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Streams of Living Water | Episode #399 | Encore Episode #070 · Reflections On The Word With Richard Kay

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to today's edition of Reflection on the Word with
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  Speaker 1: Richard K. I'm Chuck Christie, and today we are asking
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  Speaker 1: you to spend a few moments of your time with
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  Speaker 1: us each day as Richard shares from God's work with notes, quotes,
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  Speaker 1: and stories along with some of his own personal experiences,
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  Speaker 1: to confirm for you God's great love for us, that
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  Speaker 1: his compassion for us never fails, and that he has
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  Speaker 1: a great faithfulness toward us in every regard. In Lamentations,
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  Speaker 1: Chapter three, verses twenty two and twenty three, we read,
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  Speaker 1: because of the Lord's great love, we are not consumed,
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  Speaker 1: for his compassions never fail. They are new every morning.
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  Speaker 1: Great is your faithfulness. Now, if you miss a portion
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  Speaker 1: of today's broadcast or would like to recommend it to
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  Speaker 1: a friend, you can hear this program anytime online at
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  Speaker 1: Talknetwork Radio dot com. Well, now here's Richard with today's reflection.
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  Speaker 2: On the last and most important day of the festival.
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  Speaker 2: Jesus stood up and cried out, if anyone is thirsty,
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  Speaker 2: he should come to me and drink. The one who
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  Speaker 2: believes in me, as the scripture has said, will have
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  Speaker 2: streams of living water flow from deep within him. He
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  Speaker 2: said this about the Spirit. Those who believed in Jesus
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  Speaker 2: were going to receive the Spirit, for the Spirit had
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  Speaker 2: not yet been received, because Jesus had not yet been glorified.
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  Speaker 2: John chapter seven and verses thirty seven through thirty nine.
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  Speaker 2: As we have studied the nine Gifts of the Holy Spirit,
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  Speaker 2: we have come to a place where we defined the
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  Speaker 2: gifts and we also explained how they are used in
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  Speaker 2: the Body of Christ. Today, there is something that we
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  Speaker 2: need to come to clarity as far as our understanding
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  Speaker 2: of the working of the Holy Spirit in the Body
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  Speaker 2: of Christ. You know, I have read many books about
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  Speaker 2: the experience of the Holy Spirit, but the Bible is
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  Speaker 2: constantly making us aware and conscience of the fullness of
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  Speaker 2: the Holy Spirit. Now we use different terms to define
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  Speaker 2: the application of the Spirit and the manifestations of the Spirit.
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  Speaker 2: We use a means of being able to describe the
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  Speaker 2: gifts of the Spirit because they are given throughout the
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  Speaker 2: Body of Christ by the Holy Spirit to profit for all.
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  Speaker 2: In other words, these gifts are for the benefit of
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  Speaker 2: the Body. Now, many times people will say all of
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  Speaker 2: the gifts don't seem to be functioning in our particular
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  Speaker 2: body of believers, and Unfortunately this may be the case,
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  Speaker 2: but it is not the will of the Holy Spirit
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  Speaker 2: that this is the case. You see, people have a
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  Speaker 2: tendency to try to change the things of the Spirit,
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  Speaker 2: and in some ways the changes have been more to
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  Speaker 2: make it comfortable for man, but it has nothing to
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  Speaker 2: do with whether or not the Holy Spirit is functioning.
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  Speaker 2: In his book Experiencing the Holy Spirit, Andrew Murray wrote
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  Speaker 2: a very defined testament in regards to the working of
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  Speaker 2: the Spirit, and what he says is, in all our
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  Speaker 2: studies of the work of the Blessed Spirit, our pursuit
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  Speaker 2: of a life in His fullness, we will always find
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  Speaker 2: the sum of Christ's teaching in those wonderful words. He
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  Speaker 2: that believeth on me, as the Scripture has said, out
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  Speaker 2: of his belly shall flow rivers of living water. I
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  Speaker 2: read the verse in the Holman Christian Standard Bible, where
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  Speaker 2: it sounds somewhat different, but yet it means the exact
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  Speaker 2: same thing, a deep flowing of the living water within
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  Speaker 2: the believer. And as we are convicted of the deficiency
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  Speaker 2: and the defectiveness of our faith in Christ, as we
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  Speaker 2: come to understand that believing in Him needs a yielding
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  Speaker 2: of the whole heart, life, and will. We can confidently
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  Speaker 2: count on receiving the Holy Spirit's power and present. When
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  Speaker 2: Christ becomes all that God has made him to be
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  Speaker 2: for us, the Holy Spirit can then flow from Christ
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  Speaker 2: to do his blessed work of leading us back to
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  Speaker 2: know Him better and to believe in Him more completely.
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  Speaker 2: There is a purpose for the baptism of the Holy Spirit.
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  Speaker 2: You see, in many cases we have been taught that
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  Speaker 2: this particular baptism only took place on the day of Pentecost. Now,
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  Speaker 2: if that is scripturally true, then we would have to
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  Speaker 2: begin to ask these questions. When did the Holy Spirit
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  Speaker 2: first manifest his presence among believers? Well, startling as it
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  Speaker 2: may seem, the reason that this particular scripture about rivers
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  Speaker 2: flowing from within the living water is because Jesus said,
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  Speaker 2: this is about the Holy Spirit, whom you are going
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  Speaker 2: to receive, but you have not received, because I am
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  Speaker 2: not yet glorified. Now, when Jesus made this statement, he
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  Speaker 2: was saying it in the midst of a public assembly
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  Speaker 2: in a temple meeting. I want to read to you
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  Speaker 2: the scripture that outlines what was taking place. The first
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  Speaker 2: part is referred to as the identity of the Messiah
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  Speaker 2: and reading from John's Gospel again chapter seven, but beginning
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  Speaker 2: with verse twenty five. Some of the people of Jerusalem
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  Speaker 2: were saying, isn't this the man they want to kill? Yet, look,
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  Speaker 2: he's speaking publicly and they're saying nothing to him. Can
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  Speaker 2: it be true that the authorities know he is the Messiah?
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  Speaker 2: But we know where this man is from. When the
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  Speaker 2: Messiah comes, nobody will know where he is from. As
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  Speaker 2: he was teaching in the Temple complex, Jesus cried out,
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  Speaker 2: you know me, and you know where I'm from. Yet
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  Speaker 2: I have not come on my own. But the one
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  Speaker 2: who sent me is true. You don't know him. I
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  Speaker 2: know him because I am from him and he sent me.
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  Speaker 2: Then they tried to seize him, yet no one laid
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  Speaker 2: a hand on him, because his hour had not yet come. However,
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  Speaker 2: many from the crowd believed in him and said, when
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  Speaker 2: the Messiah comes, he won't perform more signs than this
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  Speaker 2: man has done, will he. The Pharisees heard the crowd
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  Speaker 2: muttering these things about him, so the chief priest and
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  Speaker 2: the Pharisees sent temple police to arrest him. Then Jesus said,
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  Speaker 2: I am only with you for a short time. Then
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to the one who sent me. You will
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  Speaker 2: look for me, but you will not find me, and
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  Speaker 2: where I am you cannot come. Then the Jews said
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  Speaker 2: to one another, where does he intend to go so
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  Speaker 2: we won't find him? He doesn't intend to go to
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  Speaker 2: the dispersion among the Greeks and teach the Greeks? Does he?
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  Speaker 2: What is this remark he made? You will look for
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  Speaker 2: me and you will not find me, And where I
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  Speaker 2: am you cannot come. And on the last and most
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  Speaker 2: important day of the festival, Jesus stood up and cried out,
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  Speaker 2: if anyone is thirsty, he should come to me and drink.
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  Speaker 2: The one who believes in me, as the scripture has said,
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  Speaker 2: will have streams of living water flow from deep within him.
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  Speaker 2: As we had read earlier, this was a purpose that
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  Speaker 2: Jesus was proclaiming when he was announcing that he is
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  Speaker 2: going to leave now. They did not necessarily know the
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  Speaker 2: manner in which his departure would take place. They also
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  Speaker 2: did not know what he meant when he said that
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  Speaker 2: he was returning to the one who sent him. But
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  Speaker 2: Jesus told them they would look for him and they
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  Speaker 2: would not find him. But then he also said this
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  Speaker 2: to those who believed, he said, out of your inner
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  Speaker 2: being will flow streams of living water. Now, because he
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  Speaker 2: had made this statement, we have to begin to see
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  Speaker 2: that this was before he was glorified. But if we
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  Speaker 2: look further into John's gospel, we will be able to
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  Speaker 2: see that Jesus actually began to fulfill that particular promise
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  Speaker 2: to his believers when he appeared to them after the resurrection.
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  Speaker 2: What was it that he said? When he first entered
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  Speaker 2: their presence, He showed them his hands and his side.
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  Speaker 2: So the disciples rejoiced when they saw the Lord. But
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  Speaker 2: here he also said, peace to you. As the Father
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  Speaker 2: has sent me, I also send you. Now listen to
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  Speaker 2: this following scripture. After saying this, he breathed on them
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  Speaker 2: and said, receive the Holy Spirit. If you forgive the
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  Speaker 2: sins of any they are forgiven them. If you retain
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  Speaker 2: the sins of any, they are I want you to
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  Speaker 2: notice that in that particular scripture Jesus said, breathing on them,
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  Speaker 2: receive the Holy Spirit. You'll find that in John the
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  Speaker 2: twentieth chapter, beginning with verse twenty and proceeding to verse
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  Speaker 2: twenty three. Why is it important for us to see
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  Speaker 2: this scripture? Because Jesus breathed on his disciples, his followers
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  Speaker 2: and said, receive the Holy Spirit. He breathed on them
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  Speaker 2: and gave them the Holy Spirit. So if they had
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  Speaker 2: the Holy Spirit, why then would he have said to them,
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  Speaker 2: wait until you are endued with power from on high?
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  Speaker 2: Why would he have done that? Because Jesus was going
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  Speaker 2: to equip his believers to do his work in the
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  Speaker 2: receiving of the Holy Spirit. They were sealed for their redemption,
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  Speaker 2: but empowering came to them after they had received the
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  Speaker 2: Holy Spirit. It's very important for us to recognize there
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  Speaker 2: is a significant time frame that Jesus utilizes for us
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  Speaker 2: to begin to understand the working of the Holy Spirit.
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  Speaker 1: Richard will be right back in a moment to wrap up.
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  Speaker 1: But if you just joined us you've been listening to
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  Speaker 1: Reflections on the Word with Richard King. You can hear
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  Speaker 1: this message in its entirety again online as well as
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  Speaker 1: Richard's entire archive at Talk Network Radio dot com. We
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  Speaker 1: would like to acknowledge our theme song, how Great is
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  Speaker 1: Thy Faithfulness from the America's twenty five Favorite Hymns album,
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  Speaker 1: Unless otherwise. Express scriptures are read from the Holman Christian
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  Speaker 1: Standard Bible, which is published by Homan Bible Publishers in Nashville, Tennessee.
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  Speaker 1: to wrap up today's message.
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  Speaker 2: You see, the Holy Spirit seals us unto the day
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  Speaker 2: of redemption. He is the earnest, if you will, of
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  Speaker 2: our inheritance, as the scriptures states. But more importantly, not
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  Speaker 2: just that we are sealed, but that we are empowered
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  Speaker 2: to do the work of ministry. The thing that is
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  Speaker 2: missing so much in the church today is the empowerment
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  Speaker 2: of the Holy Spirit. Very little today is taught about
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  Speaker 2: the empowerment of the Holy Spirit. The reason it's important
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  Speaker 2: for us to recognize the power of the Holy Spirit
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  Speaker 2: is so that the works of God can be completed
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  Speaker 2: and God will receive glory as many come to be
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  Speaker 2: His disciples. Out of your belly will flow rivers of
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  Speaker 2: living water. If anyone is thirsty, he should come to
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  Speaker 2: me and drink the one who believes in me. As
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  Speaker 2: the scripture has said, we'll have streams of living water
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  Speaker 2: flow from deep within John chapter seven and versus thirty
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  Speaker 2: seven and thirty eight, and that is today's Reflection on
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  Speaker 2: the Word.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you Richard. Join us again tomorrow when we continue
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  Speaker 1: with the next edition of Reflections on the Word with
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  Speaker 1: Richard Kay. For Richard the Hire team. This is Chuck
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  Speaker 1: Christie saying thanks for listening to this edition of Reflections
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  Speaker 1: on the Word.