Father we do want to thank you and
praise you for every opportunity you give to
us to open a heart to you to
set aside all of the other issues in
our life Lord I thank you that as
we come tonight that though we are here
as a body you see every one of
us you know every hair on a head
you know every burden we carry every trial
in our life Lord every struggle every sin
that you just long to wash away and
forgive every weakness that you want to give
power every lack of understanding that you want
to give us wisdom to you know it
all and Lord I pray that tonight as
we come before you that you would open
up your word in your heart to us
and father that those things that each one
of us individually need that we might receive
of it from you and so we do
just open our heart and ask that you
would feed us and minister to us in
Jesus name amen tonight I just want to
share some individual things and not take too
long because because I don't know when this
is supposed to be over but I'm sure
I'm well into my time length so far
so anyway and not having even started yet
but what I'd like to do is just
go through a few of the scriptures together
tonight on the ministry of the Holy Spirit
in the life of Jesus something that oftentimes
we don't do many times we're used to
looking at the Trinity and we see the
Father and the Son the Holy Spirit and
oftentimes we may look at them individually but
we oftentimes I've noticed don't really study them
in their relationship with one another and I
think one of the most important things for
a Christian to understand is to be able
to look at Jesus Christ the one that
Peter tells us about Peter you know about
us that he is our example Paul tells
us that we are to be imitators of
Christ and if I am to look at
Jesus and say Lord you are my example
in life if I'm to look and say
I am to be an imitator of Christ
now on one hand how in the world
am I supposed to do that I mean
we're talking of somebody obviously walks on water
multiplies loaves and fishes controls the weather brings
people back from the dead when you start
looking at the things that Jesus did and
it is this there am I just supposed
to be going out and doing these things
just a manner of life and I'm not
saying that those things don't happen but at
the same time I believe that the issues
that Peter and Paul are both referring to
aren't so much the external behavior as the
internal attitude that Jesus had that he lived
by how did he live and how did
he function and when you begin to look
at the scriptures in Jesus and his wonderful
dependence on the Holy Spirit for everything everything
I hope as we go through a few
scriptures and each one of us all tonight
realize afresh how God wants us to have
the same thing so tonight I just give
me some scriptures turn with me first to
Luke chapter 1 if you will with me
and we will look at just some of
the things that are revealed to us here
about Jesus and his coming into the world
and then we'll look at his life but
the most fundamental aspect in the of them
all of course is just how he came
it tells us a Luke chapter 1 verse
26 it says in the sixth month the
angel Gabriel was sent from God under the
city of Galilee named at Nazareth to a
virgin espoused to a man whose name was
Joseph of the house of David to him
the Virgin's name was Mary the angel came
under her and he said hail thou art
highly favored the Lord is with thee blessed
art thou among women and when she saw
him she was troubled at his saying and
cast in her mind what manner of salutation
this should be and the angel said in
her fear not Mary for thou has found
favor with God and behold thou shall conceive
in thy womb and shall bring forth a
son and shall call his name Jesus he
should be great and shall be called the
son of the highest the Lord God shall
give unto him the throne of his father
David and he shall reign over the house
of Jacob forever and of his kingdom there
shall be no end then Mary said Mary
unto the angel how shall this be seen
I know not a man in the angel
answered he said in her the Holy Spirit
shall come upon me the power of the
highest shall overshadow thee therefore the holy thing
that shall be born of thee shall be
called the Son of God now here we
have when we're looking at the life of
Jesus and this is what we want to
just focus in on tonight but as we
look at his life notice at his birth
the very fundamental thing even before he comes
into the world we are told here that
the as angel Gabriel comes to Mary and
she tells him you are going to bring
forth a son you're going to bring forth
a child he'll be the son of the
mother of the highest you'll inherit the throne
of his father David of his kingdom there
be no end she immediately she's listening to
this and realizing she's a virgin obviously realizing
that the fundamentals of producing a child have
never occurred in her life whatsoever and she
turns she's wait a minute I think you
got the wrong address I don't know what
Mary you're looking for there's a lot of
Mary's I'm sure but you got the wrong
one and he says no I don't she
said I've never known a man but here
he says no the Spirit of God the
Holy Spirit will overshadow you here as he
looks there and he says he'll come upon
thee and the power of the highest shall
overshadow thee therefore the one that will be
born of thee shall be called the Son
of God but here we have that the
very first thing that had to happen in
Jesus coming into the world is notice Jesus
was born of the Holy Spirit wasn't born
of man he wasn't born of Adam he
wasn't born of Joseph you see one of
the fundamental things that happened when God obviously
created man he created somebody's he reached down
into the ground took up the duty you
know the the the clay up the dirt
and he breathed life into it the Spirit
of God and dwelt man in man there
essentially is the Spirit of God even brooded
over and created and breathe this very life
in there God created a man but a
man that was filled with the Spirit of
God and they're filled and born of the
Spirit that is what Adam was that is
what Eve was but there God of course
told Adam as you know only too well
in the Bible he says now the day
in which thou sinnest and in the Hebrew
its present progressive he says dying thou shalt
surely die in other words it isn't just
you will just die out there somewhere literally
God told Adam Adam the moment you sin
the consequence you will be you will die
at that moment to go on to ultimate
death dying then you will then go on
to die fully later and of course now
we understand essentially that what did happen when
man sin was precisely that man spiritually died
God took his spirit out of man in
their man died at that moment the wage
of sin is death not will be it
is in a received right then he spiritually
died now God graciously gave him the capacity
in his in in God's grace in his
mercy to live on he gave him kind
of a grace period to repent where he
was still bodily alive and he was still
mentally and emotionally there but spiritually he was
dead but he gave him time to repent
that he might once again come back to
a relationship with God now of course we
realize today that's what Jesus Christ fundamentally came
for us for John 3 16 says for
God so loved the world that he gave
his only begotten Son that what that whosoever
believeth in him and it's literally should not
go on perishing but have everlasting life Jesus
Christ reverses the perishing process you and I
we were all born in the likeness of
sinful Adam Adam and Eve they were bodily
alive soulishly active but spiritually dead and so
what they reproduce in their own image that's
why everyone in Adam we've all been born
dead we were all born though you know
spiritually dead but the only that's why of
course when Jesus and Nicodemus met Nicodemus came
to him by the dead night and he
said we know that thou art come from
God for no man can do the things
outdo us except God be with him here
Nicodemus is asking Jesus I know you're from
heaven I know you're from God you couldn't
do these things if it wasn't God and
some people reading that might think Jesus was
changing the subject or being brief or just
wanted to cut to the chase or something
but he said you must be born again
and all he was doing was answering his
real question here Nicodemus he's wanting to where's
the spiritual life come from that you come
from and Jesus simply smile he says Nicodemus
you must be born again Nicodemus is how
can a man who in his old enter
a second time into his mother's womb no
no you don't need that you've already you
know that which is flesh is flesh that
which is spirit is spirit he says the
words I speak this spirit in their life
I'm not you don't need a body you've
already got one Nicodemus but you do need
spiritual life you need to be born of
the spirit as he goes on and explains
and that's of course interestingly enough the Bible
tells us that Jesus himself when he came
into the world though the second person the
triune God had how was he born of
the spirit he didn't come in the will
of his own he came in the exact
same way that in a sense there that
for you and I we he was born
of God born of the Holy Spirit the
most fundamental aspect therefore the Christian life is
and perhaps even ask yourself are you born
of the spirit how do you a Christian
by will or by effort or by your
own you know promise or your commitment or
church attendance but are you born to the
Spirit of God can you say I'm a
Christian because the fact I have been born
of the Spirit of God I've been brought
back into fellowship and communion with God by
the the receiving of Jesus Christ and of
his spirit in my life well Jesus of
course was not simply born in the spirit
we're also told in Hebrews chapter 914 you
might turn over there if you'd like to
but in Hebrews 914 the author of Hebrews
presumed by many to be Paul Hebrews 914
says how much more shall the blood of
Christ through the eternal spirit pardon me who
through the eternal spirit offered himself without spot
to God cleanse your conscience from dead works
to serve the living God now another little
insight that were given here to about Jesus
here in Hebrews 914 tells us there that
Jesus Christ who through the eternal spirit he
offered himself without spot to God so when
we're looking at Jesus not only was he
born of the Holy Spirit but he also
offered himself to God through the Holy Spirit
the Holy Spirit is the one through whom
you and I give our lives to Jesus
Christ he is the one that we give
ourselves to God the Holy Spirit is the
one that God uses to give himself to
you and I in here Jesus there not
only was he born of the Holy Spirit
he offered himself to God through the Holy
Spirit and interestingly enough you might say well
when did he do that in his baptism
when he was 30 maybe was it maybe
when he was 12 and he was in
the temple well Hebrews chapter 10 verse 5
or actually Psalm 40 turn there turn to
both of them you got two hands just
to take one to the old one to
the new but in Psalm 40 a wonderful
Psalm in verse 6 it's a prophetic Psalm
as we'll see in a moment when we
get to Hebrews but in Psalm 40 in
verse 6 it says sacrifice an offering you
did not desire my near you have pierced
burnt offerings and sin offering you did not
desire then I said behold I come in
this role of the book it is written
to me I delight to do your will
oh my god your law is within my
heart here the psalmist tells us there that
this is this wonderful little Psalm there of
sacrifice and offering burnt offerings for sin you
have no desire he says my near you
have pierced which is a picture of surrender
going we don't have time for that tonight
but back in the Exodus chapter 21 but
he says behold I come in this scroll
of the book it is written to me
but this we know is a messianic song
it's one there specifically about Jesus Christ because
Hebrews chapter 10 tells us that Hebrews 10
verse 5 now turn on over there in
Hebrews 10 5 it says therefore when he
came into the world he said sacrifice and
offerings you did not desire but a body
you have prepared for me and burnt offerings
and sin offerings for sin you had no
pleasure then I said behold I come in
the volume of the book it is written
of me to do your will Oh God
and now think of this this is one
of the most awesome concepts to me is
it when you stop to think of it
but the Bible tells us you want to
know when did Jesus offer himself to God
without spot when did he come and say
God here I am and when he offered
it's interesting here Hebrews and Psalms tell us
when he came into the world when he
was born of the Holy Spirit imagine this
a little baby six seven eight pounds you
and I of course because we were born
when we were born we were bodily alive
soullessly who knows empty blank you know I
don't remember where my you know you'll back
your first thoughts you remember your 234 years
old maybe the what they may have been
I've got some memories there of my mother
loving me my dad beating me as a
child no I'm just kidding my folks here
it was my mother that beat me I'm
just kidding no they've been here it's funny
when I was here years ago and I
left they said they used to be Don's
parents now I come back here oh you're
John's kid and but anyways it's turned full
circle but anyway I don't you look back
and what do you remember when you were
two or three or four you got a
little vague things in the thought of being
able to make a decision in your life
with any conviction is something you know you're
10 12 13 14 years it took you
to make something to say this is what
I believe this is what I want to
do and then that changed how many times
over the next 30 years but when you
stop to think Jesus Christ born in the
Holy Spirit I mean the most amazing thing
there you know that here he is there
six seven eight pounds takes upon himself the
form of human flesh he indwells it but
there with the wisdom of the Spirit and
the depth of the Spirit the consciousness there
of having God by the Holy Spirit teach
his mind control his emotions direct his will
flood through his life and his being the
capability there of being able to look and
say our father sacrifice and offerings and burn
offerings first and now it's no desire to
be I look there and say you know
a little time a little energy a little
effort a little sacrifice a little tithe here
here I'll give a day of my week
to ministry here all here I'll give a
little by a little money there to help
missions I'll do this I'll do that that's
what many people consider great spiritual life Jesus
when he came into the world I'm not
giving you a little here a little there
a little sacrifice and offering or burn offering
or something here or something there but a
body that was prepared me then said I
low it is written to me in the
volume of the book to do thy will
oh my god yea thy law is written
within my heart imagine that that anybody that
is born of the Holy Spirit is capable
by virtue of that spiritual birth of presenting
their entire being to God you may have
only come to Christ yesterday or a week
ago or a month ago or a year
ago but the capacity there to know what
it is to fully yield your heart and
your life over to be able to say
I'm not here to give you a little
time a little tidbit a little something now
and then to throw towards heaven of my
extra stuff my entire life a body that
was prepared me a whole being and it
isn't a piece of it yours all of
it's yours that's the wisdom that the Holy
Spirit gives to anybody that understands him wants
to be born of him and then wants
to offer himself you can do it all
but Jesus was not only born and not
only offered to God but he also he
was somebody pleased God by the Holy Spirit
it's interesting to me there of course that
Jesus is baptism it's given to us both
in Matthew and in Luke but there you
know the story there is Jesus walks out
in the water and as he walks out
and John looks at him recognizing him seeing
who is he says wait a minute you
should baptize me not me you Jesus turned
he said what did John he says no
John suffered to be so now they'd be
so for now here it was something that
behooved him the Bible says to be made
like unto his brethren everything that Jesus was
ever going to ask any of his followers
to do any of his children do any
of his redeemed to do he did it
himself anything whatsoever and so here when he
walks out he says John baptize me I
want the public display of a surrendered life
and there is in chances wait a minute
no no no it should be me being
baptized by you and he said no John
this is what I'm gonna ask many to
follow and do and he says I'll do
it myself first and there of course you
know that is John then baptized Jesus the
Bible says the heavens were opened in the
spirit of God descended as a dove upon
Jesus and there is he descended there you
hear a voice from heaven says this is
my beloved son in whom I am well
pleased hear ye him here the next thing
you know as God looks there and Jesus
it was all we know so far born
of the spirit and offered to God through
the spirit and yet he pleased God by
the Holy Spirit is the Spirit of God
descends upon so often many of us we
may wonder tonight what can I do to
please God what is it I could really
do that would please God does he you
know does it maybe maybe I should get
involved with Sunday school or maybe I should
help with missions or maybe I join you
know some music team or sure and that
all of that hopefully that is part of
our surrender but the things that please God
it is not what we do that is
not what pleases God it's what we are
Jesus so far at this point in time
he hadn't done a thing and priest a
sermon healed the sick hadn't done a thing
at all yet but the father looked at
him and he says you want to know
how to please me be filled with me
you want to know how to please me
be born of my spirit and then offer
yourself fully to me through the Holy Spirit
that'll please me you can sit right where
you are right now tonight and please God
more than you've ever pleased you can do
more in the sense that it has nothing
to do with what you do it's what
you are many people think if I do
this I know if I do this then
God will be then he'll be happy with
me gotta be pleased with me now you
can sit there and say Lord I know
what you want a body that was prepared
me it's yours I give it to you
I want to hold nothing back it's all
yours that'll thrill heaven and it are through
you too but it's something there that don't
get me wrong what you do will please
him later on John 829 Jesus said I
do only always those things that pleased my
father what he did pleased him but what
he did pleased him because of what he
was was pleasing to him he was filled
with him and being filled with him anybody
that is filled with him what he does
will please him as a byproduct many people
we get it backwards we try to go
do stuff that please and then if I
do enough stuff then he'll say I always
knew I liked you I just forgot why
you know or something if I did if
somehow or another enough stuff happens that kind
of weighs out the bad stuff and I
get in some good stuff you know you
know if all of a sudden many of
us maybe if we thought the Lord was
coming tomorrow and we really believe that we
do I got 24 hours to do good
stuff you know I'm gonna go you know
give away all the stuff I'm gonna hear
you can have it you know you never
you'd have this and Lord you better come
tomorrow or else you know I'm gonna go
back and steal it all back you know
or whatever and me and but then our
goodness is so superficial until it comes down
to its spiritual I'm yours Jesus though he
was not only born he's not only offered
he was not only pleased God by the
Holy Spirit but Luke chapter 4 verse 1
tells us there and Jesus being full the
Holy Spirit returned from Jordan was led by
the Spirit in the wilderness being tempted or
for 40 days being tempted of the devil
in those days he did eat nothing and
when they were ended he afterwards hungered here
we have now Jesus born of the Holy
Spirit offered to God through the Spirit please
God by the Spirit and now Luke chapter
4 where tells and Jesus being filled with
the Holy Spirit was led by the Holy
Spirit that word led by the Holy Spirit
was quite gracious of the the translators but
notice here first of all it wasn't just
enough for Jesus to be born and to
be offered and and to be pleasing God
by the Spirit Jesus filled with the Holy
Spirit filled with the Holy Spirit and then
he was led more accurately driven I suppose
the translators thought wait a minute this is
the second person that God had to look
around there as if the third person is
shoving him around driving telling him what to
do but essentially this is what the core
of the word means there it's one there
to where he was leading his life in
a sense of saying do this you see
with Jesus though on one hand God always
God fully God never less than God in
the beginning was the word the word is
with God the word was God the same
as in the beginning with God and by
him are all things made were made and
he says that we be held his glory
the glory is the only begotten of the
Father full of grace and truth he says
there when he came he was the second
person that God had fully created the universe
we saw him and he was always that
but yet when he humbled himself and he
took upon himself the form of a servant
he became obedient obedient even on the death
of the cross obedient to who the Holy
Spirit telling him what's it when the Holy
Spirit said you must need to go through
some area yes you must do this he
led him here but here there was something
where Jesus's life born offered filled driven by
the Holy Spirit and then also notice can't
miss this notice the first record of where
Jesus was driven into the wilderness where he
was tempted to the devil for 40 days
how do you like that still want to
be filled with the Spirit you know sorry
here's something where you come along and now
with the Spirit of God takes up control
of somebody's life they're born of him they're
offered their field in here the Holy Spirit
now when he gets control one of the
most interesting thing he leads them right into
the trial of his life make no mistake
about it this was the Holy Spirit he
led him into the wilderness and then he
didn't let him eat anything for 40 days
lets him rot lets him there come to
where literally he's beginning to starve after the
end of the 40 days he hungered in
the Bible initially when somebody goes on a
fast there's the initial hunger pains that can
last a couple of days then they wear
off then you can literally go on a
fast for weeks but then there's a point
to where now the body literally begins to
eat upon itself devour itself and at that
point when a body begins literally to have
to have nutrition to live to keep its
heart beating and its blood flowing and needs
to have energy it literally begins to destroy
and eat its own intestines and here is
this process is starting to happen we're now
after 40 days the hunger is so great
where there is now a message that goes
to his body his body sending him feed
me or I'm going to die it's beginning
to devour itself sometimes you'll see these tragic
little pictures you know and little shows to
where there's something of a little baby in
a famine torn land where the baby's brought
in and his eyes are open it's blinking
it's very much alive it's breathing and they
say it's starving to death and yet the
child's all bloated it looks huge I mean
it's got a tummy on it that's unbelievably
big he said kid doesn't look hungry to
me and then the doctors say it's too
late we can't save him what do you
mean you can't save him breathing get him
in there's got to be something you can
do no because what has happened at that
point literally the digestive system is already destroyed
if you put any food in it there
is nothing to digest it with the very
system that is required to digest it is
now been destroyed and it can't do it
the baby's got a few days at the
most to live to linger mostly it hours
by then but here is something where Jesus
now 40 days the Holy Spirit drives Jesus
into the wilderness tempted the devil for 40
days and then at the end of this
time the Holy Spirit just send him out
there to rot that's a fine out of
you do but here when you look wondering
what in the world is it that could
possibly be going on here and then finally
it tells us there that the devil verse
3 said in him if I'll be the
Son of God command this stone to be
made bread here the Holy Spirit drives him
out let's him you know it has to
be absolutely nothing he's literally starving to death
and is now he's starving to death the
devil looks at him and he said and
by the way in the King James is
as if you're the Son of God as
if he's clueless as if the devil didn't
know as if he's just saying you know
there's a rumor I was down the break
room and a bunch of demons were chatting
thinking you might be the Son of God
you know as if it's a hypothetical I
wonder just checking it out he knew exactly
who he was it's more literally because you're
the Son of God you know who you
are I know who you are you know
you're about to die you know that here
God has led you right out here and
led you into nothing in your history you
better take control of your own life you
better turn this stone to bread or you're
finished you better run it and then Jesus
gave a response that I don't think we
can I ever adequately understand the magnitude of
it but here Jesus turned at this time
and he said man shall not live by
bread alone but by every word that proceeds
from the mouth of God I don't think
he can you imagine the Holy Spirit he'd
only really lived in one body before like
this Paul refers to Jesus as a second
man and it's interesting he'd been in the
first Adam and he was there and they
were in a garden together and they had
the whole world the trees thou seest thou
made his friend you want this you can
have it you want that you can have
it anything whatsoever the tree of knowledge of
good and evil don't eat it and at
the drop of a hat what does he
do the first temptation the slightest pressure he
walks away gives up his eternal life drives
the Holy Spirit out of him and they're
the one that he'd been born of that
brooded over him that indwelt him that filled
Adam's life every moment of every day just
like that he's driven out by sin the
first thing that he's doing with Jesus essentially
here born of the Holy Spirit offered pleased
filled he leads him not into paradise but
into wilderness he lets him sit he lets
him go through a trial who is it
you're really gonna live for who do you
love who are you really offered to who
is your life really surrendered to is it
only surrendered when it's comfortable and pleasing everything
goes well and if you can imagine there
when the Holy Spirit literally watch Jesus as
he turned there and he says man shall
not live by bread alone but by every
word that proceeds from God there's two great
things to this by the way number one
if you can imagine the thrill of the
Holy Spirit realizing you know I mean I
if I was the Holy Spirit I'd have
a real complex I would dear God you're
the greatest being you look at the love
and the power and the goodness of the
Holy Spirit and he comes to our life
and he lives in us but how often
is it the drop of a hat excuse
me I'll take over don't need you now
out of here you know or some some
something comes over our life we take it
over shove him in shove him out hey
get back here I need you now as
if he's some sort of a little cabin
boy or an errand boy and here is
something there with Jesus he turns and he
looks at the devil can you imagine this
man shall not live by bread alone here
the devil was trying to get Jesus to
act as God you know your God I
know your God turn the stone to bread
take control of yourself but here Jesus essentially
turn he says listen devil once you understand
something I don't need to be God to
beat you just a man filled with him
man should not live I'll beat you not
as God I'll beat you as a man
filled with God you see if Jesus would
have had to be God and if he
would have had to use his deity we
would always have an excuse to say well
I mean even Jesus had to take control
now men even Jesus you know had to
you know had to you know the Holy
Spirit wasn't sufficient here and there no always
every time of every day of all of
life always from Bethlehem to the Mount of
Olives born offered filled led by the Holy
Spirit and here he's able to look to
me the wonder of all of this is
that you and I we never have to
take our life back in their own hands
we never have to solve it we never
have to say God you didn't come through
you'll always bring us through then on and
you can read through the rest of the
trials are quite you know powerful but because
I'm sure I've gone too long but it's
never stopped me yet amazingly but the but
in verse 14 of Luke chapter 4 it
says in Jesus returned in the power of
the Spirit unto Galilee and there went out
of fame of him throughout the region roundabout
now it tells us Jesus born offered filled
led you know you overpowered Satan by the
power of the Holy Spirit now we see
Jesus just returning just coming home in the
power of the Spirit the Holy Spirit was
not somebody that Jesus just needed to help
him through the big heavy trials through the
difficult things through the great spiritual warfare the
Holy Spirit is somebody just to go home
just to return just wherever it was whatever
it whatever went on any and every day
of all days this is the second person
that triune Godhead if he had to be
born and offered and filled and led and
empowered continuously by the Holy Spirit how much
more do you and I how much more
do we who are sinners saved by his
mercy and saved by his grace then verse
16 Luke chapter 4 and he came to
Nazareth where had been as customers may have
been brought up and as his custom was
he went into the synagogue on the Sabbath
day and he stood up for to read
and there was delivered unto him the book
of the prophet Isaiah and when he opened
the book he found the place wherein it
was written the Spirit of the Lord God
is upon me because he is anointed me
to preach the gospel of the poor he
has sent me to heal the brokenhearted to
preach deliverance under the captives recovering the sight
of the blind and the set at liberty
them that are bruised to preach the acceptable
year of the Lord and he closed the
book and he gave it again in the
minister he sat down in the eyes of
all them that were in the synagogue were
fastened on him and he began to say
to them this day this scripture is fulfilled
in your ears now born offered filled lead
empowered now he comes back goes into the
synagogue on the Sabbath as it was his
custom but everybody there now there's a fame
there's something about him hadn't again preached a
sermon hadn't done anything yet but there is
a dynamic about him there is a life
there is a fullness that's undeniable in his
life so much so as when he walks
in there they come and they take the
book in a day that they were reading
perhaps at the time I say and there
they handed to him for the reading here
you read but then it wasn't just Isaiah
something he read it says he looked he
turned to a specific scripture he wanted he
found the place wherein it is written it
said he says there's some in Isaiah I
want to read there he turns to Isaiah
61 and then he says the spirit of
the Lord God is upon me because he
is anointed me and then he lays out
here all of the parameters essentially of what
he's going to be doing for the next
three years here he lays out his ministry
whether I'm healing the sick raising the dead
casting out demons whether I'm preaching a sermon
whether I'm comforting whether I'm blessing whether I'm
restoring I want you to understand something about
what you're going to be seen me do
for the next three years and I want
you to understand mostly who's doing it is
me he says the spirit of the Lord
God is upon me he is anointed me
to do this he does it all the
one I've been born of offered to filled
with led by I don't even write my
own sermons he does I don't even do
any later on in John 17 Jesus would
come before the father there in the garden
he says father the words that thou has
given me to say I've said them in
the works that thou has given me to
do I've done them here he looks he
says all I've done is just what you've
told me to do for the last three
years I've just you know 33 years I
was born of you just the way you
create a human being to be I I
would I just did the things that that
we that we've longed for all men that
I might be an example to them that
they might be imitators of this that every
one of them if they want to they
can be born they can be offered they
can be filled they can be led they
can be empowered they can have victory over
the enemy and then I can anoint them
to go do the most wonderful things Holy
Spirit will do it all you see if
we don't understand these things maybe many of
us you go home and you've got unsaved
loved ones you've got unsaved neighbors and you
got to win them to Christ you got
people you work with or you've got trials
and you've got burdens you got struggles you
got whatever there is in life and you're
trying to make ends meet and trying to
live on in some form of victory and
yet at the same time to realize Jesus
and I didn't do any of it myself
it was all the Holy Spirit he did
it I just opened my heart every day
and let him do it let him do
it John 530 if you're one of those
people that marks up your Bibles you might
just give you a little verse to ponder
Pharisees people are trying to figure out who
Jesus who do you think you are and
what are you doing and what's going on
and Jesus turns and it is think of
this but in John 530 Jesus said I
can of my own self do nothing but
as I hear I respond and my response
is always right because I do not my
known will but the will of the Father
that set me imagine that think of this
here they're coming to Jesus who do you
think you are what's going on in this
that and Jesus said listen I can of
my own self do nothing now Jesus ever
so humble but he never lied and if
you could imagine the second person to try
in Godhead who created the world's that in
him in him all the fullness of the
Godhead dwelt bodily but yet when he came
here and became a man he says in
and of my own humanity I can of
my own self do nothing but that's not
a problem as I hear I respond and
he says and you know something my response
is always right would you love to be
able to say that you know I mean
in a sense it is always I'm always
right on why he says cuz I'm not
like you I don't seek my own will
I don't resolve my own problems I don't
settle my own arguments I don't bear my
own burdens I don't sweat all the stuff
you do I don't fight out everything you
fight out I don't bear it all I
don't struggle with it all I was I
listen and I respond and my response is
always right because I seek the will of
my father who sent me it's a wonderful
life it's a thrilling life and you know
when you and I realized when we're looking
to Jesus Christ we're looking to somebody in
the sense that the wonderful thing about his
life is is that the secret of his
life you know he's never never pressured you
ever notice that I mean in a sense
people tried to pressure him but he was
never he never responded to it he was
never late have you ever noticed that about
Jesus he'd never late a lot of people
thought he was late Jesus if you'd been
here our brother not a died where you
been that's no problem I happen to be
the resurrection of the life I'll raise him
all right let's go on with it we
got other things to do you know but
it was something there that his his added
he was never late never under pressure never
anything as much as they tried to do
he was just surrendered God and yours live
in me that's why Colossians 115 refers to
Jesus as he was the exact image of
the invisible God because anybody that's born of
God filled with God led by God empowered
by God offered to God his words come
from God his works come from God no
wonder the night before Jesus was crucified he
said in the upper room with his disciples
they're all come into pieces they're all worried
they're all in a tither they're all sweating
it out he turned he said leg let
not your heart be troubled you believe in
God believe also in me my father's house
or any mansion were not so I would
have told you now I'm gonna go prepare
a place for you where I am you'll
be me also and if I go and
prepare a place I'll come again receive you
into myself we'll be together he says whether
I go you know in the way you
know and then Thomas speaks ever so Lord
wait a minute we don't know where you're
going this is a biggie I can't figure
this out how can we know the way
he said well let me make it real
simple I am the way don't worry about
that I am the way the truth the
life no man comes to the father but
by me then Philip speaks up okay show
us the father Jesus show us the father
that'll be sufficient Oh Philip have I been
so long time with ye in it die
has not known me he was seen me
a scene the father when every moment of
every day the exact image of the invisible
God which is exactly what God created you
to be do Genesis 126 God said let's
create man after our own image our own
likeness for you to be in his image
requires no effort no strength no depth no
power no wisdom nothing of your own you
can sit there and do absolutely nothing and
I think the Lord will thank you if
you would just keep doing nothing that's the
only problem heaven has is when I tell
him now I got it step aside I'll
do it for you you know I just
did the Lord looks tonight maybe some of
you maybe there's some of you you've never
been born of the Spirit or you're born
in the Spirit but you're not offered or
maybe you've been offered and you've kind of
taken the offering back you've kind of you
known surrender you've known his fullness maybe tonight
God wants to fill you fill you with
his love leave the spirit I'm gonna pray
in a moment and then afterwards I want
us to stand and we're gonna sing and
as we do I'd like us to sing
spirit of the living God fall afresh on
me back to stand now and we'll pray
but as we as we do maybe tonight
you would look and realize that the Holy
Spirit has brought you here and he looks
at you and he says I know your
burdens I know your trouble I know your
frustrations I know your tensions I see all
you're trying to carry I see all your
anger are you worried and all this why
don't we just come and open our heart
to him let's pray father as we come
before you tonight how I thank you for
your love how I thank you dear Lord
that you look at us tonight and when
you reach down in the dust of the
earth and you reached and pulled out man
you fashioned and you formed all you saw
in your hand was just clay it's all
you needed you would do the rest Lord
tonight we aren't really any more than just
that we're just clay and Lord we don't
want to come and make any promises to
you and tell you Lord I mean I
want to give me a fresh start and
I'll really be good I'm gonna do some
great things I really mean it I'm gonna
try hard but rather than that tonight you
look and just so why don't you just
be clay and why don't you learn the
secret of not only doing nothing tonight but
doing nothing tomorrow and nothing the next day
and nothing the day after that all for
the great hope and dream and prayer and
longing that God would do many things in
you and Lord tonight as we come we
just want to open our heart to you
and we ask that your Holy Spirit would
just come upon us and Lord that thrill
of having the King of Kings and the
Lord of Lords rightfully placed within our own
heart where the Spirit of God reigns rules
tonight we can just come and say Lord
fill me I want to offer myself to
you God through your Holy Spirit and ask
that you would offer yourself to me through
your Holy Spirit and empower my life the
fruit of the Spirit the gifts the power
the life but Lord whatever it is that
each one of us needs tonight Lord we
ask that we would just let our heart
be open let our world go all of
the things around it just settled into nothingness
and that the great desire we have is
just to say Lord Jesus just take me
and fill me you showed me how to
live by living it under the greatest of
tensions and struggles and heartache and attack and
yet you lived it victoriously now Lord live
your life in me fill me with your
love and with your spirit in Jesus name
spirit of the living God fall
afresh on me spirit of the living
God fall afresh on me melt
me, mold me, fill me,
use me spirit of the living
God fall afresh on me once more as
a prayer spirit of the living God fall
afresh on me spirit of the
living God fall afresh on me
melt me, mold me, fill
me, use me spirit
of the living God fall afresh on me
Lord we do want to thank you and
praise you and ask that tonight that your
Holy Spirit would come upon us and Lord
that whether we're just going home may we
return in the power of your Holy Spirit
as we get up tomorrow and Lord the
issues in front of us sufficient of the
day is the evil thereof there will be
plenty of things to handle there will be
in plenty of trials plenty of difficulties far
more than any of us could ever handle
ourselves Lord may that not worry us may
that thrill us may it be Lord that
we would wake up tomorrow and realize only
God could get me through the day in
victory only God could solve these problems only
God by his Holy Spirit could fill this
day could strengthen this marriage could bring music
to this home only God could work and
out the issues at the office only God
and Lord may we realize that's exactly how
you created our lives that's how you plan
the day tomorrow only God will get it
through right and Lord may that not frustrate
us may it thrill us may we be
able to turn and say well Lord if
that's the only way it can happen then
I'll need you and then's when you smile
say well your need of me is equaled
by my love for you my desire to
share my day with you as deep as
ever Lord may we realize that you long
to fill us all may we go in
your power may the thrill of sharing our
life with Jesus Christ be the thrill of
tomorrow may not be anything else we'll do
and any of the problems of the around
may we look forward to just spending the
day with you may you bless and help
and strengthen so we praise you and thank
you Father in Jesus' name.
Amen.
Well we usually close here I don't know
what you do but we're closing here but
here's the deal I have a bunch of
bodyguards here that I have protect me because
after I preach a lot of people try
to kill me often times.
Tonight maybe you're afraid I hope you're afraid
of tomorrow I hope you're afraid of the
thought of going through tomorrow without the Holy
Spirit I hope there's something there that you
realize tonight whether it's going on whatever it
may be that maybe some of you realize
you know I've been away or I need
a fresh work of the Spirit of God
and we'll just be around to pray with
you and the staff here and to minister
to you God would give to you his
power in his life that's what the body
of Christ is all about that's what thrills
heaven I believe God always measures out if
he just made us and said here anybody
could do it go do it just try
hard be good try hard and fly right
anybody could do it if that was Christianity
but that isn't it he's got it in
such a way only way without me Jesus
said you can do nothing what a day
you got to look forward to tomorrow without
him but what a day you got with
him I can do all things through Christ
you strengthens me amen God bless you