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#181 The Spirit of Revival (7- The Advantage of Having the Holy Spirit) · The OneCry Podcast

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  Music.
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  Word of God says about the work of the Holy Spirit. Welcome to the One Cry Podcast,
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  a nationwide call for spiritual awakening.
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  The goal, accelerating the movement of God through sharing revival truth, stories, and reports.
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  Well, welcome once again to the One Cry Podcast.
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  And we love doing this.
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  I I hope you enjoy joining with us every week and I hope you tell other people
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  about the One Crap Podcast.
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  We don't have any other reason to do this except to hopefully stimulate revival
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  and spiritual awakening and the prayer and positioning of ourselves for that.
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  And today is going to be an important day as we finish up our series on the Holy Spirit.
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  Kyle, we've been talking about this for several weeks, about the filling of
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  the Holy Spirit, how we hear from the Holy Spirit,
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  how we anticipate the Holy Spirit in our lives and what it means to have him
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  in us and living through us.
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  It's been an enriching time just to talk through this in these last few weeks.
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  And I hope it's helped our listeners.
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  And today, there's a big question.
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  Big word that Jesus gave his disciples because they didn't quite,
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  you got to, you got to believe in John 14 through 16, when he's given this final
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  kind of, I call it his locker room talk, you know,
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  before they go out in the last, last quarter, uh, before his death that they,
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  they're, they're not, they're not quite buying it, you know,
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  because they're fearful.
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  We know they are. Cause he said, don't let your heart be afraid.
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  And he explains to them, look, I'm, I'm going, but, but let me just tell you what's going to happen.
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  And it's really, just trust me.
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  You know, just, it's like he said, trust me.
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  They don't quite get it. You know, I have some kids who are like that and grandkids
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  and I'm just saying, look, just do what I say. It's the right thing,
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  you know, and, and And just trust me on that.
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  And they don't always believe.
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  Amen. Well, I'm raising the past little woman. I can't tell you how many times
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  I can say, listen, if you do this, I think it will go well.
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  If you do that, it will go poorly.
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  Yeah. And you just wait for it. It's like the sword fight with the kids.
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  And if you keep doing that, at some point, someone's going to get just warped across the face.
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  Like, no, we're good. And then five minutes later, here comes a scream.
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  Yeah, you can see the wheels turning. But because their frontal lobe is not fully developed.
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  And you know the Lord Jesus felt that same way with these followers as they're
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  developing in their spiritual maturation.
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  And so I think, Bill, man, the way you and Jordan first weeks and then looking last week.
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  I hope that if you've been with us, maybe you just picked up today,
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  I'd encourage you to go back and listen to it, that God the Son,
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  in this moment, in these chapters,
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  are trying to help build our right belief in the work of God the Holy Spirit.
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  Because he knows how his kingdom's going to work on the other side of his physical departure.
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  And so when he leans in, and so just sort of imagine being a disciple,
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  and I think we struggle in a different way, but struggle no less,
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  in rightly believing who the Holy Spirit is and how the Holy Spirit works and
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  what this relational dynamic is between us as a follower of Christ being filled with the Spirit.
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  And so Jesus just keeps coming back, man, keeps coming back.
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  John 14 through 16 just keeps coming back to this truth. And you got to think
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  by this point, it's starting to come into focus.
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  Like they're starting to catch hints like, what's going on?
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  So he says in verse 4 of chapter 16, I did not say these things to you from the beginning.
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  He said, I didn't tell you this at first, because you probably would have bailed.
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  I didn't tell you this at first, because I don't think you would have understood.
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  But now it's time for you to get it. He said, I didn't tell you these things
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  from the first. And one of the reasons why? Because I was with you.
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  Jesus is saying, you had me right here, which was pretty awesome, right?
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  I mean, let's talk about it. Now, how awesome would it have been to be one of
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  those disciples that for three years that you're walking around with God in skin,
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  who is showing you the advancement of the kingdom of God through his love for
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  people, through his miraculous power.
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  Lives are being changed. These teachings are coming into this world that have
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  never been heard before.
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  Man, it had to be like unbelievable for three years.
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  Jesus said, hey, I've been here with you, and you've been going to the seminary
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  of the Son of God for three years, learning the ways of the kingdom of God.
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  But that's about to change.
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  And it's about to be a new day. And what he's really saying is,
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  I'm establishing a new covenant.
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  What had been prophesied to is about to be fulfilled.
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  And he says, verse 5, but now I am going to him who sent me.
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  I can't imagine what that sounded like coming from Jesus' voice,
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  knowing that he's returning to that relational dynamic he had for all eternity past.
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  You know, there had to be a thrill in the heart of the Son of God to get back
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  to that relational dynamic the way it had been before.
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  And none of you asked me, he says, where are you going?
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  You know, and there's a lot of things going on in the hearts of the disciples
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  that have been displayed throughout the Gospels that, you know,
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  who's going to sit at the right hand with you here?
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  Who's going to be at the other seats and positionings? There's a lot of self-centeredness
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  around their following, which I think, if we're pretty honest,
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  specifically in the West, that there's a lot of self-centeredness around our following of Christ.
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  What do we get? Not necessarily what we give.
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  And Jesus knows that all of this is coming into their hearts and minds,
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  and he's been telling them, and now it's getting to the climax kind of moment.
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  And he goes, and none of y'all are asking me where I'm going.
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  You're just sad that I'm leaving. If you asked me where I was going,
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  I could tell you with even more clarity what's coming into fulfillment,
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  but you're just sad thinking I'm leaving.
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  Sorrow has filled your heart, which I give them a ton of grace, man.
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  I'm not a guy that beats up on the disciples, and I would encourage you not
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  to be because you and I are more like them than we can imagine in our own expression.
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  We just got their story captured in Scripture sometimes, in moments that you
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  see who we call doubting Thomas, which I think is just more like honest Thomas.
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  And we see moments where Peter says things he should never say.
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  Well, he just got caught in Scripture.
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  Maybe those thoughts we thought as well. So Jesus gets our weakness,
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  our timidity, our lack of understanding. And then he leans in.
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  And I'm just going to lean in,
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  and then Bill and I will dialogue around this. He says, I'm about to go.
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  You're not sorry that I'm leaving. and you're just sad that I'm going to be
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  gone. But I got really good news.
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  Nevertheless, nevertheless, I tell you the truth.
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  It's to your advantage that I go away.
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  For if I do not go away, the helper will not come to you.
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  But if I go, I will send him to you.
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  Jesus looks into the eyes of these scared followers saying that it's about to get better.
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  Me being gone doesn't make it worse. When I leave and send the Spirit, it only makes it better.
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  Because we just looked at last week, John 14, it won't be just the Spirit with you.
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  It'll be the Spirit in you. So I want to give you a little theological sort
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  of platform of belief real quick, and then we'll talk.
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  You do realize, we do realize, that nothing happens outside of the work of the Holy Spirit.
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  Listen to what it says. Jesus said, John 3, verses 6 through 7,
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  That which is born of the flesh is flesh.
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  That which is born of the Spirit is spirit. Do not marvel that I have said you must be born again.
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  Here's Jesus saying, when anyone is saved by Christ, they've been made spiritually
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  alive by the Holy Spirit.
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  That's called theologically the regeneration.
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  But not only made alive by the Holy Spirit, but now the Holy Spirit lives in us.
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  So anyone that's ever been saved, that's been made alive, been made alive by
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  the work of the Holy Spirit, You're drawn by the Spirit, saved by Christ,
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  made alive spiritually.
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  And then it tells us in Romans 8, 11, If the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus
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  from the dead dwells in you, He who raised Christ from the dead will also give
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  life to your mortal bodies through His Spirit who dwells in you.
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  That through believing in Jesus, we've experienced the indwelling of the Spirit,
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  made alive, listen, from the inside out.
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  Made alive. So you're saved, made alive by the work of the Holy Spirit.
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  It says in 2 Corinthians 1, 21 through 22,
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  and it is God who establishes you with you in Christ and has anointed us and
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  who has put his seal on us and given us his spirit in our hearts as a guarantee
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  that if you've received the saving work of God the Son and you've received the
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  life-giving work of God the Holy Spirit,
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  then you have been sealed your salvation has been sealed i just i just would say when jesus,
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  leans into his disciples he's the only one that gets it fully and says nevertheless.
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  I tell you the truth, it's to your advantage that I go away.
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  For if I don't go away, the Helper will not come to you.
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  But if I go, I will send him to you,
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  and I will institute and establish this thing called the New Covenant,
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  in which the Spirit of God is so actively in work in a demonstrative way in the lives of people.
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  J.D. Greer had a famous quote now that comes from one of his books that he wrote,
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  that That's sort of startling, but I hope that we would come to rightly believe.
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  The spirit inside of you is better than Jesus beside you. Say it again.
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  The spirit inside of you is better than Jesus beside you.
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  That's why I think that Jesus says when he says this in verse 7,
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  John 16, I tell you the truth.
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  So, Bill, can you imagine Jesus leaning in in this moment and says,
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  guys, I'm telling you the truth.
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  You know, I'm telling you the truth. This is how it's going to work.
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  This is how it's going to function.
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  This is to your advantage.
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  This is better. And so here's my encouragement to our listeners,
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  to local churches, in light of believing for revival.
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  Would we be a people that rightly believes what the Word of God says about the work of the Holy Spirit?
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  I think there's a lot of times those things get detached from each other.
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  Exactly. And that's where there's death and then that's where there's excess and all those things.
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  But when the Word and Spirit come together, there's the Christian life.
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  And so here is Jesus telling us.
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  You know, you think about it, Kyle, how critical this is because you think,
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  well, do you believe in God the Father?
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  Yes, I believe there's a God that he created the world, et cetera, et cetera.
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  Do you believe in Jesus Christ and that he is the only Savior?
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  Well, you have to believe in him to come into saving faith, right?
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  And to be converted, to come to know Jesus Christ.
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  And each of those beliefs and each of those parts of the triune God are critical.
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  Okay, here's the third part. Do you believe in the Holy Spirit? Right.
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  Do you believe and do you believe that the spirit inside of you is better than
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  having Jesus walking along next to you on the road?
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  Because the spirit is with you 24 seven. And I think this is why Jesus said
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  in John 14, look, you're going to do greater works than I did. Yeah, right.
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  And that's just they just blew a fuse at that one.
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  Right. But what he was saying is, look, it's not going to be greater in significance.
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  There's only one price. There's only one Savior.
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  But it's going to be greater in scope.
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  Yeah, no doubt. Because when I was on earth, I was God in human flesh in one
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  place at one time. When I was in Jerusalem, I couldn't be in Galilee.
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  And now I'm coming to inhabit every believer all over the world,
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  millions and millions of believers.
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  And I'm the same Christ. That's the thing that has been kind of blowing me away
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  lately, Kyle, about the Holy Spirit. It's the same Christ.
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  It's the same God, same power. We kind of minimize and marginalize the Holy Spirit.
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  But to believe that it's to our advantage that he left because now the Holy
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  Spirit has come to indwell us. Well, and that's here's the believe and then live,
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  Rightly believe. Rightly believe. And this would be my encouragement to some
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  that might be listening. Bill, you've had these conversations.
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  We were just talking offline about these moments where people are coming to
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  realize, hey, I don't think I rightly believed about the work of the Spirit
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  or about the need and desire for the presence of God.
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  And so here's what I'd encourage you. Go on a deep dive through God's Word about
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  who the Holy Spirit is, But not just to build your intellect,
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  but that you might live like these things are true.
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  I remember one of my most important moments personally in my relationship with
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  God, the Holy Spirit, is I was actually on a fast.
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  And in building up, we laugh about fast.
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  I think you hear it a lot of times people hear, especially if you're new to
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  faith, you hear the fasting stuff and you think that, man, it's probably like,
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  oh, the whole time it's not. A lot of times you're just hungry.
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  And mad. I'm a little mad the first few days. Sure. Yeah. Absolutely.
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  But I had, by God's grace, broken into just special place in his presence.
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  And I was spending time with the Lord.
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  And it had moved from just praying to being with the Lord conversationally.
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  And I just, from my heart, in the most sincere way I could, I just said, Father, I love you.
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  And, dude, I just—you've been there.
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  I just felt the presence of God the Father, and just—it was so good.
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  And I just sat there with him for a while, and out of my heart again—.
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  I just said jesus i love you i love you and i mean i contemplated the gospel
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  and what jesus has done it was just sweet and tarried there for a little while
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  and bill i think for the first time,
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  i know uh for the first time in my walk with god i just articulated from my
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  heart Holy Spirit, I love you.
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  Yeah. And I'm telling you, in me, it just welled up.
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  And let me tell you what it felt like. It felt like the Holy Spirit was grateful
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  I had acknowledged that. Right.
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  And it broke me into a new place of cultivating my relationship with the Holy Spirit.
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  And then I had this thought thinking about it. But if somebody came to me on
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  a Sunday, and I know, Bill, you've ministered so many people coming out of a
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  gathered moment under God's Word.
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  If somebody came up to me with tears in their eyes and said,
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  hey, would you pray for me that I just get to know God the Father in a personal way?
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  Man, I would just—there would be so many things that would come to my mind that
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  they would know the embrace of the Father. I'd pray like crazy.
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  And if somebody came up to me, another person came up to me and said,
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  would you pray that I just get to know Jesus in a personal way this year?
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  You know, I'm about, man, yeah, I'd grab hold of him.
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  Yet there's some, and I think this is the enemy, yet there's some hesitation
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  there. If somebody were to come up to me and say, hey, would you just pray for
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  my relationship with the Holy Spirit? Yeah.
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  And here's the need, and obviously I understand there's right.
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  The need to go, well, hey, be careful. Now, hey, be careful.
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  You know what can happen with that. And, hey, obviously, that's true, though, with Christ.
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  That would be true of the Father as well.
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  And what I think the enemy has robbed us of, and this is the last thing I'd
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  say, Bill Weekend, I think the enemy has robbed us of our relationship with God and the Holy Spirit.
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  Robbed us of this. Man, it's so good that you live in me.
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  Kyle, that is a very important statement you just said.
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  And I want, before we close here, I want the listeners to hear that in their soul.
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  Satan has robbed us of our relationship with the Holy Spirit,
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  our intimacy with the Holy Spirit. And I want to tell you something practical, Kyle.
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  In the last several years.
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  I find myself, particularly in the mornings when I'm just entering into the
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  Lord's presence and preparing to read the Word of God,
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  I actively walk into the throne room and I spend time contemplating looking
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  at the Father and praising Him.
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  Then I look to His right hand and there's Jesus.
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  And I could spend all day just thanking Jesus for what he's done for me.
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  But in the last few years, I've started spending time realizing the Holy Spirit
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  is there too, because they're all together. They're three in one.
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  And thinking about what the Holy Spirit has done for me.
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  He was the agent in my salvation that regenerated me, that came to live inside
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  of me. He's the one, he's our teacher.
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  He teaches us all things. He points us to Christ. We wouldn't understand about
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  Christ if it wasn't for the work of the Holy Spirit.
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  He convicts us of our sin and our need. He's our helper.
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  He's our, all these kinds of things are the role that the spirit of God.
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  And I found myself, Kyle, in prayer as I just pause and reestablish that.
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  Relationship with him, that it is, I can't, I can't go into the throne room
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  anymore without doing that.
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  I feel like, I feel like I'm turning my shoulder to the Holy Spirit if I don't
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  acknowledge him and the father and the son.
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  Does that make sense? No, it does. And it's enriched to my relationship was
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  with God, the triune God, in ways that are pretty profound to me.
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  I think about the doxology. I was listening to my kid, one of my youngest, Joy, four.
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  They taught her this at her little preschool.
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  She was singing the doxology, and I praised Father, Son, and Holy Ghost.
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  And I think, man, from the most foundational songs of our faith,
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  we knew because of the Word of God to rightly acknowledge that to praise the
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  Holy Spirit and to not have that relational,
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  like to praise God the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, but not to engage Him,
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  like to just go back from that place of praise and only engage relationally with God.
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  With the Father and the Son is just strange.
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  So where has that been, where has that for us been robbed? And so my encouragement
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  to us today, wherever you are.
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  Is let's just cultivate that relationship. Through God's word,
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  through times in prayer, sitting in God's presence, the illustration you just gave is so profound.
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  The practice in your life, spiritually.
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  Why don't you pray for us and lead us in prayer for that very thing?
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  That this would be a year that our faith takes on a whole other dimension.
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  By believing that it was a good thing for Jesus to leave.
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  And it's to our advantage that the Holy Spirit has come, our helper has come. Amen.
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  Well, let's do this right now, listening, driving down the road wherever you are.
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  I want us to practice that illustration that Bill gave us.
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  Let's think of a veil that has been torn, blood that's been spilled for us.
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  And as a follower of Christ, let's walk into the throne room of grace and mercy,
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  and take a moment and just thank the Father that He sent the Son and for the
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  empowering work of the Spirit that we can come.
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  Thank the Father that we can have a relationship,
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  that we can be a part of His family.
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  Let's turn and look to the right hand and thank Jesus for His work,
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  that He came, died, defeated death,
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  and that He came to die for a sinner just like me.
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  And then thank Him that He said He was going to send the Spirit.
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  Now, let's ask the Holy Spirit, if He would allow us the privilege,
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  He will, but let's ask Him, of just getting to know Him better this year.
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  Maybe you just want to tell Him you love Him.
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  So, Lord, thank you for your presence. Thank you that we can come.
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  I pray, Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, that you would help each of us,
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  each listener, to cultivate our relationship in such a way that you might be known.
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  Lord, I think about John 17. It continues on, that oneness, and that you want
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  us to be one with you. And so I pray we would to the fullest measure possible,
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  and it would position us for a real revival.
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  So, Lord, I pray this in Jesus' name.
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  Amen. Amen. Amen.
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  Well, Kyle, thank you for that today. I tell you, I'm just sitting here thinking,
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  you know, I would love to do 60 podcasts on the Holy Spirit.
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  I mean, I really would. I remember one time deciding to do a sermon series years
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  ago on the Holy Spirit. And I thought, well, I'll just do three or four messages.
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  And 15 messages later, you know, I realized I was just touching the tip of the
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  iceberg because you're talking about God.
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  And so may that door open to all of us in a fresh new way.
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  And we pray that you'll join us next week. We're beginning a new series next
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  week on how to position ourselves for revival.
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  God is stirring Kyle all across the nation.
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  Yes. And we can miss that if, if we're not ready.
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  And so we're going to talk about being positioned for revival and spiritual awakening.
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  And we're going to, we're going to hear some great interviews on,
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  on fasting and what that means and how to do that and, and how to pray,
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  particularly how to pray for people who are far from God.
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  And so I just pray you'll not miss a podcast and you'll tell others about that also.
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  So thanks once again for giving us a little bit of your time.
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  And we pray it's helped you along the way to cry out to God for that which really matters.
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  Music.