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The Holy Spirit And Our Personal Pentecost | Episode #403 | Encore Episode #074 · 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: The one who believes in me, as the Scripture has said,
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  Speaker 2: will have streams of living water flow from deep within him.
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  Speaker 2: John seven thirty eight. As we've continued our discussion and
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  Speaker 2: study on the power of the Holy Spirit, I have
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  Speaker 2: been impressed by recently reading Andrew Murray's experiencing the Holy Spirit.
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  Speaker 2: It has been a vital aspect of instruction, but even
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  Speaker 2: more so it has been an encouragement for the body
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  Speaker 2: of Christ. I'm want to be able to cover a
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  Speaker 2: few things that he covers in his book, and one
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  Speaker 2: of the things that he does refer to is what
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  Speaker 2: takes place with the believer on their own Pentecostal experience.
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  Speaker 2: One of the things is that the blessing of Pentecost
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  Speaker 2: makes the Word of God new. We see this fact
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  Speaker 2: distinctly in the case of the Disciples, as with all
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  Speaker 2: the Jews of that age, their ideas of the Messiah
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  Speaker 2: and the Kingdom of God were external and carnal. All
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  Speaker 2: the instruction of the Lord Jesus throughout three long years
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  Speaker 2: not changed their way of thinking. They were unable to
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  Speaker 2: comprehend the doctrine of a suffering and dying Messiah or
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  Speaker 2: the hope of his invisible spiritual dominion. Even after his resurrection,
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  Speaker 2: he had to rebuke them for their unbelieving spirit and
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  Speaker 2: their inability to understand the scriptures. With the coming of
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  Speaker 2: the Day of Pentecost, an entire change took place. Their
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  Speaker 2: ancient scriptures opened up before them. The light of the
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  Speaker 2: Holy Spirit in them illumined the Word. In the preaching
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  Speaker 2: of Peter and Stephen, and in the addresses of Paul
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  Speaker 2: and James, we see how a divine light had shone
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  Speaker 2: on the Old Testament. They saw everything through the spirit
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  Speaker 2: of this Lord Jesus, who had made his abode within them,
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  Speaker 2: and so it will be with us. It is necess
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  Speaker 2: to meditate on the scriptures and keep the Word of
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  Speaker 2: God in our thoughts, heart and daily walk. Let us, however,
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  Speaker 2: constantly remember that it is only when we are filled
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  Speaker 2: with the Spirit that we can fully experience the spiritual
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  Speaker 2: power and truth of the Word. He is the spirit
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  Speaker 2: of truth, and he alone guides us into all truth
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  Speaker 2: when he dwells in us. Another reason is power to
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  Speaker 2: bless others. The divine power of the Exalted Jesus to
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  Speaker 2: grant repentance and the forgiveness of sins is exercised by
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  Speaker 2: Him through his servants. The minister of the gospel who
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  Speaker 2: desires to preach repentance and forgiveness through Jesus and have
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  Speaker 2: success in winning souls, must do the work in the
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  Speaker 2: power of the Spirit of Jesus. Much preaching of conversion
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  Speaker 2: and pardon is fruitless because these elements of truth are
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  Speaker 2: presented only as a doctrine. Some preachers try to reach
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  Speaker 2: the hearts of their audience in the power of mere
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  Speaker 2: human earnestness, reasoning, and eloquence, but little blessing is one.
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  Speaker 2: By these means, the man whose chief desire is to
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  Speaker 2: be filled with the Spirit of the indwelling Christ can
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  Speaker 2: be assured that the glorified Lord will speak and work
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  Speaker 2: in him. He will obtain the blessing, not always in
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  Speaker 2: the same manner, but it will always certainly come in
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  Speaker 2: preaching and in the daily life of a servant of Christ.
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  Speaker 2: The full blessing of Pentecost is the sure way of
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  Speaker 2: becoming a blessing to others. Believe it on me, said Jesus.
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  Speaker 2: Out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water.
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  Speaker 2: The King James version of John seven thirty eight. This
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  Speaker 2: refers to the Holy Spirit. Our heart, filled with the
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  Speaker 2: Spirit will overflow with the Spirit. It is this blessing
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  Speaker 2: of Pentecost that will make the Church today what God
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  Speaker 2: would have her to be. We've spoken of what the
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  Speaker 2: Spirit will do in individual believers. Think of what the
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  Speaker 2: blessing will be when the Church as a whole answers
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  Speaker 2: her calling to be filled with the Spirit and exhibits
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  Speaker 2: the life, the power, and the very presence of our
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  Speaker 2: Lord to this world. We must not only seek and
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  Speaker 2: receive this blessing each person form, but we must also
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  Speaker 2: remember that the full manifestation of the blessing cannot be
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  Speaker 2: given until the whole body of Christ receives it. Whether
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  Speaker 2: one member suffers, all the members suffer with it. In
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  Speaker 2: one Corinthians twelve twenty six. If we're many members of
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  Speaker 2: the Church of Jesus Christ and we are content to
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  Speaker 2: remain without this blessing, the whole church will suffer. Even
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  Speaker 2: in individual disciples, the blessing cannot come to its full manifestation. Therefore,
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  Speaker 2: it is of the utmost importance that we should not
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  Speaker 2: only think of what being filled with the spirit means
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  Speaker 2: for ourselves, but also consider what it will do for
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  Speaker 2: the church. Will you separate yourself? Let us recall the
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  Speaker 2: more of the day of Pentecost. At that time the
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  Speaker 2: Christian Church in Jerusalem consisted only of one hundred and
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  Speaker 2: twenty disciples, and most of them were poor, unlearned fishermen,
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  Speaker 2: tax collectors, and humble women. We were looking at a
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  Speaker 2: very insignificant and despised gathering. Yet it was by these
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  Speaker 2: believers that the Kingdom of God had to be proclaimed
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  Speaker 2: and extended, and they did it by them and those
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  Speaker 2: who were added to them. The power of Jewish prejudice
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  Speaker 2: and the pagan hardness of heart was overcome, and the
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  Speaker 2: Church of Christ won glorious triumphs. This grand result was
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  Speaker 2: achieved simply and only because the first Christian Church was
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  Speaker 2: filled with the spirit. The members of it gave them
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  Speaker 2: themselves holy totally to their Lord. They allowed themselves to
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  Speaker 2: be filled, consecrated, governed, and used only by him. They
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  Speaker 2: yielded themselves to him as instruments of his power. He
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  Speaker 2: dwelt in them and used them for all his wondrous deeds.
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  Speaker 2: It is to this same experience that the Church of
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  Speaker 2: Christ in our own age must be brought back. This
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  Speaker 2: is the only thing that will help her in the
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  Speaker 2: conflict with sin and the world. She must be filled
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  Speaker 2: with the Spirit. Beloved fellow believers, this call comes to
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  Speaker 2: you and I in the whole Church of the Lord Jesus.
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  Speaker 2: This one thing is needed. We have to be filled
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  Speaker 2: with the Holy Spirit. Do not imagine that you must
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  Speaker 2: apprehend or understand it all before you seek and find it.
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  Speaker 2: For those who wait on him, God will do more
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  Speaker 2: than they can even conceive. You must taste the happiness,
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  Speaker 2: know by personal experience, the blessedness of having Jesus in
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  Speaker 2: your heart. Then His spirit of holiness and humility, of
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  Speaker 2: love and self sacrifice, and of courage and power will
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  Speaker 2: become as natural as your very own spirit. If you
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  Speaker 2: have the Word of God in you, you will be
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  Speaker 2: able to carry it as a blessing to others. If
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  Speaker 2: you desire to see the Church of the Lord Jesus
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  Speaker 2: a raid in her finest splendor, then separate yourselves from
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  Speaker 2: everything that is evil, cast it out of your own heart,
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  Speaker 2: and fix your desire on this one thing to be
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  Speaker 2: filled with the Holy Spirit of God. Received this as
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  Speaker 2: your rightful heritage, appropriated, and hold it by faith. It
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  Speaker 2: will certainly be given to you. For as many as
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  Speaker 2: ask the Father, he will give the Holy Spirit. We
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  Speaker 2: know that today the Church has an influence which has
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  Speaker 2: diminished in society, and the reason is that the Church
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  Speaker 2: does not have the demonstrated power in its totality as
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  Speaker 2: the early Church experienced. Over the years, we have substituted
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  Speaker 2: intellectual reasoning and all forms of educated instruction, but we
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  Speaker 2: have forfeited in many ways the power to allow the
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  Speaker 2: Holy Spirit to change lives. I'm reminded of a story
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  Speaker 2: which is an account of an early Christian evangelist. He
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  Speaker 2: was addressed by an older evangelist, and the question was,
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  Speaker 2: when you preach, do you believe that others are going
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  Speaker 2: to be saved? And the young evangelist said, I hope so.
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  Speaker 2: And the older, more experienced evangelists made a statement and
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  Speaker 2: he said, that is your problem. Now. I don't understand
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  Speaker 2: all of the reason that the young evangelist was hoping
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  Speaker 2: rather than in trusting the power of the Holy Spirit.
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  Speaker 2: But he came to recognize that what he needed and
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  Speaker 2: what we need, is the power of the Holy Spirit
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  Speaker 2: which overcomes the world. You see, believers, the scripture says,
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  Speaker 2: greater is he that is in you than he that
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  Speaker 2: is in the world. If we are looking for a victorious, joyous,
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  Speaker 2: glorious church, that is what Jesus is coming back for.
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  Speaker 2: Are we there? I pray that we seek more earnestly
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  Speaker 2: the fullness of the Spirit every day. It is not
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  Speaker 2: enough to be filled one time, not if you're going
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  Speaker 2: to be used of God. We are as the scripture says,
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  Speaker 2: vessels that leap. In other words, our bodies are the
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  Speaker 2: temple of the Holy Spirit. When we are filled with
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  Speaker 2: the Holy Spirit, we are able to overflow with the
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  Speaker 2: Holy Spirit to others. And remember one of the main
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  Speaker 2: reasons that the Holy Spirit has actually been quint in
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  Speaker 2: many cases, both in the Church and individually in our
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  Speaker 2: own lives, is because of unforgiveness. Remember, believer, Jesus breathed
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  Speaker 2: on his own disciples, and he gave the Holy Spirit
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  Speaker 2: and with that the power to forgive sins. He said,
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  Speaker 2: whosoever sins you forgive, they are forgiven them. But whosoever
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  Speaker 2: sins you retain, they are not forgiven. We'll talk more
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  Speaker 2: about that in another segment. But remember it is the
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  Speaker 2: power of the Holy Spirit working in us that can
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  Speaker 2: accomplish the works that Jesus said his body would do.
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  Speaker 2: In John chapter fourteen and verse twelve, it was simply stated,
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  Speaker 2: greater works than these will you do 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: Express scriptures are read from the Holman Christian Standard Bible,
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  Speaker 1: to wrap up today's message.
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  Speaker 2: And then the Holy Spirit will be sent. Referred to
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  Speaker 2: as the comforter, the helper, the parentle. The Holy Spirit
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  Speaker 2: is the third person of the Godhead. He is God.
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  Speaker 2: He is the same holiness of God, the Father, and
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  Speaker 2: the Lord Jesus. He is God. We must realize he
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  Speaker 2: is not just some force that we can summon. He
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  Speaker 2: is God Almighty, inhabiting us so that we can complete
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  Speaker 2: the great commission. And that is today's reflection 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 King or Richard the entire team. This is Chuck
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  Speaker 1: Risty saying thanks for listening to this edition of Reflections
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  Speaker 1: on the Word. Sh