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As Midwest Bible Church celebrates 90 years since being founded, Dr. Erwin Lutzer, Pastor Emeritus of Moody Bible Church, visits and shares this message on how God builds and sustains His church.

Citizens of the unshakable kingdom stand on unshakeable ground, build their lives on what cannot be shaken, and offer acceptable worship with reverence and awe. 

I don’t think any of us have arrived when it comes to taming the tongue. But if you’re a Christian, who is filled with the Spirit, you ought to be making significant progress. And if you're making progress, you’ve discovered that your tongue problem is not the main problem. The heart of the matter is a matter of the heart. Your mouth doesn’t need to be washed out with soap, like some of us may have experienced when we were kids. We don’t need our mouths to be washed, we need our hearts to be cleansed.

When we fail to recognize that our number one opponent is within, the focus that we need to live the Christian life will be in the wrong place. And sadly, many believers are not only failing to identify their greatest opponent, they are unfamiliar with the only person who can conquer the rebel, namely the Holy Spirit. 

To accomplish the greater works that Jesus said believers will do in His physical absence, we must become intimately acquainted with the Holy Spirit, sensitive to His leading, and familiar with how He works in our lives. (John 14:12-14)

In this series that we titled "Inside Out," we are going to consider some of the dangerous implications of the pseudo spirituality that comes from a distorted view of the Holy Spirit. And more importantly, we are going to discover how the New Covenant promise of the indwelling Spirit changes everything from the inside out.