The Bible tells us in
the beginning was the word,
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and the word was with
God, and the word was God.
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It says to receive with meekness
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the implanted word,
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which is able
to save your souls,
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and to be diligent to present
yourself approved to God,
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rightly dividing
the word of truth.
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Join us now for the
3ABN Sabbath School Panel.
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Our study today is
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"The Holy Spirit
and Spirituality."
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Hello, and welcome to the
3ABN Sabbath School Panel.
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We're so glad
that you have tuned in
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and that you're joining with us,
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as we discuss the Holy
Spirit and Spirituality.
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It's been such a blessing,
we are on lesson number 5.
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And we have been so blessed
by each one of these lessons,
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showing us the
baptism of the Holy Spirit,
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the anointing
of the Holy Spirit,
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the infilling of the Spirit,
the divinity of the Spirit,
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the personhood of the Spirit.
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And today in a special way
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we look at the baptism and
filling of the Holy Spirit.
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I want to introduce
our panel at this time,
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and then we'll give
you the special website
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where you can
download the lesson,
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and you can
follow along with us.
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To my left is
Pastor Kenny Shelton,
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you are president of
Behold the Lamb Ministries,
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an integral part of
the ministry here at 3ABN
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and I appreciate
you as a man of God,
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a man of the word.
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And you and your wife
Chris are such a blessing to us.
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So thank you for being
part of the panel here today.
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It's such a blessing to always
be involved in Bible study.
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So love to study the Word of God
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because we want to
find out what truth is.
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It's very important
that part of what's going on.
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So anyway we're
thrilled to be a part
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and thank you for the
invitation to be able join in.
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And then to my left
Sister Mollie Steenson,
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bless your heart,
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it's always good to
study the word with you too.
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Thank you. Thank you.
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I'm always inspired and
just get a little higher up,
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you know, elevated by the Spirit
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when the Lord gives you,
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Holy Spirit gives
you words to speak.
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So I'm glad you're here.
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Can't imagine a better
subject for us to be studying,
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Pastor Kenney.
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And this word is
powerful and it's changing us.
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Isn't it, Brian? Yeah.
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This is to my
left is Brian Hamilton.
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Now let me just tell
you a little about Brian.
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Oh, no. He is our CFO.
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He is a pastor but he
is a gifted Bible teacher
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as we will see...
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And, Brian, I
just appreciate so much
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you being on the panel with us.
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Yeah, amen. Thank you.
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It's a fun to be a
part of this panel.
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Yes, it is.
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And as I have mentioned before,
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I can't think
of a better subject
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to be studying
than the Holy Spirit.
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And the person that
started this out here
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on our study was Jill Morikone.
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Jill and Greg are, been
with 3ABN for many years.
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We're blessed with Jill's,
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both her presentation
and she does a program,
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and she is a writer.
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Jill is Danny
Shelton's assistant
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and administrative assistant,
and she is a blessing.
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Jill, you are a
blessing to 3ABN,
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and we're glad to be a part
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that you're kind of
moderating our panel today, so.
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Well, we ask for the Holy Spirit
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to do any
moderation that takes place.
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We are so glad that
you have joined us as well.
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We want to give the website.
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This is the Seventh-day
Adventist Church's website.
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We are following
along with the lesson,
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the Holy Spirit
and Spirituality.
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So go to that website
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absg.adventist.org.
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That stands for Adult
Bible Study Guide.adventist.org,
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you can download the lesson
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and you can follow along with us
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as we study the lesson here.
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As I mentioned at the
open, we are in lesson number 5,
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the baptism and the
filling of the Holy Spirit.
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If you're just
joining us lesson number 1,
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we talked about
the Spirit in the word
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and how the Holy Spirit
inspired the word of God.
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Lesson number 2
was the Holy Spirit
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working behind the
scenes at creation,
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through the
incarnation, redemption,
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the Holy Spirit
behind the scenes
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and always lifting up
the Lord Jesus Christ.
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Lesson number 3,
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the divinity of the Holy Spirit,
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that the Holy
Spirit is not lesser
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than God the
Father or God the Son.
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He is equal, he is divine.
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Lesson number 4,
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the personality
of the Holy Spirit.
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Amen. The Holy
Spirit is not a force.
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He is a person,
divine, part of the Godhead.
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In today's lesson,
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the baptism and
filling of the Holy Spirit.
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Before we jump into the lesson,
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we always want to go
to the Lord in prayer
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and ask for the Holy Spirit
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to open up our
minds as we study.
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So, Pastor Kenney,
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would you open in prayer for us.
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Yes, those of you're at home,
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be sure and pray
along with us, will you?
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Bow your heads and let's pray.
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Father in heaven,
in the name of Jesus,
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we just thank you and we give
you praise for these lessons.
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We pray and they have already
opened our hearts and our minds
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to receive more of you.
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We're more receptive
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to the power of the Holy Spirit,
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we realize the
existence of the Holy Spirit,
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the importance
of the Holy Spirit.
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And I just pray
in a special way that
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you will pour that
spirit out upon this panel here
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as we study this most
important lesson today.
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And upon everyone
of those who view,
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those who listen,
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we pray that you
will stir the heart
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and the mind to
draw them closer to you,
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bring conviction to them.
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We praise you will give
them victory in any part
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that they need in their life
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that we may be
candidates for heaven.
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Bless us we pray to this
and may you have your will
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and your way and
everything that said and done,
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that we may bring
glory and honor unto you,
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the King of kings
and Lord of lords,
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and we thank you
and we praise you
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in Jesus' name, amen.
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Amen.
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Prayed up and ready to go.
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We're gonna do
our memory text first
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and then we jump into Sunday.
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Our memory text is John 10:10,
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"The thief comes only to
steal and kill and destroy.
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I have come that
they may have life,
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and have it to the full."
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Now I'm used to King
James there, to me it says,
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"I am come that
they would have life,
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and have it more abundantly."
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Oh, I love that
word. Yeah, abundantly.
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Now, you may notice we have
four people on our panel today.
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That's because Sunday's lesson,
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we're going to discuss together.
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And then we jump in
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and Pastor Kenney
will have Monday's lesson
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but Sunday's lesson
kind of kicks us off
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with the baptism
of the Holy Spirit.
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Let's turn to our scripture
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and then we can
kickoff our discussion.
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Let's turn to Mark 1.
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We're talking about the
baptism of the Holy Spirit.
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Mark 1, this is when
Jesus came to be baptized
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of John in the Jordan River.
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Mark 1, and someone
want to read versus 9:10.
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"And it came to past..."
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Mark 1:9-10,
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"And it came to
past in those days
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that Jesus came
from Nazareth of Galilee,
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and was baptized
by John in the Jordan.
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And immediately
coming up from the water,
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he saw the heavens parting,
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and the Spirit descending
upon him like a dove."
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And let's read verse 8 as well.
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We should've read versus 8-10
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'cause that kind of give us
that jumping into it verse 8.
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Okay.
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Verse 8 is,
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"I indeed
baptized you with water..."
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And this is John speaking.
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"And he will baptize
you with the Holy Spirit, "
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that's of Christ.
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Amen.
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So, John baptizes with water,
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but he's saying that Jesus will
baptize with the Holy Spirit.
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So from this
passage or other passages
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you all want to share,
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when does the baptism of
the Holy Spirit take place?
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You know every
time it seems like,
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when there is
confession forsaking of sin,
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Holy Spirit comes in
and brings conviction.
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You make a decision to
follow Christ, and then,
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you want to go down
into that watery grave.
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And then, you know,
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and then come up
in newness of life
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and then it say
"when you come up,
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then you receive the
power of the Holy Spirit."
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So that's one aspect of it,
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receiving power
of the Holy Spirit.
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Once we follow
through with that,
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which God has laid out in
his word we receive power,
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we receive the
baptism of the Holy Spirit
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or the ability
by the grace of God
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to walk that Christian
walk, that life of holiness.
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Amen. Mollie.
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What Acts tells us that,
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we knew accept
Jesus Christ as your Lord,
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say if you repent of
your sins, you're baptized,
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then you receive
the gift of the Spirit,
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the gift of the Holy Spirit.
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We're in Acts.
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Where you in Acts?
That's Acts 2:37-38.
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Yeah, let's read
that. I like that.
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"Now when they heard this,
they were cut to the heart..."
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And I'm going to be
teaching on this in Tuesday,
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but let me read it now.
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"And said to Peter and
the rest of the apostles,
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Men and
brethren, what shall we do?
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Then Peter said
to them, number 1,
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repent and let every
one of you be baptized
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in the name of Jesus
Christ for the remission of sins
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and you shall receive
the gift of the Holy Spirit."
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So when do we receive
the gift of the Holy Spirit?
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At conversion. Conversion.
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At conversion you receive
the gift of the Holy Spirit.
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Amen, amen.
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That's what goes along
with what you were saying,
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Pastor Kenny,
when we confess Him,
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when we repent,
when we accept Him,
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then that gift comes
along at the same time.
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Brian, you look
like you're going to...
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Well, I was just
looking at the title,
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the baptism of the Holy Spirit.
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That's an analogy, okay,
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to help us understand
what's being conveyed here.
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Baptism is where you go
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into a body of water,
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could be in prison
we've done it in a cart,
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A laundry cart,
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fill up the laundry
cart with the water.
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Okay. Yeah.
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I have seen it in
rivers, I have seen it in lakes,
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I have seen it
in swimming pools,
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but you go into a body of water
and are laid into the water.
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Water is used as a cleansing.
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We take a shower and we
cleanse our body with the water.
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Yeah.
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So when it says the
baptism of the Holy Spirit,
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it's referring to I
think this cleansing in
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what would we cleansed
off, of course would be sin.
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Yeah. Amen.
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So the baptism
of the Holy Spirit
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has to do with cleansing.
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Jill, just a second ago,
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they probably didn't
show it on television
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but you picked up this
and you sip some water.
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What does the water do on,
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it does on the
inside as we drink it,
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what water in a
shower does on the outside.
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So the infilling
of the Holy Spirit,
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both baptism is outside,
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the drinking is on the inside.
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So the Holy Spirit in
the analogy of baptism
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cleanses us both inside...
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Amen.
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..and outside.
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Amen.
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Can I touch on
three baptisms here?
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Okay. Please.
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And I want to use
Matthew 3:11 to springboard,
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"I indeed baptize you
with water unto repentance,
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but He who is coming
after me is mightier than I,
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whose sandals I am
not worthy to carry.
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He will baptize you with
the Holy Spirit and with fire."
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What does fire
do as well as water?
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Purifies. Purifies.
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Purifies. It cleanses.
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When you come out of
darkness and into the light,
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you enter into,
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are you a part of
the body of Christ.
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When you ask Jesus Christ
to be the Lord of your life,
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you are put into something,
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you're put into
the body of Christ.
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Okay.
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You've been born again.
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Well, now it
says we are to follow
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the Lord in believer's baptism.
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Amen.
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So what does the pastor do?
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The pastor takes you
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and he puts you
in a baptistery tank
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like we've got
into that water baptism.
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And what's left in that tank...
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The old man.
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What's supposed to be
in the bottom of the tank?
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Lot of old dead
people. Yeah, the dead people.
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So you need to come up,
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you need to come
out of that tank,
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you've been baptized and now
you're a member of the church,
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the local church.
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Ken, next,
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but there is
one coming after me.
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Oh, boy.
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John the Baptist says...
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Yes.
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Who is going to baptize
you with the Holy Spirit,
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who baptizes you with
the Holy Spirit and fire?
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Jesus. Jesus does.
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Yes.
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He baptizes you
into all that power,
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all that dunamis,
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the Holy Spirit and fire.
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There are three
baptisms I find in the word.
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There might be more but
those are the only three
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I'm thinking of right now.
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So do you think those
baptisms are synonymous
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or would they
occur at separate times.
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In other words,
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could I be
baptized into the water
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and not receive the
baptism of the Holy Spirit
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at the same time.
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See it can't all
happen at the same time
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but usually it doesn't.
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You can get born again
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and it might be two weeks before
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that can get you
down in the water.
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That was probably inappropriate,
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but you actually do
go to the water grave,
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but then the scripture is clear
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that you receive a
gift of the Holy Spirit.
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Now this Holy Ghost and fire,
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that's a purifying
and perfecting process,
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I think it comes
with some of that
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sanctification
process they must have.
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The growth process,
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I found something
that I thought interesting
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because of fire we need that.
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Again, we're baptized,
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we come up in newness of life.
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I've heard some
people say, Brother Brian,
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sometimes says "Well, you
know, I would accept Christ
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and I would be
baptized, but I'm just afraid,
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I'm gonna fall right back.
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I'm afraid I can't follow Christ
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the way I want to."
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They miss the point
as once they accept Him,
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once they follow
what He said to do,
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then He gives the power.
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Amen.
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Dunamis, right, the power,
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explosiveness to be able to
follow His teachings and then,
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I think, it begins...
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In my life it seems like
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the fire is being
heated seven times,
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is somebody still with me,
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seven times hotter
because of the impurities
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that need to go
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and so I just kind of looked
up and just a small Review
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and the Herald, I
think it was 12/11,
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1900 that says.
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It says, "Fire
reveals the difference
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between gold and
silver and precious stone."
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Interesting, now
it says right here,
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"Against that which is
hay and stubble and the world,
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so the Day of Judgment will try
or test the characters of man
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from that which is not
like Christ's likeness."
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So I thought, how interesting.
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When the fire is turned
up, it really does what?
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It tests the character.
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Am I going to be
that precious gold,
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am I going to be that
silver that can be refined
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and be seven times in
the furnace of affliction,
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or is it going to be a
fire that if I am not right,
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I am hay, stubble, boom,
I go up in smoke as it were,
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or that I burn and
it's going to boil down
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to the test of character?
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It's kind of an
interesting thought,
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but we're all
going through that...
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Do you see that the
fires of, I hear, persecution,
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and I hear the fires of things
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in our own hearts and our lives,
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and I am trying to learn to,
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by the grace of God to
thank Him for those things,
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the knots, the whippings.
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Yes.
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The knots on the head,
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somebody follows that, you know,
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they seem like
the things that go,
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and many times we
cause them ourselves,
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we allow them as bad
choices that we make.
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But there's still
things, I've learned this,
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some of the greatest mistakes
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that I have made has
been my biggest blessings
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in the long run.
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If you went
through that fiery furnace.
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If you go through it
and you learn the lesson,
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you've made things right
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and you move forward
is the biggest blessing
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because you will say,
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"I never want
to go there again."
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Amen.
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God wants to purify
us but you said that
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quote from Sister White,
reminds me of 1 Peter 1:7,
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"The genuineness of your faith
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being much more
precious than gold that perishes
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though it is tested by fire, "
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there is that
word, God is trying us,
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He's changing us,
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He's in the
process of perfecting us
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through the work
of the Holy Spirit.
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Now not only on Sunday
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we talked about the baptism
of the Holy Spirit taking place
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when we make Jesus
Christ the Lord of our life.
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When we repent, but
we also daily, hourly,
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moment by moment,
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need a special
filling with the Spirit.
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So, Pastor
Kenny, you have Monday
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with infilling of the Spirit.
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Monday's lesson I
think is just an awesome
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because when you say
being filled with the Spirit,
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everybody comes up
with something different.
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I don't know if you met
people filled with the Spirit,
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what does that mean?
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And they get a
little jumpy about
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and they get a
little bit nervous about
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being filled with the Spirit.
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But, you know, I have
learned over the years
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and I am still learning that,
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that is essential
in my walk with Christ
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as to being
filled with the Spirit
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every day of my life.
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I have to be
filled with the Spirit.
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If I am not,
there's something going on,
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there's a leak somewhere
and it needs to be patched up.
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So what does it mean to be
filled with the Holy Spirit?
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I thought the New Testament
gives several examples,
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and in the time we
have we'll cover them
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quickly as we can.
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It is a point to
remember is being filled,
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when I said being filled
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with the Holy
Spirit doesn't mean...
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And I think this is
brought out in a lesson
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before which is
good, it's not...
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It doesn't mean we
posses more of the spirit,
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it means the spirit
possesses more of us.
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I think that was
talked about several times,
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that is beautiful
when you think about it.
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Well I posses, I have.
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No, it's giving,
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it's submitting to
the Holy Spirit to use us.
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Too many people try
to use the Holy Spirit,
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I say in the religious
realm, that's a no, no.
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You don't want to do that,
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you want to
submit to the Holy Spirit
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because the Holy
Spirit has your best interest.
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The Holy Spirit
wants you to be saved.
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Amen.
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Holy Spirit is going
to do everything possible
00:18:14.32\00:18:16.09
to make sure that you are
there and that I am there.
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I have that
confidence and that assurance.
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If I am not there,
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it's because I have
chosen not to be there.
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That makes sense?
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Yes. It does.
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Because He's done everything,
Calvary's already there,
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so everything's all been placed,
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my ticket at the
will call window,
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if I don't have the courage
to go to will call window
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and say get my ticket,
I'm not going to get it.
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I understand that well
for many years in basketball,
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you know, you
want to go see a game,
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I'll be careful now,
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close to the
Sabbath hour so you go ahead
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and get your ticket
before the sun goes down,
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you leave at the
will call window,
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so you don't waste your
time you run to will call
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'cause I already paid for
it and you just get it and go.
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Got somebody come
and tell you and say
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what must I do to
be saved and you say,
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sorry, too late,
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everything's already been done.
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Yes. That needs to be done.
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Amen. It's paid for.
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It's paid for.
00:19:04.74\00:19:06.07
Being filled with the
spirit just, you know,
00:19:06.11\00:19:07.61
it really encourage me.
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To me it signifies that
it's an ongoing process.
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Does that make sense?
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Is being filled is
an ongoing process,
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of being filled with the
Spirit is just not a one time,
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I had people who are
filled with the Spirit,
00:19:20.46\00:19:21.79
I had this experience
it should be every day,
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it's an ongoing
experience to be filled
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and continue to
be filled because,
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you know, you should be giving
and as we give we are filled,
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you know, our
people say my cup is full,
00:19:34.84\00:19:37.47
my cup is full and bless
your precious little heart.
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It's nice to have the cup filled
00:19:42.64\00:19:44.31
but you can only give
00:19:44.35\00:19:45.68
what's going over in the saucer.
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What's that one song
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which says my
cup's running over...
00:19:50.65\00:19:52.25
Drinking from my saucer.
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I'm drinking from the saucer.
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My cups are overflowing.
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So it's an ongoing process.
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So in receiving
this and seeking this,
00:19:59.26\00:20:01.93
it tells it's a
continued growth in grace.
00:20:01.96\00:20:06.23
And the Holy
Spirit wants to live
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and abide in us
and the beautiful,
00:20:07.97\00:20:10.94
I think it's been read
three or four different times.
00:20:10.97\00:20:13.07
I can't get over Acts 1:8
00:20:13.11\00:20:15.98
'cause you were talking about...
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You now receive.
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It says, "But you shall
receive power after us."
00:20:18.75\00:20:21.18
almost like after the
Holy Ghost is come upon you.
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We were raised
basically so many years ago
00:20:25.09\00:20:27.29
that when the
Bible said Holy Ghost,
00:20:27.32\00:20:30.66
I changed the
word to Holy Spirit.
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I was afraid to say Holy Ghost.
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Some people don't
get that, Sister Mollie,
00:20:35.23\00:20:36.97
but we heard so
many different things
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about different
things beside Holy Ghost
00:20:38.37\00:20:40.57
and I have come to figure
out that they're the same,
00:20:40.60\00:20:43.37
so that's good, the Holy Ghost.
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This says, you receive
the Holy Ghost after, right.
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After the Holy Ghost will
come and you receive power
00:20:47.74\00:20:49.41
after the Holy Ghost.
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Here's a comment
from the Sabbath-School
00:20:50.81\00:20:52.95
Worker 11/28 in 1905.
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It says, "Christ is
represented by the Holy Spirit
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we understand,
00:20:59.95\00:21:01.29
when this spirit is appreciated,
00:21:01.32\00:21:03.02
" I think this is
the part of the lessons,
00:21:03.06\00:21:04.79
I am coming more to
appreciate the Holy Spirit
00:21:04.83\00:21:08.70
and what the spirit is doing.
00:21:08.73\00:21:10.23
The work that the
spirit has to do in this world
00:21:10.27\00:21:14.14
as it were is been put
back to the Holy Spirit.
00:21:14.17\00:21:17.34
God is there, Christ, you know,
00:21:17.37\00:21:19.21
and the Holy
Spirit is down working
00:21:19.24\00:21:20.74
with mankind
representing naturally
00:21:20.78\00:21:22.31
but notice,
00:21:22.34\00:21:23.68
"When those
control by the Spirit
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communicate to others,"
00:21:26.28\00:21:27.62
notice this,
00:21:27.65\00:21:28.98
"the energy with
which they are in viewed,
00:21:29.02\00:21:31.89
an invisible
cord is touched which,
00:21:31.92\00:21:35.19
" notice church "
00:21:35.22\00:21:36.56
which electrifies the whole,
00:21:36.59\00:21:38.56
with that we
could all understand
00:21:38.59\00:21:40.50
how balanced are
the divine resources."
00:21:40.53\00:21:43.16
When the Spirit
of the living God,
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when the Holy
Spirit comes upon us,
00:21:45.27\00:21:48.64
there is an energy
that you can't explain.
00:21:48.67\00:21:51.37
I'm getting goose bumps now.
00:21:51.41\00:21:52.74
I feel that energy,
00:21:52.77\00:21:54.11
you see it
coming out of my neck.
00:21:54.14\00:21:55.48
I feel that
energy of the Holy Spirit
00:21:55.51\00:21:57.65
and I know the Holy
Spirit touches a cord
00:21:57.68\00:22:00.72
and the wording in here is whoo,
00:22:00.75\00:22:03.59
it electrifies, it electrifies.
00:22:03.62\00:22:06.45
See some people don't get that
00:22:06.49\00:22:07.82
because they've
not been electrified.
00:22:07.86\00:22:09.42
That's right.
00:22:09.46\00:22:10.79
There are not
plugged into the source.
00:22:10.83\00:22:12.16
You've got to
plug in to the 110.
00:22:12.19\00:22:14.86
Be careful with 220 but
now I'm looking for that too
00:22:14.90\00:22:17.20
when it comes to
that Holy Spirit.
00:22:17.23\00:22:18.83
But the 110,
00:22:18.87\00:22:20.80
even when you're striving,
and looking, and praying,
00:22:20.84\00:22:23.37
"Lord I want to be
filled with Your Spirit.
00:22:23.41\00:22:25.71
I want to get
more involved with, "
00:22:25.74\00:22:27.18
sometime we get little relax,
little lazy along the way.
00:22:27.21\00:22:31.11
I was working the other day
on a house and I forgot that,
00:22:31.15\00:22:35.12
you know, there's no plug-in
in the wall outside there
00:22:35.15\00:22:37.39
and I was laying
some stone up to there.
00:22:37.42\00:22:38.89
So I pull that little wire out
of the sockets and when I did,
00:22:38.92\00:22:41.49
I pull the face of it off,
you know, the plug-in part.
00:22:41.52\00:22:44.13
Well, you know,
00:22:44.16\00:22:45.49
it had two
different wires running too
00:22:45.53\00:22:46.86
one coming off the other.
00:22:46.90\00:22:48.23
So, you know, you just
out there as it could be,
00:22:48.26\00:22:49.60
oh, man, I watch that,
00:22:49.63\00:22:50.97
no big deal, you
know, so I was...
00:22:51.00\00:22:53.23
Again take this to
the power of Holy Spirit,
00:22:53.27\00:22:55.64
sometime it gets a hold
of us and it shocked us.
00:22:55.67\00:22:58.51
I was busy laying the stone,
00:22:58.54\00:22:59.87
and I come back and I laid
my arm back there and said ooh.
00:22:59.91\00:23:03.28
And it weren't the Holy Spirit.
00:23:03.31\00:23:04.65
And it weren't the Holy Spirit
00:23:04.68\00:23:06.01
but it was an electrifying
that got my attention.
00:23:06.05\00:23:08.68
I did, I said
ooh, praise the Lord,
00:23:08.72\00:23:10.89
whoa, that's good.
00:23:10.92\00:23:12.69
I'm getting loose, anyway,
00:23:12.72\00:23:14.06
I thought that was interesting
because we need to let
00:23:14.09\00:23:16.09
the Holy Spirit
of the living God
00:23:16.12\00:23:18.09
come and electrify us.
00:23:18.13\00:23:19.96
Yeah. Yes, amen.
00:23:20.00\00:23:21.36
And when we
are, we become potent
00:23:21.40\00:23:23.30
in the cause of Christ
00:23:23.33\00:23:24.70
and I think that dunamis
00:23:24.73\00:23:26.07
we're talking about
really in our language
00:23:26.10\00:23:28.47
really we get our word dynamite.
00:23:28.50\00:23:30.34
Dynamite. That we're dynamite.
00:23:30.37\00:23:31.77
We need to be exploding
00:23:31.81\00:23:33.27
as it were for
the cause of Christ.
00:23:33.31\00:23:34.84
So wherever you go,
00:23:34.88\00:23:36.21
there should be
things moved out of the way.
00:23:36.24\00:23:37.81
Every obstacle that's
in the way is moved out
00:23:37.85\00:23:40.28
because of the explosion
00:23:40.32\00:23:41.65
of the power of the Holy Spirit.
00:23:41.68\00:23:43.02
We don't have to do
it, the Spirit does it.
00:23:43.05\00:23:44.85
So those are things I
thought was so interesting.
00:23:44.89\00:23:47.32
Ephesians 5:18
simply says, quickly says,
00:23:47.36\00:23:49.99
"And be not drunk
with wine," interesting,
00:23:50.03\00:23:53.63
"where in is excess but be
you feel with what, the spirit."
00:23:53.66\00:23:58.40
The spirit.
00:23:58.43\00:23:59.77
Fill is simple is to fill up.
00:23:59.80\00:24:02.20
It's to top off, is
to make it complete,
00:24:02.24\00:24:05.64
to render notice,
00:24:05.67\00:24:07.48
perfect to make known
God's will and to obey it.
00:24:07.51\00:24:13.45
Too many people
in the world today
00:24:13.48\00:24:15.38
says in not right way.
00:24:15.42\00:24:17.09
They know the will of
God but they refuse to obey.
00:24:17.12\00:24:20.49
They know the
spirit's prompting.
00:24:20.52\00:24:22.32
They know what they
need to clean up their act.
00:24:22.36\00:24:24.89
They know what they
need to get right with God,
00:24:24.93\00:24:28.00
but they refuse to yield
00:24:28.03\00:24:29.86
to the Holy
Spirit even pointing out.
00:24:29.90\00:24:33.97
Yeah.
00:24:34.00\00:24:35.34
I wish we had more
time I'd talk about this.
00:24:35.37\00:24:36.71
I realize the conversion for me,
00:24:36.74\00:24:38.14
I said many
times, I know conversion
00:24:38.17\00:24:40.18
when it comes is
different for different people.
00:24:40.21\00:24:42.18
But the Lord did my
covert in the dream,
00:24:42.21\00:24:44.21
pointed out
three things in my life
00:24:44.25\00:24:45.58
that had to be changed or
I was going to miss heaven.
00:24:45.61\00:24:47.08
You were in a dream sleeping?
00:24:47.12\00:24:48.45
It was a dream sleeping,
the Lord came to me in dream
00:24:48.48\00:24:50.69
'cause I was
praying about things
00:24:50.72\00:24:52.05
that I need to
get right whatever...
00:24:52.09\00:24:53.42
and he named those three things,
00:24:53.46\00:24:55.29
and He supposedly said,
00:24:55.32\00:24:56.66
and you know what?
00:24:56.69\00:24:58.03
I love this, I won't go
into all the detail with it,
00:24:58.06\00:24:59.39
He knows you. Amen.
00:24:59.43\00:25:01.86
He knows me so intimate
through the Holy Spirit.
00:25:01.90\00:25:04.87
He knows me so intimate,
00:25:04.90\00:25:06.63
that when He came to me He said,
00:25:06.67\00:25:09.04
"Kenny."
00:25:09.07\00:25:11.67
He didn't say, hey you. Amen.
00:25:11.71\00:25:13.51
He didn't say, hey, Mr. Shelton.
00:25:13.54\00:25:15.98
He knew me, He
said, you know what?
00:25:16.01\00:25:18.31
He said, "Kenny,"
and you know what it is,
00:25:18.35\00:25:20.48
even though you
may be drifting off
00:25:20.52\00:25:22.35
and you're still searching,
00:25:22.38\00:25:24.09
you still want,
00:25:24.12\00:25:25.52
I recognize the
voice of the shepherd.
00:25:25.55\00:25:29.22
He said all one word,
"Kenny," and I said, "Yes Lord."
00:25:29.26\00:25:33.76
Amen.
00:25:33.80\00:25:35.13
His sheep will know that voice.
00:25:35.16\00:25:37.93
Even if they're teetering,
00:25:37.97\00:25:39.30
they're going to know
if they really listen,
00:25:39.33\00:25:40.80
He speaks to them, so
I thought out, anyway,
00:25:40.84\00:25:43.00
that God works that...
00:25:43.04\00:25:44.71
He wants us to obey,
obey Him, and I look,
00:25:44.74\00:25:48.21
there's so much more to covering
00:25:48.24\00:25:49.58
and being filled
with the spirit is
00:25:49.61\00:25:50.95
just an exciting thing,
00:25:50.98\00:25:52.78
but again it's
an ongoing process,
00:25:52.81\00:25:54.55
it's everyday,
it's not these week old,
00:25:54.58\00:25:57.02
10 years ago
experiences that we need,
00:25:57.05\00:26:00.06
we need a fresh
supply, fresh graces everyday,
00:26:00.09\00:26:03.79
fresh experiences with Him.
00:26:03.83\00:26:05.46
And I tell you
when you're fresh,
00:26:05.49\00:26:06.96
people are going
to know you're fresh.
00:26:07.00\00:26:08.33
If you're a little bit day old,
00:26:08.36\00:26:09.70
they're going to
know you're day old.
00:26:09.73\00:26:11.33
Yeah. That's it.
00:26:11.37\00:26:12.70
They're going to know it.
00:26:12.73\00:26:14.07
And so we need to be
fresh in Jesus Christ.
00:26:14.10\00:26:15.54
So okay, my time's up.
00:26:15.57\00:26:16.91
And vitally important
that we have enthusiasm
00:26:16.94\00:26:21.04
and I don't
mean fake enthusiasm.
00:26:21.08\00:26:22.68
Oh, no, no, no.
00:26:22.71\00:26:24.05
Kenny, you are just overflowing
with the Spirit of God,
00:26:24.08\00:26:26.18
there is...
00:26:26.21\00:26:27.55
You can't be
lackadaisical and lukewarm
00:26:27.58\00:26:31.29
and be full of the Holy Spirit.
00:26:31.32\00:26:33.09
When you are full
of the Holy Spirit,
00:26:33.12\00:26:34.62
it's gonna show and,
00:26:34.66\00:26:35.99
Kenny, it's gonna show on
you and praise God for that,
00:26:36.02\00:26:38.03
you're supposed to.
00:26:38.06\00:26:39.39
This isn't supposed to
that Christ in us right,
00:26:39.43\00:26:40.76
the hope of glory shows out.
00:26:40.80\00:26:42.53
I'm scared to death
somebody will see me.
00:26:42.56\00:26:45.20
I don't know about...
00:26:45.23\00:26:46.60
They see me, I
can't change anybody.
00:26:46.63\00:26:48.90
I can't do
anything or mess anybody.
00:26:48.94\00:26:50.27
But Christ in me,
00:26:50.31\00:26:51.64
the hope of glory
can change somebody.
00:26:51.67\00:26:53.31
And that's a beautiful thing,
00:26:53.34\00:26:54.68
God wants to do in
each one of our hearts
00:26:54.71\00:26:56.95
and lives and praise Jesus.
00:26:56.98\00:26:58.81
I just feel like I'm
getting on fire here.
00:26:58.85\00:27:01.12
I'm getting
electrified, praise God.
00:27:01.15\00:27:03.08
Thank you Jesus
00:27:03.12\00:27:04.45
for the baptism
of the Holy Spirit,
00:27:04.49\00:27:06.32
for the infilling
of the Holy Spirit.
00:27:06.35\00:27:08.06
And now, Mollie, you
start with conditions.
00:27:08.09\00:27:10.13
Conditions to being
filled with Holy Spirit,
00:27:10.16\00:27:12.03
and the first thing I
wanted to head on was,
00:27:12.06\00:27:14.33
who is the baptism
of the Holy Spirit for
00:27:14.36\00:27:16.83
and that would be
1 Corinthians 12:13,
00:27:16.87\00:27:20.20
"For by one spirit
00:27:20.24\00:27:21.74
we were all
baptized into one body
00:27:21.77\00:27:24.81
whether Jews or
Greeks, whether slave or free.
00:27:24.84\00:27:29.41
And have all been made
to drink into one spirit."
00:27:29.44\00:27:32.18
So, Kenny, who is this
00:27:32.21\00:27:33.55
infilling of
the Holy Spirit for?
00:27:33.58\00:27:35.78
Whosoever will, everybody.
00:27:35.82\00:27:38.15
I wanted to do a
little springboard.
00:27:41.19\00:27:42.92
I'm going to pick on a
statement of Sister White's,
00:27:42.96\00:27:45.29
it's in Manuscript Releases,
00:27:45.33\00:27:46.86
volume 14, page 71, she says,
00:27:46.90\00:27:50.03
"I wish to
impress upon you the fact
00:27:50.07\00:27:52.33
that those who
have Jesus abiding
00:27:52.37\00:27:54.84
in the heart by
faith have actually
00:27:54.87\00:27:57.11
received the Holy Spirit.
00:27:57.14\00:27:58.94
Every individual
who receives Jesus
00:27:58.97\00:28:01.94
as His personal savior
00:28:01.98\00:28:03.78
just as surely
receives the Holy Spirit
00:28:03.81\00:28:06.95
to be his counselor,
00:28:06.98\00:28:08.58
sanctifier, guide, and witness."
00:28:08.62\00:28:11.39
Amen.
00:28:11.42\00:28:12.75
So, now, we're going
to look at the conditions.
00:28:12.79\00:28:16.52
What are the conditions
laid out in the word of God,
00:28:16.56\00:28:20.16
because there are conditions?
00:28:20.20\00:28:21.53
Amen.
00:28:21.56\00:28:22.90
Every promise of
God is condition.
00:28:22.93\00:28:25.40
Amen. We know that.
00:28:25.43\00:28:27.24
Its condition is laid out
and the word to determine,
00:28:27.27\00:28:31.17
if our heart is truly
ready to receive Christ.
00:28:31.21\00:28:35.24
Amen.
00:28:35.28\00:28:36.61
That's what is important
is the condition of the heart.
00:28:36.64\00:28:39.58
I wanted us to go to Mark 4,
00:28:39.61\00:28:41.78
because we're going to look
at some conditions of the heart
00:28:41.82\00:28:45.72
and we're going
to start in Mark,
00:28:45.75\00:28:47.46
it's the parable of the sower.
00:28:47.49\00:28:49.79
And let me tell you,
00:28:49.82\00:28:51.16
were going to read
Mark 4 starting in verse 4,
00:28:51.19\00:28:54.56
but I'm going to
skip over to verse 14
00:28:54.60\00:28:57.50
because we are talking
about the sower sowing.
00:28:57.53\00:28:59.93
And I want to show you
what the sower is sowing.
00:28:59.97\00:29:02.04
Verse 14 says, "The
sower sowes the word."
00:29:02.07\00:29:04.67
Amen.
00:29:04.71\00:29:06.04
So that's where
we liken the word
00:29:06.07\00:29:08.01
to the seed of a living God,
00:29:08.04\00:29:09.61
"The sower sows the word."
00:29:09.64\00:29:10.98
Now, starting in verse 3,
00:29:11.01\00:29:12.85
"Listen! Behold, a
sower went out to sow
00:29:12.88\00:29:15.98
and it happened as he sowed,
00:29:16.02\00:29:18.99
that some seed
fell by the wayside
00:29:19.02\00:29:22.02
and the birds of the
air came and devoured it."
00:29:22.06\00:29:24.56
Now what we're talking about
is conditions of the heart.
00:29:24.59\00:29:27.63
That's right.
00:29:27.66\00:29:29.36
We've got all these
people in the congregation,
00:29:29.40\00:29:31.37
the preacher is up there
00:29:31.40\00:29:32.73
preaching a
powerful salvational message.
00:29:32.77\00:29:36.24
It's going forth.
00:29:36.27\00:29:37.61
There are people out there
00:29:37.64\00:29:38.97
that just don't even
know the word's going on.
00:29:39.01\00:29:40.74
"That is those that
fell by the wayside.
00:29:40.78\00:29:44.71
Some fell on stony ground,
00:29:44.75\00:29:47.22
where it did not have much earth
00:29:47.25\00:29:49.52
and immediately it sprang up
00:29:49.55\00:29:51.39
because it had
no depth of earth."
00:29:51.42\00:29:53.25
Some of our hearts are stony,
00:29:53.29\00:29:54.62
some portions of
our hearts are stony.
00:29:54.66\00:29:56.83
Yeah.
00:29:56.86\00:29:58.19
But in verse 7,
00:29:58.23\00:30:00.93
"And some seeds
fell among thorns,
00:30:00.96\00:30:03.60
and the thorns
grew up, and choked it,
00:30:03.63\00:30:05.53
and it yielded no crop."
00:30:05.57\00:30:07.20
But, thank God for the but
in the word of God, verse 8,
00:30:07.24\00:30:10.51
"But other seed
fell on good ground,
00:30:10.54\00:30:12.77
and yielded a
crop that sprang up
00:30:12.81\00:30:15.04
increased and produced..."
00:30:15.08\00:30:16.58
Amen.
00:30:16.61\00:30:17.95
Some thirty fold, some
sixty, and some hundredfold."
00:30:17.98\00:30:20.58
And that's what we want to be.
00:30:20.62\00:30:22.28
As for this word
to go into our heart
00:30:22.32\00:30:24.69
and to spring up
00:30:24.72\00:30:26.05
and we'll be
hundredfold producers,
00:30:26.09\00:30:28.02
fruit producers in
the kingdom of God.
00:30:28.06\00:30:30.29
Okay, now I want
you to go to Acts,
00:30:30.33\00:30:33.76
I read this a little
earlier, told you was in,
00:30:33.80\00:30:35.83
what I was gonna
teach on, Acts 2...
00:30:35.86\00:30:38.37
Can you give it again? Amen.
00:30:38.40\00:30:40.07
Now this is Peter.
00:30:40.10\00:30:43.20
Peter is just coming
out of the upper room.
00:30:43.24\00:30:45.11
And y'all, what
happened in that upper room?
00:30:45.14\00:30:47.44
Holy Spirit poured out.
00:30:47.48\00:30:48.81
The Holy Spirit
has cloven tons of fire
00:30:48.84\00:30:52.28
and they came out
of that upper room
00:30:52.31\00:30:55.12
endued with power from own high.
00:30:55.15\00:30:57.22
Amen.
00:30:57.25\00:30:58.59
Now here is what
Peter says, he remember,
00:30:58.62\00:31:02.12
he expounded on the
person of the Lord Jesus Christ.
00:31:02.16\00:31:06.83
He told the people
00:31:06.86\00:31:08.20
what the Lord impressed upon him
00:31:08.23\00:31:09.80
and the Holy
Spirit spoke through him.
00:31:09.83\00:31:11.87
He says now,
when they heard this,
00:31:11.90\00:31:13.84
when they heard Peter's sermon,
00:31:13.87\00:31:16.04
that the first sermon
00:31:16.07\00:31:18.11
at the first evangelistic sermon
00:31:18.14\00:31:20.68
Peter had preached, this is it.
00:31:20.71\00:31:22.04
In Acts 2:37. In fact 2:37-38.
00:31:22.08\00:31:26.61
"Now when they heard this,
they were cut to the heart."
00:31:26.65\00:31:29.38
Remember what is it
that the seed is sown into?
00:31:29.42\00:31:32.12
It's the heart. Amen.
00:31:32.15\00:31:34.06
They were cut to the heart
00:31:34.09\00:31:35.42
and said to Peter and
the rest of the apostles,
00:31:35.46\00:31:37.93
man, brethren, what shall we do?
00:31:37.96\00:31:40.80
Then Peter said to
them, number one, "Repent".
00:31:40.83\00:31:43.93
What's that word repent mean?
00:31:43.97\00:31:45.77
That's not just
I'm sorry, I did it.
00:31:45.80\00:31:47.70
That's right.
00:31:47.74\00:31:49.07
Repent means...
00:31:49.10\00:31:50.71
Turning away. A
complete turn around.
00:31:50.74\00:31:52.41
Repent, change your ways.
00:31:52.44\00:31:54.54
If you were
headed this direction,
00:31:54.58\00:31:56.54
turn around,
00:31:56.58\00:31:57.91
you've got to go
this direction, repent.
00:31:57.95\00:32:00.38
Mercy.
00:32:00.42\00:32:01.75
Man, brethren. Yeah.
00:32:01.78\00:32:03.12
"Repent, and let
everyone of you be baptized
00:32:03.15\00:32:06.49
in the name of Jesus
Christ for the remission of sins
00:32:06.52\00:32:10.39
and you shall
receive the Holy Spirit."
00:32:10.43\00:32:12.99
So what are the conditions?
00:32:13.03\00:32:14.66
Number one,
00:32:14.70\00:32:16.03
you have to have God's
word come forth into your heart.
00:32:16.06\00:32:20.74
You must hear the
word of God. Amen.
00:32:20.77\00:32:23.30
We were talking last
week I believe it was,
00:32:23.34\00:32:25.81
how our
salvation every one of us
00:32:25.84\00:32:29.08
we had heard,
and heard, and heard,
00:32:29.11\00:32:32.48
and I know God by
the power of His spirit
00:32:32.51\00:32:34.78
slowly softened my heart.
00:32:34.82\00:32:37.02
But then the day came,
00:32:37.05\00:32:38.45
when the word was
planted right into my heart
00:32:38.49\00:32:40.82
and it was time, I
had to make a decision.
00:32:40.86\00:32:42.76
Yes.
00:32:42.79\00:32:44.13
By an act of my will,
00:32:44.16\00:32:45.49
I chose to serve
the Lord Jesus Christ.
00:32:45.53\00:32:48.56
I got changed.
00:32:48.60\00:32:49.93
I got born again.
00:32:49.96\00:32:51.30
And I have never been the same.
00:32:51.33\00:32:52.70
Once you accept Jesus,
turn from your wicked ways,
00:32:52.73\00:32:56.07
receive His spirit,
your will never be the same.
00:32:56.10\00:32:59.37
You hear God's word,
it goes into your heart,
00:32:59.41\00:33:02.28
it convicts your
heart of its condition
00:33:02.31\00:33:05.05
and you don't say,
00:33:05.08\00:33:06.41
"Oops, I'm sorry.
00:33:06.45\00:33:07.88
Oh, look how that I am."
00:33:07.92\00:33:09.48
You repent, you change. Amen.
00:33:09.52\00:33:11.72
Then follow the Lord
in believer's baptism.
00:33:11.75\00:33:16.02
We're told to do that.
00:33:16.06\00:33:17.76
And then you receive
the gift of the Holy Spirit,
00:33:17.79\00:33:20.90
those were the conditions.
00:33:20.93\00:33:22.26
Amen.
00:33:22.30\00:33:23.63
The power of
hearing the truth of words,
00:33:23.67\00:33:25.00
God's word is life changing.
00:33:25.03\00:33:27.74
Our conscience is pricked
and we see sinfulness of us.
00:33:27.77\00:33:32.91
We see our sinful condition.
00:33:32.94\00:33:34.94
We see our lost condition.
00:33:34.98\00:33:37.95
True repentance
then follows and then,
00:33:37.98\00:33:41.95
this is something that it
took me a while to see this.
00:33:41.98\00:33:45.75
where it says
00:33:45.79\00:33:49.82
"Not knowing that
it's the goodness of God
00:33:49.86\00:33:53.90
that leads us to repentance."
00:33:53.93\00:33:55.33
See, now I've got
this frame of reference
00:33:55.36\00:33:58.23
that I'm looking here
none of you three haven't know.
00:33:58.27\00:34:01.77
I wasn't raised in
the Adventist church
00:34:01.80\00:34:04.41
and I'm not going to tell
you the denomination I was in,
00:34:04.44\00:34:07.81
but they preached
hell hot and I mean, they,
00:34:07.84\00:34:11.78
they...
00:34:11.81\00:34:13.28
And it scared
people into repenting.
00:34:13.31\00:34:17.82
Well, I'm going to say
what, if it works for you, fine,
00:34:17.85\00:34:20.72
but that's not
what the word says.
00:34:20.76\00:34:22.76
The word says,
00:34:22.79\00:34:24.13
it's not
holding you at over hell
00:34:24.16\00:34:27.60
and saying burn baby
burn and roasting you, no.
00:34:27.63\00:34:31.47
It's telling
the goodness of God.
00:34:31.50\00:34:34.07
It's God's word and
the goodness of God...
00:34:34.10\00:34:36.27
That's right.
00:34:36.30\00:34:37.64
That leans you to repentance,
to that change of way.
00:34:37.67\00:34:41.94
And then
00:34:41.98\00:34:44.88
we ask in faith
in the James 1:6-8.
00:34:44.91\00:34:49.18
We ask in faith,
00:34:49.22\00:34:51.05
"But let him ask in
faith with no doubting,
00:34:51.09\00:34:54.76
for he who doubts is
like a wave of the sea,
00:34:54.79\00:34:58.53
driven and tossed by the wind.
00:34:58.56\00:35:00.23
But let not that man supposed
00:35:00.26\00:35:02.03
he will receive
anything from the Lord,
00:35:02.06\00:35:04.23
he is a double-minded man,
00:35:04.27\00:35:05.90
and he is unstable in his way."
00:35:05.93\00:35:07.74
We are to be persistent. Yeah.
00:35:07.77\00:35:09.64
The scripture
that's Luke 11:9-10.
00:35:12.77\00:35:14.74
"So I say to you: if
you will be given to,
00:35:14.78\00:35:18.71
seek and you should find,
00:35:18.75\00:35:20.72
knock and it
shall be open to you.
00:35:20.75\00:35:22.22
For everyone who
asks, receives, who seeks,
00:35:22.25\00:35:25.42
finds and to him who
knocks it will be opened."
00:35:25.45\00:35:27.59
Amen.
00:35:27.62\00:35:28.96
We have to be
persistent, Brother Kenny,
00:35:28.99\00:35:30.33
and how much more
00:35:30.36\00:35:31.79
what the
heavenly father gift us.
00:35:31.83\00:35:33.40
I love this, Luke 11:13.
00:35:33.43\00:35:36.03
"If you then, being evil,
00:35:36.06\00:35:37.80
know how to give good
gifts to your children,
00:35:37.83\00:35:40.44
how much more."
00:35:40.47\00:35:41.90
How much more?
00:35:41.94\00:35:43.54
Do you want little
bit of the Holy Spirit?
00:35:43.57\00:35:45.94
Do you want a lot
of the Holy Spirit?
00:35:45.97\00:35:47.48
Oh Father!
00:35:47.51\00:35:48.84
Fill me to the capacity I'm at,
00:35:48.88\00:35:50.75
till my cup is running over
00:35:50.78\00:35:52.91
and we're
drinking from the saucer.
00:35:52.95\00:35:54.58
That's how we want to be.
00:35:54.62\00:35:55.95
"How much more
would your heavenly Father
00:35:55.98\00:35:58.32
give the Holy Spirit
to those who ask Him."
00:35:58.35\00:36:01.52
Isn't that beautiful?
00:36:01.56\00:36:03.63
Go head. No, no.
00:36:03.66\00:36:04.99
No please, go ahead.
00:36:05.03\00:36:06.36
That's just a quick comment
because you just brought this
00:36:06.39\00:36:07.73
ahead in my notes
in Desire of Ages 172,
00:36:07.76\00:36:09.56
because when you are talking
about the Holy Spirit said
00:36:09.60\00:36:11.40
"The Christian life
is not a modification
00:36:11.43\00:36:14.64
or an improvement of the old."
00:36:14.67\00:36:16.00
I liked that.
00:36:16.04\00:36:17.37
"But a
transformation of nature."
00:36:17.41\00:36:19.31
There is a death,
00:36:19.34\00:36:20.68
death to self and
sin, a new life altogether.
00:36:20.71\00:36:25.95
Notice this change
can only be brought about
00:36:25.98\00:36:28.98
by the Holy Spirit,
00:36:29.02\00:36:30.69
effectual workings
of the Holy Spirit.
00:36:30.72\00:36:33.25
How that works in?
00:36:33.29\00:36:34.62
It's not, well, I'm
better than I used to be.
00:36:34.66\00:36:36.49
The old man's supposed to die.
00:36:36.52\00:36:38.29
The old man for me
keeps trying to get up
00:36:38.33\00:36:39.83
and I keep try and choke him
00:36:39.86\00:36:41.20
and put him back down
there by grace of God.
00:36:41.23\00:36:42.63
You know, don't come back up.
00:36:42.66\00:36:44.30
So it's a bad world, it goes on.
00:36:44.33\00:36:45.80
Yes, it is.
00:36:45.83\00:36:47.17
But this working can
be done and will be done
00:36:47.20\00:36:49.20
because of power
of the Holy Spirit.
00:36:49.24\00:36:50.57
Amen.
00:36:50.61\00:36:51.94
Thank you,
Mollie, so much for that.
00:36:51.97\00:36:53.31
God wants to change us
00:36:53.34\00:36:54.68
by the power of the Holy Spirit.
00:36:54.71\00:36:56.08
Make us into the image of
Jesus through that repentance,
00:36:56.11\00:36:59.21
baptism, the faith, the prayer,
00:36:59.25\00:37:00.88
I love that and you
have more conditions for us,
00:37:00.92\00:37:02.32
Brian, don't you?
00:37:02.35\00:37:03.69
Yeah.
00:37:03.72\00:37:05.05
Wednesday, it's
conditions part two
00:37:05.09\00:37:08.56
and so there
are more conditions.
00:37:08.59\00:37:11.06
But before I
launch into that, Mollie,
00:37:11.09\00:37:13.19
I really appreciated
what you had to share with us
00:37:13.23\00:37:15.66
in Mark 4,
00:37:15.70\00:37:18.43
about the soil, the
conditions of the heart,
00:37:18.47\00:37:21.70
and the impact that,
00:37:21.74\00:37:23.41
that has on the
Holy Spirit's ability
00:37:23.44\00:37:27.21
to be able to make
change in our lives.
00:37:27.24\00:37:30.55
I didn't grow up
here in the Midwest,
00:37:30.58\00:37:33.01
I grew up out in
Pacific, Northwest,
00:37:33.05\00:37:36.08
and there you some very
rocky rugged terrain, okay.
00:37:36.12\00:37:42.02
You have some actual mountains
00:37:42.06\00:37:44.86
that you lack here that
we lack here in the Midwest.
00:37:44.89\00:37:47.40
It's true.
00:37:47.43\00:37:48.76
It's flat in Illinois, you know.
00:37:48.80\00:37:50.90
All though there
are some rolling hills
00:37:50.93\00:37:52.30
and they may be
called those mountains.
00:37:52.33\00:37:53.77
But out in Washington, Oregon,
00:37:53.80\00:37:55.84
there are true mountains, okay.
00:37:55.87\00:37:58.61
Rugged with cracks, rock sticky,
00:37:58.64\00:38:01.94
and it amaze me
how in some areas
00:38:01.98\00:38:04.61
where there is almost zero soil.
00:38:04.65\00:38:08.08
You can see a tree growing out
00:38:08.12\00:38:11.05
and blossoming in what seems
the most inhospitable area.
00:38:11.09\00:38:18.03
And so, let's
remember that the Holy Spirit
00:38:18.06\00:38:22.53
even in most inhospitable
areas can bloom and grow.
00:38:22.56\00:38:28.10
Amen.
00:38:28.14\00:38:29.47
So we don't want
to write anybody off.
00:38:29.50\00:38:31.84
Thank you for that.
00:38:31.87\00:38:33.21
By looking at the outer
appearance and thinking,
00:38:33.24\00:38:35.61
oh, they're just
an old rugged, no.
00:38:35.64\00:38:38.75
I've even seen in
parking lots, in cities.
00:38:38.78\00:38:42.05
I have seen
cracks in the parking lot
00:38:42.08\00:38:44.45
and out bloomed a little flower,
00:38:44.49\00:38:46.42
a daisy, okay.
00:38:46.45\00:38:48.42
So God's spirit,
00:38:48.46\00:38:50.49
if there is even a
crack in the side walk,
00:38:50.53\00:38:53.60
will drop the seed in that crack
00:38:53.63\00:38:55.96
and it will bloom
and then it will blossom.
00:38:56.00\00:38:58.00
That's beautiful.
Let's remember that.
00:38:58.03\00:38:59.60
So they were not
so harsh on each other
00:38:59.63\00:39:02.00
about the conditions
of our hearts, you know,
00:39:02.04\00:39:04.27
because we all need that.
00:39:04.31\00:39:06.91
Acts 5,
00:39:06.94\00:39:10.21
why don't we turn to Acts 5:32?
00:39:10.25\00:39:15.72
Acts 5
00:39:15.75\00:39:18.09
and I got into
Romans, so I realized.
00:39:18.12\00:39:22.99
Acts disappeared from my Bible.
00:39:23.02\00:39:26.39
I bet it's still there.
00:39:26.43\00:39:27.76
You know what, you're
right, Mollie, it's there.
00:39:27.80\00:39:31.43
So Acts 5:32,
00:39:31.47\00:39:34.84
I'm going to
really start in verse 31.
00:39:34.87\00:39:36.71
Okay. "Him."
00:39:36.74\00:39:38.81
Who is the him?
00:39:38.84\00:39:40.18
The Him is Jesus.
00:39:40.21\00:39:41.74
"Him God has
exalted to his right hand."
00:39:41.78\00:39:46.25
So God has exalted
Jesus to his right hand
00:39:46.28\00:39:49.25
"To be Prince and
Savior to give repentance."
00:39:49.28\00:39:54.49
So, Mollie, you
talked about repentance,
00:39:54.52\00:39:56.93
even repentance is a gift.
00:39:56.96\00:39:59.23
It's a gift. It's good.
00:39:59.26\00:40:00.60
We don't have it of
ourselves but we can ask for it.
00:40:00.63\00:40:04.13
So to be a Prince and a Savior,
to give repentance to Israel
00:40:04.17\00:40:09.47
and forgiveness of sins.
00:40:09.50\00:40:11.57
And we are His
witness to these things,
00:40:11.61\00:40:15.04
and so also is the Holy
Spirit that God has given
00:40:15.08\00:40:19.41
to those who obey Him."
00:40:19.45\00:40:24.39
So there is again a condition
00:40:24.42\00:40:27.62
and I feel this as
an ongoing condition.
00:40:27.66\00:40:31.19
Not a one time, I
obeyed once in the past.
00:40:31.23\00:40:35.16
It's a continual,
00:40:35.20\00:40:36.93
daily type of thing of
surrendering for obedience.
00:40:36.97\00:40:41.34
Those, I
remember as our children,
00:40:41.37\00:40:43.94
our two sons grew up,
00:40:43.97\00:40:45.44
and the day came
00:40:45.47\00:40:46.94
when they wanted
the keys to the car.
00:40:46.98\00:40:49.91
Oh mercy.
00:40:49.94\00:40:51.28
Did that ever
happen to you, Kenny?
00:40:51.31\00:40:52.65
Yes.
00:40:52.68\00:40:54.08
Mollie, did it
happen to you? Yeah.
00:40:54.12\00:40:56.85
They wanted the keys to the car.
00:40:56.89\00:40:59.65
It was easy to
hand the keys over
00:40:59.69\00:41:02.86
when they had
consistently showed their life
00:41:02.89\00:41:06.73
as obedient to
your instructions.
00:41:06.76\00:41:09.76
It's good.
00:41:09.80\00:41:11.33
But when they hadn't,
00:41:11.37\00:41:13.74
I found it very difficult
to hand those keys over,
00:41:13.77\00:41:16.81
because I was afraid of
what they would do to the car,
00:41:16.84\00:41:21.21
with the car, or
to somebody else...
00:41:21.24\00:41:23.98
That's right.
00:41:24.01\00:41:25.35
Who the car might
come in contact with.
00:41:25.38\00:41:27.88
It was their
consistent life of obedience
00:41:27.92\00:41:33.02
that helped me have confidence
to hand over the keys.
00:41:33.05\00:41:37.89
And I just wonder if
the Holy Spirit looks at us
00:41:37.93\00:41:41.53
in a way like I
looked at our children,
00:41:41.56\00:41:45.27
that the Holy Spirit longs
to lend the car as it were,
00:41:45.30\00:41:50.27
longs to hand over the keys.
00:41:50.31\00:41:53.14
But what are we going to do
with that car when we get it?
00:41:53.17\00:41:57.81
Are we going to use it show off.
00:41:57.85\00:42:00.62
You never did
that, Kenny, I know.
00:42:00.65\00:42:02.25
But I probably did.
00:42:02.28\00:42:03.62
That's men have more of
a problem with that issue,
00:42:06.35\00:42:08.36
I think than you ladies.
00:42:08.39\00:42:09.72
But you know...
00:42:09.76\00:42:11.09
Maybe we show off
in other ways though,
00:42:11.13\00:42:12.63
so I think pride is a...
00:42:12.66\00:42:14.26
Yeah. Human condition.
00:42:14.30\00:42:16.23
So the lesson says,
00:42:16.26\00:42:19.23
"The Holy Spirit is
granted to all who obey God."
00:42:19.27\00:42:22.90
Amen.
00:42:22.94\00:42:24.27
"In the Bible love and
obedience go hand in hand.
00:42:24.31\00:42:27.88
Amen.
00:42:27.91\00:42:29.24
True faith is
expressed in obedience.
00:42:29.28\00:42:32.21
Yes.
00:42:32.25\00:42:33.58
So God loves to
give us the Holy Spirit.
00:42:33.62\00:42:36.85
God's longing to give us.
00:42:36.89\00:42:38.59
Jesus has promised
us the Holy Spirit.
00:42:38.62\00:42:40.96
Yes.
00:42:40.99\00:42:42.39
But when we live in
a life of rebellion,
00:42:42.42\00:42:44.79
in disobedience,
00:42:44.83\00:42:48.16
even though his
heart longs to give it,
00:42:48.20\00:42:50.80
he has to hold it back
00:42:50.83\00:42:53.34
until we are
trustworthy you might say
00:42:53.37\00:42:56.81
to be able to hand
over the keys to the car.
00:42:56.84\00:42:59.11
That's right.
00:42:59.14\00:43:00.48
So that was one
of the conditions.
00:43:00.51\00:43:02.81
Let's look at Jude.
00:43:02.84\00:43:04.75
Jude is a
little book clear back,
00:43:04.78\00:43:07.85
right before the
Book of Revelation
00:43:07.88\00:43:09.75
which is the last
book in the Bible.
00:43:09.78\00:43:12.12
Jude is one chapter long,
00:43:12.15\00:43:16.02
so you don't have
any chapters in Jude,
00:43:16.06\00:43:18.26
you just have verses, okay.
00:43:18.29\00:43:20.53
In Jude verses 18 to 21.
00:43:20.56\00:43:25.87
And this is a
description of those
00:43:25.90\00:43:31.64
who are lacking
the Holy Spirit, okay.
00:43:31.67\00:43:35.68
So Jude verse 18 now,
00:43:35.71\00:43:38.78
"They told you that
there would be mockers
00:43:38.81\00:43:41.48
in the last day, last time,
00:43:41.52\00:43:43.99
who would walk according
to their own ungodly lust.
00:43:44.02\00:43:49.29
These are sensual
persons, who cause division,
00:43:49.32\00:43:54.90
not having the Spirit."
00:43:54.93\00:43:57.60
Oh, my.
00:43:57.63\00:43:59.47
So this is something that
we can look in our own lives.
00:43:59.50\00:44:03.17
We can look in other people.
00:44:03.20\00:44:06.54
We can look in
surroundings where we work at.
00:44:06.57\00:44:08.98
Yeah.
00:44:09.01\00:44:10.35
And we say are the
divisions. It's good.
00:44:10.38\00:44:14.88
If there is divisions,
00:44:14.92\00:44:16.55
that should be telling us that
00:44:16.58\00:44:18.22
there is
something that is lacking.
00:44:18.25\00:44:21.09
And that something
is the Holy Spirit.
00:44:21.12\00:44:25.09
Are we,
00:44:25.13\00:44:27.86
our ungodly lusts
controlling our life.
00:44:27.90\00:44:32.70
And that should be prompting us,
00:44:32.73\00:44:35.00
telling us there is
something missing in our life
00:44:35.04\00:44:38.97
and that is the Holy Spirit.
00:44:39.01\00:44:40.34
Amen.
00:44:40.38\00:44:41.71
The Holy Spirit is um...
00:44:41.74\00:44:46.35
It's kind of like our
relationship with our spouses.
00:44:46.38\00:44:51.65
If we are central, lustful,
00:44:51.69\00:44:55.62
seeking
something else other than
00:44:55.66\00:44:58.23
who we promise
to be faithful to,
00:44:58.26\00:45:01.16
that severs relationship.
00:45:01.20\00:45:02.96
Yes, it does.
00:45:03.00\00:45:05.07
There is no longer,
it does something that is
00:45:05.10\00:45:10.77
in fact, it causes grieves...
00:45:10.81\00:45:14.11
Yes. To our spouse, okay.
00:45:14.14\00:45:17.81
And the Holy Spirit,
00:45:17.85\00:45:19.18
wasn't that in one of
our lessons in the past
00:45:19.21\00:45:20.88
that talked about that we
can grieve the spirit of God.
00:45:20.92\00:45:24.32
Okay. It's good now.
00:45:24.35\00:45:25.69
So the spirit
cannot give himself
00:45:25.72\00:45:28.02
in his fullness to us...
00:45:28.06\00:45:29.39
That's right.
00:45:29.42\00:45:30.76
While we are in a
process of grieving him.
00:45:30.79\00:45:32.73
That's right. All right.
00:45:32.76\00:45:34.33
Just as our spouse can't
give the fullness of love to us
00:45:34.36\00:45:37.93
that they would
want to give... Yes.
00:45:37.97\00:45:40.44
If we're causing them to grieve.
00:45:40.47\00:45:41.90
That's right. Amen.
00:45:41.94\00:45:43.27
Good.
00:45:43.30\00:45:44.64
So another condition
is, what is the heart?
00:45:44.67\00:45:47.54
What is the
condition of our heart?
00:45:47.58\00:45:49.14
Oh, boy. You know.
00:45:49.18\00:45:50.68
And if we see that there is
division and strife and lust
00:45:50.71\00:45:55.35
and other unholy
things in our heart,
00:45:55.38\00:45:59.85
then that should prompt us
that, let's go seek the spirit.
00:45:59.89\00:46:04.16
Let's ask the spirit
to remove those things,
00:46:04.19\00:46:07.60
so that we have room
for him in our hearts.
00:46:07.63\00:46:10.73
Oh, amen. Beautiful.
00:46:10.77\00:46:12.10
Praise the Lord. Amen.
00:46:12.13\00:46:13.47
That ends part two.
00:46:13.50\00:46:15.97
And, Jill?
00:46:16.00\00:46:17.34
Amen. That was beautiful, Brian.
00:46:17.37\00:46:18.71
I love that analogy of your
spouse in the marriage and...
00:46:18.74\00:46:21.28
Amen.
00:46:21.31\00:46:22.64
I've thought of that with Jesus,
00:46:22.68\00:46:24.25
but I don't think
ever with the Holy Spirit,
00:46:24.28\00:46:26.31
that was the first time... Amen.
00:46:26.35\00:46:28.32
I had processed that myself
and that's a beautiful analogy,
00:46:28.35\00:46:31.49
how we could
grieve the Holy Spirit
00:46:31.52\00:46:33.09
or how it could cause
pain and it's not that,
00:46:33.12\00:46:35.99
these conditions
we've been discussing
00:46:36.02\00:46:37.99
are not God being hard on us.
00:46:38.03\00:46:40.76
It's simply how can
we come into total unity?
00:46:40.80\00:46:45.77
How can we be
filled with the Holy Spirit
00:46:45.80\00:46:48.84
unless we choose to
allow him to change us?
00:46:48.87\00:46:53.27
So that we can
walk in obedience.
00:46:53.31\00:46:54.74
So that we can follow him fully.
00:46:54.78\00:46:57.58
If Thursday is
self centered living
00:46:57.61\00:47:01.65
versus Christ centered living.
00:47:01.68\00:47:05.09
This week we've looked at
kind of three major things.
00:47:05.12\00:47:07.99
We started with the
baptism of the Holy Spirit,
00:47:08.02\00:47:10.16
the filling of the Holy Spirit.
00:47:10.19\00:47:12.03
We looked at the prerequisites,
that's a hard word.
00:47:12.06\00:47:15.16
Prerequisites to
receiving the Holy Spirit
00:47:15.20\00:47:19.37
or to be in filled
with the Holy Spirit.
00:47:19.40\00:47:21.60
And now we look at the
change, the transformation
00:47:21.64\00:47:25.17
that the Holy Spirit
makes in our hearts and lives.
00:47:25.21\00:47:28.04
Let's go to Ephesians.
00:47:28.08\00:47:30.71
We also can see
this in Galatians 5,
00:47:30.75\00:47:32.88
but I want to look
at Ephesians first.
00:47:32.91\00:47:35.92
If we have time,
we'll go to Galatians
00:47:35.95\00:47:37.59
if not, it's a good
scripture for another time.
00:47:37.62\00:47:40.62
But Ephesians 5,
we're going to read verses 1
00:47:40.66\00:47:43.93
actually through 21.
00:47:43.96\00:47:46.39
We see here the radical
difference between those
00:47:46.43\00:47:50.00
who follow Jesus,
follow the spirit,
00:47:50.03\00:47:52.90
walk in the spirit
00:47:52.93\00:47:54.47
and those who, as
Galatians 5 tells us,
00:47:54.50\00:47:56.77
follow the works of the flesh.
00:47:56.81\00:47:58.77
Ephesians 5, kind of is divided
into three separate categories.
00:47:58.81\00:48:03.68
And verses 1 through 7
deals with love versus lust.
00:48:03.71\00:48:09.22
Verses 8 through 14
is light versus darkness.
00:48:09.25\00:48:13.82
Verse 15 through 21, I'm sorry
is wisdom versus foolishness.
00:48:13.86\00:48:20.10
It's all three different ways
of looking at the same thing.
00:48:20.13\00:48:23.10
Living in the spirit
versus living in the flesh.
00:48:23.13\00:48:25.83
So verse 1,
we're in Ephesians 5.
00:48:25.87\00:48:28.54
"Be imitators of
God as dear children."
00:48:28.57\00:48:32.17
The standard for
Christian behavior is high.
00:48:32.21\00:48:36.01
Exceedingly high 'cause
the character of God is holy.
00:48:36.04\00:48:40.25
Amen.
00:48:40.28\00:48:41.85
We can't reach that of ourselves
00:48:41.88\00:48:43.49
but the Holy Spirit in us
can change us into His image.
00:48:43.52\00:48:47.26
He says, "And walk in love,
00:48:47.29\00:48:48.99
literally to live
or behave in love.
00:48:49.02\00:48:52.13
As Christ loved us
and gave Himself for us,
00:48:52.16\00:48:55.63
an offering and
a sacrifice to God
00:48:55.66\00:48:57.53
for a sweet-smelling aroma."
00:48:57.57\00:48:59.83
Or I think King James
is a sweet smelling savor.
00:48:59.87\00:49:02.74
Yes, walk in love. Amen.
00:49:02.77\00:49:05.37
He loved us. He
gave Himself for us.
00:49:05.41\00:49:08.31
He calls us to walk in love,
00:49:08.34\00:49:09.88
toward our brothers and sisters.
00:49:09.91\00:49:11.68
Now we look at the opposite.
00:49:11.71\00:49:13.05
These are like
those works of the flesh.
00:49:13.08\00:49:14.78
Verse 3.
00:49:14.82\00:49:16.38
"And these all do
with lust, impurity,
00:49:16.42\00:49:19.55
fornication all
uncleanness, covetousness,
00:49:19.59\00:49:22.99
let it not even
be named among you
00:49:23.02\00:49:26.46
as it is fitting for Saints,
00:49:26.49\00:49:28.26
neither filthiness
nor foolish talking
00:49:28.30\00:49:30.50
nor coarse jesting."
00:49:30.53\00:49:31.87
This is all what we speak,
maybe not the physical act
00:49:31.90\00:49:35.87
but we're dealing now with
00:49:35.90\00:49:37.24
what we actually
speak out of our mouth
00:49:37.27\00:49:39.74
and how it can be
impure, how it could be immoral.
00:49:39.77\00:49:42.94
But instead of that
we're to give thanks.
00:49:42.98\00:49:45.71
It says, rather
giving thanks. Amen.
00:49:45.75\00:49:48.35
"For this you know that
no fornicator unclean person,
00:49:48.38\00:49:51.29
or covetous man,
who is an idolater,
00:49:51.32\00:49:54.66
has an inheritance in the
kingdom of Christ and God."
00:49:54.69\00:49:58.19
That's pretty heavy. That is.
00:49:58.23\00:49:59.56
When I read that, that's heavy.
00:49:59.59\00:50:01.06
"Let no one deceive
you with empty words,
00:50:01.10\00:50:03.77
for because of these
things the wrath of God
00:50:03.80\00:50:05.77
comes upon the
sons of disobedience.
00:50:05.80\00:50:08.24
Therefore do not be
partakers with them."
00:50:08.27\00:50:12.11
I remember when I was
13, one of those hard ages.
00:50:12.14\00:50:17.15
And acting out
against my mom and dad.
00:50:17.18\00:50:21.45
Yelling, talking back.
00:50:21.48\00:50:23.08
Mercy.
00:50:23.12\00:50:25.79
Um, doing everything I
could to walk away from God.
00:50:25.82\00:50:31.69
I remember, I physically
wrote down in my journal.
00:50:31.73\00:50:35.13
God, you don't work.
00:50:35.16\00:50:37.57
Christianity doesn't work.
00:50:37.60\00:50:39.00
What I see in
the Bible isn't real.
00:50:39.03\00:50:41.87
It doesn't work,
I don't want you.
00:50:41.90\00:50:44.47
And I wrote that God,
I'm walking away from you.
00:50:44.51\00:50:47.41
That's heavy.
00:50:47.44\00:50:48.78
And in the midst of this pain,
00:50:48.81\00:50:51.58
I was involved in a
certain friends you could say.
00:50:51.61\00:50:55.28
My mom sat me down and she said,
00:50:55.32\00:50:56.89
you are not gonna associate
with those people anymore.
00:50:56.92\00:51:00.56
And I said,
you're not being fair
00:51:00.59\00:51:02.62
and all my other
friends can do that.
00:51:02.66\00:51:04.36
And you're not
treating me right,
00:51:04.39\00:51:06.13
and how dare you do that?
00:51:06.16\00:51:08.16
And she said, you
live in this house.
00:51:08.20\00:51:10.70
Come on, now.
00:51:10.73\00:51:12.07
You follow by what
your father and I believe
00:51:12.10\00:51:15.40
God wants you to do.
00:51:15.44\00:51:17.44
Jill, they're
pulling you from Jesus.
00:51:17.47\00:51:19.77
Yeah. Wow.
00:51:19.81\00:51:21.14
And praise the Lord,
when I look back in my life,
00:51:21.18\00:51:24.51
that was one of the
turning points in my life.
00:51:24.55\00:51:26.11
Amen.
00:51:26.15\00:51:27.48
Because that
association with people,
00:51:27.52\00:51:30.82
who even though I
was really teetering
00:51:30.85\00:51:33.15
and not sure
what I wanted to do,
00:51:33.19\00:51:34.52
but it was pulling
me to the darkness,
00:51:34.56\00:51:36.93
all of these things.
00:51:36.96\00:51:38.29
This says, do not
be partakers with them.
00:51:38.33\00:51:40.93
Let me just throw
these things. Yes.
00:51:40.96\00:51:43.06
But your mother and
father had trained you upright.
00:51:43.10\00:51:47.00
So they're that is on
behalf of how you parents
00:51:47.04\00:51:51.27
that are training
you children upright
00:51:51.31\00:51:52.97
just like Jill, may
have wanted to go astray
00:51:53.01\00:51:56.71
that training
brought her right back.
00:51:56.75\00:51:59.48
Amen. Amen.
00:51:59.51\00:52:00.85
And that's the
power of the Holy Spirit.
00:52:00.88\00:52:02.38
And that's the
story for another day,
00:52:02.42\00:52:03.75
how God works in that.
00:52:03.79\00:52:05.22
In verse 8, now we're looking
at light versus darkness,
00:52:05.25\00:52:07.76
but it's still the same.
00:52:07.79\00:52:09.12
It's walking in the spirit
versus walking in the flesh.
00:52:09.16\00:52:12.06
For you who were once darkness,
now you are light in the Lord,
00:52:12.09\00:52:15.36
that's you, that's
me, that's each of us.
00:52:15.40\00:52:17.80
The Bible said all have sinned
00:52:17.83\00:52:19.43
and fallen short
of the glory of God.
00:52:19.47\00:52:21.34
We were all darkness but
God wants to transform us.
00:52:21.37\00:52:24.21
Mollie, I always says this
out of the kingdom of darkness
00:52:24.24\00:52:26.37
into the kingdom
of God's dear son,
00:52:26.41\00:52:28.18
the kingdom of light.
00:52:28.21\00:52:29.71
"Walk as children of light,
for the fruit of the Spirit
00:52:29.74\00:52:33.11
is in all goodness,
righteousness, truth.
00:52:33.15\00:52:35.78
Have no fellowship
00:52:35.82\00:52:37.15
with the
unfruitful works of darkness,
00:52:37.19\00:52:39.25
but rather expose them."
00:52:39.29\00:52:40.66
Let's jump on 'cause
our time is running away.
00:52:40.69\00:52:42.72
Verse 15, we see
wisdom versus foolishness.
00:52:42.76\00:52:47.73
"See then that you
walk circumspectly,
00:52:47.76\00:52:50.37
not as fools but as
wise, redeeming the time,
00:52:50.40\00:52:53.94
because the days are evil."
00:52:53.97\00:52:56.04
Verse 18, do not
be drunk with wine,
00:52:56.07\00:52:58.24
in which is dissipation;
but be filled with the Spirit."
00:52:58.27\00:53:02.71
"Speaking to one another
00:53:02.74\00:53:04.08
in psalms and hymns
and spiritual songs,
00:53:04.11\00:53:06.31
giving thanks always for
all things to God the Father
00:53:06.35\00:53:09.75
in the name of
our Lord Jesus Christ,
00:53:09.78\00:53:12.19
submitting to one
another in the fear of God."
00:53:12.22\00:53:15.09
If we contrast
self centered living
00:53:15.12\00:53:19.29
versus Christ centered living.
00:53:19.33\00:53:22.30
Self centered living
is flesh filled living.
00:53:22.33\00:53:24.63
Yeah.
00:53:24.67\00:53:26.00
It's controlled by
passion, slave to sin,
00:53:26.03\00:53:31.04
shows the fruits
of sin, walks in lust,
00:53:31.07\00:53:36.18
walks in darkness.
00:53:36.21\00:53:38.41
Walks in
foolishness is an idolater.
00:53:38.45\00:53:42.72
But by contrast if we
have a Christ centered life,
00:53:42.75\00:53:49.12
spirit fill living,
00:53:49.16\00:53:50.49
we are
controlled not by the flesh
00:53:50.53\00:53:52.93
but by the Holy Spirit.
00:53:52.96\00:53:54.43
Amen. That's right.
00:53:54.46\00:53:55.80
We're not a slave to sin,
00:53:55.83\00:53:57.17
we choose everyday
daily to die to self in sin.
00:53:57.20\00:54:01.97
Our life reveals
the fruit of the spirit.
00:54:02.00\00:54:05.64
We walk in love which is Jesus,
00:54:05.67\00:54:09.11
from the manger to the
cross as our wages tells us,
00:54:09.14\00:54:12.15
live the principle of
self-sacrificing love.
00:54:12.18\00:54:15.62
The opposite of living
for myself and selfishness,
00:54:15.65\00:54:19.05
self sacrificing love.
00:54:19.09\00:54:21.62
Christ centered living
lives for other people.
00:54:21.66\00:54:24.63
Yes.
00:54:24.66\00:54:25.99
So when I read this list,
00:54:26.03\00:54:27.36
I say God what areas of my life
are not in harmony with you?
00:54:27.40\00:54:32.10
Ask God by the power of a spirit
00:54:32.13\00:54:33.74
to show me those places that
are not in harmony with you.
00:54:33.77\00:54:37.54
And this list is
not to discourage you,
00:54:37.57\00:54:40.38
not to make you think,
00:54:40.41\00:54:41.98
I do some of
those works of the flesh
00:54:42.01\00:54:44.15
and I'm not sure what I know.
00:54:44.18\00:54:46.72
We can't change ourselves.
00:54:46.75\00:54:48.08
Jeremiah 13 says,
00:54:48.12\00:54:49.45
"Can the Ethiopian
change his skin color
00:54:49.48\00:54:51.85
or the, is that the right,
"or the leopard his spots?"
00:54:51.89\00:54:55.56
Then may we also do good
who are accustomed to evil.
00:54:55.59\00:54:58.96
It is God by the
power of His Spirit.
00:54:58.99\00:55:01.03
I want to look at one
more scripture Ezekiel 36,
00:55:01.06\00:55:05.33
Ezekiel 36.
00:55:05.37\00:55:08.20
This is one of my
favorite scriptures.
00:55:08.24\00:55:11.44
Ezekiel 36...
00:55:11.47\00:55:13.54
25, verse 25.
00:55:16.68\00:55:18.65
"I will sprinkle clean water
on you, and you shall be clean,
00:55:18.68\00:55:22.58
I will cleanse you
from all your filthiness
00:55:22.62\00:55:25.25
and from all your idols."
00:55:25.29\00:55:26.62
God wants to
purify us and cleanse us.
00:55:26.65\00:55:29.39
Forgive us from sin
but he doesn't stop there.
00:55:29.42\00:55:31.79
Verse 26, "I will
give you a new heart
00:55:31.83\00:55:35.36
and put a new spirit within you;
00:55:35.40\00:55:37.07
I will take out
the heart of stone."
00:55:37.10\00:55:39.30
The heart that's
contrary to God's commandments,
00:55:39.33\00:55:41.67
that heart that does not
want to walk in accord with him.
00:55:41.70\00:55:44.57
And I will give
you a heart of flesh.
00:55:44.61\00:55:46.91
I will put my spirit within you.
00:55:46.94\00:55:49.28
Praise the Lord.
00:55:49.31\00:55:50.65
And cause you to
walk in my statues.
00:55:50.68\00:55:52.61
And you will be my people. Amen.
00:55:52.65\00:55:54.92
And I will be your God.
00:55:54.95\00:55:56.82
That is what God
wants to do in our lives
00:55:56.85\00:55:59.65
by the power of the Holy Spirit.
00:55:59.69\00:56:02.12
When we choose to surrender
to let him work in our lives...
00:56:02.16\00:56:07.23
Amen.
00:56:07.26\00:56:08.60
He wants to change us. Yes.
00:56:08.63\00:56:10.67
A quote from
Desire of Ages, page 215.
00:56:10.70\00:56:13.90
"There is no limit
to the usefulness of one
00:56:13.94\00:56:17.77
who put in self aside..."
00:56:17.81\00:56:19.77
Oh, boy.
00:56:19.81\00:56:21.14
"Makes room for the
working of the Holy Spirit
00:56:21.18\00:56:23.31
on his heart..."
00:56:23.35\00:56:24.68
"And lives the life
wholly consecrated to God."
00:56:24.71\00:56:28.05
I know we have just a
couple moments left in.
00:56:28.08\00:56:30.49
I'd like a closing
thought from each one of you.
00:56:30.52\00:56:33.12
So I don't know, Pastor
Kenny, we'll start with you.
00:56:33.15\00:56:35.52
It brings to my attention,
it think it's Romans 2:4,
00:56:35.56\00:56:38.39
it the talks about
the, "The goodness of God
00:56:38.43\00:56:41.50
leadeth thee to repentance."
00:56:41.53\00:56:43.80
That's just a
bottom line for me.
00:56:43.83\00:56:45.67
It's his
goodness, his longsuffering.
00:56:45.70\00:56:47.04
Yeah.
00:56:47.07\00:56:48.40
You know, he continues
to call and I'm thankful.
00:56:48.44\00:56:50.17
Amen.
00:56:50.21\00:56:51.64
And, Kenny, I'm just
going to agree with you.
00:56:51.67\00:56:53.58
Thank God for the
power of the Holy Spirit
00:56:53.61\00:56:56.85
that will draw us
into goodness of God,
00:56:56.88\00:56:59.31
that wants us out of
darkness and in light.
00:56:59.35\00:57:02.08
Thank God for this. Amen.
00:57:02.12\00:57:03.79
I work every week with men that
have chosen the wrong route...
00:57:03.82\00:57:08.52
Yeah.
00:57:08.56\00:57:09.89
And just left them in bondage...
00:57:09.92\00:57:11.26
Yes.
00:57:11.29\00:57:12.63
In present,
addictions, you know.
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God's way with the
Holy Spirit is to free us.
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To give us our
freedom. That's right.
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Our self
governance back again. Amen.
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That's such a blessing...
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Yes, it is. To have that.
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Praise God for
what he wants to do.
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Thank you each one of you,
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Pastor Brian and
Mollie and Pastor Kenny.
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It's a privilege
to open up God's Word
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to see what He wants to do
in our hearts and in our lives.
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We want to thank you at
home for joining with us.
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We pray that
everyday this next week,
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you will get in the word of God.
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The word of God can
change you, you will choose
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and when you get
up in the morning,
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"God, I surrender
myself to You today.
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I ask you would
fill me with Your spirit
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and You would
empower me for the work
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that You have called me to do."
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That's all the
time we have for today.
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Until next time God
bless you and keep you.
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