The Sermon He is the Spirit of Truth by David McGee
May 23, 2010
He is the Spirit of Truth (27:53)
Referenced Scriptures: Acts 1:6-11; Acts 2:1-4
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He is the Spirit of Truth-
we are completely changed
1. Gifts
2. Serving
3. Fruits
4. Working
Being God-like
He walks with me, and He talks with me. He tells me I am His own.
The scriptures below are from the WEB Bible.
Acts 1:6-11
6) Therefore, when they had come together, they asked him, "Lord, are you now restoring the kingdom to Israel?"
7) He said to them, "It isn‘t for you to know times or seasons which the Father has set within His own authority.
8) But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come on you. You will be witnesses to me in Jerusalem, in all Judea and Samaria, and to the uttermost parts of the earth."
9) When he had said these things, as they were looking, he was taken up, and a cloud received him out of their sight.
10) While they were looking steadfastly into the sky as he went, behold, two men stood by them in white clothing,
11) who also said, "You men of Galilee, why do you stand looking into the sky? This Jesus, who was received up from you into the sky will come back in the same way as you saw him going into the sky."
Acts 2:1-4
1) Now when the day of Pentecost had come, they were all with one accord in one place.
2) Suddenly there came from the sky a sound like the rushing of a mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting.
3) Tongues like fire appeared and were distributed to them, and it sat on each one of them.
4) They were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and began to speak with other languages, as the Spirit gave them the ability to speak.
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Him chapter one verses six to eleven in action chapter two verses one before they learned today is Pentecost Sunday and the coming of the Holy Spirit. It's important that that we understand how valuable it is for us to celebrate what is known as Pentecost Sunday units in this law that is the celebration of a day, so it's a celebration of the person. The third person of the Trinity that it is in all the that the descriptor tells us about how that spearheads, Holy Spirit has come, and in Jesus as he does not speak of himself. He speaks him him me and that is come to reveal to us the word of God, and revealed what the will of God, and the purpose of God, so we don't have a celebration of his world worshiping God the Holy Spirit. Because of this purpose of the Holy Spirit. The third person of the Trinity is to draw attention to Jesus Christ is to focus on Jesus Christ, you know that the Holy Spirit is equal with the father and son, but yet Hezbollah submissive to the others, and we find this type of on dedication or this type of personality within the church. When Jesus said that he even is greatest among you, let it be the servant of all that we find our place in service not necessarily rolling at, but in serving and sometimes our place of service. This position, you know that the President of the United States is in the position of serving the people. We have elected officials that are to be serving the will of the people, and so that there were none. I want to go there with the lack of officials, but we want to make sure that in our understanding of Scripture of understanding that the third person of the Trinity, the Holy Spirit has come to be with us to help us him whom God is topless understand the word of God, help us understand our run, this revelation of Jesus Christ, the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, so I asked chapter one verses six to eleven. Linda together, they asked him, Lord, are you at this time going to restore the kingdom to Israel and he said to them, it is not for you to know the times or dates the father has set up his own authority, but you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem and all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the error after he's had said this, he was taken up before their eyes in the cloud hid him from their site, they were looking intently up into the sky and as he was going, when suddenly two men dressed in white stood beside them men of Galilee, they said, why do you stand here looking into the sky, the same Jesus who has been taken from you in the heaven, will come back in the same way you have seen him go that we go to ask chapter two verses one through four, so this one. This event was the ascension of Christ, and it happened fifty days after Easter. After the resurrection, and then we have had a cost which happens forty days. The session was forty days and then the end in the coming of the Holy Spirit or the other. The Pentecost was fifty days after after Easter. So when the day of Pentecost fifty days from the resurrection when the day of Pentecost came, they were all together in one place. Suddenly a sound like the blowing of a violent wind came from heaven and filled the house where they were sitting. They saw what seemed to be tons of fire that separated and came to rest on each of them. All of them were filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak another him as the Spirit enabled them. So the coming of the Spirit, the coming of the Holy Spirit issued in what is called the church age and it is coming in which they live the spirit of God has come to a by with his with us in your testament. The Holy Spirit was aware would come with visitations upon profits upon men who would speak for God and admin is aware that in the spirit would, as it would leave and come back again for visitations, but on the day of Pentecost, the Holy Spirit came to a buy with his church abide with the body of believers to live with those who would believe in Christ. Now, the Holy Spirit is the third person of the Trinity is referred to as another comforter when Jesus said that he would send another comforter. He was saying that he would send another just like himself. It is exactly that same exact Holy Spirit is exact aware of Jesus, no sometimes sung. If someone were to give me a Bible exactly like the one I have you would say while I won't buy a new one and it would be exactly know it doesn't have my notes and it doesn't have my scribbles and it doesn't have all my notations and it so they were going to be exactly like the one I have. You have to have all of the notations of all the marks of all the things that are already here, that would be exactly like the one that I have what were the Holy Spirit came. It is he is exactly, we lose nothing. Sometimes wonder what would it be like to have Jesus walking with us. What would be like to have a conversation with Jesus while the Holy Spirit is exactly because, to be with us and as we read the Word of God as we read the Scripture: rude reveals that word to us. Jesus is the word may flash and wealth among us. The Holy Spirit has come to make them real, make him real in our lives. No other religion has anything like the person of the Holy Spirit in him there is no other faith. No other religion has anything like the person of the Spirit, and we find that the power of the Spirit is not limited to, is aware physical strength that illustrate that we would say is beyond human limits. It is a strength involved in courage and strength involved in boldness and confidence in insight and ability and authority. It is this is me coming of the Spirit to empower us in all ways in our life. The disciples would need all the gifts to fulfill their mission. They would need all that the spirit had to help them to take on the task of converting the world, go ye into all the world and preach the gospel to change the world for Jesus it out. Sometimes I think of is that we look at our world and we say wow there is a lot of sand in the world, and there's a lot of people separated from God. And there's a lot of people who are against God. Imagine the early church. There was no Christians put them in Jerusalem. They were the only ones they were the only believer that wasn't nobody getting a new age. The church age. It was the beginning of began by the rest of the coming of Christ. The residence at the death of Jesus Christ 's resurrection and ascension, and then came the power of the spirit, the coming of the spirit and their commission was the color of the world and preach the gospel, and that was the beginning of the church and it was the beginning, as it were on the power of the spirit moving upon the lives of the early disciples. We cannot be accrued him, Christ do not know Christ without Holy Spirit, the third of the Trinity, the Holy Spirit is the one who reveals Christ to us. He is the Spirit of truth, he will guide you into all truth. Jesus says I am the way the truth and the life. So the spirit has come to reveal Jesus Christ to us to reveal the character of Christ to reveal the power. The purpose of Jesus Christ in our Sunday school lesson this morning we had a willing person come forward and every and we only ask you what are the characteristics of this person and you see there's a difference between the person and the characteristics of a person in the job. The person does now. I am a preacher. I am a counselor I am a past era husband, father and grandfather, but is that all that is that the order that is things that I that you know that I do know I like to mow my grass is not just know what makes me ill. Tucson to some individuals. While he's a public speaker for some individuals know he's a counselor to some individuals know he's pastor to some individuals. I'm a teacher to some individuals. I should get a life of their young. So we represent different things and in well with what amazes me in the John Wayne) Sunday on rapport. They know there's no one here. Update do you guys. Monday by grandpa got a few bucks, but the ideas that we become that while the Holy Spirit take a desire and it reveals a lot. The person of Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit has different avenues different functions different, you know, we talk about the Gibson room, briefly go over them this morning. They are the gifts of the spirit that he empowers us with the fruits of the spirit that we were all with in our relationship with God, and they all how that they would come together to serve each other and Jesus promise the disciples that they would receive the power to witness after the receipt after they received the Holy Spirit did you ever think that you couldn't do something about it. There just times that you get to get to this point, I is a monumental task is a tacit, I guess I just can't do this. No, but mine recently has been going back to school and always crazy glasses, reading and studying and all this stuff in it when I started it last year. In fact, there's no way I'm been a dubious. While it's been almost a year done quite well with the with my glasses. Goodbye between Ron and I have working on it. When she helped me out a lot. Then we been able to accomplish a lot and I know when we think about it. The Holy Spirit is there to empower us in all living the Christian life for no visit word. If you love me. Jesus is my commandment, and we look at the commands that God has given us. We said I can keep all those won't know how you can but the Holy Spirit can help you Holy Spirit can empower you, and we find that the coming of the Spirit has changed I is traveling God created me a clean heart. Renew a right spirit within me mentally that there is a new mind a new high that there is a new way of thinking that the spirit has brought about physically. My body is a temple of the Holy Spirit. This is the dwelling place of God, the spiritually the same spirit or raised Christ from the dead dwell in you. He will quicken your mortal bodies of adolescent completed all changed in the complete package. Your total pack your your complete package in the spirit of God touches our lives and empowers that life to do things that you never thought you could use because when God calls us to do something he will empower us enable us to accomplish the salt we are to be completely changed the new creation. We are a new creation in Christ Jesus and the Holy Spirit makes that transformation in our lives do not know first Corinthians three sixteen. On all that you are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwells in you. Do you not know that you are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwells in you, the same spirit that raised Christ from the dead dwells in you and he will quicken your body and quick in your thinking right back to remember those things that you faithfully study. I pray that God give me wisdom and insight as to what we should say what we should do. God is always with you, you're not alone in this game that his disciples, saying, we got a win. The whole world him Harwell and we don't even have a car, Willingham Hamtramck system( if you camel as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are the sons of God, they did not receive the Spirit of bondage, which brings fear when you receive the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry Abba father that don't you know that you are the temple of God, and that you are adopted into the family of God, and that you belong to him, and you don't have the spirit of fear, but you have a spirit of adoption that we belong to Ohio family will belong to a whole new group. This group is gone if his body. We belong to the body of Christ. For one thing the Spirit himself bears witness with our spirit in his life. We make this up as we go. The spirit of God comes and the spirit of God bears witness with our spirit that we are his children. The Jerry tell your kids. They were adopted after they tell each other their adopted in their evaluation of the in all, you're not my. Now we have mother and I never had to. Those are the days whenever you know things are not going so well that any and you have a new way of looking at you while you're on our you couldn't possibly be in while this varicose witness with our spirit, we are the children of God that we are adopted into the family of God because he loves us because he's called us is this spirit is spirit and witness with our spirit now I'm hands on alone to his family. I belong to the family of God, and I have a father and uncle fathers wrote the Ways and Means, daddy, daddy, the Holy Spirit is the coming of God to be with us. I will never leave you nor forsake you. We know the guests of the spirit and the spirit, the spiritual gifts have come as divinely imparted gifts from God to us. Now they're different kinds of gifts, but is the same spirit as his first Corinthians twelve. There are different kinds of services but is the same Lord. There different kinds of working with the same God works all of them together. You see, there are gifts. There are services and they are working. So when the Spirit of God who promised to make himself real to us that we are the children of God. He then tells us we don't want unilaterally just in the family sit back relax and enjoy the trip and wait for heaven. He says you are in the family of God. You're part of the family of God, and I got gifts for you. I bus addresses for you and about working for you. God has a purpose for our line gifts know each one of these manifestations of the games is given for the common good. What God gives you to do is for the for the betterment of all who are in the family and all sometimes with the leader when we did kind of. I hope it's a bad thing. Good thing with Jonny was here. Our grandson, you know, and so I took of the job. Your story him Johnny went home with trucks, tractors, and all is stopping. They were waving goodbye and everything everything what we send him a wolves we should arrogantly format in a job isn't to get home and you got it, tractors, Bush got visible dump trucks, it would God bless David out all the John Deere toys. They were duplicates, so I'm enough it along with them. So he took all of all basketful of John Deere tractors and toys and the leaders in whatever is somehow we had two of them, but so Jonathan took him all the things in an wayward and I was wondering: when it was going to think whenever Johnny pulls out all of these toys that we didn't center so we got to send him packing a care package and death NL scout said that sometimes kids will say these are mine. You can play with them. Five. Dave got them for me not for you kids do that while Tesla, the Holy Spirit has given you. Yes, that's not just for you that they are they are for the entire body and they are for the common good. So you can. We can't say why got this gift and you can want got back here, while if we do that we had misrepresented what God 's intent. His intent is not to give certain given for common good gifts services working for the common good. I guess the message of wisdom, goodness, the message of knowledge. Third fax in the mind of God. We him upon the government, God dropped the knife and your heart. The wisdom is the application of knowledge to the situation now, whatever works out about these gifts. These are naturally acquired his these are gifts of the Spirit divinely imparted that you can figure it out on your own. Some people are very logical. Some people are very mechanically inclined and all that whenever we're talking about these gifts did not, that's not what were saying these gift that God gives our guests that he divinely impart drops in your heart, not in your mind and your spirit that that takes you to a gift to you that what you would have anyway of knowing on your own wisdom. The knowledge they got vision faith is a gift. Gifts of healing miraculous power, working of miracles, prophecy, the ability to distinguish between spirits with humans. What is divine spirit and what is evil speaking with different tongues and interpretation of tongues is a divinely imparted by the Holy Spirit severally as he will give those otherwise for purpose of the common good guest service. The body theater in many parts and through all of its parts are many the form one body, and that the body works together and and and and talks about how that of the foot should say because I'm not the hand I'm no longer on a part of the body over the years, say because I'm not the I had enough alone. You know, uses the analogy Paul uses the analogy to say you got to see the body of Christ differently than hoarding what is yours that you are here for the entire him us them allotting you have a purpose and that purpose is greater than yourself first. Twenty seven now you are the body of Christ, and each of you is a part of it. And God has appointed apostles and prophets and teachers and workers of miracles and gifts of healing and gifts of how those are able to help others administration working in first rate is twelve he talked about the workings of service, so we find that God has just and God has service and got has fruit, love, joy, peace, patience, gentleness and meekness, kindness, long-suffering, forbearance, these are fruits and a one hundred throats get from the adrenaline fruits up here you go unused. The Orchard now and you know we have some apple trees just below her house crabapples and other forms of Apple that I'm sure if I sprayed them with the care that we might be lead the we see the blossoms and we know what the fruit is going to come later in the fall late summer and fall. Why, because of the blossoms on the tree how to set tree. No to grow apples kind of fruit are you busy fruit groves. The gifts are imparted the service. These are all part of the Holy Spirit is coming into our lives that each of us. God and live them severally as he wills for our lives. While not that good, or I'm not working the work that way. How good are you know how to pack how to fare on the last test does anything to do that. How available are you for God to use you for the common good of his body. He will give you divine gifts. He will help you in your service team will, in part, as you rolling your knowledge of him, he will bear fruit. Your firm will be born in your life. The fruit of love, joy, peace, and Asians and logs you see, these are fake and it was during this market is the spirit gifts such as firms seek to empower us to be able to deal with difficulties to prepare our hearts for the good things to come to his time wisely to imagine the possibilities to be enthusiastic to comprehend what others can understand to help those around you to love beyond the misfortunes of your life. The coming of the place where it is more than me being gone. Feel it is me being God, why the Holy Spirit is time that we could be godlike in our actions and our attitude, not condemning or destroying the building and restoring to be more kind optimistic loving, encouraging you stand masterpiece to be more forgiving to be happier to have a happier home, a happier life, not based on happenings, but based upon the joy of the spirit that abides within us, regardless of the happenings to be more at peace with myself and with God. The coming of the Holy Spirit is another one you another comforter will it be like to have Jesus walking with you if I is with me every moment of every day, counseling me. I think we know things I will. That's always good to have both running all right, Kelly scalded the opportune time, God 's calling. He never takes them back when God is what God has placed in your life. He never withdraws. We may stop using, but he never withdraws from why because his callings don't change they progress, but he never gives up on what is placed in your heart. The Holy Spirit has come not only that I might be feel, but I might be more like him, and that God is with me, Jesus is if Jesus were walking with us twenty four hours a day, so the Holy Spirit is there, walking with us twenty four hours a day, I've come that you might have life and have it in abundance and then Him chapter one verses six to eleven in action chapter two verses one before they learned today is Pentecost Sunday and the coming of the Holy Spirit. It's important that that we understand how valuable it is for us to celebrate what is known as Pentecost Sunday units in this law that is the celebration of a day, so it's a celebration of the person. The third person of the Trinity that it is in all the that the descriptor tells us about how that spearheads, Holy Spirit has come, and in Jesus as he does not speak of himself. He speaks him him me and that is come to reveal to us the word of God, and revealed what the will of God, and the purpose of God, so we don't have a celebration of his world worshiping God the Holy Spirit. Because of this purpose of the Holy Spirit. The third person of the Trinity is to draw attention to Jesus Christ is to focus on Jesus Christ, you know that the Holy Spirit is equal with the father and son, but yet Hezbollah submissive to the others, and we find this type of on dedication or this type of personality within the church. When Jesus said that he even is greatest among you, let it be the servant of all that we find our place in service not necessarily rolling at, but in serving and sometimes our place of service. This position, you know that the President of the United States is in the position of serving the people. We have elected officials that are to be serving the will of the people, and so that there were none. I want to go there with the lack of officials, but we want to make sure that in our understanding of Scripture of understanding that the third person of the Trinity, the Holy Spirit has come to be with us to help us him whom God is topless understand the word of God, help us understand our run, this revelation of Jesus Christ, the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, so I asked chapter one verses six to eleven. Linda together, they asked him, Lord, are you at this time going to restore the kingdom to Israel and he said to them, it is not for you to know the times or dates the father has set up his own authority, but you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem and all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the error after he's had said this, he was taken up before their eyes in the cloud hid him from their site, they were looking intently up into the sky and as he was going, when suddenly two men dressed in white stood beside them men of Galilee, they said, why do you stand here looking into the sky, the same Jesus who has been taken from you in the heaven, will come back in the same way you have seen him go that we go to ask chapter two verses one through four, so this one. This event was the ascension of Christ, and it happened fifty days after Easter. After the resurrection, and then we have had a cost which happens forty days. The session was forty days and then the end in the coming of the Holy Spirit or the other. The Pentecost was fifty days after after Easter. So when the day of Pentecost fifty days from the resurrection when the day of Pentecost came, they were all together in one place. Suddenly a sound like the blowing of a violent wind came from heaven and filled the house where they were sitting. They saw what seemed to be tons of fire that separated and came to rest on each of them. All of them were filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak another him as the Spirit enabled them. So the coming of the Spirit, the coming of the Holy Spirit issued in what is called the church age and it is coming in which they live the spirit of God has come to a by with his with us in your testament. The Holy Spirit was aware would come with visitations upon profits upon men who would speak for God and admin is aware that in the spirit would, as it would leave and come back again for visitations, but on the day of Pentecost, the Holy Spirit came to a buy with his church abide with the body of believers to live with those who would believe in Christ. Now, the Holy Spirit is the third person of the Trinity is referred to as another comforter when Jesus said that he would send another comforter. He was saying that he would send another just like himself. It is exactly that same exact Holy Spirit is exact aware of Jesus, no sometimes sung. If someone were to give me a Bible exactly like the one I have you would say while I won't buy a new one and it would be exactly know it doesn't have my notes and it doesn't have my scribbles and it doesn't have all my notations and it so they were going to be exactly like the one I have. You have to have all of the notations of all the marks of all the things that are already here, that would be exactly like the one that I have what were the Holy Spirit came. It is he is exactly, we lose nothing. Sometimes wonder what would it be like to have Jesus walking with us. What would be like to have a conversation with Jesus while the Holy Spirit is exactly because, to be with us and as we read the Word of God as we read the Scripture: rude reveals that word to us. Jesus is the word may flash and wealth among us. The Holy Spirit has come to make them real, make him real in our lives. No other religion has anything like the person of the Holy Spirit in him there is no other faith. No other religion has anything like the person of the Spirit, and we find that the power of the Spirit is not limited to, is aware physical strength that illustrate that we would say is beyond human limits. It is a strength involved in courage and strength involved in boldness and confidence in insight and ability and authority. It is this is me coming of the Spirit to empower us in all ways in our life. The disciples would need all the gifts to fulfill their mission. They would need all that the spirit had to help them to take on the task of converting the world, go ye into all the world and preach the gospel to change the world for Jesus it out. Sometimes I think of is that we look at our world and we say wow there is a lot of sand in the world, and there's a lot of people separated from God. And there's a lot of people who are against God. Imagine the early church. There was no Christians put them in Jerusalem. They were the only ones they were the only believer that wasn't nobody getting a new age. The church age. It was the beginning of began by the rest of the coming of Christ. The residence at the death of Jesus Christ 's resurrection and ascension, and then came the power of the spirit, the coming of the spirit and their commission was the color of the world and preach the gospel, and that was the beginning of the church and it was the beginning, as it were on the power of the spirit moving upon the lives of the early disciples. We cannot be accrued him, Christ do not know Christ without Holy Spirit, the third of the Trinity, the Holy Spirit is the one who reveals Christ to us. He is the Spirit of truth, he will guide you into all truth. Jesus says I am the way the truth and the life. So the spirit has come to reveal Jesus Christ to us to reveal the character of Christ to reveal the power. The purpose of Jesus Christ in our Sunday school lesson this morning we had a willing person come forward and every and we only ask you what are the characteristics of this person and you see there's a difference between the person and the characteristics of a person in the job. The person does now. I am a preacher. I am a counselor I am a past era husband, father and grandfather, but is that all that is that the order that is things that I that you know that I do know I like to mow my grass is not just know what makes me ill. Tucson to some individuals. While he's a public speaker for some individuals know he's a counselor to some individuals know he's pastor to some individuals. I'm a teacher to some individuals. I should get a life of their young. So we represent different things and in well with what amazes me in the John Wayne) Sunday on rapport. They know there's no one here. Update do you guys. Monday by grandpa got a few bucks, but the ideas that we become that while the Holy Spirit take a desire and it reveals a lot. The person of Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit has different avenues different functions different, you know, we talk about the Gibson room, briefly go over them this morning. They are the gifts of the spirit that he empowers us with the fruits of the spirit that we were all with in our relationship with God, and they all how that they would come together to serve each other and Jesus promise the disciples that they would receive the power to witness after the receipt after they received the Holy Spirit did you ever think that you couldn't do something about it. There just times that you get to get to this point, I is a monumental task is a tacit, I guess I just can't do this. No, but mine recently has been going back to school and always crazy glasses, reading and studying and all this stuff in it when I started it last year. In fact, there's no way I'm been a dubious. While it's been almost a year done quite well with the with my glasses. Goodbye between Ron and I have working on it. When she helped me out a lot. Then we been able to accomplish a lot and I know when we think about it. The Holy Spirit is there to empower us in all living the Christian life for no visit word. If you love me. Jesus is my commandment, and we look at the commands that God has given us. We said I can keep all those won't know how you can but the Holy Spirit can help you Holy Spirit can empower you, and we find that the coming of the Spirit has changed I is traveling God created me a clean heart. Renew a right spirit within me mentally that there is a new mind a new high that there is a new way of thinking that the spirit has brought about physically. My body is a temple of the Holy Spirit. This is the dwelling place of God, the spiritually the same spirit or raised Christ from the dead dwell in you. He will quicken your mortal bodies of adolescent completed all changed in the complete package. Your total pack your your complete package in the spirit of God touches our lives and empowers that life to do things that you never thought you could use because when God calls us to do something he will empower us enable us to accomplish the salt we are to be completely changed the new creation. We are a new creation in Christ Jesus and the Holy Spirit makes that transformation in our lives do not know first Corinthians three sixteen. On all that you are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwells in you. Do you not know that you are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwells in you, the same spirit that raised Christ from the dead dwells in you and he will quicken your body and quick in your thinking right back to remember those things that you faithfully study. I pray that God give me wisdom and insight as to what we should say what we should do. God is always with you, you're not alone in this game that his disciples, saying, we got a win. The whole world him Harwell and we don't even have a car, Willingham Hamtramck system( if you camel as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are the sons of God, they did not receive the Spirit of bondage, which brings fear when you receive the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry Abba father that don't you know that you are the temple of God, and that you are adopted into the family of God, and that you belong to him, and you don't have the spirit of fear, but you have a spirit of adoption that we belong to Ohio family will belong to a whole new group. This group is gone if his body. We belong to the body of Christ. For one thing the Spirit himself bears witness with our spirit in his life. We make this up as we go. The spirit of God comes and the spirit of God bears witness with our spirit that we are his children. The Jerry tell your kids. They were adopted after they tell each other their adopted in their evaluation of the in all, you're not my. Now we have mother and I never had to. Those are the days whenever you know things are not going so well that any and you have a new way of looking at you while you're on our you couldn't possibly be in while this varicose witness with our spirit, we are the children of God that we are adopted into the family of God because he loves us because he's called us is this spirit is spirit and witness with our spirit now I'm hands on alone to his family. I belong to the family of God, and I have a father and uncle fathers wrote the Ways and Means, daddy, daddy, the Holy Spirit is the coming of God to be with us. I will never leave you nor forsake you. We know the guests of the spirit and the spirit, the spiritual gifts have come as divinely imparted gifts from God to us. Now they're different kinds of gifts, but is the same spirit as his first Corinthians twelve. There are different kinds of services but is the same Lord. There different kinds of working with the same God works all of them together. You see, there are gifts. There are services and they are working. So when the Spirit of God who promised to make himself real to us that we are the children of God. He then tells us we don't want unilaterally just in the family sit back relax and enjoy the trip and wait for heaven. He says you are in the family of God. You're part of the family of God, and I got gifts for you. I bus addresses for you and about working for you. God has a purpose for our line gifts know each one of these manifestations of the games is given for the common good. What God gives you to do is for the for the betterment of all who are in the family and all sometimes with the leader when we did kind of. I hope it's a bad thing. Good thing with Jonny was here. Our grandson, you know, and so I took of the job. Your story him Johnny went home with trucks, tractors, and all is stopping. They were waving goodbye and everything everything what we send him a wolves we should arrogantly format in a job isn't to get home and you got it, tractors, Bush got visible dump trucks, it would God bless David out all the John Deere toys. They were duplicates, so I'm enough it along with them. So he took all of all basketful of John Deere tractors and toys and the leaders in whatever is somehow we had two of them, but so Jonathan took him all the things in an wayward and I was wondering: when it was going to think whenever Johnny pulls out all of these toys that we didn't center so we got to send him packing a care package and death NL scout said that sometimes kids will say these are mine. You can play with them. Five. Dave got them for me not for you kids do that while Tesla, the Holy Spirit has given you. Yes, that's not just for you that they are they are for the entire body and they are for the common good. So you can. We can't say why got this gift and you can want got back here, while if we do that we had misrepresented what God 's intent. His intent is not to give certain given for common good gifts services working for the common good. I guess the message of wisdom, goodness, the message of knowledge. Third fax in the mind of God. We him upon the government, God dropped the knife and your heart. The wisdom is the application of knowledge to the situation now, whatever works out about these gifts. These are naturally acquired his these are gifts of the Spirit divinely imparted that you can figure it out on your own. Some people are very logical. Some people are very mechanically inclined and all that whenever we're talking about these gifts did not, that's not what were saying these gift that God gives our guests that he divinely impart drops in your heart, not in your mind and your spirit that that takes you to a gift to you that what you would have anyway of knowing on your own wisdom. The knowledge they got vision faith is a gift. Gifts of healing miraculous power, working of miracles, prophecy, the ability to distinguish between spirits with humans. What is divine spirit and what is evil speaking with different tongues and interpretation of tongues is a divinely imparted by the Holy Spirit severally as he will give those otherwise for purpose of the common good guest service. The body theater in many parts and through all of its parts are many the form one body, and that the body works together and and and and talks about how that of the foot should say because I'm not the hand I'm no longer on a part of the body over the years, say because I'm not the I had enough alone. You know, uses the analogy Paul uses the analogy to say you got to see the body of Christ differently than hoarding what is yours that you are here for the entire him us them allotting you have a purpose and that purpose is greater than yourself first. Twenty seven now you are the body of Christ, and each of you is a part of it. And God has appointed apostles and prophets and teachers and workers of miracles and gifts of healing and gifts of how those are able to help others administration working in first rate is twelve he talked about the workings of service, so we find that God has just and God has service and got has fruit, love, joy, peace, patience, gentleness and meekness, kindness, long-suffering, forbearance, these are fruits and a one hundred throats get from the adrenaline fruits up here you go unused. The Orchard now and you know we have some apple trees just below her house crabapples and other forms of Apple that I'm sure if I sprayed them with the care that we might be lead the we see the blossoms and we know what the fruit is going to come later in the fall late summer and fall. Why, because of the blossoms on the tree how to set tree. No to grow apples kind of fruit are you busy fruit groves. The gifts are imparted the service. These are all part of the Holy Spirit is coming into our lives that each of us. God and live them severally as he wills for our lives. While not that good, or I'm not working the work that way. How good are you know how to pack how to fare on the last test does anything to do that. How available are you for God to use you for the common good of his body. He will give you divine gifts. He will help you in your service team will, in part, as you rolling your knowledge of him, he will bear fruit. Your firm will be born in your life. The fruit of love, joy, peace, and Asians and logs you see, these are fake and it was during this market is the spirit gifts such as firms seek to empower us to be able to deal with difficulties to prepare our hearts for the good things to come to his time wisely to imagine the possibilities to be enthusiastic to comprehend what others can understand to help those around you to love beyond the misfortunes of your life. The coming of the place where it is more than me being gone. Feel it is me being God, why the Holy Spirit is time that we could be godlike in our actions and our attitude, not condemning or destroying the building and restoring to be more kind optimistic loving, encouraging you stand masterpiece to be more forgiving to be happier to have a happier home, a happier life, not based on happenings, but based upon the joy of the spirit that abides within us, regardless of the happenings to be more at peace with myself and with God. The coming of the Holy Spirit is another one you another comforter will it be like to have Jesus walking with you if I is with me every moment of every day, counseling me. I think we know things I will. That's always good to have both running all right, Kelly scalded the opportune time, God 's calling. He never takes them back when God is what God has placed in your life. He never withdraws. We may stop using, but he never withdraws from why because his callings don't change they progress, but he never gives up on what is placed in your heart. The Holy Spirit has come not only that I might be feel, but I might be more like him, and that God is with me, Jesus is if Jesus were walking with us twenty four hours a day, so the Holy Spirit is there, walking with us twenty four hours a day, I've come that you might have life and have it in abundance and then