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What-Does-Being-Filled-with-the-Spirit · INSIGHT FOR LIVING: Biblical Wisdom For Everyday Living

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Speaker 1: We are thinking about how great our God really is.
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Speaker 1: These days or for Sundays, we spoke of the character
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Speaker 1: of God, and we focused our time and thought on
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Speaker 1: four particular characteristics of our heavenly Father. And then we
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Speaker 1: turned to the Cross of Christ, and we addressed the
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Speaker 1: benefits of what our Savior accomplished when he died in
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Speaker 1: our behalf on that cruel cross, as the climax of
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Speaker 1: his reason for coming to this earth. But our Father
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Speaker 1: and our Savior have not left us without a comforter.
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Speaker 1: And though the work of the Holy Spirit is not
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Speaker 1: as well known or well articulated or defined as the
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Speaker 1: work of the Father and the Son, we do need
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Speaker 1: to be aware of what the Spirit of God does,
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Speaker 1: the role he plays, And today there is the all
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Speaker 1: important subject of his filling. Very few Christians are taught
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Speaker 1: the accurate teaching of scripture regarding how to be filled
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Speaker 1: with the spirit. So we look for all other ways
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Speaker 1: to make that happen, among them sensational ways, which we'll
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Speaker 1: say more about later. But tucked away in the fifth
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Speaker 1: chapter of Ethesians is the clear and unmistakable direction given
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Speaker 1: by the Spirit of God in Scripture for us to
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Speaker 1: hear and to heed. And this section has to do
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Speaker 1: with the filling of the Holy Spirit, not to be
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Speaker 1: confused with the regenerating work of the spirit, or the
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Speaker 1: sealing work of the spirit, or the baptizing work of
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Speaker 1: the spirit. This is the filling, and we'll explain that further.
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Speaker 1: As we are together today. I've given you an outline
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Speaker 1: for the message which you will want to follow along,
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Speaker 1: and we'll let that sort of be our guide. As
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Speaker 1: a little later we begin in Colossians chapter two, but
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Speaker 1: for now let's focus on Ephesians five. I'll begin the
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Speaker 1: reading of verse eighteen down through verse twenty one. May
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Speaker 1: we stand together for the reading of God's Word, and
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Speaker 1: we do so out of respect for God's giving us
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Speaker 1: his scriptures Phesians five eighteen. And do not get drunk
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Speaker 1: with wine, for that is dissipation. But be filled with
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Speaker 1: the spirit. Speaking to one another in psalms and hymns
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Speaker 1: and spiritual psalms, singing and making melody with your heart
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Speaker 1: to the Lord, always giving thanks for all things in
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Speaker 1: the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, to God, even
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Speaker 1: the Father. And be to one another in the fear
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Speaker 1: of Christ. May God honor his word the reading of it,
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Speaker 1: and most importantly our living it out this week you
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Speaker 1: may be seated. Some time ago I came across the
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Speaker 1: prayer of the former chaplain of the Senate in the
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Speaker 1: state of Kansas. It was a prayer offered around Thanksgiving time,
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Speaker 1: and just this week a friend of mine reminded me
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Speaker 1: of it as Billy Graham sent it out as what
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Speaker 1: he would say would be a great prayer for us
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Speaker 1: to utter as Thanksgiving arrives. And from this man we
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Speaker 1: all admire, we have him to thank for the way.
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Speaker 1: I will be closing my prayer today of prayer Thanksgiving,
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Speaker 1: but bow with me before the offering, and let us
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Speaker 1: join our hearts together that we thank you for the
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Speaker 1: beauty of the earth, and we thank you for the
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Speaker 1: lovely glory of the skies, and for the love which
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Speaker 1: from our birth over and around us lies. And Father,
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Speaker 1: thank you for the reminder from our musical ensemble today
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Speaker 1: that your beauty stretches around us and above us, and
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Speaker 1: even because of your faithfulness within us. Thank you for
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Speaker 1: loving parents who raised us to love you, and thank
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Speaker 1: you for their faithfulness and building into our lives. And
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Speaker 1: thank you for the families you have given us on
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Speaker 1: this earth and at this time of year, we do
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Speaker 1: pause to express our gratitude. We remember those men and
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Speaker 1: women in uniform in dangerous and difficult places as well
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Speaker 1: as we come to you today and on this week,
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Speaker 1: which will be alone weak for many of them. We
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Speaker 1: pray for them, for their families here at home, the
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Speaker 1: families of our allies in this battle, as they move
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Speaker 1: toward victory. Our Father, we pray that you will hold
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Speaker 1: them close to yourself and take care of them and
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Speaker 1: meet their needs as their hearts turned toward home. Also,
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Speaker 1: our heavenly Father, we come before you today to ask
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Speaker 1: your forgiveness and to seek your direction and guidance. We
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Speaker 1: know your word says woe to those who call evil good,
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Speaker 1: But that is exactly what we have done. We have
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Speaker 1: lost our spiritual equilibrium and reversed our values. We have
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Speaker 1: exploited the poor and called it the lottery. We have
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Speaker 1: rewarded laziness and called it welfare. We have killed our
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Speaker 1: unborn and called it choice. We have shot abortionists and
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Speaker 1: called it justifiable. We have neglected to discipline our children
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Speaker 1: and called it building self esteem. We have abused power
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Speaker 1: and called it politics. We have coveted our neighbor's possessions
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Speaker 1: and called it ambition. We have polluted the air with
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Speaker 1: profanity and pornography and called it the freedom of expression.
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Speaker 1: We have ridiculed the time honored values of our forefathers
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Speaker 1: and called it enlightenment. Forgive us, Heavenly Father, search us,
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Speaker 1: O God and know our hearts today, cleanse us from
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Speaker 1: every sin and set us free. In the matchless name
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Speaker 1: of Christ, our Lord, we pray, and everyone said amen.
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Speaker 1: Jesus said that he would send the Spirit of God,
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Speaker 1: and in sending him he would also provide power. Well,
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Speaker 1: some have taken that word power and made it as
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Speaker 1: my Prophe used to say, walk on all fours. Now
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Speaker 1: there's power for everything. I don't know the last time
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Speaker 1: you check, but I have done a little and I
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Speaker 1: noticed there is now power evangelism, whatever that is, there
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Speaker 1: is power, prayer, power, healing, power encounters, power ministry for
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Speaker 1: every size and shape there may be. You can even
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Speaker 1: wear power tithes to carry out your power ministry. On
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Speaker 1: power Sundays. I mean, if there's ever been an overused,
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Speaker 1: abused word, it's power. The Spirit of God simply provides
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Speaker 1: a normal Christian life for us, and every day believable.
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Speaker 1: The word is authentically christ like life lived out from
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Speaker 1: one day to the next. I sometimes like to compare
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Speaker 1: it to a normal, authentic marriage. I know there are
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Speaker 1: some of you thinking about marriage. Today we come back
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Speaker 1: to reality. So let me clarify. A normal, everyday, good, solid,
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Speaker 1: reliable marriage is not made up of soft romantic music,
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Speaker 1: filling rooms full of scented candles every day. It is
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Speaker 1: not sitting for hours in a bubbly hot tub together,
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Speaker 1: kissing and hugging one another. After a while, both of
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Speaker 1: you can't even fit in the same tub and you
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Speaker 1: don't want another one in there with you when you
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Speaker 1: are there. It is not your wife wearing two yards
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Speaker 1: of saran wrap and a string of pearls as she
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Speaker 1: crawls in bed at night. That's not the normal plan.
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Speaker 1: It is not soft footed waiters serving you a hot
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Speaker 1: cup of tea as you sit on your Maui Lamai
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Speaker 1: watching the surf crash against the sand of the seas.
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Speaker 1: The normal Christian, the normal married life, is not getting
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Speaker 1: love letters from your spouse several times a week. It
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Speaker 1: is not your husband getting ready for a shower and
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Speaker 1: as he takes his shirt off, you think of the
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Speaker 1: model on the cover of GQ magazine. That's not the
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Speaker 1: normal kind of husband you would expect. It's not a
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Speaker 1: house full of teenagers anxious to do the supper dishes
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Speaker 1: each evening, or thrilled to be told to keep their
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Speaker 1: rooms spotlessly clean, or delighted to bring their great point
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Speaker 1: average up to three point nine, hopefully four point zero
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Speaker 1: before they graduate. That's not normal. That's not normal. The
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Speaker 1: normal married life is not getting a mother in law
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Speaker 1: with a face like Michelle Pfeiffer and a heart like
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Speaker 1: mother Teresa. That's not the normal, normal mother in law. Well,
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Speaker 1: what is normal? It is the authentic. It is the real.
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Speaker 1: It is the enablement to live a life that those
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Speaker 1: without Christ can't even imagine. It is, if you will,
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Speaker 1: the power to control your tongue. It is the ability
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Speaker 1: to clear your and clean up your thoughts. It is
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Speaker 1: a way to guard you from temptation so that you
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Speaker 1: don't plunge in and fall into one temptation after another.
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Speaker 1: The authentic Christian life offers you hope beyond the normal
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Speaker 1: drag of the flesh. These two are always in opposition
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Speaker 1: to one another. Think of them as such, the spirit life,
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Speaker 1: the flesh life, the spiritual walk, the carnal walk in
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Speaker 1: order to enter the Christian life. Well, let's compare it
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Speaker 1: to buying a car. Two things are essential for you
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Speaker 1: to enjoy the car that you buy. First is a
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Speaker 1: set of keys. The key lets you in the car.
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Speaker 1: It'll help open the trunk or the glove box, or
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Speaker 1: even once are in, to lift the hood on the car.
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Speaker 1: You can't enjoy the car without the keys. What the
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Speaker 1: keys are to the car, conversion is to the Christian life. Okay,
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Speaker 1: you don't enter the Christian life because you're born into
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Speaker 1: a Christian family, or because you attend to church where
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Speaker 1: the Bible is taught, or even because you learn verses
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Speaker 1: from this book called the Bible. You enter the Christian
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Speaker 1: life through the key. Christ John writes it this way,
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Speaker 1: he who has the son Son, the Son of God,
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Speaker 1: has the life. He who does not have the Son
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Speaker 1: of God does not have the life. You either have
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Speaker 1: the key that gets you in the car or you don't.
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Speaker 1: So first is the key. The second thing you need,
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Speaker 1: and you'll notice it soon after getting the car is fuel.
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Speaker 1: Now you can't pull up to your garden hosts and
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Speaker 1: turn on the spigot and put the hose in the
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Speaker 1: tank and save money from going to down to the
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Speaker 1: service station and put water in. You know, the engine
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Speaker 1: is meant to run on a fuel. What the fuel
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Speaker 1: is to the car, the spirit of God is to
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Speaker 1: the authentic, normal Christian life. It is not a miracle
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Speaker 1: a day to keep the devil away. In fact, someone
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Speaker 1: has put it very well, a good friend of mine.
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Speaker 1: If miracles were every day, they'd be called regulars. But
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Speaker 1: they're miracles and they rarely occur. And by the way,
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Speaker 1: you're finding a parking space at Nordstrom's at Christmas time
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Speaker 1: is not a miracle, please, it's not. It just so happened.
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Speaker 1: A car pulled out and you pulled in. Hopefully, it's
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Speaker 1: just that. Try your best not to make every even
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Speaker 1: the remarkable event miraculous. Miracles happen instantaneously, and they lack
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Speaker 1: anyone's ability to explain him. I have a friend who
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Speaker 1: had cancer of the tongue. He asked me to pray
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Speaker 1: along with a handful of his friends, and we prayed
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Speaker 1: for him. He had the x rays. He took the
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Speaker 1: x rays to get a second opigion at Mayo's, and
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Speaker 1: somewhere between the physician in Dallas and the physician at
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Speaker 1: Mayo that examined the same X ray, the cancer was gone.
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Speaker 1: No one could explain it, to the point where the
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Speaker 1: people at Mayo Clinic said, these are not the right
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Speaker 1: X rays. They just couldn't explain it. Another example, God,
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Speaker 1: for some sovereign reason and for his purpose, healed my
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Speaker 1: friend of that cancer on the tongue. I have other
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Speaker 1: friends I prayed for and they died with the disease.
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Speaker 1: A more common response is it does take its toll
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Speaker 1: on you, and you are rarely miraculously healed. But sometime
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Speaker 1: and God is able to do that. But that's a miracle.
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Speaker 1: The spiritual life, the normal filling of the spirit, doesn't
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Speaker 1: have anything to do with a miracle. It has to
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Speaker 1: do with putting the fuel in the tank and engaging
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Speaker 1: the gears and driving, carrying on your life. Now, look
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Speaker 1: at Colossians chapter two, just before we get over to Ephesians.
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Speaker 1: Look at Colossians two. That's one of the little four
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Speaker 1: small letters in the New Testament. Galatians, Ephesians, Philippians, and Colossians.
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Speaker 1: Look at this second chapter, verse six. I love this
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Speaker 1: verse because of its simplicity. Therefore, as you have received
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Speaker 1: Christ Jesus the Lord, that's the key. That's the key
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Speaker 1: in the ignition that turns on the engine. That's the
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Speaker 1: key that gets you inside. You do not claim to
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Speaker 1: be a Christian if you have not received Christ Jesus
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Speaker 1: the Lord. If you do, it's erroneous. He who has
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Speaker 1: the Son has the life. He who has the key
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Speaker 1: can start the car. Just as you have received Christ
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Speaker 1: Jesus the Lord. That's the key, now the fuel, So
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Speaker 1: walk in him. That's the spirit of God at work,
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Speaker 1: fueling engaging your life in an authentic manner. The longer
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Speaker 1: I live, the more I place a high priority on authenticity.
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Speaker 1: I don't know of anything that impresses the lost world
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Speaker 1: more than this combination an authentic life and a joyful attitude.
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Speaker 1: Those things are con agius. How could you be this
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Speaker 1: real and how could you be this joyful in a
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Speaker 1: world like this in which we live. The way you
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Speaker 1: live has nothing to do with the circumstances around you.
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Speaker 1: That's what makes it such a phenomenal life to offer individuals.
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Speaker 1: Now turn from here to John chapter fourteen. Let's do
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Speaker 1: a quick little review on where we've been. John fourteen, Remember,
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Speaker 1: is the conversation that followed the Last Supper. Jesus is
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Speaker 1: with his faithful eleven Judas has left. Jesus is teaching
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Speaker 1: them about the life yet to come. He tells them
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Speaker 1: in John fourteen, Verse sixteen, I will ask the Father
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Speaker 1: and he will give you another helper. Jesus Christ promised
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Speaker 1: to give of the Holy Spirit. He says, I will
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Speaker 1: ask the Father and he will. That's the statement of
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Speaker 1: a promise he will. There's no condition here. I will
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Speaker 1: ask the Father, and the Spirit, the comforter, the helper
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Speaker 1: will come. In fact, he says a little later, he
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Speaker 1: will be in you. He abides with you. Verse seventeen
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Speaker 1: concludes he will be in you before I go any further.
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Speaker 1: Let me tell you a wasted prayer is Lord, send
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Speaker 1: me your spirit. If you're a Christian, you have the
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Speaker 1: Holy Spirit. And that's like praying, Lord be with us today,
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Speaker 1: the very common prayer. It's a wasted prayer. He is
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Speaker 1: with us. In fact, his spirit lives within every believer.
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Speaker 1: It's called the indwelling of the Holy Spirit. And if
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Speaker 1: you are in Christ, Christ is in you. With Christ
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Speaker 1: comes as well the Holy Spirit. You have the spirit,
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Speaker 1: and He permanently lives within you. Now look at Acts
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Speaker 1: one eight. We've seen that Jesus promised the Holy Spirit.
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Speaker 1: Now you'll notice the Holy Spirit will come with power.
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Speaker 1: Verse eight. You will receive power. When the Holy Spirit
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Speaker 1: has come upon you, you shall be my witnesses in Jerusalem
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Speaker 1: and Judea, in Samaria, even to the remotest part of
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Speaker 1: the earth. One of the great missionary verses. In fact,
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Speaker 1: it's a verse for all believers. We live our lives
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Speaker 1: with an eye toward the world around us. We don't
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Speaker 1: become a closed clan, just a tight little click of
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Speaker 1: people just living unto ourselves. That's the sign of a cult.
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Speaker 1: A cult does that, But in authentic christ like Christianity,
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Speaker 1: we live for the purpose of reaching the world with
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Speaker 1: the message of the Savior. So the Holy Spirit will
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Speaker 1: come with power, and we know now he has come.
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Speaker 1: The third, we now have God's enablement. See the word power.
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Speaker 1: It's the word from which we get our word dynamic
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Speaker 1: or dynamite. Dunamus is the word. It's a word I
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Speaker 1: call divine enablement. Divine enablement because I have the spirit,
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Speaker 1: I have within me the controls to handle my flesh.
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Speaker 1: I can't handle it on my own. I couldn't all
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Speaker 1: the time I was without Christ. But once I came
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Speaker 1: to Christ. I got the key to the car, I
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Speaker 1: got the fuel for the tank, and I engage the gears.
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Speaker 1: And when I do, the Spirit of God takes over
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Speaker 1: and overcomes the fleshly drive within me, the drive to react,
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Speaker 1: the drive to strike back, the drive to get even,
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Speaker 1: the drive to throw a temper fit, the drive to
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Speaker 1: have my own way. On and on. We could listen
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Speaker 1: them for the rest of the afternoon. This is the
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Speaker 1: work of a spirit, as he now provides divine enablement.
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Speaker 1: One more turn before we get to Ephesians. Look at
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Speaker 1: First Corinthians chapter six. I want you to see what
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Speaker 1: you are as a living, breathing Christian. First Corinthians Chapter
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Speaker 1: six concludes verses nineteen and twenty with some terribly important information.
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Speaker 1: Do you not know? And by the way, he's writing
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Speaker 1: to people in the first century, can you imagine the
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Speaker 1: people in the twenty first century who don't know this,
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Speaker 1: even people that had been in a church that Paul
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Speaker 1: found it. Do you not know? Says the apostle, that
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Speaker 1: your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit, who
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Speaker 1: is in you. So put that down. If you're taking notes.
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Speaker 1: Your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit. What
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Speaker 1: does that mean means he resides there, He lives there,
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Speaker 1: he and dwells your person. You don't have to ask
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Speaker 1: for him to come in. He lives within. And because
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Speaker 1: he dwells within, his desire is to be in control
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Speaker 1: of your lips and eyes and ears and actions and
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Speaker 1: thoughts and reactions and motives. But we are the temple
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Speaker 1: of the Holy Spirit who is in you. He even
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Speaker 1: goes further whom you have from God. And you know
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Speaker 1: what that means. That means you're not your own. If
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Speaker 1: you were inhabited by someone else, you're not your own.
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Speaker 1: You're able to pull off what you could never do
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Speaker 1: on your own. Another illustration. I love the piano. I
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Speaker 1: would love to be able to play the piano. When
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Speaker 1: I sit down, the piano groans what I began to
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Speaker 1: play it. It knows it's not being played well. However,
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Speaker 1: if I were to bring into our home a man
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Speaker 1: named Van Klaiburn, and he gets himself ready and sits
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Speaker 1: down at the piano, our piano sounds like the way
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Speaker 1: a piano water sound. And I stand back and go,
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Speaker 1: that is fantastic, is wonderful. Our piano was so happy,
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Speaker 1: and so are all of us who were listening to
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Speaker 1: you today, and what if Van Clyburn said to me,
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Speaker 1: you know what, Chuck, I have the ability to give
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Speaker 1: you my person so that you can play like this.
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Speaker 1: And I say you're kidding. He goes, no, okay, you're ready,
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Speaker 1: and I say yeah. So I'm suddenly Van Kleiber all right.
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Speaker 1: So I sit down and I'm playing Chopin's Polling Dai's
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Speaker 1: and Bethoven and back, and I'm doing all this mode
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Speaker 1: so hard work. I'm playing some great hymns. It's wonderful,
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Speaker 1: and I just I'm amazed at this ability to do
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Speaker 1: what I could never have done on my own. And
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Speaker 1: then I start thinking, hey, I'm pretty good. I start
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Speaker 1: sounding like chopsticks all over again. You know why, because
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Speaker 1: when you're operating in the power of the spirit, you
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Speaker 1: don't operate for your own glory. If anything's being carried
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Speaker 1: out and it's being carried out for God's going, we
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Speaker 1: just read you're not your own and you start you're
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Speaker 1: going back to playing chopsticks. And you can't play unless
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Speaker 1: you're under the control of the one who has come
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Speaker 1: to live within you in a simple and fragmented way.
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Speaker 1: That is what it is to be under the control
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Speaker 1: of the spirit. You're not your own. That means your
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Speaker 1: goal in life is not to get what you want.
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Speaker 1: Can I go further? It means it's not all about you.
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Speaker 1: In spite of what you may hear today, you're not
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Speaker 1: that great shakes. I mean when you when you look
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Speaker 1: deep enough, what you find is just gross depravity. You're
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Speaker 1: not in life for yourself. You're not planning to go
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Speaker 1: your own way. All of those self help books tell
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Speaker 1: you you can become this person, and if you're not careful,
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Speaker 1: your pride takes over. You know, you're able to pull
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Speaker 1: some of that off in the flesh, but you can't
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Speaker 1: take what comes with it. You can't handle the money
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Speaker 1: that comes with a job that pays that well, you
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Speaker 1: can't handle the prestige and responsibility. Look at how many
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Speaker 1: of the professional athletes. They get into the realm of
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Speaker 1: professional of the athletic world, and they can't handle the
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Speaker 1: prestige and the money that comes with it. They aren't equipped,
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Speaker 1: many of them. We're not our own. We've been bought
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Speaker 1: with the price, So what are we supposed to do?
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Speaker 1: Look at verse twenty into the verse one Corinthians six twenty.
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Speaker 1: Because of this we are to glorify God in our bodies.
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Speaker 1: That's the next thing to put down. We're to glorify
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Speaker 1: God in our bodies. Lord God, I'm yours. You have
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Speaker 1: gifted me in ways that I wouldn't have ever expected,
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Speaker 1: and I thank you. I'm here to serve you. May
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Speaker 1: my service be for you, and may it be authentic,
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Speaker 1: and may it bring honor to your name. I reverence
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Speaker 1: your name, O God. Now, in order for the gears
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Speaker 1: to be engaged, for the fuel to be used that
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Speaker 1: God supplies, there must be the filling of the spirit
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Speaker 1: Ephesians chapter five. So turn, finally, if you will, this
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Speaker 1: last turn to Ephesians chapter five, and let's spend the
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Speaker 1: rest of our time here. Isn't it important to remember
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Speaker 1: that we are not our own isn't that a healthy reminder.
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Speaker 1: Someone attended a Michael W. Smith concert recently and passed
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Speaker 1: along a statement that Michael made in that concert, and
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Speaker 1: I love it. He said, this, God is still God,
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Speaker 1: and I am still not. I love that God is
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Speaker 1: still God and I am still not. So in order
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Speaker 1: for me to live the life God would have me live,
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Speaker 1: I need his fuel, I need his empowerment. I need
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Speaker 1: him to lubricate the gears. I need his control. So
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Speaker 1: you're looking at Ethesians five, and we'll not go through
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Speaker 1: all the chapter, but began at verse fifteen. We began
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Speaker 1: with a very helpful and necessary reminder, be careful how
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Speaker 1: you walk. I would say that to every Christian. Part
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Speaker 1: of the reason is you want to glorify God, so
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Speaker 1: that takes care. Pay attention, listen to his word, come
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Speaker 1: to him in prayer, seek his help. Furthermore, you're being watched.
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Speaker 1: You and I don't think about that much. If we did,
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Speaker 1: it would drive us nuts, it really would. We'd be
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Speaker 1: uneasy if we knew how many people watched us. I
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Speaker 1: I never ceased to be surprised at occasions when people
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Speaker 1: walk up to me and speak to me. And I
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Speaker 1: may be in a grocery store and you know, it's
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Speaker 1: one of those late night trips, and you're not dressed
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Speaker 1: like you ought to be dressed, and you think, well,
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Speaker 1: nobody will be there that knows me. I walk in
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Speaker 1: and two charter members greet me as the door opens,
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Speaker 1: and I get inside and a little girl walks up
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Speaker 1: hi pastor's window, and I'm like, Hi, I'm thinking, why
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Speaker 1: didn't I look a little better than this. Why or
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Speaker 1: sometime if I'm acting up, somebody sees me sent and
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Speaker 1: I did a cruise together, and she'd really ticked me
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Speaker 1: off on the plane, and I, I'll tell you, I
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Speaker 1: had sat in the plane under fair amount of control
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Speaker 1: and finally I lost it. Okay, So we're getting ready
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Speaker 1: to get on the cruise ship and I said, her
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Speaker 1: step over here a second, and so I just dressed
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Speaker 1: her down. I set her straight. I've got everything out
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Speaker 1: of my system. And I turned around. About seventy five
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Speaker 1: people coming on the cruise with us stood there and said,
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Speaker 1: this is Chuck Swindle. He said, yeah, that's who that
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Speaker 1: is right there. That the real that's the real Chuck's window.
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Speaker 1: Be careful how you walk, be careful what you say.
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Speaker 1: But you know what should bother me more than seventy
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Speaker 1: five people who were shocked. They knew me better, they
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Speaker 1: wouldn't be, but were shocked that day, is that he
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Speaker 1: grieved the Holy Spirit. There's no way to talk to
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Speaker 1: my wife. That's not what I should have been doing.
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Speaker 1: I wasn't careful how I walked or with what I
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Speaker 1: was saying. And so what's needed is wisdom, not as unwise,
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Speaker 1: but as wise, and so that's very important that we
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Speaker 1: let wisdom take over, not just knowledge. And furthermore, when
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Speaker 1: you're under his control verse sixteen, you make the most
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Speaker 1: of your time because the days are evil and God
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Speaker 1: knows that's true. We make the most of our time.
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Speaker 1: And next week we discern the will of God. So
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Speaker 1: they don't be foolish, but understand what the will of
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Speaker 1: the Lord is. Now, wait a minute, how can I
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Speaker 1: how can you walk as you ought to walk? How
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Speaker 1: can you be wise when you tend toward being less
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Speaker 1: than wise? How can we make the most of our time?
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Speaker 1: How can we understand the will of the Lord? Well,
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Speaker 1: we need his empowerment, enablement. That's what the next verse
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Speaker 1: is all about. Now we've come to the place where
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Speaker 1: I want you to really concentrate. Listen to me. I
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Speaker 1: don't know of a more important verse in the New
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Speaker 1: Testament for the Christian than Ephesians five eighteen, no exaggeration,
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Speaker 1: Probably no more important verse for the lost person than
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Speaker 1: John three point sixteen. God so loved the world he
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Speaker 1: gave his only son that whoever believes in him should
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Speaker 1: never perish but have everlasting life. That's for the lost person.
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Speaker 1: This is the verse for the believer, because this tells
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Speaker 1: you how to live an authentic, empowered life. Pay close attention.
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Speaker 1: It begins with the command. There are two commands in
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Speaker 1: the verse. The first command, negative is don't get drunk
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Speaker 1: with wine. Now why not, because that's dissipation when you're
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Speaker 1: drunk with liquor. When you're drunk with alcohol, then you
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Speaker 1: lose control. And it isn't a picker up or it's
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Speaker 1: a depressant. You wind up depressed and debauched, and you
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Speaker 1: hate yourself and others around you lose respect for you.
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Speaker 1: Don't get drunk. Scriptures are full of commands, a command
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Speaker 1: like that, but there's a positive command on the heels
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Speaker 1: of that, rather than getting drunk with wine, for that's dissipation.
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Speaker 1: Second command, be filled with the spirit. I want to
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Speaker 1: analyze that, almost to the point of being tedious, but
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Speaker 1: I want our teaching to be accurate. That's rule one
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Speaker 1: when we come to the scriptures. So allow me to
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Speaker 1: point out four factors that you may or may not
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Speaker 1: know up until this moment. I want you to know
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Speaker 1: it before you leave today. Look closely. It's in the
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Speaker 1: imperative mood. It's a command. It's not a suggestion. It's
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Speaker 1: not a nice option, it's a command. It's in the imperative.
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Speaker 1: Be filled with the spirit. So I'm to be engaged
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Speaker 1: in some way. I've written out a little prayer, not inspired,
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Speaker 1: but it's a prayer that helps me. Lord, I'm in
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Speaker 1: the process of fulfilling your will. Please fill me, Please
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Speaker 1: empower me with your spirit, because I want to glorify
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Speaker 1: your name. I belong to you, and I pledge my
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Speaker 1: allegiance to you Today. Enable me to walk so that
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Speaker 1: I have discernment, so that I will obey rather than disobey.
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Speaker 1: Keep me strong when temptations come. Guard my tongue from
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Speaker 1: saying the wrong thing, or saying too much or speaking
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Speaker 1: too quickly. Enable me to restrain outbursts of anger. Lord,
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Speaker 1: help me in my walk. Fill me with your spirit.
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Speaker 1: It's an imperative. I challenge every believer to begin every
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Speaker 1: day with that kind of prayer. Lord, Today, enable me
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Speaker 1: to live out the authentic Christian life for your glory,
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Speaker 1: and put in other details depending on what may be
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Speaker 1: the need of your own life. Second factor, it's a
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Speaker 1: plural y'all.
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Speaker 2: All.
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Speaker 1: Y'all be filled with the spirit. Okay, it's for all
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Speaker 1: y'all for all of it. It's a universal command. There's
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Speaker 1: no special segment, no unique group that qualifies to be filled.
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Speaker 1: You're a believer, you get fuel in your tank. You're
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Speaker 1: able to drop that thing into gear and drive. If
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Speaker 1: you don't, it's your problem, it's not God's. The fuel
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Speaker 1: is inside. Remember you're engaging the gears, so it's in.
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Speaker 1: It's plural for all of us. The Third, it's a
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Speaker 1: passive voice. The verb in Greek is called a passive voice,
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Speaker 1: meaning something is done to us. So you can't do
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Speaker 1: three things and suddenly clean. You have been filled. You
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Speaker 1: have to be filled. I like the way one of
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Speaker 1: the renderings puts it. Let the Spirit fill you. Lord.
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Speaker 1: I'm available today. Lord, I'm yours today. Lord, I want
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Speaker 1: to glorify you today. Please enable me to carry that out.
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Speaker 1: I need you to do that, and we are then
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Speaker 1: filled by His spirit. It's an essential part of walking
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Speaker 1: in by faith and not by sight. Fourth, it's in
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Speaker 1: the present tense. Keep on. It's not a once in
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Speaker 1: a lifetime or once every year. It's every so often.
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Speaker 1: I was facing a very difficult task not too long ago.
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Speaker 1: I remember driving in my truck to the destination where
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Speaker 1: i'd be dealing with this, and I prayed on the way.
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Speaker 1: I prayed out loud, no radio, no music. It was
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Speaker 1: quiet inside the cab. I said, Lord, I'm not sure
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Speaker 1: what I'm going to encounter, and without your help, I'll
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Speaker 1: be in way over my head. Take over, filled me
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Speaker 1: with your words, give me the right response, hold back
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Speaker 1: any reaction that would be inappropriate. Let me speak with
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Speaker 1: wisdom and with gray. Let me be your voice in
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Speaker 1: this situation. I prayed something like that. That is because
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Speaker 1: it's in the present tense, and I knew, regardless of
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Speaker 1: the day or the time, it was time to put
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Speaker 1: her in gear. If you drive a stick shift, then
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Speaker 1: you know what I mean. You are forever putting in
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Speaker 1: the clutch and putting it in another gear. Putting in
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Speaker 1: the clutch and dropping in another gear. That's like the
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Speaker 1: feeling of the spirit. So you may be right now
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Speaker 1: saying Lord, I want to be filled by you. I
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Speaker 1: want to be used by you. Two hours from now,
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Speaker 1: you may need to pray that again. Lord. We want
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Speaker 1: to stay on speaking terms, and I want to serve you,
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Speaker 1: and I want to speak for you. Speaking of that,
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Speaker 1: let's look at the results, and there are four of
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Speaker 1: them right here in the same passage. Wonderful thing about
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Speaker 1: the Bible, if you read it closely enough, you'll see
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Speaker 1: that it answers many of its own questions. Like a
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Speaker 1: question is what will be the result of being filled
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Speaker 1: with the spirit? Well, look closely. Verse nineteen mentions speaking
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Speaker 1: speaking to one another. So the first result is that
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Speaker 1: the spirit's filling effects are speaking. If you took the
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Speaker 1: time to look at Colisians three sixteen, which is a
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Speaker 1: parallel passage or corollary passage with Ephesians two five eighteen,
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Speaker 1: look at Colossians three sixteen. Let the Word of Christ
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Speaker 1: dwell richly, dwell within you with all wisdom nother closely
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Speaker 1: teaching and admonishing one another. Before you get into the
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Speaker 1: music part of the verse, we are told that we
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Speaker 1: are teaching and admonishing one another. When I'm filled with
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Speaker 1: the spirit, I'm teachable. When I'm filled with the spirit,
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Speaker 1: I'm able to share information that's helpful to other people.
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Speaker 1: Hopefully that's happening right now, and you are, by being
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Speaker 1: filled with the spirit, open to the teaching, and you're
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Speaker 1: drinking it in. You're growing in Christ, you're learning this truth.
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Speaker 1: It also has to do with admonition. I'm open to
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Speaker 1: being admonished. Every once in a while, a good friend
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Speaker 1: or my wife, or one of my own children will say, Dad,
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Speaker 1: there's something. The kids will say, Dad, there's something you
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Speaker 1: need to know, and I'm told you, but I want
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Speaker 1: you to know this. And they'll bring up something that's
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Speaker 1: been offensive or are been difficult for them to deal
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Speaker 1: with in me, and they admonish me, or my wife will,
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Speaker 1: or a friend will, a colleague will do that. And
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Speaker 1: because I'm filled with the spirit, I'm open to that.
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Speaker 1: What I'm not filled with the spirit, I resist that.
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Speaker 1: I don't want to hear that. And we all know
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Speaker 1: both experiences, and so we speak to one another correctly
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Speaker 1: when we are filled with the spirit. Second, the felling
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Speaker 1: of the spirit gives us melodious hearts. See the end
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Speaker 1: of verse nineteen. There are psalms and hymns and spiritual
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Speaker 1: songs as we sing with melody in our hearts to
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Speaker 1: the Lord. I love the end of that Versus scripture
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Speaker 1: because I love you so much, and I know some
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Speaker 1: of you don't really love music. But one of the
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Speaker 1: characteristics of the feeling of the spirit is your heart
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Speaker 1: becomes memodious. Chances are good. If you don't enjoy music,
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Speaker 1: it's because you can't carry a tune. But you know what.
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Speaker 1: The good thing about God when you sing to him,
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Speaker 1: he never goes you're off key again. He never does that.
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Speaker 1: He never says, you know what that, don't join up
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Speaker 1: in the choir. He doesn't do that. He hears the
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Speaker 1: melody of your heart. Remember the old song. Without a song,
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Speaker 1: the day would never end without a song, the road
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Speaker 1: would never bend. A man ain't got a friend without
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Speaker 1: a song. I hope you, on occasion just belt it out,
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Speaker 1: just preferably alone. Just belt it out. You're in the shower,
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Speaker 1: you're in the car, nobody's around. The other day I
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Speaker 1: hit a note I didn't even know I could hear anymore,
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Speaker 1: and two things were true. I was alone and nobody
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Speaker 1: was around to say that sounds terrible piped down. It
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Speaker 1: was just a moment, you know why, because I saw
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Speaker 1: something in the scriptures that only a song would express.
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Speaker 1: That comes from the spirit. By the way, a melodious
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Speaker 1: heart is never a grumbling heart, never a grumbling heart,
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Speaker 1: which brings us to the third. Look at verse twenty,
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Speaker 1: always giving thanks. It's another result the spirit's feeling makes
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Speaker 1: us thankful. Thankful people don't miss the always and all things,
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Speaker 1: always giving thanks for all things, always giving things. Gratitude
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Speaker 1: is an eloquent statement of the spirit's filling. Grumbling is
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Speaker 1: a statement of the flesh in control. I'm not saying
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Speaker 1: you don't have room to disagree. Of course you do.
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Speaker 1: That's part of having discernment. But you don't grumble. Life
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Speaker 1: for you hasn't boiled down to a bunch of gripes
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Speaker 1: and grumbles. You're giving thanks in the name of the
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Speaker 1: Lord Jesus Christ, to God, even the Father. And there's another.
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Speaker 1: There's a fourth. And be subject to one another in
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Speaker 1: the fear of Christ. Mutual submission. Remember the first word,
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Speaker 1: mutual submission. Not only are you submissive to those in
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Speaker 1: authority over you, those who are filled with the spirit
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Speaker 1: are submissive to you. There's no rank in the body
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Speaker 1: of Christ. All ground is leveled at the foot of
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Speaker 1: the cross. There's no gender mentioned here. This is important,
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Speaker 1: especially for us men who love it. When we get
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Speaker 1: to verse twenty two, wives be in subjection to your
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Speaker 1: own us. So maybe we tend to read it and
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Speaker 1: we go, look at that, honey, look at that right
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Speaker 1: there in the text several years ago, I was flying
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Speaker 1: back from a promise keeper's conference, and part of the
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Speaker 1: conference had been spent with Jack Hayford, friend of mine,
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Speaker 1: and Jack was sitting up here at this seat, and
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Speaker 1: I was sitting back here in his chair was empty,
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Speaker 1: and he said, come on up here. So I walked
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Speaker 1: up and sat on buy and with a delightful time.
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Speaker 1: Jack's so much fun to be with. He told me
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Speaker 1: a terrific story. He said, Hey, I got a story
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Speaker 1: you can use sometime. So he passed it on to me.
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Speaker 1: So Hayford gets credit for this one. He said, there
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Speaker 1: was this couple that went to this two day conference
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Speaker 1: on marriage, and it so happened. This was one of
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Speaker 1: those speakers that just hammered away at the wife being
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Speaker 1: in submission to her husband. Well, her husband loved it.
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Speaker 1: He was sitting there drinking it in and oh, let's
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Speaker 1: stay late and get everything he has to say. You know.
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Speaker 1: So when they get home, they get out of the
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Speaker 1: car and slams the door and walks inside the house
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Speaker 1: and closes the door and locks it. She looks at him.
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Speaker 1: He goes, I want to get something straight with you
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Speaker 1: right now. From now on, that's the way things are
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Speaker 1: going to be here. You got that, you submit to me.
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Speaker 1: He didn't see her for two weeks. The beginning of
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Speaker 1: the third week he could begin to see her out
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Speaker 1: of one eye. So guys, be careful now. I've had
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Speaker 1: a little fun with you. But I'm gonna be real
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Speaker 1: serious when I say I have never seen an exception
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Speaker 1: of harmony and a marriage. Both members are healthy, both
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Speaker 1: are wholesome and healthy. Nobody's sick in this. By that,
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Speaker 1: I include emotional sickness. Where there is a godly man
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Speaker 1: and a wife who loves being with him, listening to him,
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Speaker 1: respecting him. In fact, the closer one walks with Christ,
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Speaker 1: the more many people want to be near you. I've
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Speaker 1: never seen a husband have trouble with a submissive wife.
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Speaker 1: If his heart is right, if his tongue is controlled,
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Speaker 1: if his spirit is gentle, if his life is marked
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Speaker 1: by wisdom, compassion, discernment, care, affection, consistency. What wife doesn't
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Speaker 1: want to be around a man like that? Why would
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Speaker 1: we be like that? Look at the end of verse
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Speaker 1: twenty one, be subject to one another in the fear
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Speaker 1: of Christ. You know what that means? Out of respect
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Speaker 1: for Christ? You know why I listen when My wife
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Speaker 1: speaks because I respect Christ. You know why she listens
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Speaker 1: to me when I say things to her that may
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Speaker 1: be hard for her to hear, because she respects Christ.
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Speaker 1: When both of you respect Christ, it does an amazing
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Speaker 1: thing to your ability to communicate. The barriers just seem
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Speaker 1: to kind of drop, and we're open. Let me wrap
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Speaker 1: all this up with a couple of practical comments, one
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Speaker 1: regarding the world in which we live in, the second
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Speaker 1: regarding the Church. Here we go right quick. Number one,
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Speaker 1: the world isn't looking for the amazing, it's looking for
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Speaker 1: the authentic. You disarm the person without Christ most by
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Speaker 1: your authenticity, not by some story of a miracle. The
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Speaker 1: world isn't looking for what's amazing, it's looking for what's authentic.
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Speaker 1: You're a real guy, you're a real lady. You're a
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Speaker 1: real hard laborer, you're a really faithful soul, you're a
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Speaker 1: really good neighbor. You live that kind of authenticity. They're
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Speaker 1: gonna want to know how come you're like that, because
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Speaker 1: they can't seem to live like that. It's all coming
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Speaker 1: from the feeling of the spirit. That's what the world
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Speaker 1: needs the church. The church doesn't need monthly miracles. It
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Speaker 1: needs daily enablement. Give me a congregation enabled in the spirit,
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Speaker 1: and I really have to sort of get out of
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Speaker 1: their way. They're on the move. All I need to
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Speaker 1: do is point in a direction and lead and then
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Speaker 1: say thank you. It's amazing how that happens. The church
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Speaker 1: doesn't need monthly miracles to keep going. We need we
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Speaker 1: need daily enablement. You do, I do. Let's bow together.
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Speaker 1: I know what time it is, so I'll not linger here.
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Speaker 1: You sit quietly for a moment. Remember that prayer I
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Speaker 1: gave you earlier. Lord, I'm in the process of fulfilling
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Speaker 1: your will. Fill me with your spirit. Then I may
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Speaker 1: glory your name. Every believer sitting right now listening to
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Speaker 1: these words, wherever you may be, in whatever walk of
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Speaker 1: life you may find yourself. That's an appropriate prayer. Lord,
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Speaker 1: I need your enablement. Guard my tongue, watch over my
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Speaker 1: eyes and what I look at, Take control of my
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Speaker 1: will when I don't get my way, Be honored in
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Speaker 1: my emotions all through this day. But a great prayer
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Speaker 1: for believers. If you're without Christ, you need a set
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Speaker 1: of keys. Let's go there. Lord, God, I've heard all
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Speaker 1: of this, but I don't have a You and I
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Speaker 1: are on speaking terms, and my sin separates me from you,
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Speaker 1: but i'd love to ridge that. I'd love to find
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Speaker 1: a reason to get around that. And I understand today
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Speaker 1: by coming to Christ, I'm able to have a relationship
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Speaker 1: with you, and I come today. Just before our service began,
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Speaker 1: I had a lady bring to me a particular need
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Speaker 1: and I pointed out one of our sole care people.
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Speaker 1: I said, there's a prayer room right there. That's where
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Speaker 1: you want to be. That person is qualified to talk
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Speaker 1: with you, and that's exactly where she went today. If
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Speaker 1: you've never met the Lord Jesus Christ, you could trust
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Speaker 1: him right now and the set of keys are going
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Speaker 1: to be yours if you need help and knowing more
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Speaker 1: about how to do that. The prayer rooms are open,
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Speaker 1: filled with qualified, caring people. Come today. Don't put that
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Speaker 1: off Father on this. At this time in our lives,
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Speaker 1: we acknowledge that without you we can do nothing. We've
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Speaker 1: gone our own way and we've suffered the consequences. We've
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Speaker 1: carried out what we wanted and we haven't done what
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Speaker 1: you have wanted, and we grieve over that. Even more tragically,
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Speaker 1: your spirit grieves because he lives within us to take
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Speaker 1: control May this week be different, May this day be different,
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Speaker 1: May this month be different. Find within us a delight
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Speaker 1: in speaking to one another and forgiving one another, and
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Speaker 1: serving one another, and being admonished by and being open
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Speaker 1: to one another, and being submissive to one another. Deliver us,
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Speaker 1: our Father, from this rigid, structured, stubborn lifestyle. And may
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Speaker 1: the authentic Christ work its way out in us and
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Speaker 1: through us through the power of His Spirit. And in
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Speaker 1: the name of our Savior, we pray these things. Everybody
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Speaker 1: said Amen.
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Speaker 2: The preceding message, What does being Filled with the Spirit Mean?
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Speaker 2: Was copyrighted in two thousand and eight, and the sound
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Speaker 2: recording was copyrighted in two thousand and nine by Charles R. Swindall, Inc.
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