Full Transcript for Three questions every Christian asks

the baptism of John. So John's baptism was for repentance, but 59 00:04:55.589 --> 00:05:00.230 John said that later one would come after him, meaning Jesus. As soon 60 00:05:00.269 --> 00:05:02.189 as they heard this, they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus. 61 00:05:02.230 --> 00:05:05.110 Paul laid his hands on him. The Holy Spirit came on them. 62 00:05:05.189 --> 00:05:11.139 They spoke with other tongues and prophesy. They were about twelve men in all. 63 00:05:11.339 --> 00:05:13.939 So when Paul is saying you received the spirit, I'm sure he has 64 00:05:14.060 --> 00:05:19.180 this very example in his mind. Yeah. So from there, though, 65 00:05:19.980 --> 00:05:27.370 he goes on to teaching a synagogue for three months, arguing about the Kingdom 66 00:05:27.410 --> 00:05:32.129 of God. Some reject him. He goes on to another place, or 67 00:05:32.290 --> 00:05:40.279 daily discussions at the Lecture Hall of Tyrannus. So it's almost like he went 68 00:05:40.360 --> 00:05:43.240 to the church. They didn't want have anything to do with it's now he's 69 00:05:43.240 --> 00:05:47.000 at the elks lodge. Yeah, that's right. And and he stayed at 70 00:05:47.040 --> 00:05:51.269 that ous lodge for two years so that people throughout the province of Asia, 71 00:05:51.350 --> 00:05:56.189 both Jews and Greeks, heard the word of the Lord. And now remember 72 00:05:56.750 --> 00:06:00.269 Ephesians, as I spoke last week, and into chapters two and three, 73 00:06:00.470 --> 00:06:06.300 Paul spends two chapters of one of the most powerful books eliminating the things that 74 00:06:06.500 --> 00:06:12.740 separate people groups. So, but then listen what was going on as well 75 00:06:12.860 --> 00:06:18.009 and see how this applies to being sealed. Having the spirit. Paul gave 76 00:06:18.490 --> 00:06:24.529 a God gave Paul the power to perform unusual miracles. As though there are 77 00:06:24.569 --> 00:06:29.649 some usual American right, Paul got some unusual ones. When a handkerchiefs or 78 00:06:29.730 --> 00:06:34.720 aprons touched his skin. They were placed on sick people and they were healed 79 00:06:34.759 --> 00:06:40.399 of their diseases. Love this story and verse thirteen. A group of Jews 80 00:06:40.560 --> 00:06:44.720 traveled from town to town casting out evil spirits. They try to use the 81 00:06:44.759 --> 00:06:47.550 name of the Lord Jesus in their incantations, saying I command you, in 82 00:06:47.629 --> 00:06:53.230 a name of Jesus, whom that Dude Paul Preaya, to come out, 83 00:06:54.350 --> 00:06:57.750 seven sons of Skiva, who was a leaving priest. We're doing this. 84 00:06:58.310 --> 00:07:01.860 But one time they tried at the evil spirit replied, I know Jesus. 85 00:07:01.899 --> 00:07:06.939 I'm sure it was like, oh no, Jesus, kind of freak up. 86 00:07:08.300 --> 00:07:12.819 Yeah, I think it's some exorcist, very realistic. Yeah, man 87 00:07:12.980 --> 00:07:18.009 sins, muppet. Yeah, I mean it definitely wasn't going to be a 88 00:07:18.329 --> 00:07:21.329 big bird voice. No, but that was more like evil Yoda. Yeah, 89 00:07:24.089 --> 00:07:27.649 I know Jesus, I know Paul, but who are you? Then 90 00:07:27.689 --> 00:07:31.199 the man with the evil spirit leaped on them, overpower them, attack them 91 00:07:31.279 --> 00:07:36.920 with such violence that they fled from the house naked and beaten. You ain't 92 00:07:38.000 --> 00:07:44.870 really been beaten into your beaten naked. Yeah, so they take off run 93 00:07:44.990 --> 00:07:50.750 and it's so I think about this idea than of being marked or having a 94 00:07:50.829 --> 00:07:55.389 seal. Yeah, and it has something to do with even the demons know 95 00:07:55.470 --> 00:07:59.819 who he's right. That's right. The story of what happened Spread Crick quickly 96 00:07:59.899 --> 00:08:03.459 throughout ephesus to Jews and Greeks. A solemn fear descended on the city. 97 00:08:03.819 --> 00:08:09.579 The name of the Lord Jesus was greatly honored. Many who became believers confess 98 00:08:09.699 --> 00:08:16.730 their sinful practices. This is there's something different happening in these people. Number 99 00:08:16.730 --> 00:08:20.970 of them moved in practicing sorcery, brought their incantation books and burned them at 100 00:08:20.009 --> 00:08:26.970 a public bonfire. The value of the books was several million dollars. Think 101 00:08:26.009 --> 00:08:31.440 about so what does it mean to be sealed, to have the spirit, 102 00:08:31.639 --> 00:08:37.000 to live a yea of praise and glory, and I feel like we're those 103 00:08:37.039 --> 00:08:41.509 questions are being answered in these books over in these verses. And then when 104 00:08:41.509 --> 00:08:48.350 we go to Chapter Twenty One, twenty and twenty one, because of the 105 00:08:48.470 --> 00:08:54.980 book burning, the message about the Lord spread widely and had powerful effect. 106 00:08:56.019 --> 00:09:01.419 Afterward, Paul felt compelled by the spirit to go over to Macedonia and ACHAEA 107 00:09:01.539 --> 00:09:05.980 before going to Jerusalem, and after that he said I've got to go to 108 00:09:05.100 --> 00:09:11.090 Rome. So we see now again, being led by the spirit or having 109 00:09:11.169 --> 00:09:15.889 the spirit, Paul is able to discern where he's to go next and what's 110 00:09:15.929 --> 00:09:24.289 to happen next. So I have no idea how I'm going to combine Ephesians 111 00:09:24.399 --> 00:09:30.559 one with acts nineteen and then on a third piece of paper, almost we've 112 00:09:30.600 --> 00:09:35.679 got to combine that with our life today. Like it. Paul says that 113 00:09:35.919 --> 00:09:41.509 we are living epistle. So there's there's the book of Peter, Chapter Fifty 114 00:09:41.590 --> 00:09:46.509 one. Yeah, verse about what month we in? Three, right, 115 00:09:46.029 --> 00:09:50.309 subpart two. Right. How does this apply to my life today?

Yeah, 116 00:09:52.029 --> 00:09:56.139 and so well. So when you when you start talking about what does 117 00:09:56.179 --> 00:10:00.460 it mean to live a life of a praise and glory to God, and 118 00:10:00.740 --> 00:10:05.059 I think it's so important to remember to that, that Paul is writing the 119 00:10:05.100 --> 00:10:09.210 book of Ephesians from a prison in Rome. I mean he's writing this, 120 00:10:09.370 --> 00:10:13.929 as you know, and it's easy for us to dismiss that, but the 121 00:10:13.049 --> 00:10:16.690 truth is, and and I actually the timing of this, I had just 122 00:10:16.850 --> 00:10:22.279 finished a devotional that Craig groshell had done on his new book and and he's 123 00:10:22.360 --> 00:10:28.960 talking about what it means for, you know, for Paul. I don't 124 00:10:28.960 --> 00:10:31.320 know I said, but I'm at Paul, you know, as he is 125 00:10:31.639 --> 00:10:35.360 praising God in the midst of the situations he's in. And listen to this, 126 00:10:35.519 --> 00:10:39.470 just this little bit. It says he says first they were praising God 127 00:10:39.830 --> 00:10:45.309 for the WHO, not the what. They were bloody and bound up in 128 00:10:45.429 --> 00:10:48.070 prison. If you had asked them, what are you praising God for, 129 00:10:48.389 --> 00:10:52.259 I don't think there was any what that they could point to. Nothing good 130 00:10:52.419 --> 00:10:56.940 was happening, but their God was still good. They weren't praising God for 131 00:10:56.059 --> 00:11:00.539 the what, they were praising him for the WHO. And I think that 132 00:11:00.700 --> 00:11:03.980 all throughout the book of Ephesians, that's really what Paul is driving at, 133 00:11:03.139 --> 00:11:09.049 is living our lives in such a way that our circumstances don't define our praise 134 00:11:09.129 --> 00:11:13.769 to God. Write. Our lives become a constant state of praise and glory, 135 00:11:15.409 --> 00:11:18.639 and I think they're all so combined right, because we're sealed because of 136 00:11:18.759 --> 00:11:22.679 who God is, because of the Holy Spirit in us. We live in 137 00:11:22.720 --> 00:11:24.799 this constant state of praise, not because of our circumstances in the what, 138 00:11:26.639 --> 00:11:28.360 but because of who we're living for. Yeah, and I just thought that 139 00:11:28.480 --> 00:11:35.470 was so timely. This this whole thing of her joy sing, always becoming 140 00:11:35.509 --> 00:11:39.870 in this constant state a praise, not because of the what, but because 141 00:11:39.909 --> 00:11:43.590 of the WHO. Yeah, well, the WHO's the one thing that's constant 142 00:11:43.710 --> 00:11:46.299 in all of it, because the life and is full of different watts and 143 00:11:46.740 --> 00:11:50.620 season the what in my life was different. I mean there was a season 144 00:11:50.659 --> 00:11:54.659 when the lot in my life was a brand new bicycle. Yeah, and 145 00:11:54.779 --> 00:11:58.019 then there was a season when the what was, you know, when I'm 146 00:11:58.019 --> 00:12:01.450 a new car, yeah, and it was the job, and then it 147 00:12:01.730 --> 00:12:05.809 was there's always a change in the lot and he even talks about that in 148 00:12:05.970 --> 00:12:09.809 here. He says there were praising God before the provision. He said. 149 00:12:09.809 --> 00:12:13.090 So often we hold off on praising God until he provides what we want, 150 00:12:13.570 --> 00:12:16.240 he said. Think about that. Doesn't it sound like an entitled Little Snot 151 00:12:16.360 --> 00:12:20.000 nosed kid? I want, I won't be grateful until I get filling the 152 00:12:20.039 --> 00:12:24.399 blank exactly what I want. Right, but really getting to that concept that 153 00:12:24.559 --> 00:12:28.320 we praise God and live in this constant state of praise and honor and glory 154 00:12:28.879 --> 00:12:31.830 because of who he is now, because of what we're walking through right now, 155 00:12:31.870 --> 00:12:35.590 is right and that might fit in with something I had that I didn't 156 00:12:35.590 --> 00:12:39.669 use Jesse yet or know what to do with but being led by the spirit. 157 00:12:39.750 --> 00:12:43.379 And I had two examples, one being Paul in Rome. I got 158 00:12:43.500 --> 00:12:46.299 to go to Rome when we know that Rome was the end for rats, 159 00:12:46.379 --> 00:12:52.100 right, yeah, and so he was led by the spirit into his end, 160 00:12:52.220 --> 00:12:56.059 Yep. And then the other place is Jesus who, after his baptized 161 00:12:56.139 --> 00:13:01.370 wise, was led by the spirit into the Wilderness. And so I had 162 00:13:01.690 --> 00:13:09.289 two examples of the spirit leading people into very uncomfortable situations, very uncomfortable what's 163 00:13:09.450 --> 00:13:15.639 and I didn't know if what to do with that idea or thought yeah again, 164 00:13:15.720 --> 00:13:18.000 for me it seems like it all ties together, right, because I 165 00:13:18.039 --> 00:13:20.480 mean that's exactly how we live our lives, is when we get to that 166 00:13:20.600 --> 00:13:26.840 state of constant praise and honor to the father and we know again, we 167 00:13:26.039 --> 00:13:28.950 and we no longer question, because early on in our walk of faith it's 168 00:13:28.990 --> 00:13:33.070 easy for us to get to this place of constantly questioning, am I really 169 00:13:33.149 --> 00:13:35.990 saved? I am a really secure in God? And when he answers that 170 00:13:37.070 --> 00:13:39.590 question and that's no longer even on the table, we know we are confidently 171 00:13:39.830 --> 00:13:45.659 in Christ and Christ moves through us. The Holy Spirit fills us in such 172 00:13:45.659 --> 00:13:46.860 a way that we can't even live, move or, I have our being 173 00:13:48.220 --> 00:13:52.580 without his presence guiding us. Therefore, we remain this constant state of praise. 174 00:13:52.899 --> 00:13:56.529 Will Guess

what? The leading of the father then becomes our only desire, 175 00:13:56.809 --> 00:14:00.929 even if it leads us through fire, famine, and even if I 176 00:14:00.970 --> 00:14:03.690 find myself in the storm, even if I'm bloody and bruised in a prison 177 00:14:03.769 --> 00:14:07.129 somewhere, I'm still going to write and encourage the body of Christ. Ye, 178 00:14:07.289 --> 00:14:11.200 still going to do what God has called me to do, not because 179 00:14:11.200 --> 00:14:15.519 of my circumstance, but because of who he is. They, they all 180 00:14:15.639 --> 00:14:18.879 are just so perfectly united there and so so important for all of us to 181 00:14:18.960 --> 00:14:24.509 get well and, I think, to like the it answers the now what 182 00:14:24.389 --> 00:14:30.269 you know? So a constant theme throughout the passages you'd read was also repentant. 183 00:14:31.190 --> 00:14:37.029 It was people burning their books, right, it was people the baptism 184 00:14:37.110 --> 00:14:41.820 of John was a baptism of repentance. Right. And so now the the 185 00:14:43.740 --> 00:14:48.539 spirit is the okay. Now what part it's the okay. I realize that 186 00:14:48.179 --> 00:14:54.210 I have something that is separated me from God and I realize that God has 187 00:14:54.330 --> 00:14:56.610 now provided a way for me to be made right with him. Now what 188 00:14:58.090 --> 00:15:03.370 M and it's that repentance that leads to now I live my life in praise 189 00:15:03.649 --> 00:15:07.519 of God and what he's done. Yeah, yeah, we have a saying, 190 00:15:09.039 --> 00:15:13.000 I pray it quite often, as you know, that God will be 191 00:15:13.039 --> 00:15:16.000 quick to give you all the credit, be quick to give you amen credit, 192 00:15:16.039 --> 00:15:18.480 and I want that to always be a part of who I am. 193 00:15:18.639 --> 00:15:22.190 That regardless of what we go through, and that kind of answering that question. 194 00:15:22.230 --> 00:15:24.230 How do we live a life of praise, of praise and glory, 195 00:15:24.269 --> 00:15:28.509 as we give God all the credit for everything, for anything and everything like 196 00:15:30.029 --> 00:15:31.909 we quick to give him the credit, the credit to keep from keeping us 197 00:15:31.909 --> 00:15:35.779 from stuff, the credit for leading us into things, the credit for anything 198 00:15:35.820 --> 00:15:39.379 that comes our way. And I try to teach my kids this is like 199 00:15:39.019 --> 00:15:43.139 we give God the credit, like everything's for him. Our lives are an 200 00:15:43.220 --> 00:15:46.340 example to him. If you're going to elementary school, there's a reason why 201 00:15:48.419 --> 00:15:52.529 the teacher chooses you every single day to walk her lunchbox to the Teacher's lounge 202 00:15:52.570 --> 00:15:56.570 to put the lunch box in there. There's a like our live you. 203 00:15:56.690 --> 00:15:58.889 There's something about you that's different and we give God all the credit for that. 204 00:16:00.210 --> 00:16:03.289 And that's what I think it is. And I worked at a trust 205 00:16:03.330 --> 00:16:07.360 company for a while when I was right out of high school with a really 206 00:16:07.399 --> 00:16:08.480 it was a rough crowd, man. We they brought in a lot of 207 00:16:08.519 --> 00:16:11.519 work release guys. It was just a rough and there's just one guy that 208 00:16:11.559 --> 00:16:18.519 I worked with on my table and he was big US burly and he was 209 00:16:18.669 --> 00:16:22.470 mean, just ugly me kind of guy that would push you out of the 210 00:16:22.470 --> 00:16:23.990 way if you were in his way kind of thing. And I was eighteen 211 00:16:23.990 --> 00:16:26.909 years old. I came out of this tiny little shell of a, you 212 00:16:26.990 --> 00:16:30.429 know, sheltered world of Christian school. Went and grew up at a Christian 213 00:16:30.429 --> 00:16:33.779 school. You know, I think my graduating class was thirteen people, you 214 00:16:33.899 --> 00:16:37.539 know, so like very tiny, and then I went right into this atmosphere 215 00:16:37.539 --> 00:16:40.860 right out of high school and I was it was like culture shock to me. 216 00:16:41.299 --> 00:16:44.220 But this guy was just awful and he was awful to me and I 217 00:16:44.299 --> 00:16:47.139 just asked God is like, Lord, please just give me, give me 218 00:16:47.250 --> 00:16:49.049 something. Yeah, help me with this guy's I'm afraid he's going to put 219 00:16:49.049 --> 00:16:52.490 a hammer cloth through the back of my skull kind of thing. And I 220 00:16:52.610 --> 00:16:56.450 just kept doing what I said God. You know, I don't know any 221 00:16:56.450 --> 00:16:57.289 other way, but just to do what I'm doing. Just do it at 222 00:16:57.289 --> 00:17:02.080 Dude, just be who you've called me to be and just live my life 223 00:17:02.120 --> 00:17:03.440 and be you know. And all of a sudden I started, once I 224 00:17:03.480 --> 00:17:07.119 start, I started praying for this guy, started praying that God would give 225 00:17:07.160 --> 00:17:08.400 me that, you know, the way, to Minister to this guy in 226 00:17:08.519 --> 00:17:12.079 some way, just so I wouldn't die, mostly. But in all of 227 00:17:12.079 --> 00:17:15.390 a sudden you begin to see a shift like I not that I can remember. 228 00:17:15.390 --> 00:17:19.910 I remember one day he was just like he smiled at me and started 229 00:17:21.029 --> 00:17:23.509 help me rather than me being an annoyance to him, and I remember in 230 00:17:23.630 --> 00:17:26.430 that moment I said I gave it up to God and I said you've done 231 00:17:26.470 --> 00:17:30.019 something here. Yeah, you've done something here. It's those kind of things. 232 00:17:30.740 --> 00:17:33.980 There's not, it's nothing I did, like God did. And I 233 00:17:34.099 --> 00:17:37.859 think in our lives how we give him that praise and glory is being quick 234

00:17:37.940 --> 00:17:41.859 to give him all the credit for stuff like yeah, over and over again, 235 00:17:42.180 --> 00:17:45.210 this is because of you, this is because of you, this is 236 00:17:45.329 --> 00:17:48.970 because of you, and we shared it on Sunday. You know, I 237 00:17:48.089 --> 00:17:51.890 was, you know, exhorting everybody just in worship, telling him, like 238 00:17:52.210 --> 00:17:55.890 we don't praise him for what we want? Yeah, we praise him for 239 00:17:55.930 --> 00:17:59.559 who he is, right, and I think that's that's kind of how I 240 00:17:59.720 --> 00:18:03.160 answer that. Yeah, it's kind of make me think to like if you've 241 00:18:03.200 --> 00:18:06.559 ever seen the movie, that count of Money Christo? Yeah, it's a 242 00:18:06.720 --> 00:18:08.160 love, that moving. You know, that's also a book. Yes, 243 00:18:08.359 --> 00:18:11.869 you've never seen but I've read the book. It's fantastic. It's a sandwich. 244 00:18:12.589 --> 00:18:17.190 Yeah, he's as simply, it's a money Christo is a sandwich and 245 00:18:17.349 --> 00:18:19.190 it's what. Yeah, Ben Agan's money. Call my goodness, guys, 246 00:18:19.230 --> 00:18:22.750 I'll be right back. I to go kind of been against you that he 247 00:18:22.789 --> 00:18:26.710 that income, that little raspberry sauceas I want to cry out the sugar. 248 00:18:26.869 --> 00:18:29.740 Yeah, I mean it's that like the movie itself is probably in my top 249 00:18:29.819 --> 00:18:32.900 five. Oh, we're back to the movement. But there's a scene I 250 00:18:32.980 --> 00:18:37.460 remember from that movie and it's probably in the book of I can't remember that 251 00:18:37.700 --> 00:18:42.049 the character's names right, but they're he gets out of the prison, the 252 00:18:42.210 --> 00:18:47.289 count of Money Christo. Yeah, it's out of the prison and stumbles onto 253 00:18:47.410 --> 00:18:51.890 a beach, right, and he kind of comes across like these pirates are 254 00:18:52.289 --> 00:18:56.599 whatever, and there's this fight to the death and he's about. He's on 255 00:18:56.720 --> 00:19:00.920 top of this guy, like the the logical next scene is he's going to 256 00:19:00.960 --> 00:19:06.000 kill him. MM. But he doesn't, and the guy looks at Badham 257 00:19:06.039 --> 00:19:08.720 and says, I'm your man now, MMM, whatever you want, like, 258 00:19:10.150 --> 00:19:11.509 I'm serving you the rest of my life. And that's exactly what he 259 00:19:11.589 --> 00:19:15.269 does the rest of the movie. He is faithful to him. Yeah, 260 00:19:15.309 --> 00:19:21.509 the whole movie. And and that's kind of how I think of this relationship 261 00:19:21.549 --> 00:19:26.539 with God. Right, God, God had every right to leave us in 262 00:19:26.619 --> 00:19:30.460 our filth and and just let us die. Yeah, but he didn't do 263 00:19:30.579 --> 00:19:33.859 that. Yeah, and we have the opportunity now to look at God and 264 00:19:33.940 --> 00:19:41.170

say, I'm your man now, MMM right, and serve him like that 265 00:19:41.250 --> 00:19:45.809 movie. And now I want a sandwich. Yeah, how far is the 266 00:19:45.890 --> 00:19:51.849 nearest been? Agains. The spiritual gifts aspect, I think is important to 267 00:19:52.329 --> 00:19:56.279 talk about if we're have it, if we have the Holy Spirit, because 268 00:19:56.000 --> 00:20:04.440 we we see multiple very unique things happening with Paul related to spiritual gifts, 269 00:20:04.599 --> 00:20:12.470 whether it was speaking in an unknown tongue and prophesying or power to do miracles 270 00:20:12.509 --> 00:20:17.910 and cast out demons and all of these things, and I do think that 271 00:20:18.309 --> 00:20:23.299 there is opportunity for us to realize that God's got some stuff for us, 272 00:20:25.059 --> 00:20:32.539 but it's related to US fulfilling our purpose and mission. I'm convinced that I 273 00:20:32.940 --> 00:20:37.329 was granted a gift of spiritual leadership when I accepted the call the ministry. 274 00:20:37.490 --> 00:20:41.730 I was, I'm not a natural born leader. In High School I was 275 00:20:41.890 --> 00:20:47.170 not most likely to do anything. I was the invisible dude who kept my 276 00:20:47.289 --> 00:20:52.160 head down and was I don't think I appeared in two of the four yearbooks. 277 00:20:52.240 --> 00:20:59.119 So I was the invisible guy and I find myself often when I'm not 278 00:21:00.039 --> 00:21:03.710 fulfilling his plan or his call for my life. If I'm out and about 279 00:21:03.950 --> 00:21:10.710 somewhere at public's I'm not the the leader in public's MMM. So there is 280 00:21:10.829 --> 00:21:18.509 some giftings that God gives us that are, I contend, very directly related 281 00:21:18.549 --> 00:21:22.819 to his call on our life. MMM. And I've often felt where some 282 00:21:22.019 --> 00:21:26.619 of you know, I was saved in a small pentecostal church where it was 283 00:21:26.660 --> 00:21:32.619 all about the gifts and moving on the spirit and as I look back, 284 00:21:33.130 --> 00:21:37.049 unfortunately I felt like a lot of some of that, at least some of 285 00:21:37.210 --> 00:21:42.170 it, was the gift for the gift's sake. It was not directly related 286 00:21:42.289 --> 00:21:47.559 to his specific call on my life to do what Paul was doing, which 287 00:21:47.720 --> 00:21:52.440 is change the world around me. I use my gifts and such a way 288 00:21:52.559 --> 00:21:56.519 that it causes the people around me to have such a life transformation they are 289 00:21:56.680 --> 00:22:00.519 burning their million dollar books, right. That's what the gifts are for. 290 00:22:00.960 --> 00:22:04.630 That's right, and and I want to encourage folks this Sunday, hopefully, 291 00:22:04.829 --> 00:22:08.269 to know what your gifts are. I mean, we have growth track just 292 00:22:08.430 --> 00:22:11.910 for that purpose, versus the sons of Skiva, who are not using them 293 00:22:11.950 --> 00:22:15.900 for that ability. Right, they were using for their own gain and and 294 00:22:15.220 --> 00:22:19.019 their own appearance. Paul's was all about pointing people to Christ, and not 295 00:22:19.180 --> 00:22:23.059 to mention the sons of skiva would be collecting some fees for them. Yeah, 296 00:22:23.220 --> 00:22:27.460 that's right, that's it. Where or offerings to the priests? Yep, 297 00:22:27.900 --> 00:22:33.650 whereas the the the disciples, the apostle, Paul was casting out demons 298 00:22:33.690 --> 00:22:37.890 because he had a mandate from God to they the Kingdom of Heaven a reality 299 00:22:37.049 --> 00:22:41.410 in the earth, and there are. There's no demonic possession in heaven, 300 00:22:41.490 --> 00:22:45.240 so there cannot be any here. That's it. So he casts out demons. 301 00:22:47.359 --> 00:22:49.640 So what do we what do we want to what do you give me 302 00:22:49.720 --> 00:22:56.880 some feedback on the idea of sealed, identified and sealed? Course, the 303 00:22:57.160 --> 00:23:00.710 the the word picture. There we go back to Bible Times. You've got 304 00:23:00.990 --> 00:23:07.509 the the the the wax that's placed on a document and then there's so to 305 00:23:07.630 --> 00:23:14.059 get rainer to identify it as authentic. But what do you think about that? 306 00:23:14.180 --> 00:23:18.099 For you and I today, how does someone know where Jesus is? 307 00:23:18.339 --> 00:23:22.220 How does someone know we're sealed? Well, I think, I think if 308 00:23:22.259 --> 00:23:27.650 you've never had that moment where someone looks at you and says something's different about 309 00:23:27.650 --> 00:23:32.609 you, someone who knows you really well, someone who's been around you. 310 00:23:32.930 --> 00:23:34.730 Yeah, and you know you've given you maybe you're an adult and you've given 311 00:23:34.730 --> 00:23:38.529 your heart to the Lord recently and you, I would be I would be 312 00:23:38.650 --> 00:23:41.119 curious if someone doesn't ever come to you and say, man, I just 313 00:23:41.200 --> 00:23:45.079 noticed something's different about you. Yeah, it's not that you've been going to 314 00:23:45.160 --> 00:23:47.839 the gym, it's not that you've been, you know, got this new 315 00:23:48.079 --> 00:23:51.440 car or whatever. I just noticed something's different about you. I'd be curious 316 00:23:51.440 --> 00:23:53.200 if that doesn't happen, because there should be there should be a way you 317 00:23:53.279 --> 00:23:56.789 carry yourself. There should be a way that distinguishes you. Not Better than 318 00:23:56.950 --> 00:24:02.349 not, not, you know, Hoity Toity, not, you know anything 319 00:24:02.470 --> 00:24:04.349 like that. But there should be a there should be a change in the 320 00:24:04.430 --> 00:24:07.390 way you treat people, the way that you act, the way that you 321 00:24:07.910 --> 00:24:12.660 give, the way that you do those things,

because I think that that's 322 00:24:12.700 --> 00:24:18.099 a I think that's an earthly in a physical way to show that God's changing 323 00:24:18.180 --> 00:24:21.339 your life, the way you talk to people, all those kind of things 324 00:24:22.779 --> 00:24:26.089 should should be some way to mark man he's different. And then when they 325 00:24:26.089 --> 00:24:29.890 say what's different, what do you what are you doing different? Are you 326 00:24:29.930 --> 00:24:32.849 taking a vitamin? And I'm not taking a vitamin now. I'm not getting 327 00:24:32.890 --> 00:24:34.490 better asleep. I've given my heart to Jesus and I've changed. Yeah, 328 00:24:34.490 --> 00:24:38.160 I think there's something real about that. That should be pretty evident. Yeah, 329 00:24:38.240 --> 00:24:42.000 in the way that you carry yourself. And I'll just go back another 330 00:24:42.039 --> 00:24:45.279 story. I was at I worked at lows for a while and there's his 331 00:24:45.359 --> 00:24:48.039 young kid that I work with. We were the same age. He was 332 00:24:48.200 --> 00:24:52.990 really kind of up, kind of a hothead and loudmouth kind of guy, 333 00:24:53.630 --> 00:24:56.549 and we were putting away backstock. I worked in the outdoor lawn and Garden 334 00:24:56.589 --> 00:24:59.549 Department. One time we were in every night. We would bring in the 335 00:24:59.630 --> 00:25:02.150 Mulch, we would bring in the rock that was backstock and we'd put it 336 00:25:02.190 --> 00:25:04.910 up and fly it back up on the shelves or whatever. And he was 337 00:25:06.069 --> 00:25:08.819 fully literally flying around the corner on this forkliff with a Palette of rock and 338 00:25:08.940 --> 00:25:11.740 he hit the brakes. He would do this thing. He would hit the 339 00:25:11.779 --> 00:25:15.579 brakes and that the forklift would would tilt forward and then slam back on the 340 00:25:15.619 --> 00:25:19.700 back wheels. That was like his signature move, very dangerous ors. And 341 00:25:21.059 --> 00:25:22.650 he comes on the corner, throws up this Pallett a rock, and then 342 00:25:22.690 --> 00:25:26.009 he stops. He goes and I noticed you don't ever curse, and I 343 00:25:26.130 --> 00:25:32.450 curse a lot. He goes. Does that ever offend you? I said, 344 00:25:32.529 --> 00:25:33.650 man, I said, you know, I don't know that it offends 345 00:25:33.690 --> 00:25:37.480 me. I said, but I don't curse. I just you know, 346 00:25:37.559 --> 00:25:41.319 I don't whatever. I just had never have. He goes. I get 347 00:25:41.400 --> 00:25:44.440 that, man, I get that. He goes. I'm gonna not curse 348 00:25:44.440 --> 00:25:48.319 as much around HMM. And it's like those moments like there's something, the 349 00:25:48.400 --> 00:25:52.430 way you treat it's just something, and now you have a window. Yeah, 350 00:25:52.190 --> 00:25:56.069 that window is now. I I am different that's the way I see 351 00:25:56.109 --> 00:25:59.789 that's way I answer that question. Yeah, and how to someone I had 352 00:25:59.990 --> 00:26:00.990 to, how do I identify as his well man? I give him a 353 00:26:02.150 --> 00:26:04.140 heart to Jesus, and I'm just choosing to treat people in a way and 354 00:26:04.339 --> 00:26:08.019 not. I feel like it closes a door when I use that language. 355 00:26:08.019 --> 00:26:11.619 Yeah, kind of thing. That's how I would answer that and kind of 356 00:26:11.700 --> 00:26:17.420 playing right to that. The same thing. I my mind went to Colossians 357 00:26:17.500 --> 00:26:19.250 three, you know, put on the new self, and just the first 358 00:26:19.289 --> 00:26:22.450 couple of verses. Therefore, since you have been raised with Christ, strive 359 00:26:22.529 --> 00:26:26.609 for the things above where Christ is. See to the right hand of God. 360 00:26:26.650 --> 00:26:29.049 In other word, strive for things of heaven. No longer strive for 361 00:26:29.170 --> 00:26:33.200 things of earth. Set your minds on things above, not on earthly things. 362 00:26:33.480 --> 00:26:37.279 And here's where he talks about being sealed, for you died and your 363 00:26:37.400 --> 00:26:41.480 life is now hidden with Christ in God. That's the sealed part, right. 364 00:26:41.559 --> 00:26:44.920 Your Life is now hidden with Christ in God. When Christ, who 365 00:26:45.160 --> 00:26:49.190 is your life, appears, then you also were appear with him and glory 366 00:26:49.630 --> 00:26:53.750 and then he gets into that next step. Right, okay, since this 367 00:26:53.869 --> 00:26:57.190 has happened, since you are sealed, what what's next. Put to death 368 00:26:57.349 --> 00:27:02.700 there for the components of your earthly nature, sexual immorality and purity, lust, 369 00:27:02.740 --> 00:27:04.700 evil desires, greed, which is idolatry. Because of these, the 370 00:27:04.779 --> 00:27:07.740 wrath of God, any continues to go on. So it's this, it's 371 00:27:07.819 --> 00:27:14.539 this mentality of not only does my internal life start to change, right, 372 00:27:14.539 --> 00:27:18.930 I'm now sealed my my old life is dead, but now there's some things 373 00:27:18.970 --> 00:27:21.690 in my life that has to change. Right, it's clean up time, 374 00:27:21.970 --> 00:27:26.289 right, and in it comes. The two are directly connected. Right there 375 00:27:26.410 --> 00:27:29.490 in Colossians it is. It is the one to on tried, as you 376 00:27:29.569 --> 00:27:33.720 are now dead, your flesh is dead, you are alive and sealed in 377 00:27:33.880 --> 00:27:37.599 Christ, hidden with Christ, in God. Therefore, put these to death. 378 00:27:37.640 --> 00:27:42.039 Yeah, it's time to stop playing humanity. It's time to start living 379 00:27:42.079 --> 00:27:48.349 a heavenly lifestyle. That fits in with another set of verses that I originally 380 00:27:48.430 --> 00:27:52.269 had, but then I pulled out because it felt like I had too much. 381 00:27:52.829 -->

00:27:59.019 But it's James, if James Three, if you're wise in understanding God's 382 00:27:59.299 --> 00:28:03.140 and understanding of God's ways, well then prove it by living an honorable life, 383 00:28:03.339 --> 00:28:07.779 doing good works with humility that comes from wisdom. If you're bitterly if 384 00:28:07.819 --> 00:28:14.289 you are bitterly jealous and he selfish ambition in your heart, don't cover up 385 00:28:14.329 --> 00:28:18.930 the truth with boasting in lying. Jealousy and selfishness are not God's kind of 386 00:28:18.049 --> 00:28:26.329 wisdom. Such things are earthly, unspiritual, demonic, for wherever there is 387 00:28:26.490 --> 00:28:32.559 jealousy and selfish ambition you will find disorder and every kind of evil. But 388 00:28:32.720 --> 00:28:37.680 the wisdom from above is, first of all pure. It's peace loving, 389 00:28:37.920 --> 00:28:41.029 it is gentle at all times, willing to yield to others, full of 390 00:28:41.230 --> 00:28:48.109 mercy and the fruit of good deeds. It shows no favoritism and, as 391 00:28:48.230 --> 00:28:52.789 always, sincere and those who are peacemakers will plant seeds of peace and reap 392 00:28:52.869 --> 00:28:59.140 a harvest of righteousness us and want to look back reading those versus, specially 393 00:28:59.619 --> 00:29:03.579 seventeen. The wisdom from above is pure and peace loving, willing to yield. 394 00:29:03.579 --> 00:29:07.859 I think about all of the wonderful Christians and their social media posts over 395 00:29:07.019 --> 00:29:12.809 this past election season. How much peace loving willing to yield. See that 396 00:29:12.890 --> 00:29:18.849 would love they were not full of mercy and the fruit of good deeds. 397 00:29:18.970 --> 00:29:22.849 No favorite ISM. Unless you vote the way I think you ought to be 398 00:29:22.930 --> 00:29:26.000 voted, and I think that is a definition, a loose definition, of 399 00:29:26.079 --> 00:29:30.079 sealed in Christ. WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO BE SEALED IN CHRIST? Here's 400 00:29:30.079 --> 00:29:34.759 what happens, right. Yeah, it's right there. I think it's good. 401 00:29:37.119 --> 00:29:41.589 So I can now throw in both classrooms and James. I will basically 402 00:29:41.710 --> 00:29:45.470 just read Bible versus the twenty eight minutes. You know what? That's what 403 00:29:45.670 --> 00:29:51.509 the preachers of all dead and the Bible hearing for Heaver by the word no, 404 00:29:51.829 --> 00:29:53.779 that I mean. You look at like Finny and guys like that man. 405 00:29:53.859 --> 00:29:56.059 All they did or stand up and they just read from a script. 406 00:29:56.259 --> 00:30:02.059 Yeah, and people fell out. So that's kind of where I am. 407 00:30:02.099 --> 00:30:04.660 I'm not exactly sure how will peace it all together, but at least folk 408 00:30:04.700 --> 00:30:07.690 have got kind of the broad idea of where we're going. It feels to 409 00:30:07.730 --> 00:30:11.769 me it's one

thought. I don't see it as a disjointed thing. I 410 00:30:11.849 --> 00:30:15.250 see it all is one complete thought. Yeah, and I think and with 411 00:30:15.450 --> 00:30:18.289 that, I think it leads into that third question that you pose with what 412 00:30:18.410 --> 00:30:21.089 does it mean to have the spirit, have the Holy Spirit? You know 413 00:30:21.839 --> 00:30:23.960 I'm build with the spirit. Will I can tell you, when I use, 414 00:30:25.079 --> 00:30:26.799 when I grew up, what it meant to write to have the spirit? 415 00:30:27.039 --> 00:30:30.519 Will I have since then. Believe that it's a totally different thing. 416 00:30:32.039 --> 00:30:37.430 Yeah, and that when I begin to see the evidence of the spirit affecting 417 00:30:37.549 --> 00:30:41.349 my life, yea, through the way I treat people, through the way 418 00:30:41.349 --> 00:30:45.549 I carry myself, through the wisdom that I've that I'm now operating through, 419 00:30:45.869 --> 00:30:52.099 that's the evidence of the spirit in me. Yeah, it's less about exercising 420 00:30:52.140 --> 00:30:56.539 a gift and it's more about exercising the character of Christ. Right, right, 421 00:30:56.539 --> 00:31:00.180 right, which are two different things because again, for many years there 422 00:31:00.220 --> 00:31:03.569 would be folk exercising spiritual gifts without the character of Christ. That's right, 423 00:31:03.609 --> 00:31:07.410 right, right, right, right, and and and I think, I 424 00:31:07.609 --> 00:31:14.170 think, I think Jesus would agree that it's the speed. Evidence of the 425 00:31:14.250 --> 00:31:18.009 spirit in you is if you're acting like me, acting like Jesus, and 426 00:31:18.400 --> 00:31:22.200 the gifts follow. Yeah, the gifts are an overflow of that evidence. 427 00:31:22.240 --> 00:31:26.319 Yeah, that I am that that the spirit is filled in you. You 428 00:31:26.599 --> 00:31:29.559 are with me lock step, every single step of the way. You are 429 00:31:29.640 --> 00:31:33.269 following me, and the gifts flow out of that. The gifts, the 430 00:31:33.390 --> 00:31:36.910 evidence of the gifts, is not the beginning of that, yeah, kind 431 00:31:36.950 --> 00:31:40.349 of thing. And if that is the definition, out of James and Colossion 432 00:31:40.390 --> 00:31:42.230 of sealed in Christ. And that is the how right. Yeah, the 433 00:31:42.269 --> 00:31:47.259 filling of the Holy Spirit within US and and and it doesn't just stop on 434 00:31:47.299 --> 00:31:49.339 a Sunday morning. Right. It impacts every decision we make in our lives, 435 00:31:49.380 --> 00:31:53.460 every business decision, every life decision, every family decision, moved by 436 00:31:53.500 --> 00:31:57.579 the Holy Spirit. The closer we get to God, the more we become 437 00:31:57.619 --> 00:32:00.970 sensitive to that leading and then, before you know what, it guides our 438 00:32:01.009 --> 00:32:04.410 every step. Right, it is, why, a lamp into my feet 439 00:32:04.450 --> 00:32:07.970 and a light into my path, both today and in the future. This 440 00:32:07.170 --> 00:32:10.970 will guide me. Right, and that is that. That filled with the 441 00:32:12.009 --> 00:32:15.250 spirit and what it means. And I think we probably all could go around 442 00:32:15.250 --> 00:32:20.240 and just share hundreds of examples of things that could have happened had it not 443 00:32:20.400 --> 00:32:22.519 been for that leading of the Holy Spirit, a feeling of the Holy Spirit 444 00:32:22.559 --> 00:32:27.880 within us. When I, like you, look at Jesus, is not 445 00:32:28.039 --> 00:32:31.630 even just his last words, but just his words to his disciples. It 446 00:32:31.750 --> 00:32:35.990 was never like, okay, wait for the Holy Spirit so you can get 447 00:32:35.990 --> 00:32:39.549 your gift and then go and do it. It was it was follow me, 448 00:32:40.190 --> 00:32:45.019 it was grow and love and joy and peace and those fruits of the 449 00:32:45.099 --> 00:32:49.700 spirit and then I'm going to leave my spirit with you. Who's going to 450 00:32:49.819 --> 00:32:52.859 remind you of my teachings? MMM, and the gifts that you get are 451 00:32:52.980 --> 00:32:58.539 to then go and spread that same thing I was just telling you about. 452 00:32:58.650 --> 00:33:04.769 Right, you know that that comes from just pursuing knowledge of God and Jesus, 453 00:33:04.809 --> 00:33:09.210 who he is in right. That's it's good stuff. What's I see 454 00:33:09.250 --> 00:33:12.450 it as one I'm a theraic. I see it as one thought. Yep, 455 00:33:12.920 --> 00:33:16.519 all and connected. And they they questions kind of all answer themselves in 456 00:33:16.599 --> 00:33:20.359 the same in the same, similar ways. Is kind of the way I 457 00:33:20.359 --> 00:33:22.359 see it, which is great. But I think that these are three big 458 00:33:22.400 --> 00:33:25.559 questions that people are asking themselves. Is, how do I live a life 459 00:33:25.599 --> 00:33:28.549 of glory and praise to the Father? How? What does it mean? 460 00:33:28.710 --> 00:33:30.269 What? How do I know that I'm steal or what does it mean to 461 00:33:30.309 --> 00:33:35.829 have the Holy Spirit? All those questions you can almost answer similarly. Yeah, 462 00:33:36.549 --> 00:33:39.150 that you are living according to the way that Jesus does leads you and 463 00:33:39.869 --> 00:33:45.420 and and leveraging everything against kind of that wwjd what would Jesus do kind of 464 00:33:45.500 --> 00:33:49.180 thing. Yeah, that was so popular. What would Jesus do in this 465 00:33:49.380 --> 00:33:53.819 moment? That's that's being led by the spirit yeah, you know, kind 466 00:33:53.859 --> 00:33:55.450 of. That's kind of the way I see it. So, yeah, 467 00:33:55.690 --> 00:34:00.529 I think it's great, excellent. Well, thanks you guys. Yeah, 468 00:34:00.049 --> 00:34:02.130 man, awesome. Is it going to be a good one? I'm excited 469 00:34:02.210 --> 00:34:06.210 about it. Well, thanks for listening to the room where it happens again, 470 00:34:06.210 --> 00:34:07.730 my name is pastor Daniel. I'm the worst ship in creative pastor here 471 00:34:07.730 --> 00:34:12.039 at Thrive Church. With me as always, this pastor P hey. Thank 472 00:34:12.079 --> 00:34:15.039 you, past Aaron, so you and Pastor Eric later. I will catch 473 00:34:15.079 --> 00:34:25.230 you guys next week. Have a great week later. You're listening to audio 474 00:34:25.349 --> 00:34:30.829 from Thrive Community Church in Port Orange Florida. If you like to check out 475 00:34:30.829 --> 00:34:36.150 more resources from thrive church or to donate to this ministry, please visit www 476 00:34:36.750 --> 00:34:38.300 dot we are thrive dot org.