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Doug Batchelor: When we reject
the work of the Holy Spirit in
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our lives we are basically
burning the bridge that God uses
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to bring us to salvation.
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Doug Batchelor: You know, I'd
like to go to a familiar passage
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in John chapter 3, and it's the
story where Nicodemus comes to
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Jesus, and I'll
begin with verse 1.
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"There was a man of the
Pharisees named Nicodemus, a
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ruler of the Jews, this man came
to Jesus by night and he said,
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'Rabbi, we know that you are
a teacher come from God, for no
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one can do these things that you
do unless God is with them.'"
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And Jesus, anticipating what was
really on his heart, "He said to
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him, 'Most assuredly, I say to
you, unless one is born again he
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cannot see the kingdom of God,'"
We've got to know what that
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means because he's
pretty definite there.
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"Nicodemus said to
Him, 'How can a man be born
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again when he's old?
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Can he enter the second
time into his mother's womb and
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be born?'
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And, Jesus answered, 'Most
assuredly, I say to you, unless
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one is born of the water and
the spirit, he cannot enter the
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kingdom of God.
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That which is born of flesh is
flesh, and that which is born of
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spirit is spirit.
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Do not marvel that I say to you,
"You must be born again," the
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wind blows where it wishes and
you hear the sound of it but you
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cannot tell where it comes
from and where it goes; so is
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everyone who is
born of the spirit.'"
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So that's what we're talking
about, what does it mean to be
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born of the spirit, and we want
to discuss the importance of the
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work of the Holy Spirit in the
life of the believer, and the
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necessity for us to
have the Holy Spirit.
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We not only want the initial
refreshing that you get when you
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commit your life to the Lord,
when you're baptized you should
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receive that gift of the spirit.
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It says there in Acts chapter
2, "Peter told the believers,
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'Repent and be baptized every
one of you and you shall receive
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the gift of the Holy Spirit, for
the promise is unto you and your
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children and many as
the Lord God shall call.'"
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So there's a promise, He gives
us His spirit when we first come
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to Him but then the
spirit can come in waves.
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Peter, James, John, they were
baptized with the Holy Spirit,
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probably by John the Baptist,
I mean when they got baptized by
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John the Baptist, but then
they receive the Holy Spirit in
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Pentecostal power at
Pentecost, Acts chapter 2.
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So we want that latter rain,
baptism of the Holy Spirit, we
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need it in the last days.
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In the last days when sin
abounds, God's grace does much
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more abound.
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When the spirit of the devil
is come down with great wrath
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because he knows his time is
short, God's people, through the
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power of God the Spirit, need
to compensate and have a double
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portion, as Elisha
prayed for, of the Holy Spirit.
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So we're gonna talk now about
the biblical priority of the
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Holy Spirit.
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Some people are a little
dismissive about the importance
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of the Holy Spirit, they don't
talk about it, they don't preach
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about it, and the
Bible makes a priority of it.
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In the beginning, you go to
Genesis and it says, "The Spirit
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of God moved upon the face
of the waters," go to the end of
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the Bible where you see
Revelation and it tells us, "The
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Spirit and the
bride say, 'Come.'"
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The ministry of Jesus begins,
he comes out of the water, he is
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anointed with the Holy Spirit
and then, after Christ dies and
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ascends to heaven, his final
words are, "Go ye therefore,
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teach all nations, baptizing
them in the name of the Father,
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and the Son, and
the Holy Spirit."
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So you see this priority that
God gives to the Holy spirit
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through the Bible.
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Now, I should probably pause
here and say, who, what is the
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Holy Spirit?
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Now, I mentioned that like that
not because the Holy Spirit is a
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what, but some people
talk about the Holy Spirit like
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it's electricity.
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Biblically, the Holy Spirit
is a person, He has all of the
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characteristics of the person,
He is the third person in
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the Godhead.
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Acts chapter 5, verse 3, "Peter
said, 'Ananias, why has Satan
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filled your heart to
lie to the Holy Spirit?
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You've not lied
to men but to God.'"
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Peter was telling Ananias you
didn't lie to some electrical
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force, some radiation or x-ray,
you lied to God 'cause the Holy
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Spirit is the Spirit of God,
it is a separate individual.
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In Acts chapter 7, verse
51, it says, "You do resist the
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Holy Spirit."
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Ephesians 4, verse 30, "Do
not grieve the Holy Spirit,"
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grieving is an emotion of
anguish, it says the Holy Spirit
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can be grieved.
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1 Thessalonians 5:19, "Do not
quench the Spirit," the Spirit
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of God burns within our hearts
and we can quench his work by
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resisting him, that's how you
lead on towards the sin against
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the Holy Spirit.
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Acts 13, verse 2, it says, "As
they prayed and fasted, the Holy
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Spirit said," Holy Spirit's
speaking as a person speaks.
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Notice here, the Holy Spirit
speaks, He intercedes, Romans
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8:26, I'm just gonna give these
to you quickly 'cause I don't
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have time to read them all.
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He commands, Acts 16:6 and 7, He
appoints, Acts 20, verse 28, He
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leads, Romans 8:14,
He reproves, John 16:8.
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The Holy Spirit has intellect,
emotions, will, He can be
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grieved, He has everything that
a personality would have, He
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doesn't have a body.
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Now this is where it gets a
little complicated, people have
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a hard time as humans, that even
Jesus said, "God is a spirit,"
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we try to package
God in our terms and it's
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so incomprehensible.
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Now God the Father and Son,
evidently, have a form because
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it describes Their eyes and
Their hands and Their feet and
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many other facets, but with the
Holy Spirit, the spirit comes
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down like a dove on Jesus at His
baptism; Holy Spirit comes down
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like tongues of fire at
Pentecost; Holy Spirit comes
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like wind, and so sometimes the
Holy Spirit's compared to water;
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it's more of these quintesent
elements that we see that are
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figurative of the Holy Spirit.
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And so there's something
mysterious here, but keep in
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mind the Holy Spirit is
a person, Jesus said, "It's
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expedient that I go away; if
I go, I will send the comforter
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and He will be with
you, He will be in you."
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So Christ is with us through God
the Spirit, Christ comes from
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the Father to reveal God
the Father, God the Father is a
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separate person revealed through
Christ, and Jesus is revealed to
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us through the Holy Spirit.
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So, second point here is a
good relationship with the Holy
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Spirit is a
life and death issue.
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John, 1 John 5:16, bible tells
us, "There is a sin leading to
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death, and I do not say that
you should pray about that."
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And people often wonder,
why would it be considered more
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dangerous to sin against the
Holy Spirit than to sin against
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the Father or the Son?
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And that's based on these
verses, let me read this to you
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from Matthew
chapter 12, verse 31.
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"Therefore I say unto you,
every sin and blasphemy will be
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forgiven men, but blasphemy
against the Spirit will not be
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forgiven men.
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Anyone who speaks a word against
the Son of Man, it will be
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forgiven him, but whoever speaks
against the Holy Spirit, it will
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not be forgiven him, either in
this age or in the age to come."
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That's pretty
serious, why is that?
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Well you see, the Holy Spirit is
the person of the Godhead that
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brings us to conviction that
leads us to repentance, when we
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reject the work of the
Holy Spirit in our lives we are
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basically burning the bridge
that God uses to bring us to
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salvation; and so that's why
it's so important not to grieve,
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not to chase away the
Holy Spirit when He's bringing
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conviction to us.
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Now I need to stop right here
and explain, if you're wondering
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if you've committed the
unpardonable sin, probably not,
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because the very fact you're
listening to this program shows
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you still have some spiritual
appetite but don't continue to
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resist the conviction and the
work of the Spirit in your life,
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that is a dangerous thing to do.
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For three and a half years,
Judas wrestled with the idea
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that he should confess his sin
to Jesus, that he should forsake
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his sin of stealing, he had been
robbing money from the poor the
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whole time.
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And when Jesus knelt to wash his
feet there in the upper room, I
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think Judas's heart nearly
broke, he wanted to tell the
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Lord what he had done, he wanted
to confess and come clean, but
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in his pride he kept putting it
off and putting it off and the
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Holy Spirit left
him for the last time.
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It says, "Satan entered him" at
that point, that's why it's such
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a dangerous thing to continue
to reject the work of the Holy
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Spirit; so we need to listen
to the voice of the Holy Spirit.
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Hebrews chapter 6, and this
verse frightens people, Hebrews
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chapter 6, verse 4, "For it
is impossible for those who were
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once enlightened and have tasted
the heavenly gift, and have
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become partakers of the Holy
Spirit, and have tasted the good
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word of God and the powers
of the age to come, if they fall
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away, to renew them again to
repentance, seeing they crucify
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again for themselves the
Son of God and put him to an
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open shame."
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If, over the course of our life,
we reject the best that God has
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to offer, which is what this
is saying, what more is he going
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to do?
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He tells us, look, I gave my
son, if that doesn't touch your
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heart what more can God do?
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And so be very careful about
rejecting God's best because it
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can get where we
don't appreciate the plan
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of salvation.
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Three, we need the Holy Spirit
for life, for eternal life.
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Romans 8, verse 6, "For to be
carnally minded is death, but to
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be spiritually
minded is life and peace."
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Staying in Romans go to verse 9,
Romans 8, verse 9, "But you are
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not in the flesh but in the
Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of
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God dwells in you.
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Now if anyone does not have the
Spirit of Christ he is not his,"
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and if you are not Jesus's, then
Jesus said, "If you are not with
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Me you are against Me."
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There's only two masters,
there's only two roads, you're
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either with Christ-- you might
think, "Well I'm in some, you
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know, spiritual
Switzerland, I'm neutral."
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No, if you're not with Christ,
He said, "You're against Me,"
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that means you're with the
enemy, you're with the devil.
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Hate to say it that way but
that's what Jesus said, he said,
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"If you do not have the Spirit
of Christ then you are none
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of His."
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Romans 8:13, "For if you live
after the flesh you will die,
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but if through the Spirit, you
mortify the deeds of the body,
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you will live."
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The Bible tells us that this is
a life and death issue, it's not
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optional, it's not that you say,
"Well I want to be a Christian,
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I'm not sure I'm gonna be a
spirit-filled Christian, I just
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want to be at a sorta
okie dokie Christian."
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God is calling everybody to
be Spirit-filled, if you're not
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Spirit-filled then what is it?
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I remember Thomas Edison, he
illustrated that one time he, he
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told his scientists to measure
the volume in one of his light
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bulbs, and they went and got
their calculators and started
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doing calculus formulas and
geometry, he said, "What are
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you guys doing?"
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They said, "We're trying to
figure out how to measure the
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volume in this bulb," and he
said, he took the bulb, took the
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cap off the bottom, filled it
with water, took it over, put it
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in a square pitcher, said, "Now
measure it," they said, "Oh, so
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the way that you get the air
out is by pouring the water in."
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If we want to get the devil and
the world out of our lives, we
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need to be filled with something
else; you cannot be filled with
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the Spirit if you're
full of other things.
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So the way to be ready to
receive the Spirit is to empty
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yourself, to choose to let go,
you come to the place where you
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take up your cross and you say,
"Lord, not my will, Thy will
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be done."
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Jesus said, "If you seek to save
your life you will lose it, but
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if for Christ's sake you let go,
then you will find your life;
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and what profit is it if
you gain the whole world and you
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lose your soul?"
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So beginning as a Christian
really starts with emptying
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yourself so that God can fill
you with what really lasts, and
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that's the Holy Spirit.
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Doug Batchelor:
Don't go anywhere, friends.
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In just a moment
we'll return with the rest
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of today's presentation.
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Have you ever heard the theory
that Jesus's second coming will
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be preceded by a sudden global
disappearance of Christians?
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It's a subject of several
popular books and movies,
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but is it true?
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Will all believers
secretly be raptured away before
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the great tribulation?
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What if I told you this is not
what early Christians believed
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and that the Bible teaches
something entirely different
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and I can prove it?
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Wouldn't you want to
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amazing facts
from the Word of God.
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Doug Batchelor: Furthermore,
point number four, we need the
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Holy Spirit for obeying.
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Romans 8, verse 13 and 14, "For
if you live after the flesh you
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will die, but if through the
Spirit," now how do we do it?
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We touched on this already but
I want to emphasize this point,
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"Through the Spirit you
mortify," mortify means you
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kill, "Through the Spirit you
mortify the deeds of the body,
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you will live.
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For as many as are led by
the Spirit they are the sons
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of God."
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In Ezekiel 36, verse 27, "I will
put My spirit within you and
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cause you," God says, "I will
give you the Holy Spirit and I
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will cause you to walk
in My ways, and to keep My
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commandments," now
how does this all happen?
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You know, the power really
comes, the Holy Spirit gives us
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the new heart, the new heart
is a loving heart, it's a heart
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where you love God and
you love your neighbor.
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Paul says, "Love is the
fulfilling of the law," Jesus
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says, "All of the commandments
are fulfilled in this: that we
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love one another," and it's all
boiling down to loving the Lord.
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And Jesus was quoting
Deuteronomy chapter 6, when He
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said, "Love the Lord with
all your heart, mind, soul and
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strength," and then Jesus quoted
Leviticus chapter 19:18, when He
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said, "Love your
neighbor as yourself."
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The first four commandments deal
with our love relationship with
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God; if we love God we're not
gonna worship other gods; if we
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love God we're not going to take
His name in vain or miss our
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time with Him or insult
Him by likening Him to idols.
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Likewise, if we love our
neighbor, when God gives us this
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new heart and the gift of love
in our heart for God and our
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fellow man, we're not going to
steal from them or kill them or
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rob them or steal their spouse,
and you can go through the
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litany of those
last six commandments.
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And so love is the fulfilling of
the law, that's why Jesus said,
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"If you love Me, keep My
commandments, and I will pray
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the Father and he will give you
another Helper, that He might
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abide with you forever-- the
Spirit of truth, whom the world
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cannot receive because it
neither sees Him or knows Him,
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but you know Him for He dwells
in you and He will be with you."
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Now this is sort of a
double-sided sword, God gives
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the Spirit to those that obey
and God gives the Spirit so we
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can obey.
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Living the Christian life is
frankly impossible without God,
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following Jesus and living
like Jesus is attempting an
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impossibility
without the Spirit of God.
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I remember we were in Russia, 25
years ago, yeah, 1992, we went
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right after the iron curtain
fell and I went to the city of
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Stavropol, and did some
meetings there and we saw
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something interesting.
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The buses, the city busses
were rather fall, and the busses
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actually used tires but they're
attached to overhead electricity
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which means that the bus driver
had the freedom to drive away
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from the electricity, he had to
stay kind of on a line that was
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painted and he was relatively
sure that this spring-loaded
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mechanism was
touching the wires up above.
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Well this one bus driver went
to turn a little wide and he got
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disconnected, and he gave out a
shout and a bunch of people got
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out of the bus.
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I mean, the thing was just dead
in the water stopping all the
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traffic, and we watched the
people piled out of the bus,
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they got behind the bus, they
started pushing the bus back
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into the right line.
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The driver had a pole, I guess
this happened more than once, he
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reached up with his
insulated pole, he pulled the
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spring-loaded mechanism back
underneath the power, everything
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with back up again, they all
climbed back on the bus and they
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took off.
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Well, that's that's the
key, you want to be connected to
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the power.
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Now what would you think if the
driver told everybody to get out
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of the bus, and say, "We're
going to push our way through
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the rest of our
bus stops today?"
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That wouldn't make any sense but
this is how so many Christians
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operate, they're trying in their
own strength without the love of
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God, without the Spirit of God
they're trying to push their way
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through living a victorious
Christian experience, where what
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they have to do is connect with
the power; and I'll tell you,
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there's a lot of power in
the Holy Spirit that's available
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to us.
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You read in the Bible, God
gives us so many examples of
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extraordinary power.
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The Spirit of the Lord comes on
Samson, and one man, you know he
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takes on 1,000.
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Not only did it happen with
Samson, it happened with David's
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mighty men, it happened with
David and Goliath, and the bear
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and the lion, so the Spirit can
give you whatever strength you
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need for the task.
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"God is faithful, He will not
suffer you to be tempted above
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what you're able, but will with
the temptation provide a way
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of escape."
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Whatever temptation you face,
you know, God told Paul, "My
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grace is sufficient," He will,
through the Spirit, give you
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whatever you need.
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So you never need to say, "It
was too much, I couldn't handle
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it," through Christ
you can do anything.
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You can't live the Christian
life, you can't walk on water,
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but if you keep your eyes on
Christ, you can walk on water
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just like Peter
did, that's the key.
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It's impossible to live the
Christian life unless God works
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a miracle and you keep your
eyes on Christ, then you can do
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the impossible.
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We need the Holy Spirit for
instruction and for guidance.
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John 6:63, "It is the Spirit
that quickens, the flesh profits
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nothing; the words that I speak
to you they are spirit and they
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are life."
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John 14:26, "But the Helper,
the Holy Spirit, whom the Father
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will send in My name, He,"
notice again the He, "He will
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teach you all things, and He
will bring to your remembrance
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all things of what I have said."
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You know, you have God the
Father, God the Son, God the
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Spirit connected with Jesus's
baptism, when Christ began His
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life of ministry, all persons
of the Godhead we're involved in
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that, and all the persons of
the Godhead are involved in our
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conversion, but God then brings
the Spirit into our lives.
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"When Christ came out of
the water, He was led of the
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Spirit," the Bible says, and He
began to perform His miracles at
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that time because a new power
came into His life, so we need
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it for instruction.
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Holy Spirit's never gonna tell
us anything to contradict what
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the holy Word says,
he will bring the word to
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our remembrance.
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John 16, verse 13, "However,
when He, the Spirit of truth,
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has come, He will
guide you into all truth.
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He will not speak on His own
authority but whatever He hears
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He will speak, and He
will tell you things to come."
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You'll hear that still small
voice and God will guide you,
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He'll say, "This is
the way, walk ye in it."
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1 Corinthians 2, verse 14, "But
the natural man does not receive
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the things of the Spirit, for
they're foolishness to him, nor
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can he know them because
they're spiritually discerned."
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Even to understand the Bible
we need the Holy Spirit, to
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understand the Book that
was inspired by the Holy Spirit,
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Bible says, "Holy men were moved
by the Holy Spirit," how much
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then do you need the Holy spirit
to understand the holy Word?
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Pray before you read the
Bible, God will speak to you.
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Not only does faith come by
hearing the Word, I think the
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Holy Spirit comes through us as
we read the Word and we pray for
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the Holy Spirit to
better understand it.
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That's why Jesus said that
prayer, "He that has an ear, let
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him hear what the Spirit says to
the churches," and the word here
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there means not just to audibly
hear it but to be willing to
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obey and to listen.
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I was reading a book about these
men that were crossing Saudi
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Arabia and sometimes, the Arabs,
you know, they pretty much saw
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their way around by the stars at
night but sometimes they'd be in
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a sandstorm where they couldn't
see the sun, moon, or stars.
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On occasions like this, some of
the caravan leaders carried with
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them a homing pigeon, and to the
homing pigeon's foot they tied a
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long strong thread, and when
they were lost in a storm they
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would release the pigeon who
would fly in a circle for just a
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moment, and he would tug in the
perfect direction they needed to
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go; they had this built in GPS
somehow that homing pigeons know
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exactly what direction to
go, and that would guide them.
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So as we've got God's Spirit,
that dove, He directs us, He
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helps us know which way to go.
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We need the Holy Spirit for
effective praying, we must pray
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for the Holy Spirit and
yet we need the Spirit to pray.
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Luke 11:13, "If you then, being
evil, know how to give good
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gifts to your children, how much
more will your heavenly Father
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give the Holy
Spirit to those that ask?"
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So, start out and
pray for the Holy Spirit.
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When I kneel in the morning to
begin my devotions, I get down
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and pray right there and
say, "Lord, please give me Your
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Spirit so I even know
what I ought to pray for."
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And it's like you read in Romans
8:26, "Likewise the Spirit also
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helps us in our weakness, for we
do not know what we should pray
00:23:09.25\00:23:12.72
for as we ought, but the Spirit
Himself makes intercession for
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us with groanings
that cannot be uttered."
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You know, I like singing, like a
lot of people I like singing but
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I may not have the best voice
but I like singing surrounded by
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people that do sing,
I sound so much better.
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I feel better about my singing
when I've got them around me to
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help keep me on key and
that's the way it is with the
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Holy Spirit.
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We pray with the Spirit to
Christ, praying in the Spirit.
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In Ephesians chapter 6, verse
18, "Praying always with all
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prayer and supplication in the
Spirit, being watchful to this
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end with all perseverance
and supplication for all
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the saints."
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Notice, all-all-all, Bible
says, "Pray without ceasing."
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So you know a Christian should
be praying for the Spirit,
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talking to someone about
the Lord, you don't know what to
00:24:00.57\00:24:02.54
say, send up a prayer; driving
in your car, pray to stay
00:24:02.57\00:24:06.64
connected to the Spirit.
00:24:06.68\00:24:08.58
You know when bats go out, now
some bats fly at night and some
00:24:08.61\00:24:11.51
bats fly in the day, but bats
use sonar, and you can't hear it
00:24:11.55\00:24:16.25
but they are constantly
squeaking, with special
00:24:16.28\00:24:18.52
instruments they can pick it up.
00:24:18.55\00:24:20.66
And bats are
constantly squeaking this very
00:24:20.69\00:24:23.06
ultra-high-frequency that
they can hear with their very
00:24:23.09\00:24:25.96
sensitive ears and some of
the bats that fly at night, and
00:24:25.99\00:24:28.96
their eyes are virtual vestigial
remnants, they can't even
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hardly see.
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They map everywhere they're
going, they can spot bugs in the
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air from the sound but they have
to constantly keep singing, they
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constantly keep making that
noise so they can constantly
00:24:43.18\00:24:46.65
calibrate where they are.
00:24:46.68\00:24:48.52
As soon as they stop, they get
lost and crash into things, and
00:24:48.55\00:24:52.89
that's how it is.
00:24:52.92\00:24:54.22
We don't want to lose our
spiritual vocal cords because
00:24:54.26\00:24:56.62
it's through our constantly
calibrating where we are in
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God's will, through the Spirit,
through connecting with prayer.
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It's the Spirit that helps us
to pray and pray for all of the
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Spirit that you can possibly
get, this city-slicker moved to
00:25:07.74\00:25:11.97
the country and he wanted to be
a real country boy so he asked
00:25:12.01\00:25:15.68
his neighbor if he could buy
a milk cow, neighbor had several
00:25:15.71\00:25:18.75
milk cows at his dairy,
said sure, sold him a milk cow.
00:25:18.78\00:25:22.32
Few weeks later, he said, "You
know that milk cow you sold me,
00:25:22.35\00:25:24.99
not putting out very much milk,"
he said, "At first, it seemed
00:25:25.02\00:25:28.89
like there's plenty of milk,"
and he said, "Now I'm hardly get
00:25:28.92\00:25:31.39
in any."
00:25:31.43\00:25:32.73
He said, "Well you've been
milking it twice a day, right?"
00:25:32.76\00:25:34.36
"Well no," said, "Sometimes
I don't need that much, so
00:25:34.40\00:25:37.73
sometimes I just need a pitcher,
sometimes we just need a cup
00:25:37.77\00:25:40.77
or two."
00:25:40.80\00:25:42.14
And the farmer said, "Man,
if you want that cow to keep
00:25:42.17\00:25:44.61
supplying milk, you gotta milk
it for all you can get at least
00:25:44.64\00:25:48.24
twice a day every day."
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And don't be satisfied with
a little Spirit, because you're
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going to get what you ask for,
pray for the baptism of the Holy
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Spirit and pray
for it every day.
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Bible tells us that, "We should
ask the Lord rain in the time of
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the latter rain."
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How do we get that
experience, friends?
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Ask.
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"If you are evil and you give
good gifts to your children, how
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much more will your Father in
heaven give the Holy spirit to
00:26:13.54\00:26:16.07
those who ask?"
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Keep knocking, keep seeking,
keep asking, every day plead for
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the Spirit, and I
believe we'll receive the latter
00:26:21.64\00:26:24.25
rain, friends.
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Make room in your heart
and you can do that right now.
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