Receive [Part 2]

Pastor, author and Bible teacher Alan Wright wing pulling a parachute and it goes what's it like coming down and it is in that event, you don't care Alan.org that's pastor out.Margie or call 877-544-4860 877-544-4860. More on this later in the program but right now let's get started with today's teaching here is Alan Wright. I was intrigued by RC was beautiful. The spiritual and fun and she she came, Bible study, and she said that she had been. There was some visiting speaker on campus and some kind of find healing meetings at all and she had gone and she said I think that our Bible study. We should go we were all kinda get interested in who the Holy Spirit and so she talked us into going and so we went out it was the first time I've ever been in a meeting where people were really worshiping passionately lifting their hands to the Lord in all, you know, I grew up in the Lutheran Church and and then I've been a great evangelical nondenominational church never seen this, I was honest I wasn't comfortable with it, but I was thinking this seemed happy and I was appealing to me and so we listen, and there was prayer for healing look like God was doing things in and fill like God was there and so at one point this fantasy set every head bowed her are close in on what about her had he said now who wants to be filled with the Holy Spirit and in our heads about and I'm just peeking a little bit left and right, and I like to and and finance it will sure I do. And all of a sudden he says there are a whole row of them and the only people that raise her hand where I Bible study we just stuck out like a sore Psalm. I guess were the only people didn't have a Holy Spirit I don't know but anyway we went out for prayer. I'll tell you the rest of that story sometime but my experience was not good when that night I was like I feel uncomfortable people. All these people around me, laying hands on me and they were polite like we teach our people be polite, asked somebody before you go throw your hands all over amino can I lay my hand gently on your shoulder to know that the Ford I mean these are good people, but this is what was going in their mind fresh meat. You know I mean it was just like I was I would using Holy Spirit today and I just was like that's not the way I received from God. You know if I feel manipulated or anything.

I just got Shut down and so I was all shut down the rest the bottles I will came outside that school auditorium world going.

Oh, that was uncomfortable.

I did like that rare by saying all that, except this growing and and sees his client were like that was bad for you to choose like what I did something happen to you is like well and I think a star fallen in love with her.

From that day on, because I was so intrigued by what was going on.

This mysterious and who had begun experiencing voice. Actually sent me on a road becoming thirsty to receive from God, and I look back so often all that experience and that evangelists and who wants me fill the Holy Spirit almost just chuckle at the question because now that I know the Holy Spirit so well. It seems to me the silliest question in the world decided who wants to be filled with the Holy Spirit. The questions not be filled always.

The question is who want to be filled Holy Spirit.

Do you know this is the third person of the triune God. He is asked 16 seven this. Jesus you love Jesus. The Holy Spirit is Jesus's own spirit is like saying who was at lunch with Jesus today. I do who would like to have Jesus lead your Bible study tomorrow. I like that the Holy Spirit is the person of Jesus in the spirit to spirit of Jesus would want to be filled with them is the greatest teacher in the world. John 1613, Jesus said when the spirit of truth, he will guide you into all the truth. Jesus said when the Holy Spirit comes, he will guide you into all truth. He is the greatest teacher in the world.

He is the all knowing God.

I think of him as the best coach you could ever you don't coach makes all the difference. I mean I wish I just had to check and let you know who highest-paid college football coaches are Nick Sabin, Alabama, and Dabo Sweeney at Clemson.

Both make over $9 million a year.

We will pay for a good coach at least some I will pay for a good job and the Holy Spirit is an omniscient, all loving, all wise coach who knows what you're ready for you then put you into a training program that you're not ready for. He takes you step-by-step he's is beautiful is wonderfully cc here is he's the one who bring spiritual fruit, love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. Who doesn't want that.

He brings gifts supernatural gifts will go talk next week about overview the spiritual gifts variety of gifts, who wouldn't want to be able to have mercy instead of judgment for people who wouldn't want to be powerful in your intercession. Who wouldn't want to be out here secrets from heaven and share them so that people's lives are changed. Who wouldn't want to have the joy of generosity rather than stinginess.

Who wouldn't want to be able to join hands with someone speak words of healing and be healed.

I want that and he is the deposit guarantee of our inheritance. Ephesians 113 in him you also, when you heard the word of truth, the gospel, your salvation, and believed in him were sealed with the promise Holy Spirit is the guarantee of our inheritance. It's like the image of selling a house and someone gives you earnest money like I'm gonna pay you the whole amount that I meant to give you some now nonrefundable prepayment that is proof that I will finish this and so what Paul saying here's the Holy Spirit is is a deposit that guarantees to you that the entire spiritual inheritance is yours.

All of heaven is yours and so I'm giving you the spirit so you will have a guarantee that's who you are an air coat where were Christ in God's gonna come back in the person of Jesus and consummate all things glorify you and take you into a new heaven and a new earth, but all you have the Holy Spirit now who would want more of heaven now the question is not who wants to be filled Holy Spirit questions.

Who would why wouldn't we. Well, there are several reasons you know that come to mind. Part of it is I think a lot of people just haven't heard much of the Holy Spirit. Austin here that much of the Holy Spirit. We begin that little Bible study in college I is a interesting story in acts chapter 19 we won't look at the whole story, but they these people think they rested you receive the Holy Spirit when you believed they said no we have any harder Holy Spirit. I think a lot of Christians in our country that you know that they their site. I Holy Spirit is so ignorance of end of something that is for you, could prevent you from receiving.

You have an inheritance and you didn't know you had it you might not appropriate. That didn't mean that you earn it by just discovering it just means you have faith, or because now shares you know what yours so we need not be ignorant right will have more teaching moment from today's important series better marriage. You don't need marketing you need more good news.

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I still have value.

The intellect God made the brain and the brain's is remarkable. This brain is the pinnacle of all creation may not describe to me the brain in general that you can think and process. He made the intellect and made us in his own image, because he is not a word to describe is just the genius just blows your mind to think this intelligence so I thought that when you get filled Holy Spirit. More and more that that make you into a and you chop your brain off you know what I thought.

And no, silly with the creator who made the mind do anything to make you shut off. Instead, the Holy Spirit. He is author of creativity. He is the inspiration of genius need to be filled with the Holy Spirit so I can think. I can think straight without my didn't know that at first I was worried about that. Some people are concerned about excessive manipulation and I'm concerned about that to because I you know in an old and I value the authentic and we put a big value on not manipulating people you know and we seen excesses access and everything right and Dr. Sam storms a series just said it well is it just because you seen something that is done poorly and then mean that you shouldn't do it rightly. Don't let some negative image you got your mind keep you from authentic experience of the Holy Spirit, only to say this.

Also I see, where will is is he gonna make me do some weird like you I'm a member think alike. I don't want I don't want to lift my hands or I don't want you know I will just tell you this, God is so good he starts touching the deepest places your life fixing things that need to be fixed. Healing things that need to be healed. Empowering places that were dry and you start feeling joy when you stepped you know what you don't care about other stuff is about it and rototilled our churches last serious airplanes and he's been so kind to fly me all over conferences and the serous is a single engine plane that nifty little plane but it's got a interesting feature that was always been consolation to me. It has a parachute is the only plane that has a parachute is a big red lever and sugar be an emergency, you put the throttle down and pulled his red lever and the whole plane has a giant parachute that comes up, and every body that is had a parachute serous because of engine failure or whatever has lived that you might be dangling in a tree somewhere or something you know. But, and so every time I got asked that Bob remind me how you pulled his left, in case you end this plane are disabled. I want to make sure I know how to pull the parachute to give you a review of the lesson and one day I asked him I said when you pulling that parachute and it goes up what's it what's it like coming down and he said in that event, you don't care that you care for the Holy Spirit loves you and take you into some, excesses that he just got and I think I want to just say that one of the biggest obstacles I had and I just say this quickly is that a lot of us just don't feel worthy feel like God might not want to have an abundant life listener John Piper is also well God is most glorified when you're most delighted. He's a father and when you love your children is a hard thing to explain that a parent can understand this, you are happier for something good to happen to them than you are for yourself and God the father he wants you have life more. This is about your worthiness. It's about the worthiness of Jesus Christ and so you don't have to do something. Something more, be more holier, be more committed also to the Colossians in chapter 1, giving thanks to the father who has qualified you to share in his inheritance of the Savior qualified in Jesus and Joel had prophesied it, that the spirit will be poured out on all flash, so promise of Scripture is the command of Scripture receive John 738. This he said about the spirit. Verse 39 those who believed in were to receive John 2022 and when he said this, he breathed on them and said to them, receive the Holy Spirit. Acts 18 you will receive power, acts 238 repent and be baptized in the name of Jesus, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit acts 814 depositors heard Samaria had received the word of God and so they came and pray they might receive the Holy Spirit. We could go on and on.

Acts 817 they laid their hands on them and they received the Holy Spirit. There it sounds counterintuitive, but I would like to say that the biggest obstacle to receiving the Holy Spirit is the think that there's some hope you got a jump through in order to save the Holy Spirit saying to the people you think your idea that you gotta be a little bit more righteous by practicing some Jewish rituals. You put a little bit in here. That's the actual things that keep you from receiving because the Holy Spirit is a gift so it's kind of a Leica silly question almost something silly question is to to me is like driver third of three teenage boys is almost like saying what how you as a teenage boy receive food when the mother puts it on the table what you got three boys compete for the food goes on the table.

No, I have to say I have the steps to receiving food, you just hungry and you just get it and know there are no obstacles to you receiving more more from God and he meets us each different ways and asking trust because the real question is not who wants to be filled with the spirit, the rope wouldn't want to be for the Holy Spirit: writing good news message today titled receiving from the series higher power with his pastor Alan is back, you're in the studio assuring a parting good news thought for the day before we close out the back. You're just a moment better marriage. You don't need marketing you need more good news. Marriages like people change pricing and affect, or even principles change by the gospel of grace sessions and lead you and your spouse into a fresh encounter with God's grace.

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They will in order for me to be like that and then your introducing your human fellow I got to have courage, or I get to be no willing to step out of my comfort zone when really it's the receiving is about the pizza it's it's it's all in one bundle, write a lesson are those that hunger and thirst for they will be filled and so I think that you know my job is to help you be in touch with the hunger and thirst that you have from God, and what we been doing today is just exposing some of the potential obstacles to receiving because I think this will really do is let's is not seven steps to receiving the Holy Spirit and not five ways to get more of the Holy Spirit in Lycoming were talking about the reality of God himself who comes in a mirror: takes up residence in your life about what we are talking about is getting rid of some of the things that might stand in the way and I've shared a few that were moaning on a particular maybe one in with this that maybe you identified with me when I said you know the time of my life. I thought that in order to really receive. I will have to turn off my intellect and it kept me back for a while.

The think and what I realizes what how silly a notion God through the Holy Spirit created intellect is not here to make us drop off our mind. He may need to mind your intellect is heightened when you submit more more fully to God what you're doing is not earning her right to have more of the Holy Spirit. You're just making more of yourself available to the very presence of God so want you to experience.

He is the giver of gifts is the giver of fruit.

He is the teacher that you need so may you be filled with the Holy Spirit. It's just that simple. Thanks for listening today. Visit us online@pastor.org or call 877-544-4860 877-544-4860 if you only caught part of today's teaching. Not only can you listen again online also get a daily email devotional that matches today's teaching delivered right to your email inbox free. Find out more about these and other resources@pastor.org that's pastor out.org. Today's good news message is a listener supported production Alan Wright Ministries