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Power In The Holy Spirit | Episode #374 | Encore Episode #045 · Reflections On The Word With Richard Kay

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to today's edition of Reflection on the Word with
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  Speaker 1: Richard K. I'm Chuck Christie, and today we are asking
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  Speaker 1: you to spend a few moments of your time with
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  Speaker 1: us each day as Richard shares from God's work with notes, quotes,
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  Speaker 1: and story along with some of his own personal experiences
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  Speaker 1: to confirm for you God's great love for us, that
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  Speaker 1: his compassion for us never fails, and that He has
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  Speaker 1: a great faithfulness toward us in every regard. Now, if
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  Speaker 1: you miss a portion of today's broadcast or would like
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  Speaker 1: to recommend it to a friend, you can hear this
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  Speaker 1: program anytime online at Talknetwork Radio dot com. Well, now
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  Speaker 1: here's Richard with today's reflection.
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  Speaker 2: So those who were scattered went on their way, proclaiming
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  Speaker 2: the message of good news. Philip went down to a
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  Speaker 2: city in Samaria and preached the Messiah to them. The
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  Speaker 2: crowds paid attention with one mind to what Philip said
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  Speaker 2: as they heard and saw the signs he was performing
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  Speaker 2: for unclean spirits. Crying out with a loud voice came
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  Speaker 2: out of many who were possessed, and many who were
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  Speaker 2: paralyzed and lame were healed. So there was great joy
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  Speaker 2: in that city you know, we talked yesterday in regard
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  Speaker 2: words to signs and wonders that were constantly following those
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  Speaker 2: that believe. We know that we have discussed the fivefold.
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  Speaker 3: Ministry, and we don't want to continue this particular part
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  Speaker 3: of our study without understanding better how the Holy Spirit
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  Speaker 3: is using believers, not only in the early Church and
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  Speaker 3: throughout Christian history, but today. You see, there are many
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  Speaker 3: today who will look at the events of history and
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  Speaker 3: will simply state that that was history, and it no
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  Speaker 3: longer is effective today. And yet we find in many
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  Speaker 3: parts of the world where there are still those people
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  Speaker 3: who are not as educated. Perhaps they are not able
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  Speaker 3: to receive some of the modern medical attention that is
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  Speaker 3: available to perhaps those of us in the Western world.
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  Speaker 3: And yet we find demonstrations of power of the Holy
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  Speaker 3: Spirit reported daily as Christ performs through each of his
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  Speaker 3: believers new and better works. You see, it is always
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  Speaker 3: something to be able to hear the Gospel. It is
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  Speaker 3: more than just the words that are spoken. Paul even
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  Speaker 3: said in another one of his letters that he did
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  Speaker 3: not come to them with just the oratory of spoken work,
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  Speaker 3: but in demonstration and manifestation of the power of the
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  Speaker 3: Holy Spirit, and so what we find in Samaria is
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  Speaker 3: a process where believers came to receive the Gospel message.
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  Speaker 3: They witnessed what was taking place. People were being healed,
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  Speaker 3: those that were possessed di demons were being delivered. The
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  Speaker 3: works that were being done through Philip, and those that
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  Speaker 3: were commissioned were actually the same works that Jesus had
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  Speaker 3: given authority to do, and so many came to know Jesus.
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  Speaker 2: Now.
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  Speaker 3: One of the things that was following that particular event
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  Speaker 3: was that there was a man named Simon, and he
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  Speaker 3: had previously practiced all forms of sorcery in that city,
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  Speaker 3: and he astounded the Samaritan people while claiming to be
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  Speaker 3: somebody great. They all paid attention to him, from the
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  Speaker 3: least of them to the greatest, and they said, this
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  Speaker 3: man is called the great Power of God. They were
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  Speaker 3: attended to him because he had astounded them with his
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  Speaker 3: sorceries for a long time. But when they believed Philip
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  Speaker 3: as he proclaimed the good news about the Kingdom of
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  Speaker 3: God and the name of Jesus Christ, both men and
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  Speaker 3: women were baptized. Then even Simon himself believed, and after
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  Speaker 3: he was baptized, he went around constantly with Philip and
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  Speaker 3: was astounded as he observed the signs and great miracles
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  Speaker 3: that were being performed. When the apostles who were at
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  Speaker 3: Jerusalem heard that Samaria had welcomed God's message, they sent
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  Speaker 3: Peter and John to them. After they went down there,
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  Speaker 3: they prayed for them that they might receive the Holy Spirit.
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  Speaker 3: Listen to this portion of Acts chapter eight, in verse sixteen,
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  Speaker 3: For he the Holy Spirit had not yet come down
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  Speaker 3: on any of them. They had only been baptized in
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  Speaker 3: the name of the Lord Jesus. Then Peter and John
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  Speaker 3: laid their hands on them, and they received the Holy Spirit.
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  Speaker 3: Now this was so evident that the following verses described
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  Speaker 3: what was being demonstrated. When Simon the Sorcerer saw that
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  Speaker 3: the Holy Spirit was given through the laying on of
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  Speaker 3: the apostles hands, he offered them money, saying, give me
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  Speaker 3: this power too, so that anyone I lay hands on
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  Speaker 3: may receive the Holy Spirit. But Peter told him, may
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  Speaker 3: your silver be destroyed with you, because you thought the
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  Speaker 3: gift of God could be obtained with money. You have
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  Speaker 3: no part or share in this matter, because your heart
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  Speaker 3: is not right before God. You see, folks, this is
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  Speaker 3: a very important part of what we have been discussing.
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  Speaker 3: Here we see an example of the manifest power of
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  Speaker 3: God being used in believers. We see that there are
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  Speaker 3: many who are being healed, and we see that there
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  Speaker 3: are many who are being delivered that are possessed of demons.
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  Speaker 3: We see that these same manifestations are taking place not
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  Speaker 3: only in Jerusalem, but in Samaria and in all other
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  Speaker 3: parts of the world as the believers are scattered. And
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  Speaker 3: what we have found in this particular out is that
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  Speaker 3: the man who was a sorcerer, if you will, he
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  Speaker 3: was a worker of all types of occult practices. In fact,
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  Speaker 3: you may even be able to say that his power
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  Speaker 3: was attributed to the devil. And yet he astounded many
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  Speaker 3: of those in Samaria with the manifestation of what he
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  Speaker 3: did with his sorceries. But when this man saw the
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  Speaker 3: works that were being proplaned and manifested through Philip, he
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  Speaker 3: wanted that power. He wanted it for his own reasons.
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  Speaker 3: He didn't want it to glorify God. He wanted it
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  Speaker 3: so that he could continue to manipulate the masses that
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  Speaker 3: were devoted to him. And yet we see something that
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  Speaker 3: took place that was very evident. Remember in the account
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  Speaker 3: they were baptized after they received the Gospel, they had
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  Speaker 3: witnessed the manifestations, they saw the signs and wonders, and
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  Speaker 3: they sought to receive Jesus. After having done that, they
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  Speaker 3: were baptized. Men and women were baptized, and because of
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  Speaker 3: that they were actually welcomed into the body of Christ.
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  Speaker 3: They were Samaritans, they were not Jews. So as the
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  Speaker 3: people began to realize they had come into a unity
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  Speaker 3: because of the belief that was in them that Jesus
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  Speaker 3: was alive, and it was through his name and through
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  Speaker 3: the power of the promise of the Father that Philip
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  Speaker 3: and the other appointed officer were able to perform signs
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  Speaker 3: and wonders in front of them. So what took place
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  Speaker 3: was as soon as that information came back into Jerusalem,
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  Speaker 3: they were actually able to dispatch, if you will, Peter
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  Speaker 3: and John who went to some area and actually laid
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  Speaker 3: hands on all the believers so that they could receive
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  Speaker 3: what the baptism in the Holy Spirit. They were able
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  Speaker 3: to go because they knew these people needed the same
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  Speaker 3: power that they had, and they did have the ability
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  Speaker 3: because of the authority given them to convey that same
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  Speaker 3: power through the laying on of their hands. They laid
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  Speaker 3: hands on those new believers so that they could receive
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  Speaker 3: the Baptism in the Holy Spirit. Folks, we need to
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  Speaker 3: understand that this is not some type of toy that
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  Speaker 3: can be played with. Simon the Sorcerer thought that it
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  Speaker 3: was that it was something he could use and for
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  Speaker 3: his own benefit. And yet the apostle Peter and John
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  Speaker 3: said to him that not what's going to happen. You
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  Speaker 3: are not going to be able to be used of
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  Speaker 3: God for your own benefit. And so we realize that
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  Speaker 3: the baptism in the Holy Spirit is for believers to
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  Speaker 3: be empowered to do the work of ministry. The work
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  Speaker 3: of ministry is to bring the Gospel in word and
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  Speaker 3: manifestation of power to a lost and dying world.
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  Speaker 1: Richard will be right back in a moment to wrap up,
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  Speaker 1: but if you've just joined us you've been listening to
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  Speaker 1: Reflections on the Word with Richard Ka, you can hear
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  Speaker 1: this message in its entirety again online as well as
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  Speaker 1: like to acknowledge our theme song, how Great is Thy
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  Speaker 1: express scriptures are read from the Holman Christian Standard Bible,
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  Speaker 1: and printed by Discovery House Publishers. Again here is Richard
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  Speaker 1: to wrap up today's message.
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  Speaker 3: We need to understand that need has never ceased. We
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  Speaker 3: are constantly being phase with an enemy that wants to
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  Speaker 3: keep all of those who have not received the Gospel captive,
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  Speaker 3: and it is the power of God manifested in believers
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  Speaker 3: through action that is actually able to set them free.
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  Speaker 3: We want to be able to know that this same
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  Speaker 3: baptism in the Holy Spirit should be as much a
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  Speaker 3: normal part of the process of Christian growth as any
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  Speaker 3: other part in the doctrine of the Church. We need
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  Speaker 3: to understand that if early believers needed the power of
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  Speaker 3: the Holy Spirit to do the work of ministry, you
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  Speaker 3: and I need it just as much. We need to
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  Speaker 3: understand that in order for so and wonders to follow,
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  Speaker 3: those that believe the power of the Holy Spirit must
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  Speaker 3: work in us. And that is today's reflection on the
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  Speaker 3: Word thank you.
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  Speaker 1: Richard, join us again tomorrow when we continue with the
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  Speaker 1: next edition of Reflections on the Word with Richard k
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  Speaker 1: or Richard the entire team. This is Chuck, Christie Sad
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  Speaker 1: Thanks for listening to this edition Reflections on the Word.