The Sermon Holy Spirit - Ability To Live by David McGee
Mar 08, 2015
Holy Spirit - Ability To Live (29:53)
Referenced Scriptures: Ephesians 3:11-19
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Ephesians 3:11-19
11) according to the eternal purpose which he purposed in Christ Jesus, our Lord;
12) in whom we have boldness and access in confidence through our faith in him.
13) Therefore I ask that you may not lose heart at my troubles for you, which are your glory.
14) For this cause, I bow my knees to the Father of our Lord, Jesus Christ,
15) from whom every family in heaven and on earth is named,
16) that he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, that you may be strengthened with power through his Spirit in the inward man;
17) that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; to the end that you, being rooted and grounded in love,
18) may be strengthened to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth,
19) and to know Christ‘s love which surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled to all the fullness of God.
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It's only twenty dollars per year essment for the church. Just kidding of course indications chapter three and we been talking about the Holy Spirit and how that last week I visited il ration that was used to is the imagine your house without electricity, you have all utilities. All the futility of all the appliances you have everything you look at needs electricity. Whether it's battery or plug-in. It needs to be charged and it needs to have electricity while the Holy Spirit is what makes brings the life into the vessel. The Holy Spirit is what has given us that will quicken our life that is that the same spirit, the raised Christ from the dead dwell in you, he will quicken your mortal bodies, so that there is a life is a person. The Holy Spirit is the person he is alive. He is well. All powers given to us in Jesus name, and that the power of the Holy Spirit works in our life as we pray on. There was another Scripture is that you have about how that the spirit is alive. Okay the word of is alive and active, quick and powerful. The word of is alive and active, meaning that the Holy Spirit brings is the life of the spirit of the word, and it brings it to our mind into our hearts in the way that is empowering for us. It even imagine trying to put something in the microwave. You don't have electricity. You can tell what time it is the joke of you know what time it is now that you know what some people are an hour late. Today were missing. They are, but the ahead with a command will let them know about the ideas that without the electricity without the power. There is no function to the to the appliances and you are alive without the Holy Spirit. There is no function. There's no function. There is no power so is the Holy Spirit, that brings life to the word and life to our faith, and without the Holy Spirit, we don't have anything we don't we just have a letter we does have this introduction about the letter killer in the spirit giveth life. Meaning that if we just have a set of rules. It doesn't work that we can be slaves to rules and not be any good with changing our heart. But the Holy Spirit incomes and gives life to the word gives life to the Commandments gives life to what wants to do it us and so as we allow the word to question, to inspire, to lead us in our daily walk. We find that it becomes more powerful it becomes more of an influence in how and what we say what we do, how we look at ourselves how we look at others without the Holy Spirit we get, we does have laws we does have laws but dispiriting gives us grace, mercy brings those words to life in our hearts and lives in today were looking at Ephesians, chapter three, and beginning in verse eleven. Paul is writing to the Ephesians and he is writing from prison. Okay and that the EU 's telling them what we'll will read when he tells all. This was preceding along lines planned by using all this is proceeding along the lines planned by all along by , and then executed in Christ Jesus. When we trust in where freeing to say whatever needs to be said boldly go where ever we need to go, so don't let my present trouble on your behalf get you down. Be proud, so appears Paul and his writing from prison because of the trouble that he is in and what is the trouble he is in the trouble he is in is preaching the gospel so the people in Ephesus are feeling bad that he's in prison, but Paul is telling and if it's okay it's it's it's okay because this just as Jesus Christ was here and it was planned all along what he should do so, Thales, believing that has a plan for his life. Paul and that him being in prison is a fulfillment of that plan, and when does adversity help us to see were doing the right thing when does wonder things going wrong actually say were doing things right. What if Paul had never gone to prison, we wouldn't have half the New Testament. So when Paul was imprisoned to imagine Paul Sagan, further thing , why do you do this to me why gingivitis. Why do these things happen the way they do. I was out I was I was doing what you want me to and along comes all these people. They want to kill me, and then the Romans grab hold of me may throw me a present, and I'm stuck here. I can't go anywhere so it are alive. We can be stock somewhere and not going anywhere because we feel has abandoned us that this is where I'm supposed to be and that life isn't supposed to be like this, but wherever we are. We are believing that is there. He is a friend. What a friend we have in Jesus and a friend now him us and did you know and ask directions and end whenever you left and follow the directions they weren't even close. Remove and go, you can just imagine the people back there laughing in heaven. That's why you have garments, that you have these roadmap thing you have on your on your with that GPS that's it, GPS and we finally things are going on and we find out where Brandon, you know, if you lost. I was like that because there's a home on on the post home on your GPS because amazed that your car push the home on and go to your house Robert so get with the homeland. I like the home on because if I'm lost. I know how to get home. I always know where I am because it's in the computer. It are alive with Christ, the Holy Spirit helps us to know what direction home is our home is not backwards. Our home is forward our home is in heaven and we are on this journey to get there and it isn't. We are going and when you know where it is going to drive into heaven, the frame to make it in a hot mama last legs. We are more than conquerors in Christ we are victorious in our relationship with Jesus Christ. We are victorious and I can do all things through Christ who gives me strength that every day is my day is social my strength be that it is the spirit of that brings the word to our minds and empowers it in our heart is the Holy Spirit helps us remember all of our sins are forgiven if we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us of our sins and cleanse us to see when we try to do something to earn our in our way into heaven. We mess it all up because when we think that owes us know your do something for someone and then they go you know you they do it for you and you will than the favor and either end, and there's something called to say it's calling in the markers so what is markers of you with markers and an alumni gambling term. I don't know. I never gambled some, but anyhow call in your markers. They given you given them something that they only does something for you and then you all. Then there strings attached to this loan whatever we believe that we have to do something in order to be saved from our sins, we are. It's like is calling in his markers. You got to do something in order to because my grades in my mercy, and my sacrifices and enough and whenever we start believing that we can influence because he wants us in heaven, and therefore we need to do something in order to make them love us. I better do something than that, though the most important thing we have to do is give our life to Jesus make our heart right with in our heart right with , and allow his spirit and his word to come into our hearts in our lives and allow him to lead us in our daily walk and he will and so Paul, here's writing to the Ephesians faced telling them that's not to be sorry for worries that my response, and this is not about Paul now and his response to being in jail and the Ephesians are feeling bad because if he had preached that in the gospel he would be in jail this time and so, telling them this is my response to you my responses to get down on my knees before the father. This magnificent father who, who parcels out all of heaven and earth don't publish. Saying you guys. I want you to know the guy don't father who created everything who parcels out the heavens and the earth I get on my knees before him, and I has came to strengthen you by his spirit. Don't you become defeated in your life because you feel bad that I'm in prison, don't feel bad that I'm imprisoned that that who has parceled out the heavens. I'm praying that he will empower you by the Holy Spirit, so that you won't feel like you've done something wrong, that if you had not received the gospel. Paul saying nothing is worth nothing and nothing is greater than the receiving of the gospel message and Paul saying I don't I do this. This is why this is my lot. This is what I'm supposed to do and I fray, for I fray. I asked him to strengthen you by his spirit, not a brute strength, not a brute strength. No strong muscle. No muss a brute strength, but a glorious inner strength. The interest rate that gives us the ability to know that we can make this that this is the way, walk ye in. This is where I'm supposed to be in is giving me the strength for this moment for this day for this obstacle for this problem, and that is giving me the strength for his spirit is quickening my body, quickening his word. 's word to vitalize, knowing that I am strong in Christ because his word dwells in my heart and in my mind word of dwells in our hearts in our mind, spirit and can quicken. Make it alive. The fly. We need. That's when we need to read the Bible we have devotionals in the back one way where devotionals and back will advertise it here off of devotionals in the back. Please taken better in your house and setting here because they will expire. We also have adult quarterlies for Sunday school. You can take those home with you even if you don't come Sunday school and we also have some new magazines a command instead of the evangelist there back there now for this. This month, so here we are, and we have all these things were supposed to put into our minds and hearts. Where do we want to be read, who influences our conversation, who influences our thoughts. How do we use the correct barometer of the gauge that what is good what is pleasing. What is of and of his mercy and of his grace of his teaching at his word and her correct understanding how do we know the word of becomes that which is alive in us and goes on to say here that he will give you a glorious inner strength that Christ will live in you as you open the door and invite him in. Behold, I stand at the door. Knock the man hears my voice and opens the door, I will commend him, and sup with him, and he with me. That's John, this is Paul saying to the same words, saying that if you will allow him to come in and invite him in. never girls were not invited into our lives young people not he will not knock us down and jump in the twelfth way for us to open our hearts be receptive to his message and I asked him Paul again telling him I'm asking that with both feet planted firmly on love, you'll be able to take in with all the followers of Jesus, the extravagant dimensions of Christ. Now Paul writes Corinthians without love. I'm nothing but a sounding gong. My example, your client finding simple without Lamar nothing but a sounding and a clanging cymbal and tell you what, folks, you can get your body to be burned at the stake for the cause and if you don't have Christ's love in your heart, it's worthless. So Paul is telling us here. We have to have both feet firmly planted in love those are not cement shoes firmly planted in love and what does love to love covers a mul ude of sins. Love has the ability to look beyond faults and see needs love has a responsibility to care to forgive to discipline to disagree, but so keep the disagreements within the foundation of love crazy things. How that love can influence our lives, how that love can influence our conversation. What we do. And Paul says, have your feet firmly planted in love, so that with all followers of Jesus, we may see the extravagant dimensions of Christ, love, what are the extravagant dimensions of Christ, love the extravagant dimensions of Christ lobbyist that he would get happen to become a babe in a manger is stable that he would become human younger. The only reason became human myself that this woman could die. can't die, so in order to be the sacrifice for our sin. He had to give up heaven to be our sacrifice. He had to give that up in order to come become like us so that we could become like him. So what are the extravagant dimensions of love extravagant dimensions of love by that Paul would allow himself to be in prison and be content. There knowing that this is the will of that he would begin to write letters to churches to help them with the difficulties they are facing because he can't be there in person to preacher to speak has that type of love for us. He comes to us through each other. He comes to us with people. We haven't met yet. You coated them with the love of which helps them to heal their wounds and their hurts, what is the extravagant dimensions of 's love left reach out and experience the breath of his love reach out and experience the breath of his love. I like it says in here reach out it's their every corner of our experience. It is why it covers the breath of our own experience and it reaches out to the entire world. The breath of 's love, not breath, breathe, but rest distance that 's love reaches every corner, every aspect of our life that let's see, let's reach out and experience the tautology of 's love to every corner, every relationship, every person, every situation every job. Every thought, every word, and reaches into every corner of our existence, our life, but not only us to the entire world. Let's hope expansive. It is now prior to this process, but that the heavens. This is the who sections out the heavens, no. We just found out last many years and were quite sure that we're not the only solar system. We just found that out they were not the only solar system. There are other solar systems out there, way beyond us, and it's like they are sections solutions. There are galaxies offices here. This is the , the magnificent father who parcels out all heaven and earth, the earth is divided into continents. How do they know they know the world wasn't flat. How do you dislike when Job, the oldest book in the Bible says the Lord sitting upon the circle of your glory cost of the circle of the earth. The predominant thought in John's day was that there with this giant herculean person carrying this planet called earth on his shoulders in his back, standing on a turtle going through the heavens, and Joan says the phone about the circle of your key flying the stars and the e delete and understand the concept yet understand the circles and gravity, the gravitational pull of the sun and the planets, and that here we are in a solar system and galaxies. They didn't see all that, but they understood what it was greater than just their little world that they live in is the story talks about the seven uses last week. I forgot, but if you take this essay for a bottle again and he put a cap on it, and you stick it in the ocean think you pushing the ocean. It's surrounded by the ocean, but notions, not inside. We are surrounded by , the is everywhere around us and the stars, the heavens in the rain that the snow in the Greek and that every blade of gr is different, every leaf is different. is in everything around this part of his creation, but we pulled it on our life and say we were in this alone. Without insulin, take the lid off some murders, submerge the container and water. The ocean in the ocean fills the container. Now the container is full of the ocean, but it doesn't contain the ocean. It only contains a part of the ocean. The containers in the ocean and has part of the ocean, but it doesn't contain all of the ocean. Here we are in 's immersed in 's word 's love. We are immersed in this con, who plans everything from beginning to end. While you were getting your mother 's womb. He knew you. We formed you can put everything in there that you needed to know every trial that you would ever face into every difficulty that we never have been there when we were stumbled when we would fall inevitably would be great and successful bingo all of this for ever pretending they would all and we fill our lives with , but we don't contain all there is to know . We just have our container full, and we're in an ocean. You know, here we are in our place called member in this church in the who created this planet and created the solar systems and created the galaxies and everything that's out there, here we are in this place in this building, and we are part of that extravagant creation. We don't contain all of that inside of us. We're just part of it in the who put all those stars in e and he knows them all by name, says that he knows the very hairs of our head. He knows every difficulty. He loves us and he says come let us reason together now let's figure this out, that my love has an expansiveness that covers every little corner of your life every corner of the universe. My love is there. She is a wharf in this month there, why doesn't he show it landed about the caps on the other lives on. We know what I know about your . We got our own is saying. Open your eyes open be receptive and then what else he says. Deviations exactly extravagant dimensions of Christ's love reach out and experience the breath test. Its length will test its length. It continues the length of our lives. Here we are the extravagant love of continues to our life from beginning to wind it doesn't end. We live until we would begin it doesn't end check out this love that he has for us, then what else, what is next with why we have long, what's next, I was the height your rises to the heights of our celebration in relation, it rises to our greatest heights of, say, being thankful of feeling safe of knowing that life reaches the highest mountain in a song. The last one is that you test its length plumbing the depths wise to the heights live full lives full in the fullness of that we are and the deeds it reaches to the deaths of discouragement, despair and even death. When you feel shut out for isolated. Remember that you can never be lost to 's love we are never lost. We are always in the palm of his hand. We are always safe. Knowing him as our Savior and every experience in our life. has a way of making good, they can turn around the good, it doesn't matter what evil are evil people do or say it doesn't matter our world, our world, the people around us. We all have a part to be part of the body of Christ is not the will of that any should perish, but everyone should come to repentance, 's will is that everybody know him as Savior and he will do his best to touch their lives and allow ban to open the lid and alignment. You see the Holy Spirit comes to us. He knocks at our heart 's door. He will come into us as we open our hearts door open the lid. The come into our lives and he will make a difference in our today's then in our tomorrows. He says that the power output of saying this whole idea of the power of the spirit and the work of the Spirit is that the fullness of his life is that he would give it to us not to sit in a chair not to say I got this. I got this now you you you get your own. I got this this is my my gift things doesn't give us to give things to collect them. He gives us to share them. He gives to us his blessing in order to share wasn't that quick on the white lightning little joke, urinary, but has a way of touching our lives. They has a way of making things right. Amen. Let's them is this another Scripture. Herne says it speaks about how that the maladie. What song do we sing in our life. What song if we were to pick out a song, what song would it be the best exemplify who we are as a person think about, but not from the sixties at a bar or some hard rock or whatever, but it's a song if you don't find one right one right one from your heart that exemplifies who is to you and that's the song wishes saying over our lives and over our relationships and am re-signed every note would be one that is written in love and forgiveness openness, sharing, giving of who we are meant. Father, we thank you that we open our hearts to you . It is by your spirit that these truths become real to us is by your spirits, O , that we are quickened in our thoughts in our minds is by your spirit Lord that we come to grips with all the difficulties in all the good things, let us sing your praise. Let us give thanks to you, in all things give thanks for this is the will of in Christ Jesus concerning us. So every difficulty. Lord help us to sing a song of praise to sing a song of thanks knowing that you will work this to the good in Jesus name we pray. Everybody said amen bless you Holy Spirit - Ability To Live It's only twenty dollars per year essment for the church. Just kidding of course indications chapter three and we been talking about the Holy Spirit and how that last week I visited il ration that was used to is the imagine your house without electricity, you have all utilities. All the futility of all the appliances you have everything you look at needs electricity. Whether it's battery or plug-in. It needs to be charged and it needs to have electricity while the Holy Spirit is what makes brings the life into the vessel. The Holy Spirit is what has given us that will quicken our life that is that the same spirit, the raised Christ from the dead dwell in you, he will quicken your mortal bodies, so that there is a life is a person. The Holy Spirit is the person he is alive. He is well. All powers given to us in Jesus name, and that the power of the Holy Spirit works in our life as we pray on. There was another Scripture is that you have about how that the spirit is alive. Okay the word of is alive and active, quick and powerful. The word of is alive and active, meaning that the Holy Spirit brings is the life of the spirit of the word, and it brings it to our mind into our hearts in the way that is empowering for us. It even imagine trying to put something in the microwave. You don't have electricity. You can tell what time it is the joke of you know what time it is now that you know what some people are an hour late. Today were missing. They are, but the ahead with a command will let them know about the ideas that without the electricity without the power. There is no function to the to the appliances and you are alive without the Holy Spirit. There is no function. There's no function. There is no power so is the Holy Spirit, that brings life to the word and life to our faith, and without the Holy Spirit, we don't have anything we don't we just have a letter we does have this introduction about the letter killer in the spirit giveth life. Meaning that if we just have a set of rules. It doesn't work that we can be slaves to rules and not be any good with changing our heart. But the Holy Spirit incomes and gives life to the word gives life to the Commandments gives life to what wants to do it us and so as we allow the word to question, to inspire, to lead us in our daily walk. We find that it becomes more powerful it becomes more of an influence in how and what we say what we do, how we look at ourselves how we look at others without the Holy Spirit we get, we does have laws we does have laws but dispiriting gives us grace, mercy brings those words to life in our hearts and lives in today were looking at Ephesians, chapter three, and beginning in verse eleven. Paul is writing to the Ephesians and he is writing from prison. Okay and that the EU 's telling them what we'll will read when he tells all. This was preceding along lines planned by using all this is proceeding along the lines planned by all along by , and then executed in Christ Jesus. When we trust in where freeing to say whatever needs to be said boldly go where ever we need to go, so don't let my present trouble on your behalf get you down. Be proud, so appears Paul and his writing from prison because of the trouble that he is in and what is the trouble he is in the trouble he is in is preaching the gospel so the people in Ephesus are feeling bad that he's in prison, but Paul is telling and if it's okay it's it's it's okay because this just as Jesus Christ was here and it was planned all along what he should do so, Thales, believing that has a plan for his life. Paul and that him being in prison is a fulfillment of that plan, and when does adversity help us to see were doing the right thing when does wonder things going wrong actually say were doing things right. What if Paul had never gone to prison, we wouldn't have half the New Testament. So when Paul was imprisoned to imagine Paul Sagan, further thing , why do you do this to me why gingivitis. Why do these things happen the way they do. I was out I was I was doing what you want me to and along comes all these people. They want to kill me, and then the Romans grab hold of me may throw me a present, and I'm stuck here. I can't go anywhere so it are alive. We can be stock somewhere and not going anywhere because we feel has abandoned us that this is where I'm supposed to be and that life isn't supposed to be like this, but wherever we are. We are believing that is there. He is a friend. What a friend we have in Jesus and a friend now him us and did you know and ask directions and end whenever you left and follow the directions they weren't even close. Remove and go, you can just imagine the people back there laughing in heaven. That's why you have garments, that you have these roadmap thing you have on your on your with that GPS that's it, GPS and we finally things are going on and we find out where Brandon, you know, if you lost. I was like that because there's a home on on the post home on your GPS because amazed that your car push the home on and go to your house Robert so get with the homeland. I like the home on because if I'm lost. I know how to get home. I always know where I am because it's in the computer. It are alive with Christ, the Holy Spirit helps us to know what direction home is our home is not backwards. Our home is forward our home is in heaven and we are on this journey to get there and it isn't. We are going and when you know where it is going to drive into heaven, the frame to make it in a hot mama last legs. We are more than conquerors in Christ we are victorious in our relationship with Jesus Christ. We are victorious and I can do all things through Christ who gives me strength that every day is my day is social my strength be that it is the spirit of that brings the word to our minds and empowers it in our heart is the Holy Spirit helps us remember all of our sins are forgiven if we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us of our sins and cleanse us to see when we try to do something to earn our in our way into heaven. We mess it all up because when we think that owes us know your do something for someone and then they go you know you they do it for you and you will than the favor and either end, and there's something called to say it's calling in the markers so what is markers of you with markers and an alumni gambling term. I don't know. I never gambled some, but anyhow call in your markers. They given you given them something that they only does something for you and then you all. Then there strings attached to this loan whatever we believe that we have to do something in order to be saved from our sins, we are. It's like is calling in his markers. You got to do something in order to because my grades in my mercy, and my sacrifices and enough and whenever we start believing that we can influence because he wants us in heaven, and therefore we need to do something in order to make them love us. I better do something than that, though the most important thing we have to do is give our life to Jesus make our heart right with in our heart right with , and allow his spirit and his word to come into our hearts in our lives and allow him to lead us in our daily walk and he will and so Paul, here's writing to the Ephesians faced telling them that's not to be sorry for worries that my response, and this is not about Paul now and his response to being in jail and the Ephesians are feeling bad because if he had preached that in the gospel he would be in jail this time and so, telling them this is my response to you my responses to get down on my knees before the father. This magnificent father who, who parcels out all of heaven and earth don't publish. Saying you guys. I want you to know the guy don't father who created everything who parcels out the heavens and the earth I get on my knees before him, and I has came to strengthen you by his spirit. Don't you become defeated in your life because you feel bad that I'm in prison, don't feel bad that I'm imprisoned that that who has parceled out the heavens. I'm praying that he will empower you by the Holy Spirit, so that you won't feel like you've done something wrong, that if you had not received the gospel. Paul saying nothing is worth nothing and nothing is greater than the receiving of the gospel message and Paul saying I don't I do this. This is why this is my lot. This is what I'm supposed to do and I fray, for I fray. I asked him to strengthen you by his spirit, not a brute strength, not a brute strength. No strong muscle. No muss a brute strength, but a glorious inner strength. The interest rate that gives us the ability to know that we can make this that this is the way, walk ye in. This is where I'm supposed to be in is giving me the strength for this moment for this day for this obstacle for this problem, and that is giving me the strength for his spirit is quickening my body, quickening his word. 's word to vitalize, knowing that I am strong in Christ because his word dwells in my heart and in my mind word of dwells in our hearts in our mind, spirit and can quicken. Make it alive. The fly. We need. That's when we need to read the Bible we have devotionals in the back one way where devotionals and back will advertise it here off of devotionals in the back. Please taken better in your house and setting here because they will expire. We also have adult quarterlies for Sunday school. You can take those home with you even if you don't come Sunday school and we also have some new magazines a command instead of the evangelist there back there now for this. This month, so here we are, and we have all these things were supposed to put into our minds and hearts. Where do we want to be read, who influences our conversation, who influences our thoughts. How do we use the correct barometer of the gauge that what is good what is pleasing. What is of and of his mercy and of his grace of his teaching at his word and her correct understanding how do we know the word of becomes that which is alive in us and goes on to say here that he will give you a glorious inner strength that Christ will live in you as you open the door and invite him in. Behold, I stand at the door. Knock the man hears my voice and opens the door, I will commend him, and sup with him, and he with me. That's John, this is Paul saying to the same words, saying that if you will allow him to come in and invite him in. never girls were not invited into our lives young people not he will not knock us down and jump in the twelfth way for us to open our hearts be receptive to his message and I asked him Paul again telling him I'm asking that with both feet planted firmly on love, you'll be able to take in with all the followers of Jesus, the extravagant dimensions of Christ. Now Paul writes Corinthians without love. I'm nothing but a sounding gong. My example, your client finding simple without Lamar nothing but a sounding and a clanging cymbal and tell you what, folks, you can get your body to be burned at the stake for the cause and if you don't have Christ's love in your heart, it's worthless. So Paul is telling us here. We have to have both feet firmly planted in love those are not cement shoes firmly planted in love and what does love to love covers a mul ude of sins. Love has the ability to look beyond faults and see needs love has a responsibility to care to forgive to discipline to disagree, but so keep the disagreements within the foundation of love crazy things. How that love can influence our lives, how that love can influence our conversation. What we do. And Paul says, have your feet firmly planted in love, so that with all followers of Jesus, we may see the extravagant dimensions of Christ, love, what are the extravagant dimensions of Christ, love the extravagant dimensions of Christ lobbyist that he would get happen to become a babe in a manger is stable that he would become human younger. The only reason became human myself that this woman could die. can't die, so in order to be the sacrifice for our sin. He had to give up heaven to be our sacrifice. He had to give that up in order to come become like us so that we could become like him. So what are the extravagant dimensions of love extravagant dimensions of love by that Paul would allow himself to be in prison and be content. There knowing that this is the will of that he would begin to write letters to churches to help them with the difficulties they are facing because he can't be there in person to preacher to speak has that type of love for us. He comes to us through each other. He comes to us with people. We haven't met yet. You coated them with the love of which helps them to heal their wounds and their hurts, what is the extravagant dimensions of 's love left reach out and experience the breath of his love reach out and experience the breath of his love. I like it says in here reach out it's their every corner of our experience. It is why it covers the breath of our own experience and it reaches out to the entire world. The breath of 's love, not breath, breathe, but rest distance that 's love reaches every corner, every aspect of our life that let's see, let's reach out and experience the tautology of 's love to every corner, every relationship, every person, every situation every job. Every thought, every word, and reaches into every corner of our existence, our life, but not only us to the entire world. Let's hope expansive. It is now prior to this process, but that the heavens. This is the who sections out the heavens, no. We just found out last many years and were quite sure that we're not the only solar system. We just found that out they were not the only solar system. There are other solar systems out there, way beyond us, and it's like they are sections solutions. There are galaxies offices here. This is the , the magnificent father who parcels out all heaven and earth, the earth is divided into continents. How do they know they know the world wasn't flat. How do you dislike when Job, the oldest book in the Bible says the Lord sitting upon the circle of your glory cost of the circle of the earth. The predominant thought in John's day was that there with this giant herculean person carrying this planet called earth on his shoulders in his back, standing on a turtle going through the heavens, and Joan says the phone about the circle of your key flying the stars and the e delete and understand the concept yet understand the circles and gravity, the gravitational pull of the sun and the planets, and that here we are in a solar system and galaxies. They didn't see all that, but they understood what it was greater than just their little world that they live in is the story talks about the seven uses last week. I forgot, but if you take this essay for a bottle again and he put a cap on it, and you stick it in the ocean think you pushing the ocean. It's surrounded by the ocean, but notions, not inside. We are surrounded by , the is everywhere around us and the stars, the heavens in the rain that the snow in the Greek and that every blade of gr is different, every leaf is different. is in everything around this part of his creation, but we pulled it on our life and say we were in this alone. Without insulin, take the lid off some murders, submerge the container and water. The ocean in the ocean fills the container. Now the container is full of the ocean, but it doesn't contain the ocean. It only contains a part of the ocean. The containers in the ocean and has part of the ocean, but it doesn't contain all of the ocean. Here we are in 's immersed in 's word 's love. We are immersed in this con, who plans everything from beginning to end. While you were getting your mother 's womb. He knew you. We formed you can put everything in there that you needed to know every trial that you would ever face into every difficulty that we never have been there when we were stumbled when we would fall inevitably would be great and successful bingo all of this for ever pretending they would all and we fill our lives with , but we don't contain all there is to know . We just have our container full, and we're in an ocean. You know, here we are in our place called member in this church in the who created this planet and created the solar systems and created the galaxies and everything that's out there, here we are in this place in this building, and we are part of that extravagant creation. We don't contain all of that inside of us. We're just part of it in the who put all those stars in e and he knows them all by name, says that he knows the very hairs of our head. He knows every difficulty. He loves us and he says come let us reason together now let's figure this out, that my love has an expansiveness that covers every little corner of your life every corner of the universe. My love is there. She is a wharf in this month there, why doesn't he show it landed about the caps on the other lives on. We know what I know about your . We got our own is saying. Open your eyes open be receptive and then what else he says. Deviations exactly extravagant dimensions of Christ's love reach out and experience the breath test. Its length will test its length. It continues the length of our lives. Here we are the extravagant love of continues to our life from beginning to wind it doesn't end. We live until we would begin it doesn't end check out this love that he has for us, then what else, what is next with why we have long, what's next, I was the height your rises to the heights of our celebration in relation, it rises to our greatest heights of, say, being thankful of feeling safe of knowing that life reaches the highest mountain in a song. The last one is that you test its length plumbing the depths wise to the heights live full lives full in the fullness of that we are and the deeds it reaches to the deaths of discouragement, despair and even death. When you feel shut out for isolated. Remember that you can never be lost to 's love we are never lost. We are always in the palm of his hand. We are always safe. Knowing him as our Savior and every experience in our life. has a way of making good, they can turn around the good, it doesn't matter what evil are evil people do or say it doesn't matter our world, our world, the people around us. We all have a part to be part of the body of Christ is not the will of that any should perish, but everyone should come to repentance, 's will is that everybody know him as Savior and he will do his best to touch their lives and allow ban to open the lid and alignment. You see the Holy Spirit comes to us. He knocks at our heart 's door. He will come into us as we open our hearts door open the lid. The come into our lives and he will make a difference in our today's then in our tomorrows. He says that the power output of saying this whole idea of the power of the spirit and the work of the Spirit is that the fullness of his life is that he would give it to us not to sit in a chair not to say I got this. I got this now you you you get your own. I got this this is my my gift things doesn't give us to give things to collect them. He gives us to share them. He gives to us his blessing in order to share wasn't that quick on the white lightning little joke, urinary, but has a way of touching our lives. They has a way of making things right. Amen. Let's them is this another Scripture. Herne says it speaks about how that the maladie. What song do we sing in our life. What song if we were to pick out a song, what song would it be the best exemplify who we are as a person think about, but not from the sixties at a bar or some hard rock or whatever, but it's a song if you don't find one right one right one from your heart that exemplifies who is to you and that's the song wishes saying over our lives and over our relationships and am re-signed every note would be one that is written in love and forgiveness openness, sharing, giving of who we are meant. Father, we thank you that we open our hearts to you . It is by your spirit that these truths become real to us is by your spirits, O , that we are quickened in our thoughts in our minds is by your spirit Lord that we come to grips with all the difficulties in all the good things, let us sing your praise. Let us give thanks to you, in all things give thanks for this is the will of in Christ Jesus concerning us. So every difficulty. Lord help us to sing a song of praise to sing a song of thanks knowing that you will work this to the good in Jesus name we pray. Everybody said amen bless you Holy Spirit - Ability To Live