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What Does Being Filled with the Spirit Mean, Part 2 - Pastor Chuck Swindoll Insight for Living · INSIGHT FOR LIVING: Biblical Wisdom For Everyday Living

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  Speaker 1: On Tuesday's program, Chuck Swindaull laid the foundation, and today
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  Speaker 1: on inside for living he goes deeper. At the heart
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  Speaker 1: of this message is one commanding verse written by the
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  Speaker 1: apostle Paul in Ephesians five, verse eighteen. Chuck will draw
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  Speaker 1: four observations from the original Greek language that will change
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  Speaker 1: the way you think about the spirit filled life. This
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  Speaker 1: isn't theology for scholars, it's direction for every believer who's
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  Speaker 1: ever wondered, how do I live out this command to
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  Speaker 1: be filled with the spirit. Let's open our Bibles to
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  Speaker 1: Ephesians chapter five. As we begin with prayer, Father, we.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you for the beauty of the earth, and we
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  Speaker 2: thank you for the lovely glory of thees, and for
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  Speaker 2: the love which from our birth over and around us lies.
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  Speaker 2: And Father, thank you for the reminder that your beauty
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  Speaker 2: stretches around us and above us, and even because of
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  Speaker 2: your faithfulness within us. Thank you for loving parents who
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  Speaker 2: raised us to love you, and thank you for their
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  Speaker 2: faithfulness and building into our lives. Thank you for the
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  Speaker 2: families you have given us on this earth. And at
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  Speaker 2: this time of year we do pause to express our gratitude.
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  Speaker 2: We remember those men and women in uniform in dangerous
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  Speaker 2: and difficult places, as well as we come to you today,
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  Speaker 2: and we pray for them, for their families here at home,
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  Speaker 2: the families of our allies in this battle. Our Father,
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  Speaker 2: we pray that you will hold close to yourself and
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  Speaker 2: take care of them and meet their needs as their
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  Speaker 2: hearts turned toward home. Also, our heavenly Father, we come
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  Speaker 2: before you today to ask your forgiveness and to seek
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  Speaker 2: your direction and guidance. We know your word says woe
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  Speaker 2: to those who call evil good, but that is exactly
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  Speaker 2: what we have done. We have lost our spiritual equilibrium
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  Speaker 2: and reversed our values. We have exploited the poor and
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  Speaker 2: called it the lottery. We have rewarded laziness and called
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  Speaker 2: it welfare. We have killed our unborn and called it choice.
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  Speaker 2: We have shot abortionists and called it justifiable. We have
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  Speaker 2: neglected to discipline nurture our children and called it building
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  Speaker 2: self esteem. We have abused power and called it politics.
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  Speaker 2: We have coveted our neighbor's possessions and called it ambition.
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  Speaker 2: We have polluted the air with profanity and pornography and
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  Speaker 2: called it the freedom of expression. We have ridiculed the
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  Speaker 2: time honored values of our forefathers and called it enlightenment.
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  Speaker 2: Forgive us, Heavenly Father, search us, O God, and know
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  Speaker 2: our hearts today, cleanse us from every sin and set
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  Speaker 2: us free in the matchless name of Christ, our Lord.
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  Speaker 2: We pray, and everyone said Amen.
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  Speaker 1: You're listening to Insight for Living. To dig deeper into
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  Speaker 1: Searching the Scripture's Bible Study workbook by going to insight
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  Speaker 1: dot org slash offer Chuck title today's message. What does
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  Speaker 1: being filled with the spirit mean.
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  Speaker 2: In order to enter the Christian life. Well, let's compare
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  Speaker 2: it to buying a car. Two things are essential for
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  Speaker 2: you to enjoy the car that you buy. First is
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  Speaker 2: the set of keys. What the keys are to the car?
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  Speaker 2: Conversion is to the Christian life. Okay, you enter the
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  Speaker 2: Christian life through the key Christ. The second thing you need,
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  Speaker 2: and you'll notice it soon after getting the car, is fuel.
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  Speaker 2: What the fuel is to the car. The Spirit of
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  Speaker 2: God is to the authentic normal Christian life. Now, look
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  Speaker 2: at Colossians chapter two, just before we get over to Ethesians.
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  Speaker 2: Look at this second chapter verse six. I love this
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  Speaker 2: verse because of its simplicity. Therefore, as you have received
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  Speaker 2: Christ Jesus the Lord, that's the key. That's the key
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  Speaker 2: in the ignition that turns on the engine. That's the
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  Speaker 2: key that gets you inside. Just as you have received
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  Speaker 2: Christ Jesus the Lord, that's the key. Now the fuel,
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  Speaker 2: so walk in him. That's the spirit of God at work,
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  Speaker 2: fueling engaging your life in an authentic manner. I live
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  Speaker 2: the more I place a high priority on authenticity. I
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  Speaker 2: don't know of anything that impresses the lost world more
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  Speaker 2: than this combination an authentic life and a joyful attitude.
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  Speaker 2: Those things are contagious. Now turn from here to John
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  Speaker 2: chapter fourteen. Let's do a quick little review on where
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  Speaker 2: we've been. John fourteen. Remember is the conversation that followed
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  Speaker 2: the last Supper. Jesus is with his faithful eleven Judas
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  Speaker 2: has left. Jesus is teaching them about the life yet
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  Speaker 2: to come. He tells them in John fourteen, verse sixteen.
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  Speaker 2: I will ask the Father. Remember this is at the
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  Speaker 2: last Supper. He's going to be with him only a
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  Speaker 2: few more hours. I will ask the Father, he will
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  Speaker 2: give you another helper that he may be with you forever.
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  Speaker 2: See those words that he may be with you forever.
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  Speaker 2: Down in verse seventeen we read He abides with you
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  Speaker 2: and will be in you. So the promise is when
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  Speaker 2: you come to Christ. Now that we are at the
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  Speaker 2: time of the spirits working and the spirit's filling and
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  Speaker 2: the spirits in dwelling, when you come to Christ, you
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  Speaker 2: have the Spirit of God living within you. Now look
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  Speaker 2: at Acts one eight. Not only do we have the
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  Speaker 2: Holy Spirit permanently in dwelling in us, we now have
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  Speaker 2: God's enablement. Jesus Christ promise the Holy Spirit. That's the
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  Speaker 2: first point. Second, the Spirit of God has now come
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  Speaker 2: and lives within us permanently. And the third is the
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  Speaker 2: Holy Spirit will come with power Verse eight. You will
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  Speaker 2: receive power. When the Holy Spirit has come upon you. You
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  Speaker 2: shall be my witnesses in Jerusalem and Judea, in Samaria,
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  Speaker 2: even to the remotest part of the earth. One of
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  Speaker 2: the great missionary verses. In fact, it's a verse for
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  Speaker 2: all believers. We live our lives with an eye toward
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  Speaker 2: the world around us. One more turn before we get
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  Speaker 2: to Ephesians, look at First Corinthians chapter six. I want
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  Speaker 2: you to see what you are as a living, breathing Christian.
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  Speaker 2: First Corinthians, Chapter six concludes verses nineteen and twenty with
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  Speaker 2: some terribly important information. Do you not know? Says the apostle,
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  Speaker 2: that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit,
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  Speaker 2: who is in you. What does that mean? Means He
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  Speaker 2: resides there, but we are the temple of the Holy
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  Speaker 2: Spirit who is in you. He even goes whom you
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  Speaker 2: have from God. When you're operating in the power of
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  Speaker 2: the Spirit, you don't operate for your own glory. You're
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  Speaker 2: not your own. That means your goal in life is
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  Speaker 2: not to get what you want. You're not in life
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  Speaker 2: for yourself. You're not planning to go your own way.
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  Speaker 2: All of those self help books tell you can become
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  Speaker 2: this person, and if you're not careful, your pride takes over.
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  Speaker 2: You know, you're able to pull some of that off
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  Speaker 2: in the flesh, but you can't take what comes with it.
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  Speaker 2: You can't handle the money that comes with a job
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  Speaker 2: that pays that well, you can't handle the prestige and responsibility.
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  Speaker 2: You look at how many of the professional athletes. They
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  Speaker 2: get into the realm of the athletic world and they
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  Speaker 2: can't handle the prestige and the money that comes with it.
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  Speaker 2: They aren't equipped many of them. We're not our own.
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  Speaker 2: We've been bought with the price. So what are we
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  Speaker 2: supposed to do? Look at verse twenty into the verse
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  Speaker 2: one Corinthians six twenty. Because of this, we are to
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  Speaker 2: glorify God in our bodies. That's the next thing to
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  Speaker 2: put down. We're to glorify God in our bodies. Lord God,
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  Speaker 2: I'm yours. You have gifted me in ways that I
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  Speaker 2: wouldn't have ever expected, and I thank you. I'm here
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  Speaker 2: to serve you. May my service be for you, and
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  Speaker 2: may it be authentic, and may it bring honor to
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  Speaker 2: your name. I reverence your name, O God. Now, in
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  Speaker 2: order for the gears to be engaged, for the fuel
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  Speaker 2: to be used that God supplies, there must be the
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  Speaker 2: filling of the spirit Ephesians chapter five. So turn, finally,
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  Speaker 2: if you will, this last, turn to Ethesians chapter five,
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  Speaker 2: and let's spend the rest of our time here. Isn't
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  Speaker 2: it important to remember that we are not our own?
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  Speaker 2: Isn't that a healthy reminder? Someone attended a Michael W.
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  Speaker 2: Smith concert recently and passed along a statement that Michael
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  Speaker 2: made in that concert, and I love it. He said,
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  Speaker 2: this God is still God and I am still not.
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  Speaker 2: I love that God is still God, and I am
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  Speaker 2: still not. So in order for me to live the
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  Speaker 2: life God would have me live, I need his fuel.
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  Speaker 2: I need his empowerment. I need him to lubricate the gears.
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  Speaker 2: I need his control. So you're looking at Ethesians five,
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  Speaker 2: and we'll not go through all the chapter, but began
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  Speaker 2: at verse fifteen. We began with a very help and
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  Speaker 2: necessary reminder. Be careful how you walk. I would say
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  Speaker 2: that to every Christian. Part of the reason is you
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  Speaker 2: want to glorify God, so that takes care. Pay attention,
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  Speaker 2: listen to his word, come to him in prayer, seek
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  Speaker 2: his help. Furthermore, you're being watched. You and I don't
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  Speaker 2: think about that much. If we did, it would drive
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  Speaker 2: us nuts, it really would. We'd be uneasy if we
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  Speaker 2: knew how many people watched us. I never ceased to
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  Speaker 2: be surprised at occasions when people walk up to me
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  Speaker 2: and speak to me. And I may be in a
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  Speaker 2: grocery store and you know it's one of those late
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  Speaker 2: night trips and you're not dressed like you ought to
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  Speaker 2: be dressed, and you think, well, nobody'll be there that
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  Speaker 2: knows me. I walk in and two charter members greet
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  Speaker 2: me as the door opens, and I get in and
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  Speaker 2: the little girl walks up hi pastor's window, and I'm like, Hi,
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  Speaker 2: I'm thinking, why didn't I look a little better than this?
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  Speaker 2: Why or sometime if I'm acting up, somebody sees me
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  Speaker 2: sent them. I did a cruise together, and she'd really
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  Speaker 2: ticked me off on the plane. And I'll tell you
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  Speaker 2: I had sat in the plane under fair amount of
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  Speaker 2: control and finally I lost it. Okay, So we're getting
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  Speaker 2: ready to get on the cruise ship and I said,
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  Speaker 2: her step over here second, and so I just dressed
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  Speaker 2: her down. I set her straight. I've got everything out
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  Speaker 2: of my system. And I turned around. About seventy five
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  Speaker 2: people coming on the cruise with us stood there and said,
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  Speaker 2: this is Chuck Swindle. Cynthia said, yeah, that's who that
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  Speaker 2: is right there. That's the real that's the real Chuck's window.
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  Speaker 2: Be careful how you walk, be careful what you say.
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  Speaker 2: But you know what should bother me more than seventy
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  Speaker 2: five people who were shocked. They knew me better, they
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  Speaker 2: wouldn't be, but were shocked that day, is that it
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  Speaker 2: grieved the Holy Spirit. There's no way to talk to
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  Speaker 2: my wife. That's not what I should have been doing.
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  Speaker 2: I wasn't careful how I walked or with what I
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  Speaker 2: was saying. And so what's needed is wisdom, not as unwise,
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  Speaker 2: but as wise. And so that's very important that we
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  Speaker 2: let wisdom take over, not just knowledge. And furthermore, when
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  Speaker 2: you're under his control verse sixteen, you make the most
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  Speaker 2: of your time because the days are evil, and God
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  Speaker 2: knows that's true. We make the most of our time.
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  Speaker 2: And next we discern the will of God. So then
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  Speaker 2: don't be foolish, but understand what the will of the
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  Speaker 2: Lord is. Now, wait a minute, how can I how
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  Speaker 2: can you walk as you want to walk? How can
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  Speaker 2: you be wise when you tend toward being less than wise?
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  Speaker 2: How can we make the most of our time? How
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  Speaker 2: can we understand the will of the Lord? Well, we
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  Speaker 2: need his empowerment, enablement. That's what the next verse is
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  Speaker 2: all about. Now we've come to the place where I
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  Speaker 2: want you to really concentrate. Listen to me. I don't
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  Speaker 2: know of a more important verse in the New Testament
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  Speaker 2: for the Christian than Ephesians five eighteen, no exaggeration, Probably
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  Speaker 2: no more important verse for the lost person than John
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  Speaker 2: three point sixteen. God so loved the world he gave
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  Speaker 2: his only son that whoever believes in him should never perish,
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  Speaker 2: but have every lasting life. That's for the lost person.
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  Speaker 2: This is the verse for the believer, because this tells
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  Speaker 2: you how to live an authentic, empowered life. Pay close attention.
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  Speaker 2: It begins with the command. There are two commands in
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  Speaker 2: the verse. The first command, negative is don't get drunk
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  Speaker 2: with wine. Now why not, because that's dissipation when you're
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  Speaker 2: drunk with liquor. When you're drunk with alcohol, then you
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  Speaker 2: lose control, and it isn't a picker up or it's
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  Speaker 2: a depressant. You wind up depressed and debauched, and you
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  Speaker 2: hate yourself and others around you lose respect for you.
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  Speaker 2: Don't get drunk. The scriptures are full of commands, a
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  Speaker 2: command like that, but there's a positive command on the
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  Speaker 2: heels of that, rather than getting drunk with wine, for
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  Speaker 2: that's dissipation. Second command, be filled with the spirit. I
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  Speaker 2: want to add that almost to the point of being tedious,
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  Speaker 2: but I want our teaching to be accurate. That's rule
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  Speaker 2: one when we come to the scriptures. So allow me
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  Speaker 2: to point out four factors that you may or may
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  Speaker 2: not know up until this moment. I want you to
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  Speaker 2: know it before you leave today. Look closely from the
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  Speaker 2: last part of verse eighteen. Be filled with the spirit. First,
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  Speaker 2: it is a command. This is called the imperative mood.
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  Speaker 2: It is imperative. It isn't a nice option. It isn't
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  Speaker 2: the suggestion, it isn't a casual idea. It is a
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  Speaker 2: command directed to us from the Lord himself. It's in
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  Speaker 2: the imperative, a straightforward command. Do this. I would even say,
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  Speaker 2: each day of your life. It is a command to obey.
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  Speaker 2: If you will, every morning before your day starts, fulfill
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  Speaker 2: this command. Obey this command. Be filled with the spirit.
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  Speaker 2: So I'm to be engaged in some way. Second factor,
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  Speaker 2: it's a plural y'all all, y'all be filled with the spirit. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: it's for all, y'all. It's a universal command. There's no
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  Speaker 2: special segment, no unique group that qualifies to be filled.
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  Speaker 2: You're a believer. You get fuel in your tank. You're
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  Speaker 2: able to drop that thing into gear and drive. If
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  Speaker 2: you don't, it's your problem, it's not God's. The fuel
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  Speaker 2: is inside. Remember you're engaging the gears, So it's it's
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  Speaker 2: plural for all of us. Look at the third factor.
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  Speaker 2: It's passive. It's called a passive voice. Be filled, fled.
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  Speaker 2: One of the translations renders it, well, let the Holy
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  Speaker 2: Spirit fill you. So I take it that when we
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  Speaker 2: begin our day. This is what I do and have
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  Speaker 2: done for years. Lord, I am yours, and I place
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  Speaker 2: myself at your disposal. I ask you to move through
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  Speaker 2: me and to work through me, and to do your
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  Speaker 2: work because of me. Carry it out, carry it out
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  Speaker 2: on this earth, through my vocal cords, through my hands,
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  Speaker 2: my feet, my life. I even wrote out a prayer
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  Speaker 2: years ago. This is the way it went. I am
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  Speaker 2: in the process Lord of fulfilling your will. Fill me
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  Speaker 2: with your spirit. I want to glorify your name. I
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  Speaker 2: belong to you. I pledge my allegiance to you today.
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  Speaker 2: Enable me and my walk to have the DECI discernment,
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  Speaker 2: to walk in obedience, not disobedience. To sense wrong when
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  Speaker 2: I encounter it and stay away from it. Keep me
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  Speaker 2: strong when temptations come. Guard my tongue from saying the
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  Speaker 2: wrong thing, or saying too much or speaking too quickly.
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  Speaker 2: Enable me to restrain outbursts of anger. Lord, help me
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  Speaker 2: in my walk. Fill me with your spirit. Take my eyes,
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  Speaker 2: my tongue, my emotions, my will, and use me, Lord,
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  Speaker 2: because I want to be under your control all through
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  Speaker 2: this day. Now it's passive in the sense that I
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  Speaker 2: can't fill myself. I'm relying on him to fill me,
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  Speaker 2: which is the reason for the prayer. Lord, you take
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  Speaker 2: over fill my life today, Take charge. I have some
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  Speaker 2: tough decisions I need to make Your spirit worked through
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  Speaker 2: me and making those decisions. I have some relationships that
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  Speaker 2: are strained. May your spirit guide me as I try
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  Speaker 2: my best by your strength to work through those broken
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  Speaker 2: and strained relationships. Now. Fourth, it's in the present tense,
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  Speaker 2: so that says, keep on doing it, continually, be filled frequently, habitually, regularly.
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  Speaker 2: It isn't a once for all, as I said earlier,
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  Speaker 2: a super high experience never to be reached again. This
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  Speaker 2: is dropping the gear in drive and staying there, continually,
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  Speaker 2: moving under the power and the authority and the control
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  Speaker 2: of the Holy Spirit. I was facing a very difficult
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  Speaker 2: task not too long ago. I remember driving in my
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  Speaker 2: truck to the destination where I'd be dealing with this,
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  Speaker 2: and I prayed on the way. I prayed out loud,
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  Speaker 2: no radio, no music, it was quiet inside the cab.
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  Speaker 2: I said, Lord, I'm not sure what I'm going to encounter,
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  Speaker 2: and without your help, I'll be in way over my head.
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  Speaker 2: Take over, fill me with your words, give me the
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  Speaker 2: right response, hold back any reaction that would be inappropriate.
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  Speaker 2: Let me speak with wisdom and with grace. Let me
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  Speaker 2: be your voice in this situation. I prayed something like that.
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  Speaker 2: That is because it's in the present tense, and I knew,
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  Speaker 2: regardless of the day or the time, it was time
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  Speaker 2: to put her in gear. If you drive a stick shift,
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  Speaker 2: then you know what I mean. You are forever putting
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  Speaker 2: in the clutch and putting it in another gear. Putting
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  Speaker 2: in the clutch and dropping in another gear. That's like
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  Speaker 2: the feeling of the spirit. So you may be right
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  Speaker 2: now saying Lord, I want to be filled by you.
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  Speaker 2: I want to be used by you. Two hours from now,
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  Speaker 2: you may need to pray that again. Lord, we want
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  Speaker 2: to stay on speaking terms, and I want to serve you,
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  Speaker 2: and I want to speak for you. Speaking of that,
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  Speaker 2: look at the results, and there are four of them
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  Speaker 2: right here in the same passage. Wonderful thing about the Bible,
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  Speaker 2: if you read it closely enough, you'll see that it
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  Speaker 2: answers many of its own questions, Like a question is
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  Speaker 2: what will be the result of being filled with the spirit?
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  Speaker 2: What happens when I pray that kind of prayer and
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  Speaker 2: the Lord hears it, and the Lord completes it, answers it. Yes,
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  Speaker 2: what does he do well? The first thing that occurs
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  Speaker 2: is that the spirit's filling affects my speaking. We are
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  Speaker 2: on speaking terms with our brothers and sisters when we
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  Speaker 2: are filled with the spirit. Here's the second result. The
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  Speaker 2: spirit's filling gives me a melodious heart. A melodious heart.
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  Speaker 2: By the way, a melodious heart is never a grumbling heart,
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  Speaker 2: Look at verse twenty, always giving thanks. It's another result.
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  Speaker 2: Remember the first word, mutual submission.
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  Speaker 1: Four results of a spirit filled life, meaningful speech, a
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