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AI OVERVIEW: hey welcome to weekly service here at church home we're so glad that you joined us here today and in just a moment we're going to be listening together to an incredible and encouraging message around the person of Jesus and his love for you and his love for me and I'm so excited and hey it's a great passion of ours here that we would actually connect you into real tangible Community wherever you are in the country or across the globe and the best way for that to happen is to actually chat with one of our pastors using our pastor chat tool and you can find that on our website at churchhome.org or on the church home app hey we'd also like to invite you if you're a part of the church home family to join us on the Journey of generosity there are thousands of people across the globe who give financially to allow the message of Jesus to be told across the globe and exercise their faith in the releasing and the trust of giving their tangible resource you know just last month my son had gotten some money from family from a variety of of things and we were sitting down and discussing how he was going to spend his money and the first thing he obviously thought about similar to me when I get paid is what am I going to go buy and we had an incredible conversation around faith and trust in Jesus and you know what he said to me he said Dad um I want to give some of my money to church to church home and so we actually went online together and we gave tangibly and I saw and I've seen an incredible shift in my beautiful seven-year-old son's life since that moment when I see him thinking about money and resource he's thinking not just what can I get for me but what can I give which is such a response that we have in our lives when we've received everything we need from the person of Jesus and so I'd like to invite you if you've yet to exercise your faith in this way please join us in this journey you can do so by giving on the church home website churchhome.org give on the church home app or you can text the word generosity to the number 97 000. now sit back relax and enjoy weekly service when I think about my life and all the different seasons being in our mid-40s as Judas says so often you know this latest season has been a season of a lot of change our children have become teenagers Jude and I have passed our 20-year anniversary and our church has gone through a lot of change we aren't gathering in buildings every week we are gathering digitally with smaller groups all over the world and when I think about the significant change of that what comes to mind is the quality of relationships you know my life I've always been somebody who's had three really good friends I've never been somebody who needs a hundred friends or 20 friends or 30 friends I've always had three really good friendships have been the kind of individuals who walked with me through through the good the bad the ugly and everything in between and when I think about our church community and decentralized Community my prayer is that we would all find significant friendships people who really know us people who we can know and people who we can be known by and as we gather around content together as we gather around Jesus together and have intentional meaningful conversations around scripture I believe those are going to be the catalysts that are going to give us the friendships and relationships that we all so desperately need so we can make it through this life with righteousness peace and joy hey Church home we're so excited to come to you from Singapore once again you know one of the beautiful things about being in this part of the world is that we have church at home hosts from Singapore from different places around southeast Asia and you know it's great for us not to just hear everything from Seattle all the time we're from La all the time but realize we are a church around the world and seeing our brothers and sisters here in Asia has been so wonderful and so beautiful and we love the city nation of Singapore it's been really incredible and I'm excited to talk today as we're continuing in our series of the last conversation of Jesus you know there's something about last words that are so important and these last moments where Jesus sat down with his disciples at the Passover supper and he knew he was about to die and go to heaven and do all these big changes and so these words of Jesus are so important and we see them recorded in the Book of John in the last few chapters really John 13 to 18 and interwoven throughout these chapters Jesus references and he makes this hint of this one topic of this one gift of something that is going to change after he dies and it goes and Jesus calls it a gift he says I'm going to give you a gift I'm going to give you something so important so these next few moments we're going to talk about that gift but I have to make a confession as we get started and you have to promise not to judge me based on my confession but here it is I am a person who completely judges a gift based on its value I'll say that again and you can judge me again I am a person who completely judges a gift based on its value but before you judge me do hard is not necessarily the value you think it's going to be see it's not monetary value I actually drive my husband crazy and it's because of this My love language is quality time and because quality time means a lot to me I judge a gift based on the value of the time that Judah spent thinking about it researching it buying a gift to me that is what makes a gift valuable I think that's a pretty good indication of knowing whether or not a gift is a good gift or not which is how valuable it is and here is what amazes me about the gift that Jesus says he's going to give us after his resurrection and Ascension this gift is so valuable Jesus says in John chapter 14 that this gift is more valuable than if Jesus would have stayed on the planet in his resurrected form can you think about that with me for a second can you imagine if Jesus who resurrected two thousand years ago if he had stayed here that whole time what if Jesus was in Jerusalem built a temple we could all go see him he was there teaching every day and we could see the love in his eyes in fact it wasn't just in his eyes we could see him healing we could see him doing Miracles and he had been doing this consistently for 2 000 years I don't know I think that would have had a pretty significant worldwide impact in the message and person of Jesus but Jesus actually said that the gift he is going to give us is more valuable than if his presence had been here for the last 2000 years Jesus said it is to your advantage that I go away and he wasn't talking about his death he was talking about his post-resurrection body as you know he he was here for weeks and weeks seen by hundreds of people and then he literally his resurrected body ascended into heaven it was that Ascension that Jesus was talking about when he said it is good for me to go away and he said because I go away I'm going to send you a helper I'm going to give you this gift I am going to send this incredible gift to you and what was that gift that gift is the person of the Holy Spirit and we say holy spirit and I don't know when you I say spirit I picture all the ghosts floating around at the Disneyland haunted house I really love Disneyland and all the rides and so it's like oh what is the holy spirit is it kind of part of Jesus that floats around what is the holy spirit I'll tell you really briefly the Holy Spirit is the third person of the Trinity maybe you've heard of the Trinity before it's really that the god that we serve and worship is three in one he's God the father he's God the son and he's God the Holy Spirit you can think of it like an egg you know how an egg has a shell and an egg has the egg white and the egg has the yolk each one of those are eggs but they're not all they're different they're distinguishable they're different and of course time Falls very short to try to understand something that is very mind-blowing that God is three in one but God is three in one he's God the father and we see him and God is Jesus and we see him who lived and walked this planet for 30 years but God is also God the Holy Spirit the person of the Holy Spirit he's not just weird and woozy and he is fully God and he is the spirit of Jesus the spirit of God that has come down to live on the inside of you and live on the inside of of me and that is the gift that Jesus gave us and he said that gift is so much more valuable than my presence being here on Earth that the Holy Spirit could come down and live on the inside of us the spirit of Jesus and one of the things that makes this holy spirit so distinct from Jesus is that when Jesus came down to earth and he took on the form of a human body he forever limited himself to the form of that human body do you know that right now Jesus in heaven is still in a human body and so even though God is everywhere all at the same time Jesus set that aside for eternity so that he could come and be our savior and so if Jesus was here and the Flesh on the planet he could only be in one place at one time but the Holy Spirit who was the same as Jesus the spirit of Jesus can be everywhere all at once and Jesus described this spirit this holy spirit is he said I'm going to send one and he uses a Greek word and the word is perically in all the Greek audience who was listening and Jesus would have said I'm going to send you a paraclete they would have known exactly what that was the paraclete was your uh defense lawyer if you were accused of a crime and you had to go into court to try to prove your innocence you didn't go by yourself you went with a defense lawyer or you went with a paraclete and that word paraclete is so beautiful it means one who is invited to stand beside and so we see that the holy spirit is literally the person of God who was invited to come and stand beside each and every one of us he's here where I am right now he's here with you in your room he's with you in your car as you're driving he is with your group of friends he's with your teenagers as they're out and you're worried about them and you don't know where they're at the holy spirit is so incredible because he is the fullness of God he is just as much God as God the father or Jesus the son yet he has an ability to be everywhere all at once that would overwhelm me I'm not gonna lie if I had to be everywhere all at once dealing with all of our problems and all of our concerns but the other word that Jesus used to describe the Holy Spirit he said is you're going to have a comforter he not only is standing beside us but he's on the inside of us and he knows all of our emotions he knows all of our fears he knows all of our anxieties and Jesus said I'm going to give you a part of myself that's going to come and live on the inside of you and not not only will I advocate for you and defend you but I will come and I will comfort you and I will help you and I will be your counselor God is so good Jesus realized the value of this gift and there's something so significant about knowing that the fullness of God is on the inside of us is with us is always near you know uh we have three teenagers obviously we talk about them all the time because it is a lot of work right now and we have conversations with our kids so often about are you different at school than you are at home and what's different and what are the things that you act different when you're with Mom and Dad and when you're with your friends and what are the things that you act different when you're with us and when they're not with us and some things they just feel different about because Mom and Dad are there and Mom and Dad are watching and of course they know it's in a loving way but presence and awareness of presence it really does affect how we live and act and think and just knowing and being aware that we have this gift the power of the fullness of God on the inside of us can really affect and change the way we act and live on a day-to-day basis but as we talk about the Holy Spirit I have to be honest I've grown up in church my whole life obviously and you hear that from Judah and I all the time and there's been a lot of odd weird things if I can really be honest that have been done in the name of the Holy Spirit and I don't know why I use air quotes that is his name but I don't know girl there's just been a lot of weird things that have been done in the name of the Holy Spirit can we just say that and move on and can you just trust me and so the words that Jesus spoke about the Holy Spirit are so important throughout these last words of Jesus to his disciples as he talks about the Holy Spirit often he actually tells us what the holy spirit is going to enable us to do it's like he gave us a job description I am a person who every job I've had I'm really happy to have a job description I want to know exactly what I'm supposed to be doing so that I can know if I'm doing it right or not yes I'm a rule follower and a rule keeper sorry that's me sorry not sorry a job description helps and so in John we see that Jesus tells us us the job description of the Holy Spirit the first thing that Jesus told us the holy spirit is going to do for us is that he is going to reveal to us who Jesus is Jesus said multiple times throughout John he said the holy spirit is going to come and he's going to show you who I am and he's going to bring into your remembrance everything that he that I've taught you and there'S a beautiful relationship of the spirit of Jesus the Holy Spirit he's not coming to make himself a big deal he's actually coming to make Jesus a big deal and here's what I find so amazing about that I have to be reminded so often about how good Jesus is about how much he loves me about how unconditional his love is because Jesus is so different than any human we ever encounter on this planet we need to consistently and continually be reminded of his goodness and his love in our marriage words I think Judah and I probably say at least like three times a day to each other I love you good morning I love you texting night love you it's so weird when I actually think about it because we stood in front of each other and exchanged vows and said that I love you I love you yes we love each other we declared our love for each other but yet we still need that reminder on a consistent basis how much more so with Jesus who we can't see who's not with us who isn't on this planet any longer we need to be reminded about him often and when we are aware of the Holy Spirit and that his job on the inside of us is to remind us about Jesus and his love and his teachings and who he is it gives us a whole new perspective to begin to expect that the holy spirit is going to do that in our lives the second thing the Holy Spirit does that Jesus mentioned in the Book of John is the holy spirit enables us to keep the commands of Jesus and I know commands can seem so harsh like what what did Jesus command me to do Jesus commanded us simple things to love the Lord Our God with all our heart soul mind and strength and to love our neighbor in the same way that Jesus loved us now the reality is that's impossible loving my neighbor the way I love myself which is what was in the law that's impossible but loving my neighbor loving other people the same way that Jesus loves me unconditionally full of forgiveness and full of grace that is absolutely impossible for us to do on our own and maybe you're watching this sermon this morning and you find yourself tired you're weary you're tired you're exhausted you feel like giving up because you know I'm just I'm failing I'm not doing it I'm not loving people the way I should be loving I'm being selfish if you find yourself in that tired weary state and this sermon is for you this moment is for you because you are not supposed to do it on your own Jesus never expected us to fulfill his Commandments on our own he gave us his spirit and so we have power that has enabled us to fulfill the commands of Jesus which is loving God and loving our neighbors the way that God has loved us we can do that not on our own strength but through the strength of the Holy Spirit and lastly the third thing on the job description of the Holy Spirit Jesus said that the holy spirit will show us things to come I don't know about you but life can be hard making decisions can be challenging we don't know what is around the corner if we didn't know there was a global pandemic happening we don't know what's going to happen tomorrow or the next day but do you know that the spirit of Jesus the fullness of God is living on the inside of us and he wants to show you things that are to come not in a spooky way not so you can gamble all the sports gambling although I think that might be a good way to do it a lot can you give me the lotto numbers you know so far it hasn't worked for me please let me know if that happens for you but he wants to lead us he wants to guide us he wants to direct us God has good plans for our life God Jesus said I've come to give you life and life more abundantly and the Holy Spirit wants to show us how to walk so that we can live in that Abundant Life I'll never forget I was one of the clearest moments I've felt that that touch of the Holy Spirit I was 18 or 19 and I just broken up with my boyfriend in you know 18 19 come on that's real heartbreak and anybody who says it isn't is lying and I was kind of managing it doing okay with it and then okay you have to remember this is the mid 90s it's late 90s so I go to a Barnes Noble and I ran into him there and I saw him and I kept a brave face and I was okay and then I got back into my car and started driving and then I got back into my car and started driving and just lost it I definitely am a crier in my car so I was crying in my car and just like God did I do the right thing should I broken up with him is this the right thing to do and just in that moment I can tell you exactly where I was in Portland Oregon driving my teal Saturn just this peace and presence of the Holy Spirit came over me and just said Chelsea he's not the one for you you can be okay and even though I still had to deal with the loneliness and the Heartbreak I had such a supernatural piece because the spirit of Jesus was inside of me and he didn't tell me details of what was going to come I didn't know that Judah was going to be my husband I just knew enough that I could keep walking to walk in the Abundant Life that Jesus has in store for you and for for me you have the spirit of Jesus the fullness of God living on the inside of you and do you know that he wants to be involved in your everyday life he wants to be involved in your decisions he wants to be involved in your parenting he wants to be involved in who you're dating he wants to be involved in your business decisions he wants to be involved in your finances he wants to live a life with you and here is what I find so amazing about the person of the Holy Spirit and we conclude with this there's a story in Acts where there's a group of followers of God followers of Jesus who were doing their best and they've been baptized in the name of John they were living in Ephesus but Paul came to them and he said have you not heard of the Holy Spirit and it's like no we just we haven't heard of him and so Paul takes a moment to pray for them and he tells them about the Holy Spirit probably very similarly to the way that I'm telling you about the Holy Spirit right now and then he prays for them and it says their response to receiving the Holy Spirit was that they started prophesying which is talking about the future they started speaking in other tongues which could be an unknown language or a language that they didn't know glorifying God because Jesus the Holy Spirit had revealed to them who God is and they started loving each other and it wasn't that the Holy Spirit wasn't with them before but because they weren't aware of him until Paul came and talked to them about the Holy Spirit they didn't know that they had access to this gift that's so valuable that Jesus said it's more valuable than if I was here on the planet with you and so this morning this moment on on this video live from Singapore my goal is to make you aware of the Incredible Gift of the holy spirit that Jesus has given you and I pray that you would start a habit and you would start a habit of your walk your everyday moments that you would just take a minute to say you know it doesn't matter who you pray to if it's Jesus or God or the Holy Spirit they're all the same but just remind yourself to God I know you're with me right here I'm aware of your presence I know you're wanting to show me Jesus I know you're wanting to lead me I know you're wanting to give me power so that I can love people and as you're aware of his presence as you're aware of the person of the Holy Spirit literally living on the inside of you I promise you something Supernatural and significant is going to happen in your life these three things are going to make a difference and as we do our final close I want to mention this right before Jesus ascended into heaven he had already resurrected he was about to go up the last words he said these literally were his last words he says you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes upon you and that word power is the Greek word is dunamis power it's the root word for where we get Dynamite the holy spirit is not just a passive person of God he is full of power he is Supernatural he is full of Might and he wants he's living on the inside of us and wants to help us in these three areas and my prayer for you Church home my prayer for us is that we will be a community that is so aware of the person and presence of the Holy Spirit and that we expect him to do these things in our life that Jesus said he would do that we would see the value of the Holy Spirit and we would live in that way can I pray for you in these moments Jesus I thank you for your spirit thank you that you saw it was so valuable that you ascended into heaven so that we could have this power and presence of your Holy Spirit I pray for all of my friends watching I pray that they would have a daily awareness of the presence of the holy spirit thank you so much Jesus and if you're watching this and maybe you're sitting with a group of friends or somebody sent you a link and this all seems kind of new and foreign to you but something on the inside of you is saying I think this is right not that you know everything or understand everything but just something on the inside is just saying yeah I want to know Jesus more I want to know the ways of Jesus more that's you all you have to do in a moment of faith of saying Jesus I believe in you the most incredible thing happens Jesus wants to come be your friend he wants to be your savior he wants to live on the inside of you and every wrong thing that you've ever done he completely forgives and forgets so if you just say yes just I know you're you're not with me here in Singapore you're somewhere else but if you raise your hand you'll never forget that you actually raise your hands so right where you are just lift up a hand and just say I'm saying yes to Jesus not even that you understand what it means but in this moment you say yes to him he'll be your friend he's already said yes to you you are loved and forgiven and accepted church we love you so much we love our church in Singapore we love our church in Asia and all around the world thank you for these moments we got to spend together I'm so grateful for these Beautiful Moments we've had together if you're here today you're watching and you decided to follow Jesus or maybe you need prayer for something or want to get connected in community please reach out to us right now we have pastors standing by ready to talk to you on our app and on our website on Pastor Chad we would love to pray with you help you serve you however we can also we want to let you know we have a beautiful resource called daily guided prayers on our app and our web and they're just an opportunity to connect with Jesus every day just about five minutes long to take time to pray pray for yourself pray for others and think about God's goodness in your life so I invite you to check that out thank you once again so much for joining us we hope to see you next time foreign
