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In chains I was bound,

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I was a madman on the run.

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Through the hills I wandered.

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I was running from the sun.

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But truth found me there.

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It was in my darkest eye.

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I traded my black heart for joy, for

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something real, something with power.

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Truth

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set me free.

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Truth came to me.

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I once was blind and now I see

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truth set me free.

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Welcome to Tell the Truth, a weekly podcast

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about faith, current events, and life in general,

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brought to you from Mountain View Baptist Church

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live every Monday night at 6PM

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central time.

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And welcome back this week. It is so

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good to be back.

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And, hey. We have all our cameras working

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this week. Hey. That that's nice to figure

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out what was going on there and get

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those back up and running.

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Really glad to have everybody joining us back.

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We had a great conversation last week with,

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Good ministry to be supporting

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That is weird. So I'm gonna try to

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So I'm going to

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go ahead and introduce everybody

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as I am sorting that out on the

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How are you doing this week, brother Dennis?

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Doing good, man. Doing good. That is, I'm

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just thanking God for yesterday, man. It was,

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just a good day. You know, it's gotten

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where I've got some things going on on

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Woah. That was wild.

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unexpected.

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That was awesome. But, yeah, good good awesome

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awesome sun service Sunday morning. Andrew did a

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great job. And then, then I go down

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to Serenity Place and and sing with them

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those folks for for about an hour Yeah.

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On Sundays at four, and and that's just

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a great time, man. I'm I'm learning a

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bunch of old hymns on guitar and singing

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with them. They can sing along with them

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because they know most of them. Right. You

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know, even with memory issues, they can remember

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that old stuff, you know. Absolutely. And they

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come back here for choir practice, and that's

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always a blessing. So just a just a

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good day, and it's carrying over to today.

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Awesome. Awesome, man. Brother Brian, how are you

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doing tonight? I had a great weekend, man.

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got to go see my friend John Mays,

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we we actually, you know, played hooky from

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our church this weekend and and, had,

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had a couple of our guys, Andrew, preach

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Sunday morning and Dwan preach Sunday night. Got

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to go back and listen to those, and

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they've done an awesome job. I'm so proud

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of them. Proud of all the preachers that

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that, man, just, they don't hesitate to say

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yes and to fill in and and do

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a awesome job. You get to hear some

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good preaching while I'm gone. But, John had

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started revival this week.

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and, and good good some good preaching there

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and good fellowship with some friends that mean

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a lot to us. So

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but we're glad to be home. Got to

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see the grandbaby right before right before I

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grandbaby completely.

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about the Holy Spirit and how how, you

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know, what it is and what it means

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to us and how it affects

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us today versus

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the old testament and how all that ties

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as major news going on from outside that

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I thought was kind of interesting is,

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I I I thought it was interesting last

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week and last weekend to watch, American Eagle

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Outfitters really catch a whole lot of flack

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for, you know, having a a pretty woman

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do an ad for them again. You know,

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they've been been doing the the brave and

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beautiful

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ladies

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with the beards for the last couple of

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years, you know, and and they finally got

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an an actual woman on there to do

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it, and they've really caught a lot of

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flack for it. But, I I do caution

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the conservative folks that are going out in

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support of her, probably not the person you

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wanna be tying your horse to. She she's

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not necessarily a bad person, but she's made

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some questionable choices when it comes to some

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of the movie roles and stuff she's done.

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supporting that,

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but, it was it was really nice to

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that kind of stuff,

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take a, take a nice nosedive this weekend

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getting back to some normalcy Yeah. When I'm

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thumbing through the channels or something. It's nice

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to start seeing normal commercials again and and

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hearing normal things. So, hey, I'll take it.

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I'll take the wins where we can get

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them.

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lovely thing that came out from this weekend,

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but it was kind of also amusing to

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me to watch all of the very, very

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deeply conservative Christian people

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really chipping there. And I'm like, I I

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don't think you guys are aware of,

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the types of media she makes.

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ads is they're a little racy. They they

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are a little bit racy, and I mean

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not something we wanna encourage. Like I say,

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it's it's kinda like, I think you guys

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are not thinking this through. But at the

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same time, hey, it's I think honestly it's

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it's just the backlash from we've seen so

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much for so long of,

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you know, things that are absolutely abnormal and

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people being like, no this is perfectly normal

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and I'm like, no no

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no it's not. And I think maybe people

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unsure how to deal with that. So Yeah.

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the yeah. The if if you're Christians and

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conservatives, please please make sure you know what

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you're when you're jumping on the bandwagon of

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that.

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back to the days where we get to

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be careful because we're supporting,

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normal things that we shouldn't be supporting rather

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than abnormal things. So,

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know, you mentioned a few things that we

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talk about and to cover

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Holy Spirit? Who is the Holy Spirit?

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What what's, what's the purpose? What it look

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like in the Old Testament? What does it

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look like in the New Testament? What will

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it look like, when the church is raptured

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is its purpose in us now at this

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time? I think that's really a good thing

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to cover.

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all through the Bible.

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The Holy Spirit, we see we see glimpses

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and pictures and,

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things like that of the Holy Spirit from

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Genesis all the way to Revelation.

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So it's not a new thing. It's always

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been, part of the trinity, part of, part

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of the three and one and one and

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three. So yeah. Yeah. I guess that's the

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place to start. Right? Is,

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who's God? You're right. Right? It's the father,

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son, holy spirit. That's right. We know that

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we know that from from Jesus' revelation. That's

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right. Right? When, I guess I guess the

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first first place was probably at his baptism.

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Right? Mhmm. Yeah. Where where the son is

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in the water getting baptized, the spirit descends

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on him like a dove, and the father

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speaks from heaven. Yeah. We see some Yeah.

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We see the Trinity there. Great commission Yeah.

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name of the father, son, and holy spirit.

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Yeah. Yeah. So he's equal

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equal, but he's spirit. He's That's right. Nobody.

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see him in Genesis. The spirit moved over

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the water. Yeah. Yeah. We we see,

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we see the mention of the trinity,

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in Genesis during creation too as as, they

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created,

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created man in our image. Right. God. Yeah.

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confuse their language. Yes. Yeah. So Yeah. So

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we see those,

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we see those glimpses and those pictures of

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it all through the Bible. It's not something

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new that just popped up, and there it

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is. Right. It's it's always been. I think

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I think a lot of people think of,

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of the Holy Spirit as kinda like a

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force Yeah. Or an it. Mhmm. But it's

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a person. Right. It is. It is a

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person. I'd say I'm saying it's a person.

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referred to in the Yeah. In the in

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the in the the

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as a he. Absolutely. Yeah. It's a it's

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a masculine,

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name. Yeah. It absolutely is. Yeah. In its

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form. So,

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I had a there's a message that that

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I go back to a lot, that I've

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I've preached a long time ago. So

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but seven characteristics of the holy spirit,

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and and they're mentioned,

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they're mentioned in Revelation

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we see that verse says, and out of

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the throne proceeded lightnings and thunderings and voices,

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and there were seven lamps of fire

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burning before the throne, which are the seven

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spirits of God.

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seven individual spirits, but really what the Bible

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say in there is there are seven characteristics

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of the holy spirit. And that's what's going

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on there, and we see those

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listed. If you if you go to Isaiah

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chapter 11,

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in the first couple of verses, we see

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that,

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Bible says there, and and there shall come

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forth a rod out of the stem of

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Jesse,

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and a branch shall grow out of his

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roots,

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and the spirit of the Lord shall rest

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upon him. Now we see this. This this

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is the spirit of the spirit

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with these characteristics.

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The spirit of wisdom,

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the spirit of understanding,

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the spirit of counsel,

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and the spirit of might, and the spirit

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of knowledge, and of the fear of the

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Lord.

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So we see seven different characteristics there of

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the Holy Spirit, which kinda goes back and

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connects there,

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with Revelation chapter five. The rod,

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the rod of Jesse is Jesus. Right? That's

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that's who he's mentioning there. And and so

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why why was Jesse mentioned in relation with

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with Christ and not David? Well, we've got

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to remember that by the time that Jesus

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was born,

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the line of David had fallen back to

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poverty by that time. And and Jesse was

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David's father, and he was poor like Jesus

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was. He was the son of a carpenter.

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And so that's kind of the relation

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there that that we get there. But seven

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spirits that are mentioned there,

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seven parts,

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seven characteristics.

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And we had to remember too that, that

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when we we think about that number seven,

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we get caught up in numbers a lot.

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The number seven doesn't always mean perfection, but

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it always means complete. Complete. Yes. Yeah. It

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does.

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And so it or fullness. Right?

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The fullness of God, the fullness of his

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characteristics of his spirit.

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So so the spirit of the Lord, he's

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a 100% man. He's a 100% God.

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The his spirit is the spirit of the

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his father God,

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and they are forever

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one a part of the other. Right?

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And the spirit so that's that's who we

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are. When we say the spirit of the

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lord,

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that would be the first one. That is

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the spirit of of god the father. The

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spirit of wisdom being a characteristic

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is

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Christ is the the wisdom,

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to guide us to everything that we do.

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Right?

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First Corinthians one thirty says, but of him

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are you in Christ Jesus, who of God

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has made unto us wisdom and righteousness and

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sanctification and redemption.

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So where do we get our wisdom from?

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We get it from God. Right? So the

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spirit of wisdom is as part of a

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characteristic of the Holy Spirit.

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I'm just gonna go through these quickly because

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I don't I'm not gonna take up the

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whole time, but but spirit of understanding spirit

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of understanding, the, the third one.

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This has to do with spiritual discernment. This

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is something that that

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I feel like that a lot of churches

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and Christians, they they lack today. Yeah. Yeah.

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Because a lot of people know the Bible,

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but they don't understand the Bible. Yeah. Yeah.

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Yeah. They don't they don't get it. And

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and part of that discernment too is well,

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just like what Tyler was talking about, watching

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something on TV that that you say, okay.

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You know, the the the situation he was

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talking about, we we we've seen things go

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to an extreme,

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and sometimes they go all the way to

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extreme, so it makes us more comfortable at

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seeing something that's still not good, but it's

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we're like, oh, okay. I can handle that

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because it's it's went here.

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And if we use discernment, we say, and

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it's still not right either. You know? That's

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still not still not good.

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But we have a tendency to and this

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is one of the things that a a

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lot of people have warned about and in

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the church, we have to be especially careful

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about

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is when something goes to one extreme,

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we have a tendency to push back by

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going to the other extreme. Yeah. And

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and and you you push back by going

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to this other extreme and it's like but

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as Christians, our our straight and narrow path

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is right there. Hey. You got the gnat.

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Holy.

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Their path is is on that great spirit.

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There you go.

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You know, we're supposed to stay on that

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straight and narrow path and not go to

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the wayside and not go to the broad

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broad path. Whereas the world, it is that

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nice broad broad

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way that is easy to walk, and it

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has the extremes included in it on either

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side. So people that stay in the middle,

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it's like, okay. Well, everybody else went over

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there to the left. I'm gonna swing over

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here to the right. Well, everybody's going to

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the right. I'm gonna go over here to

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the left. And it's like,

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you know, we don't have that option. We

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have this nice, narrow,

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difficult sometimes path to walk, and

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we have to remember that. We have to

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remember that because it's so easy to get

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drawn off. And like you say, that's that

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discernment.

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God gives us that discernment for a reason.

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It is a fruit of the spirit. It

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is something that is provided to us It

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is. Yeah. From the holy spirit once we

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are saved. And I I think Christians today

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forget when they talk about those gifts. They

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get so focused on a couple of them.

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They get so focused on things. Oh, well,

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if you're not prophesying, if you're not speaking

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in tongues, if you're not doing this, if

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you're not doing that. It's like,

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no.

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Yeah. There's there's there's a whole list of

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them, guys. Let's, you know, pay attention to

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the people that have discernment. Let's let's start

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really paying looking out for people that have

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that gift because,

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you know, we need to be listening to

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them. We need to listen to that discernment

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and that wisdom they have for you. We

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need to listen to them, but we also

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need to have a certain amount ourselves. Right?

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And and that only comes through studying. It

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only comes through digging into God's word and

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then and then being able to tell the

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difference on what's real and what's fake. Being

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able to tell the difference in what's Yeah.

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You know, out there in space somewhere.

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And then people are grabbing on to all

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these all these ideas, all these, you know,

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whether it be end times or whether it

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be just

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just doctrine in in in,

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in general,

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and they get they get blown away around,

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like, with any wind of doctrine. They get

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taken off in space somewhere Yeah. When they

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shoulda had some discernment in there. And that

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that's the that's the thing about about understanding

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too is is

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you can read the Bible and read it

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and read it and read it and and

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know it, but but still not understand what

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it's really talking about from one end to

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the other. Yeah. Right? And that's the holy

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spirit when he enlightens this stuff. When you

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got to read it, you've got to keep

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reading it. Yes. And as you keep reading

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it, you're gonna come across passages where the

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the spirit will just shine a light on

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a verse and go, woah. That's what that

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means. Right. Absolutely. And all of a sudden,

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you've got understanding where you just had knowledge

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before. That's right. Yeah. Or wisdom, you know,

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and he's he gives that to you because

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the the same holy spirit that breathed this

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word through the men who wrote this book

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Yeah. Lives inside of us. That's right. Amen.

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Amen. Author lives inside of us. Yeah. The

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dunamis power is in us. Yeah. Yeah. And

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and and so we

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we we can we can have that knowledge,

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and we can have that wisdom, and we

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can have that that discernment

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to know, you know, how okay. This is

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not this is not exactly right or this

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doesn't sound

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right. And sometimes it's just,

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boom. You you're around somebody and you got

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that feeling. And I I'm not listen. I'm

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I'm gonna I'm gonna throw a warning out

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there on that

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because we can we can get, we can

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get out of control on that, right? Just

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trying to,

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make a, pass a judgment on somebody just

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because we're around them for five seconds and

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we heard something. But there are times that

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I believe that God gives us warnings, signals,

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and and things about about people who who

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could take us down a rabbit hole or

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people who could take us down, into a

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bad place, and and we should

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we should listen to that. Maybe not maybe

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not,

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jump the gun on that, but we should

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listen, we should watch, we should pay attention,

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and and,

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you know, just hold them up against the

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word of God and see how it looks.

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Right. Well, and it it comes from that

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paying attention and and spending time in study

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and in prayer to know the difference between

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this is

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my heart,

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which is

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wicked and deceitful and and, you know, in

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ourselves, we we will trick ourselves sometimes. Yeah.

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And we have to have that time of

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prayer and study to know when something is

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coming from God versus when it's coming from

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what I want. Yeah. Yeah. Yield it to

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him. Yeah. The foolishness of man. You know

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that? I mean, it you can have somebody

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that is so intelligent,

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so smart, so brilliant,

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And then you think,

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why would they even buy into something that's

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stupid? Right? That's that's discernment because they don't

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have it. They don't have that discernment. They

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don't see it,

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from a from spiritual eyes. Yeah.

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Mhmm.

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The fourth one was a spirit of counsel,

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that that's mentioned here.

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And, you know, human beings will spend millions

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upon millions of dollars,

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this year to,

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to to sit down with someone who has

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a degree in counseling

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and maybe a doctorate,

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and and has no idea about spiritual matters.

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And and and that's why

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listen. Counsel is good. Right? I mean, the

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book of Proverbs tells us that we we

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should we should seek godly counsel, and we

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should adhere to godly counsel.

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And and I'm not saying that

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every preacher, every person who's who's of the

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lord,

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needs to be the one you sit down

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with, but there's there's some folks out there.

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There's some godly counselors

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who who have a degree,

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but they also

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have studied the word of god. And I

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always when I see you know, over the

537
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years,

538
00:19:15,085 --> 00:19:16,785
a part of the job of a pastor

539
00:19:16,845 --> 00:19:18,765
is to counsel. It's and and I've sat

540
00:19:18,765 --> 00:19:19,744
down with folks,

541
00:19:21,484 --> 00:19:23,005
I thought it seems like a million times,

542
00:19:23,005 --> 00:19:25,105
I guess, over the last nineteen years.

543
00:19:25,404 --> 00:19:27,505
And I don't always have the right answers

544
00:19:28,500 --> 00:19:29,940
for them. I can tell them what the

545
00:19:29,940 --> 00:19:32,099
Bible says, which is a good guide, but

546
00:19:32,099 --> 00:19:34,579
there's some deep issues that people have sometimes,

547
00:19:34,579 --> 00:19:36,900
and I have to realize, okay. Here's my

548
00:19:36,900 --> 00:19:40,259
limit. Here's where, my here's where my counsel

549
00:19:40,259 --> 00:19:42,784
stops and someone else's counsel needs to pick

550
00:19:42,784 --> 00:19:43,284
up.

551
00:19:43,664 --> 00:19:45,585
But I never send them, say, hey. Go

552
00:19:45,585 --> 00:19:46,085
to

553
00:19:46,384 --> 00:19:49,025
Joe down there who who's doesn't even go

554
00:19:49,025 --> 00:19:51,025
to church, and he's an atheist and but

555
00:19:51,025 --> 00:19:52,944
he's got a he's got 10 doctorates, and

556
00:19:52,944 --> 00:19:54,944
he and and he's a psychologist, and he

557
00:19:54,944 --> 00:19:57,109
can fix you. Now I'm gonna send you

558
00:19:57,109 --> 00:19:58,250
somewhere to someone

559
00:19:58,710 --> 00:20:00,950
who has who who who loves the word

560
00:20:00,950 --> 00:20:02,869
of God and who is sound in the

561
00:20:02,869 --> 00:20:05,029
word of God and great if they have

562
00:20:05,029 --> 00:20:07,109
the degrees to to back it up. That's

563
00:20:07,109 --> 00:20:07,609
wonderful.

564
00:20:08,015 --> 00:20:09,855
But but we gotta be careful in that.

565
00:20:09,855 --> 00:20:11,695
We gotta be careful in where we where

566
00:20:11,695 --> 00:20:14,015
we get you get get our our counseling

567
00:20:14,015 --> 00:20:15,615
from because they can lead you away from

568
00:20:15,615 --> 00:20:16,195
the church.

569
00:20:16,735 --> 00:20:19,055
Yeah. We've seen that happen. Yeah. We,

570
00:20:19,455 --> 00:20:21,180
they can they can get you away from

571
00:20:21,259 --> 00:20:23,340
from your marriage. Right? They can lead you

572
00:20:23,340 --> 00:20:24,860
out right out of your marriage. Well, I'll

573
00:20:24,860 --> 00:20:26,220
tell you what I'd do. I wouldn't do

574
00:20:26,220 --> 00:20:27,680
this or I wouldn't do that.

575
00:20:28,059 --> 00:20:30,000
So Well and it's amazing

576
00:20:30,539 --> 00:20:31,360
how quick

577
00:20:32,299 --> 00:20:32,799
Christians

578
00:20:33,340 --> 00:20:34,960
will lean on that

579
00:20:35,420 --> 00:20:35,920
counselor

580
00:20:37,075 --> 00:20:40,535
that's giving them this horrible, horrible advice. Yeah.

581
00:20:40,835 --> 00:20:43,075
Because, well, they have a degree. Yeah. They

582
00:20:43,075 --> 00:20:44,994
went to college, they studied this and I

583
00:20:44,994 --> 00:20:46,994
understand the appeal to the authority. I understand

584
00:20:46,994 --> 00:20:49,015
you don't necessarily want just some,

585
00:20:49,529 --> 00:20:52,009
you know, some guy that honestly has no

586
00:20:52,009 --> 00:20:54,410
clue how to have these conversations. You don't

587
00:20:54,410 --> 00:20:55,690
want there are conversations you don't want to

588
00:20:55,690 --> 00:20:57,369
have with with farmer Fred down the road,

589
00:20:57,369 --> 00:20:59,289
you know? Yeah. Yeah. You you sometimes you

590
00:20:59,289 --> 00:21:01,450
need somebody with this knowledge and this training

591
00:21:01,450 --> 00:21:03,615
and experience to deal with certain things,

592
00:21:04,335 --> 00:21:06,095
But when they start giving you advice that

593
00:21:06,095 --> 00:21:08,255
is not sound, that is not biblical, that

594
00:21:08,255 --> 00:21:10,494
is going directly against the word of God,

595
00:21:10,494 --> 00:21:12,335
again, you gotta have that discernment to go,

596
00:21:12,654 --> 00:21:13,855
you know what? I think I need to

597
00:21:13,855 --> 00:21:15,855
find somebody else to be talking to. People

598
00:21:15,855 --> 00:21:18,059
got their trust in in in man stuff.

599
00:21:18,059 --> 00:21:19,820
Right? I mean, the the culture around us,

600
00:21:19,820 --> 00:21:21,580
they're just looking for check boxes. He's got

601
00:21:21,580 --> 00:21:23,259
this degree. He's got that degree. He's got

602
00:21:23,259 --> 00:21:24,559
this training, whatever.

603
00:21:24,860 --> 00:21:26,880
And the church does it too. Right.

604
00:21:27,180 --> 00:21:28,700
Right? The church does it too. They're they're

605
00:21:28,700 --> 00:21:30,940
every bit as guilty because they won't hire

606
00:21:30,940 --> 00:21:33,735
a pastor because he doesn't have divinity degree

607
00:21:33,735 --> 00:21:35,975
or master's degree or a doctorate or something

608
00:21:35,975 --> 00:21:37,994
like that. When that

609
00:21:38,615 --> 00:21:40,295
there's a lot that comes with it. I

610
00:21:40,295 --> 00:21:41,654
I know there's a lot that comes with

611
00:21:41,654 --> 00:21:43,335
that. A lot of training in in scripture

612
00:21:43,335 --> 00:21:45,494
and theology and all that stuff. Yeah. But

613
00:21:45,494 --> 00:21:48,379
do they do they understand the Bible? Absolutely.

614
00:21:48,440 --> 00:21:50,200
You know, it's funny you say that. I

615
00:21:50,200 --> 00:21:50,599
was,

616
00:21:51,319 --> 00:21:53,000
I'm in the process of going through a

617
00:21:53,000 --> 00:21:55,240
book right now that where the person is

618
00:21:55,240 --> 00:21:57,179
talking about where a lot of

619
00:21:57,639 --> 00:21:59,480
the current ideas and stuff that we have

620
00:21:59,480 --> 00:22:01,480
in modern Christianity have come from, all these

621
00:22:01,480 --> 00:22:02,875
people that are going away from the church

622
00:22:02,875 --> 00:22:04,075
and they're going away from the Word of

623
00:22:04,075 --> 00:22:06,075
God and where where does this come from?

624
00:22:06,075 --> 00:22:07,835
Where does it you know, and she was

625
00:22:07,835 --> 00:22:08,974
digging into that.

626
00:22:10,474 --> 00:22:11,775
I just saw a video

627
00:22:12,234 --> 00:22:14,414
from her recently where she had,

628
00:22:14,795 --> 00:22:17,055
in the process of digging into it, found

629
00:22:17,410 --> 00:22:18,230
this group

630
00:22:18,769 --> 00:22:20,390
that has published

631
00:22:20,769 --> 00:22:23,009
this version of the Bible that is a

632
00:22:23,009 --> 00:22:23,509
paraphrase

633
00:22:24,049 --> 00:22:26,369
Mhmm. Of the New Testament. And by paraphrase,

634
00:22:26,369 --> 00:22:27,569
I mean it's got a whole lot more

635
00:22:27,569 --> 00:22:29,089
words than the New Testament has in because

636
00:22:29,089 --> 00:22:30,930
the guy that wrote it just kinda stacked

637
00:22:30,930 --> 00:22:32,450
his own stuff on and tried to say

638
00:22:32,450 --> 00:22:34,325
stuff. But she was like, why is anybody

639
00:22:34,325 --> 00:22:36,005
reading this? And it turns out he has

640
00:22:36,005 --> 00:22:37,605
a degree. He's a doctorate he has a

641
00:22:37,605 --> 00:22:41,045
doctorate in in biblical studies from a non

642
00:22:41,045 --> 00:22:43,045
accredited university that he went to for three

643
00:22:43,045 --> 00:22:44,105
years. Yeah.

644
00:22:46,325 --> 00:22:47,465
And she was like,

645
00:22:48,599 --> 00:22:51,320
y'all, there's a reason he sounds crazy. It's

646
00:22:51,320 --> 00:22:53,160
because he might be a little bit crazy.

647
00:22:53,160 --> 00:22:54,519
And, of course, when you get to digging

648
00:22:54,519 --> 00:22:55,960
into it, you find out that, oh, well,

649
00:22:55,960 --> 00:22:58,359
this translation came from not years of study

650
00:22:58,359 --> 00:23:00,539
and understanding the language and doing these things.

651
00:23:00,599 --> 00:23:02,694
Like you say, where those things are appropriate,

652
00:23:02,694 --> 00:23:04,294
where it's like, oh yeah, you've spent years

653
00:23:04,294 --> 00:23:04,794
studying

654
00:23:05,174 --> 00:23:07,255
these different languages and digging into the roots

655
00:23:07,255 --> 00:23:09,174
and figuring out what, you know, what this

656
00:23:09,174 --> 00:23:10,774
says and what it means and all of

657
00:23:10,774 --> 00:23:11,274
that.

658
00:23:11,654 --> 00:23:14,054
That's one thing, but, well, you know what?

659
00:23:14,054 --> 00:23:14,954
I had a dream

660
00:23:15,460 --> 00:23:17,140
and God revealed this to me, and there's

661
00:23:17,140 --> 00:23:19,220
secrets of the language that nobody has learned

662
00:23:19,220 --> 00:23:21,000
in two thousand years. And it's like

663
00:23:21,539 --> 00:23:24,019
and this guy has oh, yeah. It's a

664
00:23:24,019 --> 00:23:25,720
literal unit it's a literal,

665
00:23:26,100 --> 00:23:29,095
accreditation that was set up for this particular

666
00:23:29,095 --> 00:23:31,414
charismatic group to say we're accredited. That's And

667
00:23:31,414 --> 00:23:32,474
it has no meaning.

668
00:23:32,775 --> 00:23:34,454
And people will jump right on it because

669
00:23:34,454 --> 00:23:35,755
they go, well, look, they're accredited.

670
00:23:36,134 --> 00:23:38,134
They they have they they know what they're

671
00:23:38,134 --> 00:23:40,134
talking about. It's like, no. Well, see, this

672
00:23:40,134 --> 00:23:41,974
this is where tradition is a really good

673
00:23:41,974 --> 00:23:43,820
thing in Christianity and and where I get

674
00:23:43,820 --> 00:23:45,759
on the boat with the King James fanatics.

675
00:23:45,820 --> 00:23:47,580
Yeah. Because that Bible's been around a long

676
00:23:47,580 --> 00:23:49,259
time, and it is solid. And a lot

677
00:23:49,259 --> 00:23:50,700
of people have been saved. A lot of

678
00:23:50,700 --> 00:23:52,539
people have gotten understanding of God from it.

679
00:23:52,539 --> 00:23:54,619
Amen. It's got a long tradition of of

680
00:23:54,619 --> 00:23:55,724
being a strong

681
00:23:56,184 --> 00:23:58,504
God teacher. Yeah. Right? And and we need

682
00:23:58,504 --> 00:24:00,044
to hang on to some of those traditions.

683
00:24:00,184 --> 00:24:01,865
I agree. And I I don't read King

684
00:24:01,865 --> 00:24:04,024
James much because I just I don't wanna

685
00:24:04,024 --> 00:24:06,024
take the time to decipher it. Right. But

686
00:24:06,024 --> 00:24:07,644
but there are good solid,

687
00:24:08,539 --> 00:24:10,460
bible versions out there that help you understand

688
00:24:10,460 --> 00:24:11,899
it more and more and more in today's

689
00:24:11,899 --> 00:24:13,579
English. We were just talking about that this

690
00:24:13,579 --> 00:24:15,259
weekend, and I'm I'm, you know, I'm not

691
00:24:15,259 --> 00:24:17,179
a King James only guy, but but the

692
00:24:17,179 --> 00:24:19,099
King James was written on a third grade

693
00:24:19,099 --> 00:24:19,599
level.

694
00:24:20,299 --> 00:24:22,734
Yes. For a reason. Yeah. Yeah. I mean,

695
00:24:22,734 --> 00:24:24,815
it wasn't I would say the third grade

696
00:24:24,815 --> 00:24:27,154
reading level in in 1611

697
00:24:27,775 --> 00:24:30,494
was a little bit higher Yeah. Than the

698
00:24:30,494 --> 00:24:33,634
third grade level today. Right. Probably twelfth grade.

699
00:24:33,934 --> 00:24:35,535
Yeah. Yeah. But I mean, for for for

700
00:24:35,535 --> 00:24:37,539
them, for their language and the language that

701
00:24:37,539 --> 00:24:38,279
they spoke,

702
00:24:39,220 --> 00:24:40,980
it's you know? Yeah. But And but Hey.

703
00:24:40,980 --> 00:24:42,900
The queen's English is easy to learn. Yeah.

704
00:24:42,900 --> 00:24:44,980
The the language of the king James Bible

705
00:24:44,980 --> 00:24:46,580
is the queen's English. It's it comes from

706
00:24:46,580 --> 00:24:49,400
the sixteen hundreds. It's Shakespearean English. It's Elizabethan

707
00:24:49,779 --> 00:24:52,095
English. Right. Comes from Shakespeare used

708
00:24:52,474 --> 00:24:55,035
it. There are a bajillion ways. If you

709
00:24:55,035 --> 00:24:56,554
actually struggle with it and this is something

710
00:24:56,554 --> 00:24:58,634
I've told people before, and and I forget

711
00:24:58,634 --> 00:25:00,394
to mention it to people sometimes. If you

712
00:25:00,394 --> 00:25:00,894
are

713
00:25:01,355 --> 00:25:04,095
looking for a a easier to read translation,

714
00:25:04,460 --> 00:25:06,059
but you're just not sure where to start

715
00:25:06,059 --> 00:25:07,740
and you're really nervous about it, maybe you're

716
00:25:07,740 --> 00:25:11,039
new to it, hey. It's really, really easy

717
00:25:11,180 --> 00:25:13,099
to find a dictionary that goes this is

718
00:25:13,099 --> 00:25:15,819
the Elizabethan English words and this is what

719
00:25:15,819 --> 00:25:17,465
they translate to in modern English and you

720
00:25:17,465 --> 00:25:18,985
can sit down with that King James Bible

721
00:25:18,985 --> 00:25:20,424
and I promise you it's not going to

722
00:25:20,424 --> 00:25:21,945
change any of the meaning of anything you're

723
00:25:21,945 --> 00:25:22,684
reading. No.

724
00:25:23,065 --> 00:25:24,825
And and this is you know, there's so

725
00:25:24,825 --> 00:25:26,605
many versions out there like ESV,

726
00:25:27,144 --> 00:25:27,644
NAS,

727
00:25:29,240 --> 00:25:32,039
even even NIV has value. I've I've seen

728
00:25:32,039 --> 00:25:34,200
things like in Romans chapter one where the

729
00:25:34,200 --> 00:25:36,839
NIV just opened my eyes. Yeah. Yeah. Bang.

730
00:25:36,839 --> 00:25:39,159
That's okay. Yeah. That's good. But these are

731
00:25:39,159 --> 00:25:41,639
guys these are guys that have studied Hebrew

732
00:25:41,639 --> 00:25:43,984
and Greek all their lives, and they understand

733
00:25:43,984 --> 00:25:45,505
it. And there are teams of guys who

734
00:25:45,505 --> 00:25:47,585
do these translations. It's not just one person

735
00:25:47,585 --> 00:25:49,664
sitting down writing down his thoughts. Right. Right.

736
00:25:49,664 --> 00:25:52,224
They're literally going through every Greek word and

737
00:25:52,304 --> 00:25:52,964
Yeah. Translating

738
00:25:53,424 --> 00:25:55,184
it to an English word. Yeah. Absolutely. Put

739
00:25:55,184 --> 00:25:57,500
it together into sentences you can read. Yeah.

740
00:25:57,500 --> 00:25:59,740
Absolutely. There's a lot of value in that,

741
00:25:59,740 --> 00:26:02,640
but, again, it it comes back to understanding.

742
00:26:02,700 --> 00:26:04,460
It does. It does. And and how do

743
00:26:04,460 --> 00:26:05,200
we understand

744
00:26:05,500 --> 00:26:08,265
from the holy spirit? Right? The spirit of

745
00:26:08,265 --> 00:26:10,045
understanding. It gives us understanding

746
00:26:10,585 --> 00:26:11,484
when we read.

747
00:26:13,144 --> 00:26:15,224
The spirit of mind is the fifth one.

748
00:26:15,464 --> 00:26:17,384
Why would we wanna live without it, right,

749
00:26:17,384 --> 00:26:19,484
without his power, without his might

750
00:26:20,105 --> 00:26:21,680
when it's been given to us,

751
00:26:22,240 --> 00:26:25,299
this great and awesome power that that that

752
00:26:25,440 --> 00:26:27,519
the same power that raised Jesus from the

753
00:26:27,519 --> 00:26:28,019
grave

754
00:26:28,559 --> 00:26:31,759
lives in us. Amen? Yeah. But it's got

755
00:26:31,920 --> 00:26:33,920
Makes me feel bad, man, because I don't

756
00:26:33,920 --> 00:26:36,255
use it. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. We hold back

757
00:26:36,255 --> 00:26:39,615
on it. Philippians three ten said, that I

758
00:26:39,615 --> 00:26:41,774
may know him and the power of his

759
00:26:41,774 --> 00:26:42,274
resurrection

760
00:26:42,815 --> 00:26:44,515
and the fellowship of his sufferings,

761
00:26:44,894 --> 00:26:47,214
being made conformable unto his death. Yeah. I

762
00:26:47,214 --> 00:26:48,835
mean, that's that's man.

763
00:26:49,210 --> 00:26:51,130
Yeah. That that's that I may know him

764
00:26:51,130 --> 00:26:53,230
and the power of his resurrection.

765
00:26:53,850 --> 00:26:56,009
The power of his resurrection that lives inside

766
00:26:56,009 --> 00:26:57,769
of us through the holy ghost of God.

767
00:26:57,769 --> 00:26:59,529
Do you think do you think Sunday mornings

768
00:26:59,529 --> 00:27:00,809
ought to look like us running up and

769
00:27:00,809 --> 00:27:03,065
down the aisles jumping into baptism and speaking

770
00:27:03,065 --> 00:27:03,804
in tongues

771
00:27:04,544 --> 00:27:05,044
and

772
00:27:05,784 --> 00:27:07,944
and queue surfing and Yeah. All that. I

773
00:27:07,944 --> 00:27:09,804
don't know. You know? Sometimes.

774
00:27:10,504 --> 00:27:11,964
I mean I mean

775
00:27:12,664 --> 00:27:13,164
yeah.

776
00:27:13,544 --> 00:27:15,289
And and, you know, and and we can

777
00:27:15,289 --> 00:27:17,450
we can, of course, confuse what is I

778
00:27:17,450 --> 00:27:17,950
mean,

779
00:27:18,650 --> 00:27:21,130
there's there's times when when the holy spirit

780
00:27:21,130 --> 00:27:22,650
gets on us in in a way that

781
00:27:22,650 --> 00:27:25,529
we can't do anything but just Worship. Worship.

782
00:27:25,529 --> 00:27:27,794
Yeah. Move. Whatever it is. But Yeah. You

783
00:27:27,794 --> 00:27:29,554
know, I I I don't see me jumping

784
00:27:29,554 --> 00:27:32,115
through the baptistery probably sometime soon. But if

785
00:27:32,115 --> 00:27:33,634
you do, we're probably gonna get a new

786
00:27:33,634 --> 00:27:34,134
one.

787
00:27:35,315 --> 00:27:36,994
Just chop that one up. We'll have a

788
00:27:36,994 --> 00:27:39,095
new baptister. That's my yeah.

789
00:27:41,069 --> 00:27:41,970
They're slinking

790
00:27:42,269 --> 00:27:43,569
at the sides now.

791
00:27:44,589 --> 00:27:46,369
Degan just went to the place.

792
00:27:50,269 --> 00:27:51,950
No. But, seriously, I think I think a

793
00:27:51,950 --> 00:27:53,710
lot of churches take that Howard thing a

794
00:27:53,710 --> 00:27:55,315
little bit wrong. Yeah. You know what I

795
00:27:55,315 --> 00:27:57,875
mean? Yeah. They don't they they they focus

796
00:27:57,875 --> 00:28:00,914
on signs Yeah. And wonders Yeah. More than

797
00:28:00,914 --> 00:28:02,674
they focus on the power over sin and

798
00:28:02,674 --> 00:28:05,234
adds an inner logic. Absolutely. Yeah. Yeah. The

799
00:28:05,234 --> 00:28:05,894
whole healing,

800
00:28:06,690 --> 00:28:08,710
thing, you know, you got this this charismatic

801
00:28:08,849 --> 00:28:09,890
movement of of,

802
00:28:10,450 --> 00:28:11,589
these healing services,

803
00:28:12,049 --> 00:28:13,109
and they don't focus

804
00:28:13,490 --> 00:28:14,950
they don't focus on,

805
00:28:16,369 --> 00:28:17,029
on salvation's

806
00:28:17,329 --> 00:28:19,589
power. Yeah. I mean, that's the power that

807
00:28:19,890 --> 00:28:22,525
that raised Jesus from the grave. Right. Sure.

808
00:28:22,525 --> 00:28:24,445
It's the same power that he healed people

809
00:28:24,445 --> 00:28:25,585
with also, but

810
00:28:26,125 --> 00:28:28,224
but what good is is healing if

811
00:28:28,845 --> 00:28:30,684
if you lose your own soul? Right? I

812
00:28:30,684 --> 00:28:32,045
I mean I mean How do they do

813
00:28:32,045 --> 00:28:33,505
their services in a hospital?

814
00:28:33,805 --> 00:28:36,279
Yeah. Yeah. I've seen one the other day.

815
00:28:36,420 --> 00:28:38,259
I've seen a, I don't remember if it

816
00:28:38,259 --> 00:28:39,799
was on, like, a TikTok or

817
00:28:40,259 --> 00:28:42,039
Facebook reel or whatever, but

818
00:28:42,500 --> 00:28:43,240
some preacher,

819
00:28:44,740 --> 00:28:47,220
somewhere, another country, but he was he was

820
00:28:47,220 --> 00:28:49,214
walking through there, and he lined these two

821
00:28:49,214 --> 00:28:51,075
guys up. And he was talking about,

822
00:28:52,494 --> 00:28:53,154
the shadow

823
00:28:53,775 --> 00:28:54,994
with the shadow of Paul.

824
00:28:55,775 --> 00:28:57,295
When I gave him life, you know, and

825
00:28:57,295 --> 00:28:59,455
he and he he set these two guys

826
00:28:59,455 --> 00:29:01,380
up there. We'd already walked by them one

827
00:29:01,380 --> 00:29:03,299
time before he started talking about it, and

828
00:29:03,299 --> 00:29:05,140
there weren't really nothing happened. And then he

829
00:29:05,140 --> 00:29:07,779
said he said he said, that's the power

830
00:29:07,779 --> 00:29:09,940
that we have. You know? And so he

831
00:29:09,940 --> 00:29:11,700
walks by these guys, and he said, you

832
00:29:11,700 --> 00:29:13,619
see it? I'm talking about the shadow right

833
00:29:13,619 --> 00:29:15,845
there. And he walks by these guys. One

834
00:29:15,845 --> 00:29:17,684
of them started falling before he even got

835
00:29:17,684 --> 00:29:19,684
there, before his shadow even touched him. You

836
00:29:19,684 --> 00:29:21,684
know? Just little little quick to the draw

837
00:29:21,684 --> 00:29:23,444
and the other and they just fell out.

838
00:29:23,444 --> 00:29:24,424
You know? I mean,

839
00:29:24,964 --> 00:29:26,579
I'm like, come on, guys. I mean, that's

840
00:29:26,579 --> 00:29:28,179
not what it's about. You know? I mean,

841
00:29:28,179 --> 00:29:30,440
you're you're putting all the attention on you.

842
00:29:30,819 --> 00:29:32,500
You're putting all the attention on you. It

843
00:29:32,500 --> 00:29:34,919
is God who heals him. Can he heal?

844
00:29:35,059 --> 00:29:37,460
Absolutely. Sure he can. Sure he can. Absolutely.

845
00:29:37,460 --> 00:29:38,474
He's a miracle worker.

846
00:29:38,954 --> 00:29:41,914
All day every day, but the number the

847
00:29:41,914 --> 00:29:43,994
number of those kinds of services that I've

848
00:29:43,994 --> 00:29:45,994
seen in the last few years

849
00:29:46,474 --> 00:29:49,194
and I watched one from a handful of

850
00:29:49,194 --> 00:29:49,934
years ago

851
00:29:51,169 --> 00:29:51,669
where

852
00:29:52,049 --> 00:29:54,049
everybody thought this woman was begging to be

853
00:29:54,049 --> 00:29:54,549
healed

854
00:29:55,089 --> 00:29:56,450
and that's what they talk about in that

855
00:29:56,450 --> 00:29:58,210
church. She was begging him to heal her

856
00:29:58,210 --> 00:30:00,130
and so he did, except for the fact

857
00:30:00,130 --> 00:30:02,210
that she wasn't healed. She ended up dying

858
00:30:02,210 --> 00:30:05,414
of cancer not long after this healing service.

859
00:30:05,654 --> 00:30:06,154
Yeah.

860
00:30:06,495 --> 00:30:06,995
Yeah.

861
00:30:07,335 --> 00:30:08,615
And the worst part was she was in

862
00:30:08,615 --> 00:30:10,695
pain and what she was begging was stop

863
00:30:10,695 --> 00:30:13,095
pushing on me because it's hurting. Yeah. And

864
00:30:13,095 --> 00:30:15,015
she's begging him to stop and he's sitting

865
00:30:15,015 --> 00:30:17,255
there just, I mean, just go into town

866
00:30:17,255 --> 00:30:18,955
and watch me heal this person.

867
00:30:19,335 --> 00:30:20,154
And I'm like,

868
00:30:20,609 --> 00:30:21,109
man,

869
00:30:21,490 --> 00:30:23,089
you know, it's it's hard for me as

870
00:30:23,089 --> 00:30:25,329
a Christian mail man to not look at

871
00:30:25,329 --> 00:30:26,690
somebody like that and go, I wanna get

872
00:30:26,690 --> 00:30:27,809
up on that stage and put a stop

873
00:30:27,809 --> 00:30:30,130
to that. Yeah. Because because this poor lady

874
00:30:30,130 --> 00:30:32,289
was up there. She she thinks she's gonna

875
00:30:32,289 --> 00:30:34,130
get something and she got nothing out of

876
00:30:34,130 --> 00:30:36,025
it. Yeah. Yeah. And and it's hard for

877
00:30:36,025 --> 00:30:37,785
me as a Christian man not to kinda

878
00:30:37,785 --> 00:30:39,785
follow in Jesus's footsteps and go flipping some

879
00:30:39,785 --> 00:30:40,924
tables, and it's like

880
00:30:41,384 --> 00:30:43,545
and I you know, it's it's hard. And

881
00:30:43,705 --> 00:30:46,605
Yeah. Man, that again, the spirit of discernment,

882
00:30:46,664 --> 00:30:48,585
the spirit of discernment, the spirit of wisdom,

883
00:30:48,585 --> 00:30:50,045
the spirit of knowledge and understanding,

884
00:30:50,500 --> 00:30:52,740
Christ, you know, our our faith in Christ

885
00:30:52,740 --> 00:30:54,259
and the salvation we have and the holy

886
00:30:54,259 --> 00:30:56,599
spirit gives all these things to us. Yeah.

887
00:30:56,900 --> 00:30:59,619
Take them. It's not about going to somebody

888
00:30:59,619 --> 00:31:01,220
that claims to be a healer and expecting

889
00:31:01,220 --> 00:31:02,500
them to heal you. Yeah. Well, the spirit

890
00:31:02,500 --> 00:31:03,940
of power, I mean, it and this this

891
00:31:03,940 --> 00:31:05,234
lays out I I was I was reading

892
00:31:05,234 --> 00:31:06,535
an article by by

893
00:31:07,634 --> 00:31:09,315
some stuff that that Billy Graham had said

894
00:31:09,634 --> 00:31:12,115
Mhmm. Of what spirit's purpose is in the

895
00:31:12,115 --> 00:31:13,795
world. And this spirit of power is is

896
00:31:13,795 --> 00:31:16,515
laid out. Look at John chapter, 16 verse

897
00:31:16,515 --> 00:31:19,230
eight. Jesus says, and he, when he comes,

898
00:31:19,309 --> 00:31:21,890
will convict the world concerning sin and righteousness

899
00:31:22,029 --> 00:31:22,690
and judgment.

900
00:31:23,150 --> 00:31:25,150
The holy spirit's role, number one, is to

901
00:31:25,150 --> 00:31:27,470
convict the world. That's power. That is power.

902
00:31:27,470 --> 00:31:29,390
That's power. Because each one of us, before

903
00:31:29,390 --> 00:31:31,390
we got saved, got convicted by the Holy

904
00:31:31,390 --> 00:31:33,390
Spirit. That's right. Right? The second thing was

905
00:31:33,390 --> 00:31:35,014
he gives us new life, which you just

906
00:31:35,014 --> 00:31:36,694
mentioned that that Yeah. Kind of a miracle

907
00:31:36,694 --> 00:31:39,014
is that? We've got brand new life, eternal

908
00:31:39,014 --> 00:31:40,934
life living inside of us now. Yeah. The

909
00:31:40,934 --> 00:31:42,794
third thing was that he lives in us.

910
00:31:43,255 --> 00:31:43,755
Mhmm.

911
00:31:44,134 --> 00:31:46,214
Crazy. Yeah. Yeah. But but he does and

912
00:31:46,214 --> 00:31:48,490
and Yeah. The spirit of God. Yeah. Yeah.

913
00:31:48,490 --> 00:31:50,170
And the other thing, he gives us power

914
00:31:50,170 --> 00:31:51,849
to serve him. He does. To serve him.

915
00:31:51,849 --> 00:31:54,250
Yeah. Power to overcome sin. Power to overcome

916
00:31:54,250 --> 00:31:56,250
all kinds of things in our lives. Overcome

917
00:31:56,250 --> 00:31:59,710
sin. Overcome fear. Overcome Yeah. Anxiety. Overcome

918
00:32:00,194 --> 00:32:02,434
depression, overcome and I'm not sitting here saying,

919
00:32:02,434 --> 00:32:03,714
hey. You know, all you gotta do is

920
00:32:03,714 --> 00:32:04,914
pray about it and it's done. I mean,

921
00:32:04,914 --> 00:32:06,755
yes. God can do that. I I know

922
00:32:06,755 --> 00:32:08,755
that there's there's times that there has to

923
00:32:08,755 --> 00:32:10,595
be counselors, times there has to be Yeah.

924
00:32:10,755 --> 00:32:12,595
MS and things like that. But yeah. But

925
00:32:12,595 --> 00:32:14,994
that that power is there. That power is

926
00:32:14,994 --> 00:32:17,480
there. It it that he's he has power

927
00:32:17,480 --> 00:32:19,799
over all those things. Yeah. Yeah. It's like

928
00:32:19,799 --> 00:32:22,140
when people get saved, it's not the preacher's

929
00:32:22,599 --> 00:32:25,099
words and voice that did it. No. Right?

930
00:32:25,559 --> 00:32:27,960
We may be stumbling all over ourselves trying

931
00:32:27,960 --> 00:32:29,559
to say the right words, and somebody will

932
00:32:29,559 --> 00:32:31,825
hear it. Yeah. It gets translated by the

933
00:32:31,825 --> 00:32:33,904
spirit. I get I get this glitch in

934
00:32:33,904 --> 00:32:36,144
my spirit. I guess the discernment kicks in,

935
00:32:36,144 --> 00:32:37,744
but I I you know, over the years,

936
00:32:37,744 --> 00:32:39,605
I've heard people say, yeah.

937
00:32:39,984 --> 00:32:40,484
Uh-uh,

938
00:32:41,105 --> 00:32:43,140
I'll say, you know, do you know Christ

939
00:32:43,220 --> 00:32:45,059
as as your lord and savior? You know?

940
00:32:45,059 --> 00:32:47,299
Yeah. Preacher so and so back when I

941
00:32:47,299 --> 00:32:49,380
was 14, he saved me. You know? And

942
00:32:49,380 --> 00:32:51,619
I'm like, no. He didn't. No. I didn't.

943
00:32:51,619 --> 00:32:53,460
No. I didn't. If he saved you, you're

944
00:32:53,460 --> 00:32:55,059
you're gonna go to hell. You're gonna bust

945
00:32:55,059 --> 00:32:57,380
hell wide open. Right? Yeah. If Brian saves

946
00:32:57,380 --> 00:32:59,634
you, you got you got a problem. You're

947
00:32:59,634 --> 00:33:01,234
helping you get Yeah. The preacher didn't die

948
00:33:01,234 --> 00:33:03,075
for you. No. No. He didn't he didn't

949
00:33:03,075 --> 00:33:05,315
take your place, and he didn't he didn't

950
00:33:05,315 --> 00:33:07,075
place his blood on the mercy seat in

951
00:33:07,075 --> 00:33:08,835
heaven. He didn't do that. Man, I heard

952
00:33:08,835 --> 00:33:10,355
somebody say something the other day. I I

953
00:33:10,355 --> 00:33:11,914
know it's a rabbit trail, I guess, but

954
00:33:11,914 --> 00:33:13,954
but I've always thought about, you know, Jesus

955
00:33:13,954 --> 00:33:15,899
died for me. You You know, he died

956
00:33:15,899 --> 00:33:17,659
on the cross in my place and said

957
00:33:17,740 --> 00:33:19,179
and somebody just said it and it just

958
00:33:19,179 --> 00:33:21,099
triggered something inside of me. He died instead

959
00:33:21,099 --> 00:33:22,399
of me. Yeah.

960
00:33:22,859 --> 00:33:26,299
Yeah. Yeah. Barabbas. Barabbas was was his name

961
00:33:26,299 --> 00:33:29,644
literally means son of a father. Mhmm. Yeah.

962
00:33:29,704 --> 00:33:31,464
Yeah. Son of a father. I mean, that's

963
00:33:31,464 --> 00:33:33,865
just any man, anybody. Right. Right? Yeah. Yeah.

964
00:33:33,865 --> 00:33:35,704
And and he's he's the one that Jesus

965
00:33:35,704 --> 00:33:38,204
died instead of Barabbas. Instead of I'm Barabbas.

966
00:33:38,265 --> 00:33:40,904
That's right. Amen. Amen. Yeah. Just had had

967
00:33:40,904 --> 00:33:42,539
to throw that out. Oh, that's good stuff.

968
00:33:43,340 --> 00:33:45,180
Well, and it's again, that's one of those

969
00:33:45,180 --> 00:33:47,340
things. That's how the spirit comes along and

970
00:33:47,340 --> 00:33:48,619
reveals things to us. You get to you

971
00:33:48,619 --> 00:33:49,660
get to be and stuff like that. You're

972
00:33:49,660 --> 00:33:50,940
like, oh, man. I've never thought of that.

973
00:33:50,940 --> 00:33:52,380
You gotta be reading and you gotta be

974
00:33:52,380 --> 00:33:54,619
listening. Yeah. All all the visions, all the

975
00:33:54,619 --> 00:33:56,299
things that people were seeing in the bible,

976
00:33:56,299 --> 00:33:58,140
they were prompted by the holy spirit of

977
00:33:58,140 --> 00:34:01,154
God. Everything was. Yeah. Everything was. So so

978
00:34:01,154 --> 00:34:02,674
there's five of them. So the last the

979
00:34:02,674 --> 00:34:04,914
the six and seven, I I I put

980
00:34:04,914 --> 00:34:06,674
those together because they really I feel like

981
00:34:06,674 --> 00:34:08,934
they go together. The spirit of knowledge

982
00:34:09,554 --> 00:34:11,635
and the fear of the Lord. The spirit

983
00:34:11,635 --> 00:34:13,155
of knowledge and the spirit of the fear

984
00:34:13,155 --> 00:34:14,869
of the Lord are they're they're two different

985
00:34:14,869 --> 00:34:16,010
things, but they're together.

986
00:34:17,269 --> 00:34:20,070
Proverbs one twenty nine says, for that they

987
00:34:20,070 --> 00:34:23,190
hated knowledge, it did not choose to fear

988
00:34:23,190 --> 00:34:26,570
the Lord. Right? So so they hated knowledge,

989
00:34:26,630 --> 00:34:28,329
and they didn't wanna fear God.

990
00:34:29,030 --> 00:34:32,255
Proverbs two five, then shalt thou understand the

991
00:34:32,255 --> 00:34:34,734
fear of the Lord and find the knowledge

992
00:34:34,734 --> 00:34:37,214
of God. So these two are connected. When

993
00:34:37,214 --> 00:34:38,355
you fear God

994
00:34:38,894 --> 00:34:40,414
and you gain knowledge. Right?

995
00:34:41,900 --> 00:34:44,160
And then, Proverbs eight ten,

996
00:34:44,780 --> 00:34:46,079
receive my instruction

997
00:34:46,699 --> 00:34:47,840
and not silver

998
00:34:48,140 --> 00:34:50,800
and knowledge rather than choice gold.

999
00:34:51,660 --> 00:34:54,460
Proverbs twenty two twenty, have not I written

1000
00:34:54,460 --> 00:34:57,519
to the excellent things and counsels and knowledge.

1001
00:34:57,954 --> 00:35:00,855
Ephesians three four, whereby when you read,

1002
00:35:01,234 --> 00:35:04,295
you may understand my knowledge in the mystery

1003
00:35:04,355 --> 00:35:05,174
of Christ.

1004
00:35:07,554 --> 00:35:09,414
You won't start getting this

1005
00:35:10,034 --> 00:35:12,614
and and receiving this and understanding

1006
00:35:12,994 --> 00:35:15,369
this unless you have a reverent fear of

1007
00:35:15,369 --> 00:35:17,369
the lord. Yeah. I mean, you really you've

1008
00:35:17,369 --> 00:35:18,909
got to because because

1009
00:35:19,289 --> 00:35:21,530
when when you when you're in awe of

1010
00:35:21,530 --> 00:35:23,369
him and you know his power and you

1011
00:35:23,369 --> 00:35:25,690
know his goodness and his mercy and grace,

1012
00:35:25,690 --> 00:35:27,394
those those things are great. But when you

1013
00:35:27,394 --> 00:35:29,474
know that he is also he is judge,

1014
00:35:29,474 --> 00:35:30,295
man. He is

1015
00:35:30,835 --> 00:35:32,775
he he he is he is

1016
00:35:33,315 --> 00:35:34,295
to be feared

1017
00:35:34,594 --> 00:35:36,755
as a father, as a good good father,

1018
00:35:36,755 --> 00:35:38,835
the respectful fear that you have for the

1019
00:35:38,835 --> 00:35:40,135
lord. Yeah. Because

1020
00:35:40,449 --> 00:35:42,690
when you when you fear somebody or you

1021
00:35:42,690 --> 00:35:43,590
respect somebody,

1022
00:35:43,969 --> 00:35:47,090
you listen to them. Right? Absolutely. I knew

1023
00:35:47,090 --> 00:35:47,989
that my dad

1024
00:35:48,530 --> 00:35:50,769
had some had some wisdom that he could

1025
00:35:50,769 --> 00:35:52,849
share with me, and I had a reverent

1026
00:35:52,849 --> 00:35:53,655
fear for,

1027
00:35:53,974 --> 00:35:55,735
for him. And and and and it was

1028
00:35:55,735 --> 00:35:58,135
a respectful fear because I I I knew

1029
00:35:58,135 --> 00:35:59,974
that he loved me and I loved him.

1030
00:35:59,974 --> 00:36:02,054
And so what he said even though all

1031
00:36:02,054 --> 00:36:03,735
those times that he didn't think I was

1032
00:36:03,735 --> 00:36:04,235
listening,

1033
00:36:04,614 --> 00:36:06,614
I was listening. I didn't always apply it

1034
00:36:06,695 --> 00:36:09,070
Yeah. Like I should, but I was listening

1035
00:36:09,070 --> 00:36:10,750
and it was because of who he was

1036
00:36:10,750 --> 00:36:13,309
in my life. Right? Yeah. Yeah. And and,

1037
00:36:13,469 --> 00:36:15,550
that's fear, man. It's a it's a respect.

1038
00:36:15,550 --> 00:36:17,389
Right? It's a It is. Complete respect. And

1039
00:36:17,389 --> 00:36:19,545
it comes from that knowledge, doesn't it? Yes.

1040
00:36:19,545 --> 00:36:21,545
It comes from knowing who he is and

1041
00:36:21,545 --> 00:36:23,464
what he's capable of. I mean, it's it's

1042
00:36:23,464 --> 00:36:25,144
like, you know, the Israelites in the in

1043
00:36:25,144 --> 00:36:27,644
the wilderness, they couldn't come near the mountain.

1044
00:36:27,704 --> 00:36:29,864
Right. Don't touch the mountain. Don't don't go

1045
00:36:29,864 --> 00:36:31,944
anywhere near the mountain or you'll die. This

1046
00:36:31,944 --> 00:36:34,230
is the holiness that he is. Yeah. He'll

1047
00:36:34,230 --> 00:36:36,550
come in his presence, we die. Yeah. I

1048
00:36:36,550 --> 00:36:38,070
I hear all these songs of,

1049
00:36:38,789 --> 00:36:40,630
a lot of country music songs, you know,

1050
00:36:40,630 --> 00:36:42,230
there's one that came out years ago called

1051
00:36:42,230 --> 00:36:44,949
Me and God. You know, we're buddies, you

1052
00:36:44,949 --> 00:36:45,449
know,

1053
00:36:45,989 --> 00:36:47,925
I I almost think about, like, my buddy

1054
00:36:47,925 --> 00:36:50,005
and me. Most of you don't know that,

1055
00:36:50,005 --> 00:36:51,465
but but I mean,

1056
00:36:51,845 --> 00:36:54,164
but but you don't know God. You don't

1057
00:36:54,164 --> 00:36:55,765
know the God because if you He's not

1058
00:36:55,765 --> 00:36:58,005
the man upstairs. Right. Yeah. If you knew

1059
00:36:58,005 --> 00:36:58,664
the God,

1060
00:36:59,125 --> 00:37:00,989
then you would have some fear of god,

1061
00:37:00,989 --> 00:37:02,750
and you would be reverent, and you would

1062
00:37:02,750 --> 00:37:04,610
be you would know that he is holy,

1063
00:37:04,670 --> 00:37:05,890
and you would be careful.

1064
00:37:06,430 --> 00:37:07,950
Is he a friend of sinners? Is Jesus

1065
00:37:07,950 --> 00:37:09,469
a friend of sinners? Sure he is. I

1066
00:37:09,469 --> 00:37:11,469
mean Yeah. Yeah. But but you've got to

1067
00:37:11,469 --> 00:37:11,804
understand

1068
00:37:13,085 --> 00:37:14,925
the role that he plays, and the role

1069
00:37:14,925 --> 00:37:16,204
that he plays is a reverent role. It's

1070
00:37:16,204 --> 00:37:16,704
holy.

1071
00:37:17,164 --> 00:37:19,005
And and we we need to be careful

1072
00:37:19,005 --> 00:37:21,565
how we approach that. Absolutely. Absolutely. We thought

1073
00:37:21,644 --> 00:37:23,244
we we think of Jesus as, you know,

1074
00:37:23,244 --> 00:37:25,484
this this baby in a manger or this

1075
00:37:25,484 --> 00:37:28,070
this, hippie walking around and wearing sandals and

1076
00:37:28,070 --> 00:37:30,230
a robe. Yeah. And look at Revelation. Was

1077
00:37:30,230 --> 00:37:32,630
it '19 or 20 '19, I think, where

1078
00:37:32,630 --> 00:37:34,309
he's coming back on a white horse Yeah.

1079
00:37:34,390 --> 00:37:36,309
With all his saints behind him dressed in

1080
00:37:36,309 --> 00:37:38,730
white robes, and he's he's got a sword

1081
00:37:38,869 --> 00:37:41,035
to kill. And he's gonna leave blood as

1082
00:37:41,035 --> 00:37:42,635
deep as the horse's bridles when he done

1083
00:37:42,715 --> 00:37:44,735
when he's done. He was an awful hippie.

1084
00:37:44,954 --> 00:37:45,515
This is

1085
00:37:46,555 --> 00:37:48,954
I mean, he is to be feared. Gosh.

1086
00:37:48,954 --> 00:37:51,195
Yeah. When when you think Feared. You think

1087
00:37:51,195 --> 00:37:53,769
about, people running and we've talked about this

1088
00:37:53,769 --> 00:37:56,409
on here before and hiding because of the

1089
00:37:56,409 --> 00:37:58,109
the fear of the lamb of god.

1090
00:37:58,570 --> 00:38:00,650
Rocks fall on us. Yeah. Yeah. You're you're

1091
00:38:00,650 --> 00:38:02,170
afraid of a lamb? Yeah. I'm afraid of

1092
00:38:02,170 --> 00:38:03,769
the because it's the lamb of god. I

1093
00:38:03,769 --> 00:38:06,425
was terrified of that lamb. Yes. Yeah.

1094
00:38:07,445 --> 00:38:09,364
Yeah. So that Monty Python, that rabbit. Right?

1095
00:38:09,364 --> 00:38:11,765
Yeah. It's vicious. Yeah. Yeah. This is not

1096
00:38:11,765 --> 00:38:14,405
the same thing. Yeah. This lamb is all

1097
00:38:14,405 --> 00:38:14,905
powerful.

1098
00:38:15,204 --> 00:38:18,099
All powerful. Created the universe. That's right. Kinda

1099
00:38:18,099 --> 00:38:19,699
powerful. And we don't have to fear him

1100
00:38:19,699 --> 00:38:21,699
that he's gonna you know, if we're his

1101
00:38:21,699 --> 00:38:23,460
and we belong to him, that he's gonna

1102
00:38:23,539 --> 00:38:25,219
that he wants to kill us and just

1103
00:38:25,219 --> 00:38:27,139
strike us dead with a lightning bolt, but

1104
00:38:27,139 --> 00:38:29,059
we do need to we need him to

1105
00:38:29,059 --> 00:38:30,920
fear that, hey. There's there's consequences

1106
00:38:31,300 --> 00:38:31,800
for

1107
00:38:32,275 --> 00:38:34,355
for not respecting who he is. Yeah. And

1108
00:38:34,355 --> 00:38:36,195
there's a big difference too. Right? It's the

1109
00:38:36,195 --> 00:38:38,275
unbeliever. We've been talking about the unbeliever's fear.

1110
00:38:38,275 --> 00:38:40,295
They all have. Right? Yeah. Yeah. A believer

1111
00:38:40,355 --> 00:38:42,514
a believer has moved from death to life.

1112
00:38:42,514 --> 00:38:44,355
They belong to him now. That's right. That's

1113
00:38:44,355 --> 00:38:46,355
right. But he's still a fearful daddy. He

1114
00:38:46,355 --> 00:38:49,500
is. He is. Yeah. Yeah. Amen. Amen. Absolutely.

1115
00:38:49,500 --> 00:38:52,079
We can face a lot of consequences by,

1116
00:38:52,619 --> 00:38:55,820
by walking away from him, by walking him,

1117
00:38:55,820 --> 00:38:56,320
by,

1118
00:38:56,940 --> 00:38:58,140
you know, all this,

1119
00:38:58,619 --> 00:39:01,440
all this deconstructing. Giving him a middle initial?

1120
00:39:01,644 --> 00:39:03,724
Yeah. But Yeah. Yeah. Because it makes me

1121
00:39:03,724 --> 00:39:05,164
sick when I hear somebody say that. You

1122
00:39:05,164 --> 00:39:05,885
know, just the

1123
00:39:06,445 --> 00:39:07,184
that that Jesus

1124
00:39:07,565 --> 00:39:08,625
h. Yeah.

1125
00:39:08,925 --> 00:39:11,005
Why? Yeah. You know, why why would you

1126
00:39:11,005 --> 00:39:13,485
do that? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It's just to

1127
00:39:13,485 --> 00:39:14,864
show disrespect. Mhmm.

1128
00:39:16,359 --> 00:39:18,160
The the children of Israel, I mean, they

1129
00:39:18,519 --> 00:39:19,659
the the the name

1130
00:39:20,039 --> 00:39:22,280
Yahweh is I mean, it was something that

1131
00:39:22,280 --> 00:39:24,920
they they wouldn't even speak. Yeah. They're not

1132
00:39:25,079 --> 00:39:26,840
they would write the whole thing. No. No.

1133
00:39:26,840 --> 00:39:28,859
Yeah. So say they they replaced

1134
00:39:29,159 --> 00:39:30,894
the word. Yeah. When it was where it

1135
00:39:30,894 --> 00:39:32,335
was written out in the old testament, they

1136
00:39:32,335 --> 00:39:34,815
were so paranoid about it. After the commandments

1137
00:39:34,815 --> 00:39:36,494
came, they went back and replaced it everywhere

1138
00:39:36,494 --> 00:39:38,734
and started saying Adonai Adonai, Jehovah. Yeah. They're

1139
00:39:38,734 --> 00:39:41,135
like, that's that's replace it. Don't say it,

1140
00:39:41,135 --> 00:39:43,054
guys, because we can't we might say it

1141
00:39:43,054 --> 00:39:45,559
in vain. And they were so paranoid about

1142
00:39:45,559 --> 00:39:46,679
what if we say it in vain? And

1143
00:39:46,679 --> 00:39:47,500
it's like, well,

1144
00:39:47,960 --> 00:39:49,559
you know, and and I I heard somebody

1145
00:39:49,559 --> 00:39:50,920
say it one time, you know, he gave

1146
00:39:50,920 --> 00:39:52,599
us his name for a reason. God. He

1147
00:39:52,599 --> 00:39:54,000
wanted you to know it. He wanted you

1148
00:39:54,000 --> 00:39:55,239
to call it. He wanted you to need

1149
00:39:55,239 --> 00:39:58,440
him. Intimacy. But don't do it for no

1150
00:39:58,440 --> 00:40:00,405
reason. Yeah. Don't just be out here just

1151
00:40:00,405 --> 00:40:02,724
just using it in vain. But when you

1152
00:40:02,724 --> 00:40:04,485
need him, when you really wanna get serious

1153
00:40:04,485 --> 00:40:06,724
with him, call his name. His name, use

1154
00:40:06,724 --> 00:40:09,545
the name of Jesus, believers. Use it. Absolutely.

1155
00:40:09,844 --> 00:40:10,344
Absolutely.

1156
00:40:10,885 --> 00:40:13,204
Enemies fire and fire darts, you call on

1157
00:40:13,204 --> 00:40:15,269
Jesus. Call on his name. You use it.

1158
00:40:15,269 --> 00:40:17,550
Right. Right? But don't use it in vain,

1159
00:40:17,550 --> 00:40:19,469
but, yes, use it. Use the name of

1160
00:40:19,469 --> 00:40:19,969
God

1161
00:40:20,429 --> 00:40:21,250
to to,

1162
00:40:21,789 --> 00:40:24,269
to show love, to show mercy, to show

1163
00:40:24,269 --> 00:40:26,670
grace, to show to to, like you said,

1164
00:40:26,670 --> 00:40:29,315
to to fight the battles against Satan. Right?

1165
00:40:29,315 --> 00:40:31,394
To let him go before us. Yeah. And

1166
00:40:31,394 --> 00:40:32,914
another little thing I got too is don't

1167
00:40:32,914 --> 00:40:34,914
use the name of Christ because Christ is

1168
00:40:34,914 --> 00:40:37,474
his title, not his name. Right. Exactly. Jesus

1169
00:40:37,474 --> 00:40:40,114
is his name. Yeshua, which is Joshua. He

1170
00:40:40,114 --> 00:40:42,775
is Yahweh. That's right. He is Jesus

1171
00:40:43,394 --> 00:40:44,219
the Christ. Right?

1172
00:40:46,780 --> 00:40:47,391
He is Yeah. He is he is king

1173
00:40:47,391 --> 00:40:48,139
of kings and lord of lords. Yeah. Yeah.

1174
00:40:48,139 --> 00:40:50,699
Yeah. The Yeshua Messiah. That's right. You know,

1175
00:40:50,699 --> 00:40:52,859
I I've heard it said one day. Yeah.

1176
00:40:52,859 --> 00:40:53,359
Absolutely.

1177
00:40:53,659 --> 00:40:56,380
Gotta get your holy ghost back. Absolutely. Yeah.

1178
00:40:56,380 --> 00:40:57,820
And I've heard it said one day, you

1179
00:40:57,820 --> 00:40:59,945
know, one time that how much

1180
00:41:00,885 --> 00:41:02,105
better would it be

1181
00:41:02,405 --> 00:41:04,085
if number one, you were in a place

1182
00:41:04,085 --> 00:41:05,144
where you realized

1183
00:41:05,605 --> 00:41:07,364
he's not gonna slap me for using his

1184
00:41:07,364 --> 00:41:08,885
name because I'm doing what he said and

1185
00:41:08,885 --> 00:41:10,244
I'm paying attention to him and I'm not

1186
00:41:10,244 --> 00:41:12,820
calling it in vain. So you're actively doing

1187
00:41:12,820 --> 00:41:14,679
the things that you were commanded to do.

1188
00:41:14,900 --> 00:41:15,400
Right?

1189
00:41:15,699 --> 00:41:17,619
And then realize that when you say it,

1190
00:41:17,619 --> 00:41:18,679
you're saying it like

1191
00:41:19,139 --> 00:41:21,380
trying to if if for some reason and

1192
00:41:21,380 --> 00:41:22,980
and we all know as men, we know

1193
00:41:22,980 --> 00:41:25,059
this. If our if our kids ever called

1194
00:41:25,059 --> 00:41:27,184
our first name, we're paying attention because one

1195
00:41:27,184 --> 00:41:28,704
of two things is about to happen. You're

1196
00:41:28,704 --> 00:41:30,465
about to get your mouth slapped in for

1197
00:41:30,465 --> 00:41:32,065
yelling at me for no reason and using

1198
00:41:32,065 --> 00:41:34,465
my first name. How dare you? Or I

1199
00:41:34,465 --> 00:41:36,405
know that you're in trouble and you really

1200
00:41:36,545 --> 00:41:38,880
needed to get my attention, and somebody else

1201
00:41:38,880 --> 00:41:40,159
is about to be in big trouble. It's

1202
00:41:40,159 --> 00:41:42,159
the same thing. He's our dad. Yeah. Yeah.

1203
00:41:42,159 --> 00:41:44,079
And when you call his name, when you

1204
00:41:44,079 --> 00:41:45,599
say that out loud, he's going, oh, what

1205
00:41:45,599 --> 00:41:46,799
did you say, son? Yeah. What did you

1206
00:41:46,799 --> 00:41:48,799
say, daughter? Yeah. You need me? Gave us

1207
00:41:48,799 --> 00:41:50,819
his name for a reason. That's right. Amen.

1208
00:41:50,880 --> 00:41:52,394
Amen. He did. He did.

1209
00:41:53,275 --> 00:41:54,554
One of the other things I wanted to

1210
00:41:54,554 --> 00:41:56,474
talk about with the Holy Spirit is is,

1211
00:41:56,795 --> 00:41:58,335
is a lot of the confusion

1212
00:41:59,275 --> 00:41:59,775
about,

1213
00:42:00,635 --> 00:42:01,135
when

1214
00:42:01,434 --> 00:42:03,755
you get the Holy Spirit and how you

1215
00:42:03,755 --> 00:42:05,295
get the Holy Spirit. Yeah.

1216
00:42:05,719 --> 00:42:07,159
Let me tell you this right now.

1217
00:42:08,039 --> 00:42:10,199
When you when you accept Christ as your

1218
00:42:10,199 --> 00:42:11,019
lord and savior,

1219
00:42:11,480 --> 00:42:14,199
at that very moment, at that very time

1220
00:42:14,199 --> 00:42:15,739
that you are born again,

1221
00:42:16,119 --> 00:42:18,559
you receive all of the Holy Spirit Yep.

1222
00:42:18,679 --> 00:42:19,659
That you can possibly

1223
00:42:20,279 --> 00:42:22,535
possibly get. Now let's

1224
00:42:22,974 --> 00:42:25,315
Ephesians chapter three nineteen says,

1225
00:42:25,775 --> 00:42:27,775
and to know the love of Christ, which

1226
00:42:27,775 --> 00:42:30,735
passes knowledge which passes knowledge that you might

1227
00:42:30,735 --> 00:42:31,635
be filled

1228
00:42:32,175 --> 00:42:34,815
with all the fullness of God. That so

1229
00:42:34,815 --> 00:42:36,114
so the love of Christ,

1230
00:42:36,619 --> 00:42:38,619
when you know him and you know his

1231
00:42:38,619 --> 00:42:40,780
love and you accept him, then you're filled

1232
00:42:40,780 --> 00:42:42,079
with the fullness of God.

1233
00:42:42,780 --> 00:42:45,179
Be not drunk with wine wherein excess, but

1234
00:42:45,179 --> 00:42:46,719
be filled with the spirit

1235
00:42:47,179 --> 00:42:49,199
even though we have been saved

1236
00:42:49,500 --> 00:42:51,885
and the spirit of God dwells in us.

1237
00:42:53,164 --> 00:42:54,385
Most will never

1238
00:42:55,005 --> 00:42:57,724
let him fill us up and overflow us.

1239
00:42:57,724 --> 00:43:00,364
Yeah. But there there's a difference between being

1240
00:43:00,364 --> 00:43:02,465
filled with the holy spirit and being,

1241
00:43:03,485 --> 00:43:04,704
and and and

1242
00:43:05,085 --> 00:43:06,989
and what we call or you hear some

1243
00:43:06,989 --> 00:43:07,489
denominations

1244
00:43:07,789 --> 00:43:09,809
say, getting the Holy Ghost. Right?

1245
00:43:10,190 --> 00:43:12,750
They they separate it. They say, okay, you

1246
00:43:12,750 --> 00:43:15,070
can be saved, but you still got you

1247
00:43:15,070 --> 00:43:16,670
still gotta get the Holy Ghost. Have been

1248
00:43:16,670 --> 00:43:17,289
baptized in the spirit. Yeah. Yeah. Get baptized

1249
00:43:17,289 --> 00:43:17,890
in the spirit.

1250
00:43:21,844 --> 00:43:24,244
Saved. Right? That that's that's why we that's

1251
00:43:24,244 --> 00:43:25,385
why we, that's

1252
00:43:26,085 --> 00:43:27,844
why we do the the the whole water

1253
00:43:27,844 --> 00:43:30,405
baptism thing. It's a type and likeness. Right?

1254
00:43:30,405 --> 00:43:32,324
Yeah. That we've been buried with the old

1255
00:43:32,324 --> 00:43:33,844
and raised up the new, but it it's

1256
00:43:33,844 --> 00:43:33,925
it's

1257
00:43:34,719 --> 00:43:37,199
that's why John said, look. He said, I

1258
00:43:37,199 --> 00:43:39,039
can baptize you with water. He said, but

1259
00:43:39,039 --> 00:43:40,019
there's one coming

1260
00:43:40,400 --> 00:43:43,280
who baptizes you with fire. Right? And and

1261
00:43:43,280 --> 00:43:45,199
and and when he talked about Jesus, he

1262
00:43:45,199 --> 00:43:47,855
was saying that that and we got other

1263
00:43:47,855 --> 00:43:49,614
denominations that say we gotta be baptized to

1264
00:43:49,614 --> 00:43:51,614
be saved. Yeah, you're right. You gotta be

1265
00:43:51,614 --> 00:43:53,295
baptized in the Holy Spirit. That's right. And

1266
00:43:53,295 --> 00:43:54,655
when do you get baptized in the Holy

1267
00:43:54,655 --> 00:43:56,974
Spirit? At the moment that you accept Christ

1268
00:43:56,974 --> 00:43:58,574
as your Lord and savior. That's right. That

1269
00:43:58,574 --> 00:44:00,230
very moment. Water baptism

1270
00:44:00,530 --> 00:44:02,789
is important. We've been commanded to do it,

1271
00:44:02,849 --> 00:44:04,449
but it does not save you. It does

1272
00:44:04,449 --> 00:44:06,449
not keep you saved. It is witness to

1273
00:44:06,449 --> 00:44:08,130
the rest of the world that he, I

1274
00:44:08,130 --> 00:44:10,050
am born again and he has done something

1275
00:44:10,050 --> 00:44:11,409
inside of me. That's right. It's not the

1276
00:44:11,409 --> 00:44:13,565
water baptism. And then we see sign of

1277
00:44:13,565 --> 00:44:14,924
that what we've been talking about a lot

1278
00:44:14,924 --> 00:44:17,324
lately too in Egypt, right? Yes. Yeah. You

1279
00:44:17,324 --> 00:44:19,085
were delivered out of Egypt by the blood

1280
00:44:19,085 --> 00:44:20,204
of the lamb and you were sent to

1281
00:44:20,204 --> 00:44:21,744
the Red Sea. Yes. Spiritual

1282
00:44:23,244 --> 00:44:25,885
baptism, Paul says in the relationship. Absolutely. Yes.

1283
00:44:25,885 --> 00:44:26,944
Absolutely. Absolutely.

1284
00:44:27,940 --> 00:44:29,940
And and and so and and here's as

1285
00:44:29,940 --> 00:44:31,539
I study the word of God, I see

1286
00:44:31,539 --> 00:44:34,119
a difference. I see a stark contrast in

1287
00:44:34,179 --> 00:44:34,660
in,

1288
00:44:35,380 --> 00:44:35,880
in,

1289
00:44:36,820 --> 00:44:39,140
getting baptized in the Holy Spirit or baptized

1290
00:44:39,140 --> 00:44:40,119
with the Holy Ghost

1291
00:44:40,635 --> 00:44:41,114
and,

1292
00:44:41,434 --> 00:44:42,954
being filled with the spirit.

1293
00:44:43,355 --> 00:44:46,315
Sometimes those denominations tie those things together, and

1294
00:44:46,315 --> 00:44:47,775
they don't need to be tied together.

1295
00:44:48,235 --> 00:44:50,074
When you are filled with the Holy Spirit,

1296
00:44:50,074 --> 00:44:51,755
what is God doing when he fills you

1297
00:44:51,755 --> 00:44:52,735
with the Holy Spirit?

1298
00:44:53,275 --> 00:44:54,739
So So you got all the holy spirit

1299
00:44:54,739 --> 00:44:55,480
you need,

1300
00:44:55,780 --> 00:44:57,780
but what God will do when you are

1301
00:44:57,780 --> 00:44:59,859
saved and when you know Jesus Christ and

1302
00:44:59,859 --> 00:45:01,619
you and you and you dig into his

1303
00:45:01,619 --> 00:45:03,859
word and you grow in his word, then

1304
00:45:03,859 --> 00:45:05,880
he'll begin to fill you for service.

1305
00:45:06,179 --> 00:45:08,474
That's what that's what that that that's talking

1306
00:45:08,474 --> 00:45:11,515
about. God has given you a direction. God

1307
00:45:11,515 --> 00:45:13,375
is feeling you filling you with,

1308
00:45:13,755 --> 00:45:15,835
with with with with enough of the holy

1309
00:45:15,835 --> 00:45:18,394
spirit to say, okay. Now I've got your

1310
00:45:18,394 --> 00:45:18,894
attention,

1311
00:45:19,195 --> 00:45:20,969
and and I've saved your soul and you're

1312
00:45:20,969 --> 00:45:22,650
born again, but now I want you to

1313
00:45:22,650 --> 00:45:24,650
do something with that. Maybe you've been called

1314
00:45:24,650 --> 00:45:26,489
to preach, maybe you've been called to teach,

1315
00:45:26,489 --> 00:45:27,949
maybe you've been called to

1316
00:45:28,489 --> 00:45:30,329
to to witness to this person or that

1317
00:45:30,329 --> 00:45:30,829
person.

1318
00:45:31,210 --> 00:45:34,329
Those are times that we are filled up,

1319
00:45:34,329 --> 00:45:36,784
that we allow the holy spirit to take

1320
00:45:36,784 --> 00:45:39,264
over Yeah. We are and begin to say,

1321
00:45:39,264 --> 00:45:41,904
okay, Brian. Here's your direction. Here's here's here's

1322
00:45:41,904 --> 00:45:43,664
the way I want you to go. That's

1323
00:45:43,664 --> 00:45:45,585
what being filled with the holy spirit is.

1324
00:45:45,585 --> 00:45:47,444
It is being filled for service.

1325
00:45:48,469 --> 00:45:50,489
I've got you. You belong to me.

1326
00:45:51,109 --> 00:45:53,109
Now I wanna use you. So be be

1327
00:45:53,109 --> 00:45:55,190
filled with the holy spirit, not drunken with

1328
00:45:55,190 --> 00:45:57,510
wine, but be filled with the spirit of

1329
00:45:57,510 --> 00:46:00,204
God. Yeah. And that's it's a huge part

1330
00:46:00,204 --> 00:46:01,885
of that's up to us. I mean, it's

1331
00:46:01,885 --> 00:46:03,804
it's us yielding to him. We gotta constantly

1332
00:46:03,804 --> 00:46:06,045
be yielding to him in prayer, bible study,

1333
00:46:06,045 --> 00:46:07,885
being with other believers and talking about it,

1334
00:46:07,885 --> 00:46:10,125
thinking about him, just just dwelling on these

1335
00:46:10,125 --> 00:46:12,284
things, right, as Paul says in Philippians. Yes.

1336
00:46:12,284 --> 00:46:13,344
Amen. Amen.

1337
00:46:14,469 --> 00:46:16,630
The holy spirit live in there and and

1338
00:46:16,630 --> 00:46:19,030
and it's up to you really how much

1339
00:46:19,030 --> 00:46:21,510
you allow the holy spirit to to fill

1340
00:46:21,510 --> 00:46:23,110
you up or how much you allow the

1341
00:46:23,110 --> 00:46:24,250
holy spirit to,

1342
00:46:24,710 --> 00:46:26,489
to consume you or to occupy

1343
00:46:27,110 --> 00:46:29,454
the parts of your life that that maybe

1344
00:46:29,454 --> 00:46:31,534
you haven't let the holy spirit in. Right?

1345
00:46:31,534 --> 00:46:32,675
So I get saved

1346
00:46:33,215 --> 00:46:34,434
and and I

1347
00:46:34,735 --> 00:46:36,335
I I love Jesus and I know I'm

1348
00:46:36,335 --> 00:46:38,494
going to heaven, but I still got this

1349
00:46:38,494 --> 00:46:41,159
addiction problem over here. I just can't hardly

1350
00:46:41,159 --> 00:46:43,159
kick it it did it didn't seem to

1351
00:46:43,159 --> 00:46:44,760
go away I thought it would go away

1352
00:46:44,760 --> 00:46:46,920
and I thought the I thought the thoughts

1353
00:46:46,920 --> 00:46:48,839
and and the desires and all the things

1354
00:46:48,839 --> 00:46:50,519
that I had for this thing that that

1355
00:46:50,519 --> 00:46:51,579
I know is wrong

1356
00:46:51,880 --> 00:46:54,039
would be gone but I'm I still got

1357
00:46:54,039 --> 00:46:56,264
them I still got them. What I'm telling

1358
00:46:56,264 --> 00:46:58,105
you is allow the holy spirit to fill

1359
00:46:58,105 --> 00:46:59,944
those voids. Allow the holy spirit to fill

1360
00:46:59,944 --> 00:47:02,025
those areas of your life that you haven't

1361
00:47:02,025 --> 00:47:03,804
let him take control of yet.

1362
00:47:04,264 --> 00:47:06,264
Let him take control of your mouth. Let

1363
00:47:06,264 --> 00:47:08,980
him take control of, of of your of

1364
00:47:08,980 --> 00:47:11,700
your workplace. Right? Your your work ethic, the

1365
00:47:11,700 --> 00:47:14,019
things that you do. There I mean, you

1366
00:47:14,099 --> 00:47:16,099
we've talked about it before. Letting the holy

1367
00:47:16,099 --> 00:47:17,960
spirit fine tune us,

1368
00:47:18,900 --> 00:47:21,059
to something that did not bother us before,

1369
00:47:21,059 --> 00:47:23,640
but now we're convicted over it now because

1370
00:47:23,894 --> 00:47:26,215
we belong to a higher power. We belong

1371
00:47:26,215 --> 00:47:26,875
to God,

1372
00:47:27,335 --> 00:47:27,835
Yahweh,

1373
00:47:28,135 --> 00:47:28,635
Jehovah,

1374
00:47:29,414 --> 00:47:31,974
Jesus, the son of God, right? We belong

1375
00:47:31,974 --> 00:47:33,735
to him. He is, he is ours and

1376
00:47:33,735 --> 00:47:35,894
we are his. And so when he begins

1377
00:47:35,894 --> 00:47:38,429
to consume us and he begins to fill

1378
00:47:38,429 --> 00:47:40,909
us up, but sometimes we wanna say, oh,

1379
00:47:40,909 --> 00:47:42,989
God, I'll give you, you know, I'll give

1380
00:47:42,989 --> 00:47:45,550
you 30, I'll keep 70, you know, the

1381
00:47:45,550 --> 00:47:47,230
I'll give you I'll give you 10, I'll

1382
00:47:47,230 --> 00:47:47,969
keep 90.

1383
00:47:48,429 --> 00:47:50,110
That's not letting that's not being filled with

1384
00:47:50,110 --> 00:47:52,744
the holy spirit. No. No. We don't we

1385
00:47:52,744 --> 00:47:54,505
don't wanna let go of it. It it

1386
00:47:54,505 --> 00:47:56,505
all comes down to abiding, right? Like Jesus

1387
00:47:56,505 --> 00:47:58,664
said in 15, we're we're the vine we're

1388
00:47:58,664 --> 00:48:00,585
the branches and he's the vine. Yeah. We

1389
00:48:00,585 --> 00:48:02,184
abide in him. We live in him and

1390
00:48:02,184 --> 00:48:04,559
he promises to transform us. Or or like

1391
00:48:04,559 --> 00:48:06,019
Paul says in Romans 12,

1392
00:48:06,800 --> 00:48:09,920
living sacrifices. Yeah. Right? Yes. Amen. Be transformed

1393
00:48:09,920 --> 00:48:11,360
by the renewing of your mind. That's right.

1394
00:48:11,360 --> 00:48:13,680
In Colossians three, think on it says set

1395
00:48:13,680 --> 00:48:15,519
your mind on things above. That's right. Alright.

1396
00:48:15,519 --> 00:48:18,105
In Philippians four, think on these things. Yes.

1397
00:48:18,105 --> 00:48:19,585
Amen. It's like what do we put in

1398
00:48:19,585 --> 00:48:22,465
here? Psalms and hymns and spiritual songs. Yeah.

1399
00:48:22,465 --> 00:48:25,765
Those Right. Spiritual songs. Right? The holy spirit.

1400
00:48:25,985 --> 00:48:28,405
Things that the holy spirit dwells in. Right?

1401
00:48:28,865 --> 00:48:31,285
If you're if you're consumed over over,

1402
00:48:31,880 --> 00:48:34,360
if it's TV that that keeps consuming your

1403
00:48:34,360 --> 00:48:36,039
mind and keeps drawing you in and you

1404
00:48:36,039 --> 00:48:38,199
keep saying, I don't wanna watch this stuff,

1405
00:48:38,199 --> 00:48:39,739
but I just keep doing it.

1406
00:48:40,440 --> 00:48:43,079
Listen. Let the holy spirit consume that too.

1407
00:48:43,079 --> 00:48:45,144
Let's take over. He'll change

1408
00:48:45,525 --> 00:48:46,025
everything.

1409
00:48:46,405 --> 00:48:48,964
Yeah. He'll change everything. Are there areas in

1410
00:48:48,964 --> 00:48:50,724
my life that I still hold on to?

1411
00:48:50,724 --> 00:48:52,724
Sure there are. Yes. Yeah. But I I

1412
00:48:52,885 --> 00:48:54,724
my desire is to let to let the

1413
00:48:54,724 --> 00:48:57,125
holy spirit consume those things, to let the

1414
00:48:57,125 --> 00:48:59,400
holy spirit push those things out, and let

1415
00:48:59,400 --> 00:49:01,800
my mind's desire be his mind's desire. Yeah.

1416
00:49:01,800 --> 00:49:02,859
That's when he says

1417
00:49:03,559 --> 00:49:04,859
he says, pray

1418
00:49:05,159 --> 00:49:07,480
and you'll receive these things. Right? Pray and

1419
00:49:07,480 --> 00:49:10,519
and and and whatever you pray about, then

1420
00:49:10,519 --> 00:49:12,414
I'll give you. Right? What is he saying

1421
00:49:12,414 --> 00:49:14,655
there? He's saying let the holy spirit let

1422
00:49:14,655 --> 00:49:16,335
you have the mind of Christ. And when

1423
00:49:16,335 --> 00:49:18,494
you have the mind of Christ, my desires

1424
00:49:18,494 --> 00:49:20,734
and your desires are gonna align up. Right?

1425
00:49:20,734 --> 00:49:22,734
You're you're no longer gonna want what you

1426
00:49:22,734 --> 00:49:24,734
want. And when you want what I want

1427
00:49:24,734 --> 00:49:27,000
and what I want for you, God says,

1428
00:49:27,000 --> 00:49:29,079
I'll give that to you. Right. Ask anything

1429
00:49:29,079 --> 00:49:31,000
in my name. Yes. My will. Right? That's

1430
00:49:31,000 --> 00:49:32,280
right. And I'll give it to you. But

1431
00:49:32,280 --> 00:49:34,440
it's gotta be listened up. That's it. That's

1432
00:49:34,440 --> 00:49:36,760
it. We it's not about a new car.

1433
00:49:36,760 --> 00:49:38,920
It's not about even maybe it is a

1434
00:49:38,920 --> 00:49:40,519
new job and if but if God is

1435
00:49:40,519 --> 00:49:42,519
in it. Right? Yeah. But it's not about

1436
00:49:42,519 --> 00:49:45,235
those fleshly things or those material things. Yeah.

1437
00:49:45,235 --> 00:49:47,015
It's about the spiritual things.

1438
00:49:47,394 --> 00:49:49,735
We've got to learn to live our life

1439
00:49:50,195 --> 00:49:52,275
in the spirit of God and through the

1440
00:49:52,275 --> 00:49:53,875
spirit of God. That is the pure the

1441
00:49:53,875 --> 00:49:55,554
power of the spirit of God. It's not

1442
00:49:55,554 --> 00:49:57,315
being able to come into a church service

1443
00:49:57,315 --> 00:49:58,839
for an hour and speak in tongues and

1444
00:49:58,839 --> 00:50:01,400
run the aisles. No. That maybe you're feeling

1445
00:50:01,400 --> 00:50:03,320
great during that time, but how is it

1446
00:50:03,320 --> 00:50:05,880
affecting your Tuesday or your Wednesday or your

1447
00:50:05,880 --> 00:50:08,359
Thursday at work? I've known people who've who

1448
00:50:08,359 --> 00:50:10,780
said they spoke in tongues and live like

1449
00:50:11,159 --> 00:50:13,034
a wretched soul the rest of the week.

1450
00:50:13,034 --> 00:50:14,954
Yeah. And you're telling me that that that

1451
00:50:14,954 --> 00:50:15,454
person

1452
00:50:15,835 --> 00:50:18,394
is is is closer to God than the

1453
00:50:18,394 --> 00:50:20,554
guy that stays in the word of God

1454
00:50:20,554 --> 00:50:23,275
all week and and and follows the the

1455
00:50:23,275 --> 00:50:26,074
the the Holy Spirit in his decision making

1456
00:50:26,074 --> 00:50:28,155
and his life, and he's a witness to

1457
00:50:28,155 --> 00:50:30,179
other people, and he's drawing other people to

1458
00:50:30,179 --> 00:50:31,819
him because the spirit of God is drawing

1459
00:50:32,019 --> 00:50:34,900
has the drawing power. No. Don't don't don't

1460
00:50:34,900 --> 00:50:36,500
give me that. Right? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That

1461
00:50:36,739 --> 00:50:38,840
I would love to have some more experiences.

1462
00:50:39,380 --> 00:50:41,139
Yeah. You know, just every day. You know?

1463
00:50:41,139 --> 00:50:43,460
That'd be awesome. Yeah. Yeah. But the really

1464
00:50:43,460 --> 00:50:45,614
important thing is that we're we're we're

1465
00:50:45,994 --> 00:50:48,175
just faithfully walking. Absolutely.

1466
00:50:48,474 --> 00:50:51,594
Faithfully following. Absolutely. And it's all about faith

1467
00:50:51,594 --> 00:50:53,855
and it's all about it's all about obedience.

1468
00:50:54,155 --> 00:50:55,355
You know, I preached on that a couple

1469
00:50:55,355 --> 00:50:57,195
weeks ago. If you love me, keep my

1470
00:50:57,195 --> 00:50:59,690
commandments. Right? Follow me. If you wanna say

1471
00:50:59,690 --> 00:51:00,589
I love God,

1472
00:51:01,049 --> 00:51:02,250
it it it goes back to that whole

1473
00:51:02,250 --> 00:51:04,250
thing. He said, Peter, if you love me

1474
00:51:04,329 --> 00:51:06,089
yes, oh, lord. I love you. Peter, do

1475
00:51:06,089 --> 00:51:07,609
you love me? Yes, lord. I love you.

1476
00:51:07,609 --> 00:51:09,549
Well, if you do, guess what?

1477
00:51:10,170 --> 00:51:12,784
Obey my commandments. Feed my sheep. Yeah. That's

1478
00:51:12,784 --> 00:51:14,385
what he was telling them to do. And

1479
00:51:14,385 --> 00:51:16,144
and and this whole thing that we've been

1480
00:51:16,144 --> 00:51:18,625
talking about with with, with walking in the

1481
00:51:18,625 --> 00:51:21,344
promised land, it's a victorious Christian life. How

1482
00:51:21,344 --> 00:51:22,804
do we how are we victorious?

1483
00:51:23,670 --> 00:51:25,130
By letting the spirit of God

1484
00:51:25,510 --> 00:51:27,190
take us where we need to go. Yep.

1485
00:51:27,190 --> 00:51:29,369
Right? And and following him. Yep.

1486
00:51:30,469 --> 00:51:32,710
Yep. Now I had, I was thinking about

1487
00:51:32,710 --> 00:51:33,929
the baptism again.

1488
00:51:35,909 --> 00:51:37,769
First Peter chapter three says,

1489
00:51:38,405 --> 00:51:40,664
corresponding to that, baptism now saves

1490
00:51:41,125 --> 00:51:42,965
you not the removal of dirt from the

1491
00:51:42,965 --> 00:51:44,965
flesh, but it appealed to God for a

1492
00:51:44,965 --> 00:51:47,204
good conscience through the resurrection of Jesus Christ.

1493
00:51:47,204 --> 00:51:49,525
Amen. It's not about the water baptism. There's

1494
00:51:49,525 --> 00:51:51,204
none. That's a great thing and it's a

1495
00:51:51,204 --> 00:51:53,219
commandment that we need to do. Yeah. You

1496
00:51:53,219 --> 00:51:55,719
know? Don't don't neglect it. That's right. But

1497
00:51:55,860 --> 00:51:58,500
that's not what saves you. No. No. And

1498
00:51:58,500 --> 00:52:00,659
and that's you know, we've seen we've seen

1499
00:52:00,659 --> 00:52:03,400
when, when Jesus wanted to wash the disciples'

1500
00:52:03,539 --> 00:52:04,039
feet,

1501
00:52:04,820 --> 00:52:06,980
and and, of course, what happened? Peter opened

1502
00:52:06,980 --> 00:52:08,775
his mouth and said, lord, not me. You

1503
00:52:08,775 --> 00:52:10,375
know? Not you're not gonna wash my feet.

1504
00:52:10,375 --> 00:52:12,875
Yeah. And and he's like, oh, he said,

1505
00:52:13,014 --> 00:52:14,855
so if I don't wash your feet, he

1506
00:52:14,855 --> 00:52:16,775
said, you'll have no place with me. I'm

1507
00:52:16,775 --> 00:52:19,255
paraphrasing here. And he said, lord, not my

1508
00:52:19,255 --> 00:52:22,054
feet only, but everything. Yeah. And he spoke

1509
00:52:22,054 --> 00:52:24,780
of not his not the flesh, not washing

1510
00:52:24,780 --> 00:52:28,160
the flesh off, but but, an inward cleansing.

1511
00:52:28,220 --> 00:52:30,300
Right? The washing of the spirit of the

1512
00:52:30,300 --> 00:52:33,019
word in your heart. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Getting

1513
00:52:33,019 --> 00:52:34,700
that that and we need that every day.

1514
00:52:34,700 --> 00:52:36,300
Right? We need him to wash our feet

1515
00:52:36,300 --> 00:52:37,900
every day. Yeah. Because we're we're walking in

1516
00:52:37,900 --> 00:52:39,595
this world. That's right. And our feet get

1517
00:52:39,595 --> 00:52:41,755
nasty. That's right. Right? And we can't we

1518
00:52:41,994 --> 00:52:43,595
I evidently, we can't bend over far enough

1519
00:52:43,595 --> 00:52:45,055
to wash them, but Yeah. But

1520
00:52:46,075 --> 00:52:49,055
but That's true. Yeah. I messed my back.

1521
00:52:49,114 --> 00:52:50,015
Yeah. Yeah.

1522
00:52:52,750 --> 00:52:54,590
Yeah, I keep listening. I got hold on

1523
00:52:54,590 --> 00:52:55,329
to one tool.

1524
00:52:57,470 --> 00:52:59,470
Y'all don't want that picture. But But no.

1525
00:52:59,470 --> 00:53:01,070
I mean, he he does. He and he's

1526
00:53:01,070 --> 00:53:02,590
faithful to do it. You know? He's he

1527
00:53:02,590 --> 00:53:04,695
came to serve, not not to be served,

1528
00:53:04,775 --> 00:53:06,614
and and it set the perfect example for

1529
00:53:06,614 --> 00:53:09,275
us. Amen. But he washes our feet daily

1530
00:53:09,335 --> 00:53:10,855
when we stay in his word, when we

1531
00:53:10,855 --> 00:53:13,434
stay in a relationship with him. Amen. Amen.

1532
00:53:14,855 --> 00:53:16,535
I I I don't know how much time

1533
00:53:16,535 --> 00:53:18,400
I got here. It's It's okay. Y'all y'all

1534
00:53:18,400 --> 00:53:19,920
listen. Y'all go back and listen. Cut it

1535
00:53:19,920 --> 00:53:21,440
off and eat supper and come back if

1536
00:53:21,440 --> 00:53:23,280
you need to. There you go.

1537
00:53:23,599 --> 00:53:26,480
John fourteen sixteen through 18. And I will

1538
00:53:26,480 --> 00:53:28,239
pray the father, and he shall send you

1539
00:53:28,239 --> 00:53:29,059
a comforter

1540
00:53:29,360 --> 00:53:32,204
that he may abide with you forever. Even

1541
00:53:32,204 --> 00:53:33,425
the spirit of truth

1542
00:53:33,724 --> 00:53:36,445
whom the world cannot receive because it seeth

1543
00:53:36,445 --> 00:53:38,224
him not, neither knoweth him,

1544
00:53:38,765 --> 00:53:42,045
but ye know him for he dwelleth in

1545
00:53:42,045 --> 00:53:45,265
you with you and shall be in you.

1546
00:53:45,485 --> 00:53:46,385
So so

1547
00:53:47,030 --> 00:53:48,869
one of the things we we hadn't really

1548
00:53:48,869 --> 00:53:51,269
covered yet is is why why did he

1549
00:53:51,269 --> 00:53:52,710
why did he send the holy spirit? Well,

1550
00:53:52,710 --> 00:53:54,150
he sent him to to lead us, guide

1551
00:53:54,150 --> 00:53:55,670
us, and direct us. Yes, he did that.

1552
00:53:55,670 --> 00:53:57,589
But he sent him because he sent the

1553
00:53:57,589 --> 00:53:58,730
holy spirit to us

1554
00:53:59,030 --> 00:54:01,125
because he was leaving, right? I go to

1555
00:54:01,125 --> 00:54:02,485
the father. He said, I'm gonna go to

1556
00:54:02,485 --> 00:54:03,925
the father. He said, but I won't leave

1557
00:54:03,925 --> 00:54:05,684
you alone. Because that's what they were worried

1558
00:54:05,684 --> 00:54:07,844
about. They're like, oh, you're you're gonna leave

1559
00:54:07,844 --> 00:54:09,844
us. You're Certainly. You know, you're designed. What

1560
00:54:09,844 --> 00:54:11,605
are we gonna do now? You we don't

1561
00:54:11,605 --> 00:54:13,010
we don't we don't see your power. We're

1562
00:54:13,010 --> 00:54:14,530
not gonna see your power. We're not gonna

1563
00:54:14,530 --> 00:54:16,289
see the healing. We're not gonna see the

1564
00:54:16,289 --> 00:54:18,210
the the people, the masses. You know, we're

1565
00:54:18,210 --> 00:54:19,489
not gonna be able to touch them. What

1566
00:54:19,489 --> 00:54:21,329
are we gonna do now? He said, wait

1567
00:54:21,329 --> 00:54:23,409
a minute, guys. Yeah. He said, I'm going

1568
00:54:23,409 --> 00:54:25,010
to be with the father, but I'm not

1569
00:54:25,010 --> 00:54:25,989
gonna leave you

1570
00:54:26,289 --> 00:54:28,925
comfortless. I will not leave you alone.

1571
00:54:29,305 --> 00:54:32,105
I will come to you. Right? What did

1572
00:54:32,105 --> 00:54:33,945
he mean by that? It's that it's that

1573
00:54:33,945 --> 00:54:35,324
Greek word, parakletos,

1574
00:54:35,785 --> 00:54:37,324
which means intercessor,

1575
00:54:37,625 --> 00:54:38,125
counselor,

1576
00:54:39,224 --> 00:54:42,025
advocate. Right? The the the the c o

1577
00:54:42,025 --> 00:54:43,805
m and comforter means

1578
00:54:44,400 --> 00:54:47,539
alongside of the the fortus, the comforter,

1579
00:54:48,400 --> 00:54:52,079
means strong. He comes along beside us with

1580
00:54:52,079 --> 00:54:55,039
strength, right? With with with all the things

1581
00:54:55,039 --> 00:54:56,739
with intercession, with counseling,

1582
00:54:57,199 --> 00:54:59,505
being an advocate for us. And so the

1583
00:54:59,505 --> 00:55:02,324
Holy Spirit is a strong force

1584
00:55:02,784 --> 00:55:05,424
who always walks beside us. That's what that

1585
00:55:05,424 --> 00:55:07,605
equals out to. Verse 17,

1586
00:55:07,984 --> 00:55:10,565
the world cannot that we just read,

1587
00:55:11,105 --> 00:55:12,869
the world cannot know him

1588
00:55:13,190 --> 00:55:15,530
nor can the world understand him,

1589
00:55:16,070 --> 00:55:17,829
and the truth that is in the word

1590
00:55:17,829 --> 00:55:20,490
of God, which is which is Jesus because

1591
00:55:20,950 --> 00:55:23,670
he is truth. Right? So unless we have

1592
00:55:23,670 --> 00:55:26,230
the Holy Spirit to guide us, then,

1593
00:55:27,465 --> 00:55:29,385
then we don't have the truth. And the

1594
00:55:29,385 --> 00:55:32,184
truth, guess what? It's offensive to the world.

1595
00:55:32,184 --> 00:55:34,265
It is. It is offensive to the world.

1596
00:55:34,265 --> 00:55:35,644
They they don't like it.

1597
00:55:36,184 --> 00:55:36,585
So,

1598
00:55:36,985 --> 00:55:38,525
the Greek word for comfortless,

1599
00:55:40,659 --> 00:55:41,800
is is orphaness.

1600
00:55:42,260 --> 00:55:44,500
Right? It's it's that it's that it's where

1601
00:55:44,500 --> 00:55:46,420
we get our word for, of course, for

1602
00:55:46,420 --> 00:55:48,900
orphan. And what is God saying? When he

1603
00:55:48,900 --> 00:55:51,079
says, I will not leave you comfortless,

1604
00:55:51,460 --> 00:55:53,385
he is saying, I will not leave you

1605
00:55:53,385 --> 00:55:55,625
an orphan. Right. I will not leave you

1606
00:55:55,625 --> 00:55:58,525
alone. Right? He's a father to the fatherless.

1607
00:55:58,664 --> 00:56:01,144
So if you're out there today and and

1608
00:56:01,144 --> 00:56:02,585
and and you say, you know what? I

1609
00:56:02,585 --> 00:56:04,585
didn't have good parents growing up, Brown. I

1610
00:56:04,585 --> 00:56:05,485
I didn't have

1611
00:56:05,900 --> 00:56:08,140
I didn't have a a man around me

1612
00:56:08,140 --> 00:56:10,380
that that that was a father figure, that

1613
00:56:10,380 --> 00:56:12,940
loved me, that comforted me, that guided me,

1614
00:56:12,940 --> 00:56:15,099
that that helped me, and and it's why

1615
00:56:15,099 --> 00:56:16,619
I'm the way I am now, and I

1616
00:56:16,619 --> 00:56:18,699
I can't seem to break this. And it's

1617
00:56:18,699 --> 00:56:20,219
not that I wanna be where I'm at,

1618
00:56:20,219 --> 00:56:22,052
but but I just can't get away from

1619
00:56:22,052 --> 00:56:23,958
it. Can I tell you right now that

1620
00:56:23,958 --> 00:56:25,864
he is a father to the fatherless? Amen.

1621
00:56:25,864 --> 00:56:27,769
And he made a promise. He made a

1622
00:56:27,769 --> 00:56:29,675
promise to his disciples and he made a

1623
00:56:29,675 --> 00:56:31,581
promise to us in the word of God

1624
00:56:31,581 --> 00:56:33,487
that he was going to be with the

1625
00:56:33,487 --> 00:56:34,920
father. He was gonna sit at the right

1626
00:56:34,920 --> 00:56:37,000
hand, he was gonna make intercession for us,

1627
00:56:37,000 --> 00:56:38,839
but he said I will not leave you

1628
00:56:38,839 --> 00:56:40,920
alone, I'm gonna leave you with the spirit

1629
00:56:40,920 --> 00:56:44,119
with my spirit, the spirit of God to

1630
00:56:44,119 --> 00:56:46,519
to invite to be invited inside of you,

1631
00:56:46,519 --> 00:56:48,525
to live inside of you, and to lead

1632
00:56:48,525 --> 00:56:50,045
you and guide you, direct you so that

1633
00:56:50,045 --> 00:56:51,565
you are not alone and you're not by

1634
00:56:51,565 --> 00:56:54,304
yourself. Amen. That's who he is. Amen.

1635
00:56:55,324 --> 00:56:56,784
That's who he is. Amen.

1636
00:56:59,324 --> 00:57:01,324
He's so good. He's so good. He he

1637
00:57:01,324 --> 00:57:03,239
is. He is. And we don't know why.

1638
00:57:03,639 --> 00:57:05,719
No. No. Why does he love us like

1639
00:57:05,719 --> 00:57:07,960
that? I don't deserve it. I don't deserve

1640
00:57:07,960 --> 00:57:10,280
it. Yeah. No. But he just pours himself

1641
00:57:10,280 --> 00:57:12,940
out into us. Man. Oh, gosh. Doesn't he?

1642
00:57:13,000 --> 00:57:14,139
And when he overflows,

1643
00:57:14,840 --> 00:57:16,039
he should we should let him

1644
00:57:17,224 --> 00:57:19,385
When we say our cup runneth over, when

1645
00:57:19,385 --> 00:57:20,925
we think about that statement,

1646
00:57:21,545 --> 00:57:23,625
it really should. Right? I I think I

1647
00:57:23,625 --> 00:57:25,065
think we got a lot of Christians out

1648
00:57:25,065 --> 00:57:26,585
there that are worried about the spirit of

1649
00:57:26,585 --> 00:57:28,585
God filling them up and then and then

1650
00:57:28,585 --> 00:57:30,265
letting it out. Right? They don't wanna let

1651
00:57:30,265 --> 00:57:31,930
it out. Out. Like, okay. I've got you,

1652
00:57:31,930 --> 00:57:33,530
Lord. Now I'm all I'm gonna keep you

1653
00:57:33,530 --> 00:57:35,690
right here, and I keep letting anybody else

1654
00:57:35,690 --> 00:57:37,769
see you, touch you, feel you, any of

1655
00:57:37,769 --> 00:57:39,930
those things because they'll get what I got.

1656
00:57:39,930 --> 00:57:40,430
Listen.

1657
00:57:40,809 --> 00:57:43,210
There's enough to go around. Oh, what? Yeah.

1658
00:57:43,210 --> 00:57:43,710
Amen?

1659
00:57:44,045 --> 00:57:46,045
I mean, it is like the ointment that

1660
00:57:46,045 --> 00:57:47,724
run down the beard of air, and that's

1661
00:57:47,724 --> 00:57:49,644
what the Bible tells us, you know. It

1662
00:57:49,644 --> 00:57:51,485
just gets from your head and go went

1663
00:57:51,485 --> 00:57:53,218
all the way down to his feet. That's

1664
00:57:53,218 --> 00:57:54,545
stopped. He's got plenty of fire.

1665
00:57:55,085 --> 00:57:57,005
Yes. Yes. He'll fill you up. He'll fill

1666
00:57:57,005 --> 00:57:59,980
your whole church up. Right. Your family, the

1667
00:57:59,980 --> 00:58:01,360
people beside you.

1668
00:58:02,059 --> 00:58:02,880
It's it's why

1669
00:58:03,260 --> 00:58:05,180
I've watched this before, guys, I promise I'm

1670
00:58:05,180 --> 00:58:07,039
gonna shut up, but I I I've watched

1671
00:58:08,059 --> 00:58:10,300
this before when I I I've got to

1672
00:58:10,300 --> 00:58:11,920
baptize whole families

1673
00:58:12,460 --> 00:58:15,039
because the man of God got in line,

1674
00:58:15,315 --> 00:58:18,275
Right? Because because somebody or somebody in that

1675
00:58:18,275 --> 00:58:20,355
family, especially when the man does it, but

1676
00:58:20,355 --> 00:58:23,394
but but somebody in that family got saved.

1677
00:58:23,394 --> 00:58:25,954
Somebody in that family invited God into their

1678
00:58:25,954 --> 00:58:27,795
hearts and the rest of the family started

1679
00:58:27,795 --> 00:58:29,795
seeing a difference in them. They started seeing

1680
00:58:29,795 --> 00:58:31,690
a change in them and they said, hey,

1681
00:58:31,690 --> 00:58:32,750
I want what

1682
00:58:33,369 --> 00:58:35,849
they have. And so God just begins to

1683
00:58:35,849 --> 00:58:37,930
move from breast to breast. Right? He he

1684
00:58:37,970 --> 00:58:40,010
he's that's the way he is. Yeah. Yeah.

1685
00:58:40,010 --> 00:58:41,630
He's so good. He's so good.

1686
00:58:43,849 --> 00:58:45,849
Alright. Well, I think that pretty much,

1687
00:58:46,375 --> 00:58:48,215
swings us down this week. And I I

1688
00:58:48,215 --> 00:58:50,295
do wanna go back to, what you were

1689
00:58:50,295 --> 00:58:51,114
saying earlier,

1690
00:58:51,735 --> 00:58:53,894
about fearing God and about loving God and

1691
00:58:53,894 --> 00:58:56,295
following his commands. And I I always in

1692
00:58:56,295 --> 00:58:57,655
a discussion like that, I like to end

1693
00:58:57,655 --> 00:58:58,315
with Ecclesiastes

1694
00:58:58,775 --> 00:58:59,594
chapter 12

1695
00:58:59,909 --> 00:59:02,549
verses thirteen and fourteen. Having heard everything, I've

1696
00:59:02,549 --> 00:59:04,789
reached this conclusion. Fear God and keep his

1697
00:59:04,789 --> 00:59:07,190
commandments because this is the whole duty of

1698
00:59:07,190 --> 00:59:10,170
man. Amen. For God will evaluate every deed

1699
00:59:10,389 --> 00:59:13,349
including every secret thing whether good or evil.

1700
00:59:13,349 --> 00:59:14,309
Amen. And I mean, it's

1701
00:59:15,094 --> 00:59:17,174
right there, you know, everybody talks about meaning

1702
00:59:17,174 --> 00:59:19,734
of life. Yeah. Yeah. Right there. And that

1703
00:59:19,734 --> 00:59:22,454
obedience is One little love. Yeah. Yeah. One

1704
00:59:22,454 --> 00:59:24,694
little verse. It's just on love God. Yeah.

1705
00:59:24,694 --> 00:59:26,714
Love God. Fear him and keep his commandments.

1706
00:59:26,775 --> 00:59:28,855
That's that's how we love God. Yeah. Right?

1707
00:59:28,855 --> 00:59:29,994
Is to be be respectful,

1708
00:59:30,295 --> 00:59:32,599
fear him and keep his commandments. Right. Amen.

1709
00:59:33,139 --> 00:59:33,619
And,

1710
00:59:34,099 --> 00:59:36,019
yeah. So we're we're praying that God will

1711
00:59:36,019 --> 00:59:38,260
be with everyone this week and will,

1712
00:59:38,900 --> 00:59:40,339
help us as we go out to apply

1713
00:59:40,339 --> 00:59:42,099
this. Remember, you've got the you've got the

1714
00:59:42,099 --> 00:59:44,159
Holy Spirit of God living in you. You've

1715
00:59:44,159 --> 00:59:46,380
got the same spirit that raised Jesus from

1716
00:59:46,380 --> 00:59:48,599
the dead living in you, guiding you every

1717
00:59:48,599 --> 00:59:50,820
day. Trust it. Ask it for the guidance.

1718
00:59:50,820 --> 00:59:53,039
Yeah. Do your Bible study. Do your reading.

1719
00:59:53,039 --> 00:59:55,260
Do your prayer, and God kinda will point

1720
00:59:55,260 --> 00:59:57,480
you in the right direction. I mean, he's

1721
00:59:57,480 --> 00:59:59,469
not gonna do everything for you. You gotta

1722
00:59:59,469 --> 01:00:00,989
do it do some things on your own,

1723
01:00:00,989 --> 01:00:02,829
but, you're not doing it you gotta do

1724
01:00:02,829 --> 01:00:04,910
some things for yourself, but you're not doing

1725
01:00:04,910 --> 01:00:06,910
it by yourself. For sure. You know, God

1726
01:00:06,910 --> 01:00:08,510
God you know, it's like

1727
01:00:08,989 --> 01:00:10,590
he hands us the tools to do what

1728
01:00:10,590 --> 01:00:12,030
we need to do. Ask God to give

1729
01:00:12,030 --> 01:00:13,275
you a hunger and a thirst for it

1730
01:00:13,275 --> 01:00:14,795
because Yes. And you can look at this

1731
01:00:14,795 --> 01:00:16,875
book and that's Yeah. The words of God

1732
01:00:16,875 --> 01:00:18,554
are sitting in his book. That's right. Mhmm.

1733
01:00:18,554 --> 01:00:21,135
When you hunger and thirst after righteousness. Yeah.

1734
01:00:21,194 --> 01:00:22,815
Yeah. Yeah. Amen.

1735
01:00:23,114 --> 01:00:23,614
Absolutely.

1736
01:00:24,155 --> 01:00:26,010
Alright. Well, we will be back next week.

1737
01:00:26,010 --> 01:00:27,769
I will have this posted. It'll end up

1738
01:00:27,769 --> 01:00:28,590
being tomorrow.

1739
01:00:29,210 --> 01:00:31,929
I I've determined that I am officially old

1740
01:00:31,929 --> 01:00:34,010
enough that sitting up late on,

1741
01:00:35,210 --> 01:00:37,530
Monday night and and actually getting it all

1742
01:00:37,530 --> 01:00:38,030
together,

1743
01:00:38,730 --> 01:00:40,269
I'm I'm too old for that.

1744
01:00:42,005 --> 01:00:43,445
Yeah. Used to be setting up, you know,

1745
01:00:43,445 --> 01:00:45,684
set up till, yeah, ten, eleven, 12:00, whatever.

1746
01:00:45,684 --> 01:00:47,125
It's no big deal. Now I'm like, oh,

1747
01:00:47,125 --> 01:00:48,965
man. I gotta get some sleep. Yeah. Yeah.

1748
01:00:48,965 --> 01:00:50,305
You can. So,

1749
01:00:50,885 --> 01:00:52,585
so it will be tomorrow sometime.

1750
01:00:53,285 --> 01:00:55,380
It will get posted probably tomorrow evening,

1751
01:00:56,179 --> 01:00:58,339
but we will we will be going up,

1752
01:00:58,579 --> 01:01:00,819
this week, maybe even a little bit late

1753
01:01:00,819 --> 01:01:03,139
this week just because we also have school

1754
01:01:03,139 --> 01:01:05,139
is kicking off. Pray for the kids. If

1755
01:01:05,139 --> 01:01:06,900
you're in DeKalb County, we're gonna be praying

1756
01:01:06,900 --> 01:01:09,319
for you because school starts back Thursday.

1757
01:01:09,619 --> 01:01:12,065
So glad I'm old. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Well,

1758
01:01:12,065 --> 01:01:14,545
I've got two kids in school and so

1759
01:01:14,545 --> 01:01:16,304
I've got to somehow figure out how to

1760
01:01:16,304 --> 01:01:18,224
go and in the course of two hours,

1761
01:01:18,224 --> 01:01:20,144
take them down there, do the the the

1762
01:01:20,144 --> 01:01:21,904
big get together that they have where they

1763
01:01:21,904 --> 01:01:23,664
tell everybody everything and holler at us for

1764
01:01:23,664 --> 01:01:24,944
a little bit about, you know, making sure

1765
01:01:24,944 --> 01:01:27,320
there's no absences this year and then go

1766
01:01:27,320 --> 01:01:29,320
and and take the kids each to their

1767
01:01:29,320 --> 01:01:31,239
separate classrooms that are on separate ends of

1768
01:01:31,239 --> 01:01:33,000
the school now because it's k through 12

1769
01:01:33,000 --> 01:01:33,659
at Sylvania.

1770
01:01:34,039 --> 01:01:35,400
And, you know, you got one kid in

1771
01:01:35,400 --> 01:01:37,960
elementary and one kid that's, also in elementary,

1772
01:01:37,960 --> 01:01:39,980
but it's middle school. So it's technically

1773
01:01:40,519 --> 01:01:42,654
part of the high school, and it turns

1774
01:01:42,654 --> 01:01:43,775
into a mess. And, you know, one of

1775
01:01:43,775 --> 01:01:45,454
the kids has, like, three teachers, the other

1776
01:01:45,454 --> 01:01:46,815
one has, like, two or three teachers, and

1777
01:01:46,815 --> 01:01:48,255
I'm, like, why are why are third graders

1778
01:01:48,255 --> 01:01:50,094
getting, like, three teachers now? This makes no

1779
01:01:50,094 --> 01:01:50,914
sense to me.

1780
01:01:52,414 --> 01:01:54,335
Hey. And one one thing I wanna mention

1781
01:01:54,335 --> 01:01:56,094
before we before we finish up to,

1782
01:01:56,849 --> 01:01:58,369
what we talked about at the at the

1783
01:01:58,369 --> 01:01:59,010
beginning, but,

1784
01:01:59,570 --> 01:02:02,150
before we before we were online here,

1785
01:02:03,090 --> 01:02:05,809
we're we are planning on you may have

1786
01:02:05,809 --> 01:02:07,489
seen the Facebook post on it. You may

1787
01:02:07,489 --> 01:02:09,750
not have. Oh, yes. But we are planning

1788
01:02:10,050 --> 01:02:10,550
on,

1789
01:02:11,324 --> 01:02:11,824
starting,

1790
01:02:12,364 --> 01:02:14,224
an in-depth study into,

1791
01:02:14,844 --> 01:02:17,105
end time prophecy, the book of Revelation.

1792
01:02:17,405 --> 01:02:19,724
We're gonna cover Daniel. We're gonna cover Revelation.

1793
01:02:19,724 --> 01:02:21,505
We're gonna cover Matthew 24,

1794
01:02:22,045 --> 01:02:23,885
Luke. We you know, all the all the

1795
01:02:23,885 --> 01:02:25,585
all the things that tie into,

1796
01:02:26,500 --> 01:02:29,300
to prophecy and to end times and to

1797
01:02:29,300 --> 01:02:29,800
just,

1798
01:02:30,260 --> 01:02:32,260
help and give some understanding. Look, the book

1799
01:02:32,260 --> 01:02:34,920
of Revelation was meant for us to read

1800
01:02:35,460 --> 01:02:37,059
and to study and it's the only book

1801
01:02:37,059 --> 01:02:38,144
that tells us that,

1802
01:02:38,625 --> 01:02:40,304
happy you will be if you if you

1803
01:02:40,304 --> 01:02:42,625
read it. Right? And and so why why

1804
01:02:42,625 --> 01:02:44,385
is that said? Those are some things that

1805
01:02:44,385 --> 01:02:45,284
we'll get into,

1806
01:02:45,905 --> 01:02:47,045
and and hopefully,

1807
01:02:47,824 --> 01:02:48,224
just,

1808
01:02:49,025 --> 01:02:51,105
you know, just pray the holy spirit just

1809
01:02:51,105 --> 01:02:53,039
gives us the right the right words and

1810
01:02:53,119 --> 01:02:55,519
and as we as we break that down

1811
01:02:55,519 --> 01:02:57,440
and and go through that. So Yeah. If

1812
01:02:57,440 --> 01:02:59,280
you if you've been wanting to hear a

1813
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a study on it, we, we've went through

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it a couple of times in my nineteen

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years here at Mountain View,

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but it's hard for everybody to get in

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that that study group class. There other other

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people are teaching that kind of thing. So

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this is something you can listen to whenever

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you get ready.

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Yeah.

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So definitely definitely be in prayer for that.

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We'll be starting that soon.

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Probably,

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I'm going to go out on a limb

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and say after Labor Day. Probably. Yeah.

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We will not be doing we usually don't

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do one on Labor Day. I'm not here

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and it gives everybody a break. Yeah. And

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so next month after Labor Day,

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we'll dive into that and

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that's a nice

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lengthy, meaty study. So I'm excited about it.

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Yeah. Amen. Brother Brian, will you pray us

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out? Absolutely.

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Father god, we love you. And, god, I

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am so thankful that you are who you

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say you are, who your word says that

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you are. God, the the truth of the

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word of God,

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gives us a picture of this,

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of this God who created it all,

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and who created us and he didn't have

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to. But you created us for a relationship.

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And God you have never had a plan

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to leave us alone.

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Lord you followed,

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Lord through,

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fire and through wind, through clouds in the

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sky. Lord you've all your presence has always

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been with your people, Lord, all the way

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through history and God as Jesus was born

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of a virgin and died on an old

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rugged cross

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and buried in a borrowed tomb and rose

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again on the third day. God he did

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not leave us but he said I will

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leave you a comforter and that comforter is

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the Holy Spirit of God and the Holy

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Spirit dwells

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in the hearts of all believers, all who

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will trust in him can be born again

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through the Holy Spirit of God.

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Lord, thank you for that opportunity. Thank you

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that I'm just not blindly

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following,

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some god on the shelf, but I am

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following the god of the universe

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through the holy spirit of god. Thank you

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for that. God, give us what we stand

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in need of this week. If you tarry

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before Sunday,

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god, let us come together and worship you

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in spirit and in truth. Lord, we thank

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you for that, and we ask these things

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in Jesus' name. Amen.

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Special thank you to Carter Pridmore,

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01:05:15,679 --> 01:05:17,779
Brian Harris, Waverly Henderson,

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Tatum Harris Spears, and Josie Partain for our

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theme song, Truth Set Me Free.

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I've been Tyler Goza on production and audio.

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We hope you can join us live next

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Monday at 6PM central.

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Thank you for listening.

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But truth found me there.

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It was in my darkest

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eye. I traded my black heart for joy

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for something real, something with power.

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Truth

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Oh,

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oh,

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truth

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set me free.