The Sermon Power - The Ability To Do by David McGee
Mar 01, 2015
Power - The Ability To Do (36:14)
Referenced Scriptures: 1 Peter 4:7-11
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1 Peter 4:7-11
7) But the end of all things is near. Therefore be of sound mind, self-controlled, and sober in prayer.
8) And above all things be earnest in your love among yourselves, for love covers a multitude of sins.
9) Be hospitable one to another without grumbling.
10) According as each has received a gift, be ministering it among yourselves, as good stewards of the grace of God in its various forms.
11) If any man speaks, let it be as it were oracles of God. If any man serves, let it be as of the strength which God supplies, that in all things God may be glorified through Jesus Christ, whose is the glory and the dominion forever and ever. Amen.
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Yes, the foundation that we have no Jesus is telling us many stories in the Scripture I I like this. The Scriptures because they speak to us of spiritual things on a physical level, they uses the story of building a house upon the sand and building a house upon the rock. There are two houses built by proper. Perhaps the same builder, but where they are located one on the sand and one on the rock. When the storms come, but one understand what happens. It washed away. So, one on the rock is secure, so people will build their lives on many different things, but we don't. I life upon the rock Jesus Christ, and when the trials of life come there is no greater foundation than in Jesus and claimant power with speaking about the Holy Spirit and today it is power, and whatever you think I when I think of power generally I think of cars, tractors, I think of no power, no big earthmovers give those types of things, but really live the word power means the ability to do something. The ability to do see the ability to move this power, the ability to pick something up or walk or they are having a challenge. The work that you do your power to do it, and whether it is typing on a keyboard or whether it is a running an earthmoving machine you have power. If you have the ability to do its infancy. Many people try to do things I know on public people running equipment and things, you know, driving, perhaps there be the easiest people think they not a drive. They think their half of the middle that have the ability to do something, but they just don't do it right. Take what we have the ability to do things and to do it correctly, because the Spirit is the one who guides and empowers us the Scripture in first Peter four beginning at verse seven to eleven it says everything in the world is about to be wrapped up everything in the world is about to be wrapped up. So take nothing for granted staying wide awake in prayer. Most of all love each other as if your life depended on it. Love makes up for our product, particularly anything. Love covers a multitude of sins. Be quick to give a meal to the hungry op-ed to the homeless, cheerfully business the love of Jesus something wonderful, cheerfully being generous with the different things. God gave you passing them around so all get in on it. If words pink if words. Take what God has given you. Now if I would ask you question what is it that God is given you what what what would your answer be save your life. What do you do in life. What do you do in life. Well, you know will do nothing but there's nobody like that is what you do in life wildland do run a sleeper driver car fill up with gas. He know what to do with life. You talk you here, you listen. You are living you say everything you think they generous with everything God has given you. Why has God given you he is giving you breath. He's given. Please given you the ability to thoughts giving you the ability to reason always like that are heard in a number time to talk about. Don't ever pray for somebody else to change unless you pray that God will change. You also now we have to wear all of this process of changing, growing, and we don't read our complete yet when I complete yet, wherein the process and so it doesn't be generous with the different things. God gave you passing them around so everybody can get on it now, if in his words, and God has given you words. Words are encouragement, words are not what we now worth to be very destructive words can be very critical. The words are we think about the word of God. What is the word done. The word has it spoken is alive and it is active, it is sharper than any two edged sword. It can pierce the dividing of the bone marrow. The soul and spirit. The word of God is so precise it can divide the bone and marrow. The salt in the spirit and so the word of God. If God has given you words used in use then. Not to cut or destroy, but to build to edify, exhort to comfort to strengthen to help you think have been one. One person and in a church said that you know they were they had a gift from God as a gift of criticism. The site is not a gift from God. So what always being critical is not a gift. It just comes naturally with our human nature with our fallen nature, but God has given us reason in this is the message without about the power and the power of the Holy Spirit is the ability to do so, when God empowers he empowers his people to be alive and active, just like his word, we are alive and active. We are responsible for the gifts that have been given to us and that we will be help accountable for how we use the gifts like the individual who was given five thousand dollars and two thousand dollars, a one thousand L they did the husbandman comes back and they were accountable for what had been placed in their hands while if we will take what we have and use it wisely. All God asks the other one has to sit back and say why you know who I am and what I have is not that important. And you know he'll understand I get back I'll does very well. I am, and when he comes back out, they get up and say here. You got what you invested. Be generous with the different things. God gave you passing them around so all can get in on it. If words, if words, if words are my same words words again, words, words have the ability to heal or to move words have the ability to uplift or teardown your words, your words determine the direction of your life, your words determine where your life is going you think God has given us his Word, but we have to allow the word of God to be spoken through us. And whenever we start setting the course for our life, we are setting the course by our words, we are setting the course by where we are going and where we want to end up even was we were doing communion while the word. What is the words that we were speaking the speaking about communion. Do this in remembrance of me. The words that we say dictate the importance of what we just did, and if our words are important, then we are remembering Christ's sacrifice. If our words are important. We are remembering his present interaction and life inside of us, and if the words are important. It is looking forward to an eternity in which were going to sit around the table of God, and have communion. Our words are very descriptive. Our words are very helpful. Our words are very encouraging. Our words set the tone and the direction of our life. So pay attention to your words so that we can have the ability to do the power of the word sets in motion the ability to do see the Holy Spirit does not tell us you can't do that, it's impossible for you to do that. That well you get the idea. We have these words if it is words, then speak your words with the ability to do. B God 's words usually let us let us speak what God has spoken it out. I think it's so important that we pray. The Scripture yours then we float the Scriptures that we pray them over our children and overall lives in over our families over our nation and all over our community. We use the word of God because the word is power. The power of the word is the ability to do so. I pray God 's blessing over my life. I pray God 's blessing over the me things that I do with life. I pray for God 's wisdom to be part of my life and part of my dealing with somebody interested there is little boy when I my wife will know. Ronald was, but they were walking through the store in grandma centimeters five. I think that is image is Jackson and I defined in the grandma says, are those boots climbed cumbersome younger the blanket around the booths and he looked at her and said no other Colombians. I said last week, Jackson we were at the restaurant and an news ordering the state from the menu and this is all have the steak bites and the waitress says will what would you like, you know what side you have it. He goes all have the left side of the elected on the left side. So our words. See sometimes we get all mixed up with the what's going on in no and we had to explain to him why we relax and why you want to meet him on the left side now, but knows not some side note in the labor they were having a baby shower if you tell five -year-old mother, baby showers, beginner bath at all. So we use our words in entire we are familiar with, but yet are when are we using our words in a way that is edifying to God, so that the gods word spoken over us, spoken over our lives. No form whenever we are looking for something or praying about something we should outline the Scriptures that speak to those that need and have a list of Scriptures that go with that needs so that we are reminding ourselves of the word and what the word says about our life and about what we can do, and then how that God will work all things together for good, so that when difficulties come. We have a foundation that cannot be shaken, and believe me, difficulties will come because we're human prints the person beside you at the conference meet this during the ideas that they are human, anything 's difficult times are going to come and know that don't prophesy to the prophesying instruments live in now. It's going to happen trials and difficulties come to everyone. God is the one who gives us the solid foundation to face them to deal with them is this morning yard on breakfast and have breakfast up at a certain restaurant. Then there was another waitress that we are friends with through the through the waitress through serving and her, her sister died unexpectedly and we been talking about that and then she came to me and she said, you know, I just talked to some of the other day they named their person and they said you help them very to husbands no, and I knew exactly who was inconsistent young. They come in they could not have done what they did. If you hadn't been there for them and that's with their declaration. Anything difficulties welcome files do happen. People have problems. They have to, but just save those who are in Christ. Now these ices who's taking these Christians and killing them, they have problems, but the Christians who seek in the early church. What stopped the Romans from killing Christians think what stopped the Romans from killing Christians. They couldn't get any fun out of it because the Christians would start singing songs and worshiping God prior to their death, they would not run around the arena and fight lions or fight the soldiers of the people thrown spears at them they would just seek a relationship with God and die with their praise with their praise on and there was no fun in it. There was no sport in it and it was after that that the church became now became the VP. The Christian church became the state church is aware of and that everybody was set out the worship the same God, and that was the God of the Christians because it was the difficult times that set them apart and it is the difficult times that sets us apart that God has a purpose God has a plan God has built us on the solid foundation and it is the ability to do the ability to do so. What is it that we are doing while in the early church. It was the ability to stand in front of your accusers and receive their arrows were there. There burning torches for their swords and to worship God, but we all got a face that but the bells and under Isis, they're facing that, but there are everyday things that we run into discouraging moments difficult times. I won't start fuel line freeze up. Now it's too cold, but presumably too hot, but the fact that we at we waved on all these different things that we face and down would have to shovel snow again then I know were to lose an hour this week. I don't know if I can to get up an hour earlier without the sleep that I haven't. I don't really know it's a hard thing that we face see all barriers. What makes it different. I may have appliances in your house. Everybody has appliances they mail clients stalled microwave, toaster oven, dishwasher, hot water hater, but that curling irons, hair dryers, Fred's Terry and I know about hairdryers, curling iron, guess what, if they are not plugged into the electricity they all work that just heaps of stuff you see the Holy Spirit is the power to do whatever we do in our life. We we are like our appliances. If were not plugged in, or just decorations. We know what our purpose is gone. It were not plugged in and we need to be plugged into the Holy Spirit because the Holy Spirit is the ability to do and each of us do things differently. Each of us run the microwave a little different now. Rhonda uses her microwave every day for popcorn and Jill loves popcorn likely that the involvement of the appropriate and she does it in there and has bookmarked now so but each of us have things we do everyday. Every Sunday I go an adult male know what good is that dude comes naked plug-in. I have no idea, but I go there and so we all have things that we do in our own way and in the idea is that we cannot become what we were created to be without being hooked to the power your refrigerator. Kepler was created to be. Unless there's electricity going into it. If there is no electricity. There's no refrigerator. If there is no electricity. There is no dishwasher. If there is no power of the spirit there is no power to do. That's an God is about doing things through our lives. Every part of our lives, if it is helpful if it helps, let it be God 's heart. He helped you. If you have the ability to help you if you have the ability to help. If you have words, looking to God 's words. If you have the ability to help, let it be God 's hearty help how many know what grumpy helper is on a limb with a grunt helper and the grumpy helper to the loving. I wanted what we hope for is that you see a hearty helper is one who is willing to do their part to do more than their issue. The Bible talks about then and in that illustration, the Jesus uses is that if someone asked you to go one mile, go with him to his. He is in the wrong time. The Romans had the right to pull anybody off of the street wherever they're going and have that person carry their equipment for within four mile. It was just part of the law there marching through community there, like Terry, there's nothing more. As you come carry my stuff for a mile. You're right, you have a responsibility to do it, anyone am legally favorable you were legally bound to obey that Roman soldier, Jesus says if they found you to go one mile, go with them to what is in her why does it hurt to Jim and Colin, and that the hearty help and yelled, so we are part of that whole process and you have the power of the Holy Spirit, which is the ability to do ability to do hip-hop party help that way. God 's bright presence will be evident in everything through Jesus, God 's bright presence you ever have a lightbulb is not hooked up, and it will switch what happens nothing. The bright presence of Jesus as in being connected to the power of the Holy Spirit, which is the ability to do so that what you do is is reflective of Jesus, so that when people look at the life all who they will think they say Jesus when people look at you, they will think that is saying, Jesus has easy talking to know me they don't think they see Jesus when they see me. Why not well because I don't do anything that Jesus would do well didn't he give us the ability to have life, and everything that is it a life of me are living again we are living. We need the power to live the power to do and the power of the Holy Spirit is its power to give words being generous passing the things around. B God 's words, if it is help, let it be God 's heart. He helped that way. God 's bright presence will be evident in everything through Jesus, you see they didn't say through you. It didn't say through the power cord hooked to the source. It said screw you that the Holy Spirit will give you the ability to do and will flow through you to be reflective of who Jesus is on who Jesus is and so what you are doing in your work in your life in your cleaning the house in your washing the car in the arm going down the road in your whatsoever things involved in your life. People are think of Jesus when they see you when you take a test at school. Tyler thank you both of them think that this will make the Jesus Hawking is a Jesus and me know when I see him in a thin when God when people take a test. They think they see Jesus than you think because why would I think Jesus now like to think that that's the honest goal on this list. I'm just that but you see what you do we live for Jesus. We are involved in life. We are involved in life and in life. We need God 's help, if we think we can live a life without Jesus and without the Holy Spirit. It's like having a refrigerator does not plug-in. It's like having a microwave that does it. There's no electricity to the house and so it's worthless without the electricity coming in the house. How many things in the house function, how many things in the house function without electricity. How much of our life functions without the Holy Spirit, the ability the power to do you see how important it is to ask God to help you when you go to school when you work when you're talking to your neighbors. We are talking to your friends when you're doing every day jobs. Do you see how important it is that God would be there with you in your conversation because if there is no electricity in the house. The house doesn't function if there is no power of the Holy Spirit in your life. We are not our life will not have any value. Only the things are done for Christ will last in every aspect of our life is something that we can do for Christ and so our natural abilities are natural gifts are nice, but they're not near, they can't come close, they can't measure up to what the power of the Spirit does in our lives. So God 's bright presence will be evident in everything through Jesus, and he'll get all the credit as the one mighty in everything that God will get the credit for what we do, God will get the credit like there I am, my hands. If the piano are on. I would go play it the long run you shut it off. You're lucky while it was a lucky because I don't have the talent to play the piano and in our lives. Everything we do. So God is and calling me to play the piano. But God does call me to do the words God does call me to help those individuals and so I have to do those things that God has placed within my talents within my abilities that God receive the glory for them, not the blame for them. He would receive the glory for the and what God is up to in our life. You see, it's more than just electricity coming into the house. It's our survival. It's your place to live at your place to be comfortable. It's your place to have people in it out of your home, it's your place were you cook a new claim menu through your clothes in a laundry in your sleep. And now you watch TV, and that your life is and that is in a building, and if there's no electricity, your life is a mess. It's really hard, but the Holy Spirit coming to our life empowers everything that we do hunt for encores that he and the time is not enough Sunday school talked about this illustration if you have a ajar bottle and cork on think from the ocean. What's can happen. " okay, so take work out fill it full of water. The ocean water was that happen. It's ajar it's not that it's not a ceramic container. The floats at the jar glass you filled with water. When I was it sinks the jar is in the ocean bought the jar only contains a certain portion of the ocean. They see that the ocean. The jars in the ocean, but not all the ocean is in the jar just enough that can fill the container our lives in the thing about our relationship with Christ is, we can make our containers bigger we can expand our container to contain more of the ocean in our life. We want our containers to be full of God 's presence. We want to live in his presence. We are in his world that he created. We are part of this world. We are not weary of this world were not of this world that we have we have this relationship with Jesus Christ that fills our lives to want to overflow and so that we can allow the spirit of God to grow in us and we can have more of the ocean, but they're no matter how big we get, we can never hold the entire ocean in the matter how spiritual we get there, become, we can understand all of God. We have our understanding of many things, and I was thinking of carpenter tools area saw him a hammer in the level you have a lot screwdriver you have tools in and the each of those tools have a different function and in our lives. What we do, everything has a different function. The they conquered it doesn't use every tool at once, but he has been there an EC may use all the tools in one job, but he's not a use them all at once. They all have a progression and air our lives. The Holy Spirit is at work in our lives, taking every aspect of who we are as a person and uses them. Not all at one time but I don't have a project in a moment in a day, then the user using all the gifts that he has given us, and he's using them at different moments at different times in different ways to help different people that ends up coming back to God and the Holy Spirit coming into our life, and giving us the ability to do the ability to do one last illustration, the guy who invented dynamite. What's his name, but I know his name is Alfred Noble now the same word is used for dynamite is the same word that is used for Spirit of God Spirit of God was here before there was dynamite. So the spirit of God 's power to move did not originate with dynamite dynamite came from the words that are associated with the spirit of God. Now, Alfred Noble had a brother and his brother died& A and an editor at a newspaper, wrote an article about Alfred. He wrote his obituary he wrote Alfred 's obituary, not his brothers when he died. And when Alford read his obituary. It was basically here is a man who was in building and construction invented dynamite so that he could blow up rocks make building and construction easier, so he invented dynamite to make that happen. While what happens with dynamite. They made it in the box. And so here is an editor who writes the obituary for Alfred Noble who is not dead. It's his brother and rights. This obituary about a man and his destructive life he has given the world bombs to blow up into in people 's lives. When Alfred Noble read that obituary. He said he wanted to be remembered not for his ability to blow things up, but his ability to be good. Anybody know what he created Alfred Noble Noble Nobel Peace Prize. The Noble peace. Prof came from obituary that was written about him, and he wasn't dead. And so he rewrote the ending of his life because he made so much money on explosive in eighteen eighteen sixty eight, eighteen sixty five. Somewhere in the eighteen sixties eighteen seventeen seventies, he put nine million dollars back then that's one in what was now the Nobel Peace Prize and it all came from him, reading obituary that he wanted to change so as we read our lives if we were to write the obituary God were to write the obituary of our life right now. Would it be, would it contain what we wanted to be and you see the power of the spirit of the Holy Spirit is the ability to do and God 's Spirit will give us the ability to change as were not dead yet. Thanks somebody tell them they're not dead yet. I know you until we don't have a potentially dark, but step so that the love of Jesus something wonderful this wonderful because it has the power to change lives. It is the power to be a eclipse and to do and to do things well and to have wisdom, and have understanding and insight to have peace to have gentleness to be addled to move mountains power of the spirit, soul, while let's allow that spiritual power the power to do. Be part of our lives, and then is wonderful. All together now wonderful visit the love of Jesus something. Amen, should Power - The Ability To Do Yes, the foundation that we have no Jesus is telling us many stories in the Scripture I I like this. The Scriptures because they speak to us of spiritual things on a physical level, they uses the story of building a house upon the sand and building a house upon the rock. There are two houses built by proper. Perhaps the same builder, but where they are located one on the sand and one on the rock. When the storms come, but one understand what happens. It washed away. So, one on the rock is secure, so people will build their lives on many different things, but we don't. I life upon the rock Jesus Christ, and when the trials of life come there is no greater foundation than in Jesus and claimant power with speaking about the Holy Spirit and today it is power, and whatever you think I when I think of power generally I think of cars, tractors, I think of no power, no big earthmovers give those types of things, but really live the word power means the ability to do something. The ability to do see the ability to move this power, the ability to pick something up or walk or they are having a challenge. The work that you do your power to do it, and whether it is typing on a keyboard or whether it is a running an earthmoving machine you have power. If you have the ability to do its infancy. Many people try to do things I know on public people running equipment and things, you know, driving, perhaps there be the easiest people think they not a drive. They think their half of the middle that have the ability to do something, but they just don't do it right. Take what we have the ability to do things and to do it correctly, because the Spirit is the one who guides and empowers us the Scripture in first Peter four beginning at verse seven to eleven it says everything in the world is about to be wrapped up everything in the world is about to be wrapped up. So take nothing for granted staying wide awake in prayer. Most of all love each other as if your life depended on it. Love makes up for our product, particularly anything. Love covers a multitude of sins. Be quick to give a meal to the hungry op-ed to the homeless, cheerfully business the love of Jesus something wonderful, cheerfully being generous with the different things. God gave you passing them around so all get in on it. If words pink if words. Take what God has given you. Now if I would ask you question what is it that God is given you what what what would your answer be save your life. What do you do in life. What do you do in life. Well, you know will do nothing but there's nobody like that is what you do in life wildland do run a sleeper driver car fill up with gas. He know what to do with life. You talk you here, you listen. You are living you say everything you think they generous with everything God has given you. Why has God given you he is giving you breath. He's given. Please given you the ability to thoughts giving you the ability to reason always like that are heard in a number time to talk about. Don't ever pray for somebody else to change unless you pray that God will change. You also now we have to wear all of this process of changing, growing, and we don't read our complete yet when I complete yet, wherein the process and so it doesn't be generous with the different things. God gave you passing them around so everybody can get on it now, if in his words, and God has given you words. Words are encouragement, words are not what we now worth to be very destructive words can be very critical. The words are we think about the word of God. What is the word done. The word has it spoken is alive and it is active, it is sharper than any two edged sword. It can pierce the dividing of the bone marrow. The soul and spirit. The word of God is so precise it can divide the bone and marrow. The salt in the spirit and so the word of God. If God has given you words used in use then. Not to cut or destroy, but to build to edify, exhort to comfort to strengthen to help you think have been one. One person and in a church said that you know they were they had a gift from God as a gift of criticism. The site is not a gift from God. So what always being critical is not a gift. It just comes naturally with our human nature with our fallen nature, but God has given us reason in this is the message without about the power and the power of the Holy Spirit is the ability to do so, when God empowers he empowers his people to be alive and active, just like his word, we are alive and active. We are responsible for the gifts that have been given to us and that we will be help accountable for how we use the gifts like the individual who was given five thousand dollars and two thousand dollars, a one thousand L they did the husbandman comes back and they were accountable for what had been placed in their hands while if we will take what we have and use it wisely. All God asks the other one has to sit back and say why you know who I am and what I have is not that important. And you know he'll understand I get back I'll does very well. I am, and when he comes back out, they get up and say here. You got what you invested. Be generous with the different things. God gave you passing them around so all can get in on it. If words, if words, if words are my same words words again, words, words have the ability to heal or to move words have the ability to uplift or teardown your words, your words determine the direction of your life, your words determine where your life is going you think God has given us his Word, but we have to allow the word of God to be spoken through us. And whenever we start setting the course for our life, we are setting the course by our words, we are setting the course by where we are going and where we want to end up even was we were doing communion while the word. What is the words that we were speaking the speaking about communion. Do this in remembrance of me. The words that we say dictate the importance of what we just did, and if our words are important, then we are remembering Christ's sacrifice. If our words are important. We are remembering his present interaction and life inside of us, and if the words are important. It is looking forward to an eternity in which were going to sit around the table of God, and have communion. Our words are very descriptive. Our words are very helpful. Our words are very encouraging. Our words set the tone and the direction of our life. So pay attention to your words so that we can have the ability to do the power of the word sets in motion the ability to do see the Holy Spirit does not tell us you can't do that, it's impossible for you to do that. That well you get the idea. We have these words if it is words, then speak your words with the ability to do. B God 's words usually let us let us speak what God has spoken it out. I think it's so important that we pray. The Scripture yours then we float the Scriptures that we pray them over our children and overall lives in over our families over our nation and all over our community. We use the word of God because the word is power. The power of the word is the ability to do so. I pray God 's blessing over my life. I pray God 's blessing over the me things that I do with life. I pray for God 's wisdom to be part of my life and part of my dealing with somebody interested there is little boy when I my wife will know. Ronald was, but they were walking through the store in grandma centimeters five. I think that is image is Jackson and I defined in the grandma says, are those boots climbed cumbersome younger the blanket around the booths and he looked at her and said no other Colombians. I said last week, Jackson we were at the restaurant and an news ordering the state from the menu and this is all have the steak bites and the waitress says will what would you like, you know what side you have it. He goes all have the left side of the elected on the left side. So our words. See sometimes we get all mixed up with the what's going on in no and we had to explain to him why we relax and why you want to meet him on the left side now, but knows not some side note in the labor they were having a baby shower if you tell five -year-old mother, baby showers, beginner bath at all. So we use our words in entire we are familiar with, but yet are when are we using our words in a way that is edifying to God, so that the gods word spoken over us, spoken over our lives. No form whenever we are looking for something or praying about something we should outline the Scriptures that speak to those that need and have a list of Scriptures that go with that needs so that we are reminding ourselves of the word and what the word says about our life and about what we can do, and then how that God will work all things together for good, so that when difficulties come. We have a foundation that cannot be shaken, and believe me, difficulties will come because we're human prints the person beside you at the conference meet this during the ideas that they are human, anything 's difficult times are going to come and know that don't prophesy to the prophesying instruments live in now. It's going to happen trials and difficulties come to everyone. God is the one who gives us the solid foundation to face them to deal with them is this morning yard on breakfast and have breakfast up at a certain restaurant. Then there was another waitress that we are friends with through the through the waitress through serving and her, her sister died unexpectedly and we been talking about that and then she came to me and she said, you know, I just talked to some of the other day they named their person and they said you help them very to husbands no, and I knew exactly who was inconsistent young. They come in they could not have done what they did. If you hadn't been there for them and that's with their declaration. Anything difficulties welcome files do happen. People have problems. They have to, but just save those who are in Christ. Now these ices who's taking these Christians and killing them, they have problems, but the Christians who seek in the early church. What stopped the Romans from killing Christians think what stopped the Romans from killing Christians. They couldn't get any fun out of it because the Christians would start singing songs and worshiping God prior to their death, they would not run around the arena and fight lions or fight the soldiers of the people thrown spears at them they would just seek a relationship with God and die with their praise with their praise on and there was no fun in it. There was no sport in it and it was after that that the church became now became the VP. The Christian church became the state church is aware of and that everybody was set out the worship the same God, and that was the God of the Christians because it was the difficult times that set them apart and it is the difficult times that sets us apart that God has a purpose God has a plan God has built us on the solid foundation and it is the ability to do the ability to do so. What is it that we are doing while in the early church. It was the ability to stand in front of your accusers and receive their arrows were there. There burning torches for their swords and to worship God, but we all got a face that but the bells and under Isis, they're facing that, but there are everyday things that we run into discouraging moments difficult times. I won't start fuel line freeze up. Now it's too cold, but presumably too hot, but the fact that we at we waved on all these different things that we face and down would have to shovel snow again then I know were to lose an hour this week. I don't know if I can to get up an hour earlier without the sleep that I haven't. I don't really know it's a hard thing that we face see all barriers. What makes it different. I may have appliances in your house. Everybody has appliances they mail clients stalled microwave, toaster oven, dishwasher, hot water hater, but that curling irons, hair dryers, Fred's Terry and I know about hairdryers, curling iron, guess what, if they are not plugged into the electricity they all work that just heaps of stuff you see the Holy Spirit is the power to do whatever we do in our life. We we are like our appliances. If were not plugged in, or just decorations. We know what our purpose is gone. It were not plugged in and we need to be plugged into the Holy Spirit because the Holy Spirit is the ability to do and each of us do things differently. Each of us run the microwave a little different now. Rhonda uses her microwave every day for popcorn and Jill loves popcorn likely that the involvement of the appropriate and she does it in there and has bookmarked now so but each of us have things we do everyday. Every Sunday I go an adult male know what good is that dude comes naked plug-in. I have no idea, but I go there and so we all have things that we do in our own way and in the idea is that we cannot become what we were created to be without being hooked to the power your refrigerator. Kepler was created to be. Unless there's electricity going into it. If there is no electricity. There's no refrigerator. If there is no electricity. There is no dishwasher. If there is no power of the spirit there is no power to do. That's an God is about doing things through our lives. Every part of our lives, if it is helpful if it helps, let it be God 's heart. He helped you. If you have the ability to help you if you have the ability to help. If you have words, looking to God 's words. If you have the ability to help, let it be God 's hearty help how many know what grumpy helper is on a limb with a grunt helper and the grumpy helper to the loving. I wanted what we hope for is that you see a hearty helper is one who is willing to do their part to do more than their issue. The Bible talks about then and in that illustration, the Jesus uses is that if someone asked you to go one mile, go with him to his. He is in the wrong time. The Romans had the right to pull anybody off of the street wherever they're going and have that person carry their equipment for within four mile. It was just part of the law there marching through community there, like Terry, there's nothing more. As you come carry my stuff for a mile. You're right, you have a responsibility to do it, anyone am legally favorable you were legally bound to obey that Roman soldier, Jesus says if they found you to go one mile, go with them to what is in her why does it hurt to Jim and Colin, and that the hearty help and yelled, so we are part of that whole process and you have the power of the Holy Spirit, which is the ability to do ability to do hip-hop party help that way. God 's bright presence will be evident in everything through Jesus, God 's bright presence you ever have a lightbulb is not hooked up, and it will switch what happens nothing. The bright presence of Jesus as in being connected to the power of the Holy Spirit, which is the ability to do so that what you do is is reflective of Jesus, so that when people look at the life all who they will think they say Jesus when people look at you, they will think that is saying, Jesus has easy talking to know me they don't think they see Jesus when they see me. Why not well because I don't do anything that Jesus would do well didn't he give us the ability to have life, and everything that is it a life of me are living again we are living. We need the power to live the power to do and the power of the Holy Spirit is its power to give words being generous passing the things around. B God 's words, if it is help, let it be God 's heart. He helped that way. God 's bright presence will be evident in everything through Jesus, you see they didn't say through you. It didn't say through the power cord hooked to the source. It said screw you that the Holy Spirit will give you the ability to do and will flow through you to be reflective of who Jesus is on who Jesus is and so what you are doing in your work in your life in your cleaning the house in your washing the car in the arm going down the road in your whatsoever things involved in your life. People are think of Jesus when they see you when you take a test at school. Tyler thank you both of them think that this will make the Jesus Hawking is a Jesus and me know when I see him in a thin when God when people take a test. They think they see Jesus than you think because why would I think Jesus now like to think that that's the honest goal on this list. I'm just that but you see what you do we live for Jesus. We are involved in life. We are involved in life and in life. We need God 's help, if we think we can live a life without Jesus and without the Holy Spirit. It's like having a refrigerator does not plug-in. It's like having a microwave that does it. There's no electricity to the house and so it's worthless without the electricity coming in the house. How many things in the house function, how many things in the house function without electricity. How much of our life functions without the Holy Spirit, the ability the power to do you see how important it is to ask God to help you when you go to school when you work when you're talking to your neighbors. We are talking to your friends when you're doing every day jobs. Do you see how important it is that God would be there with you in your conversation because if there is no electricity in the house. The house doesn't function if there is no power of the Holy Spirit in your life. We are not our life will not have any value. Only the things are done for Christ will last in every aspect of our life is something that we can do for Christ and so our natural abilities are natural gifts are nice, but they're not near, they can't come close, they can't measure up to what the power of the Spirit does in our lives. So God 's bright presence will be evident in everything through Jesus, and he'll get all the credit as the one mighty in everything that God will get the credit for what we do, God will get the credit like there I am, my hands. If the piano are on. I would go play it the long run you shut it off. You're lucky while it was a lucky because I don't have the talent to play the piano and in our lives. Everything we do. So God is and calling me to play the piano. But God does call me to do the words God does call me to help those individuals and so I have to do those things that God has placed within my talents within my abilities that God receive the glory for them, not the blame for them. He would receive the glory for the and what God is up to in our life. You see, it's more than just electricity coming into the house. It's our survival. It's your place to live at your place to be comfortable. It's your place to have people in it out of your home, it's your place were you cook a new claim menu through your clothes in a laundry in your sleep. And now you watch TV, and that your life is and that is in a building, and if there's no electricity, your life is a mess. It's really hard, but the Holy Spirit coming to our life empowers everything that we do hunt for encores that he and the time is not enough Sunday school talked about this illustration if you have a ajar bottle and cork on think from the ocean. What's can happen. " okay, so take work out fill it full of water. The ocean water was that happen. It's ajar it's not that it's not a ceramic container. The floats at the jar glass you filled with water. When I was it sinks the jar is in the ocean bought the jar only contains a certain portion of the ocean. They see that the ocean. The jars in the ocean, but not all the ocean is in the jar just enough that can fill the container our lives in the thing about our relationship with Christ is, we can make our containers bigger we can expand our container to contain more of the ocean in our life. We want our containers to be full of God 's presence. We want to live in his presence. We are in his world that he created. We are part of this world. We are not weary of this world were not of this world that we have we have this relationship with Jesus Christ that fills our lives to want to overflow and so that we can allow the spirit of God to grow in us and we can have more of the ocean, but they're no matter how big we get, we can never hold the entire ocean in the matter how spiritual we get there, become, we can understand all of God. We have our understanding of many things, and I was thinking of carpenter tools area saw him a hammer in the level you have a lot screwdriver you have tools in and the each of those tools have a different function and in our lives. What we do, everything has a different function. The they conquered it doesn't use every tool at once, but he has been there an EC may use all the tools in one job, but he's not a use them all at once. They all have a progression and air our lives. The Holy Spirit is at work in our lives, taking every aspect of who we are as a person and uses them. Not all at one time but I don't have a project in a moment in a day, then the user using all the gifts that he has given us, and he's using them at different moments at different times in different ways to help different people that ends up coming back to God and the Holy Spirit coming into our life, and giving us the ability to do the ability to do one last illustration, the guy who invented dynamite. What's his name, but I know his name is Alfred Noble now the same word is used for dynamite is the same word that is used for Spirit of God Spirit of God was here before there was dynamite. So the spirit of God 's power to move did not originate with dynamite dynamite came from the words that are associated with the spirit of God. Now, Alfred Noble had a brother and his brother died& A and an editor at a newspaper, wrote an article about Alfred. He wrote his obituary he wrote Alfred 's obituary, not his brothers when he died. And when Alford read his obituary. It was basically here is a man who was in building and construction invented dynamite so that he could blow up rocks make building and construction easier, so he invented dynamite to make that happen. While what happens with dynamite. They made it in the box. And so here is an editor who writes the obituary for Alfred Noble who is not dead. It's his brother and rights. This obituary about a man and his destructive life he has given the world bombs to blow up into in people 's lives. When Alfred Noble read that obituary. He said he wanted to be remembered not for his ability to blow things up, but his ability to be good. Anybody know what he created Alfred Noble Noble Nobel Peace Prize. The Noble peace. Prof came from obituary that was written about him, and he wasn't dead. And so he rewrote the ending of his life because he made so much money on explosive in eighteen eighteen sixty eight, eighteen sixty five. Somewhere in the eighteen sixties eighteen seventeen seventies, he put nine million dollars back then that's one in what was now the Nobel Peace Prize and it all came from him, reading obituary that he wanted to change so as we read our lives if we were to write the obituary God were to write the obituary of our life right now. Would it be, would it contain what we wanted to be and you see the power of the spirit of the Holy Spirit is the ability to do and God 's Spirit will give us the ability to change as were not dead yet. Thanks somebody tell them they're not dead yet. I know you until we don't have a potentially dark, but step so that the love of Jesus something wonderful this wonderful because it has the power to change lives. It is the power to be a eclipse and to do and to do things well and to have wisdom, and have understanding and insight to have peace to have gentleness to be addled to move mountains power of the spirit, soul, while let's allow that spiritual power the power to do. Be part of our lives, and then is wonderful. All together now wonderful visit the love of Jesus something. Amen, should Power - The Ability To Do