Welcome to PowerPoint with Jack Graham. Pastor, what is your message about today? Today, we're continuing our Distinctives for Disciples series with a powerful and important message about the Holy Spirit's presence in your life. When we pray for a revival, We're asking God to pour out His Spirit upon His people. to fill us, each one of us, with His power and presence.
Too many Christians today are living defeated lives, missing out. In the incredible power that God has given us, which is available to us because of the Holy Spirit. Here's the truth. If you are a believer in Jesus. The same power that raised Jesus from the dead is alive and working in you.
And that comes right out of God's Word. That's not just inspiring. That is truth. It is the miraculous reality of the resurrection in your life because you are a child of God. Let's discover today what it means to live in the presence and the power of the Holy Spirit.
Now, here's Dr. Graham with his message: the Holy Spirit and you. Take God's word. and turn with me to Ephesians the fifth chapter. And we're going to look at verse 18, and this will be a two-part message called The Holy Spirit and You.
The Holy Spirit and you. When we pray for God to have His way and His will to be done. When we pray for revival, we are asking God. to pour out his spirit upon his people. upon his church to revive us.
Again. and to fill us. With his spirit. Ephesians 5:18 says, Don't be drunk with wine, but Be filled. with the Spirit.
This is a message in our Distinctives for Disciples series. About The presence and power of the Holy Spirit in our lives. We've talked about the trustworthiness of God's Word. We've talked about salvation. How we come to know faith in Jesus Christ and how we can be saved, certain, and secure forever in Christ.
We've spoken the last time regarding the will of God, knowing and doing the will of God, finding. Following, fulfilling God's plan because we are made for a purpose on purpose to live out that purpose in the name of Jesus Christ, to glorify God. Our God. And so in order to do the will of God. to obey his commands.
To live a Christ-like life. We are given God's Spirit, the holy. Spirit. We know there are unholy. Spirits.
demonized people. Spiritually unholy. Hamas. Did you know the word Hamaz is in the Bible? Genesis 6 speaks of the word violence.
And the people before the flood, their minds were filled only on evil continually. Hamas is the word, violent, evil violence. And the people were so filled with evil violence that God destroyed them all in the flood, save Noah and his family, who believed in God. Yes, there are demonized spirits an unholy spirit Satan himself and the works of the enemy. But thank God.
Greater is he that is in you and me than he that is in the world. And we have the Holy Spirit who is alive in us. The Holy Spirit has been described the missing person of the Trinity. The Trinity being the Godhead. God is one.
There is one God. We learned that from the Old Testament scriptures, and it's true. There is one God, and we're to worship God and Him only. God has expressed himself in three Persons. Thus the Trinity.
And we meet the triune God throughout the pages of Scripture: God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit. We see the Holy Spirit. Not as optional, but co-equal, co-eternal, co-essential. With God the Father and God The Sun. Please do not view the Holy Spirit as an option, like you may have on your car that you haven't figured out how to use yet.
or on your cell phone. No, the Holy Spirit is present always with God. In creation, the Holy Spirit was present. When God created the heavens and the earth, we're told in Genesis 1 that the Spirit of God was moving upon the face of the waters. And in creation, therefore, God like in Christ, who is the creator of the cosmos.
God the Father, God the Son, God the Spirit present in creation. God the Father, God the Son, God the Spirit present in Christ Himself when Jesus came. The Holy Spirit. Overshadowed. The womb of Mary, and Jesus was conceived.
The Messiah was born by the work and the will of the Father. the Son and the Holy Spirit. and therefore present. in Christ, perfectly present. Jesus was anointed by the Spirit.
Baptized by the Spirit. He was the most spirit-filled individual who ever walked on the face of the earth. Co-equal, co-eternal, co-essential with Christ himself, and then the Spirit Himself. God's Holy Spirit. Present in the Christian.
That's why I'm calling this message. The Holy Spirit and you. Because you If you are a believer and follower of Jesus. If you know God. It is because God's Spirit He is alive.
in you. And therefore, we ought to live in the fullness of His Spirit. We're going to be talking about. What that means. God is one.
But he expressed himself in three persons. Have you noticed how We often see How things come in threes. It's called the rule of three, and I've seen it in many ways and many different expressions through. Uh the years. For example, a sermon, every good sermon ought to have three points.
The best sermons, and this has been proven to be true, people can hang on about three points. You get 10 points, nine points, seven points. Every sermon ought to have at least one point. Can I get an amen? It ought to be at least one point in the sermon.
But typically, a sermon unfolds at about three points.
So you see that in speaking, in public speaking, if you do any public speaking. I'm told that interior design. that when like you frame a room With pictures, you do it in threes. And even furnishings, furniture around the room that you set it up in threes.
Now, I know nothing about what I'm talking about right now, but I read it on the internet, so it must be true, right? In threes. When I didn't read this on the internet, what I read in God's Word is 1 Thessalonians 5:23 that says that we're to be sanctified, body, soul, and spirit. Men Humankind, men and women, are made like God in three parts. Father, Son, Holy Spirit, but we have a physical life, a body, we have a soul, that's the word psyche, psychological life, the mind, the emotions, the will, and we have spiritual life when we have life in Christ.
So we are in three parts. We are a trinity. as well. Body, soul, spirit, Father, Son, Holy Spirit.
So Understand this about the Holy Spirit first of all. That the Holy Spirit Lives in every Christian. His presence is in every believer's life.
Now Don't let that just go over your head because maybe you've heard it before. Our core beliefs are essentials, the fundamentals. We never grow beyond the fundamentals. Winning Christians live the fundamentals and practice the essentials, the core beliefs of the faith.
So we need to know what we believe and why we believe it. To those of you who may not be believers or you're brand new believers, you Maybe don't understand at all who the Holy Spirit is and what the Holy Spirit does in our lives.
So, this is gonna be an important teaching for us. But here's the point. This is a miracle. A miracle. That we share according to First Peter.
The divine nature. We are not God. That's new age. Philosophy. But God is with us.
God is in us. Jesus is alive in us.
So, when you get up in the morning and look into the mirror, rather than give yourself all these, you know, personal self-affirmations. I'm good enough, I'm strong enough, I'm great enough. Instead of that, why don't you look in the mirror and say, I am a child of God, indwelled by the Holy Spirit of God. His deity inhabits my humanity. Jesus is alive in me this day, and therefore, Lord, fill me with your Holy Spirit.
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Now let's get back to today's message. the Holy Spirit and you. Um Turning your Bibles. You're in Ephesians 5. Go back a few chapters to Ephesians chapter 1 and I want to show you what this power is all about.
Ephesians 1, 19 and 20. This is not some Mickey Mouse power. This is the power of God in us. And what is the immeasurable greatness of his power? And while you're reading with me here, I want you to maybe check off just some of the words that you see.
in this passage that have to do with power or strength. And what is the immeasurable greatness of his power, dunamis, which is dynamic in our language? Today or toward us who believe. According to the working of his great might, I'm helping you, that he worked in Christ when he raised him from the dead and seated him at his right hand in the heavenly places. Paul ransacks His own vocabulary using multiple words to describe the power of God in the Christian.
It is this immeasurable power, the immeasurable greatness of his power. It is the working of God according to his great might, and it is the power of the resurrection. The same power that raised Jesus from the dead is alive and working in you as a Christian. That's a miracle. This is who you are.
God is always working. By the power of Christ in you, Christ in you, the hope of glory. And oh, how we need. This power Power The power of the Spirit of the Living God. To break The power of addiction.
It's sin. and habits that hold us back. To heal our hurts. Oh, how we need the spirit. of the living God.
to calm our fears. And to heal our hurts. To strengthen us for the task at hand. To engage and empower our prayers when we pray. When we pray for revival, this is the work of God.
This is the work of the church. And oh, how we need the power of God to stand courageously and convictionally in our generation. It's not always easy to stand. And if it's up to me and you, we would fail. We would fall.
But we have the power of the resurrected Christ alive in us. Not just the power of the resurrection, but the power of the risen one, Jesus Himself. Christ is in us. We need the power to be able to share our faith. In our generation, it is so vital.
in this world at the end in which we are living. That we be effective witnesses and how are we going to do that? Acts chapter 1 and verse 8, but you shall receive power after the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you shall be my witnesses in Jerusalem, Judea, Samaria, and to the ends of the earth. Yes, the power of the risen one, the power of the resurrected one, the power of the one who is at the throne of God is alive and working in us. Which means not only is the presence of God in every believer, but the power of God is in every Christian.
When we allow him to fill us. and live in the fullness of his spirit. The end. We can walk in victory. Why are so many Christians defeated?
Why are so many people? Living. Beneath their privileges as the children of God. Why are you overcome rather than overcoming. the power of sin and Satan in your life.
When Jesus is alive in you, His Holy Spirit is presence in you. What? 1 Corinthians 6:19, do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit? Therefore, glorify God in your body, which belongs to God. That means in your life.
So I'm saying. The Word of God is telling us. The Holy Spirit is present. The question is, is he... Predominant in your life?
Is he filling you in all his fullness? He is resonant, but is he real? in you. The fullness of the Spirit just comes as we walk in the Spirit day by day, as we yield. to the Spirit of God in us a step at a time.
A day at a time. As we just sweetly respond and surrender. To the Spirit of God in our life each day. That's the fullness of the Spirit. Before we close this message, let me give you ways that I believe the Holy Spirit works in us.
Right now, the Holy Spirit in you, number one. The Holy Spirit prompts. Prompts. And by that, I'm referencing Romans 8, 14. Which says, as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are the children of God.
Just as we talked the last time about Walking in the will of God. Living in the Spirit of God. We are aligning our will with the will of God, and the Holy Spirit will prompt us. Through his word, the scripture, as we're consistently, faithfully opening up God's word. And By His Spirit who is in us.
Who prompts us not with holy hunches or You know, just guesswork. But God's work in us, the Holy Spirit, prompting us as we live. The Holy Spirit prays. Romans 8, 26 and 27. The Spirit of God intercedes with us, helps us in our weakness, for we don't know how to pray as we ought, but the Spirit Himself intercedes with us with groanings too deep for words.
And he who searches hearts knows what is the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for the saints according to the will of God.
So, when we don't know how to pray, when we come up against a situation, maybe a crisis, and we're even too hurt. to know what to pray. The Holy Spirit prays for us anyway. I spoke with someone this week who said, I don't even know how to pray about this. And I said, that's okay, we're going to pray with you.
and the Holy Spirit is going to pray in you. until you can pray for yourself. The Holy Spirit is our partner. In prayer. The Holy Spirit pours out his love.
The Holy Spirit pours Romans 5:5. The Holy Spirit pours out his love in us by the Holy Spirit. Romans 5:5. And then the Holy Spirit proves. The message of the gospel.
How do we know that we are saved? The Holy Spirit witnesses within us. Romans. Chapter 8, verses 15 and 16. For you did not receive the spirit of slavery to fall back in fear, but you have received the spirit of adoption as sons, whom we cry, Abba, Father.
The Spirit himself bears witness with our spirit that we are the children of God.
So I know that I am saved, and you should too, because the Spirit of God tells you. You say, how does that work? How do I know? I can't describe it to you. I just know that I know that I know because the Holy Spirit witnesses within me, the witness of the Spirit, that I am a child of God.
And you can know the same.
So the Holy Spirit proves He proves the gospel message, even as I'm preaching and sharing the gospel. When I say Christ died for your sins and rose again on the third day, and if you put your faith and trust in him and repent of your sins and receive Christ, he will save you. The Holy Spirit comes alongside of that message that you just heard. and speaks right to your heart. This is the truth.
This is right. You need to confess your sins and receive Christ as your Savior. That's the work of the Holy Spirit. You don't... Get saved just anytime you feel like it.
This is the work of the Holy Spirit. This is why you shouldn't grieve the Holy Spirit by saying no and no and no to the work of the Holy Spirit in your life. But say yes.
So the Holy Spirit proves the message of God, the Holy Spirit partners with His church. The work of Christ and His church. Is emboldened and empowered by the Holy Spirit. If we're going to have revival, it's because the Holy Spirit moves among us as His people. The Holy Spirit partners with His church in gifting His children with spiritual gifts in order that we may do the work of the ministry.
And then the Holy Spirit protects. and preserves. Philippians 1.6. He who began the good work in you. We'll perfect it, perform it, complete it until the day of Jesus Christ.
Why do we keep believing? Why do we keep persevering? Why do we keep going? Why do we keep trusting in God? Not because we're that strong, but because the Holy Spirit is strong in us.
The Holy Spirit is persevering. When we talk about the perseverance of the saints, we're really talking about the perseverance of the Holy Spirit in us, who perseveres. And what God starts, He finishes.
So don't tell me that God is going to walk away from you, his investment. He died for you. His blood was poured out for you. He purchased you as his dear child. And his spirit resides in you to complete the work of God.
God's not finished with me yet, thank God. God's not finished with you yet. He's still working in the seen and the unseen. But this is the work of the Holy Spirit, authenticating and affirming that we belong to Jesus. It's called the baptism of the Spirit when we are immersed into Christ.
This is not something we do for ourselves. This is what God does for us. He baptizes us, places us in the body of Christ, and then He seals us unto the day of redemption. A seal was a Roman seal. It's stamped with authenticity on legal documents.
We're told that the Holy Spirit is the authenticator, and He stamps us with the image and identity of Jesus Christ. We are therefore protected. And the Holy Spirit promises. To take us. to glory.
We have all of him in all who name His name. This is the Holy Spirit. And new. This is the Holy Spirit. in you.
filling you and fulfilling his promise in you. We have eternal life in Christ. God gave us eternal life in the work of Jesus on the cross and the resurrection. And Jesus promised abundant life, and then he gave us the Holy Spirit to assure us of abundant life. Many Christians, unfortunately, have eternal life, but they're not living an abundant life because you don't know the presence and the power of the Spirit of God in your life.
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Pastor, what is your PowerPoint for today? As we end today's program, I want you to think about something with me. Picture a mansion with every room fully furnished. Every light switch installed every electrical outlet in place. The power lines run through the house.
The connection is there. But there's a big problem. The main breaker switch is off.
So the house sits in darkness, the appliances are useless, and the potential remains untapped. That mansion is your life as a believer. God has wired you for His glory. He has installed every spiritual connection that you need. And the Holy Spirit, God in you, Christ living in you, is your power source.
And he is ready and available. But the question remains: have you turned the switch on? And by that, I mean have you invited the Holy Spirit to take control, to take command of your life?
Some of you are feeling spiritually powerless. relationally broken and emotionally drained. You feel stuck in your Christian life. You've been trying to live the Christian life in your own strength. flipping light switches here and there in a dark house.
But today, you've been reminded that divine power, God's power, flows through this divine connection that we have with Him. Others of you aren't believers yet. But you've been watching. You've been looking at Christians some. And I have to apologize for this.
have been living as though the power switch is off. But don't let their dim light keep you from the one who is the light of the world. Jesus Christ loves you. He died on the cross for your sins. He rose again.
And if you will invite Christ into your life by trusting Him as your Lord and Savior, repenting and receiving Christ into your life, He will come in, and by the power of His Spirit, His presence will indwell you. Right now, wherever you are spiritually, this is your moment. This is your miracle. If you need to receive Christ as your Savior, don't let another minute go by without settling this eternal question. If you're a believer, who is living beneath your privileges?
then this is your invitation to allow the Holy Spirit to control you. as you yield your life to Him. The same spirit. who was there at creation. who raised Jesus from the dead.
Who birthed the church on the day of Pentecost? This wonderful, blessed Holy Spirit. wants to do a new life work in you today. The question isn't about his willingness or his power to do it. The only question that remains is will you surrender your life?
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