“But if we walk in the light as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanses us from all sin.” – 1 John 1:7

Well, hey, my friends. I wanna ask you this question.
And in fact, I think that if Jesus were to speak to you and I today, in the 21st century, in our modern day vernacular, our language of the street, he would ask us, are you turned on to me, or are you turned on to Christ?
And when I say turned on, I mean not only are you aware, but beyond that, it’s not that are you considering Jesus?
Look, you and live in an age when where everybody says, Oh, yeah, Jesus. Sure.
I know God, but they don’t really know what’s going on.
For the same reason, I love this argument that god showed me a long time ago, and that is regarding light.
You know, the Bible says that Jesus is the of the world.
When I worked at a medical research laboratory for 13 years, uh, I worked in a lab that’s study, the effects of light, uh, regarding human physiology in this area, hematology, the measurement of blood, And when you use light, uh, to be a tool, it’s fascinating the things that you find out.
But to develop the product, we had to, first of all, begin to under end light itself.
And that is this that light is present, even in a dark room.
So wherever you and I go today in our world, where it’s dark dark, dark. Just know this.
The light of Christ is always present.
And so the challenge to you and I is this, Do we know and do we understand that god has got his light emanating out of us as believers?
So Jesus said it this way. Let’s have our lights shine. It’s a powerful truth that Christ gives us.
As a believer, you should be comforted by the Holy Spirit.
All of us have trauma, life, difficult, things going on in life.
None of us are exempt, but boy, is it tough going through life alone?
Thank god that we as believers have the comfort of the Holy Spirit, and we saw in verse 9 that he does three things for us.
He confirms our relationship with him He’s he confirms it to us. I love this.
We don’t have to make it up. God confirms his call upon our lives. Secondly, we saw this.
It’s god the Holy Spirit who possesses us as believers. When we ask the question, what spirit lives in you?
You gotta stop and ask yourself, self. And don’t make assumptions, friends, are you possessed by the Holy Spirit?
That’s what you want in life.
You’re gonna be possessed by either the spirit of self, the spirit of this world, or the Bible says, the spirit of Antichrist.
What you want is the spirit of god to possess your life.
All of us are open vessels until we’re filled.
And the question is who is it? What spirit is in you?
And, again, don’t make an assumption. Well, I’ve been going to church all my life.
I’ve just I’ve been a faithful what what does that matter? I can quote Bible.
Satan can now quote you. Doesn’t matter. What spirit is in you?
He confirms he possesses, and we saw also that he reveals.
He’s the Holy Spirit who reveals truth to us It is god the Holy Spirit that unlocks to us the understanding of the Bible.
That’s why when somebody’s religious and they’re reading the Bible, but they don’t get it.
They don’t understand it. They pick up the Bible.
They read John chapter 5 or John 3 or Psalms 1, and they don’t get it.
It looks like Greek to them or sounds like it. It’s foolishness to them. Why is that?
Because you do not have the Holy Spirit revealing the word of god to you. Let’s be honest, Christian.
Every one of us who know the lord, when you open up this Bible, I mean, imagine it being quiet right now.
I unsnap it. I open it up. And when I go like this, God speaks.
And I know that sounds kinda crazy or childlike, but I gotta tell you, if you pick up the Bible and turn everything off.
Turn the TV off. Turn the music off. Turn your phone off. Yes. You can.
You can turn your phone off. And you start reading the Bible.
Now for me, who’s ADD Wacky, I’ve gotta read the Bible out loud.
Because if I start reading it silently, I can hear I can hear crickets.
I can hear a bug on a bush somewhere. So I have to read out loud.
That’s what I have to do.
And how is it that god speaks is because the Holy Spirit reveals the Bible?
You don’t read the Bible, you’re not gonna hear from god.
But you read the Bible, be ready to hear him.
The second thing we saw last time is in verse 10 is what spirit lives in you, is he the spirit of life?
The Holy Spirit is all about life. He’s the living spirit. He’s the Holy Spirit.
He’s the giver of life. And in verse 10, we learned this that he’s the Holy Spirit who controls.
He controls. I’m listen. And you’ll agree with me as a believer.
My life is is guided I wanna believe like a guided missile guided.
That missile may be flying through the atmosphere, but there’s satellites, and there’s devices keeping it on a trajectory on a what is known as a teleonomic path that rocket is following information invisible to our naked eyes.
It’s falling as it were a string of information to the destination. I believe my life is like that.
I think if you read the Bible, it confirms that.
God says our lives, our days of our lives are all numbered by god.
He knows exactly the day that you gonna die, and he knew the day that you’re gonna be born.
God knows that. You don’t know that? Yes. He said, oh, yeah. What if I commit suicide today?
You’re assuming you’ll be successful. You jump off the building, not this building.
You go find some other building. Get off the property if you’re gonna go do that. And you’re wrong?
You’re gonna you’re gonna hurt.
If your day has not come, you can’t hasten it and you can’t be too late for it.
God knows. It’s amazing. But he’s the spirit of life and he controls.
I’m getting a little nervous these days.
Um, have you noticed When you’re driving on the freeway, notice this the other day, 55 heading north and, uh, somebody, I don’t know.
We’re all doing you know what, California 55 is. Right?
First of all, there’s freeway 55, which is what I was on.
But you’re supposed to go 55, which when translated in California is 80. That’s the conversion.
It’s 55 in all other states, but it’s 80 here in California.
And so as you’re going along, I glanced over and I saw somebody reading a book and they were passing me.
Reading a book? You say, Jack, you’re joking. I’m not joking.
He was driving a Tesla. Okay? Tesla. That’s why we have blackouts and brownouts in California.
Everybody’s charging their Teslas now. Our lights go dim when the neighbor charges his Tesla. You noticed that?
But the person’s going down the road, something’s in control. He’s reading a book.
Man, let me tell you, I don’t have that kind of faith. I’m old school. Give me the wheel.
Give me the pedal. But this person had no problem with it, but that vehicle was going down the road doing all the stuff that normal vehicles do, but it was under the guidance of some invisible system.
Are you hearing me? The Christian is under the guidance of some invisible system, and that invisible system is the Holy Spirit.
Using the word of god is information technology to send it into our hearts as a guidance system.
He works in us that way.
He controls us We learned that he does this because he indwells us. What a deal.
Christianity is the only faith group of all religions on the earth where the god of Christianity says I’m gonna move inside of you.
I’m gonna dwell within you. And I’ll surprise you. It’s not only the comfort.
It’s also the uncomfortable part of the Holy Spirit living in you.
That uncomfortable part is he doesn’t let you get away with anything.
And I love it because you know what? Jack doesn’t know what’s best for Jack.
Uh, Jack’s not good for Jack sometimes.
And that’s when the Holy Spirit takes over. Why? How does he control me by indwelling?
How does he control you by indwelling? Is it amazing to think right now that the Holy Spirit is everywhere?
In all places at all times, if you think about it, the Holy Spirit.
And then thirdly, we saw last time that he purifies. He’s the spirit that purifies us.
He gets us ready. He’s getting us ready. The other day, I posted something on my Facebook page.
I think it was or all the platforms, whatever. But it was response to an article.
And the article said something like this.
Maybe you read it that, uh, a national poll shows that Christianity is dying in America.
And, uh, on the surface, I would say absolutely. That’s totally obvious if you didn’t know anything about Christianity.
Hear hear me loud and clear everybody. Do not worry about statistics and articles. And I’ll tell you why.
Because we are in the days that the Bible says are the end times.
Jesus’s truth that he proclaimed to us is still true, and that is the gates of hell will not prevail against his church.
So when you see an article done by researchers who say Christianities dying in America.
I wrote I took that article and I simply said, don’t worry people in the reading of this.
God is just purifying his church for the last days. See, what do you mean by that?
Listen, the numbers are shrinking but the numbers should shrink. Why?
Cause the closer we get to wedding day, right, the church is being purified by the Holy Spirit.
The bride of Christ is getting ready.
And you should get very excited about this reason is that when you see more and more people headlong departing out of Christianity.
Just know this. They were never in Christianity to begin with.
It was because it was comfortable that they were there. Now it’s not comfortable.
The truth is revealing who’s for real and who’s not to worry.
Are you a real follower of Christ. How do I know? What spirit lives in you?
And you won’t be bothered by statistics. You won’t be bothered by an article.
Because you know that you belong to god. He indwells you.
He brings you comfort and control. He’s purifying you.
He confirms this relationship to you by revealing more and more the word of god to you.
So church, here we go. We pick it up, and I’m gonna give this to you in advance.
So, uh, you can make, uh, notes of it.
The final close out of this is what spirit lives in you. Is he the spirit of resurrection?
That’s what we learned in verse 11. The spirit of resurrection.
And there’s gonna be three things that we get out of those out of that verse.
He’s the spirit of power. Can’t have resurrection without power. He’s the spirit of eternity.
The whole point behind resurrection is eternal life, and he’s the spirit of glory.
Glory Yeah. This is something that we’re gonna be experiencing, maybe scratching our heads forever in eternity, and that is god is gonna glorify us as believers.
The Bible says so. It’s hard to believe, but it’s true nonetheless, and it is awesome.
So he is the spirit of resurrection, and we see so by power. Look at verse 11.
But if the spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you.
Notice it’s the Holy Spirit. Notice it says the Holy Spirit of Him is a remarkable statement.
You see the Spirit of god.
The spirit of him, the spirit of Christ, if his spirit dwells in you.
This is the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit’s a person friend, the Bible teaches from Genesis to Revelation that he is a person You know, listen, there’s a lot of cults out there that call him an it, or they don’t call him.
They don’t say him. They say it’s an it. It’s a power.
It’s this god made force like the magnetic belt or Luke’s, uh, skywalker’s forest, you know, the the forest be with you.
Uh, no. No. He’s not. Listen.
The Bible says that he’s a person, and the Bible says that the children of Israel, when they’re wandering in the wilderness, they would not believe god And because of their unbelief, the Bible says they made angry the Holy Spirit, and he turned on them and became their enemy.
Can you imagine? The Holy Spirit being your enemy and an ISN Sapphire in the book of acts chapter 56.
Remember what they were doing? The Bible tells us that they lied to the Holy Spirit.
Listen, you can go outside right now. To a fire hydrant and lie to it.
It won’t matter. You can go to your car and tell all kinds of stories.
It ain’t gonna hear you. But the Holy Spirit is alive.
He’s eternal, and he’s part of the godhead.
In fact, Jesus said, all manner of sin will be forgiven the sin against the father and the sin against the son, but he who sends against the Holy Spirit will never be forgiven, and this life or in the world to come.
That is called, bless me of the Holy Spirit.
You never wanna commit that sin, which is this, dying without accepting Christ. That’s it.
It’s the Holy Spirit’s job to point you to Jesus now. That’s what he’s doing every day.
Every single one of you. So I’m an atheist. He’s working overtime on you.
He’s trying to get you to safety. And you’re fighting and kicking against them.
It’s the Holy Spirit that’s visits you on your thoughts.
Yield to him, but he’s the power.
And I know how we think as humans, we’re so dumb.
We think of thinking, well, he’s powerful. Him show me. Listen.
God doesn’t succumb to your threats and your bullying. Besides, he knows us better than we do.
And if we saw something, we probably still wouldn’t believe it.
Thus, the god of the Bible goes to work on the inside But notice the qualifier there in verse 11, the spirit or the holy spirit Two things, point of interest here that we should make note of.
This is about the Holy Spirit as a person and its function that is indwelling within you, the power.
He does that by his power.
How in the world can god who is everywhere Be everywhere except inside you, listen, inside you until you invite him in.
Want you to think about that for a moment? According to the Bible, god is everywhere.
The omniscience of god He’s at all places on the presence, I should say.
But think of this theological dynamic.
God can be and is everywhere But according to the Bible, he’s not inside you until you invite him in.
That should cause you to pause. That is a deep thought.
Because contrary to your friends or family or earlier belief, we are not all sons and daughters of god according to the Bible.
Jesus said that when we come into this world, according to the Bible, that we are all lost and we’re all sinners, but we need to be born again.
By the way, born again, Jesus said that to a man who is more righteous than you and I externally, gave more money, did more good deeds, combine all of us together.
The guy was better than all of us combined.
I’m talking about nicodemus, and Jesus said, nicodemus unless you’re born from above, you’ll never see the kingdom of heaven.
Think of that. God’s gotta be on the inside.
And he does that by his power, by his person. His whereabouts is amazing.
As I said, he’s everywhere, but is he inside of you?
By the way, I think personally, I’m just making this up now. This is not Bible.
I’m making this next part up.
I’m wondering that for those who are in hell this morning, I’m wondering if part of their hell is knowing that when they had an opportunity to say yes to Christ, they said no.
And the very joy or gift or life of the Holy Spirit that could have been in them, they rejected.
Because we know that those that are in hell blame themselves, they blame nobody else.
I love this Psalm. Psalm 139, this three thousand year old Psalm.
This is awesome. And by the way, it’s Southern.
Look look at it, and it’s quite scientific in some ways here.
Whether shall I go from thy spirit? Or whether shall I flee from my presence, says David?
If I send up into heaven, thou art bear, if I make my bed in hell behold thou art there, If I take the wings of the morning and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea, even there shall thy hand lead me and thy right hand shall uphold me.
What a Psalm. David is saying I can’t go anywhere.
Whenever I ran from god, god was there when I got here. Didn’t Jonah find that out?
Jonah runs from god winds up that Jonah is having to still deal with god in the storm, god with the boat, Jonas says that’s it.
I know how to handle this. He tells the crew. Throw me overboard.
I’m the reason of your the re you want the storm to calm down, throw me over. That’s committing suicide.
Jonah has them throw, and they don’t even wanna do it. They don’t wanna do it.
These are a bunch of pagans that are saying, that’s not right. That’s not right. And Jonah, throw me over.
He would rather die than obey god.
They throw them over, And I’m wondering if he’s thinking on the way over.
Finally, I’m getting away from God. He hits the water, and it’s like, I am gonna drowned.
And that’s it. Anything other than obey god.
And then there’s this The Bible says god read your Bible carefully.
It was not a whale. The Bible says god prepared a great fish.
And it swallowed up, and the Bible says that Jonah was thinking in there, and he was 3 days 3 nights in the belly of the fish.
Can you imagine? And that fish spit him out and not have no idea what he looked like, but he had to stink to say the least.
But he found out that god was not only in the sea.
He was speaking to him and that fish. You might be in a situation where you think that’s it.
I’ve run away from I’ve made it, and god is speaking to you.
Or you might be in a situation where you think god will have nothing to do with you, that he doesn’t care about you, that he does want you.
Maybe you think you’ve sinned so far that you’re not welcome into the family of god, and god is speaking to you.
And he’s using this message right now and the verses that we’re teaching on to speak to you. It’s amazing.
So that’s the question my friends are you turned on to god?
It’s amazing to me with what we just heard a moment ago.
The incredible love, grace, and patience of god as seen in the life of Jonah because there was no place for him to go where god was not.
And look, I don’t know where you’re at right now. You might be in a very, very dark place.
You might even be either a intentionally trying to hide from god, or, b, maybe you’re searching.
And you wanna know the truth and the light.
The the fact of the matter is this friend, It is so precious to realize something right here right now that god has communicated to you and I through his word, the Bible, Yes, the Bible.
That book that is bid up on, cursed at, thrown around and made fun of.
The Bible is where god says to you, I love you.
I wanna forgive you, and there’s no place where you can hide, or I’m not there.
Imagine for a moment, running some place, thinking you’re getting away. Hey, I’m just gonna do this thing.
Maybe you’ve been, uh, a Christian and you’ve got this airbrained idea that you’re gonna escape from god a little bit and and do your own thing.
Not gonna work. Because wherever you go, he’s gonna be there. Maybe you don’t need anything about god.
You’re hiding out in the dark, doing your stuff in the dark thinking that nobody sees. Notice.
God sees. And he still says that he love you. Look, it’s it’s a fact.
He hates sin, and all sin was judged at the cross, but you, my friend, must get away from your sin.
It’s tracking you down. It’s hunting you sin. But Jesus says, give me your sin.
I’ll give you eternal life. Come to light. Come to forgiveness. Come to grace.
And, listen, it’s much easier to follow Christ than to resist him.
Friends, if you wanna know more, that’s why we’re here. Jackhibs.com. We’ve got so much material.
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Until next time, God bless you.
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