Video Transcript: The Spirit of God
Francis - Just like we can say the word Jesus and make that a common expression. We definitely do that with the Holy Spirit in the church. And
David - if we even talk about the Holy Spirit
Francis - exactly, and amongst believers, and I don't know, I don't even know where to start in talking about how important it is for us to understand. I mean, if you just read this book, you know, cover to cover and, you know, especially if you just read the New Testament, man, you would be begging God for the Spirit, you'd see how everything's impossible, how everything's just gonna be normal juswt flat blah unless the Holy Spirit comes in and inhabits us and changes everything about us. Yeah, we definitely need to camp out on this.
David - And there's so much I really dude not just to give a shameless plug but your book I think is really beneficial, Forgotten God on on, okay, we have misunderstood the Holy Spirit, or altogether, in many ways ignored forgotten, the role of the Holy Spirit in the Christian Life. And this is a tragic mistake. Like we cannot do this. This Spirit is the one who empowers leads it guides enables us to obey Christ us to make disciples us to experience intimacy that were designed for in God the light were designed for, in God and so, so to really talk about, okay, who is the Holy Spirit to dive into questions, and that's why I mentioned your book, because I think your book can be helpful. And I know we got links to it on the website, but it's a helpful resource just to say, okay, many people have no, I have so many misguided understandings about the Holy Spirit. So who is the Holy Spirit? How does the Holy Spirit affect my life on a day by day basis to maybe spend some time practically pointing people to, here's the effect of the Spirit in your life on a day to day basis, here's why we need the Spirit of God
Francis - because you're gonna be miserable, trying to obey this book, if your focus is not on the Holy Spirit. You're just constantly ridden with guilt, constantly defeated, because you're not gonna pull this off. And now you're gonna try to make disciples apart from the Spirit of God that is gonna lead to a frustrating, miserable life. And yet, those times when you experience the Holy Spirit, in putting to death, the deeds of the flesh and going out and impacting other people's lives, like it's a complete switch from our miserable, frustrated, this is impossible to created for I'm experiencing God, Oh, what an amazing day I experienced the presence, you know, it's just
David - to spend time again, start where the person you're discipling is and ask him, How do you understand the Holy to who you understand the Holy Spirit to be when I say Holy Spirit? What do you think of? And then start there and begin
to lead and guide and think through why the Holy Spirit is necessary, what it means to walk in step with the Spirit and really begin to flesh that out practically all toward the end, and they realize the spirit is in Me, so that I might be a witness to the ends of the earth so that I might make disciples and we're not doing that. And we are missing, at least part of the major point of the Holy Spirit being in us.
Francis - I would even say maybe even as you end just a time of prayer, and really, what do you believe the Holy Spirit is leading you to do? You know, in keeping in step with him to make this a time of prayer and really seeking after God and saying, Lord, lead me by Your Spirit. What? Where do you want me to go next? What do you want me to do?