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August 22, 2022 12:00 am
Nonentity intact contacted town Stanley August 22 believe God is leading how much confidence do you have that he can take it back. Today's podcast helps you understand more about the Holy Spirit. Our helper for all occasions. Have you ever wished you had on 11 number that rang in heaven because I think all about submitted those jobs in a life where either the word difficult situations are sometimes critical, or even sometimes desperate. We needed help. So where do you turn when you need help will people usually turned all different kinds of things that it help those people who deny that they even need help what they do they serve you not think I can handle it then. Though those folks who just stuff it they just decide they gonna make it work know about of what they just go on in life, refusing to acknowledge the fact they needed help from anybody but the truth is we all do and sometimes people think it's about of weakness to accept the fact that what I need help at this point it's not about of weakness. It's about just being human. And if you think about it. For example, when Jesus was in the garden of Gethsemane and he was about to be crucified. The next day in he was undergoing some real heart ache in real pain as he thought about being separated from the father. It's interesting what he said he sent his disciples. He said I'm grieved and distressed.
And he said my soul is deeply grieved to the point of death remain here and keep watch with me at that moment in his humanness, he needed their presence. He needed the assistance of their presence with him he needed to feel their presence. He soon was not weak, yet there are moments all around lives when we do need help. For example, you have a flat tire at 4 o'clock in the afternoon on any Atlanta Expressway run up against the wall you desperately need help believing are you break your leg you need help.
Your heart gets broken. You need help all of us at times in our life need help.
The issue is where do we go, what can we do and is there any real help in sometime we see situations that it appears that nobody else in the world to help us then what do we do what I want you to turn if you will to John chapter 14 and the title of this message is simply this helper for all occasions.
You and I have a helper for all occasions. No matter what those occasions may be. Jesus is in the upper room Gartner to be crucified. The next day. Disciples are confused and frustrated things that are happening all around them and remembering some things that he said now the things that he's telling them seem to be almost a contradiction to them. How can you be the son of God, the Messiah, and still talk about being crucified.
That doesn't make any sense to them at this didn't match at all and so what he's doing.
He is not only comforting them.
He is reassuring them. He is reassuring them in a way that not only it was a reminder to them and ultimately later a blessing as they began the recall of what he said but you and I have the awesome privilege of being blessed by what he promised them every single day of our Christian life and when I think about people who are not aware of this live their whole life and wonder why things just don't work out right. What's missing even in our Christian life and I can remember when I was coming along and I've been preaching a pretty good while in remember asking myself the question, what is there missing in my life I knew that I was saved and I knew that I was trying to serve God with all of my heart that something was missing and what was missing is my awareness. My personal experience with who I want to talk about and what I want to talk about in this message I helper for all occasions and so if you turn the 14 chapter John just a couple of verse reread lots of himself. I hope you have a pencil, a pad and agrees elbow because lots of verses and their all-important and you'll be glad you wrote every single one of them down. He says in verse 16. I will ask the father and he will give you another helper, that he may be with you forever.
That is the spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it does not has not seen him, and does not know him but you know him because he abides with you and will be in you abiding with you now but will be in you. I will not leave you as orphans, I will come to you and so notice what he says now he says I'm going away not believe he is orphans. I will come to you now. I simply want to say first of all, that all of us have I helper for every occasion an outline. I want to go back if you will, to the Psalms for a few moments because I want you to see how absolutely vivid this truth was in the mind and heart of King David. Even as a shepherd before he became a king in certain after he became a king and let's go back if you will start with essays Psalm, Rebecca. Psalm 18.
Go take you through a few Psalms, just as seller which appetite will then give you an idea because 50 times in the Psalms. He refers to the fact that God is his helper in's and one fashion or the other.
So beginning in this 18 Psalm.
He says in my distress I called upon the Lord and cried to my God for help. He heard my voice out of his temple, and my cry for help. Before him came into his ears. Chapter 30. Again, he's crying out expressing the fact that he's crying out to God and asking for help and direction, and so he says beginning in the in this look in verse one of the 30 chapter I will extol you, oh Lord, for you have lifted me up and not let my enemies rejoice of AMI, O Lord my God, I cried to you for help and you healed me, and then if you look in the 63rd chapter for a moment and the sixth and seven versus notice what he says in the sixth verse he says when I remember you in my bed. I meditate on you in the night watches know that's a verse you're on the line because I do believe that is one of the most precious all. Sometimes the life of any kind of believer. Whoever you may be you want to get close to God, you will draw near to him you want to sense his intimacy in your life is nothing like waking up in the middle of the night when it's absolutely dark. No sounds good about the bother you and he says, meditating and thinking upon you in the night watches for you have been my help and in the shadow of your wings sing for joy and so not think about that.
I want to think about for just the moments to find what I hope is all about helper is someone who assess does someone who comes to our aid.
Someone who shall we say someone who serves us, someone who will help us accomplish something either by doing the work for us by supplying as whatever needs we may have whatever supplies are necessary. Someone who will give us encouragement and someone who will remove the obstacles in our life to keep us so that we will be able to accomplish what God's goal is to accomplish and so we talk about a helper we talking about somebody who really becomes involved in our life. And so what we have here is we have the promise of a helper and I go back to this 14 chapter from moment and look if you will notice what he says will take you through because Jesus identifies who this helper is. He says in verse 16 of chapter 14, I will ask the father he will give you another helper, that he may be with you forever.
Watch this. That is the spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it does not seem annoying, you know him because he abides with you now watch this and will be in you.
Now I want you notice the word. Another I will ask the father and he will give you another helper, that word means another just like this when he's he says I'm going to give you some but it just like me, that proof of that size. The word itself is this. He says he may be with you forever.
That is the spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it does not know him. What has not seen, but you know him because he abides with you and will be in your I will not leave your sultans. I will come to you know in a minute.
How can you be leaving me and coming to me at same time because the one he is about to sin is just liking and that is the Holy Spirit.
Look, if you will.
Now the same chapter. Look, if you will. In this 26 versus 14 chapter but that helper, the Holy Spirit whom the father will send in my name, he will teach you all things, and bring all things that he says to your remembrance all that I've said to you, so we see very clearly the Scriptures very credit who this helper is that is our helper for all occasions, is none other than the Holy Spirit that I want to clarify something so that you understand and not be sitting here being confused and listen very carefully to listen, say, men are now watch this. I will explain this so you understand why this emphasis on the Holy Spirit well is look at the recent list look at several scriptures.
If you jot these down. I think this or clarify your mind.
Look, if you will end up the hundred and third Psalm. First of all hundred and third Psalm, and if you will you will mark this verse down is this a verse your hundred third Psalm and the 19th verse list. Think in terms of this way, the Lord has established his throne in the heavens and his sovereignty rules. Overall Hebrews chapter 1, we give you several passes here because he make such a point of this that I don't want to overlook this and I want you to understand it. Hebrews chapter 1 he says, speaking of the Lord Jesus verse three and he that is Jesus is the radiance the glory. He says the radiance of his glory, the exact representation of his nature.
Jesus is like the father and upholds all things by the word of his power, when he that is, Jesus had made purification of sins that he got on the cross he sat down at the right hand of the Majesty that is God the father own high chapter 12 verse two, he says, fixing our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfected our faith, who for the joy set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has set down at the right hand of the throne of God. Very interesting that four times in this book he reminds Ezra Jesus is seated at the right hand of the father making intercession for us.
So therefore we have the father ruling in writing we have the sun see the father's right hand, and he is interceding now we have the Holy Spirit. And if you recall, in this passage that the Scripture says that he he continually talked about him sending the Holy Spirit pieces I will ask the father he will give you another helper, that he may be with you forever. What is he doing the father seated in his Majesty and the throne in heaven, seated his right hand is the Lord Jesus Christ and now nobody said. He said I will send him to you. The father will send him to you the spirit of God is now on the earth, living in the life of every single believer, and what is his work while the father's work is ruling in writing of it all. While the Lord Jesus Christ. He did his right hand is interceding for us all is the Holy Spirit who is not enabling us all the Holy Spirit came in order to enable you and me to become the person's God wants us to be and accomplish and achieve the work that God is separate. That doesn't mean just preaching and teaching.
It means whatever God has called you to do in your life that is the ministry of the Holy Spirit in this life. So therefore we have the father ruling in writing we have the son, interceding, and we have the spirit, enabling us so now given to back them. If we have the father doing what ruling in Randy and the son doing what interceding in the Holy Spirit doing what enabling us and empowering us to do anything and everything that our father has called us to do so when we look at the Holy Spirit. We talk about him being helper for all occasions. For example, he certainly is a personal helper. He's not a thing. He's somebody he's a person of the Trinity. Not only that, he certainly not as being personal but he is a very practical helper because we gonna see in a few moments that he involves himself in your life and mine in every single aspect of our life as believers no matter who we are not know that he is certainly an adequate helper because he is omnipotent and omniscient and omnipresent and that is he has all power to do anything and everything that needs to be done in 3 to 4, and through us. Not all that he isn't available helper because he is living on the inside of us. He indwells is the indwelling spirit of the living God. When you trusted Jesus Christ as your personal savior. Listen not only did he convict you of your sin. Not only give you the gift of faith that only he said you with the gift of the gift to make you eternally secure. He says he's sealed you under the day of redemption.
Now he lives on the inside of us to enable us to be coming to do the things that God would have us to and so therefore God sent him because he knew we could not do the work that God called us to do and so therefore you say well healthwise that true because he said his disciples, he said, Luke, chapter 24 verse 49.
He said you sit here in the city of Jerusalem until you be endued with power from on high. They were not ready and watch them heal hurt him teach watched him and the way he cared about his life and what happens, he said to them is still not ready for the spirit of God anoint you for the workout called you to do. He said in acts chapter 1 verse eight you shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you, and you should be my witnesses both in Jerusalem, Judea, Samaria, and the uttermost parts of their not until the Holy Spirit came.
Remember back in the 16 chapter what he said to them, he said he abides with you and he will be in you, he was not in them living as the sealed Holy Spirit. At that moment, but he solicited the day of Pentecost the Holy Spirit came to indwell the church in the Old Testament, the Holy Spirit came he would come and go up on those whom got a call but now every single believer is in 12 of the very presence of Almighty God in the person of the Holy Spirit. Listen, you and I are inescapable from Almighty God.
He has sealed us missing he decide to live on the inside of us. That should send is an awesome message about our inadequacy missing. He said his disciples. You can do it until the spirit of God comes upon you, lives in you this and they could do it.
We can't do it nobody can do it and the sooner we realize we can't do it never will be what God wants us to be apart from the Holy Spirit then will begin to live the life he wants us to live that through this helper. It every single believer has a bad thing degrees.
Ms. I think about how many people go to church week after week after week they read the Bible accompanist Holy Spirit mythical, who is eight something of you that some denominations some group something never even dawns on them.
Never been taught never understood that he is a person of the Trinity.
You are so loved by God. He so loves you and wants the best for you. He has sent listen not only the Savior to save you, but the spirit of God to enable you to become everything you can possibly be. That's love at the highest that's love. It's the pinnacle that's love at the zenith of all that God can do. If you wonder why God loves you not listen. He hasn't left anything to us. He sent the Savior disables and then the Roswell mess was going to make even a bed in our Christian life. He sent the Holy Spirit to enable us to live the life that he most of the day because he knows we cannot do it is not what I meant this to make sense yes it does because I mate something you cannot live the Christian life that watches we live in fleshly bodies. We have five senses. We have lots of naturalness. Every single one of us to.
We live in a world it's absolutely full of sin and wickedness and rebellion, sensuality, and all the rest. Everywhere you turn there is. You hear it you see it one of the reasons he came is this in order to live through us, a life he knew you and I could never live can do it you not not strong enough. You try all you want to, but it's doomed to failure. It's coming to the realization that I could, that I can't that is not my work that is his work and went on knowing Jesus Christ as my Savior and willing to acknowledge I can't live this life acknowledge the presence and the power of the Holy Spirit to live through me. The life of Jesus Christ. That's when the Christian life begins to express itself. There is, it is not our life. This is what Paul meant when he said in Galatians 220. He says I have been crucified with Christ.
That is, he said you know what he said at his dad to build self because it didn't work. He said nevertheless I live yet not Christ lives in me and the life which I now live on live by the fate of the son of God who loved me and gave himself for me. It is Christ living his life in and through us through the presence and the power of the Holy Spirit. Now when I look at all that I think Lord thank God for the Holy Spirit.
One of mass we'd all be women would know how to pray could read the Bible worth anything when the how to build a sin window how to deal that frustrations and anxieties in our weakness in our frailties. We have to be doing all this is that you know why the submitted frustrated Christian living in defeat because they're trying to do everything I just mention in their own strength and my friend, you might as well give up is not going to happen. It can happen but it can happen if you willing for the spirit of God to really make the seat this or the Bible speaks about vision chapter 5 when he says be filled with the spirit. You know what that means to surrender everything to him just turn it all over him just say I came you can surrender you doing thank you for listening to helper for all occasions. If you'd like to know more about child stammering ministry that my intent that OIG contacted the presentation of InTouch ministries advantage of