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  1. You're listening to a message to go from acts church.

  2. We hope this message will light up your team.

  3. This year our team is revival. Right.

  4. Last year was discipleship first. This year our team is revival.

  5. And if we have this statement, it says, revival starts

  6. with us. Revival starts with us, And uh, what is revival?

  7. What is revival? I think God gave me this revelation

  8. of what revival really means living.

  9. So what is revival?

  10. Living with the reality that God lives in us? So

  11. our lives, we live with the reality, with the realization,

  12. with the fullness, with the conviction that God lives in us. Okay,

  13. So revival is the restoration of God's presence in the people,

  14. restoration of God's presence in his people. And it really is, like,

  15. so this year's theme is revival. You're going to talk

  16. a bit about revival all throughout the next few weeks.

  17. We'll talk about the Holy Spirit, but you can go

  18. to the next light.

  19. David, Yeah, but I want to.

  20. I want to as we start this morning and from

  21. the different scenarios we have we have just discussed, I

  22. want to talk a little bit about what that word

  23. personal revival means to me, okay, rather than because if

  24. you talk about revival, sometimes we read stories about how

  25. or there's a revival happening in United States in that

  26. campus somewhere, and there's an out touring of the of

  27. you know, the spirit, and there's people singing, and there's

  28. this outward experience of what revival means. But today I

  29. want to to remind us that that and also suggests

  30. that really revival starts with us.

  31. It's a personal journey and.

  32. Rather than revival that comes from external experiences.

  33. So followed me for a while.

  34. So imagine we're in a place and you're caught up

  35. in faith because you know, you know, the sound and

  36. worship was awesome, the lights were great, and I feel

  37. so revived to just to praise and pray, and it

  38. happens like externally in that moment. But what happens if

  39. that revival starts from williness, right, it is an awareness

  40. that we have of God's presence. It's a conviction that

  41. we have in our hearts, and I begin.

  42. To then live a revived life.

  43. Right, So it's not about the place or where revival

  44. is happening. And this year, as we go into this

  45. team of revival, I want to help remind us that

  46. it's not about not just about the externals, not just

  47. about the expressions of revival. But it starts from within us. Okay,

  48. remember that Samaritan woman at a well when she got

  49. a chance to meet Jesus, and she asks just one question,

  50. you know.

  51. Where how do we worship?

  52. Should we worship on this mountain or the Jews say

  53. we should worship here? And Jesus response wasn't just telling

  54. about a place or physical experience, but he he draw

  55. her to the to the answer of who the worshiper is,

  56. true worshiper that will worship God in spirit and in truth.

  57. So it really is about the person, which is you

  58. and me. So point your neighbor and said, revival starts

  59. with us. Okay, all right, so we'll we'll just we'll

  60. do a little Bible study. And it's really coming from

  61. John chapter fourteen, John chapter fourteen, and mainly this bunch

  62. of verses in John chapter fourteen. And I've been reading

  63. the Book of John. It's really powerful. It really shows

  64. how divine Jesus is. So most most of the references

  65. will be from John chapter fourteen. And and remember how

  66. we started earlier with with knowing that revival starts with

  67. us and the presence of God in our lives makes

  68. the difference.

  69. Okay. And remember when.

  70. Moses was given the choice to go to the Promised

  71. Land without God's presence or stay before the Promised Land

  72. and continue to enjoy the presence of God. What Moses choose.

  73. He wanted God's presence. So John chapter fourteen has has this.

  74. The team of the whole chapter is a bit like

  75. dumbank dan pastor. So dumbank dana pastor in Bahasa means

  76. dumbank can I ask you something? Dubans can I ask

  77. you something?

  78. Right? So it was this.

  79. Disciples of asking Jesus a question and just answer. And

  80. then Philip asks one quite silly question and she gonna tame.

  81. But you know he he got he Jesus read most words.

  82. Ah, this discipline or like you know, just rebuild, rebuilt him,

  83. like rebuked him a little bit. Okay, but that's just

  84. a bit of context. The main the main verse which

  85. I want to start with today is from John chapter fourteen,

  86. verse twenty three, and he says this, if anyone loves me,

  87. he will keep my word, and my father will love him,

  88. and we will come to him and make our home

  89. with him, make our home with him. So we've been

  90. singing this song called Inhabit, inhabit, you know the song.

  91. My kids also love that song. We've been worshiping with

  92. it in the car. And before introduce the title, I

  93. want to read some of the words from the song.

  94. Okay, to.

  95. Remind us what we've been singing love Because when I

  96. heard the first heard the song inhabit and the title Inhabit,

  97. I'm like, what kind of song is this?

  98. Is it a Christian song?

  99. Like we're singing about habitats and places?

  100. So it was.

  101. Inhabit was written by Austin Johnson, Hannah Waters, and Corey

  102. Miller last year in twenty twenty five. If you haven't

  103. been singing it, you know, I'm just going to read

  104. the word the words to you. So in the verse

  105. it says, I just want to be a place for

  106. you to do well. I just want to be a

  107. place for you to well, a habitation here that hosts

  108. you well. I'll be the sacrifice, a living offering, So

  109. come and make your home inside of me. Chorus says,

  110. and Lord, your presence is all It's all that I

  111. want Jesus, there's nothing worth more than you.

  112. You are the reward, You are the prize.

  113. Come inhabit my whole life and in the bridge the

  114. declaration is the one thing that I'm living for, the

  115. one thing that I'm living for is just to know

  116. and to love you, Lord, whatever the cost, Lord, all

  117. I want is you.

  118. I just want you and to me.

  119. If we really live our lives singing inhabit the song,

  120. if you really live our lives this way, and if

  121. you live our lives as John fourteen to any three says,

  122. I truly believe we are living in revival. If we

  123. really live our lives knowing that the God of the

  124. universe lives in me and it not only affects, but

  125. it directs my decisions, my words, my actions, then we're

  126. living in revival.

  127. Right.

  128. So my title today is God's Home, God's Home, God's Home.

  129. I'll go through four points very simply, and it's the

  130. journalistic approach to looking at scripture. I'll cover where, what, who,

  131. and why in John chapter fourteen. So let's stop the

  132. first point and we're digging description now, Okay, let's go.

  133. The first point is where where is God's Home? Where

  134. is God's Home. Let's read from John chapter fourteen, verse

  135. twenty two. It's on the screen. You can also read

  136. on the Bibles. So in verse twenty two, there was

  137. this question. Judas not discourried, one of the other disciples,

  138. say to him, Lord, how is it that you will

  139. manifest or show or reveal yourself to us and not

  140. to the world. And Jesus answered and said to him,

  141. if anyone loves me, he will keep my word, and

  142. my father will love him, and we will come to

  143. him and make our home with him. So we read

  144. that earlier, verse twenty four. He does not love me,

  145. does not keep my words. And the word which you

  146. hear is not mine but the fathers who said me. So,

  147. if the question is where is God's home, what would

  148. answer be.

  149. In us? Yep. But it's not just a given right,

  150. it's conditional.

  151. Does it mean that if you're a Christian declared Jesus

  152. as my Lord and Savior, God lives in me?

  153. Right?

  154. Does it mean that if I'm just a human being,

  155. God doells within me, I'm the temple of the Holy Spirit.

  156. Because in the book of John it says that if

  157. anyone loves me, he will keep my word. And my

  158. father will love him and we will come to him

  159. and make our home with him. So it is condition

  160. and the answer is where is God's home from this versus,

  161. It's in the person who loves God and keeps his commandments?

  162. Super simple, right. So the question is do you want

  163. God to be within you? Do you want God to

  164. dwell in you? The answers yes. First, yes, I want

  165. God to live in me in this temple, and I

  166. want him in my life.

  167. It answers yes.

  168. Then the next thing is where and how it will

  169. be in the person that loves God and keeps his commandments. Right,

  170. So you can ask me a but you you say

  171. that God is also omnipresent, right. Omnipresent means God's everywhere.

  172. God is everywhere? Then how can he only be in

  173. one person or certain conditions apply?

  174. Right?

  175. So I think we need to understand this word manifests

  176. here is also very important because yes, God is omnipresent,

  177. that's his nature.

  178. God is so powerful he's everywhere.

  179. He's omnipresent at the same time, but that's also the

  180. manifest presence of God. Not going into deep but just

  181. to quickly describe, omnipresence means God is everywhere by nature,

  182. and the dwelling of manifest presence of God means God

  183. makes himself known and active and relational in that life.

  184. Or that situation. Okay, So just to.

  185. Just to sort of give you a little illustration, it's

  186. something like the sun. So the sun is always there, right,

  187. The Sun's always there, correct, science.

  188. Students, Does the sun disappear at night?

  189. No? No, it's on another part of the world. Right,

  190. So the sun is always there. The sun shines constantly,

  191. just like God's omnipresence. But when we close in the house,

  192. you close the curtain, we block out the sun. Then

  193. we don't have the effects of the sun anymore. Like

  194. in this room, right, doesn't mean the sun disappear, No,

  195. it's still there, but the manifest or the presence of

  196. the sun being manifested in this room is not here

  197. because we close the curtains, right, something like that. It

  198. means it's a bit of a simplification, but that's what

  199. it means by God's manifest presence being in our lives. Okay,

  200. So let's just settle that. And we know that Moses

  201. again understood this very well. He knew that if God

  202. said going to the promise that without my presence means

  203. you know, I wouldn't be with you. Actually, when you

  204. fight the battles in the Promised Land is on your own.

  205. Whether you we not lose.

  206. This up to your own skill, skill of the people,

  207. his manifest power and his spirits, not with him in

  208. the Promise Land, not with the people in the Promised Land.

  209. Right, So that's just the first point. Right. Where is

  210. God's home?

  211. Okay, God's home is in people like us who love

  212. God and follow his word.

  213. Super simple. Okay, you're following me. So the statement here

  214. is God dwells where.

  215. He is Lord. God thewels where he is Lord. Next

  216. question we ask what So if yes, I want God's

  217. presence in my life. And number two, I know what

  218. it means for God to manifest and do all in

  219. my life, love him, follow his commandments. So then the

  220. question is what what does love God and keep his

  221. commandments mean? What what does it mean? So we go

  222. we go to John fourteen twenty one and twenty three,

  223. just two verses. Here it says this he who has

  224. my commandments and keeps them, it is he who loves me,

  225. and he who loves me will be loved by my father,

  226. and I will love him and manifest myself to him.

  227. Verse twenty three.

  228. Jesus answered and said to him, if anyone loves me

  229. and will keep my word, and my father will love

  230. him and will come to him and make a home

  231. with him.

  232. Same versus.

  233. But now we're looking at the what of what it

  234. means to love God and to keep his commandments. So

  235. what does it mean to love? What does it mean

  236. to love? Have you experienced love before?

  237. I hope?

  238. So someone say yes? And it does love by your family?

  239. Say she was stay with her family?

  240. Right? Yeah? Yeah, So let's start with love.

  241. Loving someone isn't just expressing words, right, isn't just singing

  242. songs of love or or saying things only right?

  243. Right?

  244. So loving God isn't just expressing our words of adoration

  245. or songs of worship. It's not just that the ultimate

  246. expression or the ultimate outcome of our love for God

  247. is one thing to please Him above everything else, one

  248. thing his present more than anyone else. Obedience is the

  249. result of a life that fears God and loves God.

  250. Right. Obedience is the result of a life that fears

  251. God and loves God.

  252. So if we say we love God, but we just

  253. say we love God, and we just come on a

  254. Sunday and we sing songs that say that we adore

  255. and love God. It's not good enough because that's just words.

  256. But the outcome or the expression or the result of

  257. our love for God must be shown in obedience to

  258. his word.

  259. Okay.

  260. And that's why I love God and keep his commandments.

  261. So it comes together, It comes together. I mean, we

  262. can talk about this for a lot more, but essentially, yes,

  263. if you want God's presence to be in our lives,

  264. you want God dwell and make a home in earth.

  265. We need to love God obeys commandments, and the result

  266. of that is earth being obedient to His word.

  267. So we talk about love for you. Let's talk about

  268. a bit about obedience. Okay.

  269. Sometimes when my when my kids say I love you

  270. so much, Daddy, I love you. I mean, they they

  271. say these to words, right as parents sometimes and uh,

  272. if it has been a bad day, bad day, meaning

  273. they have not followed my instructions, have not have not

  274. been good children as I expect them to be, then

  275. I might say, I might say.

  276. Are you sure you love me? Are you sure you

  277. love me?

  278. Because when I told you this and this and this

  279. earlier you did the opposite.

  280. Oh, it's a bit like I don't know.

  281. I mean, I don't know abouy necessary their mind mentally,

  282. But it's true. It's true because if we really love someone,

  283. our actions will also show that. Right, So how do

  284. we keep his word? How do we keep his commandments?

  285. The first thing is do we know God's word? Do

  286. we know God's word? Or are we living in darkness?

  287. So I think most obviously you.

  288. Don't fall in the category we know God's word.

  289. We know what God has told us to do in

  290. scripture in the Bible, and that's the starting point. So

  291. you need to know what God is saying to you.

  292. And the most important way of knowing is knowing scripture. Okay,

  293. if you are If we know God's word and we're

  294. hearing God's word, but we are brushing it aside, or

  295. we are suppressing it or icknowedging it or pushing it aside,

  296. that's also not obedience, right, So we know we need

  297. to make sure we listen and we also obey. Okay,

  298. So so I know you're thinking, like, man, this does

  299. apply to me.

  300. I'm a good Christian.

  301. And I wanted to really reflect on this properly because

  302. I still go through this week after week in my

  303. in my walk, we got sometimes I hear the Holy

  304. Spirit telling me something, but I'm like, just puck it

  305. behind for a while, do what I need to do.

  306. But that is not being obedient to God's word.

  307. Right, So if you can hear God's voice and you've decided, yes,

  308. I want to obey, obeying God's word then also means

  309. going one hundred percent to obey. Okay, So this this

  310. couple of weeks, I think I didn't want to share this.

  311. I'll I'll just give you a quick illustration of how

  312. God has been speaking to me about this. You know,

  313. every year when we give, like we have any usty giving,

  314. it's about the same time where where I get a

  315. substantial payout in my company as well. So every year

  316. it's been getting harder to obey God's word and obey

  317. God's with one hundred percent. Okay, one hundred percent means

  318. hundred percent, right, Even if I if I go like

  319. eighty percent of the way, it's still going to be

  320. more than what I gave last year.

  321. It's still going to be my biggest offering ever.

  322. But it's still not obeying God's word and and that's

  323. how we need to check ourselves. Like like this year,

  324. I decided in my heart this this amount. I mean,

  325. it's not about amount at all, right, it's not about an amount,

  326. but satday my heart, I'm going to give this. It's

  327. going to be my biggest offering ever. And and I say, okay, God,

  328. this is my commitment. I haven't given yet. But I

  329. kept hearing the Holy Spirit telling me like, is this

  330. really your best?

  331. And I'm like, okay, just.

  332. I just put it somewhere in my life for a while,

  333. and and and and and he kept just very gently

  334. reminding me, right, reminding me, uh, I'm still gonna give.

  335. I'm still going to give to the church.

  336. God, It's gonna be my biggest offering that I've ever

  337. given in my life. But is it really obeying God's word?

  338. Because obeying God's word means one hundred percent, even if

  339. it's ninety five percent, it's not obeying God's word. And

  340. the moment I decided, I mean, it wasn't even I

  341. was a published message, like just something God has been

  342. doing with me. And the moment I decided, yes, I'm

  343. going to obey God's word all the way. To me,

  344. it was just a tenth, right, so the tide means

  345. a ten ten percent means ten percent. And I said, yes,

  346. I'll obey, and I just felt God's peace just overflowing

  347. my life. And that's what I did because because I

  348. can obey eighty percent of the way, ninety percent of

  349. the way, keep whatever remained for myself really hard questions, right,

  350. keep whatever remainder of myself, have that little bit extra

  351. thing that I've done my part as a child of God.

  352. But at that moment, actually I did not obey God. Right,

  353. So which am I choosing? Am I choosing a little

  354. bit more for myself and ignoring God's word? Or am

  355. I going to choose obey God to his fullness and.

  356. Receive his presence? Right?

  357. So that's what love of God and obey his commandment is.

  358. We need to know his word, We need to make

  359. sure we don't suppress his word or the Holy Spirit

  360. when he speaks to us, and we need to obey

  361. him one hundred percent all the way and immediately.

  362. Right.

  363. This funny scenario one, you know, ten fifteen years ago,

  364. I was driving in my car and I was in

  365. the roundabout. So when you're in a roundabout, you have

  366. the right of way. Right when they're in and roundabout,

  367. you have the right of way. So even entering around about,

  368. you need you need to give way.

  369. You need to give way to the car in the roundabout.

  370. Guys, come on, So if you ever get honked at

  371. me in a round about, I'm doing my partner to

  372. educate you. And and I was in the roundabout and

  373. I was driving, and it was it was just not

  374. exiting on and this lady, this driver came comes in

  375. and like just ramps into my car and around about right, yeah,

  376. and and then and then we came down and was like,

  377. oh man, I'm late for work. It's going to work.

  378. And then she ramps to my car and like, no,

  379. a bit annoyed. Then I said, why didn't you stop?

  380. I was going so slow and I can see me

  381. driving right. And then she said, yes, but I slowed

  382. down a little bit. If I didn't slow down, I

  383. would have hit you even more. I'm like, what kind

  384. of reason is that even if it's so like fifty

  385. percent of the way, you still did not accomplish what

  386. it's supposed to do. We just stop right, So I

  387. cannot brain that, But this shows that if you want

  388. to obey God, you need to. We need to obey

  389. all the way. Halfway doesn't make sense. Don't be like that, lady.

  390. Don't believe that, lady. Okay, let's go. So the first

  391. is what sorry? The first is where does God dwell?

  392. Where's God's home? Secondly, what does it mean to love

  393. God and keep his word? And the third part is who?

  394. So who the elsiness? Who elsiness? And that's the Holy Spirit,

  395. John fourteen, Versus fifteen, and also verse twenty five.

  396. Let's go. If you love me, keep my commandments.

  397. So this team of love God keep his word keeps

  398. on being repeated in John chapter fourteen, and it's also here.

  399. If you love me and keep my commandments, and I

  400. will pray the Father, and he will give you another

  401. helper that he may abide with you forever. So if

  402. you love me, keep my words, and I will pray

  403. and the Father and he will give you another helper

  404. that he may abide with you forever.

  405. The Spirit of truth, whom.

  406. The world cannot receive because he neither sees him or

  407. knows him. But you know him, for he dwells with

  408. you and will be in you. So the same team

  409. again right, love, God keep his commandments, and God will

  410. dwelling us. And who is that God had or that

  411. person is the Holy Spirit. Verse twenty five says these

  412. things I've spoken to you while being present with you.

  413. But the helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will

  414. send in my name, he will teach you all things

  415. and bring to your remembrance all things that I said

  416. to you.

  417. So let's talk about the Holy Spirit for a short while.

  418. Right, Again, this can be another hole topic, but we'll

  419. just go through a little bit about what the Holy

  420. Spirit is in our lives if you haven't heard about

  421. him much. So, first of all, the Holy Spirit is

  422. a person, right, So it's not an it, not a thing,

  423. not a spirit that we don't know.

  424. It's a person. It's a person, and he was the

  425. person from the beginning. Right.

  426. So, uh, you know, in Genesis chapter one, we know

  427. that the spirit covid over the empty void, and that's

  428. the Holy Spirit. So when Jesus left this world physically

  429. after he was crucified and resurrected, he promised the Holy

  430. Spirit to continue to be with us until today. Right,

  431. he was definrom the beginning. Then, when Jesus was crucified, resurrected,

  432. and who's going to leave this earth physically. He then

  433. promised the Holy Spirit to be with us from then

  434. until now.

  435. So we have the Holy Spirit with us.

  436. Now and and the Holy Spirit is in the in

  437. the original word Hebrew, spirit is rock, rock, gotta clear,

  438. clear truth a little bit and spirit means win our

  439. breath win or breath right.

  440. Breath. So this is an expression of what the word

  441. is right. The Holy Spirit is like.

  442. It's like win, win is powerful, it has force, uh,

  443. it has power, and breath breath gives us life.

  444. So that is what the Holy Spirit is to us. Okay.

  445. So in this we see that the Holy Spirit, whom

  446. the Father will send in my name, he will teach

  447. you all things and bring to your remembrance all things

  448. that I say to you.

  449. And this is who we have living in us.

  450. God in the form of the Holy Spirit lives in us.

  451. He will he do many things.

  452. But one of the things which Jesus highlighted here is

  453. he will teach you all things and bring to your

  454. remembrance all things that I say to you. So I

  455. want to just give one part the Holy Spirit today,

  456. which I think is very important, and it comes in

  457. the form of an illustration. Again, like our navigation system

  458. in the car. So if you if you've driven before,

  459. you use ways or Google Maps as a GPS, right,

  460. and you rely on the GPS to guide you and

  461. where you want to go.

  462. Right.

  463. So imagine all of us here right now in our lives.

  464. We we have a destination to go to. Maybe it's

  465. a calling that you know God has called you to do.

  466. Maybe it's a role that you want to play in

  467. your life.

  468. Right.

  469. So, the spirit of God is like that GPS that

  470. guides you, and when you take the wrong turn, it

  471. will rerout you.

  472. Right.

  473. So when you even take a wrong turn, you know,

  474. ways will prompt you to you turn or to take

  475. another route. It never gives up until we reach our destination. Right,

  476. given that you listen and follow the directions. But if

  477. you choose not to listen, you ignore it, or you

  478. switch it off, then it has no power over your

  479. journey anymore.

  480. And that's the Holy Spirit. Love God, obey His word.

  481. We give the GPS authority to tell us where to go.

  482. We are going to our destination.

  483. We need to give the Holy Spirit authority to guide

  484. us and teach us in our lives to where we

  485. are hating in our journey with Christ. So if you

  486. follow the GPS, really it makes your journey more enjoyable

  487. and fruitful. Right, I don't matter. Some of us are

  488. still here. Like I think I know better than ways?

  489. Why ways? As we use this way, I've been to

  490. the route before. I know better.

  491. Then you go ahead make your own choice, law, and

  492. then your journey becomes the diminute delay.

  493. Right.

  494. So if we want to live out our full calling

  495. in Christ, we need to remember that God has said

  496. the Holy Spirit will teach you all things and bring

  497. to your remembrance all things, and we need to follow.

  498. Don't shout it off, don't ignore it. It's a simplification

  499. of what the Holy Spirit is. But I think it

  500. gives us a picture of how we need to live

  501. our lives with the Holy Spirit.

  502. Okay, And the last w is why? Why? So?

  503. Why did God want to have his presence dwell with us?

  504. What does God want to make his homemanness? Why has

  505. God promised the Holy Spirit to be with us when

  506. Jesus when left the earth physically? So the first why

  507. is of course works and comes from John chapter fourteen,

  508. verse twelve. Most Surely, I say to you, he who

  509. believes in me, the works that I do, he will

  510. do also, And greater works than this he will do,

  511. because I go to my Father. So when the spirit

  512. upon us, it enables us to live supernatural lives. When

  513. the spirit dwells in us and lives in us, it

  514. enables us to live a supernatural life.

  515. Greater works than this he will do.

  516. The Spirit of God enables us to fulfill our calling

  517. in Christ. We we see this pattern in the Bible

  518. over and over again, from the Old Testament to the

  519. New Testament. So Joseph, Joseph was one of the first

  520. few people who were in the spirits upon him.

  521. He could understand and interpret dreams. Right.

  522. That's Basil l who was filled with the spirit of God.

  523. He possessed skills and wisdom in the knowledge of our artistry, right,

  524. and it beg him to work with gold and silver,

  525. so he was more creative in Actualapter one, vers.

  526. Eight.

  527. We also know that when when the spirit of God

  528. came upon them, they became witnesses, you know, in Jerusalem,

  529. in Judaeus and all of the and towards the end

  530. of the earth. So God's spirit is very closely linked

  531. to US's fulfilling our calling in him.

  532. In other words, we cannot do it without God spirit.

  533. For us to fulfill what Jesus mentioned here, greater work

  534. that I do, he will do also, and greater work

  535. than this he will do. And we need to really

  536. remember this because, especially for all of us who are

  537. just serving in church, in our ministries, or living out

  538. our lives in different roles as parents, as teachers in

  539. the marketplace, if we remove the spirit of God from

  540. the equation, it can become very frustrating and we may

  541. burn out because we are trying to fulfill God's calling

  542. in a way that God didn't intend.

  543. Right.

  544. I was listening to you with Christine Christian Kane Christian Kane,

  545. and I sort of paraphrase.

  546. What she described here, uh, from what I heard.

  547. So she said this, She's very good woven woven into

  548. the fabric of God's calling in our lives.

  549. Let mess in. The part of God's calling in our

  550. lives is.

  551. The inability to fulfill it without His spirit. In God's

  552. plan for us, right, he made it only possible if

  553. you rely on the Spirit of God. Woven into the

  554. fabric of God's calling in our lives is the inability

  555. to fulfill it without his spirit. We just can't do

  556. it without the Spirit of God, and if we keep

  557. trying with our own strength, we will likely burn out.

  558. So why is the Spirit of God with us?

  559. It's for us to fulfill our calling and need to

  560. remember that for us to fulfill our calling, we need

  561. the Spirit of God. Don't do it your own strength.

  562. And the next why is basically he's our helper. The

  563. Spirit of God is here to help us. Verse twenty

  564. five to twenty seven. These things I've spoken to you

  565. while being present with you. But the helper, the Holy Spirit,

  566. whom the Father will send in my name, He will

  567. teach you all things, bring to your remembrance all things

  568. that I say to you. And verse twenty seven, this

  569. is I love this this verse peace.

  570. I live with you. My peace.

  571. I give to you. Not as the world gives. Do

  572. I give to you. Let not your heart be troubled,

  573. neither let it be afraid.

  574. Peace.

  575. I leave with you my peace. I give to you,

  576. not as the world gives. Do I give to you.

  577. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.

  578. So this the encouragement to all of us this morning

  579. with the this Spirit living in us, we have peace

  580. that is beyond circumstance. We have peace that is beyond circumstance.

  581. You know, always go through difficult things in life. Is

  582. life is not a straight journey, and often we ask

  583. this question, like God, why did this happen to me?

  584. Or if only I'm If only I wasn't put in

  585. this situation, my life would be so much more full. Right,

  586. if only I wasn't born in this country, I could

  587. fulfill God's calling. If only I did not feel my exam,

  588. I would be doing so much better. We can always

  589. ask all these kind of circumstantial questions, Right, why did

  590. this happened to me? Why am I? Am I disposition?

  591. Why am I like you know, receiving the shorter end

  592. of the steak. But but today I want to declare

  593. that that God, the peace from God, which comes from

  594. the Holy Spirit, is not based on circumstance.

  595. Peace basically means a.

  596. Time without war, right, and I want to declare that

  597. it's not It's not dead for Christians. We can have

  598. war but still have peace. We can have sickness but

  599. still have peace. We can have lack or uncertainty but

  600. still have peace. Because this peace that the Holy Spirit

  601. gives us is not as the world gives.

  602. And so we do not need to be troubled. We

  603. don't need to be troubled.

  604. So so so then we need to stand on the

  605. word of Okay, this is happening. The circumstances are difficult,

  606. the sickness is great and painful. But I stand on

  607. God's word. I stand on God's word, I stand.

  608. On his peace.

  609. I receive his peace knowing that even in this circumstance,

  610. I can live life more than a conqueror. I can

  611. leave life to his fullness. And I'm not going to

  612. let my circumstance rob me of the calling that God

  613. has on my life. And that's how we need to

  614. live with the Holy Spirit. You're not going to let

  615. what the enemy tries to do in our lives come

  616. on the enemy. It's going to try and shoot arrows

  617. that you have, put thoughts into your mind, or rob you,

  618. or destroy you, or people may have evil intentions over

  619. your life, destroy your family, cause conflict. But we need

  620. to stand on the word of that even though that's happening,

  621. I have peace that is not as the world gives,

  622. not as the world understands it. I have peace, and

  623. I can stand strong on the word of God in

  624. this season, in this time, and believe that God will

  625. bring me through.

  626. So I when I declare that word over all of

  627. us today.

  628. That because of the Holy Spirit, he helps us, he

  629. helps us. I read this short story from I think

  630. Nikki Gambo was the one that that wrote it.

  631. A century or.

  632. So ago, a ship in a storm was dashed against

  633. the rocks in Cornwall at the southwest corner of England,

  634. and a fifteen year old sailor swam to safety on

  635. an offshore rock. He climbed up and waited all night

  636. until he was rescued.

  637. The next morning.

  638. A reporter interviewed him and commented, you must have been

  639. shaking all night as you clung to that rock, and

  640. the sailors said, yes, I trembled all night with fear

  641. and coal. Then he added, but the rock never trembled once.

  642. The rock never trembled once. We can go through trembling

  643. circumstances in our lives. We can ask why all we want,

  644. but we can also stand firm on God's word Peace

  645. beyond understanding, peace, beyond understanding peace, not as the world

  646. gives us that peace God lives with us today, that

  647. confidence in Christ, God lives with us today. And I

  648. just received that this morning. So why has God given

  649. us the Holy Spirit? Is for us to be witnesses

  650. to do His work and that we may stand firm

  651. through the storm because of His health. I'm going to

  652. call the band to come up, and I'll end with

  653. this last light. So if you ask me towards the end,

  654. how do I know that I have the Spirit of

  655. God living in me. I want God's presence to be

  656. in my life. I want him to do well and

  657. make his home inside of me. How do I know?

  658. And the litmus test is this, It's from Galatians five

  659. twenty two. But the fruit of the spirit is love, joy, peace,

  660. long suffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self control.

  661. Against such there is no law. This is how we

  662. know that God truly lives in us.

  663. If we see this fruit right, Because if our root

  664. really is in Christ in his presence, then the tree

  665. will also bear good fruit, food of the spirit. And

  666. in any moment that you see fruits that are opposite

  667. of this, maybe we find ourselves hating more or feeling

  668. feeling defeated or down or showing unkindness or we have

  669. lack of self control in our lives, then I believe

  670. we need to check our hearts to know that really

  671. is the Spirit of God living within me, because if

  672. He really is living within me, I will have the

  673. fruit of the Spirit in my life.

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