You Injured The Holy Spirit - Herbert Cooper
Transcript
00:00 You know, I try to work out about four or five times a week.
00:05 And whenever I go to the gym,
00:09 I usually do a few days of cardio.
00:11 So I try to get on the elliptical a few times a week
00:15 and try to stretch out and work out.
00:18 I usually always stretch before I get on the elliptical.
00:22 Now that I'm in these 40s and almost 50,
00:27 anybody like me, you just wake up
00:29 and don't know how you hurt yourself.
00:30 Do you know what I'm saying?
00:31 You're like, I don't know what I did,
00:34 but there are some times I know,
00:37 and I know I need a stretch before I get on that elliptical.
00:41 And there's been a couple of times
00:43 I've been running tight on time.
00:45 So I did not stretch and I said, you know what?
00:47 I'm just gonna get on there and work out.
00:50 And the times that I've done it,
00:52 both times, one time I hurt my hamstring.
00:55 The other time I hurt my groin.
00:59 Then couldn't even work out for three or four weeks
01:01 'cause I knew better.
01:03 Herbert stretched and I didn't, and I injured myself.
01:08 And I do not like when I injure myself,
01:12 but can I tell you what's even worse
01:14 is when I do something or say something
01:17 to injure my own family.
01:19 I have said some things.
01:23 I've had displayed behavior and impatience
01:27 and being snappy and short
01:29 and have injured the people I love the most.
01:32 I have disappointed my wife.
01:34 I have hurt my kids.
01:36 I've caused pain and distance.
01:38 I've grieved their heart.
01:41 And can I tell you, I do not like it
01:43 because the consequences of injuring them are not fun.
01:48 Whenever I injure my wife, whenever I grieve my children,
01:52 it puts distance in our relationship.
01:54 I find them pulling away from me,
01:56 that they don't wanna be around me,
01:58 that we lose a connection.
02:01 I can make them feel like they're losing in life
02:04 or they're losing in our relationship.
02:07 I absolutely hate when I injure my relationship
02:11 with my wife and my kids.
02:15 And come on, I think all of us have done it.
02:16 We've said some things, have done some things,
02:18 and we've injured the people that we love the most.
02:22 And just like you and I can injure or grieve
02:25 a relationship with the person that we love,
02:27 we can also do the very same thing to the Holy Spirit.
02:32 You may remember this in week one of the series.
02:36 If you missed it, please go on YouTube
02:38 and watch the message.
02:39 We learned that the Holy Spirit is a person.
02:43 He has emotions, he has feelings,
02:45 and you can injure the Holy Spirit.
02:49 I would venture to say this is the second reason
02:52 why the fruit of the Spirit is not growing
02:55 in some of your lives.
02:56 The fruit of the Spirit is staying in the baby stage.
02:59 It's staying in the seed form, the seed stage,
03:02 because you keep injuring the Holy Spirit.
03:07 Ephesians says it like this in Ephesians chapter four
03:10 and verse number 30, it says, "And do not grieve."
03:13 Come on, every location, shout grieve.
03:16 Come on, you can do better than that.
03:17 Shout grieve.
03:19 Do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God
03:23 with whom you were sealed for the day of redemption.
03:27 I like how this verse reads in the Message Bible.
03:31 It says do not, don't grieve God.
03:35 Don't break his heart.
03:38 His Holy Spirit moving, breathing in you is the most,
03:42 I love this, the most intimate part of your life
03:47 is relationship with the Holy Spirit,
03:49 making you fit for himself.
03:52 Don't take such a gift for granted.
03:55 Don't take the gift of the Holy Spirit for granted,
03:59 your relationship with him, your intimacy with him.
04:03 And that word grieve in the Greek language
04:06 can mean to injure or to wound.
04:09 Listen, church, we can injure the Holy Spirit.
04:12 We can cause him deep pain.
04:14 We can disappoint him.
04:16 We can cause sorrow to the Holy Spirit.
04:18 We can bring sadness to the Holy Spirit.
04:22 And there are some of you today,
04:25 you have put distance between you and the Holy Spirit.
04:30 Your intimacy with the Holy Spirit has been affected.
04:35 You find yourself struggling to hear his voice.
04:40 You're struggling to find God's will for your life
04:43 or for a situation.
04:45 You've injured the Holy Spirit.
04:47 You feel like you're in a fog and you can't see clearly.
04:52 You haven't felt God's presence in a long time.
04:56 You feel dry and deserted in your relationship with God.
05:00 You have more confusion and questions
05:04 than clarity and understanding.
05:07 You feel like you're going backwards
05:09 in your walk with God.
05:11 Pastor, why do I feel like this?
05:14 And for some of you,
05:16 it's because you are grieving the Holy Spirit.
05:20 You're injuring your relationship with him.
05:23 And the question is this,
05:25 Pastor, how am I doing this?
05:28 And that's what we're gonna talk about today.
05:30 I want us to study the verses preceding
05:33 and following verse number 30.
05:36 And we're going to learn
05:37 how we're injuring the Holy Spirit.
05:40 Let's look at four ways, four ways.
05:42 We gotta learn this.
05:43 The most intimate part of your life
05:45 should be a relationship with the Holy Spirit.
05:47 And so many people grieve the Holy Spirit.
05:50 They're injuring the Holy Spirit.
05:51 And they don't even know how.
05:54 Four ways you injure the Holy Spirit.
05:58 We're going to study for all of you
05:59 that have a Bible with you.
06:01 Come on, I still like the paper Bible.
06:03 If you have a paper Bible,
06:04 if you don't, get your globe Bible out,
06:05 you know, that phone Bible.
06:06 And get that Bible and turn to Ephesians chapter four.
06:09 I'm gonna just walk,
06:10 I'm gonna unpack Ephesians chapter four,
06:12 verse 17 through 31.
06:14 Ephesians chapter four, verse 17 through 31.
06:16 It shows us how we injure the Holy Spirit.
06:20 Number one is this, an unstable mind.
06:23 Unstable mind.
06:26 Let me give you three clues here in this text
06:29 on having an unstable mind.
06:33 And the first is this, 1A, you have a transient mind.
06:37 You know you have an unstable mind
06:39 and you have a transient mind.
06:41 And notice it right here in Ephesians chapter four
06:43 in verse 17 and verse 18 it says,
06:45 "So I tell you this and insist on it in the Lord,
06:50 "that you must no longer live as the Gentiles do
06:53 "in the futility of their thinking."
06:57 That word futility in the Greek
07:00 has the meaning of transient.
07:02 This is where your thinking is just all over the place.
07:05 It's unstable.
07:07 James describes this kind of thinking,
07:10 this kind of transient thinking in James chapter one
07:13 and verse number eight.
07:14 He says, "Such a person is double-minded and unstable."
07:19 They're double-minded and unstable in all they do.
07:24 The New Living Translation says it like this, James 1:8.
07:27 "Their loyalty is divided between God and the world,
07:31 "and they are unstable in everything they do."
07:35 People who are double-minded are transient.
07:40 In their mind they love God
07:42 and then they turn right around and love the world
07:44 and then they turn right around and love God,
07:46 then they turn right around and love the world,
07:48 then they turn right around and love God,
07:49 then they turn right around and love the world,
07:51 back and forth, back and forth, back and forth.
07:55 Can you imagine if I went to Tiffany
07:58 three or four days a week and I said,
07:59 "Baby, I love you, I love you so much."
08:02 And then three or four days a week I went to her
08:03 and I said, "I hate you."
08:05 I hate you so much.
08:07 I love you, I love you, I hate you.
08:09 I mean, we're gonna hurt,
08:11 I'm gonna hurt that relationship right there.
08:13 I mean, she's injured by that.
08:15 That's called unstable.
08:16 Can you imagine me going to Tiffany and say,
08:17 "Hey, baby, I'm gonna live at home three or four days a week
08:20 "and then three or four days a week
08:21 "I'm gonna go to Wewoka and live.
08:23 "I'm gonna come home three or four days a week
08:25 "and go back to Wewoka three or four days a week.
08:26 "She gonna tell me to stay in Wewoka."
08:27 I mean, you know what I'm talking about?
08:29 That's called unstable, that's called transient.
08:32 And people do this to the Holy Spirit all the time.
08:36 Back and forth, back and forth, back and forth.
08:39 Unstable in all their ways.
08:41 I want you to notice unstable,
08:42 what it looks like some clues to being unstable.
08:44 One B, you have a darkened mind.
08:46 Notice what the text says,
08:47 a darkened mind, Ephesians chapter four, verse 18.
08:49 They are darkened and their understanding
08:53 is what your Bible says.
08:54 One of the things the devil wants to do in your life
08:57 is to darken your mind.
09:00 He wants your thinking to be in a dark place.
09:03 He doesn't want your thinking to be clear.
09:06 He wants you to be clouded.
09:08 He wants you to have this cloud of darkness
09:10 and confusion over your mind.
09:12 That's what he does to lost people.
09:16 He doesn't want them to know God.
09:18 He didn't want them to think clearly
09:19 and he wants you to be in the same place.
09:22 He doesn't want you to have a clear mind.
09:25 That's a strategy of the devil.
09:30 He will do it, he does it to lost people all the time
09:33 and he would love for you to allow him
09:35 to do it to your mind.
09:37 Second Corinthians chapter four, verse four says,
09:39 the God of this age, talking about the devil,
09:42 he has blinded the minds of unbelievers
09:45 so they cannot see, they cannot see the light
09:48 of the gospel that displays the glory of Christ
09:51 who is the image of God.
09:53 The devil blinds the mind of unbelievers in church.
09:57 Don't let the devil darken and blind your mind
10:01 'cause a darkened mind leads to a carnal mind.
10:05 It's a clue of an unstable mind, a carnal mind.
10:08 Ephesians chapter four and verse number 18 says,
10:12 they are darkened in their understanding
10:16 and separated from the life of God
10:18 because of their ignorance.
10:23 A carnal mind separates itself from the life of God.
10:28 People who have a carnal mind,
10:29 they only live to please themselves.
10:32 Their life is all about pleasing their fleshly desires
10:35 instead of pleasing their heavenly father.
10:38 Philippians talks about this.
10:40 The apostle Paul talks about people
10:42 who have this carnal mind.
10:44 In Philippians chapter three and verse 18 and 19,
10:47 he says, for as I have often told you before
10:50 and now tell you again, even with tears,
10:53 I'm crying over this,
10:55 many live as enemies of the cross of Christ.
11:00 How do they do that, pastor?
11:03 Their destiny is destruction.
11:05 Their God is their stomach.
11:07 Their glory is their shame.
11:09 Their mind is on earthly things.
11:14 A carnal mind is set on earthly things.
11:18 A carnal mind only thinks about the pleasures of this earth.
11:22 People who live for the here and now
11:25 put the wrong things in their mind.
11:28 They watch and listen to the wrong things.
11:31 They meditate on the wrong things.
11:33 Today, some of you have a transient mind.
11:36 You have a dark mind, you have a carnal mind,
11:39 and you're injuring your relationship with the Holy Spirit.
11:43 Did you realize that your mind, your thinking,
11:46 can grieve, can wound, can injure the Holy Spirit?
11:51 Let me show you number two, a second way
11:54 you can injure the Holy Spirit, right here from your Bible,
11:58 and that is a hard heart, a hard heart.
12:02 Let's look at this.
12:04 When you have a hard heart instead of a soft heart,
12:07 two way, a hard heart instead of a soft heart.
12:10 I want you to notice this back in Ephesians chapter four
12:12 and verse number 18, it says,
12:14 they are darkened in their understanding,
12:17 separated from the life of God
12:18 because of the ignorance that is in them.
12:20 Now notice this, due to what?
12:21 Due to the hardening of their hearts.
12:26 And one of the key reasons people have an unstable mind
12:30 is because they've developed a hard heart.
12:33 And some of you today,
12:35 you used to have a tender heart towards God.
12:37 But your heart has grown cold,
12:41 your heart has grown hard.
12:45 You used to hate sin.
12:46 When you used to sin, you used to be convicted by it.
12:51 You used to be bothered by watching or listening
12:54 or doing wrong things.
12:57 But now your heart has grown hard.
12:59 Sin and evil, it doesn't even bother you anymore.
13:03 And what happens is a hard heart leads to a sensual heart
13:08 instead of a sensitive heart.
13:10 A hard heart leads to a sensual heart
13:14 instead of a sensitive heart.
13:15 Notice it right there in your Bible,
13:16 Ephesians chapter four and verse 19, he says,
13:18 having lost all sensitivity,
13:22 they have given themselves over to sensuality
13:24 so to indulge in every kind of impurity.
13:29 And whenever you allow your heart to grow harder
13:33 and harder and harder,
13:34 you start responding to sin and evil like an unbeliever.
13:39 You lose your sensitivity.
13:41 You stop sensing the Holy Spirit's conviction.
13:44 Some of you are there today.
13:46 You don't sense his conviction.
13:48 You're living for just what pleases your flesh.
13:51 You're indulging in all type of impurity and evil.
13:54 You're making bad decision after bad decision
13:57 after bad decision and church, church, church.
14:00 The scary thing is for some of you,
14:03 it doesn't even bother you.
14:04 Like you're not even bothered by it.
14:08 Because you don't have a sensitive heart anymore.
14:12 You have a sensual heart.
14:14 And a sensual heart leads to a greedy heart
14:18 instead of a generous heart.
14:20 Notice it right there in Ephesians chapter four,
14:22 verse 19, he says, having lost all sensitivity,
14:24 they have given themselves over to sensuality
14:26 as to indulge in every kind of impurity.
14:29 And they are full of greed.
14:32 A hard sensual heart always leads to a greedy heart.
14:37 And greed is always self-focused instead of God-focused.
14:42 It's focused on what makes me happy.
14:46 And when a person is greedy,
14:47 they don't care about what they do
14:50 if it hurts their family,
14:52 whatever they wanna do, whatever they wanna say.
14:54 They don't care if it hurts their friends
14:56 or their church or even their God.
14:59 People who have a greedy heart,
15:01 they don't care how their decisions impact their kids,
15:04 how their decisions impact their spouse,
15:05 their job, their future.
15:08 They just do whatever makes them happy.
15:10 It's a greedy heart.
15:12 They leverage all of their talent,
15:14 treasure and time on making themselves happy.
15:18 A hard, sensual, greedy heart
15:22 injures the Holy Spirit.
15:25 Think about this church.
15:27 Is there distance between you and God?
15:29 Are you having a hard time hearing the voice of God?
15:33 Are you having a hard time sensing the presence of God?
15:36 Might it be you have a hard heart?
15:42 There's a third way we injure the Holy Spirit
15:44 from this portion of Scripture,
15:45 and that is unwholesome speech, unwholesome speech.
15:48 And Paul shows us how we can put distance
15:51 between us and the Holy Spirit with our tongue.
15:54 So with our mind, with our heart, and with our tongue,
15:59 we can injure the Holy Spirit.
16:02 Let me show this to you, 3A,
16:03 with deceptive and dishonest speech,
16:07 deceptive and dishonest speech.
16:09 Notice in Ephesians chapter four, verse 25.
16:11 "Therefore, each of you must put off falsehood
16:14 "and speak truthfully to your neighbor,
16:17 "for we are all members of one body."
16:22 And if you wanna be far from God,
16:25 if you want to be distant from the Holy Spirit,
16:28 if you don't wanna feel the Holy Spirit's presence,
16:30 if you don't want to hear the Holy Spirit's voice,
16:33 here's how you do it.
16:34 Live a life with deception and dishonest speech.
16:39 Just deceive people, just lie to people.
16:44 Just go around stretching the truth.
16:46 Just be a liar, and you'll put distance
16:50 between you and the Holy Spirit.
16:53 Or, or, or, church, 3B, be derogatory,
16:57 degrading and damaging with your speech.
17:01 Just be derogatory, always degrading
17:03 and damaging other people with your speech,
17:04 and you'll put distance between yourself
17:06 and the Holy Spirit.
17:07 Ephesians goes on to say it like this,
17:08 in chapter four, in verse 29, he says,
17:11 "Do not let any unwholesome talk come out of your mouths,
17:16 "but only what is helpful for building others up
17:18 "according to their needs,
17:20 "that it may benefit those who listen."
17:24 Let me tell you how to enter the Holy Spirit.
17:26 Just tear people down.
17:28 Show up tomorrow at work, show up tomorrow at school,
17:31 and just degrade people.
17:33 Just fire those verbal missiles and damage your kids.
17:37 Just fire those verbal missiles and damage your spouse.
17:40 Just fire those verbal missiles
17:42 and damage your girlfriend or boyfriend.
17:44 Just fire those verbal missiles
17:46 and damage your friends or coworkers.
17:48 Just say whatever comes to your mind,
17:50 just bow it off and give 'em a piece of your mind.
17:55 And what you say to other people
17:57 can negatively impact your relationship
18:01 with the Holy Spirit.
18:03 Some of you today, you're not close to the Holy Spirit.
18:06 You don't hear his voice, you don't sense his presence
18:08 because of how you talk to other people.
18:10 Church, church, you can't be wrong with people
18:13 and right with God.
18:15 Your heart, your mind, your tongue,
18:21 he shows us a fourth way.
18:23 He gives us a fourth way we injure our relationship
18:27 with the Holy Spirit.
18:28 Just look at your neighbor and say,
18:28 "Are you learning something today?"
18:29 Go ahead and ask him, y'all, you're learning, come on.
18:31 We gotta learn how we don't injure the Holy Spirit.
18:34 He's a person, we can grieve him, we can injure him,
18:39 we can wound him.
18:40 The fourth way is ungodly actions.
18:43 Ungodly actions will injure your relationship
18:47 with the Holy Spirit.
18:48 Let me give you a 4A.
18:51 Actions because of your out of control anger.
18:54 That's what Paul says in Ephesians chapter four
18:56 in verse number 26.
18:58 He says, "In your anger, do not sin."
19:03 Being angry is not always a sin.
19:06 It's not necessarily a sin to be angry.
19:08 You can be angry and not sin.
19:10 But how you respond when you're angry, that can be a sin.
19:14 And Paul is teaching us that when we sin because of our
19:18 anger, we hinder our relationship with the Holy Spirit.
19:23 In our culture, we minimize anger.
19:26 We don't think anger's a big deal, how we respond to anger,
19:29 but this is a big deal to God because of 4B.
19:33 Actions that give the devil a foothold.
19:36 This is gonna be revelation for some of you.
19:39 I think it's really game changing to understand this.
19:41 Ephesians four, verse 27.
19:43 It goes on to say, "And do not give the devil a foothold."
19:49 Church, because of the way you're responding to people
19:53 when you're angry, some of you, you're flying off the handle.
19:57 You're hurting people when you're angry.
20:00 Some of you are violent.
20:03 You're explosive.
20:05 Truth be told, everyone is scared of you.
20:08 You smile in public, come to church today, praise the Lord,
20:11 glory to God, hallelujah!
20:13 But behind closed doors, you're a monster.
20:17 You're a nightmare to live with.
20:18 They wish you would say praise the Lord.
20:20 Sir, ma'am, because of your anger,
20:26 you're giving the devil a foothold.
20:27 You're opening up the door to demonic activity in your life.
20:33 Did you hear what Paul says to Christians?
20:37 Paul says you're giving the devil a foothold in your life
20:42 because of how you're responding when you're angry.
20:46 You're allowing the devil access into your life.
20:49 I'm not talking about demon possession,
20:51 but I am talking about demonic influence.
20:54 It's sobering to think about,
20:57 that the way you're responding to anger,
21:00 you're grieving the Holy Spirit,
21:02 you're giving the devil access into your life.
21:05 Paul says you're giving the devil a foothold into your life
21:09 because of anger.
21:11 And then there's 4C,
21:12 actions that involve stealing and laziness.
21:17 Did you realize that stealing and laziness
21:19 grieves the Holy Spirit?
21:21 He says in Ephesians chapter four in verse 28,
21:23 "Anyone who has been stealing must steal no longer."
21:28 They're into church people, y'all.
21:30 "But must work doing something useful with their hands
21:36 that they may have something to share with those in need."
21:42 Stealing and being lazy grieves the Holy Spirit.
21:45 And in today's culture,
21:46 stealing comes in many shapes and sizes.
21:50 It's just not stealing money or stealing a credit card
21:53 or stealing somebody's car or stealing somebody's device.
21:57 No, no, in today's culture,
21:58 you can steal by being on your phone for hours at work.
22:02 Ooh, boy.
22:05 People getting tired in here right now.
22:07 Ooh, I saw somebody break out in the sweat.
22:08 Glory to God.
22:11 You're supposed to be accomplishing your job,
22:13 but instead you're goofing off on your phone.
22:15 That's stealing from your company.
22:18 Come on, smile at your neighbor and say,
22:19 "Are you a thief?"
22:20 Go ahead and ask her, yeah, yeah, yeah.
22:21 Uh-huh, are you a thief?
22:23 As Christ followers, we don't steal!
22:29 We work hard!
22:31 We work for what we want!
22:33 We are not entitled!
22:34 We work, we work!
22:36 Whenever a Christ follower steals or is lazy,
22:40 they injure the Holy Spirit.
22:43 People's church, what do you do
22:47 if you've been injuring the Holy Spirit?
22:49 What do you do if you are grieving your relationship
22:52 with the old Holy Spirit?
22:54 What do you do because of your unstable mind,
22:57 your hard heart, your unwholesome speech,
22:59 your ungodly actions that you have damaged
23:02 and injured the Holy Spirit?
23:05 How do you repair it?
23:06 I'm gonna tell you next week.
23:09 I'm just playing, I'm gonna tell you today.
23:11 I'm gonna tell you today, I'm gonna tell you today.
23:14 Next week, we're gonna talk about
23:15 how to be led by the Holy Spirit,
23:17 how to hear His voice and be led by Him.
23:21 But let me today give you two ways
23:24 that this text teaches us to repair
23:27 an injured relationship with the Holy Spirit.
23:30 Number one is this, put off your old self.
23:34 Put off your old self.
23:35 Notice it in Ephesians chapter four, verse 22.
23:38 He says, "You were taught with regard
23:40 "to your former way of life to put off,"
23:44 come on, everybody shout, "Put off."
23:46 This is key, to put off your old self,
23:48 which is being corrupted by its deceitful desires.
23:52 Paul says the way you repair your relationship
23:56 with the Holy Spirit is to put off your old self.
23:59 In other words, to put off your old thinking,
24:01 put off your old heart, put off your old speech,
24:04 put off your old behavior.
24:06 He says the same thing in Ephesians chapter four
24:08 and verse number 25, he says,
24:10 "Therefore, each one of you must put off falsehood,
24:14 "put off falsehood and speak truthfully to your neighbor,
24:17 "for we are all members of one body."
24:19 So he teaches us, put off unstable thinking,
24:22 put off the hard heart, put off the unwholesome speech,
24:25 put off the ungodly actions.
24:28 In Ephesians chapter four, verse 31,
24:29 right when he says, after he says,
24:30 "Do not grieve the Holy Spirit,"
24:32 he goes on to say in verse 31, "Get rid,"
24:35 put it off, "Get rid of all bitterness."
24:38 Put off the bitterness and rage and anger, brawling.
24:42 And it's like, put it off, get rid of it,
24:44 and slander along with every form of malice.
24:48 He says, "Put it off," or a way we would say it
24:50 in the church world is to repent.
24:53 If you're going, repent means if you're going this way,
24:56 stop and start going the other way, repent.
24:59 I love how the message Bible says,
25:01 in verse number 31, it says it like this,
25:04 "Make a clean break with all cutting,
25:09 "back-boding, profane talk."
25:12 Repentance is necessary for repairing.
25:15 So let me say it again.
25:17 Repentance is necessary for repairing.
25:20 Let me rewind it again.
25:22 Repentance is necessary for repairing.
25:26 Repentance is necessary for repairing.
25:29 Repentance is necessary for repairing.
25:32 Some of you are not repairing your relationship
25:35 with the Holy Spirit because you think feeling bad
25:39 and saying you're sorry is good enough.
25:42 Can you imagine I'm hurting Tiffany, I'm doing something,
25:45 I'm saying something to her that's hurting her,
25:48 I'm injuring her, I'm damaging her,
25:50 she's pain, her heart is hurting.
25:52 I said, "Baby, I'm sorry.
25:54 "I'm sorry, would you forgive me?"
25:55 And then the next day I do it again.
25:57 I said, "Baby, I'm sorry, forgive me."
26:00 Next day I do it again, "Baby, I'm sorry."
26:03 I do it again, "Baby, I'm sorry, you know my heart.
26:06 "I'm sorry," and I do it again, "Baby, I'm sorry."
26:10 How many know no matter how sorry I say I am,
26:15 she is still hurting.
26:17 She is, it is damaging our relationship
26:20 because being sorry is not the way
26:23 you repair a relationship.
26:25 Yeah, be sorry, but if you wanna repair your relationship
26:29 with the Holy Spirit, repentance is necessary for repairing.
26:34 Put it off, put it off, get rid of, put it off, get rid of.
26:39 Paul says, number two is this,
26:42 how do you repair an injured relationship
26:44 with the Holy Spirit?
26:45 Not only put it off, but be made new, be made new.
26:49 The Holy Spirit's job is to make you new.
26:53 So church, catch this.
26:54 When you repent, you turn from whatever you've been doing.
26:57 You turn from that bad thinking,
26:59 the way you've been talking, the hard heart, you turn,
27:01 and then you ask the Holy Spirit to make you new.
27:04 The Holy Spirit's job is to make you new.
27:10 So the key, I wanna help you,
27:11 the key to repairing your relationship with the Holy Spirit
27:14 is to repent and then to ask the Holy Spirit
27:18 to make you new, and then here's what you do.
27:20 You repent, you ask the Holy Spirit to make you new,
27:23 and then you take steps to becoming new.
27:26 Start taking steps to becoming new.
27:28 Becoming new includes the Holy Spirit's part,
27:32 but it includes your part.
27:33 I gotta teach you this, becoming new,
27:35 it has the Holy Spirit, has his part,
27:38 and then you have your part.
27:40 Ephesians chapter four, verse 23 and 24, catch this.
27:44 He says, "To be made new in the attitude of your minds."
27:49 Be made new.
27:51 Then notice what he says in verse 24.
27:53 So interesting.
27:54 And then he says, "And to put on the," put on.
27:58 So be made new, Holy Spirit.
27:59 Be made new, Holy Spirit.
28:01 Put on the new self.
28:03 That's your job.
28:05 Create it to be like God in true righteousness
28:09 and holiness.
28:09 Be made new by asking the Holy Spirit
28:13 to give you a new heart, a new mind,
28:14 a new mouth, and new actions.
28:16 But then you have to put on the new self.
28:20 What's that look like, Pastor?
28:21 Maybe that's, you start changing what you're watching
28:23 on television and the music you're listening to.
28:26 Put on the new self.
28:28 Maybe that's changing the friends you're hanging out with.
28:31 Maybe that's ending the toxic relationship.
28:33 Maybe that's changing what you're doing
28:36 on Friday and Saturday nights.
28:38 Maybe that's changing your speech and you stop lying
28:40 and gossiping and tearing other people down.
28:43 Maybe that's changing your phone and computer habits.
28:47 Maybe that's changing your phone number.
28:51 Maybe that's getting in a small group
28:54 and getting some accountability in your life.
28:56 Small group launch, they launch on September the 10th.
28:59 There's a small group training after the last service
29:01 for any of our leaders that wanna go help people get free
29:03 and become new.
29:05 Maybe that's reading your Bible and praying every day.
29:07 Maybe that's committing to the four-week challenge.
29:09 Say, I'm gonna come to church every single Sunday.
29:13 Put on the new self.
29:14 So what do I do?
29:15 Ask the Holy Spirit to make you new.
29:19 And then you put on the new self.
29:22 The Holy Spirit has a part and you have a part.
29:26 Don't miss this.
29:27 You gotta work with the Holy Spirit.
29:29 You gotta yield to the Holy Spirit.
29:30 The Holy Spirit has a part.
29:33 He's the one that makes you new.
29:35 But then you gotta put on the new.
29:38 Pastor, I've been damaging my relationship
29:41 with the Holy Spirit.
29:43 How do I repair it?
29:44 Repent, put off the old self.
29:48 Number two, be made new by asking the Holy Spirit
29:53 to give you a new mind, a new heart,
29:56 a new mouth, a new actions.
30:00 Number three, be made new by putting on the new self.
30:05 Today is time for you to come close
30:10 to the Holy Spirit again.
30:12 It's time for you to sense his presence
30:14 and to hear his voice.
30:15 It's time to repair your relationship today.
30:18 Heavenly Father, we love you, we praise you,
30:20 we thank you for what's happening across all the locations.
30:23 We thank you that the Holy Spirit
30:25 is drawing people right now.
30:27 Oh, we realize the Holy Spirit's a person
30:30 that we can grieve, we can injure, we can wound.
30:33 And Heavenly Father, I thank you right now
30:37 that you're making some people new by the Holy Spirit.
30:39 I thank you right now.
30:40 There are people that are making the decision
30:42 to put on the new self.
30:43 I thank you right now.
30:45 Repentance is taking place.
30:48 In Jesus' name I pray.
30:50 His eyes are closed and heads are still bowed
30:52 across every location.
30:54 I just thank you for not moving around
30:56 during this holy moment.
30:58 And if you're here today and you say,
31:01 Pastor, wow, my heart is hard.
31:06 I'm not following Jesus.
31:08 I don't get convicted by my sin and my partying
31:13 and my lying and my greed and my cheating.
31:16 I just kind of live to please me.
31:21 I live to make me happy.
31:23 Pastor, I don't know the Holy Spirit
31:26 like you're talking about.
31:28 I don't know his conviction, I don't know his voice.
31:31 Today you can be made right with God.
31:32 Your sins can be forgiven.
31:34 You can know Jesus.
31:35 The Holy Spirit will come and live inside of you today
31:38 and begin to lead and guide your life.
31:40 And we're gonna talk more about that next Sunday.
31:42 And there are others of you,
31:44 and I think it's a tragic place to be.
31:46 When I was doing my devotions today
31:48 in 2 Peter chapter two this morning,
31:52 it just, it dawned on me, it just talked about
31:54 why it's a tragic place, it's a horrible place to be
31:58 to have once known the power of the Holy Spirit
32:02 and his work in your life and to turn away from it.
32:05 And some of you have, you've turned back
32:07 to the things of this world, your old life,
32:09 your former life, your former habits.
32:12 But it's not too late to come back home
32:15 and to get close to the Holy Spirit again.
32:17 Don't live distant, don't live far away.
32:20 If that's you, as I count to three,
32:21 you want your sins to be forgiven,
32:22 you wanna be made right with God.
32:24 You've been grieving the Holy Spirit,
32:25 but with your mouth, with your actions, with your mind,
32:27 you need to rededicate your life back to the Lord.
32:29 If that's you, as I count to three,
32:30 would you shoot your hand up high in the air?
32:32 Today's the day to be made right with God.
32:35 One, two, three, just lift it high and say,
32:37 Pastor, that's me today, thank you so much.
32:39 I see your hand, others today, I see your hand.
32:41 Others today, just lift it up, I see your hand,
32:42 I see your hand, others, come on, Midwest City, Northwest.
32:44 Come on, Edmond, would you lift your hand high?
32:46 Mabel Bassett, just lift your hand high, just lift it high.
32:49 Come on online, click the raise your hand button
32:51 or write the word yes in the chat line.
32:52 You're saying yes to Jesus today.
32:54 I'm gonna ask every hand that's lifted
32:56 to pray this prayer with me at every single location.
32:59 Would you pray with me?
33:00 Confess it with your mouth, believe it in your heart.
33:02 God's gonna wash away your sins today.
33:04 Pray with me now, Heavenly Father.
33:06 I turn from my sin, I repent.
33:10 And I turn my life over to Jesus,
33:14 the Son of God who died on the cross and rose again.
33:18 And Heavenly Father, today, thank you for forgiving me
33:21 of all of my sins.
33:23 Thank you for making me new.
33:26 And from this day forward, with the help of the Holy Spirit,
33:30 I will live my life to please and to honor you.
33:34 And it's in Jesus' name I pray, amen.