And third one is we commit. Commit to what? We commit to the Holy Spirit. Galatians 5:16 it says,
"I say then: Walk in the Spirit, and you shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh." I call this
the accelerate, the gas pedal, and this is the one that makes a huge difference in our life.
If only thing you're doing is you're using the clutch and the brake pedals, how many of you
know you're not going to get out of your garage? You will be safe, but you won't get anywhere.
If the only thing a Christian does or obsesses with, or is focused on is yes in Jesus everything
is earned, everything is given to me in Christ, yes I have all the victory in Jesus. And now only
thing I have to do is not smoke, not drink, not sleep around, not hang out with those who do,
not sell dope, not smoke dope, not be around those who have dope, not gossip. And if your whole life
is no, don't, don't, don't, don't. You're gonna be safe but that's not what cars were created for.
For you to go forward in your Christian life, not only we accept what Jesus did on the cross
and we identify with Jesus, that's who we are. We also put away certain things at certain times
that come and infringe on our victory and infringe on Jesus's standards for our life.
But the key that determines how fast our Christian life goes, is really this one thing. It's your
communion and your covenant and your commitment to this one Person, His name is the Holy Spirit.
And the Bible says, "Walk in the Holy Spirit," and this is what it says, "you will not fulfill
the lust of the flesh." It doesn't say, "Just go to church." It doesn't just say, "Have a Bible."
It does not say, "Just make sure you believe God exists." It doesn't just say, "Hey make sure you
don't cheat on your taxes. Hey make sure you vote this particular way." It doesn't say,
"Hey make sure you don't kill." He says, "Walk in the Holy Spirit," and my friend, it's possible to
simply hit the brakes and hit the clutch pedal and simply just live your life. Jesus did everything,
I don't have to do anything. I don't have to fast, I don't have to pray, I don't press in, I
don't draw closer to the Holy Spirit and then our Christian life will have a limit and stagnation.
Not because we're doing something bad but because what we're capable of doing that's good,
we're not doing. Relationship with the Holy Spirit has a potential to a spiritual speed in your life.
Most cars can drive over 100 mph, same thing with your spiritual life. There is a potential
deposited inside of you, your spiritual life can go 5 mph, it can go 50 mph or it can go 100 mph.
The question now is this: How hard are you willing to push the gas pedal? The question now is this:
How deep are you willing to get to know the Holy Spirit? You cannot get more of the Holy Spirit
but you can know the Holy Spirit more. You cannot get more of the Holy Spirit but you can be filled
with the Holy Spirit more. I want to challenge you today. There is a potential, there is an engine,
there is a transmission, there is gifts, there is anointing, there is power, that is purpose,
there is fulfillment, there is joy, there is peace, that is long-suffering, that is kindness,
there is goodness, there is miracles, signs and wonders all inside of the Holy Spirit
and He is like a pedal. He's available and He says, "I want you to talk to Me. I want
you to ask Me. I want your spiritual life to go faster. I want the speed in your life,
and for speed to happen you have to connect, commit and communicate with the Holy Spirit.
As the father, as a mother, as a businessman, as a student, as a high school student you have this
pedal. I want to encourage you today to walk in the Holy Spirit. If you're battling with lust, if
you're battling with fleshly desires, if there's a war inside of you, a conflict, an identity crisis,
consider yourself dead already through Jesus Christ. Identify yourself because of what Jesus
did on the cross. Second one, begin to take these desires and say, "Lord I say no to these desires."
But the real power to actually stick with that decision and to find new fulfillment in good
decisions, the real power comes from the Holy Spirit. See this is the problem that happens,
we think that because we get the Holy Spirit, automatically we will have victory over the
flesh. The presence of the Holy Spirit does not guarantee the victory over the flesh. It's
the yielding to the Holy Spirit that does. The Bible doesn't say, "If you have the Holy Spirit,
you will not fulfill the lust of the flesh." It says, "If you walk in the Holy Spirit, you will
not fulfill the lust of the flesh." How many of you know, if you have legs it doesn't mean you're
walking. All of us are sitting right now, yet we all have legs. The only way to walk with your legs
is you actually have to get up and use them. Every Christian has the Holy Spirit but many Christians,
they're simply parked in their Christian life. They're simply sitting in their Christian life.
And I want to challenge you today, not only to speak in tongues but I want to challenge you today
to let the Holy Spirit have more control over your life. Not only so you can overcome the inner
battle, not only so that the younger can dominate the older but so that you can flow in power, so
you can be used by God, so that your life will not be simply from nine to five and just waiting for a
weekend. Your life will have a meaning, that your life will have a purpose and there will be signs
and wonders following your life. That there will be gifts dispatched in your life and there will be
a speed in your life. There will be no feeling of I'm stuck, my life sucks, my life is stagnant. God
wants to break that off of you, in this century God wants you to live a life that is fulfilled,
life that is abundant, life that is victorious, life that is miraculous. Come on somebody,
help me out there online. Life that is filled with His power, life that is filled with His miracles,
life that is filled with His answers. Life where you see God move in your life,
where you see God move in your family, where you see God moving your finances. And God says, "I
gave you the pedal. I gave you My Spirit, He lives inside of you. Talk to Him, communicate to Him,
speak in tongues, fellowship with the Holy Spirit because I am a God of miracles." Come on somebody.