WEBVTT NOTE Podcast: Acts 29 Vancouver Episode: Intents of the Holy Spirit Publishing Date: 2020-07-19T06:00:44-07:00 Podcast URL: https://acts29.ca Episode URL: https://acts29.ca/intents-of-the-holy-spirit/ 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:03.600 And so here's the first statement I want to make. 00:00:03.600 --> 00:00:06.800 Today we are going to talk about the intents of the Holy Spirit. 00:00:06.800 --> 00:00:09.600 The intents of the Holy Spirit. 00:00:09.600 --> 00:00:15.400 What are his intents? What are his primary intents when it comes to us? 00:00:15.400 --> 00:00:16.900 That's what we'll talk about. 00:00:16.900 --> 00:00:26.600 Guys, to begin with, interest attracts intent. 00:00:26.600 --> 00:00:28.900 Interest attracts intent. 00:00:28.900 --> 00:00:33.800 As in, it is only when I'm interested that I can attract your intent. 00:00:33.800 --> 00:00:38.900 If I'm not interested, it doesn't matter how intentional you are, 00:00:38.900 --> 00:00:42.600 I may not be interested. 00:00:42.600 --> 00:00:46.900 So my interest creates room. 00:00:46.900 --> 00:00:56.400 My interest creates room for God's intent. 00:00:56.400 --> 00:01:01.200 My interest creates room for God's intent. 00:01:01.200 --> 00:01:02.400 This is important, eh? 00:01:02.400 --> 00:01:11.900 Because one of the things that God really messed up in was that he gave us free will. 00:01:11.900 --> 00:01:15.300 Had he not given us free will, this would be so easy. 00:01:15.300 --> 00:01:18.600 But now that he's given us free will, 00:01:18.600 --> 00:01:23.600 it is up to us to begin to respond, engage, interact with him. 00:01:23.700 --> 00:01:27.600 And interest attracts intent. 00:01:27.600 --> 00:01:32.200 And my interest creates room for God's intent. 00:01:32.200 --> 00:01:34.400 It's a common thing with life. 00:01:34.400 --> 00:01:39.800 I remember once putting a business card in a restaurant bowl 00:01:39.800 --> 00:01:43.000 where they pick out a card and they give you a prize. 00:01:43.000 --> 00:01:45.800 And guess who got picked out? 00:01:45.800 --> 00:01:50.100 Me. I've only won something twice in my life and this was the first time. 00:01:50.200 --> 00:01:52.600 And they picked out my name and I won. 00:01:52.600 --> 00:01:54.200 Guess what I won? 00:01:54.200 --> 00:01:57.700 A gym membership. 00:01:57.700 --> 00:02:01.300 Excuse me, I don't see the reason for that kind of laughter. 00:02:01.300 --> 00:02:02.700 So gym membership. 00:02:02.700 --> 00:02:06.400 And so I thought to myself, should I, should I not? 00:02:06.400 --> 00:02:09.000 I mean, this is the first time I've won in Canada. 00:02:09.000 --> 00:02:10.300 Let's just go. 00:02:10.300 --> 00:02:15.800 And there was this guy who looked just buff like me 00:02:15.800 --> 00:02:18.600 and he came out and he started taking me through the gym 00:02:18.600 --> 00:02:22.200 and he's telling me how this machine works and how when you pull this, 00:02:22.200 --> 00:02:26.000 he began to explain things about muscles that I didn't know I had. 00:02:26.000 --> 00:02:30.200 And so for about 20 minutes he took me through the gym. 00:02:30.200 --> 00:02:33.500 I was so not interested, man. 00:02:33.500 --> 00:02:37.500 And he could see it, eh, because he began to cut short certain machines. 00:02:37.500 --> 00:02:42.500 And so what you realize then is your interest attracts intent 00:02:42.500 --> 00:02:46.600 and my interest creates room for God's intent. 00:02:46.600 --> 00:02:53.200 And if I'm not interested, the strange thing with God is he'll keep coming back and trying. 00:02:53.200 --> 00:02:55.200 He doesn't give up. 00:02:55.200 --> 00:03:00.100 He just keeps coming back again and again and saying, hey, Jacob, interested. 00:03:00.100 --> 00:03:05.700 I find that so humble about God. 00:03:05.700 --> 00:03:11.000 I find it so humbling that the creator of the universe who made each of us 00:03:11.100 --> 00:03:18.800 comes and knocks on a door and knows how to deal with my rejection of him. 00:03:18.800 --> 00:03:25.200 It's both bothersome and yet endearing. 00:03:25.200 --> 00:03:28.800 To begin with the idea that Jesus Christ is the only true living God 00:03:28.800 --> 00:03:31.800 and he can come knocking at your door as he says in the Bible 00:03:31.800 --> 00:03:36.000 and you can turn him and walk away and he comes back again and again and again 00:03:36.000 --> 00:03:41.500 and again and again and again and again and again and again. 00:03:41.500 --> 00:03:42.500 So that's one part of it. 00:03:42.500 --> 00:03:47.100 The second part of it is those of us who at some point open the door of a life 00:03:47.100 --> 00:03:50.300 when he came knocking and said, Jesus, you can have my life. 00:03:50.300 --> 00:03:54.900 And then he begins to try and bring in intents that he has for you 00:03:54.900 --> 00:03:59.500 and we can still keep resisting it saying no. 00:03:59.500 --> 00:04:04.400 So for intent to ignite into passion for intent for you, sorry, 00:04:04.400 --> 00:04:12.800 for your interest for your interest to ignite 00:04:12.800 --> 00:04:19.800 for your interest to ignite into passion 00:04:19.800 --> 00:04:25.100 for your interest to ignite into passion. 00:04:25.100 --> 00:04:32.300 You got to know what God's intent is. 00:04:32.300 --> 00:04:39.100 You got to know what the process is. 00:04:39.100 --> 00:04:47.100 You got to know how he wants to engage. 00:04:47.100 --> 00:04:57.500 And you got to know what the rewards of the payoff is. 00:04:57.500 --> 00:05:00.700 And in every aspect of Christianity all four exist. 00:05:00.700 --> 00:05:03.200 Whenever God comes with an intent and he says, 00:05:03.200 --> 00:05:05.500 hey, this is what I want to do with your life. 00:05:05.500 --> 00:05:10.700 All these four things go into play. 00:05:10.700 --> 00:05:12.700 All these four things go into play. 00:05:12.700 --> 00:05:17.800 One, God tells you what he wants to do. 00:05:17.800 --> 00:05:20.100 He tells you what he wants to do. 00:05:20.100 --> 00:05:23.000 Two, he gives you the process. 00:05:23.000 --> 00:05:25.500 This is how I'm going to go about it. 00:05:25.500 --> 00:05:29.500 Three, what's the last word? 00:05:29.500 --> 00:05:34.500 Engage. 00:05:34.500 --> 00:05:38.300 Engage. 00:05:38.300 --> 00:05:42.300 Three, he tells you how he wants to engage you. 00:05:42.300 --> 00:05:45.100 What's he going to come to you as? 00:05:45.100 --> 00:05:46.600 What will it look like? 00:05:46.600 --> 00:05:50.500 And four, he tells you the rewards because he wants you to know 00:05:50.500 --> 00:05:56.700 that at the end of the day, this is what you'll be rewarded with. 00:05:56.700 --> 00:05:59.800 This is what Jesus Christ came to do. 00:05:59.800 --> 00:06:01.300 Hey, let me tell you my intent. 00:06:01.300 --> 00:06:05.000 My intent is to bring you from a place where you are sinful 00:06:05.000 --> 00:06:07.900 and wrong and hostile to God. 00:06:07.900 --> 00:06:09.300 I want to tell you my intent. 00:06:09.300 --> 00:06:12.400 My intent is to bring you to a place where you are no longer 00:06:12.400 --> 00:06:14.200 an enemy of God. 00:06:14.200 --> 00:06:15.300 Oh, the process. 00:06:15.300 --> 00:06:18.900 The process is pretty gruesome, but I'll tell you. 00:06:18.900 --> 00:06:22.900 I will die in your place, brutally hung on a cross 00:06:22.900 --> 00:06:26.300 to pay the punishment for your sins. 00:06:26.300 --> 00:06:30.100 And then I will be buried and I will rise again. 00:06:30.100 --> 00:06:33.800 Engagement, I will not leave you as orphans. 00:06:33.800 --> 00:06:37.900 I will send my Holy Spirit to live in you so that you will be 00:06:37.900 --> 00:06:40.200 able to communicate directly to God. 00:06:40.200 --> 00:06:42.200 He will no longer just be your creator. 00:06:42.200 --> 00:06:44.000 He will be your father. 00:06:44.000 --> 00:06:48.400 Reward, I will begin to live with you forever here on earth. 00:06:48.400 --> 00:06:51.800 And when life here on earth is done, as you physically know it, 00:06:51.800 --> 00:06:55.400 eternal life will continue and eternity will be forever 00:06:55.400 --> 00:06:56.900 with God. 00:06:56.900 --> 00:07:01.100 Do you understand now how easily he builds it? 00:07:01.100 --> 00:07:04.100 And who does he use in our lives to bring this to pass? 00:07:04.100 --> 00:07:06.500 The Holy Spirit. 00:07:06.500 --> 00:07:10.300 What an amazing God, eh? 00:07:10.300 --> 00:07:14.100 I mean, sometimes these are not rhetorical questions. 00:07:14.100 --> 00:07:18.100 What an amazing God, eh? 00:07:18.100 --> 00:07:22.300 Okay. 00:07:22.400 --> 00:07:27.400 Any questions? 00:07:27.400 --> 00:07:31.400 Okay. 00:07:38.200 --> 00:07:42.400 So your response, whenever you begin to suspect that God is 00:07:42.400 --> 00:07:45.600 approaching you with an intent, your response should be, 00:07:45.600 --> 00:07:50.300 all right, I'm going to cause my interest now to be directed 00:07:50.300 --> 00:07:52.100 towards God's intent. 00:07:52.100 --> 00:07:55.400 And I'm going to ask him these questions or I'm going to listen 00:07:55.400 --> 00:07:58.400 as he goes through these questions with me because my 00:07:58.400 --> 00:08:04.700 interest will flame into passion as I begin to understand. 00:08:04.700 --> 00:08:11.100 In every situation this applies, guys... 00:08:11.100 --> 00:08:14.700 Oh, my intent, Peter, my intent is that I take you a fisherman 00:08:14.700 --> 00:08:17.300 and make you a fisher of men. 00:08:17.300 --> 00:08:18.400 What's the process? 00:08:18.500 --> 00:08:22.300 You get to hang around with me for the next three and a half years. 00:08:22.300 --> 00:08:23.600 How do I engage with you? 00:08:23.600 --> 00:08:26.200 Come and see. 00:08:26.200 --> 00:08:27.600 Let me take you home. 00:08:27.600 --> 00:08:29.900 Once you come home, we'll start talking there. 00:08:29.900 --> 00:08:31.300 I'll take you with me. 00:08:31.300 --> 00:08:34.100 I'll sometimes rebuke you. 00:08:34.100 --> 00:08:35.700 I'll say, Satan, get behind me. 00:08:35.700 --> 00:08:38.300 Other times I'll say, this revelation did not come from anyone 00:08:38.300 --> 00:08:40.500 else but from the Father. 00:08:40.500 --> 00:08:42.000 I'll give you the keys of the kingdom. 00:08:42.000 --> 00:08:43.100 What are the rewards? 00:08:43.100 --> 00:08:46.800 There is a day coming where you will stand before the entire earth 00:08:46.800 --> 00:08:49.300 and I will give you the keys of the kingdom and you will get up 00:08:49.300 --> 00:08:52.200 and speak and you will open the gates of the kingdom and the 00:08:52.200 --> 00:08:54.200 first day he does that 3000 come to God. 00:08:59.700 --> 00:09:02.000 And God approached him with intent. 00:09:02.000 --> 00:09:03.100 Where did that happen? 00:09:03.100 --> 00:09:07.800 When he was fishing and he had caught nothing. 00:09:07.800 --> 00:09:11.200 How did God get his interest going? 00:09:11.200 --> 00:09:13.900 Cast your net on the other side. 00:09:13.900 --> 00:09:15.500 What is Peter's response? 00:09:15.600 --> 00:09:19.900 Get away from me, Jesus, because I'm a sinner and that begins a journey. 00:09:19.900 --> 00:09:22.500 Guys, it's again and again and again the same. 00:09:22.500 --> 00:09:26.200 It doesn't matter whether you're 13 year old Eva or whether you're 00:09:26.200 --> 00:09:28.800 50 year old Jacob or whoever. 00:09:36.000 --> 00:09:37.400 This is an amazing God. 00:09:37.400 --> 00:09:38.700 He's very logical. 00:09:41.200 --> 00:09:44.500 Times like this, you just marvel at his brilliance. 00:09:46.000 --> 00:09:47.300 And he's very simple. 00:09:47.300 --> 00:09:49.400 These are these are simple keys. 00:09:49.400 --> 00:09:50.600 He's saying use them guys. 00:09:52.400 --> 00:09:55.600 Guys, there's nothing like knowing the mind of God. 00:09:59.600 --> 00:10:04.300 Sure love the love of God, love the power of God, love the wisdom of God, 00:10:04.300 --> 00:10:07.600 but there's nothing like knowing how his mind works. 00:10:15.500 --> 00:10:17.300 Go over your notes again and again. 00:10:17.300 --> 00:10:21.900 Pull out notes like go and then pull out something from five weeks ago 00:10:21.900 --> 00:10:22.900 because I do that. 00:10:22.900 --> 00:10:28.500 I'll go over my files and I'll just go open a note that I did in 2017 00:10:28.500 --> 00:10:30.200 and I'll start reading it. 00:10:30.200 --> 00:10:30.900 Why? 00:10:30.900 --> 00:10:33.600 Because I can't remember what I taught last week, man. 00:10:35.400 --> 00:10:36.700 And don't tell me you do. 00:10:38.100 --> 00:10:39.300 Maybe you do. 00:10:39.300 --> 00:10:40.500 I'm getting older. 00:10:40.500 --> 00:10:46.200 So every week I go and pull out some old teaching from 2017, 2018, 00:10:46.200 --> 00:10:48.200 2019 and I go over it. 00:10:53.100 --> 00:10:54.800 The Bible says in Matthew 13, 00:10:54.800 --> 00:10:59.300 be like a man who has in his storehouse new things and old things. 00:11:00.100 --> 00:11:03.300 The kingdom of God is like a man who has a storehouse in which are new 00:11:03.300 --> 00:11:04.300 things and old things. 00:11:04.300 --> 00:11:05.000 And he's saying, 00:11:05.000 --> 00:11:08.000 I'm going to go and look at the Bible and I'm going to look at the Bible 00:11:08.000 --> 00:11:10.300 and I'm going to look at the Bible and I'm going to look at the Bible 00:11:10.300 --> 00:11:11.100 and old things. 00:11:11.100 --> 00:11:12.100 Go pull out new things. 00:11:12.100 --> 00:11:14.600 Go pull out old things and practice them. 00:11:19.800 --> 00:11:20.400 Next week, 00:11:20.400 --> 00:11:24.100 I'm going to give the mic to Toonie while we are in free worship and 00:11:24.100 --> 00:11:26.700 you will hear him singing free worship behind there. 00:11:27.200 --> 00:11:27.800 Right Toonie? 00:11:33.100 --> 00:11:34.000 It'll be a lot of fun. 00:11:36.400 --> 00:11:37.800 Anila is encouraging him. 00:11:37.800 --> 00:11:38.600 So that's good enough. 00:11:38.600 --> 00:11:43.600 So the Holy Spirit has intents too. 00:11:43.600 --> 00:11:47.100 The Holy Spirit has intents. 00:11:47.100 --> 00:11:48.900 Let's take four of them. 00:11:48.900 --> 00:11:52.200 Four intents that the Holy Spirit has in your life. 00:11:52.200 --> 00:11:55.800 Four intents that the Holy Spirit has in your life. 00:11:57.800 --> 00:11:59.700 First, guys, 00:12:01.200 --> 00:12:04.700 it is not the Holy Spirit's intent to make you a better Christian. 00:12:04.700 --> 00:12:06.300 It's not. 00:12:06.800 --> 00:12:09.600 He just doesn't do stuff like that. 00:12:09.600 --> 00:12:11.500 But here are his four primary intents. 00:12:11.500 --> 00:12:14.300 The intent of the Spirit is to one, 00:12:14.300 --> 00:12:16.200 make you confident, 00:12:16.200 --> 00:12:17.700 make you confident 00:12:20.100 --> 00:12:21.000 of how 00:12:22.700 --> 00:12:24.600 God thinks of you and sees you. 00:12:24.600 --> 00:12:25.700 God thinks of you 00:12:27.500 --> 00:12:28.300 and sees you. 00:12:30.800 --> 00:12:33.000 That's one of his first intents. 00:12:33.000 --> 00:12:38.100 Hey, can I make you confident of how God sees you and 00:12:38.100 --> 00:12:38.800 thinks of you? 00:12:40.100 --> 00:12:43.000 Romans 815, one of the first things that happens when the 00:12:43.000 --> 00:12:46.100 Holy Spirit comes into you, your life because you receive 00:12:46.100 --> 00:12:51.300 Christ as your Savior is that immediately born in you is 00:12:51.300 --> 00:12:55.100 an intimate Abba cry where the creator of the universe 00:12:55.200 --> 00:12:56.700 suddenly becomes your father. 00:12:58.700 --> 00:12:59.900 We just think that 00:13:00.400 --> 00:13:03.100 Yeah, we won't go there right now. 00:13:04.800 --> 00:13:06.100 That's the first thing that happens. 00:13:06.100 --> 00:13:10.100 He wants to make you confident of how God thinks of you and 00:13:10.100 --> 00:13:11.300 how he sees you. 00:13:11.500 --> 00:13:13.700 Most of us live between 00:13:16.700 --> 00:13:19.000 most of us live between Luke 4.3 00:13:20.400 --> 00:13:21.000 and 00:13:22.500 --> 00:13:23.300 Matthew 00:13:26.400 --> 00:13:27.400 Matthew 00:13:29.000 --> 00:13:29.700 16 00:13:30.400 --> 00:13:31.600 13 to 15. 00:13:32.000 --> 00:13:33.300 Most of us live here. 00:13:33.900 --> 00:13:37.500 Luke, most of us live between Luke 4.3 and Matthew 16, 00:13:37.800 --> 00:13:41.900 13 to 15 and Luke 4.3 says this and the devil came and 00:13:41.900 --> 00:13:44.800 said to Jesus if you are the Son of God. 00:13:46.100 --> 00:13:48.900 Right from when we are kids, that's a voice that constantly 00:13:48.900 --> 00:13:49.900 comes to our ears. 00:13:50.500 --> 00:13:53.000 Jacob, you really think you are this or that? 00:13:53.000 --> 00:13:55.000 Jacob, you really think you have a ministry? 00:13:55.000 --> 00:13:56.900 Jacob, you really think you're a good pastor? 00:13:57.000 --> 00:13:59.200 Jacob, you really think you are worth anything? 00:13:59.200 --> 00:14:02.200 Jacob, you really think that you have good pedigree? 00:14:02.200 --> 00:14:04.100 Jacob, you really think you're intelligent? 00:14:04.200 --> 00:14:06.000 Jacob, you really think you're good-looking? 00:14:06.100 --> 00:14:08.300 Jacob, you really think people think well of you? 00:14:08.300 --> 00:14:10.500 Jacob, you really think you'll amount to anything? 00:14:13.800 --> 00:14:16.700 The intent is can I bring reproach into your life? 00:14:17.300 --> 00:14:21.600 Oh my God reproach sinks deep into your psyche where 00:14:21.700 --> 00:14:24.500 once we grow up it is so hard to get out of it, eh? 00:14:25.200 --> 00:14:26.700 You really think you're a man enough? 00:14:26.700 --> 00:14:28.100 You really think you're a woman enough? 00:14:28.100 --> 00:14:31.000 You really think you know how to function? 00:14:31.000 --> 00:14:34.500 It's this constant barrage of you really think. 00:14:34.500 --> 00:14:37.500 Protect your children, Josh and Charlene. 00:14:41.000 --> 00:14:45.100 And the other part is Matthew 16, 13 to 15 where Jesus asks 00:14:45.100 --> 00:14:47.700 this question, who do you say that I am? 00:14:48.100 --> 00:14:49.300 Who do you think that I am? 00:14:49.400 --> 00:14:50.900 Who do they say that I am? 00:14:51.500 --> 00:14:54.600 And right from when we are kids, we have such an inaccurate 00:14:54.600 --> 00:14:55.600 picture of God. 00:14:55.800 --> 00:14:56.900 Who do you say I am? 00:14:56.900 --> 00:14:59.000 You're a God who can occasionally be trusted. 00:14:59.100 --> 00:15:00.100 Who do you say I am? 00:15:00.200 --> 00:15:01.600 You may heal, you may not heal. 00:15:01.600 --> 00:15:04.400 You're inscrutable, you are sovereign, you do what you want. 00:15:04.500 --> 00:15:06.300 Very hard to be confident about you. 00:15:06.500 --> 00:15:07.700 Who do you say I am? 00:15:07.900 --> 00:15:08.800 Occasional healer. 00:15:08.800 --> 00:15:09.700 Who do you say I am? 00:15:09.700 --> 00:15:14.000 Well, you do save because heaven is guaranteed, but nothing else is. 00:15:14.100 --> 00:15:15.000 Who do you say I am? 00:15:15.000 --> 00:15:17.600 You have power, but you don't stop bad things from happening. 00:15:17.600 --> 00:15:18.700 Who do you say I am? 00:15:18.800 --> 00:15:20.700 You are responsible for both good and evil. 00:15:20.800 --> 00:15:21.900 Who do you say I am? 00:15:22.000 --> 00:15:24.200 Well, I better serve you because I need to go to heaven. 00:15:24.200 --> 00:15:25.200 Who do you say I am? 00:15:25.500 --> 00:15:28.300 It's such a jaundiced picture of God. 00:15:28.900 --> 00:15:31.600 And one of the things the Holy Spirit wants to do when he comes 00:15:31.600 --> 00:15:35.900 on the earth is to show you once again how God thinks of you 00:15:35.900 --> 00:15:37.300 and how God sees you. 00:15:37.300 --> 00:15:41.100 And if that isn't established, then we'll never get to John 13. 00:15:41.100 --> 00:15:41.500 3. 00:15:44.200 --> 00:15:45.800 That's the place to live. 00:15:46.000 --> 00:15:47.100 John 13 3. 00:15:47.700 --> 00:15:50.300 Knowing where he came from and knowing where he was going, 00:15:50.500 --> 00:15:53.500 he took off his outer robes, wrapped a towel around him, knelt 00:15:53.500 --> 00:15:55.800 down and began to wash the feet of his disciples. 00:15:58.900 --> 00:16:00.300 It's my quest. 00:16:01.000 --> 00:16:04.900 Oh God, bring me to this place in John 13 3 where I know where 00:16:04.900 --> 00:16:08.500 I came from and I know where I'm going and then it does not 00:16:08.500 --> 00:16:09.000 matter. 00:16:09.000 --> 00:16:09.700 Oh God. 00:16:11.100 --> 00:16:11.900 Till then. 00:16:15.400 --> 00:16:17.200 I'm dependent on your applause. 00:16:19.400 --> 00:16:21.100 And I'm ruined by your 00:16:23.500 --> 00:16:24.400 disapproval. 00:16:27.900 --> 00:16:28.900 I'm your puppet. 00:16:31.300 --> 00:16:33.200 I know you've I've said this before but it's worth saying 00:16:33.200 --> 00:16:34.500 it for the sake of the recording. 00:16:34.800 --> 00:16:38.400 There's a man in the UK who walks around the streets of 00:16:38.400 --> 00:16:43.000 London with an A board on him and on the front of the A board 00:16:43.000 --> 00:16:48.100 it says I am a fool for Christ and people who see him walking 00:16:48.100 --> 00:16:49.700 around with those words. 00:16:49.700 --> 00:16:53.400 I'm a fool for Christ laugh at him and then he walks past 00:16:53.400 --> 00:16:55.500 them and on the back of the A board. 00:16:55.500 --> 00:16:57.200 Other words whose fool are you? 00:16:58.200 --> 00:16:59.400 Whose fool are you? 00:16:59.700 --> 00:17:02.300 Because if you don't believe in Jesus Christ, you are somebody's 00:17:02.300 --> 00:17:02.700 fool. 00:17:03.600 --> 00:17:06.400 You're either the fool of your culture or you're the fool of 00:17:06.400 --> 00:17:11.800 some stone idol or you're the fool of someone who holds the 00:17:11.800 --> 00:17:14.700 strings and makes you dance for them or you're the fool of 00:17:14.800 --> 00:17:15.800 some drug addiction. 00:17:15.800 --> 00:17:18.400 I've been through all this or you're the fool of money. 00:17:18.700 --> 00:17:21.100 You're somebody's fool because you're dancing to someone's 00:17:21.100 --> 00:17:21.600 tune. 00:17:24.100 --> 00:17:27.400 And as Christians we need to make sure that once we become 00:17:27.400 --> 00:17:31.500 Christians, we still walk in a way that makes us look really 00:17:31.500 --> 00:17:33.200 foolish for Christ and for nobody else. 00:17:33.200 --> 00:17:33.400 A. 00:17:40.800 --> 00:17:42.400 The second intent of the Holy Spirit. 00:17:44.000 --> 00:17:48.900 Guys, remember this Luke 4 3 Matthew 16 30 15. 00:17:49.200 --> 00:17:53.100 Luke 4 3 when when the enemy speaks, he doesn't speak directly. 00:17:53.100 --> 00:17:55.900 Satan never comes with horns and a tail. 00:17:55.900 --> 00:17:57.500 He uses people. 00:17:58.900 --> 00:18:00.100 This is not who you are. 00:18:00.100 --> 00:18:01.500 Let me tell you who you are. 00:18:04.800 --> 00:18:06.500 Is that what they said about you? 00:18:06.500 --> 00:18:09.100 But let me tell you how you really feel. 00:18:15.900 --> 00:18:17.300 Protect your children. 00:18:18.900 --> 00:18:24.100 I look at Eliana and Ruben protect them. 00:18:24.100 --> 00:18:28.700 Let them grow up not knowing what we had to go through. 00:18:31.600 --> 00:18:36.100 Let them grow up in a matrix where early in life they figured 00:18:36.100 --> 00:18:39.400 out how God sees them and how God thinks of them. 00:18:44.900 --> 00:18:47.700 Otherwise, you'll have to come for therapy to a church for 00:18:47.700 --> 00:18:48.400 40 years. 00:18:48.900 --> 00:18:55.300 Why are we not confident of God? 00:18:55.300 --> 00:18:57.700 Like I said, failed expectations. 00:18:57.700 --> 00:18:59.600 He's inscrutable. 00:18:59.600 --> 00:19:02.500 His sovereignty is so iffy. 00:19:02.500 --> 00:19:06.300 There are prolonged delays with his promises. 00:19:06.300 --> 00:19:10.300 He doesn't do things he could because even though he has the 00:19:10.300 --> 00:19:14.300 power, what do you do with stuff like that guys always default 00:19:14.300 --> 00:19:18.700 to his nature default to his nature. 00:19:18.700 --> 00:19:23.900 If you want to be confident of God default to his nature, 00:19:23.900 --> 00:19:28.000 if you want to be confident of God default to his nature, 00:19:28.000 --> 00:19:31.600 every promise of God is actually a revelation of his nature. 00:19:31.600 --> 00:19:35.200 Every promise of God is a revelation of his nature. 00:19:35.200 --> 00:19:38.800 Whenever God says I promise you this what he's saying is hey, 00:19:38.800 --> 00:19:39.600 this is my nature. 00:19:39.600 --> 00:19:42.700 I'm just putting it in words so that you can hold on to it. 00:19:42.700 --> 00:19:45.800 Every promise of God is a revelation of his nature. 00:19:45.900 --> 00:19:49.100 Whenever you are not confident of God, don't try to convince 00:19:49.100 --> 00:19:52.100 yourself in your head immediately default to his nature 00:19:52.100 --> 00:19:55.500 because it's the only sure standing thing in the universe. 00:19:55.500 --> 00:19:57.200 Hear me again. 00:19:57.200 --> 00:20:02.000 There is nothing else that stands firm that is unshakable 00:20:02.000 --> 00:20:08.900 than the nature of God and every promise of God is actually 00:20:08.900 --> 00:20:11.700 a revelation of his nature put into words. 00:20:11.800 --> 00:20:16.400 And is the only unshakable thing in the universe. 00:20:16.400 --> 00:20:21.000 So when I begin to lose my confidence in God given the 00:20:21.000 --> 00:20:25.600 circumstances around me given my past experience given my 00:20:25.600 --> 00:20:29.200 question marks over his very character then the only place 00:20:29.200 --> 00:20:32.400 that is safe and unshakable is his nature. 00:20:32.400 --> 00:20:37.100 The nature of Jesus Christ because if you look at Jesus, 00:20:37.100 --> 00:20:41.400 you see who God is run there and then let them 00:20:41.400 --> 00:20:44.200 bring bulldozers before they can pull you out of there. 00:20:53.200 --> 00:20:57.500 The word conviction according to US law is a belief that 00:20:57.500 --> 00:20:58.800 you will go to prison for. 00:21:01.300 --> 00:21:05.100 When you say in a US code of law that you have a conviction 00:21:05.100 --> 00:21:08.600 what you're saying is I am willing to go to prison for this. 00:21:08.600 --> 00:21:14.200 Christians do a lot of believing they do very little conviction. 00:21:14.200 --> 00:21:19.000 According to US codes of law a belief is something that 00:21:19.000 --> 00:21:21.400 you can change because it might be an opinion a conviction 00:21:21.400 --> 00:21:22.800 is something you will go to prison for. 00:21:22.800 --> 00:21:26.600 Die standing on the hill of God's nature. 00:21:35.100 --> 00:21:36.000 Any questions? 00:21:37.000 --> 00:21:40.800 What I mean by that is if you want to choose a hill to die on 00:21:42.200 --> 00:21:43.600 die on the hill of God's nature. 00:21:46.900 --> 00:21:48.800 Any questions any disagreements? 00:21:50.600 --> 00:21:53.400 Any anything you want to add? 00:21:56.100 --> 00:21:57.400 Shallow what is that? 00:21:57.400 --> 00:21:58.900 Hey, that's a 00:22:06.000 --> 00:22:15.000 We still on sorry, sorry shallow. 00:22:20.500 --> 00:22:21.200 Any questions? 00:22:23.700 --> 00:22:24.700 Did someone say question? 00:22:29.800 --> 00:22:30.400 Second. 00:22:33.700 --> 00:22:35.400 That's the first intent the second intent. 00:22:36.000 --> 00:22:44.000 Once you find his nature guys life becomes much easier. 00:22:44.000 --> 00:22:48.200 So when I come for a service like this, I can prepare the best 00:22:48.200 --> 00:22:48.800 notes possible. 00:22:48.800 --> 00:22:52.400 I can try and sing as best as I can and do all that stuff for 00:22:52.400 --> 00:22:53.400 Jane can try her best. 00:22:53.400 --> 00:22:56.600 But what if we actually defaulted to his nature? 00:22:56.600 --> 00:22:59.100 What's his nature with regard to a service or a meeting? 00:22:59.100 --> 00:22:59.900 I'm there. 00:23:00.900 --> 00:23:02.200 I walk in your midst. 00:23:03.200 --> 00:23:05.600 I find it delightful to be with my people. 00:23:06.400 --> 00:23:07.900 My spirit of good is here. 00:23:08.800 --> 00:23:09.600 I'm your advocate. 00:23:09.600 --> 00:23:10.500 I'm your friend. 00:23:13.500 --> 00:23:14.100 I'll teach you. 00:23:14.100 --> 00:23:15.400 I'll reveal everything to you. 00:23:16.300 --> 00:23:18.000 I inhabit the praises of my people. 00:23:19.900 --> 00:23:21.000 I'm not a formal God. 00:23:21.400 --> 00:23:22.300 I'm your father. 00:23:22.900 --> 00:23:25.200 I'm not your CEO. 00:23:26.500 --> 00:23:27.600 This is my house. 00:23:29.900 --> 00:23:31.600 I'm glorified when you worship me. 00:23:32.900 --> 00:23:33.700 I'm a healer. 00:23:33.800 --> 00:23:34.600 I can be anything. 00:23:34.600 --> 00:23:35.800 I want to be when I'm with you. 00:23:36.700 --> 00:23:39.600 Turn to me once you default to his nature. 00:23:39.700 --> 00:23:42.000 Now you don't have to worry about how the service will go. 00:23:47.600 --> 00:23:48.200 Long ago. 00:23:48.200 --> 00:23:51.000 I found this out and I realized that I don't have to work anymore. 00:23:53.300 --> 00:23:55.200 Before that you had to prepare the songs. 00:23:55.200 --> 00:23:56.200 You had to prepare notes. 00:23:56.200 --> 00:23:58.100 You had to prepare bullet points. 00:23:58.200 --> 00:23:59.200 You had to prepare things. 00:23:59.200 --> 00:24:02.600 You had to make sure that there was time written next to each 00:24:02.600 --> 00:24:04.700 other two minutes of this four minutes of this three and a 00:24:04.700 --> 00:24:05.600 half minutes of this. 00:24:06.000 --> 00:24:09.200 And with some people when they would speak you would hold the 00:24:09.200 --> 00:24:09.600 mic. 00:24:12.100 --> 00:24:14.100 And so I still do that with Derek. 00:24:18.600 --> 00:24:22.800 The point being guys once you know his nature once you default 00:24:22.800 --> 00:24:25.900 to his nature everything becomes simple. 00:24:27.700 --> 00:24:31.100 So whatever situation you find yourself in default to his 00:24:31.100 --> 00:24:34.400 nature what is and how do you find his nature look at Jesus 00:24:34.400 --> 00:24:36.300 Christ and you will know his nature and then go for the 00:24:36.300 --> 00:24:39.100 promises of God because they are actually a revelation of his 00:24:39.100 --> 00:24:39.500 nature. 00:24:39.600 --> 00:24:43.200 So it's impossible to really stand in a promise unless you 00:24:43.200 --> 00:24:46.000 stand in God's nature people who stand in a promise and not 00:24:46.000 --> 00:24:51.900 in the nature of God are people who think faith works God works 00:24:51.900 --> 00:24:52.200 man. 00:24:53.500 --> 00:24:56.400 Sometimes because of faith sometimes even when there's no 00:24:56.400 --> 00:24:56.800 faith. 00:25:00.300 --> 00:25:04.300 Write down things God says they this is his temple you are his 00:25:04.300 --> 00:25:05.000 family. 00:25:05.100 --> 00:25:06.300 This is his house. 00:25:06.400 --> 00:25:07.600 This is his body. 00:25:07.800 --> 00:25:10.000 Why do I need to ask him to show up? 00:25:11.000 --> 00:25:12.600 He's just hoping you will show up. 00:25:16.100 --> 00:25:21.700 So write down things God says from his word write down things 00:25:21.700 --> 00:25:24.100 that he says to you directly write down things that he 00:25:24.100 --> 00:25:26.600 speaks to you prophetically write it down. 00:25:27.900 --> 00:25:30.300 The only reason you should not write it down is because you 00:25:30.300 --> 00:25:33.200 are here with your spouse and your spouse is writing it down 00:25:33.500 --> 00:25:36.300 if your spouse ain't writing it down write it down. 00:25:38.900 --> 00:25:40.600 Write down things that stand out. 00:25:42.400 --> 00:25:44.300 Are you guys writing things down because I don't see your 00:25:44.300 --> 00:25:45.100 spouses here. 00:25:51.200 --> 00:25:58.100 Keep an album of God's faithfulness, but the reason we 00:25:58.100 --> 00:26:02.000 keep albums at home is so that we can pull it out when guests 00:26:02.000 --> 00:26:04.800 who haven't shown up for a while come and you don't know 00:26:04.800 --> 00:26:05.600 what to talk. 00:26:06.000 --> 00:26:09.400 No, no, these are albums of God's faithfulness that you pull 00:26:09.400 --> 00:26:13.100 out every so often because you want to remind yourself Psalm 00:26:13.100 --> 00:26:16.900 42 verse 3 these things I remember as I pour out my soul 00:26:17.100 --> 00:26:20.500 how you how I used to praise the Lord among the happy crowd. 00:26:22.200 --> 00:26:24.000 Keep an album of his faithfulness. 00:26:24.500 --> 00:26:28.900 I go over these pictures a 1970 a big man with a big hand 00:26:28.900 --> 00:26:31.800 comes and puts his hand on my head and says this boy will 00:26:31.800 --> 00:26:32.600 be a man of God. 00:26:35.600 --> 00:26:42.000 1983 or 1977 I was 13 Eva's age a guy comes and says you need 00:26:42.000 --> 00:26:45.600 Jesus and Jesus will change your life and I'm bawling like 00:26:45.600 --> 00:26:49.300 a kid because I don't know what it means, but I know that he's 00:26:49.300 --> 00:26:49.900 right. 00:26:49.900 --> 00:26:54.600 1999 in Seattle Pastor Mike and I walk into a house and a 00:26:54.600 --> 00:26:56.100 man says, what's your name? 00:26:56.100 --> 00:26:56.800 I said Jacob. 00:26:56.900 --> 00:26:57.700 He said Jacob. 00:26:57.700 --> 00:27:00.100 I want you to know that you are special to God and then he 00:27:00.100 --> 00:27:03.400 begins to say stuff and as usual bowling is my favorite 00:27:03.400 --> 00:27:04.900 thing to do when God says anything. 00:27:08.900 --> 00:27:11.600 Go over your album remind yourself. 00:27:12.900 --> 00:27:17.100 I want you to know that you are special to God and then he 00:27:17.100 --> 00:27:18.100 begins to say stuff. 00:27:18.100 --> 00:27:20.100 Go over your album remind yourself. 00:27:31.100 --> 00:27:31.900 I could go on man. 00:27:31.900 --> 00:27:35.100 I've got an album but why go there right now? 00:27:39.100 --> 00:27:44.500 If you aren't confident about God then can I help you start 00:27:44.500 --> 00:27:45.300 right now? 00:27:45.300 --> 00:27:48.500 Confidence of belief in God begins with believing in Jesus 00:27:48.500 --> 00:27:52.000 Christ his son and so why believe in Jesus Christ his son 00:27:52.500 --> 00:27:58.000 because he why believe in Jesus Christ his son because he 00:27:58.000 --> 00:27:59.600 makes God visible. 00:28:00.200 --> 00:28:01.900 He makes God visible. 00:28:02.100 --> 00:28:07.000 It's a historical fact that Jesus Christ was a historical 00:28:07.000 --> 00:28:11.300 figure who died on a cross that cannot be contradicted. 00:28:11.400 --> 00:28:12.800 He makes God visible. 00:28:13.100 --> 00:28:15.200 He takes away your wrong. 00:28:15.800 --> 00:28:17.600 He takes away your wrong. 00:28:22.000 --> 00:28:31.900 He moves you from creation to child. 00:28:34.600 --> 00:28:36.100 God becomes your father. 00:28:43.200 --> 00:28:51.100 He becomes the master or Lord of your destiny and life. 00:28:56.400 --> 00:28:58.000 He lives with you forever. 00:29:04.000 --> 00:29:05.600 And you live with him forever. 00:29:06.400 --> 00:29:07.600 Now watch this. 00:29:07.600 --> 00:29:15.200 I say watch what happens when you do not want God in your 00:29:15.200 --> 00:29:15.700 life. 00:29:17.600 --> 00:29:21.100 You do not know God because he's no longer visible because 00:29:21.100 --> 00:29:22.700 you're not willing to recognize him. 00:29:23.400 --> 00:29:27.900 Your sins or your wrongs are not taken away and you die with 00:29:27.900 --> 00:29:28.800 guilt and sin. 00:29:29.900 --> 00:29:32.100 You stay a creation of God. 00:29:32.400 --> 00:29:35.100 You never move to that place where you're a child of God 00:29:35.800 --> 00:29:37.600 your creator God. 00:29:38.900 --> 00:29:43.100 You do not know him and he does not become your father. 00:29:44.500 --> 00:29:47.600 Your life is no longer under the control of God. 00:29:48.100 --> 00:29:51.600 Your destiny is at the mercy of people and circumstances. 00:29:52.900 --> 00:29:58.000 And God is not someone you will live with forever because 00:29:58.000 --> 00:30:00.500 you choose not to have him in your life. 00:30:00.500 --> 00:30:06.400 It's crazy the price that Christ paid to make things 00:30:06.400 --> 00:30:06.800 possible. 00:30:06.800 --> 00:30:09.900 So I'm just going to pray right now and if you are here and 00:30:09.900 --> 00:30:14.700 you do not know Jesus Christ as Lord then I suggest that you 00:30:14.700 --> 00:30:18.800 pray with us because sometimes a prayer is just an introduction 00:30:19.700 --> 00:30:22.600 like introducing you to a friend of mine and then from 00:30:22.600 --> 00:30:24.800 there on you can decide what you want to do with the 00:30:24.800 --> 00:30:25.300 friendship. 00:30:26.200 --> 00:30:26.800 Can we pray? 00:30:28.000 --> 00:30:28.900 Let's all pray guys. 00:30:31.500 --> 00:30:33.800 Oh God. 00:30:35.900 --> 00:30:37.200 Can you be a little more audible? 00:30:38.400 --> 00:30:39.900 I can speak in English if you want. 00:30:40.900 --> 00:30:41.200 Okay. 00:30:41.500 --> 00:30:42.100 Oh God. 00:30:46.200 --> 00:30:50.900 Before I can ask you to rescue me from my sins. 00:30:55.300 --> 00:30:57.300 I have to acknowledge that I'm a sinner. 00:31:01.400 --> 00:31:06.100 So right now I say that I have done wrong. 00:31:06.100 --> 00:31:09.600 I have sinned and I cannot make it go away. 00:31:18.000 --> 00:31:20.500 But you paid the price for my sin. 00:31:24.700 --> 00:31:26.000 You died in my place. 00:31:28.800 --> 00:31:29.800 So that I might live. 00:31:31.500 --> 00:31:33.400 It was almost like a life transplant. 00:31:37.200 --> 00:31:41.600 So right now could you please forgive my sins? 00:31:44.400 --> 00:31:47.900 I recognize you as someone who can save me from my sins. 00:31:52.700 --> 00:31:53.900 When you died on the cross. 00:31:56.700 --> 00:31:58.100 Your blood was shed for me. 00:31:59.100 --> 00:32:00.400 Now cleanse me. 00:32:04.800 --> 00:32:07.400 I opened my life to receive you into my life. 00:32:14.700 --> 00:32:18.300 I recognize you as my Lord and my master. 00:32:22.600 --> 00:32:24.000 Jesus from this day on. 00:32:24.000 --> 00:32:26.800 Help me to live a life that pleases you. 00:32:30.400 --> 00:32:33.300 And I know that from this day on. 00:32:34.400 --> 00:32:36.200 I will live with you forever. 00:32:38.200 --> 00:32:39.500 When life here is over. 00:32:41.400 --> 00:32:43.200 It's just a fraction of a second. 00:32:45.400 --> 00:32:48.600 And I'll be alive and with you for an eternity. 00:32:48.600 --> 00:32:49.800 So I thank you Jesus. 00:32:51.200 --> 00:32:53.200 Let your spirit now begin to live in me. 00:32:55.400 --> 00:32:56.800 In Jesus name I pray. 00:32:58.600 --> 00:32:59.400 Amen. 00:33:01.800 --> 00:33:05.000 If you prayed that prayer for the first time or the second time 00:33:05.000 --> 00:33:10.200 or the 15th time, but sincerely, please feel free to come and meet me after. 00:33:12.200 --> 00:33:13.800 Can you please pray for me? 00:33:14.200 --> 00:33:16.200 Please feel free to come and meet me after. 00:33:18.300 --> 00:33:20.200 Okay, the second thing that God does. 00:33:21.500 --> 00:33:26.600 The second intent of the Holy Spirit is that he elevates you. 00:33:29.100 --> 00:33:35.600 To the same richness of relationship. 00:33:35.600 --> 00:33:40.600 That Jesus had with the father. 00:33:50.800 --> 00:33:52.400 That's the second intent of the Spirit. 00:33:52.500 --> 00:34:00.000 Can I elevate your relationship to the same richness that Jesus had with the father 00:34:00.000 --> 00:34:01.400 when Jesus walked the earth? 00:34:01.400 --> 00:34:04.400 Guys, it doesn't matter where you are at right now. 00:34:04.500 --> 00:34:05.700 Do not settle. 00:34:06.000 --> 00:34:07.200 Do not settle. 00:34:08.400 --> 00:34:12.200 You can have the same relationship that Jesus Christ had with the father. 00:34:13.000 --> 00:34:15.400 Can you put up Matthew 11, 27 and 28? 00:34:16.800 --> 00:34:17.800 From the message? 00:34:24.000 --> 00:34:25.800 Matthew 11, 27 and 28. 00:34:25.800 --> 00:34:27.400 Matthew 11, 27 and 28. 00:34:29.000 --> 00:34:30.200 Look at what it says. 00:34:30.200 --> 00:34:37.000 And this was when Jesus was walking with his disciples and he suddenly starts praying out loud. 00:34:37.000 --> 00:34:40.400 And look at what he says. 00:34:40.400 --> 00:34:43.600 Jesus resumed talking to people, but now tenderly. 00:34:45.000 --> 00:34:47.800 The father has given me all these things to do and say, 00:34:47.800 --> 00:34:51.200 this is a unique father-son operation. 00:34:51.200 --> 00:34:54.000 Coming out of father and son intimacies and knowledge. 00:34:54.000 --> 00:34:59.000 No one knows the son the way the father does, nor the father the way the son does. 00:34:59.000 --> 00:35:00.800 But I'm not keeping it to myself. 00:35:00.800 --> 00:35:04.000 I'm ready to go over it line by line with anyone willing to listen. 00:35:04.000 --> 00:35:05.000 Are you tired? 00:35:05.000 --> 00:35:06.000 Worn out? 00:35:06.000 --> 00:35:07.000 Burnt out on religion? 00:35:07.000 --> 00:35:08.000 Come to me. 00:35:08.000 --> 00:35:10.800 Get away with me and you will recover your life. 00:35:10.800 --> 00:35:13.000 I'll show you how to take a real rest. 00:35:13.000 --> 00:35:15.000 Walk with me and work with me. 00:35:15.000 --> 00:35:17.000 Watch how I walk with you. 00:35:17.000 --> 00:35:19.000 I'll show you how to take a real rest. 00:35:19.000 --> 00:35:20.800 Walk with me and work with me. 00:35:20.800 --> 00:35:22.200 Watch how I do it. 00:35:22.200 --> 00:35:25.000 Learn the unforced rhythms of grace. 00:35:25.000 --> 00:35:27.600 I won't lay anything heavy or ill-fitting on you. 00:35:27.600 --> 00:35:32.800 Keep company with me and you'll learn to live freely and light. 00:35:32.800 --> 00:35:34.200 Beautiful, eh? 00:35:34.200 --> 00:35:41.400 Guys, please don't settle for the present relationship you have with God. 00:35:41.400 --> 00:35:43.000 It is not good enough. 00:35:43.000 --> 00:35:44.800 It is not good enough. 00:35:44.800 --> 00:35:46.400 Ask yourself this question. 00:35:46.400 --> 00:35:54.200 Why is it that you are refusing to move out of this circle of relationship with God into 00:35:54.200 --> 00:35:57.400 a new broad place that you haven't experimented with? 00:35:57.400 --> 00:35:59.400 Why is it? 00:35:59.400 --> 00:36:02.400 Why is it that you aren't moving out? 00:36:02.400 --> 00:36:04.400 What are you scared of? 00:36:04.400 --> 00:36:06.400 Because there are genuine things to be scared of. 00:36:06.800 --> 00:36:12.000 Do you know how disastrous a marriage is where a husband has decided that this is how much 00:36:12.000 --> 00:36:14.600 I'm going to love her and it doesn't matter. 00:36:14.600 --> 00:36:18.800 The next 20 years I promise her I'll give her this love every day. 00:36:18.800 --> 00:36:21.600 That marriage is pathetic. 00:36:25.000 --> 00:36:27.000 It's supposed to increase. 00:36:27.000 --> 00:36:30.000 I don't want to come back next Sunday and say, 00:36:31.000 --> 00:36:33.000 It's supposed to increase. 00:36:33.000 --> 00:36:40.000 I don't want to come back next Sunday and have the same relationship I have with Christ today, 00:36:40.000 --> 00:36:42.000 next Sunday. 00:36:44.000 --> 00:36:46.000 It's not even year to year. 00:36:46.000 --> 00:36:48.000 It's week to week, day to day. 00:36:48.000 --> 00:36:54.000 I cannot be the same place I'm at next Sunday as I am today. 00:36:54.000 --> 00:36:56.000 It must increase. 00:36:56.000 --> 00:36:58.000 He's infinite. 00:37:00.000 --> 00:37:06.000 And it never happens in isolation. 00:37:06.000 --> 00:37:08.000 Guys, remember this. 00:37:08.000 --> 00:37:10.000 I've said this before. 00:37:10.000 --> 00:37:12.000 Passion always exposes mediocrity. 00:37:12.000 --> 00:37:14.000 Passion exposes mediocrity. 00:37:14.000 --> 00:37:18.000 The more you hang out with someone more passionate than you in any area, 00:37:18.000 --> 00:37:24.000 the more you will find out, oh shucks, I thought I was good but I suck. 00:37:24.000 --> 00:37:26.000 Passion exposes mediocrity. 00:37:26.000 --> 00:37:28.000 Do not isolate yourself. 00:37:28.000 --> 00:37:36.000 The other thing guys, if you find a better place where you can eat good food, 00:37:36.000 --> 00:37:38.000 go eat it from there. 00:37:40.000 --> 00:37:46.000 I don't know why we, I mean in real life we never stick with restaurants where the food is crappy. 00:37:47.000 --> 00:37:50.000 Why is it when it comes to things like this, 00:37:51.000 --> 00:38:00.000 why is it when it comes to things of God that we refuse to move from our grandfather's background 00:38:00.000 --> 00:38:03.000 because grandfather said this is the best place for you. 00:38:10.000 --> 00:38:14.000 Your grandfather is in heaven weeping saying, I'm so sorry I told you that. 00:38:14.000 --> 00:38:16.000 Please, please move on. 00:38:21.000 --> 00:38:25.000 Passion exposes your mediocrity. 00:38:27.000 --> 00:38:32.000 Do not come back next week the same way you were here today. 00:38:32.000 --> 00:38:35.000 Come back engaged with God more. 00:38:35.000 --> 00:38:37.000 Come back more passionate about God. 00:38:37.000 --> 00:38:39.000 It requires time. 00:38:39.000 --> 00:38:41.000 Find the time. 00:38:41.000 --> 00:38:43.000 Find the time. 00:38:43.000 --> 00:38:45.000 Relationships are built based on time. 00:38:45.000 --> 00:38:49.000 First love is not a lack of love, it's a lack of time. 00:38:49.000 --> 00:38:56.000 I know God better now than I did in 1989 when I became a Christian. 00:38:56.000 --> 00:38:59.000 I did love him tremendously then. 00:38:59.000 --> 00:39:03.000 I love him much more now because I know him better, therefore I can love him better. 00:39:03.000 --> 00:39:05.000 But here's what I don't have. 00:39:05.000 --> 00:39:09.000 In 1989 I had oodles of time for him. 00:39:09.000 --> 00:39:13.000 Now I don't have the same amount of time for him. 00:39:13.000 --> 00:39:15.000 First love is measured in time. 00:39:19.000 --> 00:39:21.000 Ask any wife she'll tell you. 00:39:25.000 --> 00:39:27.000 Next one. 00:39:27.000 --> 00:39:31.000 Hey, so what I'm trying to say with Matthew 11, 27 and 28 is this. 00:39:31.000 --> 00:39:39.000 The Holy Spirit wants to bring you into the same intimacy, the same knowledge, 00:39:39.000 --> 00:39:43.000 and the same trust that Jesus had with the Father. 00:39:43.000 --> 00:39:47.000 This is the yoke that Jesus wears. 00:39:47.000 --> 00:39:49.000 What's the yoke that Jesus wears? 00:39:49.000 --> 00:39:53.000 The yoke of intimacy, the yoke of knowledge, the yoke of trust. 00:39:53.000 --> 00:39:55.000 And he says, hey, come walk beside me. 00:39:55.000 --> 00:39:57.000 Wear this yoke. 00:39:57.000 --> 00:39:59.000 It's life. 00:39:59.000 --> 00:40:01.000 It's life. 00:40:01.000 --> 00:40:03.000 It's life. 00:40:03.000 --> 00:40:05.000 It's life. 00:40:05.000 --> 00:40:07.000 And he says, hey, come walk beside me. 00:40:07.000 --> 00:40:09.000 Wear this yoke. 00:40:09.000 --> 00:40:11.000 It's light. 00:40:11.000 --> 00:40:13.000 It frees you. 00:40:13.000 --> 00:40:15.000 It teaches you the rhythms of grace. 00:40:15.000 --> 00:40:17.000 I've been wearing this yoke right from the beginning of time. 00:40:17.000 --> 00:40:19.000 Before time existed I used to wear this yoke. 00:40:19.000 --> 00:40:21.000 It fits me well. 00:40:21.000 --> 00:40:23.000 It'll fit you well. 00:40:23.000 --> 00:40:25.000 Wear the yoke of intimacy. 00:40:25.000 --> 00:40:27.000 Wear the yoke of knowledge that I can give you. 00:40:27.000 --> 00:40:29.000 Wear the yoke of trust so that you can walk with me and with the Father. 00:40:35.000 --> 00:40:37.000 And the Holy Spirit will increasingly bring you into it. 00:40:37.000 --> 00:40:39.000 Third one. 00:40:43.000 --> 00:40:47.000 Third one is the intent of the Spirit is to bring you 00:40:49.000 --> 00:40:51.000 into 00:40:51.000 --> 00:40:53.000 the maturety 00:40:53.000 --> 00:40:55.000 of Christ. 00:40:55.000 --> 00:40:57.000 Maturity of Christ. 00:40:57.000 --> 00:40:59.000 Meaning His intent is 00:40:59.000 --> 00:41:01.000 can I make you as mature 00:41:01.000 --> 00:41:03.000 as Christ. 00:41:03.000 --> 00:41:09.080 as Christ. His intent is, this is the third primary intent of the Holy Spirit. 00:41:09.080 --> 00:41:17.960 Hey Jacob can I make you as much, excuse me, I don't know why she always starts at 00:41:17.960 --> 00:41:35.000 350. Okay I'll finish in five. Okay he wants to bring you into the same 00:41:35.000 --> 00:41:40.680 maturity that Christ has. Why? Here's the crazy thing, why does the Holy Spirit want 00:41:40.680 --> 00:41:46.280 me to be as mature as Christ? Very simple guys, so that when you see me you will see 00:41:46.280 --> 00:41:55.240 the Father. It's nuts, his intent is nuts. Hey Matt Rachel can I turn your marriage 00:41:55.240 --> 00:41:59.320 into such a mature marriage that when people will see your marriage they will 00:41:59.320 --> 00:42:06.360 see the Father. Hey Chris can I turn your work life into a place of such maturity 00:42:06.360 --> 00:42:10.600 just like Jesus used to work so that when they see you at work they'll see 00:42:10.600 --> 00:42:15.460 the Father. Hey Jacob can I turn your life into a life that is as mature as 00:42:15.460 --> 00:42:19.620 Christ so that even when people aren't listening to you preaching they look at 00:42:19.620 --> 00:42:25.100 your life and say oh shucks this is what God the Father looks like. That's the 00:42:25.100 --> 00:42:37.860 intent. What an amazing job the Holy Spirit has. And that's why you see him 00:42:37.860 --> 00:42:43.780 called names like helper. I mean you want to see what helper looks like? Look 00:42:43.820 --> 00:42:47.400 at these two kids and you'll realize what you are like. Look at the parents 00:42:47.400 --> 00:42:53.660 and you'll realize what helpers are like. Those kids are helpless. The parents are 00:42:53.660 --> 00:42:58.340 helpers. That is who the Holy Spirit is. Jacob I know this is way beyond you. I 00:42:58.340 --> 00:43:02.780 know this is above your pay grade. I know you don't have the wisdom for it. Let me 00:43:02.780 --> 00:43:09.100 be helper. Let me be advocate. Let me be friend and I'll bring you into all these 00:43:09.100 --> 00:43:12.580 things because this is what I'm on the earth for. I'm really good at this 00:43:12.580 --> 00:43:20.900 because I know the Sun like nobody else does. Guys maturing is a process. It's 00:43:20.900 --> 00:43:27.900 like vintage wine. It's not overnight. Maturing requires others around you. 00:43:27.900 --> 00:43:34.020 Perfection is just childish craving of an infant. If you are a perfectionist 00:43:34.020 --> 00:43:43.220 know this you are infantile. Perfection is a childish craving of infants. 00:43:44.660 --> 00:43:49.980 Perfection is a childish craving of infants who want results without 00:43:49.980 --> 00:43:55.660 relationship and who want the letter of the law without the joy of learning. 00:43:55.660 --> 00:44:00.820 Perfection is the childish craving of an infant who wants results without 00:44:00.980 --> 00:44:09.580 relationship. It's impossible to make vintage wine without a process. 00:44:11.140 --> 00:44:21.020 Perfectionism is getting an amazingly old-looking bottle with wine inside it 00:44:21.020 --> 00:44:25.340 perfectly poised with a little bit of caviar and some other stuff that they 00:44:25.340 --> 00:44:29.860 have with wine on the side on a nicely laid out table and you feel everything 00:44:29.980 --> 00:44:33.500 is right but the stuff inside the bottle hasn't gone through the process. 00:44:33.500 --> 00:44:42.780 Go ahead Josh. I answered it right? Yeah. Perfectionism is the childish craving of 00:44:42.780 --> 00:44:48.580 an infant who wants results without relationship. When you demand 00:44:48.580 --> 00:44:52.500 perfectionism from people under you, you're doing exactly the same to them. 00:44:52.500 --> 00:44:55.340 You don't want relationship with them. You just want results. 00:45:00.340 --> 00:45:03.980 It's a letter of the law without the joy of learning. It's a letter of the law 00:45:03.980 --> 00:45:07.780 without the joy of learning. It is a letter of the law without the joy of 00:45:07.780 --> 00:45:15.300 learning. I'll stop here. I had just a little more to go but I realized 00:45:15.300 --> 00:45:20.060 someone's got a birthday thing happening today. Got to create time for that. 00:45:20.060 --> 00:45:30.060 You know how you'll know whether you're growing in these things? I'll just read 00:45:30.060 --> 00:45:35.180 it out. One, if you really knew God's heart towards you and if you were 00:45:35.180 --> 00:45:40.780 increasing in relationship with him, you would know no fear. I often ask myself 00:45:40.780 --> 00:45:45.220 this question when I'm afraid. Hey Jacob, how would you live this movement if, how 00:45:45.220 --> 00:45:49.540 would you live this moment if you had no fear? Very often when I suddenly get a 00:45:49.540 --> 00:45:54.500 pang of fear grip my heart or when I'm suddenly aware that, oh shucks, this could 00:45:54.500 --> 00:45:59.900 go wrong and I could lose big time. One of the questions I ask myself at times 00:45:59.900 --> 00:46:05.740 like that is, hey Jacob, how would you live this moment if you had no fear? 00:46:05.740 --> 00:46:15.180 And if I pause and think of it, I think of the myriad possibilities of how I 00:46:15.180 --> 00:46:20.620 could live this moment if I had no fear and then the only place to go to undo 00:46:20.620 --> 00:46:25.980 the fear is run back to the default nature of God and say, father, the spirit 00:46:25.980 --> 00:46:32.100 of God is here to show me how you see me, how you think of me and I'm gonna settle 00:46:32.100 --> 00:46:38.020 myself, nestle myself in the crook of your arm right now and I'm gonna try and 00:46:38.020 --> 00:46:42.940 live this moment without fear. I'm telling you guys, occasionally when you 00:46:42.940 --> 00:46:52.420 hit that sweet spot it is liberating and when you don't try again. 00:46:56.940 --> 00:47:02.620 We'll do the rest later. Let's just pray. 00:47:12.940 --> 00:47:22.540 Do you think you can help us go over these questions this week, Holy Spirit? 00:47:25.340 --> 00:47:31.300 How do you actually see me? How do you actually think of me? Could you give me 00:47:31.300 --> 00:47:35.820 a glimpse? I love it when you give me glimpses of how you actually think of 00:47:35.820 --> 00:47:42.900 me. Either through a prophetic word or through some scripture that jumps out at 00:47:42.900 --> 00:47:46.340 me or even through preaching right now. 00:47:49.580 --> 00:47:53.380 You're so capable of doing this. 00:47:59.780 --> 00:48:05.940 Could you help me this week, Holy Spirit, to step into a place of deeper intimacy, 00:48:05.940 --> 00:48:11.540 of deeper knowledge of who you are and deeper trust? It won't show in a week 00:48:11.540 --> 00:48:19.660 but I'll make that attempt this week. Spirit of God, for my sake and for the 00:48:19.660 --> 00:48:24.460 sake of the church, I can't come back next Sunday the same. I got to increase 00:48:24.460 --> 00:48:29.220 in you this week. A week is seven blooming days, Father. That's a lot of 00:48:29.220 --> 00:48:38.940 time. And Spirit of God, in areas where there are deficits, where there are 00:48:38.980 --> 00:48:53.020 holes, where there are flaws in my maturity, where I don't look at tall like 00:48:53.020 --> 00:48:57.780 Christ. Could you point out one or two areas this week so that work on those 00:48:57.780 --> 00:49:04.780 potholes can begin? So that others will look at Jacob and say, yeah, we knew that 00:49:04.980 --> 00:49:09.380 guy. Man, every time you walked with him, you just couldn't escape the fact that 00:49:09.380 --> 00:49:14.260 God was with him. Every time we saw this area in his life, it was like seeing the 00:49:14.260 --> 00:49:19.620 Father. Father, that's the richest compliment anyone could give me. That's 00:49:19.620 --> 00:49:24.820 what I should put on everybody's gravestone. When we saw him, we saw the 00:49:24.820 --> 00:49:28.180 Father. Ah, shucks. 00:49:28.180 --> 00:49:40.980 Holy Spirit, please grant us these things for Christ's sake. Please. We are 00:49:40.980 --> 00:49:51.060 desperate for this. We are really hungry, really hungry. Father, we're not a very 00:49:51.060 --> 00:49:55.140 expressive people, but we're gonna really express our hunger for this right now. 00:49:55.140 --> 00:50:13.740 Church, use your own words. Please ask. You must understand that the Bible says that when things are being taught, that the 00:50:13.740 --> 00:50:19.620 spirit world actually hangs around to listen. It's in the book. It says that 00:50:19.620 --> 00:50:27.060 angels stoop to hear and they marvel at what is being taught. Angels stoop to 00:50:27.060 --> 00:50:30.940 hear. I would suggest to you both the angels of God and angels from the other 00:50:30.940 --> 00:50:37.900 side. And therefore, when something is taught and there is no response to nail 00:50:37.900 --> 00:50:43.180 down or anchor down what has been taught, birds come to pick the seeds that have 00:50:43.180 --> 00:50:48.060 been dropped. One of the easiest ways to cause seeds to grow roots in your life 00:50:48.060 --> 00:50:54.540 is to respond. Roots spring up immediately when you respond. How did you 00:50:54.540 --> 00:51:00.940 get saved? You believed in your heart and then what happened? You had to confess 00:51:00.940 --> 00:51:06.100 with your mouth. If you only believed in your heart and did not confess with your 00:51:06.100 --> 00:51:12.100 mouth, you realize by Christ's definition you are not saved, right? Again, feel free 00:51:12.100 --> 00:51:14.660 to respond. 00:51:14.660 --> 00:51:22.620 Responding and anchoring things with our words gives seeds roots so that birds 00:51:22.620 --> 00:51:28.220 can't come and pick them up before you get home. And so I'm not saying say amen 00:51:28.220 --> 00:51:32.860 or say yes and all this stuff. I'll get my yeses whenever I want by saying 00:51:32.860 --> 00:51:37.180 something like what I just said. I'm just saying as we conclude now, let's anchor 00:51:37.180 --> 00:51:40.940 this thing by actually opening our mouths and saying to God what we need in 00:51:40.980 --> 00:51:44.660 terms of hunger. Let's do that because that's the way these seeds suddenly 00:51:44.660 --> 00:51:49.020 start germinating. And if you don't, you carry a whole set of seeds home and they 00:51:49.020 --> 00:51:52.020 never grow on your shelf.