I wanted to talk about some of the things we heard on Sunday as it pertains to um receiving the Holy Spirit and and some things that have helped me in my own Christian life. I just wanted to mention because they're things that I didn't hear about too much

kindled and what i see there is that jesus was also distressed yet he had a passion to give the holy spirit and he wasn't just he didn't just have a passion to go to the cross he had a passion to fill me with the holy spirit and what it

i wanted to share regarding what we heard on sunday about seeking the fullness of the holy spirit and specifically asking the question of what do we think god's attitude is towards giving us more of himself more of the holy spirit so we can have

John the Baptist is speaking of Jesus and he says, Jesus Christ will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire. And I think in a lot of my life I've kind of thought of these as the same thing. You know, the Holy Spirit descends on the day of Pentecost as

three things you can see for every day and the three things I thought of our seek to hear God's voice everyday seek to be filled with the Holy Spirit everyday and seek to respond to God's voice and the Holy Spirit everyday and

baptism of the holy spirit accomplishes a radical transformation even in the life of jesus something fundamental happens when the holy spirit comes upon us and gives us power for ministry his brother could his brothers couldn't

C God the father rais Jesus Christ from the dead by the power of the Holy Spirit and right now I'm seeing a lot of scrunched eyes because you're thinking all of those sound good and option D is all of the above the second one Laurel

that has to be revealed to us by the Holy Spirit and he needs to open the eyes of our hearts if you turn with me to Ephesians chapter 1 it's exactly what Paul says about this very idea that the greatness of Jesus Christ in us Paul

just tell you right now it's my conscience my conscience which is breathed into Life by the power of of the Holy Spirit look with me at verse 27 it says while Jesus was saying these things one of the women in the crowd raised her voice and said to him blessed

you're turning there Elliot contracts and others 40 min Lukaku peers however I remember spirit team Johnson despise communal and Kenneth isn't letting the desert for a little over a year and a word was giving them with cameras keep

amazement transferred from what Jesus did in the body to Amazement at what Jesus was doing in and through the church by the power of the Holy Spirit and I was really convicted this week that that sense of Amazement it didn't

witnesses in Acts chapter 1 verse 8 Jesus says you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you and you shall be my witnesses both in

situations must he have gone through for john to be inspired by the holy spirit to say that if you had any idea what he went through in his life the whole world couldn't contain the books think of all of the things he went through why

is a picture of the Holy Spirit and the breath Came Upon them and they came to life and they grew to an exceedingly uh great exceedingly large army and um the the thing that uh that struck me there was that the prophecy alone did

to the conversation really well but I've noticed that after a conversation like that if I'm not as diligent to ask for help and as diligent to ask for the holy spirit's power after giving someone advice I can fall into this trap of

or a big black circle you know it's dark but then the Holy Spirit comes in and this this ray of light comes in and what is God's desire that the that the light starts to crowd out and drive out all of the darkness so that increasingly our

from and have the ability to overcome by the power of the Holy Spirit the temptation to sin in the midst of the difficulties there's a there's a great Psalm which is kind of related to this it's in psalm 66 try not to turn there briefly

receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you and you shall be my Witnesses both in Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria and even to the remotest part of the Earth and a couple things stick out to me from this verse that always comes my mind

and all that we'll study today in that spirit of follow me. And God will enable you to live a victorious life by the power of the Holy Spirit, too. And I was just thinking, it's interesting that at least in the Living Bible it says, "Beware

I would ask you to consider what are you hoping for this next year forget this next year what are you hoping for this week it's easier or forget next week what are you hoping for today when the Holy Spirit says fix your hope

from him in expectation the satisfaction the quenching Holy Spirit which he promises to offer that I don't I don't want to keep coming to him and leaving thirsty I want to come to him and drink and I went I want all of my coming to

um they had something of the holy spirit's uh testimony to themselves i mean they peter said you i know that you're the messiah um and so the holy spirit even had spoken to them and begun his work in them and yet it's amazing how it says uh it says in

father in spirit and in truth and then it says such people the father seeks to be his worshipers so we know the lord's longing for people to be as worshipers in spirit and and then the holy spirit clearly defines what that means