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>>WELCOME TO
SABBATH SCHOOL STUDY HOUR.
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WE'RE SO GLAD THAT YOU ARE
TUNING IN, WHETHER THIS IS YOUR
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FIRST TIME, IT IS NOT A MISTAKE,
OR YOU ARE A REGULAR THAT JOINS
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US EVERY WEEK FROM ACROSS THE
COUNTRY AND AROUND THE WORLD.
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I HOPE THAT YOU HAVE HAD A
WONDERFUL WEEK AND YOU'VE BEEN
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STUDYING AND YOU'RE READY TO
JOIN US TODAY FOR OUR LESSON ON
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THE HOLY SPIRIT, AS WE
CONTINUE WITH OUR STUDY ON THAT.
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AND, AS WE DO EVERY WEEK
BEFORE WE START, WE ALWAYS SING.
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AND I KNOW THAT YOU HAVE
MANY FAVORITES AROUND THE WORLD
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BECAUSE WE HEAR FROM YOU AND
WE LOVE TO SING WITH YOU AND WE
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KNOW THAT YOU LOVE TO
SING YOUR FAVORITE HYMNS.
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SO, LIKE EVERY WEEK, THAT'S WHAT
WE'RE GOING TO DO RIGHT NOW.
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WE'RE GOING TO START WITH #212.
PULL OUT YOUR HYMNALS IF YOU
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HAVE THOSE AT HOME AND JOIN WITH
US - 'TIS ALMOST TIME FOR THE
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LORD TO COME - #212 - FIRST,
THIRD, AND FOURTH STANZAS.
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>>IT IS ALMOST TIME
FOR THE LORD TO COME.
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CAN YOU SAY
'AMEN' TO THAT? >>AMEN.
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>>YOU KNOW, EVERY WEEK WE HAVE A
SPECIAL OFFER AND TODAY IT'S AN
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EXCELLENT ONE. I
ENCOURAGE YOU TO CALL IN OR GO
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TO OUR WEBSITE AMAZINGFACTS.ORG
AND REQUEST THIS.
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IT IS CALLED THE POINT OF
NO RETURN - IT'S WRITTEN BY JOE
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CREWS WHO WAS THE
FOUNDER OF AMAZING FACTS.
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IT IS OFFER #177 AND YOU
HAVE AN EASY NUMBER TO REMEMBER:
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866-STUDY-MORE - 866-788-3966.
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OUR LESSON STUDY IS GOING TO
BE BROUGHT TO US BY PASTOR DON
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MACKINTOSH, WHO IS THE PASTOR OF
THE WEIMAR INSTITUTE CHURCH JUST
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UP THE ROAD FROM US, NOT THAT
FAR, AND HE IS BRINGING US OUR
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LESSON STUDY TODAY.
WELCOME, PASTOR DON.
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>>WELL, GOOD MORNING,
EVERYBODY. >>GOOD MORNING.
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>>HOW MANY OF YOU
ARE BLESSED TODAY?
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LOOK AT THAT PERSON NEXT TO
YOU AND SAY, 'YOU LOOK GREAT!'
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TELL THE TRUTH. GOOD.
WELL, THIS MORNING WE HAVE A
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RATHER SOMBER LESSON STUDY.
HOPEFULLY THERE'S GOING TO
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BE SOME HOPE IN IT AS WELL.
GRIEVING AND RESISTING THE HOLY
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SPIRIT - GRIEVING AND
RESISTING THE HOLY SPIRIT.
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NOW, YOU KNOW, I DON'T KNOW -
I'M THINKING RIGHT NOW ABOUT MY
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TWO DOGS AS I READ THAT
TITLE, BECAUSE I HAVE TWO DOGS.
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I HAVE TWO AUSTRALIAN SHEPHERDS.
HOW MANY OF YOU KNOW WHAT
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AUSTRALIAN SHEPHERDS ARE?
AND THEY'RE - THEY'RE VERY
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INTELLIGENT AND WHEN WE GOT THE
DOGS, WE WERE COMING HOME AND I
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ASKED THE KIDS, YOU KNOW,
WHAT SHOULD WE NAME THE DOGS?
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MAYBE WE SHOULD NAME THEM 'MACK'
AND 'TOSH' - KIND OF USING OUR
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LAST NAME - MACKINTOSH - AND
I WAS JUST KIND OF, YOU KNOW,
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JOKING, AND THEY SAID,
'NO, THAT'S A GREAT NAME!
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MACK AND TOSH!' SO,
AT LEAST WHEN I SAY MY
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LAST NAME ONE OF THEM
LISTENS. (LAUGHTER) AND THE
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OTHER ONE DOES NOT.
WHICH DO YOU THINK IT IS - THE
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ONE THAT LISTENS - IS
IT MACK OR IS IT TOSH?
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I HEAR CONFUSIONIN THE
MULTITUDE. IT'S ACTUALLY MACK
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WHO LISTENS AND TOSH -
HE LISTENS BUT HE DISOBEYS.
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HE LOOKS RIGHT AT ME
AND THEN HE WILL RUN AWAY.
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WE HAVE TRIED ALL
MANNER OF THINGS WITH TOSH.
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IN FACT, MY ONE SON, JAMES -
JAMES MADISON SABBATISMOS, WHO I
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ACTUALLY NAMED ONE TIME ON THE
SABBATH SCHOOL HOUR A NUMBER OF
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YEARS AGO - ABOUT SEVEN YEARS
AGO - HE - HE TRIED - I CAME OUT
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ONE DAY AND, YOU SEE, WE HAVE
A CRATE FOR THE DOGS - WE HAVE
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CRATES. IT'S LIKE A
DEN. THEY LIKE THEM.
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IT'S NOT LIKE IMPRISONMENT.
THEY LIKE THE SAFETY.
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AND HE WANTED TO SEE - HE WANTED
TO GET CLOSER TO THE DOGS -
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HE WANTED TO SEE HOW THEY FELT.
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AND I WENT OUT AND HE WAS
IN THE CRATE WITH THE DOGS.
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AND I SAID, 'WHAT ARE
YOU DOING IN THE CRATE?'
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HE SAID, 'I JUST WANT TO - I
WANT TO SEE WHAT THEY FEEL LIKE.
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I WANT TO COME CLOSE TO THEM.' I
THOUGHT, 'MAN, THAT'S THE GOSPEL
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RIGHT THERE.' AND YOU WOULD
THINK THEY WOULD LISTEN TO JAMES
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- BOTH OF THEM -
BUT ONLY MACK DOES.
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SO TOSH HAS SOME PROBLEMS, SEE?
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AND I DON'T KNOW THAT DOGS CAN
SENSE THE SPIRIT, ALTHOUGH THEY
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MAY BE ABLE TO BECAUSE,
YOU KNOW, THERE ARE DIFFERENT
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ANIMALS IN THE BIBLE
THAT WERE USED, RIGHT?
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DONKEYS, ROOSTERS - BUT, IF
ANYONE NEEDS THE HOLY SPIRIT IN
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THE DOG FAMILY AT
OUR PLACE, IT IS TOSH.
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HE NEEDS SOME REAL HELP.
AND OUR LESSON STUDY TODAY IS
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TALKING NOT JUST ABOUT
ANIMALS, BUT ABOUT PEOPLE.
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HOW MANY OF YOU HAVE HEARD
ABOUT PEOPLE THAT ARE KIND OF
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STUBBORN, LIKE A MULE? RIGHT?
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NOBODY HERE?
THIS IS A GOOD GROUP.
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SO THEY NEED TO
HAVE THIS CONVICTION.
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SO LET'S JUST START WITH A TEXT
THIS MORNING TO REMIND OURSELVES
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OF THE WORK OF THE HOLY SPIRIT
BECAUSE I JUST TALKED ABOUT THE
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DOGS TO GET YOUR ATTENTION.
THIS IS A VERY SOBER TOPIC.
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JOHN CHAPTER 16 AND VERSE 8
SUMMARIZES WHAT THE HOLY SPIRIT
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DOES AND YOU MAY REMEMBER THE
TEXT - JOHN CHAPTER 16 AND VERSE
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8, "AND WHEN HE HAS COME,
HE WILL CONVICT THE WORLD OF" -
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WHAT? >>OF SIN.
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>>"OF SIN, AND OF" -
WHAT? >>RIGHTEOUSNESS.
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>>"RIGHTEOUSNESS,
AND" - THEN WHAT?
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>>JUDGMENT. >>"AND
OF JUDGMENT:" - TO COME.
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IN OTHER WORDS, HE TELLS US
WHAT'S WRONG, - THAT'S WHAT THE
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HOLY SPIRIT DOES - HE TELLS
US WHAT'S RIGHT, AND HE TELLS US
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THAT, WHEN WE KNOW WHAT'S WRONG
AND RIGHT, THERE'S A JUDGMENT TO
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COME. THERE'S A
JUDGMENT ALL ALONG, RIGHT?
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YOU UNDERSTAND THAT BECAUSE IF
YOU'RE JUDGING SOMETHING, AS TO
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WHETHER IT'S RIGHT OR
WRONG, ISN'T THAT A JUDGMENT?
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BUT THEN THERE'S
JUDGMENT TO COME.
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SO, THIS WHOLE IDEA OF THE HOLY
SPIRIT IS THAT HE WORKS WITH US
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AS WE'RE LEARNING
AND THEN THERE'S WHAT?
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THERE'S AN
ULTIMATE JUDGMENT TO COME.
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AND SO WE'RE KIND OF IN THIS
PROBATIONARY PERIOD WHERE WE'RE
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LEARNING WHAT'S RIGHT AND
WRONG AND WE ARE RESPONDING AS A
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RESULT OF LEARNING
WHAT'S RIGHT AND WRONG.
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NOW, THIS WEEK'S LESSON SPEAKS
OF - OF BASICALLY FOUR THINGS
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THAT WE CAN DO
WITH THE HOLY SPIRIT.
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AND LET'S JUST LOOK AT THEM:
1 THESSALONIANS CHAPTER 5 -
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LET'S LOOK THERE TOGETHER - 1
THESSALONIANS CHAPTER 5 - AND WE
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WILL LOOK - NOW, YOU REMEMBER,
1 THESSALONIANS - EVERY SINGLE
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CHAPTER IN 1
THESSALONIANS ENDS WITH WHAT?
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A PICTURE OF THE SECOND COMING.
JESUS IS COMING AGAIN - CHAPTER
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1, CHAPTER 2, CHAPTER 3, CHAPTER
4, CHAPTER 5 - EVERY SINGLE
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CHAPTER ENDS WITH A
PICTURE OF THE SECOND COMING.
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IT'S KIND OF LIKE OUR SONG
SERVICE THIS MORNING - LIFT UP
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THE TRUMPET AND LOUD LET IT
RING, JESUS IS COMING AGAIN -
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RIGHT? SO EVERY SINGLE CHAPTER.
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AND THE WHOLE BOOK IS TO GET
US READY FOR THAT SECOND COMING
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AND, IN THAT SETTING, LOOK AT
1 THESSALONIANS CHAPTER 5 - YOU
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SHOULD ALL BE THERE - AND, UM,
THE EXHORTATION THAT COMES WITH
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SOME SHORT VERSES, ALL
KIND OF LIKE IN A RIFF.
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"REJOICE ALWAYS," - VERSE
16 - "PRAY WITHOUT CEASING," -
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WE ALREADY STUDIED
THAT IN OUR LESSON, RIGHT?
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PRAYER IN THE HOLY SPIRIT;
REJOICING IN THE HOLY SPIRIT -
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"IN EVERYTHING GIVE THANKS;
FOR THIS IS THE WILL OF GOD
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IN CHRIST JESUS FOR YOU."
THE POWER OF THANKSGIVING - THE
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HOLY SPIRIT CAN COME IN THROUGH
THANKSGIVING AND THEN THIS:
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"DO NOT" - WHAT DOES IT
SAY? - "QUENCH THE SPIRIT.
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DO NOT DESPISE PROPHECIES.
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TEST ALL THINGS. HOLD
FAST TO WHAT IS GOOD."
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SO, ONE THING THAT WE CAN DO
WITH THE SPIRIT IS QUENCH IT.
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WE'LL COME BACK AND
TALK ABOUT THAT IN A MINUTE.
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THEN THERE'S ANOTHER VERSE
THAT WE HAD IN EPHESIANS 4 -
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EPHESIANS CHAPTER 4 - WE'RE JUST
GIVING AN OVERVIEW NOW AND THEN
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WE'LL GO BACK AND THINK ABOUT
THESE - EPHESIANS CHAPTER 4 AND
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VERSE 30 - EPHESIANS CHAPTER 4
AND VERSE 30, "AND DO NOT GRIEVE
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THE HOLY SPIRIT OF GOD, BY WHOM
YOU WERE SEALED FOR THE DAY OF
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REDEMPTION." SO THE FIRST
THING WE COULD DO IS WHAT?
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WE COULD QUENCH THE SPIRIT.
AND HERE, WHAT'S IT SAYING?
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GRIEVING THE SPIRIT. DO
NOT GRIEVE THE HOLY SPIRIT
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OF GOD, IS THE SECOND THING
THAT WE COULD DO WITH THAT.
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AND NOTICE, IT SAYS ALSO, THERE,
NOT TO GET INTO IT TOO MUCH NOW,
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"BY WHOM YOU WERE SEALED."
SO, GRIEVING THE HOLY SPIRIT IN
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ITS SEALING WORK IS REALLY
WHAT IT'S TALKING ABOUT, OKAY?
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AND THEN, FINALLY, MATTHEW
CHAPTER 3 - MATTHEW, MARK, LUKE
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- LET'S LOOK AT IT TOGETHER - OR
LET'S LOOK AT MARK, RATHER, MARK
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3:28 AND 29 - THIRD THING WE CAN
DO WITH THE HOLY SPIRIT - MARK
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CHAPTER 3, VERSE 28, "ASSUREDLY,
I SAY TO YOU, ALL SINS WILL BE
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FORGIVEN THE SONS OF MEN, AND
WHATEVER BLASPHEMIES THEY MAY
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UTTER; BUT HE WHO BLASPHEMES
AGAINST THE HOLY SPIRIT NEVER
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HAS FORGIVENESS, BUT IS SUBJECT
TO ETERNAL CONDEMNATION."
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SO THAT'S THE THIRD THING -
QUENCHING THE SPIRIT, GRIEVING
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THE SPIRIT, BLASPHEMING THE
SPIRIT - OR I MIGHT SAY, THE
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LAST ONE WE'LL TALK ABOUT
IS RECEIVING THE SPIRIT, AMEN?
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SO WE HAVE SEVERAL OPTIONS
NOW. BY THE WAY, RECEIVING'S THE
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WRONG WORD BECAUSE WE
ALL RECEIVE THE HOLY SPIRIT.
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EVERYONE WHO EVER LIVED RECEIVED
THE GIFT OF THE HOLY SPIRIT.
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IF YOU KNOW WHAT'S RIGHT
AND WRONG IN ANY WAY, THAT'S THE
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HOLY SPIRIT, RIGHT? SO
MAYBE ACCEPTING THE WORK OF
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THE HOLY SPIRIT WOULD
BE THE LAST ONE, OKAY?
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SO, QUENCHING, GRIEVING,
BLASPHEMING - SO NOW LET'S LOOK
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AT THEM ONE BY ONE. WE'LL
GO BACK TO 1 THESSALONIANS
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CHAPTER 5, VERSE 19,
"DO NOT QUENCH THE SPIRIT."
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UM...AND LET'S THINK ABOUT THAT
FOR A MOMENT - OUR FIRST ONE -
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QUENCHING THE
SPIRIT, WHAT IS THAT MEANING?
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YOU KNOW, TO QUENCH, IT
ACTUALLY - WHAT DOES IT ENTAIL?
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WHAT DOES IT MEAN
TO QUENCH SOMETHING?
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IS THERE ANY VOLITION INVOLVED?
IS THERE ANY THOUGHT INVOLVED?
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IS THERE ANY USE OF THE MIND,
IF YOU'RE QUENCHING SOMETHING?
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SO, YOU MIGHT SAY WHAT?
THAT QUENCHING THE SPIRIT
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IS A CHOICE - YES OR
NO? WOULD YOU SAY THAT'S
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TRUE - QUENCHING IT? SO,
IF I HAVE A FIRE - YOU KNOW,
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WE THINK OF QUENCHING FIRE -
IF I HAVE A FIRE AND IT'S GOING
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WELL, AND I DECIDE TO PUT IT OUT
- I DECIDE TO QUENCH IT - THAT'S
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A DECISION - A DELIBERATE
ACT THAT, YOU KNOW, THAT I MAKE.
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I MAKE THAT DECISION
AND I QUENCH THE FIRE.
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NOW, IF I'M CAMPING HERE IN
NORTHERN CALIFORNIA, I MEAN,
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ESPECIALLY THE LAST FEW
YEARS - NOT SO MUCH NOW.
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I DON'T THINK IT WOULD BE MUCH
OF A PROBLEM TRYING TO START A
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FIRE NOW - IT PROBABLY
WOULDN'T START ANYWHERE, RIGHT?
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BECAUSE OF ALL THE FLOODING AND
ALL THE RAIN AND ALL THAT, BUT I
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REMEMBER JUST A COUPLE YEARS
AGO WHERE, YOU KNOW, IT WAS VERY
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DANGEROUS IF A FIRE STARTS. AND
THEY HAVE ALL THESE RULES ABOUT
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QUENCHING IT AND YOU HAVE TO
MAKE THE DECISION TO QUENCH IT.
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BUT, IN THIS CASE, YOU KNOW, THE
HOLY SPIRIT'S LIKE A FIRE THAT'S
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GOING TO COME DOWN,
METAPHORICALLY SPEAKING, AND
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THAT FIRE IS SUPPOSED TO DO ITS
WORK IN BURNING AWAY SIN AND THE
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DROSS AND WHAT NOT, SO THAT
WE'RE GOLD TRIED IN THE FIRE,
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RIGHT? AND THE
DELIBERATE CHOICE TO
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QUENCH IT IS REALLY, YOU KNOW,
NOT A GOOD CHOICE. VERSE 19,
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"QUENCH NOT THE SPIRIT.
DESPISE NOT PROPHESYING."
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SO THE IDEA OF QUENCHING THE
SPIRIT HAS SOMETHING TO DO WITH
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DESPISING PROPHETS
AND THEIR MESSAGES.
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AND THAT WORD 'DESPISE'
MEANS TO TREAT AS NO ACCOUNT.
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AND LET'S THINK ABOUT
THAT JUST FOR A MINUTE.
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YOU KNOW, WHAT IS
THIS BOOK MADE UP OF?
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WHAT IS IT? I
MEAN, YOU'VE GOT ALL
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KINDS OF WHAT IN
HERE? PROPHETS, RIGHT?
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THE BIBLE IS THE ONLY BOOK
OF THE MAJOR RELIGIONS THAT
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HAS PROPHESY THROUGHOUT.
YOU KNOW, YOU TALK ABOUT OTHER
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BOOKS OF OTHER RELIGIONS - THE
QU'RAN, MAYBE THE BHAGAVAD GITA
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- THE SANSKRIT SCRIPTURES AND
WHATNOT - DO THEY HAVE PROPHESY
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IN THEM? NOT VERY MUCH, IF ANY.
BUT THE BIBLE HAS HOW MUCH IN
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IT? THEY SAY 26 TO 30 PERCENT
OF THE BIBLE IS STRAIGHT-ON
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PROPHESY. AND SO, WHAT IT'S
SAYING HERE IS, YOU KNOW, DON'T
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DESPISE THAT - DON'T QUENCH
THAT. NOW, OF COURSE, NOT ONLY
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ARE THERE PROPHETS IN THE BIBLE
- THE MAJOR PROPHETS AND THE
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MINOR PROPHETS - BUT THERE'S
ALSO PROPHETS THAT THE BIBLE
00:16:59.21\00:17:02.32
TALKS ABOUT THAT
WERE NOT IN THE BIBLE.
00:17:02.32\00:17:04.69
REMEMBER HULDA THE PROPHETESS
AND OTHERS THAT WERE NOT
00:17:04.69\00:17:07.96
ACTUALLY WRITTEN IN THE
SCRIPTURES, BUT THEY WERE STILL,
00:17:07.96\00:17:11.19
PROPHETS, RIGHT? AND
SO, THIS IDEA IS THAT YOU
00:17:11.19\00:17:14.40
NEED TO TEST THE PROPHETS TO SEE
WHETHER OR NOT THEY'RE VALID -
00:17:14.40\00:17:19.27
SO THERE'S PROPHETS IN THE BIBLE
AND OUTSIDE THE BIBLE AND YOU
00:17:19.27\00:17:22.20
NEED TO TEST THOSE PROPHETS
AND HOLD THAT WHICH IS GOOD.
00:17:22.20\00:17:27.64
UM - SO IN THE ADVENT MOVEMENT,
IS THERE A CLAIM TO HAVE THE
00:17:27.64\00:17:35.22
GIFT OF PROPHECY IN
THE ADVENT MOVEMENT?
00:17:35.22\00:17:38.45
AND DO PEOPLE DESPISE THAT?
DO SOME PEOPLE DESPISE THAT?
00:17:38.45\00:17:46.09
I REMEMBER ONCE THERE WAS A -
THOSE OF YOU WHO ARE NOT, MAYBE,
00:17:46.09\00:17:48.86
SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST
CHRISTIANS, THE ADVENTIST CHURCH
00:17:48.86\00:17:53.67
HAS A LADY, ELLEN WHITE, SHE'S
THE MOST TRANSLATED AUTHOR IN
00:17:53.67\00:17:58.57
AMERICAN HISTORY AND, I THINK,
THE MOST TRANSLATED FEMALE
00:17:58.57\00:18:03.04
AUTHOR IN THE WORLD AND, ANYWAY,
THIS - THIS LADY WROTE A NUMBER
00:18:03.04\00:18:10.45
OF TESTIMONIES DIRECTLY TO
PEOPLE THAT BROUGHT CONVICTION
00:18:10.45\00:18:15.12
OF SIN AND OF RIGHTEOUSNESS AND
OF JUDGMENT TO COME, RIGHT IN
00:18:15.12\00:18:19.23
REAL TIME, RIGHT? AND
THEN THEY PUT ALL OF THESE
00:18:19.23\00:18:23.13
TESTIMONIES
TOGETHER IN NINE VOLUMES.
00:18:23.13\00:18:26.67
HOW MANY OF YOU KNOW
WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT?
00:18:26.67\00:18:27.87
THE NINE VOLUMES? ANYONE
HERE EVER READ ALL NINE VOLUMES?
00:18:27.87\00:18:34.41
OKAY, SO -
YOU'VE GOT TO GET BUSY.
00:18:34.41\00:18:38.75
THESE ARE GREAT THINGS
- WHAT SHE SAYS IN THESE.
00:18:38.75\00:18:42.35
I REMEMBER I WENT TO A COUNTRY
ONCE AND I ASKED SOME PEOPLE
00:18:42.35\00:18:45.35
ABOUT THIS AND THEY SAID,
'WE DON'T EVEN KNOW ABOUT THAT.'
00:18:45.35\00:18:48.39
I WON'T NAME THE COUNTRY, BUT
I SAID, 'YOU DON'T KNOW ABOUT
00:18:48.39\00:18:52.76
THIS?' AND I BEGAN
TO READ SOME THINGS
00:18:52.76\00:18:54.60
FROM IT AND A GROUP OF YOUNG
PEOPLE WENT AND THEY SAID, 'WE
00:18:54.60\00:18:57.87
HAVE TO - WE NEED THIS - WE NEED
THIS INFORMATION THAT YOU TALKED
00:18:57.87\00:19:01.30
ABOUT.' AND THEY HAVE SINCE THEN
TRANSLATED ALL NINE VOLUMES.
00:19:01.30\00:19:06.31
NOW, THIS WHOLE IDEA OF
QUENCHING IT - I MEAN, IF YOU
00:19:06.31\00:19:10.41
DON'T EVEN READ IT, HOW MANY
OF YOU THINK THAT'S THE WAY TO
00:19:10.41\00:19:12.15
QUENCH IT - YOU DON'T
EVEN START THE FIRE, RIGHT?
00:19:12.15\00:19:16.15
THAT'S ONE WAY TO REALLY
JUST AVOID ANY FLAMES WHATEVER.
00:19:16.15\00:19:19.75
AND I WOULD SUGGEST YOU GO AHEAD
AND READ IT BECAUSE, EVEN THOUGH
00:19:19.75\00:19:24.56
WE SING 'JESUS IS COMING AGAIN',
AS AN ADVENTIST CHURCH, WE'VE
00:19:24.56\00:19:28.63
BEEN SINGING THAT FOR A
LONG TIME AND THE BIBLE TELLS US
00:19:28.63\00:19:32.33
WE'RE LAODICEAN, WHICH MEANS
JESUS IS OUTSIDE OUR CHURCH
00:19:32.33\00:19:35.90
KNOCKING - AND HE WANTS TO
GET IN! YOU KNOW HOW HE GETS IN?
00:19:35.90\00:19:40.24
THE TESTIMONY OF JESUS -
OR THE SPIRIT OF PROPHECY.
00:19:40.24\00:19:43.91
HOW MANY OF YOU ARE WITH ME
ON THIS? IF YOU WANT TO HAVE ONE
00:19:43.91\00:19:45.98
CONVICTING TIME, READ
THROUGH THE TESTIMONIES.
00:19:45.98\00:19:49.98
I REMEMBER, I WAS READING
THROUGH THESE VOLUMES AND A
00:19:49.98\00:19:52.59
FRIEND OF MIND
HAPPENED TO BE A PASTOR.
00:19:52.59\00:19:55.22
HE CAME TO ME AND HE
GOES, 'WHAT ARE YOU READING?'
00:19:55.22\00:19:57.59
I SAID, 'PASTOR, I'M
READING THE SPIRIT OF PROPHECY .
00:19:57.59\00:20:03.33
THE BIBLE SAYS
'QUENCH NOT THE SPIRIT.
00:20:03.33\00:20:07.00
DESPISE NOT PROPHESYING.'
AND I'M READING THIS.
00:20:07.00\00:20:10.27
HE GOES, 'OH, BE
CAREFUL. BE CAREFUL!
00:20:10.27\00:20:12.84
I'VE SEEN PEOPLE BECOME VERY
RADICAL WHEN THEY READ THAT.'
00:20:12.84\00:20:16.18
AND I SAID, 'YOU HAVE?' HE
SAYS, 'YES, IT COULD CHANGE
00:20:16.18\00:20:21.05
YOUR WHOLE PERSONALITY.
YOU'RE JOVIAL - YOU -
00:20:21.05\00:20:23.95
YOU - YOU LOVE LIFE.
YOU'RE FILLED WITH ENERGY.
00:20:23.95\00:20:27.22
IT'LL TAKE ALL THAT
AWAY.' IT HASN'T DONE THAT.
00:20:27.22\00:20:31.43
(LAUGHTER) HOW MANY OF YOU
NOTICED IT HAS NOT DONE THAT?
00:20:31.43\00:20:35.63
IT HASN'T DONE THAT, BUT
I'LL TELL YOU WHAT IT DID DO, IT
00:20:35.63\00:20:38.83
CONVICTED ME ALMOST EVERY PAGE.
IN FACT, ONE PAGE I WAS READING,
00:20:38.83\00:20:44.61
IT SAYS THAT ELLEN WHITE WAS
TALKING ABOUT HER WRITINGS AND
00:20:44.61\00:20:49.04
SHE SAID, 'THE PEOPLE THAT I'M
TALKING TO THEY DON'T LISTEN TO
00:20:49.04\00:20:50.91
ME. THEY DON'T
LISTEN TO WHAT I'M SAYING.
00:20:50.91\00:20:52.65
I DON'T KNOW WHY I DO THIS.
I DON'T KNOW WHY I HAVE THIS
00:20:52.65\00:20:55.32
- THIS - THIS WRITING THESE
PROPHECIES OUT.' IN FACT, SHE
00:20:55.32\00:20:59.65
GOT UPSET ONCE AND THEN SHE
SAW, IN VISION, THIS ANGEL THAT
00:20:59.65\00:21:04.76
KIND OF FROWNED AT HER, SO
SHE STARTED WRITING AGAIN. SHE
00:21:04.76\00:21:09.10
DIDN'T WANT TO GRIEVE - GRIEVE
THE ANGEL MESSENGER, RIGHT?
00:21:09.10\00:21:15.50
AND THEN THE ANGEL TOLD HER,
HE SAID, 'LOOK, YOU JUST CUT OUT
00:21:15.50\00:21:20.91
THE GARMENTS.' AND SHE SAID,
'THOSE - THE PEOPLE THAT THEY
00:21:20.91\00:21:25.08
ARE MEANT FOR THEY MAY NOT -
THEY MAY REJECT THEM, BUT THEY
00:21:25.08\00:21:27.45
WILL PERFECTLY FIT SOMEBODY
ELSE.' DO YOU KNOW WHO THAT
00:21:27.45\00:21:31.29
SOMEBODY ELSE IS
SUPPOSED TO BE? YOU OR ME.
00:21:31.29\00:21:34.99
HOW MANY OF YOU DON'T WANT TO
DESPISE OR QUENCH THE SPIRIT BY
00:21:34.99\00:21:41.33
DESPISING PROPHECIES?
I'LL TELL YOU ONE MORE STORY
00:21:41.33\00:21:44.23
ABOUT THIS AND THEN
WE'LL GO ON TO THE NEXT ONE.
00:21:44.23\00:21:46.30
AND I ACTUALLY HEARD
IT IN THIS COMMUNITY.
00:21:46.30\00:21:48.27
THERE WAS A MAN HERE WHO TOLD ME
ABOUT HIS - I BELIEVE IT WAS A
00:21:48.27\00:21:51.84
NIECE OR MAYBE A MORE DISTANT
RELATIVE WHO WORKED IN THE NEW
00:21:51.84\00:21:58.45
YORK WORLD TRADE CENTER - YOU
REMEMBER THAT TERRIBLE DAY WHEN
00:21:58.45\00:22:02.82
THEY WERE STRUCK BY
PLANES AND THEY CAME DOWN?
00:22:02.82\00:22:06.25
HOW MANY REMEMBER THIS?
MAYBE SOME OF YOU ARE TOO YOUNG
00:22:06.25\00:22:08.39
TO REMEMBER THIS, BUT SOME OF
US REMEMBER THIS TERRIBLE DAY.
00:22:08.39\00:22:13.40
AND THIS LADY - THIS YOUNG LADY
WAS WORKING IN THE FIRST TOWER
00:22:13.40\00:22:18.17
THAT GOT HIT AND WAS UP ON THE
FLOOR AND WAS SITTING THERE IN
00:22:18.17\00:22:24.94
HER CUBICLE AND ALL OF A
SUDDEN THE WHOLE THING SHOOK.
00:22:24.94\00:22:28.04
THEN, 'WHAT IS THAT?'
'LOOK! A PLANE HIT IT!'
00:22:28.04\00:22:31.25
AND THEN A POLICE OFFICER CAME
IN AND THAT POLICE OFFICER CAME
00:22:31.25\00:22:35.25
IN AND SAID, 'DON'T WORRY,
THIS BUILDING IS DISASTER PROOF.
00:22:35.25\00:22:40.26
IT HAS BEEN, YOU KNOW, DESIGNED
IN SUCH A WAY THAT EVEN IF A JET
00:22:40.26\00:22:44.43
HITS IT' - THEY DIDN'T KNOW
THAT'S WHAT HAPPENED BUT - 'EVEN
00:22:44.43\00:22:47.40
IF A JET HITS IT,
IT WON'T FALL DOWN.
00:22:47.40\00:22:50.13
IT IS FIREPROOF.' AND THAT YOUNG
LADY REMEMBERED THESE WORSHIPS
00:22:50.13\00:22:56.27
SHE HAD HAD WITH
HER FATHER GROWING UP.
00:22:56.27\00:22:58.14
HER FATHER WAS READING, EVERY
MORNING FOR FAMILY WORSHIP, THE
00:22:58.14\00:23:01.51
TESTIMONIES WHEN - AND
THIS PARTICULAR STATEMENT IS IN
00:23:01.51\00:23:06.72
VOLUME 9, WHICH MEANS
THEY HAD READ ALL OF THEM.
00:23:06.72\00:23:11.39
SHE HATED FAMILY
WORSHIP. SHE LOATHED IT.
00:23:11.39\00:23:14.56
SHE TALKED ABOUT HOW TERRIBLE
IT WAS. SHE DESPISED IT.
00:23:14.56\00:23:17.93
SHE, ESSENTIALLY HAD
QUENCHED IT UNTIL THAT MOMENT.
00:23:17.93\00:23:25.30
AND WHEN SHE HEARD THAT
GUARD SAY, 'YOU KNOW WHAT?
00:23:25.30\00:23:29.94
THESE BUILDINGS ARE FIREPROOF.'
SHE SAID, 'THEY'RE NOT.
00:23:29.94\00:23:32.24
THEY'RE NOT. I
REMEMBER SOMETHING FROM MY
00:23:32.24\00:23:36.14
FAMILY WORSHIP.' AND SHE SAID,
'LET'S GET OUT OF HERE.' AND
00:23:36.14\00:23:39.21
THE GUARD SAID, 'YOU
JUST STAY HERE.' 'NO!'
00:23:39.21\00:23:40.72
'DON'T TAKE THE
ELEVATOR!' SHE SAID.
00:23:40.72\00:23:43.42
THEY BEGAN
RUNNING DOWN THE STAIRS.
00:23:43.42\00:23:44.62
THEY GOT OUT. THEY
GOT OUT OF THE BUILDING.
00:23:44.62\00:23:45.95
SHE SAID, 'KEEP RUNNING!'
TWO OR THREE BLOCKS LATER - YOU
00:23:45.95\00:23:51.19
REMEMBER WHAT HAPPENED
- THE BUILDING CAME DOWN.
00:23:51.19\00:23:55.40
HOW MANY OF YOU THINK THAT THE
SPIRIT OF PROPHECY WAS USEFUL TO
00:23:55.40\00:24:01.90
HER AT THAT TIME? SO,
QUENCH NOT THE SPIRIT.
00:24:01.90\00:24:07.04
AND DON'T QUENCH - DON'T
DISALLOW OTHER PEOPLE FROM - I'M
00:24:07.04\00:24:11.45
A PASTOR, RIGHT? PEOPLE SAY TO
ME, 'LOOK, YOU NEED TO JUST USE
00:24:11.45\00:24:15.18
THE BIBLE.' LOOK, I CAN PROVE
EVERYTHING FROM THE BIBLE BUT I
00:24:15.18\00:24:18.82
HAVE NO PROBLEM READING, ALSO,
THE SPIRIT OF PROPHECY FROM UP
00:24:18.82\00:24:23.56
FRONT. >>AMEN.
00:24:23.56\00:24:24.53
>>I DON'T HAVE
ANY PROBLEM WITH THAT.
00:24:24.53\00:24:27.30
NOW, YOU'VE GOT TO
UNDERSTAND SOMETHING ABOUT THIS.
00:24:27.30\00:24:29.56
WE HAVE A - WE HAVE A CONFLICT
IN EPHESIANS BETWEEN THE PRINCE
00:24:29.56\00:24:34.17
OF THE POWER OF THE AIR AND THE
HOLY SPIRIT THAT CONVICTS AND
00:24:34.17\00:24:37.67
CONVERTS AND SEALS AND
SATISFIES, AND THIS IDEA OF
00:24:37.67\00:24:40.88
QUENCHING - ONE LAST IDEA - NOW,
THIS IS DIRECTLY FROM THE SPIRIT
00:24:40.88\00:24:43.75
OF PROPHECY, BUT WE'VE ALREADY
PROVED IT FROM THE BIBLE.
00:24:43.75\00:24:45.65
WE'VE SAID
QUENCHING MEANS TO DO WHAT?
00:24:45.65\00:24:47.92
TO CHOOSE - YES OR NO?
ISN'T THAT WHAT WE SAID?
00:24:47.92\00:24:51.05
BECAUSE QUENCHING IS LIKE A
DECISION. NOW - NOW LISTEN TO
00:24:51.05\00:24:53.79
THIS - IT'S FROM A BOOK CALLED
THE FAITH I LIVE BY - PAGE 58,
00:24:53.79\00:25:00.46
"MEN HAVE THE POWER TO
QUENCH THE SPIRIT OF GOD.
00:25:00.46\00:25:07.00
THE POWER OF
CHOOSING IS LEFT WITH THEM.
00:25:07.00\00:25:11.41
THEY ARE ALLOWED
FREEDOM OF ACTION.
00:25:11.41\00:25:14.54
THEY MAY BE OBEDIENT THROUGH THE
NAME AND GRACE OF OUR REDEEMER,
00:25:14.54\00:25:18.21
OR THEY MAY BE DISOBEDIENT
AND REALIZE THE CONSEQUENCES.
00:25:18.21\00:25:22.38
SO, THE REASON I STARTED THE
LESSON WITH THIS ONE IS BECAUSE
00:25:22.38\00:25:24.65
IT JUST ILLUSTRATES SOMETHING.
QUENCHING THE SPIRIT IS WHAT?
00:25:24.65\00:25:29.42
RELATED TO A CHOICE I MAKE ABOUT
EITHER MAKING MYSELF AWARE OF
00:25:29.42\00:25:34.86
WHAT THE SPIRIT HAS WRITTEN -
THAT'S WHY I ASK YOU 'WHAT HAVE
00:25:34.86\00:25:37.00
YOU READ?' OR KNOWING WHAT'S
WRITTEN AND SAYING, 'I DON'T
00:25:37.00\00:25:41.34
WANT TO DO THAT'?
THAT'S A DECISION. AREN'T YOU
00:25:41.34\00:25:44.87
THANKFUL THAT NOT JUST ONE
DECISION, YOU KNOW, PUTS US OUT
00:25:44.87\00:25:49.61
OF THE KINGDOM FOREVER? BUT
IT'S NOT A GOOD THING - HOW MANY
00:25:49.61\00:25:52.41
THINK IT'S NOT A GOOD THING?
EVERY TIME MY DOG TOSH RUNS THE
00:25:52.41\00:25:55.68
OPPOSITE WAY I SAY, 'THAT IS
QUENCHING THE SPIRIT.' HE HAS
00:25:55.68\00:26:00.16
MADE A CONSCIOUS DECISION.
HE'S A VERY BRIGHT DOG.
00:26:00.16\00:26:03.16
AND SEE, IF HE JUST RUNS ACROSS
THE STREET HE COULD GET KILLED.
00:26:03.16\00:26:06.03
I ACTUALLY GET GRIEVED
ABOUT IT - I ACTUALLY DO.
00:26:06.03\00:26:08.03
I SAY, 'WAIT A MINUTE' -
YOU KNOW, I PAID A LOT OF
00:26:08.03\00:26:10.37
MONEY FOR THE DOG - IF MY
DOG GETS KILLED MY KIDS WILL ALL
00:26:10.37\00:26:13.84
CRY, MY WIFE WILL BE MAD
- I MEAN, THAT'S KIND OF A
00:26:13.84\00:26:17.61
SUPERFICIAL THING,
RIGHT? BUT I THINK THAT WAY
00:26:17.61\00:26:19.84
- UM - WITH THIS
SITUATION. PLUS, I LOVE THE DOG.
00:26:19.84\00:26:23.24
I DON'T WANT THE DOG TO -
YOU KNOW, OBEDIENCE TO WHAT I'M
00:26:23.24\00:26:26.65
SAYING IS ACTUALLY ESSENTIAL
FOR THE DOG'S SURVIVAL, RIGHT?
00:26:26.65\00:26:32.69
THAT BRINGS US TO THE NEXT ONE.
NUMBER TWO - EPHESIANS CHAPTER
00:26:32.69\00:26:36.39
4 - SO LET'S TURN BACK THERE
- EPHESIANS CHAPTER 4 AND VERSE
00:26:36.39\00:26:42.23
30, "AND DO NOT GRIEVE THE
HOLY SPIRIT OF GOD, BY WHOM YOU
00:26:42.23\00:26:48.64
WERE SEALED FOR
THE DAY OF REDEMPTION."
00:26:48.64\00:26:52.04
FIRST OFF, I MEAN, JUST WHEN
WE'RE THINKING ABOUT THIS, YOU
00:26:52.04\00:26:54.78
KNOW, WE CAN QUENCH IT - THAT
MEANS WE DON'T CHOSE THE RIGHT
00:26:54.78\00:26:56.81
THING - WE CAN
GRIEVE THE HOLY SPIRIT.
00:26:56.81\00:27:00.32
NOW, THE FIRST THING ABOUT THAT
- YOU JUST HAVE TO NOTICE - IS
00:27:00.32\00:27:02.98
WHAT? WHEN YOU
SAY YOU CAN GRIEVE THE
00:27:02.98\00:27:05.95
HOLY SPIRIT, WHAT'S THE
FIRST THING YOU THINK OF?
00:27:05.95\00:27:08.76
ALRIGHT, NOTHING. SO,
I'LL TELL YOU WHAT I THINK
00:27:08.76\00:27:11.53
OF FIRST - WHAT'S THE
FIRST THING YOU THINK OF?
00:27:11.53\00:27:13.50
I THINK OF, 'WAIT A
MINUTE, THERE'S AN EMOTIONAL
00:27:13.50\00:27:16.67
INVOLVEMENT.' HOW MANY OF
YOU THOUGHT OF THAT NOW THAT I
00:27:16.67\00:27:21.74
THOUGHT OF IT - HOW MANY OF
YOU WERE THINKING OF IT BEFORE I
00:27:21.74\00:27:24.07
THOUGHT OF IT?
ALRIGHT, IT JUST GRIEVES
00:27:24.07\00:27:26.37
ME A LITTLE BIT HERE. SO
LOOK, YOU KNOW, THINK ABOUT
00:27:26.37\00:27:31.05
THAT FOR A MINUTE - GRIEVING
SOMETHING - GRIEVING SOMEONE -
00:27:31.05\00:27:36.65
IT'S NOT SOMETHING, YOU
DON'T GRIEVE A THING, RIGHT?
00:27:36.65\00:27:39.19
YOU KNOW, MY CAR, IF I DON'T
GET IN THE CAR IT'S NOT REALLY
00:27:39.19\00:27:42.32
GRIEVED. IT JUST SITS THERE -
SOME KIND OF, YOU KNOW, VEHICLE.
00:27:42.32\00:27:46.66
IT NEVER CRIES,
'OH, PLEASE COME BACK!'
00:27:46.66\00:27:48.46
BUT THIS IS -
THIS IS A PERSONALITY.
00:27:48.46\00:27:51.37
THIS IS THE IDEA OF
EMOTIONAL INVOLVEMENT.
00:27:51.37\00:27:57.31
I DON'T KNOW ABOUT YOU BUT THAT
MAKES MY HEART GLAD - DOES IT
00:27:57.31\00:27:59.47
MAKE YOUR HEART GLAD? -
THAT GOD, THE HOLY SPIRIT,
00:27:59.47\00:28:02.68
WOULD BE GRIEVED
OR COULD BE GRIEVED.
00:28:02.68\00:28:06.65
HOW MANY OF YOU THINK
THAT'S JUST GOOD NEWS?
00:28:06.65\00:28:08.22
YOU THINK OF ALL THE MAJOR
RELIGIONS OF THE BIBLE - WE
00:28:08.22\00:28:10.32
SAID, IN THAT LAST LITTLE
SEGMENT ON PROPHESYING THAT
00:28:10.32\00:28:12.25
THERE IS NO REAL PROPHECY IN
THESE OTHER MAJOR RELIGIONS - IN
00:28:12.25\00:28:18.99
THEIR BOOKS. AND
THERE'S ALSO NOT MUCH EMOTION.
00:28:18.99\00:28:23.03
IN FACT, THE WHOLE IDEA OF SOME
RELIGIONS IN THE WORLD, IS TO
00:28:23.03\00:28:27.10
GET AWAY FROM EMOTION. YES?
I WANT TO ESCAPE. I WANT TO GET
00:28:27.10\00:28:33.24
INTO THIS NIRVANA WHERE THERE'S
NO PAIN - THERE'S NO EMOTION.
00:28:33.24\00:28:38.78
GOD IS SEEN AS HIGH AND LIFTED
UP IN ANOTHER ONE OF THESE
00:28:38.78\00:28:42.12
RELIGIONS AND HE
NEVER COMES CLOSE.
00:28:42.12\00:28:45.29
YOU KNOW, HE'S SO HOLY
THAT HE NEVER COMES CLOSE.
00:28:45.29\00:28:48.49
THERE'S NO STORY OF THE
INCARNATION IN THESE - THERE'S
00:28:48.49\00:28:53.29
REINCARNATION, BUT NO
INCARNATION, WHERE GOD COMES
00:28:53.29\00:28:56.93
DOWN, HE GETS INVOLVED, HE
WEEPS, HE - DOES THIS TOUCH YOUR
00:28:56.93\00:29:03.91
HEART AT ALL? JUST
THE WORD 'GRIEVED'?
00:29:03.91\00:29:06.17
>>AMEN. >>YOU KNOW?
00:29:06.17\00:29:08.28
SO, YOU KNOW, IF I DO SOMETHING
WRONG AND MY WIFE KNOWS I DO
00:29:08.28\00:29:15.05
SOMETHING WRONG IT'S - GOD KNOWS
THIS IS VERY TRUE - BUT SHE
00:29:15.05\00:29:19.72
KNOWS I DO SOMETHING WRONG
BUT THEN SHE JUST LOOKS AT ME
00:29:19.72\00:29:22.69
APATHETICALLY AND SHE
MAKES - IT MAKES NO DIFFERENCE.
00:29:22.69\00:29:26.06
WELL, LIKE THIS MORNING,
JUST TO BE, YOU KNOW, UP TO DATE
00:29:26.06\00:29:30.07
(LAUGHTER) IT'S NOT SOMETHING
I DID WRONG, IT'S SOMETHING MY
00:29:30.07\00:29:33.23
KIDS DID WRONG. I GOT
UP AND, YOU KNOW, A LOVELY
00:29:33.23\00:29:35.90
SABBATH MORNING, YOU KNOW, AND
WE HAVE NICE MUSIC ON AND ALL OF
00:29:35.90\00:29:40.54
A SUDDEN I HEAR, 'WHY
DID YOU HIT ME IN THE FACE?'
00:29:40.54\00:29:43.45
I'M LIKE, 'OH BOY, THIS IS
NOT GOOD.' AND SO - AND MY WIFE
00:29:43.45\00:29:49.02
HEARD IT AND I WAS THERE,
ACTUALLY, KIND OF WORKING ON THE
00:29:49.02\00:29:51.99
NOTES FOR THIS AND I WAS LIKE,
'I NEED TO PUT THE FINISHING
00:29:51.99\00:29:56.96
TOUCHES HERE.' AND THEN MY
WIFE SAYS, 'DID YOU HEAR THAT?'
00:29:56.96\00:30:01.10
YOU KNOW WHAT THAT MEANT? YOU
NEED SOME INVOLVEMENT, RIGHT?
00:30:01.10\00:30:05.63
BUT WHEN I WENT OUT THERE, MY
WIFE WAS ACTUALLY - HAD TEARS IN
00:30:05.63\00:30:11.77
HER EYES AS SHE WAS TALKING TO
MY SON, AND IT BROUGHT TEARS TO
00:30:11.77\00:30:14.64
MY EYES TOO. 'WHY
WOULD YOU HIT YOUR BROTHER?
00:30:14.64\00:30:18.25
WHY?' AND THERE WAS GRIEF THERE.
SO, WHEN WE SEE GRIEF OR WHEN
00:30:18.25\00:30:22.92
WE SEE EMOTION,
IS THAT A GOOD THING?
00:30:22.92\00:30:26.86
AND SO IT SAYS HERE, IT SAYS,
"DO NOT GRIEVE THE HOLY SPIRIT
00:30:26.86\00:30:34.00
OF GOD, BY WHOM YOU WERE SEALED
FOR THE DAY OF REDEMPTION."
00:30:34.00\00:30:37.27
IN OTHER WORDS, YOU SEE, THE
HOLY SPIRIT COMES AND SAYS, 'I'M
00:30:37.27\00:30:40.67
GOING TO TELL YOU
WHAT'S RIGHT. I'M GOING TO TELL
00:30:40.67\00:30:42.90
YOU WHAT'S WRONG. I'M
GOING TO TELL YOU THERE'S A
00:30:42.90\00:30:44.44
JUDGMENT AND I'M GOING TO
GET YOU READY FOR THAT JUDGMENT.
00:30:44.44\00:30:47.94
I'M GOING TO PUT RIGHT NOW, EVEN
BEFORE YOU'RE THROUGH THE FINAL
00:30:47.94\00:30:51.88
EXAM, I'M GOING TO PUT A SEAL
ON YOU THAT SAYS YOU'RE MINE.
00:30:51.88\00:30:56.82
AND I'M GOING TO COME INTO YOUR
HEART AND I'M GOING TO BE SO
00:30:56.82\00:31:01.59
INVESTED IN YOU, I'M GOING
TO BE EMOTIONALLY INVOLVED.
00:31:01.59\00:31:07.96
HE HELPS US SUCCEED.
NOW, HOW DO WE GRIEVE HIM?
00:31:07.96\00:31:10.70
IT TELLS US IN THE SAME CHAPTER
- LOOK BACK IN EPHESIANS CHAPTER
00:31:10.70\00:31:14.20
4, VERSES 1 TO 3, "I, THEREFORE,
THE PRISONER OF THE LORD,
00:31:14.20\00:31:16.71
BESEECH YOU TO WALK WORTHY OF
THE CALLING WITH WHICH YOU WERE
00:31:16.71\00:31:18.57
CALLED, WITH ALL LOWLINESS AND
GENTLENESS, WITH LONGSUFFERING,
00:31:18.57\00:31:23.24
BEARING WITH ONE ANOTHER IN
LOVE, ENDEAVORING TO KEEP THE
00:31:23.24\00:31:27.72
UNITY OF THE SPIRIT
IN THE BOND OF PEACE."
00:31:27.72\00:31:33.19
SO, WHAT DOES THE HOLY SPIRIT
DOES - DO - WHAT DOES THE HOLY
00:31:33.19\00:31:36.36
SPIRIT DO IN THOSE VERSES?
MAKES US BE ABLE TO BE GENTLE,
00:31:36.36\00:31:42.56
TO BE LOWLY, TO BE PEACEFUL,
TO BE IN UNITY, OKAY? IN UNITY.
00:31:42.56\00:31:49.20
SO, IF YOU MEET SOMEBODY WHO'S
ALWAYS MIXING IT UP - ALWAYS
00:31:49.20\00:31:53.54
STIRRING IT UP - WHAT ARE
THEY DOING? THEY'RE GRIEVING THE
00:31:53.54\00:31:58.48
SPIRIT. IF YOU,
YOURSELF, ALWAYS DO THAT
00:31:58.48\00:32:02.32
- NOW, I'M NOT TALKING ABOUT
VALID REPROOF AND CORRECTION,
00:32:02.32\00:32:07.16
THAT'S DIFFERENT, BUT IF
YOU'RE JUST KIND OF DOING IT -
00:32:07.16\00:32:09.86
LIKE MY ONE SON DID
THIS MORNING, FRANKLY.
00:32:09.86\00:32:12.39
THE ONE BOY WAS LAYING ON A BEAN
BAG WITH - IT'S SABBATH MORNING,
00:32:12.39\00:32:16.70
IT'S TIME TO RELAX - IT'S A DAY
OF REST - AND THE OTHER GUY JUST
00:32:16.70\00:32:19.07
JUMPS ON TOP OF HIM -
HE'S COVERED UP WITH A BLANKET,
00:32:19.07\00:32:21.44
DOESN'T SEE IT COMING.
THIS LED TO A HUGE EXPLOSION.
00:32:21.44\00:32:26.21
AND THEN, YOU KNOW, IF THAT
HAD BEEN THE FIRST TIME THIS
00:32:26.21\00:32:29.34
HAPPENED, YOU KNOW, THAT'S -
YOU KNOW, I'M SERIOUS IT'S NOT A
00:32:29.34\00:32:31.58
NICE THING - BUT IT WASN'T, AND
SO I HAD A LITTLE TALK AND SAID,
00:32:31.58\00:32:34.62
'YOU KNOW WHAT?'
HE GOES, 'HE HIT ME!'
00:32:34.62\00:32:37.69
I SAID, 'OF COURSE HE HIT YOU.
YOU JUMPED ON HIM AND HE DIDN'T
00:32:37.69\00:32:40.76
KNOW THAT AND SO HE HIT YOU.'
I TOLD THE OTHER GUY, 'DON'T HIT
00:32:40.76\00:32:44.63
PEOPLE.' BUT I SAID TO THIS
GUY, 'LOOK, DON'T - DON'T GRIEVE
00:32:44.63\00:32:47.66
HIM LIKE THIS.' YOU KNOW? RIGHT?
SO UNITY - ARE THERE PEOPLE IN
00:32:47.66\00:32:54.70
THE CHURCH TODAY - IN GOD'S
BODY THAT TRY AND ARE DISRUPTING
00:32:54.70\00:33:00.28
THE UNITY OF THE
CHURCH? IS THAT HAPPENING TODAY?
00:33:00.28\00:33:03.21
ARE THERE PEOPLE - YOU KNOW,
IN OUR CHURCH, THE SEVENTH-DAY
00:33:03.21\00:33:06.21
ADVENTIST CHURCH, FOR THOSE
OF YOU WATCHING, WE HAVE THIS
00:33:06.21\00:33:07.98
STRUCTURE THAT IF YOU HAVE A
PROBLEM IT GOES UP HIGHER AND
00:33:07.98\00:33:11.59
HIGHER AND HIGHER AND,
FINALLY, IT GOES TO THE GENERAL
00:33:11.59\00:33:13.72
CONFERENCE, WHICH IS LIKE
EVERYBODY TOGETHER, AND GUESS
00:33:13.72\00:33:16.19
WHAT THEY'RE SUPPOSED TO
DO. THEY ARE SUPPOSED TO BE THE
00:33:16.19\00:33:19.63
ONES WITH REPRESENTATIVES FROM
EVERYWHERE THAT SAYS, 'WAIT A
00:33:19.63\00:33:22.70
MINUTE, THIS IS THE WAY WE'RE
GOING. IT MIGHT CHANGE, WE DON'T
00:33:22.70\00:33:25.77
KNOW, BUT RIGHT NOW, THIS
TIME, WE'RE GOING WITH THIS
00:33:25.77\00:33:27.54
OR WHATEVER TOPIC.' AND I'M NOT
TALKING ABOUT CHANGING THE BIBLE
00:33:27.54\00:33:30.27
OR ANYTHING, BUT
WHAT'S THE WHOLE IDEA OF THAT?
00:33:30.27\00:33:35.18
TO BRING UNITY.
HOW MANY OF YOU THINK
00:33:35.18\00:33:38.11
THAT'S A GOOD SYSTEM?
THAT'S THE WHOLE IDEA AND THE
00:33:38.11\00:33:41.48
SPIRIT IS TO
LEAD IN THAT PROCESS.
00:33:41.48\00:33:44.72
VERSE 22 OF EPHESIANS CHAPTER -
CHAPTER - CHAPTER 4 - UM - VERSE
00:33:44.72\00:33:54.63
22 OF EPHESIANS CHAPTER 4 -
LET'S LOOK AT SOME OTHER THINGS,
00:33:54.63\00:34:01.74
"...PUT OFF, CONCERNING
YOUR FORMER CONDUCT, THE OLD MAN
00:34:01.74\00:34:05.64
WHICH GROWS CORRUPT ACCORDING TO
THE DECEITFUL LUSTS" - SO YOU'RE
00:34:05.64\00:34:11.78
GRIEVING THE SPIRIT IF
YOU'RE INVOLVED IN WHAT?
00:34:11.78\00:34:14.75
DECEITFUL LUSTS.
AND CAN THAT HAPPEN
00:34:14.75\00:34:21.22
IN THE CHURCH?
WHAT'S A DECEITFUL LUST?
00:34:21.22\00:34:25.03
IT'S SOMETHING THAT MASQUERADES
OF LOVE, BUT IT REALLY NEVER
00:34:25.03\00:34:28.10
DELIVERS, RIGHT? A
LUST IS SOMETHING WE DO THAT
00:34:28.10\00:34:33.13
DOESN'T HAVE SPIRITUAL
FRUIT. IT HAS DIABOLICAL FRUIT.
00:34:33.13\00:34:39.87
UM - I WISH I HAD TIME TO GO
INTO THAT MORE, BUT WE DON'T.
00:34:39.87\00:34:43.14
LOOK AT VERSE 25, "...PUTTING
AWAY LYING" - SPEAK THE TRUTH TO
00:34:43.14\00:34:48.98
YOUR NEIGHBOR - SO LYING -
YOU FIND YOURSELF LYING - NOT
00:34:48.98\00:34:54.52
TELLING THE TRUTH.
THIS IS GRIEVING THE SPIRIT.
00:34:54.52\00:34:59.16
I HAD A STUDENT THE OTHER DAY,
CAME TO ME AND HE SAID TO ME, 'I
00:34:59.16\00:35:05.77
DIDN'T GET THE ASSIGNMENT DONE
AND I WANT MORE TIME.' AND I
00:35:05.77\00:35:10.94
SAID, 'WELL, WHY
WOULD YOU WANT MORE TIME?'
00:35:10.94\00:35:12.21
WELL, HE WENT INTO ALL KINDS OF
THINGS THAT WERE, ESSENTIALLY,
00:35:12.21\00:35:16.44
LIES. THEY COULDN'T
HAVE BEEN THE TRUTH.
00:35:16.44\00:35:18.51
AND I'M SITTING THERE LISTENING
- FINALLY I JUST INTERRUPTED HIM
00:35:18.51\00:35:21.62
AND I SAID, 'YOU KNOW, I DON'T
WANT TO BE DISRESPECTFUL, EVEN
00:35:21.62\00:35:26.05
THOUGH YOU'RE LYING TO ME, BUT
IF YOU WANT MERCY FROM ME, YOU
00:35:26.05\00:35:32.49
HAVE TO TELL THE TRUTH.
I'LL GIVE YOU MERCY BUT NOT
00:35:32.49\00:35:37.30
IF YOU'RE LYING LIKE THIS.
ACTUALLY, I WILL GIVE YOU MORE
00:35:37.30\00:35:41.27
ASSIGNMENTS IF YOU KEEP LYING.'
HE GOES, 'WHAT DO YOU MEAN?'
00:35:41.27\00:35:44.31
I SAID - I TOLD HIM -
AND HE SAID, 'YOU'RE RIGHT.
00:35:44.31\00:35:48.81
I WAS LYING. I WAS
NOT TELLING THE TRUTH.
00:35:48.81\00:35:52.01
I BEG FOR MERCY.' AND I SAID,
'OKAY, I'LL GIVE IT TO YOU.'
00:35:52.01\00:35:57.25
GOD DOES NOT LIKE US TO LIE.
IF YOU DID SOMETHING WRONG, JUST
00:35:57.25\00:36:03.22
SAY YOU DID SOMETHING
WRONG. CAN HE FORGIVE IT?
00:36:03.22\00:36:06.66
>>YES. >>BUT HE CAN'T IF YOU LIE
00:36:06.66\00:36:08.30
BECAUSE YOU'RE ADDING MORE
WRONGS ON TOP OF THE WRONG.
00:36:08.30\00:36:12.60
SO JUST TELL THE TRUTH. GRIEVING
THE SPIRIT THROUGH LYING.
00:36:12.60\00:36:15.70
ANGER - VERSE 26 - I'M GLAD IT
SAYS "BE ANGRY, AND DO NOT SIN"
00:36:15.70\00:36:21.24
- SO HOW MANY ARE
THANKFUL YOU CAN STILL BE ANGRY?
00:36:21.24\00:36:26.85
ONLY ONE OF YOU.
THAT'S A VERY GOOD CHURCH.
00:36:26.85\00:36:29.48
I TELL YOU, THERE'S
NO FIGHTS IN THIS CHURCH.
00:36:29.48\00:36:31.19
BE ANGRY AND DO NOT
SIN. DO NOT LET THE SUN GO
00:36:31.19\00:36:34.82
DOWN ON YOUR WRATH. SO
THERE'S A TIME-LIMITED - UM
00:36:34.82\00:36:39.06
- ANGER - THERE'S A VALID
ANGER AND AN INVALID ANGER.
00:36:39.06\00:36:42.36
WE DON'T HAVE TIME TO GO INTO IT
ALL, BUT WHEN I'M HELPING PEOPLE
00:36:42.36\00:36:45.47
WITH DEPRESSION RECOVERY AND
ANXIETY RECOVERY, THIS IS A HUGE
00:36:45.47\00:36:48.37
THING. SO BE
ANGRY AND DO NOT SIN:
00:36:48.37\00:36:52.11
DON'T LET THE SUN
GO DOWN ON YOUR WRATH.
00:36:52.11\00:36:53.44
IF YOU HAVE, YOU KNOW, THAT
24-HOUR PERIOD - OR WHATEVER IT
00:36:53.44\00:36:56.08
IS, DEPENDING ON
THE TIME OF YEAR.
00:36:56.08\00:36:58.01
AND A LOT OF PEOPLE, WHEN
THEY READ THAT TEXT THEY SAY, 'I
00:36:58.01\00:36:59.88
THINK I MIGHT MOVE TO NORWAY'
(LAUGHTER) 'WHERE THE SUN
00:36:59.88\00:37:03.12
DOESN'T GO DOWN.' BUT IT STILL
GOES DOWN. I MEAN, I WENT TO
00:37:03.12\00:37:05.92
NORWAY - I LIVED THERE FOR
AWHILE - AND IT STILL GOES DOWN,
00:37:05.92\00:37:10.43
YOU KNOW? IT MIGHT BE JUST A
LITTLE BIT. IN FACT, IN NORWAY
00:37:10.43\00:37:15.33
YOU HAVE LESS TIME WITH YOUR
ANGER WHEN YOU REALLY UNDERSTAND
00:37:15.33\00:37:18.80
HOW THE SUN WORKS OVER
THERE, SO DON'T TRY AND MOVE.
00:37:18.80\00:37:21.00
SO ANGER - VERSE 28 - STEALING -
STEALING - "BUT...LET HIM LABOR"
00:37:21.00\00:37:30.88
- SO, STEALING, YOU KNOW, HAVE
VALID LABOR, DON'T STEAL - VERSE
00:37:30.88\00:37:36.32
29 - THESE ARE WAYS TO GRIEVE
THE SPIRIT - "LET NO CORRUPT
00:37:36.32\00:37:40.32
WORD PROCEED OUT OF YOUR MOUTH,
BUT WHAT IS GOOD FOR NECESSARY
00:37:40.32\00:37:44.56
EDIFICATION, THAT IT MIGHT
IMPART GRACE TO THE HEARERS."
00:37:44.56\00:37:48.76
SO CORRUPT WORDS - AND THEN THE
SUMMARY TEXT FOR GRIEVING THE
00:37:48.76\00:37:52.23
SPIRIT - VERSE 31 - "LET
ALL BITTERNESS, WRATH, ANGER,
00:37:52.23\00:37:58.94
CLAMOR," - IN THE MARGIN
FOR 'CLAMOR' IT SAYS 'LOUD
00:37:58.94\00:38:01.54
QUARRELING' - HOW MANY OF YOU
KNOW SOMEONE WHO NEEDS TO GET
00:38:01.54\00:38:04.85
RID OF THE LOUD QUARRELING
- YOU KNOW, IF YOU'RE GOING TO
00:38:04.85\00:38:10.35
QUARREL, HOW MANY OF YOU
ARE GLAD IT STILL SAYS YOU CAN
00:38:10.35\00:38:12.52
QUARREL? CAN YOU
SAY 'AMEN'? >>AMEN.
00:38:12.52\00:38:15.02
>>YOU CAN QUARREL, YOU JUST
HAVE TO KEEP THE VOLUME DOWN.
00:38:15.02\00:38:18.19
WHEN THE VOLUME GOES UP,
THAT REALLY QUENCHES THE SPIRIT,
00:38:18.19\00:38:20.73
OKAY? "AND EVIL SPEAKING BE
PUT AWAY FROM YOU, WITH ALL" -
00:38:20.73\00:38:25.83
MALICIOUSNESS OR -
"MALICE." SO THIS IS HOW WE
00:38:25.83\00:38:29.77
GRIEVE THE SPIRIT. NOW
NOTICE SOMETHING IN VERSES
00:38:29.77\00:38:35.18
17 THROUGH 19, "THIS I SAY,
THEREFORE," - EPHESIANS 4, VERSE
00:38:35.18\00:38:39.85
17 - YOU'RE STILL WITH
ME IN THE CHAPTER, RIGHT?
00:38:39.85\00:38:41.95
"THIS I SAY, THEREFORE," - VERSE
17 - "AND TESTIFY IN THE LORD,
00:38:41.95\00:38:45.32
THAT YOU SHOULD NO LONGER
WALK AS THE REST OF THE GENTILES
00:38:45.32\00:38:47.49
WALK, IN THE FUTILITY OF THEIR
MIND, HAVING THEIR UNDERSTANDING
00:38:47.49\00:38:50.76
DARKENED, BEING ALIENATED FROM
THE LIFE OF GOD, BECAUSE OF THE
00:38:50.76\00:38:53.70
IGNORANCE THAT IS IN THEM,
BECAUSE OF THE BLINDNESS OF
00:38:53.70\00:38:56.00
THEIR HEART; WHO, BEING PAST
FEELING, HAVE" - WHAT DOES IT
00:38:56.00\00:38:59.17
SAY NEXT? - "GIVEN THEMSELVES
OVER" - NOW WHAT DOES THAT MEAN?
00:38:59.17\00:39:07.34
IN OTHER WORDS, JUST LIKE WE SAW
IN QUENCHING THE SPIRIT, THAT'S
00:39:07.34\00:39:11.91
A CHOICE, SO GRIEVING THE
SPIRIT IS A WHAT? IT'S A CHOICE.
00:39:11.91\00:39:18.79
IT'S A CHOICE, RIGHT?
THEY GIVE THEMSELVES OVER.
00:39:18.79\00:39:22.22
NOW, DON'T GET ME WRONG, YOU CAN
DO THINGS WHEN YOU DIDN'T REALLY
00:39:22.22\00:39:27.20
KNOW ANY BETTER AND, YOU KNOW,
THAT'S A DIFFERENT THING, BUT
00:39:27.20\00:39:32.70
THIS WHOLE IDEA - THE WHOLE PATH
TO JUST GIVING YOURSELVES OVER -
00:39:32.70\00:39:37.14
IT'S THE POWER
OF CHOICE AS WELL.
00:39:37.14\00:39:41.01
NOW, LET ME READ YOU ANOTHER
QUOTATION NOW, FROM THE SPIRIT
00:39:41.01\00:39:45.01
OF PROPHECY , WHICH WE WILL NOT
DESPISE, AFTER OUR POINT #1, AND
00:39:45.01\00:39:48.72
THIS IS THE FAITH I LIVE BY
, ANOTHER QUOTE FROM THAT BOOK,
00:39:48.72\00:39:52.52
THE FAITH I LIVE BY , PAGE 58
- THE FAITH I LIVE BY , PAGE 58,
00:39:52.52\00:39:57.39
"CONSCIENCE IS THE VOICE OF
GOD HEARD AMIDST THE CONFLICT OF
00:39:57.39\00:40:02.16
HUMAN PASSIONS" - HOW MANY
HAVE EVER HEARD THE VOICE OF GOD
00:40:02.16\00:40:04.93
AMIDST THE
CONFLICT OF HUMAN PASSIONS?
00:40:04.93\00:40:08.64
- "WHEN IT IS RESISTED,
THE SPIRIT OF GOD IS GRIEVED."
00:40:08.64\00:40:14.14
SO THAT'S LIKE YOU'RE IN A FIGHT
WITH SOMEBODY, LET'S SAY IT'S
00:40:14.14\00:40:20.22
YOUR SPOUSE, AND YOU
KNOW YOU SHOULD NOT SAY THAT.
00:40:20.22\00:40:24.35
'NOPE, DON'T SAY THAT.
DO NOT SAY THAT' - JUST THE
00:40:24.35\00:40:27.66
IMPRESSION COMES TO YOU.
'NO, NO, DON'T SAY THAT.' AND
00:40:27.66\00:40:31.26
YOU SAY IT ANYWAY. THAT'S
GRIEVING THE SPIRIT, OKAY?
00:40:31.26\00:40:37.37
DON'T SAY IT.
THAT'S THE WHOLE IDEA.
00:40:37.37\00:40:42.17
SOME OF YOU - I CAN TELL BY
LOOKING AT YOU, YOU HAVE DONE
00:40:42.17\00:40:44.21
THIS, RIGHT? I HAVE DONE THAT.
GRIEVING THE SPIRIT IS RESISTING
00:40:44.21\00:40:51.41
THAT REAL-TIME, YOU KNOW,
SIGNAL THAT SAYS 'DON'T DO THAT.
00:40:51.41\00:40:58.45
DON'T GO THAT WAY, GO THIS WAY.'
NOW, YOU KNOW, DOES GOD GIVE UP
00:40:58.45\00:41:02.19
ON US FOR THAT? NO. HOW
MANY OF YOU ARE STILL ALIVE?
00:41:02.19\00:41:06.73
RIGHT? IT'S KIND
OF LIKE YOUR GPS.
00:41:06.73\00:41:10.13
HOW MANY OF YOU HAVE HAD YOUR
GPS SAY, 'TURN LEFT IN 500 FEET'
00:41:10.13\00:41:16.17
AND YOU DON'T DO IT? HOW
MANY OF YOU JUST IGNORED?
00:41:16.17\00:41:18.54
AND WHAT DOES THE GPS DO?
I MEAN, IT'S NOT EMOTIONALLY
00:41:18.54\00:41:21.98
INVOLVED, I DON'T
THINK, IT CAN'T BE GRIEVED.
00:41:21.98\00:41:24.88
BUT IT'S
PROGRAMMED TO ACT EMOTIONAL.
00:41:24.88\00:41:26.78
MINE ACTUALLY HAS AN ACCENT -
IT USED TO - I USE MY PHONE NOW.
00:41:26.78\00:41:30.62
WHAT DOES IT
SAY? >>RECALCULATING.
00:41:30.62\00:41:33.69
>>YEAH, RIGHT.
WOW, THIS MUST HAVE
00:41:33.69\00:41:35.99
HAPPENED TO YOU A LOT.
(LAUGHTER) THAT WAS CLAMOR -
00:41:35.99\00:41:38.43
THAT WAS ALMOST CLAMOROUS
THE WAY YOU ANSWERED THERE.
00:41:38.43\00:41:40.63
SO, RIGHT, RECALCULATING.
BUT ISN'T THAT A BLESSING?
00:41:40.63\00:41:45.73
GOD STILL HELPS US
EVEN WHEN WE'RE GRIEVING.
00:41:45.73\00:41:49.60
NOW NUMBER THREE - THE MOST
SERIOUS OF OUR - OUR THREE THAT
00:41:49.60\00:41:54.81
WE'RE TALKING ABOUT
TODAY. WE HAD QUENCHING, WE HAD
00:41:54.81\00:41:58.58
GRIEVING, AND NOW
WE HAVE BLASPHEMING.
00:41:58.58\00:42:02.62
MARK CHAPTER 3 - MARK CHAPTER 3,
VERSES 28 AND 29, "ASSUREDLY, I
00:42:02.62\00:42:07.82
SAY TO YOU, ALL SINS WILL BE
FORGIVEN THE SONS OF MEN, AND
00:42:07.82\00:42:11.33
WHATEVER BLASPHEMIES THEY
MAY UTTER; BUT HE WHO BLASPHEMES
00:42:11.33\00:42:14.83
AGAINST THE HOLY SPIRIT NEVER
HAS FORGIVENESS, BUT IS SUBJECT
00:42:14.83\00:42:18.87
TO ETERNAL CONDEMNATION.
ALRIGHT, SO, YOU KNOW, WHAT DOES
00:42:18.87\00:42:25.41
THIS MEAN,
'BLASPHEMING THE SPIRIT'?
00:42:25.41\00:42:28.94
WELL, YOU KNOW, THE DEFINITION
OF BLASPHEMY, MANY TIMES WE TURN
00:42:28.94\00:42:31.78
TO JOHN CHAPTER 10, VERSE 33, IN
OUR MINDS WHICH SAYS, "THE JEWS
00:42:31.78\00:42:35.22
ANSWERED JESUS SAYING, 'FOR A
GOOD MAN WE DO NOT STONE THEE,
00:42:35.22\00:42:37.52
BUT FOR BLASPHEMY, AND BECAUSE
THOU, BEING A MAN, MAKE THYSELF
00:42:37.52\00:42:42.69
GOD." SO
BLASPHEMY, IN THEIR MIND, WAS
00:42:42.69\00:42:45.66
SOMEONE WHO WAS
HUMAN SAYING THEY WERE GOD.
00:42:45.66\00:42:48.73
IN OTHER WORDS, IT'S TAKING A
ROLE AND RESPONSIBILITY THAT'S
00:42:48.73\00:42:52.13
NOT YOURS AND GOING AHEAD, EVEN
THOUGH YOU KNOW IT'S NOT YOUR
00:42:52.13\00:42:57.64
ROLE OR RESPONSIBILITY - THAT'S
WHAT THEY ACCUSED JESUS OF.
00:42:57.64\00:42:59.57
NOW, WERE THEY RIGHT
IN ACCUSING JESUS OF THAT?
00:42:59.57\00:43:01.91
NO, BECAUSE HE WAS GOD, THEY
JUST DIDN'T ACCEPT IT, RIGHT?
00:43:01.91\00:43:07.48
BUT, HAVE YOU EVER BEEN IN A
SITUATION WHERE YOU HAVE TAKEN
00:43:07.48\00:43:12.89
THE ROLE AND RESPONSIBILITY
THAT'S NOT YOURS, AND YOU SAY,
00:43:12.89\00:43:16.29
'I'M GOING TO DO IT ANYWAY.'
THIS IS THROUGHOUT THE NEW
00:43:16.29\00:43:20.16
TESTAMENT. THIS - WELL,
THESE THINGS CAN KIND OF SHIFT.
00:43:20.16\00:43:24.10
BUT, LIKE MY SON, NOT MY ONLY
SON - IF THIS ONE DOESN'T WORK
00:43:24.10\00:43:29.54
OUT I HAVE ANOTHER ONE -
THIS SON - THAT'S A LITTLE JOKE,
00:43:29.54\00:43:33.81
OKAY? I WANT THEM BOTH TO WORK
OUT, BUT MY SON, THE OTHER DAY,
00:43:33.81\00:43:39.25
HE SAID, 'DAD, IT'S TIME FOR
ME TO TELL YOU WHAT TO DO FOR
00:43:39.25\00:43:43.35
ONCE.' I MEAN, WE
WERE BOTH EATING OUR
00:43:43.35\00:43:48.32
CHEERIOS, THERE WAS FRUIT NEARBY
- AND MY WIFE - EVERYONE HEARD
00:43:48.32\00:43:52.29
IT - IT WAS ESTABLISHED BY
TWO OR THREE WITNESSES - AND HE
00:43:52.29\00:43:56.20
ACTUALLY SAID THIS, 'IT'S TIME
FOR ME TO TELL YOU WHAT TO DO.'
00:43:56.20\00:44:02.87
SOMEONE IS ASKING HOW OLD HE
WAS. IT REALLY DOESN'T MATTER.
00:44:02.87\00:44:05.54
(LAUGHTER) HE IS NOT OF
THE AGE OF ACCOUNTABILITY.
00:44:05.54\00:44:09.28
HE'S SEVEN YEARS OLD.
'IT'S TIME FOR ME TO TELL YOU
00:44:09.28\00:44:11.41
WHAT TO DO.' THIS IS A FORM OF
BLASPHEMY BECAUSE HE'S TAKING MY
00:44:11.41\00:44:19.95
POSITION, OR WANTS TO,
AND HE SAYS, 'YOU STAY IN THAT
00:44:19.95\00:44:22.46
POSITION.' AND THIS IS WHY, IN
TIMOTHY, IT SAYS, 'DISOBEDIENT
00:44:22.46\00:44:26.73
TO PARENTS AT THE END OF
TIME' AND ALL THAT STUFF.
00:44:26.73\00:44:29.20
IS IT - IS TODAY - DO WE LIVE
IN A BLASPHEMOUS SOCIETY WHERE
00:44:29.20\00:44:33.50
CHILDREN ACTUALLY
THINK THEY'RE THE PARENTS?
00:44:33.50\00:44:36.81
DO PEOPLE ACTUALLY GO AROUND
PARENTS TO THE KIDS AND SAY,
00:44:36.81\00:44:40.04
'YOU SHOULD DECIDE HOW YOUR
PARENTS SPEND THEIR MONEY.' DO
00:44:40.04\00:44:43.28
YOUR KIDS EVER COME TO YOU AND
SAY, 'I WANT THIS, THAT, OR THE
00:44:43.28\00:44:46.28
OTHER' AND YOU WONDER
HOW THEY EVEN KNEW ABOUT IT?
00:44:46.28\00:44:49.42
OKAY? BUT THERE'S OTHER
- THERE'S OTHER ROLES AND
00:44:49.42\00:44:54.09
RESPONSIBILITIES, AS WELL,
IN THE NEW TESTAMENT, RIGHT?
00:44:54.09\00:44:57.96
AND, THROUGHOUT THE PASTORAL
EPISTLES ESPECIALLY, WHENEVER
00:44:57.96\00:45:02.13
THIS HAS SHIFTED - WHENEVER
A ROLE IS SHIFTED IN AN INVALID
00:45:02.13\00:45:06.47
WAY THAT IS BLASPHEMY.
NOW, ALL THOSE THINGS CAN BE
00:45:06.47\00:45:10.71
FORGIVEN, BUT THIS TEXT SAYS
WHAT? IF YOU BLASPHEME THE HOLY
00:45:10.71\00:45:16.04
SPIRIT, IT CAN'T
BE FORGIVEN. WHY?
00:45:16.04\00:45:17.88
NOT BECAUSE GOD DOESN'T
WANT TO, BUT YOU TOOK AWAY WHAT?
00:45:17.88\00:45:22.08
YOU TOOK AWAY THE
VERY VOICE OF GOD.
00:45:22.08\00:45:26.35
IF YOU'RE NOT GOING TO LISTEN
TO GOD, THEN HOW CAN THAT BE
00:45:26.35\00:45:29.22
FORGIVEN? RIGHT? NOW,
THERE'S AN INTERESTING
00:45:29.22\00:45:33.56
PASSAGE IN TIMOTHY,
WHICH I STUDIED FOR ABOUT THREE
00:45:33.56\00:45:36.73
YEARS, A COUPLE YEARS AGO.
IN 1 TIMOTHY 1, WHERE YOU HAVE
00:45:36.73\00:45:42.50
THESE TWO GUYS AT THE END
OF THE CHAPTER - ALEXANDER AND
00:45:42.50\00:45:45.31
HYMENAEUS - THESE GUYS
ARE LICENTIOUS GUYS, THEY'RE
00:45:45.31\00:45:49.01
NOT DOING WHAT'S
RIGHT. AND SO, GUESS WHAT?
00:45:49.01\00:45:51.65
GUESS WHAT PAUL, THROUGH THE
INSPIRATION OF THE SPIRIT SAYS
00:45:51.65\00:45:54.45
TO THEM: 'DELIVER SUCH A ONE TO
SATAN.' SATAN DOESN'T LISTEN TO
00:45:54.45\00:45:59.62
GOD SO DELIVER THEM TO SATAN
- 'THAT THEY MAY LEARN NOT TO
00:45:59.62\00:46:04.29
BLASPHEME.' CAN
YOU SAY, 'HALLELUJAH?
00:46:04.29\00:46:07.00
SO, THEY'RE
DELIVERED SO THEY CAN DO WHAT?
00:46:07.00\00:46:11.23
LEARN. PRAISE THE LORD.
HOW MANY WANT TO LEARN NOT TO
00:46:11.23\00:46:14.47
BLASPHEME BEFORE YOU BLASPHEME?
HOW MANY OF YOU WANT TO LEARN
00:46:14.47\00:46:19.11
NOT TO BLASPHEME THE HOLY SPIRIT
BEFORE YOU EVER WOULD DO THAT?
00:46:19.11\00:46:23.58
MAN, I'M NERVOUS ABOUT
THOSE NOT RAISING THEIR HAND.
00:46:23.58\00:46:25.68
LET'S JUST RAISE
OUR HANDS TOGETHER.
00:46:25.68\00:46:26.72
THIS IS A VERY
SERIOUS QUESTION, OKAY?
00:46:26.72\00:46:29.02
(LAUGHTER) THIS IS - THIS IS
IT BECAUSE, IF YOU GO THAT FAR,
00:46:29.02\00:46:33.99
THIS IS WHAT IT'S SAYING: IN
LIGHT OF ALL THE EVIDENCE THAT'S
00:46:33.99\00:46:39.26
OUT THERE, YOU KNOW, EVEN WHEN
THERE'S EVIDENCE, IF YOU KEEP
00:46:39.26\00:46:45.27
GOING ON, YOU KNOW,
JESUS WOULD HEAL PEOPLE.
00:46:45.27\00:46:50.64
LOOK AT VERSE 7 OF CHAPTER 2 OF
MARK, "WHY DOES THIS MAN SPEAK
00:46:50.64\00:46:54.08
BLASPHEMIES LIKE THIS? WHO
CAN FORGIVE SINS BUT GOD ALONE?
00:46:54.08\00:46:58.21
BUT IMMEDIATELY, WHEN JESUS
PERCEIVED IN HIS SPIRIT THAT
00:46:58.21\00:47:01.65
THEY REASONED THUS WITHIN
THEMSELVES, HE SAID TO THEM,
00:47:01.65\00:47:03.15
'WHY DO YOU REASON ABOUT
THESE THINGS IN YOUR HEARTS?
00:47:03.15\00:47:05.19
WHICH IS EASIER, TO SAY TO
THE PARALYTIC, 'YOUR SINS ARE
00:47:05.19\00:47:09.19
FORGIVEN YOU,' OR TO SAY,
'ARISE, TAKE UP YOUR BED AND
00:47:09.19\00:47:11.29
WALK'? BUT THAT
YOU MAY KNOW THAT THE
00:47:11.29\00:47:13.06
SON OF MAN HAS POWER ON EARTH
TO FORGIVE SINS''" SO HERE'S THE
00:47:13.06\00:47:18.37
IDEA: BLASPHEMY AGAINST THE HOLY
SPIRIT IS BLASPHEMY AND SAYING,
00:47:18.37\00:47:25.61
'LOOK, I DON'T BELIEVE GOD
IS IN THIS' EVEN THOUGH YOU SEE
00:47:25.61\00:47:28.41
ALL KINDS OF
EVIDENCE. YOU SEE EVIDENCE AFTER
00:47:28.41\00:47:31.18
EVIDENCE AFTER EVIDENCE.
I MEAN, IT IS SO CLEAR.
00:47:31.18\00:47:36.22
AND YOU SAY,
'I'M - YOU KNOW WHAT?
00:47:36.22\00:47:38.62
I DON'T ACCEPT
IT.' THAT'S THE IDEA.
00:47:38.62\00:47:45.99
AND IT SAYS WHEN
THAT HAPPENS - WHAT?
00:47:45.99\00:47:47.50
MARK 3:29 - ONE WHO DOES THIS IS
IN DANGER - THE NEW KING JAMES
00:47:47.50\00:47:52.23
TRIES TO MAKE IT A LITTLE SOFTER
- OF ETERNAL CONDEMNATION, BUT
00:47:52.23\00:47:54.94
IT'S ACTUALLY DAMNATION.
BUT THE WORD IN GREEK THERE,
00:47:54.94\00:47:57.87
DAMNATION, IS
'CRISIS' OR 'JUDGMENT'.
00:47:57.87\00:48:02.18
WHAT DOES THE HOLY SPIRIT
DO? CONVICTS OF SIN AND OF
00:48:02.18\00:48:07.88
RIGHTEOUSNESS AND
OF JUDGMENT, RIGHT?
00:48:07.88\00:48:11.65
IS THERE GOING TO BE A JUDGMENT?
ARE ALL THE DECISIONS THAT WE'VE
00:48:11.65\00:48:16.39
MADE GOING TO COME UP AGAIN?
RIGHT? IF WE CONFESS OUR SINS HE
00:48:16.39\00:48:20.33
IS FAITHFUL AND JUST TO FORGIVE
OUR SINS AND THEN THEY'RE
00:48:20.33\00:48:21.93
COVERED, AMEN? AND
THEY - THEY'RE PUT ON
00:48:21.93\00:48:25.00
THE CROSS, BUT EVERY TIME WE
QUENCHED, EVERY TIME WE GRIEVED
00:48:25.00\00:48:28.54
- AND IF ANYONE'S CONCERNED AT
ALL WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT, YOU
00:48:28.54\00:48:32.04
HAVE NOT BLASPHEMED
THE HOLY SPIRIT, RIGHT?
00:48:32.04\00:48:34.91
THAT'S NOT WHERE YOU ARE, BUT -
AND THAT'S WHY THAT FREE LITTLE
00:48:34.91\00:48:38.48
BOOK FROM JOE CREWS, YOU KNOW,
IN THE LIBRARY OF SERMONS, THE
00:48:38.48\00:48:41.35
POINT OF NO RETURN , IT'S
ACTUALLY AN EXCELLENT BOOK TO
00:48:41.35\00:48:43.92
READ BECAUSE SOME PEOPLE CAN GET
THE IDEA THAT THEY BLASPHEMED
00:48:43.92\00:48:48.59
THE HOLY SPIRIT AND MANY TIMES,
AS I'VE TALKED TO PEOPLE - I'VE
00:48:48.59\00:48:51.56
NEVER TALKED TO ONE PERSON YET,
THAT I BELIEVE HAS BLASPHEMED
00:48:51.56\00:48:54.76
THE HOLY SPIRIT AS THEY'RE
TALKING TO ME ABOUT IT, BECAUSE
00:48:54.76\00:48:56.30
THEY'RE CONCERNED
ABOUT IT, YOU KNOW?
00:48:56.30\00:48:59.37
IT'S THE PEOPLE THAT ARE NOT
TALKING TO ME AT ALL ABOUT IT
00:48:59.37\00:49:01.44
THAT MAY BE, YOU
KNOW, HAVING A PROBLEM.
00:49:01.44\00:49:04.97
OKAY, SO HAVE WE ACCOMPLISHED
WHAT WE SET OUT TO DO?
00:49:04.97\00:49:08.41
WE LOOKED AT QUENCHING
THE SPIRIT, WHICH IS A WHAT?
00:49:08.41\00:49:10.65
A CHOICE, RIGHT? WE
LOOKED AT GRIEVING THE SPIRIT
00:49:10.65\00:49:14.48
- WE SAW THESE DIFFERENT THINGS
- THE EMOTIONS OF GOD, AND
00:49:14.48\00:49:17.32
WE LOOKED AT
BLASPHEMING - BLASPHEMING THE
00:49:17.32\00:49:21.56
HOLY SPIRIT AS WELL.
NOW, I'M GOING TO READ TO YOU
00:49:21.56\00:49:24.69
AGAIN FROM THAT LITTLE
BOOK THE FAITH I LIVE BY .
00:49:24.69\00:49:27.46
I LIKE HOW IT
SUMMARIZES WHAT WE JUST LEARNED.
00:49:27.46\00:49:31.37
"THE SIN OF BLASPHEMY AGAINST
THE HOLY SPIRIT DOES NOT LIE IN
00:49:31.37\00:49:34.37
ANY SUDDEN WORD OR DEED.
IT IS THE FIRM, DETERMINED
00:49:34.37\00:49:38.97
RESISTANCE OF TRUTH AND
EVIDENCE. IT IS NOT THAT MAN
00:49:38.97\00:49:44.51
SENDS OUT A DECREE
THAT MEN MAY NOT BE SAVED.
00:49:44.51\00:49:46.88
HE DOES NOT THROW OUT WITH THE
DARKNESS WITH THE EYES, WHICH
00:49:46.88\00:49:49.35
CANNOT BE PENETRATED, BUT MAN,
AT FIRST, RESISTS THE MOTION OF
00:49:49.35\00:49:53.29
THE SPIRIT OF GOD AND,
HAVING ONCE RESISTED, IT'S LESS
00:49:53.29\00:49:56.19
DIFFICULT TO DO THE SECOND TIME,
LESS THE THIRD, FAR LESS THE
00:49:56.19\00:49:59.83
FOURTH, THEN COMES THE HARVEST
TO BE REAPED FROM A SEED OF
00:49:59.83\00:50:03.13
UNBELIEF AND RESISTANCE."
SO GOD REALLY DESTROYS, IN THE
00:50:03.13\00:50:08.44
SAME QUOTATION, NO ONE;
THE SINNER DESTROYS HIMSELF
00:50:08.44\00:50:11.67
BY HIS OWN IMPERTINENCE.
IN OTHER WORDS, BLASPHEMY
00:50:11.67\00:50:14.84
AGAINST THE HOLY
SPIRIT IS THE SAME THING.
00:50:14.84\00:50:16.95
IT'S A CHOICE, AGAIN.
HOW MANY CAN SEE THAT?
00:50:16.95\00:50:20.95
QUENCHING'S A CHOICE, GRIEVING
IS A CHOICE, BLASPHEMY IS LIKE
00:50:20.95\00:50:24.19
THE COMBINATION OF ALL
THOSE CHOICES ALTOGETHER.
00:50:24.19\00:50:31.13
NOW, NOBODY CAN JUDGE ONE
ANOTHER AS TO WHETHER OR NOT
00:50:31.13\00:50:34.20
THEY'VE BLASPHEMED THE HOLY
SPIRIT, BUT SOMETIMES, YOU KNOW,
00:50:34.20\00:50:39.17
YOU HAVE YOUR CONCERNS.
AND I REMEMBER WORKING IN A
00:50:39.17\00:50:44.31
HOSPITAL FOR MANY YEARS, WITH
PEOPLE THAT WERE DYING, AND I
00:50:44.31\00:50:46.74
REMEMBER - I REMEMBER A NUMBER
OF PATIENTS THAT, YOU KNOW, WHEN
00:50:46.74\00:50:49.84
I REQUESTED TO PRAY WITH THEM
AT THE END OF THEIR LIFE, 'NO.
00:50:49.84\00:50:53.85
I DON'T BELIEVE THAT.' AND, YOU
KNOW, ONE OF THEM EVEN CURSING
00:50:53.85\00:50:58.15
THAT I LEAVE THE ROOM.
AND SO YOU'RE CONCERNED
00:50:58.15\00:51:02.06
ABOUT THAT, RIGHT?
WELL, THAT CAN HAPPEN.
00:51:02.06\00:51:04.93
AT THE END, I WISH I COULD END
ON LIKE A REAL POSITIVE NOTE.
00:51:04.93\00:51:09.93
I WANT TO, BUT I'VE GOT THREE
MINUTES SO IT'S NOT LIKELY I'LL
00:51:09.93\00:51:13.50
END ON A COMPLETELY POSITIVE
NOTE IN THAT AMOUNT OF TIME, BUT
00:51:13.50\00:51:16.24
LET ME JUST SAY THIS: IN OUR
LESSON STUDY, IT MADE THIS BIG
00:51:16.24\00:51:19.47
POINT - ACTS CHAPTER 7,
VERSE 51, "YOU STIFF-NECKED AND
00:51:19.47\00:51:23.28
UNCIRCUMCISED IN HEART AND EARS!
00:51:23.28\00:51:24.75
YOU ALWAYS RESIST THE HOLY
SPIRIT; AS YOUR FATHERS DID..."
00:51:24.75\00:51:27.08
THE LESSON MAKES A POINT THAT
THAT NATION OF JUDAISM ACTUALLY,
00:51:27.08\00:51:34.09
AS A NATION,
REJECTED THE HOLY SPIRIT.
00:51:34.09\00:51:37.63
AND THEN IT SEEMS TO INTIMATE
THAT, YOU KNOW, WE SHOULD LEARN
00:51:37.63\00:51:40.26
SOMETHING ABOUT THAT. YOU
KNOW WHAT WE SHOULD LEARN?
00:51:40.26\00:51:41.93
WE ARE THE LAODICEAN CHURCH.
AND JESUS, IN THE LAODICEAN
00:51:41.93\00:51:45.90
CHURCH, IS NOT
PICTURED INSIDE THE CHURCH.
00:51:45.90\00:51:48.14
DID YOU NOTICE THAT?
HE'S OUTSIDE, KNOCKING, WHICH
00:51:48.14\00:51:51.21
MEANS EVERY KNOCK IS A
WHAT? A RESISTANCE, IF WE DON'T
00:51:51.21\00:51:54.74
OPEN THE DOOR, TO WHAT? TO
THE HOLY SPIRIT. CAN YOU SEE HOW
00:51:54.74\00:51:59.78
SERIOUS THE LESSON IS
FOR THE LAODICEAN CHURCH?
00:51:59.78\00:52:03.72
HAVE WE QUENCHED THE
SPIRIT EVER AS A DENOMINATION?
00:52:03.72\00:52:07.16
HAVE WE GRIEVED
THE HOLY SPIRIT EVER?
00:52:07.16\00:52:10.69
RIGHT? AND THAT
IS WHY THIS LESSON IS
00:52:10.69\00:52:16.33
ACTUALLY PRESENT
TRUTH FOR US TODAY.
00:52:16.33\00:52:19.77
I MEAN, BUT TO END IN - ON
A GOOD NEWS, IS THERE HOPE?
00:52:19.77\00:52:28.11
IF WE CAN QUENCH THE SPIRIT,
IF WE CAN GRIEVE THE SPIRIT, AND
00:52:28.11\00:52:30.75
BLASPHEME THE SPIRIT, WE CAN
ALSO, IF WE HAVE NOT BLASPHEMED
00:52:30.75\00:52:34.95
THE SPIRIT - I DON'T
BELIEVE ANYONE HERE TODAY HAS -
00:52:34.95\00:52:37.29
WE CAN ALSO ACCEPT THE SPIRIT.
00:52:37.29\00:52:41.32
JESUS IS OUTSIDE KNOCKING,
BUT CAN WE OPEN THE DOOR?
00:52:41.32\00:52:44.36
>>AMEN. >>CAN WE
LET HIM IN? I LOVE THIS
00:52:44.36\00:52:47.40
- THIS QUOTATION - WELL, LET ME
JUST LOOK AT EPHESIANS CHAPTER 1
00:52:47.40\00:52:51.43
JUST BRIEFLY - GO THROUGH A
COUPLE TEXTS WITH YOU AS WE'RE
00:52:51.43\00:52:54.37
CLOSING. CHRIST IS IN HEAVEN
WITH ALL SPIRITUAL BLESSINGS
00:52:54.37\00:52:57.67
AVAILABLE - EPHESIANS CHAPTER
1, VERSE 3 - HE CAN QUICKEN AND
00:52:57.67\00:53:02.01
MAKE US ALIVE WHO WERE
DEAD IN TRESPASSES AND SINS.
00:53:02.01\00:53:05.45
EPHESIANS CHAPTER
2, VERSE 1 AND VERSE 5.
00:53:05.45\00:53:08.88
EPHESIANS CHAPTER 4, VERSE 21,
WE CAN KNOW THE TRUTH - WE CAN
00:53:08.88\00:53:11.69
PUT OFF THE OLD MAN - VERSE 22
- WE CAN - VERSE 23 - WE CAN BE
00:53:11.69\00:53:15.29
RENEWED IN THE SPIRIT OF
OUR MIND. REPENTANCE MEANS,
00:53:15.29\00:53:19.76
LITERALLY, IN GREEK, 'CHANGE THE
MIND'. CAN YOU SAY 'HALLELUJAH?
00:53:19.76\00:53:25.40
SO THE MESSAGE TO THE
LAODICEAN CHURCH IS WHAT?
00:53:25.40\00:53:29.17
BE ZEALOUS AND CHANGE
YOUR MIND. OPEN THE DOOR.
00:53:29.17\00:53:33.24
SO HOW DO YOU OPEN THE DOOR?
IT'S BY CHANGING YOUR MIND.
00:53:33.24\00:53:36.85
I WANT YOU TO COME IN. I WANT
YOU TO TELL ME WHAT'S WRONG.
00:53:36.85\00:53:39.38
I WANT YOU TO
TELL ME WHAT'S RIGHT.
00:53:39.38\00:53:40.92
I WANT YOU TO DIRECT
ME. I WANT YOU TO LEAD
00:53:40.92\00:53:43.79
AND GUIDE, NOT ME.
IT'S ONLY A DOOR AWAY.
00:53:43.79\00:53:49.69
IT'S RIGHT ON THE OTHER
SIDE. WE CAN PUT ON THE NEW MAN.
00:53:49.69\00:53:52.93
WE CAN HAVE THE
FRUITS OF THE SPIRIT.
00:53:52.93\00:53:54.76
WE CAN BE HOLY AND WITHOUT BLAME
IN HIM IN LOVE, EPHESIANS 1:4.
00:53:54.76\00:53:59.07
WE CAN TRUST THE WORD -
THE GOSPEL OF SALVATION.
00:53:59.07\00:54:01.80
WE CAN CLAIM
THE SEALING PROMISE.
00:54:01.80\00:54:05.44
THERE'S A LOT OF PRACTICAL
THINGS IN EPHESIANS AS WELL, AND
00:54:05.44\00:54:08.08
I'LL JUST END WITH ONE AS
WE CLOSE. THEY DID A STUDY
00:54:08.08\00:54:11.11
RECENTLY, IN FACT, THIS YEAR, OF
THOSE IN ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS.
00:54:11.11\00:54:16.38
ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS IS,
YOU KNOW, A PROGRAM THAT HELPS
00:54:16.38\00:54:19.89
PEOPLE STOP DRINKING AND REPLACE
THAT WITH SOMETHING ELSE.
00:54:19.89\00:54:24.26
AND THIS DID THIS STUDY, JUST
RECENTLY, AND THEY DISCOVERED
00:54:24.26\00:54:28.43
SOMETHING. ABOUT 75
PERCENT OF PEOPLE IN
00:54:28.43\00:54:31.83
ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS
PRAY - THEY SERIOUSLY PRAY.
00:54:31.83\00:54:35.40
HOW MANY OF YOU HAVE
EVER BEEN TO AN AA MEETING?
00:54:35.40\00:54:37.21
WHEN I WAS A PASTOR IN
MID-AMERICA, I ALWAYS WENT TO AA
00:54:37.21\00:54:40.68
MEETINGS BECAUSE I WANTED
TO MEET PEOPLE THAT WERE REALLY
00:54:40.68\00:54:43.95
SERIOUS ABOUT REPENTANCE.
YOU KNOW, THEY REALLY MESSED
00:54:43.95\00:54:48.22
THEIR LIFE UP SO THEY'RE
REALLY SERIOUS ABOUT REPENTANCE.
00:54:48.22\00:54:51.75
WELL, ANYWAY, THEY DID A STUDY
AND THEY FOUND SOMETHING, IN
00:54:51.75\00:54:53.59
REAL TIME, BY DOING MRIS -
FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE
00:54:53.59\00:54:57.43
IMAGING - ON PEOPLE'S MINDS.
00:54:57.43\00:54:59.66
THEY LOOKED INSIDE THEIR MINDS,
WHILE THEY WERE PRAYING, AND
00:54:59.66\00:55:03.47
THEN WHILE THEY WERE TEMPTED -
SO THEY WOULD HAVE A PICTURE OF
00:55:03.47\00:55:07.34
ALCOHOL AND DIFFERENT THINGS AND
SEE WHAT THE CRAVINGS WERE AND
00:55:07.34\00:55:10.37
WHATNOT - AND
GUESSED WHAT THEY DISCOVERED.
00:55:10.37\00:55:12.21
THE PEOPLE THAT WERE PRAYING IN
AA IN REAL TIME, THEY SAW THOSE
00:55:12.21\00:55:17.51
TEMPTATIONS GO DOWN.
THEY COULD, IN THEIR BRAINS,
00:55:17.51\00:55:22.75
SEE THAT THEY WERE
RESISTING TEMPTATION.
00:55:22.75\00:55:25.32
IT STARTED RIGHT HERE IN THEIR
BRAINS AND THEY COULD SEE IT IN
00:55:25.32\00:55:28.66
REAL TIME. IN OTHER
WORDS, GOD CAN GIVE US
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THE GIFT OF REPENTANCE.
CAN YOU SAY HALLELUJAH?
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>>AMEN. >>HE CAN.
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IF WE HAVE QUENCHED THE SPIRIT,
IF WE HAVE GRIEVED THE SPIRIT,
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HE CAN, IN FACT - IF WE HAVE
ANY DESIRE, HE CAN, IN FACT, DO
00:55:43.07\00:55:49.14
WHAT? OPEN THE DOOR AND GIVE US
THE GIFT OF REPENTANCE - HE CAN
00:55:49.14\00:55:54.95
CHANGE OUR MIND.
DO YOU WANT THAT TO
00:55:54.95\00:55:56.18
HAPPEN IN YOUR LIFE
TODAY? LET'S PRAY TOGETHER.
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FATHER, IN HEAVEN, LORD, THANK
YOU, TODAY, FOR THIS LESSON THAT
00:55:58.95\00:56:01.92
SHOWS, AGAIN, YOUR OVERWHELMING
PATIENCE AND YOUR EMOTIONAL
00:56:01.92\00:56:06.80
INVOLVEMENT WITH EACH OF US.
WE DON'T WANT TO GRIEVE YOU, WE
00:56:06.80\00:56:12.00
WANT TO BRING JOY TO YOU AND
WE'RE TOLD THAT WHEN A SINNER
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REPENTS THERE'S JOY IN HEAVEN.
AND SO, TODAY, AS WE CLOSE THIS
00:56:16.94\00:56:21.28
LESSON, WE WANT TO, AGAIN, JUST
SAY - WE WANT TO BRING YOU JOY.
00:56:21.28\00:56:26.68
WE DO NOT WANT TO RESIST THE
SPIRIT, QUENCH THE SPIRIT - SO
00:56:26.68\00:56:30.59
COME INTO OUR LIVES, WE
PRAY, IN CHRIST'S NAME, AMEN.
00:56:30.59\00:56:34.32
>>LET'S FACE IT, IT'S NOT ALWAYS
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YOU READ IN THE BIBLE.
WITH OVER 700,000 WORDS
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