We are racing towards the
global crisis at the close.
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God is going to set
up His kingdom on earth.
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Preparation for the
tribulation and the translation
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is to develop a
character like Jesus Christ.
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To reach every
hamlet, every village,
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every man, every
child, every person in India,
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every person in South America
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must hear these
Three Angels' messages.
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These are
stories that illustrate
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the kind of fabric of
character and perseverance
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that we need to go
through the tribulation
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just as certainly as they did.
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The Bible makes it very clear
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we are living
in an unusual hour,
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the last grains
of sand are trickling
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through the hourglass of time
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and the door of probation
is about to swing shut.
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On the night of
Sunday, 14 April 1912,
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the moon was not
visible in the clear sky
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being two days before new moon,
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the temperature had
dropped to near freezing
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and the ocean was
flat calm, Captain Smith,
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in response to iceberg
warnings received via wireless
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over the preceding few
days, had drawn up a new course
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which took the ship
slightly further southward
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because there were no ice bergs
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that could survive down
there when it would be warmer.
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And so that Sunday at 1:45 p.m.,
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a message from
the steamer "America"
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warned that large icebergs
lay in "Titanic's" path,
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but because
wireless radio operators
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Jack Phillips and Harold
Bride were employed by Marconi,
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and paid
primarily to relay messages
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to and from the passengers,
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some of which would
pay a whopping amount
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to get their message to the--
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to land, they were
not focused on relaying
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"non essential" ice
messages to the bridge.
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Later that
evening, another report
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of numerous large icebergs,
this time from "Mesaba,"
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also failed to reach the bridge.
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In the time of the
end, most are too busy
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to pause to listen to
the voice of the Holy Spirit.
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Our world is going down.
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We've already hit
the big ice bergs.
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This world is already sinking
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because people have
violated their conscience,
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resisted the Holy
Spirit, rejected the truth,
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this world is
sinking and sinking fast.
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How many believe we are living
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in the last moments
of this sinking world?
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And so the enemy
is desperately trying
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to drown out, the
voice of conscience
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and the voice
of the Holy Spirit.
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The sinner must be aware today,
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of fatal distractions
that preoccupy the soul
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with things of the world
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while the world is sinking fast.
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Well, we know
that this whole world
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is on course to
commit the unpardonable sin.
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This whole generation of ours
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will commit the unpardonable sin
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as they did in the days of Noah.
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Take your Bible and turn with me
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to Genesis Chapter 6,
looking there at verse 3.
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"And the Lord said, 'My
Spirit,' What every one?
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'My Spirit shall not
strive with man forever,
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for he is indeed
flesh, yet his days
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shall be a hundred
and twenty years.'"
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Verse 5. Why?
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With the Holy Spirit be
withdrawn from the earth.
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Why would the Holy
Spirit be withdrawn?
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Because the Holy Spirit
was being resisted, rejected,
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maligned, derided, ridiculed.
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The Holy Spirit
was using mighty Noah
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to preach the powerful messages
of preparation for the deluge,
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for the flood.
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And so this
powerful call from God
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was being preached by Noah.
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Noah was giving the last call
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to get in that
truly unsinkable boat.
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Can you say amen?
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That boat would float
amidst 40 days of torrential
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and upheaval.
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And so the Bible
makes it very clear
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that the Holy
Spirit was being withdrawn.
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So there were only eight people
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that were responding favorably
positively to the Holy Spirit,
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Noah and his
family went in that boat,
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that unsinkable boat
whereas the rest of the world,
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antediluvians
committed the unpardonable sin.
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They stayed on land
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while the others
went into the boat.
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Why?
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Because they refused
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to listen to the
voice of the Holy Spirit.
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They resisted,
resisted, resisted
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until they went to
the point of no return.
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Jesus says it will be
just like that in the day
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"as was in the days of Noah,
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it will be like that
in the time of the end."
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Matthew 24, Luke
17, makes it clear.
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There is this
eerie, sticking parallel
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between the social conditions
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that prevailed in the
days of Noah and our day.
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And one of the beacon warnings
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that we could receive here
now, the course of time is this,
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they refused to
listen to the Spirit of God
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'cause will need to make a
decisive change in their life
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whereas people today
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are repeating
this checkered history.
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And I want you to
notice here, what were doing?
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What were they guilty
of in the days of Noah
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that would lead
this entire generation
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to commit the fatal
sin, the unpardonable sin?
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Look at Genesis 6 and
see if we are on course
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to commit the
unpardonable sin here in America
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and in earth's final generation.
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Look at verse 5,
"Then the Lord saw
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that the wickedness of
man was great in the earth."
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And the Bible says,
"And that every intent,"
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that is thought, "of
the thoughts of his heart,"
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the thoughts of his heart,
"was only evil continually."
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That is all day long evil.
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And so the Bible says
here, "And the LORD was sorry
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that He had
made man on the earth
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and He was grieved,"
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notice here,
"grieved in His heart."
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Grieved or hurt in His heart.
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So the Lord said
"I will destroy man
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whom I have created
from the face of the earth,
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both man and
beast, creeping thing
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and birds of the earth
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for I am sorry
that I have made man."
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Or made them.
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"But Noah found grace
in the eyes of the LORD."
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So while the Holy Spirit
was filling Noah and his family,
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the rest of the world
was losing the Spirit of God
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because they were
grieving the heart of God,
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grieving the Spirit of God.
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Do you notice the
connection between
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God's heart being grieved
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and the Holy
Spirit being withdrawn?
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How many could see
that connection there?
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That God's heart
was being grieved
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and the Holy Spirit
that comes from His heart
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was being withdrawn.
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That is happening
today. How many agree?
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People are
grieving the heart of God,
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they are
grieving the Holy Spirit.
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A matter of
fact, take your Bible
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and turn with me to Ephesians.
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So how were they
grieving the Holy Spirit?
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By not listening to the
voice of the Holy Spirit.
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That's how they were
grieving the Holy Spirit.
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They were refusing to listen
to the Holy Spirit's voice.
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Does the Holy
Spirit have a voice?
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Absolutely.
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Now we are going to
Ephesians Chapter 4.
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Ephesians Chapter 4,
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these verses are just
setting the pace and the tone
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to unlock the
mysteries that shroud
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this subject of
the unpardonable sin.
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This subject is
prophetic and it is practical.
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Ephesians Chapter 4,
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looking there in
verses 25 and onward.
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"Therefore, putting away lying,
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Let each one of you
speak truth with his neighbor,
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for we are
members of one another.
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Be angry, and do not sin,
do not let the sun go down
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on your wrath, nor give place
or opportunity to the devil.
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Let him who
stole steal no longer,
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but rather let him
labor, working with his hands
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what is good, that he
may have something to give
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who has need.
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Let no corrupt word
proceed out of your mouth,
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but that which is good or
necessary for edification,
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that is building up that
may impart grace to the hearers.
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And do not grieve
the Holy Spirit of God,
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by whom you were sealed
for the day of redemption.
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"Let all bitterness,"
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that can grieve the Holy Spirit,
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"wrath," that can
grieve the Holy Spirit,
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"anger," that can
grieve the Holy Spirit,
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"clamor," that
is loud quarrelling
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can grieve the Holy
Spirit, "and evil speaking,"
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of foolish talk can
grieve the Holy Spirit,
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"be put away from
you, with all malice."
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And be kind to one
another, tenderhearted,
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forgiving one another,
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even as God in
Christ forgave you."
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So can you and I
see readily here tonight
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that there are variety of ways
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that you can
grieve the Holy Spirit
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and that would put you on track
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to ultimately
connect the unpardonable sin?
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How many of you agree?
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There is a road, a dangerous
road that leads to the--
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ultimately to
the unpardonable sin,
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the point of no
return or the point
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where there is no turning back.
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We don't want to
get on that road.
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How many agree?
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We want to go the
opposite direction
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or might I say,
maybe a different road.
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You see the Bible
makes it crystal clear,
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the whole world is on course
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to commit the unpardonable
sin just like the antediluvians.
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And so just as that
door they are closed on them.
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So the door by the
Ark of the Covenant,
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the intercession of
Christ is about to close.
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Probation is about to
close and it will be said,
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Revelation 22: 11 and 12.
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He that is unjust,
let him be unjust still,
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he that is righteous,
let him be righteous still."
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You are either in or you're out.
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And that happens
before Jesus comes,
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just as the door
of the Ark was closed
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before the flood came,
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seven days
before the flood came.
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So before Jesus comes,
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before the
plagues are poured out,
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it will be determined
in heaven's throne room,
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it will be
determined in this judgment
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that is going on now that
begins with the house of God.
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This judgment
will reach a verdict
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and the destinies of man
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will be fixed
for time in eternity.
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It happens before Jesus
comes because when He comes
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He knows who He
is coming of for.
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And so the Bible
makes it very clear.
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The whole world is on course
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to commit the
infamous unpardonable sin.
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I was gonna say
mark of the beast.
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Well, then yeah,
people would commit
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the unpardonable
sin in the last days
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is because they receive
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the mark of the
beast would you agree?
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Get the mark of the beast,
that is the unpardonable sin
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because when we get
the mark of the beast,
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you can't say,
"Oh, I changed my mind,
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I don't want the
mark of the beast,
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I want the seal of God."
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Too late, you
committed the unpardonable sin.
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And so the Bible
makes it very clear.
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If you want to avoid
the unpardonable sin,
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you got to listen to the
voice of the Holy Spirit.
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Well, what is
the unpardonable sin?
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Let's see. Matthew 12:31.
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What is the sin
that God cannot forgive?
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I already set the pace
and tone but let's go to it.
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Matthew Chapter
12, Matthew Chapter 12,
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looking there at verse 31.
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The Bible says,
"Therefore I say to you,
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every sin and
blasphemy will be forgiven men,
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but the blasphemy
against the Spirit
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will not be forgiven men.
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And anyone who speaks a
word against the Son of Man,
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it will be forgiven him;
but whoever speaks against,"
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what does it say there?
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"Against the Holy Spirit,
it will not be forgiven him,
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either in this age
or in the age to come."
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So therefore, what
is the unpardonable sin?
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This verse is worth
reading at least ten times.
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We must ponder and probe
the depth of its meaning.
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Comparing
scripture with scripture,
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we can unlock the mystery
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and understand the
truth of this matter.
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So we must not jump
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to conclusions about this topic.
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We must guard
against preconceived opinions
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because this is a
serious, hard hitting,
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straight shooting,
sobering warning from Jesus.
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This is a
fearful awesome warning
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especially for
earth's final generation.
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Therefore it is too
important to guess about.
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Now there is both
good news and bad news
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in this troublesome passage.
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We read about
things that can be forgiven
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and one thing that
cannot be forgiven.
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The good news is that
God forgives abortion,
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killing, stealing,
greed, adultery, lying,
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cheating on your
taxes, cursing God,
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worshipping of a false
god, backsliding, denying Jesus,
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I mean, you can
add to your list here.
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God forgives if
we confess our sins.
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Let's say that together.
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"If we confess our
sins, He is faithful
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and just to forgive us our sins
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and to cleanse us
from all unrighteousness."
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1 John 1:9.
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I don't know about
you but I would have,
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Mark Fox would have no
hope if I didn't believe
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in a
forgiveness of Jesus Christ.
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How many need a
whole lot of forgiveness
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besides Mark Fox?
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All right. So listen.
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What does the Bible say
about sin and blasphemy then?
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Well, just think it is the sin
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that is
irreversible and unforgivable.
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It is a point of no return.
It is a point of no return.
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Many wonder if
they have committed
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the unpardonable sins.
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Sometimes people will come to me
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as a Criss-Cross North America,
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they'll come to me
and say, you know what,
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I'm kind of wondering
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if I've committed
the unpardonable sin.
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Well, the enemy of
our soul wants us to think
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we have committed it
so that we will feel lost
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and hopeless and
thus rob us of faith
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and salvation and end up
being self fulfilling prophecy.
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Now I wonder if I committed it.
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"Oh, on, I might
as well give up."
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Well, you just
committed the unpardonable sin
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if you stay that way.
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I'm gonna agree, the
devil may knock you down
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but don't stay
down, can you say amen?
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And so or another deception
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would be for our enemy
to make us feel comfortable
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while we are on
the forbidden path
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that leads ultimately
to the unpardonable sin.
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Isn't that true?
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So in other words,
the unpardonable sin,
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you got to
recognize it and avoid it.
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And so the sin
against the Holy Ghost
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is rejecting the
work of a Holy Ghost.
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How many of you agree
that Holy Spirit is at work?
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Philippians 2:13.
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It says, "God who works in you,"
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through the Holy Spirit,
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"both to will and to do
what His good pleasure."
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In other words, the
Holy Spirit is working.
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I'm just thankful that
the Holy Spirit is working
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for you, not against you.
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The Holy Spirit is for you.
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We must be for the Holy
Spirit, can you say amen?
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So what is the primary
work of the Holy Spirit?
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If indeed you do not want
to grieve the Holy Spirit,
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you do not want to
resist the Holy Spirit,
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you do not want to
reject the Holy Spirit,
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you want to
cooperate with the Holy Spirit,
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you want to response
favorably to the Holy Spirit,
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then you and I need to discover
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what is the primary
work of the Holy Spirit.
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Does this make sense? Yes or no.
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So let's continue.
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The
comprehensive skill or nature
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or work of the Holy
Spirit would include,
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the Holy Spirit draws us,
the Holy Spirit comforts us.
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The Bible says in John 14: 26,
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let's go there and then
we'll go back to the screen.
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Let's go there. John Chapter 14.
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I love the Holy Spirit
tonight. How about you?
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I know you do. John 14:26.
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There's a song that
goes, "Come Holy Spirit,
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I need you."
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Amen. "Come
Holy Spirit, I pray."
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Amen. John 14
and verse number 26.
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"But the Helper," so
the Holy Spirit is a Helper.
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The Holy Spirit, the Helper,
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it is also the Holy
Spirit is called the Comforter.
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"The Holy Spirit,
whom the Father will send
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in My name, He will
teach you all things."
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So the Holy Spirit
comforts because the Holy Spirit
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is as called
Helper but also that word
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can also be rendered Comforter.
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So Holy Spirit is known as
the Comforter or the Helper,
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"whom the Father
will send in My name.
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He will teach you."
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So the Holy
Spirit is our teacher.
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Now even though right now,
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Mark Fox is up here preaching
and teaching, come on now,
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who is the
ultimate teacher, really?
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I can get up here
and I can say words
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but they are not gonna
resonate in your heart.
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They are gonna be nothing
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without the help
of the Holy Spirit.
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How many of you agree?
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You need the
guidance, the assistance,
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the impressions
of the Holy Spirit
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to make the word come alive
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otherwise it's just
the dead letter, right?
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We don't understand.
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The Bible says in
1 Corinthians 2:14,
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"Spiritual things are
spiritually discerned."
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Spiritually recognized,
spiritually discovered.
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The Holy Spirit puts
your glasses on, right?
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Like, you know,
spiritually glasses, all right.
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Now I want you to notice here,
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Holy Spirit is our
teacher, "teaches us all things"
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and I love this.
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"Brings to your remembrance
all things that I said to you."
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How many of you
had the experienced
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going through the
throws of a trial?
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You are in the
crucible of a trial,
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I mean, it's terrible,
it's thick, it's horrible
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and as you are
brooding over this trial
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and you are wondering
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how am I gonna
endure this trial, bam,
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the Holy Spirit
flashes into your memory,
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brings to your
remembrance some song,
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some scripture,
some gem of thought.
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Maybe it can be even
like a little allegory about
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footprints in the sand.
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I think you are familiar,
many of you with that one
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or hymn like "Amazing Grace"
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or hymn like
"How Great Thou Art"
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or a scripture like
"He will never leave you,
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nor forsake you."
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Hebrews 13: 5 and 6.
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Or "Lo, I am with you always,
even unto the end of the ages."
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Matthew 28:20.
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"I can do all things through
Christ who strengthens me."
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Philippians 4: 13.
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How many agree the Holy Spirit
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will bring those up on
the computer screen of mind?
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How many are thankful
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that the Holy
Spirit works for you.
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And so think about it.
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The Holy Spirit is
continually at work in us,
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teaching us,
reminding us, comforting us.
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And let's go back to the screen.
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The Holy Spirit draws us,
the Holy Spirit comforts us,
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the Holy Spirit converts us.
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You can't change your
heart in your own self.
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But look at me.
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You cannot
change your evil heart.
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"Our heart is
desperately wicked."
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It says in
Jeremiah 17: 9 and 10.
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It says "Who can
know it?" Who can know it?
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God knows it.
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And the Holy Spirit converts us.
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The Holy
Spirit-- when we ask Jesus
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to come into our heart,
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He comes in
through the Holy Spirit.
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And the Holy Spirit changes us,
the Holy Spirit transforms us.
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Again, the Holy
Spirit-- back to the screen,
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inspires us.
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"All scripture is given
by the inspiration of God."
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It is God bree
through the Holy Spirit.
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How many agree,
there is no inspiration
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without the Holy Spirit.
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Who is our inspiration?
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And so Holy
Spirit-- back to the screen.
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The Holy Spirit impresses us.
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The Holy Spirit, you
know, let me say this,
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night by night, Holy
Spirit has been taking
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what is being said here
and impressing you heart.
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Think about it.
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The Holy Spirit impresses
us. Have you ever said this?
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"Oh, I feel impressed to,
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oh, I felt
impressed to give you a call
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or somebody calls you, "I
felt impressed to call you."
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All right.
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You know
impressions of the Holy Spirit
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are very, very important.
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You don't want to
ignore the Holy Spirit.
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You want to recognize and
respond to the Holy Spirit.
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So the Holy Spirit
will impress us, you know.
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The Bible makes it very clear
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that "All the
scriptures are inspired."
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It says holy men of God spoke
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and wrote "as they were
moved by the Holy Ghost."
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As they were
impressed by the Holy Spirit.
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That's in 2 Peter
Chapter 1: 19-21 in there.
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So the Holy Spirit moved
the patriarchs and prophets
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and the apostles.
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And the same
Spirit that moved them
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to write things down,
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is a Holy
Spirit that's moving us
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to accept what was
written down by the Holy Ghost.
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So thank God for impressions.
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So we go back to the screen.
The Holy Spirit refreshes.
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All right, take your
Bible and turn with me
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to Acts Chapter 3.
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I love the Holy
Spirit tonight, amen.
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I love the Holy Spirit.
What is the unpardonable sin?
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It's resisting,
resisting, resisting, resisting,
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resisting the Holy Spirit
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until you cannot
even respond anymore
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because you have lost
the ability to respond,
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because your heart
has become so hard,
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you don't even recognize
the voice of the Holy Spirit.
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That's the unpardonable sin.
What's the unpardonable sin?
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It's the sin that
you refused to give up
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because all sin can be forgiven
if it's confessed and forsaken
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through the help
of the Holy Spirit.
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How many agree the Holy Spirit
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is like a flash light
shining any sin your heart?
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We'll get to that in a moment.
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So the Holy
Spirit will refresh us.
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How many get--
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it overwhelms
sometimes you get a little tired
00:23:58.63\00:24:02.30
and maybe all of a sudden
you start to feel nagging fears
00:24:02.34\00:24:05.71
or fear a little
inundated with guilt
00:24:05.74\00:24:09.64
or whatever the
emotion, anyway you just feel,
00:24:09.68\00:24:12.21
start to get a little tired
00:24:12.25\00:24:14.12
even though you shall think,
the Bible says in Isaiah 40.
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But the Bible says
here, listen, listen, listen.
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Acts 3:19. "Repent."
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And we can only do that
00:24:22.86\00:24:24.19
through the help
of the Holy Spirit.
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You cannot repent
in your own flesh.
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"The flesh profits nothing."
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That's what the
scriptures teach.
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That's what
Jesus said in John 6,
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"The flesh profits nothing."
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John 6: 63.
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And He said it is the
Spirit that gives life.
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The Spirit gives life.
There's no life in the flesh.
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Oh, yeah, you know,
you got the physical life
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but there's no spiritual life.
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The Bible says in Ephesians
2, "We are dead in sin."
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And so that's our dilemma.
Our deplorable condition.
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We are dead in sin so
we need the inspiration
00:25:02.66\00:25:05.50
and the refreshing, the renewal,
00:25:05.53\00:25:07.34
the reviving of the Holy Spirit.
00:25:07.37\00:25:09.20
How many agree the Holy Spirit
00:25:09.24\00:25:11.04
is needed every
moment in our existence?
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The Holy Spirit
connects us with God,
00:25:14.44\00:25:16.78
the Holy Spirit supports us.
00:25:16.81\00:25:19.41
You want a support
system, you got the Holy Spirit.
00:25:19.45\00:25:23.69
The Holy Spirit is
our Counselor as well,
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our Comforter and so forth.
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So let's look at this.
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Acts 3, so the Holy Spirit,
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"The Holy Spirit
will help us to repent."
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The Holy Spirit
will help us to repent.
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Look here at
verse 19 back there.
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"Repent,
therefore and be converted
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that your sins
may be blotted out
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and so that times of refreshing
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they come from the
presence of the Lord."
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Well, is the
presence of the Lord here?
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Huh, there is
healing in this house.
00:25:52.98\00:25:55.18
The presence of
the Lord is here.
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But you don't see Jesus.
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It's through His
unseen third person
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of the God
head, the Holy Spirit.
00:26:02.96\00:26:07.20
The Holy Spirit is
not an air of force.
00:26:07.23\00:26:09.23
The Holy Spirit is a person.
00:26:09.26\00:26:11.27
Jesus said, when "He,
the Spirit if truth is come,
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He will guide you in all truth."
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He, Jesus
called the Holy Spirit,
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not an it but He.
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Now watch this, watch this.
So Jesus made it very clear.
00:26:19.31\00:26:23.75
Then He said, "You
ask the Father in my name,
00:26:23.78\00:26:26.01
then He's gonna
give you the Holy Spirit.
00:26:26.05\00:26:28.98
And the Holy Spirit
is gonna bring to us
00:26:29.02\00:26:31.49
the presence of Jesus.
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Do you remember in one occasion,
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Jesus in John Chapter
20, after He was risen,
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the disciples were gathered
together in the upper room?
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And the Bible says in John 20.
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It says there "He breathed
on them the Holy Ghost."
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So the Holy Ghost, you
don't see the Holy Spirit
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but what is this,
what is He talking about?
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You know, breathe on
them the Holy Spirit.
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Uh, the Holy
Spirit is refreshing.
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Amen. The Holy
Spirit is refreshing.
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It's compared, the Holy
Spirit is compared to water,
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the Holy Spirit
is compared to wind.
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How many of you agree?
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The wind, uh,
refreshing, water, refreshing,
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the presence of
God is refreshing.
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And so the Bible
makes it very clear.
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That's what we need.
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When we go through
burdens, the trials,
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the temptations that
are formidable and fierce,
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let me tell you something.
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We need to go in
the presence of God
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and say "Refresh me, Holy Spirit
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and fill me Holy Spirit."
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The Bible says in
Ephesians Chapter 5
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"Be filled with Spirit."
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How many agree if you are being
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filled with the
Spirit, that's the opposite
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of going towards
the mark of the beast
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and the
unpardonable sin and all that?
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How many agree?
"Overcome evil with good."
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Romans 12:21.
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"Be filled with
the Spirit of God"
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And so the Bible says here
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"Refresh from the
presence of the Lord."
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Refreshing form the
presence of the Lord.
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I love that, refreshing
from the presence of the Lord.
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You know, the
disciples were gathered together
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for 10 days seeking the
gift of the Holy Spirit.
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Now I believe in
some degree they--
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You know, they had
the presence of Jesus.
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The Bible says in John 20,
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"He breathed upon
them the Holy Spirit.
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So they had some
measure of the Holy Spirit
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because, you know,
without the Holy Spirit,
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you wouldn't even
have a desire for God
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because there's no
good thing in our flesh.
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Paul said in
Philippians, he said,
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"I put no
confidence in the flesh."
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There's only one thing
that the flesh is good for.
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The Bible says, "crucify."
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It's because the
flesh cannot rule,
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the Holy Spirit must rule.
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Surrender to the
Holy Spirit. Amen.
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And so I want you to
notice here, refreshing.
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The disciples
prayed for ten days
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and after ten days,
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it was like a
mighty rushing wind.
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The place was shaking,
the wind of the Holy Spirit.
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Jesus compared the operation,
the function, the work
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and the presence of
the Holy Spirit in John 3
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when He was talking to Nicodemus
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in that night
time conference there
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in the Garden of Gethsemane.
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Do you remember, He
compared the new birth,
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He said "You got to
born of the Spirit."
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And He said "It's like wind."
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You don't see the wind
but you see what it does.
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You see the move of wind
in terms of what it does.
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It's a fact. It's powerful.
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How many agree wind is powerful?
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And so I want
you to notice here,
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the refreshing, the refreshing,
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oh, how we need the
refreshing of the Holy Spirit.
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How many agree let's
have Jesus breathe up on us
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the Holy Spirit on us tonight?
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And that we might really
be revitalized and refreshed.
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And so the Bible
makes it very clear.
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Let's go back to the screen.
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The Holy Spirit gives wisdom.
The Holy Spirit gives wisdom.
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I love that. And the
Holy Spirit empowers.
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That's how we get the power.
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"Not by might, nor by power,
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but by My
Spirit," said the Lord.
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Zechariah 4: 6. How many agree?
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The Holy Spirit has ample
power for the weakest believer?
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Have you ever fell
like you are just like weak?
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Come on now, I
felt that way as well.
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And if you think you are
week I would argue with this
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and I'm more weak than you are.
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But the Bible says in Joel 3:10.
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"Let the weak
say, 'I am strong.'
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"That's a quote from scripture.
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By the way there
is power in the word
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because the Holy
Spirit is in the word,
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because the Holy Spirit--
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The words that I speak they
are spirit and they are life.
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This is not a dead
letter through the Holy Spirit.
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In Hebrews 4:12 says,
"The Word of God is alive."
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Amen. "The Word
of God is alive."
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Where this is known
as the table of showbread
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which was the
table of His presence.
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You want more of
the presence of God
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you open this book and say,
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Lord, I'm going
into Your presence
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speak to me a timely
word and He always will.
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And so listen
to me, Holy Spirit,
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Holy Spirit empowers
us to resist temptation.
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The Holy Spirit enlightens,
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helps us to
understand God's will.
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The Holy Spirit supports
us. The Holy Spirit sustains us.
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The Holy Spirit
protects us and on and on and on
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this is just the
tip of the iceberg
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in terms of
explaining and articulating
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how wonderful the
work and operation
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and function of
the Holy Spirit is.
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Now can you see
that we must praise God
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for the Spirit of God
for the Holy Spirit, amen.
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Now keep this in mind
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we don't
glorify the Holy Spirit.
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The Holy Spirit, the
Bible says in John 16,
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that the work of the Holy
Spirit is to glorify Jesus.
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So the Holy Spirit's work,
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when the Holy
Spirit comes within us
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we just want to praise Jesus.
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Oh, it's okay to
say, come Holy Spirit,
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thank you Holy Spirit
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but ultimately we
are praising Jesus, amen.
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We praise the
Father, Son and Holy Spirit
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but the Holy
Spirit exalts Jesus.
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I love this scripture
and what book of the Bible?
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Revelation 3:20
read it together with me.
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I love this book and
I'm gonna thunder out
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one particular word there.
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"Behold, I stand
at the door and knock.
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If anyone hears My
voice and opens the door,
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I will come in to
him and will what?
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And dine with
Him, and He with me"
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sitting down with
Jesus in sweet fellowship.
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You know, when you
want to get close to someone
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what do you do?
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Hey, come on over and
eat or let's go out to eat
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or can I come over and eat.
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The idea is let's eat together.
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Let's doesn't talk, let's eat
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because when you eat
it kind of open up, right,
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depending on the food.
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All right, anyway, so
the Bible makes it very clear
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Jesus says I'm knocking,
I'm knocking on the door.
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How does He knock?
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Through the Holy
Spirit, through the Word of God,
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through His providential
leading, through people.
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How many agree people?
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God gonna use people to
knock on the door of your heart.
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And so He knocks on the--
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What's the door?
That's our heart.
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If anyone hears My voice,
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that's how He
knocks through His voice.
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"If anyone hears My
voice and opens the door,"
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that's our part, we
got to open the door.
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"I will come in to him
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and dine with
him, and he with Me."
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Now I want you
to think about this,
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that's the Book of Revelation.
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I want you to think about this.
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Our eternal salvation
based on the scripture
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depends upon
recognizing that knocking voice
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and opening the door saying,
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Jesus, I don't want to
listen to any other voice
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except that lovely,
pleading, tender, melodious,
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life giving voice.
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Would you agree
when you feel that
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God is speaking to
your heart personally,
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calling you by name as it were.
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Would you agree
that strengthens you?
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What if you never heard the
voice of God speaking to you?
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You heard the Word of God
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but just you
didn't, there was nothing.
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Would you agree that
would be the ultimate tragedy?
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Thank God we can
learn to get in tune
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on the right
frequency to heaven.
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I'm gonna agree
there is a frequency.
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Jesus wants us get tuned in
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so that we can hear
His still small voice.
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I think about go
with me to 1 John.
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I'm sorry, 1 John, 1 Kings,
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1 Kings Chapter 19,
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1 Kings 19:11
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about the experience
of Elijah at the mount.
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"Then He said, 'Go out,
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and stand on the
mountain before the Lord.'
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And behold, the Lord passed by,
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and a great and strong
wind tore into the mountains
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and broke the rocks in
pieces before the Lord."
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Well, that would have
got His attention right.
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I mean, that
would get your attention
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riveted on what
was taking place.
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"But the Lord
was not in the wind,
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and after the
wind an earthquake.
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"Can you imagine that?"
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I will get your attention
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when the whole
mountain is shaking
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"but the Lord was
not in the earthquake
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and after the earthquake a fire,
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but the Lord
was not in the fire,
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and after the fire
a still small voice."
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And I have in my
Bible, I have in my Bible
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and after the fire
a still small voice."
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And it's rendered here a
delicate whispering voice.
00:36:12.57\00:36:17.04
A delicate whispering voice
00:36:17.07\00:36:21.74
like the sound of the breeze.
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Lofting through
the leafs in the fall
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but still small
voice of the Holy Spirit.
00:36:31.92\00:36:36.86
But we got the TV
on, we got the music on,
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we got our iPods and
iPhones and iPads whatever,
00:36:40.23\00:36:45.13
we've got commotion,
we have got a lot of noise
00:36:45.17\00:36:48.94
and toys and we've
got so many deadlines
00:36:48.97\00:36:52.14
and this sort that,
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Jesus speaking
that still small voice.
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And for those who
are not recognizing it
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because you are too
busy with their toys
00:37:01.68\00:37:04.09
and their noise and
deadlines and everything
00:37:04.12\00:37:07.06
that aren't listening
even in their leisure,
00:37:07.09\00:37:09.52
they've got much barraged noise,
00:37:09.56\00:37:12.89
they are not listening...
00:37:12.93\00:37:17.23
because they are not listening
00:37:17.27\00:37:19.07
to the still small
voice of Holy Spirit.
00:37:19.10\00:37:21.74
You are on track to
commit the unpardonable sin.
00:37:21.77\00:37:26.41
On the way we can make sure that
00:37:26.44\00:37:28.38
we are not resisting or
rejecting any phase of work
00:37:28.41\00:37:32.51
of the Holy
Spirit it's by being into
00:37:32.55\00:37:35.12
what that still small
voice of the Holy Spirit.
00:37:35.15\00:37:39.49
So Bible makes it
very clear Elijah,
00:37:39.52\00:37:42.82
Elijah he heard the voice
00:37:42.86\00:37:49.60
and Elijah was
ultimately translated to heaven.
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Anybody interested in that?
00:37:53.97\00:37:58.41
Elijah recognized
and followed that voice
00:37:58.44\00:38:03.55
and it led him to be translator.
00:38:03.58\00:38:08.52
We must if we
want to be translated
00:38:08.55\00:38:12.15
the preparation for translation
00:38:12.19\00:38:15.52
is lesser than the still
small voice of Holy Spirit.
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Listen, I'm sure that you that--
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microphone tonight
you could come up here
00:38:28.70\00:38:31.61
and I could ask you whether
are there different times
00:38:31.64\00:38:34.11
in you life where you felt that
Holy Spirit speaking to you,
00:38:34.14\00:38:37.41
the Holy Spirit
speaking that still small voice.
00:38:37.45\00:38:39.38
I want to go ahead and
raise your hand if you've had.
00:38:39.41\00:38:41.25
You know, you kind of sense,
maybe not an audible voice
00:38:41.28\00:38:43.75
but you just sense, wow, that's
a Holy Spirit speaking to me.
00:38:43.79\00:38:47.26
We must listen.
00:38:47.29\00:38:51.69
Every time we study the Bible,
00:38:51.73\00:38:53.70
every time we
get up in the morning
00:38:53.73\00:38:55.83
we must always ask, Jesus,
00:38:55.86\00:38:58.40
what are You saying to me?
00:38:58.43\00:38:59.77
The Bible says in Psalms 4,
00:38:59.80\00:39:01.20
when you are
laying down on your bed
00:39:01.24\00:39:03.00
be still and
meditate within your heart.
00:39:03.04\00:39:06.61
What are you tying to do?
00:39:06.64\00:39:07.98
You are tying to
listen, get in tune with Jesus
00:39:08.01\00:39:10.08
while you are still,
even before your day starts
00:39:10.11\00:39:12.71
and as your day
ends just be there still
00:39:12.75\00:39:15.75
and be like Samuel and
when the Lord calls your name
00:39:15.78\00:39:19.79
Samuel, Samuel, Mark, Mark,
00:39:19.82\00:39:23.22
you can immediately
say, Lord, I'm here.
00:39:23.56\00:39:28.06
I'm listening. I'm listening.
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Now because I used to
blast Led Zeppelin into my head
00:39:32.17\00:39:37.21
during the hippy era
I am known to say, huh.
00:39:37.24\00:39:43.78
I'm gonna tell you
how many times I say, huh.
00:39:43.81\00:39:45.48
I'm just saying, I say, huh.
00:39:45.51\00:39:49.08
I need to get
another hearing check up
00:39:49.12\00:39:52.45
but let it go down on
record I'm not in a rush.
00:39:52.49\00:39:56.62
Hearing aid will
come I guess sometime.
00:39:56.66\00:39:59.89
Well, I might be
able to get by with that
00:39:59.93\00:40:01.33
but one thing that
Mark Fox cannot get by with,
00:40:01.36\00:40:05.57
I need a daily
hearing check up spiritually.
00:40:05.60\00:40:12.81
Go with me to the
Book of Revelation,
00:40:12.84\00:40:14.24
you want to relate this
to Bible prophecy we will.
00:40:14.28\00:40:17.18
You want to make sure you don't,
00:40:17.21\00:40:19.11
you don't give into
the Mark of the Beast
00:40:19.15\00:40:21.05
and we've identified
what is the Mark of the Beast.
00:40:21.08\00:40:23.42
The beast is the
Roman papal system
00:40:23.45\00:40:24.99
and the mark of their authority.
00:40:25.02\00:40:26.76
They say the mark of their
authority is Sunday observance.
00:40:26.79\00:40:29.79
Nobody has the mark of the beast
00:40:29.82\00:40:31.23
because it has not been enforced
00:40:31.26\00:40:32.89
but soon in the horizon
according to Bible prophecy
00:40:32.93\00:40:36.40
there will be a
national Sunday law
00:40:36.43\00:40:38.90
and everyone will be
forced to make a decision
00:40:38.93\00:40:42.20
for or against
God's law or man's law.
00:40:42.24\00:40:47.28
Look here
Revelation Chapter 14, 13,
00:40:47.31\00:40:53.62
in the context of talking
about the beast, verse 9.
00:40:53.65\00:40:57.99
"If anyone has an ear,"
00:40:58.02\00:41:00.39
what book of the
Bible? Revelation.
00:41:00.42\00:41:02.32
"Let him hear."
00:41:02.36\00:41:04.86
Look at Revelation
Chapter 1, Revelation Chapter 1
00:41:04.89\00:41:09.30
looking there at verse 3,
00:41:09.33\00:41:11.73
"Blessed is he who
reads and those who
00:41:11.77\00:41:14.50
hear the words of this prophecy,
00:41:14.54\00:41:17.04
and keep those things
which are written in it,
00:41:17.07\00:41:18.64
for the time is near."
00:41:18.67\00:41:21.08
So the Bible
makes it very clear.
00:41:21.11\00:41:22.88
In the Book of
Revelation you got to hear
00:41:22.91\00:41:25.61
what Revelation is really
saying and how many agree?
00:41:25.65\00:41:28.05
That's more than the
ear that's the heart ear.
00:41:28.08\00:41:32.05
Just like, come on ladies,
00:41:32.09\00:41:33.42
when you are
talking to your husband
00:41:33.46\00:41:34.96
would you agree you want
them to hear more than this ear,
00:41:34.99\00:41:37.59
you want them to
hear with the heart ear.
00:41:37.63\00:41:38.96
Can you say amen, ladies?
00:41:38.99\00:41:40.90
And that applies to
man. Can you say, amen?
00:41:40.93\00:41:43.20
Like, you know, you want your
wives to listen and say amen.
00:41:43.23\00:41:46.03
All right, you got that.
00:41:46.07\00:41:48.00
All right, we cannot see
Jesus but we can hear His voice
00:41:48.04\00:41:55.18
through the Holy Spirit
speaking to us every hour,
00:41:55.21\00:41:59.71
every hour.
00:41:59.75\00:42:02.08
I said, Jesus talking to
me constantly, constantly.
00:42:02.12\00:42:09.69
Correcting?
00:42:09.72\00:42:11.06
Oh, Holy Spirit
will correct you.
00:42:11.09\00:42:12.43
Rebuking?
00:42:12.46\00:42:13.80
Oh, I get rebuked
by the Holy Spirit.
00:42:13.83\00:42:16.50
Comforting? Oh, thank God.
00:42:16.53\00:42:20.97
You know, sometimes
I'm without my family
00:42:21.00\00:42:22.74
as I go on the road.
00:42:22.77\00:42:25.07
It gets a little lonely
and so I just seek the Lord
00:42:25.11\00:42:31.81
and somehow His
comfort is there.
00:42:31.85\00:42:34.72
Home sickness can liberally
leads you to seek the Lord
00:42:34.75\00:42:38.05
and receive the comfort.
00:42:38.09\00:42:39.85
Some of you have
lost the loved one.
00:42:39.89\00:42:42.06
Maybe some of you are a widower.
00:42:42.09\00:42:45.43
Let me tell you
something you are never alone.
00:42:45.46\00:42:49.40
The Holy Spirit is there
just that Jesus is with you
00:42:49.43\00:42:54.97
as though you
could actually see Him
00:42:55.00\00:42:57.17
because my Bible tells me
He is always at my right hand.
00:42:57.21\00:43:00.88
That's when I ask, that's
why when I ask my children
00:43:00.91\00:43:04.08
where is Jesus
they will do this.
00:43:04.11\00:43:06.58
I'm glad, let's do it.
00:43:09.65\00:43:11.29
So somebody says, what
do you believe about Jesus?
00:43:13.22\00:43:15.79
Say what?
00:43:18.53\00:43:20.60
Hallelujah. Amen.
00:43:20.63\00:43:24.20
"The Holy Spirit
convicts us of sin."
00:43:24.23\00:43:28.17
Take your Bible and
turn with me to John 16,
00:43:28.20\00:43:30.81
John 16 going there quickly.
00:43:30.84\00:43:34.01
John wrote the Book
of Revelation as well.
00:43:34.04\00:43:36.28
We are looking here
at John 16, John 16,
00:43:36.31\00:43:41.48
give you moment to locate that.
00:43:41.52\00:43:43.62
John 16, we are
looking there at verse 8.
00:43:43.65\00:43:48.59
Well, work of the Holy Spirit.
00:43:48.62\00:43:50.09
You want to make sure you
don't resist, reject, refuse,
00:43:50.13\00:43:53.50
grieve the Holy Spirit
00:43:53.53\00:43:54.86
then you got to know
what Holy Spirit wants to do
00:43:54.90\00:43:57.83
and you must yield
the right away, right.
00:43:57.87\00:44:02.97
You got to yield.
Everybody say yield.
00:44:03.00\00:44:06.01
You got to yield
in the Holy Spirit.
00:44:06.04\00:44:08.48
That means surrender.
Say, Holy Spirit, you guide me.
00:44:08.51\00:44:12.18
Holy Spirit, you lead the way.
00:44:12.21\00:44:14.48
Holy Spirit, you tell
me what you want me to do.
00:44:14.52\00:44:17.95
I'm not in the driving seat.
00:44:17.99\00:44:20.12
Notice John 16:8,
00:44:20.16\00:44:22.62
"And when He
has come, Jesus said
00:44:22.66\00:44:25.19
He notice he, he, not it.
00:44:25.23\00:44:27.53
He will convict
the world of sin,
00:44:27.56\00:44:32.60
of righteousness,
and of judgment of sin,
00:44:32.63\00:44:35.90
because they do not
believe in Me of righteousness.
00:44:35.94\00:44:38.37
Because I go to my
father and you see me no more
00:44:38.41\00:44:41.04
of judgment because the
rule of this world is judged.
00:44:41.08\00:44:43.98
So what is Jesus saying there?
00:44:44.01\00:44:45.45
I want to zero
in on this aspect.
00:44:45.48\00:44:47.72
Jesus says that the Holy Spirit
00:44:47.75\00:44:49.78
will put to
squeeze on your heart.
00:44:49.82\00:44:52.49
The Holy Spirit will make you
feel uncomfortable in any sin
00:44:52.52\00:44:58.79
or a false teaching
that has been exposed
00:44:58.83\00:45:01.80
as being just that.
00:45:01.83\00:45:03.83
And so the work of the
Holy Spirit is to convict.
00:45:03.87\00:45:07.77
Now when the convicting
power of the Holy Spirit
00:45:07.80\00:45:11.61
comes upon you
seizes your heart,
00:45:11.64\00:45:14.31
do you think that your
natural response is gonna be,
00:45:14.34\00:45:17.75
hippy, I'm under conviction.
00:45:17.78\00:45:22.18
Time to celebrate. No.
00:45:22.22\00:45:25.59
You might get little squirming
if the preacher is preaching
00:45:25.62\00:45:28.92
and all of the
sudden the Holy Spirit says,
00:45:28.96\00:45:30.63
"hue, you go to make a
change and you start squirming,
00:45:30.66\00:45:34.00
prospering, you know, the
heart starts start's racing,
00:45:34.03\00:45:36.50
you say, honey, I
want to get out of here.
00:45:36.53\00:45:39.40
Why, because the
flesh always rebels against
00:45:39.43\00:45:43.14
the still small
voice of the Holy Spirit.
00:45:43.17\00:45:48.34
Our flesh is
always talking to us
00:45:48.38\00:45:51.71
and the Holy Spirit
says, flesh, be quiet.
00:45:51.75\00:45:55.28
I'm in control here.
And there is this war.
00:45:55.32\00:45:57.39
Galatians 5 talks about the war
between the spirit and flesh.
00:45:57.42\00:46:00.66
Say, oh, so,
that' what going on.
00:46:00.69\00:46:02.49
Lord, there is a war
against truth and error,
00:46:02.52\00:46:06.19
there is a war
against sin and righteousness
00:46:06.23\00:46:08.00
and the Holy Spirit
will make me feel miserable
00:46:08.03\00:46:13.13
in sin or false teachings.
00:46:13.17\00:46:19.74
My Bible tells me
come out from among them
00:46:19.77\00:46:22.74
and be separate says the Lord.
00:46:22.78\00:46:25.31
And we apply that in two ways,
that 2 Corinthians 6:16, 17.
00:46:25.35\00:46:29.32
Would you agree God
wants us to come out of sin?
00:46:29.35\00:46:31.35
We just read it.
00:46:31.39\00:46:32.79
But He also wants us to
come out of something else.
00:46:32.82\00:46:36.76
Take your Bible and
turn with me to John 16:13.
00:46:36.79\00:46:40.36
He wants us to come out of sin.
00:46:40.40\00:46:41.96
Everybody say sin.
00:46:42.00\00:46:44.13
Come out of the world
of sin and be separate.
00:46:44.17\00:46:46.67
"Sanctify them in the
truth, thy word is truth."
00:46:46.70\00:46:49.64
So there is another way,
00:46:49.67\00:46:51.27
another way the
Holy Spirit guides us
00:46:51.31\00:46:53.64
John 17:17 and
this is John 16:13.
00:46:53.68\00:46:57.21
"Howbeit when he, the Spirit of"
00:46:57.25\00:47:00.15
so does the Holy
Spirit have anything
00:47:00.18\00:47:01.92
to do with the truth, yes or no?
00:47:01.95\00:47:04.05
You cannot separate the
truth from the Holy Spirit
00:47:04.09\00:47:06.45
because the Holy
Spirit inspired the truth
00:47:06.49\00:47:08.46
and the Holy Spirit will
not comfort you with error.
00:47:08.49\00:47:11.03
The Holy Spirit will
comfort you with truth.
00:47:11.06\00:47:15.43
So the Holy
Spirit does not want you
00:47:15.46\00:47:17.67
to feel
comfortable in false teachings.
00:47:17.70\00:47:22.90
Let me give you an
example, a person says,
00:47:22.94\00:47:25.74
when you die you go
right to be with the Lord.
00:47:25.77\00:47:29.91
That's false comfort.
00:47:29.94\00:47:31.81
Listen what Paul said,
00:47:31.85\00:47:33.25
"For the Lord himself
shall descend from heaven
00:47:33.28\00:47:35.22
with a shout, with the
voice of the archangel,
00:47:35.25\00:47:37.49
and with the trump of
God, and the dead in Christ"
00:47:37.52\00:47:42.06
I like that, death,
that's not too great.
00:47:42.09\00:47:44.59
In Christ, okay, death
but they are in Christ.
00:47:44.63\00:47:47.80
"Dead in Christ
shall rise first,
00:47:47.83\00:47:50.13
then we which are alive
and remain shall be caught up,
00:47:50.17\00:47:53.34
taken up together with
them to meet the Lord in the air
00:47:53.37\00:47:57.01
and so shall we
ever be with the Lord.
00:47:57.04\00:47:59.97
Wherefore comfort one
another with these words"
00:48:00.01\00:48:06.82
1 Thessalonians
4:16-18. What is that saying?
00:48:06.85\00:48:09.72
Paul is saying
comfort people with the truth.
00:48:09.75\00:48:15.02
The Holy Spirit
wants you and I to know
00:48:15.06\00:48:17.29
when you die you don't
go to be with the Lord,
00:48:17.33\00:48:19.69
you will go to be with the Lord
00:48:19.73\00:48:21.63
when Jesus raises
the dead in Christ.
00:48:21.66\00:48:23.77
Is this making sense tonight?
00:48:23.80\00:48:25.60
So the idea is the Holy Spirit
00:48:25.63\00:48:28.30
wants you to feel
uncomfortable in sin,
00:48:28.34\00:48:30.91
leave it and leave it now.
00:48:30.94\00:48:32.91
Any addictions
you got to give up,
00:48:32.94\00:48:35.34
the Holy Spirit is making
feel uncomfortable with them?
00:48:35.38\00:48:37.91
Make the Holy Spirit
feel at home in your heart
00:48:37.95\00:48:41.48
and you will be all right.
00:48:41.52\00:48:45.92
And so the Holy Spirit
will guide us into truth.
00:48:45.95\00:48:49.49
I'm wondering
we've been together
00:48:49.52\00:48:51.73
four and half weeks marathon
00:48:51.76\00:48:56.03
and you probably told yourself
00:48:59.07\00:49:00.47
as you were
coming to the meeting
00:49:00.50\00:49:02.10
or maybe after opening night,
00:49:02.14\00:49:05.11
now I'm only coming
once or twice you got hooked.
00:49:05.14\00:49:10.01
The Holy Spirit
got you, halleluiah.
00:49:10.05\00:49:14.48
Let me tell you something.
00:49:14.52\00:49:16.15
The Holy Spirit
guides us into truth
00:49:16.18\00:49:20.22
unvarnished,
undiluted, unpopular truth
00:49:20.26\00:49:24.83
but the truth always
demands a change to leave error
00:49:24.86\00:49:28.86
because the truth shuts you free
00:49:28.90\00:49:31.53
if you know it by obedience.
00:49:31.57\00:49:34.47
John 8:32.
00:49:34.50\00:49:36.10
So would you agree if the
Holy Spirit is leading us,
00:49:36.14\00:49:38.87
notice here, "Howbeit when he,
the Spirit of truth, is come,
00:49:38.91\00:49:43.14
he will guide
you into all truth."
00:49:43.18\00:49:45.65
So does the Holy Spirit
00:49:45.68\00:49:47.12
want to guide me
into truth, yes or no?
00:49:47.15\00:49:49.15
All truth and
noting but the truth.
00:49:49.18\00:49:51.05
So if the Holy Spirit
is guiding me into truth
00:49:51.09\00:49:54.22
well, that necessitate
00:49:54.26\00:49:55.66
and require some
changes along the way
00:49:55.69\00:49:58.33
because there is a
learning truth on having to see,
00:49:58.36\00:50:01.33
oh, I was following
a false teaching here
00:50:01.36\00:50:03.97
and a false teaching there.
00:50:04.00\00:50:05.33
Oh, I thought
Sunday observance was okay,
00:50:05.37\00:50:07.07
but now I realized the
seventh day is the Sabbath
00:50:07.10\00:50:11.21
and that is Saturday,
00:50:11.24\00:50:12.67
sundown Friday night,
sundown Saturday night,
00:50:12.71\00:50:14.88
this is the Lord's
day, Revelation 1:10,
00:50:14.91\00:50:17.45
I was in the
spirit on the Lord's day,
00:50:17.48\00:50:18.88
the Lord still has the day.
00:50:18.91\00:50:21.15
That's New
Testament, Book of Revelation.
00:50:21.18\00:50:24.59
And so the Bible
makes it very clear
00:50:24.62\00:50:26.09
that the Holy Spirit is
wanting to guide me into truth.
00:50:26.12\00:50:29.26
I must say, Holy
Spirit, I will follow
00:50:29.29\00:50:32.26
because to be guided into truth
00:50:32.29\00:50:34.60
is not just intellectually,
it's spiritually.
00:50:34.63\00:50:38.03
How many agree the Holy
Spirit first get your head,
00:50:38.07\00:50:40.47
then it goes for your
heart and then it says, okay,
00:50:40.50\00:50:42.67
it's time to bring
this down to the feet.
00:50:42.70\00:50:44.81
I know the words
just like the Sabbath,
00:50:49.58\00:50:51.71
there is something you do there.
00:50:51.75\00:50:53.08
You don't work on that day.
00:50:53.11\00:50:54.98
You go to church on that day.
00:50:55.02\00:50:56.35
You know, why?
00:50:56.38\00:50:57.75
Because the Holy
Spirit tells you to do it.
00:50:57.79\00:51:01.02
How many agree the Holy
Spirit will speak to you
00:51:01.06\00:51:04.63
and the Holy Spirit
will bring to remembrance,
00:51:04.66\00:51:07.23
remember the
Sabbath day to keep it holy.
00:51:07.26\00:51:08.86
That's what the new
covenant is all about.
00:51:08.90\00:51:10.77
When the Bible says the Holy
Spirit writes it on your heart,
00:51:10.80\00:51:13.47
Hebrews 8:10
what does that mean?
00:51:13.50\00:51:15.10
The Holy Spirit
writes it and talks it.
00:51:15.14\00:51:17.44
It says, now remember,
remember what the Bible says,
00:51:17.47\00:51:20.54
remember the
Sabbath day to keep it holy
00:51:20.58\00:51:22.21
and you are laying in bed saying
00:51:22.24\00:51:23.65
I don't want to
go to church today
00:51:23.68\00:51:25.45
and the Holy
Spirit says, let's get up.
00:51:25.48\00:51:29.75
Now you can do what you do
00:51:29.78\00:51:31.39
with your alarm
clock to the Holy Spirit.
00:51:31.42\00:51:33.29
You know, you can just
turn the thing off and say,
00:51:33.32\00:51:35.69
hey, that's
about enough for you.
00:51:35.72\00:51:38.76
Throw it out the
window or whatever.
00:51:38.79\00:51:40.13
How many agree, you can't afford
00:51:40.16\00:51:41.50
to do that with the Holy Spirit.
00:51:41.53\00:51:42.86
You could get
ultimately on the track,
00:51:42.90\00:51:45.80
the bad, dangerous road
00:51:45.83\00:51:48.57
that leads ultimately
to the unpardonable sin.
00:51:48.60\00:51:51.67
How many agree?
00:51:51.71\00:51:53.04
You don't want
to get on that road.
00:51:53.07\00:51:54.41
I'm not saying that
if you make a mistake,
00:51:54.44\00:51:56.75
you fail, you sin against God.
00:51:56.78\00:51:59.91
No, that doesn't mean you have
committed the unpardonable sin
00:51:59.95\00:52:02.58
but it does mean that you
are numbing your conscience.
00:52:02.62\00:52:05.69
It does mean that you
are hardening your heart.
00:52:05.72\00:52:08.36
Hebrews 4:7 says,
"Today if you hear his voice,
00:52:08.39\00:52:12.86
do not harden your heart."
00:52:12.89\00:52:14.36
Well, you know, how hardening
of the arteries takes place.
00:52:14.40\00:52:17.17
It doesn't take
place over night.
00:52:17.20\00:52:20.17
But I will tell you it
can happen fast, you know.
00:52:20.20\00:52:23.10
Get a accustomed to
those big old big max.
00:52:23.14\00:52:25.74
I mean, what do they make and
I know how higher they are now.
00:52:25.77\00:52:27.94
Two feet or I don't know.
00:52:27.98\00:52:30.45
You know, get that
super sized milkshake
00:52:30.48\00:52:34.38
and I don't shake you up.
00:52:34.42\00:52:37.69
You know, you put
that stuff in there
00:52:37.72\00:52:39.32
it starts clogging, clogging.
00:52:39.35\00:52:43.12
By the way, they have
actually done research
00:52:43.16\00:52:45.13
that after a meal like
that they can actually see
00:52:45.16\00:52:48.20
the detrimental
effects of that right away.
00:52:48.23\00:52:52.37
And so what
happens, you go to the doctor
00:52:52.40\00:52:54.57
and the doctor says, you
know, we got to do some surgery
00:52:54.60\00:52:57.74
to start to open
up those arteries,
00:52:57.77\00:53:01.01
they are all
sticky and it's narrowed
00:53:01.04\00:53:04.18
and you got blockages.
00:53:04.21\00:53:06.85
You got hardening of the heart.
00:53:06.88\00:53:10.59
I'm here to tell you
there is a lot of surgery
00:53:12.25\00:53:14.02
that needs to take
place in the house of God
00:53:14.06\00:53:15.99
because we have
hardened our heart,
00:53:16.02\00:53:17.36
we are lukewarm,
we think we are fine
00:53:17.39\00:53:18.96
when we are really not.
00:53:18.99\00:53:20.33
Would you agree,
that's a hardening?
00:53:20.36\00:53:21.70
That's called gospel hardening.
00:53:21.73\00:53:24.07
You hear the gospel
but don't do a thing,
00:53:24.10\00:53:27.24
you remain lukewarm,
that's gospel hardened.
00:53:27.27\00:53:31.17
Beloved, we don't
want to be like that.
00:53:31.21\00:53:33.48
We want to be
moved to the Holy Spirit,
00:53:33.51\00:53:35.24
we want to be able to
shed a tear once in a while
00:53:35.28\00:53:37.28
when we hear about
what Jesus did for us.
00:53:37.31\00:53:39.88
How many agree, we
got to be moved, amen.
00:53:39.91\00:53:42.82
But we are not moved unless
00:53:42.85\00:53:44.55
we listen to the still
small voice of the Holy Spirit.
00:53:44.59\00:53:48.86
I'm gonna agree you
listen to that Holy Spirit,
00:53:48.89\00:53:50.49
the Holy Spirit will
make you weep sometime.
00:53:50.53\00:53:52.29
Holy Spirit will
make you tremble sometime.
00:53:52.33\00:53:54.36
The Bible says in
Isaiah 66, it says,
00:53:54.40\00:53:56.50
we ought to tremble
before the Word of God.
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How many agree, when you
are in the presence of God
00:53:59.90\00:54:01.77
you don't say, hey,
buddy, how you doing?
00:54:01.80\00:54:03.57
No, no, no, no,
no, we don't do that.
00:54:03.61\00:54:06.68
God is not our buddy,
He is our Holy Father.
00:54:06.71\00:54:11.75
Jesus is not our
buddy, He is our Savior.
00:54:11.78\00:54:16.22
Oh, He is our best
friend, I can tell you that.
00:54:16.25\00:54:19.29
But we must recognize
that still small voice
00:54:19.32\00:54:22.59
and not do as the Bible says,
"Don't grieve the Holy Spirit"
00:54:22.62\00:54:25.93
Ephesians 4:30, "Don't do
despite to the Holy Spirit."
00:54:25.96\00:54:30.67
Bible tells us in Hebrews 10:29
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and then do not, do not grieve,
do not resist the Holy Spirit.
00:54:36.74\00:54:41.54
As Steven when he
was preaching he said,
00:54:41.58\00:54:44.25
you're always
resisting the Holy Spirit.
00:54:44.28\00:54:46.21
You know, what they did?
00:54:46.25\00:54:47.58
The Bible said they closed
their ears and they stoned them
00:54:47.62\00:54:50.45
All the prophets
that's Acts 7:51 by the way.
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He said, "You
stiff-necked people!
00:54:54.39\00:54:58.89
Your got the law
but you don't keep it.
00:54:58.93\00:55:01.70
Not happens all the
times in my seminars.
00:55:01.73\00:55:03.43
People hear the law of
God but they won't keep it.
00:55:03.47\00:55:07.90
They do this, they close
their ears and close their eyes
00:55:07.94\00:55:11.84
and Steven said your stiff next,
00:55:11.87\00:55:14.08
you are always
resisting the Holy Spirit.
00:55:14.11\00:55:16.88
And the Bible says, his
face was shining like an angel.
00:55:16.91\00:55:20.58
And he was preaching and these
people did not want to, what?
00:55:20.62\00:55:25.55
Hear it.
00:55:25.59\00:55:28.32
They were closed minded.
00:55:28.36\00:55:29.92
You share the
Sabbath with some people
00:55:29.96\00:55:31.59
and guarantee some of
them I are gonna be like,
00:55:31.63\00:55:34.96
I don't want to hear it.
00:55:35.00\00:55:36.33
Can you just be
quiet about that?
00:55:36.36\00:55:38.40
Because they might need
to go to the boss and say,
00:55:38.43\00:55:40.37
you know what, I'm
not gonna work today.
00:55:40.40\00:55:42.07
Say, what?
00:55:42.10\00:55:44.87
Beloved, we need to
learn to hear the voice of God
00:55:44.91\00:55:48.44
and not care about
these other voices.
00:55:48.48\00:55:51.68
And so Steven
said your stiff neck...
00:55:51.71\00:55:56.12
well, come on
you see even in kids.
00:55:56.15\00:55:59.72
Johnny, come here, come here,
00:55:59.75\00:56:01.59
you got to return
those toys to Sally.
00:56:01.62\00:56:03.66
You just took them, come, come.
00:56:03.69\00:56:05.26
What does Johnny
do, I don't want to.
00:56:05.29\00:56:09.53
I don't know what
is it about this neck,
00:56:09.56\00:56:10.97
it has to be stiffen, you
know, it might get broken.
00:56:11.00\00:56:13.37
You stiff neck people...
00:56:15.40\00:56:18.07
you are always
resisting the Holy Spirit.
00:56:18.11\00:56:20.88
Every prophet was mistreated.
00:56:20.91\00:56:26.05
Prophets were stoned
and what did they do,
00:56:26.08\00:56:29.78
what did we do with
Jesus who is the truth?
00:56:29.82\00:56:34.09
We crucified Him.
00:56:34.12\00:56:35.72
And the way we treat the
truth that we have been hearing
00:56:35.76\00:56:38.76
night by night in this seminar
is the way we treat Jesus
00:56:38.79\00:56:42.13
and the Holy Spirit.
00:56:42.16\00:56:43.93
Jesus is the way of the
truth and life, John 14:6.
00:56:43.97\00:56:47.57
And the Holy Spirit
is the author of truth,
00:56:47.60\00:56:49.74
the spirit of truth.
00:56:49.77\00:56:51.34
Would you agree
we need to tremble
00:56:51.37\00:56:53.01
lest we resist the
Holy Spirit in any--
00:56:53.04\00:56:56.31
How many agree if you
accept the Bible Sabbath
00:56:56.34\00:56:58.81
but you don't except, you
need to come out of Babylon
00:56:58.85\00:57:01.42
and get into the remnant.
00:57:01.45\00:57:03.72
You are in partial
blindness and you resist.
00:57:03.75\00:57:06.25
How many agree, you
got to get the whole truth?
00:57:06.29\00:57:10.43
And so I want you
to notice here beloved,
00:57:10.46\00:57:12.46
where is the Holy
Spirit gonna lead us
00:57:12.49\00:57:14.76
and the dragon was
in rage with the woman
00:57:14.80\00:57:18.13
and he went to make war
with the rest of her off-spring
00:57:18.17\00:57:20.74
the remnant who keeps
the commandments of God
00:57:20.77\00:57:24.01
including the
Seventh-day Sabbath
00:57:24.04\00:57:25.54
and have the
testimony of Jesus Christ.
00:57:25.57\00:57:27.81
Don't you think the Holy Spirit
00:57:27.84\00:57:29.44
wants to lead
you in right, there?
00:57:29.48\00:57:34.48
How many agree
God is up to something
00:57:34.52\00:57:37.29
and it's through the operation
of work of the Holy Spirit.
00:57:37.32\00:57:41.12
He's led you this seminar.
00:57:41.16\00:57:44.13
He prepared you for the seminar
before you came to the seminar.
00:57:44.16\00:57:49.66
Although sudden
and alarming changes
00:57:49.70\00:57:52.37
are sweeping across the globe
00:57:52.40\00:57:54.50
you and your
family can be prepared
00:57:54.54\00:57:56.30
to face the
future with comforts.
00:57:56.34\00:57:59.01
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