The Sermon Holy Spirit - Renew by David McGee
Mar 15, 2015
Holy Spirit - Renew (35:22)
Referenced Scriptures: Titus 3:3-7
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Titus 3:3-7
3) For we were also once foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.
4) But when the kindness of God, our Savior, and his love toward man, appeared,
5) not by works of righteousness, which we did ourselves, but according to his mercy, he saved us, through the washing of regeneration and renewing by the Holy Spirit,
6) which he poured out on us richly, through Jesus Christ, our Savior;
7) that, being justified by his grace, we might be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life.
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It's important that we understand or appreciate the work of the Holy Spirit in our lives. Often we have misconceptions about what the Holy Spirit who the Holy Spirit is and and what the work of the Holy Spirit does in our life and it's important that we see this and we want to see the total picture of how that the Holy Spirit has come to be among us to impart to to the stove the gifts and the fruits of the Spirit in our lives to help the fruits grow within us love joy peace patience gentleness meekness kindness longsuffering those are the fruits of the Spirit and those are the the things that helps us to grow fruits grow in our lives and then there are gifts of the spirit that the Holy Spirit bestows them upon us and he divides severally as he wills to each individual to help us in our work of service to and so it is important that we see that the Holy Spirit is a person. Third Person of the Trinity that he is someone who can be grieved. By pushing him aside. It is he is someone that is there to help us a very present help in time of trouble and whenever we think of the Word of The Scriptures say that the Word of is alive and active. It's quick and powerful and sharper than a sword that has two edges on it. So we find that it is the Holy Spirit then that helps us understand what the word is understand how to interpret and how to apply that word to our lives because if we don't have an application of the word it's it's you know it's powerless. And I think of the il ration. Just last week that in our homes if our homes were disconnected from the electricity What would our home be like if your house didn't have any electricity what would it be like cold dark you can eat. I should build a fire in the middle of room what's up. Get a cook stove that's right got to get a cook stove you gotta haul in the word YOU GOTTA but without electricity What would our homes be like So what is what is a Christian life like without the Holy Spirit. It's just a s . It's just a s of what we have and what it is intended for. And as we see the Holy Spirit working on our lives we see that there is a lot of things going on in our homes in our lives that we would take for granted we take for granted because we're connected to the electricity we're connected to the Holy Spirit and the Holy Spirit and He is wanting to fill us to overflowing with his presence that will give us an understanding of where we're at where we're going and that has it all in control. is in control and you know what do we have to do to get out of sync with is to be disobedient to be rebellious to be defied to think the wrong thoughts you know hatred bitterness in the strife. Those are not good things of the Spirit they are good things and they're not even good things are part of our human nature or our fallen nature. But the Holy Spirit is that he that works within our lives to bring us to an understanding of Jesus Christ. He's the one who gives us an understanding of the Word of He's the one who helps us interpret the word. You see when the officers when the people wrote that. If that it wasn't by the will of man but by the will of in the Holy Spirit inspired them and we think of the scriptures as being written not as a verbatim dictation. See sometimes people think that you know that the scriptures were dictated by and these individuals who wrote them wrote them as scribes. We don't I don't we don't believe that we believe that the Holy Spirit inspired them to write and use their vocabulary use their writing skills to portray him to be to give to them ideas of what's going on if you look at the the Scriptures and look at different books of the Bible. Isaiah is probably the most literary of all of the writers because of his education and so on he uses more words. He has a greater vocabulary than say other judges or other individuals in the scripture so they wrote and inspired but he didn't. If you're like me saying you know I've I stayed at the Holiday Inn last night and I can do brain surgery. How would you be qualified to do brain surgery. Why I Stayed up all night and I watched a video at the Holiday Inn about how to do brain surgery so I'm a brain surgeon. You say he's a little nuts. He's a quack. Well because we are with the Holy Spirit has come then he doesn't somehow take us out of our person and insert someone else you know he doesn't make me a brain surgeon because I'm a Christian and he empowers me to be who I am with my abilities and that he will take who I am and develop who I am to become what he wants me to be. When ever I was when I was in high school and college and things I often wondered how I would ever be able to speak because I never like to be in front of people. Now you wonder if you'll ever shut up. But you know I was one of those things that was it was a challenge. It was a challenge for me to know how if I could ever stand up in front of people and you know preach. But I just had this thought I had this understanding when it's time for me to do this I'll be able to do it because this is what has called me to do. So what god and what calls us to do. He enables us to do. And we find that knows what he wants you to become. knows exactly where you need to be what you need to be doing who we need to be and he will then provide us the opportunity to develop that person to develop those skills to develop that personality to develop what is necessary to to do this you know I've often thought my brother my brother Jim he should be the preacher of the night he should be the one who's the minister because he's very good with people. He's very good at remembering names he's very good at remembering things. And he's actually he's an excellent speaker and you know Once you do that once you get him to do this you know and he didn't call me to do it and so his calling then becomes his. He enables us he gives us the strength of the film who we are and so if we take those steps as we take that progression the Holy Spirit is there leading and he is guiding and he will sometimes call us to do things that in our natural we don't think we can but in the spiritual there is this voice inside of us that says you can do this. You can you can you can make this happen. I'm going to make this happen through you. I'm going to have this fulfillment come in. Your life as you grow and develop and as you continue to grow well in Titus chapter three in the Message Bible has a beginning at verse three. It wasn't so long ago that we ourselves were stupid and stubborn. That doesn't apply to us still going to stubborn and dupes in sin ordered every which way by our glance going around with a chip on our shoulder. Hated and hating back but when are kind and loving Savior stepped in. He saved us from all that is being the Holy Spirit looks at us and puts everything on the table. That's my big metaphor table. Everything goes on the table maze because I like to eat so much but everything goes on the table all of the things that we understand all the choices we have to make all the decisions we have to do it all goes out on the table and we put it out there and we move it around and we discuss it we talk about it and things go this way things go that way and it's all out there and open for discussion that way Nothing's hidden in the back and we put a lot on the table for discussion. And whenever I counsel whenever people are in grief and sorrow and loss OK let's put this on here what you think and what you're feeling and what and that while we disagree will throw all this stuff out on the table and here it is. does not hold anything back he puts our entire person out there. All of our strengths weaknesses failures successes puts it all out there and heat. What if you tell us to do. Basically he tells us to get rid of the sin get rid of the hatred get rid of hating get rid of the chip on your shoulder. Bring your glands under control. In all the things that you've been duped into. It forgive allowed to go and put it out there it was all his doing. it's saying you know. Titus here it was all his doing meaning 's doing. Put it all out there and we had nothing to do with it meaning we had nothing to do with getting ourselves saved and nothing to do with in this case and this case he says he gave us a good bath. He gave us a good bath meaning that he washed us from all of those old sins and he washed us from all those old dupes being duped in sin and we came out a new person. We came out new people. When saves us what happens is he changes us from the inside out. He gives us a new perspective. New eyes new expectation a new understanding of life. has cleansed us washed away all those old sins and all those old failures and all those old hurts and we had nothing to do with it. did it on his own. Gave us a good bath. He washed inside and out by the. He wants just by the Holy Spirit see the Holy Spirit came comes into our lives and watches us. He cleanses us from all of our all sins and all of our old ways. He claims is us from all unrighteousness from every act of sin. He claims that he washes it away. He washes away the stain of sin he washes away the effects of sin and he washes away the at ude of sin. He washes it out and he scrubbed it out you have a stain that wouldn't come out. Whenever we have a sting. Guess who gets it out. Simple brain is a wonderful thing. OK Now a simple green is a wonderful wonderful whatever it is cleanser There we go. I use it in the garage I use it on the garage on the garage floor and it does all kinds of stuff with getting grease and you know in my brick pavers you know from my driveway all you do is spray it on there. Well don't you then scrub it and put what you know just put it on to spray it on it will dissolve the grease. When it rains all goes away. It's a great little thing the simple green. Well what about the stain you see whatever we fall whenever something goes wrong in our life the Holy Spirit shows up and not Simple Green has the blood of Jesus Christ the blood of Christ is applied to our sin applied to our staying and it removes every stain of sin it removes at all and so we are washed to give us a good bath and we come out of it a new people. Washed inside and out by the Holy Spirit our savior Jesus poured out new life so generously. 's gift has restored our relationship with him and given us back our lives. You see. What Christ has accomplished is to restore us. We like this ogy. We are not sinners trying to be a Christian. We are people of who got off course in sin and now has brought us back on course. We are a Christian struggling with sin. We are a well person who has a sickness that we are dealing with. We are. Our new creation in Christ Jesus and all things p away all things become new meaning what created us to be. This is who we are and we have battles with sin we have battles with choices we have battles with things but we're not a sinner trying to be good. We are a child of learning how the works in our life and makes everything good. So whenever we look at our life it isn't that we are a sinner. Now we are called by grace to bring us into the right relationship with to establish us what we were supposed to be before we fell before sin came into our lives. So we're not just bad people trying to be good we were good people who were stumbling around in our sin and our badness and then redeemed us. How can he buy us back. Reading redemption means to purchase back. It was we were gods in the first place. We belong to and it is it is the will of that everyone go to heaven. It is the will of that everybody go to heaven but some people refuse to allow back in their life. We were created in the image of we had to bring in the breath of in our life and so wants us to be his child but we are we are somehow caught up in the failures of our sin thinking this is who we are. This isn't who we are our sinful person is not who we are we are a child of That's the person we were created to be and then provides the strength by the power of His Spirit to come into our lives to cleanse us to renew us put the right Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus with you going to do to renew us the same spirit to raise Christ. The dead well and you know what's going to happen. We're going to raise from the dead. You see has given us everything that we need to live for him. Well we get the concept that well I'm not good enough. Who gave you that idea. Wasn't You see does not want us to make it on our own abilities because doing it in our own abilities we will never make it to what we should be. But with by the Spirit can take the house take those gifts things that he's put inside of us and take them to a whole different level. See the gift things are already here the gifts things are already in your life. We're just learning to unlock them. You know my ability to speak and to be a minister and to stand up here and do the things that was in there but I didn't know when I didn't see it but I as then developed in this god then blast 's Spirit works in our lives. It brought those things out. It brought those gifts things up in my life and so as brings those give things he brings them to a different level higher level. It's 's gift has restored our relationship with him and given us back our lives. She's made this you know when sin takes over. When sin is evident in a person's life the purpose of sin is to steal to kill and to destroy. So what god. What evil wants to do in our life is take from us our divine purpose to keep us entangled in things that have no eternal value to evil ones to destroy. All that which is good and basically just steal everything out of our life that has any value. wants to forgive us so that we can let go of the failures. wants to restore us and he restores us by imparting his blessing imparting his spirit into our lives that will teach us that will encourage others that will bring about the blessing of to our life. So if we if we think about how is at work isn't work. Taking this piece of clay and he is molding it on here. Mold molding it with the well. I was in a patient's room the other day and they were they were dying. OK And the person was there and and the person said is this person holding it molding you know are they multi yet oldie or modeling modeling modeling means that their blood flow is not there and it's in there turning gray in blue and purple in this and I was like molding it's almost like molting and this is this person bolting yet but you know the normal thing you know there are there you know so it was almost like they're molding my you know our lives we're not dead yet how many people are not dead raise your hand. I'm glad Bob how do you do raise your hand Bobby. Yes thank you I was just jackin you just check and just want to make sure everybody is still alive and so all the life that has given us is a life that is to change us and we're not molding you know. We're not modeling we're not molding we're not molting Eagles. That's an interesting concept. You can't tell how old an eagle is by looking at it. Do you know that you cannot tell it's age because when it reaches a certain age and I didn't study all this recently so I forgot most of it but it will lose its feathers and grow new ones. And that's kind of like it's transition from to a new renewing its strength that it just totally grows new feathers and it uses the difficulties it uses the storms it uses the currents that will normally drive other birds to the ground. It will use those things to rise above the storm. And in our lives there's a story of an eagle in the chicken coop. OK and they go in a chicken coop. Well a needle in a chicken coop. Is it just doesn't feel like it belongs. There or feel like you don't belong. Maybe it's hard to soar with eagles when you're surrounded by chickens and turkeys. That's really sad but what happens is in the story that the chickens are s ing around and picking out a living and the eagle dreams of soaring the chickens Broadway dream of soaring the chickens don't ever dream of getting out of there out of the chicken coop. They just pecking around pecking around the chickens have a pecking order. You know you heard that right. Then if you have a hundred chickens in a in a house and yard. Good that there is a dominant one. And how can you tell the lowest one in the pecking order but you know it's not only the smallest. It hardly has any feathers because all the other check and all the other chickens peck at it you can always tell though the lowest one in a chicken coop because that's the chicken the DE has has there is a scrawny Is this the one that's pushed aside and it's the one has most of its feathers pulled out by the rest of them. It's the lowest chicken in the pecking order. Everybody picks it Eagles don't have a pecking order. Eagles having to have a dominant you know they have a neuron they can all fight for the same thing like there's there's there's no domineering you know eagle there are all Eagles and they don't live in pens. They're not made to live in pens. They're made to soar and to use the currents and use the currents of wind and rain and all the adversities you see them in some of the most darkest and most desolate places where did you see the one on one. It's on the Internet. Oh I know. And they had it where it was made. I think it made the Internet in the You Tube where they were setting there and the mother were one of the Eagles and the eagle rose up. And pushed itself off you know who's this. Hello o it's he must talk to you can you know be there within a minute they say so but the guy was just checking in on you you know make sure you were here. Can Yeah you see I got one of those things that I know but his we go through as we go through our life we're bound to come into obstacles and allows those things to come into our life to ask us to help us become focused on what he's about. So it's not buying the King James version has it. It's not by works of righteousness which we have done but according to His mercy He saved us. So we are who we are not by our works. Our spiritual man is not developed by works we have works with everybody. We are sick we all have to go to work and we are to earn a living all those types of things. But the spiritual man isn't developed by works it is according to 's mercy we enter into this relationship because Grace has called our name His mercy is extended towards us that he he has mercy towards us. I mean he does not give to us what we deserve what we deserve. We our sins are failures. What we deserve we deserve punishment but doesn't. He's not in the punishment business confidence in the saving business. is in the restoration he is in the renewal and so when in His grace and His mercy come to our lives it is according to His mercy He saves us through the law. Washing of regenerating and renewing of the Holy Spirit. So it's a holy spirit that comes in there and convicts us of sin and it is that Holy Spirit that enables us to know that is with us. I as a person used the story last week but the the individual who was dying and and I was there with her and had my arm on her elbow and she had her hand on her head and and I said well you know to go to heaven Jesus we have to ask Jesus to forgive us of our sins. And she said Jesus forgive me. And then she went Oh Jesus forgive me of my sin. Her husband said she was never the same after that till she died that she died. P.S. the connecting of our spiritual life is more than just a rhetoric of words that we say of prayers that we speak or read it is the heart that changes is the meeting of the Spirit. The meeting of the spirit with life and in that moment of time this person met it was like when those words were spoken. Jesus was there and her life was changed and in our life it is the holy spirit that comes to us in our hour of need. If we are in need of This is a problem that I'm facing. If we are in need because of our thoughts because of our surroundings. Because. All of our physical need. We can cry out to and in that moment we will see Jesus there. Some people have in their life they have been lost in their sins and they cried out Jesus. Well here's one. A close with the story. There was a young man in South Korea who was dying with tuberculosis. And he was in his bed. Tremendous pain and he was going through all of his gods that he knew asking for help. And when he reached the end of his list of gods and he was in so much pain he cried out he said if there is another up there hear my prayer come to me. And within an hour there was a young Christian girl walking the streets in South Korea and she came up to the door she knocked on the door and said you probably won't understand this but I just feel like there's some that you have a need that I could pray about and the mother said Yes we do come in. She went back into the room and there she met this young man led him to the Lord to know Christ as his Savior. That young man is now and I don't know if I have his name right but it's Pastor Cho in South Korea who has the largest church in the world. He became that person on his deathbed not knowing in his mind he was going to die and everybody else's mind he was going to die. This young girl who you know we don't know who she is. She led him to Christ and prayed for him. And he began then to get well. He recovered gave his life to Christ and now he has a pastor in the largest church in the world. Preachers all over the world. The message of Jesus Christ. That's the work of the Holy Spirit leading us in those times whether it's on our deathbed or whether it's just got I don't know what I'm going to do next. Should I go left or should I go right. You know it the from the simplest of the most complex the Holy Spirit is there to guide us to give us hope and to give us direction. And it isn't out of works of righteousness that we're going to make it to get it done and it isn't out of my abilities or my lack of abilities. is that work in each of our lives and he will change us each moment of the day and we are eagles. We may sometimes feel like we're in a chicken coop s ing around but you know what that the eagle in the chicken coop was always dreaming about travel and flying high and everybody else would say you know want to go high would you go up there for that's way out there you don't belong up there you belong down here. Check ins will always try to get us to stay in a chicken coop because that's their natural environment. But for the Eagle he saw himself being something different. And that's where the Christian. That's where we the Holy Spirit comes into our life. We see ourselves as something different and we're not there yet and we're not dead yet. So we are in the process of becoming. And whenever we die we're done growing. But until then we've got to keep growing. We've got to keep understanding we've got to keep allowing the Holy Spirit to work in our lives. We've got a lot of the Holy Spirit to use us as in talking to people and encouraging. Will two to pray for people to be you can be the miracle that somebody else is looking for this girl walking through and South Korea walking through this village. I didn't know she was going to be the miracle that would change a man's life that would change the entire nation of South Korea. She's just a young girl walking by her house and felt wanted her to go and knock at the door. did the rest. That's what we're about. Knowing that we are different knowing that we are have a higher calling. Knowing that there are some there's a plan for us and that it's going to take effort and it's going to take time it's going to take dreams it's going to need inspiration but the Holy Spirit is at work. Sometimes the Spirit says David do you still know that I am Sometimes says David. Move your feet. Sometimes says just pray for them and let my spirit touch their lives and bring peace to their heart. That's what it's all about you becoming the miracle right where you're at. That's the Holy Spirit working in your life and then that stench. Father we are grateful grateful grateful we're grateful that it's not by might it's not by our strength or our power it's not by our intellect our talents but it's by your Spirit Lord it's by your Holy Spirit that you change the world by changing us. If you change the world around us by helping us see helping us see things differently. we thank you. Nothing is into too big for you nothing is too small for you. you are involved in the smallest detail you are involved in the greatest of plans. help us to see your hand upon us help us to recognize your Holy Spirit at work in us help us oh lord to be at peace and that will direct our steps. We know Lord that you will direct the steps of your children. We are your children to direct our steps. Let us be at peace. Let us allow ourselves to be at peace with you and that your spirit is working in our lives and in every situation around us. We are grateful. Thank you Jesus thank you Jesus thank you Jesus. We worship you and we know the Lord that you will direct us. Amen amen. And we give praise to and we give praise. And as we give praise our focus is off of us and on him amen. Holy Spirit - Renew It's important that we understand or appreciate the work of the Holy Spirit in our lives. Often we have misconceptions about what the Holy Spirit who the Holy Spirit is and and what the work of the Holy Spirit does in our life and it's important that we see this and we want to see the total picture of how that the Holy Spirit has come to be among us to impart to to the stove the gifts and the fruits of the Spirit in our lives to help the fruits grow within us love joy peace patience gentleness meekness kindness longsuffering those are the fruits of the Spirit and those are the the things that helps us to grow fruits grow in our lives and then there are gifts of the spirit that the Holy Spirit bestows them upon us and he divides severally as he wills to each individual to help us in our work of service to and so it is important that we see that the Holy Spirit is a person. Third Person of the Trinity that he is someone who can be grieved. By pushing him aside. It is he is someone that is there to help us a very present help in time of trouble and whenever we think of the Word of The Scriptures say that the Word of is alive and active. It's quick and powerful and sharper than a sword that has two edges on it. So we find that it is the Holy Spirit then that helps us understand what the word is understand how to interpret and how to apply that word to our lives because if we don't have an application of the word it's it's you know it's powerless. And I think of the il ration. Just last week that in our homes if our homes were disconnected from the electricity What would our home be like if your house didn't have any electricity what would it be like cold dark you can eat. I should build a fire in the middle of room what's up. Get a cook stove that's right got to get a cook stove you gotta haul in the word YOU GOTTA but without electricity What would our homes be like So what is what is a Christian life like without the Holy Spirit. It's just a s . It's just a s of what we have and what it is intended for. And as we see the Holy Spirit working on our lives we see that there is a lot of things going on in our homes in our lives that we would take for granted we take for granted because we're connected to the electricity we're connected to the Holy Spirit and the Holy Spirit and He is wanting to fill us to overflowing with his presence that will give us an understanding of where we're at where we're going and that has it all in control. is in control and you know what do we have to do to get out of sync with is to be disobedient to be rebellious to be defied to think the wrong thoughts you know hatred bitterness in the strife. Those are not good things of the Spirit they are good things and they're not even good things are part of our human nature or our fallen nature. But the Holy Spirit is that he that works within our lives to bring us to an understanding of Jesus Christ. He's the one who gives us an understanding of the Word of He's the one who helps us interpret the word. You see when the officers when the people wrote that. If that it wasn't by the will of man but by the will of in the Holy Spirit inspired them and we think of the scriptures as being written not as a verbatim dictation. See sometimes people think that you know that the scriptures were dictated by and these individuals who wrote them wrote them as scribes. We don't I don't we don't believe that we believe that the Holy Spirit inspired them to write and use their vocabulary use their writing skills to portray him to be to give to them ideas of what's going on if you look at the the Scriptures and look at different books of the Bible. Isaiah is probably the most literary of all of the writers because of his education and so on he uses more words. He has a greater vocabulary than say other judges or other individuals in the scripture so they wrote and inspired but he didn't. If you're like me saying you know I've I stayed at the Holiday Inn last night and I can do brain surgery. How would you be qualified to do brain surgery. Why I Stayed up all night and I watched a video at the Holiday Inn about how to do brain surgery so I'm a brain surgeon. You say he's a little nuts. He's a quack. Well because we are with the Holy Spirit has come then he doesn't somehow take us out of our person and insert someone else you know he doesn't make me a brain surgeon because I'm a Christian and he empowers me to be who I am with my abilities and that he will take who I am and develop who I am to become what he wants me to be. When ever I was when I was in high school and college and things I often wondered how I would ever be able to speak because I never like to be in front of people. Now you wonder if you'll ever shut up. But you know I was one of those things that was it was a challenge. It was a challenge for me to know how if I could ever stand up in front of people and you know preach. But I just had this thought I had this understanding when it's time for me to do this I'll be able to do it because this is what has called me to do. So what god and what calls us to do. He enables us to do. And we find that knows what he wants you to become. knows exactly where you need to be what you need to be doing who we need to be and he will then provide us the opportunity to develop that person to develop those skills to develop that personality to develop what is necessary to to do this you know I've often thought my brother my brother Jim he should be the preacher of the night he should be the one who's the minister because he's very good with people. He's very good at remembering names he's very good at remembering things. And he's actually he's an excellent speaker and you know Once you do that once you get him to do this you know and he didn't call me to do it and so his calling then becomes his. He enables us he gives us the strength of the film who we are and so if we take those steps as we take that progression the Holy Spirit is there leading and he is guiding and he will sometimes call us to do things that in our natural we don't think we can but in the spiritual there is this voice inside of us that says you can do this. You can you can you can make this happen. I'm going to make this happen through you. I'm going to have this fulfillment come in. Your life as you grow and develop and as you continue to grow well in Titus chapter three in the Message Bible has a beginning at verse three. It wasn't so long ago that we ourselves were stupid and stubborn. That doesn't apply to us still going to stubborn and dupes in sin ordered every which way by our glance going around with a chip on our shoulder. Hated and hating back but when are kind and loving Savior stepped in. He saved us from all that is being the Holy Spirit looks at us and puts everything on the table. That's my big metaphor table. Everything goes on the table maze because I like to eat so much but everything goes on the table all of the things that we understand all the choices we have to make all the decisions we have to do it all goes out on the table and we put it out there and we move it around and we discuss it we talk about it and things go this way things go that way and it's all out there and open for discussion that way Nothing's hidden in the back and we put a lot on the table for discussion. And whenever I counsel whenever people are in grief and sorrow and loss OK let's put this on here what you think and what you're feeling and what and that while we disagree will throw all this stuff out on the table and here it is. does not hold anything back he puts our entire person out there. All of our strengths weaknesses failures successes puts it all out there and heat. What if you tell us to do. Basically he tells us to get rid of the sin get rid of the hatred get rid of hating get rid of the chip on your shoulder. Bring your glands under control. In all the things that you've been duped into. It forgive allowed to go and put it out there it was all his doing. it's saying you know. Titus here it was all his doing meaning 's doing. Put it all out there and we had nothing to do with it meaning we had nothing to do with getting ourselves saved and nothing to do with in this case and this case he says he gave us a good bath. He gave us a good bath meaning that he washed us from all of those old sins and he washed us from all those old dupes being duped in sin and we came out a new person. We came out new people. When saves us what happens is he changes us from the inside out. He gives us a new perspective. New eyes new expectation a new understanding of life. has cleansed us washed away all those old sins and all those old failures and all those old hurts and we had nothing to do with it. did it on his own. Gave us a good bath. He washed inside and out by the. He wants just by the Holy Spirit see the Holy Spirit came comes into our lives and watches us. He cleanses us from all of our all sins and all of our old ways. He claims is us from all unrighteousness from every act of sin. He claims that he washes it away. He washes away the stain of sin he washes away the effects of sin and he washes away the at ude of sin. He washes it out and he scrubbed it out you have a stain that wouldn't come out. Whenever we have a sting. Guess who gets it out. Simple brain is a wonderful thing. OK Now a simple green is a wonderful wonderful whatever it is cleanser There we go. I use it in the garage I use it on the garage on the garage floor and it does all kinds of stuff with getting grease and you know in my brick pavers you know from my driveway all you do is spray it on there. Well don't you then scrub it and put what you know just put it on to spray it on it will dissolve the grease. When it rains all goes away. It's a great little thing the simple green. Well what about the stain you see whatever we fall whenever something goes wrong in our life the Holy Spirit shows up and not Simple Green has the blood of Jesus Christ the blood of Christ is applied to our sin applied to our staying and it removes every stain of sin it removes at all and so we are washed to give us a good bath and we come out of it a new people. Washed inside and out by the Holy Spirit our savior Jesus poured out new life so generously. 's gift has restored our relationship with him and given us back our lives. You see. What Christ has accomplished is to restore us. We like this ogy. We are not sinners trying to be a Christian. We are people of who got off course in sin and now has brought us back on course. We are a Christian struggling with sin. We are a well person who has a sickness that we are dealing with. We are. Our new creation in Christ Jesus and all things p away all things become new meaning what created us to be. This is who we are and we have battles with sin we have battles with choices we have battles with things but we're not a sinner trying to be good. We are a child of learning how the works in our life and makes everything good. So whenever we look at our life it isn't that we are a sinner. Now we are called by grace to bring us into the right relationship with to establish us what we were supposed to be before we fell before sin came into our lives. So we're not just bad people trying to be good we were good people who were stumbling around in our sin and our badness and then redeemed us. How can he buy us back. Reading redemption means to purchase back. It was we were gods in the first place. We belong to and it is it is the will of that everyone go to heaven. It is the will of that everybody go to heaven but some people refuse to allow back in their life. We were created in the image of we had to bring in the breath of in our life and so wants us to be his child but we are we are somehow caught up in the failures of our sin thinking this is who we are. This isn't who we are our sinful person is not who we are we are a child of That's the person we were created to be and then provides the strength by the power of His Spirit to come into our lives to cleanse us to renew us put the right Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus with you going to do to renew us the same spirit to raise Christ. The dead well and you know what's going to happen. We're going to raise from the dead. You see has given us everything that we need to live for him. Well we get the concept that well I'm not good enough. Who gave you that idea. Wasn't You see does not want us to make it on our own abilities because doing it in our own abilities we will never make it to what we should be. But with by the Spirit can take the house take those gifts things that he's put inside of us and take them to a whole different level. See the gift things are already here the gifts things are already in your life. We're just learning to unlock them. You know my ability to speak and to be a minister and to stand up here and do the things that was in there but I didn't know when I didn't see it but I as then developed in this god then blast 's Spirit works in our lives. It brought those things out. It brought those gifts things up in my life and so as brings those give things he brings them to a different level higher level. It's 's gift has restored our relationship with him and given us back our lives. She's made this you know when sin takes over. When sin is evident in a person's life the purpose of sin is to steal to kill and to destroy. So what god. What evil wants to do in our life is take from us our divine purpose to keep us entangled in things that have no eternal value to evil ones to destroy. All that which is good and basically just steal everything out of our life that has any value. wants to forgive us so that we can let go of the failures. wants to restore us and he restores us by imparting his blessing imparting his spirit into our lives that will teach us that will encourage others that will bring about the blessing of to our life. So if we if we think about how is at work isn't work. Taking this piece of clay and he is molding it on here. Mold molding it with the well. I was in a patient's room the other day and they were they were dying. OK And the person was there and and the person said is this person holding it molding you know are they multi yet oldie or modeling modeling modeling means that their blood flow is not there and it's in there turning gray in blue and purple in this and I was like molding it's almost like molting and this is this person bolting yet but you know the normal thing you know there are there you know so it was almost like they're molding my you know our lives we're not dead yet how many people are not dead raise your hand. I'm glad Bob how do you do raise your hand Bobby. Yes thank you I was just jackin you just check and just want to make sure everybody is still alive and so all the life that has given us is a life that is to change us and we're not molding you know. We're not modeling we're not molding we're not molting Eagles. That's an interesting concept. You can't tell how old an eagle is by looking at it. Do you know that you cannot tell it's age because when it reaches a certain age and I didn't study all this recently so I forgot most of it but it will lose its feathers and grow new ones. And that's kind of like it's transition from to a new renewing its strength that it just totally grows new feathers and it uses the difficulties it uses the storms it uses the currents that will normally drive other birds to the ground. It will use those things to rise above the storm. And in our lives there's a story of an eagle in the chicken coop. OK and they go in a chicken coop. Well a needle in a chicken coop. Is it just doesn't feel like it belongs. There or feel like you don't belong. Maybe it's hard to soar with eagles when you're surrounded by chickens and turkeys. That's really sad but what happens is in the story that the chickens are s ing around and picking out a living and the eagle dreams of soaring the chickens Broadway dream of soaring the chickens don't ever dream of getting out of there out of the chicken coop. They just pecking around pecking around the chickens have a pecking order. You know you heard that right. Then if you have a hundred chickens in a in a house and yard. Good that there is a dominant one. And how can you tell the lowest one in the pecking order but you know it's not only the smallest. It hardly has any feathers because all the other check and all the other chickens peck at it you can always tell though the lowest one in a chicken coop because that's the chicken the DE has has there is a scrawny Is this the one that's pushed aside and it's the one has most of its feathers pulled out by the rest of them. It's the lowest chicken in the pecking order. Everybody picks it Eagles don't have a pecking order. Eagles having to have a dominant you know they have a neuron they can all fight for the same thing like there's there's there's no domineering you know eagle there are all Eagles and they don't live in pens. They're not made to live in pens. They're made to soar and to use the currents and use the currents of wind and rain and all the adversities you see them in some of the most darkest and most desolate places where did you see the one on one. It's on the Internet. Oh I know. And they had it where it was made. I think it made the Internet in the You Tube where they were setting there and the mother were one of the Eagles and the eagle rose up. And pushed itself off you know who's this. Hello o it's he must talk to you can you know be there within a minute they say so but the guy was just checking in on you you know make sure you were here. Can Yeah you see I got one of those things that I know but his we go through as we go through our life we're bound to come into obstacles and allows those things to come into our life to ask us to help us become focused on what he's about. So it's not buying the King James version has it. It's not by works of righteousness which we have done but according to His mercy He saved us. So we are who we are not by our works. Our spiritual man is not developed by works we have works with everybody. We are sick we all have to go to work and we are to earn a living all those types of things. But the spiritual man isn't developed by works it is according to 's mercy we enter into this relationship because Grace has called our name His mercy is extended towards us that he he has mercy towards us. I mean he does not give to us what we deserve what we deserve. We our sins are failures. What we deserve we deserve punishment but doesn't. He's not in the punishment business confidence in the saving business. is in the restoration he is in the renewal and so when in His grace and His mercy come to our lives it is according to His mercy He saves us through the law. Washing of regenerating and renewing of the Holy Spirit. So it's a holy spirit that comes in there and convicts us of sin and it is that Holy Spirit that enables us to know that is with us. I as a person used the story last week but the the individual who was dying and and I was there with her and had my arm on her elbow and she had her hand on her head and and I said well you know to go to heaven Jesus we have to ask Jesus to forgive us of our sins. And she said Jesus forgive me. And then she went Oh Jesus forgive me of my sin. Her husband said she was never the same after that till she died that she died. P.S. the connecting of our spiritual life is more than just a rhetoric of words that we say of prayers that we speak or read it is the heart that changes is the meeting of the Spirit. The meeting of the spirit with life and in that moment of time this person met it was like when those words were spoken. Jesus was there and her life was changed and in our life it is the holy spirit that comes to us in our hour of need. If we are in need of This is a problem that I'm facing. If we are in need because of our thoughts because of our surroundings. Because. All of our physical need. We can cry out to and in that moment we will see Jesus there. Some people have in their life they have been lost in their sins and they cried out Jesus. Well here's one. A close with the story. There was a young man in South Korea who was dying with tuberculosis. And he was in his bed. Tremendous pain and he was going through all of his gods that he knew asking for help. And when he reached the end of his list of gods and he was in so much pain he cried out he said if there is another up there hear my prayer come to me. And within an hour there was a young Christian girl walking the streets in South Korea and she came up to the door she knocked on the door and said you probably won't understand this but I just feel like there's some that you have a need that I could pray about and the mother said Yes we do come in. She went back into the room and there she met this young man led him to the Lord to know Christ as his Savior. That young man is now and I don't know if I have his name right but it's Pastor Cho in South Korea who has the largest church in the world. He became that person on his deathbed not knowing in his mind he was going to die and everybody else's mind he was going to die. This young girl who you know we don't know who she is. She led him to Christ and prayed for him. And he began then to get well. He recovered gave his life to Christ and now he has a pastor in the largest church in the world. Preachers all over the world. The message of Jesus Christ. That's the work of the Holy Spirit leading us in those times whether it's on our deathbed or whether it's just got I don't know what I'm going to do next. Should I go left or should I go right. You know it the from the simplest of the most complex the Holy Spirit is there to guide us to give us hope and to give us direction. And it isn't out of works of righteousness that we're going to make it to get it done and it isn't out of my abilities or my lack of abilities. is that work in each of our lives and he will change us each moment of the day and we are eagles. We may sometimes feel like we're in a chicken coop s ing around but you know what that the eagle in the chicken coop was always dreaming about travel and flying high and everybody else would say you know want to go high would you go up there for that's way out there you don't belong up there you belong down here. Check ins will always try to get us to stay in a chicken coop because that's their natural environment. But for the Eagle he saw himself being something different. And that's where the Christian. That's where we the Holy Spirit comes into our life. We see ourselves as something different and we're not there yet and we're not dead yet. So we are in the process of becoming. And whenever we die we're done growing. But until then we've got to keep growing. We've got to keep understanding we've got to keep allowing the Holy Spirit to work in our lives. We've got a lot of the Holy Spirit to use us as in talking to people and encouraging. Will two to pray for people to be you can be the miracle that somebody else is looking for this girl walking through and South Korea walking through this village. I didn't know she was going to be the miracle that would change a man's life that would change the entire nation of South Korea. She's just a young girl walking by her house and felt wanted her to go and knock at the door. did the rest. That's what we're about. Knowing that we are different knowing that we are have a higher calling. Knowing that there are some there's a plan for us and that it's going to take effort and it's going to take time it's going to take dreams it's going to need inspiration but the Holy Spirit is at work. Sometimes the Spirit says David do you still know that I am Sometimes says David. Move your feet. Sometimes says just pray for them and let my spirit touch their lives and bring peace to their heart. That's what it's all about you becoming the miracle right where you're at. That's the Holy Spirit working in your life and then that stench. Father we are grateful grateful grateful we're grateful that it's not by might it's not by our strength or our power it's not by our intellect our talents but it's by your Spirit Lord it's by your Holy Spirit that you change the world by changing us. If you change the world around us by helping us see helping us see things differently. we thank you. Nothing is into too big for you nothing is too small for you. you are involved in the smallest detail you are involved in the greatest of plans. help us to see your hand upon us help us to recognize your Holy Spirit at work in us help us oh lord to be at peace and that will direct our steps. We know Lord that you will direct the steps of your children. We are your children to direct our steps. Let us be at peace. Let us allow ourselves to be at peace with you and that your spirit is working in our lives and in every situation around us. We are grateful. Thank you Jesus thank you Jesus thank you Jesus. We worship you and we know the Lord that you will direct us. Amen amen. And we give praise to and we give praise. And as we give praise our focus is off of us and on him amen. Holy Spirit - Renew