 there's presence there is power and the last thing is there is purpose and the purpose is the presence of God the Holy Spirit brings the power of God the power of God the miracles of God this is to bring the purpose of God into a reality and the purpose of God is to see people come to Jesus people get saved people go to home groups and become leaders now the thought that I wanted to share with you is when before verse 8 before verse 8 the reason why Jesus said you receive power when the Holy Spirit will come upon you is not because disciples were fasting for 40 days to have revival it's because finally Jesus after being risen from the dead the hopes of Messiah crashing roman kingdom were resurrected please understand these people have one thing on their mind killing romans destroying them and finally setting up a kingdom that will rule the whole world like all the prophets predicted so they're not here talking to Jesus we really want to cast our demons heal the sick we just want to build churches Jesus home groups Jesus we just want home groups no these guys have nothing like that under mind the only thing under mind is Jesus is this the time the time for what Jesus knew what they were talking about the time where you become the emperor we become the generals and we go whoa conquer the world since you died that idea died you rose again it came again and Jesus said leave that alone and this is what he said it's none of your business do what i tell you learn about Holy Spirit walk in this power and save people and the other ideas that you have i'll make them happen on my time are you want like disciples today the church is talking about winning souls but you have your own little kingdom that you're trying to set up with God you're like yeah yeah this whole winning souls that's for him and her and them why because they have nothing else going on in their life but for me on the other hand i'm running for an emperor and i just need Jesus to put a signature on the bottom of it are you one of those people who the vision of Jesus the Holy Spirit that's like well this is awesome and cool if i ever get free time which probably will never happen in this life i will definitely check this out sounds very interesting and appealing but right now i'm busy i have school i have so many other things and jesus says listen i can make those things a reality they will become a reality put them into my hands but right now there's something more important than your dreams fantasies and ambitions it's the person of the Holy Spirit it's his power that will flow through your life and the purpose that you will work through in jesus name because someone say man jake up john johnny can you come johnny can you come and uh nice nice he'll go first there's three stages of spiritual life the first stage is the stage of the baby everybody say hi baby it's fine the baby here is a baby one the second stage is the stage of the youth and then the third stage is the stage of the father the stage of the father as a baby there's one characteristic about this young man he needs care he needs care not that this guy doesn't need care but he takes care of himself you know all of this he bought with his own money all of this he didn't buy with his own money mama bought him because he is still being taken care of he's a good kid he's a good guy but he's still being taken care of this guy learns to take care of himself and this guy on the other hand doesn't just take care of himself he takes care of other people this is the year or your purpose for some of us let it make you very practical practical for some of you who just gave any life to jesus you're here you have to let somebody take care of you somebody to check on you somebody to encourage you somebody to tell you listen you're gonna make it when you feel like you want god really loves you when you feel like he doesn't others of you this will be the year you need to grow up cry a river build a bridge and get over it honestly stop stop whining and grow up you don't need people to spoon feed you for 10 years and people cannot be bringing you inviting you to church for god's sake 15 years already and the only thing you're doing is warming up that bench and that's it and you constantly need encouragement and you're like you literally you suck life out of people you come in and there's no air in the room because you're constantly whining constantly complaining constantly god doesn't love me and it's been like this 15 years listen throw away the diapers wipe your face and grow up period because somebody say man the third stage this year will be the year where you if you are that person you feel like you know what i do get on my precious i'm running the race i'm fulfilling my duties nobody needs to invite me to church i'm there a little bit earlier i'm running the race who are you mentoring who is in this church who can say this person is helping me with my spiritual life to do that you have to sacrifice two things time and money time and money and god this is where god wants us all of us to be that's why home groups is for everyone because everyone sooner or later has to grow out of his diapers home groups are not for people who choose to be old not physically but spiritually selfish stagnant complacent bored that is for who home groups are not the rest of us it is the pleasure to work with people who meet jesus it is a privilege to work with people who find jesus there is no better privilege in this world to be a father and they will tell you every father and every mother will tell you having kids it's been the craziest thing in my life they drive me nuts but i would if i would have a chance to do it again i would do it again because they're also the greatest joy of my life having people you help you raise up you pray for you believe in you encourage you love is the joy is the purpose from the baby to the youth to the father