No matter how much we know, or think we know, about God and his Word,
there is always more. Today on s More, Rebecca Keener discusses
how the Holy Spirit is relevanto our everyday lives. He is the one who is our
Comforter in times of need and gives us the power to live a victorious
life. Now, here's Rebecca.
Welcome everybody to Always More. I'm Rebecca Keener and we are
continuing on our study on the Holy Spirit. Today our lesson is
the Holy Spirit is our Restrainer.
So you wanna stay tuned for this. Let's have a word of prayer and we'll get right
into our lesson. Lord, in Jesus name, we thank you for your word,
and we thank you for this study on the Holy Spirit. And we're
learning so much in your word and growing in you.
Lord, I pray for every person who's watching today, that you will speak
a word in due season, a rhema word and a logos
word, a written word and a fresh new word from heaven
for them that will change their life. We thank you, Lord, for your
word, for your Spirit, and Father, for this time together. We ask you to
anoint it and anoint our ears to hear a word in due
season, in the mighty name of Jesus we pray, amen.
Amen. Well, God bless you. Thank you again for tuning in.
We are on our 12th lesson studying about the different
facets and the personality of the Holy Spirit and some of the
roles that he plays in our life. And if you have not been
tuned in or maybe this is your first day to be watching,
we wanna encourage you, you can go to our website at alwaysmoretv.org
and you can check out our blog which has
the program notes, the study notes, for you
to, you can either use those if you'd like to use them
and teach them in a class or small group, or you can just
study them; and also there is a link to our YouTube and we are
posting, one by one, these programs for you to be able to go
back and enjoy and for the Holy Spirit just to remind you that
you're not here alone on this earth just trying to scrape by
and barely make it; that the Holy Spirit is here to
empower you, to empower me, to be able to do the things that
God has called us to do. And one of the roles is of
the Holy Spirit is as a Restrainer,
a restraining force here on the earth. Let's look at John
14 and 25, our text that we have looked at
many, many times and we still could get more out of it. And it
says this, "I have told you these things,"Jesus said,
"while I am still with you." Verse 26, "But the
Comforter," who is that word, comforter is parakelete meaning
counselor, helper, intercessor, advocate,
strengthener, and standby, "the Holy Spirit
whom the Father will send in my name, in my place to represent me
and act on my behalf. He will teach you
all things." And one of our programs was on the Holy Spirit is our
teacher, that was good one too, so I wanna encourage you to
watch that. "And he will cause you to recall,"
he will remind you, there's another program we did on the Holy Spirit
is your reminder; powerful,
powerful teaching the Lord gave us. "He will bring to your remembrance
everything that I have told you."
Then he goes on to say this in Verse 27,
he said, "Peace I leave with you, my own peace
I now give and bequeath to you, not as the world gives
do I give you. Do not let your hearts be troubled."
There is a restraining force right there, the restraining force of peace,
"not to be troubled, neither let them be
afraid. Stop allowing yourself," this is
in parenthesis in the Amplified Version, "to be agitated
and disturbed." Well, if ever there was a word in all
the bible, that would be it, amen? Especially for our mama's
out there, don't be agitated or disturbed, don't fret!
Amen! "And do not permit yourself
to be fearful and intimidated and cowardly
and unsettled. You heard me tell you," Verse
28, "I'm going away and I'm coming back to you
if you really love me, you would be glad because I'm going
to the Father for the Father is greater and mightier
than I." And so, we see here that his
peace is left here on earth through the power of the
Holy Spirit as a restraining force. Now, if you will turn
in your bible to 2 Thessalonians 2
and 7, 2 Thessalonians 2 and 7 and
it talks about, in that particular passage,
that "The secret power of lawlessness,"
and that's referring to the antichrist spirit,
"is already at word; but the One who now holds it back,"
and that One is capitalized and that is the power of the Holy Spirit,
"will continue to do so until
he is taken out of the way." So, that's
where we learn and understand that the Holy
Spirit, here on this earth, is a restraining force.
And there is a lot of doctrinal teachings on that particular
scripture of, you know, and debate going
between pre-trib and mid-trib and post-trib
that, you know, I believe that we're gonna be raptured out before the
tribulation and then the Antichrist is gonna
come; there are those that believe that we're in the middle of tribulation;
there are those that believe that we're gonna go through the
tribulation. And then, you know, according to this
particular scripture, if you were just looking at this particular scripture
in and of itself, it would seem to say,
and I'm not trying to make a case for pre-trib,
although I am pre-trib but I'm not trying to make a case
for it but it says that the secret power of lawlessness
is at work and that would be the spirit of the Antichrist.
If ever we were in an age where we saw the spirit of the Antichrist
at work, just you know, wanting to take
prayer out of schools, wanting to take the Ten Commandments out of schools,
out of courthouses, all of those
things that we see happening, anti-God, anti-Christ,
that is the spirit of antichrist at work. And the
One referred to there in 2 Thessalonians is the
Holy Spirit who holds back. And see,
we are the church of the Lord Jesus Christ and we are
the temple of the Holy Spirit. You, looking at me today,
and me looking at you, we are the temple of the
Holy Spirit. So we, through the power of the Holy Spirit, are here on
earth restraining the power of
the Antichrist. We're making a stand for righteousness,
we're shining the light of Jesus Christ, we are salt and light
in the earth today and we're holding up the standard of
the Word of God so that that force of
wickedness is held back, it's restrained.
And praise God for that! Now, we did a study
earlier on the Holy Spirit, I believe it was lesson 4,
that he was our conviction and that he
convicted us. The Holy Spirit will bring
a check in our Spirit
you know, a repentance, a brokenness that
we need to repent of our sin. That we are drawn
to him, that we no longer stand afar off but we
approach the Holy Spirit and we allow him to cleanse us,
to create in us a clean heart, renew a right spirit within us.
So we are wooed by the Holy Spirit
through the spirit of conviction. If you feel guilt and shame
and condemnation, be sure that is not of the
Lord! Amen! Because the Holy Spirit
does not bring guilt and shame;
he brings conviction. So, that's a past lesson that we
were taking about so we're kind of holding up the Holy Spirit and the Word
and looking at it and looking at the different facets of the personalitiy
just like we would a diamond in the light,
and we saw that he is a convicter. But
he also is a restrainer, so before we ever
even walk into sin, he can restrain us.
He can restrain darkness here on the earth and he's doing
that, amen, through each of us in a powerful way.
Now, we see
in 1 Corinthians 10 and 13, if you wanna
look at that scripture, it says, "There hath
no temptation taken you but it so as common to man
but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be
tempted above that you are able. But with the temptation
also make a way of escape
that you may be able to bear it." So, whenever
a temptation come or the enemy
tries to put a thought in our mind to do something that would
get us off course and be displeasing, be sinful,
come between us and the Lord, there
always is that way of escape for a believer. There's always
that moment; I wrote a blog on this not long ago
I felt so inspired by the Holy Spirit to write it
for especially teenagers and young adults and it's called,
"Let's Not," let's not. That whenever
a suggestion is made: let's go,
let's see how fast your car will go, let's
go drink a case of beer, let's go
party, let's go
vandalize a home, let's go shoplifting, let's
do- whatever it may be, let's try these drugs.
That we teach our kids and we learn ourselves
as adults to say, "Let's not, let's not." Amen!
That's the way of escape that the Holy Spirit is
provided. But see, it cannot be done
in our own ability, many times, because peer pressure
is so strong, ask me how I know!
You know, as a young adult and a teenager, you know, I would
a lot of times go anywhere the wind was blowing.
And not have any backbone to say, "Let's not!"
And usually it's that one person who stands up and says, "Let's not,"
that can affect a whole atmosphere. Amen?
So it's through the power of the Holy Spirit
and the restraining force of the Holy Spirit that we're given a way out
of every temptation. Now, if you look at the definition for
a restrainer, that is someone who, a person
or a group who will prevent someone from doing something or acting
out in a certain way; it also means to hold, to
fasten or the secure as to prevent
or limit movement. So, see, the restraining
force of the Holy Spirit operating for us
and through us prevents evil
and darkness upon the earth. Now, just some examples of
restraint mentioned in the bible; you're gonna love this.
Exodus 36 and 6, that's where Moses
had to issue, actually had to issue a command
and a proclamation that circulated throughout the camp.
And he told the people, "We have
received all we need to build the tabernacle. We don't need any more
don't bring any more, and the bible says, "Thus the people were
restrained from bringing anymore." See, that is
an example, early on in the Word of God, in
Exodus of the word "restraint"
and God exercising restraint among the people. We have
enough, amen; and he is God of more than
enough, that no matter what we need to complete a task, he's gonna
provide amply what we need. I love that!
Proverbs 29 and 18 says, "Where there
is no vision the people are unrestrained."
And so, it takes the vision of God, it takes God
giving us a vision; that's why moms out there, if you're watching me today, that's
one thing that we can agree together and pray is that God will give
our kids a vision for their life, of who he has
called them to be. Now who we think they should be or their
fathers or their grandparents or their teachers; but who God
wants them to be. A vision so that there is
restraint in their life, amen, they're restrained from getting off
course and doing all kind of foolishness because they
have a purpose and they have a focus and they know
what they wanna do with their life and they're staying with God and staying the
course. Proverbs 16 and 23 says,
"He who is slow to anger is better than the mighty
and he who rules his spirit
he can capture a city." If you can rule your
spirit, you can capture a city; that's powerful stuff.
See, that's restraint, in other words that we're just not
flying off the handle, getting mad at everybody, saying whatever comes
to our mind and I've been there, I've done it. And so,
every day I have to press into the Holy Spirit, every day
of my life, I have to press in because there will be something that comes along
that just brings agitation, irritation, you just wanna
pop off at the mouth and say something. And you have to just
lean into the Holy Spirit and say, "Holy Spirit,
I need you to rule my spirit right now. Help me Jesus from
saying what is on my mind to say because it is not good. I rebuke it
in Jesus name!" See, that's the restraint of the
Holy Spirit. And he will put the guard over our
mouth and our emotions. Psalm 141 and
over my mouth and keep a watch over the door of my
lips." And then again, in 1 Peter 3 and 10,
Peter said this, he said, "The one who desires
life to love and to see good days must keep his
tongue from evil and his lips from speaking deceit."
We've got to think about what we're thinking about
and what we're saying. And even last night as I was preparing
to come down, my husband and I got into a
conversation and somehow we got into a
subject of something that was just kind of, it's been irritating to me,
it's been bothering to me. And I began to just kind
of start speaking negatively about it, I said, "Whoa, whoa, whoa- how'd we even get
into this subject? I don't need to be talking about this. Let's just not," he said, "You're right,
let's don't even talk about this." So, we have
to set that watch, keep a watch over the door
of our lips and watch what we're speaking. James 1
19, it says, "But everyone be quick to
hear, slow to speak, and slow to anger." So, see
there's that slow, that restraint, that yield, yielding
to the Holy Spirit, yielding to his power,
leaning into him, leaning, "I feel really angry right now,
Holy Spirit and I'm asking you to help restrain this anger."
Amen? Sometimes you just have to pull back
away from people and situations until you get your
spirit-man right and lined up with the Holy Spirit
and allow him to just overwhelm you and
take over. And he just takes that anger, he takes that pain,
he takes that reaction and he keeps us restrained
so that we don't bring dishonor and
steal the glory away from the Lord. Amen? That we
we don't bring reproach on his
name and his reputation; that's important.
So we see that God restrains us. I was thinking of some ways
that he has restrained me and of course, in communication we've talked about
that and anger and temptation and
decisions. You know, sometimes you just wanna make decisions
based out of your emotions and the Holy Spirit says, "Whoa, whoa,
slow down, wait a minute." Um, we lived in Phoenix and
for six years and it would get to
115, 120 degrees in the summertime easy,
and I think the hottest it ever got was 120 degrees.
And I used to say, "You never wanna make the decision to move to
Phoenix or," I was saying this to all of my Phoenix friends out there,
you know I love you. But, "You don't wanna move to Phoenix or you
don't wanna move away from Phoenix in the summertime." Amen?
Because you don't wanna do it based out of your emotions,
you have to, but if the Lord tells you to move in the summer, then you gotta move in the summer.
You know, you don't wanna make major life decisions,
amen, out of your emotions. That's when the Holy
Spirit and his restraining force needs to come in
to play. Sometimes you can just say to him
"Holy Spirit, just help me to wait. Just help me just to rest in you
and to put it in your hands and trust you to work it out,
and I know you will." And he does every time.
He helps me sometimes
restraining on overeating. I was fretting over something
the other day and I had a bag of Cheddar
Lays Potato Chips and if it
hadn't of been for the restraining force of the Holy Spirit,
I probably would've sat there and eaten the whole bag!
(laughing) And so, I'm just
being real real with you right not. I like
potato chips and I really had
to have, I said, "Ok, Holy Spirit, help me here! Restrain me, what am I doing!"
What am I doing? I had to think about it, I rolled up the bag and I put it in the
pantry and walked off and said, "Ok, thank you Lord, you just saved me
about 1,000 calories." But you know, even in eating
and overeating and that kind of thing. Even is our dress,
dressing modestly, dressing for the glory of God.
We need a restraint there, amen? Some of our young girls
watching me today, you know, we
we have to dress with modesty! And so, there has to be
a restraining force there even in fashion
to help us to bring glory and honor to the Lord.
The other day I had on a t-shirt that said,
"Just Jesus." And I went into Publix and the person
in front of me was kind of, it was aggravating, there was a situation that was going
on and I looked down and I realized
I had on a shirt that said "Just Jesus" and it was like the Holy Spirit
checked me, he said, "You better act right, you better not be looking funny, you
better not be having, you know, evil looks on your face
or rolling your eyes. You got a Just Jesus t-shirt
and you gotta represent!" Amen? Isn't that sad that it took a t-shirt
to get me in check but you know that's a restraining force
of the Holy Spirit. In social media,
in driving, in texting, in all of that. You know, now we
have a law in Georgia that says you can't, you have to have hands free.
I have to put my phone away and just allow the Holy Spirit to
restrain me from thinking I even need to look it! Amen?
That's how dependent we ne-, some of you may be saying, "Well, that's silly.
Why do we need the Holy Spirit for that, isn't that common sense?" I hear ya!
But you know what? That is how
intimate and how dependent on the Holy Spirit
he wants us to become; that we are dependent on him for every
move and to restrain us when we're getting out of
line and getting ourself into trouble. In social media
people all the time, just gonna make their point and they're just gonna just, you know,
blast everybody and tell everybody off. And you know,
we've all had that, you know, trigger happy, we just
wanna get on there and just say our mind! Well we need the
restraining of the Holy Spirit to think about, you know, how
is this, to pray over it, to brood over
it, to wait, to say, "Holy Spirit, is this really what you want me
to say? Is this really what you want me to text? Is this really
what I need to be doing with my time?" Amen! And so, all of these
things come when we draw upon that restraining
force of the Holy Spirit. Hebrews 2 and 8
talks about how God, Jesus, has put everything into
subjection, I love that word, under his feet.
That's an example of a restraining force
where things in this earth, seen and unseen, are under the
subject, the restraint, of the Holy Spirit.
In Matthew 26
this is when Peter cut off the
ear of the soldier, he drew his sword,
think about this, and Jesus said,
he looked at Peter, he said, "Put your sword back in its place
for all those who take up the sword shall perish by the sword." He said,
"Do you not think, Peter, that I cannot appeal to my
Father and he will once put at my disposal more than
12 legion of angels?" And I heard that's thousands and
thousands and thousands of angels; I don't know the exact number.
Our theologians watching may know that but,
that's an example of the restraint of Jesus.
You know, he could've wiped them all out. Amen?
Just when he even said, "I am he," when they came to get him in the garden
they fell backwards under the power. Amen!
But Jesus was restrained at that time
2 Peter 3 and 9 says,
"The Lord is not slow about his promise as some
would count slowness, but he is patient,
He is patient toward you, not wishing for any to perish
but for all to come to repentance. The Lord is slow to anger
and great in power." And you know, patience is one of the fruit
of the spirit, we're gonna take every one of those fruit and we're gonna break them
down. Oh yes! We're gonna, and I hope you'll be with us because we're gonna look at
them and we're gonna learn and grow so much! I can't wait for that!
But it says here
the Lord is slow to anger, the Lord
even in Nahum 1 and 3, the Lord is slow to
anger and he is great in power. He could wipe out the
sin on the earth like that (snaps her fingers).
You know, just like he did the flood, with Noah, but he gave the rainbow
as a sign of his promise that he would never do that again.
He's restrained his anger, he has held back his anger
from destroying us because he is a merciful God!
And if you're watching today and you have never given your
life to Jesus Christ and you've waited and waited and waited; what are
you waiting for? Amen! Today is your day!
Don't hold back any longer; that's one area you don't wanna restrain
yourself is from running to Jesus. Let yourself
go and come to him and give your life to Jesus Christ
and ask the Holy Spirit, "Holy Spirit,
I can't even trust myself from doing the right thing.
I can't trust myself from not just running off at the mouth
and saying whatever comes to my mind. I need your
help!" Amen? " I need your restraint!" And you know
the Holy Spirit's not gonna hold that back from you; he's gonna help you and
strengthen you and you're just gonna be changed in his Word as you
read his Word, being transformed. And you know,
some people think, "Well, if I'm restrained by the Holy Spirit, what's
fun about that? I can't have fun and party and enjoy
my life." Do you know that in Acts Chapter 2
when all the disciples were gathered and the Holy Spirit was poured out
upon that prayer meeting that people thought they were drunk?
And Peter stood up and said, "These men
are not drunk as you suppose." Amen!
Because they're having so much fun and enjoying the presence of the Holy
Spirit so, so much. You know,
there's freedom in Christ; but yet he restrains
us from those things that will bring death and destruction
and harm to our life. Hallelujah!
Hallelujah, what a Savior that he has given us the precious Holy
Spirit! And you know, no matter how much we know, or think we know,
about the Holy Spirit, there's always more. And we're just gonna take this
study as long as the Lord will allow and direct
and lead us and learn about the Holy Spirit
his gifts, his fruit, his attributes, how he
leads us; some of our programs coming up are gonna be so amazing
about how the Holy Spirit leads us.
And you're just going to just grow so much, we're gonna grow together
in him and in his knowledge. I wanna thank you for joining Always More.
I wanna encourage you to surrender your life to Jesus Christ
and ask the Holy Spirit to fill you fresh today. And I agree
with you now that the Lord will bless you and keep you and fill you with his Holy Spirit
and use you for his glory, and we give God all the praise!
Thank you for joining us and I look forward to seeing you again
on Always More. God bless you!
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