WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:05.240 We hope that you enjoy this teaching from Christchurch. 00:00:05.240 --> 00:00:15.419 This material is copyrighted and no unauthorized duplication, redistribution, or any other use of any part is permitted without prior consent from Christchurch. 00:00:15.419 --> 00:00:22.640 Please consider donating to this work in the San Francisco Bay Area online at ChristchurchEastBay.org. 00:00:25.280 --> 00:00:26.839 Good morning, Christchurch. 00:00:27.240 --> 00:00:32.179 My name is Suzy Shin, and I'm part of the Friday Oakland Family Community Group. 00:00:32.960 --> 00:00:43.719 I'll be reading today's scripture lesson from the book of John, chapter 7, verses 37 through 39, and chapter 14, verses 15 through 27. 00:00:45.980 --> 00:00:48.660 A reading from the gospel according to John. 00:00:50.340 --> 00:00:54.679 On the last and greatest day of the festival, Jesus stood and said in a loud voice, 00:00:55.500 --> 00:00:57.660 Let anyone who is thirsty come to me and drink. 00:00:58.280 --> 00:01:03.600 Whoever believes in me, as scripture has said, rivers of living water will flow from within them. 00:01:04.540 --> 00:01:08.299 By this he meant the Spirit, whom those who believed in him were later to receive. 00:01:09.260 --> 00:01:13.579 Up to that time the Spirit had not been given, since Jesus had not yet been glorified. 00:01:13.579 --> 00:01:17.840 If you love me, keep my commands. 00:01:18.379 --> 00:01:24.420 And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another advocate to help you and be with you forever, the Spirit of truth. 00:01:25.060 --> 00:01:28.640 The world cannot accept him, because it neither sees him nor knows him. 00:01:29.079 --> 00:01:31.900 But you know him, for he lives with you and will be in you. 00:01:32.939 --> 00:01:34.599 I will not leave you as orphans. 00:01:34.799 --> 00:01:35.659 I will come to you. 00:01:36.539 --> 00:01:39.579 Before long the world will not see me anymore, but you will see me. 00:01:39.579 --> 00:01:42.260 Because I live, you also will live. 00:01:42.920 --> 00:01:48.200 On that day you will realize that I am in my Father, and you are in me, and I am in you. 00:01:49.200 --> 00:01:52.239 Whoever has my commands and keeps them is the one who loves me. 00:01:52.799 --> 00:01:58.060 The one who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I too will love them and show myself to them. 00:01:59.099 --> 00:02:01.579 Then Judas, not Judas Iscariot, said, 00:02:01.579 --> 00:02:05.759 But Lord, why do you intend to show yourself to us and not to the world? 00:02:06.799 --> 00:02:07.599 Jesus replied, 00:02:07.920 --> 00:02:09.939 Anyone who loves me will obey my teaching. 00:02:10.439 --> 00:02:14.319 My Father will love them, and we will come to them and make our home with them. 00:02:15.020 --> 00:02:17.639 Anyone who does not love me will not obey my teaching. 00:02:18.259 --> 00:02:19.979 These words you hear are not my own. 00:02:20.400 --> 00:02:21.979 They belong to the Father who sent me. 00:02:22.860 --> 00:02:25.020 All this I have spoken while still with you. 00:02:25.020 --> 00:02:30.560 But the Advocate, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you all things, 00:02:30.860 --> 00:02:33.260 and will remind you of everything I have said to you. 00:02:34.320 --> 00:02:35.640 Peace I leave with you. 00:02:36.060 --> 00:02:37.080 My peace I give you. 00:02:37.680 --> 00:02:39.660 I do not give to you as the world gives. 00:02:40.300 --> 00:02:43.240 Do not let your hearts be troubled, and do not be afraid. 00:02:44.060 --> 00:02:45.520 This is the Gospel of the Lord. 00:02:46.360 --> 00:02:47.840 Praise to you, Lord Christ. 00:02:47.840 --> 00:02:49.479 Good morning, Christ Church. 00:02:49.680 --> 00:02:55.120 First things first, happy birthday to Sebastian Juan and Walter St. Clair. 00:02:56.080 --> 00:03:02.599 We had the privilege of having a bunch of the youth group boys and mentors over last night around the fire pit. 00:03:03.360 --> 00:03:05.560 Walter is now 13 years old. 00:03:06.180 --> 00:03:13.060 And that means that we have three teenagers living under one roof at our house for the next six months 00:03:13.060 --> 00:03:15.500 until my daughter goes away to college in August. 00:03:15.500 --> 00:03:17.199 And so we would just ask your prayers. 00:03:17.199 --> 00:03:23.359 That's way too much teenage energy and angst, and way beyond what Catherine and I can handle. 00:03:23.739 --> 00:03:26.339 So I'd love to also ask your prayers. 00:03:26.659 --> 00:03:31.259 I'm going out for the next two weeks on a trip to be with my annual pastors gathering, 00:03:31.259 --> 00:03:34.459 and then to go recruiting to two seminaries. 00:03:34.560 --> 00:03:38.299 We'd just love your prayers for God to lead me to the right people, 00:03:38.599 --> 00:03:43.839 right conversations to fill the positions we want to fill for ministry here in the Bay Area. 00:03:43.840 --> 00:03:47.400 And, yeah, we really appreciate your prayers for that. 00:03:48.259 --> 00:03:53.580 If you were with us on Ash Wednesday, we kick-started the season of Lent. 00:03:54.140 --> 00:04:01.699 And we began exploring this portion of the gospel, the gospel of John chapters 14, 15, 16, and 17, 00:04:02.280 --> 00:04:04.620 which is called the Upper Room Discourse. 00:04:04.620 --> 00:04:09.039 And this is the night before Jesus is going to the cross. 00:04:09.500 --> 00:04:17.680 And so knowing what's at stake, he's not talking with his disciples about the weather or about sports. 00:04:18.439 --> 00:04:22.939 He's not talking with them about politics or about the stock market. 00:04:22.939 --> 00:04:29.620 He's talking with them about subjects that are most crucial for their life with God. 00:04:30.399 --> 00:04:37.600 And Jesus is equipping and empowering his disciples to receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. 00:04:37.720 --> 00:04:40.879 He knows that he's sending them out on this heroic journey, right, 00:04:40.920 --> 00:04:44.879 this heroic mission beyond his crucifixion, beyond his resurrection. 00:04:45.540 --> 00:04:48.259 And he knows they need the gift of empowerment. 00:04:48.259 --> 00:04:51.099 Some of you are Lord of the Rings fans. 00:04:51.659 --> 00:05:00.079 And so if you remember to Lothlorien, where Galadriel gives each member of the Fellowship of the Rings gifts 00:05:00.079 --> 00:05:06.420 that are going to provide them comfort, provide them the help that they're going to need on their heroic journey, 00:05:06.539 --> 00:05:07.519 their heroic quest. 00:05:08.259 --> 00:05:13.099 And without Galadriel's gifts, they would have been absolutely doomed to failure, right? 00:05:13.100 --> 00:05:19.080 Can you imagine no lembas bread, no elven ropes? 00:05:20.400 --> 00:05:21.100 Come on, people. 00:05:21.320 --> 00:05:25.120 No Lothlorien cloaks, no file of Galadriel. 00:05:25.260 --> 00:05:27.240 They would have been swallowed up by the darkness. 00:05:28.820 --> 00:05:32.939 And in the same way, Jesus is equipping and empowering his disciples 00:05:32.939 --> 00:05:37.280 for what it's going to mean to receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. 00:05:37.279 --> 00:05:42.439 Now, there's a great deal of ignorance and a great deal of confusion about the Holy Spirit today. 00:05:43.339 --> 00:05:46.379 I've heard the Nicene Creed paraphrased this way. 00:05:46.479 --> 00:05:47.719 We believe in God the Father. 00:05:47.839 --> 00:05:50.179 We believe in his Son, Jesus Christ. 00:05:50.239 --> 00:05:52.419 But we are not so sure about the Holy Spirit. 00:05:54.439 --> 00:06:01.059 And because the person and work of the Holy Spirit is so neglected, so ignored, so glossed over, 00:06:01.060 --> 00:06:04.519 it's just a strange thing. 00:06:04.620 --> 00:06:11.220 It's because of all the gifts that Jesus gives, the Holy Spirit is the greatest of his gifts. 00:06:14.220 --> 00:06:20.879 It's impossible to even become a Christian, let alone to live and to grow as a Christian, 00:06:21.319 --> 00:06:23.699 without the ministry of the Holy Spirit. 00:06:24.680 --> 00:06:27.639 And if you are here today and you identify as a Christian, 00:06:27.639 --> 00:06:32.519 that means that all that you have and all that you are, you owe to the Holy Spirit. 00:06:33.759 --> 00:06:35.279 One person I read this week, he said, 00:06:35.519 --> 00:06:37.719 Wherever Christianity has become a living power, 00:06:38.279 --> 00:06:45.759 the doctrine of the Holy Spirit has uniformly been regarded as the article of a standing or a falling church. 00:06:47.599 --> 00:06:51.479 So I wish that I could give you, given the importance, the magnitude of this topic, 00:06:51.599 --> 00:06:55.620 I wish we had time to give you a full systematic theology of the Holy Spirit. 00:06:55.620 --> 00:06:58.220 But be relieved, I'm not going to do that. 00:06:58.699 --> 00:07:01.079 But we are going to ask three basic questions. 00:07:01.920 --> 00:07:03.040 Who, what, and how. 00:07:04.079 --> 00:07:05.199 Who is the Holy Spirit? 00:07:06.060 --> 00:07:07.579 What does the Holy Spirit do? 00:07:08.420 --> 00:07:10.620 And how can we be filled with the Holy Spirit? 00:07:11.420 --> 00:07:12.160 Who's the Holy Spirit? 00:07:12.240 --> 00:07:13.220 What does the Holy Spirit do? 00:07:13.459 --> 00:07:15.500 How can we be filled with the Holy Spirit? 00:07:15.600 --> 00:07:17.920 First of all, who is the Holy Spirit? 00:07:18.780 --> 00:07:21.060 Well, let's start with who the Holy Spirit is not. 00:07:21.519 --> 00:07:23.680 The Holy Spirit is not a thing. 00:07:23.680 --> 00:07:26.879 The Spirit is not a force. 00:07:27.980 --> 00:07:33.019 The Spirit is not a power or an energy or an emanation of God. 00:07:34.160 --> 00:07:37.180 Listen to how Jesus talks about the Spirit in verse 16. 00:07:37.319 --> 00:07:37.540 He says, 00:07:37.540 --> 00:07:56.500 Jesus talks about the Spirit as a person. 00:07:56.500 --> 00:08:02.839 He's a living person that you can know or, as Jesus says, you cannot know. 00:08:04.139 --> 00:08:08.319 And He's a person that you can have a personal relationship with. 00:08:09.279 --> 00:08:14.060 The Spirit is not an impersonal force, an impersonal influence or a thing. 00:08:14.220 --> 00:08:18.720 Jesus says, I'm going to ask the Father, and He's going to give you another advocate. 00:08:18.839 --> 00:08:22.699 And we're going to get to that word advocate in a moment, but let's talk about the word another. 00:08:22.699 --> 00:08:27.539 Because there are two words in Greek that are translated another. 00:08:28.219 --> 00:08:30.379 One of them means another unlike. 00:08:31.459 --> 00:08:34.259 But this word here means another like. 00:08:35.159 --> 00:08:36.759 Another exactly like. 00:08:36.860 --> 00:08:38.720 Another of the same kind. 00:08:38.720 --> 00:08:44.080 In the Gospel of John, we've seen that Jesus is establishing His identity. 00:08:45.100 --> 00:08:50.820 And in John chapter 8, He said things like, before Abraham was, I am. 00:08:51.940 --> 00:08:55.899 In John chapter 10, He says, I and the Father are one. 00:08:57.060 --> 00:08:58.940 And Jesus is claiming to be God. 00:08:59.019 --> 00:09:00.700 He's claiming to be a divine person. 00:09:00.700 --> 00:09:10.240 And so when He says, I'm going to ask the Father to give you another advocate, He's saying the Father is going to give you another equally divine person. 00:09:11.200 --> 00:09:17.360 He's going to give you an infinitely and eternally divine person of the same kind, exactly like me. 00:09:17.879 --> 00:09:19.640 And exactly like the Father. 00:09:21.520 --> 00:09:24.220 Verse 17, Jesus goes on. 00:09:24.220 --> 00:09:32.680 And He says, He's the Spirit of truth, and the world cannot accept Him, because it neither sees Him nor knows Him, but you know Him, for He lives with you, and He'll be in you. 00:09:32.940 --> 00:09:35.000 And He says, I will not leave you as orphans. 00:09:35.279 --> 00:09:36.480 I will come to you. 00:09:38.000 --> 00:09:45.660 And this is kind of strange, because Jesus has been telling His disciples from the start of chapter 14 that He's actually going to be going away to the Father. 00:09:46.600 --> 00:09:46.779 Right? 00:09:46.800 --> 00:09:47.700 He's going to go away. 00:09:47.779 --> 00:09:49.500 He's going to be resurrected from the dead. 00:09:49.560 --> 00:09:52.399 He's going to ascend to the Father's throne. 00:09:52.399 --> 00:09:57.879 He's going away to that place where He's going to rule over the kingdom of God and over the nations. 00:09:59.539 --> 00:10:04.799 But Jesus also says, I will not leave you orphaned, but I will come to you. 00:10:04.840 --> 00:10:07.600 So He says, I'm going away from you, and I'm going to come to you. 00:10:08.519 --> 00:10:09.340 Wait, what? 00:10:10.559 --> 00:10:15.199 How can you be both going away from us and coming to us at the same time? 00:10:16.000 --> 00:10:18.960 Well, welcome to the wonderful, unique doctrine of the Trinity. 00:10:18.960 --> 00:10:27.960 Because even though I will leave you after my resurrection to ascend to my Father's throne, I'm not going to leave you as orphans. 00:10:28.060 --> 00:10:32.300 I'm going to come to you in the person of the Holy Spirit. 00:10:33.540 --> 00:10:37.540 The presence of the Holy Spirit is how I will come to you. 00:10:37.539 --> 00:10:42.459 And Jesus says in verse 23, He says, anyone who loves me will obey my teaching. 00:10:42.799 --> 00:10:49.039 My Father will love them, and we will come to them, and we will make our home with them. 00:10:49.839 --> 00:10:57.519 So the question is, how can the Father and the resurrected and living Jesus come to His disciples to make their home with them? 00:10:57.519 --> 00:11:01.559 And the answer is, the person of the Holy Spirit. 00:11:01.740 --> 00:11:15.679 If you have the Holy Spirit, then you have God at home with you, and you at home with God. 00:11:16.360 --> 00:11:24.319 The Holy Spirit is the way that Jesus and the Father continues to be with us, to abide with us, to dwell with us. 00:11:24.320 --> 00:11:30.240 Now, I don't have time to unpack the Trinity as if that were possible today. 00:11:31.260 --> 00:11:42.240 But suffice it to say that Christianity teaches, we don't have one God and one person who just takes on different forms at different times. 00:11:42.400 --> 00:11:49.100 Sometimes God is wearing the Father hat, and then sometimes He puts on the Son hat, and then sometimes He puts on the Spirit hat. 00:11:49.100 --> 00:11:53.060 And we also don't have three gods and three persons. 00:11:54.300 --> 00:12:01.139 Jesus is saying that there's one God in three persons who are equally divine, and they love each other supremely. 00:12:02.639 --> 00:12:08.379 And this is the mysterious and profound and blazing, brilliant heart of the Christian faith. 00:12:08.540 --> 00:12:11.980 Jesus is saying, when you get one, you get all three. 00:12:11.980 --> 00:12:23.460 In verse 19, Jesus says, because I live, because I'm going to be raised from the dead, you also will live. 00:12:24.500 --> 00:12:34.060 And He says in verse 20, on that day you will realize that I am in my Father, and you are in me, and I am in you. 00:12:34.059 --> 00:12:38.539 When you get the person of the Holy Spirit, you get God. 00:12:38.719 --> 00:12:39.559 He will be in you. 00:12:39.639 --> 00:12:46.879 You will get the very life of God in your soul, and He will dwell right in the middle of your ordinary, everyday life. 00:12:48.439 --> 00:12:53.159 And so the question for us is, have you met this person, the Spirit? 00:12:54.239 --> 00:12:55.779 Do you know this person? 00:12:56.699 --> 00:12:59.519 Are you in a relationship with this person? 00:13:01.000 --> 00:13:01.979 That's the first question. 00:13:02.039 --> 00:13:02.859 Who's the Holy Spirit? 00:13:02.860 --> 00:13:05.740 Second question, what does the Holy Spirit do? 00:13:06.840 --> 00:13:08.159 What does the Holy Spirit do? 00:13:09.379 --> 00:13:18.360 Well, when this glorious person, the Holy Spirit, comes into your life, you become aware of His presence and His power. 00:13:19.519 --> 00:13:26.820 And He begins to do many wonderful things in you, and with you, and for you, and through you. 00:13:27.720 --> 00:13:30.120 And that's what Jesus is talking about in verse 16. 00:13:30.320 --> 00:13:31.560 Come back to verse 16. 00:13:31.559 --> 00:13:38.819 He says, I will ask the Father, and He will give you another advocate to help you and be with you forever. 00:13:39.859 --> 00:13:42.099 What does that word advocate mean? 00:13:43.279 --> 00:13:53.339 Well, if you look at other various versions of the Bible, they translate this word as counselor, or helper, or comforter, or advocate. 00:13:53.340 --> 00:13:55.700 And that means it's a multi-dimensional word. 00:13:56.340 --> 00:13:58.320 It's a deep and a rich word. 00:13:59.560 --> 00:14:02.639 The Greek word parakletos, the paraclete. 00:14:03.399 --> 00:14:04.620 There are two parts of that word. 00:14:04.780 --> 00:14:09.220 Para means to come alongside, like a paramedic. 00:14:09.780 --> 00:14:09.879 Right? 00:14:09.879 --> 00:14:12.059 It's a supporting word. 00:14:13.220 --> 00:14:16.120 And then there's kaleo, which means to call. 00:14:16.559 --> 00:14:17.000 Parakaleo. 00:14:17.080 --> 00:14:23.820 Kaleo means to call, or to summon, or to declare, or to argue like a lawyer. 00:14:23.960 --> 00:14:25.220 It's a confronting word. 00:14:25.820 --> 00:14:26.000 Right? 00:14:26.100 --> 00:14:31.620 And so if you've ever had a true friend, you know that they're both supporting you and confronting you. 00:14:31.720 --> 00:14:31.939 Amen? 00:14:32.940 --> 00:14:36.480 They come alongside you and they argue with you. 00:14:36.500 --> 00:14:38.220 If they don't argue with you, they're not a true friend. 00:14:39.320 --> 00:14:42.680 And Jesus is saying, look, the Holy Spirit is a true friend. 00:14:42.920 --> 00:14:45.640 He's better than all the friends you've ever had. 00:14:45.720 --> 00:14:47.500 Better than all your friends put together. 00:14:48.900 --> 00:14:55.700 And I want to just show you some of the things that this true friend, this parakletos, does in your life. 00:14:55.840 --> 00:14:58.500 Verse 17, Jesus calls him the spirit of truth. 00:14:58.500 --> 00:15:03.740 And in verse 25, he elaborates on that. 00:15:03.820 --> 00:15:06.360 He says, all this I've spoken to you while still with you. 00:15:06.919 --> 00:15:11.279 But the advocate, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you all things. 00:15:11.639 --> 00:15:14.379 And will remind you of everything I have said to you. 00:15:15.620 --> 00:15:17.919 So remember, Jesus is speaking to his disciples. 00:15:19.399 --> 00:15:24.340 And for several years, he's been handing over to them his teachings. 00:15:24.340 --> 00:15:29.480 Like the Sermon on the Mount and his parables and his claims. 00:15:29.600 --> 00:15:31.620 I am the resurrection and the life. 00:15:31.740 --> 00:15:32.700 I'm the light of the world. 00:15:33.120 --> 00:15:34.460 All of the explanations. 00:15:34.940 --> 00:15:36.480 When he would heal someone. 00:15:36.600 --> 00:15:38.740 When he would feed 5,000 people. 00:15:38.860 --> 00:15:40.180 When he would forgive people. 00:15:40.460 --> 00:15:43.000 All of his explanations of what he's doing there. 00:15:43.580 --> 00:15:45.700 He's given them a lot of content. 00:15:45.700 --> 00:15:49.580 And he's going to keep on teaching them. 00:15:49.900 --> 00:15:52.040 For 40 days after the resurrection. 00:15:52.259 --> 00:15:54.340 Before he ascends to his father's throne. 00:15:55.420 --> 00:15:58.759 And what he's saying here is that when the spirit of truth comes. 00:15:59.740 --> 00:16:04.980 He is going to enable you, my disciples, to remember my words and my works. 00:16:05.140 --> 00:16:07.220 So that you can go and write it down in the gospel. 00:16:07.440 --> 00:16:10.620 So that you can go and expound it in the epistles. 00:16:10.620 --> 00:16:14.379 The spirit of truth is going to create the Bible. 00:16:15.620 --> 00:16:21.899 And the spirit of truth creates a Bible-based, Jesus-centered community of disciples. 00:16:23.779 --> 00:16:29.759 And for us who are reading the writings of these apostles from the New Testament 2,000 years later. 00:16:29.759 --> 00:16:38.980 Jesus is saying that the Holy Spirit, our advocate, the spirit of truth, is going to come alongside of us. 00:16:39.059 --> 00:16:43.240 And he's going to argue with us through the words of the Bible. 00:16:44.559 --> 00:16:50.419 And that as he does that, he's going to turn the lights on in our minds and in our hearts. 00:16:51.240 --> 00:16:57.259 And he's going to illumine these truths that the Holy Spirit has given to us in the scriptures. 00:16:57.259 --> 00:17:01.600 And he's going to cause them to begin to make sense in our mind. 00:17:02.000 --> 00:17:04.619 And to become real to our heart. 00:17:05.559 --> 00:17:11.680 And as the spirit comes alongside of us and argues with us, we will begin to know who God is. 00:17:11.720 --> 00:17:13.920 And what God has done to save us. 00:17:16.000 --> 00:17:22.440 You know, we've been blessed to have several babies born to our church pretty recently. 00:17:22.599 --> 00:17:24.879 We've got at least one I can see in the back here. 00:17:24.880 --> 00:17:31.640 And, you know, when a baby is born, we don't sit that baby down and teach them and say, 00:17:31.860 --> 00:17:33.640 well, you're going to need to inhale and exhale. 00:17:34.880 --> 00:17:38.160 And we don't say to them, okay, time to feed, time to sleep. 00:17:39.280 --> 00:17:46.120 No, a baby does these things naturally and instinctively because it's just part of being alive. 00:17:46.119 --> 00:18:02.099 And in the same way, the inhale of reading the Bible and the exhale of praying to God is just what happens when the spirit of God comes in and makes you alive. 00:18:02.479 --> 00:18:03.319 You just do it. 00:18:03.899 --> 00:18:05.179 You inhale and you exhale. 00:18:05.379 --> 00:18:06.739 You feed. 00:18:06.740 --> 00:18:15.799 And Jesus is saying that the spirit of truth is the one who causes you to read the book that he revealed and that he inspired. 00:18:15.799 --> 00:18:20.339 So that through it, he can teach you about the father and the son. 00:18:21.659 --> 00:18:26.200 And that you would begin, as you learn more about them, to just begin to start talking to them. 00:18:27.019 --> 00:18:28.940 Father, son, and holy spirit. 00:18:29.000 --> 00:18:30.859 That's what it means for the spirit to come in. 00:18:32.579 --> 00:18:33.299 You with me? 00:18:34.220 --> 00:18:34.619 All right. 00:18:34.619 --> 00:18:38.959 So that's the first, one of the big things that the advocate does. 00:18:39.000 --> 00:18:41.539 But there's so much more that the advocate does. 00:18:41.719 --> 00:18:43.759 Jesus says, again, in verse 17, he says, 00:18:43.879 --> 00:18:45.759 The spirit of truth, he's going to come in. 00:18:45.799 --> 00:18:47.659 The world will not know him, but you know him. 00:18:47.979 --> 00:18:49.159 And he says in verse 17, 00:18:49.659 --> 00:18:53.359 For he lives with you and he will be in you. 00:18:57.319 --> 00:18:58.519 That's an amazing statement. 00:18:58.519 --> 00:19:05.500 Jesus came to the synagogue in Nazareth, his hometown. 00:19:07.240 --> 00:19:12.579 And when he preached his first sermon, he took the scroll of the prophet Isaiah. 00:19:13.379 --> 00:19:15.619 And he opened it up to Isaiah 61. 00:19:16.839 --> 00:19:18.240 And Jesus himself said, 00:19:18.240 --> 00:19:22.519 The spirit of the sovereign Lord is upon me. 00:19:22.519 --> 00:19:32.119 And he has enabled me to set the oppressed free and to proclaim the year of the Lord's favor. 00:19:33.879 --> 00:19:37.400 And when Jesus says the spirit will be with you and he'll be in you, 00:19:37.480 --> 00:19:42.579 what he's saying is that same spirit that came down on me and anointed me 00:19:42.579 --> 00:19:48.599 and empowered me to go out and set terribly oppressed people free, 00:19:48.599 --> 00:19:53.039 that spirit is going to be in you. 00:19:54.559 --> 00:19:55.919 And here's what that means. 00:19:57.139 --> 00:20:00.259 You might feel stuck in the life that you have. 00:20:01.339 --> 00:20:04.079 But if the person of the Holy Spirit comes into your life, 00:20:04.619 --> 00:20:06.659 you cannot remain stuck forever. 00:20:06.799 --> 00:20:08.419 You cannot remain unchanged. 00:20:10.099 --> 00:20:12.619 You might feel tied down by fears, 00:20:13.719 --> 00:20:15.919 by habits, by addictions, 00:20:16.179 --> 00:20:18.059 which have taken a grip on your life. 00:20:19.159 --> 00:20:21.859 You might be controlled by bad tempers. 00:20:23.000 --> 00:20:29.339 You might be enslaved to patterns of thought like envy or lust. 00:20:30.339 --> 00:20:35.259 And we know that we're bound when we can't stop something even when we want to stop it, right? 00:20:36.759 --> 00:20:39.419 But Jesus is saying that the spirit of God 00:20:39.419 --> 00:20:44.219 is able to set people free from anything that binds them 00:20:44.219 --> 00:20:46.099 and anything that oppresses them. 00:20:46.099 --> 00:20:52.799 So that there's no wound in you that's so deep that the Holy Spirit cannot heal. 00:20:54.000 --> 00:20:58.619 And there's no brokenness in you so great that the Holy Spirit cannot repair. 00:20:58.619 --> 00:21:04.659 And there's no habit in you that's so binding that the Holy Spirit cannot free you from. 00:21:05.659 --> 00:21:10.539 And there's no memory, there's no narrative that's so strong in your life 00:21:10.539 --> 00:21:15.299 that the Holy Spirit cannot rewrite your story and rewire your brain. 00:21:15.299 --> 00:21:22.059 If you would just go today and read all the instances in the Gospels 00:21:22.059 --> 00:21:25.000 of when the Holy Spirit came on Jesus 00:21:25.000 --> 00:21:30.160 and people who were oppressed were set free, 00:21:31.359 --> 00:21:35.359 you would realize how amazing it is that the Holy Spirit, 00:21:35.539 --> 00:21:37.299 who is nothing less than God himself, 00:21:37.460 --> 00:21:39.980 the advocate exactly like Jesus, 00:21:40.940 --> 00:21:43.740 would come and take residence in you 00:21:43.740 --> 00:21:47.380 and begin to live inside of you. 00:21:49.319 --> 00:21:49.759 Wow. 00:21:53.440 --> 00:21:56.880 This is not just the spirit of truth that teaches us the Scriptures. 00:21:57.079 --> 00:22:00.839 It's not just the spirit of power that sets us free from oppression. 00:22:01.640 --> 00:22:03.480 But it's also a spirit of conviction 00:22:03.480 --> 00:22:08.799 that argues with our head and with our heart, right? 00:22:09.659 --> 00:22:12.859 Jesus goes on in this upper room discourse in John 16, 8. 00:22:12.940 --> 00:22:14.419 He says, when the advocate comes, 00:22:15.000 --> 00:22:16.259 he will convict the world. 00:22:16.379 --> 00:22:19.720 He will convict you concerning sin and unbelief. 00:22:21.500 --> 00:22:24.559 The Holy Spirit, Jesus says, is going to come alongside you 00:22:24.559 --> 00:22:27.039 and he's going to begin to argue with you 00:22:27.039 --> 00:22:30.399 like a good friend always does about how self-centered you are. 00:22:32.779 --> 00:22:36.339 He'll say, hey, Jonathan, you're being self-interested. 00:22:36.480 --> 00:22:37.799 You're being self-assertive. 00:22:38.799 --> 00:22:41.079 And he'll begin to convict you of your pride, 00:22:41.539 --> 00:22:42.599 convict you of your ego. 00:22:43.720 --> 00:22:46.059 He'll begin to show you all the ways 00:22:46.059 --> 00:22:48.879 that you're actually not trusting in the Creator God. 00:22:48.960 --> 00:22:52.159 You're not trusting in the Lord Jesus as you should. 00:22:54.319 --> 00:22:57.000 And also your advocate who's living within you 00:22:57.000 --> 00:22:59.859 and comes alongside you will not only convict you of sin, 00:23:01.079 --> 00:23:04.419 but he'll begin to argue against all the enemies of your heart. 00:23:05.720 --> 00:23:06.099 Right? 00:23:06.099 --> 00:23:08.799 And all those things that I'm sure it's not just me, 00:23:09.119 --> 00:23:11.579 like all those lies that come into your heart, 00:23:12.319 --> 00:23:14.359 all those half-truths, 00:23:15.199 --> 00:23:16.480 all those accusations, 00:23:17.480 --> 00:23:19.559 all of those false narratives, 00:23:19.819 --> 00:23:21.219 all those old wounds, 00:23:22.339 --> 00:23:24.399 all of those selfish desires 00:23:24.399 --> 00:23:26.759 and those harsh inner critics 00:23:26.759 --> 00:23:29.039 that want to overtake you 00:23:29.039 --> 00:23:31.379 and overtake your mind and destroy your life, 00:23:31.380 --> 00:23:36.460 all those things that cause you to want to base your identity 00:23:36.460 --> 00:23:40.280 and your security on anything other than what God says about you. 00:23:41.540 --> 00:23:43.040 The Holy Spirit comes in, 00:23:43.080 --> 00:23:44.320 and he's like a star witness. 00:23:44.440 --> 00:23:48.360 He's like an expert testimony at trial inside of you. 00:23:49.360 --> 00:23:52.960 And here's what the Apostle Paul says in Romans chapter 5 and chapter 8. 00:23:53.040 --> 00:23:53.240 He says, 00:23:53.240 --> 00:23:58.359 God's love has been poured out into our hearts through the Holy Spirit. 00:23:59.799 --> 00:24:00.799 And in Romans 8, he says, 00:24:01.019 --> 00:24:05.400 The Spirit you received does not make you slaves so that you live in fear again. 00:24:05.759 --> 00:24:09.660 Rather, the Spirit you received brought about your adoption to sonship, 00:24:09.900 --> 00:24:11.120 and by him we cry, 00:24:11.519 --> 00:24:12.339 Abba, Father. 00:24:13.519 --> 00:24:18.160 And the Spirit himself testifies with our spirit that we are God's children. 00:24:18.160 --> 00:24:20.860 So get this. 00:24:20.940 --> 00:24:21.279 He says, 00:24:21.720 --> 00:24:22.279 Jesus says, 00:24:23.340 --> 00:24:23.980 through Paul, 00:24:24.060 --> 00:24:24.279 He says, 00:24:24.380 --> 00:24:26.400 Our hearts are subject to fears. 00:24:29.160 --> 00:24:31.779 And instead of fears, 00:24:32.820 --> 00:24:35.640 God gives us the spirit of his son Jesus who comes in 00:24:35.640 --> 00:24:37.720 to drive those fears away 00:24:37.720 --> 00:24:39.019 and cause us to begin to say, 00:24:39.440 --> 00:24:40.259 Abba, Father. 00:24:40.519 --> 00:24:42.720 To cry out just as Jesus did. 00:24:43.960 --> 00:24:46.360 And listen to this legal and courtroom language 00:24:46.360 --> 00:24:47.420 that the Spirit, 00:24:47.420 --> 00:24:47.820 He says, 00:24:47.880 --> 00:24:49.060 The Spirit testifies. 00:24:49.320 --> 00:24:51.560 The Spirit bears witness with our spirit 00:24:51.560 --> 00:24:53.519 that you are a child of God. 00:24:55.140 --> 00:24:55.360 Right? 00:24:55.620 --> 00:24:56.140 He says, 00:24:56.279 --> 00:24:57.120 You're on trial. 00:24:58.220 --> 00:25:00.320 And you're being accused. 00:25:01.320 --> 00:25:02.480 And you're losing. 00:25:03.800 --> 00:25:05.240 You're feeling like a failure. 00:25:05.440 --> 00:25:05.860 You're feeling, 00:25:05.960 --> 00:25:07.680 You're overwhelmed by fear. 00:25:08.019 --> 00:25:08.200 Right? 00:25:08.279 --> 00:25:10.860 You're overwhelmed by guilt or by shame. 00:25:10.960 --> 00:25:13.200 And you're sinking down under your doubts. 00:25:13.200 --> 00:25:15.400 And He says, 00:25:15.400 --> 00:25:18.600 Then in comes the Holy Spirit with His expert testimony. 00:25:19.519 --> 00:25:21.779 And He begins to bear witness to your spirit 00:25:21.779 --> 00:25:24.259 that you're a child of God. 00:25:25.420 --> 00:25:30.539 The Spirit can see that you're not living as loved by the Father. 00:25:31.819 --> 00:25:35.380 That you're not living as if you're already approved by the Father. 00:25:35.460 --> 00:25:37.160 You're already accepted by the Father. 00:25:37.160 --> 00:25:41.800 The Holy Spirit can see all the ways that we're looking for love in all the wrong places. 00:25:43.800 --> 00:25:48.960 And He can see that we're not living as if we are actually infinitely and eternally loved. 00:25:48.960 --> 00:25:51.079 And so, 00:25:51.319 --> 00:25:51.799 He says, 00:25:52.079 --> 00:25:55.480 God pours His love out into our heart by the Holy Spirit. 00:25:57.059 --> 00:26:00.259 And because of Jesus' work in our place and on our behalf, 00:26:01.180 --> 00:26:02.059 the Spirit says, 00:26:02.279 --> 00:26:03.160 You are God's, 00:26:03.460 --> 00:26:05.200 God the Father's beloved child. 00:26:06.720 --> 00:26:08.140 You are treasured. 00:26:08.319 --> 00:26:10.940 You are cherished as a daughter. 00:26:11.660 --> 00:26:13.840 And as a son of God. 00:26:14.700 --> 00:26:16.720 He loves you as He loves Jesus. 00:26:16.720 --> 00:26:17.000 Jesus. 00:26:18.960 --> 00:26:25.759 The Spirit wants to come in and teach us the truth of the Bible. 00:26:26.740 --> 00:26:30.519 The Spirit wants to come in power to set us free from oppression. 00:26:31.380 --> 00:26:35.880 The Spirit wants to come in conviction and argue with us about our identity. 00:26:37.279 --> 00:26:37.880 And then finally, 00:26:38.000 --> 00:26:41.759 the Spirit just wants to overflow through us to bless other people. 00:26:42.420 --> 00:26:44.579 And this is what Jesus means in John 7. 00:26:45.360 --> 00:26:46.680 In verse 38, He says, 00:26:46.840 --> 00:26:48.579 Whoever believes in Me, as the Scripture has said, 00:26:48.960 --> 00:26:51.400 rivers of living water will flow from within them. 00:26:51.799 --> 00:26:53.660 And by this He meant the Spirit. 00:26:55.380 --> 00:26:55.880 He's saying, 00:26:55.980 --> 00:26:57.039 If you believe in Jesus, 00:26:57.700 --> 00:27:02.299 the river of the Holy Spirit will begin to overflow from within. 00:27:02.360 --> 00:27:05.019 Like a river of fresh and living water 00:27:05.019 --> 00:27:09.539 that brings life and fruitfulness and healing to other people. 00:27:09.539 --> 00:27:11.619 So the Holy Spirit's not just in you for you. 00:27:11.700 --> 00:27:13.279 The Holy Spirit's in you for others. 00:27:13.279 --> 00:27:14.339 For the sake of others. 00:27:16.339 --> 00:27:19.240 So that when you feel a sense of helplessness, 00:27:19.920 --> 00:27:22.379 as you confront the problems out there, 00:27:22.700 --> 00:27:24.119 in your life and in the world, 00:27:24.200 --> 00:27:28.180 when you sense that you have very little to nothing to offer 00:27:28.180 --> 00:27:31.779 to people whose lives are an absolute mess, 00:27:32.819 --> 00:27:33.720 including yourself, 00:27:33.720 --> 00:27:39.279 you can remember that you have the Spirit of God living within you. 00:27:40.279 --> 00:27:41.839 And that He'll give you a strength. 00:27:41.940 --> 00:27:44.960 He'll give you an energy that you did not otherwise possess 00:27:44.960 --> 00:27:49.059 so that the river of God's life can flow 00:27:49.059 --> 00:27:50.519 not just in you, 00:27:50.600 --> 00:27:51.779 but through you 00:27:51.779 --> 00:27:54.420 to give life to other people. 00:27:54.420 --> 00:27:57.180 Man, I wish we had more time 00:27:57.180 --> 00:27:59.900 to talk about what the Spirit does. 00:27:59.980 --> 00:28:02.440 This is just a little bit of Jesus' teaching. 00:28:02.560 --> 00:28:03.920 A little bit of the New Testament teaching. 00:28:04.060 --> 00:28:04.759 Who is the Spirit? 00:28:05.240 --> 00:28:06.400 What does the Spirit do? 00:28:07.300 --> 00:28:08.960 But let me just close by talking about 00:28:08.960 --> 00:28:11.279 how we can be filled with the Spirit. 00:28:12.720 --> 00:28:14.100 And this is so important. 00:28:14.259 --> 00:28:15.080 If you've fallen asleep, 00:28:15.880 --> 00:28:16.620 time to wake up. 00:28:17.880 --> 00:28:19.600 How can we be filled with the Spirit? 00:28:21.279 --> 00:28:23.140 Jesus has this really interesting conversation 00:28:23.140 --> 00:28:25.280 we looked at several weeks ago in John 3. 00:28:25.860 --> 00:28:27.140 He's talking to Nicodemus. 00:28:27.900 --> 00:28:28.440 And he says, 00:28:28.540 --> 00:28:30.440 you've got to be born of the Spirit. 00:28:31.500 --> 00:28:33.100 Spirit gives birth to Spirit. 00:28:34.300 --> 00:28:35.840 And he's teaching Nicodemus 00:28:35.840 --> 00:28:37.460 the doctrine of the new birth, 00:28:37.560 --> 00:28:38.680 the doctrine of regeneration. 00:28:39.120 --> 00:28:40.040 And here's how it works. 00:28:40.100 --> 00:28:40.420 He says, 00:28:41.000 --> 00:28:42.120 the Holy Spirit 00:28:42.120 --> 00:28:45.080 enables you to see 00:28:45.080 --> 00:28:46.820 the work of your first advocate, 00:28:47.080 --> 00:28:47.320 Jesus. 00:28:48.700 --> 00:28:49.700 That Jesus came 00:28:49.700 --> 00:28:50.580 and He lived the life 00:28:50.580 --> 00:28:51.680 that you ought to have lived. 00:28:51.759 --> 00:28:52.900 That Jesus died the death 00:28:52.900 --> 00:28:53.800 that you deserve to die. 00:28:53.880 --> 00:28:54.820 That He went on His cross 00:28:54.820 --> 00:28:55.300 and He said, 00:28:55.620 --> 00:28:56.460 it is finished. 00:28:57.720 --> 00:28:59.300 And the second advocate, 00:28:59.420 --> 00:29:00.040 the Holy Spirit, 00:29:00.120 --> 00:29:01.019 who's exactly like 00:29:01.019 --> 00:29:01.800 the first advocate, 00:29:01.980 --> 00:29:02.220 Jesus, 00:29:02.380 --> 00:29:03.100 He comes in 00:29:03.100 --> 00:29:03.880 and He shows you 00:29:03.880 --> 00:29:05.759 the reality and the power 00:29:05.759 --> 00:29:07.740 of what Jesus has done 00:29:07.740 --> 00:29:08.680 to bring you 00:29:08.680 --> 00:29:10.100 into a reconciled relationship 00:29:10.100 --> 00:29:11.380 with God the Father. 00:29:11.480 --> 00:29:12.480 He begins to make that 00:29:12.480 --> 00:29:13.940 logical to your mind 00:29:13.940 --> 00:29:15.800 and beautiful to your heart. 00:29:17.259 --> 00:29:18.780 And at some point, 00:29:18.980 --> 00:29:20.360 you begin to realize, 00:29:20.359 --> 00:29:22.439 I think the Holy Spirit 00:29:22.439 --> 00:29:24.799 has regenerated me. 00:29:25.399 --> 00:29:26.119 I think I've been 00:29:26.119 --> 00:29:27.799 born of the Spirit. 00:29:29.679 --> 00:29:31.000 I'm not sure what's going on 00:29:31.000 --> 00:29:31.919 in my life right now, 00:29:31.979 --> 00:29:33.079 but I think I've just received 00:29:33.079 --> 00:29:34.019 the gift of repentance 00:29:34.019 --> 00:29:34.740 and faith. 00:29:36.319 --> 00:29:37.240 I think that 00:29:37.240 --> 00:29:39.699 I've had a change of status 00:29:39.699 --> 00:29:41.759 so that I'm justified 00:29:41.759 --> 00:29:43.079 and in a right standing 00:29:43.079 --> 00:29:43.899 before God. 00:29:45.339 --> 00:29:46.359 I've become adopted 00:29:46.359 --> 00:29:47.659 adopted as a child 00:29:47.659 --> 00:29:48.299 of the King. 00:29:49.559 --> 00:29:50.539 I've become freed 00:29:50.539 --> 00:29:51.599 from all my fears 00:29:51.599 --> 00:29:53.199 and guilt and shame. 00:29:53.319 --> 00:29:54.879 I've been filled 00:29:54.879 --> 00:29:57.059 with a new kind of love 00:29:57.059 --> 00:29:58.479 and joy and peace. 00:29:58.559 --> 00:29:59.519 I've got this strange 00:29:59.519 --> 00:30:01.459 new mix of humility 00:30:01.459 --> 00:30:02.240 and boldness 00:30:02.240 --> 00:30:03.259 going on in my life. 00:30:03.379 --> 00:30:04.919 I think I've been born, 00:30:05.419 --> 00:30:06.000 as Jesus said, 00:30:06.019 --> 00:30:07.299 I've been born of the Spirit. 00:30:09.159 --> 00:30:10.439 And you realize 00:30:10.439 --> 00:30:11.939 that a powerful person 00:30:11.939 --> 00:30:13.699 has come from outside of you 00:30:13.699 --> 00:30:14.679 to take up residence 00:30:14.679 --> 00:30:15.979 inside of you. 00:30:17.179 --> 00:30:18.059 And that's the only way 00:30:18.059 --> 00:30:19.179 you can become a Christian 00:30:19.179 --> 00:30:21.019 is to be born of the Spirit, 00:30:21.119 --> 00:30:22.279 to be filled with the Spirit. 00:30:23.679 --> 00:30:24.659 But the Apostle Paul 00:30:24.659 --> 00:30:26.000 says this in Ephesians 5. 00:30:26.119 --> 00:30:26.399 He says, 00:30:26.919 --> 00:30:27.959 be filled with the Spirit. 00:30:29.199 --> 00:30:30.059 And this is strange 00:30:30.059 --> 00:30:30.859 because he's writing 00:30:30.859 --> 00:30:31.679 to a church 00:30:31.679 --> 00:30:33.319 that's full of 00:30:33.319 --> 00:30:34.559 Spirit-born, 00:30:35.019 --> 00:30:36.259 Spirit-filled Christians. 00:30:37.259 --> 00:30:38.419 But he's telling them, 00:30:38.939 --> 00:30:39.759 you need to be filled 00:30:39.759 --> 00:30:40.419 with the Spirit. 00:30:42.099 --> 00:30:43.099 And what he's saying 00:30:43.099 --> 00:30:44.740 is a present imperative. 00:30:44.740 --> 00:30:46.000 He's indicating 00:30:46.000 --> 00:30:46.880 that this is not just 00:30:46.880 --> 00:30:48.420 a one-and-done filling. 00:30:49.799 --> 00:30:50.660 That rather, 00:30:50.799 --> 00:30:52.059 this is a regular pattern 00:30:52.059 --> 00:30:53.259 of being filled. 00:30:53.359 --> 00:30:54.220 You could translate it, 00:30:54.559 --> 00:30:55.720 go on being filled 00:30:55.720 --> 00:30:56.599 with the Holy Spirit. 00:30:57.440 --> 00:30:59.019 Or continually be 00:30:59.019 --> 00:31:00.059 being filled 00:31:00.059 --> 00:31:01.480 with the Holy Spirit. 00:31:03.160 --> 00:31:03.579 He's saying, 00:31:03.779 --> 00:31:05.059 there are free refills 00:31:05.059 --> 00:31:06.680 of the Holy Spirit. 00:31:06.859 --> 00:31:07.900 This would be like saying 00:31:07.900 --> 00:31:08.920 to Pastor Andrew, 00:31:09.279 --> 00:31:10.480 for the rest of your life, 00:31:10.480 --> 00:31:12.140 you can have a free 00:31:12.140 --> 00:31:13.680 daily filling 00:31:13.680 --> 00:31:15.000 of Taco Bell. 00:31:17.700 --> 00:31:18.079 And it, 00:31:18.259 --> 00:31:18.460 like, 00:31:18.700 --> 00:31:19.480 he would be dancing 00:31:19.480 --> 00:31:20.019 in the aisles 00:31:20.019 --> 00:31:20.620 if that were true. 00:31:23.059 --> 00:31:24.120 What happens 00:31:24.120 --> 00:31:26.059 when we keep coming back 00:31:26.059 --> 00:31:26.799 for the refilling 00:31:26.799 --> 00:31:27.599 of the Holy Spirit? 00:31:28.980 --> 00:31:29.799 Paul says 00:31:29.799 --> 00:31:30.900 in 2 Corinthians 3, 00:31:31.039 --> 00:31:31.519 he says, 00:31:32.940 --> 00:31:33.400 we, 00:31:34.059 --> 00:31:36.180 beholding the Lord's glory, 00:31:36.180 --> 00:31:39.600 are being transformed 00:31:39.600 --> 00:31:41.320 into that same image 00:31:41.320 --> 00:31:41.960 of his glory 00:31:41.960 --> 00:31:42.799 from one degree 00:31:42.799 --> 00:31:43.299 of glory 00:31:43.299 --> 00:31:44.700 to another. 00:31:44.880 --> 00:31:45.920 And all of this happens 00:31:45.920 --> 00:31:47.620 because of the Lord 00:31:47.620 --> 00:31:48.600 who is the Spirit. 00:31:49.920 --> 00:31:50.240 So, 00:31:50.400 --> 00:31:51.019 Paul says, 00:31:51.380 --> 00:31:52.000 if you're filled 00:31:52.000 --> 00:31:52.840 with the Holy Spirit, 00:31:53.620 --> 00:31:54.940 you're then going to behold 00:31:54.940 --> 00:31:55.500 the glory 00:31:55.500 --> 00:31:56.240 of the Lord Jesus. 00:31:57.340 --> 00:31:58.500 And if you behold 00:31:58.500 --> 00:31:59.019 the glory 00:31:59.019 --> 00:31:59.860 of the Lord Jesus, 00:32:00.060 --> 00:32:00.779 then the Holy Spirit 00:32:00.779 --> 00:32:02.019 is going to transform you 00:32:02.019 --> 00:32:02.860 by degrees 00:32:02.860 --> 00:32:04.279 into the glory 00:32:04.279 --> 00:32:05.299 of that same image 00:32:05.299 --> 00:32:05.759 of Jesus. 00:32:06.180 --> 00:32:08.660 And he's going to begin 00:32:08.660 --> 00:32:09.259 introducing 00:32:09.259 --> 00:32:10.360 a change 00:32:10.360 --> 00:32:11.720 in your condition 00:32:11.720 --> 00:32:12.860 from one degree 00:32:12.860 --> 00:32:13.779 of glory 00:32:13.779 --> 00:32:14.380 to the next 00:32:14.380 --> 00:32:15.820 so that you can begin 00:32:15.820 --> 00:32:16.440 to look back 00:32:16.440 --> 00:32:16.779 in your life 00:32:16.779 --> 00:32:17.120 and say, 00:32:17.480 --> 00:32:18.160 I used to not be 00:32:18.160 --> 00:32:19.080 very much like Jesus 00:32:19.080 --> 00:32:19.980 and somehow 00:32:19.980 --> 00:32:20.660 I'm becoming 00:32:20.660 --> 00:32:21.700 more like Jesus. 00:32:23.420 --> 00:32:24.519 And this is what 00:32:24.519 --> 00:32:25.480 Jesus has baked 00:32:25.480 --> 00:32:26.880 into his own teaching 00:32:26.880 --> 00:32:28.500 here in John 14. 00:32:28.640 --> 00:32:29.620 He says in verse 15, 00:32:30.360 --> 00:32:31.240 if you love me, 00:32:32.240 --> 00:32:33.279 keep or obey 00:32:33.279 --> 00:32:34.500 my commands. 00:32:36.180 --> 00:32:36.700 Verse 21, 00:32:36.840 --> 00:32:38.000 whoever has my commands 00:32:38.000 --> 00:32:38.680 and keeps them 00:32:38.680 --> 00:32:39.279 or obeys them 00:32:39.279 --> 00:32:39.700 is the one 00:32:39.700 --> 00:32:40.860 who loves me. 00:32:41.920 --> 00:32:42.700 Verse 23, 00:32:42.860 --> 00:32:43.960 anyone who loves me 00:32:43.960 --> 00:32:44.820 will keep 00:32:44.820 --> 00:32:45.320 or obey 00:32:45.320 --> 00:32:46.400 my teaching. 00:32:47.900 --> 00:32:48.700 Now let me just give you 00:32:48.700 --> 00:32:49.360 one example 00:32:49.360 --> 00:32:50.299 of Jesus' commands. 00:32:50.600 --> 00:32:51.100 He says, 00:32:51.660 --> 00:32:53.160 in the Sermon on the Mount, 00:32:53.220 --> 00:32:53.539 he says, 00:32:53.660 --> 00:32:54.500 love your enemies, 00:32:55.340 --> 00:32:56.160 do good to those 00:32:56.160 --> 00:32:56.700 who hate you, 00:32:56.860 --> 00:32:57.380 bless those 00:32:57.380 --> 00:32:58.100 who curse you, 00:32:58.380 --> 00:32:59.539 and pray for those 00:32:59.539 --> 00:33:00.600 who abuse you. 00:33:00.599 --> 00:33:01.359 Now if you've tried 00:33:01.359 --> 00:33:02.539 that for five minutes, 00:33:02.740 --> 00:33:03.759 you know it's impossible. 00:33:05.119 --> 00:33:06.659 How can you do 00:33:06.659 --> 00:33:07.399 any of that 00:33:07.399 --> 00:33:08.799 on your own power? 00:33:08.959 --> 00:33:09.579 Bless those 00:33:09.579 --> 00:33:10.159 who curse you, 00:33:10.259 --> 00:33:10.939 pray for those 00:33:10.939 --> 00:33:11.879 who abuse you? 00:33:12.959 --> 00:33:13.359 No, 00:33:13.480 --> 00:33:14.659 you need a power 00:33:14.659 --> 00:33:15.599 outside of yourself. 00:33:15.719 --> 00:33:16.439 You need to go on 00:33:16.439 --> 00:33:17.000 being filled 00:33:17.000 --> 00:33:17.899 with the Holy Spirit 00:33:17.899 --> 00:33:18.719 if you're going 00:33:18.719 --> 00:33:19.759 to do that. 00:33:20.759 --> 00:33:21.740 And Jesus is saying 00:33:21.740 --> 00:33:24.619 that the advocate, 00:33:24.759 --> 00:33:25.359 the Holy Spirit, 00:33:25.439 --> 00:33:26.219 if you ask him, 00:33:26.259 --> 00:33:27.079 if you seek him, 00:33:27.079 --> 00:33:29.019 he will come 00:33:29.019 --> 00:33:29.960 and empower you 00:33:29.960 --> 00:33:30.779 to demonstrate 00:33:30.779 --> 00:33:32.679 your love for Jesus 00:33:32.679 --> 00:33:35.740 by obeying his commands. 00:33:37.159 --> 00:33:37.980 And the New Testament 00:33:37.980 --> 00:33:38.519 teaches that 00:33:38.519 --> 00:33:39.740 when we don't obey 00:33:39.740 --> 00:33:40.899 God's commands, 00:33:41.240 --> 00:33:42.799 we quench the Holy Spirit. 00:33:43.539 --> 00:33:45.019 We grieve the Holy Spirit. 00:33:45.139 --> 00:33:46.319 We render the Holy Spirit 00:33:46.319 --> 00:33:47.579 not able to operate 00:33:47.579 --> 00:33:49.079 as he would like to 00:33:49.079 --> 00:33:49.779 in our lives 00:33:49.779 --> 00:33:50.500 and in the church. 00:33:51.619 --> 00:33:53.980 But the opposite is true. 00:33:54.059 --> 00:33:55.839 When we obey the Lord, 00:33:55.899 --> 00:33:57.039 when we obey his teachings 00:33:57.039 --> 00:33:58.480 it releases more 00:33:58.480 --> 00:33:59.379 of the Holy Spirit 00:33:59.379 --> 00:34:00.180 in our lives. 00:34:01.659 --> 00:34:02.839 Jesus says in verse 21, 00:34:03.019 --> 00:34:03.899 if you obey me, 00:34:04.220 --> 00:34:06.119 I will show myself to you. 00:34:07.420 --> 00:34:08.480 He says in verse 23, 00:34:08.579 --> 00:34:09.320 if you obey me, 00:34:09.480 --> 00:34:11.239 I will come to you. 00:34:13.039 --> 00:34:14.279 Would you like for Jesus 00:34:14.279 --> 00:34:15.059 to make himself 00:34:15.059 --> 00:34:16.820 more plain and clear to you? 00:34:18.179 --> 00:34:19.480 Would you like for Jesus 00:34:19.480 --> 00:34:21.019 to give more of himself 00:34:21.019 --> 00:34:21.880 to you? 00:34:24.579 --> 00:34:25.679 You've got to obey him 00:34:25.679 --> 00:34:26.579 by the power of the Spirit. 00:34:28.000 --> 00:34:29.219 One commentator says, 00:34:29.340 --> 00:34:30.579 Jesus will reveal himself 00:34:30.579 --> 00:34:31.840 even more powerfully 00:34:31.840 --> 00:34:32.980 and inwardly 00:34:32.980 --> 00:34:33.880 to the disciple 00:34:33.880 --> 00:34:34.880 who turns in faith 00:34:34.880 --> 00:34:35.920 and love to his Lord 00:34:35.920 --> 00:34:36.719 in an attempt 00:34:36.719 --> 00:34:38.420 to carry out his commands. 00:34:39.980 --> 00:34:41.199 And when Jesus says, 00:34:41.380 --> 00:34:42.059 obey me, 00:34:43.099 --> 00:34:44.380 he's not asking us 00:34:44.380 --> 00:34:44.920 to do something 00:34:44.920 --> 00:34:46.159 he hasn't already done, 00:34:46.340 --> 00:34:46.619 right? 00:34:46.619 --> 00:34:48.960 this is baked into 00:34:48.960 --> 00:34:50.079 who God is, 00:34:50.079 --> 00:34:50.759 the surrender 00:34:50.759 --> 00:34:51.960 of obedience 00:34:51.960 --> 00:34:53.659 in the first advocate, 00:34:53.839 --> 00:34:54.059 Jesus. 00:34:54.239 --> 00:34:55.239 He gives up his glory, 00:34:55.559 --> 00:34:56.500 he goes to the cross 00:34:56.500 --> 00:34:56.940 and we say, 00:34:57.139 --> 00:34:57.440 wow, 00:34:57.559 --> 00:34:58.440 how selfless. 00:35:00.199 --> 00:35:01.339 The second advocate, 00:35:01.500 --> 00:35:02.139 the Holy Spirit, 00:35:02.299 --> 00:35:03.579 points away from himself 00:35:03.579 --> 00:35:04.579 to Jesus 00:35:04.579 --> 00:35:05.099 to show us 00:35:05.099 --> 00:35:05.900 the glory of Jesus, 00:35:06.039 --> 00:35:06.819 the beauty of Jesus 00:35:06.819 --> 00:35:07.239 and we say, 00:35:07.420 --> 00:35:07.699 wow, 00:35:07.819 --> 00:35:09.139 how unselfish. 00:35:09.139 --> 00:35:11.579 God the Father 00:35:11.579 --> 00:35:12.239 empties 00:35:12.239 --> 00:35:15.159 the greatest treasure 00:35:15.159 --> 00:35:15.659 of heaven 00:35:15.659 --> 00:35:16.819 by sending his Son. 00:35:16.960 --> 00:35:18.339 Jesus empties himself 00:35:18.339 --> 00:35:19.259 and gives himself. 00:35:19.379 --> 00:35:20.059 The Holy Spirit 00:35:20.059 --> 00:35:21.339 is not about him, 00:35:21.379 --> 00:35:22.159 he's about Jesus. 00:35:22.339 --> 00:35:23.059 We look at that 00:35:23.059 --> 00:35:23.339 and we say, 00:35:23.440 --> 00:35:24.079 behold, 00:35:24.759 --> 00:35:26.059 divine selflessness, 00:35:26.259 --> 00:35:27.539 divine surrender. 00:35:29.619 --> 00:35:30.519 And when Jesus says, 00:35:30.519 --> 00:35:31.399 obey me, 00:35:31.579 --> 00:35:32.239 he's just saying, 00:35:33.199 --> 00:35:34.059 do what we've done. 00:35:35.319 --> 00:35:36.519 Do what we've done. 00:35:38.759 --> 00:35:40.019 Obeying Jesus means 00:35:40.019 --> 00:35:42.179 following this Trinitarian pattern 00:35:42.179 --> 00:35:43.920 of selfless surrender. 00:35:45.559 --> 00:35:46.779 And if you do that, 00:35:47.920 --> 00:35:48.839 then you will find 00:35:48.839 --> 00:35:50.279 that the ministry 00:35:50.279 --> 00:35:51.119 of the Holy Spirit 00:35:51.119 --> 00:35:52.599 begins flooding your life. 00:35:52.679 --> 00:35:53.619 If you feel dry, 00:35:54.819 --> 00:35:56.299 if you feel like 00:35:56.299 --> 00:35:57.359 there's not a lot 00:35:57.359 --> 00:35:58.519 going on spiritually, 00:35:59.359 --> 00:36:00.839 if you begin to do this, 00:36:01.199 --> 00:36:02.380 you will begin to know 00:36:02.380 --> 00:36:04.000 the glory and the joy 00:36:04.000 --> 00:36:05.599 of having this advocate 00:36:05.599 --> 00:36:07.039 come and fill you, 00:36:07.099 --> 00:36:07.799 as Jesus says, 00:36:08.039 --> 00:36:09.039 like rivers 00:36:09.039 --> 00:36:11.099 of living water 00:36:11.099 --> 00:36:12.759 bubbling up 00:36:12.759 --> 00:36:14.819 and flowing out 00:36:14.819 --> 00:36:16.199 from you. 00:36:16.299 --> 00:36:17.319 Don't you want that? 00:36:18.319 --> 00:36:18.839 Amazing. 00:36:19.739 --> 00:36:20.819 May God give that to us 00:36:20.820 --> 00:36:21.519 in the name of the Father, 00:36:21.640 --> 00:36:21.780 Son, 00:36:21.820 --> 00:36:22.420 and Holy Spirit. 00:36:22.940 --> 00:36:23.100 Amen. 00:36:22.940 --> 00:36:23.180 Amen. 00:36:23.180 --> 00:36:23.340 Amen. 00:36:23.340 --> 00:36:23.620 Amen. 00:36:23.620 --> 00:36:23.780 Amen. 00:36:23.780 --> 00:36:23.780 00:36:23.780 --> 00:36:23.780 00:36:23.780 --> 00:36:23.780 00:36:23.780 --> 00:36:23.780 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