The Rock San Diego – 3/22/09 – The Invisible Man Speaks

What does God’s voice sound like?

• He talks to you every day
• The Holy Spirit is all God – as much as the Son, as much as the Father
• He has all of the attributes of the triune God

1 – The Invisible Man sounds like a small still voice

• No matter what, if God is on your side, you have the advantage
• The fact that it’s a small and still voice forces you to be intent on listening or you just won’t get it
• Listen to your radio, your friends, or be intent on listening to Him, slow down and listen
• He sounds like your conscience
• He will come across as profound
• Pieces of wisdom
• He may not repeat things for you
• If your life is goin goin goin goin goin, you may be drowning out God
• You need time during the day to listen very carefully – He’s not going to shout
• God’s voice will not be loud

2 – The Invisible Man sounds like a groan in your heart (Romans 8:26)

• We don’t know what to pray for nor how to pray for it.  The Holy Spirit guides us
• Many times you just can’t put into words what you feel God is telling you
• You can’t put into words but you just know
• When you get this feeling, you don’t need to know why, you just need to obey
• "I don’t know why or how, I just know"
• The Holy Spirit is praying on your behalf
• Ask for the will of God

3 – The Invisible Man sounds like a child crying "Daddy" to God (Galatians 4:4)

• Always humility toward God
• You are not born a child of God, you are born a child of wrath who can then become a child of God when you accept Jesus Christ as your savior
• You cry "daddy" with dependence – can never be with attitude
• He nurtures within us a spirit of humility to cry out to "Daddy"
• God is not your peer, not your servant, not even your boss – He is almighty
• You are nothing but His child

4 – The Invisible Man sounds like biblical truth

• If anything contradicts the Bible, it is not God
• John 14-16
• Don’t ever let the devil get in the way of obeying God
• Don’t ever let the devil waste your time
• The Holy Spirit will testify of Jesus
• His job is to clarify who Jesus was and what Jesus did and does
• He will guide you into truth
• The truth will always be the Word
• Obeying God has nothing to do with what other people think and nothing to do with what you feel
• Your faith is most validated when you obey him when you don’t want to
• There will be times when God is prompting you to do something, and you have no idea why, but you know that it’s the right thing to do

5 – The Invisible Man wants us to speak like Him (Mark 13:11)

• Imagine your lips as God’s lips – say what He would say
• When you talk to people, are you saying words that Jesus would say?
• The Spirit wants to speak through you

The Rock San Diego – 3/15/09 – The Invisible Man Is a Person

• God is omnipotent, omniscient, omnipresent
• What makes you a person is not your body.  What makes you a person is the image of God in you
• If you do not understand the person-hood of the Holy Spirit, you will not have a powerful relationship with the Holy Spirit
• The Holy Spirit is more of a person than anyone you know

1 – The Holy Spirit is a He (John 16:9)

• The Holy Spirit can relate to your whole heart, your whole spirit, your whole mind
• He understands you better than anyone, even more than you know yourself
• He completely knows you
• He is not an it

2 – The Holy Spirit lives in you (John 14:15)

• He’s everywhere
• He’s not ‘out there’, he’s in you and around you everywhere
• He hurts with you
• He wants to help you carry your burden

3 – He has a mind (Romans 8:26)

• You don’t need a brain to have a mind
• God gave us a physical brain to mimic His mind
• Everything you can do, you received that ability in the likeness of God

4 – He has a will (1 Corinthians 12:11)

• God’s mind toward you is greater than the sands or the sea
• You have abilities that you don’t even know you have
• Talk to Him as a person who has a mind
• One of the first things He does is give you gifts (discernment, helps, faith)
• He knows what He’s doing – He’s giving you gifts for purpose, His purpose
• His desire is to fulfill your purpose on earth
• We are compatible to relate with God
• People’s council is second-class council, unless they are talking from God, which will lead you back to Him

5 – He can be grieved (Ephesians 4)

• Grieve = Cause to suffer
• The Devil cannot create – he can only pervert.  He counterfeits
• Walking after the devil’s trickery grieves the Lord.  He has so much in store for you.
• There is something you know – let Him lead you
• Don’t call Him an it

6 – The Holy Spirit loves you (Romans 15:30)

• The only reason you can love is because God loves you
• God wants to express His love through you
• He wants to think through you
• He speaks to you and wants to speak through you

7 – The Holy Spirit speaks (John 16:13)

• He wants to tell you:
  • Who you are
  • How he made you
  • The things he created you to do
  • The talents you have that you don’t know you have
  • The destiny for your life
  • About your friends and your enemies
  • How much he loves you
  • Even though you have cursed him, he’s ready to forgive you
  • Great and mighty things (even some of which are about yourself)
• When you let him guide your life, you’ll start to see opportunities open up for you one after another and start to accelerate
• When you start tracking down God’s path, he starts opening things up for you so fast, he doesn’t want you to turn around
• Make the Holy Spirit your friend – he should be your best friend 
• Renew your vow to him
• Ask him to lead you (and never let go)

The Rock San Diego – 3/8/09

When building a building there are three groups of people involved in the process:

1.  The person with the plan / vision
2. The person who executes the contract
3. The project manager – the one who is there to ‘get it done’

The Old Testament was the plan.  The New Testament is the contract execution (Jesus) and the execution of the plan (Holy Spirit).

Trinity:

1. God the father
2. Jesus – executed the contract
3. Holy Spirit – executing the plan (doing the work)

1 – God the father establishes the plan of salvation (big picture)

2 – Jesus, the mediator, executes the plan’s contract (1 Cor 6: 19-20)

3 – The Holy Spirit, as helper, implements the plan

• The Holy Spirit is 100% qualified to radically change your life – to guide you in every moment of your life
• Your "person" is not your body.  Your "person" is unseen – the soul
• The Holy Spirit can do more than you ever think to ask, but if you don’t know what those things are, then you won’t know to ask and won’t take advantage of the power that is available to you
• You can be saved, but not know the Holy Spirit

4 – Understand that all three (God, Son, Holy Spirit) are all one God

(The Holy Spirit is God)

5 – Jesus promises to send the Holy Spirit to you.

• Names of the Holy Spirit:  The Helper, The Spirit of truth (He teaches you spiritual truth – ask for Him to help you),

6 – The Holy Spirit is omniscient (all knowing), omnipresent (everywhere all the time), and omnipotent (all powerful)

• You don’t even know what you don’t know

Imagine you had a friend that you trusted so dearly, so completely, to know the right and true answer to any and every question you could ask.  You would be talking to that person constantly!  You would never let that person out of your sight!