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>>WELCOME TO SACRAMENTO CENTRAL
SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH.
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IT'S A BEAUTIFUL SUNNY DAY
HERE IN SACRAMENTO, CALIFORNIA -
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THE CAPITAL CITY OF CALIFORNIA
- AND WE ARE JUST SO GLAD
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THAT YOU ARE TUNING IN.
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WHETHER YOU'RE LISTENING ON
THE RADIO, WATCHING LIVE ON OUR
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WEBSITE OR ON THE VARIOUS
TELEVISION NETWORKS, WE DON'T -
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IT DOESN'T MATTER TO US HOW
YOU'RE JOINING US, WE'RE JUST
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GLAD THAT YOU ARE AND WE HAVE
A SPECIAL BLESSING FOR YOU TODAY
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AND WE KNOW THAT GOD HAS A
SPECIAL BLESSING FOR YOU AND
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PASTOR DOUG WILL BE
BRINGING US OUR LESSON STUDY.
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BUT BEFORE WE HAVE OUR LESSON
STUDY, WE'RE DOING SOMETHING
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JUST A LITTLE
BIT DIFFERENT TODAY.
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INSTEAD OF TAKING YOUR REQUESTS
THAT HAVE COME IN FROM ALL OVER
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THE PLANET, KULA, JOLYNE, MYSELF
AND MICHAEL ARE GOING TO SING A
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SPECIAL SONG FOR YOU
ENTITLED 'WAYFARING STRANGER'.
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I AM A POOR
WAYFARING STRANGER, TRAVELING
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THROUGH THIS WORLD BELOW.
BUT THERE'S NO SICKNESS, TOIL
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NOR DANGER IN THAT
BRIGHT LAND TO WHICH I GO.
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I'M GOING THERE
TO SEE MY FATHER;
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I'M GOING THERE NO MORE TO ROAM.
I AM JUST GOING OVER JORDAN,
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I AM JUST GOING OVER HOME.
I'LL SOON BE FREE FROM EVERY
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TRIAL, THIS FORM WILL REST
BENEATH THE SOD; I'LL DROP THE
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CROSS OF SELF DENIAL AND
ENTER IN MY HOME WITH GOD
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I'M GOING THERE TO SEE MY
SAVIOR, WHO SHED FOR ME HIS
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PRECIOUS BLOOD.
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I AM JUST GOING OVER JORDAN,
I AM JUST GOING OVER HOME.
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I KNOW DARK CLOUDS
ARE GATHERING O'ER ME;
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I KNOW THE
PATHWAY'S LONG AND STEEP.
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BUT GOLDEN FIELDS LIE
JUST BEFORE ME WHERE WEARY EYES
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NO MORE SHALL WEEP.
I'M GOING THERE TO MEET MY
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FATHER, I'M GOING
THERE NO MORE TO ROAM.
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I AM JUST GOING OVER JORDAN,
I AM JUST GOING OVER HOME.
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I'M GOING THERE TO SEE MY SAVIOR
WHO SHED FOR ME HIS PRECIOUS
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BLOOD. I AM JUST
GOING OVER JORDAN,
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I AM JUST GOING OVER
HOME. I AM JUST GOING OVER HOME.
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I AM JUST GOING OVER HOME.
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>>WILL YOU BOW
YOUR HEADS WITH ME?
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FATHER IN HEAVEN, WE ARE
JUST WAYFARING STRANGERS ON THIS
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WORLD AND WE DO HAVE
A HOME THAT'S FAR BETTER
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THAN WHAT WE HAVE HERE.
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AND I PRAY THAT WE'LL ALWAYS
REMEMBER THAT AND THAT WE WILL
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KEEP OUR EYES ON YOU BECAUSE ONE
DAY WE WILL GO HOME AND SEE OUR
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FATHER, OUR SAVIOR, WHO
HAS GIVEN HIS LIFE FOR US.
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WE THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR DOING
THAT AND FOR GIVING US THE HOPE
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THAT WE HAVE AS CHRISTIANS.
I PRAY YOU'LL BE WITH US AS WE
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OPEN YOUR WORD AND WE
STUDY TOGETHER AND BE WITH OUR
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SPEAKER. THANK YOU.
IN JESUS' NAME, AMEN.
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>>HAPPY SABBATH EVERYONE.
GLAD TO SEE YOU THIS MORNING AND
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WE'RE GOING TO BE CONTINUING,
IN JUST A MOMENT, ON OUR LESSON
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DEALING WITH THE
TEACHINGS OF JESUS.
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IN PARTICULAR, TODAY, WE'RE
DEALING WITH LESSON #3 - NOW
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WE'RE GOING THROUGH THE HIGH
POINTS OF CHRISTIAN THEOLOGY -
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TALKING ABOUT GOD -
TALKED ABOUT THE SON.
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TODAY WE'RE TALKING
ABOUT THE HOLY SPIRIT.
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NEXT WEEK IT'S ABOUT SALVATION
AND THEN THE FOLLOWING WEEK,
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'WHAT DO I DO TO BE SAVED?'
THESE ARE JUST REALLY IMPORTANT
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FUNDAMENTAL STUDIES.
TODAY WE HAVE A FREE OFFER THAT
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GOES ALONG WITH THE LESSON ON
THE HOLY SPIRIT AND IT'S CALLED
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'HOLY SPIRIT: THE NEED' - IT'S
SOMETHING WRITTEN BY YOURS TRULY
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THAT I JUST WANTED TO FOCUS
ON HELPING PEOPLE UNDERSTAND THE
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WORK AND THE
IMPORTANCE OF THE HOLY SPIRIT.
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IF YOU DON'T HAVE THIS
WE'LL SEND IT TO YOU FREE.
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JUST CALL AND ASK
FOR IT. IT'S OFFER #723.
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JUST MENTION THAT WHEN YOU CALL.
AND THE NUMBER IS 866-STUDY-MORE
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- THAT'S THE ACRONYM -
866-STUDY-MORE AND THAT
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TRANSLATES TO 866-788-3966
AND ASK FOR THE BOOK ON THE HOLY
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SPIRIT. WE'LL SEND IT
TO YOU. PLEASE READ IT.
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SHARE IT, THEN,
WITH SOMEBODY ELSE.
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THE LESSON TODAY IS DEALING WITH
SUCH AN IMPORTANT TOPIC THAT,
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YOU KNOW, EVEN AS I PREPARED
AND WENT OVER IT SEVERAL TIMES I
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THOUGHT, 'BOY, YOU KNOW, WHEN
WE TALK ABOUT THE SPIRIT OF GOD
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WE'RE REALLY TREADING ON HOLY
GROUND AND SO I WONDER IF YOU
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WOULD JUST JOIN ME FOR A MOMENT
- I WOULD LIKE TO JUST PRAY -
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AND YOU PRAY FOR ME AS I
TEACH BECAUSE THE BIBLE SAYS,
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'AS THE HEAVENS ARE
HIGH ABOVE THE EARTH,
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SO ARE HIS WAYS ABOVE OUR WAYS.'
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SO WHEN A MAN STANDS BEFORE
OTHER MEN CLAIMING TO BE ABLE TO
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TALK ABOUT GOD WE REALLY NEED
THE SPIRIT TO UNDERSTAND THE
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SPIRIT SO FATHER IN HEAVEN, JUST
RECOGNIZING THAT WE DO NEED YOUR
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SPIRIT TO UNDERSTAND THESE
THINGS AND HOW FRAIL EVEN THE
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HUMAN LANGUAGE
IS TO DESCRIBE THEM.
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I JUST PRAY THAT YOUR PRESENCE
WILL BE HERE AND THAT OUR
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UNDERSTANDING WILL BE CLEAR AND
JUST BLESS THE PRESENTATION OF
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THE LESSON TODAY. WE
PRAY IN JESUS' NAME, AMEN.
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YOU CAN'T BE SAVED
WITHOUT THE HOLY SPIRIT.
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BUT SO OFTEN, WHEN WE SAY THE
HOLY SPIRIT, WE'RE THINKING OF
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AN IT INSTEAD OF A WHO.
NOW WE'LL GET MORE INTO THAT,
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BUT JUST REMEMBER THE HOLY
SPIRIT IS NOT SOME ESSENCE OF
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GOD. IT'S NOT A FORCE OF GOD.
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IT'S NOT SOME
SEPARATED POWER OF GOD.
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THE HOLY SPIRIT IS GOD -
ONE OF THE PERSONS OF GOD - AND
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UNDERSTANDING HIM AND HIS WORK
IS ACTUALLY EVEN A LITTLE MORE
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DIFFICULT, YOU KNOW, IF THERE IS
A HIERARCHY IN THE GODHEAD - AND
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THERE APPEARS TO BE - WHERE
THERE'S DIFFERENT ROLES AND GOD
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THE FATHER IS ALWAYS PORTRAYED
IN THE - AS THE SUPREME
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AUTHORITY - AND EVEN WHEN
THEY'RE LISTED - 'GO THEREFORE
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AND TEACH ALL NATIONS, BAPTIZING
IN THE NAME OF' - IT DOESN'T SAY
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THE SPIRIT, THE SON AND THE
FATHER - IT ALWAYS SAYS, 'THE
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FATHER, THE SON AND THE SPIRIT.'
AND THE WORK OF THE SPIRIT IS TO
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EXALT THE FATHER, TO EXALT THE
SON - BUT IT'S EASIER FOR US,
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SOMETIMES, TO UNDERSTAND OR
TO, YOU KNOW, WITH OUR FRAIL
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CAPABILITIES, TO
VISUALIZE THE FATHER.
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I MEAN, IF I TELL YOU TO CLOSE
YOUR EYES AND PICTURE GOD THE
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FATHER, YOU MIGHT, IN YOUR MIND,
SEE THIS MAJESTIC LOOKING BEING
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- KINGLY BEING - WITH, YOU
KNOW - HE NEVER DYES HIS HAIR.
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HIS HAIR IS ALWAYS GRAY -
SITTING ON A THRONE, EMANATING
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LIGHT. AND IF I
SAY, 'PICTURE JESUS'
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MOST OF US
PROBABLY WOULD PAINT IN ONE
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OF THE MANY PAINTINGS WE'VE SEEN
OF JESUS SOMEWHERE BECAUSE, YOU
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KNOW, YOU SEE A PICTURE OF JESUS
IN A BOOK OR SOMETHING AS A
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CHILD AND THAT SORT OF CREATES
AN IMPRESSION THAT GIVES YOU
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CONTEXT FOR WHAT JESUS LOOKED
LIKE BECAUSE YOU DON'T FIND MUCH
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IN THE BIBLE ABOUT
WHAT JESUS LOOKS LIKE.
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IT SAYS 'THERE'S NO OUTWARD FORM
OR COMELINESS THAT WE SHOULD
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DESIRE HIM' AND JESUS SEEMED
TO BE ABLE TO MELT INTO A CROWD
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LIKE AN AVERAGE PERSON.
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IT NEVER SAYS HE WAS
STRIKING LIKE A MOVIE STAR.
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BUT, YOU KNOW, WE USUALLY SEE
ONE OF THOSE TYPICAL PICTURES OF
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SOMEBODY WITH BROWN OR CHESTNUT
HAIR AND BLUE OR HAZEL EYES AND
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THE, YOU KNOW, NEATLY
TRIMMED BEARD AND SO FORTH.
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BUT WHEN I SAY 'PICTURE THE HOLY
SPIRIT' ALL OF YOU ARE GOING TO
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COME UP WITH VASTLY
DIFFERENT MENTAL IMAGES.
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THE BIBLE SAYS THE
HOLY SPIRIT IS LIKE WIND.
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ANOTHER PLACE IT SAYS
'YOU'LL BE BAPTIZED WITH FIRE.
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ANOTHER PLACE, 'IT'S LIKE
LIVING WATER.' THE HOLY SPIRIT
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SOMETIMES WE THINK OF, YOU KNOW,
THINGS SHAKE - IT'S LIKE THE
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SOUND OF A TRAIN GOING BY OR -
SO COMPREHENDING THE HOLY SPIRIT
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IS ONE OF THE MOST DIFFICULT
THINGS THAT WE DEAL WITH IN THE
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BIBLE. WHAT THE
SPIRIT DOES IS CLEARLY
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LAID OUT - PICTURING THE HOLY
SPIRIT OR WHAT THE ESSENCE OF
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GOD THE SPIRIT IS IS
A LITTLE HARDER FOR US.
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NOW, LET ME TELL YOU WHY -
AT LEAST MY THEORY - WHY I THINK
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THAT IS. WHEN ADAM
AND EVE WERE IN THE
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GARDEN OF EDEN
BEFORE SIN THEY HAD
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SOMETHING WE DON'T HAVE NOW.
THEY, FOR ONE THING, HAD SOME
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FORM OF SUPERNATURAL CLOTHING
BECAUSE WHEN THEY SINNED, THE
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CLOTHES SORT OF DISAPPEARED
- THESE ROBES OF LIGHT.
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I BELIEVE ADAM AND EVE
COULD TALK TO ANGELS THE WAY I'M
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TALKING TO YOU.
ANGELS AREN'T PLAYING
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HIDE-AND-GO-SEEK WITH US.
ANGELS ARE SPIRITUAL CREATURES.
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THE BIBLE TELLS US THAT THEY'RE
SPIRITUAL MINISTERING SPIRITS OF
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GOD. AND THERE'S A WHOLE
WORLD AROUND US RIGHT NOW.
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ARE ANGELS IN THIS ROOM RIGHT
NOW? GOOD AND BAD, MAYBE, HUH?
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BUT WE CAN'T SEE THEM BECAUSE
WHEN MAN SINNED WE LOST ONE OF
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OUR SENSES. YOU
KNOW, YOU'VE GOT YOUR SENSE
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OF TASTE AND HEARING AND
SIGHT AND TOUCH AND SO FORTH.
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I THINK THERE WAS ANOTHER
SENSORY ABILITY MAN HAD BEFORE
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SIN TO BE IN TUNE WITH
THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AROUND US.
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AND WHEN MAN SINNED AND THE
LIGHTS WENT OUT AND THE CLOTHES
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DISAPPEARED AND MAN BEGAN
TO DIE, WE LOST SOMETHING.
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AND IT'S HARD FOR ME TO EVEN
DESCRIBE IT BECAUSE IF I COULD
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DESCRIBE IT I'D HAVE TO HAVE IT.
BUT WE LOST SOMETHING - WE LOST
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THE ABILITY - I MEAN, DIDN'T
MAN TALK TO GOD FACE TO FACE?
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AND GOD DIDN'T HAVE TO PERFORM
A TRICK TO REVEAL HIMSELF
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BACK THEN, MAN
COULD JUST SEE HIM.
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WE LOST A SPIRITUAL SENSITIVITY
AND THAT'S WHY I THINK IT'S SO
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HARD FOR US TO UNDERSTAND THE
HOLY SPIRIT IS BECAUSE WE LIVE
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IN THESE DARK THREE-DIMENSIONAL
WORLDS WHERE THE FOURTH
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DIMENSION OF THE HOLY
SPIRIT SEEMS FOREIGN TO US.
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ANGELS REALLY HAVE TO GO THE
SECOND MILE TO REVEAL THEMSELVES
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TO US AND SO WHEN WE
TALK ABOUT GOD THE SPIRIT,
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WHAT'S IMPORTANT FOR US TO
UNDERSTAND IS THAT HE'S VERY
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REAL AND HE CAN BE IN YOU.
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NOW JESUS MADE IT - WELL, FIRST
LET'S DO OUR MEMORY VERSE - I
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WAS GETTING CARRIED
AWAY WITH MY OWN VOICE.
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MEMORY VERSE IS JOHN 14:16 -
JOHN 14:16 - IT'S THE NEW KING
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JAMES VERSION. I INVITE
YOU TO SAY IT WITH ME. READY?
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"AND I WILL PRAY THE FATHER, AND
HE WILL GIVE YOU ANOTHER HELPER,
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THAT HE MAY ABIDE
WITH YOU FOREVER."
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JESUS SAID, 'I'M GOING AWAY
BUT I WILL PRAY - I'LL INTERCEDE
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WITH THE FATHER AND HE WILL SEND
YOU ANOTHER COMFORTER.' AND THE
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WORD, SOMETIMES, IS
COUNSELOR, COMFORTER, HELPER.
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THE WORD JESUS USED IN GREEK
IS PARAKLETOS AND THAT IS A
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COMPOSITE OF TWO WORDS PARA-
MEANING 'BESIDE' AND KLETOS-
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MEANING 'CALLED' - SOMEONE
WHO IS CALLED TO YOUR SIDE.' AND
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IT'S USED IN THE BIBLE IN THE
SENSE OF A COUNSELOR - EVEN A
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DEFENSE ATTORNEY - AND SO THE
HOLY SPIRIT IS SOMEONE WHO IS
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GOING TO BE THERE AS TO AID, TO
GUIDE, TO COUNSEL - TO HELP MAN
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IN THE ABSENCE OF CHRIST.
NOW, WHEN WE THINK OF GOD - THIS
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IS SOMETHING ELSE
IMPORTANT TO UNDERSTAND.
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GOD IS OFTEN DESCRIBED
WITH THREE THEOLOGICAL TERMS.
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GOD IS CALLED 'OMNIPOTENT'
- WHAT DOES THAT MEAN?
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ALL POWERFUL. IS THERE ANYTHING
GOD DOES NOT HAVE POWER?
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GOD IS DESCRIBED AS
OMNISCIENT - ALL KNOWING -
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HE KNOWS EVERYTHING.
THIS IDEA THAT GOD'S ON A
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JOURNEY AND HE'S LEARNING
ALONG WITH US IS ABSURD.
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GOD KNOWS
EVERYTHING. HE CAN'T LEARN.
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YOU CAN'T TEACH HIM
ANYTHING. HE'S ALL-KNOWING.
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AND THEN ANOTHER TERM WE
USE TO DESCRIBE GOD - WHO KNOWS?
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OMNIPRESENT - I HEARD
SOMEBODY SAY IT - OMNIPRESENT -
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NOW WHAT DOES THAT
MEAN? OMNI MEANS 'EVERYWHERE -
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ALL ENCOMPASSING'. THAT
MEANS YOU CAN BE PRESENT
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EVERYWHERE ALL THE TIME.
IT'S LIKE WHEN YOU READ IN
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PSALMS 139, VERSE 7, 'WHERE
CAN I FLEE FROM YOUR SPIRIT?'
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SO IS GOD'S SPIRIT OMNIPRESENT?
IS GOD THE FATHER OMNIPRESENT?
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I'VE HAD LENGTHY DEBATES WITH
FRIENDS - 'WILL THE FATHER BE
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WITH JESUS WHEN HE COMES?'
HAVE YOU HEARD THAT BEFORE?
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IT'S KIND OF A TRICK QUESTION
BECAUSE, WELL, CHRIST BRINGS THE
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REDEEMED TO THE FATHER -
IT SAYS, 'THEN HE WILL SEND
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JESUS.' IT MAKES IT SOUND
LIKE JESUS LEAVES THE FATHER AND
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COMES TO EARTH. BUT
THEN CHRIST SAYS, 'I'M
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COMING ON THE
RIGHT HAND OF POWER.
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BECAUSE THE FATHER IS
OMNIPRESENT, JESUS NEVER REALLY
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ESCAPES HIS PRESENCE. THE
CLOSEST YOU COME TO THAT WAS
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AT THE CROSS WHERE THE FATHER
SEPARATED OR, AT LEAST, VEILED
00:16:11.96\00:16:16.70
HIS PRESENCE FROM CHRIST
FOR THE FIRST TIME IN ETERNITY.
00:16:16.70\00:16:20.56
BUT WHEN JESUS CAME TO EARTH AND
HE TOOK ON THE FORM OF HUMANITY,
00:16:20.56\00:16:25.80
HE DID SOMETHING THAT WAS
HARD FOR US TO COMPREHEND.
00:16:25.80\00:16:27.70
HE LAID ASIDE A DIMENSION OF HIS
DIVINITY IN THAT CHRIST WAS NO
00:16:27.70\00:16:33.66
LONGER OMNIPRESENT
WHEN HE WAS ON EARTH, RIGHT?
00:16:33.66\00:16:38.80
HE SAID, 'LOOK, IN ORDER FOR ME
TO BE WITH YOU ALWAYS - WHEREVER
00:16:38.80\00:16:41.83
YOU GO - IT MUST BE
THROUGH GOD THE SPIRIT.'
00:16:41.83\00:16:44.83
AND SO THE HOLY
SPIRIT IS OMNIPRESENT.
00:16:44.83\00:16:49.36
AND HE SENT US THIS COUNSELOR -
THIS COMFORTER - TO BE WITH US.
00:16:49.36\00:16:52.56
SO THAT PROBABLY IS A GOOD SEGUE
INTO THE FIRST SECTION HERE
00:16:52.56\00:16:56.53
DEALING WITH 'THE REPRESENTATIVE
OF CHRIST.' NOW THE HOLY SPIRIT
00:16:56.53\00:17:00.93
WILL NEVER TELL YOU OR SAY
ANYTHING DIFFERENT TO YOU FROM
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CHRIST OR FROM
THE WORD OF CHRIST.
00:17:04.13\00:17:07.53
ONE OF THE THINGS THAT
FRUSTRATES ME IS SOMETIMES DOING
00:17:07.53\00:17:12.06
EVANGELISM, YOU'LL PREACH A VERY
CLEAR BIBLICAL DISTINCTIVE AND
00:17:12.06\00:17:20.80
YOU MIGHT PREACH THE
TRUTH ABOUT THE SABBATH.
00:17:20.80\00:17:23.36
AND YOU CAN SHOW A PERSON,
YOU KNOW, 50 SCRIPTURES ON THE
00:17:23.36\00:17:26.10
SUBJECT THAT ARE JUST REALLY
POWERFUL, CONVINCING, SLAM-DUNK
00:17:26.10\00:17:28.93
SCRIPTURES AND THEN I'LL
HEAR SOMEONE SAY TO ME AFTER THE
00:17:28.93\00:17:32.66
DOOR, 'WELL, PASTOR DOUG, I KNOW
THE BIBLE SAYS THAT AND THAT
00:17:32.66\00:17:35.26
SOUNDS VERY CONVINCING, BUT THE
SPIRIT IS TELLING ME SOMETHING
00:17:35.26\00:17:39.03
DIFFERENT.' YOU EVER HEARD THAT
BEFORE? WILL THE SPIRIT OF GOD
00:17:39.03\00:17:45.20
EVER CONTRADICT THE WORD OF
GOD? IF JESUS IS THE WORD OF GOD
00:17:45.20\00:17:50.80
INCARNATE, THE PURPOSE OF THE
HOLY SPIRIT IS TO BRING TO YOUR
00:17:50.80\00:17:54.40
REMEMBRANCE WHAT JESUS SAID.
THE HOLY SPIRIT WILL ALWAYS
00:17:54.40\00:17:57.66
ENDORSE AND UNDERSCORE AND
HIGHLIGHT WHAT IS IN THE WORD
00:17:57.66\00:18:02.23
AND SO, IF YOU EVER SEE A
CONFLICT BETWEEN SOMEONE SAYING,
00:18:02.23\00:18:04.66
'WELL, THE SPIRIT
IS TELLING ME THIS.
00:18:04.66\00:18:06.46
I KNOW THE WORD SAYS THAT.' AND
I KNOW I'VE SHARED THIS WITH YOU
00:18:06.46\00:18:09.83
BEFORE BUT IT'S HAPPENED MANY
TIMES WHERE I'VE TALKED TO SOME
00:18:09.83\00:18:15.00
- SOMEBODY WHO'S SUPPOSED TO BE
A CHRISTIAN AND THEY'RE MARRIED
00:18:15.00\00:18:19.90
BUT THEY'RE HAVING AN AFFAIR -
THEY'VE MET SOMEBODY ELSE - BUT
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THEY STILL WANT TO BE A
CHRISTIAN BECAUSE - AND THEY'RE
00:18:23.80\00:18:26.16
SAYING, 'YOU KNOW, THE SPIRIT IS
TELLING ME THAT I WAS MEANT TO
00:18:26.16\00:18:29.00
BE WITH THIS PERSON.' HAVE YOU
EVER RUN INTO THIS BEFORE TOO?
00:18:29.00\00:18:36.13
YEAH. WILL THE HOLY SPIRIT EVER
00:18:36.13\00:18:39.26
INSPIRE A PERSON TO CONTRADICT
ONE OF THE TEN COMMANDMENTS?
00:18:39.26\00:18:43.53
SO ALWAYS REMEMBER: JESUS IS
THE WORD. THE HOLY SPIRIT'S WORK
00:18:43.53\00:18:49.56
IS TO REINFORCE - TO
ENDORSE - TO EXALT THE WORD.
00:18:49.56\00:18:56.06
AND SO IN DOING SO,
HE'S EXALTING CHRIST.
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GOD THE FATHER, SON AND SPIRIT
- GOD IS ALWAYS - HE SAID, 'I'M
00:19:01.26\00:19:04.73
GLORIFYING THE SON.' THE SON
SAYS, 'NO, I'M GLORIFYING THE
00:19:04.73\00:19:07.33
FATHER.' THE SPIRIT SAYS, 'NO,
I'M GOING TO GLORIFY THE FATHER
00:19:07.33\00:19:09.36
AND THE SON.' AND GOD
OPERATES AS ALWAYS GIVING AWAY.
00:19:09.36\00:19:15.03
AND THE FATHER, SON, AND SPIRIT
ARE ALWAYS TRYING TO ENDORSE AND
00:19:15.03\00:19:18.33
GLORIFY EACH OTHER, WHEREAS IN
OUR WORLD WE'RE ALWAYS TRYING TO
00:19:18.33\00:19:22.13
SORT OF SOAK UP THE GLORY.
THAT'S WHAT THE DEVIL DOES.
00:19:22.13\00:19:25.66
HE ALWAYS WANTED THE GLORY FOR
HIMSELF AND GOD IS THE OPPOSITE
00:19:25.66\00:19:28.26
OF THAT. SO THE
SPIRIT IS GIVING.
00:19:28.26\00:19:30.63
HE'S GIVING
COMFORT. HE'S GIVING SUPPORT.
00:19:30.63\00:19:35.60
MATTER OF FACT, SOMEONE LOOK UP
FOR ME - WE'VE GOT SOME VERSES
00:19:35.60\00:19:37.93
WE, I THINK, DISTRIBUTED.
JOHN 14:26 - WHO HAS THAT?
00:19:37.93\00:19:42.60
HOLD UP YOUR HAND IF
YOU'VE GOT THAT. OVER HERE -
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AND YOU'VE GOT A MICROPHONE.
DO YOU HAVE THAT STACY?
00:19:44.60\00:19:47.63
WE'LL GET TO YOU
IN JUST A SECOND.
00:19:47.63\00:19:49.00
I'M GOING TO READ A COUPLE OF
OTHER VERSES - TALKING ABOUT THE
00:19:49.00\00:19:51.30
REPRESENTATIVE OF CHRIST.
IN 1 JOHN 2:1 HE SAYS, "MY
00:19:51.30\00:19:57.40
LITTLE CHILDREN, THESE THINGS
I WRITE TO YOU, SO THAT YOU MAY
00:19:57.40\00:20:00.53
NOT SIN. AND IF
ANYONE SINS, WE HAVE AN
00:20:00.53\00:20:03.10
ADVOCATE WITH THE FATHER,
JESUS CHRIST THE RIGHTEOUS."
00:20:03.10\00:20:06.06
NOW DID YOU KNOW WHAT WORD
WAS USED THERE FOR ADVOCATE?
00:20:06.06\00:20:09.03
PARAKLETOS - SO NOT ONLY IS THE
HOLY SPIRIT CALLED COMFORTER AND
00:20:09.03\00:20:14.13
HELPER, BUT AT LEAST IN
THIS VERSE, CHRIST IS CALLED
00:20:14.13\00:20:18.46
'HELPER, COMFORTER, COUNSELOR'.
00:20:18.46\00:20:20.50
WHEN JESUS WAS ON EARTH AMONG
MEN, DIDN'T HE DO THOSE THINGS?
00:20:20.50\00:20:24.26
SO WHEN CHRIST SAID, 'LOOK I
CAN'T BE HERE PERSONALLY BUT I'M
00:20:24.26\00:20:26.63
GOING TO SEND THE HOLY SPIRIT TO
DO THE SAME THING I DID WHEN I
00:20:26.63\00:20:29.00
WALKED AMONG
YOU.' THAT MAKES SENSE.
00:20:29.00\00:20:31.66
ALRIGHT, GO AHEAD
READ FOR US - 14:26.
00:20:31.66\00:20:34.86
>>"BUT THE HELPER, THE HOLY
SPIRIT, WHOM THE FATHER WILL
00:20:34.86\00:20:38.10
SEND IN MY NAME, HE WILL TEACH
YOU ALL THINGS, AND BRING TO
00:20:38.10\00:20:41.76
YOUR REMEMBRANCE ALL
THINGS THAT I SAID TO YOU."
00:20:41.76\00:20:45.40
>>SO THERE YOU HAVE IT.
THIS IS THE HOLY SPIRIT'S JOB -
00:20:45.40\00:20:48.03
TO EXALT AND TO
RE-ATTRACT ATTENTION TO JESUS.
00:20:48.03\00:20:54.43
IN 2 CORINTHIANS 13:14, HERE
IN PAUL'S CLOSING STATEMENT HE
00:20:54.43\00:21:00.60
SAYS, "THE GRACE OF THE LORD
JESUS CHRIST, AND THE LOVE OF
00:21:00.60\00:21:04.10
GOD, AND THE COMMUNION OF
THE HOLY SPIRIT BE WITH YOU ALL,
00:21:04.10\00:21:07.80
AMEN." NOW, DO YOU SEE
THE TRINITY IN THAT VERSE?
00:21:07.80\00:21:10.20
THE GRACE OF THE LORD, THE LOVE
OF GOD, COMMUNION OF THE SPIRIT
00:21:10.20\00:21:15.06
BE WITH YOU ALL. SO
PAUL IS ACTUALLY PRAYING FOR
00:21:15.06\00:21:19.26
THE PRESENCE OF THE FATHER, THE
SON AND THE SPIRIT TO BE WITH US
00:21:19.26\00:21:23.33
ALL. BUT WHICH
MEMBER OF THE GODHEAD
00:21:23.33\00:21:25.80
BRINGS US THAT
PRESENCE? IT'S THE HOLY SPIRIT.
00:21:25.80\00:21:29.80
HE BRINGS US - WHEN YOU SAY, YOU
KNOW, 'I FEEL JESUS IS CLOSE.'
00:21:29.80\00:21:34.26
OR THAT YOU SENSE THAT CHRIST
IS WITH YOU, IS CHRIST WITH YOU
00:21:34.26\00:21:36.70
PHYSICALLY OR IS IT
THROUGH GOD THE SPIRIT -
00:21:36.70\00:21:38.66
THAT YOU SENSE
CHRIST'S PRESENCE?
00:21:38.66\00:21:41.16
IS GOD THE FATHER, THE SON
AND THE SPIRIT COMPLETELY ONE?
00:21:41.16\00:21:47.20
HEAR O ISRAEL, THE LORD OUR GOD
IS ONE.' ONE GOD AND YET THEY'RE
00:21:47.20\00:21:51.93
MANIFESTED IN
THREE DISTINCT PERSONS.
00:21:51.93\00:21:54.83
BUT THEY DON'T HAVE STRANGELY
DIFFERENT PERSONALITIES.
00:21:54.83\00:21:59.40
THEY ARE ALWAYS GOING TO BE IN
HARMONY WITH EACH OTHER AND SO
00:21:59.40\00:22:02.90
ONE IS GOING TO BE GIVING THE
IMPRESSION AND SUPPORTING THE
00:22:02.90\00:22:07.26
SAME SENTIMENTS OF THE OTHER.
00:22:07.26\00:22:11.36
SO HE'S THE REPRESENTATIVE
OF CHRIST HERE IN THE WORLD.
00:22:11.36\00:22:13.80
WHEN JESUS WENT TO HEAVEN HE
SAID, 'SO AS THE FATHER SENT ME,
00:22:13.80\00:22:18.50
SO SEND I YOU.' AND SO IS
CHRIST STILL IN THE WORLD TODAY?
00:22:18.50\00:22:25.90
THROUGH THE HOLY SPIRIT.
BUT IS CHRIST IN THE WORLD TODAY
00:22:25.90\00:22:29.16
THROUGH THE HOLY SPIRIT BLOWING
LIKE WIND AROUND THE PLANET?
00:22:29.16\00:22:34.46
THE SPIRIT OF GOD MOVED
ON THE FACE OF THE WATERS?
00:22:34.46\00:22:36.96
OR IS GOD - IS JESUS STILL IN
THE WORLD TODAY THROUGH THE HOLY
00:22:36.96\00:22:40.53
SPIRIT IN PEOPLE? SO WHAT DID
JESUS DO WHEN HE WAS ON EARTH?
00:22:40.53\00:22:45.96
HE TAUGHT, HE
HEALED, HE LOVED PEOPLE.
00:22:45.96\00:22:49.46
HOW DOES THE HOLY SPIRIT
NOW MANIFEST GOD IN THE WORLD?
00:22:49.46\00:22:52.93
THROUGH SOME ELECTRIC
THUNDER OR IS IT THROUGH PEOPLE?
00:22:52.93\00:22:58.26
SO CHRIST IS STILL IN THE WORLD
TODAY THROUGH THE HOLY SPIRIT
00:22:58.26\00:23:03.30
BEING REVEALED
THROUGH YOU AND I.
00:23:03.30\00:23:05.10
SO HOW IMPORTANT IS IT
THAT WE HAVE THE SPIRIT?
00:23:05.10\00:23:07.30
IF THE WORLD'S GOING TO SEE
JESUS TODAY, HOW IS THE WORLD
00:23:07.30\00:23:10.26
GOING TO SEE HIM? THROUGH
THE SPIRIT FLOWING THROUGH US.
00:23:10.26\00:23:15.00
CHRIST SAID, 'I'LL BE IN YOU
A FOUNTAIN OF LIVING WATER AND
00:23:15.00\00:23:17.53
IT'LL BE ARTESIAN - IT
FLOWS OUT TO THOSE AROUND YOU.
00:23:17.53\00:23:20.56
AND SO THE LORD WANTS TO REACH
OTHERS, AS JESUS DID, WHEN THE
00:23:20.56\00:23:25.73
SPIRIT OF GOD IS IN US. YOU
AND I ARE THE BODY OF CHRIST.
00:23:25.73\00:23:29.86
YOU AND I ARE THE HANDS AND THE
FEET AND THE MOUTH AND THE EYES
00:23:29.86\00:23:32.53
OF JESUS IN THE
WORLD TODAY, RIGHT?
00:23:32.53\00:23:35.76
NOW THIS NEXT SECTION HERE - AND
I'M RUSHING BECAUSE I THINK MOST
00:23:35.76\00:23:39.00
OF YOU UNDERSTOOD THE IMPORTANCE
OF THE HOLY SPIRIT REPRESENTING
00:23:39.00\00:23:41.70
JESUS. BUT
THERE'S MUCH DEBATE ON THE
00:23:41.70\00:23:44.50
NEXT SECTION. IS THE
HOLY SPIRIT A PERSON?
00:23:44.50\00:23:49.10
NOW I DON'T HAVE TIME TO GO INTO
ALL THE HISTORY OF SOME OF THE
00:23:49.10\00:23:57.73
VIEWS ABOUT THE TRINITY
AND ARMINIANISM AND ONENESS.
00:23:57.73\00:24:04.83
SOME PEOPLE BELIEVE THAT GOD
IS ONE GOD, MEANING THAT ONE GOD
00:24:04.83\00:24:09.23
MANIFESTS HIMSELF THREE
DIFFERENT WAYS - THAT GOD
00:24:09.23\00:24:13.40
SOMETIMES APPEARED AS THE SON
AND HE SOMETIMES APPEARS AS THE
00:24:13.40\00:24:16.23
SPIRIT AND HE SOMETIMES
IDENTIFIES HIMSELF AS THE FATHER
00:24:16.23\00:24:19.46
- BUT THE PROBLEM YOU HAVE WITH
THAT DOCTRINE: IT'S LIKE ONE GOD
00:24:19.46\00:24:23.10
HAS MANY MASKS THAT HE WEARS.
THE PROBLEM WITH THAT THEOLOGY
00:24:23.10\00:24:27.76
IS AT THE BAPTISM OF
JESUS - A NUMBER OF PROBLEMS.
00:24:27.76\00:24:31.06
WHEN GOD THE FATHER IS IN HEAVEN
THE HEAVENS PART AND GOD THE
00:24:31.06\00:24:36.26
SPIRIT COMES DOWN UPON CHRIST
AND GOD THE SON IS IN THE WATER
00:24:36.26\00:24:41.03
AND GOD THE FATHER SAYS, 'THIS
IS MY SON' - SO IS GOD BEING A
00:24:41.03\00:24:44.80
VENTRILOQUIST? OR
DO YOU SEE GOD, AT ONE
00:24:44.80\00:24:48.03
MOMENT, IN THREE
DIFFERENT PERSONS?
00:24:48.03\00:24:51.10
SO THAT IDEA DOESN'T WORK.
BUT THERE ARE STILL SOME THAT
00:24:51.10\00:24:55.30
STRUGGLE WITH THE IDEA THAT
JESUS, AT ONE TIME, WAS CREATED
00:24:55.30\00:24:59.63
IN THE REMOTE RECESSES OF
HISTORY AND THE HOLY SPIRIT IS
00:24:59.63\00:25:03.63
REALLY THE FORCE THROUGH WHICH
THE FATHER AND THE SON OPERATE.
00:25:03.63\00:25:08.80
BUT THE BIBLE USES EVERY TERM IT
POSSIBLY CAN TO TELL US THAT THE
00:25:08.80\00:25:13.36
SPIRIT IS A HE. MATTER OF FACT,
IT WAS IN OUR MEMORY VERSE.
00:25:13.36\00:25:16.66
IT SAYS 'THAT THE HOLY SPIRIT
WILL COME THAT HE MAY ABIDE WITH
00:25:16.66\00:25:21.40
YOU.' WHY
COULDN'T JESUS SAY 'IT'?
00:25:21.40\00:25:24.26
DIDN'T JESUS KNOW THE WORD 'IT'?
00:25:24.26\00:25:26.06
DOESN'T JESUS SOMETIMES
USE THE WORD 'IT'? HE DOES.
00:25:26.06\00:25:28.96
HE DOESN'T REFER TO THE HOLY
SPIRIT AS A THING OR A FORCE.
00:25:28.96\00:25:32.73
THEY HAD ALL THOSE
WORDS IN GREEK AND HEBREW.
00:25:32.73\00:25:35.20
BUT HE
SPECIFICALLY USED THE WORD 'HE'.
00:25:35.20\00:25:38.70
SOMEONE LOOK UP FOR ME 1
CORINTHIANS 12:11 - WE'LL JUST
00:25:38.70\00:25:42.70
GET YOU READY. WHO
HAS IT? OVER HERE? OKAY.
00:25:42.70\00:25:45.83
AND I'M GOING TO READ JOHN
16:13, "HOWEVER, WHEN HE, THE
00:25:45.83\00:25:53.60
SPIRIT OF TRUTH, HAS COME, HE
WILL GUIDE YOU INTO ALL TRUTH;
00:25:53.60\00:25:57.53
FOR HE WILL NOT SPEAK ON HIS OWN
AUTHORITY, BUT WHATEVER HE HEARS
00:25:57.53\00:26:03.03
HE WILL SPEAK; AND HE
WILL TELL YOU THINGS TO COME."
00:26:03.03\00:26:07.26
DO YOU NOTICE THAT?
ONE VERSE. I DIDN'T COUNT.
00:26:07.26\00:26:09.96
HOW MANY DID WE COME UP
WITH? LET'S DO IT RIGHT HERE.
00:26:09.96\00:26:13.86
HANG ON. HE, HE, HE,
HIS - CAN I COUNT HIS?
00:26:13.86\00:26:21.03
HE, HE, HE - I GOT
SEVEN INCLUDING 'HIS'.
00:26:21.03\00:26:24.43
ONE TWO THREE FOUR FIVE SIX
SEVEN TERMS HERE THAT IDENTIFY
00:26:24.43\00:26:29.86
HIM AS A PERSON IN ONE VERSE.
JESUS COULD HAVE SAID 'IT'
00:26:29.86\00:26:35.30
AND HE DIDN'T. HE SAID 'HE'.
00:26:35.30\00:26:37.66
ALRIGHT, GO AHEAD READ
FOR US 1 CORINTHIANS 12:11.
00:26:37.66\00:26:41.26
>>1 CORINTHIANS 12:11,
"BUT ONE AND THE SAME SPIRIT
00:26:41.26\00:26:45.16
WORKS ALL THESE THINGS,
DISTRIBUTING TO EACH ONE
00:26:45.16\00:26:48.50
INDIVIDUALLY AS HE WILLS."
00:26:48.50\00:26:51.16
>>IT SAYS, 'THE SPIRIT IS
DISTRIBUTING AS HE WILLS.' JOHN
00:26:51.16\00:26:56.83
15:26, "BUT WHEN THE HELPER
COMES" - THE PARAKLETOS - "WHOM
00:26:56.83\00:27:02.03
I SHALL SEND TO YOU FROM THE
FATHER, THE SPIRIT OF TRUTH WHO
00:27:02.03\00:27:05.80
PROCEEDS FROM THE
FATHER, HE WILL TESTIFY OF ME."
00:27:05.80\00:27:08.56
AND THERE'S SO MANY
VERSES THAT BEAR THIS OUT.
00:27:08.56\00:27:11.46
ACTS 15:28, "FOR IT SEEMED GOOD
TO THE HOLY SPIRIT, AND TO US,
00:27:11.46\00:27:17.16
TO LAY UPON YOU NO GREATER
BURDEN THAN THESE NECESSARY
00:27:17.16\00:27:20.40
THINGS:" SO HERE THE HOLY
SPIRIT IS LAYING A BURDEN.
00:27:20.40\00:27:25.10
HE'S GUIDING THE CHURCH.
AND SO OFTEN THEY PRAYED AND
00:27:25.10\00:27:28.76
SAID THE SPIRIT - HE - TOLD US
TO GO HERE OR TO DO THIS AND TO
00:27:28.76\00:27:32.66
DO THAT AND HE'S
GIVING INDIVIDUAL GUIDANCE.
00:27:32.66\00:27:35.13
THEY COULD HAVE SAID JESUS
TOLD US TO DO THIS OR THAT.
00:27:35.13\00:27:37.93
NOW IT JUST POPPED INTO MY MIND,
IS THERE ANYWHERE IN THE BIBLE
00:27:37.93\00:27:44.33
WHERE WE ARE
TOLD TO PRAY TO JESUS?
00:27:44.33\00:27:51.26
WE'RE NOT EXPLICITLY COMMANDED
ANYWHERE IN THE BIBLE TO PRAY TO
00:27:51.26\00:27:53.53
JESUS. WE ARE TOLD
TO PRAY IN HIS NAME.
00:27:53.53\00:27:57.13
I CAN THINK OF ONE PLACE IN
THE BIBLE AND YOU MIGHT THINK OF
00:27:57.13\00:27:59.50
ANOTHER BUT I'VE NOT FOUND
ANOTHER, WHERE SOMEONE DID PRAY
00:27:59.50\00:28:03.13
TO JESUS AND IT'S WHEN STEPHEN
IS BEING STONED AND HE SEES THE
00:28:03.13\00:28:09.03
HEAVENS OPENED AND HE SEES JESUS
ON THE RIGHT HAND OF THE FATHER.
00:28:09.03\00:28:13.13
THERE, AGAIN, YOU'VE GOT TWO
INDIVIDUALS - AND HE PRAYS AS
00:28:13.13\00:28:16.00
HE'S DYING, 'LORD JESUS RECEIVE
MY SPIRIT.' SO USUALLY WE PRAY
00:28:16.00\00:28:20.60
TO OUR FATHER IN HEAVEN BUT HE
ACTUALLY SAW JESUS IN HEAVEN AND
00:28:20.60\00:28:23.53
SO HE PRAYED TO JESUS.
NOW IS THAT WRONG TO PRAY TO
00:28:23.53\00:28:26.46
JESUS? NO, I DON'T THINK SO.
00:28:26.46\00:28:28.30
WE TYPICALLY, I MEAN, JESUS IS
OUR FRIEND AND WE TALK TO HIM.
00:28:28.30\00:28:31.80
A LOT OF CHILDREN ARE TAUGHT
TO PRAY, 'DEAR JESUS' - RIGHT?
00:28:31.80\00:28:36.10
WE ALWAYS TEACH THEM - NOT THAT
THAT'S WRONG BUT I THINK LET'S
00:28:36.10\00:28:40.16
NOT NEGLECT TO TELL THE CHILDREN
ALSO TO PRAY TO THEIR FATHER IN
00:28:40.16\00:28:43.53
HEAVEN IN JESUS' NAME. BUT
THEY NEED TO UNDERSTAND THAT
00:28:43.53\00:28:46.46
ALSO BECAUSE THAT'S EXPLICITLY
TAUGHT IN THE BIBLE - THAT WE
00:28:46.46\00:28:50.16
ADDRESS THE FATHER -
SO WE NEED TO DO THAT.
00:28:50.16\00:28:52.30
BUT WHERE IN THE BIBLE
DO THEY PRAY TO THE SPIRIT?
00:28:52.30\00:28:57.80
THERE'S NO REAL PRAYER ADDRESSED
TO THE SPIRIT BECAUSE THE SPIRIT
00:28:57.80\00:29:00.56
IS OFTEN THE BRIDGE
THROUGH WHICH PRAYER FLOWS.
00:29:00.56\00:29:05.06
HE IS THE ONE WHO
OFTEN IS DELIVERING.
00:29:05.06\00:29:08.26
WHEN YOU PRAY AND YOU DON'T KNOW
WHAT TO SAY, IT'S THE SPIRIT
00:29:08.26\00:29:10.36
THAT TAKES OUR GROANINGS AND
MAKES THEM ELOQUENT BEFORE GOD.
00:29:10.36\00:29:14.70
THAT'S A
PARAPHRASE OF WHAT PAUL SAYS.
00:29:14.70\00:29:18.46
SOMETHING ELSE: WHAT DOES THE
WORD 'MESSIAH' MEAN IN HEBREW?
00:29:18.46\00:29:26.16
ANOINTED. WHAT DOES
THE WORD 'CHRIST' MEAN?
00:29:26.16\00:29:29.73
GREEK - ANOINTED.
THEY BOTH MEAN ANOINTED.
00:29:29.73\00:29:33.33
LIKE WHEN YOU TAKE THE OIL AND
YOU POURED IT ON A KING OR YOU
00:29:33.33\00:29:36.60
POURED IT ON A PRIEST,
THAT WAS CALLED ANOINTING.
00:29:36.60\00:29:40.00
AND SOMETIMES THEY
WOULD ANOINT THE ALTARS -
00:29:40.00\00:29:42.20
THAT MEANS YOU
WOULD PAINT SOMETHING.
00:29:42.20\00:29:43.83
THIS TIME OF YEAR, AROUND THE
FOURTH OF JULY, YOU SHOULD ALL
00:29:43.83\00:29:46.63
GO OUTSIDE
ANOINTED WITH SUNSCREEN.
00:29:46.63\00:29:50.10
THAT'S WHAT ANOINTING MEANS
- TO COVER SOMETHING OR TO POUR
00:29:50.10\00:29:53.86
SOMETHING ON SOMEBODY, RIGHT?
WHAT WAS JESUS ANOINTED WITH?
00:29:53.86\00:30:03.96
AH, HE SAYS, 'THE SPIRIT OF
THE LORD IS UPON ME FOR HE HAS
00:30:03.96\00:30:06.06
ANOINTED ME TO PREACH.' RIGHT?
AND WHEN HE WAS BAPTIZED THE
00:30:06.06\00:30:10.56
HOLY SPIRIT CAME
DOWN LIKE A DOVE.
00:30:10.56\00:30:12.50
CHRIST WAS ANOINTED WITH
THE HOLY SPIRIT AT HIS BAPTISM.
00:30:12.50\00:30:16.90
HE WAS THE CHRIST AND WHAT
HAPPENED TO DAVID WHEN THEY
00:30:16.90\00:30:20.66
POURED THE OIL ON HIM AND
HE BECAME KING? CHRIST, AT HIS
00:30:20.66\00:30:23.80
ANOINTING, IN A SPECIAL WAY,
WAS FILLED WITH THE HOLY SPIRIT.
00:30:23.80\00:30:27.16
BY THE WAY, THAT SAME ANOINTING
OF THE SPIRIT - NOT THAT WE
00:30:27.16\00:30:31.20
BECOME THE MESSIAH - BUT
IT'S PROMISED TO FOLLOWERS.
00:30:31.20\00:30:34.36
THAT'S THE BAPTISM
OF THE HOLY SPIRIT.
00:30:34.36\00:30:36.33
AND WE'RE GETTING TO
THAT LATER IN THE LESSON.
00:30:36.33\00:30:38.36
ALRIGHT, A COUPLE MORE
HIGHLIGHTS ABOUT JESUS - I'M
00:30:38.36\00:30:41.20
SORRY - THE HOLY
SPIRIT BEING A PERSON.
00:30:41.20\00:30:45.06
IT SAYS, 'THE HOLY SPIRIT
SPEAKS' - ACTS 13:2 - AND I'LL
00:30:45.06\00:30:50.03
PUT THE NOTES ONLINE BECAUSE I'M
GOING THROUGH THESE QUICKLY AND
00:30:50.03\00:30:52.73
I KNOW YOU WON'T BE
ABLE TO LOOK THEM ALL UP.
00:30:52.73\00:30:54.36
THE HOLY SPIRIT INTERCEDES.
HE TESTIFIES - AND, BY THE WAY,
00:30:54.36\00:30:58.63
THAT'S ROMANS 8:26 -
HE TESTIFIES - JOHN 15:26.
00:30:58.63\00:31:02.50
HE GUIDES - JOHN 16:13. HE
COMMANDS - ACTS 16:6 AND 7.
00:31:02.50\00:31:07.66
HE APPOINTS - ACTS
20:28. HE LEADS - ROMANS 8:14.
00:31:07.66\00:31:12.40
HE REPROVES AND
CONVICTS OF SIN - JOHN 16:8.
00:31:12.40\00:31:16.40
HE SEALS GOD'S
PROMISES IN A BELIEVER'S HEART -
00:31:16.40\00:31:18.86
EPHESIANS 1:13 AND 14. HE
SHAPES THE INDIVIDUAL IN THE
00:31:18.86\00:31:23.03
LIFE TO CHRIST'S - ROMANS
8:1-17. THE BIBLE SAYS THE
00:31:23.03\00:31:27.96
HOLY SPIRIT HAS INTELLECT,
HE HAS EMOTIONS AND WILL,
00:31:27.96\00:31:31.73
HE CAN BE GRIEVED.
00:31:31.73\00:31:33.06
ASIDE FROM THE PROBLEM THAT THE
HOLY SPIRIT DOESN'T HAVE A BODY
00:31:33.06\00:31:35.70
AS WE VISUALIZE A BODY, YOU
TELL ME WHAT WORDS YOU WOULD USE
00:31:35.70\00:31:39.40
IF YOU WERE GOD - TO TRY TO
EMPHASIZE THAT THE HOLY SPIRIT
00:31:39.40\00:31:42.53
IS A PERSON - THAT GOD DID
NOT USE. SEE WHAT I'M SAYING?
00:31:42.53\00:31:46.90
SO IF YOU WANTED TO COMMUNICATE
THAT THE HOLY SPIRIT WAS A
00:31:46.90\00:31:50.56
PERSON - ASIDE FROM HAVING A
PHYSICAL BODY AS WE DO - WHAT
00:31:50.56\00:31:55.13
DID GOD LEAVE UNSAID?
YOU SEE WHAT I'M SAYING?
00:31:55.13\00:31:59.36
HE GAVE HIM ALL THE
CHARACTERISTICS OF PERSON - HE
00:31:59.36\00:32:02.76
THINKS, HE FEELS, HE TALKS,
HE GRIEVES, HE GUIDES - I MEAN,
00:32:02.76\00:32:06.13
HE'S DOING
EVERYTHING A PERSON DOES.
00:32:06.13\00:32:08.63
YES, IT DOESN'T SAY HE WALKS
FROM THIS PLACE TO THAT PLACE -
00:32:08.63\00:32:11.10
BECAUSE HE'S OMNIPRESENT SO
HE DOESN'T WALK FROM PLACE TO
00:32:11.10\00:32:13.86
PLACE. BUT IN THE
RESPECT OF INTELLECT
00:32:13.86\00:32:16.90
AND UNDERSTANDING, THE HOLY
SPIRIT IS ALWAYS PORTRAYED AS
00:32:16.90\00:32:19.66
HAVING ALL OF THOSE FEATURES
OF A UNIQUE PERSON. AND SO, YOU
00:32:19.66\00:32:25.10
KNOW, I KNOW THAT SOME PEOPLE
STRUGGLE WITH THAT BECAUSE IT'S
00:32:25.10\00:32:27.33
HARD FOR THEM TO CONCEIVE OF
THE HOLY SPIRIT, BUT I THINK THE
00:32:27.33\00:32:32.93
BIBLE TELLS US IN PRETTY
CLEAR TERMS THAT HE IS REAL.
00:32:32.93\00:32:36.23
BY THE WAY, SPIRIT OF PROPHECY
ON THIS POINT: THIS IS FROM THE
00:32:36.23\00:32:40.76
BOOK 'EVANGELISM' PAGE 616, 617,
"HE MUST ALSO BE A DIVINE PERSON
00:32:40.76\00:32:48.56
ELSE HE COULD NOT SEARCH
OUT THE SECRETS WHICH LIE HIDDEN
00:32:48.56\00:32:52.40
IN THE MIND OF GOD."
00:32:52.40\00:32:54.70
SO IF YOU'RE WONDERING WHAT
THE SPIRIT OF PROPHECY SAYS, 'HE
00:32:54.70\00:32:58.93
MUST BE A DIVINE PERSON OR
ELSE HE COULD NOT SEARCH OUT THE
00:32:58.93\00:33:03.83
SECRETS OF THE DIVINE - IN THE
MIND OF GOD.' ALRIGHT, SO WE'VE
00:33:03.83\00:33:08.90
TALKED ABOUT, CERTAINLY, THE
HOLY SPIRIT AS A UNIQUE PERSON
00:33:08.90\00:33:13.73
BUT IS HE GOD? IS HE DIVINE?
00:33:13.73\00:33:18.80
SO LET'S TALK
ABOUT THAT FOR A MOMENT.
00:33:18.80\00:33:21.30
ALRIGHT, SOMEONE LOOK UP FOR
ME LUKE 4:1 AND I'LL LOOK TO THE
00:33:21.30\00:33:26.43
RIGHT AND THEN TO
THE LEFT - OVER HERE.
00:33:26.43\00:33:28.76
WE'RE KIND OF BEING A LITTLE
BIT - I THINK IT'S A LITTLE BIT
00:33:28.76\00:33:32.06
SEGREGATED IN THE WAY
WE'RE GIVING OUT THE SCRIPTURES.
00:33:32.06\00:33:35.36
THEY SEEM TO BE ON THE
STARBOARD SIDE OF THE CHURCH.
00:33:35.36\00:33:39.13
MAYBE THIS ONE MICROPHONE IS
THE PROBLEM. ALRIGHT, SO SOMEONE
00:33:39.13\00:33:43.06
LOOK UP LUKE 4:1 AND I'LL
GET TO YOU IN JUST A MOMENT.
00:33:43.06\00:33:47.56
HERE'S AN INTERESTING VERSE:
MARK 12:36 - THIS IS JESUS
00:33:47.56\00:33:53.30
SPEAKING, "FOR DAVID HIMSELF
SAID BY THE HOLY SPIRIT: 'THE
00:33:53.30\00:33:58.36
LORD SAID TO MY LORD, 'SIT AT
MY RIGHT HAND, TILL I MAKE YOUR
00:33:58.36\00:34:03.13
ENEMIES YOUR FOOTSTOOL.''" DAVID
SAID, 'BY THE HOLY SPIRIT' SO
00:34:03.13\00:34:09.90
DAVID IS SPEAKING UNDER THE
INFLUENCE OF THE HOLY SPIRIT AND
00:34:09.90\00:34:12.16
THEN HE QUOTES PSALM - AND
JESUS, OF COURSE IS DOING THIS -
00:34:12.16\00:34:15.83
HE'S QUOTING FROM PSALM 110,
VERSE 1, WHERE THE LORD SAYS TO
00:34:15.83\00:34:19.93
MY LORD. AND IT WAS
SPEAKING OF THE LORD
00:34:19.93\00:34:24.33
SAYING TO MY LORD, 'SIT AT
MY RIGHT HAND.' IT'S THE HOLY
00:34:24.33\00:34:27.70
SPIRIT BY WHICH DAVID SAID THIS.
IT DOESN'T SAY IT WAS BY GOD
00:34:27.70\00:34:30.96
UNLESS GOD IS THE
SPIRIT AND THE SPIRIT IS GOD.
00:34:30.96\00:34:34.76
ALRIGHT, GO AHEAD
AND READ LUKE 4:1 FOR ME.
00:34:34.76\00:34:37.90
>>"THEN JESUS, BEING FILLED WITH
THE HOLY SPIRIT, RETURNED FROM
00:34:37.90\00:34:41.53
JORDAN AND WAS LED BY THE
SPIRIT INTO THE WILDERNESS."
00:34:41.53\00:34:46.43
>>COULD SOMETHING LESS
THAN GOD LEAD THE SON OF GOD?
00:34:46.43\00:34:51.30
DO YOU SEE WHAT A
PROBLEM THAT WOULD BE?
00:34:51.30\00:34:54.83
AND YOU NOTICE IT SAYS, 'FILLED
WITH THE HOLY SPIRIT, RETURNED
00:34:54.83\00:34:57.00
FROM THE JORDAN,
LED BY THE SPIRIT'.
00:34:57.00\00:34:59.26
IT WAS THE ANOINTING OF GOD THE
SPIRIT THAT WAS CONTROLLING THE
00:34:59.26\00:35:02.76
LIFE OF CHRIST. WOULD
YOU HAVE SOMETHING LESS
00:35:02.76\00:35:05.13
THAN GOD - WE'VE ESTABLISHED THE
HOLY SPIRIT'S A PERSON - BUT IS
00:35:05.13\00:35:08.16
THIS PERSON LESS THAN GOD
AND HE'S LEADING GOD THE SON?
00:35:08.16\00:35:12.60
CERTAINLY HE WOULD NEED TO
BE GOD IN ORDER TO DO THAT.
00:35:12.60\00:35:15.20
YOU KNOW, THERE'S ANOTHER
INTERESTING VERSE I JUST FOUND
00:35:15.20\00:35:17.46
IN MY STUDY THIS MORNING.
00:35:17.46\00:35:19.23
LOOK WITH ME AT 2 SAMUEL 23,
VERSES 2 AND 3 - AND THIS WAS
00:35:19.23\00:35:27.26
INTERESTING - IT'S DAVID, AT THE
END OF HIS LIFE, HE SAYS, "THE
00:35:27.26\00:35:32.36
SPIRIT OF THE LORD SPOKE BY ME,
AND HIS WORD WAS ON MY TONGUE.
00:35:32.36\00:35:38.50
THE GOD OF ISRAEL SAID, THE ROCK
OF ISRAEL SPOKE TO ME:" - NOW
00:35:38.50\00:35:43.26
NOTICE, HE SAYS THE SPIRIT
OF GOD - WELL, LET ME JUST STOP
00:35:43.26\00:35:46.70
RIGHT HERE. I
THINK MOST OF US WOULD BE
00:35:46.70\00:35:49.20
RELUCTANT TO SAY 'THE SPIRIT
OF GOD SPOKE BY ME' BECAUSE, YOU
00:35:49.20\00:35:55.00
KNOW, DON'T YOU ALWAYS CRINGE
A LITTLE BIT WHEN PREACHERS SAY,
00:35:55.00\00:35:58.90
'GOD'S TELLING ME THIS' AND
'GOD'S TELLING ME THAT.' I THINK
00:35:58.90\00:36:03.83
YOU'VE GOT TO BE
CAREFUL ABOUT THAT.
00:36:03.83\00:36:06.00
I CERTAINLY HOPE THAT THE
LORD SPEAKS THROUGH ME WHEN I'M
00:36:06.00\00:36:10.13
TEACHING FROM HIS BOOK. I
MEAN, WOULDN'T YOU HOPE THAT?
00:36:10.13\00:36:15.40
BUT YOU BETTER BE REAL CAREFUL
AND HUMBLE ABOUT SAYING THAT
00:36:15.40\00:36:18.10
BECAUSE IT COULD BE TAKEN
WRONG. BUT DID DAVID SAY THAT?
00:36:18.10\00:36:21.96
WOW. THAT'S THE
SAME DAVID THAT GOT
00:36:21.96\00:36:25.13
INTO ALL THAT TROUBLE
WITH URIAH AND BATHSHEEBA?
00:36:25.13\00:36:28.80
BUT HE SAID, 'THE SPIRIT
OF THE LORD SPOKE BY ME.'
00:36:28.80\00:36:30.96
DID HE KNOW IT? HE DID.
00:36:30.96\00:36:34.43
AND THEN NOTICE, NOT ONLY DOES
HE SAY 'THE SPIRIT' HOW DOES HE
00:36:34.43\00:36:37.03
CALL THE SPIRIT? 'THE
GOD OF ISRAEL SAID - THE
00:36:37.03\00:36:40.40
ROCK OF ISRAEL SPOKE TO ME.'
SO HE'S MAKING NO DISTINCTION
00:36:40.40\00:36:43.93
BETWEEN 'THE SPIRIT SPOKE
THROUGH ME' AND 'GOD SPOKE
00:36:43.93\00:36:47.16
THROUGH ME.' DO YOU
SEE THAT IN THIS VERSE?
00:36:47.16\00:36:49.83
AND SO IS GOD THE
SPIRIT? YEAH, I BELIEVE SO.
00:36:49.83\00:36:56.20
ALRIGHT, TALKING NEXT ABOUT THE
WORK OF THE HOLY SPIRIT - NOW
00:36:56.20\00:37:01.60
I'VE GOT - WOW, I'VE
GOT TWELVE POINTS HERE.
00:37:01.60\00:37:06.26
AGAIN, I'LL POST THE NOTES AT
THE - BOTH THE AMAZING FACTS AND
00:37:06.26\00:37:10.83
THE CENTRAL CHURCH WEBSITES
SO YOU CAN - YOU LOOK THEM UP.
00:37:10.83\00:37:13.53
SOMETIMES PEOPLE SAY,
'DOUG, PUT THE NOTES UP.
00:37:13.53\00:37:15.63
WE USE THESE TO TEACH AND YOU
WENT TOO FAST.' SO I'M GOING TO
00:37:15.63\00:37:19.90
GO THROUGH TWELVE POINTS AND I'M
GOING TO HAVE TO DO IT QUICKLY
00:37:19.90\00:37:22.36
BECAUSE THERE'S A
LOT OF MATERIAL HERE.
00:37:22.36\00:37:25.20
MATTER OF FACT, I'VE GOT A WHOLE
LOT MORE NOTES HERE THAN I'VE
00:37:25.20\00:37:27.30
GOT TIME FOR. I MEAN,
HOW CAN YOU DESCRIBE THE
00:37:27.30\00:37:29.40
HOLY SPIRIT IN 45 MINUTES?
AREN'T YOU GLAD THIS ISN'T MY
00:37:29.40\00:37:36.96
NOTES FROM THE NEXT WEDDING
I DO? ALRIGHT FIRST OF ALL,
00:37:36.96\00:37:42.63
WE NEED THE HOLY
SPIRIT TO UNDERSTAND THE WORD.
00:37:42.63\00:37:45.56
IT'S THE SPIRIT THAT QUICKENS.
THE FLESH PROFITS NOTHING.
00:37:45.56\00:37:49.10
THE WORDS THAT I SPEAK TO YOU,
THEY ARE SPIRIT AND THEY ARE
00:37:49.10\00:37:51.76
LIFE.' CAN YOU COMPREHEND THE
WORD OF GOD WITHOUT THE SPIRIT
00:37:51.76\00:37:55.00
OF GOD? SOMEONE LOOK UP FOR
ME 1 CORINTHIANS 2, VERSE 14.
00:37:55.00\00:38:00.90
YOU GOT THAT MIKE?
LET'S GET YOU A MICROPHONE.
00:38:00.90\00:38:03.60
THERE'S ONE OVER HERE
THEY'LL PASS YOU, OKAY?
00:38:03.60\00:38:06.36
AND IN THE MEANTIME, JESUS SAID
IN REVELATION 2:7, "HE WHO HAS
00:38:06.36\00:38:11.23
AN EAR, LET HIM HEAR
WHAT THE SPIRIT SAYS..."
00:38:11.23\00:38:14.16
DO YOU NEED SPECIAL
EARS TO HEAR THE HOLY SPIRIT?
00:38:14.16\00:38:19.20
WELL, YEAH, I MEAN, YOUR
PHYSICAL EARS ARE NOT WHAT YOU
00:38:19.20\00:38:21.23
HEAR WITH, RIGHT? YOU
NEED, ACTUALLY, A SPECIAL
00:38:21.23\00:38:24.03
SENSITIVITY TO HEAR THE HOLY
SPIRIT BECAUSE IS IT POSSIBLE TO
00:38:24.03\00:38:29.13
HAVE SOMEONE SPEAKING A
SPIRIT-FILLED MESSAGE AND PEOPLE
00:38:29.13\00:38:33.16
LISTENING NOT HEAR
IT? SO YOU NEED SPIRITUAL
00:38:33.16\00:38:37.23
DISCERNMENT TO
HEAR THE HOLY SPIRIT.
00:38:37.23\00:38:39.03
THAT NEXT VERSE FITS RIGHT HERE
SO YOU GO AHEAD AND READ THAT.
00:38:39.03\00:38:41.83
>>1 CORINTHIANS 2, VERSE 14,
"BUT THE NATURAL MAN DOES NOT
00:38:41.83\00:38:45.70
RECEIVE THE THINGS OF THE SPIRIT
OF GOD, FOR THEY ARE FOOLISHNESS
00:38:45.70\00:38:49.16
TO HIM; NOR CAN HE
KNOW THEM, BECAUSE THEY ARE
00:38:49.16\00:38:52.66
SPIRITUALLY DISCERNED."
00:38:52.66\00:38:54.83
>>YOU'VE SEEN AND HEARD BEFORE
WHERE SOMEONE PICKS UP THE BIBLE
00:38:54.83\00:38:57.60
AND THEY START TO READ AND
ALL OF A SUDDEN THEY'RE JUST
00:38:57.60\00:38:59.63
OVERWHELMED WITH THE POWER
OF THE WORD AND THEIR HEARTS ARE
00:38:59.63\00:39:02.16
TRANSFORMED AND THEY'RE
CONVICTED AND THEY'RE REPENTING
00:39:02.16\00:39:04.66
AND THEY GO THROUGH A
DRAMATIC CONVERSION EXPERIENCE.
00:39:04.66\00:39:08.40
SOMEONE ELSE CAN PICK UP THE
SAME BOOK AND THEY SAY, 'WHAT A
00:39:08.40\00:39:11.43
BUNCH OF NONSENSE.' PAUL TALKS
ABOUT THE GOD OF THIS WORLD HAS
00:39:11.43\00:39:17.50
BLINDED THEM. SOME
PEOPLE HAVE JUST GOT THE
00:39:17.50\00:39:21.23
DEVIL'S WAX IN THEIR SPIRITUAL
EARS AND THEY CAN'T HEAR.
00:39:21.23\00:39:24.83
SO SPIRITUAL THINGS - THAT'S
WHAT WE JUST READ - SPIRITUAL
00:39:24.83\00:39:27.70
THINGS ARE
SPIRITUALLY DISCERNED.
00:39:27.70\00:39:30.06
SO HOW IMPORTANT IS IT FOR
US TO PRAY FOR THE HOLY SPIRIT
00:39:30.06\00:39:32.70
BEFORE YOU READ THE HOLY BIBLE?
DO YOU SOMETIMES FORGET TO DO
00:39:32.70\00:39:36.06
THAT? I DO SOMETIMES. I
FIGURE, 'I'M A PREACHER.
00:39:36.06\00:39:38.73
I'LL JUST PICK IT UP AND' -
YOU'VE GOT TO PRAY FOR THE HOLY
00:39:38.73\00:39:41.40
SPIRIT IF YOU REALLY
WANT THE WORD TO COME ALIVE.
00:39:41.40\00:39:45.86
JOHN 14:26 - WE ALREADY TOUCHED
ON THIS - "BUT THE COMFORTER,
00:39:45.86\00:39:49.53
WHICH IS THE HOLY GHOST, WHOM
THE FATHER WILL SEND IN MY NAME,
00:39:49.53\00:39:52.46
HE WILL TEACH YOU AND BRING
ALL THINGS TO YOUR REMEMBRANCE,
00:39:52.46\00:39:56.80
WHATEVER I HAVE SAID TO
YOU." SEVERAL TIMES I'VE PRAYED
00:39:56.80\00:40:01.23
BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, I WAS IN SOME
KIND OF A BIBLE STUDY OR DEBATE
00:40:01.23\00:40:07.06
AND I THOUGHT, I
CAN'T REMEMBER EVERYTHING.
00:40:07.06\00:40:09.10
I CAN'T FIND IT.
IT'S NOT AT MY FINGERTIPS.
00:40:09.10\00:40:11.56
BUT I CLAIM THIS PROMISE AND I
SAY, 'LORD, YOU PROMISED THROUGH
00:40:11.56\00:40:14.66
THE HOLY SPIRIT' - COMPUTERS ARE
WONDERFUL IN THAT, YOU KNOW, YOU
00:40:14.66\00:40:19.66
TYPE IN THE LITTLE
SEARCH WINDOW WHEN YOU'RE
00:40:19.66\00:40:21.46
DOING YOUR BIBLE STUDY AND
SEARCH - ALL I NEED TO DO IS
00:40:21.46\00:40:24.46
REMEMBER A FEW WORDS IN A VERSE
AND YOU CAN DO A SEARCH AND
00:40:24.46\00:40:30.96
IT'LL IMMEDIATELY - WITHIN A
FRACTION OF A SECOND - SEARCHES
00:40:30.96\00:40:34.03
THE ENTIRE BIBLE AND SHOWS YOU
WHERE THAT VERSE IS - OR ALL THE
00:40:34.03\00:40:36.30
VERSES THAT HAVE THAT WORD AND
YOU CAN FIND WHAT YOU'RE LOOKING
00:40:36.30\00:40:38.76
FOR JUST LIKE THAT.
AND, YOU KNOW, THERE ARE SOME
00:40:38.76\00:40:41.23
WORDS THAT ONLY
APPEAR ONE TIME IN THE BIBLE.
00:40:41.23\00:40:42.66
THOSE ARE EASY TO
FIND - THOSE VERSES.
00:40:42.66\00:40:44.96
YOU PUT IN THE WORD 'THE' -
YOU'RE GOING TO HAVE A LOT OF
00:40:44.96\00:40:46.76
VERSES, YOU KNOW? BUT
THE HOLY SPIRIT WILL WORK
00:40:46.76\00:40:51.60
LIKE SOME INCREDIBLE SEARCH
ENGINE AND I'LL SAY, 'LORD,' -
00:40:51.60\00:40:54.90
AND I'VE BEEN GIVING BIBLE
STUDIES BEFORE WHERE I DON'T
00:40:54.90\00:40:56.83
KNOW THE NEXT THING TO SAY
AND JUST AT THE RIGHT MOMENT IT
00:40:56.83\00:41:00.76
COMES BACK TO ME
AND IT COMES BACK TO ME.
00:41:00.76\00:41:03.13
SOMETIMES I'M STANDING IN FRONT
OF PEOPLE PREACHING A SERMON AND
00:41:03.13\00:41:05.66
IT WASN'T IN MY NOTES AND
THE HOLY SPIRIT REMINDS ME - IT
00:41:05.66\00:41:08.73
HAPPENS FREQUENTLY - THE HOLY
SPIRIT REMINDS ME OF THINGS THAT
00:41:08.73\00:41:11.10
I DIDN'T EVEN THINK ABOUT IN
MY PREPARATION THAT WERE SOME OF
00:41:11.10\00:41:13.30
THE BEST POINTS AND THE BEST
VERSES TO PROVE A POINT AND THE
00:41:13.30\00:41:16.96
HOLY SPIRIT GIVES IT
TO YOU AT THAT MOMENT.
00:41:16.96\00:41:19.43
AND I THINK GOD DOES THAT TO
REMIND US THAT IT'S HIM AND IT'S
00:41:19.43\00:41:24.13
NOT US. AND WE NEED
THAT REMINDING FREQUENTLY.
00:41:24.13\00:41:29.10
ANOTHER PART OF THE WORK OF
THE HOLY SPIRIT IS TO OBEY GOD.
00:41:29.10\00:41:32.86
WE CAN'T OBEY THE LORD
WITHOUT THE POWER OF HIS SPIRIT.
00:41:32.86\00:41:35.90
ROMANS 8:13 AND 14, "FOR IF YOU
LIVE ACCORDING TO THE FLESH YOU
00:41:35.90\00:41:39.43
WILL DIE; BUT IF BY THE SPIRIT
YOU PUT TO DEATH THE DEEDS OF
00:41:39.43\00:41:44.90
THE BODY, YOU WILL LIVE.
FOR AS MANY AS ARE LED BY THE
00:41:44.90\00:41:48.26
SPIRIT OF GOD,
THESE ARE SONS OF GOD."
00:41:48.26\00:41:50.70
ALSO, THAT WOULD BE
THE DAUGHTERS OF GOD.
00:41:50.70\00:41:52.80
THOSE WHO HAVE THE SPIRIT
MORTIFY THE DEEDS OF THE BODY.
00:41:52.80\00:41:58.90
EPHESIANS 2:1 AND 2, "AND YOU
HE MADE ALIVE, WHO WERE DEAD IN
00:41:58.90\00:42:03.36
TRESPASSES AND SINS, IN WHICH
YOU ONCE WALKED ACCORDING TO THE
00:42:03.36\00:42:06.70
COURSE OF THIS WORLD, ACCORDING
TO THE PRINCE OF THE POWER OF
00:42:06.70\00:42:08.86
THE AIR" - THE DEVIL - "THE
SPIRIT WHO NOW WORKS IN THE SONS
00:42:08.86\00:42:12.56
OF DISOBEDIENCE."
AND SO NOW YOU'VE GOT TWO
00:42:12.56\00:42:14.23
DIFFERENT KINDS OF SPIRIT.
YOU'VE GOT ONE SPIRIT OF THE
00:42:14.23\00:42:16.63
DEVIL - IS HE A
PERSON TOO? HE'S VERY REAL.
00:42:16.63\00:42:20.36
HE'S GOT A PERSONALITY - WHO'S
LEADING PEOPLE TO DISOBEY AND
00:42:20.36\00:42:23.93
THEN YOU'VE GOT THE SPIRIT
OF GOD WHO'S LEADING PEOPLE TO
00:42:23.93\00:42:27.06
OBEY. YOU CAN'T PRAY
WITHOUT THE HOLY SPIRIT.
00:42:27.06\00:42:32.40
ROMANS 8:26, "LIKEWISE
THE SPIRIT ALSO HELPETH OUR
00:42:32.40\00:42:36.16
INFIRMITIES: FOR WE KNOW NOT
WHAT WE SHOULD PRAY FOR AS WE
00:42:36.16\00:42:39.20
OUGHT: BUT THE SPIRIT ITSELF
MAKETH INTERCESSION FOR US WITH
00:42:39.20\00:42:42.86
GROANINGS WHICH
CANNOT BE UTTERED."
00:42:42.86\00:42:45.66
I'M SO THANKFUL FOR GOOD
TRANSLATORS AS I TRAVEL AROUND
00:42:45.66\00:42:49.43
THE WORLD BECAUSE IT'S REALLY
DIFFICULT, SOMETIMES, TAKING
00:42:49.43\00:42:55.60
THOUGHTS FROM ONE LANGUAGE AND
INTRODUCING THEM INTO ANOTHER
00:42:55.60\00:42:59.43
LANGUAGE UNLESS THE PERSON
TRANSLATING HAS A VERY GOOD
00:42:59.43\00:43:02.56
COMMAND OF BOTH LANGUAGES AND
ALL THE LITTLE NUANCES OF THE
00:43:02.56\00:43:06.03
WORD. I COULD TELL
YOU STORIES OF SOME
00:43:06.03\00:43:07.73
VERY FUNNY THINGS THAT WERE SAID
WHEN A TRANSLATOR MIXED UP SOME
00:43:07.73\00:43:12.73
WORDS FROM ONE LANGUAGE
TO ANOTHER. MATTER OF FACT,
00:43:12.73\00:43:15.60
I'VE HAD TRANSLATORS STOP
AND SAY, 'DID YOU REALLY MEAN?
00:43:15.60\00:43:19.36
Do YOU WANT ME TO SAY THAT?'
AND WE'LL HAVE A CONVERSATION
00:43:19.36\00:43:21.36
RIGHT THERE
BEFORE HE TRANSLATES.
00:43:21.36\00:43:22.63
HE'LL SAY, 'YOU KNOW WHAT THAT
SOUNDS LIKE IN THIS LANGUAGE?
00:43:22.63\00:43:23.96
YOU DON'T WANT ME TO...' I
SAY, 'NO, NO, THAT'S NOT WHAT I
00:43:23.96\00:43:26.03
MEANT.' AND SO HAVING IT
TRANSLATED - NOW, IT'S NOT THAT
00:43:26.03\00:43:30.46
GOD NEEDS A TRANSLATOR, BUT
ANGELS ARE LISTENING AND THE
00:43:30.46\00:43:34.96
HOLY SPIRIT TAKES OUR PRAYERS
THAT MAY BE CUMBERSOME AND ROUGH
00:43:34.96\00:43:39.53
AND JUST SHALLOW AND HE MAKES
THEM ELOQUENT WITH THE MERITS OF
00:43:39.53\00:43:44.46
JESUS BEFORE THE FATHER.
00:43:44.46\00:43:47.30
HE TAKES THE GROANINGS OF OUR
HEARTS THAT WE CAN'T FIND WORDS
00:43:47.30\00:43:50.00
FOR AND, YOU KNOW, SOMETIMES
YOUR PRAYERS - IT'S NOT SO MUCH
00:43:50.00\00:43:56.90
THE WORDS THAT YOU CHOOSE
IN YOUR PRAYERS - HAVE YOU EVER
00:43:56.90\00:44:01.40
SEEN SOMEONE READ THEIR PRAYER
WHEN THEY'RE UP FRONT BECAUSE
00:44:01.40\00:44:03.23
THEY GET NERVOUS?
I'M NOT OPPOSED TO THAT.
00:44:03.23\00:44:06.46
AND YOU GET INTO BIG FORMAL
GATHERINGS AT THE CHURCH AND
00:44:06.46\00:44:09.23
SOMEONE HAS THE TIME OF PRAYER
AND YOU'LL SEE THEM TAKE THEIR
00:44:09.23\00:44:11.36
NOTES UP THERE WHILE EVERYONE'S
GOT THEIR HEADS BOWED AND
00:44:11.36\00:44:13.13
THEY'RE READING THEIR PRAYER.
00:44:13.13\00:44:15.93
AND YOU'VE HEARD OF PRAYER BOOKS
BEFORE? THAT'S NOT ALL BAD.
00:44:15.93\00:44:21.20
THERE ARE SOME PRAYERS THAT ARE
BEAUTIFULLY WRITTEN AND IF YOU
00:44:21.20\00:44:23.06
CAN BUY INTO THOSE PRAYERS
- THAT'S VERY IMPORTANT - I'VE
00:44:23.06\00:44:29.20
HEARD SOME BEAUTIFUL PRAYERS
THAT PEOPLE HAVE PRAYED THAT
00:44:29.20\00:44:31.23
JUST TOUCH YOUR
HEART AND MOVE YOU.
00:44:31.23\00:44:35.00
BUT WHEN YOU PRAY, IT'S HARD
FOR YOU TO READ SOMEONE ELSE'S
00:44:35.00\00:44:38.23
PRAYER BECAUSE THE THING THAT
IS MOST IMPORTANT WITH PRAYER IS
00:44:38.23\00:44:42.60
WHEN IT'S COMING FROM YOUR
HEART. WHEN PETER WAS DROWNING
00:44:42.60\00:44:46.80
AND HE SAID, 'LORD, SAVE
ME.' THAT WASN'T VERY ELOQUENT.
00:44:46.80\00:44:51.00
IT'S PRETTY BASIC. A
THREE-YEAR-OLD CAN SAY THAT.
00:44:51.00\00:44:54.33
BUT THE URGENCY OF HIS
PRAYER MADE IT ELOQUENT.
00:44:54.33\00:44:58.43
AND SO, SOMETIMES JUST THE VERY
URGENCY OF YOUR NEED IS THE MOST
00:44:58.43\00:45:03.66
ELOQUENT THING YOU
CAN PLEAD BEFORE GOD.
00:45:03.66\00:45:06.70
WE NEED THE HOLY SPIRIT FOR
LOVE. I'M RUNNING OUT OF TIME.
00:45:06.70\00:45:10.16
AND THAT'S ROMANS 5:5, "AND HOPE
MAKETH NOT ASHAMED; BECAUSE THE
00:45:10.16\00:45:14.10
LOVE OF GOD IS SHED ABROAD IN
OUR HEARTS BY THE HOLY GHOST..."
00:45:14.10\00:45:19.10
'THE LOVE OF GOD IS SHED ABROAD
BY THE HOLY SPIRIT.' WE NEED THE
00:45:19.10\00:45:22.30
HOLY SPIRIT FOR
PEACE AND COMFORT.
00:45:22.30\00:45:25.03
JESUS SAID - JOHN 16:7,
"NEVERTHELESS I TELL YOU THE
00:45:25.03\00:45:27.70
TRUTH; IT IS EXPEDIENT FOR YOU
THAT I GO AWAY: FOR IF I GO NOT
00:45:27.70\00:45:31.20
AWAY, THE COMFORTER WILL NOT
COME UNTO YOU; BUT IF I DEPART,
00:45:31.20\00:45:33.30
I WILL SEND HIM UNTO
YOU." HE COMFORTS US.
00:45:33.30\00:45:36.43
ACTS 9:31, "THEN THE
CHURCHES THROUGHOUT ALL
00:45:36.43\00:45:39.43
JUDEA AND GALILEE AND SAMARIA
HAD PEACE, AND WERE EDIFIED; AND
00:45:39.43\00:45:44.06
WALKING IN THE FEAR OF THE LORD
AND IN THE COMFORT OF THE HOLY
00:45:44.06\00:45:47.26
SPIRIT, THEY WERE MULTIPLIED."
00:45:47.26\00:45:50.10
WE NEED THE HOLY SPIRIT FOR
CLEANSING - ROMANS 15:16, "THAT
00:45:50.10\00:45:54.33
I MIGHT BE THE MINISTER OF
JESUS CHRIST TO THE GENTILES,
00:45:54.33\00:45:57.96
MINISTERING THE GOSPEL OF
GOD, THAT THE OFFERING OF THE
00:45:57.96\00:46:01.33
GENTILES MIGHT BE ACCEPTABLE,
SANCTIFIED BY THE HOLY SPIRIT."
00:46:01.33\00:46:06.43
2 THESSALONIANS 2:13, "BUT WE
ARE BOUND TO GIVE THANKS TO GOD
00:46:06.43\00:46:10.30
ALWAYS FOR YOU, BRETHREN BELOVED
BY THE LORD, BECAUSE GOD FROM
00:46:10.30\00:46:14.06
THE BEGINNING CHOSE YOU FOR
SALVATION THROUGH SANCTIFICATION
00:46:14.06\00:46:17.90
BY THE SPIRIT..."
WHAT DOES THE WORD
00:46:17.90\00:46:19.93
'SANCTIFICATION'
MEAN? CLEANSING.
00:46:19.93\00:46:23.03
AND SO THE HOLY SPIRIT HAS A
CLEANSING INFLUENCE IN OUR LIVES
00:46:23.03\00:46:28.33
- SANCTIFICATION BY THE
SPIRIT AND BELIEF IN THE TRUTH.
00:46:28.33\00:46:32.60
WE NEED THE HOLY
SPIRIT FOR GUIDANCE.
00:46:32.60\00:46:35.00
YOU REMEMBER WHEN ELIJAH WAS OUT
THERE IN THE CAVE AND HE HEARD
00:46:35.00\00:46:37.10
THIS VOICE, 'WHAT
ARE YOU DOING HERE?'
00:46:37.10\00:46:40.13
THERE WAS A MIGHTY WIND
AND THERE WAS AN EARTHQUAKE AND
00:46:40.13\00:46:44.10
THERE WAS A FIRE AND IT
SAYS GOD WASN'T IN THOSE THINGS.
00:46:44.10\00:46:46.30
BUT THEN HE HEARD A VOICE AND
THAT PROBABLY IS LIKE ISAIAH 30,
00:46:46.30\00:46:50.83
VERSE 21, "AND THINE EARS SHALL
HEAR A WORD BEHIND THEE," -
00:46:50.83\00:46:55.60
YOU KNOW WHY IT
SAYS 'BEHIND THEE'?
00:46:55.60\00:46:56.83
YOU EVER THINK YOU
HEAR SOMETHING AND YOU SAY,
00:46:56.83\00:46:58.60
'WHAT WAS THAT?' AND
THERE'S NOTHING THERE.
00:46:58.60\00:47:00.63
IT'S BECAUSE IT'S NOT - YOU
KNOW, YOUR EARS HEAR IN STEREO
00:47:00.63\00:47:04.33
AND BASED ON WHERE YOU
HEAR, YOU KNOW WHERE TO TURN.
00:47:04.33\00:47:06.36
BUT WHEN YOU HEAR SOMETHING
DIRECTLY BEHIND YOU AND THERE'S
00:47:06.36\00:47:08.10
NOTHING THERE, THAT MEANS IT WAS
BETWEEN THE TWO EARS THAT YOU
00:47:08.10\00:47:11.26
HEARD. AND IF IT
WASN'T IN FRONT OF
00:47:11.26\00:47:13.33
YOU, YOU FIGURED
IT WAS BEHIND YOU.
00:47:13.33\00:47:15.76
BUT IT WAS REALLY RIGHT BETWEEN
YOUR EARS THAT YOU HEARD IT,
00:47:15.76\00:47:18.36
YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN?
00:47:18.36\00:47:19.70
ANY OF YOU EVER FELT LIKE YOU
ALMOST HEARD THE LORD SPEAK TO
00:47:19.70\00:47:21.80
YOU BECAUSE THE VOICE
OF THE SPIRIT WAS SO LOUD?
00:47:21.80\00:47:24.83
MAYBE IT WAS CONVICTION,
YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN?
00:47:24.83\00:47:28.46
AND YOU JUST, 'WOW, I FELT
LIKE I HEARD THAT VOICE OF THE
00:47:28.46\00:47:32.90
SPIRIT.' "YOUR EARS SHALL HEAR
A WORD BEHIND YOU, SAYING, 'THIS
00:47:32.90\00:47:38.03
IS THE WAY, WALK IN IT.'
WHENEVER YOU TURN TO THE RIGHT
00:47:38.03\00:47:40.83
HAND OR WHENEVER
YOU TURN TO THE LEFT."
00:47:40.83\00:47:42.80
- YOU KNOW, THE OLDER SHIPS,
I UNDERSTAND, HAD TWO COMPASSES.
00:47:42.80\00:47:46.13
THEY HAD ONE COMPASS THAT WAS
DOWN BY THE STEERING WHEEL AND
00:47:46.13\00:47:49.23
THEY HAD ANOTHER
COMPASS HIGHER UP ON THE MAST.
00:47:49.23\00:47:52.06
AND THE REASON THEY PUT THE
OTHER COMPASS HIGHER UP ON THE
00:47:52.06\00:47:54.10
MAST IS THEY HAD TO GET IT AWAY
FROM ALL THE METAL THAT WAS ON
00:47:54.10\00:47:56.76
THE DECK SO THERE
WOULD BE NO INTERFERENCE.
00:47:56.76\00:47:59.53
AND THE HOLY SPIRIT REALLY
- IT'S LIKE A HIGHER FORM OF
00:47:59.53\00:48:04.30
COMPASS YOU MIGHT SAY. WE
NEED THE HOLY SPIRIT FOR POWER.
00:48:04.30\00:48:09.63
MICAH 3:8, "BUT TRULY I AM FULL
OF POWER BY THE SPIRIT OF THE
00:48:09.63\00:48:14.06
LORD," - 'NOT BY MIGHT OR BY
POWER, BUT BY MY SPIRIT' SAYS
00:48:14.06\00:48:18.43
THE LORD - "I AM FILLED WITH
THE SPIRIT OF THE LORD AND OF
00:48:18.43\00:48:23.30
JUSTICE AND MIGHT, TO DECLARE TO
JACOB HIS TRANSGRESSION AND TO
00:48:23.30\00:48:26.30
ISRAEL HIS SIN." ACTS
1:8 - FOR WITNESSING, "BUT
00:48:26.30\00:48:31.76
YOU SHALL RECEIVE POWER WHEN THE
HOLY SPIRIT HAS COME UPON YOU;
00:48:31.76\00:48:34.50
AND YOU SHALL BE WITNESSES TO ME
IN JERUSALEM, AND IN ALL JUDEA
00:48:34.50\00:48:38.90
AND SAMARIA, AND TO
THE END OF THE EARTH."
00:48:38.90\00:48:41.73
YOU EVER WANTED TO BE ABLE
TO SAY MORE AND DO MORE FOR THE
00:48:41.73\00:48:44.40
LORD BUT YOU JUST SAID, 'LORD,
I DON'T KNOW WHAT TO SAY.' THE
00:48:44.40\00:48:48.70
HOLY SPIRIT WILL
THEN GIVE YOU THE WORD.
00:48:48.70\00:48:50.30
OR YOU'VE LOOKED
FOR AN OPPORTUNITY.
00:48:50.30\00:48:51.86
YOU'RE TALKING TO A PERSON OR
YOU'RE SITTING NEXT TO SOMEONE
00:48:51.86\00:48:54.23
YOU SAY, 'LORD, CAN YOU OPEN A
DOOR? HELP ME KNOW WHAT TO SAY.
00:48:54.23\00:48:58.20
BECAUSE IF YOU DON'T HAVE THE
SPIRIT OF GOD AND YOU'RE TRYING
00:48:58.20\00:48:59.90
TO BE A WITNESS, YOU CAN
BE OBNOXIOUS AND CUMBERSOME
00:48:59.90\00:49:02.53
AND JUST DO IT ALL WRONG.
00:49:02.53\00:49:04.46
BUT WITH THE SPIRIT OF
GOD SEASONING YOUR SPEECH WITH
00:49:04.46\00:49:07.30
GRACE, IT GIVES YOU
POWER TO KNOW HOW TO WITNESS.
00:49:07.30\00:49:12.30
AND THAT SAME POWER WORKS
ON THE HEARTS OF LISTENERS.
00:49:12.30\00:49:14.53
OH FRIENDS, THERE'S SO MUCH MORE
IN THIS LESSON ON THE SPIRIT.
00:49:14.53\00:49:17.66
I HOPE WHAT YOU'LL
DO IS SEND FOR THE BOOK.
00:49:17.66\00:49:20.46
WE HAVE RUN OUT OF TIME.
PLEASE SEND FOR THE BOOK THAT
00:49:20.46\00:49:23.36
SAYS 'THE HOLY
SPIRIT: THE NEED'.
00:49:23.36\00:49:26.00
WE'LL SEND YOU A FREE COPY AND
I'LL POST THE NOTES AND SOME OF
00:49:26.00\00:49:29.30
THE OTHER POINTS I DIDN'T HAVE
TIME TO GET TO TODAY AND HERE'S
00:49:29.30\00:49:32.40
THE BOOK AGAIN AND YOU CALL THE
NUMBER THAT IS ON YOUR SCREEN
00:49:32.40\00:49:35.43
AND WE WILL STUDY TOGETHER
AGAIN NEXT WEEK. GOD BLESS YOU,
00:49:35.43\00:49:41.80
FRIENDS, AND THANK YOU FOR
JOINING US TODAY AND THE LORD
00:49:41.80\00:49:45.40
BE WITH YOU. PRAY WE CAN
HAVE A SPIRIT-FILLED LIFE. AMEN?
00:49:45.40\00:49:49.73
>>DID YOU KNOW THAT NOAH WAS
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HAVE YOU EVER FELT THE NEED FOR
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>>IT WAS - IT WAS ONGOING WITH
ME. I WOULD GET UP AND DRINK.
00:51:33.56\00:51:37.76
I WOULD GO TO WORK AND DRINK.
I WOULD COME HOME AND DRINK.
00:51:37.76\00:51:40.56
AND THAT WAS MY WAY OF LIFE.
I HAD AN OLDER SISTER AND IN
00:51:40.56\00:51:46.10
2008 WE RECEIVED A PHONE CALL
FROM HER HUSBAND SAYING THAT SHE
00:51:46.10\00:51:49.76
WAS INVOLVED IN A
VERY SERIOUS HOME ACCIDENT.
00:51:49.76\00:51:53.06
SHE HAD FALLEN OUTSIDE ON HER
PATIO - IT WAS A CONCRETE PATIO
00:51:53.06\00:51:57.86
AND SHE HIT HER HEAD BECAUSE SHE
WAS IN A DRUNKEN STUPOR AND SHE
00:51:57.86\00:52:03.20
NEEDED EMERGENCY - EMERGENCY
BRAIN SURGERY BECAUSE OF THE
00:52:03.20\00:52:06.96
TRAUMA THAT SHE HAD SUFFERED AND
SO THEY WERE ABLE TO STOP THE
00:52:06.96\00:52:10.80
BLEEDING IN HER BRAIN, BUT HER
ORGANS STARTED SHUTTING DOWN ONE
00:52:10.80\00:52:14.06
BY ONE. SO HERE I WAS, YOU KNOW,
I HADN'T HAD A DRINK - BEING A
00:52:14.06\00:52:19.16
FULL-BLOWN ALCOHOLIC MYSELF -
HADN'T HAD A DRINK IN PROBABLY A
00:52:19.16\00:52:23.33
FULL DAY, WHICH WAS,
YOU KNOW, A LIFETIME FOR ME.
00:52:23.33\00:52:26.90
AND DURING THE TIME WE WERE
WATCHING HER AND THEY SAID SHE
00:52:26.90\00:52:29.26
WASN'T GOING TO MAKE IT AND
WE HAD MADE THE DECISION AS A
00:52:29.26\00:52:32.13
GROUP, YOU KNOW, WITH
HER CHILDREN PRESENT AND HER
00:52:32.13\00:52:34.36
HUSBAND, THAT THEY WERE JUST
GOING TO GO AHEAD AND PULL THE
00:52:34.36\00:52:36.13
PLUG. AND DURING
THAT TIME, WATCHING
00:52:36.13\00:52:38.56
HER FADE AWAY - GOD FORGIVE ME
- BUT I SAT THERE ASKING HER TO
00:52:38.56\00:52:42.76
DIE FAST SO I COULD GO GET A
DRINK. AND, YOU KNOW, I DIDN'T
00:52:42.76\00:52:49.20
EVEN SEE IT THEN - I DIDN'T SEE
HOW BAD I WAS AT THAT TIME BUT,
00:52:49.20\00:52:52.86
YOU KNOW, I LOOK BACK AT IT NOW
AND IT JUST - IT TEARS ME UP.
00:52:52.86\00:52:58.30
AND ALCOHOL, THAT'S
WHAT IT DOES TO YOU.
00:52:58.30\00:53:01.06
I WAS WALKING OUT TO GO TO WORK
ONE MORNING WITH MY BREAKFAST,
00:53:01.06\00:53:04.56
WHICH WAS A SIX-PACK OF BEER,
AND AS I WAS CLIMBING INTO MY
00:53:04.56\00:53:08.36
TRUCK IT JUST HIT ME THAT IT WAS
ENOUGH. SO I TURNED AROUND AND
00:53:08.36\00:53:15.40
TOOK THE SIX-PACK OF BEER AND I
THREW IT IN THE TRASH CAN AND I
00:53:15.40\00:53:18.40
WENT AND TOLD MY WIFE I NEEDED
HELP. AND THERE'S TWO THINGS I
00:53:18.40\00:53:22.00
NEVER DO: ASK FOR
HELP AND THROW AWAY BEER.
00:53:22.00\00:53:25.30
AND, YOU KNOW, THANK
GOD I WAS ABLE TO DO BOTH.
00:53:25.30\00:53:29.20
WELL, WHEN I FINALLY GOT TO THE
HOSPITAL AND THEY CAME AND GOT
00:53:29.20\00:53:33.60
ME TOOK ME IN AND WHEN THEY DID
A BLOOD ALCOHOL ON ME THEY HAD
00:53:33.60\00:53:37.53
TO DO IT TWICE BECAUSE THEY
WEREN'T QUITE SURE IT WAS RIGHT
00:53:37.53\00:53:39.90
BECAUSE IT WAS .38. THEY
WERE ALL AMAZED I WAS EVEN
00:53:39.90\00:53:43.90
ABLE TO WALK IN THERE,
LET ALONE, YOU KNOW, BEING
00:53:43.90\00:53:46.20
CONSCIOUS. IT WAS
ABOUT TWO MONTHS AFTER I
00:53:46.20\00:53:49.20
GOT OUT OF TREATMENT AND
STARTING MY FRESH LIFE I LEFT
00:53:49.20\00:53:52.86
HOME, LEFT MY WIFE AND I WAS
GOING TO START MY NEW LIFE OF
00:53:52.86\00:53:55.83
SOBRIETY AND SHE
WASN'T GOING TO BE PART OF IT.
00:53:55.83\00:53:59.16
SO I MOVED OUT AND I WAS ON
MY WAY TO THE STORE ONE MORNING
00:53:59.16\00:54:02.76
WHEN I WAS T-BONED - BROADSIDED
- BY AN ONCOMING SUV ON THE
00:54:02.76\00:54:08.60
DRIVER'S SIDE DOOR OF MY TRUCK
AND THIS DRIVER WAS DOING AN
00:54:08.60\00:54:12.56
ESTIMATED 65 TO
70 MILES AN HOUR.
00:54:12.56\00:54:15.46
HE HIT ME SMACK ON
MY SIDE OF THE DOOR.
00:54:15.46\00:54:18.20
I WOKE UP IN THE PASSENGER
SEAT OF THE TRUCK AND I REMEMBER
00:54:18.20\00:54:22.13
COMING TO AND HEARING PEOPLE
STANDING OUTSIDE, 'LOOK, HE'S
00:54:22.13\00:54:25.70
STILL ALIVE!' THERE WERE
HAIRLINE FRACTURES IN MY PELVIS
00:54:25.70\00:54:29.26
AND THERE WAS A COMPRESSION
FRACTURE IN MY SPINE.
00:54:29.26\00:54:31.96
AND SO FOR ALL INTENTS AND
PURPOSES I WALKED AWAY FROM AN
00:54:31.96\00:54:35.43
ACCIDENT I HAD NO
BUSINESS LIVING IN.
00:54:35.43\00:54:37.96
WELL, WITH A BROKEN BACK, I
WASN'T ALLOWED TO BE VERTICAL
00:54:37.96\00:54:40.46
FOR BUT VERY SHORT PERIODS
OF TIME AND I WASN'T VERY MOBILE
00:54:40.46\00:54:45.26
WITH A FRACTURED PELVIS SO I WAS
FORCED TO MOVE BACK HOME AND,
00:54:45.26\00:54:51.13
YOU KNOW, THANK GOD I'VE GOT A
STUBBORN WIFE WHO WAS WILLING TO
00:54:51.13\00:54:54.53
TAKE ME BACK AND PUT UP WITH
ALL THIS. DURING MY RECOVERY,
00:54:54.53\00:54:59.06
THE ONLY THING I COULD
REALLY DO WAS WATCH TELEVISION.
00:54:59.06\00:55:02.36
AND SO, AS I WAS THUMBING
THROUGH THE CHANNELS I NOTICED A
00:55:02.36\00:55:05.16
GENTLEMAN AND I HAPPENED TO STOP
BECAUSE HE WAS PROCLAIMING THAT
00:55:05.16\00:55:10.13
YOU CAN'T PROVE BIBLICALLY THAT
THE SABBATH WAS CHANGED FROM
00:55:10.13\00:55:13.20
SATURDAY TO SUNDAY AND
THAT IT'S NOT BIBLICAL.
00:55:13.20\00:55:16.30
AND I THOUGHT,
'WELL, YOU KNOW WHAT?
00:55:16.30\00:55:18.43
I THINK I CAN DO THIS.' YOU
KNOW, SO I TOOK UP MY BIBLE AND
00:55:18.43\00:55:22.66
I DID SOMETHING STRANGE TO
ME, WHICH WAS ACTUALLY STUDY.
00:55:22.66\00:55:26.20
YOU KNOW, AND OVER THE COURSE OF
SEVERAL MONTHS OF WATCHING THIS
00:55:26.20\00:55:30.06
MAN, WHO I WOULD LATER DISCOVER
WAS PASTOR DOUG BATCHELOR,
00:55:30.06\00:55:35.26
I STARTED TRYING TO DISPROVE
EVERYTHING HE WAS SAYING AND THE
00:55:35.26\00:55:39.23
MORE I READ AND THE MORE I
STUDIED, THE MORE I FOUND OUT
00:55:39.23\00:55:42.53
THAT NOT ONLY COULD I NOT
DISPROVE IT, I WAS BELIEVING IT
00:55:42.53\00:55:48.03
AND I REALIZED IT WAS THE TRUTH.
00:55:48.03\00:55:50.60
THEN I STARTED SOAKING UP
EVERYTHING THAT AMAZING FACTS
00:55:50.60\00:55:53.10
HAD - I WAS AT THEIR WEBSITE,
YOU KNOW, DOING ALL THE READING.
00:55:53.10\00:55:56.30
I WAS LOOKING AT
THE SABBATH TRUTH.
00:55:56.30\00:55:57.90
I WAS, YOU KNOW, DOWNLOADING
- STREAMING EVERYTHING THEY HAD,
00:55:57.90\00:56:00.93
YOU KNOW, AND I WAS REALLY,
REALLY GETTING IN - AND IT
00:56:00.93\00:56:04.03
HELPED ME SO MUCH. OVER
A PROCESS OF ABOUT THREE
00:56:04.03\00:56:07.13
MONTHS, WHILE STUDYING, YOU
KNOW, WITH DOUG BATCHELOR AND
00:56:07.13\00:56:11.33
THE AMAZING FACTS TEAM AND THEN,
YOU KNOW, OF COURSE, MY BIBLE.
00:56:11.33\00:56:15.20
BUT OVER THAT THREE MONTHS I
HAD FALLEN IN LOVE WITH CHRIST
00:56:15.20\00:56:18.33
LIKE I NEVER HAD BEFORE.
00:56:18.33\00:56:21.16
AND NOT ONLY WAS MY BACK AND MY
PELVIS HEALED, BUT MY SOUL WAS
00:56:21.16\00:56:24.93
HEALED AND I EXPERIENCED AN
EMOTIONAL AND A MENTAL HEALING
00:56:24.93\00:56:31.53
THAT, YOU KNOW, I HAD
BEEN LONGING FOR FOR YEARS.
00:56:31.53\00:56:36.66
I'VE GOT TO DO
SOMETHING. WHAT DO I DO NEXT?
00:56:36.66\00:56:39.66
SO I LOOKED UP IN THE PHONE BOOK
AND I FOUND THE NUMBER FOR THE
00:56:39.66\00:56:42.66
LOCAL PASTOR AND I CALLED HIM
AND I SAID, 'HI, MY NAME'S BRIAN
00:56:42.66\00:56:45.73
AND I'VE JUST BEEN
CONVERTED. WHERE DO I GO?'
00:56:45.73\00:56:49.20
AND THE POOR GUY WAS LIKE,
'BRIAN, IT'S NICE TO MEET YOU.
00:56:49.20\00:56:51.63
CONVERTED FROM
WHAT AND GO WHERE?'
00:56:51.63\00:56:54.26
AND I SAID, 'THAT'S
WHAT I WANT TO KNOW!'
00:56:54.26\00:56:57.13
WE HAD A LITTLE LAUGH OVER THAT
AND HE THOUGHT IT WAS FUNNY AND
00:56:57.13\00:56:59.70
BEFORE YOU KNEW IT I WAS, YOU
KNOW, HEART AND SOUL INTO THIS
00:56:59.70\00:57:03.56
LITTLE CHURCH AND I WAS STUDYING
WITH THE PASTOR AND DECIDED, YOU
00:57:03.56\00:57:08.66
KNOW, I WANT TO BE BAPTIZED.
I WANT TO BE RE-BAPTIZED.
00:57:08.66\00:57:11.70
AND WE THOUGHT, 'GREAT.' SO
I DID SOME STUDY AND WE AGREED
00:57:11.70\00:57:17.43
THAT I WAS GOING TO
BE BAPTIZED ON THIS DATE.
00:57:17.43\00:57:19.50
WELL, THE NEXT MORNING MY WIFE
ASKED ME, 'WELL, YOU REALIZE
00:57:19.50\00:57:21.63
WHAT DAY THIS IS?' I
SAID, 'WELL, IT'S SABBATH.'
00:57:21.63\00:57:24.26
AND, YOU KNOW, SABBATH WAS
AMAZING IN ITSELF, BUT SHE SAID,
00:57:24.26\00:57:29.23
'LOOK AT THE CALENDAR.' AND I
LOOKED AT THE CALENDAR ON THAT
00:57:29.23\00:57:32.80
DAY WAS MY ONE-YEAR
ANNIVERSARY OF MY SOBRIETY.
00:57:32.80\00:57:36.36
I WAS BEING BAPTIZED ONE YEAR
AFTER BEING SOBER AND I JUST
00:57:36.36\00:57:40.16
THOUGHT, YOU KNOW, THERE'S
NO SUCH THING AS COINCIDENCE.
00:57:40.16\00:57:42.50
THAT WAS JUST AMAZING THAT
GOD WOULD WANT THAT FOR ME.
00:57:42.50\00:57:45.76
GOD HAS DONE AMAZING THINGS WITH
MY LIFE AND I AM - I HAVE TO
00:57:45.76\00:57:49.40
GIVE HIM, YOU KNOW, ALL THE
CREDIT BECAUSE SHORT OF JUST
00:57:49.40\00:57:55.30
RESPONDING, YOU
KNOW, I'VE DONE NOTHING.
00:57:55.30\00:57:58.00
AND IT'S BEEN HIM AND IT'S JUST
PLEASURE - ABSOLUTE PLEASURE TO
00:57:58.00\00:58:02.73
BE CALLED A CHILD OF GOD.
I'M REALLY THANKFUL THAT GOD
00:58:02.73\00:58:05.73
USED AMAZING FACTS TELEVISION
PROGRAM AND PASTOR DOUG
00:58:05.73\00:58:09.46
BATCHELOR TO MAKE
A CHANGE IN MY LIFE.
00:58:09.46\00:58:14.50
(MUSIC)
00:58:14.50\00:58:15.50