WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.080 --> 00:00:02.359 What are you waiting on in your life? Let me 2 00:00:02.439 --> 00:00:05.519 ask you another question. Are you talking to the Holy 3 00:00:05.559 --> 00:00:08.880 Spirit while you're waiting or are you just out there waiting? 4 00:00:10.960 --> 00:00:13.720 I highly recommend you talk to the Holy Spirit while 5 00:00:13.720 --> 00:00:18.039 you're waiting, and he'll help you understand where to go, 6 00:00:18.559 --> 00:00:22.320 what to know, what to say, how long to wait. 7 00:00:23.359 --> 00:00:26.839 You know, if you had been invited to go to 8 00:00:26.920 --> 00:00:29.199 a brand new city. Let's say you won some game 9 00:00:29.280 --> 00:00:33.000 show and you go to some exotic city somewhere that 10 00:00:33.039 --> 00:00:36.759 you've never been to. You've pretty much got four options 11 00:00:37.640 --> 00:00:39.200 on how you're going to know what that city is. 12 00:00:41.000 --> 00:00:46.039 You could just walk around with no direction, no input, 13 00:00:46.280 --> 00:00:47.840 and you say, let's just walk around and see what 14 00:00:47.880 --> 00:00:50.479 the city is all about. And if you just get 15 00:00:50.520 --> 00:00:52.159 off the bus or get off the plane and you 16 00:00:52.200 --> 00:00:56.399 walk around that city, you'll see some interesting things, but 17 00:00:56.479 --> 00:00:59.759 you're going to miss most of the city because you 18 00:00:59.799 --> 00:01:02.799 don't know really what's there. And if you just walk 19 00:01:02.880 --> 00:01:05.719 around and kind of, you know, drift through the city, 20 00:01:06.239 --> 00:01:09.680 you don't get the best of what it's all about. Now, 21 00:01:09.680 --> 00:01:13.120 your second option is to get a map, and you 22 00:01:13.120 --> 00:01:16.640 can get a map of Paris, or a map of London, 23 00:01:16.719 --> 00:01:19.280 or a map of Tokyo, and you open it up, 24 00:01:19.319 --> 00:01:23.239 and now you got a little bit more direction, and 25 00:01:23.319 --> 00:01:25.480 you can use that map to walk around. Now that'll 26 00:01:25.560 --> 00:01:29.319 let's go there, let's go see that. And that's actually 27 00:01:29.319 --> 00:01:33.680 better than just drifting through the city. But it's not 28 00:01:33.799 --> 00:01:37.719 the best You could then number three, get a guidebook. 29 00:01:38.400 --> 00:01:41.000 And then a guidebook it tells you, here's the cool 30 00:01:41.040 --> 00:01:43.719 stuff to see in the city, here's the best places 31 00:01:43.760 --> 00:01:47.560 to eat, here's the attractions you don't want to miss, 32 00:01:48.359 --> 00:01:50.799 here's the stuff that's most fun, here's the stuff that's 33 00:01:50.879 --> 00:01:51.519 most fulfilling. 34 00:01:51.560 --> 00:01:52.079 Here's where you. 35 00:01:52.079 --> 00:01:55.599 Get the best bargains. And having a guidebook now really 36 00:01:55.719 --> 00:01:59.079 opens up the city far better than a map, far 37 00:01:59.159 --> 00:02:03.480 better than just walking around. But the best of all 38 00:02:03.959 --> 00:02:08.000 is to hire a personal guide, somebody who's been there 39 00:02:08.120 --> 00:02:10.159 or lived there all their lives. They know all the 40 00:02:10.199 --> 00:02:14.360 best spots. They know how to avoid the tourist traps. 41 00:02:15.199 --> 00:02:17.520 They know how to get to the real Paris, the 42 00:02:17.560 --> 00:02:20.439 real London, the real Tokyo. They know how to point 43 00:02:20.439 --> 00:02:24.120 out stuff that nobody else knows about. They'll often know 44 00:02:24.159 --> 00:02:28.080 the history, they'll know the background, they know the full experience. 45 00:02:28.439 --> 00:02:32.879 They know the best place to take the picture. Having 46 00:02:32.919 --> 00:02:37.080 a personal guide is the best of all. Last year 47 00:02:37.159 --> 00:02:41.360 Can I went and rented a car to simply drive 48 00:02:41.400 --> 00:02:44.840 around Ireland. Now we could have just done that on 49 00:02:44.879 --> 00:02:47.360 our own, but at one point we got a guide 50 00:02:48.039 --> 00:02:49.919 to help us see some stuff that we would have missed, 51 00:02:49.960 --> 00:02:52.599 and we saw all kinds of really cool things, learned 52 00:02:52.639 --> 00:02:55.800 all kinds of really cool insights, and had a lot 53 00:02:55.800 --> 00:02:59.080 of fun experiences that we would have totally missed. We 54 00:02:59.120 --> 00:03:02.159 would have picked the wrong restaurants, we would have seen 55 00:03:02.199 --> 00:03:04.639 the wrong things, we would have missed the stuff that 56 00:03:04.680 --> 00:03:07.840 the locals know about that the tourists don't know about, 57 00:03:08.000 --> 00:03:12.000 because we simply got advice. We got a personal guide. 58 00:03:13.240 --> 00:03:16.680 Now the same is true for your life. You can 59 00:03:16.759 --> 00:03:20.000 just drift through life. You can get a map, you 60 00:03:20.039 --> 00:03:22.120 can get a guidebook, or you can get a personal 61 00:03:22.159 --> 00:03:25.680 guide through your life. And depending on which of those 62 00:03:25.719 --> 00:03:34.080 things you choose will determine how effective, how meaningful, how significant, 63 00:03:34.560 --> 00:03:38.560 and how fulfilling your life is. You can just drift 64 00:03:38.560 --> 00:03:41.560 through life, and most people do. They don't have a map, 65 00:03:42.000 --> 00:03:44.439 they don't have a guidebook, and they certainly don't have 66 00:03:44.479 --> 00:03:49.199 a guide. I highly recommend you avoid that kind of 67 00:03:49.639 --> 00:03:54.479 lifestyle that's just existing and you go through life not 68 00:03:54.680 --> 00:03:57.960 knowing what really to see, what really to do, what's important, 69 00:03:57.960 --> 00:04:01.639 what's not important. Now, the world will give you plenty 70 00:04:01.639 --> 00:04:04.000 of maps. You can go up to Hollywood and you 71 00:04:04.000 --> 00:04:06.319 can get a map to the homes of the celebrities 72 00:04:07.240 --> 00:04:09.479 and you get you know, go look them up yourself. 73 00:04:11.000 --> 00:04:15.360 But God has given us both a guide book that's 74 00:04:15.400 --> 00:04:19.399 this the Bible, and He has given us a guide 75 00:04:19.759 --> 00:04:24.600 and that guide is called the Holy Spirit. Now, in 76 00:04:24.639 --> 00:04:28.680 this series, which we started a week ago, we called 77 00:04:28.720 --> 00:04:30.959 it Choosing your Future, and I said we're going to 78 00:04:31.000 --> 00:04:34.560 look at five different choices in life. And the first week, 79 00:04:34.720 --> 00:04:35.959 if you missed it, you want to go back and 80 00:04:35.959 --> 00:04:40.079 hear that message on choosing the right values for your life, 81 00:04:40.120 --> 00:04:42.279 because if you don't choose the right values, you got 82 00:04:42.279 --> 00:04:43.079 the wrong foundation. 83 00:04:43.240 --> 00:04:45.720 You're going to waste your life, totally waste your life. 84 00:04:45.800 --> 00:04:48.879 And the world's value system is the exact opposite of 85 00:04:48.920 --> 00:04:50.839 what God says you ought to value in life. And 86 00:04:50.879 --> 00:04:54.720 so if you listen to the world, you're going to 87 00:04:54.759 --> 00:04:56.879 miss out on what your life is really all about. 88 00:04:58.240 --> 00:05:01.879 Choosing the right values. Weekend, I want us to look 89 00:05:02.040 --> 00:05:05.959 at choosing the right guide for your life. Now there 90 00:05:05.959 --> 00:05:08.720 are plenty of guides out there. You can choose, you know, 91 00:05:09.639 --> 00:05:13.839 some talk show host on TV. You can choose some 92 00:05:14.439 --> 00:05:17.279 radio commentator, you can choose a friend. 93 00:05:18.120 --> 00:05:19.199 There are lots of people who will. 94 00:05:19.120 --> 00:05:21.439 Be glad to guide you through life, not necessarily in 95 00:05:21.480 --> 00:05:24.800 the right direction, but there are plenty of guides out there. 96 00:05:25.000 --> 00:05:28.639 But God has provided both a guidebook, the Bible, and 97 00:05:29.480 --> 00:05:34.040 a personal guide who will help interpret the guidebook, called 98 00:05:34.319 --> 00:05:37.639 the Holy Spirit. I don't know if you've ever thought 99 00:05:37.639 --> 00:05:41.560 about this, but why did Jesus go back to heaven 100 00:05:43.000 --> 00:05:45.759 after he came to Earth? Why didn't he just stay here? 101 00:05:46.639 --> 00:05:48.600 Why didn't he just stay on Earth so we would 102 00:05:48.639 --> 00:05:53.240 have a physical, visible model, And we go, Oh, that's 103 00:05:53.240 --> 00:05:56.279 how God wants us to live. That's the way to 104 00:05:56.279 --> 00:05:59.360 handle that kind of situation. That's how to handle that stress. 105 00:05:59.439 --> 00:06:04.160 That's just look at Jesus. He's living in Minneapolis right now. 106 00:06:05.720 --> 00:06:09.839 Let's go ask him. And why did not Jesus stay 107 00:06:10.160 --> 00:06:14.639 on Earth after he rose back from the dead he 108 00:06:14.680 --> 00:06:15.360 went back to have it? 109 00:06:15.399 --> 00:06:15.639 Why? 110 00:06:16.000 --> 00:06:20.120 Well, he said, it's actually better for me to leave better. 111 00:06:21.040 --> 00:06:24.079 How could anything be better than having Jesus guiding us 112 00:06:24.120 --> 00:06:25.079 personally through life? 113 00:06:25.920 --> 00:06:27.360 He said, because when I leave. 114 00:06:27.720 --> 00:06:33.480 I'm going to send the helper, the helper, the counselor, 115 00:06:34.399 --> 00:06:38.000 the advocate the Bible calls the Holy Spirit many things. 116 00:06:38.079 --> 00:06:41.040 He said, I'm going to send my spirit back to earth, 117 00:06:42.160 --> 00:06:44.319 the Holy Spirit. It's just the spirit of Jesus, the 118 00:06:44.360 --> 00:06:48.480 Spirit of God. And he says, this is actually going 119 00:06:48.560 --> 00:06:52.879 to be better than me personally being here. How in 120 00:06:52.879 --> 00:06:56.040 the world is the Holy Spirit better than Jesus? And 121 00:06:56.120 --> 00:06:58.000 how is it going to help you make the right 122 00:06:58.040 --> 00:07:01.399 decisions in life? And how's spirit want to be your 123 00:07:01.920 --> 00:07:07.439 guide counselor guidance counselor and not just have a guide book, 124 00:07:07.480 --> 00:07:10.319 but actually have a personal counselor or a personal helper 125 00:07:10.399 --> 00:07:14.040 through life. Why did Jesus go back to heaven because 126 00:07:14.040 --> 00:07:16.040 he said, I want to send the Holy Spirit. Now, 127 00:07:16.160 --> 00:07:18.639 look at this verse up here on the screen. Jesus 128 00:07:18.639 --> 00:07:21.399 said this in John sixteen. He said, it's actually best 129 00:07:21.439 --> 00:07:24.199 for you that I go away. In other words, that 130 00:07:24.240 --> 00:07:25.600 I go back to heaven, because if I. 131 00:07:25.639 --> 00:07:28.399 Don't, the Helper won't come to you. 132 00:07:28.959 --> 00:07:30.680 But if I do, if I go back to Heaven, 133 00:07:31.040 --> 00:07:34.319 I go away, he will come because I will send 134 00:07:34.439 --> 00:07:38.720 him to you. And when he the Spirit of truth. 135 00:07:38.800 --> 00:07:40.759 Now I want you to remember this. The Holy Spirit 136 00:07:40.839 --> 00:07:44.279 is called the Spirit of truth. When the Spirit of 137 00:07:44.279 --> 00:07:48.720 Truth comes, he will guide you. There's the guidance. He's 138 00:07:48.800 --> 00:07:52.120 the guide for your life. He will guide you, he 139 00:07:52.199 --> 00:07:55.160 will lead you, he will direct you, he will show you. 140 00:07:55.439 --> 00:07:58.600 He will guide you into all truth. I've given you, 141 00:07:58.639 --> 00:08:01.199 he says, the truth. But I'm going to give you 142 00:08:01.480 --> 00:08:04.199 the guidance counselor who's going to guide you into all truth. 143 00:08:04.240 --> 00:08:08.560 He's going to explain this to you, and he will 144 00:08:08.680 --> 00:08:14.439 tell you what is yet to come in your life. 145 00:08:15.959 --> 00:08:20.480 That is a guide, and he is called the Holy Spirit. 146 00:08:20.920 --> 00:08:23.399 How is having the Holy Spirit better than Jesus? Because 147 00:08:23.439 --> 00:08:26.279 when Jesus was here, he was limited to one location. 148 00:08:28.120 --> 00:08:30.079 When he was physically in a body, he could only 149 00:08:30.079 --> 00:08:33.440 be in Jerusalem. He couldn't be in Jerusalem and you know, 150 00:08:33.559 --> 00:08:36.960 Hong Kong the same time. He couldn't be in Buenos 151 00:08:36.960 --> 00:08:40.159 Aires and Berlin and Manila all at the same time. 152 00:08:41.840 --> 00:08:46.480 But now his Holy Spirit can be everywhere. He can 153 00:08:46.519 --> 00:08:50.200 be with all of us, and he can help all 154 00:08:50.240 --> 00:08:53.759 of us, and he can be in all of us. 155 00:08:54.039 --> 00:08:56.679 This is a big deal. This is why Jesus said 156 00:08:56.720 --> 00:08:59.000 it's better for me to leave, because I could only 157 00:08:59.039 --> 00:09:00.279 be in one place in one time. I'm in the 158 00:09:00.320 --> 00:09:02.360 physical body. I'm going to go back to heaven. I'm 159 00:09:02.360 --> 00:09:05.320 going to come back in my spirit, and my Spirit 160 00:09:05.399 --> 00:09:07.000 is going to be in you. Christ is going to 161 00:09:07.039 --> 00:09:09.200 be in you. The Father will be in you, the 162 00:09:09.200 --> 00:09:11.360 Holy Spirit will be in you. God is not three gods. 163 00:09:11.399 --> 00:09:13.600 He's one God. So if you've got Jesus in your heart, 164 00:09:13.720 --> 00:09:16.039 you've got the Holy Spirit in your heart, You've got 165 00:09:16.080 --> 00:09:16.879 the Father in your heart. 166 00:09:17.000 --> 00:09:17.840 God is God. 167 00:09:18.840 --> 00:09:22.399 He's just one God, but he has three different personages. 168 00:09:23.320 --> 00:09:24.840 And so he says, I'm going to come back and 169 00:09:24.840 --> 00:09:28.120 I'm going to put my spirit inside you. And that 170 00:09:28.279 --> 00:09:33.200 spirit is called the Holy Spirit. By the way, do 171 00:09:33.240 --> 00:09:36.360 you know there's me, the Holy Ghost, and the Holy Spirit. 172 00:09:37.200 --> 00:09:39.120 I mean some people say holy Ghost, other people say 173 00:09:39.159 --> 00:09:44.000 holy It's like two different things. No, it's a mistranslation. 174 00:09:45.799 --> 00:09:50.399 In sixteen eleven, the first public English translation was approved. 175 00:09:50.559 --> 00:09:53.480 It's called the King James Version of the Bible. It's 176 00:09:53.519 --> 00:09:56.240 the oldest of the English translations. And in the King 177 00:09:56.320 --> 00:09:59.279 James Version of the Bible, there were two different committees 178 00:10:00.440 --> 00:10:02.960 of about fifty people or so each and the word 179 00:10:03.080 --> 00:10:06.039 each working on the translation of the Bible into English, 180 00:10:06.519 --> 00:10:11.879 and half of the committees used the word spirit and 181 00:10:12.000 --> 00:10:15.320 half of the committee the other half used the word 182 00:10:15.600 --> 00:10:18.200 ghost because in those days, ghosts didn't mean what it 183 00:10:18.240 --> 00:10:24.840 means today spooky. Four hundred years ago, ghosts didn't mean ghost. 184 00:10:26.720 --> 00:10:28.799 Four hundred years ago, ghosts just meant spirit. 185 00:10:28.960 --> 00:10:31.080 The word in Greek in the Bible for the Holy 186 00:10:31.120 --> 00:10:35.480 Spirit is the word numa p n e u m 187 00:10:35.600 --> 00:10:39.120 a numa. It's from what It literally just means air. 188 00:10:39.879 --> 00:10:44.320 It means breath. It means spirit. When you have a 189 00:10:44.320 --> 00:10:50.279 pneumatic drill, that is a air pump drill. When you 190 00:10:50.320 --> 00:10:54.080 have a pneumatic tire, it is an air filled tire. 191 00:10:54.200 --> 00:10:59.559 It's not a solid tire. So numa simply means breath, air, spirit. 192 00:11:00.919 --> 00:11:03.320 Half the guys and the translation, and that's why when 193 00:11:03.320 --> 00:11:06.240 you read the Bible, sometimes in the King James it 194 00:11:06.279 --> 00:11:09.799 says holy Ghost and sometimes it says Holy Spirit. And 195 00:11:09.840 --> 00:11:13.000 now you know which translation team is translating that particular verse. 196 00:11:15.840 --> 00:11:20.759 So there's no like ooh, Casper, the friendly Holy Spirit. Okay, 197 00:11:21.600 --> 00:11:24.039 the Holy Spirit is the Holy Spirit. And I highly 198 00:11:24.080 --> 00:11:26.799 recommend you stop using the word ghost because ghost means 199 00:11:26.799 --> 00:11:27.639 something scary today. 200 00:11:27.679 --> 00:11:29.399 It's not what it meant four hundred years ago. 201 00:11:29.960 --> 00:11:31.960 Get it good? 202 00:11:32.279 --> 00:11:32.720 All right? 203 00:11:33.320 --> 00:11:36.840 So the Holy Spirit and Holy ghosts of the same thing. Now, 204 00:11:37.360 --> 00:11:40.200 Jesus says this, look on your outline. John chapter fourteen, 205 00:11:41.399 --> 00:11:47.240 verse sixteen. Jesus said, the Father will give you another helper. 206 00:11:47.679 --> 00:11:49.960 He's talking about the Holy Spirit, who will be with 207 00:11:50.080 --> 00:11:56.240 you forever. That helper is the Spirit of Truth. Now 208 00:11:56.559 --> 00:11:59.159 the world cannot accept him because it doesn't see him. 209 00:11:59.200 --> 00:12:02.639 You don't see the Holy Spirit or know him. 210 00:12:03.080 --> 00:12:06.639 But you talking about the believers, you know him because 211 00:12:06.679 --> 00:12:10.919 he lives with you and he will be in you. 212 00:12:11.480 --> 00:12:14.200 So he is our helper. He's the Holy Spirit. He 213 00:12:14.279 --> 00:12:16.399 is the Spirit of Truth. He will be with us 214 00:12:16.440 --> 00:12:18.399 and he will be in us. And this is the 215 00:12:18.440 --> 00:12:22.639 guide I highly recommend you choose for your life. You say, okay, great, 216 00:12:22.720 --> 00:12:23.799 got it, Rick, got it? 217 00:12:24.679 --> 00:12:25.399 How do I do this? 218 00:12:26.240 --> 00:12:29.200 I'm glad you asked, because that's what I want to 219 00:12:29.240 --> 00:12:32.279 look at in part two, and that is how does 220 00:12:32.320 --> 00:12:34.360 the Holy Spirit want to guide my life? 221 00:12:34.600 --> 00:12:36.519 I'm going to give you five or six ways. 222 00:12:36.960 --> 00:12:40.759 What does he actually do and how do I let 223 00:12:40.879 --> 00:12:45.080 him guide my life? And what are the benefits of it? Okay, 224 00:12:45.120 --> 00:12:48.399 everybody ready for this? All right, let's get started. This 225 00:12:48.480 --> 00:12:50.840 is one of the most important things you learn in 226 00:12:50.879 --> 00:12:53.639 life is how to be led by the Holy Spirit, 227 00:12:53.759 --> 00:12:57.240 because the Bible says in Romans chapter eight, only those 228 00:12:57.240 --> 00:12:59.679 who are led by the Holy Spirit are the children 229 00:12:59.720 --> 00:13:04.120 of God. Oh so if I'm not led by the 230 00:13:04.120 --> 00:13:07.320 Holy Spirit, I'm not in God's family. I'm not a 231 00:13:07.399 --> 00:13:10.360 child of God. I'm not going to Heaven. I'm not 232 00:13:10.480 --> 00:13:13.679 on the in crowd. The mark that you are a believer, 233 00:13:13.799 --> 00:13:15.799 that you're a child of God, you're a daughter of God, 234 00:13:15.840 --> 00:13:20.279 your son of God, is that the Holy Spirit guides you. 235 00:13:20.559 --> 00:13:21.279 And leads you. 236 00:13:22.360 --> 00:13:24.480 Now, when you first start off in the Christian life, 237 00:13:24.519 --> 00:13:26.240 you're not very good at this. You don't really know 238 00:13:26.399 --> 00:13:28.960 how to let the Holy Spirit lead you. But you 239 00:13:29.000 --> 00:13:30.960 get better at it, and you're going to learn to 240 00:13:31.000 --> 00:13:35.080 understand his voice. Just like the person if you're married, 241 00:13:35.519 --> 00:13:36.360 you've been married. 242 00:13:36.120 --> 00:13:37.679 To some time, and they pick up the phone and talk. 243 00:13:37.759 --> 00:13:40.399 They don't have to say, Hi, this is your wife. 244 00:13:41.879 --> 00:13:45.000 You know her voice. You've heard it enough. Hi, this 245 00:13:45.080 --> 00:13:49.039 is your husband. You know his voice. When you first 246 00:13:49.080 --> 00:13:51.240 start walking to Christ, you don't know the voice of 247 00:13:51.240 --> 00:13:53.200 the Holy Spirit. It's hard to go Is this God 248 00:13:53.240 --> 00:13:55.480 talking to me or is this just me talking to myself? 249 00:13:56.399 --> 00:14:02.080 Did I just you know, eat a bad pizza, or 250 00:14:02.080 --> 00:14:04.200 did I just have some idea that came off of 251 00:14:04.279 --> 00:14:07.840 some movie I just saw. As you grow in the Lord, 252 00:14:08.240 --> 00:14:11.200 you get bet he go, that's God. That's God. Talk 253 00:14:11.279 --> 00:14:14.720 to me and he puts these impressions in. 254 00:14:14.519 --> 00:14:16.639 Your mind and he leads you. 255 00:14:17.159 --> 00:14:19.960 So let's start off by let me give you five 256 00:14:20.039 --> 00:14:23.480 or six ways the Holy Spirit wants to guide you. 257 00:14:23.559 --> 00:14:26.039 He wants to be your guide through life. When you 258 00:14:26.120 --> 00:14:28.799 understand these, you're going to go, I'm in. I want this. 259 00:14:28.879 --> 00:14:31.360 I want the Holy Spirit guide me because everything he's 260 00:14:31.879 --> 00:14:35.159 been sent to do is everything you want in your life. 261 00:14:36.279 --> 00:14:39.360 Every single thing he says, I'm here to help you. 262 00:14:39.440 --> 00:14:42.159 So how does the Holy Spirit help me? And how 263 00:14:42.159 --> 00:14:44.840 can he help me on Monday morning? How can he 264 00:14:44.840 --> 00:14:46.639 help me on Tuesday night? How can he help me 265 00:14:46.879 --> 00:14:50.399 when I'm you know, out playing some sport or in 266 00:14:50.480 --> 00:14:53.240 some business deal. Well, let me give you five or 267 00:14:53.279 --> 00:14:57.480 six ways. Number One, if I listen to the Holy Spirit, 268 00:14:58.159 --> 00:14:59.360 I let him be my guide. 269 00:14:59.440 --> 00:15:02.639 He will help me. Number one know what I need 270 00:15:02.720 --> 00:15:03.080 to know. 271 00:15:05.480 --> 00:15:08.000 That's the first thing the Holy Spirit is sent to 272 00:15:08.039 --> 00:15:11.679 do to help you know what you need to know. 273 00:15:12.279 --> 00:15:13.919 There are things you need to know in life that 274 00:15:13.960 --> 00:15:15.320 if you don't know, you're going to fail. 275 00:15:17.240 --> 00:15:18.559 It's essential information. 276 00:15:18.639 --> 00:15:20.039 There's a lot of stuff you don't need to know 277 00:15:20.120 --> 00:15:25.879 in life, and that's all on television. But stuff you 278 00:15:25.919 --> 00:15:28.679 do need to know in life. The Holy Spirit will 279 00:15:28.720 --> 00:15:31.519 teach you. He will guide you, and he'll help me 280 00:15:31.600 --> 00:15:33.720 know what I need to know. That means the truth, 281 00:15:34.200 --> 00:15:38.000 the info, the insights, the things that I need. Now 282 00:15:38.000 --> 00:15:41.360 here's the cool thing about the Holy Spirit. If you'll 283 00:15:41.399 --> 00:15:43.159 learn to let the Holy Spirit lead your life, and 284 00:15:43.159 --> 00:15:44.600 I'm going to teach you how to do this on 285 00:15:44.679 --> 00:15:48.720 a daily basis. If you'll do this, he not only 286 00:15:48.759 --> 00:15:51.399 helps you know what you need to know, he helps 287 00:15:51.440 --> 00:15:53.840 you know what you need to know in that moment, 288 00:15:55.240 --> 00:15:56.600 the very moment I need it. 289 00:15:57.159 --> 00:15:58.039 Now we're talking. 290 00:15:59.200 --> 00:16:01.039 It's not like I'm gonna teach you all this stuff 291 00:16:01.039 --> 00:16:05.200 and I hope someday you use it. The Holy Spirit 292 00:16:05.279 --> 00:16:08.279 brings to mind in your mind what you need to 293 00:16:08.360 --> 00:16:12.120 know when you need to know it, at the very 294 00:16:12.440 --> 00:16:17.240 moment you need it. So it's not just what. There's 295 00:16:17.240 --> 00:16:19.759 the win and He's going to give it to you 296 00:16:19.799 --> 00:16:23.519 the very moment you needed. For instance, have you ever 297 00:16:23.559 --> 00:16:26.519 read a Bible verse, maybe at the beginning of day 298 00:16:26.879 --> 00:16:30.080 and later that was the exact Bible verse you needed 299 00:16:30.080 --> 00:16:34.799 that day. Yeah, well, that was the Holy Spirit. You 300 00:16:34.799 --> 00:16:36.480 didn't even know it, but it was the Holy Spirit 301 00:16:36.960 --> 00:16:41.120 calling your attention to a certain thing a verse. You 302 00:16:41.159 --> 00:16:42.840 didn't even know you needed it, But he said, I 303 00:16:42.879 --> 00:16:45.440 know what you're gonna need at ten o'clock. I know 304 00:16:45.440 --> 00:16:47.159 what you're gonna need at two pm in the afternoon. 305 00:16:47.559 --> 00:16:50.559 And he helps you in advance. He gives you what 306 00:16:50.639 --> 00:16:53.240 you need to know when you need to know it. 307 00:16:54.399 --> 00:16:56.960 And sometimes he gives you right before it happens, and 308 00:16:57.000 --> 00:16:59.200 sometimes it'll give it to you the day before. But 309 00:17:00.120 --> 00:17:02.279 he knows already what's going to happen in your life, 310 00:17:02.320 --> 00:17:04.519 and so he gives you what you need to know 311 00:17:04.960 --> 00:17:09.160 when you need to know it. Sometimes you'll read a 312 00:17:09.200 --> 00:17:13.720 book and later on in that week, you just go, 313 00:17:13.799 --> 00:17:17.240 that is exactly what I needed. I just read that. 314 00:17:17.720 --> 00:17:21.119 I just read it yesterday. That was the Holy Spirit. 315 00:17:21.839 --> 00:17:26.799 He was being your guide. Sometimes it's a song and 316 00:17:26.880 --> 00:17:29.559 a song comes on the radio and you hear that song, 317 00:17:29.640 --> 00:17:32.519 you go, that is exactly the song that I need 318 00:17:32.599 --> 00:17:33.079 right now. 319 00:17:34.079 --> 00:17:36.119 I'm discouraged. I'm frustrated, I'm. 320 00:17:36.079 --> 00:17:40.480 Mad, I'm angry, I'm sexually frustrated, whatever. And that's exactly 321 00:17:40.519 --> 00:17:43.480 what I needed to hear. That was the Holy Spirit. 322 00:17:44.880 --> 00:17:47.599 He gives you what you need to know at that moment. 323 00:17:47.680 --> 00:17:51.079 Sometimes you read an article and like at a Christian 324 00:17:51.119 --> 00:17:54.640 magazine or something, and you know, a few hours or 325 00:17:54.640 --> 00:17:58.119 a few days later, you're talking with a friend and 326 00:17:58.119 --> 00:18:03.119 you go, you know, I just read an article, and 327 00:18:03.160 --> 00:18:07.519 you share with you that was the Holy Spirit. He 328 00:18:07.640 --> 00:18:10.279 was giving you what you needed to know when you 329 00:18:10.440 --> 00:18:11.519 needed to know it. 330 00:18:12.720 --> 00:18:12.960 Now. 331 00:18:13.000 --> 00:18:16.400 Sometimes God does this for you for your benefit, but 332 00:18:16.559 --> 00:18:19.440 sometimes the Holy Spirit gives you what you need to know. 333 00:18:20.440 --> 00:18:24.240 For somebody else's benefit. Let me give you an example. 334 00:18:25.559 --> 00:18:30.519 Tuesday night, I went home and Andy, Andy Lewis Kay's brothers, 335 00:18:30.599 --> 00:18:33.519 my brother in law was at our House's at our 336 00:18:33.519 --> 00:18:37.000 house for dinner, and we're sitting around talking and all 337 00:18:37.000 --> 00:18:40.279 of a sudden, Andy, just out of the blue, brings 338 00:18:40.400 --> 00:18:44.079 up the subject of who was the very first Christian 339 00:18:44.319 --> 00:18:48.759 rock artist, the very first contemporary Christian artist of the 340 00:18:48.759 --> 00:18:52.119 modern era. And his name was Larry Norman. Some of 341 00:18:52.160 --> 00:18:55.000 you remember Larry Norman. His first album came out in 342 00:18:55.039 --> 00:18:58.359 the nineteen sixties he put out about thirty different albums. 343 00:18:58.440 --> 00:19:01.119 His most famous song was called I We'd All Been Ready. 344 00:19:02.880 --> 00:19:04.480 There was a song that came out and he was 345 00:19:04.839 --> 00:19:07.640 very big in the sixties and the seventies. Larry was 346 00:19:07.680 --> 00:19:11.480 the original Christian rocker. There was nobody before him. He 347 00:19:11.599 --> 00:19:15.519 broke ground. Nobody had ever heard of Christian contemporary music. 348 00:19:15.720 --> 00:19:19.359 Everybody was still singing hymns in those days. There none 349 00:19:19.359 --> 00:19:21.240 of the kind of music we use in churches today. 350 00:19:22.640 --> 00:19:25.759 Larry took a lot of flak for taking modern contemporary 351 00:19:25.839 --> 00:19:28.880 music and putting Christian words to it, and he was 352 00:19:28.960 --> 00:19:33.440 really a pioneer in that. And his first three albums 353 00:19:33.440 --> 00:19:35.359 that came out in sixty eight, sixty nine, and seventy 354 00:19:35.400 --> 00:19:39.839 one were really classic and they were so good. People 355 00:19:39.920 --> 00:19:43.319 like Capitol Records, who had the signing for the Beatles, 356 00:19:43.480 --> 00:19:46.319 wanted to sign Larry Norman because he was that good. 357 00:19:46.359 --> 00:19:51.759 He was respected by secular as well as as Christian 358 00:19:52.359 --> 00:19:54.400 and Andy and I just got in. I hadn't talked 359 00:19:54.400 --> 00:19:58.240 about Larry Norman in at least thirty five years, okay, 360 00:19:58.319 --> 00:20:00.640 I hadn't even thought about the guy. And as we 361 00:20:00.640 --> 00:20:03.720 were talking about that, and he goes let's listen to music. 362 00:20:03.759 --> 00:20:10.200 And something inside me, holy Spirit said sit down and listen. 363 00:20:11.319 --> 00:20:14.319 And I had this little nudge that said just sit 364 00:20:14.359 --> 00:20:15.480 down and listen. 365 00:20:15.960 --> 00:20:16.759 And for the. 366 00:20:16.640 --> 00:20:22.960 Next couple hours, Andy and I listened to those original 367 00:20:23.000 --> 00:20:27.079 two or three albums and just talked about the implications 368 00:20:27.200 --> 00:20:30.039 of those songs. I had plenty of other stuff I 369 00:20:30.079 --> 00:20:32.640 needed to do, tons of other stuff you need to do. 370 00:20:33.440 --> 00:20:35.680 It was enjoyable, but I really needed to be doing something. 371 00:20:35.680 --> 00:20:37.519 The next day, I was flying to Nashville to speak 372 00:20:38.160 --> 00:20:40.440 to the National Religious Broadcasters, and then I had to 373 00:20:40.480 --> 00:20:43.839 come back for Rick Mitchause fly back here for his surgery, 374 00:20:43.839 --> 00:20:46.759 and then I had to fly back to North Carolina 375 00:20:46.759 --> 00:20:48.759 for Billy Graham's funeral. 376 00:20:48.759 --> 00:20:50.599 And it was very, very busy week for me. 377 00:20:52.319 --> 00:20:55.880 God just gave me this little nudge sit down and listen, 378 00:20:56.240 --> 00:20:58.319 and we listened and we talked. We listened and we 379 00:20:58.359 --> 00:21:01.640 talked about Ran Norman. Hadn't talked about him in thirty 380 00:21:01.640 --> 00:21:05.640 five years. The next day I flew to Nashville to 381 00:21:05.720 --> 00:21:10.319 the National Religious Broadcasters. I spoke, there was an opening 382 00:21:10.400 --> 00:21:13.480 keynote speaker. After I was through, I was pretty tired. 383 00:21:13.480 --> 00:21:15.240 I was going to go straight to bed. I was 384 00:21:15.279 --> 00:21:19.720 walked out of the big grand ballroom, walked out and 385 00:21:19.759 --> 00:21:22.440 a woman came up to me, and she looked like 386 00:21:22.519 --> 00:21:25.799 she was in need, And I said, can I help you? 387 00:21:27.279 --> 00:21:28.839 And I looked down at her name and saw her 388 00:21:28.920 --> 00:21:30.119 name and a caller my name. She said, how do 389 00:21:30.160 --> 00:21:31.480 you know my name? I said, well, I just read 390 00:21:31.519 --> 00:21:36.559 your name, dag. I'm spooky, it's right there on your name. 391 00:21:37.759 --> 00:21:42.160 How do you know my name? She goes, I'm Larry 392 00:21:42.160 --> 00:21:50.160 Norman's wife. Now, he died probably a decade ago, and 393 00:21:50.279 --> 00:21:55.200 she was in deep need. You think that was an 394 00:21:55.200 --> 00:22:01.799 accident the night before. No, God had prepared me to 395 00:22:01.880 --> 00:22:05.960 help her, to help her? Why because I listened to 396 00:22:06.039 --> 00:22:07.359 the nudges. 397 00:22:06.920 --> 00:22:11.200 Of the Holy Spirit. Sometimes I don't always seem right. 398 00:22:12.039 --> 00:22:14.200 Shoot, I got a million things to do, sit down 399 00:22:14.359 --> 00:22:18.799 and listen to this music, and I did. Now you 400 00:22:18.880 --> 00:22:22.480 call that a coincidence, You have to have a pretty 401 00:22:22.480 --> 00:22:24.759