 wanted to ask you guys church where is Jesus in your heart where is Jesus huh with us yes and no yes and no Jesus right now is not here with us you might be like oh what are you talking about well let me burst that bubble Jesus right now he's in heaven he's as Joe said he's sitting at the right hand of the father he's not here who is here amen the Holy Spirit is here so when when Jesus was on earth this is what he said in John chapter 14 he says he says if you love me John chapter 14 verse 15 and so on if you love me keep my commandments and I will pray the Father and he will give you another helper that he may abide with you forever the Spirit of truth whom the world cannot receive because it neither sees him nor knows him but you know him for he dwells with you but will be in you I will not leave you as orphans I will come to you so Jesus is not here Jesus did his work now his work when he was walking on earth is is the cross he came to pay for the sins of the world because apart from Jesus mean you we cannot be saved on our own good works we mean you cannot receive salvation mean you cannot enter into heaven mean you cannot be reconciled back to God so Jesus came on earth he walked on earth healed the blind healed the sick did every supernatural miracle walked on water but he did his part and then he says these words in verse John 16 verse verse 7 nevertheless I tell you the truth it is to your advantage that I go away it is better that I go away now if you would walk with Jesus and see him healed the blind and see him walk with walk on water would you think it's better for you that he leaves I mean do you think Peter goes like Lord are you out of your mind what are you telling me that it's better for me for you to that I leave Jesus when you walked on water and you told me to come and I started to sink and I cried out to you what did you do you pulled me out why would it be better for Jesus to leave now think about this the disciples walked with Jesus and even Peter himself said Lord I will never deny you ever you can count on me but little did Peter know that on his own strength he couldn't do it you see Jesus in all his glory could affect the surroundings of his disciples but he couldn't live inside of them you see the children of Israel in the Old Testament they seen miracles that that mean you have never seen I mean have you ever seen the Columbia River split in two have you ever seen man a fall from heaven have you ever seen a cloud by day and a fire by night to guide you incredible incredible miracles but even they them when they saw all these miracles they complained they murmured they went into sin they committed sexual immorality they they did all this junk why why because their insides was not changed their outside was impacted but their inside of them was not changed I like what Jesus says in John 15 in John 14 verse 18 he says I will not leave you as orphans do you know what an orphan is have you ever felt like an orphan have you ever felt you have to do it on your own strength an orphan is somebody that that had a father had a mother but then the mother and the father left him or the mom and the dad died and now that that that little child has to make it on their own strength I love what Jesus said I will not leave you as orphans you don't have to do life on your own strength Christianity is not coming to Jesus and then trying to make it on your own strength because sometimes we feel like that I will pray the father and he will give you another helper that he may abide with you forever the spirit of truth for he dwells with you and he will be in you he dwells with you see before salvation he dwells around you because apart from the Holy Spirit you cannot receive Jesus the Holy Spirit reveals Jesus to you see the Holy Spirit does not talk about himself he points you to Jesus so before salvation he's around you when you receive Jesus he lives in you but then there's another manifestation or I don't even know how to explain it is when you're baptized in the Holy Spirit when you're baptized in fire when you're submerged in God when he when when he affects your senses you see church Jesus himself left all his God attributes in heaven and came to earth as a man he was a hundred percent man and a hundred percent God but he didn't use his divine God attributes meaning like when he was tempted in the wilderness to make that stone bread he didn't use God's superpower to make it bread what I mean by that he he fully submitted himself to the Holy Spirit and walked a submitted life to the Holy Spirit and the Holy Spirit led him ABCD to show us an example how we can make it on this earth do you understand what I'm trying to explain church we have we have Holy Spirit here on earth if we can learn how to partner with him we can be effective in our business in our marriage in our careers in our everyday life does that make sense have you ever try to serve God on your own strength how did that do for you no think I'm being I'm being genuine I'm not I'm not trying to be funny or I'm not trying to be like how did it how did you do when you try to serve God on your own strength we can't we cannot you know if you think that by your good works you can earn something some kind of privileges with God it's not gonna happen in the Old Testament Moses gave him the law and it just showed us that we couldn't keep it because there's something inside of us that is broken that through Jesus we we get reconciled and through the grace of the Holy Spirit we can keep we can keep God's laws when he empowers us not on our own strength we can't do it on our own strength how much do we need the Holy Spirit in our lives now the beautiful thing about about the Holy Spirit is when Jesus was saying it's to your advantage that I leave because if Jesus was still walked on earth and you had and you had a question that you wanted to ask him well you would have to get in line because Peter would be the first person to talk and then the other disciples and then Jesus would have to sleep 12 hours and then Jesus came to the Jews not the Gentiles so me and you were in the Gentiles so we'd be we'll be we'd be last class you know when you go to the airport and you go and you go on the in the what's your my called the plane and the Jews would be the business class we'd be all the way in the back it's true so the Holy Spirit can be with every single one of us in Brazil in Africa and in different parts of the world and when Jesus said another helper meaning not like a different kind but a same kind just like Jesus because Jesus relied on the Holy Spirit himself the Holy Spirit is God amen so open up to Ephesians but before we talk about that in Ephesians I want to let's mention a couple things what the Holy Spirit is not even though the Bible mentions him mentions him as a wind as a dove as a as a oil as fire a force a cloud rain power church we cannot have a relationship with oil you cannot talk to the wind just because the Bible says the Holy Spirit descended as a dove that does not mean the Holy Spirit is a dove now if she ran like a horse does that make her a horse if she ran like the wind it's that make the person the wind and just like that in the Bible just because the Holy Spirit descended like a dove does not mean the Holy Spirit is a dove I know I'm preaching to the choir because you probably heard the best already from here that's why when you go to different places man they just take everything that you have to say we need to have a relationship with the Holy Spirit we need to develop a relationship more and more because if we cannot do it on our own strength we need the Holy Spirit in our lives the Holy Spirit he's a person he's God he has a will he has emotions in the book of Acts when when they were making the decision they said it seemed good to us and the Holy Spirit they had such a close relationship with the Holy Spirit that that they already knew his heart church we're not called to do this life on our own the Holy Spirit is not for special people it's given for every single one of us that Jesus calls him a helper he wants to help you in every day and every single area of your life but the problem is this is the problem is because the Holy Spirit is a person just like any person like my wife I can grieve my wife by being mean to her I've done that and had to say sorry the Holy Spirit can be grieved he can be quenched he can be grieved like in Ephesians it talks about grieving him with anger with lying stealing gossiping hurting others speaking corrupt words bitterness wrath sexual immorality unforgiving grieves the Holy Spirit when you talk about people you gossip it grieves the Holy Spirit church God loves people God died for people God is coming back for people people are broken if you talk about people negatively you're partnering with the wrong spirit because God's heart is to save as much more as many as possible as many that will receive him as many that he can help God wants to help as much people as he can so when we when you gossip when you're negative you're critical you're not partnering with the Holy Spirit the Holy Spirit has nothing to do with that at all at all he loves people he wants to help people he's here to help us to go to the next level gossiping malice all that hurtful stuff it's it's partnering with another spirit that is not of God it grieves him it quenches him how can we quench the Holy Spirit see the word quench is if I had a fire here and I would take water and I pour it on the fire I would quench that fire something is burning and I would put it out do you know how we can quench though quench the Holy Spirit is I'll tell you a couple a couple of ways when we despise the things of the spirit Bible says don't despise prophecy it does say judge all things but it says don't despise it when you mock the things of God like for example the manifestations of the Holy Spirit you don't understand you might not understand it like for example people falling or people are doing this they they're they're being touched by the by the Holy Spirit and it doesn't register in your head and you might laugh at it or you might mock it you're quenching it you're quenching it first of all in your own heart if you don't understand the the the moves of the Holy Spirit or it doesn't register in your mind just zip your lip the Pharisees when Jesus came on earth you think they they liked what Jesus did when he spat on the ground made mudballs and put it on that their eyes they said not of God no not of God I we know the father Jesus we don't know you Jesus is not here on earth the Holy Spirit is here so if we despise the moves of the Holy Spirit work we quench him number one in our heart we quench him from from from from touching more people's lives if you have laughed or mocked or because of your you don't understand there's many things I don't understand you know when when the angel came to Mary and said you're gonna you're gonna receive Jesus I mean you're gonna be birth of a virgin and the Holy Spirit's gonna come upon you you're gonna give birth to Jesus did you know what Mary did she didn't laugh at it she didn't mock it this is what she did she put it on a shelf of her heart she put it on in her heart she's like God I don't understand it but I'm just gonna put it there I'm not gonna laugh at it God I'm your servant you can do whatever you want to do in me and God manifested Jesus through her this is important because the Holy Spirit's on here he he can be grieved and he can be quenched we we are praying for a revival we're praying for God but if a revival comes to you in a way that you don't understand what are you gonna do are you gonna put it out because the church if you look if you look at and you study history that people prayed for a revival but when revival came the church didn't receive it that's why you can see all the moves of God happen somewhere outside of the outside of church they despised they quenched they grieved and and they want they want revival but they want revival the way they know they the way they like it but let me tell you God ain't gonna fit into your bubble look in the Old Testament God moved with Samson this way God moved with David this way God moved with Gideon this way one thing one of the pastors that I used to be a part of in the church said said God is not a copy machine he's not a copy machine then just copies copies copies copies God says I make all things new but we but we as a church need to be very careful not to grieve him and not to quench him because when Jesus was talking to Nicodemus and he talked about the Holy Spirit he says the Holy Spirit he's like a wind he comes in and he leaves you don't know when he comes and you don't know when he leaves he does what he wants to do but we as a church we have to be important to receive him to honor him and to give him access to do what he wants to do amen do you want to see salvation's do you want to see healings deliverance miracles that is the finger of God which is the Holy Spirit it's through the Holy Spirit that these things will happen amen amen so maybe at the end we will ask the Holy Spirit for forgiveness and any shape or form if we had thoughts do you know that when Jesus walked and he perceived the thoughts of the Pharisees the Bible says the anointing in the power of God was there to heal and the Pharisees thought in within and who does he think he is and they didn't honor Jesus and they didn't receive anything for them in our thoughts and our heart and our words and our action because the Holy Spirit he's here he's on earth he must be honored if the president of the United States or or the mayor that would come into this room you would give him your most attention your honor why because he's an important person is there anybody more important than God so if the Holy Spirit which is God is here we need to honor him some of us needs to give our life to Jesus in order to receive the Holy Spirit to live inside of us he's working around you but he's not yet in you you need to give your life to Jesus others of you you need to be baptized in his fire other of us needs to be filled the Bible says don't be filled with wine but be filled with the Holy Spirit we need that church there's a hunger in Brazil you know we live here in America and because of the abundance of things our dependence on God is so low one thing I noticed when I've been in Brazil how even that family that has is living there how how so much they are depending on God I've noticed that because they need God and because you have so much here in America I can do it on my own on my own strength why do it on your own strength when you can have when you can do it on his God can help you in your marriage in your business in your career in your schooling you know in the Bible the Bible says Daniel was 10 times wiser than all the magicians simply because he prayed not even having the Holy Spirit inside of him how much more we having the Holy Spirit can be effective in God's kingdom and on earth amen so open up to Galatians Galatians 5 verse 22 says but the fruit of the Spirit is love joy peace long-suffering kindness goodness faithfulness gentleness and self-control and because of such things against such things against such there is no law when you follow the Holy Spirit you do not need rules Christianity is not a religion it's not a candle it's not a rule it's not something don't do this and don't do that it's not that when you have love inside of you you do not need a rule don't kill anybody did you know that the Bible says rules were given to to to the immoral the sexual immoral the lawless the rebellious rules were given to them because they need rules because they don't have anything inside of them to tell them don't do that they need they needed that and we are not given that we are not given a rule don't do this don't do this go to you can watch that movie you can't watch that movie you can see this you can't see this you're not given those kind of rules when you're filled with the Holy Spirit you have love you have peace you have joy that stuff flows out of your heart and you don't need any kind of rules you know that the Bible says that the law brings about brings about sin if you put rules in you to your life you're you're actually gonna do the opposite of actually following God because your nature your sinful nature is gonna be like going to that thing have ever have ever tell a kid don't do this next thing you want to next thing they do is they do that they do that they do that church we have a different law that God has given us the law of life the law of life God didn't give you rules he he gave those laws and the problem is the children of Israel and the rest of the people they couldn't keep him he gave you the Holy Spirit now if you develop a relationship with him if you get to know what he likes if you get to know what he hates and you make a close relationship like like they had in the book in the in the book of Acts it seemed good to us and the Holy Spirit when you have that relationship and you walk through life God will lead you and God will guide you but you got to submit your life to him it's not your will it's his will I like what Pastor Vlad says if you want to walk in the Holy Spirit you need to talk to the Holy Spirit amen let's stand I want you to place your hand on your heart and I want you to repeat after me ask God say Lord draw my heart oh Holy Spirit that I may love only what is holy acting me oh Holy Spirit that my works too may be holy breathing me oh Holy Spirit that my thoughts may be holy strengthen me oh Holy Spirit to defend all that is holy guard me oh Holy Spirit that I may always be holy guide me oh Holy Spirit that at all times I may do what is right in your sight begin to open up your heart begin to open up your heart and ask God if there's any shape or form maybe you have offended the Holy Spirit maybe by maybe you have grieved and maybe you've spoken bad about other people maybe you have quenching maybe you have laughed by not knowing you know you can see things in the natural but you do not know what's happening in the spiritual world you might in your heart maybe you have mocked mocked in any shape or form begin to ask him to forgive you begin to ask him any shape or form you have grieved him in any way Holy Spirit is a lover he wants to help you he wants to be there for you he's he has given to you as a companion in Corinthians it talks about made the made the when I it says the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God in the communion of the Holy Spirit be with you all we talked we pray to Jesus we pray to the Father but we talk to the Holy Spirit because he has given he has been given to us alongside of this journey of life he will take you from point A to point B he will take you through a broken relationship to to a healthy one he will he will lead you in your tough time and the moments in life when it gets really really hard he will be there because he will never leave you and he'll never forsake you but ask him to forgive you to wash you and to cleanse you that your relationship with him would be such so close that you will know what God's will is for your life hey this is Pastor Vlad and thank you for watching this sermon please click on the subscribe so that you can be a part of our hungry generation YouTube community and click on the bell as well so that you can be notified when we upload the new sermon thank you for watching and God bless you