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- 0:00Thousands of people are wrong about the Holy Spirit.
- 0:03They say the signs that you've got the Holy Spirit is you start
- 0:06laughing, you start shaking, you start manifesting all these
- 0:10different things that proves you've got the Holy Spirit.
- 0:14Some people say it's all about material blessings.
- 0:17You know, if you're prospering, that's a sign God is with you.
- 0:20That is a sign that you have the Lord's Spirit, his anointing on
- 0:24your life and others go in the opposite direction.
- 0:27They say a sign that you have the Holy Spirit is that you
- 0:31never do anything wrong. They believe in something called
- 0:34sinless perfection and if you've got the Holy Spirit, well you
- 0:37can't sin anymore. Well, all of these things are
- 0:40totally wrong, but I'm going to tell you right now 7 signs that
- 0:45you have the Holy Spirit and these are found in the scripture
- 0:48alone. Now if this is your first time
- 0:51on the channel, this is our coffee channel where I basically
- 0:55drink coffee and study the Bible with you.
- 0:58Now one of you or a few of you have asked me before, Joe, what
- 1:02coffee would you recommend to me?
- 1:03Now I want you to know this is not a sponsor.
- 1:05There's going to be no links in the description.
- 1:07This is just a coffee that I want to talk about.
- 1:12Have you ever heard of Exhale coffee?
- 1:14Well, we've got 2 very precious friends in the states in
- 1:17Florida, I believe Doctor Danny Torchia, she's got her own
- 1:21YouTube channel. You can check it out.
- 1:22And also Tony Kay, who I've only just recently found out was in
- 1:26the very famous band Yes. And they actually buy us coffee.
- 1:30They kindly send it to our PO Box every month or so.
- 1:34And the one they send us this, this Exhale, which Emma
- 1:37absolutely loves. But if you are a coffee fan,
- 1:39this is the purest coffee you can get.
- 1:41There's no toxins, it's just very, very pure.
- 1:44And they say the packaging they say is the healthiest coffee in
- 1:47the world. Well, you can taste the
- 1:49difference. Oh, and if you are wondering
- 1:51what these faces are in this corner here, well, as you know,
- 1:55we've got these mugs that are for sale if you want to get one,
- 1:58just as a way to remind you to pray for our ministry.
- 2:01And we put faces up on the screen here of everyone who's
- 2:04bought the mug and has sent a picture in of their lovely Off
- 2:07the Curb mug. That improved my day.
- 2:18Now, before I give you my list of the 10 signs that you've got
- 2:21the Holy Spirit, I wonder what would you add to the list?
- 2:25Is there any signs that you think should be on this list?
- 2:28Right in the comments section right now, and let's see if we
- 2:31cover it. OK, sign #1 the new birth.
- 2:36If you've got a Bible there, please would you turn to 2nd
- 2:39Corinthians chapter 5 and verse 17.
- 2:43Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation.
- 2:47Old things have passed away. Behold, all things have become
- 2:51new. Now again, one of the false
- 2:53signs that people say you've got the Holy Spirit is they say you
- 2:56won't sin anymore, that they believe in sinless perfection.
- 3:00And there are Saints who write to me on YouTube even today who
- 3:03believe this. There's a lot of people out
- 3:05there who still believe that. But the Bible does say if you do
- 3:09become a Christian, if the Spirit of God comes and dwells,
- 3:13if God's own spirit lives inside of you, a man this, this clay
- 3:18vessel or a woman, you will change.
- 3:21You're now a new creation. You're not the same Joe anymore.
- 3:24You're not the same. Whatever your name is, you're
- 3:25not the same anymore. God is living inside you now,
- 3:28and He will give you new desires.
- 3:30He will transform you now. Again, this is not sinless
- 3:34perfection. We will always have our issues.
- 3:37We'll never be the finished article until the Lord Jesus
- 3:40returns and gives us that new body and takes away all of our
- 3:43sinfulness. The Bible talks about the old
- 3:45man and there's a new man. And it's a bit like when you see
- 3:48a tennis player, Roger Federer for instance, a really good
- 3:52tennis player. If you see their muscles, their
- 3:54tennis arm, often they've got a massive big muscle, a massive
- 3:58big bicep on their right hand where they use for the tennis
- 4:01rack here. But then their other arm often
- 4:04is much smaller. Why is that?
- 4:06Because they're always feeding, they're always strengthening
- 4:09that right arm. And as Christians, that's what
- 4:11we've got to do. We need to feed the new man.
- 4:14How do we do this? Through prayer, through fasting,
- 4:18through time alone with the Lord God, through doing evangelism
- 4:21and fellowship with other Christians, Believe it or not,
- 4:23that that feeds the new man, that that does good to our
- 4:26spirit being with other Christians, YouTube sermons,
- 4:29worship music, all of this. We're feeding the new man.
- 4:33We want to strengthen him and we want this old man to get weaker
- 4:37and weaker. So what do we need to do to him?
- 4:39We need to stop feeding him the things that make him grow.
- 4:42You know the stuff I'm talking about, the unhelpful content
- 4:46that the people who, who bring you down, you know, if you've
- 4:49got certain sins that, that you struggle with cutting them out
- 4:53as much as possible and making sure that you keep your mind
- 4:56pure. As you know, I've written a
- 4:59book, 100 pure thoughts. And the goal of that book is to
- 5:02have 100 days where you try to start your day with a, with a
- 5:05pure thought to think on pure things because our mind so often
- 5:09gravitates to things that are not pure.
- 5:14Now, I do hear what some of you are saying, but Joe, I just
- 5:17don't seem to be growing. I don't feel like I am growing.
- 5:22Well, I think you'd be surprised if you went back and saw
- 5:24yourself in your life of sin now.
- 5:27I'm sure there would be some growth.
- 5:29Something we've been doing with Samuel, and we've started doing
- 5:31it with little Lois, is we've got a massive ruler, a huge big
- 5:36ruler on our door downstairs in our home schooling room.
- 5:40And in this room is this, as I said, massive big ruler.
- 5:43It's like 6 foot 6 high. And what we keep doing is we put
- 5:47a little sticker there and say this is Sam's height that's so
- 5:50many years old. And we keep doing it.
- 5:52Why are we doing that? Because we like looking at the
- 5:55progress of how our little boy is growing and OK, we kind of
- 5:59want him more cute and small. You all know what I'm talking
- 6:01about. We love our children and we're
- 6:02like, Oh, I don't want them to grow up, but the same time we do
- 6:05want them to grow up. And just like that, you would be
- 6:08surprised at the growth that you've made.
- 6:11I look at myself and I think, man, Joe, you're still wrestling
- 6:15with this sin, man. And I look at myself and I think
- 6:18of all the things I do, but then I have to remind myself, wow,
- 6:22God's overcome that in my life, that there's been victory over
- 6:25that sin in my life. And, and this, that I used to
- 6:27struggle. It's gone now.
- 6:29And, and suddenly this, this, and this.
- 6:31And, you know, the Bible says that a good tree will bear good
- 6:34fruits. An apple tree will always bear
- 6:37apples, won't it? And so a child of God will
- 6:40always produce some kind of good fruits.
- 6:43Now, listen to me. The fruit might be small.
- 6:45It might be tiny. Some might not even be able to
- 6:48see it, but it's still there if you're a child of God and it's
- 6:51growing. So just focus on that, that
- 6:54little bit of growth. If you are someone who is
- 6:56struggling with your assurance, just remind yourself, yeah, the
- 7:00Lord has brought me out of that. He has delivered me from that
- 7:03sin. The second sign that you have
- 7:05the Holy Spirit is you will have a love for the gospel.
- 7:09If you've got a Bible there, turn to Isaiah 52, verse 7.
- 7:14How beautiful. Upon the mountains are the feet
- 7:17of him who brings good news, who proclaims peace, who brings glad
- 7:21tidings of good things, who proclaims salvation, Who says to
- 7:26Zion, your God reigns. You see, if you are a true
- 7:31Christian, you will have a special love for the gospel.
- 7:36When you hear a preacher starts to talk about the Lord Jesus
- 7:39Christ, as we say, putting blood on wood.
- 7:42As my mentor used to say to me, Joe, when you go out preaching
- 7:45today, make sure you put blood on wood.
- 7:47What did he mean by that? Talk about the shed blood of the
- 7:51Lord Jesus Christ, that blood that was shed on the cross for
- 7:55my sins, for your sins. So that if we trust in the Lord
- 7:59Jesus Christ who took our place, though we are sinful, though we
- 8:02are guilty, though we stand there condemned, because Christ
- 8:06took our place and died in our place, we can be forgiven and
- 8:09washed whites and snow. That Lord Jesus Christ who went
- 8:13to that cross, who shed his blood, he went into a tomb, and
- 8:17then he rose from the dead, and we trust in him.
- 8:20When you hear these kinds of messages, it should warm your
- 8:23heart. And I think some of you, as I've
- 8:25just been preaching then the gospel to you, you've got a big
- 8:27smile on your face right now, haven't you?
- 8:29But it's not just that, it's also loving the Word of God.
- 8:33You know, it is difficult to read the Word, but you know as
- 8:36well as I do after you've read it and you've had a good Bible
- 8:39reading for the true believer who's got the Spirit, who
- 8:42witnesses to the Lord's Spirit, it does you good.
- 8:46There's a longing there. Yes, prayer is so difficult at
- 8:49times. Our mind goes in all kinds of
- 8:51different directions. We're so distracted.
- 8:54But when you get that good time of prayer, it does you so good.
- 8:58And there should be a desire to have that deeper communion.
- 9:01That is a sign that you have the Holy Spirit inside of you.
- 9:05The third sign is if you've grieved the Spirit of God, just
- 9:10look at Ephesians 4 verse 30 with me and do not grieve the
- 9:14Holy Spirit of God by whom you were sealed for the day of
- 9:18redemption. Now, I just want to make
- 9:20something abundantly clear. It is not our goal to grieve the
- 9:24Holy Spirit to check whether we've got Him.
- 9:26You'll know if you've done it. You see, the Holy Spirit is a
- 9:30very sensitive person. Let me illustrate this.
- 9:34There was a missionary couple and they'd moved into their new
- 9:36home in this foreign country. And here they are in this
- 9:39country and they notice something very interesting is in
- 9:43their roof. There is a white dove, a
- 9:46beautiful white dove. And this filled the missionaries
- 9:50with so much joy because they thought this was like God's
- 9:52stamp of approval on their ministry, because they knew what
- 9:55the the dove meant, that the dove in the Bible is a
- 9:58representation of the Holy Spirit.
- 9:59It was as if God was saying, my spirit is with you in this work
- 10:03as you take out the gospel to this foreign land.
- 10:06But the couple noticed something every time they slammed the
- 10:11door, every time they got angry with one another, every time
- 10:14they they lost their temper or or some kind of sin happened in
- 10:17the house. What would the dove do?
- 10:20It would fly away. And one day when the couple were
- 10:23in bed after a very terrible argument, the wife with tears in
- 10:27her eyes, looked at the husband and said, I'm really scared that
- 10:31one day the dove will fly away and he'll never come back again.
- 10:36So from that day on, they were very careful how loud they were.
- 10:40They were very careful not to argue because they realised that
- 10:43dove was sensitive. And so it is with the Holy
- 10:46Spirit. He is a very sensitive person.
- 10:49Yes, the Lord God, if you are a true child of God, as I've said,
- 10:52I don't believe he'll ever fly away and leave you.
- 10:56But he does get grieved, doesn't he?
- 10:58You know what that's like when you've filled your mind with
- 11:01something you shouldn't. Perhaps you've watched a film or
- 11:04or even things on the news or on social media.
- 11:06You can see things and and it grieves your spirits.
- 11:10Well, as sad as it is, when that happens, it's also a beautiful
- 11:14sign that you're a child of God. Why?
- 11:16Because when you weren't saved or when you take the unbeliever
- 11:19off the street, they can just fill their mind with all of this
- 11:23content that's wrong. That's rude, that's filthy.
- 11:26They can fill their mind with that and be completely
- 11:29unaffected. But you guys, I know for a fact
- 11:33you, you might even write to me, Joe, pray for me.
- 11:36I'm really struggling with this sin.
- 11:37Or you watch something and it's it's upsetting and, and you feel
- 11:41it in your spirit. So now can I ask you a rather
- 11:44personal question this very week, even today is the Spirit
- 11:50of God inside you? Is he grieved right now?
- 11:53If he is, I pray that you would repent.
- 11:56You would turn from this sin and stop grieving the Spirit of God.
- 12:00Like this verse says #4 the 4th sign you have the Holy Spirit is
- 12:05you have a love for God's people.
- 12:11Just turn in your Bibles to John chapter 13 verse 35.
- 12:16By this all will know that you are my disciples.
- 12:22If you have love one another, one of the signs that you have
- 12:25the Holy Spirit inside you is that you will love God's people.
- 12:29It's a bit like this. I want you to imagine a quilt in
- 12:32front of you, and this quilt has got all these odd different
- 12:35patches, all from different garments, all different
- 12:37patterns. Well, each little patch
- 12:40represents A believer. And all of these patches are
- 12:43sewn together in what in love. Now, if we do not have love,
- 12:48what's going to happen to this quilt?
- 12:51It's going to fall to pieces. And so it is with the body of
- 12:54Christ. We're all oddballs.
- 12:57Listen, I know you guys, and listen, you know me better than
- 12:59most. I'm really odd.
- 13:01I'm strange. We're all a bit different,
- 13:03aren't we? And yet we're all brought
- 13:05together in this one quilt, this one body, and we're called to
- 13:08love each other. And it is difficult because
- 13:11let's be honest, when you go to the local church or you meet
- 13:14Christians, normally these people are not the kind of
- 13:17people you would normally associate with.
- 13:19It's a bit like you can choose your friends, but not your
- 13:21family. Well, you can't choose the
- 13:23people in the church. And yet we're called to love
- 13:25these people. But perhaps what makes it even
- 13:28more difficult is this. Sometimes these people, they'll
- 13:32break your heart. And you thought I should have
- 13:36known this better. You should have known better.
- 13:39I trusted you and and you have the Holy Spirit inside you.
- 13:42And yet you have broken my heart.
- 13:46Some of you know this all too well.
- 13:48If that's you, what am I going to ask you to do?
- 13:51Forgive love. Because at the end of the day,
- 13:55the Lord Jesus Christ has immense patience for you and I.
- 14:00And so we should have patience for our brothers and sisters.
- 14:03Hey, and the other thing to remember is this, you ain't
- 14:05perfect either. And you've probably upset people
- 14:08in the past. So let's just remember that next
- 14:10time someone's hurt us #5-A sign that you have the Holy Spirit.
- 14:15And we need to be a little bit careful with this one is you
- 14:18have righteous anger. Would you just turn to second
- 14:22Peter chapter 2, verse 8, please?
- 14:25For that righteous man dwelling among them tormented his
- 14:29righteous soul from day-to-day by seeing and hearing their
- 14:33lawless deeds. Who's that righteous man that
- 14:36the Bible's talking about? It's Lot.
- 14:39You know the story. Well, here is Lot, and he's
- 14:42dwelling in the most wicked city with all of these evil things
- 14:46happening. And what does the Bible say?
- 14:49His righteous soul was tormented.
- 14:52He couldn't stand to see what was around him.
- 14:54He looked at all of this evilness and, and it did
- 14:57something to him. Guys, if you're a believer, if
- 15:01you have the Holy Spirit inside of you, you will have a
- 15:04righteous anger. Just like when Jesus turned up
- 15:07and he turned up to the temple and here was all these people
- 15:10filling the temple with, with money and, and selling things
- 15:14and cattle. I mean, imagine that a church,
- 15:16if, if you turned up to your local fellowship and they're
- 15:20inside the building, even though the building itself isn't that
- 15:22special, you, you'd noticed like cows are in there and, and
- 15:26goats, goats, and there's, there's money and there's people
- 15:29flipping coins and they're, they're selling things and
- 15:32they're doing dishonest things behind people's back.
- 15:35You would be very, very angry, wouldn't you?
- 15:38And that's what Jesus did. He, he flipped the tables.
- 15:40And often people misunderstand it and say Jesus was an angry
- 15:43person. Now he had a righteous anger.
- 15:45And as a Christian, you have every right to be angry when you
- 15:49see the evil we hear about on the news.
- 15:52And it it should do something to us.
- 15:54It should torment our soul when we hear of these evil things.
- 15:58And sometimes for some of us Christians, that's enough news
- 16:01for today. I can't focus my mind on it.
- 16:03That's just too much. It, it hurts me so much to see
- 16:07these things. But at the same time as well, we
- 16:10might see, you know, celebrities, they might mock the
- 16:13Lord God like Madonna putting herself upon a cross or Kendrick
- 16:17Lamar wearing $1,000,000 crown of thorns, diamond encrusted.
- 16:21And everyone says he wasn't mocking God, He was mocking God
- 16:24because the crown of thorns that Jesus wore didn't cost
- 16:27$1,000,000. It was painful to wear.
- 16:31And these people, when they mock God, it should do something to
- 16:34us, it should upset us. The Paris Olympics, do you
- 16:37remember that, where they mocked the Lord's Supper?
- 16:39It should do something to us. So if you are someone who feels
- 16:44that, that righteous anger, that's a very good sign that you
- 16:48are a child of God because the unbeliever doesn't care.
- 16:51They laugh with all the others. Number six, the 6th sign you've
- 16:55got the Holy Spirit is you have a reliance on God during
- 16:59difficult times. Let's look at, jump over to
- 17:03Philippians 4 with me, verse 7 and keep your Bible in
- 17:08Philippians because we're looking there again in a
- 17:11moment's time. Philippians 4, verse 7.
- 17:14And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding will
- 17:18guard your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.
- 17:24You see, the Holy Spirit is a God of peace and when he lives
- 17:28inside of you, even when the storm is blasting, even when the
- 17:33waves are rolling, you have an inner peace.
- 17:36I think it is true that on the darkest nights, the stars shine
- 17:41the brightest. And what you'll find, if you are
- 17:43a true believer, when you go through those trials, some of
- 17:46you've never been with been through them yet.
- 17:48And I often think it comes with age.
- 17:50It's just going to happen. It happens to us all as we get
- 17:53older. It's certain that we're going to
- 17:54go through these things, but if you've never been through them,
- 17:58just know this. When you go through these
- 18:00difficult times, it will test your faith, but it will also
- 18:04bring you stronger. And those of you who have been
- 18:07through it, you know that, don't you?
- 18:09You see, when we take a piece of fake gold, let's imagine some
- 18:14fake gold, some toy gold or something that you know is used
- 18:17as a prop in a film, we put that in a fire.
- 18:20What's going to happen to that fake gold?
- 18:23It's going to melt, isn't it? But you take a solid bar of gold
- 18:27and you put it in a fire. What happens to it?
- 18:30It only shines brighter. And these things, they are
- 18:34difficult. When we go through these trials,
- 18:35they, they really test our faith.
- 18:38But often they make us, they throw us more on to the Lord
- 18:41gods. And as you know, me and Emma,
- 18:44we've had a tough 2025. It's been a really difficult
- 18:47year. But these things did throw us on
- 18:50to the Lord God. They drew us closer to him and
- 18:53they showed us really what was inside of us.
- 18:56Yes, there was a lot of sin, there was a lot of childishness,
- 19:00a lot of self preservation when we went through these difficult
- 19:02times, selfishness. But it also showed us that
- 19:06inside of our inner being, we need God.
- 19:09We love God, He's everything. And when all these things are
- 19:12gone, all of these things we, we trust in and have security.
- 19:16And when they're all gone, the end of the day, we're only left
- 19:19with the Lord God. And the Spirit inside of you
- 19:21knows that, and He witnesses that to you when you're in these
- 19:26trials. Hey, the last sign on my list
- 19:28that you've got the Holy Spirit kind of links into the last one.
- 19:31And it's this. If you're a true child of gods,
- 19:35if you have the Holy Spirit inside of you, the Spirit will
- 19:39bring you to the end. You will persevere to the end.
- 19:42Look at Philippians one verse 6 with me being confident of this
- 19:47very thing, that he who has begun a good work in you will
- 19:52complete it until the day of Jesus Christ.
- 19:56You see the Lord gods, he has got a deposit inside of you.
- 20:00The Bible says it's the Holy Spirit.
- 20:03He's laid down a depot just like you put a deposit on a house to
- 20:06make sure you get that house. He has put a deposit inside of
- 20:09you, the Holy Spirit. And that means that because
- 20:12you've got the Holy Spirit, God isn't going to let go of you.
- 20:15He's put that deposit in you, and he started a good work in
- 20:18you. And when the Lord God starts the
- 20:20work, he doesn't just cast it off like we do.
- 20:22We start painting a wall and then we get, you know,
- 20:24procrastinate and do another job.
- 20:26No, God finishes what he starts and he will finish that work in
- 20:30you, the good work. Yes, at the moment, as we said,
- 20:33you're not the finished article, but he'll keep working on you
- 20:36over time. The Lord God, he'll keep working
- 20:39on you until you're that article, that finished product
- 20:42and you look glorious. And here we are in heaven, all
- 20:45of us, these glorious Saints at working together.
- 20:48But yes, just to say again, some of you have had a tough year and
- 20:52you wonder where has God been in these times?
- 20:55Well, you probably know the, the poem about footprints in the
- 20:58sand very well. But if you don't know it, I'll
- 21:01put it, I'll put the words up on the screen now.
- 21:02But I'll also tell you very briefly, you know this, this
- 21:06person, this believer that they're having a conversation
- 21:09with God and, and they see two footprints in the sand of all
- 21:12the times that the Lord Jesus Christ has has walked next to
- 21:15them on a beach. And then they say to God, listen
- 21:18God, there's been times, Lord Jesus, where I can only see one
- 21:24set of footprints in the sand. In my toughest times in my life
- 21:28is all I can see is one set of footprints.
- 21:30Where were you then, God? And the Lord Jesus says it was
- 21:34in those times that I carried you.
- 21:36And we often find that, don't we, in these dark days.
- 21:41It isn't easy and it does test your faith.
- 21:44And as I've just said, me and Emma have had a very, very tough
- 21:47year, not just with Anna, but various other things, things
- 21:50that are I'm not just going to share on the whole Internet
- 21:53because it's it's difficult to talk about these things.
- 21:56It's been a difficult year. And I remember when Emma was
- 21:59going through a real testing of her faith, just like I was, she
- 22:04said, you know, even as much as there was a part of me that
- 22:07didn't want to believe in God because I was wrestling so much,
- 22:11I knew I couldn't shut down those thoughts.
- 22:13I knew I still believed in God and the verse that particularly
- 22:16helped her was this. You might remember when all of
- 22:20the disciples were forsaking, they were leaving the Lord Jesus
- 22:22Christ and Jesus looked at the remaining disciples and he said,
- 22:26will you also leave? Well, what did Peter say?
- 22:29He gave that beautiful answer, where else would we go?
- 22:34For you alone have the words of eternal life.
- 22:37And that helped Emma tremendously.
- 22:39Yes, it's difficult. And it's difficult for those of
- 22:42you who are going through a difficult time.
- 22:44It's hard to believe. Why would God allow this to
- 22:46happen? Why is he just standing there or
- 22:48he's silent at this time? Why is he allowing this to
- 22:50happen? And yet the Spirit inside of you
- 22:53says, but yes, Joe, yes, Emma, yes, Mary, John, whoever you
- 22:58are, yes. But where else would you go?
- 23:02You know that only he has eternal life and then you have
- 23:05them days of light where he shines his light in and you see,
- 23:10he didn't leave me. You're still with me all along.
- 23:14Guys, you've listened so very well.
- 23:17Now I'm actually doing something a little bit different on my
- 23:20main channel, the off the Curb channel.
- 23:22The reason I actually set up this channel having coffee with
- 23:25you guys was because my other channel had gone very
- 23:27sensational. And I'm actually just trying to
- 23:30pull that back a little bit and I want to make some videos that
- 23:34I'm, you know, if I hope this doesn't happen, but if I was to
- 23:38leave planet Earth this year, I'd look back and say these are
- 23:41videos I'm, I'm proud of. So I have made one that took the
- 23:47most resources, took the most time, took days and days, weeks
- 23:51and weeks to get this video out there.
- 23:54And it's all about Jesus's life on a timeline.
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