God The Holy Spirit With Us | Pr Jack Ling

You're listening to a message to go from acts church. We hope this message

will light up your day. I want us share a little bit of the

Christmas story, just to remind us we all kind of know it, all

right, kind of there in our head. We see the pictures, all

right, Joseph, Mary, baby, Jesus, some animals in you know,

in a barn somewhere there, and you know, and you know the

star. Sometimes there's angels. Sometimes there's the wise men. Don't know how

many, don't know how many? Actually, all right, not really mentioned.

So I give you the answer to that already. So let's focus on

Matthew, Chapter one, verse eighteen, right now, just one verse for

now. Okay, I want to do a whole Bible study here today,

just a short reminder, and I hope you know the Holy Spirit speaks to

us. What does it say? So verse eighteen? Everyone got your bibles,

get flipped to it otherwise, actually you're putting up on somewhere right,

Yeah, okay, So what does it say? Yeah? Okay, here

goes. Now, the birth of Jesus Christ took place in this way when

his mother Mary had been bethrotted. I hope that's the right way to say

previously be throthed, bethrothed Okay, sorry, okay, to Joseph. Before

they came together, she was found to be with child from the Holy Spirit.

From who from the Holy Spirit. So that's very clearly written there where

this child is from. It's of course in mother in Mary's womb, but

it's from the Holy Spirit. It's not any man, it's not any other

person besides Joseph. Right, it's not Joseph himself. It is the Holy

Spirit. And it's not what I want to emphasize words this morning, you

know, Christmas and Jesus and this whole story is is really about the Holy

Spirit. What is the opposite of the Holy Spirit, or rather just you

know, because we've been saying holy night, right, silent night, Holy

night, oh, holy night, what is the opposite of holy? Evil?

Maybe? Yeah, evil? Yeah, that's immediately you think of these

things, right, evil? What else? What else? Patch? Stop?

Not holes? Okay, al right, okay, that's that's it.

That's something trying to be funny there. Okay, all right, okay,

but h O l y holy right and holy that's very simple opposite holy and

holy that you can think of all the unholy stuff that people like to do.

Can you think of the unholy stuff that people like to do? Not

you, right, but yeah, humans like to do unholy, impure,

unpure, what else evil? It's just the opposite, right, it's bad

stuff. It's the flesh. Sometimes we say it's the flesh the things against

the spirit. That's why the holy has always to do with the spirit,

right, I mean, the the you know, the Word of God will

always say the flesh is weak, the flesh wants to sin, the flesh

wants to live in darkness and hiding. But the spirit is willing the spirit

and wants to be holy. And so that's what I'm I'm these are are

some thoughts in my mind right now. And Jesus was conceived through the Holy

Spirit, by the Holy Spirit right in Mary's womb. And so every time

now I want us, you know, when we think about Jesus, we

got to think about the Holy Spirit, right sometimes, you know, I

mean I myself a long time ago. Every time I when I think about

Jesus, I want to celebrate Christmas. I want to praise Jesus. Jesus

because he came in human form, it's easier for us to understand because human

were human, right, But then when we talk about the Holy Spirit,

sometimes we feel a little bit like who's this Holy Spirit? All? Right?

Nowadays, I will tell you I speak in tongues a lot more.

When I was in Manma, I spoke in tongues like like like crazy.

You know why because when I went there, I saw Pastor Samuel, right,

and whenever he's praying, whenever he's because you know, in Manma,

I just tell you a little bit, the situation is challenging, right,

The situation is challenging, and you know, things are very expensive there.

To even get to church on Sunday is a miracle. I don't know how

they earn their money, because you know, many of them they have a

job, but they don't get paid much. But then they still make their

way to church and they're there, and so I feel so like privileged,

right uh and uh uh, So I was I was saying, you know,

when I'm whenever I'm with Pasta Samuel, he's always speaking in tongues.

He's always praised a Lord, you know, Holy Spirit. You know,

in my life, he's always emphasizing Holy Spirit in my life. And so

I was inspired as well, and I go like, yeah, I too

need the Holy Spirit more in my life. And so now, okay,

what was I What was I saying? You know, when we talk about

Jesus kind of easier to understand because he's human, right, as in like

giving human form. But then we come the Holy Spirit. There's no physical

form of the Holy Spirit, right, and so we feel a little bit

like who is this right? A little bit strange as well where we hear

the name. But then I want us to get comfortable with the Holy Spirit.

I want us to get close to the Holy Spirit. I want us

to, you know, according to the Word of God, speaking tongues be

acquainted with the Holy Spirit. You know why every time we talk, say

to what speaking tongues? It gets uncomfortable. What is that? Aren't you

just blabbering or something like that? But I tell you truth. Hold Apostle

Paul in First Corinthines says, I speak in tongues more than any of you.

That's what he said, all right, So then you imagine what does

he saying? What is actually saying? Some people argue speaking tongues is actually

speaking another language like Italian or or or I don't know, Greek, maybe

Chinese. All right, they're speaking another language. As there's an argument,

right, I don't want to say right wrong, whatever right you want to

think. That way you're arguing with is fine. But I think about it.

I go, like Paul says, I speak in tongues more than any

of you. What does that mean? Is he speaking Italian? Right?

When he says that, I understand what he says. Is I speak in

tongues not only in church. I speak in tongues at home. I speak

in tongues when I'm walking to work. I speak in tongues when I'm going

whatever I'm doing anything. I'm praying. Why because it's the language of the

Holy Spirit, and he wants to he's praying. He's always constantly praying,

and sometimes he's limited in his language. He has no words to say.

He just praises God with whatever that comes out of his mouth. Amen.

So then I think about it. You see, if we want to argue

about like his language, whatever is he speaking Italian? Like he's at home

speaking Italian to God and Chinese? Maybe that all right, but it doesn't

matter because he's doing it at home and it's between him and God. And

so that's why I'm getting comfortable with speaking with the Holy Spirit in the language

of the Holy Spirit. And it's not for anyone here, It's for me

and the Lord. And so I want to have more of the Holy Spirit

in my life. Amen. And so I mean one of the ways is

speaking tangsa all right. The other ways, I guess I don't know if

you see the fruit of the Spirit in someone. Amen. And so I

don't want to take too much longer, but I want to say, you

know, the birth of Jesus, the story here verse eighteen says that when

how did Jesus come? Or you know, how was Jesus consided in the

womb of Mary. It's the Holy Spirit, all right. And I want

to close right now, actually in prayer. And I want to open this

time right now. Maybe can everyone standing. I want to get Keith come

in, do the guitar here. Things I think I can do silent night.

It's fine, Saturday night, Hallelujah. And I want to open this

time. Maybe we'll do a time of prayer. And uh, you know,

I don't want anyone here to go home after this, just you know,

had a good Christmas celebration that said done. I want to open this

time for prayer. And if you are going through something, you want to

pray about it. You want the Holy Spirit to come into your life and

change and transform things around for you, you know, according to His word,

according to his his spirit. Let let let's do that this morning.

Amen. So the opposite of holy was what again? Unholy, impure,

unrighteous darkness. And we want to we want to go. We don't want

to go that way. We want to go holy, We want to go

righteous. We want to go Jesus. We want to go spirit, not

the flesh. So whatever your flesh might be telling you, let's push that

way. He said, no, no, flesh, I'm not gonna let

you take control of my life. I'm going to allow the Holy Spirit to

take control of my life. Amen. We hope you've been blessed by this

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