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Believers Are to Be Full of The Holy Spirit | Episode #404 | Encore Episode #075 · 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: 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 suns 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 paralyzed,
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  Speaker 2: and laye were healed. So there was great joy in
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  Speaker 2: that city Acts, Chapter eight Versus four through eight in
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  Speaker 2: an earlier part of our study in the power of
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  Speaker 2: the Holy Spirit. We have seen examples throughout scripture, not
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  Speaker 2: only in the Book of Acts, but certainly we have
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  Speaker 2: seen it manifested in many believers in the Book of Acts.
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  Speaker 2: And one of the things that I think most people
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  Speaker 2: have a tendency to do is read these accounts so
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  Speaker 2: that we can see that there was a difference in
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  Speaker 2: the way that the ministry was actually achieved. But yet
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  Speaker 2: there doesn't seem to be as much of a radical
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  Speaker 2: longing for the same power of the Spirit to reside
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  Speaker 2: in us today. Perhaps it's because we have it too easy.
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  Speaker 2: Perhaps we have become complacent, comfortable in what we now believe.
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  Speaker 2: But whatever the reason, individually and as the Church as
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  Speaker 2: a whole, we have a hunger, a longing for the
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  Speaker 2: fullness of God. Where have we found more evidence of
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  Speaker 2: the fullness of God than in the baptism of the
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  Speaker 2: Holy Spirit. In my own personal experience, I can tell
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  Speaker 2: you that I did not have the same background or
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  Speaker 2: perhaps church experience, that perhaps some of you may have had.
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  Speaker 2: Being brought up in a Jewish family, I had a
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  Speaker 2: different view of what the religious position may have been
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  Speaker 2: as presented to me for Christianity, it didn't look as invited,
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  Speaker 2: and the reason is probably because the well meaning believers
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  Speaker 2: that were presenting Jesus to me had the words that
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  Speaker 2: they could share, but the demonstration of life changing power
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  Speaker 2: may have existed in their testimony, but communicating it to me,
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  Speaker 2: as a young Jewish man, it did not work as well.
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  Speaker 2: The power of the Holy Spirit changes the light of
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  Speaker 2: an unbeliever. It makes the unbeliever hungry and thirsty for
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  Speaker 2: the deep things of God. It's what's lacking in the
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  Speaker 2: life of every person. There's a place inside of us
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  Speaker 2: that God created that only He can fill. In our lives.
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  Speaker 2: That place must be filled by the Holy Spirit. There's
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  Speaker 2: no other way that we can have the comforter, the
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  Speaker 2: one who comes with us, lives in us and works
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  Speaker 2: through us. We are only the vessels that he uses.
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  Speaker 2: And as we read in this earlier segment in Acts
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  Speaker 2: chapter eight, we saw that Philip was the one who
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  Speaker 2: was sent down to Samaria. Now, when he left Jerusalem,
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  Speaker 2: at that point he was by himself. Philip was not
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  Speaker 2: carrying an entourage or a whole group that would be
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  Speaker 2: able to band together to either protect him or to
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  Speaker 2: help him. He went by himself, but I have to
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  Speaker 2: correct that he didn't go by himself. The Holy Spirit
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  Speaker 2: led him to Samaria. And it's an interesting thing that
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  Speaker 2: in this particular passage Philip preached, but the power of
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  Speaker 2: God was what was demonstrated. You see, his preaching was
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  Speaker 2: not the only thing that changed the life lives. Why
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  Speaker 2: was there such great joy in that city because they
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  Speaker 2: saw people who were afflicted or who were injured. They
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  Speaker 2: saw people who were captive of the devil set free.
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  Speaker 2: Not because Philip was a great orator, and not because
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  Speaker 2: was perhaps the great preacher. He just proclaimed the gospel,
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  Speaker 2: but it was manifested with signs following. And you see
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  Speaker 2: the big difference is we sometimes will rest in what
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  Speaker 2: we had, rather than realizing that God fills us for
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  Speaker 2: one purpose so that we can overflow in his power
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  Speaker 2: to others. Without that, all we are is what Paul
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  Speaker 2: had actually described when he uses the term that without love,
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  Speaker 2: we become like a tinkling symbol, or we're just a
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  Speaker 2: sounding vessel, not a power for vessel. And the love
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  Speaker 2: is what causes us to want to see sinners forgiven.
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  Speaker 2: The love is what drives us to bring the power
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  Speaker 2: of God to everyone that we meet. You see, our
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  Speaker 2: issue is the same. We need the Holy Spirit's guidance
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  Speaker 2: or we're doing it in our own strength.
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  Speaker 1: And so.
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  Speaker 2: Read something else from experiencing the Holy Spirit. And I
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  Speaker 2: want you to understand that for a healthy Christian life,
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  Speaker 2: it is indispensable that we should be fully conscious that
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  Speaker 2: we have the Holy Spirit in dwelling us in power.
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  Speaker 2: Had it been otherwise, Paul would have never asked the
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  Speaker 2: question did you receive the Holy Spirit when you believe?
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  Speaker 2: Disciples were recognized as believers and the position that they
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  Speaker 2: had that point, however, was not enough for them. You see,
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  Speaker 2: there are many who are disciples today. Where do we stand?
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  Speaker 2: Are there disciples in the body of Christ who know
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  Speaker 2: very little or even nothing of the conscious power of
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  Speaker 2: the Holy Spirit. Have we been so misled that the
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  Speaker 2: Pentecostal experience has been categorized for only a radical few?
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  Speaker 2: Or is this really for all believers? According to the scripture,
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  Speaker 2: it is for all believers to be full of the
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  Speaker 2: Holy Spirit. And it doesn't say half full, and it
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  Speaker 2: doesn't say partially full. It says full. But the term
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  Speaker 2: that is used to describe the fullness of the Holy
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  Speaker 2: Spirit is not just to the brim of let's say,
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  Speaker 2: the container. It is the overflowing capability of the flowing
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  Speaker 2: of the Holy Spirit, the overflowing It is almost as
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  Speaker 2: if we view ourselves as this vessel filled with the
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  Speaker 2: power of God, not so that we ourselves can draw attention,
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  Speaker 2: but because we can spill out on others that power.
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  Speaker 2: Do you remember that when Peter and John approached the
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  Speaker 2: lame beggar who was asking for alms for the poor,
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  Speaker 2: and Peter said to the lame beggar that silver and
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  Speaker 2: gold have I none? We know that in the King
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  Speaker 2: James it sounds like a poem. But such as I have,
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  Speaker 2: I'll give you. And then he said to him, in
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  Speaker 2: the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, rise and walk.
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  Speaker 2: Now there was one thing for him to command it.
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  Speaker 2: But without the power of the Holy Spirit lowing and
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  Speaker 2: overflowing from Peter into this lane beggar, there would have
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  Speaker 2: been no means of him standing in victory. And what
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  Speaker 2: was the result. The lane beggar rose stood, He was
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  Speaker 2: no longer lane. He went leaping, jumping and praising God.
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  Speaker 2: They could not stop him because of the change effected
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  Speaker 2: in his life, and I think today we have to
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  Speaker 2: look at ourselves and we have to say, do we,
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  Speaker 2: as believers today desire life changing power working in us.
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  Speaker 2: If we don't, then we need to examine our own
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  Speaker 2: experience with the Lord Jesus. Because if the Lord commanded
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  Speaker 2: us to be full, then he meant for us to
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  Speaker 2: be full. There's no mistake, there's no change. Jesus is
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  Speaker 2: the same yesterday, today, and forever. So if the Church
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  Speaker 2: has lost the power of the Holy Spirit, and I'm
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  Speaker 2: not saying that it has in total, but if the
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  Speaker 2: Church has lost it in many aspects, if substituted instruction
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  Speaker 2: and education has become the norm, then we are looking
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  Speaker 2: at a knee for the Church to return to Pentecosts.
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  Speaker 2: You see, Pentecost is not just an event in history.
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  Speaker 2: It's a daily walking in the fullness of God's spirit.
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  Speaker 2: When Jesus said that you shall do the works that
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  Speaker 2: I do, and greater works than these, because I go
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  Speaker 2: to my Father.
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  Speaker 1: Richard will be right back in a moment to wrap up.
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  Speaker 1: But if you just joined us, you've been listening to
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  Speaker 1: Reflections on the Word with Richard k you can hear
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  Speaker 1: this message in its entirety again online as well as
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  Speaker 1: like to acknowledge our theme song, how Great Is Thy
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  Speaker 1: Express scriptures are read from the Homan Christian Standard Bible,
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  Speaker 1: which is published by Homan Bible Publishers in Nashville, Tennessee.
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  Speaker 1: and printed by Discovery House Publishers. Again, here is Richard
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  Speaker 1: to wrap up today's message.
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  Speaker 2: While he was there with them in physical form, he
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  Speaker 2: performed all of the works that he did only through
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  Speaker 2: the submission to the Holy Spirit. And we know that
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  Speaker 2: if Jesus submitted to the power of the Holy Spirit,
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  Speaker 2: we should do the same, because in the Great Commission
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  Speaker 2: he said, all power and authority has been given to me.
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  Speaker 2: Now go and make disciples, baptizing them in the name
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  Speaker 2: of the Father and of the Son and of the
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  Speaker 2: Holy Spirit. The baptism in the Holy Spirit is a
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  Speaker 2: functional work in the body of Christ. It has never ceased,
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  Speaker 2: and it will never cease until the Lord Jesus sets
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  Speaker 2: up his kingdom on this earth again. We need to
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  Speaker 2: be filled with the Holy Spirit, and that is today's
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  Speaker 2: reflection on the work.
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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 for Richard Higher Team. This is Chuck Christie
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  Speaker 1: saying thanks for listening to this edition of Reflections on
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  Speaker 1: the Word.