The Spirit-Led Life
I. The needful thing was
sitting at the Jesus’ feet and hearing his word-Luke 10:39
A.
Jesus called, equipped, and then sent-Luke
9:1-2
B.
People get confused when they start making
stuff up on their own and ignoring Jesus
1. Nothing in your life is more important than this
II. Romans 8:14, John 16:13-It
is God’s will that you be led by His Spirit and live a spirit led life
A.
A spirit led life is a life in which you are
hearing the voice of God and yielding to it
1. If the HS could tell your spirit you’re born again, he could tell your
spirit other stuff
2. The led life is not just where you do whatever you think is best and
then just hope God gets in the right place; that’s God possessing you-He want
do that; The led life is when you get direction from God and yield to it
B.
The Holy Spirit leads us by talking to our
spirits (Romans 8:16-The Spirit
Himself bears witness with our spirits---John
16:13-Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into
all truth: for he will not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that
will he speak)
1. When we say “talking” we are not talking about hearing an audible voice;
The Holy Spirit bears witness with our spirit; He’s talking to your spirit and
therefore you are going to hear Him with your spiritual ear not your natural
ear
2. Why no voices? We have the mind of Christ and the Holy Spirit is in you,
in your spirit
a.
1 Corinthians 2:16-But we have the mind of
Christ
b.
John 14:16-17-And I will pray the Father, and
he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever; Even the Spirit of truth; whom the world
cannot receive, because it sees him not, neither knows him: but ye know him;
for he dwells with you, and shall be in you.
c.
If I could take my mind and my spirit out of
me and put them in you, then audible words would be unnecessary for me to
communicate to you because If I thought something my thoughts are in your mind
and you’d know what I thought and if I had something in my spirit you’d pick it
up to because you have my spirit
1) I could communicate realms of things to you in a split second
2) This level of communication is available to us by the Holy Spirit inside
of us
C.
So many times the leading of the spirit comes
up just like a thought; Things come up from your spirit and you just know
something
1. It’s the immediate knowing of something without the conscious use of
reason
a.
You just know, without hearing, when somebody
is inside of you
2. Much of what HS speaks to you is not a voice at all, but an inward
knowing
a.
Mark 2:8-And immediately when Jesus perceived (To know) in his
spirit
b.
John 6:61-When Jesus knew in himself
3. Carnal people gravitate toward natural and ask God to speak to them
through the audible voice, not realizing God is a spirit, He’s in my spirit,
and I don’t need words or signs to get direction
a.
No signs, no voices, but inward direction and
knowing
D.
When God communicates the means by which He
does it is through your spirit; Your spirit is the “tool/instrument” through
which the Holy Spirit communicates to you
1. Since the Holy Spirit is going to communicate with our spirit we need to
learn look to your spirit to hear from him and not something natural
a.
EX: If I’m going to call you then you
shouldn’t wait by the frig, you should wait by the phone b/c that is how you’re
going to hear me, through the phone; You won’t hear me through the frig b/c
that’s not how I’m going to communicate with you
2. 1 Corinthians 2:14-The natural/unsaved man can’t be led by the Spirit b/c
his spirit is dead; the carnal man won’t be led by the Spirit because He’s not
aware of His spirit
III. We’ve been taught the
importance of faith and love and patience in inheriting the promises, but
without being led by the HS there will be no manifestation-1 Corinthians 2:9
A.
God has some stuff ready for you and the Holy
Spirit has been sent to reveal that stuff to you and then lead you to the
experience of it
1. We’ve been trying to get the experience of it without the leading of the
Holy Spirit and it can’t happen that way
2. We learn a principle of the word and then run to the corner and pay no
attention to the one who’s been sent to lead us to the experience of the
promise
B.
Hosea 4:6-People are cut off from stuff that
God has ready for them because of what they don’t know and they lack knowledge
because aren’t led by the Spirit
1. When you’re not being led of Him it keeps you from the experience
C.
He’s been sent so that you can know what you
need to know and miss destruction
1. Not hearing becomes a big problem for the believer
2. EX: It’s like the pilot being insensitive to the air traffic controller
D.
You have somebody living on the inside of you
who knows everything and has been sent to show it to you-1 Corinthians 2:12,
John 16:14-15
1. The Holy Spirit knows everything (He searches all things, yea, the deep
things of God)
2.
1 John 2:20-You have an unction from the Holy
One and you know all things
IV.
What you know how to do you can do; you can’t do what you don’t know how
to do
A.
God knows how to get anything done no matter
what it is-Matthew 19:26
1.
There is a way to accomplish anything and to
get any job done-Isaiah 43:19
a.
If you knew how to do it you could do it b/c
with God all things are possible
b.
The problem is we haven’t known the way to do
it
2.
You can have the power to do something, but
not know how to do it
a.
You can have the potential, but not know how
to maximize the potential
b.
Zechariah 4:6-It’s not by might or power, but
by God’s spirit and the Holy Spirit is going to give you direction and maximize
your potential
c.
This is a picture of the Church; a bunch of
power and a little impact
d.
Until will learn to be led by the Spirit our
potential will go unreached
3.
Not only does God have the power to do it, he
has the wisdom to do it
a.
Proverbs 8:30 (AMP)-Wisdom was the master and
director of the work
b.
7-John 16:13-This is the voice of the Holy
Spirit
B.
Wisdom is power-Proverbs 3:19-By wisdom God
created the heavens and the Earth
1.
I can do all things through Christ who
strengthens me (Philippians 4:13)
a.
The strength we have through the Holy Spirit
to do all things comes because of the ability we have through the Holy Spirit
to know all things
2.
Your ability to do will go no further than
your ability to know
a.
Our ability to do is directly related to what
we know
b.
You can’t do what you don’t know how to do
(Flying airplanes)
c.
New knowledge will enable you to do something
that you couldn’t do before
d.
Hosea 4:6-People are destroyed because they
lack knowledge not power
3.
If you’re not led by the spirit, we’ll be
limited in what we know, and limited in what we can do
V.
The Holy Spirit will give you supernatural knowledge to do supernatural
things
A.
John 2:1-6-There’s a way to do anything, but
you have to be sensitive to leading of the Spirit to know the way
1.
John 14:16-Jesus was one comforter and the
Holy Spirit is another comforter
a.
KJ-And I will pray the Father, and he shall
give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever
b.
The ministry of Jesus in the life of the
disciples while he walked the Earth is very similar to the ministry of the Holy
Spirit in the life of the NT believer; He was leading, guiding, and teaching;
the HS lead, guides, and teaches
c.
The Holy Spirit is your own personal Jesus
2.
There’s a way to get wine at this wedding b/c
all things are possible with God; They just need to know the way
a.
How did Jesus know to do verse 7 and verse 8?
He was led by the Spirit
b.
How did Jesus know what to do in Matthew 14
when there was no food, John 11 when Lazarus was dead, in Luke 8 when Jairus’
daughter was dead?
B.
It’s not that Jesus has more power than you;
you have the same Holy Ghost, the same power; it’s that he was led better-John
5:19,30,8:26
1.
It’s not just that he had the power to do
something it’s that he knew what to do; the mountain is not the problem you
have power to move the mountain; man’s own ignorance is his mountain
2.
The leading of the Holy Spirit is connected
to supernatural results
a.
Not being led by the Spirit will keep you
from the supernatural
b.
You can’t get something supernatural without
doing something supernatural and you can’t do something supernatural without
knowing something supernatural
3.
We’ve missed because rather than getting it
from the HS WE decided let’s do something by faith
C.
Luke 5:1-The leading of the Spirit, the Word
from God, the supernatural knowledge will yield supernatural results
1.
Logos-Written Word of God vs. Rhema-A
quickened specific word from the Spirit
a.
1,3-He’s teaching logos; 5-He spoke to Peter
rhema
2.
Peter continued in the logos and then got the
rhema
a.
This word from Jesus is like the leading of
the spirit
3.
There is a way to catch an abundance of fish;
Peter just needs to know the way
a.
This doesn’t make any sense to catch fish in
the day
b.
This doesn’t make any sense obviously it’s a
bad day for fishing
c.
He’s an expert fisherman who has been doing
this for years-Proverbs 3:5
4.
Peter could have politely said no Jesus and
Jesus wouldn’t have pushed him
a.
His victory is attached to the Word from God
and it is lying wait for Him on the other side of his obedience to this Word
from God
b.
He got supernatural knowledge to go out in
the day time
5.
We got to be after this Word from
God-Proverbs 4:5-7
a.
There’s priority on wisdom and overall we
don’t even seek it
b.
We dive head first into all the principles
and never consider wisdom
c.
Most people don’t ever receive the word from
God and without the word from God you’ll be limited in the results you see
D.
Most supernatural things that happen in the
earth began with a man hearing from God and yielding to what he heard-John 2:4
1.
It is the gateway way to miracles
2.
But the first part of whatever he says to you
do it is to hear what he says to you
3.
The thing that started this whole miracle in
motion was their hearing