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LET’S FOLLOW JESUS
PART 4
And about the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani? that is to say, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?
INTRODUCTION
Good morning Southpointe, we are in this series called Let’s follow Jesus.
So I want to continue on this subject following Jesus.
And because ye are sons, God hath sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father.
I want to talk to you this morning about following Jesus and crying for more of God.
Here in we see the distinct of each three divine persons. God, that being the Father, sending forth the Spirit, that which is the Holy Spirit, and He is called the Spirit of His Son.
Now look with me here I am need to build a foundation here for you to understand the rest of this sermon. So stay with me!!
But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law,
To redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons.
Look at verse 4, God sent forth His Son and then in verse 5 look at it and it speaks of the Son as coming to redeem those who were under the law, and then in verse 6 it reveals to us the Spirit as coming into the hearts of believers and look what they do, cry Abba, Father.
There’s three things that I want you to see here:
The dignity of the Believers, Ye are sons
For he whom God hath sent speaketh the words of God: for God giveth not the Spirit by measure unto him.
The constant indwelling of the Holy Spirit
The cry, (crying Abba, Father)
I want to touch likely on the first two and then spend most of my time on the third one. The Cry.
1. Ye are sons:
Ye are sons:
We do not belong in this family but we are adopted must gives us the rights of children.
We are not the sons of God by nature but we are the Off-spring of God.
For in him we live, and move, and have our being; as certain also of your own poets have said, For we are also his offspring.
Forasmuch then as we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Godhead is like unto gold, or silver, or stone, graven by art and man's device.
We have a sonship that does not come to us by nature.
But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name:
Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.
You see, when we were unbelievers, we knew nothing about this adoption thing. we only knew about living under the law, we only knew about our self-righteousness, but we knew nothing about sonship.
But what is the game changer is this thing called faith.
For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus.
Faith that Jesus Christ is the Son of God
Faith that Jesus Christ did die on that old rugged cross.
Faith that Jesus Christ rose on the third day
Faith that Jesus is setting on the right hand side of the Father in heaven victorious over death, grave and hell.
Faith that Jesus did it all for me and now I am part of the family of God.
But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.
To be a son of God I must believe.
2. The constant indwelling of the Holy Spirit
And because ye are sons, God hath sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father.
Here is a divine act of the Father. The Holy Spirit comes from the Father and Son.
God has sent the the Spirit of His Son into your heart.
Understand this the Holy Spirit that lived in Christ now if you are a believer lives in you.
Even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you.
Praise the Lord!!! After the day of Pentecost the Spirit of God now live in us.
Us being the ones who have faith in all that God is and will be.
What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?
For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's.
Now know that the Spirit of Christ, the Holy Spirit, the same Spirit that lived in Christ, the same Spirit that raised Christ from the dead lives in you. That should be so exciting!!!
But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you.
But notice the place where He takes up His residence:
And because ye are sons, God hath sent forth the Spirit of His Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father.
R But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you.
In your heart, it does not say that God has sent His Spirit into your head, or your brain. Now I know that we are transform by the renewing of our minds, and that the Spirit of God illuminates our intellect and guides our judgment.
But that is not the beginning or the main part of His work. He comes mainly to the affections.He dwells with the heart.
For it is by believing in your heart that you are made right with God, and it is by confessing with your mouth that you are saved.
The heart is the center of our being. The heart is the vital part; the Holy Spirit enters the heart as the living God and take possession of the very core of our being.
Did you know that the heart beats 70 times a minute, with each beat the heart pumps 2 to 3 ounces of blood out of the heart. It can move 5 to 7 liters of blood in one minute and 2000 gallons per day. In a lifetime, it beats over 2.5 billion times and pumps over 200 million liters of blood.
That blood is sent to every part of the body by the beat of the heart. When Spirit of God takes possession of the affections, He operates upon every power, faculty, and member of our entire person.
Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life.
You see, it is very necessary that that blood, that precious blood of Jesus Christ flow in every part of man, soul, mind, and body.
For a change of direction, renewing of the mind, and for sanctification of the person.
for the life of the body is in its blood. I have given you the blood on the altar to purify you, making you right with the LORD. It is the blood, given in exchange for a life, that makes purification possible.
The blood that Jesus Christ shed for you and I, it is the blood my friend.
So the Spirit takes resident in our heart because that center of our emotions.
The battle that we have is not the battle with the devil as much as it is the battle with the flesh. The devil is defeated, it is submitting our fleshy desires and plans over to the will of God for our lives.
Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?
But God be thanked, that ye were the servants of sin, but ye have obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine which was delivered you.
Being then made free from sin, ye became the servants of righteousness.
3. The cry, (crying Abba, Father)
And because ye are sons, God hath sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father.
This is the last final point, but this is what we must understand, where the Holy Spirit enters, there is a cry.
There in — God hath sent forth the Spirit of His son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father.
Notice is is the Spirit of God who cries. Some want to say that the Holy Spirit makes us cry but that is not what the Word of God declares:
If you look at:
For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father.
Here we see the cry Abba, Father this is not the Spirit of God but it us. Crying out to God.
But on down in this chapter Apostle Paul brings out the Spirit cry again.
Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities: for we know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered.
Here the Spirit Himself is groanings with uttering within the child of God.
The Holy Spirit prompts and inspires the cry for more of God.
The Holy Spirit will put the cry into the heart and mouth of the believer.
And It is Holy Spirit’s cry and in the midst of it all He is teaching us to cry out for more of God.
Just as a mother teaches us to speak, the Holy Spirit teaches us to cry out Abba Father .
I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me.
Now this is what I want to close with:
If you will notice, this a very sweet fact about this cry, it is the cry of the Son.
God has sent the Spirit of His Son into our hearts, and that Spirit cries in us and the same ways Jesus cried here:
And he said, Abba, Father, all things are possible unto thee; take away this cup from me: nevertheless not what I will, but what thou wilt.
Now listen to this Jesus did not want to put His flesh through pain, if there would be any other way.
Just like the cry our flesh, we don’t want to put our flesh through pain, if we can find another way out.
Jesus submit completely to the plan of God, and it involved a cross, pain and separation.
And about the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani? that is to say, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?
Understand this: Jesus was crying out for more of God, even in the midst of becoming sin, the Holy Spirit was crying out through the body of Christ for more of God.
Get this, if you are here today, and you are a believer, you are not perfect and there are times in your walk with God, that you are struggling with the flesh, I want you to know that the Holy Spirit is crying out for more of God.
There’s signs of dehydration:
Dry skins
bad breath
muscle cramps
Fever and chills
Food craving, (sweets)