Life can sometimes be difficult and draining, especially when you’re trying to serve God. But that’s why Jesus promised us the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit is not an impersonal force; He is the third Person of the trinity who empowers, convicts, guides, and comforts all believers. For more messages from Charles Stanley, including this week’s broadcast, go to www.intouch.org/watch
every single believer is sealed by the
Holy Spirit now watch this no sin we can
break the seal nobody can break the seal
and no erroneous interpretation can
break the seal
we are sealed forever under the damn
burden shinty calls us home next on
InTouch your conviction about the Holy
Spirit many believers will live their
entire life and miss out on one of God’s
awesome blessings because they’ll never
realize that living within them is the
Holy Spirit whom God sent to live within
us in order to enable us to do the
things he wants us to do and to be the
person he wants us to be and most people
never realize that they’ll never think
about the fact that you ought not only
saved them but that he and weld them for
birth specific reason and I think that
many churches that do not even mention
the Holy Spirit and most people don’t
know what part he plays in their life if
you would ask the average person who is
the Holy Spirit they’d say well he’s a
mom something religious I’m not sure
what he is and so when I think about
that and I think about the fact that he
has really come to indwell us to enable
us to be everything God wants us to be
and to accomplish everything God wants
us to accomplish that is he didn’t say
just go do this that in the other he
says I’m going to be with you and I’m
going to end well you and I’m going to
see to it that you’re able to do and to
become everything I desire but it’s not
so I was in seminary that I realize what
the Holy Spirit was all about and the
right way I realized it was this I was
sitting at dinner table at night and
this is my first
here and those Valley College and in
college I argued about all the things
that I believed and with some of the
best times for arguments we had at night
time so I’m sitting there and somehow we
got on the Holy Spirit and I said the
Holy Spirit well well it’s supposed to
help all of us and I said something else
about it and one of the students he was
sitting that I did not know he said it
didn’t embarrass me he said Charles he
said would you like to come to my room
after dinner I said well sure I would he
was a doctoral student I thought I’ll
learn something listen this boy for sure
well I walked in his room and there was
a very intimidated there were books from
the floor to the ceiling except for the
windows all around is a doughnut our
room so what he said to me he said I
noticed when you talked about the Holy
Spirit that you called him it I said
that’s what the Bible says
and then I pointed him to two passages
in Scripture so I kill them and show
them where it was and he handed me a
Greek New Testament Isilon this is my
first year in my first semester and I’m
just starting to reek he says okay I’m
going to take you through the Bible I
said I can’t read that he said I’ll help
you read it so he took me through the
New Testament and he showed me every
time the Holy Spirit was mentioned he
said now here’s what happened when they
translated in a couple of passages here
the Holy Spirit you know it’s the third
person singular he or she or it and so
the translators once in a while would
would call him it and so he showed me
that and all of sudden I felt very
ignorant very embarrassed but very
grateful he straightened me out about
what the Bible said about the Holy
Spirit that he’s somebody he’s not just
a pal another force not a head and so I
was very great
about it so the question is who is the
holy spirit if you go back to Genesis
chapter 1 for a moment and notice what
the scripture says about the creation
it’s in the first chapter and this one
is a six verse let us make man in our
own image well who is us God the Father
God the Son God the Holy Spirit and so
there he is in the Old Testament and
also oftentimes in the Old Testament
he’s referred to usually sort of coming
and going upon somebody’s life and every
single believer has the Holy Spirit
living within us and if you go back to
John chapter 14 for example let’s look
if you will in verses 16 17 18 and
here’s what he says Jesus talking to his
disciples before he was crucified he
says I will ask the Father and He will
give you another helper a capital H
somebody that he may be with you forever
not partially but forever that is the
Spirit of Truth whom the world cannot
receive because it does not see him or
know him but you know him because he
abides with you and will be in you I
will not leave you as orphans and so now
he begins to explain what all that is
about three persons of eternity God the
Father God the Son God the Holy Spirit
here he calls him a helper the great
enabler the one who enables us to do
what God calls us to do and the one who
equips us to be able to do whatever he
says
and I think about growing up in a church
that that talked about the Holy Ghost
and so forth but nobody ever said this
Holy Ghost we were talking about look
what he does in your life he was a
stranger to my life until my friend took
his Greek New Testament and gave me one
and said he is who he is went through
every verse in the New Testament
well I understood to some degree but I
realized immediately what somebody
should have told me that as a 12 year
old kid I didn’t have to I didn’t have
to live the Christian life by myself I
didn’t do very good sometimes
and so I struggled and I struggle a lot
of times until he straightened me out he
said you have the Holy Spirit living
within you when I began to realize that
everything changed and immediately I
realized I’m going to be a better
student because I have the Spirit of God
working within me who will enable me and
help me to recall whatever I need to
recall and everything I can think about
the Holy Spirit is there and so think
about what you face with your family for
example sometimes I struggle G of the
Holy Spirit with your finances you
struggle Holy Spirit people where you
work with struggle Holy Spirit it did
for example sometimes people don’t
understand what you saying they don’t
want to send your Christian experience
but you have the Holy Spirit living
within you who will enable you and every
single circumstance of life to do your
best whatever it is so he didn’t just
leave us and Jesus said to them he was
very concerned about this he says I’m
not leaving his orphans I’m sending you
a helper that’s what he called the Holy
Spirit
I said I’m sending you somebody who is
going to enable you so now watch this
when you got saved immediately the Holy
Spirit came to dwell in you and what
happened he gave you the capacity that
is he enabled you to do everything God
wanted you watch this carefully he
enabled you to do everything God wanted
you to do at that age at that
circumstance at a later age all the rest
of your life you and I have him living
within us enabling us whatever it is
that’s why we should be afraid of
anything there will be difficult times
there becomes we misunderstood times for
example of conflict but we have to
remember this we’re not the ones doing
the battle he
who has indwelt us living inside of us
fill those Inanna ters running over
inside of us
he is our Guardian and he is the source
of our knowledge the source of our
wisdom and the source of our power our
energy to be and to do what God wants us
to do so when you think about that the
Christian life is an awesome life when
you trusted Jesus Christ as your Savior
your sins were forgiven based on what he
did at Calvary paying your sin debt in
full you simply ask him to forgive you
believing what he said if you confess
with your mouth Jesus as Lord and
believe in your heart that God’s raised
him from the dead you’ll be saved
immediately God seals you as one of his
children then the Holy Spirit begins to
work in your life it isn’t an instant it
was watch this receiving the Holy
Spirit’s instantaneous living it out is
lifelong and so we come to the fruit of
the Spirit and all of us admit that
every once and while we not his loving
as we ought to be we not as kind as we
ought to be but he’s then what does he
do he does which is one of his routine
tasks and that is to convict us of our
sin and forgive us in so he reminds us
that we don’t have to harbor sin we
don’t have to just hang around with sin
and think oh god what am I going to do
he says in first John 1:9 if I can test
my sins watch this that means I’m
agreeing with him about them they don’t
belong in my life and he’s willing to
remove them if I agree with him if I
confess my sins he’s what faithful now
what what’s that next word and just what
does it mean by being just it means
because he went to the cross and paid my
sin debt in full he has the right to
have said the soul that sinneth it shall
die and now say you confess your sins
repent of your sins turn your life over
to me
you’re absolutely forgiven and so the
work of the Holy Spirit is to convict us
of us and that’s just one thing Jesus
said it’s so beautiful and when he said
he’s there he’s a helper
he helps us in every area of our life
watch this he intends for you and me to
live for him by depending upon him
trusting in him every day about every
single circumstance of life they imagine
how they felt about this because they
said here’s what he said to him he said
now in the 24th chapter have Lu
repentance for forgiveness of sin will
be proclaimed in his name to all the
nations beginning from Jerusalem you
witnesses of these things and then
behold I’m sending for the promise of my
father the Holy Spirit sending for the
promise of Malcolm father upon you for
you are to stay in the city until you
are clothed with power from on high
listen to this he said then here’s your
task the world go into all the world and
preach the gospel to every creature now
suppose there were 120 of us sit in the
Sun 20 of us mr. Fogg sitting right here
and Jesus said to us okay
here’s your task you to take what I’ve
taught you to the world I’m going to
leave you but the Spirit of God is going
to be in you with you and help you but
you hundred-and-twenty
your task is simply to get what you have
seen and heard to the whole world what
would be your first honest tree reply I
mean no way I’m gonna be able to do that
it’s what you say but that’s exactly
what he said to them he said your task
is to get what I’ve told you to the
world and he says I’ll not leave you
I’ll always be there and so when you
wake up in the morning you wake up in
the presence of the Holy Spirit and God
wants us to wake up in deal listen not
just presence but the awareness of the
Holy Spirit that today whoever I need
whatever
Russ ace I don’t have to threaten
whirring be anxious because he’s going
to be in me with me and upon me and
enabling me to carry out the
responsibilities I have fulfill whatever
God wants me to fulfill do well whatever
he calls me to do trust him for
everything I’ll have everything I need
because he’s going to supply and he says
he sealed us this isn’t something you
come and go with you are sealed by the
spirit of promise the Holy Spirit he
never intended for you me to live one
single day
apart from depending on him and yet I
think about how many people go to church
every Sunday the only time they hear
about the Holy Spirit is they may sing
the song Holy Spirit breathed only they
may hear there but when it comes to
preaching it teaching and talking about
it sharing you don’t anybody talking
about it because the devil doesn’t want
us talking about the source of our
strength and power it doesn’t want us
thinking about that he won’t suffer most
in our thinking fear dealt I’m unclear
Who am I I’m a nobody is out of you who
your use somebody that was worth Jesus
dying for that makes you very valuable
in the eyes of holy God and and he and
he’s there to work in your life and to
dwell in your life and and accomplish
the things he wants to do accomplish now
he is he is our source we have to see
him as our source the source of our
strength in our life and there many
references to that nevado but what does
he mean when he talks about the power of
the Holy Spirit everybody wants some
kind of power what is the power of the
Holy Spirit
that’s his enabling death
his divine energy that is the reality of
Almighty God that’s God doing something
supernatural in their life divine energy
and spiritual authority now watch this
somebody begins to argue about the
gospel you just say thank you hello sir
what watch this carefully when you get
in a confrontation with somebody you
claim but you claim in that second the
presence the power and the word of the
Spirit of God he is there as your
defender he is there as your
proclamation he is there as the speaker
of truth through you you will say things
Jenning toga yellow bring scriptures
your Manion thought about in a long time
why because it is no longer I but Jesus
living in me and through me and that’s
the way God wants us to live that’s
that’s what he sent the Holy Spirit why
to enlighten your mind to help you
understand and to enable you to know
what to do and how to respond and to
equip you to live a godly life listen
you’re in watch this your indwelt by the
Holy Spirit and he’s locked in because
God sealed you with the Holy Spirit of
promise and we act sometimes like you
know along so weak and I can’t do this
and I can’t do that and pull me now we
go and all the time we have deity living
on the inside of us ready to work
through us and do his will whatever that
might be but you have you have to
acknowledge it you have to believe it
you have to claim it and yet I know that
many people who hear this message will
have never heard a message on the Holy
Spirit and it’s not new it’s just that
people don’t talk about it and I’ve
heard people say well you know I just do
the best I can well that’s not
scriptural where is that Navarre
this do the best I can no I do what the
Spirit of God will enable of me and
allow me to do whatever that may be
it won’t be perfect it won’t be always
the same the spirit of it listen I love
this about God he loves us enough and
noses enough that he’s not going to let
us do everything perfect all the time
you know what we get cocky and
egotistical and prattle now what he does
for me he lets me make mistakes right in
front of you so stuff so I don’t ever
want to lead the impression I’m perfect
because I’m not but I am truthful I may
not be perfect but I am truthful and so
every single one of us has the spirit
within us when you wake up tomorrow and
you wake up in his presence in dwelling
you and what’s he there to do to enable
you all day long to do well whatever you
have to do and meet the people around
you the smile on your face and joy in
your heart even may you may not always
feel it but you respond out of your
spirit not your feelings emotions come
and go there are all kind of things but
when you respond out of a spirit you
respond and strength you respond to the
energy and the power and the anointing
of the Spirit of God upon you and you
know what happens people watch this not
impressed but impacted by your life
because they see something there they
don’t normally see and everybody else
now so let me just let me give you a
definition of God’s image and his power
the power of the Holy Spirit is God’s
divine energy and authority released in
the life of the believer for the purpose
of godly living and fruitful service
write it down God’s divine energy and
authority released in the life of the
believer for the purpose
is a godly living and fruitful service
listen not to make us happy though we’ll
be happy not to make us joyful though
got support of the spirit no words he’s
working within us and took in order to
accomplish his will he’s the great
enable in every situation now think
about that for a moment
you should walk out of here today a
different person if you’ve never
understood the work of the Holy Spirit
it’s a matter of knowing that he’s there
acknowledging that he’s there and listen
acting like he’s there and walking in
the awareness that he is there and when
that happens in your life something
really happens so when we do God’s work
God’s way in God’s wisdom we’re going to
be blessed in spite of what goes on in
our life so think about it for a moment
as a follower of Jesus Christ you are
equipped with the presence of the Holy
Spirit who is a part of the Trinity
therefore has supernatural powers you
are no longer alone but you are fully
equipped for the presence of the Holy
Spirit to face anything everything and
all things it does not mean life will
get easy but it means whatever you face
you never face it alone you and God the
Father God the Son God the Holy Spirit
all face them together and think about
it you can’t lose whatever the battle is
you can’t lose when the whole Trinity it
would be I thought you said just the
Holy Spirit you have the Father God the
Son God the Holy Spirit three persons of
the Trinity you can’t separate it when
you have one thank God you got them all
and that is you have the Holy Spirit
God the Father God the Son God the Holy
Spirit living and working in you now
think about this when Jesus told them
that he said go out to the uttermost
parts of the earth and that small band
started what he told them to do they did
enough of it to cover the globe and God
is still working and even with those few
languages that are yet to be translated
people are working diligently so that
every single person on the globe will be
able to understand in their language the
truth of the gospel of Jesus Christ so I
would ask you this where does the Holy
Spirit fit in your life are you sitting
there this morning thinking I didn’t
even know who he was
listen he’s a person of eternity
he’s our sealed our salvation our life
he wants us to live what he wants us to
live out of his image in strength in his
power in his name for his glory for his
honor and what happens we just get
blessed in the process amen so somebody
says well what’s this being filled with
the Holy Spirit here’s what it is
the Holy Spirit who is within you is not
message so it’s not necessarily tells
you he seals you upon salvation but to
be filled with the Spirit means you must
be with the confess your sins repent of
your sins run away from them
yield your life to him surrender your
life to Him acknowledge that he owns you
that he has the right to indwell you and
guide you and lead you and that you’re
willing to follow his will do what he
wants you to do when you have fully
surrendered yourself to him the Spirit
of God comes into your life in total
fullness you experience him in a way
that you want to experiencing him by
just confessing sins and what happens is
the more of yourself you give to him the
more of the more of him you experience
he is a real person of the Trinity so
think about this when you walk
Calvillo day you like you walk out in
the presence and the power of the Holy
Spirit in order to fulfill his will and
purpose in your life and you have with
you the promise of his continuous watch
this uninterrupted continuous
uninterrupted you may feel interruption
you may feel you may get by all kind of
things may happen to you
total uninterrupted presence and power
to live out your life and fulfill his
purpose for you like you know getting a
blessing that that’s the work of the
Holy Spirit father we thank you this
morning but what you do for us so much
more than we can ever recount and we
pray that you will grant each one of us
such a strong deep insatiable desire for
the Spirit to work in our life that we
will live a surrendered life and you
said when we do there will be love
enjoying peace and goodness and
gentleness all the promises of the
Spirit so we prayed today for those who
have listened who are unsaved you’ve
never trusted you as their Savior to
remember there’s no substitute to
salvation there’s no substitute for the
indwelling presence of our spirit and if
they want your best it comes through
salvation but placing their trust in
Jesus and asking to the fullness of the
Spirit in their life and you will for
them and we thank you for in Jesus name
Amen
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