Zac Poonen - The Holy Spirit Guides Us From Within
Summary
TLDRThe speaker delves into the significance of hearing God's voice within, as opposed to the external voice of the Old Testament. Emphasizing the New Covenant's spiritual growth through sensitivity to the Holy Spirit, they stress the importance of being filled with the Holy Spirit for effective Christian living and ministry. Drawing from Isaiah 30:21 and Hebrews 5, the sermon encourages believers to seek and discern God's will for their lives, highlighting the transformative power of the Holy Spirit in guiding and empowering them to fulfill God's plan.
Takeaways
- 📜 The memory verse from Isaiah 30:21 speaks of God's guidance coming from within, unlike the Old Testament where God spoke from the outside.
- 🔮 Even ungodly individuals like Balaam could hear God's voice from the outside, indicating that hearing God's voice externally is not a sign of spiritual maturity.
- 🌟 Spiritual growth in the New Covenant is characterized by sensitivity to the Holy Spirit's voice within, rather than external voices.
- 💡 Developing sensitivity to the Holy Spirit's voice is crucial for spiritual growth, and without it, one may not be growing spiritually.
- 🔑 The Holy Spirit's presence within believers is a distinguishing feature of the New Covenant, enabling a deeper relationship with God compared to the Old Testament.
- 🚀 Being filled with the Holy Spirit is essential for effective Christian living and service, as it empowers believers to fulfill God's plan for their lives.
- 🙏 Prayer, fasting, and seeking God diligently are necessary to experience the filling of the Holy Spirit, which can lead to a life-changing encounter with God.
- 🏗️ Building the church is more important than physical healing, and it is only after being filled with the Holy Spirit that the apostles were able to do so effectively.
- 🛣️ God has a specific plan for each believer's life, and being filled with the Holy Spirit helps in discerning and following that plan.
- 👂 The Holy Spirit helps believers hear the voice of God, guiding them in their daily walk and decisions, which is a privilege and responsibility of New Covenant believers.
- 🔍 The Holy Spirit reveals hidden aspects of Jesus' life and teachings that are not explicitly written in the Gospels, aiding in a deeper understanding of how to live like Christ.
Q & A
What does Isaiah 30:21 signify in the context of the New Covenant?
-Isaiah 30:21 signifies the internal guidance of God's voice within us, as opposed to the external voice heard in the Old Testament. It represents God's highest way of speaking in the New Covenant, guiding us through the Holy Spirit within our spirit.
How does the speaker differentiate between the way God communicated in the Old Testament and the New Covenant?
-The speaker differentiates by stating that in the Old Testament, God communicated externally, even to the ungodly, while in the New Covenant, God speaks through the Holy Spirit within the believer's spirit, guiding them internally.
What is the importance of developing sensitivity to the Holy Spirit's voice according to the speaker?
-Developing sensitivity to the Holy Spirit's voice is crucial for spiritual growth. It helps believers discern God's guidance and differentiate it from their own thoughts, leading to a deeper relationship with God and a more Christ-like life.
Why does the speaker emphasize the importance of being filled with the Holy Spirit?
-The speaker emphasizes that being filled with the Holy Spirit is essential for spiritual empowerment, enabling believers to live a life that fulfills God's plan for them and to hear His voice guiding their path.
How did the speaker's life change when they were filled with the Holy Spirit?
-The speaker's life changed dramatically when they were filled with the Holy Spirit. They moved from a state of defeat and uncertainty to a life of purpose and spiritual empowerment, leading to the birth of CFC.
What is the speaker's view on the significance of building the church in the context of the Holy Spirit?
-The speaker believes that building the church is more important than physical healing or other good works. It is only after being filled with the Holy Spirit that the apostles were able to build the church and hear the voice of the spirit guiding them.
What does the speaker suggest is the most useful life one can live on earth?
-The speaker suggests that the most useful life one can live on earth is one where they fulfill the specific plan God has made for them, which is revealed through the Holy Spirit.
What does the speaker mean by 'forgetting what is behind' in the context of spiritual growth?
-The speaker means that to press forward in spiritual growth, one must not dwell on past failures or successes. Instead, they should focus solely on God's will for their life, forgetting past achievements as well as failures.
How does the speaker interpret Hebrews 5:11-14 in relation to hearing the Holy Spirit?
-The speaker interprets Hebrews 5:11-14 as an indication that there are deeper truths about Jesus that the Holy Spirit will reveal to believers, truths that are not written in the Gospels and require spiritual hearing to understand.
What is the role of the Holy Spirit in guiding believers into understanding the life of Jesus, according to the speaker?
-According to the speaker, the Holy Spirit guides believers into understanding not just the ministry of Jesus but also His daily life, including His habits, attitudes, and interactions, which are not explicitly written in the Gospels.
What does the speaker suggest as a prayer or plea for believers to seek the Holy Spirit?
-The speaker suggests that believers should earnestly seek to be filled with the Holy Spirit, praying for the ability to hear God's voice guiding them in their daily lives and to understand the deeper truths of Jesus' life.
Outlines
📜 Spiritual Growth and the Voice of the Spirit
The speaker discusses the difference between God's communication methods in the Old and New Testaments, emphasizing the importance of developing sensitivity to the Holy Spirit's voice within us. In the Old Testament, God spoke from the outside, but in the New Covenant, the Holy Spirit speaks from within, guiding us. The speaker encourages developing this spiritual sensitivity to grow like Christ, contrasting it with the inability of Old Testament figures to do so. The speaker shares a personal testimony of seeking to be filled with the Holy Spirit, which led to a transformative experience and the birth of CFC. The importance of being filled with the Holy Spirit for lasting work in God's service is highlighted.
🏛 The Priority of Building the Church and God's Plan for Our Lives
This paragraph focuses on the significance of building the church and how it surpasses physical healing in importance. The speaker believes that God has a specific plan for each person's life, made before birth, and fulfilling this plan is the most meaningful way to live. The speaker challenges the audience to seek God's will with all their heart, referencing Hebrews 5 to stress the importance of hearing the Holy Spirit's voice within. The speaker also discusses the importance of forgetting past successes and failures to stay focused on God's will, using the metaphor of a curtain that falls behind, blocking the view of the past.
🔍 The Holy Spirit's Role in Understanding Christ's Life and Discipleship
The speaker delves into the Holy Spirit's role in guiding believers into a deeper understanding of Jesus Christ, beyond the written Gospels. It is through the Holy Spirit that one can grasp the 'hidden' aspects of Jesus' life, such as his daily habits, attitudes, and interactions, which are not explicitly recorded in Scripture. The speaker points out that the Holy Spirit will reveal these truths to those who earnestly seek to be filled with Him. The speaker concludes by urging the audience to seek the Holy Spirit to avoid becoming dull of hearing and to live according to God's plan, as revealed through the Spirit's guidance.
Mindmap
Keywords
💡Memory Verse
💡Old Testament
💡New Covenant
💡Spiritual Growth
💡Holy Spirit
💡Sensitivity
💡Discipleship
💡Fulfilling God's Plan
💡Hebrews 5
💡Spiritual Deafness
💡John 16
Highlights
The memory verse from Isaiah 30:21 emphasizes hearing God's word as a guiding principle in life.
In the Old Testament, God spoke from the outside, which was not a mark of spiritual maturity.
Even ungodly individuals like Balaam could hear God's voice from the outside.
The New Covenant involves God speaking from within through the Holy Spirit.
Spiritual growth is associated with developing sensitivity to the Holy Spirit's voice.
Lack of spiritual sensitivity can hinder hearing God's direction.
The importance of being filled with the Holy Spirit for spiritual growth and guidance.
In the Old Testament, the Holy Spirit was external and did not enable spiritual growth.
After Pentecost, the disciples were transformed from fear to boldness by the Holy Spirit.
Building the church is more important than physical healing, as shown by the apostles' experiences.
God has a specific plan for each person's life, which is revealed through the Holy Spirit.
The urgency to fulfill God's plan for one's life, which is eternally significant.
The necessity to seek the Holy Spirit to understand the deeper truths about Jesus Christ.
The Holy Spirit points to Jesus and reveals the 'hidden' aspects of His life not recorded in the Gospels.
The importance of forgetting past successes and failures to remain sensitive to God's voice.
Paul's teaching in Philippians 3:13-14 about forgetting the past and pressing toward God's high calling.
The Holy Spirit's role in guiding believers into all truth about Jesus and revealing His life's hidden aspects.
John 16:13-14's promise of the Holy Spirit guiding into the truth and revealing Jesus' life.
The challenge of hearing God's voice amidst the noise of life and the need for spiritual attentiveness.
Transcripts
I'd like to continue on
what we heard about the memory verse
this week
it says in Isaiah 30.
in verse 21.
your years will hear a word behind you
this is the way you walk in it
when you turn to the right
or the left
now when you read in the Old Testament
we find that God spoke from the outside
and sometimes we wish we could hear him
like that like God would say Abraham
Abraham or in the middle of the night
Samuel Samuel
but that was God's way in the Old
Testament and it had nothing to do with
the man being spiritual
because even a ungodly
Satan worshiper like belam
you know later on it says that Balaam
was a sorcerer
so even Balaam could hear God speaking
from the outside
so that's not a great thing
to hear God speaking like that
even King Saul and others heard but
this is the New Covenant where we hear
the word behind us saying
it's a voice in our spirit
this is God's highest way
in the New Covenant
the way of speaking from outside we
think it is better it is not
because it will never enable us to grow
spiritually
Those Old Testament people could not
become like Christ
but if we develop the habit
of being sensitive to what is the voice
of the spirit and what is
some other voice in my heart we grow
spiritually
if you don't develop that sensitivity
it says you're not growing spiritually
if you're always confused
is it my voice or is it God's voice
but God wants us to grow
and what is it that hinders us
in Hebrews in chapter 5
we read what prevents us from hearing
that voice saying this is the way you
walk in it
first of all you must be convinced of
what I just said
that it is more important
to develop a sensitivity
to the Holy Spirit speaking within you
must work at it
of course the most important thing is to
be filled with the Holy Spirit
you know in the Old Testament they could
not have the Holy Spirit Within
it is on the outside
that's why he spoke from outside
and
it didn't help the disciples to be
spiritual
they were scared
after even though they saw Jesus risen
from the dead but the moment they were
filled with the spirit
it's completely different
they were no more scared they throw the
doors off and
all fear had gone from their life
they're willing to lay down their lives
everything changed when the Holy Spirit
came within that's when you begin to
hear the voice from within saying this
is the way you walk in it this is why
it's so important to be filled with the
Holy Spirit
we hear about that often but I think a
lot of Christians they're not sure if
you ask them yeah sure God's filled you
with the Holy Spirit
well brother I'm not so sure I hope so
well that would indicate I'm not really
serious about it
I remember when I was not sure for years
about being filled with the Holy Spirit
and
I was so desperate after some time
because I was as a result of it I was
being defeated in my life
and I said Lord I've got to settle this
I've got to be filled with the spirit
and
would pray and fast and cry out to God
and
do everything that I knew should be done
till God finally met with me it changed
the whole direction of my life
and I'll never forget that day
and CFC was born only after that I don't
believe that we can do any lasting work
for God
without being filled with the Holy
Spirit the apostles did a lot of good
things you know they went out and
preached if you read Matthew chapter 10
they even raise the debt
and healed lepers
before the day of Pentecost
but they couldn't build a church
the Lord commissioned them Matthew 10 go
out and heal the sick and cleanse the
lepers
but they couldn't build a church
until
they were filled with the Holy Spirit
and after being full of the Holy Spirit
Paul could not heal himself of his own
sickness that's not important but he
could build a church
see so I see that building the church is
more important than physical healing or
anything else
and then they could hear the voice of
the spirit saying what to do and where
to go
it's a wonderful thing to be led by God
like that
because I believe that
for every one of you dear brothers and
sisters
God's made a plan for your life
he made it long before you were born
and the most useful life you can live on
earth
is one where you fulfill that plan
not just
you know doing all the routine things we
come to church we sing the songs and
once in a while we get up and share
something and come to the weekday
meetings and it can become a routine
good very good it's better than nothing
but
ask yourself
do you believe God's got a plan for your
life a very specific plan
do you have a passion
Lord before I leave this earth I want to
fulfill that
that's what gripped my heart when God
filled me with the Holy Spirit
Lord you got a plan for my life
and I don't care what else I don't do I
want to fulfill that plan because I know
when I get into eternity
it's not all the various meetings I
attended and how much of the Bible I
knew or what other people thought about
me all those things are going to work be
worth nothing
the important thing in eternity will be
did you fulfill the plan God Made For
Your Life
if you're gripped by that I'll tell you
one thing
you will earnestly seek to be filled
with the Holy Spirit even if you're
young
seek for that
in Hebrews 5 it says the same theme
about hearing
here the holy spirit says through Paul
concerning Jesus verse 11 Hebrews 5 and
verse 11.
concerning Jesus we have so much to say
that means there are so many things
about Christ
which are not written in the Gospels
that's the thing that gripped me
there are so many things about Christ
not written in the Gospels
if it has already written in the gospel
there's no need for this sentence
concerning Jesus we have so much to say
and it's very hard to explain
what's hard to explain about what you
read in the gospels that he healed the
sick and he raised the dead and he went
here and did Miracles and all types of
things that's not hard to understand
but he says there are certain other
things about Jesus which are very hard
to explain
but I want you to know it
but you don't you're not able to know it
because your hearing is not good
you're not able to hear the voice of the
spirit within your heart
and the sad thing is even though you're
not hearing it you're quite satisfied
I think if you begin to lose your
hearing in the year
it would disturb you tremendously
imagine if you woke up one day and you
discovered even in one year you lost
hearing
you'd rushed to the doctor
hey Doc I've lost Hearing in one year
we'd be really be concerned
I wonder
if we are as concerned that we are not
don't hear that voice behind saying this
is the way you walk in it when you turn
to the right when you turn to the left
God is a rewarder
of those who diligently seek him that
has never changed
he has said you seek me with all your
heart you will find me
and I want to say to every one of you
here
if you seek God with all your heart and
you don't find it
God has broken his word
he'll never break his word
I guarantee to everybody here
in any area if you're seeking to find
God's will
if you seek him with all your heart you
will find that you'll find God's will
you'll hear that word saying this is the
way not don't turn right turn left
I found that again and again and again
my life
and when I don't get it clearly I say
Lord something's wrong some other some
other thing has become priority in my
life
but I don't want anything to be a
priority in my life except the will of
God
because I know that's the only way I can
live a useful life on this Earth
and I never want to look back
over what is accomplished
that's another thing Paul said
forgetting what is behind
and reaching forth to what is before
I'll tell you one way we become dull of
hearing
if you keep looking back and pat
yourself on the back saying
so many good things you've done and
what you think you're doing for the Lord
and how useful you are
you're using your home for the Lord
perhaps and you're doing things for the
Lord and you keep thinking about that
you'll become dull of hearing Paul said
forgetting the things that are behind
we like to forget our failures all of us
do
but we must forget our successes also
the good things we have done must be
forgotten
I think of it like a curtain that falls
right behind me
a curtain right behind me when I look
back over my life I can see nothing
there's a curtain there
I can't see the bad things because the
Lord says I don't remember your evil
anymore
I can't even see the good things
that's the only way
to press forward Paul says forgetting
Philippians 3 13 the things that are
behind I press toward the mark for the
price of the High Calling of God in
Christ Jesus
and that is our goal
we will be able to hear in different
situations
say Lord I don't even if I fail in the
past or done good things in the past
I want to know at least the rest of my
life
I would urge all of you to say Lord
the rest of my life
forget about the past maybe I failed
maybe I succeeded in some areas for the
rest of my life
however little or much is left of it
I want to walk in your plan I want to
hear that voice which says
don't let turn left here turn right
don't take that take this
and for that I want to be filled with
the Holy Spirit
because it's the holy spirit that made
the difference in the New Covenant
the Old Testament it is from outside the
New Testament from within
and I pray that you will seek for that
so that we don't become dull of hearing
and it says here is concerning Jesus
that we have much to say the holy spirit
always points to Jesus
and so many times I've said I've asked
the Lord the Holy Spirit to tell me
how did Jesus do it I mean after he
started his ministry that I need to read
the gospels I can understand
but Lord before he became 30 years old
when he was living at home how did he
live with his brothers and sisters can
you tell me
how did he do his work as a carpenter or
whatever job he did
well there's a verse which I would leave
with you
John chapter 16 please
this is a verse that's helped me
John 16 concerning the holy spirit in
verse 13 the spirit of Truth
will guide you into all the truth
and the truth is not the truth of two
plus two is four or something like that
the truth is Jesus Christ he said I am
the truth I am the way the truth and the
life
the spirit of truth will guide you into
into Jesus he's the truth he will
glorify me verse 14 John 16 14 and this
is the verse I was thinking of he will
take of mine and disclose it to you
now you don't need the Holy Spirit
to read the gospels and see whether
Jesus healed the sick you can be an
unbeliever and read the gospel to know
Jesus healed the sick and raise the dead
and all that what is it that the Holy
Spirit would disclose to you which you
cannot understand if you are not filled
with the Holy Spirit it is those hidden
things
in the life of Jesus
which are not written in the Gospels
which teaches us how to live day our
daily life
and there are so many of them
that we read in
John 21
verse 25
John 21 25 there are many other things
which Jesus did which are not written in
the Gospels
which if they were written in detail the
whole world would not be able to contain
the books
written
those are the things the holy spirit
will tell us you and me
how Jesus lived
in the areas of not his ministry but his
daily life
every little thing
if you're serious about it what were his
food habits
and I'm talking in terms of discipline
in eating discipline and sleeping
how did Jesus do it
what is his attitude towards
friends and enemies and everything
things which are not written in the
Gospels
you'll hear a word behind you saying
this is how Jesus lived
dear brothers and sisters seek with all
your heart to be filled with the Holy
Spirit is the answer to everything that
lies in the future
amen
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