1 00:00:00,640 --> 00:00:02,880 Take your Bible if you would please, and turn to the 5th 2 00:00:02,880 --> 00:00:05,960 chapter of First Thessalonians. And today we're going to cover 3 00:00:05,960 --> 00:00:09,520 verse #19 we're looking at the model life. 4 00:00:09,880 --> 00:00:11,800 The model life is 1 of adoration. 5 00:00:12,160 --> 00:00:15,560 It truly adores the true and living God. 6 00:00:16,360 --> 00:00:18,800 It's best seen in the trilogy of commands. 7 00:00:19,600 --> 00:00:25,120 Rejoice always, verse 16. Pray without ceasing verse 17. 8 00:00:25,120 --> 00:00:32,119 And in everything give thanks verse 18 for this is the will of 9 00:00:32,119 --> 00:00:34,720 God in Christ Jesus concerning you. 10 00:00:36,200 --> 00:00:40,240 God's will is that you be joyful, prayerful and thankful. 11 00:00:41,600 --> 00:00:45,520 And that trilogy of commands makes up the model life of 12 00:00:45,520 --> 00:00:50,680 adoration, a life that truly adores it's God. 13 00:00:52,240 --> 00:00:56,280 But the the life of adoration is not only defined by by what it 14 00:00:56,280 --> 00:01:00,800 does, it's also defined by what it doesn't do. 15 00:01:02,080 --> 00:01:05,960 And that's where verse 19 and verse #20 come into play, where 16 00:01:05,960 --> 00:01:14,680 he says do not quench the Spirit and do not despise prophetic 17 00:01:15,880 --> 00:01:21,800 utterances. Those who adore their God don't 18 00:01:21,800 --> 00:01:26,800 quench the Spirit. Those who adore their God don't 19 00:01:26,800 --> 00:01:33,600 despise the Word of God. Interesting. 20 00:01:34,520 --> 00:01:41,080 Again, Paul gives no explanation, no instruction, no 21 00:01:41,080 --> 00:01:46,040 application. He just gives the injunction. 22 00:01:47,160 --> 00:01:52,320 This is the command. Do this, don't do that. 23 00:01:54,160 --> 00:01:58,160 And yet he doesn't give any extras to it. 24 00:01:59,040 --> 00:02:01,920 And that's because of First Thessalonians 213. 25 00:02:02,720 --> 00:02:06,000 When they received the word, they received it not as the word 26 00:02:06,000 --> 00:02:08,880 of men, but actually as it actually is the word of God. 27 00:02:09,479 --> 00:02:13,640 And they actually put out the welcome mat and received it. 28 00:02:13,800 --> 00:02:17,360 And these are all new believers that they've been saved for just 29 00:02:17,360 --> 00:02:20,440 a, a few months. It's not like they've they're 30 00:02:20,440 --> 00:02:24,640 old Saints have been, you know, crusty in their walk with Christ 31 00:02:24,640 --> 00:02:29,120 over all these years. No, these are new believers, few 32 00:02:29,120 --> 00:02:33,000 months old. They tells them do not quench 33 00:02:33,040 --> 00:02:36,640 the Spirit. See when when they were born 34 00:02:36,640 --> 00:02:39,320 again, they were they were saved by the Spirit. 35 00:02:39,320 --> 00:02:44,680 Titus chapter 3. They, they were sealed by the 36 00:02:44,680 --> 00:02:47,840 Spirit. Ephesians chapter 4. 37 00:02:49,120 --> 00:02:53,760 They, they, they serve according to the spirit first Peter 38 00:02:53,760 --> 00:02:58,880 chapter 4, they are sanctified by that spirit. 39 00:02:59,360 --> 00:03:05,320 Titus chapter 2. So he tells them, because you're 40 00:03:05,320 --> 00:03:11,040 saved, sealed, sanctified, secured, and serve in the 41 00:03:11,040 --> 00:03:14,240 Spirit. Make sure you don't stifle the 42 00:03:14,240 --> 00:03:21,360 spirit or smother the Spirit. How do you do that? 43 00:03:22,560 --> 00:03:25,680 What does that mean? What's it mean? 44 00:03:25,880 --> 00:03:30,800 Do not quench the spirit. Well, let's say you're really, 45 00:03:30,800 --> 00:03:32,800 really thirsty. How do you quench your thirst? 46 00:03:33,720 --> 00:03:36,080 By drinking lots of water, right? 47 00:03:36,920 --> 00:03:39,960 Well, when you quench the spirit, you, you dampen the 48 00:03:39,960 --> 00:03:44,320 spirit you, you retard the spirit, you extinguish the fire 49 00:03:44,440 --> 00:03:46,600 of the Spirit of God in your life. 50 00:03:47,680 --> 00:03:51,880 And Paul simply says, listen, don't do this in your walk with 51 00:03:51,880 --> 00:03:56,160 the Lord. Do not stifle the Spirit's work 52 00:03:57,040 --> 00:04:04,240 in your life. Don't do that, he says very, 53 00:04:07,640 --> 00:04:10,800 very easily. Just don't quench the spirit. 54 00:04:10,800 --> 00:04:14,560 Don't extinguish the spirit. Now we know that the the Bible 55 00:04:14,560 --> 00:04:18,360 speaks of God's presence as a fire. 56 00:04:19,320 --> 00:04:22,280 Remember in Acts chapter 2 and when on the day of Pentecost 57 00:04:22,280 --> 00:04:25,240 there were there were cloven tongues of fire over the heads 58 00:04:25,240 --> 00:04:29,640 of of all those people who who believed and were baptized in 59 00:04:29,640 --> 00:04:34,800 the Spirit because the the fire would represent the presence of 60 00:04:34,800 --> 00:04:39,760 God in their lives. It was, it was quite a miracle. 61 00:04:40,280 --> 00:04:42,640 You can go all the way back to the book of Exodus, the 3rd 62 00:04:42,640 --> 00:04:46,160 chapter, right? And God spoke to Moses from a 63 00:04:46,400 --> 00:04:52,040 fiery Bush, a burning Bush. You can go back to Exodus 64 00:04:52,040 --> 00:04:55,520 chapter 24 and realize that on top of the mountain there was a 65 00:04:55,520 --> 00:04:59,720 consuming fire because that was the presence of God on top of 66 00:04:59,720 --> 00:05:04,880 Mount Sinai. When you think of the glory of 67 00:05:04,880 --> 00:05:08,760 the Lord, you think of the the presence of God manifested in 68 00:05:08,760 --> 00:05:12,760 brilliant light. And that is exactly what what is 69 00:05:12,760 --> 00:05:15,520 happening here. When when you quench the spirit, 70 00:05:15,600 --> 00:05:20,800 you are, you are dampening the fire of the Spirit of God in 71 00:05:20,800 --> 00:05:23,440 your life. And you know what, for the most 72 00:05:23,440 --> 00:05:25,640 part, we have no idea. We are doing that. 73 00:05:26,960 --> 00:05:29,240 We are not waking up today and saying, hey, I wonder how I am 74 00:05:29,240 --> 00:05:31,880 dampening the spirit, how I am retarded. 75 00:05:31,880 --> 00:05:34,480 The spirits work in my life. We don't think that way and we 76 00:05:34,480 --> 00:05:37,760 should because the Bible is very explicit. 77 00:05:37,800 --> 00:05:41,720 Do not do this. Do not quench the spirits. 78 00:05:41,720 --> 00:05:47,160 When the Spirit of God came, Acts chapter 1, the Lord said 79 00:05:49,720 --> 00:05:54,120 when, when, when the Spirit of God comes, you're going to 80 00:05:54,120 --> 00:05:57,720 receive power. Things are going to be different 81 00:05:58,240 --> 00:06:02,960 than they've ever been before, and you'll be my witnesses all 82 00:06:02,960 --> 00:06:05,760 throughout the world. But when the Spirit of God 83 00:06:05,760 --> 00:06:10,200 comes, something's going to happen and it and it deals a lot 84 00:06:10,200 --> 00:06:11,840 with with our friends with the Lord. 85 00:06:11,840 --> 00:06:15,880 Remember Peter, Peter, whenever he was in the presence of the 86 00:06:15,880 --> 00:06:19,280 Lord, he, he was great. I mean, he could cut off mouth 87 00:06:19,280 --> 00:06:22,680 because his ear in the Garden of Gethsemane, even though there 88 00:06:22,680 --> 00:06:27,120 were soldiers all around him and it was just Jesus and a handful 89 00:06:27,120 --> 00:06:29,360 of disciples. But he wasn't afraid. 90 00:06:29,360 --> 00:06:34,040 He had he had courage. But when he followed Christ from 91 00:06:34,040 --> 00:06:38,760 a distance, when he wasn't in the presence of the Lord, he 92 00:06:38,760 --> 00:06:43,480 would deny the Lord to a little girl by a fire. 93 00:06:45,160 --> 00:06:49,920 But when he received the Spirit of God and Acts 2, the courage, 94 00:06:49,920 --> 00:06:53,880 the boldness, the strength that Peter had to preach and live for 95 00:06:53,880 --> 00:06:59,920 Christ was remarkable. So Paul comes along and says, 96 00:07:00,120 --> 00:07:03,280 listen, I want you to be joyful, I want you to be prayerful, and 97 00:07:03,280 --> 00:07:08,520 I want you to be thankful, but make sure you don't quench the 98 00:07:08,520 --> 00:07:12,560 Spirit of God. How does that happen? 99 00:07:12,680 --> 00:07:15,280 I want to be very practical with you this morning. 100 00:07:15,960 --> 00:07:19,520 I want to be able to explain to you how it actually happens in 101 00:07:19,520 --> 00:07:22,640 our lives and things that you might not even be aware of, but 102 00:07:22,640 --> 00:07:26,640 you need to be. So think about this way #1 how 103 00:07:26,640 --> 00:07:31,880 does 1 quench the Spirit of God? Well, you do it by diminishing 104 00:07:32,960 --> 00:07:41,560 His personality and identity in your life, by diminishing his 105 00:07:41,560 --> 00:07:44,720 personality and identity in your life. 106 00:07:46,200 --> 00:07:50,920 You know, we tend to think of the Holy Spirit as low man on 107 00:07:50,920 --> 00:07:54,440 the totem pole. There's God the Father, then 108 00:07:54,440 --> 00:07:57,600 there's God the Son, and then somewhere down the bottom of the 109 00:07:57,600 --> 00:08:02,280 pole is God the Spirit. And and we forget that they're 110 00:08:02,280 --> 00:08:06,080 equal in nature. There's one God who manifests 111 00:08:06,080 --> 00:08:07,800 himself in three distinct persons. 112 00:08:09,080 --> 00:08:12,720 But we tend to think of the Holy Spirit as as low man on the 113 00:08:12,720 --> 00:08:17,520 totem pole, as if as if he doesn't make that much 114 00:08:17,520 --> 00:08:22,280 difference in our lives. In all reality, he's the 115 00:08:22,280 --> 00:08:26,440 forgotten member of the Trinity. I'm sure that when you woke up 116 00:08:26,440 --> 00:08:28,000 this morning, you weren't thinking about the Spirit of 117 00:08:28,000 --> 00:08:31,280 God. In fact, I would probably reckon 118 00:08:31,280 --> 00:08:35,480 to say that throughout this past week you weren't thinking about 119 00:08:35,880 --> 00:08:41,600 the Spirit of God. But we simply just don't pay 120 00:08:41,600 --> 00:08:48,000 very much attention to the relevance of God's Spirit in our 121 00:08:48,000 --> 00:08:53,120 lives and we simply ignore his dwelling. 122 00:08:54,200 --> 00:08:57,360 You don't mean to. It just happens. 123 00:08:58,600 --> 00:09:01,120 And we, we diminish his personality by not understanding 124 00:09:01,120 --> 00:09:05,360 that the Spirit of God is God. Acts 5, three and four. 125 00:09:05,480 --> 00:09:10,680 Remember when Peter told Ananias that you had lied to the Spirit? 126 00:09:11,160 --> 00:09:13,680 And then he comes back in verse 4 and says you've actually lied 127 00:09:13,680 --> 00:09:19,880 to God, meaning that the Spirit is God and, and, and, and 128 00:09:19,880 --> 00:09:23,920 because he's God, he's a person. That the Spirit of God is not an 129 00:09:23,920 --> 00:09:26,240 it. The Spirit of God is not an 130 00:09:26,240 --> 00:09:28,440 influence. The Spirit of God is not a 131 00:09:28,440 --> 00:09:31,680 force. The Spirit of God is a person, 132 00:09:32,600 --> 00:09:36,120 yet we deny and diminish his personality, thus diminishing 133 00:09:36,120 --> 00:09:41,080 his identity as as God in our lives. 134 00:09:41,760 --> 00:09:43,680 He possesses the same attributes of God. 135 00:09:43,920 --> 00:09:48,600 He's on the present, He's omnipotent, He's omniscient, He 136 00:09:48,600 --> 00:09:54,440 has intellect, He feels we can grieve the Spirit. 137 00:09:54,640 --> 00:09:57,000 Ephesians 430 do not grieve the Spirit of God. 138 00:09:57,080 --> 00:09:59,320 How do you do that? Whenever, whenever you quench 139 00:09:59,320 --> 00:10:02,360 the Spirit, you grieve the Spirit, OK? 140 00:10:02,680 --> 00:10:06,960 The grieving of Spirit is in, is in, or is the result of us 141 00:10:06,960 --> 00:10:11,720 quenching the Spirit. We sadden him, we bring sorrow 142 00:10:11,720 --> 00:10:17,160 to Him simply because we have quenched, dampened, stifled, 143 00:10:17,160 --> 00:10:22,320 smothered, retarded the work of the Spirit of God in our lives. 144 00:10:23,080 --> 00:10:26,720 And it happens simply because we, we just diminish His 145 00:10:26,720 --> 00:10:30,240 personality and identity. We're not really actively 146 00:10:30,240 --> 00:10:33,720 thinking about the Spirit of God, actually God dwelling in 147 00:10:33,720 --> 00:10:36,760 me. And yet the Lord said, I'm going 148 00:10:36,760 --> 00:10:41,040 to send you another comforter, another another of the same 149 00:10:41,040 --> 00:10:43,120 kind. Alas, another of different kind 150 00:10:43,120 --> 00:10:45,160 would be heteros. But this is, alas, this is 151 00:10:45,160 --> 00:10:48,000 another of the same kind. I'm going to send another of the 152 00:10:48,000 --> 00:10:50,360 same kind as me. And he will be in you. 153 00:10:50,480 --> 00:10:53,320 He will be your helper, He will be your teacher, He will be your 154 00:10:53,320 --> 00:10:55,000 guide. He will empower you. 155 00:10:55,200 --> 00:10:59,760 I won't be with you in person, but my spirit will be in you. 156 00:11:00,040 --> 00:11:03,160 And therefore you will never be an orphan. 157 00:11:03,520 --> 00:11:06,520 You'll never be without me. I'll always be there. 158 00:11:08,480 --> 00:11:12,800 And yet we don't think of the presence of the Spirit of God in 159 00:11:12,800 --> 00:11:19,760 our lives as much as we should. So the first way that we we 160 00:11:19,760 --> 00:11:23,520 begin to quench the Spirit of God is by diminishing his 161 00:11:23,520 --> 00:11:27,560 personality and identity in our lives. 162 00:11:29,760 --> 00:11:37,400 The second way is disregarding our spiritual giftedness. 163 00:11:39,880 --> 00:11:41,640 Do you know that you quench the Spirit of God? 164 00:11:41,640 --> 00:11:48,880 You stifle God's spirit when you disregard your spiritual 165 00:11:49,600 --> 00:11:53,880 giftedness. First Corinthians 12 tells us, 166 00:11:54,120 --> 00:12:03,240 verse 11, that the Spirit of God gives us a gift by His own 167 00:12:03,240 --> 00:12:07,640 volition. So Paul in Second Timothy 168 00:12:07,640 --> 00:12:14,040 chapter 1 would say these words, verse 14 guard through the Holy 169 00:12:14,040 --> 00:12:18,240 Spirit who dwells in us, the treasure which has been 170 00:12:18,240 --> 00:12:21,840 entrusted to us. So because of the Spirit of God, 171 00:12:21,920 --> 00:12:24,040 we can guard the treasure. What's the treasure? 172 00:12:24,160 --> 00:12:27,040 The treasure is the gospel. The treasure is the truth. 173 00:12:28,040 --> 00:12:30,560 We, we are guardians and protectors of the truth. 174 00:12:30,760 --> 00:12:33,800 By the power of the Spirit of God that dwells within us, we 175 00:12:33,800 --> 00:12:37,840 can stand against those who speak against the Word of God, 176 00:12:37,880 --> 00:12:40,200 whether it's at work or at school, at play, no matter where 177 00:12:40,200 --> 00:12:42,440 we are, we can stand strong because of the Spirit of God. 178 00:12:44,440 --> 00:12:47,000 And earlier Paul would say these words in Second Timothy one 179 00:12:47,000 --> 00:12:53,720 verse #6 for this reason I remind you to kindle afresh the 180 00:12:53,720 --> 00:12:57,880 gift of God which is in you through the laying on of my 181 00:12:57,880 --> 00:13:00,880 hands. In other words, this is the 182 00:13:00,880 --> 00:13:03,040 opposite of First Thessalonians 519. 183 00:13:03,600 --> 00:13:06,600 Paul says, don't quench the Spirit Here he tells Timothy, 184 00:13:06,720 --> 00:13:10,720 you need to fan the flame of the Spirit of God, the giftiness 185 00:13:10,720 --> 00:13:14,040 that God's given. You don't, don't retard that. 186 00:13:15,240 --> 00:13:18,320 How does that happen? By ignoring our spiritual 187 00:13:18,320 --> 00:13:23,200 giftiness, by letting that giftedness atrophy, by lack of 188 00:13:23,200 --> 00:13:27,880 use, realizing that God has called us to build the body of 189 00:13:27,880 --> 00:13:31,360 Christ. So let me say it to you very 190 00:13:31,360 --> 00:13:33,840 practically. You as a believer are a 191 00:13:33,840 --> 00:13:36,200 spiritually gifted person. That's part of your identity. 192 00:13:37,000 --> 00:13:40,120 Who you are in Christ is that I am a spiritually gifted person. 193 00:13:40,520 --> 00:13:43,000 God's Spirit indwells me. He has gifted me. 194 00:13:43,000 --> 00:13:45,520 Why? For the sake of His name, His 195 00:13:45,520 --> 00:13:48,280 Kingdom, for the purpose of building the body of Christ. 196 00:13:49,560 --> 00:13:52,200 So because you're spiritually gifted, God wants to use you 197 00:13:52,320 --> 00:13:56,800 within the body of Christ. And when you disregard that 198 00:13:56,800 --> 00:13:59,160 giftedness, you don't use that gift. 199 00:14:00,040 --> 00:14:05,240 You don't use it in such a way that it builds the body of 200 00:14:05,240 --> 00:14:09,560 Christ. You quench the Spirit of God, 201 00:14:09,560 --> 00:14:16,520 thus grieving the Spirit of God. So in other words, we need to be 202 00:14:16,520 --> 00:14:19,520 actively involved in doing that which God's called us to do. 203 00:14:21,040 --> 00:14:25,000 So here's Timothy, he's about 35 years of age and maybe he's he's 204 00:14:25,000 --> 00:14:31,520 reluctant in exercising his giftedness as a pastor, as a 205 00:14:31,520 --> 00:14:36,080 preacher, as a teacher. And Paul says, Timothy, you need 206 00:14:36,080 --> 00:14:39,440 to rekindle afresh, need to fan the flame of your giftedness. 207 00:14:39,640 --> 00:14:43,400 Don't draw back. Keep exercising your giftedness 208 00:14:43,480 --> 00:14:46,680 for the glory of the Lord. And then he says this in verse 209 00:14:46,680 --> 00:14:50,560 #7 For God has not given us the spirit of timidity, but of power 210 00:14:50,560 --> 00:14:53,560 and love and of discipline. Our self-control. 211 00:14:54,680 --> 00:15:02,800 God's spirit is one that gives us power, enables us to love and 212 00:15:02,800 --> 00:15:05,800 to discipline our lives every single day. 213 00:15:06,800 --> 00:15:11,040 This is just so important. You see, we we diminishes 214 00:15:11,040 --> 00:15:16,480 working in our lives by living undisciplined lives when we have 215 00:15:16,480 --> 00:15:25,360 a spirit within us who is God who empowers us to live lives of 216 00:15:25,360 --> 00:15:28,120 spiritual discipline. Think about that. 217 00:15:29,560 --> 00:15:32,960 So whenever your life is an undisciplined life, you quench 218 00:15:32,960 --> 00:15:37,360 the Spirit of God. Whenever your life is is lacking 219 00:15:37,400 --> 00:15:40,600 the love for God and love for the brethren, you quench the 220 00:15:40,600 --> 00:15:43,880 Spirit of God. Whenever you go through life 221 00:15:44,240 --> 00:15:48,720 living as if you have no power, no energy, no strength, you 222 00:15:48,720 --> 00:15:54,400 quench the Spirit of God. And for the most part, we don't 223 00:15:54,400 --> 00:15:57,320 even recognize that. We don't even recognize what 224 00:15:57,320 --> 00:16:01,840 we're doing. And whenever you quench him, you 225 00:16:01,840 --> 00:16:04,120 grieve him. What? 226 00:16:04,120 --> 00:16:05,960 Why would he want to grieve the comforter? 227 00:16:07,440 --> 00:16:11,600 Why would he want to grieve our helper, our teacher, our guide? 228 00:16:12,240 --> 00:16:16,160 Why we want to grieve the one who regenerated us, who who 229 00:16:16,160 --> 00:16:18,440 cleansed us with the washing every generation? 230 00:16:19,600 --> 00:16:23,360 Why would we want to do that? That's the question we have to 231 00:16:23,360 --> 00:16:27,600 ask ourselves. And so when you disregard your 232 00:16:27,600 --> 00:16:32,440 spiritual get to this by letting it atrophy, by not using it, not 233 00:16:32,800 --> 00:16:36,400 our being even ignorant as to what spiritual get to this is, 234 00:16:37,320 --> 00:16:41,960 or just downright denying that you have one and not even using 235 00:16:41,960 --> 00:16:46,040 it in the church, you, you've quenched the Spirit of God. 236 00:16:47,240 --> 00:16:50,280 You know, we go through life every day and you know this we, 237 00:16:50,280 --> 00:16:53,200 we face hardship, we face difficulty, we face decision 238 00:16:53,200 --> 00:16:55,200 making. Sometimes our lives are, are, 239 00:16:55,200 --> 00:16:57,640 are are in shambles and they're and they're, they're falling 240 00:16:57,640 --> 00:17:01,760 apart and we're wondering why without ever recognizing that 241 00:17:01,760 --> 00:17:05,000 maybe we are in the process of quenching the Spirit of God in 242 00:17:05,000 --> 00:17:07,720 our lives. Therefore, his operation in our 243 00:17:07,720 --> 00:17:11,800 life is not what it should be because we have thrown water on 244 00:17:11,800 --> 00:17:14,480 his working in our lives and we wonder why our lives are so 245 00:17:14,480 --> 00:17:18,720 messed up. This need to be that way, see. 246 00:17:19,839 --> 00:17:22,760 And so we need to realize that that we quench the Spirit by by 247 00:17:22,760 --> 00:17:26,880 diminishing his personality and identity in our own lives and 248 00:17:26,880 --> 00:17:31,480 then disregarding our spiritual giftedness as it pertains to 249 00:17:31,680 --> 00:17:36,440 building the body of Christ. If you're here today and you're 250 00:17:36,440 --> 00:17:38,240 a born again believer, you've been gifted. 251 00:17:38,240 --> 00:17:42,920 And if you don't use that gift in the operation and 252 00:17:42,920 --> 00:17:47,320 mobilization of the church, you're quenching the Spirit of 253 00:17:47,320 --> 00:17:51,240 God as we speak, thus grieving the Spirit of God. 254 00:17:52,640 --> 00:17:54,240 And I would ask you, why would you want to do that? 255 00:17:55,800 --> 00:18:01,880 God's gifted you by His Spirit, indwelling you use it for His 256 00:18:01,880 --> 00:18:07,800 glory #3 Not only do we quench the Spirit by diminishing His 257 00:18:07,800 --> 00:18:10,800 personality and identity and disregarding the spiritual 258 00:18:10,800 --> 00:18:15,760 giftedness that He's given to us, but by by denying His 259 00:18:15,760 --> 00:18:20,680 control over our lives. Again, we don't, we don't 260 00:18:20,680 --> 00:18:26,280 purposely do this. We just deny His control over 261 00:18:26,280 --> 00:18:28,920 our lives. The Bible says this in Ephesians 262 00:18:28,920 --> 00:18:33,120 5. He says verse 18 and do not get 263 00:18:33,120 --> 00:18:38,080 drunk with wine for that is dissipation, but be filled with 264 00:18:38,080 --> 00:18:41,520 the spirit. The word filled is play Rao, 265 00:18:41,520 --> 00:18:49,040 which means permeation, domination, control be be 266 00:18:49,040 --> 00:18:50,920 permeated with the Spirit of God. 267 00:18:51,120 --> 00:18:53,320 Don't be drunk with wine and which is excess. 268 00:18:53,680 --> 00:18:57,200 Don't, don't let externals dominate you. 269 00:18:58,440 --> 00:19:02,920 He uses wine as an illustration, but there are other things that 270 00:19:02,920 --> 00:19:05,920 dominate their lives. That control our lives. 271 00:19:06,640 --> 00:19:09,600 Doesn't have to be wine. It could be activities, it could 272 00:19:09,600 --> 00:19:11,840 be another person, it could be all kinds of things. 273 00:19:11,960 --> 00:19:14,480 Whatever it is, don't let that control you, but but be 274 00:19:14,480 --> 00:19:15,800 controlled. Be dominated. 275 00:19:16,000 --> 00:19:18,800 Let the Spirit of God permeate every aspect of your life. 276 00:19:18,960 --> 00:19:21,800 Live in the conscious presence of Almighty God. 277 00:19:24,120 --> 00:19:28,680 But when we deny his control over our lives, we quench the 278 00:19:28,680 --> 00:19:31,760 Spirit. Interesting that Colossians 316 279 00:19:31,760 --> 00:19:34,080 says, let the word of Christ dwell in you richly. 280 00:19:34,160 --> 00:19:35,400 Let it be in a home in your hearts. 281 00:19:36,520 --> 00:19:40,520 And it's it's, it's the same thing as letting or or letting 282 00:19:41,520 --> 00:19:42,720 being filled with the Spirit of God. 283 00:19:42,720 --> 00:19:44,400 Why? Because the consequences are the 284 00:19:44,400 --> 00:19:47,040 same. In Ephesians 5, when you're, 285 00:19:47,080 --> 00:19:49,120 when you're filled with the Spirit, when the Spirit of God 286 00:19:49,120 --> 00:19:51,560 permeates your life, when you're dominated by the Spirit of God, 287 00:19:51,720 --> 00:19:53,880 you sing to one another. In psalms and hymns and 288 00:19:53,880 --> 00:19:57,480 spiritual songs, you give thanks unto the Lord and you submit one 289 00:19:57,480 --> 00:20:00,400 to another. When you go to Colossians 3 and 290 00:20:00,400 --> 00:20:02,880 read verse 16, the following, when the word of Christ dwells 291 00:20:02,880 --> 00:20:05,520 and you richly, what do you do? You sing to one another in 292 00:20:05,520 --> 00:20:06,960 psalms and hymns, spiritual songs. 293 00:20:07,120 --> 00:20:09,320 You give thanks to the Lord and you submit to one another. 294 00:20:09,440 --> 00:20:11,120 The same is true of both. Why? 295 00:20:11,320 --> 00:20:12,800 Because they're one and the same. 296 00:20:13,800 --> 00:20:16,000 How do I know my life is dominated by the Spirit of God? 297 00:20:16,240 --> 00:20:19,960 Because my life is dominated by the scriptures I learned the 298 00:20:19,960 --> 00:20:21,360 word of Christ dwelled in me richly. 299 00:20:22,320 --> 00:20:24,680 So when I don't study to show myself a prudent of the God, a 300 00:20:24,680 --> 00:20:28,800 Workman that needed not to be ashamed, I quench the spirit. 301 00:20:29,680 --> 00:20:33,040 When I live a life of meditation and Bible study and memorization 302 00:20:34,320 --> 00:20:37,760 so that the word of Christ dwells in me richly, God's 303 00:20:37,760 --> 00:20:42,240 spirit can't dominate my life. I quench the Spirit of God. 304 00:20:43,400 --> 00:20:46,880 I need to be controlled by God's spirit. 305 00:20:47,880 --> 00:20:52,000 I, I need to live by keeping in step with the Spirit of God. 306 00:20:54,160 --> 00:21:01,920 When I don't do that, then I end up quenching the Spirit of God. 307 00:21:03,000 --> 00:21:06,680 It's like a glove. If I had a glove up here, I 308 00:21:06,680 --> 00:21:09,920 could hold it in my hand and, and, and throw it down and it's, 309 00:21:09,960 --> 00:21:14,880 it's virtually of no use until I put my hand inside the glove. 310 00:21:14,880 --> 00:21:20,760 And if I've put only one finger in the glove, then the only part 311 00:21:20,760 --> 00:21:23,800 of that glove that works is that where that one finger is and the 312 00:21:23,800 --> 00:21:27,920 other four asked for holes with fingers in them are useless. 313 00:21:27,920 --> 00:21:29,960 They can't do, they can't pick anything up, can't catch 314 00:21:29,960 --> 00:21:34,640 anything. But once my hand dominates, 315 00:21:34,840 --> 00:21:38,800 permeates the glove, then the glove can do whatever I designed 316 00:21:38,800 --> 00:21:41,520 it to do. That's the same thing with the 317 00:21:41,520 --> 00:21:45,880 Spirit of God when the Spirit of God indwells us, which he does 318 00:21:45,880 --> 00:21:49,680 at salvation. When I am controlled by God's 319 00:21:49,680 --> 00:21:52,000 spirit and let the word of Christ develop me richly, then 320 00:21:52,000 --> 00:21:55,800 my life is dominated. My feet, my arms, my eyes, my 321 00:21:55,800 --> 00:21:59,960 heart, my mind, everything is dominated by the Spirit of God. 322 00:22:00,400 --> 00:22:03,960 So I think God's thoughts, I speak God's words, I live God's 323 00:22:03,960 --> 00:22:10,840 life, and that doesn't happen, and I quench the Spirit of God, 324 00:22:12,280 --> 00:22:15,960 thus grieving His Spirit. And for the most part, we don't 325 00:22:15,960 --> 00:22:23,120 even think about these things. But it's so important #4 I can 326 00:22:23,120 --> 00:22:28,360 quench the Spirit of God by disobeying his commands. 327 00:22:29,760 --> 00:22:33,200 That's pretty obvious, right? In the three, right before, it'd 328 00:22:33,200 --> 00:22:34,800 be joyful, be prayerful, be thankful. 329 00:22:34,920 --> 00:22:39,160 If I disobey His commands, I will quench the Spirit of God. 330 00:22:40,160 --> 00:22:43,400 Listen, the only reason I can obey the commands of God is 331 00:22:43,400 --> 00:22:46,760 because of the Spirit of God. Remember the book of Ezekiel, 332 00:22:47,000 --> 00:22:52,440 Ezekiel chapter 36 verse #27 God says, I will put my Spirit 333 00:22:52,440 --> 00:22:56,600 within you and cause you to walk in My statutes and you will be 334 00:22:56,600 --> 00:22:58,360 careful to observe My ordinances. 335 00:22:58,480 --> 00:23:04,200 That's the new covenant promise. I will cause My Spirit to be in 336 00:23:04,200 --> 00:23:07,360 you. And because My Spirit is in you 337 00:23:08,000 --> 00:23:13,640 now, you can obey My ordinances. You can do what I've commanded 338 00:23:13,640 --> 00:23:15,360 you to do. Why? 339 00:23:15,640 --> 00:23:18,520 Because I'll be in you and the Spirit will motivate you. 340 00:23:18,640 --> 00:23:22,360 Well, whenever you decide to disobey those commands because 341 00:23:22,360 --> 00:23:25,520 of pride or because of arrogance or because of indifference or 342 00:23:25,600 --> 00:23:29,200 for whatever reason, you quench the Spirit of God. 343 00:23:30,360 --> 00:23:32,800 Because the reason the Spirit of God indwells you is so that you 344 00:23:32,800 --> 00:23:35,520 can live Christ's life. And when I decide not to live 345 00:23:35,520 --> 00:23:38,840 that life and live in disobedience to that life, then 346 00:23:38,840 --> 00:23:47,360 I quench the Spirit of God. So incredibly important over in 347 00:23:47,520 --> 00:23:52,480 First Thessalonians chapter 4. Remember in verses 1 to 8, we 348 00:23:52,480 --> 00:23:57,280 talked about the fact that what happens when you are a believer 349 00:23:57,440 --> 00:24:01,840 in the Lord Jesus Christ that you are to live in obedience to 350 00:24:01,840 --> 00:24:06,120 His word. And in chapter 4 it talks about 351 00:24:06,440 --> 00:24:08,640 how we are abstaining from sexual immorality. 352 00:24:09,840 --> 00:24:14,560 And when you don't, he says in verse #8 So he who rejects this 353 00:24:15,080 --> 00:24:20,560 command is not rejecting man, but the God who gives His Holy 354 00:24:20,640 --> 00:24:26,880 Spirit to you whenever you disobey the command to this is 355 00:24:26,880 --> 00:24:29,160 the will of God, even the sanctification that you abstain 356 00:24:29,160 --> 00:24:33,280 from sexual immorality and you engage in sex outside of 357 00:24:33,280 --> 00:24:36,520 marriage. You are rejecting the Spirit of 358 00:24:36,520 --> 00:24:40,560 God's work in your life. You're disobeying His commands. 359 00:24:40,760 --> 00:24:43,040 You are quenching the Spirit of God. 360 00:24:43,040 --> 00:24:45,560 Therefore, you are grieving the Spirit of God. 361 00:24:47,240 --> 00:24:54,720 You know, we, we, not we people engage in sex sins outside of 362 00:24:54,720 --> 00:24:58,600 marriage because they want to grieve their partner, but not 363 00:24:58,600 --> 00:25:00,400 realizing that they're grieving the Spirit of God in the 364 00:25:00,400 --> 00:25:03,200 process. And they're more concerned about 365 00:25:03,200 --> 00:25:06,880 grieving their partner than they are grieving the Spirit of God. 366 00:25:07,640 --> 00:25:11,200 That's a problem. See there's so many times we 367 00:25:11,200 --> 00:25:13,920 quench the Spirit by disobeying his commands. 368 00:25:15,040 --> 00:25:17,760 So as I review this, you can pretty much understand that 369 00:25:17,760 --> 00:25:20,360 right when I disobey the commands of God, I quench 370 00:25:20,360 --> 00:25:23,840 spirit, I retard his work in my life, I dampen his effect in my 371 00:25:23,840 --> 00:25:27,440 life. When I when I deny his control 372 00:25:27,440 --> 00:25:30,360 over my life and decide that I want to control my life and do 373 00:25:30,360 --> 00:25:33,640 as I please or let some other substance or some other person 374 00:25:33,640 --> 00:25:36,320 control my life, that quenches the spirit. 375 00:25:37,240 --> 00:25:41,080 We can understand that when we disregard our spiritual 376 00:25:41,080 --> 00:25:45,760 giftedness, we don't do what God tells us to do as people in the 377 00:25:45,760 --> 00:25:47,520 body of Christ, we, we quit the spirit. 378 00:25:47,520 --> 00:25:50,240 When I diminish this personality and identity in my life, I I 379 00:25:50,240 --> 00:25:52,160 quit the Spirit. We understand that we can get 380 00:25:52,160 --> 00:25:57,920 that, but but the fifth one, the fifth one is some something 381 00:25:57,920 --> 00:25:59,880 other than what we necessarily think. 382 00:26:00,760 --> 00:26:07,600 And that is when you depend on your own resources instead of 383 00:26:07,600 --> 00:26:10,840 God's Spirit, you quit the Spirit. 384 00:26:12,720 --> 00:26:18,880 And we do this quite often. We, we depend on human 385 00:26:18,880 --> 00:26:29,520 resources, we depend on, on human strength, human wisdom, 386 00:26:30,720 --> 00:26:39,200 human techniques instead of the spirit of the living God. 387 00:26:41,160 --> 00:26:44,600 And we do this without even thinking about it. 388 00:26:46,160 --> 00:26:50,200 We believe that because of our education, because of our 389 00:26:50,200 --> 00:26:56,760 athletic prowess, because of my leadership, I can just make 390 00:26:56,760 --> 00:27:01,920 decisions, do what I want, live what I want, but all the while 391 00:27:01,920 --> 00:27:07,440 quenching the Spirit. Think about this, the life of 392 00:27:07,440 --> 00:27:11,480 Moses. Moses believed in his 393 00:27:11,600 --> 00:27:16,880 self-sufficient, self reliant self efforts. 394 00:27:17,680 --> 00:27:21,640 He could pull off the exodus, but he couldn't. 395 00:27:23,320 --> 00:27:26,480 And Moses was educated in the finest school system of his day. 396 00:27:27,160 --> 00:27:31,040 In fact, I would venture to say that his education is far 397 00:27:31,040 --> 00:27:34,760 superior to any education you could receive today, no matter 398 00:27:34,760 --> 00:27:39,440 what school you go to. He was educated in the world's 399 00:27:39,480 --> 00:27:45,760 greatest educational system that ever existed in Egypt, knowing 400 00:27:45,760 --> 00:27:47,640 that he was Nixon line to be the Pharaoh. 401 00:27:47,680 --> 00:27:50,000 So his leadership skills were off the charts. 402 00:27:51,800 --> 00:27:55,880 On top of that, he was a athletic, muscular man. 403 00:27:57,000 --> 00:27:59,600 On one day in Exodus chapter 2, he saw one of the Egyptians 404 00:27:59,600 --> 00:28:02,720 beating one of the Israelites and he he slew the Egyptian. 405 00:28:03,520 --> 00:28:07,400 Just a matter of moments thinking that the people would 406 00:28:07,560 --> 00:28:11,200 rise up and say this is our leader, but they rebelled 407 00:28:11,200 --> 00:28:15,800 against him. So here is Moses with all the 408 00:28:15,960 --> 00:28:20,880 the education and all the qualities and all the expertise 409 00:28:21,040 --> 00:28:24,880 to lead Israel. But he wasn't ready. 410 00:28:26,280 --> 00:28:30,320 So what did God do? God drove him to the backside of 411 00:28:30,320 --> 00:28:35,640 the desert for 40 years to break him. 412 00:28:37,720 --> 00:28:41,640 So when he comes out of the desert and he and he and he and 413 00:28:41,640 --> 00:28:44,760 he's able to hear the word of God speaking to him through a 414 00:28:44,760 --> 00:28:48,000 fiery Bush, everything about his self-reliance is gone. 415 00:28:48,320 --> 00:28:50,360 Everything about self-sufficiency is gone. 416 00:28:51,560 --> 00:28:54,560 He's like who, who, who shall I say sent me? 417 00:28:55,800 --> 00:28:57,200 If I go, they're not going to listen to me. 418 00:28:57,720 --> 00:29:00,480 Before he thought they would listen to him because he was 419 00:29:00,520 --> 00:29:05,040 Nixon line to be the Pharaoh, but they did not listen and so 420 00:29:05,040 --> 00:29:06,160 God had to break him. Why? 421 00:29:06,400 --> 00:29:11,080 Because God needs to to shatter our independence from Him in 422 00:29:11,080 --> 00:29:13,560 order to establish our dependence upon him. 423 00:29:13,720 --> 00:29:17,000 Because we are so autonomous, we think that we can make it 424 00:29:17,000 --> 00:29:20,320 without God. What we think we can make our 425 00:29:20,320 --> 00:29:26,360 marriage work, but we can't. We do though. 426 00:29:27,520 --> 00:29:30,280 We we think we can make our family work, but we can't. 427 00:29:31,560 --> 00:29:35,280 And we get so disgruntled and so confused and so angry and and so 428 00:29:35,280 --> 00:29:38,840 upset because we're trying to control life from a human 429 00:29:38,840 --> 00:29:42,800 perspective. Wonder why my kids don't obey 430 00:29:43,120 --> 00:29:45,040 one of my wife. My wife doesn't follow. 431 00:29:45,480 --> 00:29:49,160 Wonder why the people at work don't like me instead of 432 00:29:49,160 --> 00:29:52,880 realizing that it's all because of the spiritual work of my 433 00:29:52,880 --> 00:29:55,920 life. And he relies solely and totally 434 00:29:56,080 --> 00:30:02,920 upon Him. We so easy depend upon man made 435 00:30:02,960 --> 00:30:10,880 things that we no longer rest in the sovereign work of God. 436 00:30:10,880 --> 00:30:14,720 Listen to Paul's prayer in Ephesians chapter 3. 437 00:30:15,120 --> 00:30:20,680 When he says these words, Ephesians chapter 3, he says, 438 00:30:21,600 --> 00:30:24,800 for this reason I bow my knees before the Father from whom 439 00:30:24,800 --> 00:30:28,280 every family in heaven and earth derives his name, that he would 440 00:30:28,280 --> 00:30:31,280 grant you according to the riches of his glory, to be 441 00:30:31,280 --> 00:30:36,840 strengthened with the power through His Spirit in the inner 442 00:30:36,840 --> 00:30:40,160 man. This is Paul's prayer for the 443 00:30:40,160 --> 00:30:43,840 Church of Ephesus, that God would grant you because of His 444 00:30:43,840 --> 00:30:49,000 eternal riches, power that comes only through His Spirit. 445 00:30:50,080 --> 00:30:57,120 That's only in the inner man to accomplish God's will for your 446 00:30:57,120 --> 00:31:01,040 life. You can't do it without the 447 00:31:01,040 --> 00:31:04,680 Spirit of God. Galatians chapter 3 verse #3 448 00:31:05,520 --> 00:31:13,200 Paul says, O foolish Galatians, who has bewitched you, having 449 00:31:13,200 --> 00:31:17,480 begun in the Spirit, you think you could be perfected by the 450 00:31:17,480 --> 00:31:21,320 flesh? You were saved by the Spirit. 451 00:31:22,200 --> 00:31:26,000 You were in dwelt by the Spirit. You were sealed by the Spirit, 452 00:31:26,560 --> 00:31:30,000 you were set apart by the Spirit, but now you're trying to 453 00:31:30,280 --> 00:31:35,440 live your life without the influence and power of that 454 00:31:35,440 --> 00:31:37,800 spirit in your life to lead you and guide you. 455 00:31:39,080 --> 00:31:42,840 And Paul says you're just foolish people because the 456 00:31:42,840 --> 00:31:45,280 spiritual life is only accomplished by spiritual means, 457 00:31:47,040 --> 00:31:51,520 not by any other means. So important. 458 00:31:53,080 --> 00:31:59,320 And so we tend to to think that we know better than God, that we 459 00:31:59,320 --> 00:32:03,640 could do things better than God. So we depend upon our own 460 00:32:03,640 --> 00:32:06,680 resources, we depend upon our own intellect. 461 00:32:07,040 --> 00:32:11,000 We lean on our own understanding basically in every decision we 462 00:32:11,000 --> 00:32:15,960 make each and every day. Instead of obeying the 463 00:32:15,960 --> 00:32:18,640 Scriptures which says do not lean on your own understanding 464 00:32:19,960 --> 00:32:21,240 in all your ways, acknowledge Him. 465 00:32:21,240 --> 00:32:24,880 He will make your path smooth. If your path is as smooth, it's 466 00:32:24,880 --> 00:32:27,960 because you're leaning on your own understanding because God 467 00:32:27,960 --> 00:32:30,760 promises to make your path smooth if you trust in Him and 468 00:32:30,760 --> 00:32:33,640 acknowledge Him throughout each and every aspect of the decision 469 00:32:33,640 --> 00:32:37,760 making process. But so many times we just negate 470 00:32:37,760 --> 00:32:44,880 that float out the window and we live our lives as if God doesn't 471 00:32:44,880 --> 00:32:48,680 even exist. But we can't live without him, 472 00:32:48,680 --> 00:32:50,120 without me, because you can do nothing. 473 00:32:51,440 --> 00:32:52,680 Nothing. But we think we can. 474 00:32:54,880 --> 00:33:00,240 And we we forget that that God is working in our lives through 475 00:33:00,240 --> 00:33:02,600 his Spirit. God had to work in the life of 476 00:33:02,600 --> 00:33:06,560 Moses. God had to take him to his, to 477 00:33:06,560 --> 00:33:09,000 his desert, had to take him to the school room of God. 478 00:33:09,000 --> 00:33:11,960 He had been educated in the school room of Egypt. 479 00:33:12,120 --> 00:33:14,440 He needed to be in the school room of God. 480 00:33:14,560 --> 00:33:16,680 Why? Because he needed a PhD in the 481 00:33:16,680 --> 00:33:18,840 ways of God. We're so concerned about getting 482 00:33:18,840 --> 00:33:20,880 a PhD in things that just don't matter. 483 00:33:21,720 --> 00:33:24,280 You need to get a PhD in the things of God, in the ways of 484 00:33:24,280 --> 00:33:26,880 God. And that only comes to the 485 00:33:26,880 --> 00:33:31,080 desert experience, only comes to the suffering and difficulty of 486 00:33:31,080 --> 00:33:35,040 isolation. And he had to learn that. 487 00:33:36,360 --> 00:33:41,160 And once he learned it, he came out of Egypt or came out of the 488 00:33:41,160 --> 00:33:46,320 desert to lead Israel, the greatest leader in Israel's 489 00:33:46,320 --> 00:33:50,160 history, because he would learn to depend upon the living God 490 00:33:50,160 --> 00:33:53,480 for everything. What's what God wants to do in 491 00:33:53,480 --> 00:33:57,120 your life? You live a life of frustration. 492 00:33:59,280 --> 00:34:02,960 You live a life of unsettledness, live a life of 493 00:34:02,960 --> 00:34:06,280 discouragement. Could it be that that you're 494 00:34:06,280 --> 00:34:08,560 just quenching the Spirit because you're trying to make 495 00:34:08,560 --> 00:34:13,239 decisions based on your own intellect, your, your own way of 496 00:34:13,239 --> 00:34:17,639 thinking, instead of trusting and dependent upon the living 497 00:34:17,639 --> 00:34:22,719 God to lead you and to guide you in the way that you should go? 498 00:34:24,120 --> 00:34:27,440 There are some of you today that are even experiencing Psalm One 499 00:34:27,440 --> 00:34:32,600 O 6 verse #15 my mom's favorite verse that God will give you the 500 00:34:32,600 --> 00:34:36,639 desires of your heart but send a barrenness to your soul. 501 00:34:39,000 --> 00:34:42,800 Be careful what you ask God for because sometimes He gives it to 502 00:34:42,800 --> 00:34:48,360 you but sends that absolute barrenness to your soul and 503 00:34:48,360 --> 00:34:51,120 you're so disgruntled. Even though you got what you 504 00:34:51,120 --> 00:34:55,719 wanted, it wasn't what you thought it was when you made the 505 00:34:55,719 --> 00:35:00,320 decision. And now you are so unsettled. 506 00:35:02,040 --> 00:35:05,920 God is saying you need to trust me, you need to believe in me, 507 00:35:05,920 --> 00:35:11,720 you need to lean upon me. But when we depend upon our own 508 00:35:11,840 --> 00:35:18,800 self resources instead of the spirits resources, we quench the 509 00:35:18,800 --> 00:35:26,120 spirit number six. Here's one you don't think of 510 00:35:26,120 --> 00:35:30,320 very often, but it happens. We quench the spirit when we 511 00:35:30,320 --> 00:35:37,320 downplay the spirits working and up play our working. 512 00:35:39,880 --> 00:35:45,800 We downplay the spirits working and up play our working. 513 00:35:45,920 --> 00:35:49,960 In other words, it's it's what I have done. 514 00:35:52,280 --> 00:35:56,280 I got a promotion. I I deserve this promotion. 515 00:35:56,440 --> 00:35:58,720 I got a raise. I deserve this raise. 516 00:35:59,000 --> 00:36:03,040 I've worked hard at it. Other people have worked hard 517 00:36:03,040 --> 00:36:04,200 too, but they don't have a raise. 518 00:36:06,000 --> 00:36:07,400 But you see, I've worked harder than they have. 519 00:36:08,360 --> 00:36:12,760 I deserve this. Not realizing that Paul says in 520 00:36:12,760 --> 00:36:17,280 First Corinthians 4, What do you have that you did not receive 521 00:36:17,920 --> 00:36:23,920 from God? The answer is nothing but but we 522 00:36:23,920 --> 00:36:25,560 think it's because of what I've done. 523 00:36:27,080 --> 00:36:29,840 Look at this this great building I have built. 524 00:36:30,000 --> 00:36:33,160 Look at this great Bible study that I have built that people 525 00:36:33,160 --> 00:36:39,680 are coming in droves or, or we think I LED my, my, my sister or 526 00:36:39,680 --> 00:36:43,200 my brother to the Lord. No, you didn't, but you think 527 00:36:43,200 --> 00:36:47,880 you did. See, because down deep you want 528 00:36:47,880 --> 00:36:54,520 to downplay the spirits working and up play you're working for 529 00:36:54,520 --> 00:36:57,960 your own glory. So we take pride in the fact 530 00:36:57,960 --> 00:37:01,600 that I LED so and so to the Lord, or I went on this mission 531 00:37:01,600 --> 00:37:05,000 tripping and LED this many people to the Lord, or I did 532 00:37:05,000 --> 00:37:10,120 this or I did that. And we want to boast in our, our 533 00:37:10,120 --> 00:37:12,560 achievements. And we, we talked about it on 534 00:37:12,560 --> 00:37:16,200 Wednesday night that, that the true Christian, he, he glories 535 00:37:16,200 --> 00:37:19,800 in Christ Jesus. He puts no confidence in the 536 00:37:19,800 --> 00:37:22,840 flesh. He has no confidence in himself, 537 00:37:23,480 --> 00:37:26,720 but he glories in Christ. He boasts in Christ. 538 00:37:28,120 --> 00:37:30,840 But so often we we want to boast in our own achievements and 539 00:37:30,840 --> 00:37:33,800 accomplishments. I've done this. 540 00:37:34,720 --> 00:37:37,760 Look what I did here. Well, that's because of me. 541 00:37:39,240 --> 00:37:42,560 No, it's not. It's because of the Lord. 542 00:37:43,760 --> 00:37:49,400 God's doing those workings you can think about. 543 00:37:50,280 --> 00:37:53,200 I bought a house. Yeah, you did. 544 00:37:54,720 --> 00:37:57,920 But you have a house because of what God has given you. 545 00:37:59,000 --> 00:38:02,160 It's from, it's from the Lord. What do you have that you did 546 00:38:02,400 --> 00:38:04,840 not receive? Absolutely nothing. 547 00:38:05,240 --> 00:38:08,360 Not just in the spiritual realm, but in the physical realm as 548 00:38:08,360 --> 00:38:10,880 well. That's why I love what James 549 00:38:10,880 --> 00:38:13,680 says. He says, come now, you who say 550 00:38:13,800 --> 00:38:16,880 today or tomorrow we will go to such and such a city, spend a 551 00:38:16,880 --> 00:38:19,560 year there and engage in business and make a profit. 552 00:38:21,680 --> 00:38:29,200 He says, you who say that I have a plan and this is my plan, I'm 553 00:38:29,200 --> 00:38:32,040 going to make a profit, I'm going to move here, I'm going to 554 00:38:32,040 --> 00:38:34,320 do this and I'm going to this is my plan. 555 00:38:35,120 --> 00:38:37,800 He says, yet you do not know what your life will be like 556 00:38:37,800 --> 00:38:40,160 tomorrow. You are just a vapor that 557 00:38:40,160 --> 00:38:42,760 appears for a little while and then vanishes away. 558 00:38:42,760 --> 00:38:47,520 Instead, you ought to say, if the Lord wills, we will live and 559 00:38:47,520 --> 00:38:52,360 also do this or that. And then he says this. 560 00:38:53,120 --> 00:39:00,400 But as it is, you boast in your arrogance and all such boasting 561 00:39:00,440 --> 00:39:05,240 is evil. When you make your plans, 562 00:39:07,120 --> 00:39:11,560 ignoring the Spirit of God, the dwelling of God, the moving of 563 00:39:11,560 --> 00:39:15,120 God in your life, you're just arrogant. 564 00:39:16,400 --> 00:39:18,000 You're boasting your own arrogance. 565 00:39:18,320 --> 00:39:21,360 I'm going to do this, I'm going to take this job. 566 00:39:21,360 --> 00:39:22,960 I'm going to move here. I'm going to do that. 567 00:39:25,200 --> 00:39:30,280 Jesus, if the Lord wills, that should be your prayer. 568 00:39:31,800 --> 00:39:35,160 Listen to these words. So true. 569 00:39:36,720 --> 00:39:44,400 Jeremiah, Jeremiah 10 verse #23 I know, O Lord, that a man's way 570 00:39:44,400 --> 00:39:49,880 is not in himself. I know I can't run my own life, 571 00:39:51,240 --> 00:39:57,400 nor is it in a man who walks to direct his steps. 572 00:39:59,120 --> 00:40:00,480 But you know what? We think we can. 573 00:40:02,920 --> 00:40:04,680 That's why you're not a great prophet like Jeremiah. 574 00:40:05,880 --> 00:40:07,240 Because you see, he knew he couldn't. 575 00:40:07,320 --> 00:40:08,640 He couldn't direct his own steps. 576 00:40:08,920 --> 00:40:11,960 He couldn't make his own plans. Why? 577 00:40:12,880 --> 00:40:15,640 Because the Lord's in charge, he says. 578 00:40:15,640 --> 00:40:21,320 Correct me, oh Lord. Put me on the right path, and 579 00:40:21,320 --> 00:40:27,080 then this one, Psalm 143 verse #10 teach me to do Your will, 580 00:40:27,560 --> 00:40:31,960 for You are my God. Let Your good Spirit lead me on 581 00:40:32,160 --> 00:40:35,920 smooth, level ground for the sake of Your name. 582 00:40:35,920 --> 00:40:40,200 Isn't that great? Teach me, Lord, Your will. 583 00:40:40,440 --> 00:40:43,040 I want to know your will, Lord. I want to know Your will for my 584 00:40:43,040 --> 00:40:49,160 life, for You're my God. Let your good spirit lead me. 585 00:40:50,280 --> 00:40:55,560 That's the cry of the believer. That's Spirit. 586 00:40:56,600 --> 00:41:00,600 Isaiah 11 verse #2 is described as the spirit of wisdom, 587 00:41:00,880 --> 00:41:04,120 understanding, counsel, strength, and knowledge. 588 00:41:05,400 --> 00:41:08,240 The Spirit that you have within you is the spirit of knowledge, 589 00:41:08,320 --> 00:41:10,600 strength, understanding, and counsel. 590 00:41:11,920 --> 00:41:15,240 That's why God says, I'm going to give you my counselor, I'm 591 00:41:15,240 --> 00:41:18,120 going to give you my guide, I'm going to give you my teacher, 592 00:41:18,160 --> 00:41:21,240 I'm going to give you my wisdom. Why? 593 00:41:21,880 --> 00:41:23,800 Because I want you to have the mind of Christ. 594 00:41:24,800 --> 00:41:28,400 That's who lives within us, the Spirit of God. 595 00:41:29,360 --> 00:41:32,800 So why would we seek counsel outside the Spirit of God and 596 00:41:32,800 --> 00:41:34,560 outside the Scriptures that He's given to us? 597 00:41:35,200 --> 00:41:40,760 Why would we do that when He's given us the Spirit of power, of 598 00:41:40,760 --> 00:41:47,080 love and self-discipline? That's a spirit that lives 599 00:41:47,080 --> 00:41:52,400 within us. But when we, because of our own 600 00:41:52,400 --> 00:42:01,120 sinful nature, downplay the Spirit's working to upplay our 601 00:42:01,120 --> 00:42:08,080 working, we've quenched the Spirit one more. 602 00:42:10,520 --> 00:42:11,840 This will lead us into next week. 603 00:42:13,480 --> 00:42:18,080 You quench the Spirit when you despise prophetic utterances, 604 00:42:18,760 --> 00:42:26,680 which is the next verse verse #20 when you degrade, when you 605 00:42:27,080 --> 00:42:36,280 look down upon, treat as irrelevant God's holy Word. 606 00:42:37,840 --> 00:42:43,720 Why? Because the word inspired is as 607 00:42:43,720 --> 00:42:52,000 equal to the Word Incarnate. Psalm 138, verse #2 it says, 608 00:42:53,000 --> 00:42:57,480 Thou has magnified thy word even as thy very name. 609 00:42:59,320 --> 00:43:01,120 At the name of Jesus, every knee will bow. 610 00:43:02,400 --> 00:43:04,200 At the Word of God, every knee will bow. 611 00:43:05,320 --> 00:43:07,680 Because the Word of God inspired is from the Word of God 612 00:43:07,680 --> 00:43:11,200 Incarnate, and they're on the equal plane. 613 00:43:13,760 --> 00:43:21,320 Solomon says Proverbs 13 verse #13 The one who despises the 614 00:43:21,320 --> 00:43:32,600 word will be destroyed by the word, he says, but the one who 615 00:43:32,600 --> 00:43:37,200 fears the commandment will be rewarded. 616 00:43:38,640 --> 00:43:41,600 The one who reveres commandment is rewarded. 617 00:43:41,800 --> 00:43:45,120 Those who despise it will be in debt to it, and they will be 618 00:43:45,120 --> 00:43:49,000 destroyed by it. That's why you can't ever afford 619 00:43:49,000 --> 00:43:54,280 to despise prophetic utterances over in Second Chronicles 620 00:43:54,280 --> 00:44:00,840 chapter 36, which is the last chapter in the Jewish Bible. 621 00:44:01,200 --> 00:44:04,000 It's not the book of Malachi, it's the book of Second 622 00:44:04,000 --> 00:44:07,960 Chronicles because the Jewish Bible ends with the destruction 623 00:44:07,960 --> 00:44:10,400 of Jerusalem on the Temple Mount. 624 00:44:10,400 --> 00:44:16,080 That's why the Jews stand at the wailing Western waiting wall, 625 00:44:16,080 --> 00:44:20,400 whatever you want to call it, and mourn what is taking place 626 00:44:21,400 --> 00:44:24,000 because the Bible ends in Second Chronicles 36. 627 00:44:24,480 --> 00:44:29,520 The Jewish Bible and how does it end, ends this way. 628 00:44:30,760 --> 00:44:34,760 The Lord, that the God of your Father's sent word to Israel 629 00:44:34,840 --> 00:44:42,560 again and again and again by His messengers, His prophets, 630 00:44:45,160 --> 00:44:47,800 because He had compassion on His people and on His dwelling 631 00:44:47,800 --> 00:44:50,520 place. Why did God keep sending 632 00:44:50,520 --> 00:44:54,360 prophets over and over again, different ones of them? 633 00:44:56,160 --> 00:44:58,240 Because God had compassion on His people and His dwelling 634 00:44:58,240 --> 00:45:00,040 place. What? 635 00:45:00,040 --> 00:45:01,920 Why does what? Why does God keep you coming to 636 00:45:01,920 --> 00:45:04,520 hear the word of the Lord? Because He has compassion on 637 00:45:04,520 --> 00:45:07,520 you. He wants to teach you. 638 00:45:07,760 --> 00:45:12,360 He wants to grow you. And so He just keeps giving you 639 00:45:12,360 --> 00:45:15,360 the same message over and over and over again. 640 00:45:17,480 --> 00:45:23,520 Verse 16 But they continually mocked the messengers of God. 641 00:45:24,800 --> 00:45:28,560 Imagine that. Mocking Jeremiah, mocking 642 00:45:28,560 --> 00:45:37,960 Isaiah, mocking Daniel, mocking Amos, mocking all these great 643 00:45:37,960 --> 00:45:40,240 men of God who came to bring the message. 644 00:45:40,240 --> 00:45:42,720 But that's what they did. They mocked them, made fun of 645 00:45:42,720 --> 00:45:49,480 them, scoffed at them. They continually mocked the 646 00:45:49,480 --> 00:45:56,400 messages of God, and they despised His words, God's words, 647 00:45:57,520 --> 00:46:05,280 and scoffed at His prophets. They despise the word of God, 648 00:46:06,760 --> 00:46:12,480 they scoffed at His prophets. They mocked the men that God had 649 00:46:12,480 --> 00:46:21,680 sent until the wrath of the Lord arose against his people, until 650 00:46:22,920 --> 00:46:28,360 there was no remedy. How sad is that? 651 00:46:30,480 --> 00:46:33,480 There was no longer a remedy. There was no longer an answer. 652 00:46:34,840 --> 00:46:39,160 The word of the Lord kept coming over and over and over again. 653 00:46:40,320 --> 00:46:43,680 And they despise the prophets, they despise his messengers. 654 00:46:43,800 --> 00:46:46,840 They scoffed at them over and over again. 655 00:46:47,280 --> 00:46:50,960 They just treated their words as if they meant nothing. 656 00:46:52,120 --> 00:46:54,240 But they were the words of God, see? 657 00:46:56,200 --> 00:47:00,600 So the wrath of God was kindled against them until there was 658 00:47:00,600 --> 00:47:02,960 absolutely no longer a remedy for them. 659 00:47:04,200 --> 00:47:08,880 Jerusalem was destroyed. Israel's never been the same. 660 00:47:10,080 --> 00:47:13,680 How sad is that? So incredibly sad. 661 00:47:15,200 --> 00:47:18,600 I I say that because how do we quench the Spirit? 662 00:47:20,200 --> 00:47:23,240 But by looking down upon the commands of God, the prophetic 663 00:47:23,240 --> 00:47:26,760 utterances of God, the words that God has given to us, 664 00:47:26,760 --> 00:47:30,000 whether they're inspired words, whether it's the Incarnate Word, 665 00:47:30,960 --> 00:47:34,680 by looking down upon that word and treating it as if it means 666 00:47:34,680 --> 00:47:39,680 nothing but around, he means everything because it's a 667 00:47:39,680 --> 00:47:41,360 treasure of God's word in their lives. 668 00:47:43,000 --> 00:47:45,560 So Paul says to those in Destin, I could don't quench the Spirit. 669 00:47:46,440 --> 00:47:48,080 Don't stifle the work in the Spirit. 670 00:47:48,520 --> 00:47:51,720 Don't smother his influence and power in your life. 671 00:47:52,440 --> 00:47:56,800 Don't do that. Instead, fan the flame, throw 672 00:47:56,800 --> 00:48:02,840 wood in the fire, rekindle afresh the Spirit of God and be 673 00:48:02,840 --> 00:48:07,440 used for the glory of God. May God give us the grace never 674 00:48:07,440 --> 00:48:12,000 to quench the Spirit, so that we in turn then grieve the Spirit, 675 00:48:13,480 --> 00:48:18,320 but maybe walk in the Spirit, taking each step in the presence 676 00:48:18,320 --> 00:48:20,320 of the living God. Let's pray. 677 00:48:21,000 --> 00:48:25,400 Father, we thank you for today, the opportunity you give us to 678 00:48:25,600 --> 00:48:27,560 spend a brief moment in your word. 679 00:48:28,920 --> 00:48:33,320 We ask that Lord, we would be the kind of people that adhere 680 00:48:33,400 --> 00:48:40,440 to the words of God, that we not just be hearers only, but doers 681 00:48:40,440 --> 00:48:44,840 of the word that actually we we would leave here saying, I'm 682 00:48:44,840 --> 00:48:48,440 going to recognize God in my life, the street of God. 683 00:48:49,840 --> 00:48:52,560 God lives in me. I'm going to exercise my 684 00:48:52,560 --> 00:48:55,680 giftedness for the glory of God. I'm going to obey the commands 685 00:48:55,680 --> 00:48:57,280 of God, not disobey the commands of God. 686 00:48:58,480 --> 00:49:00,760 I don't want any glory. I want all the glory to go to 687 00:49:00,760 --> 00:49:04,080 the Lord. I don't want to trust in myself. 688 00:49:05,240 --> 00:49:07,720 I want to trust in the spirits working in my life. 689 00:49:07,720 --> 00:49:12,520 And I want to make sure when I hear the word of God, I don't 690 00:49:12,520 --> 00:49:18,320 look down upon it, but then I Revere it for what it truly is, 691 00:49:18,520 --> 00:49:21,560 God's holy word. That's our prayer. 692 00:49:21,560 --> 00:49:23,800 Lord in Jesus name, Amen.