171 ~ HOLY SPIRIT BREAK OUT

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We are local church based here in Chennai, India, we are so

glad you are with us and hope that this will encourage Inspire

and in still, fresh faith. In you as we under seasoned of

Pentecost, we invite him into a time of looking at the Holy

Spirit through fresh eyes. We often look for breakthrough

to a Civ life-altering moment, but most often breakthrough

comes to the ongoing work of the holy spirit in our everyday

lives. How committed are we to Opening

Our Lives to the holy spirit so that he can make us more like

Jesus, will you invite him in and give him room?

Hello, everyone. It is wonderful to be back.

I know we were kind of missing for a few weeks so we were

visiting my wife's parents. So Spent about a month with

them. So it is good to be back with

you. And so we are in the middle of a

series that is looking forward to Pentecost.

So the focus of the series is the holy spirit.

So you would have heard from Tina.

Last week as she talked about Spirit Break Down how the Holy

Spirit transforms us purifies as cleanses us and today the theme

of the messages, Holy Spirit breakout so and I see you would

have seen the Opener. The image of fire.

So as I'm going through this message, if you're telling

yourself during a saw the opener, but I don't see how you

relate to that. I'm with you just hold on tight

and then we will get there at the end.

So our scripture Focus for today is going to be from Galatians,

Galatians 5:13–26

chapter 5 verses 13 to 26. However, I'm going to do

something different than I normally do normally I feel like

I get right into scripture, we read scripture, get into it, and

we go through that today, I'm gonna do something a little

different, so there are two very important things.

I want to talk about before we get into scripture.

So, we will focus on those two important things.

And then we will read scripture and go in to what we can get

from scripture today. Okay?

Now before I start, I'm going to say a word of prayer and then

we'll go from there. Heavenly Father, we thank you so

much for giving at this time to gather in Your Name.

Lord father we will always be grateful and forever will be

grateful that we can gather in your name that we have the

freedom and peace and the security do that here were and

we remember and let us always remember Lord, the people that

belong together, but do not have the security of the peace or the

safety to do that Lords. If I the we Pray for those who

because of your name because of their faith in your name because

they call on your name, have difficult lives, have lives.

That are filled with pain inflicted because of persecution

or just lives that are difficult.

Uncomfortable or for the. We ask that you would bring them

comfort that you spirit will lead them and give them

boldness. When they needed Lord and

courage, when they needed Lord and father, that you would give

them safety when they're in trouble.

When things are not safe that you would be their safety Lord,

that you would protect them, and you would leave them in here in

path to safety. Lord protect them.

Keep them focused on you or whatever, difficulty, they're

going to the Lord. Let it not.

Take their focus on the off you father.

Let it not take the focus off you, but let them always keep

their focus on. Work.

So father, we ask that you would speak to us that this would not

be just words and thoughts that I have had Lord, but father,

that it would be from you that you would speak to us that you

would give me the words to speak that you would give me the

thoughts that you would lead my thoughts.

Lord. And that, as I'm speaking, that

every thought I have everywhere that had will be held captive

Lord. And that you are the one.

One, that is orchestrating the sorts of father.

Speak to everyone, listening, speak to me and let our lives.

Be changed and transformed, as we hear from your father, in

Jesus name, we pray. Amen.

So we are looking forward to Pentecost and we are doing this

series that focuses on the holy spirit.

So this is part 2 of the series and the focus is the holy

spirit. But before we get into

scripture, I as I Was preparing for the message.

I came across a very interesting article that really grabbed my

attention. The article, the purpose of the

article was to talk about, What a possible barriers to be have

from engaging with the Holy Spirit, and as I read it, I

found it very interesting because I've never thought about

it in that sense that maybe there are certain barriers.

Are there certain patterns of thought?

Or the way we think that might keep us from engaging with the

holy spirit so I write it and I think that is a good starting

point as we look forward to panic us to talk about what

might be some barriers that keep us from fully engaging with the

Holy Spirit. It.

It's easy when we think of the father and when you think of

Jesus as son to visualize them as person or to think of them in

their personhood, when you think of Jesus it, the visuals that

come to mind are definitely that of a person, right?

And for Jesus, if that's pretty easy because he was God

incarnate, right? He was he lived on earth, he

took on human form and lived on. And he had, he had a face.

He had a body, so he took on human form.

So it is very easy when we think of Jesus, the son to think of

him as a person, and nothing really clouds our view of him as

anything, but a person. And then when we think of the

father, it is also quite easy for us to think of him as a

person to the these words. Father and son are very common

human words, very and did you know what relationships and So,

when we hear the word father and son, we automatically think of

persons. That is where our mind goes to.

Even with Jesus. When you think of him as a

person, it many times, at least my mind goes, even Beyond just a

human bodily form and there is a face that I attached to it.

Sadly it is the stereo typical like face that we see in

Renaissance art or or like class.

Local art pieces and sadly. It's not the Middle Eastern like

brown skin. Jesus, that was likely what he

looked like but when you think of the father, you may be

influenced like by Art, like I have and may put a face to him,

maybe a very strong but older man, with gray hair or maybe you

just Envision him as a person, but maybe not a face, but the

words Father and Son and the Fact that Jesus was on Earth,

living with us, makes it very easy for us to think of them as

person think of them in their personhood.

However, when it comes to the Holy Spirit or made ends, the

holy spirit is meant, is mentioned as the Holy Ghost.

We a person is not the first image that comes to our mind.

When we think of spirit or ghost, we tend to imagine

something. See the powering floating

around. If, some of you are my age, you

may think of Casper the Friendly Ghost and think of something

like that, right? And in many times, when we think

of the Holy Spirit, our questions are, what is it rather

than who is it, right? So now we I mean, the Holy

Spirit, Is the third person of the Trinity, right?

So he is the third person of the Trinity, and he has personhood.

So what are these barriers? That might prevent us from

thinking in that way? So one such thing is the way we

almost interpret or take, meaning, from the words that

scripture uses to describe the Holy Spirit, right?

So scripture uses certain words to describe the Holy Spirit, but

the meaning was We take from that is quite different to what

scriptures communicating so that could be a possible barrier.

So many of the words used to describe the Holy Spirit, our

fire wind water and and when you think of the baptism of Jesus,

when the Holy Spirit descends, it is like a bird or a do.

So these are words that scripture uses too.

Describe the actions of the Holy Spirit and not the status or

not, the person of the Holy Spirit, but many times the

meaning we derive could be that, these are words that describe

him as a person rather than describe his action.

So when we tell ourselves that these words describe him as a

person, this is a very inanimate things that have no human

quality. So we tend not to think of him

in this personhood when We think of these words as describing his

status, but in reality, these words, describe his actions as

in during Pentecost, when the Holy Spirit is described as this

wind, right? So, and then when he decided on

Jesus is described as a like a bird, or a dove.

So in those moments his activity or what he did is described in

those words and it is not his personhood that Describing

those, right? So this is one such barrier that

if we just think of it in the right way, I can help us get

past the hurdle that these words that are used to describe the

Holy Spirit. Our words used to describe his

activity, his actions. Not his personhood, not his

status and I mean there's some of the things that happen with

the father and the son, the son. The father is described many

times that God is described as a rock.

All right. And Jesus the son is we refer to

him as the lamb like these words in their cases don't serve as

barriers even though they're inanimate and they're not human

because we already have this pictures of of them as persons

but with the Holy Spirit they might so one is Considering the

fact that the words used to describe the Holy Spirit words

used to describe this activity and its actions and not his

personhood. Another way to help us along the

journey to be able to do it. I think of the Holy Spirit as a

person as a who rather than a what is looking at the word that

the Apostle John uses in the Gospel of John and the Epistle

of John, the word that the Apostle John uses, the Holy

Spirit. Is perfectly.

And so that's the word he was apparently perfectly.

It quite literally means someone who comes next to you.

Someone that comes alongside you to help you one who comes

alongside you one who comes alongside you to help you.

So it is and in many translations you can see that

the word paraclete is translated as Advocate counselor comforter.

So these are all words that are let me that have people that

cash to write a comforter or counselor is a person that you

could go to for counsel a comforter, somebody who comforts

you Advocate, someone who fights for you.

So when we think of this word and when we think of the Holy

Spirit and then we this word paraclete is brought into our

attention. Then it adds that personhood to

the holy Spirit because it talks about a person who comes

alongside you to help you. So and then one additional

thing, right? We hear the father, speak

throughout scripture. We hear Jesus speak in

scripture, especially in the gospels.

So hearing them speak helps us relate to them.

Oh, seeing their speech in scripture.

Helps us relate to them in their personhood, but Think seldom

have we seen how the Holy Spirit speaks, right?

That it's like, I mean, it's probably because there are many

examples of that, but there's one very clear example.

If you see it's acts 13:2, right?

Acts 13:2

It says, while they were worshiping the Lord and fasting.

The holy spirit said, set apart for me Barnabas and Saul for the

work to which I have called them.

So it doesn't say the Lord said the father said, or Jesus said

clearly the holy spirit said set them apart.

For I have called him. So, here is an example, very

clear example of the holy spirit is speaking and, and, and

communicating his will to the people.

So he is person. So just like we view the father

as a person at the Sun as a person, we can also view the

Holy Spirit as a person because He is a, is the third person in

the Trinity. He is, he is not 0 what he is,

most definitely a who, and a very important who he is, the

one who comes alongside you to help you.

He is God, in dwelling in you. So if any of those things that

we've mentioned, may have served as barriers for you in how you

engage with the holy spirit because you may have felt that

he's not Personable or personal in any way that is far from

reality. He is a person and he wants to

come alongside you and help you. Now why is this important to

talk about? It's important talk about

because it helps if we have not engaged with this thing.

If we have had barriers to engage with the Holy Spirit and

we are primarily focused on the father and the When it's

important because it gives us the pathway to elevate the Holy

Spirit and see him as equal with the father and son which is

right because it brings our Focus back to the Trinity.

It brings our Focus back to Art our Triune God, our God is

Trinity, our God is Triune as in one God, three persons.

If one in three three and one. So this has I mean it's very

important for us that we bring our Focus back and that when we

talk of God and when we think of God and when you view God that

we view him in this try, you informed.

And but in order to view Ministry informed, we have to

view them. The right way which is they are

equal God. The Father God, the son God.

Got the spirit are equal one God three persons right.

One in three and three and one. So Only one God and three

persons, three persons in perfect union.

Three persons that are mutually indwelling three persons that

are Perfect love. So there is perfect love.

There is perfect union and they're mutually involving,

right? So this is important because our

God and this picture of the Trinity.

Our Triune God is a picture of community three persons in

perfect union, right? If you can picture this, our God

is community because it is three.

Persons that are in perfect love and perfect union mutually in

developing each other. So that is why that we, if we

have not that we Elevate the other way, we view the holy

spirit so that we can view Our God.

The right way, our God isn't only father, it's an only son

and is it? Definitely not only Spirit, but

our God is the father is Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, our God is

trying. You and our God is Trinity.

And the implications that has is that when we view Our God, the

right way. As Triune as Trinity, Community

becomes valuable. We can't not but value Community

because our God itself is a picture of community because

three persons in perfect union, mutually indwelling, So why did

we work through that to come to this thing of value and

community? So now we are going to get into

scripture. I get.

So we reading from Galatians chapter 5 verses 13 to 26.

Galatians 5:13–26

I will read through a couple verses.

We'll talk about it, then we'll read bigger Chunk in the middle

and then we'll end up with a couple verses to background too.

Galatians. So this is the letter that Paul

is writing to the churches in galatia.

These are churches that he planted and now he's away.

And he is gotten wind of the trouble.

That is plaguing the churches. And he is filled with concern

and he pens this letter to address the concerns that are

going on. So, Paul preached the gospel to

them, they accepted the gospel and they came and Community of

the church was formed in galatia, however, as one spot

left, and in time people whose focus is not the gospel have

crept into the community. We, I heard one commentator

called them the agitators, so we could label them as the

agitators. These agitators Krypton, the

focus of the agitators was not the gospel.

The focus of the agitators. Who was the law so they were

promoting that it is the law that brings you to the family of

God and it was The Rite of circumcision that brings you

into the family of God. So Paul is writing this letter

to remind the people in the church in galatia that the

gospel was, is different from what these people are saying,

right? He's telling them, if you read

the first, Chapter of Galatians, you can see Paul is emphatic.

He tells them even if an angel shows up with a different

gospel, don't believe it because I proclaim the true gospel to

you. So he is writing to them and

calling them back to the gospel, calling them back to focus on

Jesus. And so we're going to read it

starting from Galatians chapter 5 verses 13 through 26.

Galatians 5:13–26

You my brothers and sisters were called to be free but do not use

your freedom to indulge the flesh.

Rather serve one another. Humbly in luck for the entire

law is fulfilled in keeping this one commandment, love your

neighbor as yourself. If you bite and devour each

other watch out, or you will be destroyed by each other.

So you start out with this theme of Freedom, so brothers and

sisters, you are free. So you have accepted the gospel

and through your faith in Christ.

You are free. But this Freedom, you have is

not free to do anything you want.

This freedom is have is you are free to love, not feed,

indulging, anything else. But you have the freedom Freedom

to love and when he talks about love he talks about love your

neighbor as yourself. So he talks about freedom and

that the reason for this freedom is you are free to love, not

anything else. I mean, of course you can use

that freedom or something, but he says the freedom that you

have is because you can use that freedom to love.

So let's keep in mind, freedom. And let's keep Ben mind love as

we keep reading. So before I move on verse 15,

right? He tells them if you bite and

devour each other watch out you will destroy each other, right?

Quite literally tells them If you bite it, eat each other or

stop biting and eating each other.

Really, I'm, and as I read this, I'm kind of wondering how bad

things get in galatia that he had to be so Stern in very

graphic with his words, right? So but just a thought that was a

tangent. So now back so next is verses 16

through versus 21. So I say walk by the spirit and

you will not gratify the desires.

Fires of the flesh for the flesh desires.

What is contrary to the spirit and the spirit, what is contrary

to the flesh? They are in conflict with each

other, so that you are not to do whatever you want.

But if you are led by the spirit, you are not under the

law, the acts of the flesh are obvious, sexual immorality,

impurity and debauchery idolatry, and Witchcraft, hatred

Discord, jealousy, fits of Rage selfish ambition.

Dissensions factions and envy drunkenness.

Orgies, and the like I warn you, as I did before that, those who

live like this will not inherit the kingdom of God.

So we started with you are free to love and then in that same

theme of Freedom, he goes on to say, walk by the spirit so you

don't gratify the desires of the flesh.

So I couple things to focus on in on here, when the face walk

by the spirit and how Paul holds two things in opposition, which

is the Flesh and the spirit. So when he's talking about the

Flesh and the spirit, the idea here is nine ideas.

We've seen in other Pauline letters where it is the physical

world and the world that is not seeing, like, you like words, we

have seen in the past of the higher authorities are

authorities powers. If the line.

So it's not it's not that meaning that's conveyed here.

Here it's more in terms of identity.

So he's contrasting them to see, is your identity In the Flesh,

or is your identity in the spirit.

If your identity is in the spirit then it means that Purity

is in Christ, your ideas in the Holy Spirit, the holy spirit is

what motivates you. The holy spirit is what power is

you so your motivation is from the Holy Spirit.

You are powered, I mean, by the holy spirit, so that is what the

team is trying to convey as an walk in the spirit walk by the

spirit is that you find your identity in Christ.

You find your identity in the Holy Spirit and your motivation

is from the Holy Spirit and the power with which you function is

also from the Holy Spirit. Or so, and it will keep reading.

So things to keep in mind, right?

You are free to choose, use your freedom to love.

And then walking by this great meeting.

You find your identity in the Holy Spirit, you find identity

in Christ. Now we're going to read the last

couple verses. This is verse 22 to 26, but the

fruit of the spirit is love joy, peace forbearance.

Kindness goodness faithfulness, gentleness and self-control

against such things. There is no law, those who

belong to Christ. Jesus have crucified, the flesh

with its passions and desires, since we live by the spirit, let

us keep in step with the spirit. Let us not become conceited,

provoking and envying. Being each other.

So, I have to thank my wife. Whom I love very much for this

next day as I was prepping for this.

I kept saying fruits of the spirit and she looked at me and

said, Jaron, it is singular. It is a single fruit of the

spirit and I don't think I personally have ever seen it

mentioned that way or very life. He what I was doing was not

paying attention, when someone was pointing it up.

So it is a singular fruit of the spirit.

It is not multiple fruits. The spirit, it is not multiple

in that you get to choose option, A, and B and not C and

D. It's not a situation where well,

my personality lines up more with self-control and goodness,

but kindness forbearance, Joy, love and peace really on

something I can dry with. So I get to pick two that I like

that my personality Rosemond and the rest.

I can discard, right? So that is not the case.

Case there is a single fruit of the spirit and that single fruit

of the spirit is all of these things.

It is not a pick and choose it is.

I want to say all or nothing, if you can keep it that way but it

is a single fruit. So and the fruit of the spirit

is because you are empowered by the spirit, our life, bear this

this fruit because of the Holy Spirit and not apart from him.

But because of him, however, there is a little caveat, right?

The holy spirit is not a spirit that Possesses you.

And causes you to do things that you don't want to.

He is not a spirit. Like the spirits that serve

God's enemy, that might possess people and take control.

He is not someone, he is not as per, the does that.

He's not a spirit is going to possess you to make you love to

possess you. To make you be kinder how to

make you have self-control, he is a Gentle Spirit, right?

So, the caveat is, Is, if you look at verse 25, it says, we

live by the spirit. Let us keep in step with the

spirit, one translation that I read, that really helped me out.

Was it says we lived at by the spirit and let us keep in line

with the spirit. So this fruit of the spirit,

this walking by the spirit, living by the spirit is think of

it as a shared responsibility. On civility.

The holy spirit is not going to. Possess you, and will you into

doing something or Force you? But he is going to come

alongside you and guide you and because he is the paraclete,

right? He's the one who comes alongside

and we have a shared responsibility to keep in line

to keep in step, a good analogy to think of this way, is a dance

in a dance. When two people dancing, there's

normally a lead partner, right? And then the other Unfollow.

So, imagine we are in a dance in the Holy Spirit is the lead what

it is. Our responsibility to follow.

And so again we have the theme of Freedom.

Well when back in right it is our choice to choose, right?

Freedom has been woven in to the last life to our life, as humans

since creation God, put the tree of the knowledge of Good and

Evil smack in the middle and told us, that's what it is.

Choose not to do it, we chose. so freedom is Part of our

Christian Life, we are free and because of that freedom we can

choose what is right. And in this case we have the

freedom to love and we have the freedom to walk in line and in

step with the holy spirit. So and when we choose that

freedom to do these things then These this fruit will flourish

in our lives. The holy spirit will develop and

will grow this fruit in our lives.

So as we read the rest, we are free.

We use our freedom to and we choose love and we are able to

love because we walk by the spirit.

We walk in line with the spirit we walk in step with this.

Spirit and we choose to follow him as he leads us.

We don't get ahead of him. What we choose to follow my see

leads us and as we choose to do that, he develops the fruit of

the spirit within us. He empowers us.

He is the one that motivates us, he is the power that is within

us. End.

So how does this relate to the opener that we saw?

And how does this relate to the theme of community?

I was trying to bring out about the Trinity, the Triune God.

So Paul is writing to a community, right?

He is writing to a group of people and calling them to do

this. So this letter is being read out

to a community. It is instructions to not a

single person but it's instructions to a community.

So this fruit of the spirit is not for any single person, but

this fruit of the spirit is for our community and it is to

sustain our community. So as we look forward to

Pentecost, right? We see how the Holy Spirit

arrived on the scene with power and might.

And as I use have expressing the past ones, like we as a church,

we are poised for For growth. I have no doubt that the holy

spirit will show up in power and might and there will be signs

and wonders according to is well I have no doubt about it and

that those signs and what it does signs will bring people in,

and this church will grow. And they will see our God for

the one true God that he is. And Now, those are specific

events where we see God's power. We see the power of the Holy

Spirit. Now how do we sustain that?

How do we continue to sustain the community as these people

who may have seen a science coming the way we sustain?

That is this the fruit of the spirit and that is how the

opener comes, and you saw the opener, right?

It was a control. Old fire.

So if we since we are free and we choose our freedom for the

Flesh and not the spirit, then it is like a forest, fire a

wildfire, that is out of control and everything it touches it.

Ravages it destroys and that thing is no more.

So, however, because we are free, we can choose Love and we

can choose the spirit and we can walk in line with the spirit so

that the fruit of the holy spirit is developed within us.

And when we do that, it is that controlled fire that spreads and

whatever it touches it does not destroy, but it purifies, it is

not out of control. It's focused and its purpose as

its Prejudice to purify. So when we, because we're free,

we Choose to be in line with the spirit and when we interact with

and when we relate to people, within the walls in the church

or outside, and we choose to relate, to them in kindness over

unkindness, may choose to relate, to them with compassion,

over Envy. When we choose to relate, to

them in peace and goodness over. Malice The holy spirit is

breaking out in those moments. The power of the holy spirit is

just as much there in those moments as it is there in signs

and wonders. So those moments is where the

holy spirit is breaking out. Those moments is where the fire

is spreading. And I tell you definitely, when

the fruit when you develop the Fruit of the Spirit and the Holy

Spirit shows up in power and might through the fruit of the

Holy Spirit. In your interactions with people

who may not know. Jesus, definitely.

Holy spirit is breaking out there as they see your life

being transformed. There's only one reason for that

transformed life, and it's the one true God.

So that is how the holy spirit will sustain us.

That is how he will break out. He will use the fruit and spread

that he's developing within us and as we come together in

community as As we grow together in community, he will use the

food that he's developing within us to sustain us and to help us

girl and this Holy Spirit fire that breaks out.

Cannot be stopped. Thank you so much for joining us

and watching us. I would love to pray with you

and then I'll close up. Heavenly Father, we thank you so

much for giving us this time. Thank you for showing us.

What you long for us to your scripture?

Lord, thank you that you are longing for us is that we would

walk in line with your spirit that you are longing for us is

that we would that we would develop in the fruit of the

spirit that we would walk in line that your Holy Spirit would

Empower us and develop those the fruit of the spirit within us.

Cory. But it helped us.

Do always choose the fruit over anything else.

Our father, thank you for giving us the freedom to choose Empower

us to make the right choices Empower us to always choose

righteousness, over wickedness, or Empower us, to always choose

the fruit of the spirit versus choosing the flesh word.

Father, we love you, we thank you for who you are.

And we thank you that you care so deeply about asleep.

In Jesus name, we pray. Amen.

May the love of the Father, the grace of his only son Jesus and

the sweet Fellowship of the Holy Spirit, be with you as you go

out, keep in mind that the holy spirit is developing his fruit

within you and I did we are called to walk in step with the

holy spirit. So as you go out, walk in step

with the Holy Spirit. Hmm listening to this message.

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