{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Living Rock Podcast","title":"Build: Life in The Spirit (Benj Lyon)","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":2545,"description":"In this message, Benj unpacks what life in the Spirit looks like. We start by exploring how the Holy Spirit is both God and a person, present from creation (Genesis 1:2, John 14:16–17) and still at work today. The Spirit is God’s very breath, the one who brings life, fills the church, and empowers believers to live for Jesus.\n\nLooking at Acts 1:8 and Acts 2:1–4, Benj shows how the Spirit baptises and immerses us in God’s life, causing us to overflow with boldness, witness, freedom, and power — the same power that raised Christ from the dead (Ephesians 1:17–20). Life in the Spirit means transformation into Christ’s likeness (2 Corinthians 3:18), Scripture coming alive (2 Timothy 3:16), growing love for the lost (Romans 5:5), and unity in the church.\n\nUsing Ezekiel’s visions of dry bones (Ezekiel 37) and the river from the temple bringing life wherever it flows (Ezekiel 47:1–12), Benj paints a picture of the Spirit reviving God’s people and making the church a source of life and fruitfulness for the world. He closes with Jesus’ promise in John 7:37–39: “Let anyone who is thirsty come to me and drink… rivers of living water will flow from within them.”\n\nThe invitation is simple: to be thirsty, to ask, and to receive afresh. Life in the Spirit is not about settling for a spark but allowing God’s Spirit to fill, overflow, and bring His life to us and through us.","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/2H1SiSPAos7I2_yYzL6HplfdLjOEddr7LPyWwKy0De0/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS8yNTI4/YmM5NGM5YjRjOWIz/NmE3ODVlYzM1Yjk3/OGNjNS5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}