Be Filled with the Spirit, Part 3

Life with JD Greer here is enemy number one to be filled.

The spirit versus noise.

519 do not quench the Spirit work which brings what out quench the fire time right quench you quench the spirit person say no, you quench the spirit you say no to God telling the Bible teaching ministry author religion JD Greer. I'm your host Molly, but events you're joining us today. While were in a teaching series called rushing wind studying the third person of the Trinity ever present but often misunderstood spirit. If you missed any of the previous messages or if you want to hear them again.

You can listen online, free of charge. JD Greer.com right now were headed towards the conclusion of the message titled the spirit. Pastor JD is describing what it means to live in the power of the Holy Spirit started by becoming and do not get drunk. Why is debauchery, but be filled with the spirit addressing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody to the Lord with your heart, giving thanks always and for everything to God the father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ there three questions about the fullness of the spirit that I see answered in those three verses. They are, they are first of all, what is the filling of the spirit. And secondly, when are we filled by the spirit and then lastly, how are we bill by the spirit.

Number one what is the filling of the spirit. The word filled in Greek, the Paul uses here literally means permeated are saturated. It's it's it's when every part of you is is consumed with something or you notice the contrast that he draws will be drunk with wine, but be filled by the spirit. When a person is drunk. Alcohol doesn't affect one part of the body consumes all so that your thinking is affected your speech is affected your reflexes are affected now. The contrast that he draws her to alcohol is a good one. Don't be filled with wine, but do be filled with the spirit because there are some ways that mean filled the spirit is similar to being filled with wine.

But then there are other ways that it is very different. So let's talk first about the ways that being filled with water to be billed. The spirit of similar when you are filled with alcohol is filled with alcohol. They lose a lot of their inhibitions is that not true. One of things that happens when the spirit of God comes into somebody is I don't want to start with a a similar way, but in a similar way their inhibitions are removed.

Hopefully not in a chatty annoying way but see that they began to begin to not care as much about things that you should care about because they care about other things. That's how I would say being filled.

The spirit is like being filled with wine right some ways that it is different in the spirit you don't lose control of your mind what you do with alcohol. You gain control.

That's one way stiffer. Here's a satellite in the spirit not deadened to reality and the spirit your awaken to reality.

So here's my point to be filled with the spirit is about being under the control of an absolutely alive to the realities of God in the world fullness with the spirit is a felt sense of the attributes of God right so what is the fullness of the spirit is being filled with and under the control of and alive with the knowledge of God is the second question when we filled with the spirit. When we filled with the spirit. Well, there's a real clue there in verse 18. But how Paul says it be filled with the spirit in the Greek there. That is what I call present imperative that implies continual action in English would literally translate this would be wooden so I don't do that. Be being filled be being filled with the spirit continually something that happens over and over and over again. See there are two different experiences with the Holy Spirit in the Bible, but a lot of people get confuse the first one is what we call the baptism of the Holy Spirit, the baptism of the Holy Spirit happens. Hear me out here happens at salvation say why was you saved on this day I receive Jesus and then three years later I was baptized in the Holy Ghost, that's impossible.

First premium 1213 for we are what we are all baptized by one Spirit into one body roll given the same spirit to drink.

It was the spirit of God that took you out of your sin and baptize you in the body of Christ that spirit baptism you've not been baptized in the spirit you don't belong to Jesus and you're not a Christian to the idea that you're saved in one place and baptize in others is not not possible. Now I know what will I say but I know of some places and asked where somebody was pretty clearly say and then later the apostles laid their hands on them and they were baptized in the spirit and then they spoke in tongues yet understand what's happening in the book of acts. The great commission about great commission was that the Jewish apostles were to take the gospel to every different people group in the world.

Now this was a completely new thing for Jews because up to this point salvation had only been a Jewish state.

The spirit of God had only dwelt in Jerusalem and the Temple and now the spirit of God is going out and all these different people groups as to what God did it. She gave signs that went with the spread of the gospel to validate to the Jews that this was really happening in one of the signs were twofold. One, the apostles would lay their hands showing their endorsement of the movement, and in this people group and then God would give the gift of tongues to this new people to show that he was validating it to show that God no longer to spoke of the Hebrew tongue. He spoke another talks is what you see throughout acts is every time the gospel goes to a new group. You see this ceremony now after the initial ceremony for the group. It's not like every individual member of that group goes in the same ceremony. So what you find is throughout the epistles of Paul writes, he is never telling a believer to seek the baptism. The spirit is telling the believer to access the baptism of the Spirit baptism of the Spirit happens one time when you're saved. While there is one baptism, there are many repeated fillings. Paul is referring to be being filled now to occur frequently every time that you are wanting to know God more power and mission to overcome temptation. That's when you access the fullness of the spirit. Let me tell you why this is important because there are a lot of people a lot of Christians in my experience, who obsess about whether or not they have the Holy Spirit ought to be concentrating on accessing the spirit that they have confidence for power for ministry because the question is no longer do you have the Holy Spirit. The question is how much of you does the Holy Spirit have access there's 1/3 question and how they will be filled by the spirit.

How that will be filled by the spirit as we saw what it was when it happens and how we feel better spirit.

Verse 18 be filled with the spirit addressing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody to the Lord with your heart, giving thanks always and for everything to God the father name of our Lord Jesus Christ is what you see there we see how we filled by the spirit, singing and making melody in our hearts, giving thanks in the name of because of in the name of means because of or for the sake of the Lord Jesus Christ. Now, what exactly does it mean to address one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs every time you walk out a friend like all hell the power of Jesus might know it's I would say when you are when you are addressing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs. And when you are singing and making melody in your hearts to the Lord.

What are you doing on what is going on your drawing on the gospel and it is as positive as you dwell on the gospel, the fullness of the spirit is released in your life. By the way there some discrepancy among scholars as to whether singing and making melody in your heart is the result of being filled by the spirit in verse 18. Whether it's the cause to be filled by the spirit and the answer is both right. The result of being filled by the spirit is a greater understanding and being in greater touch of the gospel, and the result of being a greater touch of the gospel to be filled with the spirit we just got work like that. The results and the cause of fullness of the Spirit's is dwelling on the gospel. What is the gospel to the gospel is the news that God's grace and his mercy loved you enough that he came and substituted for you, and died in your place so that through his marriage, not your own, you could live eternally and have a promise that is secure. The gospel is about the grace of God, not about your righteousness, the gospel is that you were powerless. He was powerful wicked. He was righteous and forgiving the gospel is the news about God, not about you and when you begin to dwell on that.

The spirit of God is released inside of you voluminous treatise on Galatians 3 yellow Galatians 3 fullback of the books in your earlier Bible is really important verse revolt makes the same point. What just let me ask you this. Did you receive the Spirit by the works will all as you receive them by the hearing with faith. What was faith. Does he who supplies the spirit to you present tense and works miracles among you do so by the works will all now or by what continual how did you first get the spirit of faith.

How do you continue to be supplied by the spirit by the hearing the gospel with faith is, as you hear and believe the gospel, that the spirit power is released more greatly inside of you because you become aware of the attributes of God and the reason some of you can be filled by the spirit is you're so filled with yourself. You are so filled with yourself and so out of touch with the gospel that you would never be filled.

God spirit can only be filled your own. The fullness of the spirit comes to those who are most in touch with the gospel, because it is the spirit of adoption and a spirit of grace. So when you say I am wicked. He is righteous.

I'm powerless.

He is powerful that's in the spirit of God is begin to flow inside of you because he's putting your tongue in touch with the grace and the mercy and the beauty of the Almighty God the excess to. That's when you get it refilled the spirit the enemy to be filled by the spirit is being filled with yourself some of you spent all your life in American culture. The tell you be filled with yourself if say God I need your spirit be a mom and dad. I just spirit to be witnessed, my friends, I need your spirit to do whatever it is I'm doing.

So I killed myself to. That's how you fill the spirit as you reflect on the gospel and that's the fullness of the Spirit is the cause of the result of forces spirit I shall tell you real quick, for I land this point with a couple things you should not do. If you want to be filled by the spirit will go outside of our text really quickly but is hang with me because this is really important here is enemy number one to be filled. The spirit versus noise. 519 do not quench the Spirit work which means to put out.

You quench the spirit wasn't you say no quench is a fire term right UNESCO five you quench it how you quench the spirit you say no to God · whatever is telling you.

Here's how that works. You get an argument you get angry you say stuff you know you shouldn't say about three hours later you Pingback an argument and you think I really lost my temper towards the spirit of God say inside of you. You need to humble yourself and apologize what you say I do, but they're more wrong I was so deified apologize.

I want to make them think the right, so I'm pretty God says you do the conversation you to apologize what you did you say let me think about this for a while quench the spirit and then the next day. That argument doesn't bother you know is much does it want a spirit of God put up.

God tells you to be generous right and what you say anything about that for a while is a big decision. I think about what you the money we'd never get back quench the spirit. God tells you can build our kids ministry about 35 minutes ago anything about them will pray about it more quenching of the spirit has been done under the phrase, let me pray about it and we can probably ever acknowledge when the spirit God speaks you ask some of you quench the spirit every single week really for every single week because God speaks to you and see what you got this one area here. No one talked about that or you like that area. We Windows help in this area over here see the fire of the Holy Spirit to burn in this area. I know that firehouse is typically a bad thing, but in this analogy, let me make a good right if you were to put the fire out in one area it's never really get to the other area well I got.

I want your power over here got so small the power to start here, but I don't want that. I want to hear God's is too bad. That's where it starts. You can say no to me here and spent my power over here.

Some of you here because you want God's power one every July. Please like me to get rid of this relationship needed changes happy to ditch I got it. Thanks as I find you never have a power over here, Peter quenching my spirit. By the way this downgrade this one. At some point. Quenching becomes what we call rejecting the Genesis 63 God says, my spirit will not always strive with man that is scary verse that means or comes a point where you say no to God got this as you wish, and he departs forever.

What Lou calls the blasphemy of the Holy Spirit you reject the Holy Spirit. So many times they just sleeps. Now I know when I bring it up to me I will have my document bus for the Holy Spirit go to some really bad when I was 18. As long as you're asking the question you haven't committed the bus for the spirit of the spirit of God is the one who works inside of you. The desire to know God is always a desire is there, you got a spirit work inside you. Which means you can never repent God.state.h you like okay so you're asking the question.

You have a committed a blacksmith Holy Spirit.

But there are some people that say no to God. Some the times that they lose all desire for God. They lose all desire for repentance and they go happily on their way to eternal hell and that comes from having rejected the spirit one too many times.

I know that you think you're playing around.

I know that you think you can do this when you're 35. I know you're in college right now it's not a big deal. It's a big deal, not because of how bad your life is but because of the glory of the one you are rejecting not looking to the face of God say no and when you do you put yourself in such precarious grants that when you're 35 God spirit may say hands-off 19 years old. He told me hands-off, and I've been honoring that request. Now for 16 years and I will for eternity.

Don't get there. The second thing that you were not to do that is, related but that's a different angle on Ephesians 430 will grieve the Holy Spirit of God. Hungry got spirit because the Holy Spirit is a person can be grieved.

Some of you need to see is a grave jail sentences grieved bespeaks love and enemy can frustrate you and enemy can wound you, but only a friend can grieve you only some of you love can grieve God spirit is grieved when there are things that you are doing that displease him and he says, how could you love me and engrave me this way imaginable. Your best friends have lost a child you in your around them and always laughing and joking about the death of their child. How could you possibly say you love that person and joke about what caused them such pain. How can we say we love God and then entertain and dwell on and be okay with the things that ultimately crucified Jesus, you can't love God and entertain sent for my favorite Puritan writers getting John Owen said you got to be killing sin constantly, or will be killing you. You have to be killing sin constantly will be killing you because God spirit cannot reside in the same place that this lust of the flesh are entertained.

Here's what I would solicit every sin, he says, weakens and darkens the soul. Every sin weakens and darkens the soul.

It drinks up our joy. It weakens our resolve to corrupt our affections. It expelled the love of the father.

It chokes us so that we no longer delight in God. It is a thick cloud that spreads itself over the face of the soul and intercepts all the beams of God's love and favor it takes away all sense of the privilege of our adoption so you must be killing sin or it will be killing you grieve the spirit of God because God spirit cannot dwell in you entertain in the light in the things that crucified my general Quicken is severe this year like I have read God spirit if you knew some of things I have done. God spirit can never come and live inside of me because I greet him so much he can even look at me without thinking such grievous thoughts. I know that I am hopeless. I very good news for you, take you to God, we all know the Bible. Most of us to release getting David committed about as bad a save as you could commit's love is best friend's wife, and then at his best friend murder is varsity in anybody's book and then sat on it for a year, year, then do anything Psalm chapter 51 little phrase in our love. Take not your Holy Spirit for me. How can anybody in David's position not feel like God spirit had departed from them forever. When you committed a kind of sin your David understood Jesus on the cross would say my God, my God, why have you forsaken me, the spirit of God was taken from Jesus and all of the consequences. All of the grief of your sin was put onto the heart of Jesus was put into the body of Jesus, and he was crucified with because he lost God spirit forever. David and you can pray, take not your Holy Spirit from me and restore to me the joy of your salvation. Yes, you have read God spirit yes you have quench God spirit. But Jesus was wounded for our transgressions, and he was bruised for our iniquities. The pride of punishment from our peace was placed upon him, and by his stripes we are healed.

You do not deserve God spirit you are not a place for God spirit, but Jesus gave it to you in his place so that you can have the blessing of the fullness of the spirit that he purchased for you. You can stand in front of him and seek.I don't deserve it but Jesus purchased an active mantis because you have to honor what Jesus did for me. You stand not in your own righteousness stand in the finished work of Christ. When you stand there the spirit that he purchased for you flows inside of you. Given according to the measure that he is earned, not according to the measure you deserve to make sense. Here's my last statement, it's a statement that I profoundly agree the statelessness. This commodity is Susa Street revival 1904, which was a great awakening the power the Holy Spirit in the birth of what is now known as the charismatic movement catheters last night and will grow where we write so she was excited. I profoundly agree with the statement, the solution to the problems of the church today is to solve the individual Christians problems and the solution to these these problems is a person the Holy Spirit is the antidote for every error. The power for every weakness. The victory for every defeat in the answer for every need and he is available to every believer, for he lives in his heart and his life.

The answer and the power have already been given to us in the power the Holy Spirit and I might add, having them purchased forever by the finished work of Christ take it rest and use it for the purposes that I gave for, which is redemption and healing in your life through you in your family. Once you bow your heads with me if you would have received the fullness of the spirit. Have you ever right now. Could you open your life up to that guy about doctrine. It's been about morality for me.I need to send some to me to feel your love baby or the broken hearted. Maybe you're the one abandoned by your father or by trusted loved one and you need to hear you are my son you are my daughter baby you are the struggling in the defeated and what you need to hear is I am the conqueror and you are that ashamed what you need to hear is behold I make all things new. But you let his voice take his attributes make them real in your heart right now. Father is because of what Jesus is purchased for us that we would rise up to take the power the Holy Spirit available to us for communion with you victory over sin and for power in the mission we grab it now because of Jesus Christ our because of the Holy Spirit will help players and we are watching us from afar. He's living in and through this is a transforming message from JD Greer here on Summit light. JD titled today's message be filled with the spirit and it's part of our series called rushing wind.

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