170 ~ HOLY SPIRIT BREAK DOWN

Hi, and welcome to the, we assign some podcast.

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 instill, fresh bait in you, as we under seasoned of

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

Spirit through fresh eyes. We often look for You threw a

massive 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?

I shared with me joy to bring God's word to you today, we have

three weeks in the lead-up to Pentecost Sunday and we're going

to be looking at Different. Descriptors used to describe the

holy spirit in the word of God over the next three weeks.

As you just saw this video, we saw the effects of wind the

powerful effects of wind continued effects of wind.

We don't just see the effect of wind in the moment.

It's a lifelong continual process and when we look at the

Holy Spirit, we see him being described as a wind, we see him

being described as fire. We see him being described as

water across the word of God, and they might be, it was just

might seem you know, Coincidently do that.

They use these natural elements in the word of God to describe

the Holy Spirit, but I don't believe it's coincidence.

I believe that it's very remarkable because it is so it's

so similar to the way the holy spirit is he.

So transformative, he's so powerful.

He's so sustained in his work in our life.

It's not a one-off momentous thing but it's something that he

does in our lives throughout our lives.

And so I believe that just like these three elements of fire

wind. And Doc's.

Don't leave things. The same way once it is touched

by one of these elements things change forever in the same way

those of us who have experienced the Holy Spirit and life is

never the same. I'm sure you can attest to that.

So today we're going to be looking at the Holy Spirit as a

wind and a title. My sermon Holy Spirit break

down, you're going to be looking at how similar to a when the

Holy Spirit touches us and and doesn't leave things as it were

was before we're looking at Acts chapter 2, verses 1 to 2 just to

Acts 2:1–2

Understand this in its context. When the day of Pentecost had

come, they were all together in one place and suddenly, a sound

came from heaven, like a rushing wind, and it filled the whole

house, where they were sitting sound came, it was like a

rushing violent wind. That was the coming of the Holy

Spirit on the day of Pentecost, and we know what happened after

that, the wind that came that day changed.

The lives, forever changed the lives of those disciples who

were in that room. And we believe over the next

three weeks is our At as the teachers who be teaching this,

the city's art is a hair is that the Holy Spirit Will begin to a

new work. In each of our lives, our theme

for the month of May has been breakthrough.

And many times we have misunderstood that breakthrough

is something huge and visible and and you know like just like

you know, comes in with a bank. But the truth is breakthrough is

often times. Just a continued weathering

close as a process where God is doing Something is doing a, an

act of renewal in our lives, which is continued, which is

sustained, which is for the Long Haul.

And it is in realizing that it's recognizing that, that we

experience our breakthrough. And we believe that over this

month over the next three weeks, we are believing for such an

experience in each of Our Lives. We are believing that God is

going to do great things. He's going to bring about

breakthroughs in different ways but that we would be alert to

it. We will be so sensitive to the

Lee Spirits move. Even as I said, the title

today's sermon, the spirit breakdown and to understand that

more I just want us to look at this picture.

This is a picture of the Grand Canyon and this is situated in

the United States. It's found in the state of

Arizona and it is breathtaking, this place, something about it,

it's added is Barren. And yet, there is so much Beauty

all around simply because those rock formations were were

achieved because Of a continual process of which was initiated

by the wind the Colorado, River Runs right below the Ravine.

And it's carved a beautiful finish in between this Canyon

but right on top where you stand all around.

If you noticed a such beautiful formations.

The Red Rock has been shaped has been carved.

Has been, you know, just exposed in the most beautiful ways all

because of the Winds and that area.

And I'd like us to look at our lives.

Maybe you've been walking through An exceptionally Bad in

season, maybe even walking through a hard season.

Maybe it's even been a good season, but they have been its

highs and lows like for everyone else.

What is we allow the Holy Spirit to move like that wind and the

Grand Canyon be allowed him to use situations and life and

people to whether us to shape us to bring Beauty out of all that

baroness. That's what the Holy Spirit

does. Many times, we're waiting for

that one, big break to and we forget to look that in the

everyday. There are continuous moments

where the Holy Spirit stepping and he's intervening his nudging

as he's helping us, he's teaching us Is someone was for

helps us understand the action of the wind.

It says, the wicked are not, so they're like the shaft that the

wind drives away. If you watched another Indian

context women who are, you know, sieving their rice, or their

wheat when they're lifting it, they actually hit it on a tray

and when they do that because of the wind, that's moving around

all around them, the rice, settles the weed settles on the

tree for all of the husk and the the shaft.

Is driven away many times. The Holy Spirit does that in our

lives. And that's what we're going to

be looking at closer as we understand how the Holy Spirit

breaks down. The holy spirit is always at

work. Jesus said I'm at work just

because I see my father at work and we are always at work and so

it goes to say the holy spirit is no different.

He is on the father's business. He is on track in terms of

accomplishing. What Jesus wants to do in each

one of us. We're going to be looking at two

passages of scripture, just to understand how the Holy Spirit

Works in us, like a wind. And as we look at it, I want to

ask you that, you would not take my word for it, that you would

spend time. After this meditating on the

same two scriptures and asking God to show you things in your

life, we're going to be first looking at 2 Corinthians chapter

2 Corinthians 10:3–5

10 verses 3 to 5. Can we read that together?

It says for though, we walk in the flesh is mortal.

Men, we are not carrying on a spiritual warfare according to

the Flesh and using the weapons of, man, the weapons of our

Warfare are not physical weapons, of Flesh and Blood.

Our weapons are divinely powerful for the destruction of

fortresses. We are destroying sophisticated

arguments and every exalted. In proud thing that sets itself

up against the true knowledge of God, and we are taking every

thought and purpose captive to The Obedience of Christ.

When you look at this this is how I want to condense the whole

thing. The Holy Spirit breaks down the

old because you probably said holy spirit break down, that

sounds so destructive it sounds so contrary to what I know of

the Holy Spirit true but the holy spirit is powerful and he

is avidly involved in destroying, destroying and

pulling down things that are ungodly things that are not

meant to be analyzed. So remember this, the Holy

Spirit? Breaks down the old.

What is this old stuff that he wants to break down?

When you look at the passage, you see that?

We are all Walking In the Flesh. We Are All Flesh.

We are human were as mortal as Motley gets, just get one viral

few and you know, just how human you are.

We walk in the flesh, but we don't War as in the flesh.

When you look at how the world operates, when you look at how

Cutthroat things are and the real world, how people get ahead

of others, or people cut people's cut someone else down

on social media, how people treat each other in person.

We realize that those of us who have Jesus, those of us who know

Jesus and those of us who are living spirit-led cannot operate

like, then there has to be a distinction and so Says the

world operates a certain way, but those of you who are filled

with Spirit, have have a different kind of power at your

disposal. He says, our weapons are

divinely powerful for the destruction for SLI of

fortresses. What does the Holy Spirit want

to break you want? Start wants to break down

fortresses in another translation and explains it

better. It says strongholds, the enemy

has built strong bonds in a life based on certain photos that we

have given to him. They've been to a times in my

life when I gave an open. So for him through fear and in

he came, fear intimidation Panic, disturbance disorder.

Why? We she comes in like a flood.

When we give him a little woman who doesn't just stop there.

He builds a stronghold around that.

And in that stronghold, he operates from that.

She runs our life from within that strong bold that he is

built. And the Holy Spirit, is the one

who comes in alerts us to that stronghold and pulls it down and

a microphone. This is a seats of power for the

enemies where he operates from within us.

And the truth, is that once we accept Jesus, and once we give

room to the Holy Spirit, he comes to remove him from that

Throne. We have built some that

stronghold because when you read the Psalms again and again it

says you are my refuge. You are my strong worry.

Oh my strong tower. You are my Fortress who are we

addressing were talking about Jesus.

So often in our lives the stronghold has that has been

built has been built by the Me and for the enemy, but the Holy

Spirit begs to differ. He says, I am your weapon.

I pull down that Fortress. Some of us have given open doors

by bitterness anger unforgiveness Envy.

Apathy, so many open doors. Where the enemy has come in and

set up tent. He has built a throne and it's

time to Dethrone the enemy. It's time to get him to vacate

that stronghold, so that our soul stronghold is God himself.

That's what the Holy Spirit. Does he breaks down strongholds

that have been created. He also pulls down find sounding

arguments. That's what it says.

He says every sophisticated argument is brought down.

We have a lot of new age philosophies.

We have a lot of sophisticated sounding philosophy is now they

sound just about right, but they're not the tube, they sound

good, but they're not in keeping with the word of God are not in

keeping with what God wants for us.

A lot of times we also have opinions, we have opinions about

everything. You talk to the youngest little

child to have an opinion about what they want to eat.

They have an opinion about what they like watching on YouTube.

Everyone has opinions and a lot of times as we grow in our walk

with God, the Holy Spirit reveal certain opinions which are

absolutely ungodly. He will show to you how you win

having certain things that have been set up in your mind, which

are so contrary to the word of God, maybe someone drove a

culture around you. When you were growing up, which

taught you, something about God, which is not really about God,

and he saying, hey, that's not of God.

The beautiful thing about the Holy Spirit is that when he

breaks down, he pulls down these things which are absolutely.

Contrary to the word of God, to the knowledge of God into the

character of God, it's time that we gave him room.

It's it ends. The verse ends in a beautiful

note. It says and we are taking

captive every thought and purpose to The Obedience of

Christ. The only condition here that the

holy spirit gives us as them. We need to come too.

Leaves of inviting him in and taking every thought captive,

what does that mean? We need a thought arises about

taking Revenge because we want to wage war with the person

who's Waging War with us. He says be still and know that I

am God. I am your defense, I fight for

you. Maybe there's a time when you

have thought that you need to do certain things to achieve

certain Targets in your own way. But the holy spirit will say,

wait, I have better plans for you.

I want to prosper you I will need is a beautiful, because

when we begin taking every thought, captive, we revisit the

things, we thought we knew we assume someone is the enemy.

When the holy spirit says, wait, they're not, there's an enemy

behind that. Don't take it out on this

person, may be in your marriage. You've been looking at your

spouse in the aps, the enemy and he's saying, stop take the

thought captive. I United you with that person

for a purpose, they are not the enemy.

There is a common enemy, look at him.

Maybe you've been looking at your children and thinking

there's no hope. He says take that thought

captive instead declare the word of God over them.

Speak Life into them. The holy spirit is avidly,

breaking down things, even as I speak right now, I believe that

he's revealing things to you opinions, arguments, exalted,

and proud prideful things in your life, which he says, I

don't want those there because they're taking up precious,

Throne space, they taking up Chris Is wrong.

That room has to be filled by only one other, the Holy Spirit

breaks down sinful and God resistant areas in our life.

All of us have it. We think that all of us in a man

has been, you know, surrender to God.

But he'll often times. Remind remind assume this part

of your work life, you haven't surrendered it to me because you

think you can do better this part of your parenting.

You think you've sorted it out, but I have better plans for you.

This part of that relationship. You Think you've got it down pat

but I want to change some things in it.

That's God for you, that's the holy spirit for you.

And the beautiful thing is that in his breaking down of things

as hard as it sounds as scary as it sounds.

Because you when we think about breaking down, we just imagine a

hammer. We imagine just smashing

something, and that's so destructive.

But the Holy Spirit when he breaks down, he's actually

bringing so much of Beauty from all of that baroness.

He's bringing so much of purpose, out of that process,

nothing. Wasted when the Holy Spirit is

at work in US. But there's also this question

that we must ask ourselves. If the holy spirit is breaking

down something, shouldn't he also be building up?

Stuff? Is he only about destruction?

It's like I said, it's not destructive when the Holy Spirit

breaks down the ungodly things in our life and it breaks down

strongholds. He's actually making room for

fresh. Life is actually making room for

more of God in our lives. And so I believe the second part

of this is as much as the Holy Spirit breaks down the old.

Old, he's breaking in the new. So those of you have bought a

shoe which has been one size, too small.

You know, what, it's like to break in a new shoe, you know,

that feeling where your feet feel like they want to die

because of lack of oxygen. You feel like the blood from

your toes or your healer is going to flood the shoe because

it's so painful. Breaking in new shoes, is no

joke, but it takes time. It happens over time.

If you're a car Enthusiast, you probably, you know, this that

you need to break in a car over a period.

For, you know, you're not supposed to go at very high

speed. You're not supposed to do very

long drives for the first year until you reach, you know, a

threshold of a certain amount of KM breaking into something is

basically easy into something and the Holy Spirit is so

beautiful that in stepping into our lives.

When we invite him, she's so willing to lead us on this

journey but it's a step-by-step thing.

A lot of us. The minute we I remember when I

accepted Jesus, when I was in eighth grade I thought my life

was going to be radically different overnight.

So I attended that that, you know, assembly at school.

I came home, I was on a high and within a few hours, everything

went back to normal. It was just like a regular day,

my brother and I probably had an argument or two.

I was probably disobeying my parents at that point and it,

everything seemed normal. And as we get older, as we have

these encounters with Jesus, the only way for lasting

transformation only way for sustained.

Transformation. Our Lives is the holy spirit

without him. It will be a one-off thing.

It'll be a momentous moment but they won't be sustained.

Change. The beautiful thing is that the

Holy Spirit breaks us into the new way of life into the Jesus

way of life. He does it day by day because

let's face it. The new way is not easy.

I was recently listening to a story of one of our friends was

telling us about a guy who came and stayed with him.

He came high on drugs. Eggs.

He was in such a bad place within a month.

He got to know. Jesus, personally, got to

understand who this Jesus was and just one night, he made a

simple prayer accepted Jesus into his heart overnight.

His life changed, his desire for drugs left him, he was able to

stay clean. He was able to serve others with

love. He said he was filled with the

love that he never had before. That's God for you.

That's the holy spirit in you, he over the next six months,

gradually change began to happen.

He who was unemployable within a few months was able to get a

job. And today he's getting ready to

get married that kind of sustained.

Change, only happens when the Holy Spirit has room to work.

Because as much as he's breaking down the old, he breaks in the

new, he brings in that new way of life.

Jesus himself said, you know, that many walk On the broad path

but the broad path leads to destruction.

He says few find the narrow way. The narrow way is not easy.

The new life is one of internal change in order.

That one's entire life is changed.

So often we think that when someone is born again, that

their behavior should change, but even before Behavior changes

Behavior change is important, but it's an internal change

something shifts inside. The need to please the flesh

drops and the desire to please. The spirit takes greater

precedence. We're going to be looking at a

very familiar passage to understand what this new life

looks like is a passage from The Book of Ezekiel.

And we know this passage where the spirit of God takes Ezekiel

to this place. And says, look at all these Dry

Bones is the house of Israel prophecy to these bones that

they would come back to life. And that's what we're going to

be reading is equal to 37 versus 5. 26 thus says the Lord got to

these bones behold. I will make breath enter you so

that you may come to life, I will put sinews on.

You make flesh grow back on your cover.

You with skin and I will put breath in you, so that you may

come alive. And you will know that I am the

Lord verse 14, I will put my spirit in.

You, you will come to life and I will place you in your own land,

then you will know that I the Lord have spoken and fulfilled

it. Says the Lord very interesting

he says I will bring breath into you to make you laugh.

So he puts the bones back together, he puts the muscles

on, he grows the flesh, he puts the skin on them and then he

says I will put breath in you and he continues by saying I

will put my spirit in you. The Holy Spirit comes into us to

give us that new life. It's incredible.

How so many of us can sometimes try to experience and strive to

experience this new life in Jesus, without the Holy Spirit.

But the sad truth is, it's not possible.

It is not possible because our own efforts even the best of it,

even the greatest willpower, you know, when that the greatest

amount of striving we can do to, you know, do the right thing

will not be sufficient to have sustained change to have

long-term transformation. It only happens when the Holy

Spirit. Is involved.

I love what Jesus says John 6 verse 63.

John 6:63

He says the holy spirit is the one who gives life that which is

of the natural realm is of no. Help the words.

I speak to you are spirit and life.

Jesus himself is giving us the foundation for this new life in

him. He saying it's the Holy Spirit,

he will come, he will give you life.

So believing in. Jesus is the first step is

believing that our access to God is through Jesus.

And then It is enabling access to the Holy Spirit to come into

our lives. And do with us as he sees fit.

It's a powerful Paradigm. When we start to shift that

thinking and saying so I've been trying to do this on my own, no

wonder I've been feeling I I try to not lose my temper with the

children but within two hours of them being on a on the summer

break. I just given to you know, saying

something foolish, pushing them away from me.

What if I employed the Holy Spirit into every aspect of my

life? Be dealing with the house, help

be dealing with people at work, be dealing with my church

friends. We'll be dealing with anyone if

I allow the Holy Spirit to intervene if I allow the Holy

Spirit to actually breathe life into every space, what would my

life look like maybe then? John 10:10 would actually begin

John 10:10

to start happening because Jesus said I have come to give you

life in abundance many times. We forget that that's not just

eternal life, not just life after death, it's life before

death Because let's face it. If you're going to live to be

80, I don't want to be waiting to die and see Jesus.

But I also want to be living in such a way that I please Jesus,

right now I'm until 80. I can't have a useless fruitless

life. I need to have a fruitful

Abundant Life until then and the Beautiful Thing is of holy

spirit. Makes that happen.

The holy spirit is the one who brings an abundant life here on

Earth. Wendy Walk With Jesus.

Let's not kid ourselves. It's not like all days are high

days. Some days are regular days.

Some days are less than regular. We have terrible setbacks, we

have hard relationship decisions to make.

We have difficult corporate decisions to make things are

hard. Finances are hard, health issues

happen. Let's face it were human but the

beautiful thing is that as much as our days can be so mundane

some days part. When we have the Holy Spirit in

us, a new creation, life is possible that right where we are

at in the hard moments, we still have a new, we have a new

perspective, we have a new way of looking at things.

Just outside our church. Just when I was coming in to

preach this message, I saw the small side with just was so

profound. There is a small dust bin where,

you know, people have thrown a couple of things and it just

looks really messy. It's got a whole bunch of old

stuff thrown in it but there's a bit of soil and out of that dust

bin has bloomed a beautiful button, Rose bunch.

And the color of the Rose is just Unbelievable.

It's a magenta is beautiful. And so in that dry almost

useless space, this plant has taken root and is bearing fruit.

Looking so beautiful, adding so much color to that space and I

was watching that and I came up and I was just thinking about it

that that Rose didn't care that, it was located in the worst

possible location, it didn't care that.

It's exposed to the direct heat of the Chennai.

Son, it's blooming where it's granted.

And the new creation life is something like that.

That even if you're in, you're at your most bad and even if

you're at the lowest season of your life, you're looking at it

with hope. You're looking at it saying, I

can go to sleep knowing that tomorrow tonight.

The next day following days, Jesus is with me.

I'm not alone. I can look at the worst

situations happening. Right now unfolding before me

and seeing God, you still have something good that you're going

to bring out of this. I can trust him to fight for me

and speak up for me. Even when I cannot, that's the

beautiful thing about the new creation life.

It's one where I can entrust the most dead parts of my life to

him, knowing that he will breathe a fresh breath upon, it

knowing that he can resurrect anything.

Should he choose to? I know that with him in my life

out of the most broken places good can come out of it.

The Abundant Life promised by Jesus is only facilitated by the

presence of the Holy Spirit In Our Lives.

Let's not kid ourselves. Let's not assume that if I try

and attempt to live the best life possible In My Own

Strength, I can do it. You don't have to do that.

The holy spirit is our helper. Jesus himself, said, I need to

go. So then I can send my helper to

you. It was something that Jesus

Promised and Jesus insured. What come to us?

The holy spirit is God With Us. He is with us.

He's helping us. So if you are in a process where

you feel, I'm going through some sort of weathering and getting

pillock and getting beaten by Pebbles and stones and all of

that, don't worry about it. The holy spirit is doing the

work of breaking down things in your life that need to be broken

down and he is going to break in you life.

As I wrap up. I just want to remind you that

this Holy Spirit a lot of times we don't give him room because

we think well I've heard these stories about what the anointing

looks like. I've heard that it's it's it

could embarrass somebody. It could be too loud.

It could be too noisy. I want to just quiet and your

spirit for that for a few minutes.

I have a whole bunch of Bougainville on my garden

because I'm only capable of looking after hard.

Woody plants like that. And many times over the over the

summer, I forgotten to water the plants in a couple of the edges

of the plants have grouped or the, the the stem has gotten

briquette. So when there's a strong Breeze,

those dead parts of the plant fall off and they just get

pushed around by the wind and the usually taken away far away

from the plant. But the very same wind, which

does that to the Bougainville. I've been watching.

Also when I sit on the balcony, I see many, many cotton seeds

which are flying around in the wind looking for pollination

opportunities and it's beautiful because same wind the Holy

Spirit who pulls down things that don't belong in our lives,

the one who empties our life of things that are fruitless and

unproductive is the same. Holy Spirit who brings Fresh

Life in the same. Holy Spirit.

And who brings fruitfulness out of seemingly fruitless

situations. So the holy spirit is a gently.

Gently guide is gently helper. He doesn't want to shake you up

like a tornado. He doesn't want to beat you

like, a hurricane. That's not his intention.

His intention is to do his gentle work on a constant

consistent basis, so that the change is sustained.

So that the change is for a lifetime, if you will allow him

in, if you Make room, if you will.

Consciously in vitamin C, Holy Spirit.

I need you. I am struggling.

I don't know how to guard my mouth.

I don't know how to say the right thing at the right time.

I don't know how to respond to certain people.

I don't know how to lead this new life, you're calling me to

Live, help me, I can assure you that the holy spirit, intervenes

in the most beautiful ways, he is your constant companion, she

is your guide. He is your counselor, he is your

comforter, he's going to help you over the next three weeks.

As we get closer to Pentecost Sunday, our desire for you is

that you will experience the holy spirit's touch in every

area of your life. Maybe you're saying this part of

my marriage is so dead. It cannot be resurrected the

holy spirit's probably going to see one of it.

I can resurrect that maybe you've been seeing my work.

Life is so dead end. I don't have any purpose here.

The holy spirit is going to bring fresh purpose.

Maybe not in that job. Maybe somewhere else.

Maybe right in that job. May be saying you wait stay

there. I'm going to change things as I

pray this evening for you. This is what I want to leave

with you. That you would invite the Holy

Spirit and not just into particular areas but tell him to

flood your whole life. Tell him to shine a light on the

Dark Places. Tell him you're welcome to move.

The things around that are not meant to be there and you're

welcome to usher in the new. Can we do that together?

Father God, we just thank you we thank you for your son Jesus.

We especially thank you for the Holy Spirit.

We thank you that he is so kind and mindful of us.

We thank you that he knows your heart and mind, and that when we

allow him in, he directs our parts, he helps us learn.

And father, we right now, ask that you would give us the holy

spirit that you would anoint us afresh.

I mean, ask holy spirit that you will move in our life and

displace things that are not meant to be there.

Pull down every ungodly stronghold, pull down every

lofty opinion and sophisticated sounding argument.

Help us take captive every thought.

Holy Spirit. We also invite you in to breathe

life into a bottle bodies. We ask that you would refresh

our hearts. Refresh.

Our minds, Breathe new life into our bodies.

Father, Breathe new life into our marriages.

Breathe new life into a singleness.

Breathe new life into our children.

Breathe new life into our careers, into our educational

spaces. So that Lord, we will live the

life that pleases you be want to live abundant lives father.

So help us help us. We invite you in holy spirit, we

give you room in Jesus name we pray.

Amen. God bless you have an amazing

week and give room for the Holy Spirit to really, you know, do

the things that he chooses to do.

Going to be an amazing journey. God bless you.

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