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#179 The Spirit of Revival (5 - How We Can Hear from the Holy Spirit) · The OneCry Podcast

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  Music.
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  Needs.
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  They need to see the power of God. They needed to see a demonstration.
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  They need to hear the words of God spoken by men and women of God, filled with God.
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  And that's available to us. And yet, and yet we're keeping it under wrap.
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  Welcome to the One Cry podcast, a nationwide call for spiritual awakening.
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  The goal, accelerating the movement of God through sharing revival truth, stories, and reports.
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  Well, welcome to the One Cry podcast. I'm Jordan Bowen, and I'm with my best friend, Bill Elif.
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  And I'm just so thankful to be walking through this series of the Holy Spirit
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  with you, Bill, and with everybody listening today.
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  And I hope it's been impacting you as much I know it's impacting me.
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  And I just want to invite you to go back and to listen to any of in this series
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  that maybe you've missed, you can pick up at any point.
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  Each one stands alone, but each one compliments each other.
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  And slow it down and take some notes and ask yourself, how am I going to live this out?
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  Because as we get to understand more of who the Holy Spirit is and His role
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  in our lives, it changes the way we live.
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  And Bill, you have something really important for us today.
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  And it makes me, it really excites me because you're going to talk to us about,
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  is it possible to really hear from God?
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  And what's the role of the Holy Spirit in that? And I'm ready to hear of what the Lord has.
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  You know, Jordan, you've heard me talk many times about Manly Beasley,
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  who was a real mentor in my life. He's in heaven now.
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  But boy, he impacted so many young pastors and I was fortunate to be one of them.
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  And I remember Manly one day saying to me, he said, Bill, you know,
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  every word of the Bible is important, but there's some passages that,
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  while not more important than another passage, you just have got to learn that passage.
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  You've got to understand that passage, and you've got to let it master you.
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  And one of those passages, he said, is 1 Corinthians 2.
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  And so that's all he said. He was like that. He was so mystical.
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  He would just throw something out and then he'd just walk off,
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  you know, and you had to deal with it.
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  And so I had been around manly enough to know that when he said something like
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  that, he did it on purpose.
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  And he knew I needed this. And so I began to dig into 1 Corinthians 2.
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  Well, it's this extraordinary passage where Paul said, you know,
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  when I came to you, I didn't come with persuasive words of man's wisdom or clever speech.
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  I came in a demonstration of the spirit and of power.
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  Wouldn't that be beautiful, by the way, if we were able to say everywhere we
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  went, I came to you not in humanism, but in a demonstration of the spirit and of his power.
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  So that, he said, your faith would not rest on the wisdom of men, but on the power of God.
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  And he said, there is this wisdom, though, that we speak among the mature.
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  And then he comes and he says this down in verse 9 as he talks about the spiritual wisdom.
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  He says, things which eye has not seen and ear has not heard and which have
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  not entered the heart of man, all that God has prepared for those who love him.
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  So in other words, he says, look, God says, I've got stuff for you. Yeah.
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  That you can't get any other place. No man understands this.
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  You can't learn this from any other source from me by my spirit.
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  And then you say, well, how do I learn that? I want to learn those things, you know.
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  And then he says in verse 10 of 1 Corinthians 2, for to us, he's talking to
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  believers, God revealed them through the Spirit.
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  For the Spirit searches all things, even the depths of God.
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  For who among men knows the thoughts of a man except the spirit of a man which is in him?
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  Even so the thoughts of God no one knows except the Spirit of God.
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  Now, let me just pause right there. So, Jordan, I know you.
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  I've gotten to know you the last several years. I know you pretty well.
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  We've traveled some together and taught together.
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  But I don't know you as good as Sarah. Your wife knows you.
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  Nobody probably on the earth, maybe your mom and dad know you really well,
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  but Sarah really knows you.
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  But there's one person, and I'll give you a clue. I'm not talking about God.
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  God, there's one person that knows you better than Sarah knows you, and that's you.
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  Nobody knows a man like the spirit of a man who's in him.
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  And it's not like you're trying to hide things from Sarah. You're not trying
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  to be deceptive or conceit.
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  You just couldn't possibly tell her everything that is in your spirit that you know.
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  And if you could, it'd be frustrating to her.
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  So he says, who among men knows the thoughts of a man except the spirit of a
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  man who's in him? And listen to this statement.
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  Even so, the thoughts of God no one knows except the spirit of God.
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  Now, the Spirit of God is God, and just as you have a Spirit in you,
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  so the Spirit of God is in God, and he knows everything about God. He is God.
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  There's no thought that God has that the Spirit of God doesn't have.
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  So he knows everything about you, the Spirit of God.
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  That's wonderful. That's a nice thought, you know.
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  Listen to this. Verse 12, this blows me away.
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  Now we have received not the spirit of the world, but the spirit who is from God.
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  So that we may know the things freely given to us by God.
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  And you just think about this a minute. So he says, look, nobody knows you like you know you.
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  Nobody knows God like the spirit of God. He knows everything about God.
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  And you have been given that Spirit.
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  He lives in you. The Holy Spirit, we've already established this.
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  He comes in the moment we believe in Christ. He's present. He dwells in us. We might not realize it.
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  We may not understand the depth of that.
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  We are coming to know him more and more each day.
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  But he says, you have received the Spirit who is from God. Why? Why is he in me?
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  So that, this is one of the reasons, so that you may know the things freely given to us by God.
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  Look at the next verse. Which things, these wise things, these true things,
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  we also speak, Paul said,
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  not in words taught by human wisdom, but in those taught by the Spirit,
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  combining spirit thoughts with spirit words.
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  So Paul says, I'm coming to you, and I do have a wisdom, and I don't want what
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  I'm doing to rest on man's reasoning.
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  I want it to be a demonstration of the Spirit. Now listen, God has given me His Spirit.
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  He's in me so that I can know the things which eyes not seen,
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  ears not heard, have never even entered into the heart of man,
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  all that God has prepared for those who love him,
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  and the Spirit has been given to us so that we can know those things.
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  Yeah, wow. And then when I learn those things, I speak them to you,
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  combining those Spirit thoughts with Spirit words empowered by the Holy Spirit.
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  And that's how your faith doesn't rest on the wisdom of man.
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  It rests on the power of God. And I'm coming to you in a demonstration of the spirit and power.
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  And he goes further. Look at this.
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  And he says in verse 14, a natural man. What is that?
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  That's a man that doesn't have the spirit, just a man in his natural state, a lost man.
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  A natural man does not accept the things of the spirit of God.
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  They're foolishness to him. And he cannot understand them because they're spiritually
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  appraised. They're spiritually understood.
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  Think of a jeweler who appraises a diamond.
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  So if I just looked at a diamond, I would say, well, that's worth, it's Cracker Jacks.
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  You know, this is just, maybe it's worth 20 bucks.
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  A jeweler looks at it and he appraises it and he says, no, that's worth $20,000.
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  All right. He knows the true value because he can see. A natural man looks at
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  the things of God and they're just foolish. They're rubbish to him.
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  He didn't care. So here we're talking about some great truth,
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  and it's just that would transform him, transform his family,
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  transform the society, transform the government.
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  And it's just garbage to him.
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  He can't understand it. It's only spiritually appraised. But a spiritual man appraises all things.
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  And then he says, he who is spiritual appraises all things, yet he himself is
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  appraised by no one. And then he says one of the most profound statements that's in all the word of God.
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  For who has known the mind of the Lord that will instruct him?
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  But we have the mind of Christ.
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  Now, how could he possibly say that? Because we have Christ.
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  We have Christ. The Spirit of God lives in me.
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  And I have all of the Spirit that I will ever have. And if I have him, I have his mind.
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  Now, I may not have accessed all of his mind.
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  I may not have surrendered. I may not have listened to him to know his mind, but I have his mind.
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  I have his mind. And, you know, T.W.
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  Hunt, great professor and teacher and godly man, did a monumental work.
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  You can still get it in workbook form called The Mind of Christ.
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  And he shows you how to access the mind of Christ.
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  And it's these things that we're talking about here, really.
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  It's learning how to pin upon the Spirit to teach you and to lead you in all truth.
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  And we have this capacity because we have the Spirit. Isn't that amazing?
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  I mean, it's just when Manly told me that and I began to study that,
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  it changed the way I read my Bible.
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  It changed the way I studied to preach. It changed the way I preached.
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  Because what I wanted to do is, and it doesn't negate the Bible.
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  The Bible is still God's Word, and it's how the Spirit communicates to us.
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  But suddenly, it's the Word and the Spirit, and the living Word of God,
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  by the Spirit of God, Holy Spirit, speak to me.
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  Tell me what you live inside of me, so open the Word of God to me. Explain this to me.
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  Show me things that I couldn't see, an ear couldn't hear. And I want to learn those things.
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  And then, Holy Spirit, once I see them, fill me with your Holy Spirit and speak
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  through me so we can combine spiritual thoughts with spiritual words. Wow.
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  And so that suddenly the teaching comes in the Spirit and in power.
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  And then the response from the people doesn't rest on, oh, Bill Eliff,
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  listen to his teaching, man.
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  And that wasn't that, that was, I've heard guys who sounded so profound,
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  but really it was just a bunch of humanistic mumbo jumbo.
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  And then I've heard simple men and women of God just teach things.
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  And it was profound because it was the mind of Christ.
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  And they were combining spiritual thoughts with spiritual words.
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  And it was a demonstration of the spirit of God in power. Right.
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  And it brought about spiritual results. Wow. Wow.
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  Think on that one right there. Well, and I just think about this is available to every believer.
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  Believer. A 14-year-old girl. Right. An 18-year-old man, an 80-year-old senior adult.
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  If they have Christ, they have the mind of Christ.
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  And just think about this. Think about the possibility of me being a believer
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  and going for 40 years and never accessing what I have.
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  What a tragedy. When I could have, by dependence upon the Spirit,
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  I could have seen things that I couldn't have seen any other way.
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  Bill, it makes me think of, well, it actually makes me think of a neighbor of mine.
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  I have a neighbor, and they have a beautiful car that is always under that wrapping
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  that goes around a car to keep it safe from all the weather and everything like that.
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  Beautiful. I've never owned a car that was worth a wrap. I never needed to.
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  Worth a wrap. Right. Yeah, yeah.
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  But beautiful, powerful engine in this car.
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  I mean, a race car of sorts that they keep wrapped up.
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  And i just think about there is some
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  power in that car i have
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  never never in my time as their neighbor seen them go outside unwrap that car
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  put it the key in the ignition and turn it on wow they have just sitting there
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  an unbelievable power right there and they never access.
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  And how true it is and even my christian life
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  but as you just illustrated there are believers walking around with the power
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  of god christ's mind in them the holy spirit fully indwelling them but they
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  never surrender and turn on
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  the key and and and let's ask this question guess what the world needs and.
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  They need to see the power of God. They needed to see a demonstration.
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  They need to hear the words of God spoken by men and women of God, filled with God.
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  And that's available to us. And yet we're keeping it under wrap.
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  The Lord wants to unleash all that, not just for our, so that we become these
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  spiritual eggheads or we're, well, I know the secret mysteries of God.
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  No, so that God might be glorified and the world might hear his truth and people would be drawn to him.
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  When he's lifted up, he draws all men unto himself.
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  So I just want to encourage us to get out your Bible,
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  be a Berean Christian, study this deeply, read it in different translations,
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  look at the words, look at the language and And ask, here's the big one,
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  ask the Holy Spirit to show you things which eye has not seen and ears not heard.
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  Because that is in his spirit and his spirit is in you so that you may freely
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  know these things that have been given to you by God. Wow. So. Thank you, Lord.
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  Amen. Well, again, we're getting carried away here, but we hope you've kind
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  of gotten carried away with us.
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  And I really want to encourage you to study this passage and to begin to apply
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  this passage in new ways. I think it will open something up wonderful to you.
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  And if you would, Jordan, I'd like to pray for our listeners in this way.
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  So let's join together in prayer.
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  Father, I just, we love the Bible. We're so grateful.
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  Everything that we need for life and godliness is found here.
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  And we love your spirit that is our teacher.
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  And Jesus, you promised that when you left, you would send the Holy Spirit who
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  would lead us into all truth.
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  That's part of the Holy Spirit's stated role.
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  And he does that by,
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  first of all, coming to live inside of us and then taking your precious word
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  and teaching us, unfolding it to us, showing us what it means.
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  I pray, Father, that we would take the rap off this incredible power and,
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  Lord, that we would learn of you and you would show us things that we've never
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  seen before so that we may share those with others and others may be brought to you.
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  So, Lord, take us there, and we pray the end result would be a revival in our
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  souls and revival in our family and in our churches and our nation,
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  and use us for your glory.
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  We pray all that in your precious name.
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  Amen. Amen.
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  Thank you, everybody, for joining us today. May we walk in all these ways.
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  Music.