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What Does Being Filled with the Spirit Mean, Part 1 - Pastor Chuck Swindoll Insight for Living · INSIGHT FOR LIVING: Biblical Wisdom For Everyday Living

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Speaker 1: Most Christians have never been taught what the Bible says
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Speaker 1: about being filled with the Holy Spirit, so we tend
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Speaker 1: to look in all the wrong places or chase the sensational,
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Speaker 1: when the answer has been there all along, tucked quietly
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Speaker 1: in a single verse of Ephesians five. You see, God
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Speaker 1: never intended his children to pursue empty promises. His word
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Speaker 1: offers something far better, tangible, trustworthy, access to real power
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Speaker 1: for everyday life. Today, on Insight for Living, Chuck Wendaul
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Speaker 1: answers the essential question, what does being filled with the
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Speaker 1: Spirit mean?
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Speaker 2: We are thinking about how great our God really is
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Speaker 2: these days for forced Sundays, we spoke of the character
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Speaker 2: of God, and we focused our time and thought on
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Speaker 2: four particular characteristics of our heavenly Father. And then we
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Speaker 2: turned to the Cross of Christ, and we addressed the
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Speaker 2: benefits of what our Savior accomplished when he died in
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Speaker 2: our behalf on that cruel cross, as the climax of
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Speaker 2: his reason for coming to this earth. But our Father
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Speaker 2: and our Savior have not left us without a comforter.
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Speaker 2: And though the work of the Holy Spirit is not
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Speaker 2: as well known or well articulated or defined as the
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Speaker 2: work of the Father and the Son. We do need
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Speaker 2: to be aware of what the Spirit of God does
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Speaker 2: and the role he plays, and today there is the
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Speaker 2: all important subject of his filling. A few Christians are
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Speaker 2: taught the accurate teaching of scripture regarding how to be
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Speaker 2: filled with the spirit. So we look for all other
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Speaker 2: ways to make that happen, among them sensational ways, which
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Speaker 2: we'll say more about later. But tucked away in the
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Speaker 2: fifth chapter of Ethesians is the clear and unmistakable direction
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Speaker 2: given by the Spirit of God in scripture for us
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Speaker 2: to hear and to heed. And this section has to
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Speaker 2: do with the filling of the Holy Spirit, not to
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Speaker 2: be confused with the regenerating work of the spirit, or
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Speaker 2: the sealing work of the spirit, or the baptizing work
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Speaker 2: of the spirit. This is the filling, and we'll explain
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Speaker 2: that further. As we are together today Ephesians five, I'll
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Speaker 2: begin the reading of verse fifteen down through verse twenty one.
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Speaker 2: Ephesians five, Verse fifteen. Therefore, be careful how you walk,
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Speaker 2: not as unwise men, but as wise making the most
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Speaker 2: of your time, because the days are evil. So then
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Speaker 2: do not be foolish, but understand what the will of
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Speaker 2: the Lord is, and do not get drunk with wine,
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Speaker 2: for that is dissipation. But be filled with the spirit,
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Speaker 2: speaking to one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual psalms,
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Speaker 2: singing and making melody with your heart to the Lord,
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Speaker 2: always giving thanks for all things in the name of
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Speaker 2: our Lord Jesus Christ, to God, even the Father. And
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Speaker 2: be subject to one another in the fear of Christ.
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Speaker 1: dot org slash offer Chuck title today's message, What does
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Speaker 1: being filled with the spirit mean?
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Speaker 2: Jesus said that he would send the Spirit of God,
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Speaker 2: and in sending him he would also provide power. Well,
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Speaker 2: some have taken that word power and made it. As
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Speaker 2: my prop used to say, walk on all fours. Now
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Speaker 2: there's power for everything. I don't know the last time
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Speaker 2: you checked, but I have done a little and I
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Speaker 2: noticed there is now power evangelism, whatever that is, there
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Speaker 2: is power, prayer, power, preaching, power, healing, power, encounters, power,
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Speaker 2: ministry for every size and shape there may be. You
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Speaker 2: can even wear power ties to carry out your power
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Speaker 2: ministry On Power Sundays. I mean, if there's ever been
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Speaker 2: an overused, abused word, it's power. The spirit of God
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Speaker 2: simply provides a normal Christian life for us, and every
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Speaker 2: day believable. The word is authentically christ Like life lived
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Speaker 2: out from one day to the next. I sometimes like
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Speaker 2: to compare it to a normal, authentic marriage. I know
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Speaker 2: there are some of you thinking about marriage. Today we
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Speaker 2: come back to reality. So let me clarify. A normal, everyday, good, solid,
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Speaker 2: reliable marriage is not made up of soft romantic music
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Speaker 2: filling rooms full of scented candles every day. It is
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Speaker 2: not sitting for hours in a bubbly hot tub to
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Speaker 2: get kissing and hugging one another. After a while, both
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Speaker 2: of you can't even fit in the same tub and
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Speaker 2: you don't want another one in there with you when
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Speaker 2: you are there. It is not your wife wearing two
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Speaker 2: yards of saran wrap and a string of pearls as
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Speaker 2: she crawls in bed at night. That's not the normal plan.
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Speaker 2: It is not soft footed waiters serving you a hot
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Speaker 2: cup of tea as you sit on your Mawi LAMAI
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Speaker 2: watching the surf crash against the sand of the seas.
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Speaker 2: The normal married life is not getting love letters from
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Speaker 2: your spouse several times a week. It is not your
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Speaker 2: husband getting ready for a shower and as he takes
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Speaker 2: his shirt off you think of the model on the
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Speaker 2: cover of GQ magazine. That's not the normal kind of
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Speaker 2: husband you would expect. It's not a house full of
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Speaker 2: teenagers anxious to do the supper dishes each evening, or
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Speaker 2: thrilled to be told so to keep their rooms spotlessly clean,
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Speaker 2: or delighted to bring their great point average up to
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Speaker 2: three point nine, hopefully four point zero before they graduate.
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Speaker 2: That's not normal. That's not normal. The normal married life
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Speaker 2: is not getting a mother in law with a face
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Speaker 2: like Michelle Pfeiffer and a heart like mother Teresa. That's
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Speaker 2: not the normal normal mother in law. Well, what is normal?
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Speaker 2: It is the authentic, It is the real. The normal
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Speaker 2: marriage is every day, living from one day to the next,
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Speaker 2: faithful to one another, counting on one another to be
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Speaker 2: there when times are difficult, and in some cases impossible
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Speaker 2: to go on without the other person. The normal Christian
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Speaker 2: life is a lot like that. It is the enablement
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Speaker 2: to live a life that those without Christ can't even imagine.
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Speaker 2: It is if you will the power to control your tongue.
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Speaker 2: It is the ability to clear your and clean up
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Speaker 2: your thoughts. It is a way to guard you from temptation,
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Speaker 2: so that you don't plunge in and fall into one
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Speaker 2: temptation after another. The authentic Christian life offers you hope
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Speaker 2: beyond the normal drag of the flesh. These two are
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Speaker 2: always in opposition to one another. Think of them as such,
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Speaker 2: the spirit life, the flesh life, the spiritual walk the
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Speaker 2: carnal walk. In order to enter the Christian life, well,
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Speaker 2: let's compare it to buying a car. Two things are
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Speaker 2: essential for you to enjoy the car that you buy.
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Speaker 2: First is a set of keys. The key lets you
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Speaker 2: in the car. It'll help open the trunk or the
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Speaker 2: glove box, or even once you're in, to lift the
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Speaker 2: hood on the car. You can't enjoy the car without
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Speaker 2: the keys. What the keys are to the car, conversion
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Speaker 2: is to the Christian life. Okay, you don't enter the
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Speaker 2: Christian life because you're born into a Christian family, or
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Speaker 2: because you attend to church where the Bible is taught,
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Speaker 2: or even because you learn verses from this book called
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Speaker 2: the Bible. You enter the Christian life through the key
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Speaker 2: christ John writes it this way. He who has the
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Speaker 2: son Son, the Son of God, has the life. He
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Speaker 2: who does not have the Son of God does not
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Speaker 2: have the life. You either have the key that gets
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Speaker 2: you in the car or you don't. So first is
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Speaker 2: the key. The second thing you need, and you'll notice
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Speaker 2: it soon after getting the car is fuel. Now you
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Speaker 2: can't pull up to your garden hose and turn on
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Speaker 2: the spigot and put the hose in the tank and
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Speaker 2: save money from going to down to the service station
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Speaker 2: and put water in. You know, the engine is meant
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Speaker 2: to run on a fuel. To the amazement of some people,
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Speaker 2: and certainly I'm one of them, a number of people
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Speaker 2: in the Family of God think they can live their
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Speaker 2: life out in the flesh and everything will run along
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Speaker 2: as God planted. When you operate in the flesh, the
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Speaker 2: engine shuts down. The goal is to operate in the spirit.
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Speaker 2: What the fuel is to the car, the spirit of
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Speaker 2: God is to the authentic, normal Christian life. It is
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Speaker 2: not a miracle a day to keep the devil away.
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Speaker 2: In fact, someone has put it very well, a good
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Speaker 2: friend of mine. If miracles were every day, they'd be
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Speaker 2: called regulars. But they're miracles and they rarely occur. And
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Speaker 2: by the way, you're finding a park space at Nordstrom's
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Speaker 2: at Christmas time is not a miracle, please, it's not.
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Speaker 2: It just so happened. A car pulled out and you
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Speaker 2: pulled in. Hopefully, it's just that. Try your best not
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Speaker 2: to make even the remarkable event miraculous. Miracles happen instantaneously,
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Speaker 2: and they lack anyone's ability to explain them. I have
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Speaker 2: a friend who had cancer of the tongue. He asked
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Speaker 2: me to pray along with a handful of his friends,
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Speaker 2: and we prayed for him. He had the X rays.
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Speaker 2: He took the X rays to get a second opinion
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Speaker 2: at Mayo's, and somewhere between the physician in Dallas and
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Speaker 2: the physician at Mayo that examined the same X ray,
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Speaker 2: the cancer was gone. No one could explain it, to
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Speaker 2: the point where the people at Mayo Clinic said, these
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Speaker 2: are not the right X rays. They just couldn't explain it.
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Speaker 2: Another example, God, for some sovereign reason and for his purpose,
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Speaker 2: healed my friend of that cancer on the tongue. I
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Speaker 2: have other friends I prayed for and they died with
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Speaker 2: the disease. A more common response is it does take
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Speaker 2: its toll on you, and you are rarely miraculously healed.
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Speaker 2: But sometime and certainly God is able to do that.
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Speaker 2: But that's a miracle. The spiritual life, the normal filling
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Speaker 2: of the spirit, doesn't have anything to do with a miracle.
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Speaker 2: It has to do with putting the fuel in the
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Speaker 2: tank and engaging the gears and driving, carrying on your life. Now,
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Speaker 2: look at Colaisians chapter two, just before we get over
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Speaker 2: to Ephesians. Look at Colossians two. That's one of the
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Speaker 2: little four small letters in the New Testament. Galatians, Ephesians, Philippians,
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Speaker 2: and Colossians. Look at this second chapter verse six. I
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Speaker 2: love this verse because of its simplicity. Therefore, as you
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Speaker 2: have received Christ Jesus the Lord, that's the key, that's
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Speaker 2: the key in the ignition that turns on the engine.
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Speaker 2: That's the key that gets you inside. You do not
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Speaker 2: claim to be a Christian if you have not received
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Speaker 2: Christ Jesus the Lord. If you do, it's erroneous. He
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Speaker 2: who has the son has the life. He who has
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Speaker 2: the key can start the car. Just as you have
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Speaker 2: received Christ Jesus the Lord, that's the key. Now the fuel,
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Speaker 2: so walk in him. That's the spirit of God at work,
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Speaker 2: fueling engaging your life in an authentic manner. The longer
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Speaker 2: the more I place a high priority on authenticity. I
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Speaker 2: don't know of anything that impresses the lost world more
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Speaker 2: than this combination an authentic life and a joyful attitude.
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Speaker 2: Those things are contagious. How could you be this real
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Speaker 2: and how could you be this joyful in a world
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Speaker 2: like this in which we live. The way you live
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Speaker 2: has nothing to do with the circumstances around you. That's
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Speaker 2: what makes it such a phenomenal life to offer individuals.
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Speaker 2: Now turn from here to John chapter fourteen. Let's do
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Speaker 2: a quick little review on where we've been. John fourteen,
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Speaker 2: Remember is the conversation that followed the Last Supper. Jesus
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Speaker 2: is with his faithful eleven Judas has left. Jesus is
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Speaker 2: teaching them about the life yet to come. He tells
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Speaker 2: them in John fourteen, verse sixteen. I will ask the Father,
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Speaker 2: Remember this is at the last Supper. He's going to
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Speaker 2: be with him only a few more hours. I will
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Speaker 2: ask the Father, he will give you another helper that
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Speaker 2: he may be with you forever. See those words that
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Speaker 2: he may be with you forever. Down in verse seventeen
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Speaker 2: we read He abides with you and will be in you.
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Speaker 2: So the promise is when you come to Christ. Now
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Speaker 2: that we are at the time of the spirits working
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Speaker 2: and the spirits filling, and the spirits in dwelling, when
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Speaker 2: you come to Christ, you have the Spirit of God
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Speaker 2: living within you. Before I go any further, let me
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Speaker 2: tell you a wasted prayer is Lord, send me your spirit.
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Speaker 2: If you're a Christian, you have the Holy Spirit. That's
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Speaker 2: like praying, Lord be with us today, the very common prayer.
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Speaker 2: It's a wasted prayer. He is with us. In fact,
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Speaker 2: his spirit lives within every believer. It's called the indwelling
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Speaker 2: of the Holy Spirit. And if you are in Christ,
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Speaker 2: Christ is in you. With Christ comes as well the
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Speaker 2: Holy Spirit. You have the Spirit, and he permanently lives
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Speaker 2: within you. Now look at Acts one eight. Not only
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Speaker 2: do we have the Holy Spirit permanently in dwelling in us,
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Speaker 2: we now have God's enablement. Jesus Christ promise the Holy Spirit.
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Speaker 2: That's the first point. Second, the Spirit of God has
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Speaker 2: now come and lives within us permanently. And the third
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Speaker 2: is the Holy Spirit will come with power. Verse eight,
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Speaker 2: you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come
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Speaker 2: upon you. You shall be my witnesses in Jerusalem and Judea,
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Speaker 2: in Samaria, even to the remotest part of the earth.
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Speaker 2: One of the great missionary verses. In fact, it's a
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Speaker 2: verse for all believers. We live our lives with an
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Speaker 2: eye toward the world around us. We don't become a
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Speaker 2: closed clan, just a tight little click of people just
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Speaker 2: living unto ourselves. That's the sign of a cult. A
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Speaker 2: cult does that. But in authentic christ like Christianity, we
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Speaker 2: live for the purpose of reaching the world with the
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Speaker 2: message of the Savior. So the Holy Spirit will come
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Speaker 2: with power, and we know now he has come. Third,
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Speaker 2: we now have God's enablement. See the word power. It's
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Speaker 2: the word from which we get our word dynamic or dynamite.
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Speaker 2: Dunamis is the word. It's a word I call divine enablement.
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Speaker 2: Divine enablement because I have the spirit, I have within
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Speaker 2: me the controls to handle my flesh. I can't handle
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Speaker 2: it on my own. I couldn't all the time I
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Speaker 2: was without Christ. But once I came to Christ, I
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Speaker 2: got the key to the car, I got the fuel
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Speaker 2: for the tank. And I engage the gears, and what
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Speaker 2: I do, the Spirit of God takes over and overcomes
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Speaker 2: the fleshly drive within me, the drive to react, the
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Speaker 2: drive to strike back, the drive to get even, the
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Speaker 2: drive to throw a temper fit, the drive to have
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Speaker 2: my own way. On and on. We could listen him
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Speaker 2: for the rest of the afternoon. This is the work
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Speaker 2: of the Spirit, as he now provides divine enablement. I
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Speaker 2: made a quick list of them in my study. We
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Speaker 2: have an inner dynamic to handle life's pressure. We are
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Speaker 2: now able to be joyful regardless. We have the capacity
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Speaker 2: to grasp the deep things of God that we could
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Speaker 2: never understand on our own. Without the help of the Spirit,
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Speaker 2: we have little difficulty in maintaining a positive attitude toward life,
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Speaker 2: being unselfish, being servants, living humbly before one another. We
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Speaker 2: have a keen sense of intuition. As we get into
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Speaker 2: the text of Scripture, God begins to reveal to us
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Speaker 2: his mind. We look more at that next time we
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Speaker 2: can be vulnerable and open. We can share our hurts,
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Speaker 2: our needs, our brokenness. We rely on the Spirit to
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Speaker 2: intercede for us in ways that we can't even do
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Speaker 2: for ourselves. We have an internal filtering system, so that
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Speaker 2: when we are in the presence of error, we detect,
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Speaker 2: we discern that it is error. We can actually live
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Speaker 2: a life wory free. My list goes on and on.
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Speaker 2: Because we have the Spirit of God living within us,
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Speaker 2: those things are different that was not true before he lived.
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Speaker 2: There with him comes the power, the enablement to live
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Speaker 2: above the drag of everyday life. One more turn before
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Speaker 2: we get to Ethesians. Look at First Corinthians chapter six.
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Speaker 2: I want you to see what you are as a living,
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Speaker 2: breathing Christian. First Corinthians, Chapter six concludes verses nineteen and
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Speaker 2: twenty with some terribly important information. Do you not know?
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Speaker 2: And by the way he's writing to people in the
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Speaker 2: first century, can you imagine the people in the twenty
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Speaker 2: first century who don't know this, even people that had
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Speaker 2: been in a church that Paul found it? Do you
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Speaker 2: not know? Says the apostle, that your body is a
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Speaker 2: temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you. So
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Speaker 2: put that down if you're taking notes. Your body is
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Speaker 2: a temple of the Holy Spirit. What does that mean?
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Speaker 2: Means He resides there, He lives there, he and dwells
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Speaker 2: your person. You don't have to ask for him to
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Speaker 2: come in. He lives within, and because he dwells within,
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Speaker 2: his desire is to be in control of your lips
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Speaker 2: and eyes and ears, and actions and thoughts and reactions
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Speaker 2: and motives. But we are the temple of the Holy
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Speaker 2: Spirit who is in you. He even goes further whom
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Speaker 2: you have from God. And you know what that means.
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Speaker 2: That means you're not your own. If you are inhabited
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Speaker 2: by someone else, you're not your own. You're able to
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Speaker 2: pull off what you could never do on your own.
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Speaker 2: Another illustration. I love the piano. I would love to
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Speaker 2: be able to play the piano. When I sit down,
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Speaker 2: the piano groans when I began to play it. It
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Speaker 2: knows it's not being played well. However, if I were
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Speaker 2: to bring into our home a man named Van Kliburn,
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Speaker 2: and he gets himself ready and sits down at the piano,
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Speaker 2: our piano sounds like the way a piano water sound.
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Speaker 2: And I stand back and go that is fantistic, that
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Speaker 2: is wonderful. Our piano was so happy, and so were
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Speaker 2: all of us who were listening to you today. And
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Speaker 2: what if Van Clyburn said to me, you know what, Chuck,
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Speaker 2: I have the ability to give you my person so
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Speaker 2: that you can play like this. You're kidding, He goes, No, Okay,
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Speaker 2: you're ready, and I'll say yeah. So I'm suddenly Van Kleiber.
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Speaker 2: All right. So I sit down and I'm playing Chopin's
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Speaker 2: polling Dais and Bethoven and back, and I'm doing all
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Speaker 2: this mode so hard work. I'm playing some great hymns.
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Speaker 2: It's wonderful, and I just I'm amazed at this ability
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Speaker 2: to do what I could never have done on my own.
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Speaker 2: And then I start thinking, hey, I'm pretty good. I
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Speaker 2: start sounding like chopsticks all over again. You know why,
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Speaker 2: because when you're operating in the power of the spirit,
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Speaker 2: you don't operate for your own glory. If anything's being
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Speaker 2: carried out, and it's being carried out for God's going
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Speaker 2: we just read you're not your own. You're going back
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Speaker 2: to playing chopsticks, and you can't play unless you're under
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Speaker 2: the control of the one who has come to live
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Speaker 2: within you. In a simple and fragmented way, that is
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Speaker 2: what it is to be under the control of the spirit.
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Speaker 2: You're not your own. That means your goal in life
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Speaker 2: is not to get what you want. Can I go further?
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Speaker 2: It means it's not all about you. In spite of
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Speaker 2: what you may hear today, you're you're not that great shakes.
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Speaker 2: I mean when you when you look deep enough, what
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Speaker 2: you find is just gross depravity. You're not in life
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Speaker 2: for yourself. We're not our own. We've been bought with
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Speaker 2: a price. So what are we supposed to do? Look
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Speaker 2: at verse twenty into the verse verse Corinthians six twenty.
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Speaker 2: Because of this, we are to glorify God in our bodies.
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Speaker 1: Chucks Mendall has identified the heart of the matter. The
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Speaker 1: spirit filled life isn't about pursuing what we want. It's
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Speaker 1: about surrendering to the one who bought us at an
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Speaker 1: infinite cost. That kind of surrender sounds radical in a
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Speaker 1: world that insists that life is all about me. But
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Speaker 1: here's the promise. When we stop grasping for control and
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Speaker 1: start yielding to the spirit of God, something remarkable happens.
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Speaker 1: This is insight for living. Chuck titled today's message with
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Speaker 1: a question, what does being filled with the spirit mean?
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Speaker 1: If you're ready to learn more or you're looking for
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