One of the most amazing parts of being a Christian is that we get incredible help given to us - God’s very presence, his Holy Spirit comes to live inside us. This messages explores some of what this means And how we can cooperate with what God’s trying to do inside of us.

John 14:15–26

“If you love me, obey my commandments. And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Advocate, who will never leave you. He is the Holy Spirit, who leads into all truth. The world cannot receive him, because it isn’t looking for him and doesn’t recognize him. But you know him, because he lives with you now and later will be in you. No, I will not abandon you as orphans—I will come to you. Soon the world will no longer see me, but you will see me. Since I live, you also will live. When I am raised to life again, you will know that I am in my Father, and you are in me, and I am in you. Those who accept my commandments and obey them are the ones who love me. And because they love me, my Father will love them. And I will love them and reveal myself to each of them.”

Judas (not Judas Iscariot, but the other disciple with that name) said to him, “Lord, why are you going to reveal yourself only to us and not to the world at large?”

Jesus replied, “All who love me will do what I say. My Father will love them, and we will come and make our home with each of them. Anyone who doesn’t love me will not obey me. And remember, my words are not my own. What I am telling you is from the Father who sent me. I am telling you these things now while I am still with you. But when the Father sends the Advocate as my representative—that is, the Holy Spirit—he will teach you everything and will remind you of everything I have told you.

What are the unmistakable aspects of Jesus life is that people nothing like Jesus liked Jesus. As they began to follow him they also began to believe into him. This led to these followers actually obeying Jesus as Lord and Master.

Matthew 9:9

As Jesus went on from there, he saw a man named Matthew sitting at the tax collector’s booth. “Follow me,” he told him, and Matthew got up and followed him.

John 6:68

Simon Peter answered [Jesus] “Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life.

Matthew 7:24-29

Anyone who listens to my teaching and follows it is wise, like a person who builds a house on solid rock. Though the rain comes in torrents and the floodwaters rise and the winds beat against that house, it won’t collapse because it is built on bedrock. But anyone who hears my teaching and doesn’t obey it is foolish, like a person who builds a house on sand. When the rains and floods come and the winds beat against that house, it will collapse with a mighty crash.”

When Jesus had finished saying these things, the crowds were amazed at his teaching, for he taught with real authority—quite unlike their teachers of religious law.

This message explores how we have been invited to know God. The same almighty creator who made the universe wants to know us as a father knows his child.

Matthew 22:37-38

“‘You must love the Lord your God with all your heart, all your soul, and all your mind.’ This is the first and greatest commandment”

- Jesus

Isaiah 44:2

I am your Creator. You were in my care even before you were born.

Ephesians 1:4

“Long before He laid down earth's foundations, God had us in mind, and settled on us as the focus of His love.”

Ephesians 1:18-19

I pray also ... that you may know ... his incomparably great power.

Ephesians 3:20

“[God] is able to do far more than we would ever dare to ask to even dream of – infinitely beyond our highest prayers, desires, thoughts, or hopes!”

Matthew 6:9

“This is how you should pray, Our Father in heaven.”

- Jesus

Galatians 4:6

Because we are his children, God has sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, prompting us to call out, “Abba, Father.”