Welcome back, my friend.
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Today, we're talking about
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the greatest
person who ever lived,
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that of course is who?
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The Jewish Jesus.
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And we're also
talking about the Trinity.
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What on earth
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is the teaching of the Trinity?
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I want you to come
in the Hebrew Bible,
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let's see Old
Testament over here
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to the Book of Isaiah 48:16.
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And here we have an
intimation of the Trinity
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and this book is about
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or 2,700 years old,
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Isaiah 48:16,
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the Bible says,
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"Come near to Me, here this:
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I have not spoken in
secret from the beginning..."
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So here I, I is talking.
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"From the time that it was,
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I was there."
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So here's one person telling I
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"And now the Lord
God and His Spirit.
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So you got the Lord God
and His Spirit have sent Me."
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Now, this is an intimation
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that the Godhead is somehow
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made up of three persons
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but this is only an intimation.
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I want you to come over
here to a clearer passage
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and that is Matthew 28:19.
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What we're really doing
here is having a Bible study.
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Not seeing what
the church teaches
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but seeing what
the Bible teaches
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Matthew 28:19, you ready?
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Matthew 28:19.
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Jesus said,
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"Go therefore and make disciples
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of all the nations,
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baptizing them in the names..."
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Does it say that?
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No "In the name of the Father
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and of the Son
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and of the Holy Spirit..."
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There are some people
in the Christian church
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who deny the
truth of the Trinity.
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If they are right
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then this text should say
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baptize them in the
names of the Father,
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Son and the Holy Spirit.
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But Jesus said baptize
them singular in the name.
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We do not worship three Gods.
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Let's make this very plain.
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We do not worship three Gods.
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We worship one God
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who is manifested in the Father,
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the Son and the Holy Spirit,
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and if
anti-Trinitarians are correct,
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this text is saying
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baptize them in
the name of the creator
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and the creature
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and a power
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or sing.
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But the text says,
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"The name of the Father,
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Son and Holy Spirit."
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Let me try to define this
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so that people don't misquote us
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and we don't misunderstand it.
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We do not believe
that the trinity teaches
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that we serve three Gods.
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We serve one God
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and this one God is manifested
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in a person called the Father,
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a person called the Son,
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and a person
called the Holy Spirit
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and they share
one thing in common.
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They have the same essence.
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The word was with God,
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the Bible says
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and the Word was God,
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he had the same
essence as the Father.
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Now come over here
to 2 Corinthians 13:14
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and I've got to
keep moving along,
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2 Corinthians 13,
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"The grace of the
Lord Jesus Christ,
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and the love of God,
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and the communion
of the Holy Spirit
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be with you all.
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Amen."
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So here you have the Father,
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the Son,
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and also the Holy Spirit.
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I want you to
come now to Genesis 1:1
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and then verse 26.
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Genesis 1,
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probably the most
important statement ever made
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in the history of the world.
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"In the beginning God created
the heavens and the earth..."
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So we came from the hand of God.
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"Then God said,
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"Let Us make man in Our image,
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according to Our likeness,
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let them have dominion
over the fish of the sea,
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over the birds of the air,
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and over the cattle,
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over all the earth and
over every creeping thing
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that creeps on the earth."
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So the self existent God
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Yahweh Elohim said,
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"Let us..."
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which is plural,
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"Let us make man
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in Our image..."
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which of course is an intimation
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that there is more
than one person there.
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Somebody has said this
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and this is a good statement.
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"Love is an impossible exercise
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to a solitary being."
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God existed before the angels,
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human beings, anybody else.
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But God was love
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and love can only exist
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if love is shared
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and the Bible tells me
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that God is love.
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Now how old is God?
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I like talking about this.
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How old is God?
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Scientists tell us.
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I don't argue with them
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that the
universe or the Big Bang
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which is simply
a scientific term
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many Christians
are afraid of it,
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so I don't often use it.
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So instead of
talking about the Big Bang
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that they use in
scientific circles we'll say,
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"The Point of Creation".
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All the scientists
in the world believe
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that this vast universe
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of two trillion galaxies
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came into existence
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13.82
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billion years ago...
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13.82
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billion years ago.
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And God was there.
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He'd been there
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for billions and
trillions of years.
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But that is wrong
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because scientists now know,
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this is not speculation.
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This is not a story.
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This is not a vision I'm having.
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Scientists tell us
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that before the
creation of the universe
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13.82 years ago,
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there was no time.
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Time came into existence
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when this universe was created,
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and so when you get back past
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13.82 billion years,
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there is no time.
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And the Bible
teaches there was not a time.
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But there was a something
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when there was no time.
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Take your Bible and
turn to these two texts.
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I want you to come over here
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to 2 Timothy 1:9,
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2 Timothy 1:9 in
the New Testament,
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the Bible says,
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"...who has
saved us and called us
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for the holy calling,
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not according to works,
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but according to His
own purpose and grace
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which was given
to us in Christ Jesus
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before time began..."
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Did you know the text was there
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before time began?
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Then if you come to Titus 1:2,
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Titus 1,
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"In hope of eternal life
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which God, who cannot lie,
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promised before time began..."
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So time began
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13.82 billion years ago.
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But before time began
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God was there, Christ was there.
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Now,
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who can
understand the infinite God?
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I don't understand
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the serial relativity
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I've tried to study it.
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I don't, I have an idea
of the concept of the E= mc2.
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That's the theory of relativity.
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We know it is true
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that a substance that
travels at the speed of light,
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time slows down, the time stops.
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We know that is true.
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I don't understand it.
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Then that we have
today quantum physics.
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Quantum physics is a concept
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that simply blows the mind,
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concept that is very hard
to wrap the mind around it.
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Quantum physics.
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But I don't make a decision
not to believe something
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because I'm too
dumb to understand it.
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Now, there...
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now listen,
there are many things
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I don't understand
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but just because I
don't understand it,
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it doesn't mean I'm
going to be so foolish
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as to throw it out
the window and say,
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I can't believe this.
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Now, how big is God?
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Well, our universe is just
a little bit of his backyard
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and universe is made up
of two trillion galaxies.
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How strong is God?
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How strong is He?
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Well, the Bible
tells me you think of this,
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Jesus Christ the great I am,
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this is a
picture of the Big Bang
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or the point of creation.
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If you can't
understand it, who can?
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But the Bible tells me
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that the great I
am Jesus Christ...
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He breathed...
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He spoke
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and it appeared.
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How big is God?
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So you think you
got big problems?
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You think you got a
problem that's too big for God?
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Goodness me, goodness me.
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How much does He know?
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He knows everything,
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about everything
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and everything about everyone.
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How loving is God?
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How loving is God?
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Loving enough to become a man.
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John 3:16, you know
the text of by heart,
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"For God so loved the world
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that He gave His
only begotten Son,
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so that whoever believes
in Him should not perish
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but have everlasting life."
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It is the
greatest text in the Bible.
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You know, why
it's the greatest text?
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For God, He's
the greatest person.
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He's so loved,
the greatest emotion.
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He loves the world,
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not the chosen frozen, you know,
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or the frozen chosen,
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He loved the world,
He loved every sinner,
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every person
the greatest number.
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"He gave His
only begotten Son..."
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The greatest gift.
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The greatest gift.
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"That whoever..."
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The greatest opportunity.
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Whoever, whoever you
are "should not perish."
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To perish is the,
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is the greatest disaster
and the greatest tragedy,
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"But have everlasting life."
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which is the greatest gift.
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So I propose to you,
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this is the
greatest text in the Bible
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because it talks
about the gospel of Christ.
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Now, I want to say this
to the television audience.
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Listen to me, please.
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If you feel just
weighted down with the burden
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and you can't go on,
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don't give up because
think of how great God is,
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the greatest is still to come,
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our best days are still to come.
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You've got a problem.
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God is a million times
bigger than your problem.
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You've got a
financial debt, don't despair.
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God owns the
whole of the universe,
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he owns all the stars.
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So the truth
comes into our minds
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when we somehow can comprehend
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that God made us
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and He is almighty
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and He gave Christ.
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And Christ was the person
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who made the universe,
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because He is the great I am,
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which leads us
now to this question.
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Who or what is the Holy Spirit?
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Many people believe
that the Holy Spirit
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is a influence
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or a power that
is sent from God,
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that is wrong.
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I want you to
notice Acts 5:1-9 Acts 5,
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"But a certain
man named Ananias,
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with Sapphira his
wife, sold a possession.
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He kept that
part of the proceeds,
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his wife also being aware of it,
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and brought a certain part
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and laid it at
the apostles' feet.
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Peter said, "Ananias,
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why has Satan filled your heart
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to lie to the Holy Spirit..."
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remember that, "To
lie to the Holy Spirit
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and keep back part of the
price of the land for yourself?
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While it remained,
was it not your own?
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After it was sold,
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was it not your
in your own control?
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Why have you conceived
this thing in your heart?
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You have not lied to
men but you've lied to God."
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You've lied to the Holy Spirit.
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You've lied to God,
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and so God
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and the Holy Spirit are equal.
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The Holy Spirit
is the third person
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of the Godhead.
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Then he gone a
little bit further,
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let me see the next verse.
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Let's have the next verse.
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What happened?
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This man, he dies
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and they carry him
out, they bury him.
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That's what the text says.
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"Now it was
about three hours later
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when his wife came in,
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not knowing what had happened.
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Peter answered her,
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"Tell me whether you
sold this land for so much?"
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She said, "Yes, for so much."
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And Peter said to her,
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"How is it that you
have agreed together
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to test the Spirit of the Lord?
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Look, the feet of those
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who have buried your
husband are at the door,
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they will carry you out."
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Now, in this amazing story
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of stealing from God,
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the Bible says,
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"You've lied unto God,
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you've lied unto
the Holy Spirit."
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So the Bible tells me
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that the Holy Spirit
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is a part of
the blessed trinity.
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The Holy Spirit is God,
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but the Holy
Spirit is not the Father
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and he is not the Son.
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Is he an influence or a person?
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I want you to notice these texts
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in the Gospel of John,
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John 14:18,
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John 14:16-18 Jesus says this,
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"I will pray the Father,
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and He will give
you another Helper,
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" sounds like a person.
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"That He may
abide with you forever-
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the Spirit of truth,
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is a helper,
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whom the world cannot receive,
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because it neither
sees Him nor knows Him,
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but you know Him,
for He dwells with you
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and will be in you.
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I will not leave you orphans,
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I will come to you.
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But the Helper, the Holy Spirit,
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whom the Father
will send in My name,
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He will teach you all things,
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and bring to your remembrance
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all things that I said to you."
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He's a helper.
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He's not an influence.
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He's not a power
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but he is a person.
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He is the person the same as you
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and I are persons.
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Now if you come to John 16:7, 8.
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Jesus takes it a
little bit further.
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John 16, "Nevertheless
I tell you the truth.
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It is to your
advantage that I go away,
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for if I do not go away,
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the Helper will not come to you,
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but if I depart, I
will send Him to you.
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And when He, He, you
notice it's He, not it.
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He will convict
the world of sin,
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and of righteousness,
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and of judgment:"
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Look at me.
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The Holy Spirit is a person.
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He's a real person
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and the Holy Spirit
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is God.
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He partakes of
the essence of God.
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Sometimes Christians pray
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in such a way they think
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that they want to get the power
of the Holy Spirit they say,
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"If we could
only get this power,
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it would be better if
the Holy Spirit got us.
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Because if the
Holy Spirit got us,
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then we would have the power
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of the Spirit of
God in our hearts."
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Genesis 6:3 says,
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that the Holy Spirit
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actually
troubles people's hearts,
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he strives with
them, "And the Lord said,
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Yahweh said,
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"My Sprit shall not
strive with man forever,
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for he is indeed flesh,
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yet his days shall be one
hundred and twenty years."
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The Bible says,
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"I'm going to
strive with you for ever."
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Sometimes, if you go
to a meeting like this
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or if you're
reading the scriptures,
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maybe watching a
television program,
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when the preacher
is anointed by God,
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you'll feel
something down in here.
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God will talk to you.
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Not in an audible voice,
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but they'll come
striving in your heart,
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may be you're
committing adultery.
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Are you breaking
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one of the other
commandments of God,
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and the Spirit of God
will strive with your heart.
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So the Spirit of God
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is the third
person of the Godhead
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who comes to lead us
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to Christ and to strive us.
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And Paul in the
Book of Romans says,
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"The Holy Spirit has a mind."
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I want you to notice
this in Romans 8:26, 27,
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Romans 8:26, 27.
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"Likewise the Spirit also
helps us in our weaknesses.
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We do not know what we
should pray for as we ought,
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but the Spirit Himself
makes intercession for us
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with groans which
cannot be uttered.
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Now He who
searches the hearts knows,
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look at it, the
mind of the Spirit,
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because He makes
intercession for the saints
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according to the will of God."
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He is a person with
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an infinite mind.
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He is everywhere at once.
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He works in perfect
harmony with another person
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who is called the Father
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and another person
who is called the Son.
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And the three of them together
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make up the one
Godhead whom we worship.
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The Bible says,
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"When He comes,
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He convicts us of sin."
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Now I'm going to tell you
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a couple of stories.
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I have personally felt
His presence and His power.
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When I went to
Russia for a great campaign
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in the year 1992,
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I was preaching to vast crowds,
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huge crowds of people.
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The meeting seemed to go
on from early in the morning
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until late at night.
00:21:04.13\00:21:06.09
I would become
wrung out and exhausted.
00:21:06.13\00:21:11.00
And sometimes before
another meeting started,
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I would be as weak as a kitten
00:21:15.57\00:21:19.51
and as I walked
out on the stage,
00:21:19.54\00:21:23.11
I would feel
literally a mantle of His power
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fall on me.
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You know what it's like?
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I was surrounded
with love and warmth,
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all of my nervousness was gone.
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My mind was filled
with thoughts and words
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that held thousands of people.
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I've seen,
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I felt, I know,
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I went to Ukraine,
00:21:51.11\00:21:52.87
had a tremendous
campaign in Ukraine.
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Thousands and thousands,
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these are just
some of the crowds,
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the biggest crowds in
the history of that nation
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attending this type of meeting.
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As I walked out to
preach and sometimes,
00:22:06.49\00:22:08.76
I'd be standing back
in the curtains saying,
00:22:08.79\00:22:11.39
"Lord, please come."
00:22:11.43\00:22:13.56
And as I walked out, I
would feel Him come upon me,
00:22:13.60\00:22:17.83
and as soon as I
walked back off the stage,
00:22:17.87\00:22:21.14
I was weak again.
00:22:21.17\00:22:24.71
More recently we ran
meetings in Port Moresby,
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Papua New Guinea.
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These are some of the
people who were baptized.
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Thousands and
thousands of people,
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but one night
when I was preaching,
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I said to the
audience, "He is here.
00:22:44.36\00:22:47.83
I can feel that He is here."
00:22:47.86\00:22:52.07
And the audience,
00:22:52.10\00:22:54.10
we had 150,000 people there.
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Some stayed totally outside
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that of the great
stadium another 50,000.
00:22:59.37\00:23:02.78
Nobody moving,
00:23:02.81\00:23:05.11
spellbound, why?
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Not by the preacher
but because He was here.
00:23:07.52\00:23:11.05
I felt I was
surrounded with warmth,
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I felt warmth.
00:23:14.46\00:23:17.49
I felt a sense
of empowering love
00:23:17.53\00:23:21.46
and then a one night
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as before I came out
to preach, I was meeting
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with the leaders
of the government.
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I heard the crowd shouting,
00:23:28.97\00:23:32.74
and I've put my head out
to see what was happening.
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And the people,
150,000 people standing
00:23:37.45\00:23:40.75
pointing up right this
00:23:40.78\00:23:43.05
and coming in low over
the heads of the people
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was a bird that didn't
live in that part of the world.
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A white, great white dove
00:23:49.29\00:23:52.03
flowing gently
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and slowly over the audience.
00:23:53.83\00:23:57.07
I saw the Spirit of God come.
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He came back at the meeting,
00:24:01.17\00:24:02.70
He came back at the
baptism when we had the baptism.
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Reporters said,
00:24:06.71\00:24:08.04
"We saw him
coming over the crowd."
00:24:08.08\00:24:10.11
I didn't see Him in that time.
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He came three
times to the meetings.
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That last night He came
00:24:17.12\00:24:19.62
when I made an altar call
00:24:19.65\00:24:21.19
because I'm old
fashioned enough to believe
00:24:21.22\00:24:23.09
that God still works.
00:24:23.12\00:24:25.86
Sixty thousand people
came down to the front.
00:24:25.89\00:24:29.23
And you couldn't hold them back.
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Listen, I want
to read you a poem,
00:24:32.20\00:24:36.47
run out of time,
00:24:36.50\00:24:38.47
doesn't matter.
00:24:38.51\00:24:40.41
There's a line that is
Crossfire rejecting the Lord,
00:24:40.44\00:24:43.11
Where the call of
His Spirit is lost,
00:24:43.14\00:24:46.05
As you hurry along
with the pleasure mad throng
00:24:46.08\00:24:48.65
Have you counted,
have you counted the cost?
00:24:48.68\00:24:50.72
What about you?
00:24:50.75\00:24:52.72
Watching television,
00:24:52.75\00:24:54.16
what about you?
00:24:54.19\00:24:55.52
Living in sin.
00:24:55.56\00:24:57.86
You may barter your
hope of eternity's morn,
00:24:57.89\00:25:01.10
For a moment of joy at the most,
00:25:01.13\00:25:05.20
For the glitter of sin
00:25:05.23\00:25:06.67
and the things
that it will bring
00:25:06.70\00:25:09.80
Have you counted,
00:25:09.84\00:25:11.24
have you counted the cost?
00:25:11.27\00:25:12.61
Have you counted the cost,
00:25:12.64\00:25:14.31
if your soul should be lost.
00:25:14.34\00:25:16.95
That you gain the
whole world for your own?
00:25:16.98\00:25:20.58
Even now it may be that
the line you have crossed
00:25:20.62\00:25:23.55
Have you counted,
00:25:23.59\00:25:25.35
have you counted the cost?
00:25:25.39\00:25:27.79
The Father, Son
and the Holy Spirit
00:25:31.96\00:25:35.23
all work together
for our Salvation.
00:25:35.26\00:25:38.33
Christ became a man,
00:25:38.37\00:25:41.20
wasn't the Father,
00:25:41.24\00:25:42.90
wasn't the Holy Spirit.
00:25:42.94\00:25:44.91
Christ made a blood
atonement on the cross,
00:25:44.94\00:25:48.58
so that we can be saved.
00:25:48.61\00:25:50.81
But unless the Holy Spirit comes
00:25:50.85\00:25:53.21
and brings it to our hearts,
00:25:53.25\00:25:55.45
we will be lost.
00:25:55.48\00:25:57.19
Therefore what should we do?
00:25:57.22\00:25:59.52
We should open our
hearts to the Holy Spirit
00:25:59.55\00:26:03.63
and accept Jesus
Christ as our Lord
00:26:03.66\00:26:07.63
and as our Savior
00:26:07.66\00:26:09.66
and we should do it now.
00:26:09.70\00:26:14.67
Amen.
00:26:14.70\00:26:16.04
Hi there, I'm John
Carter in Havana, Cuba,
00:26:19.07\00:26:21.94
this communist fortress.
00:26:21.98\00:26:24.11
We're here to
preach the gospel of Christ
00:26:24.15\00:26:26.11
to the public,
00:26:26.15\00:26:27.58
but more than this,
00:26:27.62\00:26:28.95
we are running a
school of evangelism
00:26:28.98\00:26:31.55
and biblical studies
for the Cuban pastors,
00:26:31.59\00:26:35.82
140 pastors coming
00:26:35.86\00:26:38.59
from right across
this wonderful island
00:26:38.63\00:26:41.96
and they're
coming to join with us
00:26:42.00\00:26:43.63
to study how best we can meet
00:26:43.67\00:26:46.23
the needs of the Cuban people.
00:26:46.27\00:26:49.60
The Cuban people are just
the most wonderful people,
00:26:49.64\00:26:52.57
they're warm, friendly,
00:26:52.61\00:26:54.84
and I'm amazed that in
the meetings every night
00:26:54.88\00:26:57.08
that we are taking
00:26:57.11\00:26:58.68
that I think most
of the people there
00:26:58.71\00:27:01.28
are young people.
00:27:01.32\00:27:03.02
Now, of course
when I say young people,
00:27:03.05\00:27:04.62
I mean people up to
say 35 years of age.
00:27:04.65\00:27:08.92
They're young to me,
00:27:08.96\00:27:10.39
but they're so warm
00:27:10.43\00:27:11.93
and they're so receptive
00:27:11.96\00:27:13.93
and when they come forward
night by night to accept Jesus,
00:27:13.96\00:27:17.40
they come with
tremendous sincerity.
00:27:17.43\00:27:20.27
So what a
privilege it is to be here
00:27:20.30\00:27:22.24
in the land of Cuba.
00:27:22.27\00:27:24.94
But remember to
pray for the pastors.
00:27:24.97\00:27:28.21
One hundred and forty pastors
are coming from Guantanamo Bay
00:27:28.24\00:27:32.98
and other places right
across this island nation.
00:27:33.01\00:27:36.72
They're coming to
join forces with us.
00:27:36.75\00:27:38.79
Think of this, they're
coming from Guantanamo Bay
00:27:38.82\00:27:42.42
and everywhere.
00:27:42.46\00:27:43.83
We're going to meet
with them, study with them,
00:27:43.86\00:27:45.89
pray with them,
00:27:45.93\00:27:47.26
to devise the best means
00:27:47.30\00:27:49.46
of reaching this nation
00:27:49.50\00:27:51.90
for the Lord Jesus Christ,
00:27:51.93\00:27:54.10
and thank you for
being my special partner.
00:27:54.14\00:27:57.51
For a copy of today's program,
00:28:21.20\00:28:23.30
please contact
us at PO Box 1900,
00:28:23.33\00:28:27.04
Thousand Oaks, California 91358
00:28:27.07\00:28:31.01
or in Australia
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