WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.800 --> 00:00:04.879 You're listening to the Bible Guys, a podcast where a couple of friends talk 2 00:00:04.919 --> 00:00:12.359 about the Bible in fun, in practical ways. I think we need to 3 00:00:12.359 --> 00:00:16.879 find a new way to open. Well. I always we were like, 4 00:00:16.920 --> 00:00:21.839 hey, we're here. Hey yeah, but it's just because we maybe maybe 5 00:00:21.839 --> 00:00:24.679 our listeners don't know this. This is a good way to open is to 6 00:00:24.760 --> 00:00:31.039 tell our listeners that we think that not preparing there's a strength in that well, 7 00:00:31.120 --> 00:00:34.159 that the whole thing is ad libbed. Yeah, like there's a there's 8 00:00:34.200 --> 00:00:37.560 I mean, obviously there could be a disc The whole concept of the of 9 00:00:37.600 --> 00:00:42.079 this podcast is it's two guys opening the Bible and talking about it. Like 10 00:00:42.119 --> 00:00:44.679 if we were sitting in the coffee shop and you and I just got together. 11 00:00:45.079 --> 00:00:48.560 It's a devotional thing. This isn't like that both of us prepared to 12 00:00:48.560 --> 00:00:51.679 come in and debate the Bible. That would be a different kind of show. 13 00:00:52.200 --> 00:00:54.640 Instead, what we're trying to do is talk about how the fact that 14 00:00:54.679 --> 00:00:57.560 the Bible can be understood. If you're a student of the Bible, you 15 00:00:57.560 --> 00:00:59.880 should be able to open it, talk about what's on the page in front 16 00:00:59.920 --> 00:01:03.679 of you. You have a meaningful conversation. Then we horse around a lot 17 00:01:03.719 --> 00:01:07.840 because we take our faith very seriously. We just don't take ourselves too seriously, 18 00:01:07.040 --> 00:01:10.840 right, right, So so consequently we think that a lot of it 19 00:01:10.920 --> 00:01:15.599 is best at lib because there's some value in that. So so anyway, 20 00:01:15.680 --> 00:01:18.439 so I just so, other than the fact that Desiree gives us a show 21 00:01:18.439 --> 00:01:22.000 sheet that says, hey, be silly for five minutes and then go talk 22 00:01:22.040 --> 00:01:23.519 about this topic, right, other than that, we don't really have a 23 00:01:23.719 --> 00:01:26.359 plan. Yes, well that's a good way to open. There, we 24 00:01:26.359 --> 00:01:29.239 did it. There you go. We did a different opening. So we 25 00:01:29.239 --> 00:01:32.760 don't know why you're listening because we don't have a plan, right exactly what 26 00:01:32.799 --> 00:01:36.920 we kind of do. But okay, so our segment today is called guess 27 00:01:36.920 --> 00:01:40.040 the word. It's kind of like taboo. And if you're watching on the 28 00:01:40.079 --> 00:01:42.680 YouTube, you know where you visually can see this. We're going to try 29 00:01:42.760 --> 00:01:46.640 to put the words that I'm not allowed to say right across the bottom of 30 00:01:46.640 --> 00:01:49.519 the screen. Because that's really the challenge. The challenge is harder for me. 31 00:01:49.719 --> 00:01:53.560 Just say, if you're watching on the YouTube, did I yes, 32 00:01:53.599 --> 00:01:59.599 you did? You're hey? By the way, you so it used to 33 00:01:59.599 --> 00:02:01.359 be called Facebook. Did you know that? Yes? I know that. 34 00:02:01.400 --> 00:02:07.239 Okay, all right, so years ago, but it was never called YouTube. 35 00:02:08.439 --> 00:02:15.319 Alright, alright you all right, So so here we go. Okay, 36 00:02:15.599 --> 00:02:23.159 first word for there's no other way to be happy in Jesus but to 37 00:02:23.280 --> 00:02:28.159 trust and obey. There it is there you go, all right. I 38 00:02:28.199 --> 00:02:31.439 wasn't allowed to say listen, comply, submit, children or parents? Oh 39 00:02:31.479 --> 00:02:36.439 wow? Yeah, right, you have to sing trust and obey old Baptist 40 00:02:36.479 --> 00:02:39.000 hymn. That's right, that's right. That's page ninety eight. I'm just 41 00:02:39.039 --> 00:02:43.120 kidding. I don't know. I don't know, Okay, it depends on 42 00:02:43.159 --> 00:02:45.479 I actually do know that. I only know the first, second, and 43 00:02:45.520 --> 00:02:49.680 fourth verses, right, that's you never sing the third verse because nobody knows 44 00:02:49.680 --> 00:02:53.479 the third verse. That's right in anyone. Okay, This next one is 45 00:02:53.719 --> 00:02:58.120 okay, ready the sower in the seat? Is this? What is it? 46 00:02:58.280 --> 00:03:00.159 Farmer? Oh it's a parable. Yeah, it's a pair. Well 47 00:03:00.159 --> 00:03:05.199 that's ok. I wasn't allowed to say tail, Jesus story, miracle or 48 00:03:05.319 --> 00:03:09.479 Samaritan. Okay, right, so uh so how about that arible? Yeah 49 00:03:09.639 --> 00:03:16.879 parable? All right? How about this one? Oh goodness gracious? Uh 50 00:03:16.919 --> 00:03:23.919 wow. Uh When you stab a goat on an altar, it's called a 51 00:03:24.199 --> 00:03:29.919 sacrifice there it is. Wow. I wasn't allowed to say offering, blessing, 52 00:03:30.159 --> 00:03:34.120 worship, sheep or God. Okay, wow, that was hard to 53 00:03:34.159 --> 00:03:38.000 come up with that. When you stab, make it as gruesome as possible. 54 00:03:38.080 --> 00:03:45.360 Thank you. Sorry, Okay, all right, here we go. 55 00:03:45.639 --> 00:03:50.639 Next word, our next big day coming up for heritages. Sunday, No, 56 00:03:50.879 --> 00:03:53.960 the big one, A big one, yes, Easter. That's right. 57 00:03:54.039 --> 00:04:00.080 I wasn't allowed to say Sunday spring. I was not saying holiday or 58 00:04:00.159 --> 00:04:03.319 Jesus or resurrection, and I was going to My instinct was to say something 59 00:04:03.319 --> 00:04:08.039 about the Easter bunny, but I couldn't even say bunny. And I was 60 00:04:08.080 --> 00:04:11.680 like, you, you'll never get that because without the word easter, okay, 61 00:04:11.719 --> 00:04:15.000 because I was like, go non religious, then everybody's like soacritigious. 62 00:04:15.039 --> 00:04:16.000 Yeah, that's right. Then you would have been kicked off the Bible. 63 00:04:16.560 --> 00:04:19.439 You'd have been the secular guy. That's right. All right, How about 64 00:04:19.439 --> 00:04:26.879 this one? Okay, last word? When I say to you that you 65 00:04:26.920 --> 00:04:30.560 don't owe me anymore, that is called what forgiveness? That is exactly right. 66 00:04:30.720 --> 00:04:33.480 Wow, that's right. I was thanks man. I wasn't allowed to 67 00:04:33.480 --> 00:04:40.240 say ask, repent, apology, sorry, or pray. Wow. Yeah, 68 00:04:40.279 --> 00:04:43.519 and you got there. I did, so. There it is. 69 00:04:43.600 --> 00:04:47.079 It's fantastic. Now hopefully you played along and hopefully you tried to beat Jeff 70 00:04:47.079 --> 00:04:49.759 with the answers. We forgot to ask you to do that, but hopefully 71 00:04:49.800 --> 00:04:55.079 you did it. Awesome. Good, Well there you go. See I 72 00:04:55.120 --> 00:04:58.120 can read your mind. Yes, I know what you're thinking right now? 73 00:04:58.519 --> 00:05:01.680 What am I thinking? Got you? Shut up? No, I was 74 00:05:01.680 --> 00:05:04.439 thinking I forgot to look at the topic of the scripture. Oh okay, 75 00:05:04.480 --> 00:05:09.959 which is Jesus teaches about the Holy Spirit. Yes, exactly. So he's 76 00:05:09.959 --> 00:05:14.279 been peppering all of his teachings over the last several days. Right now, 77 00:05:14.360 --> 00:05:16.600 You've got to remember all of these teachings over the last several days have been 78 00:05:16.959 --> 00:05:21.920 on the walk from the Upper Room to the Mount of Olives, right But 79 00:05:23.000 --> 00:05:25.040 for us, which by the way we're taking it, it's not that far 80 00:05:25.120 --> 00:05:27.879 of a walk. No, no, no, it's it's how long would 81 00:05:27.920 --> 00:05:30.600 you say this? I don't know. We walked from the top of the 82 00:05:30.639 --> 00:05:34.199 Mount of Olives down into the Kidron Valley and then up to the Eastern Gate, 83 00:05:34.240 --> 00:05:36.959 and not the Eastern Gate but the Lion's Gate I think, which is 84 00:05:38.000 --> 00:05:43.759 near the Eastern gate a mole and a half. Yeah, it's probably in 85 00:05:43.759 --> 00:05:46.920 a leisurely stroll, not more than thirty five minutes forty minutes, wouldn't you 86 00:05:46.959 --> 00:05:49.560 think Yeah, I would think so too. Yeah, because it's a steep 87 00:05:49.639 --> 00:05:55.199 hill going in both directions. But yeah, Anyways, so Jesus has been 88 00:05:55.240 --> 00:05:59.160 peppering this conversation with the Holy Spirit. He keeps referring to the Holy Spirit 89 00:05:59.160 --> 00:06:02.959 as the advocate it right, or the helper, And so here we go. 90 00:06:03.120 --> 00:06:08.000 In John chapter sixteen, verse five, Jesus says, but now I'm 91 00:06:08.040 --> 00:06:12.279 going away to the one who sent me. Not any or not one of 92 00:06:12.319 --> 00:06:15.839 you is asking where I'm going. Instead, you grieve because of what I've 93 00:06:15.839 --> 00:06:17.480 told you. But in fact it's best for you that I go away, 94 00:06:17.519 --> 00:06:21.279 because if I don't, the Advocate won't come. If I do go away, 95 00:06:21.319 --> 00:06:24.639 then I will send him to you, and when he comes, he 96 00:06:24.639 --> 00:06:28.680 will convict the world of its sin and of God's righteousness and of the coming 97 00:06:28.800 --> 00:06:31.879 judgment. The world sin is that it refuses to believe in me. Righteousness 98 00:06:31.920 --> 00:06:34.800 is available because I go to the Father and you will see me. No 99 00:06:34.879 --> 00:06:40.079 more judgment will come, because the rule of this world has already been judged. 100 00:06:40.680 --> 00:06:43.160 There is so much more I want to tell you, but you can't 101 00:06:43.199 --> 00:06:46.560 bear it now. When the Spirit of Truth comes, he will guide you 102 00:06:46.600 --> 00:06:48.600 into all truth. He will not speak on his own, but will tell 103 00:06:48.639 --> 00:06:51.879 you what he has heard. He will tell you about the future. He 104 00:06:51.920 --> 00:06:57.160 will bring me glory by telling you whatever he receives from me. All that 105 00:06:57.199 --> 00:07:00.519 belongs to the Father is mine. This is why I said, the Spirit 106 00:07:00.560 --> 00:07:03.959 will tell you whatever he receives from me. Yeah, so this is his 107 00:07:04.879 --> 00:07:09.720 absolute declaration that I'm leaving you, but I'm not leaving you alone. And 108 00:07:09.879 --> 00:07:12.639 the thing that always blows me away, and it really does, I mean 109 00:07:13.000 --> 00:07:18.160 not literally, but you know I'm not spontaneously combusting or blowing away in the 110 00:07:18.160 --> 00:07:24.839 wind, but it does blow me away when I hear him say, it's 111 00:07:25.360 --> 00:07:30.160 better for you that the Holy Spirit comes. Right. So think about Jesus 112 00:07:30.319 --> 00:07:34.560 is there in person and has grown up among men. He's lived a sinless 113 00:07:34.600 --> 00:07:40.360 life. He's guiding them, They're following him closely. They have more of 114 00:07:40.399 --> 00:07:46.959 an they have more of an intimate relationship with the creator of the universe. 115 00:07:47.360 --> 00:07:51.199 While on Earth, then, it would be fair to say than anybody in 116 00:07:51.279 --> 00:07:59.680 history while on Earth, right, because there's obviously relationships in heaven, but 117 00:08:00.040 --> 00:08:03.839 on earth, is is there anybody else? Because you know the rest of 118 00:08:03.959 --> 00:08:05.600 us. You know, in the Old Testament they look forward to the cross, 119 00:08:05.959 --> 00:08:09.920 right, and then up to this point, he's there right now, 120 00:08:09.959 --> 00:08:13.879 we have you know, maybe maybe it's a little unfair to include us, 121 00:08:13.879 --> 00:08:18.360 but I would even include us. I would say they're there walking and talking 122 00:08:18.399 --> 00:08:22.560 with Jesus. Anyway. That's the point is you had his mom and his 123 00:08:22.680 --> 00:08:26.279 brothers and sisters. Yeah, they would have been with him for thirty years, 124 00:08:26.639 --> 00:08:28.839 yeah, or however long because he was the oldest of the brothers and 125 00:08:28.879 --> 00:08:33.919 sisters, so however old they were. And Jesus promises that these twelve are 126 00:08:33.919 --> 00:08:39.120 going to sit on twelve thrones and judge the twelve tribes of Israel, right 127 00:08:37.879 --> 00:08:43.120 right, And then he looks at them and says, however, it's better 128 00:08:43.159 --> 00:08:46.720 for you that I go away, never to return. It's better. And 129 00:08:46.759 --> 00:08:50.120 so if God promises that it's not only just good, but betters it would 130 00:08:50.120 --> 00:08:54.320 be hard to even imagine in that moment. But yet the Holy Spirit is, 131 00:08:56.600 --> 00:08:58.120 you know, in us, right, So the Holy Spirit comes in 132 00:08:58.200 --> 00:09:03.799 us, and so things change at this point because that's a concept that is 133 00:09:03.639 --> 00:09:09.519 a blow you away concept because at this point God only had an address, 134 00:09:09.200 --> 00:09:13.120 right, He had an address. He had a central location, the Holy 135 00:09:13.159 --> 00:09:16.759 of Holies, in the middle of the temple, you know, And in 136 00:09:16.799 --> 00:09:20.519 the Holy of Holies was just a small room on the innermost part of the 137 00:09:20.559 --> 00:09:24.639 temple. And soon when Jesus dies in the cross and says it is finished, 138 00:09:24.840 --> 00:09:28.320 the veil rips in two that separates God and man in the Holy Holies. 139 00:09:28.840 --> 00:09:33.320 The God, God's presence floods out. And now all of a sudden, 140 00:09:33.360 --> 00:09:35.240 God ceases to be at an address. And now the Bible says, 141 00:09:35.480 --> 00:09:39.679 we are the temple of God, right right, and God is in us. 142 00:09:39.960 --> 00:09:43.960 So just as God existed inside the Temple in the Holy of Holies, 143 00:09:43.840 --> 00:09:48.879 now God exists inside us, in the Temple of our bodies. And so 144 00:09:50.159 --> 00:09:52.399 that's what Jesus is packaging in that. And of course he knew all that, 145 00:09:52.720 --> 00:09:58.200 right, they didn't understand that, But think about how cool that is. 146 00:09:58.200 --> 00:10:03.679 So I heard a past one time say, uh, so he goes, 147 00:10:03.240 --> 00:10:05.399 he goes, you have God in you? I know it was it 148 00:10:05.440 --> 00:10:09.960 was Louis Giglio, And Luis Giglio said, so you have God in you? 149 00:10:11.279 --> 00:10:15.639 He goes don't underestimate how awesome that is. Because we look back at 150 00:10:15.639 --> 00:10:18.799 the Old Testament stories and we think, Man, when I get to Heaven, 151 00:10:18.000 --> 00:10:20.279 I'm gonna ask questions, like, you know, I go and I'm 152 00:10:20.279 --> 00:10:24.879 gonna go up to Moses. I'm gonna say, Moses, what was it 153 00:10:24.039 --> 00:10:28.200 like to go up on the mountain and see the burning bush? And wasn't 154 00:10:28.240 --> 00:10:31.039 that awesome? And Moses is gonna say, yeah, it was great. 155 00:10:31.080 --> 00:10:35.440 But let me ask you. I'm getting emotions talking about it, he says, 156 00:10:35.519 --> 00:10:37.440 let me ask you, He goes, what was it like to have 157 00:10:37.480 --> 00:10:41.919 the creator of the universe inside you and the power of God living in you 158 00:10:43.240 --> 00:10:46.559 that you were able to walk through you know, life and have that kind 159 00:10:46.600 --> 00:10:50.200 of power accessible inside of you. Because I never got to experience that, 160 00:10:50.320 --> 00:10:54.000 And most Christians are gonna go, I don't know. I never really thought 161 00:10:54.000 --> 00:10:58.559 of it that way. The power God in us right, and the devil 162 00:10:58.639 --> 00:11:01.240 has us believing it's nothing right, And so I mean, it's such an 163 00:11:01.279 --> 00:11:05.840 emotional concept, you know. And then to think like we're the privileged ones, 164 00:11:07.360 --> 00:11:11.480 you know, not Moses or sees the burning bush, right, and 165 00:11:11.039 --> 00:11:16.039 not Joshua who sits in the tent of the meeting and all these different things 166 00:11:16.080 --> 00:11:20.559 that they've witnessed. It's us today right now. We're the ones that have 167 00:11:20.639 --> 00:11:24.200 the privilege because Jesus said it and we're living in it. It's better right 168 00:11:24.240 --> 00:11:28.840 now. It's better on several levels. So certainly you're going to receive the 169 00:11:28.840 --> 00:11:33.919 Holy Spirit. It was also better because if Jesus didn't go die, didn't 170 00:11:33.960 --> 00:11:37.440 shed his blood, didn't resurrect, didn't ascend back to the Father, we 171 00:11:37.519 --> 00:11:41.159 couldn't be saved. That's right, right, So that's going to be better 172 00:11:41.159 --> 00:11:43.559 too, right, So it's both of those pieces together. So then he 173 00:11:45.279 --> 00:11:48.519 has referenced the Holy Spirit several times, often calling him the advocate, and 174 00:11:48.559 --> 00:11:52.399 then also talking about he calls him the helper. He's the spirit of truth, 175 00:11:52.799 --> 00:11:58.080 right, So there's these different references. As an advocate, he is 176 00:11:58.120 --> 00:12:01.679 the one who goes between us. We know that the Book of Romans tells 177 00:12:01.759 --> 00:12:07.080 us that the Holy Spirit prays for us with groanings we can't comprehend, meaning 178 00:12:07.159 --> 00:12:11.759 as we pray, the Holy Spirit intercepts those prayers, takes them to God 179 00:12:11.000 --> 00:12:15.720 and communicates on a level we can't can't imagine. One of the benefits of 180 00:12:15.720 --> 00:12:20.320 that then is you can't mess up and praying right. A lot of a 181 00:12:20.320 --> 00:12:22.879 lot of young Christians feel nervous about praying What if I mess up right? 182 00:12:22.919 --> 00:12:24.960 What if I write? What Spirit? It's like, I got you, 183 00:12:26.080 --> 00:12:28.120 I got it. Don't worry. I know what you mean. I know 184 00:12:28.159 --> 00:12:31.159 your thoughts, your intent, what you're trying to say, what you mean, 185 00:12:31.200 --> 00:12:33.879 what you're asking for. I know all that, right, And so 186 00:12:33.919 --> 00:12:35.519 it's that That's why I often I'll find myself saying, God, I'm not 187 00:12:35.559 --> 00:12:37.559 exactly sure what your will is, but that's what I want, is your 188 00:12:37.559 --> 00:12:41.320 will, And knowing that the Holy Spirit can translate, Hey, this is 189 00:12:41.399 --> 00:12:43.960 this is what he's asking for. What it's like, It's like that when 190 00:12:43.960 --> 00:12:48.080 you see those movies, you know, the brilliant code breakers on the ones 191 00:12:48.080 --> 00:12:50.799 who see patterns that's right, and you're like, wow, he's such a 192 00:12:50.840 --> 00:12:52.759 great code breaker. That's the Holy spirits part of the Holy Spirit's job sorting 193 00:12:52.799 --> 00:12:58.879 it out out. And then this idea of being the comforter. Certainly, 194 00:12:58.399 --> 00:13:01.320 Jesus talks a lot about persecution. He talks a lot about the difficult things. 195 00:13:01.879 --> 00:13:05.000 I've heard many people who've talked about being in prison and they were alone 196 00:13:05.159 --> 00:13:09.159 and the only thing they had was the Holy Spirit, you know, comforting 197 00:13:09.200 --> 00:13:11.279 them, reminding them. And almost always they would talk about how the Holy 198 00:13:11.320 --> 00:13:16.279 Spirit kept bringing back different scriptures that they had memorized, that they had studied, 199 00:13:16.320 --> 00:13:18.519 that they learned. The Holy Spirit would bring those back to memory when 200 00:13:18.559 --> 00:13:22.600 they felt like there was no other helper, right, the Holy Spirit do 201 00:13:22.639 --> 00:13:24.519 that. He also says that the Holy Spirit will teach you in all truth. 202 00:13:24.519 --> 00:13:28.559 He'll guide you in all truth. Right, So one of those things 203 00:13:28.559 --> 00:13:31.039 when we don't know what is true and what's not true, instead of just 204 00:13:31.039 --> 00:13:33.919 trying to sort it out logically all the time, although logic is part of 205 00:13:33.960 --> 00:13:37.879 what God's given us, it's a gift. But relying on the Holy Spirit 206 00:13:37.919 --> 00:13:41.639 to show us what is true and to point out what his fault, I 207 00:13:41.679 --> 00:13:46.519 think it's super important. He also, the Holy Spirit, he says, 208 00:13:46.639 --> 00:13:50.720 is here to convict the world. So, you know, I find myself 209 00:13:50.759 --> 00:13:54.240 a lot of times looking for an opportunity to share the gospel. I was 210 00:13:54.279 --> 00:13:58.200 just talking with a group of pastors here about the idea of, you know, 211 00:13:58.360 --> 00:14:03.679 encouraging their people to write down the names of thirty people that they know 212 00:14:03.720 --> 00:14:09.039 who aren't believers and just pray that the Holy Spirit would begin to convict those 213 00:14:09.080 --> 00:14:13.120 people of their sin and of their need for Jesus, so that when you 214 00:14:13.200 --> 00:14:16.399 show up to have a spiritual conversation with them, they're already prepared right right. 215 00:14:16.559 --> 00:14:20.799 And it reminds me of do you remember when Joshua was afraid to fight 216 00:14:20.600 --> 00:14:24.279 and God said, I'm going to send my hornets out ahead of you, 217 00:14:24.399 --> 00:14:28.480 or I'm gonna go before you. With Moses, it was both I'm behind 218 00:14:28.519 --> 00:14:31.519 you and in front of you. Right, I'm completely surrounding you. You 219 00:14:31.559 --> 00:14:33.840 know, a lot of times I'll pray God, go ahead of us before 220 00:14:33.840 --> 00:14:37.200 this service even begins today, go ahead of us and prepare the hearts of 221 00:14:37.200 --> 00:14:41.879 the people on their way in that need to hear from you. Or go 222 00:14:41.919 --> 00:14:43.399 ahead of me. I'm getting ready to go share the gospel with this guy. 223 00:14:43.639 --> 00:14:46.360 Go ahead of me, and hopefully over the weeks or the months that 224 00:14:46.360 --> 00:14:50.039 I've been praying for this guy ahead of time, the Holy Spirit's been kind 225 00:14:50.039 --> 00:14:54.039 of drilling into him and preparing. That's one of the things he does. 226 00:14:54.080 --> 00:14:56.320 He convicts the world of his sin, he calls to repentance, and then 227 00:14:56.759 --> 00:15:03.159 it says that he reveals God's standards because we're more coming up. But the 228 00:15:03.360 --> 00:15:05.399 uh every morning for like thirty years when I you know, I've been a 229 00:15:05.399 --> 00:15:09.039 pastor for just like you, like thirty one years, whatever it's been. 230 00:15:09.360 --> 00:15:11.960 And I'm telling you, I think I'm not sure. There's a Sunday that 231 00:15:13.039 --> 00:15:16.399 goes by when I say my prayers in the morning and a lot of times 232 00:15:16.480 --> 00:15:20.039 I'll pray, like even on the drive in, and I'll say because it's 233 00:15:20.039 --> 00:15:22.200 early, you know, it's always early when we get there, and I'll 234 00:15:22.240 --> 00:15:24.000 say, God, I want you to convict people to get out of bed. 235 00:15:24.279 --> 00:15:28.320 And for all the people who are thinking about not getting out of bed 236 00:15:28.320 --> 00:15:31.159 because it's so comfortable, I'm praying that you're going to convict them and say 237 00:15:31.240 --> 00:15:33.759 no, I have to get out of bed. And I don't know why, 238 00:15:35.000 --> 00:15:39.120 but that has been a prayer I think maybe every single Sunday I've ever 239 00:15:39.399 --> 00:15:43.000 ever been a part of church, because it's that same thing what you're saying, 240 00:15:43.080 --> 00:15:46.559 which is the conviction, and then also the sort of like going ahead 241 00:15:46.559 --> 00:15:48.879 of us, right, And I just I don't know why. I just 242 00:15:48.919 --> 00:15:52.519 always think of the people because it's so easy to stay in bed, absolutely, 243 00:15:52.840 --> 00:15:54.320 and I just I just pray that they're like no, no, no, 244 00:15:54.320 --> 00:15:56.840 no, no, I can't do it. I can't do it. 245 00:15:56.080 --> 00:16:00.679 They just get out of bed anyway, go ahead. It also says, 246 00:16:00.679 --> 00:16:03.039 so if you're miserable in the morning on Sunday mornings, then you you wake 247 00:16:03.120 --> 00:16:06.799 up and then you can't go back to sleep and all that stuff, and 248 00:16:06.840 --> 00:16:08.399 you're trying to and you're trying to stay comfortable. Just know Chris is praying 249 00:16:08.519 --> 00:16:15.320 that God makes you uncomfortable doing and I unapologetically do I really do. It's 250 00:16:15.399 --> 00:16:18.440 Chris's fault. You can next time you see him. Next time God does 251 00:16:18.480 --> 00:16:22.320 that wakes you up and won't let you get comfortable again. Any morning you 252 00:16:22.320 --> 00:16:23.600 wind up walking in the doors of the church, walk right up to Chris 253 00:16:23.600 --> 00:16:29.080 and tell him it's your fault. Yeah, thanks a lot. Is just 254 00:16:29.159 --> 00:16:33.200 roll over again. It's raining. Jesus also said that the Holy Spirit will 255 00:16:33.600 --> 00:16:40.279 reveal the standard of God's righteousness to anyone who believes right. And and that's 256 00:16:41.120 --> 00:16:45.120 that's important for us because Jesus isn't physically on earth anymore, so the disciples 257 00:16:45.159 --> 00:16:48.759 could look at Jesus and know what the standard was. And for us, 258 00:16:49.159 --> 00:16:53.600 you know, not having Jesus in front of us directly physically, then we 259 00:16:53.639 --> 00:16:56.440 need the Holy Spirit too. And that's why the Holy Spirit will use our 260 00:16:56.440 --> 00:17:00.279 conscience. A lot of times, the Holy Spirit will will lean in us 261 00:17:00.320 --> 00:17:02.840 and go, hey, you know that's not the right direction, or that 262 00:17:03.080 --> 00:17:06.839 is that wise for you or whatever. He's helping us understand what the standard 263 00:17:06.880 --> 00:17:11.759 of righteousness is. And then he we know that. Paul tells us he 264 00:17:11.839 --> 00:17:17.920 also seals us. He's the one that seals us, and Jesus kind of 265 00:17:17.920 --> 00:17:22.319 references it that we were in righteousness now right because of the Holy Spirit. 266 00:17:22.480 --> 00:17:26.039 He seals us until the day of redemption, until Jesus comes back. We 267 00:17:26.160 --> 00:17:30.039 are are sealed in Christ through the Holy Spirit and Jesus. Four. Yeah, 268 00:17:30.200 --> 00:17:33.440 so there's so many things that the Holy Spirit does. But can I 269 00:17:33.480 --> 00:17:37.680 point out one thing? Yeah, Jesus says, I guess I pointed out 270 00:17:37.720 --> 00:17:42.319 like six things. But Jesus says, the Holy Spirit doesn't draw attention to 271 00:17:42.400 --> 00:17:48.799 himself, and the Holy Spirit doesn't speak on his own. Sometimes some people 272 00:17:48.920 --> 00:17:53.240 play in the Holy Spirit, claiming that they're hearing from the Holy Spirit and 273 00:17:53.279 --> 00:17:57.160 they're doing all these amazing things in the Holy Spirit and all these things. 274 00:17:57.160 --> 00:18:00.279 It's the Holy Spirit, the Holy Spirit, the Holy Spirit, the Holy 275 00:18:00.279 --> 00:18:02.720 Spirit, the Holy Spirit. But the Holy Spirit doesn't talk about himself, 276 00:18:03.119 --> 00:18:06.799 and the Holy Spirit doesn't bring attention to himself. The Holy Spirit doesn't bring 277 00:18:06.880 --> 00:18:10.000 some kind of new revelation. He says, he's only bringing what I've told 278 00:18:10.079 --> 00:18:12.400 him. Jesus is the Word, the Word of God. Right, So 279 00:18:14.920 --> 00:18:18.319 the Holy Spirit isn't bringing attention to himself and isn't trying to get you to 280 00:18:18.359 --> 00:18:22.559 just play in the power of the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit's whole job 281 00:18:22.640 --> 00:18:26.640 is to point us to Jesus and his finished work on the Cross. That's 282 00:18:26.720 --> 00:18:32.960 his job. Yeah. Yeah, So there's always a thing that whenever I 283 00:18:33.039 --> 00:18:34.720 hear a person pray and they don't pray to the Heavenly Father and they pray 284 00:18:34.799 --> 00:18:40.359 to Jesus. I never I never rebuke that. I just accept it move 285 00:18:40.359 --> 00:18:42.559 on because technically it's Father, Son, Holy Spirit, one God, three 286 00:18:42.559 --> 00:18:47.680 persons, right, But in my mind I always think, oh, theologically, 287 00:18:48.039 --> 00:18:51.759 if you really want to get technical, every single reference in the scripture 288 00:18:51.799 --> 00:18:55.680 talks about us being reconciled to the heavenly Father. So our relationship was broken 289 00:18:55.680 --> 00:19:00.119 to the heavenly Father, and our relationship is with the heavenly Father Jesus the 290 00:19:00.160 --> 00:19:03.599 mediator who brings us back so that we can pray to and Jesus always pray 291 00:19:03.680 --> 00:19:07.519 to the Father, right, So you can pray to Jesus if you want. 292 00:19:07.640 --> 00:19:10.400 I'm sure that that's fine since there are one God, three persons. 293 00:19:10.759 --> 00:19:12.920 But but well, every person who came to Jesus and needed him to help 294 00:19:12.960 --> 00:19:17.519 them, he was they were talking to God, right, right, right? 295 00:19:17.599 --> 00:19:18.519 Could you help me out? That's right, that's right. But in 296 00:19:18.519 --> 00:19:23.200 my mind, I'm like, it's better and more spiritually, it's more theologically, 297 00:19:23.319 --> 00:19:27.119 it's more theologically accurate. Yeah, okay, So in the same way, 298 00:19:27.359 --> 00:19:33.319 in the same way, people say this phrase all the time and they 299 00:19:33.359 --> 00:19:37.240 always say like, Holy Spirit come down, and I always think the Holy 300 00:19:37.279 --> 00:19:41.799 Spirit's here, right, It's like, I understand what you're meaning, but 301 00:19:41.240 --> 00:19:45.799 theologically that's not correct. And then they'll say, uh, okay, wow, 302 00:19:47.000 --> 00:19:51.519 the Holy Spirit was really present in that worship service today or that gathering 303 00:19:51.599 --> 00:19:53.200 whatever it was, and man, we were filled with the spirit like we've 304 00:19:53.240 --> 00:19:56.799 never been filled before, right to which I'm saying, like, I understand 305 00:19:56.880 --> 00:20:03.599 what you're saying. The Theologically, if you want to get technical, we 306 00:20:03.680 --> 00:20:08.640 believe based on what Jesus says is that when you become a Christian, when 307 00:20:08.680 --> 00:20:12.200 you put your faith, in trust in Christ, you receive the Holy Spirit, 308 00:20:12.720 --> 00:20:17.799 and you'll never ever be filled more with any more Holy Spirit than you 309 00:20:17.799 --> 00:20:19.519 have right now. You have all the Holy Spirit you need right now. 310 00:20:21.240 --> 00:20:25.680 There's never a time where the Holy Spirit leaves you ever, right, I'll 311 00:20:25.720 --> 00:20:27.559 never leave you nor forsake you. There's never a time where you have less 312 00:20:27.599 --> 00:20:32.119 the Holy Spirit than you have more the Holy Spirit. Because theologically speaking, 313 00:20:32.839 --> 00:20:36.200 when those times where you say, man, the Holy Spirit was really present 314 00:20:36.480 --> 00:20:38.519 and I had more of the Holy Spirit, that's not accurate, accurately or 315 00:20:38.640 --> 00:20:41.880 true. It means that the Holy Spirit had more of you, right, 316 00:20:41.920 --> 00:20:45.519 That's what it means. It means that there was a time where you experienced 317 00:20:45.519 --> 00:20:49.119 a really great thing and you didn't have more of the Holy Spirit. The 318 00:20:49.119 --> 00:20:53.960 Holy Spirit had more of you. And so again I'm not going to rebut 319 00:20:55.319 --> 00:20:57.920 anybody who says that and I know what they mean, you know, and 320 00:20:57.960 --> 00:21:03.400 it's a great thing to sell it, right, but theologically it's not true. 321 00:21:03.599 --> 00:21:07.240 You have all the Holy Spirit you need right now if you're a follower 322 00:21:07.240 --> 00:21:11.640 of Christ. So let's let's let's maybe straight away and just sort of you 323 00:21:11.680 --> 00:21:18.319 know, re you know, begin to rethink how we say that because that 324 00:21:18.400 --> 00:21:21.240 also is a little bit of a danger there, right. So it's like 325 00:21:21.359 --> 00:21:25.440 it's like, man, our services are way more holy spirit filled than your 326 00:21:25.480 --> 00:21:29.200 services. Right now, nobody would ever probably say that they do. But 327 00:21:29.279 --> 00:21:32.319 that's they do. They do on a semi regular basis. Yeah, okay, 328 00:21:32.440 --> 00:21:34.359 but but but you see what I'm saying. It sort of paints the 329 00:21:34.400 --> 00:21:38.599 picture that God is more present here than it is here. But if you 330 00:21:38.599 --> 00:21:44.319 want to get theologically correct, it just means that that that that this group 331 00:21:44.319 --> 00:21:48.160 over here wasn't as submitted to the Holy Spirit, possibly in some cases right 332 00:21:48.240 --> 00:21:52.400 right, So there's a lack of God's price. You see a comment on 333 00:21:52.720 --> 00:21:55.599 boy, I really feel like I feel like the Spirit moved me. Yeah, 334 00:21:55.640 --> 00:21:57.599 but what they're saying is the Spirit was in this service, right well, 335 00:21:57.680 --> 00:22:02.119 the spirits with all the blieve all the time. So I think it 336 00:22:02.240 --> 00:22:04.039 was Tozer who used to say it was either Tosar or Tory, one of 337 00:22:04.039 --> 00:22:08.359 those old great preachers who said the question is not how much of the spirit 338 00:22:08.359 --> 00:22:11.680 do you have? But how much of this how much of you does the 339 00:22:11.720 --> 00:22:15.799 Spirit have? Right right? And I think that that's the bigger issue for 340 00:22:15.920 --> 00:22:21.400 us to understand. It's all about surrender. So if you want God's Spirit 341 00:22:21.440 --> 00:22:23.200 to move in you, it's about you surrendering to the Spirit, right, 342 00:22:23.359 --> 00:22:26.920 right, because He's already in you. Right, That's what Jesus says. 343 00:22:27.160 --> 00:22:30.319 Don't you know that? What Paul says, don't you know that you're the 344 00:22:30.359 --> 00:22:33.960 temple of God. God lives in you, and so it's a surrender issue. 345 00:22:33.960 --> 00:22:37.119 But yeah, and then you know it's because of the Holy Spirit that 346 00:22:37.200 --> 00:22:40.920 Jesus tells us, Hey, You're going to do greater things than me, 347 00:22:41.480 --> 00:22:45.680 right someday, which these are all in this same conversation here, so good. 348 00:22:45.000 --> 00:22:48.519 Yeah, And I heard one time that that's our time coming up. 349 00:22:48.839 --> 00:22:52.799 I heard one time that said, if you think about from a thirty thousand 350 00:22:52.799 --> 00:22:56.559 foot view of the Bible, the role of the Father and the Old Testament 351 00:22:57.559 --> 00:23:00.240 seems to be that God the Father is the one that has the will. 352 00:23:00.519 --> 00:23:03.480 He's the one that has the will for your life. It's Jesus is always 353 00:23:03.559 --> 00:23:07.240 pointing to. It's the will of the Father, the will of the Father, 354 00:23:07.599 --> 00:23:10.599 and and such is the case of the person of God in our lives. 355 00:23:10.680 --> 00:23:11.680 Right. So God, God has the will for you. God the 356 00:23:11.720 --> 00:23:17.079 Father, and then Jesus, I've heard it described as the one who initiates 357 00:23:17.079 --> 00:23:19.079 the work of the Father, the one who executes the will of the Father. 358 00:23:19.559 --> 00:23:23.160 And then and then it's the Holy Spirit's job in our lives. Who's 359 00:23:23.200 --> 00:23:26.720 the completer of the work, the completer of the work and all of these 360 00:23:26.759 --> 00:23:30.920 things. You know, if you think about every role that you described, 361 00:23:32.960 --> 00:23:34.680 the roles that the Holy Spirit has in our lives, it is to bring 362 00:23:34.680 --> 00:23:38.400 about our faith into completion. And he's the completer of the will of the 363 00:23:38.400 --> 00:23:42.119 Father in our lives. So it's really cool. Well, hey, that 364 00:23:42.440 --> 00:23:45.960 looks like it's our time, and we will see you next time, hopefully 365 00:23:45.960 --> 00:23:47.799 on the Bible. Guys,