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Robert Jeffress - You're Richer Than You Think

April 23, 2025 | S25:E193

Robert Jeffress - You're Richer Than You Think
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 - You're Richer Than You Think | April 23, 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"
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  • With dr. 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 a pastor, i've listened to many struggling christians tell
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  • Me how they're longing for something more.
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  • No, they weren't talking about more money or a nicer home
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  • Or more success.
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  • These are unsatisfied christians who are looking for a deeper
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  • Sense of god's supernatural presence in their
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  • Everyday lives.
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  • Well, if more sounds out of reach for you today, then let me
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  • Assure you, it's not.
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  • My message is titled, "you're richer than you think,"
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  • On today's edition of "pathway to victory."
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  • Announcer: god never intended for the holy spirit to be
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  • A 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: an old indian chief living in oklahoma was thrilled
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  • When he struck oil on the small parcel of land that he owned.
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  • Suddenly this indian chief was richer than jed clampett, and he
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  • Had always wanted more than anything a shiny red cadillac
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  • Automobile and now he had the money to purchase it.
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  • So one day he went down and he pulled out a wad of $1000 bills
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  • And he bought a shiny new red cadillac automobile.
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  • The chief was so proud of his new car.
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  • Every morning at 10 o'clock he would get in his car and he
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  • Would drive around the town square in that small city
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  • In oklahoma.
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  • And the old chief while driving the car would open his driver's
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  • Window and he would wave at folks on the left and then he
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  • Would open the passenger window and he would wave at folks on
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  • The right and sometimes he got so distracted he would actually
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  • Lean out of the driver's window and he would start talking to
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  • The people on the town square and they would talk to him back.
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  • But nobody was really too concerned about the chief's
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  • Erratic driving patterns.
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  • Instead, they would simply smile and wave back at him as they
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  • Watched him in his shiny new red cadillac being drawn by the two
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  • Horses he had attached to the front bumper.
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  • You know, a lot of christians are like that old indian chief.
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  • They saunter through their christian life, convinced that
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  • They can travel no farther and no faster than they're traveling
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  • Right now.
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  • They have no idea of the tremendous spiritual horsepower
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  • That's available to them.
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  • Instead they have convinced themselves that they can never
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  • Experience any miraculous answers to their prayers, they
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  • Can never experience victory over temptation in their life,
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  • They can never expect god to speak to them in
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  • A supernatural way.
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  • Instead, they just travel around in the same circle, year
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  • After year.
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  • But there are some christians who want more in their
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  • Christian experience.
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  • They long for more power in their prayers.
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  • They long for more success in their struggles.
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  • They want to experience more joy in their worship.
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  • Perhaps you're one of those people.
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  • And sometimes when we want more we look around and we see some
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  • Christians jetting past us, whizzing by us in a faster model
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  • Of christianity, and we wonder, well, maybe what's wrong is i
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  • Have the wrong kind of christianity.
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  • Maybe i need to trade in my faith for a shinier,
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  • A newer model.
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  • Well, before you do that, it's important to read the owner's
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  • Manual and understand the power that is available to
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  • You already.
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  • If you want more than you're experiencing in your christian
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  • Life right now, what you really are longing for is the power of
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  • The holy spirit.
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  • And today we're going to begin a brand new series of messages
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  • I've titled, "unleashed: experiencing the power of the
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  • Holy spirit in your everyday life."
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  • And as we begin our study today, we're going to answer two
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  • Essential questions about the holy spirit of god.
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  • If you have your bibles, turn to 1 corinthians chapter 12 as we
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  • Discover why it is you're richer than you think.
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  • 1 corinthians chapter 12.
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  • The first question we're going to look at briefly today is who
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  • Is the holy spirit?
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  • If indeed the answer to the greatest longing you have in
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  • Your life right now is the power of the holy spirit, we need to
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  • Understand who the holy spirit is, and i want to make two
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  • Statements this morning about the holy spirit.
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  • First of all, the holy spirit is god.
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  • The holy spirit is god.
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  • I have a pastor friend who grew up in the southern baptist
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  • Church, and he said, "you know, whenever we heard the trinity
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  • Talked about, we never heard about the father, son, and the
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  • Holy spirit.
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  • Instead of a trinity, it was presented to us as a dynamic
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  • Duo, the father and the son, but we never heard anything in our
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  • Church about the holy spirit of god."
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  • Unfortunately, that is the trend in too many baptist churches and
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  • Too many evangelical churches.
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  • Afraid of the excesses of some believers when it comes to the
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  • Holy spirit, other believers have just ignored
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  • Him altogether.
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  • There are people who go through church without ever hearing
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  • A word about the holy spirit of god.
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  • That is a tremendous mistake because the bible teaches that
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  • The holy spirit is god.
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  • He is not inferior to the father or the son.
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  • He is equal to god the father and jesus christ the son.
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  • How do i know that?
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  • Jot down a couple of scripture references that mention the
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  • Holy spirit of god is equal to god.
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  • Genesis 1, verse 2 reminds us that the holy spirit was
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  • Involved in creation.
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  • Moses wrote, "the earth was formless and void and darkness
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  • Was over the surface of the deep, and the spirit of god was
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  • Moving over the surface of the waters."
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  • Who was that spirit of god?
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  • He's the holy spirit of god.
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  • Or in matthew 28, verse 19, jesus said when you baptize,
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  • "baptize in the name of god the father, the son, and," who?
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  • "the holy spirit."
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  • Or remember the apostle paul equated the holy spirit with god
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  • In 2 corinthians 13, verse 14.
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  • He wrote: "the grace of the lord jesus christ, and the love of
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  • God, and the communion of the holy spirit, be with you."
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  • Remember the story in acts chapter 5, verses 3 and 4 about
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  • Ananias and sapphira?
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  • Ananias and sapphira had made a pledge before the whole church
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  • That they were going to sell a piece of land and give all the
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  • Proceeds to the church's building campaign they were
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  • Having back then.
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  • And ananias and sapphira, even though they publicly made this
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  • Commitment, they sold the piece of land, they kept back
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  • A portion for themselves.
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  • What happened to them?
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  • Verses 3--verses 3 and 4 of acts 5: "peter confronted them
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  • And said, 'ananias, why has satan filled your heart as to
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  • Lie to the holy spirit and to keep back some of the price of
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  • The land?'"
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  • And then in verse 4 he says, "you have not lied to men;
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  • You have lied to god."
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  • Do you see that?
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  • He says, "why did you lie to the holy spirit?"
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  • And then he says, "you've not lied to men; you've lied
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  • To god."
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  • The holy spirit is god.
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  • What does that mean to me?
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  • I want you to think about this: the same power of god that flung
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  • Billions of galaxies into existence with a single word,
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  • The same power of god that changed 5 loaves and 2 fish into
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  • Enough food to feed 25,000 people, the same power of god
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  • That lifted jesus christ out of the grave, that same power of
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  • God is in you right now if you're a christian.
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  • The power of god resides in you.
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  • Isn't that a terrific thought?
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  • That's why the holy spirit being god is so important to us.
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  • He is in you.
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  • There's a second truth about the holy spirit we need
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  • To understand.
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  • Not only is the holy spirit, god, the holy spirit is also
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  • A person.
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  • And that's why whenever the new testament talks about the
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  • Holy spirit, the holy spirit is never referred to as it.
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  • It is always referred to, the holy spirit, as he.
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  • He is a person.
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  • Now what do we mean, "the holy spirit is a person"?
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  • Well, intellect, emotions, and will is what makes us a person,
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  • It distinguishes us from objects.
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  • It's the same way with the holy spirit of god.
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  • The holy spirit of god possesses an intellect, that is, he
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  • Thinks, he understands, he comprehends, the thoughts
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  • Of god.
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  • Jot down 1 corinthians 2, verse 11: "for who among men knows the
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  • Thoughts of a man except the spirit of the man which is
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  • In him?
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  • Even so, the thoughts of god no one knows, except the spirit
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  • Of god."
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  • The holy spirit of god can understand what we can never
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  • Understand, and that is the thoughts of god himself.
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  • Secondly, the holy spirit possesses a will, that is, he
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  • Makes decisions.
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  • One of the decisions he makes is what spiritual gifts he's going
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  • To give to individual christians.
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  • It's the holy spirit of god who decides what gifts you receive.
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  • First corinthians 12:11 says: "but one and the same spirit
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  • Works all these things, distributing to each one
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  • Individually as he wills."
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  • And then number three, the holy spirit of god
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  • Possesses emotions.
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  • He can actually feel things.
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  • One of the things the holy spirit feels is deep sorrow
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  • When we sin as a christian.
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  • When you as a christian sin, and think about this, any sin you
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  • Engage in, you are taking the holy spirit with you to be
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  • A part of that sin if he's living in your life.
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  • That's why ephesians 4, verse 30 says: "do not grieve the
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  • Holy spirit of god, by whom you were sealed in the day
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  • Of redemption."
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  • The next time you're tempted to enter into sin, ask yourself, do
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  • I feel comfortable making god a partner with me in this sin?
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  • "do not grieve the holy spirit of god."
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  • Who is the holy spirit?
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  • He's god, he is also a person.
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  • Now the second question.
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  • How and when do we receive the holy spirit in our lives?
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  • How and when do we receive the holy spirit in our lives?
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  • If indeed the deepest longing we have can be--can be filled by
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  • Experiencing the holy spirit, don't you think it's important
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  • To ask and answer the question, well, when do we receive the
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  • Holy spirit of god in our lives?
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  • While every christian is indwelt by the holy spirit, not every
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  • Christian is empowered by the holy spirit.
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  • While every christian is indwelt by the holy spirit of god, not
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  • Every christian is empowered by the holy spirit.
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  • We're kind of like that old indian chief.
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  • We have the spiritual horsepower, it's not an it,
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  • It's a he.
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  • He's available to us, but very few christians are accessing the
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  • Power that he has made available to us.
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  • Now i want you to look at verse 13 of 1 corinthians 12.
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  • Paul explains the process by which the holy spirit sets up
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  • Residence in every believer's life.
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  • In verse 13, he writes: "for with one spirit we were all
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  • Baptized into one body, whether jews or greeks, whether slaves
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  • Or free, and we were all made to drink of one spirit."
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  • We can have diversity, but there still has to be unity,
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  • Unity in diversity.
  • 00:12:46.889 --> 00:12:48.457
  • Well, how in the world do you have unity in diversity?
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  • Paul says, "just look in the mirror."
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  • Look at yourself, look at your body.
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  • You're not all one, you're not one giant ear or one giant
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  • Eyeball or one giant nostril.
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  • Your body consists of a variety of different parts, and yet all
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  • Of those parts are functioning together for the same purpose.
  • 00:13:10.813 --> 00:13:14.183
  • Now that's the way the church is to be.
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  • Look at verse 12 of 1 corinthians 12: "for even as the
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  • Body is one and yet has many parts, and all the members of
  • 00:13:19.054 --> 00:13:23.259
  • The body, though they are many, are one body, so also
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  • Is christ."
  • 00:13:27.229 --> 00:13:29.198
  • Just as the human body has a variety of parts that are
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  • Working together for one purpose, so does the body of
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  • Christ, the church.
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  • Many different kinds of people all joined together for
  • 00:13:37.339 --> 00:13:41.343
  • One purpose.
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  • And the way the church comes together from a diversity of
  • 00:13:43.112 --> 00:13:46.081
  • Backgrounds to be one is with the baptism of the holy spirit
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  • Of god.
  • 00:13:49.785 --> 00:13:51.153
  • Now there are four words in this verse i want you to write down
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  • To understand, key words to understand.
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  • First of all, the word "baptized."
  • 00:13:55.791 --> 00:13:58.360
  • "for with one spirit, we were all baptized," with one spirit.
  • 00:13:58.360 --> 00:14:04.300
  • Now that word "baptized," as you know, is a transliteration of
  • 00:14:04.300 --> 00:14:08.370
  • The greek word "baptizo," it's exactly like it sounds in
  • 00:14:08.370 --> 00:14:11.440
  • Greek, baptizo.
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  • And the greek word "baptizo" doesn't mean a variety
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  • Of things.
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  • It means one thing and one thing only.
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  • It means to immerse.
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  • When you trust in christ as your savior, the holy spirit of god
  • 00:14:22.785 --> 00:14:26.555
  • Changes your spiritual color completely.
  • 00:14:26.555 --> 00:14:29.425
  • He immerses you, he pours over you, he transforms you from
  • 00:14:29.425 --> 00:14:35.497
  • A guilty, rebellious enemy of god into a forgiving, obedient
  • 00:14:35.497 --> 00:14:41.203
  • Disciple of jesus christ.
  • 00:14:41.203 --> 00:14:43.138
  • That's what happens.
  • 00:14:43.138 --> 00:14:44.473
  • Your spiritual color is changed forever.
  • 00:14:44.473 --> 00:14:47.843
  • But not only that, the baptism with the holy spirit not only
  • 00:14:47.843 --> 00:14:51.780
  • Changes us but, get this, the baptism with the holy spirit
  • 00:14:51.780 --> 00:14:56.485
  • Joins us to jesus christ, the head of the body, and to other
  • 00:14:56.485 --> 00:15:02.491
  • Christians who are already part of the body of christ.
  • 00:15:02.491 --> 00:15:05.461
  • Do you understand that?
  • 00:15:05.461 --> 00:15:06.795
  • The baptism, the immersion with the holy spirit of god, changes
  • 00:15:06.795 --> 00:15:10.799
  • Our spiritual color, changes us individually, but it also joins
  • 00:15:10.799 --> 00:15:15.270
  • Us together to jesus christ and other believers.
  • 00:15:15.270 --> 00:15:18.407
  • And that's why paul says, "for with one spirit, we were
  • 00:15:18.407 --> 00:15:21.977
  • All baptized."
  • 00:15:21.977 --> 00:15:23.879
  • Now, the second word in this verse to understand is the word
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  • "by," b-y, that little preposition, "for 'by'
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  • One spirit."
  • 00:15:31.820 --> 00:15:33.922
  • Did you know that the bible never speaks of the baptism
  • 00:15:33.922 --> 00:15:39.028
  • Of the holy spirit?
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  • Never.
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  • Some translations translate it that way, but it's
  • 00:15:41.764 --> 00:15:43.599
  • A mistranslation.
  • 00:15:43.599 --> 00:15:44.933
  • It is never the translation, "of the holy spirit."
  • 00:15:44.933 --> 00:15:48.303
  • This word translated "by" is a word that is best translated
  • 00:15:48.303 --> 00:15:52.574
  • "with": "for with one spirit."
  • 00:15:52.574 --> 00:15:57.446
  • By is not a good translation because people misunderstand
  • 00:15:57.446 --> 00:16:00.149
  • That word "by."
  • 00:16:00.149 --> 00:16:01.517
  • When you use the word "by" it appears that the holy spirit is
  • 00:16:01.517 --> 00:16:04.953
  • The one who is baptizing us.
  • 00:16:04.953 --> 00:16:07.990
  • No, instead, with that candidate there is always a baptizer,
  • 00:16:07.990 --> 00:16:13.128
  • Somebody who does the baptizing.
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  • It is either i or someone i've designated.
  • 00:16:15.230 --> 00:16:18.133
  • We are stand-ins, very poor stand-ins, but we are stand-ins
  • 00:16:18.133 --> 00:16:21.703
  • For jesus christ himself.
  • 00:16:21.703 --> 00:16:23.605
  • We are picturing what jesus does for us.
  • 00:16:23.605 --> 00:16:26.442
  • When we trust him for salvation, he is the one who baptizes us.
  • 00:16:26.442 --> 00:16:32.147
  • And he baptizes us with the holy spirit.
  • 00:16:32.147 --> 00:16:36.118
  • That water is not the one who does the baptizing.
  • 00:16:36.118 --> 00:16:39.421
  • It is what we baptize with.
  • 00:16:39.421 --> 00:16:41.256
  • The water represents the holy spirit of god.
  • 00:16:41.256 --> 00:16:44.159
  • My point is, the baptism of the holy spirit is accomplished
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  • By jesus.
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  • It's what he does for us.
  • 00:16:49.131 --> 00:16:50.799
  • And you see that all throughout scripture.
  • 00:16:50.799 --> 00:16:52.768
  • Jot down mark 1:8.
  • 00:16:52.768 --> 00:16:55.003
  • John the baptist said, "i, john, baptize you with water; but
  • 00:16:55.003 --> 00:17:00.342
  • Jesus will baptize you with the holy spirit."
  • 00:17:00.342 --> 00:17:05.447
  • Do you see that?
  • 00:17:05.447 --> 00:17:06.782
  • That's why we never pray to the holy spirit of god, asking him
  • 00:17:06.782 --> 00:17:10.586
  • To baptize us.
  • 00:17:10.586 --> 00:17:11.920
  • No, jesus baptizes us with the holy spirit.
  • 00:17:11.920 --> 00:17:16.225
  • The third word is the word "were."
  • 00:17:16.225 --> 00:17:18.227
  • "for with one spirit, we 'were' all baptized."
  • 00:17:18.227 --> 00:17:24.133
  • Notice that is past tense.
  • 00:17:24.133 --> 00:17:26.835
  • It's denoting an action that has already taken place.
  • 00:17:26.835 --> 00:17:30.305
  • There were no corinthian christians who were sitting
  • 00:17:30.305 --> 00:17:33.108
  • Around waiting for the holy spirit to come into
  • 00:17:33.108 --> 00:17:36.345
  • Their life.
  • 00:17:36.345 --> 00:17:37.679
  • In fact, it is something that had already taken place, "for
  • 00:17:37.679 --> 00:17:41.016
  • With one spirit, we were baptized."
  • 00:17:41.016 --> 00:17:45.387
  • In his excellent book, "god in you," david jeremiah gives three
  • 00:17:45.387 --> 00:17:50.125
  • Categories of verses in the bible dealing with the
  • 00:17:50.125 --> 00:17:52.895
  • Holy spirit.
  • 00:17:52.895 --> 00:17:54.229
  • And it's important to be able to classify these verses because
  • 00:17:54.229 --> 00:17:56.899
  • There's a lot of confusion about this topic.
  • 00:17:56.899 --> 00:17:59.334
  • David says some of the verses are verses of expectancy.
  • 00:17:59.334 --> 00:18:03.705
  • Those are verses mainly in the old testament and some in the
  • 00:18:03.705 --> 00:18:07.042
  • Gospels that anticipate the time when the holy spirit will come
  • 00:18:07.042 --> 00:18:11.280
  • And set up residence, will indwell every christian.
  • 00:18:11.280 --> 00:18:14.783
  • For example, joel chapter 2, verse 28: "and it will come
  • 00:18:14.783 --> 00:18:18.253
  • About after this that i will pour out my spirit on
  • 00:18:18.253 --> 00:18:22.491
  • All mankind."
  • 00:18:22.491 --> 00:18:23.825
  • God is looking forward to that time when he would pour out his
  • 00:18:23.825 --> 00:18:27.462
  • Spirit on all believers.
  • 00:18:27.462 --> 00:18:29.498
  • In luke chapter 3, verse 16: "john answered and said to them
  • 00:18:29.498 --> 00:18:32.634
  • All, 'as for me, i baptize you with water; but one,'" talking
  • 00:18:32.634 --> 00:18:37.139
  • About jesus, "'is coming who is mightier than i, and he will
  • 00:18:37.139 --> 00:18:40.909
  • Baptize you with the holy spirit and fire.'"
  • 00:18:40.909 --> 00:18:43.078
  • Even in the new testament, in the gospels, they were looking
  • 00:18:43.078 --> 00:18:45.681
  • Forward to with expectancy, the baptism with the holy spirit.
  • 00:18:45.681 --> 00:18:50.352
  • Secondly, verses that deal with experience, verses that teach us
  • 00:18:50.352 --> 00:18:54.790
  • About the experience of the holy spirit.
  • 00:18:54.790 --> 00:18:58.360
  • These are verses in acts that record the actual coming of the
  • 00:18:58.360 --> 00:19:01.697
  • Holy spirit in the believers' lives and, of course, that
  • 00:19:01.697 --> 00:19:04.633
  • Happened at the day of pentecost when people believed, thousands
  • 00:19:04.633 --> 00:19:08.604
  • Believed, and they were baptized immediately with the holy spirit
  • 00:19:08.604 --> 00:19:12.507
  • Of god.
  • 00:19:12.507 --> 00:19:13.875
  • Peter looks back on that experience of pentecost, and he
  • 00:19:13.875 --> 00:19:16.979
  • Says, "and i remembered the word of the lord, how he used to say,
  • 00:19:16.979 --> 00:19:21.950
  • 'john baptized with water, but you shall be baptized with the
  • 00:19:21.950 --> 00:19:25.887
  • Holy spirit.'"
  • 00:19:25.887 --> 00:19:27.389
  • And then thirdly, verses of explanation.
  • 00:19:27.389 --> 00:19:30.659
  • These are verses in the new testament that deal with the
  • 00:19:30.659 --> 00:19:33.795
  • Benefits of experiencing the baptism with the holy spirit
  • 00:19:33.795 --> 00:19:38.100
  • Or the empowering with the holy spirit.
  • 00:19:38.100 --> 00:19:40.235
  • We're gonna talk about the difference in 2 weeks.
  • 00:19:40.235 --> 00:19:42.604
  • The baptism with the spirit is something every believer
  • 00:19:42.604 --> 00:19:45.574
  • Experiences, but only a few experience the filling or the
  • 00:19:45.574 --> 00:19:49.578
  • Empowering of the holy spirit.
  • 00:19:49.578 --> 00:19:52.047
  • These are verses of explanation.
  • 00:19:52.047 --> 00:19:53.882
  • For example, romans 6, verses 3 to 4: "or do you not know that
  • 00:19:53.882 --> 00:19:57.886
  • All of us who have been baptized into christ jesus have been
  • 00:19:57.886 --> 00:20:01.323
  • Baptized into his death?
  • 00:20:01.323 --> 00:20:03.625
  • Therefore we have been buried with him through baptism into
  • 00:20:03.625 --> 00:20:07.162
  • Death, in order that as christ was raised from the dead through
  • 00:20:07.162 --> 00:20:10.432
  • The glory of god the father, so we too might walk in newness
  • 00:20:10.432 --> 00:20:14.870
  • Of life."
  • 00:20:14.870 --> 00:20:17.272
  • After acts chapter 8, the pattern is clear.
  • 00:20:17.272 --> 00:20:21.677
  • The moment somebody trusts in christ, he is baptized with the
  • 00:20:21.677 --> 00:20:26.448
  • Holy spirit of god, and that leads to a fourth word in this
  • 00:20:26.448 --> 00:20:29.284
  • Verse that's key to understanding this whole
  • 00:20:29.284 --> 00:20:31.453
  • Principle, and that is the word "all."
  • 00:20:31.453 --> 00:20:34.423
  • "for with one spirit, we were 'all' baptized into one body."
  • 00:20:34.423 --> 00:20:41.430
  • You know, that one little word "all" should drive a stake
  • 00:20:41.430 --> 00:20:46.468
  • Through this idea that is out there that the baptism with the
  • 00:20:46.468 --> 00:20:50.172
  • Holy spirit is a special experience reserved for only
  • 00:20:50.172 --> 00:20:55.344
  • A certain class of christians.
  • 00:20:55.344 --> 00:20:57.045
  • It's kind of like a spiritual upgrade for that group of
  • 00:20:57.045 --> 00:21:00.349
  • Christians who want to have a first-class relationship with
  • 00:21:00.349 --> 00:21:02.784
  • Christ and are willing to pay a little bit extra to
  • 00:21:02.784 --> 00:21:05.787
  • Experience it.
  • 00:21:05.787 --> 00:21:07.122
  • No, the bible says it's part of the basic package, "for with one
  • 00:21:07.122 --> 00:21:11.560
  • Spirit we were all baptized into one body."
  • 00:21:11.560 --> 00:21:15.697
  • I want you to turn over for just a moment to 2 peter chapter 1,
  • 00:21:15.697 --> 00:21:19.067
  • Verses 3 to 4.
  • 00:21:19.067 --> 00:21:20.402
  • Peter writes, "seeing that god's divine power
  • 00:21:20.402 --> 00:21:26.174
  • Has granted to us everything pertaining to life and
  • 00:21:26.174 --> 00:21:30.345
  • Godliness, through the true knowledge of him who called us
  • 00:21:30.345 --> 00:21:33.548
  • By his own glory and excellence.
  • 00:21:33.548 --> 00:21:35.517
  • For by these things, he has granted to us his precious and
  • 00:21:35.517 --> 00:21:39.221
  • Magnificent promises, so that by them you have become partakers
  • 00:21:39.221 --> 00:21:44.693
  • Of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is
  • 00:21:44.693 --> 00:21:48.296
  • In the world through lust."
  • 00:21:48.296 --> 00:21:50.699
  • Now i want you to underline in verse 3 this phrase, "he has
  • 00:21:50.699 --> 00:21:53.902
  • Granted to us everything pertaining to life
  • 00:21:53.902 --> 00:21:57.873
  • And godliness."
  • 00:21:57.873 --> 00:21:59.875
  • Do you realize what that passage is saying?
  • 00:21:59.875 --> 00:22:02.978
  • If there's one truth i want you to walk away with today, it's
  • 00:22:02.978 --> 00:22:05.781
  • This: god has not shortchanged you if you're a christian.
  • 00:22:05.781 --> 00:22:10.919
  • God isn't over here reserving something extra that you need to
  • 00:22:10.919 --> 00:22:14.322
  • Beg him and ask him to do in your life.
  • 00:22:14.322 --> 00:22:17.159
  • He has granted to you everything you need to lead a supernatural,
  • 00:22:17.159 --> 00:22:23.932
  • A fulfilling existence, while here on earth.
  • 00:22:23.932 --> 00:22:26.735
  • He has granted to you everything pertaining to life and
  • 00:22:26.735 --> 00:22:30.505
  • To godliness.
  • 00:22:30.505 --> 00:22:32.941
  • Everything he has given you is all wrapped up in the
  • 00:22:32.941 --> 00:22:36.778
  • Holy spirit of god.
  • 00:22:36.778 --> 00:22:39.514
  • Jeffress: "with one spirit we were all baptized into one
  • 00:22:43.685 --> 00:22:47.556
  • Body," and in the coming weeks we'll discover how to access
  • 00:22:47.556 --> 00:22:51.393
  • This tremendous power, this holy spirit whom god has given
  • 00:22:51.393 --> 00:22:55.964
  • To every true believer in christ.
  • 00:22:55.964 --> 00:22:58.500
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  • Holy spirit in my life.
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  • Jeffress: when you're going through a difficult season of
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  • Life or you keep falling into the same bad habits, it's easy
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  • To feel powerless and defeated, but if you know jesus christ,
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  • Then you already have everything you need to be victorious.
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  • Well, earlier today, i asked you to trust me when i said that
  • 00:25:22.611 --> 00:25:26.581
  • Every christian has been baptized with the holy spirit.
  • 00:25:26.581 --> 00:25:30.452
  • And next time using specific bible verses to illustrate my
  • 00:25:30.452 --> 00:25:34.889
  • Point, i'm going to show you how every true believer receives the
  • 00:25:34.889 --> 00:25:39.561
  • Holy spirit at the moment of salvation.
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  • Stay tuned for a preview of what's coming up next on
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  • "pathway to victory."
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  • Jeffress: and that's why there was a delay between believing
  • 00:25:49.004 --> 00:25:52.507
  • And receiving the baptism with the holy spirit.
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  • Just as there was a point in time when jesus was born,
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  • A point in time when he died and rose again, so there had to be
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  • One point in history when the holy spirit would come as
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  • Had been prophesied.
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  • And that point in time was the day of pentecost.
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  • Announcer: set your dvr and join us next time for the message,
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  • "the christian's birth certificate," here on "pathway
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  • 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 legacy giving can further the gospel and be an example to
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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
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  • On after you 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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