1 00:00:00,009 --> 00:00:03,099 Speaker: Romans eight, verses five through 11. 2 00:00:04,180 --> 00:00:05,954 And we're gonna be talking a lot about the Holy Spirit. 3 00:00:06,430 --> 00:00:08,980 I don't know if you ever heard anyone say, um, that they're 4 00:00:08,980 --> 00:00:11,320 spiritual but not religious. 5 00:00:11,320 --> 00:00:15,820 Um, that's, I don't know what exactly what that means, but in the Bible, when. 6 00:00:16,149 --> 00:00:19,000 When it talks about a spiritual person, we're talking about someone 7 00:00:19,000 --> 00:00:20,890 who has the Holy Spirit in them. 8 00:00:20,890 --> 00:00:24,130 And that's what we're gonna be talking all about this evening. 9 00:00:24,220 --> 00:00:24,519 All right. 10 00:00:24,519 --> 00:00:28,299 But Romans eight's where we're gonna be, um, I don't know if you know this, but 11 00:00:28,299 --> 00:00:33,910 Pastor Mark has a Tesla, um, pastor Mark has a Tesla, and when I was looking at 12 00:00:33,910 --> 00:00:38,950 his, uh, you know, the, the giant screen they have in the Tesla, it says there's 13 00:00:38,950 --> 00:00:40,715 a trunk, but it also says there's a fra. 14 00:00:41,500 --> 00:00:45,700 And I was like, what is a fr And basically it's a trunk, but in the front, right? 15 00:00:45,819 --> 00:00:49,780 Because, and I realized in a normal car, if you lift up the hood, this is 16 00:00:49,780 --> 00:00:51,340 what a normal car looks like, right? 17 00:00:51,399 --> 00:00:52,780 There's a whole bunch of stuff in there. 18 00:00:52,840 --> 00:00:55,660 There's, there's all sorts of things that, you know, your dad would 19 00:00:55,660 --> 00:00:57,580 probably know what to do with, right? 20 00:00:57,580 --> 00:01:01,570 There's all this, this important stuff that makes the car run, right? 21 00:01:01,570 --> 00:01:02,260 There's the, there's. 22 00:01:02,815 --> 00:01:06,714 Battery stuff, and there's all these pipes and there's coolant, and 23 00:01:06,714 --> 00:01:07,824 there's all these things in there. 24 00:01:08,035 --> 00:01:11,964 In a Tesla, if you look up, if you lift up the hood, you've got this right. 25 00:01:12,354 --> 00:01:16,434 Um, you've got a trunk, but in the front, right? 26 00:01:16,434 --> 00:01:17,365 It's a, it's a trunk. 27 00:01:17,725 --> 00:01:19,435 Um, this is not Pastor Mark's Tesla. 28 00:01:19,554 --> 00:01:23,065 Um, I wouldn't be surprised if he did keep this in his Tesla, but it's not. 29 00:01:23,304 --> 00:01:27,235 But the whole point is that the reason that there's this empty space in the front 30 00:01:27,235 --> 00:01:30,414 of a Tesla is 'cause it's not powered by an engine, it's powered by electricity. 31 00:01:30,564 --> 00:01:30,835 Right? 32 00:01:31,105 --> 00:01:34,404 Um, now the thing with the Tesla is without electricity, pastor Mark 33 00:01:34,404 --> 00:01:37,615 and I are having this debate about if the government cuts off all the. 34 00:01:38,050 --> 00:01:42,219 Power and all the resources and we're in, you know, we're running for our lives. 35 00:01:42,219 --> 00:01:46,509 Is it better to have a full electric car or a full gas car to, to survive, right? 36 00:01:46,509 --> 00:01:50,378 Would you rather have, if you, you know, rig up your own solar panels or buy 37 00:01:50,378 --> 00:01:53,199 your own gasoline, what would you, so anyway, it was fun, fun conversation. 38 00:01:53,199 --> 00:01:56,335 But the whole point is Tesla is useless without electricity, right? 39 00:01:56,335 --> 00:01:58,990 You can sit in the car, you can do all the things, but if there's no 40 00:01:58,990 --> 00:02:00,909 electricity in it, it's not gonna work. 41 00:02:00,939 --> 00:02:05,619 That's how it's, um, that's how it runs, is completely electric. 42 00:02:06,324 --> 00:02:09,865 I want you to see that as a Christian, the Christian life is completely 43 00:02:09,865 --> 00:02:11,515 dependent on the Holy Spirit. 44 00:02:11,875 --> 00:02:15,925 Everything that Christians do is completely 100% 45 00:02:15,925 --> 00:02:18,714 reliant on the Holy Spirit. 46 00:02:19,103 --> 00:02:21,594 In fact, you could say something like this, being a 47 00:02:21,594 --> 00:02:24,115 Christian is supernatural work. 48 00:02:25,164 --> 00:02:27,144 You can't just do it on your own. 49 00:02:27,353 --> 00:02:32,425 You can't be a Christian just doing regular things without God's intervention. 50 00:02:32,575 --> 00:02:33,204 God has to. 51 00:02:34,060 --> 00:02:38,079 Be the one powering what you do, and that comes through the Holy Spirit. 52 00:02:38,079 --> 00:02:40,990 So being a Christian has to be done supernaturally. 53 00:02:41,230 --> 00:02:42,070 You can't do it on your own. 54 00:02:42,070 --> 00:02:44,589 And that's what we're talking about in Romans when we talk about the 55 00:02:44,589 --> 00:02:48,310 difference between spirit and flesh, and we talked about this a lot 56 00:02:48,310 --> 00:02:49,630 with Romans seven and Romans eight. 57 00:02:49,630 --> 00:02:52,719 The big difference is in Romans seven, there's a lot of talk about the 58 00:02:52,719 --> 00:02:54,250 flesh, and that just kind of means. 59 00:02:54,775 --> 00:02:56,155 Uh, separated from God. 60 00:02:56,155 --> 00:02:58,045 You could say flesh means natural, right? 61 00:02:58,045 --> 00:03:01,915 Everything that's in the box, everything that is just what you do and effort 62 00:03:01,915 --> 00:03:07,135 you put into it, and the works that you contribute, whereas Spirit is 63 00:03:07,435 --> 00:03:11,755 with God's help, what God does in you and through you and for you, right? 64 00:03:11,755 --> 00:03:11,875 That's. 65 00:03:13,000 --> 00:03:15,220 What we're looking at, the difference between spirit and 66 00:03:15,250 --> 00:03:18,700 flesh, and what we're gonna see is Christians, they live by the Spirit. 67 00:03:18,730 --> 00:03:23,290 You cannot be a Christian without the Holy Spirit, and you cannot do any 68 00:03:23,290 --> 00:03:24,970 Christian things without the Holy Spirit. 69 00:03:24,970 --> 00:03:28,540 If you're a Christian and you say, well, sometimes I have the Holy 70 00:03:28,540 --> 00:03:30,790 Spirit's help, you can't say that. 71 00:03:30,820 --> 00:03:31,690 That's not true. 72 00:03:31,720 --> 00:03:34,960 You always need the Holy Spirit as a Christian. 73 00:03:34,960 --> 00:03:37,540 And so what we're gonna do in Romans eight is we're gonna see 74 00:03:37,540 --> 00:03:41,560 the difference between someone who is living with the Holy Spirit. 75 00:03:42,025 --> 00:03:44,335 Someone who's living on their own, right? 76 00:03:44,335 --> 00:03:48,085 A supernaturally helped person and a natural person. 77 00:03:48,265 --> 00:03:48,625 Okay? 78 00:03:49,045 --> 00:03:49,645 Someone, right? 79 00:03:49,645 --> 00:03:52,885 You can think about it as someone who's Tesla has electricity and 80 00:03:52,885 --> 00:03:54,115 a Tesla with no electricity. 81 00:03:54,745 --> 00:03:55,675 That's kinda what we're talking about here. 82 00:03:55,704 --> 00:03:58,585 So you've only got one point on your worksheet, and that's because 83 00:03:58,645 --> 00:03:59,905 it is all I want you to focus on. 84 00:03:59,905 --> 00:04:04,615 I want you to see the difference between spirit and flesh, or supernatural and 85 00:04:04,615 --> 00:04:05,815 natural, if you wanna put it that way. 86 00:04:05,815 --> 00:04:08,125 You could write that instead if you wanted to, but I want you 87 00:04:08,125 --> 00:04:09,325 to see the difference between. 88 00:04:10,255 --> 00:04:15,265 What God does and God's power and the difference between when 89 00:04:15,265 --> 00:04:20,575 it's just you, apart from God, independent from God, someone who's 90 00:04:20,635 --> 00:04:23,215 in the flesh, well, you could say that they're independent from God. 91 00:04:23,335 --> 00:04:28,405 They're not connected to anything that God is or does or says. 92 00:04:28,465 --> 00:04:28,855 Okay. 93 00:04:29,455 --> 00:04:33,085 And so as you're looking at at this passage, and we're, we're 94 00:04:33,385 --> 00:04:34,405 talking about this sermon. 95 00:04:35,140 --> 00:04:39,550 I want you to think about, do I see evidence of the Holy Spirit in my life? 96 00:04:40,120 --> 00:04:42,430 Is there any electricity in my life? 97 00:04:42,640 --> 00:04:46,780 Is there any evidence that God is doing stuff in my life? 98 00:04:46,870 --> 00:04:51,219 Or am I someone who is just living on my own without God? 99 00:04:51,219 --> 00:04:52,719 I'm independent from God. 100 00:04:53,080 --> 00:04:56,289 So I want you to, one thing to do at the sermon is to use it like a mirror. 101 00:04:56,409 --> 00:04:59,500 I want you to look in the mirror of, of what we're gonna look at, Romans eight, 102 00:04:59,500 --> 00:05:01,419 five through 11, and see, is this me? 103 00:05:01,840 --> 00:05:02,260 Am I in? 104 00:05:02,320 --> 00:05:03,219 Am I someone who's. 105 00:05:03,580 --> 00:05:07,300 Living with God's power, or I am someone who's living on my own. 106 00:05:07,510 --> 00:05:08,710 That's what I, that's the first thing I want you to do. 107 00:05:09,070 --> 00:05:11,980 The second thing I want you to do is maybe you, you say you are a Christian. 108 00:05:12,310 --> 00:05:15,550 I want you to ask yourself, when I do Christian things, right, when I pray, when 109 00:05:15,550 --> 00:05:20,230 I read the Bible, when I love people, when I serve at church, do I do those by my own 110 00:05:20,230 --> 00:05:24,550 effort or do I do those with God's power? 111 00:05:24,580 --> 00:05:26,260 Do I depend on God to do those things? 112 00:05:27,055 --> 00:05:30,145 It's kind of like, um, speaking of old we games, like we talked about 113 00:05:30,145 --> 00:05:32,995 last week, it's kind of like, you know this thing on Mario Kart, right? 114 00:05:33,025 --> 00:05:35,784 This is a Coupa cape, this is the Mario Kart we version, right? 115 00:05:36,085 --> 00:05:36,865 Coupa cape. 116 00:05:37,284 --> 00:05:40,525 The difference between being in the water and being out of the water, right? 117 00:05:40,525 --> 00:05:43,435 If you're in the water, you're going real fast 'cause the water 118 00:05:43,435 --> 00:05:44,755 is pushing you along, right? 119 00:05:44,935 --> 00:05:47,755 If you're out of the water, you can, you can go, you can, you can drive, right? 120 00:05:47,755 --> 00:05:48,595 You can move forward. 121 00:05:48,835 --> 00:05:49,195 But. 122 00:05:50,020 --> 00:05:51,400 You go a lot slower, right? 123 00:05:51,400 --> 00:05:53,440 You, you can't keep up with the people in the water. 124 00:05:53,440 --> 00:05:57,010 The secret to winning at Cuppa Cape is being in the water, right? 125 00:05:57,010 --> 00:05:59,950 You wanna be in the water and that if you're a Christian, sometimes what you do 126 00:05:59,950 --> 00:06:01,750 is, as a Christian, you live on your own. 127 00:06:01,750 --> 00:06:03,190 You, you try to drive outside of the water. 128 00:06:03,190 --> 00:06:05,740 You try to, to do things by your own strength, your own effort, 129 00:06:05,740 --> 00:06:08,315 your own smartness, your own Bible knowledge, your own goodness. 130 00:06:09,850 --> 00:06:12,910 Living with the Holy Spirit's help, you know, you're driving in the water, right? 131 00:06:13,090 --> 00:06:14,350 It, it, it, you're going faster. 132 00:06:14,350 --> 00:06:15,130 It makes sense, right? 133 00:06:15,130 --> 00:06:16,570 That's kind of what we want for Christians. 134 00:06:16,570 --> 00:06:19,420 We wanna say, am I doing things on my own effort, my own driving? 135 00:06:19,420 --> 00:06:24,820 Or am I depending on God to, to help me do what I'm trying to do for him? 136 00:06:25,180 --> 00:06:29,200 So what we're gonna see in the sermon is four differences the Holy 137 00:06:29,200 --> 00:06:31,210 Spirit makes in someone's life. 138 00:06:31,240 --> 00:06:31,450 Okay? 139 00:06:31,450 --> 00:06:34,750 So the first one we're gonna see is that the Holy Spirit changes your. 140 00:06:35,125 --> 00:06:35,875 Identity. 141 00:06:36,085 --> 00:06:36,385 Okay. 142 00:06:36,385 --> 00:06:37,945 The Holy Spirit changes your identity. 143 00:06:37,945 --> 00:06:41,215 So look with me, Romans eight, we're actually gonna start in verse nine, okay? 144 00:06:41,515 --> 00:06:44,125 Romans eight, verse nine. 145 00:06:44,155 --> 00:06:47,755 So the Holy Spirit changes your identity. 146 00:06:48,955 --> 00:06:50,125 So here's what he says in verse nine. 147 00:06:50,125 --> 00:06:50,275 Okay. 148 00:06:50,275 --> 00:06:58,855 He says, you, however, are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit if, if in 149 00:06:58,855 --> 00:07:01,745 fact the spirit of God dwells in you. 150 00:07:02,395 --> 00:07:06,295 Anyone who does not have the spirit of Christ, does not belong to him. 151 00:07:06,475 --> 00:07:09,775 So what Paul, our author of Romans is saying here is, if you don't have the 152 00:07:09,775 --> 00:07:11,335 Holy Spirit, you're not a Christian. 153 00:07:12,205 --> 00:07:14,395 You cannot be a Christian if the Holy Spirit's not in you. 154 00:07:15,235 --> 00:07:17,605 You have no association with Jesus. 155 00:07:17,965 --> 00:07:22,885 If you don't have the Holy Spirit, if, if the Holy Spirit is not present 156 00:07:22,885 --> 00:07:27,625 in your life, then you have no right and no reason to say I'm a Christian. 157 00:07:28,630 --> 00:07:32,380 You might go to church, you might like church, you might like Christian things. 158 00:07:32,380 --> 00:07:34,750 You might have good morals, you might be a nice person, but if 159 00:07:34,750 --> 00:07:38,169 the Holy Spirit is not present in your life, you're not a Christian. 160 00:07:41,229 --> 00:07:42,280 That's what we're looking at here. 161 00:07:42,340 --> 00:07:45,550 The spirit of God, the Holy Spirit dwelling in someone, 162 00:07:45,729 --> 00:07:46,840 but it changes who you are. 163 00:07:46,840 --> 00:07:49,090 He's saying you hover are not in the flesh. 164 00:07:49,120 --> 00:07:50,949 It's this is a, a state of being. 165 00:07:51,370 --> 00:07:52,808 This isn't just stuff you do, right. 166 00:07:53,049 --> 00:07:55,630 Being in the flesh isn't just, oh, you're sinning a lot. 167 00:07:56,500 --> 00:07:58,270 Being in the flesh is a, a state of being. 168 00:07:58,390 --> 00:07:59,620 It's a type of person. 169 00:08:01,539 --> 00:08:06,130 The biggest difference between a Christian and a not and a unbeliever, right, is 170 00:08:06,130 --> 00:08:08,020 not whether they go to church or not. 171 00:08:08,500 --> 00:08:10,299 It's not their search history. 172 00:08:10,539 --> 00:08:12,490 It's not who they hang out with. 173 00:08:12,580 --> 00:08:14,169 It's not how much they know about God. 174 00:08:14,350 --> 00:08:17,650 The biggest difference between a Christian and someone who's not a 175 00:08:17,650 --> 00:08:20,855 Christian is the Holy Spirit, because the Holy Spirit changes who you are. 176 00:08:22,450 --> 00:08:24,309 That's what changes what you do, right? 177 00:08:24,460 --> 00:08:28,390 But the biggest difference is not, you know, oh, well, you know, you can name all 178 00:08:28,390 --> 00:08:29,740 the books of the Old Testament in order. 179 00:08:29,799 --> 00:08:30,220 Great. 180 00:08:30,970 --> 00:08:32,679 You don't need the Holy Spirit to do that, right? 181 00:08:32,679 --> 00:08:34,929 The biggest difference is the Holy Spirit. 182 00:08:34,929 --> 00:08:39,039 It changes who you are, and that's because when the Holy Spirit's in you, he says, 183 00:08:39,039 --> 00:08:40,419 if the Spirit of Christ is in you, right? 184 00:08:40,419 --> 00:08:45,310 If Christ is in you, although the body is dead because of sin, the spirit 185 00:08:45,310 --> 00:08:47,230 is life because of righteousness. 186 00:08:47,260 --> 00:08:49,840 The Holy Spirit gives you eternal life starting the 187 00:08:49,840 --> 00:08:51,130 moment you become a Christian. 188 00:08:52,075 --> 00:08:53,695 Eternal life doesn't start when you die and go to heaven. 189 00:08:53,755 --> 00:08:54,895 Eternal life starts now. 190 00:08:54,895 --> 00:08:59,035 It's kind of like, you know, you, maybe you're familiar with Ephesians two, Paul, 191 00:08:59,035 --> 00:09:02,995 same author says, you were dead before you're Christian and now you're alive. 192 00:09:03,445 --> 00:09:04,825 You're, you're totally different now. 193 00:09:05,275 --> 00:09:05,965 You used to be dead. 194 00:09:05,965 --> 00:09:06,625 Now you're alive. 195 00:09:06,655 --> 00:09:10,495 It's not that you were, oh, you were kind of a good person and you were mostly 196 00:09:10,495 --> 00:09:12,955 Christian, and then the Holy Spirit came into you and then you became like 197 00:09:12,955 --> 00:09:15,415 a, like a varsity Christian, right? 198 00:09:15,625 --> 00:09:16,525 That's not how this happens. 199 00:09:16,585 --> 00:09:17,395 That's not how this works. 200 00:09:18,145 --> 00:09:20,060 The Holy Spirit doesn't just kind of change some of your life. 201 00:09:20,950 --> 00:09:24,370 The Holy Spirit comes into your life and takes you from dead to alive. 202 00:09:24,460 --> 00:09:25,210 Big difference. 203 00:09:25,330 --> 00:09:26,200 Huge difference. 204 00:09:26,200 --> 00:09:27,850 Biggest difference possible, right? 205 00:09:27,850 --> 00:09:32,620 You, you weren't just sick, you weren't just asleep, you weren't just lazy 206 00:09:32,620 --> 00:09:34,390 or groggy or on the bench, right? 207 00:09:34,390 --> 00:09:37,210 You went from dead to alive. 208 00:09:37,390 --> 00:09:40,270 That's the difference The Holy Spirit makes. 209 00:09:40,270 --> 00:09:41,950 It changes who you are. 210 00:09:42,939 --> 00:09:45,670 It doesn't just change some stuff about you, right? 211 00:09:45,670 --> 00:09:46,689 The Holy Spirit doesn't just change. 212 00:09:46,720 --> 00:09:49,330 Oh, well now they, they started being nice to their siblings. 213 00:09:50,589 --> 00:09:53,140 It changes fundamentally who you are. 214 00:09:54,224 --> 00:09:54,444 You. 215 00:09:54,449 --> 00:09:59,349 You are a different person than you were before when the Holy Spirit comes 216 00:09:59,979 --> 00:10:04,510 and lives in you, and that's really encouraging when you think about it. 217 00:10:04,510 --> 00:10:07,510 Remember in Romans six, the first command in the whole book of Romans 218 00:10:07,719 --> 00:10:11,260 was for you to believe something about yourself if you're a Christian, the first 219 00:10:11,260 --> 00:10:14,890 command in the whole book of Romans, the whole letter didn't come until chapter 220 00:10:14,890 --> 00:10:17,020 six, and he said, consider yourself. 221 00:10:17,050 --> 00:10:17,745 Think about yourself. 222 00:10:18,490 --> 00:10:19,689 As though you're dead to sin. 223 00:10:20,050 --> 00:10:22,480 Think about yourself as though you're different than you were before. 224 00:10:23,500 --> 00:10:24,400 You were one way. 225 00:10:24,400 --> 00:10:28,570 Now you're another way, which hopefully if you're a Christian, and that 226 00:10:28,570 --> 00:10:29,830 hopefully that's encouraging to you. 227 00:10:29,890 --> 00:10:31,360 Maybe you're a Christian and you're saying, man, I 228 00:10:31,360 --> 00:10:32,980 really struggle with anxiety. 229 00:10:32,980 --> 00:10:34,000 I'm just an anxious person. 230 00:10:34,390 --> 00:10:35,350 Or saying, oh, I'm a Christian. 231 00:10:35,350 --> 00:10:36,400 I really struggle with anger. 232 00:10:36,400 --> 00:10:37,390 I'm just an angry person. 233 00:10:37,390 --> 00:10:38,500 I'm just not a patient person. 234 00:10:38,680 --> 00:10:40,270 I'm just not a loving person. 235 00:10:40,390 --> 00:10:42,820 It just doesn't, that's just not what I, that's not how I operate. 236 00:10:42,820 --> 00:10:43,510 It's not what I do. 237 00:10:44,950 --> 00:10:47,020 If you're a real Christian, you have the Holy Spirit. 238 00:10:48,355 --> 00:10:51,025 You can say, that's not who I am anymore. 239 00:10:51,985 --> 00:10:52,135 Right? 240 00:10:52,135 --> 00:10:53,635 I'm not an anxious person. 241 00:10:53,785 --> 00:10:54,805 I'm a new creation. 242 00:10:55,255 --> 00:10:56,875 God has made me alive. 243 00:10:57,415 --> 00:10:58,675 I'm different than I used to be. 244 00:10:58,675 --> 00:10:59,574 I used to be anxious. 245 00:10:59,755 --> 00:11:01,495 Now I'm alive. 246 00:11:01,975 --> 00:11:03,055 I used to be angry. 247 00:11:03,175 --> 00:11:03,925 Now I'm not. 248 00:11:04,765 --> 00:11:08,485 That sin, like we talked about, doesn't have control over you, that sin isn't 249 00:11:08,485 --> 00:11:10,195 on the throne of your life anymore. 250 00:11:10,285 --> 00:11:11,725 You can say to that sin. 251 00:11:11,725 --> 00:11:13,075 You can say, that's not who I am. 252 00:11:13,075 --> 00:11:13,225 Right? 253 00:11:13,225 --> 00:11:15,595 When you're tempted to be anxious, when you're tempted to be upset, 254 00:11:15,595 --> 00:11:18,445 when you're tempted to lust, when you're tempted to be, to be envying 255 00:11:18,445 --> 00:11:20,935 those people or be discontent, you can say, that's not me anymore. 256 00:11:21,295 --> 00:11:22,225 I don't do that anymore. 257 00:11:22,375 --> 00:11:24,565 I don't live like that anymore because I'm different. 258 00:11:25,195 --> 00:11:26,485 Not just I do different things. 259 00:11:26,665 --> 00:11:27,445 I am different. 260 00:11:27,925 --> 00:11:31,885 Fundamentally changed by the Holy Spirit, and that's why 261 00:11:31,885 --> 00:11:33,235 Christians live differently. 262 00:11:33,564 --> 00:11:36,385 It's not because they wanna impress God, it's not because they wanna 263 00:11:36,564 --> 00:11:39,355 get into heaven, so they have to start doing all these good things. 264 00:11:39,715 --> 00:11:41,814 It's because they just became a different person. 265 00:11:42,535 --> 00:11:44,755 That's why we talk about when you become a Christian, you start seeing 266 00:11:44,755 --> 00:11:46,015 all these changes in your life. 267 00:11:46,314 --> 00:11:50,245 You start seeing new desires and, and new priorities and, and new habits 268 00:11:50,245 --> 00:11:54,625 and all these different things happen because you became a different person. 269 00:11:56,335 --> 00:12:00,535 My parents, they weren't married or they weren't saved when they got married. 270 00:12:01,075 --> 00:12:02,095 And my mom became a Christian. 271 00:12:02,185 --> 00:12:03,265 My dad's still not a Christian. 272 00:12:03,625 --> 00:12:05,305 And I remember my dad a few years ago, he told me something. 273 00:12:05,305 --> 00:12:09,985 He said, um, your mom's a really different person than she was when we got married. 274 00:12:10,015 --> 00:12:13,075 He said, she's basically like not the same person anymore. 275 00:12:14,335 --> 00:12:17,455 And I thought, that's such a compliment to my mom. 276 00:12:17,455 --> 00:12:19,015 That's such an encouraging thing to hear if you're a Christian, if 277 00:12:19,015 --> 00:12:22,315 someone says, man, you're not the person you used to be, that means, oh 278 00:12:22,315 --> 00:12:23,935 God actually did do something to me. 279 00:12:25,015 --> 00:12:27,715 I hope if you're a, if you're a Christian, and maybe you became 280 00:12:27,715 --> 00:12:28,885 a Christian recently, right? 281 00:12:28,885 --> 00:12:31,645 Maybe you became a Christian a year ago, or maybe you became a Christian 282 00:12:31,825 --> 00:12:33,355 two or three years ago, I hope you can. 283 00:12:33,415 --> 00:12:37,585 You can say, man, I'm a different person than I was in fifth grade. 284 00:12:38,155 --> 00:12:40,735 I'm a different person than I was two years ago. 285 00:12:40,735 --> 00:12:43,915 I'm a different person than I was before I became a Christian. 286 00:12:44,635 --> 00:12:46,525 And maybe the outside didn't change much. 287 00:12:46,555 --> 00:12:49,165 'cause maybe you were a good church kid and you listened to your parents and you 288 00:12:49,165 --> 00:12:51,265 liked God, but the inside is different. 289 00:12:52,435 --> 00:12:55,225 The Holy Spirit's there now, and you have new motives for the things that you do. 290 00:12:56,814 --> 00:13:00,954 So the big difference, one of the big differences is the spirit. 291 00:13:00,985 --> 00:13:04,464 Holy Spirit changes your identity, changes who you are. 292 00:13:05,305 --> 00:13:08,155 Second thing the Holy Spirit does is he changes your destiny. 293 00:13:08,785 --> 00:13:09,865 The Holy Spirit changes your. 294 00:13:10,645 --> 00:13:11,275 Destiny. 295 00:13:11,755 --> 00:13:13,195 I notice I said he right? 296 00:13:13,225 --> 00:13:17,575 'cause the Holy Spirit is a, a person in the sense that he makes decisions and he 297 00:13:17,575 --> 00:13:20,215 knows things and he feels things right. 298 00:13:20,215 --> 00:13:23,485 You can lie to the Holy Spirit, like in Acts five, you can. 299 00:13:24,190 --> 00:13:25,990 Make the Holy Spirit sad when you sin. 300 00:13:25,990 --> 00:13:27,490 Like Ephesians four talks about that. 301 00:13:27,490 --> 00:13:30,730 So the Holy Spirit's a person, so let's use the Holy Spirit's preferred pronouns. 302 00:13:30,760 --> 00:13:33,460 Okay, let's, let's, let's say he and not it. 303 00:13:33,490 --> 00:13:33,820 Okay? 304 00:13:34,480 --> 00:13:38,320 Um, anyway, spirit changes your destiny, right? 305 00:13:38,320 --> 00:13:42,550 In Romans eight 11, it says this, it says, if the spirit of him who raised 306 00:13:42,580 --> 00:13:43,990 Jesus from the dead dwells in you. 307 00:13:44,650 --> 00:13:50,140 He who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies 308 00:13:50,380 --> 00:13:52,390 through his spirit who dwells in you? 309 00:13:53,050 --> 00:13:54,910 Emphasis here is on mortal, right? 310 00:13:55,180 --> 00:13:56,020 Your body's gonna die. 311 00:13:56,080 --> 00:13:58,750 Even if you become a Christian, you're still, your body's still gonna die, 312 00:14:00,010 --> 00:14:03,610 even if you trust Jesus and you get his righteousness credited to you, 313 00:14:03,610 --> 00:14:06,040 so you become good enough to go to heaven because you're relying on him, 314 00:14:06,040 --> 00:14:08,660 not yourself, you are still gonna die. 315 00:14:10,090 --> 00:14:12,640 And that's kind of confusing because I thought Jesus said that, 316 00:14:12,790 --> 00:14:15,640 oh, if anyone believes in me, even if he dies, he's gonna live. 317 00:14:15,640 --> 00:14:17,800 Didn't he say it's a Lazarus and Mary in John 11? 318 00:14:17,800 --> 00:14:18,520 Didn't he say that? 319 00:14:20,200 --> 00:14:25,120 Well, what's gonna happen is even though you, your, your body, right, your, 320 00:14:25,120 --> 00:14:27,700 your outer mortal body is gonna die. 321 00:14:28,720 --> 00:14:30,940 The spirit will raise them from the dead. 322 00:14:30,970 --> 00:14:33,430 The Holy Spirit is gonna raise Christians from the dead. 323 00:14:33,430 --> 00:14:34,630 You are going to live. 324 00:14:35,260 --> 00:14:37,720 Forever in a real body, right? 325 00:14:37,720 --> 00:14:40,450 When Jesus was away from the dead, he had a real body. 326 00:14:40,930 --> 00:14:41,890 He ate things. 327 00:14:42,100 --> 00:14:43,900 He could give people hugs, right? 328 00:14:43,900 --> 00:14:46,720 Jesus could have played baseball in his resurrected body if he want to, right? 329 00:14:50,770 --> 00:14:50,920 Yeah. 330 00:14:50,920 --> 00:14:53,440 I mean, right in the, in the big inning. 331 00:14:53,680 --> 00:14:55,450 Um, that's where Jesus was. 332 00:14:56,395 --> 00:14:56,785 Anyway. 333 00:14:56,844 --> 00:14:58,645 'cause Adam Eve stole first. 334 00:14:58,795 --> 00:14:59,665 Adam stole second. 335 00:14:59,964 --> 00:15:00,354 Anyway. 336 00:15:03,235 --> 00:15:03,714 I got you. 337 00:15:04,464 --> 00:15:09,594 Uh, anyway, so all I have to say is God is a baseball fan. 338 00:15:09,714 --> 00:15:17,155 Um, but second of all, um, the Holy Spirit will raise Christians from the dead. 339 00:15:17,155 --> 00:15:18,594 And this is, I know it's easy. 340 00:15:18,594 --> 00:15:20,245 You're young, you're like, oh, I don't have to worry 341 00:15:20,245 --> 00:15:21,505 about dying yet and whatever. 342 00:15:22,735 --> 00:15:25,645 But I want you to think about when you die. 343 00:15:26,815 --> 00:15:33,385 You are going to one day have a real body that's just as real, in fact, even 344 00:15:33,385 --> 00:15:35,125 more real than your body right now. 345 00:15:36,265 --> 00:15:39,295 You're gonna be able to, to touch things and smell things 346 00:15:39,565 --> 00:15:42,145 and taste things and see things 347 00:15:44,155 --> 00:15:47,335 even more real than you are right now. 348 00:15:49,015 --> 00:15:52,135 Like your hand, you're gonna look at your hand and your fingers are gonna move and 349 00:15:52,135 --> 00:15:53,965 you're gonna be able to, to feel your. 350 00:15:55,150 --> 00:15:58,630 Your body moving, you're gonna be able to feel like everything. 351 00:15:58,630 --> 00:16:00,310 It's gonna be crazy, right? 352 00:16:00,460 --> 00:16:02,890 When you're in heaven, you're not just floating around on a cloud, 353 00:16:03,040 --> 00:16:06,340 you're not just, you know, in a church service that lasts eight hours, right? 354 00:16:06,490 --> 00:16:09,970 You're gonna do things, you're gonna touch things, you're gonna talk to 355 00:16:09,970 --> 00:16:13,720 people, you're gonna hear music, you're gonna see things, right? 356 00:16:13,720 --> 00:16:16,300 You're gonna have a real body in heaven. 357 00:16:17,350 --> 00:16:17,770 You it. 358 00:16:17,770 --> 00:16:19,300 It's gonna really be a real place. 359 00:16:19,300 --> 00:16:21,010 There's gonna be a real ground you're gonna walk on. 360 00:16:21,520 --> 00:16:22,090 There's gonna be. 361 00:16:22,495 --> 00:16:25,795 Real things and buildings and people that you're gonna talk to and, 362 00:16:25,795 --> 00:16:28,104 and, and you're not gonna talk to buildings, but you know what I mean. 363 00:16:28,104 --> 00:16:28,255 Right. 364 00:16:28,255 --> 00:16:30,925 You're gonna, you're going to do real things. 365 00:16:30,925 --> 00:16:31,015 Right. 366 00:16:31,015 --> 00:16:32,695 Heaven is a real place. 367 00:16:32,725 --> 00:16:34,225 That's what I'm trying to get you to, to think about. 368 00:16:35,064 --> 00:16:38,515 You're gonna have a, a real body that's gonna be really raised and dead, and I 369 00:16:38,515 --> 00:16:41,814 don't know if the last time you, you went to a funeral or if you've ever been to 370 00:16:41,814 --> 00:16:47,180 a funeral, um, but if you're going to a Christian's funeral right, you, you can. 371 00:16:48,460 --> 00:16:50,440 Or maybe you've seen a dead body, right? 372 00:16:50,950 --> 00:16:55,090 You can look at that dead person, and if they're a Christian, you're 373 00:16:55,090 --> 00:16:57,640 gonna look them in the eye again, if you're a Christian and they're 374 00:16:57,640 --> 00:16:59,770 gonna look right back at you, right? 375 00:16:59,770 --> 00:17:02,800 One day you're gonna, you're gonna talk to that person if both of you are in heaven, 376 00:17:03,550 --> 00:17:05,020 and you're gonna have a real conversation. 377 00:17:05,355 --> 00:17:11,409 And I know it seems far away and it seems like, oh, that, that's just so 378 00:17:11,500 --> 00:17:13,419 far in advance and I'm in middle school. 379 00:17:13,419 --> 00:17:14,200 I don't care about that. 380 00:17:14,204 --> 00:17:14,214 Right? 381 00:17:15,084 --> 00:17:19,134 Do my thing and not worry about that, but that's gonna last forever, right? 382 00:17:19,134 --> 00:17:23,064 This life is gonna last a a few decades, right? 383 00:17:24,054 --> 00:17:28,493 And then it's gonna be you living forever, either in heaven or in hell. 384 00:17:28,493 --> 00:17:32,004 And even in hell, you're gonna have a real body and you're gonna feel real things. 385 00:17:32,004 --> 00:17:33,264 You're really gonna feel pain. 386 00:17:34,674 --> 00:17:35,064 So 387 00:17:38,064 --> 00:17:41,364 the spirit changes your destiny in the sense of he's 388 00:17:41,364 --> 00:17:42,564 gonna raise you from the dead. 389 00:17:42,564 --> 00:17:44,094 But also, we see this earlier, we're gonna. 390 00:17:44,379 --> 00:17:47,679 Jump up here to verses six and the next verse. 391 00:17:47,679 --> 00:17:50,979 So we're gonna see that, see that the destiny language here for, 392 00:17:50,979 --> 00:17:52,300 to set the mind on the flesh. 393 00:17:52,330 --> 00:17:58,090 So someone who's giving their allegiance to the flesh, that's death, right? 394 00:17:58,090 --> 00:18:02,439 That's like choosing not just to die, like, oh, I'm gonna, my soul 395 00:18:02,439 --> 00:18:05,199 is gonna be separated from my body, but it's like death as in 396 00:18:05,199 --> 00:18:07,209 like, I'm, I'm going the wrong way. 397 00:18:07,689 --> 00:18:08,919 I'm living out. 398 00:18:09,354 --> 00:18:12,715 What's bad for me, but to set the mind on the spirit, right? 399 00:18:12,715 --> 00:18:15,324 If I'm gonna give myself to the Spirit, I'm gonna follow what 400 00:18:15,324 --> 00:18:16,314 the Holy Spirit wants me to do. 401 00:18:16,465 --> 00:18:17,665 That's life and peace, right? 402 00:18:17,665 --> 00:18:18,114 It's good. 403 00:18:18,114 --> 00:18:18,655 It's awesome. 404 00:18:18,655 --> 00:18:19,104 It's great. 405 00:18:19,104 --> 00:18:23,094 It's happy for the mind that is set on the flesh is hostile to God for 406 00:18:23,094 --> 00:18:24,504 it does not submit to God's law. 407 00:18:24,534 --> 00:18:26,185 Indeed it cannot. 408 00:18:26,995 --> 00:18:31,074 If you aren't a Christian, you don't have the Holy Spirit, you have no 409 00:18:31,074 --> 00:18:35,784 hope of living a truly happy life. 410 00:18:36,684 --> 00:18:40,104 You cannot obey God, so you cannot walk the path of life. 411 00:18:41,455 --> 00:18:45,745 You cannot walk the path of true joy, of true happiness, of real satisfaction. 412 00:18:45,745 --> 00:18:46,404 You can't do it. 413 00:18:47,004 --> 00:18:49,284 You can try to, to grab things to make you happy. 414 00:18:49,284 --> 00:18:50,695 You can try to chase those things down. 415 00:18:50,695 --> 00:18:53,844 You can try to get a lot of money or make a lot of people like you or, 416 00:18:53,995 --> 00:18:56,695 or find things that make you happy and try to follow those things and 417 00:18:56,695 --> 00:18:59,394 get rid of all the toxic people in your life and do all this stuff. 418 00:18:59,574 --> 00:19:01,434 And it's not gonna last, right? 419 00:19:01,434 --> 00:19:02,485 That is death. 420 00:19:03,235 --> 00:19:05,334 You're gonna be unsatisfied and empty, and. 421 00:19:05,800 --> 00:19:06,520 Hopeless. 422 00:19:07,750 --> 00:19:13,600 But if you are living by the spirit, if the Holy Spirit is in you, if 423 00:19:13,600 --> 00:19:18,190 you're, if you're with Jesus right, you are going to walk the path of life. 424 00:19:18,190 --> 00:19:19,810 Your destiny is going to change. 425 00:19:21,100 --> 00:19:25,120 God promises his people the most amount of joy for the longest amount of time. 426 00:19:25,120 --> 00:19:26,710 Psalm 16, that's our theme verse. 427 00:19:26,710 --> 00:19:27,250 True north, right? 428 00:19:27,550 --> 00:19:30,070 Um, at your right hand are pleasures forevermore. 429 00:19:31,420 --> 00:19:33,790 God promises to make his people happy. 430 00:19:35,919 --> 00:19:42,879 He also promises that if you reject him, you're choosing the life of death. 431 00:19:44,260 --> 00:19:49,300 Not because he hates you, but because you're rejecting the best thing for you. 432 00:19:49,330 --> 00:19:50,110 You're saying, I don't want that. 433 00:19:50,110 --> 00:19:51,310 I want these worst things. 434 00:19:52,120 --> 00:19:52,870 I want money. 435 00:19:52,870 --> 00:19:53,830 I want approval. 436 00:19:54,429 --> 00:19:55,480 I want pleasure. 437 00:19:56,500 --> 00:19:57,760 That's what you're, you're saying, I want that. 438 00:19:57,760 --> 00:20:01,090 I don't want God, but God will is what really is gonna make you 439 00:20:01,090 --> 00:20:03,459 happy, so the spirit changes your. 440 00:20:04,135 --> 00:20:07,495 Destiny and before you're a Christian. 441 00:20:07,495 --> 00:20:10,135 I hope you see that this is you, right? 442 00:20:10,135 --> 00:20:12,354 If, if you aren't a Christian or before you're a Christian, 443 00:20:12,354 --> 00:20:14,064 you are hostile to God. 444 00:20:14,064 --> 00:20:17,874 Someone who doesn't have the Holy Spirit isn't just, well, I'm gonna, you know, me 445 00:20:17,874 --> 00:20:19,524 and God, we're, we're not on bad terms. 446 00:20:19,524 --> 00:20:22,135 We're just not on the best terms right now, but one day we'll figure it out. 447 00:20:22,479 --> 00:20:27,084 If you aren't a Christian, you are hostile to God, you are opposing God. 448 00:20:27,895 --> 00:20:31,705 You are actively working against God, rebelling God and hating God. 449 00:20:32,350 --> 00:20:33,909 If you're not a Christian, that's you right Now. 450 00:20:35,350 --> 00:20:38,139 If you are a Christian, this was you At some point in your life before 451 00:20:38,139 --> 00:20:41,979 the Holy Spirit changed you, you weren't just kind of a bad person. 452 00:20:42,039 --> 00:20:45,729 You were hostile to God, you were opposing God. 453 00:20:45,729 --> 00:20:46,569 You were God's enemy. 454 00:20:47,979 --> 00:20:49,089 You were hating God. 455 00:20:50,199 --> 00:20:53,899 And if you think about this, even as a Christian, your sin is still your, your. 456 00:20:54,789 --> 00:20:58,209 You're still doing these acts that are hostile to God, right? 457 00:20:58,209 --> 00:21:01,929 You as a person, no longer are hostile to God, but you're living like someone. 458 00:21:01,989 --> 00:21:04,779 You're doing the things that people who are hostile to God do. 459 00:21:04,779 --> 00:21:05,799 People who hate God do. 460 00:21:06,309 --> 00:21:07,479 When you sin, that's what you're saying. 461 00:21:07,479 --> 00:21:09,580 You're saying, I'm gonna do the things that people who hate God do. 462 00:21:10,600 --> 00:21:14,499 That's kind of crazy, and I want you to think of your sin that way. 463 00:21:14,499 --> 00:21:16,570 I know that's so helpful for me when I think of my sin, rather 464 00:21:16,570 --> 00:21:17,439 than just, oh, I messed up. 465 00:21:18,249 --> 00:21:22,120 But think of your sin as, oh, this is me hating God, right? 466 00:21:22,120 --> 00:21:24,159 When I'm sinning, I'm telling God I hate you. 467 00:21:25,254 --> 00:21:27,055 When I'm sitting, I'm telling God, you're not good enough. 468 00:21:27,085 --> 00:21:27,865 I don't trust you. 469 00:21:28,524 --> 00:21:29,274 I don't want you. 470 00:21:29,425 --> 00:21:30,475 This is better than you. 471 00:21:30,565 --> 00:21:30,715 Right? 472 00:21:30,715 --> 00:21:31,675 Think of your sin that way. 473 00:21:32,935 --> 00:21:34,375 Make it personal, right? 474 00:21:34,945 --> 00:21:35,905 And that will help you fight it. 475 00:21:35,905 --> 00:21:37,975 If you love God, you're gonna be like, man, I hate that. 476 00:21:37,975 --> 00:21:39,325 I don't want to do that thing to God. 477 00:21:40,014 --> 00:21:41,034 I don't wanna tell God that. 478 00:21:41,065 --> 00:21:42,294 I don't wanna show that to God. 479 00:21:43,014 --> 00:21:45,475 I wanna show God how awesome he is and how great he is, 480 00:21:47,514 --> 00:21:51,475 so the Holy Spirit changes your destiny. 481 00:21:53,814 --> 00:21:56,904 A third thing, the Holy Spirit changes is your mentality. 482 00:21:57,804 --> 00:21:58,584 Your mentality. 483 00:22:02,425 --> 00:22:06,774 We're looking at this phrase where it says that you're setting 484 00:22:06,774 --> 00:22:09,144 your mind on something, right? 485 00:22:09,144 --> 00:22:12,324 So the Holy Spirit, he changes what you, who you are, he 486 00:22:12,324 --> 00:22:13,314 changes where you're going. 487 00:22:13,374 --> 00:22:17,094 He changes now what you want and what you think about what you're, 488 00:22:17,124 --> 00:22:18,354 what's important to you, right? 489 00:22:18,715 --> 00:22:21,144 So in verse five, those who live according to the flesh. 490 00:22:21,804 --> 00:22:24,385 Set their minds on the things of the flesh. 491 00:22:24,445 --> 00:22:26,875 But those who live according to the spirit, set their minds 492 00:22:26,875 --> 00:22:27,774 on the things of the spirit. 493 00:22:27,774 --> 00:22:33,445 So this word live here, um, it really just means who are, there's really just 494 00:22:33,445 --> 00:22:34,975 not a good way to put that in English. 495 00:22:35,274 --> 00:22:38,514 Like for those who are according to the flesh, doesn't sound good. 496 00:22:38,754 --> 00:22:39,865 So that's why they say live. 497 00:22:39,985 --> 00:22:42,564 But really it's just the people who are of the flesh, right? 498 00:22:42,564 --> 00:22:44,064 The identity that we talked about. 499 00:22:44,304 --> 00:22:47,695 If, if your identity is, I'm independent from God. 500 00:22:49,690 --> 00:22:51,640 You're gonna set your mind on things. 501 00:22:51,640 --> 00:22:56,920 You're gonna give your allegiance to things that are opposed to God. 502 00:22:57,250 --> 00:23:00,520 But if you're of the spirit, if your identity is, oh, the Holy Spirit 503 00:23:00,520 --> 00:23:03,700 changed me, I'm a new person, you're going to give your allegiance to 504 00:23:03,700 --> 00:23:07,480 the things the Holy Spirit likes, things that God wants for you. 505 00:23:08,620 --> 00:23:11,075 So what we're talking about here is the Holy Spirit gives you new. 506 00:23:12,085 --> 00:23:13,044 Priorities, right? 507 00:23:13,044 --> 00:23:15,055 New values, new sense of importance. 508 00:23:15,055 --> 00:23:16,465 You're like, oh, that's important. 509 00:23:16,465 --> 00:23:18,865 I used to think it was kind of lame to do that, but now I think it's important. 510 00:23:19,405 --> 00:23:22,225 I used to think memorizing the Bible was boring, and I would only do it if 511 00:23:22,225 --> 00:23:23,754 people bribed me with candy, right? 512 00:23:23,754 --> 00:23:25,405 And then, then I became a Christian. 513 00:23:25,405 --> 00:23:27,835 This Holy Spirit showed me, oh man, God's word is so good. 514 00:23:27,835 --> 00:23:30,745 It's like a, it's like a really awesome meal, right? 515 00:23:30,745 --> 00:23:34,254 It's like a three by three from in and out with a milkshake, right? 516 00:23:35,395 --> 00:23:36,865 That's what God's word's like right. 517 00:23:41,350 --> 00:23:44,650 And so what that does, right, is it changes the Holy Spirit, 518 00:23:44,650 --> 00:23:47,350 changes your priorities, it changes what you think is important. 519 00:23:48,160 --> 00:23:52,000 Or maybe you used to think that, oh, I, I just hate loving hard. 520 00:23:52,210 --> 00:23:55,300 Like when people are, are annoying, I hate loving them. 521 00:23:55,300 --> 00:23:56,890 It's, it bothers me so much. 522 00:23:57,280 --> 00:23:58,240 I, I don't like it. 523 00:23:58,750 --> 00:24:01,450 And then the Holy Spirit changes your life and you're like, oh, you know what? 524 00:24:01,450 --> 00:24:06,040 I, I love how patient God was with me, and I wanna show that to other people. 525 00:24:06,730 --> 00:24:07,810 Your priorities change. 526 00:24:07,810 --> 00:24:09,220 Your values change, right? 527 00:24:09,220 --> 00:24:11,169 Your mindset is different. 528 00:24:13,030 --> 00:24:15,730 It changes what you want, changes what's important to you. 529 00:24:17,169 --> 00:24:20,379 When the Holy Spirit lives in you, it even changes what you think you need, right? 530 00:24:20,379 --> 00:24:23,230 Maybe right now you're like, uh, here's what I really need. 531 00:24:23,260 --> 00:24:28,210 I really need a million dollars and I really need to be this talented 532 00:24:28,210 --> 00:24:32,470 or this smart, or whatever, and the Holy Spirit changes your life. 533 00:24:32,470 --> 00:24:33,820 You start to think, well, what do I really need? 534 00:24:33,820 --> 00:24:34,480 What I need most? 535 00:24:34,480 --> 00:24:35,409 I just need more of God. 536 00:24:36,054 --> 00:24:37,284 He's the best and I want him. 537 00:24:37,945 --> 00:24:40,735 What I really need is I really just need to be with Jesus. 538 00:24:40,735 --> 00:24:41,514 That's what I really need. 539 00:24:41,544 --> 00:24:42,774 'cause that's the best place for me to be. 540 00:24:43,254 --> 00:24:44,995 It changes what you think you need. 541 00:24:45,205 --> 00:24:46,735 It changes why you do things right? 542 00:24:46,735 --> 00:24:50,034 Because some of you probably were, you know, you grew up doing 543 00:24:50,034 --> 00:24:52,435 the right things and you didn't mind listening to your parents. 544 00:24:52,435 --> 00:24:56,635 You didn't mind reading the Bible or or doing Christian things, right? 545 00:24:57,595 --> 00:24:59,485 But the Holy Spirit changes your motives right now. 546 00:24:59,485 --> 00:25:02,155 You're not just doing it because your parents said so now you're doing it 547 00:25:02,155 --> 00:25:03,385 because you're like, this is awesome. 548 00:25:03,475 --> 00:25:04,405 I love God. 549 00:25:04,554 --> 00:25:05,365 I love his word. 550 00:25:05,695 --> 00:25:06,595 I love his people. 551 00:25:06,595 --> 00:25:09,385 I love serving, I love doing these things 'cause I love God. 552 00:25:09,385 --> 00:25:10,855 God is awesome and I wanna do these things. 553 00:25:10,855 --> 00:25:12,115 Changes your mentality. 554 00:25:12,115 --> 00:25:13,465 It's not like, oh, I have to do this. 555 00:25:13,465 --> 00:25:15,655 I guess I gotta do it now it's, oh, I wanna do this. 556 00:25:15,655 --> 00:25:16,195 This is great. 557 00:25:16,254 --> 00:25:17,155 I get to do this. 558 00:25:18,205 --> 00:25:21,025 So the Holy Spirit changes your mentality. 559 00:25:21,055 --> 00:25:24,835 And what's interesting about this, right, is it, it comes from who you 560 00:25:24,835 --> 00:25:29,695 are, not other things around you, right? 561 00:25:29,695 --> 00:25:29,905 The. 562 00:25:31,495 --> 00:25:36,385 That's where that those who are according to the flesh or who are according to 563 00:25:36,385 --> 00:25:39,054 the spirit, have this mindset, right? 564 00:25:39,205 --> 00:25:42,625 Who you are is the basis for what you do. 565 00:25:44,485 --> 00:25:47,514 Or you could say it like this, being a Christian, right, following 566 00:25:47,514 --> 00:25:54,985 Jesus is more about being than doing the being changes the doing. 567 00:25:56,125 --> 00:25:59,245 A lot of times people do that backward, oh, if I do all the right things, 568 00:25:59,274 --> 00:26:00,600 then that makes me a Christian. 569 00:26:02,260 --> 00:26:05,080 If I do the Christian things, I'll become a Christian. 570 00:26:05,320 --> 00:26:06,100 That's not how this works. 571 00:26:06,310 --> 00:26:11,590 You are a Christian and then you do the Christian things. 572 00:26:12,580 --> 00:26:13,989 Don't get that backward, okay? 573 00:26:14,229 --> 00:26:19,419 The things you do come from the person you are, you're either, and 574 00:26:19,419 --> 00:26:20,350 there's only two kinds of people. 575 00:26:20,739 --> 00:26:24,159 You're either a Holy Spirit person or a flesh person, right? 576 00:26:24,159 --> 00:26:28,360 You're either a on God's team person or an independent from God person. 577 00:26:28,360 --> 00:26:29,379 There's no middle ground here. 578 00:26:29,635 --> 00:26:32,065 There's no, sometimes I'm on one team, sometimes on the other. 579 00:26:32,125 --> 00:26:34,225 There's no free agency, there's no trades. 580 00:26:34,225 --> 00:26:35,155 There's no nothing, right? 581 00:26:36,685 --> 00:26:40,225 You either are one type of person or you are the other type of person. 582 00:26:40,225 --> 00:26:44,275 You're not 70% a Holy Spirit person and 30% a natural person. 583 00:26:46,075 --> 00:26:49,045 You're one or the other, a hundred percent and 0%. 584 00:26:50,995 --> 00:26:53,245 So that comes from. 585 00:26:55,074 --> 00:26:56,814 The inside, not from the outside. 586 00:26:56,965 --> 00:27:00,685 So I wanna ask you, are the Christian things you do coming from your 587 00:27:00,685 --> 00:27:03,745 surroundings or coming from your heart because the holy spirit's in you? 588 00:27:04,824 --> 00:27:07,345 Do you just do the things because your parents tell you to? 589 00:27:07,675 --> 00:27:11,754 Or do you do the things 'cause you want to because God's given you a new identity? 590 00:27:14,129 --> 00:27:17,875 I was watching this comedian recently and he was talking about different accents 591 00:27:18,385 --> 00:27:19,945 and he was saying that there's, um. 592 00:27:20,350 --> 00:27:24,970 Learned accents, you know, so there's like the newscaster accent, you know, 593 00:27:24,970 --> 00:27:30,430 like 30 people were shot outside of Albuquerque, New Mexico, right? 594 00:27:30,610 --> 00:27:34,120 And like, there's like the newscaster accent, you know, or there's like the 595 00:27:34,120 --> 00:27:38,230 server accent like, hi, welcome to Chick-fil-A, what can I get for you today? 596 00:27:38,350 --> 00:27:38,680 Right. 597 00:27:38,710 --> 00:27:41,200 There's that like, just the server accent, right? 598 00:27:41,200 --> 00:27:42,100 There's that person. 599 00:27:42,580 --> 00:27:43,990 Um, there's some other accents too. 600 00:27:44,140 --> 00:27:45,460 I dunno, there's a lot of different ones, right? 601 00:27:45,640 --> 00:27:46,870 But they're, they're all learned. 602 00:27:46,870 --> 00:27:47,565 And really when you think about it. 603 00:27:48,355 --> 00:27:52,135 Every accent is a learned accent, right? 604 00:27:52,195 --> 00:27:55,315 A British accent learned accent because you grew up in it. 605 00:27:56,004 --> 00:27:59,935 Some people lose their accent when they move away from somewhere. 606 00:28:00,264 --> 00:28:03,115 Some people regain their accent when they come back, right? 607 00:28:03,235 --> 00:28:05,815 Like my wife, her family is from Alabama. 608 00:28:06,580 --> 00:28:10,600 Her grandma talks with a southern accent, and when she talks to like her, um, 609 00:28:10,780 --> 00:28:14,080 southern, Southern people, she knows, or like at work, she'll talk to clients 610 00:28:14,080 --> 00:28:17,620 from the south and over the course of like the 30 minute phone call, she'll 611 00:28:17,620 --> 00:28:19,629 slowly start sounding like a southerner. 612 00:28:19,629 --> 00:28:20,649 It's hilarious. 613 00:28:20,800 --> 00:28:22,600 Or like my dad, he's from Japan. 614 00:28:22,600 --> 00:28:24,429 Same thing when he goes to Japan. 615 00:28:24,490 --> 00:28:26,860 If he's there for long enough, he'll like slowly pick up 616 00:28:27,010 --> 00:28:28,540 more and more of the accent. 617 00:28:28,810 --> 00:28:29,080 Right? 618 00:28:29,290 --> 00:28:31,330 Accents are learned. 619 00:28:31,855 --> 00:28:33,655 They come from outside in, right? 620 00:28:33,835 --> 00:28:38,335 The, the people you live with, the people you surround yourself with, change 621 00:28:38,365 --> 00:28:40,225 your voice from the outside, right? 622 00:28:40,225 --> 00:28:45,955 They impact you, but your tone of voice, right? 623 00:28:45,955 --> 00:28:49,375 What you sound like, just like your natural voice sound 624 00:28:49,735 --> 00:28:50,875 that comes from you, right? 625 00:28:50,875 --> 00:28:51,625 You were born with that. 626 00:28:53,095 --> 00:28:56,635 That's the difference between going to church and actually 627 00:28:56,635 --> 00:28:58,375 being a Christian, right? 628 00:28:58,375 --> 00:29:00,925 A lot of you, your Christianity may be. 629 00:29:01,780 --> 00:29:03,580 Is more like an accent that you learned. 630 00:29:04,540 --> 00:29:06,580 You learned the Christian things. 631 00:29:07,330 --> 00:29:10,540 You, you learn the Christian phrases from your parents or from your friends, 632 00:29:10,540 --> 00:29:14,470 or because you grew up going to church, you, you learn the accent and so you 633 00:29:14,470 --> 00:29:18,790 sound like a Christian because you just learn the stuff from the outside in. 634 00:29:19,135 --> 00:29:24,429 If that's you, you're really one of these people. 635 00:29:25,510 --> 00:29:26,770 You're, you're a flesh person. 636 00:29:26,770 --> 00:29:27,879 You're not a spirit person. 637 00:29:30,479 --> 00:29:32,499 Because that came from the outside, right? 638 00:29:32,499 --> 00:29:34,689 Real Christianity comes from the inside. 639 00:29:35,709 --> 00:29:39,129 It comes from the Holy Spirit being in you because of who you are. 640 00:29:39,399 --> 00:29:40,360 It doesn't come outside in. 641 00:29:42,010 --> 00:29:47,889 And so the Holy Spirit changes you from the inside, not from the outside, but 642 00:29:47,889 --> 00:29:52,179 those changes show up on the outside, and that's our, our last point here is 643 00:29:52,179 --> 00:29:54,100 that Holy Spirit changes your activity. 644 00:29:55,239 --> 00:29:56,379 So he changes who you are. 645 00:29:56,590 --> 00:29:57,699 He changes where you're going. 646 00:29:58,060 --> 00:30:01,840 He changes what you think's important, and he changes what you do, how you live, 647 00:30:07,330 --> 00:30:08,229 and that's how this works, right? 648 00:30:08,229 --> 00:30:13,060 The Holy Spirit changes who you are, and then of course that will naturally change 649 00:30:13,389 --> 00:30:15,280 how you rather supernaturally, right? 650 00:30:15,580 --> 00:30:17,709 Change how you live. 651 00:30:19,090 --> 00:30:19,870 Look at verse seven here. 652 00:30:19,870 --> 00:30:21,189 The mind that is set on the flesh. 653 00:30:21,189 --> 00:30:23,110 So remember the mind that's set on the flesh. 654 00:30:23,110 --> 00:30:23,534 Where did that come from? 655 00:30:23,830 --> 00:30:25,210 It's the type of person you are. 656 00:30:25,570 --> 00:30:32,320 Flesh person mind is set on the flesh that makes them act and feel hostile to God 657 00:30:33,699 --> 00:30:35,110 because they don't submit to God's law. 658 00:30:35,110 --> 00:30:36,159 These are actions, right? 659 00:30:36,429 --> 00:30:38,740 Actions, attitudes, beliefs. 660 00:30:39,520 --> 00:30:44,050 They can't actually, so a flesh person can't obey God. 661 00:30:44,110 --> 00:30:48,669 They're unable to because of who they are unable to do it, but, and again, 662 00:30:48,669 --> 00:30:51,699 verse eight, those who are in the flesh cannot please God, but you, if 663 00:30:51,699 --> 00:30:52,689 you're a Christian, you're different. 664 00:30:53,274 --> 00:30:55,645 You're not a flesh person, you're a spirit person. 665 00:30:55,945 --> 00:31:00,415 If the spirit of God dwells in you, if he lives in you, then 666 00:31:00,475 --> 00:31:03,175 who you are is different, which changes how you live, right? 667 00:31:03,175 --> 00:31:04,855 Because God lives in you. 668 00:31:05,425 --> 00:31:06,625 You should have different thoughts. 669 00:31:06,625 --> 00:31:07,885 You should think about different things. 670 00:31:08,635 --> 00:31:10,764 You should have different priorities, right? 671 00:31:10,764 --> 00:31:11,935 Different dreams. 672 00:31:11,935 --> 00:31:14,125 You should have a different schedule, maybe, right? 673 00:31:14,125 --> 00:31:15,595 I used to never read the Bible. 674 00:31:15,625 --> 00:31:18,175 I went to church my whole life, never read the Bible and became a 675 00:31:18,175 --> 00:31:21,475 Christian, and I was like, oh, I, I, I want God, I want to be in his word. 676 00:31:21,475 --> 00:31:22,020 I wanna know what he says. 677 00:31:22,659 --> 00:31:24,669 I need his wisdom to live my life. 678 00:31:25,000 --> 00:31:27,340 And so I started waking up earlier so I could read my Bible. 679 00:31:27,490 --> 00:31:30,730 My schedule changed, not because someone told me to, but because I 680 00:31:30,730 --> 00:31:32,230 was like, oh, I, I wanna do this. 681 00:31:34,210 --> 00:31:37,540 Maybe you're the way, you just try changes. 682 00:31:38,290 --> 00:31:40,060 Maybe before you, you just hated school. 683 00:31:40,060 --> 00:31:42,730 You didn't like school and you came a Christian, and it's like, oh, 684 00:31:42,730 --> 00:31:46,330 well, you know, God loves when I work hard and I wanna do that for him. 685 00:31:47,649 --> 00:31:48,940 And so your effort changes. 686 00:31:49,794 --> 00:31:51,205 Or maybe your habits change, right? 687 00:31:51,205 --> 00:31:55,074 Maybe you, you delete certain apps, or maybe you don't go to 688 00:31:55,074 --> 00:31:57,895 certain websites, or maybe you don't talk to those people anymore. 689 00:31:57,895 --> 00:31:59,004 Maybe you have different friends, right? 690 00:31:59,004 --> 00:32:02,695 These are all things that change, not because you know you have to follow the 691 00:32:02,695 --> 00:32:06,024 rules to be good enough, but because you say, I want more of God and I 692 00:32:06,024 --> 00:32:07,225 love God, and I'm a different person. 693 00:32:07,225 --> 00:32:07,854 I don't do that anymore. 694 00:32:07,915 --> 00:32:08,875 That's just not who I am. 695 00:32:09,745 --> 00:32:10,344 I'm different now. 696 00:32:11,094 --> 00:32:16,225 That's what happens to Christians, and the whole reason is because of this part. 697 00:32:16,225 --> 00:32:17,754 The spirit of God dwells in you. 698 00:32:18,834 --> 00:32:24,475 When someone lives in you, when God lives in you, it should make a difference. 699 00:32:24,475 --> 00:32:24,834 It should be. 700 00:32:24,834 --> 00:32:27,685 Your life should, should look different than before it did, right? 701 00:32:27,865 --> 00:32:32,784 Even today, if someone lives even in the same house as you, it's clear. 702 00:32:32,814 --> 00:32:33,564 It's pretty clear, right? 703 00:32:33,564 --> 00:32:37,764 So this isn't my room when I lived on my own, but typical guy room, right? 704 00:32:38,004 --> 00:32:42,115 You can tell who lives in this room based on how it looks, right? 705 00:32:42,175 --> 00:32:45,804 There's literally nothing on the walls except maybe this, right? 706 00:32:45,804 --> 00:32:47,455 I don't even know if this is a cabinet or what. 707 00:32:48,490 --> 00:32:49,990 You can tell this is a dude's room. 708 00:32:50,169 --> 00:32:50,379 Right. 709 00:32:50,379 --> 00:32:51,250 You know, instantly. 710 00:32:51,699 --> 00:32:52,689 No decor. 711 00:32:52,810 --> 00:32:54,040 Nothing's really cute. 712 00:32:54,550 --> 00:32:55,960 No plants, right? 713 00:32:56,080 --> 00:32:56,860 This is a dude's room. 714 00:32:57,550 --> 00:33:00,939 Probably smells like a dude's room too, right? 715 00:33:00,939 --> 00:33:02,800 My room, when I, I lived on my own. 716 00:33:02,800 --> 00:33:06,970 When I went to school, I didn't buy any decor, like zero. 717 00:33:07,030 --> 00:33:11,230 Nothing on the walls, no plants, no anything. 718 00:33:11,290 --> 00:33:13,060 I just was like, look, I'm just here to sleep. 719 00:33:13,584 --> 00:33:14,364 And do homework. 720 00:33:14,424 --> 00:33:15,774 Like I don't need a painting. 721 00:33:15,804 --> 00:33:16,044 Right. 722 00:33:16,044 --> 00:33:17,124 I don't need a flower. 723 00:33:17,124 --> 00:33:17,754 I don't need anything. 724 00:33:17,754 --> 00:33:17,995 Right. 725 00:33:17,995 --> 00:33:18,834 That's right. 726 00:33:20,094 --> 00:33:25,584 When someone lives with you, right, your, your dwelling place changes, right? 727 00:33:25,584 --> 00:33:30,894 You can tell, you can tell that there's a girl that lives in this place, right? 728 00:33:31,974 --> 00:33:35,845 You can tell that, that this is not just a dude's apartment, right? 729 00:33:35,845 --> 00:33:38,724 I live here, but it looks way different because there's 730 00:33:38,724 --> 00:33:39,684 a girl that lives here too. 731 00:33:40,375 --> 00:33:41,785 It's cute, it's trendy. 732 00:33:41,935 --> 00:33:44,635 The person from our apartment complex that like at the front desk that we 733 00:33:44,665 --> 00:33:47,365 had to call 'em up to fix something and they walked in and they just 734 00:33:47,365 --> 00:33:48,325 totally forgot what they were doing. 735 00:33:48,325 --> 00:33:50,845 They're like, this apartment is so cute. 736 00:33:51,175 --> 00:33:53,425 They're like, I, and oh yeah. 737 00:33:53,425 --> 00:33:56,455 It was like they were just, they literally forgot what they came for and 738 00:33:56,455 --> 00:33:59,755 they like took like a minute to just be like, wow, I love this, whatever. 739 00:33:59,845 --> 00:34:02,335 And then like the person who used to live in this apartment, they moved 740 00:34:02,335 --> 00:34:05,515 down the hall and they came by and they were like, I love the way it looks. 741 00:34:05,515 --> 00:34:05,875 Whatever. 742 00:34:05,965 --> 00:34:06,625 It was hilarious. 743 00:34:07,045 --> 00:34:09,415 But um, all to say right is. 744 00:34:11,135 --> 00:34:17,225 When Shea and I started living together, there was a big difference right in 745 00:34:17,495 --> 00:34:19,715 what my living place looked like. 746 00:34:20,614 --> 00:34:24,094 You could tell, oh, it's obvious that someone else lives here now, right? 747 00:34:25,175 --> 00:34:28,685 If you're a Christian, it should be obvious that God lives in you. 748 00:34:29,525 --> 00:34:30,304 It should be obvious. 749 00:34:30,605 --> 00:34:36,034 God lives in you, God, not just someone you met, right? 750 00:34:36,034 --> 00:34:37,445 Not just a roommate, not just. 751 00:34:38,139 --> 00:34:42,520 You know, your, your college buddy who you decided to, to save money with and, and 752 00:34:42,520 --> 00:34:44,080 sleep on, on the floor together, right? 753 00:34:44,199 --> 00:34:49,480 Like you decided you didn't just say, oh yeah, whatever. 754 00:34:49,480 --> 00:34:49,600 Right? 755 00:34:49,750 --> 00:34:51,969 God lives in you. 756 00:34:52,000 --> 00:34:52,210 Right? 757 00:34:52,210 --> 00:34:53,620 There should be a big difference there. 758 00:34:55,389 --> 00:34:57,700 So I hope you see the difference, right? 759 00:34:58,330 --> 00:34:59,500 The spirit changes who you are. 760 00:34:59,590 --> 00:35:00,610 It changes where you're going. 761 00:35:00,640 --> 00:35:05,080 It changes what you think is important and it, the Holy Spirit will change. 762 00:35:05,800 --> 00:35:08,500 How you live, what you do, what you want, what you think about. 763 00:35:08,680 --> 00:35:15,040 And again, all of that is because being a Christian is powered by God. 764 00:35:15,040 --> 00:35:16,000 It's supernatural work. 765 00:35:16,000 --> 00:35:17,770 If you're a Christian, you cannot do this on your own. 766 00:35:18,340 --> 00:35:19,900 God has to do something to you. 767 00:35:21,280 --> 00:35:26,200 And so in small groups, I want you to think about again, do I see evidence 768 00:35:26,200 --> 00:35:27,400 of the Holy Spirit in my life? 769 00:35:28,270 --> 00:35:31,780 And if I am a Christian, am I trying to do all this on my own? 770 00:35:32,440 --> 00:35:33,915 Let's pray and we'll go to small groups. 771 00:35:35,890 --> 00:35:40,810 God, we are grateful that we don't have to work really hard 772 00:35:40,840 --> 00:35:42,490 to get you to change our life. 773 00:35:42,580 --> 00:35:46,990 We don't have to clean ourselves up for you to save us, but we can come 774 00:35:46,990 --> 00:35:54,970 to you and if we confess our sin and trust Jesus to pay for it, then 775 00:35:54,970 --> 00:35:57,460 we can have all of our sin gone. 776 00:35:57,580 --> 00:36:03,160 We can be perfectly righteous before you and we can live a truly. 777 00:36:04,000 --> 00:36:05,950 Happy life the way we were made to live. 778 00:36:05,950 --> 00:36:08,080 So I pray right now as we think about this sermon. 779 00:36:08,080 --> 00:36:12,490 I pray that you protect us from misconceptions about the Holy Spirit. 780 00:36:12,490 --> 00:36:15,970 I pray that you protect us from distracting each other and, and 781 00:36:16,690 --> 00:36:18,160 undermining what you're trying to do. 782 00:36:18,190 --> 00:36:23,590 I pray that you would help us to help each other and help ourselves to learn how to 783 00:36:23,590 --> 00:36:25,570 follow you and follow your spirit better. 784 00:36:25,600 --> 00:36:26,590 We pray this in Jesus name. 785 00:36:26,800 --> 00:36:27,100 Amen.