The Sermon Holy Spirit We Need Him More by David McGee
Feb 22, 2015
Holy Spirit We Need Him More (33:19)
Referenced Scriptures: John 14:25-27; Romans 1:16-17; 1 Corinthians 12:4-11
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John 14:25-27
25) I have said these things to you, while still living with you.
26) But the Counselor, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, he will teach you all things, and bring to your memory all that I said to you.
27) Peace I leave with you. My peace I give to you; not as the world gives, give I to you. Don‘t let your heart be troubled, neither let it be fearful.
Romans 1:16-17
16) For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ, for it is the power of God to salvation to everyone who believes; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.
17) For therein is revealed a righteousness of God from faith to faith. As it is written, "But the righteous shall live by faith."
1 Corinthians 12:4-11
4) Now there are various kinds of gifts, but the same Spirit.
5) There are various kinds of service, and the same Lord.
6) There are various kinds of workings, but the same God, who works all things in all.
7) But to each one is given the manifestation of the Spirit for the profit of all.
8) For to one is given through the Spirit the word of wisdom, and to another the word of knowledge, according to the same Spirit;
9) to another faith, by the same Spirit; and to another gifts of healings, by the same Spirit;
10) and to another workings of miracles; and to another prophecy; and to another discerning of spirits; to another different kinds of languages; and to another the interpretation of languages.
11) But the one and the same Spirit works all of these, distributing to each one separately as he desires.
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They were speaking on the Holy Spirit. We need him. We need the Holy Spirit are active in our lives and at times I think we're maybe negligent or maybe we just don't recognize how important the spirit is to our life by everything that we know what everything that we understand the Holy Spirit has brought us brought to us, you know, we don't conjure up God with our imagination. We allow the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit, who is our teacher. The third person of the Trinity. He empowers us. He inspires us, he brings the word of God to life in us. The Scripture says that the word of God is quick and powerful and sharper than any two-edged sword that the word of God is alive and the word of God is active, so this book here without the Holy Spirit is just the book, but the Holy Spirit inspired the writers and the Holy Spirit inspires us as we read it knows that mean that women have by member years ago there was a groups that they would they do need to have anyone teach them the Bible was just them, and God, and it was really messed up. They were, they were so far off base that you know doesn't work that way. God doesn't promote islands and he doesn't promote the situation where we are often are a little cave, doing our own little thing and we are against everybody that's out there now and God is at work that way. And when that when God would appear to work that way. We've got it all we've got it wrong. It isn't that God is trying to isolate. He's trying to bring people in God is trying to bring people into the kingdom of God is trying to work with people to be like the hospital saying you know what, were not accepting any sick patients today you know what the church would be saying we don't have window while sinners in our church, but beyond the Bible, that the kingdom of God has come to save us from our sins. The kingdom of God has come to bring us into new life in a new understanding of our relationship with Christ. And if this is that we have an disempowering of the Holy Spirit that makes the difference in us. When the Scripture that I looking at the days in John chapter fourteen. Beginning in verse twenty five through twenty seven, says I'm telling you these things while I'm still with you, Mrs. Jesus given this explanation, the friend, but a friend we have in Jesus, the friend of the Holy Spirit, whom the father will send it my request will make everything plain to you, he will remind you of all the things I've told you I'm leaving you well and whole. That's my parting gift to you. You see when God. When Jesus was leaving he left us with the Holy Spirit that he would give us another he would give us one, just like himself to the Holy Spirit is a person he can be green tea can be rejected. He can be pushed aside that this the Holy Spirit is there at our to be there for us and we open our hearts to be receptive of what the spirit wants to speak to us how the disparities going to teach us and whenever we find ourselves being in isolation and being pushing other people aside, that's not the work of the Holy Spirit when you know the Holy Spirit is there to bring people into the kingdom of God. Know Holy Spirit is there to convict us of our sins help us arrive off our rough edges to be able to work on our own hearts and lives because we are a new creation Rice Jesus all things pass away, behold, all things become new. So how are we going to be receptive to the new if we are rejecting anything that brings about some type of change while there are many churches and there are many people that kind of maybe they are offended by then the work of the Holy Spirit, but it is it is the Holy Spirit that works within our hearts and lives that even though all we people using ourselves don't understand everything that God is doing and why he is doing it. The Holy Spirit is there to teach us about the word and through the word, and how that the word and how that Jesus Christ is made real to our lives. He has the spirit of wisdom is the spirit of understanding. He has the spirit of counsel, we need the counsel of his word, his inspiration of the word to our lives. We need the application of that word to our lives. It is the Holy Spirit empowers us and whenever we go out to do or to live and to be part of our community be part of our families. It is the Holy Spirit. It helps us to forgive helps us to be patient. It is the Holy Spirit. It helps us to be kind. We don't want long-suffering, we don't want to suffer long, so we'll skip that one. If we see if the Holy Spirit. It helps us to be long-suffering to be enduring that we are in this for the long haul. We are in this form for the kingdom of God, and we are in this to see us through the difficulties of how that these difficulties that we face. We are more than a conqueror. How do we become more than a conqueror through just three determined that you have the entire time and my areas and determined spirit that the spirit what to see us through the difficulties them a little video we found the other day and it happy that the sentence and who are the kind of funny. It's about what while you listen to sober part of a global enterprise, and it is they called the church and the Holy Spirit is the one who makes that church, the body of Christ what it is now. Everything we know of God. Everything that we understand of God is in the middle. Whatever Jesus is telling the disciples, he will remind you. So Jesus is even telling the disciples as they are going to put this all together afterwards know he's letting them know before hand before his death and his resurrection. He's letting them know that he is going to help them remember and understand what all this is about because they don't understand. They don't say beyond their daily routines in the things that Jesus is doing and then he yelled. They wanted to set up a kingdom. They want him to throw out the romance and they want to the Jewish nation to be restored, and he's decaying and everybody goes around. I grab either little kingdoms and have their own little trials. The twelve disciples, and they have all this in mind, and Jesus is telling them. Guys, this is what it's about, but you don't understand and I can explain to you right now, but I am leaving you while in whole think I am leaving you while it whole. That's my parting gift to you. Peace I don't I I don't leave you the way you hurt argues to being left feeling abandoned and broke bereft, so don't be upset. Don't be distraught. So God is saying to us that he is set and you get into wants the Holy Spirit and the spirit is to move upon us, seemingly the power from on high. The power from on high empowerment empowerment. The great big word empowerment, but it means to be strengthened. It means to be addicted. It means that the anointing of the Spirit is going to be upon our lives. It's a divine unction, a divine presence that lets us know we can do this. It's a divine presence that lets us know we can make it is my understanding that the spirit is there saying to our hearts into our minds. We can do this, we can make this happen, God, and I together not I can do this by just become stubborn and often strong-willed enough, you know, I have been watching the history channel, you I like to watch World War II hero within the documentaries and things unworn and trying to avoid trying to understand Hitler, but the some of the things that they would talk about it. How that heat. He looked at what he was doing and if he could just will it to happen and in his hatred of the Jewish people and his his will to dictate in rural people and he did everything if you could just be strong willed enough, you could make it happen and we almost the world was almost conquered by this person who felt that a strong, well, with all that you needed and that you could will things into accomplishment. It will things and what actions and defeated, he started toward fifty, fifty three million people died because of this one man strong will fifty three million and we look at how that how many people are saved because of the empowerment of the Holy Spirit on our lives to make a difference in the people around us. How many people are affected for good because of the dip. This power of the Holy Spirit to work in our lives and we are part of a global organization that we are part of a global organization that we are touching the lives of people around the world because of our gifts and offerings. Our prayers that we are making a difference, not only here but in Africa, where making a difference, not only here but for the homeless in Johnstown, but we are touching the orphans in Egypt, Moline thrasher orphanage. You see we are part of something that is greater than ourselves, and the Holy Spirit comes with his own with his anointing his unction and God will give to us in our moments of need. He will give to us exactly what we need to see the Holy Spirit gives us the power to recognize to distinguish to know the difference between right and wrong is well I don't know that will sometimes I wonder, do we really know what is the right spirit. What is the human spirit. What is that God 's spirit and what is evil. You see you had a whole nation of people swept off their feet by a person who will himself to be ruler in wanting to take his people someplace that they could have gone without him, there was Hitler they didn't couldn't understand the difference between right and wrong, and that even testimonies of the people that were swept up in this movement, said we lost our ability to distinguish. We lost our ability to know the difference between right and wrong, and people are not necessarily well that some people anonymously. This one on being able to trust is is is everybody in evil person. Now, by their fruits shall men know that if the it is it is a gifting of the spirit, but it's also gifting of our knowledge that when we bite into an apple and find a half a worm that the Apple is warming again. But where we lose our ability is whenever we say I hate apples all apples are warming it. We never read another Apple and you see we are convinced, because of our logic, but because of our understanding because of what we know what we seen what we've experienced because of that we are convinced that all apples have worms body and all that, why even Apple wants to see in our lives. God is aware at work changing jobs and that we are growing and becoming an and I a few weeks ago I thought of this and that God does not hold our past against us. He holds our future in front of us. If we can't let go of what has been done, what has gone wrong in our lives if we can allow God to forgive us completely that will haunt us. God is not causing us the knowing the difference between right and wrong. The right spirit of Christ in our life will let us know that God does not remind them remember our past. He never uses it against us. It's forgiven what he does is produce printed what he does is present, it was our future. He presents to loss an unveiling of his word, he presents the loss power to accomplish strength to accomplish wisdom to accomplish knowledge to accomplish peace to accomplish the divine will, for tomorrow that he will give us the light to our path with Levi had brought a flashlight in today and bring it, but the thought about it and I was getting use at another time, but I didn't bring it, but I'm thinking of. It's all use it. If you have a light flashlight we turn it on it. We signed around with a flashlight doesn't work life. While it's not working. The light anything up, but you come here at midnight, Windows no lights on, and you turned the flashlight on it works you sometimes we don't have the ability to distinguish light in the light. Sometimes we see different people 's lights shining in our eyes. We did while that's the light in others light all around us, but when we have been called to be the light in darkness, that we are to be the life of Jesus Christ, the light of the world that we are to the light of Christ shining in our life that whenever we enter the darkness. There's delightful memories. There is a light inside of us that illuminates the darkness in all of us are called to be the light, the light of Christ and the power of the Spirit is where we get our charge if you don't have the battery you don't have the charge. The light is a better shine, but when the power of the Spirit is in our life. And whenever we are in the darkness, we find that the light of Jesus Christ shines greatly, and the people in the dark has seen a great light dancing Christ, so we find that Holy Spirit wants us to be able to distinguish the know the difference between right and wrong to know the difference of what is human. What is divine and what is evil, and they can all be- they can all be dressed up in different formats, but what's in the heart. That's what were judged by because God wants to change our heart, for out of the abundance of the heart we speak it out of the abundance of the heart we see out of the abundance of the heart. We do, we are alive in Christ. You see the designs we are designed to receive the gifts of the Spirit 's fruits of the spirit. We are designed for those fruits and gifts to be part of our lives that we are desired that the Holy Spirit would put these perfect matches of the Holy Spirit perfect matches of these gifts of his fruits. We are designed for those things to become part of our life that they were at their perfect match for us because of him where we are you need that we are faced with Todd is there to insert in power office. To accomplish this, that it is an error. It is part of us and as we all throw our daily lives we save the power of God at work in us. We see the open doors. We see the almost tragedies that bypass us, because God is good and there to see us through to take care of us and if we run into the wall. We needed to run into the wall. I don't know why has God can help us get when you talk to them, you're in a business story. I used a five spoke about this, but still funny displays on an airplane and the guy says to her, you believe everything that the netbook and she says yes and he says we need even that story was some guy got swallowed by official. Well, yes, I believe, and when I get to heaven on earth. And he said to her one of these not in heaven, and she says women, you can ask that's funny, I thought if you have the way our lives. We have this power, the spirit of fits perfectly into our lives and the Holy Spirit had a very daunting task God 's way of putting people right shows up in the acts of faith that the Roman step one through sixteen. I am news I'm most proud to proclaim this extraordinary message of God 's powerful plan to rescue everyone who trusts him. God has this powerful plan to rescue to it isn't enough, sometimes rescuing young snatch them out of a difficult this love Jonah wasn't snatched out of them. He was thrown into the way was thrown into his difficulties. He was swallowed by the great French. The prepared fish, and he was in this fish, and we know that is correct because Jesus said, as Jonah was three days and three nights in the heart of the fish, so why be three days and three nights in your Jesus, legitimate sizes, jealous experience and we see where he is a failure. Jonah 's failure worked out to a divine good. It even became the illustration that Jesus would use about his death and resurrection, God is not interested in our failures. He doesn't hold them against us. He uses them in a way that challenges and changes, and the gifts of the spirit and the fruits of the spirit are, as we have need of you think God will not empower us to set in the armchairs of life and be a critique and critique everybody that walks down the street and everybody we know and that we have the spiritual gift of telling people what's wrong with them. Spiritual gift God has given us the power of his Spirit to become what he wants us to be and that as we face the difficulties as we face the problems as we faced in the Holy Spirit is coming. And and and providing for us wisdom and knowledge and peace and joy and an strength and the application of truth to our daily lives. God is bringing those things he needs. He's whispering in an aria Aries was inspiring to endorse your say that this is what I have for you, not about failure. It's about how that I'm going to take you through this tile that I'm going to take you beyond this is a feel is without sin, let him cast the first stone doesn't come to kick us out of the kingdom becomes to empower us to be part of his church parts of that body that operates around the world, and that the Christians that are being executed in the Far East. We need to pray for them because they are suffering for their faith in Jesus Christ, they are being executed because they believe in Jesus and we need to pray for them. We need to be parked and we need to join our hearts with, and we need to pray for them that God will give them the strength in these times to go through their trials and that they would be a piece, so the Holy Spirit is about building the body of Christ empowering the body of Christ and the church is built upon the truth that he is the son of God. Jesus is the son of God and the Holy Spirit comes to our lives and he confirms it with signs and wonders it up when I was growing up in a church always know God is going to do signs and wonders and signs and wonders, given by family. What a sign is what a wondrous sign and wonder of the Holy Spirit when I was growing up, if you had your leg cut off Robert grow your new light sign and wonder as it is not only mocked that because God 's done it blinded eyes open lame walk all night all... I wonder the signs and wonders, is that a sign is the mark of God 's sign. The Jews that are really called. They were the boxes under four heads. They renovate the head. The Scriptures tied to their arms is under four heads. They put among the doorpost of their homes, but everywhere they look around. There is the sign of God, the Mark of God upon the life, the signs and wonders of the Holy Spirit. Not only are the blind seeing the lame walk, the sign and the wonder of the Holy Spirit, is that he has the mark, as Mark is upon everything that we do everything that we do it is there that the Mark of God is upon it that people 's lives that we touch and we talk to that we give to that, there are some marked others, and in French on that life in the apprentice, the Holy Spirit, the sign of God. We often can't we talk about the wall at the end time the mark of the beast is six six six, while what is the mark of God, that the Bible already says that his children are marks him. We have the Mark of God on our life, the Mark of God like his name is written. Our name is written in his book of life. His name is written upon our hearts, signs and wonders that whatever we do has his mark, and that whatever we wonder. Whatever we and the word means five. Find it here. The Mark of God is God 's mark and present. We seek the possible we will wonder is that that which is that which is beyond our natural ability to accomplish. We would question how it could ever be done. The Mark of God is upon the completion of that which we doubts question could ever be done, that God 's marketing God 's ability to do what we cannot do and that is the Holy Spirit working in our life said that whatever we would say would have his mark on it. It would be by the unction of the spirit, and we know what is not the origin of the spirit cursing and swearing and and belittling and lying in an attack and gossiping and those types of things. Those are not the mark of God, but truth and love, purpose, grace, mercy, forgiveness, Mark of God and the wonder is that we woods. We would allow God to receive glory and everything is said and done signs and wonders. Yes, the lame walk. Yes, the blind see. Yes, the deaf hear. Yes, that God is God 's purpose in his mark is upon my forgiveness of those who have hurt me. My love for those who don't love me. My understanding towards those who are not understanding towards me. That's the mark of God. It's a wonder I wonder that we never do that that that that is one of God 's Holy Spirit. His spirit convicting confirming affirming what he is about. This is a challenge, so we allow the spirit of God would allow the whole spirit. The guests of his spirit that yell and in first grade is twelve verse four two four through fourteen four through eleven. These are listing the gifts of the Spirit. But before we get the gifts that are not going to go into the different gifts, but I want to read them. The verse, verse four, God 's various gifts are handed out everywhere you see God 's thoughts string being stingy with his gifts like you got to measure up. You've got to do this and you walk this evening. You do that know God 's gifts are handed out everywhere, but they all originate in God 's spirit, we would do the signs and wonders that God has for us. God 's various ministries are carried out everywhere, God 's various gifts are handed out everywhere, God 's various ministries are carried out everywhere and they all originate in God Spirit, God 's various expressions of power RN actions everywhere. The action of God 's power is everywhere now. What special people qualify for this with special people qualify for this. They are an idea. Everyone, so everybody does here. Raise your hand, you qualify and every where the Holy Spirit is handing these gifts out to an three. While Thomas do a compilation of the signs and wonders the Mark of God upon what we would wonder how could ever be done in our lifetime and through us. God is at work. God is at work. God is at work by his Spirit in our hearts to forgive the love to pray for those it is spitefully use us pray for our enemies, pray for those her being hurt in the Middle East. Pray for those who are homeless in Johnstown. Pray for those our neighbors, our friends and the neighbors and friends are not friends and neighbors to pray for them. The mark of God, signs and wonders that the sign and a wonder that I never pray for somebody who hurts me but the thing is, it is God who does it. He changes my heart and that is a sign God is inside of me, and it is a wonder that God has forgiven me of my sins, and he will forgive them their event. So is there no visual look at, look around, look in the mirror€ Euro wonder if I tell somebody that your sign your wonder and saw my a minute. We are assigned away. I wonder if the Mark of God on your forehead. Yes, this Los Angeles last Wednesday was Ash Wednesday ever went around with the ashes on their foreheads. It's a lot able to analyze it. We don't do that, or we do it, but we don't practice it that much have done that the things I've nothing against that is just the idea that we are marked with that, even if we do all that desire for it. If we do put ice 's unreported. We are marked with God 's call were marked by his presence were marked by the Holy Spirit and all of the gifts fit neatly into our lives as we need them for our work of service, and then God we open our hearts to you. Thank you for your presence. Thank you for your spirits that touches our lives. For those the Lord that are unable to be here. Got we pray you touch their lives. We pray you touch them and help them for those who are homeless, God not only do we pray for them. We pray that you would use your body, your church shoes on us to help meet their needs got for those who are suffering their lives are being taken got I pray that you give them strength for in their hour of need, God, you will empower them to see you to look beyond what is going on to where they shall be so. Lord help us to look beyond where we are at and see your hand of provision and power working in us. Amen. Amen. God bless you Holy Spirit We Need Him More They were speaking on the Holy Spirit. We need him. We need the Holy Spirit are active in our lives and at times I think we're maybe negligent or maybe we just don't recognize how important the spirit is to our life by everything that we know what everything that we understand the Holy Spirit has brought us brought to us, you know, we don't conjure up God with our imagination. We allow the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit, who is our teacher. The third person of the Trinity. He empowers us. He inspires us, he brings the word of God to life in us. The Scripture says that the word of God is quick and powerful and sharper than any two-edged sword that the word of God is alive and the word of God is active, so this book here without the Holy Spirit is just the book, but the Holy Spirit inspired the writers and the Holy Spirit inspires us as we read it knows that mean that women have by member years ago there was a groups that they would they do need to have anyone teach them the Bible was just them, and God, and it was really messed up. They were, they were so far off base that you know doesn't work that way. God doesn't promote islands and he doesn't promote the situation where we are often are a little cave, doing our own little thing and we are against everybody that's out there now and God is at work that way. And when that when God would appear to work that way. We've got it all we've got it wrong. It isn't that God is trying to isolate. He's trying to bring people in God is trying to bring people into the kingdom of God is trying to work with people to be like the hospital saying you know what, were not accepting any sick patients today you know what the church would be saying we don't have window while sinners in our church, but beyond the Bible, that the kingdom of God has come to save us from our sins. The kingdom of God has come to bring us into new life in a new understanding of our relationship with Christ. And if this is that we have an disempowering of the Holy Spirit that makes the difference in us. When the Scripture that I looking at the days in John chapter fourteen. Beginning in verse twenty five through twenty seven, says I'm telling you these things while I'm still with you, Mrs. Jesus given this explanation, the friend, but a friend we have in Jesus, the friend of the Holy Spirit, whom the father will send it my request will make everything plain to you, he will remind you of all the things I've told you I'm leaving you well and whole. That's my parting gift to you. You see when God. When Jesus was leaving he left us with the Holy Spirit that he would give us another he would give us one, just like himself to the Holy Spirit is a person he can be green tea can be rejected. He can be pushed aside that this the Holy Spirit is there at our to be there for us and we open our hearts to be receptive of what the spirit wants to speak to us how the disparities going to teach us and whenever we find ourselves being in isolation and being pushing other people aside, that's not the work of the Holy Spirit when you know the Holy Spirit is there to bring people into the kingdom of God. Know Holy Spirit is there to convict us of our sins help us arrive off our rough edges to be able to work on our own hearts and lives because we are a new creation Rice Jesus all things pass away, behold, all things become new. So how are we going to be receptive to the new if we are rejecting anything that brings about some type of change while there are many churches and there are many people that kind of maybe they are offended by then the work of the Holy Spirit, but it is it is the Holy Spirit that works within our hearts and lives that even though all we people using ourselves don't understand everything that God is doing and why he is doing it. The Holy Spirit is there to teach us about the word and through the word, and how that the word and how that Jesus Christ is made real to our lives. He has the spirit of wisdom is the spirit of understanding. He has the spirit of counsel, we need the counsel of his word, his inspiration of the word to our lives. We need the application of that word to our lives. It is the Holy Spirit empowers us and whenever we go out to do or to live and to be part of our community be part of our families. It is the Holy Spirit. It helps us to forgive helps us to be patient. It is the Holy Spirit. It helps us to be kind. We don't want long-suffering, we don't want to suffer long, so we'll skip that one. If we see if the Holy Spirit. It helps us to be long-suffering to be enduring that we are in this for the long haul. We are in this form for the kingdom of God, and we are in this to see us through the difficulties of how that these difficulties that we face. We are more than a conqueror. How do we become more than a conqueror through just three determined that you have the entire time and my areas and determined spirit that the spirit what to see us through the difficulties them a little video we found the other day and it happy that the sentence and who are the kind of funny. It's about what while you listen to sober part of a global enterprise, and it is they called the church and the Holy Spirit is the one who makes that church, the body of Christ what it is now. Everything we know of God. Everything that we understand of God is in the middle. Whatever Jesus is telling the disciples, he will remind you. So Jesus is even telling the disciples as they are going to put this all together afterwards know he's letting them know before hand before his death and his resurrection. He's letting them know that he is going to help them remember and understand what all this is about because they don't understand. They don't say beyond their daily routines in the things that Jesus is doing and then he yelled. They wanted to set up a kingdom. They want him to throw out the romance and they want to the Jewish nation to be restored, and he's decaying and everybody goes around. I grab either little kingdoms and have their own little trials. The twelve disciples, and they have all this in mind, and Jesus is telling them. Guys, this is what it's about, but you don't understand and I can explain to you right now, but I am leaving you while in whole think I am leaving you while it whole. That's my parting gift to you. Peace I don't I I don't leave you the way you hurt argues to being left feeling abandoned and broke bereft, so don't be upset. Don't be distraught. So God is saying to us that he is set and you get into wants the Holy Spirit and the spirit is to move upon us, seemingly the power from on high. The power from on high empowerment empowerment. The great big word empowerment, but it means to be strengthened. It means to be addicted. It means that the anointing of the Spirit is going to be upon our lives. It's a divine unction, a divine presence that lets us know we can do this. It's a divine presence that lets us know we can make it is my understanding that the spirit is there saying to our hearts into our minds. We can do this, we can make this happen, God, and I together not I can do this by just become stubborn and often strong-willed enough, you know, I have been watching the history channel, you I like to watch World War II hero within the documentaries and things unworn and trying to avoid trying to understand Hitler, but the some of the things that they would talk about it. How that heat. He looked at what he was doing and if he could just will it to happen and in his hatred of the Jewish people and his his will to dictate in rural people and he did everything if you could just be strong willed enough, you could make it happen and we almost the world was almost conquered by this person who felt that a strong, well, with all that you needed and that you could will things into accomplishment. It will things and what actions and defeated, he started toward fifty, fifty three million people died because of this one man strong will fifty three million and we look at how that how many people are saved because of the empowerment of the Holy Spirit on our lives to make a difference in the people around us. How many people are affected for good because of the dip. This power of the Holy Spirit to work in our lives and we are part of a global organization that we are part of a global organization that we are touching the lives of people around the world because of our gifts and offerings. Our prayers that we are making a difference, not only here but in Africa, where making a difference, not only here but for the homeless in Johnstown, but we are touching the orphans in Egypt, Moline thrasher orphanage. You see we are part of something that is greater than ourselves, and the Holy Spirit comes with his own with his anointing his unction and God will give to us in our moments of need. He will give to us exactly what we need to see the Holy Spirit gives us the power to recognize to distinguish to know the difference between right and wrong is well I don't know that will sometimes I wonder, do we really know what is the right spirit. What is the human spirit. What is that God 's spirit and what is evil. You see you had a whole nation of people swept off their feet by a person who will himself to be ruler in wanting to take his people someplace that they could have gone without him, there was Hitler they didn't couldn't understand the difference between right and wrong, and that even testimonies of the people that were swept up in this movement, said we lost our ability to distinguish. We lost our ability to know the difference between right and wrong, and people are not necessarily well that some people anonymously. This one on being able to trust is is is everybody in evil person. Now, by their fruits shall men know that if the it is it is a gifting of the spirit, but it's also gifting of our knowledge that when we bite into an apple and find a half a worm that the Apple is warming again. But where we lose our ability is whenever we say I hate apples all apples are warming it. We never read another Apple and you see we are convinced, because of our logic, but because of our understanding because of what we know what we seen what we've experienced because of that we are convinced that all apples have worms body and all that, why even Apple wants to see in our lives. God is aware at work changing jobs and that we are growing and becoming an and I a few weeks ago I thought of this and that God does not hold our past against us. He holds our future in front of us. If we can't let go of what has been done, what has gone wrong in our lives if we can allow God to forgive us completely that will haunt us. God is not causing us the knowing the difference between right and wrong. The right spirit of Christ in our life will let us know that God does not remind them remember our past. He never uses it against us. It's forgiven what he does is produce printed what he does is present, it was our future. He presents to loss an unveiling of his word, he presents the loss power to accomplish strength to accomplish wisdom to accomplish knowledge to accomplish peace to accomplish the divine will, for tomorrow that he will give us the light to our path with Levi had brought a flashlight in today and bring it, but the thought about it and I was getting use at another time, but I didn't bring it, but I'm thinking of. It's all use it. If you have a light flashlight we turn it on it. We signed around with a flashlight doesn't work life. While it's not working. The light anything up, but you come here at midnight, Windows no lights on, and you turned the flashlight on it works you sometimes we don't have the ability to distinguish light in the light. Sometimes we see different people 's lights shining in our eyes. We did while that's the light in others light all around us, but when we have been called to be the light in darkness, that we are to be the life of Jesus Christ, the light of the world that we are to the light of Christ shining in our life that whenever we enter the darkness. There's delightful memories. There is a light inside of us that illuminates the darkness in all of us are called to be the light, the light of Christ and the power of the Spirit is where we get our charge if you don't have the battery you don't have the charge. The light is a better shine, but when the power of the Spirit is in our life. And whenever we are in the darkness, we find that the light of Jesus Christ shines greatly, and the people in the dark has seen a great light dancing Christ, so we find that Holy Spirit wants us to be able to distinguish the know the difference between right and wrong to know the difference of what is human. What is divine and what is evil, and they can all be- they can all be dressed up in different formats, but what's in the heart. That's what were judged by because God wants to change our heart, for out of the abundance of the heart we speak it out of the abundance of the heart we see out of the abundance of the heart. We do, we are alive in Christ. You see the designs we are designed to receive the gifts of the Spirit 's fruits of the spirit. We are designed for those fruits and gifts to be part of our lives that we are desired that the Holy Spirit would put these perfect matches of the Holy Spirit perfect matches of these gifts of his fruits. We are designed for those things to become part of our life that they were at their perfect match for us because of him where we are you need that we are faced with Todd is there to insert in power office. To accomplish this, that it is an error. It is part of us and as we all throw our daily lives we save the power of God at work in us. We see the open doors. We see the almost tragedies that bypass us, because God is good and there to see us through to take care of us and if we run into the wall. We needed to run into the wall. I don't know why has God can help us get when you talk to them, you're in a business story. I used a five spoke about this, but still funny displays on an airplane and the guy says to her, you believe everything that the netbook and she says yes and he says we need even that story was some guy got swallowed by official. Well, yes, I believe, and when I get to heaven on earth. And he said to her one of these not in heaven, and she says women, you can ask that's funny, I thought if you have the way our lives. We have this power, the spirit of fits perfectly into our lives and the Holy Spirit had a very daunting task God 's way of putting people right shows up in the acts of faith that the Roman step one through sixteen. I am news I'm most proud to proclaim this extraordinary message of God 's powerful plan to rescue everyone who trusts him. God has this powerful plan to rescue to it isn't enough, sometimes rescuing young snatch them out of a difficult this love Jonah wasn't snatched out of them. He was thrown into the way was thrown into his difficulties. He was swallowed by the great French. The prepared fish, and he was in this fish, and we know that is correct because Jesus said, as Jonah was three days and three nights in the heart of the fish, so why be three days and three nights in your Jesus, legitimate sizes, jealous experience and we see where he is a failure. Jonah 's failure worked out to a divine good. It even became the illustration that Jesus would use about his death and resurrection, God is not interested in our failures. He doesn't hold them against us. He uses them in a way that challenges and changes, and the gifts of the spirit and the fruits of the spirit are, as we have need of you think God will not empower us to set in the armchairs of life and be a critique and critique everybody that walks down the street and everybody we know and that we have the spiritual gift of telling people what's wrong with them. Spiritual gift God has given us the power of his Spirit to become what he wants us to be and that as we face the difficulties as we face the problems as we faced in the Holy Spirit is coming. And and and providing for us wisdom and knowledge and peace and joy and an strength and the application of truth to our daily lives. God is bringing those things he needs. He's whispering in an aria Aries was inspiring to endorse your say that this is what I have for you, not about failure. It's about how that I'm going to take you through this tile that I'm going to take you beyond this is a feel is without sin, let him cast the first stone doesn't come to kick us out of the kingdom becomes to empower us to be part of his church parts of that body that operates around the world, and that the Christians that are being executed in the Far East. We need to pray for them because they are suffering for their faith in Jesus Christ, they are being executed because they believe in Jesus and we need to pray for them. We need to be parked and we need to join our hearts with, and we need to pray for them that God will give them the strength in these times to go through their trials and that they would be a piece, so the Holy Spirit is about building the body of Christ empowering the body of Christ and the church is built upon the truth that he is the son of God. Jesus is the son of God and the Holy Spirit comes to our lives and he confirms it with signs and wonders it up when I was growing up in a church always know God is going to do signs and wonders and signs and wonders, given by family. What a sign is what a wondrous sign and wonder of the Holy Spirit when I was growing up, if you had your leg cut off Robert grow your new light sign and wonder as it is not only mocked that because God 's done it blinded eyes open lame walk all night all... I wonder the signs and wonders, is that a sign is the mark of God 's sign. The Jews that are really called. They were the boxes under four heads. They renovate the head. The Scriptures tied to their arms is under four heads. They put among the doorpost of their homes, but everywhere they look around. There is the sign of God, the Mark of God upon the life, the signs and wonders of the Holy Spirit. Not only are the blind seeing the lame walk, the sign and the wonder of the Holy Spirit, is that he has the mark, as Mark is upon everything that we do everything that we do it is there that the Mark of God is upon it that people 's lives that we touch and we talk to that we give to that, there are some marked others, and in French on that life in the apprentice, the Holy Spirit, the sign of God. We often can't we talk about the wall at the end time the mark of the beast is six six six, while what is the mark of God, that the Bible already says that his children are marks him. We have the Mark of God on our life, the Mark of God like his name is written. Our name is written in his book of life. His name is written upon our hearts, signs and wonders that whatever we do has his mark, and that whatever we wonder. Whatever we and the word means five. Find it here. The Mark of God is God 's mark and present. We seek the possible we will wonder is that that which is that which is beyond our natural ability to accomplish. We would question how it could ever be done. The Mark of God is upon the completion of that which we doubts question could ever be done, that God 's marketing God 's ability to do what we cannot do and that is the Holy Spirit working in our life said that whatever we would say would have his mark on it. It would be by the unction of the spirit, and we know what is not the origin of the spirit cursing and swearing and and belittling and lying in an attack and gossiping and those types of things. Those are not the mark of God, but truth and love, purpose, grace, mercy, forgiveness, Mark of God and the wonder is that we woods. We would allow God to receive glory and everything is said and done signs and wonders. Yes, the lame walk. Yes, the blind see. Yes, the deaf hear. Yes, that God is God 's purpose in his mark is upon my forgiveness of those who have hurt me. My love for those who don't love me. My understanding towards those who are not understanding towards me. That's the mark of God. It's a wonder I wonder that we never do that that that that is one of God 's Holy Spirit. His spirit convicting confirming affirming what he is about. This is a challenge, so we allow the spirit of God would allow the whole spirit. The guests of his spirit that yell and in first grade is twelve verse four two four through fourteen four through eleven. These are listing the gifts of the Spirit. But before we get the gifts that are not going to go into the different gifts, but I want to read them. The verse, verse four, God 's various gifts are handed out everywhere you see God 's thoughts string being stingy with his gifts like you got to measure up. You've got to do this and you walk this evening. You do that know God 's gifts are handed out everywhere, but they all originate in God 's spirit, we would do the signs and wonders that God has for us. God 's various ministries are carried out everywhere, God 's various gifts are handed out everywhere, God 's various ministries are carried out everywhere and they all originate in God Spirit, God 's various expressions of power RN actions everywhere. The action of God 's power is everywhere now. What special people qualify for this with special people qualify for this. They are an idea. Everyone, so everybody does here. Raise your hand, you qualify and every where the Holy Spirit is handing these gifts out to an three. While Thomas do a compilation of the signs and wonders the Mark of God upon what we would wonder how could ever be done in our lifetime and through us. God is at work. God is at work. God is at work by his Spirit in our hearts to forgive the love to pray for those it is spitefully use us pray for our enemies, pray for those her being hurt in the Middle East. Pray for those who are homeless in Johnstown. Pray for those our neighbors, our friends and the neighbors and friends are not friends and neighbors to pray for them. The mark of God, signs and wonders that the sign and a wonder that I never pray for somebody who hurts me but the thing is, it is God who does it. He changes my heart and that is a sign God is inside of me, and it is a wonder that God has forgiven me of my sins, and he will forgive them their event. So is there no visual look at, look around, look in the mirror€ Euro wonder if I tell somebody that your sign your wonder and saw my a minute. We are assigned away. I wonder if the Mark of God on your forehead. Yes, this Los Angeles last Wednesday was Ash Wednesday ever went around with the ashes on their foreheads. It's a lot able to analyze it. We don't do that, or we do it, but we don't practice it that much have done that the things I've nothing against that is just the idea that we are marked with that, even if we do all that desire for it. If we do put ice 's unreported. We are marked with God 's call were marked by his presence were marked by the Holy Spirit and all of the gifts fit neatly into our lives as we need them for our work of service, and then God we open our hearts to you. Thank you for your presence. Thank you for your spirits that touches our lives. For those the Lord that are unable to be here. Got we pray you touch their lives. We pray you touch them and help them for those who are homeless, God not only do we pray for them. We pray that you would use your body, your church shoes on us to help meet their needs got for those who are suffering their lives are being taken got I pray that you give them strength for in their hour of need, God, you will empower them to see you to look beyond what is going on to where they shall be so. Lord help us to look beyond where we are at and see your hand of provision and power working in us. Amen. Amen. God bless you Holy Spirit We Need Him More