now who sends the holy spirit into the heart of each individual Christian while the Lord Jesus Christ is he is still at work from where does the Lord Jesus Christ send the Holy Spirit from from God the Father and into the heart of every person who God has loved for as long as he has been God at some time in their life some while they're children some while they're teenagers and some even in old age the Lord Jesus Christ who is in heaven sends the Holy Spirit into their hearts from God the Father and when
the Holy Spirit comes into the life of a man woman boy or girl five amazing things happen firstly he brings about the new birth a young man once said to me I cannot understand it I've been in a Christian home all my life I've listened to thousands of gospel sermons attended thousands of church services and it never meant anything to me and then one day he says it hit him and he could see for himself a change began to happen in him that's the new birth it's like starting a new life you came into this
world through a natural birth you go into the spiritual world through a spiritual birth jesus said that in John 3:3 very truly I tell you no one can see the kingdom of God unless they are born again you see for a natural birth it has to be physical because you come into the physical world if you go into the spiritual world it has to be a spiritual birth who can bring a spiritual birth can you no only the holy spirits and people are brought into the spiritual world into the spiritual dimension to see spiritual things
and experience spiritual things by a spiritual birth which Jesus calls being born again or being born from above according to John 3:6 that which is born from flesh is flesh and that which is born from spirit is spirits and being born again isn't something a man or woman can do for you your parents can't do it for you your friends can't do it for you only the Holy Spirit can bring a person to be born again and only God the Holy Spirit Himself brings people into the spiritual dimension into the spiritual world you cannot even
see the kingdom of God you cannot even see the spiritual world without the works of the Holy Spirit which we call the new birth that's the first thing the Holy Spirit does when he enters you he gives you the new birth [Music] secondly the holy spirit having come into our lives into our affections into our intelligence into our emotions into everything that we are he actually begins to then live within us jesus said this to his disciples he is with you and he shall be in you and the mark of the true Christian the mark
of a true born-again child of God is that the Holy Spirit dwells in him or her and if any man does not have the Spirit of Christ says the Bible it is because he does not belong to him now many of you before you gave your life to Christ you may have mixed with Christians and you said to yourself there's something about him there's something about her but you could never put your finger on it but you didn't have the words or the language to express exactly what they had and the truth is that the
Holy Spirit is what you saw inside of them and that's what makes a Christian a Christian the work of the Holy Spirit and when he's brought us into the spiritual realm he does not leave us he lives inside of us in dwells in us to the point where even our bodies are cold in the New Testament in 1st Corinthians 6 verse 9 the temples of the Holy Spirit in the Greek language the shrine of the Holy Spirit because as you know the temple was a big building but within a big building there was a holy
place and within the holy place there was a Holy of Holies and that's the word Paul uses to describe your body so each and every one of you who's a born-again Christian you are in dwell with the Holy Spirit God is in you and God is or with you that's why the Bible says greater is he that is enemy than he that is in the world you have a power inside you which the human mind cannot comprehend you are more powerful than you think so each and every one of you who's a born-again Christian you
are in dwell with the Spirit of God that's number two number three the Holy Spirit enables us to understand the Bible let's go back to the spiritual world the Apostle Paul says the natural man the unbeliever does not receive the things of the Spirit of God of course he cannot set the Apostle Paul because they are foolishness to him because the things of God are spiritually discerned the Bible is a spiritual book you can have more degrees than a thermometer and not understand the Bible you can have the IQ of Albert Einstein and not understand
the Bible whereas an ordinary Christian who may not be highly educated according to the world live you can open the Bible and find pleasure to understand it and to see Jesus Christ in it how do you explain that because it's a spiritual book it is a spiritual world and if you're going to understand a spiritual book and this handbook of the spiritual world you have to have spiritual senses and the only person who gives us spiritual senses is the Holy Spirit himself which is why you cannot and must not and should dare not separate the
Bible from prayer number four the Holy Spirit gives children of God spiritual experiences often when a Christian is reading the Bible or thinking about the Bible he's filled with a sense of wonder and all he just stops and sits down or goes for a walk just to admire God that's what Paul means when he says in Philippians 3 verse 3 for we are the circumcision who worships God in spirit and this is what Jesus means when he says God is a spirit and those who worship Him must worship Him in spirit and in truth and
sometimes when people think about the cross they feel their heart is being invaded with running water so much so that it begins to overflow with the love of God [Music] the love of God has been poured out into our hearts writes Paul to the Romans by the Holy Spirit who has given it to us and sometimes we are filled with the joy yes because the kingdom of God is not a food or drink but of righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit and sometimes a Christian can go through tough experiences in life experiences
that would typically break the average person experiences that would make someone want to retreat into their shell but you find a Christian you find a child of God will still have the joy of the Lord in those situations because he's filled with hope from the Holy Spirit and as the Bible tells us in Romans 15 verse 13 and in Galatians 5 verse 5 that hope comes from where from who from him the Holy Spirit number 5 prayer the Holy Spirit helps us to pray prayer has nothing to do with your words with your vocabulary prayer
is not a performance it is a matter of the heart all real prayer is in the Holy Spirit and we're told in Scripture that we all have access through the same Lord Jesus Christ by one spirit to the heavenly father so every time you have ever prayed and your heart has been in it it has been a work of the Holy Spirit now the Holy Spirit helps us in five different ways but today I'm only going to discuss three of those ways let's read Romans 8:26 it says likewise the spirit helps us in our weakness
for we do not know what to pray for as we ought but the Spirit Himself intercedes for us with groanings too deep for words [Music] firstly the Holy Spirit literally is my prayer partner what a wonderful thing to know that you have the comforter praying with you the comforter that Jesus sent is praying with you each and every time you pray to put it in other words it is like having Jesus sitting right next to you and pray just as the disciples had Jesus right next to them when they prayed you have the Holy Spirit
literally holding your hands each and every time you pray secondly he intercedes for you because the Holy Spirit is our prayer partner he doesn't just join us in prayer their spirit prays for us he prays for me and he prays for you before God and I believe this is such a wonderful thing because at points in my life I needed help and I believe a lot of the breakthroughs we have are because of this because of the ministry of the holy spirit and thirdly he interprets what I am feeling the reason why I need help
pray is because I have emotions and sometimes our emotions can get in our way when real calamity is when you're going through real dark times and you're experiencing extreme pain in your heart in your emotions sometimes all that can come out is a groan or a cry or a moan and that's when words can't completely express what you are feeling I believe that some of our biggest breakthroughs in our lives and in our prayer come at these moments because the Holy Spirit interprets what you are feeling and what you're trying to convey and he brings
it across to God if you think back to points in your life when you were praying I am sure at one point or another you felt like you were not alone and that's because you wasn't the Holy Spirit was there with you and praying with you you [Music]
