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817. Bible Study: Daniel 7 -extra content (More Spiritual content from the Bible; Why we need the Holy Spirit) · Faith by annm2705

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  Believe it or not, there were some things that I did not cover
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  in the last episode, which was long as usual.
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  But so I'm going to cover those things that I wasn't able to
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  cover, which I think are really interesting though.
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  And it ties into Daniel Chapter 7.
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  But we're going to talk about Revelation chapter 5, verse 6,
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  because this also I think needs a little bit more explanation
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  here. It says.
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  Then I saw a lamb looking as if it had been slain, standing at
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  the center of the throne, encircled by 4 living creatures
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  and the elders, the land. The lamb had 7 horns and seven
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  eyes, which are the seven spirits of God sent out into all
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  the earth. There is that's a very confusing
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  thing for all of us and there's a really good explanation of it.
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  And so I want, I want to read that through gotquestions.org
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  and so you can find this at gotquestions.org.
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  What are the seven spirits of God?
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  So it talks about in Revelation chapter 1, verses 4 through 5
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  John to the seven churches in the province of Asia, Grace and
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  peace to you from him who is and who was and who is to come, and
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  from the seven spirits before his throne and from Jesus
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  Christ. And then in Revelation 3, three
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  verse one, the Angel of the church in Sardis write.
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  These are the words of him who holds the seven spirits of God.
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  Then in Revelation 4, verse 5, from the throne came flashes of
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  lightning, rumbling, and peals of Thunder.
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  In front of the throne 7 lamps were blazing.
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  These are the seven spirits of God.
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  And then Revelation 5, verse 6. Then I saw a lamb looking as if
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  it had been slain, standing at the center of the throne,
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  encircled by the four living creatures and the elders.
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  The lamb had 7 horns and seven eyes, which are the seven
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  spirits of God sent out into all the earth.
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  The identity of the seven spirits is not explicit in these
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  passages, but arriving at the proper interpretation is fairly
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  straightforward. The seven spirits cannot be 7
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  angelic beings such as Seraphim or cherubim because of the
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  context of Revelation one verse 4 where it says John to the
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  seven churches that are in Asia, Grace to you and peace from him
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  who is and who was and who is to come, and from the seven spirits
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  who are before the throne. John says that grace and peace
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  are coming to the churches from these from three sources, Him
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  who is and who was and who is to come.
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  Verse 4 The seven spirits before the throne Verse 4 and Jesus
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  Christ Verse 5. This is a depiction of the
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  Trinity. Grace and peace are given by the
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  Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, the three Co equal
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  persons of the Godhead. In Revelation 4 verse 5, the
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  seven spirits of God are symbolized as 7 burning lamps
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  that are before God's throne. This picture agrees with
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  Zechariah's vision in which he sees the Holy Spirit symbolized
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  as a solid gold lampstand with a bowl at the top and seven lamps
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  on it. In Zechariah 42.
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  In Revelation 5-6, the seven spirits are the seven eyes of
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  the Lamb, and they are quote sent out into the earth.
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  The seven eyes speak of the Spirit and the Lamb's
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  omniscience, and the fact that He is sent into the earth, into
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  all the earth, speaks of His omnipresence.
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  Once we identify 7 spirits as the Holy Spirit, the question
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  remains, why are there 7 of Him? The Bible, especially the Book
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  of Revelation, uses the number 7 to refer to perfection and
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  completion. John's vision includes a picture
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  of the perfect and complete Holy Spirit.
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  Isaiah 11 also references the Holy Spirit using a sevenfold
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  description. The Spirit of the Lord will rest
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  on him, the spirit of wisdom and of understanding, the spirit of
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  counsel and of power, the spirit of knowledge and the fear of the
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  Lord. The prophecy is that the Messiah
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  would be empowered not by 7 individual spirits, but by the
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  one Spirit described seven ways, and that's the seven, or the
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  Spirit of the Lord, the Spirit of wisdom, the spirit of
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  understanding, the spirit of counsel, the spirit of power,
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  the spirit of knowledge, the spirit of the fear of the Lord.
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  The quote 7 spirits of God in the Book of Revelation are thus
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  a reference to the Holy Spirit in the perfection of His
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  manifold ministry. So I thought that was really
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  good because that's a question that I'm sure lots of people
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  have. But then I also when I was
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  thinking about this, I was and the prior chapter that I talked
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  about Daniel Chapter 7 and and the spiritual world that we just
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  don't know everything about. I do think there are other
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  spirits that are in front of God that do his will.
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  I mean they, they must, they have to submit to the authority
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  of God, although they are not necessarily good spirits, but
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  they are under the control of God.
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  And he does use these spirits to get people to repent is what I
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  believe to get people to turn back to Him.
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  And when he needs to, he chooses to.
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  And he doesn't force these spirits to do this because I
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  think these spirits want to do that.
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  Like they have chosen evil, but God can use them for his
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  purposes. And I'll show you some examples
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  of that. So one of the scriptures is in,
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  it's actually in First Kings chapter 22 and we started verse
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  19. Makaya continued.
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  Therefore hear the word of the Lord.
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  I saw the Lord sitting on his throne with all the multitudes
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  of heaven standing around him on his right and on his left.
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  And the Lord said, Who will entice Ahab into attacking
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  Ramoth Gilead and going to his death there?
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  One suggested this and another that.
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  Finally a spirit came forward, stood before the Lord, and said,
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  I will entice him. By what means?
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  The Lord asked, I will go out and be a deceiving spirit in the
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  mouths of all his prophets. He said, You will succeed in
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  enticing him, said the Lord, Go and do it.
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  So now the Lord has put a deceiving spirit in the mouths
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  of all the prophet of yours. The Lord has decreed disaster
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  for you. So we see here that a spirit is
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  a deceiving spirit, and I don't think that is necessarily a good
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  thing. And but God uses the free will
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  of beings. This is the the way I understand
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  it. Ahab was the king of Israel, and
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  he was not a good king. And his wife was Jezebel, who is
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  not a good queen either. And they had all of these false
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  prophets and they were misleading the people of Israel
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  into idolatry, sexual immorality and all sorts of things.
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  And they were doing lots of evil.
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  And so God was they, they had, you know, an opportunity.
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  In fact, the Book of Revelation says that Jezebel could have
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  been saved, but she would not repent.
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  And so God will send to accomplish his purpose.
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  He will use sometimes evil spirits, evil beings, you know,
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  people with harmful intent. He will use them to accomplish
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  his purpose. And his purpose is actually
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  something that is good. It's actually to get the
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  attention of people who are pushing him away, who are
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  ignoring him and so that they will hopefully turn to God.
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  There's another verse that where God does this, and it's with
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  Saul. So Saul was Israel's first king
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  and God warned them. You know, you're not going to
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  really like the results of this, but I will let you have a king
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  because that's what you're asking for.
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  You can, you know, free will you get Saul.
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  But here's what's going to happen.
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  He warned them, but they wanted the king, so they got the king.
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  And then Saul was disobedient to God.
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  He would do some of what God said, but then he wouldn't do it
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  all, and he'd use his own judgment rather than relying on
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  God. And Samuel was constantly
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  telling Saul, you know, reminding him of what he should
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  be doing versus what he was doing on his own.
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  And so finally God had enough of Saul.
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  He was disobedient enough. And that's when God decided he
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  was going to replace Saul with David.
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  And it was a very long drawn up process, but during the time
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  that this transition was happening from Saul to David,
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  because of Saul's rebellion, God took his spirit from Saul.
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  So that is like to me, I understand that as a an
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  anointing of the Holy Spirit, like he had anointed.
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  This is why when sometimes people say once saved, always
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  saved, I'm like, well, wait a second, how does this work here?
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  Because Saul's rebellion, like God sent the Holy Spirit to him,
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  but then he rebelled and wouldn't be obedient to God.
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  And then God took the Holy Spirit, the we, you know, that's
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  like grieving, I guess the Holy Spirit where at a certain point,
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  I don't know, that's the way I understand this.
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  I mean, somebody else might want to explain this to me if I'm
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  getting this wrong. But in first Samuel chapter 16
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  verse 14, it says now the Spirit of the Lord had departed from
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  Saul and an evil spirit from the Lord tormented him.
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  Saul's attendant said to him, see an evil spirit from God is
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  tormenting you. And so then David would come in
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  and play music and then he would be relieved from that tormenting
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  spirit when that would happen. But the the point is about the
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  Spirit of the Lord departed from Saul and Saul was God's
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  anointed. 1 He was anointed through Samuel.
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  He was chosen by the people but anointed by God and he had the
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  Holy Spirit because he would have had to have had the Holy
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  Spirit for the Spirit to depart from him.
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  And it also Jesus warns us about or he he told about when someone
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  I guess it's talks about like cleans the house spiritually and
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  I want to find what it's. I'm looking for something
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  because I wasn't OK It's in. I guess Matthew and Luke talk
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  about it. So this is this is like a word
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  of warning to people, like another reason why we need the
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  Holy Spirit and we need to stay in the word.
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  We need to stay connected. When I say in the word, we need
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  to be reading the Bible so that we our mind is renewed by what
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  the Bible says. And you know, it could be a few
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  minutes every day, but every day is good and to pray to God too.
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  I mean, it's so important as the days get closer to the return of
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  Jesus, quite honestly. And so in Matthew chapter 12,
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  verse 45, it talks about an impure spirit coming out of a
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  person. So it says this is Jesus
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  talking. When an impure spirit comes out
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  of a person, it goes through arid places seeking rest and
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  does not find it. Then it says, I will return to
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  the house I left. When it arrives, it finds the
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  house unoccupied, swept clean and put in order.
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  Then it goes and takes with it seven other spirits more wicked
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  than itself, and they go in and live there.
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  And the final condition of that person is worse than the first.
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  This that is how it will be with this wicked generation.
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  So I think that's a big word of warning about receiving the Holy
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  Spirit. You know, people who are
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  rebellious to God and they don't have the Holy Spirit are open to
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  an impure spirit taking over them.
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  That's why I mean, when you look at people in a, in addictions
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  and things like that, I believe that the, you know, that that's
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  kind of like the foothold of spiritual.
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  I mean, the devil seeks to destroy us.
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  So if he can lure us in with something that's tempting,
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  something that sounds good, you know, an addiction most often
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  starts with something simple and, and kind of harmless, but
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  then as it intensifies, it becomes harmful to a person.
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  Will they, if they don't break the addiction, it will
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  eventually destroy them either physically or spiritually or
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  both. And this is a warning that Jesus
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  said was you can get rid of that Spirit and but if you do, you
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  must have the Holy Spirit with you.
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  So you have to repent of those things.
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  You have to turn to God. You have to we receive the Holy
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  Spirit from Jesus. He has the Holy Spirit from the
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  Father and he gives it to us. If our hearts are right with
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  Jesus, with God, if we have recognized that we have a sinful
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  way of life and we don't want to live it anymore, but we need
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  help, God will help us and we are helped by the Holy Spirit.
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  The the Holy Spirit helps us overcome it.
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  As I said before, the flesh is weak, but the Spirit is strong.
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  That's another thing that Jesus said about avoiding temptation,
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  so we can receive help from the Holy Spirit to do that.
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  But I think this is really important to understand these
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  spiritual things. And again, the, the whole book
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  of Job is almost, you know, that's almost like 1/3
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  representation of what happens in the spiritual realm as well.
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  And I it, it talks about, you know, Job being a righteous
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  person and that the angels present themselves before the
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  Lord. Now this is Job chapter one,
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  verse six. One day the angels came to
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  present themselves before the Lord and Satan also came with
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  them. The Lord said to Satan, where
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  have you come from? Satan answered the Lord from
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  roaming throughout the earth, going back and forth.
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  Then the Lord said to Satan, Have you considered my servant
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  Job? There is no one on earth like
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  him. He is blameless and upright, a
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  man who fears God and shuns evil.
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  And Satan replies, Does Job fear God for nothing?
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  Satan replied, Have you not put a hedge around him and his
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  household and everything he has? You have blessed the work of his
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  hands so that his flocks and his herds are spread throughout the
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  land. But now stretch out your hand
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  and strike everything he has, and he will surely curse you to
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  your face. The Lord said, Very well, then
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  everything he has is in your power, but the man himself do
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  not lay a finger. Then Satan went out from the
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  presence of the Lord. So it the story goes on and and
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  God allows Satan to do these things to Job and I, I mean,
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  this is kind of one of the hardest books to like understand
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  like why did God allow that? But he allowed Job.
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  Apparently Job had always been close to God and had served him,
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  but he was never tested. And that's what Satan is, the
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  accuser. And he it says that he roams and
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  he's looking for his next victim.
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  So if you haven't been tested in life, then you have to be
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  careful about this because God could test you.
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  But when you have the Holy Spirit, it says submit to the
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  Lord that's receiving the Holy Spirit, submit to him as your
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  Lord and resist the devil and he will flee.
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  So when you have the knowledge of the Holy Spirit, the you know
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  the relationship with God and have the Holy Spirit and have
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  the knowledge of Scripture that you just need to submit to the
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  Lord and resist the devil and he will flee.
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  It's not like you have to do this really bad battle with him,
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  but somebody who doesn't have the Holy Spirit and gets lured
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  into sinful things and doesn't do anything about it, they're
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  just going to get deeper and deeper and deeper into sinful
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  ways. Addictions are breaking whatever
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  commandment it is that God has. It's just going to get, you
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  know, deeper and deeper to where somebody destroys themself.
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  But that's something that happens and can happen to a
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  person who doesn't have the Holy Spirit.
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  So I think it's important that we understand the the role of
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  the Holy Spirit. And perhaps Job didn't have the
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  Holy Spirit. He was just a righteous man
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  because there are people who are.
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  Just righteous, they choose that way, but they don't have the
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  Holy Spirit yet. But this again is another
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  important reason why we need the Holy Spirit.
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  And it ties into the prior chapter.
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  But these were some parts that I wanted to cover.
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  And because it got so long, I didn't cover.
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  So this is kind of an extra added on to the prior podcast.
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  So hopefully this was beneficial to you.