 Turn with me to John chapter 16. John chapter 16, today we're arriving at the place where Jesus taught his disciples in the last few days that he had with them on the subject of the Holy Spirit. And today the title of the message that I'm gonna share with you is we need the Holy Spirit. Now I know across denominational lines there are a lot of misconceptions, biases and specific belief systems about who the Holy Spirit is and who he isn't. Some people say the Holy Spirit is the silent partner of the Godhead. Some people acknowledge the Holy Spirit as the third person of the Trinity, but really have no personal relationship with him. Some people think the Holy Spirit did his best work during the life of the early church, Jesus and the apostles, but he doesn't do anything anymore. But that's not at all what Jesus had to say as he's telling his disciples about the future and about their calling and their mission. And I believe what Jesus is sharing with the disciples in John 16 is not just equally relevant to you and I today, it's probably even more relevant than it's ever been before that we need the Holy Spirit. So look with me at John 16, beginning in verse number four. It says, and this is Jesus, we're jumping in a little bit into the middle of his discourse, but he says, but I have said these things to you that when their hour comes, you may remember that I told them to you. I did not say these things to you from the beginning because I was with you, but now I'm going to him who sent me and none of you asks me, where are you going? But because I've said these things to you, sorrow has filled your heart. Nevertheless, I tell you the truth, it is to your advantage that I go away. If I do not go away, the helper will not come to you, but if I go, I will send him to you. And when he comes, he will convict the world concerning sin and righteousness and judgment, concerning sin because they do not believe in me, concerning righteousness because I go to the Father and you will see me no longer in concerning judgment because the ruler of this world is judged. Verse 12, I still have many things to say to you, but you cannot bear them now. When the spirit of truth comes, he will guide you into all the truth, for he will not speak on his own authority, but whatever he hears, he will speak and he will declare it to you, the things that are to come and he will take of what is mine and he will declare it to you. All the Father has his mind and therefore I said that he will take of what is mine and he will declare it to you. So Jesus, when he refers to the helper is talking about the Holy Spirit. And you need to realize that during the life of Jesus, Acts chapter 10, verse 38 says that everything that Jesus did in ministry, healing the sick, casting out demons, ministering to people, walking in wisdom, even his compassion was the result of the anointing of the Holy Spirit upon his life. Now, obviously Jesus was God, but when he came to the earth as a man, he didn't lose his attributes as God, but he willingly chose to function and to operate only in the strength and the power of the Holy Spirit. Why did he do that? He did it partly to show you and I what it can be like for a man or a woman, a human being to cooperate and to partner with heaven. It's part of why he did that. He could have just come down and did everything that he needed to do and it would have still gotten done. But Jesus came as a man and Acts 10, verse 38 says how God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and with power who went about doing good and healing all those who were sick and oppressed by the devil. So think about that. He was anointed by the Holy Spirit, but prior to the ministry of Jesus, the Holy Spirit would come upon people in the Old Testament and empower them for works of service. So prophets, priests and kings would receive an anointing of the Holy Spirit upon them, but it was temporary and it was never within them. And Jesus is looking back into the Old Testament in Jeremiah and Isaiah where God prophesied a time that was coming when his spirit was not just going to be on people, but it was actually going to dwell in them. And that happens as a result of what Jesus did on the cross for you and I. Jesus went to the cross and he died for our sins and he rose from the dead on the third day so that according to Romans that we might walk in the newness of life. How many know that when you get saved, you become indwelt by the Holy Spirit? That's what 1 Corinthians says. It says your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit. So when you get born again, you don't just get forgiven of your sins, you actually get an interior makeover. Where God by his spirit, think about that for a moment, comes and he dwells in you. He doesn't dwell in a building. He doesn't dwell in a temple made with hands. He dwells in human beings. Our hearts literally become the Holy of Holies and he lives in us. God lives in us. Here's what that means. Everywhere you go as a Christian, you take God with you. There's never a moment where like, I wonder if God can see what I'm doing right now. No, he's with you. And so when you're on the dance floor, taking the Holy Spirit with you. When you're eating sushi, you're taking the Holy Spirit with you. When you go to work every single day, you take the Holy Spirit with you. When you go to sleep, the Holy Spirit is in you. When you're ministering to somebody, the Holy Spirit is in you with you. There's never a moment in a believer's life where you are absent from the presence of God. He's in you. But what Jesus wanted his disciples to know is now that I'm about to depart and go to the Father, the relationship that you and I have is changing because it has been you're following me around and I'm giving you instructions and you're watching how I function in relationship with the Holy Spirit. But now I'm going to the Father and you're all wondering, okay, what does this mean for us? I mean, if we're honest for a moment, how many of you think to yourself how awesome it would be to be one of the followers of Jesus and to be able to follow him around in every episode of the chosen? I mean, you read Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, have you ever read that and go how incredible it would be to be one of his disciples? You ever thought that? If I were to give you an option today, like right now and say, hey, you can either be a disciple of Jesus right now with an expectation in an anticipation that Jesus is returning, but now you're walking by faith because you don't see him or you can go back in time and you can follow Jesus during his earthly ministry and you can get the dust of his sandals walking on the trail on you. How many of you would choose to go back in time and to follow Jesus and to see him in the flesh? How many of you would take that? Jesus said that would be a bad choice. Look at what it says here. And I know it was a trick question, sorry, but it's what pastors do. Verse number seven, Jesus says, nevertheless, I tell you the truth. It is to your advantage that I go away for if I do not go away, the helper will not come. Jesus said, you're stuck on getting me to stay, but actually you don't realize it's gonna be better for you once I'm gone because once I'm no longer here, I'm gonna send the helper. That word helper is the word perically and it means one who comes up alongside, one who lifts a burden, one who encourages on a journey. Think of a Sherpa, if you're climbing Mount Everest, it's a Sherpa that knows the elevation, carries your packs, leads you up the path. He says, the Holy Spirit will come as a helper and he's gonna lead and guide you into all truth. And so if I stay, it's actually your disadvantage. But I'm going to the Father and I'm gonna send the Holy Spirit who's going to be your supernatural advantage because he's gonna come as a helper, he's gonna be in you, he's gonna come upon you and anoint you just as he always has and give you supernatural power, but more than that, he's gonna dwell within you and he's gonna lead and guide you into all truth. He's the spirit of truth. And he's not gonna leave you as an orphan, he's gonna dwell within you, he's gonna be your leader, he's gonna be your helper and he's gonna be your guide and your teacher as well as your empower. And you know what? Just like salvation, all of this happens because of what Jesus is about to do in the next few chapters and going to the cross. What that means is everything that we get from God, we get by grace. How many know that the only way that we are worthy to receive anything from God is not because of our merit or our work, but it's because of God's grace and his goodness to us. That's how every believer gets saved. You say, well, save from what? Save from your sins. Okay, well, thank you. Race the white board, now I wanna live my life. No, that's not salvation. Salvation isn't God just forgiving your sins, it's him giving you a new heart. And then us repenting from our sins and he saves us from the penalty of our sins, but he also puts new life, his life, his resurrection life on the inside of us and that's the Holy Spirit. You see, the Holy Spirit comes to us by God's grace and when he comes and he's received by faith just like salvation, then what begins to happen is the Holy Spirit begins to work in our lives. So this is the supernatural advantage. Oswald Chambers, how many have ever heard of my utmost for his highest? Okay, it's a phenomenal devotional. Here's what Oswald Chambers says about the Holy Spirit. He said, the Holy Spirit does in me internally all that Jesus Christ did for me externally. So everything that Jesus did for you on the cross, the Holy Spirit is activating and executing on the inside of you. He's working on the inside of you to make you more like Jesus. This is the role of the Holy Spirit. He's at work in us. He's convicting us. He's challenging us when we read our Bible. The Holy Spirit is leading and guiding us through this journey of following Jesus and trying to understand his way and navigating what it means to be a disciple in this present age. This is what Jesus meant when he said this is to your advantage because the Holy Spirit is unlike Jesus. Jesus, you had to watch from the outside and try to figure him out. And how many know that the disciples never really did good at figuring Jesus out. They're just like, Jesus, you want us to call down fire? He says, you don't know what spirit you're of. Oh, you're not getting arrested, Jesus. Get behind me, Satan. We're running out of bread and fish. Do you still not understand the miracle of the bread? I mean, they could not figure Jesus out. So they had to watch him externally. But listen, you and I now living in the age of grace when the Holy Spirit dwells on the inside of us, he leads us and he guides us and he glorifies and teaches us about Jesus from the inside out. That's a supernatural advantage. Listen, Elon Musk doesn't have that advantage. Bezos doesn't have that advantage. There's no nation on the face of the earth that has that advantage. You can't make that a Disney no matter how many billions of dollars you put into it. You can't reproduce the supernatural effect of God living on the inside of us and transforming and changing the lives. Listen, you can go to the best rehab in the world and I believe in rehabs, but no rehab can reproduce what the Holy Spirit can do. You can try to break an addiction and you should, but you can't do it in your own strength, but the Holy Spirit breaks chains. Praise breaks the heavy yoke. Why? It's because it's the anointing of the Holy Spirit that breaks yokes and burdens off of people's lives. You can't introduce me to a life that has been dragged down to the lowest place and the world has given up hope on it that when Jesus looks at it, he gives up hope. He never gives up hope because he is hope with a capital H. And it's the production. It's the internal working of the Holy Spirit and it's not just those that are out there far away from him. Listen, it's every child of God. It's you and me on a daily basis. We wake up and if you've ever woke up on a morning and just felt overwhelmed just like, I don't know what I'm doing, how to follow Jesus. I don't know where to go from here. I don't know what my day looks like. I don't know how I'm gonna do all these things. Listen, you're not in this alone. God has sent the spirit to dwell with you and upon you and you might just wake up one morning and go, good morning, Holy Spirit. I want you to do what Jesus said you're gonna do. I want you to lead me. I want you to guide me. I want you to teach me. I want you to convict me. I want you to shape me. I want you to empower me. If we will invite him, the Holy Spirit will do a deep work on the inside of us because the Holy Spirit does two primary things in a believer's life. Number one, he reveals and number two, he releases. The Holy Spirit is a revealer and a releaser of God's kingdom and his will in our lives. This is what the Holy Spirit does. He reveals and he releases. What does it reveal? Well, Jesus said, number one, first thing he's gonna do is he's gonna take those things that are mine and he's gonna reveal them to you. So he's gonna open our hearts up and help us understand who Jesus is. But then, according to 1 Corinthians, look at, well, they'll put it up on the screen. 1 Corinthians chapter two, verse number 10, it says, these things, talking about the things that God has given to us in Christ, these things, God has revealed to us through the spirit. For the spirit searches all things. Verse number 12 says, now we have received not the spirit of the world, but the spirit who is from God that we might understand the things that have freely been given to us. I wanna tell you something today, believer. If you're a Christian here today, you have no idea, the inheritance that Jesus won for you at the cross. No idea. Now you might think, well, I got a little bit of an idea. I mean, I'm saved, I'm going to heaven. You have no clue. The inheritance. And you say, well, how do I know? Well, the spirit reveals it to us, but here's what the Bible says to us about the inheritance that we have. It says, you and I as a Christian, the weakest, newest Christian on the planet, somebody who just became a Christian 10 minutes ago. It doesn't matter how long you've been serving Jesus. You are a co-heir with Christ. Think about that statement. A co-heir with Christ. That means this, everything that Jesus has is equally yours. What does he have? What, here's a better question. What doesn't he have? And so a small section of our inheritance is realized in this life. Now, I'm not talking materialistic like, woo, I can go out and claim, you know, the Empire State Building, that's mine. My father gave it to me. I mean, if you've got the faith, go for it, but I'm talking about, look, I'm talking about true riches, true riches, the riches of the kingdom of God that is only partially experienced in this life. But how many know that this life is not all that there is. There is a kingdom that is coming. And in that kingdom, when all the kingdoms of this world have been made the kingdoms of our God and King, when that happens, we rule and we reign with Jesus. And that's where we begin to understand fully and comprehend the full extent of the inheritance that Jesus won for us, the peace, the joy. I mean, it's kind of like in the Chronicles of Narnia. You see these little kids, they're just running around and they're nobodies, but they step through the wardrobe and they go into a place of Narnia and their royalty. That's what heaven's gonna be like. We're gonna step through the wardrobe of time and space and matter into the eternal realm and realize that we are coheirs with Christ and we may have looked like a nobody on this side, but over there, we are somebody. Over here, we might have been bankrupt because of our decisions, but over there, Jesus became bankrupt for our salvation so that we could be made sons and daughters of the living God. And that's realized in this life because the Holy Spirit dwells on the inside of us. Man, that's incredible. When you wake up, don't you dare look in the mirror and look in and say, nobody knows who you are. God knows who you are, and that's all that matters. Then you might look in the mirror and the enemy might whisper, nobody cares about you. He cares about you. If you ever need to know how much you are worth, all you need to do is find a picture of nail scars in Jesus' hands. That's the price Jesus was willing to pay for you. That speaks of the value that he places on you. It's a 9 a.m. service, but I'm preaching better than you're listening. And that's okay. No, no, it's too late now. Save it for the next point. That's fine. So the Holy Spirit is a revealer. Number two, the Holy Spirit is the releaser. What is the release? He releases two things primarily through the life of a believer. Once he's done a work on the inside of us, then he releases his work through us. This is what he did in the life of Jesus. It's how he manifested himself on the apostles and it's the truth as well in every single believer's life. Because listen, there are no classes of Christians. You don't have JV and varsity Christians. There are not like, ooh, those are apostles, prophets, evangelists, pastors and teachers. They got the real anointing, but we got the stripped down version. It's not like you buy a membership sometimes and you're just like, well, for $5.99, you can get the gold package, but for $2.99, you can get the silver package. But wait, there's more. If $9.99, you can get the platinum package and then we've got the MVP collector's limited, only intellectual, you know, illuminati package. And that's like $1,400. And you're just like, I'll take the aluminum package, which is like the $79, I just want the entry level package. There are not classes to salvation. You don't get to say, well, I just want the package that gets me into heaven. No, the Bible says in the book of Jude that we have a common salvation, one salvation. And so this is God's desire for every believer that his Holy Spirit dwells within us and that from that, Christ begins to overflow our lives and release two things, fruit of the Spirit and gifts of the Spirit. The fruit of the Holy Spirit, as well as gifts of the Holy Spirit. Now turn in your Bibles over to Galatians chapter five. This is why I want you to have a Bible so you can actually turn there and you can look at it and you can see. But in Galatians chapter five, Paul is writing and he's writing to Christians. And if you back up a little bit, I'm gonna jump back up to verse number 18. And verse number 18, it says, but if you are led by the Spirit, okay, there we go. He will lead and guide you into all truths, remember? If you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law. Now the works of the flesh are evident and here's the list off. Here's what happens because of the sinful nature or the flesh that's at work in you. These are the works that are produced in you because of the flesh. It says sexual immorality, impurity, sensuality, idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, fits of anger, rivalries, dissension, divisions, envy, drunkenness, orgies and things like these. So it's not even a complete list. Paul says, this is what happens when you are led by your sinful nature. This is what flows out of your life and notice he calls it works. But then if you look at the next verse, here's what Paul also says. I warn you as I warned you before that those who do such things will not inherit the kingdom of God. Remember, I just said, what does the Holy Spirit do? He reveals the kingdom of God. So you can't walk in the power of the Spirit and walk in the fullness of the kingdom when you're dominated by your sinful, fleshly nature. But verse 22, but the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. Now that's a much better list. He says, when you come under the influence of the Holy Spirit and you yield to the person of the Holy Spirit and you choose to be led by the Spirit as opposed to being led by your flesh, your instincts, your natural desires, your sinful old history, your sinful muscle memory, when you choose to reject that and choose to submit to the Spirit of God, he begins to produce fruit out of your life, love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, gentleness. I mean, self-control begins to flow out of your life and notice that there's a difference. When the flesh is in control, it produces works. But when the Spirit's in control, it produces fruit. Those are two different things. Why is that significant? Well, because works flow out of dead things, inanimate things, a machine that has no life in it, works. It's the Greek word ergon, which is where we get ergo or ergonomic. It's talking about a machine. It's got a default setting. So if you just want to produce more dead things without any life in them, then you just keep doing what your flesh wants it to do. Keep thinking what your old carnal mind that's resistant to the things of God wants to think and it will just produce dead things. But when it comes to the Holy Spirit, it uses the phrase fruit. Why? Because fruit is the product of living things. And there's a difference. And fruit is the production. It's what happens when something's alive in you. Remember last week, Jesus said, abide in me and I and you. If you abide in me and my words abide in you, you're going to bear much fruit. It's because the word for fruit is carpose, which means it's the outpouring or it's the outcome of a living entity. So he says, you can either live out of death and just let inanimate stuff just pour out of you. Or you can get plugged into the vine, let the Holy Spirit be led to the spirit and what's he going to produce out of you? Fruit, it's a much better way to travel on highways is to allow the Holy Spirit to flow out of you as opposed to the works of the flesh. Anybody ever been driving down the road and you're on ramping onto the highway and somebody's either going too slow and about ready to run you off the road or they come over in your lane about, you know, take you out, somebody's on their phone and typing a message to somebody on their laptop while they're driving with their knee and they about wipe you out and then you have this moment where you want to bless them in the flesh. Can I just tell you, that's a work. Comes out of the dead place of your soul. Doesn't come out of the Holy, the Holy Spirit's not yeah, get them. That's, but all of a sudden when you're in that moment and you feel that rise upon the inside of you, when you begin to, you know, earlier that day, you're like praying God, I want the fruit of the Holy Spirit to be manifested to me. I yield to you. All of a sudden you have a moment of self-control where the words that you wanted to come out of your mouth and that moment, all of a sudden he does a kink, lockdown, you just say, bless the Lord. Or you sing in tongues or something, I don't know. Or you sing a worship song and you're just like, oh, before I would have, you know, road rage that guy. I would have tried to catch up with him and throw some sign language his way or, you know, but now I don't. I mean, I'm upset about it, but I'm not out of control about it. What's that? It's the work of the Holy Spirit. It's the fruit of the Holy Spirit where you're not having outbursts of anger anymore. That's in the list of works. But now you've got joy. Jesus said in John 16 or John, yeah, John 14, he said, I want my joy, joy. In this world you're gonna have tribulation, but rejoice because I've overcome the world and you can have joy. How do you have joy? Because the Holy Spirit's on the inside of you. So he releases fruit of the Holy Spirit. What's the second thing that the Holy Spirit releases out of our life? It's gifts of the Holy Spirit. It's the gifts of the Holy Spirit, the manifestation of the gifts, grace gifts. Turn over to 1 Corinthians chapter 12. Again, I'm intentionally not just putting that up on the screen, I want you to turn and I want you to see it because in 1 Corinthians chapter 12, this is in some churches and denominations a controversial subject. And it shouldn't be controversial. If it's in the Bible, it's for us. But in 1 Corinthians chapter 12, Paul says now concerning spiritual gifts. Brothers, I do not want you to be uninformed. You know that when you were pagans, you were led astray by mute idols. In other words, gods that did not speak. However, you were led by them. Notice it says in your times past, these are pagans. He said, you lived in a spirit of religion, worshiping idols in a religious way that never spoke to you, but you allowed them to lead you. He says, but now you've come into the faith and verse three says, therefore I want you to understand that no one speaking in the spirit of God ever says Jesus is a curse. And no one can say Jesus is Lord, except in the Holy spirit. So then he begins to give on the list. He says in verse four, there are a variety of gifts, but the same spirit. And there's a variety of service. In other words, a way that they're expressed, but it's the same Lord. And there are a variety of activities, but it's the same God that empowers them in. Anybody got your Bible open? It says he empowers them in everyone. Raise your hand if you're in everyone. He says he empowers them in everyone. Verse seven, to each is given the manifestation of the spirit for the common good. For unto one is given the spirit of utterance of wisdom, to another the utterance of knowledge, by the same spirit, to another faith, by the same spirit, to another gifts of healings, to another the working of miracles, to another prophecy, to another the distinguishing between spirits, to another various kinds of tongues, to another the interpretation of tongues. All these are empowered by one and the same spirit who apportions them each one individually as he wills. This is one of the things the Holy Spirit, this is the supernatural advantage that we have. Jesus talked about that. We are not people limited by our natural power, but when the Holy Spirit takes up residence in our lives, we now have access to the same anointing and the same supernatural power that Jesus functioned in. Now, obviously it's in degree. Jesus operated in the anointing without measure and we all have measures. We're not perfect, but yet it's the same Holy Spirit that works in us and we grow in our understanding of that. And you'll notice that there's revelatory gifts. He says I'll give you words of knowledge, words of wisdom, prophecy. There's discerning of spirits, unable to tell what spirit has at work. There's faith. All of a sudden you get the surge of faith, healing, miracles, tongues, interpretation of tongues. Probably one of the most controversial is the gift of tongues. It's like, I mean, as soon as you, you can read that list in a lot of churches and those like, yeah, we love faith. We're knowledge, we're wisdom, prophecy. Yeah, that's awesome. Healing, all right, we're good. As soon as you get the tongues, people have a conifption. There's like, they go into a Kramer moment. Tongues. And all tongues is it's a King James word for languages. So if we translate this language, spiritual language, and realize that it's a gift that God gives to us, it's not as strange, but yet people get hung up on this particular gift for a lot of different reasons. And I wish I had another 30 minutes, I'd teach on it, but I wrote a book on this subject years ago that we have in all three of our locations. It's called School of the Spirit. And so if you wanna grow more in your knowledge of the Holy Spirit, take this message, deep dive, and begin to hunger and thirst more for the things that I'm talking about this morning, hopefully my book, School of the Spirit would be super helpful for you. But here's the reality is that if Jesus says to you and me that the Holy Spirit is our advantage, how many know that that means the devil wants to steal your advantage? I used to play basketball when I was younger, junior high and high school and a little bit in a small Bible college that we went to. And in the Bible college that I played in, there's a small little NCCAA, not N-C-A-A, but N-C-C-A-A, small, I'm trying to emphasize that. But in the season that I played, we had this young man come because he was recruited by a Division I school, he got injured. And so if he played in our division, he didn't lose a year of eligibility in a Division I school. And so in order to recover, he came and he played with us. He was an incredible basketball player. I mean, you think sometimes you're good at something until you play with somebody who's really good. And when he stepped on the court, injured, I remember thinking to myself, wow, I mean, this is like a whole different speed, a whole different level. And he was on our starting five, I wasn't, but I loved watching him play because what he would always do, he was left-handed like I am. That's the only similarity we had. But he was left-handed and what he would do is he would go out in the first quarter and he knew that he had an advantage because he's left-handed. He also knew he had an advantage because nobody on their team knew that he was left-handed. So he would go out in the first 10 minutes of the game and he would dribble only with his right hand and he would shoot with his right hand. And he was better than me with his right hand, but he would go out and then he would shoot free throws with his right hand. And then in order to intimidate whoever was guarding him, he would wink at him and say, I should probably play with my dominant hand now and he would switch about halfway through the first half. And that's when everything changed because you could see the eyes of the competitor going, wait a second, this whole time you've been beating me to the hole, you've been doing it with your weak hand and all of a sudden it became Shannon's advantage. And he took advantage of that. Why in the world would we as Christians who have heaven living in our hearts try to live our lives on this planet in the days in which we're living in and not take advantage of the advantage that we have of the Holy Spirit living on the inside of us wanting to release his fruit and also his power through our lives. Why would we not wanna grow in that? Why would we not want to embrace that? Can you imagine you're living your life, you're at work and then all of a sudden there's just a shift and you go, I've been witnessing with my right hand, now I'm about to switch to my left. Devil, you're on notice today. I mean, something's about to shift. Can you imagine how a hell would tremble if we say we're shifting from just operating out of our mind and our intellect and our own understanding and we're shifting from being Christians who are just operating out of our best intentions and out of just our average, I got Sunday school Christianity but I'm shifting gears into a spirit-filled spirit-empowered reality and I'm going to eradicate and evacuate hell and populate heaven because the Holy Spirit dwells on the inside of me. Listen, that's not just for Reinhardt Bonke in Africa, some great evangelists, that's for the lowest, the weakest, the newest, the most basic of us, that's for us, every single one of us, it's our advantage because the Holy Spirit lives in you. Amen, do you stand with me this morning? The Holy Spirit lives in you. If you are a follower of Jesus, a Christian, you've been born again, you've been saved. The Holy Spirit dwells in you. He's the guarantee, he's the down payment of your future inheritance. When the Holy Spirit steps in, your dead soul that was dead because of your sins comes to life forever. Your sins washed away. You used to be a beggar, now you're a son or a daughter. Heaven fills your heart, God dwells inside of you. You're a threat to the kingdom of darkness. There will never be a moment where you will ever be separate from God but I can tell you what won't fill you with the Holy Spirit. What won't give you that inheritance is you thinking just because you believe in God that somehow you're a Christian or I go to church before I'm a Christian or I believe in Jesus but I wanna live in the world, that's not gonna get you filled. It's not, you're not gonna receive eternal life like this. Eternal life comes when we acknowledge Jesus as Lord of all and we repent of doing it our way and we lay our sin that we know has offended God at his feet and we say, I'm sorry, forgive me. I wanna learn to walk on the way of Jesus. Would you save me, would you forgive me? Holy Spirit, come and dwell in me. If you do that, eternity fills your heart but there's nothing else that you can't work your way into it, you can't procrastinate it and say someday I'm gonna do it on my deathbed, why would you wanna live another day in death when you can live in life? You say, how do I find this eternal life? We do two things, we acknowledge our sin and we believe on Jesus. We confess him as Lord of our lives. You do that and God will forgive you, save you and come make his dwelling place inside of you. So I want you to take one minute right now if you would, just bow your heads, close your eyes and I want you to ask yourself, what are you gonna do with Jesus today? You may be here and you say, I'm a Christian, I'm saved, my way to heaven, I know. Not because I've earned it but because I've had a definitive moment in my life where I chose to receive Christ as my only savior, my only hope. But it may be today that you're here and you know just between you and God, you can deceive others but you can't deceive God and you might even try to deceive yourself but if you're brutally honest with yourself you may be listening to me today and say, I know I'm not right with God. I know I'm not following Jesus and today I need to get my life right with God. I wanna lead you in a prayer. And so I'm gonna say this prayer and today if you're here and you know that you need to make Jesus the Lord of your life, you want eternal life, you want to be forgiven, you wanna be made right with the Lord and you want his spirit to come and dwell on the inside of you, then I encourage you as I pray this prayer, you pray it. You pray it and pray it with your own mouth and repeat it and God's gonna hear you. In fact, let's just all say this out loud together. Everyone in the room, doesn't matter who we are, say heavenly father, I'll come in Jesus' name. And I know I'm a sinner and I'm dead in my spirit and there's no hope beside you. Jesus, save me, forgive me of my sin, come into my heart and be my Lord and Savior. Today I repent of doing things my way, rebelling against you. Today I decide to follow you, you can have all of me. Sit on the throne of my heart. Thank you for loving me, so much that you died for me. Paid my sin's price. Thank you for rising from the dead to give me eternal life. In Jesus' name, amen. Amen, before we clap, here's what I wanna do. I know that a lot of us asked ourselves that question, where do I stand with God today? But I wanna give you an opportunity to make a public declaration of what just happened in your heart. If you're listening to me and you say, when you just prayed that, I know that I needed to pray that and I just received Christ as my Lord and Savior. I want you to just raise your hand, just say, I just prayed that prayer. Today I just became a Christian, thank you. Come on, who else? All over the room, thank you. Who else? Can we just welcome these to the family of God? Welcome. Welcome, sir. So proud of you.