Led By The Spirit #6 - Walking in Love

Last night was the final of a six week home group on "How to be led by the Spirit of God". We asked the question:

How do we pursue love? How are the works of the flesh different from the fruit of the spirit? Is being led by the spirit as simple as walking by our born-again nature? 

Love is the perfect motivation for operating in the callings of God. Jesus was moved with compassion and cast out devils, healed the sick and fed the five thousand. Jesus was motivated by compassion, a tangible love, growing out of His Spirit. And since we are born of God we have the same fruit of love growing up on the inside of us.

Download the audio below:
Week 6 - Led By The Spirit #6 - Walking in Love  MP3

Led By The Spirit #5 - Discovering Your Calling

Last night was the fifth night of our six week home group on "How to be led by the Spirit of God". We asked the question:

What are the different callings in the body of Christ and how can I discover what God has called me to?

God is our Father and every Dad longs to see His child grow up and take part in the family business. Our Father has designed a calling specific to us and given us supernatural grace to fulfill it.

Many people call their service a calling. Everyone is called to serve, and the more you serve then the greater you are in God's kingdom. We can all serve and mow the lawn, vacuum the floor, hand out tracts. If we are musical then we can serve in the music team but that still doesn't make a calling.

God has designed eight operations in the body of Christ and called every family member to fulfill one of those operations, and when every part does it's share then the whole body is build up and grows.

You can download the audio by using the following link:
Week 5 - Led by the spirit #5 - Discovering Your Calling  MP3

Freedom through Hearing, Believing and Acting on God's Truth

If you catch a flea and put it inside a glass jar it will jump straight out. If you put it inside a glass jar and put a lid on the jar then the flea is trapped but doesn't know it. It will try and try to jump out but only hit its head on the lid. Eventually the flea will adjust the height it is jumping so it ALWAYS jumps just below the lid. When this has happened you can then remove the lid and the flea remains trapped forever. It's no longer trapped by the lid but by the prison in its own mind. The flea has tried for so long and failed that it knows things will never change.

But you're not a flea and God doesn't want you to be like a flea. You don't have to remain trapped by the past. You can break free.

Here is the audio from the Sunday morning message I preached at Ranui Baptist explaining how hearing, believing and acting on the truth of God's word will cause you to know the truth and the truth will set you free (John 8:31-32).

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Led By The Spirit #4 - Build Your Spirit Man

Last night was the fourth night of our six week home group on "How to be led by the Spirit of God". We asked the question:

How can I build my inner man and grow from a spiritual child to an adult?

When we are born again we receive a new nature, a spirit from God. But we are not born full-grown. We must mature and develop our spiritual body. Fortunately our Father God has provided a teacher, the Holy Spirit, and a method by which we can be trained and developed. Would you like to know what it is?

You can download the audio by using the following link:
Week 4 - Led by the spirit #4 - Build your spirit man  MP3

Led By The Spirit #3 - Discern the Voice of Your Body, Soul and Spirit

Last night was the third night of our six week home group on "How to be led by the Spirit of God". We asked the question:

How can I tell the difference between the voice of my body, my soul, and my spirit?
How will I know which voice is speaking to me?

We discovered that each person has three internal voices which speak to them. Each sound like they are YOU, because each voice IS YOU, but a different part of you. The voice of your body is different than the voice of your soul. And that is different from the voice of your spirit.
You can download the audio by using the following link:
Week 3 - Led by the spirit #3 - Discerning Voices    MP3 PDF

Led By The Spirit #2 - Your Conscience

Last night was the second night of our six week home group on "How to be led by the Spirit of God". We asked the question:

Can I trust my conscience? 
Is the inner voice of my conscience reliable?

The key passage on the conscience was:

Romans 2:12-16 NKJV
12 For as many as have sinned without law will also perish without law, and as many as have sinned in the law will be judged by the law
13 (for not the hearers of the law are just in the sight of God, but the doers of the law will be justified; 14 for when Gentiles, who do not have the law, by nature do the things in the law, these, although not having the law, are a law to themselves, 15 who show the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, and between themselves their thoughts accusing or else excusing them )
16 in the day when God will judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ, according to my gospel. 

You can download the audio from last night by using the following link.
Week 2 - Led by the spirit #2 - The voice of your conscience MP3 

Led by the Spirit of God - Born again

Last week I started a new 6 week bible training course in our home group "How to be led by the Spirit of God". The goal of the group is to grow from being a child of God into a mature son or daughter of God that receives leadership and is led by the Spirit of God.
The key passage for the whole 6 weeks is:

Romans 8:14-16 (NKJV)
For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are sons of God. For you did not receive the spirit of bondage again to fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption by whom we cry out, “Abba, Father.” The Spirit Himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God

For those unable to make it to the group, you can download the MP3 and PDF from here and catch up in your own time.
Week 1 - What Really Happened When You Were Born Again MP3 PDF