1 00:00:02,720 --> 00:00:04,120 Welcome to Heaven Earth Church. 2 00:00:04,120 --> 00:00:06,040 My name is Ross Stackhouse. 3 00:00:06,040 --> 00:00:09,040 I'm the founding pastor of Heaven Earth Church. 4 00:00:09,520 --> 00:00:13,280 From the beginning, our heart was to be a church for people who 5 00:00:13,280 --> 00:00:15,040 don't fit neatly into church. 6 00:00:15,520 --> 00:00:19,200 Our heart is to meet people where they are, to learn their stories, 7 00:00:19,440 --> 00:00:20,720 to honor their stories. 8 00:00:20,720 --> 00:00:23,840 Because in every human story is God's story. 9 00:00:24,400 --> 00:00:27,840 In this podcast, you'll hear more about the people who now call 10 00:00:27,840 --> 00:00:29,400 Heaven Earth Church home. 11 00:00:29,400 --> 00:00:33,420 Their stories, in many cases of misfits who are discovering or 12 00:00:33,420 --> 00:00:34,700 rediscovering faith. 13 00:00:34,860 --> 00:00:38,140 If you want to know more about us, you can go to heavenorthchurch.org 14 00:00:38,620 --> 00:00:41,660 Otherwise, we invite you now into the story. 15 00:00:42,300 --> 00:00:43,180 Hello, good people. 16 00:00:43,180 --> 00:00:47,900 Brad Miller here, the producer of the Heaven Earth Church podcast. 17 00:00:48,300 --> 00:00:51,940 One of the main benefits of being a part of the Heaven Earth 18 00:00:51,940 --> 00:00:57,980 Church community is our Sunday morning conversations taught by founding 19 00:00:57,980 --> 00:01:00,100 pastor Ross Stackhound. 20 00:01:00,180 --> 00:01:04,900 You can watch and participate in the Sunday morning conversation 21 00:01:05,460 --> 00:01:13,940 this Sunday morning, 9:30am Eastern time at YouTube.com heavenerthchurch. 22 00:01:14,980 --> 00:01:19,860 The audio version of the Sunday morning conversation is available 23 00:01:19,860 --> 00:01:24,500 here on the podcast, which you can find at Apple Podcasts, Spotify 24 00:01:25,210 --> 00:01:32,370 and on the website, which is heavenarthchurch.org now with the 25 00:01:32,370 --> 00:01:38,410 message on fire walking in the spirit is Heaven Earth Church Pastor 26 00:01:38,410 --> 00:01:40,090 Emily Halverson. 27 00:01:41,450 --> 00:01:44,450 All right, well, let's pray and then we will continue with our 28 00:01:44,450 --> 00:01:45,130 conversation. 29 00:01:46,490 --> 00:01:52,220 God, I thank you for just space to pause and reflect and the 30 00:01:52,220 --> 00:01:53,980 busyness of our world, Lord. 31 00:01:53,980 --> 00:01:57,540 And I just recognize today that we're coming here from all kinds 32 00:01:57,540 --> 00:01:58,460 of different places. 33 00:01:58,460 --> 00:02:03,380 Some of them from a place of rest and just enjoyment, some from 34 00:02:03,380 --> 00:02:10,500 just heartache and distress, some from worry and concerns about 35 00:02:10,500 --> 00:02:11,540 so many different things. 36 00:02:11,540 --> 00:02:13,860 God, I thank you that you're at work. 37 00:02:13,940 --> 00:02:17,180 So that I just ask, Lord, you help us to sit, sit with you this 38 00:02:17,180 --> 00:02:22,100 morning and that you'd speak to our hearts and our minds and just 39 00:02:22,100 --> 00:02:25,180 help us to be open to your spirit. 40 00:02:25,660 --> 00:02:27,500 We just pray this in your name, Jesus. 41 00:02:27,820 --> 00:02:28,460 Amen. 42 00:02:28,700 --> 00:02:29,220 All right. 43 00:02:29,220 --> 00:02:32,860 Well, a couple weeks ago, my family was in Maine. 44 00:02:33,260 --> 00:02:33,660 Long. 45 00:02:34,380 --> 00:02:35,420 It was a long ways away. 46 00:02:35,420 --> 00:02:36,500 It was like 20 hour drive. 47 00:02:36,500 --> 00:02:37,340 It was a long ways away. 48 00:02:37,340 --> 00:02:39,180 But we were in Maine. 49 00:02:39,580 --> 00:02:44,170 And on Tuesday morning, it was a Tuesday morning, I woke up and 50 00:02:44,170 --> 00:02:48,050 it was really rainy and misty and foggy. 51 00:02:48,050 --> 00:02:51,970 So if you kind of imagine what like northeastern weather, if you 52 00:02:51,970 --> 00:02:56,010 have a picture of that in your head of like misty, foggy, rainy, 53 00:02:56,010 --> 00:02:56,610 that's what it was. 54 00:02:56,610 --> 00:02:58,050 It was very much like that. 55 00:02:58,050 --> 00:03:02,010 And I was sitting in a cabin looking outside at this mist and 56 00:03:02,010 --> 00:03:02,610 I was just. 57 00:03:02,850 --> 00:03:03,690 It was just quiet. 58 00:03:03,690 --> 00:03:04,850 I was the only One awake. 59 00:03:06,130 --> 00:03:10,770 And I was really thankful for this space and this time and just 60 00:03:10,770 --> 00:03:14,630 to be still for a little while, because I'd had a lot of things 61 00:03:14,630 --> 00:03:15,270 racing around. 62 00:03:16,550 --> 00:03:19,990 And after that, we were supposed to go. 63 00:03:20,390 --> 00:03:21,590 We're supposed to go hiking. 64 00:03:21,590 --> 00:03:23,830 And I kept thinking, like, are we gonna go hiking today? 65 00:03:23,830 --> 00:03:27,430 Like, it's all misty and wet, and who wants to hike in the rain? 66 00:03:28,310 --> 00:03:32,830 But as people kind of started waking up, that, no, we're still 67 00:03:32,830 --> 00:03:33,230 gonna go. 68 00:03:33,230 --> 00:03:34,550 And so we found this hike. 69 00:03:35,510 --> 00:03:38,190 And I want to show you a picture, actually, so. 70 00:03:38,190 --> 00:03:39,190 Jk, thank you. 71 00:03:39,710 --> 00:03:44,950 So this is actually Jordan Pond in Acadia national park, and 72 00:03:44,950 --> 00:03:47,550 so you can kind of see some of the mist there. 73 00:03:47,550 --> 00:03:51,270 But I just want to ask you first, what do you see when you look 74 00:03:51,270 --> 00:03:54,510 at this picture piece? 75 00:03:55,550 --> 00:03:56,190 Okay. 76 00:03:57,870 --> 00:03:58,910 A piece of artwork. 77 00:03:59,470 --> 00:04:00,110 Okay. 78 00:04:00,350 --> 00:04:02,430 Stepping stones right underneath the water. 79 00:04:02,910 --> 00:04:04,670 Lord of the Rings vibes. 80 00:04:05,070 --> 00:04:05,710 Okay. 81 00:04:06,040 --> 00:04:06,680 Adventure. 82 00:04:08,920 --> 00:04:09,960 There's a moose. 83 00:04:10,920 --> 00:04:14,440 I didn't see a moose that day, but there might be hiding one in 84 00:04:14,440 --> 00:04:14,920 the mist. 85 00:04:15,240 --> 00:04:15,720 Yeah. 86 00:04:15,800 --> 00:04:16,360 Say again? 87 00:04:17,000 --> 00:04:20,080 The light, the shading is wonderful. 88 00:04:20,080 --> 00:04:20,840 It was a good picture. 89 00:04:20,840 --> 00:04:21,280 It was a good. 90 00:04:21,280 --> 00:04:23,320 It's a good moment, a good capture. 91 00:04:23,800 --> 00:04:26,120 Maybe it's not edited. 92 00:04:26,120 --> 00:04:27,800 It is not an edited picture. 93 00:04:28,440 --> 00:04:28,800 Yeah. 94 00:04:28,800 --> 00:04:29,400 So there's a. 95 00:04:29,400 --> 00:04:32,360 There's a lot walking around that pond that day. 96 00:04:34,220 --> 00:04:34,620 When I. 97 00:04:34,620 --> 00:04:36,700 When I look at this, I see potential. 98 00:04:37,420 --> 00:04:38,380 Like, there. 99 00:04:38,380 --> 00:04:41,220 You can see stuff in the distance, but it's like it's covered 100 00:04:41,220 --> 00:04:41,540 in the. 101 00:04:41,540 --> 00:04:42,140 In the haze. 102 00:04:42,140 --> 00:04:43,580 Later on, on this hike, we actually. 103 00:04:43,580 --> 00:04:48,020 We hiked up above, kind of above the mist. 104 00:04:48,020 --> 00:04:51,900 So you were, like, looking down on the mist, and it just. 105 00:04:51,900 --> 00:04:53,460 It is a different perspective. 106 00:04:53,460 --> 00:04:55,980 But one of the things that this evokes and this picture's kind 107 00:04:55,980 --> 00:04:58,300 of haunted me a little bit, and I keep. 108 00:04:58,790 --> 00:05:00,070 I keep thinking about. 109 00:05:00,310 --> 00:05:03,270 We've been in this spirit in this series about the Holy Spirit. 110 00:05:04,790 --> 00:05:09,310 And there's this verse right at the beginning of the Bible that 111 00:05:09,310 --> 00:05:13,670 says, at creation, the Holy Spirit, God's spirit, hovered over 112 00:05:13,670 --> 00:05:15,029 the waters of the deep. 113 00:05:16,230 --> 00:05:16,630 And. 114 00:05:18,230 --> 00:05:19,870 Damon, could you actually go to that? 115 00:05:19,870 --> 00:05:21,110 Actually, no, stay in the picture. 116 00:05:21,110 --> 00:05:21,550 Stay here. 117 00:05:21,550 --> 00:05:23,990 So in the beginning, God created the world, and his. 118 00:05:24,320 --> 00:05:28,000 The world was formless and void, and the spirit of God hovered 119 00:05:28,000 --> 00:05:29,280 over the waters of the deep. 120 00:05:30,560 --> 00:05:36,520 And that word spirit shows up all over scripture, all over the 121 00:05:36,520 --> 00:05:36,880 Bible. 122 00:05:36,960 --> 00:05:38,320 In the Old Testament, it's. 123 00:05:38,320 --> 00:05:39,080 It's ruach. 124 00:05:39,080 --> 00:05:39,600 It's ever. 125 00:05:39,600 --> 00:05:39,880 It's. 126 00:05:39,880 --> 00:05:40,359 It's error. 127 00:05:40,359 --> 00:05:40,920 It's like, over. 128 00:05:40,920 --> 00:05:42,080 It's like 300 times. 129 00:05:42,480 --> 00:05:46,720 And in the New Testament, there's this word pneuma and this, 130 00:05:46,880 --> 00:05:47,480 and they get. 131 00:05:47,480 --> 00:05:48,160 They get used. 132 00:05:48,800 --> 00:05:51,400 Both places well, Numa, whatever. 133 00:05:51,400 --> 00:05:53,200 Anyways, they show up a lot in the Bible. 134 00:05:53,200 --> 00:06:00,320 So there's this idea that the spirit of God is in a lot of things, 135 00:06:00,320 --> 00:06:04,000 is moving in this world around us, is moving in us. 136 00:06:04,000 --> 00:06:06,400 Sometimes the spirit of God is. 137 00:06:06,560 --> 00:06:08,400 Is influencing. 138 00:06:08,400 --> 00:06:12,080 Sometimes the spirit of God is creating, like, a creation, like 139 00:06:12,080 --> 00:06:12,360 here. 140 00:06:12,360 --> 00:06:13,680 Like, there's all this potential. 141 00:06:13,680 --> 00:06:18,140 And the spirit breathes, like his wind moves and life happens. 142 00:06:19,260 --> 00:06:20,780 And so we. 143 00:06:20,780 --> 00:06:24,180 We see these different nuances of who the spirit is. 144 00:06:24,180 --> 00:06:27,580 And so we've been talking this whole thing back here, right? 145 00:06:27,820 --> 00:06:31,820 This like, little flame inside each one of us that, like, gets ignited 146 00:06:31,820 --> 00:06:33,620 on fire and, like, burns bright. 147 00:06:33,620 --> 00:06:37,100 And this is a spirit of God living inside each one of us. 148 00:06:37,100 --> 00:06:37,580 The thing. 149 00:06:37,980 --> 00:06:40,780 The thing about the spirit is it's a little bit mysterious. 150 00:06:41,340 --> 00:06:43,580 Like, I see that in this picture too. 151 00:06:43,660 --> 00:06:45,380 Like, what's in the mist? 152 00:06:45,380 --> 00:06:46,060 I don't know. 153 00:06:46,490 --> 00:06:47,450 It might be peaceful. 154 00:06:47,450 --> 00:06:48,450 It might be a moose. 155 00:06:48,450 --> 00:06:53,290 It might be a bison, you know, but there's the mystery to the spirit. 156 00:06:54,170 --> 00:06:57,410 And we can walk with the spirit a long time or be brand new 157 00:06:57,410 --> 00:06:59,650 with Walking with the Spirit and be like, there's some mystery 158 00:06:59,650 --> 00:07:00,890 here that I don't totally get. 159 00:07:01,050 --> 00:07:04,970 But one of the things that you see is that the spirit of God is 160 00:07:04,970 --> 00:07:10,090 not some, like, impersonal thing that's just out there moving. 161 00:07:10,650 --> 00:07:15,650 It's like a person who wants to be in a relationship with us. 162 00:07:15,650 --> 00:07:20,290 And there's this personal element of interaction with the spirit. 163 00:07:20,690 --> 00:07:21,850 Like, we walk with it. 164 00:07:21,850 --> 00:07:22,410 So it's. 165 00:07:22,410 --> 00:07:23,410 It's almost like. 166 00:07:23,490 --> 00:07:24,450 It's not like. 167 00:07:24,610 --> 00:07:28,210 But kind of, if you're to think of the concept of love, love 168 00:07:28,210 --> 00:07:31,410 is an idea that's really big and it gets used in lots of ways. 169 00:07:31,970 --> 00:07:33,090 But there's like. 170 00:07:33,090 --> 00:07:37,410 When you experience love, like, your understanding of it changes. 171 00:07:38,140 --> 00:07:40,820 So like, sometimes you can be like, well, love is not this and 172 00:07:40,820 --> 00:07:43,100 it's not this, but it kind of feels like this. 173 00:07:43,420 --> 00:07:46,220 And I think there's some truth to that with the Holy Spirit that 174 00:07:46,220 --> 00:07:49,540 we're like, that's not the Holy Spirit and that's not the Holy 175 00:07:49,540 --> 00:07:49,780 Spirit. 176 00:07:49,780 --> 00:07:52,540 But, man, there's something about this thing right here that 177 00:07:52,540 --> 00:07:56,140 just is the Holy Spirit at work and moving in us. 178 00:07:57,660 --> 00:07:58,780 And the Spirit. 179 00:07:58,940 --> 00:08:01,340 The Spirit is really important to Jesus. 180 00:08:01,580 --> 00:08:04,630 There's this passage, Jamie, you can go to this next scripture, 181 00:08:04,710 --> 00:08:06,270 the one that starts with John 14. 182 00:08:06,270 --> 00:08:06,950 Yeah, that one. 183 00:08:07,510 --> 00:08:12,430 So John 14, 15 and 16 are kind of like Jesus saying goodbye to the 184 00:08:12,430 --> 00:08:13,030 disciples. 185 00:08:13,670 --> 00:08:17,030 So Jesus has walked with these guys for three years. 186 00:08:17,030 --> 00:08:19,750 He's talked with them, he's eaten with them, he's done all kinds 187 00:08:19,750 --> 00:08:20,150 of things. 188 00:08:20,150 --> 00:08:22,790 He's sent them out on missions and come back. 189 00:08:23,270 --> 00:08:25,870 And they've come back and they've kind of recapped and said, 190 00:08:25,870 --> 00:08:26,390 what are we doing? 191 00:08:26,390 --> 00:08:27,110 What are we missing? 192 00:08:27,110 --> 00:08:27,910 Why isn't this working? 193 00:08:27,910 --> 00:08:30,800 And Jesus is saying he's getting ready to send, say, I'm. 194 00:08:30,800 --> 00:08:31,760 I'm leaving you. 195 00:08:32,080 --> 00:08:34,640 And they're at the Last Supper. 196 00:08:34,640 --> 00:08:38,160 And so there's these three chapters, and he talks a lot in them 197 00:08:38,240 --> 00:08:39,680 about the Holy Spirit. 198 00:08:40,000 --> 00:08:43,560 So it's this, like, goodbye message before he goes to be arrested 199 00:08:43,560 --> 00:08:44,240 and crucified. 200 00:08:44,960 --> 00:08:49,040 And in it is a lot about this thing known as the Spirit. 201 00:08:49,520 --> 00:08:51,320 So I just want to read these to you. 202 00:08:51,320 --> 00:08:52,040 And the thing. 203 00:08:52,040 --> 00:08:56,240 The words in yellow are words I highlighted that just kind of give 204 00:08:56,240 --> 00:08:59,160 an idea of some of the different roles that the Holy Spirit 205 00:08:59,160 --> 00:09:01,480 plays or some things we can learn about the Holy Spirit. 206 00:09:01,480 --> 00:09:07,870 So if you love me, keep my commands, and I will ask the Father, 207 00:09:07,950 --> 00:09:11,950 and he will give you another advocate to help you and be with 208 00:09:11,950 --> 00:09:12,750 you forever. 209 00:09:12,830 --> 00:09:14,510 The Spirit of truth. 210 00:09:15,550 --> 00:09:16,590 Keep going, Jay. 211 00:09:16,750 --> 00:09:17,710 So yellow. 212 00:09:18,430 --> 00:09:19,790 It doesn't look yellow. 213 00:09:20,910 --> 00:09:23,070 You guys, look at that screen. 214 00:09:23,630 --> 00:09:25,470 It's yellow on that screen. 215 00:09:26,270 --> 00:09:26,910 Rude. 216 00:09:27,830 --> 00:09:29,590 All right, fail. 217 00:09:29,750 --> 00:09:32,870 Okay, well, it's yellow on that screen. 218 00:09:33,990 --> 00:09:37,750 Okay, well, just so you don't get the help, then you can just pay 219 00:09:37,750 --> 00:09:41,470 attention and figure out which things, which words tell you about 220 00:09:41,470 --> 00:09:42,310 the Holy Spirit. 221 00:09:42,550 --> 00:09:43,430 So you can guess. 222 00:09:43,509 --> 00:09:44,550 Yeah, Jamin. 223 00:09:44,790 --> 00:09:45,430 Oh, good. 224 00:09:45,590 --> 00:09:47,430 See, online, folks, you win today. 225 00:09:47,430 --> 00:09:48,630 You get the yellow words. 226 00:09:48,630 --> 00:09:49,150 Excellent. 227 00:09:49,150 --> 00:09:49,950 Thanks, Christy. 228 00:09:49,950 --> 00:09:50,710 It's yellow online. 229 00:09:50,950 --> 00:09:52,790 All right, well, sorry, everyone in here. 230 00:09:52,790 --> 00:09:54,310 You just have to figure it out for yourself. 231 00:09:54,610 --> 00:09:57,250 So, all right, so this is Jesus talking again. 232 00:09:57,490 --> 00:09:58,090 Here we go. 233 00:09:58,090 --> 00:09:58,850 We're going to keep going. 234 00:09:59,490 --> 00:10:02,770 The world cannot accept him talking about the Spirit because 235 00:10:02,770 --> 00:10:05,050 it neither sees him nor knows him. 236 00:10:05,050 --> 00:10:09,570 But you know him, for he lives with you and will be in you. 237 00:10:10,690 --> 00:10:12,650 I will not leave you as orphans. 238 00:10:12,650 --> 00:10:13,770 I will come to you. 239 00:10:13,770 --> 00:10:19,090 So, like, Jesus again is getting ready to leave, and he says 240 00:10:19,090 --> 00:10:20,250 this thing to his people. 241 00:10:20,250 --> 00:10:22,820 He's like, but, guys, I'm not leaving you alone. 242 00:10:23,780 --> 00:10:24,180 What? 243 00:10:25,060 --> 00:10:26,180 What does that mean? 244 00:10:26,420 --> 00:10:28,660 I'm leaving, but I'm not leaving. 245 00:10:29,860 --> 00:10:31,140 Okay, so we're keep going. 246 00:10:32,260 --> 00:10:33,620 He's going to live in you. 247 00:10:33,620 --> 00:10:34,260 Okay? 248 00:10:34,260 --> 00:10:34,820 All right. 249 00:10:35,620 --> 00:10:38,300 Before the long, the world will not see me anymore. 250 00:10:38,300 --> 00:10:39,220 Again, he's leaving. 251 00:10:39,220 --> 00:10:41,620 But you will see me because I live. 252 00:10:41,620 --> 00:10:42,980 You also will live. 253 00:10:43,140 --> 00:10:43,820 On that day. 254 00:10:43,820 --> 00:10:46,740 You will realize that I'm in the Father, in my Father, and you 255 00:10:46,740 --> 00:10:49,860 are in me, and I am in you. 256 00:10:49,940 --> 00:10:51,020 What does that mean? 257 00:10:51,020 --> 00:10:52,420 Okay, keep going, Jamin. 258 00:10:53,780 --> 00:10:57,380 Whoever has my commands and keeps them is the one who loves me. 259 00:10:57,780 --> 00:11:00,620 The one who loves me will be loved by my Father. 260 00:11:00,620 --> 00:11:03,940 And I too will love them and show myself to them. 261 00:11:04,820 --> 00:11:05,460 Keep going. 262 00:11:06,580 --> 00:11:08,100 Peace I leave with you. 263 00:11:08,180 --> 00:11:09,940 My peace I give you. 264 00:11:10,020 --> 00:11:12,300 I do not give to you as the world gives. 265 00:11:12,300 --> 00:11:16,350 Do not let your hearts be troubled and do not be afraid. 266 00:11:17,710 --> 00:11:20,430 And then he says this again a few chapters later. 267 00:11:20,830 --> 00:11:24,110 So this verse is after he comes back and right before he leaves, 268 00:11:25,790 --> 00:11:27,470 he says, peace be with you. 269 00:11:27,470 --> 00:11:29,790 As the Father has sent me, I am sending you. 270 00:11:30,030 --> 00:11:34,510 And with that, he breathed on them and said, receive the Holy Spirit. 271 00:11:35,470 --> 00:11:40,910 There is something to this Spirit of God in us, moving in us, 272 00:11:40,910 --> 00:11:44,300 living in us, knowing us, teaching us. 273 00:11:44,300 --> 00:11:47,700 That's really, really important for Jesus, that his disciples 274 00:11:48,740 --> 00:11:51,300 understand and learn to walk in. 275 00:11:52,420 --> 00:11:55,140 There's this, like, experiential knowledge that they 276 00:11:55,620 --> 00:12:00,100 have to learn to do the things that he's asking them to do. 277 00:12:01,140 --> 00:12:05,260 He and one of the other gospels, kind of we see him say to 278 00:12:05,260 --> 00:12:07,060 his disciples, do not leave Jerusalem. 279 00:12:07,140 --> 00:12:08,860 He says, you're going to go out and you're going to do all this 280 00:12:08,860 --> 00:12:09,260 stuff, but. 281 00:12:09,330 --> 00:12:11,570 But don't leave before you receive the Holy Spirit. 282 00:12:11,570 --> 00:12:14,130 Is how it shows up in one of the other, other Gospels. 283 00:12:15,490 --> 00:12:19,970 There's something to this life in the Spirit that's so important 284 00:12:20,130 --> 00:12:25,010 for us because this walking with Jesus thing is kind of hard. 285 00:12:25,890 --> 00:12:28,690 This walking this life, this kind of. 286 00:12:28,850 --> 00:12:31,410 How do we love people when they don't love us? 287 00:12:31,490 --> 00:12:35,250 How do we show grace when we want to be hostile? 288 00:12:35,570 --> 00:12:41,910 How do we keep choosing Jesus when it might feel like there's not 289 00:12:41,910 --> 00:12:43,870 much in it for us in a moment? 290 00:12:44,750 --> 00:12:45,470 That's hard. 291 00:12:46,030 --> 00:12:49,470 And he says, you're going to need the Holy Spirit to do that. 292 00:12:50,910 --> 00:12:53,750 And there's something about that that brings a different kind 293 00:12:53,750 --> 00:12:54,350 of peace. 294 00:12:55,550 --> 00:12:57,030 So I'm going to pause there for a minute. 295 00:12:57,030 --> 00:12:57,390 What is. 296 00:12:57,390 --> 00:12:58,550 What does that stir in you? 297 00:12:58,550 --> 00:12:59,150 What is that? 298 00:12:59,630 --> 00:13:00,870 Yeah, what does that stir in you? 299 00:13:00,870 --> 00:13:01,630 What does that evoke? 300 00:13:01,710 --> 00:13:02,670 What does it make you think? 301 00:13:04,940 --> 00:13:06,300 He wants us to be peaceful. 302 00:13:06,540 --> 00:13:09,180 Okay, so you said he wants us to be peaceful and then experience 303 00:13:09,340 --> 00:13:09,820 peace. 304 00:13:10,860 --> 00:13:11,420 Okay. 305 00:13:11,420 --> 00:13:13,100 How would you differentiate the two? 306 00:13:15,580 --> 00:13:16,700 Okay, so join us. 307 00:13:16,700 --> 00:13:19,380 Talking about kind of the difference between being peaceful 308 00:13:19,380 --> 00:13:23,620 and experiencing peace and kind of just that saying that, that's 309 00:13:23,620 --> 00:13:24,820 kind of hard to articulate. 310 00:13:24,820 --> 00:13:30,630 But there's something about, like, experiencing that peace rather 311 00:13:30,630 --> 00:13:33,110 than like, just like, making yourself calm down. 312 00:13:33,350 --> 00:13:34,790 Yeah, yeah. 313 00:13:34,790 --> 00:13:36,150 What else is it stirring? 314 00:13:36,390 --> 00:13:36,750 Yeah. 315 00:13:36,750 --> 00:13:37,344 P.T. 316 00:13:37,476 --> 00:13:38,270 thank you. 317 00:13:38,270 --> 00:13:38,590 So. 318 00:13:38,590 --> 00:13:39,190 So P.T. 319 00:13:39,190 --> 00:13:39,830 just says it's. 320 00:13:39,830 --> 00:13:42,990 It's a powerful thing to realize, like, the Spirit of God 321 00:13:42,990 --> 00:13:44,150 was present at Creation. 322 00:13:44,309 --> 00:13:45,150 Like it wasn't. 323 00:13:45,150 --> 00:13:46,550 He didn't come later. 324 00:13:46,950 --> 00:13:47,670 Like it was. 325 00:13:47,670 --> 00:13:48,230 He was there. 326 00:13:48,230 --> 00:13:49,270 He's been there all along. 327 00:13:51,110 --> 00:13:54,640 So Rhonda shares about how. 328 00:13:54,960 --> 00:13:58,680 How most of us wish maybe that we have this experience similar where 329 00:13:58,680 --> 00:14:00,720 we've been breathed upon and where we. 330 00:14:00,720 --> 00:14:04,800 Because maybe we all would like to experience the Spirit more 331 00:14:04,880 --> 00:14:07,360 and there's something kind of tangible in. 332 00:14:07,760 --> 00:14:09,520 In the scripture that the disciples. 333 00:14:09,680 --> 00:14:10,080 Yeah. 334 00:14:10,080 --> 00:14:11,200 That they experienced. 335 00:14:11,360 --> 00:14:12,320 Yeah, Mikey. 336 00:14:16,000 --> 00:14:16,360 Yeah. 337 00:14:16,360 --> 00:14:20,640 So Mikey sees it as a call to action, like he's receiving peace. 338 00:14:20,640 --> 00:14:21,530 But then, like, he. 339 00:14:21,680 --> 00:14:24,240 Now you need to go out and like, be peace to other people. 340 00:14:25,280 --> 00:14:29,800 So Dina talks about how to engage an angry person and when. 341 00:14:29,800 --> 00:14:32,240 When we come across an angry person, kind of a. 342 00:14:32,320 --> 00:14:36,000 Kind of praying for that person and kind of taking that approach 343 00:14:36,400 --> 00:14:37,759 to interacting with them. 344 00:14:38,320 --> 00:14:38,800 Yeah. 345 00:14:39,040 --> 00:14:39,440 Online. 346 00:14:39,520 --> 00:14:42,960 Jamin Mike, can you relay a summary for me? 347 00:14:43,200 --> 00:14:43,800 Thank you. 348 00:14:43,800 --> 00:14:44,280 I could. 349 00:14:44,280 --> 00:14:45,520 Thanks for helping the hearing. 350 00:14:45,680 --> 00:14:46,080 Yeah. 351 00:14:46,080 --> 00:14:46,400 So. 352 00:14:46,480 --> 00:14:49,680 So online we have this idea that, like, as she keeps growing, 353 00:14:49,680 --> 00:14:52,880 like, being able to engage with people in a different way because 354 00:14:52,880 --> 00:14:53,200 real. 355 00:14:53,580 --> 00:14:54,940 They're a child of God too. 356 00:14:54,940 --> 00:15:00,700 And so I'm not going to relay that part. 357 00:15:03,420 --> 00:15:03,860 Yeah. 358 00:15:03,860 --> 00:15:04,540 Lucy. 359 00:15:04,700 --> 00:15:05,060 Yeah. 360 00:15:05,060 --> 00:15:09,300 So Lucy shares kind of about this idea that the Holy Spirit has 361 00:15:09,300 --> 00:15:10,300 always been present. 362 00:15:10,300 --> 00:15:11,700 And we see it a lot in scripture. 363 00:15:11,700 --> 00:15:14,300 And if it's repeated a lot, generally that means it's important 364 00:15:14,300 --> 00:15:15,980 if we see it over and over again. 365 00:15:16,300 --> 00:15:18,700 But somehow when Jesus was here, he had to. 366 00:15:19,190 --> 00:15:22,350 He had to emphasize in a different way what was going on so 367 00:15:22,350 --> 00:15:23,550 people could really grasp it. 368 00:15:23,550 --> 00:15:24,630 Even though he's always been. 369 00:15:25,590 --> 00:15:26,950 The Spirit has always been present. 370 00:15:28,470 --> 00:15:31,350 That's actually a good kind of point to transition on. 371 00:15:32,470 --> 00:15:36,470 So there's this whole idea of how do you recognize the Holy Spirit? 372 00:15:36,950 --> 00:15:37,270 Right. 373 00:15:37,270 --> 00:15:40,550 I said, like, it is kind of mysterious, but there are some things 374 00:15:40,550 --> 00:15:45,030 about the Holy Spirit that we can recognize and be like, oh, yeah, 375 00:15:46,190 --> 00:15:47,470 that's the Holy Spirit. 376 00:15:48,590 --> 00:15:51,870 There's a verse in First John actually, that says. 377 00:15:51,870 --> 00:15:53,390 It says, test the spirits. 378 00:15:53,790 --> 00:15:57,550 So it's kind of this idea that not every voice in my head is the 379 00:15:57,550 --> 00:15:58,190 Holy Spirit. 380 00:15:59,310 --> 00:16:02,070 I can love Jesus and I can follow Jesus, but it doesn't mean 381 00:16:02,070 --> 00:16:03,870 that every voice in my head is Jesus. 382 00:16:04,510 --> 00:16:07,830 So I have to kind of learn to separate and figure out, like, when 383 00:16:07,830 --> 00:16:10,910 is it the Holy Spirit and when is it me? 384 00:16:11,700 --> 00:16:17,060 When is it maybe my insecurity that's speaking, when is it my anger 385 00:16:17,060 --> 00:16:18,460 or my emotion that's speaking? 386 00:16:18,460 --> 00:16:21,380 So there's kind of this, how do I learn to discern the spirit 387 00:16:22,180 --> 00:16:22,740 element? 388 00:16:23,300 --> 00:16:25,700 And so there's a couple of different. 389 00:16:25,780 --> 00:16:27,780 There's a Couple of different things that I would just throw out 390 00:16:27,780 --> 00:16:28,100 there. 391 00:16:28,340 --> 00:16:30,020 The first one is like, is. 392 00:16:30,020 --> 00:16:32,540 And these are all, these are all in various places in scripture. 393 00:16:32,540 --> 00:16:36,500 But the first is, does that voice, does it, does it confess Christ? 394 00:16:36,500 --> 00:16:38,000 That's a phrase that gets you use. 395 00:16:38,000 --> 00:16:38,520 So it's. 396 00:16:38,680 --> 00:16:41,120 Is it recognizing who Jesus is? 397 00:16:41,120 --> 00:16:44,240 Basically like that, that Jesus is the son of God? 398 00:16:44,240 --> 00:16:48,920 Like that, that Jesus is it, Is it in alignment with that? 399 00:16:49,080 --> 00:16:49,480 Right. 400 00:16:49,640 --> 00:16:54,200 So if I have my husband, but I say, well, that's not my husband, 401 00:16:54,680 --> 00:16:55,200 I'm not. 402 00:16:55,200 --> 00:16:57,240 That's not really honoring our marriage, right? 403 00:16:57,560 --> 00:17:02,280 So if the Holy Spirit is part of the Trinity, part of God, right. 404 00:17:02,280 --> 00:17:05,410 The Holy Spirit is acknowledging who Jesus is and pointing 405 00:17:05,410 --> 00:17:06,250 things towards Jesus. 406 00:17:06,250 --> 00:17:07,370 That's kind of that idea. 407 00:17:08,170 --> 00:17:11,290 Secondly is like, does it align with the heart of God in scripture? 408 00:17:11,530 --> 00:17:13,210 We talk a lot about that in here. 409 00:17:13,210 --> 00:17:16,090 Is like, what is the heart of God that we see in. 410 00:17:16,090 --> 00:17:16,970 In scripture? 411 00:17:16,970 --> 00:17:20,010 So, like, is whatever that voice in my head saying, is it. 412 00:17:20,010 --> 00:17:21,530 Is it in alignment with that? 413 00:17:21,850 --> 00:17:23,130 Is it consistent? 414 00:17:23,130 --> 00:17:27,170 So is it something that, like, seems way out of left field and totally 415 00:17:27,170 --> 00:17:27,890 different that I've. 416 00:17:27,890 --> 00:17:29,130 Than I've ever heard before? 417 00:17:29,530 --> 00:17:34,130 Okay, well, that might be the Holy Spirit, but is it consistent 418 00:17:34,130 --> 00:17:34,730 with itself? 419 00:17:36,490 --> 00:17:39,810 Is it leading me in a trajectory that's pointing me consistently 420 00:17:39,810 --> 00:17:40,730 towards Jesus? 421 00:17:41,210 --> 00:17:42,330 Does it bring life? 422 00:17:42,410 --> 00:17:44,170 And that one, I feel like is really important. 423 00:17:45,130 --> 00:17:47,370 That one relates directly back to creation. 424 00:17:48,010 --> 00:17:51,410 Is that spirit speaking something that's like life giving 425 00:17:51,410 --> 00:17:54,930 and trying to weed out some of the things that are maybe clouding 426 00:17:54,930 --> 00:17:58,130 up my thoughts or my emotions? 427 00:17:58,130 --> 00:18:01,130 Or is it actually like planting thorns in there? 428 00:18:01,600 --> 00:18:03,440 Because the thorn planting isn't from Jesus. 429 00:18:03,440 --> 00:18:05,440 The thorn planting is not the Holy Spirit. 430 00:18:05,440 --> 00:18:08,760 So it's like, is it, Is it kind of trying to draw that stuff 431 00:18:08,760 --> 00:18:11,360 out and breathe new life into my spirit? 432 00:18:11,920 --> 00:18:14,400 And is it loving, like, really simply? 433 00:18:14,400 --> 00:18:15,720 We see so much in scripture. 434 00:18:15,720 --> 00:18:18,600 There's, you know, Jesus is talking about obeying his commands, 435 00:18:18,600 --> 00:18:20,720 and it has to do with loving each other. 436 00:18:21,280 --> 00:18:24,720 That's what John 15 is all about, is being connected to God 437 00:18:24,720 --> 00:18:26,200 and remaining in his love. 438 00:18:26,200 --> 00:18:28,250 And so is it loving? 439 00:18:28,570 --> 00:18:31,810 So all of these things are like little, almost like a litmus 440 00:18:31,810 --> 00:18:32,010 test. 441 00:18:32,010 --> 00:18:33,450 You guys know what a litmus test is? 442 00:18:33,610 --> 00:18:35,450 Joey knows what a litmus test is. 443 00:18:36,250 --> 00:18:38,410 And you have a, you have a piece of litmus paper and you're 444 00:18:38,410 --> 00:18:40,610 like, is it, is it an acid or is it a base? 445 00:18:40,610 --> 00:18:43,330 And you stick it in a solution and it turns one color for an acid 446 00:18:43,330 --> 00:18:45,850 and one color if it's a base, if it's basic, right? 447 00:18:45,930 --> 00:18:50,330 But it's this idea that, like, I can test it and I can see a result 448 00:18:50,330 --> 00:18:54,330 and be like, oh, yeah, nope, I'm looking for an acid, but, nope, 449 00:18:54,330 --> 00:18:54,930 it's a base. 450 00:18:54,930 --> 00:18:55,170 Right. 451 00:18:55,170 --> 00:18:56,290 So is it the Holy Spirit? 452 00:18:56,290 --> 00:18:57,050 Is it loving? 453 00:18:57,770 --> 00:18:58,250 Nope. 454 00:18:58,250 --> 00:19:00,410 Well, it's probably not the Holy Spirit. 455 00:19:00,410 --> 00:19:02,090 It's probably not the movement of God. 456 00:19:03,850 --> 00:19:08,330 So all of this, like, kind of gets to this idea of, like, so what? 457 00:19:09,450 --> 00:19:11,130 Like, why does any of this matter? 458 00:19:11,130 --> 00:19:12,010 Like, why. 459 00:19:13,210 --> 00:19:15,490 Why was this so important to Jesus? 460 00:19:15,490 --> 00:19:18,210 Why did he have to bring it out again for people? 461 00:19:20,360 --> 00:19:21,560 So I'm going to ask you that question. 462 00:19:21,720 --> 00:19:22,520 Why do you think. 463 00:19:22,520 --> 00:19:25,760 Why do you think there's this emphasis on the spirit of God in 464 00:19:25,760 --> 00:19:28,120 scripture from Jesus? 465 00:19:28,760 --> 00:19:29,160 Why? 466 00:19:29,160 --> 00:19:31,440 Why spend several weeks talking about the spirit? 467 00:19:31,440 --> 00:19:31,680 Why. 468 00:19:31,680 --> 00:19:32,680 Why are we doing that? 469 00:19:35,000 --> 00:19:36,040 Say it again, Jim. 470 00:19:36,600 --> 00:19:37,920 To keep us in line. 471 00:19:37,920 --> 00:19:39,960 I thought you said to keep us alive. 472 00:19:44,900 --> 00:19:47,140 Oh, so to keep us in line. 473 00:19:47,140 --> 00:19:48,220 To keep us alive. 474 00:19:48,220 --> 00:19:49,940 To keep us aligned. 475 00:19:50,180 --> 00:19:50,820 Okay. 476 00:19:50,980 --> 00:19:51,620 Okay. 477 00:19:53,060 --> 00:19:53,740 A little bit. 478 00:19:53,740 --> 00:19:54,100 Everything. 479 00:19:55,300 --> 00:19:57,060 I think I need all three someday. 480 00:19:57,380 --> 00:19:59,700 It's hard to believe it's there. 481 00:20:00,019 --> 00:20:01,380 Why is that, Patty? 482 00:20:03,780 --> 00:20:04,260 Yeah. 483 00:20:04,660 --> 00:20:05,020 Yeah. 484 00:20:05,020 --> 00:20:07,180 So sometimes we can convince ourselves it's not there because 485 00:20:07,180 --> 00:20:09,060 we're not good enough to experience it. 486 00:20:10,100 --> 00:20:12,500 Jamin speak really loud, man. 487 00:20:12,660 --> 00:20:15,860 Christy says, because he desires to have a relationship with 488 00:20:15,860 --> 00:20:18,020 all of us, and this is how he gets through to us. 489 00:20:19,220 --> 00:20:19,700 Yeah. 490 00:20:21,460 --> 00:20:21,900 Okay. 491 00:20:21,900 --> 00:20:23,700 So Lucy said, well, it's part of God. 492 00:20:23,700 --> 00:20:26,300 So it's kind of an element of understanding a piece of God and 493 00:20:26,300 --> 00:20:26,900 who he is. 494 00:20:29,460 --> 00:20:30,020 Yes. 495 00:20:30,260 --> 00:20:30,620 Yeah. 496 00:20:30,620 --> 00:20:32,660 So Nick just laid out a lot there. 497 00:20:33,140 --> 00:20:34,540 So that's awesome. 498 00:20:34,540 --> 00:20:35,060 So the. 499 00:20:36,240 --> 00:20:37,000 So the whole it. 500 00:20:37,000 --> 00:20:40,560 It used to be kind of seen as, like, the Holy Spirit is in one place. 501 00:20:40,800 --> 00:20:44,280 So you have, like, the idea of the tabernacle or the temple, and 502 00:20:44,280 --> 00:20:48,400 you have to go to this place to experience the temple of God. 503 00:20:49,120 --> 00:20:52,040 And what Jesus helped the disciples understand is, like, the 504 00:20:52,040 --> 00:20:55,920 Spirit is in you, that you are the temple of the Holy Spirit. 505 00:20:56,080 --> 00:20:57,440 First Corinthians talks about that. 506 00:20:57,440 --> 00:21:00,400 Paul writes about that in First Corinthians, that our bodies 507 00:21:00,400 --> 00:21:02,880 are the temple of the Holy Spirit and the Holy Spirit lives 508 00:21:02,960 --> 00:21:03,600 in you. 509 00:21:03,600 --> 00:21:07,180 That's like, a revolutionary thing that, like, changes it from, 510 00:21:07,180 --> 00:21:11,020 like, I have to go to church to experience God. 511 00:21:11,500 --> 00:21:11,900 We. 512 00:21:11,900 --> 00:21:16,540 We don't actually have to go to church to experience God, but 513 00:21:16,940 --> 00:21:20,740 because we can experience God forever because he's with us, because 514 00:21:20,740 --> 00:21:21,580 he's in us. 515 00:21:21,580 --> 00:21:25,660 Because when we're seeking him, like, he meets us. 516 00:21:26,700 --> 00:21:31,380 But there's something about coming together as people who are 517 00:21:31,380 --> 00:21:36,150 seeking that to together, that where I think there's benefit and 518 00:21:36,150 --> 00:21:40,110 value and goodness in being together as the people of God, seeking 519 00:21:40,430 --> 00:21:40,910 God. 520 00:21:41,710 --> 00:21:44,470 But we don't have to be here, because if we had to be here, that 521 00:21:44,470 --> 00:21:47,790 would mean that when we walk out those doors, the Spirit stays 522 00:21:47,790 --> 00:21:49,310 here, but he doesn't. 523 00:21:49,390 --> 00:21:54,310 He goes with us wherever we're at, inviting us to be in this work 524 00:21:54,310 --> 00:21:59,840 that he's a part of, to be these people of peace, to show love, 525 00:21:59,840 --> 00:22:04,880 to be companions in this world, to fight for justice in a 526 00:22:04,880 --> 00:22:07,200 world that doesn't want to hear it. 527 00:22:08,320 --> 00:22:14,400 He's with us, calling us to be people who create life as we go. 528 00:22:17,120 --> 00:22:20,480 Some days it's really hard, and some days it's really discouraging. 529 00:22:20,640 --> 00:22:22,720 And I just want to kind of give voice to that. 530 00:22:23,360 --> 00:22:25,000 Yeah, it's. 531 00:22:25,000 --> 00:22:26,240 Some days it's just really hard. 532 00:22:26,660 --> 00:22:30,620 And sometimes it can feel like we're taking two steps forward or 533 00:22:30,620 --> 00:22:33,740 one step forward and two steps back or two steps forward and four 534 00:22:33,740 --> 00:22:34,340 steps back. 535 00:22:34,580 --> 00:22:36,980 Whichever math equation you would like to use this morning. 536 00:22:37,940 --> 00:22:38,420 Yeah. 537 00:22:38,580 --> 00:22:39,460 Okay, go ahead. 538 00:22:41,140 --> 00:22:41,540 Yeah. 539 00:22:41,540 --> 00:22:44,620 So Ron talks about the advocate, that whole idea of sometimes 540 00:22:44,620 --> 00:22:48,340 we need somebody to stand and advocate for us and help us to understand. 541 00:22:49,460 --> 00:22:55,550 I said yesterday to somebody that sometimes we extend grace to 542 00:22:55,550 --> 00:22:57,510 other people, but it's not for other people. 543 00:22:57,510 --> 00:22:58,670 It's actually for us. 544 00:23:00,030 --> 00:23:05,390 Sometimes if we feel like we've been wronged, that, like, tendency 545 00:23:05,390 --> 00:23:10,910 to want to, like, lash out, sometimes that erupts and that doesn't 546 00:23:10,910 --> 00:23:13,390 change, like, whether or not we have been wronged. 547 00:23:13,390 --> 00:23:14,510 Like, that's a different question. 548 00:23:15,310 --> 00:23:20,850 But that grace I can extend to that person and how I think about 549 00:23:20,850 --> 00:23:26,130 them actually is more about my own heart and about how I want to 550 00:23:26,130 --> 00:23:27,090 posture myself. 551 00:23:27,810 --> 00:23:33,250 And I can acknowledge a wrong while still also choosing grace. 552 00:23:34,610 --> 00:23:37,410 But, man, I need the Holy Spirit's help to do that because 553 00:23:37,410 --> 00:23:38,650 I tend to not want to do it. 554 00:23:38,650 --> 00:23:38,890 Yeah. 555 00:23:38,890 --> 00:23:39,330 Paul. 556 00:23:40,770 --> 00:23:44,330 So Paul just says he just had that experience where he had to extend 557 00:23:44,330 --> 00:23:47,040 some grace to somebody he got a message from he wasn't expecting. 558 00:23:47,190 --> 00:23:47,670 Expecting. 559 00:23:48,070 --> 00:23:48,430 Yeah. 560 00:23:48,430 --> 00:23:48,870 Ralph. 561 00:23:49,990 --> 00:23:53,950 So Ralph shares about the idea of pneuma and spirit and wind, it's 562 00:23:53,950 --> 00:23:54,710 the same word. 563 00:23:55,110 --> 00:23:55,990 And that kind of. 564 00:23:55,990 --> 00:23:58,390 That wind as it moves, it's just a reminder of that. 565 00:23:58,390 --> 00:23:59,590 Of that rejuvenation. 566 00:24:00,470 --> 00:24:02,310 Yeah, there's some. 567 00:24:02,310 --> 00:24:02,950 There's some. 568 00:24:03,830 --> 00:24:05,910 There's three things that I. 569 00:24:05,910 --> 00:24:08,910 That I was thinking about this week was I was reading through Romans 570 00:24:08,910 --> 00:24:13,530 8 and this whole idea of the spirit and the. 571 00:24:13,690 --> 00:24:15,530 The first one is about attitude. 572 00:24:15,530 --> 00:24:17,890 So this kind of, like, ties into exactly what we're talking about. 573 00:24:17,890 --> 00:24:19,490 Jamin, you want to go to the next slide? 574 00:24:19,490 --> 00:24:23,210 For me, when I'm Selfish. 575 00:24:24,570 --> 00:24:27,610 When Emily is living in selfishness, thinking about selfish 576 00:24:27,610 --> 00:24:33,250 things, I'm not basing my life on the Spirit, and I'm not thinking 577 00:24:33,250 --> 00:24:34,770 about things related to the Spirit. 578 00:24:34,770 --> 00:24:36,050 I'm thinking about myself. 579 00:24:36,050 --> 00:24:38,730 I'm thinking about my pain, which is valid. 580 00:24:39,310 --> 00:24:43,070 Like, it's valid, but it also means I'm focusing in a different 581 00:24:43,150 --> 00:24:43,550 place. 582 00:24:44,590 --> 00:24:46,590 Go to the next one, Jamin, please. 583 00:24:47,070 --> 00:24:48,270 That attitude, my. 584 00:24:48,350 --> 00:24:51,670 My bad attitude comes from selfishness, and that leads ultimately 585 00:24:51,670 --> 00:24:52,110 to death. 586 00:24:52,510 --> 00:24:55,990 But when I'm focusing on the Spirit, that's the life that leads 587 00:24:55,990 --> 00:24:56,910 to life and peace. 588 00:24:57,630 --> 00:25:00,830 Like, when I'm stuck in that place of, like, anger, frustration, 589 00:25:00,830 --> 00:25:04,350 or bitterness, or, like, dude, you wronged me. 590 00:25:04,510 --> 00:25:05,860 Like, and sometimes. 591 00:25:05,860 --> 00:25:06,980 And I need to acknowledge that. 592 00:25:06,980 --> 00:25:10,860 So I want to be careful here because the acknowledgment is important 593 00:25:10,860 --> 00:25:11,340 for me. 594 00:25:11,340 --> 00:25:14,780 Like, I need to be able to say that was not right. 595 00:25:15,340 --> 00:25:16,780 Like, I was wronged. 596 00:25:17,260 --> 00:25:20,420 And then I also needed to be say, man, Jesus, help me keep my 597 00:25:20,420 --> 00:25:21,100 eyes on you. 598 00:25:21,740 --> 00:25:23,820 Because that's not where they want to settle right now. 599 00:25:24,620 --> 00:25:27,980 So there's this promise of, or this acknowledgment of, like, life 600 00:25:27,980 --> 00:25:29,580 in the Spirit affects our attitude. 601 00:25:29,660 --> 00:25:31,780 The second one is that it brings life. 602 00:25:31,780 --> 00:25:32,060 Right? 603 00:25:32,060 --> 00:25:34,210 I keep coming back to this because I think it's really important 604 00:25:35,170 --> 00:25:41,730 that the Spirit of God is at work all around us, creating life, 605 00:25:42,050 --> 00:25:43,810 restoring life. 606 00:25:44,610 --> 00:25:47,130 And that doesn't mean that everything that happens is good. 607 00:25:47,130 --> 00:25:49,450 And that doesn't mean that everything that happens in this world 608 00:25:49,450 --> 00:25:52,210 is God ordained or that he planned like, that he did it all, 609 00:25:52,210 --> 00:25:55,410 or he's creating it to teach us a lesson. 610 00:25:56,210 --> 00:25:59,050 I actually really firmly believe that our God is a God of 611 00:25:59,050 --> 00:25:59,730 redemption. 612 00:25:59,810 --> 00:26:00,000 And. 613 00:26:00,070 --> 00:26:06,150 And so there are things that happen that he doesn't like that 614 00:26:06,150 --> 00:26:07,990 make him sad, that grieve his heart. 615 00:26:09,110 --> 00:26:12,710 But then his Spirit that's constantly at work all around us 616 00:26:12,710 --> 00:26:16,350 has the ability to create new life from those death, those places 617 00:26:16,350 --> 00:26:18,790 of death and hurt and bitterness and pain. 618 00:26:19,910 --> 00:26:20,790 And that's kind of. 619 00:26:20,790 --> 00:26:23,030 This last one is this, like, this promise that, like, the Spirit 620 00:26:23,030 --> 00:26:25,030 is always going to be with us, that he comes to help. 621 00:26:25,030 --> 00:26:28,610 This is the idea of the advocate again, that he works things 622 00:26:28,610 --> 00:26:31,850 together in a way that brings this redemption and this new life. 623 00:26:33,530 --> 00:26:36,650 So my question for us this morning, and we're going to kind 624 00:26:36,650 --> 00:26:36,770 of. 625 00:26:36,770 --> 00:26:37,850 We're going to close with this. 626 00:26:38,650 --> 00:26:43,770 In your life, where do you see the Spirit hovering? 627 00:26:44,810 --> 00:26:47,290 Where is the Spirit brooding over the waters? 628 00:26:47,290 --> 00:26:50,810 In your life, where do you need the Spirit to create some new 629 00:26:50,810 --> 00:26:51,530 life in you? 630 00:26:51,530 --> 00:26:52,930 Jay, you can go to that last slide. 631 00:26:52,930 --> 00:26:53,250 Thanks. 632 00:26:55,160 --> 00:26:56,920 Where do you feel that nudge? 633 00:26:56,920 --> 00:27:00,120 That's like, just let me get in there and weed some things out. 634 00:27:00,440 --> 00:27:02,040 Maybe that's in a relationship. 635 00:27:02,200 --> 00:27:05,240 Maybe it's a damaged relationship, kind of like Paul was 636 00:27:05,320 --> 00:27:06,040 talking about. 637 00:27:06,360 --> 00:27:10,920 Maybe it's in an attitude or a mindset of how I view somebody. 638 00:27:11,320 --> 00:27:14,720 Where is the spirit whispering and breathing and saying, just let 639 00:27:14,720 --> 00:27:15,680 me breathe on that. 640 00:27:15,680 --> 00:27:18,000 And you, when you can't. 641 00:27:18,000 --> 00:27:20,120 I'm not asking you to respond, actually, to that one. 642 00:27:20,120 --> 00:27:21,720 Well, I am, but not out loud. 643 00:27:22,040 --> 00:27:23,360 Did you want to say something, Patty? 644 00:27:23,360 --> 00:27:24,870 Go ahead, say that one more time. 645 00:27:25,190 --> 00:27:27,670 Through the hard times, you feel the spirit the most. 646 00:27:27,670 --> 00:27:28,390 Is that right? 647 00:27:28,790 --> 00:27:29,270 Yeah. 648 00:27:29,750 --> 00:27:33,430 When you guys came in this morning, people online, you can also 649 00:27:33,430 --> 00:27:37,470 do this at home, but when you came in this morning, you tore off 650 00:27:37,470 --> 00:27:39,070 a piece of construction paper. 651 00:27:39,070 --> 00:27:39,510 Yeah. 652 00:27:39,669 --> 00:27:40,350 Oh, look. 653 00:27:40,350 --> 00:27:41,470 Look at all your pieces of paper. 654 00:27:41,470 --> 00:27:44,550 If you didn't get a chance to grab one, there's some in the back, 655 00:27:45,190 --> 00:27:47,750 but Adam and Joe are going to kind of come back up. 656 00:27:49,030 --> 00:27:50,590 But here's my invitation for you. 657 00:27:50,590 --> 00:27:51,110 This morning. 658 00:27:52,180 --> 00:27:55,060 We, like, God is a creative God. 659 00:27:55,060 --> 00:27:56,740 The Holy Spirit is creating. 660 00:27:56,740 --> 00:27:57,620 He's at work. 661 00:27:58,100 --> 00:28:02,740 So wherever you need the Holy Spirit to breathe new life on, wherever 662 00:28:02,740 --> 00:28:06,460 you need, like, him to touch and just be like, can you bring some 663 00:28:06,460 --> 00:28:07,540 new life here? 664 00:28:08,020 --> 00:28:10,660 I'm just going to invite you that, like, that's what that paper 665 00:28:10,660 --> 00:28:12,580 in front of you, that's what it represents. 666 00:28:13,940 --> 00:28:16,820 And I'm going to invite you if you want. 667 00:28:16,820 --> 00:28:18,980 You don't have to, but if you would like to. 668 00:28:19,860 --> 00:28:22,100 To bring it up, and there's some glue sticks and there's some 669 00:28:22,100 --> 00:28:25,060 glue bottles up here, and I would invite you to glue it, actually, 670 00:28:25,140 --> 00:28:25,940 to this board. 671 00:28:28,580 --> 00:28:30,260 And thanks, Joe. 672 00:28:30,900 --> 00:28:34,460 And so as you come and place it on the board, just have that in 673 00:28:34,460 --> 00:28:37,180 mind that this is a chance to just give it to the Lord and be like, 674 00:28:37,180 --> 00:28:38,420 man, Jesus, I just. 675 00:28:39,220 --> 00:28:42,500 I need you to breathe some life into this place, into this space. 676 00:28:44,740 --> 00:28:49,080 And the thing about, like, church, right, is we're all kind 677 00:28:49,080 --> 00:28:52,000 of walking these individual journeys, but then we're on this 678 00:28:52,000 --> 00:28:53,920 collective journey together, too. 679 00:28:54,800 --> 00:28:58,640 So that's kind of what this is representing, is that, like, we're 680 00:28:58,640 --> 00:28:59,840 coming and we all need. 681 00:29:00,800 --> 00:29:03,319 We all need the Spirit in different ways, but then we need 682 00:29:03,319 --> 00:29:08,080 them together to keep moving in us as a body and just keep seeing 683 00:29:08,080 --> 00:29:11,120 and saying, where are you sending us? 684 00:29:11,840 --> 00:29:14,560 How are we to be peacemakers? 685 00:29:15,240 --> 00:29:18,240 How are we to be life breathers this week in all of these 686 00:29:18,240 --> 00:29:19,560 different places that we go? 687 00:29:21,320 --> 00:29:25,920 So let me pray for us, and then I invite you if you would like 688 00:29:25,920 --> 00:29:28,360 to come do this and then we'll close with a song in a minute. 689 00:29:30,120 --> 00:29:33,960 Jesus, I thank you that you keep teaching us and there's always 690 00:29:33,960 --> 00:29:37,320 more and more that we can learn about who you are and how your 691 00:29:37,320 --> 00:29:38,080 spirit moves. 692 00:29:38,080 --> 00:29:42,930 And I thank you that you want to walk with us and be near and that 693 00:29:42,930 --> 00:29:45,530 you want to breathe peace and life into our spirits. 694 00:29:45,930 --> 00:29:49,010 Lord, I pray that you would help us to see and let you into those 695 00:29:49,010 --> 00:29:51,850 places when we're ready, as we're ready. 696 00:29:52,490 --> 00:29:54,890 But Lord, I thank you that you invite us to do that. 697 00:29:55,370 --> 00:29:59,890 God, I just pray that over our church that Heaven Earth Lord would 698 00:29:59,890 --> 00:30:04,930 just be full of your spirit, that we would see where you're leading 699 00:30:04,930 --> 00:30:10,180 us and not be well, even if we are afraid to take steps following 700 00:30:10,260 --> 00:30:11,620 you and in alignment with you. 701 00:30:11,620 --> 00:30:14,420 Lord, But I pray that you would help us to move toward life 702 00:30:14,980 --> 00:30:17,540 as a body and as individuals. 703 00:30:17,780 --> 00:30:19,620 God, would you just breathe on 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