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Living Waters of Grace 11.20.25 · Living Waters of Grace / Calvary Chapel of Westmoreland Sunday Services

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  This is Living Waters of Grace, the teaching ministry of Clark
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  Wofford, senior pastor of Calvary Chapel of Westmoreland,
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  County of Greensburg, PA. Now here's Pastor Clark as he
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  continues teaching through God's Word.
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  When a soul comes to faith in Jesus Christ, it's a work of the
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  Holy Spirit. Matter of fact, the Bible tells
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  us that we can't make that happen.
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  We're not even the ones that come.
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  He draws us. He draws us to Himself.
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  He softens our hearts. He gives us the ability to
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  reason and have logic and He speaks to our minds and our
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  hearts and presents the truth and then we, the receiver to we
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  reject it. Any good gardener knows that you
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  can't just bury some seeds in your backyard and expect to get
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  fresh produce out of it. It takes lots of work spread out
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  over the course of a growing season in order to receive fresh
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  fruits and vegetables for you and your family to consume.
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  Well, in today's message, Pastor Clark reminds you that the Holy
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  Spirit is a Master Gardener, but instead of tilling the soil of
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  the earth, he tends to the souls of humanity.
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  Every heart is fertile ground ready to hear and respond to
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  Jesus. Now here's Pastor Clark in Acts
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  chapter 19 with today's edition of Living Waters of Grace.
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  I knew when I was 20 years old that I needed a miracle of some
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  sort to Get Me Out of the pattern of life I was living and
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  I hated it. I would go to bed at night and I
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  would this be in such despair and depression and
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  discouragement of my addictions to so many different things that
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  were not right. And it wasn't till Jesus Christ
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  came into my life and I was given the gospel and I realized
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  that He died for my sin to save me and to forgive me, but also
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  to free me from my sin. That's the big missing
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  connection. Sometimes when we preach the
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  gospel, we tell people to believe on Jesus.
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  He'll forgive you of your sin. You go to heaven and you don't
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  have to worry about going to hell and he loves you and all
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  those things are true. But you have to 1st realize that
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  you're a Sinner and that you need to turn from your sin.
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  That's called repentance. And that you need Christ to do a
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  miracle in your life so that you don't stay stuck in your sin,
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  Right. And whenever Jesus does that
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  work, when we're born again, we are given his nature.
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  Even though we still have this old nature trying to take over
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  every once in a while, we have a new nature.
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  We have a new life. And not only that, the Holy
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  Spirit comes into our life to live in us at the time we're
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  born again. And when he's in US, he gives us
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  the ability to live a completely different life.
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  Amen. We're not perfect, but we're
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  certainly not the way we used to be, right?
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  Certain things bother us now that never used to bother us.
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  And there's certain things that we used to do that we detest
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  now. And there's no longer, we, we no
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  longer can do them. That's the work and the power of
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  the Holy Spirit. So these people that Paul's
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  speaking to, they have this desire to believe, but they're
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  missing these key ingredients. They're missing the power of the
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  cross and the and the resurrection, and they're also
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  missing this power of the Holy Spirit, God the Holy Spirit,
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  because they haven't received him yet.
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  And so Paul says to them, John and verse 4, indeed baptized
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  with the baptism of repentance, saying to the people that they
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  should believe on him who would come after him, that is on
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  Christ Jesus. So they were prepared to believe
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  in the Messiah. Apollos preached the fact that
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  John proclaimed the baptism of repentance, being prepared for
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  the one who was prophesized in the Old Testament to be the
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  Messiah. OK, but the Messiah has now
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  already come. He's been crucified, He's been
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  buried, He's been resurrected, and the Holy Spirit came down
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  upon the Church in the 2nd chapter of Acts at Pentecost to
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  begin to dwell inside the life of the believer.
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  For the first time in the Old Testament.
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  The Holy Spirit came upon people and then He would take off when
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  they offended Him or they sin. The the the power of the Holy
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  Spirit. Even in the the times of gospel
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  when Jesus was walking, the Spirit was working in and
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  through Christ. And Jesus even said that the
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  apostles at one time received the Holy Spirit and he blown on
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  them the the wind of the Spirit and they they sensed the
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  presence of God. But there was no indwelling of
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  the Holy Spirit until Pentecost. This is the great teaching of of
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  the book of the Acts, the power of the Spirit God, the Holy
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  Spirit coming to indwelled in US and to stay in US and to be the
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  guarantee of our salvation and the reality of our experience
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  being real until the day that we're taken out of here.
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  So Paul said, yes, John and Dee baptized with the baptism
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  repentance, saying to the people that they should believe on him
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  who would come after him that is on Christ Jesus.
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  So they're already in man, they're like ready.
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  OK, so when they heard this, they were baptized in the name
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  of the Lord Jesus. They were baptized in the name
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  of the Lord Jesus. Many of you, I trust, hopefully
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  all of you who are born again have been baptized in water.
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  Baptism does not save you, but it is a confirmation that you
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  have been saved because it's the first sign of obedience after
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  you become a believer for Jesus. They go into all the world and
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  preach the gospel into every living creature, baptizing them
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  in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.
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  And hello, I'm with you always, even to the end of the age.
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  And baptism is, is an awesome thing when you get baptized and
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  some of you, I've had the privilege of baptized, baptizing
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  and you come out of the water, smile and it's just like, it's
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  just a blessing cause you're doing what it is that Jesus told
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  us to do. That's the first sign after you
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  become a Christian that I want to follow you Lord.
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  And when you're baptized, you're identifying with his death as
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  you go into the water, his burial, and then as you come out
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  of the water, his resurrection. You're affirming, I believe that
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  Christ Jesus is my Lord, that he died for my sins and he was
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  buried on the on the 3rd and he rose again on the third day
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  according to the Scriptures. And how, how awesome is that,
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  you know, to be able to identify with the with the Lord Jesus.
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  A matter of fact in the book of the Acts, when people were
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  riding down on their carts and their horses and all that kind
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  of stuff, they could always tell that something was special was
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  going on when they saw people being baptized in the water.
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  And they would say those people are of the way, the way of the
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  cross, the way of Jesus, as he's the one that says I am the way I
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  am the truth, I'm the life. No man come to the Father but
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  through me. And so this is an exciting time
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  for these people. Now they're they're they've been
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  baptized in the name of Jesus. And when they heard this, they
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  were baptized in the name of the Lord.
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  And when Paul had laid his hands on them.
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  And this is really important to understand.
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  The laying on of hands is a wonderful ministry and blessing
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  that we can all do for one another.
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  You pray for someone you you you're compelled to lay hands on
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  them. There's nothing empowering in my
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  hands or your hands, but it's, it's a sign of a blessing and a
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  sign of contact that you just want to bring comfort.
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  And the Bible talks about the, this movement of the Holy Spirit
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  through the elders and the leaders of the church that if
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  any are sick among you, let him call upon the elders of the
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  church that they may anoint them with oil and pray for them and
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  they lay hands on them, pray for them.
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  And sometimes there's healings that occur.
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  Sometimes God chooses to bring healing, but there's no
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  guarantee that healing comes every time we lay hands on
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  someone or every time we anoint someone.
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  The Bible tells us in First Corinthians 12 that the Holy
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  Spirit gives gifts, gifts of healing, gifts of all kind of
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  things in the Bible, that He does these things severally as
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  He wills. Not as I will, not as you will,
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  OK, but as God wills. But in the apostles, they were
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  special group of people. There's no more apostles.
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  Now some people claim to be apostles, but there is no
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  apostles in the sense of what was ordained by Christ.
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  Apostles had to be eyewitnesses of Jesus Christ in his life
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  physically. OK, that was the first and it
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  gives the signs of the apostles in in Hebrews.
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  They were gifted to do miraculous signs and wonders.
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  This was the sign of authentic apostles.
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  And so Paul had something different in his ministry
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  because whenever he laid hands on people, there was Apostolic
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  authority. A matter of fact, Timothy was
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  said, stir up the gift that is in you that was given to by the
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  laying on of hands, not anybody else's hands, but the apostles
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  hands. OK, now you and I have spiritual
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  gifts. All of us have gifts in here
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  today, and they were given to us at the moment of our salvation.
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  Some of us have one gift. Some of us have more than one
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  gift. And because we have a gift or
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  more than one gift doesn't make us any better or any less than
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  anybody else that's in the body of Christ.
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  God gives us these gifts for the reason of giving Him glory but
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  also accomplishing His will, right?
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  The gift of teaching, and many of you have that in here.
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  It's just not a pastor gift. Women have it.
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  Men have it. Anytime you have the ability to
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  communicate the word of God in a way that people understand it
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  and can grow in it and grow by it and be blessed through it, it
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  is evidence of God's gifting on your life.
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  Doesn't make you any more spiritual any more powerful, any
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  more of a blessing. It's just the way it is.
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  Some of you have more of a calm down gift of like say the gift
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  of helps and you're always looking at how you can help
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  people and you're behind the scenes and you're doing this and
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  you're doing that and you just never sit down.
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  You're always busy wanting to bless someone and help them.
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  My wife has that gift. She's just unbelievable.
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  We go somewhere to someone's house for dinner.
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  She wants to do the dishes is at their house.
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  It's just well, no, no, you sit down, you're a guest.
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  You no, no. And if you tell her no, then
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  you're bumming her out because that's her gift.
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  She wants to to bless you that way, you know.
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  So if you want to make a nice dinner, invite us and you don't
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  want to do dishes, call us, send, send.
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  You'll do the dishes for you know, no, I'm not.
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  I'm sitting in there Gab and that's what I do my gifts Gab
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  right. But but anyway, it's just, it's
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  just fun to know that every one of us in here have these
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  spiritual gifts today. I didn't give them to you.
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  You didn't give them to me. They occurred when we got saved.
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  Now what happened when you and I got saved?
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  It's really important to realize, like if I said to you
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  today, have any of you received the Holy Spirit since you
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  believe that's sort of like a that's a like a bad question to
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  ask because if you're saved, you've all received the Holy
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  Spirit. The Bible tells us in Romans
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  8-9, if anyone has not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of
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  his. So you can't be a Christian
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  without the Holy Spirit and the baptism.
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  There's one baptism, 1 Lord, 1 faith, one baptism, one God and
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  Father of all who is above all and in all and through all.
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  It tells us, tells us that in the book of Ephesians, First
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  Corinthians 12/13 For we are all baptized by 1 Spirit into the
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  body of Christ. So you are placed, you're
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  baptized by the Spirit, and you're put into this
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  supernatural body of people who have believed the Gospels for
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  all time since the beginning to the end, and that's the body of
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  Christ. We are baptized a moment, we're
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  born again by the Spirit of God. And then in Ephesians chapter
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  one, verse 13, and I need to clarify these things because
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  unfortunately there's a lot of bad teaching out there regarding
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  these kind of things. I had people come to me and say,
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  you know, they, they believe, but they haven't received the
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  Holy Spirit yet. I said, well, who told you that?
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  You know, Pentecostals, unfortunately wonderful people
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  love the Lord, but they really got some mixed up teaching on
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  the doctrine of the Holy Spirit. And some of you've come out of
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  that. I came out of that.
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  So I I sort of could write a book on what not to do, what not
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  to believe regarding God, the Holy Spirit.
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  But it tells us in Ephesians chapter one, verse 13.
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  This is a wonderful verse underlined in your Bible.
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  In him you also trusted, after you heard the word of truth, the
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  gospel of your salvation, in whom also having believed, you
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  were sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise, who is a guarantee
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  of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased
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  possession to the praise of his glory.
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  And that a wonderful verse, the moment you believe you were
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  sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise.
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  So what's happening here in Acts is that there's this movement of
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  God through the work of the apostle, and this is what occurs
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  to them in this experience. Not every time an act, not
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  everybody spoke in tongues when they received the Holy Spirit,
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  but at Pentecost they did. And the gift of tongues at that
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  time was not senseless Babel. These were literal languages
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  that all those different ethnic groups of people in that time,
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  at that day were able to hear the word of God and their own
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  dialect. That's wild.
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  I mean, these people that were given this gift, they didn't
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  know what they were saying, but say you were, you know, your
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  language was, I don't know, Turkish or Greek or whatever,
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  and you never had learned those languages as one of the people
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  who were given the gift of tongues at Pentecost.
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  And you're, you're worshipping God.
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  You're, you're speaking this language that you don't even
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  know what it is. But someone right beside you is
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  getting saved because they're hearing the Gospel in their own
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  dialect, their own tongue, this miraculous.
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  And so it wasn't, it wasn't senseless Babel.
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  It was a literal, literal languages.
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  But anyway, so Paul is then going to lay hands on them.
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  He lays hands on them. The Holy Spirit came upon them.
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  And this is the Greek preposition of the word FP.
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  You shall receive power when the Holy Spirit comes upon you.
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  And I'll talk about that in a second here.
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  And they spoke with tongues and they prophesized.
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  Now the, the word prophecy wasn't like, well, I'm going to
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  tell you the future, what's happening, you know, five years
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  from now or 100 years from now or 300 years.
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  The ability to prophecy is to be able to speak in a way that
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  you're edifying the here, building them up in their faith,
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  comforting them and exhorting them, warning them to follow
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  Christ. Paul said, I'd rather all of you
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  had the gift of prophecy. It's one of the most powerful
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  gifts because it's multitasking at the same time.
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  It's comforting, it's edifying and it's exhorting.
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  And so they had these gifts and these men, there was about 12 of
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  them and all. And so they go into the
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  synagogue and they spoke boldly for three months, reasoning and
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  persuading and concerning the things of the Kingdom of God.
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  So Paul, wherever he had a chance, he went in the
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  synagogue. He was approved and accepted
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  because he was a member of the Sanhedrin.
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  He was a Pharisee of Pharisees. All those things are passe now
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  because he had come to Christ. His whole agenda and going to
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  the synagogue was to tell people the gospel.
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  And they couldn't shut him up because he was welcome to go in
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  there. Now eventually people would get
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  tired of hearing what he was saying and they would begin to
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  get uptight as it says here in verse 9.
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  But when some were hardened and did not believe, but spoke evil
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  the way WAY, the way of the Lord before the multitude, he
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  departed from them and withdrew the disciples reasoning daily in
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  the school of Tyrannius. So Paul knew that there was a
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  period of time that they weren't going to deal with this anymore,
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  and he was going to take them somewhere else, especially the
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  new believers. Hearing all these conflicts and
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  these complaints and these arguments, whatever, Paul knew
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  he'd eventually have to get him out of there.
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  Now, what's important to realize here is that these new believers
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  are filled with the Holy Spirit. They're empowered by God, as was
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  all those in the early book of Acts, Pentecost.
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  We're empowered by God to do what it is that God compels us
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  to do, to help people, to pray for people, to teach people.
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  You're empowered by God to study the word of God because the Holy
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  Spirit's the teacher. When you sit down with your
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  Bible in your home, wherever you are, and you start reading and
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  maybe you're confused, say Holy Spirit, explain this to me, show
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  me. Reveal the truth.
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  He will. He's the teacher.
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  He's the teacher here today through a knucklehead or a
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  donkey. He can speak through anybody,
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  can he? It's not the vessel, it's the
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  Spirit of God that does the work and does the transformation.
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  And so this wonderful person, and he is a person.
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  God the Holy Spirit desires to have more of you.
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  He wants to control you and direct you, guide you and bless
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  you, protect you, lead you and to use you.
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  Any move of God that's happened since the beginning of Genesis
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  to the end of Revelation has had the instrumentality of God, the
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  Holy Spirit at work in the miraculous.
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  When the soul comes to faith in Jesus Christ, it's a work of the
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  Holy Spirit. Matter of fact, the Bible tells
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  us that we can't make that happen.
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  We're not even the ones that come.
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  He draws us, He draws us to Himself.
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  He softens our hearts, He gives us the ability to reason and
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  have logic, and He speaks to our minds and our hearts and
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  presents the truth. And then we either receive it or
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  we reject it. This is the work of the Holy
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  Spirit. He comes to convict the world of
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  sin, of righteousness, of judgement.
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  And He's doing this 24/7. And so Paul, he starts the first
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  Bible college here, the school of Tyrannius.
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  Tyrannius was a philosopher, and he used this facility, this
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  building to teach people philosophy.
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  Supposedly between the hours of 11 in the morning till 4:00 in
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  the afternoon, it wasn't being used.
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  So Paul developed a friendship, and he said, yeah, you can use
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  this. And so Paul set up shop there.
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  And for two years, Can you imagine going and sitting in
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  Paul's teaching? For two years you lived there in
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  Ephesus. And where you going today?
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  Well, I'm not missing Paul today.
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  I'm going down to hear more. And you be down there and be be
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  so grounded and so aware of all these wonderful truths that we
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  study and read about today. He studied and he taught, and he
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  reasoned daily, it says, in the school of Tyrannius.
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  And this continued for two years that it all who dwelled in Asia
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  heard the word of the Lord Jesus, both Jews and Greeks.
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  Now whenever we have opportunity to be in certain sections of the
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  Scripture, I think it's important to pause for a minute
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  and think a little bit. This church, Calvary Chapel, has
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  been established by the Holy Spirit, not me or Cindy or
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  anybody else. Matter of fact, this is the last
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  thing I ever wanted or ever thought about doing in my life
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  is being a pastor. I fought it for a good many
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  years and we attended Calvary Chapel of Philadelphia.
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  Wonderful church or a church plan out of there.
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  And we came out here and we looked and we went to churches,
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  try to find a church that teaches the Bible and we
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  couldn't find any. Hard to believe, nice churches,
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  nice people, but like, where's the word of God?
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  And we got conditioned to get acclimated to this kind of
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  church where the word is being taught line upon line, precept
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  upon precept, the way it's written, book by book, the way
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  God intended it. So we, we planted the church,
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  Calvary Chapel. It started in the late 60s,
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  early 70s in Costa Mesa, CA. It was a little church called
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  Calvary Chapel run by a pastor, by a guy by the name of Chuck
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  Smith. And, and Chuck had been in
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  denominations he'd come out of really not aberrant, but the
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  really extreme Pentecostalism and, and all the hype.
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  And he just got tired of that. And he started reading and
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  studying Spurgeon and Martin Lloyd Jones.
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  He started getting grounded and, and when this this church was a
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  bunch of this uptight people that were legalist and
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  judgmental and self-righteous and they thought they had it
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  together and everybody else didn't and they didn't want
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  anybody in the church. It wasn't like them.
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  Well, lo and behold, the hippies start coming and the Jesus
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  movement is birthed through Calvary Chapel.
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  So churches maybe having 2025 people starts having hundreds
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  upon hundreds upon thousands upon thousands until the church
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  got to be so small, too small for what God was doing, they had
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  to put a tent up. So over 2 years, every night
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  thousands of young people were ushered into these tents out of
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  their Pagan, immoral, godless lifestyle.
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  And I was one of them. I, I wasn't there, but it
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  happened to me on the East Coast.
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  And there was this move of God's Spirit drawing people all across
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  the world into Jesus Christ to be saved.
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  And we were born again. And 1700 Calvary chapels around
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  the world right now, still being birthed, and all because of the
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  work of the Holy Spirit. We need another Jesus revolution
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  today. We need the Spirit of God to
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  compel people in Greensburg and Latrobe and Irwin.
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  I don't know why I'm in this church today, but I was drawn
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  here somehow. That's what happened to these
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  young kids. They'd be in that tent.
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  A lot of the guys went down there because there's a lot of
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  cute girls down there. But after they got down there,
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  they started hearing the word and the Holy Spirit started
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  convicting them and the, and the music was so alive.
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  And, and there's this middle-aged guy, balding
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  middle-aged guy, Chuck Smith to just get up there and just teach
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  the Bible like we're teaching it today.
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  And those kids would hold on to every word of that Bible.
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  And then eventually they wanted to go out and tell others.
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  And so these other churches were birthed.
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  Thank you for listening to this edition of Living Waters of
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  Grace. Pastor Clark is teaching us
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  about the book of Acts in this series.
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  Acts is a powerful and unique part of Scripture, not just
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  because it records the spread of the gospel geographically from
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  Jerusalem to the ends of the earth, but also culturally.
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  Acts shows us how the message of Jesus moved beyond its Jewish
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  roots and began to reach the Gentile world.
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  What started with Peter leading a small group in the Upper Room
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  became a global movement with Paul taking the gospel to
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  cities, synagogues, and marketplaces across the Roman
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  Empire. Acts captures this vital
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  transition and reminds us that the good news of Jesus is for
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  all people in every place. May we be inspired to carry that
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  same gospel boldly into our world today.
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  Living Waters of Grace comes to you from Calvary Chapel,
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  Westmoreland. If you're in the Greensburg, PA
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  area, you can listen to Grace FM on the new 91.7 frequency.
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