Participants: Mark Fox
Series Code: AMP
Program Code: AMP000029A
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00:04 We are racing towards the global crisis at the close.
00:09 God is going to set up His kingdom on earth. 00:13 Preparation for the tribulation and the translation 00:17 is to develop a character like Jesus Christ. 00:21 To reach every hamlet, every village, 00:23 every man, every child, every person in India, 00:27 every person in South America 00:28 must hear these Three Angels' messages. 00:34 These are stories that illustrate 00:36 the kind of fabric of character and perseverance 00:39 that we need to go through the tribulation 00:42 just as certainly as they did. 00:44 The Bible makes it very clear 00:45 we are living in an unusual hour, 00:48 the last grains of sand are trickling 00:50 through the hourglass of time 00:52 and the door of probation is about to swing shut. 01:00 On the night of Sunday, 14 April 1912, 01:05 the moon was not visible in the clear sky 01:07 being two days before new moon, 01:10 the temperature had dropped to near freezing 01:12 and the ocean was flat calm, Captain Smith, 01:16 in response to iceberg warnings received via wireless 01:19 over the preceding few days, had drawn up a new course 01:23 which took the ship slightly further southward 01:28 because there were no ice bergs 01:31 that could survive down there when it would be warmer. 01:34 And so that Sunday at 1:45 p.m., 01:39 a message from the steamer "America" 01:44 warned that large icebergs lay in "Titanic's" path, 01:49 but because wireless radio operators 01:52 Jack Phillips and Harold Bride were employed by Marconi, 01:58 and paid primarily to relay messages 02:02 to and from the passengers, 02:04 some of which would pay a whopping amount 02:07 to get their message to the-- 02:10 to land, they were not focused on relaying 02:13 "non essential" ice messages to the bridge. 02:19 Later that evening, another report 02:22 of numerous large icebergs, this time from "Mesaba," 02:28 also failed to reach the bridge. 02:33 In the time of the end, most are too busy 02:39 to pause to listen to the voice of the Holy Spirit. 02:43 Our world is going down. 02:47 We've already hit the big ice bergs. 02:50 This world is already sinking 02:54 because people have violated their conscience, 02:57 resisted the Holy Spirit, rejected the truth, 03:01 this world is sinking and sinking fast. 03:04 How many believe we are living 03:06 in the last moments of this sinking world? 03:09 And so the enemy is desperately trying 03:12 to drown out, the voice of conscience 03:16 and the voice of the Holy Spirit. 03:20 The sinner must be aware today, 03:24 of fatal distractions that preoccupy the soul 03:27 with things of the world 03:29 while the world is sinking fast. 03:34 Well, we know that this whole world 03:37 is on course to commit the unpardonable sin. 03:45 This whole generation of ours 03:47 will commit the unpardonable sin 03:51 as they did in the days of Noah. 03:54 Take your Bible and turn with me 03:56 to Genesis Chapter 6, looking there at verse 3. 04:02 "And the Lord said, 'My Spirit,' What every one? 04:07 'My Spirit shall not strive with man forever, 04:13 for he is indeed flesh, yet his days 04:16 shall be a hundred and twenty years.'" 04:20 Verse 5. Why? 04:22 With the Holy Spirit be withdrawn from the earth. 04:25 Why would the Holy Spirit be withdrawn? 04:27 Because the Holy Spirit was being resisted, rejected, 04:30 maligned, derided, ridiculed. 04:33 The Holy Spirit was using mighty Noah 04:37 to preach the powerful messages of preparation for the deluge, 04:41 for the flood. 04:43 And so this powerful call from God 04:47 was being preached by Noah. 04:49 Noah was giving the last call 04:52 to get in that truly unsinkable boat. 04:56 Can you say amen? 04:58 That boat would float amidst 40 days of torrential 05:04 and upheaval. 05:05 And so the Bible makes it very clear 05:08 that the Holy Spirit was being withdrawn. 05:11 So there were only eight people 05:14 that were responding favorably positively to the Holy Spirit, 05:20 Noah and his family went in that boat, 05:24 that unsinkable boat whereas the rest of the world, 05:29 antediluvians committed the unpardonable sin. 05:35 They stayed on land 05:39 while the others went into the boat. 05:41 Why? 05:43 Because they refused 05:45 to listen to the voice of the Holy Spirit. 05:48 They resisted, resisted, resisted 05:51 until they went to the point of no return. 05:54 Jesus says it will be just like that in the day 05:57 "as was in the days of Noah, 05:59 it will be like that in the time of the end." 06:01 Matthew 24, Luke 17, makes it clear. 06:03 There is this eerie, sticking parallel 06:06 between the social conditions 06:09 that prevailed in the days of Noah and our day. 06:12 And one of the beacon warnings 06:14 that we could receive here now, the course of time is this, 06:18 they refused to listen to the Spirit of God 06:21 'cause will need to make a decisive change in their life 06:25 whereas people today 06:27 are repeating this checkered history. 06:29 And I want you to notice here, what were doing? 06:32 What were they guilty of in the days of Noah 06:35 that would lead this entire generation 06:38 to commit the fatal sin, the unpardonable sin? 06:42 Look at Genesis 6 and see if we are on course 06:47 to commit the unpardonable sin here in America 06:50 and in earth's final generation. 06:52 Look at verse 5, "Then the Lord saw 06:55 that the wickedness of man was great in the earth." 06:58 And the Bible says, "And that every intent," 07:02 that is thought, "of the thoughts of his heart," 07:06 the thoughts of his heart, "was only evil continually." 07:11 That is all day long evil. 07:14 And so the Bible says here, "And the LORD was sorry 07:16 that He had made man on the earth 07:18 and He was grieved," 07:19 notice here, "grieved in His heart." 07:24 Grieved or hurt in His heart. 07:27 So the Lord said "I will destroy man 07:30 whom I have created from the face of the earth, 07:32 both man and beast, creeping thing 07:34 and birds of the earth 07:35 for I am sorry that I have made man." 07:37 Or made them. 07:39 "But Noah found grace in the eyes of the LORD." 07:42 So while the Holy Spirit was filling Noah and his family, 07:48 the rest of the world was losing the Spirit of God 07:51 because they were grieving the heart of God, 07:53 grieving the Spirit of God. 07:55 Do you notice the connection between 07:57 God's heart being grieved 08:00 and the Holy Spirit being withdrawn? 08:02 How many could see that connection there? 08:04 That God's heart was being grieved 08:07 and the Holy Spirit that comes from His heart 08:10 was being withdrawn. 08:12 That is happening today. How many agree? 08:15 People are grieving the heart of God, 08:18 they are grieving the Holy Spirit. 08:20 A matter of fact, take your Bible 08:21 and turn with me to Ephesians. 08:23 So how were they grieving the Holy Spirit? 08:25 By not listening to the voice of the Holy Spirit. 08:28 That's how they were grieving the Holy Spirit. 08:30 They were refusing to listen to the Holy Spirit's voice. 08:34 Does the Holy Spirit have a voice? 08:36 Absolutely. 08:37 Now we are going to Ephesians Chapter 4. 08:41 Ephesians Chapter 4, 08:43 these verses are just setting the pace and the tone 08:46 to unlock the mysteries that shroud 08:48 this subject of the unpardonable sin. 08:51 This subject is prophetic and it is practical. 08:54 Ephesians Chapter 4, 08:56 looking there in verses 25 and onward. 09:01 "Therefore, putting away lying, 09:02 Let each one of you speak truth with his neighbor, 09:05 for we are members of one another. 09:07 Be angry, and do not sin, do not let the sun go down 09:11 on your wrath, nor give place or opportunity to the devil. 09:16 Let him who stole steal no longer, 09:18 but rather let him labor, working with his hands 09:21 what is good, that he may have something to give 09:23 who has need. 09:24 Let no corrupt word proceed out of your mouth, 09:29 but that which is good or necessary for edification, 09:33 that is building up that may impart grace to the hearers. 09:37 And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, 09:42 by whom you were sealed for the day of redemption. 09:46 "Let all bitterness," 09:47 that can grieve the Holy Spirit, 09:49 "wrath," that can grieve the Holy Spirit, 09:51 "anger," that can grieve the Holy Spirit, 09:53 "clamor," that is loud quarrelling 09:55 can grieve the Holy Spirit, "and evil speaking," 09:58 of foolish talk can grieve the Holy Spirit, 10:01 "be put away from you, with all malice." 10:03 And be kind to one another, tenderhearted, 10:06 forgiving one another, 10:07 even as God in Christ forgave you." 10:10 So can you and I see readily here tonight 10:13 that there are variety of ways 10:15 that you can grieve the Holy Spirit 10:18 and that would put you on track 10:20 to ultimately connect the unpardonable sin? 10:23 How many of you agree? 10:24 There is a road, a dangerous road that leads to the-- 10:27 ultimately to the unpardonable sin, 10:29 the point of no return or the point 10:32 where there is no turning back. 10:34 We don't want to get on that road. 10:35 How many agree? 10:37 We want to go the opposite direction 10:39 or might I say, maybe a different road. 10:41 You see the Bible makes it crystal clear, 10:44 the whole world is on course 10:46 to commit the unpardonable sin just like the antediluvians. 10:51 And so just as that door they are closed on them. 10:55 So the door by the Ark of the Covenant, 10:57 the intercession of Christ is about to close. 11:00 Probation is about to close and it will be said, 11:04 Revelation 22: 11 and 12. 11:06 He that is unjust, let him be unjust still, 11:09 he that is righteous, let him be righteous still." 11:11 You are either in or you're out. 11:13 And that happens before Jesus comes, 11:15 just as the door of the Ark was closed 11:17 before the flood came, 11:18 seven days before the flood came. 11:21 So before Jesus comes, 11:23 before the plagues are poured out, 11:26 it will be determined in heaven's throne room, 11:29 it will be determined in this judgment 11:31 that is going on now that begins with the house of God. 11:34 This judgment will reach a verdict 11:38 and the destinies of man 11:40 will be fixed for time in eternity. 11:43 It happens before Jesus comes because when He comes 11:46 He knows who He is coming of for. 11:49 And so the Bible makes it very clear. 11:50 The whole world is on course 11:53 to commit the infamous unpardonable sin. 11:56 I was gonna say mark of the beast. 11:58 Well, then yeah, people would commit 11:59 the unpardonable sin in the last days 12:02 is because they receive 12:03 the mark of the beast would you agree? 12:06 Get the mark of the beast, that is the unpardonable sin 12:08 because when we get the mark of the beast, 12:10 you can't say, "Oh, I changed my mind, 12:12 I don't want the mark of the beast, 12:13 I want the seal of God." 12:14 Too late, you committed the unpardonable sin. 12:16 And so the Bible makes it very clear. 12:18 If you want to avoid the unpardonable sin, 12:21 you got to listen to the voice of the Holy Spirit. 12:25 Well, what is the unpardonable sin? 12:28 Let's see. Matthew 12:31. 12:30 What is the sin that God cannot forgive? 12:33 I already set the pace and tone but let's go to it. 12:37 Matthew Chapter 12, Matthew Chapter 12, 12:42 looking there at verse 31. 12:45 The Bible says, "Therefore I say to you, 12:49 every sin and blasphemy will be forgiven men, 12:53 but the blasphemy against the Spirit 12:56 will not be forgiven men. 12:59 And anyone who speaks a word against the Son of Man, 13:01 it will be forgiven him; but whoever speaks against," 13:06 what does it say there? 13:07 "Against the Holy Spirit, it will not be forgiven him, 13:13 either in this age or in the age to come." 13:16 So therefore, what is the unpardonable sin? 13:19 This verse is worth reading at least ten times. 13:24 We must ponder and probe the depth of its meaning. 13:29 Comparing scripture with scripture, 13:31 we can unlock the mystery 13:35 and understand the truth of this matter. 13:39 So we must not jump 13:40 to conclusions about this topic. 13:42 We must guard against preconceived opinions 13:45 because this is a serious, hard hitting, 13:48 straight shooting, sobering warning from Jesus. 13:51 This is a fearful awesome warning 13:54 especially for earth's final generation. 13:58 Therefore it is too important to guess about. 14:02 Now there is both good news and bad news 14:06 in this troublesome passage. 14:08 We read about things that can be forgiven 14:11 and one thing that cannot be forgiven. 14:14 The good news is that God forgives abortion, 14:17 killing, stealing, greed, adultery, lying, 14:20 cheating on your taxes, cursing God, 14:23 worshipping of a false god, backsliding, denying Jesus, 14:26 I mean, you can add to your list here. 14:29 God forgives if we confess our sins. 14:33 Let's say that together. 14:34 "If we confess our sins, He is faithful 14:37 and just to forgive us our sins 14:40 and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness." 14:42 1 John 1:9. 14:44 I don't know about you but I would have, 14:45 Mark Fox would have no hope if I didn't believe 14:47 in a forgiveness of Jesus Christ. 14:49 How many need a whole lot of forgiveness 14:51 besides Mark Fox? 14:52 All right. So listen. 14:53 What does the Bible say about sin and blasphemy then? 14:57 Well, just think it is the sin 15:01 that is irreversible and unforgivable. 15:04 It is a point of no return. It is a point of no return. 15:09 Many wonder if they have committed 15:11 the unpardonable sins. 15:12 Sometimes people will come to me 15:14 as a Criss-Cross North America, 15:15 they'll come to me and say, you know what, 15:17 I'm kind of wondering 15:18 if I've committed the unpardonable sin. 15:20 Well, the enemy of our soul wants us to think 15:23 we have committed it so that we will feel lost 15:26 and hopeless and thus rob us of faith 15:29 and salvation and end up being self fulfilling prophecy. 15:34 Now I wonder if I committed it. 15:36 "Oh, on, I might as well give up." 15:37 Well, you just committed the unpardonable sin 15:38 if you stay that way. 15:41 I'm gonna agree, the devil may knock you down 15:43 but don't stay down, can you say amen? 15:46 And so or another deception 15:48 would be for our enemy to make us feel comfortable 15:51 while we are on the forbidden path 15:53 that leads ultimately to the unpardonable sin. 15:56 Isn't that true? 15:57 So in other words, the unpardonable sin, 15:59 you got to recognize it and avoid it. 16:02 And so the sin against the Holy Ghost 16:05 is rejecting the work of a Holy Ghost. 16:09 How many of you agree that Holy Spirit is at work? 16:11 Philippians 2:13. 16:14 It says, "God who works in you," 16:16 through the Holy Spirit, 16:18 "both to will and to do what His good pleasure." 16:21 In other words, the Holy Spirit is working. 16:25 I'm just thankful that the Holy Spirit is working 16:27 for you, not against you. 16:30 The Holy Spirit is for you. 16:33 We must be for the Holy Spirit, can you say amen? 16:36 So what is the primary work of the Holy Spirit? 16:40 If indeed you do not want to grieve the Holy Spirit, 16:43 you do not want to resist the Holy Spirit, 16:45 you do not want to reject the Holy Spirit, 16:48 you want to cooperate with the Holy Spirit, 16:50 you want to response favorably to the Holy Spirit, 16:52 then you and I need to discover 16:54 what is the primary work of the Holy Spirit. 16:57 Does this make sense? Yes or no. 16:59 So let's continue. 17:01 The comprehensive skill or nature 17:05 or work of the Holy Spirit would include, 17:07 the Holy Spirit draws us, the Holy Spirit comforts us. 17:13 The Bible says in John 14: 26, 17:16 let's go there and then we'll go back to the screen. 17:18 Let's go there. John Chapter 14. 17:22 I love the Holy Spirit tonight. How about you? 17:24 I know you do. John 14:26. 17:30 There's a song that goes, "Come Holy Spirit, 17:33 I need you." 17:34 Amen. "Come Holy Spirit, I pray." 17:37 Amen. John 14 and verse number 26. 17:42 "But the Helper," so the Holy Spirit is a Helper. 17:46 The Holy Spirit, the Helper, 17:48 it is also the Holy Spirit is called the Comforter. 17:51 "The Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send 17:53 in My name, He will teach you all things." 17:55 So the Holy Spirit comforts because the Holy Spirit 18:00 is as called Helper but also that word 18:03 can also be rendered Comforter. 18:05 So Holy Spirit is known as the Comforter or the Helper, 18:09 "whom the Father will send in My name. 18:13 He will teach you." 18:14 So the Holy Spirit is our teacher. 18:16 Now even though right now, 18:18 Mark Fox is up here preaching and teaching, come on now, 18:22 who is the ultimate teacher, really? 18:25 I can get up here and I can say words 18:27 but they are not gonna resonate in your heart. 18:29 They are gonna be nothing 18:30 without the help of the Holy Spirit. 18:32 How many of you agree? 18:33 You need the guidance, the assistance, 18:36 the impressions of the Holy Spirit 18:38 to make the word come alive 18:39 otherwise it's just the dead letter, right? 18:42 We don't understand. 18:43 The Bible says in 1 Corinthians 2:14, 18:45 "Spiritual things are spiritually discerned." 18:49 Spiritually recognized, spiritually discovered. 18:52 The Holy Spirit puts your glasses on, right? 18:55 Like, you know, spiritually glasses, all right. 18:57 Now I want you to notice here, 18:59 Holy Spirit is our teacher, "teaches us all things" 19:03 and I love this. 19:04 "Brings to your remembrance all things that I said to you." 19:08 How many of you had the experienced 19:10 going through the throws of a trial? 19:11 You are in the crucible of a trial, 19:13 I mean, it's terrible, it's thick, it's horrible 19:16 and as you are brooding over this trial 19:19 and you are wondering 19:20 how am I gonna endure this trial, bam, 19:23 the Holy Spirit flashes into your memory, 19:27 brings to your remembrance some song, 19:30 some scripture, some gem of thought. 19:34 Maybe it can be even like a little allegory about 19:37 footprints in the sand. 19:39 I think you are familiar, many of you with that one 19:41 or hymn like "Amazing Grace" 19:44 or hymn like "How Great Thou Art" 19:46 or a scripture like "He will never leave you, 19:50 nor forsake you." 19:51 Hebrews 13: 5 and 6. 19:53 Or "Lo, I am with you always, even unto the end of the ages." 19:56 Matthew 28:20. 19:59 "I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me." 20:02 Philippians 4: 13. 20:03 How many agree the Holy Spirit 20:04 will bring those up on the computer screen of mind? 20:09 How many are thankful 20:10 that the Holy Spirit works for you. 20:14 And so think about it. 20:16 The Holy Spirit is continually at work in us, 20:20 teaching us, reminding us, comforting us. 20:24 And let's go back to the screen. 20:27 The Holy Spirit draws us, the Holy Spirit comforts us, 20:30 the Holy Spirit converts us. 20:33 You can't change your heart in your own self. 20:36 But look at me. 20:37 You cannot change your evil heart. 20:41 "Our heart is desperately wicked." 20:43 It says in Jeremiah 17: 9 and 10. 20:46 It says "Who can know it?" Who can know it? 20:49 God knows it. 20:50 And the Holy Spirit converts us. 20:53 The Holy Spirit-- when we ask Jesus 20:55 to come into our heart, 20:57 He comes in through the Holy Spirit. 20:59 And the Holy Spirit changes us, the Holy Spirit transforms us. 21:05 Again, the Holy Spirit-- back to the screen, 21:08 inspires us. 21:10 "All scripture is given by the inspiration of God." 21:13 It is God bree through the Holy Spirit. 21:16 How many agree, there is no inspiration 21:20 without the Holy Spirit. 21:22 Who is our inspiration? 21:25 And so Holy Spirit-- back to the screen. 21:29 The Holy Spirit impresses us. 21:31 The Holy Spirit, you know, let me say this, 21:35 night by night, Holy Spirit has been taking 21:39 what is being said here and impressing you heart. 21:45 Think about it. 21:47 The Holy Spirit impresses us. Have you ever said this? 21:51 "Oh, I feel impressed to, 21:54 oh, I felt impressed to give you a call 21:56 or somebody calls you, "I felt impressed to call you." 21:58 All right. 22:00 You know impressions of the Holy Spirit 22:02 are very, very important. 22:05 You don't want to ignore the Holy Spirit. 22:09 You want to recognize and respond to the Holy Spirit. 22:12 So the Holy Spirit will impress us, you know. 22:16 The Bible makes it very clear 22:18 that "All the scriptures are inspired." 22:21 It says holy men of God spoke 22:24 and wrote "as they were moved by the Holy Ghost." 22:30 As they were impressed by the Holy Spirit. 22:33 That's in 2 Peter Chapter 1: 19-21 in there. 22:39 So the Holy Spirit moved the patriarchs and prophets 22:43 and the apostles. 22:45 And the same Spirit that moved them 22:47 to write things down, 22:49 is a Holy Spirit that's moving us 22:51 to accept what was written down by the Holy Ghost. 22:55 So thank God for impressions. 22:59 So we go back to the screen. The Holy Spirit refreshes. 23:05 All right, take your Bible and turn with me 23:07 to Acts Chapter 3. 23:09 I love the Holy Spirit tonight, amen. 23:12 I love the Holy Spirit. What is the unpardonable sin? 23:17 It's resisting, resisting, resisting, resisting, 23:20 resisting the Holy Spirit 23:22 until you cannot even respond anymore 23:24 because you have lost the ability to respond, 23:27 because your heart has become so hard, 23:29 you don't even recognize the voice of the Holy Spirit. 23:32 That's the unpardonable sin. What's the unpardonable sin? 23:35 It's the sin that you refused to give up 23:38 because all sin can be forgiven if it's confessed and forsaken 23:42 through the help of the Holy Spirit. 23:44 How many agree the Holy Spirit 23:45 is like a flash light shining any sin your heart? 23:48 We'll get to that in a moment. 23:50 So the Holy Spirit will refresh us. 23:56 How many get-- 23:58 it overwhelms sometimes you get a little tired 24:02 and maybe all of a sudden you start to feel nagging fears 24:05 or fear a little inundated with guilt 24:09 or whatever the emotion, anyway you just feel, 24:12 start to get a little tired 24:14 even though you shall think, the Bible says in Isaiah 40. 24:17 But the Bible says here, listen, listen, listen. 24:19 Acts 3:19. "Repent." 24:22 And we can only do that 24:24 through the help of the Holy Spirit. 24:25 You cannot repent in your own flesh. 24:28 "The flesh profits nothing." 24:32 That's what the scriptures teach. 24:34 That's what Jesus said in John 6, 24:35 "The flesh profits nothing." 24:39 John 6: 63. 24:41 And He said it is the Spirit that gives life. 24:46 The Spirit gives life. There's no life in the flesh. 24:49 Oh, yeah, you know, you got the physical life 24:50 but there's no spiritual life. 24:52 The Bible says in Ephesians 2, "We are dead in sin." 24:59 And so that's our dilemma. Our deplorable condition. 25:02 We are dead in sin so we need the inspiration 25:05 and the refreshing, the renewal, 25:07 the reviving of the Holy Spirit. 25:09 How many agree the Holy Spirit 25:11 is needed every moment in our existence? 25:14 The Holy Spirit connects us with God, 25:16 the Holy Spirit supports us. 25:19 You want a support system, you got the Holy Spirit. 25:23 The Holy Spirit is our Counselor as well, 25:25 our Comforter and so forth. 25:27 So let's look at this. 25:28 Acts 3, so the Holy Spirit, 25:31 "The Holy Spirit will help us to repent." 25:36 The Holy Spirit will help us to repent. 25:38 Look here at verse 19 back there. 25:40 "Repent, therefore and be converted 25:42 that your sins may be blotted out 25:45 and so that times of refreshing 25:48 they come from the presence of the Lord." 25:50 Well, is the presence of the Lord here? 25:52 Huh, there is healing in this house. 25:55 The presence of the Lord is here. 25:58 But you don't see Jesus. 25:59 It's through His unseen third person 26:02 of the God head, the Holy Spirit. 26:07 The Holy Spirit is not an air of force. 26:09 The Holy Spirit is a person. 26:11 Jesus said, when "He, the Spirit if truth is come, 26:14 He will guide you in all truth." 26:16 He, Jesus called the Holy Spirit, 26:17 not an it but He. 26:19 Now watch this, watch this. So Jesus made it very clear. 26:23 Then He said, "You ask the Father in my name, 26:26 then He's gonna give you the Holy Spirit. 26:29 And the Holy Spirit is gonna bring to us 26:31 the presence of Jesus. 26:33 Do you remember in one occasion, 26:35 Jesus in John Chapter 20, after He was risen, 26:38 the disciples were gathered together in the upper room? 26:41 And the Bible says in John 20. 26:42 It says there "He breathed on them the Holy Ghost." 26:47 So the Holy Ghost, you don't see the Holy Spirit 26:50 but what is this, what is He talking about? 26:53 You know, breathe on them the Holy Spirit. 26:56 Uh, the Holy Spirit is refreshing. 26:59 Amen. The Holy Spirit is refreshing. 27:01 It's compared, the Holy Spirit is compared to water, 27:04 the Holy Spirit is compared to wind. 27:06 How many of you agree? 27:07 The wind, uh, refreshing, water, refreshing, 27:11 the presence of God is refreshing. 27:15 And so the Bible makes it very clear. 27:17 That's what we need. 27:18 When we go through burdens, the trials, 27:20 the temptations that are formidable and fierce, 27:23 let me tell you something. 27:24 We need to go in the presence of God 27:26 and say "Refresh me, Holy Spirit 27:28 and fill me Holy Spirit." 27:30 The Bible says in Ephesians Chapter 5 27:31 "Be filled with Spirit." 27:33 How many agree if you are being 27:34 filled with the Spirit, that's the opposite 27:37 of going towards the mark of the beast 27:39 and the unpardonable sin and all that? 27:40 How many agree? "Overcome evil with good." 27:43 Romans 12:21. 27:44 "Be filled with the Spirit of God" 27:46 And so the Bible says here 27:48 "Refresh from the presence of the Lord." 27:51 Refreshing form the presence of the Lord. 27:54 I love that, refreshing from the presence of the Lord. 27:57 You know, the disciples were gathered together 27:59 for 10 days seeking the gift of the Holy Spirit. 28:05 Now I believe in some degree they-- 28:07 You know, they had the presence of Jesus. 28:09 The Bible says in John 20, 28:10 "He breathed upon them the Holy Spirit. 28:13 So they had some measure of the Holy Spirit 28:15 because, you know, without the Holy Spirit, 28:16 you wouldn't even have a desire for God 28:18 because there's no good thing in our flesh. 28:25 Paul said in Philippians, he said, 28:27 "I put no confidence in the flesh." 28:31 There's only one thing that the flesh is good for. 28:34 The Bible says, "crucify." 28:37 It's because the flesh cannot rule, 28:39 the Holy Spirit must rule. 28:41 Surrender to the Holy Spirit. Amen. 28:44 And so I want you to notice here, refreshing. 28:48 The disciples prayed for ten days 28:50 and after ten days, 28:52 it was like a mighty rushing wind. 28:56 The place was shaking, the wind of the Holy Spirit. 28:59 Jesus compared the operation, the function, the work 29:02 and the presence of the Holy Spirit in John 3 29:04 when He was talking to Nicodemus 29:06 in that night time conference there 29:08 in the Garden of Gethsemane. 29:09 Do you remember, He compared the new birth, 29:12 He said "You got to born of the Spirit." 29:15 And He said "It's like wind." 29:17 You don't see the wind but you see what it does. 29:22 You see the move of wind in terms of what it does. 29:25 It's a fact. It's powerful. 29:27 How many agree wind is powerful? 29:30 And so I want you to notice here, 29:31 the refreshing, the refreshing, 29:33 oh, how we need the refreshing of the Holy Spirit. 29:36 How many agree let's have Jesus breathe up on us 29:39 the Holy Spirit on us tonight? 29:41 And that we might really be revitalized and refreshed. 29:46 And so the Bible makes it very clear. 29:48 Let's go back to the screen. 29:51 The Holy Spirit gives wisdom. The Holy Spirit gives wisdom. 29:55 I love that. And the Holy Spirit empowers. 29:58 That's how we get the power. 29:59 "Not by might, nor by power, 30:02 but by My Spirit," said the Lord. 30:04 Zechariah 4: 6. How many agree? 30:06 The Holy Spirit has ample power for the weakest believer? 30:12 Have you ever fell like you are just like weak? 30:15 Come on now, I felt that way as well. 30:16 And if you think you are week I would argue with this 30:18 and I'm more weak than you are. 30:20 But the Bible says in Joel 3:10. 30:22 "Let the weak say, 'I am strong.' 30:25 "That's a quote from scripture. 30:28 By the way there is power in the word 30:30 because the Holy Spirit is in the word, 30:32 because the Holy Spirit-- 30:33 The words that I speak they are spirit and they are life. 30:36 This is not a dead letter through the Holy Spirit. 30:38 In Hebrews 4:12 says, "The Word of God is alive." 30:43 Amen. "The Word of God is alive." 30:47 Where this is known as the table of showbread 30:49 which was the table of His presence. 30:52 You want more of the presence of God 30:53 you open this book and say, 30:55 Lord, I'm going into Your presence 30:57 speak to me a timely word and He always will. 31:04 And so listen to me, Holy Spirit, 31:08 Holy Spirit empowers us to resist temptation. 31:13 The Holy Spirit enlightens, 31:16 helps us to understand God's will. 31:19 The Holy Spirit supports us. The Holy Spirit sustains us. 31:23 The Holy Spirit protects us and on and on and on 31:27 this is just the tip of the iceberg 31:29 in terms of explaining and articulating 31:33 how wonderful the work and operation 31:36 and function of the Holy Spirit is. 31:38 Now can you see that we must praise God 31:42 for the Spirit of God for the Holy Spirit, amen. 31:45 Now keep this in mind 31:46 we don't glorify the Holy Spirit. 31:48 The Holy Spirit, the Bible says in John 16, 31:50 that the work of the Holy Spirit is to glorify Jesus. 31:55 So the Holy Spirit's work, 31:56 when the Holy Spirit comes within us 31:58 we just want to praise Jesus. 32:00 Oh, it's okay to say, come Holy Spirit, 32:03 thank you Holy Spirit 32:04 but ultimately we are praising Jesus, amen. 32:08 We praise the Father, Son and Holy Spirit 32:11 but the Holy Spirit exalts Jesus. 32:14 I love this scripture and what book of the Bible? 32:16 Revelation 3:20 read it together with me. 32:20 I love this book and I'm gonna thunder out 32:23 one particular word there. 32:26 "Behold, I stand at the door and knock. 32:28 If anyone hears My voice and opens the door, 32:34 I will come in to him and will what? 32:37 And dine with Him, and He with me" 32:40 sitting down with Jesus in sweet fellowship. 32:43 You know, when you want to get close to someone 32:46 what do you do? 32:48 Hey, come on over and eat or let's go out to eat 32:50 or can I come over and eat. 32:53 The idea is let's eat together. 32:55 Let's doesn't talk, let's eat 32:59 because when you eat it kind of open up, right, 33:03 depending on the food. 33:05 All right, anyway, so the Bible makes it very clear 33:09 Jesus says I'm knocking, I'm knocking on the door. 33:13 How does He knock? 33:15 Through the Holy Spirit, through the Word of God, 33:17 through His providential leading, through people. 33:20 How many agree people? 33:21 God gonna use people to knock on the door of your heart. 33:24 And so He knocks on the-- 33:26 What's the door? That's our heart. 33:28 If anyone hears My voice, 33:30 that's how He knocks through His voice. 33:32 "If anyone hears My voice and opens the door," 33:35 that's our part, we got to open the door. 33:37 "I will come in to him 33:39 and dine with him, and he with Me." 33:40 Now I want you to think about this, 33:42 that's the Book of Revelation. 33:45 I want you to think about this. 33:47 Our eternal salvation based on the scripture 33:52 depends upon recognizing that knocking voice 33:57 and opening the door saying, 34:00 Jesus, I don't want to listen to any other voice 34:03 except that lovely, pleading, tender, melodious, 34:09 life giving voice. 34:11 Would you agree when you feel that 34:14 God is speaking to your heart personally, 34:17 calling you by name as it were. 34:19 Would you agree that strengthens you? 34:23 What if you never heard the voice of God speaking to you? 34:28 You heard the Word of God 34:30 but just you didn't, there was nothing. 34:37 Would you agree that would be the ultimate tragedy? 34:43 Thank God we can learn to get in tune 34:47 on the right frequency to heaven. 34:50 I'm gonna agree there is a frequency. 34:53 Jesus wants us get tuned in 34:56 so that we can hear His still small voice. 34:58 I think about go with me to 1 John. 35:01 I'm sorry, 1 John, 1 Kings, 35:04 1 Kings Chapter 19, 35:07 1 Kings 19:11 35:12 about the experience of Elijah at the mount. 35:16 "Then He said, 'Go out, 35:17 and stand on the mountain before the Lord.' 35:19 And behold, the Lord passed by, 35:20 and a great and strong wind tore into the mountains 35:25 and broke the rocks in pieces before the Lord." 35:28 Well, that would have got His attention right. 35:30 I mean, that would get your attention 35:32 riveted on what was taking place. 35:35 "But the Lord was not in the wind, 35:39 and after the wind an earthquake. 35:44 "Can you imagine that?" 35:46 I will get your attention 35:47 when the whole mountain is shaking 35:49 "but the Lord was not in the earthquake 35:52 and after the earthquake a fire, 35:55 but the Lord was not in the fire, 35:57 and after the fire a still small voice." 36:03 And I have in my Bible, I have in my Bible 36:08 and after the fire a still small voice." 36:12 And it's rendered here a delicate whispering voice. 36:17 A delicate whispering voice 36:21 like the sound of the breeze. 36:27 Lofting through the leafs in the fall 36:31 but still small voice of the Holy Spirit. 36:36 But we got the TV on, we got the music on, 36:40 we got our iPods and iPhones and iPads whatever, 36:45 we've got commotion, we have got a lot of noise 36:48 and toys and we've got so many deadlines 36:52 and this sort that, 36:55 Jesus speaking that still small voice. 36:58 And for those who are not recognizing it 37:01 because you are too busy with their toys 37:04 and their noise and deadlines and everything 37:07 that aren't listening even in their leisure, 37:09 they've got much barraged noise, 37:12 they are not listening... 37:17 because they are not listening 37:19 to the still small voice of Holy Spirit. 37:21 You are on track to commit the unpardonable sin. 37:26 On the way we can make sure that 37:28 we are not resisting or rejecting any phase of work 37:32 of the Holy Spirit it's by being into 37:35 what that still small voice of the Holy Spirit. 37:39 So Bible makes it very clear Elijah, 37:42 Elijah he heard the voice 37:49 and Elijah was ultimately translated to heaven. 37:53 Anybody interested in that? 37:58 Elijah recognized and followed that voice 38:03 and it led him to be translator. 38:08 We must if we want to be translated 38:12 the preparation for translation 38:15 is lesser than the still small voice of Holy Spirit. 38:24 Listen, I'm sure that you that-- 38:28 microphone tonight you could come up here 38:31 and I could ask you whether are there different times 38:34 in you life where you felt that Holy Spirit speaking to you, 38:37 the Holy Spirit speaking that still small voice. 38:39 I want to go ahead and raise your hand if you've had. 38:41 You know, you kind of sense, maybe not an audible voice 38:43 but you just sense, wow, that's a Holy Spirit speaking to me. 38:47 We must listen. 38:51 Every time we study the Bible, 38:53 every time we get up in the morning 38:55 we must always ask, Jesus, 38:58 what are You saying to me? 38:59 The Bible says in Psalms 4, 39:01 when you are laying down on your bed 39:03 be still and meditate within your heart. 39:06 What are you tying to do? 39:08 You are tying to listen, get in tune with Jesus 39:10 while you are still, even before your day starts 39:12 and as your day ends just be there still 39:15 and be like Samuel and when the Lord calls your name 39:19 Samuel, Samuel, Mark, Mark, 39:23 you can immediately say, Lord, I'm here. 39:28 I'm listening. I'm listening. 39:32 Now because I used to blast Led Zeppelin into my head 39:37 during the hippy era I am known to say, huh. 39:43 I'm gonna tell you how many times I say, huh. 39:45 I'm just saying, I say, huh. 39:49 I need to get another hearing check up 39:52 but let it go down on record I'm not in a rush. 39:56 Hearing aid will come I guess sometime. 39:59 Well, I might be able to get by with that 40:01 but one thing that Mark Fox cannot get by with, 40:05 I need a daily hearing check up spiritually. 40:12 Go with me to the Book of Revelation, 40:14 you want to relate this to Bible prophecy we will. 40:17 You want to make sure you don't, 40:19 you don't give into the Mark of the Beast 40:21 and we've identified what is the Mark of the Beast. 40:23 The beast is the Roman papal system 40:25 and the mark of their authority. 40:26 They say the mark of their authority is Sunday observance. 40:29 Nobody has the mark of the beast 40:31 because it has not been enforced 40:32 but soon in the horizon according to Bible prophecy 40:36 there will be a national Sunday law 40:38 and everyone will be forced to make a decision 40:42 for or against God's law or man's law. 40:47 Look here Revelation Chapter 14, 13, 40:53 in the context of talking about the beast, verse 9. 40:58 "If anyone has an ear," 41:00 what book of the Bible? Revelation. 41:02 "Let him hear." 41:04 Look at Revelation Chapter 1, Revelation Chapter 1 41:09 looking there at verse 3, 41:11 "Blessed is he who reads and those who 41:14 hear the words of this prophecy, 41:17 and keep those things which are written in it, 41:18 for the time is near." 41:21 So the Bible makes it very clear. 41:22 In the Book of Revelation you got to hear 41:25 what Revelation is really saying and how many agree? 41:28 That's more than the ear that's the heart ear. 41:32 Just like, come on ladies, 41:33 when you are talking to your husband 41:34 would you agree you want them to hear more than this ear, 41:37 you want them to hear with the heart ear. 41:38 Can you say amen, ladies? 41:40 And that applies to man. Can you say, amen? 41:43 Like, you know, you want your wives to listen and say amen. 41:46 All right, you got that. 41:48 All right, we cannot see Jesus but we can hear His voice 41:55 through the Holy Spirit speaking to us every hour, 41:59 every hour. 42:02 I said, Jesus talking to me constantly, constantly. 42:09 Correcting? 42:11 Oh, Holy Spirit will correct you. 42:12 Rebuking? 42:13 Oh, I get rebuked by the Holy Spirit. 42:16 Comforting? Oh, thank God. 42:21 You know, sometimes I'm without my family 42:22 as I go on the road. 42:25 It gets a little lonely and so I just seek the Lord 42:31 and somehow His comfort is there. 42:34 Home sickness can liberally leads you to seek the Lord 42:38 and receive the comfort. 42:39 Some of you have lost the loved one. 42:42 Maybe some of you are a widower. 42:45 Let me tell you something you are never alone. 42:49 The Holy Spirit is there just that Jesus is with you 42:55 as though you could actually see Him 42:57 because my Bible tells me He is always at my right hand. 43:00 That's when I ask, that's why when I ask my children 43:04 where is Jesus they will do this. 43:09 I'm glad, let's do it. 43:13 So somebody says, what do you believe about Jesus? 43:18 Say what? 43:20 Hallelujah. Amen. 43:24 "The Holy Spirit convicts us of sin." 43:28 Take your Bible and turn with me to John 16, 43:30 John 16 going there quickly. 43:34 John wrote the Book of Revelation as well. 43:36 We are looking here at John 16, John 16, 43:41 give you moment to locate that. 43:43 John 16, we are looking there at verse 8. 43:48 Well, work of the Holy Spirit. 43:50 You want to make sure you don't resist, reject, refuse, 43:53 grieve the Holy Spirit 43:54 then you got to know what Holy Spirit wants to do 43:57 and you must yield the right away, right. 44:03 You got to yield. Everybody say yield. 44:06 You got to yield in the Holy Spirit. 44:08 That means surrender. Say, Holy Spirit, you guide me. 44:12 Holy Spirit, you lead the way. 44:14 Holy Spirit, you tell me what you want me to do. 44:17 I'm not in the driving seat. 44:20 Notice John 16:8, 44:22 "And when He has come, Jesus said 44:25 He notice he, he, not it. 44:27 He will convict the world of sin, 44:32 of righteousness, and of judgment of sin, 44:35 because they do not believe in Me of righteousness. 44:38 Because I go to my father and you see me no more 44:41 of judgment because the rule of this world is judged. 44:44 So what is Jesus saying there? 44:45 I want to zero in on this aspect. 44:47 Jesus says that the Holy Spirit 44:49 will put to squeeze on your heart. 44:52 The Holy Spirit will make you feel uncomfortable in any sin 44:58 or a false teaching that has been exposed 45:01 as being just that. 45:03 And so the work of the Holy Spirit is to convict. 45:07 Now when the convicting power of the Holy Spirit 45:11 comes upon you seizes your heart, 45:14 do you think that your natural response is gonna be, 45:17 hippy, I'm under conviction. 45:22 Time to celebrate. No. 45:25 You might get little squirming if the preacher is preaching 45:28 and all of the sudden the Holy Spirit says, 45:30 "hue, you go to make a change and you start squirming, 45:34 prospering, you know, the heart starts start's racing, 45:36 you say, honey, I want to get out of here. 45:39 Why, because the flesh always rebels against 45:43 the still small voice of the Holy Spirit. 45:48 Our flesh is always talking to us 45:51 and the Holy Spirit says, flesh, be quiet. 45:55 I'm in control here. And there is this war. 45:57 Galatians 5 talks about the war between the spirit and flesh. 46:00 Say, oh, so, that' what going on. 46:02 Lord, there is a war against truth and error, 46:06 there is a war against sin and righteousness 46:08 and the Holy Spirit will make me feel miserable 46:13 in sin or false teachings. 46:19 My Bible tells me come out from among them 46:22 and be separate says the Lord. 46:25 And we apply that in two ways, that 2 Corinthians 6:16, 17. 46:29 Would you agree God wants us to come out of sin? 46:31 We just read it. 46:32 But He also wants us to come out of something else. 46:36 Take your Bible and turn with me to John 16:13. 46:40 He wants us to come out of sin. 46:42 Everybody say sin. 46:44 Come out of the world of sin and be separate. 46:46 "Sanctify them in the truth, thy word is truth." 46:49 So there is another way, 46:51 another way the Holy Spirit guides us 46:53 John 17:17 and this is John 16:13. 46:57 "Howbeit when he, the Spirit of" 47:00 so does the Holy Spirit have anything 47:01 to do with the truth, yes or no? 47:04 You cannot separate the truth from the Holy Spirit 47:06 because the Holy Spirit inspired the truth 47:08 and the Holy Spirit will not comfort you with error. 47:11 The Holy Spirit will comfort you with truth. 47:15 So the Holy Spirit does not want you 47:17 to feel comfortable in false teachings. 47:22 Let me give you an example, a person says, 47:25 when you die you go right to be with the Lord. 47:29 That's false comfort. 47:31 Listen what Paul said, 47:33 "For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven 47:35 with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, 47:37 and with the trump of God, and the dead in Christ" 47:42 I like that, death, that's not too great. 47:44 In Christ, okay, death but they are in Christ. 47:47 "Dead in Christ shall rise first, 47:50 then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up, 47:53 taken up together with them to meet the Lord in the air 47:57 and so shall we ever be with the Lord. 48:00 Wherefore comfort one another with these words" 48:06 1 Thessalonians 4:16-18. What is that saying? 48:09 Paul is saying comfort people with the truth. 48:15 The Holy Spirit wants you and I to know 48:17 when you die you don't go to be with the Lord, 48:19 you will go to be with the Lord 48:21 when Jesus raises the dead in Christ. 48:23 Is this making sense tonight? 48:25 So the idea is the Holy Spirit 48:28 wants you to feel uncomfortable in sin, 48:30 leave it and leave it now. 48:32 Any addictions you got to give up, 48:35 the Holy Spirit is making feel uncomfortable with them? 48:37 Make the Holy Spirit feel at home in your heart 48:41 and you will be all right. 48:45 And so the Holy Spirit will guide us into truth. 48:49 I'm wondering we've been together 48:51 four and half weeks marathon 48:59 and you probably told yourself 49:00 as you were coming to the meeting 49:02 or maybe after opening night, 49:05 now I'm only coming once or twice you got hooked. 49:10 The Holy Spirit got you, halleluiah. 49:14 Let me tell you something. 49:16 The Holy Spirit guides us into truth 49:20 unvarnished, undiluted, unpopular truth 49:24 but the truth always demands a change to leave error 49:28 because the truth shuts you free 49:31 if you know it by obedience. 49:34 John 8:32. 49:36 So would you agree if the Holy Spirit is leading us, 49:38 notice here, "Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, 49:43 he will guide you into all truth." 49:45 So does the Holy Spirit 49:47 want to guide me into truth, yes or no? 49:49 All truth and noting but the truth. 49:51 So if the Holy Spirit is guiding me into truth 49:54 well, that necessitate 49:55 and require some changes along the way 49:58 because there is a learning truth on having to see, 50:01 oh, I was following a false teaching here 50:04 and a false teaching there. 50:05 Oh, I thought Sunday observance was okay, 50:07 but now I realized the seventh day is the Sabbath 50:11 and that is Saturday, 50:12 sundown Friday night, sundown Saturday night, 50:14 this is the Lord's day, Revelation 1:10, 50:17 I was in the spirit on the Lord's day, 50:18 the Lord still has the day. 50:21 That's New Testament, Book of Revelation. 50:24 And so the Bible makes it very clear 50:26 that the Holy Spirit is wanting to guide me into truth. 50:29 I must say, Holy Spirit, I will follow 50:32 because to be guided into truth 50:34 is not just intellectually, it's spiritually. 50:38 How many agree the Holy Spirit first get your head, 50:40 then it goes for your heart and then it says, okay, 50:42 it's time to bring this down to the feet. 50:49 I know the words just like the Sabbath, 50:51 there is something you do there. 50:53 You don't work on that day. 50:55 You go to church on that day. 50:56 You know, why? 50:57 Because the Holy Spirit tells you to do it. 51:01 How many agree the Holy Spirit will speak to you 51:04 and the Holy Spirit will bring to remembrance, 51:07 remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy. 51:08 That's what the new covenant is all about. 51:10 When the Bible says the Holy Spirit writes it on your heart, 51:13 Hebrews 8:10 what does that mean? 51:15 The Holy Spirit writes it and talks it. 51:17 It says, now remember, remember what the Bible says, 51:20 remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy 51:22 and you are laying in bed saying 51:23 I don't want to go to church today 51:25 and the Holy Spirit says, let's get up. 51:29 Now you can do what you do 51:31 with your alarm clock to the Holy Spirit. 51:33 You know, you can just turn the thing off and say, 51:35 hey, that's about enough for you. 51:38 Throw it out the window or whatever. 51:40 How many agree, you can't afford 51:41 to do that with the Holy Spirit. 51:42 You could get ultimately on the track, 51:45 the bad, dangerous road 51:48 that leads ultimately to the unpardonable sin. 51:51 How many agree? 51:53 You don't want to get on that road. 51:54 I'm not saying that if you make a mistake, 51:56 you fail, you sin against God. 51:59 No, that doesn't mean you have committed the unpardonable sin 52:02 but it does mean that you are numbing your conscience. 52:05 It does mean that you are hardening your heart. 52:08 Hebrews 4:7 says, "Today if you hear his voice, 52:12 do not harden your heart." 52:14 Well, you know, how hardening of the arteries takes place. 52:17 It doesn't take place over night. 52:20 But I will tell you it can happen fast, you know. 52:23 Get a accustomed to those big old big max. 52:25 I mean, what do they make and I know how higher they are now. 52:27 Two feet or I don't know. 52:30 You know, get that super sized milkshake 52:34 and I don't shake you up. 52:37 You know, you put that stuff in there 52:39 it starts clogging, clogging. 52:43 By the way, they have actually done research 52:45 that after a meal like that they can actually see 52:48 the detrimental effects of that right away. 52:52 And so what happens, you go to the doctor 52:54 and the doctor says, you know, we got to do some surgery 52:57 to start to open up those arteries, 53:01 they are all sticky and it's narrowed 53:04 and you got blockages. 53:06 You got hardening of the heart. 53:12 I'm here to tell you there is a lot of surgery 53:14 that needs to take place in the house of God 53:16 because we have hardened our heart, 53:17 we are lukewarm, we think we are fine 53:18 when we are really not. 53:20 Would you agree, that's a hardening? 53:21 That's called gospel hardening. 53:24 You hear the gospel but don't do a thing, 53:27 you remain lukewarm, that's gospel hardened. 53:31 Beloved, we don't want to be like that. 53:33 We want to be moved to the Holy Spirit, 53:35 we want to be able to shed a tear once in a while 53:37 when we hear about what Jesus did for us. 53:39 How many agree, we got to be moved, amen. 53:42 But we are not moved unless 53:44 we listen to the still small voice of the Holy Spirit. 53:48 I'm gonna agree you listen to that Holy Spirit, 53:50 the Holy Spirit will make you weep sometime. 53:52 Holy Spirit will make you tremble sometime. 53:54 The Bible says in Isaiah 66, it says, 53:56 we ought to tremble before the Word of God. 53:59 How many agree, when you are in the presence of God 54:01 you don't say, hey, buddy, how you doing? 54:03 No, no, no, no, no, we don't do that. 54:06 God is not our buddy, He is our Holy Father. 54:11 Jesus is not our buddy, He is our Savior. 54:16 Oh, He is our best friend, I can tell you that. 54:19 But we must recognize that still small voice 54:22 and not do as the Bible says, "Don't grieve the Holy Spirit" 54:25 Ephesians 4:30, "Don't do despite to the Holy Spirit." 54:30 Bible tells us in Hebrews 10:29 54:36 and then do not, do not grieve, do not resist the Holy Spirit. 54:41 As Steven when he was preaching he said, 54:44 you're always resisting the Holy Spirit. 54:46 You know, what they did? 54:47 The Bible said they closed their ears and they stoned them 54:50 All the prophets that's Acts 7:51 by the way. 54:54 He said, "You stiff-necked people! 54:58 Your got the law but you don't keep it. 55:01 Not happens all the times in my seminars. 55:03 People hear the law of God but they won't keep it. 55:07 They do this, they close their ears and close their eyes 55:11 and Steven said your stiff next, 55:14 you are always resisting the Holy Spirit. 55:16 And the Bible says, his face was shining like an angel. 55:20 And he was preaching and these people did not want to, what? 55:25 Hear it. 55:28 They were closed minded. 55:29 You share the Sabbath with some people 55:31 and guarantee some of them I are gonna be like, 55:35 I don't want to hear it. 55:36 Can you just be quiet about that? 55:38 Because they might need to go to the boss and say, 55:40 you know what, I'm not gonna work today. 55:42 Say, what? 55:44 Beloved, we need to learn to hear the voice of God 55:48 and not care about these other voices. 55:51 And so Steven said your stiff neck... 55:56 well, come on you see even in kids. 55:59 Johnny, come here, come here, 56:01 you got to return those toys to Sally. 56:03 You just took them, come, come. 56:05 What does Johnny do, I don't want to. 56:09 I don't know what is it about this neck, 56:11 it has to be stiffen, you know, it might get broken. 56:15 You stiff neck people... 56:18 you are always resisting the Holy Spirit. 56:20 Every prophet was mistreated. 56:26 Prophets were stoned and what did they do, 56:29 what did we do with Jesus who is the truth? 56:34 We crucified Him. 56:35 And the way we treat the truth that we have been hearing 56:38 night by night in this seminar is the way we treat Jesus 56:42 and the Holy Spirit. 56:43 Jesus is the way of the truth and life, John 14:6. 56:47 And the Holy Spirit is the author of truth, 56:49 the spirit of truth. 56:51 Would you agree we need to tremble 56:53 lest we resist the Holy Spirit in any-- 56:56 How many agree if you accept the Bible Sabbath 56:58 but you don't except, you need to come out of Babylon 57:01 and get into the remnant. 57:03 You are in partial blindness and you resist. 57:06 How many agree, you got to get the whole truth? 57:10 And so I want you to notice here beloved, 57:12 where is the Holy Spirit gonna lead us 57:14 and the dragon was in rage with the woman 57:18 and he went to make war with the rest of her off-spring 57:20 the remnant who keeps the commandments of God 57:24 including the Seventh-day Sabbath 57:25 and have the testimony of Jesus Christ. 57:27 Don't you think the Holy Spirit 57:29 wants to lead you in right, there? 57:34 How many agree God is up to something 57:37 and it's through the operation of work of the Holy Spirit. 57:41 He's led you this seminar. 57:44 He prepared you for the seminar before you came to the seminar. 57:49 Although sudden and alarming changes 57:52 are sweeping across the globe 57:54 you and your family can be prepared 57:56 to face the future with comforts. 57:59 The complete set of Amazing Prophecies on DVD 58:02 are available for a gift of $60 or more. 58:05 Call us at 1-855-336-FREE 58:10 or send your check or money order to 58:12 Forever Free Ministries, 58:14 2001 Munro Park, Corinth, Texas, 76208. 58:21 If you would like to have Mark Fox hold 58:23 an Amazing Prophecy seminar 58:25 or a marriage seminar weekend in your church 58:27 contact us today, 58:29 markfox@ foreverfreeministries.org |
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