Priscilla Shirer: Are You Obeying the Voice of the Holy Spirit? | Praise on TBN
Priscilla Shirer teaches at the 2018 She Rises Conference. Listen as she teaches about our culture’s shift from holiness to influence and why we need to obey the Holy Spirit to live freely in Christ.
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we have modernized jesus today
the modern version of jesus that we have
crafted he has made him watered down now
he’s tolerant of sin without the
expectation of holiness our jesus is
politically correct
listen to me
are you listening
y’all we live in a day and age where we
have become more interested in being
impressive
than being holy
where we are more interested in making
sure we have likes
and friends
and the applause of people more than
just being flat out
holy
by making sure that political
correctness is not our main goal
that we’re not after the applause of
people we’re after the applause of
heaven
you got to choose to be ye holy
and so i implore you sisters by the
mercies of god
to walk in a manner
worthy of the calling by which you have
been called
so the spirit rested upon him let me
just show you quickly verse 26 says that
the spirit revealed to him
so that means the spirit not only rested
upon him the spirits revealed to him old
preachers called this
illumination
it’s shining a spotlight it’s when
you’re sitting in church on a sunday and
your pastor opens up the bible to preach
and man he just reads or she reads that
first two verses that they’re going to
be preaching from and you sit straight
up in your seat because you feel like
it’s all about you
anybody know what i’m talking about
it’s where you’re trying to figure out
how
did the church bug my house how did they
know
that’s the illumination of the spirit
it’s when he it’s when the the old
truths of scripture scripture leap up
off the page
and for lack of a better way word it’s
when they grip you in your soul where
you see how that intersects with
something you are personally facing
today that is the revelation of the holy
spirit this is what the holy spirit does
he reveals he illumines he shines the
spotlight simeon was there that day
because he had been promised by the
revelation of god’s spirit it wasn’t
just a random promise it was his promise
oh you’ve had that happen over the
course of these days that we’ve been
gathered you probably have had that
happen where something that has been
said it wasn’t just great to hear it it
gripped your soul you knew it was an
assignment for you it was a conviction
that you knew the lord was going to send
you out of here with that assignment
because the holy spirit revealed it to
you
god’s spirit rests he reveals and then
he ruled simeon because it says in verse
27 that he came in the spirit to the
temple meaning the spirit told him on
this day to go into the temple and it
says that he came into the spirit under
the into the temple under the conviction
of the holy spirit when the spirit said
go
simeon said
yes sir he submitted to the leadership
of the holy spirit
and he was in the right place at the
right time to run right smack dab into
the messiah because he was submitted
to the leadership of the holy spirit
do you know that the more you ignore
ignore that still small conviction the
quieter that voice will become
not because he is no longer speaking but
because you’ve built a callous of
disobedience you have muffled the voice
of the holy spirit so it is better to be
so sensitive to god’s holy spirit that
sometimes you give when maybe he hasn’t
even prompted you to give but it’s okay
because to the best of your capacity you
are obeying the holy spirit of god just
to keep those airways open and clear
from the disobedience that will begin to
muffle his voice in your life because
more than anything else the enemy wants
you
disconnected from the privilege of
hearing the voice of god y’all this is
what separates our faith from every
other so-called faith on the face of the
earth it’s that our god is alive
it’s that he speaks it’s that we have
the privilege to hear his voice
never downplay or minimize the value the
beauty the lavish grace of this
privilege that we have to hear the voice
of god
so the holy spirit rested upon him
there are two other things that i want
to point out to you that were symbolic
or was were significant about simeon
that opened up his eyes to see jesus as
he was to be seen
in this package that other people
downplayed and found insignificant that
they totally ignored because they didn’t
think that their king would look like
that here’s what opened simeon’s eyes
not only that he was in the spirit when
he came into the temple and by the way
here’s another rabbit trail sorry
if we came to church in the spirit
it would change our experience in church
can i just say that
because while everybody else was looking
at that poor couple wondering why in the
world they were in their midst and
discounting mary and joseph
simeon came in the spirit and he was
less concerned about who was wearing
what and who was driving up what and who
sat where and who was in his seat and
whether or not it was hot outside and
they had to walk far to go take their
children to sunday school they were he
was less concerned about his convenience
whether or not the preacher preached
good was irrelevant to him he was
looking for jesus
whether or not the microphones were
perfectly balanced or the lights were
exactly as they should be whether or not
the ld screens were on full display that
day whether or not the ushers were or
were not kind was not his priority he
had come with his eyes peeled for jesus
we would be less critical and less
skeptical if we came to church in the
spirit
then the pressure wouldn’t be on the
person who’s on the stage because you
didn’t come to see them you came to see
jesus
okay verse 27
so he comes in the spirit and then look
what happens in verse 27 the parents
bring in the child jesus
jesus comes in in his parents arms
look at the savior look at how the
manifest presence of god arrives on this
remarkable day watch him show up into
the experience of this aged saint named
simeon in a very personal way and onto
the landscape of human history he
arrives in the arms of his parents
there is something about the way we see
jesus when we look at him through the
well-worn paths that have been hewned
out by our parents
our grandparents our great-grandparents
our forefathers and our foremothers
spiritually speaking the people who have
gone before us and have walked with
jesus just a little while who’ve spent
their lives serving him i’m always
nervous when i see a young group of
christians with their little skinny
jeans and their lattes and their avocado
toast
which i love by the way
i’m just always a little nervous when i
see them instagramming all their
religious experiences without the
oversight of some spiritual parents
because y’all we have modernized jesus
today
the modern version of jesus that we have
crafted he has made him watered down now
he’s tolerant of sin without the
expectation of holiness our jesus is
politically correct
we need to see jesus coming in the arms
of our parents the people who have gone
before us the folks who have walked the
road a little while who know what
hymnals are
who sang the good old hymns that were
based in some theology we got to make
sure that our new praise and worship
songs i love them we got to make sure
they’re rooted in some good theology
and so the package may change listen
y’all i i still go to the kind of church
it’s come a long way but it started when
i was one year old the church that i go
to now so you know back in the day
there was no way in the world i would
have ever gotten on a stage with with
with pants are you kidding
anybody know what kind of church i’m
talking about we still have a few people
in our church a few mothers of the
church if anybody knows what i mean
jeans in the church are you kidding
they came in in their suits i’m talking
about where the skirt matches the jacket
[Applause]
like they were bought together
and not only that but underneath that
suit she’s gonna have some actual
pantyhose on i’m not talking about spanx
with the feet cut out uh i mean
pantyhose
the ones with the girdle top anybody
know what i’m talking about anybody
remember that
and she’s gonna have a handbag in her
hand and that handbag that clutch is
going to match that jacket which matches
that skirt which matches her patent
leather shoes that she has on her feet
closed toe patent leather shoes
but the outfit is never complete
and you know it ain’t no regular hat
right you know it’s got some it’s a
feather or a net or something that’s
sitting just like this
and she’s gonna worship god
[Applause]
anybody know what kind of church i’m
talking about
and i love when she comes up to give a
testimony
about what she has seen the lord
it might not be modern it might not be
new and improved
but it’s the jesus of abraham isaac and
jacob
it’s the god of our forefathers
there’s some things you cannot learn on
there are some things you just need to
be with a mother of the church somebody
who’s walked the road a little bit
longer than you to make sure you can
bounce off of her or him from the true
theological biblically based
unchanging venerated word of god
so the package may change but the
principles never do y’all jesus was
never politically correct he was always
a revolutionary he never dismissed
sinned he called it out in in grace but
most certainly in truth he was never
watered down he always said i am the
only way
i am the truth and i am the and the life
he didn’t acquiesce or tolerate he loved
but he did say repent for the kingdom of
god is at hand
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Amen <3