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Robert Jeffress - If It's Going To Be, Is It Up To Me?

April 29, 2025 | 27:29

Robert Jeffress - If It's Going To Be, Is It Up To Me?
Pathway to Victory offers a practical application of God’s Word to everyday life through the clear, biblical teaching of Pastor Jeffress.
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Dr. Robert Jeffress | Robert Jeffress - If It's Going To Be, Is It Up To Me? | April 29, 2025
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Male announcer: from the pulpit of the first baptist church of
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  • Dallas, texas, this is "pathway to victory," with dr.
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  • Robert jeffress.
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  • Dr. robert jeffress: hi, i'm robert jeffress and welcome
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  • Again to "pathway to victory."
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  • As christians, we often struggle to understand the balance
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  • Between god's sovereignty and our responsibility.
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  • For example, since god is ultimately in control of
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  • Everything, what's my responsibility in feeling the
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  • Power of the holy spirit?
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  • Or is that god's responsibility?
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  • Well, today i'll show you what the bible says about your role
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  • In engaging the holy spirit.
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  • My message is titled, "if it's going to be, is it up to me?"
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  • On today's edition of "pathway to victory."
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Announcer: god never intended for the holy spirit to be a
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  • Mystery to believers.
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  • In fact, if you're a follower of jesus, then god's spirit is
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  • Dwelling inside of you, and he's waiting to unleash his
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  • Supernatural power in your life.
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  • In his bestselling book, "i want more," dr. robert jeffress
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  • Teaches what it means to be filled with the power of the
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  • Holy spirit.
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  • Looking to satisfy your spiritual cravings?
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  • Request the book, "i want more," when you give a generous gift to
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  • "pathway to victory."
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Jeffress: if you're a parent, you probably have been through
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  • This before.
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  • Your child has difficulty with the homework assignment and
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  • Says, mom or dad, can you help me out with the assignment?
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  • And out of compassion you agree to help out and pretty soon you
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  • Find yourself being the one who's doing the homework
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  • Assignment while your kid is off playing a video game.
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  • Has that ever happened to you before?
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  • Or maybe you've had this experience before, you're a
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  • Supervisor at work, and you give one of your employees a task
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  • To complete.
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  • A few days later, the employee comes back and says, you know,
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  • I'm really not sure how to do this.
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  • Can you help me out?
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  • And you, the supervisor, end up doing the task that you had
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  • Originally given that employee to complete.
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  • If you've ever had one of those experiences, you are a victim of
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  • What managers call upward delegation.
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  • Upward delegation occurs when a subordinate gives back to a
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  • Superior an assignment the superior has first given
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  • The subordinate.
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  • You know, many times you and i are not just victims of upward
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  • Delegation, we actually practice upward delegation, especially in
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  • Our relationship with god.
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  • Many times we try to give back to god a responsibility that he
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  • Has given to us.
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  • Because in our series on the holy spirit, we've seen that the
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  • Responsibility for being filled with the spirit is not god's
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  • Responsibility, it's our responsibility.
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  • Ephesians 5:8 says, "you be filled with the spirit.
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  • You be controlled by the spirit of god."
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  • And so today we're going to talk about what we must do in order
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  • To experience the power of the holy spirit in our lives.
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  • Now of course that brings up a question, is there really
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  • Anything that we can do to be filled with the holy spirit
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  • Of god?
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  • See, christians get confused on this subject.
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  • There are a lot of christians who think that being filled with
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  • The spirit is god's responsibility when in fact it's
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  • Our responsibility.
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  • In fact, a lot of christians really don't understand what
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  • Works of god are totally his responsibility and what works of
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  • God are our responsibility.
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  • So this morning i want you to turn to john chapter 3, and i
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  • Would like us to look at three works of god that really are his
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  • Responsibility and some that are our responsibility.
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  • John chapter 3, the first and perhaps the most significant
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  • Work that god does in your life is what we call the work
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  • Of regeneration.
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  • Write it down, regeneration.
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  • Let me give you a definition of regeneration.
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  • Regeneration is the work of the holy spirit by which he makes
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  • Those who are spiritually dead, spiritually alive so that they
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  • Can trust in christ.
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  • That's regeneration.
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  • It means to give life to.
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  • Regeneration is the act of the holy spirit by which he makes
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  • Those who are spiritually dead, spiritually alive.
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  • Do you realize that you and i will never trust in jesus as our
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  • Savior on our own?
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  • Nobody who is a spiritual corpse ever wakes up one day and says:
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  • You know what, today i think i'd like to become
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  • Spiritually alive.
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  • That is a work of the holy spirit of god.
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  • It is the holy spirit who gives us even the ability to believe
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  • In christ.
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  • And you see that in john chapter 3, jesus was talking to
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  • Nicodemus about the mysterious work of the holy spirit, and he
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  • Was talking about, he was talking about regeneration.
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  • Jesus answered, look at john 3, verses 5 and 6, "jesus answered,
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  • 'truly, truly, i say to you, unless one is born of water and
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  • The spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of god.'
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  • That which is born of the flesh is flesh, that which is born of
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  • The spirit is spirit," and then look at verse eight, "the wind
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  • Blows where it wishes, and you hear the sound of it, but do not
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  • Know where it comes from or where it is going; so is
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  • Everyone who is born of the spirit."
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  • We have no control over when or upon whom the holy spirit is
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  • Going to fall, and we don't know whom the holy spirit has
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  • Selected to regenerate.
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  • That is a mysterious act of god.
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  • You and i can do nothing to regenerate ourselves.
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  • It is completely a work of god.
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  • Now there's a second work that is completely of god, and that
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  • Is justification.
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  • Write it down, justification.
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  • Justification is the act by which god declares us not guilty
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  • On the basis of our faith in christ.
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  • Justification is the act.
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  • It's a judicial term by which god declares you not guilty on
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  • The basis of your faith in christ.
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  • The moment you trust in christ as your savior, god declares you
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  • Not guilty.
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  • He sees you as completely sinless, based on what christ
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  • Has done for you.
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  • Romans chapter 5:1 says, "therefore, having been
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  • Justified through faith, we have peace with god through our lord
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  • Jesus christ."
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  • Justification: being declared not guilty.
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  • The bible says, the best we do, our goodness, our righteousness
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  • Is like a filthy rag in god's sight.
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  • None of us has the right spiritual clothing to get into
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  • Heaven, but god says, you know what, you're not alone in that.
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  • The bible says every human being has fallen short of the glory
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  • Of god.
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  • "and so i've made this offer, i've made this provision for
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  • You," god says, "if you would like, i will wrap you in the
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  • Perfect righteousness of my son jesus christ.
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  • His righteousness can become your righteousness, and you're
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  • Welcome to come in and enjoy your relationship with
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  • Me forever."
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  • That's what paul meant when he said in philippians 3:9, my
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  • Prayer is that i might be, "found in him, not having a
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  • Righteousness of my own derived from the law, but that
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  • Righteousness which comes on the basis of faith in christ."
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  • The most important decision any of us makes is whether we're
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  • Gonna try to enter into heaven on our own righteousness and be
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  • Turned away or try to enter heaven with his righteousness
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  • And be guaranteed an eternity with christ.
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  • That's justification.
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  • Now listen to this, just as there was a point in time when
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  • You were born physically, the bible says there was a time when
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  • You were born again into the kingdom of god.
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  • At that moment, you were justified, you were declared not
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  • Guilty forever.
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  • Now who's responsible for justification?
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  • Again, that is a work of god alone.
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  • You and i can't do anything to be justified.
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  • That's what he does for us.
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  • Now there's one third work of god, one final work i want us to
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  • Look at this morning called sanctification.
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  • Sanctification.
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  • One of the most popular series i ever preached, anywhere, at any
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  • Time is "how to know god's will for your life."
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  • Everybody's interested in that topic.
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  • How can i know god's will for my life?
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  • How many of you would like to know what god's will for your
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  • Life is?
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  • Okay, how many of you are interested?
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  • Boy, you're so lucky you came today because today i'm gonna
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  • Reveal to you god's will for your life.
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  • It's found in romans chapter 8, verses 28 and 29.
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  • Will you turn there?
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  • Romans chapter 8, 28 and 29.
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  • Here is god's will for your life.
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  • "and we know that god causes all things
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  • To work together for good to those who
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  • Love god, to those who are called according to
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  • His purpose."
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  • Now, you don't get to--you don't go to hell for writing in your
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  • Bible, okay?
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  • So i want you to do something in your bible.
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  • I want you to circle the word purpose, and then i want you to
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  • Circle the word good in verse 28, and i want you to draw a
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  • Line between purpose and good.
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  • These words relate to one another.
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  • What paul is saying is everything that happens to you,
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  • The good, the bad, the ugly, god is using all of it to accomplish
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  • His purpose in your life.
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  • And what is that purpose?
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  • This is gonna surprise some of you.
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  • God's purpose for your life is not that you have a
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  • Satisfying marriage.
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  • God's purpose in your life is not that you have a
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  • Successful career.
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  • God's purpose in your life is not that you have a full
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  • Bank account.
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  • God's purpose in your life is not that you be healed from
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  • Every physical disease.
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  • No, his purpose for your life is verse 29, "for whom god
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  • Foreknew, he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his
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  • Son, that his son might be the first born among many brethren."
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  • You see, god so loved jesus.
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  • He was so enraptured by his son jesus, by his perfect obedience,
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  • By the love he had for his father, by the way that he lived
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  • His life.
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  • Jesus, god was so taken by his son jesus christ that he said,
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  • You know what, i don't wanna just have one son.
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  • I'd love to have many children, many men and women that resemble
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  • The son i love and the things they love, the way they act, the
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  • Thoughts that they have.
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  • And so god's plan from the beginning was to redeem from
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  • Fallen humanity a group of men and women that would become just
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  • Like his son, jesus christ.
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  • Isn't that what the text says?
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  • That we might be conformed to the image of his son so that his
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  • Son might be the first born, not the only born, but the first
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  • Born among many brethren.
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  • And so god's plan for you was not just to save you, to rescue
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  • Your soul from hell, but to transform you, to chisel in you,
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  • If you will, the perfect image of his son.
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  • And what paul is saying is everything in your life is
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  • Working together for that one purpose, to make you just like
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  • Jesus, to love the things that jesus loved, to do the things
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  • That jesus did.
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  • To act the way that jesus acted in every situation.
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  • And that means that every success as well as every
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  • Sadness, every triumph as well as every tragedy is working
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  • Together for that one purpose.
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  • And i found in my own life, it's not the easy things that tend to
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  • Make me more like jesus.
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  • It's those hard things.
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  • Those sad things, those things that defy our human
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  • Understanding that god uses to chisel away anything in our life
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  • That is not like jesus christ.
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  • That's what sanctification is.
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  • Sanctification, if you want to write it down, is the process by
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  • Which god conforms us to the image of jesus christ.
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  • And notice it's a process.
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  • Justification happens in an instant when we trust in christ.
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  • Somebody said justification is the work of a moment, but
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  • Sanctification is the work of a lifetime.
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  • You see, your relationship with god doesn't end when
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  • You're saved.
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  • God saved you to begin a process in you.
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  • Think of it this way.
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  • Let's say there's a mom who's just given birth to her newborn
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  • Child and she's in the hospital and the nurse brings the baby to
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  • Its mom for the very first time.
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  • And the mom cradles it for a few moments and ooh's and ah's, and
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  • Then gives the child back to the nurse and says: well, that
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  • Was nice.
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  • Tell my child to have a good life.
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  • See you later.
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  • I mean what mom would do that?
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  • I mean, the reason a mom gives birth to a child is not to
  • 00:13:18.320 --> 00:13:21.624
  • Abandon the child.
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  • That birth represents not the end but the beginning of a
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  • Lifelong relationship between that mother and child, and so it
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  • Is in god's relationship with us.
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  • When we're born again, it's not an end unto itself, it's the
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  • Beginning of a relationship with god.
  • 00:13:35.004 --> 00:13:38.507
  • Paul said it this way in philippians 1:6, knowing this
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  • Very thing that, "he who began the good work in you will
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  • Complete it until the day of christ jesus."
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  • The bible says the moment you are saved, god begins that
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  • Chiseling process to make you like christ, and it will
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  • Continue until the day you see jesus one day.
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  • That is sanctification.
  • 00:13:57.259 --> 00:13:59.261
  • Now here's a $64,000 question.
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  • Is sanctification my becoming like jesus, is it god's
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  • Responsibility or is it my responsibility?
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  • We just saw that regeneration and justification are
  • 00:14:10.339 --> 00:14:12.741
  • God's responsibility.
  • 00:14:12.741 --> 00:14:14.143
  • What about sanctification?
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  • Who's responsible for my becoming like jesus christ?
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  • Well, there have been two views of that throughout christianity.
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  • There are some people who have what i call the "let go and let
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  • God" view of sanctification.
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  • You've probably heard it taught in churches before.
  • 00:14:30.125 --> 00:14:32.995
  • The people will say, well, just like you can't become a
  • 00:14:32.995 --> 00:14:35.397
  • Christian through human effort, you cannot live as a christian
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  • Through human effort.
  • 00:14:40.002 --> 00:14:41.337
  • So quit struggling, quit trying, quit trying to do anything, just
  • 00:14:41.337 --> 00:14:45.040
  • Let go and let god and let the holy spirit flow through you and
  • 00:14:45.040 --> 00:14:49.144
  • You can become like christ without any effort on your part.
  • 00:14:49.144 --> 00:14:52.481
  • Have you ever heard that before?
  • 00:14:52.481 --> 00:14:54.450
  • That is a prescription for spiritual disaster in your life.
  • 00:14:54.450 --> 00:14:58.654
  • Now there's some people who actually believe that because of
  • 00:14:58.654 --> 00:15:01.323
  • Scripture verses.
  • 00:15:01.323 --> 00:15:02.658
  • They'll quote verses like galatians 3:3 in which paul
  • 00:15:02.658 --> 00:15:05.828
  • Says, "are you so foolish?
  • 00:15:05.828 --> 00:15:07.663
  • Having begun by the spirit, are you now being perfected by
  • 00:15:07.663 --> 00:15:12.267
  • The flesh?"
  • 00:15:12.267 --> 00:15:13.635
  • That is, if it's the holy spirit who saved you, why are you
  • 00:15:13.635 --> 00:15:17.006
  • Depending upon human effort to make you more like christ?
  • 00:15:17.006 --> 00:15:20.175
  • Or john 15, verses 4 and 5, listen to jesus's words, "abide
  • 00:15:20.175 --> 00:15:24.780
  • In me, and i in you, as the branch cannot bear fruit of
  • 00:15:24.780 --> 00:15:29.351
  • Itself unless it abides in the vine, so neither can you unless
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  • You abide in me.
  • 00:15:33.522 --> 00:15:35.257
  • I am the vine and you are the branches.
  • 00:15:35.257 --> 00:15:37.826
  • He who abides in me and i in him, he bears much fruit.
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  • So apart from me, you can do nothing."
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  • Think about a vine and branches.
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  • In order to produce fruit, does the vine, do the branches have
  • 00:15:47.870 --> 00:15:50.739
  • To struggle and strain, say, oh, i need to produce fruit.
  • 00:15:50.739 --> 00:15:53.876
  • Oh, i hope i can get my energy up today to produce fruit.
  • 00:15:53.876 --> 00:15:56.712
  • Does it work that way?
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  • No, it's effortless.
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  • As long as the sap is flowing through that vine and through
  • 00:16:00.115 --> 00:16:02.551
  • The branches, the fruit comes.
  • 00:16:02.551 --> 00:16:04.753
  • And so it seems to be that jesus is saying, so it is with us.
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  • If we allow the power of the holy spirit to flow through us,
  • 00:16:08.991 --> 00:16:12.661
  • Then we don't have to exert any effort at all.
  • 00:16:12.661 --> 00:16:16.131
  • But that belief is wrong on two counts.
  • 00:16:16.131 --> 00:16:19.568
  • First of all, the "let go and let god" approach denies the
  • 00:16:19.568 --> 00:16:23.138
  • Reality of my sin nature.
  • 00:16:23.138 --> 00:16:25.474
  • That's the problem with the "let go and let god" approach.
  • 00:16:25.474 --> 00:16:27.709
  • It denies the reality of my sin nature.
  • 00:16:27.709 --> 00:16:29.912
  • Yes, if you're a christian, you have the power of the holy
  • 00:16:29.912 --> 00:16:32.147
  • Spirit inside of you.
  • 00:16:32.147 --> 00:16:34.049
  • You have that new nature and that new ability to please god,
  • 00:16:34.049 --> 00:16:37.953
  • But you also have that old nature, that old set of desires
  • 00:16:37.953 --> 00:16:42.357
  • That even though it has no power over you, it is still there and
  • 00:16:42.357 --> 00:16:46.728
  • Can influence you.
  • 00:16:46.728 --> 00:16:48.063
  • Remember in galatians 5:17, paul said, "for the spirit sets its
  • 00:16:48.063 --> 00:16:52.000
  • Desires against the flesh, and the flesh against the spirit."
  • 00:16:52.000 --> 00:16:56.772
  • If you're a believer, you have a civil war going on in your life
  • 00:16:56.772 --> 00:17:00.375
  • Right now.
  • 00:17:00.375 --> 00:17:01.710
  • Am i going to please god or am i going to please myself?
  • 00:17:01.710 --> 00:17:05.914
  • And that's why to say living the christian life requires no
  • 00:17:05.914 --> 00:17:09.118
  • Effort is that prescription for spiritual disaster.
  • 00:17:09.118 --> 00:17:12.855
  • A struggle we're gonna have with our flesh is inevitable, but
  • 00:17:12.855 --> 00:17:17.493
  • Don't forget it is winnable.
  • 00:17:17.493 --> 00:17:19.761
  • We don't ever have to obey our old nature.
  • 00:17:19.761 --> 00:17:23.432
  • But secondly, this "let go and let god" view of the christian
  • 00:17:23.432 --> 00:17:27.035
  • Life defers responsibility to god that he has given to us.
  • 00:17:27.035 --> 00:17:32.174
  • Remember upward delegation, giving back to god
  • 00:17:32.174 --> 00:17:35.144
  • Responsibility that he's given us.
  • 00:17:35.144 --> 00:17:37.713
  • We don't have time this morning to look at all of these
  • 00:17:37.713 --> 00:17:39.681
  • Scriptures, but just jot these down and look at them later.
  • 00:17:39.681 --> 00:17:42.684
  • Galatians 5, verse 16.
  • 00:17:42.684 --> 00:17:45.053
  • Paul said, "but i say, you walk by the spirit, and you will not
  • 00:17:45.053 --> 00:17:50.559
  • Carry out the desire of the flesh."
  • 00:17:50.559 --> 00:17:53.529
  • You do it.
  • 00:17:53.529 --> 00:17:54.863
  • You walk by the spirit.
  • 00:17:54.863 --> 00:17:56.398
  • Or ephesians 4, verses 22 and 24, we read these verses a
  • 00:17:56.398 --> 00:18:00.035
  • Moment ago, "that, in reference to your former manner of life,
  • 00:18:00.035 --> 00:18:04.139
  • You lay aside the old self which is being corrupted in accordance
  • 00:18:04.139 --> 00:18:08.277
  • With the lust of deceit, and you put on the new self which in the
  • 00:18:08.277 --> 00:18:12.714
  • Likeness of god has been created in righteousness and holiness of
  • 00:18:12.714 --> 00:18:15.984
  • The truth."
  • 00:18:15.984 --> 00:18:17.352
  • Or one more, colossians 3:8, "but now you also put them all
  • 00:18:17.352 --> 00:18:21.456
  • Aside, anger, wrath, malice, slander, abusive speech from
  • 00:18:21.456 --> 00:18:25.594
  • Your mouth."
  • 00:18:25.594 --> 00:18:26.929
  • Do you get the idea here what paul is saying?
  • 00:18:26.929 --> 00:18:29.364
  • He's saying you are the ones who are to lay aside your
  • 00:18:29.364 --> 00:18:32.367
  • Old nature.
  • 00:18:32.367 --> 00:18:33.735
  • You're the one who is to lay aside anger, malice, wrath.
  • 00:18:33.735 --> 00:18:36.705
  • You are the one who is responsible for walking in
  • 00:18:36.705 --> 00:18:38.840
  • The spirit.
  • 00:18:38.840 --> 00:18:40.209
  • You are the one who is responsible for putting on the
  • 00:18:40.209 --> 00:18:42.077
  • New self.
  • 00:18:42.077 --> 00:18:43.445
  • In other words, quit telling god to do these things for you.
  • 00:18:43.445 --> 00:18:46.048
  • It is your responsibility to do those things.
  • 00:18:46.048 --> 00:18:51.153
  • A second extreme though that people go to in living the
  • 00:18:51.153 --> 00:18:54.156
  • Christian life is what i call the, "if it's going to be, it's
  • 00:18:54.156 --> 00:18:57.693
  • Up to me" approach.
  • 00:18:57.693 --> 00:18:59.361
  • It's the idea that i alone am responsible for living the
  • 00:18:59.361 --> 00:19:02.965
  • Christian life.
  • 00:19:02.965 --> 00:19:04.333
  • If i'll just pull up my bootstraps and if i'll just grit
  • 00:19:04.333 --> 00:19:07.836
  • My teeth and read that bible even though i don't wanna read
  • 00:19:07.836 --> 00:19:10.505
  • It and pray and do these things.
  • 00:19:10.505 --> 00:19:11.873
  • If i'll just operate in my strength, i can eventually
  • 00:19:11.873 --> 00:19:15.677
  • Become like jesus christ.
  • 00:19:15.677 --> 00:19:18.013
  • And we've seen that is impossible too.
  • 00:19:18.013 --> 00:19:20.549
  • Apart from me, jesus said, you can do nothing.
  • 00:19:20.549 --> 00:19:24.253
  • Now here's the point i want you to go away with today.
  • 00:19:24.253 --> 00:19:27.589
  • Sanctification, becoming like jesus christ, is a cooperative
  • 00:19:27.589 --> 00:19:33.195
  • Effort between god and you.
  • 00:19:33.195 --> 00:19:37.132
  • It is a joint project.
  • 00:19:37.132 --> 00:19:39.468
  • It is god who supplies the power, and god's power through
  • 00:19:39.468 --> 00:19:43.805
  • The holy spirit energizing our efforts is what makes us like
  • 00:19:43.805 --> 00:19:49.211
  • Jesus christ.
  • 00:19:49.211 --> 00:19:50.679
  • It's not all of god and it's not all of us, it is a
  • 00:19:50.679 --> 00:19:54.449
  • Joint project.
  • 00:19:54.449 --> 00:19:56.785
  • Now, what does all of this have to do with the power of the
  • 00:19:56.785 --> 00:19:59.955
  • Holy spirit?
  • 00:19:59.955 --> 00:20:01.490
  • Let me leave you with two principles this morning i want
  • 00:20:01.490 --> 00:20:03.625
  • You to write down.
  • 00:20:03.625 --> 00:20:04.993
  • First of all, the purpose of god's power is transformation,
  • 00:20:04.993 --> 00:20:11.199
  • Not exhilaration.
  • 00:20:11.199 --> 00:20:14.369
  • A lot of people think the reason the holy spirit exists is to
  • 00:20:14.369 --> 00:20:17.105
  • Give me, you know, spiritual warm fuzzies, to give me
  • 00:20:17.105 --> 00:20:21.009
  • Spiritual goosebumps so i can get into a worship service and
  • 00:20:21.009 --> 00:20:25.647
  • Say, oh, i feel that, oh that feels so good.
  • 00:20:25.647 --> 00:20:27.983
  • Oh, i just feel all warm and fuzzy inside.
  • 00:20:27.983 --> 00:20:30.719
  • Many people think that's the whole power or the whole purpose
  • 00:20:30.719 --> 00:20:33.155
  • Of the holy spirit, to make us feel good.
  • 00:20:33.155 --> 00:20:36.224
  • That's not the purpose of the power of the holy spirit.
  • 00:20:36.224 --> 00:20:39.328
  • The reason the holy spirit's power exists is not so we can
  • 00:20:39.328 --> 00:20:43.098
  • Have exhilarating worship or miraculous answers to our
  • 00:20:43.098 --> 00:20:45.934
  • Prayers or anything else.
  • 00:20:45.934 --> 00:20:47.736
  • The reason god has given us the power of the holy spirit is to
  • 00:20:47.736 --> 00:20:51.506
  • Accomplish his purpose in our life, to make us like
  • 00:20:51.506 --> 00:20:55.577
  • Jesus christ.
  • 00:20:55.577 --> 00:20:57.179
  • Remember, the purpose of the god's power is transformation,
  • 00:20:57.179 --> 00:21:02.484
  • Not exhilaration.
  • 00:21:02.484 --> 00:21:03.885
  • And that leads to a second truth.
  • 00:21:03.885 --> 00:21:05.253
  • The process by which we experience god's power is
  • 00:21:05.253 --> 00:21:09.458
  • Cooperation, not delegation.
  • 00:21:09.458 --> 00:21:12.761
  • The process by which we experience god's power is
  • 00:21:12.761 --> 00:21:15.564
  • Cooperation, not delegation.
  • 00:21:15.564 --> 00:21:18.867
  • We don't say, god, you fill me with your holy spirit.
  • 00:21:18.867 --> 00:21:22.871
  • Now we already have the spiritual generator, the holy
  • 00:21:22.871 --> 00:21:25.774
  • Spirit living within us.
  • 00:21:25.774 --> 00:21:27.442
  • It's our responsibility to access that power.
  • 00:21:27.442 --> 00:21:31.580
  • I like the way j.i. packer, a great christian writer, said it.
  • 00:21:31.580 --> 00:21:35.016
  • He said being filled with the spirit really means removing the
  • 00:21:35.016 --> 00:21:39.287
  • Boulders in our life that prevent the flow of the holy
  • 00:21:39.287 --> 00:21:42.190
  • Spirit in our lives.
  • 00:21:42.190 --> 00:21:44.426
  • Again, using the generator idea, you already have the spiritual
  • 00:21:44.426 --> 00:21:48.764
  • Generator in your life if you're a christian, the holy spirit.
  • 00:21:48.764 --> 00:21:52.300
  • But for the holy spirit's power to flow into your everyday life,
  • 00:21:52.300 --> 00:21:56.304
  • You have to understand that there are some conduits, some
  • 00:21:56.304 --> 00:21:59.341
  • Channels through which the holy spirit's power flows through
  • 00:21:59.341 --> 00:22:02.844
  • Our life.
  • 00:22:02.844 --> 00:22:04.179
  • And in the weeks ahead, we're going to look at four specific
  • 00:22:04.179 --> 00:22:07.716
  • Conduits, four specific channels through which we can experience
  • 00:22:07.716 --> 00:22:13.188
  • The transforming power of the holy spirit of god.
  • 00:22:13.188 --> 00:22:16.358
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  • Jeffress: there are a lot of christians who think that being
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  • Filled with the spirit is god's responsibility alone.
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  • But i hope today's message has made clear that some works of
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  • God are his responsibility and other works of god are up to us.
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  • Like being filled, being controlled with god's spirit,
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  • Well, that one falls to us.
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  • So next time we're going to learn how to plug into the
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  • Divine source of power.
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  • It starts with making god's word an integral part of our
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  • Daily lives.
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  • Stay tuned for a preview of what's coming up next
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  • On "pathway to victory."
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  • Jeffress: i imagine for most of you here today, there was a time
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  • When you read the bible more than you read it right now.
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  • There was a time in your life when god's word had greater
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  • Prominence in your life than it has right now.
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  • And you probably think, if only i could renew my relationship
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  • With god, then i would have a greater interest in reading
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  • The bible.
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  • But the opposite is really true.
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  • Announcer: set your dvr and join us next time for the message,
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  • "how to take a spiritual bath," here on "pathway to victory."
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  • Jeffress: each of us will leave a legacy.
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  • What will your legacy be?
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  • Your children about what matters most in life.
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  • The world my daughters and grandchildren are growing up in
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  • Is vastly different than the one you and i grew up in.
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  • The gospel of jesus christ is our only answer, and naming
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  • "pathway to victory" as a beneficiary in your will helps
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  • Guarantee that there will be a trusted ministry that will
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  • Continue to be salt and light.
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  • Like the ripples that emanate from a rock thrown into a pond,
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  • Your influence for christ can keep going on and on after you
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  • Die with a gift in your will.
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  • What will your legacy be?
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  • Only one life will soon be past.
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  • Only what's done for christ will last.
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