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Getting Reacquainted with the Spirit of Power, Part 2 - Pastor Chuck Swindoll Insight for Living · INSIGHT FOR LIVING: Biblical Wisdom For Everyday Living

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  Speaker 1: Today from Chucks Wendall.
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  Speaker 2: When you relate to the Spirit of God, you're relating
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  Speaker 2: to one who has it all known, has it all understood,
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  Speaker 2: and his major role is to communicate that truth to you,
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  Speaker 2: invite sized chunks that you can take and apply.
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  Speaker 1: What exactly does the Holy Spirit do in the life
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  Speaker 1: of a believer? The answer may surprise you because he's
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  Speaker 1: been working in ways you've never fully given him credit
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  Speaker 1: for it. Today, on Insight for Living, Chucks Wendall walks
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  Speaker 1: us through four specific life changing roles.
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  Speaker 2: The Spirit plays from.
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  Speaker 1: The moment of your salvation onward. He regenerates, he identifies,
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  Speaker 1: he seals, and he illuminates. And if you've ever wondered
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  Speaker 1: why scripture suddenly comes alive, Today's message holds the answer.
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  Speaker 1: Chuck titled his message getting Reacquainted with a Spirit of Power.
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  Speaker 2: I've discovered when you get serious about spiritual things, you
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  Speaker 2: not only get serious about Church, you get serious about God,
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  Speaker 2: like who is He? Who is He? So we get
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  Speaker 2: to understanding more about God, the Father and the Son.
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  Speaker 2: The Father plans our salvation, and God the Son implements
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  Speaker 2: the plan by going to the cross and dying for us,
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  Speaker 2: and God the Holy Spirit is empowering it, as we
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  Speaker 2: shall see. Let me show you first Corinthians, Chapter two,
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  Speaker 2: verse six. Yet we do speak wisdom among those who
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  Speaker 2: are mature, a wisdom, however, not of this age, nor
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  Speaker 2: of the rulers of this age who are passing away.
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  Speaker 2: It is a divine wisdom that comes from His word.
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  Speaker 2: We speak looking verse seven, God's wisdom. It's in a mystery,
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  Speaker 2: the hidden wisdom which God predestined before the ages to
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  Speaker 2: our glory. Is that great? Or what before there ever
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  Speaker 2: was the beginning of time? God planned the wisdom, the knowledge,
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  Speaker 2: the truth to live by, all of that arranged in
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  Speaker 2: the Godhead, all put together, all known, all ready to
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  Speaker 2: be delivered. And the man falls in the garden, and
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  Speaker 2: his whole mind has changed, his heart has changed, his
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  Speaker 2: will is changed. And now you've got to permeate all
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  Speaker 2: of that. But the wisdom is there, nevertheless, so we
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  Speaker 2: need divine help verse ten. For to us God revealed them.
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  Speaker 2: That's the truths of his word, the truths of his mind.
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  Speaker 2: God revealed them through the Spirit. Capitalists, that's the Holy Spirit.
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  Speaker 2: For the Spirit searches all things, even the bavos of God.
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  Speaker 2: He searches even the depths of God. Can you imagine
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  Speaker 2: what that's like. We hit the surface, we learn a little.
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  Speaker 2: Every once in a while, we're around someone highly intelligent,
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  Speaker 2: and we listen and we realize how much that person knows.
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  Speaker 2: Someone said that an education is going from an unawareness
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  Speaker 2: to awareness of your own ignorance. You become aware of
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  Speaker 2: the depth of information you don't know. When you relate
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  Speaker 2: to the Spirit of God, you're relating to one who
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  Speaker 2: hasn't all known, has it all understood, And his major
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  Speaker 2: role is to communicate that truth to you in bite
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  Speaker 2: sized chunks that you can take and apply. That's his role.
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  Speaker 2: He reveals them to you. Look at verse eleven. We
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  Speaker 2: can identify with this who among men knows the thoughts
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  Speaker 2: of a man except the spirit of the man which
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  Speaker 2: is in him. You know right now I have thoughts
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  Speaker 2: that you don't know, and you have thoughts that I
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  Speaker 2: don't know, because they're only known by each one of
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  Speaker 2: us individually. Now look closely. Even so, the thoughts of
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  Speaker 2: God no one knows except the Spirit of God. Who
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  Speaker 2: how good is that? And he's not keeping it to himself.
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  Speaker 2: His role is to unveil that truth and to let
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  Speaker 2: you get a corner on it and begin to see it.
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  Speaker 2: It's called spiritual insight discernment. It becomes a filter system
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  Speaker 2: in this wicked, deceptive world where you're hit on all
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  Speaker 2: sides but the media, and you have to filter through
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  Speaker 2: that and come up with truth in the midst of
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  Speaker 2: a pile of error. That's the role of the spirit
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  Speaker 2: Verse twelve. Now we have received not the spirit of
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  Speaker 2: the world, but the spirit who is from God. Why
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  Speaker 2: so that we may know the thing's freely given to
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  Speaker 2: us by God. You know what I have had people
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  Speaker 2: say to me doesn't matter that I know that much. Look, look, wait,
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  Speaker 2: if you're ever tempted to say that, zip it, zip it,
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  Speaker 2: don't say that. If you really mean that, you're a
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  Speaker 2: prey to every cult that comes to your door. You
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  Speaker 2: don't care about knowing what you believe. You're ready for
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  Speaker 2: a fall. The enemy loves to hear you say that.
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  Speaker 2: The adversary feeds on that kind of thinking. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: if the Spirit of God exists for the single purpose
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  Speaker 2: of revealing God's truth, doesn't it make sense we need
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  Speaker 2: to know that truth. That's why you were bored in previous,
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  Speaker 2: previous churches where the truth wasn't taught. That's why you
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  Speaker 2: came out of that false religion where you realize this
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  Speaker 2: is not doing good, this is toxic, this is hurting me.
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  Speaker 2: You weren't getting truth. Let me say at this moment,
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  Speaker 2: if you are grasping any of this information, it's because
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  Speaker 2: of the Spirit of God. I would add this, if
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  Speaker 2: you do not know the Lord, this information is dull
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  Speaker 2: and boring to you because you haven't the Spirit of
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  Speaker 2: God to make it meaningful to you. You can't see
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  Speaker 2: the Spirit because he's invisible. You can't know the work
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  Speaker 2: of the Spirit except in deep inner feelings, sometime through conviction,
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  Speaker 2: sometime through divine guilt that he may bring over sin
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  Speaker 2: in our lives. Occasionally our conscience is troubled because we
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  Speaker 2: have grieved God in something we have done, or said,
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  Speaker 2: or even thought. That's the work of the Spirit within us.
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  Speaker 2: But we cannot see with these eyes because the Spirit
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  Speaker 2: of God his work is not a tangible work. When
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  Speaker 2: you get truth, you're set free. You shall know the
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  Speaker 2: truth and what the truth will make you free. Yes,
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  Speaker 2: freed from those things that once captured you and controlled you.
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  Speaker 2: We have received not the spirit of the world, but
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  Speaker 2: the spirit who is from God. So that we may
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  Speaker 2: know the things freely given to us by God. Let's
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  Speaker 2: go further, let's dig further into his role. When I
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  Speaker 2: did my study, I came up with about thirty to
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  Speaker 2: thirty five. I have things the Spirit of God does.
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  Speaker 2: You'll be happy to know. We won't go through all
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  Speaker 2: thirty to thirty five of them, but I'm going to
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  Speaker 2: spot maybe three four of them that are important enough
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  Speaker 2: to underscore. Go from First Corinthians to Titus. Titus chapter three,
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  Speaker 2: you get to the letters of Timothy. You go one further,
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  Speaker 2: one book further. The next letter is the one to
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  Speaker 2: Titus three, verse five. If you like taking notes, I've
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  Speaker 2: given you an outline that you can follow. I fill
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  Speaker 2: mine in every week in preparing, and so I've got
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  Speaker 2: mine all build in. And it helps me because thoughts
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  Speaker 2: disentangle themselves over the lips and through the fingertips. As
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  Speaker 2: you write your thoughts down, you'll grasp them. Even if
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  Speaker 2: you don't hang on to this very long. By just
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  Speaker 2: the writing down of those things, it will help you.
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  Speaker 2: One of the four that I want to mention is
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  Speaker 2: the spirit regenerates. He regenerates verse five, He saved us.
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  Speaker 2: This is a he referring to God, the Father, God,
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  Speaker 2: our Savior, saved us Verse five, not on the basis
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  Speaker 2: of deeds which we have done in righteousness, but according
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  Speaker 2: to His mercy by the washing of There's our word,
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  Speaker 2: regeneration and renewing by the Holy Spirit. What does that mean?
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  Speaker 2: It means when you and I were converted to Christ,
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  Speaker 2: regardless of our age, even though we may not have
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  Speaker 2: known anything about this, new life was given to us.
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  Speaker 2: If it were not for the Spirit's work, you and
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  Speaker 2: I would not know the new birth Tewod Corinthians five seventeen.
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  Speaker 2: If anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation.
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  Speaker 2: Old things have passed away, All things have become new.
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  Speaker 2: You know why that's true because of the work of
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  Speaker 2: the Spirit. When you say I trust in the Lord
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  Speaker 2: Jesus Christ as my own personal savior, I've determined I
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  Speaker 2: can't get myself to heaven on my own good works.
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  Speaker 2: I believe the Savior died for me on the cross,
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  Speaker 2: and I will take that death on my behalf, and
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  Speaker 2: I will place my faith and trust in Him. At
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  Speaker 2: that moment of salvation, you're given new life. It's called
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  Speaker 2: the new birth. John three. Jesus said to Nicodemus, you
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  Speaker 2: must be born anew And then it goes on to
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  Speaker 2: explain it must be by the spirit and all water,
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  Speaker 2: and the spirit as in mind, is the Holy Spirit.
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  Speaker 2: Now look at verse five again he saved us referring
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  Speaker 2: to God. God saved us not on the basis of
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  Speaker 2: deeds which we have done in righteousness, but according to
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  Speaker 2: His mercy by the washing of regeneration. Look at that,
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  Speaker 2: even the renewing by the Holy Spirit. We could read it.
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  Speaker 2: At conversion. We are cleansed within all of those things
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  Speaker 2: that have been characterizing our lives. Put in one general
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  Speaker 2: category sin that is cleansed, that is washed, that is
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  Speaker 2: washed away thanks to the work of the Holy Spirit.
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  Speaker 2: He regenerates us at conversion. And many would teach from this,
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  Speaker 2: and perhaps it's correct that there is a continual renewing
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  Speaker 2: of the Spirit throughout the life of the believer. When
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  Speaker 2: we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to
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  Speaker 2: cleanse us from our sins and from all unrighteousness. The
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  Speaker 2: work of the Spirit is in the cleansing work of
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  Speaker 2: our lives. Think of washing clothing, of washing your car. Washing.
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  Speaker 2: Now this is the inside of your life. Because He's
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  Speaker 2: invisible He does his invisible work inside that part of
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  Speaker 2: us that no surgeons scalpel can ever reach. The Word
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  Speaker 2: of God is alive and active and sharper than any
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  Speaker 2: two edge sword, piercing to the division of soul and spirit.
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  Speaker 2: The Word of God penetrates to the very place that
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  Speaker 2: no one else can reach. And when he reaches you
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  Speaker 2: with new truth and new life, he cleanses you. He
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  Speaker 2: washes you. Generate is to began, To regenerate is to
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  Speaker 2: begin again. You began at birth from your mother's womb.
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  Speaker 2: But there must be a read generation for you to
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  Speaker 2: say you are now in the family of God. You
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  Speaker 2: were born anew. It's a second birth, it's a spiritual birth.
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  Speaker 2: So the first thing we name is he Rea generates this.
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  Speaker 2: Now back to First Corinthians told you would be moving
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  Speaker 2: back and forth. So let's go from Titus back to
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  Speaker 2: First Corinthians twelve. Here we are verse twelve of chapter twelve.
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  Speaker 2: You'll see the second of the four we're gonna point
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  Speaker 2: out that the spirit does First Corinthians twelve, Verse twelve,
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  Speaker 2: even as the body is one and yet has many members.
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  Speaker 2: And all the members of the body, though they are
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  Speaker 2: many or one, hold on that sounded like a tongue twister.
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  Speaker 2: Think of your own body. It's made up of head, arms, legs, fingers, toes, organs,
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  Speaker 2: that part which is seen, that part which isn't seen.
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  Speaker 2: All of it makes up our anatomy. And it's made
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  Speaker 2: up of many parts, or is called here many members,
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  Speaker 2: But it's one body. So also is the body of Christ.
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  Speaker 2: The universal family of God is called in scripture the
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  Speaker 2: body of Christ. Now where is the spirit at work
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  Speaker 2: in this? Look at verse thirteen. For by one spirit,
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  Speaker 2: we were all baptized into one body. Whether the Jews
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  Speaker 2: or Greeks slaves are free, we were all made to
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  Speaker 2: drink of that one and the same spirit. What does
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  Speaker 2: that mean? Paul is teaching the body truth that is
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  Speaker 2: in the family of God called a body. There are
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  Speaker 2: many many people called here members, many different functions carried
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  Speaker 2: about by many different ones, some gifted in one area,
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  Speaker 2: others gifted in others. Now watch closely, how do we
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  Speaker 2: get this all amalgamated? How do we get all of
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  Speaker 2: this together? How does it become a unit? We have
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  Speaker 2: this spirit to thank for that verse thirteen, For by
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  Speaker 2: one spirit we were all baptized into one body. But
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  Speaker 2: I'm a Jew and I'm not a part of that gentile.
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  Speaker 2: But he says, whether it be Jewish or Greeks, whether
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  Speaker 2: one be slave or free, the point is there is
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  Speaker 2: no status, there is no race, there is no separation,
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  Speaker 2: regardless whether slaves are free, Jews are Greek. We were
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  Speaker 2: all made to drink of one spirit. This occurred at
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  Speaker 2: salvation because of the erroneous teaching regarding the baptism of
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  Speaker 2: the Holy Spirit. You will perhaps read some who teach
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  Speaker 2: that you need to pray for the baptism of the
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  Speaker 2: Holy Spirit, you need to pray that you'll be baptized
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  Speaker 2: in the spirit. Never once are we commanded to be baptized.
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  Speaker 2: It happens to us, it happens within us, not because
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  Speaker 2: of what we decide. But part of coming to Christ
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  Speaker 2: includes the Spirit of God placing us into the body
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  Speaker 2: of Christ and also placing us into Christ himself. The
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  Speaker 2: original term bopto means to dip, literally to dip, and
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  Speaker 2: in ancient days you would go to someone who would
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  Speaker 2: work with clothing, with fabric, who would dip a garment
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  Speaker 2: and would change the identity of the garment. You take
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  Speaker 2: a white garment and you dip it into scarlet, dye,
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  Speaker 2: it comes out scarlet. You take a lost sinner, and
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  Speaker 2: by the work of the Holy Spirit, dip that one,
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  Speaker 2: if you will, into the person and the work of Christ.
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  Speaker 2: The person comes out saved, born again. The work of
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  Speaker 2: the Spirit is to defy us with the body of Christ,
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  Speaker 2: and with Christ himself, he baptizes us. You were born
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  Speaker 2: with certain colored eyes. You can pray all day and
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  Speaker 2: all night, and your eyes are going to still be
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  Speaker 2: that color. Some of your can't. Well, you put in contacts.
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  Speaker 2: That's not fair. Stay with my illustration. You got eyes
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  Speaker 2: that are originally that color. You're going to die with
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  Speaker 2: eyes that color. That's given to you. Baptism is like
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  Speaker 2: that you have been placed into the body of Christ,
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  Speaker 2: and that is a marvelous, permanent place to be. In fact,
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  Speaker 2: permanent reminds me of Ephesians chapter one. So let's go
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  Speaker 2: there next. Some of you are saying, I'm getting tired
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  Speaker 2: of this. I'm saying I don't care Ephesians chapter one.
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  Speaker 2: If it were all in one section of scripture, I'd
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  Speaker 2: keep you in one section. But it isn't. So you've
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  Speaker 2: got to turn from one to another. I know it's
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  Speaker 2: hard work, but try turning those pages. Here we read
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  Speaker 2: He seals us Ephesians one, verse thirteen, referring to Christ
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  Speaker 2: in Him. You also, after listening to the message of truth,
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  Speaker 2: the gospel of your salvation, having also believed, you were
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  Speaker 2: sealed in Him in whom in Christ, with this holy
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  Speaker 2: spirit of promise, he permanently secured our salvation when we
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  Speaker 2: came to know Jesus. We have the Spirit of God
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  Speaker 2: to thank for securing us in our salvation. There's another
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  Speaker 2: right here in Ephesians, and that's chapter four, verse thirty.
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  Speaker 2: Turn ahead to four thirty. Do not grieve the Holy
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  Speaker 2: Spirit of God by whom you were sealed for the
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  Speaker 2: day of redemption, another reference to this personal or permanent
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  Speaker 2: securing work of the Holy Spirit. Here we are hearing
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  Speaker 2: the truth. We believe it. We become aware of the gospel.
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  Speaker 2: We trust in the Lord Jesus Christ. Watch closely. Were
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  Speaker 2: sealed for the day of redemption. So the Spirit of
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  Speaker 2: God seals us. What does that mean? That means we're
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  Speaker 2: His forever. A seal is a seal. A divine seal
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  Speaker 2: is a permanent seal. You have any idea how many
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  Speaker 2: people live their lives never sure of their salvation, praying
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  Speaker 2: that they will not lose what God has given them,
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  Speaker 2: or praying that they will not sin so badly that
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  Speaker 2: they will wake up one day and they'll be lost again.
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  Speaker 2: I have a great question for those who think like that,
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  Speaker 2: How bad is too bad that you have moved from
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  Speaker 2: save to lost? No one can ever answer that, because
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  Speaker 2: there is no such thing as the loss of salvation.
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  Speaker 2: Salvation is a gift, and God doesn't take his gift back.
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  Speaker 2: We receive the gift, and as a result we are
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  Speaker 2: born again, and we can never be unborn. Our children
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  Speaker 2: were born into our family. They have our nature, they
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  Speaker 2: have our blood, they even have our temperaments in many ways.
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  Speaker 2: Because they're in the family, they'll never be not a
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  Speaker 2: part of our family. Same as it is because of
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  Speaker 2: the Spirit of God who seals us. And now one
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  Speaker 2: more great John chapter sixteen, John sixteen, verse thirteen. I
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  Speaker 2: happen to like stuff like this, but I know for
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  Speaker 2: some of you it's a bit of a chore. John
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  Speaker 2: sixteen thirteen. Follow there with me. When he referring to
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  Speaker 2: the spirit, the spirit of truth comes. He will guide
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  Speaker 2: you into all the truth. He will not speak on
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  Speaker 2: his own initiative, but whatever he hears, he will speak
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  Speaker 2: and will disclose to you what is to come. So
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  Speaker 2: there is the illuminating work of the spirit. We have
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  Speaker 2: four of them. Now four. He regenerates, he baptizes or
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  Speaker 2: reidentifies us with Christ, He seals us, and he now,
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  Speaker 2: according this verse, illumines us. See what it says. He
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  Speaker 2: guides you into all truth. Listen to me. When we
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  Speaker 2: began this message sometime back, you did not know some
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  Speaker 2: of the things you now know. The reason you now
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  Speaker 2: know them is because of the work of the spirit.
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  Speaker 2: He uses a gift that I may have, and he
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  Speaker 2: uses my voice and words that you can understand. But
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  Speaker 2: they sink in because of the work of the spirit.
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  Speaker 2: Now you know why the person you bring with you
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  Speaker 2: who isn't saved and sits through a message like this
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  Speaker 2: bored to tears. You know now why they're bored. They
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  Speaker 2: don't have a spirit to them. It says just a
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  Speaker 2: lot of gobblygook. They're all concerned about when's that guy
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  Speaker 2: gonna be through? When's he going to stop yelling? When's this?
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  Speaker 2: When is this going to be over? Why did I
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  Speaker 2: ever say I would come and sit in this meeting?
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  Speaker 2: You know why they're not saved or they're walking in
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  Speaker 2: the flesh. But let's stay with the thought that they
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  Speaker 2: don't have the spirit. It takes the spirit to illuminate true.
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  Speaker 2: That's why it's exciting for you. That's why when you
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  Speaker 2: get the truth, it changes the way you want to live,
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  Speaker 2: the way you want to respond to life. It changes
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  Speaker 2: your attitude, it changes your response to people that are difficult.
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  Speaker 2: You've begun to grasp the truth, and he has guided
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  Speaker 2: you into the truth. I'm going to give you three
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  Speaker 2: words that you need to remember. Revelation, inspiration, illumination. Revelation
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  Speaker 2: has to do with God giving his word. He reveals
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  Speaker 2: his word to a set number of people. For about
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  Speaker 2: a fifteen hundred year period of time. In the days
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  Speaker 2: of the writing of the Bible, God revealed his word.
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  Speaker 2: Revelation has ceased. There is no more revealing of divine truth.
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  Speaker 2: I don't care what people tell you. I don't care
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  Speaker 2: how convinced others may be when they say they heard
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  Speaker 2: from God last night. Check and see what they had
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  Speaker 2: for saying. May have been a bad enchilada, or they
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  Speaker 2: may have been awakened because of a dream and they
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  Speaker 2: thought that was God speaking. God no longer reveals divine truth.
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  Speaker 2: It's contained within the covers of this book. He reveals
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  Speaker 2: his truth. Inspiration that has to do with the writing,
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  Speaker 2: the recording of the truth that God has revealed that ceased.
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  Speaker 2: Now we may be inspired to write songs, or inspired
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  Speaker 2: to write poetry, or inspired to write certain notes of encouragement.
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  Speaker 2: That's a different kind of inspiration. This inspiration has the
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  Speaker 2: word miracle connected to it. Fount Neustas is the word.
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  Speaker 2: It means God breathing his word into human beings. And
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  Speaker 2: a select number of people took a stylus in their hand,
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  Speaker 2: and without error, they wrote the original manuscript of scripture.
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  Speaker 2: That's called inspiration that ceased. But illumination goes on to
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  Speaker 2: this very moment. Because we live in a land where
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  Speaker 2: there is every type and style and font and color
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  Speaker 2: and size text of the Bible, we tend to take
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  Speaker 2: it for granted. But you go to a country that
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  Speaker 2: doesn't have a Bible. Oh, let me tell you, they'd
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  Speaker 2: love you to tear one page out and leave it
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  Speaker 2: with them. Why Because it is like no other writing.
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  Speaker 2: It is the revealed, inspired, written word of God that
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  Speaker 2: will illumine them for life.
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  Speaker 1: The Bible isn't just another book. It's the revealed inspired
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  Speaker 1: truth of the Living God, and the Holy Spirit makes
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  Speaker 1: it come alive in you every time you open it.
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  Speaker 1: Revelation has ceased, inspiration has ceased, but illumination that goes
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  Speaker 1: on right now in your heart, in your circumstances, in
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  Speaker 1: your need. This is Insight for Living. Chucks Wendall is
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  Speaker 1: There's a lot more Chuck wants to show us, so
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  Speaker 1: keep listening to this teaching series. Inside for Living has
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  Speaker 1: It's called How Great is Our God? It's in the
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  Speaker 1: Loved Ones, Becoming Angels, most of what our culture believes
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  Speaker 1: about heaven simply isn't in the Bible, and some of
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  Speaker 1: it could rob you of the hope that God intended
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  Speaker 1: for you to have. Our understanding. Heaven Passport clears away
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  Speaker 1: the confusion and replaces it with what Scripture actually teaches
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  Speaker 1: about your eternal home. You'll discover that heaven is a
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  Speaker 1: real physical place, that your resurrected body will be gloriously
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  Speaker 1: fully alive, and that the life awaiting you there is
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  Speaker 1: far richer and more wonderful than anything Hollywood has imagined.
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  Speaker 1: This is the kind of Biblical clarity that changes the
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