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I have titled my message today: Holy Spirit in Our Everyday.

LETS PRAY

In life, we all face  uncertainty.

Whether it’s financial troubles, relationship valleys, a health crisis, or just  trying to discover your purpose, one thing is for certain; God sees you.

He loves you.

And no  matter what you are facing, He has the answers.

If you would open your Bible  to John

Hebrews 2. We’re going to be talking about the gifts of the  Holy Spirit, but there’s something I wanted to establish first that I believe is so important  for us to understand.

Now, I want you to see that.

He talks about the gospel being preached first  by the Lord but then by those who heard Him.

And it says, “God also bearing witness (that is  bearing witness to the preaching of the gospel) with signs and wonders, various  miracles and gifts of the Holy Spirit.”

God bears witness to the preaching of the  gospel with the gifts of the Holy Spirit.

Listen to the words of the apostle Paul,

Paul said, “I fully  preached the gospel of Christ, but it’s been with signs and wonders and with the power of the Holy  Spirit.”

And he called that having fully preached the gospel.

So, it wasn’t a matter of just  doctrine or of just preaching the good news.

The Holy Spirit was involved in power.

And we  shouldn’t think that strange concerning the great commission that Jesus gave to us all as believers.

And I want to read it to you.

Amen.

Now, I share that for a specific reason.

It’s because I believe that we can unconsciously create a culture where these wonderful gifts and  manifestations of the Spirit are just for us here in the house.

And thank God for the things that  we do experience within the walls of the church.

That has merit.

But, if we’re going to be true  to the scriptural pattern, we need to anticipate and be expecting the gifts and manifestations  of the Holy Spirit, far more outside of the four walls of this church than within the church.

In fact, I’ve read through the entire book of Acts, specifically looking for every time a gift  of the Holy Spirit was in manifestation.

From chapter one all the way through the end  of the book.

And there were gifts of the Spirit throughout.

But, you will find, if you do that  study through the book of Acts, not exclusively, but predominantly, the manifestations, or the  gifts of the Holy Spirit are always found in connection with reaching the lost, with taking  it out into the street.

Yet, there are some things that happened when the people gathered, but  mostly the gifts of the Spirit are for out there.

But, I think unconsciously, again, this  culture had sort of been created that we just expect it all to happen when we gather in  our midst.

When God says, “No, the main purpose is for out there.”

I’ve preached in a particular  country many, many times for probably the last, I’m going to say 30 years.

And I’ve probably  been 40 times to this particular country.

It has some of the greatest skiing in the world,  snow-capped mountains that are covered with snow, 365 days a year.

Some of the best skiing you can  find on the planet.

And one day I’m driving along, we’re going to a meeting, and I notice on the side  of the highway, there’s this enormous building that’s built on the side of a hill.

And I asked  the driver and said, “What the heck is that?”

He said, “Oh, that’s a ski building.”

I  said, “What do you mean?”

He says, “Well, they make fake snow in there.

And you go in  and rent skis, or you take your skis, and you take the rope tow up and ski down the hill, take  the rope tow up and ski down the hill.”

Now,   as awesome as that is, it would be a tragedy to  neglect the mountains outside.

You see, the skis, yes, they work inside the building,  but they’re actually made for outside.

The gifts of the Holy Spirit predominantly  will be in manifestation as we take the gospel to a lost and to a dying world.

I was a brand  new Christian, I didn’t really know anything, but if you stood still long  enough, I told you about Jesus,   told you about my experience.

Anybody or  anything that would stand still long enough, I’d share with them.

And I was in Lithia  Park in Ashland, Oregon, the same park that   the little boy had shared Christ with me.

I’m  a brand new believer.

There’s a maintenance guy in the park.

He’s probably twice my age.

And I  walked up to him, engaged him in conversation.

I started telling him about my experience in  the park.

And I’m talking to him about Jesus,   and he starts to mock me.

And he said a couple of  snide things.

And in my heart, I prayed, “Oh God, give me something to win this  man.”

And he was making fun of me   and kind of laughing, and the Holy Spirit, at that  moment, spoke to me.

The Spirit said to my heart, “He’s deaf in his left ear.”

I said, “Excuse  me.”

I put my hand up.”

He said, “What?”

I said, “You’re deaf in your left ear.”

I remember he touched his ear.

He said,   “Yes, how did you know that?”

I said, “God  just told me that.

Can I pray for you?”

He looked down, his eyes got real big, and  said, “No, I got to go.”

And he turned,   he almost ran away.

Now, I don’t know whatever  became of him, but I do know that was something that he could never dismiss.

And I trust  that if he would’ve let me pray for him, there would have been a gift of healing that  would have come in conjunction with that word   of knowledge that the Holy Spirit gave me at  that moment.

But, I think we need to expect, anticipate, and look for the gifts of  the Spirit as we’re going out there.

And so, as we discuss and define the gifts  of the Spirit over the next few weeks, let us think in terms of being used by God outside  of these four walls, thankful for everything God does when we gather together, but also lifting  up our eyes and looking on the harvest fields and trusting that the Holy Spirit will work through us  as we take the good news of Jesus Christ to a lost and a dying world.

So, if you would open your  Bibles to:

1 Corinthians 12:1, please.

First   Corinthians 12:1.

And by the way,

1 Corinthians  12 deals with the gifts of the Holy Spirit,

1 Corinthians 13 deals with the gifts of the  Holy Spirit,

and 1 Corinthians 14 deals with the gifts of the Holy Spirit.

I do not want you to be ignorant: Let’s stop right  there.

There are not many things in Scripture that God specifically says, “Hey, I don’t want  you ignorant about this.”

Now for me, if I ever find something that God specifically says,  “I don’t want you ignorant about this subject,” man, I will study and study and find all I can  about that particular subject.

And God says to the church that He doesn’t want us to be ignorant  concerning spiritual gifts.

How important is this for the church that God would go out of His way  to say, “Hey, don’t be in the dark about this.

Gain understanding about this.”

And he goes on in  this chapter, he identifies the various gifts and tells how God distributes them within His body.

And then, in chapter 13, he identifies the spirit or the attitude that should characterize the  use of the gifts, which is love.

In chapter 14, he gives us guidelines for the functioning of the  vocal gifts within the local assembly.

He goes on and basically tells us that when the gifts are  in operation, the whole Trinity is involved.

Look with me in verse 4,

4 There are diversities  of gifts, but the same Spirit.

5 There are differences of ministries, but the same Lord.

6 And there are diversities of activities,   but it is the same God who works all in all.

I  want you to look up this way.

All right.

There are diversities of gifts, same Spirit.

The Holy  Spirit is over the gifts.

There are different ministries, but the same Lord, the Lord  is over the ministries, and God works all in all.