I want you to turn in your Bible to two places, John Chapter 14 and John

chapter 16. And I want to share a message this weekend called

surrounded by the Spirit, surrounded by the Holy Spirit. I want to talk to you about living a

life immersed, engaged, and totally consumed by the person and the power and the presence of the

Holy Spirit. I just turned 50 years old. I know that is hard to believe, right? I know I don't look 50. Thank you for saying that by the way. It just means a lot to me.

I felt the love coming back from you right there and I appreciate it.

But I just turned 50 and I realized that at turning 50 years old I have one of two choices.

I can coast in, I know Jesus, I'm in love with the Holy Spirit and I can coast in for the

second half of my life or I can make a decision right now at 50 years old to be

more in love with Jesus and more in love with the Holy Spirit than I've ever

been in my life and I've made a decision to be more in love with Jesus and to be more in love

with the Holy Spirit than in any other time in my life. That's the decision I just made and to be

more in love with my wife than I've ever been in my life.

And I'm telling you, listen, all the men in the room, please listen to me, there's a lot of

50 year old men in this room who are 50 plus.

We all have the same decision to make.

Are you going to be more in love with Jesus than ever before?

Are you going to be more in love with the Holy Spirit than ever before?

Are you going to be more in love with the wife of your youth than ever before. And you're going to be more in love with the wife of your youth

than ever before. I have made a decision to do that. And I have two big goals for

this weekend's message. One is there's a lot of you in this room and a lot of

you at all the campuses that have never said yes you have never welcomed the

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