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When you trusted the Lord Jesus Christ as your savior, you probably thought things were gonna be rather easy for you.
It just may be that things got tougher for you.
And as a result, you began to question God where he was and why didn’t he answer your prayers?
And why didn’t he keep his word well. He has kept his word. God always keeps his word.
He knows that all of us will face situations and circumstances in life that it’s difficult for us.
We don’t know which way to turn.
This is why he said to his disciples before he left, he was going to send them someone that he called the helper and this helper would be with them throughout their life.
This helper is called the Holy Spirit because you see God has made an awesome deposit for everyone who is willing to believe Him, willing to trust Him.
The Bible talks about God being God, the Father God, the Son God, the Holy Spirit, the three persons of the Trinity.
And sometimes people are confused with that.
So I wanna show you a brief diagram just to give you an idea that really they’re all one.
And if you’ll notice there is God, there is God, the father, who’s the creator and the sovereign ruler of the universe, God, the son, the savior, and our Lord God, the Holy Spirit, our helper and our empower all three persons of the Trinity, make up the Godhead.
Imagine living with such assets to your name and you never drawing upon them.
That’s where a lot of Christians are.
They know nothing about the Holy Spirit at some point in their life, they got saved.
No question in their mind about that.
And then somebody said to them, well, now that you’re saved, you do the best you can.
One of these days you’ll die and go to heaven. And so they are deposit of the Holy Spirit.
Nobody ever tells them about it. Nobody ever explains it to them.
And so they live their Christian life dissatisfied having needs that they don’t know how to answer thinking that they’re praying to a God.
They’re not sure he listens. And so they die very dissatisfied with their Christian life, their spiritual gifts, they know nothing about their abilities and talents, they know nothing about.
And so they just live their life as best they can with some sense of disappointment.
And I’ve met lots of people who have been saved early in life who are saying, well, you know, this Christian life is not always cracked up to be.
Oh yes, it is. You just don’t know about it.
There are no disappointments in Jesus and God, the Father God, the Son God, the Holy Spirit.
So in this message, I want us to see what God has done for you.
What is at your fingertips? What is deposited in your heavenly account?
If you are willing to yield yourself to Him and draw from these awesome reserves that God has placed at your account.
What do you do when you go through difficult times?
When you find yourself, maybe you’re back to the wall, you don’t know what to do.
Who do you go to do? You cry out to God probably do at some point.
But what I want you to see is this, that God has very specifically said I have sent you a helper, a helper is someone who’s gonna be there for you when you need him.
In fact, this helper is gonna always be there.
So I want you to turn to the 14th chapter John because Jesus right before he was crucified the night before he told them some of the most awesome things and he was preparing them because he was gonna be crucified.
Listen, the next day, he was going to the cross the next day, he was going to the tomb, he was going to be resurrected.
And then at another point out there, he would meet them. But at this point, it looked very dismal.
He made all these promises and now he’s getting ready to die.
And in spite of all the things he said, he’s going to die that overshadowed everything else.
So if you look in the 15th verse of the 14th chapter of John, if you love me, you will keep my commandments.
And then he said, knowing he’s getting ready to leave them.
I will ask the father now watch this. Here’s the whole Trinity.
In one verse, I will ask the father that’s Jesus speaking and he will give you another and capital h the helper who is the Holy Spirit that he may be with you for how long?
Forever? Not a short period of time, but forever.
He says, I’m leaving you, but I’m gonna give you a helper capital that is a person of the Trinity, the Holy Spirit.
He’s gonna be with you forever.
That is the spirit of truth whom the world cannot receive because it does not see Him and know Him, but you know Him because he abides with you and will be in you.
I will not leave you as orphans.
I will come to you at no point since the moment you trusted Christ as your personal savior, have you ever been alone at no point?
Have you ever been helpless? You may have felt helpless.
But when you trusted Jesus, as your savior, God’s seal upon you, his absolute assurance to you is the end dwelling presence of the Holy Spirit, God, the Father God, the Son God, the Holy Spirit, three persons of the Trinity.
You guarantee that you’re going to heaven when you die.
So I wonder in your personal life, what part does the Holy Spirit?
And what part has the Holy Spirit had in your life? You probably got saved like I did.
And they told me at 12 years of age, Charles, you’d be a good boy and one of these days you’ll die and go to heaven being a good boy was a little tough at 12 years of age.
But anyway, that’s all they told me. That’s it, be good. Well, oftentimes I wasn’t always good.
That’s all they, they never told me that I had this awesome Holy spirit within me to help me to grow up, help me to be what God wanted me to be.
Help me to do what God wanted me. Didn’t tell me anything like that.
The same God who saved you saved me, the same holy spirit who indwells me and dwells you.
And when I think about people who go to church 2030 40 50 years and that person lived their whole life and never knew the treasure of their life living within them and they never were told about him.
And I think about who whoever you are and wherever you go to church.
If you never hear about the Holy Spirit, you need to change churches because somebody isn’t telling you the whole story.
The whole story is God, the Father God, the Son and God, our helper, the Holy Spirit.
So he said to them, I’m going away and I’m gonna send you another.
That is the Holy Spirit will be your comforter. Now, watch this carefully.
What is the work of the Holy Spirit? What does he do in a person’s life?
What I want you to realize is this, I’m simply gonna tell you what’s true.
I’m gonna tell you what’s true about you.
I’m gonna tell you about this awesome asset that God has deposited within you to help you every single moment of your life.
As much as you’re willing to call upon Him, trust in Him and rely upon him, believe in what He’ll do for your life.
I’m simply saying you have God the Holy Spirit living within you and notice what he called Jesus called the Holy Spirit.
Help her. How many of you have ever needed? Help? Every one of us needed help.
And we have the great, infinite, awesome, all powerful helper living with inside of us, willing to give us direction and guidance and other help when that help is needed.
So, let’s look at it for a moment.
So what is one of the first works of the Holy Spirit when you were saved?
How are you saved the work of the Holy Spirit?
And when the Holy Spirit comes, he will convict the world concerning sin? Righteousness and judgment.
That is one of his first works in our life is to convict us of sin.
To make us realize that we’re sinning against God and that we need a savior and he lives within us.
Therefore, when you and I are daily in our life, when we have a bad thought or say something, we shouldn’t treat them the way we shouldn’t treat them, fail to do what we need to do.
That feeling we get is not just a feeling that is the work of the Holy Spirit reminding us of who we are.
Followers of Jesus. And that shouldn’t be in our life. This shouldn’t be in our life.
That’s what should be in our life. That’s who you should love.
In other words, he’s at work in our life.
Whoever you are, whether you recognize it or not, he’s at work in your life.
You may think it’s just your feeling. The spirit of God is at work in your life.
A second thing he does are very important is found in Ephesians 1 13 which says this in Him that is in Jesus.
You also after listening to the message of truth, the gospel of your salvation also believed, he said you having also believed you were sealed in Him with the Holy Spirit of promise.
Now, what does that tell you watch this carefully?
A seal in those days meant something was authentic, something was authentic.
It also spoke of ownership and also spoke of protection we have within us, an awesome protector.
And so he says, the Holy Spirit of God has sealed us. Now, what does that mean to you?
For example, who have been taught that you can be saved and lose your salvation is not true.
Listen, God doesn’t break his own seals.
He sealed you, which means just what we said, you’re owned by God. God is living within you.
You’re under His divine protection and everything we need. He has provided.
And so when we think in terms of the Holy Spirit, we’re not talking about some spirit, we’re talking about the person of the Godhead living within you has sealed.
You know, what does that say about people who think you can be saved and be lost, watch this.
Who can break a divine seal? The devil can’t, you can’t, you wouldn’t want to.
And so here’s what God’s saying.
When you trusted Him as your personal savior, he sealed you as one of his Children.
You are forever a child of God. Now, I know what some people are thinking.
Well, that means so I can just send like the devil and I’ll be saved. Try it.
The Holy Spirit within you. First of all will convict you and make you miserable.
He’s gonna make you miserable for years.
If it’s necessary, keeping reminding you that you’re living an ungodly life, you’re living an unholy life.
God isn’t pleased with that. You’re gonna miss blessing after blessing, after blessing.
And then people wonder, well, what’s wrong with my life? What’s wrong with your life? You’re sin in your life.
You’re ignoring the Holy Spirit. Who’s trying to say, look, look, look, look what you’re doing. That’s not necessary.
That is God’s awesome love. The Holy Spirit has sealed you with the divine heavenly seal. You are his.
He’s your helper. Then the third thing he does and the simple way of saying what we are saying in Romans 8 11, he dwells us.
That isn’t something that the Holy Spirit is up in heaven.
And uh we are down here and it’s a long ways. I’m not sure.
And on, we go listen to this.
But at the spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, he who raised Jesus from the dead will also give life to your immortal buddies through his holy spirit.
Who indwells you that is, we have a gift that is an eternal gift and that’s the Holy Spirit marked by his ownership.
So when you listen to this, when you and I sin against God, we are violating his principles, violating the very person he sent to seal us, to make us one of his own, to be our helper.
We are his Children. We are under his divine leadership. He says, he dwells us.
I wonder how people would live if they thought every day, I’m dwelled by holy God.
If you thought in your life every single day when you wake up in the morning that you’re indwelled by Holy God because you are the Holy Spirit.
He’s there to end us, to enable us to do anything and everything that he’s required of us.
1/4 thing he does is he teaches us listen to 14 chapter John the 26 verse.
But the helper, the Holy Spirit whom the father will send in my name.
He will teach you all things and bring all things to your remembrance.
Now, think about this, the moment you’re not received. We have the teacher, the teacher above all teachers within us.
He’s the one who helps us understand the truth. He’s the one who helps us convey truth to other people.
He’s the teacher, for example, when you find yourself in a difficult situation and you’re looking for a pastor scripture, Lord, what should I read?
He’s the one who will show you where to go. He’s the one who will interpret the word of God.
He’s the one who will encourage you. He says He’s a helper.
He encourages us bringing us to the right passage, helping us to see what God thinks about our situation.
What the circumstances are, we have this awesome asset that many people ignore in their life.
And they’ll say, well, I don’t read the Bible much because I don’t, I don’t understand it.
How do you learn to understand the word of God by reading it.
And by trusting the Holy Spirit, think how many times you faced a difficult situation in your life.
And what did you do? You turn to a passage of scripture or you would just flipping through the Bible and this particular verse hit you and you think God, you know, I needed that.
Yes, he does. That’s why he led you there. Watch what he says.
He says, I’m sending you another capital H helper.
We have a divine, supernatural Godly helper within us to help us in every circumstance of our life.
He is our teacher. But following being our teacher, what does he do? He reveals truth to us.
And so look, if you will in first Corinthians chapter two and verse 12, we have received not the spirit of the world, but the spirit, which is from God that we may know the things freely given to us of God.
There are many things we don’t understand.
And yet we have the Holy Spirit living within us to give us understanding.
And how many times have I listened to? People?
Tell me how discouraged they were because they’ve read the Bible and didn’t say anything to them.
Listen, the Holy Spirit who is our teacher? That’s one of his works. He will teach us the truth.
If we will come to the word and ask him to show us, that’s one of his responsibilities as the Holy Spirit teaching us to help us to show us the truth.
If you don’t like the way things are in your life, ask yourself the question.
Why, why is this happening in my life? Why don’t I feel God’s presence? What don’t I know about heaven?
Why don’t I, why don’t I have people loving me?
Why do I have such a hard time on my job?
Maybe the fact that you have ignored the helper, you’ve ignored the helper who wants to help you through someone else, give you something through someone else, help you in your occupation through someone else.
He says, he sends the helper in order to help us. And usually what does he do?
He speaks through some other believer oftentimes to show us exactly what we need and how to find what we need.
So he reveals the truth to us.
And often times people say, well, I read that verse and I don’t understand it.
Well, listen, nobody understands all of it. If somebody says I got it, you don’t have it.
In fact, you’re ignorant. Do you think you understand every single verse of the word of God?
Because this is divine knowledge. This is holy knowledge, Godly knowledge that reaches far beyond our universe.
He’s our helper revealing the truth to us.
And when I think about that, I think often times the verses that I’ve read that I thought now, Lord, I, I, I don’t, how do I apply that to my life?
Here’s what I discovered. If I read a passage scripture.
I don’t quite get it at that moment uh for whatever it might be.
And I wanna know what, what is the truth? Who are you saying it to?
How did you say it? What did you mean then? And then what do you mean today?
He’s our teacher. He’s the one that watch this.
He’s the one who translates for us, what a verse of scripture means.
And I think about people who never read the Bible and wonder why life is the way it is.
If you don’t read the Bible, what you do is you ignore this treasure.
People who reject Jesus, reject life at its very best, reject the helper and then wonder why things are not going right for them.
For the simple reason, they turned their back upon this awesome asset sealed by the Holy Spirit.
He seal his believers. He seals us today teaches us, gives us understanding if we’re willing to listen to him.
And I think sometimes people have their Bible by their bed at night or something.
And uh every once in a while, they’ll turn a light on and say, well, I’m gonna start reading a passage here or there, whatever.
But oftentimes not till something is bad, do they open the word of God?
It’s there for you. All of this awesome truth is there for you.
If you will open the word of God, if you will ask the Holy Spirit to give you understanding He will and you say, well, does that mean all of it’s understandable.
First time you read it. No, 10th time you read. No, sometimes listen, we’re talking about God.
We’re talking about knowledge and wisdom far beyond human capacity, but nothing that we don’t need, that is whatever we need.
The spirit of God is gonna give us understanding.
So when I think about that He will reveal the truth to us And then of course, he will guide us.
When he, the spirit of truth comes, he will guide you into all truth.
So somebody says, well, you know, I’m trying to make a decision in my life and I’ve evaluated this and that and the other.
And I’ve talked to this. And so have you talked to God?
The Holy Spirit who lives within you is willing to give you guidance in every single decision you face when you’re making a decision in your business, making a decision in your personal life, relationship to others, financial, whatever it might be, do you ask him to give you direction?
He will give us, he will show us the truth.
When when he comes, he will guide us into all truth.
That is you can’t think of a question about your life in which you need something that He won’t show you what to do.
He’s there to show you to give you divine guidance and direction. What about your Children?
For example, you want your Children when they get into a situation, they don’t know what to do.
They want you to come to them as parents and ask and trust you to help them.
And so we get into the situations and circumstances, we don’t know what to do. What do we do?
We run to ask somebody else. It’s ok to ask somebody else.
But you should ask God first if you will ask the Lord first. Lord give me wisdom and direction.
He says, he will guide us into all truth, whatever I need in direction, he’s more than willing to show us.
If we’re willing to take the time to ask him and believe what he says that sometimes if you ask him about something, what he tells you is not gonna be as easy as what your friends tell you.
But first of all, they don’t know anything about it anyway.
They just know partly, but the Holy Spirit of God is willing to teach you and to show you exactly what to do in every single situation.
Then I think about what he says that he does in and through us.
In Galatians chapter 5 22 here’s what he says.
He says the fruit of the spirit that is, this is what he produces in us.
See if it’s in you, the fruit of the spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self control.
Do you see any of those you need?
I need them all and the truth is we all need them all.
Well, look at it, look at this, somebody’s giving you a hard time and you feel very impatient, but you can’t really afford to do that.
You can’t be impatient. You have the Holy Spirit to give you his patience. Sometimes.
For example, somebody that you just don’t love that they, in fact, they’re just obnoxious and you think you sit in church and listen to sermons and you stand up and sing and you pray.
But deep down in your heart, you can’t stand them. So what, so what happens?
You ask the Holy Spirit, let me tell you something.
It will, it will be amazing and how God can change your attitude towards somebody that you don’t want anything to do with.
Now you don’t tell him how to do it. You just say Lord, you know, I don’t love them.
I, this is the reason I don’t, I, I need, I need, here’s what you said, God, you just gotta love them through me.
You will be amazed what God will do in your life.
Have to change your attitude and you’ll think, well, Lord, I, I didn’t know I was that obnoxious myself.
And so everything begins to change why and listen, patience, joy, peace, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self control.
All of us need self control. Where do we get it?
We trust the Holy Spirit to exercise self control through us.
That’s what you’re tell him Holy Spirit, I want you to exercise self control.
What I see what I do, what I hear, I want your control in my life, not mine.
He will exercise that through us.
And so as you and I yield to the Holy Spirit, here’s what happens.
All non gifts of the spirit, the spirit of God begins to work them into our life.
And so what happens our life changes.
And then he also has as one of his responsibilities to remind us.
Look in John 14 the 26 verse for a moment.
And he says to them, but the helper capital h the Holy Spirit, the helper, the Holy Spirit whom the father will send in my name.
He will teach you all things and bring to your remembrance. All that I said to you.
Now think about this, these 12 disciples had walked with Jesus for three years.
They had seen a lot.
They had heard a lot from walking on water to feeding 5000 to healing, to raising Lazarus.
They, they’ve seen a lot now watch this. So their life was consumed with this miraculous life.
But all of a sudden he’s gone and they’re over here, watch this.
They had no notes, they didn’t have a notepad, they didn’t have a computer, they didn’t have a Bible.
They think about where that left them all they had is what they remembered.
How much did they remember? Imagine walking with him?
Three years and seeing this and that and never knowing what was gonna happen and doubting him here and there and so forth and all of a sudden he’s gone.
This is the reason he said to them, sit down in the city of Jerusalem until you be filled, endued with the Holy Spirit who will bring all things to your Ame God Almighty has given us his word and then given us the Holy Spirit to do what to interpret the word of God for us and help us to understand I will teach you all things and bring all things to your amen that I’ve said to you.
Think about how much you remember when you have read the word of God, we are gifted with a treasure called the Bible and the Holy Spirit, our teacher, our guide, the one who helps us to interpret it, you can read it, you can hear it, but most of all you apply it.
God didn’t leave us empty.
So when you trust Jesus as your savior, you receive this awesome treasure of the Holy Spirit.
You say, well, I’ve never been to school this that and the other.
And I don’t know what it, what it means.
Here’s what he says, the Holy Spirit, your helper, forget what somebody else says, the Holy Spirit, your helper.
You start reading the word of God and here’s what will happen. You begin to understand it.
My grandfather preached the gospel for about 50 some years had never been in the school room.
He learned to read by reading the Bible.
I don’t know how that worked, but I know this, I watched him and listen to him preach for one solid hour and never read anything except the passage of scripture.
He learned to read, reading the Bible. And so that’s why he knew it so well.
So if you don’t know anything else and you start reading what, how the Holy Spirit worked in his heart to teach him the truth.
The same Holy Spirit who was in the days of Jesus working and in that New Testament day working is the same Holy Spirit who works in you.
If you read it, he’ll show you the truth.
He says, I will guide you into all truth, all truth that you and I need no matter what kind of decision you have to make, you can ask him.
And here’s what he says, I’m sending you a helper, the Holy Spirit who will teach you all the things that I’ve said.
So when you think about that, think about how sufficient is.
And then of course, he says, he will equip us with spiritual gifts in the 12th chapter.
First Corinthians, what are spiritual gifts? Well, for example, there are probably seven major spiritual gifts.
That’s the gift of prophecy, of teaching, of mercy, encouragement, of service, of giving, of administration, all gifts probably fall into those seven.
And so the truth is watch this. You have a spiritual gift.
And so he gives us the gifts and exercises those gifts in our life according to what he wants us to do what he’s called us to do.
Somebody says, well, I don’t have any gifts. Yes, you do. You do have gifts.
It’s a question of asking God to show you and thinking about what you do, what you need to do what you need help in and He’ll show you what that is.
Then of course, he empowers us in that first chapter of acts verse eight.
He said, you will receive power after that, the Holy Spirit comes upon you and you shall be my witness.
That is He will release within us, the energy and the strength and the authority to do whatever He wants us to do.
That’s the promise of Almighty God.
When you think you just can’t go another step, what do you do?
You ask the Holy Spirit to help you to give you guidance, to give you strength and energy.
Watch this, the Holy Spirit is practical. The Holy Spirit does follow us what we cannot do for ourselves.
He has equipped us in every single area of our life.
Then I just mentioned one other and that as he says in Ephesians chapter 5 18, be filled with the spirit, which simply means this continually allow the Holy Spirit to live in your life, give you guidance, give you direction, fill those needs.
Whatever those needs may be, to be filled with the Holy Spirit means we’re to live in the conscious presence of the Holy Spirit living with us in order to help us and enable us so that no believer has a legitimate excuse for not obeying God.
He has equipped you to do whatever he wants you to do.
He has equipped you to have enough of what he wants you to have to understand what He wants you to understand, to be the person he wants you to be.
You have not only the promise, but when He sealed you as a child of God, you are equipped to do and to become whatever God had in mind when He brought you into this world.
Now, think about the people who’ve never heard that they’re just living out their life the best they can.
Haven’t you heard people say, well, how are you doing? Just doing the best they can.
That’s no way to live. The best I can is not very good. The best He can is awesome.
Absolutely awesome. The best he can do.
So the Holy Spirit is our helper, our friend, our sustainer, our provider.
He’s everything Jesus said. I’m going away, but I’ll send you the helper.
And when he comes, here’s what he’ll do.
So let’s go back for a second to this chapter 14th chapter.
I will ask the father and he will give you another helper capital H that he may be with you forever.
Not partially that is the spirit of truth, whom the world can’t receive.
They don’t understand it because it doesn’t, because the world doesn’t 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. I will come to you.
Now, where do you get it more encouraging than that? Amen.
You should be praising the Lord thanking God for who he is in you, that He hasn’t left you to do it yourself, whatever you do in life, it’s not you to just do it yourself.
You have four times. He called the Holy Spirit, the helper to enable us and to help us do his will.
Amen. Father, how grateful we are. We could never thank you enough.
We praise you for it, for giving us the Holy Spirit in our life every single day to enable us to do and to be what you’ve called of us.
I pray the Holy Spirit has spoken to every person here today that every person will walk away, encouraged in their heart, reminded in their heart, challenged in their heart or convicted in their heart that you have something for them to do that fits your will for their life.
And I pray that they’ll surrender to that.
We love you and we praise you and we bless your holy name and we pray this in your wonderful blessed name.
Jesus. Amen.