Hello and welcome.
You heard the welcome
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during the open, but
I welcome you as well
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here to 3ABN
Homecoming Camp Meeting.
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What a blessing
it has been. Amen?
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Amen. Amen. Praise the Lord!
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The music is inspiration.
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The messages also a
blessing and an inspiration.
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And we hope that you at home
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have been blessed. And
please write us and let us know
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how God has blessed
you through these messages
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and the music as well.
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Now during this hour we
have another blessing in store
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because when God's
people come together
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God blesses them.
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And so we encourage
you to continue with us.
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Those watching at home,
those watching in hospitals
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and even prisons. I
must tell you that we get
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letters from prisoners. They
are there and they watch 3ABN.
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And it's a blessing to
see how the programming
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is even impacting
people that are prisoners.
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But as they know Jesus
Christ they can be set free.
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And people are
watching all over the world
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and we praise the Lord.
And we are also glorifying
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His name because
lives are being transformed.
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During this hour we
will hear a blessing
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through music
through Pastor C.A. Murray
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and also a message
from Pastor Mark Finley.
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Now I know that
those of you that were here
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were blessed by the
message that we heard
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the last time we were together
with Pastor Mark Finley.
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And it was Prayer
Makes a Difference.
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Does prayer make a difference?
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Amen. Praise the Lord!
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And as you noticed
during that message
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Pastor Mark Finley
teaches us from God's Word.
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And this is what you should
expect during this hour as well.
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He's going to
teach us from God's Word,
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and he is a man that you
can tell studies God's Word.
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Not only on the
surface but what? Deeply.
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And so we are encouraged
to see that and we are also
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blessed. And we know the Lord
will bless during this message.
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And before Pastor
Murray comes to sing
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we would like to ask you to
stand for a moment for prayer.
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We want to ask the
Lord's blessing once again.
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Now the people here... that
are here from different parts
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of the country. Is anybody here
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from outside of
the United States?
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Praise the
Lord! Praise the Lord!
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There are some here and
some more will be coming.
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But now we invite you
to pray. And those of you
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at home can also
join us in prayer.
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And if you're not driving,
please join us in prayer.
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Let us pray.
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Our loving heavenly Father,
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we want to thank you,
Lord, that in the midst of
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troubles and
tribulation in this world
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we can find hope and encourage-
ment and strength in You.
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We pray, Lord,
that as we are together
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Your Holy Spirit
will illuminate our minds
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and open our
understanding, Lord,
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so that we will see deep and
wonderful things in God's Word.
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We pray for a
blessing upon everyone
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that is watching and
listening, and we ask, Lord,
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for Your name to be glorified.
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We pray for Your Holy
Spirit to be poured out.
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And we ask for these
blessings in Jesus' name, Amen.
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You may be seated.
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Our speaker is
Pastor Mark Finley.
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Many of you know him
as the former speaker
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and director of the It
Is Written international
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telecast. Also served the
Seventh-day Adventist church
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as a general vice president
of the General Conference
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and now is blessed to
work directly with the
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General Conference
president which is Elder Wilson.
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And he's special assistant
to the president of the
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General Conference.
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And millions of people around
the world have been blessed
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by the messages
that God brings to us
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through Pastor Mark
Finley. And during this hour
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we will hear a
message about the Holy Spirit
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and revival. And we need
revival. What do you say? Amen?
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We need revival. So
we're going to hear a message
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about the Holy
Spirit and revival.
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Prepare your
hearts and your minds.
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And to help us prepare
our hearts and our minds
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I am encouraged and
blessed by the music of
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Pastor C.A. Murray.
You know, some people
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not only can preach
but they can also sing.
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And that's also a sermon...
a message from the Lord.
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So at this time we'd
like to invite Pastor Murray
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to come forward. And you
will hear a song entitled
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Go Free. May God bless us all.
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The words for
this song come from the
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second volume of the
Testimonies pages 318 and 319.
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Ellen White is
writing to a certain Sister T.
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and the letter found its
way into the second volume
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of the Testimonies under
the title Comfort in Affliction.
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Evidently this woman had
been sick for a long time
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and she began to believe
that her sickness was evidence
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that God no longer loved her.
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And so Ellen White
wrote her specifically.
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I want to read just a
couple lines from this
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because of some
important things that are here.
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She says: "I have
heard of your affliction
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and I hasten to
write you a few lines.
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My dear sister, I have
it on the very best evidence
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that God loves you. He
has shown me your case. "
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She says among other things:
"I saw that the Lord would
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be to you a very present help
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if you would only
trust yourself in Him.
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But, " she said, "you are
beginning to worry yourself
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out of the arms of God. "
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You know how sometimes we
take our burdens to the Lord.
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Instead of leaving them
there we pick them right back up
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and carry them away?
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She says this is what
this woman was beginning to do.
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She says: "You are worrying
yourself out of the arms of God
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and in indulging these
doubts you dishonor God. "
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She says: "Trust Him!
Go free, oppressed soul.
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Be of good
courage. Say to yourself
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'God loves me' and
hope in the Lord. "
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Now here's the powerful
line that I want to close with.
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She said: "I know
that the Lord loves you.
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If you cannot
rely on your own faith,
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rely on the faith of others.
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We believe and hope for you.
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God accepts our
faith in your behalf. "
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Isn't that a powerful statement?
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So that when you pray for
someone else - a lost child,
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a lost relative, a
lost parent, a lost friend,
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God accepts your
faith in their behalf.
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Now your faith cannot save them.
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Their salvation is a
consequence of their own faith.
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But your faith
can keep them safe
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until the Spirit of
God can get through.
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"God accepts our
faith in your behalf. "
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She says: "Flee from
the devil; go free. "
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And the title of
the song is Go Free.
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Troubled soul,
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I know you're so
tired of fighting.
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Don't you know
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He sees the wound
you've been hiding?
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Yesterday can't change tomorrow
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so leave behind all your sorrow.
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Go free... go free
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in the name of Jesus go free.
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Child of God,
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child adored...
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come to the Lord and go free.
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Trembling soul,
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I know you're
so tired of aching.
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Don't you know
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He sees the
wounds you are taking?
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His hand of mercy and healing
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can untie the hurt
that you're feeling.
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Go free... go free
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in the name of Jesus go free.
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Child of God,
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child adored...
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come to the Lord and go free.
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Tempted soul,
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I know you're so
tired of fighting.
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Don't you know
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He sees the wound
you've been hiding?
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The battle that's
raging is so strong
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and you've been a
captive for too long.
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Go free... oh, ya gotta go free
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in the name of Jesus go free.
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Child of God,
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child adored...
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come to the Lord
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and go free.
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In the name of Jesus
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go free.
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Child of God,
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child adored...
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come to the Lord
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and go free.
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Go free... go free.
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Now go free.
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Amen!
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Child of God, go free.
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Really that's the
message of revival, isn't it?
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It's freeing us from
the secular, materialistic
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earthly human
values that cloud our minds
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and create foggy thoughts
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so that we do not
see Jesus clearly.
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This is the second in
a series of five messages
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on spiritual revival.
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Last evening we talked
about prayer and revival.
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This morning the
Holy Spirit and revival.
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Our third message is on
Revelation... the book of
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Revelation and revival.
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And there are really
three messages on Revelation
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and revival in this series.
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The first is entitled
Revelation's Three Songs.
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The second:
Revelation's Triumphant Christ.
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And the third:
Revelation's End-Time Revival.
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All of those
messages - those five -
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focus on some aspect of revival.
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As we open our Bibles
today to study the Holy Spirit
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and revival let's pray. Father,
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the Holy Spirit prompted
the writing of the Word of God.
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And as we open its
pages to study it today
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we pray Thee
that the same Spirit
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that inspired Bible
writers would be with us
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to inspire our hearts to
take another step closer to You
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and to go deeper into
a relationship with You.
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In Christ's name, Amen.
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For some 14 years my wife
and I lived in California.
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It was there that I
was the Speaker/Director of
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It Is Written television.
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And in California, particularly
southern California,
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there are many
gated communities.
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And so we were living in a
gated community, and one day
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the guard gate called our home.
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And the man at
the gate said this.
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He said: "There's somebody
here, Mr. Finley, to see you.
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This is his name... "
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I didn't recognize
the person's name at all.
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I hadn't ever heard
of that person before
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and the person at the gate said:
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"This person is insistent
he has to see you now. "
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And so I thought rather
than having the guard gate
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let him come into our community
and come knocking on my door
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when I had no
idea who this man was
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that I'd better go down to
the guard gate and talk to him.
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So I did. Drove
down to the gate.
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And the man greeted me
and he said: "Pastor Finley,
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I am so glad to meet you.
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I've been watching
your television program. "
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And I thought: "Well
that's pretty good news. "
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Then he said: "And the Holy
Spirit's impressed me too. "
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And I thought: "That's
good news. Maybe he was watching
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the program and the Holy Spirit
impressed him to give a donation
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to the program. This
is really getting good. "
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And then he said: "the
Holy Spirit has impressed me
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to come here to work with you
to travel all over the world. "
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And I said: "This is really
getting an interesting story. "
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And I said: "Where
did you come from? "
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He said: "I took a
bus from Sacramento area
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about 6 or 7 hours down
here to southern California. "
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And I asked him:
"Are you married? "
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"Oh yes, but the Holy
Spirit has impressed me to leave
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my wife to come work with you. "
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"Do you have children? "
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"Oh yes, the Holy
Spirit has impressed me
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to leave my children
to come work with you. "
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"Did you have a job? "
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"Yes I did, but the Holy Spirit
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impressed me to leave my job. "
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"Do you have any money? "
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"No, I spend my last dollar
to come down to work with you
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because when the Holy Spirit
impresses you to do something
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you must follow "
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I said: "My brother, the Holy
Spirit has just impressed me
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to take you to the bus
station and buy you a bus fare
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to send you back to your wife. "
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And so we sat down and I talked
to that man for about 3 hours
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about how to understand the
impressions of the Holy Spirit.
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The subject of the Holy Spirit
and the impressions of the
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Holy Spirit is one of
the most confusing subjects
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among many Christians today.
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How do you know that
you've been impressed by the
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Holy Spirit or that this is
the wanderings of your own mind?
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How do you know that that
voice you hear in your head
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is not your own human prompting?
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How do you make the distinction
between what God is guiding
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you to do and what the Holy
Spirit is guiding you to do?
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God's Spirit will
never lead us contrary
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to God's Word. And
God's Word and God's will
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are always in harmony.
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This subject of the Holy
Spirit is an extremely confusing
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subject for many.
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This morning we want to
talk about three aspects of the
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Holy Spirit. Who
is the Holy Spirit?
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What is the Holy Spirit's work?
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And why was the
Holy Spirit given?
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So we could call it the
who, the what, and the why
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of the Holy Spirit.
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First, the who
of the Holy Spirit.
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What is the Holy Spirit?
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There are many people that have
the idea that the Holy Spirit
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is a force... the
Holy Spirit is a power.
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The Holy Spirit is
even some divine energy.
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As I travel around the world,
this confusion is even among
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many of God's people.
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They have the idea that
there is God the Father,
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a divine person.
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There is God the
Son, a divine person.
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But when it comes
to the Holy Spirit
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there's this kind of
vague misunderstanding
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that the Holy Spirit is
this kind of mystical force.
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It is not
really a divine person.
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Well let's look at scripture.
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Matthew chapter 28.
You know the passage well.
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Verse 19:
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"Go therefore and make
disciples of all the nations. "
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Matthew 28 verse 19:
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we're studying the
who of the Holy Spirit.
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Who is the Holy Spirit?
"Baptizing them in the name
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of the Father and of the
Son and of the Holy Spirit. "
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So in the name of the
Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
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The Bible doesn't simply
say the Father and the Son
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and then the Holy
Spirit is some kind of it,
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some kind of force
emanating from the Father.
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Let's suppose that
this was a wooden pulpit
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and the top of
the pulpit was loose
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and I wanted to drive a nail
into the pulpit with a hammer.
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How many times would I
have to swing the hammer
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to drive the nail
through? How many times?
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Here's the nail. I'm
going to swing the hammer
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and whack that nail.
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How many times will I
have to swing the hammer
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to drive the nail through?
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How many times do you
think the pastor has to swing
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the hammer? Once?
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I got three or
four. How many times?
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Ten?
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Here's what it depends on.
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It depends whether
you hit the nail or not.
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If you miss it, you're
going to be swinging that hammer
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a lot of times, right?
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You don't need to read 100
Bible texts to prove a topic.
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You need to read one
text and one comment.
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I'll give you a couple more
texts. Who is the Holy Spirit?
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Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
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Here is the divine commentary
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that defines Matthew 28:19
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on the nature
of the Holy Spirit.
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"There are three living
persons of the heavenly trio. "
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I'm quoting from Testimonies
to Ministers page 392.
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When Ellen White
was counseling pastors
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defining the work and
nature of the Holy Spirit
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and particularly who the
Holy Spirit was, she said:
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"There are three
living persons. "
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That's hitting the
nail on the head, isn't it?
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You don't have to
write a dissertation on it.
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You don't have to
write five books on it.
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You don't have to
study for a lifetime.
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It hits the nail on the head.
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"There are three living
persons of the heavenly trio. "
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In the name of
these three great powers -
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the Father, the Son,
and the Holy Spirit -
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those who receive Christ
by living faith are baptized.
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So the Holy Spirit is
as much a divine personage
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as the Father and the Son.
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The Holy Spirit isn't
some kind of vague entity.
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The Holy Spirit isn't some
kind of force that emanates
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from the Father.
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There is the Father,
the Son, and the Holy Spirit
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composing the Godhead.
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We find that
throughout scripture.
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Take your Bible and turn to
Ephesians chapter 2 verse 18.
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Ephesians
chapter 2 and verse 18.
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Somebody said it well.
Said: "to try to understand
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the trinity is
to lose your mind.
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But to reject the
concept of the Godhead -
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the trinity - is
to lose your soul. "
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Ephesians chapter 2 verse 18:
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"For through Him... " -
that is, through Christ -
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"we both have access by
one Spirit to the Father. "
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There you have
Christ, the Spirit, the Father
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all mentioned in one text.
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This divine trio that
Ellen White speaks about...
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the Godhead.
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Take your Bible and
turn to II Corinthians 3:18.
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Why is this important?
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If the Holy Spirit is simply a
force emanating from the Father,
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if the Holy Spirit is
no more than a mere force,
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then we will try
to use that force
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to accomplish our own ends.
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But if the Holy Spirit
is the third divine person
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of the Godhead, we then yield
to the convicting, prompting,
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empowering power of the
Holy Spirit in our own lives.
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The Holy Spirit is
as much a personage,
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a personality, a being,
as the Father and the Son.
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You find that again
in II Corinthians 13:14.
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II Corinthians
chapter 13 and verse 14.
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The scripture says: "The
grace of the Lord Jesus Christ
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and the love of God in the
communion of the Holy Spirit
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be with you all. " So you
have the grace of Jesus Christ,
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the love of God, the
communion of the Spirit.
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Here they are: the Godhead...
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the Father, the
Son, the Holy Spirit.
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The Father is from eternity;
the Son is from eternity;
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the Holy Spirit
is from eternity.
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These three work for
the salvation of humanity.
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Now in the Old
Testament God is prominent.
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In the New Testament
Christ fills the horizon.
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But once Jesus
ascended to heaven
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we are living in the
age - the dispensation -
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of the Holy Spirit. This
is the time to understand
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more about the Holy
Spirit. How He works
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and the revival of the
Holy Spirit in our lives.
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Take your Bible, please,
as we now try to discover
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what Jesus said
about His return to heaven
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and the gift of the Spirit that
He would return to the earth
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once His sacrifice was accepted
by the Father in heaven.
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Man steps off a
mountain and goes down.
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God steps off a
mountain and goes up
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because the laws of
gravity cannot hold the Creator
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of the laws of gravity down.
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Jesus was about ready
to leave... about ready to
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step off that mountain,
and He gave this instruction
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in the gospel of John
to His earthly disciples
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about His leaving.
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They were concerned
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and John 14, 15, and
16- those three chapters
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more than any
other in the Bible -
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are a treatise by
Jesus, a discourse by Jesus,
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part of one single
sermon by Jesus on the coming of
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the Spirit after He
left His earthly church.
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We find Jesus telling His
disciples in John chapter 14
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"Let not your
hearts be troubled.
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You believe in
God, believe also in Me.
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In My Father's
house are many mansions
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and if it were not so
I would have told you.
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I go to prepare a place for you,
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and if I go and prepare a place
for you I will... " do what?
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"come again. " But the
disciples were concerned.
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How long would Jesus' coming be?
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How would they
exist during the time
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that Jesus was gone?
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Their hearts were longing
for the presence of Christ.
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They were disappointed
that He was leaving them.
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And so Jesus said in
John chapter 14 and verse 18:
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He said: "I will not
leave you orphans... " -
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John 14 verse 18-
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"I will come to you. "
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So Jesus was leaving
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but through the
third person of the Godhead
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the personal
presence of Jesus Christ
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would be manifest
with the disciples.
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Wouldn't it be kind
of an exciting thing
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if Jesus walked into this 3ABN
Camp Meeting auditorium today?
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Amen! Wouldn't you love that?
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Wouldn't you
love to have Him come?
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But He says that
through His Holy Spirit
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He would be closer to His
people than if He were present
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physically and personally.
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Notice what He says.
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Here... take your Bible and
look at John 16 and verse 7.
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Who is the Holy Spirit?
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The Holy Spirit is the
third person of the Godhead.
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The Holy Spirit - the
third person of the Godhead -
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is the personal
presence of Christ
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manifest in our
lives. John 16 verse 7:
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"Nevertheless I
tell you the truth:
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it is to your
advantage that I go away. "
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Wait a minute!
It is to our what?
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Advantage that
Christ is not here.
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It is to our advantage?
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Why not? Why to our advantage?
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Because if the
physical Christ were here today
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at this 3ABN Camp Meeting
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He could not be physically
present someplace else.
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He would be limited by
His physical presence here.
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Because when Christ left heaven
He tabernacled in human flesh
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and was limited
to be in one place.
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But through the
ministry of the Holy Spirit
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the living Christ can be
with you as you're praying
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in your bedroom. The living
Christ can be with us here
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through the
ministry of the Holy Spirit.
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So Jesus said to His disciples
- Peter, James, and John -
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"as you travel the
world I will be with you.
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My presence
will be by your side.
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I'll warm your hearts
through the Holy Spirit. "
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Who is the Holy Spirit? The
third person of the Godhead,
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the personal presence
of Christ that ministers to
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Jesus' people as they
travel from place to place
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and as they seek Him.
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That is the who
of the Holy Spirit.
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Now, what about the
what of the Holy Spirit?
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What is the
ministry of the Holy Spirit?
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I'd like to study with you
six aspects of the ministry
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of the Holy Spirit.
What the Holy Spirit -
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the personal
presence of Jesus Christ -
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wants to do for you.
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First, the Holy Spirit convicts.
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We find that in
John 16 and verse 8.
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The Holy Spirit convicts.
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What does the
Holy Spirit convict of?
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John 16:8... the
Holy Spirit convicts.
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"And when He has come... "
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Now notice the Bible
doesn't say "it" has come.
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And the Bible doesn't
say "this force has come. "
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And when what has come,
everybody? What does it say?
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He. He represents
divine personality.
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"When He is come... " Verse 8:
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"He will
convict... " What will He do?
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"He will
convict the world of sin
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and of
righteousness and of judgment. "
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He convicts the world of sin.
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The more you yield to
the convicting power of the
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Holy Spirit in your
life and do not yield
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to the temptations of the enemy,
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the sharper your
spiritual antenna is tuned
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to listen to the Holy Spirit.
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Have you ever felt
that convicting power
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in your own life? You were
about ready to say something
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negative and critical about
something else... somebody else
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and there's this
little, small voice in your mind
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that says: "Why
are you saying that? "
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If you push that little
small voice away from your mind,
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it becomes easier
the next time to yield.
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Have you ever been
ready to take an article
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out of the refrigerator
at 10 o'clock at night
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and you remember
the carob chocolate cake
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that you had served for birthday
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and the soy ice
cream that is there?
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And you take that chocolate
cake at 10 o'clock at night
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and you cut off
three large pieces
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and put it on that plate
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after your husband
or wife has gone to bed.
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And you scoop up half
that quart of ice cream
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and you get in the corner
and just turn the light on
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a little bit and you say:
"This is going to taste good. "
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And there's a little,
small voice in your mind that
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says: "This might
not be that healthful. "
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Sometimes the Holy
Spirit convicts you more than
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Pastor Finley
spoke. He is more direct!
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Have you ever been flipping
the dial on the television
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and you've gone by 3ABN
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and on your satellite
dish you see something
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noticing that it's
not pleasing to Jesus
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and you linger there?
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And the Holy Spirit
speaks in your heart and says:
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"That which your
eyes are watching
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will defile your
spiritual character.
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This is not pure and true. "
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You see, all of
those inclinations...
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The Holy Spirit convicts of sin.
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The Holy Spirit
moves in our lives
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as a spiritual
x-ray of the soul.
00:30:13.18\00:30:18.14
The more you yield to the
promptings of the Holy Spirit,
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the more you listen to
that inner voice that is
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convicting you of sin,
the more you are sensitive
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to the Holy Spirit.
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But the more you
reject that inner voice
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the harder the heart becomes.
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The Holy Spirit
will convict of sin...
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that's verse 8...
and of righteousness.
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What does it
mean the Holy Spirit
00:30:45.15\00:30:46.18
"convicts of righteousness? "
00:30:46.29\00:30:48.03
Every impulse to do right
is prompted by the Holy Spirit.
00:30:48.23\00:30:52.05
Every impulse to speak a
kind word is prompted by the
00:30:52.36\00:30:56.01
Holy Spirit. Every
impulse to perform a loving act
00:30:56.11\00:31:00.56
is prompted by the Holy Spirit.
00:31:00.76\00:31:02.74
As you yield to the
ministry of the Holy Spirit,
00:31:03.05\00:31:07.14
as He works in
your heart and life,
00:31:07.34\00:31:10.16
and as you act...
00:31:10.36\00:31:11.88
You are sitting down and the
Holy Spirit prompts you, sir,
00:31:12.18\00:31:16.79
"Go over and help
your wife clean the table
00:31:16.99\00:31:20.12
and do the dishes.
She had a tough day. "
00:31:20.32\00:31:22.46
When you get up out of your
seat and yield to the prompting
00:31:22.86\00:31:26.25
of the Spirit to do right
00:31:26.45\00:31:28.27
it creates
within you a sensitivity
00:31:28.57\00:31:33.55
to the promptings of the Spirit.
00:31:33.75\00:31:36.32
If you study something in
the Bible and you see that
00:31:36.42\00:31:38.72
God says it in the Bible...
00:31:38.92\00:31:40.50
And maybe there's
somebody watching on 3ABN.
00:31:40.70\00:31:42.71
You're studying
the Bible Sabbath
00:31:42.91\00:31:44.40
and you yield to
the conviction of God
00:31:44.60\00:31:46.71
and begin to keep
the Bible Sabbath,
00:31:46.81\00:31:48.64
what does that do?
00:31:48.95\00:31:50.61
It opens your heart and
mind to the further promptings
00:31:50.91\00:31:54.12
of the Holy Spirit. The
Holy Spirit convicts us of sin.
00:31:54.22\00:31:58.17
The Holy Spirit
convicts us of righteousness
00:31:58.37\00:32:01.56
and of judgment.
00:32:01.76\00:32:02.92
What does it mean the Holy
Spirit convicts us of judgment?
00:32:03.02\00:32:05.12
We are moral beings,
created in the image of God,
00:32:05.42\00:32:09.18
and judgment implies
moral responsibility.
00:32:09.48\00:32:12.80
And the Holy Spirit says "you're
responsible for your actions. "
00:32:13.10\00:32:15.84
It's not some
genetic predisposition
00:32:16.14\00:32:19.39
that leads you to
have an angry temper.
00:32:19.59\00:32:22.82
So the Holy Spirit
reveals to you responsibility.
00:32:22.92\00:32:25.74
There's something
else that the Bible means.
00:32:25.84\00:32:27.60
Did you see it there
in the text when it says
00:32:27.80\00:32:29.77
in John chapter
16 verse 8 last part:
00:32:29.97\00:32:33.34
"When He is come He'll
convict the world of sin
00:32:33.54\00:32:36.37
and of righteousness and
of... " what? "judgment. "
00:32:36.57\00:32:39.06
What does it mean He convicts
the world of judgment? "
00:32:39.19\00:32:40.74
That there is a day coming
that God will sit on His throne
00:32:40.95\00:32:45.02
and make every wrong right.
00:32:45.22\00:32:47.52
Have you been treated unfairly?
00:32:47.83\00:32:49.68
Have you been treated unjustly?
00:32:49.98\00:32:51.69
Have there been times
that people have maligned
00:32:51.99\00:32:54.95
your character?
00:32:55.06\00:32:56.09
The Holy Spirit,
working in our heart, says:
00:32:56.30\00:32:58.62
"Leave them with God
because He is the judge
00:32:58.82\00:33:02.32
and one day He
will sit on His throne
00:33:02.52\00:33:05.56
and make everything
right. " And that is good news!
00:33:05.76\00:33:08.56
Amen! The
ministry of the Holy Spirit
00:33:08.86\00:33:10.92
convicts us of sin, of
righteousness and judgment.
00:33:11.22\00:33:14.03
What does the Holy Spirit do?
00:33:14.33\00:33:15.98
He convicts: first thing
that the Holy Spirit does.
00:33:16.18\00:33:19.17
The C is conviction.
00:33:19.37\00:33:20.95
Second thing the
Holy Spirit does is H:
00:33:21.25\00:33:23.28
He helps us. Look at verse 7.
00:33:23.48\00:33:26.64
This is a
fascinating Bible passage.
00:33:26.94\00:33:29.70
John chapter 16 verse 7:
00:33:30.01\00:33:31.97
"Nevertheless I
tell you the truth... "
00:33:32.27\00:33:34.16
What does Jesus tell
us? He tells us the what?
00:33:34.46\00:33:37.23
"The truth. " Satan is
a liar and he is the...
00:33:37.26\00:33:41.84
father of lies.
00:33:42.05\00:33:43.79
But Jesus is the truth,
and everything He says is truth
00:33:43.99\00:33:47.36
because He is "the Way,
the Truth, and the Life. "
00:33:47.57\00:33:50.69
Jesus says verse 7:
"Nevertheless I tell you... "
00:33:50.89\00:33:52.96
the what everybody?
00:33:53.16\00:33:54.19
"truth. It is to your
advantage that I go away
00:33:54.39\00:33:58.02
for if I don't go away the
Helper will not come to you.
00:33:58.22\00:34:02.83
But if I depart, I
will send Him to you. "
00:34:03.03\00:34:05.01
Some translations
say "the Comforter. "
00:34:05.11\00:34:06.93
"The Helper will
not come to you. "
00:34:07.13\00:34:09.26
Jesus... the Holy Spirit
convicts and the Holy Spirit
00:34:09.56\00:34:12.86
does what? Helps.
00:34:13.16\00:34:15.07
Now the word Helper
is a fascinating word.
00:34:15.27\00:34:17.40
In the original Greek
language of the New Testament
00:34:17.60\00:34:19.69
the word Helper is paraclete.
Can you say that with me?
00:34:19.89\00:34:22.46
Paraclete... no, not parakeet.
00:34:22.66\00:34:24.81
There's a difference between
the paraclete and the parakeet!
00:34:25.21\00:34:29.20
What is a paraclete
00:34:30.54\00:34:32.30
in New Testament Greek language?
00:34:32.51\00:34:34.55
The word clete comes
from the word kaleo in Greek.
00:34:34.95\00:34:40.32
It means called. It is
the root word derivative
00:34:40.46\00:34:43.54
meaning called.
Para... we have an English word
00:34:43.64\00:34:47.06
parallel. What
does parallel mean?
00:34:47.26\00:34:49.43
Along side of. You've got it.
00:34:49.63\00:34:51.70
Along side of.
So the word Helper
00:34:52.00\00:34:55.77
in the Greek
language is the paraclete.
00:34:55.97\00:34:58.04
So we have the derivative
of side of and called.
00:34:58.24\00:35:01.54
So He's the One
called to your side to help.
00:35:01.74\00:35:05.73
The One called to
your side to help.
00:35:06.03\00:35:07.78
What a ministry
of the Holy Spirit!
00:35:08.08\00:35:09.86
When you are tempted, He's
the One called to your side
00:35:10.16\00:35:12.82
to help you. When you're
discouraged, He's the One
00:35:13.02\00:35:15.21
called to your side to lift
up your spirit and encourage
00:35:15.41\00:35:17.56
your heart. When
you feel defeated
00:35:17.66\00:35:20.45
He's the One called to
your side to give you strength.
00:35:20.65\00:35:22.96
When you feel weak, He is
the One called to your side
00:35:23.26\00:35:26.20
to impart power to your life.
00:35:26.40\00:35:29.25
Jesus Christ sends His
Holy Spirit to our sides.
00:35:29.55\00:35:33.37
But there's something
more wonderful about this yet.
00:35:33.57\00:35:35.81
This word
paraclete was not necessarily
00:35:36.11\00:35:40.23
a Biblical word that John used.
00:35:40.44\00:35:43.36
It was a very well-known
word in Roman society.
00:35:43.66\00:35:46.78
When John talked
about the paraclete
00:35:46.88\00:35:50.16
it was very well
known. When a person
00:35:50.46\00:35:54.05
was brought to court and
when they were tried in court
00:35:54.26\00:35:58.79
they would have a paraclete that
would be brought to their side.
00:35:58.99\00:36:02.92
The word
paraclete is a legal word.
00:36:03.12\00:36:05.69
It is much more
than an attorney.
00:36:06.00\00:36:09.15
The word has much
greater meaning than attorney.
00:36:09.35\00:36:13.23
The paraclete in a
Roman system of judgment
00:36:13.53\00:36:16.64
would come to the side
of the one that was on trial
00:36:16.84\00:36:20.16
and the paraclete
would be his defense lawyer
00:36:21.32\00:36:25.02
to prove his innocence.
00:36:25.32\00:36:26.42
But more than that, in Roman
prisons often adequate food
00:36:26.62\00:36:30.76
was not provided.
00:36:30.86\00:36:32.96
The paraclete
would come to your side
00:36:33.26\00:36:35.63
to provide every
single thing you need.
00:36:35.84\00:36:37.66
He would provide food.
He would be the liaison
00:36:37.96\00:36:40.83
with your relatives so that
they could see you and visit.
00:36:41.03\00:36:44.04
The paraclete is the one
that supplied the total needs
00:36:44.24\00:36:48.54
of the one being tried.
00:36:48.74\00:36:50.13
There was no need
that you would have
00:36:50.43\00:36:52.18
that the paraclete - the
one who came to your side -
00:36:52.38\00:36:54.89
could not supply.
So Jesus uses this term
00:36:55.09\00:36:58.70
to describe the
ministry of the Holy Spirit.
00:36:58.90\00:37:00.73
What is the work
of the Holy Spirit?
00:37:01.03\00:37:02.83
He's your paraclete.
00:37:03.03\00:37:04.23
He comes to your side to bring
you help in your area of need.
00:37:04.54\00:37:09.76
I love that old hymn
00:37:10.06\00:37:11.24
Just when I need
Him Jesus is near.
00:37:11.44\00:37:15.56
Just when I
falter; just when I fear.
00:37:15.86\00:37:19.24
Just when I need Him most.
00:37:19.54\00:37:21.18
Jesus in the
sanctuary above sees your need.
00:37:21.48\00:37:25.64
He knows those nights when
you lie on your bed at night
00:37:25.87\00:37:29.02
and cry because of
some disaster in your life.
00:37:29.22\00:37:33.30
He knows those times
when that lump under your arm
00:37:33.60\00:37:36.84
has been diagnosed and
there's a malignancy there.
00:37:37.04\00:37:39.77
He knows those times
when your boss comes and says:
00:37:40.07\00:37:43.02
"Here's your pink
slip... you're out of work. "
00:37:43.22\00:37:44.75
He knows our desperate
emotional and financial needs.
00:37:45.05\00:37:48.75
He knows our
desperate, heart-breaking needs
00:37:48.85\00:37:52.08
when we have needs in the
area of health or our families
00:37:52.28\00:37:54.82
or finance. And He
sends a paraclete -
00:37:55.02\00:37:57.52
the almighty third
person of the Godhead
00:37:57.72\00:38:00.50
who comes from heaven
who is present with us
00:38:00.70\00:38:04.29
at all times - to
strengthen, to encourage,
00:38:04.49\00:38:07.40
to support us. He is the
One who comes to our side
00:38:07.60\00:38:11.69
and helps us.
Isn't that good news
00:38:11.80\00:38:14.08
that we are not left alone?
00:38:14.38\00:38:16.13
The mighty
paraclete comes by our side
00:38:16.23\00:38:18.36
to minister to our need.
00:38:18.47\00:38:19.56
What is the work
of the Holy Spirit?
00:38:19.66\00:38:21.10
C - He convicts. H - He helps.
00:38:21.20\00:38:24.49
R - He revives; He
refreshes; He restores.
00:38:24.69\00:38:29.86
Now throughout the New Testament
you see the ministry of the
00:38:30.46\00:38:34.44
Holy Spirit in
that symbolism of R.
00:38:34.64\00:38:36.59
He is the One who revives.
00:38:36.79\00:38:38.29
He is the wind that blows a
fresh breeze into our life...
00:38:38.49\00:38:42.28
the breath of the Spirit.
00:38:42.48\00:38:43.70
He in the New
Testament refreshes us.
00:38:44.00\00:38:46.51
He is the water of life,
00:38:46.81\00:38:48.36
and in the New Testament He
is the oil that restores us.
00:38:48.56\00:38:51.46
So in those three
symbols of the Holy Spirit
00:38:51.76\00:38:54.03
in the New Testament:
in the symbol of breath,
00:38:54.23\00:38:56.38
in the symbol of
water, in the symbol of oil
00:38:56.58\00:39:00.75
we find the reviving,
we find the refreshing,
00:39:00.95\00:39:05.85
restoring
ministry of the Spirit.
00:39:06.05\00:39:07.76
You find that in the
Old Testament as well.
00:39:07.96\00:39:09.37
A good example of the breath
of the Spirit, of course, is
00:39:09.67\00:39:12.83
Ezekiel chapter 37.
00:39:13.03\00:39:14.46
Ezekiel chapter 37.
00:39:15.81\00:39:17.84
We look there at the
refreshing wind of the Spirit.
00:39:21.05\00:39:24.90
All through the Bible
the Holy Spirit is pictured
00:39:26.32\00:39:28.47
as wind. You remember
when Jesus spoke to Nicodemus
00:39:28.57\00:39:34.25
and He said: "You
must be born again"
00:39:34.45\00:39:35.90
He was talking to a Sabbath-
keeping, health-reforming,
00:39:36.10\00:39:40.45
tithe-paying Adventist.
00:39:40.66\00:39:44.11
Nicodemus. He
had formal religion.
00:39:44.41\00:39:47.91
Was Nicodemus a Sabbath keeper?
00:39:48.11\00:39:49.69
Was he? The
audience is silent today.
00:39:49.99\00:39:52.91
Was Nicodemus a
Sabbath keeper? Yes.
00:39:54.00\00:39:57.51
Was Nicodemus a health
reformer? Yes. Sure was!
00:39:57.71\00:40:01.32
Was Nicodemus an Adventist?
00:40:01.62\00:40:03.23
Was he looking forward to
the coming of the Messiah?
00:40:03.43\00:40:06.60
Sure. In glory, in fact.
00:40:06.90\00:40:08.79
Did Nicodemus pay his tithe?
00:40:09.09\00:40:10.92
But did Nicodemus
need the wind of the Spirit
00:40:11.12\00:40:14.17
to break down the
formalism and change his heart?
00:40:14.37\00:40:16.84
Did he need that? Yes.
00:40:17.04\00:40:18.16
Is there somebody who
needs that here today?
00:40:18.36\00:40:20.07
Ezekiel 37 also describes
the wind of the Spirit.
00:40:21.33\00:40:25.47
Ezekiel the preacher
looks out over the congregation
00:40:26.62\00:40:29.26
and he says he sees something
that's dead... just dry bones.
00:40:29.46\00:40:34.12
There have been congregations
that I have stood up before
00:40:34.62\00:40:37.72
that will remain unnamed
00:40:37.92\00:40:39.79
and I said: "Lord, is
this a valley of dry bones?
00:40:39.89\00:40:42.58
Can You do anything here? "
00:40:42.78\00:40:44.10
But as the Word of the Lord
comes what does the Bible say?
00:40:45.28\00:40:50.54
The Bible says, looking
there at Ezekiel chapter 37
00:40:50.84\00:40:56.57
and we look down to
verses 12, 13, and 14:
00:40:57.59\00:41:03.46
"Therefore
prophesy and say to them:
00:41:03.76\00:41:06.27
'thus says the Lord God
00:41:06.47\00:41:08.04
behold o My people,
00:41:08.24\00:41:09.42
I will open your graves
and cause you to come up
00:41:09.62\00:41:11.97
from your graves and bring you
back into the land of Israel.
00:41:12.07\00:41:14.91
Then you shall
know that I am the Lord
00:41:15.11\00:41:17.08
when I have opened
your graves o My people
00:41:17.28\00:41:19.53
and brought you
up from your grave.
00:41:19.66\00:41:20.91
I will put My Spirit
in you and you shall live.
00:41:21.11\00:41:23.85
And I will place you
in your own land. ' "
00:41:24.09\00:41:25.98
God says: "I am going
to put My Spirit in you. "
00:41:26.18\00:41:28.50
Verse 10 of Ezekiel 37.
00:41:28.70\00:41:31.04
"So I prophesied as He commanded
00:41:31.24\00:41:32.90
and breath came into them.
00:41:33.10\00:41:34.41
And they lived and
stood upon their feet
00:41:34.62\00:41:36.40
an exceeding mighty army. "
00:41:36.60\00:41:38.29
God takes His church from being
a valley of dry, dead bones
00:41:38.60\00:41:43.74
and He breathes
His Spirit on them
00:41:43.94\00:41:45.32
and revival fires are lit and
the Spirit animates their life.
00:41:45.52\00:41:49.58
And the breath and the
Spirit comes and they go from
00:41:49.78\00:41:51.59
dry bones to a mighty army.
00:41:51.69\00:41:53.25
And they go out and
win the world for Christ.
00:41:53.46\00:41:55.54
What is the work
of the Holy Spirit?
00:41:55.94\00:41:58.23
The work of the Holy
Spirit is to bring revival.
00:41:58.43\00:42:00.79
Without the
ministry of the Holy Spirit
00:42:01.09\00:42:03.53
there is no revival.
00:42:03.73\00:42:05.28
Evan Roberts, when he was only
00:42:06.97\00:42:11.71
13 years old, sensed
that the churches in Wales
00:42:11.91\00:42:17.29
in 1903 were
filled with formalism,
00:42:17.49\00:42:22.17
hypocrisy, apathy.
00:42:24.02\00:42:26.83
And at 13 years old
Evan Roberts began to pray
00:42:27.13\00:42:31.23
and he prayed for 13 years.
00:42:31.53\00:42:34.71
And he prayed that the
Holy Spirit would fill his life
00:42:34.91\00:42:37.54
because revival always
begins with one man, one woman,
00:42:37.84\00:42:41.72
one child on their knees.
00:42:41.92\00:42:43.40
There can never be
corporate revival until there is
00:42:44.84\00:42:47.40
individual revival.
00:42:47.60\00:42:49.04
There'll never be a
revival in the church
00:42:49.34\00:42:51.17
until there's a
revival in your own heart.
00:42:51.28\00:42:53.11
And if you were saying:
"Oh God, revive my church"
00:42:53.41\00:42:55.93
wrong prayer.
00:42:56.13\00:42:57.58
"Oh God, revive my heart. "
00:42:57.68\00:42:59.43
"Oh God, correct
those people up there
00:42:59.73\00:43:01.58
at the General Conference. "
00:43:01.78\00:43:03.25
"Oh God, work in my own heart. "
00:43:04.68\00:43:06.85
Revival always
begins with one man,
00:43:07.15\00:43:10.05
one woman, one boy, one girl.
00:43:10.25\00:43:11.70
Evan Roberts, 13
years old, began to pray.
00:43:11.90\00:43:13.99
And as he prayed
00:43:14.29\00:43:16.52
he prayed for
revival in his own life.
00:43:16.82\00:43:19.63
He began to share what
was happening in his own life
00:43:19.93\00:43:22.11
with other young people.
00:43:22.31\00:43:23.41
And one day in 1904
00:43:23.71\00:43:26.26
after he had been
praying for 13 years
00:43:26.46\00:43:30.18
he visited a youth
meeting and he talked about
00:43:30.38\00:43:34.02
what God was doing in his
life and how the Holy Spirit
00:43:34.22\00:43:35.85
was transforming him and how
Jesus had convicted him of sin
00:43:35.95\00:43:39.68
and how Jesus had come by
his side through the Holy Spirit
00:43:39.88\00:43:42.31
to help him and how he
was revived in his own life.
00:43:42.51\00:43:45.53
Eight or nine young
people experienced that revival
00:43:45.83\00:43:49.19
and they began
sharing. Within six months
00:43:49.39\00:43:52.38
in Wales the churches were
filled, the bars were empty.
00:43:52.59\00:43:56.51
The miners would
come out of their mines
00:43:56.81\00:44:00.30
and they would have
prayer meetings 3 times a day.
00:44:00.50\00:44:04.21
100,000 people were
converted in six months.
00:44:04.42\00:44:07.02
When the miners
went back to their mines,
00:44:07.32\00:44:09.62
these cursing, swearing miners
00:44:09.82\00:44:11.94
one of the historians of
the revival of that day says
00:44:12.15\00:44:16.42
that the pit ponies that were
pulling the carts filled with
00:44:16.63\00:44:20.14
coal down in the mines,
that these pit ponies had
00:44:20.34\00:44:22.95
to be taught a new language
00:44:23.15\00:44:24.86
because the
miners were converted
00:44:25.16\00:44:27.17
and no longer
cursed and swore at them.
00:44:27.27\00:44:29.31
Revival always begins
with one man, one woman.
00:44:30.91\00:44:34.70
What is the
ministry of the Holy Spirit?
00:44:35.00\00:44:36.95
Breathe on me, breath of God
00:44:37.25\00:44:39.92
and fill me with life anew
00:44:40.22\00:44:42.84
that I may love
what Thou dost love
00:44:43.14\00:44:45.82
and do what Thou dost do.
00:44:46.02\00:44:49.00
The ministry of the
Holy Spirit is to bring what?
00:44:49.31\00:44:52.00
Revival. We have C.
00:44:52.20\00:44:54.02
The ministry of the
Holy Spirit is to do what?
00:44:54.22\00:44:55.83
Convict. We have what? H.
00:44:56.03\00:44:58.29
The ministry of the
Holy Spirit is to what?
00:44:58.49\00:45:00.02
Help. We have R.
00:45:00.22\00:45:02.56
The ministry of the Holy
Spirit is to bring revival
00:45:02.76\00:45:05.34
into our lives. We have I.
00:45:05.54\00:45:07.53
The ministry of the Holy
Spirit is to instruct us.
00:45:07.73\00:45:10.17
John chapter 14 verse 26.
00:45:10.47\00:45:12.80
John chapter 14 verse 26.
00:45:13.11\00:45:15.38
Here we go. Take
your Bible, please.
00:45:15.68\00:45:16.98
Go there: John
chapter 14 verse 26.
00:45:17.18\00:45:21.77
"But the Helper" - the
Holy Spirit - "whom the Father
00:45:23.29\00:45:27.10
will send in My
name... He will teach you
00:45:27.30\00:45:31.21
all things and
bring to your remembrance
00:45:31.41\00:45:33.24
all things that
I've said to you. "
00:45:33.44\00:45:35.28
The Holy Spirit
is our instructor.
00:45:35.59\00:45:37.85
The Holy Spirit is our
teacher. John 16 verse 13.
00:45:38.06\00:45:41.23
John 16 verse 13:
"However when He, the Spirit
00:45:41.43\00:45:44.49
of Truth is come, He will
guide you into all truth. "
00:45:44.59\00:45:47.74
"Jesus, guide me
into all truth. "
00:45:48.04\00:45:50.14
"Jesus, I feel
discouraged today.
00:45:50.45\00:45:52.73
Guide me into the truth that
I'm a son, a daughter of God. "
00:45:53.03\00:45:56.36
That is reality. My
feelings are not reality.
00:45:56.56\00:45:59.59
"Jesus, today the
future looks hopeless.
00:45:59.89\00:46:04.14
Guide me into the truth that in
Jesus I have a bright future. "
00:46:04.34\00:46:08.23
See, the Holy Spirit bursts
the balloon of our illusions
00:46:08.53\00:46:13.92
and reveals to our
mind the truth of reality.
00:46:14.12\00:46:17.79
When I feel too
wicked to be saved
00:46:18.39\00:46:24.38
and too unrighteous to be saved
00:46:24.58\00:46:27.21
as my friend George
Vandeman would say to me often
00:46:27.52\00:46:31.59
"Mark, when I look at myself
00:46:31.80\00:46:33.82
I can see no
possibility to be saved.
00:46:34.02\00:46:37.39
When I look at Jesus
I can see no possibility
00:46:37.59\00:46:40.72
to be lost. "
00:46:40.92\00:46:41.92
"Looking unto
Jesus... " the what?
00:46:42.23\00:46:44.25
"Author and
Finisher of our faith. "
00:46:44.46\00:46:47.63
The Holy Spirit instructs us.
00:46:47.93\00:46:50.32
The Holy Spirit guides us
into the truth of God's Word.
00:46:50.62\00:46:54.00
The same Holy Spirit
00:46:54.30\00:46:57.03
that prompted the Bible writers
00:46:57.53\00:47:01.20
to write the Word
inspires us as we read the Word.
00:47:01.50\00:47:07.13
Jesus said the Holy Spirit
will bring to your remembrance
00:47:07.43\00:47:12.80
things that I have revealed
to you as you open your Bible
00:47:13.00\00:47:17.96
on your knees. Somebody
asked me after my message
00:47:18.26\00:47:21.18
last night on prayer
and revival: "How can you
00:47:21.39\00:47:24.67
pray for any length of
time? I get down on my knees
00:47:24.87\00:47:27.04
and my mind wanders. And
sure, I try to pray aloud
00:47:27.24\00:47:29.46
but I don't know
how to do that. "
00:47:29.66\00:47:30.85
Take your Bible. Let
your Bible be subject matter
00:47:31.15\00:47:33.36
for your prayer. This
morning as I was praying
00:47:33.47\00:47:36.20
I opened my Bible before
me. I'm praying through Psalms.
00:47:36.30\00:47:38.65
I love to pray
through the book of Psalms.
00:47:38.85\00:47:40.37
Praying through that
first Psalm: "Blessed is the man
00:47:40.57\00:47:42.77
that walketh not in
the counsel of the ungodly.
00:47:42.97\00:47:44.65
That sits not in the seat of...
00:47:45.79\00:47:49.05
that stayeth not
in the way of sinners
00:47:49.26\00:47:50.73
nor sits in the
seat of the scornful.
00:47:50.93\00:47:52.97
But his delight is
in the law of the Lord.
00:47:53.27\00:47:55.31
In His law he shall
delight day and night.
00:47:55.51\00:47:57.87
He shall be like a tree planted
by the rivers of the waters
00:47:58.07\00:48:00.49
and everything he
does will prosper. "
00:48:00.69\00:48:02.11
"O Lord, help me be that man.
00:48:02.41\00:48:03.51
Blessed, blessed, blessed.
What does the word blessed
00:48:03.71\00:48:06.38
mean, Lord? It means
happy; it means content.
00:48:06.58\00:48:09.68
Content is the man that walks
in the way of righteousness.
00:48:09.88\00:48:13.66
Lord, I want to be that
man; give me a honest heart.
00:48:13.86\00:48:15.77
Give me a pure heart. "
00:48:15.97\00:48:17.76
You see, revival comes
00:48:18.06\00:48:19.87
as we allow the Lord to
instruct us through His Word.
00:48:20.07\00:48:23.30
Revival comes not because
00:48:23.60\00:48:27.28
our ears tingle in a
sentimental emotionalism
00:48:27.31\00:48:31.32
or an electric
current goes up our spine
00:48:31.52\00:48:34.00
and we jump up all the
time and say "Hallelujah! "
00:48:34.20\00:48:37.59
Revival comes...
00:48:37.93\00:48:39.81
Now there are times I feel like
jumping and saying "Hallelujah"
00:48:40.11\00:48:43.35
but I choose the
audience that I do it in.
00:48:43.46\00:48:45.67
Some of you got it...
the rest of you missed it.
00:48:47.63\00:48:49.64
That's OK.
00:48:49.84\00:48:52.17
The ministry of the Holy
Spirit speaks to our hearts
00:48:54.22\00:48:58.07
in quietness as
we open God's Word
00:48:58.27\00:49:02.80
and the Spirit instructs us
00:49:03.10\00:49:05.32
in the deep
things of the Spirit.
00:49:05.62\00:49:08.30
What is the ministry of
the Spirit? C - He convicts us.
00:49:08.60\00:49:11.69
Listen to that
still small voice.
00:49:11.99\00:49:13.37
He Helps us...
coming to our side.
00:49:13.67\00:49:16.55
He revives our spirit.
00:49:16.76\00:49:18.89
He instructs us.
00:49:19.09\00:49:21.15
Fifthly S - He strengthens us.
00:49:21.45\00:49:25.77
Take your
Bible, please, and turn
00:49:26.07\00:49:28.36
there to the book of Ephesians.
00:49:28.66\00:49:31.31
One of the most
marvelous passages
00:49:31.51\00:49:35.23
in all of scripture
00:49:35.43\00:49:38.29
about the ministry
of the Holy Spirit.
00:49:38.59\00:49:41.30
Ephesians chapter
3 verses 16 to 20.
00:49:41.50\00:49:43.80
Ephesians chapter
3 verses 16 to 20.
00:49:44.10\00:49:47.00
The Holy Spirit - the
personal presence of Christ,
00:49:47.40\00:49:53.32
the third
person of the Godhead -
00:49:53.62\00:49:56.51
strengthens us,
00:49:56.81\00:49:59.95
empowers us.
00:50:00.25\00:50:03.51
You're taking
your Bible, please,
00:50:03.81\00:50:06.31
and turning to
the book of Ephesians.
00:50:07.59\00:50:10.86
The book of Ephesians.
00:50:11.16\00:50:13.50
And we're looking there at
Ephesians. The scripture says:
00:50:13.80\00:50:19.44
And let's go back
and look at Ephesians 3;
00:50:20.71\00:50:26.03
we'll start with the 16th verse.
00:50:26.23\00:50:30.55
Let's go back
and pick up verse 14
00:50:30.85\00:50:34.07
so we can get the
entire thrust of it.
00:50:34.27\00:50:36.89
Ephesians 3:14.
00:50:37.19\00:50:38.46
"For this reason I bow my
knees to the Father of our Lord
00:50:38.76\00:50:42.55
Jesus Christ for whom the
whole family in heaven and earth
00:50:42.58\00:50:46.34
is named that He would grant you
00:50:46.54\00:50:49.52
according to the
riches of His glory
00:50:49.72\00:50:52.27
to be strengthened with
might through His Spirit
00:50:52.47\00:50:55.83
in the inner man. That
Christ may dwell in your hearts
00:50:56.03\00:51:00.30
through faith. That
you be rooted and grounded
00:51:00.50\00:51:03.28
in love. "
Listen to the language.
00:51:03.38\00:51:05.89
This is end-time language.
00:51:06.09\00:51:09.32
Notice what the scripture says.
00:51:09.62\00:51:11.15
"That you would
be... " Verse 16:
00:51:11.46\00:51:13.24
"That Christ would grant
you according to the riches
00:51:13.44\00:51:15.93
of His glory to be strengthened
with might through His Spirit
00:51:16.13\00:51:19.51
in the inner man. " I
long to be strengthened
00:51:19.61\00:51:22.17
inside with the
might of the Holy Spirit.
00:51:22.38\00:51:25.11
The temptations of the
devil in the last generation
00:51:25.41\00:51:28.86
will be the greatest
in the history of mankind.
00:51:29.06\00:51:32.02
Satan will unleash
all of his hellish forces
00:51:32.32\00:51:35.77
on an end-time generation.
00:51:35.97\00:51:37.86
We are too frail or weak to meet
the challenges of the enemy,
00:51:38.16\00:51:41.89
but praise God the
third person of the Godhead
00:51:42.09\00:51:45.76
comes to strengthen us.
00:51:45.96\00:51:48.24
And the living Christ
through the Holy Spirit
00:51:48.54\00:51:50.75
lives within us.
Notice the text, please.
00:51:50.95\00:51:53.15
Verse 19.
00:51:53.45\00:51:54.85
Verse 17 rather.
00:51:55.15\00:51:56.71
"That Christ may dwell
in your hearts through faith
00:51:57.01\00:52:00.58
that you be rooted
and grounded in love. "
00:52:00.78\00:52:04.08
If a plant doesn't have roots
00:52:04.39\00:52:06.74
like a tree with
shallow roots and a breeze comes
00:52:07.04\00:52:10.48
it blows it away, right?
00:52:10.68\00:52:12.31
"That you're
rooted and grounded. "
00:52:13.41\00:52:16.12
If you are not grounded, if you
don't have a good foundation,
00:52:16.42\00:52:19.22
you get blown away.
00:52:19.32\00:52:20.34
The ministry of the Holy Spirit
00:52:20.64\00:52:23.04
is to root you and
ground you in the love of Christ
00:52:23.24\00:52:26.73
and the Word of Christ.
00:52:26.83\00:52:28.09
"That you may be able to
comprehend with all the saints
00:52:28.39\00:52:31.72
what is the width and
length and depth and height
00:52:31.92\00:52:34.38
to know the love of
Christ which passes knowledge
00:52:34.58\00:52:37.20
that you may be filled
with the fullness of God. "
00:52:37.40\00:52:39.21
How are you filled
with the fullness of God?
00:52:39.51\00:52:41.18
As you kneel before
God and the Holy Spirit
00:52:41.48\00:52:43.51
comes into your
life to strengthen you,
00:52:43.61\00:52:45.10
those struggles
that you have had,
00:52:45.30\00:52:47.34
those challenges that you faced,
00:52:47.54\00:52:49.43
those sins that have beset
you for 20 years or 15 years
00:52:49.53\00:52:53.91
or 30 years. You're a Christian.
00:52:54.11\00:52:55.91
You're an Adventist maybe.
00:52:56.11\00:52:57.33
You're a
deacon... you're an elder...
00:52:57.63\00:52:59.15
but there's a besetting sin.
00:52:59.45\00:53:02.24
Jesus comes with the
gentleness of His Spirit
00:53:02.54\00:53:04.51
and says: "I want
to fill your life. "
00:53:04.61\00:53:05.90
"I want to give you strength
that you don't believe. "
00:53:06.11\00:53:09.14
Strength comes not
from looking at us...
00:53:09.54\00:53:11.99
our weakness but
looking at His strength.
00:53:12.19\00:53:14.26
One day in my evangelism
I was helping a young man
00:53:14.56\00:53:16.86
quit smoking and leading through
the promises of the Bible.
00:53:17.06\00:53:19.70
Reading him promises like
this: "This is the confidence
00:53:19.91\00:53:21.78
that we have in Him: that
if we ask anything according to
00:53:21.98\00:53:24.12
His will He hears us. "
00:53:24.22\00:53:25.53
Said to him: "Is it God's
will to help you quit smoking? "
00:53:26.85\00:53:28.92
"It is! " I said: "All
right. Go in your house, get all
00:53:29.02\00:53:30.74
your cigarettes.
Bring them right here.
00:53:30.85\00:53:31.94
We're going to
put them on the floor.
00:53:32.04\00:53:33.11
We're going to kneel and pray.
00:53:33.31\00:53:34.49
We're going to gain a victory
over this through Jesus Christ
00:53:34.79\00:53:37.30
and the Holy Spirit is going
to come into your life today
00:53:37.40\00:53:39.17
and He's going
to strengthen you.
00:53:39.31\00:53:40.62
We'll read Ephesians
3: "He'll strengthen you
00:53:40.72\00:53:42.24
in your inner man. " I said:
"You pray first, my brother. "
00:53:42.44\00:53:44.51
He begins to
pray. Here's his prayer:
00:53:44.71\00:53:46.17
"Dear Jesus, I'm so weak.
00:53:46.47\00:53:47.93
Dear Jesus, I
smoked for 20 years.
00:53:48.13\00:53:50.10
Dear Jesus, You know
that I have this problem
00:53:50.40\00:53:52.26
and You know it's
almost impossible for me
00:53:52.36\00:53:54.64
to overcome it. Dear Jesus...
" And he's going on and on
00:53:54.74\00:53:57.03
with this negative prayer.
I couldn't take it any more.
00:53:57.24\00:53:58.78
Pretty soon I shook the man.
00:53:58.98\00:54:00.46
"Stop praying, brother.
You're going to be worse
00:54:00.76\00:54:02.22
after you prayed than before. "
00:54:02.42\00:54:03.53
And it's the
truth. He would have been
00:54:04.03\00:54:05.72
because he was just
reinforcing in his prayer
00:54:06.02\00:54:07.92
all this negative stuff. So
I said: "You pray like this:
00:54:08.12\00:54:10.45
Dear Jesus, I am
weak but You are strong.
00:54:10.65\00:54:12.15
Dear Jesus, I know that
through your Holy Spirit
00:54:12.45\00:54:14.14
You can strengthen
me and transform my life
00:54:14.24\00:54:16.26
and by faith I
claim that right now. "
00:54:16.46\00:54:18.92
Amen! That man claimed the
power of the living Christ.
00:54:19.22\00:54:21.82
I gave him some
physical things to do:
00:54:22.02\00:54:23.08
taking a walk,
drinking water, and so forth.
00:54:23.18\00:54:25.28
But he claimed
his victory in Jesus
00:54:25.48\00:54:27.01
and that man became a deacon
in one of our churches. Amen.
00:54:27.21\00:54:30.43
Praise the Lord! What is
the ministry of the Holy Spirit?
00:54:30.66\00:54:33.22
To convict.
00:54:33.52\00:54:35.23
To help.
00:54:35.44\00:54:36.78
To revive.
00:54:37.08\00:54:38.09
To instruct.
00:54:38.39\00:54:39.94
To strengthen. One more.
00:54:40.24\00:54:41.95
To testify.
00:54:42.25\00:54:43.84
To testify. Take your
Bible, please and turn to
00:54:44.14\00:54:46.00
John chapter
15. John chapter 15.
00:54:46.20\00:54:48.61
Jesus said...
00:54:50.20\00:54:51.52
To testify.
00:54:54.36\00:54:56.48
Wait a minute. C - convict.
00:54:56.68\00:54:59.47
H - help.
00:54:59.77\00:55:01.29
R - revive.
00:55:01.79\00:55:04.72
I - instruct.
00:55:05.03\00:55:07.43
S - strengthen.
00:55:07.93\00:55:11.48
T - testify.
00:55:11.78\00:55:13.28
C- H-R-I-S-T... Christ.
00:55:14.47\00:55:17.42
That's the whole
work of the Holy Spirit.
00:55:17.72\00:55:19.87
Take your Bible please
and look at John chapter 16.
00:55:21.20\00:55:24.52
And you're looking
there... Or John 15...
00:55:24.82\00:55:27.46
John 15 verse 26.
00:55:27.66\00:55:29.35
"But when the Helper
comes whom I shall send to you
00:55:29.65\00:55:32.34
from the Father,
the Spirit of Truth
00:55:32.54\00:55:34.50
who proceeds from the
Father, He will testify of Me. "
00:55:34.70\00:55:38.96
The ministry of the Holy
Spirit draws us out to Jesus.
00:55:39.26\00:55:42.36
The ministry of the
Holy Spirit reveals Christ
00:55:42.66\00:55:44.98
in our life. The
ministry of the Holy Spirit
00:55:45.08\00:55:47.49
shows us Jesus'
strength, Jesus' power,
00:55:47.69\00:55:49.92
Jesus' strength in
the light of our weakness.
00:55:50.12\00:55:54.49
The ministry of the Holy Spirit
00:55:54.79\00:55:56.92
reveals to us who Jesus is:
00:55:57.22\00:55:59.55
His greatness, His
majesty, His love, His power.
00:55:59.75\00:56:02.09
The ministry of the
Holy Spirit fills our heart.
00:56:02.39\00:56:05.73
Verse 27:
00:56:05.93\00:56:07.79
"And you also will bear witness
because you have been with Me
00:56:07.89\00:56:11.54
from the beginning. "
When the Holy Spirit comes upon
00:56:11.75\00:56:14.69
our lives it leads
us to testify of Jesus
00:56:14.90\00:56:18.99
to the people we meet around us.
00:56:19.29\00:56:22.15
God is preparing an end-time
church for an end-time revival.
00:56:22.45\00:56:27.23
Amen. Is the Holy
Spirit ministering in your life
00:56:27.53\00:56:30.35
bringing
conviction to you just now?
00:56:30.55\00:56:32.56
Is there something in your life
out of harmony with His will?
00:56:32.86\00:56:35.18
Are you
struggling with something?
00:56:35.48\00:56:37.15
The Holy Spirit will
come and help you right now.
00:56:37.35\00:56:39.79
Do you need
revival in your life?
00:56:40.09\00:56:42.33
That's the work
of the Holy Spirit.
00:56:42.63\00:56:44.32
Do you need
Jesus to instruct you?
00:56:44.62\00:56:46.82
He will teach you.
00:56:47.03\00:56:48.04
Do you need
strength? He's there for you.
00:56:48.24\00:56:50.05
Do you want to be a
powerful witness for Jesus?
00:56:50.45\00:56:52.96
The Holy Spirit
will testify through you.
00:56:53.26\00:56:55.80
Why not bow your
heads right now as we pray
00:56:56.11\00:56:57.76
and say "Oh Jesus, grant to me
the gift of the Holy Spirit? "
00:56:58.06\00:57:01.93
Father in heaven,
we thank you so much
00:57:02.13\00:57:04.89
for the power of the Holy Spirit
00:57:05.09\00:57:07.56
and we open our hearts
for that heavenly gift.
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Come and anoint
us with Your Spirit.
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In Christ's name, Amen.
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