 When you are born again, you receive the Holy Spirit. And as the Holy Spirit begins to do his work in your life, there are signs, there are markers, there are pieces of evidence that manifest in your life. There are things that the Holy Spirit does in and through you that indicate to you that he is at work. So I want to show you seven signs that demonstrate that you have the Holy Spirit. Now maybe there are seasons where you struggle, seasons where you doubt, seasons where you wonder if the Holy Spirit is within you, this message is for you, or maybe you're someone who knows that the Holy Spirit is with you, but you're looking for something to stir your faith to greater measures. Well the Word of God has the power to do that. And as we go through these seven signs, not only are these going to be challenges, not only are these going to be things that will inspire you to go to higher places in your walk with Christ, but these seven signs will also be good markers that will indicate the health of your spiritual life. So seven signs that you have the Holy Spirit. Number one, it's confidence in your salvation. Romans chapter 8 verses 16 and 17 say this, four, and this is powerful, for his spirit joins with our spirit to affirm that we are God's children. And since we are his children, we are heirs in fact, together with Christ, we are heirs of God's glory. But if we are to share his glory, we must also share his suffering. So the Scripture makes it clear here that one of the things that the Holy Spirit does, and in fact, I would dare say this is one of the most important things that the Holy Spirit does in your life. One of the things that he does is he gives you confidence for your salvation. Now right off the bat, I know that there will be some who hear that and maybe become a little fearful. Maybe you say, well sometimes I doubt my salvation, sometimes I wonder if I'm a true Christian, sometimes I question whether or not the Holy Spirit is still remaining with me. And this is why this is almost a catch 22, because in trying to stir your faith, sometimes it can cause you to hear something that's not actually being said, and then you filter that through your fears, and then you become worried. And so someone might hear that and say, well confidence in your salvation, well if confidence in your salvation is a sign that you have the Holy Spirit, then does that mean that when I doubt that I don't have the Holy Spirit? No, that's not what's being said at all. Rather, what I'm talking about here is that inner witness. This, as I said, is perhaps one of the greatest things that the Holy Spirit does. This is probably one of the most important pieces of his ministry work in your life, is he produces confidence in the salvation that God has gifted to you through the work of Christ. He speaks that inner voice. He speaks faith. He speaks words that cause you to be confident. He joins with your spirit to affirm, to make it certain that you belong to God. I want you to write this in the comments section, just as a declaration of faith. I belong to God. Write that right now. Write it full of faith. Write it with confidence. Write it because it's true if you've received Christ as your savior. I belong to God. This confidence in salvation is what is called sometimes the inner witness, where the Holy Spirit speaks to you. The Holy Spirit confirms to you that you belong to God. Sometimes you may feel like a fake. Sometimes because of the inconsistency of your spiritual discipline, you may wonder about your own spirituality. Sometimes you may feel like God is a million miles away. There may be some seasons where you're not seeing the hand of God work in your life, like you've seen him work in other seasons. And if you're not careful, you can allow the outer circumstances to silence the inner witness. Don't allow the outer circumstances of this life to silence the inner witness of the Holy Ghost. For when the Holy Spirit comes to take up residence in you, when you receive Christ as Savior and Lord, the Holy Spirit begins this work and it's from that inner work that we begin to draw faith. It's like a deep well resting within you and you can draw from that well in dry seasons. He opens up rivers in high places, springs in the desert. He makes a way where there seems to be no way. He opens up that confidence, that faith in the seasons where you feel like doubting. In those seasons where you feel like God is distant, the Holy Spirit cries, I will never leave you nor forsake you. In those seasons where you feel like God has overlooked you, the Holy Spirit reminds you that you're the apple of His eye, that He loves you with an everlasting love, that He is fixed on you. In those seasons where you're full of doubt, the Holy Spirit stirs faith. In those seasons where you feel like perhaps maybe you're not one of the true believers, the Holy Spirit reminds you who you really are causing you to not identify with the world but reminding you that truly indeed you do belong to Him and that's the confidence that He produces, that's the inner witness. Now you may say, well I don't have that sometimes, but I'm here to say that this confidence is of the spirit and therefore it is the inner man that has this confidence and if you're quiet enough, if you will silence the voices of negativity, if you will silence the voices in this world, if you will rebuke the enemy with the word causing the secular and the satanic to go quiet, then what's left my friend is the voice of the spirit and the voice of the spirit speaks greater truths. The voice of the spirit speaks heavenly realities. The voice in the world, the voice in your emotions, the voice in your mind, the voice of the enemy may say you don't belong to Him but there's a voice crying out with such power and might, such conviction, such strength based on such truth that you belong to Him. So that's number one, He produces confidence in salvation. Number two, a sign that you have the Holy Spirit is godly character. Galatians chapter 5 verses 22 and 23 say this, but the Holy Spirit produces this kind of fruit in our lives. Love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. There is no law against these things. This is what it means to be spiritual. I think sometimes we have it mixed up in our minds. Sometimes we imagine one thing when actually being spiritual is another thing. Being spiritual isn't talking dramatically. Being spiritual isn't speaking with King James inflections. Being spiritual isn't walking around your house singing hallelujah and angelic choruses of the old hymns. Being spiritual isn't saying things like, well I can see in the spiritual realm, or I have the gift of discernment, or I have the gift of prophecy, or I speak in tongues for hours a day, or oh God gives me dreams and visions. Those are wonderful things, but truly that's not what being spiritual is. You see being spiritual truly, true spirituality is godly character. What good does it do if you can lay hands on the sick, but inwardly your character is rotting? What good does it do if you can prophesy, if you can preach, if you can sing powerfully, worship music, but you lack godly character? What good is it to do something for Jesus without being like Jesus? You see true spirituality cannot be extreme. You've often heard it said well don't be too spiritual. Well you're being too spiritual. Oh that's too spiritual for me. But in reality if you define spirituality as what it truly is, love, joy, peace, patience, well then you can never really be too spiritual. Can you be too loving? Can you be too full of joy? Can you be too filled with peace? No way. So you cannot be too spiritual and this is what the Holy Spirit produces. The greatest demonstration that the Holy Spirit resides in you is the character of Christ being developed in you. There are some who walk in power as we see in Matthew chapter 7. Lord, Lord did we not prophesy in your name? Ah, but he didn't know them did he? Depart from me workers of lawlessness. I never knew you. Why does he say that to them? Because there was no relationship. There was no true connection and because there was no true connection there was no true character. Connection with Christ by the Holy Spirit produces the character of Christ in you. If there's no evidence of the fruit, there's no evidence of Christ in you then perhaps, perhaps either you're not fully surrendering to the Holy Spirit or the Holy Spirit does not reside in you. Yes, speak in tongues, yes prophesy, yes cast out devils, yes heal the sick, but I've seen many who could heal the sick but were very unloving. I've seen many who could cast out devils, oh but they were so full of pride. Some who could prophesy but they had no patience. It's better to have Christ's character than to have Christ's power. Now we do need power in our lives as I'm going to discuss in my next point but I want to make this absolutely clear. If you flow in the gifts but don't know God's glory Christ's character can't develop in you. Therefore probably one of the greatest demonstrations that the Holy Spirit lives in you is the nature of Christ in you. I've seen people who could speak in tongues condemning other Christians for not speaking in tongues when they themselves are full of religious pride and arrogance and in that pride they reveal that either they're not living by the fruit of the Spirit within them or that the fruit of the Spirit is nowhere to be found. So number one signs that the Holy Spirit is in you, signs you have the Holy Spirit. Number one is confidence in your salvation, that inner witness. Number two, godly character, the character of Christ in you. Number three is power. Acts chapter one verse eight says but you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes upon you and you will be my witnesses telling people about me everywhere in Jerusalem throughout Judea in Samaria and to the ends of the earth. Acts one eight talks about the power upon you. First John 2 27 talks about the anointing within you. There are two functions of the Holy Spirit in our lives. One is his power upon us, two is his presence within us. Now we know Psalm 139 7 we know that the presence of the Holy Spirit permeates all places. He's omnipresent everywhere at all times but I'm talking about that influence of the Holy Spirit within us that is the work of salvation. So first John 2 27 really is talking about that inner work of the Holy Spirit which produces salvation whereas Acts one eight is talking about the power for service, the power for ministry, the power to do. Well it says it here you receive power when the Holy Spirit comes upon you and what's the result? You will be my witnesses. People don't understand the distinction between the work of the Holy Spirit upon you and the work of the Holy Spirit within you and because of that we become confused when we read for example of people like Samson. The Bible says he knew not that the Lord had left him. Now some will look at that and say oh wow the Holy Spirit left him because of sin. No no it wasn't that the Holy Spirit's presence had left him rather it was that the influence of his power upon him was weakened by his sin but we see that the Holy Spirit didn't completely abandon him because later he comes back with strength again. Well did not David write cast me not away from thy presence, banishment and take not your Holy Spirit from what within me? He understood the omnipresence of God that inner working of God the power upon your life for ministry work and the presence within your life producing the work of salvation. So Acts one eight really is talking about that power that comes upon you for ministry and one of the evidences one of the marks of the Holy Spirit on a life is power. Now power as I just discussed in my previous point in and of itself is not the primary indicator that the Holy Spirit lives within you because I know many people who function in power but lack character and in fact the gospel is so powerful that God will back it even if a hypocrite preaches it. Think about the fact that the Bible says the Lord working with them confirming their words what were they preaching the gospel so God backs his word with miracles. He backs his message with miracles but his people with his presence. This is why hypocrites can flow in power because they preach the truth of God's word, they preach the truth of the gospel and so God backs the message but does not necessarily back the messenger. This is why we ought not to measure the presence of the Holy Spirit in our lives by power alone but power still is an indicator, though it's not the primary indicator, power is still an indicator that the Holy Spirit is working in and through us. When that power comes upon your life it emboldens you to become a witness. True believers surrendered to the Holy Spirit have boldness for evangelism, faith for miracles, desire to pray for people. That work of power in your life is an indication to you that the Holy Spirit is working in you. Now I want to balance this because again sometimes we become a little bit worried when we hear truths like this. I can already hear some people in my head saying wait a minute well I don't witness does that mean I don't have salvation? No we're not talking about legalism here. Look every believer Romans 8-9 has the Holy Spirit see Romans 8-9 Ephesians 1 and 2 when you are born again you receive the Holy Spirit and he lives in you but as you begin to surrender to the Holy Spirit within you that's what causes his work to manifest throughout your life. Think of John chapter 7 verse 38 where Jesus says out of your innermost being will flow rivers of living water so he's talking about that inner reality of the Spirit permeating the exterior manifestation in your life so what's in your spirit affecting your soul and body and what you do and say that's how the work of the Spirit is from within to without from the inside to the outside so just because you're not seeing these manifestations or these signs working around you right away doesn't mean that there's not a work happening within you so I don't want you to freak out if not all of these things are present in your life in fact my final point that I'm going to make number seven I think is going to be really liberating for those who struggle with that fear of has the Holy Spirit left me or is he truly in me so stick around for point number seven but on this point maybe you don't see power manifesting immediately maybe you're not evangelizing like you should be but that doesn't mean you've lost your salvation these are just signs that the influence of the Holy Spirit has permeated your life so we must live lives that strengthen the influence of the Holy Spirit not weaken it the concern for the believer isn't that we lose the Holy Spirit the concern for the true believer is that his influence becomes weakened in their lives and truly if you're walking with him surrendering to him and you're committed to doing things his way and his timing and with the attitude he wants you to do them then power begins to manifest in you things like prophecy you begin to speak out some of you when the Holy Spirit begins to move in you you may be prophesying and you don't even know it this desire to pray for the sick sometimes is produced this faith for miracles this this pool toward evangelism towards soul winning toward wanting others to know about Christ this power begins to manifest in your life power is a true manifestation of the work of the Holy Spirit power is a sign not the primary sign but it can be a sign that you have the Holy Spirit so number one confidence in salvation number two godly character and number three power now if you're being blessed by these truths and you think other believers need to hear these truths other people can be set free by these truths do me a favor i need everyone watching right now live or on replay to go ahead and leave a like on this video right now that'll help to spread the videos reach and i really do appreciate you doing that so thank you for helping us out in that way it's a big help so thank you number four the evidence of speaking in tongues now i'm going to say something controversial here that i'm going to read a portion of scripture to you there are some who teach that if you don't speak in tongues that you're not saved now i am not a cessationist i don't even have to say that because if you if you're around our ministry for long enough you'll see the power of god flowing you see the gifts in operation you know that i teach on the power of the Holy Ghost i believe in praying for the sick casting out devils speaking in tongues and so forth so i'm a big believer in the gift of speaking in tongues in fact some of our more popular videos on this channel are about the gift of speaking in tongues which i stand behind and back very strongly it's one of my core teachings i teach about speaking in tongues one of my great passions is helping believers receive their heavenly language having said that it is not a sign of your salvation that you speak in tongues i'll word it this way you cannot speak in tongues without the Holy Spirit you need the Holy Spirit in order to speak in tongues but you don't need to speak in tongues in order to have the Holy Spirit now some might be confused by this because they say well in the book of acts and in chapter 2 chapter 4 and various other references throughout the new testament we see that when people were saved and believed that they began to speak in other tongues it's true it was a manifestation of their salvation but not a requirement of it the gift of speaking in tongues is a manifestation of salvation but not a requirement of it so again how does this work well the moment you're saved you have the Holy Spirit again see Romans 8 9 Ephesians 1 and 2 it is perfectly biblically clear that the moment you are saved you have the Holy Spirit speaking in tongues isn't about you getting more of the Holy Spirit it's about the Holy Spirit getting more of you as you surrender and that language from within the spirit language from within you is manifested through you it's as you surrender it comes out through your mouth so then you have to have the Holy Spirit in order to speak in tongues but I've known many believers that were saved filled with the Holy Spirit and then later began to speak in tongues in fact we see it in in the book of acts where the believers who were saved and we know again Romans 8 9 Ephesians 1 and 2 if you're saved you have the Holy Spirit and they didn't even know about the baptism with the Holy Spirit and the gift of speaking in tongues so first they were saved and received the Holy Spirit and then they received the Holy Spirit in a different way and you say how is that possible or remember upon and within they received a new way of his influence they invited him in a different way in their lives they invited that influence to overtake them in that area so they hadn't even heard that there was a Holy Spirit but that doesn't mean he wasn't working in them that doesn't mean he wasn't in them upon salvation they just hadn't heard about this different way of being influenced by the Holy Spirit and have other teachings on that of course I don't want to get too detailed on that right now but my point here is that one of the evidence is that you have the Holy Spirit is the gift of speaking in tongues but it is not a requirement of salvation guys that's legalism the moment you start teaching that then we're not saved by grace through faith we're saved by the gift of speaking in tongues and that's just not biblical so I understand the logic right they'll say it well if you're truly saved you'll have the Holy Spirit and if you truly have the Holy Spirit you'll speak in tongues not necessarily because remember the Holy Spirit at salvation you receive him you receive the Holy Spirit at salvation you release the Holy Spirit at baptism and those are two different experiences you say how can that be I'll just very quickly tell you well think about all throughout the New Testament the gospels Jesus's disciples are casting out devils preaching the gospel healing the sick raising the dead well how are they doing that it's by the power of the Holy Ghost but then we see in John chapter 20 verse 22 that Jesus breathes upon them and says receive the Holy Ghost wait a minute why would they need to receive the Holy Spirit if he was already working in them well they needed to receive the Holy Spirit in a fresh way for a new assignment that was to wait and so they wait and these people these same disciples these same believers who were there when Jesus breathed on them and said receive the Holy Spirit these very same were the ones in Acts chapter two we're about to read about them the very same in Acts chapter two who also received the Holy Spirit again and then they begin to speak in tongues now wait a minute doesn't end there because that same group Peter and John among them were among this they were the same group in Acts chapter four who received the Holy Spirit again in fact Ephesians chapter five verse 18 says be not drunk with wine but be filled with the Holy Spirit that phrase in the Greek be filled means continually filled not like water in a cup but like wind in a sail so I think that as we understand when the Holy Spirit is received and how his influence impacts our lives at different stages of our spiritual growth then we get a clearer picture of how salvation works because if you think that you need to speak in tongues in order to be saved you don't know the Holy Ghost you don't know anything about the gift of speaking things and I'm maybe coming across very harshly but there are very religious people Pharisees who condemn other believers who don't speak in tongues cause fear and doubt put barriers between them and God that God never put there put these rules and regulations and restrictions on them that God never put in Jesus was very harsh with religious mindsets so I'm very direct when it comes to religious thinking that's nonsense to say that I have to speak in tongues in order to be saved it's not speaking in tongues that produces salvation but it's true salvation that can ultimately bring about the gift of speaking in tongues having said that one of the evidences one of the proofs that you have the Holy Spirit not the primary one of them is the gift of speaking in tongues it is a sign that you have the gift of the Holy Spirit Acts chapter 2 verses 1 through 4 says this and when the day of Pentecost was fully come they were all with one accord in one place and suddenly there came a sound from heaven as of a mighty rushing wind and it filled all the house where they were sitting and there appeared unto them cloven tongues like as a fire and it sat upon each of them and they were all filled with the Holy Ghost and began to speak with other tongues as the Spirit gave them utterance beautiful beautiful demonstration of this beautiful beautiful gift 1 Corinthians chapter 14 verses 2 and 4 they tell us of this heavenly language that the Holy Spirit gives to us now you need the Holy Spirit in order to speak in tongues let's just recap this you need the Holy Spirit in order to speak in tongues but you don't need to speak in tongues in order to have the Holy Spirit you receive the Holy Spirit at salvation release them at the baptism with the Holy Spirit the gift of speaking in tongues isn't you getting more of him it's him getting more of you you surrender that area of your life to where now he's not only permeating your spirit and your soul and your emotions and your mind but now he's speaking through your mouth that's what's so powerful about the gift it's as if the Holy Spirit will say I'll pray for you myself if you just give me a voice when you pray in tongues the Holy Spirit is praying for you through you wow what a revelation from scripture that we receive about that gift so the gift of speaking in tongues is a sign that you have the Holy Spirit number one confidence in salvation two godly character three power for the gift of speaking in tongues five this is a big one and remember guys number seven is going to be very liberating for many of you number five love for Jesus Romans chapter five verse five says this and hope make it not ashamed because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us now this is an incredible verse remember when Jesus was asked what's the first and greatest command and then what does Jesus say he says well the first and greatest command is love God with all your heart your soul your mind your strength in other words paraphrasing love God with all that you are love him with your entire being commit all that you are to everything that he is my being fully committed to my love for him what a powerful way to live and then he says the second is like unto it the second command that is love your neighbor as yourself okay then he says something even more interesting Jesus said all the law and the prophets hangs on these two commands all the law and the prophets are summarized in these two commands think about this why is that well if I fulfill those two commands I fulfill all of God's law Iver drive down the freeway and see someone speed by in one of those really loud cars that they think are impressive I don't know about you I maybe it's my maybe it's now because I'm in my 30s that I'm becoming kind of this this this little more grumpy in my in my 30s now than I was in my 20s and you know maybe in my 20s if I saw a car zoom by me I would say wow what a fast car now because I have my wife and my daughter a car zooms by me I say what is that guy thinking driving all fast like that he's putting us all in danger and his engine's too loud right now I'm a little more on the grumpy side now and what's interesting is is I always think like you know I don't know if these guys are aware of this these car guys who just speed by and make noise in quiet neighborhoods I'm like I don't know if you guys realize this but we all know that you're not the one going that fast we know it's the car like why do we imagine that it's impressive to drive at high speeds okay well you know you take the equation distance divided by time and that's the speed I'm going at like why why does that even matter like we all know it's not you we all know it's not your strength your legs aren't making that cargo 80 miles an hour it's the engine and what's happening is they're they're they're going those speeds vicariously in proxy you say where are you going with this I'm going to tell you right now the reason they're able to go so fast though they may not know it though they want to take the credit is because when they put their foot on that gas pedal the engine does the rest of the work the engine takes over the engine is what powers that car now we may feel sometimes like we have a list to fulfill oh I have to fix this about my character I have to fix this about my nature if you're like me when you read the bible you're just going oh my goodness I need a lot of work you read the scripture and you I just need a lot of work and so what happens is this we begin to make our list right we get our pen and paper we start to write okay I need to fix my I need to be a little more patient okay I need I need I need to fix that worry problem okay there's a little bit of doubt in me maybe the way I treat people isn't so kind maybe maybe the way I talk is a little harsh and we maybe maybe there's some greed creeping in some pride some ego some lack of humility right we start writing all these things and then when we're done looking at our character flaws well you just forget it now there's a whole list of things well I don't like the way my character is not only that I need to commit more just serving the local church I need to commit more to prayer I need to commit more to reading the word and if you're not careful what begins to happen is you begin to compile this list of all these things you have to do and you can get this sense of being overwhelmed like this great burden has been placed on your shoulders as though you have a great heel to climb progress to make and you don't even know where to take the first step you don't even have the strength for the first step because you're so discouraged at all of the progress you've yet to make sometimes we don't want to get started because there's so much work ahead and if you're not careful you begin to compile this list this list of things that you have to do this list of things that you have to improve upon this list of things that you have to repent of what Jesus said is interesting you said look you love God with all that you are you love your neighbor as yourself and in that you fulfill the entirety of the law wait a minute why is that well if I love God I'm going to put him first if I love God I'm not going to take his name in vain if I love God I'll honor rest if I love God I won't want to sin against him if I love my neighbor I won't kill him if I love my neighbor I'm not going to steal from him so it's in love that we find the fulfillment of the law it's in love that we truly live for Christ it's in loving Jesus that we complete that list instead of trying to keep up with that list just say here Jesus I'm giving you the list help me just to love you and honestly he takes care of the rest because it gets overwhelming trying to do it the other way it's like that car I'm not trying to run 80 miles an hour nor do I think that I am instead I put my foot on the gas pedal what's that gas pedal in the spirit it's love and in loving that engine of the law takes over the Holy Ghost takes over everything else becomes fulfilled in me just focusing on love love love love love love that's what it comes down to that's it and is it an interesting that the Bible says in Romans 5 5 that the Holy Spirit gives us that love so everything that we need to fulfill God's command is love and the Holy Spirit gives us that love thank God for the Holy Spirit so then we don't go to either extreme because of the love of the Holy Spirit thank God for that because some Christians get stuck on either extreme they either get stuck in legalism where they're constantly trying to work for their salvation and they think that if they make one mistake that they're going to lose it and on the other hand there's liberalism not in the political sense or in the philosophical sense but simply in the spiritual sense they're just so liberal they don't care how they live they just go on sinning they're not repenting they don't care they don't understand the wrath of God and if you're not careful you get stuck in one of those two extremes what's the solution not legalism not liberalism right in the middle it's love and that's what the Holy Spirit gives you he gives you that love to fulfill everything you need to please God you know the Holy Spirit always points to Jesus always he glorifies him he he gives us the things of him of him not just from him of him and I don't have time to get into that but that's a very important phrasing of him of him not from him of him and in giving us that love for him we become focused on Jesus we live lives that glorify Jesus we honor Jesus with our very lives and in honoring him we fulfill everything we need to so the Holy Spirit gives us that love and that love for Jesus is a sign of the Holy Spirit dwelling in you spirit filled people are Jesus people people who can't stop thinking about Jesus can't stop talking about how wonderful he is oh man you get caught up in worship and and really one of the manifestations of a love for Jesus worship you just lavish him with your praise you can't help but but speak out that song that's within your spirit and from the depths of your spirit you cry out john 424 they that worship me must worship me in spirit and in truth and from that spiritual connection that love of God it overflows and there's nothing you can do to stop it you just begin to worship him when you sing you're not forcing it it's it's flowing out of you like a river and you just love him and you honor him through your worship through your praise through adoring sometimes you just stand there and think about the goodness of God and you're raptured in the awe of his presence in the beauty in the splendor and the majesty of his glory that's what the love of the Holy Spirit does and it's a sign that he dwells in you that love for Jesus that love for people that compassion that tenderness that consideration of others that sacrificial selfless giving love that's a sign that the Holy Spirit dwells in you so let's recap real quick and then i'll continue giving you other keys number one confidence in salvation two godly character three power four the evidence of speaking in tongues five love for Jesus six revelation slash knowledge of truth here's what john 1426 says but when the father sends the advocate as my representative that is the Holy Spirit he will teach you everything and will remind you of everything i have told you so here we see the Holy Spirit really doing two things this is what's so powerful about this verse and there's a lot to break down here but let's just break down these two points here the Holy Spirit reminds and he reveals write it in the comment section right now live or on replay right teach me Holy Spirit let that be your prayer write it in the comment section right now whether you're watching live or on the replay teach me Holy Spirit because really he does two things he reminds and he reveals he reminds you of the words that christ has spoken to you he reminds you of what you've read in the scripture he reminds you of the things that the father has spoken to your heart in the secret places of prayer not only that he reveals truth it's a continuation it's progressive it's it's a it's an ongoing relationship and connection with god just because you have the bible doesn't mean god goes mute he still speaks things to you directly to your spirit about your life about things you need to correct about directions you need to take and the Holy Spirit teaches you you know when you sit down and read the bible you're sitting with the author think about that when you sit down and read the bible you're sitting with the author i i've read different books and you know commentaries and philosophical books and history books and sometimes i wish that i could just talk to the author and say what did you mean by this because i'm having trouble wrapping my head around this concept of this chapter or this section what what did you mean here and i wish they could explain it to me and i could ask questions and have it explain to me thoroughly i mean we all would love that i'm sure but isn't it amazing that when it comes to the scripture when it comes to the word of god when it comes to the bible that the author is sitting right there next to you that you can sit down and pour over the scriptures and say to him teach me Holy Spirit and as you glean the truths from the word of god as you look to the revelation that he's given you the Holy Spirit can speak directly to you and he can say this is what i meant this is what's being taught and more than that he doesn't just cause us to know intellectually the truths of the word he causes us to live them and he causes those truths to become a part of our very beings thank god for the holy spirit teaching us but that's a sign people who are spirit filled this is you people who are spirit filled know the word they're sharp they understand they understand spiritual truth well the bible says it doesn't it that only those who are spiritual can understand spiritual truths that only those who are of the holy spirit can receive from the holy spirit you you can't explain spiritual truth to someone who doesn't know god atheists can read the bible and know the history and know the narrations and they might even be able to memorize large portions of it but atheists cannot truly understand it because they haven't experienced it until they turn to god in humility and allow the holy spirit to work in their hearts only the holy spirit can take the information of the word and cause it to become revelation and only can revelation transform information informs revelation transforms it becomes a part of who you are it becomes a part of your being it begins to transform you from the inside out that's what the holy spirit does when he gives you revelation knowledge he gives you insight into the word you know when i first began to study the word i've said this often i'll say it again maybe it'll help someone a little embarrassing to admit but i'll admit it when i would read the bible i would start let's say you know jenesis one one i read one two three four five by the time i got down to verse 11 or 12 i'd stop and i realized wait a minute i zoned out i don't remember anything i just read and i'd have to start over again and then i would really focus like hyper focus you know and i would read through the verses verse by verse by verse by verse by verse and then i would realize wait a minute i don't understand anything i'm reading and it was only in asking the holy spirit to teach me that the scripture really became alive for me it was as if he took a light and just began to shine it on the truths of the word and he illuminated that's what he does he illuminates the word of god because it was inspired by him what does the bible say all scripture is god breathed what does that mean god breathed means it came from his spirit ruach hakodesh the breath of god the holy ghost he breathed that was the influence of the holy spirit and men of old of ancient times spake by they spoke by the holy spirit god breathed god inspired of the spirits and so because the holy spirit was the one who inspired the word only the holy spirit can give you revelation knowledge of the word and you know when i started to involve the holy spirit in my study the word that's when i felt like a light came on in my mind my mind was illuminated and as i would read over the scripture suddenly things just started to click started to click started to click i began to truly understand and receive from what i was reading and that comes by the holy spirit one confidence in salvation two godly character three power four gift of tongues five love for jesus six revelation slash knowledge of the truth now this next point i'm going to give to you is really going to bring breakthrough to many of you now again there are two types of believers who are watching this video there are some who are confident in their salvation confident they have the holy spirit but they want these signs of the work of the holy spirit in their lives because they want to be able to have a marker a standard an indication to themselves that they're doing well spiritually so these signs that i'm giving you are great measurements that you can use to see how healthy you are spiritually and then there's another group of believers and by the way this point is going to help both of you so if you are in this if you're in group a the group i just described this point's really going to help you but if you're in group b this point is really really really going to help you okay then there are believers group b who are worried constantly about losing their salvation worried constantly that their last mistake was their final mistake and now that's it the holy spirit's not in them anymore i want to talk to you because i'm going to show you this sign and it's good i pray i just want you to say it right now i'll say teach me holy spirit because he's going to do it i pray this really gets in your spirit because if you can learn this truth if you can just take this one truth and truly absorb it i'm telling you it will be a game changer it will be a game changer it will bring breakthrough like many of the other truths haven't okay i'm going to give you this truth but first let me tell you if you're new to this channel it's your first time watching or perhaps you've watched several of our teachings and you're enjoying the ministry of the holy spirit through this channel then i want to encourage you right now to subscribe to encounter tv subscribe and then click the notification bell notify yourself for all videos so that you can be alerted when we release new content i release teachings and sermons on the holy spirit prayer 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just the opposite of what the spirit wants and the spirit gives us desires that are the opposite of what the sinful nature desires these two forces are constantly fighting each other so you are not free to carry out your good intentions so here we see that the scripture is describing this inner turmoil now you only really have one nature that's actually you i won't have time to get into that for a moment i won't have time to get into that at this moment i should say there's only really one you are your spirit you don't have two natures the other nature that's not even you anymore so technically you only have one nature but still the scripture describes this reality this wrestling back and forth between what you want to do for god and what you want to do for the world what you want to do for the flesh and what you want to do for jesus what you don't want to do what you do want to do what you're tempted to do what you want to resist back and forth and there's this inner struggle this turmoil and all too often we just give into that struggle don't we well first peter one too says and listen to the wording here it's very powerful god the father knew you and chose you long ago and his spirit has made you holy as a result you have obeyed him and have been cleansed by the blood of jesus may god give you more and more grace and peace so here we see that it's the work of the holy spirit in our lives that produces holiness i call him the holiness spirit that's what he does he is the holy spirit he's also of course the grace spirit the faith spirit the power spirit and so forth there's many other titles that we see for him in scripture but here we see that it's the holy spirit who produces holiness in our lives now there's a mindset that many believers have they imagine that the holy spirit is a reward for being spiritual in other words the more spiritual i become the more of the holy spirit i get the more spiritual i become the higher i get promoted and the more god rewards me with his nearness as if god is scared away by our mistakes but remember this the holy spirit is not a reward for holiness he's your source for holiness it wouldn't make any sense for god to remove the holy spirit from you why because the holy spirit is the one who makes you holy so it wouldn't make any sense for god to remove your only chance at being holy as a punishment for not being holy lord i'm struggling with being holy okay then i'm gonna take away from you the power to be holy well that doesn't make any sense yet in our legalistic thinking we imagine that salvation is something we have to work for constantly looking over our shoulders constantly wondering oh my goodness was this it did god finally distance himself that i finally lose my salvation now this is not about one saved always saved whatever you believe about that debate it doesn't really matter because whether you believe at some point you can lose your salvation or not i'm talking to the sincere believer who desires to do good that's you you desire to do good so let's leave that debate for another time we're not talking about that right now we're talking about the believer who is trying who is struggling someone once asked me if i struggle with sin does that mean the holy spirit is no longer in me i'm gonna say an answer that may shock you they asked me if i struggle with sin does that mean the holy spirit is no longer within me here's what the holy spirit led me to say to them now first it may shock you and i don't want you to misunderstand it so stick around for the explanation the fact that you're struggling with sin is not proof that the holy spirit has left you the fact that you're struggling with sin is proof that he's in you wait a minute what brother david wait wait wait wait wait are you saying that the holy spirit produces sin in our lives no i'm saying that the fact that you're struggling against your sin is proof that he dwells in you you say how can that be well let me ask you a question what does the bible say who is the one fighting against the sinful nature isn't that the holy spirit you see if the holy spirit left you you wouldn't be struggling with sin if the holy spirit left you you wouldn't be struggling with sin you would just be sinning who do you think it is in you causing you to be convicted over sin who do you think it is in you causing you to be broken over sin who do you think it is in you saying i have to try again i have to keep trying i have to keep trying who do you think it is in you giving you a desire that's opposite of the sin nature so the very fact that you're struggling with sin is proof that he's in you because if he wasn't in you you wouldn't be struggling you would just be freely sinning he produces in you this desire to be holy now we have to be careful about how we deal with temptation because jesus said to flee temptation not to debate with it you see we stick around to do the back and forth and the moment you start doing the back and forth should i shouldn't should i shouldn't i shouldn't i shouldn't i shouldn't i shouldn't i you will always lose that battle instead of debating temptation flee from it get out of the situation immediately call out to the holy spirit he will begin to do a work in you some people begin to notice more flaws about themselves they begin to become more convicted they begin to look over their lives and become broken over their sin brokenness over your sin is proof that he's in you brokenness and conviction about your humanity is proof that he's working in you you see some of you are watching this right now and you've come to the conclusion that god is a million miles away that you're more distant than ever that he's more distant than he's ever been because of your mistakes could it be that this conviction over sin is not proof that god is distancing himself but rather that he's coming nearer to you how can that be well the brighter the light shines the more detailed you can see and as the light of god begins to shine in your life you begin to see more of the areas that need fixing so becoming more aware of your sin becoming more sensitive to your sin becoming more disgusted by your sin that's not proof that god is distancing himself that's proof that he's coming nearer it's proof that he's coming closer why because that desire for holiness in you intensifies that inner groaning of saying god rescue me from who i used to be and make me like jesus that's proof that he's in you you see we imagine that when we sin god takes a step back and if we sin again god takes another step back and if we sin again god takes another step back and that eventually if we sin too much that god says okay that's enough steps steps backwards i'm leaving you to yourself now what we don't realize is just how loving just how faithful just how good the holy spirit is what we don't realize is that when we sin he doesn't distance himself he leans in he convicts godly sorrow work its repentance well who is there to do the convicting he doesn't say well i'm fed up i'm done with you know he faithfully abides for the scripture declares he is faithful even when we are not for he cannot deny who he is and he leans in and he doesn't abandon you he comes closer and he says i'm going to help you through this we're going to overcome this i'm going to do a work in you for he that began a good work in you is faithful and to the day of redemption to complete it he'll complete it you're his work you're his responsibility that's what i tell him i said lord i'm yours and if i'm yours responsibility you're his work he's the potter you're the clay and just like Jonah even if you tried to run he would track you down he loves you too much to leave you in your sin he loves you too much to leave you in your misery he loves you too much to leave you in your backslidden state he will pursue you now then something incredible incredible begins to happen something incredible begins to happen when the holy spirit begins to do that work in you now that desire for sin begins to change he changes your desire for sin into a disgust of sin from desire to disgust and now as he begins to work in you as you begin to draw near as you as you begin to put the past behind you like paul says for getting those things which are behind and reaching to what is ahead now as you begin to do that you begin to allow him to do his work what begins to happen as he starts to produce that holiness and then your desires begin to change you see the key to overcoming sin is not just in fighting temptation but in receiving new desires i want to say that again because the holy spirit wants me to that's for someone the key to overcoming temptation believer listen the key to overcoming temptation is not just fighting the desire for sin but rather in having those desires changed and that's what he does he takes away that old heart he begins to work anew in you and he begins to transform who you are this is a sign that the holy spirit dwells in you so number one confidence in salvation two godly characters three power for evidence of speaking in tongues five love for jesus six revelation seven holiness now i'm going to give you an eighth sign i know the video says seven signs and guys you can leave it as seven signs but i'm going to give you a bonus one in just a moment but first let's pray i want to ask the lord to to really seal this word in your heart let's believe god that we're going to begin to see these signs really manifest in our lives okay let's surrender to the work of the holy spirit that's it i just want you to surrender and i'm going to pray he helped you do it father in the name of jesus i pray that you would cause your people to surrender and greater measures than ever before lord let this season be a season of great fruitfulness in their spiritual lives in this season let them draw closer to you than ever before i pray we thank you father for your word we thank you for your holy spirit teaching us and guiding us thank you that you do dwell in us thank you that we belong to you give us that confidence lord and let these signs come to the surface of our lives we pray permeate us with your presence in the matchless name of jesus we pray and i want you to write it in the comments if you agree write amen so bonus sign number eight i'm going to show you something about god's nature and we see god's nature in john 3 16 here's what the behind it's a popular verse here but i'm going to read it in a in a not so popular translation because you may know the king james but and you may be a king james only person so maybe the new living translation is not one you like so just call it the new living commentary okay john 3 16 for this is how god loved the world he gave his one and only son so that everyone who believes in him will not perish but have eternal life my daughter turns three and just a matter of days and my goodness the time has flown by you know i can't imagine giving her up for anyone or anything now if the lord asked me you know surrender her life to me that's easy surrender her life to you lord i dedicate her to you but in the sense that god did it to to give his son so that we could kill him and crucify him i i don't know if i had that i don't know if i have that in me it's a good thing i'm not god because i don't know if i ever would have sent my son i know i wouldn't have sent my daughter there's this love for my daughter i can't even really describe she's she's my baby girl but god so loved the world that he gave his son what is that in him that's that's his love giving there's this old saying that says you can give without loving but you can't love without giving and how true that is this is the nature of god he's a giving god and this is one of the signs that your spirit filled is your giving your generous now sometimes we allow the flesh to overtake us we become skeptical cynical we like to tighten up we like to lock things down we like to stash things away and we let that fear of loss that that greed that mammon begin to overtake our lives and what happens is we lack that fruit that that demonstration of his nature in us which is giving when you love god you give freely jesus said where your treasure is there where your heart be also so that's a bonus sign really a bonus sign that i'm giving you a bonus point is that one of the signs that your spirit filled and that you're surrendered to the holy spirit is you give freely i talk to spirit fill people all the time whenever there's an opportunity to give to the gospel oh they're there they're giving they're excited they do everything they can they they they sacrifice selflessly why because they're moved by their love and then i've talked to some believers who are in the flesh and when it comes time to give their why is the preacher talking where they'll say things in their own defense to try to sound spiritual they say why are you asking just trust god and really what they mean is don't ask me for my resources because i'm holding them and really believers who are still and i don't want to be too critical of some because some people are still growing and maturing spiritually but you know believers who haven't come to the full understanding of how this works you know they they become cynical they become skeptical they become offended when you talk about money but spirit filled believers oh my goodness spirit filled believers we love to give we're ready to give and i'd say 90 of you watching this right now live or replay you love to give you love to give because you love jesus you love the gospel you love souls and you need to learn to more so i do too we all do we need to learn to allow that generosity to flow through us in greater measures why because as you give that generosity comes right back to you so i want to challenge you to give to the work of this ministry today now there's a link i'm on up on the screen right now david hernan's ministries dot com slash expand this is where you can give to our current project now if you watch this in the future and the project has been completed your gifts are going to go just toward the general giving of the ministry you can still give a general gift but if you're watching this while this project is still ongoing then your gift will go to project e tv if you give at that link in the future again if you give i want to make sure we're being honest because you know legally when someone says this i'm giving you a donation for this specific purpose legally we have to put it into that specific purpose so if you're watching this you know 10 years from now the project's done you say oh i want to give the project e tv i'm letting you know that if you're giving when it's finished it's just going to go to the general ministry fund so just be aware of that but right now as of this moment as we are live as of the next few months and weeks we're still fundraising for phase one of project e tv now let me show you where we're at oh it's going up already you guys are awesome guys we need two million seven hundred fifty thousand dollars that's the need for project e tv phase one so far the progress bar indicates two million eleven thousand three hundred and eighteen dollars so just about seven hundred and forty thousand dollars needs to come in now i'm aware of how many people watch these uh these live streams live and replay it's tens of thousands of people watch these so if everyone who's watching this right now were to just give their best gift their best gift the best they could possibly do toward this project we could actually finish this in a week we could finish it in a week if everyone allowed themselves to hear what the Holy Spirit was saying and give what the Holy Spirit was saying so can i challenge you please for the sake of the gospel for the sake of souls let's go after this we are right there god's going to meet this need we're going to complete this project but i want you to be a part of it and so we're calling on helping hands from our believers from around the world give to project e tv right now david hernan's ministries dot com slash expand just for good measure let's go ahead and show them some progress photos um i think these are progress those i hope yeah so here we see is this a before and after tim or just progress okay these are just construction uh this is the control room they're working on let's see what else we got what's the next one here um you can look inside there the studios being worked on they're they're working on some soundproofing um next photo if there is one indicate to me guys look at that they're putting in the electrical the ac they're building offices and there's going to be a cafe for you guys to come and visit uh really the construction has begun and so i believe that is it for the photos are there more guys okay that is it you can pull that down that's just to show you there's progress happening guys we need to finish this up in the next month and a half so if you've been waiting to give you've been praying about what to give now is the time don't hold back anymore today's the day now is the day to give toward this project and i thank you for your giving and hey if you enjoyed this teaching then i think you will love a teaching i did previously titled how to know you have the gift of healing six important signs in that teaching i show you six different indicators that god has given you the ministry and the gift of healing