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Power In The Holy Spirit - Part 2 | Episode #400 | Encore Episode #071 · Reflections On The Word With Richard Kay

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to today's edition of Reflection on the Word with
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  Speaker 1: Richard K. I'm Chuck Christie, and today we are asking
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  Speaker 1: you to spend a few moments of your time with
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  Speaker 1: us each day as Richard shares from God's work with notes, quotes,
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  Speaker 1: and story along with some of his own personal experiences
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  Speaker 1: to confirm for you God's great love for us, that
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  Speaker 1: his compassion for us never fails, and that He has
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  Speaker 1: a great faithfulness toward us in every regard. Now, if
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  Speaker 1: you miss a portion of today's broadcast or would like
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  Speaker 1: to recommend it to a friend, you can hear this
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  Speaker 1: program anytime online at Talknetwork Radio dot com. Well, now
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  Speaker 1: here's Richard with today's reflection.
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  Speaker 2: So those who were scattered went on their way, proclaiming
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  Speaker 2: the message of good news. Philip went down to a
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  Speaker 2: city in Samaria and preached the Messiah to them. The
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  Speaker 2: crowds paid attention with one mind to what Philip said
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  Speaker 2: as they heard and saw the signs he was performing
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  Speaker 2: for unclean spirits. Crying out with a loud voice came
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  Speaker 2: out of many who were possessed, and many who were
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  Speaker 2: paralyzed and laying were healed. So there was great joy
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  Speaker 2: in that city from the Book of Acts, chapter eight,
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  Speaker 2: beginning in verse four, continued through verse eight. Yesterday we
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  Speaker 2: talked about the reason for the understanding of the working
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  Speaker 2: of the Holy Spirit in a believer's life. The one
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  Speaker 2: thing that seems to be paramount in every example is
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  Speaker 2: that there are really two functions of the Holy Spirit
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  Speaker 2: in a believer. The first is the function of sealing,
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  Speaker 2: if you will, it is the function of proving that
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  Speaker 2: the believer has received Jesus as Lord and is awaiting
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  Speaker 2: their inheritance eternally, regardless of what may take place in
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  Speaker 2: the temporal phase of their life. Their inheritance that they
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  Speaker 2: are sealed for is eternity with Christ. And so the
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  Speaker 2: work of the Spirit is to perform that ceiling, to
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  Speaker 2: make sure that the believer understands who they are and
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  Speaker 2: who paid the price for them. But then there is
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  Speaker 2: a significant work of the Holy Spirit that we have
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  Speaker 2: also been discussing, and that is the empowerment of the
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  Speaker 2: Holy Spirit. Reading from Andrew Murray's writing Experiencing the Holy Spirit,
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  Speaker 2: one of the questions that he asked is where do
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  Speaker 2: we stand as the Church today in modern society. He
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  Speaker 2: offers this as a means of reflection. There are disciples
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  Speaker 2: of Christ who know little or nothing of this conscious
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  Speaker 2: in dwelling of the Holy Spirit. It is of the
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  Speaker 2: utmost importance to understand this statement. The more fully we
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  Speaker 2: come under the conviction of its truth, the better we
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  Speaker 2: will understand the condition of the Church in our own
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  Speaker 2: time and be enabled to discover where we really stand.
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  Speaker 2: The condition referred to becomes very plain when we consider
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  Speaker 2: what took place at Samaria. Philip the Evangelist had preached there.
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  Speaker 2: Many had been led to believe in Jesus and were
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  Speaker 2: baptized in into his name, and there was great joy
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  Speaker 2: in that city. When the apostles heard this news, they
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  Speaker 2: sent down Peter and John, who, when they came to Samaria,
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  Speaker 2: prayed that these new converts might receive the Holy Spirit.
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  Speaker 2: This gift was something quite different from the working of
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  Speaker 2: the Spirit that led them to conversion, faith and joy
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  Speaker 2: in Jesus as a savior. It was something higher, for
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  Speaker 2: now from heaven and by the glorified Lord himself, the
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  Speaker 2: Holy Spirit was imparted in power with his abiding in
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  Speaker 2: dwelling to consecrate and fill their hearts in this new experience.
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  Speaker 2: Had not been given, the Samaritan disciples would still have
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  Speaker 2: been Christians, but they would have remained weak. Thus it
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  Speaker 2: is that in our own days there are still many
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  Speaker 2: Christians who know nothing of this gift of the Holy Spirit.
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  Speaker 2: You see, there is a longing within the body of
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  Speaker 2: Christ to know Jesus in his working of the miracles
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  Speaker 2: that he performed, the healing that he performed, the deliverance
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  Speaker 2: that he performed, in other words, to know the works
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  Speaker 2: that Jesus did, because Jesus said in John chapter fourteen,
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  Speaker 2: in beginning in verse twelve, he said, greater works than
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  Speaker 2: these will you do, because I go to my father.
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  Speaker 2: And he was saying that because he was going to
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  Speaker 2: send the Holy Spirit who would empower them to do
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  Speaker 2: the work that he had proclaimed. Going back to this
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  Speaker 2: situation in Samaria, I want us to see some significant things. First,
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  Speaker 2: there was in the city of Samaria a man named Simon.
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  Speaker 2: He had previously practiced sorcery in that city and astounded
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  Speaker 2: the Samaritan people while claiming to be somebody great. They
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  Speaker 2: all paid attention to him, from the least of them
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  Speaker 2: to the greatest, and they said, this man is called
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  Speaker 2: the great Power of God. They were tended to him
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  Speaker 2: because he had astounded them with his sorceries for a
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  Speaker 2: long time. But when they believed Philip as he proclaimed
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  Speaker 2: the good news about the Kingdom of God and the
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  Speaker 2: name of Jesus Christ, both men and women were baptized.
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  Speaker 2: Then even Simon himself believed, and after he was baptized,
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  Speaker 2: he went around constantly with Philip and was astounded as
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  Speaker 2: he observed the signs and great miracles that were being performed.
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  Speaker 2: When the apostles who were at Jerusalem heard that Samaria
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  Speaker 2: had welcomed God's message, they sent Peter and John to them.
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  Speaker 2: After they went down there, they prayed for them that
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  Speaker 2: they might receive the Holy Spirit, for He had not
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  Speaker 2: yet come down on any of them. They had only
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  Speaker 2: been baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus. Then
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  Speaker 2: Peter and John laid their hands on them, and they
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  Speaker 2: receive the Holy Spirit. Listen. When Simon saw that the
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  Speaker 2: Holy Spirit was given through the laying on of the
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  Speaker 2: apostles hands, he offered them money, saying, give me this
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  Speaker 2: power too, so that anyone I lay hands on may
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  Speaker 2: receive the Holy Spirit. But Peter told him, may your
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  Speaker 2: silver be destroyed with you, because you thought the gift
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  Speaker 2: of God could be obtained with money. You have no
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  Speaker 2: part or share in this matter because your heart is
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  Speaker 2: not right before God. Therefore, repent of this wickedness of yours,
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  Speaker 2: and pray to the Lord that the intent of your
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  Speaker 2: heart may be forgiven. For I see you are poisoned
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  Speaker 2: by the bitterness and bound by iniqu And Simon pleaded,
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  Speaker 2: please pray that the Lord will do what you said,
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  Speaker 2: so that nothing you have said may happen to me. Then,
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  Speaker 2: after they had testified and spoken the message of the Lord,
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  Speaker 2: they traveled back to Jerusalem, evangelizing many villages of these Samaricans.
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  Speaker 2: It's very interesting that in this particular passage we find
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  Speaker 2: the significance of Philip's preaching. Now, I want you to
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  Speaker 2: understand what we just read in the Book of Acts,
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  Speaker 2: beginning in chapter eight, as we saw in verse four
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  Speaker 2: and following, what had taken place, was that Philip departed
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  Speaker 2: Jerusalem and he was sent to Samaria. While he was
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  Speaker 2: in Samaria, notice what was happening. He was preaching the
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  Speaker 2: good news that Jesus was the Messiah, but he was
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  Speaker 2: also performing miraculous works confirming his message. You see, there
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  Speaker 2: was one thing to preach the Word, there was another
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  Speaker 2: thing for God to demonstrate his life giving power through
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  Speaker 2: the working of the Holy Spirit. In Philip's case, what
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  Speaker 2: you saw were that there were many who had unclean spirits.
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  Speaker 2: They cried out with a loud voice, and they came
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  Speaker 2: out of many who were possessed, and many who were
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  Speaker 2: paralyzed and lame were healed, and so there was great
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  Speaker 2: joy in that city. Now, I want you to understand
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  Speaker 2: that this was something that was normal for the working
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  Speaker 2: of ministry. In other words, Philip was able to do
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  Speaker 2: the works that he did not to bring any attention
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  Speaker 2: to himself, Unlike Simon the sorcerer, who had brought attention
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  Speaker 2: to himself and tried to manipulate the people with his sorceries.
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  Speaker 2: Philip was simply proclaiming the power of God, demonstrating it
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  Speaker 2: by delivering those who were possessed of the devil and
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  Speaker 2: healing many who were afflicted. If you can see this,
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  Speaker 2: you recognize hand in hand the preaching of the Gospel
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  Speaker 2: and the demonstration of the power of God. And so
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  Speaker 2: we see that in this example, which is only one
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  Speaker 2: of many, there was a need for those who believe.
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  Speaker 2: Because they did believe, they were Christians, they believed in
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  Speaker 2: the Lord Jesus. Now I want to ask you a question.
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  Speaker 2: It says that the Holy Spirit had not come down
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  Speaker 2: on them, and yet they were believers. How did they
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  Speaker 2: have faith to believe if the Holy Spirit was not
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  Speaker 2: able to draw them, convict them, seal them for the
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  Speaker 2: day of redemption. You see, they were believers in the
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  Speaker 2: Lord Jesus. They had already received the life giving repentance
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  Speaker 2: of the Lord Jesus' sacrifice, but the empowerment came through
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  Speaker 2: the laying on of the apostles. In this particular example,
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  Speaker 2: Peter and John heard the news that in Samaria those
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  Speaker 2: believers were ready to receive power to continue to do
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  Speaker 2: the works of ministry. In other words, it was not
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  Speaker 2: supposed to be contained by just a few, because these
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  Speaker 2: believers were also used to further spread the gospel of
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  Speaker 2: the Lord Jesus throughout all of Samaria and surrounding regions.
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  Speaker 2: It is interesting to note that throughout all of the
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  Speaker 2: scriptural representations, one of the things that is so obvious
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  Speaker 2: is that along with the preaching came the demonstration of power.
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  Speaker 1: Richard will be right back in a moment wrap up.
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  Speaker 1: to wrap up today's message.
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  Speaker 2: Today in the church, there is much preaching and a
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  Speaker 2: lot of educated teaching, but there is a lack of
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  Speaker 2: the power being manifested in the body of Christ. Should
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  Speaker 2: it be that way, the Bible says, no, You should
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  Speaker 2: be full of the Holy Spirit as a believer to
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  Speaker 2: do the works that God has prepared you for, regardless
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  Speaker 2: of what your particular calling may be. You must have
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  Speaker 2: the power of the Holy Spirit. And so we find
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  Speaker 2: constantly this crying out for the power of the Holy Spirit,
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  Speaker 2: so much so that there are those who are willing
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  Speaker 2: to pay to receive that power, and yet the Holy
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  Speaker 2: Spirit gives it freely to those who will submit and
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  Speaker 2: surrender all of their will to him. When you notice
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  Speaker 2: that the working of the Spirit comes to believers so
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  Speaker 2: they can complete the work of ministry, think about where
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  Speaker 2: you stand in ministry today. Do you also experience the
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  Speaker 2: working of the power of the Holy Spirit. Are the
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  Speaker 2: nine gifts of the Holy Spirit evident in your life?
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  Speaker 2: If not, then seek God for the fullness of the Spirit.
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  Speaker 2: We are encouraged to go to Him and ask Him
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  Speaker 2: for the fullness of the Spirit, regardless of where you
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  Speaker 2: may be. The fullness of the Spirit is for you
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  Speaker 2: and for I as believers. And that is today's Reflection
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  Speaker 2: on the Word.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you, Richard. Join us again tomorrow when we continue
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  Speaker 1: with the next edition of Reflections on the Word with
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  Speaker 1: Richard k or Richard on the entire team. This is
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  Speaker 1: Chuck Christie saying thanks for listening to this edition of
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  Speaker 1: Reflections on the Word.