From Arcadia, California,
the Carter Report presents
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'The Living
Word' around the world.
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Hello, I'm Dave
Deno for John Carter
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Thank you, thank you so much
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for being a part
of this ministry.
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Topic today is a great one,
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'The Holy Spirit is Alive
And Well On Planet Earth.'
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This talk tells you the solution
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the spiritual death in the soul.
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So stay tune to this
program where we're even gonna
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talk about the
trinity, is the Holy Spirit
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a person or is the Holy
Spirit as some people tell me
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today an
influence or just a power.
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But firstly
today it's my privilege
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to introduce to a
very beautiful lady,
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she is going to
come and sing to us.
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Lila Cervantes, would you
please welcome Lila today.
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O soul, are you
weary and troubled?
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No light in the
darkness you see?
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There's light for
a look at the Savior
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And life more abundant and free
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Turn your eyes upon Jesus
Look full in His wonderful face
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And the things of this
earth will grow strangely dim
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In the light of
His glory and grace
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His Word shall not
fail you He promised
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Believe Him,
and all will be well
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Then go to a world that is dying
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His perfect salvation to tell
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Turn your eyes upon Jesus
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Look full in His wonderful face
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And the things of this
earth will grow strangely dim
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In the light of
His glory and grace
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In the light of
His glory and grace
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Lighting His glory and grace
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That was wonderful
singing, wasn't that?
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Did you folks enjoy
that? Yeah, I enjoyed that
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and we welcome
you to our program
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all of those around the world
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who have tuned in today.
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We give you the warmest welcome.
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Now, I wanna welcome
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an old friend of
mine, Xavier Rodriguez.
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Would you make him
feel at home today?
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Xavier, nice to see you
my friend, how are you today?
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I'm doing
pastor, I'm doing fine,
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thank you very much.
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I remember you're
coming with us to India
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and what a
blessing you were there,
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helping to take
care of security.
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Where you always a
believer in Christ?
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I've to say, yes,
but not a follower.
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I didn't read the
scriptures that much.
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My mother is the
one that put some words
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and then would take me
to the church whenever,
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no I did believe
but I didn't follow
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His word until I learned.
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What church where
you brought up in?
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So you've got a
Christian background.
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What church was
your mother a member of?
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Well, basically we
were traditional Catholic,
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but then my mother would
be invited to other churches,
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just go wherever
seeking the Lord I guess.
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You joined the
marines. Yes sir, in 1963.
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And where did this take
you? Well, unfortunately
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I went to place called Vietnam.
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Where, you
know, I often wondered
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why my life was spared there
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I lost a lot of good brothers.
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And I came back
without a scratch
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and I often wondered, why?
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And now I think I know, why?
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But I didn't know at that time.
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When you were away
from the Father's house,
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when you were away from God
out there in this evil world
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as the Bible calls it,
how did you feel inside?
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Well I just its very disturbing
what's going on there,
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because if you
stay there too long
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you become an
animal because the survival
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and more you see, I mean it
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will grow on you, you can't stay
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there t too long,
it affects you too bad.
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I thank God that He was with me
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because I did
make it back alive.
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How did you come to
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a personal
knowledge of salvation?
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Now you are a sincere
believer in Christ today.
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How did this happen?
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Well, I remember when I was
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in the Marine Corps,
my mother had passed away.
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She was sick had cancer
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and I was in the
Marine Corps about a month.
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I never got to
see her when she died.
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But the night she
died I was doing God duty
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and I looked up in the sky
and I had this euphoric feeling
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and it wasn't a
voice but something talked
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to my heart and mind said,
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that everything
is gonna be okay.
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I didn't understand
it but I felt peaceful
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for first time in
my life at that time.
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I didn't know, May 6th of
1999 when I finally gave myself
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to the Lord when I
felt that feeling again
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then I knew at
that time what it was.
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When did you start coming
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to this church here in Arcadia?
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Well, I actually I came one time
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to your church when you were
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in Glendale in
Colorado in Glendale Boulevard.
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Got introduced there
and then when you started
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when you got this church here
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I came off and
on because we were
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going to the one in
Witte and then eventually,
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we just made a
commitment to come here,
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because I was been fed here.
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I felt the spirit here
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and I still do and
that's why I'm here.
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And I speak that
from the heart, sir.
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You talk about this
spirit, the Holy Spirit.
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When you were
apparently a long way from God
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and you've told me some of
you experiences, in security,
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in the violence and all of those
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terrible things
that you've seen.
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You've seen your
friends shot to death.
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Did you have a
sense during these years
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that the Spirit of God was
trying to get through to you?
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Well, in a way I
did because I remember
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I used to drink a lot.
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and my pride was
getting, it was killing me.
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You know, I know
one time when I read
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First Corinthians 6, it talked
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about drunkards
won't get into heaven
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and I was
drinking pretty heavily
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and I asked God.
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I said, Lord please
never, never let me die drunk,
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let me sober up just
enough to receive you
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because I wanna
see my mother again.
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And I know where she is
at and I just I asked him
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that and he was
able to do that for me.
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It gave me 55 years of
trying to destroy myself
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before the spirit worked in me.
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And I thank God for that.
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We thank God for you Xavier.
We're proud of you and Norma.
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And we thank God
for what you are,
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who you are and what
you do and God bless you.
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Thanks. Thank you. Thank you.
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That's the reason we exist.
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He was a man long way from God.
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The stories he has told me,
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he didn't think he
should tell them today.
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But their stories
tear at your heart.
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And it helps you to realize
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that God is alive
and well on planet earth.
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The first question
we're going to ask is this.
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Who or what is the Holy Spirit?
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Now today many
people are starting to teach
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that the Holy
Spirit is not a person.
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They're giving up the
Doctrine of the Trinity.
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I believe in the Trinity.
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I believe in the Father,
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the Son and the Holy Spirit.
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I don't believe in three Gods.
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I believe in one God.
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But people today are saying
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the Holy Spirit is
really just a great force
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and a great power
that comes into your life.
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I want you to come to a number
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of important
passages in the Bible.
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I want you to come over here
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John Chapter 14
verses 16 through to 18.
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John Chapter, 14, and
verses 16 through to 18.
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I want you to notice these words
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and Jesus is talking here.
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John 14:16 through to 18,
Jesus said, "If you love me,
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you will obey what I command.
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And I will ask the
Father, and he will give you
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another Counselor to
be with you forever--
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the Spirit of truth.
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The world cannot accept him,
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because it neither
sees him nor knows him."
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And then Jesus
said, "But you know him,
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for he lives with
you and will be in you.
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I will not leave you as
orphans I will come to you."
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And Jesus is talking
here about a person my friend,
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He is not talking about a thing
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because He talks
about the Holy Spirit
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as the Counselor, the
person who comes talks to us.
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I want you to
come out to John 14:25
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got a lot of text here
today, John 14 verse 25.
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Jesus said, "All this I have
spoken while still with you.
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But the
Counselor, the Holy Spirit,
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whom the Father
will send in my name,
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will teach you all
things and will remind you
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of everything I
have said to you.
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Now Jesus talks about the Father
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and Jesus says the
Father is going to send
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the counselor in the old
beautiful King James Version
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it says, 'The
Comforter will come.'
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then if you look
at verse, let me see,
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verse 26, look at verse 26.
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John 14--no John
15:26, 15:26 Jesus said,
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"When the Counselor
or the Comforter comes
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whom I will send
you from the Father,
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the Spirit of truth who
goes out from the Father,
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he will testify about me."
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So Jesus sends him
and the Father sends him.
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And the Bible
tells us he is a person
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and he is alive and
well on planet earth.
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Look at there John
16, verses 5 and onwards.
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And Jesus now
starts to talk a great deal
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about the Holy Spirit.
"Now I am going to the one
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who sent me, yet
none of you asks me,
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'Where are you
going? Because I have said
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these things, you
are filled with grief.
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But I tell you the
truth, it is for your good
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that I am going
that I am going away.
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Unless I go, the
Counselor will not come to you.
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But if I go, I
will send him to you."
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Jesus said, 'It
was for the benefit
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of the disciples
that He was going
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because then He
would send the Holy Spirit.
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When he comes he will
convict the world of guilt
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in regard to sin
and righteousness
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and judgment in regard to sin
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because men do
not believe in me,
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in regard to righteousness,
because I am going
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to the Father and you
won't see me any longer
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and in regard to judgment,
because the prince of this
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world now stands condemned.
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I have much more to say to you,
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much more than you can now bear.
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But when he, the
Spirit of truth, comes,
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he will guide
you into all truth.
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He will not speak on his own,
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He will speak
only what he hears,
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and he will tell
you what is yet to come.
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He will bring glory
to me by taking from
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what is mine and
making it known to you.
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All that belongs
to the Father is mine.
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That is why I said
the Spirit will take from
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what is mine and
make it known to you.
00:16:35.84\00:16:39.03
Then my friends, Jesus here
is not talking about a thing.
00:16:39.04\00:16:46.33
Jesus is talking about a person
00:16:46.34\00:16:51.42
and when that
person comes to us,
00:16:51.43\00:16:54.95
we're never,
never the same again.
00:16:54.96\00:16:58.46
And when Xavier
was out in the world
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and when he seemed to
be a long way from God,
00:17:03.14\00:17:07.04
the spirit was
still speaking to him.
00:17:07.05\00:17:10.47
Jesus is not talking
about an influence or a power
00:17:10.48\00:17:15.47
but He is
talking about a person.
00:17:15.48\00:17:18.26
Would you come over here
to Second Corinthians Chapter
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13 and verse 14, dear
hearts and gentle people?
00:17:21.49\00:17:26.46
Second Corinthians,
Chapter 13 and verse 14
00:17:26.47\00:17:32.14
and here you have the
words of the great Saint Paul,
00:17:32.15\00:17:35.66
he says, "May the grace
of the Lord Jesus Christ
00:17:35.67\00:17:39.83
and the love of
God, and the fellowship
00:17:39.84\00:17:45.15
of the Holy
Spirit be with you all."
00:17:45.16\00:17:48.95
Now, this wasn't seen on camera,
00:17:48.96\00:17:52.67
but today we had fellowship.
00:17:52.68\00:17:55.73
We got up and we
shook hands and we said,
00:17:55.74\00:17:59.22
God loves you and so do I and.
00:17:59.23\00:18:02.27
I'm glad you're in church today
00:18:02.28\00:18:03.84
and we had fellowship.
And after church today
00:18:03.85\00:18:07.78
we're going to have fellowship
at the home of Lourdes.
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We're gonna go to her home
and we're gonna have fellowship.
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You don't have
fellowship with electricity.
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Electricity is a
force, it is a power,
00:18:18.34\00:18:23.97
but you cannot have
fellowship with my glasses
00:18:23.98\00:18:28.37
or the
blackboards. You have fellowship
00:18:28.38\00:18:33.22
with a person
and the Holy Spirit
00:18:33.23\00:18:37.14
is a divine
person. He is a person,
00:18:37.15\00:18:40.33
but he doesn't have
a body. Not like us.
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The Holy Spirit is
everywhere at once.
00:18:47.88\00:18:52.62
He is on the either
side of the universe
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and he is here in church today.
00:18:56.53\00:18:59.17
He is alive and
well in this church
00:18:59.18\00:19:03.80
because he is a
person. I want you to come now
00:19:03.81\00:19:08.86
to Romans
Chapter 8, which is quite
00:19:08.87\00:19:11.09
a remarkable verse.
Romans, I love this,
00:19:11.10\00:19:14.01
know the Book of Romans
We ought to read through
00:19:14.02\00:19:16.42
the first eight chapters
of Romans may be at least
00:19:16.43\00:19:20.70
once a month and read it
through and try to memorize it.
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Romans Chapter 8,
verse 26 and onward.
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Paul says, "In the same way,
00:19:27.95\00:19:31.12
the Spirit helps
us in our weakness".
00:19:31.13\00:19:34.98
Don't forget that.
Have you got a weakness?
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The Bible says "The
Spirit helps us in our weakness.
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We do not know what
we ought to pray for.
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I'll tell you my
friends. We're sort of dump,
00:19:44.84\00:19:48.58
aren't we? Pretty dump,
00:19:48.59\00:19:49.99
we don't even
know what to pray for.
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And so the Bible says,
"But the Spirit himself
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not itself intercedes
for us with groans of words
00:19:55.58\00:20:00.57
cannot express.
And he who searches
00:20:00.58\00:20:03.66
our hearts knows
the mind of the Spirit,
00:20:03.67\00:20:07.56
because the Spirit
intercedes for the saints
00:20:07.57\00:20:11.07
in accordance
with the will of God."
00:20:11.08\00:20:14.18
Now he doesn't have a
body, but he has got a mind.
00:20:16.06\00:20:19.73
You understand that,
can you understand that.
00:20:19.74\00:20:25.03
I can't understand that.
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If I would
understand that I would be God.
00:20:26.70\00:20:31.72
Only God can understand God.
00:20:31.73\00:20:34.68
And this great person the
third person of the Godhead,
00:20:34.69\00:20:41.42
he intercedes and he
groans, he feels things
00:20:41.43\00:20:47.48
so deeply that
he groans and moans
00:20:47.49\00:20:50.94
and the Bible
says he has a mind.
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A mind that fills all
space at all eternity.
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And Jesus said, I'm
gonna send him to you.
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He's going to be with you
and he's going to be in you.
00:21:07.52\00:21:12.69
Is he in you today?
Would you like to know
00:21:12.70\00:21:15.93
why there are so many churches
that are spiritually dead?
00:21:15.94\00:21:21.08
It is because the
church members do not have
00:21:21.09\00:21:25.07
the Holy Spirit in them.
00:21:25.08\00:21:27.49
But, the Holy
Spirit is the great mind
00:21:27.50\00:21:35.08
that fills eternity, the
third person of the Godhead.
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Come over now to
Romans 15 and verse 30.
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My friend, a thing
cannot groan or intercede
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and a thing doesn't have a mind.
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Romans, Chapter 15 and verse 30,
00:21:48.81\00:21:52.99
"I urge you, brothers,
by our Lord Jesus Christ
00:21:53.00\00:21:57.40
and by the love of the Spirit,
00:21:57.41\00:22:00.81
to join me in my struggle
by praying to God for me."
00:22:00.82\00:22:04.83
The spirit has the capacity
to love, a thing cannot love.
00:22:04.84\00:22:13.14
So the Holy Spirit is
a person without a body,
00:22:13.15\00:22:19.21
but with an infinite
mind and he loves people.
00:22:19.22\00:22:26.40
Want you to come now to Matthew,
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Chapter 28 and verse
19. Matthew 28 and verse 19
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and this is
sort of the clincher.
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Matthew,
Chapter 28, and verse 19
00:22:37.33\00:22:42.08
where Jesus is talking
about the great commission.
00:22:42.09\00:22:46.55
You know, what it is,
00:22:46.56\00:22:47.67
"Therefore go and make
disciples of all nations,
00:22:47.68\00:22:52.30
baptizing them in the
name," does it say names,
00:22:52.31\00:22:56.28
have a look there. Is
it singular or plural?
00:22:56.29\00:23:01.74
"One in the name of
the Father and of the Son
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and of the Holy Spirit."
It doesn't say the names,
00:23:07.65\00:23:13.24
Jesus didn't say
baptize them in the names
00:23:13.25\00:23:16.65
of the Father and the
Son, and the Holy Spirit.
00:23:16.66\00:23:20.13
If people who deny the
Doctrine of the Trinity
00:23:20.14\00:23:24.93
believe, if they believe
that the spirit is a power.
00:23:24.94\00:23:32.24
A tremendous
influence that comes from God,
00:23:32.25\00:23:35.81
then what you and
if I believe that Jesus
00:23:35.82\00:23:40.55
is not equal to the Father.
00:23:40.56\00:23:42.72
If they believe that
Jesus is a created being
00:23:42.73\00:23:49.59
and many people believe this.
00:23:49.60\00:23:51.38
If that is so, then you
have Jesus linking in unity.
00:23:51.39\00:23:56.78
The Creator was a
creature with a thing,
00:23:56.79\00:24:05.03
the Father, the
Creator, the Son,
00:24:05.04\00:24:10.55
creature, the spirit a
thing. We should say the names.
00:24:10.56\00:24:17.02
But Jesus here is
talking about a divine mystery,
00:24:17.03\00:24:22.63
which is incomprehensible
to our puny faint heart,
00:24:22.64\00:24:26.65
little minds. He's
talking about the infinite
00:24:26.66\00:24:30.07
God who is manifested,
the one God who is manifested
00:24:30.08\00:24:34.89
in a person who
is called the Father.
00:24:34.90\00:24:37.78
And a person who
is called the Son,
00:24:37.79\00:24:42.01
and a person who is
called the Holy Spirit.
00:24:42.02\00:24:47.27
The Holy Spirit
is divine, He's God.
00:24:47.28\00:24:51.91
I've had people say to
me and they've been sincere,
00:24:51.92\00:24:58.29
they've said, I could
never believe in a doctrine,
00:24:58.30\00:25:04.75
if I could not
understand it, goodness.
00:25:04.76\00:25:09.33
I've to give up faith.
I believe in electricity,
00:25:09.34\00:25:15.72
but I don't understand
it. I believe in the Trinity,
00:25:15.73\00:25:21.63
I do not understand it,
00:25:21.64\00:25:23.60
because God is incomprehensible.
00:25:23.61\00:25:26.61
You all know the
theory that has been proved
00:25:26.62\00:25:30.79
true of Albert
Einstein. E equals MC squared.
00:25:30.80\00:25:35.85
Do you understand
it? I'm asking you today,
00:25:35.86\00:25:41.17
is there anybody
here who can come forth
00:25:41.18\00:25:44.74
and give me an explanation
of E equals MC squared.
00:25:44.75\00:25:50.41
A sword has just hit me,
00:25:50.42\00:25:52.90
another one so I'm
going to let it expand.
00:25:52.91\00:25:56.41
It's not in my notes, but
it's got in there somehow,
00:25:56.42\00:26:01.13
it's got in here.
I'm gonna tell it to you.
00:26:01.14\00:26:03.31
You know about Albert Einstein,
00:26:03.32\00:26:05.82
he would go from university
to university giving lectures.
00:26:05.83\00:26:09.74
And in those
days nobody knew him.
00:26:09.75\00:26:13.01
He was you know,
just the scientist
00:26:13.02\00:26:15.53
getting famous,
people didn't really
00:26:15.54\00:26:17.80
know him and he had a chauffeur.
00:26:17.81\00:26:20.61
And they would drive from
one university to another.
00:26:20.62\00:26:25.71
And Albert Einstein
would talk about the theory
00:26:25.72\00:26:28.48
relativity to all the
world's great scientists.
00:26:28.49\00:26:31.55
And the scientist would
sometimes ask questions,
00:26:31.56\00:26:37.35
because this was a new concept.
00:26:37.36\00:26:39.80
Einstein, one
night was very tired.
00:26:39.81\00:26:44.01
Ever felt really
exhausted. He was pooped out.
00:26:44.02\00:26:47.65
He said, I don't
know, how I'm going to give
00:26:47.66\00:26:49.76
the lecture tonight.
00:26:49.77\00:26:50.87
The chauffeur
said, Dr. Einstein,
00:26:50.88\00:26:52.85
I'd been with
you a zillion times.
00:26:52.86\00:26:54.63
I've memorized it.
00:26:54.64\00:26:56.32
They won't knowthe difference.
00:26:56.33\00:26:58.43
He said, you
can-- you memorized.
00:26:58.44\00:27:00.29
He said, yes, I memorized it.
00:27:00.30\00:27:01.66
Well, Einstein said,
you go give the lecture.
00:27:01.67\00:27:04.52
So, this man who never
made it through high school
00:27:04.53\00:27:08.19
got up and gave
the profound lecture
00:27:08.20\00:27:12.71
on the theory of relativity.
00:27:12.72\00:27:15.25
And Einstein sat down the back.
00:27:15.26\00:27:18.68
He sat down at the back,
00:27:18.69\00:27:19.66
he pretended to
be the chauffeur.
00:27:19.67\00:27:21.85
And everything went well
until the great professor
00:27:21.86\00:27:26.53
of Howard University got
up and he said Dr. Einstein,
00:27:26.54\00:27:30.01
this was the
most amazing lecture,
00:27:30.02\00:27:33.24
I've ever
attended, but you baffled me.
00:27:33.25\00:27:36.12
I want to ask a question.
And there was a car driver,
00:27:36.13\00:27:43.49
he just stood
there, just stood there.
00:27:43.50\00:27:46.58
Dr. Einstein
thought it's all over now.
00:27:46.59\00:27:51.77
But, the car
driver was not dumb,
00:27:51.78\00:27:55.69
he said, you know
you're a wonderful
00:27:55.70\00:27:58.51
group of people
and that's a wonderful
00:27:58.52\00:28:01.15
question from my friend.
00:28:01.16\00:28:02.50
But, he said it so simple,
I'm going to ask my car driver
00:28:02.51\00:28:06.24
down the back to come
up and answer it for me.
00:28:06.25\00:28:08.16
Now listen to me,
there are some things
00:28:11.65\00:28:13.81
you can't
understand, it doesn't mean
00:28:13.85\00:28:15.36
you're not going to believe it.
00:28:15.37\00:28:16.57
I had an old
friend in Australia,
00:28:16.58\00:28:22.73
great preacher, man of
God, Pastor George Burnside.
00:28:22.74\00:28:27.94
I worked with him
for a number of years.
00:28:27.95\00:28:30.25
He told the story, so you know,
00:28:30.26\00:28:32.61
I can't claim
that this is my story.
00:28:32.62\00:28:34.36
It's Pastor Burnside
story. I heard this story,
00:28:34.37\00:28:37.40
he told it more
than 40 years ago.
00:28:37.41\00:28:39.61
He said a man came to see
him after one of his meetings
00:28:39.62\00:28:44.04
when Pastor Burnside
was giving evidence for God.
00:28:44.05\00:28:46.95
And the man said,
well, Mr. Burnside,
00:28:46.96\00:28:51.28
he said all this faith business,
00:28:51.29\00:28:53.15
he said, I don't, I don't
buy any of this faith business.
00:28:53.16\00:28:56.25
He said, I want to ask
you three simple questions
00:28:56.26\00:29:00.47
and I want to have
three simple answers.
00:29:00.48\00:29:03.10
Pastor Burnside said, far away.
00:29:03.11\00:29:06.03
He said, tell me
have you ever seen God
00:29:06.04\00:29:10.82
just as you can
see me here today.
00:29:10.83\00:29:14.14
Come on he said,
now this faith business,
00:29:14.15\00:29:17.08
have you ever seen God.
00:29:17.09\00:29:18.48
Well, Pastor Burnside
said, no, I haven't seen God.
00:29:18.49\00:29:21.13
Aah, he said. Well
then, have you ever heard God,
00:29:21.14\00:29:25.32
just as you can
hear my voice today?
00:29:25.33\00:29:27.36
Have you ever heard God?
00:29:27.37\00:29:28.79
He said, well, no
I haven't heard God.
00:29:28.80\00:29:31.81
Ha, ha, ha, said the skeptic.
00:29:31.82\00:29:34.65
He said, here's
the third question.
00:29:34.66\00:29:36.53
Have you ever felt
God? He said feel my hand,
00:29:36.54\00:29:41.42
he said, got a good hold of it,
00:29:41.43\00:29:43.98
have you ever felt God? He
said no I've never felt God.
00:29:43.99\00:29:48.17
Well, he said,
you haven't heard God,
00:29:48.18\00:29:49.89
you haven't seen
God, you haven't felt God.
00:29:49.90\00:29:51.93
He said, I'm very sorry for you,
00:29:51.94\00:29:53.90
but the evidence is against you.
00:29:53.91\00:29:58.67
Pastor Burnside said,
just a moment my friend.
00:29:58.68\00:30:01.73
He said, I want you to ask,
00:30:01.74\00:30:03.31
I want you to answer
three questions, very simple.
00:30:03.32\00:30:08.86
Have you ever seen your brain?
00:30:08.87\00:30:12.64
The man said,
don't be preposterous.
00:30:12.65\00:30:14.18
No, no, he said let's be
perfectly honest about this.
00:30:14.19\00:30:17.21
Have you ever seen your brain
00:30:17.22\00:30:19.61
just as you can
see me here today?
00:30:19.62\00:30:22.66
He said, no of course
I haven't seen my brain.
00:30:22.67\00:30:24.68
He said well, have
you ever heard your brain
00:30:24.69\00:30:31.12
talking to you just
as you can hear my voice?
00:30:31.13\00:30:33.43
He said, no of course
I haven't heard my brain.
00:30:33.44\00:30:35.81
Well, he said then may
be you felt your brain.
00:30:35.82\00:30:38.62
Have you ever felt it?
00:30:38.63\00:30:40.92
Ever felt your brain?
00:30:40.93\00:30:42.15
He said, no I've
never felt my brain.
00:30:42.16\00:30:44.27
He said well, that's interesting
00:30:44.28\00:30:45.57
you haven't heard your brain,
00:30:45.58\00:30:47.37
you haven't seen your brain,
00:30:47.38\00:30:49.26
and you haven't felt your brain.
00:30:49.27\00:30:51.41
He said, I'm
very, very sorry to you,
00:30:51.42\00:30:53.81
because the
evidence is against you.
00:30:53.82\00:30:55.80
And my friends, there
are some things we can't see,
00:30:59.86\00:31:03.44
and there are some
things we can't feel,
00:31:03.45\00:31:05.82
and there are some
things we can't hear,
00:31:05.83\00:31:08.38
but the evidence
tells us that God is alive
00:31:08.39\00:31:11.73
and well on planet earth.
00:31:11.74\00:31:14.06
There is no doubt about it.
00:31:14.07\00:31:15.45
Now the work of the Holy Spirit,
00:31:15.46\00:31:18.32
I want you to come back
00:31:18.33\00:31:19.32
to John, Chapter
16 verses 8 to 11.
00:31:19.33\00:31:23.07
This is key passage, John,
Chapter 16, verse 8 down to 11.
00:31:23.08\00:31:28.63
John 16, verses 8 down to 11.
00:31:28.64\00:31:31.80
"When he comes, he will convict
00:31:31.81\00:31:34.82
the world of
guilt in regard to sin
00:31:34.83\00:31:39.00
and righteousness and judgment.
00:31:39.01\00:31:42.90
In regard to sin, because
men do not believe in me,
00:31:42.91\00:31:48.91
keep reading, in
regard to righteousness,
00:31:48.92\00:31:51.83
because I am
going to the Father,
00:31:51.84\00:31:53.75
where you can see me no longer
and in regard to judgment,
00:31:53.76\00:31:57.46
because the prince of this
world now stands condemned."
00:31:57.47\00:32:02.06
The Bible tells us He
convicts the world of sin.
00:32:02.07\00:32:08.64
He convicts the world
of guilt, in regard to sin.
00:32:08.65\00:32:14.70
Let me ask you something.
00:32:14.71\00:32:16.76
Have you ever heard in your
soul a still small voice says,
00:32:16.77\00:32:24.46
you shouldn't be doing that.
00:32:24.47\00:32:27.89
That's the Holy Spirit.
00:32:27.90\00:32:30.73
How can you explain,
00:32:30.74\00:32:31.93
we were running a
great series and meetings
00:32:31.94\00:32:34.05
at the Pilipino
International Conference Center?
00:32:34.06\00:32:38.30
And one night I
received this letter,
00:32:38.31\00:32:40.96
I remembered as
though it were yesterday.
00:32:40.97\00:32:46.21
The person wrote to me
and said Pastor Carter.
00:32:46.22\00:32:50.41
I came to your meeting tonight.
00:32:50.42\00:32:53.74
I was carrying a dagger.
00:32:53.75\00:32:56.82
I was following a man all day.
00:32:56.83\00:33:00.74
He came to your meeting.
00:33:00.75\00:33:03.56
I was going to kill
him after the meeting.
00:33:03.57\00:33:08.19
But he said, as you
read the text of the Bible,
00:33:08.20\00:33:14.99
something spoke to my heart.
00:33:15.00\00:33:18.94
And I've given my
life to Christ tonight.
00:33:18.95\00:33:22.89
We later baptized him.
00:33:22.90\00:33:25.22
Who did this?
00:33:25.23\00:33:26.45
Was that my preaching?
00:33:26.46\00:33:27.99
No, it wasn't my preaching,
00:33:28.00\00:33:30.37
it was the Holy
Spirit talking to his heart.
00:33:30.38\00:33:34.17
What about the
prisoners on death row?
00:33:34.18\00:33:38.96
I'd the privilege, now
this was taken a few years ago.
00:33:38.97\00:33:42.47
See my nice curly hair.
00:33:42.48\00:33:46.18
You don't recognize me?
00:33:46.19\00:33:48.03
You know, I'm fat today
compared to what I used to be.
00:33:48.04\00:33:51.10
It's an awesome thing
when you preach to people
00:33:56.17\00:33:58.53
who are sentenced to death.
00:33:58.54\00:34:02.53
I was taken in
through these great gates
00:34:02.54\00:34:04.86
and went in through the prison
00:34:04.87\00:34:06.60
finally found
myself at death row.
00:34:06.61\00:34:11.59
I preached on the cross,
00:34:11.60\00:34:15.08
I preached on
the electric chair,
00:34:15.09\00:34:18.27
the Christ went to
the electric chair for me.
00:34:18.28\00:34:23.58
As I preached all the prisoners
00:34:23.59\00:34:25.41
on death row came
and stood at their doors,
00:34:25.42\00:34:30.79
all these bars some were allowed
00:34:30.80\00:34:33.97
less security risk to
sit in the congregation.
00:34:33.98\00:34:39.62
As I told them about Jesus,
00:34:39.63\00:34:41.29
because the Holy
Spirit magnifies Jesus,
00:34:41.30\00:34:43.70
he doesn't magnify himself.
00:34:43.71\00:34:46.17
And he doesn't magnify
us, He magnifies Jesus.
00:34:46.18\00:34:50.57
They started to weep.
00:34:50.58\00:34:54.16
We took them into a
place where there was a pool.
00:34:54.17\00:35:01.70
Awful place, filthy water,
00:35:01.71\00:35:03.92
the prisoners
here are on their knees
00:35:03.93\00:35:05.99
because they couldn't stand.
00:35:06.00\00:35:07.93
The water is
only up to our knees,
00:35:07.94\00:35:09.89
so I told them
get on your knees,
00:35:09.90\00:35:11.48
you can see
Pastor Graeme Bradford
00:35:11.49\00:35:13.20
there with me my old colleague.
00:35:13.21\00:35:16.02
What leads people
who've been murderers?
00:35:16.03\00:35:19.11
These men were
murderers and assassins.
00:35:19.12\00:35:22.15
What leads people who
are murderers and assassins
00:35:22.16\00:35:26.03
to come to Christ?
00:35:26.04\00:35:28.76
It's not a man my friend.
00:35:28.77\00:35:31.45
It is the Spirit of God.
00:35:31.46\00:35:33.42
He will convict the world
of guilt in regard to sin.
00:35:33.43\00:35:37.77
The Bible says, He'll convict
the world of righteousness,
00:35:37.78\00:35:41.40
then he said these words
because I'm going to my Father.
00:35:41.41\00:35:46.30
While Jesus was here,
00:35:46.31\00:35:48.32
we had a perfect
example of righteousness.
00:35:48.33\00:35:52.89
But when Jesus
went home to glory,
00:35:52.90\00:35:55.10
we no longer had a perfect
example of righteousness.
00:35:55.11\00:35:58.16
You're not a perfect
example of righteousness.
00:35:58.17\00:36:01.22
I'm certainly not a perfect
example of righteousness,
00:36:01.23\00:36:04.16
I'm a sinner. Save my grace.
00:36:04.17\00:36:08.27
But the Spirit of God comes
00:36:08.28\00:36:10.39
and convicts us
of righteousness.
00:36:10.40\00:36:14.04
So we feel that we're sinners,
00:36:14.05\00:36:17.85
better write this
up on the blackboard,
00:36:17.86\00:36:20.13
because it's so important
00:36:20.14\00:36:22.44
the Spirit of
God convicts of sin.
00:36:22.45\00:36:29.72
The Bible tells me
00:36:29.73\00:36:31.19
that the Spirit of God
convicts of righteousness.
00:36:31.20\00:36:37.69
You know, when I'm
a long way from God,
00:36:37.70\00:36:41.41
I think I'm a
pretty good person.
00:36:41.42\00:36:44.69
That's the reason people
00:36:44.70\00:36:45.99
are filled with
self righteousness,
00:36:46.00\00:36:48.27
because they are
long way from God.
00:36:48.28\00:36:51.28
But the Spirit of God
comes and it convicts me of sin
00:36:51.29\00:36:55.11
and of
righteousness and of judgment,
00:36:55.12\00:36:59.46
because the prince of this
world now stands condemned.
00:36:59.47\00:37:03.32
The Spirit of God tells me
00:37:03.33\00:37:05.01
that God has got a plan
for finishing sin and sinners
00:37:05.02\00:37:10.30
who don't come to Him.
00:37:10.31\00:37:12.90
We read before
that the Spirit of God
00:37:12.91\00:37:15.40
guides us into all truth.
00:37:15.41\00:37:17.88
Don't you remember the
text we read it a moment ago?
00:37:17.89\00:37:20.50
The Bible says he guides.
00:37:20.51\00:37:24.41
He's patient with us,
He guides into all truth.
00:37:24.42\00:37:32.72
And sometimes the Spirit of God
00:37:32.73\00:37:34.67
will reveal the truth
to me that is inconvenient.
00:37:34.68\00:37:39.33
And I struggle with that
and I don't want to do it.
00:37:39.34\00:37:45.21
And if I keep
struggling I'll stop.
00:37:45.22\00:37:47.87
If I keep resisting,
I'll harden my heart.
00:37:47.88\00:37:53.06
And so the Spirit
of God convicts of sin
00:37:53.07\00:37:56.71
and righteousness and judgment
00:37:56.72\00:37:59.62
and it guides into all truth
00:37:59.63\00:38:01.37
by Dr. Julia
Oukina, remember Julia.
00:38:01.38\00:38:06.51
Danny Shelton and I met
her in the governor's palace.
00:38:06.52\00:38:11.01
After I'd spoken
00:38:11.02\00:38:12.01
to the governor
of Nizhny Novgorod,
00:38:12.02\00:38:14.22
she came forward
00:38:14.23\00:38:15.55
and she had a finger bandage.
00:38:15.56\00:38:18.18
She is now in charge of this
wonderful television station.
00:38:18.19\00:38:22.32
In 3ABN, she is
preaching every week
00:38:22.33\00:38:24.97
on a 165 stations in
the former Soviet Union.
00:38:24.98\00:38:30.05
Glory be the God.
00:38:30.06\00:38:32.88
And we had the
privilege of leading her,
00:38:32.89\00:38:34.89
now the Spirit of God
used us to lead her to Christ.
00:38:34.90\00:38:39.65
But she held up a finger when
she met me with this bandage.
00:38:39.66\00:38:44.33
She said last week you
preached on the Sabbath
00:38:44.34\00:38:47.07
and I said, never,
never, never, never,
00:38:47.08\00:38:49.93
never, not going to do it.
00:38:49.94\00:38:51.97
Not going to be
baptized, not going to follow,
00:38:51.98\00:38:54.74
not going to do this
because it's inconvenient.
00:38:54.75\00:38:57.17
She said I went to the butcher
and stay at on the Sabbath
00:38:57.18\00:39:00.51
and I brought some meat
and as I was cutting the meat,
00:39:00.52\00:39:04.20
a bone went up my finger
nail and it got poisoned.
00:39:04.21\00:39:09.97
And she said,
everywhere I went that week
00:39:09.98\00:39:13.63
there was someone talking to me,
00:39:13.64\00:39:16.38
convicted me of sin,
00:39:16.39\00:39:17.77
and guiding me into all truth.
00:39:17.78\00:39:19.85
And she said every
time I held up my finger
00:39:19.86\00:39:22.94
it said to me remember
00:39:22.95\00:39:24.63
the Sabbath day to keep it holy.
00:39:24.64\00:39:28.27
It wasn't a finger,
it was a Spirit of God.
00:39:28.28\00:39:32.51
She was baptized and
she is one of the most
00:39:32.52\00:39:35.46
wonderful Christians I know.
00:39:35.47\00:39:37.89
The Spirit of God is
alive and well on planet earth
00:39:37.90\00:39:41.39
and the Holy Spirit
brings glory to Christ.
00:39:41.40\00:39:44.92
The Bible says, Jesus said,
00:39:44.93\00:39:47.16
"He will not
talk about himself."
00:39:47.17\00:39:50.65
We shouldn't talk about
ourselves too much either.
00:39:50.66\00:39:54.99
The Holy Spirit my
friend even though,
00:39:55.00\00:39:56.98
he's the third
brethren that the God had,
00:39:56.99\00:39:58.69
he doesn't talk about
himself, he talks about Jesus.
00:39:58.70\00:40:05.47
And Jesus is the savior.
00:40:05.48\00:40:07.56
He is called, John 14:16,
00:40:07.57\00:40:10.18
You don't need to turn to,
00:40:10.19\00:40:11.26
we already have,
he is the Counselor.
00:40:11.27\00:40:13.70
If you want good advice,
00:40:13.71\00:40:15.45
if you got a mind open to
God, go to the Holy Spirit.
00:40:15.46\00:40:21.95
But don't say that the
Holy Spirit is leading you,
00:40:21.96\00:40:26.14
and that the Holy
Spirit want you to do something
00:40:26.15\00:40:28.61
if you simply
want to do it yourself,
00:40:28.62\00:40:31.25
that's what some people say.
00:40:31.26\00:40:32.50
They say, well,
I'm doing to do this
00:40:32.51\00:40:34.34
because the Holy
Spirit is telling me to do it,
00:40:34.35\00:40:38.10
sometimes that's
wishful thinking.
00:40:38.11\00:40:41.28
But if we open our
hearts up honestly to God,
00:40:41.29\00:40:45.15
He will be our Counselor
00:40:45.16\00:40:47.66
and He will tell us
what we ought to do.
00:40:47.67\00:40:50.32
Jesus said, He
lives in the believer,
00:40:50.33\00:40:53.14
He lives in you.
00:40:53.15\00:40:56.67
Now you think of this?
00:40:56.68\00:40:59.10
You gonna have today the
Spirit of God inside you.
00:40:59.11\00:41:04.70
When I was
pastor of the wonderful
00:41:04.71\00:41:07.13
Wahroonga Church
back in Sydney, Australia.
00:41:07.14\00:41:10.52
One night, a group of
young people came to me,
00:41:10.53\00:41:13.86
and one young fellow
fell down in the ground
00:41:13.87\00:41:16.01
and he said, and they
all said, he's got a demon.
00:41:16.02\00:41:20.27
I said, are you
sure he's got a demon?
00:41:20.28\00:41:22.59
Oh yeah, very
sure, he's got a demon.
00:41:22.60\00:41:26.46
I said, does he
truly believe in Jesus?
00:41:26.47\00:41:28.88
Yeah, he's a
great believer in Jesus.
00:41:28.89\00:41:30.96
I said, he hasn't got a demon.
00:41:30.97\00:41:34.57
So we just let him
roll around for little while
00:41:34.58\00:41:36.82
and after few minutes he got up.
00:41:36.83\00:41:41.32
If you have got the
Holy Spirit inside you,
00:41:41.33\00:41:45.18
you can't have a demon.
00:41:45.19\00:41:47.88
You can be attacked by a demon.
00:41:47.89\00:41:49.93
You can be harassed by a demon.
00:41:49.94\00:41:51.75
But I want you to know this,
00:41:51.76\00:41:53.21
the Holy Spirit doesn't live
00:41:53.22\00:41:54.76
in the same
house with the devil.
00:41:54.77\00:41:57.09
You hear that?
00:41:57.10\00:41:59.78
The Bible says, He lives in you,
00:41:59.79\00:42:03.18
and here is the wonderful text,
00:42:03.19\00:42:04.47
we haven't read
this text so far,
00:42:04.48\00:42:05.96
come over here to
Matthew 3 and verse 11,
00:42:05.97\00:42:09.12
come over here to
Matthew 3 and verse 11,
00:42:09.13\00:42:12.46
this are great words.
00:42:12.47\00:42:14.49
Matthew 3 verse 11,
00:42:14.50\00:42:16.10
these are the words
of the John, the Baptist.
00:42:16.11\00:42:21.07
Matthew 3 and verse
11, what a preacher he was.
00:42:21.08\00:42:24.84
He said, "I baptize you
with water for repentance.
00:42:24.85\00:42:28.81
But after me will come one
who is more powerful than I,
00:42:28.82\00:42:32.45
whose sandals I
am not fit to carry.
00:42:32.46\00:42:35.24
He will baptize you with
the Holy Spirit and with fire."
00:42:35.25\00:42:40.86
He'll baptize you.
00:42:40.87\00:42:42.43
The Bible says, He's
going to baptize you.
00:42:42.44\00:42:46.72
Now we've all been
baptized with water.
00:42:46.73\00:42:49.26
But the Bible said,
He's going to baptize you
00:42:49.27\00:42:53.90
and He's going to
do it with fire? fire.
00:42:53.91\00:42:59.97
And fire gives light,
and fire gives energy,
00:42:59.98\00:43:03.67
and fire gives warmth.
00:43:03.68\00:43:07.51
Now we all heard about churches
00:43:07.52\00:43:09.30
that are composed
of the frozen chosen,
00:43:09.31\00:43:14.92
or heard about that, people say,
00:43:14.93\00:43:17.17
my church is so cold.
00:43:17.18\00:43:19.99
The people don't
see to have any emotion.
00:43:20.00\00:43:24.40
The people seem
to be so unstable,
00:43:24.41\00:43:27.73
you can't depend upon them,
00:43:27.74\00:43:29.31
they'll be here one day
and not here the next weekend.
00:43:29.32\00:43:32.88
And they're just cold,
00:43:32.89\00:43:34.07
it is because they haven't got
00:43:34.08\00:43:36.81
the fire of the
spirit of the God.
00:43:36.82\00:43:41.59
There's nothing worst my
friend than having a church
00:43:41.60\00:43:44.72
that has the
dead man in the pulpit
00:43:44.73\00:43:47.55
preaching to the
dead people in the pews.
00:43:47.56\00:43:52.32
He'll baptize you.
00:43:52.33\00:43:54.36
John, the Baptist
said, "With the Holy Spirit
00:43:54.37\00:43:58.44
and he'll
baptize you with fire."
00:43:58.45\00:44:03.88
That sort of unknown
to most people today.
00:44:03.89\00:44:07.26
And if you come
over now to Ezekiel 37,
00:44:07.27\00:44:09.70
you want to read
this, this afternoon,
00:44:09.71\00:44:11.49
it's the vision
of the dried bones.
00:44:11.50\00:44:15.39
Ezekiel 37, want to
ask you to something.
00:44:15.40\00:44:18.49
Is your church,
made up of dried bones?
00:44:18.50\00:44:22.20
Ezekiel 37:11 to 14.
00:44:22.21\00:44:24.85
You can read this
through at your own leisure.
00:44:24.86\00:44:29.56
Ezekiel 37:11 and
onwards, "Then he said to me,
00:44:29.57\00:44:33.27
'Son of man, these
bones have been looking at a--
00:44:33.28\00:44:36.21
great heap of dead bones.
00:44:36.22\00:44:38.95
These bones are the
whole house of Israel.
00:44:38.96\00:44:40.86
They were dead and
dried up, like some churches.
00:44:40.87\00:44:45.29
"They say, Our
bones are dried up
00:44:45.30\00:44:47.12
and our hope is
gone, we are cut off.
00:44:47.13\00:44:49.33
Therefore prophesy
preach say to them,
00:44:49.34\00:44:52.61
This is what the
Sovereign Lord Says,
00:44:52.62\00:44:54.26
O my people, I'm
going to open your graves
00:44:54.27\00:44:56.83
and bring you up from them,
00:44:56.84\00:44:58.11
I will bring you back
to the land of Israel.
00:44:58.12\00:45:00.58
Then you, my people,
will know that I am the Lord,
00:45:00.59\00:45:03.22
when I open your graves
and bring you up from them.
00:45:03.23\00:45:06.09
I will put my Spirit
in you and you will live,
00:45:06.10\00:45:10.92
and I will settle
you in your own land.
00:45:10.93\00:45:14.91
Then you will know
that I the Lord have spoken,
00:45:14.92\00:45:18.54
and I have done it,
declares the Lord.'"
00:45:18.55\00:45:22.38
I tell you friend,
many churches today,
00:45:22.39\00:45:26.86
many
congregations, many ministries,
00:45:26.87\00:45:32.41
I like that
valley of dried bones.
00:45:32.42\00:45:35.39
The Bible tells me,
He guides into truth,
00:45:35.40\00:45:37.73
yeah, He baptizes with fire
00:45:37.74\00:45:40.05
and when He baptizes
with fire, He brings life.
00:45:40.06\00:45:43.75
When He comes to you,
He'll make you hot inside,
00:45:48.34\00:45:53.48
He'll make you warm inside,
00:45:53.49\00:45:57.03
and you'll be like that
burning bush on fire from God.
00:45:57.04\00:46:02.81
I want to give you
just a few illustrations
00:46:06.62\00:46:08.98
of the mighty acts
of the Holy Spirit.
00:46:08.99\00:46:12.40
After we got back from Manila,
00:46:12.41\00:46:13.87
we had taken a bunch
of young people overseas.
00:46:13.88\00:46:18.12
We lived in one of the most
affluent cities in the world,
00:46:18.13\00:46:21.11
and affluence and spirituality
00:46:21.12\00:46:23.29
don't go hand in hand together.
00:46:23.30\00:46:25.66
You want to know why,
00:46:25.67\00:46:26.79
where the church
is the strongest,
00:46:26.80\00:46:28.78
where the
people are the poorest.
00:46:28.79\00:46:30.99
Where is the church the weakest,
00:46:31.00\00:46:32.67
where the people
have got everything
00:46:32.68\00:46:34.41
and they love money more
than they love God, like here.
00:46:34.42\00:46:41.02
So we took all
these young people
00:46:41.03\00:46:42.61
out of that SOA in Sydney,
00:46:42.62\00:46:45.43
and took them to Manila
and ran a great campaign,
00:46:45.44\00:46:49.55
and when I came back I
was the pastor of the church
00:46:49.56\00:46:51.97
that was the great church.
00:46:51.98\00:46:52.97
When I came
back, I told the story
00:46:52.98\00:46:55.55
of how these prisoners
had come to know Christ,
00:46:55.56\00:46:58.81
and the Spirit of
God have broken down
00:46:58.82\00:47:03.05
the walls of resistance.
00:47:03.06\00:47:04.91
In that church we
had a real problem.
00:47:04.92\00:47:08.40
We had a large number
of those young people,
00:47:08.41\00:47:10.36
good young people get
deceived by false teachers
00:47:10.37\00:47:14.22
who would come into the church,
00:47:14.23\00:47:16.37
and they had
become proud, arrogant,
00:47:16.38\00:47:20.28
know it alls, untouchable,
super self-righteous.
00:47:20.29\00:47:25.56
And after that sermon,
00:47:25.57\00:47:26.79
the leader of that
group came to me and he said,
00:47:26.80\00:47:29.36
I surrender to God,
I have been deceived.
00:47:29.37\00:47:35.51
That's the Spirit of God.
00:47:35.52\00:47:38.34
What we need is
the Spirit of God
00:47:38.35\00:47:41.68
to open our eyes in the church.
00:47:41.69\00:47:47.89
I'll never
forget going to India.
00:47:47.90\00:47:51.09
You know, by the grace of God,
00:47:51.10\00:47:52.84
we haven't told you this,
00:47:52.85\00:47:54.05
we're going back to run
two or three campaigns in India
00:47:54.06\00:47:57.85
next this coming
December. Goodness.
00:47:57.86\00:48:04.51
Pray that we don't get killed,
00:48:04.52\00:48:06.62
because it's
hard to preach there.
00:48:06.63\00:48:08.96
We're going to go back.
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What do you do with
people coming forward
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in crowds like this
great crowds of people.
00:48:15.12\00:48:17.95
Who did it, when
30,000 people came forward
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in the altar call,
was it John Carter,
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no it was the Spirit of God.
00:48:23.67\00:48:26.54
I saw the spirit moving
upon Hindus and Muslims.
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You say, you can't do
that in those audiences.
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Have you ever tried?
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What we need is a
little more faith,
00:48:36.94\00:48:39.09
a little more
gumption, a little more courage,
00:48:39.10\00:48:42.48
then we will see
the power of God.
00:48:42.49\00:48:45.38
The Spirit of God is
alive and well on planet earth.
00:48:45.39\00:48:49.25
We just come back from
South Africa which is tough,
00:48:49.26\00:48:53.03
Johannesburg is
affront and tough.
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What brought people out of
the security of their homes
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to come to the meetings,
00:48:59.81\00:49:01.12
when Johannesburg is one
of the most dangerous places
00:49:01.13\00:49:05.68
on the face of the earth.
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What brought these people,
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was it John Carter,
it was the Spirit of God.
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What brought millions of people,
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millions of people
in Russia and Ukraine.
00:49:20.73\00:49:25.50
We're planning to go
back there too, to Kiev.
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Where hundred
thousand people couldn't look--
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a hundred thousand people,
couldn't get into the meetings.
00:49:34.21\00:49:38.73
They say it
doesn't happen anymore,
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if it doesn't happen
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it's because you and I are
stopping it from happening.
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It would happen here,
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if we had faith and
let the Spirit of God
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convict us of
sin and righteousness
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and put a fire in our souls.
00:49:51.94\00:49:58.00
I've seen the
outpouring of the Spirit of God.
00:49:58.01\00:50:05.02
I've got people who'll say,
00:50:05.03\00:50:06.53
oh, we're praying,
00:50:06.54\00:50:07.72
we're fasting for
the Spirit of God,
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may be you're-- go
and do something else,
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may be you better go and work,
00:50:13.58\00:50:17.60
and preach, and communicate,
00:50:17.61\00:50:22.26
because He's is alive
and well on planet earth.
00:50:22.27\00:50:26.84
I tell you, mine
eyes have seen the glory
00:50:26.85\00:50:32.75
of the coming of the
Lord, halleluiah. Amen.
00:50:32.76\00:50:40.78
One last text,
I haven't got down
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with the unpardonable
sin, but that's okay.
00:50:42.88\00:50:46.09
Come over here to Acts 2,
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I always have too much
in the sermon as it is.
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Acts Chapter 2, and
this when God poured out
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the Holy Spirit,
and tongues of fire
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came upon the disciples.
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Acts Chapter 2,
we'll start at verse 4,
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"All of them were
filled with the Holy Spirit
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and began to
speak in other tongues
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as the Spirit enabled them."
00:51:09.85\00:51:11.89
And verse 3 says, "They saw
00:51:11.90\00:51:13.56
what appeared to
be tongues of fire?"
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Listen folk, let
me tell you something
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before I read in any further.
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I had the experience before
our great meeting overseas
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were I have felt absolutely
done in and exhausted.
00:51:25.65\00:51:32.90
I've thought, I
can't keep going,
00:51:32.91\00:51:35.22
I'm tired, I've got
no power left in me,
00:51:35.23\00:51:42.24
maybe I'll just go and
sit on the beach, at Koolunga.
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But let me tell
you folks something,
00:51:50.71\00:51:53.33
I don't know if anybody
here had this experience?
00:51:53.34\00:51:56.19
As I would walk out on the stage
00:51:56.20\00:51:59.68
and there'd be a
vast audience there,
00:51:59.69\00:52:02.35
I would feel a
mantle apparel fall on me,
00:52:02.36\00:52:07.92
and my mind would
become razor-sharp.
00:52:07.93\00:52:11.02
People would say,
where you get the energy?
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From the Holy Spirit. Amen.
00:52:13.08\00:52:15.43
And as I would be preaching,
00:52:15.44\00:52:17.28
the audience would
be in the hands of God
00:52:17.29\00:52:20.13
and when I made an altar call,
00:52:20.14\00:52:22.13
they would come forward.
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How can you
explain 10,000 atheists
00:52:23.33\00:52:26.66
and communists at 6 O' clock
00:52:26.67\00:52:28.83
and 10,000 believers
praising God at seven.
00:52:28.84\00:52:32.43
It's the Spirit of
God is alive and well.
00:52:32.44\00:52:36.20
I have seen the
glory, I have felt the power,
00:52:36.21\00:52:39.12
and after I preached the sermon,
00:52:39.13\00:52:41.03
as I walk off the stage,
the power would leave me.
00:52:41.04\00:52:45.85
I can hardly
get back to my room,
00:52:45.86\00:52:47.65
hardly walk up the stairs.
00:52:47.66\00:52:51.08
This preaching evangelism
business is hard work.
00:52:51.09\00:52:55.72
A few of you have
gotten an inkling.
00:52:55.73\00:53:01.97
But the tongues
of fire came down.
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The last word,
verse 17 and onwards,
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Acts 2, "In the
last days, God says,
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I will pour out my
Spirit on all people.
00:53:12.11\00:53:14.64
Your sons and
daughters will prophesy,
00:53:14.65\00:53:17.12
your young men will visions."
00:53:17.13\00:53:19.62
It won't be at the
discos on Friday night.
00:53:19.63\00:53:23.04
"Your old men
will dream dreams."
00:53:23.05\00:53:25.24
They will have
the Spirit of God.
00:53:25.25\00:53:26.93
We go to these other things
because we're dead inside.
00:53:26.94\00:53:32.80
"Even on my
servants, both men and women,
00:53:32.81\00:53:35.06
I will pour out my
Spirit in those days."
00:53:35.07\00:53:37.38
But women get the Spirit too,
00:53:37.39\00:53:39.23
you know, God is
not like some of us.
00:53:39.24\00:53:45.20
"And they will prophesy, preach.
00:53:45.21\00:53:47.21
I will show
wonders in the heaven
00:53:47.22\00:53:48.66
above and signs
on the earth below,
00:53:48.67\00:53:51.03
blood and fire
and billows of smoke.
00:53:51.04\00:53:53.39
The sun will be
turned to darkness
00:53:53.40\00:53:54.90
and the moon to blood
00:53:54.91\00:53:56.34
before the coming of the great
and glorious day of the Lord.
00:53:56.35\00:54:00.47
And everyone who calls
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on the name of the
Lord will be saved."
00:54:01.96\00:54:08.75
We are living in those times.
00:54:08.76\00:54:13.98
I refused to accept
second best or third best.
00:54:13.99\00:54:18.41
I want to be filled with
the Spirit of God, don't you?
00:54:18.42\00:54:23.69
if you can say today,
oh, Holy Spirit fill me,
00:54:23.70\00:54:28.69
raise your hand,
raise a part, Holy Spirit,
00:54:28.70\00:54:33.05
say it out loud, Holy Spirit,
Holy Spirit fill me, fill me.
00:54:33.06\00:54:40.23
Convict me of sin,
convict me of righteousness,
00:54:40.24\00:54:44.02
lead me into all
truth, baptize me with fire.
00:54:44.03\00:54:48.86
He's alive and well on
planet earth. Please kneel.
00:54:52.34\00:54:58.88
We thank you our Father,
00:55:09.59\00:55:12.48
for the doctrine of
the blessed Trinity,
00:55:12.49\00:55:15.67
the Father, the Son
and the Holy Spirit.
00:55:15.68\00:55:20.87
One great Godhead
manifested in the Father,
00:55:20.88\00:55:27.36
who send the Son,
00:55:27.37\00:55:30.31
who sends to us the Holy Spirit
00:55:30.32\00:55:32.30
who testifies of Christ.
00:55:32.31\00:55:35.23
It doesn't talk about
himself, it talks about Jesus.
00:55:35.24\00:55:39.97
We thank you
that Jesus is the way,
00:55:39.98\00:55:42.77
the truth and the life.
00:55:42.78\00:55:46.22
And Jesus is the
only one in the universe
00:55:46.23\00:55:49.74
who can satisfy our
flaky cold wayward hearts.
00:55:49.75\00:55:57.93
We're raising our hands
in this church today to say,
00:55:57.94\00:56:01.16
come into our
hearts, Spirit of Jesus.
00:56:01.17\00:56:05.42
Put up your hand when you pray,
00:56:05.43\00:56:07.81
come into my
heart, Spirit of Jesus,
00:56:07.82\00:56:13.62
Spirit of the living
God, pour a fresh on me,
00:56:13.63\00:56:22.44
come into our hearts, dear God,
00:56:22.45\00:56:27.25
send forth the Spirit,
00:56:27.26\00:56:29.05
fill us with Your fire,
00:56:32.79\00:56:36.96
and grant us Your life,
00:56:36.97\00:56:39.66
that these dead bones will live.
00:56:39.67\00:56:43.69
We worship You, we
bless You, we praise You,
00:56:43.70\00:56:47.18
we give You glory in the name
of the Father, and of the Son,
00:56:47.19\00:56:52.10
and of the Holy
Spirit, for His sake
00:56:52.11\00:56:54.64
and for His glory,
amen and amen. Amen.
00:56:54.65\00:56:59.90
Oh God let this
journey be my home
00:56:59.91\00:57:04.28
I will go I will go
00:57:04.29\00:57:10.66
I will go Lord where
Your glory is unknown
00:57:10.67\00:57:17.18
I will live for You alone
00:57:17.19\00:57:23.16
I will go because
my life is not my own
00:57:23.17\00:57:30.63
I will go I will go
00:57:30.64\00:57:40.06
I will go
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