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>> Our scripture reading today
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is found in John 20:19
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through 22.
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"On the evening of that
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first day of the week
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when the disciples were together
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with the doors locked
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for fear of the Jewish leaders,
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Jesus came and stood among them
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and said, 'Peace be with you.'
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After he said this, he showed
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them his hands and his side.
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The disciples were overjoyed
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when they saw the Lord.
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Again Jesus said,
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'Peace be with you.
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As the father has sent me,
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I am sending you.'
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And with that, he breathed
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on them and said,
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'Receive the Holy Spirit.'"
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>> Pray with me, please.
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Father God, in particular today,
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on this particular topic,
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we need your blessing.
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We pray that your presence
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would rest in this place
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in powerful, overflowing,
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abundant, transforming measure.
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This is our prayer
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and we ask it in your name.
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Amen.
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I'd like you to ponder
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a question just in the quietness
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of your own cranium
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as we begin this morning.
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And the question is this --
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What will God's people be like
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at the very end of time?
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The Bible makes clear
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that we have been living
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in the time of the end
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for quite some time now,
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at least by human perspectives.
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In the grand scope
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of human history.
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it's but a tiny,
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tiny portion here,
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but I'm speaking here
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of the very end,
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the time just prior,
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just immediately prior
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to the Second Coming of Jesus.
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Now, I choose this time
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because the Bible actually does
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give us some detail
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about what circumstances
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externally will be at that time.
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If you want to join me,
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take a look at Revelation
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chapter 13.
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Begin with verse 15.
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Revelation, the 13th chapter,
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beginning with verse 15.
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It's on page 1,002
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in your pew Bible.
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1,002.
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Revelation 13,
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begin with verse 15.
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Let me just paint the picture
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here.
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In this particular portion
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of the Book of Revelation,
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it is indeed describing
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the very end of time.
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There is this unholy trinity.
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There's the devil represented
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as a dragon.
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There's a beast
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that comes up out of the sea,
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this religious political power.
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There's a beast
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that comes up out of the land.
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Another
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All three of these are working
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together
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to desecrate God's temple,
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both in heaven and on earth,
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to lead the earth astray
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into false worship,
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and as part of that,
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the beast out of the earth
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makes an image
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of the beast out of the sea,
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and this is what happens.
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Verse 15 --
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"He was given power --"
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This is the beast
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out of the earth.
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"...was given power
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to give breath
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to the image of the first beast,
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the sea beast,
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so that it could speak and cause
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all that refused to worship
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the image to be killed.
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He also forced everyone,
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small and great, rich and poor,
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free and slave, to receive
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a mark on his right hand
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or on his forehead,
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so that no one could buy or sell
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unless he had the mark,
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which is the name of the beast
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or the number of his name."
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Now, we do not have time
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to go into the particulars
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this morning
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about what it all means,
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what I just read there,
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but suffice it to say, here's
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the "Reader's Digest" version.
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At the very end of time,
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in seeking to bring
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worship to himself,
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Satan works out this mark,
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and if you do not abide
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by this mark, if you do not
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worship the beast in his way,
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then you can't buy or sell,
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can't buy gas,
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you can't buy groceries,
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you can't buy clothes,
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you can't pay the mortgage.
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None of these things
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that we take
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and if that doesn't work, then
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there comes this death decree.
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"If you do not do what we say
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and worship in the way that we
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say,
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give your allegiance as we say
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you should, we will kill you."
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And so, I ask again,
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what will God's people be like
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at the very end of time?
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Scared?
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Nervous?
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Fearful?
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Perhaps.
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But I think there is one word
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that will describe them
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quite well.
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In fact, I think there's
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one word that may just
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describe them best of all.
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That one word is passionate.
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Passionate.
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Do you know
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what this word means?
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It has as its root here.
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The word "passion" comes from
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the Greek word "pathos".
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There's other history to it,
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and essentially, what it means
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is this -- if you are
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passionate about something,
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you will not give up.
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For the sake of whatever that
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is, you will not quit.
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You are going to go through,
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you will keep moving.
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Nothing will stop you.
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If you are passionate about
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something, you are willing
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to suffer for it.
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You know, some people said,
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"Well, I'm passionate
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about exercise."
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If you're not sore the next day,
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you are not passionate about
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exercise, okay?
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Because if you're passionate
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about something, you give it,=
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your all in there,
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and there will be some suffering
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to go with that,
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either in the physical realm
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or in the spiritual realm,
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and notice this -- passion
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is not always outwardly
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expressed all the time.
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You know, sometimes when
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of flailing arms and legs
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and spilling emotion, et cetera,
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and certainly, that can be one
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expression of passion,
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but introverts can be
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passionate too,
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and sometimes, it's not until
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certain conditions are met
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that you discover just
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how passionate someone is.
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Thus it will be, I believe,
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at the end of time
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with God's people,
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for just prior to the mark
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of the beast scenario,
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this group of God's people
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persistently, relentlessly, yes,
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passionately stands for God,
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for His love, for His truth,
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for His word,
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and they will not budge,
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even though the world
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will tell them,
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"If you don't budge,
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we will kill you."
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Such will be the state of those
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who passionately follow Jesus.
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And I'll tell you what.
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I want to
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be among that group of people.
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I want to be there.
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I don't relish the difficulties
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that will come with that stage,
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but make no mistake,
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I want to see
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prior to death, and I want
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to be part of that last group
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of people that will not flinch,
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that will not budge,
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that will follow
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Jesus Christ no matter what.
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And my guess is most, if not
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all of you want to be there too.
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So, knowing that,
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come back to the present
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and let me ask you
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another question.
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Again, just for consumption
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and dealing with
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in the privateness
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of your own thoughts.
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What words describe
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your relationship with Jesus
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right now?
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You can probably see why
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I asked the question, huh?
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You know, if we want to be like
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God's people,
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we're told they will be
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at the end of time standing firm
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for him no matter what, right?
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Then we probably ought to start
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now.
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So what words would describe
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your relationship with Jesus
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right now?
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Strong?
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Vibrant?
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Passionate, maybe?
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Growing?
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In need of some help?
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Flat?
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Sick?
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Dying?
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Dead?
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Would you like the word
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"passionate"
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to describe your relationship
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with Jesus?
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If so, let me tell you how.
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Jesus's disciples knew a thing
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or two about how passion
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was supposed to work.
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If we were to read in Acts --
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the Book of Acts, chapters 2
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through chapters 5,
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we would find the disciples
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doing numerous things.
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We would find them,
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for instance, preaching to
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thousands of people at once.
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We would see them
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baptizing thousands,
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sometimes just in a single day.
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The disciples healed people,
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sometimes relatively privately,
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sometimes very publicly.
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We would see the disciples
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disputing boldly with the
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religious leaders of the day
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that stood opposed to them
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and to Jesus.
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The disciples --
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we would see them in that book
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generally being
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an uncompromising, unflinching,
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unstoppable band of witnesses,
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relentlessly proclaiming and
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living out the kingdom of God.
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In fact, if all you read was
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Acts chapter 2 through 5,
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it would appear that
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the disciples are just being
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their normal,
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passionate, faithful selves,
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but anyone who has studied this
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part of the church's history
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know that that cannot be,
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because that kind of passion
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for these guys
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is not normal at all.
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In fact, let me just show you
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what had happened here
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just a few weeks earlier.
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Let me read it here.
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Matthew chapter 26, verses 55
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and 56.
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Scene here
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is in the garden of Gethsemane.
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It's at nighttime.
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Jesus's crucifixion
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is just hours away.
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They've come to arrest him.
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"In that hour,
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Jesus said to the crowd,
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'Am I leading a rebellion that
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you have come out with swords
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and clubs to capture me?
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Every day I sat in the
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temple courts teaching
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and you did not arrest me.
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But this has all taken place
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that the writings of the
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prophets might be fulfilled.'"
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And get this.
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"Then all the disciples
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deserted him and fled."
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Like rats from a sinking ship.
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The only thing these guys
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are passionate
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about at this point is saving
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their own skins, right?
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So what happened here?
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I mean,
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what made the difference?
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How do we go
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from deserting Jesus and seeking
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only your personal safety --
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How do you go from that
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to literally just weeks later,
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being willing to die for Jesus
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and happily so?
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If you have your Bible,
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take a look, please,
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at Acts chapter 1, verse 4.
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Acts chapter 1, verse 4.
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It's on page 884
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in your pew Bible.
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884.
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Acts chapter 1, verse 4.
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What was it that made
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the difference in the disciples?
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Some people have said, "Well,
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it must have been the news that
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Jesus had risen from the grave."
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You know, the sheer information,
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the power of that story, that
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Jesus had died for the world
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since he had lain in the grave,
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but death could not hold him.
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He's been raised back to life.
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It must have been --
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Many people say this was
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the inspiration that transformed
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the disciples from, you know,
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from whiners into winners
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and from slackers
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into superheroes.
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That must have been it.
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No.
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The devil knows
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all that information and more,
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but when Jesus comes back,
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the devil will burn.
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There's something more
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at work here.
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Acts chapter 1 --
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Or excuse me, Acts chapter 1,
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beginning with verse 4.
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The scene is this --
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Jesus has died.
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He's been laying in the grave.
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He's been resurrected.
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He's been
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walking for several weeks now,
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visiting various people,
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including his disciples.
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On one of those occasions,
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here's what happens.
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Verse 4.
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"On one occasion, while he,
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Jesus, was eating
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with them, the disciples,
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he gave them this command --
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'Do not leave Jerusalem,
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but wait."
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What did he say?
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Wait.
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"Wait for the gift
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my father promised,
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which you have
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for John baptized with water,
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but in a few days, you will be
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baptized with the --" what?
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"...with the Holy Spirit."
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So verse 6.
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"When they met together,
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they asked him, 'Lord,
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are you at this time going to
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restore the kingdom to Israel?'"
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Still didn't quite get it,
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what was going on here.
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Verse 7.
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"He said to them,
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'It is not for you to know
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the times or dates the Father
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has set by his own authority,
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but you will receive power
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when the Holy Spirit
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comes on you,
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and you will be
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my witnesses in Jerusalem,
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and in all Judea and Samaria,
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and to the ends of the earth.'"
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Chapter 2, verse 1.
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"When the day of Pentecost came,
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they were all together
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in one place.
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Suddenly, a sound like
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the blowing of a violent wind
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came from heaven
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and filled the whole house
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where they were sitting.
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They saw what seemed
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to be tongues of fire
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that separated and came
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to rest on each of them.
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All of them were filled
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with the Holy Spirit
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and began to speak
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in other tongues
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as the spirit enabled them."
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Behold, the holy hurricane
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had come.
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As incredibly important
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as information about
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the cross of Christ
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is, telling that story,
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et cetera,
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as incredibly important
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as information
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about the forgiveness of sins,
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the life, the death,
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the resurrection of Jesus,
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as important as information is
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about the end of time, prophecy,
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the mark of the beast, final
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deceptions, et cetera, et
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cetera,
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as important as all of that is,
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it alone cannot change us from
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couch potatoes into passionate
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zealots that never give up.
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That can only be done
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by the power of the Holy Spirit.
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Now what does that look like?
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How will the Holy Spirit
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bring this astonishing
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power into our lives
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and into the life of His church?
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I want to be clear about
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something here.
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We are dealing with a mystery
00:27:06.19\00:27:07.19
ultimately.
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This is God,
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the third member of the Godhead,
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and so we cannot pin down
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exactly all that there is
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to know about the Holy Spirit.
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Praise the Lord.
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Who needs to serve a God that
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you can completely understand?
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But we do get some hints.
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We do get some clarity
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from the Bible as to how it is
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that the Holy Spirit wishes
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to be in our lives.
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Let me put some things
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on the screen here for you.
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Luke chapter 1, verse 15.
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"For he -- "meaning John the
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Baptist.
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In fact, by the way,
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if you see something in yellow,
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would you say it nice and loud,
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okay, when we get to those
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yellow words, right?
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Ready?
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"For he [John the Baptist]
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will be great
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in the sight of the Lord.
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He is never to take wine
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or other fermented drink,
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and he will be --"
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>> Filled.
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>> "...with the Holy Spirit even
00:27:49.73\00:27:50.70
from birth."
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Luke chapter 4,
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verse 1.
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"Jesus --"
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>> Full.
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>> "...of the Holy Spirit
00:27:54.60\00:27:55.24
returned
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from the Jordan and was led
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by the Spirit into the desert."
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Acts chapter 2, verse 4.
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"All of [the disciples
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in the upper room]
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were --"
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>> Filled.
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>> "...with the Holy Spirit,
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and began to speak
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in other tongues
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as the spirit enabled them."
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Acts chapter 4, verse 8.
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"Then Peter..."
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>> Filled.
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>> "...with
00:28:10.29\00:28:11.12
the Holy Spirit said to them..."
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Acts chapter 4, verse 31.
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"After [the believers] prayed,
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the place where they were
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meeting was shaken.
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And they were all --"
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>> Filled.
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>> "...with the Holy Spirit and
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spoke the Word of God boldly."
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Acts chapter 6, verse 3.
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"Brothers, choose seven men
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from among you who are known
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to be --"
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>> Full.
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>> "...of the Spirit and
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wisdom.
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We will turn this responsibility
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over to them."
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Acts chapter 6, verse 5.
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"This proposal
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pleased the whole group.
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They chose Stephen, a man --"
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>> Full.
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>> "...of faith and of the Holy
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Spirit..."
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Acts chapter 9, verse 17.
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"Then Ananias went to the house
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and entered it.
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Placing his hands on Saul,
00:28:42.58\00:28:43.69
he said, 'Brother Saul,
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the Lord -- Jesus,
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who appeared to you on the road
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as you were coming here --
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has sent me
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so that you may see again
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and be --"
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>> Filled.
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>> "...with the Holy Spirit."
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And finally here,
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Ephesians 5, verse 18.
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"Do not get drunk on wine,
00:28:57.07\00:28:58.20
which leads to debauchery.
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Instead, be --"
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>> Filled.
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>> "...with the Spirit."
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The Holy Spirit of God.
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I hope
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the message is crystal clear.
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If repetition is the mother
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of learning, you should not
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forget this particular point.
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We are to be filled
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with the Holy Spirit of God.
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Not half, not three quarters,
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not 99%.
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The Bible says we are to be
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filled with the Spirit of God.
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Nothing more,
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nothing less.
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Filled.
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This is God's will for us.
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If you are looking for
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a little bit of the Holy Spirit,
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you have come to the wrong God.
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God apparently has no interest
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in a little filling,
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a little tiny bit.
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He wants it to be full,
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which to me, raises
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a very important question.
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Why?
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What is it that needs to be done
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inside of us or through us
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that is so important that only
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a brimming over relationship
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with God's Holy Spirit will do?
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Well, glad you asked.
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Let's do a little digging here.
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John chapter 16, verse 6.
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Jesus is speaking here.
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This is prior to his crucifixion
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and arrest.
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He says to his disciples
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that he is going to leave them
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and follows it up with this.
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"Because I have said
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these things,
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you are filled with grief.
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But I tell you the truth --
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it is for your good
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that I am going away."
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If I did not know the context of
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what Jesus has just said here,
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I would say this is the most
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ludicrous, ridiculous verse
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in the entire Bible.
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How could it possibly be true
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that it's better
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that Jesus Christ leave you?
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I mean, if Jesus Christ
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were preaching on this campus
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this morning,
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you wouldn't be sitting here
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right now and I wouldn't
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be speaking to you.
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We would all exit out the doors
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like a great fire drill,
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and we would find
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where Jesus was
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and we would sit at his feet.
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Why? Because he's Jesus.
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And if Jesus were physically
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present, why would you
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want to be any other place?
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And yet Jesus himself says,
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"Oh, actually, it's better
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if I go.
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It's better if I leave."
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We ask, "How come?"
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Jesus answered,
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because "Unless I go away,
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the Counselor, the Holy Spirit,
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will not come to you;
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but if I go,
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I will send him to you."
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In other words, if Jesus
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had stayed on the planet,
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the only people that could be
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close to him
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were those that were in close
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physical proximity to him.
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Now, praise the Lord.
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Good on them, right?
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But what about the other 7 or 8
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billion people on the planet?
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And so, Jesus does something
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better
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He says,
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and through my Holy Spirit
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I can not only be with you,
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I can be in you.
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I can feel you.
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I can be closer to you
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than the air that you breathe,
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because the Holy Spirit
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lives within the mind.
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He fills -- He lives in our
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heart."
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And thus, we can be closer
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to Jesus in this way than
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if he were physically present
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on this planet.
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And not just me, not just you.
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Every single
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person on the planet,
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whether they are physically
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close to Jesus or not,
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can be filled with
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His Holy Spirit.
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Now, this is an astonishing
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privilege on our part,
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but notice carefully -- why does
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the spirit wish to come in?
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What is the spirit
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looking to do?
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Well, Jesus continues.
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John 16,
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verses 8 to 11.
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"When he, the Holy Spirit,
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comes,
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he will convict the world
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of guilt in regard
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to sin and righteousness
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and judgment: in regard to sin,
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because people do not believe in
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me; in regard to righteousness,
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because I am going to the
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Father,
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where you can see me no longer;
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and in regard to judgment,
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because the prince of this world
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now stands condemned."
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Now, a whole bunch we could say
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about that.
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Only going to say a little bit.
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One of the first things that
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the Holy Spirit does is that
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it convicts us of our sins.
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>> Amen.
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Whoever said, "Amen",
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I just want to say thank you,
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because in first service,
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not a single person said "Amen"
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when I said that.
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I mean,
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Not a soul said a word
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about that, okay?
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So I'm going
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to give you one more chance.
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The Holy Spirit convicts us
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of our sins.
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>> Amen.
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>> You know,
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that was very good of you.
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I appreciate you playing ball
00:33:07.25\00:33:07.95
with me on that one.
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I'm not sure if you mean it,
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though.
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Imagine
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if a person were doing this,
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a person were assigned to be
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the one to find and point
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out your sins, right?
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"Oh, you did it again.
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Oh, ah, that's the same thing
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you did yesterday.
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Why are you doing that --"
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What would we do with a person
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like that?
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Send them packing, right?
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They should not be here.
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One of the first things
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Jesus says the Holy Spirit does
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is that he convicts
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us of our sin.
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Here's the thing -- God is for
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us.
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The Holy Spirit is for us.
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The Holy Spirit is not here
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to bring harm to us.
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He is here to help save us.
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So if the Holy Spirit says
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that there is sin in my life
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or in your life, if the
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Holy Spirit convicts us of that,
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this is not a bad thing.
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This is a blessed gift.
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The surgeon that comes --
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If we're not feeling good,
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and the surgeon comes
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and tells us, "Oh, you know
00:34:02.27\00:34:02.64
what?
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Here's what the problem is."
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We don't slap the surgeon
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when he tells us.
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"How dare you tell me that?"
00:34:06.21\00:34:07.81
Right?
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Because we want to hear,
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we want to get better,
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and this is a crucial step.
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The Holy Spirit tells us
00:34:13.28\00:34:14.62
what is right and what is wrong.
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You know, people speak
00:34:16.55\00:34:17.59
of the unaided conscience.
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There is no such thing.
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My Bible tells me
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that the heart of mankind
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is desperately wicked.
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Who can understand it?
00:34:24.69\00:34:27.03
You cannot tell right from wrong
00:34:27.13\00:34:28.16
without the blessing
00:34:28.26\00:34:29.03
of the Holy Spirit somehow.
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This is why, at the end of time,
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things go so swiftly.
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Because when you pull
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the Holy Spirit out of there,
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the mitigating factor that
00:34:35.20\00:34:36.37
would tell even some people
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that have no trust in God
00:34:37.87\00:34:38.67
whatsoever what is right
00:34:38.77\00:34:39.74
and wrong, that's gone.
00:34:39.84\00:34:42.01
Well, unmixed evil
00:34:42.11\00:34:43.08
has a very short half life.
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Praise the Lord
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for the Holy Spirit's role
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in convicting us of our sins.
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But the spirit doesn't
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stop there.
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Praise the Lord.
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He not only points out our sins,
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but notice this also.
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A second thing he does is
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he takes Christ's death
00:34:56.99\00:34:58.29
and resurrection power
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and applies it to our lives.
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He's not merely content
00:35:03.47\00:35:04.50
to accuse.
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Far from it.
00:35:05.07\00:35:05.60
No, no, no, no, no.
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In fact, if that's all he did
00:35:06.60\00:35:07.70
was point out our sins,
00:35:07.80\00:35:08.57
this would be terrible news,
00:35:08.67\00:35:11.14
but he follows it up with the
00:35:11.24\00:35:12.31
application of Christ's death
00:35:12.41\00:35:13.88
and resurrection
00:35:13.98\00:35:14.68
power to our lives.
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Now, how do I know this?
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Take your Bible, please.
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Romans chapter 8, verse 1.
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Exceedingly cool passage
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of scripture we're
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going to look at right here.
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Romans chapter 8,
00:35:24.55\00:35:25.65
beginning with verse 1.
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Paul is going to talk here
00:35:26.96\00:35:28.29
about what the spirit
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does inside of us here.
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Romans chapter 8.
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This is page 918
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in your pew Bible.
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Romans chapter 8, verse 1.
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Here's what it says.
00:35:37.57\00:35:38.63
"Therefore, there is now
00:35:38.73\00:35:40.60
no condemnation for those
00:35:40.70\00:35:42.60
who are in Christ Jesus."
00:35:42.70\00:35:44.14
And all God's people said...
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>> Amen.
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>> Amen.
00:35:45.84\00:35:46.27
Verse 2.
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"Because --" here's why.
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"Because through Christ
00:35:49.28\00:35:50.61
Jesus, the law of the spirit --"
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this is the Holy Spirit --
00:35:52.71\00:35:53.98
"...the law of the spirit of
00:35:54.08\00:35:55.82
life set me free
00:35:55.92\00:35:57.35
from the law of sin and death."
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Down to verse 5, please.
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Those who live according to the
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sinful nature have their minds
00:36:02.92\00:36:04.23
set on what that nature desires,
00:36:04.33\00:36:06.26
but those who live in accordance
00:36:06.36\00:36:07.36
with the spirit have their minds
00:36:07.46\00:36:09.00
set on what the spirit desires.
00:36:09.10\00:36:11.03
The mind of sinful man is death,
00:36:11.13\00:36:12.93
but the mind controlled
00:36:13.03\00:36:14.04
by the spirit is life and peace.
00:36:14.14\00:36:16.27
The sinful mind
00:36:16.37\00:36:17.01
is hostile to God.
00:36:17.11\00:36:18.41
It does not submit to God's law,
00:36:18.51\00:36:19.64
nor can it do so.
00:36:19.74\00:36:21.24
Those controlled by the sinful
00:36:21.34\00:36:22.64
nature cannot please God."
00:36:22.74\00:36:24.85
Verse 9.
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"You, however, are controlled
00:36:26.61\00:36:28.48
not by the sinful nature,
00:36:28.58\00:36:29.68
but by the spirit.
00:36:29.78\00:36:31.35
If the Spirit of God
00:36:31.45\00:36:32.12
lives in you,
00:36:32.22\00:36:33.36
and if anyone does not have
00:36:33.46\00:36:34.19
the Spirit of Christ,
00:36:34.29\00:36:35.19
he does not belong to Christ,
00:36:35.29\00:36:36.59
but if Christ is in you,
00:36:36.69\00:36:37.99
your body is dead
00:36:38.09\00:36:39.06
because of sin,
00:36:39.16\00:36:40.03
yet your spirit is alive
00:36:40.13\00:36:41.56
because of righteousness.
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And if the Spirit of him
00:36:43.40\00:36:44.43
who raised Jesus from the dead
00:36:44.53\00:36:45.50
is living in you,
00:36:45.60\00:36:46.57
He who raised Christ
00:36:46.67\00:36:47.87
from the dead will also
00:36:47.97\00:36:49.14
give life to your mortal bodies
00:36:49.24\00:36:50.44
through His Spirit
00:36:50.54\00:36:51.67
who lives in you."
00:36:51.77\00:36:55.58
Ladies and gentlemen,
00:36:55.68\00:36:56.21
this is powerful,
00:36:56.31\00:36:57.31
powerful, powerful stuff.
00:36:57.41\00:36:58.78
The Holy Spirit, the most
00:36:58.88\00:36:59.91
powerful force in the universe,
00:37:00.08\00:37:01.08
consents to come
00:37:01.18\00:37:02.18
and live inside of me,
00:37:02.28\00:37:03.69
live inside of you,
00:37:03.79\00:37:05.22
and he takes what Jesus did
00:37:05.32\00:37:07.19
on the cross and he powers it.
00:37:07.29\00:37:09.02
He empowers it to be effective
00:37:09.12\00:37:10.96
in our lives.
00:37:11.06\00:37:12.69
If you are stuck in sin,
00:37:12.79\00:37:14.46
if you've got a habit
00:37:14.56\00:37:15.13
you cannot break,
00:37:15.23\00:37:16.16
if there are things that are
00:37:16.26\00:37:16.97
going wrong in your life
00:37:17.07\00:37:18.00
and you cannot stop, this is
00:37:18.10\00:37:19.73
what the Holy Spirit does.
00:37:19.83\00:37:22.30
Jesus said on the cross, "It is
00:37:22.40\00:37:23.37
finished,"
00:37:23.47\00:37:24.81
meaning the power of sin
00:37:24.91\00:37:26.04
had been broken.
00:37:26.14\00:37:27.98
The curtain in the temple
00:37:28.08\00:37:28.81
was torn in two.
00:37:28.91\00:37:30.78
No more sacrifice necessary
00:37:30.88\00:37:32.55
because The Lamb, capital T,
00:37:32.65\00:37:34.15
capital L, had been sacrificed
00:37:34.25\00:37:35.82
on the cross.
00:37:35.92\00:37:36.95
All the power was available,
00:37:37.05\00:37:38.45
but it was not yet applied
00:37:38.55\00:37:40.99
to the human heart until the
00:37:41.09\00:37:43.63
Holy Spirit makes it so.
00:37:43.73\00:37:47.66
This is how we are saved.
00:37:47.76\00:37:50.93
The Holy Spirit had to hover
00:37:51.03\00:37:52.27
over the waters of the deep,
00:37:52.37\00:37:53.60
the chaos back before creation.
00:37:53.70\00:37:56.37
That's how creation happened.
00:37:56.47\00:37:58.37
Salvation is an act of creation.
00:37:58.47\00:38:01.71
The Holy Spirit cannot remodel
00:38:01.81\00:38:03.04
the sinner,
00:38:03.14\00:38:04.71
so he gives him a new heart.
00:38:04.81\00:38:06.18
A story.
00:38:09.75\00:38:12.59
Many years ago,
00:38:12.69\00:38:13.52
in the last millennium,
00:38:13.62\00:38:14.36
I was a student missionary
00:38:14.46\00:38:15.26
on the island of Ponape.
00:38:15.36\00:38:18.26
You can kind of tell which era
00:38:18.36\00:38:19.43
student missionaries
00:38:19.53\00:38:20.36
were on Ponape,
00:38:20.46\00:38:21.40
because there are those that say
00:38:21.50\00:38:22.53
"Pohnpei" and there are those
00:38:22.63\00:38:23.70
that say "Ponape".
00:38:23.80\00:38:25.27
If you say "Ponape",
00:38:25.37\00:38:26.47
you're just an English person
00:38:26.57\00:38:28.17
who doesn't know about it.
00:38:28.27\00:38:29.00
Okay?
00:38:29.10\00:38:29.77
On Ponape,
00:38:29.87\00:38:31.04
I was a teacher there,
00:38:31.14\00:38:32.44
and on one particular day,
00:38:32.54\00:38:34.81
the principal came to us
00:38:34.91\00:38:35.91
and said,
00:38:36.01\00:38:37.71
"A hurricane is headed this
00:38:37.81\00:38:40.48
way."
00:38:40.58\00:38:41.62
Now, of course,
00:38:41.72\00:38:42.15
in the South Pacific,
00:38:42.25\00:38:43.32
hurricanes are called
00:38:43.42\00:38:45.85
typhoons, right?
00:38:45.95\00:38:47.29
But, you know,
00:38:47.39\00:38:48.86
being an American, I thought,
00:38:48.96\00:38:49.79
"Well, typhoon.
00:38:49.89\00:38:50.69
A hurri-- Okay, that I get."
00:38:50.79\00:38:51.29
Now,
00:38:51.39\00:38:52.03
before in the United States.
00:38:53.56\00:38:54.96
I lived in California,
00:38:55.06\00:38:56.03
and the ground kind of shakes
00:38:56.13\00:38:56.73
there a bit.
00:38:56.83\00:38:57.53
I've been to other places.
00:38:57.63\00:38:58.43
You get snow and rain
00:38:58.53\00:38:59.50
and that kind of stuff,
00:38:59.60\00:39:00.20
maybe a few floods,
00:39:00.30\00:39:00.94
but the idea of having
00:39:01.04\00:39:02.77
a hurricane, a hurricane --
00:39:02.87\00:39:04.74
I'd never been in that.
00:39:04.84\00:39:06.01
So, we asked,
00:39:06.11\00:39:07.94
"Well, what should we do?"
00:39:08.04\00:39:09.51
And they said, "Well,
00:39:09.61\00:39:11.11
make everything on campus
00:39:11.21\00:39:12.65
as secure as you can."
00:39:12.75\00:39:14.82
Huh.
00:39:14.92\00:39:16.08
All right. What does that mean?
00:39:16.18\00:39:17.19
I mean, do I tie the lawnmower
00:39:17.29\00:39:17.79
down?
00:39:17.89\00:39:18.85
Do I find a palm tree?
00:39:18.95\00:39:19.62
Do I lash things?
00:39:19.72\00:39:20.86
What do I do?
00:39:20.96\00:39:21.86
I really wasn't sure,
00:39:21.96\00:39:22.62
and the other SMs
00:39:22.72\00:39:23.43
weren't sure either,
00:39:23.53\00:39:24.49
and then the principal
00:39:24.59\00:39:25.16
had to leave.
00:39:25.26\00:39:27.10
Principal had to go.
00:39:27.20\00:39:28.66
Some other part of the island
00:39:28.76\00:39:29.33
he had to be on,
00:39:29.43\00:39:30.00
I don't know,
00:39:30.10\00:39:30.87
to help prepare for the hurr--
00:39:30.97\00:39:31.93
I have no idea what it was,
00:39:32.03\00:39:32.70
but he left,
00:39:32.80\00:39:35.04
leaving the student missionaries
00:39:35.14\00:39:37.27
in charge.
00:39:37.37\00:39:40.94
This was exciting.
00:39:41.04\00:39:43.28
Now again, not
00:39:43.38\00:39:44.21
having ever been in something
00:39:44.31\00:39:45.11
like this, I was like,
00:39:45.21\00:39:45.85
"Okay, what do we do?"
00:39:45.95\00:39:46.51
And so, you know,
00:39:46.61\00:39:47.18
"Well, we probably
00:39:48.08\00:39:48.72
And someone said,
00:39:49.75\00:39:50.29
windows
00:39:50.95\00:39:51.42
so you don't create high
00:39:51.52\00:39:52.32
pressure places in buildings
00:39:52.42\00:39:53.52
and whatnot like this."
00:39:53.62\00:39:55.09
All the cars, we parked,
00:39:55.19\00:39:56.19
you know,
00:39:56.29\00:39:56.89
put them all together, huddled
00:39:57.73\00:39:58.79
so that no tree would fall
00:39:58.89\00:39:59.73
on this kind of a thing.
00:39:59.83\00:40:01.10
And now the winds are starting
00:40:01.20\00:40:02.13
to pick up.
00:40:02.23\00:40:04.17
And those of you that have been
00:40:04.27\00:40:05.30
in a hurricane before,
00:40:05.40\00:40:06.90
you know that there
00:40:07.00\00:40:08.64
is a sound
00:40:08.74\00:40:10.51
that comes with these things.
00:40:10.61\00:40:12.11
Before I was in one,
00:40:12.21\00:40:14.74
people would tell me, "Well,
00:40:14.84\00:40:15.48
but constant."
00:40:17.08\00:40:18.21
You know, just -- [imitates
00:40:18.31\00:40:19.81
train] -- kind of thing.
00:40:19.91\00:40:21.15
And it does.
00:40:21.25\00:40:21.98
It does.
00:40:22.08\00:40:22.32
Apparently
00:40:22.42\00:40:22.95
it doesn't matter
00:40:23.05\00:40:23.59
whether it's fir trees
00:40:23.69\00:40:24.62
in Washington State or wherever,
00:40:24.72\00:40:25.82
but palm trees sound the same.
00:40:25.92\00:40:27.09
[ Imitates blowing ]
00:40:27.19\00:40:28.16
And it just got louder
00:40:28.26\00:40:30.06
and louder, and the wind --
00:40:30.16\00:40:31.53
the palm trees are starting to
00:40:31.63\00:40:32.46
lean a little bit.
00:40:32.56\00:40:33.29
There's no more birds.
00:40:33.40\00:40:34.20
You can't see any wildlife.
00:40:34.30\00:40:35.93
Things are starting to get
00:40:36.03\00:40:36.80
rather serious
00:40:36.90\00:40:39.17
when I remembered
00:40:39.27\00:40:41.90
that I had left something
00:40:42.00\00:40:43.27
in my bedroom
00:40:43.37\00:40:44.74
upstairs in the apartment
00:40:44.84\00:40:47.18
where me and two
00:40:47.28\00:40:48.64
other SMs lived.
00:40:48.74\00:40:51.01
Now, to this day,
00:40:51.11\00:40:51.88
I cannot recall what was
00:40:51.98\00:40:54.15
so important that I thought
00:40:54.25\00:40:56.38
I ought to go back outside
00:40:56.48\00:40:57.95
and upstairs
00:40:58.05\00:40:59.39
to the top floor of a building
00:40:59.49\00:41:01.42
to retrieve something.
00:41:01.52\00:41:03.16
We were student missionaries.
00:41:03.26\00:41:04.06
We had no money.
00:41:04.16\00:41:05.49
We had nothing of value.
00:41:05.59\00:41:07.23
But for some reason, I thought,
00:41:07.30\00:41:08.20
"Oh, I forgot that."
00:41:08.30\00:41:10.93
And my roommate said,
00:41:11.03\00:41:12.80
"Oh, you know what?
00:41:12.90\00:41:13.70
I forgot something too."
00:41:13.80\00:41:16.57
And so, like ignorant Americans,
00:41:16.67\00:41:18.51
we walked across campus.
00:41:18.61\00:41:19.87
There'd be places --
00:41:19.97\00:41:20.44
You know,
00:41:20.54\00:41:21.38
things are flying sideways now
00:41:21.48\00:41:22.11
and going like this,
00:41:22.21\00:41:23.41
you know, charging our way
00:41:23.51\00:41:24.55
through across campus.
00:41:24.65\00:41:25.45
We are men, after all.
00:41:25.55\00:41:26.78
And we go upstairs.
00:41:26.88\00:41:27.82
Here we go, up top.
00:41:27.92\00:41:28.62
We go to the top floor and we're
00:41:28.72\00:41:30.22
getting our things here.
00:41:30.32\00:41:31.19
We're looking around
00:41:31.29\00:41:33.49
and there comes this sound.
00:41:33.59\00:41:36.86
It wasn't just the
00:41:36.96\00:41:37.89
freight train.
00:41:37.99\00:41:39.19
It was now --
00:41:39.29\00:41:40.66
It almost sounded as though
00:41:40.76\00:41:42.20
some giant were taking
00:41:42.30\00:41:44.63
a large piece of sheet metal
00:41:44.73\00:41:46.57
and ripping it in two.
00:41:46.67\00:41:49.74
And we both looked up
00:41:49.84\00:41:51.14
at the same time,
00:41:51.24\00:41:52.67
and the roof was gone.
00:41:52.77\00:41:56.14
It was a giant ripping a large
00:41:56.24\00:41:58.21
piece of metal in two, right
00:41:58.31\00:42:00.45
And immediately, there was water
00:42:00.55\00:42:02.45
coming in the top there,
00:42:02.55\00:42:03.75
and I looked at my roommate
00:42:03.85\00:42:04.32
and I said,
00:42:04.42\00:42:05.55
"I think we should leave now."
00:42:05.65\00:42:08.16
He said, "I think we should
00:42:08.26\00:42:08.69
too."
00:42:08.79\00:42:09.72
And we went down and across
00:42:09.82\00:42:10.59
to find a place,
00:42:10.69\00:42:11.76
at least someplace down low
00:42:11.86\00:42:13.43
that was covered with concrete
00:42:13.53\00:42:14.50
on all sides there.
00:42:14.60\00:42:16.93
It took off most of that part
00:42:17.03\00:42:18.57
of the building.
00:42:18.67\00:42:21.00
It took off most of the roofs
00:42:21.10\00:42:22.60
of many of the other
00:42:22.70\00:42:23.57
structures nearby.
00:42:23.67\00:42:26.34
But on a place called Sokehs,
00:42:26.44\00:42:28.18
it decimated it,
00:42:28.28\00:42:30.68
because on Sokehs,
00:42:30.78\00:42:32.61
all they had were shanties,
00:42:32.71\00:42:33.85
especially.
00:42:33.95\00:42:34.55
They were made of,
00:42:34.65\00:42:35.62
you know, maybe some bamboo,
00:42:35.72\00:42:36.72
you know, rigging,
00:42:36.82\00:42:37.55
and then sheet metal.
00:42:37.65\00:42:40.42
That's all they had.
00:42:40.52\00:42:42.69
And when the wind
00:42:42.79\00:42:43.29
power was off on the island,
00:42:44.56\00:42:46.23
water was hard to come by.
00:42:46.33\00:42:47.13
It was a mess.
00:42:47.23\00:42:49.13
When we went out there
00:42:49.23\00:42:50.47
on our way,
00:42:50.57\00:42:52.87
it looked just, I mean,
00:42:52.97\00:42:56.17
decimated.
00:42:56.27\00:42:57.61
Completely destroyed.
00:42:57.71\00:42:59.87
Some places were just bare.
00:43:00.04\00:43:04.15
No wreckage left.
00:43:04.25\00:43:08.55
That's what a hurricane can do.
00:43:08.65\00:43:13.86
And some of you might
00:43:18.59\00:43:19.16
be thinking,
00:43:19.26\00:43:19.96
"Well, why, Pastor Shane,
00:43:20.06\00:43:22.76
would you compare the work
00:43:22.86\00:43:25.30
of the Holy Spirit
00:43:25.40\00:43:27.84
to a hurricane?"
00:43:27.94\00:43:29.10
I compare the work of the
00:43:34.91\00:43:36.14
Holy Spirit to a hurricane
00:43:36.24\00:43:40.25
precisely because of its
00:43:40.35\00:43:43.05
destructive power.
00:43:43.15\00:43:46.45
Not destroying
00:43:46.55\00:43:47.96
that which is good,
00:43:48.06\00:43:51.09
but its power to destroy that
00:43:51.19\00:43:53.23
which is bad.
00:43:53.33\00:43:57.23
You see, in my heart,
00:43:57.33\00:43:58.90
in your heart can be
00:43:59.00\00:44:00.84
strongholds of Satan,
00:44:00.94\00:44:04.11
shantytowns built up over years.
00:44:04.21\00:44:07.78
They may not seem to have much
00:44:07.88\00:44:08.98
substance to them, but boy,
00:44:09.08\00:44:10.31
they sure can last, can't they?
00:44:10.41\00:44:12.88
Until finally, we get
00:44:12.98\00:44:14.22
to the place where we say,
00:44:14.32\00:44:15.35
"I need something better.
00:44:15.45\00:44:16.48
There has to be freedom.
00:44:16.58\00:44:17.62
God, set me free.
00:44:17.72\00:44:19.15
Send your Holy Spirit
00:44:19.25\00:44:20.52
to set me free."
00:44:20.62\00:44:21.66
And then the holy hurricane
00:44:21.76\00:44:23.83
comes blowing into your life.
00:44:23.93\00:44:26.36
And when the Holy Spirit
00:44:26.46\00:44:27.23
gets a hold of those
00:44:27.30\00:44:28.46
bastions of Satan,
00:44:28.56\00:44:30.07
he begins to rip the roof
00:44:30.17\00:44:31.53
right off the top.
00:44:31.63\00:44:32.97
He takes the doors out
00:44:33.07\00:44:34.07
and chucks them away.
00:44:34.17\00:44:35.04
He crashes through the windows
00:44:35.14\00:44:36.10
with his fist.
00:44:36.20\00:44:37.01
He breaks those walls down until
00:44:37.11\00:44:38.91
many times, if we are willing,
00:44:39.01\00:44:40.74
he will scrape that rock clean,
00:44:40.84\00:44:43.75
that there be nothing left
00:44:43.85\00:44:45.18
behind to tempt us.
00:44:45.28\00:44:48.12
Holy Hurricane.
00:44:48.22\00:44:50.12
Praise the Lord.
00:44:50.22\00:44:52.39
If you're listening to me
00:44:52.49\00:44:53.09
right now
00:44:53.19\00:44:54.92
and you know
00:44:55.02\00:44:55.52
that you are caught,
00:44:55.62\00:44:58.49
that there are chains on you
00:44:58.59\00:45:00.13
that Satan has you wrapped in,
00:45:00.23\00:45:02.60
that there are strongholds
00:45:02.70\00:45:03.43
of Satan in your life,
00:45:03.53\00:45:04.53
shantytowns, but boy,
00:45:04.63\00:45:05.80
they sure have been staying,
00:45:05.90\00:45:07.97
you need the holy hurricane.
00:45:08.07\00:45:12.67
Ask him to come in.
00:45:12.77\00:45:14.68
He longs to set you free.
00:45:14.78\00:45:16.28
We're going to talk more
00:45:16.38\00:45:18.11
about this later on,
00:45:18.21\00:45:19.78
but suffice it to say,
00:45:19.88\00:45:21.22
the Holy Spirit is
00:45:21.32\00:45:22.18
in the business not merely of
00:45:22.28\00:45:23.45
pointing out where our sin is,
00:45:23.55\00:45:24.95
but of taking Christ's death
00:45:25.05\00:45:26.79
and resurrection power
00:45:26.89\00:45:28.36
and applying it to our lives
00:45:28.46\00:45:31.33
and decimating the strongholds
00:45:31.43\00:45:32.59
the devil has.
00:45:32.69\00:45:35.43
Even with all this,
00:45:35.53\00:45:37.60
the Holy Spirit is not finished.
00:45:37.70\00:45:38.67
There is more.
00:45:38.77\00:45:39.43
Very quickly here.
00:45:39.53\00:45:40.30
John 14, verses 25
00:45:40.40\00:45:41.47
and 26.
00:45:41.57\00:45:42.24
Jesus says this.
00:45:42.34\00:45:43.44
"All this I have spoken
00:45:43.54\00:45:44.41
while still with you.
00:45:44.51\00:45:45.47
But the Counselor,
00:45:45.57\00:45:46.31
the Holy Spirit, whom the Father
00:45:46.41\00:45:47.44
will send in my name,
00:45:47.54\00:45:48.98
he will teach you all things,
00:45:49.08\00:45:50.48
and will remind you of
00:45:50.58\00:45:51.85
everything I have said to you."
00:45:51.95\00:45:53.25
Hmm.
00:45:53.35\00:45:53.82
Two more things the Holy
00:45:53.92\00:45:54.58
Spirit does.
00:45:54.68\00:45:55.28
Teaches us all things.
00:45:55.38\00:45:56.79
Reminds us of Christ's words.
00:45:56.89\00:45:59.39
You know, if a student is taking
00:45:59.49\00:46:00.72
an exam that they did
00:46:00.82\00:46:02.09
not study for,
00:46:02.19\00:46:03.49
they would love at that moment
00:46:03.59\00:46:04.63
to have somebody teach them
00:46:04.73\00:46:05.53
all things, okay?
00:46:05.63\00:46:07.66
They crave this knowledge.
00:46:07.76\00:46:08.90
You know, "Help me to
00:46:09.00\00:46:09.66
understand."
00:46:09.76\00:46:10.33
If we do that
00:46:10.43\00:46:11.33
for academic things,
00:46:11.43\00:46:12.47
how much more do we crave it --
00:46:12.57\00:46:13.74
should we crave it
00:46:13.84\00:46:14.57
for spiritual things?
00:46:14.67\00:46:16.17
No spiritual lesson is to be
00:46:16.27\00:46:18.04
lost in the kingdom of God
00:46:18.14\00:46:19.74
if we are filled with
00:46:19.84\00:46:20.34
the Holy Spirit.
00:46:20.44\00:46:21.11
And reminding
00:46:21.21\00:46:21.98
us of Christ's words --
00:46:22.08\00:46:23.11
Now notice it says, "Reminds
00:46:23.21\00:46:24.45
us."
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You have to put the Word of God
00:46:25.48\00:46:26.35
into your mind first,
00:46:26.45\00:46:28.22
and then the Holy Spirit
00:46:28.32\00:46:29.18
can remind you
00:46:29.28\00:46:30.15
when it is most needed.
00:46:30.25\00:46:31.15
Many of you have
00:46:31.25\00:46:31.69
at just the right time
00:46:32.69\00:46:33.62
and just the right place.
00:46:33.72\00:46:34.62
When you needed it most,
00:46:34.72\00:46:35.69
there came to your mind a text
00:46:35.79\00:46:37.19
from scripture that exactly
00:46:37.29\00:46:38.79
fit your circumstances.
00:46:38.89\00:46:40.80
That's the Holy Spirit.
00:46:40.90\00:46:42.40
Even with this,
00:46:42.50\00:46:43.16
the Holy Spirit is not done.
00:46:43.26\00:46:44.83
Jesus continued -- John 16,
00:46:44.93\00:46:46.10
verses 12 and 13.
00:46:46.20\00:46:47.20
He says,
00:46:47.30\00:46:47.94
more than you can now bear.
00:46:49.10\00:46:49.97
But when he,
00:46:50.07\00:46:50.74
the Spirit of truth, comes,
00:46:50.84\00:46:51.91
he will guide you
00:46:52.01\00:46:52.87
into all truth.
00:46:52.97\00:46:54.88
He will not speak on his own;
00:46:54.98\00:46:55.81
he will speak
00:46:55.91\00:46:56.51
only what he hears,
00:46:56.61\00:46:57.58
and he will tell you
00:46:57.68\00:46:58.68
what is to come."
00:46:58.78\00:47:00.98
Two more things here,
00:47:01.08\00:47:01.82
a fifth and a sixth
00:47:01.92\00:47:02.85
that the Holy Spirit does.
00:47:02.95\00:47:04.09
The Holy Spirit guides us
00:47:04.19\00:47:05.45
into all truth, and he tells us
00:47:05.55\00:47:07.19
what is to come in the future.
00:47:07.29\00:47:08.92
Now Jesus said,
00:47:09.02\00:47:09.89
"You shall know the truth,
00:47:09.99\00:47:10.83
and the truth shall...
00:47:10.93\00:47:12.29
set you free."
00:47:12.39\00:47:13.56
He is speaking here
00:47:13.66\00:47:14.93
of the power of the Holy Spirit,
00:47:15.00\00:47:16.30
the work of the Holy Spirit,
00:47:16.40\00:47:17.83
taking God's truth in His Word
00:47:17.93\00:47:19.43
and applying it to our lives,
00:47:19.53\00:47:21.57
and the Holy Spirit also tells
00:47:21.67\00:47:22.87
us what's coming in the future.
00:47:22.97\00:47:24.64
I can hardly sometimes
00:47:24.74\00:47:25.71
tell what's going to happen
00:47:25.81\00:47:26.54
in the next five minutes.
00:47:26.64\00:47:27.44
Praise the Lord that we have
00:47:27.54\00:47:28.94
the gift of prophecy.
00:47:29.04\00:47:30.95
By the power of the Holy Spirit,
00:47:31.05\00:47:32.05
we can properly understand it.
00:47:32.15\00:47:33.65
But even with all of this,
00:47:33.75\00:47:35.92
the Holy Spirit is not done.
00:47:36.02\00:47:38.22
There is a seventh thing that
00:47:38.32\00:47:39.25
the Holy Spirit wishes to do,
00:47:39.35\00:47:41.36
and if we give him enough time,
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he will do so.
00:47:42.22\00:47:43.83
I want to show you a text here.
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This is in the book of Acts.
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The scene is this.
00:47:46.56\00:47:47.96
The disciples, Peter and John,
00:47:48.03\00:47:49.43
have gone to the temple to pray.
00:47:49.53\00:47:51.40
They met a lame man on the way.
00:47:51.50\00:47:53.20
Perhaps you've heard
00:47:53.30\00:47:53.74
the song.
00:47:53.84\00:47:54.64
They heal this man, who has been
00:47:54.74\00:47:55.77
lame, and lame
00:47:55.87\00:47:56.60
for quite some time.
00:47:56.71\00:47:57.47
The Sanhedrin, the rulers
00:47:57.57\00:47:58.61
get wind of this.
00:47:58.71\00:47:59.64
They're not happy.
00:47:59.74\00:48:00.54
They don't like it at all.
00:48:00.64\00:48:01.51
Jesus seems to be coming back
00:48:01.61\00:48:02.64
from the grave in their minds.
00:48:02.74\00:48:03.95
They call Peter and John
00:48:04.05\00:48:05.08
to stand before them,
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and this is what happens.
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Acts chapter 4, verse 8.
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"Then Peter,
00:48:09.58\00:48:10.29
filled with the Holy Spirit,
00:48:10.39\00:48:11.39
said to them --
00:48:11.49\00:48:12.79
"Rulers and elders of the
00:48:12.89\00:48:13.99
people!
00:48:14.09\00:48:14.82
If we are being called
00:48:14.92\00:48:15.79
to account today for an act
00:48:15.89\00:48:16.99
of kindness shown to a cripple,
00:48:17.09\00:48:18.63
and are asked how he was healed,
00:48:18.73\00:48:19.86
then know this, you
00:48:19.96\00:48:21.13
and all the people of Israel --
00:48:21.23\00:48:22.46
It is by the name
00:48:22.56\00:48:23.73
of Jesus of Nazareth,
00:48:23.83\00:48:25.37
whom you have crucified
00:48:25.47\00:48:26.63
but whom God raised
00:48:26.74\00:48:27.90
from the dead, that this man
00:48:28.00\00:48:29.44
stands before you healed.
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He is --" Jesus is -- "the stone
00:48:31.21\00:48:32.57
the builders rejected,
00:48:32.67\00:48:33.88
which has become the capstone."
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Psalm 118.
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"Salvation
00:48:36.21\00:48:37.51
is found in no one else,
00:48:37.61\00:48:38.71
for there is no other name
00:48:38.81\00:48:40.02
under heaven given to men
00:48:40.12\00:48:41.48
by which they must be saved."
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Now get this.
00:48:43.45\00:48:44.32
"When they saw
00:48:44.42\00:48:45.52
the courage of Peter and
00:48:45.62\00:48:46.42
John --"
00:48:46.52\00:48:47.19
this is the Sanhedrin --
00:48:47.29\00:48:48.32
"and realized that they were
00:48:48.42\00:48:49.49
unschooled, ordinary men,
00:48:49.59\00:48:51.06
they were astonished,
00:48:51.16\00:48:53.43
and they took note that
00:48:53.53\00:48:54.76
these men had been with Jesus."
00:48:54.86\00:48:58.70
A seventh thing that
00:48:58.80\00:49:01.20
the Holy Spirit will do for us,
00:49:01.30\00:49:02.40
if we are willing,
00:49:02.50\00:49:03.77
is that he will utterly
00:49:03.87\00:49:05.07
transform us into courageous,
00:49:05.17\00:49:07.14
faithful, powerful, and, yes,
00:49:07.24\00:49:08.38
passionate followers
00:49:08.48\00:49:09.64
of Jesus Christ.
00:49:09.74\00:49:11.98
This is his goal.
00:49:12.08\00:49:13.11
He is not
00:49:13.21\00:49:14.32
content to leave you half baked.
00:49:14.42\00:49:15.72
He wants to bring you
00:49:15.82\00:49:16.65
to maturity in Christ.
00:49:16.75\00:49:20.19
And I hope by now, the question
00:49:20.29\00:49:21.29
is practically burning
00:49:21.39\00:49:22.56
its way through your skull.
00:49:22.66\00:49:23.83
If this is what Jesus can do
00:49:23.93\00:49:25.73
for us through the ministry
00:49:25.83\00:49:26.83
of His Holy Spirit,
00:49:26.93\00:49:28.06
how are we to be filled?
00:49:28.16\00:49:33.27
Luke chapter 11, please.
00:49:33.37\00:49:34.97
Verse 11.
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Final text for you this morning,
00:49:37.74\00:49:38.74
Luke chapter 11, verse 11.
00:49:38.84\00:49:40.58
Page 845 in your pew Bible.
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845.
00:49:43.11\00:49:43.91
Luke chapter 11, verse 11.
00:49:44.01\00:49:45.75
Jesus here is speaking with
00:49:45.85\00:49:46.75
his disciples.
00:49:46.85\00:49:47.25
There's also
00:49:47.35\00:49:47.95
a large crowd around him,
00:49:48.05\00:49:49.22
some of them friendly,
00:49:49.32\00:49:50.02
some of them not,
00:49:50.12\00:49:52.09
and Jesus has this to say.
00:49:52.19\00:49:53.62
Chapter 11 of Luke, verse 11.
00:49:53.72\00:49:54.92
"Which of you fathers,
00:49:55.02\00:49:57.46
if your son asks for a fish,
00:49:57.56\00:49:59.93
will give him a snake instead,
00:50:00.03\00:50:02.13
or if he asks for an egg,
00:50:02.23\00:50:03.26
will give him a scorpion?
00:50:03.37\00:50:04.17
If you then,
00:50:04.27\00:50:04.87
though you are evil,
00:50:04.97\00:50:05.90
know how to give good gifts
00:50:06.00\00:50:06.87
to your children,
00:50:06.97\00:50:08.20
how much more will your father
00:50:08.30\00:50:09.77
in heaven give the Holy Spirit
00:50:09.87\00:50:11.44
to those who --"
00:50:11.54\00:50:12.74
What's that word?
00:50:12.84\00:50:14.04
"...who ask him?"
00:50:14.14\00:50:16.28
If you want to receive
00:50:16.38\00:50:17.71
the filling of the Holy Spirit,
00:50:17.81\00:50:19.01
we must ask for it.
00:50:19.11\00:50:22.58
And here, in my experience,
00:50:22.68\00:50:23.95
is where so many Christians
00:50:24.05\00:50:25.42
make a fatal mistake.
00:50:25.52\00:50:26.65
I know I have made it
00:50:26.76\00:50:27.69
in my spiritual life before.
00:50:27.79\00:50:28.72
Maybe you have too.
00:50:28.82\00:50:29.56
The mistake is this.
00:50:29.66\00:50:31.53
We figure
00:50:31.63\00:50:33.03
that because the first part
00:50:33.13\00:50:34.56
of the Holy Spirit's work
00:50:34.63\00:50:36.26
was automatic, which it was --
00:50:36.36\00:50:38.83
Do you understand what I mean
00:50:38.93\00:50:39.47
by that?
00:50:39.57\00:50:40.17
The first part of the Holy
00:50:40.27\00:50:40.90
Spirit's work?
00:50:41.00\00:50:42.14
Some of you may recall the time
00:50:42.24\00:50:43.51
when you were far from God,
00:50:43.61\00:50:46.17
but there was a sense in you
00:50:46.27\00:50:47.41
that you wanted
00:50:47.51\00:50:48.04
something better.
00:50:48.14\00:50:49.68
You didn't know what it was.
00:50:49.78\00:50:50.58
You couldn't really put a name
00:50:50.68\00:50:51.05
on it.
00:50:51.15\00:50:51.68
"Ah, you know,
00:50:51.78\00:50:52.41
this doesn't feel right."
00:50:52.51\00:50:53.11
Maybe you were not as far away
00:50:53.21\00:50:54.12
from God,
00:50:54.22\00:50:54.98
but you were doing something
00:50:55.08\00:50:55.62
that you knew was not right
00:50:55.72\00:50:56.85
and you felt this convicting --
00:50:56.95\00:50:58.52
"Ah, you know, there's got to
00:50:58.62\00:50:58.89
be --
00:50:58.99\00:50:59.89
There's got to be a better way
00:51:00.06\00:51:00.52
to live life than this."
00:51:00.62\00:51:02.02
That's the Holy Spirit,
00:51:02.12\00:51:03.19
and you didn't ask for it.
00:51:03.29\00:51:05.69
The Holy Spirit, in some
00:51:05.79\00:51:07.20
fashion,
00:51:07.30\00:51:08.26
strives with every person
00:51:08.36\00:51:09.26
on the planet.
00:51:09.36\00:51:10.03
No one asked for that.
00:51:10.13\00:51:11.23
That's just the way God has
00:51:11.33\00:51:11.87
arranged things.
00:51:11.97\00:51:12.37
At this time,
00:51:12.47\00:51:12.97
and we sometimes figure that
00:51:14.37\00:51:15.64
because the first part
00:51:15.74\00:51:16.94
of the Holy Spirit's work
00:51:17.04\00:51:17.74
was automatic,
00:51:17.84\00:51:18.81
that therefore all of the Holy
00:51:18.91\00:51:20.58
Spirit's work is automatic,
00:51:20.68\00:51:22.11
including being filled,
00:51:22.21\00:51:23.35
but this is not so.
00:51:23.45\00:51:27.05
Because you see,
00:51:27.15\00:51:30.39
God is a gentleman.
00:51:30.49\00:51:33.46
He will not come in
00:51:33.56\00:51:35.92
where He is not wanted.
00:51:36.02\00:51:39.49
And our asking for Him to come
00:51:39.59\00:51:42.43
in gives Him permission
00:51:42.53\00:51:44.53
to do so.
00:51:44.63\00:51:47.10
And furthermore --
00:51:47.20\00:51:48.34
notice this carefully -- we ask
00:51:48.44\00:51:50.27
for that which we think we need.
00:51:50.37\00:51:52.61
We do not ask for that
00:51:52.71\00:51:54.14
which we think we do not need.
00:51:54.24\00:51:57.88
And if we ask for this blessing,
00:51:57.98\00:52:00.75
it gives God permission to do
00:52:00.85\00:52:02.32
in us what he wishes to do.
00:52:02.42\00:52:04.02
So we must ask for this feeling,
00:52:04.12\00:52:05.72
and notice again carefully,
00:52:05.82\00:52:06.82
we must keep asking for it
00:52:06.92\00:52:09.06
regularly,
00:52:09.16\00:52:10.56
because when it comes to
00:52:10.66\00:52:11.76
the filling of the Holy Spirit,
00:52:11.86\00:52:13.33
we leak.
00:52:13.43\00:52:16.83
We are leaky vessels.
00:52:16.93\00:52:19.87
Whether it's because
00:52:19.97\00:52:20.57
there's, you know,
00:52:20.67\00:52:21.40
a new round of spiritual growth
00:52:21.50\00:52:22.97
or of overcoming sin,
00:52:23.07\00:52:23.94
et cetera, et cetera,
00:52:24.04\00:52:24.94
we do not automatically
00:52:25.04\00:52:26.07
retain the filling
00:52:26.17\00:52:27.01
of the Spirit of God.
00:52:27.11\00:52:28.01
So we need to ask regularly
00:52:28.11\00:52:29.34
for a top up.
00:52:29.44\00:52:30.55
We regularly need to ask for
00:52:30.65\00:52:31.85
that filling on a daily basis.
00:52:31.95\00:52:33.62
And some of
00:52:33.72\00:52:34.18
Why couldn't it just be
00:52:35.98\00:52:36.72
fill it and forget it?
00:52:36.82\00:52:39.75
I mean, why not just, you know,
00:52:39.85\00:52:40.96
flip a switch and boom,
00:52:41.06\00:52:41.86
I'm done.
00:52:41.96\00:52:42.59
I'm filled with the spirit.
00:52:42.69\00:52:43.32
All this stuff is finished.
00:52:43.43\00:52:44.19
We march into the kingdom,
00:52:44.29\00:52:45.26
que sera, sera.
00:52:45.36\00:52:46.09
I mean, why not?"
00:52:46.19\00:52:47.73
As it turns out,
00:52:52.67\00:52:55.54
the fact that we need
00:52:55.64\00:52:56.74
to regularly ask for the filling
00:52:56.84\00:52:58.87
of the Holy Spirit is actually
00:52:58.97\00:53:01.44
a great compliment to us
00:53:01.54\00:53:05.25
paid to us by God Himself,
00:53:05.35\00:53:07.88
because the daily
00:53:07.98\00:53:09.12
need for a daily
00:53:09.22\00:53:10.79
filling of the Spirit of God,
00:53:10.89\00:53:12.49
the need to ask for us,
00:53:12.59\00:53:14.09
tells us clearly that God
00:53:14.19\00:53:15.86
is not looking for robots.
00:53:15.96\00:53:20.66
Your God is powerful enough.
00:53:20.76\00:53:21.80
If he wanted to, he could force
00:53:21.90\00:53:23.20
every person to be filled
00:53:23.30\00:53:24.20
with the Holy Spirit of God.
00:53:24.30\00:53:25.00
He could do that.
00:53:25.10\00:53:26.50
But He respects us
00:53:26.60\00:53:27.40
too much to do that.
00:53:27.50\00:53:28.87
God is not looking for robots.
00:53:28.97\00:53:30.74
He's looking for friends.
00:53:30.84\00:53:33.01
He is looking for partners.
00:53:33.11\00:53:34.01
He is looking for willing,
00:53:34.11\00:53:34.91
intelligent coworkers
00:53:35.01\00:53:35.94
for His kingdom,
00:53:36.04\00:53:36.78
coworkers who freely choose
00:53:36.88\00:53:38.18
each day to grow in Him,
00:53:38.28\00:53:40.52
and when we give Him permission,
00:53:40.62\00:53:42.12
oh, He longs to be there.
00:53:42.22\00:53:44.55
And by asking regularly for
00:53:44.65\00:53:46.12
the filling of His Holy Spirit,
00:53:46.22\00:53:48.72
there is a meeting of the minds,
00:53:48.82\00:53:50.96
our feeble mind with His
00:53:51.06\00:53:53.09
almighty and perfect mind,
00:53:53.19\00:53:55.40
and this meeting shows us,
00:53:55.50\00:53:56.80
shows Him, that He
00:53:56.90\00:53:57.63
has full permission to work
00:53:57.73\00:53:58.83
inside of us and through us,
00:53:58.93\00:54:00.37
and when that happens, great,
00:54:00.47\00:54:01.87
great things can come to pass in
00:54:01.97\00:54:03.64
and through our lives.
00:54:03.74\00:54:05.97
Now, ladies and gentlemen, how
00:54:06.07\00:54:08.14
many of us are seeking to coast
00:54:08.24\00:54:10.28
on a blessing we receive from
00:54:10.38\00:54:11.71
the Holy Spirit ten years ago?
00:54:11.81\00:54:15.02
We leak.
00:54:15.12\00:54:17.39
There may be nothing left from
00:54:17.49\00:54:19.19
that blessing of the Holy Spirit
00:54:19.29\00:54:20.96
that you received in the past.
00:54:21.06\00:54:23.06
We need a fresh filling.
00:54:23.16\00:54:25.96
There is no salvation
00:54:26.06\00:54:27.10
without the Holy Spirit,
00:54:27.20\00:54:28.80
but with the Holy Spirit,
00:54:28.90\00:54:29.86
anyone can be saved.
00:54:29.96\00:54:31.67
Without the Spirit,
00:54:31.77\00:54:32.63
life can seem impossible,
00:54:32.73\00:54:34.04
but with the Spirit, all things
00:54:34.14\00:54:35.27
are possible.
00:54:35.37\00:54:36.30
In the Spirit,
00:54:36.40\00:54:37.47
that's where the joy
00:54:37.57\00:54:38.27
of Christianity is.
00:54:38.37\00:54:39.51
That's where victory over sins
00:54:39.61\00:54:40.71
that have so long held us back
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is, the triumph
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over Satan's attacks that
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we've longed for for so long.
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The Spirit is the secret
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to the powerful,
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passionate Christian life,
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and being filled with
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the Holy Spirit is fellowship
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with Jesus Christ every day.
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And listen closely here.
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Consequently, it is
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the only possible preparations
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for one of the greatest events
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the world will ever see
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this side of the Second
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Coming of Christ.
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For you see, there is still
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something more that the Spirit
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wants to do.
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The Spirit is not content
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merely to do the seven things
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that we talked about,
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to bring victory over sin,
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or teach us all things,
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or remind us of Christ's words,
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et cetera, et cetera.
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No, there is still something
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more that the Spirit longs to do
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in and through each one of us,
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and here it is.
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What the Holy Spirit longs
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to do in
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and with and through each of
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us...
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...is what I'm going to tell you
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about in part two next week.
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So, you need to be here.
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I can guarantee, for almost all
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of you you, will not regret it.
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But until then,
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please remember this.
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Information about Christ,
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studying the Bible,
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learning its words
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is all indispensable.
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We must learn about it
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and share them, et cetera,
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but without the Spirit of God
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filling us,
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it'll just be words on a page.
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It's high time that we be filled
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with the wind that works,
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the Holy Spirit of Jesus Christ,
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and if we are willing
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to let that holy hurricane
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come in on a daily,
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regular basis, to ask for that
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filling each day, that holy
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hurricane of the Holy Spirit
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will build up in us a life
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so strong that no matter
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what comes our way today
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and in the very end of time,
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we will stand loving, powerful,
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passionate witnesses
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for Jesus Christ.
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May each one of us be filled
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with the Holy Spirit of God.
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Hi, I'm Shane Anderson,
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lead pastor at Pioneer
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Memorial Church.
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It's no newsflash to say
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that social media
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has become an integral part
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of our daily lives,
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and here at Pioneer,
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we want to use it
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to enrich our lives.
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I invite you to connect with us
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online by visiting the links
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that are shown on the screen.
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We are constantly sharing
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inspiring content
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that we believe can make a real
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and positive difference
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in your life.
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So, if you haven't already,
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I encourage you to follow
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and subscribe
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to our social media platforms.
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Not only will you stay up
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to date
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but you will also be able to
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engage with an online community
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that shares a common belief,
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experience and care
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for your well-being,
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and by sharing our content,
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you can help us reach even more
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people with our message of hope
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and love in Jesus.
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Join us by creating a positive
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impact online and making
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a difference in the world.
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Thank you, and we look forward
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to connecting with you online.
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､
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､
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､
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