --> 00:19:38,760 group and he came up and we were 387 00:19:38,760 --> 00:19:40,500 talking and as far as i know he's 388 00:19:40,500 --> 00:19:44,120 a he's a true believer and he was 389 00:19:44,120 --> 00:19:47,300 asking me what i do and what amanda 390 00:19:47,300 --> 00:19:48,980 and i my wife and i and um 391 00:19:48,980 --> 00:19:52,920 and he says do you teach your converts 392 00:19:52,920 --> 00:19:58,000 to be filled with the spirit and i 393 00:19:58,000 --> 00:20:02,620 said uh what do you mean and he 394 00:20:02,620 --> 00:20:04,340 told me what he meant he said that 395 00:20:04,340 --> 00:20:06,240 really what you need to do is now 396 00:20:06,240 --> 00:20:08,440 they need to invite the holy spirit to 397 00:20:08,440 --> 00:20:11,500 have and take over their life and the 398 00:20:11,500 --> 00:20:12,940 way that they will know that happens is 399 00:20:12,940 --> 00:20:14,660 they will be able to miraculously speak in 400 00:20:14,660 --> 00:20:16,980 tongues and maybe they will have other signs 401 00:20:16,980 --> 00:20:19,040 with it like the the power to heal 402 00:20:19,040 --> 00:20:22,480 diseases and other things like that but that 403 00:20:22,480 --> 00:20:24,080 is the way they'll know is the miraculous 404 00:20:24,080 --> 00:20:29,680 and the supernatural and i thought no we 405 00:20:29,680 --> 00:20:32,420 don't do any of that no and i 406 00:20:32,420 --> 00:20:33,740 went home and i didn't think anything of 407 00:20:33,740 --> 00:20:36,900 it you know i thought man that guy 408 00:20:36,900 --> 00:20:40,660 is wonky until i was going with a 409 00:20:40,660 --> 00:20:45,400 very uh dear but very um conservative older 410 00:20:45,400 --> 00:20:48,020 believer a widow actually in our home assembly 411 00:20:48,020 --> 00:20:50,600 and we were taking a trip to another 412 00:20:50,600 --> 00:20:53,800 assembly and it was just me and my 413 00:20:53,800 --> 00:20:57,820 wife and her we were driving down and 414 00:20:57,820 --> 00:21:01,420 in this assembly um she was commenting the 415 00:21:01,420 --> 00:21:03,660 about the person who was instrumental in planting 416 00:21:03,660 --> 00:21:07,460 it she had a great deal of respect 417 00:21:07,460 --> 00:21:11,600 for this brother and i just asked her 418 00:21:11,600 --> 00:21:13,000 i said well what was the secret with 419 00:21:13,000 --> 00:21:16,040 his preaching this brother she had a lot 420 00:21:16,040 --> 00:21:19,740 of respect for him and uh what was 421 00:21:19,740 --> 00:21:22,640 the secret and she looks over at me 422 00:21:22,640 --> 00:21:26,520 and she says joey it was spirit filled 423 00:21:26,520 --> 00:21:30,140 and my mind goes back to this kind 424 00:21:30,140 --> 00:21:32,900 of crazy guy at the hutterite colony and 425 00:21:32,900 --> 00:21:34,800 i thought oh no that brother was definitely 426 00:21:34,800 --> 00:21:36,940 not doing any of that he wasn't he 427 00:21:36,940 --> 00:21:39,400 wasn't speaking in tongues was he he wasn't 428 00:21:39,400 --> 00:21:41,300 up there doing some kind of fancy what 429 00:21:41,300 --> 00:21:42,920 do you mean spirit filled and i was 430 00:21:42,920 --> 00:21:46,080 so i i got to this passage ephesians 431 00:21:46,080 --> 00:21:47,820 5 now you notice did you did you 432 00:21:47,820 --> 00:21:49,960 notice it is a command if i can 433 00:21:49,960 --> 00:21:51,360 put it in the lingo of that brother 434 00:21:51,360 --> 00:21:54,720 we should be teaching our converts to be 435 00:21:54,720 --> 00:21:56,960 filled with the spirit it's a command in 436 00:21:56,960 --> 00:22:00,000 ephesians 5 paul says do not be drunk 437 00:22:00,000 --> 00:22:04,040 with wine wherein is excess but be filled 438 00:22:04,040 --> 00:22:07,620 with the spirit and then he says that 439 00:22:07,620 --> 00:22:09,680 a person who is filled with the spirit 440 00:22:09,680 --> 00:22:11,700 what will it look like will it look 441 00:22:11,700 --> 00:22:13,460 like gifts of miracles will it look like 442 00:22:13,460 --> 00:22:15,600 speaking in tongues no he says it will 443 00:22:15,600 --> 00:22:17,920 be people who speak to themselves and psalms 444 00:22:17,920 --> 00:22:20,720 hymns spiritual songs number one singing and making 445 00:22:20,720 --> 00:22:23,020 melody in their heart number two they will 446 00:22:23,020 --> 00:22:25,060 be thankful number three and they will be 447 00:22:25,060 --> 00:22:28,340 submissive number four verse 21 those ing words 448 00:22:28,920 --> 00:22:32,800 participles they're called those are the four ways 449 00:22:32,800 --> 00:22:34,220 that you will know that a person has 450 00:22:34,220 --> 00:22:38,400 been filled with the spirit and then as 451 00:22:38,400 --> 00:22:40,560 our brother mentioned he picks out the last 452 00:22:40,560 --> 00:22:43,040 one submitting and he looks at it in 453 00:22:43,040 --> 00:22:48,480 three relationships husbands and wives i guess wives 454 00:22:48,480 --> 00:22:51,360 are meant wives and husbands children and parents 455 00:22:51,360 --> 00:22:55,460 servants and masters so just that you say 456 00:22:55,460 --> 00:23:00,750 what's the point of all that so the 457 00:23:00,750 --> 00:23:06,510 husband in ephesians chapter 5 is not merely 458 00:23:06,510 --> 00:23:13,510 the christian husband but the spirit filled husband 459 00:23:15,780 --> 00:23:21,470 you notice that because the husband's instructions come 460 00:23:21,470 --> 00:23:23,610 to a husband who is first verse 8 461 00:23:23,610 --> 00:23:27,410 verse 18 filled with the spirit now that's 462 00:23:27,410 --> 00:23:29,670 very helpful to me because the standard for 463 00:23:29,670 --> 00:23:35,350 the husband here is way up here so 464 00:23:35,350 --> 00:23:36,830 whatever it means to be filled with the 465 00:23:36,830 --> 00:23:39,250 spirit i'm going to have to have that 466 00:23:39,250 --> 00:23:41,070 happen if i'm going to be able to 467 00:23:41,070 --> 00:23:43,890 be the husband in ephesians 5 or the 468 00:23:43,890 --> 00:23:48,330 child or father or employee or employer so 469 00:23:48,330 --> 00:23:50,550 i wondered what does it mean and as 470 00:23:50,550 --> 00:23:52,430 i looked at it i started to find 471 00:23:52,430 --> 00:23:54,150 out that it is a very important verse 472 00:23:54,150 --> 00:23:56,370 people have said it's one of the most 473 00:23:56,370 --> 00:23:58,890 important commands there's an expositor who has said 474 00:23:58,890 --> 00:24:01,510 that if you cannot fulfill this command you 475 00:24:01,510 --> 00:24:07,970 cannot fulfill any other command wow now as 476 00:24:07,970 --> 00:24:10,570 we've as i've tried to mention feebly here 477 00:24:10,570 --> 00:24:13,790 the spirit of god is a person okay 478 00:24:13,790 --> 00:24:17,210 so you cannot get more of a person 479 00:24:22,740 --> 00:24:27,880 whether it's to your benefit or detriment a 480 00:24:27,880 --> 00:24:32,300 young indian man from michigan has indwelt this 481 00:24:32,300 --> 00:24:39,360 little community center in ankeny i'm here now 482 00:24:39,360 --> 00:24:42,040 you can't get a thousand of me you're 483 00:24:42,040 --> 00:24:44,280 like thank god you can't get a thousand 484 00:24:44,280 --> 00:24:46,860 joseph bakers to come here there's only one 485 00:24:46,860 --> 00:24:50,660 of me there's only one spirit of god 486 00:24:50,660 --> 00:24:53,340 he has indwelt you so what does it 487 00:24:53,340 --> 00:24:55,880 mean when he fills you is this like 488 00:24:55,880 --> 00:24:58,160 a gas tank that you drive and you 489 00:24:58,160 --> 00:25:00,960 say well mine's running on e here i'd 490 00:25:00,960 --> 00:25:02,960 like to get more of him somehow so 491 00:25:02,960 --> 00:25:04,900 i'll go to about 10 bible conferences and 492 00:25:04,900 --> 00:25:06,920 get it all the way up no no 493 00:25:06,920 --> 00:25:08,300 it doesn't work like that again he's not 494 00:25:08,300 --> 00:25:11,480 an influence he's not a goo he's a 495 00:25:11,480 --> 00:25:14,260 person so as we heard i think it 496 00:25:14,260 --> 00:25:15,900 was mentioned yesterday by one of the brethren 497 00:25:15,900 --> 00:25:19,820 we cannot get more of him but he 498 00:25:19,820 --> 00:25:22,080 can get more of us and that's what 499 00:25:22,080 --> 00:25:24,200 it means to be filled with the spirit 500 00:25:24,200 --> 00:25:25,920 that's what the word i put over my 501 00:25:25,920 --> 00:25:30,180 outline here controlled controlled so many analogies have 502 00:25:30,180 --> 00:25:33,160 been used the analogy of of sails on 503 00:25:33,160 --> 00:25:35,560 a ship and as the sails go up 504 00:25:35,560 --> 00:25:38,060 then those sails get filled with the wind 505 00:25:38,060 --> 00:25:42,200 and then the wind controls the boat right 506 00:25:42,200 --> 00:25:44,700 or you have the two people in the 507 00:25:44,700 --> 00:25:47,320 car and there you are as the driver 508 00:25:47,320 --> 00:25:49,920 and if you can imagine it reverently here 509 00:25:49,920 --> 00:25:52,540 the holy spirit as the passenger well the 510 00:25:52,540 --> 00:25:54,980 holy spirit is indwelling the car but it's 511 00:25:54,980 --> 00:25:57,300 a different thing when the and the holy 512 00:25:57,300 --> 00:26:02,560 spirit drives the car now he controls right 513 00:26:02,560 --> 00:26:05,200 and so just to use my myself for 514 00:26:05,200 --> 00:26:07,260 an example i have right now indwelt this 515 00:26:07,260 --> 00:26:08,980 room what would it look like if i 516 00:26:08,980 --> 00:26:11,280 filled it it would mean that i would 517 00:26:11,280 --> 00:26:13,600 have sovereign control i get to decide what 518 00:26:13,600 --> 00:26:15,580 color i want the walls and whether i 519 00:26:15,580 --> 00:26:18,500 want carpet here or hardwoods i'd get to 520 00:26:18,500 --> 00:26:20,500 decide what i wanted for lunch i'd want 521 00:26:20,500 --> 00:26:23,180 the same thing i i you know i 522 00:26:23,180 --> 00:26:25,080 would have sovereign control and that's what it 523 00:26:25,080 --> 00:26:27,840 means when the spirit of god fills it 524 00:26:27,840 --> 00:26:29,780 means he has control over every area in 525 00:26:29,780 --> 00:26:30,980 my life so let me stop and ask 526 00:26:30,980 --> 00:26:32,840 you some young people here does he have 527 00:26:32,840 --> 00:26:41,860 control how about the internet browsing who has 528 00:26:41,860 --> 00:26:46,000 control many a young man young sister even 529 00:26:46,000 --> 00:26:50,360 knows something about private browsing clearing search history 530 00:26:50,360 --> 00:26:53,260 you know all of those things are they 531 00:26:53,260 --> 00:26:55,960 can be very real strong temptations maybe even 532 00:26:55,960 --> 00:26:57,540 to the point of an addiction i don't 533 00:26:57,540 --> 00:26:59,740 know but you know if the spirit of 534 00:26:59,740 --> 00:27:04,440 god would fill right fill and have control 535 00:27:04,440 --> 00:27:07,220 have his sway as one of the as 536 00:27:07,220 --> 00:27:10,260 one of the hymn writers put it the 537 00:27:11,570 --> 00:27:13,270 way that i guess appealed to me because 538 00:27:13,270 --> 00:27:17,050 you know you hear all these analogies i 539 00:27:17,050 --> 00:27:20,550 like what one guy said he says you 540 00:27:20,550 --> 00:27:22,710 know when the spirit of god entered you 541 00:27:22,710 --> 00:27:30,190 when you were saved he became resident he 542 00:27:30,190 --> 00:27:35,330 says when he fills you he becomes president 543 00:27:35,330 --> 00:27:38,810 i said i know something about the president 544 00:27:38,810 --> 00:27:41,290 don't you yeah he said oh i know 545 00:27:41,290 --> 00:27:45,090 the president he's got control well at least 546 00:27:45,090 --> 00:27:47,030 it seems like he does doesn't he yeah 547 00:27:47,030 --> 00:27:49,490 god wants the spirit of god not just 548 00:27:49,490 --> 00:27:51,150 to be resident oh he's in me i'm 549 00:27:51,150 --> 00:27:53,210 saved i'm a believer but to be president 550 00:27:53,210 --> 00:27:55,810 to have control over my life what will 551 00:27:55,810 --> 00:27:57,350 that look like how will that look like 552 00:27:57,350 --> 00:28:00,530 in my in my job in my family 553 00:28:00,530 --> 00:28:03,150 in my marriage in my work for the 554 00:28:03,150 --> 00:28:06,330 lord you see that's it's very practical it 555 00:28:06,330 --> 00:28:07,790 doesn't go on to talk about oh the 556 00:28:07,790 --> 00:28:09,210 spirit of god is going to fill you 557 00:28:09,210 --> 00:28:10,690 and now you're going to be able to 558 00:28:10,690 --> 00:28:12,130 do miracles you're going to be able to 559 00:28:12,130 --> 00:28:14,830 speak in tongues no he says the spirit 560 00:28:14,830 --> 00:28:16,610 of god will fill you and you will 561 00:28:16,610 --> 00:28:20,390 have interaction with believers that are spiritual if 562 00:28:20,390 --> 00:28:22,970 i can put a simple summary over verses 563 00:28:22,970 --> 00:28:27,190 19 and 20 right and so the spirit 564 00:28:27,190 --> 00:28:31,710 filling work works itself out in normal christian 565 00:28:31,710 --> 00:28:36,090 behavior wouldn't it be great if you followed 566 00:28:36,090 --> 00:28:37,590 what i've just said there wouldn't it be 567 00:28:37,590 --> 00:28:43,010 great to go to spirit-filled conferences you 568 00:28:43,010 --> 00:28:46,030 say i like spirit-led ones okay spirit 569 00:28:46,030 --> 00:28:49,970 -filled or the spirit of god is having 570 00:28:49,970 --> 00:28:55,390 his sway you say what would that look 571 00:28:55,390 --> 00:28:58,850 like i'm i'm wondering here in ankeny or 572 00:28:58,850 --> 00:29:01,070 my home assembly what would it look like 573 00:29:01,070 --> 00:29:05,370 if if our assembly was spirit-filled is 574 00:29:05,370 --> 00:29:06,750 all of a sudden the whole community going 575 00:29:06,750 --> 00:29:10,970 to be saved well i think what it 576 00:29:10,970 --> 00:29:12,650 looks like the apostle paul kind of spells 577 00:29:12,650 --> 00:29:16,930 out in 1 corinthians 14 he gives instructions 578 00:29:16,930 --> 00:29:21,870 the instructions of the spirit and he tells 579 00:29:21,870 --> 00:29:23,590 those believers to follow them and he says 580 00:29:23,590 --> 00:29:27,690 if you follow them he says there's somebody 581 00:29:27,690 --> 00:29:30,790 who's going to come in and they're going 582 00:29:30,790 --> 00:29:33,910 to confess these are the nicest people in 583 00:29:33,910 --> 00:29:37,790 town no it doesn't say that they're going 584 00:29:37,790 --> 00:29:43,930 to say we've never heard such good they're 585 00:29:43,930 --> 00:29:45,830 going to say god is in you of 586 00:29:45,830 --> 00:29:50,230 a truth god is here you see that's 587 00:29:50,230 --> 00:29:52,370 the work of the spirit of god and 588 00:29:52,370 --> 00:29:54,190 so he controls now how does he control 589 00:29:54,190 --> 00:29:56,690 you say i'm supposed to let him have 590 00:29:56,690 --> 00:29:59,030 sway have control what does that look like 591 00:29:59,030 --> 00:30:02,870 in my life well it's interesting if you 592 00:30:02,870 --> 00:30:06,230 were to put ephesians 5 beside the sister 593 00:30:06,230 --> 00:30:10,490 epistle sister letter colossians similar things are said 594 00:30:12,110 --> 00:30:14,930 and it goes into similar relationships except in 595 00:30:14,930 --> 00:30:17,950 colossians it doesn't say be filled with the 596 00:30:17,950 --> 00:30:21,570 spirit in colossians it says let the word 597 00:30:21,570 --> 00:30:25,490 of christ dwell in you richly so how 598 00:30:25,490 --> 00:30:27,390 does the spirit of god how do i 599 00:30:27,390 --> 00:30:29,970 know if my life is under the sway 600 00:30:29,970 --> 00:30:33,130 the filling of the spirit of god is 601 00:30:33,130 --> 00:30:34,690 it under the control of the word of 602 00:30:34,690 --> 00:30:38,930 god remember the apostle john wrote some things 603 00:30:38,930 --> 00:30:43,590 to seven churches and it says these things 604 00:30:43,590 --> 00:30:49,690 saith the spirit what was it that the 605 00:30:49,690 --> 00:30:51,330 spirit said to those churches well the things 606 00:30:51,330 --> 00:30:53,850 that john wrote the things that john wrote 607 00:30:53,850 --> 00:30:56,830 down so i can have my life filled 608 00:30:56,830 --> 00:31:00,130 and controlled by the spirit in and to 609 00:31:00,130 --> 00:31:01,990 the extent that i bow to the word 610 00:31:01,990 --> 00:31:05,350 of god okay so i i what i 611 00:31:05,350 --> 00:31:07,670 want to do with this expression maybe there's 612 00:31:07,670 --> 00:31:11,050 nobody who struggles with that here i want 613 00:31:11,050 --> 00:31:13,370 to remove it from the airy fairy the 614 00:31:13,370 --> 00:31:16,550 sensational the fantastical and bring it right back 615 00:31:16,550 --> 00:31:19,730 to what the bible says okay this is 616 00:31:19,730 --> 00:31:23,090 a fairly straightforward teaching and the reason it's 617 00:31:23,090 --> 00:31:25,450 straightforward is because god wants this for you 618 00:31:25,450 --> 00:31:26,930 and i he wants us to have spirit 619 00:31:26,930 --> 00:31:30,770 filled lives and so this is his controlling 620 00:31:30,770 --> 00:31:34,070 work that brings me to number six conflicting 621 00:31:34,070 --> 00:31:38,230 again in my meditation on this i thought 622 00:31:38,230 --> 00:31:39,550 well if the spirit of god wants to 623 00:31:39,550 --> 00:31:41,690 have control of my life why doesn't he 624 00:31:41,690 --> 00:31:46,890 just do it he's god after all he's 625 00:31:46,890 --> 00:31:49,930 already indwelt me why doesn't he just have 626 00:31:49,930 --> 00:31:53,930 full control of my life and that is 627 00:31:53,930 --> 00:31:57,770 because i can resist him okay this comes 628 00:31:57,770 --> 00:31:59,530 back to even what we said before conversion 629 00:32:00,010 --> 00:32:01,790 there's a conflict and we read about it 630 00:32:01,790 --> 00:32:04,610 even here in ephesians 4 it says do 631 00:32:04,610 --> 00:32:09,770 not grieve the holy spirit so the holy 632 00:32:09,770 --> 00:32:11,670 spirit wants to have control right he wants 633 00:32:11,670 --> 00:32:14,490 to fill to use this word just remember 634 00:32:14,490 --> 00:32:17,510 it's in contrast to alcohol too much alcohol 635 00:32:17,510 --> 00:32:19,490 a person gets drunk and they are under 636 00:32:19,490 --> 00:32:21,930 the control of the spirits they're called spirits 637 00:32:21,930 --> 00:32:24,870 aren't they and when a person is under 638 00:32:24,870 --> 00:32:26,750 the control now the apostle says of the 639 00:32:26,750 --> 00:32:29,090 holy spirit but we can resist him as 640 00:32:29,090 --> 00:32:34,430 it says here we can grieve him that 641 00:32:36,960 --> 00:32:43,340 to me is very solemn grieving the holy 642 00:32:43,340 --> 00:32:47,280 spirit i can resist his work in me 643 00:32:51,680 --> 00:32:53,700 how well it gives a list of sins 644 00:32:53,700 --> 00:32:55,540 that maybe we don't talk about too much 645 00:32:55,540 --> 00:32:58,420 i just mentioned maybe struggling with something like 646 00:32:58,420 --> 00:33:00,840 pornography you know that's not one of the 647 00:33:00,840 --> 00:33:03,120 sins mentioned here that does grieve the holy 648 00:33:03,120 --> 00:33:06,260 spirit but what's mentioned here is corrupt communication 649 00:33:08,280 --> 00:33:16,760 bitterness wrath anger clamor evil speaking grieves hurts 650 00:33:16,760 --> 00:33:20,820 the holy oh don't forget he is the 651 00:33:20,820 --> 00:33:25,400 holy spirit of god so i that's very 652 00:33:25,400 --> 00:33:26,960 solemn to me that i can hurt him 653 00:33:26,960 --> 00:33:30,940 he's a person after all you know i 654 00:33:30,940 --> 00:33:33,120 try to be tough up here but you 655 00:33:33,120 --> 00:33:35,740 know you could hurt me couldn't you he 656 00:33:35,740 --> 00:33:39,260 could say something i hurt me you could 657 00:33:39,260 --> 00:33:45,470 hurt him hurt him and so that's why 658 00:33:45,470 --> 00:33:49,070 sometimes our lives aren't filled and controlled we've 659 00:33:49,070 --> 00:33:51,290 hurt him we shut certain doors of the 660 00:33:51,290 --> 00:33:53,690 house and we've said oh spirit of god 661 00:33:53,690 --> 00:33:56,510 you can have sway here but not here 662 00:33:59,390 --> 00:34:02,730 and so that's the conflicting work but lastly 663 00:34:02,730 --> 00:34:06,290 just as i sit down the conforming work 664 00:34:06,290 --> 00:34:08,850 i enjoyed this uh on the way here 665 00:34:08,850 --> 00:34:12,969 to ankeny you know the spirit of god 666 00:34:12,969 --> 00:34:14,730 he has come into my life and to 667 00:34:14,730 --> 00:34:18,210 every believer here if you are saved he 668 00:34:18,210 --> 00:34:22,770 has indwelt and possessed your life sealed i 669 00:34:22,770 --> 00:34:23,889 love it just by the way how it 670 00:34:23,889 --> 00:34:26,310 says here grieve not the holy spirit of 671 00:34:26,310 --> 00:34:29,210 god whereby you are sealed i like that 672 00:34:29,210 --> 00:34:31,370 in other words you can grieve him yes 673 00:34:31,370 --> 00:34:33,050 but never to the point that he'll leave 674 00:34:33,050 --> 00:34:36,350 you're sealed you'll never have to pray like 675 00:34:36,350 --> 00:34:38,330 david don't take your holy spirit from me 676 00:34:38,330 --> 00:34:42,330 no sealed with the spirit but the conforming 677 00:34:42,330 --> 00:34:43,850 work what's the work the spirit of god 678 00:34:43,850 --> 00:34:47,010 is doing what's the big aim he's aiming 679 00:34:47,010 --> 00:34:51,909 at romans 8 says he's has a renovation 680 00:34:51,909 --> 00:34:54,610 project going on on me we all have 681 00:34:54,610 --> 00:34:57,450 a renovation tape around us and he wants 682 00:34:57,450 --> 00:35:00,550 to conform us to what what's his goal 683 00:35:00,550 --> 00:35:06,650 to the image of god's son that's the 684 00:35:06,650 --> 00:35:08,890 work of the spirit of god he wants 685 00:35:08,890 --> 00:35:13,450 to make us like the lord jesus and 686 00:35:13,450 --> 00:35:14,850 so you'll go easy on me and i'll 687 00:35:14,850 --> 00:35:16,650 my best to go easy on you because 688 00:35:16,650 --> 00:35:19,070 we're all under renovation and some of us 689 00:35:19,070 --> 00:35:21,670 needed more renovations maybe than others now that's 690 00:35:21,670 --> 00:35:24,110 a lie we all needed the same massive 691 00:35:24,110 --> 00:35:27,610 renovation it wasn't just replace the wallpaper or 692 00:35:27,610 --> 00:35:30,490 paint the ceiling no the whole thing was 693 00:35:30,490 --> 00:35:32,690 and the spirit of god thankfully is at 694 00:35:32,690 --> 00:35:37,810 work at work renovating remodeling and his great 695 00:35:37,810 --> 00:35:41,110 aim isn't it amazing one day you are 696 00:35:41,110 --> 00:35:42,590 going to be like his son the lord 697 00:35:42,590 --> 00:35:49,080 jesus i was thinking this morning it made 698 00:35:49,080 --> 00:35:51,680 me smile the different brethren taking part some 699 00:35:51,680 --> 00:35:54,600 were focused i'm sure you caught it on 700 00:35:54,600 --> 00:35:58,600 the loftiness of christ where he left and 701 00:35:58,600 --> 00:36:04,040 others were talking about his stoop one sunday 702 00:36:04,040 --> 00:36:06,520 afternoon we left the breaking of bread there 703 00:36:06,520 --> 00:36:09,380 in jackson my little brother and i we 704 00:36:09,380 --> 00:36:10,960 had both taken part one of us had 705 00:36:10,960 --> 00:36:14,520 focused on the high position that christ had 706 00:36:14,520 --> 00:36:17,660 as eternal god the other one had focused 707 00:36:17,660 --> 00:36:20,620 on his stoop you say well those are 708 00:36:20,620 --> 00:36:22,200 big things to think about what were you 709 00:36:22,200 --> 00:36:23,340 guys doing on the way home we were 710 00:36:23,340 --> 00:36:28,040 fighting which one was better yeah i was 711 00:36:28,040 --> 00:36:29,380 saying that no no i i think i 712 00:36:29,380 --> 00:36:30,740 think the big thing is how high he 713 00:36:30,740 --> 00:36:34,060 was and my brother was like oh no 714 00:36:34,060 --> 00:36:36,020 the big thing was how low he came 715 00:36:36,020 --> 00:36:37,480 and you would think oh you're smiling up 716 00:36:37,480 --> 00:36:39,440 there must have been a friendly battle oh 717 00:36:39,440 --> 00:36:43,020 it went from the theological to the carnal 718 00:36:43,020 --> 00:36:47,760 we were going at it and maybe it 719 00:36:47,760 --> 00:36:51,200 was raising in volume and the spice was 720 00:36:51,200 --> 00:36:53,720 going you know all of a sudden my 721 00:36:53,720 --> 00:36:56,560 mom dear mom she turns from the from 722 00:36:56,560 --> 00:37:00,820 the passenger seat she says boys just think 723 00:37:00,820 --> 00:37:07,910 about how high he's lifted you not how 724 00:37:07,910 --> 00:37:09,790 high he was or how low he came 725 00:37:09,790 --> 00:37:11,930 just think about how high he's lifted you 726 00:37:11,930 --> 00:37:13,950 now theologians would say i'm not sure about 727 00:37:13,950 --> 00:37:15,710 your mom you know what that that made 728 00:37:15,710 --> 00:37:17,110 us just trip over our lip a little 729 00:37:17,110 --> 00:37:20,530 we just we just got quiet have you 730 00:37:20,530 --> 00:37:22,050 ever stopped to think how high he's lifted 731 00:37:22,050 --> 00:37:28,290 you we sang this morning far far above 732 00:37:28,290 --> 00:37:31,070 a restless world that wars below let me 733 00:37:31,070 --> 00:37:32,830 ask you why should any of us not 734 00:37:32,830 --> 00:37:34,730 be part of that world that wars below 735 00:37:36,150 --> 00:37:38,550 only by the grace of god were we 736 00:37:38,550 --> 00:37:41,170 saved only by the grace of god is 737 00:37:41,170 --> 00:37:43,510 the spirit of god taken resident and done 738 00:37:43,510 --> 00:37:45,550 his renovations and is doing his renovations in 739 00:37:45,550 --> 00:37:48,290 our life but one day we will be 740 00:37:48,290 --> 00:37:52,670 satisfied when we awake with his likeness when 741 00:37:52,670 --> 00:37:55,670 we are like his son to god be 742 00:37:55,670 --> 00:37:59,470 the glory great things he has done once 743 00:37:59,470 --> 00:38:02,410 poor vile sinners now look like his son 744 00:38:04,770 --> 00:38:08,270 what a renovation all because of the work 745 00:38:08,270 --> 00:38:11,250 of the spirit of god so these seven 746 00:38:11,250 --> 00:38:12,630 things you can add more to it i 747 00:38:12,630 --> 00:38:14,850 haven't talked about the gifts of the spirit 748 00:38:14,850 --> 00:38:17,290 and all the some other things but convicting 749 00:38:17,290 --> 00:38:24,310 creating confirming comforting controlling conflicting conforming and god 750 00:38:24,310 --> 00:38:26,370 bless his word and may the lord continue 751 00:38:26,370 --> 00:38:28,310 to help us to yield to the spirit 752 00:38:28,310 --> 00:38:30,090 of god so that he can have more 753 00:38:30,090 --> 00:38:31,690 control in our lives