What’s your secret

• Anyone successful gets asked “What’s your secret”
  • Business tycoons - Bezos, gates, musk get asked
  • Beautiful faces get asked
  • Sports icons get asked
• Samson’s hair
• For Jesus, it was the Holy Spirit
• If you could bring ONE thing with you
  • Jesus left the most advanced kingdom to go to a dirty place. He had one tool. 

John 3:34 (NLT) — 34 For he is sent by God. He speaks God’s words, for God gives him the Spirit without limit.

Matthew 12:18 (NLT) — 18 “Look at my Servant, whom I have chosen. He is my Beloved, who pleases me. I will put my Spirit upon him, and he will proclaim justice to the nations.

Luke 4:18 (NLT) — 18 “The Spirit of the LORD is upon me, for he has anointed me to bring Good News to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim that captives will be released, that the blind will see, that the oppressed will be set free,

Acts 10:38 (NLT) — 38 And you know that God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and with power. Then Jesus went around doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, for God was with him.

5 ways we see the secret manifest:

1. Secret of His RELATIONSHIP
   1. It was apparent to everyone that Jesus had unusual access to God
   2. The disciples said “teach us to pray”
   3. Like Wi-Fi - He was connected to heaven
   4. He lived in a state of fellowship with God
   5. Luke 11 - The Father will give you the Spirit
2. Secret of His PRECISION
   1. J. Barton Payne with 574 fulfilled prophecies, but minimally it was 300
   2. Every step, every conversation, every appointment, he didn’t miss the mark an iota 
   3. Precise timing - The festival in Jerusalem; The water into wine
   4. Precise wording - He was saying truth for billions of future believers
   5. Precise interactions - Went into the covered porch and found one man
   6. Precise relationships - The disciples he chose
   7. He didn’t lead the Holy Spirit, He FOLLOWED the Holy Spirit 
3. Secret of His WISDOM
   1. At 12, he was debating in the temple with the rabbis
   2. So many trick questions
      1. Paying taxes
      2. Married 7 women, whose in the resurrection 
      3. Most important commandment
      4. Woman caught in adultery
   3. The Bible says that the Spirit of wisdom rested upon Him - Isaiah 11
   4. You can have access to this same wisdom - Like Google next to you 
4. Secret of His POWER
   1. He had explosive power. Power over the weather, power over creation, power over demons
   2. Let’s rehash the power he displayed
      1. Power to control weather
      2. Power to resist elements
      3. Power to change the molecular composition of something
         1. Water to wine
         2. Stone to bread
      4. Power to multiply an object
         1. Fish and bread
      5. Power to restore human bodies
      6. Power to resurrect the dead
      7. Power to be transformed
      8. Power to expel demons
      9. Power to vanish
      10. Power to know what people were thinking 
      11. Luke 4:14 (NLT) — 14 Then Jesus returned to Galilee, filled with the Holy Spirit’s power. Reports about him spread quickly through the whole region.
5. Secret of His MINISTRY
   1. The Holy Spirit would flow through him as he was the vessel
   2. Teaching, Ministering in the gifts

If we are going to be like Jesus, we have to see the underlying SECRET to who he was.. It was the SPIRIT

• Honor Him
• Follow Him
• Trust Him