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

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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

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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

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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

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