Jesus Was a Charismatic? Part 3

Pastor Jeannie Greer talked about the Holy Spirit spirit of God.

You have to begin to relate to him like a person, a person that feels emotional person that can read a person that can be angered and sent. What that means is that for many of you have resisted God's will for your life system will never judge a person person much person who created you the person who came after you came across and died for you even plead to be reconciled to him light Jeannie Greer. I'm your host Molly, but events we all know that cars to run on gasoline or maybe electricity.

If you have that feeds the newer model if you tried to fill up your car with anything else like milk or soda or even diesel to get very far for car to work has to be drawing from the right, power source and the same is true of us in our journey with Jesus today. Pastor Janie points us to the power source for the Christian life. It's part of our study of the Holy Spirit titled rushing wind. Now here's castigating today what I want to try to show you Jesus operated about. The Gospel of Luke was a Great Lakes to show you that is great news for you why because you were born the son of God.

Jesus did not do what he did in the power of God as he limited his access to that he did in the power the spirit about the same access as a power that you have access to see Luke wrote the gospel of Luke and he also wrote one of the book. One of the book back. That's right naturally go together as one unit. What does Luke and acts as he draws these parallels between the experiences of Jesus and the experiences of the early church and shows you that both are experiencing in strikingly similar ways. The power of the spirit. Luke draws a number of different parallels between things that Jesus would do when the power the spirit in the same identical things of the church were doing the power of the spirit. There's a handful of them okay no job about miracles, B.

A. Miracles, Luke 517 Jesus heals a paralytic, but in Luke's account of this miracle. He includes the strangest little phrase in the power of the Lord was present that you know burst of course it was present to heal.

Jesus was there but what Luke is showing you is that there was a power that was Jesus would tap into the power the Holy Spirit and when the Holy Spirit car was there. Jesus would use that power to heal one the same way.

In the book of acts the power of the spirit comes upon the church at different times, enabling them to do some pretty miraculous things. Just like a big prophecy prophecy by prophecy I mean speaking God's blessing and the people's lives were making God's plans known to other people what she brought Luke is that is that the spirit of God comes on the various people and God give them wisdom and insight in the speaking to somebody's life of the God with them about when you see it happening and actually see, for example, when equipment when the Holy Spirit baptizes the church it says that the first thing to do is to begin to prophesy a was miracle will probably see preaching pretty. Luke chapter 4 verse 14 says about Jesus before his first sermon, and Jesus returned in the power the spirit to go and what he does. He preaches a sermon the same language is used when people in the early church preached, Peter was filled with the spirit of acts to preach 3000 were safe at seven says that Stephen was filled with the spirit and preached a sermon that ended up with him being stone not stone like a drunk simple stone like the boxing matches that and that sermon was used by God to convert the apostle Paul, the whole point is this Jesus depended on the power the spirit as I did miracles prophecy I preached. I prayed resistance and I resist Satan.

Jesus limited his access to his God bless any operated in the power of the spirit in which shows you that so that you can see that you have access to the same power that he did. But… Not even just a new thing with Luke even the images that Luke uses an actual Holy Spirit or images that go all the way back to the Old Testament what Lucas tried to show you is this is not something the one style of question one branch of the church. This is something that one small by the whole Bible has this one major theme Zechariah 46 not by might not by power but by my Spirit, says the Lord.

John 15 five apart from me you can do nothing.

So reading the Bible.

This way, and we have about this gives a book of acts.

He doesn't use it with the periods of… Paul's in prison in Rome awaiting execution. Yet the gospel spread out the couple whole world looks like that's a good place ended. Was about to ask is it just in why because the spirit of God is like this rushing river running through the Bible this wind is blowing to the Bible and Lucas into saying this on most of what he did tell David that what he did tell Santa what he did it have a lot to do what he did tell me and I did what he did is all Malachi did what he did is how Jesus did what he did. It's all Peter did what he did tell Paul that what he did.

It's how I got was that what he did tell Dorcas that what she did.

It's how you do what you do some of you have never experienced this kind of power because you thought Christianity is basically a moral code to be conformed to the set of documents to be learned, and it is some of the things, but some you can't read the Bible does so I thought.

Sometimes I'm reading the Bible and you see this spirit moving through and it just ends and actually it's like… Watch out for you to write out the spirit of God to use you. Once they got your family was forgotten. When you're sitting in your campus place where you work. God didn't quit being God in the backs all the way through their never taste like that's my point by point for you this week Jesus met on the spirit you should apply it to you. Two quick ways is my 1.52 specific words for our church in light of that one point here is one most of us depend on the wrong source of power.

Most of us depend on the wrong source of power. Where do you look for what you look to the power to overcome sin power to resist the devil power to be free from the captivity bad habits. How do you find the ability to forgive people when they crucify you where you look for the power to see dead things come back to life. A dead marriage a deadness in your family a deadness in your spirit, where you look for power. Jesus look for power and all these things to spirit you develop the ability to forgive a husband who has betrayed her to come from the spirit of God. Jesus gave people who were crucified him.

How did things about the life in your life because you want to Dr. design because you get greater willpower tech.

As you read a book just how the spirit of God takes over your life. You get power for ministry from all the sudden things are happening through you that you have a hard time explaining you know when your kids start growing and developing your window when people start coming to Christ around you now because of my power to the intellectual might not because of eloquence and power. It's because of the spirit of God work in your life. That's why because that a lot of times Christian ministries, churches like ours, looking like the story in the Bible the Old Testament about Elijah the prophet to build illustrator to Elijah above the bell or this contest see the real God is for product development.

Elijah and like one which one God Jehovah bail and I've says like a great ideal to rebuild all turbojet once inspired him from heaven. That's the real God of the bill like this is a great idea was your first so they build or alter in 400 of them start dancing around and doing the thing that they think will make Belson barred him from heaven. They dance for half the day listening to like to make fun of them, which is one the most innovative part of the Old Testament and then they start cutting themselves and they start like dance really wildly and they think that they could dance lower dance you vociferously enough to yell loud enough Bill Shirley got a cement of fire riser.

Elijah had like 1/2 day you given every insult. He can think of to get on his knees and he's like okay take. First of all take my older elegy to cover with water that seven times. I want you to like what you make a water felt was overflowing with water to get started is the phrase a very simple like eight or nine more prayer. The basilar God to the fire God blows up. Now I look at those two things about which one is the church more like today because window doing all the stuff all this activity, like we just got a little louder.

Slaughter the fire got fire doesn't come from our activity. The fire comes very simply from God spirit in God spirit could do more. In an instant that we can do with 400 of his daughter had to hold it will.

My favorite part is also another way is is first 1830, reducing all of this was all of God set the fire.

The people all people to watch her other face am the Lord is God, the Lord is God. What they're not saying this is my favorite part with her not saying is Elijah is a great speaker. How awesome is Elijah friends to hear Elijah so clearly.spirit.not Elijah.did you know that God can be so powerful in your life. The people even notice you anymore. Matthew 516 Jesus said, let your light so shine before men that they may see your good works and glorify your Father which is in heaven. So I think the good works and glorify us.

But when the spirit of God begins to empower you to do good works, glorify God.

That's one of the ways you know the spirit of God is not upon used people still noticing you. I want to preach. I want to minister in such a way that people leave not say what a great preacher than leasing. What a great guy. Many of us have no access to that kind of power the spirit of God is a spirit of wisdom is a 11 to spirit of revelation Ephesians 117 is the spirit of might and counsel, Daniel chapter 5 verse 12 that spirit of God is available to you as a mother as a worker as an employer as a professor. As a student has a preacher as a pastor, ask for its because God, your father will not withhold its got to ask my first word for churches, many of us are completely the wrong ballpark looking around first power number two. Some of us don't encounter the power the spirit is not engaged in the mission of the spirit, the Holy Spirit is not like a magic amulet that you get a crystal place is to give you good luck. The spirit came upon Jesus and the church mission. A lot of my charismatic friend. For example, along with your friend.

They love asked to ever go to get a law that's acting on a refrigerator OIC Pentecost begins on the Pirates also knows when Tom Paxton was also Baxter's on four separate netbook acts 147 about and asked to give the response that you want in acts one Jesus said the spirit is coming from Mitch to the whole point attached to is not for this ecstatic experience. Goal point is to complete the mission that's given it ask what you see is that when the spirit of God coming to you. You begin to do the mission that Jesus himself was not the spirit was given.

Jesus had come as a basketball player, for whatever reason Jesus thought of the world needed was like the best possible player ever shows up as an NBA basketball player just like greatest battle wherever the live insanity of the first century your agency just it. I said that the spirit of Jesus was now within me and he becomes the NBA. You know awesome as well. Player would you expect that my game would take a few steps up but when you expect me to become a pretty spectacular basketball player. Yes, you will if I said the spirit of Jesus the unbelievable asthma players in me and in my game as lame as it's always been you don't want to talk about Jesus, the best ballplayer know that he come as a wealthy businessman no Jesus came as one was a minister and a witness to the power of God, and one who poured out his life for others. Therefore, if his spirit lives in you. I would expect to see you as someone who is extraordinary at those things cannot tell you what I don't see a lot of the Holy Spirit doing in Luke and acts, I don't see them keeping the church from difficulty a lot of pull up the mall and Holy Spirit gave me a parking space crazily noticed the favored guy was all over. Please ask God part Paul in prison God part Jesus on the cross.

I don't see in Luger access to the spirit of God make a lot of people wealthy.

I can do that you can but Paul says in second Corinthians that the spirit increases our ability to make money so that we can increase our capacity to give our lives away like Jesus did to my question for you now. Do you even want is power. Now what the spirit of power will me and asked to experience all the spirit of wisdom, mobile is my job. Why do you want is power. Why that's a question I would encourage you to ask just about anything you ask God why are you asking for this physical healing. You asked yourself why you asked for physical healing are you asking for physical healing to see you go through life pain-free are you asking for physical healing because there's some things you want to do for the kingdom of God.

Are you asking Dr. Rich to make you rich and to bless you that you can be like him, and giving the More Way, Jesus was the richest person ever who gave it all away like for you see God enrich me so that I can increase my capacity for giving for you saying enrich me so I can increase increase my capacity for living to the fundamental difference of those things. The spirit of God is not on some of you the power of God is not some of you on some of us because we are disconnected from the mission of God. Why are you asking for various things that you're asking for it for your sake, for his kingdom to his mission sake.

James, for you have not because you asked not, but you also don't have because you asking you asking for selfish reasons. Just because it's about your kingdom.

She said God blessed me, make me help them make everything my life work, but it's for you in my spirit comes for people who poured themselves out for my kingdom. I miss no listen, there is no disconnect between the mission of God, the power of God. The disconnect is between the people of God and the mission of God. If the people of God would ever embrace the mission of God, they would be filled by the spirit of God, and they would exude the power of God. If you would embrace God's mission which is to live like Jesus approach life like Jesus you be filled with the spirit of Jesus was filled with exude power. Jesus with is a power that heals your family the power that heals your marriage if the power the changes you coworkers. It's a power that transforms your world the power and set the captive free and it's available is what you get asked for, and yet be about his mission is my last work is that you work for a church right to review by one point just been on the spirit you should to to application for church versus general source of power sums have breakfast power confront all mission right is my last, including referral every sermon series that we do. I always try to study the text.

I try to let the text of Scripture drive my sermon so that I'm not coming to the text with an agenda, but I also asked the spirit of God. What there is specially that he has for our church and that's in the series and what the spirit of God. I think help me see in the series of what he wants this church to know what he wants me what I want you to know is the spirit of God is a person not a force, not a doctrine only, is a person and you have to begin to relate to him like a person, a person that feels emotion. A person that can be grieved a person that can be angered and sat what that means is that for many of you in this room and the sound of my voice are our campuses to have resisted God's will for your life, resisted a moral code you haven't either rejected just a way of living your project a person, a person who loves a person who created you a person that you rebelled against a person who came after you came to a cross and died for you and even now leech with you to be reconciled to him.

He is the father that you always wanted but never had. That's why Romans five says that the spirit of God was to come in and shed abroad, the love of God in our hearts is not coming to make you just become more moral and teach a few more facts and regular church attendance spirit of God is coming to poor love over you, the love of a father who created you died, to reconcile you and calls you back some of you have rejected Christianity would be happy like that here. Also, some of you what you have rejected is not Christianity is a character of Christianity I need you to get beyond that to get to God himself. Jesus was no fan of religious cronyism but religious cronyism was crucified him some of you have been exposed to Christianity that was used like a weapon. It was used as a way to exclude people. It was used to justify hypocrisy to justify racism to justify all kinds of things you know are wrong and you get beyond that. There is also why this is not about us group of people or system. It's about a person in the spirit of God once to take the father creates listen is not about you becoming religious is not a lot you become a Republican is about your understanding that God created you, God comes after you. God wants to poor love out over you after the spirit of God comes to do is reunite you the person of God. If you have never received that John 112 to as many as received him not to as many who corrected their lives are learning this was many as received him, to vent, he gave the right to become the children of God, even those who believe on his name because they were born out of the will of the flesh nor the will of man, but they were born of the spirit. God, have you open your life to that person.

Are you moving in intimacy in the power that person only God I have asked and I will ask you this be a landmark moment for our church were individuals in our church begin a holy chapter of the Christian life where it's less about the doctrines less about the moral code more about you.we know that the doctors reportedly know that the morals are important, but got the best of your more than countered. You pray for individuals who harden our hearts are resisting. You got let him hear the voice of the Savior even right now who created them love them and came to earth to die for them and calls the docks of their heart.

Just come back to me for their church and begin a new chapter of his existence. We experience we move in feel the power spirit rage's Jesus name Jesus name. Your father into no entrance Jesus with heavy received the relationship he's offering to you. You're listening to Pastor JD Greer on Summit life in a message from our series titled rushing wind JD something. A lot of our listeners may not know is that there is always a free download on the homepage of JD Greer.com available for anyone who is interested in. This month we have a set of devotionals to go along with our current teaching on the Holy Spirit right yet something we are proud to provide us a lot of times people's first connection point with. I was Summit life something that that your generosity action makes possible typically to free resources related to your teaching or a resource for featuring that month this month were focusing on understanding the Holy Spirit.

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