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Jack Graham: This is who you are. God is always working by the power of Christ in you. Christ in you, the hope of glory. And oh, how we need this power.

Guest (Female): On today's PowerPoint, Dr. Graham brings a message about who the Holy Spirit is and what he does in your life. Now, here is Dr. Graham with his message, The Holy Spirit and You.

Jack Graham: Take God's Word and turn with me to Ephesians, the fifth chapter, and we're going to look at verse 18. This will be a two-part message called The Holy Spirit and You. When we pray for God to have his way and his will to be done, when we pray for revival, we are asking God to pour out his Spirit upon his people, upon his church, to revive us again and to fill us with his Spirit.

Ephesians 5:18 says, "Don't be drunk with wine, but be filled with the Spirit." We are given God's Spirit, the Holy Spirit. We know there are unholy spirits, demonized people, spiritually unholy. Hamas. Did you know the word Hamas is in the Bible? Genesis 6 speaks of the word violence, and the people before the flood, their minds were filled only on evil continually. Hamas is the word, violent, evil violence. And the people were so filled with evil violence that God destroyed them all in the flood, save Noah and his family, who believed in God.

Yes, there are demonized spirits, an unholy spirit, Satan himself, and the works of the enemy. But thank God, greater is he that is in you and me than he that is in the world. And we have the Holy Spirit who is alive in us. The Holy Spirit has been described as the missing person of the Trinity. The Trinity being the Godhead. God is one. There is one God. We learn that from the Old Testament Scriptures, and it's true. There is one God, and we’re to worship God and him only.

But God has expressed himself in three persons, thus the Trinity. And we meet the triune God throughout the pages of Scripture: God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit. We see the Holy Spirit not as optional, but coequal, coeternal, coessential with God the Father and God the Son.

Please do not view the Holy Spirit as an option like you may have on your car that you haven't figured out how to use yet, or on your cell phone. No, the Holy Spirit is present always with God. In creation, the Holy Spirit was present. When God created the heavens and the earth, we're told in Genesis 1 that the Spirit of God was moving upon the face of the waters.

And in creation, therefore, God, like in Christ who is the creator of the cosmos, God the Father, God the Son, God the Spirit present in creation. God the Father, God the Son, God the Spirit present in Christ himself. When Jesus came, the Holy Spirit overshadowed the womb of Mary, and Jesus was conceived. The Messiah was born by the work and the will of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, and therefore perfectly present in Jesus.

Jesus was anointed by the Spirit, baptized by the Spirit. He was the most Spirit-filled individual who ever walked on the face of the earth. So, coequal, coeternal, coessential with Christ himself, and then the Spirit himself, God's Holy Spirit, present in the Christian. That's why I'm calling this message The Holy Spirit and You. Because you, if you are a believer and follower of Jesus, if you know God, it is because God's Spirit is alive in you. And therefore, we ought to live in the fullness of his Spirit.

God is one, but he expresses himself in three persons. One God. Have you noticed how we often see how things come in threes? It's called the rule of three, and I've seen it in many ways and many different expressions through the years. For example, a sermon. Every good sermon ought to have three points. The best sermons, and this has been proven to be true, people can hang on to about three points. You get 10 points, nine points, seven points—every sermon ought to have at least one point. Can I get an amen? There ought to be at least one point to the sermon. But typically, a sermon unfolds in about three points.

So you see that in speaking, in public speaking, if you do any public speaking. I'm told that interior design, that when you frame a room with pictures, you do it in threes, and even furnishings, furniture around the room, that you set it up in threes. Now, I know nothing about what I'm talking about right now, but I read it on the internet, so it must be true, right? In threes. What I didn't read this on the internet, what I read in God's Word is 1 Thessalonians 5:23, that says that we're to be sanctified body, soul, and spirit. Mankind, men and women, are made like God in three parts. Father, Son, Holy Spirit, but we have a physical life, a body, we have a soul—that's the word psyche, psychological life, the mind, the emotions, the will—and we have spiritual life. When we have life in Christ, so we are in three parts. We are a trinity as well: body, soul, spirit. Father, Son, Holy Spirit.

So understand this about the Holy Spirit first of all, that the Holy Spirit lives in every Christian. His presence is in every believer's life. Now, don't let that just go over your head because maybe you've heard it before. For some of you, it's the first time. One of the reasons that we are doing this distinctives for disciples message series is because for those of us who've been trekking with the Lord a long time, following Jesus, we always need a refresher course and to remember what we need to do. The fundamentals, the essentials. You never get past the essentials, the core beliefs and behaviors of the Christian life. Peter said, "I wrote to remind you of these things." So in one sense, we are doing this to remind you.

I was reading about Bruce Bochy, and you know, Bochy is a veteran manager. He's been around a long time, won three World Series championships with the San Francisco Giants, including beating the Rangers one year, which wasn't good in the World Series. But anyway, Bochy's a great manager, and he's old school, they say, because he manages not only with the new data that is available and in Major League Baseball, in case you don't follow it, like all sports really, there's an incredible amount of computerized data. Which pitch a certain batter hits, where to throw, where to pitch, where to line up, and so on. All that data, which can be helpful, of course, but you can get all that data in your head if you're not careful, and it’s the paralysis of analysis. So in coaching or in managing, the best are able to take that and use it, but use the instinctive abilities, and it was Bochy who does that so very well.

A Wall Street Journal article described the effectiveness of the Rangers, and how did it happen? How did this team turn around? A concentration on the fundamentals, on the essentials. Not just the new school, but the old school. So I went a little longer on that than I planned, but I'm trying to illustrate to you that our core beliefs are essential. The fundamentals. We never grow beyond the fundamentals. Winning Christians live the fundamentals and practice the essentials, the core beliefs of the faith. So we need to know what we believe and why we believe it.

To those of you who may not be believers or you're brand-new believers, you maybe don't understand it at all, who the Holy Spirit is and what the Holy Spirit does in our lives. So this is going to be an important teaching for us. But here's the point. This is a miracle. A miracle that we share, according to 1 Peter, the divine nature. We are not God. That's New Age philosophy. But God is with us. God is in us. Jesus is alive in us.

So when you get up in the morning and look into the mirror, rather than give yourself all these personal self-affirmations—I'm good enough, I'm strong enough, I'm great enough—instead of that, why don't you look in the mirror and say, "I am a child of God, indwelt by the Holy Spirit of God. His deity inhabits my humanity. Jesus is alive in me this day. And therefore, Lord, fill me with your Holy Spirit." This is the miracle that takes place in the life of a Christian.

And therefore, there's incredible power in this. And what kind of power is it? Turn in your Bibles—you're in Ephesians 5—go back a few chapters to Ephesians, chapter 1, and I want to show you what this power is all about. Ephesians 1:19 and 20. This is not some Mickey Mouse power. This is the power of God in us. "And what is the immeasurable greatness of his power?" And while you're reading with me here, I want you to maybe check off just some of the words that you see in this passage that have to do with power or strength. "And what is the immeasurable greatness of his power," *dunamis*, which is dynamic in our language, "today or toward us who believe, according to the working of his great might," I'm helping you, "that he worked in Christ when he raised him from the dead and seated him at his right hand in the heavenly places."

Paul ransacks his own vocabulary, using multiple words to describe the power of God in the Christian. It is this immeasurable power, the immeasurable greatness of his power. It is the working of God according to his great might. And it is the power of the resurrection. The same power that raised Jesus from the dead is alive and working in you as a Christian. That's a miracle. This is who you are. God is always working by the power of Christ in you. Christ in you, the hope of glory. And oh, how we need this power.

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Jack Graham: This is who you are. God is always working by the power of Christ in you. Christ in you, the hope of glory. And oh, how we need this power. Power, the power of the Spirit of the living God to break the power of addictions and sin and habits that hold us back, to heal our hurts. Oh, how we need the Spirit of the living God to calm our fears and to heal our hurts, to strengthen us for the task at hand, to engage and empower our prayers when we pray.

When we pray for revival, this is the work of God, this is the work of the church. And oh, how we need the power of God to stand courageously and convictionally in our generation. It's not always easy to stand, and if it's up to me and you, we would fail, we would fall. But we have the power of the resurrected Christ alive in us. Not just the power of the resurrection, but the power of the risen one, Jesus himself. Christ is in us.

We need the power to be able to share our faith in our generation, and it is so vital in this world at the end in which we are living that we be effective witnesses. And how are we going to do that? Acts, chapter 1 and verse 8: "But you shall receive power after the Holy Spirit is come upon you and you shall be my witnesses in Jerusalem, Judea, Samaria, and to the ends of the earth."

Yes, the power of the risen one, the power of the resurrected one, the power of the one who is at the throne of God is alive and working in us, which means not only is the presence of God in every believer, but the power of God is in every Christian. When we allow him to fill us and live in the fullness of his Spirit, then we can walk in victory. Why are so many Christians defeated? Why are so many people living beneath their privileges as the children of God? Why are you overcome rather than overcoming the power of sin and Satan in your life?

When Jesus is alive in you, his Holy Spirit is presence in you. What? 1 Corinthians 6:19: "Do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit? Therefore, glorify God in your body, which belongs to God." That means in your life.

So I'm saying the Word of God is telling us the Holy Spirit is present. The question is, is he predominant in your life? Is he filling you in all his fullness? He is resident, but is he real in you? The fullness of the Holy Spirit. We'll talk about what that means in the next message and how to receive the fullness of the Holy Spirit.

But let me just say briefly that it’s not necessarily a big event, a big explosive experience in your life. For most of us, the fullness of the Spirit just comes as we walk in the Spirit day by day, as we yield to the Spirit of God in us, a step at a time, a day at a time, as we just sweetly respond and surrender to the Spirit of God in our life each day. That's the fullness of the Spirit. More about that next time.

But before we close this message, let me give you ways that I believe the Holy Spirit works in us right now. The Holy Spirit in you. Number one, the Holy Spirit prompts. Prompts. And by that, I'm referencing Romans 8:14, which says as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are the children of God. Just as we talked the last time about walking in the will of God, living in the Spirit of God, we are aligning our will with the will of God, and the Holy Spirit will prompt us through his Word, the Scripture, as we’re consistently, faithfully opening up God's Word, and by his Spirit who is in us, who prompts us, not with holy hunches or just guesswork, but God's work in us.

The Holy Spirit prays. Romans 8:26 and 27. The Spirit of God intercedes with us, helps us in our weakness, for we don't know how to pray as we ought. But the Spirit himself intercedes with us with groanings too deep for words. And he who searches hearts knows what is the mind of the Spirit because the Spirit intercedes for the saints according to the will of God. So when we don't know how to pray, when we come up against a situation, maybe a crisis, and we’re even too hurt to know what to pray, the Holy Spirit prays for us anyway.

I spoke with someone this week who said, "I don't even know how to pray about this." And I said, "That's okay. We're going to pray with you, and the Holy Spirit is going to pray in you until you can pray for yourself." The Holy Spirit is our partner in prayer.

The Holy Spirit pours out his love. The Holy Spirit pours. Romans 5:5. The Holy Spirit pours out his love in us by the Holy Spirit. Romans 5:5. And then the Holy Spirit proves the message of the Gospel. How do we know that we are saved? The Holy Spirit witnesses within us. Romans chapter 8, verses 15 and 16: "For you did not receive the spirit of slavery to fall back in fear, but you have received the Spirit of adoption as sons, by whom we cry, 'Abba, Father!' The Spirit himself bears witness with our spirit that we are the children of God."

So I know that I am saved, and you should too, because the Spirit of God tells you. You say, "How does that work? How do I know?" I can't describe it to you. I just know that I know that I know because of the Holy Spirit witnesses within me, the witness of the Spirit, that I am a child of God, and you can know the same.

So the Holy Spirit proves. He proves the Gospel message. Even as I'm preaching and sharing the Gospel, when I say, "Christ died for your sins and rose again on the third day, and if you put your faith and trust in him and repent of your sins and receive Christ, he will save you," the Holy Spirit comes alongside of that message that you just heard and speaks right to your heart. This is the truth. This is right. You need to confess your sins and receive Christ as your Savior. That's the work of the Holy Spirit. You don't get saved just anytime you feel like it. This is the work of the Holy Spirit. This is why you shouldn't grieve the Holy Spirit by saying no and no and no to the work of the Holy Spirit in your life, but say yes.

So the Holy Spirit proves the message of God. The Holy Spirit partners with his church. The work of Christ in his church is emboldened and empowered by the Holy Spirit. If we're going to have revival, it's because the Holy Spirit moves among us as his people. The Holy Spirit partners with his church in gifting his children with spiritual gifts in order that we may do the work of the ministry.

And then the Holy Spirit protects and preserves. Philippians 1:6: "He who began the good work in you will perfect it, perform it, complete it until the day of Jesus Christ." Why do we keep believing? Why do we keep persevering? Why do we keep going? Why do we keep trusting in God? Not because we're that strong, but because the Holy Spirit is strong in us. The Holy Spirit is persevering. When we talk about the perseverance of the saints, we're really talking about the perseverance of the Holy Spirit in us, who perseveres. And what God starts, he finishes.

So don't tell me that God is going to walk away from you, his investment. He died for you. His blood was poured out for you. He purchased you as your his dear child, and his Spirit resides in you to complete the work of God. God's not finished with me yet, thank God. God's not finished with you yet. He's still working in the seen and the unseen, but this is the work of the Holy Spirit, authenticating and affirming that we belong to Jesus.

It's called the baptism of the Spirit when we are immersed into Christ. This is not something we do for ourselves. This is what God does for us. He baptizes us, places us in the body of Christ, and then he seals us until the day of redemption. A seal was a Roman seal. It was stamped with authenticity on legal documents. We're told that the Holy Spirit is the authenticator and he stamps us with the image and identity of Jesus Christ. We are therefore protected.

And the Holy Spirit promises to take us to glory. We have all of him in all of us who name his name. This is the Holy Spirit and you. This is the Holy Spirit in you, filling you and fulfilling his promise in you. And we have an eternal life in Christ. God gave us eternal life in the work of Jesus on the cross and the resurrection. And Jesus promised abundant life, and then he gave us the Holy Spirit to assure us of abundant life. Many Christians, unfortunately, have eternal life, but they're not living an abundant life because you don't know the presence and the power of the Spirit of God in your life.

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July 4th, 2026, will be a day of great celebration for the 250th birthday of our great country. However, there has never been a more important time in our 250 years as a nation where we need God to move in power and heal our land. That's why I'm inviting you to join Dr. Graham in a prayer challenge for our nation. To join, simply text the word CRY to 59789. Again, text CRY to 59789. Pastor, what is your PowerPoint for today?

Jack Graham: We come to God every day asking Jesus to fill our lives, that his Spirit would take command and take control of our lives. And that's the way to live with power. That's the way to plug into power every single day of your life so that you will be energized, so that you will be equipped to do whatever you're required to do. Many of you have big responsibilities today, or maybe they're small responsibilities. But be they big or be they small, every one of us needs to walk in the Holy Spirit in order to get done what God wants us to get done.

The life of the Spirit is the normal Christian life. It's not something that is so strange and bizarre that you wouldn't want to have it. In other words, the Spirit-filled life is not an esoteric experience, just mere emotionalism or extremism, but it is the daily normal walk of the Christian, filled with the Spirit, exhibiting the fruit of the Spirit.

Some people, unfortunately, are more interested in the feeling of the Spirit than in the filling of the Spirit. But when the Holy Spirit fills us, we will be his witnesses. We will exhibit godly character in our lives, and we will be able to do and to get done what God wants us to get done every single day.

So, do you want the Holy Spirit to fill your life? Do you want him, the Lord Jesus Christ, to control you? Do you want to live for his glory? Then right now, thank him for his presence in your life. If you're a Christian, if you have accepted Jesus as your Lord and your Savior, he lives in you, and he wants now to control your life. So yield control to him. Give him charge of your life. Confess your sin, if there's anything in your life that's blocking the power, the flow of the Spirit in your life, ask God to remove that. Confess your sin and turn from it, and then ask him with faith to fill you with his Spirit and then watch God work in your life.

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