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Living Waters of Grace 10.08.25 · Living Waters of Grace / Calvary Chapel of Westmoreland Sunday Services

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  This is Living Waters of Grace, the teaching ministry of Clark
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  Wofford, senior pastor of Calvary Chapel of Westmoreland,
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  County of Greensburg, PA. Now here's Pastor Clark as he
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  continues teaching through God's Word.
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  Some people stop reading their Bible because their heart isn't
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  right with God. Some people stop praying because
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  their heart isn't right with God.
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  Have you ever tried to pray when your heart isn't right with God?
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  Have you ever tried to open your Bible when your heart isn't
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  right with God? Nothing going to happen, right?
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  You just don't want to do it. You know, down deep inside you
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  should, but there's something blocking you from doing what it
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  is that the Lord wants. And then all we simply need to
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  do is say, Lord, my heart isn't right with you.
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  Forgive me, I repent. Soften my heart.
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  A healthy relationship with God is 1 where you constantly grow
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  in Him. The old sins that you used to
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  commit shouldn't have a place in your life anymore.
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  It should look different today. You'll get to see with Pastor
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  Clark that your life should stand out as a Christian.
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  People should notice something different about you.
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  One of those differences is that you now should be telling others
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  about the good news of salvation that you've received.
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  That's how others can hear and receive salvation too.
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  Now here's Pastor Clark in the book of Acts Chapter 8 with
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  today's edition of Living Waters of Grace.
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  Philip, he's another one of the men who were chosen to take care
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  of the widows and the orphans we studied earlier.
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  Stephen was one of those guys. And Philip, he's going down to
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  the city of Samaria and preaching Christ to them.
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  Now Samaria was a place of half breeds.
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  If, if you understand 1/2 breed someone maybe who has this
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  ethnic background. They marry someone of another
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  ethnic background. They're not pure bred Jewish
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  people, right? But it doesn't matter because
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  God came for the whole world. He's not looking at these things
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  the way we do as people. But they were disrespected by
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  the Hebrew Jews and they were intermarrying during the
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  Assyrian captivity. When they were taken up into the
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  north, they met Pagan Gentiles and and some of these people got
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  married. And so they had these families
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  that were mixed in the sense of religious background.
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  So he goes into Samaria and he preaches Christ to them and the
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  multitudes with 1 accord. He did the things spoken by
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  Philip. So in other words, there's a lot
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  of people. He's not in a building like
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  this. He's on the streets.
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  There's a big crowd collecting every time these guys would go
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  around and preach the word and all these people are listening
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  to what he's saying and they're believing what it is he's
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  saying. And they hear and they see
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  miracles, which he did for unclean spirits.
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  Crying with a loud voice came out of many who were possessed,
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  and many who were paralyzed and lame were healed.
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  And there was great joy in the city.
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  So whenever God does miracles and whenever he changes a life
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  or he, he takes someone out of the burden of sin and gives them
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  a brand new start, a brand new heart.
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  I mean, that's a joyous experience.
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  This is what was happening as a result of the word being
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  preached that there would be joy in the hearts of the people and
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  there was great joy in that city.
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  And then in verse 9, it says, but there was a certain man
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  called Simon who previously practiced sorcery.
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  In other words, he was into occult, witchcraft, all kind of
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  weird New age kind of stuff even before we even knew what new Age
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  stuff was. It existed way back then and
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  astonished the people of Samaria.
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  In other words, he he did counterfeit miracles, claiming
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  that he was someone great to whom they all gave heed.
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  In other words, all these people at the time thought this guy was
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  a man of God from the least to the greatest, saying this man is
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  the great is the great power of God.
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  So when they looked at Simon the sorcerer, because of his magic
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  incantations, they sensed that he had some kind of power, but
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  it wasn't of God, it was really of the devil.
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  And so they heeded him because he had astonished them with his
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  sorceries for a long time. So these magic arts that this
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  guy did, he had had a big business and people followed him
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  around because of his ability to do really amazing things.
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  But when they believed Philip, as he preached the things
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  concerning the Kingdom of God in the name of Jesus Christ, both
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  men and women were baptized. So in other words, there's this
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  revival going on, Philip's preaching.
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  People are believing and they are getting baptized pretty much
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  immediately after their profession of faith in Jesus
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  Christ. He's preaching to them
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  concerning the Kingdom of God and the name of Jesus Christ.
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  Both men and women were baptized, so there's a
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  difference between bringing a message with Christ and without
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  Christ. The sorcerer brought
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  incantations and magic arts without any emphasis on Jesus
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  Christ as people do today. It's false teaching and false
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  doctrine, and people can't get saved by following magic arts or
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  occult or witchcraft or casting spells, all this stuff.
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  It's a big deal out there in the culture now.
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  People get demonically oppressed and possessed by messing around
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  with this kind of stuff that's out there.
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  If you are involved in any of these kind of things, New Age
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  stuff, trying to have seances through Ouija boards to talk to
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  the dead, or you're trying to get involved in all this dark
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  side of what they call mysticism, you're opening your
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  yourself up to demonic activity and you're not even aware of it.
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  And so these people are going to get set free now because they're
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  no longer going to follow Simon the sorcerer.
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  They're going to follow Jesus Christ as savior.
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  And there's a big difference in truth, right?
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  There's only one truth, one way, one life, and that's in Jesus
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  Christ, not in this other kind of crazy stuff that's out there.
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  So Simon himself also believes that this guy was convicted,
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  obviously, and he appears to have put his faith in Christ and
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  he was baptized. He continued with Philip.
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  He he kept going around with Philip and was amazed seeing the
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  miracles and signs which were done.
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  He just blown away. He had miracle power in himself,
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  but nothing like what he was seeing happening through
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  Philip's life. Because what was happening in
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  Philip's life is being done by Christ, by the Holy Spirit
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  through this man's life. Now when the apostles who were
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  at Jerusalem heard that Samaria had received the word of God,
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  they sent Peter and John to them.
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  So the apostles go down to meet these new believers who when
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  they came down, prayed for them that they might receive the Holy
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  Spirit. For as yet he had fallen upon
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  none of them. They had only been baptized in
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  the name of the Lord Jesus. Then they laid their hands on
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  them and they received the Holy Spirit.
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  So when you look at Acts chapter 1 to Acts chapter 10, it's a
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  transitionary period. You can't pull a doctrine out of
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  something you read in Acts. It's mentioned one time and say
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  that's how the church performs the empowerment of the Holy
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  Spirit. In other words, you need a
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  special person to lay hands on you to pray for you to receive
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  the Holy Spirit. That's not taught in the rest of
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  the Bible. But in the beginning stages,
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  because everything was new in different people groups, you had
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  the Jews that were baptized by the Spirit at Pentecost.
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  No one really had to lay hands on them.
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  The power of the Spirit came out at Pentecost and filled the
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  people in the upper room, 120 people at that time.
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  And then when people believed, they were baptized by the Holy
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  Spirit, by God the Holy Spirit supernaturally and placed in the
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  body of Christ in the church as Christians.
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  But as time moved on in the initial stages, these different
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  people groups were beginning to hear the gospel.
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  And so God chose to use this method initially to bring the
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  power of the Holy Spirit through the hands of the apostles on top
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  of the heads of the people who had thus become believers.
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  And so this is what happened. And they laid hands on them and
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  they received the Holy Spirit. Now in the New Testament,
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  though, we see that the Holy Spirit, this idea of being
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  filled with the Spirit of God happens all the time.
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  We need to be constantly asking God to fill us with the Spirit
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  because we get empty, we get weak, we, we drain, we get upset
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  or we get, you know, whatever we're going through.
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  And whenever you're going through stuff that is making you
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  weak and, and tired and cast down, that's when you need by
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  faith to say, Lord, I need a fresh infilling of your Holy
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  Spirit. I need you to fill me again.
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  Refresh me and he will. It's by faith we pray and God
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  fills us with the Spirit. Sometimes we have someone to
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  pray for us and, and we know someone's hurting and they're
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  wounded. So we can lay our hands on
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  someone and there's no special power in our hands, but there's
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  power in prayer. And so when we lay our hands to
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  pray for someone who's broken or hurting or or physically
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  infirmed or whatever the issue might be, it isn't the hands
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  that does anything, but it's the power of God's Spirit in the
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  midst of the prayer that can change and transform
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  circumstances in people's lives. You know, you can get your
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  husband to pray for you. You can get your wife to pray
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  for you. You can pray for your kids, you
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  can get your kids to pray for you.
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  And God works. He's not limited by Sunday
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  morning in the front of the church.
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  And prayer. I encourage you if you need
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  prayer to come, we have people here to pray for you.
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  But if you're intimidated and you don't feel like you want
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  people to know what you're up to, what's going on, you can get
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  in the car with your husband and say, can you lay hands on me and
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  pray for me that I might have a fresh infilling of the Holy
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  Spirit? It's that simple.
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  You might be upset or bummed out about something in life.
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  You, you sort of lost your way with God.
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  Your heart's become cold. You become indifferent to the
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  ways of the Spirit. And you just say to someone you
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  trust you love, hey, can you pray for me?
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  I got to get right with God. I got to have a new beginning
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  with God again. I want to be refreshed with the
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  Lord again. I want to sense his presence in
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  my life as I did when I first met Jesus.
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  Amen. And God can do that.
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  He's the God of new beginnings, a new beginning every day, an
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  opportunity community to have the Lord cause our hearts to be
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  alive again in our faith and our relationship with the Lord.
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  And so when Simon saw that through the laying on of the
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  apostles hands the Holy Spirit was given, He offered him money.
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  Isn't that crazy saying give me this power also that anyone on
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  whom I lay hands may receive the Holy Spirit?
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  So this guy's used to having a sorcery business.
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  This is a whole new like development of building his
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  business. I never had this kind of angle.
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  So I'll give you guys some money to show me how to do this.
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  Well, first of all, you can't show anybody how to do it.
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  It's the work of the spirit of, of this work of supernatural
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  gifting. So this guy's clueless, you
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  know, he just doesn't get it. But of course, new believer is
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  what he's thinking. Peter says to him, your money
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  perish with you because you thought that the gift of God
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  could be purchased with money. You have neither part nor
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  portion in this matter, for your heart is not right in the sight
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  of God. Boy, that's a calling out, huh?
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  What a rebuke, man, You're messed up.
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  You got it all wrong here. You know your attitude, your
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  your methodology, your way of wanting to to be used by God is,
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  is manipulative. It's not coming from the Spirit
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  and your heart isn't right in the sight of God.
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  You know, sometimes you, you don't realize about your heart
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  how it cannot at times always be right with God.
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  The Holy Spirit's given to us is speak to us when our heart isn't
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  right with God. He speaks to me all the time and
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  I'm sure he does to you. That's an attitude of pride,
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  that's an attitude of hardness of heart.
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  That's an attitude of unforgiveness or that's an
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  attitude of lack of faith, right?
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  He talks to you about all kind of stuff and when he talks to
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  you, He wants you to have your heart right again, right?
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  And maybe today God wants to get some hearts right with him.
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  I don't know what you're thinking or what's happening in
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  your life, your family. Are you impeding the move of God
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  in your family because your heart isn't right with God?
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  Some people stop going to church because their heart isn't right
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  with God. Some people stop reading their
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  Bible because their heart isn't right with God.
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  Some people stop praying because their heart isn't right with
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  God. Have you ever tried to pray when
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  your heart isn't right with God? Have you ever tried to open your
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  Bible when your heart isn't right with God?
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  Nothing going to happen, right? You just don't want to do it.
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  You know, down deep inside you should, but there's something
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  blocking you from doing what it is that the Lord wants.
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  And then all we simply need to do is say, Lord, my heart isn't
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  right with you. Forgive me.
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  I repent, soften my heart. I like David's prayer.
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  Lord, search me, O God, and know my heart.
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  Try me and know my thoughts. Give God a chance and see if
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  there's any wicked way in and leave me in the way everlasting.
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  Then he says in another Psalm, Let the words of my mouth and
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  the meditation of my heart be acceptable in your sight, O
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  Lord, my strength and my Redeemer.
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  I mean, I don't want my heart to be like ugly before my Savior.
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  I mean that that's bad because it, it quenches the Holy Spirit,
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  it grieves the Holy Spirit. And our lives are designed by
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  God after we become Christians to be a blessing to one another,
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  not a curse to one another, not a heartache to one another, not
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  a hurting of one another, not being so caught up in the world
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  and the things that the world has to offer that we have put
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  Christ on the back shelf and we're just living our lives for
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  our own selfish ambition. Lord help us all right.
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  And the Bible teaches us and God's the one that creates in us
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  a clean heart. David's heart was messed up
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  after he committed adultery with Bathsheba.
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  After he had Uriah killed in battle.
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  He went through a real dry period for a little over a year
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  until he was confronted with his sin.
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  In Psalm 51 he writes, God created me a clean heart.
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  This is after his sin, getting right with God.
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  Renew a steadfast spirit within me, a stable spirit.
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  Then I'll teach transgressors your ways, and sinners shall be
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  converted unto you. We can't even begin to do any
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  kind of ministry in each other's lives, let alone the lost, if
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  our hearts aren't right with God.
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  And I really believe in these days that we live God's calling
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  us to get our hearts right with Him.
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  Our problem in our world today isn't the left.
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  It isn't all these movements that have been raised up
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  recently to create havoc in the streets.
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  What God's interested in the Bible says, God's looking to and
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  fro throughout the whole earth to find one whose heart is
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  perfect toward Him. If he can find one person whose
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  heart is right with him, he can use that person to turn the
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  world upside down. He can use you wherever you are
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  and the group you're with, the family you're with, the kids,
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  you have the jobs. You have to be a light in the
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  midst of Pagan darkness, not a holier than thou kind of
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  attitude. This looks like a compassion.
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  You need Jesus and he's the only answer.
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  He's the only one we can save your life and save your soul.
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  So Peter's exhorting him. You have neither part nor
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  portion in this matter, for your heart is not right in the sight
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  of God. Repent therefore of this your
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  wickedness, and pray God, if perhaps the thought of your
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  heart may be forgiven you. For I see that you are poisoned
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  by bitterness and bound by iniquity.
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  Have you ever been poisoned by bitterness?
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  Do you have an unforgiveness towards someone?
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  You have a judgement every time you see someone, you just like
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  hate him down deep inside. You don't respect him, you don't
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  like him, you don't love him. You just have attitude about
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  them all the time. That's bitterness.
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  That's the root of bitterness and that's not what God wants in
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  our lives. It poisons us and then we're
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  controlled by the sin that that bitterness will begin to
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  develop. Simon answered and said, Pray to
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  the Lord for me, that none of the things which you have spoken
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  may come upon me. So he's looking to Peter as an
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  apostle, a man used by God. Peter, can you pray for me?
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  But probably more importantly, he needed to pray for himself,
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  right? You don't need to go through an
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  intercessor other than Jesus to get your heart right with God or
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  to have your sins forgiven. The Bible never teaches that.
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  The only way you and I can get right with God is if we go to
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  someone else and get them to pray for us.
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  I mean, it's nice to have people pray for us and we need it, but
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  you need to go to God personally.
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  I need to go to God personally and say, Lord, this attitude is
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  ungodly and it's got to stop. And I ask you to forgive me
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  Lord, and to change my attitude, to change my vision, change my
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  heart. And isn't awesome.
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  He does. And husband and wife
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  relationships. We can have conflict and we do
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  all the time. The only way marriages stay
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  together is by humility and forgiveness and praying for each
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  other. No marriage can stand the test
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  of time if there's bitterness. A matter of fact, bitterness in
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  a life destroys many. The Bible says no.
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  Be careful with this in the church setting.
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  If a root of bitterness springs up among one person in the body,
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  it can be like a cancer and then begin to defile many and stumble
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  and 'cause people to become self-righteous and judgmental
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  and critical of each other. I love the the portion of
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  scripture where the public and went into the temple with the
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  Pharisee, the Pharisees, the self-righteous religious person
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  thinks he does everything right, goes in and he's condescending
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  to the to the center beside him. He's thinking like, why are you
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  even in this building, this temple, the synagogue, you, you,
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  you don't have any right to be in here.
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  You're unclean or whatever. He's like, you know, just
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  putting this guy down in his heart.
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  He's bragging about how he gives and how he does this and does
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  that and and he's proud. He's standing there before a
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  gracious holy God who is merciful and he's trying to
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  impress God by what he says. Meanwhile, his heart is really
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  not what God would require or desire.
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  And yet the Sinner beside him, he didn't even have the ability
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  to look his head up and gaze up into the heavens.
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  He just struck his chest and he said, Lord, be merciful to me,
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  Sinner. You know what Jesus said, That
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  man went out forgiven. The other one didn't.
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  So we need to be constantly aware of the fact that we're
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  fallen. None of us are perfect.
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  We're all works in process. We're learning to follow the
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  Lord deeper. We're learning to obey Him more
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  seriously. This just doesn't happen
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  overnight. It's a process of growing in the
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  grace and the knowledge of God. I've been a pastor now 26 years
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  and sometimes I feel like I'm just starting, you know, and
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  keep learning the same things over and over and over again.
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  The basic foundations, the fundamentals, being filled with
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  the spirit. That's, that's a good thing
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  right now. How much in life do we try to do
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  life on our own strength? Think about it.
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  Maybe you have a tape recorder. Well, Lord has a tape recorder.
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  He knows every thought, every word.
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  You know, we're going to give an account of a someday the Bible
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  says. But you know, Lord, how many
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  times did I ask you to fill me with your spirit last month?
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  Wouldn't it be shocking if he said, well, like I think I can
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  see there was 3 * 3 times in a month that you physically,
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  emotionally, mentally, psychologically ask God to fill
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  you with His spirit. That's like the epitome of
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  arrogance. I can live life by myself and I
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  don't really need the Spirit unless I'm really in a jam where
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  Jesus says. Without me, you can do nothing.
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  So we're supposed to abide in the vine.
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  He we're the branches. He's a vine and constantly have
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  that life flow that comes from Jesus.
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  But it only comes perpetually and continually by this ever
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  flowing fountain of living water that dwells in US, Jesus that
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  can flow through us. But if I'm not asking to be
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  filled with the Spirit, guess who I'm filled with me, right?
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  And the world doesn't need me, it needs Jesus, right?
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  You guys don't need me, you need Jesus, you need his word.
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  My wife, Cindy, she doesn't need more Clark.
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  She needs less Clark and more Jesus, right?
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  My kids, my grandkids, my son-in-law is everybody I'm
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  connected with. You know, they need Jesus in and
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  through my life, and I need it in and through their lives to
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  me, right? It's like living water.
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  And boy, when that fountain's flowing and it's growing and
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  it's spreading and it's being poured out, we're all wonderful,
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  blessed recipients of what it is that the Lord has done for us.
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  So Simon, you know, he's, he's, he's thinking about what's
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  happening here and he knows that he's not in a good place.
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  And Scripture doesn't give a whole lot more information about
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  this guy, but we just trust that the Lord did deal with him and
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  that he got out of that background and began to learn
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  how to live and follow the Lord. And it ends in verse 25 and it
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  says, and so when they had testified and preached the word
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  of the Lord, they returned to Jerusalem preaching the gospel
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  in many villages of the Samaritans.
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  So I, I think of the city of Greensburg.
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  I, I went down, walked down to that fair yesterday and I was
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  amazed at the police presence. I really was.
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  And it was glad to see him down there.
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  I've been to that fair. I might see one security guard
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  walking around, but the police in our nation and and the
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  schools now I hope there's a wake up call that there's
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  really, and I don't want to scare anybody, but where is
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  there a place to go that you're completely safe anymore?
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  If we don't have law enforcement presence, we don't have people
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  watching, keeping their eyes out.
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  We have security in the church. We have armed security in the
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  church. No one's going to get in here,
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  God willing to cause any harm on you or me or anybody else,
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  right. You got it's unfortunate we have
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  to be that way now, but it's it's wisdom right from the Lord.
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  But, you know, you think about the the fear and the anxiety
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  that's on the planet right now and what's happening, you know,
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  to understand how do we get the school secured now?
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  One point of entry, police presence.
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  No way you're going to get in a door unless you are checkpoint
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  and metal detectors, all that kind of stuff.
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  I mean, this is where things are going.
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  I don't see it getting any better personally.
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  It's probably going to get more challenging.
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  But more than ever, we need to be people that have an outward
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  vision toward a world that is completely inward and doesn't
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  even know anything about what it is we're talking about today.
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  Young people that are here today, majority of your friends
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  that go to public school or high school or wherever you go, they
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  don't know anything about what it is we're talking about today.
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  People you work with never heard any of this stuff before.
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  And so we're supposed to be salt and white in the world.
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  And your life has an influence upon me and my life has an
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  influence upon you for either good or evil.
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  So we really need to pray. And we need to understand as a
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  church the importance of prayer. We have prayer Zoom.
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  We have prayer meetings that people want to pray.
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  And also the empowerment of the Holy Spirit, right?
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  We need fresh and filling of God's Holy Spirit.
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  All of us thank. You thanks for joining us on
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  today's edition of Living Waters of Grace, a ministry of Calvary
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  Chapel, Westmoreland. Today, Pastor Clark is teaching
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  about the book of Acts. And as we learn more about Acts,
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  it becomes clear that the early church didn't miss a single
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  opportunity to share the gospel. In nearly every chapter, you see
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  apostles like Peter and Paul stepping into conversations,
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  crowds, and crises with boldness, ready to proclaim the
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  name of Jesus. Their example challenges us to
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  consider how we might step into gospel moments in our own lives.
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  What doors might God open this week for you to speak truth,
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  offer hope, or live out your faith in a way that points
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  others to Him? The story of Acts reminds us we
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  are part of the same mission. Today, let's live with eyes open
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  and hearts ready to respond. We hope you are challenged by
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  today's message. If you're in the Greensburg, PA
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  area, we'd love to see you in person this Sunday at 10:30 AM
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  at 400 E Pittsburgh St. Unit 6B.
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  For more information, visit calvarychapelonline.com.
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  prayer request right from the site.
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