Power (Romans 8:5-13‪)‬ Cityview Community Church - Sermons

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Power
May 5, 2024 | Brandon Cooper
Brandon Cooper preached about living in the power of the Holy Spirit for personal transformation and growth. The Spirit gives believers power to overcome sin and live according to the Spirit rather than the flesh. Cooper encouraged tapping into the Spirit's power through prayer and Scripture for holiness, church unity, and evangelism. All Christians are called to rely on the Spirit's gifts and presence as they witness to others about Christ.






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Good morning church, we're gonna go ahead grab your Bibles, you can open up the Romans chapter eight, Romans chapter eight will be in verses five to 13 this morning, as you're turning there, someone recently gifted my family a bouncy house, not a big one or anything like that. But you know, just a fun one, especially for the boys. And so, first sunny day, we kind of brought it out got it all set up, you know, it's a big to do to pull it out of the bag unfold the thing I got to figure out where to tie everything off and whatnot. And, you know, get plugged into the boys are are standing there, you know, kind of mouths agape and heart racing and stuff like they just they can't even believe what's about to happen right now. And so, you know, drumroll kind of moment and flick the switch and nothing happened. So anticlimactic. So turns out, the ground fault had tripped. And so, yeah, we, you know, we got to fix it, it was going but you know, the problem at the moment, at least, was that there was no power going to the bouncy house. And how many of us feel that way? How many of us live that way, when it comes to the Christian life, like, we feel like we're just missing power for what it is that we've been called to do. So that's what we need is also what thank God the Spirit provides. And that's what we're looking at this morning. This is the second week in our short series on the Spirit. Because it is a short series, we're kind of laser focused here on the basic ministry of the Holy Spirit in the new covenant, which is to mediate Christ's presence to us. So the Spirit makes Christ presence felt to us so that three things happen. First, we talked about last week, and that's personal fellowship with Jesus, Kyle talked a lot about that. And then second, is our personal transformation into Christ's likeness. And that's what we're talking about this week, the power available for that, and the third, you get to come back next week. So I'm not gonna tell you, but if you and I are going to be more like Jesus, we are going to need a power outside of ourselves, like change isn't happening without some external power, it would feel a little bit like I think how many of us approach the Christian life would be like me grabbing the little tube on the bouncy house and trying to blow the thing up like a balloon, like we just don't have nearly enough of what we need. In order for this to happen. There will be no change without this power source, the Spirit of God, that's exactly the point Paul makes in our passage this morning. So main idea I'm gonna give to you up front. It's very simple. It's basically just the title of the sermon, but it is this live in the Spirit's power, or live in the Spirit's power? That's not new information. I did not just blow any minds, right there anything like that? The big question, of course, that many of you are asking even as you read that, as sure But how, and that's hopefully we're gonna get today, I'm going to steal a bunch of illustrations from JD Greer, just FYI, upfront, so no accusations of plagiarism later. Okay. So, from the book, Jesus continued, but he says the Spirit's power, it's a little bit like our pituitary gland, in the sense that, you know, maybe, you know, you know,