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Getting Reacquainted with the Spirit of Power, Part 3 - Pastor Chuck Swindoll Insight for Living · INSIGHT FOR LIVING: Biblical Wisdom For Everyday Living

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Speaker 1: The permanent presence of the Holy Spirit. He will be
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Speaker 1: with you. He will be your advocate, he will be
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Speaker 1: your helper, he will be your counselor he will be
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Speaker 1: your guide. He will be your shield, he will be
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Speaker 1: your protector, he will be your identity. He will be
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Speaker 1: your reason for going on.
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Speaker 2: Knowing about the Holy Spirit is one thing. Experiencing His
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Speaker 2: presence and power in your daily life is something else.
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Speaker 2: Entirely Today, on Insight for Living, chuckswyn Dall brings his
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Speaker 2: rich three day study to a close by unpacking the
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Speaker 2: remarkable benefits that belong to every believer, benefits that speak
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Speaker 2: directly to the struggles, fears, and uncertainties you face right now.
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Speaker 2: If you've been running on empty or wondering if God
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Speaker 2: is really at work in your circumstances, Today's message from
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Speaker 2: Chuck will prove otherwise. Chuck titled his message getting Reacquainted
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Speaker 2: with the Spirit of Power.
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Speaker 1: When I did my study, I came up with about
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Speaker 1: thirty to thirty five things the Spirit of God does.
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Speaker 1: You'll be happy to know we won't go through all
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Speaker 1: thirty to thirty five of them, but I'm going to
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Speaker 1: spot maybe three four of them that are important enough
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Speaker 1: to underscore Titus chapter three. One of the four that
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Speaker 1: I want to mention is the spirit regenerates. He regenerates
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Speaker 1: verse five. He saved us. This is a he referring
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Speaker 1: to God, the Father, God, our Savior, saved us verse five.
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Speaker 1: Not on the basis of deeds which we have done
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Speaker 1: in righteousness, but according to His mercy, by the washing
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Speaker 1: of There's our word, regeneration and renewing by the Holy Spirit.
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Speaker 1: What does that mean? It means when you and I
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Speaker 1: were converted to Christ, new life was given to us.
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Speaker 1: Now back to First Corinthians. Here we are verse twelve
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Speaker 1: of chapter twelve. You'll see the second of the four.
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Speaker 1: We're going to point out that the spirit does First
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Speaker 1: Corinthians twelve, Verse twelve. Even as the body is one
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Speaker 1: and yet has many members. And all the members of
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Speaker 1: the Body, though they are many, are one, so also
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Speaker 1: is the body of Christ. The universal family of God
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Speaker 1: is called in scripture the Body of Christ. Now where
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Speaker 1: is the spirit at work in this? Look at verse thirteen.
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Speaker 1: For by one spirit we were all baptized into one body,
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Speaker 1: where the Jews or Greeks slaves are free. We were
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Speaker 1: all made to drink of one spirit. This occurred at salvation.
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Speaker 1: The work of the spirit is to identify us with
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Speaker 1: the body of Christ and with Christ himself. He baptizes us.
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Speaker 1: You've gone to Corinthians, go a little further to Ephesians
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Speaker 1: chapter one. Here we read he seals us Ephesians one,
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Speaker 1: verse thirteen, referring to Christ in him. You also, after
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Speaker 1: listening to the message of truth, the gospel of your salvation,
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Speaker 1: having also believed, you were sealed in Him in whom
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Speaker 1: in Christ, with this holy spirit of promise, he permanently
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Speaker 1: secured our salvation when we came to know Jesus. There's
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Speaker 1: another right here in Ephesians, and that's chapter four, verse thirty.
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Speaker 1: Turn ahead four thirty. Do not grieve the Holy Spirit
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Speaker 1: of God by whom you were sealed for the day
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Speaker 1: of redemption. So the Spirit of God seals us, what
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Speaker 1: does that mean? That means we're His forever. A divine
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Speaker 1: seal is a permanent seal. You have any idea how
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Speaker 1: many people live their lives, never sure of their salvation,
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Speaker 1: praying that they will not lose what God has given them,
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Speaker 1: or praying that they will not sin so badly that
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Speaker 1: they will wake up one day and they'll be lost again.
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Speaker 1: I have a great question for those who think like that,
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Speaker 1: How bad is too bad that you have moved from
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Speaker 1: save to lost? No one can ever answer that, because
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Speaker 1: there is no such thing as the loss of salvation.
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Speaker 1: Salvation is a gift, and God doesn't take his gift back.
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Speaker 1: We receive the gift, and as a result we are
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Speaker 1: born again, and we can never be unborn. Our children
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Speaker 1: were born into our family. They have our nature, they
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Speaker 1: have our blood, they even have our temperaments in many ways.
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Speaker 1: Because they're in the family, they'll never be not a
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Speaker 1: part of our family. Same as it is because of
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Speaker 1: the Spirit of God who seals us. And now one
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Speaker 1: more great John chapter sixteen, verse thirteen, when he referring
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Speaker 1: to the spirit, the spirit of truth comes. He will
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Speaker 1: guide you into all the truth. He will not speak
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Speaker 1: on his own initiative, but whatever he hears, he will
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Speaker 1: speak and will disclose to you what is to come.
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Speaker 1: So there is the illuminating work of the Spirit. We
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Speaker 1: have four of them. Now four he regenerates, he baptizes
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Speaker 1: or reidentifies us with Christ. He seals us. And he now,
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Speaker 1: according to this verse illumines us. See what it says.
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Speaker 1: He guides you into all truth. I'm going to give
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Speaker 1: you three words that you need to remember. Revelation, inspiration, illumination.
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Speaker 1: Revelation has to do with God giving his word. God
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Speaker 1: no longer reveals divine truth. It's contained within the covers
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Speaker 1: of this book. He reveals his truth. Inspiration that has
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Speaker 1: to do with the writing, the recording of the truth
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Speaker 1: that God has revealed that ceased. Now we may be
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Speaker 1: inspired to write songs, or inspired to write poetry, or
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Speaker 1: inspired to write certain notes of encouragement. That's a different
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Speaker 1: kind of inspiration. This inspiration has the word miracle connected
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Speaker 1: to it. Fount Nustas is the word. It means God
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Speaker 1: breathing his word into human beings. And a select number
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Speaker 1: of people took a stylus in their hand, and without error,
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Speaker 1: they wrote the original manuscript of scripture. That's called inspiration
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Speaker 1: that ceased. But illumination goes on to this very moment.
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Speaker 1: Isn't that a great idea? Isn't that a great thought?
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Speaker 1: You are now able to be illumined by what has
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Speaker 1: been revealed and written under inspiration, and now it's available
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Speaker 1: for you to grasp because you have it in your
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Speaker 1: own language. How wonderful is that? How marvelous are those ministries.
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Speaker 1: I think of the ministry of Wickliffe Bible translators, taking
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Speaker 1: the written word of God and putting it in the
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Speaker 1: language of the people who do not have it, and
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Speaker 1: often do not even have their own language. And as
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Speaker 1: a result of that work and the faithfulness of those missionaries,
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Speaker 1: they're able to read in their own language the very
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Speaker 1: word of God. Imagine that. Because we live in a
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Speaker 1: land where there is every type and style and font
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Speaker 1: and color and size text of the Bible, we tend
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Speaker 1: to take it for granted. But you go to a
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Speaker 1: country that doesn't have a Bible all, let me tell you,
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Speaker 1: they'll love you to tear one page out and leave
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Speaker 1: it with them. Why because it is like no other writing.
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Speaker 1: It is the revealed, inspired, written word of God that
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Speaker 1: will illumine them for life. Let me ask you to
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Speaker 1: guard against feeling that you have reached the ultimate now
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Speaker 1: in your Christian growth, just in case you're tempted to
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Speaker 1: think like that. Wait, just sit there, just stay right there, okay,
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Speaker 1: just listen closely. You are in a good place. You
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Speaker 1: are in a place where God's word is being taught,
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Speaker 1: where there is worship, meaningful worship, where there is integrity,
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Speaker 1: where there is growth, where there is a momentum, where
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Speaker 1: there are signs of spiritual life, there's excitement, there's enthusiasm.
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Speaker 1: I mean, it's like magnetic to be a part of
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Speaker 1: what God is doing here in this wonderful place. But
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Speaker 1: it's easy to think because of that we've reached the pinnacle.
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Speaker 1: I mean, it just won't get any better than this.
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Speaker 1: I mean this is the best. When you say that,
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Speaker 1: you forget the work of the spirit is to continue
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Speaker 1: to make your life even better and better. I didn't
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Speaker 1: say easier, I said better. He is able to take
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Speaker 1: this year and turn next year into one that can
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Speaker 1: hardly be compared. As you grow spiritually, as you learn
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Speaker 1: to handle difficulties and endure tests, He's always able to
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Speaker 1: improve on what once was. That's my point, and how
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Speaker 1: we thank him for that. We thought last year was good,
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Speaker 1: but look at what this year is held magnificent? Now
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Speaker 1: why it should we care about this? Some of you
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Speaker 1: are thinking, look, this isn't a seminary. Why in the
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Speaker 1: world would you take our time to tell us these things?
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Speaker 1: A couple of very important reasons. And by the way,
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Speaker 1: when I preach, when you have teaching at this church.
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Speaker 1: Regardless of who may be the teacher, it is always
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Speaker 1: for a purpose, and it never has anything to do
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Speaker 1: with the teacher. Is always for your benefit. The benefit
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Speaker 1: of this is when you know truths like this, it
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Speaker 1: gives you an edge in the world in which we live.
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Speaker 1: It gives you an edge not only to survive, but
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Speaker 1: to thrive. You're guarded against the teaching of the cults.
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Speaker 1: You are instructed in truth so that you are equipped
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Speaker 1: to handle whatever comes to you, whatever impacts you. An
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Speaker 1: understanding of the Spirit, as we're going to see, brings
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Speaker 1: us an enormous amount of comfort. And that's my second point.
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Speaker 1: We're all on a human and we need an advocate
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Speaker 1: because we fall, we fail, we blow it. And the
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Speaker 1: good news is that the Spirit of God is our advocate.
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Speaker 1: We're in John. So go back to chapter fourteen and
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Speaker 1: look at verse sixteen. John fourteen sixteen. I will ask
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Speaker 1: the Father, says Jesus, and he that's the Father, will
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Speaker 1: give you. That would be the disciples. Another here's our
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Speaker 1: word translated here helper. The new International version translates it counselor.
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Speaker 1: In this New American Standard Bible, we read helper. It's
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Speaker 1: from two Greek words. One means alongside and the other
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Speaker 1: means to call put them together. I will call one
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Speaker 1: alongside for the purpose of helping you. I found this
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Speaker 1: interesting that parocolitos always has reference to helping someone in
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Speaker 1: need or in trouble. Now that's the story of our lives,
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Speaker 1: isn't it. We have spent our days dealing with struggles
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Speaker 1: and troubles and trials. The good news is the Spirit
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Speaker 1: of God comes alongside here. And so as you learn
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Speaker 1: of the Spirit, you learn about the one who has
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Speaker 1: been given you as a helper. Now, the significance of
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Speaker 1: the Holy Spirit cannot be overemphasized. And I've left you
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Speaker 1: a place here in your outline for you to fill
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Speaker 1: in three of these and we'll sort of click through
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Speaker 1: them before we're through today, and hopefully they'll make a difference.
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Speaker 1: First of all, his permanent presence within us. His permanent
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Speaker 1: presence within us. The word permanent is significant. In fact,
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Speaker 1: if you will look at John's Gospel, verse sixteen and
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Speaker 1: seventeen of chapter fourteen. In fact, it is in verse
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Speaker 1: seventeen the Spirit of Truth, whom the world cannot receive
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Speaker 1: because it does not see him or know him. But
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Speaker 1: you know him because he abides with you. Please notice
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Speaker 1: the word with and will be in you. This is
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Speaker 1: a marvelous promise. Now it may not seem that significant
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Speaker 1: to you, but to the people to whom it was spoken,
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Speaker 1: it was incredibly important because the context of John fourteen
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Speaker 1: is a savior who is about to leave the presence
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Speaker 1: of his disciples. He's been with them continually, faithfully, daily
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Speaker 1: for three three and a half years, and he's now
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Speaker 1: reached the Last Supper. This is a part of the
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Speaker 1: Upper Room teaching on that Last Supper, and he has
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Speaker 1: already told him he's going to be leaving them. Well
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Speaker 1: that suddenly an anchor was thrown in their minds, and
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Speaker 1: that's all they could think about. He's going to go away,
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Speaker 1: He's going to leave us. What are we going to
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Speaker 1: do when he's gone. I remember when my orders were
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Speaker 1: cut to go to Okinawa. Cyth and I were living
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Speaker 1: in San Francisco, and before I picked her up from
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Speaker 1: work that evening, I had gotten the mail and there
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Speaker 1: was a large, very officious looking brown envelope marked confidential
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Speaker 1: military orders, And I thought, are they're sending me this?
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Speaker 1: They promised i'd get to be here the rest of
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Speaker 1: my tour of duty veterans are smiling right now. I
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Speaker 1: opened the envelope and I pulled it out, and it
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Speaker 1: was a speed letter from the Commandant of the Marine
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Speaker 1: Corps saying, your orders are you will be going to
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Speaker 1: the island of Okinawa, where your mos is needed and
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Speaker 1: no reason going. All that the point is the word going,
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Speaker 1: And suddenly unk out fell an anchor. I couldn't read
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Speaker 1: anything else. I'm going to be going, and I'm thinking,
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Speaker 1: surely that's not what it says. I've got it. I
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Speaker 1: read it again, and I read it this way. Then
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Speaker 1: I read it this way, and about that time Cynthia
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Speaker 1: walked out and got set down in the car, and
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Speaker 1: my being tactful husband that I am, I said, I'm
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Speaker 1: going to Okinawa. Well, now, all of a sudden, lunk
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Speaker 1: out goes an anchor in her mind, and both of
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Speaker 1: us sit there with tears, not able to read anything else.
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Speaker 1: We never thought about the future. We didn't go beyond
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Speaker 1: the word going, you're going. We didn't think about the
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Speaker 1: benefit of my spending time there and how it would
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Speaker 1: transform my whole life. It was going. That was the
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Speaker 1: hard part, and that's what's got them stuck and they're
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Speaker 1: thinking he's gone. Who are we going to turn to
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Speaker 1: when all hell breaks loose, when persecution really gets to
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Speaker 1: impacting our lives? What about our families? What about our lives?
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Speaker 1: So now he says to them, I'm going to send
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Speaker 1: one who is going to be with you forever. Now
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Speaker 1: this makes a lot of sense, doesn't it. The permanent
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Speaker 1: presence of the Holy Spirit. He will be with you.
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Speaker 1: He will be your advocate, he will be your helper,
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Speaker 1: he will be your counselor he will be your guide.
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Speaker 1: He will be your shield, he will be your protector,
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Speaker 1: he will be your identity. He will be your reason
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Speaker 1: for going on. All of us are facing tough time
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Speaker 1: these days. The good news is it has not impacted
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Speaker 1: the Holy Spirit whatsoever. He is at work. He is
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Speaker 1: using whatever it is we're going through. And this permanent
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Speaker 1: presence of the Spirit of God is ours to claim
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Speaker 1: how grateful we are that He is permanently among us
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Speaker 1: and within us. And you don't have to pray that
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Speaker 1: he will stay in you. You don't have to pray
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Speaker 1: that he won't leave you because you have gone so
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Speaker 1: far away from God. It is not a temporary presence,
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Speaker 1: as a permanent one and now you're in John, so
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Speaker 1: look at Acts chapter one. We would add to that
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Speaker 1: benefit of his permanent presence, the supernatural enablement of the spirit.
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Speaker 1: This is a wonderful part of his presence, the supernatural
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Speaker 1: enablement of the spirit among us. You don't know the
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Speaker 1: times or the epochs Verse seven, Chapter one tells us,
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Speaker 1: but it does say you will receive power. You will
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Speaker 1: receive a dynamic. I call it an enablement, a divine enablement.
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Speaker 1: The Spirit of God comes upon you, you will be empowered,
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Speaker 1: is another way of putting it. You can put that
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Speaker 1: in the margin. You will be empowered when the Holy
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Speaker 1: Spirit is come. And that's exactly what happens to these apostles.
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Speaker 1: Before they are fearful, they are hesitant, they are reluctant.
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Speaker 1: And after the Spirit of God comes upon them and
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Speaker 1: transforms them, they are bold, and they are decisive, and
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Speaker 1: they are courageous, and they are willing to withstand all
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Speaker 1: kinds of persecution, hardship and difficulty. Why because they have
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Speaker 1: the spirit of power within them. Magnificent promise, you will
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Speaker 1: receive that power. F. F. Bruce writes this, they would
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Speaker 1: be clothed with heavenly power, that power by which, in
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Speaker 1: the event he works were accomplished and their preaching made effective.
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Speaker 1: As Jesus himself had been anointed at his baptism with
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Speaker 1: the Holy Spirit and power, so his followers were now
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Speaker 1: to be similarly anointed and enabled to carry out his work.
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Speaker 1: How do I do what I do? It's the work
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Speaker 1: of the spirit. How do you do what you do?
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Speaker 1: It's the work of the spirit. How do you stand
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Speaker 1: fast when the bottom of your life drops out? It's
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Speaker 1: the presence of the spirit. The enablement of the spirit
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Speaker 1: keeps us going, holds us close. There's one more I'll mention.
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Speaker 1: We'll call a halt to this. The divine will for us.
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Speaker 1: He reveals that he makes that known to us. In fact,
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Speaker 1: verse eight says, you will be my witnesses to the
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Speaker 1: remotest part of the earth, and there you have it.
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Speaker 1: His will is that we share the message of the
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Speaker 1: Savior from here on out. Place to stop? That is,
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Speaker 1: are you doing that? The Spirit of God is at
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Speaker 1: work to move you into action and to take you
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Speaker 1: to places where that message is needed, and you can
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Speaker 1: share that message. Now, let me let me warn you
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Speaker 1: about something in this place where truth is taught and
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Speaker 1: where we enjoy the such blessings as a local church.
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Speaker 1: It is easy to think we've just about got the
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Speaker 1: very best there is, and that's easy for it to happen.
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Speaker 1: In your mind. You know that I have reached a
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Speaker 1: place where it is the ultimate. It just won't ever
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Speaker 1: get any better. And let me let me guard you
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Speaker 1: against that that leads to a complacency and a pride
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Speaker 1: that is devastating. Always remember that when the work of
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Speaker 1: the Spirit is alive and at work, it always has
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Speaker 1: an effect us that is better and better. This next
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Speaker 1: year can be far greater than this last year, simply
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Speaker 1: because of the work of the Spirit. He can take
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Speaker 1: what looks like the very best and turn it into
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Speaker 1: something even better. That's what our prayer is. I thought
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Speaker 1: of this when I was reading in a book called
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Speaker 1: Leadership Jazz, great little book on leadership by Max Duprie.
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Speaker 1: Listen to this true story. A German machine tool company
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Speaker 1: once developed a very fine bit for drilling holes in steel.
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Speaker 1: The tiny bit could bore a hole about the size
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Speaker 1: of a human hair. This seemed like a tremendously valuable innovation,
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Speaker 1: so the Germans sent samples off to Russia, United States,
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Speaker 1: and Japan, suggesting that this bit was the ultimate in
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Speaker 1: machine technology, the ultimate. From the Russians, they heard nothing
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Speaker 1: from the Americans. Came a quick response inquiring as to
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Speaker 1: the price of the bits, available discounts and the possibility
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Speaker 1: of a licensing agreement. After some delay, there was the
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Speaker 1: predictable polite response from the Japanese, complimenting the Germans on
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Speaker 1: their wonderful achievement, but with a PostScript noting that the
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Speaker 1: Germans bit was enclosed with a slight alteration. Excitedly, the
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Speaker 1: German engineers opened the package and carefully examined their bit
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Speaker 1: that had been returned to them, and, to their amazement,
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Speaker 1: discovered the Japanese had bored a neat hole through it.
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Speaker 1: About the time you'd think you got it all cornered
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Speaker 1: and all wrapped up, along comes a wonderful surprise that
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Speaker 1: only the spirit of God can bring, and that is
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Speaker 1: a breakthrough in areas of your life have not yet
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Speaker 1: been invaded the presence of God. My prayer for you
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Speaker 1: is he will not miss that bow with me. Will
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Speaker 1: you please, right where you're sitting, just sit quietly. Are
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Speaker 1: you absolutely certain, I mean absolutely certain, that the Lord
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Speaker 1: Jesus Christ is your savior? I mean there's not a
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Speaker 1: doubt in your mind that if you were to die
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Speaker 1: this night, that you'd be in the presence of God
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Speaker 1: in his heaven. If your response is, you know, Chuck,
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Speaker 1: I'm not sure of that, then the fact is quite
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Speaker 1: likely you haven't been regenerated, reborn. This is your moment.
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Speaker 1: The spirit of God is at work. He will take
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Speaker 1: the truth you have heard, which is the truth that
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Speaker 1: Christ died for your sins and was buried to prove
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Speaker 1: he died, and then was raised victoriously from the dead
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Speaker 1: to prove that He was victorious over sin. That sin
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Speaker 1: that has captured you all your life to this moment
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Speaker 1: can be removed and relieved forgiven. Thank God, by your
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Speaker 1: trusting in Jesus, Father, I thank you today for helping
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Speaker 1: us stop playing church. Thank you for helping us see
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Speaker 1: the value of great theology, the important role it plays
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Speaker 1: as we are equipped to take on the world that
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Speaker 1: has lost its way. Give us not only discernment, our Father,
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Speaker 1: to see through the pizazz and the fog of the
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Speaker 1: stuff around us, but also the courage to stand against
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Speaker 1: what we have no business agreeing with. Give us that enablement,
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Speaker 1: our Father, to grasp the truth and then take that
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Speaker 1: truth to those who've never heard it. Excite us with
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Speaker 1: that possibility. And now Father dismiss us with the hope
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Speaker 1: that this day will be refreshing because of your Spirit's
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Speaker 1: presence within us. And we thank you for him and
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Speaker 1: the important Rovi plays in our lives. And the name
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Speaker 2: A the Holy Spirit isn't a distant doctrine. He's our
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Speaker 2: was there at our conversion, he sealed us for eternity,
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Speaker 2: magnificent reality that Chuckswyndall has unpacked for us today on
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Speaker 2: Insight for Living, he titled his message getting re Acquainted
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Speaker 2: What does it mean to be filled with the Spirit?
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Speaker 2: I'm Bill Meyer. Join us to hear Chuckswndall's clarifying answer
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