Michael Todd - You Can't Explain Every Experience You Have with God

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
If you can explain everything about God, why are we
not worshiping you. All I need you to know is
that we at Transformation Church in Race write this phrase
down the.

Speaker 2 (00:19):
Mystery of God Holy Spirit.

Speaker 1 (00:26):
Didn't it say that he'll tell you of the things
to come, He'll show you if you would allow him. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
I know they're working on that project. But at home,
I want you to dedicate two hours a night. Well,
God does more Netflix show? Yeah, yea, I know, but
you're gonna be broke for the next five years.

Speaker 2 (00:47):
And asking where I am. I'm trying to give you
the advantage right now. Every night. I need you to
give two hours to working on this.

Speaker 1 (00:55):
Well, they didn't ask me for what if they didn't,
he said, maybe I'm in every room, I'm in every meeting,
I'm everywhere you want to be, and I know everything
you need to know.

Speaker 2 (01:09):
I'm the Holy Spirit. Put some respect on my name.

Speaker 1 (01:16):
Work on this project every night for two hours and
it would be just like God that three months later,
they're at a crossroads in the company and they call
everybody in for a meeting and the guy standing up
their frazzle. The big boss never comes in, but somehow
he's there today. I wanted to call everybody in here

(01:38):
because I need fresh ideas. What's happening is not cutting
it you what's your name, Jared? Where do you work?

Speaker 2 (01:53):
Too low for you to know.

Speaker 1 (01:56):
But in my spare time, I've been working on something
that I thought would lead us into the future of
this company. And then you'll be like, I don't know
what to say, And the Holy Spirit stands up strong
on the inside of you. And as a matter of fact,
I need you to recognize that from y'all.

Speaker 2 (02:13):
I'm telling y'all I have the Ed family.

Speaker 1 (02:22):
The only way I can explain it to you is
that Jesus told us that this is what would happen
John sixteen seven. Nevertheless, that word means that Jesus was
even having to convince them.

Speaker 2 (02:34):
This is gonna be hard for y'all to believe, cause
y'all walk with me.

Speaker 1 (02:39):
But I tell you the truth. Like that's like Jesus saying,
I put this on my mama. Y'all know how when
you was in school and somebody like put that on
some maybe like I put this on my mama, Jesus says, Nevertheless.

Speaker 2 (02:52):
I tell you the truth. It is to your advantage.
That's Bible.

Speaker 1 (03:04):
It is to your advantage that I go away, for
if I do not go away, the Helper, the Holy
Spirit will not come to you. But if I depart,
I will send him to you, and in every room,
in every discussion, at the point of your failure, in

(03:26):
the midst of your mistakes, in the greatest hurts you've
ever experienced, the Holy Spirit, your helper, is your advantage.
Somebody say, I have the advantage. Okay, so let me
help explain this to you in a deeper way, because

(03:47):
let's just say it like this. The Holy Spirit is God.
So I want to break this down to you. God
walks with you all the time. You don't act like it. Now,
I just want to be like for real. I want
you to think about Shaquille O'Neil walking with you as security.

Speaker 2 (04:10):
Everywhere you went.

Speaker 1 (04:13):
You would have more confidence and a retired NBA star
who's seven whatever.

Speaker 2 (04:20):
Walking with you.

Speaker 1 (04:20):
Feel more protected with shaq walking with you, and you
have God, the Holy Spirit walking with.

Speaker 2 (04:30):
You at all times.

Speaker 1 (04:31):
At Christmas time, I hear everybody talking about Emmanuel.

Speaker 2 (04:34):
Amen, you will, But do y'all know what Emmanuel means?
God with us?

Speaker 1 (04:41):
Why do we only say that at Christmas, I call
him a Manuel. On Monday, Emanuel, we gotta go to
work today, Emmanuel, I got.

Speaker 2 (04:54):
To go raise these kids. What does that mean? God?

Speaker 1 (04:57):
With us and the problem. We have not seen the
Holy Spirit as God. And that's why last week I
tried to normalize your understanding of God, God and God.

Speaker 2 (05:08):
Y'all remember that last week where I said it was God, God, God.

Speaker 1 (05:11):
Put that chart on the screen because I need everybody.
If you're just joining us, go back and watch the message.
But it's worth us going over again that God is
his name, He's God the Father, Jesus is God, and
Holy Spirit is God. Three equal persons in one. There
is no delineation when one of them shows up. All
of them show up, but they have different and specific

(05:34):
functions according to the Bible. In our lives, God the
Father is provider, he is set apart, and he's holy,
and he has a residence of heaven.

Speaker 2 (05:43):
Jesus is God and he.

Speaker 1 (05:44):
Was our savior and now he is seated at the
right hand of the Father according to Luke, and his
residence is in Heaven. And God the Holy Spirit is
our helper and he's active and he's alive right now
on earth. He's your right now. It's all good because
it's all God. Now, I need you to hear me

(06:08):
say this. When God the Father shows up, he shows
up with himself, his whole self. So I know a
lot of y'all is like, well, okay, God the Father so,
and then Jesus and then the Holy Spirit like I
don't understand, like how is he here?

Speaker 2 (06:24):
And then they're there. Listen, this is beyond our comprehension.

Speaker 1 (06:29):
I need to let you know that this is what
we call the mystery of God. Now, I know don't
know Church talk about this because we're so intellectual that
we want to know everything about everything that we use.
But the thing about this is, in this faith journey
that you're about to go on with God, you will
not be able to explain a lot of it.

Speaker 2 (06:50):
You see how quiet it is. I need to know really.

Speaker 1 (06:55):
Because there will be parts of your Christian walk that
you will not be able to explain, you will own
be able to experience. I need you to hear me
say this because some of you who are so intellectually deep,
and you're saying, until I fully know what is going on,
I cannot serve God and.

Speaker 2 (07:13):
I can't do this.

Speaker 1 (07:14):
You don't know how your microwave fully works, but you
still use it. Some of y'all add thirty seconds, add
thirty seconds after y'all know who y'all are, popcorn that
you only use four buttons and it's thirty two of them.
But you're telling me because you don't know the ins

(07:36):
and outs of everything that comes with God, that you
can serve him. You don't know how math works. After
algebra one and they started adding letters, and they started
adding different signs and pie and.

Speaker 2 (07:58):
God, bless y'all. I like sweet with that, the pie,
but I didn't know pie. What was in math? You
don't know how it fully works.

Speaker 1 (08:06):
But you still use it to count your money.

Speaker 2 (08:10):
What I'm saying to you, listen to this. I heard
this quote.

Speaker 1 (08:14):
A God that is exhaustively understood by finite human beings
is not a God that is glorious enough to be worshiped.
If you can explain everything about God, why are we
not worshiping you? All I need you to know is

(08:41):
that we at Transformation Church in Race write this phrase
down the mystery.

Speaker 2 (08:48):
Of God pasor Mike in First Thesalonians. And you don't
know this, and you don't know this. I don't, But
guess who will tell you?

Speaker 1 (08:58):
The Holy Spirit if you allow him, he'll tell you
about himself. Do you know how many scriptures I come
to where I don't understand the meaning and then I say,
the Holy Spirit, you have to give me revelation. And
just like that, as I begin to pray, I might
be walking out without understanding, and the Holy Spirit, you know,
it's like this right, and I'll be like, oh, my goodness, that's.

Speaker 2 (09:20):
What we call revelation. And he still speaks.

Speaker 1 (09:23):
And if you need a man to convince you, that
means that you have not allowed the Holy Spirit to
consume you. There are things that I don't have to
be convinced of because I was consumed by him. And
I'm telling you right now, just because you don't know

(09:43):
the ins and outs of how everything works doesn't.

Speaker 2 (09:45):
Mean that you don't use it.

Speaker 1 (09:47):
Accept your advantage, accept the upgrade, Accept the Holy Spirit.
Y'all know when I said God shows up fully, y'all
may not get it like that. So I'm gonna use
a real p person as an example so you can
see exactly what I'm talking about when I say God, God, God,

(10:07):
Maybe you'd understand it better if I said Mike, Mike
and Mike, okay, like like if I explain this to
you and it's me. Okay, So if you were looking
at my life, Mike is my name, Mike is my name,
Mike is my name. Mike title is pastor, and my
function as a pastor is what put it on the screen.

(10:32):
Leave me, oh, y'all going to the other way? All right,
we'll do it that way.

Speaker 2 (10:34):
Okay. It's a leader and just build the whole thing out,
build the whole thing out. Okay. And and no, no,
no come back, bring it back. Okay.

Speaker 1 (10:44):
My title is pastor, my function is leader, My status
is a lead servant, and my location of lead serving
is Transformation Church.

Speaker 2 (10:52):
Okay. That's one version of Mike.

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