Jonathan Foster- Stop Ignoring the Holy Spirit

However, this is. He grew up on the other side of the mountains in North Carolina. Moved down into the more rolling hills of the Piedmont and Newton where he pastors vertical life. Church lives there with his his wife and two children and He is coming to preach to us this morning about the Holy Spirit.

I believe from the book of Romans. Romans Got all the Bible's all good. So he's going to give it to us from somewhere in the Bible. Hopefully of listen pay attention and.

Be blessed this morning. I.

Was slightly confused because on our program. It said we're taking turns introducing each other and right beside my name. It said Jonathan Foster self and For some reason Dan I just thought that meant I had to introduce myself that I didn't have anybody to introduce me and Dan's like I got you and I'm like, but it said self and then I'm like, that's what I just told Becky.

I was like, duh, it's damn self. So so forgive me. So that's that's why there may have been a little bit of confusion there. We are gonna end in the book of Romans. But I would like for you to turn your Bibles to the gospel of John the gospel of John.

We're gonna start in chapter 14. For for all of us we we all love to exposit the word and and it's something that we do convictionally and. But we're also in a manner throughout a conference. It is going to have some topical feel so I will have you stand in just a minute brother Claude.

But I want to give a little bit of introduction before we read the text this morning. I Believe there has never been anything That God the Father and God the Son has done separate from the Involvement of the Holy Spirit as well.

You with me and and my task this morning is to give us an introduction to the conference and and the title of this is Stop ignoring the Holy Spirit. I Feel like it's one of the the pieces of the puzzle in church today.

That is so quickly overlooked and and when we begin to pray about the theme and and and what God is. Leading us to equip the church. The first question we had is what what is what is one of the most necessary? messages that we could bring to the church and after a while that's that's what we arrived at it is very clear in modern-day church.

Unfortunately, there are so many that are just simply ignoring. Even very few times even mentioning the Holy Spirit and we have become more and more less dependent upon him. More and more less dependent acknowledges presence and more and more less dependent upon him.

And as a result, we've attempted to replace the Holy Spirit with education and reasoning. Now don't take that as a shot. We love education. I have seminary degrees and whatever else but I heard old preachers say you can have enough degrees to make give you a fever but that don't make you a man of God and reality is this we've attempted to be Rational when it comes to the ministry of God and we want to explain away things that are supernatural if possible and The reality is this we are dealing with a supernatural God.

He has created laws in our earth. He has created things of order and things of reason but I've asked my question. I've asked the question many times. Why does God make make us live in the boundary of law and order and as I was driving over here going across those curves?

It was fun. And I was amazed how my big old truck I'd go across it. You know when you go across on them hills your stomach goes whoop, you know. Why because the law of gravity it keeps your truck like pinned down.

If not, I'd have been flying over here, you know. We have laws and things that we're bound to work we're natural and God is Supernatural even the gift of salvation in of itself you if you begin to ponder just the thought and we'll use this word later of Regeneration and the washing and renewing and the regenerating work of the Holy Spirit any time that becomes natural and common.

We're missing a marvelous work of God and so as a result we become dependent on professionalism and Career pastors and career ministers much of what we see in the visible church today. Sadly I believe is boiled down to pragmatism and powerless strategy and Often isn't worst instances coercion and manipulation of people pandering to emotions and people-pleasing and Listen, we need in the house of God and awakening to the power of God that is only brought by the Spirit of God.

To the hope and you will as as these men of God stand before you and deliver these messages you're going to hear messages about Spirit empowered evangelism. It is foolish to think that we can share the gospel with our neighbors without the power of the Spirit helping us deliver that message.

Spirit empowered preaching. It is foolish to think that a man could come up here with lots of degrees and lots of education. But make any impact unless the Spirit of God is breathing through that message.

Anything else that you want to look at in the local church. It's foolish to think that we could accomplish anything apart from the work of the Holy Spirit for Christ said you can do nothing apart from me.

But in him what all things are. Let's say that again one more time in him all things are possible supernatural things and Again, when we talk about the Holy Spirit, I know that we we want to all of a sudden run to to supernatural things.

There are ordinary things that the Holy Spirit does that's supernatural. Me standing in front of you today to preach to the gospel of Jesus Christ. It's a supernatural thing because I'm an old hillbilly from the hills of North Carolina.

And I was a God hater. I was a racist and now I got a brother that I talk Spanish with. I can if I want to amen. I hated Spanish people growing up and I hated black people and everybody else in the Spirit of God moved upon this old country boy.

One day and changed my life. That is a supernatural thing that only the Spirit of God could do. We are to be a church. That's dispelling light. You are the light of the world a city that doesn't sit on a hillside.

So let your light so shine before men that they're going to see your good works and that they will glorify your father. Which is in heaven how in the world do we think we're going to do that by flesh?

So stop ignoring the Holy Spirit. We need empowered churches. Because we have a powerful message. Now some reasons that we begin to ignore the Holy Spirit. It really does boil down to fear and and as way of introduction.

We wanted we I just want to just squash a few things so that there is a freedom among us to study this passionately number one we've become afraid to speak of the Holy Spirit because of the foolishness that we see in here when horrifying and Ungodly acts are done in his name.

Worship services so-called ministries of hijacked by men and imposter spirits, and I do believe there's false spirits and imitators of the Holy Spirit have hijacked many churches and hijacked many worship services and we swing and we react to that because we don't Want to look anything like that because we know that's false.

And so therefore we swing way over here because we're assuming that if we mention the Holy Spirit they automatically associate us with that. The reality is this. We should not be ashamed of the gospel of Jesus Christ.

Anybody can quote that for me. Where's that from Romans 1? 16 the Apostle Paul says for I am unashamed of the gospel of Jesus Christ because it's what it's the power of God unto salvation. And listen the Holy Spirit.

We were talking about this over breakfast this morning. The Holy Spirit the gift of God in this this this himself if you will giving himself to us. Not just dwelling around us, but filling us and being within us.

That is a part of the gospel. The gospel is simply translated good news, and it is wonderful news that I was as what I told you just a few minutes ago I was old country hillbilly a Wicked man and God saved me.

Well, that's good news the gospel. I heard the the crawled the story of the cross the message of the cross and and the power of the resurrection and God changed me. But is that where it stopped? Is that is that all the good news we have?

Well, I hope today by the end of this message you hear quite a bit more because the gospel is the good news of salvation. But the gospel is also now that I am reconciled with God. I am have peace with God.

I now have right relationship with God and I walk with him. Amen. I abide in him and he abides in me. That's good news. So The Holy Spirit is how that happens, by the way. So we shouldn't overreact. That's what I would tell us today is if someone differs in in some format format or nuance within Orthodoxy of the doctrines of the Holy Spirit don't overreact to each other.

But in its extremes, it's very dangerous. Even among our group the truth and love network the laborers conference even among ourselves. We love to spar and poke at each other. Let me go ahead and drop two fancy words for you.

Cessationists, we should pull the congregation right? No, let's don't it's alright cessationists and Continualists and our group has a diversity of that. We have some that would be more of an extreme cessation list.

Perhaps you could say that we would say that as far as supernatural gifts or or miraculous signs and wonders. They no longer occur anywhere in the earth any more time at all. We have also others that might be soft cessationists to say it's possible that God could do that.

But it's not normative that God could do that. We also have Continualists and and some of us call ourselves continuous with the seatbelt. All right. We say that that we come from first Corinthians chapter 12 that the Holy Spirit gives gifts as he wills God's sovereign the Son sovereign that means the Holy Spirit sovereign that way he does what he wants to so our job is to what to Surrender to him so it's possible.

However, you logic this there is very Very big differences in some of those things right and we poke each other about it all the time. I'm like the old grumpy bear when they start poking. I'm just like I'm done, you know.

So can there be differences? Of course there can be and it's not only because of our reaction to the extremist of the Charismaniacs is what I'll call them sometimes. But it's also the fear of differences That keeps us quiet and keeps us from engaging in something So beautiful that God has given us called the Holy Spirit.

Listen, our differences and our diversity are just an image of who God is. Because in the reality of this God is the same yesterday today and forever he hasn't changed himself and How he's moving and working in the earth.

We'll never know the ends of all of it. I Don't know everything that God is doing in the Middle East right now. There's chaos. There's war. But don't you think that the Spirit of God is moving and working in that place right now?

Do I know everything that he's doing there? Do I know everything that he's doing in the in the Amazon? Do I know everything that he's doing in the in Africa or Central or South America or or In the Antarctic or wherever you think worldwide.

Do I know everything that God is doing? We're foolish to say we do. So at the end of the day we step back and say, you know What my conviction is this at this point in time in my life, but we all reserve the right to be wrong.

Amen. We should have that attitude. We should have that attitude because The moment that we think that we have arrived at the fullness and of the knowledge of God is the moment that we have really become a fool.

So even in our differences We should boldly speak clearly about our unity around the absolute necessity of the Church of Jesus Christ to be dependent upon the Holy Spirit and As we declare that. Then we can say well, let's talk about this text.

Let's talk about this belief. Let's talk about this conviction. Let's talk about this historical perspective or whatever else you want to bring into it. But that's not the goal of this conference. We're not going to solve that problem here.

Just know that that's been a discussion for centuries. We're not going to solve that here. That's not our goal. Our goal is to equip the church with the reality of the necessity of the Holy Spirit. Are you with me now?

So as we do this. Let us not be ashamed. Let us plainly know that we have a father a son and the Holy Spirit. Now stand in honor of the reading of God's Word if you will, we're going to be in John chapter 14.

John chapter 14. We're going to begin reading in verse 18 and then we're going to flip right over just a couple of chapters there to vert chapter 16. So in John chapter 14 verses 15 through 18, it says if you love me, you will keep my commandments.

And I will ask the Father. Which is being he. I hope you'll recognize that if you write in your Bibles I'd encourage you to circle the word he it's very unique here. I was the father Jesus said and he being the father will give you another helper.

To be with you for how long? When that good news remember we're talking about the gospel, right good news. He's going to be with you forever even the spirit of truth Whom the world cannot receive because it neither sees him nor knows him now.

This is unique and I enjoyed Working this out real quickly, you know him speaking to those early disciples right then okay, notice what how Jesus describes it for he dwells with you and Will be future tense will be in you see Pentecost hasn't happened at this moment, right?

So so the Spirit is dwelling with them and then he's saying and soon not only dwelling among you. But we'll be in you and praise God for the church today that the Holy Spirit is in us he's not just in Dwelling in this room.

He is he is in us. So now flip over a couple of chapters out of John chapter 16. John chapter 16. Beginning in verse 7. It says nevertheless. I tell you the truth. It is to your advantage that I go away for if I do not go away the helper will not come to you but if I go I Who's speaking there?

Remember when we looked at the other one who's sending it's coming from the Father now Jesus is saying now I I will send him to you. Roll on down to verse 13. When the Spirit of truth comes he will guide you in all truth for he will not speak on his own authority.

But whatever he hears he will speak and he will declare to you the things that are to come. He will glorify me. For he will take what is mine and declare it to you father. Thank you so much for your word.

And as we continue through this this message and messages to come I pray that by You whole Holy Spirit that you will be our teacher that you will illuminate our minds and our hearts to how precious you are the promise and the gift of.

Thank you that you are with us now. Help us in the remainder of this time in Jesus name. Amen. You may be seated. Don't you like it when Jesus prays on your behalf? Don't you think about that? Jesus first of all says I'm going to go to the father and when I go to the father I'm gonna ask my father on your behalf for something very special the Holy Spirit Says I will ask the father to give you another that comes from the Greek work allos.

Allos is another. Some commentators say it's another. Jesus is what Jesus is saying I'm going to give you another me which in essence is exactly what he did, right a helper. One that walks with us the helper clearly is the Holy Spirit that Jesus has the father to give and then not only does the father Give but then Jesus gives and so wouldn't we or shouldn't we assume that anything that the father is giving and Jesus is giving?

That's kind of neat how John and his writing there said the father will sin. Then Jesus said I will give and so if the father's sending and Jesus is giving don't you think it would be good? Don't you think he the person of the Holy Spirit is good.

Therefore, why would we be ashamed of anything that the father gives us? How many of you got a new car when from your dad when you got your license anybody? No, you didn't. All right. Well, I got a 1979 Mercury Cougar.

I was not proud of that car. For old country boy like me. We wanted trucks and Jeeps, right and It's the little lady in our church. She decided that she was going to give me her 1979 Mercury Cougar. It got me to school and back to ball practice it back and the things there.

But I was not riding around town saying everybody look at my grandma car. No offense. Yeah, ladies grand ladies. Okay, no offense before before a young strapping teenager. That is that was not my dream.

But I can remember that I would park in the back of school and I'd wait till everybody leaves and then I would drive my Mercury Cougar when nobody was around. But listen, I got a 19 19 I think it was 80 or 82.

It's the last year. They made them CJ 7 Jeep right after that. Now listen, that thing was bad to the bone. I Parked up front. I wasn't ashamed of that thing at all. I wanted everybody to know that I had a new Jeep when I got rid of the old car.

Listen, the reality is this so many times in churches We take the gifts of God and we treat them like the old car when when the reality is Man with something we ought to be thankful for and proud of. Jesus told them right here.

He said this is unique for you. He says the world cannot see this nor receive this. This is not for the world. This is not just for anybody. This is for the children of God. This is for my people. Jesus is saying this is this is for us and it's unique to us and no one else in the whole world is going to Have this promise and this gift.

Therefore there is an unashamedness of the gospel. There is an unashamedness of who the Holy Spirit is and this helper. Do you think that we need help? Do we I? Think that's also a danger that we see in Americanized Church.

If you spend time in third world countries where there's genuine suffering happening. You will recognize there's a greater dependence upon the Holy Spirit, but right now I can be honest with you I have very little need for anything.

Very little need. By the way, I look you can tell I'm not very hungry very often. Driving a nice vehicle. I got nice clothes on my children are well-educated. We got a nice home that we live in so on and so forth.

Whatever you want to say I have very little need for anything. And so therefore if I'm not careful, I have very little need for a dependency on God on the Holy Spirit. Because I'm so comfortable. We must be careful we should be grateful for the blessings of God when he has provided for us.

We should be grateful when we have these things. But it must not be what we become dependent upon because we need help. We need help in all areas of Christian walk all areas of Christian life. We need help with that and that is why Jesus says I'm going to send you the helper.

You can't do this in your flesh. You can't do this in your brilliance you can't do this among your logic is an absolute requirement. That we have to have help in order to walk this life. And so Jesus says I'm going to send one to you.

He's going to be the helper. It's going to be the and I always Ravished this Greek word the paracletus. I don't know Paracletus a lot of us called it and redneck of knees the paraclete, but that ain't really what it is.

It's got a it's got that little hyphen in there and you gotta enroll it just a little bit but the helper the helper is the one that the father gives and the Helper is the one that Jesus gives and the helper is exactly the one that why you see in the writing of the gospel of Luke and later on in the writing in the book of Acts.

There's very few times that we see anywhere that anybody did anything except there was a descriptor that by the Spirit or Dependent upon the Spirit or through the Spirit. We never see a description of the Apostle Paul saying Written about him or Peter or John or any of them saying by their power.

Look what they did. Matter of fact, I love the book of Acts in chapter 4. It says these were just go to common men the Pharisees in the Sanhedrin. They were they were Astonished when they stood before them in Acts chapter 4 they were astonished that these men could do anything.

But it come very obvious that they had spent time with Jesus and the reality is they stood before the Sanhedrin and they told them To stop speaking in the name of Jesus in the Spirit. They spoke boldly.

They said don't worry. Jesus had told him said don't worry about what you're going to say because when you're on trial I'll give you the words to say how's he going to give words in the Spirit and they looked at the these mighty men of God the Educated and the elite of society and said whether it's right or not for you to speak in the name of Jesus.

You have to decide but as for us we can't help but speak of the things that we've seen and we've heard. The Spirit is the one that not only Helps but another term one commentator that I saw wrote the word enabler.

He's the enabler. He's the one that who supernaturally energizes Us for Christlike life and ministry. The point is that we just don't need a little bit of help or a little bit of push. That's not how the scripture to Scott describes our relationship with the Holy Spirit.

It's not just a little push or a little help or a little bit of a little bit of a sidekick. He's not our bro. He's not our buddy. He's not our co-pilot. That's not who the Holy Spirit is. The work of the Holy Spirit is that we are broken and undone and apart from him we do nothing.

It's similar to the work of our salvation and It is the enabler that pushes us and drives us. We were talking about that over breakfast this morning in Philippians chapter 2 verse 12 and 13. We were talking in in a different conversation.

But in it fits here in verse 13. It is the Holy Spirit that presses us Moves us. And this commentator I agree with him. He said there's no bench players on God's team. You believe that today church? See that there is specific callings that we have to stand and deliver this message.

But when I'm looking in with you and talking with you today, this is no elite guy up here. I feel like the least among our whole group and There's no elitism here. Sure. There's some people here. That's really really smart and they use like $5 words that are 10 miles long, right?

Tyler tone it down buddy. Come on, and that's wonderful. It's wonderful, but sometimes it's like timeout define what you just said, but there's no bench players. There's no big means and little use. The whole point of this conference is to equip the church for the work of ministry the moment that any of us as pastors and leaders and shepherds and Equippers and teachers the moment that we ever forget that the reason the Holy Spirit has given us this position is not to boast in ourselves.

But it is to equip the Saints for the work of ministry the moment that we forget that. The moment we've gone contrary to the very teachings of the Word of God. Saints today you need to hear me that we're here not to espouse to you some great theological secrets.

We're here to remind you that you are filled with the Holy Spirit. You have the Spirit of God in you and you are the ones that will go about doing the work of ministry. And we are co-laborers with Christ.

Together one body one heart one mind one soul. Working for the glory of Christ and we do it together through the Holy Spirit. Now how many of you feel a little threatened by that? The evidence that we're threatened by the work of ministry is because we see nothing but our own ability.

It is a fearful thing. I literally tremble when I think about preaching in front of you today. Why. Because I know there's tremendous theological minds here. I know your preacher for reformata and reformata.

Thank you so much for the hospitality. I listen to his messages and I listen to espouse the Word of God and I'm like man, I just feel dumb today. I Get in the in the group sometimes and we talk and we hear those things and and and I like to talk.

The guys will tell you that pretty quick. But at the end of the day We're just co-laborers. We're just co-laborers, we're just brothers and sisters. There's no one greater than any other all pointing to Christ.

But we can be intimidating. So I want to eliminate here in the last part of this sermon I want to try to annihilate. By the doctrine of the Holy Spirit and truths about the Holy Spirit that you all have a helper and we need to Stop ignoring him.

So here comes the application so I know that's blasting through a lot of theological things and Trying to give an introduction but here comes our application. I want you to understand that by the Holy Spirit by Jesus giving us the Holy Spirit.

He give us a helper. Which is the provision that we need in order to do ministry. The advantages the goodness of the Holy Spirit is this? Provision he is known as the helper. He's known as the teacher.

He's known as the comforter. He's known as the glorifier and he's known as the gift giver though. All these things come right here in just the text that we read. Everything that you need in Christ is given and how is it given by the Holy Spirit?

So therefore you have a helper you have a teacher who's going to guide you in all manners of truth. And he's going to declare to you the things of Jesus if you ever read the Bible and have a difficult time understanding it.

What is your first reaction when you do? Well, let me run to Google. Listen, there's nothing wrong with Google. There's nothing wrong with commentators and common commentaries, but you know. Commentaries are written by a lot of times just common taters.

Sorry, that's a bad joke. Sorry guys trying to light it just a little bit. But those men have studied and I praise God for them. They give us shortcuts to that. They help us quickly get to it. I'm thankful for people who've been diligent study, but the reality is this we a lot of times can quote.

Can quote what dead men have said. But more and more rarely do I hear. About a man of God Who's got along with the Word of God and the Spirit of God and through the Word of God become to great conviction.

Then take your conviction and test it by all means. Tested among the brethren test it tested among each other. But listen, you cannot replace the Word of God and the Spirit of God and then intimacy with that with anything else.

Because he will declare it to you how he declares it through the Word of God by the study of the Word of God. Brother Keith and his family. They've lost a loved one this week. I'm thankful for the Spirit of God.

Who's a comforter. A Comforter in our times of need. A comforter in our times of brokenness. And and have you ever wondered just for a moment how the early Apostles died so well. Have you ever thought about that just for a second.

I Mean, you know, are we prepared to be martyrs now? I don't even think there's people that would go to fight for revolutionary like the volunteers did much less. Stand for Christ in a manner That would cost us our life.

Maybe we would Put under fire under the gun, but I believe the evidence under fire or under the gun. The evidence would be proven now not in that moment. So under fire who's going to comfort us? Under stress who's going to comfort us?

You know, it's a big election year. I Mean you're gonna be voting for the Savior, right? Easy. I Promise you there's no one that goes to that White House will ever save anybody. Jesus said in this life, you're gonna have a lot of trouble.

Said but be of good cheer. I've overcome. And how do we overcome? By the Spirit of Christ. How many want to give glory to Jesus? Do we not? Do we not want to glorify God? We want to give glory to Jesus.

Jesus said here that I'm gonna send the one who will Glorify me if you really have a deep desire in you to be a glorifier. Then you know what you need to do. You need to get in tune with the Holy Spirit you need to be filled with the Holy Spirit because by the feeling of the Spirit by an understanding and a Relinquishing to the control of the Spirit of God then guess what the Spirit of God will do.

He will declare to you truth teach you things and by walking in the Spirit. You will glorify Jesus. I hear people all the time on to learn how to glorify God and then they take some kind of fleshly means and Attempting to do that.

The Holy Spirit is the glorifier and he empowers the Saints to glorify and the Holy Spirit is the gift-giver. I Will not be ashamed of that. I Know there's differences in understanding of that. But nonetheless the Spirit of God is still gifting the Church of Jesus Christ to accomplish and to do his will and to do His works apart from that.

I could not stand here and do anything. So church. When the Spirit of truth comes he will guide you in all truth. He will not speak on his own authority, but whatever he hears he will speak in other words.

He's hearing directly from the Father. He's hearing from the Son and he's speaking to us and he will declare these things that are to come. He will glorify me and then look what happens to this early church.

Flip over to your Bibles to Acts chapter 9. For see these early Apostles in this past Sunday I just preached on the Ascension of Jesus Christ and and as I preached on the Ascension Jesus is fulfilling what he said what we read earlier in John.

He said I'm going to leave you. Now if you had been living with Jesus Talking with Jesus sin the miracles of Jesus now seen the resurrected Jesus. What do we typically want to do with our Jesus? It's mine, right?

Any Lord of the Rings fans here? Like my ring my precious, you know. This is my Jesus. We want to we want to protect it. It's it's my religion. It's my Jesus. It's my relationship and it's none of your business.

Is that really glorifying? How did how does those early disciples react when they see Jesus ascending there? He led him as far as to Bethany is the gospel of Luke wrote and it's the only gospel that Records details about the Ascension of Jesus.

He led him as far as Bethany and then and then he raises his hands. He blesses them and and they watch him fly off. How many of them do you see running out of him. Oh Jesus, please don't leave. You know how a Luke records the response.

It says rejoicing and Worshipping him with great joy. They returned back to Jerusalem. What's going on there? Because the Son of God is leaving them and yet they're worshiping and rejoicing. I believe they're finally beginning to understand what Jesus had told him is John recorded that it's going to be to your advantage that I Leave now head over back to Jerusalem because there's something good coming they're finally believing that the Messiah is who he said he was that he's going to be crucified and on the third day be risen again and Then he's going to ascend to the Father and I'm going to go to my father and I'm going to pray to my father.

I'm going to talk to my father and he's going to sin something really special. I think they're really believing him and as they believe him they suffer tremendously. They get on through the day of Pentecost and then we know Persecution not long after this great awakening that happens there in Jerusalem the birth of the church happens.

They're suffering tremendously. Chaos is happening and they're being scattered. Imprisoned beaten stoned. What did they do as they were scattered they continue to preach what? They continue to preach the gospel.

How did they persevere so well, how did they stand so strong in the faith? How did they just so willingly lay down their lives? What was their attitude like I? Soften the wonder what my attitude to be like if I really had to suffer.

Well in Acts chapter 9 verse 31. Take a look at their attitude. So the church throughout all Judea and Galilee and Samaria. This is in the mist historically if you read it, it's very clear under great persecution.

I can insert that without adding or taking away you with me. So the church throughout all Judea all Galilee and all Samaria had what? Peace and as they had peace they're doing what being built up and they're walking in the fear of the Lord and what and in the comfort of the Holy Spirit.

By that the church multiplied. Listen, I do believe in America and I do believe in the world. We're living in a chaotic system. I do believe that there's wickedness rampant all around us there's foolish things that that are of the enemy and are against and Contrary to the things of God but Church of Jesus Christ.

Listen to me we can continue to live in peace and we can continue to live in joy and we continue to glorify Christ and why because we Have the comfort of the Holy Spirit dwelling within us that come on me even if my life is laid down.

I am ready. I am secure and even to the end he is with me. I. Where's the church that walks in that comfort? I see all these posts and all these things about all the fear of the church. I'm like, where where is the Holy Spirit?

What happens is we begin to ignore the Holy Spirit and begin to examine? Circumstances. Well praise God. We have a God that is far above and over all circumstances praise the Lord we have a God who is sovereign and I don't believe there's one blade of grass that bends unless the father is Keenly and well aware of all those things and he loves us and cares for us and supplies all our needs.

According to his riches and glory we find rest and peace in him. So I want to end with this. One of my favorite chapters of the Bible and it probably is for a lot of Christians is Romans chapter 8. So Dan let the cat out of the bag, all right.

So flip over there to Romans chapter 8 to to surmise this I told you I want you to leave this message empowered and and and. Clear-minded that we should not ignore the Holy Spirit. Now. How many of you can quote something?