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Robert Jeffress - What The Holy Spirit Can Do For You

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Dr. Robert Jeffress | Robert Jeffress - What The Holy Spirit Can Do For You | May 31, 2025

♪ music ♪
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[narrator] from the pulpit
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Of the first baptist church of dallas, texas,
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This is "pathway to victory" with dr. robert jeffress.
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Hi, i'm robert jeffress,
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And welcome again to "pathway to victory."
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When someone accepts jesus christ as their savior,
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They instantly gain access to a vast source of power
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For conquering life's everyday struggles.
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But few christians ever realize
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How to tap into the power of god's holy spirit.
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Well, to be filled with the spirit
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Means to be controlled by the spirit,
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And today i'm going to explain four benefits
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That come when you surrender
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To the holy spirit's direction in your life.
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My message is titled "what the holy spirit can do for you"
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On today's edition of "pathway to victory."
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♪ death could not hold you ♪
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♪ the veil tore before you ♪
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♪ you silenced the boast, of sin and grave ♪
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♪ the heavens are roaring the praise of your glory ♪
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♪ for you are raised to life again ♪
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♪ you have no rival ♪
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♪ you have no equal ♪
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♪ now and forever, god you reign ♪
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♪ yours is the kingdom ♪
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♪ yours is the glory ♪
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♪ yours is the name, above all names ♪
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♪ what a powerful name it is ♪
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♪ the name of jesus christ my king ♪
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♪ what a powerful name it is ♪
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♪ nothing can stand against ♪
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♪ what a powerful name it is ♪
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♪ the name of jesus ♪
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♪ you have no rival ♪
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♪ you have no equal ♪
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♪ now and forever, god you reign ♪
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♪ our god, you reign ♪
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♪ yours is the kingdom ♪
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♪ yours is the glory ♪
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♪ yours is the name, above all names ♪
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♪ what a powerful name it is ♪
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♪ the name of jesus christ my king ♪
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♪ what a powerful name it is ♪
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♪ nothing can stand against ♪
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♪ what a powerful name it is ♪
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♪ the name of jesus ♪
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♪ what a powerful name it is ♪
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♪ the name of jesus ♪
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♪ what a powerful name it is ♪
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♪ the name of jesus ♪
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♪ there is no other name ♪
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♪ than jesus ♪
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♪ music ♪
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[narrator] god never intended
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For the holy spirit to be a mystery to believers.
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In fact, if you're a follower of jesus,
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Then god's spirit is dwelling inside of you,
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And he's waiting to unleash his supernatural power
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In your life.
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In his bestselling book, "i want more,"
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Dr. robert jeffress teaches what it means to be filled
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With the power of the holy spirit.
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Looking to satisfy your spiritual cravings?
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Request the book, "i want more"
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When you give a generous gift to "pathway to victory."
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♪ music ♪
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The psalmist said,
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"the righteous will flourish like a palm tree."
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Isn't that a picturesque description?
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"shall flourish like a palm tree?"
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What does it mean to flourish as a christian?
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One writer said it this way.
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"god made you to flourish,
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To receive life from outside yourself,
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Creating vitality within yourself,
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And producing blessing beyond yourself.
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When you flourish, you become more like you.
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You don't just become holier, you become youier.
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God wants to redeem you, not exchange you."
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Isn't that a great thought?
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God wants you to flourish, not to become like someone else,
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But so that you can become the person god created you to be.
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Flourishing life from the outside flowing inside of us,
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Creating that vitality
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That allows us to be a blessing beyond ourself.
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Flourishing is just another word
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For being filled with the holy spirit of god,
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Well, today we're going to talk about what the result
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Of being filled with the holy spirit of god is.
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First of all, he gives you power in times of temptation,
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Power in times of temptation.
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Turn to romans 6.
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Dwight edwards in his great book "revolution within"
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Says that most christians
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Think of their salvation experience
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As they do going through a car wash.
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The idea is you go into the car wash a dirty clunker,
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And you come out a cleansed clunker,
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But you're still a clunker.
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And that's how most people view salvation.
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Before i'm a christian, i am a dirty sinner
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Whose life is controlled by sin,
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But then when i get saved, my sins are washed away,
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But i'm still basically a sinner.
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But dwight edwards says no,
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What most christians don't realize
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Is that somewhere between the power wash
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And the power rinse cycle,
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It's as if god drops a brand new engine inside of us
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When we're saved.
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And now the old engine is still there,
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But god gives us a brand-new engine,
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A brand-new set of desires,
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And when we come out of our salvation experience,
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We have that new power, that new set of desires.
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Now we can still allow ourselves
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To operate with the old engine,
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But only a fool would make such a choice.
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God has given us a brand new power,
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And that power is the holy spirit of god.
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Look at verses two to four of romans 6.
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He says, "how shall we then who died to sin
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Still live in it?"
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That was unthinkable to paul.
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"or do we not know that all of us
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Who have been baptized into christ jesus
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Have been baptized into his death?"
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Now remember that word baptized there,
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That's a dry baptism, not a wet baptism.
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It's not talking about what you do
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When you jump in that baptistry up there,
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That's just a sign, a symbol.
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He's talking about what happens to you when you're saved.
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You are baptized,
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You are immersed with the holy spirit of god.
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You've been called to a new way of living.
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Now look at verses three and four.
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"therefore, we have been buried with him
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Through baptism into death,
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So that as christ was raised from the dead
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Through the glory of god the father,
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So we might also be raised to a newness of life."
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I'm going to say something
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That's going to shake some of you up here.
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I used to preach this, and i was wrong.
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I used to even say it in the baptistry
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When i baptized people, and i was wrong.
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I've always used to believe that baptism was a picture
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Of our future resurrection with jesus,
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Just as jesus died and was buried and was raised again.
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So one day our physical bodies will die
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And be buried and be raised again.
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But listen to me,
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Baptism is not a picture of our future resurrection
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So much as it is the resurrection
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That occurs the moment we're saved.
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If you are a christian,
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God does not want the rest of your life
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To be characterized by defeat and by sin.
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The fact that we have this new engine,
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This new power inside of us,
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Means that our life can be characterized
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By victory and by holiness.
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The holy spirit of god gives us power
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In times of temptation.
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Now, notice what we have to do to experience that power.
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Paul says in romans 6,
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First of all, if you want god's power, that new engine,
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To take control of your life,
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You first of all have to know the condition
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Of your old engine.
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Know the condition of your old engine.
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By that i'm talking about your old nature,
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That set of desires that are opposed to the things of god,
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That set of desires we are all born with.
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Know the condition of your old engine.
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I have found that christians
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Tend to go to one of two extremes
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When it comes to this old nature, this old engine.
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Some christians actually deny that they have a sin nature
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Once they become a christian.
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Paul describes it this way in galatians 5:16-18.
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He says there is a civil war
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Going on in the heart of every true believer
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Between the old engine and the new engine,
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Which is going to control our life.
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In galatians 5:16-18, paul says,
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"but i say, walk by the spirit,
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And you will not carry out the desire of the flesh.
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For the flesh,"
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He's not talking about your human flesh,
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He's talking about that old set of desires,
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"the flesh sets its desire against the spirit,
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And the spirit against the flesh.
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For these are in opposition to one another."
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Don't you feel that all the time?
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Something pulling you to do the right thing,
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Another pull to do the wrong thing.
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That's the civil war that paul is talking about.
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"they're in opposition to one another,
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So that you may not do the things that you please,
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But if you are led by the spirit,
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You are not under the law."
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Paul says we do have that old nature.
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Some christians deny it,
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But on the other hand,
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Other christians go to the opposite extreme.
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They exalt their old nature.
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That is they put it in a place of prominence
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It should not have,
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And they actually believe that they are still living
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Under the control of that old nature.
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Look at what paul says about the condition of our old nature
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Once we trust in christ.
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Verses six to seven, he said,
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"knowing this, that our old self,"
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That is our old engine,
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"was crucified with him,
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That our body of sin might be done away with,
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So that we should no longer be slaves to sin.
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For he who has died is free from sin."
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When you trust in christ as your savior,
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You know what happens to that old set of desires?
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Paul says that set of desires is crucified,
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Not just wounded, crucified.
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There is a third understanding,
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A third truth we need to have,
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And that is we need to present our bodies to god.
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That is once we understand what happened to our old nature,
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Once we understand the new power we have,
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There's some things we need to do every day.
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Look at verses 12 and 13.
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Paul says, "therefore,"
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That is anytime you see that word, therefore, ask yourself,
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"what is that therefore there for?"
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It always relates to the previous verse.
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He says, "in light of what happened to your old nature,
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What's true about your new nature?"
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"therefore, do not let sin reign in your mortal body."
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That word reign, circle it.
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It literally means umpire.
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You know what an umpire does?
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He's the one who has the final say in the game.
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His word goes.
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And what paul is saying here
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Is don't let sin have the final say in your life.
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"that you should obey its lust.
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And do not go on presenting the members of your body,
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The parts of your body to sin
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As instruments of unrighteousness,
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But present yourselves to god as those alive from the dead,
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And your members as instruments of righteousness to god."
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Considering this new power you have in christ,
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Start acting in a way consistent with that truth.
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Again, the bible says that this resurrection
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To a new way of life
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Isn't something we have to wait for once we die.
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It's a new way of life you can start experiencing right now
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By being filled with, controlled by the holy spirit of god.
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Secondly, being filled with the spirit,
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Being controlled by the spirit
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Offers us direction in times of confusion.
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Direction in times of confusion.
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Turn over to john 14:16-18.
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"many christians overlook this simple truth,
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That the holy spirit is the one
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Who gives us direction in life."
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Verse 14, jesus was getting ready to leave his disciples
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To die, be resurrected, and ascended into heaven,
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And he says, "and i will ask the father,
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And he will give you another helper
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That he may be with you forever."
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Who is that helper?
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Jesus said, "he is the spirit of truth, the holy spirit,
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Whom the world cannot receive,
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Because it does not see him or know him,
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But you know him because he abides with you
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And will be in you."
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And here's a great promise.
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"i will not leave you as orphans.
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I will come to you."
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Romans 8:14 says, "those who are led by the spirit of god,
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These are truly the sons of god."
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Have you ever had a prompting
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To make a telephone call to somebody,
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Just this urging that you needed to call somebody
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And call them now?
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An urge to send an email to somebody?
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Have you ever had an inclination
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That a trip you had planned,
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Maybe you had better not go on that trip,
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Or maybe the prompting
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That you ought to change your route to work one morning?
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All of these things
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That we sometimes call intuition, or the sixth sense,
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Many times they are the promptings,
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The leading of the holy spirit of god.
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One of the benefits of being full of the spirit
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Is he will direct us in the way we should go.
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Third, being filled with the spirit
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Offers us courage in times of opportunity.
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Courage in times of opportunity.
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In september, we'll be remembering
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The most horrific day in american history,
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September 11th, 2001.
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We all remember where we were on that day
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When 3,000 american citizens were killed on our soil.
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But there are many courageous stories
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That emerged from that tragedy.
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And perhaps one that will always be remembered
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Is the story of todd beamer
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And the passengers aboard united flight 93.
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Remember, the terrorists had overtaken that jetliner,
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And they had planned to use it as a missile
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To either crash into the capitol or the white house,
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We're not sure which.
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Todd beamer, and other passengers aboard that plane,
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Once they had communicated
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With their loved ones on the ground,
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And heard what had happened at the world trade center,
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They understood they weren't going
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To make this out alive.
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And so they decided to do something to intervene.
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They developed a plan in order to overtake the aircraft
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And to regain control from the terrorists,
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Who had locked themselves in the cockpit.
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Todd beamer was a committed believer,
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And before they rushed the cockpit,
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He wanted to leave a message for his wife.
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So he used the air phone, he called the air phone operator,
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And he asked her if she would relay
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A message to his wife lisa,
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Telling her that he loved her,
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And would see her again in heaven one day.
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And this air phone operator who took the call
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Happened to be a christian as well.
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And todd beamer,
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After explaining the situation to the operator,
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Asked if she might pray with him
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And they might recite the lord's prayer together.
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And so they prayed the lord's prayer,
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The prayer that included those words,
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"forgive us our trespassers,
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As we forgive those who trespass against us."
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And then after they had finished praying,
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The operator later said she heard todd beamer
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Utter those immortal words, "let's roll."
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What is it that gave a believer like todd beamer
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The courage to overtake those terrorists?
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What is it that gave him the power to forgive those,
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Those very terrorists who had wronged him?
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What gave him the courage to face death that way?
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That courage was the result of being full of,
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Being filled with the holy spirit of god.
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And we see that courage illustrated
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In the life of the first christian martyr,
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A man named stephen.
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If you have your bibles, turn to acts 7,
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Where we see this instance of the first time
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Someone died for his christian faith.
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Remember stephen was one of the first deacons,
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And in acts 6, it says he was filled with,
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He was controlled by the holy spirit of god.
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And it was that holy spirit of god
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That gave stephen the courage
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To preach the message of christ
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To a most unreceptive audience,
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The jewish leaders, the sanhedrin.
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And they told him, "you better stop preaching
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Or we're going to take your life."
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They hauled him in before the ruling council, the sanhedrin,
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And notice how he responded
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To their threats to stop preaching.
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In verse 51 of acts 7, he said to these men,
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"you men who are stiff-necked
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And uncircumcised in heart and ears
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Are always resisting the holy spirit.
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You are doing just as your fathers did."
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Now think about it.
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Here is stephen talking to the men
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Who had the power to take his life.
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How does he refer to them?
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He says, "you are stiff-necked.
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You're no better than your fathers.
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You are resisting the holy spirit of god."
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Let me tell you, that's not the best way
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To win friends in acquittals, okay?
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But he wasn't interested in being popular.
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He was interested in faithfully teaching
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And preaching the message of jesus christ.
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How did they respond to his message?
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Look at verse 54.
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"now, when they heard this, they were cut to the quick,
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And they began gnashing their teeth at him.
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But stephen, being full of the holy spirit,"
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See that, "being controlled by the holy spirit,
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He gazed intently into heaven
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And saw the glory of god,
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And jesus standing at the right hand of god,
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And he said, 'behold, i see the heavens opened up,
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And the son of man standing at the right hand of god.'
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And they cried out with a loud voice,
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And covered their ears,
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And they rushed upon him with one impulse,
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They began stoning him."
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And notice verse 60, "he fell down on his knees,
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And he cried out in a loud voice,
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'lord do not hold this sin against them.'
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And having said this, he fell asleep."
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That is he died.
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How do you explain that courage
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To use adversity as an opportunity to spread the gospel,
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The courage to stand up against those
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Who were going to kill him,
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And yet the courage also to forgive those
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Who were stoning him to death.
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All of that is the result of being filled with
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Full of the holy spirit of god.
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The holy spirit will give you courage
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In times of opportunity
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If you'll allow him to do so.
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Fourth, being filled with the holy spirit
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Allows us to experience comfort in times of stress.
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Comfort in times of stress.
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I remember going to see a couple, years ago,
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Who had received some very bad news.
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The husband had never been sick before a day in his life,
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But several months earlier
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He had been diagnosed with colon cancer,
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And he had undergone chemotherapy
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To shrink the size of the tumor.
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It was ineffective.
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And now he had lost his sight in his right eye,
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And that was a sign
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That the cancer had metastasized into his brain.
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You know, i never know what to say in situations like that.
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Now, i used to know.
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When i was younger in the ministry,
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I would just talk, talk, talk, talk, talk.
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But the older i've gotten,
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The more i realize how hollow and trite words are
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In moments like that.
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Sometimes the best thing you can do is just be quiet.
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So i went to visit with this couple,
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And thinking about still what i might say.
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Fortunately, that evening,
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I didn't have to say anything.
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They wanted to talk.
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The couple talked about,
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Yes, they were disappointed in the report from the doctor,
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But they said they knew god was still in control,
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That he had a purpose he was working out.
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And what they wanted to talk about that evening
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Was the husband's funeral service.
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The husband said, "i wanted to make sure
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That my service is one that exalts the lord jesus christ."
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What is it that gives somebody that kind of courage?
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It's the byproduct of being controlled by,
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By being filled with the holy spirit of god.
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Now listen to me this morning.
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When that telephone call comes in the middle of the night
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Telling you there's been an accident,
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When that doctor tells you that the report is not good,
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When that employer tells you
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Your services are no longer needed,
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When that mate tells you he or she no longer loves you,
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You have a choice as a christian.
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You can either be filled with anger or with fear,
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Or you can allow the peace of god
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That passes all human comprehension
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To take control of your life.
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Power in times of temptation,
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Direction in times of confusion,
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Courage in times of opportunity,
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Comfort in times of stress.
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These are just some of the benefits of being controlled
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By the holy spirit of god.
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But remember what i said at the beginning,
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It is a command, not a promise.
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Be filled with the holy spirit of god.
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That means there's something you and i must do
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To experience the filling of the holy spirit.
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I titled this series "unleashed!"
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And i hope you'll continue to join me in the coming weeks
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As we learn how to invoke the power of god's spirit
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In our daily lives.
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[narrator] the bible promises
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That when we put our faith in jesus christ,
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Our lives will be changed from the inside out.
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And yet many christians feel discouraged
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And defeated in their daily walk.
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If you're longing for something more
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In your relationship with god, you're not alone.
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At one time i felt dissatisfied and powerless to change it,
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But by god's grace, i discovered
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How to deploy the power of the holy spirit in my life.
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In my bestselling book, "i want more."
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And comfort in times of stress.
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These are four of the benefits you receive
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When you choose to surrender your life to the control,
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The filling of the holy spirit of god.
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Well, have you ever wondered
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Why god didn't take you straight to heaven
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The moment you were saved?
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God has a purpose for his children here on earth,
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And in my next series, "shine the light,"
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I'm going to equip you to be the salt and light
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That our nation, our world, desperately needs.
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Stay tuned for a preview of what's coming up next
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One secret to joy in your circumstances
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Is to remember the purpose
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For which god has left you here on earth.
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Why is it that god didn't rapture you to heaven
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The moment he saved you,
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So that you could have unending joy
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In a relationship with him, untainted by sin?
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Why he leave you here?
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Robert Jeffress - What The Holy Spirit Can Do For You

May 31, 2025 | 27:29

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