 Right now, I want us to prepare our hearts to receive some more the Word of God because the Word of God is life. It sustains us and keeps us. And I'm going to continue on talking about actually exactly what pastor was talking about. I'm going to talk about the Holy Spirit. And we're going to talk a little bit about the function of the Holy Spirit in our life and what he's here to do. And just going to continue on talking about what the pastor has started in our life. It's important, like pastor said, it is important for our lives to know the person of the Holy Spirit, to know his characteristics, to have fellowship with the Holy Spirit. Because we're in this world where it's not just fun and games, but we're in a world of battle and the world of war, where there is a tag always between the evil spirit and the Holy Spirit. There's a battle between the kingdom of light and the kingdom of darkness. And so we need the Holy Spirit in our lives so that we can live out the life that God has for us. So we can overcome every single day of our life. We can overcome every single issue in our life. Amen? So let's open to 1 Corinthians 2 verse 12. And we have received God's spirit, not the world spirit, so we can know the wonderful things that God has freely given to us. Bible declares that we have received the Holy Spirit on a day of our salvation. So the moment we've received, the moment we've given our life to Jesus Christ, Holy Spirit comes to live in our heart. We become and dwell in for the Holy Spirit. The Bible says that we are the temple of the Holy Spirit. And that's why pastor was encouraging us and telling us that the way to work with Holy Spirit and fellowship with the Holy Spirit is to keep our temple holy. To not defy our temple and this way Holy Spirit can live in his temple. You don't like to live in a dirty house, you don't like to live in a messy house, neither does the Holy Spirit. So that's why the way to live with Holy Spirit is Holy. He likes to live in a holy place. But Bible declares and says that on a day of our salvation, Holy Spirit comes to live in our heart. And this scripture declares to us that we have received God's spirit. And we receive God's spirit for a purpose, for a reason. And his purpose in this scripture declares that so that he will get, so he can reveal to us and bring us a revelation of the things that God has freely given us. Holy Spirit was given us and we can do two things with Him. As Christians we can only do two things with the Holy Spirit. We can either live and have communion and fellowship with the Holy Spirit or we can ignore Him. And sadly a lot of Christians, they come to the place where a lot of Christians, when they get saved and they receive the Holy Spirit and that's all that comes to us for the Holy Spirit. They don't grow in the knowledge of Him. They don't develop relationship with Him. They don't develop understanding of Him. They don't grow in knowledge with Him. And Holy Spirit is like a spare tire in their car. And imagine having a person that, for example, like we were at the wedding yesterday, imagine two people getting married for life and celebrating their marriage and never speaking to each other again. Or imagine you're going on a long trip and you have a partner that sits in a car with you and you never speak to him or her ever again. You never speak on a trip. And that's just, that's how a lot of Christians live their life. When they come, when they get saved, is that they ignore the Holy Spirit. But I'm happy, I'm happy to be in a place and I'm happy to know and have a revelation of the Holy Spirit and I'm happy to be in a church where we constantly talk about Holy Spirit and the Holy Spirit as our partner and encouraging each other to always grow in the Holy Spirit. So that we as Christians, we don't live a life, a life that is, a life that is just without Holy Spirit, without His power and without knowing Him, without going further with Him. Holy Spirit is God and Holy Spirit is a person, like the pastor already explained to us. He is a person that has his own thoughts, his own will, he has his own characteristic and just because he doesn't have a body, he still is a person and we need to develop a relationship with the Holy Spirit because the Bible declares that Holy Spirit is within us and we can do two things. We can either grow with Him or we can ignore Him. Jesus in His life did everything with the Holy Spirit. Starting from His conception, He was conceived by the Holy Spirit. When He grew up, He was led by the Holy Spirit. He was anointed by the Holy Spirit. The first sermon Jesus preached was about the Holy Spirit and the last message, the last words that He spoke before He went to heaven was about the Holy Spirit. We see that the Holy Spirit came upon disciples and the Holy Spirit led them and we see throughout the whole New Testament that the Holy Spirit did great things through the life of apostles because we know that the Holy Spirit, because apostles, they ministered Bible says to the Holy Spirit, they knew of the Holy Spirit, they asked of the Holy Spirit and they worked with Him and God, through the Holy Spirit, He did a lot of great things in their lives so we know with the help of the Holy Spirit that apostles did a lot of healings. They set people free. They conquered continents. They were teleported from one place to another. We know in the Bible we see that men and women of God were anointed by the Holy Spirit. They were able to shut the mouth of lions. They were able to feed multitudes and thousands. They were able to conquer the armies of the Holy Spirit that we were able to do a lot. And so we as Christians, we as the followers of Jesus Christ, we need to realize and recognize the power that the Holy Spirit has, the fellowship that we can have with the Holy Spirit and what the Holy Spirit has to offer. The reward for the relationship with the Holy Spirit is power. We know that every time we choose to work in our relationship with the Holy Spirit, every time we choose to follow the Holy Spirit, every time we choose to develop our relationship with the Holy Spirit, this is not a relationship that takes. It's a relationship that only gives. We know that the Holy Spirit, every person that was ever in contact with the Holy Spirit in partnership with the Holy Spirit, that person was never insignificant, never small, and that person was never insignificant in their life. You know, we see in a life of Elisha when Holy Spirit was upon him, we know that the person that Elisha in other prophets, that the Holy Spirit was upon him, he revealed the secrets of the enemies. He conquered the armies without a sword and a spear, and he did great mighty things. He raised people from the dead and fed people supernaturally. Every person that was used by the Holy Spirit never remained small. They always walked in the power of God. And we know even from the life of a prophet, Elisha was just celebrated his 52nd birthday. We know that a person coming out of such a poverty, coming out of a village that nobody even knows of in that place, a person that nobody knows, but because the Holy Spirit rested upon him, because he chose to develop his relationship and fellowship with the Holy Spirit, now today, kings and queens come and await his council, await his presidents and prime minister come and await to see, to hear the word of God from him, simply because he chose to not ignore the person of the Holy Spirit, but to develop a fellowship with the Holy Spirit. Every time we choose to fellowship with the Holy Spirit, every time we choose to have association and communion with the Holy Spirit, we will be blessed, we will be on the top, we will never be on the bottom, amen? They say that show me who your friends are and I will tell you who you will be or who you are. And if we allow Holy Spirit to become our best friend, to our dearest friend, a person that we constantly talk to, a person that we always associate with, we will become great because Holy Spirit is the greatest. And so it's important that we always fellowship with the Holy Spirit. It's important that we have great relationship and association with the Holy Spirit, amen? Second part of this verse says that the reason why we need to have the fellowship with the Holy Spirit is because only Holy Spirit he can bring the knowledge, he can reveal to us free, he can reveal the wonderful things that God has freely given us. That means only Holy Spirit can bring us a revelation of God's word. We know that having the Bible, the Bible is not a means to itself. The Bible is to reveal to us the God of the Bible. And only Holy Spirit can bring us that revelation of God. Without Holy Spirit Bible says that through Holy Spirit we get to know the Father. Having a Bible, having a Scripture that's not all that it takes to get to know the Father and to know His promises, to know what God has for us. Because we know in many colleges and universities and institutes you can take a course, you can take a class where professors will tell you the history of the Bible that will explain the things of the Bible and most of them will be they're not even Christians. They will just present to you a Bible from the historical standpoint of you and from a moral standpoint of you. And it takes only Holy Spirit and it takes His presence to bring to us a revelation of His word and bring to us revelation what God has in store for us. Amen? Because Bible can be just a written word of God. But only Holy Spirit can bring Ramah, can take out of His word and bring to us the revelation the spoken word of God the word that is in for a season, for this moment, for now. Amen? And so that's why we need to have a fellowship of the Holy Spirit and need to have a relationship with the Holy Spirit so that the word that we read can be can become a revelation in our hearts and we know that without God's word we can't do nothing in our lives. Amen? There was a story that most of you know this story it comes from the book of 4 Dimension that Dr. Yungucho describes these three girls they were at the conference and they really got inspired by the word from God and they when they left the conference they were going back home and they decided instead of going around their own journey they decided to cross the river by walking upon the river and they start quoting the scripture that where Jesus walked in the water and they start quoting that the greater things you shall do and they tried to cross the water and eventually they drowned in that river it's simply because we see in this example is that simply by just quoting the word of God but not having a revelation of the word of God which only Holy Spirit can bring can bring a disaster in our life it will not produce the results that we desire so it's important in our lives that we read the word of God with the Holy Spirit because without Holy Spirit is just a dead letter it's just a law but with the Holy Spirit it becomes alive it reveals who God is it reveals who we are in Him it reveals the promises of God and makes it alive and we can and this way we can possess what the word of God says it reveals who wants to reveal to us the wonderful things that Father has freely given us you know that there is 8000 promises in the word of God there's promises of God for every day of our life for every situation and every season of our life but those 8000 promises don't become they don't become a reality in our life just because they are in the Bible but through the fellowship of the Holy Spirit God begins to bring each promise real makes it real in our lives he begins to bring a revelation of the promise he begins to establish that in our lives and then he begins to that word of God begins to bear fruit and it begins to it begins to work in our lives we can only operate and possess the promises of God that we receive the revelation from the Holy Spirit the Holy Spirit has the Bible has a lot of promises for us and the Holy Spirit wants to bring you to pass in life the promise of healing God says in Exodus chapter 15 verse 26 that I am the God that heals you and God wants to bring that promise to pass into our life the promise of freedom in Psalm 114 says that I will rescue those who love me a promise of prosperity when we'll read Deuteronomy chapter 28 first half of the chapter where God begins to say that he wants to bless us he wants to make us the head and not the tail but only Holy Spirit can bring those verses only Holy Spirit can bring that word as a reality in our life the promises of safety in Psalm 41 Psalm 46 verse 1 says that God says that I am your refuge and restraint God of peace promises of peace in Psalm 41 where God says in Philippians chapter 4 verse 7 that I can give you peace that passes all understanding so we need fellowship with the Holy Spirit so that we can receive the things that God has freely given to us you can think of it as this way God has given you this big treasure box with lots of treasure inside of it that you can survive for the rest of your days upon and not have to worry about anything but Holy Spirit is a key to that treasure box Holy Spirit is the one that opens up the mysteries of God Holy Spirit is the one that brings the revelation to us about who we are, who God is and the promises of God in our life amen so first thing Holy Spirit brings a revelation of His promises second thing Holy Spirit reveals us what future holds John chapter 16 verse 13 says when the spirit of truth comes He will guide you into all truth He will speak He will not speak on His own but will tell you what He has heard He will tell you about the future I mentioned already prophet Elisha when prophet Elisha the spirit of God was on prophet Elisha prophet Elisha would go and tell the king of Israel all the things that the enemy was about to do the way the enemy planned and tried to sabotage the army of the Israelis because Holy Spirit revealed to him the future we see that especially in the ministry prophet Elisha through prophetic ministry we see how many times he comes to a person and begins to tell him the things of the future because Holy Spirit was sent one of the things is to reveal us bring us a revelation of the things of the future many times prophet Elisha would come to a person and would say that this and this is about to happen so in order to avoid it do this and this I remember one particular one which I thought was very interesting he comes to one person and says that you are driving this car and he says yes he said change your front left tire because when you are going to drive I see you when you drive here soon when you are going to drive that tire will explode you are going to get off the road and you are going to hit something and you are going to die so make sure you change make sure that you change that in that tire and so it's a very funny prophecy very interesting prophecy but this is what Holy Spirit was sent to do the traps of the enemy so we can avoid the things that will harm us I remember the story that T.D. Jake shared one time he was at his house well this particular time he's always at his house but this particular time every Sunday morning he goes to this one side of his house where his office is at where he usually studies and prepares and prays for Sunday mornings and he does it already and in 10 years he does the same thing wakes up at the same time on Sunday morning goes to that room and he prays he reads the Bible, he finished preparing for his message and he says the story he says one morning he just woke up and Jesus felt like in his spirit not to go into that room and just to take time and just in his bedroom just to prepare for his message and just not to go to that side of the house he really felt strongly he takes him to church he said hey I'm going to come an hour later to church today so don't come and pick me up right exact that moment where he usually studies and he's in that room in his office and back of his house right at that moment where he's usually there the guest line explodes and half of that house just gets shattered into pieces and his life is spared put a prompt in his heart revealing the future and he stayed back in his house where he was at safety and his life was spared so Holy Spirit was given to us to reveal the future to reveal the schemes of the enemy so that we can be spared but also Holy Spirit reveals the future through visions and dreams he shows us the things that he wants to accomplish in our lives the things he wants to bring to past he gives us the desires he gives us the visions and dreams what we can achieve what we could be if we would work with him if we would believe him and if we would continue to fellowship and work with him amen we know especially through the book of four dimension where Dr. Yung Choo describes and tells us that the language of the Holy Spirit is through visions and dreams and we can present the visions and dreams that the Holy Spirit is inspiring us with to create the future that we desire just like through fear through shame and guilt Satan comes and establishes a future that we don't desire so is through visions and dreams Holy Spirit can begin to bring and reveal us the future and bring that future that we desire to past amen and so it's so important that we choose not to ignore the Holy Spirit but we choose to develop a relationship and fellowship with him so that he can reveal those wonderful things things of the future in our lives that Father wants to so freely give us amen church and the last thing is the Holy Spirit reveals to us the Father's heart His Holy Spirit comes to us so that we can take a peek at Father's heart so we can see what the Father's heart is all about and if we read in 1 Corinthians 2-10 just few verses about it says that Holy Spirit reveals to us the deep things of God and I want to tell you today that Father's heart is still about people Father's heart is still about saving people he still reveals that God so loves the world Bible says that he sent his only son because he loves the world but it wasn't the only time God still loves the world and God still cares for the world that's why he did send the Holy Spirit so we will receive a revelation of who God is we will receive a revelation of what God's heart is all about what he cares the most I remember reading a book of Good Morning Holy Spirit Pastor Bennyhin explains and he reveals and he talks about the Holy Spirit he says that one thing that you will discover when you are going to begin to work with the Holy Spirit when you are going to begin to have continuous fellowship with the Holy Spirit as you will discover that Holy Spirit and his heart and his passion his compassion is for souls and when Pastor Bennyhin at his early age discover the Holy Spirit he begins to work with the Holy Spirit he begins to find out what's on his heart he begins to have compassion he begins to weep for people that are not saved he begins to pray for his family he begins to see the eternity as it is because only the Holy Spirit can bring the reality of eternity only the Holy Spirit can begin to bring the reality of God's love and God's compassion for people and as he begins to Pastor Bennyhin begins to weep his family got saved and his friends received salvation so Holy Spirit his task is actually on this earth is to reveal God's father's heart to us which is full of love full of compassion and full of love to reach out for people and so the more time we spend with the Holy Spirit the more time we spend associating with the Holy Spirit the more time we spend in getting to know him the more we will receive a revelation of God's promises for our life of the future that God has for us through vision and dreams and the more we will receive God's love for people and the more we will see what the father's heart is all about in Jesus mighty name Amen Church so are we going to continue to live with the Holy Spirit and fellowship with him and so yes let's make a commitment to follow Holy Spirit to live with him every single morning at church our doors open at 4 o'clock and we open this place up for exactly that reason for the fellowship with the Holy Spirit so that we can begin to know what is on God's heart so we can begin to build a relationship with the Holy Spirit