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00:35 >>WELCOME TO SABBATH SCHOOL STUDY HOUR. 00:37 WE'RE SO GLAD THAT YOU ARE TUNING IN, WHETHER THIS IS YOUR 00:40 FIRST TIME, IT IS NOT A MISTAKE, OR YOU ARE A REGULAR THAT JOINS 00:44 US EVERY WEEK FROM ACROSS THE COUNTRY AND AROUND THE WORLD. 00:48 I HOPE THAT YOU HAVE HAD A WONDERFUL WEEK AND YOU'VE BEEN 00:50 STUDYING AND YOU'RE READY TO JOIN US TODAY FOR OUR LESSON ON 00:54 THE HOLY SPIRIT, AS WE CONTINUE WITH OUR STUDY ON THAT. 00:59 AND, AS WE DO EVERY WEEK BEFORE WE START, WE ALWAYS SING. 01:04 AND I KNOW THAT YOU HAVE MANY FAVORITES AROUND THE WORLD 01:07 BECAUSE WE HEAR FROM YOU AND WE LOVE TO SING WITH YOU AND WE 01:11 KNOW THAT YOU LOVE TO SING YOUR FAVORITE HYMNS. 01:14 SO, LIKE EVERY WEEK, THAT'S WHAT WE'RE GOING TO DO RIGHT NOW. 01:16 WE'RE GOING TO START WITH #212. PULL OUT YOUR HYMNALS IF YOU 01:20 HAVE THOSE AT HOME AND JOIN WITH US - 'TIS ALMOST TIME FOR THE 01:24 LORD TO COME - #212 - FIRST, THIRD, AND FOURTH STANZAS. 01:29 (MUSIC) 03:56 >>IT IS ALMOST TIME FOR THE LORD TO COME. 03:59 CAN YOU SAY 'AMEN' TO THAT? >>AMEN. 04:01 >>YOU KNOW, EVERY WEEK WE HAVE A SPECIAL OFFER AND TODAY IT'S AN 04:06 EXCELLENT ONE. I ENCOURAGE YOU TO CALL IN OR GO 04:10 TO OUR WEBSITE AMAZINGFACTS.ORG AND REQUEST THIS. 04:13 IT IS CALLED THE POINT OF NO RETURN - IT'S WRITTEN BY JOE 04:16 CREWS WHO WAS THE FOUNDER OF AMAZING FACTS. 04:18 IT IS OFFER #177 AND YOU HAVE AN EASY NUMBER TO REMEMBER: 04:25 866-STUDY-MORE - 866-788-3966. 04:30 OUR LESSON STUDY IS GOING TO BE BROUGHT TO US BY PASTOR DON 04:34 MACKINTOSH, WHO IS THE PASTOR OF THE WEIMAR INSTITUTE CHURCH JUST 04:39 UP THE ROAD FROM US, NOT THAT FAR, AND HE IS BRINGING US OUR 04:42 LESSON STUDY TODAY. WELCOME, PASTOR DON. 04:49 >>WELL, GOOD MORNING, EVERYBODY. >>GOOD MORNING. 04:52 >>HOW MANY OF YOU ARE BLESSED TODAY? 04:55 LOOK AT THAT PERSON NEXT TO YOU AND SAY, 'YOU LOOK GREAT!' 04:58 TELL THE TRUTH. GOOD. WELL, THIS MORNING WE HAVE A 05:04 RATHER SOMBER LESSON STUDY. HOPEFULLY THERE'S GOING TO 05:09 BE SOME HOPE IN IT AS WELL. GRIEVING AND RESISTING THE HOLY 05:15 SPIRIT - GRIEVING AND RESISTING THE HOLY SPIRIT. 05:18 NOW, YOU KNOW, I DON'T KNOW - I'M THINKING RIGHT NOW ABOUT MY 05:22 TWO DOGS AS I READ THAT TITLE, BECAUSE I HAVE TWO DOGS. 05:25 I HAVE TWO AUSTRALIAN SHEPHERDS. HOW MANY OF YOU KNOW WHAT 05:29 AUSTRALIAN SHEPHERDS ARE? AND THEY'RE - THEY'RE VERY 05:33 INTELLIGENT AND WHEN WE GOT THE DOGS, WE WERE COMING HOME AND I 05:37 ASKED THE KIDS, YOU KNOW, WHAT SHOULD WE NAME THE DOGS? 05:40 MAYBE WE SHOULD NAME THEM 'MACK' AND 'TOSH' - KIND OF USING OUR 05:45 LAST NAME - MACKINTOSH - AND I WAS JUST KIND OF, YOU KNOW, 05:52 JOKING, AND THEY SAID, 'NO, THAT'S A GREAT NAME! 05:55 MACK AND TOSH!' SO, AT LEAST WHEN I SAY MY 05:59 LAST NAME ONE OF THEM LISTENS. (LAUGHTER) AND THE 06:04 OTHER ONE DOES NOT. WHICH DO YOU THINK IT IS - THE 06:09 ONE THAT LISTENS - IS IT MACK OR IS IT TOSH? 06:13 I HEAR CONFUSIONIN THE MULTITUDE. IT'S ACTUALLY MACK 06:19 WHO LISTENS AND TOSH - HE LISTENS BUT HE DISOBEYS. 06:25 HE LOOKS RIGHT AT ME AND THEN HE WILL RUN AWAY. 06:31 WE HAVE TRIED ALL MANNER OF THINGS WITH TOSH. 06:35 IN FACT, MY ONE SON, JAMES - JAMES MADISON SABBATISMOS, WHO I 06:41 ACTUALLY NAMED ONE TIME ON THE SABBATH SCHOOL HOUR A NUMBER OF 06:44 YEARS AGO - ABOUT SEVEN YEARS AGO - HE - HE TRIED - I CAME OUT 06:49 ONE DAY AND, YOU SEE, WE HAVE A CRATE FOR THE DOGS - WE HAVE 06:53 CRATES. IT'S LIKE A DEN. THEY LIKE THEM. 06:55 IT'S NOT LIKE IMPRISONMENT. THEY LIKE THE SAFETY. 06:58 AND HE WANTED TO SEE - HE WANTED TO GET CLOSER TO THE DOGS - 07:03 HE WANTED TO SEE HOW THEY FELT. 07:04 AND I WENT OUT AND HE WAS IN THE CRATE WITH THE DOGS. 07:08 AND I SAID, 'WHAT ARE YOU DOING IN THE CRATE?' 07:11 HE SAID, 'I JUST WANT TO - I WANT TO SEE WHAT THEY FEEL LIKE. 07:14 I WANT TO COME CLOSE TO THEM.' I THOUGHT, 'MAN, THAT'S THE GOSPEL 07:17 RIGHT THERE.' AND YOU WOULD THINK THEY WOULD LISTEN TO JAMES 07:21 - BOTH OF THEM - BUT ONLY MACK DOES. 07:25 SO TOSH HAS SOME PROBLEMS, SEE? 07:29 AND I DON'T KNOW THAT DOGS CAN SENSE THE SPIRIT, ALTHOUGH THEY 07:34 MAY BE ABLE TO BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, THERE ARE DIFFERENT 07:36 ANIMALS IN THE BIBLE THAT WERE USED, RIGHT? 07:40 DONKEYS, ROOSTERS - BUT, IF ANYONE NEEDS THE HOLY SPIRIT IN 07:47 THE DOG FAMILY AT OUR PLACE, IT IS TOSH. 07:49 HE NEEDS SOME REAL HELP. AND OUR LESSON STUDY TODAY IS 07:53 TALKING NOT JUST ABOUT ANIMALS, BUT ABOUT PEOPLE. 07:56 HOW MANY OF YOU HAVE HEARD ABOUT PEOPLE THAT ARE KIND OF 07:57 STUBBORN, LIKE A MULE? RIGHT? 08:03 NOBODY HERE? THIS IS A GOOD GROUP. 08:07 SO THEY NEED TO HAVE THIS CONVICTION. 08:11 SO LET'S JUST START WITH A TEXT THIS MORNING TO REMIND OURSELVES 08:13 OF THE WORK OF THE HOLY SPIRIT BECAUSE I JUST TALKED ABOUT THE 08:18 DOGS TO GET YOUR ATTENTION. THIS IS A VERY SOBER TOPIC. 08:23 JOHN CHAPTER 16 AND VERSE 8 SUMMARIZES WHAT THE HOLY SPIRIT 08:30 DOES AND YOU MAY REMEMBER THE TEXT - JOHN CHAPTER 16 AND VERSE 08:35 8, "AND WHEN HE HAS COME, HE WILL CONVICT THE WORLD OF" - 08:40 WHAT? >>OF SIN. 08:42 >>"OF SIN, AND OF" - WHAT? >>RIGHTEOUSNESS. 08:44 >>"RIGHTEOUSNESS, AND" - THEN WHAT? 08:48 >>JUDGMENT. >>"AND OF JUDGMENT:" - TO COME. 08:50 IN OTHER WORDS, HE TELLS US WHAT'S WRONG, - THAT'S WHAT THE 08:53 HOLY SPIRIT DOES - HE TELLS US WHAT'S RIGHT, AND HE TELLS US 08:57 THAT, WHEN WE KNOW WHAT'S WRONG AND RIGHT, THERE'S A JUDGMENT TO 09:01 COME. THERE'S A JUDGMENT ALL ALONG, RIGHT? 09:05 YOU UNDERSTAND THAT BECAUSE IF YOU'RE JUDGING SOMETHING, AS TO 09:08 WHETHER IT'S RIGHT OR WRONG, ISN'T THAT A JUDGMENT? 09:11 BUT THEN THERE'S JUDGMENT TO COME. 09:13 SO, THIS WHOLE IDEA OF THE HOLY SPIRIT IS THAT HE WORKS WITH US 09:17 AS WE'RE LEARNING AND THEN THERE'S WHAT? 09:22 THERE'S AN ULTIMATE JUDGMENT TO COME. 09:25 AND SO WE'RE KIND OF IN THIS PROBATIONARY PERIOD WHERE WE'RE 09:28 LEARNING WHAT'S RIGHT AND WRONG AND WE ARE RESPONDING AS A 09:34 RESULT OF LEARNING WHAT'S RIGHT AND WRONG. 09:36 NOW, THIS WEEK'S LESSON SPEAKS OF - OF BASICALLY FOUR THINGS 09:40 THAT WE CAN DO WITH THE HOLY SPIRIT. 09:42 AND LET'S JUST LOOK AT THEM: 1 THESSALONIANS CHAPTER 5 - 09:46 LET'S LOOK THERE TOGETHER - 1 THESSALONIANS CHAPTER 5 - AND WE 09:53 WILL LOOK - NOW, YOU REMEMBER, 1 THESSALONIANS - EVERY SINGLE 09:57 CHAPTER IN 1 THESSALONIANS ENDS WITH WHAT? 10:01 A PICTURE OF THE SECOND COMING. JESUS IS COMING AGAIN - CHAPTER 10:04 1, CHAPTER 2, CHAPTER 3, CHAPTER 4, CHAPTER 5 - EVERY SINGLE 10:08 CHAPTER ENDS WITH A PICTURE OF THE SECOND COMING. 10:11 IT'S KIND OF LIKE OUR SONG SERVICE THIS MORNING - LIFT UP 10:13 THE TRUMPET AND LOUD LET IT RING, JESUS IS COMING AGAIN - 10:16 RIGHT? SO EVERY SINGLE CHAPTER. 10:19 AND THE WHOLE BOOK IS TO GET US READY FOR THAT SECOND COMING 10:24 AND, IN THAT SETTING, LOOK AT 1 THESSALONIANS CHAPTER 5 - YOU 10:27 SHOULD ALL BE THERE - AND, UM, THE EXHORTATION THAT COMES WITH 10:35 SOME SHORT VERSES, ALL KIND OF LIKE IN A RIFF. 10:39 "REJOICE ALWAYS," - VERSE 16 - "PRAY WITHOUT CEASING," - 10:42 WE ALREADY STUDIED THAT IN OUR LESSON, RIGHT? 10:44 PRAYER IN THE HOLY SPIRIT; REJOICING IN THE HOLY SPIRIT - 10:48 "IN EVERYTHING GIVE THANKS; FOR THIS IS THE WILL OF GOD 10:51 IN CHRIST JESUS FOR YOU." THE POWER OF THANKSGIVING - THE 10:56 HOLY SPIRIT CAN COME IN THROUGH THANKSGIVING AND THEN THIS: 11:00 "DO NOT" - WHAT DOES IT SAY? - "QUENCH THE SPIRIT. 11:05 DO NOT DESPISE PROPHECIES. 11:08 TEST ALL THINGS. HOLD FAST TO WHAT IS GOOD." 11:11 SO, ONE THING THAT WE CAN DO WITH THE SPIRIT IS QUENCH IT. 11:14 WE'LL COME BACK AND TALK ABOUT THAT IN A MINUTE. 11:16 THEN THERE'S ANOTHER VERSE THAT WE HAD IN EPHESIANS 4 - 11:21 EPHESIANS CHAPTER 4 - WE'RE JUST GIVING AN OVERVIEW NOW AND THEN 11:25 WE'LL GO BACK AND THINK ABOUT THESE - EPHESIANS CHAPTER 4 AND 11:29 VERSE 30 - EPHESIANS CHAPTER 4 AND VERSE 30, "AND DO NOT GRIEVE 11:40 THE HOLY SPIRIT OF GOD, BY WHOM YOU WERE SEALED FOR THE DAY OF 11:46 REDEMPTION." SO THE FIRST THING WE COULD DO IS WHAT? 11:49 WE COULD QUENCH THE SPIRIT. AND HERE, WHAT'S IT SAYING? 11:52 GRIEVING THE SPIRIT. DO NOT GRIEVE THE HOLY SPIRIT 11:57 OF GOD, IS THE SECOND THING THAT WE COULD DO WITH THAT. 12:03 AND NOTICE, IT SAYS ALSO, THERE, NOT TO GET INTO IT TOO MUCH NOW, 12:07 "BY WHOM YOU WERE SEALED." SO, GRIEVING THE HOLY SPIRIT IN 12:12 ITS SEALING WORK IS REALLY WHAT IT'S TALKING ABOUT, OKAY? 12:18 AND THEN, FINALLY, MATTHEW CHAPTER 3 - MATTHEW, MARK, LUKE 12:26 - LET'S LOOK AT IT TOGETHER - OR LET'S LOOK AT MARK, RATHER, MARK 12:30 3:28 AND 29 - THIRD THING WE CAN DO WITH THE HOLY SPIRIT - MARK 12:42 CHAPTER 3, VERSE 28, "ASSUREDLY, I SAY TO YOU, ALL SINS WILL BE 12:46 FORGIVEN THE SONS OF MEN, AND WHATEVER BLASPHEMIES THEY MAY 12:51 UTTER; BUT HE WHO BLASPHEMES AGAINST THE HOLY SPIRIT NEVER 12:57 HAS FORGIVENESS, BUT IS SUBJECT TO ETERNAL CONDEMNATION." 13:05 SO THAT'S THE THIRD THING - QUENCHING THE SPIRIT, GRIEVING 13:11 THE SPIRIT, BLASPHEMING THE SPIRIT - OR I MIGHT SAY, THE 13:16 LAST ONE WE'LL TALK ABOUT IS RECEIVING THE SPIRIT, AMEN? 13:21 SO WE HAVE SEVERAL OPTIONS NOW. BY THE WAY, RECEIVING'S THE 13:26 WRONG WORD BECAUSE WE ALL RECEIVE THE HOLY SPIRIT. 13:29 EVERYONE WHO EVER LIVED RECEIVED THE GIFT OF THE HOLY SPIRIT. 13:32 IF YOU KNOW WHAT'S RIGHT AND WRONG IN ANY WAY, THAT'S THE 13:34 HOLY SPIRIT, RIGHT? SO MAYBE ACCEPTING THE WORK OF 13:38 THE HOLY SPIRIT WOULD BE THE LAST ONE, OKAY? 13:40 SO, QUENCHING, GRIEVING, BLASPHEMING - SO NOW LET'S LOOK 13:45 AT THEM ONE BY ONE. WE'LL GO BACK TO 1 THESSALONIANS 13:50 CHAPTER 5, VERSE 19, "DO NOT QUENCH THE SPIRIT." 13:57 UM...AND LET'S THINK ABOUT THAT FOR A MOMENT - OUR FIRST ONE - 14:04 QUENCHING THE SPIRIT, WHAT IS THAT MEANING? 14:08 YOU KNOW, TO QUENCH, IT ACTUALLY - WHAT DOES IT ENTAIL? 14:13 WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO QUENCH SOMETHING? 14:15 IS THERE ANY VOLITION INVOLVED? IS THERE ANY THOUGHT INVOLVED? 14:19 IS THERE ANY USE OF THE MIND, IF YOU'RE QUENCHING SOMETHING? 14:25 SO, YOU MIGHT SAY WHAT? THAT QUENCHING THE SPIRIT 14:30 IS A CHOICE - YES OR NO? WOULD YOU SAY THAT'S 14:33 TRUE - QUENCHING IT? SO, IF I HAVE A FIRE - YOU KNOW, 14:36 WE THINK OF QUENCHING FIRE - IF I HAVE A FIRE AND IT'S GOING 14:42 WELL, AND I DECIDE TO PUT IT OUT - I DECIDE TO QUENCH IT - THAT'S 14:48 A DECISION - A DELIBERATE ACT THAT, YOU KNOW, THAT I MAKE. 14:55 I MAKE THAT DECISION AND I QUENCH THE FIRE. 14:58 NOW, IF I'M CAMPING HERE IN NORTHERN CALIFORNIA, I MEAN, 15:00 ESPECIALLY THE LAST FEW YEARS - NOT SO MUCH NOW. 15:03 I DON'T THINK IT WOULD BE MUCH OF A PROBLEM TRYING TO START A 15:06 FIRE NOW - IT PROBABLY WOULDN'T START ANYWHERE, RIGHT? 15:08 BECAUSE OF ALL THE FLOODING AND ALL THE RAIN AND ALL THAT, BUT I 15:12 REMEMBER JUST A COUPLE YEARS AGO WHERE, YOU KNOW, IT WAS VERY 15:15 DANGEROUS IF A FIRE STARTS. AND THEY HAVE ALL THESE RULES ABOUT 15:18 QUENCHING IT AND YOU HAVE TO MAKE THE DECISION TO QUENCH IT. 15:21 BUT, IN THIS CASE, YOU KNOW, THE HOLY SPIRIT'S LIKE A FIRE THAT'S 15:25 GOING TO COME DOWN, METAPHORICALLY SPEAKING, AND 15:30 THAT FIRE IS SUPPOSED TO DO ITS WORK IN BURNING AWAY SIN AND THE 15:34 DROSS AND WHAT NOT, SO THAT WE'RE GOLD TRIED IN THE FIRE, 15:37 RIGHT? AND THE DELIBERATE CHOICE TO 15:41 QUENCH IT IS REALLY, YOU KNOW, NOT A GOOD CHOICE. VERSE 19, 15:47 "QUENCH NOT THE SPIRIT. DESPISE NOT PROPHESYING." 15:51 SO THE IDEA OF QUENCHING THE SPIRIT HAS SOMETHING TO DO WITH 15:54 DESPISING PROPHETS AND THEIR MESSAGES. 15:57 AND THAT WORD 'DESPISE' MEANS TO TREAT AS NO ACCOUNT. 16:04 AND LET'S THINK ABOUT THAT JUST FOR A MINUTE. 16:07 YOU KNOW, WHAT IS THIS BOOK MADE UP OF? 16:10 WHAT IS IT? I MEAN, YOU'VE GOT ALL 16:13 KINDS OF WHAT IN HERE? PROPHETS, RIGHT? 16:17 THE BIBLE IS THE ONLY BOOK OF THE MAJOR RELIGIONS THAT 16:22 HAS PROPHESY THROUGHOUT. YOU KNOW, YOU TALK ABOUT OTHER 16:26 BOOKS OF OTHER RELIGIONS - THE QU'RAN, MAYBE THE BHAGAVAD GITA 16:31 - THE SANSKRIT SCRIPTURES AND WHATNOT - DO THEY HAVE PROPHESY 16:34 IN THEM? NOT VERY MUCH, IF ANY. BUT THE BIBLE HAS HOW MUCH IN 16:40 IT? THEY SAY 26 TO 30 PERCENT OF THE BIBLE IS STRAIGHT-ON 16:45 PROPHESY. AND SO, WHAT IT'S SAYING HERE IS, YOU KNOW, DON'T 16:49 DESPISE THAT - DON'T QUENCH THAT. NOW, OF COURSE, NOT ONLY 16:55 ARE THERE PROPHETS IN THE BIBLE - THE MAJOR PROPHETS AND THE 16:59 MINOR PROPHETS - BUT THERE'S ALSO PROPHETS THAT THE BIBLE 17:02 TALKS ABOUT THAT WERE NOT IN THE BIBLE. 17:04 REMEMBER HULDA THE PROPHETESS AND OTHERS THAT WERE NOT 17:07 ACTUALLY WRITTEN IN THE SCRIPTURES, BUT THEY WERE STILL, 17:11 PROPHETS, RIGHT? AND SO, THIS IDEA IS THAT YOU 17:14 NEED TO TEST THE PROPHETS TO SEE WHETHER OR NOT THEY'RE VALID - 17:19 SO THERE'S PROPHETS IN THE BIBLE AND OUTSIDE THE BIBLE AND YOU 17:22 NEED TO TEST THOSE PROPHETS AND HOLD THAT WHICH IS GOOD. 17:27 UM - SO IN THE ADVENT MOVEMENT, IS THERE A CLAIM TO HAVE THE 17:35 GIFT OF PROPHECY IN THE ADVENT MOVEMENT? 17:38 AND DO PEOPLE DESPISE THAT? DO SOME PEOPLE DESPISE THAT? 17:46 I REMEMBER ONCE THERE WAS A - THOSE OF YOU WHO ARE NOT, MAYBE, 17:48 SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST CHRISTIANS, THE ADVENTIST CHURCH 17:53 HAS A LADY, ELLEN WHITE, SHE'S THE MOST TRANSLATED AUTHOR IN 17:58 AMERICAN HISTORY AND, I THINK, THE MOST TRANSLATED FEMALE 18:03 AUTHOR IN THE WORLD AND, ANYWAY, THIS - THIS LADY WROTE A NUMBER 18:10 OF TESTIMONIES DIRECTLY TO PEOPLE THAT BROUGHT CONVICTION 18:15 OF SIN AND OF RIGHTEOUSNESS AND OF JUDGMENT TO COME, RIGHT IN 18:19 REAL TIME, RIGHT? AND THEN THEY PUT ALL OF THESE 18:23 TESTIMONIES TOGETHER IN NINE VOLUMES. 18:26 HOW MANY OF YOU KNOW WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT? 18:27 THE NINE VOLUMES? ANYONE HERE EVER READ ALL NINE VOLUMES? 18:34 OKAY, SO - YOU'VE GOT TO GET BUSY. 18:38 THESE ARE GREAT THINGS - WHAT SHE SAYS IN THESE. 18:42 I REMEMBER I WENT TO A COUNTRY ONCE AND I ASKED SOME PEOPLE 18:45 ABOUT THIS AND THEY SAID, 'WE DON'T EVEN KNOW ABOUT THAT.' 18:48 I WON'T NAME THE COUNTRY, BUT I SAID, 'YOU DON'T KNOW ABOUT 18:52 THIS?' AND I BEGAN TO READ SOME THINGS 18:54 FROM IT AND A GROUP OF YOUNG PEOPLE WENT AND THEY SAID, 'WE 18:57 HAVE TO - WE NEED THIS - WE NEED THIS INFORMATION THAT YOU TALKED 19:01 ABOUT.' AND THEY HAVE SINCE THEN TRANSLATED ALL NINE VOLUMES. 19:06 NOW, THIS WHOLE IDEA OF QUENCHING IT - I MEAN, IF YOU 19:10 DON'T EVEN READ IT, HOW MANY OF YOU THINK THAT'S THE WAY TO 19:12 QUENCH IT - YOU DON'T EVEN START THE FIRE, RIGHT? 19:16 THAT'S ONE WAY TO REALLY JUST AVOID ANY FLAMES WHATEVER. 19:19 AND I WOULD SUGGEST YOU GO AHEAD AND READ IT BECAUSE, EVEN THOUGH 19:24 WE SING 'JESUS IS COMING AGAIN', AS AN ADVENTIST CHURCH, WE'VE 19:28 BEEN SINGING THAT FOR A LONG TIME AND THE BIBLE TELLS US 19:32 WE'RE LAODICEAN, WHICH MEANS JESUS IS OUTSIDE OUR CHURCH 19:35 KNOCKING - AND HE WANTS TO GET IN! YOU KNOW HOW HE GETS IN? 19:40 THE TESTIMONY OF JESUS - OR THE SPIRIT OF PROPHECY. 19:43 HOW MANY OF YOU ARE WITH ME ON THIS? IF YOU WANT TO HAVE ONE 19:45 CONVICTING TIME, READ THROUGH THE TESTIMONIES. 19:49 I REMEMBER, I WAS READING THROUGH THESE VOLUMES AND A 19:52 FRIEND OF MIND HAPPENED TO BE A PASTOR. 19:55 HE CAME TO ME AND HE GOES, 'WHAT ARE YOU READING?' 19:57 I SAID, 'PASTOR, I'M READING THE SPIRIT OF PROPHECY . 20:03 THE BIBLE SAYS 'QUENCH NOT THE SPIRIT. 20:07 DESPISE NOT PROPHESYING.' AND I'M READING THIS. 20:10 HE GOES, 'OH, BE CAREFUL. BE CAREFUL! 20:12 I'VE SEEN PEOPLE BECOME VERY RADICAL WHEN THEY READ THAT.' 20:16 AND I SAID, 'YOU HAVE?' HE SAYS, 'YES, IT COULD CHANGE 20:21 YOUR WHOLE PERSONALITY. YOU'RE JOVIAL - YOU - 20:23 YOU - YOU LOVE LIFE. YOU'RE FILLED WITH ENERGY. 20:27 IT'LL TAKE ALL THAT AWAY.' IT HASN'T DONE THAT. 20:31 (LAUGHTER) HOW MANY OF YOU NOTICED IT HAS NOT DONE THAT? 20:35 IT HASN'T DONE THAT, BUT I'LL TELL YOU WHAT IT DID DO, IT 20:38 CONVICTED ME ALMOST EVERY PAGE. IN FACT, ONE PAGE I WAS READING, 20:44 IT SAYS THAT ELLEN WHITE WAS TALKING ABOUT HER WRITINGS AND 20:49 SHE SAID, 'THE PEOPLE THAT I'M TALKING TO THEY DON'T LISTEN TO 20:50 ME. THEY DON'T LISTEN TO WHAT I'M SAYING. 20:52 I DON'T KNOW WHY I DO THIS. I DON'T KNOW WHY I HAVE THIS 20:55 - THIS - THIS WRITING THESE PROPHECIES OUT.' IN FACT, SHE 20:59 GOT UPSET ONCE AND THEN SHE SAW, IN VISION, THIS ANGEL THAT 21:04 KIND OF FROWNED AT HER, SO SHE STARTED WRITING AGAIN. SHE 21:09 DIDN'T WANT TO GRIEVE - GRIEVE THE ANGEL MESSENGER, RIGHT? 21:15 AND THEN THE ANGEL TOLD HER, HE SAID, 'LOOK, YOU JUST CUT OUT 21:20 THE GARMENTS.' AND SHE SAID, 'THOSE - THE PEOPLE THAT THEY 21:25 ARE MEANT FOR THEY MAY NOT - THEY MAY REJECT THEM, BUT THEY 21:27 WILL PERFECTLY FIT SOMEBODY ELSE.' DO YOU KNOW WHO THAT 21:31 SOMEBODY ELSE IS SUPPOSED TO BE? YOU OR ME. 21:34 HOW MANY OF YOU DON'T WANT TO DESPISE OR QUENCH THE SPIRIT BY 21:41 DESPISING PROPHECIES? I'LL TELL YOU ONE MORE STORY 21:44 ABOUT THIS AND THEN WE'LL GO ON TO THE NEXT ONE. 21:46 AND I ACTUALLY HEARD IT IN THIS COMMUNITY. 21:48 THERE WAS A MAN HERE WHO TOLD ME ABOUT HIS - I BELIEVE IT WAS A 21:51 NIECE OR MAYBE A MORE DISTANT RELATIVE WHO WORKED IN THE NEW 21:58 YORK WORLD TRADE CENTER - YOU REMEMBER THAT TERRIBLE DAY WHEN 22:02 THEY WERE STRUCK BY PLANES AND THEY CAME DOWN? 22:06 HOW MANY REMEMBER THIS? MAYBE SOME OF YOU ARE TOO YOUNG 22:08 TO REMEMBER THIS, BUT SOME OF US REMEMBER THIS TERRIBLE DAY. 22:13 AND THIS LADY - THIS YOUNG LADY WAS WORKING IN THE FIRST TOWER 22:18 THAT GOT HIT AND WAS UP ON THE FLOOR AND WAS SITTING THERE IN 22:24 HER CUBICLE AND ALL OF A SUDDEN THE WHOLE THING SHOOK. 22:28 THEN, 'WHAT IS THAT?' 'LOOK! A PLANE HIT IT!' 22:31 AND THEN A POLICE OFFICER CAME IN AND THAT POLICE OFFICER CAME 22:35 IN AND SAID, 'DON'T WORRY, THIS BUILDING IS DISASTER PROOF. 22:40 IT HAS BEEN, YOU KNOW, DESIGNED IN SUCH A WAY THAT EVEN IF A JET 22:44 HITS IT' - THEY DIDN'T KNOW THAT'S WHAT HAPPENED BUT - 'EVEN 22:47 IF A JET HITS IT, IT WON'T FALL DOWN. 22:50 IT IS FIREPROOF.' AND THAT YOUNG LADY REMEMBERED THESE WORSHIPS 22:56 SHE HAD HAD WITH HER FATHER GROWING UP. 22:58 HER FATHER WAS READING, EVERY MORNING FOR FAMILY WORSHIP, THE 23:01 TESTIMONIES WHEN - AND THIS PARTICULAR STATEMENT IS IN 23:06 VOLUME 9, WHICH MEANS THEY HAD READ ALL OF THEM. 23:11 SHE HATED FAMILY WORSHIP. SHE LOATHED IT. 23:14 SHE TALKED ABOUT HOW TERRIBLE IT WAS. SHE DESPISED IT. 23:17 SHE, ESSENTIALLY HAD QUENCHED IT UNTIL THAT MOMENT. 23:25 AND WHEN SHE HEARD THAT GUARD SAY, 'YOU KNOW WHAT? 23:29 THESE BUILDINGS ARE FIREPROOF.' SHE SAID, 'THEY'RE NOT. 23:32 THEY'RE NOT. I REMEMBER SOMETHING FROM MY 23:36 FAMILY WORSHIP.' AND SHE SAID, 'LET'S GET OUT OF HERE.' AND 23:39 THE GUARD SAID, 'YOU JUST STAY HERE.' 'NO!' 23:40 'DON'T TAKE THE ELEVATOR!' SHE SAID. 23:43 THEY BEGAN RUNNING DOWN THE STAIRS. 23:44 THEY GOT OUT. THEY GOT OUT OF THE BUILDING. 23:45 SHE SAID, 'KEEP RUNNING!' TWO OR THREE BLOCKS LATER - YOU 23:51 REMEMBER WHAT HAPPENED - THE BUILDING CAME DOWN. 23:55 HOW MANY OF YOU THINK THAT THE SPIRIT OF PROPHECY WAS USEFUL TO 24:01 HER AT THAT TIME? SO, QUENCH NOT THE SPIRIT. 24:07 AND DON'T QUENCH - DON'T DISALLOW OTHER PEOPLE FROM - I'M 24:11 A PASTOR, RIGHT? PEOPLE SAY TO ME, 'LOOK, YOU NEED TO JUST USE 24:15 THE BIBLE.' LOOK, I CAN PROVE EVERYTHING FROM THE BIBLE BUT I 24:18 HAVE NO PROBLEM READING, ALSO, THE SPIRIT OF PROPHECY FROM UP 24:23 FRONT. >>AMEN. 24:24 >>I DON'T HAVE ANY PROBLEM WITH THAT. 24:27 NOW, YOU'VE GOT TO UNDERSTAND SOMETHING ABOUT THIS. 24:29 WE HAVE A - WE HAVE A CONFLICT IN EPHESIANS BETWEEN THE PRINCE 24:34 OF THE POWER OF THE AIR AND THE HOLY SPIRIT THAT CONVICTS AND 24:37 CONVERTS AND SEALS AND SATISFIES, AND THIS IDEA OF 24:40 QUENCHING - ONE LAST IDEA - NOW, THIS IS DIRECTLY FROM THE SPIRIT 24:43 OF PROPHECY, BUT WE'VE ALREADY PROVED IT FROM THE BIBLE. 24:45 WE'VE SAID QUENCHING MEANS TO DO WHAT? 24:47 TO CHOOSE - YES OR NO? ISN'T THAT WHAT WE SAID? 24:51 BECAUSE QUENCHING IS LIKE A DECISION. NOW - NOW LISTEN TO 24:53 THIS - IT'S FROM A BOOK CALLED THE FAITH I LIVE BY - PAGE 58, 25:00 "MEN HAVE THE POWER TO QUENCH THE SPIRIT OF GOD. 25:07 THE POWER OF CHOOSING IS LEFT WITH THEM. 25:11 THEY ARE ALLOWED FREEDOM OF ACTION. 25:14 THEY MAY BE OBEDIENT THROUGH THE NAME AND GRACE OF OUR REDEEMER, 25:18 OR THEY MAY BE DISOBEDIENT AND REALIZE THE CONSEQUENCES. 25:22 SO, THE REASON I STARTED THE LESSON WITH THIS ONE IS BECAUSE 25:24 IT JUST ILLUSTRATES SOMETHING. QUENCHING THE SPIRIT IS WHAT? 25:29 RELATED TO A CHOICE I MAKE ABOUT EITHER MAKING MYSELF AWARE OF 25:34 WHAT THE SPIRIT HAS WRITTEN - THAT'S WHY I ASK YOU 'WHAT HAVE 25:37 YOU READ?' OR KNOWING WHAT'S WRITTEN AND SAYING, 'I DON'T 25:41 WANT TO DO THAT'? THAT'S A DECISION. AREN'T YOU 25:44 THANKFUL THAT NOT JUST ONE DECISION, YOU KNOW, PUTS US OUT 25:49 OF THE KINGDOM FOREVER? BUT IT'S NOT A GOOD THING - HOW MANY 25:52 THINK IT'S NOT A GOOD THING? EVERY TIME MY DOG TOSH RUNS THE 25:55 OPPOSITE WAY I SAY, 'THAT IS QUENCHING THE SPIRIT.' HE HAS 26:00 MADE A CONSCIOUS DECISION. HE'S A VERY BRIGHT DOG. 26:03 AND SEE, IF HE JUST RUNS ACROSS THE STREET HE COULD GET KILLED. 26:06 I ACTUALLY GET GRIEVED ABOUT IT - I ACTUALLY DO. 26:08 I SAY, 'WAIT A MINUTE' - YOU KNOW, I PAID A LOT OF 26:10 MONEY FOR THE DOG - IF MY DOG GETS KILLED MY KIDS WILL ALL 26:13 CRY, MY WIFE WILL BE MAD - I MEAN, THAT'S KIND OF A 26:17 SUPERFICIAL THING, RIGHT? BUT I THINK THAT WAY 26:19 - UM - WITH THIS SITUATION. PLUS, I LOVE THE DOG. 26:23 I DON'T WANT THE DOG TO - YOU KNOW, OBEDIENCE TO WHAT I'M 26:26 SAYING IS ACTUALLY ESSENTIAL FOR THE DOG'S SURVIVAL, RIGHT? 26:32 THAT BRINGS US TO THE NEXT ONE. NUMBER TWO - EPHESIANS CHAPTER 26:36 4 - SO LET'S TURN BACK THERE - EPHESIANS CHAPTER 4 AND VERSE 26:42 30, "AND DO NOT GRIEVE THE HOLY SPIRIT OF GOD, BY WHOM YOU 26:48 WERE SEALED FOR THE DAY OF REDEMPTION." 26:52 FIRST OFF, I MEAN, JUST WHEN WE'RE THINKING ABOUT THIS, YOU 26:54 KNOW, WE CAN QUENCH IT - THAT MEANS WE DON'T CHOSE THE RIGHT 26:56 THING - WE CAN GRIEVE THE HOLY SPIRIT. 27:00 NOW, THE FIRST THING ABOUT THAT - YOU JUST HAVE TO NOTICE - IS 27:02 WHAT? WHEN YOU SAY YOU CAN GRIEVE THE 27:05 HOLY SPIRIT, WHAT'S THE FIRST THING YOU THINK OF? 27:08 ALRIGHT, NOTHING. SO, I'LL TELL YOU WHAT I THINK 27:11 OF FIRST - WHAT'S THE FIRST THING YOU THINK OF? 27:13 I THINK OF, 'WAIT A MINUTE, THERE'S AN EMOTIONAL 27:16 INVOLVEMENT.' HOW MANY OF YOU THOUGHT OF THAT NOW THAT I 27:21 THOUGHT OF IT - HOW MANY OF YOU WERE THINKING OF IT BEFORE I 27:24 THOUGHT OF IT? ALRIGHT, IT JUST GRIEVES 27:26 ME A LITTLE BIT HERE. SO LOOK, YOU KNOW, THINK ABOUT 27:31 THAT FOR A MINUTE - GRIEVING SOMETHING - GRIEVING SOMEONE - 27:36 IT'S NOT SOMETHING, YOU DON'T GRIEVE A THING, RIGHT? 27:39 YOU KNOW, MY CAR, IF I DON'T GET IN THE CAR IT'S NOT REALLY 27:42 GRIEVED. IT JUST SITS THERE - SOME KIND OF, YOU KNOW, VEHICLE. 27:46 IT NEVER CRIES, 'OH, PLEASE COME BACK!' 27:48 BUT THIS IS - THIS IS A PERSONALITY. 27:51 THIS IS THE IDEA OF EMOTIONAL INVOLVEMENT. 27:57 I DON'T KNOW ABOUT YOU BUT THAT MAKES MY HEART GLAD - DOES IT 27:59 MAKE YOUR HEART GLAD? - THAT GOD, THE HOLY SPIRIT, 28:02 WOULD BE GRIEVED OR COULD BE GRIEVED. 28:06 HOW MANY OF YOU THINK THAT'S JUST GOOD NEWS? 28:08 YOU THINK OF ALL THE MAJOR RELIGIONS OF THE BIBLE - WE 28:10 SAID, IN THAT LAST LITTLE SEGMENT ON PROPHESYING THAT 28:12 THERE IS NO REAL PROPHECY IN THESE OTHER MAJOR RELIGIONS - IN 28:18 THEIR BOOKS. AND THERE'S ALSO NOT MUCH EMOTION. 28:23 IN FACT, THE WHOLE IDEA OF SOME RELIGIONS IN THE WORLD, IS TO 28:27 GET AWAY FROM EMOTION. YES? I WANT TO ESCAPE. I WANT TO GET 28:33 INTO THIS NIRVANA WHERE THERE'S NO PAIN - THERE'S NO EMOTION. 28:38 GOD IS SEEN AS HIGH AND LIFTED UP IN ANOTHER ONE OF THESE 28:42 RELIGIONS AND HE NEVER COMES CLOSE. 28:45 YOU KNOW, HE'S SO HOLY THAT HE NEVER COMES CLOSE. 28:48 THERE'S NO STORY OF THE INCARNATION IN THESE - THERE'S 28:53 REINCARNATION, BUT NO INCARNATION, WHERE GOD COMES 28:56 DOWN, HE GETS INVOLVED, HE WEEPS, HE - DOES THIS TOUCH YOUR 29:03 HEART AT ALL? JUST THE WORD 'GRIEVED'? 29:06 >>AMEN. >>YOU KNOW? 29:08 SO, YOU KNOW, IF I DO SOMETHING WRONG AND MY WIFE KNOWS I DO 29:15 SOMETHING WRONG IT'S - GOD KNOWS THIS IS VERY TRUE - BUT SHE 29:19 KNOWS I DO SOMETHING WRONG BUT THEN SHE JUST LOOKS AT ME 29:22 APATHETICALLY AND SHE MAKES - IT MAKES NO DIFFERENCE. 29:26 WELL, LIKE THIS MORNING, JUST TO BE, YOU KNOW, UP TO DATE 29:30 (LAUGHTER) IT'S NOT SOMETHING I DID WRONG, IT'S SOMETHING MY 29:33 KIDS DID WRONG. I GOT UP AND, YOU KNOW, A LOVELY 29:35 SABBATH MORNING, YOU KNOW, AND WE HAVE NICE MUSIC ON AND ALL OF 29:40 A SUDDEN I HEAR, 'WHY DID YOU HIT ME IN THE FACE?' 29:43 I'M LIKE, 'OH BOY, THIS IS NOT GOOD.' AND SO - AND MY WIFE 29:49 HEARD IT AND I WAS THERE, ACTUALLY, KIND OF WORKING ON THE 29:51 NOTES FOR THIS AND I WAS LIKE, 'I NEED TO PUT THE FINISHING 29:56 TOUCHES HERE.' AND THEN MY WIFE SAYS, 'DID YOU HEAR THAT?' 30:01 YOU KNOW WHAT THAT MEANT? YOU NEED SOME INVOLVEMENT, RIGHT? 30:05 BUT WHEN I WENT OUT THERE, MY WIFE WAS ACTUALLY - HAD TEARS IN 30:11 HER EYES AS SHE WAS TALKING TO MY SON, AND IT BROUGHT TEARS TO 30:14 MY EYES TOO. 'WHY WOULD YOU HIT YOUR BROTHER? 30:18 WHY?' AND THERE WAS GRIEF THERE. SO, WHEN WE SEE GRIEF OR WHEN 30:22 WE SEE EMOTION, IS THAT A GOOD THING? 30:26 AND SO IT SAYS HERE, IT SAYS, "DO NOT GRIEVE THE HOLY SPIRIT 30:34 OF GOD, BY WHOM YOU WERE SEALED FOR THE DAY OF REDEMPTION." 30:37 IN OTHER WORDS, YOU SEE, THE HOLY SPIRIT COMES AND SAYS, 'I'M 30:40 GOING TO TELL YOU WHAT'S RIGHT. I'M GOING TO TELL 30:42 YOU WHAT'S WRONG. I'M GOING TO TELL YOU THERE'S A 30:44 JUDGMENT AND I'M GOING TO GET YOU READY FOR THAT JUDGMENT. 30:47 I'M GOING TO PUT RIGHT NOW, EVEN BEFORE YOU'RE THROUGH THE FINAL 30:51 EXAM, I'M GOING TO PUT A SEAL ON YOU THAT SAYS YOU'RE MINE. 30:56 AND I'M GOING TO COME INTO YOUR HEART AND I'M GOING TO BE SO 31:01 INVESTED IN YOU, I'M GOING TO BE EMOTIONALLY INVOLVED. 31:07 HE HELPS US SUCCEED. NOW, HOW DO WE GRIEVE HIM? 31:10 IT TELLS US IN THE SAME CHAPTER - LOOK BACK IN EPHESIANS CHAPTER 31:14 4, VERSES 1 TO 3, "I, THEREFORE, THE PRISONER OF THE LORD, 31:16 BESEECH YOU TO WALK WORTHY OF THE CALLING WITH WHICH YOU WERE 31:18 CALLED, WITH ALL LOWLINESS AND GENTLENESS, WITH LONGSUFFERING, 31:23 BEARING WITH ONE ANOTHER IN LOVE, ENDEAVORING TO KEEP THE 31:27 UNITY OF THE SPIRIT IN THE BOND OF PEACE." 31:33 SO, WHAT DOES THE HOLY SPIRIT DOES - DO - WHAT DOES THE HOLY 31:36 SPIRIT DO IN THOSE VERSES? MAKES US BE ABLE TO BE GENTLE, 31:42 TO BE LOWLY, TO BE PEACEFUL, TO BE IN UNITY, OKAY? IN UNITY. 31:49 SO, IF YOU MEET SOMEBODY WHO'S ALWAYS MIXING IT UP - ALWAYS 31:53 STIRRING IT UP - WHAT ARE THEY DOING? THEY'RE GRIEVING THE 31:58 SPIRIT. IF YOU, YOURSELF, ALWAYS DO THAT 32:02 - NOW, I'M NOT TALKING ABOUT VALID REPROOF AND CORRECTION, 32:07 THAT'S DIFFERENT, BUT IF YOU'RE JUST KIND OF DOING IT - 32:09 LIKE MY ONE SON DID THIS MORNING, FRANKLY. 32:12 THE ONE BOY WAS LAYING ON A BEAN BAG WITH - IT'S SABBATH MORNING, 32:16 IT'S TIME TO RELAX - IT'S A DAY OF REST - AND THE OTHER GUY JUST 32:19 JUMPS ON TOP OF HIM - HE'S COVERED UP WITH A BLANKET, 32:21 DOESN'T SEE IT COMING. THIS LED TO A HUGE EXPLOSION. 32:26 AND THEN, YOU KNOW, IF THAT HAD BEEN THE FIRST TIME THIS 32:29 HAPPENED, YOU KNOW, THAT'S - YOU KNOW, I'M SERIOUS IT'S NOT A 32:31 NICE THING - BUT IT WASN'T, AND SO I HAD A LITTLE TALK AND SAID, 32:34 'YOU KNOW WHAT?' HE GOES, 'HE HIT ME!' 32:37 I SAID, 'OF COURSE HE HIT YOU. YOU JUMPED ON HIM AND HE DIDN'T 32:40 KNOW THAT AND SO HE HIT YOU.' I TOLD THE OTHER GUY, 'DON'T HIT 32:44 PEOPLE.' BUT I SAID TO THIS GUY, 'LOOK, DON'T - DON'T GRIEVE 32:47 HIM LIKE THIS.' YOU KNOW? RIGHT? SO UNITY - ARE THERE PEOPLE IN 32:54 THE CHURCH TODAY - IN GOD'S BODY THAT TRY AND ARE DISRUPTING 33:00 THE UNITY OF THE CHURCH? IS THAT HAPPENING TODAY? 33:03 ARE THERE PEOPLE - YOU KNOW, IN OUR CHURCH, THE SEVENTH-DAY 33:06 ADVENTIST CHURCH, FOR THOSE OF YOU WATCHING, WE HAVE THIS 33:07 STRUCTURE THAT IF YOU HAVE A PROBLEM IT GOES UP HIGHER AND 33:11 HIGHER AND HIGHER AND, FINALLY, IT GOES TO THE GENERAL 33:13 CONFERENCE, WHICH IS LIKE EVERYBODY TOGETHER, AND GUESS 33:16 WHAT THEY'RE SUPPOSED TO DO. THEY ARE SUPPOSED TO BE THE 33:19 ONES WITH REPRESENTATIVES FROM EVERYWHERE THAT SAYS, 'WAIT A 33:22 MINUTE, THIS IS THE WAY WE'RE GOING. IT MIGHT CHANGE, WE DON'T 33:25 KNOW, BUT RIGHT NOW, THIS TIME, WE'RE GOING WITH THIS 33:27 OR WHATEVER TOPIC.' AND I'M NOT TALKING ABOUT CHANGING THE BIBLE 33:30 OR ANYTHING, BUT WHAT'S THE WHOLE IDEA OF THAT? 33:35 TO BRING UNITY. HOW MANY OF YOU THINK 33:38 THAT'S A GOOD SYSTEM? THAT'S THE WHOLE IDEA AND THE 33:41 SPIRIT IS TO LEAD IN THAT PROCESS. 33:44 VERSE 22 OF EPHESIANS CHAPTER - CHAPTER - CHAPTER 4 - UM - VERSE 33:54 22 OF EPHESIANS CHAPTER 4 - LET'S LOOK AT SOME OTHER THINGS, 34:01 "...PUT OFF, CONCERNING YOUR FORMER CONDUCT, THE OLD MAN 34:05 WHICH GROWS CORRUPT ACCORDING TO THE DECEITFUL LUSTS" - SO YOU'RE 34:11 GRIEVING THE SPIRIT IF YOU'RE INVOLVED IN WHAT? 34:14 DECEITFUL LUSTS. AND CAN THAT HAPPEN 34:21 IN THE CHURCH? WHAT'S A DECEITFUL LUST? 34:25 IT'S SOMETHING THAT MASQUERADES OF LOVE, BUT IT REALLY NEVER 34:28 DELIVERS, RIGHT? A LUST IS SOMETHING WE DO THAT 34:33 DOESN'T HAVE SPIRITUAL FRUIT. IT HAS DIABOLICAL FRUIT. 34:39 UM - I WISH I HAD TIME TO GO INTO THAT MORE, BUT WE DON'T. 34:43 LOOK AT VERSE 25, "...PUTTING AWAY LYING" - SPEAK THE TRUTH TO 34:48 YOUR NEIGHBOR - SO LYING - YOU FIND YOURSELF LYING - NOT 34:54 TELLING THE TRUTH. THIS IS GRIEVING THE SPIRIT. 34:59 I HAD A STUDENT THE OTHER DAY, CAME TO ME AND HE SAID TO ME, 'I 35:05 DIDN'T GET THE ASSIGNMENT DONE AND I WANT MORE TIME.' AND I 35:10 SAID, 'WELL, WHY WOULD YOU WANT MORE TIME?' 35:12 WELL, HE WENT INTO ALL KINDS OF THINGS THAT WERE, ESSENTIALLY, 35:16 LIES. THEY COULDN'T HAVE BEEN THE TRUTH. 35:18 AND I'M SITTING THERE LISTENING - FINALLY I JUST INTERRUPTED HIM 35:21 AND I SAID, 'YOU KNOW, I DON'T WANT TO BE DISRESPECTFUL, EVEN 35:26 THOUGH YOU'RE LYING TO ME, BUT IF YOU WANT MERCY FROM ME, YOU 35:32 HAVE TO TELL THE TRUTH. I'LL GIVE YOU MERCY BUT NOT 35:37 IF YOU'RE LYING LIKE THIS. ACTUALLY, I WILL GIVE YOU MORE 35:41 ASSIGNMENTS IF YOU KEEP LYING.' HE GOES, 'WHAT DO YOU MEAN?' 35:44 I SAID - I TOLD HIM - AND HE SAID, 'YOU'RE RIGHT. 35:48 I WAS LYING. I WAS NOT TELLING THE TRUTH. 35:52 I BEG FOR MERCY.' AND I SAID, 'OKAY, I'LL GIVE IT TO YOU.' 35:57 GOD DOES NOT LIKE US TO LIE. IF YOU DID SOMETHING WRONG, JUST 36:03 SAY YOU DID SOMETHING WRONG. CAN HE FORGIVE IT? 36:06 >>YES. >>BUT HE CAN'T IF YOU LIE 36:08 BECAUSE YOU'RE ADDING MORE WRONGS ON TOP OF THE WRONG. 36:12 SO JUST TELL THE TRUTH. GRIEVING THE SPIRIT THROUGH LYING. 36:15 ANGER - VERSE 26 - I'M GLAD IT SAYS "BE ANGRY, AND DO NOT SIN" 36:21 - SO HOW MANY ARE THANKFUL YOU CAN STILL BE ANGRY? 36:26 ONLY ONE OF YOU. THAT'S A VERY GOOD CHURCH. 36:29 I TELL YOU, THERE'S NO FIGHTS IN THIS CHURCH. 36:31 BE ANGRY AND DO NOT SIN. DO NOT LET THE SUN GO 36:34 DOWN ON YOUR WRATH. SO THERE'S A TIME-LIMITED - UM 36:39 - ANGER - THERE'S A VALID ANGER AND AN INVALID ANGER. 36:42 WE DON'T HAVE TIME TO GO INTO IT ALL, BUT WHEN I'M HELPING PEOPLE 36:45 WITH DEPRESSION RECOVERY AND ANXIETY RECOVERY, THIS IS A HUGE 36:48 THING. SO BE ANGRY AND DO NOT SIN: 36:52 DON'T LET THE SUN GO DOWN ON YOUR WRATH. 36:53 IF YOU HAVE, YOU KNOW, THAT 24-HOUR PERIOD - OR WHATEVER IT 36:56 IS, DEPENDING ON THE TIME OF YEAR. 36:58 AND A LOT OF PEOPLE, WHEN THEY READ THAT TEXT THEY SAY, 'I 36:59 THINK I MIGHT MOVE TO NORWAY' (LAUGHTER) 'WHERE THE SUN 37:03 DOESN'T GO DOWN.' BUT IT STILL GOES DOWN. I MEAN, I WENT TO 37:05 NORWAY - I LIVED THERE FOR AWHILE - AND IT STILL GOES DOWN, 37:10 YOU KNOW? IT MIGHT BE JUST A LITTLE BIT. IN FACT, IN NORWAY 37:15 YOU HAVE LESS TIME WITH YOUR ANGER WHEN YOU REALLY UNDERSTAND 37:18 HOW THE SUN WORKS OVER THERE, SO DON'T TRY AND MOVE. 37:21 SO ANGER - VERSE 28 - STEALING - STEALING - "BUT...LET HIM LABOR" 37:30 - SO, STEALING, YOU KNOW, HAVE VALID LABOR, DON'T STEAL - VERSE 37:36 29 - THESE ARE WAYS TO GRIEVE THE SPIRIT - "LET NO CORRUPT 37:40 WORD PROCEED OUT OF YOUR MOUTH, BUT WHAT IS GOOD FOR NECESSARY 37:44 EDIFICATION, THAT IT MIGHT IMPART GRACE TO THE HEARERS." 37:48 SO CORRUPT WORDS - AND THEN THE SUMMARY TEXT FOR GRIEVING THE 37:52 SPIRIT - VERSE 31 - "LET ALL BITTERNESS, WRATH, ANGER, 37:58 CLAMOR," - IN THE MARGIN FOR 'CLAMOR' IT SAYS 'LOUD 38:01 QUARRELING' - HOW MANY OF YOU KNOW SOMEONE WHO NEEDS TO GET 38:04 RID OF THE LOUD QUARRELING - YOU KNOW, IF YOU'RE GOING TO 38:10 QUARREL, HOW MANY OF YOU ARE GLAD IT STILL SAYS YOU CAN 38:12 QUARREL? CAN YOU SAY 'AMEN'? >>AMEN. 38:15 >>YOU CAN QUARREL, YOU JUST HAVE TO KEEP THE VOLUME DOWN. 38:18 WHEN THE VOLUME GOES UP, THAT REALLY QUENCHES THE SPIRIT, 38:20 OKAY? "AND EVIL SPEAKING BE PUT AWAY FROM YOU, WITH ALL" - 38:25 MALICIOUSNESS OR - "MALICE." SO THIS IS HOW WE 38:29 GRIEVE THE SPIRIT. NOW NOTICE SOMETHING IN VERSES 38:35 17 THROUGH 19, "THIS I SAY, THEREFORE," - EPHESIANS 4, VERSE 38:39 17 - YOU'RE STILL WITH ME IN THE CHAPTER, RIGHT? 38:41 "THIS I SAY, THEREFORE," - VERSE 17 - "AND TESTIFY IN THE LORD, 38:45 THAT YOU SHOULD NO LONGER WALK AS THE REST OF THE GENTILES 38:47 WALK, IN THE FUTILITY OF THEIR MIND, HAVING THEIR UNDERSTANDING 38:50 DARKENED, BEING ALIENATED FROM THE LIFE OF GOD, BECAUSE OF THE 38:53 IGNORANCE THAT IS IN THEM, BECAUSE OF THE BLINDNESS OF 38:56 THEIR HEART; WHO, BEING PAST FEELING, HAVE" - WHAT DOES IT 38:59 SAY NEXT? - "GIVEN THEMSELVES OVER" - NOW WHAT DOES THAT MEAN? 39:07 IN OTHER WORDS, JUST LIKE WE SAW IN QUENCHING THE SPIRIT, THAT'S 39:11 A CHOICE, SO GRIEVING THE SPIRIT IS A WHAT? IT'S A CHOICE. 39:18 IT'S A CHOICE, RIGHT? THEY GIVE THEMSELVES OVER. 39:22 NOW, DON'T GET ME WRONG, YOU CAN DO THINGS WHEN YOU DIDN'T REALLY 39:27 KNOW ANY BETTER AND, YOU KNOW, THAT'S A DIFFERENT THING, BUT 39:32 THIS WHOLE IDEA - THE WHOLE PATH TO JUST GIVING YOURSELVES OVER - 39:37 IT'S THE POWER OF CHOICE AS WELL. 39:41 NOW, LET ME READ YOU ANOTHER QUOTATION NOW, FROM THE SPIRIT 39:45 OF PROPHECY , WHICH WE WILL NOT DESPISE, AFTER OUR POINT #1, AND 39:48 THIS IS THE FAITH I LIVE BY , ANOTHER QUOTE FROM THAT BOOK, 39:52 THE FAITH I LIVE BY , PAGE 58 - THE FAITH I LIVE BY , PAGE 58, 39:57 "CONSCIENCE IS THE VOICE OF GOD HEARD AMIDST THE CONFLICT OF 40:02 HUMAN PASSIONS" - HOW MANY HAVE EVER HEARD THE VOICE OF GOD 40:04 AMIDST THE CONFLICT OF HUMAN PASSIONS? 40:08 - "WHEN IT IS RESISTED, THE SPIRIT OF GOD IS GRIEVED." 40:14 SO THAT'S LIKE YOU'RE IN A FIGHT WITH SOMEBODY, LET'S SAY IT'S 40:20 YOUR SPOUSE, AND YOU KNOW YOU SHOULD NOT SAY THAT. 40:24 'NOPE, DON'T SAY THAT. DO NOT SAY THAT' - JUST THE 40:27 IMPRESSION COMES TO YOU. 'NO, NO, DON'T SAY THAT.' AND 40:31 YOU SAY IT ANYWAY. THAT'S GRIEVING THE SPIRIT, OKAY? 40:37 DON'T SAY IT. THAT'S THE WHOLE IDEA. 40:42 SOME OF YOU - I CAN TELL BY LOOKING AT YOU, YOU HAVE DONE 40:44 THIS, RIGHT? I HAVE DONE THAT. GRIEVING THE SPIRIT IS RESISTING 40:51 THAT REAL-TIME, YOU KNOW, SIGNAL THAT SAYS 'DON'T DO THAT. 40:58 DON'T GO THAT WAY, GO THIS WAY.' NOW, YOU KNOW, DOES GOD GIVE UP 41:02 ON US FOR THAT? NO. HOW MANY OF YOU ARE STILL ALIVE? 41:06 RIGHT? IT'S KIND OF LIKE YOUR GPS. 41:10 HOW MANY OF YOU HAVE HAD YOUR GPS SAY, 'TURN LEFT IN 500 FEET' 41:16 AND YOU DON'T DO IT? HOW MANY OF YOU JUST IGNORED? 41:18 AND WHAT DOES THE GPS DO? I MEAN, IT'S NOT EMOTIONALLY 41:21 INVOLVED, I DON'T THINK, IT CAN'T BE GRIEVED. 41:24 BUT IT'S PROGRAMMED TO ACT EMOTIONAL. 41:26 MINE ACTUALLY HAS AN ACCENT - IT USED TO - I USE MY PHONE NOW. 41:30 WHAT DOES IT SAY? >>RECALCULATING. 41:33 >>YEAH, RIGHT. WOW, THIS MUST HAVE 41:35 HAPPENED TO YOU A LOT. (LAUGHTER) THAT WAS CLAMOR - 41:38 THAT WAS ALMOST CLAMOROUS THE WAY YOU ANSWERED THERE. 41:40 SO, RIGHT, RECALCULATING. BUT ISN'T THAT A BLESSING? 41:45 GOD STILL HELPS US EVEN WHEN WE'RE GRIEVING. 41:49 NOW NUMBER THREE - THE MOST SERIOUS OF OUR - OUR THREE THAT 41:54 WE'RE TALKING ABOUT TODAY. WE HAD QUENCHING, WE HAD 41:58 GRIEVING, AND NOW WE HAVE BLASPHEMING. 42:02 MARK CHAPTER 3 - MARK CHAPTER 3, VERSES 28 AND 29, "ASSUREDLY, I 42:07 SAY TO YOU, ALL SINS WILL BE FORGIVEN THE SONS OF MEN, AND 42:11 WHATEVER BLASPHEMIES THEY MAY UTTER; BUT HE WHO BLASPHEMES 42:14 AGAINST THE HOLY SPIRIT NEVER HAS FORGIVENESS, BUT IS SUBJECT 42:18 TO ETERNAL CONDEMNATION. ALRIGHT, SO, YOU KNOW, WHAT DOES 42:25 THIS MEAN, 'BLASPHEMING THE SPIRIT'? 42:28 WELL, YOU KNOW, THE DEFINITION OF BLASPHEMY, MANY TIMES WE TURN 42:31 TO JOHN CHAPTER 10, VERSE 33, IN OUR MINDS WHICH SAYS, "THE JEWS 42:35 ANSWERED JESUS SAYING, 'FOR A GOOD MAN WE DO NOT STONE THEE, 42:37 BUT FOR BLASPHEMY, AND BECAUSE THOU, BEING A MAN, MAKE THYSELF 42:42 GOD." SO BLASPHEMY, IN THEIR MIND, WAS 42:45 SOMEONE WHO WAS HUMAN SAYING THEY WERE GOD. 42:48 IN OTHER WORDS, IT'S TAKING A ROLE AND RESPONSIBILITY THAT'S 42:52 NOT YOURS AND GOING AHEAD, EVEN THOUGH YOU KNOW IT'S NOT YOUR 42:57 ROLE OR RESPONSIBILITY - THAT'S WHAT THEY ACCUSED JESUS OF. 42:59 NOW, WERE THEY RIGHT IN ACCUSING JESUS OF THAT? 43:01 NO, BECAUSE HE WAS GOD, THEY JUST DIDN'T ACCEPT IT, RIGHT? 43:07 BUT, HAVE YOU EVER BEEN IN A SITUATION WHERE YOU HAVE TAKEN 43:12 THE ROLE AND RESPONSIBILITY THAT'S NOT YOURS, AND YOU SAY, 43:16 'I'M GOING TO DO IT ANYWAY.' THIS IS THROUGHOUT THE NEW 43:20 TESTAMENT. THIS - WELL, THESE THINGS CAN KIND OF SHIFT. 43:24 BUT, LIKE MY SON, NOT MY ONLY SON - IF THIS ONE DOESN'T WORK 43:29 OUT I HAVE ANOTHER ONE - THIS SON - THAT'S A LITTLE JOKE, 43:33 OKAY? I WANT THEM BOTH TO WORK OUT, BUT MY SON, THE OTHER DAY, 43:39 HE SAID, 'DAD, IT'S TIME FOR ME TO TELL YOU WHAT TO DO FOR 43:43 ONCE.' I MEAN, WE WERE BOTH EATING OUR 43:48 CHEERIOS, THERE WAS FRUIT NEARBY - AND MY WIFE - EVERYONE HEARD 43:52 IT - IT WAS ESTABLISHED BY TWO OR THREE WITNESSES - AND HE 43:56 ACTUALLY SAID THIS, 'IT'S TIME FOR ME TO TELL YOU WHAT TO DO.' 44:02 SOMEONE IS ASKING HOW OLD HE WAS. IT REALLY DOESN'T MATTER. 44:05 (LAUGHTER) HE IS NOT OF THE AGE OF ACCOUNTABILITY. 44:09 HE'S SEVEN YEARS OLD. 'IT'S TIME FOR ME TO TELL YOU 44:11 WHAT TO DO.' THIS IS A FORM OF BLASPHEMY BECAUSE HE'S TAKING MY 44:19 POSITION, OR WANTS TO, AND HE SAYS, 'YOU STAY IN THAT 44:22 POSITION.' AND THIS IS WHY, IN TIMOTHY, IT SAYS, 'DISOBEDIENT 44:26 TO PARENTS AT THE END OF TIME' AND ALL THAT STUFF. 44:29 IS IT - IS TODAY - DO WE LIVE IN A BLASPHEMOUS SOCIETY WHERE 44:33 CHILDREN ACTUALLY THINK THEY'RE THE PARENTS? 44:36 DO PEOPLE ACTUALLY GO AROUND PARENTS TO THE KIDS AND SAY, 44:40 'YOU SHOULD DECIDE HOW YOUR PARENTS SPEND THEIR MONEY.' DO 44:43 YOUR KIDS EVER COME TO YOU AND SAY, 'I WANT THIS, THAT, OR THE 44:46 OTHER' AND YOU WONDER HOW THEY EVEN KNEW ABOUT IT? 44:49 OKAY? BUT THERE'S OTHER - THERE'S OTHER ROLES AND 44:54 RESPONSIBILITIES, AS WELL, IN THE NEW TESTAMENT, RIGHT? 44:57 AND, THROUGHOUT THE PASTORAL EPISTLES ESPECIALLY, WHENEVER 45:02 THIS HAS SHIFTED - WHENEVER A ROLE IS SHIFTED IN AN INVALID 45:06 WAY THAT IS BLASPHEMY. NOW, ALL THOSE THINGS CAN BE 45:10 FORGIVEN, BUT THIS TEXT SAYS WHAT? IF YOU BLASPHEME THE HOLY 45:16 SPIRIT, IT CAN'T BE FORGIVEN. WHY? 45:17 NOT BECAUSE GOD DOESN'T WANT TO, BUT YOU TOOK AWAY WHAT? 45:22 YOU TOOK AWAY THE VERY VOICE OF GOD. 45:26 IF YOU'RE NOT GOING TO LISTEN TO GOD, THEN HOW CAN THAT BE 45:29 FORGIVEN? RIGHT? NOW, THERE'S AN INTERESTING 45:33 PASSAGE IN TIMOTHY, WHICH I STUDIED FOR ABOUT THREE 45:36 YEARS, A COUPLE YEARS AGO. IN 1 TIMOTHY 1, WHERE YOU HAVE 45:42 THESE TWO GUYS AT THE END OF THE CHAPTER - ALEXANDER AND 45:45 HYMENAEUS - THESE GUYS ARE LICENTIOUS GUYS, THEY'RE 45:49 NOT DOING WHAT'S RIGHT. AND SO, GUESS WHAT? 45:51 GUESS WHAT PAUL, THROUGH THE INSPIRATION OF THE SPIRIT SAYS 45:54 TO THEM: 'DELIVER SUCH A ONE TO SATAN.' SATAN DOESN'T LISTEN TO 45:59 GOD SO DELIVER THEM TO SATAN - 'THAT THEY MAY LEARN NOT TO 46:04 BLASPHEME.' CAN YOU SAY, 'HALLELUJAH? 46:07 SO, THEY'RE DELIVERED SO THEY CAN DO WHAT? 46:11 LEARN. PRAISE THE LORD. HOW MANY WANT TO LEARN NOT TO 46:14 BLASPHEME BEFORE YOU BLASPHEME? HOW MANY OF YOU WANT TO LEARN 46:19 NOT TO BLASPHEME THE HOLY SPIRIT BEFORE YOU EVER WOULD DO THAT? 46:23 MAN, I'M NERVOUS ABOUT THOSE NOT RAISING THEIR HAND. 46:25 LET'S JUST RAISE OUR HANDS TOGETHER. 46:26 THIS IS A VERY SERIOUS QUESTION, OKAY? 46:29 (LAUGHTER) THIS IS - THIS IS IT BECAUSE, IF YOU GO THAT FAR, 46:33 THIS IS WHAT IT'S SAYING: IN LIGHT OF ALL THE EVIDENCE THAT'S 46:39 OUT THERE, YOU KNOW, EVEN WHEN THERE'S EVIDENCE, IF YOU KEEP 46:45 GOING ON, YOU KNOW, JESUS WOULD HEAL PEOPLE. 46:50 LOOK AT VERSE 7 OF CHAPTER 2 OF MARK, "WHY DOES THIS MAN SPEAK 46:54 BLASPHEMIES LIKE THIS? WHO CAN FORGIVE SINS BUT GOD ALONE? 46:58 BUT IMMEDIATELY, WHEN JESUS PERCEIVED IN HIS SPIRIT THAT 47:01 THEY REASONED THUS WITHIN THEMSELVES, HE SAID TO THEM, 47:03 'WHY DO YOU REASON ABOUT THESE THINGS IN YOUR HEARTS? 47:05 WHICH IS EASIER, TO SAY TO THE PARALYTIC, 'YOUR SINS ARE 47:09 FORGIVEN YOU,' OR TO SAY, 'ARISE, TAKE UP YOUR BED AND 47:11 WALK'? BUT THAT YOU MAY KNOW THAT THE 47:13 SON OF MAN HAS POWER ON EARTH TO FORGIVE SINS''" SO HERE'S THE 47:18 IDEA: BLASPHEMY AGAINST THE HOLY SPIRIT IS BLASPHEMY AND SAYING, 47:25 'LOOK, I DON'T BELIEVE GOD IS IN THIS' EVEN THOUGH YOU SEE 47:28 ALL KINDS OF EVIDENCE. YOU SEE EVIDENCE AFTER 47:31 EVIDENCE AFTER EVIDENCE. I MEAN, IT IS SO CLEAR. 47:36 AND YOU SAY, 'I'M - YOU KNOW WHAT? 47:38 I DON'T ACCEPT IT.' THAT'S THE IDEA. 47:45 AND IT SAYS WHEN THAT HAPPENS - WHAT? 47:47 MARK 3:29 - ONE WHO DOES THIS IS IN DANGER - THE NEW KING JAMES 47:52 TRIES TO MAKE IT A LITTLE SOFTER - OF ETERNAL CONDEMNATION, BUT 47:54 IT'S ACTUALLY DAMNATION. BUT THE WORD IN GREEK THERE, 47:57 DAMNATION, IS 'CRISIS' OR 'JUDGMENT'. 48:02 WHAT DOES THE HOLY SPIRIT DO? CONVICTS OF SIN AND OF 48:07 RIGHTEOUSNESS AND OF JUDGMENT, RIGHT? 48:11 IS THERE GOING TO BE A JUDGMENT? ARE ALL THE DECISIONS THAT WE'VE 48:16 MADE GOING TO COME UP AGAIN? RIGHT? IF WE CONFESS OUR SINS HE 48:20 IS FAITHFUL AND JUST TO FORGIVE OUR SINS AND THEN THEY'RE 48:21 COVERED, AMEN? AND THEY - THEY'RE PUT ON 48:25 THE CROSS, BUT EVERY TIME WE QUENCHED, EVERY TIME WE GRIEVED 48:28 - AND IF ANYONE'S CONCERNED AT ALL WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT, YOU 48:32 HAVE NOT BLASPHEMED THE HOLY SPIRIT, RIGHT? 48:34 THAT'S NOT WHERE YOU ARE, BUT - AND THAT'S WHY THAT FREE LITTLE 48:38 BOOK FROM JOE CREWS, YOU KNOW, IN THE LIBRARY OF SERMONS, THE 48:41 POINT OF NO RETURN , IT'S ACTUALLY AN EXCELLENT BOOK TO 48:43 READ BECAUSE SOME PEOPLE CAN GET THE IDEA THAT THEY BLASPHEMED 48:48 THE HOLY SPIRIT AND MANY TIMES, AS I'VE TALKED TO PEOPLE - I'VE 48:51 NEVER TALKED TO ONE PERSON YET, THAT I BELIEVE HAS BLASPHEMED 48:54 THE HOLY SPIRIT AS THEY'RE TALKING TO ME ABOUT IT, BECAUSE 48:56 THEY'RE CONCERNED ABOUT IT, YOU KNOW? 48:59 IT'S THE PEOPLE THAT ARE NOT TALKING TO ME AT ALL ABOUT IT 49:01 THAT MAY BE, YOU KNOW, HAVING A PROBLEM. 49:04 OKAY, SO HAVE WE ACCOMPLISHED WHAT WE SET OUT TO DO? 49:08 WE LOOKED AT QUENCHING THE SPIRIT, WHICH IS A WHAT? 49:10 A CHOICE, RIGHT? WE LOOKED AT GRIEVING THE SPIRIT 49:14 - WE SAW THESE DIFFERENT THINGS - THE EMOTIONS OF GOD, AND 49:17 WE LOOKED AT BLASPHEMING - BLASPHEMING THE 49:21 HOLY SPIRIT AS WELL. NOW, I'M GOING TO READ TO YOU 49:24 AGAIN FROM THAT LITTLE BOOK THE FAITH I LIVE BY . 49:27 I LIKE HOW IT SUMMARIZES WHAT WE JUST LEARNED. 49:31 "THE SIN OF BLASPHEMY AGAINST THE HOLY SPIRIT DOES NOT LIE IN 49:34 ANY SUDDEN WORD OR DEED. IT IS THE FIRM, DETERMINED 49:38 RESISTANCE OF TRUTH AND EVIDENCE. IT IS NOT THAT MAN 49:44 SENDS OUT A DECREE THAT MEN MAY NOT BE SAVED. 49:46 HE DOES NOT THROW OUT WITH THE DARKNESS WITH THE EYES, WHICH 49:49 CANNOT BE PENETRATED, BUT MAN, AT FIRST, RESISTS THE MOTION OF 49:53 THE SPIRIT OF GOD AND, HAVING ONCE RESISTED, IT'S LESS 49:56 DIFFICULT TO DO THE SECOND TIME, LESS THE THIRD, FAR LESS THE 49:59 FOURTH, THEN COMES THE HARVEST TO BE REAPED FROM A SEED OF 50:03 UNBELIEF AND RESISTANCE." SO GOD REALLY DESTROYS, IN THE 50:08 SAME QUOTATION, NO ONE; THE SINNER DESTROYS HIMSELF 50:11 BY HIS OWN IMPERTINENCE. IN OTHER WORDS, BLASPHEMY 50:14 AGAINST THE HOLY SPIRIT IS THE SAME THING. 50:16 IT'S A CHOICE, AGAIN. HOW MANY CAN SEE THAT? 50:20 QUENCHING'S A CHOICE, GRIEVING IS A CHOICE, BLASPHEMY IS LIKE 50:24 THE COMBINATION OF ALL THOSE CHOICES ALTOGETHER. 50:31 NOW, NOBODY CAN JUDGE ONE ANOTHER AS TO WHETHER OR NOT 50:34 THEY'VE BLASPHEMED THE HOLY SPIRIT, BUT SOMETIMES, YOU KNOW, 50:39 YOU HAVE YOUR CONCERNS. AND I REMEMBER WORKING IN A 50:44 HOSPITAL FOR MANY YEARS, WITH PEOPLE THAT WERE DYING, AND I 50:46 REMEMBER - I REMEMBER A NUMBER OF PATIENTS THAT, YOU KNOW, WHEN 50:49 I REQUESTED TO PRAY WITH THEM AT THE END OF THEIR LIFE, 'NO. 50:53 I DON'T BELIEVE THAT.' AND, YOU KNOW, ONE OF THEM EVEN CURSING 50:58 THAT I LEAVE THE ROOM. AND SO YOU'RE CONCERNED 51:02 ABOUT THAT, RIGHT? WELL, THAT CAN HAPPEN. 51:04 AT THE END, I WISH I COULD END ON LIKE A REAL POSITIVE NOTE. 51:09 I WANT TO, BUT I'VE GOT THREE MINUTES SO IT'S NOT LIKELY I'LL 51:13 END ON A COMPLETELY POSITIVE NOTE IN THAT AMOUNT OF TIME, BUT 51:16 LET ME JUST SAY THIS: IN OUR LESSON STUDY, IT MADE THIS BIG 51:19 POINT - ACTS CHAPTER 7, VERSE 51, "YOU STIFF-NECKED AND 51:23 UNCIRCUMCISED IN HEART AND EARS! 51:24 YOU ALWAYS RESIST THE HOLY SPIRIT; AS YOUR FATHERS DID..." 51:27 THE LESSON MAKES A POINT THAT THAT NATION OF JUDAISM ACTUALLY, 51:34 AS A NATION, REJECTED THE HOLY SPIRIT. 51:37 AND THEN IT SEEMS TO INTIMATE THAT, YOU KNOW, WE SHOULD LEARN 51:40 SOMETHING ABOUT THAT. YOU KNOW WHAT WE SHOULD LEARN? 51:41 WE ARE THE LAODICEAN CHURCH. AND JESUS, IN THE LAODICEAN 51:45 CHURCH, IS NOT PICTURED INSIDE THE CHURCH. 51:48 DID YOU NOTICE THAT? HE'S OUTSIDE, KNOCKING, WHICH 51:51 MEANS EVERY KNOCK IS A WHAT? A RESISTANCE, IF WE DON'T 51:54 OPEN THE DOOR, TO WHAT? TO THE HOLY SPIRIT. CAN YOU SEE HOW 51:59 SERIOUS THE LESSON IS FOR THE LAODICEAN CHURCH? 52:03 HAVE WE QUENCHED THE SPIRIT EVER AS A DENOMINATION? 52:07 HAVE WE GRIEVED THE HOLY SPIRIT EVER? 52:10 RIGHT? AND THAT IS WHY THIS LESSON IS 52:16 ACTUALLY PRESENT TRUTH FOR US TODAY. 52:19 I MEAN, BUT TO END IN - ON A GOOD NEWS, IS THERE HOPE? 52:28 IF WE CAN QUENCH THE SPIRIT, IF WE CAN GRIEVE THE SPIRIT, AND 52:30 BLASPHEME THE SPIRIT, WE CAN ALSO, IF WE HAVE NOT BLASPHEMED 52:34 THE SPIRIT - I DON'T BELIEVE ANYONE HERE TODAY HAS - 52:37 WE CAN ALSO ACCEPT THE SPIRIT. 52:41 JESUS IS OUTSIDE KNOCKING, BUT CAN WE OPEN THE DOOR? 52:44 >>AMEN. >>CAN WE LET HIM IN? I LOVE THIS 52:47 - THIS QUOTATION - WELL, LET ME JUST LOOK AT EPHESIANS CHAPTER 1 52:51 JUST BRIEFLY - GO THROUGH A COUPLE TEXTS WITH YOU AS WE'RE 52:54 CLOSING. CHRIST IS IN HEAVEN WITH ALL SPIRITUAL BLESSINGS 52:57 AVAILABLE - EPHESIANS CHAPTER 1, VERSE 3 - HE CAN QUICKEN AND 53:02 MAKE US ALIVE WHO WERE DEAD IN TRESPASSES AND SINS. 53:05 EPHESIANS CHAPTER 2, VERSE 1 AND VERSE 5. 53:08 EPHESIANS CHAPTER 4, VERSE 21, WE CAN KNOW THE TRUTH - WE CAN 53:11 PUT OFF THE OLD MAN - VERSE 22 - WE CAN - VERSE 23 - WE CAN BE 53:15 RENEWED IN THE SPIRIT OF OUR MIND. REPENTANCE MEANS, 53:19 LITERALLY, IN GREEK, 'CHANGE THE MIND'. CAN YOU SAY 'HALLELUJAH? 53:25 SO THE MESSAGE TO THE LAODICEAN CHURCH IS WHAT? 53:29 BE ZEALOUS AND CHANGE YOUR MIND. OPEN THE DOOR. 53:33 SO HOW DO YOU OPEN THE DOOR? IT'S BY CHANGING YOUR MIND. 53:36 I WANT YOU TO COME IN. I WANT YOU TO TELL ME WHAT'S WRONG. 53:39 I WANT YOU TO TELL ME WHAT'S RIGHT. 53:40 I WANT YOU TO DIRECT ME. I WANT YOU TO LEAD 53:43 AND GUIDE, NOT ME. IT'S ONLY A DOOR AWAY. 53:49 IT'S RIGHT ON THE OTHER SIDE. WE CAN PUT ON THE NEW MAN. 53:52 WE CAN HAVE THE FRUITS OF THE SPIRIT. 53:54 WE CAN BE HOLY AND WITHOUT BLAME IN HIM IN LOVE, EPHESIANS 1:4. 53:59 WE CAN TRUST THE WORD - THE GOSPEL OF SALVATION. 54:01 WE CAN CLAIM THE SEALING PROMISE. 54:05 THERE'S A LOT OF PRACTICAL THINGS IN EPHESIANS AS WELL, AND 54:08 I'LL JUST END WITH ONE AS WE CLOSE. THEY DID A STUDY 54:11 RECENTLY, IN FACT, THIS YEAR, OF THOSE IN ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS. 54:16 ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS IS, YOU KNOW, A PROGRAM THAT HELPS 54:19 PEOPLE STOP DRINKING AND REPLACE THAT WITH SOMETHING ELSE. 54:24 AND THIS DID THIS STUDY, JUST RECENTLY, AND THEY DISCOVERED 54:28 SOMETHING. ABOUT 75 PERCENT OF PEOPLE IN 54:31 ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS PRAY - THEY SERIOUSLY PRAY. 54:35 HOW MANY OF YOU HAVE EVER BEEN TO AN AA MEETING? 54:37 WHEN I WAS A PASTOR IN MID-AMERICA, I ALWAYS WENT TO AA 54:40 MEETINGS BECAUSE I WANTED TO MEET PEOPLE THAT WERE REALLY 54:43 SERIOUS ABOUT REPENTANCE. YOU KNOW, THEY REALLY MESSED 54:48 THEIR LIFE UP SO THEY'RE REALLY SERIOUS ABOUT REPENTANCE. 54:51 WELL, ANYWAY, THEY DID A STUDY AND THEY FOUND SOMETHING, IN 54:53 REAL TIME, BY DOING MRIS - FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE 54:57 IMAGING - ON PEOPLE'S MINDS. 54:59 THEY LOOKED INSIDE THEIR MINDS, WHILE THEY WERE PRAYING, AND 55:03 THEN WHILE THEY WERE TEMPTED - SO THEY WOULD HAVE A PICTURE OF 55:07 ALCOHOL AND DIFFERENT THINGS AND SEE WHAT THE CRAVINGS WERE AND 55:10 WHATNOT - AND GUESSED WHAT THEY DISCOVERED. 55:12 THE PEOPLE THAT WERE PRAYING IN AA IN REAL TIME, THEY SAW THOSE 55:17 TEMPTATIONS GO DOWN. THEY COULD, IN THEIR BRAINS, 55:22 SEE THAT THEY WERE RESISTING TEMPTATION. 55:25 IT STARTED RIGHT HERE IN THEIR BRAINS AND THEY COULD SEE IT IN 55:28 REAL TIME. IN OTHER WORDS, GOD CAN GIVE US 55:33 THE GIFT OF REPENTANCE. CAN YOU SAY HALLELUJAH? 55:36 >>AMEN. >>HE CAN. 55:37 IF WE HAVE QUENCHED THE SPIRIT, IF WE HAVE GRIEVED THE SPIRIT, 55:43 HE CAN, IN FACT - IF WE HAVE ANY DESIRE, HE CAN, IN FACT, DO 55:49 WHAT? OPEN THE DOOR AND GIVE US THE GIFT OF REPENTANCE - HE CAN 55:54 CHANGE OUR MIND. DO YOU WANT THAT TO 55:56 HAPPEN IN YOUR LIFE TODAY? LET'S PRAY TOGETHER. 55:58 FATHER, IN HEAVEN, LORD, THANK YOU, TODAY, FOR THIS LESSON THAT 56:01 SHOWS, AGAIN, YOUR OVERWHELMING PATIENCE AND YOUR EMOTIONAL 56:06 INVOLVEMENT WITH EACH OF US. WE DON'T WANT TO GRIEVE YOU, WE 56:12 WANT TO BRING JOY TO YOU AND WE'RE TOLD THAT WHEN A SINNER 56:16 REPENTS THERE'S JOY IN HEAVEN. AND SO, TODAY, AS WE CLOSE THIS 56:21 LESSON, WE WANT TO, AGAIN, JUST SAY - WE WANT TO BRING YOU JOY. 56:26 WE DO NOT WANT TO RESIST THE SPIRIT, QUENCH THE SPIRIT - SO 56:30 COME INTO OUR LIVES, WE PRAY, IN CHRIST'S NAME, AMEN. 56:34 >>LET'S FACE IT, IT'S NOT ALWAYS EASY TO UNDERSTAND EVERYTHING 56:37 YOU READ IN THE BIBLE. 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