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Being Led by the Holy Spirit · The Landmark Church Podcast

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  SPEAKER_00: Every time you get a chance to hear God's word, it's an opportunity to be healed, it's an opportunity to be enlightened, it's an opportunity to grow deeper in your faith.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yes, it's an opportunity to go higher, you see, in your walk with God, and today will not be an exception in Jesus' name, amen.
• 0:23
  SPEAKER_00: All right, how to be led by the Holy Spirit, Romans chapter 8, verse 14 to 16, Romans chapter 8, verse 14 to 16.
• 0:37
  SPEAKER_00: Everybody, can you see the screen?
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  SPEAKER_00: All right, everybody, let's read together.
• 0:41
  SPEAKER_00: For as many as are led by the spirit of God, these are the sons of God.
• 0:48
  SPEAKER_00: For you did not receive the spirit of bondage again to fear, but you received the spirit of adoption by whom we cry, Abba Father.
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  SPEAKER_00: The Spirit Himself bears witness with our spirit that we are the children of God.
• 1:04
  SPEAKER_00: Somebody say, I'm a child of God.
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  SPEAKER_00: Come on, someone say, say I'm a child of God.
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  SPEAKER_00: Why do we learn about the Holy Spirit?
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  SPEAKER_00: Why is it important for us to learn about the Holy Spirit?
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  SPEAKER_00: It is because God wants us to know Him in order for us to secure and fulfill our destiny.
• 1:25
  SPEAKER_00: God wants you to know Him in order for you to fulfill your destiny and in order for you to have a secure destiny.
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  SPEAKER_00: Jeremiah chapter 9, verse 23 to 24.
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  SPEAKER_00: Look at what it says.
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  SPEAKER_00: Thus says the Lord, let not the wise man glory in his wisdom, let not the mighty man glory in his might, nor let the rich man glory in his riches.
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  SPEAKER_00: But let him who glories glory in this.
• 1:53
  SPEAKER_00: He says that he understands and knows me, that I am the Lord, exercising loving kindness, judgment, and righteousness in the earth.
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  SPEAKER_00: For in these I delight, says the Lord.
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  SPEAKER_00: He says, anybody that wants to glory should only glory in one thing, that he knows me and he understands me.
• 2:15
  SPEAKER_00: If you want to be bowed, be proud, if you want to boast about anything, the only thing that you are allowed to be to be boastful about is your knowledge of God.
• 2:23
  SPEAKER_00: Yes, that's the only thing we are allowed to be boastful about.
• 2:28
  SPEAKER_00: You see, that is the only thing we are allowed to be boastful about.
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  SPEAKER_00: Unfortunately, many Christians do not know God, they know church, but they don't know God.
• 2:39
  SPEAKER_00: They have the key to church, but they don't know God.
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  SPEAKER_00: They have the keys to the church, but they don't know God.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yet, the things that delight God is how much of him we know.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yes.
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  SPEAKER_00: The things that delight God is how much of him you know.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's what delights God.
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  SPEAKER_00: The biblical pathway to secure and fulfill your destiny is to know God.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is the key to security, it is the key to confidence and is the key to fulfillment in life.
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  SPEAKER_00: If you intend to fulfill your destiny in a way that the resources of heaven will back you up.
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  SPEAKER_00: I don't know if you hear what I'm saying.
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  SPEAKER_00: If you intend to fulfill your destiny in a way that the resources of heaven, the resources of God will be at your disposal, the only way to do it is to know God.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yes, the only way to do it is to know God.
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  SPEAKER_00: I look back on my life, for example, I look at I look at my background, where I'm coming from.
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  SPEAKER_00: You see, the village I'm coming from, you know, some of the challenges that we have faced.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I can tell you without doubt that by the grace of God, what gives me the confidence to stand before you today is not how many degrees I have.
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  SPEAKER_00: And guess what?
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  SPEAKER_00: I have a couple of degrees.
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  SPEAKER_00: I have a couple.
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  SPEAKER_00: But what gives me confidence to stand before you is not the number of degrees I have, it's not the number of cars I have, it's not it's not the number of houses I have, it's not my faith, it is the little bit of God that He has in His goodness and in His mercy shown to me.
• 4:10
  SPEAKER_00: What gives us the confidence is how much of God we know, not the things we have, not the cars we have.
• 4:16
  SPEAKER_00: What gives you confidence?
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  SPEAKER_00: If you are lacking confidence, maybe you need to press him deeper into God.
• 4:22
  SPEAKER_00: If you just find that you are lacking confidence, maybe you need to press a little bit deeper into God.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yes, because it is our knowledge of God that gives us confidence, that gives us an assurance and gives us fulfillment in life.
• 4:37
  SPEAKER_00: Knowing God gives us confidence.
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  SPEAKER_00: However, we must know that God is unlimited in his depth.
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  SPEAKER_00: God is what is unlimited in his depth.
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  SPEAKER_00: Romans chapter 11, verse 33.
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  SPEAKER_00: All the depths of the riches, both of the wisdom and the knowledge of God.
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  SPEAKER_00: How unsearchable are his judgments and his ways past finding out.
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  SPEAKER_00: Romans 11, verse 33.
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  SPEAKER_00: You see, unlimited depth.
• 5:03
  SPEAKER_00: He's talking about the knowledge of God is bottomless, it is bottomless.
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  SPEAKER_00: You just keep going, you just keep going.
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  SPEAKER_00: The 24 elders, they keep worshiping God.
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  SPEAKER_00: Why?
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  SPEAKER_00: Because they keep seeing a newer dimension of God every day.
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  SPEAKER_00: Someone gave the analogy that as they bow down before they raise their heads, they see another dimension of God, and then they say, Holy, holy, holy are you, Lord God Almighty.
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  SPEAKER_00: The whole earth is full of your glory.
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  SPEAKER_00: Holy means you are set apart, you are not like the rest.
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  SPEAKER_00: We've not seen your type before.
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  SPEAKER_00: The depth of God, the depth of God.
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  SPEAKER_00: The more of God you know, the more you realize you don't know, and the more you want to know.
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  SPEAKER_00: If I were you, write that down.
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  SPEAKER_00: The more of God you know, the more you realize you don't know, and the more you want to know.
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  SPEAKER_00: First Corinthians chapter 8, verse 2.
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  SPEAKER_00: And if anyone thinks that he knows anything, he knows nothing yet as he ought to know.
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  SPEAKER_00: If anyone thinks he knows anything, he knows nothing as he ought to know.
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  SPEAKER_00: Listen to me, I'm teaching you the scriptures.
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  SPEAKER_00: He knows nothing as he ought to know.
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  SPEAKER_00: If you think you know anything, none of us will ever reach the zenith of our knowledge of God.
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  SPEAKER_00: None of us will ever reach the zenith of our knowledge of God.
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  SPEAKER_00: None of us will ever reach the place where we say, Oh, I've comprehended God.
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  SPEAKER_00: I have I have a good, I have a complete grasp on who God is.
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  SPEAKER_00: It should never happen.
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  SPEAKER_00: A God that you have a complete knowledge of is not worth being worshipped.
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  SPEAKER_00: Let me say that again.
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  SPEAKER_00: A God that you have a complete knowledge of is not worth your worship.
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  SPEAKER_00: A God that you have a complete grasp of is not worth your worship.
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  SPEAKER_00: The path of the just is like a shining light, shining more and more.
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  SPEAKER_00: Philippians chapter 3, verse 10 and 12.
• 6:44
  SPEAKER_00: Philippians chapter 3, verse 10 and 12.
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  SPEAKER_00: It says that I may know him and the power of his resurrection.
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  SPEAKER_00: Verse 13 says, Not that I have already attained or I'm already perfected, but I press on that I may lay old on that for which Christ Jesus has also laid hold on me.
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  SPEAKER_00: Somebody say press on.
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  SPEAKER_00: Somebody say louder, say, press on.
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  SPEAKER_00: Say it louder, say, press on.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yes, you're pressing on.
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  SPEAKER_00: So, as believers, we must develop a deeper knowledge of the Holy Spirit to fulfill our purpose for existence.
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  SPEAKER_00: We must develop, we must yearn for it, we must thirst for it.
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  SPEAKER_00: A deeper knowledge of the Holy Spirit so that we can fulfill our purpose for existence.
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  SPEAKER_00: And there's no shortcut to this.
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  SPEAKER_00: There is no shortcut.
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  SPEAKER_00: You see, our mission at the landmark church, our mission at the landmark church is to empower you to find the good way, is to empower you to find rest and to empower you to fulfill your destiny.
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  SPEAKER_00: What is our mission?
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  SPEAKER_00: Our mission is to empower you to find the good way, empower you to find rest, and empower you to fulfill your destiny.
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  SPEAKER_00: That last part, fulfilling your destiny cannot happen without your knowledge of God.
• 7:58
  SPEAKER_00: That last part, fulfilling your destiny cannot happen outside your knowledge of God.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yes, I'm trying to say the version of the Holy Spirit that you know up until this moment is not enough to take you further.
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  SPEAKER_00: The version of the Holy Ghost that you have dealt with, that you have that you understand up on this up until this very moment is not enough to take you further.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yes, it's not enough to take you further.
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  SPEAKER_00: You will need to go deeper.
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  SPEAKER_00: Tell your neighbor, say you will need to go deeper.
• 8:28
  SPEAKER_00: Tell them again, say you will need to go deeper.
• 8:32
  SPEAKER_00: Yes, you see, when when I was young, we had this um pharmacist shop at the corner of the street around where we live, and you know, we will consult this woman for you know little things like headache and and you know um stomach pain, diarrhea, little things we'd consult her, you know, and she will prescribe things for us.
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  SPEAKER_00: Only educated woman pharmacist works um, you know, a good job.
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  SPEAKER_00: But guess what?
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  SPEAKER_00: If you had a family emergency or what or your child has an emergency, a life-threatening emergency, uh, you would not take that child to that pharmacist to prescribe medication.
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  SPEAKER_00: No.
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  SPEAKER_00: When you have a life-threatening emergency, you are going to seek for higher knowledge, you are going to look for the consultants, you are going to look for the specialists, you're not going to look for the generalists.
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  SPEAKER_00: Are you hearing what I'm saying?
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm trying to say that some of us, our knowledge of the Holy Spirit, has helped us to cure headache.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now we are faced with a life-threatening situation, and we still want the same knowledge of the Holy Ghost to take us forward.
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  SPEAKER_00: You still want the same knowledge, you still want the same attitude, the same disposition to the Holy Ghost to take you forward.
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  SPEAKER_00: No, the disposition of the Holy Ghost that allowed you to solve the headache, the problem of headache is not going to help you solve the problem, a life-threatening situation.
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  SPEAKER_00: No, you're gonna have to go deeper, you're gonna have to press deeper, you're gonna have to press deeper.
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  SPEAKER_00: Why the Holy Spirit?
• 10:02
  SPEAKER_00: Why the Holy Spirit?
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  SPEAKER_00: The Holy Spirit is the only representative of the Godhead on the earth today.
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  SPEAKER_00: When Jesus was here physically, he was the representative of the Godhead as a person.
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  SPEAKER_00: Colossians chapter 2, verse 9.
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  SPEAKER_00: It says, For in him dwells all the fullness of the Godhead bodily.
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  SPEAKER_00: But now Jesus is in heaven at the right hand of the heavenly father.
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  SPEAKER_00: Colossians chapter 3, verse 1 tells us that it says, If then we were raised with Christ, seek those things which are above where Christ is.
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  SPEAKER_00: Where is Christ?
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  SPEAKER_00: He is sitting at the right hand of God.
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  SPEAKER_00: Christ is what sitting at the right hand of God.
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  SPEAKER_00: Christ is sitting at the right hand of God, and the Holy Spirit has been sent now to us.
• 10:52
  SPEAKER_00: John chapter 14, verse 16.
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  SPEAKER_00: John chapter 14, verse 16 to 17.
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  SPEAKER_00: It says, And I will pray the Father.
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  SPEAKER_00: Somebody say, Pray the Father.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yes, I will pray the Father, and he will give you another helper that it may abide with you for how long?
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  SPEAKER_00: Forever.
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  SPEAKER_00: John 14, verse 16 to 17.
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  SPEAKER_00: It will abide with you forever, the spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees him nor knows him, but you know him.
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  SPEAKER_00: Somebody say, I know him.
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  SPEAKER_00: Say they can say, I know him, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: And I'm not hearing you.
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  SPEAKER_00: Say, I know him, yes, for he dwells with you and will be in you, for he dwells with you and will be in you.
• 11:33
  SPEAKER_00: John chapter 16, verse 7.
• 11:35
  SPEAKER_00: John chapter 16, verse 7.
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  SPEAKER_00: He says, Nevertheless, I tell you the truth, it is to your advantage that I go away.
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  SPEAKER_00: For if I do not go away, the helper will not come to you, but if I depart, I will send him to you.
• 11:47
  SPEAKER_00: But if I depart, I will send him to you.
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  SPEAKER_00: See, I was as I was meditating on this, John chapter 14, as I was meditating on it, and that place that it says, and I will pray the father, I will pray the father, and it will give you another helper.
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  SPEAKER_00: I was just happy that each time Jesus praised the father, there's a guarantee of answers.
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  SPEAKER_00: Each time, every time Jesus praised the father, there's a guarantee of answers.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's why I could say that.
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  SPEAKER_00: Don't you think I can ask my father to send a legion of angels right now to save me?
• 12:23
  SPEAKER_00: Because he knows that all he has to do is just to mention it to God.
• 12:28
  SPEAKER_00: All he has to do is just to mention it to God.
• 12:30
  SPEAKER_00: There is a guarantee of answers when Jesus praised the Father for something.
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  SPEAKER_00: There's a guarantee of answers, and guess what Jesus is doing right now in heaven?
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  SPEAKER_00: What is he doing?
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  SPEAKER_00: He's on the right hand of God, he's making intercessions for who for himself.
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  SPEAKER_00: Answer me, is he making intercession for himself?
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  SPEAKER_00: Answer me now.
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  SPEAKER_00: He's making intercession for us, he's making intercession for me.
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  SPEAKER_00: He told Peter, the enemy has desire to shift you.
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  SPEAKER_00: He says, But I have prayed for you that you that your faith will not will not crumble.
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  SPEAKER_00: Why do you think Peter's faith was restored?
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  SPEAKER_00: Because Jesus prayed for him.
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  SPEAKER_00: Who did he pray to him for?
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  SPEAKER_00: He prayed to the father for you.
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  SPEAKER_00: Each time Jesus prays to the father, it's like, I mean, all I just need to do is to get Jesus to mention the issue to the father.
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  SPEAKER_00: All I need to do is to get Jesus interested in the issue.
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  SPEAKER_00: All you need to do is to get Jesus interested in that matter.
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  SPEAKER_00: Anytime prays the father for anything, there is a guarantee of answers.
• 13:31
  SPEAKER_00: The fact that we have the Holy Spirit in our midst today, the fact that we have the Holy Spirit in our lives today is guarante is proof that every time Jesus praised the Father, there is a guarantee of answers.
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  SPEAKER_00: Somebody say amen.
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  SPEAKER_00: Why the Holy Spirit?
• 13:45
  SPEAKER_00: Why the Holy Spirit?
• 13:47
  SPEAKER_00: Because the Holy Spirit is the executor.
• 13:50
  SPEAKER_00: The Holy Spirit is the executor of God's will and intention on the earth today.
• 13:56
  SPEAKER_00: The Holy Spirit is the executor of God's will and intention on the earth today.
• 14:02
  SPEAKER_00: He is the one that declares what is ours as a result of the sacrifice of Jesus on the cross.
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  SPEAKER_00: He's the one that declares what is ours.
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  SPEAKER_00: He's the one that tells you that righteousness is yours.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's the one that tells you that healing is yours.
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  SPEAKER_00: He's the one that tells you that justification and sanctification is yours.
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  SPEAKER_00: It declares those intention, it declares, he executes what is ours, what belongs to us, as a result of the sacrifice of the shed blood of Jesus on the cross of Calvary.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's what the Holy Spirit does.
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  SPEAKER_00: It declares it to you, and then it supports you in getting it appropriated in your life.
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  SPEAKER_00: He declares it to you, he empowers you so that you can confront the enemy, so that you can wage the warfare that is needed so that the things that Jesus died for can become a reality in your life.
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  SPEAKER_00: Somebody say amen.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yes, he's the executor, he's the executor of God's will on the earth.
• 15:06
  SPEAKER_00: You know, many of the prayers we pray, and many of the petitioning that we do to heaven, I imagine sometimes that you know, God might just be sitting there in heaven and he's like, Why is this my son?
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  SPEAKER_00: Why is this my daughter bothering us about this thing?
• 15:21
  SPEAKER_00: That if only this daughter of mine just had a conversation with the Holy Spirit, the Holy Spirit that is there with them could have illuminated this issue to her.
• 15:32
  SPEAKER_00: Why is this son bothering me about this issue?
• 15:35
  SPEAKER_00: If only this son can just have a deeper knowledge of the Holy Spirit or consult the Holy Spirit on this issue instead of just praying, praying, praying, praying, praying to God in heaven.
• 15:46
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, God can be just wondering like that.
• 15:48
  SPEAKER_00: I just imagine it that when I've put somebody who is representing my interest in your midst, I've put somebody representing my interest and my goals in your midst.
• 15:56
  SPEAKER_00: Why not talk to him before you start bombarding us?
• 15:59
  SPEAKER_00: Why not talk to him first?
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  SPEAKER_00: Why not get his opinions before you start bombarding us?
• 16:04
  SPEAKER_00: You see, acquaint yourself, and sometimes God will continue to refer you and I to the Holy Spirit.
• 16:12
  SPEAKER_00: God will continue to refer you and I.
• 16:14
  SPEAKER_00: You keep bombarding everyone and God is saying, Talk to the Holy Ghost.
• 16:17
  SPEAKER_00: You keep bombarding God and say, God, you love me, you love me, and I love you too.
• 16:21
  SPEAKER_00: God will say, Yes, I know you love me and I love you too, but talk to the Holy Ghost.
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  SPEAKER_00: He is the representative of the Godhead and he's the executor of my will on the earth.
• 16:30
  SPEAKER_00: He's the representative of the Godhead and what he's the executor of God's will on the earth.
• 16:37
  SPEAKER_00: We're talking about how to be led by the Holy Spirit.
• 16:41
  SPEAKER_00: We're talking about what?
• 16:42
  SPEAKER_00: How to be led by the Holy Spirit.
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  SPEAKER_00: How to be led by so far.
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  SPEAKER_00: We know what are the things we know so far?
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  SPEAKER_00: We know that God wants us to know him so that we can fulfill our destiny.
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  SPEAKER_00: We also know that God is unlimited.
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  SPEAKER_00: We know that the more of him we know, the more we realize we don't know, and the more we want to know.
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  SPEAKER_00: And we also know now that the Holy Spirit is what is the representative of the Godhead on the earth.
• 17:08
  SPEAKER_00: How to be led by the Holy Spirit.
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  SPEAKER_00: What does it say?
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  SPEAKER_00: It says, For as many as are led by the Holy Spirit, these are the sons of God.
• 17:17
  SPEAKER_00: For as many as are led, to be led here.
• 17:20
  SPEAKER_00: What does it mean?
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  SPEAKER_00: To be led, yeah, means to lead along, to lead along, to bring, to carry or to drive.
• 17:28
  SPEAKER_00: It means to bring along, to bring along, to lead along, it also means to carry or to drive.
• 17:40
  SPEAKER_00: Acts chapter 8, verse 39 to 40.
• 17:43
  SPEAKER_00: You remember the story of Philip, Spirit of the Lord, he carried Philip away, and the Enoch said to him, and the and the Enoch saw him no more.
• 17:53
  SPEAKER_00: But Philip found himself where at Azotos.
• 17:58
  SPEAKER_00: You know, when I think about this, I'm like, okay, this is interesting.
• 18:02
  SPEAKER_00: That is, God had a will for Philip.
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  SPEAKER_00: God had a listen to this.
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  SPEAKER_00: God had a geographical will for Philip.
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  SPEAKER_00: God had a an idea that okay, I want Philip to be in Azotos.
• 18:16
  SPEAKER_00: I want Philip to be in Azotos.
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  SPEAKER_00: And um the Holy Spirit decided to just carry him.
• 18:23
  SPEAKER_00: The Holy Spirit decided to just carry him.
• 18:25
  SPEAKER_00: That is, Philip could not miss the mind of God on this issue.
• 18:29
  SPEAKER_00: It was not possible for Philip to be in denial about it.
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  SPEAKER_00: Because the Holy Spirit literally carried him and put him where he wanted him to be.
• 18:41
  SPEAKER_00: The Holy Spirit supernaturally repositioned him.
• 18:44
  SPEAKER_00: Are you hearing what I'm saying?
• 18:46
  SPEAKER_00: I'm saying for you too, you want some repositioning.
• 18:50
  SPEAKER_00: You want some repositioning.
• 18:53
  SPEAKER_00: You want the Holy Spirit to take you and put you in your husband's house.
• 18:57
  SPEAKER_00: You want the Holy Spirit to take you and put you, you know, as the head of that company.
• 19:02
  SPEAKER_00: You want the Holy Spirit to take you and put you on that next level.
• 19:05
  SPEAKER_00: And guess what?
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  SPEAKER_00: It is possible.
• 19:07
  SPEAKER_00: Somebody say it is possible.
• 19:09
  SPEAKER_00: Yes, it is possible.
• 19:10
  SPEAKER_00: Supernatural repositioning is always possible.
• 19:13
  SPEAKER_00: It is always possible.
• 19:14
  SPEAKER_00: The Holy Spirit can carry you.
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  SPEAKER_00: I mean, I wish that sometimes when God has a desire for me, or a desire maybe to relocate or to do something or to be somewhere.
• 19:22
  SPEAKER_00: Like I mean, I'm just imagining if God wants me to be in my car right now, just take me from here and just put me in my car.
• 19:27
  SPEAKER_00: That's what happened to Philip.
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  SPEAKER_00: Supernatural repositioning.
• 19:32
  SPEAKER_00: But guess what?
• 19:34
  SPEAKER_00: The supernatural repositioning that Philip enjoyed or that Philip experienced was because there was the will of God in it.
• 19:43
  SPEAKER_00: The will of God in it was that God wanted the eunuch to be preached to and to be baptized, and then he wanted Philip to evangelize in that new location.
• 19:54
  SPEAKER_00: I'm saying that for you to experience supernatural repositioning, we have to ask you what is in it for God, what is in it for the kingdom of heaven?
• 20:04
  SPEAKER_00: That is, I'm asking, I want the supernatural repositioning.
• 20:08
  SPEAKER_00: I have to ask you, I have to ask myself, this supernatural repositioning that I'm praying for, that I'm praying by the Holy Spirit to help me into what is in it for the kingdom of heaven?
• 20:18
  SPEAKER_00: The supernatural repositioning that Philip experienced had a net positive for the kingdom of heaven.
• 20:26
  SPEAKER_00: A eunuch was evangelized, a eunuch was baptized.
• 20:29
  SPEAKER_00: Are you hearing what I'm saying?
• 20:31
  SPEAKER_00: Are you here?
• 20:32
  SPEAKER_00: Yes, so when I'm praying to God, Father, reposition me.
• 20:37
  SPEAKER_00: You know, bring my spouse to me, give me this new job, give me this promotion.
• 20:42
  SPEAKER_00: Well, you have to also ask, what is the need for God?
• 20:45
  SPEAKER_00: What is the need for the kingdom of heaven?
• 20:48
  SPEAKER_00: To lead or to be led means what to carry, and Philip experienced that carriage, he was carried into the will of God.
• 20:56
  SPEAKER_00: Remember Mark chapter chapter 1, verse 12.
• 20:59
  SPEAKER_00: Mark chapter 1, verse 12.
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  SPEAKER_00: The Bible records that the spirit drove Jesus into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil.
• 21:05
  SPEAKER_00: The spirit did what?
• 21:06
  SPEAKER_00: Drove Jesus into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil.
• 21:10
  SPEAKER_00: The same spirit that repositions you supernaturally can drive you into the desert.
• 21:17
  SPEAKER_00: I don't know if you're hearing what I'm saying.
• 21:19
  SPEAKER_00: I said the same spirit that repositions you supernaturally can drive you into the desert.
• 21:25
  SPEAKER_00: Many of us want to experience the supernatural repositioning of the Holy Ghost.
• 21:29
  SPEAKER_00: We want to experience supernatural repositioning.
• 21:31
  SPEAKER_00: But the same spirit that drives you, that repositions you supernaturally, that puts you in that new pedestal, that puts you in that new location, that puts you in that new car, that puts you in that new job, that gets you in that new place of destiny.
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  SPEAKER_00: That same spirit can drive you into the wilderness.
• 21:53
  SPEAKER_00: That same spirit can drive you into the wilderness.
• 21:55
  SPEAKER_00: Somebody say amen to that.
• 21:57
  SPEAKER_00: Yes, that same spirit can drive you into the wilderness.
• 22:02
  SPEAKER_00: We want the supernatural repositioning, but we don't want the spirit to drive us into the wilderness.
• 22:08
  SPEAKER_00: For many of us, any small wilderness experience like this, we start questioning everything we know about God.
• 22:15
  SPEAKER_00: We start questioning his love, we start questioning his faithfulness, we start questioning everything that we've ever learned.
• 22:21
  SPEAKER_00: It ought not to be so.
• 22:23
  SPEAKER_00: So we know what to be led means.
• 22:26
  SPEAKER_00: What does the Son of God in that Romans chapter 8, verse 14, mean?
• 22:30
  SPEAKER_00: The sons of God, there, what it means is that those whom God loves and cherishes as the father, those whom God loves and cherishes as the father.
• 22:42
  SPEAKER_00: Galatians chapter 4, verse 6 to 7.
• 22:44
  SPEAKER_00: Galatians chapter 4, verse 6 to 7, it says, and because you are sons, God has sent forth the spirit of a son into your hearts, crying out, Haber Father.
• 22:54
  SPEAKER_00: Therefore, you are no longer slaves but the Son.
• 22:57
  SPEAKER_00: You are no longer a slave but a son.
• 22:59
  SPEAKER_00: And if a son, then and hear of God through Christ.
• 23:05
  SPEAKER_00: The sons of God, those whom God loves and cherishes.
• 23:10
  SPEAKER_00: Those whom God loves and cherishes.
• 23:13
  SPEAKER_00: For as many that are led by, that are carried by, that are moved by, that are driven by the Holy Spirit, they are those whom God loves and cherishes.
• 23:26
  SPEAKER_00: As many as are driven by, as many that allow themselves to be driven by, submit themselves to be carried by the Holy Ghost.
• 23:33
  SPEAKER_00: They are the ones whom God loves, whom God cherishes.
• 23:38
  SPEAKER_00: I want to say the primary way God shows that He loves us and that He is mindful of us, the primary way God shows that He loves us and He's mindful of us is the presence of His Holy Spirit in our hearts.
• 23:54
  SPEAKER_00: The primary way, listen to this, don't miss this.
• 23:57
  SPEAKER_00: The primary way God shows that He loves us and that He is mindful of us is the presence of His Spirit in our hearts.
• 24:07
  SPEAKER_00: If I were you, I would write that down.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is true.
• 24:13
  SPEAKER_00: When Jesus was being baptized in the river in the in the river Jordan, God spoke from heaven and he said, What did he say?
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  SPEAKER_00: This is my beloved son in whom I am well placed.
• 24:26
  SPEAKER_00: This is the son that I love in whom I am well placed.
• 24:30
  SPEAKER_00: And then said, Hear him.
• 24:32
  SPEAKER_00: Now, God did not just say, This is the son I love, he backed up his words with his action.
• 24:37
  SPEAKER_00: And what was the action that God took to show that he loves Jesus?
• 24:41
  SPEAKER_00: He sent the Holy Spirit to alight on him like a dove.
• 24:45
  SPEAKER_00: I'm trying to show us that the primary proof that God loves you is not a fine car, it's not a good life, it is the Holy Spirit in your heart.
• 24:57
  SPEAKER_00: Because that is the primary way that God authenticated his love for Jesus.
• 25:02
  SPEAKER_00: That is what Jesus, that is what God did to show, to show the whole world that He loves that He loves Jesus.
• 25:08
  SPEAKER_00: This is my son, in whom I am well placed.
• 25:11
  SPEAKER_00: Listen to him.
• 25:12
  SPEAKER_00: And what did he do?
• 25:13
  SPEAKER_00: The Holy Spirit came down from heaven and alighted on him.
• 25:16
  SPEAKER_00: What happened on the day of Pentecost, among other things, was a declaration of love.
• 25:22
  SPEAKER_00: What happened on the day of Pentecost, amongst other things, was a declaration of the love of Jesus for his disciples.
• 25:27
  SPEAKER_00: It was an act of love.
• 25:29
  SPEAKER_00: That is, if you don't have the Holy Spirit, you are not experiencing the love of God.
• 25:33
  SPEAKER_00: And if you have the Holy Spirit, irrespective of what's going on around you, you can rest assured that God loves you.
• 25:39
  SPEAKER_00: This is the scriptures.
• 25:41
  SPEAKER_00: If you have the Holy Spirit, irrespective of what is going on around you, you can rest assured that God is with you.
• 25:49
  SPEAKER_00: I'm trying to say that the condition of the things outside is not how we measure God's love.
• 25:55
  SPEAKER_00: I don't measure God's love and God's goodness by what I can see and what I can touch.
• 26:00
  SPEAKER_00: I don't measure God's goodness and God's love by you know a wife that I have or a husband that I that I have or a job or money in my account or plenty cars in the garage.
• 26:09
  SPEAKER_00: I don't measure God's love by people speaking well about me, by social acceptance and fame.
• 26:13
  SPEAKER_00: I don't measure God's love, I measure God's love by the witness of the Holy Ghost in my heart.
• 26:19
  SPEAKER_00: You measure God's love by the witness of the Holy Spirit in your heart.
• 26:24
  SPEAKER_00: How many of us have been going through a situation and it was so challenging for you?
• 26:28
  SPEAKER_00: And you just had a whisper of the Holy Spirit, and that just dissolved your doubts, dissolved everything you were going through.
• 26:33
  SPEAKER_00: How many of us have had that experience before?
• 26:35
  SPEAKER_00: Yes, it just dissolved everything because you had a whisper from the Holy Ghost.
• 26:40
  SPEAKER_00: This is what David knew.
• 26:42
  SPEAKER_00: This is what what I'm telling you is what David knew.
• 26:44
  SPEAKER_00: That is, the love of God is not measured by things.
• 26:48
  SPEAKER_00: The love of God is not meant is measured by the presence of the Holy Spirit in your heart.
• 26:53
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, David cried.
• 26:54
  SPEAKER_00: He said, Take not your Holy Spirit from me, take not your Holy Spirit from me, take everything from me, but take not your Holy Spirit from me, restore to me the joy of my salvation.
• 27:06
  SPEAKER_00: Because he knew that you can take everything as long as I still have the Holy Spirit, I don't have not lost anything.
• 27:12
  SPEAKER_00: Are you hearing what I'm saying?
• 27:14
  SPEAKER_00: If you lose everything and you've not lost lost the Holy Spirit, you have not lost anything.
• 27:19
  SPEAKER_00: If you lose everything and you have not lost your communion with the Holy Spirit, you have not lost anything.
• 27:26
  SPEAKER_00: Second Corinthians chapter 1, verse 20.
• 27:28
  SPEAKER_00: Second Corinthians chapter 1, verse 20.
• 27:32
  SPEAKER_00: Let me read 2nd Corinthians chapter 5, actually.
• 27:35
  SPEAKER_00: 2nd Corinthians chapter 5, verse 5.
• 27:37
  SPEAKER_00: He says, Now, he who has prepared for us, he who has prepared us for this very thing is God, whom also has given us the spirit as a guarantee.
• 27:49
  SPEAKER_00: I want us to read this together.
• 27:50
  SPEAKER_00: Everybody, want to go.
• 27:52
  SPEAKER_00: Now, he who has prepared us for this very thing is God.
• 27:58
  SPEAKER_00: Who also has given us the spirit as a guarantee.
• 28:01
  SPEAKER_00: I want us to read again.
• 28:02
  SPEAKER_00: Everybody want to go.
• 28:04
  SPEAKER_00: Now, he who has prepared us for this very thing is God.
• 28:08
  SPEAKER_00: Who also has given us the spirit as a guarantee.
• 28:13
  SPEAKER_00: The Holy Spirit is your guarantee that you will spend eternity with God in heaven.
• 28:19
  SPEAKER_00: Is your guarantee?
• 28:20
  SPEAKER_00: What is this guarantee?
• 28:21
  SPEAKER_00: What is this?
• 28:22
  SPEAKER_00: What is this guarantee?
• 28:22
  SPEAKER_00: What does this guarantee mean?
• 28:24
  SPEAKER_00: What does this guarantee mean?
• 28:26
  SPEAKER_00: The presence of the Holy Spirit within us gives us assurance that we will reign with Christ in heaven.
• 28:32
  SPEAKER_00: Ephesians chapter 1, verse 14.
• 28:33
  SPEAKER_00: Look at what it says.
• 28:34
  SPEAKER_00: Ephesians chapter 1, verse 14.
• 28:36
  SPEAKER_00: Who is the guarantee?
• 28:37
  SPEAKER_00: Speaking of the Holy Spirit, who is the guarantee of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession to the praise of his glory?
• 28:47
  SPEAKER_00: So this is what guarantee means a pledge.
• 28:49
  SPEAKER_00: It means a pledge.
• 28:50
  SPEAKER_00: It means that the part of money that you pay is like a down payment.
• 28:54
  SPEAKER_00: The part of money you pay or a property that you give in advance as a security for the rest of the property.
• 29:02
  SPEAKER_00: I don't know if you under if you get that.
• 29:04
  SPEAKER_00: You know, the idea is this layway.
• 29:06
  SPEAKER_00: How many people know layway?
• 29:09
  SPEAKER_00: No layway.
• 29:10
  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
• 29:11
  SPEAKER_00: Me too.
• 29:12
  SPEAKER_00: Some people don't know it.
• 29:15
  SPEAKER_00: You know, the way lay away works is that um, you know, you pay a deposit.
• 29:19
  SPEAKER_00: So say you go to Ross or you go to um Bollington Coat Factory now.
• 29:23
  SPEAKER_00: You you get you get you pack all the things you want, then you take it to the car to the checkout, and then they they keep it for you.
• 29:29
  SPEAKER_00: You don't pay the full amount, you pay a little amount, a deposit, and then they keep it for you.
• 29:34
  SPEAKER_00: They don't put it back on the shelves.
• 29:35
  SPEAKER_00: And then when you come back, either you pay another bit of it or you pay the full sum.
• 29:39
  SPEAKER_00: After you're finished paying the full sum, then they can give you the property.
• 29:43
  SPEAKER_00: That's the way layway works.
• 29:44
  SPEAKER_00: I've never done it, but I know about it.
• 29:48
  SPEAKER_00: And if you have done it before, no shame about it.
• 29:50
  SPEAKER_00: So it's it's it's layway.
• 29:52
  SPEAKER_00: You are you are so so that's it, it's the pledge.
• 29:54
  SPEAKER_00: So that little deposit that you gave at the cashier's checkout is the pledge that I'm coming back to redeem this property.
• 30:01
  SPEAKER_00: Do you understand what I'm saying?
• 30:03
  SPEAKER_00: If you have done real estate transactions as well, it is what is called earnest money.
• 30:07
  SPEAKER_00: Yes, it's the honest money.
• 30:08
  SPEAKER_00: You pay you pay a damn payment that uh I am good for this transaction.
• 30:12
  SPEAKER_00: I'm gonna come back and pay the rest.
• 30:14
  SPEAKER_00: I am good for it.
• 30:14
  SPEAKER_00: I'm gonna get the loan from the bank to come and pay you the rest of the money.
• 30:18
  SPEAKER_00: The Holy Spirit is our guarantee, is God's pledge to us that is coming back to get us.
• 30:23
  SPEAKER_00: I'm going somewhere with this.
• 30:25
  SPEAKER_00: The Holy Spirit is what is God's pledge to us that is coming back to get us.
• 30:31
  SPEAKER_00: Yes, is God's guarantee for us?
• 30:34
  SPEAKER_00: And guess what?
• 30:35
  SPEAKER_00: Now, when you pay a guarantee for something, is it is that guarantee a substantial portion of the amount owed or a small portion?
• 30:44
  SPEAKER_00: Do you pay like 60% or 80%?
• 30:47
  SPEAKER_00: Usually you pay a very small amount, right?
• 30:48
  SPEAKER_00: You pay like maybe 10 or 20 to start with, and so imagine this that the only the Holy Spirit is a guarantee.
• 30:56
  SPEAKER_00: That means the Holy Spirit is a small portion of what God still has in stock for us.
• 31:02
  SPEAKER_00: The Holy Spirit is just a small portion of what God still has in stock for us.
• 31:07
  SPEAKER_00: Let's look at 1 Corinthians chapter 2, verse 9, 1 Corinthians chapter 2 and verse 9.
• 31:13
  SPEAKER_00: This is not on my slide, 1 Corinthians chapter 2 and verse 9.
• 31:18
  SPEAKER_00: 1 Corinthians chapter 2 and verse 9.
• 31:21
  SPEAKER_00: It says, Eyes have not seen, ears have not heard, neither has it come into the heart of any man the things that what that God has for those that God has prepared for those who love him.
• 31:36
  SPEAKER_00: Verse 10 says, But God has revealed them to us through his spirit.
• 31:39
  SPEAKER_00: For the spirit searches all things, yes, the deep things of God.
• 31:44
  SPEAKER_00: The spirit searches all things, yes, the deep things of God.
• 31:48
  SPEAKER_00: The Holy Spirit is the is God's pledge to you that this will not be the end of you.
• 31:55
  SPEAKER_00: The Holy Spirit is what is God's pledge to you, is God's pledge to me that this will not be the end of me.
• 32:01
  SPEAKER_00: Somebody said this will not be the end of me.
• 32:04
  SPEAKER_00: Yes, this will not be the end of me.
• 32:07
  SPEAKER_00: The Holy Spirit is God's pledge to you.
• 32:10
  SPEAKER_00: The Holy Spirit is God's pledge to me that this will not be the end of you.
• 32:17
  SPEAKER_00: You see, there's a principle in biblical interpretation called I'm arguing from the greater to the lesser.
• 32:24
  SPEAKER_00: Listen to this.
• 32:25
  SPEAKER_00: The principle is you are arguing from the greater to the lesser.
• 32:29
  SPEAKER_00: That is, you say that if this greater thing is possible, or if this greater thing has happened, then this lesser thing is also possible.
• 32:37
  SPEAKER_00: Do you understand what I'm saying?
• 32:38
  SPEAKER_00: That is the principle of arguing from the greater to the lesser.
• 32:40
  SPEAKER_00: So if this greater thing is possible, then this lesser thing, it's it's the principle that you see in Romans chapter 8, verse 32, where the Bible says, He who did not spare his own son, but delivered him up for us, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things?
• 32:57
  SPEAKER_00: That is, the principle is if he has given us this big thing, then the small things are also possible for him to give us.
• 33:03
  SPEAKER_00: How many people are still following me?
• 33:05
  SPEAKER_00: Yes, it's arguing, it's just a principle of biblical reasoning.
• 33:09
  SPEAKER_00: That is, if this greater thing is possible, then this smaller thing is possible.
• 33:13
  SPEAKER_00: If he has given me Jesus, then he can give him he can give me a car, he can give me a house, he can give me a spouse.
• 33:22
  SPEAKER_00: That is, if he has raised the dead, then he can heal a sick liver.
• 33:27
  SPEAKER_00: Are you understand what I'm saying?
• 33:28
  SPEAKER_00: If he raised the dead, if he has the power to raise the dead, then he can cure cancer.
• 33:33
  SPEAKER_00: If the biggest thing is possible, then the small thing is a little, is a is it's very small to him.
• 33:39
  SPEAKER_00: And I'm saying that the Holy Spirit is God's guarantee that your greatest problem has been solved.
• 33:44
  SPEAKER_00: What is our greatest problem?
• 33:46
  SPEAKER_00: Who knows?
• 33:47
  SPEAKER_00: What is that?
• 33:47
  SPEAKER_00: Yes, our greatest problem is death, separation from God, eternal separation from God.
• 33:53
  SPEAKER_00: That is our greatest problem.
• 33:57
  SPEAKER_00: I know we all have concerns, we all have things we are praying to God for, we all have things that we wish was different.
• 34:03
  SPEAKER_00: And guess what?
• 34:04
  SPEAKER_00: Those things are legitimate, they are very legitimate, but everything you are praying God praying to God for, it pales when compared to the problem of death.
• 34:14
  SPEAKER_00: Yes, when you when you compare the problem of death with anything you are trusting God for, that thing pales insignificance to it, and that tells us that the great our greatest problem is the problem of death, and the Holy Spirit has solved that problem because his presence in our heart is guarantee that we will not be eternally separated from God.
• 34:35
  SPEAKER_00: Somebody say amen.
• 34:37
  SPEAKER_00: Yes, our greatest problem has been solved.
• 34:39
  SPEAKER_00: So if my greatest problem has been solved, then my little problems will be solved.
• 34:43
  SPEAKER_00: Do you understand what I'm saying?
• 34:44
  SPEAKER_00: If my greatest problem has been solved, then my little problem can be solved.
• 34:48
  SPEAKER_00: Yes, if if it can if he can raise the dead, then it can heal the sick.
• 34:52
  SPEAKER_00: If he can give me Jesus, then it can give me everything freely to enjoy.
• 34:58
  SPEAKER_00: You argue from the greater to the lesser, and that's what I want to leave us with today.
• 35:04
  SPEAKER_00: If your greatest problem, our greatest problem has been solved by the Holy Spirit.
• 35:09
  SPEAKER_00: I think I still have more to say, but let's see if I can push us a little bit today.
• 35:15
  SPEAKER_00: Let's go back to our text.
• 35:17
  SPEAKER_00: It says, as many as are led by the Holy Spirit, these are the sons of God.
• 35:23
  SPEAKER_00: As many as are guided along the path of life, as many that have the privilege of being carried and being led by the Holy Spirit, they are the sons of God.
• 35:32
  SPEAKER_00: One of the greatest benefits of our work with God is the communion that we have with the Holy Spirit.
• 35:38
  SPEAKER_00: The communion that we have with the fact that you know life does not have to be hit or miss for you anymore.
• 35:44
  SPEAKER_00: Yes, life does not have to be hit or miss for you anymore.
• 35:47
  SPEAKER_00: That our success is a matter of choices, it's not a matter of chances.
• 35:52
  SPEAKER_00: Our success is a matter of choices, not a matter of chances.
• 35:55
  SPEAKER_00: Want us to be on our feet, want us to be on our feet and just let's bless the name of the Lord.
• 35:59
  SPEAKER_00: Let's thank him.
• 36:00
  SPEAKER_00: Let's thank him for the gift of the Holy Ghost.
• 36:02
  SPEAKER_00: Yes, let's thank him for the gift of the Holy Ghost.
• 36:05
  SPEAKER_00: Thank him for the gift of the Holy Ghost.
• 36:07
  SPEAKER_00: Thank him for the gift of the Holy Ghost.
• 36:09
  SPEAKER_00: Thank him for the gift of the Holy Ghost.
• 36:11
  SPEAKER_00: Thank him for the gift of the Holy Ghost.
• 36:13
  SPEAKER_00: Yes, thank him for the gift of the Holy Ghost, thank him for this guarantee that you have.
• 36:18
  SPEAKER_00: Yes, thank him for this guarantee that you have, thank him for the guarantee that you have that you will spend eternity with God, that you will not be eternally separated from God.